Was it Chance
The wind swept over a silver string;
Tbh oord responded, but why did it sing •
WM it chnnce ?
The golden sun, rising, illuminod the sk/t
Tho lotus awakened, bat why did it sigh t
Was it chance T
Tho nightingale hovered all night o'er the rose;
Why blossomed tho rosebud at duwu? Who
knows?
Was it chance?
The moon flow away with the dark gazelle;
Which courted the other ? Who can toll ?
Was it chauco ?
The lover found many strange ways to his fair,
Aut, arrived %t the spot, she was over there.
Was it chanoe ?
—Froth thr Ptrtian.
CHARMING BETTIE,
"It was ull very long ago," the old
lhaid said. "Can you believe I ever
Was pretty?"
I'riscilla opened her mouth to speak;
but Miss llettie did not wait to hear
her.
"Yes, I was pretty once, and I was
called 'Charming llettie.' My hair
was always curly, and my eyes used to
be very hrigtit. My cheeks were red
ao red, they accused me of painting
toany a time, and my teeth white and
even, and iuy tigure round and trim."
She had her snug, brown house,with
Its pretty, old-fashioned garden, her
thirds and her flowers, and her white
kitten; but she must at times, I'riscilla
fancied, he very lonely, in spite of it all
I'riscilla could picture her in the j
|png winter evenings, sitting in the j
little, dim, lamp-lighted parlor, knitting j
—knitting.
"Miss llettie," she said, gently, afte r
a little, "who called you that—'Charm
ing llettie?"
"Who?" Oh, a good many. He j
tailed me so first, and then they all got
to calling me that. I liuvo never told
py one yet. Ilut sometimes I thiuk
it would do me good to speuk alnuit it.
1 get tired of only thinking—l think so
much," with a little sigh, and the
fitting lying idle now in her lap.
.k'Tlis name was David Allyn," Miss
Uettie said, rather tremulously.
J) "David Allyn—Lawyer Allyn!" I'ris
jtllla cried, her dark eyes large with in
tense surprise.
■■ The spinster nodded.
4"I have a picture of him, taken when
he was young." she said, and she got
up and went to a little shelf and took
jt down. "lie was a handsome lx>y."
ifxe went on, handing the faded daguer-
Jbotype to the girl, "and he was as g<>d
as he was handsome."
, The lieardless, boyish face, with its
Irregular, unformed features, and
lather sunken black eves, did not
strike I'riscilla as being at all hand*
*>'""•
' "Did you meet him here in K ?"
She asked.
\ "Yes, at a dance at one of the neigh
bors'. He was a young lawyer, had
dust graduated, and hadn't hung out
bis shingle. Hut he was uncommonly '
even then. He is our leading
lawyer now, you know," the spinster
added, with no little pride,
"It seems so strange to think he was
your lover," I'riscilla exclaimciL
I "Yes. it does seem strange now. after
all these years," Miss llettie -aid, with
another little 9igh; "hut it seemed
very natural th n. We met very often
after the night of the dance, and we
grew to know these country ro i ls near
here by heart, for many were the long
walks we t<*>k together. There is one
road—that one that leads hv the Hill*
man cottage—l never rare to go now.
It was there, on that road. Just almut
dark one October evening that he told
me he loved me. There had been a
fine sunset, and the sky had been a
bright Maine-color. As the glow faded
and the meadows grew dark, and a
little mist began to shut out the hills
ire turned to go home. 'Lean on my
ann. dear,' he said, and when I did so,
trembling a little, he said; 'How
would you like a young fellow's strong
arm to lean on always?' I didn't say
anything right then, he t*>k in* so by
aurprise; and presently he went and
told me how pretty be thought I was,
/ and he said, with a laugh, and giving
my arm a little pinch; "I am going to
name yon 'Charming llettie.* So after
that lie always called me that, and soon
• nearly every one in It—— hegan call
ing in" it, too. We were never engag
ed to each other, although I wear a
little ring he gave me, in remembrance
of our love, vet," Miss llettie said, and
held out one thin hand, on whirh shone,
in the tireiight, a worn band of gold,
"There was just this understanding
between us; some day when he had
got a nice start in the law and had a
little hoine of his own to take me to,
then I was to lie his wife. We were
young and we were content to wait;
and one day he went away to the city
to go into partnership with and old es
tablished lawyer, a friend of" his
father's. It was a grand chance, a
fin--opening for him, and we both knew
ft. and rejoiced over It like children, a!-
(hough wo dreaded tho separation.
'Never mind. Charming llettie,'he said,
when ho oaine to kiss me good by
'ln a few years 1 will he nicely llxtxl;
perhaps rich, who knows? Anyway.
I'll have a good start, and I will come
hack and carry you away.' And then
he was gone, and that was the end, for
when David Allyn came home at tho
end of two years lie did not como alone;
he brought his wife with him.
"They staid here a little while, and
then went hack to the city. I met her,
once, in church and I overheard her
ask David 'who that ugly little thing
with the red face was ho was staring
at so hard?" If that was 'Charming
llettie?' That day I walked for tho
first time after David's marriage up
the Ilillmancottage road, and, although
I shed many hitter tears, I resolved not
to let what had happened spoil my life
for me; but somehow it has the
spinster endsl sadly, and she starisl at
the lire with dim eyes.
"Miss llettie, she is dead now," the
girl said softly, after a little pause,
"and he is a widower."
I'riscilla had been staring at the lire
also, and weaving a little romance of
her own.
"llusli, child!" Miss Sligo cried,
"How can you? She has not been in
her grave a year yet, and David Allyn
will never marry again, anyway. His
romance, like mine, is ended."
Miss I'riscilla kissed the maiden lady's
faded cheek, and ilung her young arms
affectionately around her.
"I shall love you better than ever,
now," she said, tenderly, "anil I hope
some day things will yet come right."
Then she went away, and Miss
llettie stood in her open window for
some time after, looking at the sunset.
Lawyer Allyn saw her as he came
up the street from his office. He had
moved to It from the city, and
walked more slowly as he came to the
little brown house among the trees.
They always g|M)ke to one other; it
always seemed foolish not to speak. S>
when he got by the window he said:
"Your (lowers are looking very fresh
and nice. Miss Met tic."
The spinster gave one of her little
nervous starts, she had n>>t seen him
coming. Her hand struck against one
of the flower-pots and knocked it over,
it rolled off the narrow sill, and lay at
David Allyn's feet.
"It is broken to pieces," he said,
picking it up, with a little smile on hi s
thin, sallow fa> - e, "but lam going to
keep it may I not?"
"Yes if you want to," she made
answer, a little breathlessly.
He took the plant a pale-pink ger
anium—out of the earthern pot, and
shook a little of the dirt off the roots.
"This shall bloom in my window." ho
said," and I am going to name it
'Charming llettie,' in memory of other
days."
Mi<- Sligo's tlusbnl a deep risk
"Good-night," she said, abruptly, and
was altout shutting the window. She
felt shocked; his wife bad riot leen
dead a year.
"No, don't go yet," David Allyn
said, his hand on the fence railing.
Then lm seemed to remember himself
"Very well, gnoil-night," he added
and walked slowly away, the little
pink geranium in his hand.
A few days later, another stormy
afternoon, near dusk, Miss *M.g> heard
a kn< kat her front door. There, on
the porch, W.LS Lawyer Allyn.
Miss Ib-ttie smoothed her curls
quickly and hastened to the door. She
led the way to the little parlor.
"Take this chair," she said, drawing
a large rocker close to the lire.
The lawyer held out his hands to the
blaze.
"You have a snug little home. Miss
llettie," he olwervcd. "I suppose you
would never lie willing to leave it now."
"1 am attnchisl to the house," the
spinster said, gravely. "My dear
father and mother ixith died here, and
it has man} associations."
She was sitting in another rocking
cliair near by, ami had taken up her
knitting.
David Allyn watched the swift-tlv
ing needles.
"Don't you ever get lonely?" he ask
ed, after a few moment's silence. "I
do. up in my big house. It is a pretty
place; but it is too big fur me."
Miss llettie only knitted faster, and
was silent. His coining hud disturbed
her greatly, (suddenly, he moved for
ward, and took her work away.
"1 don't want you to knit any more
to-night," lie said; "I want you to look
at me."
"Lawyer Allvn!"
"No, not Lawyer Allyn—David.
Call me that, as you used to."
Miss llettie trembled; her cheeks
glowed as in youthful days.
David Allyn took one of the spinster's
thin hands in his tho one on which
the little worn ring was, it happened.
"llrtf.e." !;•• s lid, gravely, "I have
come benight to .t': your forgiveness
and your love again. 1 feel I made a
mistake—a great mistake, onco In iny
life, and I want, if possible, to rectify
it. Don't tell mo it Is to late."
To feel that she was loved again,
after all these lonely years, was too
much for Miss Mettle; she burst Into
tears. 11 or white kitten purred and
rubbed its soft little bead against her
dress. The firelight dnneisl on the
wall and made black shadows in tho
corners.
In the uncertain light David Allyn
bent and kissed the faded cheek beside
him.
They were speedily married.
American Society.
American society, as now carried
on, is maintained solely for the bene
fit of young girls, and is generally lit
tle better than a marriage mart. The
parents launch their offspring as well
as possible, ami display their wares to
the greatest advantage, but the busi
ness of tin- market is carried on chiefly
by the young girls themselves, instead
of by their mothers, as in England and
Europe. There is no special "Ejection
to this method of transacting the bus
iness, but it is preposterous that young
girls and their affairs should over
shadow and shut out everything and
everybody else. The result of this ab
sorption in one class and one pursuit
is that American society is often in
sufferably dull and flat. It is made
up too exclusively of ignorant girls
and their attendant lioys. Half the
education of a cultivated woman is of
course that which is derived from so
ciety and from the world ; and yet
Aiucriean society is almost wholly
given iii• to the business of entertain
ing and marrying those who are neces
sarily wholly destitute of such ab
education. Another effect of the prev
alence of social principles of this de
scription, is the supremacy of that
most rustic and unattractive of habits,
the pairing system, which converts so
ciety into a vast aggregation of tete
a-tctes. This prevails ail over the
world to a greater or less extent, but
it should never reign supreme. The
upshot of the whole thing with us is
t>i drive out of society nearly all mar
ri**l people, for marriage under such
a system is destructive of soci.il value;
nearly all unmarried women over 25
are thought to have overstayed their
iuark< t; and, finally, a considerable
jxirtion of the unmarried men of -'lO
and upwards. In other words, except
at few largo balls and receptions, all
the best and most intelligent part of
s H-jety is usually lacking. It has Ix-cn
pushed aside, and is obliged to find .ill
its ..sial amusements in small coterier
of its own. This retirement is of
course voluntary, be. ause the pairing
system ruins general scu tv, and
make, it, iu fact, imjxKsible in the best
and trmst sense. A clever young
Englishman not lotig ag > express.*! bis
surprise at the fact that whenever lie
ask■-1 who a lady of a Certain age, as
the French say, might be, he was in
variably told, not that she was Mrs.
I'!.ink. but that she was tie- mother of
Mrs. Hlank. The girl, like the l*y, is
pr periv the newt insignificant mem
ber if s.. i.-t y. When a young man
goi-s forth into the world he start* at
the 1 ttoin of the ladder, and work#
his way up. The same rule should
apply to vming ladies in society. They
have their place, and it is an Impor
taut one; but they should not start in
social life at the top, and then slowly
d< scend. Such a system is against ev
ery law of nature or art. with its con
comitant of universal tete-a-tetea,
makes really attractive general society
llll|H wsible. We place the social pyra
mid upon its apex, instead of upon its
base, and then wonder that it is a |or,
tottering anil unlovely object.—Atlan
tis Monthly.
A Temperate I.lfe.
George Bancroft. ! ■ historian, is 83
years old, and yet of us clear intellect,
sure memory, unflagging industry*
hungry for new farts historical and sci
entific. and fond of society and out
door exercise as a man of half his age
He rides frequently, and sits his horse
with only a student's stooping of the
shoulders, and his white hair crowns a
face full of animation and lit hy quirk
and expressive eyes. At his di-sk at
five or six in the morning, he has all
the freshness of a youthful litcrateur,
anil is devoid of the vanity common to
youth and old age, of jietting his own
ideas and style. In revising the early
volumes of his history he trikesoiit lib
theories of twenty years ago as readily
as hi* superabundant diction, and re
places them with lately discovert*! fait*
in ethnology and chronology and with
terse and direct language. Ills intel
lectual henlthfulness is due probably to
constant and unhurried work, a* his
IKSIIIV vigor is attributable to regular
ity .aid temperance in eaHng, drinking
and general living. He is a remarka
ble Instance of long-preserved elasticity
of all the faculliea
t'MITINUN FOB THE CI IDOLS.
Germany still beheads her criminals
for certain capital offenses.
Landscapes have been photographed
from the windows of a train running
forty miles an hour.
I'ittahurg, I'enn., manufactures glass
shingles, said to be more durable ami
Impervious to rain than slate.
A Maria surgeon advertises that he
will supply people with all the dimples
they may desire at a napoleon apiece.
The practice of cremation is making
such progress in Japan that it is said
about ytJOO bodies are annually dispos
ed of In this manner.
The last census of India shows that
there are 21,imhi widows in the land of
elephants and jungles. This is due to
the fact that no woman whose hus
band dies is allowed to remarry.
The total land area of the I'nited
States, not including Alaska, is I,'JOH,-
80* i.i Hh i acres, and the total amount of
farms, according to the last census.
536,081,835 acres. The number of
acres owned by the government at the
time that (S-risus was taken was 1,273,*
1U6.13H.
A cubic Inch of gold is worth $2l",
a cubic foot, $362,380, a cubic yard, $O,-
797,762. This is valuing it at fir an
ounce. At the commencement of the
Christian era there was In the world
sl27.<KM),(shi in gold. This had dimin
ished to *),i *X) at the time Amer
ica was discovered, when it began to
increase. Now the amount of gold in
use Is estimated to be f 6,0 i s'Xi.UUU.
The Hampered "Png."
The "yaller dog" is a drug in the
ritv markets. He at one time flour
ished profusely. The pampered and
luxurious canine at the present time is
the pug. The equipment of any lady
representing the first eir< b-.i of aristo
rratir society is incomplete without a
pug. At the same time his is a color
that has a narrow escape fr--rn yellow.
The regulation tone of a well-bred pug
is a dark cream color, except in the ex
tremities. His iios<- is black as far
back as bis eyes and on bis legs as fur
up as his knees. A stout tall, closely
curbd over the back, is an individual
feature of th- prevailing j>* tof the la
iies. Although ;• -e-l of a counte
nance so fi-ro- i : in appearance com
pared with which the vicious hull-ter
rur apjs-ars placid and ls-nign, th<-
pug is the inf'-t harmless of matures.
I'ligna- ty i- an unknown quantity in
the o.injMeuti nof a pug. lb enjoys
'.he proud distinction cf setting the
rub-s and tie m-s of physiognomy
aside in the < -lunation of chara ter.
Were h<- n--t fashionable, he woiihl Is
positively ugly. A- it is. roinm :ipc*e
pie. who have neither the means nor
mind to la- • -Hu tu . regard the pug as
really repulsive.
A pug of certified |**ligree insuring
the greatest p -.ijble meann***-* of coun
tenance is worth $75 t<> s!'*>. lb
weighs from nine to thirteen pounds.
A little arithmetic will show how a
pound of pug goes a great way Into
dollars. A] ug require- an elaborate
ly-made and tnonogramed blanket
and harness. Then- are several tailor
ing firms in Cincinnati wh< make a
specialty of clothing pugs and plugs.
A plain garment for a pug costs as
much as $2", and as much tnore mono
In the way of jeweled collars, and gold
and silxor trappings can Is-put on him,
as the demands of fashion require.
The pug is a fashionable institution.
Imrrowed from England. All the rep
resentative sir-s and damca of this
family of leasts are owned by the no.
bility of England whose kennels un
guarded as closely as their stables and
preserves. The money required for
the purchase and maintenance of a pug
would keep a joor child and relieve
maternal distress for a year. I'oor
children and maternal distress are not
fas'iionable however, and pugs are.
A Man Neter had Teeth,
A man who never in hi* life hail a
tooth In hi* jaws was at one time a
resident of Montana. This fact was
brought to the recollection of an old
resident of Montana by seeing a state
ment in an Eastern paper that one of
the most wonderful natural curiosities
of the ag<- isa 10-years-old Georgia lmy
who never had any teeth and show* no
signs that he ever will have any. The
man referred to ataive was 60 years
old and ha<l never hail teeth. Ills nßinr
xx as Joseph Ilearclaw. He was a resi
dent of Alder Gulch in 1864 and
1865. Although nature failed to sti|>-
plv Mr. Ilearclaw with teeth she tried
to make amends hy furnishing him
with long, strong flnger-nalls and toe
nails, which were almost a* hard a*
(•one Mid fully an eighth of an inch
thick. It is not known whether he
got the name of Ilearclaw from the
circumstance or If that was properly
his name. He was from Illinois, to
which state he returned in 1865 or
1866.
t
THE HON MAKCIIK
An ICatahllahment thai Irrdi, MhrlUrf
a<t I.<l u< atr• Itl i.itiplo>ea.
A1 most every one known this won
derful <lry goods store of I'aris, but I
think not many know that it is a lav
rievolent work as well as a successful
business undertaking. Mr. lioueicaut,
the founder, began life as a poor
boy, and when able to have a little
store of his own, his attention was di
rected to the welfare of Ids clerks, and
he gave them as soon as he was able, a
home in his own house. From this
small beginning the work has grown
wonderfully. Mr. lioueicaut died a
few years ago,worth millions of dollars
and today the "lion Marche" carried
on by his widow, employs .'lOOO people.
Two thousand of these people live
in the building, and the -'VHjO take
their meals there. The first thing to
be noticed by a party making a tour of
Inspection of this great concern is a
large hall filled with desks, where a
great many boys and young men are
studying bookkeeping. They review
all the hooks of the store, and are paid
a small amount for every mistake they
llnd. In the evening lessons are given
gratuitously to the employes in
English, German, instrumental and
vocal music, and fencing. Concerts
are given by the store in summer, in
the square hy the side of the building;
in winter, on the ground lioor, which
can 1m- cleared by the porters in twenty
minutes of counters and g<sls, when
it is needed for that purpose or for
halls. There are four dining rooms,
one for the men clerks, one for the
girls, one for the workwomen, and one
for the jiorters, messengers, arid drivers.
The menu for dinner of one day con
sisted of soup, one kind of meat, one
kind of vegetable, and de '*rt. and
for each ja-rson a half buttle of wine.
Coffee is extra; it e.ists two cents for a
small cup and throe cents for the large
ones. Three hundred people are em
ployed in the kitchen and as waiters ir.
the dining rooms. The kettles are
immense, three feet high, and no man
could meet his arms around one <>f
them. Of course, when full and hot,
they are beyond the ability of man to
move, so pulb ys are arranged which
lift the kettles from the lire and place
them where they are wanted. For the
clerks there isa r -tii f■ r amusements
where tl.ere are billiard bibles, rh< -
ih* kcrs, dominoes, etc., but no caro
playing.
The ladv clerks have a pleasant little
parlor, where there is a piano, and
w here they can sj*end their evenings
when they ch<- l'.ach girl has a
r " in entirely to herself, which is plain
ly but very comfortably furnished.
There are rub - to Is- observed by a!k
but tliev are not burdensome or oj>-
pressive; the doors are not cl"-i l or.
week days until 11, an l or. Sunday*
until l-.ik' at night, but the occupa
tions and entertainments inak< it more
enticing to remain at home than to go
out. Every one in the vrxic*- of the
' lion Marche" receives a certain com"
mission oncv< ry thing sold or delivered
and after a certain number of years"
s. r\ice < ach ac juir an interest in th
store that increases yearly. It iff on
of the in est complete works of licnevo
lence known. It would be almost im
possible to think of any details that are
not attended to. Th-re is a barlier'
shop in the building b-r the use of tho
employes, a physician is employ *1 by
the store, and his services are free to
all; moreover, there is an infirmary in
another part of the city where those
who are sick are cared for; a pair n*
iwxits is blacked for every member of
the establishment every day. When
asked if any lioard wa paid the answer
was "no." but I supjwjse at least some
difference is made In the salary.—
Fnthion Courier.
Father of Water*.
lteccnt data show the Mississippi
river to possess fifty-live tributary
streams, with a length of navigation of
16,571 miles, or about two-thirds of the
distance round the world Even this,
however, represents but a small amount
of the navigation which will foliow
when the Federal government has
made the contcmplatisl improvement.*
In the Upper Mississippi, in the Min
nesota, Wisconsin and other rivers in
which it is now engaged. Hut while
the Mississippi has 16,571 miles nav.
igalile to steamtioala, it has 20,221
navigable to barges.
Knew lltin Well.
"Do you know the prisoner?" asked
a judge of a witness.
"Yes, sir, I do; I know him Inti
mately; he and I were in a bank to
gether at the same time."
"Ah, when was that f was the que*
tion of a shrewd lawyer, who was
counsel for the prisoner.
"Well, as near as I ran remember, it
wa* five years ago. and about 3 o'clock
in the morning; none ot the lawk oftl.
cers were present at the time."
The wltnesa was ajwwdUy excused
, * i
\
—T-JL . f
riK FAULT DOCTOR.
DyipepHia. —The late J)r. Lwod, In
Jn his recently publish*! way on "The
("UUH** ami Treatment of Indignation,"
lays down as a fundamental principle
/hat the amount of f'xxl whieh each
/nan in capable of digesting with -a MS
always has a limit which le-ars relar •
lion to his age, constitutaion, health,
and habits, and that indigestion is a
consequence of exceeding this limit.
Different kinds of food are also differ- i
entlv a/1 apt*si to different ronstitutlons
Dyspepsia may is; brought on by eat
ing irregularly, by allowing" bri long
an interval between meals, and by eat
ing too often. Frequently the meals
are not gang*] as to their relative
amount, or distributed with a due re
gard for health. Thus, when we go
out after taking a light breakfast and
keep at our work, with a still lighter
lunch only during the interval, till
evening, we are apt, with the solid
meal which tempts us to indulgence,
to put the stomach to a harder test
than it can Is-ar. "When a light
1 breakfast is eaten, a solid meal is re
! quisite in the middle of the day.
When the organs are left too long un
employed they secrete an exeessof mu
cus which greatly interfere with di
gestion. One meal has a direct influ
ence on the next; and a poor breakfast
leaves the stomach over-active for din.
ner. . . . The jsiint to laar in mind
is, that not to eat a sufficiency at one
meal makes you too hungry for the
next ; and that, when you are b* hun
gry, you are apt to overload the stom
ach, and give the gastric juices more
j to do than they have the power to per
: form. Persons who eat one rn--.d too
| quickly on a-,other must likewise ex
pect the stomach finally to give notice
that it is imjMsuvl ujein. Other pro
vocative of dyspepsia are imjerfectod
mastication, smoking and snuff-taking,
which occasions a wa-te of saliva—
' although soine people find that smok
ing as-ists dig<-stion, if done in moder
ation sitting in position-* that cramp
the stomach, and the pressure that is
inflicted on the stomach by the tools
of some trad*-*, as of curriers, shoema
kers, and weavers. The gen'-ral symp
toms of dvsjx-psia an- well known.
- me timt d' -crvc sj,-. j,,i remark are
fan* i-s that tin- hubs • r hands ar<- dis
' rt'-l. mental depress! .n. extreme ner
\ousnes.. liyjMichr-ii-lria. .m-1 other af
! feet ~ lis of the mm 1. The cur*-is to be
; sought in av- idingthe f -1 and haMU
hy whieh dvsjK-poa are promoted, and
and u-ing and pm*il< :ng tie-**- which
ire found to agree l*-.-t with the sys-
I*-111 of th*- subject. Hog;il.,rity in the
hour* of meals can n->t )*• t jo strongly
in-i*t*-l <-n. "The st--ma h should not
' -*• disapp int-d wlun it expects tube
replenished. If disaj-] int*l, even a
'Jiininislie-l .iiii<oint of food will he ta
xi n, without apjM-tite, which causes
the seer* tions t-> injure th*-stomach,
r * Is** impairs its muscular action."
, —Popular . s i>nr. Monthly.
Hl* Papa's Name.
There was a bright little boy be*
! tw een J and ff years <>l<l picked tip as he
was wind* ring on th* *tr**-t and oar
ri*-d to the Four Courts, where lie
took a s< at on the railing in front of
I the Central Mat ion, stuck out his
chubby legs and -tar**! at everyone
who came in without being the least
abashed. A* is customary such
cases, an endeavor was made to elicit
information from hiin that might
i lead to his restoration to his distracted
parents. The little fellow appeared
willing to tell all lie knew.
"What's your name, young man?"
they asked him.
'.limmie Kearden," he lisped.
"What's your papa's name?"
"Papa."
"Hut what does your mamma call
him'
The cherub's face lighten*! up with
pleasure at lieing able to furnish the
desired information, a* he answered :
'hhe tells hiin, you old villain, you."
The examination was postponed.—
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The Fox and the Fanner.
A box one day made a call upon a
Peasant and bitterly complained of the
custom of shutting poultry up nights
*n Fox-proof jw-ns. "It isn't lavause I
suffer at all," added Reynard. "but
think \iow uncomfortable it must be
for the poor Fowls. It is their condi
tion I wish to mitigate."
The Peasant took the matter undei
td vise incut, and next evening he no-
glected to shut up his Fowls. Next
morning he came across the Fox Just
as he had finished feasting on a fat
Pullet and cried out: "Ah! this is the
way you take to pity my poor Fowls,
is It r
"Well, you see," grinned Reynard.
'I feel very sorry for the Fowls, hut at
the same lime cannot afford to miss an
opport unity."
Moral: The man with ten acres of
land to sell Is the chsp who first sees
(he need of an orphan asylum. —Drtroit
Frt* Prim.