The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-22

and am hurried into the dining-room
by my boys to inspect device over the
sldeboard for my especial beneft-"We
come " in blue letters on white ground
My wife is full of inquiries after all oul
friends in Edinburgh, and what sort of 8
journey have had.
Having informed her that Individual
ly and collectively all our friends are as
well as could be expected, considering
the wintry weather they have had. and
that ali were as kind and hospitable as
ever, l briefly tell her of my smoking
adventure.
And who was your companion ?''
asks my wife.
How should know"
Why, you have his card"
"Te be sure; 1 quite forgot that
says [, producing my card case. search
it through carefully, but no card, other
than my own, can | find.
l know put it in here. Why, bless
me! | must have given it to the guard
instead of my own. How odd!"
have almost dismissed the adventure
from my mind, when a few days later my
wife, in Swimming over the paper at the
breakfast-table, breaks into merry
laugh. What on earth can she find SC
amusing in any other than the "Agony "
column, which L can see is not the por-
ton under under perusal. 1t is the
police reports, and she hands me the
paper, pointing out the place for my
attention.
DAT the police court, j
B, of Vernandah House, Crouch
Hill, was summoned by the Great
Northern Railway Company for smoking
in carriage, not smoking carriage, to
the annoyance of other passengers. The
guard having proved identity, and the
accused card, given up by himself, being
put in as corroborative evidence, the
magistrate asked the defendant if he had
anything to say in reply. An attempt
was made to prove that the accused was
really the complainant. and that he had
given the card produced to the real
offender; which the magistrate charac-
terized as an impudently lame defense,
and fined the defendant in the full pen
atty of forty shillings"
My DEAR" says my wife.
Well, my dear?" | respond.
Vernandah House is that pretty
place that has just been finished a little
farther up the hill. Don't you think
that you behaved in rather an unneigh-
borly manner?"
"Did our neighbor behave any bet
teri"
cat all events he has suffered un-
Justly. This cannot be allowed to pass
Don't you think you had better call and
apologize?"
"Well, I'll think about it."
On my way home from the station
that evening / rang the visitors bell at
Verandah House, and was in due course
ushered into the presence of the eccen-
trio proprietor. Our recognition was
mutual; and as my neighbor approached
me, prepared to put myself in a defen-
sive attitude. His hand, however, was
not extended to commit an assault, and
before | could stammer out the elaborate
apology / had prepared, | was forestalled
by hearty shake of the hand and an
apology from the quondam fre-eater!
Under such circumstances it may
easily be guessed that satisfactory I'M
derstanding was soon arrived at, and an
exchange of invitations to spend the
remainder of the evening in each other
society ended in my returning home
with my neighbor as my guest. | am
very partial to an after-dinner cigar.
Having already committed myself, how
ever, l determined to practice little
self-denial; but what was my surprise,
when / had carried off my neighbor to
my study to show him few rare vol
umes of which / am almost as proud as
am of my children, to see my friend pro-
duce clgar-case, and not only offering
me the means of indulging in my favorite
weakness, but himself preparing to join
in it.
You may we'll look surprised" said
he; "but in truth / am an inveterate
smoker. I passed many years of my life
in Havana, and these cigars-which
venture to say you will find remarkably
good-are of my own importing"
" But you expressed such contrary
opinions the other day."
"The fact is, that when in the West
Indies / suffered from severe attack of
yellow fever, and the remedial appliances
so affected my mind that for some time /
ndu W Ue pidceu uHuer restraint.
Thanks to the skill of clever practi-
toner, am cured; but my old malady
still shows itself in occasional fits of un-
comfortable obstinacy."
81 beg your pardon" says L; but are
you not military man?'
Yes; | was captain in the -th
regiment"
Captain B! Ny mind reverts to
the story had heard on the morning OF
our first meeting. But was our friend as
thoroughly cured as his ex-keeper seemed
to imagine? can't say, but know that
he is an excellent neighbor. He treats
his misadventure as capital joke; and
it is likely to be stock story for the
rest of his life how he was fined forty
shillings by the railway company be.
cause another passenger had infringed
bylaw No 7!-Chambers' Journal.
"The Missing Link"
hear (says London correspondent
that Prof. Huxley, and Mr.. Stanley, the
African explorer, have been settling
for themselves the much-vexed question
of the " missing link" The details will