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Show A": DEATH. STAYING The regular army." I remf mWed that the ofnot,.opn till I I had, tiy thie time, reached the telegraph? fice did station. Of course It was all shut up WAS living In se- and all the lights were out except those smaH clusion in a In the signal amps for the night extown about thirty press. It Is now 11.30. Was there no in-iul five mil a north of hope? Tes! writLondon. 1 At this moment my eye caught ing a novel. light irf the signal box about a quarter d waj of a mite up the l'ne. I could see the So enfr .'. I with my task that signalman In hi box, the outline of I hail no time ( ven to bis figure standing out against the light read the newspaper within. and ii quite IgnoI I'joked at my watch; the down exrant of what was press from Lond n was almost. due. I coins on In the would make a rush for that signal box, world. It wan a little after S a dock and fomW the occupant to put the one evening In April that 1 finished the Signal against it and stop If. accord volume of my work. Itjjaa with Even as I reached the rails., a semaareal satisfaction Ph.that I wrote, and phore signal that was near me let fall with considerable-floUrltoo, the Its a?ni. and the fed light changed Into words. "End at Volume the pecnd It was useless doing any more that time? It was very dark, and I stumbled night, so I put on my hat and coat and started off for an evening stroll. over' and over again. I had cleared I had no sooner stepped Into the street about half the distance, when I beard accosted me with a bundle the ominous roar ahead, and In a few dhatmoy of papers under his aim and the re- seconds could distinguish the dlRtant bvai quest. 'Buy an evening jaiwr, sir?" I glitter of the engines lamp-heabought one, put It In my potket, and lnAtltb!Tmant mi. eye, fell upm resumed my walk " -- mature glumly-lookin- g My landlady had brought In my suply tbe side per,. and, as my walk had given me an of the trai k, looming grimly through was with no small pleasure the darkless. appetite, It It mumbled a ono-arthat I viewed a goodly Joint of cold beef gallows with a man dangling from It! awaiting my attack. This strange I Hiking apparition wa I had laid the newspaper oh the table none other than a mall bag suspended when entering the room. Intending to from a post -- In fa' 1. I art of the apread It during suptter, but it was not till paratus by which a train g lng at full I hnd llt a pipe and subsided Into a cosy speed picks up the mall. armchair by the fire that I unfolded the A mad and dtsperute Idea took sheet of printed matter of m. The train that was Therefore I looked at the leader. bearing down, and that would reach me In one minute, should pi k me up with Something about a new Greek loan That didn't Interest me. I skipped the mails. TfTcoidd bang on to that- and news through the little Items of hag so that It came between me and hurried Jottings and summaries peculthe net. It would break tho force of iar to our evening papers. Presently the shock, and the net would receive tay eye was caught with the following me as well as the bag. paragraph heading: The bag hung just over my head. I Impending Execution of the CUnfold Jumped at It. seized It, drew myself Murderer up parallel with It. hi Id It firmly at "The murderer of the unfortunats the top, where It swung by a hook, and James Renfrew will be hanged tomor- drew my legs so as to present as row morning at S oeloch. The wretched small a compassupas man, whose name Charle Fenthurst Then I waited. It was but a few Is now In everybody's mouth, still per- seconds, but It seemed hours. I heard sists in his plea of innocence." the roar of the approaching train. Then The name of fentkurst was most fathe engine dashed past me. miliar to me. I had formed a deep I shall never forget the row of friendship with a man of that name, lighted carriages pasHr.g about a foot lie waa a good fifteen years my senior away from me closer even than that, and had died about two years previous- I suppose and I hanging ard waiting ly. I knew he had a ton named Charles, for the crash to come. young fellow, who bad emigrated to And It came. There was a dull thud south Africa early in life. Could, this a whirr and a rush, and all was dark. be the same man? I read on: When I came to senses I was "It will be remembered that at the lying on the floor ofmythe postal van. evitrial the strongest circumstantial Two men In their shirt sleeves were dence was brought to bear upon Kent In sorting letters at a busily hurst. The murder icok place In g rack, Iengaged felt bruised and stiff nil ovet on the outskirts of the small town and I found that my left arm waa of ilia fold, bound in a sling, made out of a hand"It was proved that Fenthurst was In kerchief. the habit of frequenting Renfrew's Where are we? I asked. premises and that, apparently, he was Oh, you're-comto. have you? said In on the there quea ons of them. expected evening "Now, perhaps you'll tlon, He was seen near the place soon It's give an account of yourself. after the crime was committed and sev- precious me let at here all, lucky you're eral other proofs of a strongly condem- tell you. for If a taller been had you natory character were also laid against man we should only have got a part him. of you In the net. As It Is, you've got "lie has persisted from the first, howcellar bone broken. Now, perever, In maintaining that he was absent your you'll speak out; and look here. from Cllnfold at the very time the mur- haps, If we find you've been dodging the poder took place. This was about 7 oclock don't jyou go thinking you'll give In the evening. At that hour he says lice, he waa returning from London, where em the slip any further Tbe mail van Isn't a refuge of that sort. They would not believe me at first. Luckily, though, I had put the evening paper and my dairy In my pocket, so T slumeff them The paragFaplnnfl the entry.' They were civil enough then. "Well, air, we shall be In Sllkmln-ste- r about 3, or a little later. I hope youll be able to save the poor beggar. You must excuse our turning to work .nbvviii.i iWi'lC ? y Again, g ml the best thing for you will be to rest yourself. lief ire he went to woik again the other one said: "What a pUy you never tboug.lit.jpf a better way out of the difficulty than coming in here so sudden like." ViF Jp- "What was that?" " Why, you should have got the slg- " nalman to trlcgiaph U Rllkmlnster; he could have done It all right." What an idiot I had been after all! However, I should b in time to stop ' tbe execution. A little after J we drew up at There was a policestation. man on the platform, and I at once told my story to him, the tesult being that we drove around To the jail and InsistOH! YOUYEL COME TO, HAVE ed upon seeing tha governor. V -- YOU Of course, he was deeply interested !n h had been spending psrt of the day. what 1 had to tell him, and at once Only one witness, he says, could prove made arrangements to stop the executhis, and this Is an Individual who trav- tion. The home secretary was eled with him as far as P and ea-- . with by meant of special tered Into conversation with him. Ad- wire. Fortunately he happened to be vertisements have been Inserted in all In town, and after a couple of hours the papers by Fenthurst'a legal advis- anxious suspense, a reprieve was reers, but as no answer has been forth- ceived from him. coming, It Is generally believed that the . Little remains to be told. I soon whole story is a myth. The murder was the condrmted man as the committed on February I Since his identified I had tret in the train, condemnation the prisoner has been person whom son of my confined In Kllkminster- - Jail, where his lie also turned out to be the old ai friend, expected. Tbadfutly execution will take place." due formalities he was disAstonishment and dismay confronted After the and about a fortnight afterme as I laid the paper down. I was the charged, real murderer was discovered ward the missing witness they had so vainly and captured. sought. I had entered Into conversation on the DOLLARS AND CENTS, return Journey with the only other occupant of my compartment, a young The little state of Delaware might be man with a tmall black bag, on whtch were painted the letters O. F. I re- bought for Fi,951.43. In 1391 there were 1(07,000,000 In gold, membered all this blqtlnctly. In order to make sura I snatched up riiy dairy and $59,000,000 in sliver. South Carolinas wealth of all kinds and quickly turned to the date of the $133,500,135. murder, February t. There waa the Is estimated at There are over $lg0, 000.900 worth of entry. The horror of the situation now hats now worn by ouf people. Oregon, with all Its resources. Is esflashed upon me. A mans life the life of my old friend's son depended upon timated to be worth $53,522.04. The state of Louisiana, sugar plantame. I looked at my watch. It was Just It tions and all. Is worth $lo.t tis. The state of Colorado was estimated o'clock. Hurriedly. 1 dragged on my boots, thinking tbe while w hat I should at the last census st $74,471,63. Washington, Including real and perdo. My first Impulse was to rush to the sonal property, la valued at $23.K10.63. The most marked Increase In value telegraph office. Then, with dismay, I that M. sea shut, for Te. In thlA.cniimrYjtas been"BeIn the land. over 40,000,-00- 0 There are bolfev e3 Id night after S o'clock and that the postwatches In use among our people. master took tbe I 30 train to a large In 180 over $2,000,000,000 worth of town about five miles off, leaving the office for. the night in the charge of a property waa legally exempt from taxcaretaker, and returning by an eally ation. The great state of California was valtrain the next morning. Then I thought of going to the po- ued by the assessors of 1390 at lice (there were Just two constables and a sergeant In our little town!, but what Utah, Including the Improvements made by the Mormons, la worth $24,- could they do more than I? Madly 1 threw on my hat and rushed 775.279, were rated In the elevThe Dakotas a -out. I ran in mechanical way to the enth census as having a wealth of Then I started for the railway staThe Lone Ftar, State of Texas has In tion. This waa about half a mile from town. As I hurried aloru. 1 thought, Its enormous territory a wealth or with fresh dismay, that tht would also The state of Ala'ama. Including cot- prove a fruitless errand, for the last fields and Iron nines. Is worth $122- .train to fiilkmlnster was the I SO p. m. ,2iS' Should I wait lill the morning and u -- d tn -- pos-iibl- i'-oe- 4 JwAt A4 Pllk-mlnot- - ed - 6, post-offic- e. - ADVICE fur and Require ta. tit. Kegulatlon .ilt-t- d ten In the Sere lee. An er.lised nun serving on tire fron- tier h- -s opportunities for' sport tfejt woull be envied by hundreds of wealthy men. especially in the way o' banting and fibbing. He plays ail klmS of outdoor games, is regular in his TO 'WIVES. AT THE BIG HOTEL CAFES. ' b'0"1 tha Honaymooa Always Puuible at tha lloiiieromiog Phliuao-ph- y la Plus Dlmltj On Doty of of WlMS habits, has statuf tlmew-fo- r meals ar.d for sleep, which all tend to the deve opment of his physical powers, and the HERE WERE training he receives btraightena h f three women and frame and gives him an easy, uprigu one man sitting on carriage that never after leaves him unthe gallery in the til old age lays the weight of Its band dusk. upon him. The post exchange la httci said 'Really,' w 1th b:l!ard room, lunch counter and up the woman la the carJ room. Only the fesrffades of becr shirt waist, if enq fiw- sold- there, and-thtken ness can4 wasnt going away not exist under present restricted rubs TX" I there be would y. A pleasant room is always set aalde as to talk nothing aleading room, where current newspaabout. Conversation pers are on flic, and in Eddlttqn tq this would be demonetized." each company usually maintain' g yes,' agreed the man, the ratio is library. A post school Is maintained g f0 1 In favor of the free coinage of i 0 tbe summer resorts, I'111'"' mny improve h!a mental condition If i ..The queer part, observed the worn- 8 Provl,ec! vlth excellent i an In white duck, la that we all aay cloth ng. which, when altered to 0iild rather stay at home and we it; a e t iie.it j nattiest uniform known aie only going for the benefit of the A urunhard or otuer questionable char-- 1 children. By the way, did you ever aeler may po.Mbiy creep in among tbe think what an adjniiable excuse chil-mc- n tn Bit 1, but he is soon spotted," (ireu are for All that you everything? and under the law that five previous dQ or leave undone can lay on jou convh lions byrourta martial are aub tlimn fielont To Stvard dishonorable discharge, .'Kor n)y part," said the woman in be la soon gotten rid of. It is creditable blue dimity, I always make it a the to the army that all men now serving rule to travel every now and then for in the ranks, except pobsibly a few left husband's health." over from the old army, arc capable of my "Kh, how inthad? Inquired the man reading and writing the English lan- who does not always find it easy to guage, that Is, In a limited sense. To with the subtleties of feminine enter the service a man must submit keep up logic. a certificate of character from his last "Well," responded the blue dimity, employer, and In many other waya you know he cant get away from his the examining officer that he Is but very seldom. After I have a worthy young man. If he be intelli- business been at home for a good while I find gent, his services are sought by the dif- we are boring each other dreadfully. ferent department chiefs as clerk, or We are both polite and wo suppress our In some other cap.i-Tty- . The new lav feelings as well as we can, but the tact which allows any enlisted man of two remains that we know just the same years' service to rpply for examination things. I have beard all his stories. with a tiew to securing a commission He Is a gentleman to tbe death, but I haa already Induced many bright youg can detect by the artificial ring in his mdn to enter the rank3. If tha people laugh that he doesn't think my jokes can only be pievailed upon to cast aBble as funny as he did jhe second or third the prtjddhc which has blinded their time he heard them. Then I know It judgment of the army for the past JO Is time for me to take a trip aome-years, our young men will be only too here. to willing enlist, and enjoy the benefits Dear me, murmured the woman In that accrue during a three years term and the man absently lit himwhite, jf service self another cigarette. "Yes," went on the blue dimity, and COOL AND REFRESHING. when I come back I have a new lot of stories and fresh jokes, and we are so But the karly Kialng lrug Store fl,. to see each other we positively englad (hd Not Seem to Appreciate It. core our honeymoon. The night clerk in a Buffalo dn How very odd, gaspc the woman store was awakened about 5 o'clock tit in the shirt waist. other morning by two prosperous-lootin- g Not a replied strangers who took seats in frost the blue bit, Did you never, she dimity. of the aoda fountain. The clerk sleepily suspect that your advanced to take their orders, whld, asked curiously, of you and the chiT-- " husband tired got Judging from appearances, should hare dren and the whole domestic parapherbeen for drlaks at least, f ' Can you lend us two glasses of saler nalia?Good gracious, no, was the reand a couple of spoons?" blandly asked sponse. Why, hes the best man in one of the visitors. to The clerk's mind waa not working the world. He puts the children and does bed and the marketing, very clearly and h obeyed. he Then one of the strangers took from doesn't seem terffitnd now though tho to to under look used up getting his pocket a box of lemonade capia!s, which contain citric add In a powdered bed for robbers 'and putting the cat form and one of w,,ch is supposed to out." Exactly, said the blue dimity, and hold the lngrcdi'uta for one glua of dont you know there are times when lenionade. He gravely poured the of two capsules into the glasses, he is tired and worn out and nervous, he could go back to were stirred with the spoons and when he wishes they when he would like his bachelor days; Ihe contents slowly absorbed. eat to he likes without anybody what The clerk was wide awake by this It will disagree him that reminding time. Wont you have some sugar to to smoke iweeten your lemonade w i;h? he writlt hlmwhemhe would like s many cigars as be wants to, and to asked, with an attempt at sarcasm. Cliat he can come home at any hour No, thank' you, replied one of tha feel the in morning without a reproachful We carry our own beverages pair, In a freezing voice, 'Is asking figure for ultima mainly the reason that drug John? that you, store drinks are usually too sweet to Were you ever a man?" asked he be wholesome." of the cigarette, with deep feeling in The strangers had got a block way voice. his from the store before the clerk waa No, I never was, said the blue able to get bis profanity cells in workand I am not an imitation dimity; ing order. man tn bloomers either Furthermore I am not speaking for the fellows who The Natural Muger. their wives and play up to the The question as to whether or not neglectat the club. I am limit talking of tbe people can become good alngcrg natur- good, domesticated Darbies, who never ally, by which U meant, without pro- get an evening out without being fessional Instruction, la one often chaperoned by their wives or children. raised, writes Frederic Brakes, Tbere In my opinion Us every woman's duty are, undoubtedly, inataniea of pertons to give her husband a holiday now and of natural genius learning to sing, that then. is. to produce the singing voice properThe women looked at the blue dimity ly, to vocalise perfectly, and to ling In silence a moment, then 4hey said: w ith that most artistic essence,- - good "Butrour tiusbands "wrtte us how style, from imitation of others and by lonesome they are when we are gone!" their own energies and practice. But Pooh! said the blue dimity, would these cases are unusual. The average discourage politeness? After a you -- singer natural i8 woman is 20 she should take her compleasing as a performer than his at their face value. trained fellow, and he is never an artist.' pliments are very odd, they repeated .You To be artistic in accomplishment but tbe man pressed her hand should be the goal for which every again, t. as he bid her student of every art should strive. The Would you mind repeating this to finished performance-usi- ng finished In wife? he asked. its sense of completion, perfection is my Orandmi'a FanvinL - ' the artistic performance, and ,u rarity d A schoolboy approached the volumes for the lack of continspaks master and begged leave of absence for ued application In humanity. the afternoon, in order to run the errands of his sick grandmother. The . Ih M yult Ol .1 Inungh. master pitying th helplessness of the "Be mine, he whiipeiol. old woman, granted his request. Something in the summer girlT man- Infirm after the boy again apked time Some ner warned him that he was no good. as his grandDont aay, he hastened to addihat permission to be absent,needless to say, was and, mother dying, not old enough to accept me." you are a second time was granted. his petition Mr. Flathers. said the maideR T had not the least intention of saying A'ff wdayir1aTor IherpttsrTofrinr to atthat I was not old enough to accept tear in his eyes, begged leave and for hi funeral, tend grandmother' you. I waa about to remark. In fact, time he wa excused attendthat I was old enough not to aceent the thirdscbooL About S p. m. the same ance at you. day an irate female viciously rang the and indignantly demanded of door-be- ll Broke Xpru waa deAt Long Sutton, between Cambridge the schoolmaster why the boy My and Boston, in England, a farmers tained at school every afternoon. exclaimed the astonished wife recently discovered that aa 0ld dear woman, woman in the neighborhood had be- pedagogue, I thought you were dead grandson haa gone witched her. The only remedy 19 to and buried. Your ! funeral to your beat the witchcraft out of her, which she and her husband at once did breakthou existence doth depend ing the old womans wrist before they Thlnk'st on time? . were successful As they were It doth; but Actions are our epochs. TiQCed that the spell was broken they Byron. cheerfully paid a Urge One. - - in fli j j ant-isf- y w -- good-natured- ly eon-ten- ts good-nigh- sad-eye- S BANKING IN ILLINOIS. Opcratluai of Iks lorrta Syatem of Title 4,orootrclnx ltml of many Illinois tsr a commoa-sSHltsmall tow fis. la h:ca, numertcally, the private banking institutions pre-- j Nor docs the supposition dotnipate. that business men prefer to deal with incorporated banks seem to check the progress 'of private banking enterprise j in that state. In lS9d there were 4S5 j 1394 the Hoffman bouse, the Brunswick, the en-- h anstitutlons in operation, in i no 5KI, were there than exhibiting les Marlborough, the Sx. James, the Met- - a ratio of Increase which is not ropole, the Windsor, the Savoy, the by the growth of the nationequaled Plaza, the Grand, 'and the Grand Union al or the state banks. The following it waa only necessary to take a seat and be served, while at other hotels then table gives the numerical position of warn .taoma well known 4o patrons, the three classes of banks at two were intoxicants could be had by any- peiiods: body who had half an acquaintance am! an open eye. In everyplace it was necessary to order something to eat. The patrons of a cafe were offered a little card on which was printed a Hat of things to eat at 5 cents each. The list The field for the national bank'nt included bandwiehca. crackers, cheese coskie,". cake?, 'etc. Once bis order wa: system is comparatively limited, owing imlit to certain well known res' rift Ions given from the associations the organizing had, according to the hotel men's in- posed-r upon it. In the country districts the terpretation of the law, ordered a mud uptlfor drinks can be served in hofels with bankable collateral is I'r.xcly composed discounHe could order as much Ij of land be,nrku's, an meals. act. fe tenanced leral the banking by drink with his meal as he pleased, and when he got his check or bill for what Here a cautious banker operating at he owed he wouhl almosf Invariably his discretion, and comparatively unfind It shoit just the amount that limited as to the nature of the securishould have been chargad for what ht ties in whiih he nny deal, secures an had ordered to eat. One sandwich opportunity for rendering an efficient As affectserved to each of a party of three or service to the community four drinkers would be deemed a meal ing the availability of such investsufficient Lq warrant any amount of ments in Illinois, it isof ipterest to washing down. The Waldorf was the note that real estate security is about only hotel where this subterfuge wav to be relieved of many of the d.sabllng legal burdens which interfere with its not restorted to. easy transference. The legislature of Illinois recently passed an act providSUNSET AT PROSSER. ing for the introduction of what is generally known as the Torrens system. In the Dfftotlal Month of May the EloUnder this system titles to real eaato It at It lleet. quent Editor are guaranteed by the state, so that From the Prosser American: Over- once the title is established the instu-melooking the falls, the little town of of proprietorship many be transProsser lies beneath the shadow of the ferred with the facility of a negotiable hills, around it in the month of May note. Thus titles to real estate become the brown fields show that the farmer bankable assets of effectiveness has done his work well. Studded here than that class of greater securities has ever and there, like oases In the desert, ara enjoyed. The American Banker years patches of green, upon which the eje ago urged the general introduction of instinctively rests then the ray of the Torrens system for the particular vision extends on and on toward the reason that it turned a cumberstone western horizon, where, like two grim security into a quick asset of unquessentinels, stand Rainier and Adams tioned validity, and the results of the their summits towering far up into the experiment now to be tried in Illinois heavens almost touching the clouds. will receive the closest attention of all Surely God will rebuke such presumpwho are interested in freeing the tion! But, no; these are only creatures material of credit from obsolete legal of His band. As they stand unchangecomplexities. able, grand, inspiring, they seem to in say; Oh, man, thy conceit, think The Tree. dent a a Trnget thee on the power of the Almighty! One of the most disgraceful features We are His children with one wave of His hand we disappear from the face in our modern style of Journalism is of the earth. Think ye and tremble at that the President of the United States, Hia jmserlT And.aa if to emphasize whose very stationis should a .command constant made the reflection, the peaks are lighted respect for him, for disrespect, writes Edward target w ith AH A flash like unearthly glow. Bolt in the Ladles Home Journal. that of ten thousand cannon; a blind- W. not the difference It nukes ing glare the red mist breaks above whether we admire slightest or do not admire them, and a radiance descends and set- the man who occupies the Presidential tles upon the everlasting snow. The is placed there by the exHe chair. domes of these monarchs of the range of the people, and stand out in boldest silhouette back of pressed suffrage is so placed and is the occuhe when them Old Sol in. all his glory. Low pant of the high office, he has a right down in the horizon the orb descends to the respect of the people of the counslowly, yet more slowly, until, with over which he presides. But this try one last expiring blaze, the ball of fire The decent is denied our President. to rest waves of the sinks beneath the we mete out to ordinary which respect Pacific. And as tbe twilight steals oer men is refused him. Yv'e excuse this the scene there is heard nothing but that he was not our choice, by saying the resounding roar of the waters. This or he holds the position by accithat Is sunset at Prosser in the beautiful dent. No man elected to the office of month of May. President of the United States can be an accident.. He is placed there because The Qaallty of Tart. of his fitness for that office And alTact Is not dishonesty, writes Fran we may not agree always that though ces E. Lanigan. It does not mean the he is as able as some other man. it is suppression of the truth nor the ex- only pure justice that we give him pression of an untruth, but it does the benefit of the doubt. mean the withholding of gratuitous in disagreements from arguments A Corlmltr In Cold. which they are quite superfluous; it also The general prevalence of slight means the effort to Induce an agreen lawyer at the ment kindly when possible, and If an colds, said a Hotel last evening, Continental is a demands it agreement Invpossible me of the sad ease of an Intigracious acceptance of opposing views. Tact cannot be said to be s nonymous mate friend of mine who suffers very with policy; tact is always honest and much from annoying col is. IBS first wife was a robust woman, who had a policy cannot invariably be said tc wealth of fiery red hair, which, accordhave that distinguishing mark. ing to his notion, must have kept him comfortably warm at nights. Le that NEWSY PERSONALS. as it may, when she died -- v friend d Postmaster General Wilson Is at married a womau nd, I.pg Branch, a guest of Isidor Straus strange to relate, from the very first The Prince Regent of Bavaria has night. of the honeymoon he was affiicird appointed Herr Posiart, the famous with a pesterirg cold. He had a susGerman actor, lntendant, or chief of. the picion that the lack of that red hair royal theaters. Mr. Cassel, a Pennsylvania German, accounted for his affliction, so. by way has a library composed entirely of of a test, he sent his new wife to the blbles. The collection comprises nearly seashore and, strange to say, he enjoyed all the old and eurlouk editions. immunity from the cold during her The Duke of Westminster has spent In Eaton over $5,000,000 Hal!, rebuilding which Is now considered to rival Chais-wort- h a England's finest house. aa!'ltnlth Mu Full of ( hhntry. n Poor "Goldy, as he was fondly nickTwo Southern writers, Samuel Petk and William II. Bayne, are named later in life, did not look much going to take the lecture platform to- like a knight. Short of stature.-witgether. Peck weighs 200 and Haync 97 a homely face deeply scarred by the pounds. The heaviest bicyclist In Indiana Is smallpox, awkward in his manners Henry D. Selby. He Is over 6 feet tall, and movements, he would have made and he weighs 386 pounds when In con- but a sorry figure in tbe lordly tournad dition. He rides a ment or at a royal banquet. And yet wheel with hard rubts-- r tires he had within him not a little of the accompanied knightly spirit. Generous to a fault, Captain WtUard-Glaziesecreby his wife and daughter, private even to foolhardiness, tendertary and guide, have reached Cranberry daring hearted, Impulsive he- was Just the Lake In their tramp through the Adlron-dickfrom Oswegatchie to Lake Cham-plalr- tr kind of a man to ride through the world seeki,'ig sd.ventm:ea...i;,nd. . riaklag hia Prince Bismarck la endowed the Ber- life fn defense of the helpless and inlin Home of the Agrarian League .with nocent. Had b lived in the days of toe money collected on the anniversary be would doubtless have been, of his eightieth birthday, stipulating chivalry, of hio ugliness and ungainll-nes- a, that it should be used for some national in spite w famous knight errant. purpose. An attractive exhibit in the negro Found PetriflH Fish. A prisoner on thoe stone-pil- e broke building at the Atlania Exposition will b a bust of Charles Sumner, by limestone' and rolled out a open a big a is of Rome, Italy. It Lewis perfectly petrified fish at Portsmouth contribution by Dr. W. H. Johnson of Ohio, the other day. The specimen Is was Y to N. whom the bust Albany, and Is now arthe mayors complete, presented by the sculptress. William Black made failure of por- office. It la said by expert to be a trait painting before he took to litera- aaimon. i ture. He Is now 54 years old. Between yachting, shooting and driving he gets The purest treasure mortal times afford more outdoor enjoyment' than falls to Is spotless reputation; that away. the lot of most men of letters. He Is an Men are but gilded loam or painted enthusiastic botanist t clay. ITentr give your husband a holiday AND AVOID BOREDOM. Ut. Drink If ou Orclttretl a Ytbieh tamo Frm If a mans clothing was data; anu bis conduct that of a gentleman h found no difficulty In getting a drink of any sort at almost any of the bitter New York hotels last Sunday, in epite of tha rigid enforcement tfT the law. At the cafes of Delmonicos, the Giise.v hoube, the Holland house, the Imperial I X j i I i bill-of-fa- re nt well-know- ds dark-htjhe- M!n-tur- twenty-four-poun- s, - |