Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1882 — Page 4

VENWEAWCE OF THE BHOWNIE KING. BT 1 UTH AHGYLK. The King of the Bro*nlen e»mc down In a very wonderful crown And we ring a terrible frown. The witch-baxe". scepter l e ■'took Wbi’e etrides moet treiaeudoue he took And about him quite fiercely did 10. k. Fight royal hie robe’s silver sheen, A i gleiiiin g with jewels was seen, J’et wrathful enough was his mien. “ Ha! ha! ” be exclaimed with a stout, “ CuroUf.iug you are, t’vc no doubt. Nor i.ream you of being found out.” He leugliod in his mi- ebievous glee, ‘•Your p'iinl.s in a trice I will see; Ab, whet a commotion iliere’il be.” He C iine to a cave large at>d deep, Juet tli-n in the mountain tide steep. And in through a crevice did p«ep. Ilia eye in the cavern could trace The g yarn of each Brownie’s wciid face, Afar through the moon iglited space. Ah. me! what a fro ic was there, And a first of dainties most rare, W ■ ...t cor. d with that banquet compare? <•!■ dancing and prancing for fun, Hi c ro !‘t;g and tumbling were done, V- li t g bdi.a they looked every one. And, sb ! he- beheld all dismayed, Hia • ffigy, t o, there displayed. In .*i.d in tags all srrayed. T Ki g shrieked in anger aloud, >i : d dire '.'an the vengeance he vowed; H"’d wreak oh tU.t rollicking crowd! “ Since you like your frolicking so, Ycu; forms ahall your characters show, Aa monkeys hereafter you’ll go. “Your faces alone you may keep, On 1> ...oh aud feet too you s’ a 1 creep. Behind ycu a long tail shall sweep. >• And if much you wander about, These carth.fo ks will say, I’ve no doubt, You’re men with the bruin u'l left out”

BOUGHT OFF.

BY G. MANVILLE FENN.

I’m afraid I was very f oliah, but if a woman is not trustjng toward the man she loves, wh<-re is her love? In those ear y days, before time a id trouble have made me the faded old young woman that you see, people sail I was pretty, and I was very, very glad. Not from any weak, coquettish reasons, or from fondness of admiration. but simply on account of Harry, who liked me the better, I know, because I had a handsome face. People tell me T was foolish to care for him, and that I had better look elsewhere; but my choice was made, and, though my own father and mother shook their heads at me aud said it was a mis take, I pleaded so hard on his behalf that they censed to find fault, aud so matters went on. I was in service in those days in a place that my mistress made quite a homo for me, and T should have been very happy indeed but for my love-affair with Harry. His troubles were, of course, my troubles, and when he used to run across from the town twice a week to see me, and tell me about how harsh and bitter his father was to him, I used to have many a good cry on his account. “ I’m about the unluckiest fellow under the sun, Kitty,” he used to say. “ Father says I’m no good, and the sooner I go across the seas the better. ” “But, Harry,” I said, “ why not be patient? Your father is old, and has had endless troubles; it makes him peevish and fretful. You should bear with him. Do, pray, for my sake try.” “Try! I’ve tried till lam sick of it. Everything I make in the workshop is wrong, no ma ter how it’s done, and the more paius I take, the m >ro ho grumbles.”

I whispered such comfort as I could, and, full of pity for the man I loved, sympathized with him most thoroughly, thinking that he was hardly dealt with, but still urging patience and forbearance witli those who, perhaps, were unduly tried. One summer evening I had permission to go out, for Harry was to fetch me, and take me tu his home to tea and to spend the evening. I was very much flushed aud excited, for I dreaded meeting the old people, his father in particular, who was always so stern and harsh with Harry. It was a delicious evening,, and all seemed so bright and beautiful as I walked across the fields with Harry that mine seemed to be quite anew existence, and I laughed merrily when he turned to me and began to say that my cheeks were quite flushed, and that *he was very glad, because he wanted me to look my best and make a pleasant impression upon the old folks. Harry’s father was a carpenter and builder in a small way of business, and a tradesman seemed so high above mo as a servant that, as I reached the house, tiie color faded from my cheeks, and I grew quite pok as I felt sare that Harry’s people would think I was not good enough for their son. And so it seemed, when I entered the snug parlor where tea was set out, and the evening sunshine was making the china and silver spoons glisten on the jetty-black tray. Everything, from the flowers to the furniture, looked so bright that for the moment I could do nothing but admire the place. There I was, gazing in a half-shrinking fashion at the stern-looking gray old man with such keen blue eyes, and at the gentie sweet-faced old lady who came to meet me at the door.

They were both very kind and polite to me, but it seemed as if they hardly liked my coming, and were distant and cold. Of course this made me nervous, and I sat there trembling in spite of the rather boisterous way in which Harry kept on talking and bantering mo for being so quiet and dull. “Why, mother,” he said, “she’s generally as merry as a cricket, and goes about the house singing like a lark.” “Let the young woman bide, Harry,” said his father quietly. “ She’s eating her meal, and behaving nicely enough. What more do you want ? ” “I don’t want her to be glum, as a girl with the toothache,” said Harry, “and I want you to see her as she really is.” “ We can see plainly enough, Harry,” said his mother, in rather a cold way ; and, of course, all this made me more uncomfortable than I was before, so that when, twice over, Harry began joking and making fun of me again, I looked at him so appealingly, silently asking him to leave off, that old Mr. Smith noticed it and frowned ; while an hour later, when I was quietly talking to Harry’s mother as I sat by her side doing some needlework, Hany wits really so foolishly bent on making me chatter and sing or laugh, old Mr. Smith, who was smoking his pipe by the window, said sharply: “ Harry, lad, I think you ought to try and get some more brains before thou takest a wife. ” I looked appealingly at Harry, but he jumped up in a passion, snatched his cap from a peg in the passage, and went out and banged the door. “Ah,” said old Mr. Smith sharply, “ that’s Harry all over, and just what he wanted—an excuse to get out. ” Mrs. Smith looked sharply at me as the tears gathered in my eyes, and, evidently on my account, said quickly : Don’t be so hard on Harry, father.” “ Hard ? who’s hard on him ? ” he cried angrily; “isn’t he always getting hold of some excuse or another to shirk what he ought to do. He might have stopped in the night he brought his sweetheart.” “You’re too hard on him, father,” said Mrs. Smith again. “Yes—yes—yes— indeed, you are,” I cried, indignantly, in a passion of weeping, for I could not bear to hear him speak of Harry like that, and not say a word on his behalf. “ You don’t., know him, Mr. Smith, as I do, for he’s one of

the best and truest of men, and, if you would only be a little kind to him, I am sure he would try so hard.” I saw the old man flush with anger, and shrank back in affright at what I had said, and read, as I thought, that Harry’s mother also looked very much put out “I don’t behave half hard enough to him,” said Harry’s father; “and as to not knowing him, seeing that I nursed him when he was a bairn, and his mother sits there, I think, young woman, that we ought to know something about him.” I felt so hurt that I got up and wanted to put on my things and go, but the old people wouldn’t hear of it; and, as Harry’s father cooled down, he lit his pipe again,, and begged me to come and sit by him at the window, and wouldn’t let me work any more, while Harry’s mother came and sat on the other side, and held my hand till it was time to get out supper, but still Harry did not come back. I jumped up and helped Mrs. Smith lay the supper-table, and Harry’s father would not wait, so we had supper, though I was so miserable I could hardly eat a bit, and kept glancing at the old man as if to ask his i>ardou for speaking as I had. I had to be back at 10, aud there were two miles to walk, so Mrs. Smith begged me stay all night. “Oh, no,” I said, “I must be back.’’ “ Well,mydear, perhapsyou are right,’ she said. “Father, as Harry hasn't come, will you walk home with her ?” “ I was just going to offer to, mother,” he said, gruffly. “ Oh, no,” I cried. “I can find my way back quite right, and there’s nothing to mind though all the time I was trembling with dread at having to go alone. “ If the young fellows don’t know how to behave themselves, the old fellows do, don’t they, mother?” he said, in quite a cheery tone. “ No, my dear, I’m not going to let you cross them fields alone, nor to leave you till you are safe indoors.” I resisted feebly but Harry’s mother took her husband’s side, and to my great delight she kissed me warmly aud affectionately when I left, while the old man took his stick, drew my arm through his, and trudged along by my side, chatting away pleasantly about the changes that had taken place since he was a boy. He kept this on until we were nearly at my mistress’ house, when he stopped speakirg for a moment, and then began again, talking in a very firm and serious tone. “We didn't think much of your coming, my dear—the wife aud I—for Harry’s such a flighty fellow that we expected trie girl he chose would be about the same. But lam glad you did come, my dear, and I am sorry I spoke so hot about Harry.” “And so am I, sir,” I faltered. “Then you needn’t be,” he said, quickly. “ I like you for it, and it was very nice, and you are a good, brave, little woman. But, look here, my dear, don’t be in a hurry. lam sorry to say it, but my Harry is not the man to make a girl like you happy. Now take my advice—don’t be in a hurry. ” “Oh, Mr. Smith,” I sobbed, for his words cut me to the heart.

“I can’t help saying it, my dear, and now good night and God bless you. You’re a very nice and good little girl.” He drew me toward him and kissed my cheek very affectionately, just as if I bad been his own child. Then he waited till he heard the side door opened aud closed, and as soon as I could I went to my room aud cried till my heart was ready to break. The months went by, and Harry seemed no happier at home, while when I took the old people’s part he grew angry and reproached me for not caring for him and leaning to the other side. Old Mr. Smith came to fetch me home once, and Harry fetched me two or three times, and I used to wonder how I could have been so mistaken in people who seemed to like me better every time I went. I know one day that there had been a terrible upset at home, for, as Mrs. Smith had told me, Harry had been neglecting his work terribly, and taken to going to the public house. Then a couple of days passed, and I heard nothing, while the next there was a letter for me which seemed at the time as if it would nearly drive me mad, for it was from Harry, telling me that he could not put up with their ways any longer, and that he had enlisted in the —tii regiment of font. I asked leave to go out, and went over to the town to find out that neither Mr. Smith nor Harry’s mother had heard of the step he had taken, while, when I put the letter in their hands aud watched their faces, I threw my arms around Mrs. Smith’s neck and we mingled our tears.

“It’s very hard, very hard,” we heard the old man say. ‘‘ I began as a laborer, and I’ve worked up a nice business of which I’m master, and there it is for my son when I die, but he prefers to be a scamp. ” It was a miserable night that, and the old man walked home with me almost in silence. “Don’t fret about it, my lass,” he said ; “perhaps it’s all for the best.” Not fret ? How could I help fretting. Harry had his faults, I Knew, but he was my sweetheart, and who, I asked, myself, was perfect? Are you surprised, then, when I tell you that, after six months’ service with his regiment, when he kept on sending me letter after letter, telling me how bitterly he repented the step he had taken and how miserable a life he led, that I should listen to his prayers to find the money to buy him off? He knew -I had a few savings, and I told myself that they were his, and paid the money willingly, for he told me that he could not exist away from me any longer, and that if I did not buy him off he should desert. Yes ; I paid the money, and he came back home to work, on and off, with a little more steadiness, while, poor, weak girl that I was, I refused to see how he was changed, and loved him more than ever.

Then he began to talk of our being married, and, though old Mr. Smith opposed it, Harry’s mother was quite eager that we should be wed. She thought that, once he was settled down, he would be steady and keep to his work, and I thought the same. Just at that time my mother died—my father had gone years before—and this put off our wedding for six months, though it gave me a comfortable little, well-furnished residence to offer as my portion to my husband, and very proud I was, for his sake, of my possession. Shall I tell you more, or hide the rest, screening my husband’s faults ? I would, but that I think my unhappy life may prove a warning to those who acted as foolishly as I did, in refusing to listen to the good advice I received, and in blinding myself so thoroughly to the weaknesses of the man I was so soon to make my own for life. For, in opposition to Mr. Smith’s will, we were married, Harry and I. The old man was not angry with me, but most kind all through. “No, my dear child," he said, “I feel as if I should be doing you a wrong if I gave my consent. You know Harry, now, as well as I do, and your marrying him will not make him a better man. ” “Oh, yes, indeed—indeed it will,” i cried. “ God bless you, my dear,” he said, kissing me tenderly, “I hope it will, but I won’t be a party to the matter. ” “But you won’t be angry with us, Mr. Smith ?” I said, imploringly. “With you ? No, my dear,” he said. “Nor with Harry?” “We’vebeen angry with Harry for

five years, and I shall keep on being angry with him until he drops the public house and sticks like a mon to his work.” So we were wed, and—l almost shame to own it—that day for the first time I saw my husband so helplessly drunk that, in my agony of mind, I believe that if I could have been unmarried then I should have left him for good. But I was his wife, and he was my husband, my master, whose willing slave I became, wording for him when he would not work, striving ever to win him to our home, but striving in vain. Before we had l>een married a year I was very ill with an ailment brought on by grief and anxiety, Mid when our little one was born and I looked upon its little face as that of a tiny angel sent, perhaps, to win my husband’s love more to me and home, that little lace was still, the eres were closed, for my child had never breathed and never saw the light of day. It was a great grief of mind to me, but time passed on, and a couple of years later I held our little girl to his lips that he might kiss our child, aud then shrank away in misery and despair, finding out, as*l did,'that there was something which he loved better than his child and me—the base indulgence of self. It may seem hard to speak of him us I do, but a long career of misery makes me outspoken. Was J not left alone that he might drink, when our little one lay sick unto death, and I hard pressed for money to obtain the necessaries that might save its life? The few pounds my mother had left me had gone long enough before—every penny spent in drink—and I had not complained, only strove on, day after day, to win him to my side, where poor old Mrs. Smith wvuld often be watching all night long, sometimes by the baby’s cot, after insisting that I should take some rest. It all seems now, in the dim distance, like some terrible dream of miseiy, wherein J see myself, with Harry’s father and mother, following the little girl to the grave, and they coming weeping back to try and comfort me, for Harry had gone away. Where ? I never knew, only that lie would go away for days. I see, too, *as in a dream, myself growing thin and weary, and so ill that Harry, who was back now, and very kind,* persuaded me to go away aud stay at the s.-aside with my old mistress, who had gone there for her health, and proposed that 1 should go and wait upon her for a month.

Harry’s mother joined in persuading me, and Harry’s father said it would be wise, so 1 went, and at the end of the month returned to find that I had no home, for Harry had so'd all our little belongings for a miserable sum, and the money was all gone in drink. I sat down in the empty room by the bare hearth, upon the little box that had been my companion at the seaside, and asked myself what I should do. For a few moments a hot feeling of indignation came over me, and I recalled too much, for I vo ,ved that I would leave him now, never to return ; but the next minute the memory of his old love came back, and my vow to be his iaithful wife; and the cruel thoughts were cast away and I stayed. Ten ! Ay, fifteen years are gone, and I still drudge on, patiently bearing my lot. A few kind words and a smile are tlie rewards I pray for, but they seldom come now, since he’s so much changed. I see the change nt times, but not often, for I blindly cling to the old memory of our love, aud, come what may, I nightly pray for the strength that shall make me his patient, forbearing wife unto the end.

A Romance of O’Donovan in Central Asia.

When the Russians under General Skobeleff started on their expedition against the Turkomans at Geok Tepe, O’Donovan, of the London Daily News, applied for permission to accompany them, but was refused. Upon receiving General Skobeleff’s final answer, the determined correspondent telegraphed his thanks for the courteous wording of the refusal, and finished his message with the significant words, “Au revoir, General, a Merv.” “Till we meet again, General, at Merv.” O’Donovan then started upon his journey. He reached the northwestern boundary of Persia, and succeeded in safely crossing the frontier, riding 120 miles in twenty-four hours. Luck, in addition to his native shrewdness, favored him, and he reached Merv in safety, though a prisoner, and suspected of being a Russian. As best he could he informed his captors of his English nationality, and his wit and manners so pleased the Turkomans that he was kept in a sort of honorable confinement until his statement could be confirmed. Satisfactory information concerning him was at last received from Teheran, and he was released. O’Donovan’s wonderful stores of information, and his statements concerning the almost boundless extent of the English Empire, caused the Turkomans to look upon him as a man of much importance, and he was called upon to settle a long-standing dispute as to the chief executive power. There are two proper holders of that power—the Sheik of the Eastern Turkomans and the Sheik of the Western Turkomans. It appears that it was necessary for the highest dignitary or dignitaries of the Turkomans to undertake a perilous mission to Teheran. It was considered probable that whoever went would lose his head, and to avoid this risk the two chieftains conferred the honor upon the eldest of their class. Much to their surprise, he returned alive, and was allowed to retain his dignity until the arrival of O’Donovan, whose abundance of wealth, it is supposed, induced the Eastern and Western chiefs to determine to reassert their claims, lest he whom they had elevated to the highest position should monopolize the gifts of the illustrious foreigner. A great council was held, the old chief deposed, the two restored to their original positions, and O’Donovan elected lehtiar Bahadoor Khan of the Tekke Turkomans, and joined the other two chiefs in forming a triumvirate, ruling over the district of Merv, with a population of 500,000 souls. O’Donovan was installed in his hon-or-able position with imposing ceremonies, aud given a “palace,” for that region, to live in. His official duties while abiding in Merv consisted mainly in dispensing justice, chiefly in cases of murder and robbery, they being .the only crimes recognized. After six months O’Donovan wearied of his life at Merv, and wishing to return to civilization, expressed a desire to be sent as embassador plenipotentiary of the Tekke Turkomans to the- European courts. A great council was held to consider the subject. O’Donovan having arrived at Merv just at the moment the onward march of the Russians had been arrested, and the Turkomans associating that event with his appearance, looked upon him as their deliverer, and his presence as a sure protection against their hereditary enemies. For this reason they were unwilling to part with him, but at last consented on the promise that he would one day return to them. He replied, “ I will re-, turn when lam sent back to you.” It" requires more than a surgical operation to enable the Turkomans.to see through a joke, and the humor of O’Donovan’s answer not being appreciated, he was permitted to depart, and was accompanied to the Persian frontier by a body of Turkoman troops.— Cincinnati Commercial. A bald-headed man down town calls his few remaining locks “a fool and his money,” because they are Boon parted. —Lampton.

Yankeeisms.

One Sunday morning, Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, drove over Middletown to Meriden to bifid an or dination. Driving up to a livery stable he asked the man in charge; “Can I have my team taken care of here?” “I guess so.” tt “But I want to know. “Oh, yes; I guess so.” “My friend,” said the now slightly irritated prelate, “I want a plain answer to my question: Can my team be cared for at this stable?” “And I tell you that I guess so,” said the man with all honesty of purpose and with a manifestation of great surprise. The good bishop told his coachman to turn around and go to some stable where people knew what they could do without guessing. The man meant nothing by his replies, it was his manner of speech. Acute, industrious, frugal and blessed with a speculative admiration of his own peculiarities, the Yankee beats a Quaker in the pertinacity with which he seeks to avoid giving a direct answer. I remember well, when I first visited New England as a youug man, the candid verdancy with which I answered all questions* about myself at first, and the anger I felt afterward. Sti’l, there is much that is amusing in it A few years ago, traveling through central New York on a slow train, I was intensely amused at a conversation between two Yankees, strangers to each other. One of them had “pumped” all the other passengers to whom he could get access, and at last he attacked his brother Down Easter somewhat as follows: “Well, now, which way may you be traveling?” “Going straight West, don’t you see?” “Are you going far?” “Well, really, I don’t recollect how many miles the distance is.” “I expect you’ll be from New York?” “Yes, I’ve been to York city pretty often.” “Then I guess you don’t live there?” “I do a great deal of business there.” “No doubt, “I suppose you’ll be going to Chicago to see the West?” “Folks say all the world is going to Chicago, and I sxpect a good sight of them is.” “Do you calculate on stopping long when you get as far as you are going?” “My business will have to settle that, I expect.” “Then it’s not for pleasure you’re taking a trip this time. Perhaps it’s your health.” “My health don’t trouble me much, I guess.” “Glad to hear it. How’s the wheat market? ’ “I ain’t just able to say.” “A deal of money is made by just looking after the article at the fountain head, and that appears to be Chicago.” “You may say that.” “Do you look to go in heavily on produce out there?” “I haven’t said I was going there yet. ” “I calculate you’ll find the market changeable these times.” “I guess you read the papers same as I do.” “Well, yes. But what is your principal article of produce?” “That which I make the most by, I should say.” “Of course. But what do you call your most particular branch?” “Well it would puzzle a Mohawk Dutchman to say.” So these two men went on, without giving or taking an inch, and each seemed to derive no little amusement from the mutual attempt to get ahead. The ineradicable audacity of the men from the land of steady habits was well illustrated years ago in the anecdote told concerning a well-known naval officer, who had risen to the office of captain by personal gallantry in the war of 1812 and had neyer gained the accomplishments of the modern naval school. His frigate being anchored off Naples, the gallant captain had invited the Pope and the King of Naples, the Bourbon “Bomba,” to visit him, and the invitation had been accepted. The illustrious guests were received with all due honors, the ship was inspected and everything went off well. But the captain was at once anxious to discharge the duties of hospitality and at the same time fearful of offending his spiritual visitor. Calling his first lieutenant he said: “Lieutenant, please take charge of Pope. Pope excuse us. King, come into the cabin and have a drink.” To this anecdote the Italian proverb well applies—si non e vero e ben trovato —if it is not true it ought to be!

Canes.

The New York World interviewed a cane merchant, who said : “ Styles in canes ? Why, they change almost as often as the cut of women’s dresses do,” said a manufacturer of walking-sticks yesterday. ‘‘ I have been in this business since it was established by my father in 1841, and during that time I have learned that new shapes in sticks must be invented every year. A good cane is un old man’s friend, and a handsome one is a young man’s pride. One may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion, and the young man nowadays who doesn’t carry a ‘ crook ’ may as well go to the nearest dock and throw himself into the river. When I say crook, I mean the latest thing out in canes. It is in similiar shape to the curved-handle stick, which has always been in vogue, but generally carried by old gentlemen. There are two styles, the shepherd’s crook, shaped like a fishhook, and the Zulu crook, a plain curved handle. Both styles originated on the other side, as do most of the fashions in canes. The Zulu is from Paris, and the shepherd from London. They were introduced there last spring, and took the place of the crutch which was so popular last year. These new styles are made from natural woods with handles, and yet there are a great many made with chamois or buffalo-horn handles. When I was a young man, a whale-bone cane was the proper thing, and since then there have been the agate-topped Malacca, the bamboo and barked sticks of different shapes. The makers here get woods from all over the world, the most expensive being the Malacca, which comes from the swamps in the straits of Malacca, and the leopard wood, olive, and snake wood from Africa. America can supply the wants of the world for pretty barked wood. For canes, the ash plant, very popular among Englishmen, comes from Great Britain, where it is cultivated to a great extent for cane use alone. When used as a walking stick it is never varnished, but carried just as it was pulled. The fancy woods (such as Malacca, Penang and Waukee bamboos’) are generally mounted in gold or silver, with hammered heads, and often cost as much as $30.”

It’s a funny old world anyhow, and taste is only a matter of education. Your baby contentedly gums candy, the native African picaninny is joyous over a mouthful of salt, and the young Esquimaux cries for tallow candle ; we gorge ourselves with oysters, while the Digger Indian would not give you one long fat snake for all the oysters in Chesapeake Bay. We, or at least you, chew tobacco, the Hindoo lime, and the unostentatious and not over fastidious Patagonian, when he wants a chew of something real good, rolls a quid of guano into his cheek. That’s the kind of a gum-drop he is; and you could’t hire him to chew tobacco, unless, indeed, he may have learned the habit from the missionaries. —Burlington Hawkeye. We have heard both Democrats and RepubUoans say that there is nothing better for a Cough than Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup ; this old reliable remedy never fails to cute a Cough or Ould at once, and may be obtained at any drug st/>re for 25 cents a bottle.

How to Shake Hands.

There are only two dr three people now living who can successfully shake hands. There is a good deal of handshaking done through the country, especially at this season of the year, but only a very small per cent of the shakers and shakees know how to do it so as to get the entire amount of exhileration out of it Some grab the hand of an adversary in a quick, nervous manner that scares the victim nearly to death, while others slide the cold and clammy paw at you so that you feel the same as when you drop a cold raw oyster, with vinegar on it, down your back. If you are shaking hands with a lady, incline the head forward with a soft and graceful, yet half timid, movement like a boy climbing a barbed-wire fence with a fifty-pound watermelon. Look gently in her eyes with a kind of a pleading smile, beam on her features a bright and winsome beam, saysomthing that you have heard some one else say on similar occasions, and in the meantime shake her hand in a subdued yet vigorous way, not as though you was trying to make a mash by pulverizing her fingers, nor yet in too conservative a manner, allowing her hand to fall with a sickening thud when you let go. Care should be taken also not to hang on to the hand more than half an hour in public, as bystanders might make remarks. This is now considered quite outre and mandamus.— Bill Nye.

The Historian’s Relative.

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The Pointer’s Joke.

The dog has pointed at snakes without ever once making a mistake for three years, when one day he accompanied hit master on a walk through a particularly stony field, where snakes were known tc be plentiful. Suddenly the dog, whe was walking just in front of the huntsman, stopped and pointed so earnestly that it was evident he almost stepped on a snake. The huntsman sprang back with immense celerity—for he was s very nervous man—and in so doing tripped and fell with a tremendous crash. The dog, merely glancing around to see what was the matter, resumed his point until his master had picked himself up, calmed his mind and resolved to kill the snake. Advancing with that direful purpose he discovered, not a snake, but a cast-off snake’s skin at which the dog had pointed. The moment the man discovered the trick the dog threw himself on his back, rolled over and over in an uncontrollable fit of laughter, and, finally sitting down on his haunches, laughed till the tears rolled down his chteks. He knew a snake’s skin from a live snake perfectly well, and his purpose in pointing at the nake was simply to give his master a ood fright.— New York Times. I et the poor sufferer from female complaints take courage and rejoice. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound will restore you.

The Emotional Poet.

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