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man, the India rubber lady, and host
OF others who, when clothed IN ordinary
garb look for all the world Ike commonplace
human beings.
Indeed there are few professions which
offer better opportunities for cOurtship
than that OF freakius. and many are the
marriages which result from platform
propinquity. Nor can IL be denied that
matches made in this way turn out about
as happily than bet ween creatures of normal
appearance and construction
some years ago notable wedding party
assembled in one OF the most fashionable
dime museums in New York The bride
groom was a tattOoed AlbinO prince with
beautiful snow white hair and soft pink
ewes. The bride was an armleSS maiden
who wore black lace mitts on her 1eet and
could boast Of many remarkable pedal
ACCOMPLISHMENTS a gentleman who Wore
a beard seven feet long and was said TO
have iaha bited a cave in the heart OF Ulster
county before he went into the museum
business gave the bride away, and dwarf
known as the Princess Littlefinger held
NJ, the bridal train Nearly every human
curiosity of distinction was present, anu
as the groom placed the ring on the third
toe Of the brides left foot, bind cornet-
ist burst into the strains OF the wedding
march and the needy clergyman pronounced
the words that made the two One.
The marriage has proved q happy one
in every. respect, aud the couple, when not
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in their faces as Fabian handed the flask
to Henri and said: Lets drink to it,
Henri. You half of that, and me half -
He was deadly pale.
Henri drank TO the finger-nark Set and
then Fabian lifted the flask TO his lips.
Goodbye, Nell" he said. Here's to
the good times we've hadl" He emptied
the flask and threw it over the bank into
the burning lime, and the old limebur
being half asleep, did not see or hear.
The next day they went on long hunting
expedition, and the next month Nell Bar
raway left for Montreal, pale and hollow
eyed
Henri kept to his compact. drink for
drink, sport for sport. One year the
crops were sold before they were reaped
horse and cattle went little by little, then
came mortgage, and still Henri never
wavered, never weakened in spite of the
cure and all others. The brothers were
always together, and never from first
TO last did Henri lose his temper or openly
lament that ruin was coming surely on
them. What money Fabian wanted he
got. The cure IS admonitions awaited
nothing, for Fabian would go his gait.
The end came On the very spot where the
compact had been made, for, passing the
lime kiln one dark night, as he and Henri
rode home together, his horse SHE'D, the
bank of the river gave way, and with a
startled Henri Fabian and his horse
We're gone into the river below.
Next month the farm and all were sold.
Henri succeeded the old lime burner at
his post, drank no more ever, and lived
his life in sight OF the old home.
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NOTES ON CAR-BUILDING.

In 1890 there We're in operation In the
United States $50 car-building and car
repairing plants, which represented cap
ital of $124 ,653, 1854, and gave employ
ment to IA ,514 persons.
One big car-building company began in
1S49 with $40 900 cash and a tract of
land valued at SO 600. After forty
two years of business the company owned
property worth So 500 600, and its plant
comprises twenty-eight acres and forty
buildings.
For three years before the Columbian
Exposition nearly 100 900 freight cars
and 2 900 passenger cars year were built.
There was drop from 100 600 freight cars
in 1892 to IT GOO in 1894.
Prussia, which is the chief military and
railway nation of the continent, had but
2e5 ,476 cars i'll 1892, each car being one
fourth the capacity of an American car.
Russia had but ,7SS pa ssenger cars, while
we have five times that number.
The renewals ON cars each year require
100000 wheels, 175,000 axles, be-
sides tons of springs and bolts.
The railway cars in the United States,
not including street cars, would make two
continuous trains or structures from Boston
to San Francisco, and a continuous train
of cars running both ways across the con
tinenJ could be established, with an zine
for every forty cars. -.
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the handsomest, cleverest girl ever saw;
she's splendid. Never lonely a minute with
her"
Beauty and cleverness amt everything,
Fabe.''
Isn't it though? Isn't it? You just try
it"
They amt without goodness" Henri's
voice weakened.
That's rot. or course it is Henri, my
dear. If you love a woman, if she gets
hold OF YOU, gets into your blood, loves
you, so that the touch OF her fingers sets
your pulses flying, you don't care damn
whether she is good or not"
You mean whether she was good or
not?''
mo, I don't. mean is good or not
For if she loves you She'll travel straight
for your sake Pshawl You don't know
anything about it
Il know all about it."
know all about i'll You're i'll love
you"
Yes"
Fabian sat open-mouthed for minute
''Go-dam!" be said. 1t was his one Eng
lish OATH.
"Is she good company" he asked after
minute.
shes tie same as you keep-the very
same"
You mean Nell-Nell?'' asked Fabian,
in a dry, choking voice.
Yes, Nell From the first time ! saw
her But I'd cut my hand off first
I'D think of you; of our people that have
been here for two hundred years; of the
rooms in the old house where mother used
10 be- Look here. Fabe. you said you'd
give up her company for mine DO it"
Il didn't know you meant her, Henri
Holy heaven, and you've got her in your
blood, tooI'
''Yes, but I'd never marry her, Fabe, at
Montreal 1 found out all about her. She
was as bad
That's nothing TO me Henri" said
Fabian, but something else is. Here you
are now. I'Hstick to my bargain" HisfaCe
showed pale in the moonlight. III you'll
drink with me, do as / do, go where go,
play the devil when / play it, and never
squeal, never hang back, III give her up.
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Eplendid-lOoking creature, all life and en-
ergy, tail, fair-haired and with a charm
above her kind. She was also an excel
lent servant, could do as much as any
two women IN any house. and was capable
of more airy diablerie than any ten in
Pontiac. When Fabian had said TO her in
Montreal that he would come be told her
where he lived. She came To see him in
stead, for she wrote TO the Landlord of the
Louis Quinze. enclosed five testimonials
and was inmediatly engaged. She came
and Fabian was stunned when he entered
the Louis Quinze and saw her waiting on
table, alert. busy. good to see. She
nodded al him with a Quicek smile as he
stood bewildered just inside the door,
then said in English, for he understood it
fairly, This way, monsieur"
As he sat down he said in English also,
with a laugh and with swapping eyes:
GOOD Lord What brings you here,
Ladybind?"
As she pushed a chair under him she al
most hisscd through his hair, 'Youi" and
then was gone away 80 fetch pot au feu for
six hungry men
The Louis QuinZe did moro business now
in three months than it had done before in
six But il became known among a few in
Pontiac that NeEl was victorious How it
had crept mp from Montreal no one knew, and
when IL did come her name was very inti-
mately associated with Fabian's No
one could say that she wSs not the most
perfect OF servants, and also no one could say
that ner life Ia Pontiac had not been
exemplary. Yet wise people had made up
theirmindsthatshew wasdeterminedt tomarry
Fabian, and the wiscst declared that she
would iii spite OF ything-relig ion
lshe was a Protcstant), character, race.
She was clever, as the young seigneur
found, as the little avocat was forced
20 admit, as the cure allowed with q
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engaged in their professional duties, oc-
cupy neat white cottage a short distance
from the city, where I called on them not
long ago. They have four children, the
eldest OF whom has no arms aud her
fathers pink eyes. The second is tatUOoed
from head to foot-the Ouly one of the kind
ever born in captivtty-and has inherited
her fathers long, AlbinO hair. The third
has beautiful arms hut they are precisely
the color of her fathers eyes The fourth
has proved a great source OF sorrow TO
his parents, and tears fiji their eyes as
they look upon their bright, sturdy baby
boy who came into the world without any
inheritance in the way Of malfOrmatioR
or cOloring that would enable him to fol-
low the family calling. Thus cruelty
handicapped from the moment OF his birth
his father and mother pray daily that he
WILL in the course of time, develop some
mental popularity by which he may earn
his bread If he was only girl he could
become CirCassian beauty, or II be were
blind he could be taught TO play checkers,
but as il is they sometimes fear that his
case is a hopeless one.
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A BUDGET or OF u,,.,n

1T Is seldom, indeed, that an Irishman's 3
wit deserts him in the moment OF need"
said Diner Out, but / can not recall an
instance where ready tongue comes more
quickly to the rescue than in the case Of
Bob OFarreIl, a clever and eloquent news
paper man whom met at a dinner some
years ago.
Bob O'Farren was nothing more than
local reporter in a small New England
town in which / chanced to speud a summer
about ten years ago.
1t was on the occasion of a grand ban
quet given to the local fire department in
recognition OF its services in promptly ex-
tinguishing a fire which threatened TO
spread through the whole business part OF
the town.
Having number OF friends in the de-
partment bought ticket for the banquet
and. as luck would have it, found myself
seated next to Bob oEarren. Now Bob
was known far and wide throughout the
State as witty and entertaining speaker,
and as it was kno wn that he had spent sew
eral long evenings in the preparation OF an
eloquent eulogy of the fire department we
NATURALLY anticipated fine burst OF oratory
| from the gifted young Irishman.
But as the dinner proceeded / noticed
| lHdl my DetRnDOr, who was usually the
! most JovIal and even tempered OF men,
| was becoming more and more Respondent
| aud melancholy, even Is the rest OF the
| company grew more noisy and hilarious
| / suppose it was part OF his Irish nature,
| for with the Celts, you know, laughter and
| tears lie perilOu5ly close together and
| whenever yon find a genuinely witty Irish
! man you will find a deep substratum Of
sadness underlying all his CHEEKY humOr
II noticed at the same time that
lO'Farrell was helping himself with uDspar-
ing hand to the various liquors tnat stood
! on the board and although ne drank enough
| between the soup and coffee 10 have put a
| dozen men in the very best OF spirits by the
! time the cigars We're passed round he had
| passed from the melancholy stage TO one
! of sulleu quiet that threatened TO de-
| yelop into positive ugliDess at any moment
| The chairman opened what the local
4 papers called the feast OF reason with
| speech in which he fairly slobbeTed Overth
whole department, praising all It's officers
| aud men in the most effusive manner
/ He was followed by the sheriff OF the
/ county who, as O'FarTell remarked TO me in
/ an uDdettOne of disgust, laid it on with
| brush. iuhis efforts to Outdo his predecessor.
| lit was now my Irish friends turn TO
| speak, and a roar Of applause greeted
him as be arose, a trifle unsteadily to
/ his feet and looked with what seemed
/ TO me to be smile OF ConteIrpt at the
| d2uble line of eager faces that were
! turned toward him. But the look OF an
/ ItiCipatiOn on each cou!--enance changed
| with Comical suddenness 10 one of chagrfn
| and surprise as the speaker blurted out.
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sigh, and she had no airs of badness at all
and very little of usual coquetry. Fabian
was enamored, and it was clear that he
intended TO bring the woman to the manor
one way or another
Henri admitted the fascination OF the
woman. Ielt ~, despaired went 10 Mon
treal, got proof OF her career, came
back and made his final and only effort
10 turn his brother from the girl.
He had waited an hour outside the hotel
and when Fabian got in he drove on with
out word After awhile Labian, who was
high spirits, said:
open your mouth, Henri; come along
sleepy head"
Straightway he began to sing a rollickin g
song and Henri joined in with him heart
ily. for the spirit Of Fabian's bumor was
contagious.
There was a little man,
The foolish Gunleri
Carabi
OF partridges the chase.
He went unto the chase,
CaraOi.
Titi CarabI
Toto Carabo.
You're going TO break your neck,
My lovely Guilleri."
He was about to begin another verse when
Henri stopped him, saying:
You are going to break your neck
Il
What's up, Henri" was the reply.
You're drinking hard and you don't
keep good company"
Fabian laughed Cant get the COM
pany / want, must have what 1 can get,
Henri, my dear"
Don't drink" Henri laid his free
hand on Fabian's knee.
Must Born in me. Loved il like
cream from the rock -a-bye."
Henri sighed. That's the drink,
Fabian be said patiently. Give up the
company"
You'd give up the company
"BleSt IL ! wouldn't, Henri. You're
the best company in the world"
Give me your hand"
They shook hands Fabian drew out a
flask and uncorked it,
I'm be better company for you than
that girl, Fabian"
Girl? What the devil do you
mean"
She, Nell Barra way was the company
meant, Fabe."
Nell Barra way-you meant her? Bosh.
I'm going TO marry ser, Henri"
You must not, Fahe," sal Henri
eagerly clutching Fabiau's sleeve.
Il must and there's an end OF it. She's
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than the rest having a windmill and
flag staff This building was almost
large enough for manor, and, indeed, 1t
was said that it had been built for one Just
before the conquest in 1853, but the war
had destroyed the ambitious owner, and iU
had become a farm house GaTote always
knew the time Of the day by the way the
light fell on the windmill He had owned
this farm once. he and his brother Fabian,
and he had loved It as he had loved Fabian,
and he loved ii now as he loved Fabian's
memory And in spite OF all, they were
cheerful memories, both of brother and
house.
At twenty-three they were orphans,
with Two hundred acres OF land, some cash,
horses and cattle, plenty Of credit in the
parish. OF IN the county, for that matter.
Both wereof hearty dispositions, but Fabian
had a taste for liquor, and Henri for pretty
! faces and shapely ankles. Yet no one
Thought the worse OF them for that, espe-
ciauy az fIrst An old servant kept house for
them and cared for them IN her honest way,
both physically and morally. She lectured
them al first when there was little to lee
ture about Ills no wonder that when there
came a vast deal to reprove, good Agatha
desisted altogether, overwhelmed by The
weight oG d..
Henri gog a shock the day before their
father died when he saw Fabian lift the
brandy used 10 mix with the milk OF The
dying man, and pouring out the third OF
a tumbleT, drink it off, smacking hls lips
aS he did so as though it were cordial.
That gave him a cue TO his future and TO
FabiauS After their father died Fabian
gave way 10 the vice He drank in the
taverns he was at once the despair and the
soy OF the parish; for wild as he was,
he had d gay temper, humorous mind.
a strong arm ana was the universal lover
The cure who did not. Of course, know one
fourth OF his wildnesS, had a warm spot for
him in his heart But there was vicious
streak iH him some where, and ia came out
one day in a perilOuS fashion.
There was in the hotel Of the Louis QuinZe
an English servant from The west called Nell
Barraway She had been in a hotel in
Montreal and il was there Fabian had seen
her as she waited on table. She was a
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Gentlemen, it seems to ne that we've
heard quite enough about this fire de-
partment already this evening. Now, for
my part, I'd like nothing better than to
see the whole Company-OIricers, men, and
paChines-in heiI!'
He paused a moment. and the awful
silence that hung about the board told
him that he had made a bad break and
full sense of the enornity OF his offense
flashed across his drunken brain and So
bered him IN an instant
- He's done for himself now thought.
but ! was mistaken; and i can leave YOU
TO, imagine the yells OF delight that shook
the building as he went on with perfect
seriousness Because, gentlemen, / know
that if they Were there they would put
the fire out in less than a minute and
make it a decent and comfortable place
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For q man in whose life there had been
tragedy he was cheerful He had habit
OF humming vague notes IN the silence
Of conversation, as il TO put you at your
ease His body andface were lean and arid,
his ewes oblque and small his hair straight
and dry and straw-C0lored; and ii flew
out cracking with electricity, TO meet his
cap as he put it on. He lived alone in a
little hut near his lime-kiln by the river,
with no near neighbors, and fewcompanions
save his four dogs, and these he fed some
times at expense OF his own stomach. He
had just enough crude poetry in his nature
90 ENJOY his surroundings. For he was well
placed Behind the Iime-kiln rose knoll on
knoll. and beyond these, the yeTdant hills,
all Converging to DalgrOthe mountains
In front OF il was the river with its banks
dropping forty feet, and below, The rapids,
always troubled and sportlYe. ON the far
ther side OF the r1ver lay peaceful areas
OF meadow and corn land. and low rooted
hovering farm houses, with one larger
The morning times., 1895-07-28

for us poor sinners who'll have 10 take
up our residence there sooner or later.
From that moment l have never had
any doubt of an Irishman's ability to
extricate himself from any trap into which
lie may have blundered." "
Mr. Cohenstein (excitedly)-Fer w
eckses you, did We gone oudt to der
country in der spring, Iusteadt of waiting
till der summer?
Mrs Cohenstein, soothingly-DOndt you
remember it COST shust twice as much
fer dot country boOdrt in der hOdt vedder?
Dot is Wy We gone now.
Mr. Cohenstein-Yess; und efen dose
liddle SchickenS knows id. We gan nodt
gone oudt by der barn but vut de gone
running hoilenng oudt, Cheap! Cheap
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But I've got to have you, got to have you all
the time, everywhere, hunting, drinking, or
letting alone. You'll see me out, for you're
stronger, had less of it. I'm for the little
low bye-yearly. Stop the horses"
Henri stopped them and they got out
They were just opposite the lime-kiln, and
They had TO go 4 few hundred yards before
they came to the bridge to cross the river
10 their home. The light Of the fire shons
The morning times., 1895-07-28
A Good Woman.

Mrs. Elizabeth f. Hunter, who died at
Philadelphia recently, was highly esteemed
by Lincoln and Grant for her services in
caring for the wounded in the late war. She
was the first woman TO go to Gettysburg
after the great fight, receiving permission
rrom President Lincoln and going in a
special car She founded the Northern
Home for FrieBdIess Children in Phladel-
rht,l
The morning times., 1895-07-28
A Friendly TIN.

smither-Know any especial good plaeea
TO fish, old man?
Rjnktums-WeIl, no: but win give you
my experience. have always caught the
most fish where there have been signs con-
spicuously placed which strange toSay most
broadly proclaimed that there should be u
fishing there.-Judge.
The morning times., 1895-07-28

THE DIME MUSEUM FREAK
Freaks are divided into two grand di-
visions, known respectively as Carriage
Freaks' and plain Frcak ks
The first-named includes all those human
cUriOsjties whose ''freakin ess' is of
such an obvious nature that il IS impossible
for them TO appear ON the highways, on the
street cars or in other busy haunts OF Men
without cheapeDng themselves IN the pODu-
lar eye. To this class belong the fat lady,
the dOUbIe-headed boy, the fOur-egged
girl the midget and the gianteSs Among
the Plain Freaks are the tattOOed lady, the
man with the iron Jaw, the Transparent
The morning times., 1895-07-28
Excnr.ion tn Lnrax Cayerns.

Excursion to Luray Caverns.
Thursday, August 1st, special train will
leave b. 6 o. R. R. station $40 a. NJ.
ROuudtrip, including admission to tue caves,
and reserved seats On train, $3.50. Seats
reserved IN advance without extra cost,
at ticket office, New York avenue and
Fifteenth street.
The morning times., 1895-07-28

In a New England restaurant Tha
Guest What can / get here2
The MatrDn-We have coffee as mother
used to make it.
The Guest-WelI, gimme tea!
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-19

gon City and the several other cluDs he
has played with. When the Portland
Athletic clubs team was made up II had
three second-basemen-Babb Rankin and
Perham. Rankin was placed on that bag.
Babb sent to third and Perham 20 first
base. Babb now prefers the .eft-nand
corner of the diamond. He Is very clever
on ground balls and a good strong thru W.
err At the bat he Is much above the av-
erage. and is a fairly fast base runner.
During the week Manager ilenalvin
signed two additional men. Catcher Two
mey and Outfielder Pace. Twomey played
in the Michigan league last season and
Manager Glenalvin had an opportunity of
seeing his work. He Writes that he Is
positive the youngster Is conner" Face
played in the Western association. end is
said to be very fast fielder. a good base
runner and "a good "sticker."
In letter last week Manager Glenalvin
said II he had had any doubts OF Pitcher
Van Giesen proving a valuable and they
were removed by his receiving a cash CT
fer of $500 for his release. All toid. the
Portland club now has six men under
contract-Glenalvin, Perham. Babb. Van
Giesen, Twomey and Pace.
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RUIN
4zs MISERY
WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE YOUNG
MEN OF THE DAY?

Cigarette smoking is one of the evils
which is fast increasing among the young
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business worry intemperance, sexual ex-
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It's a drag and a handicap to every
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temper, impaired memory, loss Of will
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constitution, weakened vitality and manly
power, following such habits would be a
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To reach, reclaim and restore such
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new treatment of obesity Is proposed.
based on a new theory. One pound OF
lean meat and one pound OF fish per day
Is used with a pint of hot water every
two hours. Nothing else In the way OF
food or drink is allowed. The theory Is
that the food being purely heterogeneous
the needful hydrocarbon must be supplied
by the absorption of fat. The large guam
titles Of hot water are for the purpose OF
averting kidney disturbances. which Of
ten attack those who live largely on nj
trogenous food. There can be no doubt
about this remedy. IL will make many a
thick man thin II he can survive the
drinking Of u pints OF hot water In a
day