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THE JOTTKNAL.
WEDNESDAY, APKIL 0, 1884.
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J0BTrA8Z.
Las Be stand still upoo the hefcat C life:
Much hu been won, thoofh much then It
to win;
I am a little weary of the strife.
hut me stand still awhile, nor count It ata
ro oool ray not brow, ease the traTel pal.
And then address me to the road again.
Lonr was the way and steep and hard the
ollmb:
Sore are ray limbs and fain I am to rest:
Behind me lie lone sandy tracks of time;
Before me rises the steep mountain crest.
Let me stand still; the Journey is half done.
Aad when less weary I will travel on.
There is no standing- still 1 Eren as I pause
The steep path shifts and ! slip back apace;
Movement was safety; by the Jouraojr-Uws
No help Is given, no safe abiding- place.
No idling In the pathway hard and slow;
Imust go forward, or must backward go!
Z will go up then, though the limbs may tire.
And though the path be doubtful and un
seen: Better with the last effort to expire
Than lose the toil and struggle that hare
beea t .
And have the morning strength, the upward
strain,
The distance conquered, In the end made vain.
Ah. blessed law! for rest a tempting sweet.
And we would all lie down if so we might;
And few would struggle on with bleeding
feet:
And few would ever gain the higher height
Except for the stern law which bids us know
We must go forward, or must backward go.
Suitn CooUOa; in X. T. InOeptndtnL
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HIS WIFE.
The ion had just set when I arrlrs4
t Somerset Station. A wholo mile to
walk in the pleasantest part of the
Eleasantest country in the world. Soft
ills bathed in the sun's parting glow
dotted the landseape on every side, and
ever all smiled a tender, brooding sky.
What keen enjoyment the anticipation
of a summer all alone with my best
friend had afforded me and now I was
almost there. There was the house; old,
many-roomed, and most of the rooms
on the ground floor. Grandmother her
self had been the architect of the estab
lishment. "I told your grandfather,' said she
on one occasion, "that no man was go
ing to plan a house for me to live in.
What does a man know, I should like to
be told, of a woman's needs? If he'd
built it according to his notion there
would have been three or four flights
of stairs, and then, with a baby on each
arm and two or three hanging to my
petticoats, I might hare spent most of
my time on 'em but I knew better."
As events proved, grandmother was
correct in her predictions. An enthusi
astic lover of nature was this old lady
of seventy years. Yes, there she was.
I caught a glimpse of her white sleeve
on the window-sill. How exquisite the
taste of this presiding genius. Helio
trope, mignonette and white roses.
Grandmother s rosebushes were the en
ry of the whole neighborhood. Shy
little violets bordered tho gravel walks
leading to the low door-stone, and over
beyond in grandmother's pet field mil
lions of yellow-hearted daisies nodded
and beckoned to the soft eveningbrecze.
Avoiding treacherous pebbles, I cut
quietlv across to tho front door, steal
ing with cat-like tread through tho long
narrow hallway, and entered the sitting-room
on my tip-toes. Wonderful
victory. Twice before had I tried this
wonderful dodge, and each time had
the old turkey-gobbler betrayed me.
Where was he on this occasion, and
why, when I really needed his services,
did he not prove my friend? Softly.
Only a step or two more. Tho sensa
tion of the next minute wasn't anything
to speak of I mean by that it was inde
scribable. The back of grandmother's
big arm-chair quite hid tho occupant,
and, nothing doubting, I made with
great dexterity for grandmother s eyes.
I found the eyes, but they didn't belong
to grandmother. I knew that before
their saucy owner had imprisoned my
hands.
"Who is it?" said he, like one first
awakening from a sleep. "Let me
Siess. The fingers are too little .for
adge, and too long to belong to' Sa
rah. I found my tongue then. I would not
wrench my hands away; that would be
rudeness 'for he evidently supposed
them to be the property of some inti
mate friend
"Please release me," I said; aad
then, as he roe quickly, apparently sur
prised by the vo e of a stranger, I
added, rather ludicrously, 1 suppose, for
the tall fellow in the shirtsleeves laughed
right heartilv, "I thought you, were
grandmother.'
Never was taken for an old lady be
fore, he answered, with provoking non
chalance, and then added, as be hastily
drew on a dre-sing-down: "What do you
think about it now?"
" 1 think I should like to know where
grandmother is, and "
" And what am I doing here?' he in
terrupted, with another laugh. "Your
grandmother has gone to spend the
evening with a sick neighbor. I belong
to the next house or rather am visit
Ine mv sister. She was unexnectadlv
telegramed away, and as I have been
ill and am not quite well enough to
take care of myself in the absence of a
housekeeper, your blessed grandmother
offered to look out for me until my
sister's return. My name is David Al
cott, and yours, I take it, is Miss Susan
Ellis." And then we shook hands.
The evening marked a new era in my
life. I was comfortable, as was always
.the case at grandmother's, and I was
happy, too happier than I bad eTer
been before. Y hat it meaut was of no
sort of consequence to me then. I did
not stop to analyze my sensations, bnt
enjoyed to the utmost the strange enter
tainment fate had placed before me.
Mr. Alcott showed where grandmother
had left the strawberries after tea, and
then I skimmed a pan of morning's milk
and prepared my supper.
" You have been to tea, of course?"
I inquired of the gentleman, who had
again taken up his book.
"Yes, but I should like a few straw
berries if you can spare me some." So
It chanced that he drew a chair up to
-he little round table, proving a most
'jiteresting companion.
In an hour more, after our little meal
was over, I sat upon the door-stone
alone, watching for grandmother. Then
ho came to the door and said:
" You needn't expect her before nine
o'clock. 1 wish I could sit here with
you."
"And why not?" I asked.
Because I am still in quarantine.
Perhaps I might make it pleasant for
you indoors. If you are fond of being
;ead to I will do my best."
' "And there is nothing I am fonder
of," I answered, and followed him into
the bouse.
"Mako your selection," he said,
pointing to a table quite covered with
books.
" Something of hers." I replied, pick
ing up an edition of Mn Browning.
"All right Now. to please me, open
at random and I will stay here."
I laughingly resented, and placed my
ferefinger plump on Lord Walter's
wife
' But why do you go." said the ladr. as both
sat under the yew,
Aad her eyes were olive in their depths, as
the kraken beneath the sea blue,
Because I fear you," he answered ; "you are
And sate to strangle my soul In a mesh of
Kr golden hair'
' 'Please eWt go on," I interrupted.
J life the poem, bat some way it isn't
pleasant now."
Hardly appropriate," he answered,
esselng the volume dreamily, and then
-I
you think Lard Walter's
MftBtteir
typaoialaJXcaM; tafc
afc Aloott, inn not treading on dan
gsrous rfroundP Do you know what
Bet vast beyond?"
"Yes, that most exasperating ques
tion of 'woman's rights.' Aurora
Leigh settles that for me."
" 'It takes a soul to move a body,' he
repeated slowly. 'It takes a high-souled
man to move the masses, even to a
cleaner style. It takes the ideal to blow
a hairVbreadth off the dust of. the act
ual. Ah, your Fourier j failed because
not poets enough to understand that
life develops from within.'
"Never was truer word spoken than
that, Miss Ellis 'from within.' 'It takes
a soul to move the masses,' and, ac
cording to my observations, it makes
rery little difference to whom the soul
belongs. Men of intellect never have
subordinated women. See what excel
lent care Goethe takes of them. Look
at Faust's Margaret, the instinctively
pure child growing into a self-reliant
woman, and see bow, as Wilhelm
Welster develops spiritually and intel
lectually, he comes naturally upon
women of a purer and more innately re
fined type first Mignon, then Natalie,
afterward Theresa ami Macaria tho
last a star soul."
"I thought as mueh," said grand
mother, entering just here. "I felt
sure you had come when I saw the
light;" and no pet last child, a babv.
was ever more welcomed than I by my
dear dead father's mother.
"You promised me, David, you would
certainly go to bed at eight o'clook,"
said the old lady, reproachfully, after
having satisfied herself that I hadn't
changed a bit since she last saw me.
"But how could I?" hevasked, with a
comical gesture in my direction.
"Well, I hope you won't be any tho
worse lor it to-morrow," said she, "and
now to bed with you this minute."
"Dear old Vagrant, good night," said
the gentleman, with a raro smile, obey
ing instantly; "and pleasant dreams to
you. Miss Ellis."
'Nice boy that," said grandmother,
as the doorclosed.
"Boy?" I repeated.
"Yes, boy."
"He is twenty-live years old if he is a
day."
"What of that? You are twenty; and
what are you but a girl, I should in
quire? Four weeks ago there didn't
anybody round here think he'd ever get
out again. The doctor gave him up
and his sister was almost crazy: but the
fever turned and he went to sleep and
slept two days steadily: but when ho
woke up he was as bright as a button."
I did not see my new friend for two
days. He had over-excited himself, and
the result was solitude for tills length of
time. I roamed the fields and haunted
the woods, read, wrote and thought.
I ncverdid so much thinking in so snort
a space of time, with such unsatisfactory
results.
'Where under the sun have you been
all this afternoon?" said grandmother,
as at sunset the second day I dragged
myself into the kitchen porch.
"Up a tree."'
"Up a tree?" this with considerable
disdain iu voice and manner. "You
have torn a great slit in your dress.
Sue, and -ou look like a fright. I have
wanted you mor'n your worth for tho
last three hours."
"What are you making, grand
mother?" "Panada."
"How many quarts of this stuff does
your patient consume, Mrs. Bliss, in
the course of twenty-four hours?"
That is according to his appetite.
Miss Saucebox," saida rich voice at my
elbow; and there stood Mr. Alcott.
"No. 2," he continued, gravely.
"They've sent for mo up to Jones'.
They think the baby is dying," broke
in grandmother, while I stood blushing
like an embarrassed school-girl.
"And I want you to keep house and
take care of him while I go up awhile
and see if lean do anything to help
them. When this panada gets a little
bit cold. Sue, put in two tablespoonfuls
of brandy; that's the bottle on the sec
ond shelf." And the provoking old
lady tripped away as composedly as if it
were the most commonplace thing in
the world for a young lady to be left
with the care of an invalid, and the said
invalid a man and a stranger. A few
minutes sufficed to place me entirely at
my ease, and no veteran hospital nurse
was more composedly exacting than I
In my new role. Grandmothers orders
were explicit; David mustn't think of
such a thing as readme aloud, and he
must lie on the lounge in the sitting
room until she returned. Such an even
ing as that was. I read to him out of
Atterbach and this took us naturally
to the Rhine and then I found that my
companion had traveled among all my
favorite European cities. What won
derful pictures he drew me of the Cam
Bagna, the Coliseum and the Forum!
ow exquisite was the play of the
moonlight on the Sabine Mountains,
and how charmingly picturesque the
sketch of the old ltoman ramparts, in
some places bare and black with age,
with here and there patches of scarlet
and green made of poppies and ivy.
Grandmother came too soon. Six
weeks of this doice far niente life and
then
There is no good of life but love bat
lore!
What else looks good Is some shade Sung
from lore.
Love gilds It, gives It worth.
I knew as well as the Queen and poor
Constance what there was in life worth
living for what love meant. Not one
word was spoken between us of the one
subject that all engrossed us, and vet I
know that his heart was irrevocably In
my possession as was mine in his.
One day, when he was f ally well, we
attended a little picnic in the grove
down the road.
"We'll have a good time to-day,
Lorchen," he said, as we made our
preparations in the morning. "I will
take out my scrap-book, and when the
others are engaged and won't miss us
we'll wander off by ourselves and enjoy
after our own fashion won't wo,
Lorchen?"
"Lorchen?" How the word thrilled
me, and how it epitomized the tender
purity of his regard for me.
Oh. day long to be remembered. Oh,
day of heartache and agony indescribable-Steep
thy soul in pure love.
And it will last thee long.
What kind of a lovo wa9 my love
steeped in? Aye! love has its worm
wood and gall as well as its honeyed
sweetness.
A party of friends David's friends
came down from the city, and, as we
were walking slowly in the grove, they
came upon us from the depot road. I
had David's arm. It was my arm I
knew it and we should walk that way
forever. Greetings and introductions
were over. Shalll ever forget the face
of that man who aimed straight for mv
soul with his poisoned arrow? Walk
ing up to David's side, with contempti
ble familiarity he said:
"Saw your wife last week, Dave."
"Ah!" replied my companion, per
fectlv at his ease.
"Coming down in the three o'clook
train, if possible."
"Good," replied David; and then fol
lowed inquiries about various friends, in
a thoroughly cool and self-possessed
manner. It seemed to me that my
heart stopped beating. The hand on
his arm involuntarily clenched itself,
and there it remained until we arrived
at headquarters, a little round bunch of
cords and knuckles.
"You won't be gone long, Lorchen?"
inquired David, as I moved away,
ostensibly to help the committee of
arrangements to decide where the ta
bles should be set
wnat s inat you call her?" my
tal enemy asked, inquisitively.
LoRtV' wfli DarteV
'TvTjy, that's a Dutch name, isn't
it? I thought she looked like a for
eigner." I heard no more, waited for no more,
but watched my opportunity, and, when
sure that no eyes were upon me, struck
the path leading to the road, and in
less than an hour was home again ia
Grandmother Ellis' sitting-room.
" Oh, grandmother! grandmother!
what misery has your terrible indis
cretion brought upon me," I groaned
aloud for grandmother had gone away
to spend the day. There at the foot of
the lounge were his slippers there on
the back of the lolling chair Jiis dress-ing-ffown.
I could not turn my eyes
without beholding fresh evidences of
his precious personality. What should
I do? I could not leave until grand
mother returned. Such a blow as that
I felt sure the old lady would never
rally from. I must suffer and keep it
to myself, and get away at the earliest
possible moment. In my agony I
threw myself upon the lounge and
buried my head in the pillow the pil
low upon 'which his head reclined so
often the head I had so foolishly
called in ne. After a while tears re
1 ered the heated brain and I fell
asleep. 1 dreamed that I was in the
v.ater. I could not stir. Huge waves
threatened to submerge me. Just be
yond, on the bank, almost within
speaking distance, stood David, a
beautiful woman by his side his wife.
" David, David, take hold of my
hand; don't you see 1 am sinking?' I
cried out in my terror.
"Wake up, Lorchen! wake up!"
said a familiar voice at my side. "Hero
are my hands, dear. They are both
yours not one, Lorchen, but both. Do
you understand that?"
" But, David but "
" But what? Can it be that my little
brown bird was scared home because
of "
"Because of your wife," I managed
to say, with his face close to mine.
"That was my chum he meant,
Lorchen. That's the way we always
call them at college. This is No. 3,
little one. I wonder what next? 111
get a divorce from that fellow, dear, if
you will promise to be my own real
wife."
And I did.
Flash Paper and Dime ISoTels.
The influence of the dime novels, bad
boy books, and tho pernicious rolicc
Gazettes with which our news-stand
are Hooded is conspicuously illustrated
by some developments recently made
in Cleveland. A fourteen-year-old boy,
member of an. aristocratic family, sud
denly disappeared and has not been
seen since. He was an iuveterate reader
of dime novel literature, and und -r its
influence developed into a hoodlum
with astonishing rapidity and at once in
stituted a propaganda lor the increase
of hoodlumis:u. The secret, oath-bound
society, with plenty of daggers, skulls
and crossbones, particularly iniiamod
his imagination, and he soon found no
difficulty in organi.ing ten other boys,
between eleven and fifteen years of aije,
into an association bearing the startling
name of "The Socictv of the Silver
Skulls." These rampageous idiots
armed themselves with revolvers, each
boj' having a couple, for what purpose
remains, a mystery. It mav Le that
they intended to take the road and levy
toll" upon the people of Ohio, to go "a
burgliug," to tender their services to
the Chinese Government, or to invade
Manitoba and wrest it from the Domin
ion and annex it to this country. What
ever their purpose, it was something
dark and terrible, as the following
blood-curdling oath, which was written
by the youngster who disappeared, wili
show:
Cursed be friendship. Cursed bo fathers,
mothers, sisters, brothers, May tho offspring
of ourselves canker, blister and decay upon
Its dyinjr mother's breast; may the blood of
each breed pestiferous plajrues: may tho hair
of each fall from his head, the teeth crumble
in his jaws, the brain rot in his skull, the oyes
canker and fall from thoir sockets, and the
fingers grow palsied if we ever betray the 6
crete of the Skulio. So do we swear. Death
to our enemies. Life to the Skulls.
It appears that one of 'the "Silver
Skulls," after calmly considering the
amount of unprovoked cursing, canker
ing, blistering and decay to which he
had consigned his family and friends,'
and tho extraordinarv duties he had be
queathed to his possible offspring in the
same direction, not to mention the phys
ical unpleasantness he had invoked
upon himself, grew restive and demor
alized, absented himself from meetings,
and was not belligerently inclined when
the other Skulls canvassed the perpor
tration of midnight orgies and horrors
and brandished their revolvers. Iu
view of his treasonable proclivities the
other nine Skulls doomed him to death.
The warrant, elaborately supplied with
cabalistic signs and suggestive hints of
the brevity of life, was sent to him.
The youth perused it, and, with every
hair standing erect on his own
"silver skull" and eyes dilated with
horror, exposed the whole affair. The.
jig was up and the young hoodlum who,
had organized the society suddenly dis-i
appeared with his two "revolvers and
such other weapons as he could conve-'
niently carry, and is now probably
foraging upon the State at large or is
seeking associates of alike character
with wliom to organize a general raid.
It is to bo hoped that the other "Silver
Skulls" were at once stripped of their
accoutrements and set to sawing wood
or some useful employment calculated
to take such nonsonseoutof their heads
and the silver out of their skulls.
This is not a solitary illustration of
the effects of the pernicious trash which
is offered for sale at our news-stands.
So long as it can be had it will be read
by boys. If the publishers of the vile
stuff can not be stopped from issuing
their flash papers and stories, then the.
dealers in them, who can be reached by
the law, ought to be prevented from
selling them. The only way to stop the
business is to go to the fountain-head
and stop the supply. So long as they
are exposed to view and offered for sale
boys will find ways to read them, how
ever striot the authorities at home may
be. Chicago Tribune.
Women In the San Francisco Mint.
Fifty females employed in the mint at
San Francisco are called adjusters, and
their pay is $2.75 a day, counting week
days and all holidays but Sundays.
Their hours are from eight o'clock in
the morning until four in the afternoon,
with the exception of Saturdays, when
they cease at two o'clock. These ad
justers occupy two largo rooms on the
second floor of the mint. One is used
for the adjusting of silver and the other
for that of gold. The floors are car
peted, and each lady has a marble-top
table, a pair of scales and a fine, deli
cate file. Before the gold is turned over
to them to be adjusted it goes through
the process of being rolled, annealed,
cut and washed. They then take it in
a stato called "blanks," that is, per
fectly smooth, and the weighing i?
done. It is weighed to see if each piece
be of standard weight, which must be
412 grains for a silver dollar, a slight
discrepancy being allowed on either
side. If a coin De found outside the
limit after being weighed by an adjuster
it is returned; if too light it is con
demned and must be remelted; if too
heavy it is filed to its proper weight.
This is the ladies' work, and an inter
esting sight it is to watch the small
white fingers deftjy handling the shin
ing pieces. A room near the adjusting
room has been set aside for tho ladies,
who use it for a lunch room; two long
tables are provided, and a janitress
famishes boiling water for making tea,
and also keeps The place neat and clean.
8everal of Ue ladifs have been in the
mmtsVr vv Hti.-mm Ffnciu
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Pennsylvania expends $5,000,000
yearly for tho hiring of teachers for the
public schools. Philadelphia Press.
The BaptistChurch of Berlin, Rens
selaer County, N. Y., has recently cele
brated its one hundredth birthday.
George Nugent, who recently died
in Philadelphia, leaves about $400,000
for tiie establishment of a home for dis
abled Baptist ministers, their widows
and dependent families.
TheEosion Congregationalisl says
that it is man7 years since the tidings
from the churches throughout the
country, and especially in the interior
find West, were so full of cheer.
Tokio, Japan, has its twelfth Pres
byterian church. The Government
daily paper advertises the Bible for sale.
"In ten years Tokio may be a Christian
city," was the prediction of its young
men at the late conference of churches
in Japan.
The School Board of Rochester, N.
I Y., has abolished the recess on account
of the rowdyism upon the playground
j during that time. In winter, when the
. pupils were obliged to spend much of
! the recess within doors, it was yet more
1 unpleasant aud the Superintendent
I recommended the change.
j Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, of New York,
' said in a recent sermon: "There are
things which only sin can teach us.
The publican's wretched life made him
plead earnestly with God. Sin ever
tries to shape itself into an index-finger
Eointing up. Adam's eye was opened
y eating. Paradise was lost by sin,
but by it we may reach a better. The
prodigal left home because of sin, but
he was restored to his father a better
son than before. If we have lost God
by our sin, may it help us to find God
through it."
Bishop Huntington is out in an in
dictment of the public school system on
the score of its alleged inability, as
things are managed now, to impart to
the rising generation anything like
moral education. "The supreme in
dividual and national good," says the
Bishop, "is character. Character in
cludes elements that are moral and
religious as well as the intellectual; it
includes conscience, affection and will.
Morality, as well as religion, gives way
before the idolatry of the brain, and we
are thus brought to confront the vast
defect of our public school system.
Chicago Tribune.
The public schools of Texas will
toon have a magnificent endowment.
Fifty leagues of laud were donated to
each of two State universities, and
o3,400,000 acres for the public schools.
These lands are being sold at auction
to the highest bidder, under certain re
strictions, anil $54,.jO.'),OOJ is now in
vested in United States bonds and other
securities, the interest upon which ia
annually applied to sustain the schools.
About 2."),0'JO,000 acres of school lands
remain unsold, and are rapidly in
creasing in value. The State will have
a permanent school fund of from $75.
000,000 to $100,000,000, and the uni
versities will have from 3-,090,000 to
$j,000,000 each when the lands are sold-
PDNKENT PARAmUPHS.
A gang of negro thieves in Wash
ington called themselves the "Sons of
Rest."
"Said an eighteenth century phi
losopher: "Of all things simplicity is the
hardest to be copied, and ease is only
to be acquired with the greatest labor.
"1 thought you saidyou were going
to pay me this morning the $5 you
borrowed of me yesterday?" "You
forget, my friend, that to-morrow
never comes. Exchange.
A band of Italian brigands cap
tured a Duke recently, and held him
for thirty days. Any American heiress
can do that, and hold him longer. N.
O. Picayune.
A Chicago firm is introducing
wooden slippers into this country. The
small boy is all in a sweat for fear his
mother will take it into her head to buy a
pair. Burlington Free Press.
It is a glorious thing to have been
born a man. One doesn't have to
bother himself for a month over the
plans and specifications of a new
spring bonnet. He simply has to foot
the bill when the thing is bronght home.
N.Y. Ledger.
A contemporary is taken to task by
an aristocratic giver of a kettledrum
because the report of it alluded to the
"swell-head waiter." What the re
porter wrote was the "swell head
waiter," which is quite another thing.
Lowell Courier.
"I'd like to stay here," remarked
the oflico boy, as he approached the ed
itor's desk, "but the job's too heavy for
me." "How too heavy?" "Well, I
take de copy into de reposing room an'
dem depositors hit me on de side of
roe head. Dere's too much brain work
for me. S'long." Hebrew Standard.
"Did you ever try roller-skating?"
inquired a young lady of a sickly-looking
slim. "Yeth, only on'th" he lisped.
"Why did you give it up?" "Becauthe
I tried to thtop mythelf on my heelth."
"Pooh! that never prevented me from
learning." "Yeth, I know, but
don'cher know that you wear a I mean
that j-ou that ith er, don'cher know?"
and finding that he was over bis head,
the slim Hooted out. N. Y. Journal.
At a station in Montana the other
day a Boston girl stuck her head out of
a Northern Pacific car and exclaimed:
"The bewildewing womance which
cwown this transcendental scenewy
with such indescwibable fascination and
tinges its evewy featuh with such ever
pow'inginterwestquitebweaksmeup!" And a number of the local vigilance
committee standing on the platform
looked grimly into each other's faces
and muttered: "O! if it was only a
man!" Bismarck Tribune.
"My dear," said a newly married
young woman to her wealthy but illiter
ate husband, "do you know I think we
ought to give a german?" "Well, if
you think so, that settles it," replied
the fond husband. "How much will it
cost?" "About a thousand dollars."
"All right; go ahead. I don't mind the
cost, but I'm blessed if I can see what
you want to give a german for when
neither of us understand the language."
Philadelphia Call.
Arc You Going to Kiss Mel
If ever I go into anew locality again,
1 will study up my geography better
than I did this time; for my ignorance
got me into a most uncomfortable po
sition. As the boat neared Sandford,
I was standing with others on the deck,
when a very pretty young lady came
up to me, and, with a sweet smile on
her face, looked into mine with a pair
of lovely eyes, and asked: "Are you go
ing to kiss me. sir?" If some one had
ofiered to lend me $10 1 could not have
been more surprised, and hardly know
ing what to say, and in order to gain a
little time, I gasped out: "Pardon, Miss,
what did you ask?" I felt that she
knew I heard her, but she said sweetly:
"Are you going to kiss me, to-night?"
There was no misunderstanding her
this time, i neara ner, ana so am
others, and I felt the blood rushing into
my face, and I stammered out: "I
would like to accommodate you. Miss;
I would, truly; but I have a wife and
thirteen small children on board with
me, and if my wife should see me kiss
ing you " "Kissing me, you hatefal
old thing! who asked you to kiss me?"
"You did," I yelled; "you asked me
twice!" "You old fool, I asked you if
you were going to Kissime Kissime
City to-night; don't you know any
thing?" and off she went, and if ever
anybody felt meaner than I did I would
like to exchange photographs with him,'
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