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VACATION DAYS. Bab’s Common Sense Advice to Mid summer Pleasure Seekers. Leaving the Hot City Behind—Do Not Take an Apothecary Shop Along to the Country—Friends Who Throw Out Ridiculous Suggestions as to Mural Diversions—The College Girl’s Idea of Pastoral Recreation—Chas ing Butterflies, Manufacturing Shawls, Star-exploring and Land scape Painting. New York, June 30.—There are times of the year when a combination of the weather and the poetry written about it would make a saint lose her temper. The newspapers get up and quote about the rareness of a day in June as if it were a boiled leg of mutton, and to save my life I can’t see that it is any rarer than a day in September or any month without the odd number. There are thirty June days, and they are calculated to make people cross, quarrelsome, and get them in such conditions that they lose their chances for a cool hereafter. The Ist of June is usually wet, miserable and gray; then everybody regrets the open fires, but, because it is June, sleep without blankets and become victims to influenza. About the middle of the month the sun sets like a bright red ball some evening, and the next morning humidity and heat combined own the town. One’s con science and one's linen alike are limp; no body is quite ready to go to the country, and the getting ready is something too dreadful to think about. RARE JUNE DATS, In a store buj ing becomes a series of penance; and it is not surprising to see a woman weep, simply because she is so warm and so tired and so cross, that she has forgotten what she came for. Even thing feminine is buying new slippers and confining the use of them to admira tion rather than wear, for who could en dure new shoes in June? People talk about June brides—l should think the • girl who got married in June woulfi be divorced before December. The last of June finds us given over to blousiness—l ,did not say blowsiness—and we are wondering how we can make the skirt and the belt meet, and, after twitching in every direction in an effort to see the middle of our backs, we come to the conclusion that we don’t care, and go out with a yawning, void of which various strange women on the street are willing to tell us. I can perfectly sympa thize with the people who don’t like any one to tell them that their belongings are put of order; one can’t make a dressing room of a pavement, so that one had bet ter be in blissful ignorance until home is reached, and the trouble, whatever it may be, can be remedied. There are times in one’s life when one wants to take the whole world into one’s confidence; that is my state of mind’now. I have been ill and 1 am going away, and the willingness of my friends to advise me is only equaled by the .indignation which they show when they feel that Ido not appreciate their unasked-for-kind ness. The first woman who came to see pie kissed me in a very sepulchral man ner, leaning over me exactly as if I were stretched out in my coffin. Then she said in a funereal voice: “WHERE IB SHE POING?” The family said, “To a quiet country place.” She announced that she thought this would be very nice, and then in quired afbrxut my various aches and pains, and said that she knew the sort of things that were needed tn the country, and that as I didn’t, she would help me out by writing a list of them. She headed the list with one dozen mustard leaves 1 She filled two large sheets of paper with med icines that were necessary in an emer gency ! Then she had a list of bandages and splints, for, as she very truly said, I might break my arm! And, after that, she wrote that I had better wear flannel all the time and perspire freely. She kissed me good-by again, with an air of its being the last time, and we all wept. And when she had gone, I looked at the list, and to prove that I was aright long ways off from death, I announced in tones of suppressed anger that I wouldn’t, to please anybody, become either a traveling apothecary shop or nut on clothes that would make a grease spot of me. After this fiend had disappeared, a chirpy little friend of mine arrived, whose only weakness is her.liking to sug gest things. She made me laugh by tell ing me she never saw me looking better, and then she inquired cheerily to what nice place I was going for a change. The family gave the now time-honored an swer. “To a quiet plade in the country.” She laughed again when she heard this, and said, “Well, now, if you take my ad vice and want to keep well, you will take a lot of things to cheer you up. Os course, the dogs are going?” “No,” answered I, “they are not. I, have no right to take dogs into strange people’s houses who mayn’t like dogs.” FOOLISH SUMMER REST NOTIONS. My visitor looked a little crestfallen, and then she said: “Well, anyhow, you will have company down from New York every week, won't you?” To this came the response that I was leaving New York to forget my iriends. While she was still there, an artist 1 know appeared, and he immediately proposed that, to fill up my time, I might take up painting acain; cary along a stool and an easel and a box of paints, and then I could have a very jolly time. Ho also suggested that a steamer chair, with a reading lamp ' screwed on to it would be useful, and that if the family were inclined to be sick in the night, I had better carry my own brandy. Before he left, a college girl appeared, and gave her opinion how I ought to Upend the summer. Said she: “Takeup a serious course of reading; keep your mind on it, and get some one wbo'will write notes to you about your reading, and then you can write back your opin ions. and in tnis way you will have a lovely interchange of thought.” Her mother, who was with her, said: “Now is your time, dear child, to learn to knit some of those heavy comfortable shawls that are so useful in the hospitals during the winter; you could give your mornings to the reading and your afternoons to the shawls, and by strict attention I think you could manage five during the summer; so good-by, dear, I will send you the wool over early in the morning.” FRIENDS SOMETIMES TIR? US. They went out. and a friend of the family came in. He is greatly interested in the position of the moon toward the Flanets Just now, and so he proposed that should, study astronomy from books during the day, and from the sky through a small telescope which he volunteered to give me, during the night. Gradually, they went away, and 1 threw myself on a lounge to try to forget them all. I went to sleep, but wakened up in time .to hear, in the timo-honored tone, the time-honored answer, “At a quiet place in the country.” Then a voice said; "As she is going to rest, why not let her hunt butterflies and get up quite a collection of them. I confess this did make me angry, and I opened my eyes and said to the sug gesior, "I think I see myself chasing around in the hot sun with a net after butterflies. Why can’t people let me alone? Why should my friends suddenly become my enemies.’ 1 haven’t the slight est intention of improving my mind dur ing the summer, nor ao 1 intend to make hot shawls. I don’t care whether the earth is close to the stars or not, and I am not going to sit up at night to watch • to see if it is. 1 intend to live along my life in my own way; I intend to take a lot of frivolous novels with me, and some cool clothes, and if anybody sends me a medicine chest, I’ll throw it out of the window. As for taking up my painting, when I had finished a picture I didn’t know what it was myself, and how could I expect anybody else to know? What is the reason that everybody is so ready, especially in hot weather, to give advice? I I WANT TO BE LAZY. I want to be worthless and I want to be ignorant. In summer time all three of these states are desirable, and as for my friends, if they don’t like me they can— oh, well, they will like me just the same. This one disappeared with a significant tap of the finger on the forehead, at which I laughed and which made the family angry. The summer days, my friend, are bet ter adapted to the loafing spirit than any other. In me this is well developed and bliss is represented by an easy chair, a cool get-dp and, if money will buy it, somebody to fan me. Fanning one’s self is a great mistake. The exercise involved tends to make one warmer than ever be. fore. I once had a prize in the way of a fanner. She was a small darky girl known as “Minta,” but whose full name was “Araminta Arabella.” She wove her wool into twenty-one little pigtails, that all stood out as if they had received an electric shock. For ten cents she would fan you until you were as cool as a cucumber, and the lovely part of it was that she could fan asleep as well as awake, and that, seeing her standing up asleep and fanning, with untiring even ness, had a soothing effect on me that was beautiful, and always made me go to Ueep. Minta wanted me to buy her, and I would have done so with great pleasure, but, as her mammy said: “Dere ain’t no freedom aroun’ nowadays: I’s got to take care o’ all dese lazy niggers, when if times wuz free I might get a few dollars for some of ’em, ’specially dat dere Minta.” Minta was far and away ahead of an elec tric fan. There was quietness in the waves of air that she controlled,.and her palm leaf fan moyed as if it were directed by a soul and not by Mr. Edison. lam always hoping to find a successor to Minta, but alas! my hopes are never real ized. . ABOUT SUMMER FOODS. You ought to have had some of the ad vice that had been give . to me on the subject of eating. If I did as people tell me to do I would upset any well-regulated house. One woman said I ought to have five meals a day and force myself to eat. Another that I ought never to touch water, and confine myself to vegetables and oatmeal. As I regard oatmeal as an invention of the evil one, I wouldn’t touch it with a pitchfork, and I don’t even give it to the dogs. A woman who is dieting for her complexion has advised hot water in sips, and fried beefsteak; and another one who believes that you grow spiritual through your stomach said that if I be gan by having a cup of tea on Sundays and nothing during the rest of the week, by August I would be able to go without eating at all, and that the material would be entirely under the control of the spiritual. I am sure it would, but I am also certain that the dogs would be wearing black ribbons, and that the family would be discoursing about my, virtues. QUEER FOOD IDEAS. Whether it is that lam simply human or not, or whether I am possessed by something, who can say? But I cer tainly do like indigestible food. I have a weakness for hot corn bread, I am de voted to coffee, and I like deviled crabs. It is true, I don’t eat cake, and only the Insides of pies, but my daily bill of fare would unt satisfy my advisers. Did you ever see a woman who was on one of these queer diets? She is generally a wretbhed. miserable-lOoaing soul, appar ently not longed for either by heaven or man, as neither seems bidding for her. The hot water and fried beef-steak one is usually the color of a lemon, with eyes that look as if the water had settled around them and made them shrivel up. I believe, if the good God meant that people should live on hot water, it would nave been served to them in that way from the brooks and the wells. I think the best thing to do on the eating question is to select a dish which pleases your palate; if it makes yo\i ill. which I doubt, then don’t have it anymore, but don’t get cranky on the f ood question. Good eating is especially desirable for women. It makes them loving and amiabled and all-around agree able. What did you say? “To a quiet place in the country?” Thank you very much for your kind in quiry, and for the fact that without giving any advice, you have merely wished that a good time will come to Bab. Burnt Zulus Dreaded the Ice. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “The natives of tropical countries are seldom so much astonished as they are when they are first introduced to snow and ice,” said E. A. Forster, of Chicago. . “While the world’s fair was in progress I saw a joke played upon two members of a Zulu band which was greatly enjoyed and appreciated by all present except the Zulus themselves. The manager of their tribe, whom I knew intimately, knowing that none of the Zulus had ever seen any ice, thought that it would be great fun to see how they would act when brought in contact with it. He accordingly told two of them that he wished them to go down town with him. He informed me what he was going to do, and invited me to ac company him, which I did. We stopped at the office of one of the large breweries, and, after explaining our errand, were readily granted permission to go through the ice house. “On arriving oat the door of the ice bouse, we all entered, the Zulus, who were barefooted, following close behind. All along the walls inside great cakes of ice were piled. My friend, the manager, climbed up on top of the cakes and told the Zulus to follow him. They obeyed. When the cold cnill of the ice first struck their bare feet they didn’t know what to make of it. They looked at one another for a minute and jabbered something in their outlandish tongue. They stood it for about a minute, then, giving vent to a yell, they sprang to the ground, and, rushing to the door, threw themselves’ on the ground outside, where they lay writh ing about, nursing their feet and insisting that they had been severely burned.” Victoria’s Reign. From the St. Louis Democrat. In her fifty-seven years of power Vic toria has seen every throne in the world vacated at least once, and some of them several times, and high executive sta tions in all the great nations filled and refilled repeatedly. The post of pre mier in her own country has been held successively in her day by Viscount Mel bourne, Sir Robert Peel, Earl Russell, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Bacons fleld, William E. Gladstone, the Marquis of Salisbury and the Earl of Roseberry, and by some of these men several time's. All of these are dead except Gladstone. Salisbury and Roseberry. Sixteen men, beginning with Martin Van Buren, have tilled the president of the United States during her service, and of these only two, Cleveland and Harrison, are living. Host—“ Are you in debt, young man?” “No.” “Have you a mother-in-law?" “No.” “Married?” “No.” “Himmel kreuzdonnerwetter! Why, then, do you drink only three glasses of beerFlie gende Blatter. THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, JULY 2, 1894. RALLY ROUND THE BANNER. Christian Endeavorers Will Crowd Cleveland From July 11 to 15. Reception on a Mammoth Scale—The Great Buildings to Be Used for the Meetings—The Official Programme. White and Gold Souvenir Badge. (Copyright.) New York, June 30.—1 n the words of the Christian Endeavor committee, “All things are now, ready.” What is ex pected to be the greatest convention ever held by this powerful organizatian, will be opened at Cleveland, 0., on July 11, and will continue its sessions for five days, until the 15th. From one end of the city to the other, meetings will be conducted; and throngs of busy men and women, most of them wearing young, bright faces, and all of them with a pretty white and gold badge on lapel or dress, will hurry from hotel to auditorium to par ticipate in the in the lively meetings that will be carried on from early morning until late at night. □The arrangements for the comfort of the many thousands that will arrive at Cleveland all that week, have been made on a grand scale. Secretary J. Willis Baer has had his hands full; and the committee of ’94 has been obliged to make prpvisions for a very much larger number of delegates than usual. The committee of’94 is as follows: J. Z. Tyler, chairman, 38 Streator avenue; Miriam C, Smith, secretary, 853 Doan street; A. E. Roblee, finance and treas urer, 212 The Cuyahoga ; J. E. Cheesman, hall, 322 Hickox building; N. E. Hills, en tertainment, 372 Sibley street; F. Mel ville Lewis, printing, 287 St. Clair street; S, L. Darsie, music, 265 Franklin avenue; R. B. Hamilton, Press, 245 Superior street; A W. Neale, reception, 212 The Cuyahoga; J. V. Hitchcock, auditing, 87 Euclid avenue; R. A. George, ex-officio, 706 East Prospect street. The very largest buildings in Cleveland have been secured for the purposes of the convention, and a great number of churches have hos pitably thrown open their doors. The principal convention hall, the Sangerfest building, stands on the corner of Scovill and Wilson avenues. Five minutes’ walk from there brings one to the mammoth tent pitched on the corner of Cedar and Wilson. Two large churches, near by, have been secured for overflow meetings; and fifteen other large churches will be opened for the welcome meetings on Wed nesday evening. July 11. There is also Music hall, seating 5,000, which will hold meetings for the business portion of the city. Everything has been arranged in these auditoriums and churches looking to the comfort of the delegates. The conven tion hall is a large, square wooden struc ture. It has eight entrances and exits, and the ventilation is of the best. More than 100 large win dows, hung on pivots, admit the refresh ing lake breezes, and keep the tempera ture down. The seating will be so ar ranged that no one will be more than 125 feet from the speaker. A series of small rooms for committee meetings, conferences, literature tables, etc., will be provided. A novelty will be the large room set aside for “State Bulle tins,”. where notices will be posted of conference meetings, news items and ap pointments. The building has eight toi let rooms, and electric call bells connect ing the platform with all the doors and committee rooms. Arc and incandescent lights are in every room. The building will be decorated with the white and gold colors of the convention, with the stars and stripes, and with the union jack. This building seats 10,000 persons. The second large edifice, the main audi torium, seats another 10,000. This mam moth tent has it chairs arranged amphi theater style, and is lighted with elec tricity. It is so coql and attractive that many will prefer it to the hall. The hospitable reception of that great tnrong has been carefully looked after. Delegates may board either at a private house or a hotel; and many will stay with friends. Hotel rates are all reduced. The delegates are spared all the trouble of securing quarters. All they need do is communicate with the mana ger of their own state or county, stating what kind of accommodations they pre fer, and what price they wish to pay. Then, upon arrival at the headquarters in Cleveland, they register, and are im mediately assigned and escorted to their homes by members of the reception com mittee. This committee will be distin guished by their white yachting caps trimmed with gold. The convention souvenir badge is a very delicate and pretty affair. It is a dia mond-shaped bodklet, containing twelve pages of exquisite half-tone views of the Forest City inclosed in finely engraved celluloid covers. No one will be admit ted to the meetings, who does not wear one of these badges. There will be a chairman in charge of each depot and steamboat landing in the city, and he will be responsible for the Quests arriving at his station. He will ave under him a large committee of young men and women whose duty it will be to escort these guests to the proper street car lines, and to the various state headquarters, where they register as reg ular members of the convention. The programme is so varied and full of interest that the delegates will find it difficult to select from the great number of subjects. Gov. William McKinley will deliver the address of welcome, at the convention hall, Sanger fest building. The musical portion of the programme is particularly attractive. Two large chorus choirs, composed of a thousand voices, and two orchestras will lead the music. A chorus of native Afri cans, from the mission fields will render strange and weird sougs. The music will be selected from the new Christian En deavor hymn book, compiled by Ira D. Sankey. It is expected that the famous Moody quartet will be present, as well as the cornetists—the Park sisters, of New York. The official programme is as follows: Wednesday. Noon—Hotel. Stillman—l2:oo. meeting of the board of trustees of the united society, for prayer,. conference, and transaction of business. Evening—7:3o. Fifteen simultaneous meetings, in fifteen of the largest churches of Cleveland. Speakers: Rev. Pleasant Hunter. Jr., Minneapolis, Minn.; Mr. An thony Comstock, New York city; Rev. George Dana Boardman, D. D., Philadel phia, Pa.; Mrs. Frances J. Barnes, New York city; Rev. John Henry Barrows, D. D., Chicago, Ill.; Rev. Tennis S. Hamlin, D. D., Washington. D. C.; Rev. p. s. Henson, D. D.. Chicago. Ill.; Rev. J. T. Bocklei’, D. D., Philadelphia. Pa.; Bishop Samuel Fallows, D. D., Chicago, Hl.; Rev. J. F. Cowan, Pittsburg. Pa.; Rev. Canon J. B. Richardson, London, Ont.; Rev. H. B. Grose, Chicago, Ill.; Mr. W: H. Pennell, Washingion, D. C.: Rev. Way land Hoyt, D. D., Minneapolis, Minn.; Rev. H. C. Farrar, D. D., Albany, N. Y.; Rev. W. H. McMillan, D. D., Alle gheny City, Pa.: Rev. M. Rhodes, D. D., or. ixiuis. Mo.; Rev. Gilby C. Kelly. D. D., Owensboro, Ky.; Rev. William Patterson, Toronto, Ont.: Rev. James L. Hill, D. D., Salem, Mass.; Rev. Charles A. Dickinson, Boston. Mass. Rev. M. M. Binford. Richmond. Ind.; Rev. David J. Burrell, D. D. New York city; Mrs. Ellen J. Phinney and Miss Anna M. Edwards, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. I. M. Alden (Pansy), Germantown Penn.; Rev Ralph W. Brokaw. Springfield. Mass.; and representatives from the Young Men’s Christian Asso elation, the Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip, the Christian Endeavor work among the life-savers and ligh t-houses, the Travel lers’ Union of Chfistian Endeaver, and the Floating Societies of. Christian En deavor. THURSDAY. Morning, Sangerfest Building—lo:oo. Address of welcome on behalf of the state of Ohio. Governor William McKin ley. Address of welcome on behalf of city pastors and committee of ’94. Rev. J. Z. Tyler, chairman. Response on behalf of the board of trustees of the United Society of Chris tian Endeavor and delegates present, Rev. E. R, Dille, D. D., San Francisco, Cal. Annual report of the general secretary, John Willis Baer. Annual presentation of state banners. Afternoon—2:3o. Denominational ral lies in churches, announced as follows: Evening, the Tent.—Rev. H. T. Mc- Ewen. New York City, presiding. 7:30. Annual address of the president, Rev. Francis E. Clark, D. D. Address, “Heroes of Faith,” Rev., A. C. Dixon, D. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. Sangerfast Building—7:3o. Address, > “Glorifying God,” Rev. Maltbie D. Bab cock. Baltimore, Md. Annual address of the president, Rev. Francis E. Clark, D. D. FRIDAY. Morning—6:3o. Ten early morning prayer meetings in ten churches. Sangerfest Building—Good Citizenship. —10:00. Free parliament on “The Pledge,” conducted by Rev. G. H. Sim mons, Louisville, Ky. “Address, “Christian Endeavor vs. the Saloon,” Mr. John, G. Woolley, Chicago, Presentation of gpbd citizenship banners and diplomas. Address, “Christian Citizenship,” Rev. Smith Baker, D. D., East Boston, Mass. The Tent—lo:oo. Open parliament on “What Has Your Society Done to Pro mote Good Citizenship?” conducted by Mr. Edwin D. Wheelock, Chicago, 111. Address, “Christian Citizenship,” Rev. E. B. Chappell, D. D,, St. Louis. Mo. Question box, conducted by Treasurer William Shaw, Boston, Mass. Address, “Christian Endeavor vs. the Saloon,” John G. Woolley, Chicago, 111. Afternoon—A school of practical meth ods of committee work to be held in churches to be announced on the final programme. Conference on work of Senior and Mothers’ Societies of Christian Endea vor. Y. M. C. A. Building—Room B, confer ence of officers of state, territorial, and provincial unions. Lecture Room—Conference of officers of district and city local unions. Society Hall—Conference of correspond ing secretaries. Evening, the Tent—7:3o. Address, “The Correlation of the Religious Forces,” Bishop B. W. Arnett, D. D., Wilberforce, O. Address, Rev. J. K. Dixon, D.D., Phila delphia, Pa. Sangerfest Building—7:3o. Address, “The Claims of an Educated Life,” Pres ident William J. Tucker, D. D., Hanover, N. H. Address, topic and speaker to be an nounced later. SATURDAY. Morning—6:3o. Ten early morning prayer meetings in ten churches. The Tent—lnternational and inter denominational Fellowship. 10:00. Ouen parliament on “What Are the Benefits of Interdenominational Fellowship.” Brief reports from the denominational conferences. Address, “Christian Endeavor Among the Germans,” Rev. Theo. F. John, New Albany, Ind. - . • , , Presentation of the Interdenominational Fellowship banners and diplomas. Address, “Interdenominational Fellow ship,” Rev. John H. Boyd, Charlotte, N. C. Sangerfest Building—lo:oo. Open par liament on “The Junior Society.” con ducted by Rev. Cornelius Brett, D. D., Jersey City, N. J. Address, “International Fellowship.” Question box. Address, “Interdenominational Fellow ship,” Rev. P. R. Danley, D. D., Spring field, 111. Afternoon, Sangerfest Building—Rev. James L. Hill, D. D., Salem, Mass., pre siding. 2:80. Grand Junior Christian Endeavor rally. Addresses by Rev. Cornelius Brett, D. D., Jersey City, N. J.; Rev. H. W. Pope, New Haven. Conn.; Rev. A. W. Spooner, Camden, N. J.; Mrs. I. M. Alden (ransy); Miss Pauline Root, Madura, In dia, and others. Evening—Receptions and rallies of state, territorial and provincial delega tions in churches used as headquarters. SUNDAY. ' Morning—6:3o. Ten early morning prayer meetings in ten churches. 10:30. Attendance upon the regular church services throughout the city of Cleveland. Afternoon, the Tenth—Missions and ministering. 2:30. Address. “Systematic and Proportionate Giving to God,” Rev. E. E. Baker, Dayton, O. Address, “Movement Among the Jews Toward Christ,” Rev. Hermann Warza wiak. New York city. Address, Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D., Albany, N. Y. Sangerfast Building —2:30. Address, Rev. N. D. Hillis, D. D., Evanston, Hl. Address, “The Christian Endeavor Missionary Extension Course,” S. L. Merson, Chicago, 111. Note. It is also hoped that Rev. J. Hudson Taylor, of the China Inland mis sion, and that Bishop Thoburn, of India, will both arrive in this country in time to address the convention. They have both consented to speak, if able to reach-Cleve land at that time. Evening, The Tent—7:3o. Convention sermon, Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. Consecration meeting, conducted by Secretary John Willis Baer. Sangerfest Building—7:Bo. Conven tion sermon, President B. P. Raymond, D. D., LL. D., Middleton, Conn. Consecration meeting, conducted by President Francis E. Clark, D. D. “The teacher says your Freddie wastes a great deal of his time at school.” Mother—“ Well. I’m glad to hear it, for I was afraid he didn’t go half the time.”— Chicago Inter-Ocean. She—“ You have met the beautiful Miss X., have you not? What do you think of her?” He—“ She is one of that sort of woman that any man could die for, but none could live with.”—lndianapolis Journal. Cuttan Thrust— That young Dum leigh has got more money than sense. Dulham Bluntley I didn’t know he was rich. Cuttan Thrust— He isn’t.— Puck. Arrest disease by the timely use of Tutt’s Liver Pills, an old and favorite remedy of increasing popularity. Always cures SICK HEADACHE, sour stomach, malaria, indiges tion, torpid liver, constipation and all bilious diseases. TUTT’S Liver PILLS IN A HOLIDAY HUMOR. , (Copyright.) When Frank Van Haltren took the morning boat up the Hudson on the Fourth of July, fully determined to offer his heart and hand to the vivacious Miss Louise Kimball, it is possible he expected that, like Rosalind, she would be “in a holiday humor and like enough to con sent.” If he did he miscalculated woe fully. He certainly found her in a holi day humor, but it was Independence Day she was celebrating, and that made a world of difference. The holidays they bad in Arden were probably of a less boisterous and more amatory character. Her greeting on his arrival at her home in Hartskill was disconcerting to begin with. “I don’t know whether I should say I am glad to see you or not. lam celebrat ing the glorious Fourth in the proper spirit, by being independent of everybody and everything. I haven’t asked for a favor to-day.” “Didn’t you even ask any one if your hat was on straight?” “No, sir! I am wearing a yachting cap to-day and you know it looks much more fetching when a trifle away.” He did not realize at first how much she was in earnest in her independent mood; but when she walked nearly half a mile to look at the hall clock rather than ask bim the time by his watch, it began to dawn on him that he was in for a day of it. Try as he might he could not get a chance to unburden his heart. When he wished to sit down and talk, nothing would do her but to go to the village to see the games, and when they went out canoeing she absolutely refused to rest in the shady nooks. What made the canoeing trip particularly exasper ating was the fact that she insisted on doing all the paddling. “I am too independent to-day,” she said, “to let any one paddle me about. Besides you have come from your office for a rest.” So he had to kneel in the canoe, watch ing her as she skillfully propelled it about and all the while he was longing to be kneeling before her on the parlor carpet or anywhere else where he could plead his case. The exertion of paddling, more over, made her more bewitchingly beauti ful than ever, and her tantalizing re marks and actions increased proportion ately. Now, there are few things more ex hausting than carrying around a nicely worded proposal without getting a chance to utter it. It is even worse than going to a banquet with a carefully prepared spontaneous speech concealed about your memory and not being called upon to utter it; for at the banquet you get a square meal before the disappointment comes and have plenty of wine to cheer you afterward. But it is impossible for a man with a proposal on the tip of his tongue to get any nourishment past it, however much he may need it. So as the day wore on Frank became rather de pressed. He had been looking forward to this holiday for weeks past as a day when he could get away from business, aad, on account of the celebration at her home, having a good excuse for taking a trip up the river to see her. But of course she didn’t know this, and hadn’t the faintest idea that he wished to propose. When it comes to blindness in matters of the heart, Cupid’s sightless eyes are twin Lick telescopes compared with the laugh ing eyes of a charming girl. She never knows that a man is in love with her, even though every time he looks at her his sighs strain the buttons of his vest. And her surprise when the fated mo ment arrives and he, forgetting his nice little speech, stammers out his confession! Well, after all is said and done the foible is so delightful it al most raises hypocracy to the rank of a virtue. Tnere had never been any talk of love between this pair, though they had been friends for years. He had danced with her .at her winter home on the avenue, chatted with her in the family box at the opera and had even taken her for drives in the park, but they had never talked of love. In fact, he did not realize that he cared so much fpr her till she had left the city to spend the summer in the family residence in Harts kill. If she made any discovery at the same time she did not allow herself to cease being merry long enough to let any one suspect what was in her heart. It is true they corresponded, but their letters were slightly formal and of the chatty, frothy sort young people write to each other before their love-making has be come realty serious. Humble self-analysis never had appeared in them and the coin ing of epithets of endearment had not be come an end in life. When she noticed that Frank was beginning to look dis spirited she did not ask the nature of his complaint, a circumstance which makes the observant but very respectful chroni cler doubt the reality of her blindness. Instead, she began to rally him. “You, a citizen of this unparalleled republic,” she exclaimed, striking an oratorical pose, “and yet daring to look glum on such a day as this. Do you not realize that our nation is now celebrating the—the—Pshaw! I never could remem ber numbers—anniversary of that ever to be remembered day when our fore fathers threw off the yoke of the foreign tyrant and like the imperial eagle rising to greet the morning sun of liberty, we soared on ward and upward on that path of en lightenment and progress that may yet culminate in the parliament of man, the federation of the world. From this in spiring event wave after wave of resist less progress has surged westward with the star of empire till from the turbulent sides of the lay of Fundy to the golden sands of the blue Pacific, from the mighty and legend-haunted waters of Superior to that great gulf whose beneficent stream bears proudly across the bosom of the broad Atlantic the fleets of the mightiest commerce the world has ever known. To-day almost 70.000,0000 f people are shel tered under the flapping folds of the star-spangled banner, whose enfranchis ing shade makes tne humblest toiler the equal of the proudest monarch of decay ing Europe!” “What are you laughing at, sir? Don’t you know that is part of the oration papa delivered amid thunders of applause this morning. O, I assure you I didn’t act as his secretary for nothing.” “Were you really only his secretary?” asked Frank, still laughing and longing' madly to kiss the flushed cheek of the an imated orator. I suspect that you really wrote the oration for him in its entirety. The formation of tne sentences and the clearness of the metaphors show a really feminine touch.” “Now you are laughing at me and I object.” it was now Louise's turn to be glum. Could it be possible that she feared she had driven that proposal from his mind? Out of charity this must not be suggested, but it is quite certain that as Frank grew cheerful and began to chaff her she became demure and tended to be silent. And it seemed as if her glib outburst had loosened his tongue and made him a trifle more inclined to spar with her in the bat tle of badinage every incident provoked. 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She helped herself and declared her independence of custom as well as everything else. After dinner the family and the guests trooped out to the lawn to see the fire work display Mr. Kimball had provided for the occasion. Frank and Louise sat side by side on a rustic bench and a practiced ear might have differentiated the {occasional sigh »from the |“ah-hs” that greeted the sublime explosion of every rocket. Perhaps it was the ex citement caused by the whirr of the pin wheels that made her fail to notice that he had hold of her hand most of the time. Whenever a bomb exploded she invaria bly started nervously until they got so close to each other that.when she leaned back to watch the flight of a rocket her head almost rested on his shoulder. When the display drew near to an end their conversation had dwindled down to a mere repetition of those aforementioned “Ah-hs” that might have been occasioned by surprise or might merely be the ex pression of overch? rged hearts. When the supply of red and blue fire began to run low and the explosions of fire-works to become somewhat intermit tent she shrugged her shoulders and com plained of the dew. That was the signal for returning to the house and they climbed the little parterre that rose be tween the lawn and the varanda. As they moved slowly through the shrub bery which surrounded it he suddenly mustered up courage. ‘•Miss Kimball,” he stammered. “Louise.” She stopped short. “I-I want to tell you. I came to-day to tell you but—but somehow—er—will you be my wife?” “This is a great surprise,” she mur mured. Then the spirit of Independence Day returned to her and she exclaimed: “The idea of asking me to-day. Do you imagine that 1 would consent to-day? That I would make a declaration of de pendence on the glorious Fourth?” “Dont laugh at me!” he cried, “or you will break my heart. If I could only tell you how I love you. I will work for you, slave for you ” He was now getting hold of his prepared speech, and there is no knowing when he would have ended had it not been for a little accident that interrupted his flow of eloquence. A rocket that for some reason known best to itself refused to go upward, as all well-conducted rockets should, flew sideways along the earth and, whizzing past her head, stuck in a clipped fir tree beside her. WLh a scream of terror she flung herself half-fainting into his arms. The straggling villagers and guests heard the scream and, looking to see the cause, saw for one glorious mo- ment the tableau revealed by that flaring torch. Frank and Louise did not need to an nounce their engagement. Os course the rocket had really nothing to do with it, but with the fatuous logic of lovers they are still pleased to think it had, and in their home there is an orna ment an the wall made of two rockets crossed like fencing foils that will proba bly remain there till the children grow old enough to play with matches. P. McAbthvb. A Famous English Criminal. From the San Francisco Call Howard Northrup, a Scotland Yard man of London, is in the city in company with a party of English gentlemen who are now making a tour of this country. In speaking yesterday of celebrated crim inals of England, Mr. Northrup said that in his opinion Charles Peace, now dean, was the most famous of them all. “He was the inventor of an ingenious ladder,” said Mr. Northrup, “which, when not in use, was folded up, and the casual ob server would be willing to swear it was simply a bundle of kindling wood. When opened up for use these bits of wood were the steps of a rope ladder thirteen, feet long, and the rope was concealed from view when the blocks were bunched, together. Peace left Sheffield in 1876, after ‘cracking’ two mansions and. securing a lot of plunder. His description was posted all over England, and it told specifically that the burglar was minus one finger of his right hand. This was relied upon to identify him, but the fellow’s fertile mind conceived a scheme to avoid detection on that score. He made a dummy arm with a hook at the end of it, and on this he hung a violin and travelled aboutlocating places for future visits. Once he dis guised himself as a clergyman and visited Scotland Yard, where he made minute inquiries about himself. He carried off an inspector’s watch as a keepsake. He had a country house at Peckham and kept two housekeepers, two servants and a gardener. He lived like a gentleman of independent fortune, and was noted in the neighborhood for his passionate fond ness for music. In his house was a piano worth 200 guineas, and the furniture in his drawing room cost at least 1,000 guineas more. His equal has never yet lived in England, and we hope he never wUI.” ' “I lost my best friend the other day,” said the cheeful idiot, “Indeed? Who was that?” asked the sympathetic man. “Myself. I was out hunting and lost my self in the woods.”—lndianapolis Jour nal. "x The bust of yice President Stevenson by Franklin Slmm&js has been placed in one of the vacant niched of the Senate chamber recess. It is one of the most artistic works of the Senate collection of Vice Presidents. It is three feet high, including the base, and is made of the best Italian marble. The bunt was modeled from sittings. 7