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And the Slost Complete Stock in Utah of Books, Stationery and Toys -- AT-p. si. McAllister & co's., 72Man St. SALT XjAITS Real Estate Exchange 29 Commercial Street. MONEYTO LOAN On Good Real Estate Security. F. REHRMAN & CO. Taft & Kropfpnze, CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS. Salt Laitt City, utai Territory. Office: Headquarters at Cor, Sixth and A Sis, the next time I come. Good-by.- " He took her unresicting hand in his for a moment and then left tho house. Late the next afternoon, just as Daniel had deposited a huge log in the mill-yar- d and was about to turn his oxen's Doses homeward, he was confronted by Annie Stockwell. It was three miles from the squire's house, but the walk had not brought color to her cheeks, and the i sight of her lover gave no brightness to I her weary eyes. "My goodness, Annie!" exclaimed Dan-- ! icl, "you look sick. Hore, sit down on this log." "No, Daniel," she relied, in a low ! voice; "I must hurry back. I came here to see you." Annie looked appealingly at the brown, somber face before her, and the tears be-- I gan to flow. i " You've come to tell me bad news, j Annie," Daniel said, and Annie nodded, for her quivering lips refused to speak. "You've be'n a long time comin' to it," was Darnel's comment, and at that the heart sick, conscience stricken girl sank down in tho dust and sobbed aloud. The young man stood over her a moment, i his features working as if be suffered j from a poisoned arrow, and then he stooped and raised her to her feet, saying: "Better not set there and cry. Ef you've conic to the pint of droppin' me, it's I 'cause you've found suthin' better, V I bad oughter be the one to do the cryin'. ! Ain't that so, Annie?' j "No, no," she exclaimed, retreating a step, "you are so good and I am so bad; j you have no cause to weep, unless be-cause you believed in me and I have treated you so cruelly." Across Daniel Hardy's slowly moving thoughts there shot a terrible suspicion. "Bad, Annie?" he whispered, "bad. Has that inftrual New Yorker" "Oh, hush! hush!" she interrupted; "let me tell you. You think I should have told you before. Y'es, I should, but not as long as a year ago. I was honest with you then, I thought I loved you, and it was not until the day before I came here that I realized my mistake. Do not forgive me, Daniel, my friend, but listen. I know you will, for you fore him. He went over at once and found others of his ruined associates on the same errand, but he alone was ad-mitted in a back room. There sat Daniel Hardy, somber as of old, but there was an expression of cold satisfaction in bis eyes. "You, Mr. Hardy!" exclaimed Well-ma- HarJv made no reply at once. He sat rtock still, looking straight at the ruined speculator. Wellman appreciated the situation immediately, and sinking with a groan into a chair, he covered his face with his hands. Presently Hardy spoke. "I understood that you hev' contracted to deliver 'bout two thousand more sheers of Shawnee than was ever took out of the stock book." Wellman nodded. "Hin," continued Hardy; "some of the sheers is in thet safe in the corner; pra'ti-call- y all the rest of them as was issued is in my control, where I kin git 'em when I want 'em. Ef I understand it, that means that you hev got to settle with me at mv own figger. Ain't thet so?" "It is, Mr. Hardy," groaned Wellman. "P'raps," went on the torturer, "p'r-'ap- s you may be able to sell those fictish-you- s 2,000 shares to a somebody for suth-in', but I don't keer for 'era. Lemme see, I think you clever people, you with the eddicated intellecks, calls this ar-rangement a corner! I believe you used that word to me once. Didn't you?" Wellinan's answer was a convulsive shudder. There was silence for a mo-ment, and then Hardy fairly shouted: "Look up, Mr. Wellman!" Startled, the broken speculator raised hU head. Hardy stood up, and looked down at him for a full minute. Then he said slowly: "I've been look in' for'ard to this a long time, an' now you've got to settle, an'you can't, you can't do it." "For God's sake, Daniel Hardy," cried Wellman, "do not continue this useless cruelty. I am in your power. You have ruined me; it will take much more than I possess to satisfy your claim, but name your figure and let "me do my best." "Cruelty, is it? Huh, I s'pose 'tis. That's what I've cornered ye fer. I could ha' thrown you over the falls at Pcsket. Now A Corner iq Shawnee. IKUE 8TOET OF A WAUL STREET HERO ! BY. HEXBY CLEWS. " tTfenTTishted. All rlEbU rMemd.1 i CHAPTER IL ' "City chap come to your place on CM j stage, didn't they, Mr. Jenkins, hit" j asked Postmaster Sparks, f "Yep," replied the landlord, pulling a j straw trom a broom and transferring it ; to his mouth. "Boston?" I "Nop." Springfield, 'spose?" "Nop, neither. 'Twa'n't Springfield." "Twa'n't New York?" "Yep, 'twas." "Goiu' to stop long?" "Didn't say." , Landlord Jenkins exercised his teeth on the straw, waiting for somebody to take up the line of examination that the pwtuaster had temporarily laid down, and as no one seemed ready to do so he added after a pause: "But I have an idea he is." "How so, landlord?" queried the post-master, masking his burning desire to know under an affected indifference. 1 "Wal," said Jenkins, "this here man's J name is Wellman, with Theodore to the J front of it, 'n' he comes from New Y'ork. 1 He brought some new fangled fishing j rods 'long 'n' says he's goin' to try for jf trout Hull! then he goes V asks a string of questions ten rod long 'bout I Squire Stockwell. Says he knowed some of the family, but never met the squire; I wants to know ef it's the proper thing to I speak to Stockwell as squire; asks ef his r! family is en joy in' good health; looks off I at the mountings when I slyly says as how Annie seems to miss her boarding school, and then he asks the names of all f the hills roundabout, 's ef he didn't care a dried pea about the Stockwells; V after supper asks the way to Stock well's ! bouse 'n' goes there. 'Pears to me 'taint trout he's come down a fish in' for." serving his employer faithfully, and now and then increasing his deposits in the bank, doubts as to his career changed to confidence that he would be a solid citizen some day, and might even go to the legislature. It is known that one of hisenterprises in behalf of his employer consisted in secur-ing an agreement with a great New Y'ork grocer to take a large quantity of butter from him at a lower rate than that usu-- i ally paid, and then by personal canvass among the farmers securingall the butter they could maVe at a price somewhat less than tliat they usually received. The consideration being that he would take every pound off their bands. This ar-rangement, satisfactory to both parties, netted the store a handsome sum for a country trader. Eventually Daniel became a partner and after that the sole proprietor of the store. He kept up his interest in the stock reports of the New York paper, aud conducted many a successful enter-prise iu his own field. Perhaps he had his failures, too, but if so, they are not remembered at Posket. He "traded" ia real estate, organized the farmers into a milk exchange, through which he ob-tained for them steady prices and for himself a comfortable addition to his income. At last a day came when, without warning to his neighbors, he sold out all his interests and departed for New Y'ork. Accounts vary as to the amount of ready money he brought with him. By some it is put at $25,000, but it is my impres- - sion that it did not exceed ?12,000. I well remember the day he came, for I chanced to be in a friend's office when a tall, uncouth, ill dressed countryman stepped awkwardly in and said: "Kin I set down here a spell?" Space will not permit me to relata I he thousand and one stories of his experi-- I ence in the street I can only indicate his general course. For months he came into that office every day and sat there through board hours, watching the boys putting up quotations, and listening to the conversation of the speculators about him. Not once did he venture a dollar. Ho was entirely willing to be guyed as long as he was not turned out and as long eye for a moment without speaking, ana then turned aside to continue on his way to the mill. "Wait a minute. Mr. Hardy," called Wellman; "I want to speak to you." Daniel paused. "Ef you hed anythin' important to say ti me,'' he said, "you wouldn't ha' wait-ed tell I ran across you in the woods." "Fardon me," 'interrupted Mr. Well-ma- n; "you aro apparently right, but it has been due solely to a desire on my part to avoid any seeming intrusion on your affairs that I have refrained from calling on you." " You an' I don't speak cdzackly the same language, Mr. Wellman," returned Daniel, "but ef you mean that you didn't keer to put your foot into my business, kin understand thet." Mr. Wellman smiled and sat up. "That's one way of putting it, Mr. Hardy," he said, "but now that we meet hero where none of your good country people can take notice of us and spread exaggerated reports about us, it seems to me worth while that we should try to come to an understanding, for I believe you think I owe you an explanation." "You owe me a darned sight more'n thet, Mr. Wellman," replied Daniel Mr. Wellman at once became very seri-ous. "I am sorry you think so," he began, "for, you know, I cannot see it Y'ou must know that a woman's affections are not to be forced; you cannot hope to turn tlieni into the channel you desire, and if she freely gives her heart to another, you cannot reasonably complain. It's hard, I admit; I think I know how you feej, for not so very long ago Miss Stockwell re-jected me." "Don't you think," interrupted Daniel, "that her name might's well be left out of this argyinent." "As you please, Mr. Hardy, but yoa see if it was not for her we should not be talking in this way." "No, sir!" exclaimed Daniel, "not by a thundering sight! Taint her as hes brougnt you an' me to argyfyin', but you, Mr. Wellman." Mr. Wellman bit his lips and half re-gretted that he had attempted to reason with this boorish rustic, he I let Ive licked you at your own game." Wellman" was completely broken by the 6udden blow, morally as well a3 financially. His nerve and dignity left him, and "for an hour Daniel Hardy kept him fawning, begging and crying in ab-ject misery. Then other ruined men were admitted and a settlement was arranged on terms that need not be de-tailed here. Some of the unfortunates have not yet recovered. Weliman's ap-parent failure was the worst of all, but to everybody's surprise he secured credit somewhere that enabled bira to slowly pick himself up. The fact is that Daniel Hardy, having glutted himself with revenge, felt some-thing as near as revulsion of feeling as his hard nature would admit; and within twenty-fou- r hours of the scene in Brown's private room he had secretly supplied the credit that his enemy's house needed. The Shawnee deal was his first great operation, and his last of any kind in Wall street. have always been so good. 1 reit the change coining over me months ago, and I resisted it, and even at the but mo-ment I turned my face away from what I knew to be real love because I could i not be so wicked as to make you unhap-py without trying to love you. I thought that if I came home and saw you it would leave me and the old love come back. Do you understand?" "No," said Daniel, "I don't No citi-fied girl with fine clothes and a soft voice could 'a' turned my heart." "I know," she cried, "I am too wicked to be loved by anybody; bat Daniel, I re-fused to listen to Mr. Wellman at the school, and told him be must not come here to see me. Y'et I I Daniel, I love him, he's a good man, but when he asks me again, I shall refuse him. I shall not marry him even though I cannot love you as I ought to. You believe me, don't you, Daniel?" Daniel picked up the ox goad that he bad let fall and replied: "I'm glad you didn't listen to him at school, Annie. I don't b'lieve 'twould ha' be'n in me to forgive you for takin' him afore you let me drop." "But, Daniel," she persisted, "I shall not marry him. Y'ou believe that?" The yonng man busied himself a mo-ment in getting his oxen in readiness for a start before he faced her and said: "I hain't bad no eddication, Annie, in book larnin' an' I hain't traveled fur from Posket; but I expect you an' him will git married, an' I advise you to take him fust as last So fur's you're con-gam-there'll be no more trouble from me. Y'ou'd better git on the cart an' let me drive you home. It'll be's quick's you kin walk, an' null sight easier." This Annie refused to do, and without as much as a good-b- she started rapidly op the road. Daniel drew one long breath as she disappeared around a turn in the road and then started his clumsy oxen in the same direction. Except in names, this recital is one of facts. The mau and the woman, the hero and the heroine, still live. Many men in Wall street today will recognize them, even under the filmy mask I have giTen to their identity. the isn. li As a matter, of course, all Posket knew ' before another sundown that "Annie's '; city feller" had come to town on a spark-ing errand, Squiro Stockwell had not ! suspected it from the nature of Mr. Well-- 5 man's call, but be was made to see the i matter in its true light by several of his s neighbors during the day following. With all the town he had looked for- - ward to Annie's marriage with Daniel Hardy as a foregone conclusion and it seemed like questioning the ways of I . Providence to suggest a different order for their lives. The affair troubled him i seriously und his anxiety was by no means lessened when, after supper, he saw Wellman strolling up the graveled path that led to the front door. It was , one of those evenings, too, on which i Daniel was certain to call It occurred j to the squire thut something ought to be ; done but what? For several minutes he fidgeted un- - easily while Mr. Wellman chatted of his day's sjiort with the rod. He was indeed a handsome man, tall and well propor-- I tionnd, aud his smooth cheeks and re-- fined features looked none the worse for I the scorching that a day in the open air bad given them. He talked entertain-- j ingly, too, and, what was better, like an i unassuming, honest man. I Presently the squire rose and excused himself in the best way he knew, and J went out, leaving his wife, who was also 1 disturbed about the situation, to enter- - tain the probable suitor. Annie was j there, to be sure, but her face was grave ; and her tongue inactive. Squire Stock-- j well wandered out to the front gate and i gazed earnestly dow n the road. He was I right The sun had but just gone down, and the figure he had seen tramping sturdily down the hill was that of Daniel j Hardy. Two or three commonplace remarks passed between theni, and Daniel's som-- ! ber face grew dark. The squire began i to wonder why lie had left the house to intercept the visitor, and at last he : asked, with a great effort: "Hear any news when you came j through the village, Dan'ir j "Yes, I did, squire, an' I s'pose that's what you're standiu' here for, an' not lt'ttin' ma in." i "Wal, Danl, I ain't a goin' to do no in- - , terferin', 'n' Lord knows you'll bo wel-- t . come to my house the blackest day in the year. Y'ou know me, Dan'l, an' I ; know you. It 'peared to me that p'raps ' ef you knowed, you wouldn't keer to come in tonight" , The squire's rugged face was luminous with compassion. Daniel gave one glance ' at him, another at the darkening hills, and asked: "Is he in there with her?" i "Yes, Dan'l, he is, but understand me, o fur's I know, nothin' has b'en said be- - tveea 'em 's should change matters. Nothin' has be'n said to me 'cept 'bout fishiu' an' railroad sheers. We hain't had ) no chance to speak to Annie, but ef it j comes to a pint, Dan'l, you shan't be tho j sufferer. No child o' mine shall play fa.it 'n' loose with a likely young man 's she's i be'n pra'tically promised to for years." ! "Squire Stockwell," rejoined Dauiel, J and there was a rough, grating sound in i his throat, "there shall be no forciu' of i Annie where I'm consarned. Ef she j can't take me after what I've done and i b'en. ef this man 's I've heerd about has "Well," said, "suppose am; that pass. What I wanted to bIiow you was, and in saying it I take you for a reasonable, fair minded man, that the lady in question is naturally fitted for a different kind of lifethan that she would lead if she settled down in Posket. Y'ou know that she has become a brilliant, educated lady, and it is perfectly natural that a man in the class to which she has raised herself should be more attractive to her than ah well, frankly, than an hone6t but uneducated man. I don't want to be offensive, but you must see what I mean." There was a momentary confusion in Daniel's mind as he felt, rather than thought, that a girl who was born in Posket should find Posket good enough to live in, as had her own mother; and that a Posket boy whom she bad encour-aged to love her should be good enough to live with, but Out of the bitter turmoil of bis thoughts this came: "You're a settin' yourself np, Mr. Wellman, to be a better man than I be. Well, I'm not disputin' but what you mar be; but s'pos'n you was to stand up, an' you an' me was to git a good, square grip on each other's collar, an' s'pos'n we was to wrastle a bit, which of us do you s'pose would pitch the other over the falls?" Even Mr. Wellman, man of the world and somewhat impressed with his own knowledge of human nature, was non-plused by this proposition. He 6at still for some time looking at the waters swirling past him. At last he stretched himself out lazily again and said, in the languid tones he had first employed: "Oh, well, if you can not look at this uncomfortable matter as a reasonable man should, you ought to take a business view of it. The young lady's affections were in the market Y'ou made your bid, but I just happened to get a corner on them, and you ought to be content to stand your losses." Then he resumed his inspection of the noisy cascade, smiling a little at his own cleverness in bringing a painful conve-rsion to so brilliant and conclusive a close. The tumbling water made a deal of fuss in going over the cliff; it foamed and boiled, and shouted to the trees to see it pound the rocks in the pool below to impalpable powder; but above its petty roaring Mr. Wellman, stretched at full length at the very edge of the de-scent, heard a sound that turned his oronzed face to a deathly pallor, and made him spring to his feet and turn about Na Daniel Hardy had not started for-ward to hurl him over the waterfall. He had reached for the branch of a tree just above his head, aud had wrenched it from the trunk. Holding it out at arms length he twisted the green fiber until the bark wrinkled and peeled, and each hand held a fragment of the limb. Both these he threw down at his rival's feet "Damn, you, Mr. Wellman," he hissed. Then he strode away into the forest. Mr. Weliman looked after him in pro-found amazement He glanced down at the broken limb, which seemed to quiver iu each part from Daniel's touch, and up at the tree from which it had been torn, and down at The black, rock flooded pool below the falls. His face had not lost its pallor, and as he picked up his fishing rod his hand trembled violently, and his as he continued to pick up information. He was tolerated because of his inter-esting appearance and quaint remarks, but nobody ever heard him utter a word that indicated his purpose. The fact is that he was slowly acquainting himself with the character and the characters of the street His retentive memory served him well, and his patience better. He came to understand stock dealing with-out operating, and he also came to know some of the faces that are rarely seen in the street. They are those of men who live at their ease, but watch the market, and now and then swoop down upon it, buy a lot of stock for cash, sell perhaps within a few days, and then retire and wait for another season of depression. Daniel watched such men and learned a lesson. One day when there was a general panicky feeling abroad he astonished the broker in whose office he had settled by putting $5,000 in bills into his bands to secure a purchase of a certain popular stock that had been going down. He protected himself by a liberal margin and sat down again in the office to wait When he sold he cleared over $1,000. This was the beginning of a long series of transactions, all conducted on a con-servative basis, and all so far as known profitably; and at last it came to be a saying among those who knew him that one should follow Daniel Hardy. The difficulty was to discover what Daniel was doing. He was close as an oyster, and his operations were by no means confined to the office where he spent most of his time. Nevertheless, though be was regarded as a shrewd and suc-cessful man, nobody ever dreamed that he would become a dominant factor in the street Occasionally he met Mr. Wellman, then at tha head of a nankin bouse of some importance. The banker said to him: , "lam glad to hear that you are get-ting on well, Mr. Hardy. If I can be of any assistance to you in the way of in-formation, or otherwise, let me know." "Thankee, Mr. Wellman," responded Daniel, gravely, "I may call on you some day." The time came, after several years, that Daniel Hardy was invited into pools for effecting deals in various securities. He accepted some of the invitations and refused others. From the well known character of the men with whom be as-sociated I wonder how he escaped ruin more than one. His conservatism never deserted him, and beneath his uncouth exterior was a tenacious intellect, won-derfully sharpened by contact with the world. Now all through these years he had been studying one thing more than all else: Theodore Weliman's business hab-its. He learned what the banker's favor-ite stocks for speculation were, through whom he dealt, and many details un-necessary to repeat here. At last came the famous "Shawnee railroad deal." The common stock of this road amount-ed at par to $10,000,000, but it ruled in the market at about 50. It was one of the "fancies" in which Mr. Wellman delighted to speculate. A selling movement began in this stock one day and it proceeded from Well-man- 's house. The price had gone down , CHAPTER nL JIR. weixxas's pesn. Each hand held a fragment of the limb. !j For once Daniel Hardy's small stock of wisdom served him well for the pur-poses of prophecy Theodore AYellman roamed about the Posket forests for it may be two weeks, and then the definite announcement was made that he and Ven filliu' her mind with what ain't ! true, ef wall, the long an' short of it is, j Squire, I'vo waited, V I kin wait again." j "Said like a man, Dan'l," exclaimed ! the Squire, though he gained but a dim t notion of what was passing confusedly j in the young man's mind. "Xow that I you know how things is, do you want to come in?' ; "I don't see no reason why I should j stand aside because yoo've got a visitor,"' replied DanieL There must have ben something grim dn Daniel'sentrancetothe"settin'room," ior Annie was dreadfully pale and a ense of constraint was shared by all ex- - j cept Mr. Weilmao. The conversation was as general as this polished gentleman could make it until he withdrew. Then tbe squire and bis wife started for the ,kitcuen, and as Annie showed a dispos-ition to follow them, Daniel said: ' "I want to speak to ye, jist a minute, iAunie." She remained standing with eyes cast down, and when the door closed on her parents Daniel went on: I aint goin to say anything of wha you've forbid me, Annie, uor I ain't goin to hurry you; I jist wanted to remind you that I'm a waitin for you to say the word, jist ' you told me to. I shant say a word ef you don't look up," he paused, and it seemed as if Annie tried to raise her bead, but if so the effort end-ed in a shudder. So he continued: ".Not tonight then, but p'raps or Annie Stockwell were to be married, j One day DanH was busy extricating I logs from the snarls aud jams in the mill stream a half mile above the mill, when he came upon Wellman, his rod and bucket thrown aside, reclining idly in the shade and watcbing the pictur-esque scene, j For a moment Daniel stood back of j his rival, struggling with a tremendous impulse to throw him over the cliff, j Was it caution that restrained the brute within him? Did the human ele--I nient in his nature shrink from murder j unfairly done? Did it seem cowardly to take an enemy unawares? ; A log that Daniel had released from a jam above the cascade swung into an eddy as if fearful to make the plunge, and caught one end against the lank near the rivals. Daniel pushed it off with his foot, and the next second it went dashing down to the nool below. Its course attracted the attention of tin i idle fisherman, and he turned lazily j about to see what moved it from th bank. As he saw Hardy he raised hit eyebrows slightly, but betrayed no espe-cial interest in the meeting. "Ah, Mr. Hardy, I believe," he said. 'I suppose then it is to you that I am in- - debted for the magnificent spectacle 1 have been enjoying since those logs be-gan to go over the Tails. Look at that one now! bow it sticks there, right on the edge ah! over it goes! Remarkably interesting." Daniel looked his languid rival in the step was unsteady, as he slowly took up his march to the village tavern. Annie Stockwell was married in the October succeeding her engagement to Mr. Wellman. It is still related in Posket how Daniel Hardy went to the wedding and joined the festivities that followed. His behavior, it 6eems, was dignified, aud his somber face never hinted at the determined purpose which had become the mainspring of bis actions. Mr. Well-ma- n took his wife upon a long European tour, and eventually they merged their lives in the social wilderness of New-Yor- Daniel "teamed it" through the win-ter, and when spring had come he sur-prised one of the village store keepers by applying for a situation. Let the argu-ments and explanations be understood. Daniel wanted to learn business; the store keeper thought well of him, and gave him the desired clerkship. Daniel developed a fondness for conversation and became acquainted with summer visitors who could inform him as to the methods of business on the Stock Exchange. In such talks he never failed to inquire the exact meaning of a "corner." Some of the elder people were in doubt lest Daniel would lose his head and wreck his life and little for-tune in ignorant speculations. They re-garded Wall street as a community of robbers, and were morally certain tfiat no man with good living elsewhere should venture in their way. But as Daniel lew at his post rear after Tear. a full point, when an obscure brfker on the floor of the exchange began to take every block of it that was offered. The decline ceased and a contrary move-ment set in. Still this obscure broker bought. Everybody began to rush for his Shawnee and oiler it to this broker, and pretty soon the question ran from mouth to mouth: "Whom does Brown represent?" Nobody could tell. Up went the price of Shawnee and at the close of the day's proceedings it was quoted at TO. The next day the movement continued and leading among the sellers was Mr. Theo-dore Weliman's broker. Every effort was made to break the mysterious pur chaser, but without avail, and at the end of trading Shawnee was at 113, with a record of three thousand more shares sold than were in existence. On the third day the effort to break the pur--! chaser ended in offering to him a lot of ' stock sent from a distant city by special train. Every share was taken, j The bears were in despair. They had to get Shawnee stock with which to ful-- j fill their engagements to deliver. The j obscure broker was ready to sell, but he wanted something like 300 for his shares. It meant ruin to many, and there were several speedy suspensions. Among them was the house of Theodore Well-ma- n. Soon after the announcement a mes-senger brought word to him that if he would call at Brown's office a proposi-tion for a settlement would be (. . THE GENTLER SEX. Mrs. Myra Bradwell, of Chicago, is tie editor of The Legal News, and is an indefatigable worker for the rights of women. Mrs. Reagan, wife of the Texan sena-tor, learned shorthand, without a teach-er, in order to become her husband's pri-vate secretary. The best shot of her sex mast be the Countess Maria von Kensky, of Bohe-mia, who, one day last winter on her es-tate of Chlamce, shot 138 hares. Mrs. Mary L. McGindley, of Dulnth, recently admitted to the practice of law, is said to be the only woman so favored in Minnesota. She is the wife of a judge of that county. Mrs. F. P. Fish is one of Chicago's prttty women. She is a with dark hair, lovely browireyes and an exquisite complexion. She has a fine contralto voice, Mis3 Mitchell, of Kingston, graduate of Queen's university, who recently re-ceived a license to practice medicine, is the first woman in Canada to write M. D. after her name. Mrs. Delia Cross, of Brooklyn, is now Mrs. Capt. Cross, of the schooner Ore-gon. This is said to be the first case in which a woman has become own?r and master of a sea going vessel. Miss Tisdel, the daughter of CoL W. T. Tisdel, of Washington, recently cre-ated a genuine surprise in theatrical circles in Paris by the admirable man-ner in which she acted at an amateur performance. Mrs. Annie Louise the famous opera contralto, spends her leis-ure time during her summer outing at the seashore in knitting warm shawls for the poor old women who are on her charity visiting list. Miss Cooper, niece of J. Fenimore Cooper, is a member of the BeUeme Training School for Nurses. She is a tall, slender, graceful girl of the bru-nette type, with the brilliant coloring of that class of beauty. Miss Fawcett, with all her mathemat-ics, ia an expert needle woman and fond of embroidery. She has also a pretty taste for binding books, and has put some of her continental volumes into covers of her own designing and manu-facture. Mrs. Anna Lea Morritt, whose paint-ing "Love Barred Out" was bought in London by trustees of the Chaatrey be-quest for exhibition at Sonth Kensing-ton, is a native of Philadelphia who has lived in England, with her husband for many years. NOVELTIES IN JEWELRY. An endless chain of gold S's is a novel-ty in rings. A ragged portion of a peanu shell rep-resented in old gold forms a uniqne scarf pin of recent make. Alligator skin represented in a lady's square silver belt buckle by oxidized e tching promises to become ftuiiionable. The fore feet of a horse curved into a horseshoe with diamonds and rubies "omted alternately is a gold scarf pin that is meeting with f3vor. ii is saia to be a cummon mgitvia is e York to see well dressed mea mnnin j or skipping the rope in Central Park. Ex-ercise is the chief aim of these simple diversions, which are practiced mostly by brokers, lawyers acd ciub mea who are beccmingjoou. |