The Newark journal., 1912-04-05

ing''? This question being asked the whole assembly, they stared at one another and seemed not to know what to answer.
 Jupiter then interrogated them sep arately. Madam" says he 10 the first one ot-them. You have been upon the earth about fifty years. What have you been doing there all this while? She poised her head in an altitude of thoughtfulness for few minutes then answered. ''Doing?" she says why really I haven't done much of any thing. I've been the unlucky spouse of a gentleman wEo was sjiner". "A jiner says Jupiter. " Yes, one of them pesky fools that's always jinin' something and he jined somany lodges that he never lodged at home any, and some of 'em he jined two or three tines and it jest took me all the time<,rying to keep up with his whereabouts that had no time for doing any thing else
 When she had finished speakingJu- piter beckoned to the keeper on his left to take her into custody.
 And you madam says the judge to a woman with a soft lanquishing air. think you set out for this place in your nine and twentieth year. What have you been doing all the while?
 Well says she l had q great deal of business on my hands.
 The first twelve years ofmy life were taken up in dressing a jointed baby and all the remaining part of it in go l ing to balls, parties and theatres and l in reading dime novels, plays and TO- manees.
 "Very we'll says Jupiter, Pluto will escort you to your future residence. y The next was a plain country woman. We'll madam what have you been do- ing these sixty years you ye lived in the world2 To which the matron re- piled. I've been the wife of husband who was as dear to me in his old age as in his youth, Fhave been the moth- CT of eight children whom I endeavor- ed to bring up in everything that was good.
 My son is blest by the poor and be- loved by everyone that knows him.
 Six of my daughters have homes of their own and are good cooks and | housekeepers. The youngest we left ! to look after her Pa and take care of l the house in ms absence. Jupiter smiled at the simplicity of the good | woman, and ordered the keeper of Elysium to take her into his care.
 He no sooner touched her than her wrinkles vanished, her eyes sparkied, ! her cheeks glowed with blushes and she appeared a picture of health and beauty
 A young woman, observing that this officer was so great beautifier, long ed to be in his hands, so pressing through the crowd she was the next to appear at the Bar of Justice, and | was asked what she had been doing | the five and thirty years she had pass ed in the world. ''I have endeav0red, I said she, ever since I came to the years of discretion to make myself lovely and gain admirers. In order to do this, l passed my time in bottling up May dews, inventing whitewashes, | mixing colors, curling my hair, mak- ing rats and puifs, suiting my com plexion, consulting my glass and"
 Jupiter, not waiting to hear her out, gave Pluto the sign to take her away.
 And you, fair lady, what have you been doing these five and twenty years?"
 Five been doing no harm, assure you,'' she said.
 That is we'll said Jupiter, "but what good have you been doing?a
 The lady was confused at this ques- tion, and did not know what to an- swer. The two keepers rushed out to seize her, the one to convey her to Elysiem and the other to carry her away to Hades. But Jupiter, seeing her confusion, bade them both turn her loose and set her aside for exam ination, when he was more at leisure.
 An old woman of proud and sour look presented herself at the Bar, and was asked what she had been doing. Truly, l lived three score apd ten years in very wicked world. 1 was so angry at the way people did that I spent most of my last years in con- demning the follies of the times, and