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Show crsn AND SHORE. THE nOME SENTINEL. BY Til ft KF.MIU 0II4!HY. trl) A J . .flatuMrr. 4ki T. J4KKM P. O. Itox 57, 4u,lt. ( . I Vin Mv i tho land of ll We 11 iitn. 11 1 im-e- 111 T dt, talk m.EAKiRK-()X-SAXI)- noiirriiiin'ii Magazine. . per- foot-bridg- S. 1IAH flung the r"iiH,ii,,,n n,y horse's neck and was a tabling homeward. me and I.leakirklay seven good miles and we had come far enough al- ready on the Be-twe- Kenti'ckt paper thinks it a singular thing that a rivers head is not nearly as big ns its mouth. Not at all. That is merely a fpiality which establishes the claim of tho l ivers to a leading place in polities. The latest successful chance of thesunsbn hook in Lonof which in a don is Westward Ho, few days 1U ,0 0 copies wore sold. Westward ho! has been very popular in this country for a century. Tho tame cannot bo said of tho Now Enghoo. In a recent number of Harper's Weekly Under Tho Lions raw." entitled It is a Kansas story anil has referonco to tho land question. Kansas has tho happy faculty of getting into literature more frequently than any of tho sisterhood. Tiik Indians of the Five Nations taka great interest in nows from the surrounding states, ns well as within tho borders of their own nations. Ten weekly newspapers are publish"! within the territory, and a number of daily newspapers from tho states are taken by tho Indians. The great secret akingthroughj n hoar-lrost- of success in lifo is this: lo w hatever you can do best, regardless of any competition, and when you have decided what you can do best, do it with all your might und with all your energy, not overtaxing tho system, but devoting the entire business timo to ono industry. The restaurateur who furnished tho luncheon to tho South American delegates at tho whito house lias had experience with six presidents. Ho says; Mr. Harrison is quite liberal. There were four cases of champagne, besides sherry and Chateau Margaux, and three cases of champagne were drunk. There was no limit placed upon anything. Matrimonial ventures are discouraged by the decision of Land Commissioner Groll that husband and wifo cannot hold down two homestead claims by living in a houso built on the lino between two farms. Courting of neighbors will now havo to be prolonged until tho expiration of the timo fixed by law before tho claims may be proved up. eh re ni, an English medical authority, who anticipated tho discovery of Koch, points out that in the course of a praetieo of thirty years, largely among Hebrew patients, he has not mot a single case of phthisis in tho members of that faith, tlioir immunity from its attacks being undoubtedly duo to tho Jewish method of examining and slaughtering eattlo. 1! The depredations of tho seal pirates in Alaskan waters are becoming so serious that tho Alaska Commercial company will not ronow its loaso of tho American seal islands unless tlo United States guarantees protection from the illicit hunter. Tho result of tho indiscriminate slaughter that is ono of the reprehensible features of hunting dono on tho sly is already evident in a decrease in tho average size of seals taken. strike most peoplo as somewhat Odd that thero Is a steady importation to America of Irish jauntingwill, perhaps, According to tiio carriage-makera certain number of enthusiastic Irishmen have a yearning after their native form of conveyance at certain periods of their lives, and atraightaway Bond over to Ireland for a car. Once here, however, the cars are usually laid uside after tho novelty lias worn off. s, One of the very painful spoet;des of is to see a little child half suffoeat-e- d in a paroxysm of whooping cough. Here is away to break up the paroxysm at once, commended as infallible by some learned practitioners in Germany Tut the first and and Switzerland. second fingers behind tho ascending branch of tho lower jawbone and your thumbs upon the chin, and then draw the lower jaw forward und depress the chin by the same movement, i,ad tell Ahe child to draw a full breath. p your feet? I took the cup from his then to darkness. With liamls spread out 1 stumbled blindly forward and fell at full length into the beck. acknowledged his salutation as expression: yet both carried also n hint that their owner had livctl long in privacy. I am riding homeward, I an. swernl. "I ley? Where is that? At Bleakirk. lie seemed about to speak, but restrained himself, fumbled in his waistcoat junket, and jirodueed a offered me a jiineli. massive snuff-bo(hi my declining he helped himself, copiously. and then let ting tho reins hang loose upon his urm fell to tap-ping the box. "To me this form of their herb nieotianu commends itseif by its cheapness, the sense is tickled; the jiurse consent in;; like the comphiis-ant husband in Juvenal; you take me? am well acquainted with I.lenkirksupersabulum. By the wav, how is Squire t 'art w right ot t he la 11? If," said I, "you mean my father, Angus Fnrt w right, lie is dead these cried the tuep,e years. "Hey? old gentleman, and added after a moment, "Ah, to besure. time flies quo dives Tillius et Angus, eh? Aid yet a hearty man, to all So you are his son. He tot k nnotht-- pinch. "It is very sustainThe snuft? "You ing. lie suit!. have construed me, sir. Since I set out. just thirteen hours since, it has c a my sole As lie viaticum." he juit his hand nervous! v to , uuvhend nnd w it lidrew it. ihen,thought I. "you must 1 I I r 1 spt-i.- - AY ben my senses returned I became aware, first that I was lying, bound hand and foot and securely gugged, upon the turf; secondly, that the horses were still tethered and stand; ing quietly at the and, thirdly, timt my companion had resumed his position on the bowlder, and there sat watching my recovery. Seeing my eyes open, he raised Iuh hat and addressed me in tones of grave nunctilio: "Believe me, sir, I am earnest in my regret for this state ol things. .Nothing but the severest necessity could have persuaded me to knock the son of my late esteemed friend over the skull and gag his utterance with a stone to ass over tho fact that it fairly lays my sense of your hospitality under suspicion. Upon my word, sir, it daces me in a cursedly equivocal position! He took a pinch of snuff, absorbed it slowly, and pursued: "It was necessary, however. Aou will pnrtl.v grasp the situation when tell yon that my name is Teague t he l!ev. illian Teague, doctor of divinity, and formerly incumbent of foot-hridge- he ranged up beside me. Will my company, sir, ofl'eml yon'. By your coat 1 suspect, your trade venatorem sapit. hey? llis voice exactly fitted his eyes. Hotli were sharp und charged with 1 hands and stooped over the water. As I did so he leaped on me like a cat from be bind. I felt a hideous blow on tke nape of the neck; a jagged flame leaped up; the sunshine turned to blood keen ns needles. I d v but as the morning wore on so our prospect of hunting that day faded further from us. It was now high noon, and I had left the hunt about hn'f an hour ago, turned my face to- In'tliorA'wt riTnl lit n is man When a the whv. guile lie begins to miss tho fun of shivering beside a frozen cover. The road took a sudden plunge among the spurs of the two covering hills. As I began to descend the 'first gleam of sunshine burst from the dull heaven and burst over the . I looked up and saw on of the hill to tho right a tho slope also horseman descending. At first glum e I took him for a brother sportsman who had abandoned hope of a fox. Unt thosecoml assured me of my mistake. The stranger wore a black suit of antique clerical cut, a shovel lmt, and gaiters; his nag was tho sorriest of ponies, with a shaggy coat of flaring yellow, and so low in the legs that the broad flaps of its riders coat nil but trailed on the ground. We met at the foot of the descent, said the stranger, "All, indeed! reining in his pony ns though now I for the first time aware of me. We w ish you a very good day, sir. lie pulled off his hat are well met. with a fantastic politeness, l'or me, my astonishment grew ns I regarded him more closely. A mass of lanky white lmir drooped on either side of a face pale, pinched, and extraordinarily wrinkled; the clothes that wrapped his dimiuutivo body were thread-bare- , greasy, and patched in all directions. Fifty years wear could not have worsened them; and indeed from the whole aspect of the man you might guess him a century old were it not for the liiinbleness of his gestures and his eveu, which were gray, alert, and twen-tvseve- e 1 - Professor Garland has a story e lien-ar- hoar-lros- I'hnslina boss itt. j A life hoerim-v- t r t (i.m n rose. urs iirs s.iio r t h u n t ..e uiaia. is l.ke lump 01 nr list neler a.; 11:1. electrcity. -cars. tea Till in.p'ow r bhi-- m .m on flu sea on, And lishrs skim ul.'iur tln-pl- . pul., rnsr ol rosrH Irl III' 1". i I our breaking hrm i itmiss n. ire ii cm n. sons have been killed by the eieetric wires in New York city, and yet somu people arc of tho opinion that murderers can not be deprived of lifo by It ujjain. un-e- with best a phonograph; but such a man is not satisfied unless other people hear him. That is what makes him a nuisance. Ihoe. t in p nr inti di. but 1' in lr. And lioui'ii r, ur mi e m l lltl Mlier we must purt, J,rAnd(lew ill ll. IImud t not again. pnrtu.K. ( ; American workingman may read Looking Backward from motives of curiosity, but they are not likely to on industrial adopt it as a text-boo- k economics. land nu-- d lire pa lus-t- Mv t M.v liein-- t eider from Within eighteen months eight jart himtl iv werrioul'i U ' near that who likes his own should ho shut up who inv. ;..rt ng. The man tn'o it j l.iin. Y, t teli in' on e before ul I. y iieeil e I'.i rl who nit in pri n? If Power- - must Idiissom on I !u - i. y lias voted h u on the When win'lMowrrs btes-o- m And li.hfs Kuin iildiu; l'.' .:i.n. Th.-tl.iv, lie n Kr. pari t'n- ' lien you and I stiu.l uieet uiiai. Ix sporting circles it is s:iid that ball is destined to bo tho coming sport. The h;ie hull crank ought to make a success at it. Tin-are noted for kirk-- ' Now that Connecticut against prohibition it is when the wind is southerly ste.iiy habits knows hard applejaek. one ami tell nv thru ! m.tk ho juirt th.N Til4 Titi When nave started in tie middle of the for it was now little jiast night, noon. Hut looking at his face I saw clearlv that it was.lrawnand (inched w ith fast iug. Whereupon I reinem-Iteremy flask ami sandwich-box- , out assured him. ami jinking th'-iwith some appologv for the oVr, that they weri at bis service. His jov. was childish. Again lie whipped off his hat. ai.d chipping it to his heart swore my conduct did honor to m v dead fat her: "ami with Angus Cartwright." said le. "kindness was intuitive. 1! ing a habit, it outran reflection: ami iiis whisky, sir. was undeniable. Com, have a fancy. I.et us dismount, and in heorie fashion spread our feast upon the turf; or if t t he deter you. see, bowlders, ami a running brook to dilute our cups, and by my life, a of which we to t may tet Imr our steeds. Falling in w itli m v companion's humor. I dismounted, and alter his example hitched my mare's rein over the rail. We chose two bowlders among ;i heap oflesser stones close beside the beck and divided the sandwiches, for though I protested I was not hungry the old gentleman insisted on our sharing alike. And now, ns the liquor warmed his heart ntul the sunshine smote upon his back, on bis eyes sparkled and lie laum-ea flood of the gayest talk, yet always ofa world that I felt w as before my time. le spoke ot Bleakirk nml displayed a knowledge ofitsutiicient-lthorough intimate even yet of tie old friends lor w hom lie inquired many names were unknown to me, many familiar only through their epitaphs in the windy cemetery above the cliff. Of tie rest t lie pretty girls he named were grandmothers, the young men long since hent and rheumatic, the youngest well over ,111. This, however, seemed to depress him little. llis eyes would sadden (or a moment, then laugh again. Well, well, he said, wrinkles, buhl heads, and the deafness of the tomb we have our (lav notwithstanding. Pluck the bloom of it hey? a commonplace of the poets. Hut, sir, 1 iut in politely us I might, you have not yet told me with whom I have the pleasure of lunching. "Gently, young sir. He waved his hand toward theeneirclingmoors. "We have feasted more llomerico, and in Homer, you remember, the host allowed his guest fourteen days before asking that question. Permit me to delay t la answer only till I have loured libation on the turf here. Ah! I perceive the whisky is exhausted: water shall suflice. .May I trouble you my joints are stiff to till from the brook at your drinking-cu- 1 A Bleakirk-ou-Sand- llis words explained much, though not every tiling. The circumstances which led to the Iev, AYilliam's departure from Bleakirk had happened some two years before my birth; but they were startling enough to supply talk in that dull fishing village for many a long day. In my nursery Iliad heard the tale that tny companion's name-recalleand if till now I had felt lmiuilation. henceforth I felt fear for I knew that I had to deal with a madman. "I perceive by your eyes, sir, lie went on, that with a part of my ali-solu- te story you are already familiar. The rest am about to tell you. It 1 will be within your knowledge that late on a Sunday night just twenty-nin- e years ago. my wife left the A'iearage house, Bleakirk, and never returned; that subsequent inquiry yielded no trace ot her tiiglit beyond the tact that she went provided' "with a small hand-bacontaining a iliange of clothing; that, ns we had lived together for twenty years in the entirest harmony, no reason could then or afterward be given tor her astonishing conduct. A areover, you will be aware that its effect upon me was tragical; thatinv lively emotions underneath the stock deepened into n settled gloom; that my faculties (notoriously eminent ) in a short time became clouded, nav eclipsed, necessitating my removal I will not refine ton- madhouse. Iiev, is it not so? I nodded assent ns well as I could, lie paused, with a pinch between fin g ger nnd thumb, to nod bm k to me. Thouirh bis eyes were now Mazing with madness his demeanor was formally, even affectedly polite. M v w ire never back; naturally, sir for sh is deai. He shitted a litth- on the bowlder, buck into his slipped the siiuti-bownisicnat pocket, then, crossing his leg and clasping his hand over one knee, bent forward and regarded me fixedly. "I murdered her, he said slowly, and nodded. - seemed to stone which he mouth with his bandana w as giving me acute pain; it obstructed, too. what lift le breathing my eiaot'on left me; and 1 dared not take mv eyes off his.. The strain oil my nerves grew so tense that I felt myself fainting when his voice recalled me. I wonder now he asked as if it were a riddle "1 wonder if you can truess why the body was never that jia use followed last an hour. The had strapped in my A found?' Again there w.is an intolerable silence before lie went on. "Lydia, was a dear creature; in many respects she made me an admirable wife. Her affection forme was canine positively. But she was fat, sir; her face it jelly, liershoulders mountainous. Moreover, her voice! it was my cruei.ition monotonously. retrularly, desperately voluble. If she talked of archangt is they became insignificant, nnd her thenies-iordinary, were of the prettiest. Her waist, sir, and my arm had once been commensurate; now not three of Homers heroes could embrace her. Her voice could once touch my heartstrings into music; if frayed them now between the millstones ot the common dace. Figure to yourself a man of my sensibility condemned to live on these terms. He mused, tightened his grasp on his knee, and pursued: You remember, sir, the story of the Imker in Langius? He narrates that a certain woman conceived a violent desire to bite thennked shoulders of a baker who used to mss underneath her window with lus wares. So imperative did this longing become that at length the woman appealed to her husband, who, being a man mid unw illing to disoblige her, hired the baker for a certain price to come and be bitten. The man allowed her two bites, bat denied a third, being unable to contain himself for pain. The author goes on to relate that for want of this third bite she boreonedead child and two living. My ovvn case, continued the Hew AAilliam, was somewhat similar. Lydia's unrelieved babbie reacted upon her bulk, and awoke in me an absorbing, fascinating desire to strike her. 1 longed to see her quiver. I fought against the feeling, stifled it, trod it down; it awoke again. It tilled my thoughts, my dreams; it gnawed mo like a vulture. A hundred times while she sat complacently turning her insane periods I had to hug my list to m.v breast lest it should leap out and strike her senseless. Ho 1 weary you? Let me proceed. That Sunday evening we sat. one on each side of the hearth, iu the She was vicarage drawing-room- . talking talking; and 1 sat whisperYou are too fat, ing to myself: Lydia; you are too fat. Her talk ran on the two sermons I had preached that day, the dresses of the congregation, the expense oE living, the parish ailments inexhaustible, trivial, relentless. Suddenly shelooked up and our eyes met. Her voice like trailed off and dropped a bird wounded in full flight. She stood up and took a step n good-nature- d toward me. AVilliam? Ms anything tlienmtter, she asked, solicitously. too fat, my dear, I answered, laughimr, nnd struck her full in the face with my list. She did not quiver much not Aou are , half enough but dropped like a lmlf-fusack onto the carpet. 1 caught a up candle and examined her. She was quiet dead. The madman skipped up from his bowlder nnd looked tit me with cunning. 1 am so glad, sir, he said, that vou did not bleed when I struck you; it was a great mercy. The surht of blood affects me ah! he broke off with a subtle quiver nml drew a long breath. Do you know the sands by Woeful Ness, the Twin Brothers? he asked. I knew that dreary headland well. For half a mile beyond the gray church and vicarage of Bleakirk it extends, forming the northern nrm and protectof the small fishing-baing it from the full set of the tides. Toward its end it breaks away sharply and terminates in a dorsal rock that runs ridge of out for some 12(H) leet between the sands we call the Twin Brothers. Of these that to the south and inside the bay is motionless and bears the name of the Dend Bov, but the Quick Boy to the north shifts continually. It is a quicksand, inshort, and will, as the word goes, swallow a mail in three minutes. My mind, resumed my companion, was soon made up. There is no murder, thought I, where there is no corpse. So I propped Lyndia. in where she seemed as if the quietly up stairs. napping, nnd went 1 jiaeked a small hand-bacarefully with such clothes ns she would need for a journey, descended with it, opened the frontdoor, went out to be sure the servants had blown out their lights, returned, and hoistingmy wife on my shoulder, wit h the bag in my Ieit hand, softly closed the door and In the stepped out into the night. shed beside the garden gate the gardener had left his wheelbarrow. I fetched it out, set Lydia ou the top ll inde-scriab- y slate-colore- d arm-chai- r, g of it. and wheeled her off toward Wo fill Ness. There was just the rim of a waning moon to light me, but I knew every inch of the way. "For the greater part of it I had turf under toot, but where this ended ami the ro k liegan I had to lea ve the barrow behind. It was ticklish work climbing down, for footing ami to be found and Lydia was a monstrous weight. Fall! how fat she was and clumsy lolling this way and that! Besides the hag hampered me. But I rea lied the foot at last and after a short rest clambered out along the edire as fast as 1 could. I was sick and tired of the business. "AAell. the rest was easy. Arrived at the farthest spit of rocks I tossed the hair from me farintotheiiortherii sand. Then I turned to Lydia, whom I had set down for the moment, la the moonlight her lips were parted as though she were stiff chattering: so I kissed her once liecause I had loved her and dropped her body over into the Quick Boy sand. la three minutes or so I had seen the last of her. "I trundled home the barrow, mixed myself a glass ot whisky, sat beside it for halt an hour, ami then aroused the servants. 1 was cunning, sir; and no one could trace my footrock of Woeful prints on the turf and lmnd-hag, Ness. The missing and the disarray I had been careful to make in the bedroom, provided them at once with a clew; but it did not lead them to the Quick Bov. For two days they searched; at the end of that time it grew clear to them that grief was turning my brain. Your lather, sir, was instant with his sympathy; at least ten times a day I had much ado to keep from laughing in Ins face. Finally two doctors visited me, and I was taken to it mad-hous- yards, breasted the height abo round thundered past the gray burch-yar- d waff. Inside it I caught a oft he yellow puny quietly cropping among the tombs. AW bad our prey, then, inclosed in that peninsula as in a trap; but there was. one outlet. DisIresentlv the turf ceas.-d-. mounting 1 ran to the edge nnd dunged down the rocky face. I had descended about twenty feet w hen I came to the spot where by craning-forwarI could catch sight of the spit ot rock and the Quick Boy saint to the right of it. The Min n blazingball of red was. just now resting its nether rim on the horizon and its level rays fell upon the man we were chasing. Ib- stood on the very edge of the rocks, a black spot against the luminous yellow of" sea and sand. He seemed to be meditating. His back was toward usand lie perceived neither bis pursuers, above nor tlie heads that at this i moment appeared over the ridge behind him nml not fifteen yards away. 'Iffie party on the beach had dismounted and were clambering up. ;; stealthily. Five seconds more and they could spring upon him. But they underestimated a madman's instinct. As if for no reason, lie gave a quick start, turned, and at the same instant was aware of both attacking parties. A last gleam of sunlight tell on the snufl-boin his lett hand; kis right thumb and forefinger lumg arrested, ! grasping tho pinch. For lull.v half a ; minute nothing happened: hunters, and hunted eyed each other nnd waited. Then, carrying the snufi'to his nose, and doffing his lmt with a f stirieal sweep of the hand and a low bow, he turned again and tipped off the ledge into the jaws of the Quick i few Oi Dt prl nic fir! (fill lliul l.e ut.l d tl joei lei t lions 1X01' li't Dr piult iatxt ttK i UUltL Ai mad-hous- e p, ter. I suppose at this point he must have detected the question in my eyes, for he cried sharply: You wish to know my purpose? It is simple. He passed a thin hand over his forehead. "I have been shut up, as I say, for twenty-nin- e years, and I now' discover that the mail-hous- e bores me. If they retake me and the hue and cry must be out long before this I shall be dragged back. AYliat, then, is my proposal? kuov Pi I ride to Bleakirk and out along the summit of Woful Ness. There I dismount, turn mv pony loose, nnd, descending along the ridge, step into the sand that swallowed Lyilin. (Simple, is it not? Exeessi, evasi, evnnui. I shall be there before sunset which reminds me, he added, lulling out his watch, that my time is nearly up. I regret to leave you in this plight, but you see how I am placed. 1 felt when I saw you a sudden desire to unbosom myself ofa secret which until the past I have shared with no man. half-hou- r I see by your eyes again if set at liberty you would interfere with my purpose. It is unfortunate that scarcely a soul ever rides this way I know the road of old. But tomorrow is Sunday. I will scribble a line and fix it on the church-doo- r at Bleakirk so that the parish may at least know your predicament before twenty-tou- r hours are out. I must now be going. The bandana about your mouth I entreat you to accept as a memento. AVitli renewed apologies, sir, 1 wish nnd countit extremely you good-dafortunate that you did not bleed. He nodded in the friendliest manner, turned on bis lieel, and walked quietly toward the bridge. As lie untetliered bis pony, mounted and ambled quietly off in the direction of the coast I lay stupidly watching him. that le I must have lain above an hour nnd in this absurd nnd painful posi- tion wrestling itli my bonds and speculating on my chances of passing the night by the bedside. My ankles were tied with my own handkerchief, my wrists with the thong of my own whip, and this especially cut me. It was knotted immovably, but by rolling over and rubbing my face into the turf I contrived at length to the gag down below my chin. This done 1 sat up and shouted lustily. I think I called a score of times before I heard an answering AAhoo-oofar back on the road, and a scarlet coat, then another, and finally a dozen or more, appeared on the crest of the hill. It was the hunt returning. They saw me at once and galloped tip, speechless from sheer amazement. I believe my hands Were loosened before a word was spoken. The situation was painfully ridiculous, but my story was partly out before they had time to laugh, and the rest of it was gasped to the accompaniment of pounding liooss and cracking whips. Never did the Netherkirk hunt ride after fox ns it rode after the Bev. AVilliam Teague that afternoon. AA'e streamed over the moor, a thin, red w p! r- liil'a , tins moll ibov : Lcitti on t emin poen wl e ilirlv : fore, L'Uii i ! I Li fa 1 . 1 mv j t IX lit x I fc 1 take Om illi Kris WTO totilii Li i Iris, lorilsl 5 Ifiivin ntli then, throwingup hisnrms, sank forward slow ly and as it bow ing yet upon llis face. Second by second we stood nnd watched him disappear. Within five minutes the ripples of the Quick Boy sand met oqee more above him. In the course ot the next afternoon the vicar ot Bleakirk called at the hall with a paper which he had found, pinned to the church door. It was evidently a scrap torn from an old letter and bore, scribbled in pencil by a elerky hand, these words: The young Squire Cartwright in six miles straits by the Urate toward Netherkirk. Gulielini Teague. foot-bridg- I to twenty-nin- determined to escape; nnd this to a man of my resources presented few difficulties. I borrowed this pony from a stable not many yards lrom the wall; he belongs, I and I think, to a chimney-sweetrust that after serving my purposes, he may find a wav back to his mas- f priv. Lett - I have remained within its walls e years; but no I have Boy. There was no help now. At his never been thoroughly at home there. Two days ago I discovered third step the sand had him by the that the place was boring me. So 1 ankles. For a moment lie fought it, I fill lis lx i stiuct tue It me t jliore tlfCll . If y brine; f f f toon--- j i ! up ni peer here ! j f John '' c '510 Hnliat lad.. K e, pro-ani- j It j fires :5c., 5C Thrifty Farmer. grasping though not miserly nature of the native New England farmer is somewhat proverbial. It is hard to get the better of him in a dicker, nnd lie very seldom gives anything for nothing. llis keenness in this respect was well illustrated by an experience of a young Boston man who recently spent a week in New Hampshire. Tin, young man wanted to hire a. boat for the day, and the farmer owned one which was moored to the bank of the river, "Can you let me have your boat for the day? lie asked of the owner. "Well, let me see. I don't wiis the cautious reply. know as I can. You see thar's a man over here, Air. that other feller, yer know. He said tother day lie wanted my boat, and lie may be rao'und this mornAVeil Im ing. sorry as I should like ic today very much. Aou don't think you can let me have it? No; cum ter think of it. I feel party sar-ti- n that other feller'll he mound after it today. And if he wants it., "That settles ib lie orter have it. then, I suppose, "said the young man. "But can you tell me of anyplace near hre where you think I can hire it boat? "Oh, you want, to hire a boat, do you?" A'es. AYall.naow, seem yer want to hire a boat so bail come to think on it, it's gittin kinder late, and I believe that other feller will be raound.this morning it's nios !) oclock. Aon want to hire it, Aes. How much will ypu say? "Tho you charge me for the day? hist time I let her I charged thirty cents for her; but I kinder thinks that's a leetle might high. I guess-1'1let you have it for twenty-fiv- e Boston Times. cents. A Entd uae pi I The i Wien (them Vhen f i Warns f I k I I The e sutl t Buy Jnur t I gn Tiieq Iperso , t t I yru andr rent; Livei feme aches const! only i duceil Wptal ac Didn't Like the Alilk. A London bishop had gone down into the country to visit a charitable institution, into which poor lads had been drafted from the east eil of London, nnd in addressing them he congratulated them on the delights of their new residence. The boys looked unaoountnblv gloomy and downcast, and the bishop kindly ask- effect ; health its m end them and eists. ioayxi cure fishes ed: "Are you not comfortable? Have you any complaints to make?" At last the leader raised his hand "The milk, my lord. Why, what on earth do you mean? The milk here is ten fold better than you ever laid in London. "No. indeed, it ain't, said The boy. In London they nlwuys buy our milk out of a nice, dean shop, ami wave, like a mnkofchargingcnvnlry, here why, they squeeze it out of a the whip even forgetting his tired beastly cow. London Tid Bits. hounds that straggled aimlessly in I our wake. On the hill above BJea-went into Airiea to reStanley irk we saw that the tide was out and issman our company divided without draw- lieve Emin Pasha. Lieut. Dark wilderness ofthe the went, derein into some four horsemen ing Stanley. Now scending the beach to ride along the Continent to succor sands out uuler AYoeful Ness nnd Lieut. Fisher will takeafon-eintothfacross the Dead Boy, hoping to gain jungles to prevent the natives fron the ridge More the madman nnd cut massacring the AA'issmnn partj him off The rest, whom I led by a There is this thing going to end? Mwsi : j"T r U) A" f"'r Rn ono- - k AA "A Ui J i i |