Show I A Test of Death Two Maine boys were traveling on foot through Europe some years ago when the cholera was raging in various parts of the continent which somewhat alarmed them j I I I I and their fricndsat home Finally one day Sam said to Bill Sco here Bill this thins is getting serious I see that people arc dying so fast in Spain that the people are in a panic and some of the sick it is said have been buried before they Mere really dead Bill was very naturally disturbed I and the result was a solemn compact between be-tween the two tint in case either ono j I were to die of the cholera the other would j I keep his boil from burial until there I would be no possible chunca to doubt that life was extinct Isow it i appears that both i these young men were inveterate lovers of i i i oyster stew Nothing in the edible line would so stir the pulses of each or cause aglow a-glow of animation to light up their eyes I as a mention of the cheerful bivalve i t As itturnedout the young men returned honiejn safety and a friend who knew of the propensity of each to indulge in tho 1 fragrant stew in commenting upon tho agreement already referred to said I think I could have suggested an easier way for either ot you to have told whether the i other was dead or not If one were ap I I I pareatly in this condition ic i would only have been necessary for the other to whis i per softly Oyster stew and if he were not as dead a Julius Ctesar he would have opened his eyes and smacked his lips I Lcwiston TonvcsL I |