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Show IOiCcpoiaI Love's Reward. On tho shelving shore, wliero tho tide comes In, I ttroto her nnmo In tho sun-klssod sand. But tho restless waves, In tholr swirling , might, washed It awny with relentless hnnd. On tho stnlwnrt oak, whero tho brown-thrush brown-thrush plaints, I cut her nnmo in tho roughened bark: But tho woodman came with his whetted ax. Hating tho trco In tho woodlnnd dark. In my hoping heart, all nglow with lovo, I fixed hor nnmo with affection's will; "i "vnoTi3 mzn NAMni" And I laughed In gleo nt tho ballled hosts, Taunting tho Knles to a test of skill. But. alas for mo: In tho war of lovo She charged my heart In a mortal boutl And tho ono whoso nnmo I had written there. Scorning my love. Just rubbed It outl 5?!I ' : : : Boarding by the Week. : . A friend of ours broke up housekeeping house-keeping a fow weokB ngo nnd wont to a nice, quiet family hotol to board. Wo mot him on tho street yostorday, nnd his looks bo affected ub, wo dug him out of the crowd at tho rlak of being stabbed with a fat lady's urn-brolla, urn-brolla, and upbraided him. "Boozing!" ho ojaculatod. "Booz-. Ing! I'm not boozing! It's that blank-oty-blank boarding houso! Say," and I grabbing mo by tho coattalls ho pulled I mo Into a stairway. Ho was ovldont-I ovldont-I ly a dosporato man, but 1 resolved to I stand my ground.v I "Sayl" ho reiterated, "did you over I oat at ono of Uiobo nlco, quiet family I boarding houses?" I Wo donled tho allegation. , ' "v"c)l, don't youiover do,lt, olthci jt2QU.van,to,Hvoniitlncilraulntoinni havo your natural cupidity!"' r " I I nodded. I "It wont protty good tho first day, I but tho Bocond day's meals Iookod I familiar on short acquaintance, and I wo shied a llttlo. Third day samo old I grub. Soup tastod of pastry, and pastry tastod of soup. All down through tho middle sho tasted Just, Hko tho soup and pastry!" I waited. "Fifth day I began to feol heavy In-Bldo In-Bldo and concluded I must bo petrifying. petrify-ing. Sixth day thoro was a hard lump In my bread-basket, and I had to havo tho doctor rim mo out, bo to speak. Sovonth day wo wont to Aunt Maria's, but tho first day -of tho second week was well, It was tho samo old dog, yet! And It's been tho samo over since. Day by day I havo filled up until I can't eat any moro, and my wlfo says thoy aro getting rich off us. I'vo got Indigestion and havo tho backacho with night sweats. Tho doctor doc-tor says my stomach Is crowding tho spinal column and I must tako moro oxerclso. I sco my finish! Say, do you know whero I can get a meat auger I want to bore a hole " Wo could plainly boo tho man was , naUjd, ,anil while ho was trying to touch ',iio family boarding houso mnnu with ,W1b' flngor preparatory to boxing, wo 'olud6d hlnvand escaped In tho crowd. 'Wo always woro lucky that way. 5 5 3 "' -I THE FIGHTING L'niTOK |