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Show V me county I ItryUte ruhluiiliia omimiiy. El'HKAIM, : : : UTAH. he, with a villainous grin; their wive reed 'em first. Good for fifty any time. I noticed that tlie book was written nearly full, und that Mr. Kerth's "vis-iting list" if so it might bo culled contained some 10 or 1 j names. Each letter was dated, and underneath wad entered the result achieved. The lit-ter was generally favorable. "Whenever the. machinery pets rus-ty," aid the scapegrace, "which hap-pen every four or live years, I take a trip East and lubricate things. After that," he added with a wink, "it runs better." I do not know whether I have dono w isely In making these facts public. For there are many people w ho might easily sell their ubsenee at a good lig-u- re if they only understood the art. i Fred liayhiunf in The Argonaut. fore. In the nick of time the money r me, however, and he proceeded, with the skill of a practical debtor, to make a small stream of i .ish irrigate a vast area of credit. This being ac-complished, he was at eH.se again; md one night, over a liottle of wine and j cigars, ho told me how he had raised the money. "It wasn't much," he said careless-ly "five or six "hundred. I manage to raise that sum about four limes a year. If you understand how to make it go good as twieo that, you know. Now. I ll tell you. I have, back East, a number of relatives rich, respected, and all that. Money comes from them. Easy enough, you think? Well, I wonder. I am the black sheep of tiio outfit seaix'grace, you know. And do you imagine they w ould ever give up a bean for me, if I did not como at 'em with something worse than a gun? Why, sir, the whole bloody layout is so mean, and they hate me so, that, I give you my word, if I was roasting in the lowest depths of sheol, there isn't one of 'cm would loan you a fork to go and see if I was done. No, sir! That's the kind of citizens they are. But I notice they come up pretty regular just the same." Ho flic',:ed the ashes from his high priced cigar into the fireplace with an impressive gesture. Then from his desk he produced several letters and a book labelled "Journal," "Here it is," ho exclaimed, throwing the book down on the table in front of me; " Richard Kerth's Heady Letter Writer, or tho Art of Holding Up Your Relations.' And hero are sample re-turns," he added, dropping tho letters on the table. "Hut you had better bo-gi- n at my end of tho transaction. Read in the book first the last batch of letters copied there. I always copy 'em so as to keep track of what I'm do-ing." I opened the volume at the place which he indicated and began to read aloud: " Hiram (irittin, Cleveland, O. : THKSCAl'EUIiACE. We who earn our living by hard work naturally regard with a good deal of interest those who manage to dodge this seeming necessity. What are these mysterious mortals, we say, who toil not, neither do they steal, who have no property, nor any apparent source of income, yet they wear clothes, eat meals and sleep under a good roof like the rest of us? Wo have a habit of speaking with contempt of these people, as though they wero beneath us in the social scale. Are we not really in secret a little envious of their originality aud courago? If one should, for example, try tho simple rule of "put yourself in his place "' You, now, who mako a living by some occupation, commonplace but re-liable, suppose you were to wake to-morrow in a strange place, without money or friends, and with all work prohibited w hat would you do? How-woul-you arrange about breakfast, and. subsequently, about dinner, und StlJIHT, illtU U , IWIU III O mtinwwito meals and beds thereafter? Would you not be frightened? Would you not be at a loss what to do? Well, that is where you would show your inferiority to those of whom we speak. It must bo admitted that they could, if they wished, oarn a plain, honest living as we do; whereas could we, by the exercise of our wits exist a week after thoir fashion? En effet, there you have the whole matter. Before I undertook a study of these singular beings, I had always thought of them as a class by themselves, pur-suing, for the most part, similar methods. To live without work con-stituted in my mind a profession like law or the ministry. I wronged them. I did not appreciate their fecund origi-nality. There is no profession that is common to them all, but each has his own. complete in Itself, unique nnd aolMate as tho miniature carved work of tho. Japanese, To toll of them la to'Ttoll or Indi-viduals, not of the class. There was one who recently came to live at tho very respectable boarding place of the present writer. He was, as the naturalists would say, an excel-lent specimen rathor young, good looking, well dressed and correctly mannered. There aro some of this class who - ;a low habit of making a pretence earning a living. They will maintain an office with "Real Estate" or "Commission," or something of that kind on the door. To no such stupid vulgarity did Mr. Richard Kerth descend. Not even a suggestion of work cast a cloud upon his title of "gentleman." I had know something of the previ-ous career of Mr. Kerth, and when he took possession of two of the est rooms in the house I hastened to make his acquaintance. He treated me with easy condescension, and soon offered to borrow money of me. My dear I nele "My mother's only brother,"' inter-polated the scapegrace "Presbyterian elder hardware merchant moral I read on: "1 suppose you will be devilish glad to learn that I have at last decided to turn my face homeward. I am tired of wandering, and it's poor picking here. I expect to start in a couple of weeks, unless I hear from you in the mean-time. A lot of California stock will be entered at the fall meetings at Cleveland, and I think I can fix for both of us to get let in on the ground floor, so that we can mako a good thing out of it. How are Bill and Jim-my ? ' " "William and James, "said the black sheep, rolling up his eyes; "his sons, whom ho is bringing up in tho way they should go pious youths of 16 or thereabouts." " I expect they would enjoy the nuwB tvmt tna.. of- .Ulv tkwiV- I couldl" show them. 1 plan to ef:;d a month in Cleveland, and perhaps may locate there. Some of the fellows are making up a party to go to China. If I had a couple hundred more I would go with them, but I have only just enough to take mo home. Your affectionate nephew Richard.1 " Cold chills ran down his back when he read that letter," said Mr. Kerth. "Here is his reply. Ho prays for the salvation of my soul and encloses a chock for two hundred. See? Read the next one." It was addressed to "S. Yan Doosan Kerth, The Beauchamp, New York City," and began: "Dear Uncle." "Father's brother," the scapegrace exclaimed, "old bachelor great swell. He never saw me, and has an idea that I am very wild and woolly, like every-thing west of the Croton Aqueduct." I rend as follows: "Dear Uncle Respected brother of my parent, I take my pen in hand to let you know that two weeks from date I shall take tho train for your city and shall visit you at the Beauchamp House, where you are staying. If you should happen to bo out of town, I w ill wait until you get buck, for I mean to live in your city hereafter; I hope to get a job there. I know you will help me, as your brother's son, to get a job. Per-haps Mr. Beauchamp would like a man to carry trunks. 1 know you will be glad to see me. If I could get into the grocery business hoi-- I would stay, and a man I know of will take me in for $200. Please look for me at tho depot in tho emigrant cars. Your nephew, Richard." "Imagine Uncle Yan Doosan reading that at his club, said the scapegrace; "I wonder it didn't give him a stroke of apoplexy. However, it was not the first.of its kind. He always comes up. I don't have to whistle twice to him' Tho next was addressed to "Mrs. Elizabeth Pennington, Germantown, Philadelphia," "Yan Doosan's sister," said the scapegrace; "they have quarrelled and won't compare notes. She is a widow, with a fine income and an elegant place. Two lovely marriageable daughters." The letter set forth the intended visit of Mr. Richard Kerth to the East and his plan to spend some time at Ger-mantown at his aunt's residence, if she wished it so; if not, with some friends of his there by the name of Boggs, There were various gallant references to Mr. Kerth's cousins and a delicate insinuation that ho would probably fall in love with one of them during his visit. There was also a casual reference to the sum of $lf0. She was short this time," remarked the writer of the letter aloud; "only sent $100. Strike her deeper next time." There were two more letters In the batch both to cousins in Chicago. They wero full of mysterious hints about pood times to be enjoyed when he should visit that city shortly. Each demanded a plain loan of f."0. 1 srd them to their houses," wild I did not loan Mr. Kerth any money. It was, indeed, for a long time a source of quiet satisfaction to me that while a number of others, in plain view on all sides, were being taxed for the support of this American peer, I was exemp'w But one day as I was being measured for an overcoat, my tailor asked me what I knew about Mr. Richard Kerth, and told me that ho owed fifty dollars on a suit of clothes. I answered Shearsby that I thought he had better charge it up to profit and loss. He immediately proceeded to do so. The overcoat which I ordered was more expensive by $." than I had ex-pected, and possibly about nine other of Shearsby's customers suffered a similar amount of indirect taxation. As timo passed, I gained more and more of Mr. Kerth's confidence. I know just enough about his past per-formances to make him think that my silence was a useful commodity, and he sought to purchase it with frank-ness. He was, however, loth to be-tray his secret all at once, but prepared mo beforehand by various significant hints to appreciate better its mysteri-ous nature. One evening, when he was smoking one of my cigars before my fire, he said: "I am getting very hard up; I must raise somo money," I said: "How will you do it?" " I have a method of my own," he answered, "which I apply whenever I nru in need of ready cash." "What is it like?" He smiled with the smile of a sphinx as he replied: . "I call it a system of absence." On several occasions ho made use of phraseology similar to the above, j For example, once he said to me: "I get a good enough living out of not being in certain places at certain j times." Further he would not ex- - plain. I About this timo his creditors, of whom the crop seemed jierennial, j began to press him close, and it was evident that, unless the ready cash j should presently come to his rescue, he was lost that is. lost in the same way that he had been lost many times bo-- It is time for Kin? WTllinm to arise and explain, for a Russian paper says that a political exile sent to Siberia has more money, better food, more comfortable clothes and lod.'ins and a better time in every respect than a soldier in the German army. THE SLEEPING CHILD. My baby slept how calm Lis rest. An o'er bis handsome face a umilo Like that of angel flitted, while He lay so still upon my breast! My baby fclept his baby head l.ny all unUss'd 'neuth pail and shroud; I did not weep or cry aloud I only wished 1, too, w ere dead ! Sly I nl.y sleeps a tiny mound, All eovered by the little Howers, Wimis me in all my wakmj; hours, Iiown in the quiet liuryiug-grouud- . And when I s'eep 1 seem to be With baby in aueJturr .and I take bin little baby hand-- He smiles mid sings sweet songs to uie. Sleep on, ) baby, while I keep My vigils till this day be past! Then shall I. too, lie down at Inr.t, And with uiy baby darling sleep. Eugene Field. Yor may never know wherj all fie) pins go, but you can tell where most of the spools of th; world oouu from. Maine and New Hampshire make them. .And when it comes to corncob pipes. Missouri comes pretty near supplying the world with them. THE CATFISH AND ITS HAUNTS. It Anrnlori Were Very I'.Ir anil Had Only One Like C'yelops. It is a singular fact that the speci-mens of the linuy tribe that attract the attention of sci:iti-,t- s and ichthy-ologists, and nre most studied by them, are the modest, ugly and lower orders of the kind, says the Now York Times. The catfish bin lately be!ii the sub-ject of much investigation, and the theory now is that thisfi-h- , tUe annoy-ance of anglers, though the small boy's do'iight, is a descendant of a pow-erid and terrible-lookin- g order of fish that lived in the good old days that only geologists and students of ante-diluvian urttors can tell about. It is a Tact that the catfish of to-d-in some localities grows to an immense size a:id weight and those who have seen the of the Missis-sippi river can well iinagtiio what a monster the specimen of the prehis-toric ages must have been, especially as then it Is supposed to have had only one great big eye in the middle of its forehead. Prof. Rashford Doan of the College of tho City of New York has contributed an article on the catlish to tho fish commissioners which will soon be issued. This article treats of the habits of the fish as it is now found in almost all of the ponds and rivers of the North, and contains something of a scientific nature concerning tho ances-try of the fish and the leviathan pro-portions of the grandfathers of tho present race. Tho features of tha common bull-head, or catfish, are well known and familiar to every lisherman. Its head is broad and ugly-lookin- g, and is largo in proportion to tho rest of tho body; horns project from tho top lin and the two sido fins which are ex-ceedingly painful to como in contact with, as many fisherman can testify. Tho head is a tenacious, hard mass of bone, in the side of which two little, wicked-lookin- g eyes poep out. The skin is tough and hard to penetrate. Prof. Doan, after oxmiuation, has come to the conclusion that the cat-fish was a sort of iehthyologic il cyclops. that must have been a terror in its time. With a size of porpoise proportions, a hide like that of a rhinoceros, tromendous horns, and armored head, the pachyderm must have been a horrible sight as well as a tremendous fighter. The idea that there was only one eye is derived from the peculiar formation of the head. In the middle of the forehead is a depression which ie believed, according to those who make a study of the physical con-struction of geological remains, to be the socket of an eye. The habits of the class of fishes to which the catfish belong would seem to add ovidenee to the theory. The catfish is fond of working in the mud and burying itself in the slimy ooze that lines the bottom of ponds and rivers. In tho winter it hibernates and only comes out In the spring when a thunder-show-er gives warning of coming warm weather or more probably wakes it. In the geological ages, when the fish were immense and enemies were abundant, it was necessary that the catfish should be well provided with means of defense as well as able to attack the other forms of life that it needed as food. Just us now it lies in the mud waiting for its prey, its dark skin having the color of the bottom, so that the approaching water-spide- r, worm, or bug has not the slightest suspicion of danger, so in the old ages the big cyclopia, secure in a great pit in the mud, patiently waited for the coming of prey, the great single orb peering out from the mud and mire capable of observing any dis-turbance either on the side or over-head. The heavy coating of impene-trable armor made it as safo from tho attack of other animals of tho deep as was the knight of the crusades against the flight of arrows from a barbarian tribe. The waters must have fairly boiled when it sallied forth from its hiding-plac- e and the mud had been flung aside as from a giant dredge. Sqme idea of its appearance can be formed by in imagination dressing the Mississippi specimen in this silurlan armor. It requires the blow of a beetle to crush in the head of the big western catfish. What must it have required to open up the cranium of the monster whose head was armored with a hard bone plate? AN INTELLIGENT DOC, fie wn Guaranter.1 to lie a (load Judge of Tramp and I'eildlert. Several of Chicago's commercial tourists have the l.nigh on one of their who resides in Englewood and represents a grocery house, says the Herald. The knight of the road referred to is a church member and an intimate friend of his pastor. He is also very fond of dogs and pets. Several weeks afro, while at Joiiet, he ran across a canine of the Scoth ter-rier family, the intelligence of which greatly pleased him. He purchased the animal and on the following .Sa-turday night brought it home with him and introduced it to the members of his household. The dog's sense of keen perception and wide-awak- e man-ner made him a favorite at once. Be-fore a fortnight had passed the dog appeared to know who wero friends of the family and who were not, and could recognize an acquaintance of his master clear across the street. The dog's ability to distinguish tho differ-ence between tho pobtman and a tramp, the milkman and a book ped-dler, and to wag a welcome to one and bark defiance at the other, groatly pleased his owner, who never tired of describing his intelligent traits to his friends. In the course of events he introduced the topio to hh pas-tor, whom he met at the groeory. "Why," said he, "that dog can tell good respectable people from the other kind just as readily as you can and I can. Let the former come to my house and ho never says a word, but when representatives of the latter class ap-pear he barks fiercoly and raises n, great commotion." The following eve-ning the minister and his wife e;t out to visit at the home of the traveling man. But they got only as far as the pate when they wero halted. They were met by a dog. It was the com- - mercial traveler's wonderfully intelli-gent dog, that never made a mistako in judging by appearances whether parties attempting to call were good people, to be welcomed, or evil per-sons, whose looks condemned them. The traveling man went to the door and with difficulty persuaded his dog to permit his callers to enter the house. To some the situation might have been somewhat embarrassing, but the good-nature- d pastor and his host laughed heartily at what the lat-ter termed a startling eccentricity on the part of his dog. And had it not been for the gentlemen's wives, who enjoyed the incident as greatly as did their husbands, this story might never have gotten into print. CoitSEUi:s Yandkkhilt has an in-come o' $lj,000, a day. He is no doubt satisfied with the present system. But if somebody should propose a re-form that would cut off say $1. 7,j of the amount ho would no doubt be wil-ling to spend ten thousand or so to prevent it. LETTERS MAY GET THERE. Hut Their Adilrrsnrn Are Sometimes of a Most l'erulexinif C humeter. At the Washington postoffiee there is a collection of old envelopes and postal cards that would be entitled to a place in tho most curious of old curiosity-shop- s, says the Washington l'ost. The collection has been made by C. M. Merrill, head clerk of the city distributing case, who has secured the specimens after the persons for whom they were intended had read the com-munications. Here is one in an unpracticed, ! scrawling hand as nearly as it can be translated into letters: "bin harmson, Washim T. C." That would defy any-body but a postal clerk. It was sur-mised, however, by one of these that this communication was intended for Benjamin Harrison, president of the United Stales, and tho surmise proved to be correct. The letter, which was postmarked Lincoln, Neb., got to the president all right. It was probably a letter of advice as to how to run the government. An oflioo-soek-er would at least have addressed tho president as -- Mr." ".Mr. auk in ijurnei was tne auuress on a letter that came from somo place in Arkansas. It was meant for the adjutant-gener- of tho army and to him it was delivered. "Nasel true brunlnim, Washen," was the address on a letter from Trenton, Kan. Even this did not defy tho expert postal officials. They concluded the letter was meant for the National Tribune of this city, and this proved to be the case. 'The letter was probably written by a German. It did not take long to decide that a letter addressed to "Mir. reubeen right" was intended for Reuben Wright," or that one addressed "pEm. E baker an son" was meant for Penne-bak-er & Son. "For Misses Solo, a ternela W" was a puzzler for a little while. Then it was decided that the letter was intend-ed for Messrs. Soule & Co., attorney "Mr. Ajfhanacting, Auditor" stuck some of the force for a little ifulle. Then it was remembered that A. D. Shaw had been acting auditor for a time and the letter turned out to be for him. Tho person who wrote the letter had doubtless seen Mr. Shaw's name signed as "acting auditor" to some document, hence the mistake. The mistake made in allowing Washington territory to come into the union under the name of "Washing-ton" and thus perpetuating the con-dition of having a territorial division and a large city with the same name is more apparent to the postal officials than to anybody else. For example, a great deal of mail matter is put into boxes here addressed "Washington, 1). C," that is evidently meant for places in the state of Washington. People here seem unable to write the name of "Washington" without putting "D. C." to it. Hundreds of letters and packages go into the boxes here every week containing this error. Many women are employed in the tea trade. They are experts in the business as judges of the quality of teas and they also do all of the pack-ing and weighing for the different tea companies. It was formerly tho rule that women had little to do with tea except the drinking of it. In a general way it may be said that nearly half of Arkansas is an elevated country, and tho base of tho line of hills and mountains is very nearly described by the line of the Iron Mountain road, which outers the state at its northoasteru corner and leaves it at Texnrkana, some distance north of the southern boundary. 1'itui.ic opinion is moving pretty rapidly these times and the man who does not keep up with it gets loft; and no man is so desolate and lone-some as the one who has stood still and permitted the march of events to go by him. The man who reads the papers can hardly fail to have an opin-ion on the main questions of the day. ' Rose Terky Cooke, who ought to know, advises young girls, even those gifted with a literary talent, to place no dependence on literature as a bread winner. "The life," she says, "is full of mortification, auxiety and disap-pointment" This is a little too sweep-ing, perhaps, but the faces of female pen workers do seem, , in many in-stances, to lose their brightness at an early period of their literary lives. i V.I.STOI turns over a great question to the scientists. Ha soys: "''Science must answer the question, what is the reason that some people are deprived of land and means of production, while others possess them? Or: what ' causes the alienation of land and means of production from those who cultivate the land and use the instru-ments?" In this country such ques-tions are to be solved by the people. Itimbalid Not So Cruel. "I would never have been an old maid," saUl a lady of 40. "if 1 had known as much twenty years ago as I know now. When I was at a marriage-able time of life I heard so much about unhappy couples that I was afraid to become a wife. But I have looked around In later times and I have changed my mind on the subject. Last year I took up a list of twenty wives of my acquaintance whom I had known before their wedlock and to whom I had spoken about their in life. I found that fifteen of the twenty were happily married, that four of them got along tolerably well with their husbands, and that only one of them bewailed tho matri-monial lot. The fifteen happy wives are aimable women, fond of their children and heipful to their husbands. About the unhappy one of them I can only say that she is a grumbler mar-ried to a growler, and would be un-happy anyhow, and as the other four, the fault is not all on one sido. I sus-pect that the twenty married women I have spoken of are fair specimens of wives in general, most of whom find by experience that it is marriage that makes lile worth living. As I am myself the soul of amiability, I be-lieve that I would have made a happy marriage if I had not been frightened by the etories that I heard twenty years ago." If the home is the foundation of the state, and marriage is the foundation of the homo, then there should be but one law, uniform and just, throughout all the states and territories of the union regulating marriage. Laws which prevent evil are always to be preferred to laws which simply punish the evil-doo- r. If marriage laws were more stringent, there would ba fewer divorce cases. New York Mail and Express. Of course every American is inter-ested, in a way, in every slate in the union. It seems impossible that any one can, without blushing, confess that there is a state in a country of which he Is ignorant as to its history, climate, productions and resources; and yet how many people know, even in near or adjoining states, that Ar-kansas has more navigable water within her borders than any other state in the union? lie Alwaye Uatene. "Yes," said a clergyman who knows how to toll a good story as well as to listen to and appreciate one told by another, "I am, of course, often asked, when some one in conversation is on the point of telling a story, whether I have heard so and so. Now, it Is pos-sible that I may have heard that story half a dozen or half a hundred times before, but I am certain that I have never heard it told exactly as this par-ticular person will tell it. So I can truthfully answer that I have never heard it, and that is my invariable practice. Everybody who has under-taken to tell a story knows what a sen-sation is produced when the listener interrupts him to say that ho has heard it before, and of course there is some-thing of the same fooling when one who thinks he has a good thing to tell is headed off by the remark that it has been heard already. No story is ever told twice precisely alike. The indi-vidual element always comes in. So it is no evasion or stretching of the truth when I say of some incident that may be familiar to mo that I have not heard it; I am sure I have not heard it preclsoly the way this!eller will nar-rate it And it malAj things much pleasanter, too, in tho long run, especially for a minister." We have laws in all our states, mak-ing the taking of human life a capital offense, and we have national laws making it a capital offense to take hu-nt in life within the special jurisdiction of the national government If one intentionally administers poison to an-otherexcept as a medicine, and death results, he is treated as a murderer. Yet drugs and foods and drinks are constantly sold to and consumed by our people that not only rob them of their money, under false pretences,but gradually destroy health, one of the greatest blessings that man enjoys. Love Lorn Dumaels. "Girls in love ain't no use in the whole blessed week. Sundays, in the mornin' they're looking down tho road, expecttn' he'll como. Sunday after-noons they can't think o' nothin' else 'cause he's here. Monday they're sleepy and kind o' dreamy and slimpsy 'cause he's tone. Tuesday and Wed- - 4 nesday and Thursday they git absent-minde- d and begin to look off towards Sunday agin an' mope aroun' and let the dishwater git cold right under their noses. Friday they break dishes an' go off in the best room an' snivel, and look out o' the winder. Saturday they have queer spurts of workin' like all p'sessed and spurts o' frizzin' their hair. An' Sunday they begin it all over agin." New Names. The flashing of new names in the world's horizon is always delightful to behold. Here is Edison, who ten years ago was unheard of, whose fame is now blazoned o'er the world. Here Is Koch of Berlin, known to but few at this time of last year, now shining aloft Here are new names appearing from time to time in literature, some of them luminous. Welcome to all new lights! It Is delightful to seo them, und all the more as mny of the names that have shone in other years are passing out of sight. It is some-thing to have a "name great in mouths of wisest censure," even if it be there but for a time. N. Y, Sun. On the Fly. An American naturalist has made up a list of 210 birds which are in-digenous to Alaska, but alas! the English sparrow is not among them, and the people of that land cannot be blamed for declaring that the United-State-has no real sentimental interest in them. The French chamber of deputies proposes to put a tax on bachelors; and the Prussian Landtag Is engaged in the discussion of t project for the assessment of the income tax pro-portionately to the size of the family. At first glauce such proposals might be thought to betoken on the part of the European powers a most virtuous and commendable zeal for the conser-vation of the family. In truth, it is but an outcome of the rampant militarism prevailing in those lands. Reduced to the last analysis, what a picture this presents to us of civiliza-tion in the twilight of the nineteenth century the govern-ments of Europe .encouraging the pro-pagation of tho human race in order to keep up the food supply for llerr Krupp's guns! The Crosa mother. At no time in her busy days is an Intelligent mother so apt to fold the amis and close the eyes of maternal justice as when she is cross. This crossness 1 chiefly caused by fatiguo weariness of mind and body, and sometimes of soul. With tired nerves and weary body, she cannot endure the common demands made upon hor, and follows. She sows bit-to- r feelings and impels loving atten-tions with her irritable hasty words. Broadly speaking, no mother has any right to get so tired. She cannot afford it. It takes too much oat of her life, and too much out of her cliildo ren's life. Such a condition can ly be prevented t'.rvt u gener-ally leliivcd. Harper's. Baiar. 1o You Want One? There are about thirty castles and palaces in Spiin which c;m be rented at from $3 to $1,) per week, cish in advance, and any American who lands there with $1,000 in his pocket can fling on more style for six moaths than he could get here in fifty year i on mi income of $i00 per week. One of the Kleet. St Poter "What's the matter at the portal?" Spirit "One of the Four Hundred has arrived and refuses to go in by tho regular gate. He wants to know where the stockholders' entranoe is." New York Herald. |