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Her Mistake.

"Wen,' queried the Third street wo-
man, as she opened the side-door about
an inch and peered at the man on the
steps.
You are making sad mistake,
ma am" he answered.
How SOP
'Why, I'm not your husband, as has
been out on spree all night and is
just getting home to promise never to
do the like again. but a sober. respect
able gentleman, who wants to know if
you can spare him cup of coffee and
a crumb of bread to stay his stomach
till the mayor invites him to dinner"
Detroit Free Press,
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gay, glad morning sunshine, following
their band of music-a boys band that

gay, glad morning sunshine, following
their band of music-a boys band that
was, too.
Conn stood and watched them with
wistful, longing look in her great blue
eyes, and the soft, bright color coming
and going on her girlish checks. At
last she gathered u bunch of late red
roses, and put them in her bosom, and
went into the house. She sewed lit
tie, and then she tossed her work aside.
for who cares to work ON holidays?
Then she took up her new book; but
the tale it told seemed dull and cold be-
side the warm throbbing life of which
the outside world was full. She wished
over and over that she were boy
that she might have marched away
with the rest. Then she wondered if
she could not go into town and see
them from somewhere, in all their
glory. Very little idea had she of Il
Boston crowd on Fourth of July. She
had been into town often enough with
her aunt or her uncle, and walked
through the quiet streets; and she
thought She should have little trouble
in doing the same now. She looked in
her purse; she had not much money.
but enough 50 that she could ride if she
got tired, and she would be sure to
save some to come home. She called
her Aunt Sarahs one servant, and made
her promise to keep the secret as long
rs she could and then tell Aunt Sarah
that she had gone to Boston to find
Jack, and see him march with the rest
The girl was good-natured creature,
not bright enough to know that it was
her duty to interfere, and easily per
suaded by Conn's entreatleS and the
bit of blue ribbon with which they
were enforced.
And SO Conn started off, as the boys
had done before her, and went on her
way. But she had no music to which
to march, and for company she had only
her own thoughtS-her own hopes
Still she marched bravely on.
There were plenty of other people
going the same way-indeed it seemed
to Conn as if everybody must be going
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mission she had received to enter the
hospital She emenbered-would Jack
remember also?-that other Fourth CT
July on which they found each other
ak years before. As if nothing should
be wanting of the old attire, she met,
as she passed along the street, a boy
with flowers to sell-for flowers
bloomed, ojust as the careless birds
sang. even amid the horrors of those
dreadful days-and bought of him a
bunch of late red roses, and fastened
them, as she had done that other day,
upon her breast.
The sun was low when she entered
the hospital, and its last rays kindled
the hair, golden still as IN the years
long past, till it looked like a saints
aureole about her fair and tender face.
She walked on among the suffering,
until. at last, before she knew that she
had come near the object of her search,
she heard her name called, just as she
had called Jacks name six years be-
fore;
sob, Conn! Conn.,
And then she sank upon her knees
beside low bed, and two feeble arms
reached round her neck and drew her
head down.
y was waiting for you, Conn. I
knew you would come. | lay here
waiting till l should see you, as you
were that day long ago-all in white,
and with red roses on your breast-my
one love in all the world"
And the girls white face grew GRIM
sen. with swift, sweet joy, for never
'HS4s6fe@ had such words blessed her.
She did not speak; and Jack, full of
mans impatience, now that at last he
had uttered the words left unsaid SO
long, held her fast, and whispered:
Tell me, Conn, tell me that you are
mine, come life or death. Surely you
would not have sought me here if you
had not meant it to be so! You are
my Conn-tell me so.'
And suppose Conn satisfied him, for
two years after that she was his wife,
and twelve years later he gave the old
pistol of that first Fourth of July to
young ten-year-old Jack Richmond to
practice with for that years Fourth;
and pretty Mother Conn, as fair still as
in her girlhood, demonstrated, as gentle
mothers will, with:
"Oh, Jack, surely he is too young for
such dangerous plaything."
Father Jack laughed as he lifted little
Conn to his knee, and answered:
"Nonsense, sweetheart; he Is sol
dier's boy, and a little pistol shooting
won't hurt him."
But how noisy it was round that
house on Fourth of July,-Louise c.
in n. Y. Weekly.
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afternoon, when Aunt Sarah would
have company. But might she not put il
on now? Perhaps Jack wouldn't be here
then, and she could be careful. So she
slipped into the dainty gown, and fast
ened hooks and buttons in nervous
haste, and then looked in the glass, as
! every other girl that ever lived would
have done in her place.
1t was a bright, fair face that she
saw there-all pink and white, and
with those violet eyes over which the
long golden lashes dropped, and that
soft bright golden hair that lay in little
rings and ripples round her white fore
head, and hung a wavy mass down TO
the slender waist which the blue ribbon
girded. Conn was pleased, no doubt,
with the sight she saw in the mirror
how could she help being? She tripped
downstairs, and out of the door. Jack
whistled when he saw her.
"What. all your fineries on at this
time of day? What do you think Moth
or Sarah will say to that?"
The pretty pink flush deepened in
the girls checks, and she answered
him almost as though she had done
something wrong
"Ill be 50 careful, Jack. / won't
spoil it. BY and by you'll be gone, and
| wanted to Look nice when saw the
new pistol"
This seemed extremely natural to
Jack. The pistol was TO him matter
of such moment that no amount of
demonstration in its honor would have
seemed too great. Viewed in this light,
it really appeared quite meritorious
act that Conn should have put on the
white dress, and he looked her over
with that air of half patronizing APP
prevail with which boys are apt to re-
gard the good looks of their sisters and
their cousins.
Then he exhibited the pistol. 1t had
as a boys knife, or gun, or boat al
ways notwithstanding and in
dividual merits of it's own. No other
pistol, though it We're run in the same
mold, could quite compare with it, and
it was by some sort of wonderful
chance that he had become its pos
SCISSOR. Conn wondered and admired
with him to his hearts content. Then
came breakfast, and then the marching
of the Brighton Blues. This was
company of boys in blue uniform
handsome, healthy, wide-awal<e boys,
from fourteen to seventeen years old
every one of them the pride of mothers,
and sisters and cousins. They were to
march into Boston, and parade the
streets, and dine at restaurant, and
see the fireworks in the evening, and l
don't know what other wonderful
things.
Jack was in the highest spirits. He
was sure he and his pistol were neces-
sary part of the day; and he sincerely
pitied Conn, because she was girl, and
must stay at home.
Bang whang whang goes the drum, tootle-te-
tootle the fife;
Oh! the day in the city square-there Is no such
pleasure in life"
he quoted; and then he called back to
her from the gate:
Its too bad, Conn, that there's no
fun for you, but keep your courage up,
and I'll bring you something"
And SO they marched away in the
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Babel of noise about her. What was
it? Had everybody gone mad? Then
her wits began to wake up. She re-
membered that it was Fourth of July.
The worst noise of all-why, that must
be Jacks pistol, which he had been
saving up money to buy all winter
and all summer. And that other sound
that must be torpedoes; and there
was the old dog, Hero, barking at
them, and no wonder; it was enough to
make any respectable dog bark.
Firecraclkers! Ugh! Wasn't the pis-
toll bad enough without all these side
shows? Just then Jack called out from
the yard below:
Conn! Conn.,
The girls name was Constantine Rich
mond; but she was too slight and bon
ny for such long name and everybody
called her Conn.
She shook back her fair, soft curls,
as golden as a baby's now, though Conn
was fourteen, and putting little shawl
over her shoulders, peeped out of the
open window, as pretty little slip of a
girl as you would care to see, and looked
down on the face, half-boyish, half
manly, which was upturned to her. Ii
Jack had been her brother, perhaps she
would have scolded him; for Conn loved
her morning nap, and the general din
had discomposed her, no doubt. But
Jack was only her cousin, and her see
ond cousin at that: and it's curious
what a difference that does make
Your brothers your brother all the
days of his life; but your cousin is an
other affair, and far less certain. Sc
Conn said, quite gently:
what is it? Can / do anything
But I'm sure don't want to help you
make any more noise. This has been
oh, really dreadful"
She spoke with a droll, little fine-lady
air, and put her pretty little fingers tC
her pretty little ears, and Jack laughed
He had not begun to think of her YET
as II charming girl-shc was just Cousin
Conn.
What" he cried "Not like noise or
Fourth of July? Why, you don't deserv,
to have country"
I'm sure wish hadn't" said Conn
with little dash of spirit
Are you dressed?" cried the boy six
teen years old, but all boy still.
mo"
well, just hurry then, and com,
down. I'm off in half an hour with tn,
Brighton Blues, and | want You to Sc,
first how this pistol works"
High honor this, that she, a girl
should be invited to inspect the won
derful pistol.
Conn began to dress hurriedly. Wha'
should she put on? Her white dres,
hung in the closet-such a white dres,
as girls wore then, for it was many
years ago-all delicate ruffies, and witt
a blue ribbon sash, as dainty-tne as pos
sible. She knew that was meant fol
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JOHNNY AND THE FOURTH.
A Small Boys Idea of Our Independ
ence Day.

ence Day.
line orful glad thuv July don't come
in winter. How Good a Teller shute fire
crackers with mittins on his hands?
WHARF wood the Fun bee in standing
upp tn his neze in sno waitin forr the
Fire Works to goe OFF.
Ov kors when he burnd his fingirs he
Good maik snoborls so tina woodent hurt
eny and wen the Powdir got Fire in
his polSits hee Good jump Inn big sno
drift sow his mar wooddent no it. Butt
that amt mi ideer of shoin Patry Otism.
Emmy Teller hooz A Trade of gittin burnt
Ion Thee gloryyus thuv july had bet
tit be A gal and drop tor Pedoze on the
sidewark.
lit maiks me laff tn C gals fer orr tor
Pedoze kors tina always jump and Holler
as if tina wuz kilt Tha throw EN- down
onn the Gras most time kors tina kant
Hit enything wot tina anne att
think over farthers luvd littil boys
tn maik 4 thuv July on purpos for
| them. don't think Idle goe tn war; and
shed mi blud to maik A thuv July forr
| eny wun.
Ispose Washington wuz boy wunst
| himself and node how it wuz not tn
hav tirecrakers and ski rollits and ges
he felt SOW Badd that he told Thee army
abowt lit and got them tn Xix the Brit
ishers SO us boys Good selerbrate the VIC
tory ever afterwards.
That's wy Washington is l1orld the
Farther of His Kuntree. 1t hede bin
the muther of lit we woodent hav in
| dependence day tn shute llra<ers on
kors muthers git nerves and think boys
Il blow off thare fingers. H. C. Dodge,
in Goodalrs Sun.
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into Boston. Excitement upheld her,
and she trudged along, mile after mile,
across the pleasant mill dam, and at
last she reached Beacon street. Her
head had begun to throb horribly by
The time she got into town. 1t seemed
to her that all the world was whirling
round and round, and she with it. But
she could not turn back then-indeed
she did not know how to find any con-
veyance, and she knew her feet would
not carry her much farther. Surely she
must see Jack soon. He had said they
should march through Beacon street.
She would ask some one. She had an
! idea that everyone must know about
anything so important as the Brighton
Blues. AT last she got courage to speak
to kind-looking servant maid, in the
midst of group on the steps of one of
the Beacon street houses The girl
pitied her white face, so pale now,
with all the pretty pink roses faded
from the tired young cheeks, and an
swered kindly.
She did not know about the Brighton
| Blues, but she guessed all the COM
panies had been by there or would
come. Wouldn't the young lady sit
down with them on the steps, and rest,
and wait Il little?
And 1.-The young lady" sat down.
What could she do else, with the world
whirling, whirling, and her feet so
strangely determined to whirl out from
under her? And then it grew dark,
and when it came light again there was
wet cloth on her hair, and she lay on
lounge in a coy basement, and the
kind girl who had cared for her told
her that she had tainted. And then
she had some food and grew refreshed
/ little, but was strangely confusedyet,
and with only one thought, to which
she held with all the strength Of her
will--that she had come to setback,
and must look for him till he caDe.
So on the steps she stationed herself,
and the crowd surged by. Military
companies, grown-up ones, cane and
went with glitter of brave uniforms,
and joyful clamor of music, and Conn
watched with all her soul in her eyes,
but still no Jack.
1t was mid-afternoon at last when
suddenly she saw the familiar blue, and
marching down the street cane the
boyish ranks. following their own band
tired enough, all of them, no doubt,
but their courage kept up by the music
and the hope of fireworks byiand'by.
Conn strained her eyes. She did not
mean to speak, but after a little, when
the face she longed for came In sight,
something within her cried ont with
sharp, despairing cry:
''Oh, Jack! Jack.'
And Jack heard. Those who were
watching saw one boy break from the
long blue line, and spring up the steps
where Conn sat, and seize in strong
hands the shoulders of girl all in
white, her face as white as her gown,
and some red roses, withered now, upon
her breast.
'Conn-Conn Richmond-' tine boy
cried, what does this mean?"
Don't scold-oh, don't scold, jack"
said the pitiful, quivering lips; Il only
came to see you marching with the rest,
and-I'm tired"
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Anticipating. :

Tom Anjery, student. applied to
the professor for permission to be all
sent:
Il should like to be excused this
afternoon, as | want to take my sister
out driving"
The old professor, who is no foo,
looked at the young man over the top
of his spectacles, and said slowly:
Want TO take your sister out driv-
ing, do you? Is she any relation to
you?'-Boston Globe
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THE LIBERTY BELL.

Where congress met and freedom flung
Our starry banner to the breeze,
ExuItingly its iron tongue
All thro' that summer morning sung
Our newborn liberties.
II told the ending Of the night
The happy dawn of freedoms day,
And overland there flashed light
OF brotherhood and human right,
The end Of kingly sway.
Oh! how the good old bell told out
The Joyous tale Of freedoms birth!
From east to west from north TO south
The message Of its brazcn mouth
Rolled all around the earth!
1t sung the birthright OF the race.
The glory of the brave and free,
And pealing from its sacred place
- 1t set the whole wide world ablaze
With dreams OF liberty.
TITS old, and utters now no sound,
But yet IFS echoes ring sublime!
Its resting place is holy ground
To freedoms sons, wherever found,
Until the end OF time.
Louis Sverre Amonson, iu Youths Con
panion.
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Yes" said the girl who had be-
friended her, land she tainted clean
away, and she's more dead than alive
now; and if you've heart in your
bosom, you'll let your play soldering
go, and take care of her"
And just then Jack realized, boy as he
was, that he had heart in his bosom
and that his Cousin Conn was the
dearest and nearest thing to that heart
in the whole world But he did not
tell her so till long years afterward.
Just now his chief interest was to get
her nome. No more marching for him;
and what We're fireworks, or the supper
the boys We're to take together, in COM
parison with this girl, who had cared
so much to see him in his holiday
glory?
lie took her to an omnibus, which
ran in those days to Brighton, and by
tea time he had got her home. He
found his mother frightened and help
less, and too glad to get Conn back to
think of scolding.
1t was six years after that, that in
! the battle of Malvern Hills, July /,
1862, Jack, a real soldier then, and no
longer boy playing at the mimicry of
war, was wounded; and next day the
news came to the quiet Brighton home
Conn had grown to be a young lady
in the sweet grace of her twenty sum-
mers, and she was her Aunt SaraA's
help and comfort. To these two wom-
en- came the news of Jacks peril. The
mother cried little, helplessly; but
there were no tears in Conn's eyes.
Aunt Sarah" she said, quietly, 81
am going to find Jack"
And that day she was off for the Pen
| insula. 1t was the Fourth of July
when she reached the hospital in
which her Cousin Jack had been
| placed. She asked about him, trem-
bling; but the news, which treasured
her, was favorable. He was wounded,
but not dangerously. 1t was girlish
instinct, which every girl will under
stand, that made Conn put on fresh,
| white gown before she used the per
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present. A few weeks before had been
celebrated at Now York the first
centennial OF Washington's secession TO
the presidency. We were beginning the
new century with brightest propects and
hopes. Two months previous had oc-
Cured the elections of Benjamin Harrison
as president and the people of the country
were looking forward without anxiety to
an era of success and prosperity. Conf
dence prevailed i'm the business circles and
thonghout the country there was the hum
OF industry. continuing throughout the
administrations.
But mark the change. We predicted
the effects which would flow from the
accession OF the Democrats TO power I'm
the last election. These predictions were
true, for eight months OF Mr.. Cleveland's
ruling have shown them not TO be theo-
Contipu ued Oh Page z
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CRIMSON Or BLUE.
WHICH WILL WIN At HAMPDRN
PARK To1oRRoW
An Important Change Made in Yale's
EIovcn at the Last Moment--A similar
Change in 1890 Gave II TO Harvard.
srrcrAL TO THE NEWS.

SPRINGFIELD, Nov. q Harvard and
Yale meet tomorrow at Hampden Park
10 show us what they have learned in
football In the last year. Twelve mouths
ago the crimson faced the blue upon that
same field and there was a
contest that repaid all who
watched 1t. The game was close and ex-
citing, but 60 far as the running features
OF it were concerned 10 is likely to be
eclipsed BY the match Of ls03. Two wedges
were the remarkable features OF the game
last November the Harvard flying wedge
at kickoff and the Yale centre wedge on
down. or these the former was revela-
tiont TO the players and spectators. The
latter was not extraordinary except in its
CONSTANT, steady, small gains.
Tomrrow both teams will show the
result or the stimulus given last year
TO the development Of new plays by
Mr.. Dsland's opening wedge. Coaches
throughout the length and breadth OF
The land have been working all the year
upon plays of all kinds dependent upon
sudden surprises and concentrated
mass work. Pensylvania's flying in
reference, az exhibited i'm the Yale
game, was as brilliant as anything yet
developed. but il is ouly fair TO expect
that the gaae tomorrow will add one or
more new evolutions to place by the side
Of Woodruff's we'll conceived play. The
point has been reached when team
20 be surely winning one ought TO have
long years of football study so that IL
might develop upon the spot the proper
defence to every new play introduced
against it. This is of course impossible,
and in IL lies much Of the sport Of the
game, for really good play is certain to
be rewarded by mauy marked gains be-
fore the opponents can successfully stop
il. Tomorrow we shall see this in its
perfection II the weather is only favora-
ble, 50 that both teams can execute all
their PLAYS.
AT the last moment very important
change has been made In the Yale eleven
Norris, who has played quarterback in
every game, retires on account OF injuries
aud George Townsend Adee, a substitute
on last years eleven takes his place.
Adee has not played a single game with
the Yale team this year. The only pre-
vious occasion when Yale dropped regu-
lar player two days before the game was
in $780, the only occasion when Harvard
ever downed he blue.
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CHRISTOPHOS TROUBLES.
WAS FIRST ACCUSED or sTABBING
HIS SwEEIHEART,
Then Arrested and Fined for Drunken
ness-The Girls Mother Withdraw
Her Charge.

The Italian colony on Federal Hill Is
aroused again. Late last night one of the
residents, Nichola Christopho, young
Italian. was arrested by officers Of the
Fourth station for drunkenness and his
arrest brought out peculiar tale.
IL seems that about week ago Nichola.
who was smitten with the sweet smiles Of
16-year-old Mary Spring, one OF his coun-
trywomen, made up his mind to marry
her. 1t is alleged that the couple. ac-
companied by the usual delegation Of
friends, went TO the city registrars Office
ia the city hall for the purpose OF secur-
ing a marriage license, but apparently
they we're unsuccessful in getting 1t as
there In no record OF such application on
the books. Nichola thought he had
strong claims on the girl and last
night allowed his jealousy to get pos es-
sion OF him.
Early in the evening the mother OF the
giri appeared at the station and claimed
that he had stabbed her daughter. Tne
police investigated and found that the
girl had been cut in some way on the
right leg just below the hip. the wound
being quite deep.
When the girl was questioned she de-
MED that she had bcen stabbed. but said
that she had received the wound by faIi-
ing on the railroad track. and finally the
mother veercd around aud made the
same claim.
Christopho was placed under arrest for
drunkenness aud this morning was fined
s2 and costs In the police court. The affair
will be allowed TO drop.
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CITY NOTES.

Mr. Chsrles Mellstrom OF the Swedish
Republican club says the members ot the
club are solid in the support OF Col Olnsy
for mayor.
A meeting of the road commission was
held yesterday. It's expected that au act
will be drafted at the next meeting for
presentation to the Legislature.
Herbert Browncll, living at 73 Prospect
street, while driving on Waterman street
yesterday, was thrown from the carriage
by the failing OF his horse. The thills OF
tie carriage were broken.
A bold thief made raid on the store
owned by Heirts Contgolivsky at 457
Eddy street yesterday afternoon and got
away with six pairs OF shoes hanging
outside the door. The police of Station
five were notified.
Leonard J. Sweet, who drives low
gear for l. A. Sherman, came very near
peing Killed this morning a lille -AaFieg
bis team loaded with cotton from tue
Mathersos warehouse OF Transit street.
Just as a bale was pushed out OF the
upper 81 ory to b. towerep to the truck the
hooks l.ppsd & II and the bale fell on bin.
Mr.. Sweet was stunned aud for n while
IL was thought by thcss who saw the ac-
cldent that he was fatally injured. lie
recovered from ths effects In a short tim ?,
however, aud was able to attend to his
work.