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OVER ANDOVER AGAIN,
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Over and over again
Wo matter which way I turn,
always find in the book of life
Bome lesson I have to learn.
I must take my turniat the mill;
1 must grind out the golden grain;
I must work at my task with a resolute
will
4 My
Over and aver agam
The Lrook in the meadow How
And over anid over again
The ponderous mill wheel goes
Ones doing will not sufifice,
Thoush doing be not in vain;
Aad a blessing failing us once or twice
May come if we try agaiv
SL LCE ERS SR TTI
A FORTUNATE MINTANWRY,
“For value received, | promise to pay
to Robert Simms the sum of—-."
Alice Bird's lip curled and her face
flushed—a miserable flush that would
have touched any one who loved her;
but her younger sister, Susie, who
lolled in an easy-chair, only said, lan-
guidly:
“What displeases you, Alice?’
“For value received,” began Alice
again, ‘angrily, as sho threw the promis-
sory note upon the old-fashioned writ-
ing table; “yes, that has been mamma's
ruling principle through life; and I
must say that she has discovered in
many most ingenious, if not always
creditable, ways the fine art of getting
the worth of her money. Am I worth
the money? I wonder will Robert
Simms think 1 am worth these notes
that mamma bas given from time to
time? I wonder how they came here
sayway? When I am Robert Simms’
dear wife, would it not be well to put
on my new barouche, under Robert's
crest, the motto, ‘For value received?
Oh, Sue,” she cried, suddenly, in an
appealing voice, ‘now could mamma
borrow money from that man? How 1
hate the few luxuries that we have had
lately, now that I have discovered their
gource! We, who are so poor, ought to
be ashamed to dress above our means,”
Big tears fell slowly upon the offend-
ing potes, *‘Oh, what a blind {ool
I have been not to have duspected
this!"
“Quite true, my dear Alice; youare
a fool to take a tnfle so seriously,” said
the lazy voice of Miss Susan. ‘*‘I
Cousin Robert chooses to lend sa little
of his surplus money to three charming
ladies whose circumstances are some-
what straitened—"
“For shame, Susie!” cried Alice, in-
dignantly. ‘*‘How are we to pay it, I
should like to know?’
“You do know, my very dear Alice;
but don't be so emphatic—you are, in
fact, almost violent, That last most un-
ladylike stamp of the foot quite sug-
gested an earthquake,”
“Ob, if there could only be an earth-
quake that would swallow us all ap to-
gether!” .
“Now you are childish, Alice. An
earthquake? No, I thank you; leave me
out of it, plesse—ior I have not yet
worn ny new plush costume. Anyway,
postpone it until after the next prome-
nade concert,”
“Jf the costume were mine, I should
send it with my compliments to Cousin
Robert, as you call him, although I
could never make out why; his money,
of course, paid for il.”
“(ive back my brown plush costume!
Alice, you are certuinly insane, There
is the tea-bell! Let us go down, my
much-troubled elder sister; and try to
smile upon your iuture husband for his
magnanimity.”
Alice moved away, followed leisurely
by Susan; aud in the pleasantiy-highted
little parior a daintily spread tea table
was awaiting them. Mrs, Bird sat al-
ready at its head, and “Cousin Robert,"
laying, down the evening paper, looked
up approviugly atAlice’s flushed cheeks
a8 she entered,
*Madamoiselle, you are brilliant vo-
« might,” be said, with rather an awkward
attempt at a courtly bow,
Alice eould not force a polite smile,
. but grimly took her seat; and her
thoughts were none too amiable,
“Robert Simms has an air of proprie-
torship,” she thought, ‘However, he
is not quite maaster of the situation yet,
Mamma's sale is by no means effected,
What a red face he has! And such
teeth! He probably chewed tobacco
pefore he was rich enough to buy such
good cigars, as well us a wife. Ob, how
nerd I feel toward everybody!”
“Cousic Robert” ate his muflins and
admired Alice; Busau discoursed placid.
ly about various iopies of the day;
Slee, Bird, with au occasional anxious
glance wt her eldest daughter, endeav-
ored to make herself agreeable to her
guest, Her flattery was most delicate
and subtle, and her watchiul tact made
even the commonplace remarks of Hob-
ert Sims soem simost brilliant, Alice,
in spite of the tempest of troubles
within, could not but admire Ler
mother’s cleverness,
“Yes,” she thought, "mamma ckes
out the man’s ideas as she does a scanty
old mlk drees, sud makes them neeriy
bearable,”
When, after a most wearigome even-
ang for oue, at least, of the quartetie
that looked so cosy as they sat around
the fire, Robert Bimms Lad gone to his
clab and the two girls to their rooms,
Mrs, Bad sat thivking till the embers
faded to a sullen glow; her reflections
‘wero far {rom agreeable,
“If [ have overrated my influence
found notes of Mr, Robert Simms’ by
mistake as she was searching for a bill
—~for indesdl mamma must know she
had not meant to be dishonorable; Low
she was wretched in her present life,
with its shame and attempts to keep up
a ladylike appearance befor a’ world of
people richer than themselves; how she
could not marry Robert Simms if he
asked her, as sho knew was expected of
him: so she would go away to a school
friend, on whosas help she could rely,
and try to get some employment. Bho
would save every farthing she earned.
and send it to Robert Simms to pay the
disgraceful debt.
“And, please, dear mamma,” was the
beseeching end of the midnight epistle,
“donot, by the love you bear your
ehildren—which I know has urged you
to this false step—please do not borrow
any more money! .I am very sorry for
gome hard thoughts I had of
Ion, and already repent the un-
ind things I said of yon in my
anger; and I have lel¢ Susie all the
things of mine of which she can pos-
sibly make use—I know she has always
admired my sealskin jacket. When yoa
read this, I shall be on my way to Au.
burndale station. Don't write to urge
me to change my mind, for I am faily
determined on my present course,’
Kissing the istter, she put it with
careful steps on her mother's doessing
table, and then stole back to her room.
Between sobs gnd tears she packed
the remnant of her wardrobe, and in
the dawn of the gray autumn day left
her home,
Her courage rose as she sped along
in the train and morning showed her
the beauties of the landscape. Nature
brought its never-failing balm to the
turbulent young soul, and she was al-
most cheerful when, late that evening,
she arrived at ber destinatian,
The station was dimly lighted, and
the few lamps flickered with the wind,
Alice, in search for her trunk, stumbled
over a queer little bundle sitting on a
satchel, and a scared voice came out of
the bundle, saying:
**Please, you did not hurt me much,
Papa left me here so long ago, and I am
afraid he is gone away!" and the child
began to cry.
Alioe lifted the little thing and cem-
forted 1t with soft cooing words. She
kissed the thin face, and held the
ohild tenderly until a gentleman came
in search of it,
“Bertie, where are you?’ he called.
‘‘Here, papa, with a kind, strange
lady. 1 was so afraid you had gone
away.”
“Gone and left my little boy! That
is hardly likely. Thank the lady, Ber-
tie, aod, madame, accept my gratitude
also for your goodness, 1 was de-
tained by some confusion to my lug-
gage. Can 1 be of any service to
you?"
‘No, thank you," replied Alice,
“But, as the gentleman disappeared
in the darkness, and Alice trudged
slong, followed by the boy who bore her
trunk, she rather regretted her refusal
of awistance, for the sirauger’s face had
interested Ler.
Alice's schol friend, Julia Lawrence,
had married soon after leaving Mount
Holyoke Semiusry, where the two girls
had grown very fond of each other, sud
fad often writien to Alice asking her to
come to her, to sdmire her husband,
her new house, and ail the delights of a
young wife. Unfortanately, at the time
of Alice's sudden departure from her
mother, Mrs, Lawrence bad gone ou a
days’ visit to Ler new relatives, Bo,
when the traveler arrived, expecting a
hearty welcome, she feund only a dull.
faced servant to receive her, Never
theless, the servant showed her to her
room, and left her a prey to the most
melancholy reflections a girl ever in-
dulged in.
Mrs, Lawrence would be howe in
three days, Bridget had said; but three
days scemed a century to Alice, who, at
last, to keep from crying ountrigut, set to
work to empty her trunk. lalung the
lid, instead of her own ismiliar belong.
ings, she saw before her a cigar cise, a
pile of snowy shirts, and ao embroid-
cred smoking-cap, sod in cue ond
the little socks, collars and suils of a
boy.
Alice stared while she mechanically
lifted the masculine effects oue by oue,
until & pile of letters suddenly reminded
her that she wus an entruder, and she
hsstened to put the things vack with
womanly precision, tenderly smoothing
the child's coats, and thinking that a
photograph of a lady that lay among
them was oue of the prettiest she had
over seen, Then its likeness to the thin
little face of the cuild st the station
struck Lor, snd it all Hashed into her
head at once.
This trunk must belong to tne gen-
{leman with the nice eyes; aod, not-
withstanding her depression, she broke
into a merry laugh as she thought of
his sstonishmeut when he should tind
petticoats, slippers, rufilas, ete, instead
of his own well-known garments, The
lsngh, however, coded 1 a despairing
thought in regard to her own predica-
ment, What was she to do without all
those sensible, useful articles she had
selected with such care?
vAfter ull,” she thought, “Dale's
Station is not a very large plac: snd I
will send that briiliaut loo maid
early to-morrow mosming to ranssck one
pstt of it for a man and boy, while 1
mysell will search io vtber,”
After an early breakfast and inter
view with the servant, to whom she ex-
plained her diiemma, Alico sot forth
with determination; but, us she turned
the corner of the street, she saw the
eral times of the kind lady at the sta.
tion,”
“Oh, how I rhon!d like to go and see
him!” raid Alice, impulsively. ‘Chen,
conventionality asserting itself, she ad-
ded: “But I beg your pardon; per:
haps—"
“Your offer IT accept ns frankly as it
was made: besides, [ know already that
you are alone in your friend's house,
The Jady with whom I am stopping is
an acquaintance of Mrs, Lawrence; aud
Bridget has, even at this carly hour,
made her and your dilemama a subject
of gossip with my friend's servant, We
had no difficulty in drawing conclusions
as to your identity, Will you kindly
come at once? Anl in the meantime
will see to the restoration of your prop-
erty.” .
This was but the beginning of a series
of little courtesies exchanged betweaon
Mr. Oarlton and Alice Bird. Under
varions pretexts he sought her society;
and, when Mrs. Lawrence returned,
she was surprised to find two persons
chatting comfortably together in her
drawing-room, She kissed Alice, who
introduced her to Mr Carlton, and told
her of her visits to his little son.
“Pat, indeed,” broke in Mr. Carlton,
fanghing, *'I ean no longer pose ia the
character of a devoted father; Bertie is
my nephew, and not, as Miss Alice has
insisted all along, my son,”
“But the photograph of the lady
in your trapk? Surely, she is your
wife ?"
“She was a dearly loved sister, who
died a year ago and left her delicate little
son to my sole care, Ihave brought him
with me here for a change of air and
scene.”
Alice's fac» had during this explana.
tion grown terribly red, which she
would have given worlds to prevent;
and, when Mr, Cariton looked at her
with a meaning look she could scarcely
uuderstand, she turned suddenly pale,
and would have fallen but that he held
out his arm to support her.
“The poor darling 1s over-tired!”
cried Mra, Lawrence, sympathetically.
1 will eall John £5 help her up to her
room, and she will be made to goto
bed at once,”
But, before John could be found,
Mr. Carlton had kissed Alice, and
begged tnat she would not send him
away, because he had loved her for so
short a time,
“I think 1 must have loved you from
the first,” she said simply. “Bat 1
must tell you how bad I am. I have
ron away from mamma aod Robert
Simms,"
“Robert Simms!" oried Mr, Carlton;
“the scamp who is a notorious land
shark, and trying this very minute to
cheat me out offthe very prettiest bit of
property in the world! What claim can
hie have upon my Alice?”
“We owe him money,” sald Alboe,
with dowpcast eyes,
“Very well, my darling; we wil
promptiy pay bim. aud be married with
clear cousclo noes 48 soon as the law al
tows,”
The recreant John baving at iast
been discovered, Mra, Lawrence, on
coming to take the tired guest to bed,
found her resting happily against Mr,
Cariton’s shoulder,
How Iron Is Tinned,
The great shoots are out into squares
and trimmed, andl then sent to the
pickling tub to be cleansed from the
black oxides which covers them. This
tub is a large cistern lined with lead
and filled wish dilate sulpharie acid,
over which an immonse copper cage is
suspended. After the cage is packed
with the plates it is dipped dowa into
the acid Liquid, makes a few revolutions,
then rises, and with a balf-turn of the
beam which carries it, is brought over
a vat through which a stream of water
is passing. Toe dip and spin 18 here re-
peated until all the acid 1s washed away,
and the plates are takeu out perfectly
clean, bu: with abraded surfaces, To
et rid of this defect, they are passed
or the last time, and without reheating,
between a pair of highly polished roi-
lers, and emerge ectly smooth
and resembling in color Damascus
steel.
They are now ready for tinning; sod
oti our way to the next department we
pass a stack of dusly barsof that metal,
“Cost a thousand pounds,’ says the
master of the roils, with a rap of his
knuckles on the top ons, The tin is
first melted and * polied "that is,
stirred. up with a stick of green wood,
which seuds a current of steam through
it and sweeps some impurities to the
surigoce; it is then transferred to square
iron cisterns, where it is kept me!ted, with
a layer of palm-oil onthe sacface, to pre-
veut oxidation.
Beneath the biack, seething pool the
iron patos are planged; when they
are taken out they seem to have been
transmuted, as in the dream of the
Chinese aloh mist, from iron to silver,
so brilliant is the coating. They are
now rubbed with sawdast, to got rid of
the oil, then away to be packed. Bat
thoy are first subjected to s curious test,
Bat 1t
would be difficult to gauge them; so
| man with a good ear fs seated in a com.
paratively quiet part of the works, and,
taking each sheet by the cosh; fivas
it a dexterous shake, eliciting a ¢ .
bling sound-—il I may coin & word
uh differs, of course, in pitoh with
the slightest change =» thi ; and
thus he sorts them,
At the end of the works 1s a saw-mill,
the tin is packed; whenoe it travels
all over the world ms “Best 008
to,” Its aimoit a
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Geologie! Fishing.
One of the most remarkable fishes is
found in the eretaceous beds, and is al-
lied to the salmon of to-day. The head
is about the size of that of a grizzly
1 bear, short and blunt like a bulldog's,
with short cylindrical teeth like those
of a tiger, and equally as large. Two
pairs of them cross each other on each
mde of the end of the muzzle, It is
called scientifically the portheus, and
many specimens were found by the late
Professor Mudge. They were [rpm
eight to ten feet in length. Oue fine
specimen was found weathered out by
wind and rain from a mound on the
bank of the Solomon river, Kansas,
Numerous other species have been found
in the desert tracts near Fort Wallace,
Kansas, on the shore of the great créta-
coons sea that once was there,
“What was tho largest fish of these
ancient seas?” asked the reporter,
“I'he sharks were probably the larg-
est,” waa the reply. ‘‘Here isa tooth,”
taking one from a drawer. ‘You seeit
is almost as large as the palm of your
hand; in olher respects it is similar $0
thoss of the existing genera of sharks,
it has tho same serrated edges and the
#ne polish, Now, if yon take the jaw,
a8 1 have done, of an existing shark,
and arrange these gigantic fossil teeth
similarly, you have a mouth large
enough to drive a horse and cari in,
and the length of the animal, if pro-
portioned like our sharks of to-day,
must have been considerably over one
hundred and twenty feet, Fine speci
mens of these tecth ean ba seen in the
halls of the Philadelphin Academy of
Seience, Probably the flnest collection
in the country is owned by Professor
Holmes, in Charleston, 8. C. This is
the best locality for them, the beds
there being great burying grounds for
the creatures of this lost age In re-
ferring to a tooth smaller thaa this, Sir
John Hunter, of the Oollege of Plysi-
clans and Burgeons, of London, said
the lengih of the tooth from the Car-
charodon Megal oden (Agassiz) is four
inches eight lines; with it was placed a
tooth of su unusually large specimen of
the largest known living species of Car-
charais, theo length of the base of which
is one inch eight lines, snd that of the
longest of its sides two inches three
lines.
“This tooth was from a shark about
twenty feet long. The fossil shark, if
pearing the same proportion to the
teoti:, must have boen over sixiy feet
long. ‘The fossil tooth, used in Sir
John's comparison, was from the mio-
cone tertiary formations of Malta, and
was a third smaller than the largest
found mm America, Professor Agassiz
male similar comparisons with like re-
sults, The teeth, aithough underground
for unnumbered ages, still in many
cases retain their beautiful polish, and
the fine serrations of the trenchant
edges are as perfoct as when first de-
posited, as you can see by this speci
men. If a longitudinal section is re-
moved from one of the basal angles,
the thin layer of enamelled dentine will
be tound intact, In the fossil shark’s
tooth, or glosso petra, this ensmel is
composed of animal substance and cal-
cereous earth, and is nearly in the same
quantity ss tho recent, but the central
part of the tooth bas its animal sub-
stance in a state of mucus interspersed
in the calcersous matter,
“Though whales are not fishes, they
ave included in the game of the geologi-
cal fisherman, In wandering threugh
Gieorgia, 1 was at one place struck wilh
the peculiar stumps that a man had
used to make a fence of, and without
approaching them closely I asked him
bow it happened that they were so reg-
ular in shape, Then be informed me
that they were not roots, but bones, and
upon examination 1 found that they
were parts of the vertebrm of fossil
whales that bad existed here at the
tume, The plantation was the bottom
of the Atiantic,. They bad been plowed
up in great numbers, and as nothing
could be done with them they were
piled up to make fences of. Whales
pave been found on the hills in the
vicinity of Lake Champiain, aod an en-
terprising showman once secured the
bones of one and laid them out, ex-
hibiting them as a sea serpent.”
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Mandarios and Tanglerines,
Very little red oranges, tomato
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dred--a pretty steep figure for oranges
that cannot be compared in size or
quality with Indian Rivers, which have
to be very fine to bring half that price,
They were brought to this market then
to bo sold as euriosities or to set off
baskets of fruit. Within a couple of
years a demand for them for table nse
has sprung up, sud we have many cus-
tomers who regularly buy Mandarios or
Tangierines, the same as they would
call for any other favorite variety, so
long as they urs in the market, These
varieties ars coming to this market in
suflicieut guantities this season for us
to be able to sell them for from 50 to 75
cents a dozen. They seem expensive at
£10 andj upward a box, but there are a
good many of them in a box,
“The highest-pricad oranges in this
market are the Indian Rivers, They
are of good size, bright, thin skinned,
heavy, and so tender that the pulp may
be eaten with a spoon after eutting a
hole in the skin, They sell for $1 a
dozen, and the supply falls short of the
demand. They are more delicate and
more liable to damage in transporwtion
than any other variely, and transporta-
tion from the Indian River country to
Jacksonville is slow, It will be faster
when the Jacksonville, Bt, Augustine
and Halifax River Hiilroad is finished,
and instead of hauling the oranges
across country and sending them by
steambonst 200 miles on the St. Johns,
they will be sent direct to Jacksonville
by rail,
“Almost without exception the oranges
raised in Florida are fine fruit, if they
are allowed to hang on the trees till
they are ripe, The troubles that some
small producers are in such a hurry to
get their money that they market their
oranges in November, without much re-
gard as to whether they are rips or not.
Oranges keep best on the trees alter
they are ripe, and they even go on im-
proving in flavor till March, if the frost
will Jet them alone, in February the
trees blossom, and it is in groves where
the npe oranges have beeu kept hang-
ing that the sight of golden fruis and
cream-white blossoms on the same
branches is seen,
“But the repufation of Florida
oranges with consumers in this market
is damaged more by another cause than
by too early picking. Weeks before
there are any good Florida oranges in
New York, jobbers sort over their Ja-
males oranges, pick out those that look
like Flonida fruit, and sell them ss com-
ing from Florida groves. Bomé of the
Jamaicas so closely resemble Floridas
that nome bul experts in haodling
oranges could recoguize them bY their
looks, But the Jamaica fruit is apt to
be pithy, light in weight and without
juice or flavor, Bome persons declare
that they will not buy Florida oranges,
the Mediterranean fruit is so much bet-
ter; but they probably have never
eaten a Florida orange, They have
bought Jamaicas al corner groceries,
and thought they were getting the best
that Fiorids produces.
“Yas, there is a considerable demand
for grape fruit,” the dealer said in an-
swer 10 8 question, ‘‘These larger ones
wo sell st two for a quarter, aud those
of medium size bring 10 cents apiece.
The taste for grape fruit 1s an sequired
taste. Few persons likg it ati first, but
the clean, slightly bitter tart, together
with the percept ble spicy flavor, be
gomes more agreeable upon a second
trial, and 1 kvow of many persons who
preler grape frait to the finest Indian
River orange. The peel is taken off
with a sharp knife, cutting around and
arcund, as in peeling an apple. Then
the thin skin that encompasses tho seo.
tions of the fruit 1s separated from the
pulp snd the seeds are taken out. The
sections of tender pulp taken from the
joebox om a cool plate aud set before a
lover of the fruit are very tempting
morsels, especially on a warmish, mug-
gy morning in the spring. In Florida
a little of tue bitter pith under the skin
is eaten in the bebel that it keeps off
fever and chilis,
A New Electric Rallway.
A light railway system, driven b
electneity end running at high ob 4
has been devised by Mr, F. Hahn Dau-
chell, C. E., ot London, whose object is
to effect the rapid transit of letters and
by electrical means, The dis-
tingnishing feature in its construction is
that it has only ove rail for the train to
run on instead of two, and that it is bal-
ancad by another rail overhead, which
at the same time performs the function
of conducting the electric current, and
also prevents the train from leaving the
metals, as it is embraced by side frio-
tion pulleys, placed in pairs and con-
nected with the roofs of the carriages,
A sucee:sful working model has been
tried; in it the wad is circular and about
8 feet in diameter, the motor being
about 12 inches long, eight inches high,
a Fm es
Never Too Late for a Law Suit.
s——
Just below the insurance town oi
Hartford, aud upon the loft bank of the
Connectinut river, as the geographies
would say, thers lies a little farm, very
narrow but several miles in length and
famous in song and story. Upon its
verdarous moeads hays grazed, in happy
sunoesnce of taxes and woman's rights,
the sweet-breathed Alderneys chat erst-
while misad Abby Bmita and eks her
sister Julis, even in their sutumual
days, from their tranquil communion
wilh nature sud their pastime of revis-
ing the Seriptures without ths tronble-
some inquisition of an international
conneil, into the focus of the public
eye—ihat comprehensive optic that
banishes privacy snd takes an inventory
of its vietum’s affairs every day sad
every hour. Abby Smith sank under
the responsibility and passed to her
fathers when only a little over 80, but
her sister Julia, haying become sccus-
tomed to the inquisitorial orb, still
grew in hope and thrift, snd in due
course of events took to herself a hus-
band, Before she had fairly decided
upon this latter luxury, Mis Julia in-
vited a married nephew, also named
Smith, to leave the barren acres of his
Vermont habitat and come to Glaston-
bury, to look after the grésey iutervale
and the historic kine with the melli-
fluous respiration aforesaid. Smith
came, his acesptance being hastened by
lus aunt's promises, as he alleges, that
the farm would eventually be Lis; but
at that time it was not set forth a the
bill of rights that old Mr, Parker would
come after him, and woo sud win the
vivacious and ioteresting lady for him-
self, Bwmith, for his part, laided to be
impressed with the romauco of this new
arrangement, and sought to get posses-
sion of the farm by force of law, the
pariiculars of which have been of great
interest to the many fnends of the de-
fendants, whatever effect they may have
had upon the other mde. It is a matter
for general rejoicing therefore that
greed has been rebuked and that true
love will still have enough Alderney
cream to live upon, even should its
needs extead into the twentieth century,
Que by one the persecuwors of IDUOCCRCS
go down before the might of public
opinion and the majesty of the law,
Fiat justitia, con amnore, et id omne
genus,
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Dodging an Angry Woman.
A little woman, whose eyes of reddish
brown blazed under her bangs of an-
burn hair, descended swiltly from a
green CAT as it turned into Broadway at
Madison Square, Now York, about 8}
o'clock p. wm. recently. She walked rap-
jidlyup tos fashionably-dressed man in
a high hat and light top coal, who was
walking up Broadway with a large
woman dressed io black,
+] want to speak with you, De Wit,”
said the little woman to the man, The
man hurriedly said to the woman he
was with: “Yon wo on. Ycur friend
will meet you at the place 1 spoke of at
half-past nine.’
“Yes, you go on,” repeated the little
woman, ‘aud he will meet you when
I’m done with him.”
Le large woman went up Broadway
and the man and ihe little woman walk-
ed down the street talking earnestly.
At Twenty-second street the man,
with an oath, struck his companion
with his cane scross the shoulders, and,
tarning, began to ran up Broadway.
The woman followed, keeping close at
nis heels. Unable to shake his pursuer
off, and apparently not wishing to pass
the Filth Avenue Hotel, the man ran
out iuto the street, and, crossing over
to Madison Square, dodged bshind the
hacks drawn up at the carb, When the
woman, who ran quite as fast as he did,
got near him he fenced at ber with his
cane, snd thus kept her away until he
got an opportuaity for a fresh start.
After dodging sround the hacks he
ran to the big electrio light post in the
plaza in front of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, the woman following. The par
dodged around the post, while men and
women flocked from all directions to see
what appeared to be a unique game of
tag. Having only evaded being caught
more than once bv fencing off his pur-
suer with his cane, the man who was
being chased finally left the lamp- post
and again took refuge among the hacks.
His pursuer soon dslodged him and
neatly caught him about half way be-
tween the square and tue hotel. As he
again poked her away with his cane he
said to a newspaper man, who, with
fifty e, was watching the scene:
“She's a mad woman,”
This was said langhingly, and all the
while he was being chased he had been
sanling:
Tired with dodging sud ruuning, the
man now made a bolt for the eutrance
of the Filth Avenae Hotel. The woman
caught him as he reached the steps, and
seized him by hus coat, In the struggle
tliat ensued both her hat amd his coat
esme off. Her hair came down. A crowd
of at least a hundred people pressed in
upon them as they struggled.
One of the proprietors of the hotel
pow appeared and separated the man
from the woman, who,small as she was,
had held on grimly with a clateh hike a
.
The hotel proprietor held the woman
while he said to the man, “Now, you
ran.” The man within the
hotel. When the woman tried to follow,
the door wasshui in her face, and she
was told to take herself cf
“Will somebody give me my hat?”
she asked, as quietly as if nothiug had
or hat, much the worse for haviag
upon, was handed to her,
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