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THE PfRSlTlT OF PI.EA8URE. Thor hopped Hawkyn, Thor dtiunacd Dawkyn, Ther trumped Tomkyn. —The Tournament of Tottenham. In Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, there is a small alley, or passage, leading into (Jueon Square, and rendered inaccessible to all but foot passengers by some iron posts. The shops in this passage are of a subdued exterior, and are overshadowed by a dingy old edifice dedicated to St. George the Martyr, which seems to have begun its existence as a rather handsome chapel, and to have improved itself, by a sort of natural selection, into a singularly ugly church. Into this alley’, one Saturday afternoon late in October.came a short,stout young man. with sandy hair and a perpetual grin denoting anticipation rather than enjoyment. Opposite the churen he stopped at a hairdresser's shop, which bore the name of Tweddle. The display in the window was chastely severe; the conventional half-lady revolving slowly in fatuous self-satis-faction, and the gentleman In-aring a piebald beard with waxen resignation were not to be found in this shopfront, which exhibited nothing but a small pile of toilet remedies and a few lengths of hair of graduated tints. It was doubtful, perhaps, whether such selfrestraint on thu part of its proprietor was the result of a distaste for empty show or a conviction that the neighborhood did not expect it. Inside the shop there was nobody but a small boy, corking and labeling bottles; but before he could answer any question as to the whereabouts of his employer, that artist made his appearance. Leauder Tweddle was about thirty, of middle height, with a luxuriant head of brown hair and carefully trimmed whiskers that curled round towards his upper lip,where they spent themselves in a faint mustache. His eyes were rather small and his nose had a decided upward tendency, but with his pink and white complexion and compact, well-made figure he was far from ill-looking, though he thought himself even further. “Well, Jauncy," he said, after the first greetings, “so you haven't forgot our appointment?” “Why. no," explained his friend; “but I never thought I should get away in time to keep it. We've been in court all the morning with motions and short causes, and the old Vice sat on till past 3.and when we did get back to chambers Splitter kept me there discussing an opinion of his I couldn’t agree with,and 1 was ever so long before l got him to alter it my way. ” For he was clerk ton barrister in good practice, and it was Jauncy's pride to discover an occasional verbal slip in some of his employer's more hastily written opinions on cases, and suggest impn Jvements. “Well, James,” said the hair-dresser, “I don't know that I could have got away myself any earlier. I’ve been so absorbed in the laborrit'ry, what with three rejuvenators and an elixir all on the simmer together. I alirtost gave way under the strain of it; but they’re set to cool now, and I'm ready to go us soon as you please. ” “Now," said Jauncy, briskly, ns they left the shop together, “if we re to get up«to Uoshcrwich Gardens to-night, w* mustn't dawdle.” “1 just want to look in here a minute," said Tweddle. stopping before the window of a working jewellei, who sat there in a narrow partition facing the light, with a great horn lens protruding from one of his eyes like a monBti»us growth. “I left something there to be altered, and 1 may as well see if it's done." Apparently it was done, for he came out almost immediately, thrusting a small cardboard box into his pocket as he rejoined his friend. "Now we'd better take a cab up to Fenehurch street," said jauncy. “Can't keep those girls standing about on the platform. ” As they drove along Tweddle observed: “1 didn’t understand that our party was to include the fair sect. James?” “ Didn’t you? I thought my letter said so plain enough. I'm an engaged man now, you know, Tweddle. It wouldn't do if I went out to enjoy myself and left my young lady at home.” “No.” agreed Leander Tweddle, with a moral twinge; “no, James. I'd forgot you were engaged. What's the lady's name, by the by?” “Parkinson—Bella Parkinson.” was the answer. Leauder had turned a deeper color. “Did you say,” he asked, looking out of the window on his side of the hansom, “that there was another lady going down?” “Only Bella's sister, Ada. She’s a regular jolly girl,Ada is,you’ll—hullo!" >« For Tweddle had suddenly thrust his stiek up the trap and stopped the cab. “ I'm very sorrv. James ” be said preparing to get out, “but—but you'll have to excuse me being of your company. ” “Do you mean that my Bella and her sister are not good enough company for you?" demanded Jauncy. “You were a shop assistant yourself, Tweddle, only a short while ago!” “1 know that, James, I know; and it isn't that—far from it. I’m sure they are two as respectable girls, and quite ] the ladies in every respect, as I'd wish to meet. Only the fact is”—— The driver was listening through the trap, and before Leander would say I mure he told him to drive on till further 1 orders, after which he continued: ) “The fact is—wc haven't met for so long that I dare say you’re unaware of it—but I'm engaged. James, too!” “Wish you joy with all my heart, Tweddle: but what then?” “Why," exclaimed Leander, “my Matilda (that's her name) is the dearest girl. James, but she's most uncommon ! partiekler, and 1 don't think slu'd like ' my going to a place of open-air entertainment where there's dancing—and

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I ii get out hero, piease!" '-aTpww “Gammon!” said Jauncy, “that Isn't It, Tweddle; don't try and humbug me. You Wi re ready enough to go just now. You've a better reason than that:" “James, I'll tell you the truth.I have. In earlier days. James, I used constantly to be meeting this Miss Parkins— and her sister in serciety, and I da say I made myself so pleasant a agreeable (you know what a way tli is of mine) that Miss Ada (not yo

lady, of course,) may have thought I meant something special by it, and there's no saying but what* it might have come in time to our keeping company. only 1 happened just then to see Matilda, and—and I haven't In’en near the Parkinson's ever since. So you can see for yourself that a meeting might be awkward for all parties concerned, and 1 really must get out, James!” Jauncy forced him back. “It's all nonsense. Tweddle," he said, “you can't back out of it now. Don't make a fuss about nothing. Ada don't look as if she'd been breaking her heart for you!” “ You never can tell with women," said the hair-dresser, sententiously; “and meeting me sudden and learning it could never l>e—no one can say how she mightn't take ii!” “1 cali it too bad,” exclaimed Jauncy. “Here have I been counting on you to make the ladies enjoy themselves —for I haven’t your gift of entertaining conversation and don't pretend to it— and you go and leave me in the lurch and spoil their evening for them!” “If I thought 1 was doing that” said Leander, hesitating. “You are, you know you are!" persisted Jauncy, who was anxious to avoid the reduction of his party to so inconvenient a number as three. “And see here, Tweddle, you needn't i>y anything of your engagement un.ess you like. 1 give you my word I won't, not even to Bella, if you'll anly come! As to Ada, she can take care of herself unless I'm very much mistaken in her. So come along, like a good chap!” “I give in, James: I give in.” said Leander. “A promise is a promise.and yet I feel somehow 1 am doing wrong to go, and as if no good would come of it —I do, indeed!" And so he did not stop the cab a second time, and allowed himself to be taken without further protest to Fenchurch Street Station, ou the platform of which they found the Misses Parkinson waiting for them. Miss Bella Parkinson,the elder of the two, who was employed in a large toy ami fancy goods establishment in the neighborhood of Westl ourne Grove,was tall and slim, with pale eyes and auburn hair. She had some claims to good looks, in spite of a slightly pasty complexion and a large and decidedly unamiable mouth. Her sister Ada was the more pleasing in appearance and manner, a brunette with large brown eyes, an impertinent little nose and a brilliant.healthy color. She was an assistant to a milliner and bonnet-maker in the Edgeware Hoad. Both these young ladies, when in the fulfillment of their daily duty, were models of deportment; in their hours of ease the elder's cold dignity was rather apt to turn to peevishness, while the younger sister, relieved from the restraints of the show-room, betrayed a lively and even frivolous disposition. It was this liveliness and frivolity that had fascinated the hair-dresser in days that had gone by. but if he had felt any self-distrust now in venturing within their influence, such apprehensions vanished with the first sight of the charms which had been counteracted before they had time to prevail. She was well enough, this Miss Ada Parkinson, he tin night now; a nicelooking girl in her way, and stylishly dressed. Hut Ids Matilda looked twice the lady she ever could, and a vision of his betrothed (at that time taking a week's rest in the country) rose before him. as if to justify and confirm his preference. The luckless James had to undergo some amount of scolding from Miss Bella for his want of punctuality, a bcoldir/g which merely supplied an ol>ject to Ids grin: and during her remarks A ’a had ample time to rally Leander T reddle upou his long neglect, and

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used It to the best advantage. Perhaps he would have been better pleased by a little less insensibility, u touch of surprise and pleasure on her part at meeting him again,as he allowed himself to show in a remark that his absence did not seem to have affected her to any great extent. “I don't know what you expected, Mr. Tweddle,” she replied. “Ought I to have cried both my eyes out? You haven't cried out either of yours, you know!” “‘Men must work, and women must weep,’ as Shakspeare says,” i*' observed with a vnmie idea that he was making rather an apt quotation. But his companion pointed out that this only applied to eases where the women had something to weep about. The party had a compartment to themselves.and Leander,who sat at one end opposite to Ada, found his spirits rising under the influence of her lively sallies. “That's the only thing Matilda wants,” he thought, “a little more liv<>liness and go about her. I like a little chaff myself, now and then, I must say. ” At the other end of the carriage Bella had been suggesting that the Gardens might be closed so late in the year and regretting th.rl they had not chosen the n,«w melodrama at the Adelphi instead; which caused Jauncy to draw glowing pictures of the attractions of Rosherwich Gardens. “I was there n year ago last summer, ” he said, “and it was first-rate—open-air dancing, summer theatre,rope-walking, fireworks, and suppet out under the trees. You’ll enjoy yourself, Bella, right enough when you get there!" “If that isn't enough for you, Bella,” cried her sister, "you must be diiheult to please! !'m sure I’m quite looking forward to it, aren't you, Mr. Tweddle?” i ne poor man was cursed by the fatal desire of pleasing, and unconsciously threw an altogether unnecessary degree of empressement into his voice as he replied: “In the company I am at present 1 should look forward to it, if it was a wilderness with a funeral in

it. ”

“Oh, dear me, Mr. Tweddle, that is a

pretty speech!" said Ada, and she] blushed in a manner which appalled the conscience - stricken hair-dresser. “There I go again.” he thought remorsefully, “putting things in the poor girl's head—it ain't rig'ht. I'm making myself too pleasant!” And then it struck him that it would be only prudent to make his position clearly understood,and,carefully lowering his voice, he began a speech with that excellent intention. “Sliss Parkin- 1 son,” he said huskily, “there's something I have to tell you about myself, very particular. Since I last enjoyed the pleasure of meeting with you my prospects have greatly altered, 1 am uo 1 longer” But she cut him short with a little gesture of entreaty: “Oh, not here, please, Mr. Tweddle,” she said. “Tell me about it in the gardens!” “Very, well,” he said relieved. “Remind me when we get there—in case 1 forget, you know.” “Remind you!” cried Ada. “The idea, Mr. Tweddle! I certainly sha’n’t do any such thing.” “She thinks I am going to propose to her,” he thought, ruefully. “It will be a delicate business undeceiving her. Ii wish it was over and done with!” It was quite dark by the time they had crossed the river by the ferry and made their way up to the entrance to the pleasure gardens, imposing enough, with its white eolofinade, its sphinxes and lines of colored lamps. But no one else had crossed with them, and as they stood at the turnstiles all they could see of the grounds beyond seemed so dark and silent that they began to have involuntary misgivings. “I suppose,” said Jauncy to the man at the ticket-hole, “the gardens arc open, eh?” “Oh, yes,” he said gruffly, “they're open, they're open; though there ain't much going on out of doors, being the last night of the season.” Bella again wished that they had selected the Adelphi for their evening's pleasure, ami remarked that Jauncy “might have known. ” “ Well,” said the latter to the party generally, “ what do you say—shall we go In. or get back by the first train home?” “Don't be so ridiculous. James,” said Bella, peevishly; “what's the good of going back, to be too late for every r - thing? The mischief's done now.” “Oh, let's go in!” advised Ada. “the amusements and things will be just as nice in-doors—nicer on a chilly evening like this;” aud Leander seconded her heartily. So they went in: Jauncy loading the way with the still-complaining Bella, and Leander Tweddle bringing np the rear with Adh. They picked their way as well as they could in the darkness caused by the closely planted trees and shrubs, down a winding path,where the sopped leaves gave a slippery foothold and the branches fliektd moisture insultingly in their fun s us they pushed them aside. A dead silence reigned everywhere, broken only by the wind as it rustled among the I are twigs or the whistling of a flaring gas-torch protruding from some convenient tree. Jauncy occasionally shouted back some desperate essay at jocularity, at which Ada laughed with some pi rsevorance until even she could no longer resist the influence of the surroundings; On a hot summer evening those grounds brilliantly illuminated and crowded by holiday-makers, have been the delight of thousands of honest Londoners, and will be so again; but it is undeniable that on this partienlar occasion they were pervaded by a decent melancholy. Ada had slipped a hand, clad in crimson silk, through Leander's arm, as they groped through ihe gloom together, and shrunk toliii side now and then in an alarm which was only half pretended. But if her light pressure upon his arm made his heart beat at all faster, it was only at the fancy that the thrusting hand was his Matilda's, or so at least did he account for it to himself afterwards. They followed on down a broad promenade, where the ground glistened with autumn damps and the unlighted lamps looked wan and spectral. There was a bear-pit hard by, over the railings of which Ada leaned and shouted a defiant “Boo,” but the bears had turned in for the night, and the stone re-echoed her voice with a hollow ring. Indistinct bird forms were roosting in cages: but her umbrella had no effect upon them. Jauncy was waiting for them to come up perhaps as a protection against his fiancee's reproaches. “In another hour, ” he said.with an implied apology, “you'll see how different this place looks; we— we’ve come a little too early. Suppose we fill up the time by a nice little dinner at the Restorong; eh, Ada? What do you think, Tweddle?" Thu suggestion was received favorably, and Jauncy, thankful to retrieve his reputation as leader, took them towards the spot where food was to be

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Presently they saw lights twinkling through the trees, and came to a place which was clearly the focus of festivity; there was the open air theatre, its drop-scene lowered, its proscenium lost in the gloom; there was the circle for al fresco dancing, but it was bare, and the clustered lights were dead, there was the restaurant, dark and silent like all else. Jauncy stood there and rubbed his chin: “This is where I dined when we Were here last.” he said; "and a capital little dinner they gave us, too!” “What I should like to know,” said the elder Miss Parkinson, “is where we are to dine to-night.” “Yes,” said Jauncy encouragingly, “don't you fret yourself, Bella. Here's an old party sweeping up leaves, we'll ask him. ” They did so, and were referred to a large building in the Gothic style, with a Tudor doorway, known as the “Baronial All,” where lights shone behind the painted windows. Inside, a lew of the lumps around the pillars were lighted,and the body of the floor was roped in as if for dancing: but the hall was empty save for a barmaid, assisted by a sharp little girl, bchiud the long bar ou one ol its sides [to nr CONTINUED.) Tired, Weak, Nervous, Means impure blood, and overwork or too much strain on brain and body. The only way to cure U to read the nerves on pure blood. Thousands of people certify that the beat blood purifier, the best nerve tonic and strength builder is Hood's Karsaparilla. What it has done for others it will also do for you—Hood’s Cures. Hood’s Pills cure constipation by restoring peristi HI t action of the alimentary canal,

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The able Republican editor is having a hard time of it these days trying to make his editorial columns ‘‘consist" with his advertising columns. The aforesaid able editor is engaged in a frantic and futile effort to prove that the repeal of the McKinley law and the enactment of a Democratic tariff law is going to lead the country to the demnitiou bowwows and that the laboring man is about to be driven to absolute starvation. But the genial advertiser is discounting the efforts of the worried editor by announcing prices away below what they were under the McKinley tariff. Everything almost that the laborer is forced to buy is cheaper. The advertiser tells him so, tersely and in display type. And these are arguments which the able Republican editor cannot over-

come.

John Wanamaker, who was postmaster general under Harrison—having bought the position by giving $500,000 to the Dudley blocks-of-flve fund in 1888—set the ball a-roUing in Philadelphia, aud the columns of the daily papers in all the large cities of the country are now filled with similar advertisements. Tbo Effect In Imllnna. The Indianapolis Journal has been one of the foremost papers in the country to preach the doctrine of “protection for protection's sake,” but its advertising columns are daily refuting its “protec tion” assertions. The Sunday Journal’s “display pages” are a splendid testimonial to the service which the new tariff is doing for the people who buy tilings. Here are a few extracts from Sunday’s Journal: Nicoll. the tailor, advertises: “REJOICE—BE GLAD!”

due to the uew tariff act. The Tribune, the Republi tun organ, contains in the Sunday issue almost innumerable advertisements of this character; Schlesinger <& Mayer start with a page devoted to showing the reduction in dry goods, using this display lino as a heading to the list of prices: FREER TARIFF PRICES, BY WHICH MANY REDUCTIONS ARE MADE. In Chicago, too, the grocers are telling of cut prices due to the lower tariff rates. For instance, C. Jevue & Co. announce sharp cuts in prices with this preliminary statement: IMPOm iMI IHKKl T, WK ARE FIRST IN THE FIELD TO GIVE OUR TRADE THE BENEFIT OK THE REDUCTIONS IN THE TARIFF. j And adds among other things: The change in the tariff enables us to make a REHl'CTION in every kind of im(Hirted cheese. m All the Chicago papers fairly bristle with similar statements. And the story of Philadelphia, Indianapolis and Chicago is the story of every other city in the country. In each one prices on the necessaries of life—tile things which every) xidy must have—are reduced , sharply as the result of the enactment of the Democratic tariff law. It Is the Proof of the Purifling. Tariff reform is “a condition and not ( a theory” that confronts the people of the United States. During the long struggle against the trust-breeding mo- ) nopoly-sustaming system of protection, J Democrats have been telling their neigh- ^ bors that lower tariffs meant cheaper . necessaries of life. The merchants of * the land are now demonstrating the i truth of Democratic theories by marking . lower prices ou tin ir goods. I The tariff is a tax and a Democratic j congress lias reduced the tax. j Tiie people are getting the benefit. " Democracy is vindicated. ^

THE HOUR OF YOUR SALVATION FROM EXORBITANT PRICES IS AT HAND.

THE WILSON BILL DID IT.

Did it ever occur to you that with the advent of FREE WOOL you get the best imported fabrics for the same price you have formerly paid for domestic fabrics? Do you realise that you can have a suit made to your measure for as little as $15 and $18 from materials which heretofore were offered at {'JO anti f'J5 ? And the Kahn Tailoring company also bears testimony to the advantage secured by clothing buyers from the now tariff law as follows: The continued tariff agitation has made it possible for us to buy woolens at such prices that we are now able to make suits at {'JO and ?.'5. which, previous to this senson, we could not sell at le s than $30 or i:<5. Merchants in other lines nlso bear willing testimony to the lessened cost of living under the now tariff, hut the following by the Pettis Dry (oxids company will bo sufficient for illustration: NEW TARIFF TRADING Means trading on the basis of the new tariff schedule. That's Ihe kind of trading we did last week. Our customers liked it, tixi. Nothing sensational, mind you, but good substantial reductions on goods already affected and on goods that will Ik* affected sooner or hitter by the new tariff. Our customers get the iH'iielit NOW. No matter whether the change takes place Sept. 1 or June 1, all the goods in our store are marked down to the new tariff basis

now.

SEE HOW BENEFICIAL NEW TARIFF TltADINII IS. JOHN' WAN A tl A KI. It’S STORY. Take* Whole pj*ye* to Toll of IGmI trot ions In ITict**. But if the Indianapolis Journal is worried by its advertisers, what must bo the agony of the Republican editors in Philadelphia, where John Wanamaker is taking whole pages to tell the people what a benefit tho now tariff bill i.-, to them. Here are a few statements from Wanam.-.k'jr’s miverti. ments: In new wool tiress goods, cheviots imported to sell at $1 50 and f j per yard are reduced to 50 cents; cash mere and cheviot plaids imported to sell at fl.50 and Bi.00 down to 75 cunts. All-wool’sacking goes from 60 cents to 37! j per yard; sail cloth from 75 to 60 cents; French and worsted serges from $1.25 to 81; Bengnlines from $1.50 to $1; silktlgured tnmlses and bat isles from $1.50 to 75 cents. Broad cloth, In all colors, is cut front #3 to $1.50. Women’s wash dresses, in duck, pique and the like, that have ranged from $3 to $10, are put down to a uniform price of $2, and a vest goes with each suit. All silk satin:-, drop ac cording to price as follows: $1 per yard cut to 75 cents; $1.25 cut to IX) cents; $1.50 cut to $1.20; $3 cut to $1.-10; $3 cut to $2.25; $3.50 cut to$2.65. On silks the cuts average higher, ranging from 33 to 50 per cent off ail along the line. Wanamaker sells everything. In shoes the reductions are ns heavy as in fabrics. Women’s calf Oxford ties go from $2 to $1.30. Infants’ sh<K*s go from $1 to 50 cents. High cut Romeo slippers, in all sizes and colors, are reduced from $3 to $1.50. On linens of ntl kinds the average drop is ?0 per cent. On ribbons it is toper cent. On carpets it is 30 per cent. On silk curtains it is over 50 per cent. < >n children’s clothing it i- 40 per rent. Wail papers go al! tn piece?, being from no per cent !:t higher grades to 50 in the lower ones. Men’s clothing goes down 25 to 80 per cent, and youths' clothing still lower. In Chicago. The Chicago papers are also filled with announcements of reductions in prices

STORY Or THE PENSIONS. What a Democratic Administration lias Done For the Soldiers, United States Pension Agent Spencer , for Indiana, upon the request of H. C. Bell, deputy commissioner of pensions, forwarded to that gentleman a statement showing the number of new names added to the pension rolls at the Indianapolis agency since March 4, 18!)3, when the Democratic party came into power, and also the number of pt nsiouers who have been reduced in rate or whose names have been dropped from the rolls in Indiana since that time. These reports show that 3,902 new names havp been added to the rolls in this state, and but 165 have been reduced in rate, and but 82 dropped from the rolls. So it will bo seen that less than one in each county has been dropped, while an average of 42 new names in each county has been placed upon the rolls and an average of loss than two, in each county has been

reduced in rate.

When it is remembered that there are over 08,000 pensioners residing in the state of Indiana it will be seen how clearly thesi figures show that the pensioners of Indiana have not been mis- L treated by the administration. The total | dropp* d and reduced are 247, distributed through 72 counties. | TARIFF REDUCTIONS.

Some of the Necessaries of Life Cheapened to the Consumer*. A few of the necessaries of life upon which material reductions have boen^ made by the new tariff bill are as follows:

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WANAMAKER’S TESTIMONY. Tha Democrntlr Tariff Reduces the Cost of Reil lllaiikets. “Four hundred pairs handsome nllwool couch, bed or wrapper blankets, precisely like them regularly $5 up to a week ago; our price *2.75 the pair.”- Advertiaenmut }«• W;t::amakur, Harrison’s postmaster general, in Philo-» delplna Times. Not a Chiuii t‘opu 11st Your. The Pnpul)«t vote i«t falling r.fP riot only in the south, hut also in the east and west. This is not a good Populisl year.—New Albany Public Press. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria.