FISHING. Alder fish pole, gix feet Jong— Looked quite straight a-growing: Home-made tish ne, good and strong—- Used for harness sewing; Hook ma gave me, that she found Sticking In pa's trousers; Worms I dug out o' the ground-— My! but they were rousers! So I went a-fishing, down In the white birch chopping: Waded—me and Luther Brown (rot eur breeches sopping! But the trout they bit like Sam-— Just came up a-flying, Grabbed the worm On the bank wore and then ker-slam lying. and said to take ‘em ler came al "Twant the way ught to let 'em play, instead : haul back and snake "em. 'Lowed he'd us how to do With little feather; Fished show . . and just caught two. the weather! that dratted Cussed his luck For a -New York silver doll Clipper. the street, The in his bh the con before long prayer, while next mo impl “blessings all lands,” under have cluded, he i ont looked at the fly-leaf There were two of the initials of the former owner, W. B The last ns scratched ont, U evid which would little thought Hed the , and his class, 55. arefully he corner Deon « k ¢ there note tis mtly written during thirty years before, “Can you tutor me an hour to- morrow 7” By the time that Wilson had observed this much the prayer the president was walking down middle aisle, the cordance with a custom handed down from long ago, were bows as he Wis a gome recitation in trig. was ended, and the while seniors, in ac making vrodigious passed, and falling in un ceremoniously behind him. Pocketing the book, Wilson returned to his room, and, after a few prelimin- aries, began to get ready to study. thumbed It himself familiar thing Wilson and Fhe first was and aver with it. did, over therafore, and sec what sort of a fellow its former OV Her wis, that attracted his attention. Written in a man's hand io rather small charace- ters, as though the writer would not have it too public, and on the inner edge of the leaf, was the name “Mary.” Smillag to himself, Wilson turned on. Nothing else noteworthy appearsd till he came to what was evidently a very difficult passage on the fifty-first page, for the leaf was badly worn and soiled, and written in the same hand as before were the names “Mollie” and “Mame.” Wilson turned to the first ode and worked steadily over the dictionary for two hours. Then he started for the recitation room, The professor was Willlam H. Hender- son, hut the boys always called him Bilile behind his hack, and occasionally some one made a slip and called him Billie to his face. He was very serious, geldom known to smile, and a regular “grinder.” Sto- ries were abundant about some love af. falr that he had while a student at Yale, und of a girl whom he had been engaged to who left him for a wealthier man and a trip to Europe. But storles about college professors are common, and no one pays much at tention to them. No one supposed that Bilile Henderson could ever thought much of anything except Latin. Every time that Wilson took u | Horace to study his eye caught sight | of “Mary" or “Mollie” or “Mame.” One day, in looking over the notes in the back of the book Wilson i discovery. Down in the | page in the same handwriting was “My Mary." “I'd like to know who that fellow nd what became of Mary,” thought Wilson. “What a nice little plot for a true story! 1 could make out a whole affair from these names In the Let's see, Something like this; have Wig p ius mnde a corner of a love book. “Chapter 1. Student to New Haven from Western home, 8 hazed, meets a pretty girl, Mary some Horace thing bog til iis Comes name or other; tries to study Takes her to glee ¢lnb fy ets uncomfortably in and beantiful collected, 111. Scene-—A beautiful Chapter wr: Mary, and on a sofa Student, with one seated hand In « H + oat packet, 31 re, h 1e elbow on ard luck ure to flunk on exam. iaing of tenderly Student Mm ooks Inte iry's dark eyes, tells RK r) A €) ' sofa, rt} her the trouble is bt quite right After the recitation over Prof. Wilson to hi Mr. W GDhY of was 8 desk sald, ilornee from u It if no objection to parting with flson,” he when you are through wi have an odd edition, you know.” he in explanation, “and 1-1 should like to have it to compare with oth sr you you “Well, I'l be blowed!” exelalmod WH gon, as soon 08 he was well away from the recitation-room. “Who would have thought it!” And he ittoned up his cont and hur ried to bis room to story to hicago News tell the The Kindest Race in tae World. Taken as a whole, the Aer the kindest on the face ectator of their eagerness, their their desire to be in the fron: ro all times and ail seasons, th ican seldom falls in kindnes badly to prevent aay one getting ahiea ericins of the nin are race § tne Am He wa intold sacrifices to help him up. In social Iaterconras this kindness is speclally attractive, The American will take infinite pelos to make the merest stranger haopy. He is courteous and pleasant spoken, not like the Frenchman, from convention, but from the sense of pleasure which his Instinctive optimism teachss him to diffuse, His optimism has even ;rored strong enough to break down the shy- ness which naturally belongs to the En- glish race. If you are asked which Is your saves ite part of the spring chicken at this carly season, be polite, and say the gravy, A BABOON FLAGS TRAINS, Master a Switchman Who Has Lost His Both Legs. A baboon the Government Railway Department, Colony, principal British colony in South Africa, own the railroads within the baboon is one is in the service of Cape Cupe the borders, and therefore of the great army of officials in the Dritish Empire. He is stationed at a point on the railroad between Port Elizabeth and Mit. He assists, to say, i assisted by an enhage better switchman or perhaps it would old who ha st both legs This 1 le baboon 1s be man is his master, and the nob elad to be able to support him in his mis. glu i fortune. The baboo 1 he work of a competent switchmar mucis mor who No he foul 1 Wil ever iu believes that li ent in hi wation of one Knows + Lutes the man 18 visit ASSUTANC The ro become so familiar mild be YOTI'K incapabie FRICRS OF TRADE. What Becomes of Furniture Sold at in. the breaking much she wiht a the woman finds i odd virtt which « ® 1.50 have brought her least In her excil in her « ght of her : d srupted home, i i midst of the wil ment, ommotion i alarms of f the faces not Know until the auctioneer, the pressure o people i and she did the presence o trange not observe, a may she reads | « Liat neariv all her property dealer, the fricod and « ing agent: nn fact, by the au partner, to it sent wWiom, al he rates, au rascalls auctioneer the goods Maybe, nvenies down” Ooh of will see the furaiture displayed in the {de shop from which the auctioneer cate directed her * walking along the ROE Wee KS jater, sie formeriy we Owned plical second-hand sale,” THE FUCHSIA IN EUROPE, itisa Much Finer Plant There Than Here. Americans who have been to En. rope can have but little idea what a fuchsin may become. It grows wild in the hedgerows of Wales and Ire- lnnd and in the Isle of Jersey, off the const of France (which is, however, an Englich possession), it reaches to the second story windows. Some of the fuchsin berries are eaten with sugar in certain countries, though in Great Britain and Ireland, as in Amoerien, the plant is valued solely for the Anwers. WORLD'S LEGISLATURES | Differences i in the Apportionment of Members. The recently elected Italian Chamber of 534 members. The present German Reichstag consists of 303 The next House of Represen sxclusiy Terri Wa tinglon, exciusi mem-f , will consist of The English Parliament consists o Deputies consists of members, tatives nt torial Deleoutes bers Hi0 ¢ of 056 metril tneltidine members, incihigiin Of th in English from Md rend h ( ham! { 622 members KAISER WILL DRIVE ZELBRAS rained South Af ested Irs 5 The passenger earnings of roads are not only being cat int cally by the tro but by © the warmer weather few miles business, who ey lines bieveles Sin set in people living out a from their linve been patronizing the suburban trains, now ride the bicycle. Wiiere there are cities but a few miles apart the passenger men say that between the electric roads and the eycie com- their local earnings are places of A passenger official who has just from Doston states that hundreds now come in on bicycles on pleasant mornings and return in the evening in the same manner, and hundreds more find the electric car quite an attraction, so that alto- gether the Boston steam roads are losing quite heavily on this particu. lar portion of their incomes. He says that Boston passenger men told him that trains that were formerly crowded are now only fairly well filled, and in some Instances a nume +ber of trains ran for suburban busi- ness have been taken off, and those kept on are hauling fewer coaches. (HE KYE OF A NEEDLE. How Ellas Mowe Where it Place {t Really Delonged, Came to * alinost begeared himself be covered where the ey ewing machine i& probabie that thers wihio knew how if came abo iden was to follow IL never oce of Delhl. Cows Two Kinds of Northers. aordinary Verdict, ©8, AN mand.” Russian Thistle “Hoeclng Bees.® that individual at pasian thistie avail nothing because the plague grows faster than the individual farmer can hoe it down; so they all fien ae convenient to have “hoeing bees” in designated localities. The details of Om rations are settled by the town councils, again find time to every one in the neighborhood takes a day off to fight thistles. and in this way it is possible to make at least some stand against the persevering plague, and to keep some sections fairly free for other than crops. —Uhieago Inter-Ocean The Eitfel Tower's Successor. it has now been practically settle] that the chief sensation of the Paris exhibition of 1900 will consist of a new bridge over the Seine 100 meters broad, and with houses, theaters and monuments on either side of it, like the Pont Neuf in olden days, not to mention old London bridge. It will span the Seine from the Champs Elysees to the Invalides. Where Shaving 1s Cheap. Two barbers are fighting for supremacy on Fort street, In Springwells, Mich. © The contest has reached the point where one offers to shave customers free, while the other not only shaves them free but gives them a cigar. THE JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. The Age of Progress--A Lover's Ad- miration-~Went Right Along, Eto. Etc. THE AGE Dr. Emdee It woman Lo have s M I . We Ae SAVY 3 mean, loved you have found my bicycle pocket: we'll pour its con- dd waters s awooned DUNG PURIST Miss Kil} Mi SAY ‘WoO wrdan’s i : youngest & is’ or ‘woods are “Woods are, of © ‘Why? Cause surse.” she answered. Mr parior waitin' to see the Tri Woods. are down in you we ICAL hune THE BEST PLACE FOR THEM Mother (arranging for want the giris to go to some place Course sumer jj where the the nicest men are, of Father—Then, my dear, you had better let them stay in town. Detroit Free Press. SPOILED HIM “Don't vou think that for an ugly man awfully vain siace he came back from his vacation?” “Yes; but you know he was at a sum. mer resort for three weeks and was the only man there.” «Chicago Record. A NATURAL MISTAKE. ‘Jan’t Smith a poet? “No: can’t borrow a quarter to have his hair cut-—that's all.” «Atlanta Constitution. THE DOUBLE ALLIANCE. “Pm glad you came,” said the mosquito; “1 have been nearly worked to death.” “Well, you can geta good rest, now,” answeredethe fly. “I'll take care of him till he gets ready to get up." Indianapolis Journal. SEER NO FURTHER “Oh, where can rest be found? A weary poet sighs, That's easy. Drop into a store That doesn’t advertise. Cuixa, to pay off the indemnity, will have to pay to Japan money at the ave rate of more than $65 a minute, day and sight, during the next five years.
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