other, and his eyelids THE CITY. in the weres only a general similarity -among the stretched wide apart. There was a SOUTH'S MULE SEASON. OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR, BOSTON'S CREAT RAILWAY STATION. species. Consequently the . planter red light in his great, dark eyes, like An Imposing Structure, and the Larcest stands, with her stony beaches - Ihe weary and Drosco-ucarica selects pairs that matech in looks and he a distant forest fire shining through a in Just touched by old Ocean’s arm, Plead in her arms to rest; ATLANTA THE MARKET WHERE gait, and a two or four mule team at- LAUCHTER-PROVOKINGC STORIES FOR the World. hide in her mantle wide, wall of night. It was the light of hor- For islands fair are sentinels there The wretched OF ARZ SOLD, tached to a carriage, dashing along LOVERS OF The Great South Railway Station in To guard her coasts from harm. And the suffering in her breast. ror. His dark skin was changed into TENS THOUSANDS FUN. through the lanes and over the coun- Boston, the largest edifice of its kind the toreh of Though forests be grand and silent— the ashy gray of a rairclcud. Trem- roads, in the world, opened Bhe stretches freedom and Dis- try is a pretty good indication was for use on the Old World from the New, Though flelds be wide sweet— bling he approached. The Georgia Metropolis the Great Midnight's Calm—Quite Unexpected— Toward for her Mo- of the independence and prosperity of In the first day of this year. It was first Aad her towers rise to as cloudless skies Her children learn voice to yearn ; Thus was the taking of Black Stick, tributing Peint ¥For the Favorite How He Proposed—On the Anxious tramp of her restless feet. Plantationsa the owner. suggested by the Hon. Josiah Quirney, As are mirrored in Ocean’s blue. And the the terrible, on the great white cliffs tive Power of the Cotton Seat—He Wanted to Know-—Love's La- —Pecullarities of the Mule. A good saddle mule is a priceless | bor Lost—A Puiiler, Ete., just before his first inauguration as with her stony beaches overlooking the Ete. Bhe feels the pulse of the Nation, She stands, Rio Grande. boon. One that | Mayor, three years ago, and great land, by old Ocean’s arm, Pow! Ho-ee, ho-ee!” movesalongina ‘‘fox To you, O infant of my midright thought! construe- She knows the of the Embraced Abh, but he was a sweet singer! “Crack! Pop! tion was begun a little love the strife c¢f the throbbing Through the noise and light—through the clatter on the slippery trot” will carry its rider over the | . Ising this tender, tense, parental song less than two ¥or smoldering night, The old cavalry sergeant was very The of hoofs While my ago. ti:l?y- roughest roads without a jolt or a to eleep-deserted chamber years The new station is cen- o happy when saw Belgian blocks sounds like a squad- l throng *lnthe hollow of her hand, In a tide of unending charm. he the Porto Rican jostle, and barring the element of pos- | trally located in the heart of the buse —New York Independent, creeping in frcnt of us down the eliff. ron of cavalry on the charge, and Old memories, nocturnal and unsought. sible treachery, the rider may enjoy | What iness section of Boston. ‘“‘Why didr’tyou wing the greaser?” down the broad street comes a rough- wonderthat my mind is overwrought? all the » For, oh! your The station was and is owned ly-clad rider mounted on a gray horse pleasurable sensations of a sail i ceaseless voice is over- built he asked. over smooth and sunlit waters, or a strong, and operated by the Boston Terminal give us a and at his heels a troop of sorrel, bay, And my cold-footed pilgrimage is long. the Fourth Cell. ‘““‘Hedidn’t show,” Red- swing in a hammock under mag- | Company, composed of trustees repre- The Voice in mond answered. brown, black, dan and mouse-colored the Come, baby—hang it—shut up as you nolias when the summer sun rides | ought! senting the several railroad corpora- good mules, followed by two other wild STORY. It takes a man to be a soldier. high in the heavens. tions that furnished the funds. The A CAVALRYMAN’'S Redmond and I were only recruits. riders in a gallop, cracking their long In faney I recall graceless The young mules bring from 8125 those years total frontage on three streets is 2190 Moreover, we had little hope of ever whips and uttering the peculiar ery of Belore your darling mamma made me to 8150 if unbroken, bntif broken and | hers, feet. The building covers thirteen want to cart being much better. Had we been good the mule drover. & HE little village “We dons around any of unusually good qualities they | Till in mv heart the pulse of sorrow stirs acres, and there are twenty-two acres sergeant soldiers we would have captured Black It is with the above paragraph that some- of Manati is hid prisoners,” the of the de- times command a higher | ‘And makes me half inclined to ape your of yard room besides. The maximum Atlanta correspondent of the New price. tears, away among the tachment said, ‘“The San Juan prison Stick on the same night we heard his the dimensions of the building are by Sun the opening of Confound it! Sleep! Stop yelling if you 850 hills of white is crowded now. We want to sleep songs. Had we been good soldiers we York announces DEWEY AND THE OLD TAR. 725 feet. The head house on Summer season. hours of the can! rock on the isl- nights, instead of standing guard. All would have had to carry the bandit’s the mule At all Al well, some day you’'ll be a married street and Atlantic avenue is repeated, Petty Officer Purdy Believes lis Advice five and of Porto I got to say is don’t monkey with the body down tke cliffs, instead of al- day the same spectacle is IDan, stories high, and above the first is the great point Won the BEattle of Manila. —Chicago Ricoo. When greasers.”’ lowing him to lead the way. Had Red- he says, for Atlanta Record. story is occupied by the offices of the the great guns The sergeant was an old man. He mond been a good soldier, he would of distribution of mules for several The following narrative is taken " Terminal mules, from to Quite Unexpected. Company and the railway stormed and had soldieredin Texas, Weare tickled —Dbut that’s a story in itself. States. The three from ““With Dewey at Manila,” by companies. vast by Mr. Jay—*‘“Was it a quiet wedding?” The train shed is in the at the outlook. Strong was the guard that {ook Juan four years old, are shipped South Joseph L. Stickney, in Harper's long by roared the rich grain Mrs. Jay—*‘Of course; you didn't 602 feet 570 feet wide, and bharbor of San A December night, yet yon wanted Tosta, alias Black Stick, to Manati tens of thousands from Magazine: One incident, which Ihave has a height of 112 feet. The fields and lands of Indiana, expect they would quarre! before the light Juan, fifty miles no blankets. Four men were already prison. Stroug and thick are the ma- grazing already mentioned briefly in my des- and delicate-looking steel trusses of Western Tennessee by patches, clergyman did you?” away, only the sleeping. The cook fire was a mass hogony bars which keep him in the Kentucky and is worthy of more extended the enormous roof have a clear sweep and are put on the fainteat rever- of whitened embers. The guard dark, fourth cell. The spirit of a the stock dealers repetition, as illustrating the feelings How He Proposed. in one great eurve from side to Planters, lumbermen, tur- side, beraticns were hummed softly and paced about among bandit is broken within him. Hun- market. of the enlisted men for the com- ‘Do you believe in expansion, Mr, upheld by three spans that divide the operators coniractors in borne back to the horses. Silk Redmond, finishing ger plays sadly upon a man’s nerve. pentine ;and mander-in-chief. The Commodore, Noodle?” area into what might be called a nave railroad builaing congregate at "At- walking tiny village. a cigar, let his eyes wander high among And then the bandit spirit is not while back and forth on the Noodle—‘‘No; quite the contrary. I and two aisles. this lanta from all points, and the opening starboard side of the deck, There are thick mahoguny bars on the beautiful mysteries of a tropical mighty in the Porto Rican at best. upper no- believe in making two one.”—Brook- A remarkable feature is the practi- But his voice is not dead. It is as months of the year are the busy times ticed that one of the petty officers—a prison night. : lyn Life. cal doubling the fourth cell of the Spanish To observe the of the train capacity by through When we had slept an hour the sky sweet as the memory of dear ones far in the mule trade. man whose duties did not call for his providing for the at Manati. Look them to- naturally A Puzzler. suburban service in will see beyond an adjacent group of hills red- away. Aud the eyes of Juan Tosta, many droves, one wonders presence there—was making a pre- a space beneath the day and in the half-light you are Jorkins—*““What are ‘‘subway” main are dened into a vast lurid expanse. The once a slave, once the dreaded Black where they all go, but they dis- tence of finding something to do on you thinking platforms of the two very wonderful eyes. There 20 hard about?” train shed, where You guard saw it, and in a few moments Stick, shine with the light of a living posed of in some way, and many a the port side, but was also keeping a the great width of the station no such black eyes in the States. Perkins—“l am trying to decide enables among the we all knew that there was game in soul when he sings. wild, unbroken mule colt, fresh from careful lookout on the Commodore. the construction of two of may find orbs like them West, will soon be which a man derives the most real en- loops women, but few the vicinity and that it was very much Juan cannot ‘understand why we its home in the This man’s record of nearly forty tracks, over which, by the fairest of Spain’s fair the shuck collar and hames joyment from—llaziness or conceit.”’— use of" depthless, so great awake. two, who took him from the great wearing years of service in the navy and army either electricity or compressed air—- will there be so Georgia or Alabama cotton Nuggets, and At dawn we pushed our horses up white cliffs, sit at evening at the ma- of the of the United States had caused him which will probably be adopted for dark. plantation, followed by a lusty colored regarded special They speak, laugh—they charm to the hot, smoking ruins of a big hogony bars of his cell—sit silent, al- to be with interest On the Anxious Seat. the suburban services of the railways most breathless, until he sings the man, and guided by the ‘‘Gee, whoa, by the officers of the Olympia, and he *“Willthis new story ol yours entering you so that you cannot see nauzht but hacienda. The Spanish owner said while the have the station—two thousand nights he had slumber song and the bugle calls us haw!” of the plowman, was, to a certain extent, a privileged a sad ending?” asked Jaggers. trains daily, jn and out, can them. You cannot tell whether it is that for two heard the chirraps his drowsy be accom- spir- songs Black Stick up in the cliffs— back to camp. Juan cannot under- mocking bird character. So the Commodore, being “I don’t know at present,” re- modated. As soon as all the railways the exgression of knavery or the of too-doodle and tee-deedle on the old ituelle light which charms you more. Black Stick, the bold and bad Porto stand why a warm gray blanket, with familiar with the manners of seamen, sponded Scribbler, wearily. “‘T haven't begin using the station there will en- worm fence at the end of the row; or You pause before them. If any Span- Rican, the very worst guerilla on the a big U. S. in the centre, was given and seeing that the old man *‘‘had submitted it to the editor.”—Philadel- ter and leave 25,000,000 persons s perhaps it will be straining and tug- on his mind,” to him, ish to you that moment you island. He did his work well that him to sleep upon. something said phia Record. year. The twenty-eight sub-tracks comes at the greaf, high-wheeled lum- Then gradunally in the night, however. Juan cannot understand why Silk ging “Well, Purdy, what is it?” on the main floor of the train shed will speak. among the pine barrens of Leaves It to Others, perceive rest of For days we searched every Redmond thrust a trembling hand ber cart “I hope, sir,” replied Purdy, will be used by 710 trains a day. dimness yon will the ten crag Southern George, lashed by the driv- ‘‘Say, Blobbs, there's no use deny- and abutment along the high through the mahogony barslast night, straightening up and saluting, ‘‘ye The great waiting room is a noble Juan Tosta’s face. walls of er, log is drawn over ing that age tells quickly on a woman.” please counten- Grande, Manati when the slumber song was ended—a while the huge don’t iutenff to fight on the 3d of hall, palatial, though simple, in archi- It will you. No the Rio from to Cizles. rough from the forest to ““Certainly not; and that's probably with The songs of Black Stick was heard no trembling hand which grasped hus the ground May.” tectual design and decoracion, 225 ance could be vicious or ugly the mill. But before the mule is thus the reason why she thinks there’s no eyes. You will not wonder at more, a cirenmstance which made us own and lingered there. *‘And why not?” feet long, sixty-five feet wide and such taught to its living it must go necessity for telling it herself,”—Phila- 283 drawn, understand that the outlaw used his Juan Tosta will never know why earn “Well, ye see, sir,” said Pardy, feet high. The station contains every the sunken cheeks, or at the through various preliminaries of prep- delphia Record. bloodless lips, for all Spanish convicts eyes. Then even the small detach- the two American cavalrymen took with the most serious air possible, possible facility for the accommoda- aration, bargain and sale. and must “‘the last time Pass on, you must. ment was divided. Silk Redmond snd him from the great white cliffsabove I fought on the 3d of Love's Labor Lost. tion and comfort of the public in the slowly starve. take a journey in the crowded a’ moment will hear together. Black Stick was the Rio Grande. He thinks we were weary May I got licked.” Andthen he went ““A terrible thing happened to the way of restaurant service, an emer- Then in you I stuck cars. strains of weird, hushed melody. It making sleepless nights for the old good soldiers that day. stock on to tell of the ill-fated day of Chan- cut-glass bowl I bought for Miss gency room, ete., down to such is like the dream of a pure conscience, cavalry sergeant. And so does thie old cavalry ser- The mule is a peculiar beast. Nat- cellorsville, when he had ecarried a gun Jimp,” thoughtful provisions as eribs and so sweet, so ethereal, so appalling; And we, why we geant, even if we didn’t ‘“‘wing the uraliy skittish and yet docile, itis eas- in the army, and had gone to defeat ““Did somebody break it?” cradles in the homelike room for would have given under “‘Fighting close your eyes and you will see the up future hopes for a shot at him. greaser.”—W. L. Comfort, Fifth U, ily trained, but no amount of educa- Joe” Hooker. ““No; I lost the price-mark off it,”— women. ““Allright, Pardy,” great white mgqon, playing upon the Did you ever track a buck for a S. Carvalry, in Detroit Free Press. tion can overcome the perversity of its said the Com- Chicago Record. Aside from the fine facade, the im- castles. You care whole day and then nature. You may ride one twenty- modore, ‘‘we won't fight on the 3d of pression made by the bhuilding is that turrets of Spanish watch him leap To Arms! To Arms ! not to understand the words—so out from your very shadow and five years in perfect safety, and when May this time; but when we do fight, An Argument For Art. of a wcrk of engineering rather than disap- The inhabitants of the Scotch town Purdy,” he continued, an tonching is the music from the cell of pear, while youn forgot that there were you least suspect it the fickle brute with air of Mr. Gaswel (in an art store)— architecture. Tt has not the feeling Juan Tosta. such things in creation of Leith suffered a rude shock one day will make you throw a and friendly confidence, ‘‘you’ll have a ‘“‘Seems to me that’s an awful price to of monumental beauty pervading all as carbines, recently. Monday night somersaunlt But we knew the Spanish singer, cartridges and venison steaks? On they wént kick youn to kingdom come before you different kind of a May anniversary to pay for an old picture like that.” parts that characterizes such great to bed undisturbed by any thoughts of think about. Remember that, Purdy.” Silk Redmond and I, before he was We were very weary, Redmond strike tibe ground. Its nature is ounly Mrs. Gaswel—‘‘The piclure lis stations as those of Frankfort, Han- Silk war invasion. On Tuesday morning in ““Ay, replied Purdy, as he over, starving in the dark cell of Manati and I. We were blue, too, and foolish consistent its inconsistencies. ay, sir,” rather old, to be sure, but the frame Berlin and other Yierman cen- they woke to find the walls of their place saluted and scuttled off. prison. When his home was on the enough to let our minds wander back In the first the stock dealers And a little is new.”’—New York Weekly. tres. The engincering character, town placarded with a royal proclama- the regions of the while later I heard him telling agroup decorative asserts great white eliffs, hanging over the tothe States where oyr hearts were. visit mule-growing without grace, it- tion calling out the army reserve, of the other bluejackets that ‘“‘we’d on sides.—Harper's curling, limpid Rio Grande, we met We were too weary to make a fire that West during the late fall and early Only Woman’s Way. self all Weekly. militia and volunteers. ‘‘Ah, then and select such lots as suits lick thunder out o’ the Spaniards if him. There is a Rio Grande 1n Porto night. Had we done so, we would winter ““Yes, it was so much cheaper to and there was hurrying to and fro.” them, and these are the there was ten times asmany of them! A Hunter's Queer Experienc?. Rico. It is distant from nowhere on not have heurd the soul-meltirg melody shipped by make it all at home.” Volunteers in particular, after reading to point of distribution. And probably to this day Purdy be- Near Nictaux Lake, New Bruns. vhe island. Its water is the clearest of the Porto Rican bandit. A moment trainload the ‘““‘How long did it take you?” the proclamation, hastened home to unconth and rather ungain- lieves that it was due to his limely wick, in October last, a gunide named in the world—llike a mountain spring. or two later, and we would not have Naturally “Only four days. And, actually, pack their kits, and many had pre- the mule must be trimmed and hint that Dewey went into Manila Bay Dave Crimmins had a queer experi- Years Lefore Juan Tosta was a slave. heard lit, except as angel a ly, they charge at least fifteen cents for music in sented themselves at headquarters be- presentable at once, to ‘‘hoodoo” ence with a caribou. He was walking Because he was Porto Rican, dream, for our eyes pruned into the most so as avoid the them in the stores!”—Cleveland Plain a were weighed some one along the tote road carrying on his those whose veins run with pure Cas- down with sleep. fore it was found ont that shape, Unlike its near relative, the that was hanging over May. Dealer. had blundered. long tail and a flowing mane back a sheet-iron stove, which kicked tilian blood, would have called Juan We did not horse, Bargain, move. It was a sooth- It seems that some time even CURIOUS FACTS., An Undesirable up considerable of a racket. Sad- a mongrel. Strange to an American ing upon ago, tend bit? to make the mule ridiculous touch our foreheads, like the before the Fashoda incident, denly he heard a noise and turning are these people —so mild and harm- pressure of a placards in the eyes of the connoissenr. There- A single human hair will support mcther’s hand. It were printed calling about saw that he was followed by a less are they. The finer feelings of for the mobiliza- fore, one of the first things to be done ounces without breaking. brushed away the calloused places in tion of the defensive forces. These four big bull caribou. Crimmins had no life are not unknown to them. They our souls and changed is to remove all the superfluous us for one were held in readiness to be issued to its neck and stubby tail, Oysters are such nervous creatures rifle and at first gave little heed to the live in a land, the capabilities of memorable moment from bristles from sudden cavalrymen chief constables and other public of- and this is no task on account of that a shock, such as a loud animal. 'When he halted the caribon which are incalculable, yet they die into little children. It would easy thundereclap, have ficials throughout the country when- contrary spirit of the will kill a whole boat- stood still, but as soon as he resumed in their youth—die not from disease, made us feel, had we ever doubted, the lurking ani- ever necessity should arise for their musc first be driven into a load. his march the caribou followed, shak- but in the slow agony of wasting that there are raptures hidden mal. It awayin publication. During Fashoda narrow stall and haltered, and then, In China and neighboring countries ing his head and showing a very hos- limbs, in the low fever of hunger un- heaven. the to crisis these placards were sent out to while one man holds the halter, an- the fingernails are allowed grow to tile front. This maneuvre was sev- appeased. The moon shone high upon the cliffs. all chief constables, together with an other, generally an expert negro, as a monstrous length as a symbol of no- eral times repeated, the animal paw- Centuries of oppression have made The rocks stood out the pallid in ra- intimation that they should only be negro bility. ing up the turf and shaking his head them a timid people. The rich Span- diance. The Rio Grande the understands mule nature twinkled posted on receipt of an express order better than the white man, proceeds A London music hall is exhibitinga whenever Crimmins faced him. The ish planter was their master once. back at the stars above the gorge and from the wmilitary authorities. Since to elip off the mane with a pair of big man who measures seven feet eleven guide tried to scare the caribou by To-day they are trying to realize that hummed low of peace and slumber. then they have innocently reposed in shears. The long hairs are removed inches, He ils an Egyptian. He is banging the stove against the {tree, Americans pay wages for labor, Down from the eliffs there to us only to came the desks of the diiferent chief con- from the ears so as to give the mule a young and may grow higher. but this served inerease the The last words of dying Spain were 8 quaver of enchantment. Thea the animal’s fury. Then Crimmins be- stables throughout the United King- pert and likely look, and then the The Arabs show their, friendliness a declaration of peace. American magic voice was silent. It weas: came really alarmed, dropped the dom, except in the case of Leith. worst trouble begins. The danger when meeting by shaking hands six or soldiers are gquartered in old Spanish ““Like the last sweet note stove to the ground and jumped Dbe- How the mistake occurred at Leith end of the mule must now be ap- eight times. Arabs of distinction go “Gimme a penny for four pore chil- garrisons and Awmerican® gunboats From a wild bird’s throat, hind a tree. The caribou smelled the As off to the south he goes.” we are not told. ‘“‘Misapprekensions proached, and, for fear of some sud- beyond this; they embrace each other dren, kind eir; only one penny.” peer majestically into what were once stove all over leisurely and walked off on the part of a police official,” is the den uprising of the heels, the animal several times, “They're cheap enough, my good Spanish cities. Senoritas are singing Black Stick was untamed still, but into the bushes. When Crimmins most definite explanation given of the is backed up against a board partition man, but I ain’trequirin’ any just now ““After the Ball” in ail Porto Rican he was sad, too, and very lonely. By There can be little doubt that the picked up the stove the animal reap- towns., blunder which for a time put the ils than the mule can Sloper. All things have been remem- his song we knew it. which hizher rose is one of the earth’s oldest —thankee.”—Ally peared and Jowered his head to charge. bered. For several moments borough into an acute war fever. {The kick in its eramped position. The flowers. In Egypt it is depicted on a Silk Red- Out of His Latitude, The guide then threw the stove at the Yet detachments of Unecle Sam’'s mond’s heart was so big that it choked mistake was scon rectiiied, the placards operator seizes the tail, draws it over number of early monuments, believed were hurriedly . “I suppose you can swim?” askea caribou and the animal turned and dis- horsemen are scouring the hills for his throat, and he ecould not speak. torn down and the bur- the partition, and with the shears pro- to date from 3000 to 3500 B. C. ghers of Leith were by evening as free of hair, leaving only - the maiden, as they leaned over the appeared. dark little men with bare feet and This is what the words were, when coeds to divest it The Grand Jury of O’Brien County, from war’s alarms as the rest of the at the tip, and when it is railing of the great steamer and idly by Gas hagzard faces—for men who have long thev came: a littie tuft lowa, recently adjourned for the sec- Fooled a Machine. kingdom.—New York Sun. released it resembles nothing so much watched the turbulent waves. A Brooklyn woman, whose gas bills known that war is no more, and whose “I'm going to pull my freight in the oud time without inding a single in- as a short section of rubber pipe. “Yes,” he replied, ‘‘but I never and wives and children are passively morning and let the poor fellow starve dictment, and the court calendar does were almost beyond computation, State Oflicers Paid in lelts in 1788S. halters are left on tried it in a tank like this.”—Chicago starving in the coast cities, and sing himself to death. Iwouldn’t Sometimes the not a single criminal of certainly beyond her purse, had one Probably few people to-day know a contain case Tribune, Do they hate the cavalrymen who shoot that chap any morethan I would the mules for convenience, but as kind. of the new-fangled quarter-in-the-slot that tue original name of the State of a sky- any are daily running them down? Yes, —eat a baby.” rule they are taken off, and with His Mission., put in her flat and antici- Tennessee was Frankliu, or that in aspiring swing of its heels the freed A msmated couple in Benton patedm.ac‘uiuesgreat pleasure in keeping tab on just as the slaves of other days hated The Tio Grande purred and prattled - Mrs. Holmes—*‘‘You ought to be 1788 the salaries of the officers of this bounds out into the corral to County, Missouri, after frequent bick- machines, the lash., Ah, but they hate the rich on. It was very dark in the gorge. I animal ashamed of yourself. We are all sent her gas expenditure. These commonwealth were paid in pelts, but improved appearance among its erings, decided to separate. The hus- by way, are fed a quarter, and Spanish planter muech more, even as reached for Redmond’s hand. His air its . world for some useful pur- the the following is a correct copy of the long-eared comrades. There is an- band drew a paper and both signed it. into the when the quarter’s worth of gas is the slaves hated him who held the was groping for mine. Then we document contained just fow poses.” lash. dreamed of law: other peculiarity abont the mule that The burned they shut off automatically. great cities and loving enacted words: *““We agree to disband.” '~ The Tramp (humbly)—"‘Yes 'm. I Why was it that skeleton companies white faces in the northland, ‘““‘Be it by the General As- is hard to comprehend. It will follow Toward evening of the day in which whilethe sembly the State Franklin, I musthave been intended to use of Americans routed whole regiments moon mounted the skies above of of and a gray horse to the jumping-off place By different peoples every day in ~think the machine was installed she wended the it is hereby enacted by anthority ~up cold victuels.”—Puck. of Spanish soldiers? Because these gorge, and its white bars played in of and then plunge over the precipice the week is set apart for public wor- her way to the slot and deposited her the the same, That aiter dark little men with bare feet and depths of the running river. from and the after its leader. For this reason the ship—Sunday by the Christians, Mon- He Wanted to Know, : money, but when an attempt was made hazgard were In themorning squad first day of January, 1788, the salaries rider who leads the drove is always day by the Greeks, Tuesday by the “Mother isn't blind, is to light the gas the machine would not faces in the ranks; and the rest of the this Johnnie—- why were they there. Because ran Into us. of commonwealth be as follows, mounted on a gray steed. Oeccasion- Persians, Wednesday by the As- she?” register, and the evening light was they to wit: were nothing but poor Porto Rican **Well, what do you know?” the old ally a member of the drove will dash syrians, Thursday by the Egyptians, Pa— “Ofcourse not. What putthat shed out of lamps and candles. A mongrels, and their masters, the full- sergeant asked. ‘“His Excellency, the Geverner, per ~down a side street or across a vacant Friday by the Turks and Saturday by into your heal?” wrathy note brought the company in- blooded Castilians, drove them **Black Stick may annum, 100 deer skins. ~lot, but the two horsemen in the rear the Jews. ; Johnnie—**Mrs. Bowser, who was gpector to the scene the next morning to it. be in Jericho for ‘‘His Honor, the Chief And these same little men in those all I can tell,” Redmond Justice, 500 are after it in a twinkling, cracking In a magazine article explainingthe here to-day, said mother’d never see and he thoroughly vindicated the re- averred deer skins. few mounths feit a sensation which hopelessly. ~their long whips, and after u few gyra- former wealth of Venice, Professor forty agaiu.” —Boston Transeript. putation of the contrivance when he their fathers never knew. The Awmer- *‘ln my opinion Stick and his ““The Secretary to his Excellency, tions the frightened mule catches a Lombroso notes that in the fourteenth unlocked it and drew from the inside Black the Governor, Following Woman's Surest Gaide. icay feels it, trembles under it, glories melancholy musie is all a fake,” some 500 raccoon skins. sight of the gray horse of the leader century a merchant was able to guad- three nickels and a dime.—New York s Clerk, skins, . in it one said. **County 300 beaver and hears the familiar ‘“‘ho-ee, ho-ee!” ruple his fortune by one round trip of Deeply she considered the possible Ma:l and Express, up It is the sensation of I acknowledged, without choking, “Clerk of the House of Commons, -0! thé rider, and away it bounds to re- his ship, {aking sugar from the Orient matrimonial proposition she was conquering 200 raccoon skins. Mausingly she shook her T London’s Tramway Traffic. fear. that Le voiced my sentiments exactly. ~ join its comrades. to Lendon, exchanging it for wool, against. ‘““Members of showing great expansion of Taey saw that the pale-faced (as- We were standing upon the river the Assembly, per Down at the big Tifton laumber mills, and selling the wool in Flanders. head. As the diem, three having given her Lead tramway business in South London, tilian was not king of the world, and bank. The clilfs rcse high above us. raccoon skins. i 8 few years ago, the woodsman rode a Then, certes, “‘Justice’s fee for serving a Unreasonable Goose. the shake, there was naught to do but it may be noted that in the financial they in the of 2 **Well, that b2ats everything,"” said war- ~ gray pony which was turned into the quivered thrill mighty rant, one woman’s surest June 30, 1881, the Lon- thonght. When it was the old cavalry sergeant. “‘We mink skin.”—Murfreesboro lot with the mules at night. In a The man in the street-car aflirmed follow the dictates of year ending no loncer a are (Tenn.) Jour- Company carried thought but certainly a gang of Independent Banner. i short time it was notliced that the that it was a true story, but the Cleve- guide—her heart.—lndianapolis ion Tramways 29% a consummated action, coffee-coolers.” ' while for the these dark-little men deserters, A great rock knocked down a pony’s mane and tail were disappear- land Leader does not vouech for it, al- nal. millions passengers, were horse Emperor Williamn's Houasehol!d Expenses, 1898, pas- ip midst. was hurled t ingz, and the reason was then apparent. though giving it in the rarrator’s own Judicial Jes*. vear ending June 30, the infesting the great white cliffs. And owr It from the At no court in are | Europe espenses In their fondness for the gray words: who had the sengers reached the enormous total the Porto Rican women were awed by heights. Then came another. so vigorously watched and kept down pony The police justice the ' the mules were continually nipping at I was up at the market-house, night of being a strictly upright of 110 millions, the profits on deeds of such daring, and at night, ““All a fake,” Redmond reveated as at the imperial one Germany. reputation $420,- in ' its mane and tail, and after that it had before last, buying stuff for over Sun- of the law, and Lad vear’s operations amounting to behind boited doors, they whispered nervously. Then the sergeant spoke In fact, the Emperor has a and honest officer now is, it way of 'to be placed in a stall by itself. One day, and I saw an Irishman up there consequence, luoked 000. Great as the traffic words of praise for such heroes. again: checking the expenditure which is little business in reached the maxi- night the pony succeeded in escaping with a live goose under his arm. at the frayed edges of tLe has by no means And they also taught their babies ““¥ord the river with these horses, altogether unique. Each day lugubriously as the county coun- the E- from the stall, and the mules gathered Pretty soon the goose looked up at overcoat. mum, and as soon to say, when Uncle Sam’'s soldiers Darley. Take positions over there, palace compirolier has to farnish a judicial mechanical haulage in . around and a frolicbegan. the Irishman, kind of pitiful, and sorry,” he said, ‘‘but T shail cil introduces pas€ed by: and don’t move your eyes from the certain number of dishes for a fixed The watch- “Iam place of the inhuman and cumbrous man was somewhat negligent, and in says: to bind you over.”—Chicago ““Mericano mucho wano!” eliff. Corpora! Mack, take two men sum, this sum being " have methods of horse traction, the expan- what William ' their the animals burst open “Quawk, quawk, quawk,” in that And so well did the tiny, dark- and circle to the left. I'llgo this way allows caperings Tribune. sion in the business will be unprece- IL. for Limself and the mem- away went the whole coaxin’ way a goose has sometimes. skinned youngsters learn .the lesson with Redmond and the kid. - No non- bers of his the Liggates, and e Knew Her. dented. —Railway World. family en pension. gang, thundering down the road at The Irishman didn’t say anything tha' in & few days the words grew to sense, remember!” City Editor—‘‘Here, this won’t do.” Furthermore, it appears that the speed. The alarm was at first, but after a bit the goose looks be a meaningzless, wearving sound to “We'll have to get to him first—if board Emperor breakneck New Reporter—‘‘What’s the mat- P.Gets a Wife and Borrows a Gallows. of an costs considerably given, the teamsters were aroused, up and says: “Quawk, qunawk, the boys from the States. he lives,” whispered to me. ; Sherit Richard E. Palin, of Old- Redmond less thau that of an ordinary mortal a chase be- again. Then the Irishmapn ter?” Meanwhile the deserters And we ahead, climbing higher, horses were secured and quawk,” Editor—‘‘ln your account of ham County, was in Louisville, Ky., made mid- raced at one of our expensive London until late in the fol- cocked his head over on ome side, City night sallies the plauntations higher upon the rocks. gan which lasted Blimbus-Fuddlethwaite wedding you the other day, on a queer combina- npou hotels.—Spare Moments. mules had looked the goose in the eye, and says: where they once heard the betwiteh- lowing afternoon. But the of the bridegroom leading the tion of missions. He came to geh slaved. Yes, and Even had I nhot and not one the matter wid yez, onjy speak Prodigy. stuck to their gray leader “Phat’s they burned the haciendas. ing cadence Stick’s voice on An Infant bride- to the aitar.” married and to get a on which Thevery of Black of seventy-five or way? Phwy do yez want to walk whin scaffold dignified name of *‘guerrillas” moon-mellowed no white Another infant prodigy in the of the entire band New Reporter—‘‘Yes, That’sacom- to kang a man. In both he was suec- became a evening, Qi’'m willin’ to carry yez?” theirs, and the ecavalrymen from the man could have leveled a carbine at musica! line has been discovered in eighty was missing. mon bit of metaphor.” s cessful. He erossed to Jeffersonville Insome parts of Georgia the wealthy States received orders to Lring eyes. little H. Levy, of Abberville, La. . “To Base Uses.” City Editor—*“l know if, but it with Miss Katie Riggs, of Owingsville, them those soft lustrous Spanish And Leo mule teams, What in dead or alive. when Silk Redmond and I saw them He is only five years old, but is said planters affect fine instead house at St. won't do in this case. I used to go and was married by the Rev. T. M. thoronghbred horses, for driving. Longwood, Bonaparte’s And all these things resnlted in Silk gleaming from a thicket, we stood to play on the violin, harmonica, of barn; the room in with that girl myself, and if anybody Myers, Then he went to Sheriff Bell is no such thing as a thorough- Helena, is now ,a Redmond and I meeting Juan Tosta, erect and geutly beckoned for the accordion and blow-accordion. The There stable; the site ever leadds her anywhere it will have and borrowed a scaffold on which to bred mule, each and every individual which he died isa on the sweet singer ou the greai white dreaded outlaw to approach. child is now eystematically for grinding to be while she is walking in her bhang Henry Miller, colored, at La- under possessing characteristics that of his grave is a machine eliffs, . T are grange. . e sleep.”’—Cleveland Leader. A S His knife in band; his ha! instruction. ek was one zood ! separate and distinct. and there being corm,