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he might. Finally, however, Dave got
upon his feet and wlded to the shore.
] rom this time onward there was no
break. The Parson did his duty nobly.
After the baptism large collection
was taken up, and despite his modest
protests, the money was forced upon
the Parson.
Already were the people beginning
to talk of building church, when one
night the Parson disappeared. There
was great excitement in the camp
when it was discovered that Giant
Dawes little cache of gold had also
disappeared. But no one thought Of
suspecting the Parson until an officer
from Gold I,un appeared in camp in
search for a horse-thief and desperate
known as Slippery Sam.
The officers description of the party
wanted agreed exactly with the de-
scription of the Parson.
Then Big Pine suddenly awoke to
realize that they had been beautifully
taken in and done for"
A month later Slippery Sam was
lynched for highway robbery in little
camp three hundred miles to the south.
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all fish that swim, "Our Boy" loves
the dog; the measlier the dog the
more lovable he is in the eyes of "Our
Boy" Why is it, we wonder-can any
body explain it-that @Our Boys dog
is always tramp and always OF the
feminine gender? Another thing that
excites our wonder is the universal fact
that ~Our Boy" is hardly able to carry
his spelling book to and from school.
and vet thin ks nothing of Juggling dog
four miles and half. "Our Boy" may
not weigh forty-tive pounds, but every
blessed day of his life he comes into the
house carrying 125-pound dog under
his arm with ease and with enthusiasm.
And the beauty of it is that the mis-
cradle, NANCY cur seems to enjoy @Our
Boy" quite as much as sour Boy en-
Joys the cur. Well. that's where the
ours head is level, for the cur not only
gets the best edibles in the house but
is decorated with the choicest ribbons
sour Boy" can find in his mothers
bureau, and is honored with name
wholly untitled to one of the ours sex.
So it Is that SOUR Boy" lives and
moves and has his being. And between
his marbles and his fish and his
wretched dogs and his thousand other
grotesque delights. he worries his poor
old father and his patient mother near
" into their untimely graves. Yet
when the dsy is done and ~Our Boy
goes to that dreamless sleep OF his,
who, seeing the innocent beauty OF his
numbering face. does not forget the
care he has brought and think only OF
the music and the sunshine Of his little
life?
All, there he lies-so peaceful like
God bless his golden headl
We quite forgive tho little tyke
For the i'll he's done or saidl
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day constitute the pathetic history OF
many q knickerbocker at this season OF
the year. A plague on the @mibs,
the Salleys," the achinas, F." the "agates, +"
the "brandies," the "flints, the Seats
eyes," and the "carnelians," we say !
Why is it that the boys of to-day are
not as proper, as neat, and as orderly
as their fathers used to be when they
were boys? Another delight which
engages "Our Boy" just now is that of
fishing. Well. maybe His piscatorial
penchant is inherited; there is certain
ly no pleasanter nor more harmless en-
joyment than that of angling. But the
line should be drawn at the practice
which "Our Boy" makes of wading
around in two feet of water, netting
minnows two inches long. This prac-
tice would seem to prove to our COM
plete satisfaction that our boys are de-
generate.
But what adds insult to injury is the
habit which ."Our Boy" has fallen into
of bringing his wretched little fish
home in oyster cans and dumping them
for permanent abode in the family bath
tub. It is mighty cheerful thing for
father to march into bathroom for
purposes of ablution, only to find the
tub half full of wriggling minnows.
To add to his vexation, these miserable
fish lie close to the top of the water
and thrust their heads half out and
mouth at one as if hooking him.
Wretched creatures, we would the
pickerel had you all!
But before all marbles that roll and
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Hand Hotel, and who was the hrst to
espy the newcomer, declared that he
looked like Vermont parson.
At word from the stranger, the
tired-looking burro came to halt in
front of the hotel, and after bowling to
the motley gathering the dark-clothed
man cleared his throat, and asked:
Brothers, could any of you inform
me where weary pilgrim could find
charitable shelter? For many weary
days have travelled toward the east,
and many long, dreary nights have l
spent with nothing but the star-gemmed
canopy of heaven to cover my head,
and with no companion near, except
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Standing upon q deal table, tho
Parson began his address, or perhaps
we should say sermon. He spoke
smoothly and with distinctness, and
after the first few moments held the
closest attention of his audience. New
er before had the men of Big Pine
heard anything like it. They soon be-
came oblivious to their surroundings;
before their eyes arose pictures of Jesus
among his disciples. they saw him as
he called the fishermen from their nets;
they saw him as he walked upon the
sea; they saw him heal the sick
and raise the dead, and. breathing soft
~. they listened, enraptured, en-
tranced.
With what eioquence did the Parson
paint the scene of the last night be-
fore the crucifxion, and the betrayal
of the Savior by Judas! Then, with
tears slowly rolling down his cheeks.
he pictured the scene on Calvary-the
crucifxion of the Savior; and as he
spoke, manv q rough man broke down
and wept like child.
In conclusion, he invited sinners who
wished for pardon to come forward
and be prayed for. He entreated them
to come.
Giant Dave was the first to arise.
With his legs shaking beneath him,
he came forward, and three others fol-
lowed.
They all knelt down together, the
Parson in the midst, and the prayer
that he made thrilled many rough
man to the heart.
From that day the revival at Big
Pine progressed rapidly. Although
Hop Benson refused to allow the Par
son to speak again in his saloon. no
difficulty was found in securing place
for him.
Many an evening, mounted upon q
barrel, he addressed large gathering
upon a corner. Thus fame came to
him, and as for the men of Big Pine,
they fairly forced gold upon him.
Finally a baptism was appointed.
Nearly score of converts had been
made, and it was decided that they
must be Immersed. Big Pine fairly
went wild over this new excitement.
When the eventful day arrived the
camp was crowded with people. many
of whom had come scores of miles to
witness the STUN.
Giant Dave was the first to enter the
water The Parson had removed his
coat and was prepared to do his level
best. Everyone prophesied that Dave
would be too much for the little man,
and so it proved. The Parson sue
ceeded in getting the big fellow under
| water. but he couldn't lift him, try as
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Dreams and Forebodings.

A little child related one morning at
breakfast curious dream. /.
sMamma, I thought some men came
to the house and they had such funny
little box, and they said they were go
ing to put me in it. !"
did you dream what shape the box
was, my love?" asked the child's
mother. anxiously.
@Oh, yes, mamma, and l never saw
anything like it. It was like this"
The child took some bread crumbs
from his plate and began to trace ont
With great distinctness the shape which
he saw IN his dreams.
He had never yet looked on death OF
seen any of its paraphernaliA yet -
his mother watched him with sinking
heart there grew under his little I'm
gers the exact outlines Of . coffin
1T Was only dream, the mother
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JUGGLING WITH WoRDS.
BY WALT. HOBLIT.

Once upon q time q certain gentle
man, who lived splendidly and did not
pay his debts, owed his bootmaker q
large bill, who having been told to call
again many times, and having written
notes without end asking for settle
ment, resolved to disgrace his customer
by exposing him to his friends the very
next time he gave one of those large
dinner parties which SO excited the
creditors ire.
Accordingly one evening. Mr.. Boot
maker, attiring himself in his Sunday
suit, and with his little bill elegantly
written OUT, waited till the carriages
had set down their burdens and de-
parted, stalked up the doorsteps like q
vengeful ghost. and ringing the bell
furiously, found it opened with start
ling celebrity, and stood face to face with
q tall servant, white-gloved and stately.
~Where's MIR. Skinner?" whispered
the bootmaker.
Gardeners dressing-room, second
floor back, responded the servant.
Some one else had arrived, and was
treading closely on his heels. A vision
of splendor, in the most wonderful soft
white wraps, Aosted past him.
Ladies', front room, second floor;
gentlemen, back, repeated the serv-
ant.
Mr.. Bootmaker was hustled forward,
hat in hand, and saw his delinquent
debtor in all the elegance of dress coat,
button hole flower, and white cravat,
bowling to, shaking hands with, and
smiling upon aristocratlc personages
innumerable.
The sight famed anew the flame Of
the BRIDESMAIDS just wrath.
He marched forward, planted him
self directly before the elegant Mr.
Skinner, and stared him in the face.
But Skinner did not shrink. he
knew his guest well enough, and I'M
derstood his purpose; but what he die
say was. BEG pardon; for the moment
I've forgotten your name.
Shave your Then perhaps you'll
remember me when / tell you that
mads your boota Z responded The boot
DDE ss..Sszz ~ -
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said. and forbore telling the happy
child what ill-omen his dream had

said. and forbore telling the happy
child what ll-omen his dream had
wrought.
But in few days the child s;ckened
and died and the broken-hearted moth
er was fain to confess that there was
some dread and potent necromancy in
dreams.
A circumstance within the knowledge
of the writer seemed almost to partake
of the spirit of divination. A little girl
of years old, while yet well and with
not the slightest intimation of coming
illness, said to her mother:
@Next Sunday I am going to die, and
Mr.. Lever (the Episcopal clergyman
will bury me, mamma.
The child's mother reproved her
gently for talking so foolishly, but the
child insisted and added this state
ment:
1.-THE Sunday after Mr.. Lever (the
clergyman will die, and there won't be
any one to bury him."
The uncommon remark and the
solemnity of the child's manner created
q passing impression, which was forgot
ten by her sudden illness. She was
taken i'll with congestion of the brain,
and was buried, as she had predicted,
on the following Sunday by the
clergyman, who had also bap-
tized her. Now comes the incredible
part of the story. The clergyman,
until then in perfect health, sickened
and died; but it was not on the success
sive Sunday he was buried. as little
Mary had predicted, but on the second
following, and the funeral services were
conducted by q lay brother, there
being no clergyman near to oficiate.
It may be possible that the coming
of death oppressed the child, and she
apprehended her own sudden demise.
But why should she anticipate the
death of her friend, and whence came
that occult knowledge which breathed
forth in the spirit of prophesy from
little Mary's infant lips?
A few years ago lady living in Chi
cago received letter from friend re-
siding in Hannibal, Mo. Before the
letter reached its destination terrible
disaster had occurred and an awful be-
reavement had fallen on The friend tc
whom it was written. Yet three days
before the accident happened, at dis
lance of many hundreds of miles, this
is what the friend in Missouri wrote:
"Where are you? What has hap
pened to you? Are you in the flesh OF
out of it? Wherever 1 60 your anxious
troubled face comes before me. I car
do nothing until I hear that you are
we'll and happy and gay as ever"
1t was two days later that her friend
was plunged into the deepest sorrow,
and her letter had been mailed forty
eight hours when the telegraph flashed
through the country the tidings that
carried sorrow into half hundred
happy families.
How do you account for il? The per-
ception that is not dream, nor the
notified conclusion of cloudy brain,
nor the chimera of too vivid imagi-
nation, but which is thrust upon US when
we least expect or desire it.-Detroi1
Free Press.
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blue-eyed @johnny-jump-ups' that now
We christen with the more pretentious
name of violets. The most OF the
children dealing in flowers get their
bouquets ready-made at the flower
stores. They are beautiful. odorous,
and artistic, but prefer the more
clumsily arranged collection, made BY
some little girl out in the 'suburbs.
They seem to have an odor OF green
fields and brooky dells about them
chat Ia not to be found in any others.
The trade in flowers is not CON ined to
sex or nationality. While it is carried
on, 30 far as street work goes. largely
by children, there are fully - many
boys at the business ~ girls. The
peddlers of the floral beauties are gem
orally French, German. Irish %
American, other nationalities seldom
enterin1 into the composition
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sympathy.

A little, t-year-old Boston girl was
Offering sympathy to Q neighbor who
had lost little child.
"Yes, Mrs. Brown" said she, II
know just how to sympathize with You,
for I lost little brother once!"
Indeed. Ethel" said Mrs. Brown,
II don't remember it. How old were
you when he died?"
"Oh," answered the child, @it was
long before You knew our family He
died several years before I was born.
Detroit Free Press.
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this faithful beast and my Heavenly
Father. The dust-stains of travel lie
heavily upon me, and I am weary and
faint from fatigue and hunger"
A coarse laugh of amusement broke
from the lips of some of the listeners,
but Giant Dave, one of the roug hest
men of the camp, arose to his feet, and
said:
STRANGER, Idont reckon that ye hev
cum to none too pious camp. but l
reckon tibet we are human ernuff not
ter let er feller-critter suffer frum
hunger. Thar's grub ernuff in my
shanty fer one good square meal.
Cum on.
Straight down the street strobe the
big man, and silently the stranger
guided the burro in his footsteps. And
thus they passed from the view OF the
bummers upon the hotel steps.
At the cabin of the big miner the
stranger found shelter and food. And
as he eagerly devoured the humble
food placed before him and drank the
cool water which Giant Dave brought
in tin dipper, he quoted:
'Whomsoever shall give to drink
unto one of these little ones cup Of
cold water, verify I say unto you, he
shall in no wise lose his reward.
For time the newcomer remained
in Big Pine. and, strangely enough,
while he was there, he and the rough
miner, Giant Dave, were pards. They
were singular pair-Dave was as
coarse and rough as piece of quartz
newly broken from the hillside, while
"the Parson." as the stranger was
called, was as smooth as polished mar
bic and as gentle as kitten.
He did not give his name, but he
said that he had been minister of the
gospel away back in the East He
had been caught by the gold fever,
and. leaving his little flock in the care
of another, had turned his face west
ward, resolved to seek fortune among
the mines.
His quest had been fruitless. Ever
tickle, the fair goddess had refused to
come at his call, and now. penniless,
almost hopeless, he was once more
ready to work for the Master.
Sometimes in the dusk of Q quiet
evening some of the miners would hear
him praying. His voice would be up
raised in an earnest entreaty for sim
ners, and sometimes he would seem to
pour out his very soul" in prayer.
Often he would sing some familiar
hymn, and many rough mans eyes
were dimmed with tears as he thought
of the mother he had often heard sing
the same familiar air.
Gradually the Parson became popu-
lar in Big Pine, and it was q great oc-
casion when, for the first time, one
Sabbath, he was permitted to address
the greater portion of the camp. the
miners having assembled in Hop Ben
sons saloon to hear the grafton. The
saloon-keeper was usually level-head.
ed man, and he thought that genuine
parson would be . drawing card" 81
his saloon.
Il vas 8 rough crowd that assembled
n tha saloou. The miners expected
s snork BIT they vers hardly prepared
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GIANT Dawes PARTNER.
by WILLIAM G. PATTEN,

HE sun was fast dis
appearing behind the
pine-tipped brows of q
Western hill as q dark
clothed, smooth-faced
little man, mounted
upon a rather scrawny
} burro, rode into the
! small mining Ca m p
known as Big Pine.
The stranger was q
mild, inoffensive ap-
pearing person, and
Solemn Saul, who was
among the loafers in
front of the Black
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The Landlady Gets Back.

Agricultural boarder ito lsndlady)-
Yes, Mira Phippen, ], like you, have
lived on . farm. In fact, I owned .
stock farm some years ago, and the
hogs raised are still talked of.
!. what kind of hogs were they?'
sOh, I had several kinds. Poland
China and Berkshire and Chester
hogs, but didn't like the Berkshires.
Which do you think are tho most un-
profitable hogs. Mrs Phippen2"
"The human ones. Lincoln Jour.
nal
BRITANNIA vas the name given by the
Romans to tho island of Britain. which
il represented on their medals under
the figure Of female resting her len
arm on shield
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THE eighth month of the year, Au-
rust. v.s 90 called after tho Emperor
Augustus Cesar. Who entered his go
cd ooasplehip IN that month altar ~
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The MORNING NEWS will begin on next
Sunday the publication of rev story by
Bret Harte. 1t is entitled "Cressy." The
scenes are laid in California, and it does not
fall below the standard of his best works
AS an author Bret Harte needs no intro
duction TO the American public. His humor,
his charming descriptions of scenery, and
his marvellous pen pictures of the men and
women to whom he introduces his readers,
and the quaintness with which he invests
them. have made him famous throughout
the civilized world. "Cressy" will be APP
preciated by the readers of the MORNING
NEWS. The story will also appear in the
WEEKLY NEWS.
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BRIGHT BITS.


as that the bell of the scissors grinder out
side:' asked Brougbne
NO. replied his vie You hear NAMES
pan2'e bracelet. Shes upstairs. N0yytSto,cn
mere =.
~ ArsTEsEIooKrNa LADY walked INTO fur
f!ers recently and said to the yellow headed
clerk I would like TO get a nmtf. What fur"
demanded the clerk. TO keen my bands warm
YOU slmperinE IDIOT" exclaimed the lady.
E.c,itta3c.
JENKINS TO Brown, earnestly, Brown, what
would you say if were to ask you to lend me
Brown Crefectively)-W What would say 0,
would probably say "Ho no. ho-ha, ha, ha
WOW. WOW. wow or something of that sort,
Jeakins.-EOoch.
Do you have much Indian summer in Colorado?
Maj. Wester-Yes we have great deal more
indian summer than YOU do here in the east.
u wonder why that is sou
Because We have got more Indians I
reckon H-Ieras S1t{EgS.
An ASTRAL EcHo-"Nfy? what a wet night it
is I" said VEINS to Minerva, and how faint the
Milky WAY isl
Yes replied the goddess of wisdom.
That clumsy big bear has upset the little
dIpper. and good deal of the water has drop
ped into the Via Lactea ''-HGrpe,'s Bazar
DANDY APPETITE -Tramp-Do you people
eat this kind of fodder?
Benevolent Dressmaker-Yes, we do Amt
Tramp-Har1ly, mum, hardly. It's good
enough, suppose, for people who have to
work for living, but not a person like me-
travelling merely for recreation. --Puck.
AN ARIsToCRATIC FAILuRE-Mrs Crockdile-
Henry, the disgrace is almost more than can
bear, With private tutor for two years, six
months i'll Europe, and unlimited resources you
allow yourself TO be dropped from your class.
Harry-Nou ought not to grumble. mother
The Duke of Portland had the same thing hap
pen to one of his pet steeple -chasers the other
day.-PUck
Invalid ION railroad train)-Yes, I am on a
long journey am going to California.
Genial PdsSenger-Well, well, Glad met
you. I'm bound for California, too. Let's keep
together. My brother lives in California and
ne wrote to me there was big chance for me
out there, and I'm goin', you see as fast as
steam IL take me-
'Eh? Are you an orange growers''
'No-Im an undertaken. ~ Philadelphia
Record.
AN Easy WAY Patrick MulhooIy-I
hear, councilman, that they re havin' much
trouble with the surplus at Washington.
Councilman tiilroy-YeS, Patrick, it is very
bethersone affair to politicians
Patrick Mulhooy -Aud the Mills bill is causn'
a heap o bodtl e., too, hear.
Counci'man GJroy-it H. indeed.
Patrick MUlhJoly-Th why the devil don't
they take the surplus aud pay the Mills bill?-
Phii0deiy hid Times.
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