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Show The House He Built Her. BY E. L. DITHBIDOE. (Copyright, 1900, by Dally Story Tub. Co.) "Yes," said tho eldor man, "you may, but only after you have complied with h certain condition." i Tho other leaned forward eagerly, hoping tho condition would bo within his powers to perform. Ills oyos glowed; his lips parted; his hands clasped, nnd his Angers twisted anxiously, anx-iously, during the pause that ensued. Then tho condition camo, short, forcible forci-ble and abrupt: "First build her a housol" Well, It was a hard requirement nt best, and almost an Imposstblo one. Yet he mado up his mind at once that he would comply with the condition. Jnmes Burton was n young engineer trying to moke his fortune In tho mines of Mexico. Ho had no money with which to start independently, so ho had engaged as an assistant In tho employ of a largo company operating near Mexico City. Ho had now been In the country six months, nnd during that period had grown to lovo tho daughter of a wealthy ranch owner. The' "ranchero" had practically no English education himself, but had provided a way for tho education of his children In both English and Spaniel. Span-iel. UU 1.l..t akn A, UA three-room adobo houso built so as to be barely comfortable. A ridiculously low figure, to bo sure! Hut It would tako him a long tlmo to save that much, and If tho ndobos, weren't made during March, April and May, he'd havo to wait anothor year. It still lacked two weoks to tho first of March tlmo enough to build .tho foundation and tho company had plenty of lime and stone on hand. May-bo May-bo Mr. I.angdon would let him have lima and stone enough for the foundation foun-dation If he assumed the responsibility responsibil-ity of paying tho wages. Thoro was a mason working on a small addition to tho mill building; maybe ho would work on the foundation ot tho little houso during spare time.. Uurton figured that thu wages on tho foundation would cost him twenty dollars, that tho ndobos would cost him forty dollars, and that ho could get half tho quantity delivered in March and tho other half In April. Then ho could get about twenty dollars' dol-lars' worth of work done each month until tho houso was completed. As a slto for her houso he solected the brow of a little hl) a,bout a nine fiom tho reduction plant and about halt a mllo from tho line of the com pany's property. Thero ho started man excavating, for ho had dccldod to dovlato from tho Mexican custom and have a little cellar. Every evening ho would trot out on horseback and tako n look nt tho progress prog-ress being mado. Ho was rathor disappointed dis-appointed at tho slow rate of odvance, but couldn't blamo tho workman, for the cnuso of tho troublo was self-evident, lllght In tho mlddlo ot the holo stticK a point or rocK formed in a perfect per-fect cono. Tho workman had tried to dig It out; but as ho dug tho rock seemed to grow; and by this time It was "a plain case of blast." Getting this big rock out of tho way meant more expense; and tho thought of It mado Uurton blue. As ho stood thero musing on how much extra the rock would cost him, ho kicked at It absent-mindedly and vindictively. The sun was Just setting, nnd Its rays struck squarely on tho placo whore his boot had scraped oft tho earth from tho stone. "My! That's n mighty bright sort of stone!" thought Burton to himself. "Guess I'll knock off a bit nnd seo what it looks like Inside." The houso ho built her was not finished fin-ished till two years later; but It was located In tho American section of tho Cltv of Mexico. Instead ot out In tho I Stead ot 1 thirty jits wcro jvlndows Its mlr- . tany an ,many a J for Its fsh hand bnomlze. vas per-jnrd per-jnrd her Ino sue- ) (replied, d her a juck tho dw Con- f Inrgcl) Ity, and shame least ol Iteeder, ever, sht a sense jlng the (Airedale It where J paragon certainly i (an en-d en-d before n of our fow bo-r bo-r nearly appear-tho appear-tho 90's. 1 bought, fashion-icrs fashion-icrs BUf-hen BUf-hen they tly pets islng, nt of their time and qualities. jJtook to led head, yd; tho metrical; I of hon-o hon-o proud I chaiac-overlook' chaiac-overlook' and the ow York ennel ot oso such she said, ind arls-it; arls-it; theii id arls- WIG. rned in le Christ's rsof ago, i distinct 40 years afterward ho could descrlbo them with exactness. Mr. Lucas, his latest blog-rnphor, blog-rnphor, gives Lamb's account of one teiudicr, Hov, James Doyer: Ho had two wigs, wroto Lamb, both pediintlc, but of differing omen. The ono soreno, smiling, fresh-powdered, betokening u mild day. Tho other, an old, dlscolered, unkempt, angry cnxon, denoting frequent nnd bloody execution. Woe to tho school when ho made his morning appearance In his passy or passionate pas-sionate wig. a J. n. had a heavy hand. Nothing was moro common than to seo him make a headlong-entry Into tho schoolroom from his Inner recess or library, and with turbulent oye, singling out n lad, j roar out: I "Od'a my life, sirrah, 1 havo a great mind to whip you!" Then, with as sudden sud-den a retrnctlng Impulse, (ling back Into his lair, and after a cooling lapse 'of somo minutes, during which ,nll but tho culprit had totally forgotten tlio context, drive headlong out again, piecing out his Imperfect sense with tho oxplotory yell: "And I will, too!" In his gentler moods he had recourse to an Ingenious method of whipping the boy and reading at tho samo tlmo a paragraph and a lash between. i.ti |