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KpivintJ . uf th, j h c*Ih 1 ‘ «y, , J -d CRITICS THE TRAMP AND THE DOG. PETERK IN A WISE PARROT A big, lonesome-looking dog sat at Bierstadt, the artist, is a guest of ! An Egyptian, when he has a law a gate of a house on Cass avenue yes Who lank Portrait Paiatori with Tailors His Constitutional Modesty Canses Him Fre the Governor General of Canada. Th« Cat Ooncludea that it is a “Green suit on hand, holds that success is a terday, eyes full of tears and his “.‘j quent Disappointments. No FIT, No Pay. duty. If parjury will win the suit, he Chicken.'* Madame Nilsson will be the guest whole body shaking with cold. A will perjure himself and a troop of of Lord Lome during her visit to the { tramp, who had neither overcoat nor '•«* I J ills friends will aid him. A French ON THE SUBJECT. Canadian capital. mittens, and whose bare toes peeped *ithtd physician, in the employ of the their nd through his boots, was making bis Mr. Edwin Booth is having a fine I Egyptian government, tells a singu u Your stories of Hunt remind me of way up the street in search of the cottage built for him at Newport, on tl lar story, illustrating the length to right kind of a side entrance, when i Some twenty years ago—I do not Indian avenue, near Sachnest Beach. A parrot that could talk and a cat which an Egyptian will go in order I had J another, hardly less amusing, and, he espied the dog and crossed ovor ’ know how many exactly, but it was It is expected that President Ar that was hungry for bird meat once to win his case. The Frenchman lie but tC like yours,illustrating his sense of the and said: some time during the war—I heard a thur, Governor Butler, Governor I had an encounter. The cat was put was accompanying Latif 'Pasha, the dignity of his art, and his peculiarly "Well, now, this is au unexpected Waller, Governor Patterson and Governor-General of Upper Egypt, pleasure! L'pon my soul, but 1 have , story which a soldier was reading in a Governor Cleveland will attend the , to flight by the loquacity of the par on ified way of showing it. a tour of inspection. While stop j newspaper to a little group around him found one living thing in this town celebration of the opening of the i rot, and a charming French writer ping at a certain village, two men ng the last winter of his life, as poorly off as myself. Say, old fel to their great enjoyment. I shall tell it East River bridge. thus describes the scene. He Bays appeared before the Pasha to com day called upon an artist to low, where do you hang out ?” only in brief, though, I remember Henry Kimber, a solicitor, of Lon plain that their Sheik had strangled n a portrait which had been The dog looked at him through his well, the filling in was a good part of don. has lent £25,(MM) to the English that a friend who was leaving home one of their relations and seized his Co 1 with some expression of tears, but had nothing to say. for a short time left in his charge her at Rugby, Tenn. The resi land. some w.j "Tough, isn’t it?” continued the , it, which will be missing in my colony faction from the subject and , favorite parrot The bird was lonely dents of the colony think that the The body was brought in sewed up ‘1 "ufl-n, man. "1 look old and seedy, and you recital. ', r. f r J owner, and to' give his friend, the ar- i are sum is sufficient to place the enter and climbed to the top of his perch, in its shroud. "How long has he the homeliest dog I ever saw. Mr. S. C. Peterkin was a prosper prise on a good basis. and sat there rolling about in a been dead?” asked the physician. pl,,'1 | tist, uss, the tn<- benefit leni'iii of 01 his uis judgment jucigi iuin in That strikes a fraternal chord and we "Several hours.” Oscar Wilde admires America and scared way his eyes, which glittered ) Ki-'the matter of changing and so im- meet on a level. I haven’t had a ous young man of business who got “Strip the body," ordered the ahead in spite of his constitutional Americans just as he would any other like gilt nails, and twinkling over nil» proving the picture that it should square meal for a week, and you have He admires bunko men them the white membranes which physician. ‘ Tottely, d which “ pass muster ” as a creditable work not seen a bone for the past ten days. modesty. This was in his way in so curiosity. He examined it, found it still warm, Even again, eh ?” ciety more than in trade; he was for a similar reason. America ad the pulse beating, the eyes closed thick tj, of art, oven if >t did not quite suit the The dog shivered and whined and afraid of women more than men. mired Oscar not so much because he served for eyelids. Madame Theophile, the cat, had and no involuntary motion. taste of the patron. got up and sat down, and the tramp For a long, long time he had set his was a curiosity as because it took him >lem ; physician ordered the soles of to be the "missing link.” never before encountered a parrot, the The The chief defect complained of was drew closer and said: feet to be whipped, as a counter- •‘Ith of ¿the complexion, which was thought to and the novelty awoke in her mind "No home, eh? Neither have I. No heart ujion a lovely young lady, whose The circumstances attending the irritant would relieve the head, if life ''l,.it"ti*:be sallow; and it was true that in the one to whistle for you? Same here. sweetness was like her name, which death of Prince Gortschakoff promise an evident astonishment. She sat was not extinct. The dead man, process of giving the flesh a warm That’s even again. 1 can warm up was Violet. He had often called to reveal one of the most startling regarding the bird with an air of overhearing the order opened his ilar. glow the artist had given an expres my shakes with whisky, while you upon her, and resolved again and political crimes of the age. There profound meditation and putting to eyes and asked for water. “limt sion of local yellow in the flesh tints have to grin and bear it. That’s again that he would make her an of appears to be no longer any doubt of gether all the ideas of natural his "God is merciful,” exclaimed the tory which she had been able to col complainers, . J* —so strongly marked that the com- where I’ve got the dead wood on you. fer of his heart and hand, but as his having been poisoned. “and has restored him lect during her excursions on the to life!” •ht i plexion was yellow. When Mr. Hunt I can talk through my nose and tell often that heart faiied him. Through Olive Logan, now in London, re roof or in the courtyard and garden. e. I entered the studio he looked at the fifty different pitiful stories to excite the whole evening he would sit and The Pasha, however, took quite a cently answered a Nice florist’s ad The shadows of her thoughts Bitted •■•I v portrait as it stood upon the easel and sympathy and bring out cold victuals, “Gaze upon her as a star different view of the case, and or vertisement and got some flowers by while you have nothing to say for across her changeful eyes, and it was Whose purity and distance make it fair, ” ?>erft sa*d: “ They think it is too yellow, do dered each of them to be bastinadoed. miiwL they? They always think it is too yourself and must take bones or go and come away without making any return post, but declares that she not difficult to read the decision at While this was being done, the could have got just as lovely and which she finally arrived: to my something .except good. Your yel hungry. That’s another for me. On progress in his suit. At last he be whispered to the corpse,— “This is—decidedly—it is—a green physician ’file «slows are all right with your reds and the whole I’m ahead of you, and al came alarmed by the fact that the twice as many flowers at a London "Your turn will come next; you shop, so suggestively has the spring chicken.” .“ve the general tone of the picture, and though you are only a dog I’m glad dashing Captain Latham, of one of had better slip away.” This conclusion reached, the cat ,1 it that is well enough. Look at that on it. It's something to feel that you the Sound steamers, was often at the opened in that much-weathered The man threw off his shroud and jumped from the table which she had ran off'. He was pursued, caught, everrifcit of sky in your landscape (point- are one peg higher than an old, valler, house when he called to see his quarter of the globe. Mme. Modjeska is said to intend chosen as her observatory, and brought back and bastinadoed. 'lispMng to another picture), isn’t that homeless, hungry cur. So long, old charmer, the charming Violet. At ^uitl g°od for sky to your trees and fore- j fellow." last he could not bear the suspense retiring to Poland, to live among her crouched in a corner of the room, Having thus disposed of the fraud- an,I ground? But it isn’t much like that," | As the tramp started to go the dog any longer, and he ventured, * with compatriots, at the end of her theat her knees bent, her head lowered, her lent pleading, the Pasha heard the toll ..looking up at the light which poured reached out and snapped his leg and much hesitancy and awkwardness, rical career; but, judging from her spine stiffened like that of the black merits of the case. through the window, “ and who said took a run for it. but with do-or-die determination, to age and strength, her frequent new panther in Gerome’s picture as it The man, it appeared, having been it was? The fact is, people don’t | “Say, there, hold on!” called out ask her if she would be his. With histrionic triumphs, her great popu glares at the gazelles who are drink unlawfully dispossessed by the Sheik larity and her constantly growing ing by the lake. WaAoknow any thing about art, and the I the man as he wheeled around. “I remarkable coolness, she replied: his land, thought it would The parrot followed each move of more they know about other things said I was ahead, but I'll take it back! “You should have spoken long ago, fame, such retirement is many years strengthen his ease in the Pasha’s ment of the cat with feverish dis eyes ,Jle|l>">the less they know about that. But You can lunch on my legs, while I’ll Mr. Peterkin; I have been engaged in the future. if he should add the charge of 'lent :hey ‘ know what they like,’ and they see this country tetotally busted to to Captain Latham for some time Mr. McCosh, who is the most re quietude. His feathers bristled; he murder to that of illegal eviction. | New Jersey if I don ’ t die of staivation rattled his chain, raised one of his i to 1 don’t mean to pav till they get it. iiast, and we are to be married shortly. markable survival of Scotch theology -—» ■ ■■ — nd 1 They rank portrait painters with | before I come down to eating dog! ! am sorry to disappoint you, but we of the present age, is always in claws and exercised its talons, while TOM BOWEN, JUNIOR. n"'“’-tailors—no fit, no pay. We ought to j Even, old fellow—just about even on will be as good friends as ever, and trouble with ihe students at Prince he whetted his beak on the edge of Senator Bowen has a son, Lute make a stand against the unreason- | the average, and no use of any hard you must come to see me just the ton College, of which he is President. the feeding cup. Instinct revealed i.l .'th able demands of the public, and let I feelings over it!”—[Free Press. same. The captain will always be He has now expelled a number of to him that this was an enemy who Bowen, who is the editor of a news paper in Frankfort, Kansas. That simiiiohe patron share our risk. Of course, ------------------- Mew-------------------- them for giving a wine supper to a was plotting mischief. glad to have your company.” the son is a chip of the old block, As for the eyes of the cat, they ,. , we all do the best we can, and we guest from Harvard. It is understood Peterkin went away sorrowful. SPANISH PHILOSOPHY. j‘"„ r should be paid for our work just as But a brighter day soon dawned, for that at Harvard the boys can get were rivited on the bird with a fas may be inferred from the article in iy pr ¿We 1 pay w our doctors and lawyers, The first word that a foreigner vis- within three months after they were howling drunk and never be called cinated intensity, and said plainly as which he announced the promotion the ^whether tner they bring us through or ! iting Spain learns is the one that married the captain fell off the to account, unless it be by the police. language could speak, and in a lan of his honorable “dad.” It is as fol “’""‘«not “Blue Ribbon” Stanford, a wealthy guage which the parrot understood lows: I means to morrow—everything is to be steamer in a fog on the Sound and Inasmuch as the parental “dad” “ I would have an order for a por- done then. Our late Minister to the was drowned. Now Peterkin took place hunter in Washington, who was only too well: “Green though he be, this chicken of the publisher of the Bee has just vliidi rait mean the best thing that I can i Spanish court, the Hon. Hannibal heart. He would have the widow. Minister to Belgium during the war, been elected United States Senator ininiti.' Jo with a reasonable effort, and that Hamlin, tells a story which brings A year of mourning wore slowly got his name at a dinner party he is without doubt good to eat.” While I watched this scene with from Colorado, it may not be out of I* '( should fulfill my obligation and en- out a use of this word and the Span away. He kept his eye on the widow, once gave. At his dinner he had his th,title me to be paid. Of course I like | ish way of looking at things. He but would not insult the memory of diplomatic guests at one end of the interest, ready to interfere whenever place for us to tell of the sensation o have the people satisfied when I says: the dead by proposing until a decent table and his plainer guests at the it should seem necessary, Madame experienced at being so near a rela eplieil. tm, but I am the one to be pleased. | The day after my arrival at Vittoria interval had passed. The year ended, other end. Between the two daises Theophile was imperceptibly drawing tive of a noted individual. You have all heard the story told of Andrew "5? f know something about my work and I went to a shoemaker’s to get some and he laid his heart again at the of guests he had a blue ribbon nearer to her prey. Her pink nose quivered, her eyes Jackson’s wife when the news came !, .hey don’t, and wiien I am willing to I repairs done to my boots. There was little feet of Violet. She heard him stretched. He is now worth several do »et a picture go that ought to stand nobody in the shop; the master was quietly, and quietly remarked, “My millions and desires the refined so were half shut, her elastic claws pro that her husband had been elected jected and then disappeared again in President of the United States. No? re, ba’or something, whether they are sat- on the opposite side of the street dear Peterkin, I am sorry to disap ciety of foreign court life. their velvet sheaths, little shivers ran Well, we’ll tel) it, though it is some } witb stied or not. But then there is an smoking his cigarette. His shoulders point you again, but for the last six of the English press deride down her spine; she was like an epi what out of date: l sllajther way. You know we should all were covered with a mantle full of months I have been engaged to Dr. the Part idea of police precautions being cure as he seats himself at table be Mrs. Jackson was busily engaged l»:, jaint better portraits, if we don’t holes, and he looked like a beggar, Jones. It was hard to make up my necessary to Mr. Gladstone’s safety fore a dish of truffied chicken. in her household duties, when a :are a d—n for our sitters. Suppose but a Spanish beggar, appearing mind between him and his friend the on his return London, but in view Suddenly her back curved like a neighbor rushed into the house and ^^low when a patron calls to order a rather proud than ashamed of his handsome Lawyer Bright, but Dr. of the rampant to socialism which is vis bow which is bent, and with one excitedly informed her that the news 'OM* >ortrait I should say: “I will not poverty. He came over to see me and Jones was so good to me while 1 was ible everywhere, these guards against in th ake your commission in the usual I explained my business. sick in the winter after my husband’s a possible attempt of the disaffected strong, elastic bound she alighted on had just come that her husband’s election was a sure thing. Dropping oi.led, 'orm, but I will hire you to sit and j “Wait a moment," said he, and im death that I promised him I would Irish to murder the Premier, as they the perch. The parrot, seeing his danger, re her work she rushed into the adjoin be his at the end of the year.” ? « ,ny y°ur $1 an hour, and, if you like 1 mediately called his wife. have murdered some of his represent he picture when I call it done, you j “How much money is there in the So poor Peterkin retired once atives, are not silly. Mr. Gladstone’s marked in a deep voice, low and ing room and exclaimed. • Andrew, yotfareelected!” ver i ian nave it for a stated price, and if j purse?" more; the widow Latham became life is really of great value to the na solemn.— Mr. Jackson looked up coolly, took A'int.r ,ou don’t like it you needn’t take it | “Twelve picettas” (fourteen francs, Mrs. Dr. Jones, and so remained, tion at present, to say nothing of the “Hast thou breakfasted, Jacquet?” This remark created in the mind of a pinch of snuff, but made no reply. r'twon-and there will be no favor either j forty centimes), while the discomfited Peterkin wished right of protection which he has as a “And now,” she continued, "now the cat an evident dismay. She took u can vay.’ “Then I shan't work ” the doctor might take enough of his citizen. that you are President, what am 1?” a sudden leap backward. A blast “ With a sitter on such terms I i “But,” said I, “twelve picettas will own pills to make an end of him. The fire in Chicago was still burn “You, Sally? You?” replied old ervif« hink I could turn out something ! not last forever.” Time passed on. Peterkin was ing when the late Marshall Jewell, from a trumpet, a pile of plates Hickory, “Why you are the same crashing to the rioor, a pistol shot I know I should have a good | “ Who has seen to-morrow? ” said walking down Broadway one day, ou .h a representative of the Hartford the ear, could not have in d—d old fool that you always were." iuk *. x I’d manipulate him w just, as ' he, turning his back to me.—[Youth’s while not very far ahead of him he as Fire Insurance Company, stood on a close to more This is about the condition we find and giddy terror ’ ’ ’ victim, - -• he ' I Companion. illing he barber does his anl if saw two men, one of whom he knew barrel amidst the ruins telling a spired : an animal sudden of her race. All her ourselves in at this writing, and “we lared to open his his head about art to be this hated Dr. Jones. A large , crowd of business men that his com in , ideas were in one fell hope that these few lines will find ir anything improving, I’d stop his TOUCHING ANECDOTE OF A SPIDER. flat stone was being hoisted to the pany would pay all losses in full; ornithological ' moment overturned. you all enjoying the same great »pctb, ,Op w;t,h a paint brush. coping of anew building; the rope and , on one of their number express blessing.” Mr. Moggridge, in his studies in gave away; it fell and instantly killed ' “ And on what? On the roast beef " I’d just have my way till I got ing a doubt, he asked the man for ( of the kin?” screamed the parrot. —„ hrough, and then he could have his I natural history, had been in the habit the two men. Peterkin rose to the his A GOVERNMENT SKILLET. of immersing, for preservation, his emergency of the moment. For the . policy, which amounted to about ' The face of the cat now said as -take it or leave it. different specimens of spiders and dead he could be of no avail. His $10,000. Mr. Jewell took off his hat ( distinctly as Words, "This is not a consul - ---------- »-<•►-«---------- The cool effrontery of many per ants in bottles of alcohol. He saw thoughts were on the widow. He and wrote a check for the amount on ! bird: it is a gentleman! He speaks!” sons who say they have claims on the "1* i I HE CAME BACK- the top of it. that they struggled for a few minutes; turned; he ran, he flew, to her abode. breik A - ♦ “When I on wine hud feasted free, Government is amusingly carica A New York corresjiondent says: id ch«« Independence is a good quality in but he thought that sensation was When she entered the room where he The tavern turns around with me,” tured in the following “squib” from The late ex-Senator Morgan of New cried , i man’s character if common-sense soon extinguished, and that they were awaited her he began: the bird, in a tremendous voice, the Arkansaw Traveller: York was very much surprised when joverns it, but self-sufficient and soon free from suffering. On one oc- for he perceived that the alarm “My dear Mrs Jones, I bring you “Look heab, judge,” said a colored ouch-people are apt to show their in- | casion be wished to preserve a large dreadful news. I was walking on the he was beaten for re-election to the , caused by his words was his readiest man, entering the private office of Senate; yet he had the rare revenge , female spider and twenty-four of her _ lepenaence and self-sufficiency in an means of defense. street, when I saw a stone fall from a the United States Judge. “I wants fart tiffensive way—and suffer more than young ones, that he had captured. house upon your poor husband, and of being able to decline to be Secre The cat cast a questioning glance a pension.” tary of the Treasury under Arthur. | uni-diey gain. They are the most un He put the mother into a bottle of al he is dead; but you must let me com towards me, and getting no reassur “I have nothing to do with pen . !. I 'omfortalile people in the world, and cohol, and saw that after a few mo fort you. I beg you now to be mine, There is no [revenge quite so satis- ance in reply, took refuge under the sions.” factory as having been lieaten for bed. ; "iihe Claes is amusingly caricatured be- ments she folded up her legs upon her my Violet, at last.” from which place of safety she “But yon can gin me a little ad , body, and was at rest. He then put •rto t°w by the Detroit B'ree-Press. lie enticed for the remaind vice. All de soldiers what was “Dear Mr. Peterkin. I am so sorry! one ofiice, to lie strong enough to de- coulilfnot - Everybody who will stop to think into the bottle the young ODes, who, but when Dr. Jones and Mr. Bright cline a greater one which costs noth , er of that day.—[Youth’s Companion. wounded in de war, ef I understands nt.<?Tiust admit that the gates at the rail- of course, manifested great pain. were both begging me to marry, I ing Morgan’s wife and household it, is ’titled ter a pension.” *■ oad depots are a wise provision. What was his surprise to see the took the doctor, and promised Mr. would not let him be Secretary of the “Well,” said the judge. The “ silly season ” has arrived in Treasury, because they thought it mother arouse herself from her leth Sl:| Jne must show his ticket before be Bright, if anything happened to “ I was in de war and was mighty the colleges. At Dartmouth nearly would shorten his life. When you I lis. :an pass to the train, and it is not argy, dart around and gather her Jones, I would certainly be his. So I >adly hurt, let me tell yer. I was the whole senior class has been sus look at this fact there is a great com- I >nce ¡D a thousand times that a pas- young ones to her bosom, fold her you see I am engaged. I am sorry, waitin’ on my young marster, an’ ‘jj.e ienger can go astray. And yet it an legs around them, again relapse into for I do think a great deal of you, my pliment in it; for I know plenty of pended for “horning’’a Latin pro didn’t do ter suit him an’ he broke men as rich as Morgan in this city lessor to express their indignation >oys lots of people to be railed off insensibility, until at last death came dear Peterkin.” my arm wid a skillet.” indpenned up and be obliged to ex to her relief, and the limbs, no longer Peterkin was very calm and self whose wives and kin would urge at his low marking of a student who “Waiting on your young master, controlled by this maternal instinct, contained. He said, “And will you them to liecome Secretary of the was compelled to absent himself you w j libit a ticket say?" from college in order to teach school. Treasury if they thought it would 1 released their grasp. The effect of th« Yeeter lay morning a very digni- promise to be mine when that lawyer ¥•-. -ah." In consequence of his low marking kill them. To lie desired to live and ' [ the exhibition of love is a lesson to n ied man. with a grip-sack in his is no more?” “Which army were you in?” student was driven from college ' land, tried to walk through the gates our common humanity. He has never “Certainly I will, with all my heart be around is often complimentary in the “De C'nfed’rate army, sah.” and has gone elsewhere. At New this city. i it the Central Depot, and when asked since repeated the experiment, but and soul.” “Why, don't you know that the Haven two students have been de for his icket he naughtily replied.— has applied chloroform before immer “Then come to my arms, my Violet, Stephen B. Todd, a wealthy bach ( tected in firing bullets promiscuously United States don’t grant ¡«ensionsto sion. -I J “ It is in my pocket.’ for the same stone that killed the elor of Dunellen, N. J., died recently, into people ’s houses from the window men wounded in that army?” '"‘.s “ Let me see it.” doctor was the death ■ath of Bright, anil and aged 72. He was almost literally 1 “Yes, I know dat is de rule, but dis of their room. The mathematical will not. My word should be A T own F ull or M onkeys .—Bellary, you are mine i at last.”—| Harper’s the father of Dunellen, owning all 1 professor scientifically is a ’ceptional case.” traced the proof that I have it” the land on which the village was course I India, must be a pleasant piace to Magazine for April. “Why?” of the bullets from their place “ Ha\ e to show your ticket, sir.” live in for the small boy and all who constructed. His reverence for his of 1 lodgment “Case de skillet which my yoUDg to the source of their “I won’t submit to any such in take an interest in the antics of the M aking a S ure T hing of it .—Two parents attracted the attention of all 1 marster broke my arm wid lielongea propulsion, and successfully forced lignity!’’ exclaimed the stern man, monkey tribe. The city, which has Irishmen came to a guidepost on a who knew him. No creature, not j ] ter de Niiwnited States Gulierment. and; he didn't He entered the over 50,000 inhabitants, is so overrun wide and desolate plain. It was get even a chicken owned by his parents 1 the students to confess. A collision Can’t git no money, yer say—can’t? «iJkeigl t sheds, passed through a flour with monkeys, who attack women and ting dusk, and the unfenced trails was ever sold or killed; all were kept between the freshmen and sophomore Den dar’s no wonder dat de country at the same college resulted car.fclimlied over a lot of hides and children carrying eatables, and throw were hardly distinguishable. “Five until they died of old age He had a classes 1 is tilled wid calamities. Good day, Trept under a baggage-car. and final- tiles off roofs, that the Municipal miles to Glenairlie," read one of them, cow 23 years of age, most carefully in 1 a row in the chapel and a riot out sah!” of doors. u iy thought he had reached the train Commissioners have oraained that putting his face close to the board. nourished and housed liecause it was ' - - ---- ------ ----------- ■ - B after. A brakesman stood at they shall be removed to their native "But which av them goes to Glenair a calf that his mother had raised. A yonng man in Iowa was so im- ps and asked,— A F ine S tream . - “You advertise ' patient to see his girl that he paid jungles. Provision is made that the lie. sure?” asked his companion, The old rockaway in which his father ing West sir?” there is a fine stream of water 140 for a locomotive to run him I monkeys shall not be injured while looking dubiously at the two trails. and mother rode has been carefully that ; going East.” ' the place, but I don’t see any.” thiity-six miles. When he got there being captured, but shall be treated After a few moments’ meditative enclosed in his barn, and to his death on ?n your train won’t go for tenderly. Some of them are held sa silence, the first Irishman replied: no one had been permitted to use it. 1 remarked a stranger, who wanted to she was sparking his rival, and a big hours and a half yet! This cred. The monkeys, like the spar “We can try one av thim. and then Every little article used by his mother I rent the place. dog had possession of the frent door oes West!” rows, no doubt become a nuisance, the other.” “But how will we find he seemed to almost worship and to ! The landlord said: “Just work steps. 1« the worst of it all was. the man but a town where they are as common the way back av we get lost?” cherish with reverence. Although that pump a little, and you wiil see a gate and a dozen others saw as cats are in Philadelphia, must af “Sure, we can take the boord along he was very economical, he was very fine stream of water. Yon don't ex Is is better too meet danger than d raised such a laugh that the ford considerable entertainment to wid us.” replied the first. And so the kiDd-hearted. anti kept a stove in his pect to have Niagara Falla on the to wait for it. He that is on a lee two pilgrims lighted their pipes and barn anil a man tc attend it in order place for >15 a month, do yon?"— shore, and foresees a hurricane, Mian went down into the freight- strangers for a few days. marched cheerfully away with the to keep his catcle comfortable. His i | [Texas Siftings. tnnd hid behind a box-car. stands out to sea and encounters a 4 To any general rule of expected guideboard between them. cattle followed him alio tit the fields storm to avoid shipwreck. like children. His estate is valued at , The man who has a large principal er be unborn, than untaught conduct which one frames he soons Of all evils to the generous, shame over >300,000, which will go to his in the bank sometimes shows no prin It is better to be good and homely i orance is the root of misfor- I makes exceptions of most men—and & is the most deadly pang. than pretty and bad. i all women. brother and sister. ciple in anything else. T~1 PERSONAL NOTES. NOT DEAD.