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Show 8f The Dominie turd to complain sometimes some-times about His character i( the stories th mat of ua ()!. Ms said they war too economical In their uaa of the clamant cla-mant of truth. Aud truth wit ao cheap, ami alao ao interesting, ba would aiy. W were alwnya ready to admit that It raa Interesting, but war sot ao free to acknowledge Ita eheap-neae. eheap-neae. Uke ether exotica It aeeuied to ua expensive. Fiction, bring ao much L, more eaeily produced, appeared to be ' th true mental provender In the Corn Cob Cluh, a social Ins'ltiillon whara j we derided questions of nrrat pith and .. .x. , , moment by tlio aid of tho civilising , ' .' "and eniiKlillnai Influenc of tobacco In- dnrrntod In mb-plpco, Thii liunilnla had quit amoklng wht n ha entered the ministry, Inn ha always aald tba cobs melt good, ao wa hud hopes of bla reclamation; besides, tint air waa usually usu-ally ao Dili k that hn absorbed enough in brlnat lilin up. In a largo measure. ta the high philosophic plane occupied by I he net iif ua It happened on Christmas Kve that aomrhuily told a alory appropriate enough In Hi., mummi ao fur as lb. aub- fecl went, but palpably imp i-sll.lo enn-tdered enn-tdered aa a happening At least lha Himlnle mid It waa. mid threatened to t'lirlai 111 ih Hury himself ; aud , sbeliig counsel..! by the Professor, who waa classical In bin language, tii'"liluxe war." (lie goud man complied aa fol-lowa: fol-lowa: There used to ho young man (valued tilunwlx who waa rector of "WHY DOST YOU Qi:T MARAlRDr bur.li at a llttla town In New Jarsey called Apidchurg. Vary aiulnlila ymmg nan. not long In Ih.' ministry, aud unmarried. un-married. N he-looking chap. Iiki, and 3 m brlKbl t.'lluw. but he h id bin trlala 4 at Appli'biirg. Mainly ll waa the wo-1 wo-1 man (In y IIhmikIH ha oukIU tu marry, jj nd of ruirau tbry wi-re rlgbL Uut , 1 thluklng an wnan't enuiiKb fur thoaa car Applrliurg Imllra; with the true 1 feminine di-alr to help tlwy reaulved ,1 to ere that he did marry. Hut here ; again Ihiy ahowad a unlvoraiil feml-4 feml-4 sine trail by rrfu-liig to combine and i rk together. They all lnb.ir...l hard nougli. but lii..'ic.il..iit;y, and each - i with n v. . to ln.l.n ;iii! tba minister ; o ninn y a .lirt. i. ni w.mian. j It ha.l I'.'i ii B.il iik on tbua for aoma i! tnoutlia wii.Mi 'lirlsiiiui upiiriiarhad. Mow of ultimo thi're lan't much yoa ( aa give any man for CbrUtiiiita allp- j para and plpca and abut -wine aud allp- ' 3 para Ami In the cu .e of a paraun It a atlll worac ytm'VH got tu drop e ff the plpea and ab.itguna, leaving only gllp. j para and allppra. of courae there are a booli-niaika uu.l :iy chalra. but the j Drat are trltl.il m l l In. latter fipan- i alve; b'Klllc. l bo l uiiiimrrlcd ana .2 o are of tlic ivi'').:!e . mid In the ( aame atam. ou 111 ,.. n,at you ought , to give Jit in turn thing ui.iile with your t own fair ha ruin, ami you run't make aa eaay rhalr. Bo allpi.cra It bad to be tor the Mar. M. Biauwli. eapeolally I "n. aftar bla laudlady had been aouadad oa the eiihjact and reported that the poor mun didn't have a allpper tu bl name. Well, the P'ault aa, of course, that the whole hundred and thlrty-alx mar-rlaiiablu mar-rlaiiablu Inillce at Appleburg want to work on allipra; and a f'W of the Ruck who alicady had hushamle also beun alli'pcra, nut of the goodncaa of their hrarta, probably, or miiybe thinking think-ing that they might be wl.lowa aomr day and might aa wall have a pair to their rrcillt. The alatighliir of plush and embroidery utaterhila w-aa aome-thing aome-thing cyclonic, and the local shoemaker shoe-maker had tu alt up nlghta pegging on anlna. Kvun iinfortunato little Jane Wllklnaon wont at a pair hammer and tonga, though everybody aald ahe hadn't a ghoat of a show. In the flret plaie .fane waa too young-her older Blstr Katharine waa rnncedrd to have a right to inter fur the contest, but It waa tinlvrraiilly held that Jane had no right to compete at all. Mealdca being be-ing I'M) yout.g--Hha wita really nineteen or twenty she was alao plain, flhe might have a certain girlish prettlneaa. hut not the beauty which the wife of an han.l'omo a shepherd aa the Hot. Mr. Hlanwlx ahould bnve. Kurthei'-mnre, Kurthei'-mnre, Jane waa In no other way adapted adapt-ed fur the position ehs had been a good d. al of a tomboy, and waa yet, for tbiit iiulter; ahe waa frlvotoita and car. 'less, un.1 w-.is always putting bar font In II. The first time the pnstnr bad nill.il at tlin Wilkinson house, nnd while Kittherlne whs entertaining h'tn In llm parlor In the moot approved ap-proved nr.l .'Irciiiniipcct nnnner, Jane hid bl.itnlerel lit, and lutl.le nf five inlftites Hiked him why he didn't gel mart led-nil the tslrla a.tld he ought lo. June hud i plnlned to everybody that she nieiint It hi a Juke, 1 ut It hao generuMy been pronoiinccd lll-Umed anil In bail tnnte. Ilttt poor June kept working away on her Hllpi'ira regardlesa of the talk Everybody anld that Jmie'a alltipcra wonlilii't lit, or that they would both be for one font, or that ahe would get the heela aewe.l on the toe end, or something. June finally put on the flnUbliig touches and then packed them In a p.iKtdlMiard hoi and lied It with pink ribbon. Then ahe got her other Christmas presents ready. She had a lot of hand bag for a married alster, and a little knit abawl for her gvnnihnotber, and g pair of skates fur a boy cousin, and various other things for divers other peraona, Inctinlliig a fine meerschaum pipe and a pound of his favorite smoking smok-ing tobacco for her brother who waa at college, ubd who wuiildu't be home till New Yeitr'e. , Each thlno ahe oar-fnlly oar-fnlly put up In a toi or bundle and laid It awiiy. Th duy bilore C'hrlatmaa wa nevor-to-be-fiirgotiiin time for the Iter. Mr. Htunwix. Hllppers Just earn down on hltu like an KKyptlun plagua Along about four o'clock Btauwli got crowded out of hla room allppert piled half way to the celling and had to put a cluitr out In the ball and alt thine with an iil'us of the world In bla lap writing tiU Christina sermon on It. Mighty l.iiiisb sermon It wus, too, and gut louith.'r i.i the sllppcm continued contin-ued to arrive, l-'uct Is. he whs gulling pretty nui.l; and every n. w puir sunt bla temperature up five d.'grers. Con aemieuliy, at ti n o'clo k he waa Just hulling. Of ciiii.se he cuulilu't awear, but the wuy lie trumped tip and duwo that hull and giound hla teeth really amounted to Hie aame thing. The arriving allppcra now began to fall off. For ten mlnutea nothing earn, ant he waa Just starting dnwn to aak the landlady If she couldn't put a cot In the hall su he c. u'.l gu to bed, when In came Miuthcr lux. It was from Jane just her luck, uf cuurae, to be lata and atrlka him when he waa all worked up to the bursting point. But let as draw a veil over the eeeae right here and leave the poor aw alone aj be opens Jane'a hot. It waa not more than tulf-put nine the next morning when txs Her. Mr. Htunwix mounted the Wllklnton steps and tugged at the door bl Ht asked for Julie. H aeemed rather queer, but they uahered hi in Into tin psrlor and sent Jane In. Well, to reiki a long story short. It wasn't tea. mlnutea until he had the thing all lieJ up. Ha bad hla rhalr drawn close up beside ber end of the sofa. "Jane." he waa aaylng. "I'rs loved yon ever since the Drat day t as you, but I never knew It until I opened your box." "Then you liked then, did you? I'm so glad," murmured Jiae. "I ahould aay I dldt my, It'a on of the flneat meerschaums I srsr saw, and that tobacco uard to bt my favorite favor-ite brnnd at college. Hut, Jsae, bow did you know I used to iraoke, and waa dying to begin again?" Juno had stopped breatblng at the word meerschaum. Now be caught her breath, and for OB" In ber Ufa I rime to the ocenstnn tTfui didn't put ber I fool In It She simply looked up at blm nnd smiled demurtly. "Oh. I guessed It." the said. "11 was the best fneaa you ever made. I ahould have died laat night amidst thut awful hn.liH.le of slippers tf I hadn't smoked about half of that tobuccu. I mean to kttp on smuklng MOVE!) INTO THE HAU" now that Is, If yoa don't object, dear?" June scored again. "I rather like the smell of good to-bareo," to-bareo," she said Satin day Evening Post. |