, 1876-09-03

1sosis'te most ctc, ETC. About three hours later he
reached the counter and handed in to the clerk
Ills precious manuscript. The clerk glanced at
:sThis'll be $3.50: one inscrtion''' Yes; =,
"Well, poney up" q No; you poney up" II
Stairs Stairs and and she's all 0. x, ''Well, you'd bet
ter go up stairs again." He did, and said to
the editor been down the :. cesatng ss9 ko {;
about s.tv pes sae m they 1s Woadn
give me the money; thev wanted me to pay
THEM.'' "Well, and why shouldn't they9 You
for you and pay you for putting it IN, too, DO
you!" Ct Funeral notice be jissered!' ~ shrieked
the contributor; s that was comic poem, and
thought you accepted 1t and sent me down to
the cashier to get ~ cents line for it." After
some argument and kindly expostulation, the
Young man was induced to recognize the ex-
ceediDg error OF his position, and lie departed
after asking the way to the Ete'.i'sq Journal
office ..-....-,
THE KIND FArnER's sTRATAGEM.
Not long ago, on Robey street, near Van
Buren. Kind father began to entertain sus~
picions that his tirst-born, boy Of 13, was play
ing him for u sucker and getting out Of the back
window at nights to go and play draw-poker
with beans (ten beans for cent, two beans
up on Hoyne street. Accordingly, the old man
Ibid a trap for that boy. He estimated what
that boy weighed, measured the length and
height Of the roof Of the back-extension just
under the boys window, calculated the angle,
and then worked out by algebra the following
problem: II Ii the roof OF All Clubhouse II feet
high at the caves, and forming an angle OF 40
degrees with the eaycspout be IL feet long, no"
far out from tue base of that outhouse must
tub OF water be, placed in order that boy,
Weighing 1O3 pounds, stepping upon that roof
from his bedroom window, shall fall into it!'
That was the problem. To work it out let Z
represent the roof and 7 the boy; then where is
z, the tub OF watcrs This is very simple, and
all that readers of Tue SUNDAY TRIBUNE have
quadratic equations. Anyhow, the old man
found out the answer, and posted the tub on
the spot indicated; then, not to destroy the
equality OF the terms of the equation, he just
lis son to go with him that night
and spend the evening with his Unvle
Peter, but the youth declined, saying, "No,
father; would sooner stay at home and go to
bed SO that can get up early tomorrow and
study my Greek; because school meets next
week" The old man went away contented1y,
and when he came home with his wife about
II 80 and saw lot of strips, as OF the scat of
a familiar pair Of gray trousers, waving in the
night breeze from the splinters on that extern
across round that tub as if something had fallen
In and splashcd the water all round, be simply
smiled. Next morning his son came down to
breakfast in pair Of black trousers
and told his mother that the mosquitoes
had bitten great holes in the seat OF his gray
ones the night before, and added that, if they'd
just as soon, he'd eat bis meals standing oil Of
the mantel-picce for awhile. Many parents
would have punished that boy, but this kind
father made lis wife rcprcss her astonishment,
said the mosquitoes had, indeed, been very
troublesome, asked his son il the sliding was
good that summer aud how the swimming was
in the back yard, and altogether SO impressed
the youth that you couldn't get him to go out
and play draw at night if You guaranteed him
four aces or Il straight flush every time.