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Show A pr!y LAST YEARS LEAF. we' AniM the snringtiine bloom it lies. A lent sere, brown and dead; Beneath it lie tl.e fragrant tloivers, lne birds simr overhead. The venial sun shines warinlv down t zeph.v rs stir Ue And o'er the Mowers lying near Wanner the busy bees. Amid the preen and aprimring Ufa The h at lies cold and dead The re.ie of another spr.ug, A spring forever fled. T is tuns the heart, when Joy is oer. And love deserts at last, Lies I.ke the leaf, a relie sad bur, our P'r- - Vo- UsKtti John. "cun that : in its ling ot the even), ir was CASH BASIS, a t wretchedly unhappy if she should fail to thrive in the mode of living ho .could afford, and he was quite sure he could not ket p up a style that would accord with the handsome outfit which was all they could expect for the present from lupa Vaughan, who had several otlcT children to provide for. This evening's conversation with Mabel, however, which lasted until a late hour, set all doubts at rest, and ere many we ks hud passed away, the young couple were united in the bonds of holy w edloek. Mable made a charming bride and .looked exqui-itel- y lovely in the costly bridal robe- - provided for her by her loving parents. Avery stylish evening wedding wa- - given to their daughter by Tapa and Mamma Vaughan, and John, who had calculated on a quiet morning ceremony, found his purse somewhat crippled ty the unexpected additions be was forc' d to make to his wardrobe. Moreover, the wedding trip he and Mabel had manned in view of having it delightful though inexpensive, proved to be far mere extravagant than he had deemed pos-iblfor at every hotel where tie y put up, to their utmost surprise, the young couple were ushered into the bridal chamber, of course the most expensive in the building'. They had tried to appear like an old married ctw.ple: Mable had even car- ried a slig'Ltly worn hand satchel, that no one need suspect her of being a bride on account cf the newness of everything about her, and yet wherever they went they were spotted directly as bride and groom. This must be on account of the glowing newspaper re- ports of their brilliant wedding, they finally eon. 'laded. AVhen they reached their home al 1 d Johns happiness could not keep him from feeling rather downhearted over the fact that he had exhausted a large share of the quarters salary he had drawn on his wedding day, as well as the reserve fund he had expected would cover his wardrobe and trip. He and Mabel had wisely resolved to have no secrets from each other, and so iie told her frankly the condition c f his purse. Thai need not trouble us, John Ve shall dear, she said cheerily. have a book at the butchers and at the grocer's, and settle our accounts phatie Id. in the - ser- brave-Imart-e- every quarter. Thats the . es Ot pense for one; but i , who con-- o buoy nil; o, nor tht icials who! lasses, nn'i akeratiou ; ml at t! -. cm in regard to all small Flense don't worry about housekeeping dotails, dear. They' beVe shall come out right long to me. at the tnd of the year. I am not John hit very proud of the housewifely dignity his Mabei displayed. She inspired him with confidence in her t Skill as a manager, and lie took at her pride in pacing his e.v'ck-boodi.spo.-a-l. Tiie next day bo resumed his (lath ;,t Ins place of business, and Mabel s life as a housekeeper began in earra-- t. kept but one girl, and, although ht r house was not large, she found much with which to bu-- y herself, bhe took irhuie pains to have her table aschu.ce a ml dainty as poible.in order to tempt her husiiand s appetite, which tlagi'd at times when he was working pretty hard, and she never failed to meet John with ti loving smile and word when lie returned from ids d tiny's cm-- , bhe had a pretty, vo: f. and had received an excellent lra.-icHer new education. lutics di; pot revent her from devotj, ing some t me cneh day to practice, iml ahe was always ready to play fi.nl sing or Join vvica they 'were at home Occasionally they attended a good crncert, opera, or dramatic performance; sometimes they pas-e- d an hour with Mabels parents", or returned some friej.dly call; but the greater p trt of their evening hours were spent at home with dt lightfol music, reading sad conversation. It rejoiced John's to Had that Mabel gave not tl.e Sllifiitc-- t evidence of feeling pinched 3n their lender income. A change spread over the spirit of sir divam, however, when tne fir- -t i inner'- - In. Is ldU due. John came come oi10 ;ay and found M ibel ;.t her 'K with lmr check-boo- k and a coufu- 0.1 of about her. The f.iC3 he papers ov 1 so wi ii v.ore a troubled look, and e detected tr ices of tears in his dar-u- e wife's eyes. is l' he asked ten- - t HI' it in a rrj riioo(l u patieii.r-l 't't, - i de-ir- well-traine- al bills bother me, Jolm, she I have been very careful, I la I kept a strict account thong ' Jhat I was doing; but tne grocer s h and the butcher's bill are both "g.r than I had calculated on. Bo- b'- -o Piv, dis-mi- -s i- he yin' sout j mart ice o! o ti sdi'h'- expense- thinking. Thinking? AAell, dearest, if your though?- - are more interesting than our book let me share them, and Johns strong hand closed about her white, delie ito one as he spoke. Very well, John, I shall be glad to have you share them, for they belong to our common interest, and center about a subject that is even more interesting than tho book you are reading. Tell me then, love. I am thinking of a change I much deire to make, and I don't want you to oppo-- e m, dear husband. Oppose you. Did I ever oppose you, Mabel? Mo, dear. But what I have to pro-powill so surprise you that I have feared you might oppose it. I have thought of it myself until I am convinced that it is practical, and I have hoped to persuade you. 1 want to Hannah, and do the work of our home myself. Do your own Dismiss Hannah? work, liovv in the world could this slender hand be equal to daintily-buil- t, so rough a task? and he squeezed the lithe hand that lay imprisoned in his palm, Aye, hut this is a willing pair of hands, cried Mabel, freeing the imprisoned member, and holding up both And they will bo hands. guided by a willing heart and a reasoning mind, possessions that are oftentimes more valuable in producing practical results than mere brute force. Let me tell you my plan, John. I intend to put out the washing and have a woman come in once a week to scrub, wash windows, and do such Oliver work as I All do not care to undertake myself. the rest I can accomplish. I cannot quite comprehend your object, my love. Y"ou are planning to pay out as much money as you do now, anil yet do the biggest share of the work yourself. If you vvco a housekeeper, John, you would comprehend. AAhat I pay Hannah, three dollars a week, which the sum the washing and is preci-el- y extra help will co-- t, is but a small portion of her expense to us. The money I shall save in her board and in what she wastes and destroys will amount to a good many dollars every month, and I want you to let mo try my expen-n- t. My whole soul is bent on so .. ranging our affairs so that vve can and beget ahead a little in the world, ba-i- s, ca-- h gin to run our hou-- e on a So as von once hoped we piHit. ou remember speaking of this the fi''st night vve came home lu rooffor and I it. I uten think time? know now that it - the only right and o w'iv. .A'1 sooi iis vc can tic f) ,i wo compli-- h thD most desirable end shall bo rich on our income ami can induh'e in all the conci rts and operas Until then we vve need and must be content with my music at home. she ..poke feelingly, for they had iu-- t missed a very sup. rior concert that 'Mabel had sccretlv longed to attend, Put ha! given up because she longed still imuv for the harmony of freedom from debt. (i between Along earnestnowtalk followed, and tho midwife Mabel had her way as result Tim next day warn-,a- s Sim ai wavs bad. civ-oto Hann ih, and one in w.vk later .Mabel reigned supreme 1 he as well us in parlor. Irit were highly satisfactory, found herself provided vvilu lei' new f els in household economy ".v clav of her ITe. In the begming at tho had rehedoJ 4rrv-- appearance of tho uoor damaged sicm "as so ue.i-lilt 4 bauds. Ai ib"l s contact witn heat that theslightest novice in the bl t red it. and the rn my a mute token o, sehohi arts bore with hitherto un- of he, brave She tri imuii-- i. clement-- . t ' be caretul and ho,. ever; she learned h' to pro! the tr.ioes of 'jOTwenfc his wife s undertaking. protest against went by both husband As the days and' wife rejoiced mm-- and more ovei Without re-Iits beneficent c;tects. t degree in slighte-trenching in ; them- w a? ciX ...dyOT oni. a cash established nnd fully hank tn d.d .t-- 1 basis. Tbo next year they lily-whi- afraid. ted. produ eft, dut't' John. bo vve e. ous-b'i"- wa-th- at es t l L wa-fa- ro , e Sim if Gar.aud Makes a B 'ck and Palmer. Cartridge Special Correspondence. H A'lnv.rov AVork consumes mo-- t of the statesmans time and he has con- n. old-iro- n p dt p pot Uo is followed with of ambition, there and ia.-- of is no reason to mistrust that anything is wrong. .A pingr.iph in tho Nuea-- ! title American not long ago showed bow much hard worit could bo aivoui-- I snntU plished with a comparatively lho Homan amount of food. it says, who built such wonderful roads, and carried a weight ol arm r ami lngjnge that would cruh the average farm han 1. lived on eoars; brown bread and sour wine. They were tomnerat" in diet and regal ir a id coThe Spanisn pednstant in exorei-e- . half ant works every day and dam-ethe nizlit, yet eats only his bl 1ebo lire id, "onion an 1 w.ioniHnu. a litt'o fruit Smyrna porter eats only and" some olives, yet he walxs off wi.h Iris load of a hmid.el point is. Tt.o e activo ad co l!o fd on riots is mo-can endure more than the negroed routes lie .ah D. on fit me it. ' s. 'Joufnal. I ilurii'iii of Furrs. likely tint Hr.ngnri ui raih irve.st from their lways will reap a bold e.xp riment in the way of making a sweeping reludion of fares. A to cu.--t "' florins ticket which e florins and this is costs now only of the changes given as a fair samp.o mads. j ; II black-suaka- a blacksmith from ltke Mills, one day last summer, and two others, one ten feet tong and tho other twelve, win .id old Mr. Compton and his daughter and were bound to carry them off. That den lias been there from time out of mind It is in the southwestern part of Potter comity, along the Young Woman's crook, iu a stieteh of deep, dark woods known as the Black Forest. A year. never giies by that a number of immense black-snakare npt overpowered in tli.it locality, us tliey are always prowling around looking for unwary to. tasters and unsuspecting pedestrians. I don't suppose there is another spot on this continent where such s monstrous can bo found. 1 don't know what it is that makes them grow so big there, but my opinion is that it is because the locality where they dwell ii so wild and har'd to get at that tho snakes have undisturbed opportunity to reach u patriarchal uge. .and take on their size with years. I believe black snakes would get just as big elsewhere if they could only get the time, There is no doubt in my mind that somo of those Black forest serpents were born long before this country was settled. I have seen them with their fives as wrinkled ns a walnut and with long gray hairs on their tipper lips. I killed one once down there that laid a funny looking lump on its side. I cut down into it four or tivo inches, and foumi a flint arrow head at tho bottom of the lump. There is only one explanation for the presonco of that arrow head there. The snake had been shot by an Indian sometime, and as there hadn't boon any Indians hunting with hows and arrows in that country for a good many generations of course the snake must have been a lively native before tlie days of the white tnen, and nobody knows how many years before, either. Ill bet, anything on that snakes being K0 years old at least, and it was ns hale and hearty ;v serpent as I ever saw. I say I killed it. but that is h irdly trim, either, although it owed its death to me. I was lumbering along Yo mg AAomans crock, nnd bad a lot of logs banked ready for rolliu j down the st ep slope into till creek. Accidentally I let a log got away from me ia unloading it, and away it went down the hill. It had goao tnnyh half way down amt had acquired a tivnie ulo is momentum when I saw one of the big black snakes of that r gion come t 'aring out from some place where it had been hiding and rush right out in til way ot tlm Hying log. I don't know what tho snake thought the log whs. but he was evidently in astute of fnrv nt.it, for Im stopped and raised his head up and awaited tho coming of the log. Tho log kept right on and struck tlie snake full force. Theorish was a good one. and tho log was stopped as still ns if it had brought up agiinst a rock. VA'ell, I said to myself, that's pret-t- v good. Theres a snake witli a constitution. or there never was one.' I went down the hill nnd found the log ranted up against the snake, and if a man unused to that country had come along just then I'd have said to lain: Just look at that snake and that away with Charley AA'olflmg, 1 black-snake- THE WAY SENATOR CAMDLN JERKS HIS F1MI. Kenna fishes to get fish. His favorite allurement is tho phantom min- now. Every time he goes out homo ho comes here and buys ton ora dozen for tho boys. East hummer, I find, lie bought several hundred, and I have often wondered whether they had any in flue nee on effecting the wise decision to which the legislature at l.st arrived. Senator Bock is fond of hunting and bags a good deal of game in the course of a year. Senator Platt is fond of trout and salmon fishing and pursues the sport with eager enthusiasm. He has tv cabin uo in the Adirondaeks where he and Mrs. Platt enjoy a good deal of every summer. Three years ago when he heard that Cleveland was Well, there! going there he said; Now ill pull up nnd go to Canada." Platt h;ts also a passion for botany and studies the secrets of the flowers wherever lie wanders. Senator Blackburn is the crack shot of the western statesman, and he has a mild liking for hunting ami likes to go fishing occasionally, but he has been grossly lied about and misrepresented by the newspaper man who set him up us a terror to the wild gamq of Kentucky. It is understood that tlie game does not regard him in that light. Senator Gorman is known in the senate as tho lone fisherman, being given to solitary hunts. M. A. Tappan, our chief sporting tackle merchant, tells me: Gael mil is an artistic sportsman, lie knows just what ho wants. I have to load all his cartridges for him according to model. Each must contain twelve buckshot No. 3 with one biuglo B shot iu the center of each layer to in ike it solid. He goes on a deer drive as often as ho can get away. Edmunds has a fine billiard table in tho basement with the closet adjoining. for balls, cues, etc. He is thought to resemble KL Jerome. Evat-lhas fun farming, owing 800 acres among the Green mountains and log! 300 on the Pototmie just below s AAnsh-ingto- BOSS FISHERMAN OF THE St;V(.1 E. form a noted piscatorial trian l io. At least once of congress they during every croip'off up to Point of Rocks to h No talking is the and shoot ducks. rule which governs these occasions. Sometimes Irve goes along, and sometimes Senator" Gorman of Mart land, who claims the privileges of a host. Bv the way, these ti pi- -t three s He'd a looked and then said: AYhich is the snake? But tiie snake was dead, nnd I very foolishly, after cutting Into the lump on his side to satisfy my curiosity. and finding tlie flint arrowhead, priol him out, nod rolled him down into tlie creek with tlie log inst ad of measuring him and reporting his death and size. (ono piently 1 can't te!l how long lie was. hut he was a dandy. But I actually believe that if lm could have bum seasoned and sawed up hed have cut, up into as nieo a bill of boards as any one ever b.iaglit. That snake was an cve''pUot to the ordinary run of Black -t snakes. I may lie wrong, hut I believe lie was tlie founder of the family there. There wasnt a gray hair on Dim. though, and his teeth wero as sound rs a p. bb!o. " l(j-in- fo-e- e The lestlhulf a Safety ihMire, y Oei'.n'-ioii.nll- y i 1 A. tUOFKLT. Siams Kinc. Ham, a little sparsely populated country in the distant south, long refused allegiance to our groat kina, tike a praying manlis pushing baric an n cm g chariot v. it h his little claws. But now for fled years she has been submis-iv- o to the in bests of him who In tho sits on the dragon Throne. eighth moon of this year a new ruler w ill be crow noil as King and take to consort a Rim n, with dazzling pomp. ('h'no-ehuA merchant of Fu, Knar.gl urg. long a r sident in Si ,m and loaned wi.h favors by the King, was latey eom:ni"io led to proceed to Canton to buy cabinets, silk ruibroi.l'U'ic-- . dr., to tiie ,aiao of 0'K tacis. This Chinese merchant lias tlie King with a couple of hoards, containing each fourteen characters beaut fully carved, praising the King as one of those virtuous princes whom the Son of Heaven views with special favor. 11a Tuo. hh related to the coupler is the vestibule, which within the last two years lias become si, fashion ibie. The wlibiiU; is not nnuv'y a luxury, tint has a certain vniue as a safety device, 'ihe full measure of this value lias not lives yet been proicd. arc lost, by falling or being blown from tlie pin! forms of iiiwV trains. Such accidents tiie vestibule will prevent, and further, it decreases the oscillation of the rina, an thus to some degree helps to prevent derailment. It is also .sumo protection agam-- t telescoping. A few months ago a coni train on a double track was derailed, and four ears wore thrown across in front of a solid vestibule train of seven lullmau ears approaching on the other trek. The engine of tlie train was conipldo'y wrecked. Ev'ut the 'met iron jacket was slipped off from it. The engineer and fireman were killed, but not another pel's m on tie; train was injured. Tliey escuiied, partly because tne ears were strong, and partly, 'do ti l)l less, been1 the ve-- t limb s helped to keep tiie platforms oil the same level and in line, and thus to prevent g of Ihe cad- - of Ihe ear-- . !1. G. I Vo it, in Nvlbn rs Magazine. Ulo-ad- od -- ad-va- JOlINE. lUtNNA, TIIE -- n. German has a passion for base ball, and once played second on tho Nationals here. Mills has tho sarao frenzy. Don Cameron nnd Sheridan scoured of Virginia on horsetho battle-field- s back, nnd Spooner enjoys tho same recreation, generally accompanied by Mrs. Spooner and his second son. Palmer is fond of fishing, story telling, singing, entertaining and rustic roughing it; nnd he is passionately fond of bonfires and generally manages to have one of Parnassus every night when ho has his friends around him in his favorite log cabin. Manderson's chief recreation is dining out. He likes folks better titan ho in the world, and does anything ei-he is tremendously social and gonial. One meets him everywhere in tlie season. Beck likes everything that yields anew and agreeable sensation, and ho generally manages to get it. Shermans chief game is backgammon, in which lie is an expert. He also enjoys playing Muggings" witli his daughter, who, it is understood, is now nearly twenty games ahead. fisherman (juay is a great and is therefore the pride and envy of the senate. He Iimh caught not only strugeon and cod, but shark and swordfish - the captains of the sea. The bc-- t base ball player in either house is Ben Buiterworth of Ohio, who can pick tlie leathern sphere out of tlie nir with great dexterity. He is often in the game at Ee Droit park, where ho lives. About twenty tnemoers of congress are always found on the stand when a league game is played lie re. AN'. pi ' Sirpcsins It .tI S, Fam- a I know that den of big iver in Potter county that Simon Kent talks about in the Sun. but I never knew about the fourteen foot snake that tried to capture the male, sa d a man from AA'ellsville to a Ilammonds-po- rt corres)ondent of the New York I haven't any doubt of it, Sun. though, for a bigger one tried to getj Iron MunN Theory. Far-wel- o-- Probably the Progenitorof a ily of Creat Serpents. it. Probably a majority of our lawmakers and play cards, few of them are expert or devoted Iron has eternal life, said James but to any game. M. Swank, general manager of the The supreme court has a select whist American Iron and Steel association, club to which seven members belong to a Philadelphia liecord man. AAhen and which meets "around, the house the king of metals is taken from the oftenest chosen being that of Mr. JusBlatchford near Franklin square. ground it is not used up and oast into tice The knows all about lloyle and the waste heap. Once worn out it is Pole club and the other high muekamucks remumifaetured, passes into a new of pasteboard and inclines to hold to shape, and is really never altogether of the game, like Thackconsumed. Old stoves are burned out, the rigors heroine, but it possesses a backbut they are melted down and recast erays set in Mr. Justice Lamar, who being a for another term of service. Horse- brilliant raconteur and having had exshoes are worn away, carriage tires ceptionally interesting personal experiwear out, engine boilers and all iron is often drawn out in conversaand steel parts of tho locomotive fail ence, tion couple in such a way sooner or later, street tracks give way as toby the rearconsternation into the after a certain amount of traffic has ranks ofcarry the enemy. worn-ouover but the all t them, passed The senate quartette are unmetal goes back to the furnace and the derstood to be poker hard men to tackle rolling-mil- l, and is soon seeing a new Don Cameron, Hale, Butler and l. existence, strong and serviceable as are said to enjoy themThey ever. selves and to make about as much as Tho truth which Mr. Swank thus they lose in the course of a winter. gave expression to is one of foremost interest to manufacturers of iron and steel. It means that iron once taken from the ground is forever in tlie market. At all the groat trade centers there are regular quotations of old rails, both iron and steel, and scrap-iroSometimes the current prices of old and new steel rails approach closely, and at such a time there is a tendency among the railroads to rt place their roadway with new and heavy steel. la every quarter of tho United man is found States the or on a holding forth iu a junk-shomore pretentious scale. All the forms of iron and steel that have passed their prime are gathered in. The railroads are very large sellers of old iron, but from a dozen other quarters tho supply comes. Mot the shrewdest man in tho iron business can pretend to estimate how much of the yearly output of iron manufactures old and steel is made from 5ENAT0U FRYE DOSING A LUMBERMAN. materials and how much from new The senator who kills tho most lish ores fresh taken from tlie earth. and small game during a year is, I supTho proportion of the former, howHo has a cabin pose, Frye of Maine. ever, is certainly immense, and sure in the woods on the Rangely Hills of momentus a to increase with powerful Aroostook, and he generally goes there as the development of tho country svery year as soon ns be can get away goes on and tae generations of iron from Washington and stays till the multiply. While he is tocsin sounds again. So heavy is the supply of old iron there Mrs. Frye is there roughing it remarked General and and steel ottering, doing the cooking. In speaking that some manu- of this Manager Swank, outing once, tho senator said to to believe almost are facturers ready AYhen J get up there where it Is me: iron on no more that as the time goes with plenty of hunting and plenty sool, The ore need he taken from the earth. of finding, too, by the way. with everyexisting supplies will be of the freshest and tho cooking and iron and steel workers will thing done to a dot, it comes about as near only have to remold, remake, remanu- heaven as I ever expect to see. facture. As long as there is in any senator Fr.ve tells somo good stories country a large growtn in population about officiating as doctor tip there. era this steel and of iron uses and the Being distant from a settlement he will bo delayed, but should these carries drugs with him, and occasionof mines tlie f ictors become stationary ally a lum berm m will come twenty or iron ore may remain buried in the thirty miles to pet fixed up. milbowels of the earth. Tho many Frye is distinguished for being the lions of tons of metal above ground only man in the United Mates senate will servo to satisfy needs. who never takes any bait when he goes I do not, of course, moan fishing. Eat 31 nlfraMjr. that he carries no bait for too fish, but There aro thus - who become alarmed only that he consumes none himself. at once if there is a little failure ia the To see him sit motionless by tho hour, with no bottle to raise to lus parched appetite and they fly to bitters or else lips has often caused amazement and of the for restoring to doctors purposj solicitude to his comrvinions, anxious AATil-to-! people gec-- Senators Konna, Edmunds and Wade the appetite. Kxce-siv- o eatiug Hampton. Do you suppose he is still orally eat too much. leads te satiety. Then comes a loss ot alive? they inquire of each other as time. The real fact is, tho hot sun declines. appetite for a re-nature needs t in such cases. If one sensibly weakens in consequent; of .loss appetite, it is well enou'hto -, tike alarm and fo something, but uns ips lassitude AN ANTIQUE SNAKE. sequently few recreations and no sports properly so called. He is too bu-- y to play. To men who have had to attain and hold their phuvs, life is a dreadfully earnest thing and the hard work which each day entails fills it full. Neither President Harrison nor Secretary Blaiae nor Secretary AA imloin, I believe, indulge habitually in any sport. The same is true of Senators Hiseock, Hawley, Chandler, Hoar, Sherman and Ingalls, with the exception that Senator lUwley plays billiards worse than he sings. AYhcnever Mr. Ingalls has an hour ho can devote to amusements, nnd it is seldom, ho possesses himself of one of tho rare books of the world whicu he never found time to read aui plunges iuto ' -e way mam- and Hampton isconsiti. An t read. Upon my word. Mabel. cried he abruptly interrupting himself, I believe you are not listening. "Forgive me dear, said she, I was j Be- The Senate Poker Team -- Prye Without Pait The Trlangc', Kenni, Elmuala A AA ju-- always does. If you are short of money now, you will have plenty to pay our Kb- - when they come in." 'Hut 1 had a fancy to begin housefaltered keeping on a cash basis, systein d the People's Lawmakers guile their Leisure Hours. SUPREME COURT WHIST CLUB. tt - b.nn-lMii- j Mow . IllUL'h h'irdt!' UlJl find t Impel,--- ly in and eavmg lH.r d,.k. tlm jeht, dear. little woman moved to the pi no, where she was soon in care from her engaged husbands mind and her own with their favorite son-'stlie next During John observed many evidencesquarter of his wife's exceeding caution in regard to needie-- s expenditures. If ever he chanced to propose a drive or a visit to opera, theater concert or lecture, Mabel would sav gently but firmly: Uait until you draw another quar-te- r s salary, John, and then wo shall know what pleasure vve can afford. But they lived comfortably and well, not one of the neee--ariof life were cut o!T, and John appreciated the wisdom Mabel iu the wholesome, nourishing, sensible food she provided for their table. One evening, after they had been married six monthsanda new quarter's salary had been safely deposited in the bmk, they were sitting cosily together, John reading aloud, Mabel engaged in a bit of embroidery, when John suddenly looked up to see the effect on his wifo of a startling statement he had new-foun- ma t!e deposit oursehes home oi elegance in which she had lie knew he would be been reared, Miss u tM3 c rins; atv buil'Llr "twU'Sont10- ; been nin ary ions it bulk to td and Mabel Vaughan had John engag'd for several months. Neither cf tlmra believed in long enout John had feared to gagement-, snatch Li- - herished darling from the and jioreh 'hould hiding in tin g.i I asked Gen. Hampton last winter about his fishing comrades. I supjxi-- e tlie best fisherman in the senate is Mr. Kenna of -AN There is est Airginia. he said. no nonsense about him. He is not a dude. He goes in to catch fish. Dressed tu rough jean trousers, a flannel shirt, a slouch hat and high hoots, well gro isod. ho rows his own boat and attends to his own bait. With his tall, robust figure and young handsome And face, he looks the rustic Apollo. Kotina is probably the best rifle shot in the senate. He is a great man after ueeraml bear, and for jears has kept a paek of lieaglrs with which lie annually scours the flanks of the all-rou- -- hou-e- - you na.l.i W1 '.'n:illle us meet tu m ail an Vi'1' a hum 1, ft, but verv l.t.le s small a sum tnat vve shall be" onl, og.ve up all public amusement am every cash outlay long. v hav-s- , ' John, STORTS OF STATESMEN. -- vl'icl every seu!crie.Wi"10m"y,e:,ah VV your 'athorn' s better, as thev began from the firs without a debt in the worm. Mabel had beeonie a - a a manager, and she found a vat mfieivaee in her expend it. ires now tl at he paid e.isli for evtoj purehaco and bad complete charge ol her own supplies. I ao curious fue I have discovered, John, sa.d she on. day. ms that pout of the peoole we trade with like L have us j y cash." Of course they don't," laughed John, lean well uiu.ei '.and that. 1eoplo who pay cash know exactly what they are doing, amt 1 wonder more families do riot try tae exp, rim. at. Oiu year brier wln i. their home was b.essi d with l.te swe, b i bo that ever bit a, he J," as bo'ii young parents deeiared. Joint and M i'nl eould well afford all the extra help and expense that are exquisite. Moreover, by this t.me they had engaged the services Of a competent sueceasor to Hannah, a woman capable of carrying out the directions Mabel's practical experience rendered her Cap iblo of giving. A good mi'tre-- s makes a good maid, it is said, and Mabel had become an ad-- 1 mirable mistress. John is now quite a wealthy man, a partner in the house he once served as clerk, lie and Mabel have a largo family of children, a handsomer home than iapa or Mamma Vaughan and plenty of servant s, but nothing in tho world would induce them to live on any other than a ca-d- i basis. It would be well if more heads of families could come to a similar conclusion. Auber-tm- o oodward Moore, in Milwaukee ' U1Uh01'S ll;l you actually think wa can live on Sd.Orio a year, Mabel? by not? One thousand dollars! .Dear John, I think it will ho wealth. 15ut. my dearest, you must re member that the strictest economy will ha'e to be practiced to secure the comforts you need, and at best, you cannot have the luxuries to which you are accustomed. You foolish old dear, what do 1 care .for that! 1 shall have your loving devotion. AY hat more can I desire? papa will furnish our home, and give me clothes enough to last ever so oung i'hiihe-'- bt aild several of wWh Conw m,nt hoi' 1 Ar. - bid, a Of nays once swe t, but past. Agues . Il.itt, Boston Transcript. A thesa sra:iU meters thought of When We started. hll1 ern-hiii- liattanoogn lias iveivtil a water-plioTins is an instrument stuped like an ordinary iron rod which, when will convey tho placed on a stop-cocsound to the ear in case te water is running. Jn this wav It can bo (leti'r-- 1 mined whether or not the water is shut oil iu a house without entering tr.o ii k, j house. |