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Irviu. llenrv Wliltmlre. J. F. Taylor. II.C. llelneman, LOYAL M'JUNKIN, Gen. Ae't .•3TTT?T_,7iI"F?., WHEN YOU VISIT PITTSBURGH CALL ON JOHN R. & A. MURDOCH, 8 Smith Held street, for lit i Si i ds. Miles. rape Vines. Hardy Hosts. i ;,riur> LlrUs.Gokl GLsli. etc. Descriptive Fall CatalouifO mailed free. VL7 A Nil: 1) Agents to solicit orders for our "* choice ami hardy Nursery Stock. Sternly Work For Kiivrifi'tlr TF«|irril« Men. Salarv and expenses or commission if prefer red. Write at once. State Age, Address. R. 6. Chan & 8q - Advertise ip *he CITIZEN THE UNION PICNIC. At four o'clock iu the morning any but tlie tiennan ilesccaileil etllcmenf lieknv the Pennsylvania cit> would have Iwcn a-leep.liut when Sam Sebra.oler, hi : ilaujfb ter. and Henry Verhawk drove up the ro.ul the 1 msine id' the day liail Itegltn all along. They met two neighbors with their market wagons on their way to the city, and one with a load of bone phosphate a! ready returning from the near factory. Wotnerf were opening their front door? or drawing water in uniet commencement of their long day's work. It was Angnst. A little later and an ex ce-tsive heat would dawn. Even now, be fore the snn had risen, it wa damp rather than cool along the dew wet road. Schraailer had his hat oil. and wiped the perspiration from his broad face. Schraa iler's was a peddler's waprm, with an nm brclla over the seat, which was not meant to accommodate three. Schraader's large ■ bulk was deposited in the laps of bis danghter and Henry Verbawk, with dis comfort to all. Hut Henry was one of the family. He had been a neighbor all his life, ami he was to marry Mary Sehraader whenever their tranquil, unhurrying minds should agree upon it; he was past thirty and she twenty-sis; and it hail been lor several weeks arranged that they should on the day of the I'nion Sunday school picnic at Hunt's Grove, twelve miles away, give Henry a lift, for Henry was going. Schraailer had to-day a new stock of the tinware and merchandise he sold, and he and Mary, who helped her father on his busier trips, had made an early start. But llfiiry hail been ready and waiting. He was as pleased to go to the picnic as he would have been twenty years back. He sat with a primness that chafaoterized him, a slim form jn a suit of white linen and a broad-brimmed white hat with a green lining. His face,clean-shaven and guileless, shone with his happiness in his coming treat. He would attain it by walking seven miles, and twelve miles back that night; but in his bright anticipation the cost was small. Nobody spoke as they drove on. They had lived their lives together till their information was all but identical, and their ideas. This, added to their rustic slowness of tongue, made it likely that when Henry came to see Mary Sunday evenings they would maintain unbroken silence from beginning to end of the inter view, nor feel anything but serene content.; and they jogged ou unembarrassed, in the calmness of that thorough mutual knowl edge which is the surest promise of married happiness, the tin-ware keeping up a drowsy rattling. When they' reached the (urn which separated thein, Henry got down. "It's going to be botter'n 'twas yister day; you better take it slow," Schraader said; and Mary turned her serious face, broad like her father's, and plain, and look ed after him as he tramped 011 alone. He took off his hat in the shade of the woods 011 both sides, thick and dark and vibrant with wild sound sounds, snd walk ed briskly. He was almost aglow with his boyish eagerness. He had so early a start that he thought ho should get there in time to miss none of it. The rustling grove was thickly bordered with the vehicles which had brought the picnickers hither, of the latter there were in the neighborhood of a thousand. Nom inally it was the yearly union picnic of the onT"."Tirmigl I I with them the settlements almost entire. Henry sat 011 a fallen tree in the thick of the scene. He had almost been the first arrival. Now it was eleven, and the picnic was well under way. Thus far he had en joyed every moment. He had traveled round the grove watching the constant arrivals; now and then lie unharnessed and hitchedjhc horses of women who hud come without men, and had taken one to the watering trough. Be had looked on at the erection of the various venders' stands, and had watched the assembling of the minis ters of the congregations on the platform, before which ran a few rods of board benches. Now there had been full activity for an hour. A merry-go-round was in operation, the refreshment stands were gaining patronage, and up and down, in and out, round and round, wandered the thousand picnickers. To Henry it was a marvellous scene. He sat with his hands 011 his knees and his lips apart,unconscious of all but his simple, half-bewihlerod en tertainment. Two girls had been for some time stroll ing back and forth before hi 111 with arms intertwined. Henry had seen them arrive, with a dozen other girls and j T ouths, in the bottom of an evergreen trimmed lumber wagon. A couple of the latter ranged after them at a distance, exchanging occasional insinuating sallies, but for the present held at hay with pert, conscious independence, the forerunner of the full and giggling sur render intended. They had looked at Henry as they pass ed and repassed him, breaking, with the titterings which marked their youth, into whispered ridicule. "What's lie gawping at?" "Goodness knows." "Looks as though he was stuck there, j don't lie?" "I guess he is. Dave said he'd been set ting there since four o'clock this morn ing." They tittered in unison. Dave was one of the pursuing youths. "I'd like to know if ho call stir. I guess I'll see," .-aid the other. She migded her j companion, tossed her head daringly, and as they came opposite him dropped her handkerchief. He looked at her, pleasantly smiling. He had thought they might be speaking of him, and wondered what they were saying. Now they were standing loiteringly, their eyes upon him, and as his own traveled from them to the handkerch.ef and back again, he got up and picked it up. But neither took it. "It's Lil's," said its owner. "You know better; you dropped it your self," I.il retorted, with a stifled shriek. "Did I?" she demanded. Sho threw up her chiu, with bright eyes upon him. "I didn't see," ho, answered, still smil ing. IJe stood straight, with his feet close to gether, as was his wont, and looked at her. She was a tall girl of fifteen, red cheeked and plump. She wore a white dress, with trimmings of embroidery, and a blue sash and hair ribbon, from which her hair fell in those round curls which tell of rags overnight. A black rubber chain and bracelets did duty for jewel ry- "Oh, well, I'll take it," she said, and stood swaying herself and twisting it around her finger. From the two boys passiug them came loud coughs and a whistle. "Well, I should think you better be in troduced," said I.il, snickering. "Let me introduce you to Miss Scott." Miss Scott bobbed her head. "I don't liiioyy who he is, though," she said. At last she was impressed aud sobered by bis unsuspicious sincerity, and she took a backward slop. He stepped after her involuntarily. His BUTLER, I'A., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, !HS!» mile had spread till his artless face was alight with it. He had been there alone so long I hat now. though he had known no link before, he was made happy by this acquaintance. The girl'- blooming young face, UMI, stirred and dazzled him He could not bear that she should go. •'Verbawk." he -aid; "my name is Ver hawk." He saw that several couple - —stiff, awk ward. gawky—were walking about arm in arm. Tlie idea that came to him startled him anil sent the blood to his face. He took of his lint and put its stiff brim to hi< lip ;in a tremor. Ho did not know what to bay, and so he said nothing, but he held out a timid arm to Miss Scott, bis heart pounding. She stared al him, stared at her friend, stopped herself in a giggle, and with a darted look which included the two young hobbledehoys looking on, walked away with him. There was nothing but iucredolous admiration in the face of her companion, gazing after her. "She'll do just about anything she wants to, Ueorgie Scott will." she said to their followers,who joined her, evincing their appreciation by uncouth capers and and horse laughs. "I bet she'll have some fun." Henry's heart, as they stepped away, beat so hard that he could hear it. and could ee his coat lapels tremble. He was happy, but lie was dazed;* so much so that he started oil" unseeingly with irregular steps. For a space there was silence. "Where are we going to, anyhowf I don't know," the girl said, finding relief in a laugh. They were nearing the the scats before the platform, which, the exercise.- having licgnn. were filled. f • "Do you want to set down here?" said Henry; and they sat down. The girl looked at him, twisting lier rub ber chain. At bottom she was as innocent as he, only far bolder; her venture was the result of a hoiilcnish impulse and a wish to be smart and audacious in the eyes of her companions. She had had small notion of how to proceed; but she saw now, iu her rndimental way, which required that effects should be palpable,that she had but ouc course. His trustful simplicity and his utter modesty abashed her, and she was impelled to behave to him as well as was in her raw powers. '•That's the Disciple minister from Trumbull," she said: one of the row of min isters was speaking at the frtot of the plat form. "I do think he's the funniest look ing thing I ever saw. He ain't mar ried." A banner or two hung over the platform, wbich liolil a melodeon. One after another the ministers —farmer-like looking men, in wrinkled clothes or with chin whiskers— made short addresses, alter eaeh of whieh the superintendent of the corresponding Sunday School read the year's report, fol lowed ill turn by the singing of a selected hymn by the school in question. The au dience constantly shifted, coining and go ing; the talk and laughter of uninterested strollers sounded; and during the perform ances of the band, which played at inter vals to attract patrons to the carousal, no sound from the platform was audi ble. "His Sunday School ain't very big, neither," the girl went on; "I've been over to it. I live in the next town to Trumbirll —Hinckley. The Hinckley ltaptist Suu day School's ours. We're going to sing •T-ie ■ Breaking.' If we can't do belle "iiio of'em have, I'll be sor- Sho laughed, and lleury laughed too. He was in a state of thrilled pleasure such as he hail never known. Miss Scott's white rutlhui touched his knee; he could see the somewhat coarse bloom of her face without looking, and smell the perfumery on her handkerchief. '•Vou hadn't said whore yon come from?" she went on, pulling up her black lace mits. ••I live down to Schluzman," Henry an swered. He nodded. "Are you Dutch?'' she queried,and when he nodded again, looked at liiin curiously. "I don't know as I ever saw any Dutch before. Why, ain't that a good ways from here?" "Twelve miles," he said. "Mercy! Did you walk all the way?" "No. I'm going to walk back, though," he added, honestly. "Goodness! Well, mobbe we'll give you a lift as fur as Hinckley. There goes that Sunday school. Pshaw! there ain't more'n thirty. We got twice as many." The Disciple Sunday-school filed on to the platform, waited for the band to stop, and sung around the melodeon. Pshaw!" Miss .Scott iterated. "I guess we can do better - That tune's old as the hills." He laughed with her again, this time with fascinated eyes upon her. Never in his narrow experience had he known so glib a talker, or one who laughed so much. He could not keep up with her—she socm ed far too lively for that—but lie could wonder at and be content with her. "There's Miss Akers," said the girl. "See her. the one with the brown straw hat! She's our next neighbor to home. There's lots of Hinckley folks all around here. There's Mr. Hush." She looked around with a sheepish jlefi ancc. Most of them had seen her. and stared at Henry, in whose possession she felt half pride and half shame. "Well, let's go," she said, uneasily. "This ain't much fun; you think so? /'." said the girl, with a satisfied gig gle; "I guess we'll have to girf it away." They sat down under a tree, aimlessly, holding their bags. "There's Mr. Fuller," ' she prated on. "He come over all alone ; in his sulky, and he might just aj well I brought a load. He's mean anyhow— | mean and stingy. Oracious! look a' thai!" j Two girls precisely alike iu every feature ! of their fat faces and figures, their white j dresses and blue-ribboned hats, walked solemnly past. "Oh yes, 1 know who they | be. They're the Friuk girls from over to I Royalton. They're twins. I've heard of 'em. My goodness! you couldn't tell 'eiu | apart to save your neck. Uraci >us! I'm i glad / ain't one of'eui. I'd do *o>uethiug; j I'd cut my hair off, or something, and I'd I dress np just as different as I could; would n't you?" "Yes," said Henry, his blue mild eyes | fastened immovably npou b< i. i The band stationed at the merry go round was playing loudly and dashingly. •••Marching through Georgia'—pshaw!" 1 said Miss Scott. "TheyM belter get some thing we hain't heard. There's lots riding I in it, ain't there?" "Do you waut to ride iu it?" Henry: I and Miss Scott nodded, with a simple "in in." Henry himself was barren of enter tainmeut, and her mind roved and craved. It was a rude affair, its clumsy motive power a horse tramping around in the mid dle, the seats rough and shaky. It was ten cents a ride. They climbed, up when it had stopped and retilled, and went swinging round. It hail a loud creak, which sounded above the bluster of the band, and their seat jiggled. The grove's • thickest population was here. There were many spectators, talking and laughing and eating, and the girl bridled with enjoyment of their regard. She fan ned herself, and then opened her paper bag and ate pop-corn and peanuts, and when the machine stopped she did not get np. "That couple over there's been aronml two or three times," she -aid merely, eat ing contentedly on. They took three turns. Then they lagged back to their tree, arm iu arm. Other pairs were under surrounding trees, sitting 011 shawls or buffalo- or in buggies standing empty-thilled. "Mercy! I should think 'twas hot enough to set on the ground," said Mi s Scott as they sat down. So far she had talked incessantly and serenely, but she suffered now a lowering of the heedless youthful spirits which bail sustained her. She looked at Henry in sudden curiosity; lie was sitting quiet, his green lined hat 011 his knee, and looking at her. She was flattered by his unremitting admiration, but she was puzzled by its lack of product. "Vou ain't much of a talker, be yon?" she said. "Well, I guess I gab enough for two. going to eat something? I don't want to eat it all.'' He opened his bag, and they ate in si lence for a time. Here and there people were spreading cK tlis <>o the lugging heavy baskets from wagons. "I s'pose they'll all be having dinner pretty soon," said the girl, looking around. "Our load's going to eat all together. Well, I've et so much stuff now I don't be lieve I could touch a thing." I!ut she turned her eyes restlessly about, munching. "What you going to do lor dinuer?" she queried. "I brought a little something," said Henry. He had brought some bread and meat and a boiled egg iu his pocket. Miss Scott searched the hags for the candy without further question. A lew moments back,in her airy complacence, she would have asked him to eat dinner with their load, but the inclination that would have prompted it was subdued. She chew ed her candy in silent, wonder at hi 111, and the displeasure which comes so easily to her age and kind, eying htm covertly down his clean-white length. Her mind, which had wavered between her first derision and her later respect, settled itself. She reflected that he could not say boo to a goose. Yet she could not account for backwardness; no experience defended it. There was nobody within immediate sight, and guided by her crude traditions, with the matter of fact conceptions of them which robbed them of harm, she hail looked for hint to offer to hold her hand. "Well, I believe I'm thirsty again," she said. "'Taiu't much wonder, I've et so much." "Do you want some water?" said Henry. Some idea of her dissatisfaction penetrated to his dizzied uiind, ami lie spoke anxious iy. "Oil, I don't know," said Miss Scott. She got up, shaking the shucks and orange skins from her stained lap. "They've got watermelon up to one of the stands; I saw it." Il>* hail not much money left, but he took it out willingly. "I might as well go 'long," she said, following, her eyes roaming widely. "There's Miny t'one. Well, there's Dave anil Gil. I thought, 'twas funny where they'd gone to." She lingered, flushing and giggling. "Weil, go on." she said, over her shoulder; "I'll wait here." | 11c hurried back, with two slices of watermelon 011 a piece of brown paper. Hut she was gone, lie was perspiring with his haste and the extreme heat; the moist ure rolled down his face; his collar was wet and wilted, and the melon dripped down his clothes. He stood, his legs close to gether, and stared at the place where he had loft her, and a young fellow who stood watching broke into a guffaw. "Your girl's lit out," he said. The woman whose horse he had watered came within range, driving a flock of chil dren before her. "You had your dinner?" she called out. "Don't you want to come and set down with usf We got a plenty." And accepting his refusal, she brought back to him a cup of cold coffee, some cold corn, and a piece of cake. He sat down and ate it. [ He had but five cents left, aud his thoughts went back to Mary. A pop-corn ball was the most lie could buy for five cents, aud pausing in sobered reflection, he made a careful selection of oue, smoothed its red paper around it, aud put it safely into his pocket. II started home late that afternoon, walking at the side of the road,down which the homebound picnickers drove iu a long procession aud a long, dense cloud of dust, which choked and covered him. One after another offered him a lift, but he tramped on, and, steadily covering the miles, turn ed through distant cross roads and left the last of the picnic behind him. It was seven o'clock—eight. The heat of the day had gone with the sun, and the evening was coolly cloudy, lie went through wild roads, meeting nobody, and across fields aud through lanes, to shorten j his journey; his feet and his clothes were' wet with the heavy dew. The chirping of far-off frogs and near crickets wa< all Un sound, and the darkness grew. The stub bled oat fields, a belated haystack now and then, and the worn rails of the fences caught lbe last light, and the daisies and the white heads of wild eariot came out like tars along the road side. Three miles from home he heard the slow tread of a horse's feet and a faint rattle, ami Schraader's peddling wagon stopped as he came in -ight. Mary wa alone on the seat. "We got home kind o' early. Henry." she said, "and I th.iuglit I'd drive along back a little ways and meet yon." He got up beside her. where he sat staidly, and then, looking at her for a mo ment. for the fir t time in their lives he put his arm on her shoulders and kissed her: and I hey drove ou silently iu the quiet night— Emma A. Upper I» HARPER'S Wtjcklj). Choosing a Profession. Twenty years ago Thoma Scott, of Pennsylvania, oue ol the shrewdest of rail way men, spent a few days in a country village. An attractive, bright faced boy in the house where he boarded attracted his notice. He asked the school-master what was the capm ity of the lw.y "He is dull," was the reply. "Thick headed and incapable, though willing enough to learn. His father wishe- to make a chemist of him, but he cannot master the lirst principles of that sci ence. Mr. Scott, watching the lad. observed that in the affairs of daily life his judgment was clear and ju t, and his observation keen. He showed, too, a singular faculty for tuauagii.g his school fellows. The boy's parents were induced to take liini front school, and Mr. Scott gave hitu work in the yard of a railway. "Now," he ..aid. "you have no longer to do with book . tut with things and men. Make your own way. I believe you cau do it." It was the first Ume that the boy bail been told that he was not wholly a dolt. He proved to be energetic, intelligent, and enthusiastic in his his work. There was a certain firmness and cordially in bis man ner which gave him control over his asso ciates. Ho was soon sent out upon the road in charge of a gang of men. A few years later, when Mr. Scott came that way again. the young man was superintendent of a division. He afterward rose steadily to the front rank in his profession. A boy is too apt to be influenced in the choice of hi* life work by some accident or petty motive. His father and grandfather were successful physicians or manufactiir ers, or butchers, and ii seems natural and right for him to follow in their loot-steps. Or his iutimute friend at college is going to study law and he must do the same. ' Sometimes a pioiin father and mother cherish a fond hope that the boy will de- I vote his life to preaching the gospel, and 1 rather than disappoint them, he does it, ! without real fitness or zeal for the work. 111 each case the lad's life is a failure for '■ the want of a little deliberation and a care f ful examination of his natural abilities. Among the readers of the Companion there are tens of thousands of boys who r must soon make choice of their profession ' or trade, one of the most momentous earth ly question* that will ever be set before them. Don't be iii a hurry, boys. Do not let it.. y s an occupation because it is more "genteel" than others. It is the man who gives character aud dignity to his occupation, as to his clothes. Do not think because yon wore rated dull at school that there is 110 honorable place for you in the world. There are tal ' cut-- and powers which do not deal with books, (iod sends no one into the world i without providing some occupation for i him in which he may earn respect. You have yours. But take care that the work is that for which the tool is fitted. The mere fact ! that the work seems pleasant and attrac 1 tive to you does not prove that it is fitted i to your faculties. You may be ambitious, but you cannot climb a ladder without feet I and hands. Learn the strength of your feet and hands, find the right ladder.and then trust only to God aud to yourself to make your way up. — Youlli'x Why She Hugged Him. 1 "It is easy for married couples to quar rel and bring themselves to the point of a divorce," said a well known New Yorker yesterday. "After I had been married three months I came sadly homo one night to tell my wife that business would keep liie away from her for the next twenty-four hours. 1 She was girlish, aud by way ot reply she gaye herself a little hug. with a little wrig gle of her body throw in. and expressed her feelings in au exclamation of uumis takablejoy. Deeply pained. I said to her that I never supposed she desired my ah senee enough to gurgle with joy at the mere proposal of it. Many a man would have gone off angry or darkly suspicions. Instead I Questioned her. 'Why, you goose, said she, •when j'ou said you were going away one thing popped into my head to the exclusion of everything else. That was, now he's going away, and I can oat some raw onions with salt and vinegar. That was all. I have been dying for raw onions ever since our wedding." The Drummer's Ruse. A short time ago. a drummer from abroad called at a Bangor livery stable and wanted a double team for a ten day's trip into the country, and the stableman refused to let him have one on the ground that he was a stranger. There was much discussion over the matter and finally the drummer said: "What is your team worth?" "Four hundred and fifty dollars," was the reply. "If I pay you that sum for it, will you buy it back again when I re turn?" asked the customer, and upon re ceiving au affirmative reply, lie promptly put up the cash. Ton days later, he re turned and driving into the stable, lie alighted and entered the office, saying: "Well, here is your team aud now I want my money back." The sum was passed to him and he turned and was leaving the place when the liveryman called out. "Look hero, aren't you going to settle for that team'" "For what team?" asked the drummer, in a surprised tone. "For the one you just brought back." "Well, now," drawled the drummer, "yon aren't fool enough to suppose that I would pay any body for the use of my own property, are youf" and he shook the dust of the place from his feet. All Out. "Where's your pa, sonny?" "He's out." "Ma in?" "No; she's out." "Brother in?" 1 "No; he's out.'' "Thou you're the only one in?" "Naw; I ain't in; three out, side; I'ui , in t left on hasea." J 1 —The air of Hie desert—"The Camels are Coming." t A Study in Etiquette. If there is any hook more apt to be en tertaiuing than another, it is one iu which the effort i- made to produce a >ilk from the year of a certain useful lint vul gar domestic animal by the process of teaching etiquette. "Etiquette as She i- Taught" is that code of social manners and customs accepted as good form in the circles which find a "ready letter writer" an aid in the conduct of correspondence. The etiqnette is usually given clear, with tlo attempt to render it exciting or especial ly palatable, and its entertaining quality i-- inherent in the nature of the rules laid down. It must lie. however, that some young people have found the mental food too solid, for now comes a writer who ha.-; pro duced a -tory for girl which clear); sugar coats an invaluable series of les ons in social propriety. The story is not an es pecially original one except in it ethical features. The heroine is a country orphan girl of sleuder means but gre,.t beauty, who is taken iu hand by a rich city cousiu and given a course of what maybe called social •sprouts." She has been a few week-- at Saratoga, a glimpse of the White Mountain . a ea -ide visit and then goes into the city swim in the house of her rela tives where, the reader i - repeatedly told, thirty servants are kept. The girl is awftll nice. She is so spon taneous and so splendidly independent. Sometimes her spontaneity is a tritle em barrassing, and there are times when one cannot help fearing that her independence will be mistaken by thoughtless people as ill breeding or even rudeness, but -lie is an awfully nice girl. Her cousin is a great leader, and by aid of her line house and thirty servants seems to have New York society so well iu hand that she can swing it about her head. The advantage of liv - ing iu such a house, with so many servants about, is beyond computing. Our sweet and amiable little rural bud received an in vitation to dinner from a lady who, iu her opinion, has slighted her. Heing told to acknowledge it. she writes: "My dear Mrs. Hlank: "Alter the way you treated me last night I will never speak to you again to you again until you apologize," or words to that effect. She is told, kindly hut firmly, that social usage demands that notes of ceremony lie expressed in the third person and after one more futile attempt succeeds in evolving a response so framed and couched iu less vigorous English. At length the cousin falls ill and her protege proves an indefatigable nurse and a ready scholar. Invitations pour in which the illness of her hostess compels her to at tend to. She learns what classes of in vitations demand formal answers and in recognition of what the sending of a card is sufficient. Thus, before the cousin recov ers, the girl becomes quite the mistress of social form, a fact which the author dem onstrates by producing a note of regret written by the young woman quite without aid or advice and which runs somewhat after this fashion: j "Mrs. presents her compliments to Mrs. and begs leave to acknowledge her kind invitation for Thursday, which Mrs. greatly regrets that she cannot accept on account of a severe attack of typhoid fever " Another week of such admirable training and Mrs. , by her amanuensis, would horn n'V ' bulletin of pulse and temper ature. % Then the hostess recovers, has a card of acknowledgement and thanks engraved and sent to all who called upon her during her illness. Then she packs her trunk, dis misses the thirty servants and goes to Europe, while the young girl returns to her country home and takes to religion and the writing of bad verse. It is a nice story, and should be iu every family—of savages. Sailor Vernacular. "Mr. Olscn," said the captain, iu a gen tlemauly tone of voice to the first mate, "why iu thunder don't you get that line out. you long, lean, knock kneed,tar taint e l wreck of returning reason? Don't you see we're swinging off?" "Aye, aye, sir," Mr. Olscn replied, re spectl'ull\ touching his cap to th; skipper. Then Mr. Olscn leaned far over the rail, and raising his voice, he called the second mate's attention to a matter of great iin portance. "Mr. Peterson," he yelled, "what's eat ing you, you tow-headed, block-eyed Inh her! Do you want to choke the stream? liet a move on you, and he quick about it." "Aye, aye. sir," was Mr. Peterson's re spouse to this delicate attention received from his superior. He then gave the third mate some instructions. "Swanson," he gently but firmly remark ed, "I'll crack your blooming skull if you don't hump yourself, you gaunt-eyed, bow legged, stock fish seeder! Bear a hand there. Lively, now, and get that line out!" "Aye, aye. sir," said Swanson in a hum hie voice. Then Swanson gave the deck-hand who gets +IU per month, a clout on the head which knocked him down. Then he jump ed on him with both feet and shouted: ••Why in don't you pay nut that stern line, you low-lived, white-livered, mule eared, hog-backed, slab-sided, bench-leg ged, feebleminded molligrubcr! What are we paying you fort" And he finished on the poor man with a kick in the ribs. The deck-hand ran the line out mid made the boat last. Then he went down in the hold, where he anointed his person and clubbed himself with a handspike. He Was Wrong. "Can I upeak to you a moment?" he said soil ly as he called the chief clerk in the postoffice to the window the other day. "Certainly."' ••Thanks. 1 didn't know but you were busy. Two months ago I came here and asked for u letter. Remember it?" "I do not." "Probably not, as you arc always busy. 1 didn't get any. I gave it as my opinion that some of you had stolen it. Kemem berT" "No." "Probably not, but 1 spoke very em phatically. That was my opinion, and I went away feeling very much hurt. He member?" "No." "I'robably not, as 1 am of no great con sequence. I now desire toa-k your pardon. Will you forgive met" "Of course.' ' Thanks. I believed you would. You ROC, I expected a letter from my aunt. None came. She couldn't write one. She was dead. See? Therefore, how could I get one? 1 take it hack. 1 apologize. J was wrong. Shake." "That's all right." '•Thanks. I'll never do it again. Tina is an honest postotiice. I was wrong, liood-by."—Detroit h'rve I'm .l. . —in ipite of their proverbial slowness, telegraph me ■ engers gu about with a good ileal of dispatch. —No one can blame whipped cream for turning syiir. A Georgia Possum Orchard. A few mile- *M of Griffin in the home (of William Throckmorton. Mr. Throck morton i* the proprietor i>f the uiost unique and remunerative farm iu tieorjria It i* the "Lime Creek Possum Farm." On the rery crest of a well wooded hill is a comfortable cottage surrounded by beautiful -hade trees. At the ft of the hill is a pretty branch running through the very centre of a ten acre persimmon grove inclosed within a high Iward fence. The persimmon trees are luterspers ed with » quantity of old hollow trees and hollow logs planted in the ground. It was in the early afternoon when we arrived, and tn UM* nnitinted the farm ap peared to he immense fruit . "»luuil bear ing an oblong whitish s«.rt of frnit hi"s* ing from the dead limbs of the tree by a loug. hla< k .stem. Hut appearances were deceptive. It was not frnit, but between seven and eight hundred possums taking their afternoon siesta. The possum, when de-driug to take a nap. .-imply climbs the most convenient tree, walks out on a limb, wraps his tail one and half times around, and swings hi* body out into pace. His and feet are drawn close to his IMHI}- and his head drawn »p between his shoulders until it forms an almost perfect ball, and appear* to be a great pear covered with white fur. The sun was slowly getting below the distant pine mouutaius and we were still gazing at the queer object* in ainnsed won der when a half dozen little possum* em erged from the pocket of their mother, ran up her tail and commenced playing on the limb above. In a few minnte* this marsu pial stretched her head and then her fore feet out. She swung herself once or twice, grabbed her tail with her forepaw* and climbed np it to the limb, which she caught with her claws, untwisted her tail and pulled it np. Hardly bad she balanc ed herself when the hall dozen yonng ones climbed into her pocket and were hid from view. She then climlied down the tree. While this was going on. more than 700 others had awakened and were coming down from the trees. Reaching the ground, each one made for the creek, drank, and then ran up the hill to a pen in which they were to be fed. They were of all sizes. Some would barely weigh a half pound. while other* would tip the wales at thirty. The po» fmin. when hungry, utters a sound which is a cross between a mew and a moan. Over 700 possum* were together so thick that the ground mold not be seen between thein. and the small ones had been forced upon the backs of the larger. All were uttering this peculiar sound.— Atlanta ("OHstitHtiilH. The Sparrow and the Buzzard. A Sparrow was seeking Food in a large Field when a Buzzard settled down with a great show of Indignation and Exclaimed: "By what Kight are yon Trespassing here?" "Why. I supposed this Field to be com mon Property," was the reply. "Excuse my mistake and I will go orer on yonder dill " - Rut I object to the Dust yon may raise over there." • Then I will look for Bug* in the gra». "But I won't allow the graft* to be Trampled under foot." • Then I will seek I'ur Warms in the Thicket." "i>ul the noise will Disturb uie. "f"ET fact, in order to Protect myself I must eat you." MORAL. It is very easy to pick a fight with a man yon know you can lick. Human Nature. Detroit Free Press. "Human nature is mighty queer, isn't it?" he observed to the other man on the rear platform of the street car. "Yes, I suppose so," replied the other. "People are too sensitive—altogether too sensitive." "I don't know about that." "Well, I do. For instance, now, yon have a reil nose. You are not to blame for it. perhaps, but you are so sensitive that if I should offer you a remedy for it you—" "Ton
something for somebody, quick; Do something for somelxidy, quick. Though it rains like the rain Of the flood, little man. And the clouds are forbidding and thick. Von can make the sun shine In your soul, little man, I»o something for somebody, quick, l>o something for somebody, quick. Sweet Angelina, will you sew The buttons on my shirt, And darn the holes which larger grow And make my bunions hurt? And will you tie my new cravat And p:irt my stubborn hair, And pick up all the garuieuts that I've scattered everywhere? You won't? I thought twould make you quake. And yet all this is due me; If, as urn said, you'll undertake To be a sister to me. NO. 44