Show A TALE 1 queer specimens of human nature ban across by knights of the grip A traveling mans experience would maka a racy story if ne bad the time and disposition to write it out for instance 1 will mention an adventure I 1 bad some years ago down in indian territory says 17 D mo clanahan in abo st louis globe democrat it was late in the fall season when I 1 had finished working texas that I 1 met a fellow in denison icho told me that a certain party in tho territory had been making anxious inquiries about me that he wanted anice bill of holiday goods andt should be cure and call on my way north With thia pointer I 1 checked my trunk to the town where my anxious friend was located I 1 arrived sunday afternoon and after supper dropped in as it were by chance and greeted my would be customer pleasantly after setting up the cigars we talked plead antly for an hour or so without any men uon of business I 1 left saying I 1 would seo him next morning after an early breakfast I 1 called and stated that I 1 had a big line of goods and would be glad to show him my layout se replied that he was going to market soon and it would ba time wasted on him this was a damper on me but I 1 thought ho was playing to see if I 1 had received his message so I 1 changed the subject and acted as it I 1 statement that he was going to the city the train was to leave at ton nine came and I 1 was beginning to get fidgety again I 1 referred to my flee line of samples but still he insisted that he did not wish to place an order As the clock struck shook hands all round and started for the train he said goodbye good bye coolly and feeling very much disgusted 1 sought the depot just as I 1 was checking my baggage my customer came puffing and blowing up and asked what I 1 meant I 1 explained that as he was the only customer in the town and he wanted no boods there was no use tor me to stay longer send your trunks back said he 1 I only want you to see I 1 waa anxious to buy he was afraid I 1 give him close prices mn are built that way you see admiration and I admiration and laughter are of such opposite natures that they are seldom created by the same person the man ol 01 mirth is always observing the follies and woal messes the serious writer the virtues or crimes ot mankind one Is pleased with contemplating a fop the other a hero even from the same objects they would draw different ideas slavery in A french missionary gives a serious account of the state of slavery in ecuador I 1 hough it is not a legal institution yet the law permits an indian to sell himself as a slave when he Is unable to pay bis debts and once a slave he is rarely able to tree himself he may be bequeathed by will the majority of the interior indiana have been reduced to this condition age of ireca the average natural age of the calr is from 1500 to 2000 years of the elm to BOO years the maple to years the yew tree largest of all 2500 to ait years the cedar linden 1200 and the cypress there are trees now standing believed to be more than buoo years old |