fCfm HIS WIPE IN OPIUM DEN. :
Sfcek of the plain statement that Wll-
'Ctu C. Riley, employed In a hotel In
Chamber street. New York, haa be
gun proceedings for an absolute divorce,
lies a romance in which the glamor that
r over so many wnne
girls proved potent to tear a youthful
highly educated young woman, a mem
ber of a fine old Virginia family, from
the side of a devoted young husband.
ATter a search continued Indefatiga-
bly for seven years, during which the
tobacco plantation he owned near Rich
Tnond, Va., waj sacrificed to provide
funds to keep up the hunt, the husband
succeeded In locating his wife at No. 11
I'ell street, where on the second floor
ahe was living as the wife of a China
man who had taken the American
name of Wilson. This was last Novem
ber. His fortune was all gone; Riley
had been obliged to accept a place as
waiter.
"Ethel, I have hunted seven years
for you. I do not care what your life
has been In those years. If you will
jeiurn 10 me ana leave your associates
1 will forgive you," said the still affec
tionate husband.
"I tired of you long ago," said the
lrl. "I prefer to lead the life I am
living rather than return to you. I like
Chinamen better than I do white men;
they are more respectable and treat
women better than white men do. 1
refuse to live with you."
The husband pleaded In vain, and
then resolved to obtain a divorce. He,
however, told his counsel, George Rob
inson, of No. 248 West Forty-fourth
-street, that If a compromise could be
-effected not to continue the legal pro
ceedings. The lawyer called on the
wife in Jier Pell street home, accompa
nied by Mr. Riley.
Another white girl was in the room.
vVlison and another Chinaman departed
when Mr. Riley and the lawyer were
-admitted.
"You are persecuting me. Why can
not you let me alone? Get a divorce,
If you wish; only leave me in peace,"
answered the young woman when the
lawyer and Mr. RJley In turn again
urge her to return to her former life.
Then she continued, her eyes flashing
angrily:
"You married me when I was a child
of 13. That was eleven years ago. You
were rich then, and I liked you well
nough; but I grew tired of seeing
.your face always around and ran away
to New York. I came to Chinatown,
and em glad I did, for this life Just
rults me an I propose to live It. You
ree not hope to change my feelings,
for my determination is fixed.
"If you permit this to he published
In the newspapers I will kill you, for 1
lo not want my family disgraced. 1
ARIZONA OSTRICH RAISING.
-
Arizona has an ostrich farm and
takes grat pride In It. There are only
four other farms in the country two
In California, one In Texas and one in
"Florida. According to the recent re
jort of the governor of Arizona to the
secretary of the treasury the Arizona
ostrich fann, although the youngest of
the lot. Is the largest and most re
munerative. It Is situated three mile
from Phoenix In the Salt River Valley
a region which in official eulogies of
the territory Is Droudly termed the
"New Eden of the West."
The experiment of raising ostriches
In Arizona was begun In 1891 with a
ningle pair of birds. In 1SD8. when the
flock was sold to a company, It con
tained 104 birds, 38 of which were ot
breeding age. Bince then forty-seven
hicks have been hatched and the
flock Is growing rapidly. The net prof
Its of the company last year are said
to have been $2,500. These figures do
rot take Into account the additions to
the flock, which are estimated to be
worth $100 each, The birds are first
plucked when six months old, yielding
about twelve ounces of feathers each
that are worth $7.50 a pound. After
that they are plucked every eight
months, yielding-an average of one
pound of feathers at each plucking,
worth, at the present market prices,
417.50 a pound. How long the birds
will continue to yield feathers, says the
governor of Arizona, Is not definitely
known, although In South Africa they
have been yielding feathers continu
ously for fifty years with no sign of
flecreasing.
According to the governor's report,
the ostrich, aa a housekeeper, is a
much maligned bird. The popular be
lief is that the female ostrich digs a
hole In the aand, lays her egga therein
und trusts the sun to hatch them out,
while the male bird shirks family re
sponsibilities entirely. This Is not true,
at least of the Arlxona ostriches. The
fclrda always pair off during the breed-
log season, and. the male bird makes
4 he -nest by resting his breastbone on
the sand and turning slowly round and
wound, scratching the sand up with
Ms feet, until a shallow hole Is made
ome three feet In diameter and about
a. foot deep. The female then lays usu
ally fifteen eggs, and the birds take
turns sitting on them. The female oc
cupies the nest during the daytime, ex
cept for an hour at noon, when the
mole relieves her while she goes off to
feed. The male bird takes possession
f the nest at night. As a female os
trich will lay three settings, or about
forty-five eggs, before she stops, about
thirty are taken from her and placed
In sit Incubator, the birds being permit
ted to haUb the last fifteen eggs laid.
never have communicated with any of
them and never shall, and I do not
want them to know what has become
of me. It would kill my mother tf she
kne wthe life I was leading."
As she spoke tears came Into the
husbands' eyes. She certainly was
handsome still, despite the dissipated
life she had led. On the bed the hus
band saw an opium layout. His wife's
fine figure- was clad In a gauze dress,
which served to accentuate the grace
ful contour of her form. Her thick,
light brown hair was arranged taste
fully and set off the fine oval of her
face, which though ordinarily pale, was
now tinged with the flush of excite
ment. He seemed unable to give up
the wish to reclaim this beautiful, in
telligent creature.
"We can go back to your old home
In Richmond, and no one will ever
know anything about the last seven
years; they shall be blank," urged the
husband, clasping his hands, as if
praying to her to heed his words.
"No," she replied, and her look and
vole were hard. "I have outgrown a
quiet, respectable- life. I know too
much of the world. Had I known as
much of It as I do now I never should
have married you at all. Really, you
had better leave me to my fate. I ask
nothing of you or my former friends,
save to be let alone."
Without speaking to his wife again,
Mr. Riley then left with his counsel.
who will Institute proceedings at once.
To a reporter, Mrs. Riley said:
"If this thing gets Into the newspa
pers it will make my mother and sis
ter, who Is now 17 years old, wretched
and might mar their future happiness.
I shall say nothing. My life Is my own
affair, entirely, and does not concern
the public. I have resolved not to be
come reconciled to my husband, and
the sooner he gets a divorce the better
I shall like It."
T. W. Earle, president of the Star of
Hoi Mission in Chinatown, said he
would be glad to assist Mr. Riley to
obtain a divorce, for he declared the
woman was absolutely Irreclaimable.
He had labored for years to convert
her, but she merely laughed at him.
"The worst of It is the woman is edu
cated and highly Intelligent," said Mr.
Karle. "In her room are works ot
standard authors, which she reads
with eagerness. She argues that there
Is but one life for her. No man ought
to continue as her husband, even In
name."
Admiral Dewey has accepted an Invi
tation to spend three days. May U to
26. In New Orleans during the flower
carnival in that city.
The eggs hatch In about forty-two days
and the old birds help the chicks to get
out of their shells.
An ostrich chick one wepk old will
weigh five pounds, at six weeks fifty
pounds, and at maturity about three
hundred pounds. The chicks grow very
rapidly, reaching a height of about five
feet In four months. At four years,
when full grown, they average nearly
eight feet in height.
The first few days after hatching the
chicks must be carefully watched and
cared for to keep them alive, but after
they reach the age of four weeks they
are pretty well able to shift for them
selves. The young birds are fed a little
grain, but the old birds obtain their
entire living from the alfalfa on which
they graze. During the breeding sea
son each pair of birds is placed in a
separate enclosure, otherwise they are
apt to get Into shindies which often
result disastrously. One acre of alfal
fa will furnish feed for four full grown
birds throughout the year. They re
quire very little care, one man being
able to do all the work connected with
the farm and its 150 ostriches, with the
assistance of an enddltlonal hand or
caslonally, when plucking or other extra
work has to be done.
Arizona takes a very sanguine view
of the future of its ostrich Industry.
Indeed, some enthusiasts predict that
there are "millions In It," and that the
Salt River valley will become as Im
portant an ostrich raising country as
South Africa, During the last fiscal
year $1,700,000 worth of ostrich feath
ers were Imported from that region Into
the United States. A duty of fifteen per
cent ad valorem Is imposed on Im
ported feathers, and, following prece
dents and history, If the Infant ostrich
Industry thrives and prospers It will
doubtless be able to get as much mor
protection as it sees fit to howl for.
VERY STRONG.
Stubb The woollen mill down the
treet was destroyed by Are this morn-
ln -
Penn You don't say! Why, Smyth
snd I were standing In the same block
and never even heard an engine.
Htubb Wonder you hadn't caught a
whiff of the burning wool.
Penn That was Impossible. Smyths
was smoking a cigar he bought on
the train. Chicago News.
Ex-Governor Wolcott of Mnssachu
setts said at the recent banquet ol
manufacturers In Boston that "rum,
gunpowder and the bible must Tmt be
linked together In unholy alliance, but
Christianity, civilisation and honest
trade make their march together across
seas and continents."
SKETCH OP
Rome, April 15. The stringent steps
recently taken by the Italian govern
ment in the celebrated Notarbartolo
case, In order to run to earth the pes
tilent " Mafia, have once more drawn
attention to this most desperate of all
organized bodies of men a society that
the government will fail to suppress.
To American ears, unaccustomed as
they are to that fearful thirst for ven
geance, that spit-It of the vendetta
which still disfigures so much of sunny
Italy, it is hard to explain the real
power and scope of the Mafiosl. Briefly,
the Mafia is a species of Free Mason
ry of the lowest possible description. the
main objects of which are the protec
tion of all members who transgress the
laws. In other wards, it may be re
garded as an anarchists' protection so
ciety, of which the power Is unlimited,
and the tolls are everywhere.
The members of the Mafia are legion,
and, Btrangely enough, more often than
not Join against their own free will.
The rich man Joins either to advance
his personal position, to carry on an
hereditary feud, or because It Is Inti
mated to him that his Influence and
wealth are necessary to the society. If
he refuses his crops suddenly take fire,
his cattle eat something poisonous, or
he himself is either found dead or is
carried by "brigands" Into the moun
tains and held for all the world like a
pledged article In a pawnbroker's shop
until a heavy ranso mis paid.
POWER 18 RESISTLESS.
The poor man, too, Is equally bound
to throw in his lot with the Matla. Nor
can one wonder at his choice when we
recall the alternatives. Upon the one
hand his endeavors to earn an honest
living will be boycotted by practically
all his neighbors, and even by the large
landowners and shopkeepers to whom
he may apply for work. Once let him I
Join the brotherhood, however, and no
matter what his crime he will be pro
tected to the last penny of the associa
tion. Here Is the now famous case:
Some months ago one M. Notarbar
tolo was appointed by the Italian min
ister of the interior to inquire into cer
tain financial scandals by which M.
Panlzollo, member of parliament for
Palermo, was alleged to have defraud
ed the Bank of Sicily of large sumB of
money. So fearlessly did the unfortun
ate Notarbartolo execute his commis
sion that he was immediately murdered
by a man of the name of Fontalne.who
Is alleged to have been instigated to
the commission of the deed by Panl
zollo's use of the machinery of the
Mafia.
No Sicilian Jury dared to convict
either the murderer or his instigator.
Both men were members of the Mafia,
and Sicilian Jurymen know full welt
that those who bring justice to a Mafi
osl may expect to pay the extreme pen
alty at the earliest possible convenience
of his brethren. Similarly, too, the
Judges feared to convict, the police
lost" their most important papers.and
the lawyers were equally culpable. The
Italian government Is bringing every
possible means to bear upon the so
ciety In order to break it up, even to
shifting the entire case from Palermo
to Milan, or practically the entire
length of Italy. Whether, however, the
society has yet run lt allotted span Is
an extremely mooted point. It would
surprise no one If, on the contrary, the
government itself went under as the re
sult of the conflict.
SIGN IN THEIR BLOOD.
The ceremony of Initiating a Mafiosl
Is much the same In all branches of the
society. The candidate smears the ef
figy of the saint with the blood ob
BUCKING BRONCO IN CITY.
An amusing scene was witnessed by
several hundred people in front of an
express office In Broadway one day re
cently. It was a sight entirely unusual
In New York .except In a circus or Wild
West show a bucking bronco, trying to
kick hie harness off and destroy a big
express wagon. He was a vicious little
red-eyed demon, with a kick that meant
destruction erery time It landed. The
crowd stor at a distance and admired
the energy and pertinacity of the beast
while the unhappy man in the seat
"threw the rawhide Into him" In a vain
sndeavor to make him settle down and
go to work.
The bronco humped himself and
lumped into the air, coming down stiff
legged with a Jar that would have loos
ne dthe teeth of any man had one been
n his back. Then he slanted his ears
back, gave a snort and kicked at the
wagon, but he was hitched so that he
:ould not reach it. Hitched with him
was staid old horse, almost twice as
big, who had probably never been out-
lide of New York, and did not seem
to understand the antics of his partner,
while he took care to dodge the bronco's
ictlve heels. Persons In the crowd
ihouted advice to the driver, and soon
this became Jocular In Its tone, and
very one was enjoying a free outdoor
ihow.
The bronco continued to buck and
rear and kick In a most tireless man
ner, showing that he hod a good con
ititution, hardened by his life in the
west, and that he was emsVved with
in amount of perseverance that would
save won him success In any other call
ing than that of a bucking bronco.
However, as a bucker he was not en-
irely a failure.
At length a tall, spare man, In a big
bat and a sandy mustache and goatee,
imerged from the Crowd snd took hold
THE MAFIA.
tained by cutting his own thumb. Ha
then sets fire to the little figure and
takes the following form of oath:
"J. swear on my honor to be faithful
to the brotherhood. As this saint and
the drops of my blood are destroyed, so
will I shed all my blood for the frater
nity; and as these ashes and this blood
can never be restored, so can I never
become free from the brotherhood."
He then shoots at a crucifix (to sig
nify his willingness to kill even his
nearest relative If bidden by the soci
ety) and with that the ceremony la
complete.
So far as can be learned the Mafiosl
keep no written records of any nature
whatsoever. Their commands are In
variably transmitted by word of mouth
and death by the dagger is the usual
reward of disobedience. The bond that
unites the members is neither political
nor religious, since men of all creeds
and political opinions are alike domi
nated by its acts. Each large town has
Its secretary, who keeps the local units
of the society In touch with the gov
erning body, the constitution of which
la known only to a very few.
The usual meeting places of the Mafia
are the great cattle fairs, at which they
assemble from Glrgentl, Frapant and
other provinces for the discussion of
their plans. Like our own criminal
classes they disguise their conversation
by the use of a species of back slang
peculiar to themselves.
They Identify strange members by
means of a few apparently every-day
questions, to which a set form of reply
is given by the initiated. The central
stronghold of the Mafia Is in Sicily,
where every other person one meets
belongs to this terrible organization.
THE "OOMORRA" OF NAPLES.
A very similar society Is that known
as the "Comorra of Naples," the mem
bers of which can be nired at a fixed
tariff for the perpetration of practically
any Iniquity. Its record is similar to
that of the Mafia, although, owing to
the comparative smailness of Its scope,
it Is perhaps less well known to the for
eigner. So far back as 1862 M. Marc
Monnler Issued a pamphlet denouncing
its many iniquities, and since that day
it has fully lived up to its evil reputa
tion. In the winter of 1872-3 an English
doctor, who had an exceedingly good
practice near the Chiaia, was suddenly
directed by a mysterious letter to re
mit the sum of 1,000 francs to a cer
tain postofflce, under pain of instant
death. He immediately retorted by en
gaging a bodyguard of four men. The
Comorra, however, were not so easily
disposed of, and speedily Informed him
that one of his children would be mur
dered In his place. He only escaped a
certain fate by Instant flight and the
total loss of his splendid practice.
fn 187S the Comorra found another
English victim. This time it was an
Inoffensive horticulturist, who, by his
successful sale of flowers Interfered
with the monopoly hitherto enjoyed by
the clients of the Comorra. He was
murdered one evening in his garden, aa
a warning to all would-be competitors
of the other Comorra flower growers.
About the some time, too, a certain
Carlo Borrelll, who had offended the so
ciety, was murdered by Its orders. The
murderer, one Rafaell Exposlto, waa
captured, and upon his passage under
escort through the Toledo, received a
remarkable ovation from the Neapoli
tans. The whole populace showered
flowers and blessings upon his head,
while they did not scruple to brutally
mutilate the body of the murdered man
as it was awaiting burial in the mor
tuary of the Pogglo Reale cemetery.
of the bronco's bridle, while the crowd
shouted to him to "look out!" The tall
one took a firm hold of the "bronc" and
began to kick him on the Bhlns.
Suddenly the bronco seemed to recog
nize a familiar, for he straightened up
his ears and relaxed his muscles and
became a small, quiet pony with not a
buck nor a kick in his system. He
seemed to be ashamed of himself, also,
and sorry that he had made a scene on
Broadway.
"Now," said the tall man to the dri
ver on the wagon, "the cayuse is all
right again. Just a bit of western tem
per. Got to know how to handle 'era,
that's all."
The driver picked up his reins and
clucked, and the team moved away, the
bronco with hanging head, but faith
fully pulling his share of the load.
THE ORGAN GRINDER.
Beside the curb, out In the street.
The organ grinder stands,
With stubbles on his swarthy face
And very dirty hands.
And while you curse him plays away
Like twenty German bands.
The ragtime airs you gayly hummed
A ear or two ago,
Forth from the box he wheels around
In Jangling currents flow
The waltzes always hard and fast,
The marches mild and slow.
I often think Pandora must
Have chanced along one day,
And opened up the box the first
Poor Dago had to play,
And thus ungraciously let all
But discord get away.
There Is electricity In a kiss, says a
scientist. Perhaps that le why kissing
hocki some people.
A CYOTE WAS IN HIS BED.
M. J. McMahon, a ranchman living
near River Bend on the Union Pacific
road, eighty-three miles east of Den
ver, came Into Denver recently for sur
gical treatment, and the story he tells
Is weird and startling In the extreme.
Mr. McMahon Is not much Interested
In the psychic phenomena involved, nor
Is that to be expected when he appre
hends that he Is in danger of hydro
phobia. The prevention of that dread
malady and not the solution of the
problem of transmigration or kindred
questions is what brings him to Den
ver. Mr. McMahon Is a widower, and lives
with two of his hired hands at his
fanch. At 3 o'clock In the morning he
was awakened by a heavy blow against
the window near his bed. He still and
listened, and presently he again heard
a sound as of a body being hurled
against the window. Three times this
was repeated and at the fourth blow
the window gave way with a loud
sound of splintering frame and glass,
and an animal sprang Into the room.
It as too dark for Mr. McMahon to see
what kind of a beast had come to visit
him. The room was very dark and he
had not a firearm of any kind In the
house, nor a weapon of any kind at
hand. So he lay quiet and waited.
The animal came up to the bedside
and. Instead of leaping upon him, as he
feared, It stood quietly looking at him
and Anally laid its head on the bed
and gazed at him. Its action was so
much like that of a collie dog which
Mr. McMahon used to keep that he put
out his hand to touch it. He put his
hand on the animal's head and stroked
It down over the back, as he used to do
for hla dog, and he did this several
times without a sound or a motion on
the part of his strange visitor.
Then the welrdness, the strangeness,
the unnaturalness of the uncanny sit
uation dawned upon him and he was
seized with terror. He was certain that
he had either a strange wild beast from
the plains or a mad animal to deal with.
His two hired men were asleep In the
second room from his, and he was
alone in the darkness with this strange
presence. His overwrought nerves de
manded action and would no longer re
main still. Seizing a blanket he leaped
from the bed and, protecting his hand
with the blanket, he grappled In the
darkness with the "animal. Probably
DRIVEN MAD
Because his wife insisted upon col
oring her black hair to a golden hue,
Andy Maxwell, a farmer of Newklrk,
Okla., went mad, says a correspondent
of the San Francisco Examiner. His
eyesight was so sensitive that the
thoughts of having a golden-haired wife
grew and affected his mind until he
lost his senses.
The story Is worthy the Imagination
of such as "The Duchess" or Laura
Jean Libby, and did it not come from a
court of Justice, would hardly be ac
cepted, even by a credulous World. But
probate Judge Neff has Investigated the
case and says Maxwell's mind is seri
ously Impaired. His wife cannot go
near him to comfort the man she made
mad, because her hair is now green,
being in the stages of regaining its
original color. Dr. Bowers, who is at
tending the Insane man, says as soon as
Mrs. Maxwell's hair regains its original
color she will attend to him, and per
haps this will cure him.
Maxwell Is a prosperous young farm
er, while his wife is very beautiful. Her
picture has appeared In several news
papers a that of the most beautiful
woman In Oklahoma. Her hair Is orig
inally black, but recently she decided
It would be more attractive were It
blondlned. Her husband, who Is -very
devoted to his young wife, begged her
not to change the color of her hair,
but she was determined to do It. A
quarrel ensued, during which time the
young wife proceeded to a hairdress
er's. "Give me yellow hair and I will pay
you $25," she blithely said.
The hairdresser was delighted, and
Mrs. Maxwell's raven locks loomed up
like a golden sunset when she left the
THE LAST FARRAGUT VETERAN.
Timothy Murray.chlef master-at-arms
on the United States ship Pensacola,
now stationed off the Pacific coast, Is
the enly enlisted man now In the naval
service who was with Farragut's fleet
during the civil war.
He l not quite fifty years of ago.
Born In Ireland on November 4, 1850, he
ran away to sea at the age of twelve.
Only a year later he enlisted In the
United States navy at Boston as a
second class boy, serving on the United
States frigate Niagara, and after De
cember, 1883, on the flagship Hartford.
He has a keen remembrance of Far
tagut at the battle of Mobile Bay, on
August 6, 186.
'When the squadron started up the
bay,
he says, "the old admiral was in
the port main rigging with a rope
nronnd his waist, so that he could lean
over and see what the fleet were doing.
At the moment the Brooklyn ran hard
aground Captain Alden sang out, 'Tor
pedoes ahead!' It was then the admiral
used the famous words:
" 'Torpedoes be damned 1 Olve her
four belUl' "
the challenge was accepted, and a
of great fangs pierced the blanket i
sank Into hie right hand. With kJs
left McMahon got a grip on the brat
throat, and wrenched hla right free
tearing two long gashes In the Seas.
Then, still holding the throat with Msv
left, he wound the blanket and cover
lets around the beast's bead In an eat
deavor to smother it.
His frantic grasp on the throat of
the animal was so fierce that his thumb
was sprained and almost dislocated,
yet that writhing, leaping form threat
ened momentarily to get free from, his
grip and clutch his own throat. Be
screamed for his hired men to briar a
light that he might gee, at least, what
he was fighting. They were so- alow In
coming that he knew the battle would!
be over before they arrived, so as
threw his antagonist on the Boor and
got outside the door.
Then he told his hired men the situa
tion. They lit lamps, armed themselves
with clubs and peered cautiously In at
the door. At first they could see noth
ing, but they finally made out the form
of a very large coyote lying on the bed.
He lay outstretched, with his paws on
the pillow and his head lying between
them. Just as the faithful collie used to
He. The men wanted to kill him with
their clubs, but Mr. McMahon forbad
it, and told them to drive him into a
vacant room and hold htm prisoner.
Mr. McMahon went to the kitchen and
began to bathe his wounds, white- the
men prepared the room for the coyote.
Before they were ready he leaped out
at the window by which he had en
tered and walked round to the kitchen.
Standing on his hind legs the animal
placed his front feet on the wlndowsiH
and for several minutes stood gasing"
at Mr. McMahon as he cleansed his lac
erated hand. Then he got down and. .
walked dejectedly away over the plain
and was lost to sight
Mr. McMahon Is greatly exercised
over the affair, believing that tha
brute was suffering from rabies. Those
who are disposed to delve into the
weird beliefs the of the red men are
wondering if this may not be the coy
ote who ate the heart of the faithful .
collie, and1 is now inhabited by hla
spirit
Man soon wearies of the worahinvott
humanity.
BY HIS WIFE.
establishment. She arrived home Just
before supper time and met her hus
band at the door. She removed her hat
to allow the radiance of ber golden
yellow hair to fall full upon htm at
once.
The poor farmer looked at his wife,
gave one shriek and went yelling- to
the barn. He did not come back until
supper was over. Mrs. Maxwell went
to bed early, but was awakened about
midnight by someone trying to choke
her. It was her husband.
She said: "His eyes were dilated and
wild. He was breathing heavily. T cried
for him to stop or he would kill m. I
saw at once, that the poor man waa
mad. I was frightened but finally I
persuaded him to let go of me and X
would go and wash the yellow oft my
hair. This seemed to please him and
he let me go. I went into the kitchen,
and out into the yard. I ran to town
in my nightdress and summoned Dr.
Bowers, who came and pronounced rat
poor husband Insane.
"I am so sorry for him, but I did so
want yellow hair. It Is so pretty. They
told me he would get well if I got my
hair dyed back to its natural color. I
have' used everything, but still It" ! a.
pale green and I fear it will never come
back to Its natural color. And poor
Andy may never get well again If It
don't."
Mrs. Maxwell summoned an expert
hairdresser from Kansas City to wait
on her, but the blondlne did good work
and on that account Andy Maxwell may
remain a lunatic the rest of his day.
He Is being guarded at his home. Judge ,
Neff not yet having ordered htm to th -asylum.
"During the entire action In the bay
the admiral was sometimes on the
and sometimes in the mlssen
He was, I assure you, a busy :
"That he was In constant danger ta
evident when you remember that the
Hartford lost twenty-seven killed sad
twenty-five wounded. Only three- of
the officers who were on the ship that
day now remain In the service Generaf
Hey wood, now commanding too i
corps; Admiral Watson, than a
tenant, and Captain Whiting,
ensign.
DOUBLE BRACKETS.
"There seems to be smiles alt
your face this morning."
"No wonder! There's a new
down at our house."
"H'm!"
"And a new piano."
"Well, you'll get precious llttkt
In the future."
"Don't you believe it! Tha
makes such a racket you can't
hear tha
piano: the piano makes aura a
you can't hear the baby." Nawa.
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