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Show QUAKER BROKE HIS RULE. Peace Instincts Triumphed Over His Business Sagacity. Many years ok a Quaker store ltcoper In Philadelphia had a lot of hatchets ulilch were unsalable, and he worked them off li cninpcllliiK eaeli purchaser of other considerable articles to take also some of the lintchcts. Now, lie hail n deadly an tlpatliy to war and bloodshed, ami one day a purchaser came In from n fu western count foi a lot of blankets and the wuie set apart for him with the usual proportion of hatchets "Hut I don't want tho hatchets, Jonn tunn," said he "Oh, but theo must toko thorn," said .Jonathan, "or thee can't have the blankets.' "Oh erj well," snld the purchaser, "tin. Indians ait- flKhtiiiR anil tomnhawkitiK each other ail around where I 11 e and they will buj theso hatchets and use' them for tomahawks" "Thee sha'n't haw them glo them back!" said thu Quaker: mid so the purchaser got his blankets without tho hatchets. Night Music. In Knnli'ii iU i pi ii inniiiliila N xlimlngl C'umti In tlii- oil In mil which the mtHii s hlili C'miio with will Uliii's nnd with touch of hpilllUlllll' To the iloi'pi'Hl Kiirdon coniv. nnd with cNts of nunnlni,' In iriiiii'n Jim pi n inunloh U hIiikIiir. In Kimlfii Jirpi tliinlii Hie KUltnr In pli'llJIlIK Ooini' Ik fun' Hi in whcti' tho li-avoi are Km mil, Huiin tint thou l.iMHt inc. Ah! to-da to-da tlinii Kli.mi'it Tin' llomr or in) In .nt, and my heart Is to mtilliiK' In trnJi'ii Ji i pi thiulu the miliar In plindliiK In Knrilui Jeeps the lollni nre crjItiK, The rami Ii mocMiiK peerinK tluoiiKh the tills The ehlll nuinii bin tinned thu mirble ft Ic ze All things ii n nun till' ll.uU In the hours li-lljllik- In Kinli'ii Jirpi the lollm nn rrlnt? l'min thu I'n mil of L'luirli's HirurJ |