Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-09-24
with the origina! as you had been with
her photo on nv desk"

mo, and I've always wished I'd never
made that call. Then I wouldn't have
known her, and all those heated dis
cussionsFwe used to have about the girls
worth oryvorthlessness wouldgh have been
avoided 81 -. a. =
5s' Still, Jack, you'll have to admit that
she was terribly fetching and fasci-
mating girl. "I$ I'D ..5 @.@. s. g.
eyes, yes. Phil, I've admitted that a
thousand times, but that isn't the ques-
ton. My point has always been that
she wasn't girl who had enough in her
to, warrant a fellow of your good sense
going crazy over her.. Fetching and
fascinating-Jove, man, there are any
number of your tickle, flighty, skin
deep sort of girls who are fetching and
fascina ting, and she's one of them. But
fiddlesticks, what do they amount to?
Nothing>-never get married-grow up
into dctestablc old maids with sour
faces and still sourer dispositions. Come
now, Phil, I'll bet you ten to one that
Pearl Lancaster never gets even en-
gagged"
A''No. no, Jack, I won't do it. It's bad
principle betting on a girl, anyhow.
Besides, you might lose the wager, for
she came mighty near getting man
last summer
''Why, how do you know?''
II saw her at Bar Harbor."
Were you down there again last sum.
mer?" 49, %gs-s%,' I'll s&sa7* -
YES"
"And was she there?"
YES" -
Hum, then I'll bet you repeated the
foolish performance Of your sophomore
year." i 4& y &#H&s 5#E%$#
II did, Jack, with compound interest.
We were together most of the time.
Never had such jolly summer before in
all my life H. ..u3
"And the other man you said she near
~ captured-where did he come in?"
"Oh, he was a particular friend of
mine, SO I didn't begrudge him any,
thing. Excuse me moment, Jack, I
must get some more coal for that fire.
Better fill up pipe"
r / proceeded to do so and casually OBJ
served at the time that Phil smoked
the same abominable tobacco. Expen-
siye stuff, but, CAD! how. it burnt a
mans tongue: Phil was the only fellow
who ever smoked it without swearing.
The other men invariably declined It,
so we always claimed that he used that
particular brand to keep his friends
from spirating tobacco off him. But
then, that wasn't so, for Phil was the
most generous-hearted fellow of the
gang.
Having filled the pipe I went to the
mantelpiece for a match; that was
where he used to keep them-when he
had any. I didn't find a match, but ]
found a photograph that had been laid
there. It was a new one of Pearl Ian.
caster-had undoubtedly just come
with the letter. Twas holding it in my
hand when Phil came back from the
coal closet.
''Wen, what do you think of it, Jack ?"
"Grand, good-looling girl beyond
doubt. And suppose if you were witt,
her again all last summer you must be
more cracked than ever over her,
Phil surprised me by uttering sigi
IAu OOVu ~ d C10lT.
'Alas! Jack, am-fatally So" wer,
his Respondent words. "And now what
oh, what, do you suppose she writes me
in this letter?''
''Jove! not that she's engaged, is she
man? Luckily for me you didn't take
that bet.''
eyes, Jack, she says she's the hap
piest little girl in the world, for She.
engaged to the dearest fellow in the
world. Engaged at last. Poor girl. !
suppose you'd say poor fellow. AND
such a fellow, too-oh my! Well, al,
can say is that I've seen worse fellow:
and and better. Oh, dear!"
But who is she engaged to? What's
his name?'
''rhe man she was with down at Bar
Harbor last summer"
'Not the other man."
"Alas, no, the others other man."
.*'Not yourself, you foo!?"
Poor Phil covered helplessly down in
the chair and feebly held out his hand
as If expecting a whipping.
Yes, Jack" he whimpered, 'congrat.
ulate and forgive me, old fellow, but
['n--Tm the man.
1ss'We]l--! But I say, Phil, YOU don't
smoke any better tobacco than you used
to, do.y o1f?'-Boston Budget.
Beats Alrs. Partington.
~ This old lady can give Mrs. Parting