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Uses FOR an Old Bureau.

The utilization of old furniture in furnish
ing the home has not received the attention
to which as measure of economy It is enti-
tied. The possibilities of an old chest of
drawers that has outlasted its usefulness as
such, have seemingly remained undiscovered
to many persons While the new uses to
which 1t can be put are manifold, space will
only permit pointing out few of the most
useful.
A very good hail seat may be fashioned
from any ordinary bureau.
One 1 saw recently was made from one of
those swell front affairs, SO familiar in New
England homes of the past, but of course any
similar shape or pattern would be equally
fitting To make the change it is necessary
to remove the upper drawers, upholsterins
the space left thereby-seats, sides and back.
The fiat top OF the bureau, of course, will not
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CONQUERED.

The woman glared at the man with the con-
centrated gaze of an erraged tIgress. The
man in the bed would fain have drawn the
covers over his head to escape her gaze, but
he seemed paralyzed. False one." she
Missed, ''you are concealing something from
me'' Standing in the center OF the apart
ment In Junoesque attitude. she seized his
trousers by the fringed ends and shook them
violently Nothing fell from the pockets.
..False oneT' she exclaimed again. The
trembling husband slowly arose. Alter the
manner of one nypnotized he went to the
clock, opened it, drew from its interior few
bills and some silver. handed them to the
woman, and sneaked back to his couch.
Thought didn't know you had got raise
in your salary did you?" said she. He spoke
not word.-Indianapol Journal.
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II.

We were next ordered out into what ap-
peared compromise between shed and q
stable. IL about half an hour slipped away
from the rest of the deputies, bent upon in
vestigation.
Hooked first into the room where the
corpse was lying, but saw neither the sheriff
nor the woman. The brother still kept his
watch by the coffin. He was talking to a
friend
"Grim Hoyle will have to shoot pretty
quick If he means to get ahead Of me- will
shoot him ON sight"
walked softly around to the back of the
house, in the direction OF feeble light which
was shining in partly sheltered veranda.
The sheriff was there talking to the woman,
Just as supposed
Jennie" he said, 81 never done such a
thing in my life.'
You almost broke my heart when You
quarreled with me, Jo, eight years ago, and
now that am happy again, you won't help
to make me miserable?'
She possessed beauty above her station,
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With the nicely of feeling often shown by
rough people, the few persons left in the room
withdrew.
I caught, however, some broken snatches
of the dialogue. heard him say:
my God. Jennie How came you here?''
Her answer WIS almost inaudible, but the
words, 1T was Rufus Gainton that married. "
were family heard.
Presently, as a new crowd surged in, the
woman gave way to wild weeping.
"Oh. he will kill my husband next; he has
sworn to do it. There is nothing but blood
whichever way turn"
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Saved

The flames leaped madly toward the sky.
There! there!' shrieaed the frenzled woman
on the front lawn. The helmeted hero
him." she gasped, and sank upon her knees.
moment seemed an age. 'Saved!' With
one tumultuous cry Of Joy she tainted. Upon
the instant the fireman appeared upon the
ladder with copy OF Ibsen under his arm.-
Detroit Tribune
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Author of Ships that Pass in the Night

AuIHoI Vi russ III tHC -NiSht
Miss Beatrice Harraden, the author OF
"Ships That Pass In the Night" arrived in
New York from England the other day on her
way to California where she intends. by ad-
vice of her physician to spend several months
on fruit farm. She lost the use of her right
hand some time ago through entire failure of
the ulnar nerve consequent upon overstrain
in writing and cello playing. She dislikes
dictation and hates a typewriter, and has
therefore had to do great deal OF writing
with her left hand. Her latest book, "In Vary
ing Moods" is said to have been written with
the greatest difficulty.
Miss Harraden is almost as devoted to her
cello as to her pen. She comes of musical
and artistic family, and her father, a man of
eminent scientific attainments, is said to be
her sternest literary critic. She is young
woman OF liberal education, as critical ex-
animation of her writings easily discovers
She has the degree of bachelor of arts from
the London university and took especially
high rank in mathematics and the classics.
She is an ardent advocate of the higher edu-
cation for woman and an earnest supporter of
the right OF her sex to the ballot on perfect
equality with man.
"Ships That Pass in the Night is a
wonderful book to have come from wo-
mans pen if we measure it by the gauge of
most other books that women have written.
Her style is less distinctively feminine than
that of any of the other women writers who
have become prominent of late. but it has Its
feminine characteristics just the same. its
passages that man could not have written
though it is pervaded by a broad thoughtful
ness that is very suggestive of what is called
masculinity in literature. A keen sense Of hu-
NOR turks about its pathos, too, and there is
nothing mawkish about its sentimentality
Miss Harraden means to write another book
while in California
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The Mothers Tenderness.

'Poor Tommy is in disgrace" said Mrs.
Figg to the friend of the family who had
dropped in. 81 have just had to give him q
whipping. You can have no idea how much
l hate to do such a thing. 1 an so tender
hearted" II wish," sobbed Tommy, that
you was tender-handed stead of tender
hearted. d."-Indianapol!s Journal.
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An Italian Joke.

A gentlemen whose nose was of decidedly
retrousse type gave copper to a poor man
with one eye.
May heaven preserve your sighti'' the beg
ger exclaimed.
'And why my sight, so particularly"
because If ever you become short-sighted
you could not possibly wear eyeglasses =
La Semana Comma.
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The Undesirable Visitor.

You know her. She appears late and un-
tidy at breakfast, and shows by her listless-
ness that she is dissatisfied with the food that
is set before her. Her room is very untidy,
and she annoys the servants by asking favors
OF them when they are busiest. The children
in the house worry her, and she invites people
who are strangers to you to pay visits at
times that are mcst inconvenient to her hos
tess. When you are going to take her for an
outing she Is late and appears overdressed.
Then she makes one of the girls of the family
unhappy by attempting to attract her sweet
heart from her and prove how fckle he is.
She is never satisfied. and she is always tell
ing you about the place where she stayed last
and how differently everything was done.
She is surprised that you have your dinner at
the hour that you do. and doesn't hesitate to
say she isn't hungry at that time. When you
have taken a deaf of trouble to make the par
lor dainty and sweet, and shut out the glaring
sun. she elects to write her letters there, and
fails to see why you shouldn't prefer the bril-
liant daylight to stream in at all hours.
She is the guest you certainly are willing
to speed. And she is the guest that / do not
wish my girls to be like. She doesn't hesi-
tate to borrow your belong ngs. she uses your
letter paper. and she never has any stamps,
but counts on the men of the family buying
them for her. Without speaking to you, she
invites people to visit her whom you do not
wish to know. and she places you in such un-
comfortable positions in regard to these peo-
pie that you wish you had never met. her.
She tells you that she knows you wish her to
feel as if she were at home, and all you can
do is to smile very weakly. Nobody wants a
visitor to feel like this. visitor should feel
that she is away from home, and that, while
it is wished she should enjoy herself, still she
has no right in the household, only those
privileges which her hostess grants her, and
these she must respect.
This 10 the GIRL Won ara not TO he like
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An Ere of Reform.

O'Hoolihan-We hov jist organized e
Pathriotic Order of the Sons av America.
Will yez jine, Dennis?
Shaughnessy-Te me arst, Mickey. phwat
be the object av yer order?
O'Hoolihan-It's to kape thin New Eng
land Yankees from intrudin' their foreign no.
tions Into the government of the city, av
coorse!
Shaughnessy.-Bedad, thin, I'm wild yez,-
puck
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DefDii

NO" she replied, Il spurn your suit. ="
"How can you be so cruel?" he faltered. She
frowned. 'Mr. McGillhooly," she said. Sc
verely. Il don't know that am under any
obligation to diyulge my methods. Good
evening. Detroit Tribune.
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Higher Ground.

Young Biggers-"No, can't say that be-
ieve in those Bible fables. In fact. / take
higher ground Deacon Potterby-"Yes?
il history isn't wrong there were some fellows
in Noahs time who thought that higher
ground would answer all purposes, but they
rather made u failure of indianapolis
Journal
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FOR RENT-HousEs.
EoR RENT.

FOR RENT.
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1851 p ST n W mi l3r So GO 401 Warr st mi or 20
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s3 sth st mi 1lr 80 IS 81 131 SITS m 7r 18 30
3s2 st n W m | l3r 50 645 ST III / 1r Is. 30
2l30 G. st IN 13r so 1918 9Th st n W ia 8r lS
500 9Th st m Sr 45 2S5 2l st 1r...--l5
(store and dwelling) 1905 y av n W 6r. IA
1905 9th NV m Or 40 so 2l07 18th ST n II
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lslo 10th W m Sr 81 80 2l36 Sth st " 5r IA
5l1 st m sr 30. 50 Scott n W Or .l3. so
1915 Wallach plnw Rear IS st W 5r l2 30
m miTr......-...3000 80 90 400 L st 9 Q Or .12
936 French st NV Cor store and DWELL
m i7r.-.......-300O ing)Ist and SITS sw 5 l2
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IN Vt. -.-So.U " br.-- lloU
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10OS st IN 7r q. .504 Prov st Ivy City Or 10 30
455 lst st s IN 1r p 80 l0l3 Cap st Or l0.30
IS av In 7r 20 80 2i36 Br'twd W 5r ~
400 4th st IN Ar ~ 80 262l lst ST n 4r9 30
25lS7th st W m 7r % 30 Cor 9Th and Z SITS un-
1i26 I st n N Or a030 furnished rooms
FURNISHED HOUSE
Central ave-, Ivy City, rooms, $500
HALL.
Potomac Hall, cor 1Ith and Nd ave W. Sd ar $40
STORES
9O9 9th st W str & DIV 45I Cor Whitney av and eth
Cor LIST and sts s 12li n W m ...........600 90
3i9 Wilson st n " N 5.UU
STABLES
Rear $40 9th st n g Rear Si9 Wilson st s5
Rear 623 + ST n s.
A s. CAYWOOD,
most 933 9th street northwest.
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Civil War can be secured by sending or bring
ing your subscription to THE TIMES. We will
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issued. OF Frank Leslie's famous illustrations
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Send yo,lr name and address
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The Man for rho pInce

Visitot-How did it happen that such an
unpopular man as Grumpy got elected road
Inspector by such an unprecedented majority?
Host-Grumpy rides bicycle.-Good
News
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In the City of Churches.

In the City OF CHURCHES.
He-Now that we ara engaged, Isabel, 1
suppose may kiss you?
She-No, Walter; not until you are con-
frmed.-Judge.
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Where He Was Shaved.

Critical Barber feeling new customers
bristles)-Where did you get shaved last,
sir?
Customer-On my face.-Chicago Tribune.
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TN ALEXANDRIA. VA, SQUARES FROM
i Pa. X. r. station and electric line, new two
story bay-window brick house, with pretty park
ing in front Of house and nice yard on side; six
rooms, cellar, bath room, and hot and cold water;
papered throughout; rent, SIS per month.
WHEAT & SUTER,
my6-3t 1905 Pa. ave IL W.
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STORAGE.
STORAGE.

Separate rooms If desfed. Goods hauled,
packed, and shipped Lowest rates EAST END
EXPRESS. d. C. SMITH & CO., General For
warding Agents, sth St and Nd ave. ne.
nDr10 3w
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FOR RENT-ROOMs.

4 UNFINISHED ROOMS FOR RENT AND
4 bath, suitable for light housekeeping; parties
without children. Price, SI5 per month Ad-
dress 80 X ST ne my6-3t
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INLAT 40 ST. NV, ROOMS AND BATH;
I front and back yard; rent, sll per month.
my5-3t j. MARTIN PROCTOR, 907 G St NV.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

T OCAL UNION 100. UNITED BROTHERHOOD
IL of Carpenters and Joiners, meets every Mon
day evening at 425 12th ST NV
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- 18TH ST. NV
I i 4 Nice and wellfurnished rooms for rent,
second nocr, with without board; private
French family. myi-3t
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Send your name and address.
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nor RENT-NICELY FURNISHED PARLOR,
Il front room 1st-hoor, for man and wife
two young men: cheap, for Summer months, at
10 n Capltol street If
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-11-13
semi-Centennial of D. K. E.

The fftieth anniversary of the founda-
tion of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity
will be held In New YORK city on Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday at the rooms of
the Delta Kappa Epsilon Club, No. 1876
Fifth-ave. On Wednesday evening the WIS.,
iting delegates will have reception at the
clubhouse. The business session will be
held on Thursday and Friday. Thursday
evening the public exercises will take place
at Sherry's. Charlton 7. Lewis will pre-
side. Congressman John Dewitt Warner will
be historian. and Samuel F. Hunt. of Gin
cinnati. will be the orator of the evening.
On Friday evening there will be dinner a
the same place at which General Wager
S. Wayne will preside. The headquarters
of the delegates will be at the Park Avenue
Hotel.
In addition to celebrating is semi-centen-
NAL. the fraternity will at the same time
hold its forty eighth annual convention.
The fraternity has chapters in thirty-five
colleges, including BowdoiI and Colby in
Maine. and twenty-five alumni assoc iations
scattered throughout the United States.
and has 12,0O0 members. Among its men,
bers are Secretary Herbert. Senators Brice,
Lodge, Patton, Butler and Du Bots, Henry
E. Rowland, Congressman R. G. Shannon,
Senator Lexow. bob Cook, Edwin Gould
and Howard Gould.
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Jumping Hurdles.

In jumping hurdles the one thing which
is imperative is not to jump them. Hurdle
racing has become entirely an artificial
sport. 1t was discovered that, by taking
off from one foot and landing on the other,
and by covering the ten yards between
each hurdle in three strides, the hurdles
could be run over, instead of jumped, and
it was also discovered that the man who
couldn't perform this acrobatic feat was
not in the same hunt with the man who
could. A long jumper, with "a turn of
speed, has much better chance of becom-
ing good hurdler than high jumper.
1t is pastime which requires much prac-
tice. You must harden your shins and
keep as near to the top bar of the hurdle
as you can. If you are clearing the hur-
dies by too much, you must practice leav-
ing part of the skin of your leg on the top
bar.
A famous hurdle racer, FL. K. Upcher of
Oxford, who, by assiduous practice,
brought the surrounding - one could
hardly call it the clearing-of hurdles to
the highest point of perfection, was in the
habit of humping each hurdle in practice
to make sure he was not going too high,
and of going through the top rail when {
was movable, and sometimes when 1t was
not, in order to be quite certain that there
was nothing unnecessary to spare.-Fort-
nightly Review. 49,
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CAPE ELIZABETH.
Bowery Beach.

The Ladies Union of Bowery Beach
will hold it's annual fair and entertain
ment at Grange Hall, Spurwink, on
Thursday and Friday evenings, Nov. Is
and I6, 1894. The first evenings enter
tainment will consist of literary exer-
else ON life and works of Lord Jenny
son, arranged by Mrs. W. S. Jones, and OF
music and living pictures under the
efficient management of Mrs. A. d. Cham
berlin and Miss Anna Peabbles. The
second evening the two last named ladies
will furnish variety programme of
music and tableaux. Supper furn ished
both evenings.
The ladies connected with .the South
Portland Congregational church will give
a concert and fair at the Union Opera
House, South Portland, Wednesday and
Thursday, Novsm ber IA and Is. We'd
nesday, quartette, composed of CA.
Dunlap, F. A. Bowdoin, Miss SophiaRob-
inson and Lu Harding, with Mrs. DR..
Way. pianist. Miss Evangeline A. Bal.
lard, violinist, Miss 1. L. lien and Miss
A. M. Carney, instrumentalists. The
proceeds 80 towards building new
church at South Portland.
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A Dissecting Roosn Triumph.

Every one knows that the nerves in the
human body are almost without number,
threading every part Of the system. The
difficulty of dissecting to preserve these
nerves can thus be imagined. In glass
case in the museum of Hahnemann college
is shown the entire human cerebro spinal
nervous system, every nerve arranged in
its proper order and all intact. This re-
markable pieceof dissection is the work of
DR.. r. b. Weaver, one of the college pro-
fessors. 1t took him six months, working
eight hours day, to accomplish the work.
He received in recognition an official rib
bon from the Worlds fair, where the work
was exhibited. Every nerve emanating
from the brain and spine has been pre-
served, and the subject looks like a fishnet
in the case Some of the nerves are quite
thick and others as fragile, seemingly, as
a spider web.-Philadelphi Record.
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WE4nn-oo~o Lr 4AN.oo.
Great Men Who Have Been Conspicuous
Deficient In Mental and Moral Health.

Great Men Who Have Been Conspicuously
Deficient In Mental and Moral Health.
DR.. James Weir observes that mechans
ical geniuses, or those who deal mainly
with material facts, do not, as a rule,
show any signs Of mental degeneration.
In proof of this one need only instance
Darwin, Galilei, Edison, Maxim. Watt
Rumsey, Howe, Morse, etc. 1t is only the
genius Of mstheticism, the genius Of the
emotions, that is generally accompanied
by unmistakable signs of degeneration.
Swinburne's poems show the mental bias
of their author, who is described as pecul-
lar and eccentric. Many Of the men who
have aided in making the worlds history
were victims Of epilepsy, as was julius
Caesar, military leader, statesman and au-
thor. Many men of genius have suffered
from spasmodic and choreic movements,
notably Lenau, Montesquieu, Button, DR..
johnson, Santeuil, Thomas, Campbell,
Napoleon and Socrates
Suicide, essentially symptom of men
tai disorder, has carried off many a man
of genius, including such immortals as
Chatterton, Blount, Hayden, Give and
David Alcoholism and morphinism are
now recognized as evidences of degenera-
ton and have had as victims Coleridge,
Sheridan, Steele, Addison, Hoffman,
Charles Lamb, Burns and many others.
In men Of genius the moral sense is some
times obtunded or absent Sallust, Seneca
and Bacon were suspected felons; Rous-
seau, Byron, Forcola and Caresa were
grossly immoral, while Casanova, the gift
ed mathematician, was common swim
dler.-London Public Opinion.
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MUNICIPAL COURT.
BEFORE JUDGE GOULD.

Monday-MichaelG Griffin, Thomas r. Young,
Caroline Young, Agnes Mccormick and
John Files. Intoxioation; fined So and
costs.
Joseph A. O'Donell. Intoxication; fined
50 and cost. Sentence suspended.
Lizzie Hersom and Mark T. Cunningham.
Fornication. Each given thirty days in the
county Jail.
Theophrada Charron. Lottery ticket SELL
ing This was case where Charron put up
his watch as rattle, and sold tickets. He at
tempted to sell one to al officer, who
arrested him. Mr.. Hill appeared as counsel
for Charron. and the case was continued
until Wednesday. Charron secured bail in
$500.
Martin j. Flaherty, Caleb n. Mitchell.
Gambling: fined $40 and one-fourth costs
each.
Walter e. Henderson and William J.
Carney. Gambling; fined $40 and costs.
E. G. Hanson. Maintaining nuisance.
Bound over in $500 to grand jury.
E. G. Hanson. Single sale; bound oyer in
$3.50.
Morgan j. Foley and Sarah Foley. Viola
ting the Lords day.. fined SIS and one-half
costs each.
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Do not imagine that this beautiful vine
can be owned and enjoyed only by those
who have an experienced gardener and ex-
pensive greenhouse. Almost any flower
lover can add it to her window collection
and thereby possess vine that is univer-
sally admired and holds higher place in
public favor for decorative purposes than
almost any other plant or vine known
The flowers, although fragrant, are small
and rather Insignificant. But the luxu-
rant masses of glossy foliage are as beauti-
full as snowy blossoms and are unexcelled
for bouquets, wreaths and other cut flow
er work, since sprays remain fresh and
bright for hours after being cut from the
main vine. The smilax is propagated by
dividing the roots which consist of nu-
merous tubers united by top, or crown,
from which the vine grows; also from
seed, but as these are slow to terminate
much tiresonie waiting will be avoided if
good healthy plants are purchased from a
reliable florist 1t requires rich, sandy
soil and plenty of light, but seems particu-
larly adapted to those locations where di-
rect sunshine is unobtainable at all times,
rs it will grow and thrive best when par
TALLY shaded Philadelphia Times.
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WESTBROOK.

Mr.. F. e. Osgood, the carriage painter
of this city, very narrowly escaped be-
ing run over by the 6.45 train of the
Portland & Rochester last evening, at
the Church street crossing. He was
coming from Mr.. Ames's residence.
where he had purchased carriage, and
with this attached to his own wagon.
came down the hill without hearing the
train until it was too late to stop. He
whipped up his horse and got by him
self, but the engine struck the carriage
in tow. carried it about 100 feet along
the track and smashed it to pieces.
This is the same place where Mr.. John
Beatty was run over about year ago
and lost one of his legs. There is no
gate. 1t is blind crossing. There
have been several narrow escapes here.
Mrs. A. W. Thorn, left last evening
for few days visit with relatives in
Massachusetts.
A course of Shakespearian recitals Is
to be given in the vestry Of the Congre-
gatIonaI church by Professor Edgar c..
Abbott of Boston, November Is, 10 and
%. He recites from memory Julius
Caesar, Merchant of Venice" and
Hamlet. The proceeds of the entertain
ment are for the benefit of the High
School.
Mr.. Thomas Lewis and family of Bos-
ton, formerly OF this city. are the guests
of Mr.. Lewis's sister, Mrs. J. G. Scates.