She Wanted It Badly

In one of the Washington jewelry friores is a diamond breast pin valc.,l :t SI, 000. A yonnjr woman lioso love for ornament! s lunch g rea ter than her ability to buy them lmppened to be in thie store when the pin was shown to a lady wlio did ro.. purchase it. Tvvo or three times a Treek since tlien the girl has gore to obtain a glimpse of the beauti'ul pin, until she finally made up her jnind tliat she would make an oTfort to htc it, so the following colloquy took p'ace, that I happened to hear : 'How much is that pin ?" "A thousand dollars." Well, I will take it if you will let mi: pay for it at $1 a week. I on!y make $2 a week. I buy everything dsc that way." The astonished clerk told lier that ht: woulc1 have to speak to the propiietor, who was out, and the sirl piomlsed to return.- Washington Star. Editors and others who are uring squibe at General R. A. Alger and (Icing their best in mud-slinging will make small headway with thoughtïui. patriotic people. General Alger waf. a brave, efficiënt officer, and is k-ed by his old eommand as few livh)'j men are loved, and slui-s of (his 1-inc will wlth tbem fal] harmless. H.( is among the most generous of givers in every public enterprise and (liarily, and bis detractors may well hang their heads in sliame af ter inCflging in such unmerited iriticism. The answer oí Gen. Alger to Senaior Sherman, published in the Detroit Tribune of Nov. 22, is a splemlid document. It gives in a caJm, dignified manner, carrying with it a convic(ioi of truth and earnestness a statemenl relative to the difference that sprang up betiveen those two gentlemei' at the time of the republican convention of 1888. Gen. Alger cover the whole ground in this paragraph, wblelb we quote : 'No delégate or friend who went lei Chicago In my behalf, or voted for mr; at the convention, ever asked for, or received a single p'.edge from me or money or ior any office." A letter from Gen. W. T. Sherman, n ritten at the time to Gen. Uger is sisci given, and it is a splendid endorsement of his action.