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That very antelope had lured him to the top of Slsty's peak and had taken revenge for the fine shot which had brought its demise. Craig, naturally hot-tempered and impatient, swore audibly He won dered why a man should want to go hunting in the Rockies; why, if he did, he could not tell when it was going to rain—or did anybody ever know Col orado weather; why, if a man knew enough to go to the top of a peak, he could not And his way down? He had no idea where he was, and night was near at hand; under the aspens, that slapped him merrily with wet branches as he passed, it was already dark. He wondered where Dr. John was. That ass would make a jest of the matter; he was offensively personal iu his jokes. He would not think of going to look for a comrade —not he, the laziest man in the world. Why, then, should Craig Oliver take meat to Dr. John, antelope steak he so favored, brought from the summit of a cloud- MRS. DJS HKHTAt'D AND HKR DOG. reaching peak? Yet that invidious doubt of Dr. John's! There must bo evi dence, or he would tell the story of an imaginary antelope and imaginary shot. It grew darker —if possible, wetter. The sodden antelope flounced about, and the dog whined dolefully. "Confound you, Mac," cried Oliver. "If you are bored, what must I be? Do yon think I'm doing this for pleasure? Besides, you can shake the rain ofT your i oat, and It soaks Into mine. If f stay outside to-night it means rheuma tism, sure. I'll bet the doctor is hud dling over the lire now with that infer nal pipe of his, and Mike is cleaning his boots —the doctor's boots. 1 pay Mike, but he cleans the doctor's boots first, last, and all the time. Some men have a faculty of imposition." The more uncomfortable Oliver lie came, the more he thought of his guest snugly ensconced in his hunting cabin miles away on the Troublesome an untrustworthy little stream that meandered through the mountain park, irrigating the crops bountifully in the spring, but often annihilating them in midsummer. "lie's toasting his thin shanks at my hearth, smoking my tobacco, ordering my servant about, and he would leave me out here to perish. He knew it was going to rain; that is why he said he had the toothache. I swear ho hasn't one of his own left. I believe it is gout ails him. Arid Mike hasn't sense enough to go out with a light. Ha! there's one!" The trees more widely scattered showed him a sudden glimmer of light across the murk below, like a fallen star. He urged the mare for ward down a steep hill, and found from her quickened pace he was on a traveled road. Then she shied and stopped, and he was close to a shut gate. He dismounted, opened It, and, mindful of cattle, closed It after him. After a short walk he saw the dark outlines of buildings, a house with corrals and barns; from the last came the savage barking of dogs and the clank of their stretching chains as they leaned from their kennels. Mac, In duty bound, set up a challenging up roar, silenced only by his master's whip. From the lighted windows Craig saw the house proper was built of logs and raised considerably from the ground, with a wide veranda ap proached by a long flight of steps. A door In the 1., that was on a level with the ground suddenly opened and a man came out with a lantern- an under sized man, with a white face, deep sunken black eyes, and a scrubby beard around his cliln of such a blue-black color that his face looked deathly pale. "What a sta'e's-prUon mug!" Craig thought; but he said, politely: "I have lost my way." "Well, this Is not It," said the man, holding his lantern rudely near Oliver's fac.- "I do not need your assurance "i that, iny civil friend; but If I Insulted you with a bribe could you put up my horse and give me shelter for the Hlght?" "No." "Western hospitality Is evidently out of your line. I fancy New York or the adjacent Islands are more to your taste than a ranch in the moun tains. Perhaps you could direct me to Lord Morris' shooting box; it's on the Troublesome, about five miles from Psrkvllle. lam a stranger here, as T only bought the lodge this spring." "I don't know where it Is." "Ah! a stranger too. You own thin place?" "I don't see that that Is your affair " "I might make It mine, If the odd* were not against me," Oliver muttered, turning and tightening his saddle girths. A door in the house suddenly Opened, and In the flood of light stream ing out Oliver saw a slight girlish fig ure peering Into the darkness. "What Is It, Louis? Not M. de Res taud? Is—ls he hurt?" "Only a trauip. Uo back Into the house," called the man, rudely. A fat little woman in a cap ran out, seized the girl's arm, and tried to drag fcer In the door; ttyc young \vopji\p ueienaca ner "Fights vigorously, and, freeiug herself, ran down the steps. "I have entered a romance," thought Craig, advancing to the steps. "After traveling in extremely beaten paths for f-irty years. I have suddenly achieved an adventure." "I have lost my way," he said, lifting his hat. "I am not a tramp at all, but a neighbor —even a landed proprietor. 1 did hope for shelter, but I will only ask a direc tion —" "But I don't know any directions, sir, and I wouldn't trust Louis'; he'd like to get anyone into trouble. I am thankfully ignorant of this horrid coun try; I want to be; I hate it. But you must come in and get dry and have your horse rubbed down. What a lovely dog!" The fat woman, who had descended the steps unobserved, here interposed an objection, clutching the girl's arm tightly, and talking hastily in whis pered French that sounded like a pro longed hiss, so great was her agitation. "Hush up. hag!" said the singular young woman, again freeing herself. "And now do come in for a little while." She was bareheaded, and wore some kind of a sleary gown. As the rain was speedily wetting her shoulders, Oliver was forced to go up under the roof of the veranda. "You needn't be shocked," she went on. merrily, "at what I said to her: she does not know a word of English, and she's gone and won't come any more. Half the fun 1 have is calling her names and saying things to her she would so like to know. Louis, take the gentle roan's horse and give her good care. None of your tricks, for monsieur might this once like to be friendly;you never can tell; he and Lord Morris were. Monsieur can be agreeable, quite lovely, to strangers, if he wants to be." The man, grumbling to himself, led the mare to the barn. "I don't fancy leaving her to his mercies," said Oliver, uneasily, as he watched man and horse from the porch. "Somehow I have not over much confidence in your servant." "Isn't he evil-looking? Annette, though, thinks he is beautiful. But Louis will be good to your horse; he U fond of thsm, and a thoroughbred, too, like that one, will delight him. His liking for horse# is the only human " !>• COM* IS." trait he has. I)o come in, just a little while; we're not robbers or Bonders, though things are funny. Bring your lovely dog. Will he fight a little mite of one?" "If he did I'd disown him," smiled Craig. She stopped and picked up a fluffy Skye terrier, and, holding it in her arms, led the way into a luxuriously furnished room with piano and fine pictures, a bright open fire, and evi dences of travel and culture in bric-a brac. It was strangely at variance with the wild Hnd lonely country out side, but oddly natural in Colorado. In the Rockies the unexpected is al ways happening; a day laborer Is often a college graduate waiting for a stake, or a cowboy may be the SOB of an earl acquiring experience "If we tried to snare travelers," said the young lady, coolly. "Louis would rather hurt our business, his manners are so bad. This is the den of Monsieur do Restaud, who came here to avoid the war with Prussia; lie was only a young lad then, but a boru coward; and bis brother is a colonel in the French army, his father a general. He daren't go back to France. Sit down, here's a chair for your coat; you will feel better dry I'll excuse your shirt sleeves." Talking all the while, she set a chair for his coat, one for himself near the hearth, and then, kneeling down by the big dog, she put the little one ou the lloor and proceeded to make tliein acquainted. Nkye instantly became a fluff of growl and fight; hut Mac, with an ennuyeed sigh, stretched himself and lay down to rest. lie real ized he was intruding, but meant to make the best of it lu peace. She jumped tip, tbe dog under her arm, and ilung a log mi tho fire. "There; are you comfortable?" she asked, standing and smiling on hint, a lovely flush on her face. "Delightfully so." Oliver looked at her in wonder. Was she child or woman? A slight, girlish figure, but beautifully formed, tiny hands and feet, a mass of short reddish curls around the neck, parted smoothly in the middle, hazel eyes with dark lashes, a nose retrousse, plquantly so, and a rosebud mouth that showed small white teeth of dazzling brilliancy. Her skin was almost unnaturally pale; and a dimple In her left cheek drew attention to its soft roundness. Her gown of yellow China silk clung to her beautiful curves, and the wide ruffle of the yellow around her throat was like the petals of a llower. lie looked at her left hand; there was no ring; in fact, all the jewelry she wore was a bunch of silver bangles on her rllfht arm. "Do you live here?" he asked, lamely, as she knelt again on the rug to pat his dog, Skye in her arms. Instead of replying, she made her dog sit up on its hind legs and beg an accomplishment Skye disliked show ing, as he desired getting acquainted with the new dog, and this circus busi ness seemed derogatory to his dignity. "See!" said the young woman, breath lessly; "isn't, he cunning? Hut he does it better when there Is not he never will show off. Can your dog give his paw?" "I don't think I ever asked him," stammered Oliver, who was thinking what a pretty picture the girl made. "Well, he Is too tired to tease now. Oh!" jumping up and standing by the fire, "you asked who I was?" "No; If you live here?" "Do you think," half sadly, "a person could live here?" "I—l don't know." "I do," said the young woman, em phatically. "I have tried It two years and winters, all the long shut-In months. I eat, sleep, breathe, but 1 don't live. lam called Minny—chris tened Minerva, after my father's ship a funny name, that dyj-s apt suit uK\ Children ought to Ite allowed to name themselves, don't you think so?" "It might be better, but Miuny i.s a pretty name, and," with a smiling glance of admiration, for Oliver liked a pretty woman, "suits delightfully. I was named think of that! —but luckily had a middle name. Allow me to introduce myself: Craig Oliver, of Denver, and your neighbor in the val ley of the Troublesome." "I am'" —she hesitated a moment and looked at him defiantly—"Mrs. de Restaud. I knew you'd have to know. I put it off on purpose. Now please don't look at me out of the corner of your eye and wonder I am not more dignified and stop being pleasant to me because I am married." "I don't see," said Oliver, uncon sciously becoming more distant, "that your being married makes any differ ence." "I am glad; for up here they daren't talk politely to me because of monsieur; in fact, for weeks I only have Skye to talk to. I know I run on foolishly; but I am like an exile meeting a neighbor from the home country. No gentle men come here; Lord Morris was not; he might have been once, but liquor changes everybody. Since Aunt Han nah was sent away, six months ago, there has not been a living soul here I even endured. By the way," smiling again, "are you hungry?" "I breakfasted this morning," an swered Oliver. "Well, I'll get you something to eat. Please let me; it's such fun to have a ■visitor. And don't you mind if you hear growls from the kitchen." She ran out before Oliver could ob ject; so he Rat and watched his steam ing coat, wondering if the proprietor would shoot on sight. He remembered now seeing the "crazy Frenchman," as he was called In the valley, a small, wizened creature, looking as if he took morphine, from his strange color and the unnatural brightness of his oyes. The pity of it! the girl—a chUd, almost—was his wife. "This is odd," he thought, "an adventure, and Doctor John will never believe a word of it." Unfortunately, Mrs. de Restaud had left the door ajar, and Oliver be came painfully aware of her conversa tion: "Annette dear —how I wish the Utes would carry you off! how tired they'd be. though, of their bargain!—let me get that tea. Don't you touch me. Witch! they'd hung you in Salem days. I am getting this for the stranger who looks like a hero out of a book—a big, broad-shouldered man; not a little, evil thing, like your dear monsieur oryour own pet Louis with his Sing Sing manners. Such u charming stranger, with the kindest smile, and eyes that smile too, and a gentleman like 1 used to know before I was shut up here. Cat, let the waiter alone! I hate your monsieur! his own father called him a coward. Oil, wait, ray love, until 1 practise shooting: some day I will put a little round bullet hole In your lovely cap-frill." A crash of crockery, the slam of a door, and Mrs. de Restaud came back, flushed and triumphant, with a loaded waiter and a conquering air. "Cold bam, fresh bread and tea," she said, setting it on the table. "It is better than nothing I have been on a foraging expedition and outgeneraled the enemy. Now, do eat! Perhaps you ought to liave whisky; but uionsieu* has the keys." "I have a flask," smiled Oliver, "but this tea is much better." "I think so. And are things nice, truly?" "The very best, and how good you can imagine to a man who has fasted since seven this morning. You see, I was bound to have that antelope; I was on his trail the whole day." "It seems cruel to kill the poor little things," she said, wistfully; "they have such a hard time in the winter, and the elk are so starved then they come down to the corral and eat hay with the cattle. I would like to put hay out for them, but I am not al lowed; and just think! my money has bought this ranch; it was mortgaged for all it was worth—monsieur spent everything, you know; but you don't know, and think I am dreadful." Shs ran to the window and looked out. "You would not mind," she said, anx iously, "hurrying a little? Monsieur ought to be back any moment. If he and his friends have been drinking very much they are ugly—especially monsieur. Oh, I did not mean you should stop!" "I am through," said Oliver, uneasily. "It was very nice, indeed; but I am afraid I have made yo" trouble, will do you harm by being here. You must know where Morris' place is." "Down the road here somewhere, but I don't know just where. I never wan there; It was not a tit place. Don't you think," she went on, feeding his dog scraps from the waiter while she spoke, "that it is funny of me to talk of my husband to strangers?" "I don't want to be a stranger," said Oliver, gently, "and you know one I>K RKHTAlfn'n WIFK STAOOKHKI) INTO rill ROOM. could not live here without hearing something of of " "The crazy Frenchman." Oliver put on his coat in silence. The big shepherd dog leaned his beautiful head against the girl's knee while she fed him, and little Skye, quite content with a stray bite now and then, looked on In approval. Oliver thought he would like to take her in his arms, as if she were thu child she looked. That pretty little yellow gown, the bright girl's face, with Its saddened look, touched him sorely, lie was not wont to IM* interested much In women; those he met were of two classes, and this child was of neither class 11 different being a pathetic, haunting one; a child In years, and yet two years a wife, and of such a man. She glanced up and saw his grave face. Her lips quivered. "Don't think me dreadful," she said, plteously. "I am so lonely, so forsaken, and you brought back the old dayH You look so kind, the words Just came; I could not help it. Suppose you were me shut up here, my father lost at sea, my mother dead two years ago, and my only friend, my only relation, say it wiis my duty" la sob) "to live here for ever and ever. I wish that you would try to like me, and that I could feel there Mas somewhere ill the world a good man who would be a friend to me and pity me." lie little hand in Ills big one and looked down • n her sunny head. "You are like a little child," he said, softly. "I know your life must l>e hard; I cannot bear to think of it. 1 shall he proud and happy to be your friend; I haven't many. When one has lived long in the world he has sorted the wheat from the chaff; ai}d I cau iviunt my friends on my fingers— on one hand, indeed." ' Then let ine be the little finder," she said, shyly. The sound of horses' hoofs outside mnde her withdraw her hand suddenly, and a frightened look came over her face. Oliver picked up his riding whip, bit his lower lip. and waited. Mao. with a growl, slunk up to his master's heels. The door was flung rudely open, and a man .4tepped in the room, so overcome with anger lie could at first form no words—a little man, with a dark evil face, sunken eye*, and long black beard. His corduroy suit was dripping, and the hat he flung on the table boaking wet. He hud the air of one who had ridden fast in an evil mood. "Are yon keeping a hotel, Madame de Restaud?" he hissed. "Truly this is a very pleasant surprise for a man." "The gentleman asked shelter. Hen ri," the girl said, trembling. "He lost his way, and Louis would not tell him how to find Lord Morris' place." "You can of course give me the di rection," Oliver said, courteously, though his hand clinched the whip handle tighter. "Lord Morris told me of your hunting exploits. 1 thought we should have met before this; but Doctor John and 1 are unsociable sort of men and don't go about much." "The road you came, straight down two miles, turn to the left." saiil De Restaud, coldly. "My man has your mare ready." "Thanks. Mrs. de Restaud, you nave shown true western hospitality. I shall always remember it. Good night" He could not look at that shrinking Igure, with itu frightened eves. "Good-by," ah? said, sadly, "i hope you will find your road." As he closed the door he heard her give a cry of pain, as if she had been rudely seized, and he almost stopped, then went hastily down the steps. He wished one of the ruffians dismount ing before the porch would speak to him; he would have liked to silence him. No one spoke, however. Even Louis led the mare up in silence. Oli ver looked her over a« he mounted, tossed the man a dollar, and said, as he cantered off: "I trust you and I will meet again. my civil friend." The gate was open, so he went easily past all pitfalls and, the mare being rested, in a short time he saw the light from his own cabin, and with an odd sense of comfort, too. A lost, homeless man is a pitiful object the world over. Mike rushed out to take the mare; he was just going to look for him; the doctor had worried. But Oliver, with out a word, went into the house. He went to his cigar box. lit a cigar, then stood before his own hearth with a queer air of possession. It was just as he thought. There sat Dr. John In that ridiculous flowered dressing-gown and embroidered cap, with his eternal pipe, as unconcerned as possible. "Hack at last, old man?" said I)r. John, cheerily. "We were fretting worried about you." "Thanks," growled Oliver. "We waited supper," continued the other, a little, elderly man, with bright blue eye#, close-cut gray hair and long gray l>eurd. "Mike was bound to go for you." "And you to prevent him," sneered Oliver. "Well. I did think it nonsense. Where could he look? Let's eat." "1 am not hungry. I had supper." "Where?" "At a house," Oliver answered, briefly, as Mike entered with the sup per things. However, he sat ijown and found himself eating heartily. Neither man spoke, Dr. John being used to Oliver's moods. The ineal over, they sat before the lire. Oliver took a cigar, while Dr. John lit his pipe. "I was at the summit of Sisty's peak to-day," said Oliver, after a long si lence. "Ah?" interrogatively from Dr. John. "I followed an antelope—a splendid ■hot, the best I've had; a big buck." "Too bad you did not bring it. We're out of meat." "But I did. I know you." Oliver smiled. "The evidence is on my sad dle." "There's a butcher-shop at Park- Tllle." said Dr. John, meditatively. "Is there?" said Oliver, Indifferently. "I was not that way. I had supper at De Reataud's." "The crazy Frenchman's? Honestly, Craig?" "I give you my word. His wife U a sweet little woman." "They all are to you, my boy. Your weakness. You don't say!—at De Restaud's!" Dr. John smoked awhile over it. "Actually got in his house! Why, they say he is the very devil. You were lucky you didn't, lose your life in stead of your way." Craig looked into the lire. He thought of the little tfirl in the yellow gown. How plainly he remembered even the bangles, the Skye terrier, the dimple In her cheek! perhaps he had lost hit heart. |TO BE CONTISt'tD.J Objaot ttuon on the Chair. Teacher (having directed the attea* tlon of the class to the various parta of a ohalr)—Of what use is the seat In a ohalr? Bright Little Oirl (who knows It all) —1 know. Teacher —You may tell the class. Bright Little Girl —To keep the peo ple from flopping on the floor. —J uage. llllChteoo* Indignation. "I want a divorce," she said, as she sank into a chair in tlio lawyer's of fice. "From your husband?" queried tha careful attorney. "No, fcoin my grandfather!" aha •napped, as she bolted through the door and slammed it behind her.—Lift. John and Hit Old Man. "I never see John these days. Whera is he now?" "He's off somewheres a-learnln' ol Latin." "And the old uiau?" "Hpllttln' rails In dialect, fcr to pay John's bills."—Atlanta Constitution. KNEW lIV RXrKKIKNCK. i iiS^L Hllas—-I feel Just llh.- a elt^'«hap, dressed up In these city clothes. Hannah (with a far-away look)— Yeg, Indeed you do, Milas. Them city fel lers, at boarded here last summer, till wore clothes that were nice and soft, like these. —l'iiek. A Bovlue Itrpartar. 11a picked up s hickory bough, An<l sltucd u wild blow ut thn Cough: Urn thn brute, with a laugh. Holloa «d for lb: "I'm no ruugh," And tholittle dOf Uttered: "llough: I No. 33. CONFEDERATES IN CONGRESS. Only T»f!vf Mra to Be Found In Both I>mi!i'hu-R>uln( A TV *»Y. The mr-n v.-ho enjoyed prominence in the military and civil service of tha fonfedtrecy ure rapidly passing from" the arena of national politics, says thfl Augusta Chronicle, below is a record of such as nrestill in active life at Washington: senior United State* senator from Alabama, John T. Mor gnn. was a brigadier general in the confederate armyi and her other sena tor, James L. Pugh, was a member o$ tbo confederate congress. Joseph Wheeler, who attained the rank oj lieutenant general in the confederate service, has for twelve years been tha representative in congress from the Eighth Alabama district. The senior senator from Georgia, John B. Gordon* was likewise a lieutenant general ia the army of the confederacy. Edward. C. Walthall, of Mississippi, a major general In the confederate service, and of late the junior United States senator from his native state, while not now In active politics, having resigned for the balance of his present term in the up-, per house, has been elected for and 1* confidently expected to take his seat in that honorable body in March, 1895. The senior United States senator from Missouri, Francis M. Cockrell, was % brigadier general in the confederate army; and the other senator from that commonwealth, George G. Vest, held positions in both houses of the confed erate congress. The present senior! United States senators from both North and South Carolina, Matt W. Ransom and M. C. Butler, were major generals in the confederate service. The repre- Cmtatlves from Tennessee itf the upper ouso of congress are I sham G. Harris, the senior, and William B. Bate, who la the Junior senator from that com* monwealth. The first mentioned waft ft war governor of his native state and the last named was a major general in the confederate army. And Eppa Huutou, who service as brig adier genera! in the confederate army.) present occupies the position of Junior senator from Virginia In the fcongress of the United States.- Thus do we perceive that of the multitude of t}xoM who distinguished, themselves in the military and civil annals of the confederacy only twelve remain in na tional halls. *N OFFICE SIXTY-FOUR YEARfe liw R*eord of an Octogenarian Poatmat tar In the Buckeye State. General Bissell has found ft man in the postal service whose ex perience has Interested him so greatly, that ho contemplates making use of a tecent letter written by this man in preparing his annual report, says a writer In the New York Times. W. H.' Wallace, Sr., postmaster at Hainmonds rille, 0., now eighty-two years of age, Vrote two fair pages of letter paper recently without noticeable error of 00 in position and In good, firm hand, to give the secretary his experience in brief, ne has been sixty-four years in the postal service, having held offioe under thirty postmaster generals. He begun when he was still a boy, and haa. been the postmaster at Hammondsvillo many years. When he was first post piaster, and the charge for letters waa twenty-five cents for four hundred bail cs or over, ho had taken two bush els of oats, or two bushels of potatoes, or five dozen of eggs, or four pounds of putter, or two-thirds of a bushel of Wheat, or one and one-third pounds of Common wool as a fair compensation B kind for the postage. The postage On thirty-two suoh letters, he say», Would be about equivalent to the E-ioo of a good milch cow. The post asters were expected to look out that letters were written on one sheet of pa per; if they were on two sheets the postage was to be double. Mr. Wal lace gives some entertaining accounts pf his many long trips over the moun tains before the railroads were con structed, indicating that ho waa a traveled man many years before there was much traveling between tho east and the west. That he Is a pretty papable citizen at his age Is plain from the fact that, besides being postmaster, he is the station agent for the Penn sylvania railroad at liainmondsville. LARGEST ROSE BUSH. lUMIt Hm tha Honor of Having This Bwitlfal Mountain of Flower*. "Tho largest roue bush in the United 6tato* Is In Mobile, Aln.," said a citizen Of New Orleans to a reporter for the pt. Louis Globo-Pemocrftt. "It belongs to the species which, In common par lance, Is known as the cluster musk rose, and blossoms so luxuriously thai during the reason from three to four bushels of roses haTe been gathered la ono week, and when shedding its potuls tho ground beneath is complete ly covered with Its fragrant blossoms. Its trunk for five feet from the Kound, 1h nearly a foot In olrcumfer oe, and it has becti estimated that if branches grew on one continuous tine it would cxcood a mile in length. Theso branchos ha*e entirely covered the side of the house near which th®, bush growH, and have extended to the. neighboring trees surrounding it, BO that when it in In bloom It forms a per fect liower of roses" Oenln* Rewarded. Congressmen sometimes adopt queer expedients t<> goin the good will ox their constituents. Years ago, a mem ber from a western state was afraid thut his tlrst term would be his last, as he had not inuuuged to make himself a power in congress. While he wab de bating what he should do, a friend •aid: "You live noor the center of the Uultcd Stutcw, dou't you?" "Yob.' 1 "Thou, why don't you introduce a bill to liuvit the capital moved to the prin cipal town In your district?" The congressman Introduced the bill, and the people of his district at once con cluded lie was a great :nan and sent him back for another term, lie rein troduced tho bill in the noxt congress, and, although It was promptly pigeon holed in committee, his constituents gave him a third term, as a reward for bU genius. Thoughtful Olrl. Mr# Jacobs—Eva, you know we ex pect the new boarder to-night. Is tho Family Uible put away? Bra-Better than that, ma. I have left one of my pictures is his bureau flrawcr, accidentally, aud marked it, Jotober 18, IWS, aged nineteen udge. name the World Over. Moxey—Oadl T wonder what the poor Icelander does when he comes homo from tho club after a six months' even ng poker party? Mrs. Moxy— Probably the same thing fte says hero—' My dear, it's very early I" i-N. Y. World. A Nafflrlent ItMion. The admission of a stranger, who had moved into the vicinity but recently, into full membership in the church bothert-d Deacon Johnson very much. He disliked the man, and felt quite con vinced ho was not worthy to become a member, but ho could make no deiinito charge against him. When the church Session had the man's application under Consideration, the deacon protested •gainst his admission. When pressed to give his reasons, he said: "Wal, pah ftoii, lie foe' ob de inattah is 1 feels dat bo's u wolf In klieop'sclothing." "i»at's a liebby chadge, lirudder Johnslng," said tho parson. "W'y do t'ink so?" "I dun'no', but It 'pears tome ho don't bloat jest like de rest ob de flock."— Harper's Maymilnu,
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