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She-"And so you have been to
Washington and actually stepped
upon the sacred floor of the house
of representatives. Were you not
fired with enthusiasm ?" He-"No;
by the doorkeeper. Boston Tran
script.
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Hasn't there been something of
GOODNESS between you and Regi-
nalp" said the inquisitive girl.
"Oh, yes" was the reply. ave
were eating ice cream together only
last night" Washington Star.
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"Say, mamma, why is it papa al
ways speaks of money, as cold
cash?'" II guess because it gives
him a chill to part with it. Elk.
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HUMOROUS.

1t is surprising how much we
will take from rich uncle-if we
can get it.-Syracuse Courier.
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Miss Timid-"Did you ever find
a man under the bed?" Mrs. Bluff
-"Yes. The night we thought
there were burglars in the house |
found my husband there. Petit
Meridional.
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He-"What do you say, my dear;
shall | have my life insured.
She-"You don't feel as if it
would shorten your life, do you,
darlingP"
He--"Pooh! No."
She-"Oh, well, | don't believe
I'd go to the expense Of it then. y
Ex.
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Little Harry-"Papa, is the tariff
bill a counterfeit?" Papa-"No." >"
Little Harry-"Then why can't
they pass it?"-New Y York Herald.
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Charley Sorreltop-"Baw Jove, |
b'lieve you married me for my mon
eyw Mrs. Sorreltop-"My dear,
look in the glass and ask yourself
if could ever have married you
for anything else" Chicago Tri-
bune.
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Husband-"Do you think my full
beard is an improvements" Wife
-"How much does it save you a
week." about dollar" "Yes,
it's an improvement" New York
Weekly.
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Jupiter-Of the women of your
acquaintance who have married,
which are the happiest?
Juno-The dead ones.-Ex.
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"Have you ever been around the
world?" "No-but my arm has. '
"What do you meanP" swell
you are all the world to me. ."-Har.
lem Life.
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"Ah!" remarked the great musi-
clan as he walked the floor with his
bowling offspring in his arms, lit
is much easier to compose a grand
opera than wakeful baby."-Puck.
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Mother Ito suitor)-"No, l can
never give you my daughter, have
quite made up my mind" Suitor-
"Then ! am doubly disappointed.
vowed that would havea lovely wife
and a young-looking mother-in-
law" Mother-"Well, er-you may
call again. L,may change my mind" "
-Fliegende Blaetter, Munich.
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He-"The ladies of my family
have been famous for untold ages.
She-"Indeed. They must have
been very guarded in their conver-
sation. Truth.
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COLLECTIONS

Promptly attended TO- and repittanSes nj, : n E, !
made TO all partA of the country by drafts.
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II would get up and give you
my seat, miss said the jolly-faced
man in the crowded street-car, "but
| don't feel it to be my duty.
am old enough to be your father"
"You hold your age and your
seat remarkably we'll, sir" replied
the young woman, grasping strap
as the car lurched.-Ex.
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II hear Bilker lost his job.
Wonder if he's struck anything
since?" "Er-yes; all of his friends
and two-thirds of his acquaint-
ances. Buffalo Courier.
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She-"Cease your fattery, sir, or
l shall put my hands over my ears. a"
He wishing to pay her compli-
ment)-"Impossible! Your hands
are too small for that. ."--Tid-Bits.
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Detroit Bay CITY & Alpena R.R,

all and ACCOM- ESnress. mediation
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Vol. XXIII, No. Al. /
HUMOROUS.
1t is surprising how much we
will take from rich uncle-if we
can get it.-Syracuse Courier.
1t may seem paradoxical, but tc
be accorded warm reception and
to be roasted are entirely different
things.-Philadelphia Record.
"Say, mamma, why is it papa al
ways speaks of money, as cold
cashp'" 81 guess because it gives
him a chill to part with it. ."-Ex.
Little Harry-"Papa, is the tariff
bill a counterfeit?" Papa-"No.' y
Little Harry-"Then why can't
they pass it?"-New York Herald.
"Have you ever been around the
world?" "No-but my arm has.
"What do you meanP" swell
you are all the world to me. ."-Har.
lem Life.
He-"The ladies of my family
have been famous for untold ages.
She-"Indeed. They must have
been very guarded in their conver
sation. Truth.
II hear Bilker lost his job
Wonder if he's struck anything
since?" "Er-yes; all of his friends
and two-thirds of his acquaint
ances. Buffalo Courier.
"Do you know the nature OF al
oath?"
Don't know how it is wild mos
folks, jedge, but wild me, reckon it''
sort of second nature. Life.
She-"Cease your flattery, sir, ol
l shall put my hands over my ears.
He wishing to pay her compli
ment)-'Impossible! Your hand:
are too small for that. ."--Tid-Bits.
"Ahw remarked the great musl'
clan as he walked the floor with his
bowling offspring in his arms, vi
is much easier to compose a grand
opera than wakeful baby."-Puck
Husband-"Do you think my full
beard is an improvements" Wife
-"How much does it save you a
week." about a dollar" "Yes
it's an improvement" New York
Weekly.
Miss Timid-"Did you ever find
a man under the bed?" Mrs. Bluff
-"Yes. The night we thought
there were burglars in the house
found my husband there. Petit
Meridional.
Whats old Swizzles, the mil
lionaire, looking so pleased about;
He just lost $4,000 in stocks.
"Yes, but afterward he managed tc
get free ticket to 75-cent show.
Chicago Record.
The heiress-'I am so suspicious
of men that | sometimes wish
didn't possess wealth." The goot
friend-"But just think, dear, how
lonesome you would be without it.
New York Herald.
Susie Cat her music lesson)-"Tt
like to catch an old air | heard IL
the music room last night" Pro
fessor-"What air was that?" Su
sic (demurely)-"Oh, it was mil
lionaire. ."-Tid-Bits.
Hasn't there been something o
a GOODNESS between you and Regi
nalp" said the inquisitive girl
"Oh, yes" was the reply. "W
were eating ice cream together onl..
last night" Washington Star.
Gump-"I wish a fellow coul
borrow money as easily as he cal
borrow trouble" Hump-"If yor
could make money as easily as yo
can make trouble, you wouldn't nee
to borrow ny."-Boston Transcript
|
Charley Sorreltop-"Baw Jove,
b'lieve you married me for my mon
eyw Mrs. Sorreltop-"My deal
look in the glass and ask yoursel
if [ could ever have married yo
for anything else" Chicago Tri
bune.
He-"What do you say, my deal
shall l have my life insured.
She-"You don't feel as if
would shorten your life, do yo,
darlingp"
He--"Pooh! No."
She-"Oh, well, | don't belieN
I'd go to the expense Of it them
Ex.
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"Do you know the nature of an
oath?"
Don't know how it is wild most
folks, jedge, but wild me, reckon it's
sort of second nature. Life.
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a sPRINKLB OF sp1cE.

Pedestrian-Would you take the last
cent a man had?
Highwayman-COurse would. used
to be lawyer, mister.-Judge.
Rouser-What do they mean by ladies'.
day at the club?
Touser-It's a chance twice q year to
sober up.-New York World.
81 never had the courage to get mar
ried."
s'Haven't, Ell? What's your business?',
"Oh, I'm only a hon-tamer."
delphia Record.
F1gg-Did you ever think of it? 1t is a
curious expression, seeking a woman's
hand in marriage. AS though the hand
were everything.
Fogg-So it is If you get the hand
you get the money. That's where a wo-
man carries it.-Boston Transcript.
In a railroad -She-That man
sitting opposite to US is detestable fell
low.
He-Why so, my darling?
She-Because he makes a point Of
lighting his cigar whenever we reach a
tunnel.-Fliegende Biaetter.
Teacher-sammy, in the sentence, 'I
have a book what is the case of the
pronoun I?
Sammy promptly)-Nominative case.
Teacher-Next boy, tell me in what
case to put the noun book.
Next Boy (thoughtfully)-Boo
-Pittsburg acknowledgement
Doctor. why Is it that some people
who are perfect wrecks live longer than
others who are strong and well?''
"Er-well-you see the others die first"
Life.
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could not be consoIed. They were tearing
down the frame barracks, and in the
midst of the move to the new Site-some
of the troops being already there en-
camped-when Leon reappeared, and he
watched the process of dislnanti1ng with
a laden heart. The only real home he
had ever known was being ripped 10
pieces before his very eyes, and he could
not bear it. While the new officers and
men were strangers to him, there was
still at the post his first protector, old
Sergeant Kelly, newly appointed ord
nance sergeant and retained there after
the departure of his old regiment. There
was the hospital steward and his family,
and the clerks and employees about the
traders store, as we'll as the men at the
quartermaster' corral; they knew him
well, but they too, were in the midst of
preparation for the move. They were
full of sympathy for him and of distrust
uel Cardoza, the maternal uncle. They
believed implicitly Icons story OF
his transportation. The boy said
that Uncle Manuel had treated him
ella river. Muncey had left then and gone
back to Santa Anita, after signing and
exchanging some papers with Manuel at
ranch on the Aqua Fria- Leon could tell
driver of the blackboard had made a. place
for him among the mail sacks, and there
he cried himself TO sleep at night. But
instead of taking him back to Aunt Car
mer of whom his mother had often told
him.. Uncle Manuel had turned him over
TO tint boss packer at Tucson, and Leon
Instead OF taking the southwark trail.
the pack train was travelling eastward
day after day, and he learned presently
that they were going to old Fort Crit
tenden-far over where the Chiricahua
Apaches under Cochise. their famous
leader were then in the height of their
bloody work. Mrs. Cullen had taught
Randall and him the beautiful contelia-
lions in the cloudless Arizona skies, and
from the pole star by night and the sun
by day he knew they were never going.
toward Hermosillo--his mothers far
Sonora home. Then he overheard
talk among the packers that boded
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BY CAPTAIN CHARLES KING.
Author of "The c6oneis Daughter Deserteg etc.

had gone his uncle and partner appeared;
less than fortnight and the poor little
Fellow was pulled off the blackboard in
the dusty streets of Tucson and turned
over to a Mexican packer for transpor-
tation to Sonora, and less than month
after the CullenS and &C. troop had LETT
the post, h6gg1rd, half starved, footsore
and in rags. little Leon reappeared at
old Retribution almost as utter a stran-
ger as when, half drowned, he was borne
thither IN Sergeant Kelly's arms eighteen
months before.
If YOU had lived year or more in
ceratin village and knew every member
of every household within four blocks of
your home and were to be taken away
for month or so and returning, faint,
footSore, hungry and i'll rags, yet thrill
ling with hope and joy at the thought
of being restored TO kind friends and
hospitable firesides, only to find every
thing but the houses changed, you can
fancy little Icons dumb misery as he
dragged from door to door along
Officers Row meeting only total
strangers. He reached the old post
ing May afternoon, when every
body was seeking shelter within doors.
and the servants who came TO answer
his tmid knock looked askance at the
little black eyed ragamuffin and could
only say the people he sought were some.
He had turned away with choking sob
from the third door. the big house where
the major Of the Eleventh cavalry used
to live, not knowing whittier now 10
so, and had sunk down upon the steps
in utter desolation when he heard
through the screen of the open window
a childish voice pleading: 1T must be
Leon, mamma. DO let me call him
back" And the next minute pretty
fiaxen haired girl Of 10 was at his side.
Leon never could tell just how it all
came about. He remembered trying hard
to keep q stiff upper lin and be brave and
self controlled and tell his story calmly
and coherentiy, but he was weak, starved
with the bitterness of his dis
appointment, and he broke down entirely
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Copyright. 1894. by the Auth. -
PART I.-CHAPTER I.

The new road from Prescott to the min
ing settlements along the Santa Anita fol-
lowed the Sandy for two or three miles
above Apache canyon, then turning alb
ruptly. drove under the turbid waters and
Ieappeared, dripping and bedraggled, on the
opposite bank, where it was speedily lost
in the thick underbrush as it wound away
eastward. Time was when the trail fol-
lowed the canyon itsel9-a mere mule path
but ever since the night of the big cloud
burst that swelled the stream to the force
and fury Of a Niagara and drowned old
Sanchez and his whole party of pros
pectors packers and pack mules, even the
indians, seemed TO shun it. The only
survivor OF the tragedy was a lad of II,
The son of a Yankee miner. and his MeXi-
can wife-a lac whose name was Leon
AacNutt (MacNutt being the patronynlic
and Leon the Christian name given him
by his dark eyed, dark hal dark skin
ned naother). and Leon - away in
the flood, was hshed out I wn several
miles below by a SQUAD ~, .Opers from
oid Fort Ee:ribution- 'h 'ttae, fellow
and sadly battered aRd ~ ID by the
hoats21n and jetsarn IF thefo iAAwhiriad
along with him by the raaiHr watAcs, and
for q time al effort 20 rev hiln fsiled
When al LAST he was able to ak and tell
ms name ne was lying in ainty little
ped m cool room, With such
gentle. plying, nc Heri5 face
hands caressing his Wy cr-sp
Of coal black hair, and best he sweet
Noneu1y face vas that Of q stLN Y Saxon
boy Of about Icons own age, wlfcse bsle
e5es were fun OF anxiety and s1mb2ihetic
interest. The first handclaspf the liftle or
phan seemed to recognize IA IRIS other
boy s 1t was in answer 10 hi Questioning
that the bewildered patient fseby muir
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and s55be3 N utter abandonment, aTlC
there vas no more thought of siesta at
Captain Fosters quarters that afternoon.
a plying sympathetic group surrounded
the boy. Mrs. Foster and her daughter
Nellie Vying with one another in min
istering to his wants, and other kind wo-
men coming IN from adjoining quarters
as the story swiftly went the rounds.
II was all over the post in a few hours
how little Leon, who used 20 live here
with tke Cullen's as RandalFs playmate
and friend, had escaped from the packers
in southern Arizona and made his way
ail those weary. blistering, desert miles,
begging a ride IN freight wagons, herding
mules trotting along behind the mail
blackboard, sometimes tramping all alone,
until he reached at last the familiar
scenes only to find that his friends were
fed.
No hospitality was ever warmer than
that of the soldier in those old frontier
days. Tramp or vagabond. gypsy,
greaser, or Indian. it made no difference,
even vagrant dogs never knew what it
was to be turned away uncheered. The
Fosters took the little stranger for the
time being, at least, because they knew
the Cullens well. and meeting them in
San Francisco had heard Leon's story
from their own lips though never dream
ing they were to see him so soon. They
and the other new families were kind
to him as people well could be, and yet,
though grateful, it was plain the boy
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or may not be possible in such a. career.
AT any rate. be it fact or fiction, there
are few books which / could not spare
from my shelves better than the me
moirs of the gallant Marmot.
NEGLECT OF THE BRITISH SAIL
OR IN LITERATURE.
French literature is rich in every de-
partment, but richest of all in it's
memories. Whenever there was anything
interesting going forward there was al
so some kindly gossip who knew all
about it, ready to set it down for pos.
terity. Our own history has not nearly
enough to these charming side-lights.
Look at our sailors in the Napoleonfc
wars for example. For over twenty
years freedom was a refugee upon the
seas. Had our navy been swept away.
then all Europe would have been one
organized despo Gsm. At times every
body was against us-fighting against
their own interests under the pressure
OF that iron Corsican hand. We fought
on the waters with the French. with
the Spanish, with the Dutch, with the
Danes. with the Russians, with the
Turks. even with our American broth
ers. Middies grew into post-captains
and admirals into dotards during that
prolonged struggle. And what have we
in literature to show for it? Marryatt's
novels, many of which are founded on
personal experiences, Nelson's and Col
lingwood's letters, Lord Cochrane's
obiography-that is almost all. No
doubt our sailors were too busy to do
much writing, but none the less one
cannot but marvel that out of the
thousands there were so few who I'M
derstood what a treasure these expert
elces would have been to their de-
scendants. l have often looked at the
old three-deckers rotting in Ports
mouth harbor and thought had they
but the power what a missing Chapter
in our literature they could supply.
THE BEST OF FRENCH MEMOIRS
BY WOMEN.
It is usually the French women who
have been SO considerate of posterity.
Their letters and their recoIlections
make the history of their country more
attractive to the romance writer than
our own can be, for with their keen
feminine observation of trif1es they
make us realize the times and the peo-
pie as a mere catalogue of events can
never do. One may read every history
ever written about Napoleon, for ex-
ample, and never realize the man as
one does when one looks through the
eyes of Madame de Remusat. Through
her we know him as if we had seen
and talked to him. His singular mix
ture of the small and the great His
huge imagination, his limited knowledge,
his intense egotism. his Impotence of
obstacles, his phenomenal grasp of de-
tail, his boorishness, his impertinence
to women, his diabolical playing upon
the weak side of everyone with whom
he came in contact-they make up
among them the most striking of his
torical portraits-and of the very man
whose portrait we should most wish to
have. The world owes a huge debt to
French literature, and to this depart
ment of it above all others.
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i'll for him. Manuel had reasons for want
ing to ..get him out of the way was all
he could make of it, and if he WASH
lost" as they expressed it, before they
reached the Sierra Bonita, he must be
lost there, where it could be laid to
Cochise and the Chiricahuas. Terrified,
the boy still kept his wits. They passed a
wagon train, a quartermaster' outfit,
western bound one day, and that even
camp and all alone and afoot, took the
back track across the desert, and after
an all night tramp, caught the train with
its soldier escort just as it was starting
on the next stage. The troopers gave him
food ana a place to sleep under the canvas
cover OF one Of the wagons. Leon was
carried back to Tucson safely, but from
there home to the old post far up to the
rorth was a matter of days ana weeks
He had got there at last, worn and weary
but something. told him it wouldn't be
long before Uncle Manuel and AIuncey
were after him again, speedily learning
that he had returned to his friends in
stead of being lost as the packers
might say, among their foes, the Chiri-
oIo ana new, that he would not and dare
not return to his uncle's control The
problem, therefore, was what to do with
I Elm until Captain and Mrs. Cullen could
be heard from, and the solution came
quicker than might have been expected
foal captain and his regiment when it
ielt Arizona, Cullen was looking forward
70 promotion to the grade of major with
IN the year, and probably in his own
old regiment. But one OF those sudden
End unlocked for opportunities occurred
that are so characteristic of army life
Major Wharton, of the til cavalry,
the new regiment just reaching Art
iona, concluded that he would rather
retire with the three-quarters pay of
that grade after thirty years of hard
service than go out to the desert and
desoiate land of Arizona for four years
more. Captain Cullen, promoted major
OF the til cavalry, vice Wharton, re-
tired, would soon return to the very sta
ton he had recently left. Icons best
friends were coming back, and Randy
wrote in eager delight to tell the news.
This was about mid-June. Blazing hot
and dry were the days and breezeless the
rights, most unfaVorable time for travel
TO and fro across the Arizona deserts, but
Major Cullen was losing not an hour. He
was man who had seen much service
among the Apache Indians, knew their
haupts and habits, and was both feared
ana trusted by them. No sooner was the
ola regiment fairly out of Arizona and
oefore the new one was fairly in, there
neW hurried dispatch to San Francisco
that was flashed on across the Sierras and
Rockies and caught the new major at
Omaha. In brief words it told him THAI
there was universal uprising among the
Apaches and asked how soon ne could
return, as the general commanding he d
open Tor him an important command. In
IWenty,four hours the reply was at Drum
"a tracks Start this morning. Expect
fU-o ~
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UP THE HIAIALAYAs.
An Englishman's Climb to the
Height of 19,4OO Feet.

An Englishman's Climb to the
Height of 1900 Feet.
William Martin Conway, vice president
of the Alpine club, and at one time pro-
fessor of art in the university college of
Liverpool, has recently made daring
and successful exploration of the Karako-
ram Himalayas. The Alpine club COM
bines in its members representatives of
the sciences and the arts. and enthusiast
tic Observation-Disclosures who enjoy climbing
explorations were in region where ma
for the sake of climbing Mr.. Conway
ture is seen in her grandest and most
awful shapes, where man presents the
most curious studies in archaic types, and
where strange religions meet in a re-
gfon, moreover, that is all but unknown.
Mr. Conway started out well equipped
for the work he had in hand. He has
associates skilled in mountain climbing
and IN classifying the forms of animal
life that he might find. The Indian gov
eminent gave him every facility for his
explorations. Mr.. Conway took with him
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scHnoI. oF ApphIEn DESIGN.

Miss Grace Barton Allen, rising
young artist and newspaper woman, took
first prize in water color painting at the
exhibition of the school of applied de-
sign for women in New York city. The
school was founded by a woman, Mrs
Dunlap Hopkins, who used her money for
the benefit of her own sex pnG set. all
other women a noble example. Miss Az
len IS the daughter of the poet, Elizabeth
Alers Allen.
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Clerk-Are you going to discharge me.
dispense without you.-Lampoon.