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not unq orstand tho matter. 1t was of
tho SAM 20 breed of dogs that was in
tho books, but it acted very difrcront.
iy. Whatever tho boy did he got in
trouble: The very things tho boys in
tho books got rewarded for, turned
out to him to bo tho most unprofita-
bic things that ho could invest in.
Onco he was on his way to Sunday
school and saw somo bad boys start
! ing Oft plcasuring in n sail boat. IIo
was filled with CONSERVATION because
he knew from his reading that boys
that went sailing Oh Sundays invaria-
bly, got drowned. SO he ran out on y
raft to warn them, but log turned
over with him and slid him into the
river. a man got him out pretty
soon and the doctor pumped tho wa
ter out Of him and gave him fresh
start with his bellows but he caught
cold and lay sick abcd nino weeks.
But the most unaccountablc thing
about it was that the bad boys in the
boat had y good time all day, and
then reached home alive and well, in
in the most surprising manner. Ja-
cob Blivcns said there was nothing
like these things in the books. lie
was perfectly dumioundcl.
When he got well lie was q little
discouraged: but he resolved to keep
on trying, anyhow. lie knew that so
far his experiences wouldn't do to 70
in n book, blt he hadn't yet reached
the allotted term Of life for good little
boys, and he hoped to be able TO make
4 record yet, if hc could hold on Till
his time was fully up. If everything
else failed, he had his dying speech to
fall back on.
lIc examined his authorities, and
found that it was now time for him to
go to sea rs cabin boy. lie called for
4 ship captain and made his appiica-
ton, and when tho captain asked him
for his recommendation ho proudly
drew forth a tract and pointed TO the
words: ''To Jacob Blivcns, from his
aflcctionatc teacher" But tho cap
tain was an ignorant, COARSE, vulgar
man, and he said: "Oh that be blow
cd, that wasn't any proof that he
knew how TO wash dishes or handIc Il
slush bucket, and he guessed he didn't
want him."
This was altogether the most extra
ordinary thing that ever happened to
Jacob in all his life. A, compliment
from a teacher on q tract, had never
failed to move tho tcndcrcst emotions
of ship captains and open tho way to
all offices of honor and profit in their
gift-it never had in any book that
he had read. lie could hardly believe
his senses.
This boy always had hard time of
it,, Nothing ever came out according
to his authorities. At last, ono day,
when he was around hunting up little
boys to admonish, he found lot of
them in an old iron foundry fixing up
little yoke on fourteen or fifteen
dogs which they had tied together in
long procession and werc going to or
namcnt with empty nitro-glycerino
cans made fast to their tails. Jacobs
heart was touched. He sat down on
ono Of those cans-for he never mined
grease when duty was before him
and he took hold Of tho foremost dog
by the collar, and turned his ego on
wicked Tom Jones.
But just at that moment, Alderman
McWeltcr, full of wrath, slipped
in. All tho bad boys ran away but
Jacob Bevons rose lin conscientious
innocecne and began ono Of those 9th
or stately Sunday-school speeches
which always commence with sob,
sir!'' in dead opposition to this fact
that no boy good or bad, ever starts q
remark with ooh, STRIP But tho AL
dermnn never waited to hear the rest.
1Io took Jacob and gavo him q whac<
in tho rear with the fiat Of his hand ;
and in an instant that good littlo boy
shot out through tho roof and shot
away toward tho sun, with tho frag-
ments of those fifteen dogs .stringing e
after him like the tail of kito.
And there wasn't a sign of that
Alderman or that iron foundry left on
the faco Of tho earth; and as for
young Jacob Blivcns, he never got u
chance to- make his last dying speech
after all his trouble fixing it up, unless
ho made it to tho birds; because, al-
though tho bulk of his body came
down all right in tree-top, in an ad-
joining county, the rest OF him was
opportioned around among four town.
ships, and so they had TO hold five in
quests on him TO find out whether ho
was dead or not, and how it occurred.
You never saw boy SO scattered.
Thus pcrished the good little boy
who did tho best ho could but could
not como out according to his books.
Every boy who over did rs he did
prospcred, except him. His case is
truly remarkable. It will probably
never be accounted for.
CoURT IS OVER 20 Saturday
terminated ono Of tho most trying
and disgraccful visitations that res
pectablo community has ever boon