The Washington times., 1894-11-11

MA didn't go far 10 see how she could just
manage it. The new minister had come
ahead of his house-furnishings, and she had
been lending blankets as her contribution.
But Mary Ann was married on the next farm,
and could loan her few for the night.
However, we usually got comfortable beds;
underwent a cross examination as 10 our
clothes from the daughters Of the house, who
invariably wondered how the bicycle suit
came off, Gallagher was the readisst 10
cratifv them. Mephisto and Lillian Russell
were always much engaged with the young
men of the household, If there were any. IL
not, nothing would keep either OF them out OF
bed five minutes after we had had supper.
Mephisto the youths regarded with fearful
admiration, the astounding fctions about
herself we caught her in from time TO time
notably the account of how she once went
into the identical fiery furnace OF Old Testa-
ment fame, and came out unburned because
the fires went out few centuries ago-no one
stopped her in. But when she began to pose
the president and the ehaperon as two worthy
people, a little demented. whom they were
taking this trip with to try and restore to
mental soundness, My Kate interfered-
"She never found fault with you-never
implied your wrong by her right. NV hate-
jeered Mephisto, and we packed her on 10
bed. But the youths, with few exceptions,
adored Lillian Russell, and we LETT a trail OF
broken hearts behind US. She had dis
astrous CLINT in her blue eyes when she
looked back, as we wheeled off in the early
morning, which wss a work OF art she and
Mephisto worked in pairs, and when the
youth became too sentimental over Lillian
Russell, as once happened the day We were
s,ormbound at one house, Mephlsto became
SO amusing that she soon took him on the
young lady's hands.
We rose at daylight, since Gallagher wished
- oil hor HIrlnnWh q
the president remarked, gloomily:
''This is the first time ever heard sunrise
called a mood. l always thought it was a
sad fact which man had 10 face at
o'clock
We got delicious glimpses Of the woods IN
the early morning hours. 1t was cold and
often raw, but We were warmly clad and very
enthusiastic. We wheeled along briskly and
rayed to each other over the scene. Never
hung dewdrors so icily clear. Never glinted
stray sunbeams so wierdly through the dark
leaves. Never were lights so ehangeful
Never flowed streams so foamily over fern
| hidden stones. The leaves had already lost
their first October brightness, and their fire.
quent yelIowness gave strange coloring and
| lightness TO dark patches. Occasional little
lakes quick silvered themselves out as We
glided past.
| To the men driving slow teams along the
country roads we must have seemed like
| ghosts as we shot past in the twilight. Tint
husband and wife wheeling sedately. Ne
phisto pining to make sensation, playing
| odd pranks upon unwary rustics. Sometime:
we passed through a small village by moon
| light, running its entire length; meeting NJ
one; catching only glimpse of its life by tht
| lights shining out through shuttered windows
| These were strange, silent nights when We
| crossed thus the threads of others lives auC
| saw neither where they came from nor tC
where they led. The sleeping settlements con
tanned unknown joys anG sorrows. In the 81
lent houses we passed on our silent steeds Were
| people whom we had never heard OF anc
whom we should never see. This was the
weirdest part of our journey.
The sudden rains that fell. not at all lk'
the gentle rain from heaven, made even th'
black and red stripes look detected. At suei
times Lillian Russell. in the gray sh1mmerl
costume she wore, off which the raindrop
glided like the Lady Enaldine's, whose ''sil
yer tears ran softly down the hlushinS OF he
cheek" Gas Mephisto remarked, adding tina
since that young lady's bushes were unknown