THE COLONEL'S BRIDE.
"MotLerr The word was wailed rather
than spoken, and Elsie Dinsmore's beau
tiful eves were lifted to the face of her
mother, who stood before the mirror,
giving the last touch to a toilet already
unexceptionable. Mrs. Dinsmore turned
to her daughter, sharply, and with
frown, awaited whatever else she might
Lave to say. Elsie continued:
-I'm tired and sk'k of all this folly.
Heartily tired and sick of it; and now
the excitement of travel has worn off, I
desire nothing so much as to go home."
'Elsie." returned the showily dressed
woman. ' I am provoked with you
thoroughly provoked Here I have
wasted half of the summer and nearly
tive hundred dollars to place and keep
you where your teauty of face and form
would attract the notice of seme rich
man who wants a wife, and just as we
are likely to succeed, you try to ba!k
me. It is enough to provoke any woman
to have a daughter act six"
'But mother dear, I did not know
that you would expect me to seii myself
to pay the expenses of our suiiih er tour
when I begged you to take me to a fash
ionable summer resort. I thought it
must be splendid to live in a place like
this during the warm August days; and
when vou consented to leave home and
come here with me, I was ierfectly
happy. I should be happy now, mother,
if you would not forever sound in my
ears tiiat horrid matrimony.'"
"But you mean to marry some time,
Elsie T
"I don't know! Yes, I suppose Ishall
marry if ever I meet a man who is near
enough to my ideal to make me love
him more than I love myself, or my own
presence, or anything except TJod,"
she answered reverently.
Mrs. Dinsmore laughed a hard, un
sympathetic laugh, and replied:
' "That is a strange word to use in a
fashionable hotel by the sea, Elsie; and
all the more strange when you speak of
loving God. 1'eople who come here, or
in fact who go to any of the fashionable
resorts, think less of God than of their
own selfish pleasure."
Elsie sighed, wearily, and began to
dress for dinner.
There was a number of new arrivals
and more than one strange face ex
pressed admiration as Elsie Dinsmore
glided across the dining-hall to her
accustomed place at table.
Directly opposite Mrs. Dinsmore and
Elsie sat a stranger, and naturally glanc
ing up as the two ladies sat down
opposite to him, he allowed his eyes to
rest for an instant on Elsie Dinsmore's
lovely face. A glance of recognition
shot from his eyes, to which hers re
sponded, but only by the rapidly deep
ening color upon her canks did she
betray any emotion.
"It must be the very samel" mur
mured the gentleman, as he sat upon
the piazza of the hot:', smoking a cigar.
after dinner.
Miss Dinsmore pwed down the steps
at that moment, and the eyes of the
stranger followed her he became more
than ever "onvinced of her identity.
Did yon observe how that distin
guished-looking gentleman watched
you, as we passed?" asked Mrs. Dins
more, when they were beyoi d the hear
ing of the stranger.
I did not look at the gentleman as
we passed," was the reply.
"But you must have observed how his
yes could not keep themselves off you
at the table," continued Mrs. Dinsmore.
Elsie's blush was answer enough to
the remark, and the scheming mother
walked in silence beside the daughter.
whose matrimonial market she was de
termined to secure.
But thought was busy.
The next evtt'ng Mrs. Dinsmore be-
$an to instruct Elsie as to her future
course, while they were dressing to go
down to the parlors.
"I was talking with Dr. Lessing this
afternoon," she said, "and he told me
that the distinguished-looking man who
ame yesterday was no less a person
than Col. Augustine WitherelL He is
very rich, and of a noble family. You
intend to follow up your advetages
there, I suppose, Elsie?"
"Mother!" exclaimed Elsie, letting
the spray of green leaves which she
was twining in her hair fall to the car
pet, "if you really wish it, I will yield to
your pleasure in attempting to win this
man for my husband; and, more than
that, if you say, honestly and frankly,
that you desire to see mo the wife of
the gentleman who sat opposite us at
dinner yesterday, I will give you my
word that I will refer him to you with
in a week's time."
From that moment there was, seem
ingly, no lighter hearted maiden in the
whole world than this S3me iisie.
M'h'leshe is dressing for the gay
scenes in the hotel parlors, let us brietly
glance at the history of the Dinsmores
Mrs. Dinsmore was a wiaow wim
moderate income, and only this one
child beautiful Elsie.
They lived in good styie and were
greatly respected by all their acquaint
ainces, among which Elsie might have
married well had she so chosen. But
the secret of Elsie's indifference was,
that she had loved and had been disap
pointed. I
Three snmmcrs before we met her at
the beacli, she had been to visit arelative
in the country, and while there a young
stramrnr in the village had aJen in
became engaged. But just before his
leaving for home, this lover of hers con
fessed that he had no wealth to oiler
her.
Only a true heart and unsullied
name, Elsie, darling," he said.
And Elsie had only nestled more
c losely to his true heart, and promised
him that it should make no difference
with her love for him whether he was
rich or poor. She would love him al
wavs the same.
And so they parted -he to go to his
dist mt home, and she to return to her
mother.
Arriving at home, Elsie was met with
grave reproaches for allowing herself to
become interested in a young man who
had no wealth to recommend him.
The relative with whom Elsie had
been staying had treacherously informed
Mrs. Dinsmore, by letter, that her
daughter was encouraging tne atten
tions of a ix-nniless adventurer, and the
consequence was the recall of Elsie to ;
her home.
Elsie met her mother's upbraiding
bv a full confession of her love for the
young man, and ended by telling her ot
their engagement.
Mrs. Dinsmore was ti rnbiy enraged.
and. after venting a torrent of abuse
upon poor Elsie, she retired to her room
and wrote a scathing letter to the un
known lover, which letter she took at
once to Elsie, and made her add a post
script, saying that she enuorst-u me
sentiments therein expressed by her
mother.
Elsie refused to do this: but at last,
weary' of the scene, and utterly exhausted
wrote at the close of her mother's letter
these words:
"She is my mother I must obey,.,
signed her name, and wrote the address
upon the enveloje.
No answer was ever returned to this
unkind letter, and Elsie grew sad and
given to tits of melancholy.
One day Mrs. Dinsmore asked her
what would please her more than all
else, and she said:
Take me to some place by the sea.
where I can forget my sorrows and be
say."
Busy w ith her own plans. Mrs. Dins
more readily consented, and Elsie was
taken to the seaside. Her heart re
bounded with the change, and for a
while after leaving home and mingling
with new scenes, she seemed the gayest
of the gay. But her mother's determi
nation to have her married recalled all
the bitter disappointment past, and she
grew sad again, and begged to go home.
But that night, when she had promised
her mother to be gracious to Col.
Witherell, she seemed to have regained
"Mis
(Elsie and myself have been en-
Well Kridzod
Tow u.
. i,t
gaged more than three years , 8ll h a yane-JM o
The look of astouismurm -- rittsimrK. -
8 .. . , .. i f,,r t ie meat ' .... ii!...hrnv. 1 '
nut until tnev uau irui". . - . .,, ., oVer uie
did the truth dawn upon her mind ' roore ,u prosit
-VuffustineM.WithereU.mvoi!
already
MonougaheU
tllrgheny "r-
Lute iiiVeUgaliuus uii ucuriuuueu
ti,at the majority of deep sea depress
sioi.scome from other than volcanic
,.r:gin. and that the coldest waters of
(i.P .- ean stand in the deep troughs
instead of running, as
thought to I. the case.
was formerly
nm! seven ov
,, I three more in
U,,"CT' (.fti.-se the
and Col. Witherell of to-night are .,, .,, .,.n and the
... ..;.! rs ..-it I'. friH.eu " i
ami me same. ' , .... The f.-nrer river . , the hut
And Mrs. Dinsmore was ou at ,;.1SS street RrK,u.?1 frequency is from 3:30 to 5
swallow her cnagnu - . riveiitv-seeiiiu !.... 1 1,e tornado season includes
u;1,lse will w
bv a
St.itili of Toriiailoon,
The tornado, with hardly an exeep
ti(,i;. occurs in the afternoon, just after
test part of the day.
The time
and prepare for the ceremony oi me
morning.
Moming came, and Elsie. dre.sed ink
costlv robe of snowy whiteness, which
had been sent home only the day before,
was the euvv of aU the young ladies at
the Union." even as the noble-looking
Col. Witherell was envied oi u.-
l,n would tzladiv have
places with him. if fate had willed tW)
his lovely bride.
In a beautiful Southern home there
is love and luxury to-day. and beauti
ful Elsie Withered the Colonel's bride
is mistress of it all.
it sour 1 1
-ow Sixth street
gowning glory of the river.
A s icntit'
Iiietigatin.
bv 1W.
Taking The t'eiiMis
on a
I'.v
liti-rest -
A niolig
'i:.l:h
...I., lit I 1 1 1 1 . r ' '
1 row ' ' -
.. little investigation
it V. but
jllllJK't 01 JAliru"
ftAnrnW I , mean devoid fl SCI-iiun. .
of a water j"
h.ngslatha: the
,1 ..,nd of cascades and ripphng
MS. as weU as "
,( the ocean, was mainly heard, if not
xhollv due to the breaking of air b,.l
! entangled in the water. There..
i e ,.t ii i i'Jj'.
sounu oi """"
:w rippling
Author.
(.eorge Merdith
Towle" writes to the Boston Traveler j .0!T.pan:ed by buiio.es oij...
that the government printing omce is, f
,.-r.,mcrl in til II mi one of t he largest Meredith :nl loun,.
it, ito hitnnr Tl.is is for IS.'JOO.-1 rnni?n I-ettt t:
(KO blanks for the use of the 4iMWenu-j;I,e novelist, looks younger than i:i
.r u, ,.f theeleventh census who will r .vliii h are t'J. In addition to his
begin work in May. It will take 15.0J0 ! 10Ve! writing he is a "reader" for a big
reamsof paper, and twenty presses will j i!m 0f publishers m London. He is
have to be worked twenty-two hours j lie m0st indulgent of reader, and
each day for six weeks before the order 1 0(ten enters into correspondence with
will have been completed. Here arethe ; jlf. ambitious authors and gives them
twenty-nine questions in order: jukiee. He is the more disposed to do
'Christian name in full?" "Mirname?' j,.silV reason of his own sad experi
"Whether a soldier, sailor or marine ,RW fr,r ien he Ix'g.'in his literary
(I'nited States orconfeder-tci. or widow ! ,an er ie encountered the most terrible
of such person?" "Relationship to head nations, being at one time so utterly
of family?" "Whether white, black, i :M0I that for two whole months he
mulatto, quadron, octoroon, Chinese or j'jved upon oatmeal, being unable to af
Indian?" "Sex? "Age at nearest f0rd and other iood.
birthday. If under 1 year give
age in months?" "Whether single, mar
ried, widowed or divorced ?" " Whether
married during census year(.Iune
to May 31. m)?" "Mother of how
many children, and number of these ( rnet otl ttie vq, at .ewKirt, 11. 1., a
children living?" "Place of birth?' !ii1iwrw.ked seacaptain from Bar liar-
J'lace Of : . .), f.,!L ,l ..Ini.iii.iit iislollish-
inent of the rapid changes coming over
he ownership of real estate in that
region, "it does jest beet all," he de.
.lared. ' Folks will come along from
N'ew York or I'hHailelphy and they will
Ylok. 1hetorua.;o season
March. April, May, June, Jtily, August
and -ptemler, but storms of this nat
ure mav occur in any part of the year
The months of greatest frequency, as
determined from a record of 'JUS years
are April, May. J"" al"1 JuI-v- 1 ,,e
single mouth of greatest frequency is
May. April following next in order.
The state in which the greatest num .
ber of tornadoes has occured is Mis
souri, followed next in order by Kansas
and Georgia.
A record of more than 3W tornadoes
and "windfalls" (i. e, paths of torna
does through the forests) in Wisconsin
considerable exceeds the number from
any other state, but liitle weight can I
R;ven this comparison owing to the
want of thorough investigations of the
subject of windfalls in other states.
From a careful investigation of the
origin of tornadoes and their geograph
ical distribution there is every reason
to believe that those storms were as fre-(jiii-nt
and violent -JD years ago as now
Moreover, there apears to be no cause
for my unusual change in the annual
frequency of tornadoes for alike jeriHi
to come. Lieut. John 1. I'inly in
i'oriiiL.
fhe Ab-owplioii of New Kiitflauri
Furins.
Mime fifteen years ago, in the early
lavs of Mount Desert summer travel,
"Place of birth of father?
birth of mother?" "Number of years in
the I'nited States?" "Whether natur
alized?" "Whether naturalization
papers have beed taken out?" "Pro
fession. trade or occupation?" "Months
unemployed during the census year ?"
"Attendance at school during the census
year?" "Able to read?" "Able to
write?" "Able to speak English. If
not. the language or dialect sjioken ?"
"Whether suffering from acute or
chronic disease, with name of disens
cu, .,v . ... . .. "6"" - an( lengt h of tjme afflicted ?" "Whether
her loit spirits, and when toL n itherell i, . .. . . , .
' . . , . . , , . . defective in mind, sight, liearn g or
was presented to her, she looked into . , , . ,
. . 1 , ., , ... . . . sieech, or whether cr.ppled, maimed or
his eves, and smiled with all her old ' ' .. "
. deformed, with name of defect .-
winsome wav. i . . ' . . . , . ,
"W eather prisoner, convict, homeless
"May I ask Miss Dinsmore to promv !cuild or paupery -l3 the home you
naae upon me oeacn .- ne askeaoi airs. . ,ive in hired or is it 0WMed bv the ,iead
Dinsmore. rather than of Elsie. I,i, mw nr tha tumiw- rf
Certainly, Col. Witherell The night ' .., hv hp9(1 or mombpr of f,mMv is
is splendid, and Elsie, dear, if you will the h()me free from mort(rag(, ine;,rn.
wait one moment, I will send for your brancer "If the head of family is a
hat and scarf." m. ; v,;i, i it;,..,,.,
"I will go for them, she answered, ! Wlnj, or j, it ov. nwl bv him or ,, .
and in a few morcenti returned with a memb.r of hig f ami, .. ... f 0Wnp(J .
light scarf throwii over her fair hair and head or member of fans v js (he farm
across tier snouuiers.
Col. Witherell and Mrs. Dinsmore
awaited her in the hall, and without
6ke returned hii affection, and they
speaking, he drew the soft little arm of
Elsie's within his own, and they went
into the moonlight together.
There were people walking back and
forth along the beacli, and others stand-;
ing still, gazing upon the restless, foam- j
ing billows, tossing so black and then so !
white under the moon; but, avoiding all
these, CoL Witherell led Elsie to a lone
ly spot, apart, before he spoke.
Then, as they stood together beside a
huge rock, he took both her hands in
his, and turning her face to the moon
light, looked into it for a moment.
"You have changed, Elsie; but you
must tell me truly. Do you care for
me still?" he asked, gravely. The little
hands he held were cold as ice, and
trembled, but she answered:
"Oh, Augustine, if you only knew how
much I have suffered'." "
And that was all for he drew , her
close to his heart, and within the shelter
of his strong arms she Ustened while he
told her of his battle with fate for
wealth enough to enable him to claim
her at the hands of her worldly mother.
Mrs. Dinsmore met them as they re
turned to the hotel.
"Have you enjoyed the ramble upon
the beach ?" she asked, smilingly.
They were standing a little apart
from the others, and Col. Witherell re
plied in a low ly tone:
"Yes, indeed, madam, I have enjoyed
every precious moment; and you will
admit that I have improved the time
when I made love to your daughter,
proposed, been accepted, and the happy
wedding-day fixed since we left you."
"Iteally! exclaimed Mrs. Dinsmore,
with a start of glad surprise. "And
may I ask how soon this joyful event
will transpire?" she continued.
"To-morrow moming," he answered
briefly, and Elsie looked more cliarming
than ever, in her blushes.
"But," objected Mrs. Dinsmore, for
the first time remembering that she had
not been consulted -"but, will not
people say that the engagement was un
fashionably short V -
People were gathering about them
now, and CoL 'Witherell replied In a tone
intended to reach toe ears of the listeners,
free from mortgage incu .hrance?"
If the home or farm is owirtl by head
or nr.e Tiber of family, and mortgaged
give postoffice address of owner."
It may strike some jieople that sev
eral of these questions are impertinent,
but they will have to be answered, and
will be asked of every peir on in the
United States, from the pfsiiimt to
peasant.
Iio.al Fifth.
While old and wise heads of the
I'nited States and England are carry
ing on a dignilied quarrel over the
ownership of the seal in Behriug Sea
let me tell )ou something about royal
lish.
Vou know that kings and queens
have many rights and prerogatives.
Well, one of these prerogatives of Eng
lish rulers in olden times relates to
royal fish, lioyal lish are sturgeon and
whale, which are considered the finest
of deep see lish. For this reason, "on
account of their superior excellency,"
whenever one of these lish was thrown
ashore or caught near the coast of Eng
land it became the property of the
king. This seems unjust to ttiose who
might secure the whale or sturgeon,
for they were compelled to give it up
without receiving any pay. However,
tlie king had some grounds f "r cUirn-
;iuder take a fancy to a man's farm.
Tliey'li end in givin' him more for it
han he wauld ever thought o' asking
frr it; and then they II pay him more
;'or liviu' on it in winter to take care ot
t than he ever made off ot it,"
3This duplex good bargain, this gain
in both principal and interest al the . '"8 tl','s ro)'al lish llis property, be-
same time, seemed mute too much for 1 1'a"S(' 11 was " w" guarded aim
mv weather beaten friend's compreheu-
i
on. Vet the same process has been
joing on for years' in a manner less,
conspicuous, along the whole New Eng
land coast, and through all the moun
tain region of the Appalachian range,
side by side with that crowding into
tho cities in w inte-, a steady crowding
out of cities for summer residence;
and this in many cases displacing the
original resident of the soil and sub
stituting new ownership.
In the region where I now- tind my
elf one may look from the hills over
many thousand acres, not one of which
aow belongs to a irmanent resideu
:f the town. Farms have been bought
nd united, one man owing ju acres
another 7ou acres, and so on, in a region
where iM) acres was once regarded as
large farm,-Harpers Bazar.
pro-rob-
Small NVtfroos.
1 he fact now seerns clearly uemon
strited that at various spots across the
great African continent, within a few
degrees north and south of the equator,
extending from the Atlantic coast to
near the shores of the Albert Nyanza,
and perhaps even farther to the east,
are scattered communities of thesA
small negroes, all much rwembling i
eacn ouier in size, appearance and !
habits, and dwelling mostly apart from !
their larger neighbors, by uhoni they
are everywhere surroiiinkd. Our in-
iormation about them is still scantv
and to obtain more, the London Times
thinks, would be a worthy object of
ambition for the scientltic traveler.
In many parts, especially at the West
they are obviously holding their own
with difficulty, if not actually disap
pearing, and there is much abo'ut their
condition of civilization and the situa
tictis in which they are found to in
duce us to look upon them, like the
bishmen of South Africa and the
eqsally diminutive- negritoj of the
Tii Vf-ln,..,.. .. ..
. j.ui irgiuiis, as l33 rema ns
U-a' tag the Gas Company.
Middletown Mercury: A business
aian in this city has found a new use
for the electric light. After he closets
up for the night he takes his books
pen and ink and, seating himself on a
nail keg under the arc light proceeds to
post up his accounts, thus saving the
cost of gas and at the same time enjoy.
.or toi orteze out of doors-if
mere is any.
tected the seas from pirates and
bers, and in those days there were
many of them.
The most peculiar feature of the cus
tom of royal liish w as this that while
the whole of the sturgeon belonged to
the king, only half of Hit whale did.
For it was prerogative, as it is called,
of the queen that the tail of every
whale caught in the way 1 have told
you w as her property, while, the head
only was the king's. The reason of
this division' as given by the old
records, was to furnish the queens
wardrobe with whalebone; and this
reason is more amusing than the cus
tom is jieeuliar, for the whalebone lies
entirely in the head of the whale. But
there are many more as strange and
amusing customs recorded in England's
early day.
This right to royal fish was consid
ered of great importance, and was care
fully guarded for many generations.
It was also a prerogative of the kings
of Denmark and the dukes of Nor
mandy, and from one of these it was
probably derived by the princes of Eng-'
laud. - Harpers Young 1'eople.
A Woman at the Helm.
"1 tell you the affair of this country
tv:Il never t run right until women
take st inmd i, M .. .
- . 5liU a new)y ln;tr
America s Tln-Htrk-itl Army.
The estimate of the total number of
jieople earning their daily bread ' from
iHt KIVEKoT
Arcl,inUo
Nainr i,. .. ...
Over thn- """"M
-,r.. ...orm
"'"'c mo mm,;.;.
, . -"MIpi. (J-
"ftheiiccideatr?1
Justine. They
'f the counts ?
these point. i.
, " war. ijh
I the dangers ar,,,!."
Iiev from .
, j)a(
Mindly ign
"-"is igiiorariee(v
"!, full of the uwl
"our, a military pin '
a-iveuon aa overly
Augustine. Ti
for they could figmi,
longitude, and tlJ
direct ionjiy ttM.
the sum of their kavr,
The expedition, i
hundreds of men. it,
the summer, and era.
tains at the Itaton
route of the Nmta Ft
camped that winter
of Trinidad. Thfr
the valley, thegja,,
hills, their own torsi,
sending back toSaauf,
aim glee mairlHutlJ
isworu wiiii Wimob,
as gay a season atW
I hose old Am mm
posessed high hnru
for travel. Hefore tlti
ward as far as the
spreiu me desert otU
to be met there tLetJ
their lack of twitf
dent with an tqtulagJ
With the iMltiM
the spring siinsLiflt'i
camp follower! mm
The lit-.t alimwa;
plorers turned theis
the work in ki !
down the valley d si
rivnr, which lfcisi
through the Iok Cx
who were to retensj
ed them for mami
of the sun on btii
At htst they 'J
far down the vi
la.st that wasetxffc.
With the laiilrtr
it was as if thP mJ
existence, and '
rivers, iierisliediiai
or w ere doiietotot
never Md. NosifJi
expedition or it !
found. ITWmnl
and mysterious in the j
iiearance ot this wrii
dark in the silence of i
the suiierstitioui JpK
sign of the holy ma
it. W hen that efifti
tion which ss ll P
the little muddy to1
ley theeiplorrrt!"
called Ki Kin
Itiver of Lost
Spanish mm
llent, CarsotJ
resentative of 's
pany of M-L3'
ingbytlw"''
: name, the triMW
into the FvrpW1
bullwhHckerofti
to it in hi
called it "thel'ick
it ,-ver hadstJH5"
will find the W"'
pursuing it
si.awitliasm!")
of the liriuw"-!
New Vork'.Pj
v,w York iJ
.,.ui vprv Euwl
, l...t f,.r CUt Hl
I visit without A
theatrical preformations must be some
what changed this year. Itwiissaid a
few years back that these iiutnltercd
4i),iJiJ, but last year nearly 1,."XJ0 foreign
actors came to America, and this sea-
tvA citizen. 'The other Bfternoon a " will bring even a greater niimU'r, k,.t Eloris"' "J
fellow got me into a discussion over !ot counting a jierfect Hock of variety js ,akiiiganjJ
the McKinley bill audi -fni l, ,,. ! m-onle from Knirlruwl nnil ii,.,...i,ti it , ... ,r culin
anything
of having
that is
agen
t.j
i -..ion suimre1
abandoned, tiH
still furtlieprtsH
will be taken
months yet
supper feeling hoi. iUt, cmnv )
the t veiling my ,fe remarked, very
sweetly and in-imiatingly;
"Dear John," she said'i saw an only
too lovely piece of goods t.lay and I
intend to order a dres, off of it to-nior-row.
'T knew- that
who w ill next season make the I'nited 8l(uutcd ne
States their happy hunting ground. In wjH be ope.'
me past two years bevives of young
women have been sent on the stage
4
thei
ItillierlO
, ... alllllitl
as oit-ii"-- m
through the dramatic schools, one of j foUrti street.
these alone, it is said, furnishing 3.0 j w01ll,i tare to vl'
meant fific ot t
u..i siia notning for some time. 1 had
of I population .which oren-ii ... - . ulou" ana aUj I decided
... , .v I I
laid before the coming of the pres
entdominant races. If the aceeuiit of
jthoNasanionians be accepted as his-
toriprj the river they came to fiowinir
frow west to east must have been the
Nii-r and the northward ranze of iw
dw;elish people far more r.Tt..,.:..
twenty-three centuries ago than it js at
the present time.'
"1 wish that ch
new made actresses that actually found
employment. During this time, al
though newcomers are plenty from all
sources, but few have comparatively
sjieakiiig, joined "the great majority" or
ip would stop bother- ljeen retired; so, taking "one consider-
In Grammar.
Hingliampton Itepubiican: Teichej
What's the past tense of see ;"
Pupil Seed.
"What's your authority for that form?
"A sign in the grocery store.'
"What does it sar
"Timothy eed."
? "Mi Jictviiiiey bill," I Wi,L
He worrit-, the life out of me ith it
"O.i, pay John, dear, nav it"' ..i
ry wife. Ihm't let it v,.r. .
longer! I')l wait till ,xt " d"y
1 promise.! to oar it ti.
we have a woman it the helm prettv
rocts. Chicago 11
Vico is becoming quite immenselv
oratleatvolumin,,. UtemrV r,
"W. Mexican!
anon with another," the profess
ional family at work in the
4,(XJ0 theatres nnd hall throughout
the country when the next Wason it at
its height will number not less than &0,-
V). It is said that K.riirl.'iiul lnu n dra
matic family nearly (laiXJO, the mini
being larger than ours from tho reason
of the greater number of stock com
panics and few number of traveling
companies sent kiting through the
provinces. They know nothing of the
25,000 miles or more of railroading or
ita expense of any American company
en route from ocean to ocean and from
lake to g .lf perhaps in on eaaou.
Btaje Newt,
, .. ... UllS'1'
Hower
ar" t nigh
wr jowers"-
sou yorkMii'lf
'till- "flt
WaHlr I
wuter.
...iiut t?A
e..
.iwf- il.