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in. OMAHA UNO AY BEE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19 , 1871. OMAHA , SUNDAY MORNING , MAY 13 , 1891-TWENTY PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Corner 15thj and Dodge. EOR 25c ORDER BY MAIL QUICK WE'LL FILL YOUR ORDER AT OXCE. The entire stolfof a bankrupt neckwcnr factory just as it was when the sheriff took it ; everything miule up and partly made. Your choice of all the FIN'EST NECKTIES in the whole stock , worth up to $1.50 , Special Good Values aid worth 50c , 75candl. Thousand pieces ) black mohuir bd'ltantine. ' the coolest and most serviccablu dress fabric made , { ro in three lots , at 25c. 30o and 50c , worth up to SI. 40 INCH WIDE PURE SILK AND WOOL BUCK BENG&LINE GLORU , Never olered less than $1.50 yard , go M nday at 75c. 42IXCH PURE SILK AND WOOL Worth SI.75 yard , go at OSc in this sale. ' All Wool Armure , All Wool Nun's Veiling , All \Vool Basket Cloth , and All Wool Figured Granites , worth § i , go at 500 yard. Ono thousand womnn's fine Swiss Ribbed SILK VESTS in pinks , light blue , ecru , cream and all the latest shades , u orth SI c 6,000 WOMEN'S J.ISLE THKEAD VESTS Riehclioa ribbeu , square or V-neck , with wide fancy silk crochet trimming , worth 50c An energetic. BOSTON STORE Silk movement without parallel In history bsglns Monday. Ladies will buy Silks as they nevcf bought Silks before. A dozen failures of others contribute. It's a Silk culmination such &S Omaha women have never witnessed before , and never could witness ! outside of BOSTON STORE. Yard CHINA SILKS In blacks , cardinals , blue and changeables ; also Surah Silks in ail colors , go on our front bargain square at I5c yard. ' If jou wish 1o ctrry cut tha comparison , how ever , you must let the great river extend further west. If you could stretch It on a straight line It would goito Denver , and still be navigable for largo" boats and barges. You must push It on further west to San Francisco , and you are Btlll 500 miles from Its source. U Is said to be 3,500 miles long , and has Its rise In the mountains of Thibet , and has tributaries all along Its course. It tops two great lakes , wh'Ich give It canal communication with other provinces , and the most of the tea of the world ccmss from the lands south ot it , and Is shipped across the Pcyang lake , near where I now am , and sent to Hankow for sale. A OHEAT INLAND SEA. In coming Into the Yangtse Us mouth is so wide that It Is hours after you see the muddy color of Its banks before you can distinguish the banks , and , for the first fifty miles of our Journey -we passed through what seemed to be a great Inland sea rang ing from twenty to fifty miles In width. Our first hills were passed about fifty miles Inland. Seven hundred miles from the coast I found Its width to be more than a mile , and It holds that width nearly all the way from Shanghai to Ichang , a distance of about 1,000 miles. It. contains many long , narrow Islands , and It now and then branches out Into different streams or cut offs from the main .bed of tha river , which at high water materially shorten the course. It Is as full of modern steamers as the Mississippi , and bag in addition the thousands of odd boats , and junks ot the Chinese. I could fill this paper with the mention of the different kinds of craft and their loads , and among the ships there are many which would bo a surprise to Ameri can readers , There are Chinese life boats , for Instance , everywhere. They are low junks with oars and sails , and they watch the river during the storms and pick up such tampans and fishing boats as are over turned. They are under the control of the districts through which they go and form a sort ot river police. Now and then they capture a smuggler era a pirate , and here and there outside of some of the villages I saw boats which had been cut In half and set up on end. I asked what they were , and I was told that they had belonged topliates and thieves. The cul prits had been caught , and beheaded , and their boats were thus put , up as warnings to their brothers to beware of the law. Such boats are usually put up at the places at which the crimes were committed. Everywhere , you meet -with native and government officials , * The different pro vinces have their customs ofUcors , and they levy a heavy tax on all the native boats , each official gets his squeeze , And the taxa tion Is terribly heavy. The customs col lected for the genera ) government are In the hands of foreigners , for the emperor cannot rely upon thej honesty of his own officials , and so an Irishman ; Sir Robert Hart , collects hladuties' for him , and his boats and officials' are pt all the leading ports. You see their customs officers scat tered all along the banks of the river , and at high water they sometimes use the little huts of bamboo , which "are brought down In the rafts from the upper Yangtse. PIIODUCTIVBWEALTH. . This valley of the YJangtso Klang U a vast garden. All along its course the grass Is as green as Egypt In .winter , and two or three crops a year aro. every where grown. In looking over the landscape you sea no fences or barns. The pgople. live In villages made of thatched huts , with walls ot plaited reeds , which they plaster Inside and out with mud. Sometimes the huts stand alone la the town , and at other times they are Joined together In block * ; The best of them are not more than twenty feet square , and the averagj farm house-lini only one story. The earth forms the floor. You could , I venture , build a good one fcr 15. The houses stand flush with -the slimy mud side walk , and the filthier aqd dirtier this Is , the bett-r It seems to pleaaa. the people. Each village lias a clump ot tree * about It. and In looking over tbu valley you ace hundreds of these clumps , and realize the force of the statement that the whole empire Is one vait village. Many ot the villages , I am told , consist of only one family or clan , and the Chinese are said to take better care of their relatives and to work together better than any other people of the world. CITIES AND VILLAGES. The best of the towns here are close to the river , and we have passed many walled cities , with pagodas and temples rising above the other rldge-slmpd roofs. At some of the nlpger centers this ship stops to take on and discharge cargo , . and I have gone through a number of cities since I came to China the names of which I had nsver heard. Take the city of Nganklng nit Nanking , the old capital of China , you have all read of that but Ngankiug. How many of you have ever realized that it exlsteJ ? Well , we have just left it. It Is a city cf about 500,000 people and Is bigger than St. Louis. It Is the old capital of the ( state of Ganhui , which has n population of more than one- third of the whole United States , though It Is not as big as the state of New York. It Ites right on the banks of the Yangtse , abfiit 150 miles above Nanking , and It has miles of walls about It. These walls are twenty-five feet high and so wide that you could drive a buggy around the city on the top of them. Nganking Is well built and rich now , though It was nearly rulnd during the Talplng rebellion , back In the fifties. At that time , the rebels held It under siege , and food became so scarce that human flssh was used , and , It Is Bald , was sold lu market places for Its .weight In silver. The city has now a great native trade , thsugh It Is not one of the treaty ports , and foreign steamers cannot stop at It. It has one of the finest pagodas on the Yangtse. It Is a seven-storied tower of rose pink , rising , as It were , right from the banks of the river , to a height , I Judge , about half that of th * Washington monument. It Is many-sided and Its top la decorated with n beautiful cap of bronze , which Is built In rings , like those of some of the temples In Slam , to a point. This tower was being repaired when I visited It and a framework of pole scaffolding ex tended from Its base upward to a height of moro than 100 feet. Upon this hundreds of Chinese masons and painters were workIng - Ing , and away up on the sixth story I could note little fiy-llke celestials clinging to the wall and patching up the ravages of the weather. I was glad to sse It , for It showed mo that there Is at least one place In China where the monuments of the past are re spited , and where bcth the religion and the temples have not gone to seed. 1'lt.lTTLE UfTltK When a child has lively Imagination , but has not yet reached the age when It can reason , truth has a hard time of It occa sionally. Little Edith U. , 4 years old , some times shows temper. Her nurse asked her to do something the other day , and Edith flatly refused. When the nurse Insisted that Rdlth must do U she raited her doll with youthful passion and , throwing It down violently , shattered Its head to pieces , "Edith , " said her mother , "when your father comes home you should go to him and tell him what you have done. " Edith's father came home at the usual hour , but she did not offer to tell him anything about the doll. As he had been told by the mother what had happened , he finally look his daughter on hU knee. "Has Udlth been a good girl today ? " he asked. "Yea , she's been very good , " was the modest answer , "Are you ure that she has been good ail day ? " "Let me see , " said Edith , Razing afar off in a thoughtful way. "Yts , " with em phasis , "I think that the has been a very good glr' all doy " "Has Mamie ( the doll ) been all right to day ? ' "Oh Mamie , " said Edith , coolly , "was not a good girl. She went out when I told her not to go. She was walking along when she fell down on the sidewalk and broke Uer WITH AN INSIDE HISTORY , Thousands of dozens ladies fine fast I black Pure Silk Mitts , which cost 250 to import , go tomorrow at I5c. See dozen ladies' highest grade I youese Silk Mitts , regular 750 quality , go tomorrow at 250. IN OUR BASEMENT. 50 pieces double fold black wool illuminated dress goods , worth 390 go at loc yard. 100 pieces small plaids and checks wool cheviots , worth 35c , go at gc yard. ' Just received over 1000 pieces Butter Color 'A Iicices and Insertions , all the latest styles and patterns , in very fine , soft , lacy effects ; all go at half what they would cost in a regu'ar way. kReally | Really worth up to SI.OD a yard. & ] m ,3 & .f ? * * & v l * BOSTON STORE , OMAHA. CHrDEni . liTH ! ! iOSTON STORE , OMAHA. AL'NC THE YANGTSE KIA8C Bema of the Wonders of the Greatest Eiver of Ohina. THE IMMENSITY OF THE YANGTSE VALLEY A Vast implro Cut Up l > y CnnaU Country mill VIlliiKC" How 1'Iratcs Are Trcutcd-Tlio Wiilloil City of ( Copyrighted 1S34 by Trunk G. Carpenter. ) ON 110AHD A CHINESE STEAMER , 600 MILES FKOM THE MOUTH OF THE YANGTSE K1ANO , April 15. ( Special Cor respondence of TheHee. ) I have been rid ing for days upon the great Yangtso river , nnd I write this letter in almost the center of the Chinese empire. I am within less than 100 miles ot the Chicago of the celestial land , the vast city ot Hankow , and am pass ing through the country where the Chinese mobbed the foreigners n year or BO ago , burning down the houses of the missionaries and killing some of the English officers of the Chinese customs. Last night I left Kluklang , a big trading center at the mouth of the I'oyang lake , and during the past two weeks I have passed a halt dozen cities of the size of Cleveland or Washington , and have traveled through about the same num ber ot great states , having an aggregate population ot something llko 150.000,000 of people. All the towns I have visited I have found packed with a throng busier than you find on lower Droadway at noonday , and I am amazed at the Immensity of this great Chinese empire and its enormous populi- . tton. I entered the Yauctse at ita mouth , twhere It flows through the Chinese province or state ot Klangsu. This is the center of the cast coast , and it has an area about aa big as that ot Pennsylvania. U contains more than half as many poeple as the -whole United States , and Us population Is nqunl to that ot the British Isles. The r.tnlo of Qanhul , which I next entered , is no bigger than Kansas , but It supports 27- 000,000 people , and the state ot Hupeh , in > vhlch I am now traveling , has over 20,000- 000 , This great river itself has millions who arc born , live and die upon Its waters , and at every landing I see a thicket ot poles , each of which springs from the homo of one ot the millions of families which make up Chlna'u 'joat population , I am amazed at the wonderful resources of the country , My vyus bulce out at the muscle and In dustry ot its people , and my head buzzes In trying to understand the curious sights which'are crowded upon me. KINO OF ITS KIND. China's great rivers are among the won ders of the world , and the Yangtse Klang U the king of Us kind , U has a greater volume of water than the Nile or the Amazon zen , and It has built up a greater country than Egypt along the law lands of China. In approaching It from the ocean I found the water * discolored by Its muddy fluid many miles out at sea , and It turus the salty brlno yellow for fclxty miles from Its mouth. Here It U about an thick as pea coup. You draw up a bucket and in a mo ment Its bottom will have a thick sediment ot mud. I bad been warned not to use the cplgot which runs from the bottom ot the boat Into my bath , but this morning tha boy had made It too bet and I tried to cool the barrel of filtered water tn the tub with about a gallon from tha Yangtse. I thought the amount was so little that U couU not affect the rest. The result was that the clear water became the color of mud and my bare foot left an Impression on the .bot tom as marked as 'that of the savage which so scared Hobtnson Crusoe on the desert Island. U is a sort of gritty silt , but I am told that there is no river on earth which brings down a sediment more fertile. The whole of the great plain of north and central China has been made by it. This plain Is TOO miles long , and It supports more than 100,000,000 of people. The yellow river runs through It 100 miles north of this point , and this river. In combination with the Yangtse , has built the foundations of one- fourth of the Chinese empire. Today It Is estimated that the amount of dirt they carry down from the highlands of Thibet and of China Is so great that It forms every two months an island a mile square In the sea and at the mouth of the Yangtse. I sailed by the Tsung Ming Island , which Is thirty-two miles long and about ten broad. It has been built up within 100 years or so , and now has cities and villages and supports more than 1,000.000 people. The sea at the mouth of the YanRtst : Is filled with llttlo Islands , many of which has grown up within the memory of men now living , and along the low banks of the river I can see the strata of soil which It has brought down from year to year. At some points these lines of sediment ar from one to two feet thick , and they are of as marked colors as strata ot rock. The river has a vast volume of water. A line of freight water-tight cars reaching frm New York to Chicago and carrying twenty tons each could not hold Its one day's discharge Into the sea , and Its rise and fall at the city of Hankow , about G50 miles from UK mouth , ranges during the year from forty to fifty feet. Within the past ten days the river has risen thirteen feet and It Is now going up at the rate of a foot a day. CANALS AND DIKES. The rise In the Yangts'e Klang Is so great that embankments have to bo built along Its course for more than 1,000 miles. All of the country I have passed through Is diked , and this , net only as to the river , but also as to every creek and canal connected wltb It. Central China. Is more cut up by waterways than Holland , and there aro. more dikes hereto to the square mile than you will find In the Netherlands. Sailing alcng the Yanjjtto you see these dikes In every direction. They are about twenty feat high and from thirty to forty feet wide at the base , and their tops form the roads and paths of the country. Along them you see all sorts of Chinese char acters trudging along , their figures allhoutted against the blue sV.y. Here goes the great freight car of China. It Is a wheelbarrow and a native coolie pushes It. llehind him comes another species of the same , a man carrying two great loads fastened to the ends of the bow-like pole which rests upon his shoulders. Next you tee a brightly dressed girl , wearing red pantaloons and a blue sack , carrying a parasol of paper and looking very gay as she hobbles up the bank. You note mandarins riding In blue chairs carrlfcj between ' two bare-legged coolies , who trot along In' front and behind , and among the nobles , the common people on foot. Here and there you may tee a sheep era a hog , but the horses ore comparatively few. and the only cattle are the half hog half cow known as the water buffalo. You see these working In the , fields pulling rude ploughs or turning the wooden water wheels which are used In fame parts of China for Irrigation. They are for all the world llko the saklyeha ot Egypt , and there are many things about you which re mind you of the laud of the Pharaohs , You see na cattle cr horsca dragging burdens upon the embankment , and the canals and rivers , in fact , take , the place of roads. In all this part of China , it Is Eald , you can go to every man's bouse In a boat , There are numerous creeks that empty Into the Yangtse. The mouths of tutia are filled wltb junks , and on them and the canals , which cut up the land like a net you see the masts and calls of boats walking , as It were , rapidly over the green fields. Often there will be several lines ot theie boats ruonlag parallel Yd i / New Striped and Small Plaid Worth a DolJar. Go af 39c Yard , Worth lOOPieces Ootion Ghallles With Small floral designs , worth 12ic ; go at 3 c. Yd New Spring Colors and Black irs Antique Regular 75c quality ; goat39c. BEST GRADE LAWNS , fn Black and Navy Blue grounds , hand some colored figures worth loc ; go at 5c. 2,000 YARDS Fancy Crinkles Worth 20c ; go Mon day at 5c yard. , with the river , their white sails growing smaller In the distance , until they form white specs upon the dim line of the horizon. The cost ot making and keeping up this series of embankments must be enormous. The Yangtse changes Its course every now and then ; It cuts away the soil and new dikes have to be built. In many places there are several rows of earth , one behind the other , and the remains of discarded embankments are everywhere visible. In the summer the river rises and floods every thing not so diked. Houses are often swept away , villages are destroyed and the land becomes a great Inland sea. All alone the course are the vestiges of past floods , and here and there you see graveyards that the river has eaten Into , and you note the eao- Inu holes left by the coffins. At one point about 100 miles from where I now am , I i > aw a cofQn extending half way out of the bank. It undoubtedly contained a skeleton , and the wood was rotten with age. The water was then within a foot of It , and by this time It must have been washed out to sea. Here and there we could see men Irri gating the soil by tread-mill pumps , worked by half naked Celestials , and everywhere man seemed to be waging a brave fight with nature and cettlnc the best of It. DISPOSING OP THE DEAD. Speaking of coffins , I could see them now and again lying on the river banks. They were generally covered with a thatch of straw , and this Is a common way for the people to dispose of their dead. They have not enough money to give their friends a decent burial , and they lay the coffins out to wait until they can earn the funeral ex pense. Near Shanghai I saw Jiouses for the storing of dead bodies. They were little one-story huts , with a window or hole near the top. The fresh coffins' are put Into this window and placed upon the ledge , half sticking out. The next comers push the coffins on the windows into 'the enamel house and put their own Infant dead Into their places , to be shoved In turn by those who follow them. As to the scenery along the Yanstse , however. It Is a general Idea that China Is one vast plain , covered with grave mounds. I saw some graveyards. It is true , but they were comparatively few. The people bury near their houses when they -can , and the graveyards were probaby far back from the river. They use the elevated spots and the hills. A largo part of the country Is rolling , and the Idea that China consists ot one vast flat plain Is incorrect. Where I am now writing I am surrounded by mag nificent hills , and all along this great river you find breaks of rolling country. I saw the snow on the mountains when I came up past the city of Kluklangand at Ichang , above here , there arc gorges which compare with the canons of the Colorado In' their mag nificent grandeur. These ore 1,000 miles In land , and the sources ot the Yangtse are two miles above the sea. These gorges are narrow chasms , with a current so swift that the boats which pasg up them have to be hauled along by gangs of men , and the water in them , it Is eald , sometimes rises 100 feet , above Its .ordinary level. They are comparatively short ! and If they could be passed by steamers the vast region of the Yungtse could be tapped , and steamboats could travel 2,000 miles Into the Interior. There Is still talk of building steamers Email enough and powerful qjtough to ( Withstand tbo current of these gorges , and It is not an impossibility that the whole ot Interior China will at some time bo opened up by steam. A COMMERCIAL HIGHWAY. The Yangtse today Is one of the greatest tride routes of the world. China U said to have more boots on her waters than there are In all the rest of the world combined. She U the best watered country In God's green earth and has more wonderful water ways , Suppose you could stretch a river wider than the MUsUslppl In an almost Btralght line from New York to Chicago Suppose U to be navigable for the biggest ocean ( learners for that distance from May to October , and let chlpa from Itussla , Ger many. England and other parts ot the world sail through It and load at Its wharves. This would be aleut what can to done on tbo YansUc Klans belotr Ichang. Yd , 30-inch heavy black China Silks and 3fMtich dark China Silks with small floral designs and heavy Brocade Silks for trimmings and waists in light and dark colors ; worth np to 9Sc a yard ; go on our front bargain square at ftilcyard. Yd Real Kabutai That sell regularly at " 98c , go at 5Oc SOO Pieces Finest Grade French [ mporfed Sateens , In dark worth up to flflc ; go at 15c a yard. IOOO YARDS | T \ 40 inches -wide , in dark and light grounds ; vyorth 29c ; go Monday at 12ic yard. Yard PLAIN AND FIGURED China Silks With large and small polka dots and floral designs ; worth up to 75c yd ; go at 25c yd- Yd 20-inch ALL SILK BLACK FAILLES Ml DUCHESSES and Extra heavy and wide satin , worth S1.25 , go at75c. 4O-INCH Extra fine quality , worth Snc ; go on ( sale Monday at 100 PIECES Unshrinkable Shirting and Outing Flannels Worth 12'TcTlo on' Jj J on sale at 4Jc a yard. head off. " Five-year-old Flossie hail been battling with her mother all day. "There , child , " said the latter on putting the child to bed , "sleep well end don't be so cross when you wake up. " "I notice , " retorted little Flossie , "when ' It's mo you say 'cross ; ' when It's you , you say ' ' " 'nervous. Teacher Now , Harry , In the sentence , "Mary gave Itobert live caltes , " you have parsed the word Mary as masculine gender. How do you make that out ? Hnrry Well , 'cause If she did what the book says she was a dandy. Sunday School Teacher Why did Judas Iscarlot hang h.mself ? Tommy I guess because be couldn't berry a revolver. Tottle Ma , does tenderloin come from a cow ? Ala Yes , dear. Tottle Then "sirloin" comes from a gen tleman cow , don't it ? Charles S. Scanlan of the Cincinnati En quirer John II. McLean's newspaper was once sent Into n small town In the south west to get the story of a woman evangelist , Who had been greatly talked about. Scan- Ian attended one of her meetings and occu pied a front seat. When those who wished to be saved wera asked to arise Scanlan kept his seat and used his note book. The woman approached and , taking him by the hand , said : "Come to Jesus. " "Madam1 said the newspaper man , "I'm here solely on business" to report on your work , " "Brother , " said she , "there Is no business so Important as , God's. " "Well , maybe not , " said Scanlan , "but you don't know John McLean. " Some weeks ago an old deacon In Penn sylvania was very self-willed , and on two or three occasions made endless trouble In church. At last the church clerk got up and Bah ! : "Brethren and sisters , I wish Deacon Jones was In hell. " The new pastor and the members were horrified , and thapastor said : "Brother Smith , such a remark Is unkind and unchristian. Why do you use such ex pressions about a brother ? " "Well , pastor , " ho replied , "I'll bet that If Deacon Jones was In hell ubout six months ho would bust It up. " New Clergyman ( In rural district to barefoot bay met during a first walk ) Well , my lltllo maul Are you a farmer lud ? Barefoot Boy Yes , sir. New Clergyman All farmers hereabouts , are they not ? Barefoot Boy Yes , sir. New Clergyman All simple , honest farm ers. eh ? Barefoot Boy Not nil of 'em. Most of 'em keep summer boarders. "Why , Mr , Gchoncs , I did not suppose that you cored anything for base ball , " said the deacon. "I am surprised to cce you here. " "I didn't come out to see the game , " an swered the simsatlonal evangelist. "I get a good many expressions for my sermons from hearing those fellows on the cheap etuts talk to the umpire. " " \Vhon the assistant fell upon the chancel stairs this morning he reminded mo of the father of the prodigal ton. " "In what respect ? " "Don't you know , when he saw his son afar off he ran and tell on his neck. " "I nm to unJer-tand , then , that you view the istate of future punishment merely as a condition" " "Net even that Merely as a theory , " Sweet breath , sweat ttomacb. sweet tem per ? Then use DeWUt'a Little Early IlUera. 100 pieces wool serge , double fold de beige , at i2/tc yard. Hnmlsomo all wool storm screes and extra line Enjj- lish cnuhmcrcs , blacks and col ors , worth ut ) to SOo , RO at Uoc a yard. coxxuniA LIT tus. Henry C. Brown , aged 75 , the multimillionaire lionaire and owner of Brown's hotel , Den ver , was married last week to Miss Mary Louise Matthews , aged 30. Sometimes you can tell about how much a man really loves his wife by noticing which of them carries the baby when they go out together for a walk. Won Yip Hong of San Francisco , who has been In California for fifty years and Is now 70 years old , has Imported from China n 10-year-old wife. The marriage of Yung Kwal of the Chi nese legation to Miss May Burnham ot Springfield , Mass. , will take place on May 23. Husband They say of married people that they are but one. Which one , I wonder ? Wife The woman , of course. You are the winner , you know ; consequently I must bo the won. Good Advice Father Do you really de- slro to make my daughter happy ? Tha Suitor Certainly , Father Then don't marry her ! A New York girl of social position has re fused a. nobleman , and that nobleman a prince ! Her friends In bociety are , ot course , looking after her very tenderly In the hope that the aberration Is only temporary. A number of Norwegian women hi Chicago have organl/ed a club for securing model husbands. They have taken an oath to marry no man who uses Intoxicants or to bacco. In addition candidates must bo In telligent , honest , good-natured and clean. The Vassar girls the other evening dis cussed the question , "Does higher education unfit a man for matrimony ? " and decided In the ufllrmdtlva. They seemed to think that a man full of Greek roots and Hebrew hieroglyphics would not likely want to walk the floor at night when the baby was cut ting teeth or had the colic. There may bo somethliiK In It. Aurella ( anxiously ) Have jou seen Gcorgo this evening , papa ? Ho promised to call. Papa Yes. Ho did call and I entertained him for an hour before you came down stairs. Aurella You entertained him , papa ? Papa Yes. I gave him n list of all the new dresses you had last year , and the cost of each. I never a\v man mora Interested , yet he left very hurriedly. The reported engagement of George Mere dith's daughter and Henry Sturges of the. well known Boston family Is an International alliance a llttlo out of the usual order. Sturges Is American only In name , for both he and his brother Julian are thoroughly anglicised by long residence In England. Meredith IB one of the brightest of HvinK novelists. The country bride and bridegroom with clothes cracklngly new walked lovingly hand In hand down the broad hotel dliitng room In Washington , two souls with but a single thought , and blindly oblivious to all things else but each other In this great happy earth of ours. Almost crowded on ono chair , ho fondly fed her as the parent bird Its llttlo chick , "Darling , " he murmurlngly clucked , "ahall I skin yo a pertater ? " "No. deary , " she gurgled , "I've one already skun. " A kiss Imprinted on his sweetheart's llpa has Involved Henry Ives , a Ilergon comity. Now Jersey , farmer , In a suit. Several months ago Ives met and wooed Mlxa Annlo Hufferty , a comely young woman living In Manchester township. Ills wooing soon ripened Into a betrothal , Mies HafUrty had told him during their drat tryst that she- would permit none but her future hiibbaml to give her a lover's kiss , and her coyness won Henry's heart , When about to go away on& evening several weeks ago Mr , IVCB gav hli Hweetlienrt a long parting kiss , during which the gold filling l Miss Kaffcrty'i teeth came out. She told him ot the nils- Imp , thinking he would compensate her for her lo . He did not , however , and row Miss Itafforty has retained counsel and bun brought vult against Ives , Sue had Ilia teeth refilled and has furnished the lawyer with a bill of expenses. The young woman' * suit has frightened the farmer and the eu > gageraent U off , 4