They Reciprocated- They stood at the front door. It was about 10:30. The stars glim mered faintly in the cloudless heaven, and the moonlight was sifted lightly through the viuea and lay on the pi azza at their feet like nil opal dream, or something of that kind. No bird sang in the pulseless tree because birds don't sing at night, as a |genernl thing, and besides, if they did, they would not do any singing to speak of a*, that time of the year. The brook that 'babbled through the meadow hard by could be heard getting off its so-called interlude between banks that according to poets, must have been sighing for the flowers to hurry up and fringe it like a lot of real lace. "It will soon be golden summer won't it, George ?'' "Yes, I suppose it will,*' replied George : "I suppose it will. Accord ing to the almanacs, I think it sets in about June the first. Very shortly we shall see the orchards one grand sea of snowy blossoms, and the robin will sing his little song ou the bough of the apple-tree, and dart through the opening flowers and get himselfall soaked with dew." ' Aud we shall often linger at the gate, eh ?" suggested the fair creature. "Oh, yes, we shall lihger at the gate aud hang across it, ahd swing idly to and fro on it to the measure of a dreamy waltz, aud we shall be so hap py that uot even the mosquito will make himself felt-'* "Aud shall we go sailing much?" "Of course we shall. I have got a flat-bottomed boat which I have just had painted green and named after you. I shall take you sailiug every day, and row you round among the sleeping lilies until there isn't skin enough left on the palms of my hands to make a blister of." "Do you like to go out with me ?'' "Very much indeed, became I am so proudjof you. I should be far hap pier with you at a circus or a third rate traveling minstrel show than with andy one else at the graud opera. I should be happier drinking lemonade with you than champagne with any other girl on the face of the tarlh. Peanuts and water with you would be better than filberts and Tokay with the wealthiest princess in the world." "Do you really mean it, George ?" As she asked this question there was a slight tremor in her voice, ami her word./wen-fa.* hot as fried oysters when 'you have but two miuutes to eat them, "Of course I mean every word I say." •'And do you really think more of me than any other girl ?" "I swear it." At this moment she ctutched ner vously at the two-cent jackrose at her breast, and it fell on the stoop at her feet. In an instant he made a grab at it, and the long unearthly rip that fol lowed showed that his enthusiasm had caused him to sacrifice n couple of ( suspender buttons. Nothing daunted, he handed hack the rose, nnd -lie said "I also think more of you than any other being on earth." "You do ?" "Most emphatically I do," she re plied, in words that came from the in ner recesses of her pure, immaculate soul. "No one shall ever come be tween us to blast this deathless blos som of love. I should he happy and contented with you in East Newark." "What?" he gasped. "I could be happy and contented with you in East Newark," she re peated. "Then I know you must love me!" And reaching down he drew a soli taire diamond ring out of his boot, and placed it on her tajwr snowy fin ger, kissed her seventeen good-nights, and fled down the garden path with alacrity of the antelope.—/W. -m♦ m • ■ For twenty-eight years John Is Jo has been the sawdust comedian of the Robinson show, nnd without him in the ring even a preliminary re hearsal must seem n failure. John was just awakening from his long win ter's sleep, nnd had hurried dowafrotn his Cleveland home with his pockets full of "chestnuts," ready for the sum mer campaign. Loio always ap|>car* sorrowful in pants, and a wet chicken uuder the dripping eaves of a mule barn never looked more doleful than he last night. "New jokes plenty for this SCMOO, John," begnn the news man. "Been studying up on flood* and riots, I sup pose, during the winter, and are now ready to knock the spots out of Joe Miller and those other phunny phel lows, b y ?" "No," replied I>olo, "no;" aud his eyes rolled slowly, like those of a dy ing calf. "No, I never told but one new joke In my life. That was in '4B ami some of the listeners are not done weeping yet. No, I determined then that if I could escape from that town with my life I would never repeat the , experiment again, and I have kept my word. New jokes arc a failure." "How have you spent the tedious [ hours of the winter, then," asked the ( scribe. "Speculating in wheat," replied this ■ mournful merry man. f "Speculating." "Yes. I bought at 97 cents and > closed out at 79 cents." i "Indeed. How much of a load did , you have ?" i "Only one bushel," replied John, Hnd he shrank within the creases wn. I was just thinking how de lightful is was with it open; now you ' want it shut, hut I shall not shut it; so 1 there." "Then you are a selfish thing, nnd I slmll have to change my seat." Just then a gentleman, sitting close by, reached over and said, "Indies, that window being raised ninki s no difference, as this car has double win dows, and not a breath of air can JH>- sihly'get through the one that is -till J down." The one that hnd raised the window turned to the other, nnd with a crush ed look on her face, said, "Madam, 1 beg your pardon, but I think two fools have met at last." General Forrest was once approach ed by an Arkansaw man, who a.-ked : "General, when do you reckin we're goin' to git something to eat?" "Eat," exclaimed the general; did 1 • • . I ; you join the army merely to get some thing to eat ?" "Wall, that's about the size of it." "lit re,' calling nil officer,"give this man something to •at and then have ' him shot." The officer understood the joke ami ' replied : "All right, general." The Arkansaw man, exhibiting no alarm, said "Bile me a ham, cap'n, st< w up a , couple o' chickens, bake two or three , j hoe-cukes, fetch a gallon o' -> o' but termilk, and load ycr gun'. With such inducements the man what would 1 n't Ih- willin' to die is a blame fool." A hearty meal was prepared for the i soldier but he will liv>. . # __ Tut; other morning a .-ad looking 1 citizen walked into the office of Wells A Fargo - express and began solemnly j doing np in a package a battered look ing silver dollar. Having accomplish- ' ed this, he pa--e,i the inclosure over to the clerk and said : "I found this dollar on Market street lsst night and I wish you'd ad dress it to A del ina I'ntti, N w York." "Think she lo*t it, eh ?" "Think ?" said the man in a surpris ed voice, "why, of course. So fur ias I can learn it is the only dollar left in Sati Francisco, and, of course iit must have he, n dropped by her. Send it along, please, and you'll have to collect the charges at the other end. I havn't got a cent." And there wasn't a man in the I house but was drv as the citizen who walked off to keep an engagement with the Bankruptcy Commissioner. | —.Son I'rnnriuro Pn*i. TIIK man who wanted to rent a house in the Bowery, New Yotk, went all over the building and examined it carefully. He did not like it, so he •aid to the landlord "The house is out of repair, and 1 don't like it at all. It is infested with rat* and oockroacfiM." "I know all that; hut it has advan tages that outweigh all the cock roaches." "What are they T The landlord took Ibe prospective tenant aside and whispered : "You ctn niako any quaotity of money by keeping a gambling shop up flair*. You will never he pulled, for my brother-in-law in a police cap tain." The tenant shook hU head and re plied : "It'n the Roosevelt Committee and Anthony Coraatock you need for a brother-in-law just at thin crasia. If it were not for them you would he run. nitjg a policy shop in there yourself. 1 ' RKMKMHAH that thin in the only show having on exhibition jthe ntuteH man who has gone out of politics, the Ohio man without an office and the origiual Garfield man; that we have here in a glawse case the reformer who is working the reform act without u salary and the private watchman standing wide awake on duty; wo have here a church choir singing and living in perfect harmony, not having quarreled during the past fii" teen minutes ; here we have an actress wi• i'i but one husband, her own and i only ; also will arrive per next steam j er, consigned to this show, an English : nobleman who has not proposed to Mary Anderson, the only living s|>cci men on the face of the globe, ami ail ; spread out before your wondering eyes ■ l for the small sum of 11 qnatovdollar.— Hawkryt. I ui.N'r think a septuagenarian i* the projwr man to elect president,'' ' -.aid a republican. "Who are you talking nbout-?'' a-k.-d a democrat, "Why, Tilden of courser." "Now look a-here," said the democrat, "you republican* arc alway- getting up stories about Tilden. Of course, every man has bis faults and ha- committed some slips in life, but I'll be doggoned if you can cram it down mc that Til den was ever a neptu —what do you call it?" "A septuagenarian." cs a septuagenarian. No, sir : you can t stuff that down mc. Mr. Tilden,* sir, is not that kind of a man."—.Son Franri.rndo —"Y, 1 filched him." I low dt>l •"U do it "I i tiilit riding on his horse 1 •vr ad and bad plenty of time to aim." "But where i hi horse?" "I did nt t"iich that." ' Hid not take tin hr 4" "( -rtn; 11Iy not. In this -• < tion they will bang a man lor stealing ah .rsc. Philndtlj'hii OCI, Tilt: car was crowded, but it "to|>- |wd to take on a lady. She bad cnrt •- !y - pin r d her way in when a msn "'jilt* zed bis way out, and when he reached the platform lie growled ' Here's n fair snmpb of the b g ' gishne** of the men in iMroit." "How no? ' ' Why the selfish wrctche- -at IhtT and tnade me give up my seat to my own wife.'* "JoilM," said the better dealer, "al ways put in a couple of sheets of pa" pr when you weigh ( owtomern will think you neat and cleanly in your business. They don't like *0 have their butter ilopped into a scale that, for all the- know, ha never Seen washed. And besides, there'# a g ml profit in buying at a half a cent a pound and selling it for thirty-five or I forty."— Er. "I ikin't *ev Why you are *0 particu lar about your hair," 'aid a churlish husband. "I don't uppo.- Kve ever wore bang*." "I don't suppose she did, replird the wife, with a quiet entile, "hf then there wan nobody in the World but her husband la admire her." The husband became eery thought ful.-*#. C. U. II OF FIT It * CO. 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