Show SEEN AND HEARD Evory few days a fruit vender who has his stand on Main street is arrested for short weights He affords no little entertainment enter-tainment to those who stand near the corners cor-ners watching his movements and their results re-sults Every now andthen he is run In two or three times in one day But he seems no more to mind arrest than he does making the scales tip on the opposite side of the grapes The excitement of those ladies who find they have received lightweight light-weight produces quite a sensation among the knot ot loungers Unkind man I ho seems to enjoy nothing better than to see a woman lose her bead Ladies beware of a too cheap article In it there always lurks something ctooked Did you ever notice said keeneyed man how long the circus posters remain unmutilated on the fence or wall Sacred to the heart are they to every urchin in all the town Before the ring is made there is the grand expectation the dear delight de-light of looking at the pictures and anticipating antici-pating the splendid show And when it is gone the fond remembrance hallows the paper horses and the stripes of the clown and the speaking picture of the funpro vOking fool keeps up the pleasure from day to day What cares the small boy if i the tragedy queen does get her eye poked out or her handsome teeth knocked down her throat or the dainty ankle of the ballet girl is broken This is all the fun he can get out of that sort of beauty On Sunday last two ministers of our city preached upon Columbus One based the success of his enterprise alone upon faith in God and the other upon knowledge ambition courage and kill as a navigator Now does not history prove that most men of genius have little faith except in themselves And is not this faith together with knowledge courage cour-age and perseverence what brought this success of Columbus And if one is parent par-ent of a thought is ho not very aut to have stubborn faith in it without either knowledge knowl-edge or skill s Without faith in ones self and trust that all surrounding circumstances will be propitious there would be little success Man generally believes what he wills to and disbelieves all he is determined not to This man must confess if ho but turns hIs eyes inward I The season is fast approaching when Jim will cautiously lift his head from out the bedclothes and quietly go one eye on Jack to see if there is any movement in that direction toward fire building and finding no stir in that quarter will softly lay himsolf down and patiently wait for old Sol to warm up or for Jack to grow impatient and try the game on Jim Even a Christmas dinner is said not to have bean incentive enough to give Jim and Jack courage to try the cold atmosphere so that the sun went down upon the waiting chums |