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    MOTHER SONG.
' ®»*» *'.*•'!jm tie earth in moonlit bleu;
the Uou h above the nont;
v’«r lor.i Ijr *l^pt be» the xvhfnpmrw H l
A Bit»AU>A« oaj ti nt note :ini ull Is still.
' «S**P» Jittlo d’tflinst hi ’hi is 1'intj —
■;*<; While I sin; thy audio «on^.
|y Abdnt thv drcwi* the drAOp'n? flower >
s|y Wow her sweet breath from hour to hour,
* Aj»d white tho icre.tt moon spread* her wtasra,
1 While low, while fart too dear earth awtiwg.
j tMsoiK littto tUrltnr all ni jht loti:
^ Tho wiiids shall atnu tht slumber son $.
§i< o* the earth and of tho aSr
X , Shull lihvs thee in thoir mother cut*“5,
A Anil hosts of heaven, together proit.
yu; Bou I ov r thvfci* thoir last, thel host „ - t
ywy tiU'h Httlo >t&rllnj* from tho deep
tffj^llonio murhty wia* sh ill fun thy sl.jep.
" BLIND JUSTICE.
r.Y lllil.liV n. sjatiii-.i-.h.
I • PHAFTER IV~ContM;ki
y, ■*‘Fo’ tlinr, roight a facin’ mo war
th’ imttlo o' stoopin’ stuff ns 'ud
’ stood all thwm sovon year; I'd kep it
t’ mind mo o’ th’ hell I’d lived in w’
Seth, an’ Side o’ tho stuff war tho I
milk, an’ tho oup out o’ which Stove !
had drunk that day. J
••Th’ dovil sos <Pit some o’ th’stuff i
1’ his drink, an’ ho 11 ntvor knaw, an’ |
ft it him out o’ th’ way aforo Stovo j
ho comod in.’ Thar war nu taste to :
’t. nor inure nor wnttor, nor na color,
th’ gipsies krrnwod that* work too |
•well io’ that, au’ \vi’ my buck t’ Seth,
(■ 1 jest, poio-ed th' stuff into th’ cup.
an’ th’ milk to top o’ tin, un’ I ups an’
pics't to 'un d’reckly.”
“There was no water in tho cup
board?” I said.
aV ••Watt.or?” said Judith, staring at
me, ••wlmt for should I keep wattor
y, there? Wa-til, him tossed ’t off to
■waneo, an’ aforo ’oo could count ton.
him war asleep an’ snorin’, and out i
•he slips fro’ th’ chair to th’ groun’
*n’ a box fails out o’ hJs, bosom, an’ I
picks ’t up (listenin' t.he whiios
to’ Move's step) an’ puts it i’my
poc.kot. an’ thin, knutvin’ ho war
■safe unw for twenty-four hour, I looks
At un and sos, Where ivor num 1
hide u n?’.
‘•Ihere war th’ secret bit room,
Vf -on'y Steve alius went thar, when he
•cornea In, an’ I daurna pit him on
th' dig. Just thin ray eve catchod I
; th’ ring on th’ trapdoor..an’ th’ devil
/ •.flashed it up t’ me, ‘Put un down i’
th' cellar! ’Eo’ll bo gono in twolvo
1 i hour, an’ nuthin’ hill waken ho fur
, twenty-four, put un down 1’ th’
i< cellar ’ /' / .'■/// /
§ •‘If th’ devil war quick, I war
, quicker. I catchod up a coll o’ ropo
i; near by. an’ I had Soth Troloar roun’
the shoulders i’ a seoond, an’ tied a
.; lenot ahind him, an’ then I dragged
1 un along th’ floor till I’d gut un to th’
trap door, an’ opened un. butt’warnt
no easy to let down; an’ when I’d
pushed his feet over, 1 knowed I’d
got so difficult a job as air a woman
bud.
- was bouii’ to tako tims, it I'd
tr pushed un too quick, him ud ha’ bin ■
|lf willed to wanco (an’ a’ th’ timo I
/,' •War listenin'fer Steve's, stepi so I
; «riv’ un a bit push, then rinnodback
• «n* jest dug my feot i’ th’ floor an’
thrawed myself* till I war slantin’
like a treo i’ a storm, but. th’dead
§?* weight o’ un’s body as him slipped
thro' th’ trap door nigh pulled mo
»rter un, but I jest held on, an’ let*
j&v tin’ un down a inch at a timo.bimoby
I felt un touch tlr groun’, thin I
% Gaelics th’ rope in avtor un and
u" bangs down th’ door jost at th’ very
' moment as Steve lifts th’latch, an’
corned in.
. **X Uir&wed ray apron . over my
bead so as un oouidna see my face,
, an' thinkin’ I war frottin’anent leav
: 'In’, he Iota me alone, an’ bitnobv us
supper tho gither an’ so th
/ evenin’ passed."
j ‘’And you could cat, drink and i
- • aleop with that drugged man lying i
Wear In the vault at your foot?” I j
<;‘ -cried.
••iss. said Judith. whoso homely
words and accent afforded the
•trongest contrast to the grandeur
: of her looks 'and gosturos. ' what
barm had I done ’un? Him ’ud ha’
; woke up none th’ wurse for what J’d
givcd ’un. as him had niver been th’
. wurse afore (often as he’d tooked’t
! unbeknown t’ hisself), an’ thar war
«o ra-s below, an’ th’ place war dry
-an’ sandy, an’ I knawed he’d come to
j'■ Ba harm. Yet I seemed feared like
to rejoice too much, to git safe away
” wl’ .Steve ’ud be too much joy, an’ as
' s things corned out,” sho added bit
terly. **’t war well I didna count my
V ehickens too soon; I warnt to knaw
s . oa there war a fulo wanderin’ about
Ah’ warld meddlin’ wl’ things as God
s; ' .A’roighty didna mean to meddle in.
: , He’d jest bev let ’em ravel themseles
1 out, but you be wiser nor he. tho’
• naw yoifd like t’ undo the pieoe o’
V wark you’m made.” .
She paused a moment, and a rush
s . of pain swept over her face as if some'
.physical agony pressed her hard.
: ’ "Kb. my lad (she put her hand on
i 'Stove's). an’ us waited so lang, and
‘ w’ our bit o’ happiness wi’ wan
-anithttr. wo luv’d fu' money a year, |
’ -mlo-e ps iver spoke but wiT our eyes, j
-ay. ’ee luv’d me when I war the sport i
•o’ tliHt. ne’er-do-well, Seth Treloar. *
•feAan’ l war iver comparin’ the twa o’ i
*eo i’ my mind. An’t’ seo ’eo war
.tike a blink o’ heaven, us niver got
v. *o nearer, but us war heartened up ;
Vwaik til’ stony road apart, an' ’eo !
•passed a’ th’ lassos by, but wlien th’ !
•aeven year war up, ’eo jest sed t’ me. i
•Yoa’in mine naw, Judith,' an’ 1 went !
to Ve Ulus a bird. ” •' •' jj-r '
'i’hc hplplcss love, tho profound de
pendence on him that spoko in her
voice., moved me deoply.
SIhs left her arm on Stephen’s
neck, tbdh' pulled horsclt together,
-and weptPon with her story. .. .
•♦When'- morn in’ coined. Steve'an’
me war tftirrin’ early, an' whiles I
.got th’ breakfast, him put up our
bits c<? things, an’ ’un conldnu guess
wherirer th' coil o' rope war got
ten to
V-Whiles I war eatin’. •! ses to my
* \ ‘betH Treloar ’nil, bo hungry
j \ ’un conics V hisself,’ an' 1
sot
a bit o' bread an’ Ash t’ ono side, an’
soon arter. ub looked tlx* door abind
ub, an’ war gone for Ivor, bo Steve
s’posed, fro’ th' place whar I’d bin
th’ mlserablcst an’ th’ happiest
woman upo’ alrth.
••But so soon as .wo’m got a bit
forrarda, soa I t’ Stove, ‘I’ve forgot
ten somethin’, an’ must rin back an’
for sure I did rln, and catched up th’
key fra th’ bush, opodjth’ houso place,
an’ puts th’ plato o’ victuuls side o’
th’ trap-door, an’ opens ’t an’ sees
th’ rope bangin’ to a staplo as th’
men used t’ climb up by.
An’ thin I looks at Soth,
lyin’ as th’ dead, an’ all to wance
it corned upo’ motho Binfu’ thing I’d
adone, an’ I ses to mysol, • ’Sposin’
him war nlvor to wako up? Or if
’un do, ’t ’nil bo doud dark, an’ him
war alius a coward, like t’ most
bullies, an’ ’sposin’ ’pn dios o’ fright?’
■•Some way a 1 felt as if I war leavin’
’u:i to his death, an’ yet I hadna got
th’ sperrit t’ go to Stove’ an’ say *(io
yor ways, an’ leavo rao an’ th’ child
as is coinin’, t’ th’ marey o’ Seth Tro
ll oar!’ So-1 jos stole away, but 1 loft
my innieonco ahind mo, an’ I niver
knawed ft moment more o’ poace fro’ j
that day’t this.
“Wa-al, you was 1’ th’ train, ’eo
knaws how I looked, an’ ’eo saw th’
box o’ poison skip out o’ my pocket,
I’d nlvor gi’on ’t a thought since I
picked ’un up when ’t failed out o’
Seth's bosom. An' naw I’ve told ’oe j
th’ truth, an’ nuthin’ but th’ wan
truth, but ’eo ’ll niver make anythin’
o’ ’t. Nicht an’ day I've toiled t’
puzzle’t, out. but no wan 'nil iver
knaw tti’ truth ’bout Seth Troloar’s
death, ’coptin’ Soth Treloar hlssolf.”
“He died of a dose of arsonie, suf
ficient to kill throe men.” I said, “as
the post-mortem proved, also that
there was ho bruise upon him, or any
disease whatever to cause death.”
“Iss,” said Judith, looking at me
from beneath those grand bent brows
of hers, and with the divine stamp of
truth on her lips and in hor eyes,
••’tls that beats mo. Him war alive
an’ woll when I put 'u« in th’ cellar,
him war found jost us I’d loft ’un,
bound safe ’nufT, an’ doad three days
urtor. But what for did’un carry a
box o’ poison? I’urt'in’ folks has out
landish ways, ’sposin’ him used tn’
stuff as a medicine like, summit as
I’ve hcerd tell doctors givos poison t’
sick folk t’ make ’un woll?”
••Doctors only givo very small
dosos,” said I, “besides, if Seth Tre
loar had been in, tho habit of taking
it, why should he die of a dose of it
thon? lie had no.dosiro whatever to
die, ho was prosperous, healthy, he
possessed money, was engaged in
schemes to make htmsolf richer, and
you may take it for granted that he
did not die of his own free will.
Witness his attitude when found, the
agony of his face, the evidence of
his struggles, ignorant in tho dark of
tho means of life and escape close to
his hand.”
“I canna argify ’t,” said Judith
wearily, “ tis all dark t’ me, on'y I
knaws 1’so as innocent o’ his death
iis you ho, but I’ll die fo't all th’
samo.”
“Could ho have had un enemy?” I
said as one thinking aloud, “some
one who followed him here, and gave
him tho poison'.”’
Judith shook her head.
“It arn't possible,” she said; “by
th’ doctor's ’count ho died some
whores i’ th’ night artor I corned
away, an’ th’ locks an’ window
war safe, an’ . nobody Knawed
whar we'd put th’ key.
M’appen yon'm nono so much V
blame fo’ yor thoughts o’ mo. thar’s
but wan i’ th' wido warld (she kissed
Stephen’s brown hand) as knaw I
speak the truth. ”
“No, I believe you too.” I said,
but without hope, for thore was no
hope in mo.
And then I turned my back on tho
pair, bidding them make thoir fare
wells, and presently I called the
turnkoy. and soon found myseli in
the fresh air with leisure in which
to ponder ovor thoso things that I
had heard.
'■ ‘ CHAPTER V’.
Smuggler’s Holo was empty, as it
had been ever since its landlord dis- I
covored an un-looked for tenant, and
when I told tho worthy man 1 would I
take it for three months lit a liberal !
rent, ho scratched his head, and
ulearly thought me mad.
The placo seemed to have been
built out of unevon lengths of tim
ber, cross-wise, any-wise, so that tho 1
existence of a secret door in the sit
ting-room wall would never have
been discovered by any stranger save
by accident When my new landlord
touched a spring, and showed a small !
shed or loan-to,’ containing a second i
door, and a grating about tho height j
of my head, 1 was astonished, but
easily understood that it had been i
devised as a means of escape for tho
smugglers when surprised by the
excise officers. ii* "
Then ho liftotl the trap-door, and
striking a match wo both peered '
down as if half expecting to .see fr-’eth |
Treloar staring up at us, and gave it
as his opinion that, but for this one i
little mistake of Judith's.: she would j
have been an out and-out goal wo
man. 1 got but littlo comfort from
him. and yet my spirits- rose as I
turned my back to the hovel, and
standing-on the towering cliff, along
tho precipitous edge of which a nar
row patli wound sinuously to tho lit- 1
tie cove, bolouvgiuod out at s;a to j
where tho orange lino of sky just 1
touched it, while betwixt them”shono
a single silvery sail.
From that wonderful orange the
skv melted by imperceptible tints to
the translucent green that is never
matched by any earthly tint of grass
or flower, and tho quick < ancing
lights und shadows on t-o waters
seemed to laugh iu the sunshine, and
to touch here an t thero the sea-gulls
resting upon tho bold, da k head
lands farther away.
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‘•I will go bock to the (treat sweet mother,
Moihor and lover nt men, the son!”
I exclaimed aloud, and the loneli
ness and majesty of the scene did not
appall me, or, at least, not yet.
The landlord evidently did not
share in my admiration for what was
common to him as daily bread, and
having1 recommended Jake as a gen
eral factotum, who would bring me
supplies from the village, and volun
teered to send him over to the hotel,
half a dozen miles away for my be
longings, he, with his usual Cornish
courtesy, took hlmsolf and his pleas
ant sing-song voice away, evidently
relieved to turn bis back on the ill
omened abode.
Unutterably dreary in the chilliness
of the spring evening looked the
squalid room, and I shivered as I sat
by the tireless hearth, in tho chair
that Seth Troloar had occupied not
so very long ago.
But its my bodily discomfort grew,
my mind concentrated itself the more
intensely on Judith’s stoi-y, till I
seemed to see hor coming and going
about her night’s work, exactly as
she had told mo. and if she wore
making tho one great and fatal blun
der of her lifo, me-thought she com
mitted it magniiicently well.
And yet, what could my presence
here avail her, her whom I had
caught in tho toils, with no power,
to undo the thing that I had done,
out of idleness, vanity and curiosity ?
There was only one chance, oue
hope,that if justified could furnish me
with even the faintest ground for ap
plying to the homo secretary.
I should know what that chance
and hope were worth soon and by a
simplo experiment that I meant to
try the moment Jake appeared.
Meanwhile, I lit my pipe, and smoked
it for an hour or so, and finally fell
asleep.
I was awakened by a loud knock
ing at the door, and for a moment,
and in tlio half darkness, could not
remember where I was.
••Come in,” I shoutod, but the
door did not unclose, and, though I
called out again, nobody replied. At
last I lifted the latch myself, and
there stood Jako verily laden like
any beast of burden.
“I have been shouting to you to
come in,” I said, “didn’t you hear?”
“I’se bin a bit hard o’ hearin’late-'
ly, mister,” he said.
“How long?” I said sharply.
“I doant know, it’s jest grovred
upo’ me, so my missus says.
“Como out on tho cliff, "I said “and
just where you stood on the night
you saw Seth Troloar como homo.”
He went obediently enough, won
deriug. It was a wild evening, and
the magnificent Lizard coast was
fast boiug shrouded in the sea-mist
that crept insidiously Inward. Jake’s
figure looked dim, and tall, and lono
ly outlined against the sad grey sky,
and far below him the monotonous
rushing of the sea was broken by the
booming of the waves, as they rushed
into the little cave with a sullen
roar. *
“Kindly stay whore you are,” I
said, “for hvo minutes until I come
to you. ”
He promised, and when I returned
to the cottage, and one who had seen
my conduct there would never ques
tion my right to Bedlam.
Standing by tho fireplace I gave
utterance to sharp, spasmodic cries,
gradually ascending till they reached
tho point of shrieks, into which I
put my whole vigor, and my lungs
were those of a normally vigorous
man.
Having pretty well exhausted my
self, I went out to the cliff, and
found Jako precisely where I had
left him, and with all a fisherman’s
coutontedness at doing nothing.
“Well, Jake,” I cried, “1 havo
been hearing some queer noises—
what did you hear?”
The man looked at me with igno
rant. candid eyes.
“Nothing, sir,” he said, “but the
water pouring down the cliff yonder
—it makes a power of noise—you
can hear it right out at sea."
[to be continued.]
Pugilistic Item.
Ambitious Sport—Could you tako
me and put me in training and make
a prize-fighter out of me?
Great Pugilist—Ain't you able to
work ?
“No, sir.”
“Have you got an education?”
“Yes, sir.” . , ,
“Well, I’ll see. If yer able to
write sportin’ stuff about yourself
and hain’t strong enough to do hard
work, guess we kin make a fighter
of yer. We’s kind of careful, dough,
not to let fellows into the perfesh
what kin mako a livin’ by workin.’
See?”—Texas Siftings.
Tbs Woo. of Ttali World.
The professional pessimist came
into the office looking absolutely
cheerful.
•.•Well," they, asked him. “what is
the new cause of oomplaint this
morning?"
“I‘ was thinking how unjustly
things wore arranged for a man who
has a corn. It gets its worst mash
ing from the man who is too heavy
to knock down."
It Mlcht Work.
Briggs—I think I have evolved a
scheme for stopping the tipping
nuisance that will prove a success, if
1 can only get others to follow it.
Braggs—Toll’it, quick.
Briggs—Oh, it is Simple enough.
Whenever I give tlio waiter a tip I
explain to the cashier that it has
left me short, and ask him to stand
me off for the meal.
Educdtiuiiit item.
“Which of your lessons do you
like the most, Johnnie?” asked Mr.
Harlem of his son Johnnie, who is a
Columbia college student,
“The singing lesson. That's the
one I’m excused from,” replied
Johnnio.
faulty gard.
A BuinHi for Small Means.
Wanted—an income! ia a frequent
cry nowadays, says Mrs. Ida E. Tilson
in “Northwestern Agriculturist.” A
reliable acquaintance told me she
cleared, through eggs and early chick*
ens, $80 off her fowls last year, start
ing with forty of them on a village
plaoe of three or four acres. Now most
women, the writer included, think $80
quite a plum. ' But before all my read
ers wanting incomes rush into poultry
culture, let me say the friend referred
to above is an energetic, saving woman,
who, according to my favorite ex
pression when describing such thrifty
persons, could get a living on a desert
island. The same industry and intelli
gence which bring a profit out of poul
try ventures, would, if exercised in
most other employments, probably
command higher pay, and no money
at all is to be made in the poultry bus
iness without much of that pluck, a
pound of which, Gen. Garfield said,
is worth a ton of luck. But poul
try culture is available for many who
can not leave home nor spend time to
engage in independent pursuits; it
needs only small capital, and as spring
is a natural and very good time to
start, we better at once take up that
tender subject,the spring chicken, pre
paring his cage while we have leis
ure. It is a common practice to lay a
box or barrel on its side, then drive
down stakes in front, leaving just
space enough for chicks to run in and
out, thus keeping their mamma a pris
oner until such time as they can do
without her. Hens belong to the free,
active bird family, so this above plan
is incongruous, like the remark of a
man who asked for an “empty barrel
of flour to make me dorg a hin coop.”
Each brood of mine is given a roomy
coop, 22x26 inches on its bottom, 22
inches high in front and 19 inches be
hind, its single slant roof securely
shingled. The coop floor rests on low
2x4 pieces, raising it from the damp
ground two inches, thus preventing
rheumatism, one of those ailments
human beings have incorrectly re
garded as their own peculiar property.
A door about two-thirds the height of
slatted front, buttons up or lies down,
and the coop back unbuttons to let
biddy out. These coops have been por
trayed before, but I find nothing bet
ter to displace them. If housed during
winter they will, like mine, last years,
and in good repair, certainly prove rat,
skunk, and dog proof. A dry goods
box can be metamorphosed into such a
home; the hinges and handles are
leather, the button wooden.
Feeding Table Birds.
A great loss is sustained on farms
in general by neglecting to fatten
table birds. Excellent authority says
“the bird is allotvcd its liberty, and
frequently but a scanty living until
the morning when the pot-pie is
wanted, and the good wife feels of his
bony frame and sighs, sometimes even
wondering that it is not fatter. Every
bird should be shut up in close, clean
quarters, and fed for seven to ten days.
Kept in confinement longer than this,
most birds begin to pine, lose
their -appetite and decrease in
weight. The feeding troughs
should be well scalded out daily, or
every other day if the weather be
cold, and sharp grit kept within reach
of the fattening birds. Sweet oat
meal and hot corn meal mash are
among the best things to induce rapid
fattening. The feed should ' be
very slightly scalded. In this way
every bird may be made to gain from
one-third to one- half in weight with
out noticeable expense, and w hether
for selling or the table it means con-,
siderable profit. A little salt in the
food once a day is also advisable.”
Feeding Ground Meat to Ben*.
The usual war of feeding ground meat
is to mix it with ground grain of some
kind. This is unnecessary. It should
be fed as a variety, and in a way to
afford a change. There should be
certain meals, on special days, for
giving it to the hens. For
instance, give it at night, on. every
other day, in a trough, unmixed with
other food, so that the hens will have
nothing but the ground meat for that
meal. The next morning give some
other food, as corn, and the following
meal may be of wheat or cut clover.
The ground meat may be given plenti
fully, if fed in this manner. Simply
allow the hens to have all of it that
they will eat, and they will relish it
and find it beneficial. If fed on meat
every meal, it may cause bowel diffi
culty; bnt given once every two days,
it will not be in any manner injurious,
and will prove of great assistance in
inducing the hens to lay at this season
of the year.—Ex.
Peafowls.—Peafowls are simply or
namental and are not readily salable.
They are not profitable on a farm, as
the male is vindictive and destroys
chicks and ducklings that may come
in his way. The hen seldom begins to
lay until at least two years old, and
often not until three years of age, lay
ing from five to sixteen eggs, which
batch in about thirty days. The
young peafowl feathers very rapidly,
and should be fed every two hours the
first month; then four times a day
until three months old, when it should
be-given three meals, lequiringa large
share of animal food, such as meat
and bone. Otherwise they require the
same care as young turkeys. Only the
peafowl can raise them, as common
hens w ean them too soon.
Keep your laying hens busy. That
is. give them exercise by throwing
their grain feed upon the floor and
covering with chaff, cut straw and the
like.
We want persistent all year milk
ers. The first year tells the story.
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FOR THE SAKE OF ECONOMY.
Even False Syntax May Be Resorted To—
An Abortive Boston Attempt.
Tho telegraph operators were tell
lng stories again last night, says th«
Buffalo Express. The tali man who
has held a key all over the country,
had the floor.
‘•You see a good many jokes iu
the papers.” he said, “about tho
culture of Boston and the habit peo
plo living there have of using big
words and correct grammar and all
that. Mostof you think that these
jokes have no foundation in fact.
Now I know better. I was receiving
clerk in the Western Union office
there a good many years ago, and
some of tho messages handed in to
me were corkers. One summer I had
the cable window; One day two
women dressed in black and greatly
agitated came in and inquired the
rate per word to London; I told
them that it was twenty-eight cents.
They consulted for a minute and
then one of them asked for a blank.
I told them where the blanks were,
and one of them wrote a message.
The other took it, and read it over
two or three tiroes. Then she came
to the window and asked again how
much it was a word to London.
•Twenty-eight cents,’ I told her. She
looked at the message dubiously.
The other woman came up to her and
said: ‘Don’t you like it?’
“ ‘No,’ she said, •£ do not like it
That form is improper. You say that
Charles suicided this morning when '
it should be said that Charles com
mitted suicide this morning.’
“‘But,’ said the other; ‘if we put
it in that way we will save twenty
eight cents. ’
-ine woman who objected turned
this proposition over in her mind
for a long time. Finally she said: ‘I
do not think that such Syntax is ex
cusable. ’
“The other took the blank and
read the message a few dozen times.
‘We are poor,’ she said decisively,
after studying it in all its phases,
and we cannot save twenty-eight
cents any easier.’
“This partially convinced the wo
man who objected. ‘But what will
your friends think?’ she asked dubi
ously.
“I suppose they will notice it, but
we cannot help that.’ Then the two
women retired to one corner of the
room and had a consultation. After
talking earnestly for ten minutes
they wrote out another message. So
help me, this is the way I got it:
•Charles suicided this morning.
False syntax used because, it is
cheaper. ’
“And they paid me twenty-eight
cents a word for it. All of which,"'
continued the tall operator, “illus
trates one of the curious ways in
which a woman’s mind works.
TOLD ON MR. BLACK.
How He Quoted Shakespeare Uselessly in
a Law Suit.
“A good story is told of ex-Pen
sion Commissioner Black,” said A. T.
Grundon, a Chicago attorney, to the
St Louis Globe-Democrat “Every
one who knows Black is aware that
he is one of the most dignitied legal
practitioners in the Wost.and that he
is also somewhat enamored of the
classics. Not long ago he was attor
ney in a usury case at Springfield,
and in his address to the jury he
quoted very freely from “The Mer
chant of Venice.’’ and wound up by
saying that although the plaintiff
could demand his pound of flesh, the
terms of his bond did not enable him
to go beyond this. The attorney for
the alleged usurer seemed very much
amused at the line *f argument Mr.
Black was taking, and when that
gentleman’s peroration was concluded
he rose and remarked, with some
what of a pitying tone that Brother
Black had recently held a brief in a
dressed-beef case and that he had
gotten the two cases mixed up, con
cluding by assuring the jury that
thore was no flesh in this case at all,
but only money. A legal friend of
mine, who solemnly asserts he was
in court on the occasion, says the
look of disgust on Mr. Black’s face
would have been worth a small for
tune to any artist who could have
reproduced it on canvas.”
For a Christmas Dinner.
North Clifton in Nottinghamshire.
England, is situated on the banks of
the Trent, and boasts of one custom
the like of which exists probably no
where else in England. There is a
ferry across the river, but if you and
I, gentle reader, wished to go from
one side of the stream to the other,
we could do so on payment of a fee.
But the Cliftonians are a favored
folk, and are entitled to the free use
of the ferry on tne condition that
thov give the ferryman and his dog
their dinner at Christmas. As
Christmas comes but once a year the
boatman would seem to have 'made
a very bad bargain. Let us hope he
gets a generous meal and wish him
a merry Christmas—not forgetting
the dog.
Nlie Kemeinbeml the Cat.
A Wobfoot woman who started to
jump into the Columbia river to
drown herself suddenly remembered
that sho had left the cat in the pan
try, and hurried back home. Sho
afterwards said: “The idea of my
struggling in the water and thinking
that Ike cat was licking tho cream
off my milk in the pantry at that
minute was more than I couldbear!"
—Walla Walla Statesman.
Science and tho Ribtc.
Bobby—Aunt Nellie, what became
of the swine that had evil spirits
east into them In the Bible?
Aunt Nellie—They plunged head
foremost into tho sea, Bobby.
Bobby, triumphantly—Not a bit of
it, auntie. They were made Into
deviled ham.
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