The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-06-17

1AOtntA WHY ~ -
red hair which 'twined and
twisted we are told. like snakes Of
copper curling themselves about the
poor mans neck and breast like
things alive,n while her erstwhile
cheeks got passion flushed against his
own
Curiously enough, although the
arch type of intense passion is red
hair, 1t is also the type of the highest
purity. We have 1t from Josephus,
as we'll as from sacred narrative, that
the Saviour had curling auburn locks,
a ~singuiarly clear white skin, and
tender, soulful eyes Of gray. His vir-
gin mother was also auburn haired.
So the two extremes meet.
She Had Red Hair.
They were talking about the red
headed Observation-Disclosures fad at the
kimball House the other night when
somebody told q good one on Sam
Hardwick, whom everybody knows as
general passenger agent ofthe Georgia
Pacific.
Sam was with a party of Birming-
ham friends not long ago-gay young
society people they were, and all we'll
known to everybody in the Magic
City-when somebody started the
white horse story. One young lady
in the party had ideal Titan hair, and
the joke was, of course at her expense.
There we're white horses everywhere.
Every little station brought another
white horse to add to the fair ones
discomfort and correspondingly to the
happiness of the man who persisted
IN pointing them out. 1t was a white
horse day. Glimpses of them met the
gaze of the party everywhere until the
victim of 1t all began TO think that
every horse and every mule in Ala
bama was of that, to her. detestable
color.
A bright idea struck ~Sam-struck
him hard, in fact.
"Now. I'll bet $20,n he said to the
white horse man of the party, ''that
there won't be a white horse at the
depot in Admission when We get
there.p
The bet was promptly taken, and
the coming to Admission was eagerly
looked forward to.
In a few minutes Hardwick looked
athis watch, and, murniuring some
thing about wanting to see the en-
gineer,n went forward.
A minute later the train stopped at
a. llIJlt SIdIlOn. 90 illtc1B WAS biAt
party upon looking at some white
mules in the distance that they didn't
notice the brakeman, who hurried
into the telegraph Office and hurried
out again. Had they seen the mes
sage he bore they would have read -
ITO Blank, Agent, Admission: Ten
dollars to you If you have no white
horses or mules at depot when train
arrives"
But they didn't see it.
Sam went back to the party chuck
ling to himself and admiring his own
cleverness- 1t was but a few minutes
when the conductor called '.Annis-
tonl' The young ladies looked out
Rid laughed. Sans face wore a be-
nigh smile as he pushed one of the
men aside. and pressing his face to
the pane he saw
White horses everywhere In all
that of drays and hacks
every mule and every horse vas white.
A tap on the shoulder aroused him.
MIR. Hardwick, I'm sorry"-it was
the agent who spoke-"I'm sorry, but
/ could only get nineteen-n
Sam jerked the telegram from his
hand, but for a minute was speech
less. Then, without a word he handed
9 " VI Dh4o W NV III Will WbOl4i
he had bet.
The telegraph operator had made
the mo- read 20. n-AHdnta Cofsti-
tuition.
How Mrs. Lincoln Set the Tabl q.
Talking about the queer ways oil
women, of all queer women and
changeable. the late Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln, as everybody knows, was the
most sc. No IN could account for
her moods, they were as variable as
the wind. Here is a story told about
her by Senator Palmer OF Illinois.
"She was a queer woman said he.
"but peace to her now. She was q
good one also, and we are all more Oh
less cranky, the best of us.
1T was way back in the times when
| was stamping the State for Douglas
against Lincoln when Abe and | met
in Lincoln's home town. Nothing
would do but Abe must have me come
: to his house to dinner. l went. OF
course. Mrs. Lincoln met us in the
parlor.
MARY, my dear, here's the fellow
that's trying to keep me out of office
Choke him on a real Illinoy dinner,
will your he said in his bluff, hearty
way.
II knew Mrs. Lincoln, and l saw
right away she was moody. She
greeted me stiffly, and shortly after
called us TO dinner. When w sal
down Lincoln gave one look around
and his face clouded; only an instant,
however.
Every dish on that table was
cracked or brokenl There wasn't a
whole or respectable plate on the
cloth. The table was usually beauti-
fully spread, but it looked now as il
the place had been ransacked for ole
baking dishes and damaged ones o
all kinds.
But the dinner was good enough,
and after that brief cloud Old Abe.
good, homely face beaIned as If the
hest china had been brought out fol-
the occasion. He laughed. joked
told stories and made everything Sc
pleasant that we had no time to think
of the spread. l forgot to say there
Were other political friends of hi
there, but though he must have fell
annoyed, he never betrayed it by
apology or otherwise .H--LouisoiH,
Post.
"Dinner for Two Appetite for Onel"