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Show I pnv you is extra- -- how business u have filed. Ze Garrick from For ze fifty dol- monsieur. ordinure, while his set ward, complete fai urc, laire we make two demands Au prenice a made free by matrimony, In and "To hare fcopwl find noffor! toe, little fortune keeping a dancing miere zat yon marry ze bride veiled! To have trtntvJ, htrHd ami fcrieTftl, Au second zat you si am two certifiTo have doubted the thiutfs you bti might aead-miwith Lis Wife. know died something cates for us, to protect ze lady and When the parents Tide la to have lived. of the husband's inherited tenets moi memo. The acre of the bride To have (tinned. rejened and been forgiven, caused him to repent, though lie had To have lot wh.it vtae ome ieeivel. Ilowton. in the Garrit-and never done bad, anything To have fallen ngamirorn t he gate ol heaven What mattair zat? l'ou have weakness of dying he gave his child Tina 10 to hare lived. to his relative to be her trustee and made ze wife at fourteen many a To have loved, and tjietrd the Dead Sea fruit; the trustee of a time. My bride is sixteen, saire. respectable little been To have pledged, to have believed, Come, ze money! Here is ze money. TohaveeeeD love wither ;rom branch lore He Mt the bank bill in his hand, This is to have lived. The poor dancing teacher thought and it dried up his compunctions of To Lave stood in the strength of virile might. the word Bishop covered a regenheart; he felt a quill put in his fingers, erate heart. 'When bathed, betrayed, deeived; To have ground yourteeth m the rageof fight The bishop was merely a capitalist and tiie stranger, with something like Thie in to have bred. a fusee, made a flame thatoontained In marriage fees. ' This is considered reasonable hu- brimstone and seemed yellow and To have trodden the winepr-- , weak, alone. blue. Of your hV fair fruit bereaved; mility. To have slain your sorrow wit boat a moan mine, as zis papair Some of the schoolboys called him Eternally lived. This is to have Old Yoke-finokbecause he yoked so you sign, the strange man exclaim' I mean ze lady child, ze lady, ed. To have given the helm to a stronger hand. many couples. To have Imtened, to have believed; lie education had parbleu. What picked up To have yielded life to a high command The voice had a deep, sepulcher avarice and illiterate associations This is to have lived. David A. Curtis, in Ones a Week. had chased out of his head; like an tone in it, and by the foreboding old country Dutchman, he couhl spell flame Garrick saw a person whose wrs all in patches, with joists for his barn Joyce and talk forehead nose LAST WEDDING FEE. about the breechman on his horse French moustaches under his nearand blackened eyebrows drawn when he meant breeching. As time advanced Garrick grew ly through the temples to the edge Foms years ago, when marriage deeply in love with Eunice, and lor-g- of a colorless, inky wig. You must give me some name, licenses had to be paid for,' the to give spiritual restraint to his the Bishop ns he signed, alson. spoke Marylanders and Virginians rode At seventeen sharp, old Garrick though I caunot read by such a across the narrow frontier in the Ilowton often repeated to himself, light. I am ze Marquis Bellsbub. valley and married for nothing in looking at Eunice with the threefold Bring in the lady ! Pennsylvania Of course they gave passions ofloye, avarice and superLow laughter seemed to be circling ' something to the preacher for his stition. Often when nn old man falls in love nrmmd the apartment as theuniting trouble. Tho conqueneo was that to him like holiness when it words were said by the bishops falit all the preachers on the Maryland is seemsfoolishness. tering and fatigued tongue. Loud only side of the line liecamo as lean ns In that way Garrick threw himself laughter broke from t ho carriage , gce.-iand the preachers across the hack into his natural state before he windows ns tho scoundrel drove line in Pennsylvania grew as fat as became an avaricious scoundrel or a away. Here, Weasley! Eunice! Lights! lie got to turkey gobblers. Hut there was one believing in thehypocrite, exclaimed old Garrick How he Lights! religion practiced preacher near Waynesboro who did upon, lie feared night solitude and ton. I have got my last marriage not grow fat. Garrick Ilowton, who ghosts, lie believed that his mon- fee. No voice replied; the dark mounlid the largest business, became strous passion was a sacrifice on his tains suke for the through the windows showed of Eunices part securing L!! lor-tun- e. land depressed, poor fellow, but rallied shall have a wfio.e week together. Whut could I do? 1 could not turn IppPHCrTI YmifirK'lYfi ll(,u jie saw lie was ,or;n,, me, and ! I have ventured to call the story of a little bit of my life Shocking, to told ns all the news, and made him-severy ngreealle, taking Tom off at last to look at some horses at the Biding club some of his own, J think they were which poor Tom ended by buying, and did not pay more than double their value. Tom never could say No to any one. Whats the use of my being rich, if I cant help my friends who are poor? he would say, and it was in vain I preached to him on the utlt remind my readers that they are pected to he shocked by it, and that the moral it conveys should be brought home to the hearts of all truly fashionable people. But, shocking as my conduct was, I fear I cannot repent or bo ashamed of it, though I am philanthropic enough ter uselessnessweof such doings. in New Ot course didnt stay to hope that my sad example may but shortly migrated to Y'orklong, act as a warning to all young marIrvington, and soon after arrived ried women. Dirk Van Khounhyde, and took up The essence of autobiography is his abode with us, apparently for the I thought this rather cool, egotism, as some writer remarked, summer. for I am sure, whatever I may have therefore not and I shall apologize said, I never meant him to stay more for the number of Is that will oc- than a usual visit; but after all he cur in the following pages: was very amusing and useful; and My mother was a well known per- fetched and carried for me very well, son in New York society; she lived in and always looked nice, and never dreamed of flirting with any one hut and for the world of ball going and me, though Mrs. Daydreeme would amusement and played her part in have given her eyes to detach him. So, as long as Torn did not object, it with much zeal and success. was not for me to do so; but after It was only when an unfortunate it he had been with us about six weeks redness of her nose, caused, Tom did object, and for the first time people said, by tight lacing, disgust- his manner to me was decidedly uned her with the looking glass, that pleasant. she adopted the high church pietism Some ill natured woman has been to which she is now so devoted, and abusing me to you, I said, for I was she as sits in her favorite annoyed. I liked Tom to be always and affectionate to me. corner of the Church of the smiling I shouldn't allow any one to abuse Beatific Pharisee, with her lovely you to me, but I confess I have heard books of devotion, her smelling bot- something that has put meout. Tom was getting rather white. I tle and her general air of condescendhad never seeu him angry before, ami about ing piety, you really forget I think it became him. I felt that if her nose, and are inclined to ignore he looked at me long in that stern the reason which has so happily, if way I should give in. begin to erv, painfully, brought her into the arms and ask him to pet me again: but lie said nothing, evidently putting a of the church. deal of restraint on himself to She was always a very good good bridal wreaths of stars upon their remain silent, and left my room. And awful like the pres- mother to me, and from the auspic- then I set to work and cried forbidding brows, just like ence of the Marquis who had but now ious which saw my debut in so- the heroine of one of those day departed with childhoods purity in ciety till that no less auspicious one that amused our grandhis false black eyes and wig. when she wept quietly behind me as mothers, who were always retiring to The Bishop took fire and lighted a Tom placed a gold ring on my hand their own rooms, letting down their cnndle. He saw a paper lying upon the altar of Grace church, she back hair, and, while calling on their the floor with his signature on it. He at was always most careful of my wel- lovers by their surnames, shedding read with horror that he acknowl- fare and eager for my advancement bucketfuls of tears. But it was. of edged the sale of his soul to Beelze- and happiness. And whatachaperon course, important that in our first dobub for a thousand years. she Even at 3 in the morning, mestic difference I should win; so I Ha! ha! he cried, Satan has whenwas! other were asleep or stood firmly to iny guns, and that very dropped the contract he entrapped fuming with chaperons the desire for bed, there night, before Tom and several other me to sign. To the fire to the fire she sat, pale and determined, ready people, I asked Dirk to manage so with it! to encourage a good parti, or frown that he could stay with us to the A voice seemed to sound from the a bad one, or on me if I en- end of the summer. Dirk, who had upon garret on the wailing of the wind. You signed two such certificates. couraged him. Many a time have I never intended to go, accepted with You have married Eunice to the dev- reached home from Delmonicos, a rather amused look in his face, and smarting from the pinches she, for said tilings to me that evening il. my own good, had bestowed upon when Tom was nodding over the pacried Ilowton Father, Weasley next morning, Eunice is not to be my arms, when I had been more than per in the smoking room which I found. Will you forgive me it she usually obstinate in perfering some ought not to have allowed; but I good looking journalist with noth- was angry with Tom and you has married if she lias married me? ing a year, to on abdominal broker might as well have tried to quiet a Bishop Ilowton lay on the floor ready to place the disposal of liis mad bull with a bundle of tracts as dead. George Alfred Townsend in millions at my feet. try to bring confusion on a NineBaltimore Home Journal. And her vigilance bail its reward, teenth century Adonis with cold for at the end of my second season, looks. To Polish a Stained Floor, I am not going to weary you by just as papa was beginning his annuIt seems to be coceded that stained al growl about the bills and cottage the account of how Dirk gradually-go- t a certain amount of influence floor should not be wet with much at Newport, the society papers were enabled (by mamma sending them over me, and made me do things water if they are to preserve their information) to announce my forth- that at heart I did not want to do, polish. Beeswax and turpentine, coming marriage with Mr. Thomas and tell him which was not true that I was fond of him, and made me melted together carefully, not over a Van Iygg, of Sixth and quite one of the best men, use all sorts of little mean tricks to fire, but in the steam of a teakettle in a pecuniary sense, of the year. blind poor, dear Tom, who neverthetop, with all the lids on the range or Tom loved me in the most ridiculous less seemed to be losing his spirits,, stove, and the front up, lest the in- old fashioned way, and always treat- and fretting a good deal about someflammable turpentine take fire, can ed me ns if I were some way his supe- thing. But then there was one thing be applied to the floor by a good in- rior, whereas but I suppose I had we overlooked, and which I am really better keep my deficiencies to my- ashamed to put down here, to wit, vention. Fix a board, about 12 in- self. Let it suffice that I was and that I liked my husband better than ches by 8, to a broom handle, the end am rather pretty, could play on Mr. Dirk Van Khounhyde. of which should he cut in a slant, so the piano and sing after a fashion, At last I think this strange fact that when you hold the implement and had developed quite a marvelous seemed to dawn upon Dirk. lie beamount of (esthetic taste in what we came savage, and tryrannized over at arm's length or stand i3 alone, call I think I me in the most fearful manner. I high art furniture. (the board will rest on the1 floor; knew how to dress, too, and papa really had to maneuver with intense nail a few pieces of felt under the who unusually found fault with me, cunning to get a little time alone hoard by the way of padding, and so his testimony is important said with Tom now and then, and Dirk then tie a soft doth firmly over it that I had an enormous talent for was always catching us together, and. was angry after having done- so, all. Smear the paste on to this doth spendingwemoney. were wed, and we went off Well, my life was made perfectly very thinly, and work this rubber to for our honeymoon, grinning like a wretched. Toms low spirits, too, did and fro (not from side to side) with couple of idiots, as we no doubt were. not make things much pleasanter, a light, even, swinging motion, be, And here comes one of the most hu- and my delight knew no bounds, f of the room, miliating of my confessions. I was when one day toward the end of July, ginning with and w orking the space you can con- absurdly, inexpressibly happy, Muring Dirk informed us that he was going veniently cover while standing still, that same honeymoon. I hadso oft- to Narrngansett for a week. I tried till the floor is done. This is the en laughed at tho thing, and vowed to catch Toms eye as he told us this, simplest way of having a polished jt was a relie of barbarism, and de but only caught Dirks and he divinfloor. After a time, especially if the dared that a married couple should ed what was in my mind, and looked boards were originally very smooth- - j at once commence the lifeapartfrom positively diabolic. or linve been planed before the stain- - one another, except at mealtimes, As the time for his departure grew ing, it will look like nn old parquet. which is their fate, that it was very near I counted the days; but my- - disThe rubber used abroad consists of dreadful forme to be so happy. was great when, the appointment Of course,, no one is ever in love short, stiff brush, the size of the board very- day before the blessed departure above mentioned, and is weighted nowadays; .to it couldnt have been was to take place, Tom suddenly- - dewith a flat stone plaque, through that. No, I fancy it must have been termined to go to New York. which the huddle is fixed. It is quite the getting away from papa and I have had some business to atsufficient to polish once a month, ex- mamma, combined perhaps with the tend to for some time, he said when cept where the boards are much trod- feeling tliafi I was now free to amuse we were alone together for a few den on. A floor treated thus should myself as I listed, with no one to moments, Dirk having gone to the be dusted every day with a soft, dry frown or sav unpleasant things ts stable to smoke a pipe, and aud cloth, and not be washed. Spots, of me when I flirted with dear, hand- perhaps it is best that you should course, are simply remedied with a some Dirk Van Khounhyde. Diik know the truth, Cornelia. You have littleborax and polish. Philadelphia had always been my favorite part- chosen that people should talk of ner, and liis despair when I told him you in such a way that, though, of Ledger. that the announcement in the papers course, I do not believe there is a was true- was very touching. He particle of truth in the gossip, yet I Mrs. Cleveland as a Reformer. came to the wedding which he don't choose to leave Irvington while ftfunny tocall .the funeral, Van Khounhyde is hem. liis visit Chicago Herald: Mrs. Cleveland thought I remember, and lie really made it to Namuransett enables, me to atabominates cigarettes. The smoke look like one and the tend to my business. from one ofthesepowerfullittlestink-er- s look he gave me as I gotreproachful I longed to tell him- all yes, ad into, the made its way from the slacking earrings-witTom would have- been the truth for Ton would have forcar in which she was returning from touching, only at that moment I given me, I know, Dirk, came in at was taken up with Toms stupidity that moment, and the opportunity Philadelphia to Washington the oth- in letting some of my lace get shut was lost. The next day Tom took er day and annoyed her to n de- up in the door. an early train, and Dirk was to go But, somehow, clumsy aad stupid after lunch. I found a note from gree that she mentioned the- matter to the conductor. The latter had a ridiculously in lave as Tout was, the Tom on the hail table when I came moments interview with the man honeymoon went like lightning, and dawn. It was stiff and ill expressed, I scarcely opened one of the many but I could road affection and pain with the cigarette and the result was books (French novels principally) between the lines, and I made up my he so was that strongly affected on that I had taken to vvhiTeaway what mind on the spot as to my course of learning the name of tlie fair com- I thought would be so dreary a time-- action. plainant that he threw the rest of I regret to say that we kept I managed to avoid Dirk till luncnh-eoy his cigarettes out of the window and as the footman and then, to my horror, he inand maid just declared he would never smoke an- do, and like a couple of sen- formed me that he had changed his other. Mrs. Cleveland's opposition timental spooned German trades people. plans and was not going to to the bustle, her discarding of bangs The first person to call in Fifth and her refoimation of a cigarette avenue, where the house had been reIndeed, I wrote to put that off smoker enable her to leave to her furnished in high art style from threo days ago, he said, an country imperishable record as a cellar to attic, was Dirk Van such a charming way, smiling inI directly reformer. Ivliouuhyde. who looked rather ill heard he was going to town. We e i, ot o 'loaner and leaner the faster be mar-- i rkd people. lie was too mean, the ; peopled said, to enjoy life like a good . Methodist initerant or a rubicund priest. No chicken coops were agitated at his approach. No little pigs squealed and got under their anxious mammas when Garrick loaned over the sty and surveyed sonl. I shonld 1)6 the devils prize without her, mused Garrick Ilowton. The children I have tied in wedlocks of despair, the unformed souls I have manacled to selfish fiends, tho headstrong schoolgirls I have made tha legal slaves of hideous skinflints, and who have in a few months awaked to everlasting repentance and horror, would troop into my lonely home hem. these mountains and drive among j Nobody knew what sect or church me cruzy with their curses. I should 4 igfz rick belonged to there, w here go mad! But Eunice, Eunice, she will guard my door and warm my kody was his own theologian. gtl-tand bring other angels like her ; , ailed bis church tho Zionskites heart from heaven to my relief und comBisono of it the ' Ue only Mnd fort. except his son, Weasley It was plain that the hypocritical hop iadat vhorn ho called old gentleman was becoming slightly the ilowton hysterical. Ilow ton had been notified building did not exist, byWeasley A Thbelinr-his father that he must go West ll08 bo ol Zionskite and establish his own f.tt.HTgh- braat congregation the peculiar Zionskites. Wdywero said to 1,8 furder west ofHo 811,1 tho d88COwas sent to the garret to study by both the Lisin lo discipline and thoroughly contemhinted there that Inquisitive poop. plate the Scriptures. One day Eunice stole up into tho jiever would havo b wn 88 many as two Zionskites exec 'P lor the fat garret, whilotho Bishop was marryero 1,0 1)0 had ing a man of sixty to a marriage fees which w maid of eighteen, and she met a difhue and n8 along Mason und Dixo ferent scene there from the only and prayer she had expected. penance that Bishop Garrick II ovvlon r fhe ordained his son Wensley in Weasley was rigged out in a suit of ho might theatrical clothes taken from Eunices thav priesthood reluctantly trunks, and was executing occasionally take some re, creation aparents wild and fantastic jig. himself and not miss any runaway The Bishop had told Eunice that in couplos which should arrive be, tween tho said trunks was the devils wardrobe. The young people locked the midnight and morning. All the pooplo far or near unu1er door and examined the wardrobe stood that the Howtons would mart T thoroughly. What are garrets for rain anybody, the delivery of the certifi- - and love!places How it drops upon tho cate being conditional on tho payin the it goes ment of the fee; and pains were taken .cool! How lmrt! How the heart is raining sudto impress strangers that the through the eyes and t lie roof desiplino the certificate was a denly is baiting with the pulpitatious of of the ceremony itself. part A story was started and grew that the w ind! in on seldom go to garrets. Bud old Ilowton married children for the Old like Garrick Ilowton never men old Bake of his fees. This story came up from sorrowing do. Next week Weasley Ilowton was to and parents in Vir- start for Indiana and be an apostle ginia and from the rich manors and on tho Wabash. hamlets of Frederick iq Maryland. His trunk was packed and his Theennsylvnninus never verified ticket for tho stage was to be paid because was none of these reports it for over the great National road lrom their business. to tho far West. t That wus the goldon age, when the Hagerstown fare! exclaimed the dollars Fifty of did to tht peojs'oplo every State he walked the upper ns Bishop, ple of every other State just what what a sum of money! But they pleased, and the boundary line porch; made outrage justice or simplicity the next, week it shall be made up out of Eunices fortune, which will criminal. As time advanced Bishop Ilowton then be mine, with her fadeless became a widower, and his mind was beauty, till death do us part. The rascal! sot on marrying again. the example of As he looked there came a cloud of It may have dust up the Leistersburg road from marrying children under age. torn the south, where somebody was drivfrom their parents by their own iu a desperate hard ing somebody impulses or the powerful sinister influence of man, or it may hurry. It looks like a runaway have been the childish beauty of exclaimed Garrick How-toEunice Ilowton, liis distant relative, couple, - which doomed her to become the reaching for liis eyeglasses. But Bishops wife when she should be old the shade of the North Mountains, enough to receive his orders and not where the sun was going down, put a Siring the laws of Pennsylvania down belt of blackness upon the landscape, like the moons total eclipse. When upon hi head. The Bishop bided the sound of the wheels came to the .bis time. Eunice was hardly fifteen, a slender, door and Garrick heard the knock, r gray eyed blondo, whose feet, touch he descended and found a strange the ground as they would, turned in- - man in the parlor, which had no to lines of grace and music seemed to lights. Sare, the stranger said, I have be playing as she walked or moved, i to such nurmonies did she bend; ze honaire to say zat I am in loave. - while in tho action of her head upon But re lady is too lectio; she have not Iier delicate neck and even in the ze grand age. It will be all ze same; she loaves me andherfuthair i motion ol her lips there appeared to because so much shame he nevair will i be violin music whistled by her spirit havenoth ing. I giveyou fifty dollaire as the upland zephyrs played upon say me her husband at once, make to desired dance. to her St and heart ' The sare! Baid this that country people Fifty dollars! the Bishops avariwas because her mother had been an It is Weas-ley- s cious heart responded. actress and a dancer. whole fare. The good demon Somewhere back in theundiseerned have sent this man here. past vagueness ofa 'large world it was must Then the business piety returning ton bad leen a said that Bish.c t If s orphan the Bishop spoke aloud aud most thou- manago cousin lmd iitan,.,; i French dancer unot uously: What are the names of tlieparties? was in his strolling company. This cousin ha been left to Garrick, Marriage, my brother, the apostle who had kept him down and nearly says, is honorable in all Hebrews . starved him, repressing his spirit by xiii, 4. I see not that it may not be in thee. an avarice and superstition which lay honorable Ze names are cn certificates we across each other, and finally retired j dea-Wn- ." - - one-eye- d pit-a-p- Zion-nkit- broken-hearte- es d nt , n, ( -- ; -- 1 , s dreary-romance- Irvington-on-lfudso- n, - so-tha- t one-hal- I ( - - . corn-pan- n, Nar-raganse- the man out of the house, und yet I knew that the talk bad enough be. fore would ledouble now. What could 1 do? What could I say? I made up m v mind. Just as tk4 servants were layingtlieelotlifordin-ner- , when Dirk was smoking his usual cigarette in theeoiiservatory. a veilej seen stealing figure might have from the side door near the garden gate und taking1. the direction of the town. It was My terror of the man in the was causeless, but it wag absolute. I felt that were I caught in my flight he would keep me chained at home, unable to escape from Lig influence; so I st ole away, half walked half ran the five miles between and the railway station; took place in the evening train to New York, and got in about 9 oclock cold, hungry, footsore and excited! I had forgotten to bring enough money, and fearing perhaps that I should not find Tom, was afraid to take a cab; so losing my way- I walked through the wet streets from the Grand Central depot and eventually reached the Benedict, where Tom had rooms, his old roomj us the house on Fifth avenue was being repainted. The man w ho opened the door be. longed to the place, and did not know me. Mr. Van Iygg in engaged, he said. Oh, tell him a lady wishes to see him on urgent business. Why, thats what the other lady said iust now, remarked the man, grinning. The other lady! Yes as is with him now. Let me in! 1 exclaimed, pushing past him with the strength or the announcement of my position did it; but I got in and dashed into the parlor. There was Tom standing by the window, and there yes there on the table were a bonnet and jacket. I could not speak. I merely advanced to the eeuter of the rooraand pointed to the evidence of his dL-e- i I i s ! & C I1 t I t P o c a ri h IT C M it li S e fc in k F cc re tl lu m oi fo af u he ri1 at m epravity. lie was Id nr too much astonished to speak, also, and we stood silently confronting one another for a moment. Then the door of the other room opened and there enme out-h- is sister Emily, a dear old thing, but rather too fond of lecturing her brother's wife. The revulsion of feeling, the excitement, perhaps the want of dinner, took effect upon me, aud for about the first time in my life I fainted away. "When I came back to life Emily was alone with Tom. gone and I Then, with my head on his dear, broad shoulder, I told him everything and he forgave me; and that night in his old bachelor chambers was the , happiest, I think, of my life. But my dear readers, if you are as shocked as you should be at this sad story of a woman running away from a fashionable existence ' to the goody, goody delights of legitimate affection, do not be cast dow-n- . My story may not be true, and, if it is, it may be looked upon as the history of an event never to occur among us again. he I th i Spi de co be an ' of yo re; co an co Li i ne: ola ser s A er the tht Prt km wa sas hoc bin ti i h wli otli wa: tin: Clever Royal Surgeon; From the London Truth. pat Prince Louis Ferdinand ofBavaria, who is married to the Infanta Fazi is a very clever surgeon, and at one of the hospitals in Madrid lie recently operated on a woman who was suffering from cancer of the- breast, with complete success. liis relative, the Duke Charles Theodore, brother of the Empress of Austria,, is both oculist and surgeon, and is very skillful; but his fondness for the knife is not apprecated at the Vienna and Munich hospitals, for whenever he operates nil the regular arrangements are upset, the whole staff is required to be in attendance on hire, he must always be respectfully adYour Royal Highness. dressed as, and strict etiquette is observed, all of which is decidedly a nuisance. ers Soi con sue Sur gre Wa woi t the to 1 mot quit hou C- - Kee but 1 him sarv often tiler passes the whole day in the general hospital, and if there are any arms and legs to be cut off, lie hastens joy- ever cler! Abo Hi an horn the Duke is at Vienna, he When fully to the work. Duke Charles zeal may possibly be moderated by his accession to the Bavarian estates of his father, Duke Max, who died recently. He is married to a cousin of the King of Portugal. . Arri once infoi shot Then I roon - He Cured Himself. From the Boston Advertiser. read Who would ever think that Jo? Jefferson was once almost dead with consumption? Certainly no one that has seen him in that lively dam? that the curtain falls on in the W henJo? Cricket on the Hearth. Jefferson was a young actor playin? Asa Trenchard nobody ever though1 he would live out liis engagement with the company, he was not hollow-eyeonly narrow-chesteand consumptive, but he luui a bad cough and woebegone expression that was pitiful to contemplate him Everybody about the stage-likeand apprehensive of his early demise accorded him with conducive to ceinfort. On the ad vice of hapless. Mr. Macbeth he one Justi Laur d, fr I ren d every-attentio- day ordered a bottle sale and bonfire, and cutting loose from a chain ot d octors and druggist s,lo-- ' himself among the highlands of t!? Hudson, and began at once to well. Between cold water outdo?1 exercise, nine hours of sleep and diet fit for an abnegated monk, c Jefferson is to-da- y a lino speeunot physical and mental vigor. Airs. Presi to I w, ren early wast coirir Illinc T can-i- i Surra from Oene Was! law. grant hangi exeei prisoi B( Wilk. Boot! dent i and I doubt 1 Ie wj from His Wash Navy vVOis t |