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Show TWO DREAMS. Ou night I went to fairyland, l!j fat and aim attended. With wiiuMaa upritea on every band wan Hpleuitiil, Ab me. the Am I s amry when I woke. And found tlw dream wan etuln e Another night I drove amain Through Helda that were not Minay, With iiuM and deuiouk in my train Intent on liriiig funny: And I wouldn't dream that dream agt.in For any amount of money. Young Jiaephina 1'ollanl, In Hur-r- ' Feille. COL. NEXT H AMS REVENGE ('ol. Henthain had been perplexed, lie had not felt quite sure whether he was in love or nut. lie had had an idea that he waa not in lovn, but waa only obeying the motive which had made him adopt Eva Tibuldl, educate her in Europe, givu her that training of her voice which had equip;ied her (in cane opportunity were given) for wuivet on tho ytugu) and bring her finally to live in hi home in Now York. Tina motive hul been revenge. The colonel ia now in hia sanctum, ImIlia library and smoking-rooagine a tali, fashionably dressed man, not yet Ml Hit hair is blonde, but the pale, mssaivo features of hi face are neither effoinluate nor coarse. Tho deep-geye of vory paid blue are piercing, and the jaw a little 'pure. There seem a wunt of emotion in the thin lip. Certainly the colonel wear tho stamp of a strong, passionate nature (for passion and emotion are not one), with a spirit of rage bordering on cruelty a its substratum. A nameless retlnomant, almost fastidiousness, an ease of inaunor, a powor of courteous words, aro among the colonels most obvious traits Die men ho iiiccls at hia club think liiiu pleii'ant, the women whom he sometimes chats with and compliments any lie is How then rim the ruling spirit of his life bo revenge!1 and ynl the it is pretty lute colonel never seemed more widc-- u nke. moro alert lie is waiting for ii ring at tho door. Kva hud gone to tho Metropolitan opera-hous- o under cl i urge of his sister his dear, silver-haire- d Iencloie. They are to hoar the famous singer of the year, some of whom Kva mot at Florence in her old musical days. Tho colonel detests a he dotest the whole singing ojK-rprofession. Yot it is only carrying out his plan and purpose that Eva should dolight in music, in order that she may resemble her sister all the more and bo made passionate and impressible as was her sister. Ilo is thinking of her sister at this moment lie rises from the soft 'leather-covere- d easy chair where he line been sitting, anil draw aside a curtain which looks like a narrow portiere. It disclose an easel, and act upon it is a picture of a lady in pink a Indy whose skin eclipses in clearness tho tint so often fatal to beauty, and whose eyes are at once shadowy, profound, and penctrat-ing-eytoo dungcrous to look upon for long. It is not howeror, n long time sinco tho colouol has looked upon them. Yel he baa never scon liiom for the last fifteen years without fueling a tightness at the heart as if ho had received a blow which not only pained him. but which somo strange barrier prevented him from returning. And mingled with this bitterest of bitter meutnl pangs there ha been a kind of regret or sorrow, bordering on tenderness, which might some day, long, long ago, have been love. The colonol bad loved tlio woman of that portrait And she woli. sho had gone the wag of many women. A singer, gifted as horself, had enticed her from her intended husband and .had married her. Two years later tho woman hud died of a broken heart, leaving hor little sister without a ot iit full-leng- th os holm1. Then the colonel did two things. of all ho went to the painter to whom tho dosd diva ia her palmy days First f luxury had given many sittings, and ordered a portrait of Marietta TibaldL This picture he hat set up, on the very easel on which it had boen painted, in his own private room. Then a curtain was hung ovor it, ns he had seen done with some Like a priest E iroixmn altar-piecea shrine would he stand and gaze upon this radiant laughing, and triumphant imago of virginal loveliness and power. The second thing ho did was lo obtain from tho drunken tenor the logul right of an adoptive father over the child Eva. The indulgence of any great passion, even envy hatred, or regret, becomes eventually a source of inteuse delight, nd the more so the moro this indulgence is imaginative and intellectual. Gui. Ileiilbain, up to the present lima, after gazing upon llii portrait, would tremble aud grew paio, bis brow would gather a scowl, his hands would clinclieJ. lint this excitement had sprung nut from love but from hatred; his hail bean a worship composed of rage and cxocnition conscious of their impotent"', yet feeding on a vision of u future revenge. There wr.s a knock at the door of the Colonel's room. His sister entered. Her purturbed mmiiier contrasted with the calm, serene air of her brother. i'enelopo seemed to have been cryfull-leng- th h.-for-e be-co- turned to the portrait "I am a new man, and can look upon it with indifference. now. "What do you mean, brother?" asked Penelope, disengaging from her shoulder the black lace shawl, and nervously drawing off her gloves, as if to dolav tho discharge of some unpleasant duly. "1 mean thut I have exchanged hatred for forgiveness. These many years 1 have planned a deliberate revenge for a rruol wrong that had been done me. For this purpose 1 kept Eva ignorant of her own history. It was my wish to make the sifter of Marietta love me, and feel that only in me could ha live and lie happy. 1 educated her in refineim-nl.anluxury, and in the most emotional form of art; I met her every wish, gratified her idlest whim. Then, when her love for me aliould be ripe, when she should have consented to be my wife, and looked forward to liolng cherished, honored, and protected by me, 1 intended bringing her fare to fare with this picture, enchantress with enchantress, tho innocent with the guilty, and telling that 1 hated her because of tho treachery of her sister whom she so marvelously resembled. I purposed after this turning her out of my house with a bare pittance to live uKn." Penelope shuddered, but not at tha words of the colonel. She looked curiously at his face, which was radiant with fresh and tender light. "I have relented," said the colonel. "Last night her beauty broke down my resolve and sho triumphed over me by admitting with happy tears that she loved me. And now, Penelope, I wish to seo her before she retires tonight, so that in your presence lonelope grew white whiter and more hnggsrd than sho was when she entered the room. Site rose and laid her hand uirnn his arm. "Brother,'1 she snid in a sort of a whisper, "Eva is not at 11011111." Tho colonel turned quickly and his ryes widened with surprise, "Surely she is not out alone?' ho gasped almost emphatically. "Sho has left us! Tills note was given to mo at the carriage door; she must huvo slipped off as we passed through the foyer." lienlhaia with a hasty movement took the fragment of paper. "Soldignu, the tenor I know him," ho said calmly, dropping the not to tho ground, "and every capital in Kuropo knows him. Well, Fortune is a woman and a perverse one. I asked for revenge and she sent me a dream of love and peace; nnd now that I accept it as my dostiny, she snatches it away and gives me my revenge instead. I will not quarrel with her; for If there ta a hell on earth," and here his fnco changed with a gleam of almoat exultation, Soldigno will provide it for the woman that lovea him." Epiphanies Wilson In tho Epoch. stui!-.'agl- y. It Nrheiue aad Hardly Wurth the Trouble. Was a larlug I heard the other day a good story which my iuforiuunt believes to be true. I give it for what it is worth, says a writer in the New York Mar. A young man about town made a bet of 000 that ho could visit a number of fashionable reception on a single afternoon and carry off foOD worth of ailverware. According to the terms of tho bet he was not to visitany bouse 11a merely where he was known. picked out a list of receptions from a society paper, called a cab and started on his predatory expedition. At the first house he was about to take a brush from the mens when an application of dressing-roothe teeth convinced him thut t e article was not worth the risk. Accordingly be dropped the brush and contented himself witnsome other article. Ilo visited throe or four piaces. and at each took something of value. Finally, just after he had slipped several spoons into his pocket at one place a big man with a heavy mustache "Have said to him: you everything you want?" Affecting to understand the other to refer to the ealables,he of the bet answered: "Yes; thank you. Ill not eat anything more." When the young man left tho house, his questioner, who was a detective, saw him got into the eab and heard the instructions giren to the driver. When the maker of the bet arrived at the next house, he wont to and promptly began the dressing-roopocketing silver. But in the midst of this the detective emerged from under the bed and attempted to arrest the supposed thief. The latter, however, being an athlete, shook off the detective, tripped him up. and when those in tho house . reached the scuiie, succeeded in persuading every one thut the detective was the guilty man. This sccum pUshcd, the young man hastened home, did up his plunder in packages addressed to tho owners, and sent each home by a messenger boy, cautioned to deliver his package and answer no questions. The uuda-cioyoung man won tho bet and escaped arrest silver- -mounted m A Fair Khevr. Under a lata law made in Egypt ths man who marries need not keep his own name, but taka that of the woman, if he so desires. It is said thut this law was rendered nccets.iry by so many American and English Smiths taking up their residence in thut country. The girls wanted to uiarry, but they didn't want the name. GLEANINGS FROM RUSKIN. You can no more filter your mind into purity than you can compress it Into calmness; you must keep it pure if you would have It pure; and throw no stones into it If you would have it quieL The poor we must have with us always and sorrow is Inseparable from any hour of life; but we may mako PROGRESS OF MINISTERS. Those with Lorn Coaeregatloos Stand still Intellect ualljr. "Farnitnn" says in tho Advance: their poverty such as shall inhorit the "1 like to study the development of earth; and the sorrow such as shall bo ministers, or the failure of ministers hollowed by the hand of the Com- to develop A good many ministers I meet not of tenor than once a year. Such infrequency of mooting give better ground Tor testing the progress of ministers than a frequent meeting. 1 have boen struck by whut seems to ma to be tho failure of ministers to develop In mind and heart I find that several of them do not now speak as well as they spoke five or eight years ago, This decline, 1 think, is more common among ministers of largo churches than of small; mure common among ministers that havo large relations with the public than among those who iivo more private I infer, lives. therefore, that the minister whose services are diverse nnd frequent has a much harder task to develop himself than tho minister whoso labor is more secluded. If 1 were to utter a word of warning to any of the popular preachers of the time, it would bo, Your intellect will go to pieces upon the rock of when you popularity. At fifty-fivought to be In your prime and still growing, you will be in your decline, if you Unjnut give hoed to yourself.1 " e, Learning the Hnalness. Healer Vat happen to dls hat? Small son 1 vas snappin it vlf my vingora like you do, lo show a vat good stuff it vas, and it proke. "Mine Coolness! You havnt got prains enough to sell beanuta Yea you snap a hat to show It cant pa proke, you must keep run hand inside, o it not break." New York Weekly. gua-tom- cr The Absorbing Aborlgae. Mr. Tenderfoot, thrill-ingl- y, describing his western adventures, "The Indians stole upon us!" "And what did thdy do? breath-- j lessly asked a friend. "Then they gradually stole evory- -i thing else!" New York Herald. "Then," said Mad a Dag Laugh. "That article you had in last week's paper was the funniest thing I ever read." said a lady to an editor. "1 am glad to hear you say so." "Oh. not ut alL It wodid make a needn't mind the picture i dog laugh. I thought my husband would split hJS sides." Arkansaw sislor, said tientiiiiui anJ following her eyes as they I Traveler. ing. "You Hu: turn tha dogs loose on him, he weakened and told all. wounded Adams had clung a des- - to Although justice the speedy a log In the river and floating ' PERATE OUTLAW. ranched the opposite side unseen, lie then made bis way to Bailey's, a local Hu if Hart A lam. Died Numarnu. ('awdeswrado of the worst tyo, a',i hero ard! Wurdrrr by a Waa Wbu,Nup remaiued until his wound healed, lie (ward to be liruoned. Me a Violent Death. knew Bailey well and distrusted him. .. and took means to insure bis silence In istii there lived in Southern Ala- - by shooting him through the bead at barna two planters whosa land joined tha first favorable opportunity, and aud lay in that fertile delta between then mudo his way to the Lower Mistha Tombigby and Alabama rivers, sissippi. Their names were respectively Adams Hearing of the death of his wife and and Doran. Burton Adams was gener-- tho loss of his properly he became ally regarded as a daugcrou man, desperate and returned to Alabama ready to cut or alioot on alight provo- with the determination to kill every cation, but it was believed by his Doran on eight and be found in his neighbors that hi evil temper and bad old slave a faithful and efficient cohabits w ere fostered and aggravated adjutor, who was now awaiting his Henson biiJ the dogs were by bis wifes leaching and example. coming. Sho was at strife with all the families sunt away, the negro was threatonud around and lmd no associates. Espeo with death if he gave an alarm, and There the party set themselves to watch ially did she bate the Dorans. aero three brothers of this name and through tlio chinks ia the logs. After two hours watch ono of the they und Aduins had been school boya together and they did their best to party guvo a "hist, here ho crimes," maintain friendly relations with their and a till liun caiuu trolling through quarrel-nin- e neighbor, but tho trouble the cluaring, mounted on a big bay. cume at lust. it was Adiuns sure enough. He gave On a visit to Mobiin Mrs. Adams a low whistle, and muttering to himmet two of the Doran sisters in a large self, dismounted, hid Ills horse and Bogurdless pushed open the puncheon door. Duffy millinory establishment of the public character of tho place was behind It and at once seized him. she gave the two ladles a vulgar "Burt Adams, you are my prisoner in aad was at once ejected the name of the State of Alabama." tongue-lashinthe by proprietor. Wild with rage In a flash the outlaws bowie was the woman looked up her husband. out and the constable received a Between drink and his wife's provodeadly thrust Tha others at once cation Adams scarce knew what hA pitched in, but Adam fought like a He attacked the storewas doing. tiger, and it was not until he had keeper with a knlfo nnd cut him fear- been thrice shot through the body fully and then mounted his horse and that he dropped. He uttered no word, rapidly rode away. but looked at bis captors with a wild The Dorans were at once warned, glare, and making a threatening gestand towards evening Pierce, the old- ure with his hand, gave a shudder and several est brother, by was gone. AX OLI) ALABAMA HE WON HIS BET. FEUD, to j I I i ; ; j j g GETTYSBURG HEROINE. A tka Holdlers WliHa (ha Hattie Waa aa. In his reminisce rises of Gettysburg, (ion. Ilenry W. Slocum narrates this interesting incident: "We called at the house which has always been an object of interest to all who visit this field. Near the line occupied by the brigade under command of Gen. J. H. Carr, of Troy, X. y Y., stands a little house, which at the time of the battle was occupied by a Mrs. Kogors and hor daughter. On the morning of July 3, Gen. Carr stopped at tho house and found tho daughter, a girl about 18 years of age, alone busily engaged in buking bread. He informed her that a great battle was Inevitable, and advised her to seek a place of safety 14 oiice. Sho said sho had a butch of bread baking in tho oven, and she would remain until it wus biikod and then lo tve. When her bread wus bukod. It was given to our soldior and duvourod so eagerly that sliu concluded to remain and bake another butch. And so she continued until the end of the battle, baking and giving her bread to all who came. The gleet urlillery duel which shook the earth for miles around did not drive Pickett's men bar from her oven. who charged pest her houso found her quietly baking her bread and distributing it to the hungry. When the battle was over her house wus found to be riddled with shot and shell, and seventeen dead bodies were takea from the house and cellar; the bodies of woundod men who hod crawled to the little dwelling for shelter. Twenty years after the close of the war Gen. Carr's men and others held a grand reunion at Gettysburg; aud learning that Josephine iiogers was still living, but had married und taken up lier residenco in Ohio, they scut fur her, paid her passage from hor homo to Gettysburg und back, and bud her go to licr old homo and tell them the story which they all knew so well. They deoornted her with a score of army budges, and sent lior back a happy woman. Why should not the poet Immortalize Josephine Iiogers as he did Burbura Frielchie?" Khs Baked Hraad for one-stor- HE SQUARED HIMSELF. Tiie road ran by the river bank und was bordered by douse shrubbery. luw a New York Man lllugulM-- In WhiskPierce whs uhuad, and suddenly a gun ers Cot Into Trouble. cracked und ho dropped from his sadThe fasbiun of letting the beard dle. His friends rode into the thicket us a protection lo the throat wut but saw no one until a negro servant grow ns it called out: "There he goes!" Sure novor, it seems to mo, so general New was York last the winter, says enough, Burt Adams, on his big sorrel, was galloping away up the river road. Star. The addition makes a wonderin the appearance ol 11c was closoiy followed and at tho ful differenc'd some faces. I heard a lawyer tell a of of thief" number a horso peocry last winter that illustrates that Ths Kong That Beached Their Hearts. ple ahead drew up across thn rood and story A gentleman who was recently at a fact turned the fugitive. small-hosaid to "You he a will notioe, banquet relates: "It is party The Alabama river was in flood, the 1 have quite a astonishing how many business men current running like a mill race, and of friends, "that I stopped are good singers. You will find more full of driftwood, but the murderer did strong growth of beard. not hesitate to plunge In. Before he shaving early in October. The other men who can sing than you will find wns fifty yards away his pursuers were day I was riding on the front platform woman. At tha affair of which I speak 1 on the bank, and under a volley of of a car, as was smoking, and among there were representatives from nearly who got on .board was every foreign country, our own counthe passengers rifle bulls Adams went under. His horse made a struggle, but was swept a cousin of mine, her husband, and trymen, of course, predominating. their young baby. I had not seen the And most of those present were singaway; but nothing jrns seen of the A young student from HeidelA good riddance," was tha lady since the day she was married. er rider. tha summer of 1889, and the hus- berg gave us in its native tongue, Tho )a Doran Pierce had a verdict general band never saw me but on tha night Watch on the Khlne,1 ' for which, of light for life, but finally recovered. of the wedding. Then 1 bad only a course, he received the customary Mrs. Adams had always been a cruel J looked in ut the front recognition. An Englishman sang mustache. mistress, but now her wickedness knew nodded to my cousin, but she 'Annie Laurie,1 an Irishman The llarp no restraint Her servants were beaten door and I That Once Ihro1 Tara's Hull,,1 and a and mutilated until her neighbors be- did not return the salutation. no was there but still Frenchman the 'Marseillaise.1 Each it, came Indignant and protested, but lo repented she convinced of these songs was as well rendered one that Bolng response. Ono end came. vain. At length the 1 ever heard I mo to have determined and I know they did not know as night in December the sky was lit by some so 1 kept smiling at and were all appreciated. Then some one fun, was known and a red glow it that the evi- gave us America.1 to be She her. to didn't It began quite hit nodding fire was at the Adams plantation. minIn some way. A young man with one When the neighbors galloped up the dently disconcerted, and in a few I mansion was glowing like a furnace utes noticed that she was whispering of those ringing tenor voices started Banner.1 Hofore aud the negroes were all shut up in to her husbund. After the talk the the hia teat and weut to be ranched the chorus every man was left gentleman their quarters, and tha only answer tha rear platform, when he apoke on his feet and each one was waving they mado to the inquiries of the That his napkin, and each one was singing to the conductor. excitedly wbitos was: "Fo de Lord, Mass we No one worthy cume through tha car, anil, with nil his might They went over dout know nuthin' bout it again nnd again, nnd I never heard doubted but that the woman hod been opening the front door, suid to mo: " You must either stop insulting such singing In my lifo. That was the murdered by her outraged bondsmen the lady in tho car or got off. Her hus- song thut reached their hearts." and the house fired. There were no witnesses but negroes, band bns complained about your con- Philadelphia Press. ur it forter, with everlasting comfort You know how often it is difficult to be wisely charitable; to do good without multifying the sources of eviL You know that to give alius Is nothing it unless you give thought also; nnd that therefore it is written, not "blessed is he that feedeth the poor," but "blessed is he that considereth the poor." And you know that a little and they were not competent to testify, thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of and so the matter ended. The plantation and hands were sold under a mortmoney. The essence of lying is in deception, gage held by ono of the Mobile banks, not In words; a lio may be told by si- and bought by Barnes Doran, who built a new house and moved there lence, by equivocation, by an uccent tho of eye; with his family. This was two years on a sylable, by a glance and all these kinds of lies are worse after the killing of Adam. Une day a servant brought Mr. Doran and baser than a lie plainly worded; a paper he hnd found on the house so that no form of blinded conscience was addressed to Barnes Is so far sunk as that which comforts porch. It itself because the deception was by Doran and warned him to leave the old of utter- Adams plantation, as the writer was gesture or silence, instead Burt Adams death, resolved to ance; for, according to Tennysons and would avenge one living vn his kill any which "A lie Une, deop and trenchant lands. There was no signature, but is half the truth is ever the worst of Doran made investigations and found lies." that one of bis negroes who had been People sometimes speak, in this a slave of Adams, had left the plantaand lands, houses if as working age, tion that morning. Going to his overalone were and food and raiment seer Doran said: "Here, Jonas, get a and if as and thought useful, sight admiration were all profitless, so that horse; take this note to Constable themselves Duffy, and stop at Benson's and tell call men insolontly them- him to come at once and bring two of turn would who Cntllltarlan bis best dogs." Another messenger selves and their' race into vegetables; waa sent to severs! of the neighbors can as such far men who think (as inside of two hours a party of six and bo said to think) that tha meat ia men crossed the river. A coat armed than raiment tha and more than life, was produced and snuffed at of Sams ths body; hewers of wood and drawers the dogs and, held in hand by the of water, who think that It is to give by tha them wood to hew, and water to draw, tracker Bonson, they entered woods. that the fine forests cover the mounA rough rood had been cut through tains like the shadow of God, and tha the dense forest that reached to the great rivers move like Ilia eternity. stale line, but there were Mississippi sometimes a think We seem to that numerous tracks, and into one of hog reverent and tender duty is due to these the turned, nose to the dogs we affection still doubt one whose An hour's walk brought them ground. and whose character we as yot do but to a small clearing, in which stood a partially and distantly dcsccrn, and low, log cnbin. Smoke waa coming that this reverence and duty are to out of the I chimney at the end. ha withdrawn when the affections has said the constable, a sol thought become wholly and liinitlcssly our brave little Irishman, "this la Baileys own, and the character has been iso old ranch but has away as Ive a wo fear not to warrant sifted and tried that him for agin intrust it with tho happlnoss of our and ha left a year aga Keep bock the feel how not lives, Do you ignoble dogs and well make a rush." and unreasonable this is. Do you not The party quickly surrounded the feel that marriage, when it is ture cabin and on entering found the fugimarriage at all, is only the real which tive negro building a fire on the clay marks the vowed transition of temHearth. Ho waa quickly tied, but porary into untiring service, aud of fused to talk until, under u threat to fitful into eternal love? horse-stealin- g, 'Star-Spangle- d duct "1 told him I did not want to insult any one. and as he began to get excited I passed into tho car. and, taking hold of a strap, leaned over the lady and said: " Why, Minnio, bow are you?1 "Sho looked at mo for a moment nnd then exclaimed: " Cousin Eddie! How are you? 1 didnt know you with whiskers.1 "The car was pretty woli crowded, and as everybody understood that I had been complained of, there, wa a general laugh at the denouement" Pointer an Mocks. a wealthy man of Austin, Tex., tolls this little story: "I got my start in life through Jay Gould. I was a porter in a hotel at Greenwood lake whore Jay Gould used to stop, and the financier took a Une day just fancy to me somehow. as ho wns starting to New York I said Jay Could L. A. Towne, why say it? Mr. Gould, I have saved up to him: 8300 and I would like to increnso it in the next few months and go West and invest it1 Gould looked at me sharply a moment and then whispered in my ear, Buy Erie.1 I bought Erie nd cleared orer $1,000 on the Investment The next time Gould came to the lake he naked me if 1 had followed know. Why Sbe Keeps Mill. woman at the corner of ths table is very silent isn't she? "She has a good reason to he. Any woman under her circumstances would do the same. "Oh, what is it Janies; what's tha reason? pleaded Mrs. Botticus, who dearly loved a scandal. "Why, shes deaf and dumb." Philadelphia Time Cat II Khort. If it is unnecessary to say a thing, "it is altogether needless to enter on any argument to sustain this proposition," says the learned judge, and forthwith enters on one of groat length nnd intense dullness. "1 deem it entirely unnecessary to combat tha gentleman's view says the orator, and, so saying, goes on to combat them till some rude person cries "rats! I will not step to enlarge," observes the preacher, and than he stops, and enlarge is no name for it "It goes without saying,1 remarks the editor, and then, for fear it will not go, says it over and over again for a column or two. "Tell me notin mournful numbers," sings the poet end straightway informs himself in many unhilarlous etanxas of the very things he did not want to What is tha necessity, the cruel necessity for the unnecessary thing? X. Y. World. his instructions. I told him that I had. 8011 it at once and keep your promise about going Wost1 said Mr. Gould. That night I telegraphed aa order for the solo of my stock and the next time Jay Gould visited Greenwood lake his favorite porter was missing. He had gone West bought a ranch and he has grown up with X. Y. Tribune. the country. 'That Didn't Da Hint As Goad. You should many. Woman exerts a refining influence on man. What you need is a wife. Balrtmonlal Item. "Whats the matter bore? asked B Are you married? "O. yes; Ive been married twenty a stranger of a small boy as he noticed a large wedding party coining out cl year" "Why havnt you and your wife a church on Fifth nvenue. Xawthln but tha tied gain out" been living together all theso years? Texas Siftings. wns the reply. A. |