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TWILIGHT ON
Tns dew come. down. and shadows ga;ber ia fifM and laoe.
Low in the west m baud of black give promise unt ra!a.
It Is the twiligut hour nl given oer t lalin and rest.
It bring to home a benediction and in blest.
The boys come aad bathe their faeea at the cuohi.;; well.
Afar aud falut, then car aud sweet, tickles the lf-ad cow's IxriL
It is the twilight hour aad stars are starting froni the deep.
High heaven heraid sent to watch thai uitn uiajr sleep.
The father cornea, a man of many year of toil and care.
Who smile to see the candle Lu the self -same window there;
It ia the twilight hor and with the farm work amply done
He fee la a poor nan' Joy to think the food ia won.
Then all alt down to eat the evening meal, and far away
A wagon rambles oat the neighbor' a name who lovea delay;
It la the twilight hoar and free from day'a unending quest
It brings t horns a benediction and la blest.
Boston Journal
Hiss Fairfax's Husband
yt AMES TADDMAN, sub-editor of
gjl the Dendeae Gazette, was busily
correctiiig proofs when the door
of his room was opened rather sudden
ly, and a gentleman of some six-and-twenty
winters Jtered.
"I say, Taddman "
"Welir
The subeditor just grunted this out,
and didn't tnra his head.
"I'm in an awful fix. I I dou't
know what to do!"
"Whafa opT" murtnured Mr. Tadd
man, still keeping his eyes Died on
his proofs.
"I've got to interview Miss Fairfax,
the great singer. The governor left
word that I waa to aee her to-night
at eleven after the concert, and that
the Interview was to go Into to-morrow's
paper."
'"Better look sharp, then." growled
the sub-editor; "it's 10:45 now, and I
ahali want all your copy by 1230 at
the latest"
"But but I can't do ft!" exclaimed
the new-comer, desperately.
"Why not?" replied- the sub-editor.
"You've interviewed heaps of people
before In a fashion."
Mr. Tadduinn didn't think much of
Charles Ianvers, the one and only re
porter the Dcndene Gazette could boaBt
of. Danvers waa far too amateurish
In his work, and hadn't the "cut" of
a newspapes man about him. Besides,
the governor had only engaged him
because he was willing to work for
a low salary.
, "Well, it's JUMt like this, Taddman,"
standing at his superior officer's el
bow, "Miss Fairfax Is my wife!"
Taddman dropped his pen, and turn
ed round in one and the same moment.
"Your wife!"
"Yes, my wife 1 swear it I don't
care to talk about it," the young man
went on, hurriedly. "But I'll tell you
all now I've told you some. We were
married when we were only boy and
girl. I was nineteen, she a year
younger. Three mouths after our mar
riage we had a frightful quarrel
chiefly because I had deceived her
about money matters and we parted
by mutual consent. She was at one
of the musical academies, and I had
Just left Bugby. My father disowned
me for getting married without his
consent, and so, instead of going to
Oxford, I had to earn a living how
and where I could. After trying vari
ous things I drifted into Journalism,
and that's why I'm here, working all
I know for twenty-five shillings a
week. And she I have followed her
career, although she has quite lost
sight of me be is famous, rich, court
ed by the great, written about and
talked about, while I, her husband,
am only a miserable hack of a re
porter. Asd new I have to go and
interview her!"
He sank into a chair and
'buried bis face In his hands. For
some moment Taddman gazed at him
In blank amazement This man the
great Fairfax's lawful husband! And
told off to interview berl Taddman
was tongue-tied.
He looked at his watch. It waa
five minutes to eleven.
"Look here, young un, you must
go." he at length said, touching Dan
vers on the shoulder and sneaking
more gently; "ItH mean the sack if
you don't You know what the gov
ernor is. Ystfd And It rather hard
to get another crib, you know. I'd do
It for yon myself, but I can't stir from
here until the paper goes to bed. So
put a good face on It, man, and go.
Bless you! she won't' recognize you.
Her husband was a smooth-faced boy,
and you've got a long mustache and
and (he bad never noticed them be
fore) quite a sprinkling of gray hairs.
Besides, you look a good deal older
than you really are. Here, rouse up
and get along! We must have the
Interview."
Danvers got up.
"Thanks, old chap," he said. "I'll
)e off, I didn't think of the alteration
in my looks. Of course sue won't
know me."
And without more ado he put on
his coat and hat and hnrrted away to
the town hull, where MIkk Fairfax bad
consented to be Interviewed, the ren
dezvous, beln;; her dressing-room be
hind the stage.
- , MUs Fairfax ws rolling up . her
. ataxic when l.er irnld. Jones, was good
atottgb " Inform l.er Utilt "a reporter"
was anxious to fee her.
"From the Dendeue Uasete?" she
lata, at red.
"Yea, atlas I think it was some
tC t tiaat"
THE FARM.
Miss Jones' experience of press rep
resentatives was a very wide oue. Hue
didn't think much of the one who was
here to-night He wasn't so free
spoken as them London gents, with
their shiny 'ats and long frock-coats
no, nor so free with his money at
any rate be didn't look as if he was.
Yes, Miss Jones liked the London gen
tlemen, especially when they attribut
ed to her mint res a host of clever
things which she never said.
"Ask htm to come in," said Miss
Fairfax. "Good evening," she mur
mured pleasanVy, as Danvers entered;
"will you sit down? And now what
can I do for you?"
Poor Danvers was quite daszled by
his wife's wondrous beauty. She was
certainly a very pretty girl when he
married her, but be never imagined
for a moment that she would develop
Into the lovely woman be now beheld.
She was In excellent health, lier eyes
were bright and sparkling, and ahe
looked a very queen as she moved to
and fro in her costly white satin dress,
while diamonds shone out from be
tween the colls of her dark hair and
burnt fiercely on her bread.
Danvers pulled himself together
with a great effort, and put the usual
round of questions tj her. Hue an
swered them with astonishing readi
ness, and told him the tale of her
career with striking accuracy. Then,
seeing that her visitor did not appear
to be quite at his ease, the singer
began to talk about the songs she
loved talked Id a low, sweet voice
which rose and fell in glorious cad
ences, that fell upon the ear like the
purling of a stream. At any other
time Danvers would have bailed such
a (speech with glee, for it was emi
nently printable and interesting; but
now lie only wrote mechanically, for
his thoughts were not in his work
only his pencil-point.
During the latter part of the inter
view Jones had been assintlng ber
you:ir mistress in putting on her
"thin;;!." Junes, as has been said,
was quite used to Interviewers, and
she stillTiid Impatiently several times
during Miiss Fairfax's discourse, for
her mistress was more communicative
than usual far. more communicative
indeed than she was to the London
jBMitlemen, who, in consequence, bad
to draw upon their imaginations in
order to fill up their columns. It was
quite immaterial to Miss Fairfax how
the interviewers who come to see her
were dressed. Her buHluess manager
(a most discreet gentleman) bad direct
ed ber to grant interviews whenever
she could, and so, iu giving the repre
sentative of the Dendeue Gazette all
this information, she was 'only trans
act g part of her day'a work.
It was not likely that Miss Fairfax
bestowed two thoughts on the appear
ance of this very quiet member of the
reporting tribe, who seldom lifted his
eyes from his note-book It was not
likely tnat sue nouceu, as joues uiu.
that hla coat waa very old, and a trifle
thin for the season; that his collars
and cuffs, though quite clean, - pos
sessed frayed edges; that bis boots
wanted repairing, and that he would
have uvea the better for a sew hat.
Not that you could Cud much . fault
with Danvers' clothes at first glance
It was only when you came to look
Into them that you saw some serious
defects. After much consideration.
Miss Jones came to the conclusion that
the "reporter" had been good-looking.
She put him down' as flve-aod-thirty
now, and married, with perhapa half
a dozen children and a scolding wife.
This was because her quick eyes fer
reted out the gray hairs, and the lines
along the forehead and certain weary
shadows on his face. Of course. Miss
ones had no idea that the "interview
er's" life was a wearying one Indeed,
for many a time and oft be had to
stand for hours ankle deep In the mud
that Is present at every stock sale;
had to rush about over half the county
at all tfmes and In all weathers; bad
to do two and sometimes three men's
work; hud to tout for advertisements;
soft-soap good Dendeue citizens who
agreed with his paper's "opinions";
had to chronicle a host of silly tittle
tattle, and cover reams of pnper with
the common names of nobodies.
So It was no wonder that Danvers
bad turned a little bit gray, and did
not look peculiarly cheerful. And it
did not Improve bis looks to go borne
-after handing In his "copy" and lie
awake all night thluklng of his beauti
ful wife, in the heyday of her career,
belauded wherever she went, rich, and
without s ripple in the calm sea of
her oxistaocs to trouble bar, while
But he was glad she did not r og
itiie him.
It was about half -past eight on the
following morning. Danvers was mak
ing a miserable attempt to eat some
breakfast, when no lees a person than
Jones was suddenly shown into bis
room by his landlady, who never put
herself out of the way to announce a
visitor.
"Oh." began Miss Jonea, "MUs Fair
fax would be glad if you could see ber
some time this morning. She wants
something altered in the interview,
and hopes you can publish the correc
tion next Wednesday."
The Deudene Gazette, we ahould
have mentioned, waa a bi-weekly.
"Very well." aaid Danvers. "I will
wait upon Miss Fairfax immediately."
"Crown Hotel," said Jonea. laconical
ly, and went
The quality of the breakfast bad
lowered the interview another twenty
five per cent in ber estimation.
There was a big Are In the "Crown
Hotel's" best sitting-room when Dsn
vera was shown Into It. The table
was also laid for breakfast Da u vers
sat down with a algh. The ordeal
wasn't over then, yet
There was a frou-frou of skirts, aud
Danvers, standing up, bowed politely
to Mlsa Fairfax, whose beauty, he ob
served, bore the test of sunlight un
flinchingly. "Pray sit down," she ssid; "I merely
wanted to ask you "
She stopped speaking. Involuntar
ily be looked up at ber, and the blood
surged giddily to bis brain when he
saw that she was surveying him with
a world of tenderness in ber eyes. Kbe
re-ogiiir.cd him, and sbe still loved
him!
Without more ado she dropped on
her knees beside him, and laid oue of
her white hands caressingly on his
threadbare sleeve.
"Oh, Charlie!" she cried, with a lit
tle sob in her voice, "won't you male
it up?"
He gazed at her wildly. He could
not believe It. But yet there was thut
look iu her face.
"Oh, no, no!" be eiclaimed, turn
ing away, "It would not do. You are
ho famous aud rich, while I I am
what you see. I I had better go.
Wht will people gay when they
hear 7"
His failure of a career, his shabhl
ness, his wretchedness the thought of
them overwhelmed hiin. He would
not take advantage of her generosity.
So he rose to his feet and walked un
steadily toward the door. But before
he had gone half a dozen paces, she
was by his side.
"Charlie," she said, "I love you. I
have always loved you. I loved you
when we parted. I have tried to And
out where you were. Charlie let us
make It up!"
He stopped and looked down at ber.
Her eyes were suffused with tears.
"My darling!" he exclaimed, and,
clasping her In his arms, imprinted on
ber fair brow a kiss of reconciliation,
which dispersed the gray shadows of
the past with all Its black clouds of
misery and hopelessness.
And so, hand In band, they started
anew on life's long Journey. Bural
Home.
WITHOUT A STAIRWAY.
Carious House that Used to Stand in
Washington City.
Years ago a story was told to a
naval officer who wanted a bouse built
to please bis own taste In every detail.
He drew the plana himself, placed
them In the bands of a builder and
instructed him to see that they were
carried out In every detail. Then be
went to sea for a year's cruise. When
he returned borne the house had been
completed with the utmost regard for
the plans and specifications left by the
officer. He was taken through the first
floor, and expressed the utmost pleas
ure la everything he saw, j
"Now," he said, "we will go upstairs
and see the second floor."
"Come right out this way, where we
bare a ladder," replied the builder.
The seafaring man was astonished.
He had planned the bouse with tbe
rcatc9t cars, ut , orjjiit to pro dc for
a stairway.
The story of the naval officer ms
never had a certificate of genuineness
attached to it. But an an actual case
in which a house has been built with
out a stairway Is a record ia this city.
It finally became the home of tbe late
John Boyle, who was fur many years
chief clerk of the Navy Department,
and died In 1854. leaving a very large
estate. , Tbe house in question stood
until ten years sgo on tbe site now
occupied by a brewery below the naval
observatory. It was a prenentlous old
mansion, located in what - waa a very
stylish section during the days of the
elder. John Boyle, who came to this
country in the early days of tbe nine
teenth century. The record is not as
clear as to why the house was con
structed without a staircase, but there
Is no doubt about the fact Eventually,
and before It was purchased by Mr.
Boyle, a staircase was added to It by
a side construction In such form that
to tbe casual observer there was noth
ing to indicate that the entire structure
had not been put up at the same lime.
Mr. Boyle bad many descendants In
this city, and they often refer to the
bouse built without any means for as
cending to the upper floor excejrt by
the use of a ladder. Washington Star.
Foolish as Well as I'rlinl ml.
"In America," said the traveler, "It
Is considered wrong to have more than
one wife." v - , . . ;
"It Is not merely wrong," answered
tbe Sultan. s be glanced apprehen
sively at the harem, 'if s foolish."
Washington Star, i ;
Sunshine has no terrors tor tbe girl
with a $25 parasol. '' '
KE1ITSAILS
Opinions of
I IIP IU U 14 II
Af of Retireaseat.
WM Uva rapidly in the telephonic age. It hat been
truthfully said that we can crowd much more
work Into the day than our most industrious
forbears did. Invention baa given us many
bauds. Time and space have been conquered, ao that
the modern man of 60 baa accomplished infinitely more
than the mas who lived to the patriarchal age, and, from
this point of view, baa earned the rest which bis grand
father would not have dreamed of enjoying at threescore.
Whether this be so or not, many of the finest achieve
ments in business, statesmanship, literature, In all ac
tivities, have been wrought by men long past 60. No
strong man will accept 00 aa the arbitrary limit of bis ambi
tion and working ability.
Writers who have discoursed most knowingly on the
obligation of the aged to leave the active scene have not
undertaken to nx the year for retirement The youth who
Is anxious to push his way into the working world thinks
that a man la old at 40 and should be preparing to go on
th retired Hat In the fierce competitions of modern life
It it probable that the age of retirement Is gradually fall
ing. The theory is worth the investigation of the curious
statistician. Asked when be considered a man to be in the
prime of life. Palmerston replied: "Seventy-nine, but as
I have entered my eighty-third year, perhaps I am myself
a little past it" Such it the view of old men on thlt deli
cate subject
Many men retire too early, and, like the old war horse,
yearn for tbe march and the battle. The bablt of work
holds ua to tbe accustomed cares and tasks. This ex
plain! why the great lawyer or tbe multi-millionaire mer
chant remains at hit post long after his prime. The powers
of men whose lives have been very active are likely to de
cline rapidly In retirement, tbe result of idleness and
ennui.
"Nothing la so Injurious as unoccupied time. The hu
man heart is like a millstone; if you put wheat under it, it
grinds tbe wheat into flour; if you put no wheat it grinds
on, but then 'tis itself it wears away." Philadelphia
Ledger.
Mistakes in Life.
ONE of the most unprofitable ways of spending time
Is tbe practice, to which many persons are ad
dicted, of brooding over the mistakes one has uimle
in life, and thinking what 1ip might have been or
achieved If he had not done, at cerlaln times. Just what he
d d do. Almost every unsuccessful man, iu looking over his
pust career, is Inclined to think tbnj It would have been
wholly different but for certain slips Tind blunders certain
hasty, ill-considered acts Into which lie was betrayed al
most unconsciously and without a suspicion of their conse
quences. As he thinks of nil the good things of this world houor,
position, power and Influence of which he has been de
prived In some mysterious, Inexplicable way, he has no
patlpuce with himself; and, as it Is painful and humiliating
to dwell long upou one's own follies, it Is fortunate If he
does not implicate others friends and relates in his
cisjippoiuttnents. Perhaps, as education has never been
free from mistakes mistakes, Indeed, of every kind he
Imputes the blame to. hla early training, in which hnblts
pf thoroughness and accuracy, or, a train, of self-reliance
ind Indejiendence of thought may not have been Implanted.
Perhaps a calling wag chosen for hfm by his parents, with
out regard to his peculiar talents or tastes and preferences;
or, if he was allowed to choose for himself. It was when
his Judgment was Immature and unfit for the responsibility.
The result waa that the square man got Into the round
bole, or the triangular man Into the square hole, or the
round man squeezed himself into tbe triangular bole.
Now, the fact Is thut. In all these mishaps, there Is
nothing exceptional. They are Just what befall all, or In
part every man who Is born In a civilized country. No
circumstances under which any man bat been born and
fitted for a career have been entirely happy. ... In
View of these considerations, it has been Justly said that to
tee a man, poker in band, on a wet day, dashing at tbe
coals, and moodily counting tbe world's mistakes against
b m, is neither a dignified nor engaging spectacle; and our
sympathy flags with the growing conviction that people are
J IXPLORING THE NIGER.
In connection with certain French
military maneuver! in tbe Sudan the
question was raised not long ago of the
practicability of revictuallng an army
In the region south of tbe Sahara by
- - t, vi.u rT.,nnMB Atan
iuua Vt M .1 iftv l amVm
greed. Lieutenant Hourst, who bad
come down tbe river, said it could not
be done. Captain Toutee, who had
gone up, said it could. There was but
oue way to settle the dispute. Cap
tain Lcsfsnt was ordered to tsks ten
thousand boxes of provisions and
two thousand of equipment to
tbe mouth of the Niger, - load
the material Into bateaux, deliver sev
enty tons of supplies on tbe bank at
Ma me, whence It would be borne over
land to Colonel Perox at Lake Tchad,
aad with tbe remainder to re victual all
posts along tbe river from Say to As
ongo, the latter about two thousand
miles up and above the last Important
rapid.
For this tremendous task Captain
Lefant was assigned two lieutenants
and about forty negroes, but wat able
to hire natives st necessary points en
route. He wss required to fortify a
base of operations at Arenberg.
What tbe Intrepid soldier undertook
when, with twenty bsteaux, be began
the ascent of the river, can best be un
derstood when one realizes that tbe
Niger for a thousand miles falls over
rapid after rapid. Its waters are torn
to sens of foam by innumerable rocks,
and the channel is often lost among
dividing Islands. Many of these rnp-
! ids are In deep gorges, and in some
I of them the river falls one .hundred
times as rapidly at tbe 'Mississippi In
I It iisnnl flow. , ' '
j Stitrtlng. up stream at low water,
' vliou the rapids' are at tbelr worst.
y Cuptaln Lenfnht urged bis' boats for
ward with oarr and smls and setting
oies. Guided by DAgroes who proved
themselves trustworthy. competent
land at.Unsss svea faaroic, and akfsd
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
it III 4 4 I H 4 4 4 1
by numbers of friendly blacks pulling
on long tow lines, he conquered the ob
stacles without an accident All the
way up be sounded, charted aud photo
graphed the dangerous places, and
made a report which would enable an
army to follow where be bad gone.
At Arenberg be divided bis stores,
and having assigned his white aids
tbclr tasks, went on against tbe rising
flood ts Nlass, pat the seventy tons
ashore, aud then, with bis chart to
guide him, shot Uie rapids down stream
to bis base. At the falls of Patassl,
where bis colored guide, Lanclne, took
tbe boats through in turn, they were
carried seventy-three hundred feet in
three minutes snd twenty seconds, snd
accomplished In a few hours what bad
taken a month In ascending.
On tbe second trip Captain Lenfant
was seriously 111; but although there
waa a hospital only a few hours down
stream, snd tbe nearest up-stream
doctor was sixty days ahead, he fought
off the fever and accomplished his
mission.
On his route and In a canoe trip on
tbe upper river he collected a mass of
valuable Information, charting the
floods and examining soils snd crops.
He visited cities that were populous
three centuries ago, and are Just recov
ering from tbe prostration which fol
lowed when the slave trade swept
away their people. He found them
Say, GaoCao, and many others eager
for commerce with tbe outside world.
ANCIENT ENGLI8H INN&
tost Have lieen in KsUtencs for
Nearly Thonssnd Venrn.
Somehow one always bears with re
gret tbat one of England's fatuous old
moss-grown, iy-clnd Inns Is about to
be demolished. The Old King of Prus
sia hostelry Is the latest to puss into
tbe housebreaker's band-, 'ibis oid
Inn" Is iu Flnchlcy, and from 1757,
when the place was built until the
present day the license bus bein iu
tbe keeping of one. family perhaps
n record in tbe licensing annals of
England.
,.Tbt Old Kin of Prussia la a pic
1 1 8 1 1 1 M 8 -frfrfrfr
constantly apt to attribute a stats of things to ons pa
Ocular condition or miachanee, which, sooner or later, muni
have happened from some Inherent weakness and openness,
to attack. It may be noted that where men themselves
attribute ill success or mischance to separate distinct sal
takes st, for instance, to the choice of s certain advises;
or tbe engaging in some special speculation those was
hsve to observe them tract sll to cbsrscter. They see that
if failure bad not come at such a Juncture, It muat hav
come at some other from certain flaws In tbe man's aa
tare that mistakes simply mark occasions when bs wai
tested. We see in a career a hundred chances throws
awty and wasted, not all from accident though tbe tctoe
looking back, does not know why be chose the wrong 4
being tbe last to remember that a crisis Is the occastoa
for bidden faults and predominating influences to declsrt
themselves, so that bis mistakes were. In s manner, inev
itable. William Mathews, In Success.
On the Use of the Imaginatioa
IN a practical age the imagination is apt to get lets that
IU due. We want naked facts, or we think we do, aud Im
aginative people insist upou clothing them In gay ap
parel; consequently whenever we lose sight of a facl
we suspect the imagination of having run off with It and
raise the hue and cry with a fine Indignation against th
deceiver. Yet to the art of living, as to every subordinate
art imagination Is tbe one Indispensable quality. Fot
lark of it we fail not merely in sympathy and courtesy,
in toleration, in all tbe minor graces, but even In actual
truthfulness of thought and demeanor. So far It it froni
reality to consider imagination as the enemy of fact thai
without it no fact can be properly apprehended, much lest
shared with our neighbors. The greatest fact of social lift
It the fact that we are all different, and It foilowt fro is
this that without tbe power to picture a different mind
from our own we are incapable of communicating tbt
tlmplest feeling. ... If you detlne Imagination at tb,
faculty of seeing what Is not there, you may take away Its.
character without contradiction; hut this Is the perversa
description of statisticians; the poet that lives In each o!
us knows better. . . . And If we come down to tht
ampnltles, the small change of life, the Imagination calit
to us ceaselessly for employment. Formal courtesies are
base money, passed alout among stupid people only untU
they are found out; the courtesies that will stand every
test, and pass current In all emergencies, must be tin
fruits of a genuine traffic between mind and mind, Iq
which every Interest is active and every wont is takes
Into account. And this can only be got by sending the
Imagination on its travels for us. Ixmdon fiuardlan.
The Chief language.
WITH the Increasing Intercourse of the nations
the old question of a universal language comes
up at least in the (iennan mind affording a
topic of discussion. The tendency toward s
common tongue Is and has been for years most strongly
marked by tbe spread of the Kngllsh language. Mulbail's
statistics of a dozen years old (being tbe latest available)
show the spread of languages for the first ninety years of
the last century. At the beginning of the century ths
Innguages of Kurope were spokpn by 161.000,000 people.
In 1SU0 they wore spoken by 401,000,000, an Increase of
nenrly W) per cent. The four principal languages in IttOI
were French, Russian, German a ml Spanish. Hie French
amounted to 19.4 per cent and the Spanish to ld.2. Kng-lish-speitklng
peoples amounted to only 12.7. But In 1830
tbe standing was:
English, 27.7 icr cent; Itussiuu and German, each 18.7
per cent; French, 12.7 per ceut; Fpnnlsh, 10.7 per cent and
the remainder divided between Italian and Portuguese.
The number of English-speaking people had grown from
20,520.000 to 111,100,000. German and Itusslan-speaklng peo
ple from about 80.000,000 to 75.000.uoo each, and French
speaking people from 31,450,000 to 51,200,000.
The English language had risen from fifth to first place,
and was spoken by at least 50 per cent more people tbaa
any other European tongue. Of the Increase of about ftl.
000.000 English speaking people, about 70.000,000 were in
the United Statet. Indianapolis News.
turesque half timbered bouse, ant
many s noted highwayman has par
taken of Its hospitality. The grand,
father of tbe present proprietor wat
quite a noted character, having van
quished several notorious blgbwaymei
on Fincbley Common. It is on recor
tbat he once bad an encounter with
Dick Turpln.
Bound and about 1-omlon and its
ever extending Buburbs lucre may sua
be seen Inns and taverns of great agi
and Interesting associations.
The Angel Inn, Hlghgnte hill, dates
back to the time of tbe Reformation.
Originally It was called the Salutatloa
Inn. It Is built entirely of wood.
Another famous Inn Is the Bald-
faced Stag, at Edgeware. Nobody
knows when It was originally built,
and It would seem st though each suc
cessive proprietor has endeavored tS
place his mark on Its architectural as
pect, for msny parts of It have evident)
ly st different times been rebuilt Dj
the stables, It Is slleged, Dick Turpi s
had bis horse's shoes turned, so as M
make bis pursuers imagine be had gons
In sn opposite direction.
Among the very oldest of suburbaq
London inns are tbe Plough, at Kings
bury Green, and the King James amf
Tinker Inn, nt Enfield. The first l
said to be &ri0 years old, and the latter
wat reputed to have been first bullj
as on Inn and under another name 901
years sgo.
Its present name Is derived from as
encounter which King James I. Is salij
to have had with a tinker at the (loot
of the Inn. The tinker's conversation
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Main So lulf re nor.
"I suppose Lizzie Oletlmer is glad il
Is leap year," said the soft-spokef
HelulKe.
"I don't suppose It makes much dif
ference to her," replied the mellow,
toned Irene. "She bss been Jumplnl
at "very chsncs she saw for flftacj
years." Judga.