Show BETRAYED BY THE TRUTH The very amiable and worthy oo cupant of the position of British vice consul at a port in the far rat had often rxpreeeed to his American fellow fel-low residents hia great deatru to visit their country and make himself familiar with some of Us institutions His ideas ot the west had been formed from a perusal oi the works of Cooper and it ii t be feared that his interlocutors hd purposely abstained tiers disturbing his somewhat highly colored > expectations Fins If J a furlough ough came to him and he made ready fo carry cut his cherished plan of a trio home br inn war of the racifio Ocean aud the United fctatte introduction were given him trusty t-rusty practical jokers in Ban FranCisco Fran-Cisco which he presented on arrival with expressions of vehement desire to encounter ludians and bunt buQa loea Thi hw was old would be easy aa both ubouudtd in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of the OuS Home and in he peaceful and prosaic suburb of Oakland Oak-land An expedition was planned and carried out and the British brother User armed t the teeth performed great deeds in the encounter with practicable Indians and bnfUloea furnished it was whispered by a theatre and a circus or menagerie Exulting in ttie praise ot his American Ameri-can friends and covered with glory he departed for New York and Eng land lila fame stood him in good stead at dinners and other social gatherings during hu entire vacation I preceded him on bin return to bir post and made him quite a hero among his fallow exiles No American Ameri-can could find i in hu heart to di turb it and all might have gone well to this day bId he only confined himself him-self to his character of amateur leatheritocking One day however a countryman of his came to a Yankee Yan-kee and denounced this hero u Just think ol that M said be trying to cell us By Jove I I never heard in all my life you know such atrocious tories ai be baa bean telling us What do you think he tried to make us believe B is all very fine to have shot no end of Indiana and bnfJalcea Of course you know where there are so many as there are in San Francisco and New Hampshire Hamp-shire and Niagara and all those places a plucky fellow might do that But he baa actually tried to make us beliava the moat extraordinary story that you have ever heard about your country yea know He says that he went to a place oiled Chicago and be went to draw some money from a bank and found that they bad rai edit ed-it up and were moving i with all the fellows inside you know going on with their workl I sayl just fancy the cheek of the fellow supposing he could make us believe that 1 Alas I the one true story which the poor consul told had proved his undoing A A Hayes jr in Harpers Maga zinc I |