r A A SUDDEN CHANGE. The Circumstances Which Made an gelic Mau Heroine a Hog. An- 1 never knew just how mean a man could be until the “Fat Contributor,” who used to be a very, very funny man on tho Cincinnati pre«», came along and asked me to go up North on a fishing excursion. I loved and reverenced that man for years before I saw him. On the way up to Petoskey I was willing to die for him. He was so modest so bland—so open-hearted and gentle! I sat and looked at him and wondered if Heaven had an angel to compare with him, and when 1 thought that, some other man had been elected President in place of the Fat Contributor, I won­ dered what the public could have been thinking of to permit such a wrong. The next morning after reaching Petoskey 1 was up betimes to inquire about tho best fishing snot. I soon dis- covered that the Fat Contributor hail been an hour ahead of me. He had rented tho only dock from which fish could be caught and fenced it in. He had engaged all the fish-worms old Petoskey liad on his land, and had bribed the only boy owning a minnow net not to catch any bait for any one else. I met him coming upto the hotel through the sand, anil I called him a bully boy and explained under what obligations he had placed me. "How?” he askea. “Why, wo’ll have the fishing all to ourselves.” “We:" “Of course.” "There’s no ‘we’ about it. I have made my arrangements, and you can ¡make yours.” "And I’m not to fish with you?” "Not that I know of!” I had to submit. I sat on the bank and saw him pull in bass and pickerel by the dozen, and if I moved down on him he uttered tho most awful threats you e er heard. On one occasion he drew his* revolver and menaced me by firing over my head. The bland, gentle, angelic Fat Contributor had be­ come a h-o-g. When I remembered how I had reverenced his name and praised his talents I kicked myself. "You needn’t look so ugly about it," he said to me as he came up to the hotel with fourteen tine bass. "When 1 go fishing I permit no one to interfere with me. You can go over to Elk Rapid« or Traverse City and hire a dock for yourself, and you’d do it if you weren't so selfish. You seem to want all the fish in Lake Michigan. It's a wonditr you didn’t get up at midnight and hire the whole lake front!” I looked around fora tvay to get even. There was an Indian up there named "Man-who-fell-in,” and he had a dog about, a foot high and seven feet long. Tho owner would tie this canine to a stake and let any’ person throw stones at him for a cent a throw, and every time you hit the dog you got a toy­ basket full of maple sugar. I went over to see tho red man, and without stopping to inquire how he fell in or how hi- got out I hired him and the dog for three weeks, with the privilege of contracting for three year«. We start­ ed in that evening, and it was the proud­ est moment of my life when tho Fat Contributor wanted to pay for a hun­ dred throws, and was blandly informed that it would cost him one thousand dollars a throw. I let everybody in Pe­ toskey have a shy at the animal, and the press of St. Louis, Louisville and Chicago were presented season tickets. We took the dog down on the shore, and the Fat Contributor had to give up his fishing. He’d have given more for ten throws at that dodging dog than to catch a whale, but it was not for him. “See hero," he said as he came to me one afternoon, “what have I ever done to you that you should use me thus?" "Nothing,” I answered, “only’, when I charter a dog I permit no one to inter­ fere with me. You can go over to Chicago or Milwaukee and hire a dog for yourself, and you’d do it if y ou had anv manhood about you.” We never spoke after that. We took the same train homo lint did not sit in the same car.—.1/. Quad, in Detroit Free Press. A Stranger in California. The Eastern tourist sought some new experience in a San Francisco restaur­ ant. lie found it. "What will you take sir?" asked the waiter. 'Oysters,” .«»id the tourist. Eastern or Californian?” Well I've eaten lots of Eastern ovs- . I guess 1’11 try some Californian. I'd just ¿ike to taste them and see how they compare." The waiter departed, and returning daced before the tourist the usual pre- iminary srimp, and departed. Long and earnestly the tourist studied the shrimps. He took one up gingerly and examined it. H. could i ot even make the insect out. Then ho called tho waiter. "Here, take them away. I guess I’ll fall back on Eastern." 8 n Francisco Chron c'e. In the Natural Order. School-teacher What! a boy of your age doesn't know the parts of speech? Boy—No’ni. School-teacher Have.iu't you FVt»r heard of a noun? Boy Oh. yes'in. School-teacher Well, what CO1ÌCS next? Bov Don't know. School-teacher A pronoun, Now please renu inlier that. Then there's the verb. Now what follows that? Boy—A proverb. T d-Hils. —A Missis.« ppi naper relates the fol­ lowing: A remarkslile incident of 4 :i wartime wound occurred the othei r da on the person of W. C. Carroll, an i ex Confederate soldier. He has been Mill fering from a wound received at th- battle of Chickamauga twenty t in- years ami seven months ago. Ihi la- Salnrday the fourth piece of bone cam out of the wound, which has been op. ilur.ng the entire time. The sutler, has been deprived of the use if h. right «ide since its infliction, but h. now received the full use of his bn the occasion of the Oxford and Cam­ the town.— V. Y Sun. will th.n la* absolutely necessary.— Mer­ bridge boat race, the 10,000 water-tight lioxcs were thrown into the river, to he - An ml well in the Puente ranch chant Traveler. ' . dived and grappled and raked for by­ near Los Angeles, Cal., hai been pro­ anybody who thought it worth while to ducing fifty barrels a dav. A few davs Popular Summer Resorta. take so much trouble to get the sweets, ago the borers sunk the well to a A fan, and possibly a watch. No little excite­ lower depth, striking a new stream of ment and talk was caused, and the ob­ immense »trength. which threw the ap­ lee water, ject of the enterprising watch-vender paratus out of the hole with great vio­ A seersucker coaL the getting of much advertising was lence, hurling a man »ixtv feet in the A hammock. fnlly attained.— X. Y. Sun. sir. He escaped with his life bv catch­ The front steps. ing on the top of a derrick. The well Tho back part of the house after elo»- —Jacob C. Barrett, of Newport. Pe.. threw out five hnudred or six hundred ng the front blind,. while working in the wood,, hung hi« barrels of oil in a few minutes —San The ico cream saloon. vest on a bush. The woods caught fire, Francieco CaU. Your uncle, , • and when Barrett went for hi, vest onlv An umbrella. ------ - .. wane the buttons remained. 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