LER WROTE IT! THE GLD DOCTOR WANTED AN OR- DER RELEASING HIS SON. nant” The Secreiary of the Navy and Prosident Arthur Were Going Fishing and Didn't Want to Be Bothered, but Changed Their Minds When They Heard the Argument. In the southern part of Orleans coun ty lives a doctor who is known far and wide among the country folk, and whose fame extends likewise into cities far from his home. The dootor is a gentleman of the old school, courteous, with a southern ac cent when he becomes excited, for he | The worst thing | “was born in Virginia. that can bo said about this doctor is that he is an extrumely hard swearer. He gwears a little when he is Te. buat when he is excit id his vocabulary of in votives is almost without arivil. Many giories are told about this famdms old doctor, and this is one of them: 1 he doctor had a son, and all his af fect a8 geomod centered in bim. He rve- . doctor, and that the father's inantle should 1:11 upon the son's shoaiders | Bat the | v disappointed him. When ho grew oo, he didn't wish to study medicine. Ia said he bad no taste that way Noypl ideals exactly. tried that, and : "At Inst he « West Point. Th tha son tried the pr tions, passad them o eador. Ho tried the . tions, pasred them nr at last a real cadet at West Point Even the old doctor was proud and happy now. But ths son did not do as well as be had expected at West Point. Ts fi that things military in reali ity wir as things military in ideality. Ho tried the Jaunary examinations a. 4 failed. His heart was broken. Lika many an- other youth biel ro Lim, he could never He tried this, and be thing satisfied ian ided he would jo jaetor: yielded, and liminary exmming il was appointed a SOETAIICE €EAININS- conld and enlisted in the navy, at the - Brooklyn navy yard His father received motice of his son's rash act and said mothing His heart was too full. Dnt be threw a Tew pocessities into his grip and that very night started for Brook- lyn. There he found the admiral. He told him the story. He begged bim to do something for bim, but the admiral could do nothing. His heart weemned ‘broken. . Was there no bope? The admi- ral told him he could go to the secretary of the navy, state his case, and perhaps ‘something might be done. He could promise nothing, but at least it might be tried. The old doctor clutched at this slight hope, and withiont waiting to eat ~-mnything he took the very first train for Washington. All these things & npp ” first year of A: : and, as cvery Chandler wus Arthnr snd Chania and whenever thos would set uo Tt! of their sv © they we. : ane of 1! mn i { ‘young prince secks a handsome g . | a dowry of not less than £350,000 solved that this som-&hosld beoome a) { parch i a talk H Ahi { pathetic cat. 5 of life seemed to fit his) wun, owing to her approaching. | riage, has no farther ues for them to - guier, who makes wigs for | tellect, philosophers, scholars and poli- : | ticians, whosa FACADE They can be see n any day | | showrooms,’ bear the disgrace by going home. 80 ho | made as large a fool of: himself as ho | doctor nviv. (1. straight 1a 1 0 Lo ry the navy av {fmnd Ba was an t+ White | House, #0 to t ie White Hooss wont the dootor post basi He inquired for “Chandler and wae tot thnt he and the | president wors just fag trip and ooulil br “Put 1 minst eee hie Amportaut, sub!" win ed the doctor. "He was nsing Lis «oft sonthern accent. now, for he was very ( x sited, “But you can't. sir,” said th) ant. + *] can, sub, nnd | will, eal!” and with no more words he pashed the as tanished servant mt of hix way and strode through tho hall "Wher is the geeretary of the navy, sah?’ he the first person he nok In that room, cit pointing. ; Tha doctor rapped spd walked cin T ive stood the president and the secre SAry, £1 ing thar things t gethie r VVe Hy of | i bs en, . sulil It is very ROTY~ | asked ' said ths man, J 9 1 ing to abo t starting for a fish- | | anything of the supposed captora tho end it turned out to be nothing more | M1 py DF em, and eo mn to “my son back, sah!’ said ti then be told the story of hie take. The secretary loo’ then at the president. ir; ho said, ‘but you ! on cron nt the srong time. We 00 Luothor wits snch flargs pow. Soo onto going on a trip, Fo ooouient Artunr dud § and wo do not Sib tg be intervapted *' Here bo bowed © mit stopped : The old doctor drew himself vp, ed down at him, for Mr Cl or is “not a large man. His ald eyes fairly blazed He seemed choking Saddinir “he burst forth in a voice of passion “Plo you. thick that 1 am going to lt piv son stay in that ship, sub, to giv blots shad { Ho examined it v claimed, with ‘yon the chance to kill a few measly “account fish? [Do you think 1 ain pe ‘th Lreak my heart so that yon can have yah plewsuse? Look at me, sub! | have not éaten a thing since last night, sub! Poe the dust fravel upon my clo's! Do you think that { bave traveled night and dav, and now | am going to be put you are going fishing? Who * are you, «ub? You are my servant, suh! Who pays yoh salary? | do, sub! Who pays yoh re nt? Ido, sub! Who owns the boat you go off fishing in?. 1 do, and now, when I come 1o ask you to get my " gon out of my navy, you have not time Lécause you are gi Ying fishing! By ——, sob, if you don't get my son off that ship, old as 1 am, I'll haid right off yol body!" The old doctor stopped, breathless His two hearers locked at him aghast For a minute no word was spoken. At last President Arthur said, ‘'Cbandler 1 guess you'd better write that order.’ Chandler wrote it, and a little later thrée men might havo been seen engaged | in discussing three bottles of claret off Lesanse y They were all smiling, but one of them | had a look of great happiness on his | Rohe old face. Itwas the old doctor. — hestor Post- Exon, : Piatto ing | ry tor thrash yoh ~—— 1 | makes you ta ALL Re ADY 9E A large abnvila refaction gram Likewise s life prissrver ig fn ense he'd have to Mim He bought a dimond «thr that held A handred stops or «i ; A pair of sno wo for his fost In eax that it =honid snow A book of morlern slang he got. And varied 11 page by page, And then ne w Up nthe | Rome of the Rens That Appear io Aast Autrian mairinoiaal according to a contin spondent at Vienna, are m ceptable humorous audacity ture, instance, is one that ran fv T RIX OF EVE £4 re are bay ter how old, who will finance a stu obtains his degree, wk on he eugnges to marry nis benefactress.’ And another is quoted wherein a irl with When the desired mate is obtained sing from this advertisement for a aser for “a woll trained ative parrot and a ber nutiful s=vm ' which belongs to 3 ladiy far jud PHI ACY The most amwasing of tho advartise ments quoted by onr contemporary is, nowever, that of the very Irish peru “men of in- sovara mental Iabor ia the cause of humanity has filled their | brains with genial ideas, while depriv- { ing their heads of their natural capil { lary and }- not | envelopes.” These ‘‘artistically finished wigs,’ the advertiser « “while extreraely ngeful and highly or pamental to the wearer, are guarantesd absolutely invisible to tha spectator private A Fraadalent Bazker. The other evening a stylish and gen. tlemanly looking individaal stepped in to ano of the leading restaurants ia Par is, took his seat at a table and ordored a dinner tres recherche. When it was served up, he tackled tho dishes with the plasid delight of a genuine epicure When be was half way through the des sert, a closed cab drew up at the door of the establishment, and a very grave looking gentleman requestsd peruission to look through the premises, as ho ex- pected to find there a fradulent bunker, whom ho as a detective was instructed to take into custody. Ol course Lis de mand was complied with, and no sooner bad he entered the dining room tian be pointed to the Inxuricus reveler and whispéred in the landlord's ear: “You see, our information was cor- rect. There be is But for your own ‘sake wo prefer to avoid a row. Please tell the gentleman that his friend Baron L. is outside and wishes to speak so him for half a minute.’ On receiving the message our gaatron: omist {immediately rose from tho ta! tective, who pat him into the cab and { drove off with him Next day the res taurant keeper wens to the nearast po- | ios office to recover payment for the “frandulent banker's'’ dinner, amount- commissary por his subordinates knew or less than a clever bit of comody got Figaro. Astonishing an Oriental, Mohammed Aba Said, “Chief Spoon | and Ladle Maker to the Cothmander of | what ; Owen thought about. the phenix and | . the bowl of a ladle waich he | , mien wi bronght with him for examination was i It | Berlin i fare authentic sourco—the helmeted bornhill | of Cevion, of which there was fortunate | iv y sncimen in the museum. tho Faithful," came to know whether pot made from the beak of that bird was identified as coming from a more .i+ head and beak were brov ght in to my study and hauried to the oriental ary the beak with the bowl, and then ex ence: “Cio is great bird!" "'— Academy Frozen Milk. The French industry of icing milk is an original departure in tinned commaod- ities The milk is frozen and placed Lin block form in tins and on the part of | { the purchaser r requires to be melted pre- Vi Being hermetically sealed, the for us to usa commodity thus iced s1 until it 13 required, when a min & exposure to the sun's rays or to heat of the fire is all that is neccssa- reduce it to a ligoid condition. — Baltimore Sun. the To Remove Ink Htaions Ink stains on carpets or woolen goods can be removed while they are fresh by taking common baking soila or salera us, rubbing it well into the spots and then rinsing with warm water. ~The sane prone 8 Mi remove dried ink spots from cotton gaods if the spot has not been wet RN water before tho sal eratos is applied. — Jewelers’ Cirenlar Why She na. Husband— For heaven's Ik 80 much? (pleasantly r— Yau do, love. | have to keep talking so you will not have so many opportunities to say rude i things. — Detroit Free Press. ka saka, what Wifla “The Campbells Are Comin’ isa very ' 61d Scottish air. Copies back te 1620, are known to exist. Among the curios unearthed nt Troy by Dr. Schliemann were several golden | lamps dating from 000 Bi G ; { given hy tho ware rs N Lt fenti i and J | Pa an ac | i chal for | < pare hin : : | Henke days: ** Wanted. — A rich lady, no mat ’ . | ment is made of the matter. ¢ adicine until sadl time as he | ; i dent of medicin : an le a8 he | talk of big damage claims ronni ito 8 } at iy in diame all ona's needs are apparently satisfiad, | | gate, i innes, | ton Balle i casi : World, a | Point and went out on the boulevard, where | ho was taken possession of by the de-| | and below, {risks | wi ¢ 60 franca [ut peither the | ried ons of t anywhere round, and the I seemed to start inl i pect of happiness : bitions to be rich, and | ble for preserves its i viage. rounds them. i now lives in poverty and (MTL of it, dating | ¥ | grease sims after HISTORIC DEED IN DISPUTE. 1 The State of Delaware Claims a Document After Ope. Hundred snd Twenty Years An old historical doonment, tie deed [inka of York to Williaa a iract of land en the Dela: ve {C is tho bono of con- a 1 onween tho stata of Delaware Yienry Rogers of New Castle, Puomn for asthe, The state of Delawars has been ad- iovised that tho doconment rightfully be. | longs to it, ‘as his pro] | resened it from A Cs | troasnrod | handed down * ml while Mr. Rogers claims it orty been his ancestors Brits and a R epeae rier it ever ed, It iz tion ation, and their right has snoed anti] recentic. Tl ; ne iron 1 tho hands of 8. VV, lant this city, and it is stated that bold fast to it until some soiiie- [3.3 soldiers nearly ago and b ve ins been. (OREN . ver heon ntury ho will res IS Rk Op if the stute of Dolnwar invists upon taking the deed by force of Thi 1, G00, 5 Hi i law. The deed is for a tract of land on thn Delaware, confined in a eirgle 12 miles tar, with the + at tha town af New Castile Atta we Crenieral oo Nichalsin aware bas alr taken this hist ical docuinent, — bia Pross ST ORIES OF THE DAY. 1 iw feral stops to secars Paila Gell Some Funay, waireents igs Ia the Utah Cone stitational Convention, Rome fanny things happen in the Utah constitutional convention, A prop osition introdneed the other WK that the constitntion should | uso of cigarettes, Lut it was on the ground that cigarat down the constitat by force « } dressed the e-mventi of the Jur; et and tr to langhter that by the chairman's Tribune. any ia 30%} TYR d tha daly rl 3! was only £upp JPR ww. Yor gavi ]. == Ny Shownsd Lack of Sense, In a biographical sketch of the Io Df. MeCosh that appears in the Prin tin it is sisted that on ope « on "a visiting clefoyman, while con ducting avening chapel service, made an elaborate prayer, including in hs petitions all the officers of tho college, arranged in order, from president trostecs, professors and tutors Ther was greas applagse at the ast item. the faculty meeting immediate ly after the service Dr. MeCash, open tha disorder, aptly remarked, ““He should have had to pray for the tators.’ Bad Traits of the Now Girt. Elizabeth, N. J., has a regularly or- ‘ganized gang of girl shoplifters, if the story of a 14-year-old miss arrested there can be twlieved. The coming woman has exhibited phases that have startied an, but the coming girl promises to fill ns with amaze. The typical bad boy will not be in -it with her. —New York wenster fa the Water, River steamers went osonsionally, during the war, with prisoners to exchange. As thefe wero torpedoes in the river anywhers froma Dory's bla to Treat's beach, their captains ran great dowa to Ciry retorniog frem City Point, fortonstely th no passe nye re, when ono of th i gtruck a torpedo and immediately wont | | down In! ak from the captain with a Wie ry in hig arma A it» ¥ ne bs PE pan ay Cerld- up for the purpose of enabling one of | hb | the actors to have *‘a good blowsat.’ Mary Crip An A Pisa to fu ¥ y £4 pled German Frof Crern NOI COd Bose miaxes then | Tain Very others similarly, part, loss pa | due partly to the i military regime i boy is disgu deftly, coniparing | WRT traiped for s ; {York World. astonishment and rever- | {hat sarely is the! ‘roriane s Freaks Twenty years ago a young man mar- the smartest young ladies ife with But the g €very pros- irl was am- not was very much dissatistied. After keeping a time she left him and got a divoros Today the and a happy home. Every comfort sur- for the hread she cats to worse than nothing. Th gone from her checks and the ual ber eyes. It's Tn Arot as one ever saw. — Leo oly pga ual. fram as comp eto at Ww Economy. “There's no uso talking, Mri, we've got to economize. Times are 80 has you'll Eaves to do with “*All right, habby, and: ¥ ch fro to nt a girl.’ tm home socond thou y along a’ we aro for .— New York Recorder ‘*Er--on we'll ry aw lil elle ts, candle dipped in melt until they took ongh to form a exlinder of respect. made in Germany Dipped eandles—that whose. wicks we time apt iy SEW Oro D. 12040. ‘that range, © | press i so and i train rons fro i distance of 175 15lies {ecnanting stops , fastest Eng! At in commenting | more sense than. | {looked for on account of the miles and | | miles of track traversing prairie land. The Burlington road's best train aver- On one occasion two boats wore | yi the ir respective. r tho oir | | are not confined to the carrying of pas BIET 8 i { BY. Ling department of 8 road | an important disc! t runining of such ex traordinary fast trains | i off } Gli ; | schedules cn ¢ full share of tt 14 barden of responsibil : {and the f mom personal inci | have a su: pet | them i to the Teed i PH pos#a young couple | | ors, engineers, firemen and other hands { on the limited get more pay than do the because she was | nate grade. lier husband in a peck of trow- | | finence in railroading Ho went into bankruptcy, and | the remarkable careers of the Congres. | sho very soon married a wealthy man | i and rode behind a span in a clegant car- | forper bankrupt is wealthy and prosperous, has a new wife | His wife of other days | has to scrub | Her husband's | wealth, under poor manag ment, shrank a. roses have | rT SPEED ON RAILWA AYS THE FLIERS on AMERICAN, AND ENGLISH LINES. Curves and Grade Crossings the Great Drawbacks In This Country—Limited Trains Do Not Pay Expenses, bat They. Benefit the Service In Other Ways, The writer bionched the subject of fast rains recently to one of tho shrowil- est civil engineers cmployed on ono of the roads ent ring Washington, This fmployoe nd railroading oa life] study, tected the ratiroads of speaks by the card. He ide has and ‘T¢ ome railroads eonld spare the money wo 8icTats thelr tracks In cities sand at crossings, 10 say uuihing of cous. pleting the work of straightening oul carves, now going on, I, for one, will predict that we can make an averapo of 50 miles an boar betwern New York and Chicago. I say this with the Alle ghany mous ains almost staring mo in| the face. Veripght Jose time going up at engin cra, asa role, like tor const, ar. | wouidn’é ti ey & lide down the other nin with a roadbed minus ourves and § rade crossings! In the 13L- ter of cost in making in t5 fiw ro aware of tached thereio, n road Aatter part of i i ¥ x nad. That wae people a the expense at. i ‘blew’ 1n Ars now COrve Over sy gt el A pk in Wao rir, Bd Ho v ithe TO Gur GArs. ns folly {i433 FV bassin GOs wigs, and wit return of a pros cus peridd wa no surprise the warld, and especiaiiy ‘nglish, with the av erage speed any 4 ne will attain } “Many peor ail be surprised to] ienrn that ti © and not this coun- | ¥ En nazlad shes the fastest train orkid. United States comes | oad } 4 third. The Germans rin. to Hamburg, a in 204 minutes, averags ours lo speed—that is, not | of over 523 miles an hone The Empire Stat: express on the New | York Central to | runs from New York | to Buffalo, a di dance of 440 miles, in | 520 minutes, and its outside speed aver. | ge is nearly les an boar. The | isly train, that comes third 1 the list, is called tho ‘west coast flier yd runs from Laevidon to Edinburgh, distances of 400 miles, at an average out- | side speed of 50 miles an hoor. “The farther we: go west the slower the train service becomes, a thing not | ry or in tho 7 an oi na ages about 36 miles an hour. That on the Milwaukee road, the limited, can anly reach an average of 34 miles an boar. The Denver limited, on the North. | western riad, bas to hustle to score an | average gait of 39 miles an hour. “Very fow of the fast limited trains | in this country pay for the expense of yonning them, and is is an open secret that the limited between this city and New York, the limited. between New York and Chicago and the Empire State express between Now York and Buffalo i and the Chiczigo limited on the New | Yerk Central road eost their respective deal mors than they bring ! great advertisers for vada, “The advantages of fast train service : on well built and well equipped railroads | coda Boo wl fr, but they ure sengers swiftly from one point to anoth- | They are felt all through the operat- and exercise inary infl: . The ence 43 the Congressional limited and the | Empire Stato express has had aw inder- | ful effect in increasing the lance and Jency of all the trainbands. The a de eh such trains are run vi mest pr bitrary euf ree neequonsly keep the men all constantly on 1 his lity, nonition to : to a mini slack FIR view of ve C14 traversed Reh nian 1a made to feel never adn ‘watch for the Bier Sensing or neglectful. The wnston 5 fF rer 1 in the ; nd similar penalties are 1 on other esaployees. “Besides this stimulus to daty the | fast trains serve as an incentiva to the men to strive for promotion. Cenduct- men employed on the trains of subordi- | That the ‘flier,’ in its ge- | serio sense, is actually an improving in- | is evidenced by 3ine and the Empire Qrate express. These are the fastest trains in this country anid have been running several years back, and, with ant exception, have met These trains. pass ar withodt a sia- ava it is all from n the eniployees The. men take a ytd sional, the Rrval nim of 10 ISA. rear after y iI be vig i ind St i nink- 2X DeLSA utial ing too all for all the saer genson, — Phila Mandi riages between consi Marie—-— Why not? Maud-—Bo cause if you warry yoaor icine your own children are scarcely related to you. They are only your see | ond cousins. — London Tit Bits ¥ Mar COU GEOMADN : delivered. - i pon ad | sprang, Li | ach | Joss in ita Americ plants its sad tone "- tals i literary apd patrictic composition i and sentiments that penple wanted at that moment to otter. | + ally doos it sve i whe TO Wi nid | speach? Art, 1 f times in hal? articulate tones, bat | the po L been recovered at Pompei, They Feharn d tine 6XE reise of pa 3 1 been Utara ia ei yo eh LINCOLN'S UETTYSBURG SPEECH. Sublime and Somorial, Np — Matthew Arnold Ind Never Heard of It. I stood elose by and heard that speech | It came upon vs after the srous and elabiorata rhetoric of Bd- rar] Everett like a blaze of real fire after uo inptelioe picture of Be a It (he strophas of old, out of | astened Liart almost bes pid the weight of ei 6 y faith, and the mam who spoke thy words was, for ment, transfigared for os, and his far rowed faecn and gaovng for. tok on tho light that pever was iund or gen, 80 that be becamo the archetype of eo the people themselves, uttering beth r than he know the great prayer of thai finer and bettor humanity that our fa thors and wo believed was to come with liberty and equality out of storm and stress and an un=haken confidences ip man, But I don't think any of us then knew bow masterful is the speach of the hnman heart when it comes through the farnacs to these great cecisions and sincerity, by. the side of and the grooved thun- 13 mero gehaolar<his Ly of ri Lr Wao had to li # niury and sie ng with solbenks von for a quater of 8 at brief speoc flame our wing out with mod- majesty ono our page of recorded to comprehend how can howith a living coal the lips of a pplitiér jnst as he touched the lips Bhp cha fo in and sto: history Cool rail of a tentm untutare san, into eam ¢ the shoemaker, Bune. pion with the immer the Get as n brief Tarn it tysburg speech stands guiqne al, tha noblaat con the fittest words of ail the emotions, millions of mote Lat speech with the | heart of the uceasion, and: go majestic. | ep over into tho time to] comd, that I.ehonld think all menevery- | : rin its intrinsic quali- | at the case talking with ‘was in this Lineal n-—y Sa inwronght ist ‘Bat thd I rememin Arnold when he about Abra x member had no * stinetd attention to the Ge ttysburg ty. FE conntry su will re- fis a | shall never forges the impertarbable Satur lay Review stare with which he asked, “Ah, what is the Gettysburg! He had never hoard of it. I balieve when he went back he asked Professor | | Bryce what it was about, and when it was hunted up in an American school book and shawn to him he read it hasti- ly and put it away with commiserating raticence : “Suppose you ask M. Bourget, who is locking into the American heart by the way of the American bodice and on space rates, if he has read the Gettys- burg speech. I happen to know of my own knowledge that Robert Louis Stevenson kad not heard of it when he was exploring our continent, and Sir -Lepel Grifiin and Radyard Kipling had an iden that it was a newspaper fake. The current number of The Saturday Review lies open before me, what my eya falls on: “The : commen American delusion i that the x) have been a number of great 8 American poets, that there is sach a thing as American literature, disports itself with cuasual pomposity.’ Is is impossible { or thes literary prigs of a xspeeial cult to understand | ba naiant condi- that wake ‘into the higher and that thers &li tions of tummnlinons notivity may : vig ye i 15f naticnaal iv all i better functions of the soul prior to the | chartered formulation of them into an | wid that it is in these periods of | awakening and not in tho after repos of an elaborate wstheticism the precious heartbeats of the race made themselves heard er in organ biasts which have set the key of riiy and fixed the vocabulary of hope and ¢letory. Before eloqas it was a buroang Libs nee or poetry was an art gy] Hid an nntatored nue, Let vs by all means confer distine- tis inwitin bronze. If we add metal enough 8 "and sarround it with the arabesque of Orsford fature Matthew Arnolds may | join the pilgrims and throw the English tribute of a well turned phrase upon’ the tablet, which, after all, is but » ' weak hieroglyph of the record in 70,-! Wheeler OU0, 000 in N hearts. — Andrew Cl vow York San A Hamble Part Theodorns—I always read the parlia. mentary reports very carefully, but have never come across any speech of yours yet. Bernard (M. P.)—How is that? Have you never noticed the words, ‘Cheers and bear, hear?’ That's where I in. —Stuivers B Bu other translated Jar; ns poems into English verse Disuppoiated, te rar horn t in the corner of it devonring 58 Myrtle aon to her paper Iwer-Lyiton knew it Horae nore heart.. He of Horaoe's a by shia t 2? ¥en} at?’ asked werest, her book says, "ores t'ought about, dR DOW, cut to bea ge -— WW ash Moly tience an ingenuity me have unrolled and rend N { impor- has been discovered in their con- thing « tents pods «t, but stiil daunt- the mos h brarn- | Tarsns and. lifted thao, It is! aspirations | Matthow | » satd of Lincoln that he | on ——and I called his | speech. 1 and this is | indeed most « have | the little one and felt, somes | aften- | and fetched its; lo from the agonies and mysteries of | noon ad feats less utterance by mold- | come ail the odes and | he his i Dolan | "twor al bes | at!” | “DESPERATION.” The New G ane of Cards Which Is Intes. : esting Eastern Society. “Desporation’” is a game of cards that is best described as a continuity of | sequences, regardless of suit. Is iw. played with three full packs of 52 cards each, and the most convenient namber of players is 12, but eight or ten per sons will find it a very delightful way to 4pend an evening. - In a party of la dirs and gentlemen the better way fa for the one six to challenge the other six ahd then, sitting.in couples at che tabla, ternating the play. : The first duty is to select a banken, who should also act as ampire for thw evening. The banker or dealer should then shuffle the three packs of cards to. gether very thorooghily and count two ‘pests, of 30 cards each; the one to be known as ‘ladies’ pest,'" the cther 8 “gentlemen's nest’ placing thems at oppositd onds of the table. Fach player then receives a hand of six cards, dealt owe at a time. Theso bands unre placed face down directly in front of each playor The play is from the b anker to the oft, and each player tutus op o card, : aud the play continues until an ace is tarned. The privilege of turning the top card of center nests is taken by the first player of each side. When an ace ix turned ap, it is placed in the canter af the tablie fun begins. The purposs of the game is to exhaust the eotiter nests, and the game. is won by the side exhausting their nist first. The gequences in the center of tiie table are ace high to dence, while the side se- qaences or partner's hand are high or low. So that eachi partner plays on the center sequences, his or his partner's sequences and his own, in affect play- ing seven hands in a 13 hand game. The fun of the gambo is caused by the penalty connected the wewith, which tw No player is permitted by word, look, sign, motion or suggestion to indicate to the person playing any play or mis | play possible on penalty of forfeiting the play of said player and having the chance of A seqoence pass to the next player as tabla, which would naturally ha an opponent. | There is.a groat amount of sport in this game for a social evening, and it is very popular ‘in tho castern- cities. It can be made ‘progressive’ if desired on | the same principles &a enchre.—5t Louis Post-Dispatoh. ; : ami the | A BAD MARK FROM GOD: i I A Little Girl's Original Definition In Court of “What Is a Sin? An incident worth recording occurred | before Chief Judge Sedgewick of the superior court in the trial of the action | brought in behalf of Ida Goldberg to re- cover $15,000 damages from Edward Ridley & Sons for injuries received in being knocked down and run over by one of the wagons of the firm. The girl had her arm fractured. The defense was that she was ble for the acci- dent by her own negligence. Lottie Goldberg, a sister of the plata: tiff, who is only 11 years of age, was galled to the witness chair to testify to ne circumstances of the accident. She ‘such a little child that she was ete as to her understanding the nature of an oath, in order to ascertain whether she should be allowed to testify. “Do you nuderstan: 1 tho nataro of an i cath?’ {Yeu sir.” | © **What {a it?" “It is a swear.”’ | On eross examination the little girl was asked: “What do you mean when you say it | is a swear?” : Eval], it is that I have to toll the | truth.” : “If you don't teil the truth, what then?" “That wonld be a sin.’ “What iz a #in?"’ “A bad mark from God,’ answered i The venerable chief judge was visibly touched at this answer of the child and remarked, “This is a very intelligent child and perfectly understands the ob- ligations of an oath.’ She was then al- | lowed to give her testimony. — Now Yuk i Regorder. So Womanly. | That the ways of woman are passing { strange was again proved by an iucidens on a Main street car last evening. - A gentleman arose to offer his seat toa lady who had just entered with her lit- tle boy. Becing the seat vacant, she | sent the bay to occupy it, while she clung toa strap. She was evidently very tired and would have enjoyed a seat, but preferred to care for her son first. Presently a lacy iuft the ear, and | the one standing took her seat. Next to | her was a serving maid with a pretty | baby on her lap. The lady asked per- mission to hold it, and the re quest be: ing granted. she coosd and talked and played with the child for a halt hour, utterly oblivious of her own boy's jeal- ous cries and frantic efforts to attract attention —-Cinéipnati Tribune . Worth’s Frankness, Kate Field says she thinks that Worth made for her the only dress that he ever made of American waterial. She took him a piece ¢f American satin for the j purpose, amd at first he refused point {| blank to touch. it The manufactarers i at Lyons would never forgive me,’ he said. ‘They would ac cuse mo of treach- Lery.’’ But eventually Miss Field's per | suasion prevailed. 5 orth was excoeed- | fngly frank to his enstomers, “Choose | that color if you like, '’ ‘he said one day ‘to a rich American woman, "but yoa'll look hke a fright, and your husband {will refuse to poy the bill" Yet They Were Not Inflaimmadle, L Farmer—7You had a fire at the manse this morning. Any serious loss? { Migister——=Yes; ton years’ serinons "| were completely burned. Farmer (with the memory of many a wedry Sunday morning}— Faith, but | they made a gran’ blaze—they were so dry, ye ken l—London Tit- Bits.
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