Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1891, Page 11

ounr “yim Hoosier, Folkses, have you heerd of the doin's t'other day, When the boys an' gals druy up to town to sec that press club play! Our Jim it was who drawed 'em; he was takin' leadin' part, To help a lot of other fellers—giv’ 'em sorter flart, you'd a thought old Greenfieid had moved its bound'ry lines An® taken in the hull dern'd state themn mov key shines, Well, -to see To save my soul, I couldn’t help o jswallin® like a toad, To think of Jim,'a Hoosler boy an' Hancock county grow'ds He was pow'rful glad tosee us an’ shuck us all aroun’ — Called us “fellor countrymen,” an' then he most broke down As ho talked about his dear old home an® them he'd learn to lov How some had gone o jine the crowd of Hoosiers up above, Itell you, when wo left him we folt so full nsido We opened up our buzz slide; houtin' d be f An’ jost fer Whitcomb Riley an’ the good old days of yore, an' let our feelin's Such never ) sueh yellin’ you We all went in to sco the play-—oa dorn'd good show; % Fiddlin', singin’, speakin’—sorter thing, you know, To get A wan a lafin'; dunce, ¥ With a great big lot astampin’ an o clappin’ all to wunce, When Jim cum out an' scen the beat; They wouldn’t lev the feller off, or let him take Ho gave 'em a rhymes, An’ you bet our crowd jost backed him as we donc in olden vime AY HEIRESS FROM REDHORSE. A lrose Bieree m San Franciseo Eraminer. June 20, * 1 find myself more and more Intercsted in him. It is not, I amsure his—do you know any noun correspond- purty then a cryin’ like a ught ‘em, 1 never yarman’ alot o oldtime * * ing 10 the adjective ““handsome?*—one does not like to suy ‘“beauty” when speaking of & man, Fo is handsome enough, heaven knows; I should not even care to trust you with him—falth- fulest of all possible wives vhat you are —when he looks his best, as he alw does. Nordo lthink the fascination of his manners has much to do with it. You recolleet that the charm of art in- heres in that which is undefinable and to you and me, my dear Irene, I fancy there is rather less of that in the branch of art under consideration than to girls in their first season. I fancy Iknow how my fine gentleman produces many of his effocts and could perhaps instruct him to heighten them. Neverthele asuher: 14 somsthing. bruly detight- ful, T suppose w hat interests me chiefly is the man’s brains, His conversation 18 the best I have ever heard, and altogether unlike any one’s elee. He seems to know everything, asindeed he ought, for he hus been everywhere, read everything, seen all there is to see— or hin cquaintance with the queerest peoplel And then his volce—Irene, when I hear it I actually feel as it I ought to have paid at the door, though of course, itis my own door, * * ¥ July 3. * * * T fear my remarks about Dr. Barritz must have been, being thought- less, very silly, or you would not have written of him with such levity, not to say disrespect. Believe me, deavest, he has more dignity and seriousness (of the wind, T mean, which is not inconsistent with & manner sometimes playful and al- ways charming) than any of the men that youund I ever met. And young Raynor—you knew Raynor at Monter —tells me that the men all like him, and that he is treated with something like deference everywhere. Thero is a my: tery, too—somothing about his connec tion with the Blavatsky people in North- ern [ndin. Raynoreither would not or could not teil me the particulars. 1infer that Dr. Barritz is thought—don’t you daro to lough—a magician! Could any- thing be finer than thft? An ordinary mystery is not, of course, as good as a scandal, but when it relates to dark and dreadful practices—to the ex se of un- earthly powers—could any thing he more THE OMAHA DaiLy BEE OMAHA. SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH S, ; STORIES OF LITTLE PEOPLE. TWELVE ! mother's spoctacies he had on, looked sol- emly at the congregation of nelghbor's chil- dren seated in front of him, glanced at the dumb waten ho earried, and said: PAGES. called **Guun, THOULGHTS I A Pring God knows why; per- | vain to push me a little away and gaze haps in allusion to the material of my | into my eyes. Presently, whon all was pinafores; perhaps hecause the name right and it had grown a bit dark, I an_alliteration with ‘*Giggles;” for Gig lifted my head, looked him straight in sparable atei rel e v —my level " i ‘‘My hearers, 1 leave this subject with Sanso—-Hamlet knew how to talk ton and 1 w re Ins"”n:\v Il p]r:i\(l‘:L.*dfl.I_lEl {l{oloxllslllld smiled my t—my level Qolored fohoo! Ohildren Thrown imto & | you. Services this evening at the usual | woman, the miners miy have thought it a deii- | best, dear. # o Panio 0 Hobzobli our. We will now take up our regular col- [ Mrs, Sanso -Indeed! cute compliment to recognize some hind “What doyou mean,” I sid, “by anio Over a Hobgoblin, lootion, A considersble sum is needed for 150—~Yes. When ho talked to his mother rs and yeairs?' " Dearest,” he replied very gravely, vory earnestly, “'in_the absence of the sunken cheeks, the hollow eyes.the lank hair, the slouching gait, the rags, dirt and youth,can you not—will you not un- derstand—Gunny, I'm Dumps,” In & moment T was upon my feet and he upon his. I seized him by the lapels of his coat and peered into his handsome of relationship botween us. ¥ Later, we took inn third—another of ndversify's brood, who, like Garrick be- tween tragedy and | comedy, had a chronic inability to adjudicate the rival claims (to himself) of frost and famin Between him and the grave there was seldom anything more than a_singlo suspender ind the hope of a meal which would at the sume time support life and will incidentals, and friends liberally.” It cost Tommy’s father §1.75 to got out of the room gracefully, please respoud | he spoke daggers. Ho was enabled 1 that way to get his words in edgeway. Not Guilty. Harvard Lampoon. Ono of the Powers—You are accused of poker pldyine. Hastings—Yes: you seemy friend and I sat down for a quiet little game — 0. P, (growing interested) —Yes. Hastings—And he oponed a pot for #1—— PHILOSOPHY, PRANKS AND PRATTLE. Dividing Up a Good Thing. A by stood on the corner of Fourth avenue anc Fortysecond streot and called out in his loudest voice, and at the same time waving his arm frantically above his Mothet's LinpGreater Than a Throne— Childhood Always Meets on & Level—Offered as n Living Sacrifice, muake it insupportable, He literally | face in the deepening darkness. [ was l"‘::\'- says l.hc New ’\‘ork Sun, 0. P. (growing more interested)—Yes, picked up a precarious living for himsell | breathless with excitement. Ob, Jim!lob, Jim! Hurry us fastasever | Hastings—Well, I went in and drew five and an aged mother by “chioriding the | “And you are not dead?”’ I asked, | The entire colored population of Charles- | you can! cards. dumps;’’ thatis twsay, the nfiners per- | hardly knoving what I said. ton, 8. O, was thrown into excitement last “What's all this yelling about?”’ demanded 0. P. (more and more interested)--Yes he mitted him to search the heaps of waste | *‘Only dead in love, dear. 1 recovered | week by a panicamong the colored children | an officer who had just crossed tho street. WO ALk ORI e rock for such pieces of “pay ore”| from the road agent’s bullet, but this I'| of the Morris street school. This is the I'm hollering to Jim." 0. P.—On a pair of deuce as had been overlooked; and these | fear, is fatal” largost colored school in the United States, 1WWho's Jim ! Hastings—Yos he sacked up and sold at the “But about Jack—Mr, Raynor? Don’t | having neavly fifteen hundred pupils. It tr}-z"',' kid carrying that grip down tho 'ho ncousation is withdrawn; that Syncieatssmilly R /becaino a menl |/yolliaoy =l " was about half past 10, o'clock when & wity- | *Xuiho turnod from tho oMcor and pitched | W3Vt poker. berof our firm—"‘Gunny, Giggles and "I am ashamed to say, darling, that it |y yright-looking, copper-colored man, | his voice about one vest button higher, and ;......m..m_. ate worlooked. Dumps”’ thenceforth—throughmy favor; for I could not then, nor can [ now, be indifferent to his courage and prowess in defending against Giggles the immemor- ial rightof his sex to insulta strange wis upon that unworthy person’s in tation that [ came here from Vienna.’ [rene, they have played it upon Your affectionate friend, MARY JANE | shouted : **Oh, Jim, but there's a feller up here roll- ing a barrel of sugar into a g and one of the heads is loose, and he's blind on that side and can't see it, and it's going to dressed in the fantastic costume of an East indian, walked into one of the class rooms of the primary department and began to make aspeech to the children, Hetold them that Chicago Tritune ted Individual (rushing up in haste) — op! This won't do!" abriel (preparing to blow his horn) ! _Who are you!" Angel —Why n | 4 “{s | hewas areformed caunibal ana used to fall out and seatter more'h i ton of sugar on 3 woha. Mottt and unprotected female—mysolf. After | P S.—The worstof itis that there is A 8116 veslk) - v Tndividual~m Tom Morgan Ol Jith strack it in tho Cojumityand I | no mystery; that was an Invention of | Buman beings, and his: general appeatance e R o TDr AR Be el eding has not been nuthorized by o began to wear shoes and go to school, | Jack to arouso my curiosity and interest | borcouthis assertion. The colored people [ e bors youidn, und tind all the vapors vou Hall resolution yet, sit 1" and, in emulation, Giggles took to wash- nesis not a Thug ~ He solemuly | have lately been on their perennialscare | hig'thing you ever heara teil of Kansas City Dude. ing his face and became Jack Raynor of [ assures me that in all his wanderings he ?:Ll\lxlx :::unodh-m students, and were easily ViVl 3t Tosoni nb u Okk Washtngtor, Post, }\}-m“h I.h,.h)..\\\l‘.‘ |..dm‘:,'“'h,'\:.' 1 l|,,,,.: Gl """",m The cuiidren laughed at the speake A correspondent writes from Darjiling to Ol wiial & Leastly deuceditore| It has been here so oft before “This horrid thing it folks call “spring, them I've secn at least a score. s then the rudest boys you me And babies playing in the stre first, buthe ran at one of the girls with ouf strefehed arms, and she flea, shricking that the man was going to eat her. Swiftly the panic spread, and_in & moment the entire school was in a panic. They rushed helter skelter out of the class rooms, down the the Caleutta Guardian: A son of Lepcha, a boy seven years of ago, dead by a students of the St. Paul European by birth, The father came to lodge his complaint with ABOUT RAILKOAD MEN, Dumps drifted over to Spn Juan Smith and turned stage driver and was killed by road agents and so forth. Why do I tell you all thi o it is heavy on my he 10 Ashy was shot school, & of the boy the polico Holding a Train by Telephone. One side of a conversation over the tele- phone is said to bo very unsatisfactory, but Be- Beeause des thoone whicha Kalamawo Telegraph re- | stars, out in the yard, and thence pell-mell | {ii's 19 100K3 his complatnt with tho polico Tl T T > valléy of humility, Becauso $ T Sob | ut before his arrival Mr. Charter, tho rector Diiltife yau find T b (,'“I\vh .‘u"ll'.,“ l,,‘,!,' ont | porter tappened to hear u few days ago gavo | through the gutes and over the fencesinto | of g yehool, came and roported tho mattor e R ca miblata SOLNOUNeROE Aty iln Forihiine promise of being so interesting that ho | WRSMNL L q toueh tho prima- | 10 the police nspector, who took no notice of ; the complaint at first.” Subsequently he sent All of my fushion friends I beg one of his assistants to inquire and it turned Stay home aud do not stiv a peg out as usual, that the student intended to For like as not kitl a cat and in its place shot the boy, who You'll find a spot was pla with another under a cripto- Of mud upon your trouser leg. waited to hear the finish, [t seems that W. O. Hughart, president of the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad, was in Kalamazoo and called at Mount Holyoke seminury.as he takes great interest iy that educational insti- unloose the lutchet of His shoe. Be- ) dear,0 dear! there's a cousin of Ty to the intermediate department, and with- in three mint tes after the first shrick of the frightened girl rang through the building there was not a child in it. Soon the colored pulation for squares around were attracted B/ the childron's soroanis, Dumps at this hotel!l T haven't spoken to him. I never had any acquaintance with him, but do you suppose he has The Ruling Passion. recognized me? Do, please, giveme in | tution, being president u!‘:hc m;ml of trus | 'The street in front of the building was Canse to Feed Badly Texas Siftings. your next your candid, sure-enough | tees. The flew,time rapidly and he found | packed with negroes, everybody was yelling < s k PO o STy 5 sxpected t Bpinion about It and say you dont think | bimseltlate forthio train home: About s | Riho top of s, voice, and Tor 8 whila it | A Kind-hearted lud LR O sl Bl s bbbl g 80, Do you think He knows about me | time thetelephone bell rang in the Grand | seomed s though pandemonium had been let L ‘-Iw!-“' ats th ot TR tioned tothe dying woman that Mrs. Jones % ¥ i oo k Rapids & Indiana depot, and a young man, | loose. News of the paticspread asif by ord: “What's the matter, bubby ("’ she J > dying a s already and that is why he left me last evening when he saw that I blushed und trembled like a fool under his eyes? You know I can’t bribeall the newspapers. can’t goback on anybody who was good had called s | coming on, What sort of a hat did she wear?" gasped the dying woman. A Dude for Esc and asked how the invalid was “How' would asked, and bubby answered you like to weer your long-leg pants cut down so the bag of his kness came out at the aukle!” She dropped a nickle in the tear-grimmed fist, and saw the clouds roll late of Kentucky, a new employé of the road, and ono not acquainted with the officlals, an: swered the call. Here is the conversat.on in the depot end of theline: “Yes, this is the Grand Rapids & Indiana,” magic throughout theeity, and by the time it reached the lower portion of the city it had been magnitied into a terrible accident. The building was said to have caved in and hun- dreds of lives lost. A platoon of policomen ged brothe: prment. to Guumny at Redhorse—not if I'm VAL, eint % arrived on the scene, but were ulwrltv pow- | by instanter. Jeweler's Weekly. pitched out of Society into the sea. So .1{!0%“‘?”-{_:‘!” ‘“?{'vhfl'{‘“fi“fi not erless to kuex{_\hg\ Frgxw‘l ey {vhnflwrs Knew Th y Were Relatives. Loquacious Dude—I wead the othaw day | the skeleton sometimes rattles behind "Jullln‘fi-:)\'“wl-(:‘n(d:'u“\VcU\\'nu'L old {0 ;‘I‘lllt;t'l the fgn:;‘;ls‘)tlengx“;;:e::‘; aldren. | Marion went out to make n call with [ thata Euwopcan awtist nas made u wawich the door. Inever cared much before, | seeona - 4 ldank Pty | mamma. The children took her out in tho | entiawly of papaw. After a long battle the police managed to Jeweler—How about the hairspring? oyl Btaie BIRROM c—dilop, Ll Ll i don't caro who vou are, Seo you 1n | cloar spaco enough to allow the childron to [ FATAe and she found wnantchole n eveat | JORTERTIION 8200 e CUEEINET (e same. Jack Raynor I am sure of 0 before we'lldelay the train.” come out and matters were finally quieted. “O, mamma, mamma, come out hero and seo | that of jute or some othuw imitation of haiab. —he will not tell him, He seems, in- ‘Won't do any good to talk witl Only three outof the 1,500 pupils were in- 2 Y '] b L what lots of grandmothers I've found!" Bake ‘Werau our trains on time, Thi: noJim Crow road.” jured and none fatally. - The man who caused the panic was arrested and had to be escorted to the police station under strong guard. He says he isa Fiji Isiander, seventy-nine years old, and was once a pannibal, He gives the name of John Charven,aud says he once dined with Mr. Blaine at s home in Maine. ItOug t io. Yale Rocord, A small goat ate a tomuto can And then eight pounds of nails; He finished his meal, b v of dessert, By consuming four large fence rails, to hold him in such re Hn-\'t us iy to dare speak to himat all, and | nofymCrowrond®, © T'ma “’m"‘. deul that Wy, '"1\'“(’”' .nc " At the mention of that name every one dear! TwishI had something besides a | j,the office from Station Agent Batker to the million dollars! If Jack were three | messengor boy, made a rush and tried to get inches taller I'd marry him alive and go | tne telephone away from the Kentucky chap, Better Than a Throne. Tho little king of Spain very much dis- likes being seated upon the throne at state ceremonials, He tries to climb down, and on one oc , that he { Ol FALHAL A I RoLier He suid to himself, with a jovial smile, to Redhorse and wear sackcloth | bat, nothing daunted, the young mun sung | Hois now on a lecturimg tourand was to | WOUld rathersit on his mother’s lap. As off to his home he ran: again to the end of my miserable | out: nave lectured that night ln one of the negro ] ) 0 “I'm sure the nails can’t aisturb me, ARV 5 e v “Stand back there: T started fn with this | churches, He claims o be 8 British subject Bite, Fish, B te G g e rbimey, In the south 1t {s generally the “mammy" who bears the burden of maintaining house- hold discipline, and_ her word is law, whilo the father has no authority tospeak with tho children, o at least is not held in such awe, says Harper's Magazine, The young darkies illustrate this fa t in a song whioh they use to *conjure” flshes to their book, and chant jn an undertono: “Bite, fish, bite; July 25 “dneic and I guess I cen handle him,” ULypas “But he’s the president of the road,” ar- * * * Wo had a splendid sunset last | gued Mr, Baker." evening and [ must tell you all about it “TThe president of the road,” gasped the I ran avay from Aunty “and everybody, | young man. And then ho yelled over the and was walking alone on the beich. ‘1 | wire: 4 > b expact you to balieve, you infidel! that | Yes, we'll hold the train for you-hold it ; k'if you say so. had not looked out of my window on the | ® FEeK' 4 o Bowli seawnrd sidcof the hotel and scen him | grecg’°U"6 Man bas been exiled to Bowling and says he will demand #atisTaction for his treatment here. When hewent to the school he was dressed in a crimson damask,and his finger nails weresevoral inches long. He has filed histeeth, He denies that he wanted to frighten the children, Charven was ordered . inthe police court the next day, to leave the city immediately. I'he ex-cannibal feared personal violen ce frotn the colored people, and asked sate conduct Obedient to Orders, Chicago Tribune, Hostess—Miss Rackshaw, let e introduce the Hon. Mr. Goldmedal. Mr. Geldmedal (immature but rising statos- man) —Howdy, Miss Rackshaw! I believe T've been appointed by the—the steering com- mittee to take you oul to supper. —_— Yer manmy says yer might; a il » - acros: cipal tier, T lice y Says y 3 He Rem _mbered the Apple. O ToRF (3 Sxmi holtng oF wormiy do: Througs Wichout Ohange. o s ot owe 1 too Black | “Yer andy mnrs per ity oo e HOSSER DSRS0 ARR1 icacy you will accept my statementwith- 'He was, ttlm chronic car joker on that l‘h;‘a Maria. So=tite, tiah; bite, Mother Eve (after they were explcdlladk!mm out question, I soon established myself | of road, and seldom boarded the train with- . Easter Bggs. Paradise)—Addio, I wish you would take me under my sunshade and had for some | out guying the conductor, or left it without Thc;:i;'m;p’:’m{;flm::' 'f’:uir'l:(;"_ye“ Youtls® Companion, t0 the orchid show. time been gazing out dreamily over the sea, when he approached, walking elose tothe edge of the water--it wus ebb- tide. Iassure you the wet%and actually brightened about his fe As he ap- prodched me he lifted his hat, saying: “Miss Dement, may I sit with you, or will you walk with me?” The possibility that neither might be agreeable seems not to have oceurred to him. Did you ever know such assur- ance? Assurance? My dear, it was gall, downright gall! Well, T didn’t find it wormwood and replied, with my un- tutored Redhorse heart in my throat 1 shall be pleased to doaanything.” Could words have been more stupid There are depths of fatuity in me, friend o’ my soul, which are simply bot- tomless! He extended his hand, smiling and I delivered mine into it without a mo- ment’s hesitation and when his fingers closed about it to assist me to my feet the consciousness that it trembled made me blush worse than the red west. I got up, however, and after a while, ob- serving that he had not let go my hand, 1 pulled on it w little,but unsuccessfully. raising o general laugh at the company’s or traiamen’s expense, says the Buffalo Com- mercial. One mrorning he arrived late at tho station and barely In timo to swiag on with out a ticket. Hehad {ust cuught his breath, after seating himself with the usual daily crowd of fellow-travellers, when the con- ductor appeared. +Haven’t got, any ticket,” began the joker, in his usual vein, and the crowd awaited its daily guy. Al right; give me fifty cents,” responded the_ofticial. “Never carry anything so small,” and the traveller picked out & $0 bill, but did not pass 1t up. “‘Make out your receipt first,” he con- tinuea: “I'mall business today.” Then @s the receipt was duly punched out, he took it and began a long and Jabored fuspection of it, still holding on to his &0 bill, at the same time aggravating the Iuny conductor with superflious questions: “Fingine all right? Air-brakes or haud-brakes { Newsboy chained ¢ Any robate on this ticket? Punched it all you wantto! Any stopover allowed?’ etc. "As the conductor began to tire of the busincss, the funny man handed over his &20 bill and suddenly drew it back, adding, “One question more: Is thisa through train?’ “Bot your life, replied the conductor, taking the ‘bill: “and what is more,” he added, pocketing the Father Adam (angrily)—Orchid show! Don't you know tnat we haven't had any show since your adventure w that orchidt A Timely Wedding. Life. “Yes, papa, Jack is poor, but heloves me. Mayn’t' T marry him, papal “Well, yes, if you want to," “You Goar old thing—but when ! Slmmedately. +0, but you know iv's Lent.” s, but wouldn't it be weil to get broken in 0 fasting right away Little Smilos, Jewelers' Weekly: Actress—What do vou r, by waking me a ring with a Jeweler—Didn't you tell mo that you didu’t want a common_ Setting—- that you desired one with: some sole in it WAll; isw't that exactly what you've goti" What Meg's Brother said. If sonfebody sent me a rose-colored egg. Though I might prefer a blue, 1 wouldn’t shed tears about 1t, like Meg, T know I wouldu't, would you! What Meg said. If my eggs were blue and my sister's pinlk, When she had been hoping for blue, 1'd exchange with ber, as quick as a winlk, 1 know I wouid, wouldn't you? old Willie Patrick of Philadelphia which prompted him to inquwe into and stir up the internal arrangements of a dynamite cartridge with o nail come near costing him his life, He is now lyingina critical condi- tion at bis home with the thumb and index fluger of his left hand amputated, his left eye seriously injured, his faco ono mass of woundsand his legs severely burned. The cartridges which caused the iujuries weve found by Willie and three of his schoomates under agate by the sido of an emigrants’ boarding house on Mouut Vernon street, in a small card box bearing a German label. They are of peculior make, much too small for which dynamite 15 generally used and con- tain nosfugs. Tre police'think they belong to the outfit of a ninilist, and were intended to be thrown among a crowd of people, the mere treading on them being sufficient to cause explosion. The proprietor of the board- ing house, by the side of which the cartridges were fouad, is a Russian Pole. He thinks tuey must have been intended for him and that is the work of some unknownr enemy. Willie Patrick, the injured boy, attends the Hancock school.” He says Ernest Parker, son of Dr. Parker, came wto school and told the boys he hud ' found & box of small cart- ridges under a gate on Mount. Vernon street, but had left it there. Afier school Parlker, Willie Patrick, Harry Longwell and Harry £choo! Days. Tom Ho “Ahme! those old familiar bounds! That classic house, those classic grounds, My pensive thought recalls! What pensive urchins now confine, What little captives now Within yon irksome w . v v 1s! “There was 1 birch'd ; there was I bred; There like o littie Adam fe From learning’s woful t The weary tasks I used to con; The hopeiess leaves I wopt upon— Most fruitless leaves to me Some sudden chilling blast in spring, Your expectation shocks i plain why people call the thing The vernal paradox. Ted's 1 rayor. A neighbor’s family received news tho other day of the arrival of a new cousin to bo added to the group of littia cousins in a dis- tant town. At night whenslittle Ted came to Chicago Tri What office are you a candidate for(” inghired the reporter,” who was making his hasty rounds of the polling places. . “Mei" exclaimed tne piquant? It explains, oo, the singular o ionce the man has upon me. It s the undefinable in his art—black art! Seriously, deur, I quitestremble when he looks me full in the eyes with those wun- fathomable orbs of his which I have al- ready vainly attempted to describe to you. How dreadful if he have the power to make one fall in lovel Do you know if the Blavatsky crowd have that power —outside of Sepoy? July 16, * * * The strangest thing! ILast evening while aunt was attending one of the hotel hops (I hate them) Dr. Burritz called. It was scandalously late—I ac- tually believe he had talked with aunty in the ball-room and learned from her that T was alone. I had been all the evening contriving how to worm out of him the truth about his connection with the Thugs in Sepoy, and all of that black business, but the moment ho fixed his eyes on me, for I admitted him, I'm ashamed to say I was holpless. 1 trem- ble Iblushed. I-—O, Irene, Irene, I love the man beyond expression, and you know how it is yourself! Fancy! Tan ugly duckling from Red- horse—daughter (they say) of old **Ca- lamity Jim"'—certainly his heiress, with 0o living velation but an absurd old aunt who spoils me a thousand and fifty ways —ubsolutely destitute of everything bat a $1,000,000 and a hope in Paris--I, dar- ling) tolove u god like him! My dear, if I had you here I could tear your hair out with mortification, 1 aam convinced that he is aware of my fecling, for he stayed but a few mo- ments, snid vothing but. what another man might' have said half as well, and pretending that he had an engagement, went away. Ilearned today (a little bird told me--the bell boy) that he went straight to bed. How does that strike you as an_evidence of exemplary habits? O ' 0 v s " July 17, * # % That little wretch 1?..,-;:..‘- called yesterday and his babble sot me almost wild, He never runs down—that ik to say when he does run down u score of reputations more orless he does not Pause between one reputation and the next. (By the way, he inquired about you, and ¥ris manifestations of interestin ou had, I confess, & good deal of genu- no vralsemblance.) Mr. Raynor ob- sorves no game laws; like the death which he would inflictif slanders were futal, ho has all seasons for his own. But I like hiw, for we knew one another at Redhorse when we were young aud true- hearted and barefooted, " He was known in_those fair days as “Giggles” and 1— 0O Irene, can you ever forgive me?—1I was Devlin went to the place audsecured tke leaning up ; man, Hq simply held, on saying nothing but [ bill and deliberately movink away, it's e e 3 [ soy his pravers fecling like throwing the | against the door frame. ~“Thunder! 1 ain’t Toglcing down Anio my. fnse with. some | tiroust . wiihoat ohasear s wnd. phs enti D e b T AT atbtar ast |imantle ot bl tng Overdil hif connec: | punuing for anytuing. [ was bora in this kind of a smile—1 didn’t knoy—how | car smiled at the funny man and his Qisap- | yight, while studying his geography in the | Dod, pons bross Dot aud Hossio and. and . | COMEy." could I?—whether it was affectionate, | pearing £20 bill. sitting room of his father's house, Willio | de odaer ittle kid." 4 V&% Vo " Lawyer—All wi derisive or what, for [ did not look at e AT Patrick, who is an embryo geuivs In pyro- R e tosk Homald s Tanyer Al wa fex. RIS SRR 0K L G4 dov Mok n ay Ghost. T o vl TRL T e (A (T T citement during the progress of the fight, “Talking about ghosts on railroad tracks,” presume!” Witness—Jes' onecoolone. “Who said the engineer to an Atlanta Constitution Hesiotiap (o R LRSS Ioking Was et #A fellor killed when tho row first little cartridges, and tried to scrape out its red fires of sunset burning in the depths of his eyes! Do you know dear, if the One spake with gentleness aad all accord, it o contents on the back of his book. His re- q vl started.” Thugs of Blavatsky region huve any | Mam 8 he mopped his brow with a pieco of | conte With lowly heart he served his Master Sl specinl Kind of eyes? Ab you should | dry wiste, “I beliove in them.” Soaxcls) som, workER iiaepetion fn the | < g Boston Post: Tt is a remarkable fact that “Why sof” Content to hope his labors pleased the Tord, *“Well, 1 killed a man once—that is, my en- Nor mindful of the worldling’s scoff or Jeer, have seen his superb attitude, the god the Italians have no organ in New Orleans. like inclination of his head as he stood The cartridge exploded with a tremendous concussion, blow a lurge hole right through over me after I had got upon my feet! | gine killed him—and T can’t get rid of him.” | the thick atlas on Williv's lap, went through | A nd vet sometimes it seemed to him right Woahtnos “‘,‘;- ' v ¢ o o v 1 the bottom of the chair on which he was sit- e F1 g ushington, Post. It was a noble picture but I soon de- Haunts you, does he! U, Diaw hite 16F6 th anel the top of tha queer The coal man gay across the way, stroyed it, for I began at once to sink again to the earth. ~ There was only one thing for him to do and he did it: he supported me with an arm about my waist, *Miss Dement, are you ill?>” he said. It was an exclamation; there was neither alarm nor solicitude in it. Ifhe had added: “‘I suppose thatis about whatTam expected to say,” he would hardly have expressed hissense of the situation more clearly. His manner filled me with shame and indignation, for I was suffering acutely. I wrenched my hand out of his, grasped the arm supporting me and pushing myself free fell plump into the sand_and sat help- “Not exactly. But Ican’t get hi=m out of wy memory. [t happened on the old Bruns- wick & Western railroad. I had taken a young man-—a tramp—on the engine with me, {o was & northern man and had been - south for his health and had got broke in Florida. He was going home to die and_askea me to givehim a lift. I was sorry for him, and eranted his request with pleasure. *“The fellow had consumption and the jolt- ing of the engine resulted in a hemorrhage. T wasn't noticing the man, when I heard a shrick and then—out of the cab he tumbled, and then under the engince. I heard thé wheels pass over him and grind his bones to powder. **After that, whenever we would reach that spot, I seemed to hear the shrick, and then the grinding of the wheels on human bones, I couldn’t (Ilw'pul the 1illusion to save my life. That for his toil and sorrow he c Searcely five hun ar, “Ab, ~ well,” said he, *‘my treasure’s not below.” Has sold them stuff to burn, But soon the heat their brows will greet, And I can take my turn, index finger off, drove a picce of the bone of the latter into his forehead, from which it had to be extracted by forceps, and threw his father, who was complacenty reading the paper, sitting near him,up’ againsta bookease about three feet away. Mr. Patrick at once informed the police, who endeavored to collect the remaining cariridge from the other boys, but did not succeed until the following morning in school, Little Brothers of Royalty, All the litle German princes are very strietly brought up to the habits of industry, punctuality and early dsing, while thair dmly food is much plainer than that of most middle class German chiliren The Crown Princeand his next younger brother may often bo seen in their carriage driving New York Sun: Bagley—You don't hap- pen to have a pint measure around here, do you! Brace—Yes; fill up one of those quart Wine bottles. One bawled in tones stentorious and coarse, A ribald jangle, almost blasphemy; And shrieked vapidity till fairly hoarse— And thousands flocked this worndrous man to see, His coffers well a millionaire's might be, His pows o'erflowed until they flied tho asle. These are fair samples, as you must agree; One man made Curistians and one made— Lis pile, Lowell Citizen: “Why have you got tha string around your finge rewind m that I have forgotten what my wife told m to buy.” New Orleans Pl Dispatch fears tha 1t legs unless it exerc The Pittsburg human race will lose s them mor AT R Investigate tic Engineer. A curious incident ocenrred some time ago The General Manager: Take a little stock, less. My hat had come off in the strug— | On one occasion the fireman swore that he | troush Unter den Linden, which pastime "". “"1 °"lk‘"° a3 ?;.E‘m, llmx;m.y'uu division :ldx tino.0s much water, aud then put in the glo and my hair tumbled about my fac: . o ey i€ | the poor littlo feilows capaot find very en. | Yeports the Truckee Republican, While | lamb. oy agion (e Iy lace | saw the man picking up his bones along the blo, as thoy have to keep their hands con- | running on @ straight track he chanced — and shoulders in the most mortifying | track; but of course there was nothing in 1‘:;{?.:;'\.;10 their hats, r:‘u‘;rninu with mil. | to look abead and )]yihluligm, secmingly on | New York Horald: 1t is strange, but tho way. 2 {hat. Bt for six years afterward, is 1ong 88 | jiary salute the bows ' of the people, who | the track. He Immediately looked at- his | 4rers of @ pot of “red paint” are always “Go away from me,” [ cried, half | frempned g the rosd I tmagined I could | g\\waysline the streot 1o seo them' pass. | orders, and saw that there were no orders of | blue. choking. YO please go away, you—you | henr e SE0I d teol the engine jumb | They would be noticed for-bright, fine-look. | any trainon the road. Thinking, however, " yege Thug! How dare you thiuk that when | NP afaion. ‘,;‘“t"l";:'um‘{‘:,‘;'\“'p’,“l ai'hs | ug boys anywhere, and the second one, Eitel | thut there must have been some mistake, ho | Boston Coutler: Judy ~Do you tink you my log is asieep?” Friedrich, bas a remarkably sweet face. actually said those identical words! love me, Dinni: Oneday the twolittle brothers were playing Dennis—Go way now, darlint, ay coorse at once sidetracked and wwaited until the same, light would approach him nearer; but, 3 Nervy Engi . ina room adjoining the kaiser’s study,and the | stead of coming neaver, it bad switched and | of do. j\."d ‘:“," 1 k{;i“‘{‘l’md‘:;'f" and Bobbed. | .\ o Missoula and Helena accommoda- | racket got so furious, beiar accompanied by | took its course iato the air 50 us to alow the | Jud) How do ye know it, Dinnist rene, I fear I blubbered! tion train was going east from Gold Creel | YiEOrous howls and war-whoops, that papa | train to pass. The eugincer, becoming im- | Dinnis—By the way ol appraciate yer His manner altered in an instant—I e stepped in to inquire the cause, He discover- | patient, took another good look, and was | Prisince whin oi’'m away from ye, could see that much through my fingers | the other day at the rate of about. forty miles ed the older boy sitting on the young astonished to find that he had sidetracked for ne, and hair. He dropped on one knee be- [ an bour, pulled by engine No. 23 the con- | whomhe was poundiug with both fists ia | the moon, and hence the boys on thoroad are | New York Recorder: “What shall 1 side me, parted the tangle of hair and | necting bar broke, and what would have un- | true pugilistic style. haviug soue great sport over the joke, proach " was asked al. a meeting of Clove said inthe tenderest way: *My poor | doubtedly boen avery serious accident was | , **What is the meaning of thist” demanded L Yo the snar day, How wauld it girl, God knows I huve not intended to | prevented by the coolness and nerve of En- | the kaiser. s - Hard on Judge Terry's Widow. 4 to seieot & xt {rom tuowible by way of pain you. How should 1—1 who love | Fineer Neff, who, although facing almost | ‘‘Lwas just showing Eitel Fritz who's | Justice Crichton, at hove “resno, Cal., last o of the people against charged with battery, in favor of the defendant, pronouncing bim crown prince,” modestly explained the victor. His majesty was equal 10 the emergency Said he: “Young man, you come here an T'l1 show you who's kaiser certain death, remained on the engine, shot off steam and put on the air brakes, bringing the train to & standstill in ashort distance. The fireman and vrakeman who were on the you—I who have loved you for years and years!” Hé had pulled my wot hands away ‘week, decided tne ¢ N. C. Caldwell, Chicago T'ribun ~Is this Miss ‘ashionable M Puplic Spirited Citizen lliver Yes, sir. What can from my fice and was covering them | engine jumped and rolled down @ thirty-foor, | Probabiy it was the afternoon of this day | not guilty and ordering his discharge. The | I 40 for you! FAZE with kisses, My cheeks were like two | embankment, but sustained noserious injury. | nd in amicable adjustment of the morning’s | complaining witaess was Mrs, Sarah Althoa Here'is my card, madam, and here's $50, dispute that the two Hitle fellows, driving 1 want an Easter bonnet for my wife, and 1 through the Thiergarten, were observed to The engine was helpless and Conductor want it trimmed with English'sparrows,” coals, my whole face was flaming and I, Cleary struck out for Garrison, Mont., about Terry, who alloged she had gone to Mr. think, steaming. Waat could 1 do? 1 M hug and 'siss each other a5 if they had been | Caldwell's office on business and that he had ——n hid iton his shoulder—thers was no | four ,“fmA";:;-_';L“f:;y“;,“v;',;‘;,y;:,','g{:}: parted for years. v struck Lo i the face aud icked lor outof | Brookiyn Lifo: Head of firm (angrily) other place, And, O, my dear friend, | yi5o walked® It was & miraculous escape his office. Caldy denied this, sayiug that | Who 1s that smoking in the oficet how my leg tingled and thrilled, and how I wanted to kick! ‘Wesat 50 for a long time, Just in Time to Assist. “The father of the family, disturbed by the noise, entered suddenly, reportod the Chi- cago Tribune. de Miss Bookkeeper—T'he oftice boy, sir. from a horrible Head of firm—Oh, all right.’ 1 thought 1t was one of the clerks. he merely put his foot on her shoved her out of his office. she had back and He stated that no business with him and that he had warned her to keep away from his oftice. Cape Cod Item He had re- all must be Doem—Papa says leased one of my hands to pass his arm an end between us, Hiram. Hiram—Why, what have I done? What's the . The jus! in bis decision reflected severel, NOT S¥YUCK ON THE LINES, about me agaln, and T had possessed | ity VNS oer bapa bas boccume ik “‘Who is doing all this loud talking? he | on Mrvs, » declared_that BOF tostimony : New York Sun. wysell of my hundkerchief and was dry- | Hyram—Richt Why, I heard he had failed. | IDQuired. could not be believed and that tho lawyer's When he had seen my tragedy ing my eyes and my nose. I would not | Miss Doem—Yes, that's bow he bas become | Master Tommy who .was standing on the | evidence must be accepted that be used no He thought a little time, look yp until that was done; he tried in | rich, center table ook off the pulr of his grand- | Wore than necessary torce. And then be said he thought 'twould be | A betler paniowmiwe, Pages 910 12 Ball Players. Sullivans, Big and Little, and an Interesting Mixe ture of & ports. John M. Ward safled for homo last Mone day. Ed Swartwood has signed with Sioux ity club. o IL. has taken down his The Pittsburg le Monday Ea ( tion team, Doc Bushon Holli d MePhoe at Hot Springs. Lincoln has orce valise g nd start wost. Jay Faatz wants to pl Cincinnati associa tion Red The dove of peace 18 talking bor white wings over the diamond. King Kel. is like a weathe changes with every wind that blo ery Cincinnati_associatior s a brotherhood man a ys first base cock, ar ago, s boen signed by Columbus. T hie Scorers' lea the brotherhood, but the ers’ association still lives. The Cleveland forms of white with blue with black stockings. The people waut peace, the league Cincinnati, and there you are! “I recognize in the national agre sional ball George & ~William Barnie, mith, the Brooklyn boy pre He is the fond papa of Lwius. The University of Penn joined Harvard, Yale and Princoton fusing to pla; sociation clubs. Itis to be presumed that Loth Wagner will go crazy with Jleveland snarl is not unraveled. spent three days in Chicago with Tom tus and didu’t go near Bloomington, John Kelly is not likely to do much umpire nes has ing for the ussociation and Charlie another offer.~New York World. Tip O'Neill bas been corralled Loris to fill_the holo left vac: ot by Cleveland. for th will Virginia nine. r spring practice on April 3. Th T i | Pertinent and Impertinent Notes on the DOGGY MEN AND DOGS THEMSELVES. The Trotters and thy Bang Tails ~1he “Ace Wilder has signed with the Oshikosh fiddle onco iers o to Florida next i is claimed by the local associa- Brooklyn will drop both Bob Clark and have arrived safely red Will Hart to pack bis for the of spreading He Ited so far o, the Cloveland young blood of e seems 1o bo as dead as Philadelphia Scor- Spiders are to wear uni- bluck stockings, and wants and the ussociation wants a picce of or some such document the saly ation of profes. nised to Cincinnati, is the busiest man'in Altoona, Ivanin team has in re- Prince and griet if that “King Kel was a hustler! Il‘o i Lof- St. nt by Jimmie McAleer when he turned his face toward The Bostonians go to Charlottasville, Va., Y lay two games with the University of Joo Sommer, who played in the Cincinnaty association team to play liery Joliet, Galesburg, Trving, members of the Illinois-lowa league. tween O'Neill aud John T, Brush, The Giants' travelng uniform Yale gray, ings and belts, The home uniform white, with maroon or black trimmings. Kel is known asthe the busiuess and i Amer his foolish brealks. -New York Press. Columbus, which has lost moncy for several a'lot of red-headed pencil pushers who are yelling for gore and no compromise. What Columbus needs is not blood, but cash, A. L. Johnson says he'll not appear iu any. The league They haven't got the goods atd A. L. hasi’t seen the color of that years, b lawsuit until he gets hi: mouey. platform is C, O. D. 30,000, The national agreoment, Mlike the governs ment at Washington, still England loague ax 1ves week, le Wagner's adm leaguers were shrewder bu: sion flaz of truc with the look. : The knowledge that the Ci clubn 1890 took fn more money than associntion Reds did here In 1859-~th est year in the history of the game. ibed on the text this city does not like league bull. th 0 ¥im Keefe who is coaching the Prince ton s that the wearers of the tiger provided with pitching ma- that tho Jer- oo dificulty in winning New nine, stripe terial. Ho o sey boys will b the champlons! York Reporter. well dently pred pover Yalo this ycar Captain_Comiskey is billed as being en ington to completo tho task ' sot out to do—sign Rad- 1l into the hands of gnod Samaritans at Chicago, and at the end of his first day’s sojourn there he forgot that suc route to Blool that “King I bourne. Kel & mun as “Rad"" was alive. 1t would no doubt bea good thing for the American association if the league would forgive and forget, but where would it be of New would di what ig any particular benefit to the Press. turn public at lomats" wanted. leagu ertainly it would. ution away_ from to the game. That is the Intrresting K el Notes, Russian wolf hounds will be a fashionable “They are growing in favor, Becton Metehwoncaracus’ was lie at the New York bench show, ‘The Belmont kennels at M rin's Fer anew institutic will be cultivate there. the Cleveland kkennel club's show, Auril 14, and continues tour aays, Jack pup-to evening. Mr. J. 8, Ttalin death near New Haven greyhoun hart pug kennels, cided upon a spring show. 8COPe & success from the start out. t Le Diable, club this weck. If you ov to empty his revolve chloroform and apply it to bis poor dog will suffering, nose. dogs in America twenty-three pounds, twent half pounds, nd twenty-elght spectively. The fighting canines McCabe is cager to match are Flors, tweuty-three pounds; Towne pounds, and Boucy, twenty-elght pounds. R. 8. Waddell is presenting an elegant sou- ts of the Hazard tis & well ilustrated venir with the complimel powder company, in 82 and helped win the only pennant Porkopolis ever floated, wants Rockford, Aus rora, Ottawa, Davenport and Outuma, aro "he AN !mm:m;“n“&:',“”mr‘ Palmer O'Nefll and Albert T.. Johnson have struck o snag than in the tale ¢f trouble be- will be of with maroon trilnmings, stock- will be reatost “ollier” in borting himself sna the an nssociation, as well s baseball by d the Atlautic association made formal application for membership this that the css men than those in the assqeiation, and that under a association could not cope people, has a humorous ieinnati league the greate is not 00ks i those who say the name is The St. Bernard family L. I'. Whitman will be superinte ilent o? It opens It took “Crib" just two hours to[choko Billy Andrew’s lemon and white bull the otner Rocgwell has entered his fine for the Chicago shows She will be shown and handled by the Eber- The local kennel club have not as yet de- It requires care. ful preparation, aud they are determined to Duke of Hessen and a trio of pointers from the Hempstead kennels, won in the field trials at the bench show of the Washington kennel or find it necessary to kill a dog, don't run for a policoman, wio ¢enerally has bofore he havpens to put a ball in the right spot, but geta little Tho quickly goto sleep without dumes McCabe of Harlem, has offored to match threo fighting dogs against any three for 250 or 00 a side, at -four and one- pounds ro- , twenty-four and one-balf