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THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUTE : TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4 1896. ' l . r . r ,- " i ftirsf. Rational Ban : TSfOKTH ZPLA.TTJE, ISTEB. Capital, - IM ffiivnlnc:. I H. S. P. A. llpI! aethur McNamara, A "General Banking A. F Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils-, PAINTERS' SUPPLIES, WINDOW GLASS. SDiariaarLta, De-atsclie A.poth.eke Corner of Spruce and Sixth-sts. " fJwM lard We pte. "r!7 nlllf!fyl Call ihoro for .ill kinds of - ' ' ' " fP L Hardware, - 1 M PRICESLOAV. W 4- Cash - Tells. ,: WALL-PAPER, PAINT AND OIL DEPOT, . WIND6W glss, varnishes, gold leaf, gold PAINTS, BRONZES, ARTISTS' COLORS AND BRUSHES, PIANO AND FURNITURE POLISHES, PREPARED HOU-E AND BUGGY PAINTS, LSOMINE MATERIAL, WINDOW SHADES. ESTABLISHED JULY 1868. - - - - 310 SPRUCE STREET. F J- BROEKBR. 4 MERCHANT TAILOR. NORTH Dr. N. McOABE, Prop., J. E. BUSH, Manager. OBTH PLATTE, - - 1EBH,ASKA . "We aim. to handle tlie Best Grades of ftoods. sell tliera at Pleasonable leisures, and Warrant Everything as Represented,. Orders from the country and along the line of the Union Pacific railway respectfully solicited. JOS. F. IE5 X-TJ Steam and Gas Fitting. Jesspool and Sewerage a Specialty. Copper and Galvanized Iron Cor nice. Tin and Iron Roofings, flsfcimates furnished. Repairing of all kinds receive prompt attention Locust Street, Between Fifth and Sixth, NTortn IPlatte. - Nebraska. FDSEST SAMPLE W0M. IN NORTH PLATTE ' Having refitted our rooms in the finest of style, the public is invited to call and see us, "insuring courteous treatment. Finest-Wines, Liquors and Cigars at the Bar. Our billiard hall is supplied with the best make of tables -and competent attendants will supply all your wants. KEITH'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE x'BE UNION PACIFIC DEPOT $50,000.00. $22,500.00 WHITE, Pres't, WHITE, Yic-Pj-es;t: Cashier. Business Transacted. MACHINE OILS, Spectacles. A Fine Line of Piece Goods to select from. First-class Fit. 'Excel lent Workmanship. STBE1TZ, : PLATTE : PHABMACY, FILLION, r IRA Ii BAKE, Editor and Propkietok 'SUBSCBXPTION ItATES. OnoYear, cash In advance,.. (1.25. Six Months, cash In advanco 75 Cents. Entered at thoNorth Platte (Nebraska) postofilce as second-class mntter. The Venezuela commission is hard at work, although it does not furnish much matter for the news papers. O , r- On February 22d 'the republican party, as a national organization, will be forty years old. Republican kclubs all over the country will observe the day.. A bill has been introduced at Des Moines to allow bicyclists to build a six-foot track alongside of any highway, at their own expense. and forbidding others to travel on it. "The gentleman from Washing- ton" will please observe that in Lincoln county the populist com missioners legislate for the benefit of the few. Will he condemn the proceedings? The factional wrangle among New York republicans" is to be re gretted. The state is undoubtedlj republican to-day but if this inter necine struggle continues the result may be different. South Carolina's legislature has endorsed Tillman's vinegary arraignment of president Cleveland That, however, does not justify some of the lanp-uaire used bv the J o ' Southern senator. In a majority of the delegate con ventions held by the republicans of the country, McKinley men have been selected. The Ohio man is evidently gaining strength every da v and 'tis well. On Saturdav the senate' silver substitute for the bond bill passed the senate, but 'here is not a ghost ;i feh 'w for the substitute topas he aouse. and even if it did the FX- president would exercise his veto- nig pqwer. One issue of a daily paper whuh reached this office last week con tained accounts f six suicides in one day, and there were probably others the same dav that were not - j recorded. Self destruction is, un fortunately, growing very popular in the United States, Lord Salisbury now. says that he is willing to support the Monroe doctrine to a limited extent. It dou't need any of his support. This side of the water will give it all the siinnort it needs. All that is ii wanted of him is to realize fairlv that the doctrine will be supported all rijrht Ex. The result of the one hundred million dollar bond offer will be made known to-morrow. The un certainty as to whether the full amount would be subscribed has fV.nl tmrte of theconntrv. Itisnow believed that more than the amount of ffold called tor will be offered. W. F. Harrity, chairman of the national democratic committee. was in Chicago Sunday and in an inter view said he was not sansruine of democratic success this year, but had hooes. The fact is democrats of national repute take a very dis mal view of the conditions, and it will btr uphill work for them to work up enthusiasm campaign. during" the coming During January 1;V)!0 people left the ports of Cuba in the hunt for places of .afet. The3T had no confidence that Spain could help them and they had no desire to help Soain. The ;uiritives seem to A. U have the idea that there will be a ?reat uprising" among" the Cubans ere long" and that Gomez and Maceo are fully cognizant of the conditions in Havana and at headquarters of the Spanish army. In 1893 according" to the report of the Commissioners on Education? which has been brought down to that year, the number of school houses in the United states was 535.426 valued at S398.435.039. with annual revenue of S165.000.000, teachers numbering 383,010 and an aggregate of 15, 083, 630 pupils. The illiteracy in the United States has been reduced to 13.3 oer cent, this i. including" 56.8 per cent among ne groes and 13.1 per cent among white emigrants. NEW Jersey has a governor who promises to be a shining light in rontemoorarv history. For the x. first time in thirty years the state is under republican administration, and at his inaugural Governor Grijjrgs slL that he would. veto ev ery law that had not some positive and convincing" reason to justify its Tjassage. He is a young" man with n o-ood record and a great opportun ity, New Jersey having rejoiced for many years in u. conspicuously cut- rupt governnient. As a rising irnnno- reoublican he is worth j r f watching'. PROGENY 0E FREAKS. SOME RESULTS OF ROMANCES IN THE ' SHOW BUSINESS. Tho First lieal Living Skeleton, His Wife and Their Three Skin and Bone Sons. An Old Museum and Side Show Man ager Taps His Memory Tank. According to Manager T. E. Sackett of the Bijou theater, Isaac W. Sprague was the first unnaturally or abnormally thin skin and bonos man to be exhibit ed to the public under the title of a "living skeleton." It was during tho palmy days of Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth, and while that celebrated showman was raking the continents in search of curiosities in 1864. Incident ally Mr. Sackett was in those days with Tony Pastor. Mr. Sackett was acting as doortender, manager and all around man for Pastor. He had previously been th Millin Christine, the two headed girl, and had an eye out for freaks. When tho Tony Pastor show reached Florida. Stone & Murray's cir- r.na name there. The old inhabitants will remembbr Stone & Murray's show. Tfc was contemnoraneous with Dan Rica's. Thaver & Noves' and afterward with the John Robinson circus. With Stone & Murray was Isaac W. Spragne, the living skeleton. Mr. Spragne had been discovered by Barnum in Massa chusetts. He was the first living skele ton on record since the discovery of the world by Adam. And Spragne was a real living skeleton too. He was noth ing but skin and bones, yet. he was healthy and jolly. - In 1865 Barnum collected several cu riosities, including Spragne, and "sent them for a tour of the world. Spragne was tho big card. Nest to him was a skeleton woman, nearly as attenuated as Sprague, whose name has escaped tho wonderful memory of Showman Sackett. Among the other freaks with which Bamum expected to and did as tonish the world was Joyco Heth, the colored woman he picked up in the south, supposed to be 125 years old; the "woolly horse." and Annie bwan, tne first giantess ever on exhibition. j Snraeue. on the steamer going over to London, fell desperately in lovo with the skeleton woman. She returned ins affection, and. according to Manager Sackett, who was on the voyage, it was a sieht for the sentimental to observe tlie billiuc and coohieof these attenuat ed specimens of Pharaoh's "lean kine. " Tho outro lovo affair gave Barnum a business hiutj which he was not slow to take advantage of. On their arrival m dear old "Lminon" the showman adver tised and heralded the astounding fact far and"wide that on a certain day there could be seen at St. James hall (where thev were tihowinjr) something that tho world had never before witnessed, name ly, the marriage of two living, breath ing skeletons. Ho also announced the fact that never before in the annals of show business had such a thing as the wedding of freaks been performed in public. This was a fact too. Of the enthusiastic crowds wlncu sucn i j, . i-i. a unique announcement urow, ui- nie interesting conduct of the living skele tons, wedded in the presence ,of "as sembled thousands," Manager Sackett is silent. But he tells of a fact, How ever, which is of such interest that it , i i i. W2S recorded in meoicai worKK, uui never before has seen the light of news- . , m I. it..! paper pr.Diicanon. M.nap was iuub u year after the marriage of the skeletons the wife boro a child which also was a "living skeleton." Stranger still to relate but aackett stakes his fortuno on the truth of j it two other children were also born to Mr. aud Mrs. Sprague, and they were also of the skeleton mold. For many - .1 1 . A 1J years atterward tne parents uraveieu with their unnaturally thin ottspnng, and added to the stock of the world's astonishment, including both crowned d thosa that were bald. Tlie IUVUUU V orioinal Sorasue and his wife are dead, but the three skeleton children, now young mu, aiuuuuwiUK uuuuu mo uim trv. healfliv. happy and ricli. This is the only case or succession or cases in medical annals where a father mid innfliRv transmitted the disease of wastiuc atrophy to their offspring Mr. Sackett also tells of another weird case that came under his observation in his perenrinatiug show days. Major "Rnnifill. si pfilahrated showman of the RiTfiRs. fnnnd a nair of freak twins in tha sonth. the offspring of colored peo pie. Ono of the twins, a boy, was black ns TTnnoo stock. The other, a cirl, was a pure albino. The major engaged the twins for his show and exhibited them for vears. The albino girl grew up and married an albino in tho west. The offspring of tho marriage was a baby as black as the ace of spades. Ut courso thin Piihmippfl the showine .price of Charlev and his albino wife, and Major Bnrnell increased their salaries accord- inclv. D. K Prescott was the discoverer ot the far famed Sleeping Beauty, whom he found in Tennessee in the sixties. Ho broueht her to St. Louis, She was a young girl ot surpassing Deauty, vriui "... . . . but ono fault discoverable, fcne siepc nine tenths of tho time. She was the irrontpst nnzzla the medical men had over seen. It was one of theso latter who denrived her mother of a fortune and Prescott of one of his most popular curiosities. The young doctor was leiu alone in the showroom one day while the beauty was sleeping as usual. His curiosity prompted him to take out his lancet and nnncture her arm. J-he blood started out and the beauty awoke with a ecream. Her mother rushed in from an adioming room, seeing iuu uiuuu .... e-i - it. TT ,1 flowinz from her daughter's arm, she fainted away. This ended the showing of the Sleeping Beauty. Her mother took her home, and sho never slept m public any more. Buffalo Courier. Tho most easterly point of the United States is O.uoddy Head, Me. r tho most westerly. Atto island. Alaska : the most northerly, Point Barrow, Alaska; the most southerly, Key West, Pla. Goes a Lone Way, Borax My wife makes a little mon ey go a long way theso times. Henpekt So does mine unfortunate ly. She's always subscribing for mis sions in Africa and Polynesia. Pear- Eon's Weekly. Shun no toil to- make yourself re markable by somo one talent. Yet do not devote yoursoif to ono branch ex clusively. Strive to get clear 'notions about all. Give up no science entirely, for all science is one. Seneca. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Absolutely pure s THEIR OWN PHYSICIANS. Self DoctorluRT Promoted by tho Use of Med. lcincs In Compressed Tablets. Not only has tho general introduction of niedicmo m tho form or compresseu . tablets simplified the work of. tno doc- erg erQ Dofc to the West Point tcr, but ifc has also vastly promoted self staudard on military matters. At War doctoring. Tho number of remedies put xeilton, Va., one of the new companies up in this form for popular use con- happened to bo stationed early in the stantly increases, juany aruggmia iuuv a specialty of theso things. Yon see them displayed near the soda water fountain, put up in small bottles and sold at prices that must yield a hand some profit. Half a dozen remedies for indigestion are thus sold, somo contain ing pepsin as tho active principle, oth ers containing soda mint, some bismuth, some charcoal or more powerful disin' fectants. Somo are designed to remove acidity of the stomach ; others to attack a catarrhal condition. Others are to pro voke appetite, and still others aro to promote one or another natural func tion. A dozen headache cures are sold in this fashion, and tho different emolli ents for tho throat are almost inuumera- ble Thero aro grip tablets, liver tab- lets, heart, lung and brain tablets. ! Persons who nave escnewea paieuv medicines all their lives buy these tan lets of one sort or another, because most of them are supposed to be well recognised remedies. Most of the tab lets are advertised only in medical jour nals, in accordance with the require ments of the medical code, and many of them, no doubt, have obtained their popularity through their use by reputa ble physicians. Quinine, which is now extremely cheap, is sold largely in the form of two grain pills or in larger pills con taining iron. Although believed by many physicians to be a dangerous rem edy, it has long been self prescribed by all sorts of persons, especially in mala rial regions, and it is ono of the reme dies most frequently bought without prescription. It is self prescribed for malaria in its many forms, to check a cold in its early stages, and as a tonic. Stimulants of ono sort or another aro sold in this form, but more especially perhaps at tho soda fountain, which has become a sort of medical dispensary. Many headache remedies are dispensed at tho soda fountain. Some are recom mended or suggested by the attendant, but mauy persons havo their favorites among the various sedatives and febri fuges, and somo are called for as regu larly as the fruit sirups. New remedies are constantly introduced through the soda fountains, and many old ones havo long been included in tho annually lengthening list of the soda water dis pensers. New York Sun. IN A BALLOON. Tho Sensations That Are Superinduced b7 Its Rising and Falling'. A dim sunlight strikes us in the bal loon. Suddenly wo realize we are in bright sunshine again, with fleecy white clouds below U3 and a de.ep blue sky Look at tho shadow of tho bal- above loon on the cldnds! See the light pris matic colors like a halo around the shadow of tho car. Hero wo are all alone, in perfect silenc?, in the depths of a great abyss massivo clouds tower ing up on all sides, a snowy white mass bolow. But no sign of earth no sign of anything human. Not a sound, not a sign of life ! What peace ! What bliss ! Horrors ! What'a that report? Tho bal loon must have burst. Oh, nonsense ! Keep still! It's only a fold of the stuff nipped by the netting being suddenly released ; that's all. Well, we are falling, for seo the bits of paper apparently ascending. And we must take care, for the coldness and dampness .of this cloud will cause the rtrta tn nrmtrnfifc. Jfllfl Wft shall fall l'aoid- 1 C naf hnti nf Viiillnsl: rrnrlv. fnr wa ara alreadv in tn.e darkness or i i ,a nriauo of tha cloud. Now the gas bag shrinks and writhes, and tho loose folds, rustle to. gether, and it gets darker, You can feel the breeze blowing upward againsj; your face or hand held over the edge of the car. Well, that's not to bo wondered at, for remember we are falling, say 1,000 feet a minute, which is tho same thing as if wo were going along ten miles an hour sitting in a dogcart. Not quito the same, you say you'd sooner bo in tho cart? Well, perhaps if tho horse wero going straight at a wall, without the possibility of being able to stop him, you would think otherwise. But look ! There is the earth again ; n out with your ballast. Go on ! Pour out plenty ; there's no good economizing. Blackwood's Magazine. IMark Twain's Latest. Tho authorship of "Tho Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc," which has been annoariue serially in Har- per's Monthly during the last year, aud f -i i - j.-.i 4. i ,v-rT which has been credited to nearly every well known author, ?s finally determin ed. Volume G of tho National Cyclo pedia of American Biography, a work of such accuracy that it may bo consid ered official, contains a new biography of Mr." SaniueJ Jy. iGIemeus (Mark Twain) which enumerates this work in the list of his publications. Good Digest Ion. A good digestion is as truly obliga tory as a good conscience ; pure blood is as truly a part of manhood as a pure faith ; a vigorous brain is as necessary to, useful living as a vigorous will, which it often helps to make vigorous, and a well ordered skin is the first con dition of that cleanliness which is next to godliness. H. W. Beecher. Tho Uanal Way. Fuddy You know tbero is no rule without an exception. Daddy i believe yon. I never lay down a rule at tho store but most of tho clerks take oxception to it. Boston Transcript. A Misleading Itcport. "I hoar tho colonel i3 a hard drink- cr. it tt1iI TTo'c thn napiest drinker I ever saw in my life. "Detroit Tribune. Baking Powder NOT THE ENEMY'S CAMPFIRES. The Mistake of a Kecrnlt Whose Iraagiaa-' Uon Was Stimulated. At tho beginning of tho war there Jo6 or ..raw-- tenors, wnu, - ana . fi ht. conmct, uuu mauv ici.a iuo had to bo learned by the earnest but ignorant southerners, who had but a slight idea of the rigid rules of warlike discipline. But on tho wholo they did well. It was ono balmy September evening, just thattimo of tho year when the cool breeze is laden with the rich odors of the dying leaves and full of an exhila rating crispiness that seems to fill one's blood with dreams of love and happi ness. The moon was just peeping from behind u bank of clouds resting on the crests of the Blue Ridge, and the lino of light crept down the sides and crawl ed across tha fields of waving corn and tho meadows full of chirping insects. Ahnnt in the field wero scattered the white tents of the Confederates, and be- neath them tjred mm Wer6 deep in slumber, Ono of tho most ignorant men had been put out as a pioket, and for hours he trod his beat, watching with- eager eye the lights from the distant farm houses, lest some fire of an enemy's camp break out into the gloom. Tho air was warm and fragrant, and the sol dier's mind was full of tho romance of the situation. Presently tho mcou sank behind the dark billows of the cloud bank and the world was wrapped in silenco and dark ness. But in each bush there sparkled a glowworm, and about in tho air cir culated some pf the bright insects known 83 "lightning bugs," whose tiny- tails are seemingly pointed ytith fire. Now the sentry gudddenly became alarmed and gavo the signal, and the camp was soon in turmoil. The men, hastily awakened from their sleep, be gan to saddle up, and were full of de light at the thought of meeting the ene my, whose campfires, eo tho sentinel ?ai d, had just gleamed out from a dis tant hilj, The men wero ranged up to begin their march, tho colonel exhprted them that this was the "time to win their spurs, " and all was excitement, when the sentinel crept up to the coloneL "Colonel." saidtlio tellow in a dis comfited voice, lint I havo made "I am mighty eorry, a mistake there is no campfire of the enemy it's a lightning hnc? von see. I am a bit nearsignteu And the man crept back to hide under tho flap of his desolate tent, while the disgruntled men took themselves again to slumber. Philadelphia Times. LOVE AS CONSIDERED NOWADAYS. Two Men Asked Advice About It and Then .Rejected It. There is no use of opposing a love af- j &ir. not even when the actors play into vonr own hands. I know what I'm say iug. I'vo had tho experieuco with two the young and the old man. My first experience was with a ypung man, who didn't know his mind aud asked me What he had better do, pnd I, like a fa ther, told him he'd better not marry the girl be wvis pourting. He went right off and married her. An old man from the country pamo into tho car whero I was reading my morning paper and sat down at my side. "Beg your pardon, sir," ho said. "Did you over court a gras3 widder?" "Oh, yes," I said. "I've courted a dozen or more. Why?" "Did you ever marry ono?" "Yes " "Waller, p'r'aps you kin give a chap ' a point Or two! "Oh certainly, all tho points you want.'-' j'Are they any different from other WPuieu?" v -'Say, old fellow, I'vo courted all sorts of women, both married and un married, aud they are all just alike. They do all tho courting and generally propose before you haye courted them a week." "Waller, what's your opin'u?" "It is this the man who marries one i3 a jackass." Tho old fellow scratched his head for a moment, and after he had got his idea racked in the right spot ho said: "Wal ler, hain't I as much constitutionally right to bo a jackass as you havo? Wal ler, I guess, and I'm goiu 'cept her pro posal by wire. Writo it out for me, won't you?" New York Herald. Lincoln's Modesty. The Tribune has received a letter frnm Mr. QeorcB Kluetsch. editor of the Lincoln (Neb.) Freie Presso, setting fnrth that ha has in his nossession a let- fnrth that he has in his possession a let ter in the handwriting of Abraham Lin coln, written in 1859, of special histor ical importance. Mr. Kluetsch received the letter from T. J. Pickett, at one time editor of the Republican paper in Rock Island, Ills. The letter is as fol lows: Springfield, Ills-, April 10, 18o9. T. J. Pickett. Esq.; My Dear Sir Ybnrs of the 13th ft jnst re ceived. 3Iy engagements are sncU that J can not, at any vory early day, visit Rock Island to deliver a lecture or for-any other ohject. As to tho other matter yon kindly mention, I must, in candor, say I do not think myself fit for the presidency. I certainly am flattered and gratified that some partial friends think of mo in that connection, hut I really think it. best for our cause that no concerted effort Buch as you suggest should bo made. Let this bo considered confidential. Yours very truly, A. Lescols". -Chicago Tribune. What She Wa Meant 3?or. A lady of grc:;t bgaptyan'd pttractiyer nftss. who ivjta an ardent admirer of Iro- I land, once crowned her praise of it at a ! party by saying: ' . "I think I was meant ior an insa woman. V "Madam," rejoined a witty son of Erin, who happened to bo present, "thousands would back mo in saying that you were meant for an Irish man. " Strand Magazine. WIND AND SSA. rhe sea Is a Jovial comrade; He laughs wherever ho goes: His merriment shines in tho dimpling lines That wrinkle his hale repose: Flo lays himself down at the feet ot tho sun. And shakes all over with glee. And the broad backed billow.-t fall faint on the shoro In the mirth of tuc mighty seal But the wind is sad and re3tle33 And cursed with an inward pain; Ton may hark at will, by valley or hill, But you hear him still complain. Be wails on thebarren mountains And shrieks on the wintry sea; He Bobs in the cedar and moans in the pina And shudders all over tho aspen tree. Welcomo are both their voices. And I know not which is best - f Jbo Iaugfirer that slips from ocean'3 hps. Or tho comfortless wind's unrest. . There's a pang in all rejoicing, It, tVin hnrt of TUlin. And tho wind that saddens, the sea that.gltd den3, - j Are singing the selfsame strain. Bayard Taylor. WHO CINDERELLA REALLY WAS. Her Story I Very Ancient and Appears In Sacred Hindoo Books. The story of Cinderella is substantial ly the same as that told of Rhodopis and Psammitichus by Elian, who lived in Rome in the third century of tho Christian era. Tho story, as told by Elian, is that while Rhodopis was bath ing, an eagle carried away ono of her sandals and dropped it near the feet of Psammitichus, king of Egypt, who, like Cinderella's prince, was struck by its diminutive size, caused the maiden to be sought for, and married her when found. Make the sandal a glass slipper and add the ugly sisters for the sake of .contrast, and tho stories aro much the . same. The glass slipper, by the way, is an acknowledged fiction, being in real ity a mistranslation of "pantouflo en vair" (a fur slipper), aud not "en yerre." This, at all events, is what is claimou byPerrault in his "Contes do Foes." Both these stories have doubtless a com mon oricin. but it is necessary to go further back in the history of tho litera ture to find it to a pcoplo who lived in a period compared with which that of even Elian is quite modern. It is in the Vedas, the four sacred books of the Hin doos, that the origin is to be found. After what has already been said, it will not bo surprising to learn that Cin derella is a dawn maiden, her sistors being the powers of darkness, who compel her to wait upon them, keoping her hidden from sight. The dawn maid en breaks from her bonds, and capti vates tho sun, remaining with him for a time. But she caiyiot linger with him 'in the heavens ; she can remain only until a certain hour. Once she lingers too long, and, hurrying back, leaves on the path she has taken a token of her visit in the form of a fleecy cloud, which had borne her aloft when she leffc the regions of darkness. The sun, deter? mined to find her, sends out his emis saries (tho rays of light), but does not find her until she appears before him a3 thV evening twiJigbt. In the 7eda the prince is called Mitra, which js one of the names given to the sun. London Globe. 6he Wanted Plnl: Cheeks, There is a girl on the North Side who admires pink cheeks, but sho will bo careful after this where she gets them. On a recent afternoon ono of the carettos was being jogged over the holes in the pavement of Rush street At Huron street the wagon was stopped, and a young woman stopped in and took a Eeat near the con ter of the car. She knew several of the women, and return ed their bows. Sho was a pretty girl, fashionably gowned, and was on her way to d public rehearsal After sitting quietly for a few minutes, she, in ah apparently unconscious mannGr, put her hand to her cheek and gave it a slight pinch. On her hands were black gloves. The day was damp and tho slightest trace possible of the color was left on her pheek. Then she pinched tho other one. A black spot showed. This sho continued until Adams street was reach ed, and never a woman spoke. When phe reached tho Auditorium, her cheeks wero a good color, but not what she ex pected. Chicago. Chronicle, DIRECTED HER LETTER TO HEAVEN. Pathetic little Story or a Child's Epistle to Her Dead Mother. At a recent wedding the bride had retired to her dressing room to don her traveling gown. Her mother had been dead a year or more, and she had had fhe constant caro and companionship of her little sister ever sinco their afflic tion. The 7-year-old entered tho room and went to her sister's chair very thoughtfully. Drawing a letter from fhe little pocket, she said : ' Alice, hero is a lett'r to mamma. I have past written, telling her all about the wedding. Will you send it to her?" ' The elder sister, a little shocked, ra.r plied as gently as possible that shg couldn't send a letter to. mother. Then tho little onet looking quitp bright, said promptly; v "Oh, yes, you can, because now y an are married, you will bo getting a little girl, and when you send for her, just give the doctor this letter, and he can take it to mamma when he goes for the baby." And thero on the envelope was tho address, printed as best she could : "To Mamma, In Heaven. Kindness of 'tho Doctor." She took tho letter, and hugged the little one to hide tho tear which was rubbed off on tho curly, brown head. Washington Star. Early Candlelight State Dinners. It appears that in olden times the president nsed to give his dinner par ties at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. . The grandfather of Representative Acheson of Pennsylvania once dined with Geprg Washington, and his family have pra servedthe invitation. It is written in business hand on a fonrth page of a sheet of ordinary note paper, with tho lines running lengthwise across tho sheet, and reads as follows : Mr. Acheson is requested to dine with tho president on Thursday, tho 23d inst.r at 4 o'clock precisely. Feb. Ii, 173T. . , Chicago Record. liked Lawyers. It js recorded of Andrew Johnson that when, senator or president, ho was invited to a dinner party, he was accus tomed to ask if any lawyer was to be' onnnr I Iir onests. For. said he, law yers always lobricato things. He took a greater fancy to William M. Evarts, his attorney general, because of bis post prandial fame than because of his emi j nent legal attainments. Green Bar.