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Show CLORIFY THE ROOM. to rest; and then, not knowing what to help her, but she looked to do, he spent a part of his like a little lady and he did precious $3 for a ticket to the city. not dare. Presently she darted for- else Agreeable People, For Freckles. SCHOOL OVER A GROCERY. A young lady We all know people whom it is correspondent Wile ojn throw the shutters, and a cure for freckles. The g0M. The curtain throw asu, quests a Told whom Pioneer from to meet; Episodes Amusing by people pleasant When he reached he there found her then he and a saw 6tumble ward, in the sun's bright mersngprj, School Teacher of Leadvllle. variety, that appears on!? n all the r pohlcn pri.ic, cheap boarding house, where he paid and fall. John rushed to save her we are sure to receive a smile, a kind I one of the first schools in the summer, may be readily hat matters li frwn costlv rat? for a bed and a meal, aud then sat from the crowding vehicles. It waa word, a cordial hand shake, or some taught fher take the ramhow lIuom? dow n to think. the work of a second, but he was too other token of good-wil- l. When one ever taught in the great mining moved, but those of a more permaThev II shower gema on it inateud. He must of Leadville. Colo., and natu- nent kind are difficult to some work, that was late to drag her away. Iushinn Le-- t is And gtoriir the room. get rid of depressed in spirits, or, as the com- camp certain; something too, where they ween t he wheels a nd under the horses mon I lmd many unusual and can only be mitigated by rally enongh T!d are the tidinpn that Ihej brinjf blue the is, meeting saying he threw tenover himself the would for refheads, notask credentials or From wood, and field, and lull, The mid lotion nnd avoiding et.-efriend and amusing experiences. From einmz bird, and humming be erences, for his record would not help der form on the ground, warding off with a genial, merry-hearte- d And the little dunt uijr nil him. So the next day he applied at with his hand the coming catastro- has a magical effect; indeed, I have schoolroom was the second floor of exposure to the sun. We give a ft Be'ore them mnnv ehndowa f the office of the board of public works, phe. She was saved, but he received known the encounter with such a per- atwo story log building, the lower simple remedies, recoin mended tv an j They hnniati thoughts o gloom; and was set to mending the streets the full force of the collision as the son turn the whole Then with a welcome let them id. current of one's floor being used for a grocery store. the b?st authorities, nnd hope they 1, to To glorify the room. in company with a gang of Italians rearing horses came crashing upon Every thing in the schoolroom was mn .v prove of use to some girlish d life. anil Irish. They were a rough lot, him. With thra eoraea wealth; upon the weak. The reaJ,'r', 'kho however, may consoe r is dependent upon of the most primitive kind When he came to himself he found Agreeability but good-natureThey many blessings sued; enough, and John 'themselves with the fact that seats were in he was Tneir fciffttw etrenirttien tired eye lie a quiet room, lying in many conditions; it may inherent, long pine benches. There distasteful brown specks are an the got on very well with them. When that And touch pale cheeks with rvd. he received his honestly earned wages a little bed with a white counterpane, it of a good complexion. No place too dear for them to seek may be the result ofju.liciousearly were no desks, no blackboards woman in a spotlhe was perhaps happier than lie had while a sweet-faceIts darkness to illume; Take finely powered niter or of pleasant surround- and not an inch of plastering in the education, ess moved and about him. ever been liefore. He must keep Thank (Jod thut we can let them in apron cap and apply it to the freckles whole building. There was nothing To gloriiy the room. honest, be thought in his poor, He knew he must be in a hospital, but ings, or of a happy combination of the by fingtr, moistened in wkr dazed wav, and try to bold his head be could not remember why they had circumstances, but all will agree that between the grocery store and the and in the powder. When dipped him He there. was t schoolroom was brought but a loosely laid floor up again. Hut the plague-spoquite it is a desirable quality, and whether AN OUTCAST. and done, perlectly r. Phl for had n drawn screen inherent or not, should be on him. Somehow it leaked out alone, they of unseasoned pine that became pea ted, it will often judiciously "them remove carefully that he lmd been a convict, an around tne bed. lie felt very weak cultivated. There are trouble people whose looser as it seasoned. It was, un- effectually, and without then be fancied that men looked at and dazed, anil wondered vaguely A SKETCH FROM I.IFE. good Jamaica rum nnj be efforts the was are so fortunately, full of knot holes, nnd One part of ot to wlmt his with matter him askance and whisjiered when he mighty agreeable back, lemon-juice, two parts O II N ANDREWS or weak approached. As a matter of fact, and thought it strange that hecould distressing as to defeat their object. whenever a customer came into the vinegar, forms an excellent . was a social leper. t hey were none of them any better not. move. Rut he was very peaceful Such Another may be made of people should bear in mind that store for a bar of soau or a pound of aud and it comfortable, he was and several of them had There are such than pleased him to agreeability must proceed from the sugar, the school heard the entire two gallons of strong soap-mi- s, things extant, anj a prison record behind them. Rut to see the bright sunshine on his w hii li are added one of alcohol as and the in pint nnd merchant is a the transaction, white heart, look and to grown How person who man a at can the spread, years! John Andrews was twenty pound ol roshas served twpnty years ever hold sprigs of green that, some one lind result of continued practice. One was a very loquacious man we olten and a quarterinofa aclose one of them. He Keep emary. feels so jar, and ap. comfortable after on the table beside him. lie havingsaid heard some funny things. up his head again? He stood it as placed ply withalinen cloth, liense remein. -- T had served a term long as ho could, then lie left the wondered if that kind woman knew or done something to brighten the The schoolroom water pail was her that what will help in ouecase who he was. They probably would pathway of another, that it pays of twenty years in gang. on a pine box at one end of the may be quite useless in another.-Americ- nn kept self be one's to think the agreeable. place too good for him if is a longtime! He g The next thing he tried was room nnd accidentally overturned a Agriculturist for Februurv. Some all their little people allow on a new building. He they knew lie had been a convict. times that winter, nnd, went in a youth of twenty and came good many affect to their was There most conduct, annoyances out. likely someplace thought lie should be able to keep side enough, the boys sitting Truth Not Always Pleasant L out a man of forty, at what should tLe that did for such people. He felt toward others, whether their unfor- strangly until one day when a worknear could never tell just how these place, it friends tunate are blame to havo heeuhis primeof life; but he was man appeared who turned out to be a that he should hate to be moved, but or net. Dear friend! cried the willow, as- - nde I was once visiting a charming fami- accidents happened, but they always she bent over the turned to a mnehine, witli mind and fellow be lmd known in prison. Ife that it would be more honest to stream, and gazed e n when occurred were there more than lie found it very difficult ly. All its members, with one exthe usual on number of her beautiful form reflected on nd customers in the body dulled by the colorless years was malicious, with a hardened con- to were but he followed the nurse ception. interesting and agree- store below, and and the monotonous prison routine, science and an even harder heart, withspeak, they never failed to the glassy sur ace. how tender and ,u The able. of son was the his house and last said faintonly at eyes, and turned the laugh on the old throw the school into paroxysms of how true lie had never had any clianee, or jail bird, 11s he called Do you care for every one Here, in business in the town in which they you are! I nnd the flowers ot I John, until he ly: The effect was different "011 the joy. his lived. If affairs had never mind how moved bad they are? proshome, or good influenee; and bad could not stand it and fled again. me have not a single charm J01 around It was not exactly what lie bad perously through the day he came groceryman. One day John read in the paper an Here you, Mister Teacher! he that is not mirrored on your faithful n company had done the rest. He was to say, but it would probably home in a pleasant, entertaining would meant the produet of his surroundings and advertisement for traiutd hands in do roar up to me. bosom. And, as the breeze played ndf anif but mood, had well. as nnytliing just a shoe factory. Taking a sudden what is it? I would ask in Well, him he circumstances, and lmd drifted upon resolve he ou disawas noyed she said Oil, among her branches, they ive gently for trageously yes, k. cheerily, for wo: applied as calm and dignified a manner as I bent to the and no how stream and kissed tu nip, the evil tide until he committed the matter so greeable rude, as one, are 6ick Who ore you. my man? said the every long they could assume when talking through waters. many guests were present. The dis- knot holes ut crime that brought him there. He foreman, and where do you come and miserable. placid my feet. Summer and winter; That's good, said John Andrews comfiture of his mother nnd sisters Them boys it pourin water down mer and passed, hardly realized it himself until it was from?" well be as the never indeed, had may winter; summer and winter,1 a imagined; but I slowly; did chance, here Then John Andrrews said desperand wettin too lute; and then followed that long nnd my goods agin dinner hour approached they were nnd the willow grew old. Its leaves ow out. after I I my trade in state try Its no got in a state of nervousness which dis- my customers, and I uiu't goin to were lew, its branches withered, th art twenty years of prison existence that ately: sir. learned matter at said all, she I stand it? served a term of twenprison, flowers around faded. crushed the very lile out of him. appeared immediately if the tyrant ,vai but now I want to be an again gently. "And so long as one came Rays! I would say sternly, did years, ty "otheriu How changed you are! she cried with a tries face; she and then bright went on His jailers said llmthewus morose, honest man. really of that any you upset wise pail? it he continued until relieved to the stream. Once I. to say something else, but John nevpeevishly s We hnvo nouse for convicts here, his that he was no No, sir, would come from a doznever looked on you but to rejoice, w er heard it for he went off into a kind us of liis disagreeable presence. If en of foreman said the the innocent ones. and John he and to the chaplain shortly, the fact had not been so positively good, for nil showed me was pleasa615' wa9 of a dose. And turned sadly uwny. did! the groceryman and fullyou ot praise. Now, when I trvaph When he awoke again there were a demonstrated to me, I would not would they puzzle. He could not stir him, he shriek out, He thought the world was very number of just come to bend to catch a glimpse, I turn, soli said. I do not know that I altogeth- cruel. gentlemen around his bed, have believed it possiblo that one down here and see! you If vou eant never gave him a chance. und one was It could have disagreeable over him. person sorrowful; for what dtjeje er blamo John Andrews for that. It shut him bending make em behave I kin now and I'll away sad nnd but up in counteracted the influenee of four do before me? Not verdure, . must That you be the bring doctor, it too! The good mans orthodoxy was not was not that enough? When lie thought John, but as ho cou'd not agreeable people. 1 believe that the One day he carried his threat into not symmetry, not grace; but bare- . ithin his hearer'H grasp, and his enmeout het urely should have some speak lie only smiled bravely in the young mans disposition was the execution. ' There were several cus- ness, deformity nnd decay. You ailns'-He thought it all over in result of continued indulgence by his sermons were ponderous. M pe Poor show. face. changed. greatly physicians grave in tomers I the store and was busy his poor dull way. It was so hard Foolish willow! He felt stramrely confused, and did mother and sisters. He had tyranni- with a class in answered thl8tei John was not the only one who 10 understand. Ho thought it ought not geography when an stream, I am too true that is nn . zed over them for years, and had beunderstand it at or rightly all, slumbered through them, soothed to not to be. There must be a God nnd the ominous of splash giggling fault. There is a but it where he was. The room was come a powerful despot in thehouse-hold- . two somev here, lie supposed, ortbeclmp-lai- n just boys told me that the newly not in me; but you change, sleep by the droning voice, are the not only;Iua but it did not too, darker, growing would not pray to him, or the matter. Tired and cross is a common filled water pail had goneover again. one that looks coldly on the trutLho w parsons private exhortations Perhaps it. was time to go bewere There feminine litte shrieks men lie knew swear by him; but if lie to when it offends the liking. of us ofuve; formding character. sleep for tne night. Suddenly, expression, and most jung low, and the next minute the grocer was good and powerful us tho chaphis stupor, lie caught a few know what it means. A friend mi 01 through Andrews could not listen to in in the lain said why dal he not make men words. A sugar hand, scoop appeared of most mine, a agreeable wom- sciiool room. Will We Loose Our Teeth? in-- , young man, with earnest and used to turn away; and yet kinder, and give a poor devil a blue eyes, was saying to one of the an, says that when she finds It will be a great snap to be a den letl Without to notice deigning somehow a fixed idea had forced itself chance? John shook his hem in per- others: Yes, lie said to the nurse. herself getting tired and cross, bhe me lie ran back to where the tist about the year 3,000 A. D. Tfc ach into his brain, sprung to life perhaps plexity. It win too hard a problem He was a brave honest fellow to have takes a nap, a bath, a walk, or n overturned its in was and his ignorance and dull under- told. pail lor began scientists tell us that as manbecoTn0ne drive, goes to see some one whose by some stray fruitful word among standing. him suwith about the I suppose I am too more human he will loose his beast-- van Then John Andrewssmiied back to walk in life is less pleasant than her laying all that waste of platitudes. worthless, he concluded. The Lord him gratefully nnd lifted bis hand a own does anything different from gar scoop, nnd before I could re- adornments. cover from any amazement nearly First, the lmir; ne'etu It is a good thing to be h onest, or lms no use for a poor convict. little in response. It was very, very the work that has tried and worried lmd the and sense of smell, and every And gone pupil sliriekmg eyesight else life becomes a pretty poor job. yet the thought remained, and around him 11s they waited. her. In this way she preserves health laughing down the stairs, with the to Irof. well That was what he said to himself the passionate desire to keep honest quiet and her according Cope, at last b,ova children, temper, governs Presently his flickering breath came when the prison doors were opened and to hold up his head again that back to him nnd and keeps her entire household in a irate grocer in mad pursuil, ham- come entirely toothless. Cookche bi; lie murmured: No mering uivny with the scoop on the food is suid to lie at last, and he was free to go where hud sprung to life in some mysteri- one ever said so before; it will be eas- state of peace and happiness. of the cause heads tliejon the and backs of the and guilty ho would in the bright, sunny world ous way from the precious seed hid- ier when I Many parents do not realize that innocent alike. out. get becoming weaker nnd smaller den away in the dreary wuste of the outside those dreary walls. The smile still hovered about his in training their children a regard for A few minutes later he roared up There is now no rooE He lmd nowhere to go to, no friends parsons sermons. It. is a pity that lips as his head fell back ,,, be generation. others should instilled inio their the knot holes: gently, nnd minds. A through for to meet or welcome him. Every trace such men sometimes drift to prisons those about him knew that left selfish wisdom the child or the uparder teeth, spoiled, may he had if Now, you cant make them per incisors; the wisdom teeth ar,r. jj of relation or connection had vanish-oi- l where ignorant souls are waiting to gone where he would find his chance be very dear to its parents, but after in those long twenty years. The be touched and softened as well as at last, and nil would be made clear the parents have passed away the youngsters behave themselves and retarded, often cause great pain an,Th In child has become a disagreeable man have some manners, I kin! trade of slioemaking that he had stirred. decay early. The second incisors pirot ' to him. New York Commercial This singular lesson in courtesy out learned in prison, and ,J in liispock-ct- , or woman, what disinterested par had John Andrews wondered whether atthe 6ides ofthe gums, cuusin? such a salutary effect upon the the same $ 3 that had lain there lie could learn more about it m a ties will tolerate the selfish, tyranni- school especially is this true as re jj tusks; that the pail wns not overcal ways ofsuch a person? American twenty years before, was all he had in church. So one morning when the Americans, they being liable.. a gards turned for two whole again days. Hie wide world. sun was bright and the crowds of Agriculturist for February. development to a degre j Keeping Late Hours. The next week we moved into a new imperfectunknown d lie had longed earnestly for that people filled the streets, wholly umong savag A well known society lady, who nnd better room on the ground The same lias been oi' clay, but now that it had come he felt he looked intoone whose doors stood suppression to the of makes the the floor, of concealment her name ereatly delight The Pretty Book Agent. sad and lonely. As ho walked away open on a great thoroughfare. He served in the outer part of superie L. Harbour in Wide incisors. This is grocer. J. ho fancied that every one noticed him, had heard somewhere that churches the condition of her confidence, says Boston Globe. owing not only t J,, Awake. and pointed him out ns the released were for every one so he supposed that the fashion of keeping late hours a reduction in the size of the jaw ,ht I wussettlingdownto work, said convict. He felt that his gait showed they were free and went in. to prolonged delay in theappearan- - peva is solely an imitation of the English a book-agen- t pestered man yesterday, lie found it very pleasant. The custom ofthe teeth. In the same way nienar'1P mt it, and that his whole bearing beThe and utterly ridiculous in this MiracleGun, when a pretty woman entered my the man-lik- e fewer trayed prison training. He bad no atmosphere was warm, which was The German press is discussing at than the lowerapes have When tetTowjj idea that he should be so sensitive. tl grateful on the cool autumn days country. In London, where the sea- office. No one would suspect that monkey. r What does it matter after all, just beginning, and a soft light son is very short, lasting only a few she was a book-agen- t. She placed a length the merits of a neiv French difference in dentition iins lieenestaq,,, 1 he to said himself, ns hetried toswing streamed through a great stained-- 1 weeks, the same people often have to volume in front of me and began to repeating air rifle called the miracle lished, man may claim to be a nefg. j;01 , along with a free, easy step of other glass window over a white altar. go to five or six houses of an The rifle was invented by M. species, apart from low savages Jn'ha evening. talk. I told her I would not buy the gun, well as from high apes. men; but his ears stilf seemed ring- There were plenty of comfortable- ; q;atj It is, therefore, impossible for them book if I really wanted it, Never Taul Giffard in Taris, the original ing with the sound of tho prisoners looking sents, with red cushions, so to nn ren to the last three four or the of get Parisian pneumatic recepsaid she, gavly. It wont projector mind, lockstep tramp in the squad. Then he went up a little wav and sat down. tions Him. Dont Wake liefore lie turned away from the streets and It not did seem at alf like the prison midnight. And then it cost you anything to look at it. As post. It is described thus: The Forty years ago the leader of found himself in the fields. In all those chapel w here lie bad always fallen makes much less difference there, as she desired, I did look at it. I rend is light, much lighter than weapon is New almost York bar was George W conentirely the introduction and then chapter 1. years his eyes had never been glad- asleep. It was so quiet and pleasant merrymaking dened by the sight of tho fresh green, that Lie liked it, and thoughthemight fined to the leisure class, who can lie It was about 10 oclock w hen I open- any of the army rifles now in use. It whose grave deportment and hat jevj)r lie threw himself down by the learn what he wanted to there. Rut abed till nooli or later if they like. ed the book. At 11 oclock the pret- resembles the magazine gun in that of his eyes when in thoug heans closing New In York is the season 11ml long, wayside, in the long sweet grass, presently he felt a touch on his arm, ty book agent had become uneasy. steel cartridge about a span and a gave him an owlish appearance. You people who have only one reception 1 never raised my eyes. Another half and as he did so a bird just and looking up he saw the sexton. ns thick as a mans nnd 8rt ,f long called One a day gentleman over his head broke forth in a strain Come, move on, suid lie, this is to go to of nn evening do not get hour and she was pacing up and thumb is attached to the one burrel Webster, who had temporal" The tr there liefore 11 or 12. Even onr so- down the floor. At 1 oclock, when of melody and then flew away freely no place for you. men have to get down town in she had by means of a screw. This cartridge forsaken politics nnd resumed into the blue sky. John Andrews So John got up nnd shuffled ciety do nearly worn herself out, I contains 300 shots, which can be dis- practice of law, to retain his serac' .II e ive the The buried his face in the grass and burst out poor is ( morning. down consequence book tho and on laid He supposed the man putting again. sum Wositio into tears. He had not known be- was right. He was too forlorn for that the men who are so young that my hat and coat, said to the thor- charged as rapidly or slowly as a in a case involving a large J. lieu fore that ho could cry, but somehow such a beautiful they don't count in business, or verv oughly exasperated woman: That's man desires. Since neither powder money. place, but he felt dis- much Mr. Websters, in accept ins: the He ha off the dancing floor, a clever book; I regret that I cannot or any other explosive, but only he felt better for it. anywhere appointed, too. nnd liquified air, supplies tainer, asked what counsel was to Pit n ridiiij They say that the most dangerous He had dragged on through the nnd the old men who can afford to read more of it. but I must away to compressed ut his the take more moments to the freed convict are the summer, expelling force, no smoke and no pose him. things leisiiely.aregpttin-dinner. She was mad, but she he living in a Oh, answered the client, flash accompany the discharge. Only be the only ones who attend fash- didnt to iiiehpor first after his release. If, while ho is sort of awnv. word. a the say Grabbing It was well enough ionable a WTiuirhly receptions. The men w ho are book she shoved it into her satchel a short, sharp, low report is heard some New York lawyer, with wliietmuffa still uncertain and strange, or exalt- while the warm weather lasted, but y name ball as 2.1 the leaves t between will the every-daand 33 not monplace, At such ed with his new liberty, ho falls into the cold came cartridge. nnd mado for the street. keep early that year and late hours, lind tho ball rooms e the recent trial the ball traveled with forget. "bad company, or stops to drink at seemed to wither are iiitn. John never Who t sort of looking person ish Move wonderful accuracy and penetrated any of the little shops that cluster knew how he got through the winter. obliged to rob the cradle and the ninn."tord, at Rather a sleepy-lookminto wall the for New their of the recruits. deep Y'ork grave ill too closely in the village, lie is He picked shooting Reading Faces. upstrav jobs outlie streets Is his name George Wood? lut, sa room. As soon ns one cartridge is pretty sure to fall back mto the old and wharves and just managed to Commercial Advtrtlser. Itshowed her appreciative temperan a low Yes, thats his name. emptied of its 300 shots, another associations and ways; lmt John exist. lie was often ment wliena lady told with triumph cartridge canbescrewd on the Revan hungry and alMr. Webster, Then, rejoined Andrews fortunately took the other gun ways cold, and lie had a cough that She Was Untidy. the other day of such a pretty com- in the twinkling of nn eye. M. d emphasis, don't wake him uy'po-- t m. road, and found himself in the coun- seemed to luuk him to pieces. At ritrhtene savs that the 300 "shots in a Youths Companion. A funny story is going the rounds pliment paid her unconsciously. She try. lie walked on for a long time, last lie saved pennies enough to hire He coi lie can a cartridge at cost to stopping frequently rest. He was a shoeblacks kit. If lie could not of a young lady who found a horse- 6nid it happened three other persons ol about 2sVents. produced 9f men The not accustomed to such exertion and make shoes, he could at least black gun itself can A Valuable Bit of Land blew ou and wishing for good luck, with herself were approaching a be manufactured for about $3. soon grew tired. He began to be them. Thus lie struggled on, and shoe, Hi rued 1 where neat a serFrom the Washington Post. crossing it under the pillow in compati looting very happy, though, ns lie drank in never once begged or la id a dishonest placed was standing, evidently sorely vant Yin 'shown While farm a her false with In teeth. lie the morning, passing t pure air and rejoiced in the beau- finger on anything. With perplexed os to locality. The Alphabet in one Verse. the figure of nn elderly man, fcTost bli tiful world about him. So the time went on nnd John An- in the hurry ofdressing.she substitutshrewd eyes the nnxious domestic The twenty-firs- t Can it be," be asked himself, drewss verse ofthe second attire was noticeable for the cough hacked linn more nnd ed the shoe for teeth and wore it for examined each lady's face in urn efforts t1'1' k bei that this has all been so beautiful more, nnd some days he was so tired some time before the mistake was without a word. Then with perfect chapter of Ezra contains every letter absence of any decorative uPPc the be to for twenty years? lta wicked to that lie could hardly stand. One sepn leaningngainst discovered. This story was told to confidence turned to the narrator ofthe nlplinbet, nnd is the only one shut men up and spoil their lives. ns ho stood leaning on a railingday a young lady visiting Meadville, and very civilly iuqnired of a di- thus distinguished: And I, even I, Jle did not think of the safety ofso-ciet- the corner of a crowded street, at be IVnn., and with great astonishment rection. Children and animals are king, do make a decree Krttin- 'Ions; so moV poor fellow, and forgot for noticed a child press forward the in her voire she exclaimed, nnd nev- said to be infallible judges of the in- to nil the the treasurers which are betrie moment that lie wau a social crossing, tdie was a pretty thing er washed the shoe! She was evi tegrity of those they come in conthe river, that whatsoever lizra, leper. with long, light hair, nnd scented dently more surprised over the lack tact with, and to this list may well yond the priest, the Beribe of thelaw of the V Can yon raise anything Finally he reached village, timid. He watched her es she of cleanliness than the site ol the be added the wayfaring God of heaven, shall require of person.. raised nd sat down in the riv.ruud station waited und would have I Considble. you . jest New Orleans liked girls mouth. UD is to ho done speedily. It; fohth mortgage, too,- lt gt m e d (Halt-pete- 1 freckle-lotion- w ; 1 fellow-convict- e, 1 i well-dresse- f,- hand-to-mout- h ire-sur- g Gii-far- y, "Jit Times-Democrat- - |