The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, October 19, 1906 Page: 3 of 10
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tVEN\ 8 OF EVERYWHERE.
' Frosts killed the top crop of cotton
In the Red River tier of North Texas
counties on last Tuesday night.
The Farmers' Union warehouse at
Denison. just finished, is being rapid*
|y filled with 11-cent cotton.
Vincennes Ka.vmundl, a teacher of
languages in Chicago, fatally shot
his eleven-year-old Bon and then com-
mitted suicide by firing a bullejt into
his own brain.
A man dived under a moving street
car to his death in New Orleans Fri-
day. In the same city Mrs. David
Bock, of Port Gibson, Miss., commit-
ted suicide by taking carbolic acid.
Indications point to a shortage of
cot ten seed oil for the season of 190G
and the oii mills in many places have
already had very liberal offers for
their output for this season.
Three thousand bales of cotton
which arrived in Bremen, Germany,
from Savannah October 8, on the
British steamer Turkestan, were de-
stroyed by fire Friday.
Cancer of the stomach caused the
death of Dr Max Hempel of St Louis,
aged forty-three, nationally known as
a German educator and writer on sci-
entific matters, the other day.
An American bank is to be establish-
ed in Berlin, Germany, to be conduct-
ed alon American lines and to be in-
timately associated with American
National Banks.
A heavy black frost with a freeze
occurred in many parts of Kentucky
Wednesday night, which will destroy
all tobacco now out In the fields. This
Is the first frost of the season.
Dissatisfied with the existing condi-
tions in their country Gautemalean po-
litical refugees have appealed to Pres-
ident Roosevelt to bring about the an-
nexation of that Republic to the Uni-
ted States.
The Southern California Veterin-
ary Association has declared war on
bewhiskered dairymen, if it has Its
way, caretakers, milkers and milk de-
liverers in this country will have to
go clean shaven.
TJhe recent storm that swept over
eastern New York destroyed many
thousands of dollars worth of fruit
trees near Rochester. Peach trees
suffered the most.
It is now expected that the increase
in taxable wealth this year over last
year will be approximately $80,000,-
000. There are yet about twenty count-
ies to be heard from by the comptroll-
er's office.
W. J. Bryan made six speeches at
Wichita, Kansas. He declared that
he was more interested in the success
of the political ideas be advocated
than he was in his own candidacy for
an office.
Bishop William Benjamin Arnett., of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church, died of uraemlc poisoning at
Xenia, O., at Wilberforce university.
He was a former member of the leg-
islature.
Persons living on the rural route
No. 1, of Paterson, N. J., have given
the carrier, Peter Lyndecker, an auto-
mobile in which to make his deliver-
ies. Lydecker's routs runs through
the Preakness Mountains and covers
twenty-seven miles.
The most severe earthquake shock
in months was felt at Socorro, N.
M., Friday afternoon. It is said that
the shocks were felt continuously for
ten minutes. Slight shocks were also
experienc/ed In Belen and Aiberquer-
que.
13. S. Pettis, of Calvert, secretary
of transportation committee of tho
Farmers' National Union, has applied
to the commission to reduce Pullman
fares to $1.50 for lower berths and $1
for uppers.
Secretary Root Is to make a cam-
paign speech in New York on October
22. The announcement was made by
Chairman Sherman of the Republican
congressional committee.
f Vice President Fairbanks will speak
it Tulsa, I. T„ on October 23.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers has arranged to hold Its an-
nual business convention in New York
during the week beginning Oct 27.
The members will come from all parts
of the United States.
Alderman Hannah of Sherman, was
kicked by a horse he was leading and
his left cheek bone fractured.
Six-year-old Lyle Whltt, son of
Wayne Whltt," who lives south of Bon-
ham, fell Into a well and was drowned
before help could be rendered.
Tho Iron Mountain fast mail train
which was late in leaving the Union
Station at St. Louis, jumped the track
while making up lost time at the city
limits, killing John Caspar, the en-
gineer, and Injuring ten other people.
Advices from Important cotton sec-
tions of Oklahoma and Indian Terri-
tory are to the effect that the crop was
materially damaged by last week's
froit. The crop was practically made,
hut much of the cotton has not yet
matured and tne plan* was killed.
BRAZOS NAVIGATION.
Enthusiastic Meeting Held At
Navasota.
Navasota, Tex., October 13—The
Brazo River Navigation Committed
meeting yesterday was composed of a
body of the business men who were
heart and soul in sympathy with the
project of making the Brazos River
navigable for light-draught vessels as
far as Waco. The distance from the
mouth of the river to Waco is 456
miles and for light draught vessels
It Is already available to Old Wash-
ington, a distance of 250 miles. The
valley of the Brazos is world renown-
ed for its rich and productive lands
and the general sentiment of those at-
(ten<Hng this convention Is that if
the vast productions of corn, cotton,
rice, oats and alfalfa annually pro-
duced In this valley were shipped by
river transportation, that Is all of
these products adjecent to the river
and as far up as It can now be navi-
gated, there would be no doubt that
the logger and other boats would re-
ceive lucrative returns and the pro-
ducers would be greatly benefitted by
the reduction and cheapening of
freight rates, but it is also realized
that the river navigation is a new
thing, and will for some time be ex-
perimental, that Is to say, until a
line of boats can be regularly estab-
lished with regular patronage upon a
paying basis, hence the necessity of
raising a subsidy or providing either
means of sustaining and guaranteeing
the Logger and other boats against fi-
nancial loss until these boats can es-
tablish their support upon a safe and
paying basis. Tho benefits to be de-
rived from the development that In
the wake will follow this enterprise
can only be Burmlsed by considering
the great and inexhaustible resources
which still practically remain untouch-
ed and undeveloped in the valley of
the "Texas Mississippi." To say
nothing of the staple crops already
named, there are the great lignite
fields in Bastrop, Milami Burleson, Bra-
zos and Robertson Counties. At points
along this river It Is said that lignite
beds Jut against the east bank. Then
there are the fine beds of fire brick
and tiling clay and the forests abound
with valuable hardwoods, live oak, ce-
dar, ash, elm, pecan and walnut.
To Pipe Territory Oil to the Gulf.
Tulsa, I. T.: Reliable Information
was received from the New York of-
fice of John W. Gates to the effect
that the Standard Oil Company and
Texas Oil Company of which Gates is
the controlling spirit, have combined
to build a pipe line from Tulsa to
Port Arthur. The Standard will build
south to Paris, Texas, there connect-
ing with the Gates line coming north.
With the announcement that the Guf-
fey Petroleum Company of Beaumont,
Texas, have arranged to handle a
share of the production of the Tulsa
oil field, said to mean an independ
ent line to the Gulf, large producers
now believe that both the Standard
and independent pipe lines from Tul-
sa to the Gulf paralleling each other
through the Territory oil trend, will
be In process of construction within
the next twelve months.
Trinity ar.d Brazos Valley Road.
Fort Worth: It will be several
weeks yet before the Trinity and Braz
os Valley will begin the operation of
train service into this city. Not more
than two or three miles of track are
yet to be laid to reach Houston, and it
Is expected that this will be finished
by October 20 or 25. The Vnlley
Route will use the Denver Road Ter
minals to this city, and train service
will not begin here until these termin
als are completed.
Cullen Thomas vs Joseph Bailey.
Waco: A petition signed by many
citizens of Meridian, Bosque County,
was received by Hon. Cullen F.
Thomas, asking him to speak there at
the Bailey meeting to take place next
Tuesday, the ICth Inst. A similar in
vitatlon by wire came later, asking
Mr. Thomas to meet Mr. Bailey next
Friday night, the 19th Instant, at
• Beaumont. In both cases Mr. Thomas
wired his acceptance.
STORY
Raise Money by Earning It.
Marlin: About fifteen members of
the Ladies' Aid Society of the First
Baptist Church have to some extent
solved the labor question and at the
same time added several dollars to
the church treasury. Thursday they
they repaired to the cotton patch of
Jake Gordon, a mile or two north of
Marlin, and picked 1,400 pounds of
the fleecy staple, getting $1 per hun-
dred. They say they Bpent a most
pleasant day at this work.
Cotton Fire at Bryan.
Bryan: A great fire disaster visited
Bryan Friday night, resulting In the
destruction of the compress and 1,000
or 1,500 bales of cotton. The burned
compress was worth $35,000 or $40,-
000, and was Insured. The fire losa
included six or eight cars loaded with
cotton on each side of the compress.
By quick work, train crews of both
roads got a number of c:irs to places
of safety.
Lavender
Creighton's
Lovers
By OLIVIA B. STROHM
(Copyright, 1903, by Olivia B. Struhrn).
CHAPTER II.—Continued.
Wlnslow sat in a brown study for a
moment. Suddenly he spoke. "Come
with us. Our boat is not a fine nor a
commodious one, but Its best is at your
service. Come."
Overcome with relief, the tears filled
her eyes. "I am weak, and cannot
thank you. You are kind, and kindness
is a luxury we soon learn to do with-
out. But while I thank you, I cannot
accept your offer. Besides my sons, I
have two guests. I cannot leave
them."
"You need not leave them," Winslow
urged. "I will explain your situation to
my comrades, but for their consent I
can vouch. We will find room for
everybody—such as It Is."
Mrs. Blennerhasset's sensible, earn-
est face relaxed in a grateful smlie.
She took bis hand in silence.
"Then let us consider it settled," he
said, cheerfully, "and prepare to start
at dawn to-morrow. To champion
ladies in distress will give new zest to
our enterprise."
"I see, sir. Wayfarers, even traitors,
though you are called, you are to be
knights-errant, too."
CHAPTER III.
A thick mist hung over the island
when, at sunrise next day, the boat with
its little band of voyagers set out on the
journey down the Ohio
There were none to molest them, the
soldiers yet asleep after the drunken
carouse of the night previous. The is-
land in its dressing gown of fog through
which the rising sun blinked stupidly,
was but a dark blur between the lighter
gray of river and sky. They seemed
a ghostly crew setting out from the land
of shadows, as silently they moved with
the noiseless stream. A bleak wind
blew off shore, bringing frosty promises
of earnest winter.
Two women, pale and somber-eyed,
leaned against the railing aft, watch-
ing the island recede and fade until it
Beemed a mirage caught in the long
shafts of growing, purple light. With
every leap of the narrow craft they were
being borne away to a new life.
But In Mrs. Blennerhasset's mind re-
gret had little place. A ruined home—a
present helplessness, were light evils
to an ambition so strong, a courage so
dauntless and a hope that would not see
defeat. She gazed with wide, tearless
eyes at the blot in the fog, which she
had once called home. Then resolutely
turned her gaze westward.
"Come, look ahead, dear," she said to
Mrs. Creighton. "Let us go into the
cabin and make merry with the rest.
Think only of the future; we are begin-
ning again."
Mrs. Creighton tried to smile in an-
Bwer. "I will join you in a moment,"
she said.
But, left alone, the smile died from
her lips, the color from her eyes. For
to this woman—no longer young, to
whom worldly ambition seemed a will-
o'-the-wisp, "beginning again" was a
task not worth while. Before her men-
tal vision swept a swift phantasma
goria in which past, present and future
were strangely mingled.
She saw the home they had lately left,
that spot of all to her most sacred, the
home of others. On the hearth burned
a stranger's fire; the old paths were
trodden by other feet; her flowers were
spoil for other hands.
And then fancy tried to picture the
home awaiting her—that new home in
the far west which her husband and son
had gone to prepare, that beyond the
great river they might begin life again.
But between these two—the dear home
she had left and the one in store, there
were wild forests, yet wilder men, and
that great mysterious barrier, the Mis-
sissippi.
But it was not in her nature to rebel
at the inevitable.
Too wise in experience for high expec-
tations, and too philosophic for despair,
she had also a fine optimism, a faith in
the future. And it was easier to leave
now, that the old home was no longer
theirs. The claim to the grant of land
in the old Dominion was declared in-
valid, their title contested. Gradually
their savings had been swept away, un-
til, after the havoc of legal battle, no
property remained. Ruined, broken in
spirit, Mr. Creighton had gone to the new
country—to that far western territory—
that land where, so swift had been the
change of masters, there yet waved the
flags of Spain, of France and of the new
republic. There, if fortune awaited, ha
could spend a few years, at last to go
iack, his head high, a prosperous dwell-
er in the old haunts. If not—then let
the wilderness swallow up his failure.
His wife, and daughter, too, had left
Virginia, but had intended remaining
on Blennerhasset island until spring.
But now their friends were Involved in
a deep undertaking; one, indeed, which
as it unraveled, was proving perilous,
perhaps disastrous.
This protection denied them, they
*>ust, nevertheless, continue the jour-
ney; hut how, and under what guid-
ance? Thoy had little money and no
influence. So far they were safe witn
Mrs. Blennerhasset and her party, but
soon their paths diverged, and then—
Lavender's rsice recalled her.
"Mother, let us go in; you are cold."
The girl had been talking to the man
at the pole, and turned to see her moth-
er. the poise of whose head, the droop of
whose shoulders, indicated sorrowful
reflection.
Lavender, In her brilliant cloak, with
a flush on her fair cheek, seemed to con-
centrate within her own glad self, all tha
radiance and glow of the morning. As
the elder lingered, with wistful gaze
on the swirl of water, she continued,
pleadingly:
"Don't be dawnsome, dearest—Burely,
you are hopeful of our success and hap-
piness in the new life?"
"It is never best to be too sanguine,
daughter; hope is the mother of disap-
pointment; faith and love are the best
of the trio."
Lavender's eyes grew moist and all
the violet In them paled to the gray
of the morning. Her mother smiled
and clasped the little mlttened hand
which rested on the arm of her chair.
"I am glad you are hopeful, sweet
child; glad that for you the future is
so rich in promise. But it is in youth
that the rainbow takes Its glitter from
the gold at the farther tip. At my age,
dear, you will have learned to value
the glory most because It shines
through tears."
At this point they were interrupted
by Mr, Wlnslow. "I beg your pardon,
ladies, but I am sent as envoy-ln-ex-
traordinary to call you In to break-
fast. I can recommend our Johnny-
cakes; they have, Indeed, stood the trip
wonderfully. And your servant bade
me add that she has a bowl of quld-
dany—whatever that may be. It cer-
tainly sounds like something very re-
markable."
Laughing and talking brightly, they
went in to breakfast.
The meal was served In a small,
dark-raftered room, cosy with a glow-
ing fireplace. Here America presided
with all the strength of her ungainly
body and loyal heart She, alone, of
the servants, insisted upon accompany-
ing the party. "Am I gwine?" and
she repeated Lavender's words. "Well,
honey, I jes wush I was as plum sho
ob Heaven as I am o' cavoortin' 'roun'
in dat ole Noay's ark!"
The owners of the rude boat to
which America thus alluded were, for
the most part, gay youths from the
eastern cities, who, for varied reasons,
had chosen to follow the fortunes of
Aaron Burr.
Those among them to whom he was
personally known, had been carried
away by his magnetic presence; others
by party preferences, but more, like
Charles Winslow, were here in obedi-
ence to a longing for change, with
moderate hopes of fame and fortune.
If there were schemes afoot against
their country—if there were peril to
its flag in the proposed expedition—
they were ignorant of it. Burr's public
successes hau awakened In them an ad-
miration which no later disgrace could
subdue. Hence their zeal in a cause
which, originally.undertaken from mo-
tives of personal gain, was, by hostile
opposition, converted into a crusade
for the vindication of their leader. All
were enraged at what they considered
unwarranted Interference on the part
of the authorities, and this indignation
was roused under conditions which
barred sober thought; at a time when
party feeling ran high; when if, as sel-
dom, men held impartial opinions, they
were confined to private individuals.
The truth concerning those in official
power was largely obscured by the mist
of calumny or the glamor of worship.
At dusk of the first day on the river,
Lavender was standing on the roof
which served as promenade deck. A
light snow began to fall. She watched
the white flakes drift reluctantly into
tne black water that leaped and foamed
to meet them. Dark treacherous snags
reared their jagged heads Cereberus-
like, the foam from the keel circling
in a white lather about their giant
mouths.
The hills rose bare and rugged on
either side, without sign of life; she
might have been a lonely passenger
on the river Styx, with the man at
the pole a silent Charon.
Shivering, she turned to go and it
was with a start of pleasure that she
"ARE YOU SO FICKLE TOWARD OLD
LOVES. OLD THINGS. AND OLD
PLACES?"
saw Winslow's figure loom out of the
fog. She was glad of this interruption
to her unquiet brooding. Morbid fan-
cies came to her as unwelcome guests,
and she only smiled at Wlnslow, and
turned to look again at the foam-fieck-
ed path they had come.
"You are staring at the river regret-
fully, as though It were a gray ribbon
unwinding between you and every-
thing good," he said.
She shook her head. "On the con-
trary, it is bearing me along with what
I love most, to everything that is most
dear."
"Then you do not dread the
change?"
"I do not." she replied.
"Are you so flcUlp toward old loves,
old things, old placea?"
She turned to him witn a rueful
smile. "You give me credit for deeper
feelings than I possess. I am both so
shallow and so optimistic that I al-
ways think the new is to be as good
as the old. For that reason I am, per-
haps, easily reconciled to change. Be-
sides I will have both- the old and
the new."
"But the old will be only a memory
—a legacy."
"Well," she admitted, "are not mem-
ories sweet? Do we not enjoy lega-
cies?"
"But they presuppose loss."
She frowned and shook her head In
playful remonstrance. "You are mak-
ing me gloomy; let us go below."
A little later, they joined the others
in the cabin.
Here, about the fire was gathered
the group of travelers, and Winslow
and Lavender paused in the doorway
to watch them.
The light and shadow played strange
pranks with all. It brought into gro-
tesque relief a suit of nankeen here a
buff waistcoat there—or singled out for
an especial gleam a saucy cap or scar-
let kerchief. In spite of past difficul-
ties and a future that threatened more,
their spirits were strong, their hearts
light and undismayed. At first there
bad been exciting talk and speculation,
but gradually silence fell, and some-
body started a song.
Mrs. Creighton slipped to the spinet
and softly played the air, while the
rest joined In the refrain:
"Are we almost there—are we almost
there?"
Said a dying girl as she drew near home,
"Are those our poplar trees that rear
Their forms so high 'neath the Heaven's
blue dome?"
The slow, sad words rolled in sonor-
ous measure from floor to rafter, until
a solemn hush fell upon all. At tals
moment America filled the threatening
gap, and turned the tide of sadness
which seemed setting in. Back in the
shadow she rocked to and fro, and
with the squeak of her chair the only
accompaniment, she sang the old caotp
meeting hymn, in a voice loud, but
tuneful:
"Wrastle, Jacob, daylight's a-breaktn".
Oh, wrastle, Jacob, 1 wl.l not let thee go."
CHAPTER IV.
Toward the close of a raw day In
January there was a stir on board—
the Cumberland was in sight! Gray
and green, the water of the two rivers
blended in a muddy torrent. At the
last bend In the Ohio they came in
sight of the flotilla. Moored on the
bank were the boats, and moving about
the shore the pilgrim voyagers. There
was a flutter of handkerchiefs, and a
halloo of welcome as the newcomer
glided to a landing-place, and the tired
travelers stepped to shore.
Mrs. Blennerhasset's eyes sought but
one face in the crowd. Her husband
sat on a fallen tree in the background.
His companion, with whom he was in
earnest conversation, was a small, litne
man, below the medium height, under
whose high, pointed forehead dark eyes
flashed with mesmeric power. These,
and the dilated nostrils, were the only
signs of excitement. His voice was
very low, his manner quiet, with move-
ments restrained, except that he con-
stantly poked one long forefinger in his
listener's face. All the vehemence of
a strong soul seemed condensed in that
gesture.
A man approached and. bowing, said:
"Col. Burr, our party from the eas>t
has come, and word has it that Mrs.
Blennerhasset is with them."
Harmon Blennerhasset rose with a
startled exclamation: "My wife—hero?
But that is not our boat!" And ne
rushed to the landing, where his w;fe
with her little sons and the others were
disembarking.
"Welcome, Mavourneen! And you,
Mrs. Creighton? And Lavender? Will
wonders never cease?"
In the midst of the hurried explana-
tion which followed, Col. Burr ap-
proached. He greeted the ladies with
a soft cordiality rather fitted to .ue
drawing room than this river bank,
where every lingering ray of sun
served but to illumine the embracing
waters, leaving the snow-pied bluffs on
either side in dusky gloom.
The leader invited the newly arrived
voyagers to supper on his boat, and
the time passed delightfully; enlivened
by the seductive charm of his manner
and conversation. Winslow, too. was
a brilliant talker when the spirit
moved, and they, with the two elder
women, flashed wit and wisdom to
which the others listened with an ad-
miring attention which was a good
fashion of the time.
Later, however, a current of sadness
lay underneath the gayety. and Laven-
der slipped out, and up to the deck
alone.
The moon, low-hting and wan. llk-2 a
dim torch lighted a wandering wrack
of clouds. The quiet beauty of tho
night, and the lullaby of waves rocking
the anchored boat, soothed her—d's-
pelled her forebodings of the uncertain
morrow.
"Pardon me—I seem destined to dis-
turb your reveries."
She smiled faintly at Winslow's ap-
proach, but made no reply, and for a
time they stood together in silence. He
was conscious of her mood, with an in-
stinctive delicacy commonly called
feminine, but which, when it exists at
all In men, is above that of women.
The power of Winslow's personality
lay In a happy adaptation, when he so
pleased, to the moods of others.
"The moon has unsociably drawn be-
hind tlat veil of cloud. Can't I take
her plate, and share your thoughts? 1
will be as silent as a confessor, It you
command."
"You are very kind, but for your own
sake do not open your ears to my bur-
dens. Why, they are heavy for me—
and I am a woman!" she ooncluded,
sm-'ilng.
"In the name of my sex, I accept the
later en ce,*
Ha leaned against the boat's edge,
watcoing her. Oniy her profile shona,
clear-cut against the background of
cloud-swept sky. Wlnslow was a
lover of beauty in the abstract; lta
poetical value appealed to him, and it
was with an interest at once sensuous
and Impersonal that he studied tike girl
before him. An almost classical cor-
rectness of outline was given warmth
and tone by a subtle charm that
seemed original with her. This charm
lay in the indefinable atmosphere
which enveloped her—gave her a
unique personality. "She seems so
much alive!" was his mental comment
upon the girl whose thread of life Jad
become so closely and suddenly en-
tangled with hiB own.
Meanwhile the object of his thoughta
said: "This has been a happy evening,
but I am all the more sad now, realiz-
ing that it is our last glimpse of civil-
ized society for many a long day. To-
morrow—ah! 'what will to-morrow
be?' Her voice broke, and Wlnslow
hastened to say: "When I left the
cabin Col. Burr and Mr. Blennerhasset
were In consultation with your mother;
no doubt matters will be arranged as
you would wish. I—I am only sorry
you are not going farther with us. We
—we have much enjoyed your com-
pany."
"And we can never forget your kind-
ness."
There was a short silence as their
eyes met. Just then a gentleman came
on deck to say that Col. Burr desired au-
dience with Mr. Winslow. Excusing
himself, Charles went below.
Descending into the cabin, which
served as parlor, he was greeted by
Aaron Burr with formal courtesy.
[To Be Continued.]
HE LISTENED TO THE BAND
And, According to the Actress, the
Effect Was Fatal to the
King.
The late Mrs. Gilbert, the veteran
actress, was a dancer until middle life.
It was quite as a novice that, at the
age of 40, she began to appear In
speaking parts.
Once, at a reception in Chicago, she
said:
"One of my earliest speaking parts
was played here in your city, and I waa
very nervous. I was so very nervous.
In fact, that on the first night I made
an error that nearly ruined the per-
formance.
"I had a small part, the part of an
old nurse. There was a dying king, a
villain, and a band of music in the
piece, and the band of music, was sup*
posed to be very fine. The queentf
life, indeed, was to come near being
ruined through the strange, sweet se-
ductiveness of this band.
"Nothing but compliments of the
band were to be heard on every side.
"Well, in the third act, while the
band was playing Its best, I had to
rush on and cry:
" 'Stop the music. The king la
dead.'
"What I did. In my nervousness, was
to rush on aftd cry:
" 'Stop the music. It has killed the
king!'"
"Dishing the Bill." **" •]
About 18 years ago Hon. Cyrus Sul-
loway, congressman from New Hamp-
shire, was a member of the state legis-
lature from Manchester. At that time
the legislature used to meet in mid-
summer, and one day Sulloway, wish-
ing to speak In opposition to a bill
that was before the house, rose and
addressed the chair while in his shirt
sleeves, having removed his Prince Al-
bert ooat, owing to the great heat.
Immediately Sam Page, of Haverhill,
rose to a point of order, "that the gen-
tleman was 'en deshabille.'" Sullo-
way slowly unfolded himself and said:
"Mr. Speaker, that Is just why I took
the floor—to dish a bill." The house
laughed, the speaker ruled the point
not well taken, and the "Tall Pine of
the Merrlmac" continued In his effort
to defeat the measure, in which, if I
mistake not, he was successful.—Bos-
ton Herald.
The Uses of Evil.
"Say, ma wants two pounds of butter.
She wants it just exactly like what you
sent the day before yesterday, an' if
it ain't that same kind she don't want
any at all."
The small boy had bolted In, dis-
charging himself abruptly of his er-
rand. pausing now only for breath.
But the grocer, taking down the order
of a new customer, did not mind the
interruption.
"You see, madam, how it goes," he
said, pleasantly. "My customers are
particular, and it is my pleasure to get
them exactly what they demand. Yes,
sonny," blandly to the boy, "you shall
be attended to at once."
"Ma says don't ferglt to send the
same kind of butter," reiterated the
boy. "Some of pop's relations has just
come to visit, and ma says If they
stay long It won't be her fault."—N. Y.
Times.
Cur Wouldn't Fight It Out.
Judge Sylvester Dana, who was for
some years Judge of the police court
In Concord, N. H., always endeavored
to smooth over any little differences
between persons brought before him.
On one occasion the charge was for
a technical assault, and It came out
in the course of the evidence that the
parties were neighbors and had been
on the best of terms for some years.
"It Is a great pity," said the Judge,
"that old friends, as you seem to have
been, sNould appear before me ia
such a way. Surely this is a case
which might be settled out of court."
"It can't be done, Judge," answered
the plaintiff, moodily. "I thought of
i that myself, but the cur *on't AfchL*
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