Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 22, Number 50, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 December 1880 — Page 3
WEEKLY COURIER
C. DOVKIC, 1'nblLW,
JASPER,
INDIANA.
A LVMP OF CAMION. ?m,mv. hiiMl'Of CHrlxm, burninic I.urW lnlhKttiwliiirifrnte, Wkllothv MitiHii twidliur, turnliu, outnch ft "' "'I ourlotm yearning-, Tell nuinf the time when, waving iiiirli uIkh o tlin urliHAl wiirM,
Thou, a xlmit wlm-triHf. lltt Inif W pniml hou'l hImvm tlin Hlrtlnic Of iiwttilDnii-c'Auiil'H llvhtnlnir hurled, Whilotht' iri)jiostM, hot IhvIiik hound their r'Kittt Its tilllowi oitilod. Tell me. 1M the Mammoth, wtraylitfc Near that mighty trunk or your, On thu vtmluruatop Htnl terttw, Whkh thy hiiI ohi (INiilMva. Orhl we.uy llralu flown laying, Sleep H-y the tardy hours? jvrphwtfo soino momtrito &tiirlHn, sliding, Wit'MI'il Hid neighboring si rami, Or leapt Into its nolKlili irinjc wh With somH hill, or HKlllty. Though alt ungainly on tho Imul; Whllo near your rootn. In boo'l-tHlnoil fray, JIhj' hiuwo lehtliyo t':iMn colll'llng, Jlltand fought their lives away. Ti'll me, .Ancient Palm-corpse, was there )u tlnit woiM of your1 primeval .Aniflit of man In pertcct shape? WiM there goo-li1 hih! there evil? "Wutt it iiiati? or whs It ape? Tell mo, lump of Carbon. burning I,urll In tho kIowIiik grato. tta there In each human face Pomi'llilng or tho inonkeyV trace? Tli mf, have wo Iwt a link? SiJrthy eoaly liraln ami think, "While thy rel tinmen rUeiunl gink, .Age past elueldatc. nHimbtin' Journal.
THE SEW CINDERELLA.
-a noma little bear," continues Cornelia with more acrimony than before, &ho hag an intuitive feolinsr thtit the rector does not agree in these stricture. Something in his expression rouses tho jealousy which is alwavs burning in such natures a hers. Is'o sooner is tho door shut upon tin; rector than shu bursts out: 44 Mamma! that odious girl has boen tampering with Pringlo!" "Moii8cii.su, Cornelia; as if ho would look nt such a child. Men of his ago liko a sensible woman for u wife." ' "Thijy do no such thing, and you know that very well. Whata the use of making a fool of mo that way?" " Cindy is as forward as she can be," remarks Adelaide, vtciottslv; "and she's not such a child either. "I noticod old Ir tiglo watching Iter at the school feast," "And why didn't you 10111110?" re-
torts Cornelia, fiercely, "and 1 would
iinvo sum, uer nomo
ill natur
ns ever
it T 2..-. I .
"x juiuous 01 sucn a Pringlo! Oil, thank von.
get something butter than tl "Sour grimes, mvdoar." r
nelia, laughing scornfully. "Oh. vou
nectln t bo so proud. I can tell you old Pringlo doesn't caro two ponce for you, there!" "Vou ill-natured creature," cries Cornelia, dissolving into tears. " Hold your tonsrues!" sava tlmir
mother, hurriedly; " there's some one driving tip tho avenue." At once the Spicers fell into position. Their training was perfect: tho General's widow
understood washing tho family linen in private. Just about this time vouncr Lord
When tho widow of General Snioer Lavender came homo to tho Hall. Rc-
inarriod rav father she swore that I, 1 port said ho meant to giye a series of his only child, should bo her first caro. 1 festivities balls, lawn-tennis parties, Unfortunately, promises before mar-n" what not. The whole noighborriage aro proverbially unsound, por- hood was in a llutter. "You must call is-hable as pie crust. Those made by , at once," my stepmother said to my the Widow Spicor wcro singularly light t father; "there's no timo to bo lost.
pastry: before tho honeymoon was 0 must get up a dinner. Old Laly
x umoioiowors told me
of my amiable staters were Increasing. Is ever had I known them to be so exacting. Everything seemed to bo goinif wrong With thum. From all thai? 'U
oUe they returned out of sorts, and their ill-humor tuid disapi ointment were vented unon me it was all the fault of my bad dressing, niv bad taste, my ill-natured advice. Meanwhile Lord 'Lavender convulsed the whole county by issuing invitations for a series of festivities. Morning parties, bail, tahleaus were to succeed one another. A covey of relations descended in a flight to assist the young Lord in astonishing tho provincials, and astonish them they did. A dream of fair women in impossible toilettes, accoumaiiif'il iv liumluim
1 Guardsmen, drove and rode about tho
quiet country roads and startled tho simple village folk. Tho arrival of
shabby, tearful child, the the bouse?
rresentlv Jack emn for m. i,t
delight showed me that my vanity had
lill UUII lilt).
jiravo, little Cindy," ho said; "I
Know you only wanted fair plav. All
1110 women will be madly jealous of
you." t .1 ti Alt
i uon 1 utinK tuts prospect jhvo me as much pleasure as ho expected, but It was certainly a delightful experience to
mm uiyjfou suen an object of general attention. My pan n tlle tahleaus was
not much. Unco J stood for a few minutes behind a gauze with two other
lames, while Lord Lavender, as Paris.
Cinderella of FSKKONAL AND LlTJCKAKf.
It Is said of Gladstone tkt he "kn. counsel" better than any man alive.
Iiik celebrated DominieaH preaoher, ather Tom Hurke, has sailed from Liverpool for Lisbon en route for Ma
snt Iter home. It's just like your re, Adelaide. You are as jealous you can bo!"
buzuz as old
1 hope I shall
int."
returns Cor-
inese great people put tho finishing
lOlieil LO lllli tl Minium- f tlm I
w..r . "r 'yfm""lvl " " tlv ugiere nelp its. hjpicor, we cot
w " ' .V iiMtay, Jiopuiv ior J and Al.ir.ninr tn
SOUlOIlOt L(' Tlinv warn fnrni'iii- linntir- I t i 9.. , ... ..
- -"-j. m.v..v.vi - i iiuauiv, aim 1 Vina
...ai 111 LI1I1 WHY. imifriTlff ltW 1 tnn 1 71
ollerod the apple to tho center figure, a very lovely girl. She was Lady Sybil Leonard, "a Duke's daiiirhter nn.l .
great beauty," Jack whispered to n.e. mind in the dvnth "We must have another set of tab- 01
over she forgot sho had made any
and thenceforth her maternal
me was a dead letter
caro
of steal Adelaide, you
ituciy."
m . J --"r"j
admittance to tho inner circle nt tho
iiau 01 wlueli such delightful stories were told by Jack, who was haud-and-glovo with tho Whole set. Long and londwcre the disputes between htm and his sisters, and bitter their indignation at his refusal to get them into tlio tableans, of which ho was tho stage-manager. "Just liko bis ill-nature. Never wore two poor girls so littlo helped. Thov would have got good husbands long ago if they had had a kind brother,'' and so on. On tho day of the hall they wcro furious. Their dresses had come down from Loudon; thoy were very handsome, and, although more suited for
sixteen than six-and-tlnrty, had cost a
nuie lorttme. ifio
in trying them on.
on this line summer
lcnirthenitif bnrn.
hustled by one sister, "scohletl
oiuor. my ncau was weary, mv
were aehitur; I felt utterly denrosset
your sister will
ild have Faust
lion and (iala-
His
flushed
eyes
bngbt young face was a little
ith excitement and his dark-
SOIl'Mlt TllllH. Willi an itvwna'.t...
p , , ,i u..f. u.l.ll.ll
uiai, novice as I was, I could not mis
understand.
" 1 in afraid there'll bo two words to
that, said Jack, laughing. " Cindy is kept in a glass case; 1 slipped her out
uy mupj cnanco. jiut, listen! tbey'ro
caning ior xno duugment' again!"
as soon as tho tahleaus wero over I
nail to dot! my bonowed garments and make tho best of my way homo. I had
uad my glimpse of Fairyland and must
return to slavery again a slavery moro
unendurable now than ever. I could
naruiv believo it was real when I found myself at homo, waiting for tlio return
I
delra, for the benefit of his health.
Jamks T. Fikliw consider Mrs. Hrowning as the queen of women jioets, and Kobert JJrownlng as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of modern poets. Colonel Nicholas Smith, who married Miss Ida Greeley, has a son named Horace Greeley, dropping the Smith entirely. Ho has a daughter named Nicholsa Smith. Gkxkhal Loki.vo, the ex-Confeder
ate, who for several years held a high
an army, has
orida a series of
interesting lectures on his experience
in Egypt. Mk. Dkoxson' Howaho, the nut ho of "Tho Banker's Daughter," "Saratoga," and other popular plays, was married rocently to Miss Alice Maud Cuiverwell, the daughtor of a Loudon physician. M. Dumas is described as a tall and vigorous man, with blue eye3, a clear, palo complexion and silvered hair and
mustacho. He is a charming talker, and has an agrccablo air of straight forwardness and frankness about him. .
Miss Susan U. Anthony. Mrs. Eliza
beth Cady Stanton and Mrs. Gage are compiling "A Historv of Woman Suf
frage in tho United States," which a generous subscription from Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, of Now York City, will enable them to publish.
Mil. MAHONE. of Virginia, is men.
tioned as a very small man, the largest
I nf mv ttnnninlliiii. ! lm .l.....!. ....... I
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afternoon was spent still mnr ,n.n .i:,i u an-"x?'VC2 v,'.V"r V" 1 UU1 nmiiioucnou nau
It was wearv work I ;, i,Z' , ":r.' " ",s liair n ."?eard.arp iron gray, his
day. pinning this. I 7ml r i S, tA i "L . " -i! oxcoed.ng y little, and his vo ce
tlM.tonin,r wti.,. " "i' inoiigu musical is weak. He talks
w.-.u, . ni-iilll. 1 .....I. o .
he tlm "..t ii i t , . 3"y " wiui a oouinern accent, ne
IOCS imnnMlliln H.f 11 1, ViV ' ".' eareiuwuy.
-wero paid to me. all those tender John Duf, who died.
U cnAftnliiia and i..t. t !.!.... I Oilier uav. was nnn of tl
! ,. , ......villous: Hut there, opposite, on my table, stood the bunch' of lovely roses
to-day he is mu-
havett t practiced and humiliated. I had for tho first tiiA
asked a favor, and been not onlv m
i ?
I lrllH1, Ii,,t . .v !
My father was an embarrassed man. . " wonder if ho will take any interest fused, but refused with scoffs and Jeers, ta l ie stood tl c .unr h' nf wu' rnT, Mr.s.Spicer brought him nothing but m the schools?" remarked Cornelia, Jack had proposed taking me to see the to mo a grown-up family: one son, Jack musingly . rehearsal of tlio wonderful tahleaus, ar- 1 ft wns alTfruo
... ... ...... v, v, ... .... . ,, b' vi if.io. a 1U.1MJ a ovtiu. X Jl.til 10 1U SCIl as I OresSOll It U"iq rtm ihtiiff ilora IVlu.n Own- lt t.. ' ahvavs t4..s!inf Ills i at ora am I mn.uMu , ,.....1 t 1. 1. r if . V.'yvr'.' "llssu1, Jt OI10
ilntnnxttn oivol.i r..-,w.1iQ A.t1Uwl.. IIO nm lfvit lii'tu-mxi tlmn, T Ui .V;.l , I 'Y. 1 " r"' "ll " m (IS 0TC
SmVnr ooVri-i to mv iiirnnth. viw f11- Jack: when he was at horn., mv Hf.-ntt 1 n.l A.llnt.n i....T.,?i .L .i. ' V: 1.01" . x,,c ,atI vaS SCcmett
"i j"' j v. , : ' " - ------.... ...w , uu 4kuvuiiuu imiiiiiuti uvct liiij mi- i men int n-kn i, t MaAi.
i .. -.1 i .i i . i . . n . t tnn cut uuti tiic nn ih:n. iiiii :ih
grown women; and yet it was a curious
tact mat five years later, when 1 had c) anged from a child to a ' missy' of twelve, they wore still in there teens and live additional years only seemed to have the effect of making them
a shade moro endurable, and the few , tion of my presenting myself in such a
uuuvuuuu my onimiioou i garo oeioro too people up at the Castle, wero duo to him. To him also 1 owed t "Thov would tnk-n vnn fnr n L-it,.l,nn.
pleasing to ev- maid," Adelaide had said, still gig-
the first revelation
younger.
cry woman.
so
Returning
Tlio Spicor girls were no beauties.
ftft.nr fi lntur
absence of three or four years ho blurted out: "Why, mother, Cindy has grown a
regular oeauty oring her up
to town
J'hey took after their mother; they wero ' next season and she'll make you all tho large-nosed, shrill-tongued women liko ' fashion!" her; they spent their fives dressing and J "Don't fill tho child's head with nondreaming of a possible marriage, but ' Ponse," my stepmother said, crossly, each year seemed to make the struggle t It wouldn't have suited her for my head more hopeless. Between them the to ho filled with anything but the makIcd my poor fathor a miserable life. am mending of her daughters He had alwats been a meek littlo man, clothes; the ordering and arrangement but from the moment ho fell tin- . the dinners, for which Cornelia and tier the yoko of tho Spleen ho Adelaide got tho credit of being such foemed to lose his identity and to be famous housekeepers; and tho floral merged in them. The constant drains decorations, which attracted even Lord made by the Spicers generally on my , Lavendor's fastidious oyes, and drew father's purse were beginning to empty j fro, him tho remark that thoy must bo
mat long endtirma article. Tho , me won: oi a penect artist.
gins firo uoui wiorougiuy artist
Ic," says my stepmother.
seasons m town were becoming mat
ters of groat dillictiltv and each took a
slice out of a poor residue. Mv stop- ni,ite made up her mind which of them mother was killing the goose with a should go in for the prize. Ho was
vengeance, and golden eggs wero j a "ttlo too young for either; but, after spent for no good. Each season saw R f"v years moro or less don't mattfie return of the Miss Spicers orosser, er the long run. "Adelaide is qur older, thinner, sourer. Sometimes musician. She lias a wonderful voice thoy would bring with them some man 'three octaves, and the register who was supposed to have taken a fancv ! smooth as velvet. Sho has every ad van-
to cither Cornelia or Adelaide, and it 1 tag0? masters every whoro. You liko
"ogoi lau mo iauguiu name into a healthy fire; but the old paying: 'Oportunity and importunity,' seemed to have the contrary effect on the Miss Spicers admirers: thov madn
great inroads on tho larder, but no progress toward matrimony. During these visits I liad'strict orders
remain in my own room. My step
f sters had a strong dislike to any of
uieir so-called admirers seeing mo. Men have, linfortunatelv. a nrcfcrimcn
for fresh young faces, and, in spite of all the nostrums that tlio Spicors spent
oiuo ioruino upon, cacn day increased the difficulty of keeping up tho fiction
t girlhood. To do thorn justice they
worked hard. If thoy had been a littlo kinder to mo I could have found it in nv heart to pity them, 'for surely no laWers put in a soveror day's toil. Morning, noon and night thoy wero digging in ungrateful soil, and tho harvest
seemed never ripe. Adelaide, being the youngest, was tno mostgushingj sho adored dancing, fawn-tennis, picnics and billiards. Cor
nelia, on the contrary, was, as her
mother remarked, steady as a church. Jho haunted tho rectory, where the llfv. Alfred Pringlo dwelt, a solitary widower, Sho made his lifo a burden to him, and marriage with her almost a necessity; it was miraculous howhohold out. ".My eldest girl U such a help in tho Itnrish," my stepmother would say, her wide nostrils snlfllngthoair; "she leads tho choii, and teaches the infant school, and is President of tho mothers' meeting, tho coal bag, and the Christmas dinner you'd find it hard to srot on without her, Mr. Pringlo." 'It's wonderful how tho cliiMrcn "boy Miss Cindy," the Hcvcrend Alfred ays, shyly. "Do you mean Sir William's unfortunate daughter, Mr. Pringlo? That K ri s a heartbreak," answers my amiao second mother. All the pains mv Riris take seem to do her no cood."
"oho a perfectly incorrigible,' says rnelia with tho air of a martyr.
"Doesn't caro a rap for tho finest
voice in creation!" cnos Jack,
4aidcA pl3rfect t0lul,()yH chintw In Ado
wno is a
m-oat allv nf tlin winner f.or.l "Lot-on.
J dor, don't humbug 1113' mother. Ho'd rather have a jolly waltz with a nrettv
girl than examine Patti's register. Hy-the-by, whero's Cindy?" "Gbno to bed, I should hopo," returns my stopinothcr, in icy tones. Confounded shame!" mutters Jack tinder his mustacho; but this was no time for making a stand. Ho returned to tho chargo next morning.
"I say, mother, Cindy's coming to Lavender's ball of course?" " Cynthia's not out!" cry all throo ladies in a breath. "Then it's a good timo to begin goodness knows sho is old enough. Lot mo see, she was bctweeu six and seven when you married Sir William that's a dozen years ago why, mother, Cindy must ho1' " What business is it of yours what ago she is?" interrupts Ids mother quickly. "Isha'n't take throo girls out; it's timo enough to think about her when your sistera are married." Jack gave a long low whistle. "Poor Cindy!" Cornelia and Adolaldo. their faces flushed, their nostrils snifllng, spoke together. "Jack is always rude to us ho likes Cindy because she Hatters him." j "I liko her boeauso she's voting and
protty, and 1 take it that's tho reason
you hate her. IJut you women are all
alike, jealous as tlio douce."
"Jealous! lentous of poor littlo
Cindy! Well, you really might find us"
something better!"
4 Cindy is as pretty as anv of tho
fashionable beauties." returns mv
champion, stoutly, "and if you only
avo her lair play would boat them all. hot you livo to 0110 Lavender would
he snoons tinnu her if ho saw Imr. SIim
Just his stylo:" This injudicious speech sealed my fate as regarded the Lavender gaieties that is, If ever I had a chanco. From thenceforth I was kept more closely to my needle than ovdr. Indeed, it was In constant requisition, for the demands
glintr.
"I can fancy Colonel do Molyns putting his eye-glass into his eye and won-
uering wnere she camo Iroml" "Cindy thinks herself so lovely that every one would bow down before her. Look at her face! Oh, child! what a temper you have!" "Don't attempt to show me any of your airs, miss," says my stepmother, tjirning on mo suddenly. ""We know why you want to go to the rehearsal; don't we. girls. Irs a shame of you to turn a son against his own mother and sisters. You aro a designing, ungrateful creature, and outside theso doors you sha'n'tstir." I wouldn't give them tho satisfaction of seeing me cry; but, later on, when I srot awav from them. I went lilttnrlv. T
Sho hadn't' was so disappointed; I did wish to see
mo tauioatis those beautiful women as
Lllie Deaus" and "Rebecca," and my own dear favorite, "Man-Stuart;" I knew them all so woll. I sat down in the deep window seat of the hall and cried and cried again. Suddenly tlio door opened and Jack camo in quickly. Cindy! " but 1 didn't stir till he camo and stood beside mo. "It was no use, Jack," I said; "thoy wouldn't let me go to the rehearsal. 1 don't think I cau oenr it much longer. Jack; they are so very, very unkind to me! "
"Don't cry. Clndv: vou'll havo tho
whip-hand of them yet, never fear. I
I've
with
settled
mo to
what do you think?
it all; You aro coming
night!" "Oh, Jack!" I cried, "nonsense! How could I? They'd never let me." "They'll know nothing about it; you ju$t do as I tell you." And then ho
sat down and told mo all about it. Ono of tho beautiful women had got a bad toothache; hor faco was all swollen and disfigured, and tlio tableau in which sho was to appear was spoilt. "It was impossible to fill hor place, so I promised that you would do it," Jack wont on. "It's nothing; only just to stand for a minute. Sho has hor dross ready for you to put on, and you'll see all tho fun afterward, and no ono will know you." It was really very tempting, and I couldn't rosist this glimpse of tlio groat world, but I think 1 tlosorved all tho scolflings I got during tho toilette of the sisters. My head was running on what was to como and I could not romember whero a single thing was. "I do holiovo tho girl id feverish; look at the color of her cheeks." I heard Cornelia whisper to Adelaide.
liut this idea did not make thorn a bit moro considerate in their demands.
Atlas thoy finished, anil tho sound of tho rctroating wheels of their carriage was like musib to my oars. I flow to my own room and mado myself ready. 1 don't in the least remember how wo got to tho Hall. It all seemed liko a dream. Hut .presently I found mvsolf In a largo bedroom, getting on somebody's dross, with a tall, quiet woman holping mo. Sho took in hero and let down a littlo there, and tho gossamer fabric fitted as if it hail Imjoii made for mo. Then sho asked mo to look at myself, and when I stood lieforo the largo mirror I started. Could this he tlio same girl who a few hours ago had been mocked at by Cornolia and Adelaide SpicerP this lovely apparition tho
of
all
rub-
nrottt-
That morning all tho talk was of tlm
taoieaus. J.I10 bpicers found great fault with everything except "The
Judgment of Pans." They held forth
ai great lengtn on tho beauty of Lndv
Lva lioauchamp and declared that sho was far handsomer than Lady 'Sybil
Jii'iiiinru. "That's rida-ulous!" said Jack.
"blie s quite a young thing, and Ladv
Sybil is a very fine girl such a figure!" "Lady Eva's a beautiful creature, and
every ono in tho room said Lord Laven
der was quite cpm. I am so glad Lady
bybil and tho Duchess will bo disau-
pom ted nasty, stuck-up-creatures!"
Jauy hva is as like Cindy as two
peas," said Jack mischievously; "so
I'm glad you admire hor so much."
"umuy: nowaosurd! L.adv Kva fs
tho most elegant figure.. Every ono
sam sno 11 ne tno ueauty next season."
"She is like Cynthia," said my fath
er suddenly; "ami that reminds mo that Lord Lavender talked about com
ing here this afternoon. I think ho said
ho vrautodto see Cynthia."
"Cynthia! what nonsense! How can
you bo so ridiculous, Sir William? It's
Adelaide; ho admires her singing. Go
to tho music-room, Adelaide."
"Not at all. Cornelia, you had bet
tor go down to the Kootory; and, Cin-
y, tneros poor .Mrs. lirown wants
some soup."
My heart sank. It was evident I
should havo no chance of seeing Lord
Lavender. I was to bo sent to tho other
end of tho park! Hut just as wo were
suddenly the in wnaltliinat
men of Boston. His life was a quiet" ono. and ho was littlo known about the clubs or among the people. Ho made tho Hannibal As St. Joseph Railroad
successful when othora regarded it as
a most doubtful enterprise, and his work on the Union Pacific P.ailroad was invaluable. His wealth is estimated as
at least $1,000,000.
A newspaper man who saw Mrs.
Garfield in the cars on her wav to Cleve
land, the other day, describes hor as
about the average height of women, spare in flesh, with dark hair combed plainly, with just ono wave at tho tem
ples, iter eyos aro dark and brilliant.
and sho has a very kind, motherly look. ot... .1 r t.,i-
onu was urtjssuu in ui&ck suk, Willi heavy plaited skirt, and wore a chip bonnet trimmed with wine-colored rib
bon.
A gentleman who employs a great
number of hands in a manufactory in tho west of Scotland, in order to en
courage his workpeople in a duo attend
ance at church on fast-day told them
that if thoy went to church thoy would recoivo their wages for that day in the
samo manner as if thoy had been at
work, upon which a deputation was
appointed to acquaint their employer that 44 if ho would nay them for over-
hours they would attend likewise at the
ixiethodist chapel in the
English Paper.
evening."
speaking a carriage drove up with Ixml 10 1 ur PrcJuu,c! fa'! l' Lavender's aunt and Lady 'Svbil Lcn- cent my upper limb?" Wi nard. You may imagine iny step- look from hor glassy oyee 1
mother's excitement. Cornelia'got her
inlllHWil mt,l M.ln m.m. .a ! . . A t.
11111111.-3, .uiu uiuuu uui- way imu low
music-room.
"I have come," said hor Grace, "to
beg, Sir illiam, that you will spare us your daughter for a few days. Tho young pcoplo aro going to get up some moro tabloaus, and she was invaluablo
last night; 1 don't wish to Hatter, but,
really, anything so lovely as sho
looked" "I'm suro I'm much pleased." an
swered my stepmothor. "Thoir dresses wore vory protty; but, indeed, your Grace, your daughter was splendid, and
iauv Jkva, too most lovely!" The Duchess opened her eyes. "Lady Eva is no beauty,' she said,
coldly, "aud as you know, didn't
HUMOROUS. Anon, in the kottlo is worth two on
your nose. Hartford Sunday Journal. A com on the oar is worth two on your toes. Keokuk Constitution.
A Danbuky man has a Hoston ladv
visiting him. Sunday evening, on coming out of church with her. ho extended
his arm, and, with a delicato deference
10 nor prejuuices, said: "Will oti ac-
With a grateful
;8 sue accented.
ft .
jmnoury jsews.
Lawyeu Kqmisky, arguing in a di-
vorco suit at New Orleans, held that a
husband had a legal right to make his wife stand in a eoruor with a surinr
t.ii. . .. . . -
cioincspm on nor nose, "it such mild
moans of compelling obedience aro for-
bidilon," ho said, " what is to become
of tho husband's authority as the mas
ter 01 111s nouseiioidr"
A UAir.nOAi) man who was instructed
to inform a lady that hor husband had
been killed by a railroad accident, and
was cautioned tobroak the news gently,
is credited with writing the followinr
loner: "wear iuauam, 1 writo to sav
that your husband is unavoidably de
tained. An undertaker will call on.
yOU KtlOW. Uldn t an- vnn tn.mnrrnw with full nllm.l.n.
pear, liut whou can your daughter Tho funeral sermon has been arransred
como to us? J.avondor is most anx- for." iv. 0. Picayune.
ions.
"I'm suro he's too good my girls will bo delighted, cither of them. There's no such thing as jealousy botweon those two. Adelaide, my love, I think wo can make a guoss that it is Adolaldo you want."
"Pardon mo," said tlicDuchoss, "Adelaide is not the name." "Then it must bo Cornelia! Really! Cornelia, dearl" Tho Duchoss shook her head. "Excuse me, tho namo is still wrong. Tho young lady I want to carry off is Cynthia.'r I draw a veil over what followed tho scene with my stepmother and sistors when the whole truth was revealed. IJut Jack roused my father, and, tho two combining, I went to Lavender Hall. I returned the affianced wifo of its owner, aud in that exalted position 1 trust that, liko my prototype I havo ro turned good for evil, anil not revenged the slights and insults showered upon Cinderella. The Whitehall llcvicw.
'icayunc.
A man came to the house of a promi
nent Galveston gentleman who was renowned for not paying his debts, and knocking at tho door asked tho boy who appeared if his father was in?
"jso, sir, no nas loit town." "I am
sorry, for I wanted to pay him a little
bill 1 was owing him." 44 Oh. vou want
to pay him money, do you?" 44 Yes, certainly. Hero it is." 44 Woll, then, I'll run in and ask him if ho hasn't got lw.fk." nrtltnsdnn AVmm.
TiIK latest thing for ladios' wear is a largo cord with tassels attached, which is "worn around the waist. It looks nice, but any young man who Is really attentive to a girl this winter will havo to protect his right wrist with somo kind of pad, anil oven then much of the romanco attendant upon clasping tho waist of a lovely creature will disappear when your arm comes in contact with something that seems too largo for a clothos-lino and not largo enough for a ship's hawser. Ohicaga Tribune. 1