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at the rate Of Sd day."
%still, my dear young lady,, said I, getting
Then she explained aud I objected till after
half an hour or so she convinced me, and l
said: "Well, Miss Duncan, I'll give You f5 il
you promise to come back in day or two and
tell me how you spent it"
She looked charmed at my generosity and
promised to return with report OF the deserv-
ing cases she would spend the money upon.
Then she went away, taking the sunshine with
her; I could scarcely bear to see her 60.
Nothing but the fear Of frightening her away
for good prevented me from proposing on the
spot. had passed the first great difficulty. 7
was in love. I felt myself twice the man was
and was prepared to look the Whole world in
On the appointed day Miss Duncan returned
and rendered an account of her Stewardship.
blushsd and trembied when she spoke to me,
and in spite Of my fifty years could have wept
at her feet. don't think she noticed my
strange manner, but, II she did, think she
would put it down to nervousness. gave her
another IS on the same condition.
On the occasion Of the third visit had made
mp my mind to speak or die. ! arranged every
ing we'll that no lady objects to being made
love I'd, felt my mind toleFably easy - to the re-
suit
The day came and aftsr We had exchanged
the usual compliment, I seized the oppor-
tuulty mlno duncan give ne, ouo began.
:..You must fnd iterathsr dull here" she
said.
~ do, indeed" said L II spsnd Q most
wearisome time. have not single relative
in the world. and except the doctor and your
self, il you viii allow me 70 call you %, NO
friends."
Show sad," said she.
"Well," said, ITS dull ct ali events. How
ever, have been thinking Of changing al that
and of.sngaEing companion. have been
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or rather the tone Of it, did not quite please
me. For instance, the word "harpy" gave me
q slight shock. could not have imagined such
q word falling from such lips. But when does
man know a woman? think would have liked q
little shyness, not quite such eagerness as was
displayed in the P.S., any way. Yet what
grumbler was. Not content that had got
what wanted!
OF course, I Lad to answer the letter. I did
so and was Just wondering how to get II con-
veyed to its destination, when a messenger
called from Miss Duncan. Although felt this
was q little like sharp practice. gave the
letter, in which stated my inability to call ON
her and my hope that she would call on me-
BY return OF post an answer came, saying she
would call the following day at o'clock
On the morning of the eventful day, the day
that was to realize my brightest hopes and vet
the most awful of my life, said to Mrs. Nc
GregoI, expect lady to call on me this after
Then Mrs. MoGregor smiled bitter smile,
and said:
"Are You ashamed o. yersep at your age?-
day after day having . forward huzzy coming
here. It's no respectable. If ye dinna ken
what's RIGHT, ither folk dae, can tell ye. Fine
excuse her comm in wi her tracts and Day
Nurseries! Bonnie like thing! In my time, Mr.
Spence, lassies had something better adae than
rim after Q wheen silly characters o. men, II
ye we're iaddie-but there's nae fule like an
"Mrs. Mcaregor," said I, with great dignity,
have you quite finished"
II may as weel baud my tongue - talk to .
mad man."
''very well. then-this day month, If you
please, Mrs. McGregor."
Then she left the room. My dearest Mary,
you were perfectly right! An old harpy, in
deed"
Soon after this passage Of arms the doctor
called.
"You are looking blooming, Mr.. Spence" he
cried.
Va. glad looked it, for never felt worse
In my life.
I'VE shall soon have You out again, he con-
tinued. 'If you had only an agreeable COM
Tor little. Why didn't you follow my advice?
By this time you might have been married or
on the road 10 it.
"Wsil," I cried, 81 did follow your advice,
and I want you to tell me how soon I can 60
s3h, hoi Sits the wind in that quarter! You
sly old fellow! But who i the LADY, IL may
ask?"
"Miss Duncan"
"Not Miss Duncan in Newton strest2"
Eyes, the same"
Chen" said the doctor, 81 congratulate you
both. have known her since was boy.
She's nice sensible woman. The very wife
for you, should ny, and By no means bad
looking"
.By no means bad lookingr' I nsaviy
choked. why, think abe ispositivsly levslysl
>xclaamed.
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dimensions and lives exclusively upon cocoa
nuts.
THE RoBBER CRABS WAYS.
ut opens the nuts by tearing away the husk
fiber by fiber and finally breaking through one
Of the eyeholes by hammering at it with it's
powerful claw. An opening being made in the
shell, the crab extracts the contents with q
long and narrow pair Of pincers that i, evil
IDENTIFY provided for this purpose. The robber
crab accumuiates great quantities of the picked
fbers OF the cocoanut, which it uses for bed
The flesh Is very good to eat and under the
tail il mass Of fat that yields as much as a
quart of hmpid oil. have heard that a crab
has eight pairs Of jaws, teeth in its stomach,
and heart in the middle of its back. Be-
sides, 1t wears its skeleton on the outside of it's
flesh, which some folks consider eccentric. 1t
changes its dress nearly often as . frog
when it is young and growing; but, like some
men know, 1t gets to be q SLOUGH and never
has any more nice new clothes after it arrives
at q certain age. Speaking Of frogs, you know
that they are caught with lights, too?"
why, thought they were shot usually, or
caught with a hook and line and red flannel
bait, said The STAR reporter.
"A good many are taken in both Of those
ways" responded the learned fish dealer. "But
the main supply for the market il got at night
on the marshes along the Potomac. Men go in
boats with lanterns and hang the lanterns upon
stakes driven into the mud bottom. The frogs
flock about in the glare and are easily dipped
out with nets. Il IL great fun, I've been told,
though possibly . little too much after the
manner of pot hunting to please real sports
man"
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
BENJAMIN MIXED.
Further Texas Appointments In
definitely Postponed.
The President Going Far from the Seat
of Conflict to Mediate in Quiet
for Few Days.
The Black Diamond People Believed to Have
Been Told to Go and Sin no More.
Yesterdays Appointments
special to the Gazette.


WAsHINGToN, Aug. 5.-It seems that
the enterprising captain of the United
States sloop that captured the Canadian
sealing vessel, the Black Diamond, the
other day on the ground that the latter
was engaged in the unlawful taking of
seals, was overconfdent OF the ability of
the single man put aboard the Canadian
TO carry her on into some convenient port,
or else he CARED very little about execut-
nag his orders to their full extent. 1t is
even limited that after seizing the seals
carried By the Black Diamond, only one
man was transferred from the American
vessel in order TO let the captured party
get away. Anyway, the Black Diamond
did get clear out of the hands OF the
Americans, and nobody at the state de-
partment or the treasury department ap-
pears to know just what was done. They
don t seem to care much, either. 1t is
probable from all the circumstances of
the case that the crew Of the Black
Diamond were let Off under q promise
by them that they would go and sin no
more. That is, that they would abandon
the Illegal and cruel practice Of killing
the seals al q time when the females were
breeding, thus rapidly Fastening the day
fered by the buffalo, determination.
THE REMAINING TEXAS APPOINTMENTS
appear to be in that delightful condition
expressed by the phrase chung up. -
That is to say they are indefinitely post
poned, and because Of the redhot war
the candidates for the various offices are
making on each other. The knife is be-
ing welded all around, and the carving
is something terrific, each operator using
it with that precision and fatal effect so
often noticed at colored festivals and
country dances. The upstart of the mat
ter is that Benjamin is so mixed up he
can't make up his mind what to do
about the Lone Star state, and he is 60
ing far away from the seat of the conflict
TO mediate over it in quiet for the next
fen davS
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SNUBBING MRS. BLAINE.
Mrs. Harrison said to Have Awaited Her
Chance to Set Even.'

Mrs. Harrison said to Have Awaited Her
Chance to Set Even"
NEW YORK, Aug IA special from
Washington says that Mrs. Harrison s
refusal to go to see the Blaines at Bar
Harbor is taken by the gossipers to mean
a snub of Mrs Blaine. It has not been
forgotten that Mrs. Blaine's snub of Mrs.
Harrison when the latter was lnerel, the
wife of new and almost unknown sena-
tor came near involving the Republican
party IN q fTst-class family row and the
gossips viii have Il that Mrs. Harrison.
who IS known 10 have very strong mind
OF her own, has been simply waiting for
good chance to get even. It is some
what extrayagaut 10 ascribe Mrs. Har-
rison s refusal to go to Bar Harder 10 a
settled desire on her part to have revenge
on Mrs. Blaine. All hands agree that
Mrs. Harrison is not the sort of woman
to store up small social grudge8,
but that she dislikes Mrs. Blaine
is as well known as that Mrs Harrison
paints china. Her position At this june
ture, Ia all likelihood, is simply one of
unwillingness TO place herself under the
necessity of maintaining close friendly
AC4iILOlSL4p Win MIS-. Dtdlie 1OF ten
days or two weeks. Stephen B Elkins,
who is now rather more of manager OF
the administration than anybody outside
of the White House family, has, from the
first, advised against the proposed visit
of Mrs. Harrison to the Blaine cottage
Mr.. EIkins knows OF the feeling which
the lady of the White House entertains for
the wife of the prime minister, and last
winter, before Mr. Harrison had taken
the oath of office, freely confessed that
he had more fear OF trouble between the
Blaines and Harrisons from the woman
and social end OF the administration than
from the masculine and political. Grand
Chamberlain Elkins has within a few
weeks given it as his solemn opinion
that the best thing that can be done with
Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Blaine is to keep
them apart.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
Presidential Appointments.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-The presl-
dent made the following among other
appointments to-day:
Edward T. Hobert of New Mexico, to
be surveYor-general of New Mexico.
Calvin G. Townsend of Michigan,
principal clerk of public lands in the gem
eral land office.
Isaac r. Conwell Of Indiana, principal
clerk on private land claims in the gen
eral land office.
William a. F. May of Arkansas, to be
register of the land Office at Dardanelle.
Americas n. Neelly Of Arkansas, to be
receiver of public moneys at Little Rock.
To be Indian agents: Thomas J Moore
of Missouri at the OnaWahaw agency,
Indian Territory.
Charles f. Adams of Maryland, at the
KioWa agency, indian Territory.
William Il Hart of Indiana third aud
itor OF the treasury. IS Il
John I. Rankin of Pennsylvania dep
uty auditor of the treasury for the kost-
office department. -,
Walter Fl. johnson of Georgia. collecte
or OF internal revenue for the district of
Georgia.
Eugene A. Webster of South Carolina !.
collector Of internal revenue for the disTs
trIcp Of South Carolina.
Columbus C. Wimbush of Georgia, sur
veyor OF customs for the port of Atlanta.
john e Patty of Louisiana, naval offi-
Ger for the customs district of New Or
leans.
Joseph H. Kibbey of Arizona, associate
justice of the supreme court of Arizona.
George W. Joil6y of Kentucky, attor-
ney for the district Of Kentucky !.
William Grant of louisiana, attorney
Cor the Eastern district:Rf Louisiana. S
Peter a. Williams of Rprida, marshatS
for. the Southern district ofEFlorida. &,
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over the majority given Buckner in 1887.
There have been some surprising victories
for Republican candidates FOR the Iegisla-
ture, but this has been due in all cases to
local causes. in the Republican coun-
ties where ex-senator Colsou, the Re-
publican nominee for treasurer, was ex-
pected to make heavy gains, there has
been rather q decrease. louisville gives
Sharp 250O majority and the state prob
ably $4,000. The Prohibition vote is
light. The votes for convention to re-
wise the constitution probably viii show
a sufficient majority TO call convention.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
What 1t gEaRaa.
TEXAS SPECIALS
Weekly Resume of the Gazette's Daily
Report from II Over the
State.

HASKELL, TEX, July 25.-Hasken
county now presents. a ta0s3I invlting ap-
pearance to the horne- seeker, There has
been an ahgpaailce 5f1rain during the
present year, and those who put in crops
have been vel repaid for their labor.
HitheI4o~ffe country has had to rely
ALMOST exclusively on its stock interests.
now, however, things are changing, and
many farmers are opening up large
farms.
The range is better than for eight or
ten years past, and the country is 2
%stock man IS paradise. There will be many
fat beef cattle held III pastures for
buyers and for shipment during the com
ing fall. They will be IN much better
condition for shipment than for several
years past.
However, the stockman must go. His
time is short and his place is soon to be
taken by the tillers of the soil To all
such, who are men of industry and of
means, Haskell county offers one of the
most inviting places for home now to
be found in the northwest. TO them will
be extended q cordial welcome and they
will have an opportunity 30 assist in
shaping the destiny of a county one day
destined to take leading rank among
the many fair counties of Texas.
q GALVESTON, TEX, Aug. 3.-There
..was a very 81 mly attended meeting at
4he cation exchange this afternoon to
ahear Mr.. o. B. Blivens of New Birming-
pam, Tex, talk up the project of estab-
hsHing rolling mill ia this city and real
SRjpg the rich iron ore WHICH Is found in
hsexhaustible quantities in the neIghbor-
hood of New Birmingham. Mr.. BliFens
gave an interesting talk upon the supe-
rior quality OF these ores, what fheir
development had already done for Rusk
aud New Birmingham and what they
would do for Galveston if iron industries
were established here to put them into
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ON CHANGE.
Spot Cotton Unchanged, Futures in
Some Cases Higher, in Others Lower.
Wheat Opened Strong, Fluetuated Narrowly,
and Closed at an Advaaee-Coffee and
Wool Markets Unchanged.
Daily Reveiw.
OFFICE or THZ GAZETTE,
EODr NInn.-rT f1f- A,4n tGoQ

FoRr WORTH. Tx, Aug. 6. 1889.
The weather has warmed up again and
the thermometer to-day was high enough
to suit anyone. Business in the
different branches was moderately good.
Wholesale dealers reQort that business
opens up this month better than it usually
does in August.
Prices for all commodities have IN
dergone no chance since last report and
evidence more steadiness than for some
time.
Wheat receipts are increasing but there
has been no change in quotations.
At the close of the market to-day the
ruling figures were as are given below.
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July l, 1889, there were 156 national
banks organized with capital of SIC :
coo 900. West of the Mississippi there
were eighty-six organized. OF these
Texas has seventeen, Kansas twelve,
Nebraska twelve, Iowa six, Oregon
seven, Washington territory nine, Illi-
nois six
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
CokSKs .ans Attanee wages.

PTTTsBURG, Pal, Aug. 6.-The coke
firms Of sehoonmaker s %. Mcclure s.
Co, and Cochran S Co., three of the
largest outside of the Frlek company,
h8ssladvanced the wages of their en-
ptoyes 81 cents per ton and the strikers
will PROBABLY accept the increase offered.
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TREASURY RECEIPTS AND NATIONAL
RANKS

The treasnry's total receipts for the
fiscal year just closed amounted to $685. >
59l ,6T5, an increase OF over nine million
dollars compared with the preceding
year. The expenditures amounted to
$500, 064, 1874, an increase of about
thirty-one million dollars as compared
with the preceding year. The excess of
reoeipts over expenditures for the year
amounted to SS6 ,526 ,6sl, which is less by
about eleven million seven hundred
thousand dollars than the excess for
the preceding year.
For the government fiscal year ended
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
FINANCIAL.
EXCHANGE AT NEW YORK.

EXCHANGE AT NEW YORK
Special 10 the Gazette.
New YORK, Aug. 8.
Sterling-Bank. 50 DAYS ........4 s5Es "a s51b
sterling-C cmn4erciaf SO days1 s4lbG4 s43.
"Reminiscences 60 days. s4sz
Frzncs-Bsnk, co ays............... none
Commercial. so days. none
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KENTUCKY ELECTION.
e 81 state Treasurer Results in |

Tie Vote hr state Treasurer Results in a
Democratic Victory.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Augt 5.-The re-
turns from the election to-day for state
treasurer show a Democratic victory.
sarhsn q Sharp of Lexington. the
r-seut treasurer, was nominated for re-
.setfan. The Democratic counties so
hr heard from show an increase for him
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NEW ORLEANS SPOT.
snecis1 20 the Gazette.
GALVESTON sPOE..

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE SPOT
MARKETS.
Special TO the Gazette.
GALVESTON. TEX, Aug. 6.-The following are
the closing quotations for cotton on the spot to-
day at the leading markets. together with the
closing Tor nllddllnZ Yesterday, with to-day's
sales:
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- Genane Yie1ory..s.... :.

SALT LAKE CITY, E&ff, Aug. S.-The
Gentiles are greatly elated over the re-
suit of yesterdays election. The vote
gsza them majority of fortY-one in the
city, which, it is claimed, igsures a GEN
tktX government next february. Six
Gentgsswere elected TO the house of rep
Tsss tati7es and two to the council Civ
ing thsia' eight out 81. thirtycsiX mem
hsEsa sa@ &
,SEsehAm's Pills eStfs bilious IL deryous ills
%Constipafi5At prad1sss piles. Cssearine re
moves the eaas aRaSfsets q cure. -5eo and ST.
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MEXICAN SECURITIES
BONDS AND STOCKS.

Boston, MASS. Aug. 6--Mexican As, 655s
ASST; stock, I4st0l5.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo-. Aug 6.-Cattle-Receipts.
2400; shipments, 5400; strong and active; choice
heavy, s. 25q4 %; taiE to good heavy
so; rangers, corn-fed, s. 45G3 ~; grass-ted,
81 10lt2 50.
Hogs-Receipts, 1900; shipments, 2S0O; active
and strong; fair to choice heavy, a 4le4 50;
packing, s. 2GGi 40; light grades, s. ia &C.
Sheep-Receipts, 200; shipments, 300;
strong; fair to choice, 50 5O04 50; lambs, s. 759
80.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Aug. 6.-Cattle-Receipts
500; shipments POO; good 70 choice corn-fed
steers, 81 Goa %; common TO medium. s. OO0
3 so; stockers and feeders, s. 60d3 W; COWS,
81 50G2 %; grass range steers. 81 15e2 So
HOgs-Receipts, 5000; shipments, Ziu; good to
choice light, 81 2zl3I4 30; heavy and mixed, - %
al 70
sheep-Steady to strong; good to choice mt
tons, s. 75G 4 90; common to medium, y 5oG5 90
CHICAGO, Ill. Aug. 6.-Cattle-R Receipts, 500;
shipments, $500; steady; beeves 81 SOe4 50isteers,
So j0d4 30; stOckers and feeders, 8 2503 30;
cows, bulls and mixed. 81 seas 10; Texas cattle,
81 75G3 10; natives and half breeds, 81 4Oa3 SO.
Hogs-Receipts, Il, 0O0 shipments, 50lo; steady
mixed, 81 30G4 50; heavy, 81 2Jo4 ~; hght, 81 -
"a So.
Sheep-Receipts 5000; shipments, 20O0; steady;
natives, s. S0G4 So; Western, s. 60G4 12I2; Tex
ans, S. 50a4 10; lambs, 81 75G5 so.
New YORK, Aug. 6.-BeeYes- Receipts, zoo;
dull for dressed beef at 434 G554c per pound Tor
Texas and Colorado sides, and So &c for native
sides, some very choice going to Ilsc.
Sheep-Receipts, POO; no change 70 note IN
tone or prices; sales were made at - l205 20 Tor
sheep and s. 00G7 . for lambs
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EXCHANGE AT NEW ORLEANS.
Special TO the Gazette.
New ORLEANS, La, Aug. 6.
Sterling-Commercial, 60 days. 4 s3s. "A s4l4
Francs-Commercial so days........5 2O5s
New York sight-Bank. ........- -. .I25 prem.
Commercial. ...-...................25d soc prem
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EXCHANGE Ar GALVESTON.

Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, Aug. 6.
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ST. louis WOOL MARKET.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 6.-Wool-Receipts
81 ,Oz5 pounds; market quiet but steady.
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GENERAL mARkErs.
FREIGHTs FROM GALVESTON.
eALvEsFoN WOOL MARKEE

Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEx.. Aug. s.-Wooi Firm.
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Pills and yiolkAt eathartics leave the bowels in
an exhausted &tRsffsion. Cascarine acts as
tonic, strengtlaAs6nd invigoTates.
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q
ElgE. SIDE ACHES

IN ssriaE Sides and Back. Hip, Kidney,
- and Uterine Pains, Rheumatic. Sciatic,
49, Neuraieic. sharp and Shooting Pains
F~3rell-rad iu OncIniuUte by The CuticU-a
min plaster. The. first and only instan-
cons r7 milling plaster.
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csRy ONE SOLID RASH,

.aipfuI bIOtched, malicious. No rest
t5y' To- no peace bY night. Doctors and
al remedies e tal nrve 15isa c S@SisaF
I',, n, Eve weeks. saved his life.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-01-25
His Mind was on Wood.

81 used to think that men had
an awfully easy time," said Mrs
Franks, "but I've changed my
mind, and hereafter Pm going to
take all the care of Charles | pos
sibly can. You see, the other
morning told Charles we wanted
some wood, and to be sure and or
der some. Well, | waited all day,
and that wood didn't come, and l
was almost angry, for, said, he
has forgotten it, as usual.
"Charles did not come home
till late-long after retired. lie
had to 90 to his club, and it seems
he was detained until after mid
night. lie was aw'ully restless
and kept talking IN his sleep, say
ing every once in while, Give
me another dollars worth of chips.
SO you see | knew that bis mine
was troubled about that wood
How much it must have worried
him to thus disturb his rest
Hereafter Pm going to attend t
all house matters myself, Poo
man! He has enough to bottle
T him without doing home errands'
Boston Transcript,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-01-25
IT WAS A PRETTY FOOT.

The funniest incident of my trip
was in a sleeping car, writes
"Gath' IN the Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t was IN the morning, when most
OF the passengers had got out OF
their berths, and only several sets
of curtains were drawn tightly IN
front of still slumberOns persons
Suddenly foot was thrust ont be-
tween two curtains. II WAS a small
white and symmetrical-no more
than a feminine No. 3-and the
merest bit of an ankle in sight
looked soft and fine. The men
glanced at it from the corners OF
their wicked eyes. The women
deprecated the exposure. Then a
bold brazen fellow went right
straight to the pretty foot, grabbed
the ankle and flung the whole
member rndely into the berth.
lie wouldn't treat his bride so,
said a woman close by. at mus
be his sister"
Then the head OF a ten-year-olC
urchln emerged where the foo
had been, and sleepy, angry
boyish voice said "Look here
Sam, You let me alone. Next time
you ketch hold OF my foot tha
way I'll kick the gizard out o
you"
There was a subsistence of sentl
mental interest and a visibility o
mirth.