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- during tho past fow - days. © mo - dise # That terrible wash-tub! This is the way it looks to the women who do their washing in the old-fashioned way. dread it-and no wonder. because they won't use Pearline. Use -use it just as They All directed-soak, boil and rinse the clothes-and the wash-tub won't be { a bugbear. ] over it enough for that. You won't have to be No hard work-no inhaling of fetid steam- no wearing rubbing-no torn clothes ~--nothing but economy,. <_ Peddlers and some unserupulons grocers will Send tell you \ this is as t Bac mwenas you somcthing in places of Pearline, be honest-send it dack, ' WESTERN NEW YORK . Rev. Bathe} Hines, of Niagara -__- Falls, is bead. - dar BURGLARS CAPTURBED ap -_ NNAGARA PFALLS-FIRH BUGS \AC OLBAN-AGBD: COUPLE GBT ~ RHAL (IDDY, > The pollco are on a still hunt for fire- bugs who hive beon operating at Olean. 1 Several and outhouses have been set afite and soveral filso alirms. of fire havo been turned In from: various parts of theo city. Thursday night the 'old abandotied Burrott sole leather tannery in the 20 Ward was burned with a loss ot about $8,000, It is thought to be the work of migchlovous boys. Several gimpects mietmdor survelllance, but no | arrests have yet been made. LDomilg Titus, in Itallan, had a log erushed «t Silamanes ion the railroad 1 33m Wednesday night, Ho camo from iwolton: on Train No, 1, and got off at ~Salamimea. Whoi the traim started from. the station lhe again attempted to bot ou tho forward ond of tho'train, but fits foot allpped and he fell beneath the \wheels Ono of his logs was badly .erushed and he0 was removed: to the ofice of the rillvond stgeon ,Dr, E, C. Beils, whore hig log was amputated, # morning ho was taken to Quaker i6re his parents live. He is % \8 3g vore off\ \\ N [at Olean until recently.. They will have jout 28 years old. a . . - the Rov. Wathor Thomas C. Hines, - Ahe vonerable rector of the Church of tho Sacrot Hoart, Niagara Falls, who | was was strickon with paralysis Tuesday night, lod at 6:20 o'clock Thursday af- ~, tornoor without having become con- galous, Father Hines was one of the oldest mnd best known pricsts in West- | Schal t5, an employee of the Cliff Paper -OH Now York and had 'been at. the head of the big Sacved Heart parish | parish shice 1881, Ho had beon in the priesthood 25 years when lio came here | «ome of which time was spent in But- filo. A new church costing over $30,- (000 and a parochlat residence have been bullt stuce I'nthor Hines came thore} \Pho: deceased priest was born al May 10, 1826, in Tveland,\ Hoe was seut - to college in Montreal in 1840 and then «pont some time in Buffalo, Fhe congregation of the Plerce Ave- _ Prosbytorian Church; Niagara Falls, has to extend 1 call to - the Rov., J. W. Ross of Akron to fill the position of pastor of the church | ade vacant by the resignation of the \ Hov, George Ntanols, \The police of Niagara Falls wore not- fled Thursday morning that burglars | Kad broken into Erle freight cars near the offl@o of the Cataract Ice company At Ninth Street and Cedar Avenuo and ; woerarstill there. Officers Walter Can- xxxanfid'as dispatched to the scene and: md - cbargo and started for the police sta- tion with tho qunrtette shend of him. \When thoy reached Nlagara Street they | \alt mado a break and ran. ~Officer Can- ~ mon ordered them to stop and fired one «or two. shorts but they continued to run, 'He alugled out one and. gave him & live- . ly. chase up Into the tunnel district, through a collar there and up towards whore ho finally captured him * after a run of ftbout two miles, He was brought to. the police station and gave his namo as Michael Smith of No. | 150 'Mownsend Street, Buffalo. Later ~anothor - man was arrested In 'Tonn<| - manda- find brotuight here by Sergt. Ma- Toney. Ho gaye his nume as William 'Wolsnor, aged 20, of No. 95 Linthrop Street, Buffalo. It was found that he had -been hit on the bottom of one foot by & bullet, The men did not haye much booty,. simply . some druggists goods. Three cars containing merchan- had been broken into. The two anon will come up In police court Friday momning.: At this writing It I§ supposed thit tho other two men have gone to Bultalo. 'They'are Poles and belong to , (the Buffalo colony. Guy Bradley, a clork in Harry Park- _ or's grocery store at Fredonia measured outa gallon of gasoline for a customer Thursday sfterncon. He spilled some of It on the floor.. Instead of wiping It Ap with a cloth he touched a match to fom men preparing to make | : mfiay with booty, He took thom in it. In an instant the oll room was in a blaze, The clerks all rughed to the cel- ~- Jox and with the ald of the fire depart- went sttcceeded in extinguishing the: \ . Alt. Bolivar, fames. 'The d mag-V‘s; was annllln i on Wednesday, | Lewis Sutherland, 88 yours. old, find Mrs. Amolia \87 \years old, were united in marriage. They both live at Shinglo House, Pa., where they will make their future groot was a soldier in the Inte war and had nover been married before. Tho long darkness in the streets of Meding on nccount of the 6lectrle light trouble seoms to be about over, the old company having decided to the contract at the old Aigure of $60 per light for G0 lights and to furnish one oxtra light freo und to light the village hull fnd police station: without expense \t6 the village, 'The now. contract is \ 'now betug prepured and the moonlight schedule will agiuin be followed, sub- - fect to some {mprovoments tn the way scheditlo provides a moon, but clouds itesfere. All tho members of the local Bar As- sociation, together with; some: news- paper mon and other citizens, met at he home of the Hon, Carwood L. Judd home. The aged t ~Of lighting on dark nights when the good as\ or ''the same as _ TTS FALSE-Pearline is never peddled, and if yogi; grocer 9 Wriday evening to participate in the - colebration of the 43d anniversary of his coming to North Tonawanda. The | genial Justice was in his usual} good ' spirits and received the visitors in good style, The lawyers presented him a handsome easy chair and made feli- citous speeches. The evening was spent pleasantly and excellent refreshments ' were sorved. | The Hon,. Mr. Judd has : been In the Assembly twice and has been elected Justice of the Perce in ' North 'Fonawanda for 27 consecutive 'years, He his always voted the Demo- | cratie ticket. (He adds that he has liv- ced at Tonawanda 43 years. G. Schutz son of Charles Schutz of :No. 1350 Michigan Avenue, Niagara Falls, sind an employee of the Catar- net Ice Company, was kicked by a horse so badly Friday that it is feared he will die, , The animal struck him in the stomaclt and five physicians have been in attendance upon him. An op- ; eration may be performed but the ' chances are said to be agninst his re- | Chief of Police Hart of Olean, was notified last Friday night that Daniel Kelly, an old man who boards at the Cary Hougé on Wayne Street, had, been robbed of $85. Suspicion pointed to James Hannon and Edward White, : who live in the 6th Ward. Chief Hart 'dccompanied by John Allen found the 'men at the Park Hotel in Allegany. 'They denied all knowledge of the affair, ' but they were brought to this city and when searched Hannon had a $16 bill 'in one of his stockings and a $5 bill mixed up with a big chew of tobacco in his mouth,. 'The men are about 25 years old and were employed on the railroad their examination Saturday morning 'before Justice Park. J. B. Woodward, the insane man who so recklessly flourished a revolver about 'the station house it Niagara TFalls Thursday has heen sent to the Forest Avenue Insiue Asylum in Buffalo. While at work this morning Herman Company, Niagara Falls, lost a portion of one finger by having it caught on a saw. * © Friday while two painters were at work upon a scaffold on the side of the Ametican Hotel on Second Street, Niag- ari Falls, owned by Michael McMahon, which is being remodelled, the scaffold gave away and they fell to the ground, About 10 feet. William Oldficld, one of the palaters, was very badly burt. It 'Is supposed that his spine is injured, as he is partially paralyzed. He was taken ; to the home of his father on the comer of Main Street and Elmwood Avenue and was attended by Dr. J. W. Hodge. Hlis theud was completely covered with paint, Wat - BILLS SIGNED. NEW LAW RELAIMING TO INSUR: ANCE COMPANIES-MUNICIPAL MATTERS. Albany, May 23.-Among the thirty- eight bills signed by the Governor to- . day were the following: Assemblyman Winne's providing that : the Schenectady sewer bonds shall not ; exceed $150,000 in the iggregate at 5 per cent. interest. Assembly Graves, authorizing Rome to borrow $10,000 to meet its liabilities. and unpald obligations on the city ball. Assemblyman Norton's, providing for the placing of electric wires in 'EFroy underground. . Assemlymban Hobbie, providing for .A police justice in Whitebaall. Senator Stewart's exempting manu- facturing establishments in Watkins from taxation in certain cases. Assemblyman Storm's, amending the railroad law in relation to consent of property owners and local authorities touching street surface railroads. Senator Brush's, providing that any insurance corporation organized under | the laws'of another state of the United States and lawfully transacting either fire or marine insurance in this state . on. October 1st, 1892, may be licensed to transact both fire and marine insurance if duly authorized so to do by the law of the state where it is organized. ‘ . Assemblyman Kinne's, authorizing town and county co-operative corpora- tions to insure against larceny of blank- ets, - whips, clothing, jewelry, grain and 'any kind of farm produce, and all kinds of goods and property. Assemblyman Horton's relating to penalties for violation of fire insurance {aw by an officer or agent. ° Assemblyman Husted's, allowing mu- tual fire insurance companies to be- come stock corporations. Assemblyman Cole's, relating to the practice of veterinary medicine. Forest Fires in Maine. Bangor, Me., May 23.-Reports from Aroostook County, where the great : forest fires have been raging for several days, and which threatened the destruc- tlon of many towns are to the effect that the rain yesterday had the effect of somewhat subduing the flames and the towns are safe for the present,. Hun- grads of men have been fighting the re. + In Favor of the Turk. Willlamstown, Mass., May 22.-Dart mouth won the first Williams-Dart- mouth debate here last evening after a very spirited contest, Williams upheld the affirmative of the question, \resoly- 6d that the general welfare demands the suppression of the Ottoman Empire by the European powers.\ f la TUESDAY, T he‘F’ittest Survives A Serial Story By J. H. CONNELLY What a ghastly satire upon his misery that engagement now seemed to him! Anxious about food for the immediate future and under contract to take a mil- lionaire's daughter to the opera! The re- calling of apposite Greek and Latin quotations to suit pretty much all chances and conditions was his happiest talent, but it failed him now. He was too much troubledto,think of anything that seemed adequate to the occasion. Irmawould expect to be taken to the opera house and home again in a car- riage, of course. That was what she was accustomed to. But even street car fares would narrow his dietary plan seriously. It occured to him that there would be wisdom in feigning sudden indisposi- tion and sending her the tickets, She could get her father toescort her. Yes, she could, but would she? Might she not prefer Mr. Cyrus Pratt's society? That possibility decided him against the pra- dential evasion he had for a moment | contemplated. There was no help for it; he would have to go himself. But now that John was gone, he knew not where, from whom could he obtain the neces- sary means? Why, from the pawnbroker, of course. Strange that he had not thought before of everybody's \uncle who would certainly advance him a handseme sum upon his superb Jergen- sen watch, a present to him from his father, That happy thought sofar light- ened the gloom of the situation that he went to his bed in measurable content and slept the sound sleep of weary 'youth. * ’ Early in the morning he proceeded to test his new resource and was not dis- appointed. The pawnbroker let him bave $100, and the young man resolved that after this final night of fashionable. dissipation, in which he would be as |. economical as he becomingly or prudent- ly might, the remainder of the sum should be so carefully husbanded -that it would give him subsistence for weeks to come, until he found some occupa- tion. Remembering that the buttons of his dress coat showed signs of wear, he bought a new set, intending himself to replace with them the old ones, and with this purpose in view went directly home. Needles and black silk thread he already had. . : Carrying the coat over his arm, he opened the communicating door from his little hall room to his friend's larger and warmer apartment, where he pur- posed doing his amateur tailoring, but upon the threshold stopped as if para- lyzed by astonishment. The room al- ready had a tenant, a very pr‘etty girl, who sat sewing near one. of the win- dows. Shelooked up at his entrance, but without apparent surprise said \Hello!\ and went on with her work. CHAPTER X. \Hello yourself!\\ he rejoined, star- ing at her and then around the room as if to make sure that he had not strayed into the wrong apartment. . \You're hume rather early today, ain't you? What's the matter?\ asked the young woman, merely glancing at him as she bit off a thread. ''Thanks for your interest in my movements,\ he replied stiffly, \but I am not aware that I have any more busi- ness elsewhere than here.\ She suspended work for a moment to stare at him, and then, seeming to have suddenly found a very amusing idea, laughed heartily, causing Chester to redden with embarrassment, for he did not at all like being laughed at by a pretty girl. And she was pretty, un- doubtedly, whoever she was. If a deli- cately pink and white complexion, blue eyes, regular features. and flossy golden hair fluffed out into a cloud of bewil- dering curls for a \bang'\ and rippling in charming disorder over a snowy neck cannot make a girl at least pretty in a young man's eyes, there must be some- thing radically wrong about the young man. 'Don't get huffy,\ she said merrily. \'I'm not laughing at you. I forgot for a moment that we were strangers, on your side. 'You probably never saw me before, and I suppose you are surprised to see me in here, but 1 ve seen you lots of times over the banisters, going out or coming in, and I Ikmow your friend, so that's how it seemed at first as if I was acquainted with you too.\ \I was not aware,\ replied Chester, frigidly bowing, \that I had had the honor of meeting you before.\ ''No, you hadn't, except once in the hall, and then my veil was down, so you conldn't have seen me' to know me. But I live here.\ \_ 'Here?\? ''In the house. I've got a little room in the attic, up three flights. It's colder than Greenland up there.. I make fancy neckties, you see. Most of the work I do on the sewing machine, and I don't mind the cold when I'm running the machine, but there's a good deal of fin- ishing off to do with the needle, and that's the time Jack Frost gets his work in, especially if one is hot from running the treadle. That first cold snap of the winter I caught a cold: up there that I thought would kill me. Mr. Latham heard me coughing and asked the land- lady about me, and when she told him how I was fixed he said I might come in here and sew whenever I liked in day- time, while he was away, because his room is always so nice and warm. I think he's awful kind, don't you?' ''Yes, indeed I do,\ answered the young man heartily, and then he added in a bantering tone, \but I should hard- ly think he would have the heart to re- strict you to the time of his absence.\ ''Why so?\ 'You make such a charming domestic picture that your presence quite converts * . * MAY 26_ a bachelor's den into a home, and with \\No nonsense now, young man. Use your jawbone with caution. Men have been killed with that sort of weapon.\ ''Oh, not this sort of jawbone.\ \Maybe. I can't be sure until I know you better.\ \That no time may be lost in your doing so, and with a basis of conven- tionality for the acquaintance, permit me to introduce myself as\\ *'Chester Sewall. Yes, I know. I ask- ed Mr. Latham, and he told me. My name is Lottie Belden.\ The young man made a bow of exag- gerated formality before her. She looked quizzically at him for a moment, with her little golden kead cocked on one side like a contemplative bird, then springing up executed a deep, old fash- fioned minuet courtesy and bounded back to her seat laughing. How strangely this light hearted girl's presence had dissipated the shad- ows about him! Though an entire stran- ger to him and one in whose personality he had not the slightest concern, the in- \It 4s a sort of back number\\ fectious merriment of her frank, happy nature had made him smile, and even laugh, when fire minutes before meet- ing her lie could have cried had he not felt it unmanly to do so. «'What have you there on you'r arm?\ she demanded. - - \A coat.\ | \What are you going to do with it?\\ \Sew on scme new buttons.\ \Sew? You can sew?\ \Yes. In a sew-sew fashion.\ | \Come. Letmeses you do it. Inever saw a man sew except a tailor, whose business it was, and he doesn't count.\ \Oh yes, as a fraction.\ He sat down before a stand and spread his tools and materials out be- fore him for the work. ''Mercey, what a rope!\ exclaimed Lottic at sight of the thread. ''Well, isn't that right? : something that would not break the first time it was pulled.\ - have there?\ she asked in a sarcastic affectation of surprise. .*'Why, needles, of course.\ \Oh; needles! To knit with or to sew?\ \To sew on my buttons. I wanted things I could get hold of.\ 'Oh, pshaw! Give that coat here and' I'll sew those buttons on. while you would be poking that rope through the end of one of those crowbars. You men: are all alike-awfully helpless crea- tures.\ - . - ''Youdon't imagine I will trouble you with my mending, do you?\ ''That's nothing. (I often fix things for Mr. Latham when his wash comes home without his knowing anything about it. Why shouldn't neighbors help one another? It makes the world so much easier to get.along in when they do.\\ ' f < . Her self imposed task did indeed seem trifling, so quickly did. her nimble and skillful fingers complete it. Chester thanked her effusively aud held the gar- ment up before him to admire the neat- ness of herwork. The critical inspection gave him new ground for disquieting reflection.. His coat was undeniably old, not to put too fine a point upon the fact +''seedy,\\' and thenewness of the buttors seemed to emphasize its air of faded gen- tility. There were little glazed looking lines along the seams here and there, not very prominent, it is true, but quite perceptible in a good light and impossi- bie of banishment from the conscious- ness of thewearer. And how was it pos- sible he had ever got that horrible pol- ish on the elbows, or, having it, failed to observe it until now? 'Then the left lapel was limp, and the collar needed cleaning. He sighed deeply as he threw it over the back of a chair. \It is asort of back namber,\\ com- mented Lottie sympathetically, but with cruel frankness. haus - ''Yes,\ he assented in a doiefal tone, 'but it is the best I can do now.\ \Must wear a claw hammer? His affirmative was almost sul- len. Sho seemed to reflect seriously a few moments and then broke out cheerfully: \Say there's a place down on the Bowery where you can hire a dress coat or, a whole suit, real bang up things, that have been made for swells and fixed up so you wouldn't know but what they are new,. Anxrd you can get them that will fit you 'like the paper on the wall' if you take a little trouble. Real cheap too. Why don't you go there?\ \I never heard of such a thing.\ - \Ah youhaven't had to hustle much in New York yet, that is evident.\ - \How do you come to know anything about hiring dress suits?\ 200 \Why do you think I'm so homely I can't have a feller? Or maybe I've got a lady friend who has.\ He took the address of the place she had suggested and went away, while sho resumed her work, singing like a bird. But song was far from his sad heart. Never had his pride received such a blow. Compelled to hivea dress coat! It seemed to him as if the humiliation of the shameful deed he contemplated must be apparent on him. , That evening he escorted Irma Will- marth to the opera, wearing the hired dress coat, Hardly had they settled com- such a tempting companion''- I I wanted P \And what are those things you | shiffing and looking: suspiciously at the upholstering and tapestry of the box. Now that his attention was drawn to it he fancied that he could himself detect an unfamiliar and unpleasant chemical odor-in the air. Irma raised her glasses to lock over the house, but almost im- positively: , \I'm sure of it. They've been clean- ing the plush in this box with some nasty chemicals, and the smell is over- powering. I declareit is shameful that, when such things are necessary, they are not done long enough before the public are admitted for the odors to be dissipated.. This box smells of that stuff they put in lamps.\ ''I noticed it when wo came in,\ as- sented Chester, looking about him in- quiringly and sniffing, ''but it seems-to be going off. There isn't much of it now.\ ' He spoke with an easy, ponchalant L air, but know that it was his dress coat {® and not the plush which 'had given of- fense to her sensitive olfactories, and it | made his very marrow cold to think of her discovering the truth. What would she say if sho learned that the man she was engaged to marry had to wear a hired coat? Luckily the appearance of some rival beauty claimed her attention. Then the- curtain went up, and by the time the first act was over she thought of the odor no more. - With the exception of that one un- pleasant incident the evening was so thoroughly enjoyable that Chester for was happy in the delusive paradise of hope. he did not pay much attention: to it, | further than to vaguely feel its harmony with his inmost state of being, which, thanks to Irma's tenderness, wasone of 'exultant joy. From behind her fan she shot looks of love at him in response to the passionate whispers he uttered dur- ing the orchestra's most violent endeay- ors. One of her hands, beneath the friendly concealment of- a wrap, from time to time returned the ardent pres- sure he bestowed upon it. In short, she was as loving as she was beautiful. When they were riding homeward, she reminded him of her birthday party, to be given a week later, and bade him be sure to come. It would be, she said, little more than an informal family gathering, but could not be complete to her without him. (From that invitation his hope drew a most favorable augury, though the idea upon which it was based - was little warranted. Why, he said to himself, should she have mentioned it as more \a family gathering\ than any- thing else bad she not intended to deli- cately convey an intimation that her stern father was relaxing his opposition to their happiness? molt? CHAPTER XL Chester Sewall's sessions with him- self as a committee on ways and means tendance at Irma's birthday party was imperatively necessary. She would nev- er forgive him if he absented himself ble, if not exactly probable, that it might be the turning point in his for- tunes. Suppose her sordid father, in the expansion of feeling naturally to be ex- pected upon such an anniversary, should say: \Bless you, my. children. - Your love has conquered my pride. Marry.and be happy.\ ~ - But that difficulty about a dress coat presented itself anew. He could not dare to risk hiring one again and perhaps go about all evening smelling as if he had been cleaned with the stuff they put in lamps. If Irma should get one sniff of that odor, identify it with him and guess at the reason for its presence, she might be capable cf renouncing him forever. Yet the more he contemplated his own as an , alternative the more shabby it appeared to him. Would it be a judicious investment under the cir- cumstances for him to buy a new one? pelled him to decide against it. 'Why not wear John's? It was new, an elegant garment. 'One night's wear would not harm it. John would certainly not re- p to lend it if he were at home and indeed need never know that it had been borrowed. If it would fit- He took it out of John's wardrobe and tried it on. It fitted as if it had been made for him. Lottie Belden said that when he had it on ''there was not a better looking wax: figure in the Eden Musee.\ He wished,\ by the way, she would not make re- rearks like that. It was so difficult for him to determine sometimes whether they were meant to be sarcastic or not. 'The coat difficulty thus disposed of, another, which at first. threatened to be yet more serious, presented itself. He would be expected to make a present to Irma on the auspicious occasion, one worthy cf her and of the position he as- sumed as her affianced husband. - Very her diamonds as big as pumpkins or pailfuls of pearls if he could, but even a decent bouquet would have made a serious draft on his resources, and he feared that bouquets were hardly up to the occasion anyway. 'To buy such. a piece of jewelry as he would care to offer would banlaipt him. . After long cogitation he brought out of his trunk a little box, enveloped and sealed as it was when it came into his possession. ~In faded ink upon the paper infolding it were the words written in 'a tremulous hand, ''For my son.'* His eyes were dimmed for a moment, as he tenderly folded the paper and laid it aside. Surely, he thought, if mother could know she would net disapprove what he was about to do in his extrem- ity. She, too, would have loved Irma had she known her. ; ‘ ~ The box contained a number of pieces of jewelry, rings, earrings,; brooches and. bracelets, all old fashioned and generally of no great value.. Mrs. Sewall had cared little for ornament, and her additions - to the accumulation were. those of least worth financially, though the only ones that had any sacredness of association in the mind of her son. fortably in their seats when she began Some of: the antique pieces, that had long heirlooms in his family, were »; mediately lowered them again and said | the time being forgot his troubles and |, The music was magnificent, but. - grew long and. arxzious. . Of, course at- upon that occasion. And it was possi-. 'The slendernéss of his resources com- gladly, indeed, he would have given to- i nifiéh more valuable. than Chester im- <- > 'agined, but they werefew. Oneof these he selected for his present to Irma. ~ It' was a nautilus, wrought in gold and' enamel, with a setting of \one splendid , .._ ruby, exquisite in design and superb in -. execution. ~ He chose if simply because,. of its artistic beauty, thinking nothing. more of the big:ruby than that it looke®. .° well, for he knew practically nothing:, '~ of the values of precious stones. = -, -~ ._ On the evening of the party he wast more than pleased and not a little sur- prised to learn that his present was not\ . | pnly the most beautiful but by very far \No Chester, deas.\ f : the most valuable that Irma received. In fact, the big ruby made an actua? - sensation, eliciting expressions of wor- der ard admiration from all who gaw\ it. Even Mz. Willhzarth made no seru- ple of demonstrating his astonishment, for it was a stone that he, with all hig |- wealth, would have hesitated to presents to anybody. Amd it led him into. an er-: ror that was the cause of making Mr. - Sewall very uncomfortable, notwith- : standing his unexpected [distinction. ~~ The astute financier was incapable of . imagining that a young man could be'. - _- . so in love with a girl 'as to give to her': the wealth of a kingdom, if he possessed: it, leaving himself a beggar, and. the | | idea never occurred to him that Chestew could have been ignorant of ~ the worth of that treasure. Consequently he con- cluded that Chester must cither be a fel- > low of remarkable. ability or the espe-. cial favorite of fortune, and in either: - character well worth cultivating; So. - he linked arms with hint, walked him:. about afd talked investments to him,. | ._ suggested the most: tantalizing \'point : ers' for speculation and more: tham. hinted that he would be pleased to hav him open an account with the house of - 'Willmarth & Co. Of course Chester,. with the perverse understanding of the\ > unfortunate, imagined that the old fel-: ~- low had in some way learned of \his - financial disasters and was \chaffing'\ him, a. notion 'that set him inwardly raging. ley s* p hl . There were many exceptions, Chester .. found,. to the \family gathering'' limi-. tations of the party, and among them. was Mr. Cyrus Pratt, the famous poli- tician, . to whom he was introduced, with not -a little Aimpréssment, by Mr: Willmarth, The ''boss'' appeared to bo. * a heavy man, considerably past middle - age, with an immobile countenance, gleepy eyes' and a coppery complexion, 'who merely accorded him a nod of: in-. :. | 'difference in acknowledgment of thein-: troduction. Liater in the evening, when; -: he was sitting beside Irma conversing with her, Mr. Pratt came up to ask her hand in the next cotillion, when {she answered in her impulsive fashion :- . - {(To be Continued.) 'A New Haven man has patented @.: device which will show at a glance, by. - the motorman of an electric car, the-: speed at which he is running. The ob- |- ject of the inventor is to provide a de- vice by which street! railroad com- '. panies may be protected from viola- ; tions of ordinances regulating speed.; When the car reaches the maximuth,. for which the device is set, an alarm bell is rung. sil Cu Lord Queensbury has lost his fatherf- inlaw, and London society mises jone, of the most picturesque and- populas\ figures by the death of old Mr. Alfred -/; ' Montgomery, whose name used to be |-- promicunced \Mangummy in accord- - ance with that strange ~peculiarity, which English people have for distort- ing names.. Thus Ruthven is changed ~ into \Riven and Dalzell into \Deel.\ .\ One of the chief pleasure resorts of - the. Hamburghers is the Blankenese, & village situated about eight miles down: the river. It is picturesquely situated .- between two hills, and when seen from: the river, forms a charming . picture. An extensive view is also ~obtained fro ma tower on the summit of one of «> the hills. The sites of many cities of antiquity e are literally honeycombed. with tun- nels, and the Greks and the Romans have left numberless traces of- similar activity,\ which show that they: con- stantly 'brought their water and car- ried their drainage long distances, , . - Ex-Governor McLahe of> Maryland hes s has declined an election to the post of ' president general of the. Order of the Cincinnati. The office has been vacant . since the death of Hamilton Fish.: The: triennial Session 'of the order is now.: - 'taking place in Philadelphia. aoe 'It is reported that if the kaisenr's new - yacht the \Meteor just launched shalt - -- prove faster than \Valkyrie III.\\ that >> the kaiser may challenge for the, erica's cup. he sea s tel g The very oldest Chinese porcelain is- .- ~> a pure white, without fny. color what ever, sometimes with figures raised in:. | | relief, 'The earliest color laid on: was . ~
