Show TALES OF THE DAY He Got Better TitBits It was a sad scene The old man lay on his bed and by him sat the faithful wife holding his worn hand in hers and forcing back the tears to greet his wandering look with a smile She reoltw of comfort and of nh rand But he felt the cold hand falllnc on him and he turned his weary eyes up to her pale worn face I Jeannie dear wife I am going i Oh no John not yet not yet i Yes dear wife and he closed his eyes the end Is near The world the II I world grOws dark around me gathering thicker and thicker and I seem to hear I sweet music No no dear John thats the brass band In the street What sad the dying man Have those scoundrels darcd to come round here when they know Im dying Give me my bootjackr Ill let em see and In a towering rage the old man jumped from his bed andbefore his wife could think he had opened the window and had shied the bootjack at the band Ive hit that Dutch leader anyway said he and went I back to bed and got better A Friend of His Louisville Courleryjourrial John said Mrs Eastlake to her husband as she poured out hs coffee at the breakfast table I think you have never introduced your friend Mr High to me have you I haw no friend named High replied re-plied Mr Eastlake as he devoured buttered but-tered toast Oh but you must have dear insisted in-sisted Mrs Eastlake You are familiar enough with him to call him Jack Jack High Dont know anybody of that name You never heard me mention his name did you Certainly That is the reason I asked you about him When did I speak of him I think you must have met him last night Mrs Eastlake went on though of course if you had met him then you woul have remembered it without any trouble I only Tuwy that after you went to beu yoagot home about 2oclock i 4 1 1J C J 11 t k H John you fell into a troubled sleep iou muttered a good deal but I could not distinguish dis-tinguish anything very clearly except the name of Mr HighJack High you called him Once I thought I heard you mention i men-tion a womans name Kitty but Im not i sureMrs EnatlaJce looked narrowly at her 1 husband as she said this and he looled i at her suspiciously and then said T On yes I believe a man named Jack I High did drop In to see the sick friend I Was sitting up with but you could I I scarcely call him a friend of mine on such short acquaintance I Of course not But who was Kitty There was no one named Kitty You nlUst K have been mistaken I dont know anYbody of that namc absolutely no b body bI Then Mr Eastlake put his coat on and left I ful little the house wife after kissing his thourht I I goodby I II I |