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Show vy x ) v' DIAMONDS IN CITY STREETS. Triumph of Science, i A f V WHEN THE LINER COMES IN Subway Considered to Be a jnors Engineering Skill Immense tyei'oi That Were Overcome, f PATHOS AND HUMOR. ON PIERS AT NEW YORK than other and more populous sections of the work the work, have been solved. new subway Barring accidents, it is now almost .which down plain sailing with the rest of the tunmore of the ough ,wd New York is to be nel work compared with the outlook when the task was undertaken. The The Bronx in A04, has iggest problems that were foreseen have been mastered and been completed. many f Nothing like this has troubles, unforseen, but not wholly unr been attempted expected, have been conquered. v 'else. To dig twenty A completed subway, which is extunnel through the pected to be a model of its kind for M ty in the world, the whole world, is promised to be Whirled to Harlem and M I S' ? J l'avenues of travel, " buildings. E?in , Railways and at the . ffc as The mighty liner slowly docks, with throngs of folks from over the seas; the gangplanks up electric shocks greet the incomparable shes. 'John Smith had kissed his wife once more (at home they seldom bill and coo) but when shes from a foreign shore, why, its the proper thing to do. - Lays of a Cabin Boy. in week the Every season, when the exodus from Europe is at its height, two or three big twin screw steamships dock at North River piers in New York or Hoboken. Last week it was the great Kaiser of the Nrrth German Lloyd line that gave enter- - S too! Lou-ie- , Louie, how did you enjoy the voyage? This from a young woman with an aquiline nose and an accent that indicated East Side origin. Louis, with the push characteristic of his race, had planted himself at the ship's gangway so as to be the first ashore. The outpouring of voyagers was swift Women from the ship projected themselves into the arms of men and women on the pier. There were lingering kisses which prompted the irreverent to shout: "Break away, there! That made the girl look foolish. , UUlfc3"pea-nrb- its 4,500,000 'Jraa a task which the a century a"o would 4 AH t Much Wealth Recovered in Process of "Washing Dust City of Kimberley. fiances and equip been, not .easy and vSone and the i. Twenty-on- e n think of it gineqrs engaged on Aave been very lucky The Oliver Street Sewer, yonly one disaster like in active operation at the beginning ol avenue. If we finish 1904, nearly nine months ahead of the Hfier, this will be the most time originally set. New York Sun. of size work its engineering t yespect to the accidents THE WOMEN OF TURKEY. i it Bark avenue explosion one serious mishap, if a Of the walls of buildings lion by which no one was 'wjwbich the owners have be not taken lAlensation Small water pipes have trouble for a day or r- PV have been minor ex- fio'ur the whole the sub-- ' ' 'V thanks to the pre-Sv- e taken, have been row the traffic prob-y.e- n more difficult than ctions. The traffic VS fiibly, than anywhere k 1 1 'nai .it fjn' u- l .of the tunnel runs teen feet below the TT416 big stone Duiia-bu- t tb6 newest of instances where the e buildings extend out it actually runs beneath a width of twenty or iew." - 'ft I n oneblg building on portant daily newspa Friday the Only Day They Have a Little Liberty. is the only day on which Friday Turkish women enjoy a little liberty and release from the dreadful seclu sion in which they are always kept, and they are not slow to avail them selves of the chance. On Friday) every one goes to the sweet waters ol Asia, which consist of a small rivei running about two miles inland, with trees and meadows on each side. Hundreds of boats assemble and glide up and down the river. Every boat or caique has two or more Turkish ladies on board. The sight is a very fine one, as each private caique li most carefully got up, and the boatmen wear brilliant liveries to match the cushions and the long embroidered cloth which hangs over the stern and trails in the water. The khedivah of Egypts is one ol the finest, in crimson and gold, embroidered with crowns and fishes. Be .sides the liveries and parasols make a wonderful show, and here may be seen all the latest Parisian creations. The ladles must not speak to men, but the careful observer can frequently ca(th sight of veils lowered or other signal given when a particular boat is passing, and habitual frequenters can point out boats which are sometimes close to each other. It is a very innocent diversion and would not satisfy Western ladies. An hour before sunset the police boats appear and force all women to leave. RICHEST CITY IN EUROPE. Basel, in Switzerland, Has That Proud , . Distinction. The richest city in - Europe, and probably in the world, is Basel or Basle as it used to appear In the school geographies in Switzerland. The returns published by the tax administrator show the assessed valuation is more than 3175,000,000, and the total population is 124,000, an average of more than 31.400 for each .man, woman and child in the city. The assessed valuation of Basel equals the total revenue of the 88,000 houses and buildings in Paris. Of the 124,000 inhabitants of Basel, there are 180 who are rated as millionaires. Inasmuch as the amount is reckoned in francs this means that the wealth of these 180 persons exceeds There are 175 who have 3200,000. between 3100,000 and 3200,000; 170 who have 3100,000, and 895 who have from 320,000 to 3100,000. Within fifteen years the wealth of Basel has Increased 360,000,000 and the population ha3 almost doubled, which is a most remarkable showing for a tow-- that is 1,500 years old. It has always been famous. It was the important stronghold of Helvetia In the 11th century, and Erasmus died there in the 16th century. The manufacture of silk ribbons i the chief industry, Basel producing more of these ribbons than any other Much machinery is city in Europe. also made there and many chemicals. , entral Park. Us presses are in the jnd yhen they whirl rate of many iDii the early morn-jesse- s seem almost Jjto anyone within piig out the subway, ,wenty feet or so be the excavators Ihches of those 113 of paper upon them rhang a tunnel fifteen Ith only a thin sheath-betweeeet, thronged by night nele Sams mail wag op around v u.ch the Lorn the City Hall Bridge. The vaults underneath the in it are owned government, ssion the tunnel se vaults, the bot-the surface, the loor of the vaults, e vaults have to propped up. Just ave had to be along the line icavatlng, the piece of )en 157th and 1 Side branch the highest here has been '' big-uresq- Knew Good Things to Eat. The late Col. Tom Ochiltree had a reputation for knowing more about good things to eat, for having eaten more good things, for having helped more people to eat the best things than any other living man in the country. He was also no second on the proposition of beverages. He was always original in thought and act, but it Is not recorded that he ever did a mean or undignified thing. He weighed nearly 300 pounds. Exchange. Not Honored at Home. The czar has sent a check for 35,- 000 to W. S; Johnston, an Englishman 0 1 the Taku Tug and Lighter company, as a mark of appreciation of the gallant services he rendered to the allies during the bombardment of the Taku forts.. The British authorities Mr. have shown no recognition of tunnel the Hoosac tunnel. two miles long and chamber stations 30 ffeet wide, cut out of double-trac- k - lection of the tunnel It like real mining. 158th m two ends at t George, the headings e center with mathema- m ; 1 . 1 Johnstons services.- - History Repeats Itself. There is a reminder of the late Dr. Burc'aards famous rum, Romanism and rebellion alliteration in a remark made by Rev. Mr. Tunnell of Washington. In- discussing the negro problem he said it must be approached with "soap, soup and salvation. Means Much to Colorado. of the e time the shafts vfcich "Peter English," manager ha3 disGas company, Col., to i the Boulder,. the elevators 168ti and 181st streets covered a process for extracting an excellent quality of gas from lignite abounds in Colorado. Thla X. ruttirg has been. coal, whicha market for a large product ! will were open which difficulties, (I valueless. now is practically that V as so lr great ! e ap-or- J' VWVWrf, Before the consolidation of these washing is going on now trines into one vast concern there excellent results, which Mn were scores of small miners who had this city is literally paved not the necessary capital to. enable monds. Kimberley, which i them to do more than scratch at the space of thirty jears evotvTd u surface of the earth, says a Kimberly out of a mining camp, ta as correspondent of the Pall MMl Gazette. compared with other places Arrived at a certain depth fbe ground in the desert of South Afn ii18, fell in "upon them, And working be- tort; a place whete the came an impossibility.- - Then it was is high, as it is that a powerful comps.oy with unlim- but where, at all cents,hefeJ'ttoWi.v of v ited capital became a necessity, and return for our money m , De Beers company absorbed all creature comforts Is chtali1?1 the teau that left no footprints. I felt 11k ? Is concerns. Now, by scien- is very rare in South Africa to these small f killing her the minute I seen her pull It is interesting to note W A ' a gun, but I didnt. I just fetched her tific means, mining Is carried on to In depths of over 2,000 feet from the bloated capita a clip across the wrist with my forty-fiveare sweats his empk as is and she laid down and hollered. earths surface, and the diamonds sorted out by mechanical means in a averred. At the company's J Then it was miles to the empty manner, which was before work goes on for twenty.foUr systematic shack where we'd had our camp, and De in three the took shifts Since Beers White impossible. day met sk,? I made her walk it, though I felt a matter in hant they' have applied go below make anything from u little mean, thinking that, after all, their methods to 2 a day, and the black W to debris left beshe was a woman. I locked her up hind as worthless thethe earlier work- lings is paid 5 shillings per day. by in the west room of the cabin and" and In it they have found more allotted a certain task, and when tit told her Id kill her the first break ers, diamonds than had previously been is done he is fiee. In practice she made to get away. Then I staked taken out. . found that he can do this out my pony and sat down in the. t On the strength of this applications three to five hours, so that out eff moonlight facing the shack and have been made, and the rights grant- twenty-fou- r he has from nineteci l watched all night. About half an hour hours to himself. the twenty-oned, for individuals to wash before sun up and pretty near dead streets of of the much for Kimberley, for sleep, I kicked at her door and debris In If ones fate is to be licked it is v question had been used in told her to get ready for the road. repairing and making the roads. This well to die fighting. She said all right, and I passed her in a flask of whisky. I could hear her mumbling to herself, while I was CORN BREAD. THE OLD-TIM- E making coffee, and when I handed in her hunk of bread and can of coffee I could see she was dressed, only her Southerner Evinces a Deep Longing For the Toothsome DelicacSsg long hair wras hanging down all around the Ante-BelluDays. her. I locked her in again, set my breakfast out front on a soap box, With good meal and a cook followup a Virginia country house in ut. and then stepped back in the shack to fetch my rifle. When I got back ing the lessons and traditions of the helium style, and, among other things, old regime, delicious bread may be have In it a big open fireplace, a bkek to eat I seen a boy coming along toward the shack, with his hands in his baked of Indian meal. But we have cook, in a gingham dress, with a w4 can be baked bandana on her head, and also hn pockets, barefoot and pretty muddy, grave doubts whether it mint bed, an an open fire- a half-acr- e as in stove in a as well u( and looking chilled up and miserable. garden, filled with ras? of latter only a an alas! the He was American all right, and said place. But, berries and gooseberries, thyme, sage, he was going to Ojo Caliente to report few remain. must have currants, and aJI the ordinary table An of course, ashcake, he Some Greasers, more rustling As vegetables. are ashes. indispensable. They and off e his had dn sheep said, withhornet When one of those crossed the 'iver below the Butte. 1 well try to produce a mint julep "flap-jack- s and On other gardens and kitchens Is restored, out the mint hand, him asked coffee and some hii gave and the host and hostess have entered fryneed only a to put the saddle on my horse and turn to into possession, we desire to be listed is skill but pan; required ing ride him down to the river to water. as a frequent guest, with a reserved them is done This by pitching The kid done it right handy all right, them. makseat in the chimney corner. Then ili and of air into the out the pan I and when he rode over the margin we shall w ant will be the zest, th . other on come down them thes flap went in and told Terese to get hooked ing cooked be corn side. The appetite, the voraciousness vre pone may up quick and come out. She never sessed .when we could eat eiglt I stove or a in range. answered, and, guessing that she was I rolls and six eggs for breakfast cooked was hoecake The originally going to sulk on me, I ripped out an on a hoe in the fields and in the negro consume a whole watermelon bema i minfive oath and said Id give her do well enough mdals. But alas! it would beasas A skillet-wil- l utes to show up, and if she didnt Id cabins. must be well greased at to restore old walls and opei but for it, the out her and by open her door drag the bottom. So, too, with respect to places than to bring back the Illahair. egg or batter bread. As for corn muf- tion and storage capacity of a youth Then I went out to get my horse, of a range are ad- thats gone, of a time thats past and showed up. fins, the appliancesto but that darned kid hadnt can never return. Richmond Dis M them. adapted mirably I waited a few minutes, and when he would fit patch. some millionaire We wish failed to appear I commenced hollering for him to hurry. He didnt answer, and then I was scared for sure. GARIBALDIS NEW YORK HOME. I couldnt leave thet house lest Terese d make a break, and I guessed by now that ungrateful whelp wras hiking Relic of the Days When the Great Italian Patriot Made Candles For a out of range on my bronlr. There Living Is Preserved. was nothing for it but to rout out the I to old gal, so I told her get ready, was about to yonk her out, anyway. ful occupation. Then, in 1851, CartOne of the features of the celebraShe never said a tford, so I got mad, tion of the thirty-seconanniversary baldi, who was a sailor, got command ripped open the door and went in. of Garibaldis triumphal entry into of a ship and sailed for South AmerShe was gone clean gone, as if shed Rome not down on the official program ica, where for nearly three years ha j' been old Mother Goose and had rode was a pilgrimage to Rosebauk, S. I., commanded vessels in the trade t The off on a invisible broomstick. where the Italian patriot lived during tween the ports of Brazil and window was open and the whole room and' Chile and Peru. a temporary stay in this country. ; In 1834 he returned to New To ransacked. I ran out, dtead deterGaribaldi there residence his During on State mined to shoot her down if she didnt kept the wolf from the .door by mak- and rejoined his friends white a he remained cbme" back, but she- wasnt in sight Wrf Island, where which in. junublo tallow candles, ing Baltimore Clipper ship named The shack was right in the middle of occupation he was assisted by was being fitted outod all outdoors; you could see for miles Morosini, nOWa rfch banker, in .New. up and down the dry bed of the river, York city. Mr. Morosini' loves- to re- loaded with a cargo of grain and there wasnt enough timber to call those stirring times, and tells Morosini took passage on the dif, d light a pipe for miles. I seen the boy freely the story of the hardships both jof which Garibaldi had command,where : . she set sail for Liverpool, from drat him loping away past Sand he and Garibaldi endured.' Butte on my horse, but there wasnt Garibaldi arrived in Now York with- Garibaldi went to Genca, In Italy, a sign of her, and the ldd was too out money, but he had friends, chief resume his efforts for his countty two far gone for a shot. I felt a bit wiggly among them being Antonio Meucci, independence and unification, tl'dfit pro and creepy about it, but I went back who lived in a little coitage on Staten culminated in the event which th into the shack, listening and creeping Island and made tallow candles' for a countrymen now celebrate. US The former homo of Meucci at like I was in a haunted house. livelihood. To his homo went GariE Moris now used as a hotel, $ayitb In the back room, where Id locked baldi, and three months later Mr. to I visitors New and York Times, I them there. floor found old all osini the the witch, joined ltd For several months the exiles are shown the furnace, boiler covered with long, black hair, a lot o low womens togs, skirts, waist, etcetera, molded candles, and according to Mr. other implements used by Hems Sff when Murosini Garibaldi and the and then I come near falling ojer! It Morosini, they rather enjoyed sonfewhat lowly but thoroughly peace- - were candlemakcrs. dawned on me as sudden as lightning some off into her hair, got shed cut o the old clothes in the room, and custo 3 THE OLD FRONTIERSMANS GUN. leather for the soles. Tbe slipped out of the window in them insisted that they have rubber heft hr few minutes between the time I gave It Went Off and Now Captain Leslie and it was with difficulty that tfix!' The her the coffee and set up my own gruD Is Minus an Ear. laige enough was secured. am on the soap box. would net? Captain Frank Leslie, an old fron- were so large that they and had h was And did you ever get her? asked the lasting machine, to) tiersman living at San Francisco, ttw Captain McCarty, with a wink at Col. seriously wounded by the accidental be lasted by hand. It took about 1 &t Hutchinson. discharge of his pistol a few days ago. weens to get them through V "Oh, well, we never brought her in While he was In a store he stooped to tory, but, yes, wre got her all right, conpick up a piece of paper and as he did cluded Marvin, the old ranger, with a so his revolver fell to the floor. The Obeying Orders. reflwil Co. half-shu- t It a story going the There of is a 2,000 his in yards. has range eyes. weapon queer glitter fc We rounded her and a whole gang o was discharged by the forte of the fall, Melton Mowb'ay just now WbiclBC tiifBIfins When Mexican rustlers into a shack across and the bullet struck Leslie in the be worth recording. of Sodor and Man arrived in the river, and we lost two men doing right leg just above the knee. The piece of lead penetrated upward the other day to take part in theW. I it. wedding, he touai about four inches, and then, reappearDid you take any prisoners, Marcomcarriage awaiting lorn at the ing, continued its upward flight, vin? asked the colonel softly. ear and cut- station. . Kutm ins it ar once, Dr. the right severing pletely reflected MarNo, no prisoners, a severe gash along tl?e side of his ton sac down with quiet expocUk vin, cutting off a chew, we was so ting head. that the conveyance would mad we jest finished em all up right Leslie Is mhch chagrined over the rapidly to his destination. But there, burned their shack and left the To think, of the accident. not. Instead it stood still. rest to the buzzards. Never even made nature lb flgat-inafter that coachman years he forty siltlxg calmly on said, a report on it It was an invasion of with the Indians, and constant ex- His lordship, after a few uiomeah smiled the old chap, .and Mexico, , posure to all the dangers of frontier quired the cause. we thought it might afinoy Cap Higlife, I should be nearly killed by my My orders weie. sir. saidJ Record-Herald.- " gins. Chicago Sodof and own gun its enough to make a man wait for the Bishop hunt cover. I shai'. never hear the 1 suppose you are the bishop. The Fastest Battleship. L; I am waiting for the man. Two large ships have lately been last of this from my friends. Answers. launched for the Russian navy, the MAN WEAR'J NO. 17 SHOES. first the Kniaz Suvahov, a battleship of the Borodino type, which was laid Suggestive cf Poker GaJ Col. Charles F. Mauser of down last year. She carries a Are Fifteen Inches Long and They battery Have to Be Built to Order. of four who was a prominent meml-eguns in two turrets, e from vas shoes A and twelve shipped Congress, was pair cf guns in six turrets, these latter being so arranged that Rockland, Maste., recently which are a sort of farewell address w I have eight guns will fire ahead or said to be the largest shoes ever man- House, He said: astern. She will be followed on the ufactured for actual wear. They are hard during my six years her" stocks by a battleship of a new and No. 17 size and FF width; thus they hard. My labors on the Com far more formidable type, the dis- are about fifteen inches long. Four claims were gnerous and uncor placement of which Is reported to be common shoe boxes were required for have reported on hundreds of about 16,000 tons, and which will packing them two for each shoe. The have woyk-oail day and soa 8 9. No. or a wears man all night. Time auJ again I k carry as her secondary armament the average quick-firer- . They were made fof a colored man, mained in rcr committee roe s. The Su varov will form part of the Baltic fleet; the Harvey Murray who works in a saw- capitoi until the morning light other Russian ship launched, the mill in Tirrell, Ark. He went to Mem- ed through the windows. Otchakov is a replica of the Bogatyr, phis, Tenn., looking for a pair of shoes Just then cr-i- ' ti reverent ' WhaV was che whose fine qualities have often been to fit him, and after making a round ouired: noticed. Though of only 6,500 tons of all the stores in that city, was un- nel? which question was t displacement, she is to steam twenty-thre- e able to find any. One of the clerks with a roav of laughter, knots, carries a battery more in the last store that he visited sug- Mauser brilliant peroration. powerful than that of the British Hya- gested that he have a pair made. The customer consented, and his feet were , Prety much everything hn cinth class, and has considerable ' . syndicate.! but common scr.se- - measured. armor protection in addition, her funcf he lasts bad to A hi p nels being cased with special steel to the level of the upper deck, and eight made. It took narly n entire skin We laugh t the weak no'of patent kid for the vamps, and about and yet we object 0 elac.s of her guns mounted behind t ' all that was good :u a side of sole at car. plate. - k s of dollars have been five and six thou-beebenefited attended a ini t'Vticable, , ol Sn. The Ship's Rail, tafnment to an assemblage that had obtained orchestra accommodation from the Surveyor of the Port. A thousand or more expectant friends of the voyagers got up at dawn to greet the liner, knowing that it was her habit to poke her nose into the Hook not long after sun-up- . There were husbands waiting for wives, wives waiting for husbands, lovers expecting sweethearts, parents anxious to see children and children ready to greet parents. Also, there were persons who were hoping to see other persons who hoped that some other persons still might not see them. A fleet of harbor bantams pulled about the ship. Presently she headed in, half a dozen tugs pressing their matted bow fenders against her starboard quarter to bring her parallel with her dock. Her cabin passengers crowded to her port rail on the promenade deck and there was an eruption of handkerchiefs, hats and silken editions of the flag. In fact, the waving had begun long before folks on the pier could make out the features of those on the liner. A handsome man, whose family have been abroad, spies them in a bunch at the rail flourishing handkerchiefs and flags. He hasnt any bunting himself, but he has two handkerchiefs, a high hat, a cane and an umbrella, and he tries to wave them all at once. Look at papa! Thats wbat his little girl said as she made an effort to get over the rail on which her mother was holding her. Everybody on the pier looked at papa. Who didnt seem to care, as he tned to express his joy by waiving everything at once. A short, blonde man made his black derby hat express his emotions in a way that made him a center of observation for a while. He may have belonged to (he Signal Corps. Instead of waving his hat in the perfunctory way he did the semaphoric act.' He took the hat first in the right black-mustache- Everybody knew Terese along that border except me, said Marvin, the old frontiersman, and if she wasnt the meanest critter the Lord ever let live, Im blowed. She wasnt even but she was cuter than a prairie dog and meaner than a hungry kiote. Driscoll and me joined Higginses troop the same week, but they split the command in two and it was just our luck to get separate details, him up at Ojo Caliente with the captain and me down the river watching a gang of Greaser poachers. "Terese was running a honka-tonup at Caliente, and the cap allowed her to run because her dive was always a sure finish for smugglers and outlaws from both sides of the river, and if he kept pretty good watch on it he was sure to keep cases on the outlaws from upstream, downstream and both republics. Theyd been a good many killings in the den, but the sheriff looked after them all right, and us strangers never bothered about em. Twas always a free light, or a row over cards, but Terese always managed to keep out o' such trouble. I was riding the line one day down near Sand Butte, when Griffin hailed me. He told me that Driscoll, my old bunky, was dead up at Ojo Caliente and that the whole troop was going after the woman. It was Terese done it, and our squad was all at headquarters for orders Lefoie sundown. Shed lit out the minute she knew what shed done, and it was dead sure shed took to the timber, or crossed the river, and, having near sixteen hours the start her chance of escaping looked good. Of course, I was wild to nail her, but they sent me off a?l alone right back toward Sand Butte, the unlikeliest trail of all. Luck was with me, though, for I found her good-lookin- low-dow- n k I Wondef If They See Us? An etherial being in a fur cape came statuesquely down the gangplank. She evidently was looking for someone who hadnt turned up. While the cabin passengers were with landing, a stream of stew-ard- s hand baggage poured from the forward gangway, like a human cataract down the steep gangplank. Valises, suit cases and parasols are dumped under the letters on the sides of the pier shed corresponding to the last initials on the baggage. The line leading to the desk of the customs officer in charge forms in a hurry, and uniformed inspectors rush for the (junks, now being lowered from the bow of the ship to the pier. The search is not so perfunctory as in the old days, and the women do not like it. Their lingerie is exposed sometimes, particularly if the inspector suspects that there are things duti- - m e old-tim- e old-tim- e well-grease- d fl -' d i1 5 Argea-tin- S G.-.I- J ? t w I 1 1 1 ii-t- Some Varying Greetings. hand, using his arm like a pump handle in action. Then he transferred the hat to the left hand and worked it up and down, occasionally passing it horizontally, from his chin to his waistband. He was doing the trick for the benefit of & young woman, who responded The signalling with a handkerchief. may have been a love code or a mere eccentricity in steamship' greeting. Nobody asked the short man about it As the Kaiser moved in alongside the pier the crowd moved with her to the big open door before w hich the gangplanks lay, ready for hoisting. Interchange of talk between ship and pier was now possible. Look at Louie! Theres the baby, j able concealed in the depths of the trunks. It is a great show for Jthe immigrants crowded forward against the port rails. They are mostly phlegmatic Germans and Slavs. They appear to view with wonder, not unmixed with amusement, the unchecked suscepti-bJitof the American welcoming his beloved ones. . At last the trunks, turned topsyturvy, have, been restored in the interiors to some dim semblance of what they were before the inspectors tackled them. Then there is a rush for cabs, and within two hours after the great ship was made fast alongside her pier the tumult of greeting is a mere memory. 4 y Terese. trail about seven miles below our empty shack, where shed walked out of the shallow water and made for the chaparal on the Mexican shore. Of course I went alter her we never paid attention to the International law once we were out of the settlements. It was near 1 oclock in the morning when I came on her, doubling back toward Caliente on a rock pla The Retort Courteous (?). The friends of a well known West Side woman are quietly laughing over Berlin Cathedral, Where the Rulers of the Singular Association of Three Somepat retort which she made to the the Land Will Be Reinterred. what Frigid Names. butcher the day before Thanksgiving The immense cathedral at Berlin,, apropos of the festive turkey. She A young man in this town by the name of Frost thinks he has some- into which the German emperor will went into the meat market to pick out thing coming to him on account of a gather the remains of his ancestors, as the bird for Thanksgiving dinner, and very disappointing love affair, says the English monarchs are now en- there found a number of her neighthe Portland Oregonian. It seems from tombed in Westminster Abbey, is rapbors, all on the same errand bent. the evidence that his heart was melt- idly nearing completion and will &on Conversation turned upon the high ed by the charms of a maiden named be ready for its formal dedication. prices, asked for turkeys this year, snow. They were, in fact, schoolmates, This superb work, fit. Indeed, for the and the butcher, as he dressed the and from the first early season of tomb of a line of kings, has already bird for one of his customers, retheir attachment Frost looked forward cost upward of 34,000,000, and is the marked casually that it was a' funny to the time when he could call her his most notable architectural triumph in thing that the turkeys didnt have any ! Berlin. The remains of the emperors own. galls this year. But a new person arrived on the forefathers are at present entombed Its easy to account for that. said Miss In remote places. Frederick William scene by the name of Friese. woman. the Its the butchers who Snow began to yield to the warmth of IV. and Queen Elizabeth are burled at have the this year, asking such gall the latters wooing, and before long Potsdam, where also repose Frederick for exorbltant turkeys. prices Mr. Frost was informed that her heart the Great and his father. Frederick received a butchers loqusfcity The loved William II. and Empress Augusta lie bad grown coid to him, she Friese only. And now Frost thinks it at Charlottenburg, and the emperors sudden check, and when the woman is a cold deal and is praying that parents arc buried at Sans Souci. went to the desk to pay for her turkey the cashier, who is the butchers grace may be given him to play Friese The present plan of bringing together out. But in the meantime Miss Snow under one roof the dust of the dead Vlfe, turned upon her a cold and MV Hohenzollerns has. been one of the hRughty shoulder, refusing even to has fallen into another look upon her. Since then this womFrosts friends advise him to let the present kaisers most cherished an has been persona non grata at the matter drift along. Frost says. he's dreams, which, it, would appear, butcher shop. Cleveland Leader. to be realized. deep enough in misery now. FROST, SNOW AND FRIESE. A GERMAN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 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