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Certainly we Trevelyans are an emi-
Q3ntly good-looking family !
I say so with the less fear of laying
raysilf under an imputation of vanity,
because it long ago became a settled
point that I, the sixth member thereof,
am the only one who can possibly be
called plain, and that, as brother Max
consolingly observes, would not be the
case in any less favored circle.
But Ella, our youngest, is the very
ideal of a lovely girl ot 23, and Ger
trude and Kithleeu were recognized
London beauties before they were snap-ped
up at the close of their respective
introductory seasons.
Then where would you find hand
somer yoaa¿ felloivs than Max, our
Guardsman, or Liwreucrf, just entered
at Christ Church ?
And Janet—dear old Janet, the
main stay and guardian of us all—she
must have been pretty, long ago—in
the same style as the re3t, dark«haired
and bright complexioned—before her
eyes began to show crows'-feet at the
corners and her cheeks to grow thin,
with the color in fixed red line instead
of that lovely bright flush which comes
and goes. But by musing on the
merits of my family are interrupted
by Ella's gay voice.
" Gracie ! Gracie ! you incorrigible
dawdle ; do you intend to go to Wich-
Qor this morning or not ?"
I jump up in a hurry. The pony-cart
is at the door, and Janet, as usual
on the watch.
'Children, are you coming? Djn't
forget my list of commissions and
especially be sure to bring the ice.
Cook is almost iu despair, and the
weather grows hotter every day."
Five minutes more, and we are bowl-ing
merrily along the three miles be-tween
our home, Brookfield Manor,
and the cathedral town of Wichnor.
It Í3 Saturday and market day, and
we are engaged to lunch with soma of
our friends, and expect to obtain a
cursory view of a good many others,
either in the cathedral or the close.
Wherefore I have exposed my new
frock to the psrils of a dusty drive,
and Ella has donned her Paris hat,
well knowing that it makes her laugh
ing brown eyes and delicately tinted
face more irrestable than ever.
a
But Janet's commissions prove more
troublesome than we have anticipated,
and we have barely finished them iu
time for luncheon. This, at Canon
Lightwood's hospitable board, is al-ways
a lenghty performance, and we
have to hurry off almost as soon as it
is over, or we shall lose our usual
seats.
Ella is hot, flurried and a little cross,
and 1 reluctantly suggest giving up
the service. But one of her favorite
anthems is to be sung, and she will not
hear of staying away.
So we rush through the cool, dark
cloister, and the old verger blows and
smiles us into the stalls ; and then we
find that, after all, there are a few
minutes to spare, and Ella s nooth3 her
ruffled features, and becomes interested
in watching the incoming congrega-tion
.
Just before the choir and the Dean
make their appearance, there enters a
solitary gentlemau—tall, thin, mid lie-aged—
whom the verger proceeds to
conduct to one of the vacant seats im
mediately opposite ours. Ella looks
up and gives my arm a little monitory
pinch. She has had a Thackery fever
upon her just lately—Ella is the read-er
par excellence of our family^—and I
am not surprised when she whispers ¡
excitedly : " Colonel Newcome in flesh
and blood ! Isn't it wonderful "
" But as I look again, I hardly give
my little sister credit for her usual dis-cernment.
The stranger is too young,
and too distinctly a soldier of modern
times, to be identified with the dear old
Anglo Indian colonel.
He may be forty-five but scarcely
looks so much, til >ugh his long mous-tache
and close cropped hair are
abundantly grizzled ; and his face, thin;
acuiline and regular-featured, is brown
with exposure to fiercer suns than aré
ever felt on European shores/ Bat
the service bsgins, and I try to give
my wBole attention to my devotions,
but steadily resist temptations to study
my opposite neighbor until my thumb
and Ella's are touching each other
under the anthem book.
Than I loik across onoa, aai am
startled to meet the steady gaze of a
pair of kean, clear, grey eye3 fixed on
my sister.
Ella's color deepens under the scru-tiny
of which she speedily becomes
aware. Then she suddenly looks
across full at the stranger, a bright
ray of inspiration illumines her lovely
face, an I as wa sit d t wo 3he w'nispara
eagerly : " The man whose photo is
on papa's mantle-piece ! I knew I had
seen him somewhere !
Twenty minutes later, we are stand
ing in the cloister, talking to our newly-found
acquaintance as if we had only
parted yesterday.
For Sir Francis Ferrars is one of
our father's dearest friends, and though
we have not met for ten years, even
Ella, as soon as she hears his voice,
has some shadowy reoolle tiou of the
good-natured soldier who used to
patronize her in the old days of child
hood.
He has only just arrive 1 in England
after ten years of absence, nine of
which has been spent in India. For
the last few months his name has been
prominent among our heroes of the
Soudan, and as I look into his face I
see that it wears the worn look of
suffering—nay of bitter diappointmeut
—that I have seen on the face of many
who risked their lives—alas! iu vain
to save that of England's last and
greatest martyr.
Sir Francis grasps my hand with
friendly warming, and asserts that he
weliremsmbers my little friend Gracie;
but he looks long and searchingly into
Ella's dark eyes, as if in them he found
again some treasure unseen for many
a long year.
The color mantles in her sweat face,
as at last he turns away, murmuring :
" How like—how very like you are to
your sister ! I could fancy it was the
same face—only—"
" Which ?" demands Ella, in her
pretty peremptory fashion. " Like
Wordsworth's famous family, 'we are
seven,' and I don't know to which of
my four sisters you may be alluding."
" The eldest—Miss Trevelyan—
Janet. When I left England, she
was the exact image ot what you are
now."
' Janet !" The bare notion that our
staid, prim, somewhat severe' elder
sister could ever have possessed Ella's
cherub-like beauty is incomprehensible
to us both. Involuntarily we exchange
glances of amâzement, Sir Francis
pereeives his mistake, and moves
hasty.
" Well, I must go—my things are
at the Knight's Shield. I could not
help running down the first day we
landed, for your father is my oldest
and dearest friend, and ten years oî'
exile have not cooled our friendship—
on my side at least.
'• Nor on his," I answer eagerly.
" But don't go to the hotel ; come home
straight with us. The pony cart holds
four."
'' Plea3edo. Papa will be so over-joyed."
Sir Francis hesitates : meets Ella'»
pleading eyes, and consents, though it
is no easy matter to curl up his long
legs in the back-seat which he insists on
sharing with Thomas, our groom. In
less than half an hour we are at our
own door.
My father comes out hurri edly to
see who our fourth passenger may be,
and then there are joyful exclamations
of "Frank! dear old boy, this is too
delightful to be true ?"
" Trevelyan, it does my heart good
to see your face once more."
And in the hall, shaded and cool
after the sunny glare, Janet meets us,
and I see Sir Francis bend hi3 stately
head as he takesher outstretched hand,
but I cannot hear the words of greet-ing.
.A moment later, Janet is at her
usual post, by the tea-table, and I,
stealing a glance at her, observe that
she is deely flushed, and that thé
hands with which she moves the cups
are trembling visibly.
It would seem that the arrival of
his friend had awakened a new spring
of life in my father. During the
years thit have elapsed since our
mother's death, cares have sat heavily
upon him, an i the bringing up of
seyen- bairns has been no small source
of anxiety. Now he seems to have
cast all troubles to the winds for. the
once aad to be ouce more the genial,
light-hearted squire of former days."
• You must take a shooting-box and
and settle near us, Frank," he cried,
rubbing his hands. "There's Wood-lands
to ba had—it is quite time your
fighting days were over."
Sir Francis smiles, but avoids a
direct answer ; and soon that little
witch Ella has decoyed him to tier
again, and is carrying him off to be
initiated into the mysteries of tennis.
Our young neighbor, kdgar Holt,
has dropped in (no infrequent occur
rence) and I am called to make up the
set. As I pass through the open
window, I cast a glance back at Janet,
sitting alone Dy her empty tea cups.
A pang seizes me as I notice how thin
and worn—yes, there is no disguising
it—how old our sister looks.
The days go by, and still Sir Francis
Ferras lingers at Brookfield. Papa
has from the first insisted on sending
for his luggage ; his future plans seem
vague, and he stays on, basking in the
beauty of the summer days and«apend-ing
much of our time in sharing our
girlish amusement, to the no small
displeasure of Edgar Holt.j
" What does an old buffer like that
want with playing tennis?" he one day
grumbles, but Ella flashes round upon
him indignantly.
" Old ! Sir Francis is only 42, and
men who have served their country
have some right to show traces of wear
and tear." And Edgar subsides,
snubbed, and is supremely wretched
for the rest of the day.
Meanwhile, I am growing very
uneasy, for I have discovered that our
guest's presence is far from being a
source of unmixed happiness to my
eldest sister.
She is^irritably depressed,yet nervous
ly anxious to make his visit a pleasant
one. Nay, strange to say, it is she
and not my father, who suggests that
we should do our share in entertaining
the neighborhood generally and exhibit,
ing our lion to the best advantage.
At la*t there comes a morning,
hotter than all its predecessors, when
even Ella-has no e.iergy to play tennis,
ride or go on the river, and she and I
agree to spend our time qi ietly in a
hammock we have privately slung for
ourselves in the branches of the largest
oak-tree in a remote quarter of the
grounds
We have been there about half an
hour, when we were roused by the
sound of voices almost immediately
below our nest.
He who hesitates is lost, and while
we are looking at each other in doubt
as to the means of escape, the oppor-tunity
is gone, and we are compelled
to become unwilling eavesdroppers or
to descent with startling abruptness
almost on the very heads of our eldest
sister and Sir Francis Ferrands.
As Janet stands there, with the
chequered sun-rays falling on her face
and casting golden light on her hair I
for the first time realize that there may
be some likeness to Ella. It seems as
if I had never observed before how
delicately beautiful is the outline of
Janet's face if the expressions were less
harassed and sad .
Involuntarily I glance at Ella. She
has raised her head and is gazing
fixedly down. As I made some slight
movement, she catches my hand. "We
can't," she whispers almost fiercely»
" they don't see us—the yew-tree is
between us. We must see it out now."
"Janet!" Sir Francis' deep tones
are speaking ; aud I get a glimpse ot
his face, and read in a strange mixture
of tenderness and resolution: "You
cannot think that after ten years of
patience I am to be put oft like this.
I accepted your degree of banishment
then. You had a right to love your
father better than me, and perhaps you
could not, as you said, leave him and
the six children so recently motherless.
But now it is changed. Your task is
ample, nobly fulfilled. Those very
children have grown up to take your
place."
"God help me? They have indeed."
It is the sob of a broken heart that
interrupts him, and ere he can speak
again, the torrents of pent suffering
breaks forth.
" Do you take me for a fool ? Do
you think that l a m ignorant that I
have grown old; and cross, and hag-gard,
in these ten years of wear and
tear? You have kept your youth
amid the stirring life you have led. A
man is often up to fifty. But at thirty-two,
what am I but a soured, worn-out
drudge ? Ask the children, or"—
with a bitter laugh—" look at Ella and
me, side by side. I was like her once
—in the old days when you were
here."
" I know it." There is a deep,
tender power in his voice, which seems
at once to soothe and master her. " I
know it, and it is this that has made>
the child's sweet face and ways so
attractive to me." Involuntarily
glances at Ella ; here are tears in -her
pretty eyes, but she makes a brave
effort to keep them back. "But for
me there is the Janet Trevelyan to
whom ten years ago, under this very
tree, my love was plighted. I am
changed, too, sweetheart; the years
have not dealt with me so gently as
you think—as, these grey hairs testify
—but my heart never wavered in its
ruth to you."
She has turned from him, and is
leaning her head against the rough
bark of the tree. "Frank, Frank, do
not tempt me," she cries in stifled
accent: "you will repent when it is
too late."
But for all answer, he draws her to
him with his gentle, irrestible force
and for an instant we catch sight of a
face so radiant so, transformed,that we
look at each other'in wonderment.
" Was it only happiness that was
wanting?"' Ella murmurs, as arm-in-arm,
every obstacle now swept away,
the lovers pass from under the tree.
"Poor Janet; how selfish we have
been to have ever thought her cross or
cold!"
And Somehow the 'words comfort
me; for I begin to perceive that the
wound in my little sister's heart is
only skin-deep and I can with no un-kindness
to her, give my full sympathy
where soon it is so warmly claimed.
For many things that have been
mysteries to our childish minds are
now made clear and we are ready with
open arms to meet the brother-in-law
elect who seems to usi as romantic as
one of Arthur's knights in his unswerv-ing
constancy.
FOR RECORDER OF DEEDS.
A L a n c a s t e r Boy W h o B e c a m e a Self-
Made Mail.
EDWIN L . REINHOLD.
The subject of this sketch, Mr.
Edwin L. Reinhold, is well-known in
this locality. During t h e Blaine cam-paign
he assisted in making the parade
at Lititz a success by bringing the E.
L. Reinhold club here. He has many
relatives aud frieuds in tbis section
and his prospects of success as a can-didate
for the office of Recorder are
very flattering. If elected wé sincerely
believe he will make a competent and
obliging official.
I u politics he has always been a
staunch Republican : He was one of
the delegates to the Chicago Conven-tion
of 1884 which nominated Blaine
and Logan. As he is now, and is like-ly
to continue to be Ihe only candidate
for Recorder from the Northern
Legislative district, it will be well for
present candidates for Assembly and
for prospective candidates for the
State Senate to.cultivate his acquaint-ance,
and by supporting him to put
him under obligations of reciprocation
for the present and for future
campaigns.
From the Columbia Spy, Jan.^1,1838.
I n the contest for delegates f r om this
district to the National Republican
convention of 1884, which gave Blaine
and Logan to the presidential cam-paign,
t h e name of Ed. Reinhold be-came
familiar to neariy everybody in
the county. Previous to t h a t , he was
widely known in t h e business world,
where his name was a synonym for
energy and integrity. In polities he
has always been a staunch Republican.
He was one of t h e delegates to the
Chicago convention of 1884, which
nominated Blaine and Logan. He was
a candidate for Recorder in 1885, re-ceiving
3,837 votes, or w i t h i n 509 as
many as his successful competitor. H e
is again a candidate for Recorder, and
has entered the canvass with flattering
prospects of success.
F r om Philadelphia Press, Jan. 28,1888.
Mr. E. L. Reinhold, of East Donegal
township, who came so near getting
the Republican nomination for Re-corder
of Deeds in Lancaster county
in 1885, will make another trial this
year. Mr Reinhold is one of the men
whom the Republicans of Lancaster
could make no mistake in nominating.
He has always been a staunch Re-publican,
and was a delegate to t he
last national convention, in which
he was faithful to- the choice of his
constituents. Mr Reinhoid's business
experience peculiarly fits him for the
office which he seeks, and to meet a
very important issue in Lancaster just
now he pledges that in t h e event of
his election, no illegal fees shall be
charged in the office.
—Richmond, Va., asserts that she is
the first city in the world to run, light,
and heat a car by electricity. Its new
heaters have just been put in opera-tion.
Four heaters were arranged in
a series under the seats, having a
radiating surface of fourteen square
feet and an electrical resistance, of 198
ohms. A current of two ampere3, equi-valent
to one horse power of energy,
was obtained from the overhead wire,
and though the day was cold aud raw,
the car was heated comfortably.
Til© "Wretch.
Domestic Wife—" Now, George,
isn't it much nicer to spend your eve-nings
at home, instead of in some
horrid saloon down town with the boys?
Wouldn't you rather be here?"
" Yes, love, I'd a great deal rather
be'er," answered George quickly.
What m a y be E a t e n W i t h t h e F i n g e rs
There are a number of things that
the most fashionable and well-bred
people now eat at the -dinner table
with their fingers. They are :
Asparagus, whether hot or cold,
when served whole, as it should be.
Lettuce, which should be dipped in
the dressing, or in a little salt.
Celery, which may properly be
placed on the table cloth beside the
Strawberries, when served with the
stem on, as they usually are in moat
elegant houses.
Bread, toast, and all tarts and small
cakes.
Fruit of all kinds, except melons,
and preserves, which are eaten with a
spoon.
Cheese, which is almost invariably
eaten with the fingers by the mo3t par-ticular
people.
GOBIN FOR GOVERNOR.
Under this caption, Thomas Hen-derson
Boyd, the brilliant and
versatile lawyer, journalist, and com-prehensively
considered one of the
ablest of America's younger corre-spondents,
has eloquently brought
forward the distinguished statesman Of
Lebanon for Governor. Mr. Boyd's
high standing as a writer, coupled with
his intimate knowledge of General-
Gobin's: life and character, he having
been formerly on his staff, compels
those, politically against Lebanon's
Senator, to fully concur in the writer's
views. As Mr. Boyd is well known
throughout our county, both socially
and politically, and as we to share in
his belief that General Gobin is the
ablest Republican in the state, we
pend the article in full some time since
published in the Readmg Times :
John P. SliindleGobin, Senator from
the Seventeenth district, is one of the
pre-eminently great men of the Repub-lican
party iu this State. He is cer-tainly
the ablest popular leader iu all
Pennsylvania and is to his party to-day,
to my view of thinking, as nearly
as can be, what Andrew QvCurtin was
under the magnificent dictation of
Aleck McCiure to Republicanism, a
quarter of a century ago. He does not
possess the Machiavelian cunning of
Cooper, nor the exquisite polish of
Montootb, and these two men, mark
me, will be his chief competitors at
the next Gubernatorial convention ;
but for height and depth and length
and breadth and dash and slash tostrike
the average comprehension, there is no
equal in t h e Commonwealth t o this
bold leader, the pride of Lebanon
Republicanism. Said General W. H .
H. Barnes, of SanFrancisco, to me iy
1883 at the Knights Templar Conclave
held in t h a t city t h a t year, and which
General Gobin attended as a leading
Mason : " I consider J o h n P. S. Gobin
to possess more strong points and a
greater comprehensive knowledge of
men and matters t h a n any man attend-ing
the Conclave. He is a credit to
the Order, and the craft of his own
State, I fully believe, would not only
support hitn but strongly and consis-tently
urge his election to a n y office to
which he might aspire." General
Barnes is t h e ablest criminal lawyer
on the Pacific slope, a prominent
Republican, the leading Mason in
California,aud was-chief counsel to ex-
Senator Sharon in the celebrated Hill-
Sharon divorce suit several years ago.
I t is a singular fact that in the three
counties in which Pennsylvania-Ger-man
is most spoken in this State,their
leading lawyers and political leaders
should be aliens. Baer, of Berks, came
from Bedford; Hay Brown, of Lancas-ter,
was born in Y o r k ; while Gobin,
of Lebanon,calls the river-lapped town
of Snnbury his birth-place. And it is
equally singular that these leaderd
have been the protege of men noted
for their thinking in their respective
communities and whose political opin-ions
have always been sought after
and respected. What William M.
Hiester, t h e ablest mind that ever rep-resented
Berks county in a n y Legis-lative
Assembly, did for Baer : what
Cam. Muhlenberg, the astutest mani-pulator
of election figures of his time,
did forBrown,so did Col. Titus Worth,
modest and retiring, yet strong and
knowing, do for Gobin. It is Worth's
ambition to make his protege, h is
political pupil, whose career he has so
successfully moulded and proudly
watched, Governor of this Common-wealth.
Said Colonel Worth to fne
only a few days since : " Gobin looks
a long way ahead and prepares for
occasions. He has the longest outlook
of any man at t h e present time in the
State for the Governorship. I don't
know a man whom I would rather see
our next Governor." There is no man
in the State better known or more
respected than. Col. Worth, and this
opinion from him cannot fail to -carry
weight.
Gobin i3 a born leader—courgeous
and fearless. Had Pattison not been
compelled to obey Cassidy, he would
have deposed H a r t r a n f t from the Ma-jor-
Generalship of t h e State militia
and would have given the position to
General Gobin. I have heard the ex-
Governor speak in the highest terms
of Gobin's soldierly qualities and I
know well whereof I speak when I
say he would have done this. Judge
Livingston, of the Lancaster bench,
when he saw Gobin ride by t h e review-ing
stand on t h e Friday that Sheridan
reviewed the troops at Mt. Gretna,
said: " There goes a man born to com-mand."-
I heard Judge Roe, the re-cently
elected Commander-in-Chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic, say
not long since at Columbia, this is his
judgment General Gobin was one of
the most valuable men in the organi-zation.
That he brought to it a mind
replete with learning and qualities
that could not fail to endear his fellows
to him. At Baaver's inauguration
when thousands of soldiers and civil-ians
followed his leadership, I heard
many say as he passed along the curb:
" There's a soldier."
Littleness is not tranquilizing to one
of his broad guage and big brain, nor
is he satisfied in seeing politicasters
and pretenders aspire to statesmanship,.
Notably was this eyidence in the,
independent stand he took against
Capp, when that youth ran for the
Legislature a year ago. The ruling
elements in his life are sense, compe-tition
and indignation. General Gobin
would rather tight under a man than
on top of him. The great secret of
his success is that he has always fought
upward. Behind an indifferent exter-ior
is a knightly heart. Gallant to
women, regardful of young men, he is
captured by a touch of nature. Yet
when crowded in t h e name of an
obligation he bristles with hostility.
When his name was coupled with the
Berk* bench, a prominent lawyer
practicing at that-bar wrote me that
his knowledge of General Gobin's
integrity and legal erudition fully fit
ted him to wear the judicial ermine.
The writer was a Democrat. But then
Democrats cannot impugn his parti-sanship
and they rather respect his
pluck. In the early struggles of Re-publicanism,
when to plead its cause
was to invite the obloquy of his fellows,
his plume was topmost—his shield the
brightest. In the days when brother
fought brother, J o h n P. S. Gobin was
one of the first on the field ; one of ihe
last to leave it. At the bar he is able,
learned, eloquent. In his horñe be is
kind, loving, tender. As a state rep-resentative
he is one of the ablest dis-putants,
one of the most careful law-makers,
one representing a united
constituency—not a single party.
General Gobin is assuredly the strong-est
man in Pennsylvania Republican-ism
to-day. t BoYfa.
Ail A m a t e u r Sportsman.
The meanest man on record live3 iu
Rappahanock Valley. When one of '
his children falls dowu stairs he whips
it for crying.
One day last summer a party of
tourists stopped at his place and he
sent his boy Zeph out to hunt squirrels
to make them a squirrel pie.
; He gave Zeph twelve pebbles with
which he was to kill the game.
When the boy returned he had
eleven squirrels tied in a bunch.
"Whar's the,t'other one of the dozen?'
asked the old man.
" Missed him."
" Whar's the pebble, you lazy son of
a gun?"
" L-o-o-st it," sobbed the boy, be-ginning
to blubber.
" I'll gin yer suthin' to remember it
by," said the old man, and he laid on
till the company made him desist.
The boy had his share of the potpie-notwithstandlng.
T h r a s h e d in S i g h t .
Some years ago there lived in Free-port,
111., a well to-citizen whose name
was Smith. He had moved there from
Racine, Wis., and being a man of
wealth and position soon made himself-one
of'em."
He was of an irascible temper, how-eyer,
and if any one infringed on his
rights he defended himself vigorously.
One day Mr. Smith was seen driving
at lull speed over the long wooden
bridge which spanned the Pecatonia.
The usual legend about not driving
not faster than a walk was in plain
sight but Mr. Smith ignored it.
The next day he v/as fined $5 in the
police court. As he paid paid his
fine, he threw down another V.
" What is that for ?" asked the
justice surprised.
" To prepay another fine, for when I
meet the fellow that informed on me, I
am going to thrash him within an inch
of his life," was the belligerent answer
Made a Difference.
They were sitting around the stove
in a grocery, when the man with - the
red goatee spoke up and said :
" It must be awful to be cast away
on an ocean girt island."
" Becher yer life," responded one of
the crowd.
" W e l l I don't know about that,"
thoughtfullyjeplied the grocer.
" You don't. Why, how could it
help but be awful ?"
" Is the island supposed to be unin>
habited?"
" Of course."
" Oh, that makes a differeace. I
didn't know but that it was uninhabited
by a grocer who kept a red-hot stove
and a barrel of apples for the conveni-ence
of loafers."
Then a deep silence fell upon the
island in the far-off Pacific, and one
after another of the wrecked sailors
went out on some errand or other.
They W e r e Only Talking.
" Did you say this man must hang?"
shouted the sheriff, as he and his posse
surprised two armed men,a piece of rope
and a scared-looking fellow under a
tree.
" Naw," hastily explained the rope
manipulator, as he untied a suspicious-looking
knot; " we's only talkin1 hoss,
and Bill said he'd like to sell that 'ere
mustang of his'n."
Then the sheriff said two could
make a quicker bargain than three,
and restored the most interested party
to the bosom of bis cell.
ST. ELMO HOTEL,, JSOS. 317 a n d 319
Aroh street, Philadelphia.—Rates re-duced
to $2' DER day. The traveling
public, will still find at this hotel t h e
same liberal provision for t h e i r come-fort.
It is located i n t h e immediate
centre of business, and places of amus-ment
and the different railroad depots,
as well as all parts of t h e city, a re
easily accessible by s t r e e t cars con-s
t a n t l y passing the doors. I t offers
special inducements to those visiting
t h e city for business or pleasure. Your
patronage is .respectfully solieted.
JOSEPH M. FEGER,
oc71y- Propr