The Virginia enterprise., 1901-09-27

land pup
He hugs that pup until fear ID
The breath has left that pup.
He climbs upon the kitchen roof
And pulls that poor pup up.
He grabs that pup by two rear legs
:'Eh, pa, now watch this here pup drop
And light right on his feet"
I've watched them roll around and play
And seen him time again
That poor pup howIed with pain.
I've seen him kick that pup, and make
That pup feel weak and sicE;
Now why is it that poor pup sticks
To him through thin and thick?
indianapolis Sun.
Our time is almost up he said re-
gretfully, as he looked rather gloomily
across the wide. subdued blue of ocean
that stretched far away in front of them.
YES she said, with a slight sigh;
'only a few hours more, and we shall be
as far apart from each other as ever.
1t was late in July, and they were sit
ting on the quiet little piazza OF the ad,
together a fortnight before The water
Tapped on the beach at their feet, and the
sea gulls fattened their wings against the
sky above them as if in full harmony
with the beating of their own hearts.
Two weeks together! And now they
were to be separated, for no one knew
how long. Ali romance must end some
time.
Tomorrow she said, "you will go
back to your work in town. You will at
tend those important directors meetings
that you have told me of. Then there are
stocks to buy and sell, political friends to
meet. campaigns to arrange and speeches
claim your attention. and. of course, there
is your club. and the dinners and all the
other things for a man to do
And you," he said half .playfully;
'"you, too, will be busy. You have your
life work. you know; know - There here, is ,,+ia" the
There are the societies to which you be-
long. the papers you are to prepare. the
| charities you are interested in, and the
literary events which claim YOU
Yet there was ray Of hope that glist-
ened in her woman's eye as she laid her
she said, "some day we may learn better
how to economize our time: Perhaps,
when we have been married another
seven years we shall be able to see more
of each other" Life.
Physician Nunatic asylum)-"Mrs.
Sharptongue was here today and
wanted her husband sent home and placed
under her care ~,
Physician-"No: He said he would
| rather stay here
Superintendent-"H The man
must be e.''-Tit-Bits.
Judge William Yost Of Greenville,
Ky, who is candidate for the Ken
tucky court of appeals, is one Of the
| biggest men in the state, physically at
least, for he stands 6 feet 5 inches in
.tO nf l.
| ders like those of professional prize
| fighter. The judge is a great joker, and
when in this city recently a bootblack
called out Shine, sir!'' the judge looked
at him vacantly, pretending to be deaf
and dumb. After several minutes of sign
against a building, and the boy went to
work. Another bootblack appeared, and
the one at work said:
"Yonse needn't stop; dis is all mine. y
''Sh-h! He'll hear YER" whispered the
| other.
I'm gettin' FIVE shoe for desc
scows," was the others reply in. loud
voice: The second boy looked so as
| tonished at his friend's boldness that
the latter laughed and said:
sec$:' xSay' yer ehomp' he's deaf and dumb
The other boy, who had been looking
with all his eyes at the giant, blurted
| out in loud tone of admiration: Say,
| he's a big, ugly-lookin' divil, amt he?''
This was too much for the judge. and
! he broke into a laugh. The boys looked
| for an instant at him, and then fed
but one shoe polished to look for an
| other hootblack to make equally pre-
| sentable the other "scoW.''-New York
| Times.
so Cholly Vitcvie is going to be mar
| ried?"
Yes"
Sent in your congratulations?"
! NO; fact is | don't know the girl, so
| | cant congratulate him; and do know
| hln, so can't congratulate her."-Les-
lies Weekly.
Thanks to the amount of lamb upon all
Motel menus in a certain summer resort
district Of Canada, the pet Joke this sum
an American in England many years
ago. if VIZ. are not mistaken. Of never
| feeling able to look self-resDecting
sheep in the face again. In various
forms. but always recognizable, this
pleasantly Travelled the length and
try, and with an endurance remarkable
in cne so aged and so intirm. As driv-
ing party passed flock of sheep one
day: Dear, dear observed 4 man, II
didn't suppose there was live sheep
left in Canada" One young woman
sought to vary the jest by declaring that
by the time she got back to New York
she wouldn't be able to talk; in all prob
ability the only sounds she would he able
to utter would be "Baa-baa." \ few
days later this variation came back to
her, as follows:
so You re stopping at the -?'' re-
marked the man just presented to her on
the. yacht. up there. I'm told'' medi-
tatively. IT'S got so that the girls don't
say 'How-dedo' when a mans intro
duced--they! just say 'Baa-baa.' '-New
York Evening Sun.
| Haney-"Miss Stetsan saws she
doesn' t like her surroundings where she
is living now. There are too many fats
there, she says
Ripley-"H'm! Does she refer to the
inhabitants. or only to the apartment
houses ?'-Boston Transcript
Lord Coleridge, the famous lord chief
justice, once recounted to Sir Mount Stu
art e: Grant-Duff an incident of his ear
lier life. He had to cross-examine an
eminent professional witness about pro.
posed harbo1. In the course of doing so
he said: But, Mr.. isn't there a
| reef of rocks that wonld he oroot IN.