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Hi t 1 t fV i ; - CHAPTER XXVI. That Jenifer got through her song ered ftably was all that could be said. Sic sang It faultlessly as far as tune air time go; but without the expression thai would have gone to the heart of her ami! enee and warmed it. Bounds of approbation were very fain' when she finiiihed. and she hurried off with the feeling that she had failed sig nally, and that nothing should ever tempi hr to face that awful public again. Bur when she came among the professionals, who had passed through thi sort of thing themselves, she revived under their reassuring remarks. "It's a cold house to-night." one of them said. "I don't believe the greatest favor ite that ever trod these boards would get an encore from them. Besides, they were employed in looking at you, insteud -of listening to you." "I couldn't hear myself." poor Jenifer confessed. '"You won't feel that the next time." an old hand assured her; and Madame Voglio put in: "If you had been thinking of what you were singing, instead of thinking only of your friends in front, you would have done brilliantly. But never mind. Yon go on with others next time. Yoo will be kind enough to remind yourself that yon mre not the sole object of attraction and remark. It will give you courage, and you will do." "Thank yon," Jenifer aaid. gratefully; snd then she had to go and speak to her husband, who had not been admitted to the artists' room. t- "What in the world was the matter with you. Jenifer?" he commenced, in heightened tones, that showed her plainly enough the rage and disappointment with in him. i "I was nervous. I suppose." ' "Nervousness be hanged! I thought yon had more sense than to give way to any illy school girlish self-consciousness." It was a wretched wait that she had in the artists' room before the time came for her to go tip with the well-established favorites, and make her second struggle for fame. They were all so easily and happily self-possessed and confident. Would it ever be her happy lot to feel as they did, she wondered 1 At last, after what had seemed an in terminable period, the fatenn moment ar rived, and Jenifer marched as resolutely as if she liked it up the steps in the wake of the voluminous contralto. A deafening burst of applause greetet the always popular queen of the concert boards, and, gathering strength and cour age from the sound, though it was not meant to stimulate her, Jenifer held up her head, blinked away the mists that had been dimming her sight, and pre pared to aing her part with all her atrength and intelligence. She heard herself linging well for the drat few bars with rapturous pleasure. She knew that her glorious voice was commanding attention and admiration, and would command success. But in a luckless instant her eyes fell npon her hus band's face in the stalls. A set, eager, fiercely expectant-of-failure expression waa on it, and a recollection of his past nnkindncss, and dread of it in the future, made her catch her breath too quickly, falter, fall to recover herself, and aing series of wrong notes that called forth expressions of dissatisfaction from every quarter of the halL ' There waa an ominous pause. She felt that the great contralto waa flashing glances of fury at her. Still, when it came to her turn, she came in again, andJ, ImoBt aucceeded, as at 8rt. But ber nerves were shaken, her confidence was gone. Amid groans and hisses the con certed song that was to have established her with the public came to an end. The contralto caught up part of her volumin ons satin and lace draperies, and swept off la a passion without acknowledging the ringing "bravos" which were accorded to aer. As soon as the audience had hissed Jenifer an Inopportune nail caught a part of the lace flounce, and ita owner was too irate to pause to have It cleared. Ac cordingly yards of rafe Mechlin trailed fter her In tatters, and Jenifer, follow lag the wrathful owner of it, felt that tae mined lace would give additional weight to her punishment. There was war in the artists' , room. Never again, the outraged contralto af inned, would ahe appear on the hoards t any concert at which Miss Jenifer Rny was announced. The Infuriated favor- Mr Insisted on taking sonic part of the in aall to herself. far the Srat time In her career," ahe "she had been hissed and hooted; Mi all through the vain and Ignorant praaamption of a woman who conkln't alas at all presuming to sing wltn her." The unfortunate projector of the eon 4BM waa compelled to promise to ranee! liks Jenifer Bay's engagement on the -pot. lie was also coerced into going in 'nmt and announcing that Miss Jenifer Itay would not sing again that night. And Jenifer had to endure all this, unsupixirt ed by a single word of sympathy or kind ness friim any metnlier present of the ji-ul-ins and unsympathetic and selfish pro fession to which she had aspired to be long. "Do you mean to tell me it's all up. and that, after having misled me with the idea that you were on the high road to fame .ind fori line, you're going to let everything lide without making further efforts'?" :i"kcd her husbuml, gloomily, as they IpiVe holne. "Perhaps, when I get over this. I may !' iib'.e to te.ich. ' she said, humbly. "Teach! Win fatuous nonsense you talk! As if you're ever likely to make a fortune by teaching!" "Not a fortune, but perhaps enough to pay tny share of the expeusc of our house." "How irritating you are, Jenifer, and selfish into the bargain." he said, peevish ly. "Your share of the expense! as if you were the only one to lie considered. Am I to starve, may 1 ask?" "Surely your salary will keen you from f starvation if I cost you nothing, or buy little." "What salary?" "The secretaryship; you told me it was seven hundred a year." "So it was; but. deluded and misled by your great expectations, I gave up my own independence in order the more thor oughly to look after your Interests and manage your affairs: and this is my re ward. You coolly tell me that yon can make enough to keep yourself, and that I must do the best I can." She was glad when he said this that it was too dark to see his face. What meanness and vindictive greed of gain must be overshadowing it, when he could so degrade himself as to speak to ber in this way! And he was the man who had always seemed so gay-hearted, frank and generally unselfish until she married him. CHATTER XXVII. As she had consenWd to give it at all, Jenifer was determined on exerting her self to the utmost to make a little dinuer party her husband had arranged go well. She knew that Effie would tie critical abont the appointments and the adorn ments of the table, and so she supplied deficiencies in the silver and glass depart ment by an abundance of tasteful floral decorations, at which she fondly fancied Mrs. Hugh Kay would be unable either to carp or sneer. Mr. Whittler was one of the guests, snd he devoted himself to drawing out Jenifer's views and ideas about the stage. "The dramatic stage is nearly a sealed book to me. My experience of piay-go-ing has been very limited," Jenifer said, when he pressed ber to accord it a higher place than the lyric stage. "But of the two which do you conceive to have the higher aim, and the better opportunities of setting forth realistically ennobling scenes and characters, and thrilling, tender incidents?" "The dramatic; I suppose I must con cede that," she agreed. "Exactly so. And in face, form, mind and manner you are fitted to create the noblest characters that have ever been put upon the stage, or that can be written up for It. I see a great future for you If vou'll only give yourself fair play, and al low yourself to be put in the rignt road for it." "Even you will fall to persuade me that I have a vocation for the stage." she said; and then, more with the design of turning the- conversation from a topic that was distasteful to her than with any idea of interesting hitn, she began speaking to her brother Hubert abont Admiral Tulla more's marriage. "He's your god-father, or something, isn't he? Married, by Jove! That means that you're cut out of nis will, Jenny." "1 never took it for granted that I was In it But when I tell yon who it ia be has married you'll be staggered." "An impecunious Irish peer's daughter, probably." "Not at all; it's Mrs. Hatton, the lady we lodged with when mother and I came to liOtidon." "Did you say the lady who has jnst married was the same one I had the mis fortune to miss being Introduced to at Mrs. Campbell's At Home, through the unfortunate circumstance of her sudden indisposition?" Mr. Whittler asked, suave ly. "Jenifer didn't say all that, or anything like It," Effie laughed; "but she meant the same lady. Who is it she has married, Jenifer anybody nlc I hope not." "Your onchsritsbs spirit will be dlsan oolnted then. KIP Admiral T;illaare , a dear oid man uo't he, Hubert? a , t '-rough geiii'.eniau. aod as good and boa- I oiai.u? gom. "Doe. the gentleman who has lea f'- tunate euough to secure so charming a I lady rea.de in I-oudou?" Mr. Whittler asked. "o: ia Ireland: in mie f the liveliest 1 parts of County Kerry. Kildene is the name of his plai-e, and it's one of the pre!- tie.t and bet-kept estates, or demene. as they call theui, in the south of Ireland." Jenifer explained. "We .re aU very foud of Admiral Tullauiore, you must under stand. Mr. Whittler. He ws one of n.y father's oldent and dearest friend, wasn't he, mother dear? If Mrs. Hatton makes him happy, I shall be very fond of her. too." "Kildene, County Kers-y." Mr. Whittler reeated these words to himself till I hey were thoroughly impressed upon bis mem ory. That evening, without consulting Jeni fer, Capt. E'lgeeumh made a formal agree ment with the American act.ir to the fol lowing purpose. Mrs. Edgecumb was to begin studying under the direction of Mr. Whittler. with as little delay as possible, and on the return of the latter to New York she was to accompany him on a paid engagement. "She's got beauty, and she's got gri!. and she'll soon draw her hundred a k in New Y'ork." Mr. Whittler prophesied. "The sooner the le tter," Captain IMge cunib said. Then he went on to ak when the lessons were to commence. "In about a week. I'm leaving tows for a few days in the country.' "Ah, shooting, I supose?" "And bunting," Mr. Whittler said, drv ly; but be did not go on to explain to the English gentleman that his quarry in a woiuau. "What part of the country?" "The North Yorkshire," Whittler s.-i. l. dauntlessly. But that night, after he got buc k to h. hotel, he wrote to Mrs. Tilllatnore. K 1 dene. County Kerry, Ireland, and b.eb her prepare herself and her himlmnd to entertain her old friend. Josiah 11. U'lil; tier, for a few days. The woman who received this let'er had been Admiral Tullamore's wife oiilj a few days when it waa put into her hands. Fortunately for her, it was given to her as she sat at breakfast by herself, for the admiral, old as he was, kept earlier hours than the comparatively young wom an whom he had married. The sight of the handwriting made her shudder, but, with the self-control that comes from the instinct of sclf-prescrv.i tion, she laid it down quietly until the servant went out of the room. Then slo fell upon her knees ami prayed --prayed as she had never prayed in all ber life -that heaven Would avert the pitiless con sequences which she had created by he: weak and criminal yiehling'to the tein tntiims of 'ace and plenty, luxury ami ease. She started up like a hunted thing, n he was, when, after a couple of hour ineffectual consideration and revolving of the subject In her mind, she renienil-i-ed suddenly that he might be here nt any moment might follow his letter closeiy. How conld she live through the s gill of his presence, tainting the attnosplier of this house, which had always len g od and honored? Bather than do it she would confess it all to Admiral Tullauiore, ami be turned out as the traitress she was. Even while she was making and break ing her made resolutions momentarily, they came and told her that the gentle man, whose card was handed to her al the same time, was come, snd "What in structions would she be pleased to give .is to where the genlleman would be placed'" j She looked at the card it bore the false. dreaded name of Josiah H. Whittler. (To be continued.) American SnntT for the Pope. I Pope Ieo XIII. sneezes Just as other mortals oo, and he adheres to a ctis- torn still practiced in this country by gentlemen of the old school that of using snuff to tickle his olfactories. It and flat, and would leave the Impres is not generally known that the snuff ion that the river ran up hill as it used by the head of the Roman Catholic cuts Its way through the much higher Church Is made in Baltimore cspe- , dally for his use. This particular snuff ' goes direct from prosulc ( nnton to the i compared with the wild appearance It sacred precincts of the Vatican. It Is. present to the eye of the stranger as the highest priced snuff made any- first he beholds it, with Its sombre where In the world, and Its value Is cypresses, almost awakening Hiipcrstl Incrensed several times above the orlg- j tlon. and the swamp hickory, with its iniil cost after the customs duty has j peculiar foliage and small but rich becu paid to the Italian government. eweetnut, upon which the far-famed The snuff for the Prince of Home Is , razor-backed hog and the beautiful manufactured from the pick of the gray squirrel feat In profound silence, finest Vlrglnlna and Kentucky tobacco. but doubtlesg with voracious appetite, the Baltimore firm which makes the A lare Mrt of the smm, , snuff being careful that every vestige of stem is removed from the tobacco before it uu.lergoes ttie process wnicn changes the leaf to a sneer-e-provokor. Before It U packed the snuff Is flavored I with the costly attnr of roses. j One hundred pounds were first or- : dcrcd for the Vatican. This was pack- ed In one-pound and live-pound jars, each Jar being placed In a leather case lined with cardinal satin. The Jars were of the same color, and each was tied with cardinal ribbon. In honor of Cardinal (Jlbbons, through whom the Baltimore firm secured Its first order, the snuff was called "Cardinal snuff." It Is supposed that the five pound Jars found a resting place In the pri vate apartments of his Holiness. I he one-pound Jars were used as presents from the Pope to various cardinals and to others of his friends fond of a good Baltimore sneeze. Baltimore Sun. At the final rehearsal of Mozart's opera, Lon uiovanni, ine composer was dissatisfied with the efforts of the youug lady to whom the part of Ber lins was assigned. Zerllna Is fright ened at Don Giovanni's too pronounced love-making, and cries for assistance behind the scenes. Mozart was tin able to Infuse sufficient force Into the poor girl's screams, until at last, los ing all patience, he clambered from the conductor' desk on to the boards. At that period a few tallow candles dimly glimmered among the desks of the musicians, but over the stage and the rest of the house almost utter dark ness reigned. Moaurt's sudden appear ance on the stage was therefore not suspected by poor Zerllna, who, at the moment when she ought to have otter ed the cry, received from the cotn-1 poser a sharp pinch on the arm, emit ting. In consequence, a shriek which caused hi in to exclaim: "Admirable! Mind on scream like Sbat to night!" I EFFECT OF AN ERUPTION. people and Cattle Bsrlrd Under a . Shower of Btoaca la h eat Iodic, But the bonibanluieut In some place must hare been terrible. I have aeen ! tracta of land, once smooth aud fertile 1'tatitatioua, no w covered w ith the gnt j rugged atones no that you have to pick your way among thein a you pan, j Many of them are four or five feet broad. Of courw, theae are only the larger utouea; the little ouea were bur led under the Koil long ago. Stones Ke-ein to have fallen all through the eruption, wnnetlaie In one place, somctlmea In another. Not long after the flint expulsion of smoke, a negro buy was tending goats on a hill side; I have seen the jdace often. Sud denly a small stone fell near him, and then another. He thought that some of his playmates were pelting him from the bUHhes, and so began to throw atones In return. But flie contest was too unequal, for It was the mountain that was throwing; nones at bltn; aud ere long he fled In terror, leaving his goats to their fate. I have Ho splice to tell you the whole story of this great eruption; how many plantations were ruined by the shower of stones, aud, far worse, how fifty or perhaps a hundred people were killed by them, with great iiumliers of cntfle aud horses; how the lava dammed back a stream and formed a boiling lake, which broke through after a month and came binning down the val ley, overwhelming a whole negro set tlement; how ashes were carried five or sll hundred miles out to sea and Bardos, eighty miles on, was darkened by the cloud, so that people hud to grope their wh.v a uism and use cmii dles In their houses; how the explo sions were heard hundreds of miles away, and It was thought that they were the guns of a great fleet or army. But one thing I must, tell you. When the eruption was over and ieople could ascend the mountain again, they found the crater the one Dr. Bell had visited all changed. Instead of the smoking cone, there was a hike of water nine hundred feet lelow, filling the whole area, and so di-ep that no one 1ms ever been able to fathom It. And lteside this, separated from It only by a thin wall, they fuud a new cra ter, even larger; It was nearly a mile long, three quarters; of a mile wide, snd eight hundred feet deep, with shies like walls. That pit wus blown out by the great explosion. I have stood between the two cra ters, and looked down Into them. The new one is green and pretty now, with bushes and ferns, and no signs of fire; but the old one Is a hideous depth of gray green water, through which bnle bles are always ascending and burst ing Into sulphur fumes at the J op. Sometimes the wind carries these fumes over the nelghlMtring phi illa tions for miles around," as If to want people that the old tires are not yet extinct. I hope It may lie long lefore they break out again! St. Nicholas. Keenis to Flow l'p Hill. The historic Welaka Iiiver, the mod ern St. John's, Is to the stranger one of the most linen-sting rivers on the American continent. It is unique III many partlculais which go to make up a river. Eluding Its aource In the far South, It flows northward for nearly all Ita length until, reaching the uictrojMillH of Florida, It turns eastward and pours its great valume of waters Into the ocean. ' This fact seems the more strange since the universal opinion prevails that the extreme south Is low lands of the northern louiidary. This, however. Is a minor point of Interest hand conveys an Idea of vaslness of expanse because Impenetrable to the pve- TnIg ,mibre scene Is relieved bv tlje iUtey palmetto, on which are of.pn festooned from tree to free the w,i,j .dvoIvuH. when seen In the phriy nlor wm. tn. paiatiul steamers. n,gne and river, make their wav up aud down the majestic stream, theste turn their beautiful cup-shaped flowers, white as snow, toward the coming king of day, sparkling with dewdrops. The broad savannas occasionally lie apparently almost on the level of the river Itself. On these queer formations abound wild flowers of every hue, ahape and botanical order, making one vast picture, framed In the surround ing forest, enlivened all over with birds of every hue and aweet song, while the strong, green growths .pre sent a tropical vigor of life which is really an inspiration to health and atrength. Kilt the Blue Jacket. A proportion of the blue Jackets of any full-rigged ship were necessarily ath!etes. The "upper yardmen" In a line of Iwittle ship or a frigate were ex ceptional men In this way, and much more so, perhaps Jtsst about the time that soil power was receiving Its death warrant than ever before. These young men had to race aloft to nearly the highest points, at top sjieed eight or ten time a week when the slilp was In harbor, to keep their heads and main tain their breath while holding on by "their eyelids," as the phrase goes, and manipulating with a careful and meas ured order of action the various! and Intricate arrangements for "crossing" or "sending down" the royal and top galUnt yards. It was al) done at full speed, for ft was universally held that the upper yardmen gave a character to the whole ship; and that one which was foremost in tula exercise was ever ; considered the smartest ship lu the fleet. The upper yardmen were always ! the coming men. They had the most j opportunities for distinguishing them selves, were the best known, and were ; most under the eye of the authorities. They developed great muscular power ; la chest, shoulders and arms. Their j lower extremities suffered, and one I always knew the mea who had been i upper yardmen by their tadpole-like ap- J pea ranee when they were bathing. I But In the modern itam line-of -battle i ship anil frigates these extremely ath- ' letic specimens formed a very small 1 minority of the ship' company, and none of them could lose bis turn at ' being upper yardmen so long aa the ' ship's reputation depended on the speed with which the upper yard were cross ed and sent down. In harltor the rest of the blue Jackets had the handling of yards and sails for exercise once or twice a week, but at sea the use of sails for propulsion grew less and less Important, and most of the work aloft was more of an exercise and less of a necessity. Cramer The ltolert' Keynote series is to le augmented by Marie C. Balfour's "Maris Stella" aud Claude Nicholson's "I'gly Idol." The complete edition of Kipling Is to be In eleven volumes, each with a frontispiece by the author's father, IskwMid Kipling. Charles J. D. Roberts, the Canadian scholar and lioet, lias undertaken to write a school history of Canada. It Is sure to be a good one. I'rof. Wood row Wilson's sympathetic and dignified magazine articles on tleorge Washington are alout to be published In book form. The general verdict appears to bo that Max Nordau's volume of stories called "Soap Bubbles" must have taxed to the utmost bis powers of dullness. The poems of Johanna Amhroslus, the tjerman peasant poetess over whom the critics have leen so wide eyed, are to be published In Kngllsh. The translation Is made by Mary J. Sa ff ord. Sir Richard Temple's autobiography, "The Story of My Life," soon to appear In two volumes, covers an active public career of nearly half a century. Sir Richard spent twenty-nine years lu administrative work In India, and dur ing bis membership lu the House of Commons took part lu 3,000 divisions. J. K. Huyamans, who is to be an Il lustrious inenilMT of the new Concourt Academy of Ten, has about completed a work called "Ijl Cuthedralo," In which he will continue the train of thought started in "Ku Route" and eventually lo lie completed in "I.'Obliit." He prefaces his new book with some fluttering words from Mr. Gladstone. In League with Satan. Almost every renowned man of an tiquity In the Middle Ages was be lieved to be In league with Sjitnn. Prob ably the oldnt legend of which the Faust legend Is a continuous thread Is that of Simon Mugus. According to Justin, he was a native of Git ton, a village In Samaria; be was, no doubt, a man of grent intellectual powers, lie was the father of the school of the Gnostics. It Is also reported of him that he could make himself Invisible, that he iuld pass through flumes un- nsuot ileiu gold, and exorcise, (lemons; In fact, he laid claim to all these powers, and his name as a miracle worker lived through many centuries. I'nusual ac compllMhiiicuis, great erudition, were attributed to the supernatural Influ ence, and the general disss1tlon to supcrsrtlllou assumption was strength ened on the one hand by dogmatic af firmation on the part of the church of the existence of a personal Satan, with Ids numerous household, and on the other baud by Incorporating the magic arts among the practical sciences, of which astrology and alchemy occupied no mean part. K!ie Was a Heroine. Among a party of young men and women who were taking an evening nimble the other day near the village of Clandy, In County Derry, was a young man from Belfast who had come to marry a Derry girl, one of the party. In crossing the River Faiigban by a wooden bridge he missed bis footing and fell Into twenty feet of water. In vain the distracted girl In-sought the men around to rescue him, but no one was willing to court an almost certain death. As be rose to the sur face for the third and last time she leaped Into the river herself and, clutc hing her now exhausted lover with one hand, swnru with great difficulty to the river side, where willing bonds received them both. Teacher's Baying. "More pie, Johnny? Why, child, you can't possibly hold another mouthful." "But, ma, our teacher say there's al ways room' at the top!" New York Tribune. A Nw Version, Little Miss Muffett sat on a tuffet Hating icecream and cake, While the young man with her was all of a shiver To think of the cash It would take. Law Bulletin. Would Swasnp Hiss. Ethel She aalls Immense; but Is she liable to swamp anyone? Keggy-I fiieaa she'll about swamp pa when he receives the bill for ber. New York World. A LEADER OF JOURNAw 'JIA. Upright ( bsmctrr of Jjoi-- liordos Uraoett in the Nrs.pjn r U orld. The character of James Go don Ben nett as a leader oi Journal. s;u '. admir ably summed up in an lull-replug ar ticle by James Creeliuan. As au edit or, says the writer. Mr. Benuett Is Im patient of political control or partner ship. He scents danger In every ap proach, aud he will deliberately attack a party to prove that he la not under Its influence. According to him, an editor should be a man In a watch tower, out of sound and out of reach. Otherwise there would be conspiracy and compromise. Private promises are to be broken In the public Interest. Friendship are to be regarded as traps for the editorial conscience. So Mr. Bennett is a lonely man in a crowd, a hermit In the midst of bustling life. I can tell one story that Illustrates the magnificent perversity aud shrewish ness that have preserved the Herald as a historic example of Incorruptible journalism. When Gen. Crespo under took to overthrow the rotten aud tyran nical government of President puhicio, he had thirty budly-nyn.ed Venezue lans to follow him. The rcvolnliou was sanctioned by the people, but they wen afraid, at first, to Join Crespo's stand ard. Gradually, however, he gathered together a small army, and advanced upou the government forces. Palaclo and bis friends hnd looted the treasury, money was netiled to crush the revolt, and a sum great enough for the pur poses could only le hnd In Europe. About this time an old friend of Mr. Bennett called Umiii him in Par's, ami explained that the Venezuelan govern ment desired to place loan bonds for many millions of kull.'irs in the Lon don market. He Informed Mr. Bennett that he was to be the agent of Palaeio In the matter, and would make a for tune out of It. Then he asked for the co-operation of the Herald, oil the score of old-time friendship, ami finally he announced that If the Herald could be little the revolutionary cause, and so stimulate the coiiliilence of bankers in the government lioijds, the transaction would be worth two or three hundred thousands dollars to Mr. Bennett. At this Mr. Bennett smiled grimly. "It is worth a million dollars to the Herald to know these facts," he said. "I do not quite understand you." said the friend. "It Is worth 1,inh.I.(K) to support the Other side." "Wh.v, Mr. Bennett, am I too late? Have the other men seen you?" "No; not at all. But you have given me proof that the government of Vene zuela diwerves to fall. It Is worth 1,(KM),(MK to the Herald to be on the right side. I shall buck up the revolu tion, and let the truth be known to the world." In vnln the friend pleaded that hU conversation was confidential, and that aiiewspaiierhiid no right to take advan tage of facts communicated under the seal of secrecy. Within an hour, n cable message set the wonderful nuiehluery of the Herald In motion, and day after day Its columns were crowded with dispatches from special correspondent lu Veneziieala, describing hlev ylwovt the revolutionary army and the weak ness of the government. These dis patches were reproduced In all the European cnpltuls, and Palaclo's bonds could not find a purchaser. Without money or credit, the tyrant fell; and the first act of Crespo, after he enter ed Caracas at the head pf his victorious army, was to send a long cablegram, at the public exiene, thanking the Herald, over his own slgnnture, for lis services In the cause of liberty and constitutional government. A Story of Senator Hswlcy. Sitting by my side at the convention which nominated Lincoln for Presi dent, writes Isaac 11, Bromley, was a newspaper editor who called me "Ike," as I called him "Joe." He was running-over wJth enthusiasm. Wlieu the nomination was made he Interrupted himself In his hurrahing to say to me, who looked on in wide-eyed silence, "Why don't you hurrah?" I don't know why I did not; but I reiuemlwr that I felt queer aud ouly said, "I ran't hurrah; I should cry If anyone touched me." I came nenrer cryliu when, in less than twelve months, I saw him In uniform at the head of the first Connecticut company that an swered the call for troops. He was afterward a brigadier general, Gover nor of his State, and mcmlier of Con gress, and has lately lieen elected to his third term as l ulled States Hens tor. There were probably other similar cases. It was Joe Ilawley who sat at my ellsjw. An Kxceptlonal Case, "You know old John Goodlier?" "Yes." "Never callisl anything but 'Honest John' for forty years." "I'm." "County treasurer for twenty-eight years and guardian for half the orphan In the coiifilry? i rusted by every, issly." "Yep." "Dead three week and experts have gone over his Isioks." "Well?" "They found that ho was honest lo every way." A Haddlns- Punster. Three-yenr-old on Suteu Island lioat What 'at big stone house, mamma? "That's a fort, dear." "What ose black lings on top?" "Cannon." "Mamma, what la they caunln' In a. house?" New York Herald. Brown Does your wife ever threaten to go borne to ber mother? Jones No, that's the worst of Itl Uer moUmr boards with us.-Puck. i'V" , , , , , ., . : . ' . .