Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

enemy of the man who has q house in the
country to let or who takes summer board.
| ers. He declares that his house is only five
| minutes walk from the station, and gives
sou your choice of two stations. The mes
| senger boy will take affidavit that it is q
| long mile and three-quarters. I used to pay
| % cents for the delivery of message. One
day new boy came on. He had most
| unjust and unfounded idea-it was con-
viction-nay, it was positive knowledge
that 1 was a grasping, miserly old fraud,
swindling the flying messengers out OF 20
per cent of their fees. / saw him come
down the road with measured tread, care
fully noting every Tooth step down in his
book Unhappy boy. The grim and silent
Fates looked down upon thy worldly wis
dom that black day with adverse eyes. Bet
ter for thee, oh avaricious youth, that thy
greedy little heart had been content to ac-
cept the traditions of messengers whose swift
feet had trod the dusty ways of these wind
ing roads ere thou vast out of kits. / saw
the blight falling upon the lads face be
fore he got within 100 feet of the gate. L
saw him shorten his step to multiply its
number, and then I rejoiced to note that
he was an honest boy; he went back and
repaced the shortened steps; he 'toted
fair" but the Fates had spoken against his
greed.
He came up to the door with heavy
heart. 1 signed his little book and said:
"How muchee costee, Mclean boy?"
There was momentary struggle, then
he sighed heavily and made little entry in
his book with most rueful countenance,
as one who bids adieu to wealth and ease.
to white winged yachts on summer seas, to
horses on the turf and houses on the ave-
nue., and said: "Fifteen cents"
And ever since that day make 10 cents
whenever get what grandma calls 80 tele-
graphic dispatch"
woman's at Best a Contradiction Still.
The woman with the baby cab. 1t is not
her own cabby, oh, no. She is child's
nurse, we'll trained and careful, having
never been at service save with the best
and most distinguished families, and bring
ing the highest recommendation from her
last place. Had she been there she would
have nursed George Washington. Know
ing all this, one is not at all surprised to
note that the cherub in the cab is having
good full face view of the glaring sun, as
though he was young eagle, sitting for
his portrait. A carriage approaches from
an opposite direction. With the unerring
instinct of her sex, the nurse discerns the
drivers intention to turn out to the right.
She darts swiftly across the road and deity
heads him off Again he turns and once
more she anticipates him, with shrek and
dash which frightens the horses. The
coachman is man of experience; he
knows with whom he has to deal. He
pulls up his horses and holds them per-
fectly still. to permit the nurse to make her
own choice of the right of wav. Calmly she
leaves the cab in the middle of the road,
and remarking to her blinking charge:
''Did its wants some av the purity posies-
wosies? Thin its shoulds haves thims,
thins." goes to the roadside and begins to
gather a nosegay of wild violets and blood
roots.
Lonelier than death is that road where
Fashion does not drive her chariot in the
procession. The young man and the inevi-
table maiden appear. He is driving tan
dem in cart SO new that he isn't quite
used to 1t himself The young man drives
part of the time; the rest of the time the
lead horse drives. The lead horse is a
child of Eve; he is devoured BY an insatia-
BILE curiosity to know where the other horse
is and what he is doing. Evidently he
is accustomed to driving working double
with his following mate, for the team has
been selected for a Jersey match. He
turns around from time to time, and is sur
prised that his partner doesn't cline up" to
him.
CnIucky Cupid With a Tandem.
The young man hands the lines to the
maiden, who, not being used to it, and lit
tie afraid of horses, holds them about as
gracefully as a hod carrier would hold
bonnet. The young man leads the inquiring
horse back TO his proper place, and as he
returns to the car the leader follows him.