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PEPPER'S TAGTIGS MARRIET WHITKEY --_--See.m ee F It was 7 o'clock Monday ont A and the smoke of Louizy wash fire in the back yard was thread ing its blue haze into the fresh, early Louiszy's father, Lyman Cottonwood, striking out 'cross Leg eens a little while he started his after breakfast cob pipe. -His gaze Cwat ruminatively upon the big ash hopper a few mo- ments, then traveled back to the nen = bis daughter just appearing from -- with a tub in her arms. The ie woman turned her head around, set her tub upon a backless chair and came forward, her low, ffat shoes patting softly over the short grass." Her figure looked -- in its blue calico washing go locks were hempy in color sad not too plentiful; she had gathered them up high and twisted them so tightly that the euter corners of her eyes were le we Newent like those of a Chinese weLoulsy, " gaid her father, leaning an elbow on a corner of the hopper, "I was the Widder lin' helpin' thrash. the good ones is at, an' don't you sass 'er none; y' understand?" "T ain't carin' how many Spy apples she gathers. Reckon apples wasn't the only thing you an' her was settlin' about yes'day evenin'." "Wull," Lyman looked off slantwise across the hopper, "I got 'er penned up es clost eg you ever kin pen a woman. The darned contrary birds won't never give you a square out 'yes' till atter the preacher's sent fer. But you kin count on havin' a stepma before pumpkins is " ri "I wouldn't think, then, paw," Loulsy's voice became mildly reproach- ful, "seein' how happy you're a-goin' to be, you'd begrutch me--an'--an'-- Sam"-- Her father came up frem his loung- ing attitude with a jerk. "Loulzy Jane Cottonwood, how many times I gotter tell you that's diffrunt? Now, listen yere'--he ticked off his points with the forefinger of his right hand in the spread palm of the left--"I told you the whutfors an' whysos yes'- day, an' that's nuff said. An' now lis- ten at this: Ef I don't find 8am Dor kins at Harris' thrashin' today it's a sign he's over yere, an' ef he is you'll wee me back, an' you'll see me bounce Sam over the fence into the breah quick enough to. jolt his ears crooked. Now, mind whut I've told you." Loulzy many tears over her | wash that morning that when the fat little Widow Pepper came with her basket abe cast many sharply inquisi- tive glances at the red rims of the for- lorn maiden"s eyes. "Looky here, Loulzy Cottonwood," said she at length as the two trudged up to the orchard, "you ain't been act- in' the baby 'cause your paw wants te "I weuldn't care a speck if he mar- tied tomorrow if he'd have the man- ners to leave me an' Sam Dorkins alone." "Hump sald the wido. "Whut's he layin' rainst Sa?" on takin' a lot of city folks to board of summers after you an' him air married, an' ke says two women 'll be needed to -- cook fer em." "Well, I say!" Mrs. Phebe Pepper brought the exclamation out with a chop. Then she stepped in the path and laughed with a heartiness that threat- ened to break her apron s' Mra. Pepper was short and wide, and her little round, dark face expressed a mix- nature, shrewdness and old plant, your paw is," said she, "but I've jist got this to say: Ef any man o' mine ever takes any summer boarders he'll do the cook- in' er else he' hire it done." Leuisy shook her head dissentingly. "You'll think different when paw gets. ou." "He ain't got me yit," said the widow cheerfully. "Looky here, Louizy, how old air you?" "Thirty-three," confessed Louisy, with a slight blush. "The law me! An' you're scared to marry without your paw says you bs kin The blush widened, taking im Loul- sy's ears, "You don't know paw," said she dis- mally. "Coulda't more than kill ye, could he?" "Bome folks' tongues is worse than kilin'." The widow trudged forward in ajlent self communion, which lasted until they reached the Northern Spy apple tree. gin to fill the basket with the-bright streaked windfalls, but Mrs. Pepper piumped herself down comfortably into the clover. "Sam Dorkins ts goin' on forty," she meditatively. "He's a sight ni to my age San yours. Loulzy pau: suddenly in n het task and Jooked qneskwelnety at the widow. "Oh, I was jest a-thinkin'," the latter observed carelessly, biting juicily into a big apple. 'Me an' Sam was allers good friends. Better stop now, Louizy. That's =o es I kin pack." s e e is e oe Lerman 'Cottonwood was in the nar- - for Over Sixty Years. "| Geli, softens the te hole Bre Winslow's Soothtn iyrap' for shlldren eothing & Jonge A gl EH levee, about 4 or tit later let me know. Plain about rf did i ; i a skyrocket. I've knowed the widder @ many a year." "I don't keer a con-taked turnip seed whut you've knowed," foamed Lyman. "The widder kin git stove wood with- eut you a-cuttin' it You take an' let that widder alone er you shuck off yer coat an' watch out fer me." "Sure now," returned Sam, "you know I'm a younger man 'n you, Uncle Lyme; better not be too biggoty. You may think you're the only speckled bean in the hill, but widders is notion- ated an' kin fly about tother way es easy es a flapjack. An' the country's a ya say. There's no stat- te that says two men shan't spark one widden, an' I reckon my chances is good es yourn ef I choose to stake 'em -- bearty. You kin fence me of from Louizy, bnt you can't fence me bar from the widder." kin send you fiyin' over them ratie," declared Lyman wrathfully. "Well, now, I ain't right shore it 'd be good policy to tackle the job," said Bam argumentatively. "You got right smart of rheumatiz, ye know, Uncle Lyme. Ye might pitch me over--an' ye mightn't. Now, I'll tell you whutt ~ widder's in need of stove wi I sh&ll go there an' cut it fer her an' stay to supper, 'relse I'll loan you my ax an' leave you go cut the wood fes tae an' I'll go in an' talk to Louizy a spell. Which 'll it be?" Lyman leaned against the rail fence, his brain whizzing with new battery ideas. The desirability of the widow had Increased tenfold since this bold riva] had proclaimed himself so de terminedly. What was Louizy in com- parison? The idens came to a focum He stepped forward resolutely. "Han' over the ax," he sald briefiy, "an' go'long in. Loulzy's fronin', You an' her kin be es big'fools es you want." When Mrs. Phebe Pepper, looking from her doorway, saw Mr. Pfr Cottonwood coming up the w. with Sam's ax on his sboulder no black 7 sparkled be hire "T "lowed that would fetch Lyme ef Bam worked it ail "right," she said to herself with a smothered chuckle, "an' mighty lucky thing fer Loulzy Cotton- wood her futur stepmaw's got a leetle grain o' ption, seein' Louizy don't know no more'n a goslin' bow to to her own love affairs." Pickwickian Love Letters, A book on William IV. recalls the fact that the love letters produced by Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz at the Pickwick- Bardell trial were patterned after let- 'ters actually used as evidence in the sult brought by the worthless George Norton against Lord Melbourne when he was prime minister of the "Sailor King." Three letters from Melbourne to Mrs. Norton were-discovered. -They-were as follows: I will cal} about half past 4. Yours, ME: RNE. ait Guan you? I shall not be able to call today, but probably shall Licata ELBOURNE. No house today. I will call otter the hal If you I shall then ex- ing tc Vauxhall. MELBOURNE. The actual comment on these alarm- ing documents by George Norton's counsel] is not less amusing than the In- terpretation of "chops and tomato sauce" by Serjeant Buszfusz. Sir Wil- liam Follett told the jury: "These notes seem to admit much more than the words convey, They are written cautiously, I admit. There is not passion in them. They are not love One wonders if even an English jury could treat this gravely. Without Prejudice. Mr. Nesbit, who had painted a pice ture of the noble red man in war = and feathers, wanted an unbiased op: fon of his work. His wide oat that the picture was the best thing of the kind that she had ever seen. His dearest | would know at a glance that it was in- tended for an "To tell the truth," said Nesbit, look- ing somewhat doubtfully at the picture, "T haven't a great deal of confidence in either of you. You always praise ev- erything I do. Now I'm going down to the street to see if I can't find some persen who can be depended upon to give me an absolutely unprejudiced epinion of this picture--a child, for in- ' stamce. Children always tell the truth." Five minutes later Nesbit returned with three small boys whom he had found playing marbles in the street. "Now, boys," he sald, "take a goo@ look at this picture. I'll give each of yeu 10 cents if bagi tell me just ex- actly what you "A siege?" dented the three boys auatanachay--eouare Companion. Where It Sheuld Begin, "But why de you have your here me novel just where a man's troubles real- ly begin. That's where you shopld be- gin the stery." --------------] -------------- When a man tells you that all ween- pe age Parser gn auts to fudge he has been bya -- | A QUESTION OF COLOR." 'The mbites of Height Did': Seem to ure Im the Scheme, The young man considers himself a + man of resources, although he is not as ' sure about it uow as be was a few days ago.' He bas been very attentive to.a-certuin young lady, and he was calling on: her at the time that be par- tially lost confidence in his resourceful mind. It {g 'unnecessaty to narrate what tween them upon the occa- sion in question, but at the time the young lady's sister entered the room he was fn the act of folding the young lady to his manly bosom. Of course he desisted at once, as young men generally do under such circumstances, but be was not em- barrassed--not a bit. The young lady's sister said, "Excuse me," and started to leave the 'room, when his resourceful mind began to work. He felt that be ought to say something and say tt right awny. "Don't go." he said; "we've just been measuring to see which one is the taller." - She paused in the deorway and look- ed at them intently. " "You're both about the same heiyht." sbe said quietly, "but sister ts much the redder." Then she went out, and be was em- barrassed--just a little. WHISTLING JUGS. Curious Relics of a Very Ancient Drinking Custon, Whistling jugs nre curious relics of @ very ancient drinking custom. All the northern nations set great stress upon a man's power to take off his Hquor without putting down the glass or beaker, and in Saxon graves eld ale buckets have been found made witheut foot or stand, so that the drinker could not rest them upon the until they were emptied. But even after that was accomplish ed the hardy drinker was still to have breath to spare, and the whistling jugs, a comparatively mod- ern invention, were intended te tndl- cate this. Many of them were made by German silversmiths--though they, are also to be seen in earthenware-- during the aixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and their form was such that when the contents of the jug had been imbibed a whistle was uncov- ered through which the drinker might blow {f he were able. The most advanced type of all ha@& a little windmill besides the whistle, which worked a dial showing the pow- er of the blow. Sometimes an ordinary, whistle was laid on the table and won by the last tosspot who could get a sound from it.--Pearson's. Rejected With Seern. A certain social organization called the Young Woman's club found itself ia ties after the lapse of some William M. Crane, the actor, was once consulted by some charming girls in regard to the name of their prospective club. Their object, they wrote, was the b of ee that to be suggested alse the fact that ar were tied. Mr. Crane replied that he bi had a a name fer the club, "the Building and on." The Matinee Girl, The matinee girl existed as early as the eighteenth century. In Japan girls {m those days used to throw their fans and purses at the feet of the "leading man" as he minced along "the flower walk" to the stage. Pictures of these "heroes" were an early product of Jap- anese wood engraving, and re por- traits were secret of many 'maidens. The Will Was There, He--So your husband has given up smoking? It requires a pretty streng will tc accomplish that. She--Well, l'a bave ey understand that I hava a strong wil An Essay on the Horse. The following remarkable essay om the horse is said to be from -- pen of an Indian student: '" is @ very. noble quadruped, but -- he is angry he will not do so. He ts ridden on the spinal cord the bridle, and sadly the driver P saya his foots on the stirrups and des his lower limbs across the saddle and dri his animal to the mea- dow. He has four legs; two are on the front side and- two after- ward. are ~ weapo' which he runs. He self in @ parallel direction toward his toe, but this he docs enly when ke is in an aggravating mood. There is no animal like the horse. Ne sooner the cow and su Brether te a Nevelist. Mr. George E. Braeme, an eld music --, who died in a Toronto hospital a few wee = ago, was oa brother ft merepiane = haps nyicor hg novelist ot te menced to write for The Family Mor. eld, the popular Pe eer ever the initials "B.M.C.," gal of her own. pes 'Knetinay pirate Hsher took her novels, and p' r iden r. Brasme, who was dual views, had o great affection fen his sister, but took no pride fa hm, literary ments. Animals have a language made we tng impressions, sensations, passions, , EX MORRISON, ATWOOD. LICENSED AUCTIONEER for the Counties of PERT: HURON. All sales given ted. contin and ate tion aphe 8 be arranged for at the Standard of signs or articulate sounds expreap rae'.