... . SOUTH of South-Western Kansas is a narrow strip of land that is in no state or territory. It was formerly part of Indian territory. It runs east and west, is about one hundred and fifty miles long, and about thirty miles wide. The Cimarron canyon, that heads in the Raton mountains thirty miles east of Trinidad, crinkles in and out of it and Kansas on the north side. It is in habited by a few ...

... . By John Trew-Hay. WHEN old Stephen Sheverett died, a widower, rather more than five years ago, and it was whispered that he had left almost the whole of his very large property away from his only son Charlie-- to whom he had bequeathed the comparatively in significant sum of five thousand pounds-- very general surprise was expressed. But Charlie's father, who had been lor many years the sole ...

... I CANNOT understand, said the young man, why you permit your daughter to sue me for breach of promise. You remember that you were bitterly opposed to our engagement because you said I wasn't good enough for her and would disgrace your family. That, young man, said the girl's father, was sentiment. This is business. Slum Visitor I'm afraid I shall be too busy to visit you next week, Mrs. ...

... IT must not be thought because my brother James and my self live in the village of Dimley-wold that we know nothing about racing. On the contrary, we have always taken a keen interest in it, and if we have not been very successful in finding winners, it has only been because we have not had the chance. That's it, the chance. Fellows whose lines are cast in pleasant places, in the immediate ...

... , A STORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN ENGLAND. By A. H. Wall. PART TWO. CONCERNING THE ItEKELLION OF KING HENEY T1IE YOUNGEE. CHAPTER VI. (continued! AND when the hardy Breedlings and Fenslodgers of Kesteven heard how Robin Eude served the spy it made great sport for them. Exulting in the skill and boldness of so small a bowman, they spread the merry anecdote with no little additions and ...

... 2Tfj c Drama. THE only novelty of the week, but an important and highly interesting one, was M. Charles Lecocq's last new opera Giroflé Girofla, produced for the first time in England at the Opera Comique on Saturday last, supported by M. Humbert's company from Les Fantaisies Parisiennes, Brussels, who originally repre sented it during its recent successful run in the Belgian capital, and who ...

... By Harold Kyrle. AH! old man. That's it. That's just it. what did I do it for? Hanged if I know; because I was a born fool I suppose. Did I care for her? Is it me? Not I, faith-- at least-- no. You see it was this way, Harry. Ah, but the yam's too long-- and-- you're nearest the billy, old man, slue yourself round and lift it off. So-- It was Christmas Eve. Not the long chill-nighted eve of ...

... A LUCKY LEP. A STORY FOUNDED ON FACT. I'M the oldest member of the Slowcombe Hunt. I've known nearly everyone's fathers, and many of their grandfathers, all over the country. My memory stretches hack to lengthened vistas of pedigrees of hounds, and to kaleidoscopic remini scences of horses. I think I know every gate and gap in all the Slowcombe country, my mind is a perfect storehouse of ...

... A BIT OF SPOET. IT was in India last year I met the Commissioner O'Leary. A little, roundabout man he was, with a merry twinkle in his eye and a brogue you might cut with a knife. I tooled him over to inspect a station he had to visit, he admired my Arab, we discovered a mutual love of horses, and over this and that joke and anecdote we became good friends, and spent a merry evening together. ...

... . The season for fishing and fish stories is nearly ended for 1902, hence the appended narrative of remarkable tenacity of life on the part of Empire State black bass will be read with interest or incredulity One day last week Phillip Rutert and George G. JAirK, two anglers of Syracuse, went for a day's fishing, 'tis said, at Cross Lake. They were out on the lake early in the morning, and, ...

... HAULED FOE. THE CAMBEIDGESHIRE. AH UNDERGRADUATE STORY. By Auchie Armstrong. LORD SCORRIER had reached his third year at Cambridge with only one bar to his complete happiness and his progress at the University. Having with difficulty succeeded in sur mounting the obstacles afforded by the Little go, he attacked his General examination at the end of his second year, and came to such ...

... HEATHERTHORP. A SPORTING STORY By Byron Webber. CHAPTER XVI. (Concluded) MISS CARDMUMS was absent from Heatherthorp when the happy pair returned home, and so in lieu of paying them a visit she wrote the Doctor a voluminous letter of congratulation, stuffed full of pious quotations and goody poetry. Poor dear, said Kate, as she read the epistle. I don t care what you say, Arthur, I am quite ...