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; ADAM'S PICKANINNY. I : X EVERY oue la Uie clrcua kicked, and cuffed him, and certulnly be was the very ugliest nigger ever seen! lie bad Joined the troupe when quite a lad, and because of bis age and grayness, all saw fit to make bU bard life harder Umu It need have been. Every one except Mlml, the 8-year-old child of the circus proprietor, and she, with the unerring Instinct of the young, knew that a most loyal aud loving heart beat beneath that hldeouH exterior and that the brown, patient eyes of the poor old mini were the kludesteverseen. Con sequently, und In dellance of all orders, itlie would seek out the much-abused Adam, niiil with her Innocent questions ami adorable ways flood bin bnrren ex iHtetiee with Hitch sweetness that ho sometime forgot (he smart of his bruise and at night, his extreme wear iness. "Why are you so black. Adam? Why Is your hair like wool and why have you a mouth like a frog?" one day usk ed the little damsel, pressing, neverthe less, to the old parched lips her own rosebud mouUi. "I dunno, honey mlssey," niiBwered the old man, looking us though an an gel had refreshed and sanctified him. "Spects God made ole Adam ugly Jen' to ahow what a sweet wee mlssey Is! Niggers doau have golden hairs and white sklus, dearie niggers Is niado to be kicked and do all the work that no oue else will do. Can't siect nig gers to be treated like white folks, dear ie. Hut ole Adam he do wish his mouth was like a buminlu bird's instead of a frog's." "Birds have beaks, you silly old Adam!" laughed Mlml. "So they hev, ye bllssed, clever lamb kin. : Did ye ever see such a tiny hand" taking the child's flu Kern and laying them across bis horny palm "(ley Jes' like lllley spines; dey alius makes ole Adam's bead better." "Adam got headache?" queried Ml ml. "Why, what a big lump on your eye! How did It come there?" "Carlo bed an acclden' with bis whip, honey bit me, Instead ob 'oss. Klssln' It to make It well, are ye? God bless lllley honey baby. Now tell ole Adam bow ye gettln' on wld yer rldln'. Only anubber week, ami then we shall see pickaninny oti a lllley white pony, nnd won't folks jes' clap! She'll hev bow keU and flowers, and and sweeties, and when she gets dem wings on her shoulders Adam' U be 'frald boiiey'll fly straight away to de blue, blue sky. Wlial'll Adam do den?" "Come, too." "Iat he would; couldn't do wldout lllley mlsey; she Just keep 'Ini 'live." "Do you say your prayers every night, Adam, and do you put clean clothes on every week?" "Yes, Adam says his prayers ebbery night prays to tho big, kind Jesus what honey told him about, and when Adam's very sore ho t'lnka of the dear Lord on his wooden cross, of bis bleed In' sides and 'arm, and den he feels com forted, and prays for lllley mlssey too. As for dem clean clo's, I washes dem myscl' cos granny won't wash nigger's clo's. No, Adam couldn't be dirty when he has a white mlssey wot comes to him. Adam feels 'shamed! Pickaninny come and see tho monkeys?" "Drop thut Kid, nigger!" broke lu a loud voice uK)t) them. "I'll tell the boss how you nogleeks yer duties, and he'll flog yer for slobberlu' over his child. She ain't brought up like a lady to have a nigger always arter her!" A brutal, coarse-faced man, dressed In a greasy check suit came forward and flourished a whip before the old man, but Mlml, the color leaping to her soft cheeks, sprang off Adam's knee, and fronting the bully, said: "If you hits Adam, I'll kick you! Adam's goln' to show me tho monkey so, Ihere, you nasty, ugly, fat man! Come along, "Adorn!" turning to her colored friend. "Give me your hand, Arinm I'll take care of you!" aud the little creature, with a ridiculous air of dignity, inarch ed past tiie astonished stableman, who could only rub his uoso and in u tier, "Well, I'm blowed!" Thus, hand In hand, Mlml and Adam made the round of the animals compris ing the bulk of Slgnor Dingo's lu other words, plain Jim Hrown's cir cus. These were not--alas, for the suc cess of Rlgnor Digno! of particularly uncommon breed, nor many lu number. Tho Hon, their piece de riwlstance, was growing almost too old to roar; tho two elephants were also somewhat hoary, having punned their prime In ft circus very different to the one they now adorned. A cage of jackals, a chim panzee nnd a few widened monkeys wero tho other features of the attrac tion, and of course there were perform ing horses, mid or Indifferent Hut one beautiful animal Slgnor Dingo did pos rts sess, and that was the white pouy on which Mlml was to make her debut It was like a tiny, duinty lady with its satin coat aud pink nose and owed much of Its elegance to the constant and loving grooming of Adam. Mow gently the old man tended the little brute only Mlml knew, and It was beautiful sight to see the poor old nig ger with bis baby friend on one side ami his dumb friend on the other, for he would pretend that Floss was talking to him of her little mistress, aud Mlml would listen, entranced. And when the day of days arrived, all! how Importunt was Ailum! None so anxious as he that the site chosen to pitch the circus tent should be favor able, none so eager that the tent should be full. He stole into the town to gaze upon the gaudy posters that announced the fact that Signoriua Dingo, child prodigy, would make her first appear and that evening, and no pilgrim be fore a shrine could have gazed more devotedly upon his patron saint than did Adam upon the little llgure thus glaringly advertised. All during the afternoon he went rest lessly In aud out the circus ring, rak ing tho sawdust and removing every ob stacle that might tend In any way to make Floss stumble. And the coat of Floss, how It shone! What did he care that the clown kicked, the Juggler cuff ed him? What heed paid he when tiie stableman knocked him down because his ugly nigger face gave him the "Jumps?" His little pickaninny was to ride forth like a queen, aud tho world would lie the better for merely looking upon her dear form. Half an hour before the performance began Mlml sent for Adam to see her dress. On tiptoe he stole Into the room, and when he met the smlio of the radi ant little child he suddenly stopped Then Into the dog-like, weary eyes of the old man came bitter sweet tears. "Oh, pickaninny, little angel!" he cried, and then he fell on his knees. "Get up, you stupid old Adam!" com manded Mlml, running toward her friend and putting her arms round his neck. "Oh, lllley mlssey, ye makes ole Adam feel so good." "Mind and throw that bunch of li lacs when I leave the ring, Adam," con tinued the child. "And Isn't my dress pretty real spangles, Adam, and open work stockings!" "Ye let, llley mlssey, Adam's got a bunch of lubley white lilac. He bought it all hlssolf. Will mlssey be too proud to come to him nfter all the slioutln' and clappln' and gib him a kiss for true lub's sake?" "I'll come to you, Adam. You may kiss me now, Adam." And he kissed her. When the time came for his little pickaninny to appear, he grew horribly nervous. He had been forbdden from being near the ring, but what cared he for ull the orders In Christendom? In the distance be could see Mlml mounting her little white steed, and then Beppo, tho riding master, sprang on his own brown horse, and, taking the long silken reins suspended from Floss' mouth, prepared to ride behind the excited child. The music was be ginning to play an old plantation song, and Mlml, blowing kisses, rode in front of Bcppo Into the ring. The old man's hvnrt swelled at the round of applause that greeted her. Adoringly he watched the little figure in Its diaphanous drapery, and he could have wept for Joy when the first "turn" was successfully accomplished. Pres ently the time arrived when Rignorlna Dingo and Heppo were to Jump through four gaily decorated hoops. Tills sirt of the performance tilled Adam with nervous apprehension, and he did not like the look of tiie great brown horse In the wake of the white pony. He crept forward Into an open ing of the ring, unheeding the blows nnd curses leveled at him. In his hand he held a groat bunch of lilacs, the perfume of which contrasted with the close, unpleasant air. What a pretty waltz tune they were playing, and Unit dulling pickaninny! how well she Jumped! One ring was successfully accomplished two rings when she slipped and fell lu front of Itvppo's horse, just as his master was prepared to Jump. A shrill crp rang through the circus. The multitude turned their faces sliud derlngly aside, and women fainted. Hut Instead of a Utile child wending her way to the kingdom of God, Jesus naw (It to cull to him an old, old man! For Adam, seeing the terrible danger of his darling, bad, with marvelous agility, bounded forward and rescued the child from beneath the trampling hoofs, receiving the death wound that might have b -en the rate of bis little pickaninny. And then for the first time, and. alas! too lale, they who hail evrr lined rough Words to tiie old mail spoke to hllu gen tly. Gently, too, they lifted bliu aud laid bliu on a heap of old sacking out side the stable of Floss. They did noi heed the bum h of lilac. He lay there moaning faintly as the cool water was dashed across his face, and then he by and by opened bis dim eyes. "Pickaninny," he sighed. "Here. Adam!" cried the voice be lo-'ed so well. And Mlml In her white wings and white robe came aud knelt by his side. "Not hurt nowhere, honey dear?" "Nowhere, Adam." "Aiu't got no bunch of lilac, dearie." Tho child hung tenderly above bim. "Oh, Adam! Are you 111? Does It hurt very much?" "Don't cry, dear honey plckanluny. Ok- Adam, he used to pain. F.bber since he was a black boy baby he not bad much luck. But uebber mind, mlssey; all ober now." "Are you going to die, Adam, dear?" "T'luk bo, pickaninny; ole Adam, he no more good ole 'orses, ole dogs, ole niggers, who wants 'em? Very weary, too, mlssey, lub." "Poor old Adam! Shall pickaninny sing to him?" The sufferer feebly nodded. And then from among those squalid surroundings there arose the sound of a child's pure voice. I do not thing that Adam was aware of the hymn his darling was singing. He only knew that Is was exceeding sweet aud that a burden seemed to be slipping away from his aching should ers. The brave old mouth smiled quiet ly, he stretched forth his trembling hands, and two tears trickled from his dying eyes. In the ecstasy of the moment he for got even pickaninny forgot all save that he was no longer sore distressed. " 'Our Fader which art lu 'ebben' is that right, pickaninny? 'Our Fader,' the only Fader Adam ebber knowed. Dying ain't so bad, pickaninny." And Jesus knew It, too, for surely death was never kinder than to that poor, lonely old man. For he touched his eyes aud gave him beautiful vis Ions, he passed his hand down the aged form, and rest most exquisite stole into the aching limbs. "Come to me, O my servant!" whispered the kind-eyed God, and with a sigh of perfect trust Adniii meekly folded his hands and went. Ah, you weep, little pickaninny, for the loyal friend who, like the Great Ex ample, gave his life in exchange for yours. Surely you would not have him back, pickaninny? He suffered great ly. The woId has no room for such as he. Go back to the ring and find his bunch of lilac. Kiss him, dear, and say goodby. Mrs. Alfred Hart In Sketch. Manufactured Diamonds. If that Ingenious animal, man, strays much further along the paths of discov ery and Invention poor old Mother Na ture will find her occupation, almost gone. The latest successful attempt of science to emulate the workings of natural laws has been In the making of diamonds. These marvelously beauti ful minerals are simply crystallized carbon. The theory of their formation is that fiery, eruptive matter Is thrown Into an upper layer of earth rich In carbon, which, slowly cooling, assumes tho crystalline form. The question oc curred to a French scientist, "Why can not I crystallize carbon and so make diau onds?" He has recently perform ed experiments with wrought Iron car bon, which he melted and then very slowly cooled. Tiny but sparkling diamonds were the result. Almost simultaneously with the French discov ery of tho process of diamond manufac ture a Russian chemist announced that he, too, could make artificial diamonds. Kacb man had carried on his Investiga tions wholly without knowledge of the work of the other, and, except that the Russian used silver carbon, the method and results were nearly tho same. The stones are very small as yet. but It is said that It will soon be possible tn make them of a marketable size. Demorest Magazine. Typographical Illunders. The Hookmnn says that Laurence Hutton. In writing an article for Har per's Weekly on the recent literary con solidation In New York city, found in his final proof a very glowing sentence descriptive of "Mr. Lenox's vest but ton." Mr. Hutton had no recollection of having eulogized any portion of Mr. Lenox's garments, and on sending for his copy found that the original read Mr. Lenox's vast bequest." In the last number of the Bookman Ibsen's por trait bore the' legend, "The Master," but the Intelligent compositor, appar ently with an eye to the hand mirror Into which Ibsen Is gazing, very nearly sent the picture to press described as The Masher." Killed by a I'eiinut Hkin. Margaret Kllpatrlck, 1!) months old. daughter of John II. Kirkpatiick, of Pittsburg, died from the effects bf at tempting to swallow a piece of tho skin of a peanut. While eating peanuts Margaret was seized with a violent fit of roughing which almost threw her In to spasms. Physicians found a piece of peanut skin In the child's throat. rracheaotomy was performed, a silver tulio being placed In the throat nnd the neck being cut. Shortly nfter the child died. The physicians say that the shock incident to the operation killed the child. If you want to make a woman mad, don't look at her face, which she has fixed up for Inspection, but at her feet which she has probably neglectful. Some men are bora wise, but the wis dom Unit Is beaten Into on lasts longest. HEAL liUiiA L HEADING WILL C2 FOUND IN PARI MENT. THIS D - New and Populur Varlt-ty of Apple How ta Construct u . inciiiill A Tile I rain Outlet-Advantage of bepurutor in t iie L'airy, r'ecurinu Power Cheaply. To secure power at little expense, a windmill Is easy of construction. To make one for ordinary farm use, build a tower about twenty feet high with timbers leaning, as shown lu cut, hav ing the fans facing northwest. The fans can be hewed out of timber about twelve feet long, leaving each fan six feet long from the axle where they cross each other. The fans are bolted firmly to the wheel of an old mower. the gearing being secured to the top of the tower. On the end of the mower axle, which comes back to the center of the tower, fasten a sprocket wheel with an Iron wedge, over this put a chain and in this way the power is conveyed down to the pump or machinery below. A belt and pulley will not work on the end of the axle unless covered from the weather. Of course this windmill can- TTT77 A HOMK-MAUK WINDMILL. not revolve to face the wind from differ ent quarters, but as the prevailing winds blow from the northwest. It will fill the bill most of the time, especially In the North western Slates, where the winds never grow tired of blowing from the west aud northwest A rod should project out about twenty Inches in tho center of the fans and wires may be stretched from point to point over the end of tills rod to support the fans In a heavy wind. The fans showu In the Il lustration are arranged to give increas ed power by adding extra pieces. This windmill furnishes three horse-power and only costs a few dollars. A large pulley behind the fans serves for a bruke to act upon. Farm and Home. The Quality of Honey. Honey Is obtained by liees from the nectar of flowers, and Its color, taste and character arc mainly dependent on the kind of flower which the bees fre quent. Kvery experienced bee keepet soon learns to recognize the white and excellent honey procured from the white clover blossom. In, localities where there are numerous basswood trees, a very choice honey, but darker than that from white clover, is made from their blossoms. It is to many lastes prefer able to the lighter-colored honey from the white clover. The bees do not visit different kinds of flowers on the same trip, nor are different kinds of honey placed In tlit? same cell. Km -k wheat honey is that made last In the season, and It, is also the darkest. It has a strong flavor, but some prefer it for eating to the more delicately-flavored kinds. Rut as buckwheat honey does not. sell so well on the market, it is us unlly left for the bees to out during tho winter. The Vitality of Chickens. Chlckous hutched in hen houses In hot weather are generally feeble and easily succumb to uuy disease. As Hie liens approach the moulting period, their eggs contain germs with weaker vitality and many are unable to hatch. This is in part due to the rapid evap oration of moisture from the egg in hot weather. The hens that have a run out of doors and make their nests on the, ground, sit and hatch full broods. Tho moisture In the soil checks the evapora tion from the egg und thus preserves the vitality of Its germ. Hens should be allowed to make nests, sit and hutch their chickens on the ground during the summer months. The Outlet of the Tile Drains. The outlet of a tile drain should not be of tile. A more stable ending to a drain Is needed to resist the action of frost, washing, etc. It Is best to have the outlet constructed of stone or brick, or both, aud to have the opening cover ed with line wire netting to keep out A1 '( ; V' M 1 ' v. .. . j i Wi TH.K rittIN OL'TI.KT. Rmall animals. The stones or brick should be laid In cement. The Illustra tion gives a suggestion of how the work may well be done. In warm climates earthenware gratings attached to a vit rified or glazed tile may be used instead of Iron netting. BlaMtcd Grain. Every year at harvest there will be some heads of grain that hove turned bbiek And not a kernel of grain can be 'II found on them, !t ts poss.'b'e teat t' ciilental Injury to the straw fro'u hail i.r hear ra! may c.iu.--e tl:U b :i:;(iii of tiie hi-aos. If is more unt'ioj on rich laud, but that is probably Imjii there the grain grows mi rayidj.v, is most tender and lieist susceptible to in jury. The neighboring hea.is are not uoected. This shows that u bacterial disease causes the injury, am! that cs.ii lirm.1 the belief that It is due only to accidental injuries, which cannot al ways be preverled. Clover uuil Poultry. The cows aud pigs are allowed ou the clover field with profit, and if oue will estimate the space thu3 given over to such stock It will be found that, in comparison with weight the poultry will give better returns, with the same privileges, as the larger stock. We kuow'of no place more appropriate for poultry than a clover field, says Mirror and Farmer. The fowls will not only find the best kind of green food, but also lnsecta. Then, again,' clover Is rich In the mineral elements, and con talus many times more lime than does grain. If not too fat, the hens that are privileged to pick the leaves of clover will never lay eggs that have soft shells. They will cost nothing for food, and will give as good returns in proportion as any stock, and with less outlay for labor, doing no damage whatever to the clover, and being less liable to dis ease. Clover is excellent food also for geese, ducks, turkeys and guineas, and provides an abundance of food at a low cost Killing Canada Thlstlea. The first thing to be done to get rid of these pests, says the Rural New Yorker, Is to plow the land Just after the crop Is off, with a good set of gang plows, turnlug it about three Inches deep; then In three or four days dig or hurr.ow It with a harrow like the Thom as. Leave It alone for u week or so and plow It over with au ordinary plow, about five or six Inches deep, as It had formerly been plowed. Then harrow well, and prepare for fall wheat and seed down to clover and timothy, and you will fiud very few thlstlea. If the land Is lu good shape for wheat or If you Intend to sow a spring crop, do not. give the second plowing until late In the fall, aud where spring plowing will answer. It is a good plan to culti vate or harrow the land, then plow and harrow and prepare the ground as usual for whatever crop you wish to sow. The Banana Apple. At the recent annual meeting of the New Jersey State Horticultural Society, an apple called by the exhibitor the banana apnle was shown. This variety Is a seedling, originating on the farm of C. E. Blackwell, of Titusvllle, Mer: cer County, N. J., about twenty years ago, and it has In the meantime become quite well known In that section. It la thus described: Large, roundish conical with a deep calyx basin, which Is some what irregular, calyx closed, some rus set patches In basin. In color when ripe It Is a yellowish green, a pale cop- perish blush on sunny side and fainter splashlngs of the same color, and sparsely marked over the surface with minute dots. Stem a half inch, some- times a little more lu length, In a basin of average size, rftthor deep and a little Irregular. Sweet, good for family or market, season January to March. The trees are said to be excellent bearers. Tyin; Up Early Cabbnife. The heading of early cabbage may be hastened by binding a string around the head so as to press the outer leaves together. It will make a difference of ten days to two weeks over cabbage not so treated, and this increased eaiii- ness secures a much better and higher market. here the cabbage leaves are tie, I up there are fewer of tho outer leaves to bo thrown away in preparing for eookiug. A Good Uuttcr Herd. The man who has a specially good butter herd cannot afford to furnish milk to a cheese factory, nor to ship i his product to a city to be sold with ow grade milk from all sources. Find out wlni t you want to do before you begin to build your herd, and then fol low that purpose steadily, and you will be apt to come out all right. What Kcpurators Would Have. The Cornell, N. Y., experiment sta tion has discovered that butter fat can be extracted from whey by ruunlug it through a separator. The general adop tion of the process, It is estimated, would save the dairy interest in New York $1,(K),(HK) a year. The entire ex pense of cheeseiniiklng would be saved from this waste product Orchard Grass for Permanent Pasture Orchard grass is excellent for perma nent pasture. I Imotliy lasts but a few years, and clover less. A good mixture Is five pounds red clover, four pounds timothy, fourteen pounds Kentucky blue grass nnd live pounds orchard grass, l lie first two make the good pasture In the start. Preventive for Potato Scab, Potato scab can be largely prevented by treating the seed planted for three hours In a solution of two ounces of corrosive sublimate In ilyeen gallons of water. THE nANAN'A ATPI.E. uOCOMOTIVES SEEM TO KNOW. i.iiiiicer Telis .f a rjtuiple incident in lfuilroudiou. "I wiil tell you about one of the strangest freaks of a locomotive that ever o: c!!i".ed in my experience on the l !.;:;!, " tu.id llaiiuu I'. Duller, the best knov.'u Southern Pacific engineer in California, the other day. "It happen ed in the summer of 18S4, wheu I was k pulling freight from Tucson, Art, to Los Augeles, and I have never come across aLybody who could give ex planation of my experience, and have never been able to see through it my self. You may draw your own conclu sions. "The night I bad my experience was dark aud stormy. It was iu the period of peculiar storms and cloudbursts down iu Arizona. I was ordered from Tucson for the overland express that left there at midnight The firemau seemed to be slower than usual, aud he hud a great time getting his coal placed in the tender. The locomotive hostler at the roundhouse had forgot ten to fix the oil valves, and the boiler never made steam so slowly. To make matters worse, the train dispatcher kept us in the station a plump hour past the regular leaving time, and Just be fore we started the conductor came to me and said the general superinten tent was on board the train and would go way through with us. Well, we pull ed out of the station with my mind made up to reach our destination on time If the wheels would stay under her. As soon as were out of Tucson I put on all the steam aud let her go. But she didn't seem to move at half her usual speed, aud then she didn't make steam well, either. I began to be Impa tient, and scolded the fireman for not doing good work with his fire. He seemed to try his best, but it was no go. She would not steam well, lu spite of his exertions. Then the pumps began to be troublesome. One of them stopped working altogether, and the other be came more ineffective every minute. It began to dawn on me that making up time was out of the question. "When we left Maricopah we were bne hour and ten minutes late, and the conductor had just made a remark that nettled me quite a little. I asked him if there were any orders at Mari copah. Ho answered: 'None except to try to get to Y'uma in time for dinner,' which was pure sarcasm, for if we made our running time we would get there In time for breakfast. Well, my heart was clean down lu my boots, and when I shut off the steam going Into Hlg Wells I found the water so low in the boiler that something had to be done for the pump before we could leave the station, as there was then a heavy grade to climb for several miles. I informed the conductor that we would be delayed fifteen or twenty min utes with the work of taking down one of the pumps, nnd then proceeded with the work. We were just about ready to start again when I heard the sharp whistle of an engine, and, looking up, I saw a special tourist excursion train from Southern California approaching from the very direction in which we were going. When the train pulled Into fhe station we found that the telegraph operator at Maricopah had neglected to give us meeting orders for this train. Had it not been for the pumps we would have rushed on to what would probably have been one of the most terrible collisions in the Jiistory of rail roa ds. "Now comes the remarkable part of the story. From the time we left Big Wells both pumps worked like a charm. bear iu mind that I found nothing whatever the matter with the pump that I had taken down, and tiiere wai apparently no reason for Us not work-. lug and the old engine seemed to dart along with twice her usual speed. Grad ually she began to pick up time again, and in the next fifty miles we made up fifteen minutes, which was lightning speed in those (lays. There were just nineteen minutes to make up iu the last twenty miles in, and I need not say that we pulled into our destination on time. Here was an Instance of a cranky engine saving a collision that would probably have resulted iu a great loss of life and property." New York Sun. Ancient Minerva Found. From Delphi is anuounced the dis covery of a colossal statue of Minerva In poros lithos, with traces of poly chrome coloring, but unfortunately tLu head is wanting. Some Important fragments of an archaic group In mar ble, representing a lion tearing to pieces a bull, have also come to light, as well as the fine reliefs which adorned tin front of the seen a In the ancient 1liea tor. So far have been recovered tin representation of Hercules shooting ar rows against the Stymphuliau birds, the contest of Hercules with Antaeus and that with (lie sea monster for tin deliverance of Heslone, and a portion of the .Centauromachia. It appears that when the works at Delphi are con cluded, the French school will resunu Its labors at Debts, where recent re searches have raised hopes that the ' whole of the ancient city may be ex cavated. Among the statues recently found at Delos, three of particular Im portance have been transported to tlir State museum at Athens. One of tliesr represents a line nthletc, apparently a copy of a work of Polycletus, the other two being a heron and a female llgure of rare beauty. Philadelphia Ledger. Hard Work fa Most Immigrants. Over one-fourth of the Immigrants who come to this country are unskilled laborers and And employment In the most arduous forms of manual labor. About tho wisest looking thing In the world Is a country boy who has beeu boarding In town and studying law three or four months.