Acton, however, had decreed that "some one had got to go down that slide on skates," and it seemed only meet and right that if a victim had to be sacrificed it should be a new boy rather than an old stager.

Camp Stager was the name given to this place, in honor of General Stager, of the Western Union Telegraph Company.

Camp Stager was the name given to this place, in honor of General Stager, of the Western Union Telegraph Company.

Write a letter to General Stager, of Chicago, that you are now prepared to accept the invitation, and he will send you a pass.

Having determined to visit New York, I acted upon General Sheridan's suggestion and wrote to General Stager, from whom in a few days I received my railroad passes.

I spent two or three days very pleasantly in the great city of the West, meeting several of the gentlemen who had been out on the Sheridan hunt in SeptemberGeneral Stager, Colonel Wilson, editor of the Journal; Mr. Sam Johnson, General Rucker and othersby all of whom

According to the route laid out for me by General Stager, I was to stop at Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Rochester on my way to New York, and he provided me with all the necessary railroad passes.

We men are alternately delighted, humiliated, and terrified when women anticipate our wishes, perceive our weaknesses, and detect our shortcomings, whether we be frisky young colts in the field or sober stagers plodding along between the matrimonial shafts in harness and blinkers.

Veteran N. veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard &c 501.

actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer; mime, mimer^; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter

690. Agent N. doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager. bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum.

Proficient N. proficient, expert, adept, dab; dabster^, crackerjack; connoisseur &c (scholar) 492; master, master hand; prima donna [Sp.], first fiddle, top gun, chef de cuisine, top sawyer; protagonist; past master; mahatma. picked man; medallist, prizeman^. veteran; old stager, old campaigner, old soldier, old file, old hand; man of business, man of the world.

He pretended at first that he didn't know much of anything about the game, but, if I am not mistaken, he's an old stager at it.

Mabel took Undine to the days, and introduced her as a "guest" to the club-meetings, where she was supported by the presence of many other guests"my friend Miss Stager, of Phalanx, Georgia," or (if the lady were literary) simply "my friend Ora Prance Chettle of Nebraskayou know what Mrs. Chettle stands for.

"He's a pretty old stager," he said, "unless he's a young 'un whose hair has turned white in a night like they do in novels; or, maybe he's a General.

He went through his acts with wonderful readiness and with slight effort, and, while apparently enjoying keenly the exhilaration of applause, he showed no trace of the blasé bearing of the old stager.

'Tis true, some stagers of the wiser sort Made all these idle wonderments their sport: They said, their only danger was delay, And he, who heard what every fool could say, 500 Would never fix his thought, but trim his time away.

It was absolutely unconventional, and the old stagers did not know what to say of a picture which was all foreground.

In fear of which, our house has sent this day, 20 To insure our new-built vessel, call'd a play; No sooner named, than one cries out, These stagers Come in good time, to make more work for wagers.

She came up to her husband to ask his permission to go out, which he granted, insisting only that she should wrap herself up warm; she turned to me and said with a roguish smile, "You will let Aniela go, will you not?" That Aniela should blush furiously was only natural, but that I, an old stager, a razor sharpened against the strops of so many experiences, should have betrayed so much confusion, I cannot forgive myself.

He was a cheerful fellow in his sorry business, blithe as an old stager of an undertaker at a first-class funeral.

I don't mind the exclamation of any old stager who drinks Madeira worth from two to six Bibles a bottle, and burns, according to his own premises, a dozen souls a year in the cigars with which he muddles his brains.

[Footnote 1: I have heard old cunning Stagers Say Fools for Arguments lay Wagers.

Don't you youngsters stay for an ole stager like me.

Anson Stager is made military superintendent of all telegraph lines and offices in the United States.