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Thatday was a very busy day for Jones, and he had little time to be grateful for the unexpected liberality of old Blank. _ But in the evening he quit work envelopediin such soft dreams of love and fortune that he gallantly rose and gave his seat in the car to a tiredâ€"looking lady who had hair the same color as Angelica‘s. ‘Wy no, sir, not exactly. I guess a day will be exough, sit." "All right, Jones, you can have it, so you don‘t leave on Saturday." "But you see, sir, eeâ€"you see, I‘m afraid T ain‘t makin‘ enough to support a wâ€"wâ€"wife, andâ€"and"â€" j ©You want a raise, eh !" "Wy, yes, sir," said Jones, gratefulâ€" ly, "if you‘d be so kind, sir‘" _ Mr, Blank took out his percil and figured a minute, "How much do we pay you now ?" "Twelve dollars a week, sir." â€" "Twelve dollars, mâ€"mâ€"m ; well, Jones, T will give you a raise under the cirâ€" cumstances, though we can‘t hardly afâ€" ford it at this season. _ We will pay you $625 for the coming year, and perhaps after that, if you are faithful, we may do better still. Now mind, I don‘t think that‘s enough to risk a wife on, but I will increase you that much, and you can do as you please." When the conductor called out Ash land boulevard Jones got off, as he al ways did. ' There is one thing that I ought to tell you about Jones. The people who rode home with him every evening gradua!ly got to believing that he was very wealtbhy and very aristocratic. From his manner he was at least a millionaire, they judged, and the fact that he lived on the fashionable bouleâ€" vard proved his social standing beyond a doubt, ..As I told you, Jones sould ha\‘e#four blocks nearer home, but he was a kindly natured soul. He knew the delusion of his ifellowâ€"passenâ€" gers, and every night walked four blocks through the cold or the mud, as the case might be, rather than destroy those pleasant conceits. _ After a light supper and a very elabâ€" orate toilet, for Jones was a nian of fashion, he took an Ogden avenue car, and went, ob, ever so many blocks southwest. He was greeted rapturously by a young woman, who laid her fair head on his shoulder and softly murmured words of love. "Ohb, darling, how lovely it is for you to be here. Two whole dreary days without seeing you has broken my heazt, Oh, it has been awful, awful, awful !" *Â¥ unoâ€"m mâ€"m. "I have good news, my sweetsy," said darling. "Obh, how lovely ! Do tell it." «My salary has been increased, and T am going to ask your fatherâ€"our fatherâ€"toâ€"night." "Ob, you are ; want a week off, I suppose!| . _ | . . Jones works down town, and his salâ€" ary has been $12 a week. He is worth more than that, of course, but his emâ€" ployer has not been regarded as a libâ€" eral man, so Jones went into the office on Saturday before New Year‘s with a good deal of trepidation. "Erâ€"can I speak to you a minute, Misâ€"Misâ€"ter Blank ? © Cortainly, Jones ; what is it ?" «* Hubâ€"huhâ€"w‘y, you see, sir, eeâ€"you see, I‘m thinkin‘ of getting married." On the west side of Chicago, not very many blocks from Ashland Bouleâ€" vard and nearer still to Van Buren street, there dwells a young man whose name is not Jones, but whom I will call by that romantic name in this roâ€" mantic story, says an exchange. HIS SALARY WAS RAISED. _ To get too near Mr. Trolley, see. Oh, take me to the farm, and drill me in the barn, Oh, show me how to shake the hay upon the rake. Oh, teach me how to stack the hay upon the rack Instruct me how tell a country lie. Oh I‘m tired of the eity, when I finish jthis ‘ere ditty, You can take me to the bush and cram me full of mush Oh, put my feet in stogas, and mix me w}th_the fogies, . . fls Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, you wouldn‘t be with me, if your optics couldn‘t see That sausage meat is cheap on the jolly trolley street ; Oh, doggie takes the track, he‘s soon upon his back, _ se Oh, Oh, Ob, the jolly trolley car, will take you near or far, Oh, it sings a tunelese song, as it hastens you along, Oh, the motor man is bold, when a person takes a hold Of anything that‘s in the circuitâ€"â€"death. Oh. "O} the cars are spitting fire, there is lightning in the wire, there‘s a farmer‘s team, there as frisky as they seem. they make a desperate leap, they are tangled in a heap, The scavengers are gathering up debris. the chariot of flame, or trolley car by name it knocks the "plaster down, from the ceilings in the town. it knocks asunder trade, ‘cause the peoâ€" ple are afraid i And sepper me with hayseed till I die. , how lovely !"‘ I marvel if he‘ll draw another breath TMHE JOLLY TROLLEY CAR OETRY, The gentle creature turned to the man who held her heart in his posessâ€" ion. There was no faltering in her clear, blue eyes, but rather a cold, hard elitterâ€"ice and granite in her tones. "And that raise of yoursâ€"encouragâ€" ing, I must say. Your prospects are indeed splâ€"lenâ€"nâ€"ndid. Now listen." Yes, sir." "T‘welve dollars a week is $624 a year. Your salary has been increased just $1 a year, sir, less than two cents a week,." "Iâ€"I hadn‘t figgered it , sir." "Ain‘t you ashamed of yourself, Jones }" "I guess so, sir." You ougnt to be. You‘re a blamed fool, and don‘t know it. Now, I want you to clear out of here and never come back. But wait a moment, we‘ll settle the whole business now." The fair girl came in, her face flushed with the light of undying love.. She cast a languishing glance at Jones be: fore she recognized the situation. "Angelica," said her father, sternly, "do you see thatâ€"that thing there ?" "Oh, papa ?" "‘His salary last year was only $624. Now his employer appreciates him so well that this paltry sum has been inâ€" creased to the princely income of $625. He would like to have you become ‘his wife and share this extravagant sum.". ‘Sir," she hissed, ‘‘you have basely deceived an innocent and â€"confiding eirl." "Ob, darling !" The heartoroken wail of the strong man filled the room and echoed in strange mournful cadenâ€" ces as it escaped through the transom. As the the last faint reverberation died away in the distance, Angelica threw herself in her father‘s arms. Rupvaratisat Curep in A Day.â€"South American Rheumatic Cure for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in I to 3 days. Its actoin upon the systemis remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. 75c. Warâ€" ranted by Ed. M. Devitt Druggist, Waterâ€" The old man rang the bell with a de termined tintinabulation. "Send my daughter here," he said to the servant. "Oh, papa !" she sobbed shudderingâ€" ly, "save me! save me and send the horrid thing away." Jones got himself together and fled â€"fled out into the night ; the sound of bells told bim that the old year, with allits delusive joys and fieeting moâ€" ments of happiness, was dead and forâ€" eyer gone. The cold merciless air of 1893 beat about his bare templesâ€"he hadlefc his bat and oversoat on the rack in Angelica‘s feudal halls, and he beat his breast and prayed for death. ,‘Go !" cried the father, hoarsely "Go while there is yet time." At that moment Angelica rose from her father‘s arms and opened her fair lips and spake : "Sixâ€"hundredâ€"twentyâ€"five, sir," feebly corrected the young man. That‘s anotber thing I should have told you about Jones. He is not bright in mathematics, and had not yet had time to figure out the exact perâ€" centage of his increase. "You‘re a pretty fallow, you are !" exclaimed the papa in disgust, throwâ€" ing down his pencil at the end of a twentyâ€"two second calculation. "Huhâ€"buhâ€"w‘at‘a the matter, sinr ?" ‘How much does that magnificent raise of yours amount to? Tell me that." * I never figgered on it, sir ; I don‘t hardly know." "You don‘t! of course you don‘t. You‘re a confounded idiot or you wouldn‘t have the presumption to ask for my lovely child in marriage on $600 a year." ‘For heaven‘s sake !" gasped the old man. _ ‘"How much did you get before ?" "Only $12 a week, sir." The old man took out his pencil and began to figure. Six hundred and twentyâ€"five dollars a year, sir," said Jones, drawing his Apolloâ€"like figure up to its full height. "How much ?" "Six twentyâ€"five," said Jones, lightly. He began to see that the amount stagâ€" gered his fatherâ€"inâ€"law, and didn‘t want to be hard on him. "Why, yes, Jones, I have seen it, as I can readily guess what you mean, Angelica is a good girl and if she loves you, why I can find it in my heart to consent. She is not mercenary, and I will be able to do a little for her myâ€" self, Your raise in salary is a very good thing, but love, you know, true affection, my boy, does not count dolâ€" lars." "Erâ€"thank you sir, you‘re too kind." "Tut, tut! Nota bit of it And by the way, my son, how much do you draw now since your increase ? _ "Yes, sir," said Jones, modestly, "I beiieve I am appreciated. And I feel now, sir, as if I could affordâ€"why, you see, sir,â€"I feelâ€"you have seenâ€"donâ€" cher know, erâ€"erâ€"" "Glad to hear it, Jones ; glad to hear it. Shows your employers apâ€" preciate your services." Papa looked up from his paper. "Good evening, Mr. Jones ; take a chair." _ Papa regarded the polite and serupulous youth with evident favor. He had figured Jones down to an inâ€" come of about $3000, and that very day had advised Angelica to "hook on." "Er you see, you see, sir erâ€"erâ€"my salary is to be raised next year." "Oh, what a chump !‘â€"Ezxchange Ripans Tabules cure the blues for musicians, when I tell you that there is a piano downstairs, another on our flat, two men who play the guitar in duets, a flautist, a cornetist upstairs, a youth who is struggling with the zither, and that every other man thinks he is a born singer or is destined to make his mark as a musician of some kind, you can form a slight idea of a There are so many, strange characâ€" ters here that it would require volumes to tell about them. The Chicago bird of paradise is the lady typewriter. Although one sees advertisements occasionally to apply for situations at $8 and $10 a week, yet I know of any number of this by no means rara avis who create the music of the writing machine and chew gum for $60 and $75 per month, and even more. Imagine the ~gorgeous plumage that can be donned for this amount! Sealskin sacks, tailormade garments, millinery radiant with horticultural and other specimens. . And what a time she has ! Lunches, bonâ€"bons, theatres, . dances and a coterie of admirers who await her commands and beseech her ‘smiles. Like every person else you meet in Chicago, towards the end of the month the gay little typewriter is at. the end of her purse, there is amost frantic and praiseworthy effort to economize, but her feathers gradually droop and about ‘t-he 30th her gay plumage is generally borrowed. orate debate with his other self. At first I imagined I was being addressed, and politely answered, but after being requested to retire to a place where water never freezes, T learned to make absolutely sure before I took any. furâ€" ther risks in speaking to strangers. At the apartment house where I am stopping there is an Assyrian, a Brazilâ€" ian count, a professor of phrenology, several banished Canadians, electrical engineers, draughtsmen, lawyers,â€" stuâ€" dents and centlemen of leisure : and as The whirl, bustle, enterprise, avarice and greed of Chicago and its contempt for the outside world are colossal. If another place has anything that Chiâ€" cago envies it will beg, borrow or steal the original, or calmly purchase the means and improve on the original. Tt thinks it has enough of the earth, and immediately it sets to work and wants the sea ; and it will soon have a waterway to the Mississippi to float its larger vessels to New Orleans ; and everybody knows about the plans to connect the great lake system with the Atlantic. Thou shalt not covet has no application here. It has actually changed the current of its river. It now desires to be an educational cenâ€" tre, and millionaires are endowing its universities; public libraries are in existence and conducted on the largest scale ; private individuals are presentâ€" ing educational institutions to the city, ‘ and right near where I live a magnifiâ€" cent white stone structure, covering the whole front of a square, is being completed for the people, and will be known as the Newberry libraryâ€"the gift of a wealthyâ€" citizen. As a place of amusement Chicago is a brilliant (I was going to say "howling") success. Dances with the most elaborate arâ€" rangements that have been invented and that money can command ; club receptions, dinners, theatre parties, music of the conservatories, the great. and only Thomas‘ orchestra, the opera companies, amateur talent everywhere; lectures by university professors ; and there are also hundreds of masque balls given during the season, with a very small admi{ssion fee ; minstrel troupes, darky dances, variety â€" theatres and saloons on the most gorgeous pattern, whose inner consciousness _ conceals more than the average temperance orator wots of, If the seeker after excitement and pleasure is not satisfied yet, there are a great many more Jittle eccentricities of modern life in the way of wheat speculating, gambling, horse racing and dipping into lotteries and shaky stocks that cannot fail to waken even the weakened sensations of the nineteenth century roue. The man. who talks to himself is met with everywhere ; in solitudes and in crowds. Sometimes it is a sulphurous ejaculation, and again it is a most elabâ€" orate debate with his other self. At first I imagined I was being addressed, The office buildings here are marvels of architecture, both as regards beauty confined within limited scope, and vast extent and height. Marble, mosaics and the most elaborate ornamentation in brass, iron and woodwork are so common. that the inhabitants take them merely as matter of course. of hay. _ Compared with the giant energy of Chicago, Paris and New York are mere infants. Chicago is in many respect® one of the most wonderful cities in the world. If the claims of its citizens are taken into account, there is no other place worth considering. _ In any case, it is the dirtiest place one can imagine ; it is the wickedest place, notwithstanding the revelations that oceasionally come to light in Toronto and other hamlets ; it claims to be the biggest hog. market in the world, and it is, human and otherwise ; it is the dearest or the cheapest place, just as you like ; it is the easiest place to make money in I know of, and there are more opportuâ€" nities to spend it ; it certainly is a very freé, or at least free and easy, place to live in ; you can do anything, say anything, wear anything, live as you like and die as you like, and no more notice will be taken of you than of the needle in the proverbial bundle A CANADIAN IN OHICAGO. Waterloo County Chronicle. Bicycles changed from the solid and cushion to the latest preumatic tire... Sewâ€" ing machines repaired and guaranteed for one year. Gunsmithing in all its branches. Keys made and fitted to a!l kinds of locks. Locks repaired. New rolls put on clothes wringers. In short we repair everything in a mechanical line and guarantee satisfaction All work sent us shall receive our prompt attention. Remember the place, Canadian Block, Berlin. . Sign of the Sewing Machine and Saw. C. L. HENDERSON, _T will close with a few remarks about the weather and Chicago‘s greatest wonderâ€"dirt. _ Toronto people should see a Chicago snowstorm. Tt is a fact that when snow is thawing here it is positively black with smoke. You should see office men as they leave their offices in the evening, after arrivâ€" ing immaculate. . Collars, suggestive of terra firma ; cuffs that are sighing for a laundry, faces that are smudged, hands that are positively black, and lungs that are filled with a combination. of smoke, dust and other things I dread to think of. As for those who work outside, their greatest requirement does not seem to be wealth so much as a bath, a new suit of clothes, clean linen, a bootblack and a barber. Toron to may not have a good climate, but Chicago‘s alleged climate is horrible. Around the big buildings the. wind sweeps as it would around a gorge, and it fairly shrivels one up with its cold, clammy breath. . Change, nothing but change !_ One day comparative comâ€" fort ; then an imitation . snowstorm ; then a thaw, followed by a freezeâ€"up accompanied by a howling . wind that would delight the Esquimanx at the fair grounds, but makes the natives fairly cower, shiver and shrink. R. A. Widdowson, in Toronto Globe. Chicago, Feb. 23. Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the sysâ€" tem effectually, yet gently, when costivo or bilious, or wheu the blood is impure or slug: gish, to permanently cure habitual constiâ€" pation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or awakening them, use Syrup of Figs. 72 King St., Canadian Block. BEstablished April 1, 1891. Now running by steam power. Fully prepared to all kinds of saw gumming and filing.. Skate grinding and grinding edge tools of every description, such as horse clippers, barber‘s clippers, barber‘s and tailfor’s shears, butcher‘s meat knives, prinâ€" ter‘s paper knives etc. Eeflmâ€"figfigfifiw, Everybody here is expecting to retire shortly after the fair. _ I shudder now when I think of the enthusiasm I once displayed when I prepared for the Toâ€" ronto exhibition. Roomâ€"renters, hotelâ€" men, restaurant keepers, museums, theatres, fakirs and all classes are baitâ€" ing their hooks, and if most of the visitors do not bite at a great many of the temptations they will be more than mortal. But, so far as I can see, a person will be able to live here during the exposition as cheaply as in any other place where there is some imâ€" mense attraction. A great many of the hotels have cards out that they are not increasing their rates, and if one. does not want proximity to the grounds, and every other luxury, he can contemâ€" plete the prospect of visiting Chicago this year with fortitude. A friend of mine was writing to relatives the other day and completely disgusted them with the prospect of staying with him during the fair, when he told them he lived twenty miles away from the city. He didn‘t add how easy it was to get here ; that he came in every. morning and went home every evening. Chicaâ€" go people think no more of such a ride than others would of a street car trip. The ladies would be delighted with the decorations of the shop windows, which are works of art. Think of an immense millinery window, the back ceiling and base consisting of mirrors, a wheelbarrow covered with flowers in the centre, and above, around and beâ€" low, bonnets, hats, laces, ribbons, birds, feathers and gorgeous creeping things, till the female brain whirls dizzy with delight, and all brilliantly lighted day and night. I saw one window massed at the back, sides and ceiling with difâ€" ferent colored silks ; at intervals electâ€" ric bulbs of different colors are placed. Think of the effect whenfirst all the lights shine forth a flaring red, then all delicate blue, green or white, and lastly a burst of all the different colors lightâ€" ing up the precious wares. _A favorite sign is one made of electric lights which fade away one by one and shine again about every minute in the name of the proprietor. â€" The brass and silver work used to .display goods is very fine. Spirals, circles, all kinds of traceries, on which repose ladies‘ slippers in white, blue, gold and other colors, or other bright articles to charm purchasâ€" ers. _A display on State street is one which I will not soon forget. It was a window full of ladies‘ corsets in lavenâ€" der, pale blue, pink and black silk. Notwithstanding my blushes I took one hasty look at the yellow and black lines, at the fringe of laces and the somewhat exaggerated forms and fled. concert that is given nearly every night without the aid of any outside talent. Telephone 134P. 0. 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