"" ' A CHARACTER.
'He was always a saying’: “It’s all forthe
best;”
No matter what fortune was bringin’,
He did what he could—left to heaven the
rest.
An‘ went on his pathway a-singin’l
By day and by night—in the dark, in the
light.
You’ll find him serene and contented;
The world, to his notion, was treatin’ him
right,
An’ his way with its roses was scented.
His life was alesson all comfortin’—-sweetl
A life that was kind and forgivin‘,
For who, when the sharp thorns are piercin‘
his feet, '
Can thank the good Lord that he’s livin‘?
But sometimes I think when the heart in the
breast
Is sick with its sorrow and grievin’,
If things never happen at all “for the best.“
We can make ’em the best by believin’l
—Frank L. Stanton.
A FIREMAN’S WIFE.
- Not so very long ago a Sun reporter
attended the wedding of a New York
fireman, whom he had known since
boyhood. The fireman was about for-
ty-five years of age, and was making his
first venture in matrimony, his bride be-
ing a handsome widow, twentyyears
his junior. '
During the reception which followed
the ceremony, the happy groom got a
short spell off, and adjourned upstairs
with the boys for a smoke and a talk.
“Do you know,” he said, slapping the
reporter on the back in a highly hilari-
ous manner, "that I saved my wife
from a fire?”
“There hasn’t been any fire to night.
has there?” inquired the reporter.
“No, but there have been fires on other
nights.”
"Bl‘lt you haven’t been a married man
on any other nights,” contended the re-
porter.
“That’s all right, but you give me a
chance, will you, and I’ll explain,” said
the fireman.
The opportunity was given to him on
a salver on which there was also several
glasses and a decanter. . _
“One night, fifteen years ago,” he
said, “there was a fire in a row of three
story brick houses in my district, and
our engine broke for it at the rate of
forty miles a second, but when we got
there the whole first floor of the house
in the end of the row was blazing.
Some of the people had got out, but at
the third story a young girl was leaning
out and yelling for the men with the
ladder to be in a hurry. There wasn’t
any need of her yelling, for we were
hurrying as fast as we knew how, but
you know women are kind of funny
about some things. Well, it was my
business to 'do the ladder act, and as
soon as we had it placed I went up it
like a monkey, the girl watching me
with much interest. When I was at
the window and about to reach for her,
she darted into the room, and I thought
she had gone crazy with fright or some-
thing, and I made a break into the room
after her and caught her ten feet from
the window. Then I noticed that she
was only a slip of a girl, about ten
years old. and as pretty as a picture.”
“ Hold on,’ said I, grabbing her, ‘you
come with me, and I’ll take you down
the ladder all right.’
“ ‘Don’t you worry about me,’ said
she as pert as you please. ‘You get
grandma; she’s sick over in that bed
and can’t help herself.’
“I was dumsquizzled by the nerve of
the kid. and couldn’t do a thing except
to follow her directions. She bundled a
blanket around the old lady, ordered me
to pick her up, and then trotted along
behind me as I hustled for the window
with granny in my arms. By this time
the room, was full of smoke, and the
smoke was covering the whole front of
the house from the windows below. I
took an extra hold on my burden and
started down the ladder through the
smoke.
" ‘Wait right here, close to the win-
dow,’ said I to the kid as I started, ‘and
somebody will be after you in a minute,’
and I was going to be that somebody,
for I was struck on the kid, she was so
cool and commanding.
“And do you know what she said to
me? Not a word; just laughed,
“ ‘What a wife for a fireman you’d
make,’ said I, as I ,went down the lad-
der, and she laughed again.
“At the bottom I dropped the old lady
into the hands of the men there and
turned to go back after the little girl,
but the first step up I bumped into
something soft, and by the tapers of
mud if it wasn’t the kid.
“ ‘Look out below,’ says she,
coming.’
“ ‘Seems to me you’ve done oome,’
says I, grabbing her up and carrying
her out of the way, and the boys gave
her a cheer that awoke up all the neigh-
. borhood that hadn’t come out to the
fire.
“She wasn’t scared a bit, either,
though all the rest of her people Were
hysterical and mighty near having fits.
“After that, I couldn’t help thinking
about the youngster, and when it was
about time for the house to be fixed up,
or rather rebuilt, for the entire inside
of it had been burnt out, I went around
one afternoon to see how the folks were
getting along. It wasn't any of my
business, and I really didn‘t care a can-
, continental, but I wanted to see he
little girl and hear her laugh. The
neighbors told me the family had moved
over to Brooklyn, but couldn’t give .me
any address, and of course I wouldn’t
write any letters or do anything like
that when she was only a ten-year-old
girl, so I had to let up on it. But when-
ever I had a chance I kind of made in-
quiries. and once I found her mighty
near, but she moved before I got there
and I lost her again. This run the time
up to six or seven years, and it was get-
ting to be kind of a Charley Ross case
with the girl getting older every day,
and me too, for that matter, but I never
would forget her. ;
“So I went along and along until two
years ago. when four or five of us went
down to Philadelphia to a firemen’s
ball. I Was spry on my legs, as a fire
‘I’m
man has to be, and when the music got
going I was ready for a dance. Every-
body was nice to the visitors from the
metropolis, and all we had to do to
meet a lady was simply to say so and
the thing was done. After I had been
whirling the giddy for two hours, I got
hold of a young lady that I rather liked
better than any I had met, and we went
into the supper room and talked. She
told me that he folks lived in Brooklyn,
but since her husband died four years
before, she had been living in Philadel-
phia, and that she had a fondness for
firemen because of an early experience
of hers which she told me of, and, by
crackey, I got right up and shook hands
with her in such a way that she thought
I had gone crazy and ‘ was about to
shake the life out of her. Then I told
her what I knew of the same story, and
the way the two stories tallied was
something beautiful. ‘ She was a little
girl, and hadn’t been thinking of me as
I had been thinking of her, and she had
married, and if it hadn’t been for Prov-
idence coming to my help and taking
her husband away, I wouidn’t be telling
you this story, and a whole lot more of
that kind, but just the same I didn’t
care, for there wasn’t anybody ahead of
me now, and in I sailed. Well, to make
a long story short, I got an extension of
time on my visit, and every minute of it
that I could I devoted to her, and you
see the result to-night, boys.
“Why did I wait two years?” said the
fireman in response to an inquiry.
“Simply because I had to. She was the
great mogul, or something like that, in
the cloak department of. a big store un-
der 3 five year contract, with a. little
over eighteen months to run, and she;
wouldn’t break it. Besides, she said
she would have money enough to go
to housekeeping on, with a few dollars
extra fer a rainy day. I told her that.
part of it would be all right, for I had
saved up a tidy sum myself. and owned
a house, but she wouldn’t listen to me
then any more than she did on the night
of the fire, and I had to do as she said.
But she’s worth waiting for,” he con-
cluded with immense pride, and every
man in the room lifted up his voice in
vociferous affirmation of the statement.
HETTY GREEN AND THE LAWYERS.
When She is Busy She Uses Up her Attor-
neys Very Fast. m
Mrs. Hetty Green’s eccentricities have
long been a source of annoyance, not
only to the laWyers who have been op-
posed to her in her frequent litigations,
but also to her own lawyers as well.
She is a shrewd woman in business
matters, but she never loses an opportu-
nity to show her contempt for what she
looks upon as legal red tape, and as a
result she has probably changed lawyers
more frequently than any other litigant
known to the courts.
During the examinations of Executor
Barling, a year or two ago, Mrs. Green
averaged a new lawyer for every hear-
ing. None of them hurried the case
along as rapidly as she wished, and each
was discharged in turn. In some mys-
terious way she secured a lawyer from
Texas who was an unknown quantity.
If he had ever appeared in the New
York courts none of the counsel on
either side could place him. He was a
big sturdy-looking man, and he started
in as if he meant business. Mrs. Green
was jubilant over her find, and after
the first examination in which he ap-
peared for her she told the reporters
presentall that she knew about him.
She referred to him as her "Texas
steer,” and when the new lawyer read
this in the papers the next morning he
was angry and disgusted. Like his pre—
decessors he threw up the case. He left
town, and Mrs. Green said that she
never would find as good afighter in
her interests again.
Over the Line.
A peculiar marriage ceremony took
place some days ago south of Franklin,
Ind. Franklin Corduroy and Ada Shoe-
maker received a license to marry from
Clerk Byfield and they applied to Squire
Taylor of Brown county to tie the knot.
The squire doubted his right to perform
the ceremony outside his own county
and was equally sure there would be
nothing legal were the young ocuple
married outside the county in which
they had procured a license. The
Squire’s fertile mind soon solved the
difficulty, and a rig was procured.
Driving to the county line, the Squire
took his stand in his own county, and
the couple in Jackson county, and with
ceremony was performed. —Boston
Transcript.
George Eliot’s Too Forgiving Dog.
In the Ladies’ Kennel Journal for
April there is printed a story of George
Eliot’s favorite spaniel, which Robert
Buchanan tells. One day when‘ the
novelist, George Lewes and Mr. Bu-
chanan were engaged in earnest conver-
sation, they were disturbed by a sudden
yelp of pain from beneath the table.
Examination revealed the fact that a
child of 3 years of age or so had been
amusing himself by snipping at the ani-
mal’s ears with a pair of scissors, and
the mangled condition of the dog indi-
cated how much torture he had borne
before giving way or uttering a sound
of protest. George Eliot was, natu-
rally, violently angry, and was about
to punishthe child,‘ but the dog, divin-
ing her intention, licked his little perse-
cutor’s face, and mutely begged him off
the whipping he had richly deserved.
Whereln Stephens Differed with Toombs.
Once, at Liberty Hall, I was present
when Gen. Toombs made a statement
that was here and there punctuated
with mild profanity. He; concluded
thus:
“Don’t you agree with me, Mr.
Stephens?"
"The old commoner piped out shrilly:
“All but the damn, General, all but
the damn.”-—Augusta Chronicle.
Money for the Cause. ;
It is said that Justin McCarthy has
made a hundred thousand dollars from
the sales of his “History of OurOwn
Times,” and that the entire sum has
been devoted to the Irish cause.
HON. WILLIAM M. E‘VARTS.
no is sun 3 Vigorous Intellectual Giant,
Although 78. . _; ;
' William M. Evarts has retired from
the practice of law, although he is still
nominally at the head of a big law firm.
Although he'is now in his seventy-ninth
year, he seems to have found that foun-
tain of youth which Pence de Leon
' sought in vain and to have drained deep
draughts from its source. . ;
One of the characteristics of the for-
mer Secretary of State is his dislike to
talk about himself. He rather resented
the insinuation that he was regaining
his youth, maintaining rather that he
had never lost it.
“I am well,” said he; “perfectly well.
I always enjoy good health. My inter-
est in affairs is as keen as ever, and I
take as vivid an interest in everything
that is going on.”
When in company with old friends
Mr. Evarts talks of affairs of the mo-
ment with as forceful a command of
fact and precedent as ever, but he do-
clines to talk for publication.
“I am out of public life now,” he
said, “and I don’t care to discuss poli-
tics, finance or f0reign affairs pub-
licly.”
When he does talk, however, his wit
is brilliant and s ; taneous, and his
epigrams are constamcurrent. If his
words are long, mostly of Latin or
WILLIAM M. EVARTS.
Greek derivation; if his sentences are
at times complex, his diction is none the
less eloquent and the matter none the
less valuable. His long and involved
sentences used to be the terror of ste-
nographers, but were none the less
effective.
Though a man of reserve, Mr. Evarts
has a keen sense of humor, and can
readily enjoy it when the shafts are di-
rected against himself. In his active
life he was a good subject for the car-
toonist. There was something in his
face which suggested to one of the
gifted men of the pencil the American
eagle, and he has been portrayed hun-
dreds of times as the national bird. A
simple aggravation of the hook to his
nose was all that was necessary.
But Gillam used to sketch him al-
ways with a “shockingly bad hat.”
Mr. Evarts is exceedingly particular. as
to his personal appearance.
“Why do you draw me with such a
bad hat?” said he to Gillam one daydn
Washington, when he was Secretary of
State. “It is not true. As a matter of
fact, I pay more money for hats and
buy more expensive hats than any other
man in Washington. If you doubt this
come with me to my hatter and see.”
After that the “American Eagle" in
the cartoon was more appropriately
clad.
A Question of Grammar.
It was on a cable car the other day.
One of them was a funny, frizzly little
woman with lilies of the valley painted
all over her green satin waistcoat. The
other was big, and her rose garden of a
hat rested almost belligerently upon her
nose.
“Do you know what I’m goin’ to do
some time?” announced the little wo-
man. “I’m goin’ to write to some 0’
them ladies’ magazines an’ find out
which is properer, ‘It looks bright,’ or
‘It looks brightly.’ ”
“Well, I can tell ye that,” said the big
woman. “‘It looks brightly’ is right,
of course.”
“What makes you think so?” asked
the little woman.
“I don’t think. I know it,” said the
big one. “You say ‘It looks gloomy,’
don’t you? Well, then you ought to
say, ‘It looks brightly.”
At which indisputable evidence the
little woman subsided. But the end
was not yet, for presently the big wo-
man broke forth with a “What I’m not
sure about is ‘looks.’ ”
“Looks?” repeated the little woman.
“Yes, ‘looks,’ ” returned the big one.
“Of cOurse ‘It looks brightly’ is right.
But it seems to me there ought to be
some other words than ‘looks.’ How
can ‘it look"? ‘It’ hasn’t got any eyes.”
—New York Evening Sun.
Abroad on His Bike.
“I’m going to make a little trip
abroad thissummer,” said a well known
young clubman to me the other day,
and stop at fashionable hotels. I’m go-
ing to take a bicycle and see the coun-
try. I’ve had enough of the regular
something new.
don and spent three weeks in scouring
around the fine English roads, and
never had such enjoyment in my life.
Holland and make a _ trip up the Rhine
to Switzerland.‘
With one or two congenial compan-
ions, sucha trip cannot be beat. You
see everything that the regular tourist
sees, and about ten times as much he
sides. The only difference, this year
will be that I shall take an American
wheel with me. The foreigners are not
in it with our people in the construction
of bikes, nowadays.”
_ Aunt Dorothy—How many command-
ments are there, Johnny?
Johnny (glibly)—Ten.
Aunt Dorothy-And now, suppose
you were to break one of them?
J ,ohn, (tentatively)—Then there’d -be
nines—Philadelphia American.
“but I’m not oroin<r to travel on railroads '
O O
way of travel, anl last year I tried .-
I got a wheel in Lon- .
This summer I shall take in France and :
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