The Indiana State sentinel., 1894-11-07


find a salary somewhere. you know, but
even those chances seem to be at an end
For the first time. I've put my name down
with the agents. and as I've nothing else
to do, i make Il call on each one OF them
every day. And. really. it's dreadful to
see how many good people are idle. Half
the women 1 know in the business haven I
signed yet and they are blue enough over
the situation. They are all good people.
you understand, first rate. whose salaries
have ranged from 800 to $3.50 week, but
now they are willing to take almost any
thing. OF course. they wanted their sal
AIRY at the beginning OF The season when
they might have signed il, but they were
passed by in favor of the Lyceum gradu-
ates. who will go out for nothing when
they don't pay for the chance Business
in New York seems 20 be- good. and we
are hoping the election will set us UP. But
friends of mine in road companies write
me dreadful tales OF woe. Whit I'm GO
ing TO do 1 don't know, because I can't
do anything but act, and I'll soon forget
even how TO do that"-N. Y. Press.
!
'Once," said the retired burglar. "I
looked from the upper hall of a house tnat
was in into a room that was 50 dark
that you literally couldn't see into it at
all. 1t seemd as if they must have had
! the windows closed, the blinds shut. and
: the shades all down. 1t was blacker'n a
cave. l turned my light in around ON the
floor 10 get the lay OF things and get 'am
fixed in my mind 50 as not 10 stumble
over anything over by the bed I saw a
chair, and hanging down from it a pair
Of trouser legs. Then, Of course, / knew
there was man in the bed, and that it
was his clothes that were stacked up on
the chair there. 1 shut off my light and
started. 1 knew the way and 1 went very
quietly, but when / got about half way
across the room the man in the bed
{ began to holleT.
How he could see me couldn't under
! stand. l couldn't see him at all. but
/ just halted and waited. He didn't holler
! very loud, though he was trying to, hard /;
but he was so scared that l was surprised
to hear him hOller at all; il sounded as
though ii was all he could do to catch
his breath; was afraid he'd scare himself
to death right on the spot I didn't dare
back out of the room for fear I'd meet
somebody coming in. l thought / could
dodge 'em better after they got in: 50 I
just stood there in the middle of that dark
room with that man hollerin' the best he
could and l wishing l was somewhere
/ else and wondering what was going to
turn up next.
well, sir. in about half 4 minute he
] stopped hOllerin' altogether. and for 4
/ minute or two ne did not breathe. Then
/ I was scared; but in about n minute more
] he began to snOre. You see? He wasn't
| scared at me- what he was scared at was
| a nightmare; ne didn't know l was there
at all. But il was a mighty uncomfJrta-
/ BILE position to be In all the same, because
| of course he was lust as likely 10 wake
up somebody hollerin in his sleep as he
| would ha' been if he'd been wide awake
/ he might have walked himself up, as far as
/ that's concerned. But he didn't, nor any
body else, apparently, and when he'd got
/ to snoring again, and everything seemed
! quiet. why l just went ahead and c1llared
/ his trousers. N. Y. sun.
There is always more or less rivalry
between the army and navy and proba-
bly, there always will be. When men Of
! either service can work off a joke at the
/ expense of the other they never miss an
! opportunity. The navy officers are now
| telling one on the army.
! 1t was at Fl. Monroe, where one of the
| vessels of the navy was temporarily
! awaiting orders. that a delegation Of
army officers stationed at the fort came
abroad There is a set naval reputation
/ that nothing can be so on board snip
until the commanding officer orders il.
! While the army party were looking over
/ the ship y o'clock arrived. A junior
/ officer approached the captain and said,
/ with a salute:
! 1T is u o'clock, sir
MAKE it sO,' responded the captain
| and eight bells We're struck. The army
! officers suspected that he navy men
wanted them to ask some questions, and
get sold. or tha, this was bit of foolery
! got up to joke the land warriors.
Some time after party of the army
! officers invited the officers of the war
| ship 20 dine with them. The dinner was
! progressing when a lieutenant entered
and, salutng the senior officer present
| said, gravely:
Colonel, the majors blind horse is
dead
! with the greatest gravity, and the dinner
proceeded. Nothing was said at the time
! but the navy officers tell the story
| Washington Star.
The saIeswoman had just sold a feather
| boa 20 a young lady with blonde hair.
who seemed very much pleased with her
bargain.
I'm so glad she didn't ask me if it was
real ostrich" said the saleswoman. as she
looked over her book Of sales.
"Was it?" asked the young man at the
remnant counter.
Not at that price, thank you"
Just then the young woman returned
in a state of still alarm. She hurried up
to the girl who had just sod her the os-
trich feather boa and said eXcitedly:
''See here. please"
Yes" drawled the gir,, who was de-
termined to die game.
"Will you please to tell me whether
those feathers were plucked from a liv-
ing ostrich or a dead One?'
oh. said the girl, much relieved:
Eyes. certainly; a living bird, of course"
Thank you. / have made a VOW never
to wear anything that is taken from the
! dead.P
She went away satisfied, and the sales
woman gasped several times before she
could speak. Then she said:
You could have knocked me down
with a ather."-Detroit Free Press.
The death of Ex-Governor Joseph D.
Bedle OF New jersey will probably put
an end 20 one Of the fiercest political
feuds which ever divided the democratic
party Of the state. Dividing with Leon
Albeit the suffrages of their party, the
sons and partis3ns of each eminent law
yer gave 20 the struggles of the two for
supremacy a peculiarly personal and vim
dictive character. Both succeeded in be-
coming governor, and each in that Office
took the best of care of his own. Albeit
made his eldest son, who died not long
ago. encouragement of the seate, and
Bedle persuaded President Cleveland to
appoint his eldest son as successor of
Base Ball Ben Folsom, as United States
consol to Sheffield, England. The men
were alike in many respects. Boa were
undersized and heavily built, and both
hard haters and hard hitters. 1t will
be A long time before the extensive fam
lily connections of the two men grow into
federation of each other. But time will
no doubt heal the bitterness of the feud,