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Show I Beamed Too Soon. It fell to the lot of five-year-old Wallace Stewart, focint; tho third son in rapid aucces-I aucces-I Moa, to sift the family ashes, as his brothors I had done before him. Oku moruiug tho boy was told by his beaming father that a baby had arrived the nicht before. Wallace also beamed, much to his parent's gratification. 'And jU3t think! It is our first little girl ! ' ' "Wallace's emile vanished and he sconrlcd like a pirate. "A sir! I ' ' as if jt vrcro tho synonym for nil that va? npprobiuus. "Gee! must I al-. al-. ways sift ashes?" Lippincott's "ilafasiuo. |