A VIGIL.
I walk the lane's dim hollow, =
Past is the twilight hour,
But stealthy shadows follow
And Night withholds her power,
For somewhere in the eastern sky
The shrouded moon is high.
Dews from the wild rose drip unheard, —
Their unforgotten scent
‘With that of woods and grasses blent;
No mufiled flight of bird,
No whispering volee, wm: footfall stops;
No breeze amid the poplar-tops
The smallest leat has stirred.
Yet round me, here and there,
A little fluttering wind
Plays now, —these senses have divined
A breath across my hair,
A touch, that on my forehead lies,
And presses long
These lips 80 mute of song,
And now, with kisses cool, my
eyes,
balf-shut
This night? O what is here!
What viewless aura clings
So fitfully, so near,
On this returning éven-tide
When Memory will not be denied
Unfettered wings?
My arms reach out,~in vain,— i
They fold the air, |
And yet—that wandering breath again!
Too vague to make her phantom plain,
Too tender for despair.
A —————————————
LANETTE:;
OR, THE OUTLAW’ SISTER.
pe
ing after my arrival, when Bob had re-
newed his invitation. *‘It 1s very lone-
some here at times, When father is
not at work he walks around with his
hands behind him, There's nothing
that makes me more lonesome than to
see a man walking around that way.
It always seems to me that he is in
trouble; and mother, she is so quiet
and easy—well, mother reminds me of
a piece of china, Bob, I'll declare she
does,” turning to her brother and grow-
ing brighter in the light of her new-
found companion, ‘No one would
ever know that she is on the place,
hardly,” turning to me,
“We cau't say as much for you,” re-
plied Bob, Everybody in the neigh-
boahood knows when you are at home,”
“Am I such a romp, Mr, Hablett?”
“No,” 1 replied. ‘‘iI—I never saw any
one more lady like,”
her head at Bob,
Oh, he says that because he can't
get round it,” said Bob,
“No. you don’t, do you?” appesling
to me with an air so bewitching that I
aotually felt like getting up and dancing
the “Essence of Old Virginia,”
“I mean it, Miss Lanette,
lady-like."”
“There now again, Mr. Smart Jae-
ketty.
told me yet.”
You are
Captain Jokn Hablett, in whose |
truthfulness we all have implicit confi. |
denee, relates the following story:
One night, several years ago, I wus a
passenger on a Missouri railway train
that was mercilessly robbed by a party
of jeering young wretches who not only
«deprived us of our valuables, but who,
durivz the outrage, subjected us to
their low flung raillery. I was not
bur ~ssomely encumbered with money, |
and gave up without a pang the small
amotat which 1 had, but when one of |
the rascals teld me to take off my watch,
I filed my motion for an appeal, The
watch, aside from being a gold time-
keeper of finest make. had been pre.
sented me by a dear friend.
“Look here,” said J, can’t you let me
keep this watch? | suppose vou have
often heard such a request-—not at all
strange in your line of busiuess—but
which by granting would exhibit your
remaining dregs of grace, and which I
might say might in time be the fruit
meat for repentance”
I was 8 young member of the bar at
that ime, rather liked to hear the sound
of my own voice, and thought this little
speech so apphoable and delivered with
such emphasis, should at onee gain my
case, but the villain, graceful of form as
well as graceless of morals, bowed pro-
foundly, and replied:
“My dear sir, Ilike to hear you talk,
and under ordinary circumstances would
listen to you with omly a moderate
degree of impatience, but on this ocea
ston [ am really pressed for time, While
I am accommodating, and willing to
grant a hearmng fo any one dissatisfied
with the manner in which I conduct my
affairs, yet I must insist that you pay
more stiention to prompt delivery and
less to oratory. taking my
watch, “a jeweled checker-off of time's
hurrying moments, So long, sir, I
wish you a safe journey."
About two years sfter my experience
with the robbers I went on a summer
vacation to Wisconsin, One day, while
threshing a little trout stream, I met a
young gentleman to whom-—as he was
engaged in the same pastime, and as he
bad osught nothing -I became at
tracted. He was a tall, graceful young
man, quick witted and with a face im-
pressively handsome, We sat in a
mossy shade and ate innch together,
We talked for an hour fogether, and,
then, like Ameriean citizens, introduced
ourselves, This is an American char.
scteristic. An Englishman must know
your name before he will exhibit the
slightest interest in you, but sn Amer-
joan must become acquainted with you
before he cares to know your name,
“My name 1s Bobert Gosman,” said
he, when I bad delivered my cogno-
men, “but I am known as Wild Beb,
I don't know why, for no one ever sees
me in « hurry. Here's some very fair
osbbage pickle.”
“Call you Wild Bob because you are
not wild probably,” I replied. The
members of 8 certain bar in Arkanse:
eall me Coldwater John, though I don’t
now remember that | have ever shown
any marked predilection for cold water
~ Pickle is first rate.”
“Say, Hablett, I live about three
tiles from here, You heven’t any-
shing to do particularly, have you?”
“Well, anything I have to do, I do it
particularly.”
“l mean have you
ticularly to do?”
“No.”
“Well, suppose you go home with
me, You will find the folks to be very
agreeable, It's no boarding-house,
understand?”
As the boarding-house which I had
secared was hardly up to the standard
of appetite, to say nothing of associa-
tion, I ‘agreed fo accompany Mr. Gos-
main,
The Gosmaos lived in a large brick |
house, surrounded by tall trees, The |
oool yard, the spring near the house, and |
even the great barn from which issued
the sharp, filing notes of a score of |
Guioea hens. —all to me were inviting,
Old mau Gosman- old man through
courtesy. for he was not so very old, |
was quiet and undemonstrative, but I |
could see that Iwas not an “‘nnwelcome
guest, 8 guest unbid,”\ Mrs. Gosman
was one of those women who remind
me of # piece of silk, Smooth, never |
showing u ruffle, smiling nearly always, |
but so quiet of manner, and a soft voice
that sometimes, when hearing an indis.
#inet sound in the room, I would look |
up, thinking that she had spoken. Miss |
Lonetle Gosmsn—but how shall I
spenk of her? The adjective beautiful
expresses much, yet how common-place
and jucomplete. Did you ever notice
that “ome girls carry sunshine in their
voices? It is a fact, or not
have noticed it. rot dou
of sunshine, for every
anythmg par-
voice was fall hi Re .
was brighter when she spoke.
Her , when she entered the room
bounded upon my vision like a
**Haven't told you?”
‘‘No, haven't told me that you can
remain with us awhile,”
prefer this to any other place—" in the
fer it to any other place I have found.”
“Thank vou,” she said.
As I sat there contemplating her en
trancing beauty, 1 wondered if she
could really be a flirt. Then this crush-
ing thought fell upon rather than arose
within me. “Of course she is, A girl
go frank, so easily delight conld be
carried off by any elod hopper.” 1
had never heard it intimated that I was
handsome, and my feet, with a pro-
nounced affinity of No, 9 now seemed
to in twelves, Oh, ves, I
her until I was act.
ually sick. After supper I went out
alone and told myself that I was a fool,
I heard Lanette singing, and addressing
myself, 1 enide
‘*Hablett, von are the biggest fool I
ever saw, Why don't you plek up a
few grains of sense as you go along.
Don't you know the girl is laughing st
you?’
I returned to the house, ani going to
my trunk —which had just been brought
from my boarding-honse—I took out
Blackstone and decided to rub up my
knowledge of common law, but incor-
poral herediments, free-holds and the
like wore powerless to divert my mind
from the engulfing channel into which
it was determined to flonnder. I put
down the book, and as I sat musing, or
rather agonizing, I heard a woman in
the haliway ask:
“Miss Lanette, whar Wild Bob keteh
up wid dat cuis lookin' white man?”
Three weeks had elapsed and vet I
remained a guest at the Gosman farm-
house, Bob and I spent much of our
time in fishing, bunt I didn't want to
ish. Fish the mischief! Talk about
fishing 10 a man almost on the verge of
dropping on the ground and kicking in
the agonies of fatal love! The girl's
attentions had not abated, but, hang it,
I conld not see that they had increased.
I couldn’t fool along this way, I was
letermined to bring the case to a trial.
be encased
ioved her-
ke wed
Late one evening while moping in the
woods near the house I met Lanette,
who, with & handfal of wild flowers,
wes returning home from a neighbor.
hood visit, On my part I don't think
that the meeting was altogether
cidenial,
“1 saw some beautiful flowers
here the other day,” said I.
with me and we will get them.”
Oh, what a liar. 1 had seen no flow-
ers, She joined me and we proceeded
along a path so narrow that it seemed
impossible for me to get more than one
foot in at a time,
“How far are they?” she asked.
“Not far. Let me see. Just over
there, I believe.”
“Are you quite sure that you saw
any?”
“Oh, yes,
“When?”
‘Yesterday mor— Lanette, 1 expect
you think that"
“Think what?” she said, stopping.
“Think that I am-—well, let's go to
the house. No, I'm going to tell yon,
I love you, Hold cn. Oh, it’s a fact.
“1 did't duspute it,” she said.
“Of course not, but—" I had caught
her inmy arma. I had seen tears in
her eyes,
“I love you so much,”
in my ear,
Ab, lightning, it 8 a wonder von
badn’t settled me right there. She
would marry me! Great Cesar! 1 looked
around to see if anyone were about to
shoot at me, but saw nothing but « cow
quietly gazing. 1 wondered if I were
not in duty bound to rmu against a tree
and kill myself, I was a fool—but I
waa so dencedly happy.
Our engagement was pot kept secret
The old gentleman readily gave his
consent, declaring that Lanette's choice
Mrs. Gosmsan had but
very little to say, but shimmering like
& plee of satin, said that she had no ob.
jection to me,
One day, about two weeks from the
time appointed for our
decided w go over and cateh » few
n>
over
“Come
*"
she breathed
distance was too great for Lanette to
walk 1 concluded to go alone,
‘Yon must be back by four o'clock,”
said Lanette,
“But how am I to know?
watch,”
“Conldn’t you take the clock under
your arm?”
“Hardly.”
“Wait, Bob has a waloh up stairs.—
He never wears it, but I don’t suppose
he would care il you were to take it.
Just wat a minute and I'll wind it up
and set it”
“A few minutes later she returned
with the watoh, I could re.
the onse,
after
I have no
snr] .
«ity 55,7 she remarked the net oven:
wo, 4 FR WE ge 8
Pri
of the train robbers? Iwas so disturbed
that, taking no interest in fishing, I
soon returned to the house, As I
neared the gate I saw that Bob had re.
tarned. Beeing me, he came forward
and said;
*‘Lanette tells me that she let you
take my watch,”
“Yes, hore itis,”
**Of course i$ is sale in your hands,
but"
**But what?” I asked,
“*Oh, nothing.”
“Seems to be an excellent time.
keeper, Bob, Where did you get it?"
“Oh, by the way of a chance,” he
replied, but I could see that he was
confused
““Ah,"” thought I, that night as I lay
in bed, “that is doubtless one reason
why you deserve the name of Wild
{| Bob. Marry the sister of an outlaw,
I shuddered, Yes, I would marry her
| even though she were an ontlaw her-
i self, It was my duty though to have
Bob arrested. What a thought! It
Wasting Time at Whist,
Richard Proctor in talking about
whist said: In passing, I way give an
illustration of the stupetying effects of
the du''er sort of whist play, even at
the bo«* London Clubs,
land Clu the followin incident, which
seems tterly imoredib le. resily took
place:
two of hem trumps; bot: these trump
ners, tha other three tt their
oppo-
nents; the player who had
iken up the
snuff, after which he inadvaertentl
ecards,
trumps thus played twice over,
suming for a moment that the player
would almost kill his parents, I will
wait until we are married,” I mused, |
*‘but I must discharge my daty.” |
The very vext morning, upon taking |
| up & newspaper, I saw that one of the |
Missouri train robbers had been eap- |
tured-—‘“He had in his possession,” |
continued the account, “a number of |
very valuable watches, When ssked |
why be bad not disposed of them, he |
replied that he was afraid that such a |
stop might lead to his detection, and |
that it had been his intention to leave!
the country and sell them. The chief |
of police of Bt. Louis requests that |
those who lost watches during the late |
train robbery in this State will please |
furnish him with deseription of pro.
perty.”’ i
Although I was satisfied that Bob
had my watch, yet 1 wrote to the St,
Louis chief of police, and to my infirite |
surprise received a fow days later ny |
watch, Now I could see a differense;
though very slizht; between my waich |
and Bob's, but I could not account or |
the same initials, This thought puzzikd
me. Why should he have shown sush
embarrassment when I asked him whae
he got the watch? I was determinal
to find out where, so, accompanyitg
Bob to lus room, I related the eircun.
stances of the train robbery and then
showed him my watch,
“Why, it is just like mine!”
claimed, “Same initials, too,
it is strange. surely,
**So strange, Bob, that I don't ander-
stand it, Tell me where you gol your |
watch, Of course it is no business of |
mine, but [ would like to know,’
“I got it from a friend,”
**Yes, Bob, but why were you embar.
raseed when 1 asked you concerning |
it.
For a few moments he remained
silent, A cloud erossed his face. Pass |
ing his hand over his face as though Le
would rub the cloud away, he said;
“One of the best friends I ever hud
i James I. Harmon, This watch
belonged to him. One night ke
took it off and gave it to me in payment
of a gambling debt. I took it, jokingly,
intending to return if, but the fint
thing I sawupon taking up the morning
paper, next day, was that James had
been killed while in a saloon. Jhe
horrible affair occurred a short Hime
after he left me.”
‘*Bob you will never know what relief
you give me.”
“How so?"
I related my saspicions, He laaghe!
in genuine appreciation and said: “You
don'ts kuow me, Jolin, 1 haven't the
courage to rob a bee hive, much leas»
railway train, but really | am glad tha
ou do nol necessarily believe your
property 1 { stealthy removal
he eof.
“Wel,
w
Gree
1 danger of
when I am around”
“1 know one thing, Bob."
“What's that?”
**You are the best fellow I ever met,’
Lavette and I were married bya good
old parson who talked through his noss,
Everybody seemed to be happy, u-
though the old gentieman walked with
his hands behind him. The old lady
wept smoothly and without a flaw, bat
still looked like a pices of chins,
i
lest Awhile,
You are wearing out the vital foroes |
faster than there is any peed, and m
this way subtracting years from the
sum total of your life. This rush and
worry, day afier day, this restieas anx.
ety for something you have not got, is
like pebblestones In machinery; they
grate and grind the life out of voz,
You have useless burdens; throw them
offf You have & great load of nselos
care; dump it! Pall in the strings:
compact your business; take time for
thought of better things. Go ont into
the air and let God's sun shine down
upon your busy head. Stop thinking
of business and profit; stop grumbling
at adverse providences, You will prob.
ably never see much belter times in
this doomed world, and your most op
portnpe sewon 18 now; your happiest
day is to-day. Calmly do your duty
and let God take care of His own
world, He is still alive and is the
King. Do not imagine that things will
go to everlasting smash when yon dis
appear from the mortal stage,
| fancy thet the ourse of heaven, in
yon.
| jnmp aod worry early and late. The
| good time is coming, but you can never
| bring it. God ean and will. Take
| breath, sir; sit down and rest, and take
a long breath, Then go calmly to the
The Yexed Onestion Settled.
Two drummers were disputing very
| hotly one night in a stacking oar. One
| insisted that “either” and ‘‘nesther”
| are correct, while the other zioutly
| maintained that only dudes and Anglo-
| maniace would 50 pronounce the words,
and that ‘‘cither” and ‘‘neither” were
the proper pronunciations. Fimlly
. they agreed to leave it to the man in
the pext seat, They woke him up and
the case,
““Now, then, whioh is right,” asked one
the “neither or
three whist players who failed to note
the fall of the four houors a second
time? Manifestly they were simply tired
out by waste whist, They cannot pos-
sibly have found any enjoyment in the
game which they played so carelessly,
The first doctrine I would inculeate
then as to whist is thjs: Play whist
often—daily if you can—but waste no
of skill, A little of such whist goes a
long way in relaxing the mind and giv-
ing pleasure to the player, I
wiped the cobwebs out of wy mind
at diffienlt geometrical work by
hour's good whist, Thar means a sav-
ing of time for work, and an oiling of
the mental machinery by which the
next work will be done with less frio-
tion. Bat 1 bave also eat down seeking
rest from whist, and® because the pinay
was not whist at all I have risen nnre-
freshed after two or three hours of
meaningless play, or piay at cross pur-
poses, Whist easily learned,
however, that there is no excuse for the
in my own
after years of other game, which I played
for want of knowing better. I learned to
play the real game 1 a few weeks, Of
course nothing but steady practice for
a much longer time than this will make
a good player; but no amount of prac-
tice at Bumblepuppy will turn the
player of that game into a whist player.
0
in 80
Case,
rt
The Umpty Wateh Case,
was something
There peculiarly
Anyway, it enchanted Peter Thorne to
such an extent that he never missed the
hour whieh he knew would find Leblane
at the cafe. [i was there that Thorne
had made his acquaintance, met h
casually and became interested in him,
he scarcely knew how, Perhaps lie.
inn
ican geography attacked the humorons
element in Thorne’s nature, but when
he compared it with his friend's exes!
lent English, he might have been start
led had he not been too muddy of intel
lect to mote the «ffvct of the comparison,
“It is wonderful the intelligence of
your oustoms official,” observed Le
bikue one day, in his sprightly manner,
“Observe how impossibie 1t is to smug-
gle into your coauntry. Every tourist
from America is a smuggler at heart,
and each thinks he knows how, only to
detected and to discover that his
plan is sider than himself.”
“Yes, there is a great desl of
in disgnonds,” ssid Thorne,
easily concealed, and 1 know of
stances where money has been made,
I could do it myself, and I may when
I go back.”
“I would go with you and assist”
said Leblane, with a langh that meant
the contrary, and intimated a want of
faith in Thornes ingenuity.
“Come,” said Thorne, a trifle
noyed, “If you will go in with me I'll
try i.”
“Bat how?” asked Leblane, still in
credulous, ‘‘Would you break the skin
of your arm and put the gems in the
sores? It is as old as the Jews who in
vented the scheme, There are men iu
your American prisons for attempling
it. Hollow boot heels? Peste! If an
noys me to think of such a shallow de-
vice, List me tell you why you will
fail, mon ami. The mar who buys
diamonds cannot smuggle them,”
“Why not?” demanded Thorne,
“It is easy to say. The purchase is
cabled to your country and the pur.
chaser ia searched,”
“Is that the case?” asked Thorne in
surprise, “I pever heard of it.”
“Do governments explain fo their
enemies what they intend?” replied
Loblane with ashrug. ‘Let us make
Be
it done
“They are
{ in-
|
“No.”
‘‘Been searched?”
“No.”
“And you have crossed the ocean?”
“Seven times.”
“You shall buy a hundred thousand
wager ten thousand francs’ that your
person is searched in New York.”
“Will you telegraph over the news?”
smiled Thorne,
“You shall not lose =
“You will
“Without
ht of me.”
with me?”
oubt.”
You will then hand it te me and be
searched, Iwill win my 10,000 francs,”
There could be no doubt of success,
and Thome did not disguise his p
urs,
-
mrchased the stones, but they do not
visit,”
the steamer,
into the scquaintance of every one else,
would have been worried.
*‘I shall win my bet,” he thought,
“I shall win my bet,” whispered
Lieblane, us he passed swiftly by him,
It was all that passed between them
until they reached the pier,
“Now,” and Leblane took his station
at his friend's elbow,
Thorne slipped the watch-case into
bis band,
There was no interference on the
pier. A hasty giance at the trunks was
satisfactory, The usnal question and
td |
haye won my bet,” said Thorne,
“And I will pay,” said Leblane, a
It is a preat deal, but [I have lesrned
mach, y
and your watch-case,
and I will see you to-night.”’
him as the Frenchman strode away,
man in deep grief does not care for ex-
pressed sympathy,
“1 will him
Thorne to himsel!
But he didn't,
Heo to-night,” smiled
muttered 'horne, late in the evening,
He drew out the watch case and
opened it, It was empty. On the cap
was prescribed: ‘Presented to Peter
Thorpe put it in his pocket and went
to sleep wiithout a word.
“1 have lost my bet, but,” whispered
Labiane to himself, ‘1 am sorry 1 can-
not mest him this evening.”
He leaned back in nis chair and drew
out a watch case the counterpart of that
he had given to Tnorne. It was the one
Thoine had slipped into his hand on
the steamer,
“I pay teu thousand france cash for
ope hundred thousand in gems,” and
he pressed the spring.
‘The watch case was empty, Inside
Louis Leblane by his friend
Thorne.”
A ————
Teaching = Prince.
During the war, it will be remem-
bered, Prince Polonse, of France, came
over to assist the Confederacy. He
arrived at a time when whiskey had
become a scarce article, a fact especi-
ally lamented by the Arkansaw troops,
night at an entertainment 10
Camden, Polonae was present, dressed in
his royal gew.gaws, He drew much
attention, and General Shaver, ap-
prosching Colonel Crockett, said:
‘Bob, is there any whiskey in the
neighborhood?”
“Yes, there's a jug fall, dows in the
cellar,”
“Suppose we fake the prince below
sod show him how we drink in Ar.
kansaw?"”
“All right,” and approsching Polo-
nee, he asked: “How would a suifter
strike you?”
*Smfter, 1 do not
sequal ntance He
gar!”
“I mean how would a drink of good
widskey strike?”
“Aw zal, he strike me fina”
“Well, if you will consent to drink
Arkansaw fashion, we will take yom
down and ipstruet you.’
“leads ze way, oo'nel
him."
They conducted him to the cellar,
Crockett pulled the long corn-cob from
the jug, took np the vessel and said:
“Pay strict attention.” Then, giving
it a toss with one hand and catching it
with the other, he
his mouth, counting three as he did so
This performance was {wice enacted,
after which the prince was informed he
had received sufficient instrmetion, He
had paid close attention, believing that
was being introduced to a mle of
natioua! politeness, He tossed the jug,
precisely as Crockett had done, counted
three and oaught the neck of the earth-
enware in his mouth. Removing his
lips, and while the water stood in his
eyes—for the whiskey was awlul-—he
said:
“Aw, how nice was him."
Again tossing the jug aod drinking,
he said:
“Aw, how I do lef ze ways of me Ar.
kansaw.,"”
He kept on wesing the jug. Crockett
and Shaver iooked af each other.
“Aw!” continued the prince, “how
ver’ nice is zis,”
“You've had enough, dn it,” said
Crockett, but the prince, declaring
ze bomor of his
no strike me, by
I follow
ue
| your ten thousand?”
| “You wll lose nothing but your
| stake. You will be ad but you
| willjsave the gems,”
Leblance’s manner was so confident
that Thorne was staggered.
“How?”
| “Bay the diamonds,” and Leblane,
| raising his hat, politely strolled away.
| The conversation rankled, Thorne
shrank from
felt there was
met his friend , but neither
referred to the wager, Frenonman
but he declared that politeness, like
tinned to study the rules of Arkansaw
the sindent drank at least a
ment to one time only, for later at
night, when Orookett went down to get
a drink, the jug was gone,
A friend told me that in West Vir.
food
i HS
“1 have taken my last order, I am
going home,” he said as the clock struck
| the midnight hour,
The nurse looked at the doctor with
| & significant glance snd whispered:
| “His mind wanders!”
Presently he lifted his feverish head
| from its pillow,
“Any letters from the house?” he in-
“There ought to be letlers
here,”
Then he slept, and in his sleep he
He babbled of fish-
| of school hours and romps with his
mates, At 12 he suddenly awakened.
“All right,” he exclaimed, ia & strong
voles, ‘I'm ready.”
He thought the porier had called him
The doctor laid a
“Show you samples of our goods.
I'm going off the road now. This order
closes me out, The house has called
we in, Going to have my first vaca
tion, but 1 shall lose time-—time time!”
He drowsed off, and the doctor
counted his pulse. Buddenly the sick
man started up.
“‘Giye me a letter from home,
always writes to me here,
Ellen
She never
| long. 1 have only a few more towns to
sell—promised to be home Christmas —
I promised “0 be home—promised wo"
He slept again, and again awskened
with a start.
‘No word from the house yet?”
He was going fast now, The doctor
beut over him and repeated, in a scm-
forting voice, the precious words of
pronase:
“In my Father's
mansions, if it were
have told yon.”
“Yes—vyes,” said
faintly. **It is sistement, It
x a good house (0 travel for. It deals
fair and square with its men’
The ell December mornin
—~the end was Very near
an was approaching
nd from whose bourne
| turns,
“I've changed my ronte,” he
mured, faintly, ‘“The bouse is calling
we in—write to Eten and the children
that I'm—en—my-—wsy—home—it's in
my sample case—without money and
without price—s good house--fills all
Call me for the
first train-—I am gong to make the
| round trip and get home for Christmas.”
They laid his head back on the
pillow, He had made the round trip,
He had gone home for Christmas,
DOVES Bre
go 1
many
. wo ries 1¢
LU wi LF id
the
dying traveler,
s clear
r g dawned
The sick
ihe undiscoverad
BO 1rav &r re.
mar
Changs Courtship.
| A newspaper
| viewing Chang, ¢ Chinese giant,
with the following I understand
you are to be married, Chang, How is
| 187”
A slight smile passed over Chang's
face-~it took quite a while to get over
il- and a blush was just perceptible,
“Yes, I am to be married, though I
| expect te go home to China first.”
“Who ie the lady?”
“1 would rather not tell her name.
She lives in Kansas City. She =» rich
and is worth over §200,000. | am worth
about §150, 000, and 1 think we will not
be in need when our marriage is oon.
summated. The lady is large in stat.
ure. She is six feet six inches in height,
and her dress makes her look much
larger. Bhe is an American lady and
lives with ber parents. She first saw
me op exhibition and talked tome a
long while. The next day | was sitting
in a parlor ma hotel, playing on the
piano, I ean piay nicely on the piano,
and would like vou to hear me, Well,
I was playing on the piano when I
heard the Iady enter the room. I turned
and saw her. She looked rather timid
at first, and I said, ‘Come in, lady; I
will not charge you fifty cents to hear
and see me.’ She laughed and acted
more at ease | play many pieces,
which seemed to please her not a little,
Finally I got up and placed one hand
her + houlder, said she was a vice,
big woman, and 1 would like to have
ber for my wife. She laughed and ran
merrily out of the room. A week later
I received a letter from her father
asking me if 1 really wanted his daugh-
ter in marriage, and asking me what I
intended to do if married. 1 said I
wanted his daugbter, and would become
a tea merchant. The engagement was
then made. I will come to Bt. Louis,
settle down here and open a tea stora.™
a ————
man
£%
5 been inter.
result:
on
Helrs to
A Cleveland, O,, dispatch says: Mrs,
A. R. Trottner whose husband ws a
bateher, Mrs. E Goldner, wife of a
saloonkeeper, and Mrs, E. Rosenberg,
wife of a poor peddier, all of this city,
have received word froma Pressburg,
Hungary, to the effect that a suit for
the recovery of 6 000.000 fGorins, (about
$2 500.000) hae resulted in their favor,
M. Whitelaw, sa Akron milliner, is
| another heir, The case is a romautic
lope, Many years ago a rich couple
named Weislovith lived in Pressburg
with a handsome adopted daughter,
Mrs. Weisloviteh died. Weislovitch
was 70 years ago, but he astonished his
| relatives by wedding this adopted
daughter, who was engaged to an ambi.
| tious young physician, Waelsloviteh
caimed his relatives by willing them a
| part of his estate, and ing that if
| his young wife should die all
At Weis
: loviteh's death his young widow mar.
ried the doctor, and soon died without
issue, The Dootor remained in posses.
sion of the A suit was
; bronght by the hewrs, but the lawyers
{for the prosecution proved false,
the case was dropped, leaving the Doo
| por in possession, One of the faithlow
Milsons,
‘the estate should be theirs,