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"Whewl how hot!" exclaimed Jack
Tenton, coming in the Jiuning-rooui
mopping his .ace.
"Don't talk about being hot. Jack,
rou are only warm. I'd just like to
know how you would feel if you'd been
cooking yourself over the stovo all the
morning," quietly observed Ii'h wife,
as she hastily arranged the dishes on
\ the table.
"Why," laughed he, "I guess I'd
/eel cooked. It's too hot to eat; ih s
kind of weather I think—what have
you got for dinnevP Is this nil? Who
cares'for moat, potatoes, corn and such
stuff this weather? Why didn't you
mako ice cream? What have we got
the froezor for?"
"Well now. Jack, do be reasonable;
how could I do so much? I got lip at live
(and 1 don't think country people got
up much earlier), went out and milked
the cow, churned, got breakfast before
you were up. then while you were get-
ting ready, I dressed the children, and
that's a task you may lind out some
day. You know Jennie and May have
the whooping cough and 1 had to be
lip half the night; thou baby's cutting
teeth; they kept 1110 pretty busy. After
breakfast, I helped Polly with the
clothes, then there was tiio house to
clean up, bread to bake and dinner to
get. Jack, I'd like to see you have
that much work and sit down and freeze
cream."
"Bet I could do it. You womisn make
too much ado about nothing. I've been
y^taaking out reports all tiio morning,
1 anil the confounded things won't como
out right. I'm twenty dollars short.
Ain't (hat enough to put a man out of
patience?"
"A man? Yc-s, I suppose so," sho
quietly remarked.
"Well now you think you could do
octtcr don't you? I've a mind to let
you try."
"Very well, I will, we'll do just as
that woman in a slory I road years
ago d d, and I'll bet you give in just as
ho did."
"What will you bet? '
"My live dollar gold pioco father
gave mo last week."
"Done, we'll begin to-morrow, and
you may as well try your hand on the
reports;" he sa il with ill-suppressed
laughter.
"Yes? very well and you must be
very careful with the ironing."
"What do you take me for, any baby
can iron."
Sho sill ling sweetly kid, "Wait till
to-morrow night."
* ^oxt morning she aroused him early
sent him out to milk; it took h m
until six (o got ready, (only an hour)
and 'twas nearly seven when he return-
ed. His wifo lazily yawning said,
"/i^Hurry, Jack, get breakfast or I'll be
late." •
Pulling himself together ho hastily
loft the room. He cut his finger in try-
ing to split kindling, burnt his hand in
j starting the fire, and after running
around for an hour announced "break-
fast ready."
Sho arose, dressed hurriedly, drank
ft cup of slop (called for courtesy, cof-
fee) ate a piece of bread and butter,
fine breakfast, called to him to dress
(he children, wash the windows, feed
the chickens, scruti the porch, eta,
etc.
Then tripping along, half smiling,
she tried to think what he would do.
Having walked several squares (they
lived 111 the suburbs of a city of about
twenty-five thousand) she hailed a car
and in a few minutes alighted at his
office.
In she went raised the windows, ar-
ranged his paper; she hail oftenf ad
him just after they wore niarrie ,hen
begun looking over his trouble' .e re-
port, Just as she was busy anting
away—"ding, ding, ding!"rang the tel-
ephone bell. "Hello! ' she called m m-
ick.'ng her husband's voice.
•p that you Trenton?"
'■^Tes," came the answer
"Are you too tired from yesterday's
run to go down the river with us?
There's no one to 'squeal' and you can
bring your reports as you did yester-
day."
"Well," sho thought, "this,is taking
his placo in earnest." Scarcely taking
time to think, she said:
"Not to-day, I'll fix up my papers
first."
"Oh, all right," came tho answer.
He's a pretty fellow telling mo he's
go hot, and going out having a good
time. Very well, I'll just fix him. I'll
get those reports out, and thou write
to the boss for a vacation!"
If he could have seen her laugh—
hugely enjoying herself at his expense
—he would have been even more an-
gry than he was.
At noon she sauntered into tho din-
ing room saying, "Whew! how hot!"
He, unawares, replied. "If you'd
been in tho kit—" then remembering,
bit his lip and hurried to the kitchen.
S10 children e rne running to moet
nia" and such a sight!
"Why, Jack, you've pot Jennie's
dresss on wrong sida out, and May's
siioes not buttoned, .ind, oh, goodness
what a dirty tabv!"
"Jack, couldn't you mako Jennie
help? don't you know you said she was
big enough to help lots; sho's fivo you
know."
He came in carrying ad'sh of under-
doco meat and fried potatoes burnt
black.
"Is that all?" she said, calmly sur-
vey ng tho table; whv didn't you ha «
something cold, frozon cream for in-
stance?"
"Here is some lemonade," lie quietly
remarked.
"How d d you get 011 with tho iron-
ing?"
"Oh!" ho exclaimed, as though
struck, "have you seen 'eiu!"
"By ''em' I suppose you mean the
clothes. How on earth did you burn
baby's gown so badly, and your sli rts
whv didn't you iron them smooth and
nice? you've always sa'd you could do
belter than I—well, you'll have to wash
and iron those things over again, that's
all." Then, glancing up, her eyes full
of niiscii of. "Do you repent?"
"Oh, 110," lie replied, smiling a
rather forced smilo, making her want
to take his place. "I'll gel used to it
and stick it out the week. How do you
like olliee workP" I10 asked, chuckling
softly.
"It seems to agree with me. I got
out nil the reports and found your miss-
ing $20. I presume vou were loo much
interested at yestordav."
Ho started, blushed. "How did you
know?"
"How? Ono of the boys asked mo
to give llio "boss' tho slip and bring re-
ports as you d d yesterday."
"Oh! I forgot—well.' I—I—no, I
won't either; don't givo me away,
Clara, that's a good girl. Just protend
to be me, eh ? '
"Inijpud, yes!" was her quick reply.
Then hastily, "I can't go to work this
wav. I must have some dinner;* I'll
stop in Arnod's 011 my way down."
B.-foro he or the children could spoak
she was gone.
Bus splashing water on tiio dishes,
ho was think ng: "I can't stand this a
week, 1 know—there goes that infernal
baby uga 11; don't seo why oh ldron
can t bo boru with their teeth instoad
of waiting nearly a year and worrying
nearly everybody to death—there, the
young rascal's asleep; it's three o'clock,
my water's cold and dishes greasy—
bother it all; I'd givo in tonight only I
know she'd crow. Believe I will any
how—ding, ding. There's that door
bell, visitors at this time of day ought
to bo hanged. Jennie, run quick, say
'mama's not at home.' "
"Yes'r."
"Hore's a note, papa," sho said, re-
turning.
' Hello, wonder if she backed out,"
at this he wore a broad smile—it soon
gave way to a frown, howovor, while
reading. The note ran:
Dear Jack: I'm off to J . The "Boss"
has given me a ten days' vacation—will be at
destination by time you (ret tills. Applied
this A. M. In your name. Hone the children
won't be cross. Lovingly,
Clara.
•Gee-e-ru-sa-lom! this won't do, sho
was to do my work, not got my vaca-
tion. Jennie, I'll rock tho baby, you
go down the garden, you know where
Polly lives? Well, tell her papa wants
to see her."
Away ran tho little one, soon return-
ing with a strong, neat-looking Gor-
man girl.
"Polly," he began, "I believe yon
can attend to these children better than
I can, as you were Jennie's nurse. I
guess you know where to look for
things. Just dress 'cm up so we can
leave on the five o'clock train. Then
stra gliten things up. Mrs. Teuton
went away suddenly and I—I thought
I'd iron and clean up and surprise her,
but I—didn't you seo." Ho paused,
blushing.
"That's all right sir, I clean up. den
take tings home to wash unci iron."
"Yes, that's it; and Polly, when
you've finished," drawing out his
purse, "take this and come over to
J and take care of tho children."
People smiled as they saw a man in
the cars awkwardly taking care of
three babios, and as the porter called
out J , if anyone had seen him
smile they would have thought him
the happiest of men.
At the hotel ho was met'by his wife
who had been expectiug him.
He caught hor in h s arms and called
hor his "blessing." She drew him in-
to the quiet sitting-room, the little
ones following. Then putting her arms
around li s neck, said, with the faint-
est trace of triumph: "Who won?"
"O, Clara," he replied, as he gave
her the baby, "you'll never have all
tho work to do again and I'll never
ask for ico cream."
• Now that's my dear old sweetheart
back again. Did you think I didn't
feel for yonP Why, Jack, if it hadn't
been so funny I'd have given in at
110011. And to stay away from my
bab es, too!"
"Wo'll stay hero for our vacation,
Clara and Polly will help with the
children."
"I think I have gained; and my
dear, you won't, laugh at woman's
work aga n, will you?"
"No, indeed, I think you must have
been an angel to stand it so long."
"But," she said, laughingly, "I've
had my revenge."—Yankee Blade.
A Lady Killer of the Hoosier
State.
The latest stylo in neckties, and ono
that originated in Crawfordsville but a
short time ago, is that of having gor-
geous flowers springled with diamond
dust painted on tho most conspicuous
Dart of the tic. Tho style is quite a
loud one, but promises to become all
the rage in a short time. It originated
among tho student i of Whbash College,
a class of people of wonderfnl .avea-
tive i;cnJr. Independent Sentinel,
"CONSECRATED TO AN IDEA."
Why the Most Fertile Land
America is Wasted
in
A Mistaken Spirit of Kindness Which Is a
Hinderaace to the Indians and an Outrage
to White Men-Dr. Cutler, Who Was a
Government Official in the Territory for
Many Years, Givus the Sentimentalists
Some Plain Talk—Some Ancient and Mod-
ern History and Some Plain, Common-
Sense Talk.
Tho following lottor addressed to
tho editor of The Chicago Inter Ocean
appeared in that paper of a recent
date: Soiuo days ago a corrospoudcnt
of tho Inter Ocean entered a protest
against the opening up to settlement
tho Indian country south of ' Kansas
and gave some reasons thereof which
I will endeavor to answer. "It is, or
ought to be, known to tho people of
this country," says tho correspondent*
"that any such movement would bo im-
possible witlunit violating tho most
binding anil sacrod pledges that any
government could mako with its peo-
ple. It has 110 doubt so often been
done in cases of trcat.cs and pledges
made to tlui or.ginal possessors of this
com. nent that the public eonsc cnco
has been blunted, and it is harilly con-
sidered a sin or disgrace for a great
nation to lio and steal. A convention
of border ruffians," continues tins
writer, "held a week or two i-go re-
solved that it was high time that this
territory (Oklahoma) was opened for
improvement." Now let us inquire in-
to the true status of the territory that
it is contemplated in the Springer bill
to open up to settlement and see if our
people really are thieves, and tho largo
and enthusiastic body of representa-
tive 111011 who mot in convention at
Kansas City some wocks ago were in
in fact but "border ruffians," as thus
represented.
I11 llio first placo, tho land that it is
proposed to throw open to settlement
was sold by tho terms of tho treaty of
18GG to the United States by tho In-
dians 011 terms and at a price fixed by
tho Indians themselves.
It is true that tho government names
a specific purpose in tho treaty for
which the lands are to be used (the
settlement upon thorn of froedtnon and
other tr bes of Indians), and proceeded
in good faith to locate Kansas and
western tribes upon llio land after.
A number of the small tribes had
been thus located; the Indians from
whom tho lands had been purchased
raised such a bowl of indignation and
the white settlers on the borders of
Kansas and Texas also protested so
strongly that the government was
compelled to desist, and congress
soon after passed a bill forbidding
further location of wild tribes upon
the lands.
Over 13,000,000 acres, including the
lands in the Cherokee strip, which were
sold in a previous treaty, and that dis-
posed of by the treaty of 1866 were
thus sold to tho United States, Of the
lands purchased of thoCherokeos some
2,0( 0,000 acres have boon disposed of
in tho settlement of other tribos, for
which tho Cherokees have received over
a half million of dollars. There still
remains 6,022,759 acres of undisposed
and unoccupied Cherokee land.
By the treaty of 1866 tho Creeks
coded to tho United Statos 8,250,660
acres, tho west half of their domain,
for which they received $975,168,and tho
Sominoles ceded 2,169,080. The Sem-
inoles received in part pay. 200,000
acres of the land acquired from the
Creeks in the treaty of the samo year.
Tho land thus acquired In the treaty of
1866 goes to make up the territory of
Oklahoma proper. The five civilized
tribes have left, as a perpetual domain,
a rich and fertile country, nearly 200
miles square, and containing within a
fraction of 20,000,000 acres of as good
land as there is on the continent.
Divided among 60,000 people the
present population of the fivo civilized
tr.bes, it would give about .'530 acres to
the individual. Now if wo estimate
fivo to tho family, which is a small es-
timate for these people, we have 1,650
acres to tho family. Where there is
one Indian that cultivates fifty acres
there aro 100 that are content with
ten or less. Where, 011 earth, can you
point to a people better provided for?
Every parent, of course, realizes tho
necessity of so training tho child as to
properlv fit it for the great battle of
life, yet how often do we seo instances
where the overindulgence and mis-
taken spirit of kindness of the parent
sows tho seed of idleness and engen-
ders such a spirit of dependence as to
wholly untit him for the great struggle
that is to follow when thrown entirely
upon his own resources.
It is a question if tho policy of tho
government in taking caro of hor In-
d an wards is not an illustration of this
proposition. Almost from tho days of
Washington largo annuities have been
paid from year to year, and tho Indian
has been taught to depend entirely
upon tho government for support.
Dur.ng President Lincoln's adminis-
tration tho writer was United States
Indian agent for one of the civilized
tribes, tho Creeks, and had the larger
portion of the lo al Indians of the ter-
ritory to clothe and feed for some years.
Although our country was engaged in
one of tho most fearful internecine
were known to history, every want and
requirement of the wards of tho nation
was a-i carefully provi led for as they
had been in p ace and prosper ty. Mil-
lioi s of dollars were tliur .expended
annually. Looking over the rich val-
leys of the Arkaus is river some of us
conceivod the iiteu that wo might re-
lieve the overtaxed government to a
small extent of some of this expense.
Being called to Washington during tho
winter the subject was presuutod to the
Hon. William P. Dole, coinmiss oner
of Indian afl'airs and tho lion. Caleb B.
Smith, secretary of tho interior, who
entered fully into the plan and prom-
ised all the seeds and agricultural im-
pliinents that wo should require in
order that tho Indians might raise
grain aud thus help lo provide for their
own wants. In the early spring, in
di.-tr billing the grain to the Indians for
planting, 1 fortunately only gave out
one-hall'. The nrcoss ty of raising a
crop was presontod lo them in the
strongest light, but after wait lig a suf-
ficient time, and seeing 110 steps taken
in that direct 011, a council of the head
men was called, and the cause of tho
ilela}' inquired into. Tiio inquiry
simply elicited tho fact that they had
enloii the grain. They wore then
very til*inly assured that the remain ng
seed would be issued lo thoui, and
that all rations would cease until it
was put in tiio ground. Ration day
came, and but little had been done.
As wo killed forty beovos, and issued
200 bushels of corn, eighty sacks of
ilour, etc., this was quite an impor-
tant dav to tiio Indian. Tiio chiefs
and town captains gathered for their
rations, but 1 told them that as there
had been but little work done there
would bo no distribution. Of courso
this raised a howl, but they saw that
wo were firm, and that it was no work
no "sofka." A council was called at
once and they concluded to plant the
seed, aud tho women aud children
were mustered and went to work in
the rich Arkansas bottoms. That
summer and fall it was a pleasure lo
see tho beaut fill fields of corn, the
ground covered with willow pumpkin
and squash, and the hid an getting
fat from what his (or rather her) in-
dustry had won from the soil.
I give the nbovo incident to illus-
trate what tho Indian could do if lie
would. But I10 won't. Of course I
know that there aro exceptions to the
rule. I have spent many years among
the Indians and am familiar with In-
dian life. Among tho more civilized
tribos, the Cherokees and Choctaws,
for instance, there aro many intelli-
gent, industrious farmers, but 1 speak
of the great bulk of the Indian people.
Not one foot of this Oklahoma
country is in cultivat;on, or of use to
any of the live tribes, except that they
lease a portion to sopio of the cattle
barons, and it serves as an apple of dis-
cord to engender ill-will against them.
Of the five civilized tribes the ono that
has been most exacting in her demands,
and loudest in the cry of persci«ution, is
that of tho Cherokee, tho most civilizcd
of all; and yet this tribe, although re-
cently engaged in a little intcrnccino
war itself, has found time lo pass one
of the most obnoxious and unjust laws
that has disgraced any statute book, a
law of wholesale robbery. There aro
many people who have lived tho great-
er portion of their lives in the Cliero-
koo nation who, though not of Indian
blood, have intermarried and have
large families and comfortable homes
in the nation. A law recently passed
by the Cherokee council orders all
persons not of Indian blood Lo leavo
the country In twenty days. They aro
to sell their possessions to nn Indian
only, for what ho sees proper to givo,
and he and his fam.ly are cast houso-
less and homeless upon tho world, with
no homo of redress or protection from
any quarter. If the white man should
perpetrate an outrage of this kind on
the Indian what a howl of indignation
would resound from one end of tho
continent to the other.
"Within thirty years after Washing-
ton's solemn agreement with them."
says I.I10 correspondent, "porsecut ons
began to assail them on every sido,
their land was taken awav from them.
In lieu of protection tho government
finully oH'orod tlieni this lerritorv lying
far off in the unbroken wilderness."
The law makers of our infant repub-
lic little dreamed of the era of process
and developement that was so soon to
dawn upon a country whoso resources
and possibilities they know so little
about. When all that country west of
the M ssouri river was set apart as tho
homo of tho red man, the star of om-
piro had not bogun hor western course,
and that great commonwealths liko
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, etc., were
to spring up in these western wilds was
not dreamed of in their philosophy, far
loss that mngnificeut states teem ng
witli opulence and prosperity, should
spring into existence 011 tho then ill-
most undiscovered Pacific coast—stales
that should exceed in wealth and v e in
population with their sister states
on the Atlantic seaboard—no moro
than it was dreamed that '.he pur-
chase of tho small tract
of country at tho mouth of tho
Muskingum by Manassch Cuttlor, for
the New England Colony, in our revo-
lutionary days was to bo tho nucleus
from wh ch was to spring such great
stales as Oh o, Ind-ana, Illinois, etc.
In that ejirly day tho lands in tho west 1
wore comparatively worthless. But j
little was known of its metes and j
bounds, and it is little to be wondered 1
at that largo and undefined tracts I
should be given to llio red man "as
long as water and grass grow." Have I
the Indians themselves dona anything
to bring about this great revolut on, or
to enhanco the value of these hindsP"
What wonderful aud magical changes
have we all seen in llio western march
of progress. 1 remember standing in
front of our Constitution hall in the
v llago of Topoka, in the territorial
din s of Kansas, some thirty years ago,
when the oloquont aud fur-sooiug gov-
ernor of tho territory, Robert J. Wal-
ker. was making an address to tho
free stale citizens, and trying to throw
o 1 on tho troubled waters. "Thoro
aro probably those now living," said
the prophotio orator, who will livo to
soo isothermal lines obliterated and
trains connecting Galveston with To-
poka and bringing the products of the
tropics to j our very doors. Audi be-
lieve, too, that our children, it not tho
prosent generation, will seo tho iron
girdle crossing tho Rocky mountains
and the rich commerce of the Indias
[lind its way from the Pacific across
these mountain fastnesses to tho Atlan-
tic seaboard." It, is needless to toll
how lightly such wild dreams wore re-
ceived. Yet the dreamer himself lived
to see far more than ho foretold fulfill-
ed. But 1 am d grossing.
Tho whole question sums itself up in
this: In our anxiety to cure for aud
protect our red brother, must wo whol-
ly ignore tho claims of tho wliitoP On
tho 0110 hand wo have a people claim-
ing twenty, 1111 liuudrod tiuios more
land than they can—or, rather, will—
put to use; land capable of producing
cereals sufficient to supply the wants of
a great nation. Oil tho other we liavo
thousands of needy, industrious, wor-
thy and homeless pcoplo ready anil
anxious to enter on the land and mako
it blossom as the rose, aud, with indus-
try, wring from its fertile soil broad-
stiiils and Iho necessaries of life, not
only for tho needy whito pooplo, but
for our roil brother himself.
But our so-called philanthropist says,
"Stand oil'; tlieso lauds are consecrated
to an idea." The fact that tho Indian
has no use for them counts for noth-
ing. Tho fact that they would mako
happy anil prosperous homos for thou-
sands of needy, suffering pooplo counts
for nothing. Tho integrity of tho idea
must be preserved. Away with such
philanthropy! It is in keoping with
that which finds a mountain of imag-
inary want in some far-off island in tho
Pacific, and shuts tho oyo to tho liorr -
bio misery and suffering under the very
noso and among our own brothors and
sisters.
It is no doubt proper and right that
the government should continue to
support the Indians, that their annui-
ties should be promptly paid, but there
is no good reason why a large body of
the very best land in tho country
should lie idle and unproductive when
there are hundreds ami thousands of
homoloss pooplo around us. If the
government would do more toward
fostering industry among tho rod men
and help thorn to develop their country
and make it what it should bo, ono of
the best agricultural districts 0/ tho
continent, it would not bo long before
tho United States would bo relieved of
tho necessity for tho support of tho lu-
ll mis, while they, as tho largest land
owners in the United States, would be-
rime tho most prosperous and wealthy
community on the American cont,«
nent. G. A. Cutleu, M. D.
THE BUSTLE.
Married for Whist.
A singular marr'ago, which can
Ziardly be classed under the head of
sentimental, took place in Washington
a few weeks ago. Tho bride is over 70
years of ago, and looks even older,
while the groom is a man of 40, good-
looking in tho face and figure, a robust,
powerfully built follow of Russian par-
entage. This anomalous couple, hav-
ing returned from their brief honey-
moon, aro now living quietly at their
handsome rosldenco on 0110 of the most
fashionable avenues of the city.
Tho marrlago is lind sguidedly ono
of convenience on both sides, since for
some time previous lo the oeromony
tho old lady, a widow for many years
past, had openly declared her desire
to obtain a second matrimonial part-
ner, giving as a reason that sho desired
to secure a husband with whom she
could indulge her fonducss for whist
playing.
Aware of the extent to which hor
weakness for whist was carried, tho old
lady offered in consideration for tho
constant service required, 1. c., that
every evening should be wholly
givon up to the gamo, to settle
upon the groom upon tho morn-
ing of the marriage tho large
■um of $100,000. For a timo tho gild-
ed bait failed to attract Finally, how-
ever, a "Barkis" was found, and, truo
to hor promise, the old lady had a
legal document executod by which her
prospective husband bccamo possessed
of §100,000. — llallirnore American.
How All Part* Id ItlMturbed Ab out
the Mibject of tile l)re -ImproT-
ir.
Bustles are rtinn'ng into all kinds of
whimsical developments, and after
seem ng to decreaso are more aggrl-
vately prominent than over, says Mrs.
Crawford's letter lo London Truth. I,
expect to read in tho p ous journals a
mandomont against llieiu by the aroh-
b shop of Paris. How is it possible to
attend seriously to olio's devotions at,
say the Madeleine, when one sees 011
the priu-Diou chair boforo ono dorsal
fantasias thrust into notice by obtru-
sive bustles? As nolhing is now sa-
cred, tho most novel tourntire is named
as a recommendation for Lent wear
la lournure <xux (tiles d'auge. In its
profile ouiline the part of tho skirt
which is made lo adapt itself lo this
ceutrivanco resembles the w ngs glvon
by painters and sculptors to full-grown
angels, with this d fferenco,—that in-
stead of sprouting from shoulder blades
tlicy shoot out from below tho waist.
It is impossible to think seriously of
anything in heaven above or 011 the
earth beneath when one sees a bustle
no provokingly nonsensical and piqu-
ant.
Liko M. Bonrget, I sometimes con-
sult groat dressmakers on the ra'son
il'otro of sumptuary fancies. One of
them, in reply to me anont tho bustle,
said in substance: "It had lis origin
away back, seven or eight years ago,
at tho Theatre du Chntolet when 'Les
Mile et uiio Nuits' was 011 there. There
wore In that extravaganza two
prlncosses whom nn old witch had
metiimorphosod Into a pair of turkoys.
When re-transformoil into their original
forms they retained some of tho turkey
nature, which most showed Itself la
the 1- bustles. The Princess Bien-
l'l'iiffee was so comically delicious as
10 soften the heart of an ill-tempored
mysogynist sultan, and get him lo dis-
miss llio rest of his soraglio. Tho'
L'rlncoss BeUo-ii-voir rivaled with lieri
11 llio pretty drollery of hor got-up.:
I'lie immodlato consequence was a
Urugglo between tho 'tailor-made' |
itylo of corsago, which molded the
whole gallic, and the Bleti-Truffo or
Belle-a-volr tournure. Both were]
'fiven fair trials, and aftof a longi
tight, in which there wore victories!
won and defeats sustained on bothi
liiles, the large and eccontrio has eon-
jiiered." "You boo," continued my
priest of fashion, In answer to another
question, "the bustle compols attention
nnd, if smartly got up, amuses the eye.
I will even say that It croatos a pre*
judleo in favor of tho wearer, by put-
ting persons of the other sex in good
humor with hor, howovor unaoqualnteil
thoy may bo with hor. One wishes to
900 hor face, and if it is at all nloe-
looking it makes a conquest. In these
high-pressuro times wo liko nmuso-
mont rather than high aesthetics, and
the woman who amuses most carries
away tiio greatest numbor of admirers.
Knglish beauties don't understand this.
Tho French aud tho American ones do,
and hence the success of Paris actross-
es anil New York belles, and still mora
of American misses from the western
states."
Not Lost, But Gone Before.
Bufkins was very pious, vorv fond of
the ladies, and very bald on the back
of his head. The other evening ho
was calling on a Connecticut avenuo
girl and was vivlng her a great deaf of
church talk.
"All, Miss Charlotte," he said, "wo
are watched over very carefully. Even
the hairs of our head aro numbered."
"Yest Mr. Bufkins," sho replied,
with deep enthusiasm, "but some of
the back numbers of yours appear to
be missing."—Washington Critic.
A Puzzling Question.
Onco upon a time a Dead wood jury-
man, still a prominent citizen of the
metropolis, weuriod if not iiauseatod
by a buncombe charge by a judgo even
at that early dale under contract to a_
prominent corporation whoso employ
lie openly entered upon leaving tho
bench, arose just before rotiring and
said: "Your honor, I still am a little in
i doubt on ono particular and I fancy vi-
| tal point Will you please inform me
; whether you wish us to return a ver-
I diet according to the evldonco, or In
| according with your charge." Since
, then tho two never spoak &s thoy pasr
by.—black Hills Times.
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The Unchanging Chinese.
There is 111 China a city called Hal
Yuen, which was sunk in the sea by an
earthquake over 1.000 years ago, and
recently by some volcanic action tho
c ty has again become exposed to view
with all its qunint towers and pagodas
still standing. Exploring parties have
found any number of relics of a former
age, but these have nothing liko the
Interest they would have if the city
would have been Inhabited by any
other people than tho Chincso; for all
tho old coins, implements, and speci-
mens of chinawaro found aro precisely
similar to those in use to-day in tho
surrounding cities. It is a striking
proof of the aphorism that the Chinese
have not changed in 1,000 yeara. ,
Always Sits When He
Carves.
A work on etiquotto says: "A gen-
teel carver always sits when he carves."
Perhaps he does; but it is pretty cer-
tain that there are times when he
voasnfully y arus to put one foot on the'
.able and tho other tin tho bird while
Btriigling with tho fowl.—Norristown
Herald.
Chicago's Pure Lard.
Employo at Lard Refinery—Mr. All-
fat, here is a note from a customer up-
town who wants twenty-five pounds of
leaf lard in its natural state.
Proprietor (highly indignant)—Tell
tiio blamed fool lio'll have to send to
tho Southern mills. We, don't keep
raw cottonseed.—' hicago Tribune.
For obvious reasons a bookseller should not
be much of • bookkeeper.—Lift.
Players will observe tbut 1888 holds three <(
1 klnil.—Han Vraiultvo Alia.
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