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on is such nervous work! Give me the baby, Bergitta, and go and tell them all to move from their seats at the peril of their lives We've got two hours to wait and it may kill them, but so would getting run over! You'd better move Lawrence up nearer me and tell Elliott and Kath- crime they can play cats cradle-get them string
 Bergitta was the maid, 1t seemed. Her round, pink and white Swedish face was frowning with anxiety. Seven were too many for one mother and one maid Miss Sarah's fingers and feet and heart tingled to help. She knew she should offer; it was only matter of time. Suddenly she decided not to lose any time. Couldn't I take the baby?" she turned to the fretted mother There's so many others for you to see to. l could as we'll as not. Land a-living. better than not!" She laughed softly. "When you don't have any O your own it's next best to hold other folks babies"
 The dainty woman warmed to the plain old face. "Thanl you but he's so afraid of strangers. He's a little goosie, aren't you Ned? Yes, there are a good many of us when you count us up? But there ought to be two more. My husband had to give up coming at the last minute and the other maid failed me. l shall be thankful if we all get home wholer
 "Oh, guess you will, dearie.' Opti- mism was native to Miss Sarah. She was not conscious that she said "dearie;" it was the audible symbol of a sympathy bound to express itself. Well, if the baby won't come let me take care of some O the others. If there's one that's a little nimbler'n the rest"
 "There is-Lawrenee," laughed the mother of seven, but l could not think of imposing him upon a strangerl'
 " Impose him right on me-" command ed Miss Sarah gently. ''Is that him the nurse is bringing this way? Why, he's a little dear. Little dear, don't you want to know what I've got in my basket? Something alive If you'll come here and sit with me"
 Lawrence came, sidlng.
 ''Is it a 'normous tiger?"
 'No, 'normous-peek in, dearie, and see."
 "Kittyr Bismarck and Lawrence eyed each other at close quarters. In the liquid eyes of the great cat bewilderment was succeeded by kindly condescension. The interrupted purring began again. It is to be questioned if any other feline but Bis marck would have purred contentedly in captivity, with a roar of unaccustomed noises in his ear. Miss Sarah regarded him with pride.
 "EIe likes to travel as much as any body" she said. "Yes, dearie, you can pat him-gentle, see like I do. l knowlE you sit right here beside him and take
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care O him for me! That will be beau- tiful." As, indeed, it proved. The soft purring of Bismarck combined with the unwonted activity to produce a soporific effect Lawrence's tumbled little head lopped heavily toward Miss Sarahs lap, till 1t rested there in the abandonment of sound sleep.
 of all things Bergitta, will you looltf' the mother of Lawrence whispered. He never goes to sleep when we're travelling If you knew the relief!' turning grate- fully to Miss Sarah. You've bewitched him.
 No, no, not me-Bismarek. He sang him to sleep, bless him!n And it might have been either the big gray cat or the tiny boy that Miss Sarah blessed. She was very happy; it was turning out such a beautiful day. Already so much had happened and there was time for so much more Miss Sarah, perhaps it was well for her gentle equanimity, could not foresee what marvellous happening was yet in store for her. At present the whirl and stir all about her and the warm spot on her knee where the little head of Lawrence lay was all she needed of bliss.
 Gradually Miss Sarah and the mother of seven interchanged experiences, as women will. Miss Sarah listened in wonderment to chance reference to a great city man. sion such as she had only dreamed of in her day-dreams-to careless mention of servants and horses, of wealth and lux .1,, ,,f. it made a fairy story to Miss Sarah. She felt the first sharp pinch of envy.
 In her turn the mother of seven became possessed of the threadbare little de- tails of Miss Sarah's eventless existence. She was taken into confidence concerning the great day, which was today.
 T come over every year. Miss Sarah said simply. 'Ths time I brought Bis marck. There's as much happening to us today as is likely to happen all the rest O the time till next year. We've got to make it last over"
 But l don't understand-quite-. Aren't you going somewhere from here?'
 Miss Sarah smiled. Yes" she said, "homel On the last train there is to go on. Mebbe l didn't make it real plain before. One day every year l come out here to the Junction-l live at Little River a little ways off--and set here all day watching folks travel. It's next best.'
 The mother of seven turned slowly and looked at the plain old face. across the little bridge of Lawrence. It had sud denly taken on pathos; she read in it lifelong yearning to see the world. And this one day in a crowded railway june tion had been her only wayl It must last a year!
 A long express train thundered with echoings and re-echongs into the covered
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a rival of a Garrick. a Kean, a Booth, Jefferson-the recipient of the applause of millions of the cultured people who go to the theatre over there.e But how does Tom Corwin live now2 Only in his ..eornstalk melitia" speech and the whole of that, to read is not worth any one of a dozen paragraphs of either the Penn sylvania avenue or Duluth speech of J. Proctor Knott.
 Perhaps Congress has rarely heard an abler speech than Knott made in opposl- ton to the bill to submit the fourteenth amendment to the legislatures of the states; but who recalls 1t? Knott Is known. and will live in history as the man who made the Duluth speech The finest passage in that admirable effort k the apostrophe in laudation of, and in sympathy with France and yet l doubt if one of 100 readers of the speech re- members it.
 But the Hon. Robert C. schenek was A very considerable man. much greater statesman than he was a card player.
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folks have been real good to me. If you can't have your own that's next best, my dear"
 Trains came and went. The hustle was delightful to travel-hungry Miss Sarah, and the rancous, strained voice of the train announcer was music in her ears. After the young mother and the baby went away she cast about her for new acquaintances, for Miss Sarah could not exist friendless for even a day. A lorn young maiden going off on her first quest for independence and hard-earned eX- periences, a raw youth in the awkward consciousness of his first long trousers, a frightened old woman, a garrulous old man-Miss Sarah got acquainted with them all in a gentle, Miss Sarah way. All their little stories opened to her and made interesting pages in her book of great days. 'The Experiences of a Trav eler," it might aptly be called. and this would be the twelfth chapter.
 Bismarck" whispered Miss Sarah into the chinks of the big basket, "I'm having a beautiful time, aren't you? And we've got whole half day left! We'll eat our dinner soon's the Scared Old Woman's train comes. I've got to see she gets on all right It must be hard travelling when you aint used to it.''
 Miss Sarah was used to it. The con fusion and chatter and din of voices only set her pulses beating little faster than usual; she was serenely unafraid. The hard seats were 'howery beds of ease' to Miss Sarah. The slow hands of the great station clock moved too fast for her.
 "This is the Montreal through express, Bismarck, that's coming now. Hear the man calling 1t out--stop purring and lis ten You think of it-Montreal!! Suppos- ing we-Bismarck, it's almost like going on it! You and me and the valise-" Miss Sarah had ecstatic mental visions. Her old eyes gleamed. She had been in the same way to New York, to Boston to uttermost parts. In one great day one can, if rightly minded, go so far. Miss Sarah was rightly minded.
 The family was on the through express, but, it would seem, not going through. Miss Sarah watched it alight on the plat form, member by member. She counted excitedly Nine!
 Mine, Bismarck! That's beautiful. I never remember nine before. There's a mother and aunt or nurse or something and the rests dear little children. They're coming toward our seat!'
 Babies and baggage, they slowed them selves in long row beginning beside her sank the mother of many with a long drawr sign. She was a dainty, naturally pretty woman, but travel-fretted and worn. The voice that should be sweet sounded rasped, impatient.
 'Well, we're all here Getting off and
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ONDON, February 20.-The sensation
 of the last weeks has been that - strange mixture of comedy and tragedy enacted by Miss Violet Charles worth, but the tragedy did not exist in the fact that any one for moment be- lieved that a girl was precipitated through the glass window of a motor, over high cliffs into a foot of water and was drowned when not a particle of clothing was found upon the glass, not rag upon the rocks, and nothing but a pocketbook and hat which had been com veniently thrown below on the shore. Herein lay the comedy.
 It was all very badly got up meo- drama to deceive her creditors; but the tragedy lay in the, story of the hunted girl, who when she had enacted her lie was driven from hotel to hotel, dogged by detectives, and in the fact that this girl who knew nothing of bills or stocks
 # shares had managed to dupe some of the astutest stock brokers and live the life of a practiced gambler.
 The whole story was ended in the tamest way. The heroine was confronted not only by the arm of the law, but what I suppose is more dreaded by her, by the arm of her creditors. The curious thing about the whole matter was, not so much the fact that woman endeav- ored to deceive, as that the astutest men were so easily deceived. Miss Charles worth has provided nine days wonder for the public and a good deal of money for the journalists.
 It is to be hoped the recitation of her doings will not incite others to the same dlscreditable feats, but to my mind the
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pioi, q mining enterprise, and his name is indissolubly linked with "The Emma Mine" of Gtah Ii destroyed his useful ness, and he came back home to live many years of retirement at this capital
 And this generation Is told of him only as a poker player How this world is given to ignoranee There was another Ohio man. born in Kentucky, by the way, Tom Corwin He was made for the his trionic stage; fate put him on the po- lltical carpet and he was member of both branches of Congress, governor of Ohio minister to Mexico, and the most effective stump speaker of his time. He was not SO able a man as sehenek, but his fate was not very unlike sehencks- he is known in history as a ribald joker and sehenek lives in the memory of his fellow-men as a player of poker.
 If Bill Chandler is right as to what is going to happen to us good folks after death, Tom Corwin is now an inhabitant of another planet, an actor on the boards,
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ROBERT c. SCHENCK-By Savoyard

wrote and she had printed. the rules of a game called draw poker" The demo- cratic press from ocean To ocean many of the editors of which had wearied over jaekpots just as the sun had risen to his daily task in the east voted themselves mortified. and for months the democratic papers were funsof stuff to the effect that the Grant administration had dis graeed itself and scandalized the Ameri- can people by keeping at the court of St. James a professional gambler but Grant never turned hair and never made a move, and Sehenek remained our minister to England till he voluntarily resigned. He was reputed q good poker player. but the gossip was that Fernando Wood, or Thad Stevens, could make monkey of him at the table. Each of them died rich sehenck died poor.
 Schenck was a red-haired man and over 6 feet tall. He was a great lawyer and superb as a debater. Yet he was guileless, and men worked him to eX-
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point of the story lies in the fact that people have only to commit crime to be welcomed, and Miss Violet Charlesworth has been engaged by the London music halls at a salary of e3OO a week in order to display to the world at large what a girl swind1er looks like.
 The deterioration in our public taste is a striking point of the whole story.
 The French stage has not for years sustained so great loss as that of Co., quelin, for with him disappears one of the greatest actors of our time
 Forty-seven years ago he made his debut at the Theatre Francaise in the "Depit Amoreux," and he had been en- gagged to appear in Rostands "Chanti- cleer'' at the Porte St. Martin theatre this winter
 Recently he laughingly declared that others made their final exit with the setting sun. Mine he said shall be with the rising sun" No one who has ever seen Monsieur Coquelin in Sardou's wonderful play "L'affaire des Poisons," can ever forget his representation of Abbe Frifard.
 There was about him mixture of tragedy and comedy perfectly irresistible. a kindness of manner, a breadth of un- derstanding and a subtlety of facial and vocal expression which held one spell bound
 His friendship for Henry Irving was the extraordinary triumph of admiration which each had for the other when they came face to face. Previous to their meeting Coqueln had written an article in Harpers Magazine making comments
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K YEARLY every newspaper in the M country that prints a batch of 4 selected paragraphs-an excellent practice invented by the Boston Post some four years ago-has recently car red one relating to very distinguished American statesman, who left the public stage about 30 years ago, and it opens this way, the paragraph does Gen. schenck, whose greatest fame rests upon his having introduced the game of poker into England
 Robert c. sehenck was an extraordi- nary man, of brilliant intellect whose field was Congress. in which body he reached first rank in rivalry with many of the ablest men of his day. He was from the famous Third Ohio district, where he eontended against, beat in turn, and, in turn, was beaten by Clement l.. vallandigham and Lewis D. Campbell. He was chairman of ways and means, and perhaps that council board never had a more capable head-certainly it
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he was the favorite in the balloting; but John Sherman concluded that he would rather be senator than speaker and got the place. which he retained for 36 years, except the four years, 1s77-lSs1, he was secretary of treasury.
 It was the era of political generals, and Schenek, who had no military talent whatever, except the rude courage of d soldier was commissioned brigadier general and marched off to the wars. At Vienna, Va, he sent his army to battle by railroad transportation, but the rebels were so impolite as to attack before he disembarked and those of them who were not killed or crippled, were captured possibly by Stonewall Jacksons men.
 It was now manifest that Sehenek was no great general, and he returned to his job of solonsm in the Congress, for which he was admirably equipped.
 He was defeated for Congress in 1870 by Lewis D. Campbell, after a canvass that attracted national attention Both
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GIRL sWNDLER-By Lady Henry Somerset

on Irving which were decidedly deroga- tory. Irving replied in the Nineteenth Century. Two years after that Coquelin republished the article and left ou. every word that he had said of Irving.
 The two men met and their friendship ripened, and when Coquelin produced "Cyrano de Bergerac" in London it was to the Lyceum theatre that he went and the arrangements were made by Irving himself
 It is significant that only six months ago when Monsieur Coquelin was dis cussing future plans he remarked that Sardou was younger and sprightler than ever, and now both the famous author and the great actor are gone.
 Hermann vezn. another great trage- dian, has just celebrated his diamond jubilee. Vezin was born in Philadelphia and took his degree in Pennsylvania uni versity.
 Many years ago l knew MT. Vezin well and the distinguished, clear-cut features and intellectual head of the actor re- mained very vividly with me
 Mir Vezin has never for a moment re- liquished the principle of the actors great responsibility. He regards thu fact of the absence of supreme tragedy at this time as more due to the absence of a great personality than any change in the public taste.
 "As to plays,' he remarked recently, Shakespeare is still good enough to go on with" Many of the most finished ac- tors and actresses of our time owe their success largely to the moulding which their talent received at the hands of Hermann Vezin-
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has produced no better equipped man for debate on the floor. Had Schenck been as familiaNS with parliamentary procedure as Blaine or Reed Dingley or DalzeH, our economic policy would not have run the riot and been disgraeed by the saturnalia of protection it has. it is a curious fact that two of the great est eharmen of ways and means, fur nished by the republican party, were ig- norant of, and could not learn, the rules. and thus it was that Dawes. of Massa- chusetts, taking advantage of Schenck, got a deal more protection in the tariff than would have been allowed if Eliha Washburn or George W. Julian had headed ways and means. (see George F. Hoars memoirs)
 When Lincoln was elected President, Salmon P. Chase was a senator from Ohio, and just elected to the term be- ginning March 4 1861, which he resigned to go into the cabinet Most eyes turned to Sehenck as the man for senator, and
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