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Show Ifcw I II. Ho! r g on b GROUND THE CONNER. o V. 1 v 1, 1av niv heart wa rrum. with heavy tip; Ana i.vit a rav uf 1hh5 ar To tl.cvr me ud the Lior.'iv-I waiei 4t ntf the crowje l a ie A du 1, detracted ui UUr And fueHe.i not what await ai As i went round the rorner. Chere met me one vhoe s :.nv facs The mui! of haveu r etei; The frietiU,' ueetin she hshwei Was vvhniiy For I hdA thought her hard and cold. Of lovers arts a e.rner ; But she wits taKon off her ru ri As 1 turned round the corner. Wbat eared I tluru'h the skies were dark. And threatened atortnv v.ealieri w hat matierl anv ynt-- at ail, It we two wtiv The blush." that were ou her Did rejal y adorn her. And, oh i blessed the rate hat turned My steps is o md the corner And thus I find it is thn uir'i .it No full of wondrous ph.ts s -That when we walk am d the ifiooni, Or pass through tai. e l itia e, Feeiliur all friendless an alone, A hope ess hap'ess mo .ru Borne Pies'. ny surely l.es i Wi.t I or us aruui.d the corner. On1? 1 rsel o- . th . d a ;i. . a t ,e Yes. ..! to tiie Hint ru d E m t ho i. re, . -- y . tor sh ta. - -- a !. -- ill io-- c 'Ii.'riir ii mi- a i 'a , ag lls iletiarui-0 k .u ihe sitt'ng loom iii to an tea. M.s. .n ;1ij b n o in'ere-te- d and i , hearing a!l abo t ,r. a Fill tie in Haris, that to'i had peg leejed la ir Usual di-- T an 1 ngaged t' e doctor the whole I it, aat that m- :i!i-- " drew near t.'ie Hit as the sr'hord house he si; ekened his jiace. If course she was n Half pa-- t three! the hum of l'.tie school; he eo tld voices, and the singing geography .leonversation. lesson, leading in which ho thought evening in animat he had frowned a twite or Once of he could recognize the shrill tre to Margaret, saying, iaughin r Ta e ( an t w e lop tlii- - and To rush in and and snub h her up stKjUing-bo"Hut trom and desk she, silting qui. away " I ii'-- are But tie bv his side, had the first hr.p-d-es womb-rtithe them. him-el- f, of do the indulge kind, tnlnk.ng lit tie eyes und the truant little tongues. dm tor ha.l yielded to the gentle reBesides ho m.h1 consider her, too, in mind r a 'id made hims-- lf a- - agreeable ! g. to IHs hirfilv delighted after tip ir parting. such a as ;o No, lie would wait in lie little wood ho-t-- 1 gii'-s.the meeting - liu.ie that skir'ed you'd I ke to take Margaret gro inds: and keeping out of sight of a drive, wouldnt you? s iid the beamsi w indows, he pae d up ing old S pi.ro as Saturday came at the sehool-li- o that led !at, bringing the doctor very soon and down the cart-pat'llie old rtian has through the wood, stooping down from af'er break t. time to time to gather a stray blue vio- had nothing to do tills Week. I 11 nave let that peeped up beside the rough him put into the t l,ar! for you, if you track of the wheels. like." was t if course he liked and Margaret Only luilfan hour! Hut it seemed a whole lifetime, with the sweet future delighted, for there seemed really no so clO'O, so breathlessly none! place in ihe bustling white mansion Was it eliaraete istie of his faith in for a quiet The parlor, 4 KANi ES. BT tate apartment himself, or his trust in Margaret, that he never once had a doubt of his re- - f toed a fire lighted nnd two brass ran CHAPTER V. It wua late in March when Dr. War- ceptiun; never once pictured a cold diest ieks place upon the mantle-shel- f ren again jumped o it of the cars at look of indifference, or a reproachful every evt ning now. But it was very Holme station. Hut the spring was word? shivery, and seemed very formal to be half-hoa for last At the ended; Easier and this sitting there in state while the good Sunday, year; early (ailing about this time seemed like a gathering roar of sound went up from Squire was fretting for companionship and rangthrough on the other side of t lie door, lie ummers day. This was the Wednes- tliolittle school-hous- e liked the doctor and believed in day later, and already there was hope, the quiet wood. Dr. Warren came and shaded him, and was prepared to show his there was promise in the tender green again to tho wood-edgof the budding trees, and in the rich his eyes from the sun, which struck appreciation of the match by a grand emerald of the wheat lieMs that lay level across the fields. wedding that should gather in half He had no children Yes, the little troop was disbanding the country-side- . broad and velvet In the sun. No railroad as yet came wiihin two sure enough, and scattering in all di- of his own, "and Hove Margaret like a But daughti r already was his final argumiles of Holme; but the intervening rections upon tho cross-roaddistance between Holme s'ation and though lie wat died until the latest ment as he announced his decision to the vi.lage was soon accomplished, child had Hung on its satchel Li.-- wife. It was a beautiful day that last and ihe doctor passed hurriedly up Die and shut tho gate, until a tali g'rl, hud was who Taco, In Mursii, and tho old roan surely to on his street t.ie Saturday long yellow w.iy to complain of hard gone demurely down the road, the had no rea-o- n house. lie had hoped to escape recognition, figure ho looked to see dul not appeal'. drivin-g- up lull or down. They threw Noiselcs-!- y he approached the .school the reins on h's back as they reached but not o. The blacksmith hailed him from his shop, coming out with house and looked in at the window. the summit of Harper's Hill, that over- leather apron on and blackened hand Thera she sat, his dear Margaret of looke I all the village, and secure from table, with interruption the awift hours of the to give him, Hello! Doctor, come old, at a little before morning'-wenAnd the postmaster, a a huge pile of exercise-book- s back to Stay: by. She was on she wiiieh niild-faeeher, leaning. And you are quile ready, sail' min peeied out from lbs bared and parliiioned was so busy with thorn that at tho Margaret, after a pau-- e in the eonver-sat'othe winto take me and all tho chillight sound of his window to ay: dow was open she did not even look dren in my train to live with you? it. Good if Warren! I)r. aint Why, up. 1 day! Good day! always liked tho little things do lie watched her for a moment; still me that Still he hoped to avoid being seen at Margy, even in the fair. earnest same and sweet the face, 4V herever the s'ltre, uml crossed to tho other side are is their home pa.--t. you Smiling softly to herself as she rapidly of the way. to be sure. llaply Stephen is o!T corrected They shall be ways, a woefully misspelled and more than welcome. electioneering, somewhere, and I can dislocated composition," her graceful You wont grow tired of having get by!1 But furtively glancing over, as he head bont over it, and her pencil rain- big girls and a noisy boy romping hurried by tho store, he started and ing down strokes. your quiet house nnd upsetWhen, right across the page, across through topped short. Instead of the dingy ting all your bachelor ways? a little best Mira Slocum's paragraph, to s0) there, with 1 am prepared, ign he was he said in mock S. John Store" in faded brown bunch of violets, shot through the heroics, to accept matrimony will all w indow fell! And at the window, open new sign, with glittering paint, a bran care-- , and have had quite enough d face, and brown eyes its gold le tors on a black ground, declar- a of bachelor wavs. in wistful entreaty. ed II. Bolter & Go. to be the pro- looking Well, then, said Margaret,, with May I come inP I know my lesson prietors und partners thereof. an arch smile, I won't be hard upon for now!" without And, perwaiting Is Bless inol that our doctor come We won't such a willing sacrifice. window mission, in through the window sprang come in such a again? and from tin all. Mrs. after tribe, so truant tali scholar, long! Mrs. Scott, her enmity burled, seem- the know never White have had you they Apparently the lesson was satisfacingly, (or the noneo, hailed him with children, and they both love little any must been said over have but it w tory; a smile of elcome. and over again, for before the two folks so dearly has been begging and But the doctor merely bowed in school-hous- e tho young begging ever since you came home to her torrent of questions and loiters left the full that we woud leave Bertie and PheeiT was and moon had shining risen, hastened across the street into that The children love her and with her. weather-beate- n the step. broad, the upon veritable Curiosity Shop, with her, and she is in so are happy A they, lingering still, came slowIt was country store of Holme. all respects a mother like their own. to from the road Whites, and as Squire usual, within; dark, groping ly up will do well by them, the Squire behind the counter that ran across the the gate they were hailed by no les- - a They and Bertie shall go to says, back was & figure that seemed famil- personage than the Squire's lady her- and learn to be a doctor, too!college You Two bnre-fochildren stood in self. iar. know you are his ideal man! Marlook to for Just you, coming waiting, ponny in hand; and ai the It shall be just as you say, Mur-eatooping Qgure raised itsolf and pro- garet, my deur. Why, who's this? and the doctor looking into her An o'd friend, said the doebr, duced a box of clay pipes for the beneeyes, vvi hiicld tho comment that fit of the young customers. Dr. War- coming forward. to his lits just then. Ha was ro.e of had White been one the a tail youth who had Mary ren recogtii-egin !, unfeig rally, that his dear girl beeu assistant" in tlio days of Stephon very few in Holme village to thoroughs he io. .Id w as mining to him unfettered by such ly appreeiato Dr. Warren. Johns. etr o- -. im cart's, but not for the never reconcile his abrup departure Was this II. Bolter? he asked. would h hav e s lid so now, How are and though, with wonumiy iutu'Wm. The same, sir. Oh! !!. hen, I ay yes. vv P she had that connctod Come to Warren back l)r. departiov you, so at home and happy there, on hounv the nnd the she Been lull, sharks to worth yellow stay? nobody ili While and her husband take your piaoo, sir; youll find it open, with rare delicacy never imv.iion-- 1 h u v ju- -t what th-are and what it his name to Margare. I gtuws." But now, in a hash, she saw the i 'hey undertake. 1 will be selfish But where is Stephen? asked the - ou. but indeed, whole situation; and as with v.i :;:, row G !' with doctor, trying to speak composedly, the a burs; of April tears, "it was always Oh! StophonP with au attempt at welcoming grefi' sho det-iun !y introducing some you before! a visage which was most doctor, misch; e'ore she And, s' niggling to dash away the unsuccessful; you see, lie went off to words of congratulation tell-talfinished her sentence, Margaret pas-en drops, and laughing gaily Washington last fall, and he loitered and poked round there quickly into the house and loft them aga n, "Furthermore Tace is to go to bonrding-s"hool- . She is determined till all his money was gone, and he (all standing there. Of course the doctor stav ed to "tea. on that and to be a teacher some day. ill with a kind of low fever, with the Then, bimoby, and the hospitable squire would have Do you know that, a 'tor all, our ven-- : disappoint ment-lik- a. make his ure iu -- 'ore keeping is quite a good word came to his house that he was insisted that he should dead; and some of those Phlladolfy fel- homo with them until tlu brown one. and that poor little Go. has al house was made ready: for 1 con- ready re, e yed more than ever came lows they brought him home. And Marg Miss Harding! where clude, said the squire, with a side to them through Stephen's hands?" Is he?" glance at Margaret, that you've come So that of all the little crowd, 'here was no one after all to come and live Oh, she is a worn m, I tell you! She to take up the old trade. But the doctor declined this over- in the brown hou-- e, but the tiny just gathered up everything, after the funeral; and there wasnt much loft, to whelming offer, saying they did not namesake, baby Margaret. And doc be sure, w hen them W bills know what they were they tor 4 arroti, as th, y drove homeward, were paid. They sold the old ynllcr would be tired enough of him as it was. seeing the little girl waiting for them house, and she and me fixed it that I He would set'le himself at the Cro-- s by the turn in the road, swung her was to take the store on shares the Keys for a f w days. up into the wagon, her as ho children they's the Co. He begged hard for a holiday, the lifted her to a seat beside him. indicating with a chuckle the flaming sign. Bill next day, for the children or even a He was glad, after all, that thats tho painter down yan-de- r. half holiday! But he was put down there was very this one little waif from he said he'd give it an extra instantly by Tace, who began already the old life, still holding fast touch of gold beoau-- e of them!'' to take on womanly dignity. So that et hand. Glad because of Margarhis own 'I hen Margaret, she gets the school Margaret's laughing no," and even old elflhness, and that he by at the meeting house you know the Mrs. White, joining the party In pow- hi loving acceptance of m'ght, the little him. He routed his school on er, had aback there the l"iut quite proQuaker maid. how t Margy how entirely one road; ana theres two rooms over it for gram sketched for him, and thert was h waa with her, in every impulse s to live in. Do you nothing to do but to follow it out. th BOW. believe it? shes moved them children was last doctor a poor affair," ihe But baby Margaret stayed with the aud all over into them two rooms; and Mrs. White said. Had no confidents 1a thera, ta kind Mrs. Whites was always tuni- whlta the doctor carried off his care, Tve, shes inch a big girl, she actual- himself, somehow; little whea yon wlf OB the wedding-journe- y ng over his doctor-book- s ly teaching a class in school. had he Yau know how Squire White him asked what to do. Now, I bar a planned so long. the Meeting House; and have a book too; and it's only whsa Ob no bridal trip to Delphic Flaiy adjines Margaret pay so much a my own experience fails me that I send In whose roar and rainbows week, at all events they take their for a doctor anyway. So I dont want and grooms may know wbat in him there at the Squire, go shea to begin where I leave off. meal And fo.e has in store for them; nor to any fo.ks got out with him, sure enough, other not bothered with cooking or help. place for such expeBut do take a cheer," said H. Bol- and got to sending over to Somerville, ditions. ter, braaJc'ng off in his narrative to as-u- to old Dr. James. Its a long way for But to the far south, out the hospitable; got some first-rat- e him to come, and he used to grumble, In summer beauty in softbreaking April show-c- a hard eider here; let me draw you and threatened to send over one of his To this battle-fiel- d, consea glass? prentice lads. And at last the new crated, on the sandy she--sadly to this No, thiu, k you, said the doctor, doc;or got beat out enVre.y, and the d of I it;cr nr-- vi-- s ot rhe-- e with a lan.le, looking a' his wa eh and house has boei shut two long, fate ul -: nnd d wnp'ng You v .n't I'll "oaie in months. nodd'c a ggpJbye rouble, ami coming Him th-- o ii irginia tor Atu lb gain ) he .ttug of Ia'r ' .t be u'o v -- dor-to- 1 Hi-'- r r de j -; whi-p-re- d, f to.'-ti.p- -o f j me-'in- - 1 h . a-- 1 The Story of a Seige. kh-a-td- r. e, s. j , -- d j n, foot-ste- -- e, u-- brown-bearde- up-rais- an-w- er ot y, i -- i The-'hild-- M'-s- ed long-draw- offiee-lmnti- ki.-si- school-mistres- set-asid- e" e; catr.n-groun- h-- i,,-.i-- v , vgoe tl.'lt She Hoes Nat Freni ?h Too Much to Believe. ;0-.- n to e - -- in'it' Chno From the Youth's Companion flies the of the r.ng on her Like Balky Horssj, What are we stopping for?Sa)j hunter mune.l An old half-hivethe the lady. Balky horse on as guide to o bare before, it semis but u Kelt, who acted answered the gentleman. . iu .ts many-eo'ere- d lgLt, ol traveller Farmi in Africa, one day track, hi.h she was cut red. began dealing out information tor He wont move for whipping 0, ;r. l .n ro :ue of wearing dutn-- : ne the lienetit of some native chiefs. pelting or whispering in his ear-- o, se.I-.-- a "1 and narrow 5;r.i'-tei- i Did I ever tell What sort of a lions? does the anything. c. t e ire. beg the poem a true marriage she about duet. asked, one asked my experien in? richlive Queen .w f'i a deeper 'meaning, fuller bus horse? No? Well it with a It it. see taru. balky should vied a I.'c Ah, you on the the waa out Colorado ihe em). thirtv-fiv- e windows one above plaira. houses put one The most elegant young eligible of Coi iper sTatisticsT other, like thirty-liv- e our set had invited me to takearij4 ana Mr. C. i.Irch dT, Jr., has submitted on the top of the other, behind his d 1 -s under ittheground. m more led Geological ,snrvy are as nmny t i t.,e t'.e f.d.o.Miig preliminary statement of He! oh! was the only remark his horse. I got myself up to do justi j o he irodu'-.- i di and listeners made; but when he went on to the occasion. All went delightful, United States in 1 in Lon- lv till, when we were on the op-- n P rout returns obtained from flit to say that there are no oxen s hor-.eand wagons plain outside Denver, that valuable o' or. Queers and cheeked and don, but that iice-!from the animal concluded to pause in hj cross full ieports supple;,;. nt;d by are so thick you can hardly rapid motion and meditate. jjv nearly ah :he refiners in the country, road, they gave vent to au ib'e shook the reins, clucked per-Ucort 1 the foliio. iig preliminary estimate ol allof doubt, and the production of copper in the United pressions ot' these sively, remonstrated encourngineiT veritieation tor to a touch ot the whip, a tw h a:h I.ake superior, pealed cites is compiled: statements. Kert then continued: gave reared and kicked virions, horse the seem!, 40 i.V'.'c pounds; Arizona, 31, 797, .c1') without You canwalk for ad.iy J7,.V7,!)G8 pound-- ; jioun.i-- : Montana, lv, hut still we were stationary o't roads stone but nothing on that lonely sandy level. mV o. l,o.;i,g'71 pounds; tali- - ing grass; Xw and houses. escort grew red in the Im-- with torn a. i,..0,b-- l pounds; Colorado, 1,- a with gant short Here he was pulled up ami clenched iiis teeth Utah, rf.lS.'Gd bemortification, pounds; chorus of; "Ha, Kert, we cannot pounds; lieve pound-- ; live so as not to let slip any regrettable Wyoming, horses all the can bow that; If you w ill allow me to gwords. Nevada, A), 000 pounds; Idaho, 50,00)1 if there is no grass?" I could out st;irt him,' lie saio. '(jij pound-- ; Maine, New Hampshire and to This was a poser, and Kert had Vermont. 71."'!J pounds: southern I ex- - by no means, I rejoined, T could when VaTthe horses had houses never hold him. Let me get out, and states, 18,201 pounds; lead desiiveri.- 4 pounds, total do- - P ers, etc, putting sand in his mouth. I've in, and that the grass was try mestie copper, ...494.4... pounds, vva v 0ff and dried, been told that worked like a charm.' 1 clambered from imported out of nnd brought to them in their houses, And so it did. 3,A !, l.bti pounds, a good fist full the me. grabbed buggy, the men would hardly believe pounds. Houses for horses to live in, and of fine sand, opened the jiiws of that The production is now proceeding no grass? one of them said, inquir horse, and threw it in. The astonat a greater rate, and a very considera second servant, ished horse tore off like a (lash, and ingly, able increase is expected should prices j " Hi to Jan, as I stood alone, five miles from home said Jan. is it tso, yes, continue at or near the present level in that solitary place and wati hid seen Have vou it?,' cents for of about ixteen and one-liaseen the the maddened horse, the powers lie have "I j Yes, replied. lake copper, un'.c-- s the trench syndisame at the Diamond Fields and at driver, and the black buggy grow a cate, and the mines who.--e product it I have seen cows which mere dot in the distance, I decided has contracted for agree upon sotne re- Gape Town are cleaned and the experiment had been a perfet duction of ou.-it. It is reported that live in houses that suecss, as tar as starting the horse washed every day. on Jan. 1, los.i. the stock in the hands ' is concerned. work of befcr.d must The English of the syndicate in this country w as This includes fine to do that. was the philosophical 57,biJO,U'Hi pounds. Our way is much Letter; we reply. Salt ns a Luxury, copper in mutter and ore in tran-i- t coffee ami smoke From the Inilimhipolis Journal. and at the works, with the exception can sit and drink feed themselves. of ome ami' onda material. Of the while the cattle Dr. Ilibb.urd talks about pnvirg total amount of copper produced in $3 (in California, where the gold Oscar IVihle and Joe the Inited states in 18sS. a1 out fever first broke out) for five pounj this d in retui was pounds I asked Pryor about the buncoing of barley to make a feed for is country. of Oscar Wilde by Hungry Joe. remarked C. L. Devine, forI saw Wilde give Joe the horse, The Wrong Switch. Said he: eman of the composing room of this Mr. Greene called up I)r. Brown, r.jie(.- - over at theBrunswii k, but Joe aud of paying 3 for havirj th.s street is olfice, Say. Dtafior, got a wav before I could interfere.. I his hair cut and Greene talking to vou, lli Hubbub. being shaved, i Well came at once to the Second Nation- - have an Oh, yeM Well what is it? in high pries experience Doctor, my wife is sulleiing most ox- - al Bank and told the cashier not to that will beat that or that anything to have eho'era pav Wildes check if presented, but occurred eruriating pa n; seems Wiir. You late the during s nimmu-or romething of the kind, send for me. It wasn't twenty min - remember Bret llarte's story of the AVell. l'ou will be up soon, you say? utes until I was sent for, and there Outcasts ot Poker 1 hit. Well, it! Doc: or could you suggest tempo-rartlmt' 1In the winterrtot relief? (At this juncture Mr. was Hungry Joe himself with the JLt,ftTlike in on Green was switched on with a well check. ( )f course he gave it up. In- - north fork of the Salmon Hiver, in Now known boiler manufa tory. ) took all the credit of Northern California. The Salmon from what you state, she i certainy spector Byi'nes affair and I never Mountains were covered with abo:' the nevertheless, full of mud and, I dare say, she lias feet ot snow. No pad in the matter at all. sixty-fiv- e credit of a In lot got on she her. any fact rust got in to us, and pris too olu, at any rate, its my opinion. Hungry Joe got ?4,()00 in cash iind trains could get ovisions of all kinds were getting checks of the out of a She is entirely played out. The only large president sold us high as bank in Montreal, who was a guest short. Flour remedy I o.'hr under the cireum-tan- c. a pound. YYe were absolutely out Avenue when nut the Fifth at would bo blow hotel, to her out and es, ueu were fairly mid an( whack her iu the sides with a hammei I told him the banker was our guest lie to loosen up matters in general. Then Joe gave up like a little man. lheodore A! cMichae 1, of Ihilai fill her up and if she aint all right by came pretty neargetting fl.'iO out of lliul a htore at the forks ofth A. Ben. J1111, once. The John I would cast her aside and genLogan and one day in rummagm. Salmon, get a new one." The attention of the eral was in one of the rooms on the al,oat be came across eight or ta clerk in the drug store was attracted ground floor on the Twenty-thir- d had falDa of small sacks salt that ot la-street side the where the house, Mr. Green left the 'phone, by the way The store. in his behind a Be8 is entrance located. Dr. Brown is a drunken idiot. partition a like prairie news find of the The boy at the door came and spread Whack her in the sides with a ham. with told me that the general had gone fire, and the place was boseiged mer! Ill whack his head. into his room accompanied by a bun- - men howling for salt. Mc.Michaeito co man. I went around and" knoek- - said he would do the best he could Euxom Biddy's Bid. ed at the door. Hungry Joe was make it go round, and that moneyit Smith Any (engaging Biddy) weighing recommendations. Miss Bridget? just going away, but I barred the would buy it. He beganounce ot suit Im an Irish girl. Age 19. I door and asked the general if he lmd out by the ounce, each Biddy took the beauty prie' at Killarnev- - given the fellow any money. The requiring an ounce ot gold to tab au cuddock. The Prince of Wales was general was inclined to get net-m- e it. Gold was then worth $16 at salt his he sold so that friend. I can play the piano, tied at iny question, ami blurted out ounce, everdance, sing, and I have written four that the young man was the son of the rate of s SAC a pound, and sensational novels. I have been on the the president of the bank in Chicago ybody was satisfied. stage and in the ballett. (Kicks oil where the general's account was kept, I cun sing twenty two I said: his hat.) The United State. hy, general, the man is a He would operas and excel in making fish balls. thief, n common thief. work The largest Republic in the I only want $8 a monlh. scarcely believe me. But presently Amelia, of is of United States that Smith ( il.t.ed) "You are engaged. Hungry Joe took $,"0 out of his Ye.-- , I know I am to your pocket, which he hud got from Logan which contains 3,2ti0,000 squaw Biddy son. KVs me. handing it back said I was on to miles, being almost equal in extent him and the general might os well Smith fa! n:s. kiti fifty-nin- e have his eyes opened. The general to Europe, which has rand A Goat Story. had given him and was going to doms, empires, principalities A banker in Lille, France, had the give him $100 the next dav. This epublics. misfortune to wet eighteen bills of the story of Logan has never been told The largest state is Texas, whih bank of France, and in order to dry before. Cincinnati Enquirer. contains 274, 336 square miles, cathem he placed them on a board at an , ofpe-pipable of open window, where the sun shone! sustaining 20,000,000 aw ling Now in Siam, and then not be more croiuk-thaupon them. They dried more rapid! v There was a commotion some time than was anticipated. A gust of win'd Scotland is at present. the carried them into the stm t, where ago among the conservatives of the It has been estimated that could It unfortunaely, a goat, picking up odds powerful Asiatic Kingdom of Siam. tire population of the globe and ends, at once captuivd the bank seated upon chairs within the bouW bills and swallowed theiu. The goat ndary of Texas and each have was pmvluwd nnd the bills secured in lon uPon the ancient customs of the feet of elbow room. a dilapidated condition, but the bank country by issuing an edict for the The largest county in the L n it ej of France recognized its obligations abolition States is Custer county, M. T., whie of crouching, crawlin' brtu? and redeemed them, contains .36,000 square miles, o. prostration at his court. It is not states the in extent than now necessary for his ministers, at- larger The Wrong House. Conn1.' Vermont, Massachusetts, Tramp (thinking to oblain sympathy) tendants, or visitors, to enter his cut, Delaware and Iihode IsDp'j on their presence with knees, their "I say, mum, I ain't got nov, In re One-tent- h ol the present populati'1-that I kin all a ho no, and I a ii i eat hands joined in the form of worship, of the United States could find 1!,eri and their elbows on the floor. While nothin' all day. Would you mind it, this inane11' of within livelihood a mum, if I slept in the snow here iii , j the King read his edict the dignitabe asv not would then it ries of Bangkok were prostrate on county; mornin?' was at the ti as crowded the Belgium ot floor his palace; but, when he Lady of the house (who krfc pot throiiph with it, and ordered of the last census. No, I ain't got any em) The largest body of fresh water them to rise, and, though You can drop down there anew lvu--- ; they trem-- i the world is Lake Superior; it 19 whon they tried to Ytand in miles wideonly remember that, as I don't chargn P!pd Ins presence and look at his up long and 180 miles you anything for your lodgin'. 1 s thewind'proyal his command was law. The ar-- circumference, e i of its various expecyou to shovel the -- r.ow a.vcv face, been istocratic society of the country was bays, has from the house in Jio mornin'. Its 'especially disturbed by that part of ated at 1,800 miles. which ,nre8r. J miles is 32,000, e edlL't square prohibiting superiors of anyy er than the whole ot New tug She Had Him There. ' nirt fn prostrate or crawl in their Hubby, sfftetly said Mrs. Pinui- - --T?-. j leaving out Maine. The nypun, as sea is 20d inland this of was of immemorial depth d an accident, antiquity, an eswhy is that b i"i sential feet; its average p part of the social svstem a isoniH, or 1,200fathoms. wheel like Florence Gadr.bou; ?" It 19 160 about symbol, and had been above sea level. St. Louis Repu Because it run- - around mi-- 1 d t rfhpous regarded as a political necessity. time." Under the circumstances it isnowoi-- , No, that's not it. died o'aer that the conservatives of Siam wants a new felloe. seize j He never spoke in re l)y the edict of the his pocketbook, when the wind inerbrr1rutk which, is however, enforced scattered up-- i the tired, and Mrs. 1. In and contents on all concerned. sulky. broadcast, and $930 in For blown about the streets. In Fi: .laud f,r a f ? of nonsense to commend a Pa j ly everybody in the vicinity was po'o;i- c ii: obtain d' -- oc tes got the stuff in to be honest and the money ivim"- o' ho! .aim ,so has a dummy. C recovered. in 'gar iT i. e, 1 im d y, high-spirite- fine-bloo- 111 : , ex-w- a. -- Me-A.- -t i -- lf iq , ' y -- 8-- j ' ' . ' j liz-- I t- i ! , k-n- !aXv that craa' y. ' |