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VEvfi-Wa'N‘V‘J V".-"’ r‘c~."‘~_‘..-",.~._h./V"Wv “d u"v"v’\-‘\.- ‘~ 7‘. ' -'-Ȥ.«.\W * ’77.,«7 VV 3 I l l p r b V I 7 wimzxfiwwcxmmw.wszmrw . . .....r . ., l .. c . . A . . « - - 5 ~.â€" ~.- .- . A v A . null men's UAREER. LIFE OF THE MAN WHO REVELLED IN BcOODSHnD. hâ€" Ilnve Trader to a Powerful Ruler-0n? [awed by the EILflIsII for slave l‘rmllng, llc lam-elm] a Grunt Empire In line Ilcsert. Osman Dlgna‘s real name was George His-bet. His father, according to the story now: familiar had taken wife and. son to Egypt when the latter was a boy. The elder Ndsbet died. The widow married a rich man of Alexan- dria-Osman Digna. The stepfather gla've the boy his name, his education and his calling. Thus the new, Osman Digma became a Mohammedan, aslave trader and a Hannibal of the desert. Slavery in Egypt is nominally abolâ€" ished. In reality it flourishes. When this old Oslmuln- Digna died the new Osman Digna settled in the Berbereen country. Here he hired a band of harwless desert denizens, who swept up elmd down the banks of the Nile, cap- turing young men emld women. 'llhe captives were hurried to the Red Sea and sold. Osman Digna gnaw, rich. His headquarters Were at Berber and at Khartoum. The whole Suak‘im region yielded tribute to his trwffic. The English occupation threatened him with ruin. The new authorities had Issued an edict against slavery. They closed the ports of the south to the precuiliar merchmxidise 01f Os- matn Digna. He was now a typical Mohammedan of fifty with a harem and a bear. Ruin stare-d him in the flame. He joined the Mahdi. HIS APPEARANCE IN THE WAR. The Mahdi detected the greatness of the new follower. He gave him: let- ters to the village sheiks and to the: officials of his barbarian government. Osman: Digna, in 1880, was compare-i tively unknown beyond the desert.l .Within its limits a. money population i feared him. His first work was to 013-! guanine a folloiwing of desert bandits. Their bond of union iMdlS plunder. __________.___â€"-.â€"â€"_____.â€". .W'ithin a few years he held. becomeI the leader of the revolting population ,ed, of the Eastern Soudan. VV'ith his horde of the desert the nipâ€" pearred before Sinkat. This was in [A411- gust, 1883. He rushed upon the set- tlement at the- head of hilsifonce only to be beaten back with a. loss of eighty men. His following Iamd his influâ€" ence melted away. The man’s satelli- tles had been taught to deem {him inâ€" vincible. He was now a broken idol. The English dismissed him from their minds. His army became oneof seventyâ€"five soldiers. . In his extremity he dealt the blow thitt first gave the English their men-- sums of the men. In a defllle between Sulakimx and Sinkat lilo lay all'vonle Oo- toobier might with the few who still be- lieved in him; He knew, that a little‘ detnchmvent of native troops ulnder a- native commander must pass that may. Be enjoin-ed absolute silence up- on his forcla‘. They his behind sand hills and the bare rock masses. Osman Digna threatened wioth death any man who moved. before he gave the word. When the enemy hmd involved themâ€" selves in the defile the slave deal- er signalled. 0n rushed the men from their concealment. The enemy were almost annihilated, and all Os- mcan Dig‘na’s lost prestige returned to him». ' aVICII‘ORY AFTER VICTORY. Four more splendid victories over the Government lioness followed in ' quick succession. The British found to their amazement that this out‘lzuwr ed isluve trader was a general. In six months he had made himself master of the country round- about. His story gmew like a field of wheat. I-Ie drill- ed and disciplined his desert horde, us Hannibal had drilled and disciplined the [‘u-rthaginian mob. The dilemma: of the English was extreme. They retnieved their (almost 5211th mistake of having underrated this foe by sending Gcncml Graham’s ermiy against him. Before the Eng- lishman could take the field Tokmr had fallen. General Graham was dumbfounded. His first blot was to send messengers to Osmzun Digna de- mimding his submission. This com- mlunicution the Mohammedan did not condbsoend to notice. He si-mully threw up breusltyworks in the Oasis anrdxwait- end forGrurh'am to come up. The latter lost no time. With Baker Pasha anld Colonel Burnaby to guide him, Gen- enal Graham. arriveld at El Teb in four hours. He had- about four thousand men. Osman 'Digna’s f-o'Dce approachâ€" e-d six thousand, almost wholly Sou- deanese. He began the battle by shellâ€" ing the advancing Oblang square of British. No answer was made until Gmaliam had conducted his men quite around the breastwprks. Then hoop-enâ€" ed with artillery and infantry at once. The Scudancse staggered under the shoe-k. The English rushed upon their Enemy; ' . I x t The bottle lasted three hours. Osman lost fully 1,000 men, the British'bmrer ly 28 killed and 140 wounded. .The Mohammedan fell back to Suakin, and in two weeks had entrenched him:- self near that city with a new army. The British moved upon Smaikiu in squares. The advancing columns were like a long, living ladder. Osman Dig- nm. detached several small forces to hialrry the oncoming vance guard, however, persisted in hiring stray volleys. once led ’llhe Sundanese crept up thus afforded. They sprang upon the English ranks and. beat them back. The capacity of own fim beneath the shelter bhe Arulb for hand-to-hand conflict served Osmmn Digna’s purpose well. The Gatling guns fell into the hands of his mien. ( x l CARNAGE IN THE DESERT. Only the intrepidity of General Gra- hla-m- averted aura-t. He reformed his broken lines and charged the yelling Amabs. So hot became the fire from tlhe English artillery that the forces of .Osm-an brokein dismay. General Graham. made good his advance, and forced Osman from Suakin, but no pmictical advantage resulted. Osman Digna took the field again in a few mocks. About 4,000 Soudamese and Arabs had- fallen. On the other hand, Graham- had- lost a fifth of his army. These events revealed clearly the Mo- hiam‘meda-n’s plan of campaign. The loss of like was of no 'impor‘capoq to Osmam Digna. His men were eager to .be slaughtered, thth they might en- ter the portals of Earaxdise. If the English‘ ,wan- a. victory he let them have it, and then harassed them from the desert. Such was his course when beaten from Sunkin. The English held the town. but Osman Divgnu held the English. British policy contemplated the bull-ding! of a; railway from Sluakin to Berber. Before the design could be carpi-ed out the hostile hordes had to be swept from the desert. Osmcun Digna. stood in the way. All the pow- er of: Britain w.sz brought to bear to dislodge! the Mohlannmedan. The effort was val-n. He was driven from- one, stronghold only to establish a new: into the desert, but the could not be cleared. By 1885 the theatre of war had been transferred to Kassnla. had the aid of two of his nephews-â€" Ahmed; and Fagi Digna. country 1 great work of organization, He now paid no particular attention to Os- man. That worthy, remained as elus- ive as the eel. Ambitious colonies and majors tried to capture him. Pitched battles 113(3de I ' ’ 0n the whole. however. the Moham- medan slaver's power. declined, Eng- land was no longer playing: his game. The religious influence of the. Mahdist over which he sold his wares- m-ovement waned. Long, befroe the great day at4 Omdurmun the Soudan's fate had passed! out of Osman Digna’s hands. ‘He had sunk to the level; of a bandit at large within its limits. .When Kitchener went: to. Khartoum s Osman Dignn was never out thoughts. to take the slave trader, alive. But, although the great English- man sturted the. quarry, he could no run it to; earth. Osman) came out \of the fray alive, and. free. file baddest some credit in the last. few years even with his own following. The events at: Atalbara, at Dongola revealed the slave trader in his true colors as a self seeker. ‘ x i : "What news have; you, and how fare the faithful?" enquired Abdullafh on one occasion, when Osman came to Omdurm-an to report. 1 . . "Master," replied, Digna, "I led the faithful to P‘aradise."- ' ' "Then wh'y( did you not go with them" returned lAbdullall. ' »"God." replied the slave. trader, "hath-( not ordained it so." . Ile end come inglcrlously. Ever since the fall of Khartoum Osman Digna has been a ih-‘unted man. then and ran Osman Digna to earthl 1n the hills. â€"~â€"â€"-o-â€"â€"â€"â€"- Osman- had performed prodigies for ENGLAND'S ARMY IN SOUTH AFRICA the Mahdi sitter shutting the Eng- Iiitsh up in Sulakin. He aroused the Erklglwit, Shlsnnlh, Mi hath, Migadoff and Bish'irtislv tribes. These hordes af- forded brim levy after levy of recruits. He now. demanded the surrender of both Slinknt and Suakin and even made «in attack. In this he was repulsed. But his massacred 156 soldiers and two otticers in a. hooky pass not 20 miles ‘ from Suiarkiu. A MAZE OF MOVEMENTS. The military operations of the 101‘ :liowingl monuhu are not easily follow- thle accounts are too contradic- {tory. The news came, late in 1885. Ethat Osman Digna had been slain and {his whole army captured. It turned June 18, 1880. On thlat day be ap- peared before TnImai with another of his innumerable armies. The English, in-owx ‘mindlc heroic efforts to keep the lSua'kin route open. it'hris by driving Osmian before them. gTIhc proposed raxiliwuy from Suakin to .Berber remained a railway on paper. a...â€" 0vel'stnicd by Mr. “ymllmm. The statement made by Mr. Wynd- ham, the Under-Secretary ol.’ State for War in the British House of Commons the other duly, that the Buitishnforces in South Africa. comprised 142,800 unâ€" mounted, and 37,800 mounted men, with 452 guns, of which 30 are siege and 38 naval gvunns, seems susceptible of considerable modification when una- Ten Letter Words and Phrases 0h.- Positive orders were given 0 t mark “God save us” and made up the The old) slave trader 's ' ' th t In “ms campaign Osman now under lock and key,- (1 candidates against Lincoln. About a l i lyz-ed. On Jan. 20 the total force of; QUEER COST MARKS. sen as Secret Signs. Among the old time features which are __._n, , _._-__r--=*!4!5=g TWENTY-sssz CENTS A DKY. Many Men Manage to Get Thail- Meals on That Amount. “Oh, yes, there are plenty of fellows in this city who live well on 27 cents a. disappearing from the c1_ty stores because day," said a dining mom owner to a re. of the modern methods is the cabalistic cost mark which the merchant once thought as indispensable as the counter The man who started a busines for I porter. The lunch man has been in the business for years and knows what he is saying. They get up in the morning and with 8 cents go to a 3 cent lunch room. There “I'll tell you how they do it. hims If v ted man hours before he _ mad: hisdfirgt displayyof wares to “makâ€" ‘ “I,” procure 1‘ Pup 0‘ coffee and 3 “31d ' n t ,.k This, had to be my wxch. each costing 3 cents, or something mg “p n cos ma ' of that sort. This is suflicnent for them. like any other. mark and was in some in- tances composed of ten hieroglyphics, “At lunch time they visit the 3 cent . . . . place again and with a piece of pie and 0: ms ofgten tmIASposidfigltlfies laad,.;n%1te‘3£tiifi a glass of milk are contented until din- “ wor or W 0' e e e ’ ner. That is a total of 12 cents. At din- dead or comd be “ad to “press figures' A large ner they go to the regular lunch or dining wholesale concern in New York used the a moms and eat themselves happy on 15 tenth figure with a cross. Through this cents. r rooms in the city a dinner can be bought At a number of regular dining business house the‘ pious cost mark be- ' for ,5 cents and w,“ be a good am, too. came known all over the country. Clerks , It will consist of soup and bread. one 310m thte 1:??fil‘sytlfieffi filteJSS fiighggofi , meat and one entree, two vegetables. 3 9 cos 1 w' e ' = piece of pie or other dessert and a cup of few years it Was in use in nearly every state in the Union. 1 Another cost mark which‘found many admirers was “Make profit,” and this ' tea or coffee. “But where these sharpers do the lunch 1 room proprietors is in another way."l‘hey have become so expert at the business was only a trifle more pepmar man that they know whcn each dining room is “Quick trade.” “Johnny Miles” served as a sign as well as a cost mark for one concern. and one sentimental Irishman who opened a linen store in New York in the days when Niblo’s Garden was “away up town” chose as his cost mark “My Bridget 0.” When the campaign of 1860 was at its height, an ardent Republican in Boston in whose store a cost mark was in use He . . . . - that had been Invented by his grandfu- ‘ “gunned to his 01d haunts near TOkar' that marked all his goods over in order Sunkin has long since been garrisoned to use the mark, “Abe must Win.» and one. Army arfter army swept down | by U“? En'glifilh- The Wmflnder there: this mark remained in use for years after Captain Burgess, organized an expedi- “Abe” had won the fight. against Doug- las, Breckinrldge and Bell, who were all ' time the cost mark “Hit Douglas" was invented. and that and “Republican” are still in use in places where plain figures have not superseded the puzzle marks. A large dry goods house which had the and wagon poddlers used as a cost mark 1 the words, “Revoch Gilt”. a Yiddish phrase. which means “Profit tells," and i the translation was also used by the same concern. ' 2 “These marks were useful," said the1 manager of one of the large New York l dry goods stores, “when houses had an ‘asklng’ and a ‘taking’ price. In those days the man behind the counter bad to know what the goods cost to put on the shelf so that he could regulate himself 1 accordingly. An offer to ‘split the differ- i } dining rooms have. .trude, but In doing so I think I made To ular t‘ ; - . .1 ence’ when one price was asked an an-l g loops actually in senth 1“ ! other offered could be entertained then, titles and on tMir way there from. Inâ€"' and salesmen were often compelled to out that Osman had really won. 9. Vin.- i tory. Ile arose from the dead on! They hoped to do ' , lAll this time the Hannibal of the idesert had continued his slave trafâ€" lfic. Hts roving bands descended up- ,on) tribes friendly to the English and captives were exported to Arabia, and there sold. The profits netted Os- man Digna prodigious sums. Nor wens the British able to put a stop to Os- m'aun’s operations. l ‘ like deadâ€"lock dragged along until 11888. ' In that year Colonel Kitchen.- ier, as he then was, determined to deal iOsman Divgnia a decisive blow. Kit-châ€" ‘encr was than Governorâ€"Genural of the iRzod Sea Littoral. He fell upon this rgslave trader‘s camp, captured it and sent the Sundanese llying. Osman re- formed. his troops and netook his own camp from the rear. In the lighting Kitchener got a: severe Wound, which has never since wholly ceased Lo trou~ bl-e him. Osman Ito-st“ a band of slaves in this fight. He fell (back to Ila-rah [with about 2,000 men, and won: a vic- tory‘ over the Amhara tribesmon sent out: too-'11:ka him. Next he returned upon Kitchener’s regiments at Ilen- doub. The b‘tuggara horse charged the English Scrubs mud swept all before the-m. In the following April Osman bore off their men and women. The . warâ€"3 join-ed by Abu Gingahr, at the head enemy. The bat- talions and marines had. been enjoined to hold their fire. The English adâ€" 'l‘his disobedi- to disaster. The line of mlal‘oll rm: hidden in the smoke of its 01' 3,000 men. . The British, to their profound chaâ€" grin, mere compelled to open negotiaâ€" tions with9 the 11mm whom they had so tightly undertaken to subdue. Os- man Digna received the cmlssanes at the head off his Iorces. He listened to what they? hand to say, but they could n'OL move him an inch. He declared that he would attack every armed force found within. the limits of what be deemed his own territory. He was, however, disposed to allow trading Wdi 11in cernzt’in limits. PLAYING HIS: OWN GAME. This really meanu that the Mohamâ€" medan commander would do anything calculated topromote traffic in slavâ€" ery. That enriched him. The English were for from sutisficd. Their vessels patrolled the coast night and day. But they could not break up Osman‘s pet traffic. The slaves continued to be captured and: exported in large num- bers. The great Diguu had become a buccaneer of the desert. He was playing a game that meant the more to him the longer it! lasted. He laugh- ed the British power to scorn, C‘ROMEB:’S THREAT. ‘ The man who! first I‘eulized‘ thir- situation was Kitchener. He saw clear- ly that his country was playing into the Khalifa's hands so long as the scandal of the situation in Suakin was permitted to endure. He advocated an entire abandonment! of the plan of campaign. It spems incredible now, but it is! a fact that this Cabinet, in London refused to entertain Kitchen- er’s project for a reorganized military movement. . 2 l I The history of the next few years is but a repetition of what went beâ€" fore. Osman Digna held his own. which' was all he wanted to hold.,Hc- ran down to Omdurman, perfected hir‘ plans, sold his slaves and enriched himself. Kitchener. sell about his. , bran...»â€" .._..~_. « “mm-m»â€" u-u-mm.‘ ......\..,.u;u..... . eâ€"v-w- : hi‘”"l“'l'vl~anmy , , Ml mm" Ségwwa W. mngntua .. 1., m.» ..,__ ~ \- . dlin; and England was 15 regiments of cavalry, 9 batteries of horse artillery, 44 field batteries, two mountain bat-l teriies hnd 88 battalions of infantry.- P‘utting tluese different organizations at their full strength they would work i out as follows: i i The 15 regiments of cavalry at 5 horses emch, which is more than some of those. in the fielld have, gives 7,500 etffeotives. ‘ The nine batteries of horse artillery with 130 men and 80 horses each, give , 1,170 men, and 720 horses. The 44 field batteries with theszime ccmpelments of men and horses give 7,720 men and 3,520 horses. ' ,The trwo mountain batteries, with 100 men, and 70 horses or Imantles, each . give 200 men and 140 horses or mules. The 83 battalions of infantry, reckon- ing 'thisum 'at their full rwiar strength, would give 83,000 men, but it is doubtâ€" ful if the average erxcctive of the-whole I number can be reckoned. at more than i 850 each. This would reduce the toâ€" tal to 70,550 men. . The entire strength then, of the re- gular forces, would be by the above analysis 87,140 men and 11,880 horses. T10 the number of horses, however, should be added those of the mounted infantry actually in the field. What the number of these may he cannot be stated with certainty, as no 'de- finite report of their number has ap- peared In any account of the forces in the field. From. the f rugmentary zucclounts of the forces engaged. on dif~ [erent occasions, they cannot be es- timated at much more than 6,000. This would bring the number up to 17,800. The total of the colonial contingents does not come up to more than 5,000 men, with perhaps 3,000 horses, and this local Natal and Cape Colonial corps, though officially put at 20,000, one, from the accounts published, not much more than half that number, probably 12,000 men with, say, 10,000 horses. Then there are the naval bri- god-es numbering about 1,000 men al- together, their guns being moved about by country oxen. , - This would bring the fighting force up to about 105,140 men, and 27,880 horses. The rest of the men and horses of the 180,000 men and. 37,800 horses of; which Mr. Wyn‘dh-amx spoke ! i l stun, the 10,000 yeomanry, and the 15.- 000 volunteers and militia being only in 'process of organization and a'large part not even yet enrolled. Then, out of this force of. regulars given there are a full squadron ofzcav- airy, one mountain battery, and the strength of more than three effective battalions of infantry prisoners of Bloemfontein and Pretoria. Drafts to fill up the vacancies caused by death, disa-blem-ent and disease, are on their win-y out from. England or being got untidy. 'None of the English papers as yet at hand has published aclear, tab- ulated statement of the various corps and organizations actually in the field in South. Africa; and! it is quite certain that the statement of the Un~ der Secretary of State for War arm by overestimate rather than by unâ€" derestimate. i #4...â€" The yearly loss in value of gold coins wmnunts to about $2,000 in every 85,- 000,000. ~ ‘We want to make a customer of you’ are still in the air, the Eighth divi- . .wammmuw' useâ€"m... ......__.,... M -.. ‘shude’ prices. ‘We will do this for you,’ and ‘It’s the last we have of the lot,’ or were among the reasons given for ‘com- lng down’ on prices, but all the time the salesman had the cost mark before him and knew that he was on the safe side.” â€"-New York Tribune. . “Mignon-’5 {den of America.. AlthOugb Wagner never was in this: country. the p‘ossibility of his coming over 1 here is referred to often in his published correspondence. In fact. be made Amch ica a stand and deliver argument with‘, his friends, several times threatening to' forever put aside his “Ring of the Nibe- lung” and to cross the ocean to earn a competency unless they contributed to his support. .. That Wagner regarded America as a gold mine well worth exploitation by forâ€" eign artists appears from a letter which i in 1848 he wrote to Franz Lo’ebmandi music director at Riga, whose brother wanted financial assistance to go to America with an orchestra. Wagner ad- vised Loebmunu to assist his brother. Iâ€"Ic instances the case of a German mu- sician who went to America as a poor man and in a very short time was in re- ceipt of an excellent income, adding that a whole orchestra‘would certainly be still more lucky, for “in a country where vil- lages are constantly growing into cities , l l i l to have a certain dish for dinner, and therefore they have their pick oameuts and other things. I remember that I used to serve chicken on a certain day. I )oon found that these fellows were get- 1'.ng the best of me. All of them would 'qisit me on ‘chicken day’ and with their .15 cents would get a good dinner. The next day they would disappear and would show up at the dining rooms of some oth- er man. “Of course I couldn’t stand the expense of this kind ,of business. and l disarrang- ied the entire programme of the young l fellows by not having any regular bill of fare for every day in the week. as most I lost some of this money. These 27 cent fellows can scent ice cream for days ahead and will be on ‘ laud. Thcy are never suspected of their 1 '. - us most of them dress Indications That Its Acnml Strength “'m patronage of hundreds of pack, basket ; “11er ways beca 9 well and hold good positions. For all I know they may do this to save money. I expect, however. that they simply save to spend in dress and in making an appear- ance in other ways where their style Will show to advantage.”â€"â€"Washington Star. 'e LONDON CAB DRIVERS. _. .. “Hint They Must ~Do and Know to . Procure a. License. Last summer in Scotland Yard I at- tended an examination of men who desir- ed to be appointed bus and cab drivers. and the affair was most amusing. They've a rickety old bus down there, a perfect ark, and attached to the fore of it a brace of one time Derby winners likely that after a meal orginger and pepper do get up enough animation to drug that ark at a spanking gait the length of the iii-- . closure. The would be driver mounts the box, whips up the horses and attempts to drive between two stakes planted in the ground so close together that to go be- tween ‘thcm means to escape them at the hubs scarcely more than a quarter of an inch on either side. Sometimes the driver manages it. It be repeats the feat two or three times with success and also manages to get his horses pulled up sharp when a finger is raised. the finger of a proxy policeman, he is appointed and given the first open- ing. And thereafter for years he is priv- ileged- to amaze Americans by his wed- dcrful cleverness with the reins in the crowded Strand or Piccadilly circus. It is different with the would be cab- bies. They, too. are compelled to drive between stakes and to pull up their nugs, but more than that is asked of them. “If you were to pick up a fare in the Addison road to drive to Upper Bedford place, what would be your route?” . Such question as that are put to them. Now, there are endless routes. but cabby is obliged by law to take the shortest, and if he cannot draw the line along the map of London marking that shortest route he is told to go home and study for in five years there can be no lack of op- pcrtunities for the settlement of whole- bcnds of musicians.” Could anything be more deliciously naive than this last quo~ tatlon ?-â€"â€"Gustave Kobbe in American Monthly Review of Reviews. Sun Spots and Smoked Glass. An old Irishman was sitting out' in front of his house pulling away and pull- ing heroically at his pipe. He would light a match and pull and pull at his pipe, then throw the match away and light an- other, and be continued the performance with great patience until the ground about him was' literally strewn with burned matches. “Come in to supper, Pat," said his wife at tho. door. “Faith, an 01 will in a minute. Bid- dy.” said he. “Moike has been a-tcllin me that if Oi shmoked a bit av ghlass OI cud see the six-pots on the sun. ()i don‘t know whether Moike’s been uâ€"fooliu me or whether Oi’ve got hold av the wrong kind av ghlass.”â€"-:Clevelaud Plain Dealer. Have No Pockets. The garments of workers in powder mills are pocketléss, so that they cannot carry knives or matches or indeed any- thing, and are made of ucninflammable material. No one is allowed to go about with trousers turned up at the bottom, because grit is collected in that way, and the merest hard speck is dangerous. Quite Like a. Ring. “My love for you."_he‘suid to the home- ly heiress, “is like this ring.” mean it has no end." . “Precisely,” he said, and then he added under his breath. just to square himself with his conscience, "and no beginning." -â€"Chicago Post. Playing Cards. Ind diamonds the citizens. “How sweet!” she exclaimed.‘ _“You I The marks on playing cards are said to - have their origin in a symbolic represen- tation of four different classes of society. Hearts represent the clergy, spades the I by (wear and. tear while in circulation nobility (derived from the Italian word “spuds.” meaning sword), clubs the serfl another month. But where he fails dozens of others : sucuccd, and a single walk along 0. Lon- don street bears proof of the enormous number of men who know their city like a book. How many hansoms there are in London I do not know, but 1 know this: The cab I called one morning was No. 8, the cab I called that afternoon was No. 60,678.â€"Detroit Free Press. A Dream Superstition. I heard what was to me utleast a brand new piece of superstition yestero day, and when I think of the'risks I’ve run all these years because I didn‘t know of it my blood runs cold. I met a woman from Virginia in market yesterday, and the talk falling on dreams I recalled a. most blood curdling nightmare I had had the night before. “1 must tell you what I dreamed last night,” I said. “Let me ask first whether it’s a pleasv ant or an unpleasant dream?” said the lady from Virginia. “Decidedly unpleasant." “Then for mercy’s sake don’t tell it!" said she. “Never tell a bad dream on Saturday, for we say in Virginiaâ€"_ "Friday night’s dream on Saturday told II sure to comq'true, no matter how old.” -W'ashingtcn Post. on Women, 1754. ' There Is not such a thing as a decent old woman left. Everybody curls their hair, shows their neck, and wears pink, lbut your humble servant. ‘ People who ihave covered their heads for 40 years i now leave off their caps and think it be- 5 comes them; in short. we try to outth our i patterns, the French. in every ridiculous ivanity. Lady Northumbcrland gave an Eentertnimnent last week, in which was Ian artificial goose in her feathers, and {a hen with seven little chickens. The = dessert was a landscape, with gates, stiles and cornfields: but 1 have, I am afraid, g tired you with the account of such fol- liesâ€"Letters From Lady Coke to Mrs. ; Eyre. ' The met taut poets have to be born ,should discourage nobody, for this, also 1 have to dies-Detroit Journal. -MARALJ‘LAEA: p_â€".‘4.,.4,_9 I ., AAA; r, "l 4. l ‘ ..-'~,m»_,, my}; .31, “.6. “"95 ‘5‘ ’4 4‘“ ran). “a. As a. ,c: M»- was s ‘ v-‘ve‘c/‘r‘LAP-z; «at», .5 5., ,0 fig» ~ ‘v - {fiver-1%» ‘ 3’1 ‘fiagfl. A f ;.f :mzufi<z -. < r _ ..«a~7~rm-4~m-.; gasfiMg-éfeggfi. , .3, ~‘w:_â€"A¢¢e§,a.f 1.-.»- .._.â€"...«_..-e.,.n.._vâ€"-â€"_.W â€" _. hum» .. \ffigrewlwvv»: .a: A l’.