Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — Page 2

dumber Twelve

665? HAVE been and gone and lost I my heart, Father Confessor!” “Again!” The girl laid down her work in grim disapproval. “Only two weeks ago you told me you were clear of your last three flirtations, and had made strenuous resolutions, and now—if I had such a runaway heart, Eustace, I would put a chain and collar on it and lead it like a pet poodle; or—or," her glance falling on the wicker stand at her side, “I would give it to my mother to keep in her workbox.” “But my mother's workbasket has no lid," he objected, lounging lastly against the window seat. “Suppose," with mock beseeching in the laughing eyes, “suppose you kindly keep it for me in your work box.” “My workbox is always being upset; your heart might spill out and roll away under the piano, and lie there weeks and weeks; besides, I always take the liberty of using as a needle cushion anything ‘soft’ that 1 And In my workbox.” He flushed through all his brown and laughed a little nervously. “But then, you know, your heart is so hard you cannot have a fellow-feeling for my weakness,” he pleaded, meekly for him. The girl flashed a half contemptuous glance from under her level brows. “At least, my heart isn’t made of butter!” she retorted, while the little fingers worked on with vexed swiftness. “I ask you frankly, Eustace Winthrop, when you have got through all your flirtations, and meet the woman you can really love and honor, how much of your heart will be left to give her? About as much as a half-penny bit will cover! The rest will have been given Away piecemeal. And 1 tell you, if she Is a woman worth the name, she will not give you her large, true heart for your wornout, half-penny bit of a one!"

He sat up alertly enough now; the laughter had all died out of his eyes. "Do you really think what you say, Elizabeth? Because If it is true 1 am in no end of a fix.” “You deserve to be,” with that quick, characteristic little nod of hers. “The best advice I can give you Is to marry a woman who has only a half-penny heart to match your own half-penny bit, then you will not cheat her.” "But the girl I love Isn't of the halfpenny type of woman!” “The girl you love?” The scornjn the clear young voice made him wince. “You do not know the meaning of the word! Men like you, with three different love affairs in as many weeks, haven't it in them to love!" “But. Lizzie ” A little frown had crept between the delicate brows, and one slippered foot tapped the floor. “You provoke me, Eustace; you will not wake up to be the noble man you might be; but dawdle and play your life away. You play at everything jhst as you play at love." "Lizzie, if you give me up, now, and will not be my father confessor, as you have been these five years, what will become of me?” “You never follow your father confessor's counsel. When you thought you loved little Nettle, didn't 1 tell you what a sweet wife she would make? When you quarreled with Molly, and came grieving to me, I told you to apologize, for it was your fault, and you would not; and I don’t know when you will meet such a noble girl again. Now, she would have made a man of you! And Molly was the tenth—or was It the eleventh?” “Lizzie, I love one now who Is nobler than Molly, and sweeter! Will you not let me tell you about her? But then”— ruefully—"l do not believe it would be of any use!” “No,” decidedly, ss she folded her work, and snapped the workbox lid; “It would not be of any use. You must learn to be your own father confessor, Eustace. There is little Nan with her music roll; I must leave you to give her a lesson.” She smiled, half kindly, half sadly, as she held out her hand to the knight of the rueful countenance. “And you really will not let me tell you, Lizzie?” “No," gently, but with quiet flrmoeu, "I have advised you eleven times; this twelfth time you really must settle Cor yourself.” “In baffled silence he wstched her walk from him. What other girl carried her head with such proud face. ''Queen Elizabeth” she truly was, as the girls sometimes called her. “But 1 do just wonder who it is now,” Elizabeth mused, as she sat by her little pupil, counting the monotonous “one, two, three." What pretty girl was there with whom he had not already been madly in leve? And how long would this last fancy live? Three weeks or a month? The little pupil wondered at the impatient tone of the usually sweet voice, and the troubled knot between the delicate brows. 11. “Miss Somers, I wish you would see that the new arrivals In the next ward •re properly attended to.” At the surgeon's word, Elizabeth turned from the cot over which sb* had been bending, and walked quietly from the ward. Ten years had passed since the night ■ustace bad brought his plea to unenaprehendlng ears, and for seven at those ten years Elizabeth had been ■umbered among the sisterhood of nurses, when the war flag was unfurled

over our land, and the call for nurses came. Now, aa she entered the new ward and passed slowly among the feverstricken soldiers, her calm, brave face seemed of itself to bring healing. But suddenly lhe sweet face grew white and the flrm hands trembled. A sick man had raised himself from his pillows and called her name: “Elizabeth! Elizabeth!” The eyes were wild with delirium, but they were Winthrop’s eyes, and It was Winthrop's voice. With steady hand she laid him back upon his pillow, while the unconscious eyes clung to her face with hungry eagerness. “He calls out like that every now and then,” the patient next him volunteered. “I wish his wife could come to him.” His wife? The nurse rose slowly, and looked before her with dyes that grew suddenly dim. Yes, why not? It was more than likely that he had married in these ten long years. And was it strange that his-jwlfe should bear the same name as the friend of fils boyhood? There were many Elizabeths. As she nursed him she schooled herself to feel that she was ministering to him in that other woman’s “stead; that other, who had the sweetest right to minister. And one day he opened conscious eyes and saw her standing by his cot. “Elizabeth, is it you?” he asked quietly. In his weakness it seemed not strange that she should be there. And she smiled and answered quietly, though her lips were quivering. But it was harder now than when the veil of unconsciousness hung between them, to feel his eyes clinging hungrily to her face, and the weak hands groping for her hands or gown. It grew so hard she could not bear it, and made her visits to the ward as few as possible. But his fever rose again, and she had to come and sdothe him. “Why do you not come as you used?” he complained with the unreasoning querulousness of weakness; and she satisfied him with evasive words. But a few days later she asked him, with her eyes turned from him, if he did not wish her to w’rlte to his people—to send some word to his wife. “My wife!” he said, and looked at her in amazement “I have no wife. The woman I loved, the only woman I ever loved, could not believe In my love. Do you not remember, dear, how you could not believe that I loved you?” “Loved me?” • Those around noted offly that the nurse seemed to be speaking in low, soothing tones to her restless patient while she smoothed his pillow. "Yes, you; who else, sweetheart?” A faint weary smile played about the man’s lips. “Have you not dreamt it in all this time? You see it was real love, Elizabeth; for it has burned purely in my heart all these years. I have tried to live purely and nobly for that love’s tJhke." “And I—l—was Number Twelve?” she whispered. The sick man next them saw the nurse draw the covering carefully over her patient's bands; he did not see bow, under Its folds, her fingers clung about those weak hands. “No, not the twelfth, dear, but the first For I never really loved any but you.” “Do you know I have been dreaming a dream?” she dald softly to him, as she made her evening rounds. "What was the dream, sweetheart?" “I dreamt that we sat again on the old porch, and you told me again of losing your heart to Number Twelve; and I—did not—refuse to listen!” " And that dream came true.—New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat

“Faithful" Service Rewarded.

The late Judge Smyth, so much better known aa "the Recorder,” used to have s reminiscence of another lawyer who now enjoys much distinction at the bar and for a time rejoiced in judicial honors, but who was at the time managing clerk of a law office on tbe same corridor with that of the future recorder. ‘1 met him In the hall one day,” said tbe old judge, “and be waa evidently very much agitated. I Inquired tbe nature of bls trouble. Almost weeping, he answered: ‘I have been discharged, discharged without a word of explanation, after five years of faithful service. It la very hard.’ And then he quite gave way, and added, in tears: ‘And you know, Mr. Smyth, you know what affidavits I have made for that man.’ "—New York Times.

The Glacial Period in New England.

While It la found that the glacial flow la tbe region of what la now the Connecticut valley was directly aouth--ward (as we know by the glacial scratches and striae on the upper surfaces of ledgee decently denuded of soil, and by tralna of boulder*), It waa eastward, or at least east by southeast, over the region bordering on Massa chusett* bay. The geologists find evidence also that the forward edge of the glacier extended some flfty or more miles beyond tbe present coast line. George* Ranks and tbe sands of Cape Cod are the abiding visible record of the gladler disposition that went on not far away.

As a man gets along in years, he finds more comfort In a woman who would make a mustard plaster for him than in one who would die for bim.

ANOTHER PARTY BORN.

Allied People's Organization Formed by Delegates at Louisville. The Populists have a new name. As the Allied People’s party of the United States, a title formally adopted at Louisville the other day, they expect to go forward until they have united under one banner all the reform elements opiwscd to the Democratic and Republican parties. The People's party and tbe Public Ownership party of St. Louis alone have formally joined the new organization, but the Fusion Populists, the Socialists, the Referendum League, the Union Labor party, the Prohibition party and the United Christian party had representatives present looking on at the birth and unofficially promising support. The convention was called last September “to unite reform forces against plutocracy.” About 250 delegates were present. One element in the People’s party • was opposed to any concessions to the other reformers, but finally a platform was adopted which provides for all. though expressly reaffirming the spirit of the platforms of the national conventions of the People’s party in St. Louis, Omaha and Cincinnati. This platform makes the demand for the initiative and referendum the chief point at igsue, holding that if this point could be carried the remainder of the principles desired would follow as a matter of course. The platform favors the public ownership of all public utilities; demands that land, including all natural resoqvces, the heritage of the people, shall not beJhogopolized for speculative purposes, and thnt alien ownership shall be prohibited; that all lands now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their needs or by aliens shall be reclaimed and held for actual settlers only; that money shall be based upon the entire ,wealth of ; the' people of the nation, and not redeemable in any specific commodity, but shall be full legal tender for all debts, private and public, to be issued by the government only, and without the intervention of individuals or corporations, sufficient in quantity to meet the requirements of commerce, and that taxation be just and natural. It also provides that the President, Vice President, Federal judges and Senators be elected by the people; that a cabinet office of the department of labor and equitable arbitration be established; that postal savings banks be and that such constitutional amendments be passed as may put the desired laws in effect. Chairman J. A. Park of the Populist National Committee, in urging that all minor differences be laid aside, said that the platform adopted was “the most unassailable document ever prepared by a politico bparty,” and denounced as a Judas Iscariot any man who “would attempt t« obstruct the work begun for mankind.”

OLEO BILL IS PASSED.

Measure, Without the House Amendments, Put Through Senate. By the close vote of 37 to 35 a motion to recommit the oleomargarine bill was defeated ip the Senate. The bill was then passed without the House amendments, substantially in the form of the Grout bill, by a vote of 39 to 31. The Mooney or minority bill was defeated, 39 to 29. The bill will now go b*ek V» the House and probably into conference. There may be some delay in reaching an agreement, but the impression prevails that it will become law substantially in the form it passed the Senate. It provides that oleomargarine and kindred products shall be subject to ail laws and regulations of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, into which they are transported, whether in original packages or otherwise; that any (>erson who sells oleomargarine and furnishes it for the uses of others, except to his own family, who shall mix with it any artificial coloration that causes it to look like butter shall be held to be a manufacturer, and shall be subject to the tax provided by existing law; that upon oleo margarine colored so as to resemble butter. a tax of 10 cents a pound shall be levied, but upon oleomargarine not colored the tax shall be one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; that upon adulterated butter a tax of 10 cents a pound shall be levied; and upon all process or renovated butter the tax shall be one-fourth of 1 ecu-t ;>er pound. • The manufacturers of process or of renovated butter or of adulterated butter shall pay an annual tax of S6OO, the wljoh-sale dealers shall pay a tax of S4BO. and the retail dealers a tax of S4B per annum. The measure ;g-ovides regulations for the collection of the tax and prescribes minutely how the various products are to be prepared for market. Among the speakers were Senators Foraker. Penrose and Spooner, in .support of the measure, and Senators Money, Vest, Scott, Kean. Carmack and Rawlins, iq opposition. During the debate Mr. Kean laid before the Senate a sample of oleomargarine and Senator Frye said the sample would be laid on the table. The discussion was largely in the nature of a re-enfdrceinent of arguments previously advanced,

The Comic Side of The News

Gen. Miles figures thnt at his salary he should not be purely ornamental. Canada is waiting around to be n sister of Cuba if we deny the relationship. No donbt Great Britain would be pleased to retire the Boer war on au old age pension. Borne time ago this country was going to build an isthmian canal in about a minute. It seems to be getting over it* hurry. According to Gen. Otis the Filipino insurgents put in their spare time reading Senator Hoar's speeches. It will take a good deal longer time to get the money back from the Sultan than it did to get it to the bandits. The Missouri river is on Its annual rampage and Omaha must wait uptil the floods roll l»y before it will know for certain whether it is in lowa or Nebraska. John Dillon, who has been suspended from the House of Uotnmomf for calling Jowp|) Chamberlain several kinds of a liar, may have mislaid his book of synonym*.

BRIBERY FOULS ST. LOUIS.

Grand Jury Brand* City Connell with Charge of Infamy. < Charges that startled St Louis were made by the February grand jury, which haa been investigating bribery and official corruption in the Municipal Assembly, in its final report to Judge O’Neill Ryan. In this report a system of bribery and corruption, the extent of astounds St. Lopis, is laid bare. Members of the House of Delegates are charged with being of the lowest order of intelligence, some without moral sense or ordinary reasoning power, some combining a perverted sense of morality with the lowest form of cunning, groveling instincts, and sordid desires. The report cites instance after instance Of huge bribes given and offered almost without effort at concealment by the agenda of corporations, especially street car companies, for the purpose of securing franchises. Men high in corporation circles <of the city, directors of street railroad companies, men who are financial leaders, the jury says, have freely put up money knowing It was to be used to purchase franchises, and while some of these men are beyond the reach of the law because the evidence is insufficient to convict in a trial court, yet they are “morally convicted and damned.” The report declares but a small proportion of those who deserve to wear felon’s stripes have been Indicted.

Three indictments already made public were returned. They were: Bribery, Robert M. Snyder; attempted bribery, Edward Butler; perjury, George J. Kobusch. More indictments were found, but they have not yet been made public, and many high street railway men, politicians and members of the House of Delegates are shivering with apprehension. The report declares the people of St. Louis have but a vague conception of the extent to which corruption and veniallty have existed among the sworn officers and public servants for the last Yen years. It says the conditions existing* now are almost too appalling for belief. It says the evidence given showed that one city official openly boasted that he made $25,000 a year out of an office with a S3OO salary attached. Another officer agreed to do an official act for $75,000 and afterwards, when approached by a rival corporation, he accepted SIOO,OOO to do the opposite of that which he agreed to do for $75,000. One legislator received $50,000 for his vote in favor of a franchise, then returned the money, hoping to force /the company to give him more, and was finally-towed to accept $5,000 as his share of the corruption fund. As a remedy for the present conditions tn the Municipal Assembly the grand jury suggests that the members be chosen by the city at laffee. The payment of liberal salaries is advocated in order that honest men can afford to serve the city in the Assembly.

PRESIDENT VISITS CHARLESTON.

Mrs. Roosevelt and Two Cabinet Members Make Up the Party. The first tour of a President of the United States to South Carolina since the Civil War began when President Roosevelt, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, two cabinet members and others, including a delegation of newspaper correspondent*, left for Charleeton to be th* guest of the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition Company. Had President McKinley lived he would undoubtedly have made a visit to the exposition, in pursuance of his plan to cement more strongly the steadily increasing friendship between the South and the North. In accepting the Charleston invitation President Roosevelt not only carried out the ideas of his predecessor, but followed his own inclination. In characteristic Southern hospitality the exposition managers of the city of Charleston made elaborate preparations for the entertainment of the presidential party. Much of the first day war occupied with a tour of the harbor, during w-hich Fort Sumter and other points of historic interest were visited. A banquet was served in the evening. At the same time Mrs. Roosevelt was given a reception by the lady managers of the exposition. Wednesday was President’s Day at the exposition grounds. In the afternoon the party went to Summerville, S. 0., where the night was spent. Leaving Summerville Thursday afternoon, the President and his guests reached Washington Friday morning.

ODD & ENDS OF SPORT

Philadlepbia Jack O'Brien and George Gardner have been matched to fight at Louisville. The $20,600 paid for Dan Patch (2:04,4) i* one of the greatest price* ever paid for a pacing stallion. Tommy Feitz, who appears to be Harry Forbers’ closest rival for bantam-weight boxing honors, is a pupil of Terry McGovern. - New Y’ork having passed a law declaring pigeon shooting illegal in thia State, New Jersey and Delaware, it i* said, will follow suit. During the fourteen years Jake Beckley has been a professional ball player his batting average haa been .311. Thia la a most remarkable showing. Jem Mace, the old-time EngHsh boxer, who long held the title of world’a champion, La still bale and hearty and 1* now conducting a boxing school in London, Frank Erne, the popular Ilght-weighA champion, will not be able to appear in the ring for some months owing to the fact that he fractured two rib* in hl* recent go with Gua Gardner in Chicago. Torn Burna, the old Chicago third baseman, who died the other day, was a member of one of the cleverest quartet* known to the game—Williamson, Burns, Pfeffer and Mike Kelly, writes Tim Murnsne. Never before or since was such a team together a* those four. Havana, Cuba, will ultimately be the Mecca of th* cycle racing men each winter, providing tbe preaent plana of the Board of Control of the National Cycling Association do not miscarry. The arrangements for the construction of a cycle track in Havana are now being made.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

There Are Issues Enough. For the present every energy of the Democratic leaders, especially those in Washington, should beputforth to crystallize the sentiment of the country against the trusts, and more especially against the system of protection which has made these combinations possible; against the “trail of the trade-mark in Congress," against the subserviency of the nation, through the Republican party, to the will of the powerful capitalistic Interests that have enjoyed federal favors so long that they think they own the machinery of government. Such a concentration in itself does not antagonize Bryan and his fol-, lowers. It is simply a discrimination between the vital issue of the, time and questions.—Kansas City Star. Making a Bad Impression. President Roosevelt is creating an Impression on the American people which is distinctly unfavorable. His recent effort to straddle the SampsonSchley question was displeasing to both sides of the controversy and was clearly a cheap and unsuccessful play to tlie galleries. His attempt to force through Congress an army bill which .would centralize military authority is an evidence of overwhelming desire for personal power—which is opposed to the spirit of our form of government. His unconcealed annoyance at the frank and truthful statements of GAeral Miles before a Congressional committee shows his lamentable lack of conservatism and the narrowness of his vision.—Buffalo Courier.

The Clamor for Conquest. There is a class of politicians and there are jingoistic newspapers in the United States whose habitual tone would indicate that the true aim and highest duty of this nation is to assert its power by armed force and extend its dominion by slaughter. From the first of our truly great statesmen and our truly illustrious to the last there has never been bne who was ever found clamoring for conquest or ever endeavored to saw the dragon’s teeth of war. The men who have guided the growth of the country, fought and won the battles of the republic, took up the sword as a last resort; did so reluctantly and with regret that it had become necessary.— Atlanta Journal. « Funston Somewhat of a Nuisance. For one who has done nothing that a clever non-commissioned .officer might not have done, that young man lx suffering from the effects of one of the worst cases of conceit known in the military history of the country. In a few months he has done more talking about the capture of Aguinaido than Grant did about Vicksburg and Appomattox during all fils life, while Napoleon himself never performed tbe functions of a national schoolmaster so arrogantly or so confidently. The war in the Philippines is still some■ihlng of a national burden, but it is not half so burdensome as the mushroom heroes that strut across the country and parade their petty achievements.— Detroit Free Press.

Election of the Senators. There is but one way to force the much-needed reform and that is through the demands of the legislatures of two-thirds of the States for a constitutional convention charged with the dutj of formulating an amendment to the constitution which would take effect when ratified by two-thirds of the legislatures. Sexetai States have already made this demand and lowa is falling into line, the latest commonwealth to do so. Public sentiment is so strong upon this n atter of the poi>ular election of Senators that it is oaly a question of time when the convention wIH oe held, unless the Senate meantime shall join the House In tak lug action itself.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Not Much Like Citizen Holdisrs. The time may come In this country when a soldier will luive some of the every-day rights of citizenship. That a man fitted by education and force of character to'-eommand nn army, for example, even in time of peace, is obliged to sit like a “bump on a log” when nearly everybody else is discussing some affair of public moment, appears to be radically wrong. Ours is supposed to be a citizen soldiery, but some of the regulations are made like those which govern the soldiery of a czar.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Ruined the Edifice He Built. In less than nineteen years Theodore Roosevelt, the young kfilght in polities who posed as the champion of the people. became the defender of the very Mg/ple who were denounced by him as • part of an Infinitely dangerous orderthe wealthy criminal class.” Theodore Roosevelt started out well. He reared a giand stronghold In bls early strenuous years. But time has crumbled that fortification to pieces and to-day it stands a melancholy ruin, which appears to have been forgotten by the world.—Albany Express. Denial with a Hiring tn It." Senator Hanna Is not a candidate for the Presidency. He has said so over and over again, and his word ought to be sufficient. Mr, Hanna has even been quoted *as saying the connection of his nfiino with the Presidency Is ridiculous, which is, of course, an ex-

aggerated way of putting it. [ Senator Hanna having said that he is hot seeking the Presidency, he is to be believed. But every statesman of the present day is “in the hands of bis friends,” ajid President Roosevelt will not fait to notice that some of the friends of Mr. Hanna arq just now displaying “pernicious activity.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. President Of a Faction. No doubt Mr. Roosevelt meant well at the outset and to-day means well. No doubt his purposes are of the best from a certain point of view, but he unquestionably “hath eaten of the insane root, ambition,” and the result is 4hat he has felt too much about the succession, about the renomination, about things that are personal to Mr. Roosevelt, rather than things helpful to the people at lar?e. Instead of making friends he has certainly lost a large number. He might have been the President of the whole people. Now he appears to be getting to be the President of a party; possibly the President only of a faction of a party.— Denver Post What Will the People Do? When the railroads and the trusts, with the aid of the courts, shall have succeeded in proving to the satisfaction of everybody that it is impossible to pass constitutional laws that will control their greed and protect the public from wholesale and never-ceasing pillage, what then? Will the American people meekly lie down and let the railroads and trusts own them, or will they rise up and own the railroads and the trusts? In the light of what history has to tell of the absorbing mai%h of democracy, which alternative is the more likely to be chosen?—Chicago American. Thirty Cent* to Lazarus. King Edward has decided that on th» day be is crowned he will give a dinner to 509,000 of the most destitute poor in bis kingdom. On that day Lazarus is not to be left to sit on the steps, but is to be invited in to gather up tbe crumbs that fall from the rich man's table. Even the beggars are to be royal guests. From the royal coffers $150,000 has been appropriated for his largess. That is at the rate of ex"aetly 30 cents a meal, and in the eyes of all those, the world over, who think and consider and feel that is precisely what the meal will look like—3o cents. —Omaha World-Herald. Selfishness of Protected Interests. Tbe selfishness of the tariff barons recoils upon itself at times, as in the case of the high protective tariff shoe manufacturers of Massachusetts, who are now demanding the free admission of Cuban hides. They would not hear to a reduction in the tariff on shoes, which would be a benefit to the coun try generally, but they insist on the abolition of the tariff on bides so that while they can charge the people what they please for the finished product they are being favored with cheaper raw material.—Memphis Commercial Appeal. Record that Speak* for Defeat. The record of the present Congress should alone defeat every Republican candidate for Congress in this year's elections. Tbe Republican party’s abandonment of American principle* and surrender to tbe land-grabbing and empire-building policies of monarchist Euro;>e must of necessity warn the American people against the peril and the folly of keeping such a party In power. There is excellent warrant of Democratic confidence that a Democratic majority will be returned to the next House of Representatives.—Bt. Louis Republic. The Warfare Upon Heroes. The administration will find that It has gained no favor with the country b.vlts treatment of General Miles, Admiral Dewey and Admiral Schley. These people stand high in public estimation despite the disparagement of President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Root and the time may come sooner than the administration anticipates when tbe people will make manifest their resentment in a most practical and convincing manner.—Syracuse Telegram. Hawley’* Anarchistic Talk. Senator Hawley of Connecticut is reported as having said: “I have an utter abhorrence of anarchy anti would give SI,OOO to get a good tfbot at an anarchist.” This reminds us of the man who said of his sou: “I have noticed that Johnny has taken to swearing. but whore the - he learned it I can't imagine."—Brooklyn Eagle.

Grammar and Fact.

Professor—ln the sentence of “money talks," parse "money.” • Btudent—Money Is a noun, nominative case, feminine gender Professor—Feminine gender? How do .vou make that? Btudent—lt talks, doesn’t It?—Detroit Free Press.

Anxious to Please Him.

The Bride—John, do you know anything about high balls?” “Why, er-r, y-yre’m.” "Then I wish you would cook several for my husband's dinner. 1 heard him tell a friend that he dearly loved them.”—Life.