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The critic was the most prominent leader of Bowery society. He is slow of speech and hesitates, sometimes painfully, but when he does Speak ey- ery word hits. He does not go about, as is the manner of less cultivated speakers, but strikes home with few words, mainly figurative. Although he is full of the instinctive aversions and tastes of a man of culture, he is a re tired prizefighter and spends most of his time in an uncommonly dirty sa- ioon,

At a bali which this leader of Bow- ery society gave a “hard walk” took place, in which there were contestants

for a prize, to be given to him who was the most natural. Any one who should burlesque the walk of the Bow- ery tough was to be excluded. If the

tough walk was to be given, it was to be given right.

“You must do it on de level,” said the leader of society, giving prelimina- ry instructions. “You must give us de real t'ing. ’Tain’t no cake walk, dis hard walk. Walk jest as if you was walking on de lane [Bowery] wid yer bundle [girl] on yer arm. Anybody kin look tough, but I want you to look as hard as de real t'ing, de bloke on de Bowery, and no harder.”~Atlantic.

“I” and “Me,”

The number of cultured, refined, edu- cated people who slip into error in the use of “I” and “me” is large and ap- pears to be continually growing. Their trouble lies in their inability to sepa- rate the first person from the third, where both are referred to, as in the expression, “Tom asked he and I if,” etc.

[ heard a very clever man say yes- terday, “George said that him and me were the only two in the store.” A lawyer in Pine street, well known as a man of unusual ability, gets it wrong nearly every time by striving hard to get it right. He is so afraid that “my client and 1” is incorrect that he com-

promises on “my client and myself.” |

He knows my “client and me” will not do.

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persons this stumbling block is instant- {

ly removed, and even a child cannot err. “George said that him and me were” might fool some people, but “George said that him was” could not

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pew and never riised her head during | the remaining portion of the service.— Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Old Dances In Old Times. In Edward Scott’s “Dancing In All

Ages” are some curious details about , the dances used by our forefathers.

“Joan Sanderson” was a “jolly dauce” in Mr. Scott's definition, for be- fore it was ended each lady had kissed all the gentlemen twice, and each man had been equally enterprising. Mary Stuart danced the “Volta,” though “not so high and so disposedly” as Elizabeth. In King Charles’ time peo- ple danced “Trenchmore,” the “Cush- lon Dance,” “Omnium Gatherum” and “Hoite cum Toite.”’

“All In a Garden Green,” “Gathering of Peascods,” “Lumps of Pudding,” “Under and Over,’ “The Bath,” “The Slaughter House” and “Have at Thy Coat, Old Woman,” are dances not quite so old,

Reflected Greatness.

When, as a boy, the Duke cf Saxe- Coburg and Gotha visited the Island of Barbados, his washing was done for him by a negress named Jane Ann Smith, who was over 6 feet in height. She was so puffed up at being patroniz- ed by royalty that she claimed preced- ence at once over all the other washer- women and retained it for many years.

Love In a Fiat.

“You don’t care for a big house and lots of servants, do you?” he asked.

“Not at all,” she replied promptly.

“Don’t you think that love in a flat would be delightful?” he persisted.

“Yes,” she answered. ‘‘Love in a fiat, but not life with one.”

He postponed his proposal.—Chicago Times-Hera!d.

He Stood the Test. One of the hardest tests giver ap-

| plicants who go before the civil service

commission boards of examiners 1s in the form of printed matter, which is to be copied without a single change. It is said to be surprising to find how many intelligent people find it impossi- ble to properly stand this test. They can frequently correct errors in lan- guage which they cannot copy ver- batim.

There was lately an applicant who showed his aptitude for this work. He was given a printed page and told to

trip any one. Neither could “George copy it.

said that me was.” Now, altogether, “George said that he was; George said that I was; therefore George said that he and I were.”—New York Press.

Not Wasted on Her.

This happened to the wife of a well known merchant who is rather con- spicuous for his devotion to the church. His spouse, dressing one Sunday morn- ing, got into a waist that more than put Joseph's coat in the shade. She was conscious of the color scheme, but decided to ask her husband’s and her father’s opinions before wearing the garment to church. They agreed, poor men, that she was delightfully dressed and that the waist could hardly be im- proved upon.

So they went to church, the wife with secret misgivings, which, as the case turned out, were well enough founded, for they were no sooner seat- ed in Grace Episcopal church than the Rey. Dr. Worthington gave out the text. “We will read,” the reverend rec- tor said, “from the gospel of St. Mat- thew. the sixteenth chapter and eighth verse, “To what purpose is this waste?”

The good woman collapsed in her

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“ wish tc say to those who suffer from — and biadder trouble—fake Dr. R. . or Golden Medical Discovery, writes Dr. = ave ome of Carthage, Jasper Co., Mo. “A patient o en says it is worth $50 per bottle to any one w afflicted as he was. hree bottles cured ae ae tirely. Perfectly miserable he was, before ta ing very | and now (ls vsine would gladly cee eine be were in town. He requested me to write a testimonial and make it as strong as the Engtish language could make it.

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“Want it just like this?’ he asked.

“Without a change,’ the examiner replied.

The man labored. The printed mat- ter was on a white sheet and was spotless, with the exception of a fly speck on one of its corners.. The sheet the student had was minus a blemish in that particular spot, but when it was turned in there was a well imitat- ed fiy speck. There was not a flaw in the work, and he received a rating of 100 on that portion of his examina- tion and today is one of the best and most trusted employees in the service of the commission, where he was de- tailed shortly after taking his exami- nation.—Washington Star.

A Difficult Lay.

A New England woman is the owner of a hen which aypears to choose her surroundings with a discriminating eye.

Soon after her present owner 4ac- quired the hen she discovered the crea- ture’s fondness for stepping inte the house whepvever shé could effect an entrance and laying an egg on the down coverlet which ornamented the bed in the “best chamber.”

One day the hen managed to get in unobserved during a season of sweep- ing, and her presence was only dis- covered as she made her way hastily out of the side door, cackling with tri- umph, some time later.

As the best room coverlet had been out of the way during the sweeping, the mistress of the house looked about for the egg which she felt sure had been laid somewhere. She found it, after half an hour’s search, on the plush mantel covering in the parlor, where the hen must have sat in state between a china shepherdess ami a glass yase,

Nothing on the mantelshelf had been disturbed, although just how the hen Lad managed the delicate business will never be known.—Youth’s Companion.

Merely a Question of Spelling.

He was the engineer of an ocean liner and prided himself on his knowl- edge of electricity. On one of his brief stays at bome he accompanied his wife to a party. The subject of elec- tricity coming up, ke indignantly com- bated the idea that it was possible for two people to produce an electrical cur- rent through the body of a third by simple physical contact. His wife and a friend said they would prove it and, leading him to a window, told him to pull up his sleeves and place both hands flat on the glass. They then, on either side, took a firm grip on his wrists. At the end of a few moments his wife said:

“Don't you feel a pain, Willy?”

“No!” be replied and returned a like negative to a second and a third in- quiry.

At his third response most of the company began to laugh, and it sud- denly flashed into his mind that the pronunciation of pain and pane was the same.—New York Tribune.

| Wouldn’t Seli His Name.

Soon, after, General Robert B. Lee

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went to Lexington, Va., the presidency of an insurance company was offered to him at a salary of $10,000 a year. He was at that time receiving only $3,- 000 as president of the Washington and Lee university. “We do not want you to discharge any duties, general,” said the agent. “We simply wish the use of your name. “hat will abun- dantly compensate us.”

“Excuse me, sir,” was the prompt and decided rejoinder. “I cannot con- sent to receive pay for services I do not render.”

Nearly every mai! brought him simi- lar proposals, and just a short while before his death a large and wealthy corporation in New York city offered him $50,000 per annum to become its president. But he refused all such of- fers and quietly pursued his chosen path of duty.—Ladies’ Home Journal.

Accommodated,

The manager of the clothing depart- ment opened his enyelope on pay day and scowled.

“Look here, Miggs,” he said te the cashier, “thia is the fourth time in suc- cession you have paid me with three $20 bills, and I’m getting tired of hus- tling around to get them changed. Suppose you work your big bills off on some other fellows for awhile, begad!”

“Mr. Miggs,” spake up a calm, un- emotional, businesslike voice from somebody who was sitting inside the railing with a newspaper in his hand, “for the next four weeks you will please save Mr. Whackham some an- noyance by keeping one $20 bill per week out of his envelope.’’—Chicago Tribune.

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Tenders for Church

EALED TENDERS wil: be received

by the undersigned, until February 8th, 190v, for the construction of a new Romap Catholic Church, at Souris, P. E. Island, designed by Mr. W. C Harrie, Architect, to be built of stone or brick, about one hundred and eighty feet over all in length, and to seat about nine hundred and fifty people. The plans and specifi: cations can be seen at Souris, from Jan~- uary 8th,to the 15th, 1900, aod cen be seen atthe Bishop’s Palace, in Charlotte town, from the 15th January to the 8th of February, 1900. Each tender must be accompanied by a certified cheque for $100.00, or an approved note to tha’ amount, wh‘ch will be returned if tender is not accepted, and which will be forfeit ed if tenderer fails to undertake the coa tract after his tender has been accepted. The lowest or aay tender not necessarily accepted. Tenders to be sent to the undersigned and marked “Tenders for Souris Church.”

D. F. MACDONALD, P.P., Jan. 4, 1900. Souris, P. E. I.

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Thursday evening we dropped a bill in the Post Office for a prominent geutleman of this towo. The next morning we bad the pleasure of rece pting it, This is what we call promptness. (Oh, that others would do likewise.) We have been drop- ping,dropping, softly dropping a number of bills in the Post Office; and we are wait- ing,waiting patiently, to have the pleasure and to give the rleasure of receipting them. :

Please do not al! come together; but if you do, what a happy, happy gathering Jt willbe. Webave a aumber of bills to pay, and a large number of smell bills that should be paid us. Kindly pay yours and we will be ina position to do likewise.

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