The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-20
VARIOUS C~OMICALlTIEs.
anILLIANT FLASHES OF WIT
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Miss Alexander Discovers Why
Reginald Marston Could See In
Her ali the Graces Peculiar
to Womanklnd --Other
Squibs.
Why She Wilted.

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with Miss Alexander for at least two
hours on the piazza, where Fred
Wheelington had presented him to the
heiress. All his best powers had been
exerted to please her, and it was quite
evident that he was more than sue
cessful. As Wheelington came out at
IL o'clock into the fragrant summer
air of the night, Marston arose to 90.
mot yet, ! hope" said Miss Alex
ander detainingly.
Eyes, / have stayed too long al
ready" Marston almost whispered, as
he took her hand.
With 4 short good night to both, he
left Miss Alexander and Washington
on the piazza.
Wheelington took the chair Marston
had vacated and with the familiarity
of an old friend. drew it nearer that Of
the young woman. 2.@ 49,.
"What have you been saying of me
to Mr.. Marston9"' she began impulsive-
"Not a great deal of a compliment
tary character " he replied banter
ingly. "There isn't much to say,
don't you know"
"Oh, OF course not" she laughed;
"but you must have said something"
she insisted, efor I never saw a man
] so earnest, SO honest SO persistent in
Ending in one allthe graces of woman
Eind. He did it SO gracefully and so
charmingly, too, that really I have
quite fallen in love with him"
Washington coughed significantly
and laughed.
"Indeed?" he said briefly.
"Tell me" she urged, "now that's a
real nice big brother" and she took
his hand caressingly in. hers. "That
is," he said after a moment, mot
much"
5 ooh, but 1T must have been q great
deal"
mo, it was only a word or two" :
"Pshaw," she exclaimed, snatching
her hand from his, ''you couldn't tell
him anything about me in a word or
two which could possibly have had
any influence upon him."
ut seems, however, my dear Miss
Alexander, that I did," he said exas-
peratingly.
She jumped up from her chair and
walked across the piazza, where she
stood against the rail pulling a honey
suckle to pieces.
"How- perfectly idiotic," she ex-
claimed, throwing the flower to tho
floor. "What was it?"
81 told him you were very rich"
She crushed the flower under her
foot and went into the house.-De-
troit Free Press.
What He Really Is,
"see him! See him!" he said excit-
Eyes. What OF it?"
"He's one of the regulators or some
thing of that sort down SOUTH"
"Indeed!"
Eyes. They say when he gets at the
head of q crowd with a mask on his
face he looks simply terrible"
"Been in lynchings, l suppose"
"That's what l refer to. He hasn't
missed one in the ten years he has
been in the parish"
DCdu SoWUAut CA1
"Whatl Coward Why, man, didn't
tell you that he took part in all
those troubles down there? Hes been
at the head of five or six negro lynch
ings to my knowledge, and that's out
side of the whites"
"And the man lynched never had a
show"
20, we'll, of course, they weren't 60
ing to take any chances"
"And he wor a mask"
Certainly. It wouldn't do to be
recognized you know"
II understand. Afraid to give the
man they were going to kill even a
chance for his life against big odds on
the one hand and afraid to face the
Government on the other. What was
that. I.said? Coward? Well, let it
60 at that."-Chicago Tribune.
AReminisoence OF the Late Census.
Census-taker, to the queen of a
certain kitchen on Maryland Avenue,
Baltimore-"What is your manner"
Queen of the Kitchen-"My names
May Liza JONES'"
Observation-Disclosures were you
born2"
May 'Liza-T wuz born in
Glou'ster Cote House. Faginia."