Judge — February 12, 1898 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Suage IN THE WINTER WOODS. ARED tree and bush, made wan by woeful wrongs, And, lo! the dusk is weird with minstrelsy Far through the twilight gleam ; ‘Whose rhythm is lulled to tears— And here, a wind, soft as the thrill of songs ‘A phantom strain from June's hushed revelry, Recalled from some lost dream ; Blown here from out the years. JOMN DAML ware, SPREADING THE SECRET. [7 WASN'T very much of a secret, perhaps, but in the estimation of the family it was of vast importance, and they resolved to preserve it inviolate till the proper time for its dissemination. . To this end they decided to confide it to no one beyond the bounds of their im- mediate household. . One exception alone was made. Innocent old gran‘pap, who took so much delight in anything pertaining to the welfare of all the family, was to be permit- ted to reveal the pleasant little mystery to his lifelong crony, old Uncle Jackey Lazzenberry. Uncle Jackey had never betrayed a trust in all his life, and it was considered almost as a matter of course that he shoul share in the mild sensation. With this one exception, no outsider was given as much as a hint of the matter, and the family were genuinely mysti fied when it was found that the secret was the common prop- erty of the entire neigh, borhood. This is the manner in which it was. innocently betrayed. Gran'pap was almost as deaf as the proverbial ad- der, and Uncle Jackey was a de- gree or two deafer ! yet When gra’ ___ REFLECTION. . “That's father—I know his footsteps pap had, as a meas- ure of precaution, enticed his old crony to a point in the pasture at least a hundred yards from the road and begun to reveal the secret to him : Uncle Jackey for a time labored under the delusion that gran‘pap A SAD. TALE. was talking about the weather, and answered in an irrelevant Kind leddy, won't.yer do somethin’ fer'two brothers, one w'ot’s manner which piqued gran‘pap into forgetting his caution and “A a Te ee wwial hog Sc bit beck How did be get kT" raising his cracked and penetrating old voice to the skies. StacceRinc Ike—" When me brudder wuz a kid me mudder fergot herself one Ina little while the two old fellows were yelling questions day an’ asked him ter bring up a pail uv coal adi little Willie got his back up, an’ since and answers to each other, and were so absorbed in the pastime dat time he never could get it down again.” that they wholly failed to take cognizance of the fact that Eben Partlow’s carryall, with Miss Phi- lenda Lanks, the greatest gossip in the community, on the back seat, had been halted beyond the stone wall, while the occupants of the vehicle sat and absorbed every word of the high-pitched conversation. Before night the secret was the property of every man, woman and child in the neighborhood, and everybody was aware of the date upon which Mary Augusta was to be married to Charles Henry Per- kins, and of the cost of her wed- HOW A CHINA-PUG PEDDLER MADE AN UNFAIR EXCHANGE AND BKOUGHT A SLEEPY ding outfit, and all other details OLD MAN TO GRIEF. % of the interesting event. 1 I. TOM P, MORGAN. | A SWEETER MUSIC. ‘OM is teaching Maud how to whistle, But the lessons have many slips, For he always interrupts her ‘As soon as she packers her lips DISTINGUISHED. Mamma —“ That's a nice little boy you play marbles with, Bobby.” Bobby—* You becher! An’ he’s had th’ measles fourtimes.” comicbooks.com