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Show fea.- - And when the your $ collegia neard "Joshtfa! 'would' you' break-"to''. . . his chances of an inheritance from hetirtr. that J( t. 'I guess it ain't so brittle as that," his rich old bachelor unci were to be said the Squire, uneasily. diminished by the marriage of that eld"I love you, Joshua Dockworthy I erly relative, he started ia dismay. have loved you these ten years," sta "You are really goiBg to be married, the lady, still on her knees. uncle?" gasped he. Say say you will be my own. I am "Really and ti uly." r "And what on earth has put into youi hand ith good, Joshua, I'm a men's shirts, and everybody knf ws a head?" I think," said the Squire, pluce ain't no place without a wotran to cto it with a sober twinkle' in his eyes, which up." revealed to Ferdinand that his uncle had know," said the Squire, "but" Miss Arimathea rose to her feet and detected his trick. . vnU t) wih Why your to know the reasou noi'hnr often rsillt WiUow Wilkin, 0n the .kwhing the bnlUt A.l atieadu her istoteen mopping WJiv hi carriage At some noted clothing utore, the wikw fof a eliiiipmif, Where the uever went bitore? iJ nia-te- " wifJi it. I y Let me whinper 10 you ily If thrv esteem it proper, why. It i iwt your "M If vm Do Leap-year,- 'I rtiy ftttr ym wiU to Vaov Jormken friends aatl home, native country. lelt In a ilintant land to roam? Why i'oll' teem eoloiiety left, giuc. tlio day that I'etcr olie only, jlnl of alt the friends, bofeftJ Should appear Ami 1 Breeding wish it. I will tM you Let m whinper to you ly If they have a reason for it, It w not your busiueat why. If you u TVould you like to know the lerretn Of your neighbor' house and life? JIow he live or how he doesn't, And junt how he treats his wife? IJow he sx ud his time of leisure, Whether eon owml or gay, And where he goes for pleasure, To the concert or the play? d, If you wish it. I will tell you Let uie whimper to vou sly is but civil, It is uot your busine a by. If your neighbor In short, instead of prying Into other folk's affairs, If you de your own but justice. You will have no time lor theirs; Be atteutive to such matters As concerns yoursell alone, And whatever ibrtuiie flnt'era, Lot your busiuess be your own. Let me whUper to you ly If you wish to be respected Vou must ceave to be a prj. Slurried in Leap Year. l "Five and fifty years," ?aid Squire ockwortliy meditatively, shaking the out of his pip, "five and fifty ashes years. A man ain't likely to be married '( guess, when he's lived satisfied with a tingle lot during all these years." 'Stranger things have been known to Uncle lTockworthy," said Appelly, who was a graceless eollege boy of twenty or thereabouts. "Not in these here parts, I guess," aid the Squ rc. ' Well, but uncle, things are so different from what tbey used to be," "You see, there persisted Ferdinand. has never been a period before, when Women's Rights were in the ascendant is they are now." "I dont see as that affects my particular case," said Dockworthy. "I ain't a Fer- happen, dinand man." "Ah, but you don't comprehend the said Ferdi imiuinence of the danger, nand solemnly. "Eh!" said the Squire. "With Miss Arimathea Jenkyns livi- ng next door, and leap year t that," added young Appelly, mischievously eujoying his relative's consternation. But you don't s'pose " "I suppose nothing," interrupted Fer dinand. "I only put the cise probloin-aiicallto convince you sir, that you y, annot be too careful.'' " 0 pshaw," said the Squire, uneasily, drawing a huge yellow silk kandker-iiie- f across his brow. "You can't scare w with your college nonsense, Ferdy; i man can't be married without sayin,' 'I will,' no mor'n a woman." Cut when he went to the village that afternoon, Ferdinand noticed betook the way down Hollow ltin, a good eighth of a mile out of his way, sooner titan pass the casements of Miss Arinia-i.Ite- a Jenkyns one story residence, next to his ow n on the high road. "I've made some impression on him at all events," tsuid Ferdinand to himself. The Squire was sitting in tke firelight that evening n enjoying the season daylight uu l dusk, technically known as "blindmun's holiday," when 'ere sounded a soft tap on the panel of - be-l- he door. "Come form in," said the Squire, and a tall clothed in sober black, with a entered, ith a bombazine bonnet trimmed uge black jet buckle. "Good evenin' Miss Arimathea," t'ye. id the Squire a little tremulously, as recognized the bonnet and garb of his Pinsier neighbor. "That there colt o BJlnQ been breaking through your pick- irain ? I declare to gracious I've a X'lnd to t sell him." 'Tisn't th.it, Squire, thank you was t kind-,- y. ho answer. "S't down, sii down." said Mr. ..Biess nie what a colJ you-TS5' you are as hoarse as a crow." Anemi said Miss Arimathea. "This "father is 'rying to weak lungs; but 1 c'ea on business, Squire." ''J knew it was the colt," said the Dock-worth- y. C '. 'nre. cut it ain't the colt," said Miss .rT,M "II'8 8quie." UU! 1 said the gentleman. have concluded," went on bin visi- -' Vt0 ,ako advantage of the rights WfdeJ the ?ex by the year, and and -- 0 short. Squire-- V 'Dockworthy moved his chair a )., Paul but Mi8S Arimatlie antici-el- i, Ml,,n,rtTeracnl by sinking v the floor before Kim. wiil i le n,inir' h mur- I u. what mlfeht baTe Leen itW 8ttb. er a hysteric Uugh. ihthin S ,r.alLer no'." lil' caif S'1 k h fight. Blackball has always been famous beauty aud spirit of its for the women. In the ry days the family once boasted seven dashing sisters, so full of life and fun and frolic that they were kuown the country over as "the seveu Blackhall boys." Jone of them but could ride a horse bareback, row a boat, or swim far out in the Sound. Handsome and fearless, they were accomplished women, and good housekeepers, withal ; hence they had no lack of suitors. Of the oldest, it is narrated that when a male cousin, while on a visit to speak, she, one day, met him going up stairs as she descended, and, meeting him more than half-wa(in a double sense) stopped, saying, sweetly : "What did you say, ,!Oh, I didn't speak I didn't say anything." "High time you did, cousin. High time you did," replied she,' as she passed ob. The young man took the hint, and a happy married life ensued. Squire, Ule furthir or" GRAIN WANTED. THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICE Given, THli OXE FOURTH IN CASH AND 11EST IN FURNITURE, AT BOYLE & O'HARNETT'S. Main Street, Ogdeit. The beet and cheapest stock of FURNITUR8 north of Bait Lake. TUE SUPEltU ORGAN ESTEy y THE LARGEST FACTOR f BY FAR IN THE WORLD! The Most Popular Instrument in nee. SALES 10,800 Per Annum! W. STAYXEIt, Agent, C. Mnin Si., Knit Lnke City, Xenr age' Uallery. P. O. AddreM, Box 6S7. ILTOTTCE. foot-step- f finm- - One word by way flung her arms about the Squire's neck. "Joshua! Joshua you witl ry yesl" There was a rattling at the door of the Ewes. Selecting room beyond. The Squire grew scarlet In choosing a flock of ewes for breedas the possibility of Ferdinand Appelly breaking in upon this unexpected ing purposes, there is net the slightest tett-occasion for having them Buperbly trie occurred to his mind, "Take your arms away," aid the grand, faultless in symmetry, or even of Squire, nervously. "Please." That's extra, large size, as a a dear girl!" compact ewe of moderate bulk, "Not until you speak the word that is while not being such a large consumer of to seal my fftttre 'bliss," persisted Miss food, is generally a much better nurse Jerikyns, lettitrg the rusty bonnet fall than a big boned one, a feature in the character of a breeding flock which can on his shoulder. Grandly-brescarcely be overestimated. "Quick!" gasped our aero, "there' a very ewes fleshed are some one coming." heavily a from when taken unsafe investment dearest Joshua." then, "Say yes, inferifine climate soil and slightly Yes,1' gasped the Squire, breaking dry or. It takes then a full year to become into a clammy perspiration all over. acclimatized, and if not carefully at"Yes, yes euly go." Miss Arimathea Jenkyns only paused tended to the first winter in the matter for a parting pressure of her lips to her of food and shelter many will die, while ancie-e-t lover's brow, and hurried away a considerable portion will be mere with subdued rustling of sombre draper- shells when the year comes round, utteries ; while on the other side of the door ly unable to rear their lambs profitably. On the same plan keep ewes selected s the threatening sound of miore for their thrifty qualities than the passed by without any one entering. "Thank goodness for that 1" said Mr. grandeur of their appearance, and comDockworthy to himself. "If that young ing from pastures scarcely so good, will rascal Ferdy had happened in just then do well, give no trouble, and make an A close, what would I have done? Engaged excellent return in money. myself to marry that old maid? I at five firm fleece, rather than a lengthy, open and fifty years of age? I'd better goto one, should be the standard aimed at. the lunatic asylum at once. What will the former keeping out the drenching Fcrdinmd say? I wonder if I couldn't rain much better than the latter, and go to China, or California, or Japan, er preserving the skin dry through a storm. some cf those far away places ! Or, per- Moreover, a close fleece is always indihaps it might be better to swear her cative of a sound constitution, the ewe over to keep the peace, possessing it seldom being a bad doer. And Squire Dockworthy smote his two hands despairingly on the batd spot on At Sajrinaw.Mich., a the top of his head, as he reflected on the uselessnesB of any remedy short of furniture dealer has been in the habit matrimony for this ailment of leap year. of lending chairs and sofas that he Yet as he mused on the past, present had for sale, to the pest house for the and future, he could not help thinking that many a man had found a worse patients to use. The discovery of e than Miss Arimathea Jen- this great act of pity has robbed him was not young, to be true, of his customers. She kyns. but then, neither was he. She was fair, fresh and pretty, and she was very At Batignolles in France, a man handy at a wedding or a funeral ; she named Joseph Voiry recently died comprehended perfectly the exigencies who believed that he had been a dog of the needy, and she just the element that he needed to brighten up the in a prior state f existence. This idea was so strong with him that he old farm house. "It ain't a bad idea," said the Squire never met a dog in the street with to himself; "but I most wish she hadn't out stopping and talking to the ani been the one to propose it. Very likely mal. A year or two since he assum I'd have thought of it myself, it she had ed the name of Mcdor I. and called given me time. However, leap year is 1 don't himself the King of Dogs. He left and we suppose ought leap year, to blame the women for takin' whatever his money, 2,000 francs per annum, n advantages the law allows 'en. I won't to a veterinary surgeon. say nothing to Ferdy, but I'll just drop over there in the course of the mornA cruel joke was played on Ram-beaing." the forger, in Bridgeport jail Mr. Do3kworthy was as good as his offi word. Miss Arimathea Jenkyns break- the other day. One of the jail him cers offered some washed wero when dishes fast powdered up hardly chalk as arsenic, and advised him to he walked in. How pretty she looked, like a full The poor fellow poison himself. blossomed rose, or a dahlia, or any other swallowed it, schooled himmature bloom, in neat black gingham eagerly self to resignation and fortitude, regown and white apron, standing in front Not a in hair of the kitchen sink. pented of his sins, and forgave all gray her abundant brown tresses not a his enemies, only to find himself crow's foot at the corner of her eyes. sold. His subsequent language to "Well, Arimathea," said the Squire, that officer, says a local paper, india little sheepishly. cates a slight falling from grace. "Well, Squire," said Miss Jenkyns her out with nonchalance, os she wrung Responses to prayers and aormotB dishcloth and hung it on a nail at the may be good if they come in at the corner of the dresser. little there that "I've come to talk right place. Not so, however, came matter over with you." in a response, recently, to a minister "What little matter?" in an African church. He had come "Why, about our being married." down from the pulpil to invite a Miss Jenkyns paused, with her apron in of one the pews to preach half untied, and stared at the Squire stranger for blue with wondering him, but was unsuccessful. eyes. "My eakes alive," she ejaculated, "Brethren," said he "I invited Broth"who's talking about, being married? er S to preach, but he declines " Nobody has asked me yet, and if they be to God!" roared out a did, I'm not by any means certain that "Glory man from middle of the church. the I should say yes." said the asked me," "But they've Japan has a population of more Squire. "Who has! than 30,000,000 souls, and a history "Why, you haven't you?" which runs back by tradition over "Joshua Dockworthy, are you crazy?" demanded Miss Jenkyns, with dignity; 2,500, with authentic record more than 1,100; while her neigh"lank you!" remem in Chiaa, from whom Japan don't bors last you "Yes, night ber?" obtained her written language, and "Last night! Why, widow Tercy whoso civilization Japan adopted took tea here and spent the ening, and about a thousand years ago, have a I never went across my own threshold. of should I that population I isn't nearly 500,000,000, And if had.it likely to and a go philandering over to your house covering about 2,000 history ask you to marry me, 1 guess !" years. -"Well, then," said me squire, iook here. It's a trick of that rascal Ferdi Thomas Carlyle himself could nandone of his college games. be more bitter upon anything ' "That's probable enough, said Miss hardly British than Mr. Ruskin has been Jenkyns, who looked prettier tlmr ewer, and cheeks when be witk reddened beaing says, while moralizing o the theme that this age has distinThe Souire's countenance fell ; he was guished itself in the acquisition ol more disappointed than he cared to own. said ne. the destructive, and. the loss of the "LooJt here, Anniatnea, " decorative' arts, that England of to"Don't you s'pose .Miss said Jenityns, iagnmg day will, in the eyes f the future "Ye," and coloring. "I do supposethat is, historian, be chiefly remarkable for if yo wish it very mucn." covering glass with pictures, she "Well, I do," said the Squir. 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