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Show GOT EVEN WITH A PJSTUJtBEU. Dhlti't hljio to l!o AVakeued Frpi)t A wealthy old bachelor who Is too miserly to keep servants of any de- , script Ion was Indulging lu uu afteruoop tuip a row Sundays ago when a tlniti-derlug tlniti-derlug "rut-nil" at his .sueut door aroused .him, llelng iho only oecupaqt H nf tho huuso, he .hurried down two 11 (lights of silars us rest as the deurepl-todo deurepl-todo or ago would allow, and .threw pen the street door, only to bo as-sabed as-sabed by tho ciy: "Mulllus. wuntuny nitillltifl'slrV" fsB For a few minutes tho Irascible eld JH gentleman slood staring ut his Inter- . "'H rogaior, positively 'no overcoum wllh ! rago to speak, but ou the question be-lug be-lug repeated he round his voice. "No, confound your Jmptideiicql il don't want mulllus. and Just get off my dour step before I kick you nlT. DIs 11 turblng rospectablucitlz nson u Sun-day Sun-day nfiernounl Do yop hear me? I diiu'i want any mulllnsi" The 1'iirveynr of Sabbath luxuries, after a lust futile attempt to do busl- 4 ucss, walked sadly uway, while tho other gazed after hint Immersed In thought. Suddenly, when tbo muflln man hatt got two or tlirco hundred yards down the hilly road, a brllllanti Inspiration struck the uld gnutluman, nud, with a.fruutiu "Hl" und u wave of thu baud, hojiivlled tho man to re. Then, as the tnulllti tnan, perspiring, Inn happy l.i tho thought ot disposing or some of Ids watys, ouco .more smll lugly stood before him, tho old geptlu-ui.iu, geptlu-ui.iu, tupping him solemnly ou tho client, tittered thu Impressivo words; f "Nor next Sunday I" and triumphantly marched Indoors. Luudou Weekly 'i'elegruph. |