T ho Bad B<>y on Tramps. lIF. KKAtW TUB ry ami coma out with a loaf of bread ami go ntf chewing the end of it a* though it was the sweetest morsel a white man ever put a tooth into, ami the smile the tramp showed on one side of the bread as he saluted the bad hoy through the window was worth a dollar to the I my. "You seem to have got out of the wrong end <>! the bed this morning. What ails you?" "0, the trumps, ami lieggars, ami uhscriplions, and games to tieat an huuest man nut of his hard-earned money," said the groceryman, as he threw a hatchet on the flair with -which he had been splitting up a box. ami kicked a market basket across the room. "There is not a day hut some one comes iu here after money. Why don't these tramps go to work? Why don't people that haven't got any money go to the |oor house? Why dou'l sick people go to the hospital ? Condemn it, I have had people come in here for help for the old ladies' home, ami the old men's heme, ami to eell hall tickets to help people that have been samt-hagged, and 1 hojs- 1 may never see another |>ersou askiug for help as long as 1 live." "Ami you never will see another person asking for help, or coming to fcuy any of your old decayed groceiies, if they knew what kind of a hard hearted old pirate you wa. Why. blast your old vinegar countenance, you haven't got a heart bigger than ,t j mustard seed," said the boy, n> he picked up the hatchet for fear the groceryman would split him for kind ling wood. "Yes I have," said the groceryman, and he appeared a little ashamed of what ho hail said. "My heart is all right, hut they play it on me. The Other day I gave a tramp five cents to buy bread, and he went and bought a glass of beer at a free lunch place. That made mo road." "Well, bread, plain dry bread, is pretty hard eating. How would you like to go out on the sidewalk ami ' gnaw a dinner off* a loaf of dry bread? | The tramp kuew his business. He i Could go to a saloon with that nickle and huv a glass of beer as though be had a bushel of money, and while he | was drinking it he could go to the lunch counter aud gel sausage, and bread, and bead cheese, and liver, aud Cold ham, all for nothing. If you had Only a nickel left, and had a full siu-d atoinacb, perfectly empty, which would you do, stand out on a cold corner and Chew bread, with no water nearer than (be lake, or would you go into a nice warm saloon, buy a glass of beer and have a big dinner thrown in for a cbroroo. Hy gosh, you would go to (be saloon, and you would make tbe lunch counter book sick. Nobody else keeps a warm place for tramps to eat Iree lunches by buying five cents worth f goods, and a tramp would be a fool If he didn't take advantage of such a chance, when the thermometer is thirty degrees below xero." "I swow, I don't know but you are sright, Hennery,''said the groceryman, with a forced smile. "I gueaa I would paralyze 'bat lunch. But a man has io business to b a tramp, Why don't 4hey go to work 7" "Work ? Why don't you give one of them work? Nobudy has any work for a tramp. A tramp may be a son of a member of Congress, but if he hu been on tbe turf until he has had to pawn bis clothes, one article after another, to keep from starving, and looks hard, you doo't want him. He may be more honest than you are, and better educated, but bis clothes are (bin, and he looks seedy and cold, and h tngry, and hasn't got any money. You do not stop to think that be may be a thoroughbred. Yon fire him out, and he geta so bo thinks there Isn't a man in tbe world with a soul. . If be ateals, it is to keep him from starving, •Bd not to lay on money, like some grocer*." "lon there, boy. I don't I —much," raid the grocery man. "Hut < ramps are all r-glit enough. Tli<>< ..Id people's homes. where old meuutid women are kept in idle tiers, is what makes me tiied. Why don't tiny g..' and live with tlv.ir fblkr?" "Well, you are u eiiiart Alerk," raid the boy. "Why dolt't they live with their Iblka ? That is good. I>o you t-up|io*e then- old |M opU: Would go to a charitable home if they hud one of their own. They have outlived relatives and friends who would luk care of them, and go to the home, where kind hearted straugers math the last duys of their lives as hap|o as possible, and they de|>cnd ujao what they can get from people win have hearts, to pay the eipeuses, an. it is not often that auy person with i soul kicks at a little contribution l< wards banking up the stomachs of tie old people who have beeu pioneei , when the country was new. Many < these old |>eou, for you are down on poor peopb and consider them dead beat",ami thai 1 v-'ii will kick any |a>noti out doors who comes in asking for anything, and J that you growl ami grumble moreover giving away a nickel than some pen- ; pie would iu giving five dollars. I will fix you so you can enjoy a quiet f life. !.t me take that box cover and ! a paint pot a minute, please.'' "No you don't," said the grocery- , 0 oi. i a'e with shame ami excitement. J "You don't put up no sign. What I said about giving to the poor was said in a mom*.tit of passion, when I bad a hot box, but you have shown me wliai a blasted old fool 1 am, and hereafter 1 will give freeiy to anybody that cr.mes. Great Ctear, I wouldu't have ; such a sign pot up (or a thousand dob j lars. It would ruin my business." "Well, don't ever say anything again air in -rarity, that you would l>c ashamed to e iu print,' and the , bad hoy weut out whistling. "Thp Dot let on the Eye." She. Liaewiee, waa Sincere. "One w ird,** she said, "before we part," and her bright eyes glowed in the mellow light of the turned down lamp. "Are you sincere ?" "I am sincere," he replied, in tom* whose truthfulness could not l doubted by any one, save the most con firmed pessimist. "Then you cannot give m* a palace by Ijikc Como?" and sho looked into his eyes as if she would read hi* in most soul. "I cannot, 1 ' he answered. "Not even a brown-stone front "No." There was a wonderful firm ness, a don'tforget-itoess in tho tone in which this momentous monosyllabic was spoken. "Not even a cottage in the suburbs? "Not even that, darling." There was an anguish in his accents that in dicated a mind wholly given up to the gnawing inroads of a sharp toothed despair. "What can you offer me, then ?" she asked: "What ran you offer me as an incentive to induce roe to become your bride V "A share in #7 a week, with a pros pect of a rise next spring." He said this with all the deep conviction of a roan who knows just how he stands. "It is sufficient," she said, with a ■mile: "I am yours, Algernon. A half loaf is belter than no bread." - ♦ Philadelphia Culture. "Mother, who is this Martin Lather that the papers are talkiug so much about?" asked a fashionable New York young lady. "Martin Luther—Luther," mused the mother, "the name sounds familiar enough. What has he been doingH "1 can't exactly make out, but it must bare been something very nice. They are celebrating bia birthday.'' "Is be a foreigner V asked the mother. "lie iiiual ho, or the people in this ■••■uiitry woulilu't make such a fuss over him." "Luther—Luther,'' continued the I mother; "I met a Mr. Luther iu l'ttri* lat year—that delightful gentleman, MUt remeiulter, alt> took u* todiive, Mini alio ulit-rward horrowtd 9100 of \nur falher and lorgot to return it, Imt 1 don't thiuk hi* first name wax Martin. This gmtlcmaii is probably -oniu oelehruted lOnylieliinnii, alio in I coming to this country to lecture. You mud ajK-ak to your father ahoui ticket* for the opening night." Wouldn't Huvo Taken Thorn. Old man Nelson stood on the side >alk muttering, when a white man ante along nini axked ; "What's the matter. Uncle Ni l*e?' •i'sc truu'oled in my mind. Dal • hat's de matter." "What has gone wrong ?" "Elmrything'- gone wrong. Dai hat s gone wrong." "Have you lo*. anything?" "Look aheali, mail, what doe* yei a titer terrygate de old man fur ? Ye lin't help me none, m jes wu*h tin v|| an* pa#e along." "I might lc ahle to help you." "No. ver kaiu'l, hut If yer nuis' know I'll tell yer. I'ie been a auckiu* or dis man what libs iu hear. 1 sucked for him all day. Din mawuiu • hen I come hi ah, dar wuz cz nice u ut'r ' britches ez 1 eber wan ter n-e a iitngiii' on de bannisters oh do hack xi'cli. Da hung dar at dinner time Hl' da hung dar till I went home trr .-it a snack u' aomcthin' tor eat di •dieiiiu', but jist now when I cum ha*k I need dat dad lain tuk'eo way. What did cd gaily along the street a few days ago, clinging to the ami of a gallant about her own age. A not lor little fellow of about their ages np* proached, tugging at the liitle girlV sleeve, and with a look *f mild re proof iu his eye, exclaimed : "I say, are you going back on ni< for that fellow ?" The miss eyed her young iuterro gator for a moment, elevated her none, tossed her head, as she resumed their promenade, replied : "I guess I've got a right to walk with another fellow if I want to ; you lou't expert I can love you all day." Two Durned Foola with a Single Thought. An old man of filty-eigliL and n ather lively looking widow of twenty iglil were wsi.ing lor Justice Mill • licit be returned to his Trenton, N 1., crurt from dinner Wednesday. "Will you marry two durned fool-?'' aid the old niau,smoothing the singh nek of irou-giay hair that was trailed • p over his otherwise bald head, I'lie Justice scaled himself, looke* t the couple thoughlfullv lor a nm oetit and then remarked : ' Trot ou • our fools." "Here we ate, Squire, and tie us as quick aud a* cheap as you can," the •Id man said, as he stood up with the ' willing bride. After a few preliminary qu stions the Justice ascertained tLm the desire for marriage was tnutna with the couple, and in a veiy few minute* lie bad them securely li*'egin with. Then with a silver ne-die little hoi * are njad> through ill* adipose or fatly ti#iie, clear to the lIIU-MIC. The tissues ar then blown up n a butcher blows up meat, until no increase in hoik is obtained, which HI th* arm, arnouuU to a* much as a , half or three quarters of an inch. It ; when in the pr*gress of the inflating j process, a blood vessel lie pierced ami (air gets into the blood,death instantly i ensues. The fat woman takes her ri-k on that. The business, if |iersiste<| in, will kill off a healthy fat woman in about six years, and don't make a 1 great deal of money either." A Monkey and Dog Fight. Moor* bad a big lighting slump tail dog by the name ol it tiller, ami one dy a little Italian cauie along with an organ and a monkey, and, aa lli* crowd <*tlirred around, be asked the man if his tnonkey could fight. "Ob. yea; he fight." said the Italian. "Will be hgtn * dog T' 1 Moore. "On, yeg, b light dog—ha whip dog quick," aaid the Italian. Moore pulled out a f.S mil and said. "I'll bet you ibis that I've got a dog b* can't whip." The Hill* fellow entered it with another five and the money was banded over to a stakehold ' r, and tbey went through ibe back yard, followed by ball the people of the little town. Tbero ley lb* dog on the gras* asleep, and at the word the Italian tossed the monkey upon biro. In le > | than a j ffy lb* I.title brute bad hit teeth and bia claws fastened like vice I in the stump of thai dog's tail, and was { screeching like a hyena. Thr dog gsvr but one astonished look behind as b* j bounced to bia feet and made track* for another country. The monkey held on until Ksttlev sprang over a ten-rail fi e* at the back of the garden, when be suddenly quit his bold and so* <>n the top rail and watched the dog's flight with a chatter ol perfect satisfac tion and danood along th# rail with delight. The crowd was oonvulsed. They laughed and roared and hollored tumultuously. all hut old man Moore, whose voice could be heard above all others as he stood upon the fence and •hound ' "Hare. Hauler: here, here I Here, fattier, here? Here, Rattler, here." Rut Rattler wouldn't hear. Rattler rattled oa and on, across field after field, until be got to tbe wod and ws gone from human sight. The littla Italian shouldered tho monkey affectionately, and walking opto Moore •aid : "Your dog not well to day ; mat be your dog gone off to hunt rabbeet. i Y-'ur dog no like my monkey—be not acquaint. May be ven I come again next year he eome back and fight some more. Ven yon look for him tor oorne back ?" Moore gave up the wager, but he sssertsd solemnly that Rsttler would have won the fight if he hadn't run. "The surprise, g-ntlemen. the surpn-e was what done it," ssid he, "for that dog has whipped wildcats and a bear and a abe wolf and every dog in ten miles of Watktnsville," And all that evening end sway in ibe night and early next morning an inviting mournful voico could he beard at tbs back of th* garden calling "here, Rittler, here," and in three day* alter a man brought Rattler home, but be had lost bia intep-, ritis and never could be Induced to fight anything any more.— Bill At p. 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