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CHAPTER VII. Continued. .
. BtACKtOCK GOES INTO TRAIN-
ING.
I shall never forget the smallest
detail of that dinner it was a purely
"family" affair, only the Ellerslys and
I. I can feel now the oppressive at
mosphere, the look as of impending
sacrilege upon the faces of the old
servants; I can see Mrs. Ellersly try
ing to condescend to be "gracious,"
and treating me as if I were some sort
of museum freak or menagerie exhibit.
I can sro Anita. She was like a statue
of snow; 'she spoke not a word; if she
lifted her eyes, I failed to note it And
when I was leaving I with my collar
wilted from the fierce, nervous strain
I had been enduring Mrs. Ellersly, in
that voice of hers into which I don't
believe any shade of a real human
emotion ever penetrated, said: "You
must come to see us. Mr. Blacklock.
We are always at home after five."
I looked at Miss Ellersly. She was
white to the lips now, and the span
gles on her white dress seemed bits
of ice glittering there. She said noth
ing; but I knew she felt my look, and
that it froze the ice the more closely
in around her heart "Thank you," I
muttered.
I stumbled in the hall; I almost fell
down the broad steps. I stopped at
the first bar and took three drinks in
quick succession. I went on down
the avenue, breathing like an exhaust
ed swimmer. "I'll give her up!" I
cried aloud, so upset was I.
I am a man of impulse; but I have
trained myself not to be a creature of
impulse, at least not in matters 'of im
portance. Without that patient and
painful schooling, I shouldn't have got
J where I now am; probably I'd still bo
"blacking boots, or sheet-writing for
some bookmaker, or, clerking it for
some broker. Before I got my rooms,
the night air and my habit of the
"sober second thought" had cooled me
back to rationality.
"I want her, I need her," I was say
. Ing to myself. "I am worthier of her
than are those mincing manikins she
has been bred to regard as men. She
is for me she belongs to me. I'll
abandon her to no smirking puppet
who'd wear her as a donkey would a
diamond. Why should I do myself
and her an injury simply because she
has been too badly brought up to
know her own interest?"
When this was clear to me I sent
for my trainer. He was one of those
spare, wiry Englishmen, with skin like
tanned and painted hide brown ex
cept where the bones seem about to
push their sharp angles through, and
there a frosty, winter apple red. He
dressed like a Deadwood gambler, he
talked like a stable boy; but for all
that; you couldn't fail to see he was
a' gentleman born and bred. Yes, he
was. a gentleman, though he mixed
profanity into his ordinary flow of
conversation more liberally than did
I when in a rage.
I stood up before him, threw my
coat back, thrust my thumbs into my
trousers pockets and slowly turned
about like a ready-made tailor's dum
my. "Monson," said I. "what do you
, think of me?"
He looked me over as if were a
horse he was about to buy. '"Sound.
I'd say," was his verdict "Good
wind uncommon good wind. A goer,
and a stayer. Not a lump. Not a hair
out of place." He laughed. "Action
a bit high perhaps for the track. But
a grand reach."
"I know all that" said I. "You miss
my point Suppose you wanted to
enter me for say. the Society Sweep
stakes what then?"
"Um-um," he muttered reflectively.
"That's different"
"Don't I look sort of new as if
the varnish was still sticky and might
come off on the ladies' dresses and on
the fine furniture?"
"Oh that!" said he dubiously. "But
all those kinds of things are matters
of taste."
"Out with it!" I commanded. "Don',t
be afraid. I'm not one of those damn
fools that ask for criticism when they
want only flattery, as you 'ought to
know by this time. I'm aware of my
good points, know how good they are
better than anybody else in the world.
And I suspect my weak points al
ways did. I've got on chiefly because
I made people tell me to my face what
they'd rather have grinned over be
hind my back."
"What's yoargame?" asked Moasoa.
"I'm in the dark." -
"HI tell you, Monson. I hired yon
to train horses. Now I want to hire
you to train me, too. As it's double
work, it's double pay."
"Say on." said he, "and say it
slow."
"I want to marry," I explained. "I
want to inspect all the offerings before
I decide. You are to train me so that
' I can go among the herds tkat'd shy
off from me if I wasn't on to their lit
tle ways."
He looked suspiciously at me, doubt
less thinking this some new develop
ment of "American humor."
1 mean it" I assured him. "I'm
coins to train, and train bard. rve
got no time to lose. I mast be oa
my way down the aisle inside of three
months. I give yoa a free hand. Ill
do just what you say."
"The job's ont of my line," fee pro
tested. "I know better." said I. "I've al
ways seen the parlor under the stable
in yon. Well begin right away. What
do yoa. think of these clothes?" .
"Wen they're sot exactly noisy,"
he said. "But they're far from si-
lent That waistcoat " He stopped,
and gave me another nervosa, timid"
look. He foaad it hard to believe "a
af my sort, so.self-assered, weald
stand the truth from a man of his
second-fiddle sort
"Go on!" I commanded. "Speak ont!
Mowbray Langdon had on one twice
as load 'the-other day at the track."
"But perhaps you'll remember, it
was only his waistcoat that was loud
not he himself. Now, a man of your
manner and voice and-you've- got. a
look out of the eyes tkat'd wake the
dead all by itself. Peaple can feel
you coming before they hear you.
When they feel and hear and see all
together It's like a brass band in
scarlet uniform, with a seven-foot,
sky-blue drum major. If your hair
wasn't so black and your eyes so
steel-blue and sharp and your teeth-so
big and strong and. white, and your
jaw such a such a jaw "
"I see the point," said I. And I did.
"You'll find you won't need to tell me
many things twice. I've got a busy
day before me here; so we'll have to
suspend this until you come to dine
with me at eight at my rooms. I.
want you to put in the time well. Go
to my house in the country and then
up to my apartment; take my valet
with, you; look through all my belong
ings shirts, ties, socks, trousers,
waistcoats, clothes of every kind.
Throw out every rag you think doesn't
fit in with what I want to be. How's
my grammar?"
I was proud of it I had been taking
more or less pains with my mode
of speech for a dozen years. "Rather
too good," said he. "But that's bet
ter than making the breaks that aren't
regarded as good form."
"'SUPPOSE YOU WANTED TO ENTER ME FOR SAY THE SOCIETY
SWEEPSTAKES WHAT THEN?"
"Good form!" I exclaimed. "That's
It! That's what I want! What does
'apod form' mean?"
He laughed. "You can search me,"
said fee. "I could easier tell you any
thing else. "It's what everybody recog
nizes oa sight, and nobody knows how
to describe. It's like the difference
between a cultivated 'jimson weed
and a wild one."
"Like the difference between. Mow
bray Langdon and me," I suggested
good-naturedly: "How about my man
ners?" "Not so bad," said he. "Not so
rotten bad. But when you're polite,
you're a little too polite; when you're
not polite, you "
"Show where I came from too plain
ly?" said L "Speak fright out hit
good and hard. Am I too frank for
'good form'?"
"You needn't bother about that," he
assured .me. ' "Say whatever comes
into your head only., be sure the
right sort of thing comes into your
head. Don't talk too much about your
self, for instance. It's good form to
think about yourself all the time; it's
bad form to let people see it in your
talk. Say as little as possible about
your business and about what you've
got Don't be lavish with the Is aad
the my'."
"That's harder." said L Tn a man
who has always minded my owa busi
ness, aad cared for nothing else.
What could I talk about, except my
etfr -Blest if I know," replied he.
"Where yoa waat to go. the last thiag
people mind is their owa business in
talk,',at least But. you'll, get on all
right , if yoa don't 'worry too. much
abeat it .You've got
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aaywhere."
'"Yoa, never said a trer,thlas fa,
roar life," sett L "ItH take aim wher
ever he. waits, aai after 1m there,,
itll get him whatever lie wants." .
.And with that. I, "thinking of my
pleas ana' of how sure I waVof'suc
icess,' began "march upaad down
the' office wlth'my ctiest thrown 'oat
--until I caught -inyseir at It That
stopped me, set me'o'ff -in a 'lauglt'at
my own-expense; he joining in with' A
kind of heartiness I dhl' not like
though I did not venture to check
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ON THE TRAIL OF LANGDON.
I had Monson with me twice each
week-day early in the morning and
again after business hours until bed'
time. Also he spent the whole of
every Saturday and Sunday with me:
He developed astonishing dexterity
as a teacher, and as soon' as he real
ized that I had no false pride and was
thoroughly in earnest, he handled me
without gloves like a boxing teacher
who finds that his-pupil has the grit
of a professional. It was easy enough
for me to grasp the theory of my new
business it .was nothing more than
"Be natural." But the rub came in
making myself naturally of the right
sort I had as I suppose every man
of intelligence and decent instincts
has a disposition to be friendly and
simple. But my manner was by' na
ture what you might call abrupt My
not very easy task was to learn the
subtle difference between the abrupt
that Injects a tonic into social inter
course, and the abrupt that makes the
other person shut up with a feeling of
having been insulted.
Then, there was the matter of good
taste in conversation. Monson found,
as I soon saw, that my everlasting
self-assertiveness was beyond cure. As
I said to him: "I'm afraid you might.
easier succeed in reducing my chest
measure." But we worked away at
it, and perhaps my readers may dis
cover even in this narrative, though
it. is necessarily egotistic, evidence of
at least an honest effort not , to be
baldly boastful. Monson would have
liked to make of me a self-deprecating
sort of person such as he himself,
with the result that the other fellow
--The Finest in
Beautiful Railway Station at See
- Paulo, Brazil's Second -Greatest
City.
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'Rio Janeiro, once the first coffee
port of the world, has long since yield
ed that honor to Santos, the port of
Sao Paulo, which, formerly so noto
rious for. its yellow fever epidemics,
has become a clean and prosperous
city. Sao Paulo, the capital of the
state of the same name, and the sec
ond city of the' republic, is one of the
tnest cities ia South America. Sit
uated at aa elevatkm of 2,500 feet, en
joying a delightful subtropical climate,
aad provided with all the modern con
veniences of a European or an Amer
ican city, its attractioa for the for
eigner is readily appareat
1Sao Paulo has a aumber of impor
tant manufactures, including its fa
mous breweries, and its electric rail
way Is interesting to the Americaa
Sm the fact that It is' owned in Can
i, being one of a number of recent
successful enterprises in Brazil (aot
ably the Rio Janeiro tram system)
financed by Canadian jcapitaL Partic
ularly worthy of note, however., Is the
Sao Paulo railway, the line which con
nects this city with Santos aad coa-
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Bat I would have aoae of It
All this time I was giving myself
or thought. I- jraa .ftlviasawseif
J chiefly to my business, as asuiaL&T
know; now, that, the new interest had
ia fact crowded,4hetriag:down. tewa
far into the hackground. had Impaired
my judgment had. sespeuded'my cW
mp sense;' bat. i 'badvao-iakMag at
tMsrtheav The' most important mat
tor that w occupying me down towa-l
was pusaiag textile ap toward par?
.Langdon's doubts, little though they
Influenced meL still made enough of aa
impression 'to cause me to test the
market I sold for him at ninety, as
he had directed; I sold la .quantity
evcryj day; But no matter how much
I unloaded, the price showed no. ten
dency to break;
4 "Tnis," said I to myself, "is'a testi
'monial to the skill with which I pre
pared! toTimy buH campaign." And
that seemed to me all unsuspicious
as I then was a sufficient explanation
of thb steadiness of 'the stock v..ioli
I hadjworked to establish in the public
confidence.
I felt that, if my matrimonial plans
should turn, out as I confidently ex
pected, I should need a much larger
fortune than I had for I was deter
mined that my wife should have an
establishment second to none. Ac
cordingly, I enlarged my original
plan. I had intended to keep close to
Langdon in that plunge; I believed I
controlled the market, but I hadn't
been in Wall street twenty years with
out learning that the worst thunder
bolts fall from cloudless skies. With
out being in the least suspicious of
Langdon, and simply acting on the
general principle that surprise and
treachery are part of the code of high
finance; I had prepared to guard, first,
against being taken in the rear by a
secret change of plan on Langdon's
part, and second, against being ' in
volved and overwhelmed by a sudden
secret attack on him from some asso
ciate of his who might think he had
laid himself open to successful raid
ing. The market is especially dangerous
toward Christmas and in the spring
toward Christmas the big fellows oft
en juggle the stocks to get the money
for their big Christmas gifts and
alms; toward' spring the motive Is, of
course, the extra summer expenses of
their families and the commencement
gifts to colleges. It was now late in
the spring.
I say, I had intended to be cautious.
I abandoned cauibn"and' rushed in
boldly, feeling that the market was,
in general, safe and that textile was
under my control and that I was one
of the kings of high finance, with my
lucky star in the 'zenith. I decided to
continue my bull campaign on my own
account for two weeks, after I had un
loaded for Langdon, to continue it un
til the stock was at par. I had no
difficulty in pushing it to ninety-seven,
and I was not alarmed when I found
myself loaded up with it, quoted at
ninety-eight for the preferred and
thirty for the common. I assumed
that I was practically its only sup
porter and that it would slowly settle
back as I slowly withdrew my sup
port To my surprise, the stock did not
yield immediately under my efforts to
depress it I sold more heavily; tex
tile continued to show a tendency to
rise. I sold still more heavily; it
broke a point or two., then, steadied
and rose again. Instead of sending
out along my secret lines for inside
information, as I should, have done,
and would have done had I not been
in a state of hypnotized judgment I
went to Langdon! I who had been
studying those' scoundrels for, twenty
odd years, and dealing directly with
and for them for ten years!
He wasn't at his office; they told
me there that' ihey didn't' know
whether he was at his town house or
at his place in the country "prob
ably in the country," said his down
town secretary, with, elaborate care
lessness. "He wouldn't be likely to
stay away from the office or not to
send for me, if he were in town, would
he?"
It takes an uncommon good liar to
lie to me when I'm on the alert As I
was determined to see Langdon, I was
in so far on the alert, And I .felt the
fellow was lying. "That's reasonable,"
said I. "Call me up. if you hear from
him. I want to see' him important,
but not immediate." And. I went away,
having left the impression that I
would make, no further effort t
. I went up' to "his house." You, no
doubt, have often seen and often ad
mired its beautiful facade, so simple
that it hides. its own magnificence
from all but experienced eyes, jo per
fect, in its proportions that it, hides
the vastness of the palace of which it
is the face I have heard men say:
"I'd like' to have a house a moderate
sized house one about, the size of
Mowbray Langdon's though perhaps
a little more elegant, not so plain."
"Mr. Langdon isn't at home," said
the servant
(To be continued.)
South America--
veys the bulk of the coffee crop to
tidewater. This is owned by an Eng
lish company, as are several of the
railroads in Sao Paulo, and has proved
to be one of the most profitable for
eign investments in the country.
John Barrett, in Review of Reviews.
Assegais Ancient and Modern.
Assegais are to the front just now
in Zululand. The word "asesgai,"
however, Is not originally a South Af
rican word. It is really "az-zaghayah,
the "as" being the definite article and
the rest of it a native Berber word
for a javelin, taken over into Arabia,
Thence the Spaniards and Portuguese
took it and eventually it .reached the
English and French from the Porto
guese in Africa. Finally, a word that
had meant a javelin used by Berbers
and Moors was transferred to Kaffir
weapons at the other ead of Africa.
Ia sixteenth century English it ap
pears as "archegayes" aad later as
"hasagays" or "hasaguaya'
Women Lees Than Cattle.
The Kaffirs think less of their wives
than they do of their cattle. They do
not allow the women to go .near the.
kraal where they keep their animals,
and if a cow dies they grieve mora,
thaa they do whea a womaa dies.'
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o?'
Aren't' you satisfied with the time
honored wedding, with its oraage blos
soms and its white satin, its wedding
march and its expectant chatter, its
solemn-looking ushers and timid
bridesmaids. Its conventional collation.
'harried good-byes, rice, white ribboa
and old shoes?
Apparently aot!
Haven't your pranks about' reached
the limit?' Of coarse, one expects this
latter-day erase- for novelty to show
itself in other ways, but now you've
taken it up. The formal wedding is
as old as the hills and here you're
changing everything. From what has
been happening lately it would seem
that half the brides of this year of
grace want to be married in some
novel way.
- Of course, those weddings in the
balloon or in the lion's den are only
got up for. advertisement of some coun
ty fair1 or some aspiring zoo, where
an admission is charged to see the
terrified couple become one. But here
are. brides, apparently conventional,
who don't need the money, who are
planning all sorts of strange weddings
just for novelty's sake.
Married in Odd Places.
Here we have one pair marrying on
roller skates and the next sending
ashore for a parson up the Hudson
and being married on the bridegroom's
yacht One couple chooses an un
dertaker's shop, another a cemetery.
Two are made one on horseback; two
other have their wedding party on a
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and there a wedding under the
spreading trees of a city park where
the birds sing the bridal chorus.
Two lovers arrange to meet on the
high seas and are married by a reg
ularly ordained clergyman whom the
bridegroom brings out on a tug. Two
rich young people spend their honey
moon In the arctic. Two others wed
in an auto.
Cupid, disguised as an almoner,
made possible the marriage of Abra
ham Van Winkle, a Newark million
aire, and Mrs. Mina G. Ginger. Miss
Ginger was a school teacher, but soon
she found the call to charity too po
tent She took a course in the New
York School of Philanthropy and be
came connected with the Newark Bu
reau of Associated Charities.
One day Miss Ginger went into the
office of Banson ft Van Winkle, chem
ical manufacturers to solicit a sub
scription for some charity in which
she was interested. Mr. Van Winkle,
who has given largely to good works,
became interested in her enthusiasm
for the betterment of the poor and
unfortunate and he put his , name
down for a liberal donation.
Furthermore, he made it a point to
iavestigate Miss Ginger's work. Soon
they were working for the same char
itles, Of course, the rest was easy.
They were married a week ago and
are now on their way to Europe for
their honeymoon.
Stepped Funenri for Wedding.
There Is but one clergyman in
Bozeman, Mont He was conducting
services at the grave of John Adams.
Suddenly there rushed up to him a
very much excited young man and
woman Alson Batten and Miss Mary
Ward.
"We want -to get married," they
gasped, "and catch the 10:30 train!"
Cupid was on their side. The be
HARDSHIPS IN FAR 8EISTAN.
Membsr
of Surveying Expedition
Tells of a Few.
"One of the p.easlng features of a
Seistaa summer is the plague of In
sect life that swarms that country,"
writes CoL Sir Henry McMahon, who
conducted the recent British survey
ing expedition in that country; "There
are no wild flowers in Selstan and ao
spring seasoa. Nature has to mark
the 1shg season ia some way or
other and does so here by the out
burst of insects which come to life
the day after whiter ends. Midges,
mosquitoes and every kind and sort
of flying, creeping, crawling beast im
aginable, large and small, fill the air
aad cover the ground as evening sets
in. To sit near a light is impossible,
and so one has to eat one's dinner, in
sects aad all, in semi-darkness and
And one's wax to bed ia the dark. Aa
other harbinger of what ought to be
the'spriag in Selstan is the exodus
front their winter hiding places of tie
which are, ve-T numerous.
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the funeral, had the young couple join
hand aad made them hasaaad and.'
wife by the side of the opea grave,
while i the moaraera stood by as wit
nesses aad wedding guests!
The bridegroom handed the clergy
man a 16 bill, the bride smiled aad
waved .her hand at the mourners aad
off they spetL; happy as larks., while
the mourners tamed again to the
grave. Perhaps there aever was such
a wedding, but what will Cupid aot do
when he has a mind?
Equally novel was the doable wed
ding of George Beauchamp aad Miss
Eva Stormska and Roscoe C. Nelson
and Miss Mary EL McCarthy. They
chose Patrick McDonnell's undertak
ing shop, 37 Seventh, avenue. New
York,' as the bridal place. McDonnell
is a notary. . ,
So at 8 o'clock one fine evening the
two young men led their blushing
brides into the front room of the un
dertaker's, past the rows of sample
coffins, and so Into the back room,
where a couple of the lately deceased
lay, waiting the final administrations
of the undertaker.
And there among .the- dead Cupid
lighted Hymen's torch!
The beauty of the day, the lovely
environment of hills and lawns and
trees, the soft airs and the singing of
many birds proved too much for Miss
Annie Stone and Jesse Burns, of Hop
kinsville, Ky., and Cupid turned an
other trick.
Sentiment Inspired by Nature.
The afternoon before the day of
days the young couple, with the bride's
' mother and the clergyman, were driv-
ing in Cherokee park, Louisville. It
was a lovely afternoon. All nature
seemed to conspire to inspire senti
ment "Oh, what a beautiful day!" sighed
the bridegroom. "Wouldn't it be won
derful to be married right here?"
"Why not?" laughed the clergyman.
"I have the license In myvpocket"
The bride blushed, but her mother
smiled.
"Then we will be married right
now," announced the bridegroom.
The carriage was stopped, the party
got out and climbed a little way up
a flower-grown hillside, where they
came to a natural grassy altar beneath
a spreading beech tree. In whose
branches sang Innumerable birds.
And up. In the trees the birds sang
their sweetest, while that wicked
rogue, Dan Cupid, looked, on approv
ingly. It was an idyllic culmination of
love's young dream.
Cupid whispered to pretty little. Lu
lu Broomfield, plighted to George
Sarles. They were engaged aad had
the consent of their families, though
neither was 17.
"Jleorge," said the girl, "next to you
I love my horse. Let's be marsjed oa
horseback."
"Let's!" laughed the young man,
only too glad to be married any way.
So they rode up to Squire Cunning
ham's house and told him what they
wanted. He came ont into the middle
of the road and there the blushing
youngsters sat on horseback and said
their vows.
Cupid certainly went out of the
beaten track that time.
But the most picturesque of all, per
haps, was the way our little god of
love fixed it for Russell Hopkins, the
wealthy young gallant of New York,
Atlanta and Narragansett Pier. He
Four of our men were bitten, but all
luckily recovered after some weeks of
Illness. When the big summer wind
sets in it blows away the insects, but
if the wind drops any evening out
they all come again.
"Horses, camels and other animals
in Selstan have a plague of their owa
in the" form of a species of gadfly
which torments them unmercifully all
summer. Their bites draw blood aad
cause great paia. Worse thaa this,
we have to thank this fly for the prev
alence of the disease which proves so
fatal to hors2s and camels ia Selstan.
We found it necessary to keep blank
ets carefally wrapped around our
horses' .stomachs evea when ridden.
In the early part of the summer, when
the scourge was worst, oar horses
wore pajamas and looked somewhat
peculiar. However, we lost many
hundreds of camels from this disease
and oat of our 209 horses we lost no
fewer than 120.
"The winter offered an extraordinary
contrast in. the matter of tempera
tare, for the cold was oftea latease.
going down to within a few degrees of
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dead la love with beautiful Idles ,
Vera Siegrlst; the charming yoaag 17
year-old daughter of Dr. J. J. Law
rence of lWt Fifth avenue. Bat Dr.
Lawrence' said the girl was abt-ohl
enough. -
-Cupid promptly took a head.
Now yoaag Mr. Hopkiae Is a mil
lloaalre aad. he has a fine big steam
er, the Una One flae morning a fort
aign't , ago . Mies' Vera auietly. stole
aboard the yacht The yoaag lovei;
leaving his rooms at the St' Begle,
ordered his captaia to make all teasa
up the Hudson.
Made Happy e Yacht,
Off' PeekskUl the anchor was
dropped aad, a rowboat seat ashore
for a clergymaa to come quick. , Rev.'
John G. Oakely responded. Whea be
clambered aboard he found Miss Sie
grlst and Mt. Hopkins waiting;' Mian
Mary Ferguson was there as brides
maid and Captaia Elbert Wells, the
y-cht's master, was best 'man. It
took only five minutes and off steamed)
the Uno again, - after putting Rev.
Mr. Oakley ashore with a fat fee ia
his pocket
But these are not all the novelties
of men and maidens, who love. Mr.
and Mrs. Max Fleischmann of Cin
cinnati were married conventionally
enough, but they spent their honey
moon in the Arctic last summer aboard
a splendidly equipped steamer, the.
Laura, built for exploring work. They
are just home.
"It 'was wonderful, charming, alto
gether delightful!" exclaimed the bride
as, she landed here in New York the
other day wh?n telling of her experi
ences. Over in Berlin swimming parties at
night are all the vogue. Possibly
Robert Lindenberg, a wealthy young
man of Columbus, O., got his idea of
an engagement party from there. He
is to marry Miss Adele Woodwortb.
There have been such parties before
in Pittsburg and Milwaukee, but- nev
er as a wedding festivity. But yoa
never can tell what Cupid will do.
Last of all the divorce party. Aad
even here Cupid has butted in.
Miss Sophia Diesinger bid twenty of
her friends to her apartment in New
York a few evenings ago to celebrate
her divorce. There was nothing to
mar the merriment of the occasion
and to cap the climax Mrs. Diesinger
blushingly announced her engagement
to Frank J. Tyler, with whom she
hopes to have better matrimonial luck.
The guests were all ia fancy dress
and Mrs. Diesinger showed off her
trained dogs. Aa elaborate supper
ended the evening, at which there
was "lobster a la South Dakota," ter
rapin with alimoay sauce, cold shoul
der of beef a la counsel fees, salad
with lawyer's dressing, lemon ice
cream and interlocutory cakes.
Indeed, Cupid, what things are aot
done in your name?
Mieer a Werkheuee Inmate.
Ia some bedding belonging to am
old woman who died ia a workhouse
the purchaser found a bag containing
jewelry and a note for $1,500 depos
ited In a Liverpool bank 35 years ago.
The honest owner has informed the
woman's relatives of the discovery.
Net Exactly What He Meant.
Professor (to his class) This is la
tolerable. Every time I opea my
mouth there's a fool who begins to
talk. Rire.
zero. The force of the blizzard
terrific That of the end of March,
1905, showed on our anemometers a
velocity of no less thaa 120 miles aa
hour aad for a whole 16 hoars the
average velocity was over .88 miles
an hour. The destruction caused to
camels was terrible aad we lost hun
dreds at a time. The blizzard of
March, 1905, killed ia four days no
fewer thaa 208 camels. We lost 4.9M
camels duriag the two and a half
years of oar work.
"One hundred and ten miles of
work was through a wateriest
both mountain and plain, where waxes
had to be brought from loag dis
tances. The wear aad tear of oar
work was very trying to men and we
lost 50 men In all two from heat;
sevea from heat aad waat of water,
three from being frozen to death ana)
four from drowning."
The One Time.
There is. one time when the aver
age woman can keep a secret and that
is when some one really wants to fiadV
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