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They were all (Lid to hear ct what they called her But try as she could MI‘S. Johnson could not now remember her hame. ' Mrs Johnson. dressing’that (naming; in anticipation of the coming of her husband. thought pensivolv of her fur mer asset iates On that (in) “lieu the girl htd been pushed 61“ of the room on the ghost lt “hie tehicle uh.‘ oh the hardened patients called the ‘fbnnana cart" Mrt. Juhrsmx had tried to fol- low mentally *llt- course of m‘ents. But she could not. -Her thoughts “ere tractable P: am": l until tlim Ié‘flClll‘tl the door of the kl‘lllt'ni floored mom where the whlto~clad doctors with the steril‘ ized clothes nâ€"nd bandages andfifi‘l‘s waited. but once rim-ass the Hires ld the whole thing became a matter of conje‘oture. for up to that time Mrs. Johnson had not of herself passed the portal. She would 01. l\ \xait m uess and wonder. -\f:er a longt «he cart unis again pushed into tl. e room. and the white and grasping: girl was plwed, unconscious on the bid from whirl) she “as not to go again in this life. So Mrs. Johnson realizing that now she must go back to the sexen chil- dren and to the busv life at home, waited for the nurse to come and for the lfst time administer this delight. To~morrow she would have to snatch time betneen the dressing (if Hilde and the sending to school of Erne‘st to per- form thistnnetion with her. own hands“ as she had done in the §ears before she was admitted to the hospital. It was a long time back. that day of admission. It seemed to her sometimes that she had always been an occupant of that little three-bedded room. whereas she had been a dweller therein but i space of eight \xeeks But that is eight cen- turies in a hospital. She looked across the room and (almilated th it Miss Finâ€" shaw. “ho “as in for the straighten- ing of an. instep so that she might walk on her sole like other mortals instead of oh tiptoe. was the fourth person who had rested for a time in the bed with the brass knobs: while the other bed. now without a tenant. had felt the pressure of a woman withn goittre‘ a girl who had died on the seeond day after her arrival. and an old lady with a gloomy sort'qf ailment which defied 3 the doctors ‘and which caused her tog weep freely and ring her bell for the‘ nurse incessantly. The doetors at last told the old lady‘s son that his mother was lonesome. which was the most of her complaint. Her husband had been killed by a cable car two years before. and she had grieved forhim “ith “horn she had been \oked for 50 wars and this~this aloneoâ€"“as the maladt from \\ hirh she “as sufl’ering’ ‘_ and found that Mrs. Johnson had already risen and‘dressed herself. Her only incompleteness of toilet was. the tangle of her hair. If you are a womâ€" an with a great mass of brown hair it- is a sweet pleusut‘e to wait for Iome other woman to come anti comb it out for you of a morning. Mrs. Johnson had always "tended" her own hair be« fore coming into the hospital, and the treat of feeling that the (left fingers of a whiteâ€"capped nurse had grasped that responsibility was very comfort- ing. It even stdle away some of the sorenes< of the “itching to lie there quietly in the hlL‘ll'legg‘elJ he‘d while the young uomun tallied in :1 soothing vuiw and bru~iiwl nut t..e long strands and told her mm' [H‘t’lfj' it all \\ :«15.and men- tioned the “omnn “ho had-had ty- phoid t'mrr and whose every lock and cnrl bill] fallen a sacrifice to the shears of the hospital barber. Yes. yes: there is a luxury in having somebody else “tend” your hair it 3011 are one unused to that kind of thing. ’I‘HE nurse came in at seven o‘clock gnu tells us when quotations vex Men who are bulls or who are hear: Came In and leaned against my wan And promxsed me that he'd rvveal If 1 would lisxen to him..eJl . . The secrets of a tamouadeu. ‘ __. 1mg, he said, the most immense Transaction ever known to himâ€"y Althaugh in dollars and Its cent: ’ (In volum).w'cre extremely mm; The Santa Fe and Erie sales. 3“ The Diamond )iatéhIitllVeâ€"Xll'ey L, “’ere very tame and tiresgme tales Compared with this which he would tell. And then, although i never read His anecdotps of pork and wheat And mining smcks. and ihough‘. indeed: My ignorance in quiie complete Concerning raie per cent. and price And foreign purchase and demand, I understood him in 'n trice And smiled on him and grasped his hand 896.1159 1, too. had felt that thrill 0f keen delight and pride and joy, “’hioh no man knowa or feels until, , “'iih penny {igliily clinched, his boy or two or :hereabouts has gone As valiant as an cmperor (Though unaitrnded and alone) To pazmnize tho candy store. the tan, thin man with gold-rimmed specs. Who writes of stocks and bonds and 'shares, And tells us when quotations vex Men who are bulk; or who are beam. Came In and leaned against my wan AN OPERATIONTNWFINANCE. Leaving the Hospital. eeeeeeeemeeeeej ~Chicago Record The nurses passed in the hallways with their basins and trays. but none of , these paid {mytztt tion to the conâ€" ' valescent. fortrhné fthem knew her _ except in the most eneral way. Her . own attendant ups airs hag] alreudy : smiledr pleasahtly gm] hm congratg- iated her on the ‘uceessful outcome and had gone away’to waitupon other 'lpatients. especially the typhoithfever‘ imam. who rang his bell persistently. Mrs. Johnson went, into the room which she could nvonger call hers and fthrew on her capeand hat and waited {‘{or the fzimiliar st. Having already .‘Wm her extra (ftp; rel.’there was noth-' , ing to take 11“?!be thérseif. The books ‘shmxld bevome the! heritage of the next {comma She \vofiaezred 'who' She wouid 1he and if she would like “The Pride inf the j? “id" pi' ,,ԤGiadys VIIeming's ‘gAtonem‘ent theiwffibr. Somfibody wan icoming. She rosegand hurried over to :the dresser to talj: a final look at her that, and herons r the last time rest‘ :ed on the “sympflom sheet." whereon {; the nurses had caxjefhily noted the medâ€" ;icai story of her ease. Sh: seized-the tpencizhuhd wrotei goo‘d-by across the ibott’o ‘und tu’rfiet! to meet her browm gbearded husbamh whose eyes were . ~Nobody is tooZ riflng to distributd : missionary traciséâ€"“fiuhiugton Denim tent. . . - . Two minutes ‘léter the rattle of the wheels of the hick died out of the sxreet,‘ and Mrs. Johnson was genes. Chicago Record. ; bright with joy. i ms. Johnson minim them an; and told them of the canfly she was ing to send them, and than for'thesmst time she heard their Sn‘sual confessions of desire; Earl; the ppinal-meningitis [my now recovered offhis tears and cry- ing shrmy a. determination to be a po- liceman ind ride in the patrol wagon; Winifred to be a mjrse and wear a white cap, and Guy? sturdily content to have 5 shovel and dig a trench for gnspipv. .. . â€"‘â€"~ 1‘" _ <_.«. u“ z‘Hm she got a stiflieg‘?‘ ’ asked “in- ifred and for fear of hurting the child’s feelings, ”the woman said that her itvtle gig! was afflicted as ilfitimated. S} ' l . Mrs. Johnson went n'pstairs and bade the little spinal meningitis boy good-by and fixed hispiptflrd‘ before him so that. heconld see them all without hav- ing to turn. The little boy was of a. rueful sort, awaiting only the slightest and most fragile of excuses for melting into tears, and‘when Mrs Johnson said she 'was not going to come in any more his eyes grew moist. Seeing this the convalescent knew better than to re- peat the indiscreet statement to Win- ifred. the brave sixLyear-old, whose right lvg‘ was trussed' in the air with a great Weight holding; it at a shipm’txst: angle. She told the child she was go- ing to see her own lit§le girl that day. late on the nature of the ailment and wonder whether it islégoing to call for an operation or yield to medicine. You can gums at antecedents and circum- sumpes and as to w either or not the pa'ifémz comes of n rgfigioas stockâ€".0! thelfkind given over ; o mnrmnring of hyr‘lns and sat‘red iongs. And. in a \\ mid of course you Will get to see her Wsitars, and you' havega most agreeable time of it in figuring HS-IO whether the young man with the sad face is her husband or her brother. A patifixt go- ing away isn’t near!" so interesting. of course. It is nott ‘be expected. “In just 41 minutes." obsened Mrs. Teck, peering at a little gold watch on the ease of \\thh “as engraied an impossible buffalo with a nose like a species of nnt- -eater. gazing fixedly at u castle which had the dimensions of height and width but no thickness wliuteveij, “in just 41 minutes Mrs. Johnson will be gone, I wish it were m’yktime to go." ‘ i \ It. developed that everybody had been calculating upon the exact number of minutes which must glapse before the emancipation of the graduating one. There is so little to.do in a hospital that a discharge is 911 event which is txanscended l1) butéone thing in all the worldâ€".811 admission. \11 211111115. slon rises superim td a discharge be- cause thew have 511012 .3 bmad latitude mar “hit-l1 to \1 (11111911. You can spe(u- ,, “And he on: ring. gCan't he, now?" inquired Mrs. Marshall. with a little la ugh. Then, before Mrs. Johnson could merrily deny the accusation of vocal abilities, poor Mrs. Marshall drew her fare up into kn expression of sincere pain. for,_the feeble little rollicksome laugh; had rippled down her neck to the .titches in her throat- and had wrenched them the miéllionth part of an inch which Was just Zenough to cause them to hurt like ream: irons. Mrs. \fal1‘5ha"5 e§es filled with tears‘ and she whimpered for a filament, and Mrs. Johnson knelt beside her bed and kissed her and pettecl her stoéhingly, and said that if she would try gto be patient she would tell her all about everything esâ€" peeialls the boy of four who \\ as going to the kindergarten. i . ..- ~â€" 5v “have ‘01! been counting. too ?" In- quired \Iiss Hough. ‘fSo hme I. And ch, don't I wish it was me.": luck, and uslgedhhgjr alggifit hepchildrcn. and wanted her {a bijing her husband upstairs so that they might see what manner of man this “as who was go- ing to take her awayfi “Let me guess.“ saia little Miss Hough, who thrice in her life had been upon, the table, until. now she was xeritxbie pptchwcork of filtering pie? fiance. “H“: I: ‘l tail man with a fc‘d‘ beard gnd light mustache. ” , HE' s A ELSTLER. 1 0110\‘111: STEVENS is 1111 filling 11m prediction we made when he was appointed 10 office. Last Wednesday“ he rode 12 miles, empuneled a jury,‘in-1 quested on a horse-thief and bid :11 verdict inside of three hours It 111' uld hiwe taken his predecessor at Ieas one ffi‘l day to accomplish the same‘ijork. ‘ Lust weekahen the boys on Big Four Ranche lgmhed a stranger Corpner ,Stexens had his report ready in 50 in- utes and were Wasn't a superfi ous “0rd in it. 111' cpumy has struck :he right man at last; to fill the pésilion, and Mr. Steven§ ias only to keep on as he' has begun tb win fame for him- self. 'lhe business-like manner; in which he discovered that the man bver at Big Four Ranéhe had been hunk by the neck instead of shot. wrough: the heart was a 1e1elatxon to the looked-on. ‘ ; DISTL'RBING THE PEACE. ‘ T A late hour Tuesday night SM}. A John A. Clark gncountered Cap: )pplc on the street as boxh “ere Iv'obqug homewardi with a jag on, could retire somebody hit us wiih a brick-bat. We aware quite willing {a call it even, but the other fellows were no.1.‘1‘he5 insisted on running uq six miles over the worst load in (he terri- tor), and we were so played out When we reached home that'we didn’t leave our bed for two days. We like to maké specifies on railroads or most anything else, but the sudden interruptions'and after-claps chameleristic of the Pine Hillers are ' lculatfid to make an em- ’tor tired of life. We’ll send a speech over to " fénd- to the cr wrl and We' ll hope the get a railroad ‘2‘ our cgeer- £111 and abhfiing (spirit co es to a £510) nght there. THEY INSISTED 0N RUNNING ME SIX MILES OVER THE WORST ROAD IN THE; TERRITORY. , No. THANK You. ESTERDAY we received an invita- Y tion from the leading men of Pine Hi“ to come over and address the cit- izens on the subject of a railrpad through that locality. The said lead- ing men have our thanks, but we mils! decline the honor The last time M'e spoke in Pine Hill it was on this \en railroad question, and we “ere two weeks getting up something flowery. Two minutes after we began speaking the‘ care-dases of jackâ€"rabbits began Shqfwering down on us, and before we Our grand and glorious West has Vim peculiar customs and idiomand such strangers as observe them‘seldom get into trouble of any sort. HE other day. when Mr. \i’hartoiu, of Chicago, left Giveadam Gdibh for Grass Valley atte‘r'a stop 01 three days, we warned him that the people over there were a peculiar lot, and that he must not carry his handkemhietdn his pistol pocket. He pmmiged to heed our admonition, but forgot all about; it within half an hour. He reached Grass Valley all right and was introduced to all the prominent citizens, but 11:17 fortunately for him was drawn into a political discussion on the streét. While airing his views on the tariff question hq reached back for his hand~ kerchief, but before his fingers 1511.1 clutched it. he received a bullet in 0: shoulder from the man he was arguing with. It- was all owing to his absent~ mlndednr-ss, as he cheerfully" admits, and though the wound is a painful one, Mr. Wharton is thankful that he still lives. Any stranger reaching Grass Valley with a handkerchief in his hip. pocket should either let it remain there or announce to the crowd: “Gentlemen, I am now about. (0 throw my right hand behind me for the purpose of drawing my handkerchief. and I trust. there will be no shooting."1 Col. Bourbon (admiringly)â€"Deah me, sub! An’ )ou don' t look likeaman that could stan' much, eithahIâ€"N. Y Journal. 4 Miscon-trued. Goldwaterâ€"I was never drunk in-nn my life. IT CAN’T BE DONE. f L‘RlNG {be last month we‘have been i D quietly sawing wood and watching ' the movemenls of the cpterie headed: by Steve Draper. Steve is ambitious; to: ‘ruttle around- in our boots as mayoni ‘while John Glass Wants our place as‘ postmaster. They have put in four! weeks of hard work and made a failure ‘ of it, and we hereby extend our symfly patliy and condolence. As to any ring‘ downing us; it can't be done. We‘arel here to slay. We are she best mayo’r‘ this town ever had, and as postmaster; We hit the nail on the head Every tiine. ’ We propose to stay right here whet-tel¢ we are, and we can lay three wires to ‘ the opposition‘s one the year round; We are aware of the fact that there is a 3 great den] of talk about our boldipg four or five offices and running a ntws- paper at the same time, and several.: newspapers in {his great and glorious 3 territory have been impome enough i to refer )0 us as an 11.0. G. That’s?‘ all right, however. We know our gait, ; and we propése to let nothing slip past] 'us. We wanthouormd riches. and‘ have cheek enough to believe that 1." g shall some day be the boss of the white,3 house. ’ l adam Gulch has set its foot down on such innovations, and we don’t propose to try any game of blufl. Fifty years hence, if alive, We may reach over our back to button our shirt, but We shall patiently wait for that time‘to come. ' A FALSE ALARM. l OM’E critter, who probably thirsts to see us weltering in ourygore. started the story the other day that we had received from Denver and wereé wearing a shirt which buttoned be- hind. At two o‘clock yesterday after- noon a crowd of 30 men, headed by old Jim Hewson, entered the .Kicker oflice in a solemn, earnest way, and we were invited to pull of! our coat; and vest. As we did so: there was an ' ominous click! click! elick! n: theé guns were made ready to shoot the shirt off our back, A brief investiga- tion satisfied the crowd that We were‘ still loyal to Giveadam Gulch and her idioms. Ours “as on old- fashioned: shirt, with pins in place of most of the 1 buttons, and several old tears and rental repaired with our own damning needleé and twine. The crowd apologized and; invited Us out mgdrinlr, and the aifziirj ended in good feeling all around.‘ We! l have seen the shirt which buttons be- /. h‘ind. VV'e admire it, and Would like one, but we are no jackrabbit. Give-1 find after thgy had called namés fora few minutes both pulled then-guns and began shooting. A. dozen shots had béen {fired When both Twerej arrest- ed, and next day each was fined 55 for disturbing lhe pcace. {Ibis is .as it should be. Such men might shoot. all day and only hiteach other by accident. The captain is the bettershot (fifths two. yet our local renders will remem- ber that he fired six ohms at us in film post ofiice‘iast winter and navel-touched a hair. In fact. we did not know he was shooting at us until so informed by a bystander. There should be u law making it a fiend offense for}: man to carry a gun who the“: not knew how to use it. Such afl‘ars as took place the other night bring the town into pon- temyt and cannot he sat down on too severely. Ex-Aldermun Jolm Weichieiu. of Bioqmington. died aged 64 years. He iwas an emplme of the Chicago Alton iraihxay continuously {pr 35 wants. 1 1 he next state (- om emion bf \vhe pro- hibition part) “ill be held' in I’eoriafin ‘ May or June, i898 . Dr. B. P. Reynolds, one of Chicago’s oldest and best'known physicians. died It the age of 65 years. Horton. Gilfnore; Ric-Williams 8: Co., one of the largest whohsale hardware firms in Chicago. failed for $210,000. Dr. J. Ernest Pollock ended his Iii! at Sterling “y swallowing three canon 01 laudunun. John Spaflord, one of the oldest m1- dent's of Rockford and a pioneer mu:- ufacturer, died utzthe age of 75 years. Robbers entered the post office at Louisn'lle and Mole $684211 stamps and money. William I’loeusv vommitted suicide at Bloomington by hanging. Elihu Fisher, 0 Mexican war veteran, aged 73 years. died at Bement. ' Life Prllunerl Dle. .' .» The number of “fliers" at the Joliet [ prison has been reduced by the death ‘Qf two from consumption, Frank Ad- }:inson. sentenced from Peoria, and ‘Thomas Beverley, sémended from Free- port. both of whom weré convicted of murder in 1895. The Galesburg Pottery company“! plant “at almost destroyed by firehen- tnilinpfia loss of$30.000. _ John W. 'I‘guhy. a prominent resident o! Nokomis, killed himself with mar. phine, ~ v William Desmond. a veteran Missis- sippi river steamboét cupgain. died sud» dlenly at Galena of appplexy. Wicks Kent, :1 tiemaker, was killed by a falling tree near Hidalgo. Turner Hem was killed by the acci- dental discharge of his shotgun while out hunting near (‘obdem A Double “'eddlnu. A dodble wedding took place in Dixon when Irwin M. Bunnell. éf‘Asbton, and August \‘oegele, of Steward. mawied Misses Bertha and Dora Dennis. re- spectively. The brides are sisters and have heretofore lived at Bradford. Told in a Few Linen. Whire riding in a buggy with his aged wife, John Gasaway. aged 71 years, 3 pioneer citizen of Illiopolis, died of heart disease. , “’lll Teuh Faun “Work. A special winter term in agriculture and related studies will begin at the university in Champafg‘n January “and extend to March 11. The couriqwmch will. be free, will‘embrace studies in animal husbandry, dairying, veter- {mu-y. science, agficulture‘, horticul- ture, eta ' Condemn‘ Adulternted Food. The t“ enty -third annual convention of the Illinois Millers association was !held 111 Springfield and n committeem appointed to draw up a memorial to congress asking- 101- {he passage of I law forbidding the sale of adulternfied flour “ithout the ‘placing of a hmnd 01 “Mixed Flour" upon the package. The old offiu rs “ere reelected Dug Him-cl! Oui. > Thecfdore Rebenstrofi, a hardy young coal miner, while blasting in {he Reutchler mine at Mascouta was buried up t' his mouth in coal. Piede by piece he rEmoved the mass. and when finally rele 88d he called for help and theli fainted. Both Legs were broken,and he sustained serious internal injuries. Dead in a Schooihoulef , Japob Elston, a well~kn0wn resldent of Benn counu. wa: last seen alive Thunksgix mg exening at Geneseo. The other morning his body '“as found by children in a schoolhouse two mile; east of Cambridge. No school has been held there for several days and them \\ as no means of telling \\ hen or how his death occurred. Found Guilty. James Mingle, charged with killing his infant daughter. was found'guilty in Springfield of murder in the first degx‘ee and his punishment fled}: death. The evidence was purely rcum- stantial. Ifthejury’sverdictissmétained Mingla‘a hanging will be the first in Springfield for 30 years. Jealomy will the cause of Minglc‘s crime. ' Snnldlng Sentenced. Charles Warren Spalding,‘ late preli- ldent- of the defunct Globe savings bank in Chicago a‘nd former treasurer of the mute university, was sentenced to the penitentiary by Judge Horton under the indeterminate act 0n the verdict that found Spnlding guilty 0! having. comerted to his own purposes $28000 worth of bonds belonging to the state university, his term of imprisonmen‘ may be from one to 14 years. The can will be uppgaled. Exeontlve Clemancy. Frank Harvey has been gra ted I. {1:11 pafdon by Gov Tanner. [Elana was sentenced at the Januarf (1897) term of th‘ Rock Island circuit court to the penitentiary at Juliet on a charge of burglary. The convictibn appem to have been made by mistaking the defendant for another man. Gov.’1‘an- her also pardoned John Manus who was convicting of burglary at the March (1897) term of the Héndenou Aircnlt court on the ground that the burglary was commuted to supply a. starving tawny. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS.