-znr -fty.w THE COURIER 10 A FAMILY GROUP. & dfffttf DW I have just heurJ a story or two very characteristic of Harry Lehr, which would have been more pat in the telling before he married and reformed somewhat, but arc too good to be lost altogether. It seems that he, llrs. Stuyvesant Fish and two or three other intimes were dining with Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, and after one or two courses were served, Mrs. Fish, with her fa mous bluntness, exclaimed: "I must say, Tessle, I don't like your food.'" "No more do I," quoth the polite Harry, "let's go down to Dels and get something fit to eat," whereupon the whole party arose and calling cabs were whirled away to Delmonlcos to gorge as they liked! Pretty much the same party occu pied a box at "Weber & Field's one evening, and, under the leadership o" the Irrepressible Harry, seemed to get much amusement and a good deal of chaff out of Lillian Russell's perform ance; her dress, manner, voice, etc. The airy, fairy one noticed this and stood for it some time, but when her scene was over she went to the man ager and swore by all her husbands dead and gone that she would not go on again unless that "little beast Harry Lehr and his party left the house." "But, great heavens! Mrs. Russell," exclaimed the perturbed manager, "they are leaders of the 400: I cannot turn them out of the house." "I don't care if they're leaders of the heavenly choir," was the sharp rejala der, "out they go or home I go." So the scared manager went up to the box and asked the party to with draw. Harry Lehr laughed in his face. Then the manager got his back up. "Look here, you Jackanapes!" he ex claimed, "if you don't get out quietly I'll have you put out." Discretion is the better part of valor even to the Lehr de Lehr cult, so col lecting his party, the giddy little Bal timorean slipped away much crestfall en, and the airy fairy one went on with her embonpoint performance. The New Yorker. "Colonel," she asked, ad dressing the eminent Ken tucklan, "have you read about the water cure in the Philippines?" "I have, my deah young lady," he replied with almost overpowering emotion, "and I am able to realize at last that wah is what one of your Nohthern genehals said It was."-rChlcago Record-Herald. The Actress Harold: "Dear MisajAngeline, let me whisper to -ygirvthe 'old old story!" " Angeline! "Ay. come off! If you want me to listen to that, you'll have to dramatize It and spend about fifty thousand on a stage setting." Judge. "It is queer,", says a New York clergyman, "what a lik ing young students have for long words and Latin quo tations, and what a dread possesses them of appearing conventional. I once knew a promising candidate who was given charge of a funeral in the absence of the pastor of the church. He knew it was customary for the minister to announce after the sermon that those who wished should step up to view the remains, I but he thought this was too " hackneyed a phrase and Be said Instead: "The congregation will now pass around the bier." Kansas City Star. The Dr. Benj. F. Bailey Sanatorium Is not a hospital, not a hotel, but a home.. The building Is located on a sightly hill at Normal, and is reached by the cars of the Lincoln street railway, being only 28 minutes' ride from the business center of the city. It Is thoroughly equipped ana beautifully furnished. Every electric current useful in the treatment of the sick is used, and Ideal Turkish. Russian, and Medicated Baths are given. In conditions where the kidneys and liver are affected, and in cases of rheumatism, our Hot Air Treatment has been remarkably successful. For full in formation address Thm m. r. mmllmy 9mnmtorlum, Llnooln, Nmb. WILLIAM E. MASON, U. S. SENATOR. The Illinois senator "was recently turned down by the republicans of his state, the Springfield convention endorsing the senatorial aspira tions of Congressman Hopkins, of Aurora, and urging the batter's selec tion by the next Illinois legislature. Mr. Mason, however, refuses to ac cept the verdict of the convention, asserting that it was packed against him, and has announced his intention to fight it out to the last. Flemish Oak If you care for Artistic Furniture why not get the best? The finest creations today in the swell shops in New York are built in Flemish Oak, if for dining room use. We are the only furniture house in this city showing a large line of Flemish Oak dining room cabinet work. ...Our Prices... For it are not more than sixty per cent of the prices charged in New York. The dark greenish-black ground makes a superb relief for carvings and metal trimmings. The ornamentation is greatly assisted by the reproduction of old binges, locks, and fittings in iron and brass. Flemish Oak is just what is needed in rooms that have been painted in the late English art stains or covered in Morris or Liberty fabrics. RUDGE & GUENZEL CO. 1 118-1126 N Street