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PAKT TWO. ! BILL BROWN'S GAMBLING BEAR He treaetd a First Class Scandal In Church Circles. •'Old Bill Brown's gambling bear created a big scandal in the church.” said Deacon Todtcrs reminiscently to the crowd that gathered at the corner grocery store Sat urday evenings, "but after the protests of the minister and Elder Howard, and even tny own solemn words of warning, had twilled nothing, the bear put an end to the game himself. Bill won’t touch a card now, though I can't see that either Bill or the bear have many claims to saving grace, even if their unholy partnership as poker players did come to a sudden and [violent end. "Bill found the bear In the woods when it was a cub and took him home and be gan training him. Even for a Pike county hear that animal displayed unusual intel ligence. By the time he was full grown ho would follow Bill around like a lum bering dog, and a good many people said the bear knew more than Bill did. One evening, after Tom Wilson had succeeded In separating Bill from his money, he look ed at the bear in an interested sort of way and remarked: ■■ 'Blamed if that bear of yours can't do almost everything except play poker. Bill.' "Bill didn’t say much to this, but the Bill Taught tha [ ■: to Make 1,1(11. -tit, V Mis Front Paw. ■next evening, when I called at his house, E found him sitting at the table, a pack of fcarrts in his hand, and that Intelligent fcear looking on in the most Interested pv ' I “ Loving care I’ve lavished on that ■war,’ said Bill, in answer to my ques tions, ‘feeding and housing him all these and never charging him a cent for fcoard. Now, in my old age, he will re tav me for my toil and add to the Brown ■ank account.* I “ ‘lt’s the act of a kind-hearted man to ■each his bear to play cards,’ I answered, ■port of puzzled like, for I couldn’t under stand Bill’s game. ‘During the long win iter evenings nothing comforts a bear’s |b*art so much as a quiet game of soli- Itaire in front of a warm fire. But how ■that is going to bring shekels into your I pockets 1 can't sec. Do you mean to set flip a training school for bears, and ad- BiH Found the Hear In the Woods Where He Was Out and Took Him Home. Vertise “Card playing, dancing and all so cial accomplishments taught bears of good family at reasonable rates?” ’ “Bill thought I was laughing at him, end looked quite grieved. " 'Do I look like a man, deacon,' he Inquired in Injured tones, 'who would toam over the hills of Pike county, teach ing bears the exhilarating game of soli taire, and taking checks on the Bears’ National Bank In payment? This remark able bear of my own, who has had the advantage of years of association with honest old Bill Brown, may be taught the rudiments of can! playing. But lt'e an amusement that isn’t ever likely to become popular with the general run of bears, Anyhow, it’s poker, not solitaire, that I'm explaining to my pel.' " 'There's a bear,’ I told BUI solemnly, ‘who has grown to years of bear discre tion without a bad habit, without touch fug a card. Is it the act of a Christian to start him in paths of vice? "Let bears and lion* growl and bile, for It Is their nature to,” soys the good song. But no where in hymn, or Scripture, cun you find anything authorizing you to teach gam bling in general, and the wordly game of poker in particular to a once Innocent bear.' "But Bill didn't seem to think he was doing any wrong. " 'Your slinging words of reproof might •PP>y deacon,’ he replied, obstinate like, 'lf under my guidance this Intelligent ani mal w actually going to play poker. But I've too much conscience and not enough money for that game. I can lose money to Tom Wilson fast enough myself to jiittoamrah Morning i\ T rtos. cause vacuums in the Brown exchequer. " *^ at I propose to do is simply to teach thi beor the different hands in the game of poker. It won’t be long before he will i know’ every hand and be able to give a little signal for each one. Even the most j sanctified of men can t blame the bear if. In his innocence, he happens to sit behind Tom Wilson and signal the value of tne hand Tom is holding. And if I should happen to use that information in the way in which it can do the most good, neither the recording angel nor Pike county humane society cranks can lay the blame at the door of that plump and innocent minded pet of mine.’ “Lcoked at in that light it didn’t seem as if the bear’s moral integrity could come to grief. Tom Wilson might have a protect coming, but Tom had already won so much of the boys’ money that It seem ed a commendable act to reduce his sur plus. The only party whose character was likely to suffer was Bill Brown, and his conscience had the reputation of be ing fireproof. I was sort of anxious to see how the bear would take to poker, so I couldn’t see where it was up to me to warn Tom Wilson. “There’s no denying that bear was a born poker player. Bill hadn't been train ing him over a couple of w’eeks before that intelligent animal knew every hand, from a pair of deuces to a royal straight flush. Bill taught the bear to make little signals with his front paws, showing what the hands were. After the bear had the game down pretty pat Bill would put a poker hand on the table and look at the bear in an Inquiring way. Then the beat would give a signal. If the bear called the hand right Bill would give him a bit of meat, or a little honey, or some other dflicacy dear to the black bear heart and talate. If the bear made a mistake a powerful bump on the side of the head was all that was due him. Finally Bill judged his pet’s education was complete. He was the most self-satisfied man in Pike county. “ ‘Talk about higher education,' Bill re marked complacently, when I came over to see how his unrighteous scheme was getting on. ‘A man don’t appreciate w'hat can be done by a judicious mixture of loving care., and honey, and an occa sional bumping, until he has witnessed the intellectual feats of honest old Bill Brown’s black bear. Bears of uncom mon attainments have been before seen An Excited Bear. in Pike county, but this Is the first one that fully understood the noble game of poker. Saddened spirits and depleted pooketbooks will be the portion of those who try to win money from Bill Brown and his bear. ’ "But Bill was so proud of his scheme for getting even with Tom Wilson that he couldn't keep still about it. The mat ter came to ears of the minister and Elder Howard. They came over and re monstrated on the peril in which Bill was putting his own soul and the good bear's moral character. Bill wouldn't be moved, and Insisted that he was not leading the bear Into evil ways. ” 'You can't really say that the bear Is a gambler, for I will make It a point to see that the money earned by the firm of Brown, Bear & Cos. goes to Brown,' said Bill. 'And as far as I am concern ed, oil I want to do Is to get back the money Tom Wilson robbed me of. Al though I might be persuaded to take a little more, even at the risk of a Jar to my confidence.’ “Even after Bill's explanation the min ister and the elder didn't quite approve of his plan. But as they regarded Tom Wilson as a good deal of an instrument of iniquity, anyhow, they didn't feel call ed upon to give away Bill's little game. “The next evening Bill piked over to the tavern early and began playing poker with Tom Wilton. The Intelligent hear perched himself on his hind legs behind Tom, where h- could lock ovir the cards. Tom being accustomed to seeing the bear with Bill Brown, didn't think much of this But there wasn't a hand held by Tom Wilson that escaped the notice of that bear All Bill had to do was to glance at the bear and he knew In a aec ond Just what Tom was playing. The result was that when the game broke up SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 12. 1900. Bill had a bunch of money and Tom had accumulated a stock of experience that he would have been glad to dispose of at a mighty small price. Tom was a puzzled man. “ I've seen good poker playing in my life,’ observed Torn the next day in a wondering way, “but I never saw’ a man size up the other fellow’s hands the way Bill Brown did last night. And to think that I considered Bill an easy mark at the game.’ “Tom was a pretty foxy hoy himself w’hen it came to card ploying, and all day long no kept trying to figure out how it happened. That evening Bill Brown came over to play again. Bill kept on playing the same skillful game of the night before, seeming to know exactly what cards Tom Wilson was holding. By-and-by Tom no ticed that Bill kept watching the bear closer than if he was the third person in the game. Then. Tom began to appreciate that in some way the bear was giving Bill points. Tom made up his mind to get even. “That poor pet of yours acts as if he was hungry,’ observed Tom, in sort of a pitying way. ‘Wait a minute and I’U get him a nice bit of raw’ meat.’ “So Tom went into the kitchen and cut off a big piece of raw meat. “ ‘Such an extraordinarily intelligent and civilized bear would certainly want to have his meat flavored,’ said Tom. And he made a slice in the meat and stuck in a mighty liberal portion of red pepper. Then he wont back into the barroom where Bill the bear were. “ ‘He’s your bear. Bill,’ said Tom in a kindly manner. ’You'd better give him the meat yourself.’ “Bill handed the meat -to the bear. The bear gobbled it down. In a minute there was an excited bear in that barroom. He began to dance around, the floor, holding on to his stomach with his front |>aws, and growling at BUI in tones which weren’t those of affection ate regard. Then the bear roll ed over on the floor and finally made a break for the door and galloped home at a rate that established anew ncord in bear sprin:ing. Bill thought his pet had a fit. He hurtled home. There was the bear at the watering trough drinking at a rapid rate, and only s'opping to rub his stomach every few seconds in a pen sive manner. Bill was mad. “ ‘There’s a bear that I’ve spent thought, and care, and valuable time training, and just when I am winning Tom Wilson’s money in a record break ing manner he chooses that moment to give a fancy exhibition of a big black bear throwing a fit. I’ll teach him a les son that will make him appreciate there is a time and place for everything, in cluding fits.' "And Bill picked up a stick and began beating that much abused bear. ‘ The bear didn’t make any remarks, but a person could see that the milk of bear kindness was curdling mighty fast in his furry bosom. The next morning, though, the bear acted as if nothing had happened. In the evening Bill prepared to visit Tom Wilson's tavern. I warned him to be careful. “ ‘Even a Christian,’ I told Bill solemn ly, ‘would resent the treatment you’ve handed out to that bear, and forgiving tenderness isn’t the long suit of any black bear. That pet of your blames you for the Internal commotion he suffered last night, as well as for the beating you gave him. If I am any Judge of bear nature, he will be looking for revenge.’ “ ‘That bear of mine is the pet and pride of my heart, *■ replied Bill earnestly. I’ve fed and cared for him. No animal who has come to know my good qualities the way that bear has would ever cher ish malice against honest old Bill Brown for the few chastening blows I gave him.' “Tom Wilson is a pretty good judge of bear, as well as human nature. He had made up his mind that there wouldn’t be much more valuable information (oming to Bill Brown from that bear. So Tom didn’t make any protest at having the bear sit back of him. The game went along for awhile without any excitement. Bill kept winning, for the bear gave the signals all right, although subsequent pro ceedings ehowed he was only waiting for a chance to get even. Finally Bill got an ace full, while Tom Wilson had four threes. Bill glanced over at the bear. The treacherous animal gave a signal that Tom was holding a full house. Poor old Bill, thinking that he had the best full house in the deck, bet so much that when the call came nil the money he had won and a big bunch of his own coin was in the pot. Tom showed down his four of a kind and raked in everything in sight. “Bill was dazed. lie locked over at the bear to see if hi-? once faithful pet could have made a mistake. The self-satisfied look on that furry deceiver’s face show ed that he had mlded Ids worthy owner on purpose. Bill grabbed a chair and be gan pounding the bear. But that partic ular bear had made up h.s mind he was not going to stand anything more in tlie way of abifse from Bill Brown. When the boys untangled the mix-up Bi 1 looked as if he had been having an argument with a stone crusher. The bear ducked through the doorway, and tbrft was the last ever seen of him. Bill was inconsolable. “ T don’t fo much mind losing all that good money.’ he said. In a grieved, pa thetic manner, ‘a'though that hurts. But to think, after knowing me all these years that bear should play such a treacherous trick on honest old Bill Brown almost breaks my heart.’ ” Edwin Webster. A Bombardment of Sanilwlehea. Probably the most novel ammunition that ever proceeded from the mouth of a cannon, was the sandwiches fired from two big guns situated in the Qustavus Adolphus Square, Gothenburg, Sweden. And from the American point of view, the use made of these cannon seems scarcely less remarkable than the strange ammunitions which they sometimes eject ed. In case of a fire, insiead of ringing fire bells according to our custom here, the Gothenburg fire department discharg ed these heavy cannons to warn the town of the conflagration. Gustavus Adolphus Square, In which these cannon were to be seen, Is the principal square of the city; and a favor ite resort for children In the afternoons. It was not uncommon for the groups of young people gathering in this attractive spot to bring their luncheons with them. Now, there Is no article of food more characteristic of a lunch than the sand wich. But It frequently happened that the visitors had provided themselves with a larger supply of sandwiches than they cared to devour, and so what were left over were pushed Into the mouth of the cannon as a convenient means of dispos ing of them. Just opposite to "the cannon, on the other side of (he square, is the Masonic building, a handsome, structure. When a (ire occurred, and the guns were discharg ed this building would become liberally spattered with such morsels of discarded food as were cast away Into the esnnon, and when fires were frequent the Masonic building literally suffered a bombardment of sandwiches. Passersby noticing frag ments of sandwich adhering to the build ing regarded It as a Joke, but Its occu pants took a different view. When you need medicine you should get the best that money can buy, and ex perience prove* thl* to be Hood'* Bar**- parlll*,—ad, Like a summer breeze, it will bring a cool and pleasant sensation* For low prices, like a low temperature at this season, bring a oeace of mind that is delicious* AND HERE ARE SOME ON THE VERY BOTTOM: Just a String of Bargains. 5c WHITK INDIA LAWN 3„ 10c COLORED BATISTES ’ 6c 10c COBDED DIMITIES AND CHECKED NAINSOOKS 6o 10c CREPONS 5c 15c LINEN COLOR DUCK Be 10c ORASS LINEN LAWNS "" g 0 1214 c 40-INCH VICTORIA LAWN 7 ii c 15c WHITE DIMITY AND INDIA LAWNS "a," 25c WHITE PLAID AND STRIPED LAWA.VS P'i;. c 26c SOLID COLOR DIMITIES AND PIQUES jjc 1254 c SCOTCH GINGHAMS 7 s ic 75c CROCHET QUILTS 's9c 1254 c FANCY PERCALES, YARD-WIDE 854 c 20c 10-4 BLEACHED SHEETING Igo 16c 10-4 UNBLEACHED SHEETING "144 c 75c FOULARD SILKS 3 9e 85e BLACK TAFFETAS . ' 69c 35c FANCY FRENCH ORGANDIES 15c 75c 45-INCH BLACK FRENCH SERGE ,Vlo 39c 30-INCH BLACK IMPORTED SERGE ’ •'Sc 50c 2S-INCH BLACK ALL WOOL CHALLIE Mo 35c LADIES' LISLE UNBLEACHED HOSE ]-m/o 20c LADIES' BLACK OPENWORK HOSE 12540 25c and 35c LADIES' BELTS. ALL KINDS, TO CLOSE 10c 25c LADIES' LISLE GLOVES, BLACK AND COLORS 150 Real Bargains in Ladies’ Skirts. LADIES'* WHITK LAWN SHIRT WAISTS, Insertion of lace and embroidery; were $2.50, 98 cents. Odd sizes of odd styles PIQUE, LAWN and MARDAS WAISTS, HI UUlIf 50 cents. LADIES' WHITE DUCK SKIRTS, lapped seams, deep hem, ' ’ft iMwTTFITifi] 50 cents. LADIES* WHITE MUSLIN SKIRTS, 7-inch ruffle of embroidery and tucks, 50 cents. LADIES’ CRASH and DENIM BICYCLE SKIRTS, eight rows stitching, 98 cents. LADIES’ SERGE, HOMESPUN, VENETIAN and CHEVIOT TAILOR-MADE SUITS, silk lined coats, regular price $2O, 512.50. The ° f Low Leader & bull' sts. '" Prices. LOUBET'S YANKEE CALLERS. SI’JiDAY AFTERNOON WITH THE HEAD OF FRENCH REPUBLIC. Ur. Loomis FinilK Himself Mark nt Home After His Miml In Made Easy on the Subject of H Spike Tall aud Silk Hat Ilefore 3 O’clock on the Afternoon* Paris. July 8 —Massinger said he felt like a. waiter when we put on our evening clothes at three in the afternoon to at tend a Sunday reception given by Presi dent Loubet of the French republic, but friends In whom I trusted had told me that it would he perfectly proper to wear a silk hat and a spike tail. Massinger stopp’d on the way out of our hotel to ask the concierge where the President lived and she nearly fell over. When she could gasp fhe told us and came out to the front door with her hus band to help us get a cab. She felt that President and Madame Loubet. the was assisting in a sacrel function. Those Americans that put up with a room near the root and then go to call on the President of a Sunday afternoon quite as If Presidents grew wild In the 'fields In America. The cabby was also plainly surprised and when we left the hotel we saw a long line of servants who had been summoned n some mysterious way to witness the departure of the iwo Americans. We had been drivtn thr<e or four blocks oil the Avenue do I'Opera before we saw another man in evening clothes and dur ing that time we were a prey to terrible suspicions. What if our friends had play ed us false. What If people did not dress until after six in France. We'd bring nice ridicule on our country wouldn't we? But at last we saw a man in a swallow tall coat and wearing a felt hat and then we brea'hed easier and by the time we were on" of the long row of cabs that were waltirg In 1 n to drive Into the executive mens lon. if that Is what they call It In France, we f It that we were not waiters In orio tense nor were we waiters In any sense long for the driver toid u we could get out aid walk If we eared to. So we paid him and a walk of half a block brought us to the entrance for .pedestrian*. If you think that you're gq- tng to hare a detailed account of lha architecture of the building with a faith ful description of each room through which we passed after we had checked our coats you are making a monumental error. We went from a spacious gravel ed court yard Into a series of large rooms and at last approached a quick eared flunkey or maybe he was president of the Senate for all I know or care. At any rate he called out Massinger’s name as If he had never been used to say any other word and then he called out my name In a way to make It sound noble. A nod In the direction of the President and his wife, and we found ourselves rapidly walking toward the garden. There a gay scene presented itself, one that we could understand without a guide book. Massinger had been audibly re gretting that he had not brought Baed eker while we were getting ready to bo presented, for our progress was slow and the rooms looked very much like those in different palaces that have echoed to the fleeting footsteps for 10. these many days, hut once In that garden we saw that It was Just human beings with no Cook's Tourists, as such, among them and we felt at our ease. Two hands on opposite trldes of the lawn were discoursing strains by Bizet, Massenet and other French composers, not at the same time, but al ternately, while from within the house there came a sound of revelry by dsy and France’s capital had gathered there her representative people. I generally pass on clothes, T see them, hut do not notice them, but those few terrible minutes In the voiture when I wasn't sure whether I was a waiter or not made me keenly alive to men's apparel and I noted the costumes with Interest. There were nun with red-barred outing shirts, others wiih frilled full dress, mui In gray frock coats and men tn black sacks. There were Tuxedos and swallow tails, tan shoes and patent leathers, pot hats and opera Viats, silk hats and Fe doras, white ties and made ties, red ties and black ties, four-ln-harid and stocks, In short, with the exception of blouses and overall*, I don't think that there was any kind of masculine apparel that was not represented In that throng And then there were the gay colors of the French soldiery, with here and there a Turk; or a Ctiinaman who walked around as calm ly and a* Inscrutably as If Pekin were not the unseen cynosure of all eyes. Champagne was dispensed at a little, I had almost said bar, among the shrubbery and a* *OOO as w could do It decently A List That Will Tax Neither Purse Nor Patience. 10c LADIES' STRIPED RIBBED VESTS 5c 25c LADIES’ LISLE RIBBED VESTS 15c 10c CHILDREN’S JERSEY RIBBED VESTS 6o 25c and 35c TAFFETA AND SATIN RIBBONS 15c 25c LADIES’ FACE VEILINGS 10c 6c and Sc NARROW EMBROIDERIES 3c 5c WASH BRAIDS. ALL COLORS 2c $l.OO DOZEN VALENCIENNES LACES, TO CLOSE 48c 50c SHOTTING BAGS 18c 10c CARNATION TOILET SOAPS Be 15c HAIR BRUSHES 8c 10c TOOTH POWDER, TIN BOXES 5c 20c and 25c BATIfI SPONGES, LARGE SIZE 10c ]oc IM PORTED ’TOOTH BRUSHES So 75c 26-INCH LADIES' AND GENTS’ UMBRELLAS 3.8 c 25c CHILDREN’S PARASOLS .' 15c 50c and 75c ODD SIZES IN SILK FRONT MEN'S SHIRTS 29c 50c. MEN'S BLEACHED DRAWERS, GOOD ONES 33c 50c, MEN'S TRIMMED NIGHT SHIRTS 390 35c MEN'S BALBRIGOAN SHIRTS AND DRAWERS 23c 15c MEN’S TAN AND BLACK V,-HOSE,3 PAIRS FOR 25c $2 00 MEN'S STRAW HATS MOO $l.OO MEN’S WHITE DUCK PANTS 3c $2.75 MEN’S LINEN SUITS $l5O $6.00 MEN'S LINEN CRASH SUITS $3 90 $3.50 MEN S BLUE SERGE COATS $1.96 $6OO MENS BLUE SERGE COATS *3.76 Wonderful Values In Summer Shoes. INFANTS’ TAN, BLACK nnd PATENT LEATHER SANDALS, 750 and $l.OO grada; this salo CHILDREN'S TAN AND BLACK AND PATENT LEATHER ONE-STRAP SLIPPERS, 6 to 8, at 89c; The kind you pay $1.25 and $1.50 for elsewhere. CHILDREN'S TAN, BLACK KID OXFORDS, SOTHERN BUTTON. AND SANDALS, a large assortment to select from, 84s to 2s, at 96c; $1.36 and $1.50 quality. LADIES' CROMED TAN AND BLACK KID OXFORDS, In Bet hern but tons and Oxfords, $250 and $3.00 quality, new goods, sale price $l.BB MEN S LOW SHOES, In tan and Mack, $lOO and $l.OO quality; sala price ....$2.79 Massinger and I called for one each on M. lo President nnd we drank to the health of the President (of the United States.) Having fulfilled this patriotic duty wo took up our stand in a crowd of people who were studying the gown of Mrs. Lou bet, for she and her good husband had come out from the house and were now standing on green carpet that covered the grass at that point and were receiv ing belated guests In the open air. Mrs. Loubet looks as If she might al ways havo been a President's wife. She carries herself well and speaks French like the native that she Is. Hut Loubet looks like a composite photograph of the lasi live American Presidents, and you could sen that he had not been born to the purple or whatever color Is appropriate. He looks as If he had much rather be taking a quiet Sunday afternoon nap Instead of listening to such avalanches of French ns were poured on him by his guests. He has somewhat Benjamin Harrlsonlan set of whiskers, complete In every part and not very strong eyes, and he Is not the man one would naturally pick out to lead the destinies of France, but they say that he I* a very line si>eak er, and I presume that France Is safe In his hands until the close of his term. The gardens were beautiful, the music delightful, the scene gay and ever chang ing, and now and then an American girl would walk by without a trace of paint or powder on her face and Massinger would say, "I tell you what; it takes us. We are the people.” Massinger wanted to go up and talk to Mrs. Loubet, hut he has talked so mueh with cabmen lately that he Is getting quite a patois, and I was afraid that he would not do us credit, and besides I knew that he’d say to her. "Well, after all, there’s only one New York,” so I took him Into the house and we Joined the throng that were trying to get lees and cake without spilling them. It was hard work and It was hot work, but we wanted to say we’d eaten at President Loubet's so that we’d he able to move In higher circles when we returned to America and that’s why we endured the crush. He got a sugared grape and a puff aind a coffee Ice and I got the same. We had to put on our hats to eat, but then everyone else did It so we didn’t mind. There were a whole lot of young girls there dressed alike, who looked as If they were orphans. They all seemed to enjoy themrelves and If they really were or phans 1 say "Bully for Loubet." There was dancing going on In the room next to the "salle a manager,” and no one setmed to be awate that he was being wicked. Maybe no one was wicked, but I know that President McKinley Is opposed lo (lancing In his parlors on Sunday af ternoon and he looks more like Napoleon than Loubet does. However, It’s nobody’s business. After awhile we came out Into the gar d n again and found that Mr. and Mrs. Ixoubet were tired of receiving on the car pet and were going Indoors some more. A man who looked like a guest and who tarried a large came'a he and himself In n adlness and when they passed him he got ’< m. I don’t know whether It Is a French custom to go around shooting the President with a camera, but to me It seemed out of place. And then as soon as the first gentleman In Fiance and his wife were anugly ensconced In the house ••gain peop'e want to the windows, and craned th lr necks to a. e Inside. I saw oae pl nlpotcntlary “rubtxrli g” like a small boy at a baseball game. I noticed one thing t! at di ed me with delight. When the mus c began, the talk ing ceased. H mender that you who read this and the next time you are at a reception and there la music, atop talking. PAGES 11 TO 20. The reception was from three to seven, but we did not stay after six and as the exalted couple had gone off soniewhera we were unable to aay good bye and tell them what a good time we had had. But we had enjoyed ourselves exceedingly and I think that they make a real nice “folk sy” couple and If I had more ready com mand of French I would write to them and tell them what a pleasant oooaslon It was and how two Americans who didn’t know a soul there except Horace Porter, and him only by sight, felt that they own ed the place and were glad of It. If Massinger and I ever get to be Presi dent of the United States we hope we'll have a chance to make Mr. and Mrs. Loubet feel at home, although they can’t dance on Sunday. It would simply kill m*- politically with the Methodists. When we were returning through the streets we met a company of negroes who are going to give a ’’cake-walk” here In Paris and recognizing us as Americana, although we wore no flags, they took off their hats to us and we both felt that the presidency was not so far off and wo swelled with pride. We were received with marked fervor by the concierge and his wife, and I fancy they have raised the room rent of every one In the house. If one keeps a hotel that Is frequented by chums of the I*resl dent one must charge aceordlngly, and as I saw the concierge closeted with Mad ame Marie , the proprietor, I am sure that our bills will show what we did this Sunday afternoon, July 8. Charles Battell Loomis. LEMON* A* MEDICINE. They regulate the liver, stomach, bowel*, kidneys and blood as prepared by Dr. H. Mozley, in his Lemon Elixir, a pleasant lemon drink. It cures biliousness, consti pation. 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