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 Miss Lapham's Japanese Silk A PARTLY TRUE STORY. BY H. H. Oreat bustle and stir psrvaded Mis6 Jones's dreasmaking room. Four new gowaa were to gD home that afternoon, all to be worn at one party. Such a thing had never before happened sices Milly Jones, brave lictle thing tbat she was, had und«riaken to keep father, njother, sister, and two brothtri in food and clothes by the work of her two sleader hands. Her father was a paralytic, her mother not overs rong, her STs'tr only fifteen, and the boys ten and twelve. It was a big load for Milly to shoulder, but she took it up as gayly as if it had been play, and had been carrying it now for four yeais, without a day's rest, or a night's either, for that matter, since there never was a night that she did not sew till twelve o'clock, and sometimes long after. All she knew of the dressmaking art she had learn- ed on the sly, or on the wing, aa it were, in the great Madame Gullall'a establishment, where she had toiled and drudged for five years, sometimes going shopping, sometimes sewing on skirts of gowns, sometimes hold- ing the pincushion for madame while she fitted. This last was her opportunity, and not a second of it did she lose. No seam, no pleat, no trick of the madame's deft fingers, es- caped Miily's eye. She had not been long in the place before the dream took distirc' snaps m her mind. It was not such a v«ry difncult thing, Milly perceived, to fit a gown. She could even improve on some of the madame's methods, she dared to think. And she was not mistaken, for the madame was at beat but a trained work-woman, and Milly had a dash of genius in her nimble brain. So she plotted and planned, and studied and observed, all the while saving every penny that she could. .She confided her project to her mother, who, luckily, did not frown on it, and to- gether they schemed and economized, until at last they had money enough in the sav- ings-bank to keep the family in food and pay the rent for one year. Until that wes assured Milly wouJd not; make her venture. "In one year I can get under way, I know," she said. "Plenty of madames customers will give me their old gowns to alter over, because I will do it so cheap, I've many a time heard them say that it was no economy to have madame alter them, for she charged as much as for a new gown. And that way I'll gradually work in till they'll give me their new gowns too. If I had the French patterns I'd very soon fit as well as madame. If I had had her experi- ence, I believe I'd fit better. I've seen hir make awful blunders sometimes." IS J, when the money for one year's living was put away, Milly elecirified Madame IrullaJi o.-ie day by givicg notice that she would le.ve at the end of the month. The madame was disf leased. Ail her customers l:kcd Mil'y she herself liked her. She had no one in her whole establishment whcs9 eye was as quick for a shade of colcr aa Miily's. Many a time, when o her shopt.-€ra had re- ported a samp'e as unmatchabie, Milly bad gone out, ana in an hour returned with the right thing. And more than once, when sjme accident had happened to a gown, and a dilemma had ari^e-j, Miily's ingenuity had ome to the re^cje, and devised an expedi- ent which bad saved the madame's credit, ^o; Mijly must tot go. She offertd to rifinble her wages. It was a temptation, but Milly resisted. •â-  It lujgtit be long before we would have a whole year's living ahead again," she thought "and I'm gettirg old ' (ahe was ninetett). "If I'm ever going to begin now's my time " So, f oliti ly thanking Madame GuUall, she declined her cffer, and departed. Ic was surprising how work poured in on herasioonaa it w,.8 understood among a few of Madame Gnllall's customers that Mil'y had "set up for herself." No woman Jiving who cires for drfsi can resist the â-  temptation ot having a pretty gown at half p-^Ci. Milly waa a tireless c.eature, went to her castomers at their own houses to fit them, cirrird samples, ripped, sponged, and press- ed eld gowns, and brought them back as good as new, or better. She smiled to her- self sometimes â€" knowing well how much more work she gave for the money than the fine ladies had ever got before â€" to find them it c ined to drive close bargains with her. But she was working for an end she could aff'jrd to bide her time. '• If 1 live and have my health, you'll see me ask twenty- five dollars for making a gown, the same as the rest ot them," she said to her mother. " It's worth it, too. I just wish the ladies would try making^ one their own selves, from beginning to era, and sie if they don't think ditferently after they've done it " Bafor the end of the first year Milly had a sewing \*03:aa of her own. In s.x months more she had two, and at the time of our story had four. More than that Milly could nit manage in fact, more than six human beings could not have breathed in the little basement room where Miily's work must still be done. It was a dark, dismal, cfamp- ed place but Milly did not yet, prosperous aa, judging by her own modest criterion, she had become, dare r.'sk a bigger rent. She knew what she wauled â€" aaaaj, airy honee far up-town. Many a Sunday afternoon she spent walking, with longing eyes, up and down the streets in which she would like, and hopsd some day, to live. But before she could do that t le boys must have their schooling, and get to work at a trade. Then, with only their father and mother to keep, Milly thought she and her sister would feel as if they could afi°ord to live more as they would lie. And so they worked bravely, cheerily on. It seems to me that there is nothing in all the world which is reckoned by so false standards as courag 3. To set off on an ex ploring expedition to the north pole or into the heart of Africa, with rich men's money and names blazoning the affair all over the earth, with the lure of promised fame and glory beckoning one on, is not, to my mind, ball so heroic a thing aa to live in a dingy house in a tea' c^ly respectable street, trudge buck and forth in all weathers to fetch and carry work, sit in a dark basement sewing ten honrs at a stretch, day in and day out, year in and year ont, and keep chMrfol throngh it all. If only one person here aad there did it, the world would see clearer how much courage ani fortitode it takes. Bat Miere are so many 4iiiadredB, bo many thou- sands, doing it ul a^roand xm all the time, that we do not realise what it is or wtaatit Wheo wedo realize fb.% a better time will dawn for woik-psople. and the world will w^ke up to a ah^me-Etricken conscious- ness of some of its ui:c3nscious cruelties. No such thoughts as these bothered Miily's train, however. Sbe went about her work, waa sorry when it fell off, and elated when it poured in, no more qnestionin? whether it were just for her to have to work so hard than spairjws question about flying in searc'i of food. The four gowns which were to go home this night were a great triumph for Milly. Two of thim were for rich and fashionab e young ladies for whom she had never before made new gowts the Misses Lapham, who lived with their tincle in a snpsrb home near the Park They had been among Madame Oallall'a beat cuatoniera, as M;lly very wel knew. It would be enough to keep Miily's whole family for a year if she could earn all that these two girls had been in the habit of paying to madame. But that she did not hope for. One of tbfl dretsas waa of a Japanese silk, a sort of ,ide. Milley wondered where it bad been bought. She had never seen anything like it. It had gold and browns and purples so shot and interwoven that the color waa like a bee-ch-tree in the autumn â€" a beech-tree with its leaves all turned by frost, and shaking in the wind. Many a time Milly h^i paused in working, and held up a bit of it to the light, for the pure plea- sure of aeeing the colore change. With it had come a piec3 of very old gold brocade, which waa made into an over-dresj, with long sleevea hanging from the shoulder and when Mias Florenco Lapham put it on, she looked, with her black eyes and hair, like a Japanese lady of degree. Miss Florence waa excsedingly difScult to pleaae always, and with this particular dress it seemed as if she never would be suited. Even gentle Miily's patience was nearly worn out wait- ing while she stood before the long dressing- glass, turning and turning and turning again, and scrutinizing every told and loop. At last she exclaimed ' ' I never can tell how anything looks on myself. If I could only see it oa aomebody else, I could tell in one minute if it was as I want it." " I might send Jenny up with it, Mias Florenca," said Milly, hesitatingly. "If you would be willing to let her put it on. She is just about your size. I've often pinned a pattern for you on her, and Idrsp ed this skirt on her," "Who is Jenny?" said Miss Lipham, sharply. "One of my girls," answered Milly, a little frightened. "But she's just as neat and nice as any lady. Indeed, Miaa Flor- ence, I don't think you need mind letting her put it on." " Is she as tall as I am " asked Miss Lip- ham, wonderingly she had few acquaint- ances tall as herself. "Not quite," said Mdly "but I've got a piece ot wood I have her stand on, and that makes her just the right height. You could tell exactly how the dress looks if yoa saw it cu her." "Very well. You can bring her up with you to-mcrnw, when you fetch the drees home," said Miss Lapham, little dreaming what destinies lay in her words. "Come early, so there will be time for you to alter it if it isn't right. I don't believe that the loopinga at the back are as I want them, but 1 can't possibly tell with the hand glass. Bring the piece of wood along too, so as to have it exact." Milly exclaimed " Oh, Miss Florence, I cin't bring that Won't a footstool do " and she glanced around the room, full of every sort of luxurious fitting and appoint- ment. "No," said Miss Laphatr "I want her to be the exact height you fitted it on. You cm have one of your brothers bring the piece of wood." " So I can," said the good-natured Milly. " I never thought of that. Robby will be oily too delighted to come." This ccnversation had been two days be- fore the day of the party. When Milly re ported it at home, to her great surprise, Jenny, flushing hotly, said that she could not go up to try on Miss Lapham's gown. "Why not?" said Mdly. Jenny, still Ecarlet, made no answer. Milly continued " You'll get me into a dreadful scrape, Jenny, if you doat go for Miss Florence is counting on it and if ahe is displeased she'll never give me another bit of work. What earthly difference does it make to you, Jenny, whether you try the gown on there or here?" Jenny opened her lips as if to speak, but changing her mind, remained silent for some minutes, looking down on her work, and rapping absently with her thimble on the window-pane. Then suddenly looking up, she said "I'll go, Milly, because you've always been so good to me, but I don't want to go a bit. I wouldn't do it for anybody but you." " I didn't think you'd be such a goose as to cire." laughed Milly, "or I wouldn't have offered to do it. I wouldn't mind it a bit myself, and I don't see why you need." If Milly had known all Jenny knew, she would have understood very well but she did not know all Jenny did. Neither did she know all that there was to be known about the beautiful Japanese silks of which Miaa Lapham's jgown waa made. Thoae ailks had a atory which nobody but Misa Florence Lapham and Mr. George JB ay lies, her cousin, knew. Ho bad givea the silks to her when he came home from his last voyage â€" the voy- age from which nobody expected he would ccme back alive, poor fellow. He seemed at death's door when he started. But the sea cured him the sea, and time to think for the thing that ailed Gleorge Baylies was only in part what the doctors called it â€" nervous prostration from overwork. Ha had had a sharp hurt, and lodt faith in a girl be loved, and thought he did not care to live any longer but before he got fairly around Cape Horn he discovered that he was mistaken that he decidedly preferred to live and as soon as he discovere 1 that he got well in- stanter, and whea he stepped on shore at San Francisco, his father and mother and Florence Lapham, who had gone overland to meet him, and had been nearly dead with antiety because the ship was two weeks overdue, hardly cjuld believe their eyes at tl 3 sight of George, hale, hearty, plump, and jolly. They all said it was a miracle, but it was not. It was the farthest poaaible from a miracle. It was the work oi a law aa plain aa the mnltiplioation table bat that is neither here nor there in this story, except that being, aa I aay, oared, and in a healthy inune of mind, when he oame to onpaok treamirea he had liad atmred mynj in^jm I^anoisoo for two years, kee^ng tikem for •wnebody to whom he oonld now neyer give them, be decided ttmake presents of them all to his couains, »d the very first things he gave away were these Japanese silks to Florence. He and Jlorenoe hiwi always been ao fonfl of each otter that everybody expect- ed them to be maried, until George went to college, and, it w»s said, had become en- tangled with a dai^hter of a boarding-house keeper in the coontry town where the college was situatedâ€" a most unfortunate affair, which bad be«n wound up. nobody knew exic;ly how, jnat before George's health broke down; Bat now he waa all right again, and to be seen heie, there, and every- where with his ban Isome cousin Florence, and all would undoubtedly turn out in the end as ever^toiy had prophesied four years ago. George had come back to New York, and this very party at which Misa Florence would wear the Japanese silks was given in honor of his return. What Florence Lap ham thought about it all, what was in her mind as aue p'anned and devised the toUe***. nobody knew but Miaa Florence herstl-'i ^^^ ahe never told, for the best of Tex^ona, as will be seen. It was a little past four wb^^ ^^^ proces- sion set out from Miily's Joor, MiUy and Jenny each bearing a bi^ box, and Robby trudging by their sida 'with the block of wood. Aa they got ipo the horse-car every body looked at them, and wondered what that little boy oould be carrying that big block of wood for. Bat Robby did not mind. He was full of anticipations of seeing the mocking-bird which Milly had told him was in a c ige in Miss Florence's room, and often san; while she was there. They soon reached the house, and were shown upstairs, where Florencs was impati- ently awaiting them. " Be quic^ I be quick 1" she said. "It is long past four o'clock." In a veiy few minutes the gown was out of the box, and in a few minutes more Jenny had laid aside her shabby clothes, put on the rich dreaa, with one of Miaa Florence's own embroidered petticoats under it, and stepped up on the block of wood which made her preciaely Mias Lapham's height. The dress waa faultless. Walking round and roun 1 Jenny, taming her from aide to side as if she was a wooden lay figure, Misa Lapham scrutinizsd every part of the cos- tume, and had nothing but approbation to give. "Really, Milly," she exclaimed, "it is lovely. Madame GuUall never made any- thing prettier. You shall make all my new dresses this apring." "Thank you, Mias Florence," said Milly, warmly. "I'll do my very beat to have them all perfect." " What a shame ahe isn't- aa tall aa I am, so I could serf her walk a few ateps in it I" said Miss Lapham, her eye resting on Jenny with no more c onaciousneas of her being a living human being than she would have had if ahe had said of a wooden frame, "What a pity it can't walk across the floor I" •Jenny colored, but remained silent. Milly rec.llected afterward that .Jenny had not onoe opened her lips in Mias Lapham'a prea- ence. " Couldn't she hold the dress up in front so that she could walk in it and I could see the sweep of the train " said Mias Lapham. " Try, Jenny," said Milly. And Jenny stepped down from her wooden block, and lifting the front of the skirt in both hands, walked toward the door. "There isn't room in here," exclaimed Miaa Lapham. " I want to ace. the gown at a_ little diatance. Come asroaa into our sitting-room " and she threw open her bed- room door, and led the way across the broad hall The Misses Lapham were luxurious yoang ladies â€" as there was no reason why they should not be â€" and had on the same floor with their bedrooms a large and beautifully furnished sitting-room, to which their own intimate friends were in the habit of coming at all times. Closing the door and seating herself. Miss Lapham said to the lay figure, "Now walk slovly up and down the room." Jenny obeyed. Spite of the holding up of the skirt in front, the effest ot the traai was good, and the long hanging sleevea showed well. Miss Lapham was delighted, and gazed almost dreamily at the slow-moving figure. For the first time she noticed Jenny's face "That girl is very pretty," she said, in an under-tone, to Milly. "She's as good as she is"â€" "pretty " Milly was about to reply, but she did not finish her sentence. " Hullo, Florry " came iri loud, boistei-ous tones from Miss Lapham's brother Tom, bursting open the door with a vehemence which sent it against the wall. "Hero's George." Miss Lapham shrieked in comical dismay, and sprang to catch the door as it swung back. "Go away I You can't come in here." It waa too late, beh\nd Tom. At that veryaecond, Jenny, at the farther end of the room, had turned to walk back In the next second had come from George Bayliea'a lipa a cry which none who heard it ever forgot. "Jenny oh, Jenny 1" And in another aecond Jenny with a strange stare in her eyes, had fallen, "sunk," as Milly said afterward, describing the scene to her motherâ€" "sunk right down till there wasn't anything but a pile on the floor, just a pile of the silk and things, and Jenny's ftwe white as death in among it. " Not the moat practical literateur could ever have dacribed the scene from first to {^.*i "Sr-r^^ Â¥^^}^ did-honest, hearty httle MJly, who had a few times in her lite been to the theatre, and who had read hun- dreds of rommcds in the story papers of the day. "I never tow anything so perfectly beauti- fulâ€" never f she eaid. " There was Jenny m a dead fdnt on the floor, and Miss Flor- ence s new Jress all massed up under hf r and that sdendid-loo"king man down on his knees liftini up Jenny's head and oaUing to her. Mid oiling to everybody. • Oh. get water â-  ani' Bring salts,' and ' Can't soma- body do so^ethmg for herf and Miss Flor- ence for thd first minute standing stook-still and lookmdfirst at Jenny and then at the genUeman,1jnrt her haughtiest way and then she go^ softer, and she said, 'Who is It, George!^ just as loving; and he looked up at her, ^d says he, • Oh. Florrv it'« Jenny I' ilTthatlet her know iai^tS' And right kto the nudat of it EdSby oun^ runnuw m ,t the door, calling to me, «MU- ly I Milly came, hear the mookhig.bird hesJn^uigBpkndid.' Ifeverlwiah George Baylies was close the be«t atory ever I read. It was jaat splendid. Toe gentleman he daated the water over her, right on to the gold brocade, just as if it wasn't anything bat a cotton night-gown. I saw Miss Florence try on the sly to wipe a Uttle off with her hand- kerchief but it waan't any use. I made up my mind the gown was done for as aoon as I saw them give him the hartshorn bottle. 'Twas a shame, too â€" such a brocade I" Of course the story ends hwe, bat as stories always have to be finished after they are done, it is in order to relate, in as few words as poaaible, that a carriage was called, and that Milly Jones and Robby Jones aoA Mr. George Baylies all rolled away in it, Jenny still ^ite and trembling, but with heavenly Happiness in her downcast eyes, and G»orge Baylies gazing at her, and hoi 1- ing Her hand in his, and talkin;; to her, and not minling Milly and Robby any more, as Milly toll her mother, "than if we'd been deaf, dumb, and blind." And when they reached Miily's house, and Milly said, "Now, Jerny, yon must como in and stay till you feel better," Mr. Baylies had lifted his hat to Milly, just as if she " had been a queen," she Baid, and spoke in such a ordly way "Thank you. Miss Millv. but Jennie will be better at home. I shall go home with her, D.nd not la^ve her till she is well again. Where shall I tell the man to drive, Jenny?" How poor Jtnay shrank and hesitated to give the name and number of the miserable home where she and her mother were fight- ing their poverty 1 Bat it was of no use now. She had met her rightful master, and never again wonld a false scruple come be- tween them. For it had been nothing else which had separated them three years be- fore â€" a c onscientiouB determination on Jen- ny's part, when she and her mother sudden- ly found themselves penniless, not to be a burden on her lover, who she well knew waa not rich. "He muat not begin life with two to aupport," said Jenny and she wrote him a letter so worded that he could not bat infer that her feelings had changed toward him. Then she and her mother had disappeared, leaving in the little village where they had lived no trace by which they could be fol- lowed a brave, foolish thing such as women are forever doing, and many a time since Jenny's heart haa been sick with misgivin Inst it had been wrong. Bat she thought George would have written if he had cared so he had written a letter, which would have changed everything, perhaps, if Jenny had got it, but she never did. It went no- bo ly knows where, and the hopes and the happiness of two hearts with it and George broke down, and went on the voyage and Jenny kept up, and went to sewing at Milly Jones's a:d the Japanese silk and brocade went to Mias Florense Lapham, on their roundabout way to Jenny at last and it was because Jenny knew tbat the Laphams were couaina of George Bayliea that ahe waa on the point of ref uaing to go to the house to try on Miaa Florence'a gown for her and if she had â€" oh, if she had, what then Who can tell The Japanese ailk would never have been her wedding-gown, which, aa thinga turned out, it really was. It had not been ruined, after all, and in another box ot George's was mora of the gold brocade and when Florence Lapham, having heard the story, gracefully made the beat of the situa- tion, saying to her cousin, " I really think yoar pretty Jenny ought to have that gown, George don't you â€" would ahe mind, uo yon think, my s nding it to her?"â€" George had excliimed " No, indeed and 1 11 make her be married in it. That'a the thing to do. I'd never have found her except for that gown." Jenny remembered how ahe heraelf had planned and made the flowing aleevea to the gold brocade, and how, aa ahe atood on the wooden block being turned round and round for Mi.sa Florence'a pleaaura, her heart had 'neen fuller and fuller of the memory of Crrforge Biylies, till ahe looked up and saw him, or hia ghost, coming toward her, and how when ahe camH to herself, one of her firat thoughta was, "Ohj^dear! I have ruined Miaa Florence'a gown!" â€" Jenny was auper- stitioualy glad of the gown, and held it in auch tender regard that ahe would never have it altered, .She wore it for years and years, as one may a gown t^at is of true ar- tistic tashion. And now it is packed away, to be handed down in the B lyliea family, and it will be Jenny'a granddaughter that, some day in 1900, will be dancing in Mias Lap- ham's Japanese silk. smgi ed » ohUd k the sea, I wished Bobby Joaea there that aunate. Oh, tbete aeyar waa anything i^ 13ie theatre Lal^ao id^ aorte The Laud Omiers of England. The following fresh statiatica in regard to the ownerahip of land in Great Britain, will prove interesting reading Twenty-eight dukes in the United Kingdom posse-ia 158 separate estates, comprising nearly 4, 000,000 acres. The other members of the peerage 475 in number, hold 1436 separate estates' embracing about 10,000,000 acrea. Of 33 000,000 acres in England and Wales more than 17,000,000 are owned by a body of men which probably does not exceed £500 According to Hon. Geo. Brodrick, Warden of Morton College. Oxford, nearly half the enclosed land of England and Wales, is own- ed by about 2250 persons. T.'ielargast lanoed proprietor among the peers, la the Dake of Sutherland, who owna more than one million acres. His rent roll however is not so large as that of some peers with much less property, his income from land amounting lo only $656,772. while that of the Marquis of Bate, who owns only 116 000 acres, is considerably more than Â¥l,00o' 4.1. ^tf '^^^ °^ Bnccleuch comes second to the Duke of Sunderland in number of acres and second to the Marquis of Bute in size of income. His land compriaes 459.550 acres and his rent roll is about $1,100,000. The l»uke of Northumberland's rent roll ranks next being ^S0,000 and next to him comes the Dake of Devonshire, with about $25,000 less The Earl of Derby and Earl of P.tz- iT« '^*Z "°*?,«°o°'*ixig annually to about $700,000. Altogether there are ten peers who each receive over $500 000 a year irom land. 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Sole agents for the W* inion STOCK BBOEEBS (Members of the Toronto Stock KxchsngeJ' Buy and sell on commiaaion for cash or oa^^ gin all aecuritiea dealt in on tbe Toronto, M*" tr«al and New Ynrb STOCK EXCHANGES, Alsoezeoute orders on the Chicago Bo»r* of Trade -IN GRAIN AND PEOVISIONS' MTOKOBTTO 8TBEET._^___^ Mutual Marriage Bcdowment As'n INOOBPORATED. HEAD OFFICE, LONDON, ONT.-^ IsBues OertiBoates trom $125 to $3,000, payable ono»^ ruga at following rates. ,â- - id For $fiOO, or half OorUaoate, $4; quarterly dues w â-¼anoe, $0.75. ^-oci For $1,000 Oertiieate «• ---â€"' -i"" "» »^'*°^ $100. Vot $8,000 Certifloate $10 quarterly dues $3.00. For $3,000 Certifloate $15; quarterly dues in quarterly duel in ' inadt*" â-ºlt»»« A. peroentage of the Feea appUed towards a rese^^ The only oaah payments required at the time ol^ application for a oertifloate. The remainder oi w^ ,, bIHto b made up of assessments at the rate o'.^)^ ••Oh H.000 upon the manjage of members. Y^'^i. ments made the flnt year payable quarterly, vtao» the ncMBt iMvs^nMmberaUp secures tbe " number ot Bnoowments, and a safe ani â-¼ertment fbryming neople.' Send for By La" â-  PWUSolan. W. jTUaXCH, Secretary, Lcnaoo. i;J'4; T^ey we rfflolar roa )a^iliM 3(x ve^ent d« type, but tl "Out o and the mo was one of bat gone be oity whose Thus it hi left to the I bis hand en the mother a blow • Oh, not those thing them 1" "That wi died m that children. Tr e roup the tfcrashol and his voici "If ye pl( things geuil] in glory â€" th« maelf will a I'll settle it I It was "t "makes the T. Men are gen â- ence during ness men hav sudden calls parts of the c the new hous for their cot sometimes n the man of th woman who d draymen and family into b But the wcma pity, because of anthcrity book is at I glories in a there is a clas men who are single-handed and a host of cannot run anc ren can, when dependent foi slender, fragi stands betweti Such a worn plain house wii er that waa When the first in its strange c disorder. The was no one bi them up the was no supper, exhausted the place, were h they all crowc and raised a di "We want i home I" And as the wrung her banc "Poor childn have no other h But that mot of a secret inl earth, these wc with new life. "The foxes ha air have nests, 1 where to lay hii She told the i hem to her littli and put them t in the morning, the table set am er had done it i had helped her ' only knew that home. DIALO "Are you goir carpets, John " "S'pose ao w "It'a in the b • â€" yes, it ia â€" oh, the band-bcx wi "Just like a y anything is; hat is the handle of "Oh, I pack set you'll findi box." "Now, who's I hey " "Me, dear." "WeU, stind t a hundred pounc the carpet. Oh fit, I believe." •'I'll noake yot can drink it out be just like a pic: Bat when she g was missing. "Poor feUow he's gone to get 1 Johnâ€" at a coi â- alads and th-n. crow, and a dash I'm nearly starvt help me out. I tough work." lafe has its ooi •its on a roll of i "Poor boy I I for it it's so r Starved by euppe Not much, littl H6W a Herd "One of the t travels," said a "was a cowboy a A herd of about i got frightened at pell-mell, with tl bolls at the head cowboy did not g aav the herd wer 'bhtff, where the^ down into the ca; know that when going, they can't; uwy rush to dea r«»r crowd thos 80. "I wouldn't ha^ that herd but t I'l *!j^gj;' umstang, made a in front of the he a rijjht aigle, an( to the edge ot th •round at that vi rjght toward h m cumber, though i,«."L;i..^ Vjf "ftmiin'i