NEWSOF THE WEEE: | ~The steamer State of Georgia ar- rived at New York from Glasgow on the 23d. She experienced a hurricane on the 13th mst., during which several sailors were injured, two boats smasbed | and considerable damage done about the desks, —A telegram from Topeka, asseris that the dispatches from Wichita about the suffering and death in West- ern Kansas, “are false according to the best evidence, that can be pro- cured.” Not more than two deaths are known to have occurred in Kansas and two in Nebraska, **The crops in western Kansas have been poor and a great majority of the settlers have been there but a short time and are poor. But they are not in a starving condi- tion by any means, A large portion are comfortably housed In dug-outs and have laid id a supply of cow chips for the winter, which will keep them from suffering. The weater is moder- aling, the thermometer ranging from 40 to 60 above zero,” ~The Newman Allen building and the City Bank block, In Holton, Kan- sas, were burned on the evening of the 23d. Loss $70,000; insurance, $33,000 — A telegram was received in Hud- son, Wisconsin, on the 23d, from New Richmond, asking for assistance from the fire department, as the city was beg destroyed by fire. New Rich- mond is a town of 1800 people, on the Omaha Railroad, 18 miles from Hudson. —Thomus H. Hood, defaulting cashier of the Board of Water Com- maissioners of Norwich, Connecticut, was arrested on the 26th and com- mitted in default of $7500 bail. He! is charged with having embezzled $6500, Lucile Foster, 20 years old, was arrested in Worcester, Mass, on the evening of the 25th, on the charge of forgery. It 13 charged that she obtained $230 on a number of small notes, to which she forged the signa. ture of George Sessions. It Is sald she used the money to go to Boston and have a vriminal operation performed. She 1s in a serious condition. She has heen a telegraph operator in Boston and an employe in a straw fac. tory near Worcester. —~Tuman E. Grant, 28 years old, and Nis younger brother broke through the ice on Onondaga Lake, New York, while skating on the 26th, Laman was drowned, but his brother was saved. Emerson Littlefield, while skating at Peoria, Illinois, on the 26th, went into a hole and was drowned. ~Charlas House, foreman of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Com- pany’s printing office in Washington, Distriot of Columbia, was walking on the tracks near Alexandria with his daughter, on the 25th, While stand- ing between the north and south tracks amusing the child, he was struck and killed by an express train. The child was unhurt, H, Nichols, of London, England, was killed while attempting to board & freight train on the Penne sylvania Bailroad near Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, on the morning of the 26th, —Edward Kendricks, 38 years of age, committed suicide at Pittsburg, on the evening of the 26th, by jumping into the river, He was a telegraph operator, and leaves a wife and daugh- ter. Whisky caused the deed. —Mrs. Sarah G. Ewing, living a few miles west of Shelbyville, Indiana, was found dead in herbarnyard on the 25th, by her grandson. Her body was Lerri- bly mangled by hogs. —While Marx Morse, a well-known citizen of Petersburg, Virginia, was unlocking his front door on the even- ing of the 26th, he was stabbed and dangerous'y wounded by an unknown negro, who escaped. —Willinm Stance, color sergeant in the Ninth U, B, Cavalry, was shot dead from ambush at Crawford, Nebraska, on the evening of the 25th, while on his way to Fort Robinson, As he was a very strict diseiplinarian, lieved that he was killed by one of his men. He stood high in the esteem of his superiors, and wore a medal awarded by Congress for bravery in rescuing children from Indians, —Isadore Pierce, & storekeeper in Boulder, Colorado, shot his wife twice in the presences of their four children on the 26th, and then killed nimself, The wife is not fatally wounded. The cause was jealonsy. Paul Krause, implicated m the murder of Lywan 8. Weeks, in Brook- lyn, New York, in March |. +t, escaped from the jail In that city ou the evens ing of the 26th. He lowered himself from the fourth floor by means of towels tied together, and dropped on blankets which he had previously thrown on the cobblestone pavement below, By means of a carriage pole he scaled the cuter wall and reached the street. A general alarm has been sent to the police of the principal cities, A despatch from Atlanta, Geor- Roland Taylor, a colored prisoner, set fire to the Tococoa Jail on the evening ot the 27th and was burned Fry, a prominent colored citizen of Louisville, Ky., was assaulted and died on the 27th from injuries received, ~During a Christmas entertainment given in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, at Fairburg, Illinois, a little cabin was placed on the platform and filled with presents for the children, The structure, being built of inflamma- ble material, meluding cotton, took fire from the lights, and a panic ensued among the men, women and children present. Hundreds were trampled upon and many injured, several per- haps fatally, The church was saved with great difficulty, but all the win- dows were demolished. On Christmas day two colored boys, aged 6 and 7 years, living near Louisiana, Missouri, were burned to death while playing too close to a lighted brush pile. Miss Belle 3mith, living near Chauncey, Illinois, was sweeping the hearth on Christmas eve, when her clothes caught fire aud she was burned to death, She was tc have been married on Christmas day. ~A telegram from Springfield, Ohio, says Jesse Mead, a wealthy farmer and a politician, was drowned in Mad river, on the 27th, He was crossing a bridge in a boggy when his horse reared and backed off the bridge, —Daniel Stillwell, aged 70 years, perished in a snow storm within a short distance of bis home at South Pitts- burg, Tennessee, on the evening of the 20th, —John Williams and William Lynch, the burgiars who recently escaped from the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Jail, and ‘were recaptured, one in Yon- kers and the other in New York, have been identified as two of the burglars who attempted to rob the Farmers’ National Bank, of New Castle, Dela- ware, September 20th. Williams, when told by Iuspector Byrnes that his ¢onnection with the New Castle job was known, confessed. ~Several persons were injured by a smash-up on ths Long Island Raliroad, at Ralpa Avenue Siation, Brooklyn, on the morning of the 27th. The ac- cident was between two Lrains running in the same direction. A fog pre- valled and prevented the engineer of the rear train from seeing far ahead. All the passengers on the [rst train were shaken, and about a dozen were injured, but none severely. 'L'wo cars were wrecked. ~The funeral of ex-Secretary Man ning took piace on the 27th in Albany, New York. Private funeral services for the family were held at the resi- dence of Mr. Mauniug’s son, followed by public services in St. Paul's Prot- estant Episcopal Church, Fresident Cleveland and his Cabinet and many other distinguished persons wore present, —Owen Connolly, a wealthy mer chant of Charlottetown, Prince Ed- ward’s Island, dropped dead in his store on the 27th, while writing an order for a pair of blankets and a load of coal, to be presented as holiday gift to a poor woman, He was 67 years of age, married, but childless, After making several bequests, his will gives the residue of his estate for the educa- tion of poor Roman Catholic children in Prince Edward's Island. The es- fate is estimated at $500,000, At 8 meeting of tobacco growers in Baldwinsville, New York, on the Congress to abolish the war faxes on tobacco and to revise the sSumatra tariff law of 1883, Representatives were present from several counties, An organization was perfected, and it was decided to request Congress to protect them against foreign producers, and declared in favor of a duty of seventy- five cents per pound on imported cigar leal, —~Two freight trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad col- lided near Racine, Wisconsin, on the morning of the 28th. Doth eabooses and several cars were wrecked and bummed, and two brakemen were in jured by jumping from the trains. David Smetzer, a citizen of Quincy, Penna., was killed on the 27th by teing thrown from his horse. Benson Sewall, only son of Professor Sewall, of the Theological Seminary, in Bangor, Maine, was drowned on the 28th while skating on the Penobscot at Hamp- den. At Clarkson, Georgia, on the evening of the 20th, Fritz Bryan, aged 14 years, son of Mrs, Mary L. Bryan, of New York, wis “celebrating” with alot of fire works, A large (ire ball, made of cotton wrapped around wooden hoops and dipped in turpentine and tar, was laid aside to close the display. Young Bryan picked it up and, touch- ing a match to it, tossed it inlo the fire. It fell back on his head and, ® ing out, remained fixed there, y burying his head in the sand the flaming circle was extinguished, but his head and face were so badly buted that his recovery is not expec- ted. ~(Greenville county, South Caro- Tina, by over 2000 majority on the 28th voted & subscription of $200,000 to the stock of the Knoxville, Carolina and Western Railroad, This subscription completes the sum required to finish the road from Knoxville to Port Royal. —Professor E. McHub of the American Normal College port, Indiana, is reported to have fled after embezzling college funds. Bix months ago he married a respected J oat of indsy * superintende a Sa sohiool, ‘The safe in ‘store of H, evening of the 27th by burglars and robbed of $600, -Charles Leavitt, a burglar, wis on the 28:h sentenced mn Buffalo, New York, to ten years’ imprisonmeni. In 1874 he was tried in Toronto for mur- der and sent to prison for life, but was pardoned after eight years, on giving evidence against his accomplice, Charles Meeker, ~Wilham H. A. Savage, of Wilkes- barre, Penna., has lost two children within forty-eight hours by a myste- rious dizeasb, The younger, Lwo years old, appeared slightly sick on the even- ing of the 26th, and died before it was supposed that his illness was a serious one. Another boy, five years old, was taken sick on the morning of the 28th, and died in a few hours. In both cases the bodies turned black a short time after death. Post-mortem examina tions will be made. — Richard H, Barringer, 24 years old, died in Troy, New York, on the 28th, from an affection of the heart, followed by dropsy. Several physicians attended him, and they all agreed that his sys- tem had become shattered by nicotine poisoning. **After his death one of his veins burst, and the blood therefrom was almost as black as ink.” He smoked cigarettes to excess, —TUere Las been trouble at High Bridge, Wisconsin, a small station on the Wisconsin Central Railroad, for some weeks, the employes of the char. coal pits objecting to the presence of peace officers, On the 27th a gang of coal burners attacked Officer R. H. McPhaie. He retreated and fired, killing Peter Collins, McPhale was kicked 1n a terrible mavner and left for dead. Several arrests bave been made. —~Llewellyn Jones and David Jones, two old miners, were brushing the gas out of their chambers, at the Empire mine, at Wilkesbarre, Penna., on the 28th, when a laborer entered with a naked lamp. An explosion followed, and the two miners were fatally burned, The laborer, who was on the outside of the chamber and in the current of air, escaped injury. John Smith, 28 years old, employed in Smyth's leather fac- tory, in Newark, New Jersey, was at- tacked with vertigo on the evening of the 23th, and fell into a tanning vat and was drowned. ~ While scraping ice off the lake on Eau Claire river, near Stillwater, Min- pesota, on the 28th, eight valuable korses belonging to Musser, Saunbry & Tozer broke through and seven of them were drowned, Malloy Brothers & McClure have lost three horses by drowning on Snake river, and William Hanson has lost four horses near Hay- ward, Wisconsin, Adam Martin, of Liverpool, Perry county Pa., bas been arrested on the charge of defrauding an old soldier named Scyoe out of $1840 of $3600 re- cerved by Scyoe on account of arrear- ages of pensions, ~The house of Daniel Newton, col- ored, near Janesville, Virginia, was burned on the evening of the 28th, His three little children perished in the flames, and Newton was fatally in- jured in trying to rescue them. James Biack, who lived fourteen miles from Millerstown, Penna., “turned on the natural gas’ when going to bed on the evening of the 28th, He awoke al 1 o'clock on the morning of ihe 20th to find the house in flames, and was so badly burued that he Is not expected to recover. He escaped from the house and walked, almost paked, to his father's hoase, 8 mile distant. —Johin McKewen, 36 years old, was killed in Ba'timore on the 20th by the caving in of an embankment, He went to Baitimore {rom Waterville, Penna. , BiX weeks ago, -—A snow storm legan al Quebec on the 25th, and was still prevailing on the 20th. The snow is about eighteen inches deep on a level, with drifts of seven or eight feel —The *‘cannon-ball express.” which left Chicago on the Albert Lea route on the 27th, ran into a suow-drift near Ely, lowa, twelve miles from Ceder Rapids, early on the morning of the 28th, Before the drift could be cleared away, a freight engine drawing a caboose dashed into the rear of the train, telescoping the dining-car and crushing the ends of nearly all the cars on the train, as well as damaging the second engine, the train being a double- header. Several people were severely injured, and many suffered bruises, but none were killed, An exoress train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad was wrecked on the 20th at Jeddo. The engine tambled down a 36-foot embank- ment, and two coaches were thrown across the track. The engineer aud fireman jumped off in time to escape uninjured, and the passengers suffered nothing more than a fright and a shake-up. Henry Blair, an old Penn- sylvania stage driver, was ran over and killed by the cars at Carbondale, Pa. on the morning of the 20th, ~Patrick O’Brien, 36 years old, was found huddled in a doorway in Cincinnati, on the evening of the 28th, apparently just about to freeze to death after a debauch. He was taken to the station house ard upon searching him the officers found $3000 in money and $0000 in checks payables to him, be- sides a Taliatie Sold watch and dia mond jewelry. The locality in which 4s Was found is ons of the worst in the ¥. «Henry Wise, a farmer, while re. turning home with a team near Austin, Texas, on the 28th, fell out of bis take a drive with him, While the woman was getting ready, her husband shot and killed Matthewson, and then compelied his wile todrive to Matthew- son's house with the body. On her return she found her home in flames, and was shot dead by ber husband, who then fled, Mrs, Herrig was form. erly an actress, and at one time be- ionged to Pauline Markham’s Come pany. ~A violent windstorm struck Fred. erick, Maryland, on the morning of the 20th, Houses were unroofed and trees uprooted, Several wagons were lifted and dashed to the roadside, Much damage is reported throughout Fred- erick county. -A mixed train on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad, consisting of seven freight and two passenger cas, broke through a thirty-foot trestle at st. Petersburg, Penna., on the evening of the 30th ult. The engine alone re mained on the bridge. The wreck caught fire from the car stoves, and was consumed. Strangely enough, no person was killed and only six were dangerously injured, as follows: James Hulings, Edenburg, Penna. ; A. Kisson, Elk City, Penna.; John Atkinson, Parker, Penna; D. Hilliard, Eden. burg: W. Hann, St. Petersburg, and D. White, Foxburg, —A passenger train on the Clearfield and Jefferson Rallroad ran off the track near Great Bend, Penna. on the 30th ult, and a car containing twenly persons went over a4 bank. Bix een persons were injured, but only Punxsutawney, dangerously, —A son of W. O, Monnett, was shooting at a target with a rifle, in Norwalk, Oho, on the evening of the 20th ult, His sister, aged J years, who was standing by, was accidentally shot and killed. ~ William Heerig, who murdered his young wife and Ler lover near Bi, Francis, Arkansas, on the 20th ult, was hanged on the evening of the 20h uit., by a band of vigilantes, His wife's stage name was Julia Bennett, Join Connow, a saloon keeper, bas been arrested in El Paso, Texas, chalr on the 25th uit. He also struck her twice with a chair on the morning of the 26th ult., while she was lying iu bed helpless from the wounds inficted the day before. In the first atlack, be. sides bruising apd culling her, he broke her breastbone, her right arm, Ler nose and two of ber ribs, one of the latter penetrating the right lung. -{3overnor Beaver, on the 30th ult, issued a proclamation announcing that the total amount of the State debt can- celled for the year ending November 30, i887, amounted to $1,418,511. At the close of the same year the total debt amounted to $15.840.471 28, and the gasets of the Sinkiog Fund to $10,- 684 362 43. This leaves Penusylvania with a debt of §5,156,108 85, The dry goods store of H. B, Miller & Brother, at East Aurora, New York, was robbed of $1800 on the evening of the 27th ult, John Nelson, a former watchman for the frm, was suspected, and on the 20th ult. “a man’s footprints in the snow which fit Nelson's feel exactly were traced to the blacksmith shop on Ham- lin's stock farm, and a didigent search revealed the money, which was hidden in agrain bin!’ Nelson was arrested. On the evening of the 20th ult. four armed and masked men entered the post office and general store of C, F, Thompson & Co., at Finleyville, Af teen miles from Pittsburg, and at the point of the revolver compelled the clerk to open the safe, They took from the safe $000 in cash and $50 worth of postage stamps, and after binding aud gagging the clerk rode away. About $190 worth of the stamps were found on the road near Pittsburg on the morning of the 30th ult, ~-While a number of little children were attending the holiday celebration of the Haymarket Mission in Chicago on the evening of the 30th ult,, a youngster, attempting to poke the fire in the hall, overturned the stove, The Superintendent, Richard D. Lay, thoughtiessly yelled fire, and a panic followed. The children became wedged in 8 narrow stairway, apd about fifty were bruised and trampled upon. Three little girls were so badly injured that thelr recovery ia not expected, ~During a fight in a saloon in Hecla, Dakota, kept by Reynolds, Donovan & Head, revolvers were used, Head shot Reynolds in the abdomen, inflicting a fatal wound and was him. felt shot in the leg and pounded on the head with a beer glass, He is thought to be fatally injured, Snhelibark hickory, though growing in almost all situations, does best in deep, rich loam. The Welsh onion should be sown in the Fall ts sly A MARK LTS, PROVISIONS . . Beef city Taal Blois converses: 8 00 HBB. ones sstsnnsivueiruvel Fork M SE ARERR Prime Mess, 00W...ovviine, 14 80 SOKed, vous AE sahmane ’% - ' BORO. ui hs wusve E aan salt. 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FMlized, DOW. ies nwa 380ivs snus unsold we 4 Ea E sasnustnsnanil we CREAR asses enREngt TE POWAETOR «os cvorsn somninsnen Ha Raseevunonone J 4 -— aad MOURNING THIEVES, Who Attend Funerals Steal Uostly Articles, Women to ae wo, madam, you cannot enter,” sald the usher gently but firmly, “The funeral is strictly private, and no one without a card is to be admitted.” “She was a dear friend of mine,” said the woman, and a dainty white handkerchief with a broad band of black was slowly raised to wipe away the dewy mist that obscured her sight.” *“*Can I not see her once more?’ There was a deep pathos in the tone and a plaintive sob came from behind the linen, while a tear drop slowly coursed down her pale cheek. The heart of the usher softened. He was only a young man, and she looked almost charming in her apparent dis. tress, so he allowed her to enter. Tip- toeing eoftly into the parlor where no one but an aged lady was sitting, she bent over the open casket as if to take one Jong last look of the departed. Then, while convulsive obs shook her form, she moved a few paces and leaned against the mantel, upon which was placed a large amount of valuable bric-a-brac., Fiere she remained for a moment with a look of sadness upon her countenance befitting the occasion, while her lips trembled with sup- pressed grief. The old lady was in- tently studying the pattern of the car- pet, and when the visitor slowly left the room with lowered head made no note of her departure. Once outside and away from the house, her sleps quickened, and ten minutes laler a valuable piece of bisque ware Was handed over a pawnbroker's counter, i while the clerk slowly counted out the requisite change. When the funeral was over and the family once more alone, the loss was discovered only to be charged against some one of the servants, or perhaps, kat a secret through fear of offending some of those present by a Learching inquiry. . *Puneral speak thieves are becoming | more and more numerous,”’ said a well | known private detective recenliy. : “They are always females as the heavy | drapery of their clothing affords ampie | opportunity for concealing small arti- cles, They scan Lhe daily papers closely, note the principal deaths, and when the time arrives play ol tue ‘dear friend’ racket to perfection. As they are generally quite pretly, and the beauty they naturally possess is | considerably enhanced by the sombro- i ness ‘of their attire. they succeed in nine cases out of ten in securing ad- mission, no matter how private Lhe fuperal services may be. Ounce inside they cry a little if necessary, and watch their chance of stealing anything of value in the room. Having suc- ceeded, they make their departure 88 quickly, yet decorously as possible, and without tarrying & minute for fear of possible detection and pursuit, pawn the stolen article, “When the room is full of people the sneak thief proceeds very cau- tiously, often waiting until the prayer is being made before endeavoring to secure anything. None of those present pay any attention to her actions, thinking that she is a friend of the be- reaved family. In some cases articles which are missed from upper rooins have been taken by these women, “An up town lady recently placed a vaiuable ring upon the finger of ber dead daughter, only to find when she looked at her before the lid was screwed down that it was gone, In this in- stance suspicion immediately attached to a woman whom po one present knew, but who had been noticed bend- ing over the casket a few minutes be- fore, She was called into another room, and when accused of the thefl calmly handed over the ring. In order to avoid a scene she was allowed to go. In other cases, however, these vampires have succeeded in re. moving jewelry from ibe dead and es- caping with 1." RW ss Girlish Figares Spoiled by Athletics, EE — It is the athletic girl, of girl who goes in for the new type nearly all tbe if she has previously cultivated her figure, the worst deformed girl of all, There is nothing hike athletics and cor- sets, mixed or In alternate doses, to | Dein out the possibilities of curves, twists and abnormal developments in a modern girl, All British femiainity is at present engaged in screaming con- tradictions at Labouchere because he had the hardihood to declare that tennis playing girls were crooked. In a half dozen groups at Central Park the other day I picked out four players whose right shoulders were noticeably of different shape from the left, and six or seven in whom the same thing, though less obvious, had beguu to man- ifest itself, the summer exertion en- larging the muscles and light clothing thrusting them out of place and nac- centuating the uneven development of the body. Girls who row in corsets are a gurious sight, the extra muscular development all taking place high up, where the blood kas » chance to clrea- late, and making the shoulders tower above the rest of the body. ashington Society. Young women sometimes do guogy things, but seldom does one venture on such & bold line of action ws one i ~ TR sans shrusennee } at Shee ThEsasats guess vias rll Ly ER RMF arsanetsronnns seansens CER ERUTRARIIAE Spe ae ¢ : - i The Decay of the Clown. "There is obvious truth, and 106 a little of pathos, in the declaration of Mr. Forepaugh’s advances agent ihat the day of the clown is nearly over.” He has had a long and pleasant reign of popularity, but the mildew is beginning to gather upon him in a distinct way at last, aud early obilvion awaits him beyond any doubt, 1% is pot kis fanit that fate 18 thus about to crack all his chestnuts in cruel mockery and silence his familiar songs forever, The case is simply one of outlived usefulness and power to charm. His proceseion bas passed by, and he lags superfivous, or, in other words, the remorseless logic of evolution has taken away his occupa- tion, and there is nothing left for him, accordingly, but tame submission to the rule of *‘the survival of the fittest.”’ He isnot to be refused the right of wondering in hig grotesque fashion if he is really less worthy to endure ihan many other of the forces of eivilization which seem to have an assured cone tinuance; but with all hus wondering he would yei face the ugly fact that the world has made up ite mind to do without him, His salary, we are told, nowlranges as low as $20 a week, where he would once have scorned to take less than $100, amd a few wore summers of poor pay and public Indifl- ference will suffice to utterly abolish him, It is a bitter irony of fortune, surely, that one who has done £0 much Lo per- petuate stale stories and conundrums should finally be himself cast aside as a joke that has been carried far enough. The time was, he can easily remember, when all classes flocked to the circus mainly for the purpose of laughing at his venerable witticisms and Mme. rial trick of grasping bimseli after Lhe manner of one who suddenly discovers that he has eaten too much waler- melon. No hint reached him then that there was the remotest danger of decay in his happy and prosperous caliag. He wagered botties of wine with the ring-master ina spirit of carelessness as to expenses that was a persisient defiance of ill-luck, and when he mounted his wagon drawn by the kick. ing pony, his countenance sione Wilh a confidence both in his present and hd juture, which every speclalor secrelly envied, To bes clown in those days was to be a King in the realm of amuse- ment, The most daring bareback rider, the most skillful acrobat, Lhe most adroit juggler, even the “‘gueen of the arena’’ herself, could not com- pete with him for a moment. He was master of the mtoation. All othe: public favorites stood aside for him, and the applause that he gained could not have been greater had be been the surpassing prop and hope of the na- tion’s life, He has not yet actually departed, to be sure-—this queer-striped and ridicu- lous figure; but he is vanishing so swiftly and unquestionably that ii is permissible to speak of him in the past tense and ask him, as It were, {0 make personal grimaces at his own fuperal His decay cannot possibly be arrested, and be lingers merely upon the order of his going when he might betler go al opce, and thus shorten his humiliation, An Adventare, It was a giddy, gushing girl from New York, with an amplitude of bang and a scarceness of vocabulary, which showed al once her rowantic lenden- cles, She was traveling in a stage coach in one of the sparsely settled re- gions of the country. “Oh!” she said to her mother, “I do wonder whether we are going 10 make this whole trip without even the sign of an adventure, Wouldn’t it be hor- rid." Her mother informed her that sbe Gida't have much common senss, bul the girl didn’t seem to mind it in the least. In the course of the next hour, however, the coach stopped suddenly and the muzzle of a pistol was shaved through the door, “Sorry to trouble you, ladies,” said the man whose head followed the pis- tol, “but if you've got any valuables, them’s what we want, an’ we're a litle pressed for time,” “Oh, mamma, at last we have found a real highwayman,” said the girl with a delighted sliriek. “You're a real live robber, arent you?” “Well, I reckon that’s what I'm called.” ** And you tell people to hold up their and say, ‘your money or your life,’ to them, don’t you?” **I bev done so, Miss, But I mn’ got no time to talk. I'll bave to ask’ “How lovely! Just come right io and sit here beside me.” “Ye see, Miss, I'm bere on business, an’ I'll troubie you~" **No, you won't trouble us at all just dote on robbers,” The highwayman had dropped his pistol and was beginning to leok appre- nensive, 8 have to go away and mb somebody?" she inquired, naively. 1 hope you will not ran away, because I'm just inning to get acquainted with you. always sald I would bug the first real robber I~" But the steps door slammed shut and the highwayman fed. Sih AI A
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