CUPID'S LONG SHOT. HE GOT A “YES” EIGHT How Crorge Gaston In Iudianapolis TOVE to Mies Married Yast Week at Bishop on 1.ang Fatar Pelham Mano A man a shas thee nipry WAY Over the marry him Mary ii 1 Hon. Janes became engag Indianay other night at (dilliland at } dm M rN Y Mr. Gaston is the son of a retired physician and ie the sserefary and tre urer of the ladi pany. 1 ed in the as A] Mr their own minds 4} bachelor. His hnsin him to New § spent much of land. |] Mr. Gi} his b variably; land b and tha igre eat man fi to his two on {easton thing in t fare tal sir went Lon coud Liafl me cut, and When li pied wasn't cond thin) * gg call, “Hello!” | | i weeks he was sit from oi filled with a had told bow all daft aliont M for a moment, telephone, lo unber ¢ } liland's house telephone ia the long dis- | tance telephone book, and asked to be | connected. Pretty soou he heard a femi- | nine voice at the other end of the line danced " and ked up the number of Gi i “Hello! Who is that?”’ answered Gas- ton. ‘“Who? Oh, Miss Bishop? Well, this is Mr. Gaston, Miss Bishop. Where | 3 i 3 am I? In Indianapolis. Yes, in Indian- | -apolis. I thought U'd call yon up to—to | ask how my sisters ar. You'll call one | of them and let her speak for herself? Oh, never mind, I said ‘never mind.’ N-e-v-e-r never. No, not mine; mind— m-i-n-d. Hello! How are you? Just going to the city? Theater part night. Oh, not going in till the 4 « ( train’ Wish I were going with yon. gaid I wish I were going with you. I don’t kuow whether my sisters would Likéypp have me or not. I just wanted to 1th you. Don’t be fool Hello! Hello! Hello! Bay, oft! I'ma not at thi ish? What did vou say? central! Don’t cot me through talking vet, Gone end? Well, ring 01 As Ms said, he was bound to say something then or die in t tempt. After whit) ig some time, he g the x vegan talking with ; : ‘I beat about the bush lor a ong time.’ then I came on witn ta not BWI other rey 11} ‘3 ihe Lil {raston i cant to her ui gquesticl perfect | migiil 1 batter wuit things ba 35. xv sw OW! i nally i vhile, tried ile I said] ha wind I guessed "1 knew tiled that 1034 Thal morg Fie i + iived £) ver when she | y weeks aft Rr i try, will simultanecasly disa he at- | y evidently cond f Ari EA ”~ NZ aA TY LS Annihilation of the Hritish Empire From! a French Point of View, UF BY WO! ofa Ground (re! That Had Fossessinn of Taken heir Home, ’ pecimen of rabid writing in the | vir a spectacd and bankruptey ~towns, villages, works, temples and pass through lapidated towns; the or are impracticable-—it use a carriage 12 } } cutta. The Epglish have made a purely superficial conquest of these vast regions. They do not live there; they are only encamped ; their children die there, and with their gross bodies—all flesh and blood—they cannot acclimatize them- gogartedq miles ontside of Cal- | selves there. India is for them a place of exile, a tropical Siberia, which they escape from as soon as possible; they are equally detested by the Hindoos and Mussulmans. The flame of this implaca- ble hatred poisons the lives of the con- querors. The day when Russia blows upon this castle of cards it must fall will ceare to branch of humanity, Once es the vampires of London, she wi he Rus of i and awake to a now existence, T gian conquest on the Ganges will ba the sig fall of the Ang! hemispheres, hanks 1 for the m~ AQ ~ , 5 } i0-13aX0n power in bath othing will remasain standing in the pareuto racy and aniry—aristox arch, commerce. and indus A ’ ppear.’’. thne annihilated empire ana Gistr The writer, having the British 1 wlonies ‘among ROE€S .0n to predi wili then have ’ } —Natl race,’’ ete A Third Gavel For Speal ~ vey y » Pe HEUI gavel with v ¢ prese: § cy MH was made chopping coln in his rail Bpittt the intention of MM: ¢canens Lthat Mr. Rea | eassed with LOM pany i and withhhels L qutetly wis i pened k After Eating Pa Tig i be 1n ti Ma Tiger Pa ¥y pe] dl | eivilizat “ro... aw 1 ! my quarter and paid my fare channel will perish through India. Asia | be a sterile and withered | ed from | 11 revive | 2 muatary arini 11 i I well FON 2 the carette. Gietiing in at Schiller street, | ‘the carette was empty, and I went up to the front and bought six tickets for a quarter. Ome I diopped in the box Then as the car filled up I was exceed- | ingly useful to those who sat farther | down, passing their fares up and depos- | iting them. An exceedingly polite man els in the box 1 dropped my tickets in until I had used np my five tickets and confiscated five nickels. I had regained f After that I was not the | « down- | i | as I sell them at a penny edch, or a shil- lin’ a box, you can see thegs'a plenty of money to be made in the pusiness. em London Correspondent. ——————————— Sl ait} OLSEN. Jy ph The Bill Was Pajd. McRad and his wife wer going over | their business ledger one qgvening, con- they all thought me. And so lam, sol aro. But instead of dropping their nick- | knewledging that many have to be written off as **What'l! re das abet th AMA a + + 13 yop 2 then would | i ary q ane’ enid | id Gea willl a baat iy Lis OTa4G He gensation that ensued in congress and throughout the country was extreme and resulted eventually in the enactment of stringent laws placing dueling ou the same level as murder. Four days after retiring from the sen- ate, on March 8, 1559 Jones was ap- pointed by President Buchanan as min- ister to Bogota, New Granada (now Co- lobia). He remained there until No- vember, 1861, when he was recalled by the Lincoln administration and shortly afterward confined as a suspected seces- i a suming the icsses of “innocent persons who invested cn his Tigquest.” —From “Tha Plomed Knight aud His Joust,” by President E. Benjamin Andrews, in Scribner's. : Betrothals In Holland. ‘In certain parts of Holland when a young man thinks he loves a girl, he asks her for a match to light his cigar at tho door of the beloved one’s home. This is done to let the parents know that someth.og is intended, and if the {sis 13 reposted and the thing oc + SATE