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to buy the things you need. 1 wea
I'd be ashamed to let a little, delicate
girl help clothe me- Howard said, in
dignantly.
Jacks sunburned face took on a
bright red.
You're confoundedly polite in your
way of putting things" he said, giving
his cigar a petulant fling that landed
it in the rosebed, and you've grown
virtuous very suddenly, it seems to
me-"
Then there was a long silence, broken
by Jack.
Thank you, Howard. You're right.
I've been a selfish beast to let mother
and Doris spoil me {. Andif you. who
can so well afford it, can quit smoking,
l will. too"
If You come down to facts, | guess
it is as Doris says; we can none of us
afford it, not even if our pocketbooks
are overlooking. We cannot afford to
risk the many evil physical results
likely to follow, and to be repeated in
future generations, to say nothing of
poisoning the air for others who detest
the odor." Howard said. gravely.
'You talk asst Doris were debating"
Jack said, lightly.
LAS she is, in a measure. I'm such
an egotistical prig that l have lacked
the courage and grace to acknowledge
how much her arguments have affected
me. / think l shall be brave enough
to tell her before l CO." Mr.. Halliday
continued, frankly.
Jack was silent. Brotherly intuition
had suddenly opened his eyes.
And if you think there is the least
hope for me, I've something else to tell
her before l meet my mother. l know
I'm not half good enough for her, but I
intend to grow better, and Howard
stopped abruptly, nervousness making
his voice husky.
Jack grasped his hand and squeezed
it till it ached.
No. you're not good enough for her,
old fellow, no man is; but if she loves
you as well as do, she'll take you"
That evening Doris and Mr.. Halliday
sat on the porch in the starlight, hav-
ing reached a perfect understanding.
Il think l commenced loving you be-
cause you were so frank and outspoken,
SO unlike the conventional society girls
l had grown so tired of; but the thing
that showed me my heart as nothing
else could have done vas Jacks coat"
Jacks coat" Doris exclaimed, in
establishment. who aver heard Of
ANYTHING So abSurdo"
Then she turned upon him quickly.
"Howard-you didn't-you don't
know"
Yes, 1 do, too. I heard you talking
it over with your mother, you dear,
generous little girl"
Aren't you ashamed of YOURSELF"
she asked, trying to d~isengage her
hand.
Not a bit. 1t was the last little
link to fetter my heart to yours for
holding the struggling hands
firmly upon his breast.
You won't tell Jack? Please do
not. 1t would spoil his whole trip
south to know he was wearing his sis
ter's dress
Il promise not to tell till the day he
starts home. He'll be a better man
for knowing it then. Your unselfish
act will make it easier for.him to resist
small vices and extravagances in col
lege next year. Besides, my w char
acter has been improved, and my life
made. one of perfect happiness by read
ing your beautiful soul through the
medium of Jacks coat-"-Demorest's
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MON THE SPANIARDS.
characteristics of the Women of C~ataloni,
Easy and Bright.

characteristics OF the women OF Catalonl
Easy and Bright.
In Catalina You are constantly re-
minded. among the women. of the
comedy type of Provence. Straight,
well-balanced women. with bright,
eager chances, so different from the
other Spaniards of their sex: not beau
tiful, but alert. easy of carriage,
healthy, and blithful workers. and at
times surprisingly free of the noticea-
BILE degradation of the mouth, which is
characteristic of a people in decay.
Not so attractive as the pleasant
~Provencale, of a surety, but with some
thing of her square brow and look Of
diminished Roman.
The men are rougher and palmer,
and, while both sexes gesticulate and
are voluable enough, they possess as
little of true Provencal effervescense as
they do Of Castillian courtesy and
charm. Good nature the women offer
as apology for brains, but the middle
and lower class male is frankly ex-
ecrable.
The very dialect he speaks and writes
is so hideous to the sight and ear that
there is fear of the foreigner approach
ing him with prejudice. Just so suave
and beautiful is the language of
Castillo, composed of the most musical
vocables. and hardly less harmonious
on the printed page than in the ed
ucated mouth. Just SO harsh and bar
barrie is this dialect of Catalonia.
1t is not, think, improbable that
the sound of the speech we habitually
utter may be a guiding influence upon
our manners. 1 offer this as an ex-
PLANTATION of the politeness of the
French and the courteous Tuscans,
and the dignity of the Castillians, who
speak, one a graceful, the other a
sweet, and the last a noble language.
st. Francis, of Assist, had conversed in
vain with bird and beast in Catalan.
and Sir Philip Sidney were less captivat-
ing if his chivalrous sentiments had
been expressed in speech so barbara
Good Words.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

| e. NJ. johnson, a Kentucky magis
tie, doesn't fool away any time in
ma, wing couples that come before
b;r Here is his formula: 1--WE me,
bsr. =, p'rform the sacred rites OF
mat-no, Join hands. Do you take
man -, lawful husband? Take
~" 'fe? Dismissed.
MARIE T,sa n has settled down Ia
Paris. but hi. h, at still beats warmly
for his native land. Talking about
wit, he tells the Farisia'n 1ntervfewers
hat Thomas Bailey Aidr1ch had said
1,5OO, if not $4,000, things as brilliant
as the things Tai'leyrand SUD- and
which are labeled French wit.
Ex-senator EdmuLds of Vermont,
is retained IN a number of cases now
pending before the UHsted States
courts. involving questions of great
public interest, including the Sugar
trust cases, the income-tax contention
and the construction of the long and
short-haul clause in the interstate
m law.
-Casimir-Perier's mother, a we'll
preserved lady of eighty years, takes a
very active interest in French politics.
She has been closely connected with
the leading events in France for sever
al generations and her mind is stored
with facts and incidents of great value
to the historian. She disapproved of
her sons resignation.
George Inness sometimes worked
fifteen hours a day with his brush. He
usually stood as he painted. and he
worked as the humor seized him on the
dozen or more eanvasses in his studio,
going from one to another with palette
and maulstiek- The painter was fond
Of walking. He liked to smoke, and
on occasions he did not disdain the
flowing bowl
Stanley j. Weyman, the novelist,
practiced in London as a barrister for
about ten years, and with fair success.
He never really liked his profession,
however, and was a poor speaker. Mr..
Weyman writes slowly. He considers
a thousand words a day sufficient He
hunts once a week during the season,
is an unmarried man, and lives with
his mother and sister.
Joseph Bertrand, the French math-
ematician. who recently cele bratedh his
golden wedding, rescued his wife from
death in the great railroad accident on
the Paris-Versailles railroad in 1874.
She was the wife Of Admiral Dumont
D'Urville, who was killed in the acct
dent. This was the admiral who
brought the Venus of Milo to France,
and who three times circumnavigated
the earth.
Kate Chase Sprague has been left
by the forced sale of her old
home. She has nothing but her ward
robe that she can call her own, and
hat has not been replenished for two
years, while she is in debt to friends
small sums of money advanced to
her. Her decline within thirty years
from affiuence and the highest social
position almost to actual want is the
direst of misfortnnes.
Gen. Thomas Hyde, of Bath. Me-,
has just received an autograph letter
from Mr.. Gladstone in regard to the
formers translation of the ''Odes of
Horace upon which he has been for a
period engaged. The gen.
eral praised G~ladstonefs work in the
adirection, sand the Grand Old
Mans letter concludes: Il think it a
great honor that my poor effort should
noticed from beyond the Atlantic by
a fellow-laborer, to whom l wish asuc,
cess more perfect han my own
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and herself with the necessi.

mother and herself with the necessi.
| ties"
Jack paused, and Howard. feeling
like a ~hypocrite, cudgelled his brain
for something to say,
DORIS and mother are wonderful
women. anyhow. Doris has a knack
of making the commCnest things look
dainty and artistic, and mother-why,
mother can easily evolve something
out of nothing. I'm sure now they
must have pinched themselves awfully
to buy these nice things, unless Doris
has sold n of her pretty water ~colors,
as she does sometimes. 1t must be
that. for Doris declares that she hasn't
taken n dollar from the family treasury.
It's just like her, bless her generous
heart. Anyhow, I'll not worry her
asking questions, Tor l know she's as
happy over it as am. Have a cigar?"
extending a finely-iavored one to Mr..
Halliday.
That gentleman declined, almost
rudely.
more. Your sister is right. The use
of tobacco makes a man blind and self
ish."
He was half angry with Jack for ac-
cepting so unquestioningly the sacri-
fee Doris had made. and he kept think
ing how soon Jack might have saved
money enough to buy his own clothes,
had he been half as self-denying as his
sister. Jack looked at him in aston
ishment.
Twill wonders never cease? To think
of your giving up smoking is a stun
ner. Next thing you'll sign the total
abstinence pledge, and fit yourself for
4 church deacon. Doris will be de-
lighted" he said. between puffs.
Don't tell her; l want to tell her
myself. And, Jack, if you were half
the man you ought to be, you'd stop
smoking yourself and save your money
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some obstacle arises to prevent it.
Howard has a pass for me-, and my
trip south wouldn't cost me a cent, if
only l had something decent to wear
Mrs. Turner dropped her work and
sighed.
1T does seem hard, Jack, but really
don't see how to help it. If we should
buy you a summer suit now you'd
have to wear your old suit again next
winter, you know she said, plant
lively.
''Oh, I know that well enough,
mother, so it isn't worth while talking
about it. 1t seems to me I've heard of
nothing but poverty all my life. We're
so poor, Jobs turkey wouldn't associate
with us" he said, savagely, and then
stalked from the room with the air of a
martyr.
His sister Doris went on darning
stOlidly for awhile.
I'm ever so sorry for poor Jack"
she said, at last, a suspicion of tears in
her voice. Il wish | could help him
soma way, but I'm afraid l can't manu-
facture a suit of clothes for him. l
really uO DelltNt L COuIl Iudht IlLil ii
coat and vest, though, if only | had the
material. You know | am an expert
maker of pockets and huttonholes, and
you often say my pressing is equal to a
tailor's."
Mrs. Turner's face frightened.
Yes, you are splendid at that kind
of thing, Doris. | think it is a gift; or
perhaps is only a delicate touch, a true
eye and unlimited patience. Whatever
the quality may be, L know l do not
not possess it. Jack would never wear
a coat made by his mother" and she
laughed softly a. the idea.
Suppose he had a o and vest.
mother, has he any trousers fit to wear
south?' asked Doris.
"Yes: those dark gray ones could be
-sponged and pressed till they'd look as
good as new"
Doris put down her darning, ran up
stairs and returned in a moment with
the full skirt of a black gown on her
arm. Her face was radiant.
Jack can go, mother. l can get a
coat and vest out of this gown, with
careful cutting. The material is love
ly, silk and wool, even finer than is or
dinarily used Tor gentlemen. My big
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SuperStftious.

Kiddy McNabb - Wot wuz it fur
Swipsey got sent mp?
Tommy, the Rattle holds a loidy
up one day on Maderson avenue, an
pinches her opal pin. OATS highway
robbery, an he's doin' time fer six.
Kiddy McNabb with convictione
Didn't l allus tell yer dem opals wa,
unluckya-puck.
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DON'T BOAST.

1t may be that thou hast wealth.
Don't boast
1t is only for a day.
1t may soon refuse 10 stay.
1t his wings to fly away,
Don't boast.
1t may be that thou hast health,
Don't boast.
There may be some faint decline
Making strides to undermine,
And destroy that life of thine,
Don't boast.
Il may be that thou hast friends,
Don't boast
They are tickle as the wind,
They may every word rescInd.
They may prove to have been tind
Don't boast.
Thou must trust in God alone,
To boast.
He will ever be the same,
Never fear to speak His name,
Always use the Sayiour's fame
To boast.
Capt. Mason, in Rams Horn.
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Accounting for the Delay.

Cawker-Cumso, did you get that let
ter 1 tent you a couple of weeks ago?
Cumso-A couple of weeks ago? l re-
ceived it yesterday.
Cawker-Only yesterday! Confound
it. That comes of giving it to my wife
to mail.-Detroit Free Press.
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Mrs. Hicks-I don't see the need OF
having the ~roundsman in the kitchen
every evening.
Katie-Faix, mum, l was so ateareo
CT the eoekroaches down there that
called for police protection.-N. Y
World.
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MT What He Meant.

"Now, a BRIDE" said the statesman.
"a bride. as l take it,. But the roar
of delighted interruption that followed
convinced him that further remarks
would not be listened to with the re-
spect due the utterances of a man of
his standing.-Cincinnati Tribune.
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Fit For Desperate Enterprises.

Golightly-What makes you so Ger.
tain that your eleven will win the foot
ball game?
Capt. Kickhard-I know nv men.
Every one of them has been rejected
bythe girl he loves. p uck.
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AGniana, though s. small on the
map. has an area of 2Oi 900 square
miles. or about the combined area OF
Colorado and Idaho
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Eve, with all the fruits of Eden
blest, rather than leave that one IN,
known, lost all the rest-Moore.
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docs Blykins understand horse
races?" Ia must / never see him
at the rack.H-Washington Star.
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against the Mexicans, who were already
robbing and numbering our allies. He
met the Mexicans at 4 clock in the
morning, and as their force was twice as
large as that OF Escalante, the Totonacs,
who feared them because of former defeats,
all fled at the first attack::of the Mexicans,
and left Juan de Escalante and his small
force to receive the whole brunt of the bat
tie. He retreated to the town of AL
meria and there he rested short time,
as he was badly wounded. 40 ~
In he~tight the Mexcans took one
Argnello alive; he was man of great
strength with very large head and black
curly beard. They killed horse also
Escalante after resting a short time
continued his retreat to Villa Rica and,
within three days after his arrival there,
he and six soldiers died of their wounds
This is how this matter occurred, and
not as the Chronicler Gomara says. who
relates in his history that Pedro de Ircio
was sent to colonize Panneo ;snd that he
went as Captain, when he was not even
Corporal at this time. and was in fact
with us in the City of Mexico.
When the Mexican Captains had de-
feated Escalante they sent an account of
it to Montezuma. and even sent him the
head of Arguello, who. it appears had
died of his wounds on the road, for they
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once with them to their quarters without
any noise whatever, for | know that they
will treat you with the honor due to the
not go you will remain here but a dead
man." Montezuma then said to Cortes:
Lord Malinche, l have a son and two
daughter. Take them as hostages for my
good faith. but do not puS on me this
affront. What will my mobiles say to see
me carried off prisoner from my own
palace?" Cortes replied that he must
come to our quarters and that there was
no alternative
After may other arguments on both
$, des Montezuma finally said he would
come to oui quarters willingly, where
upon the Captains and Cortes overwhelmed
him with thanks and expressions of love.
And they told him to tell his mobiles and
guard that he went with us of his own
free will, and that Huitzlipotzli had ad
vised him to 60 to live for time with us.
He then ordered his litter and came to
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were taking him alive to sacrifice him;
and when the head was brought before
Montezuma, as it was very large and
he was afraid, and he ordered that it
should not be offered as sacrifice to any
of the gods in the city, but in some of the
outside towns.
And he asked them how, being so
many, they had not conquered and an
initiated so few Teules. They replied
that they could not because a beautiful
lady came at the head of the Teules who
spoke words OF encouragement to them
which made them bold, and inspired fear
in the hearts of the Mexicans. And Mon
tezuma tl,sn believed that it was the Vir-
gin Mary. whose picture we had given
him and whom we told him was our
patrOness.
This l did not see, because was at
that time in Mexico. but l have been
told that it was so by some of the old
veterans who were in the battle.
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not and proposed that in case Diego Vela9s
quez or any of his Captains should come
to the coast they should give them pos
session of everything and join them, all
of which was quickly carried to Mexico by
letter. And when this news reached
Mexico there was much anger at Cortes
for having sent Alonzo de Grade, know.
ing his bad intentions and evil DISPOSE
tion, more particularly because Cortes
always thought that in one way or an
other Diego Velasquez was sure to learn
that we had sent procuradores to the King
in Spain, and that when he learned it, he
would send fleet against u.s. so that
now he determined to send one in whom
he could trust, and therefore he ordered
Gonzalo de Sandoyal to go to Villa Rica
as Alguacil Mayor, and he took with him
Pedro de lrcio, the one whom the chroni-
cler Gomara says went to colonize Panuco,
and this was the time that Pedro de Ircio
did go to Villa Rica and that Alonzo de
Sandoval conceived such a friendship for
him, because Pedro de Ircio bad been
squire to the Count de Urena and after
ward to Don Pedro Giron. about whom
he was always talking. and Gonzalo de
Sandoval Gas pleased by his stories, for
he was OF frank. hearty disposition and
not at all suspicious, and he pushed
Pedro de lrcio ahead until he made him
Captain.
Villa Rica the first thing he did was to
send Alonzo de Grado iii charge of some
Indians to Mexico. When he arrived
there Cortes refused to see him and
caused him to be put in the stocks. which
he had made expressly for the occasion.
Now, as Alonzo de Grado was smooth
talker and man of resources, he made
great offers and promises to Cortes, and,
indeed, he presently had himself released
from the stocks. and was thereafter very
intimate with Cortes and was employed
by him in any important undertakings,
but never OF warlike nature. must not
forget to relate how Cortes ordered Con-
zalo de Sandoval TO send him all necessary
ship gear from Villa Rica to fit out two
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hearted when the chains were placed on
him, and groaned aloud. but after the ex-
ecution Cortes went with five of our Cap
tains and took off the chains with his
own hands, and spoke lovingly to him,
telling him that he held him dearer than
brother, and that he would assist him
to extend his empire and bring under
control those provinces which he had
hitherto been unable to conquer; and that
il he wished to return to his own palace
he could now do so.
And while Cortes was speaking the
tears started to the eyes OF Montezuma,
yet he thanked him for his offers, which
he we'll knew were mere words, and said
that since each day his nephews and rela-
tives urged HIM to allow them to make
war on us, he preferred to remain with
us. as he could still say that it was the
order of the war god; while if he were
free he would have to refuse to make
war on us, in which event they might
raise up some other King in his stead and
disturb his city with riots and bloodshed.
But. as we understood at the time, the
chief reason why he preferred to remain
was that Cortes had instructed Aguilar
to tell him that although Malrnche might
give him permission to return to his
palace, yet the Captains and soldiers
would never permit it.
And when Cor.es heard the reply of
Montezuma he embraced him and said:
mot without reason, Lord Montezuma. do
love you as myself" Montezuma then
asked as a favor that Cortes would give
him for his own service Spanish page
named Orteguilla who already spoke some
Aztec, and it turned out fortunately for
us that Cortes gave the page to him. for
through this page Montezuma learned
much about CASTLE and we OF what was
going on among his Captains and mobiles,
and truly this page was good servant
and Montezuma liked him very much.
And the King was well content with the
great respect with which we treated him
and he liked to converse with each of us,
and none OF us, not even Cortes, would
pass him without taking off his military
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CHAPTER XVIII
OF How Cortes Sent AIonzo de 0rado to
Villa Rica as Captain in Place Of Juan
de EscaIante, and How He Made
GonzaIo de Sandoval His Chief Alguacl

vuid MIA aS OoYtoln III iuSS Va Juan
de EscaIante, and How Tie Made
GonzaIo de SandovaI His Chief AIguacl
Cortes now determined to send as Lieu
tenant to Villa Rica, soldier named
Alonzo de Grado, who was a man of good
understanding and very accomplished.
This Alonzo de Grado was one of those
who had always been opposed to our
Captain, Cortes. He had also been op-
posed to our march toward Mexico and
he was the spokesman of those who
created the trouble at Tlascala and wanted
to return to Villa Rica, as / have related
in another chapter, and if he had been as
good warrior as he was a man of ac-
complishments he would have been of
great assistance.
| say this because when Cortes gave him
his commands, knowing that he was not
a man to take offense quickly. and Cortes
being fond of good jest, said to him,
Here, Senior Alonzo de Grado, are your
desires gratitied, for you now return to
Villa Rica, as you desired to, and look
you do not engage in any warlike expedi-
Jion and get killed, as did Juan de Es-
calante. And while he was saying it he
winked his eye at those of us who were
near enough, that we might understand
his meaning, for we all well knew that
even if he had commanded him to under
take any warlike expedition he would not
have obeyed.
When he had given him all the instruo-
tions as to what he was to do at Villa
Rica Alonzo de Grado begged Cortes to
give him also the wand of AlguacIl in
Chief, as Juan de Escalante had held it.
To this he replied that he had already
given it to Gonzalo de Sandoval. and that
for him some other honorable Office would
be found in the future; and to go with
the blessing of God. and to treat our In
dian allies we'll, and to cause the black
smiths to make two heavy iron chains
and to send them and two anchors as
soon as possible to Mexico.
When Alonzo de Grade arrived at Villa
Rica he assumed the air and dignity of a
great senior. and of the thirty towns that
were at peace with us he sent to demand
gold and pretty Indian girls, and he paid
no attention to the completion of the
fortress but passed his time in devising
delicate dishes to eat and in gambling.
But the worst of all was that he secretly
convoked his friends and some who were