\ , ‘ ' " I . WE TAKE HER ANY \IAY. ' —‘—-.-‘1-—‘ We 5.1-: often chidin woman ause she’ a 1113-. 2:51’ofastir ‘ For the rights she th ks us men-folks is a-holdin’ back from her; ~ But to tell the tiuth, we’ve never felt much ’ - different to this—— . Whether she jist suits or doesn't, I We will take her as she is. She may win the rights she' s after, she may makeugdon headgess. ~ - Auriga r6 our lusty kickin’ an our rantings - of distress; .: An' although‘ we swear and mutter, the re- sultas—always—th1s—._:; Ruthern we should do without her. We. W111 take her as she is. '« f—Memphis CoEmercial. LISBETH’S VICTORY. Gege'u Lieb, und Wéiberlist. 2 Alle Gewalt vergebens ist. necessary license. Any one authorized by law can splice them with a few ques- tions as to who and what they are, -whether they possess anything or by what means they intend to support themselves or their children. . . . In times gone by things were alto- ' gether different and more care was ta- alien. But then one may go too far in _ his care for the well being of hymeneal ' ’ candidates,- as the following narrative shall demonstrate. Our tale begins on a balmy morning in May, 178—», such a morning as is seldom seen anywhere Outside the Rhine " valleys' in the Black Forest. lb The young and fair hostess of the inn Of the “Front Room,” the famous and most popular hOstelry in the ancient . ducal borough of B—_-, was seated alone in the guest room. Her plump ‘ figure Was becomingly attired in a gown of navy blue, profusely braided and embroidered according to the fash- ion of the dav, over which she wore a ablack silk apron. The graceful out- lines of her bust showed to perfection' in a velvet waist hung with silver chains, and on a table beside her reposed a. magnificent l-ace cap. ThOugh a widow, Lisbeth was still young and very fair to look upon, and almost all the eligible young men of 8—— had done their best to capture her "treartthand’and f’ifib‘ney—and had failed ' alike’in all. The truth: was that she had already f lost her heart. About six months ago the. playfellow of her youth, Francois, the son of neighbors' in her native vil- lags across the Alsatian border, had " come to B——‘-- and found employment ‘ in a butcher. shop. The two had again met;aud1;hough under the circumstan. cos 'it cannot be termed love at first sight, it‘nia'y have, just the same, been something very like it. . At- any rate, they loved, and had f‘s‘greedto get married as soon as the ' year :of mourning was over, and this was the eventful day set for making ap- plication at the City Hall to have the ' ’ bannsgpublished’ At last a creaking of the door hinges roused Lisbeth from her reverie, and the impatiently looked~for lover made his appearance. But his countenance was not wreathed 1n smiles, neither did he look like an expectant bridegroom whose dearest wish is about to be real- ize'd. He frowned and angrily throw- ing his new beaver hat on the floor, took a distant seat without the pleasant words of greeting she was always used to hear from his lips. Lisbeth felt deeply hurt, but said nothing. Finally the young man, as if ashamed of his ill-mannered behavior, exclaimed in a fitful tone: h, Lisbeth, we can never marry!” “No? and pray, why not?” she asked. “Are you tired of me?” “Tired of you, Lisbeth? You know better than that. But haven’t you heard the news? The Council refused to grant me citizen’s rights and the marriage license. They are full of ani- mosity toward you for refusing to wed one of their sons and fer giving me, whom they are pleased to Calla stranger and a vagabond, the preference.” "'So that is it I” The resolute Lisbeth jumped up, ex- citedly, her lovely face crimson as a June rose: “Come! Let us to the City Hall at once. We will see about it. If every- thing else fails, I think my godfather, the Abbot of R——, will find a way to make them pliable.” The worthy Burgomaster of 13—— and’the members of the’Council were assembled at the City Hall when Lis-. both appeared, dragging her bashful Francois forcibly by the hand into their august presence. “With your permission, mighty sirs,’ she began, we appear before you to in- form you that we intend to marry, and, what is more, to marry as soon as pos- ' sible, wherefore we most humbly and dutifully pray the High and Mighty Council to grant us the necessary pa- pers, and to be quick about it, for we have no desire to wait any longer than is absolutely necessary. My homestead needs a master, as you all know. The ‘ young man by my side, a bachelor of good repute and law abiding, is my choice, and is better fitted for the po- sition as host at the inn of the “Front Room” than any one else I know. He is a butcher by trade, young and strong and what is more, his brother across the‘border, over in Alsace,'owes him a thousand guilders Rhenish, part of their -‘ father’s estate, which he can collect in cash at any moment. Therefore I can see neither morally nor legally anything against my Francois, and I—well, why make many words—1 love him and I want him I" A silence fell upon the assembled city fathers after this strange speech of the plucky little widow. At last the worthy Burgomaster, a member of the worship- ful Tanner' 5 Guild, broke the awkward pause, after deliberately helping him- self to a plentiful supply of snuff. “Highly honored friends and col- leagues, and thou, honored and virtuous Mistress Lisbeth! Thy desire is full of the Christian spirit of neighborly love, em! according to the lav'vs of the land Nowadays, all that is required to get . married is a "he” and a “she” and the‘ in fact it is reasonable, yea, more than that, it is necessaryi- Thou speake'st truly. Thy establishment is sorely in need of a master’s strong arm, and thou needst a husband. But is it absolutely necessary that it should be a stranger? Are there no young men in Our town, sons of worthy citizens, who are as fit to rule the destinies of the inn; of the “Front Room,” and thine own as well, and who are but too willing to have thee for their lawful wife? \ "The inn has for long gener ations been' in possession of men who were cit- izens of our borough and thus it shall remain. Even thyself art but a strang- er, having gained the inn by marriage. Hence it is but just that nobody but the son of one of our citizens should again own it, and thou art forbidden to marry you vagabond. Collectively and indi- vidually, this Council formally protests against it, and declines thy petition. That ends it!” Commendatory words rewarded the Burgomaster at the end of this lucid expatiation, and the prince’ s snulfbox again made the round of the Council table. Francois, the unfortunate groom, had been tho1oughly wrought up by the ex- pression of “tramp” and “vagabond” hurled at him. He sudddenly sprang forward, stopped short in front of the Burgomaster, and, shaking his fist in his face, he exclaimed: "And I say, you high and mighty cit- izens of B—-—, I’ll marry her in spite of you and all your thick-headed and crooked-legged sons.” The city fathers looked aghast at such impudence. The Burgomaster threw his snuifbox with such force on the table =that the dust rose in clouds from the official documents. “VVretch!” cried he.‘ “Wilt thou hold thy tongue? Thou ill- mannered Alsatian cur, thou vagabond. Imme-, diately go and pay a fine of one guildar Rhenish into the city treasury for thy unparalleled insult offered to our citiz- ens, and if thou tarriest here any longer I will have thee put into the dungeon and tortured until thou wilt show bet- ter manners I” This delivery was followed by general applause. ' Francois paid his fine and left while the prince’s snuffbox once more went from hand to hand. On the Saturday following the narra. ted events a cabriolet and pair, driven by Francois, stopped in front of the inn of the “Front Room.” Lisbeth dressed in her best Sunday finery, appeared, smiling good-humoredly, and took her seat in the vehicle. which started off at a brisk trot. But the trip did not re- main a secret. Somehow or other, pretty soon everybody seemed to know that Mistress Lisbeth had gone to see her godfather, the Abbot, to ask his 111- terference in her and her lover’s be- half. However, the Great Council was wide awake. and up to the emergency. As early as one o’clock on the same af- ternoon the City Hall bell called all the citizens, more than a hundred men to- gether in a mass meetino. The Bu rgomaster presided. In a few concise words he explained the great danger that threatened all landed citi- zens of B——- by Mistress Lisbeth’s trea- son plan, and the impression he made was so pronounced that a petition was drawn up to the government at D— setting forth Lisbeth’s sinfulness. After the bulky ’document had been dispatched quiet was restored" 1n the bor- ough, and the good citizens congregated once more as usual in the guest room of the inn, where shrewd mistress Lisbeth had ordered a “metzelsuppe” of gigantic proportions to be served during her ab- sence, which every one—Burgomaster and Council .not excepted—enjoyed so hugely that on the following morning when his Worshi ,tried to help himself to a pinch of snu he had to send to the inn for the princely box, having left it there the night before, from sheer for- getfulness, of course._ It would make interesting and profit- able reading for jurists how the “High and All Powerful” Government at D--- disposed of the knotty question. To our sorrow and regret we have to disap- point them, for history has not handed . down this important decision. And the resolute Lisbeth and her Francois? How did they manage to en- ter the blissful conjugal haven? ‘We doubt not the Abbot, her god- father, was a shrewd man, who knew a thing or two. Not far from the Abbot’s cloister, encircled by the silvery waters of the beautiful Rhine, there is located in the peaceful seclusion of the upper Black t- 01 est country. but in Swiss ter-' ritory. a small town, the very name of which is a synonym for seclusion, and many a 101 e sick couple, having vainly tried to overcome the obstacle inter‘ posed by parents or gu ai‘dians, has taken refuge at Le Sheltering altar of its church, where many marriages have been solemnized that otherwise could not have taken place. To this church the Abbot sent his godchild, and there she and Francois were made one, while the good citizens of B—— were indulging too freely in the "111etzelsuppe.” All this is made evident by the entry in the book of the city treasury of. B—+-, stating that on July 1, 178—, Francois -——, a butcher and proprietor Of the inn of the Front Room, and his lawful wife Lisbeth, had been fined 5 guilders Rheu- ish 101‘ getting married at the Church of ~-—- without having first secured the consent of the Council of B———, their 1e gal abode—From the French.- They Like Poor Water. Arabs in the desert have contracted a strange prejudice against running wa- ter, and they will only drink what they find In some stagnant pool. So much has this become a matter of habit with them that, while the most poison- ous looking water agrees with them ad- mirably, pure running water will make» them violently sick. Compensation' 18 the law of nature, OI finance and trade—a deficiency of few- thought must be balanced by an excess of afterthought. , INGENIUS CAIRYMAN WICDS. into the Relief that it is Milking Time. Dairymau Wilder, whose milk-prp. ducing establishment is about 10 miles north of Santa Cruz, is one of the most ingenious men in all California and has done what no other dairyman has ever attempted. Everybody that has ever tried to milk a cow before daylight knows what a job it is. Bossy is gen- time for all things, and firmly objects to being awakened and milked when she thinks that she should be' asleep. Many eows will refuse to be milked to the extent of kicking and lying down. All of these troubles have been Dai- ryman Wilder’s, and not long ago he determined to overcome them, In fact, it was necessary that‘he should, as he was often late in getting milk to his customers in Santa Cruz. It cost considerable money, but he has more than made up for the outlay. At present he has one of the finest individual electric light easy to milk as in broad daylight. When the electric plant was in position and ready for work there were three big arc lights over th’e center of the yard where the cows slept at night and dozens of others fixed all over the ‘ different buildings, the entire lot capa- ble of producing about 10,000 candle power, enough to make the yard as bright as day. The plant was of the best quality and everything was tried in the daytime before the surprise was sprung on the cows. , It worked like a charm. The bright rays of the light had no sooner been turned on than the cows commenced'to get up. Most of them looked surprised to see the day break so soon, but when the milkman arrived with his pail they seemed to think It was all right and stood perfectly still while being milked. The light also affected the poultry, for thetcocks commenced to crow and the hens went around hunt- ing for nests. Ducks, geese, dogs and cats were allaffected‘ the same way, and the whole barnyard was awake at 2 o’clock in the morning. It has not proved a case of the ani- mals getting used to it, for they be- have the same way now after the art!- ficial sunrise has been in operation for several months. Poor beasts, they are in blissful ignorance of Mr. Wilder’s shabby trick. Continued Hi5 Remarks. The pastor of a New England church announced that the regular weekly prayer-meeting would be devoted to discussion of a certain question of gen- me'mbers of the church wished to take pait in the discussion; it was therefore marks to five minutes. The Presby- terian Messenger tells how one poison managed to extend his time. \Vhen the speaker’s time the clergyman was to notify him by rapping with a pencil on the desk. oDeacon A., a notoriously long-winded speaker and exhorter, was one of the members at whom the restriction was especially directed. As everybody an- ticipated, the deacon was one of the first to address the meeting, and he had not fairly started on his remarks when the rap of the pencil was heard. “Am I. to understand,” asked the deacon, turning to Doctor X., “that my five minutes have expired?” .“Yes. deacon; I am sorry, but your time is up.” “And all generaliremarks are limited to five minutes ?” “Yes, that was the understanding.” The deacon turned very deliberately to his fellow members. “Then, brethren,” he proceeded, “I shall throw the remainder of my remarks into the form of a prayer.” The deacon kept the floor, The Lady an I the'flose. She was an east end woman and rather unfamiliar with the vagaries of the garden hose. She held the nozzle gingerly and watched it much more closely than she did the stream. All went fairly well, however, until a white-haired gentleman in a buggy, a young woman on a wheel, and an 01' clo’ man with a push cart essayed to pass the house at the same time. ,It was an unfortunate attempt. A ser- vant appeared in the doorway of the hose lady’s home. A dialect voice drew her attention, She turned hastily with a grand semi-circular sweep. and the white-haired old man, the comely man were involved 'in one common the ol’ clo’ man danced about shrieking strange gibberish as the stream from the hose concentiated itself in the push cart. ' Then the woman threw the nozzle on the lawn with such force that it bounced afouud'~and poured three 01' four gallons all over her before she could 11m shiieking into the house. And the neighbors thought seriously of tuining in the 1iot call, but they re- frained.—Cleveland Plaindealer. . Made Victims of the Vain, An enterprising young man up on Capitol Hill, Washington, is many dol- lars richer than he was two months ago, through the practice ‘of a clever Of that quarter. He counts only col- ored women among ,his victims, for he has been selling a fluid warranted to straighten out the kinkiest. wool that ever came out of Africa. There 'is nothing a colored woman longs, so ,much for as straighthair, and the he liquid, which is seventy-five cents gum tragacanth. His Great. Scheme for Fooling His Cows , erally of the opinion that there is :1. plants in the state, and his cows are as. eral interest to the congregation. Many . decided to limit each member’s re- : expired; ~ young woman, and the seedy 01’ C10" ruin. The white-haired patriarch swore» vigorously, the bedraggled young woman looked mad enough to cry, and ‘ swindle on the guileless maid servants young scam‘p has not lacked customers. . a bottle, is guaranteed to produce the desired elfect in two months and is nothing more than a weak solution of THE EVENING GAznrrEf ' Qbes”CHQg .__._._.____.-..—.___._ .- .1..- .- ACTS WHICH INDUCE EMIGRATION. Influence of Mlsrule and War Upon the Latin Peoples. The Italians only, of all the Latin peoples, developed a tendency to mi- gration almost equal to that of 'the Anglo-Saxons, The history of the peninsula for more than 2,000 years past, with the enormous invasions of Germanic tribes, may perhaps furnish an explanation of .this phenomenon. Emigration of Italians to the western continent on a larger scale only 'be— come possible with the great develop- ment of oceanic steamship service in the last few decades, and until a very recent date such immigration into the United States was very much smaller than that into the southern part 01.1119 western continent, especially the Ar- gentinelRepublic. But while the ten- dency to migration may be inborn in nations, it can never come into practi- cal operation but by urgent reasons based upon political or commercial conditions. _ ' Poor Italy bud suffered perpetually from misrule and bloody wars and con- sequent commercial depression. United Italy, only a little more than a quar— ter of a century in existence, could not as yet succeed in securing safety, peace and welfare to her subjects. Unsettled in her finances, under the bane of 'a violent conflict with her church, with the pretensions of a great power, but without means to bear the burden of her ambition, ‘she furnished ,the basis of a large emigration. Her government, absolutely unable to off— set the disturbances of the political , and financial welfare of her subjects, I lefraiued from opposing such emigia- ition, and has even seemingly favored ~————-—_-‘—’_-.A FOR THE” WOMAN' WHO’WILLS. H ere is a New Philanthropy'W’aiting for Her at Her Very Door. “It is all very well to get up reading rooms and coffee parlors and gymnas- iums for the working man, and thus provide him with a rational occupation and keep him out of saloons, ”said the girl who has studied man, “but what I want to start is an association for im- proving the condition of the men one knows. “They go knocking about in such an aimless way when they try to amuse themselves. 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