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>nli Bronco Experience.
' [Puck.]
„ . t , n _ about cowboy*, Sam Stewart,
rem Montana to Old Mexico a*
S“> m Ram was tire chief. He was not a
in Indian, a grosser or a negro,
' . i. had the nose of au Indian warrior,
f J* , r |;|,jr of an African, and the cour.
; l, Vnml eiiuestrian grace of a Spaniard. A
“* . reputation as a "bronco hr. alter" gave
111. nan,!-. To masteron untamed bronco
lin ., ,eh him to lend, to drive und to be
O- ridden was Saul 1 * mission during the
S weather When he was not riding the
I1U special delight was to break the
**Silra heart of Hie vicious wild pony of
and make him the servant of man.
rre seen him mount a hostile "i.uchcr,"
i inching his italic logsnroundtho boiiy
fill, adversary, ride him till the blued
', |,i burst from Sam’s nostrils and spatter
"Land rider like rain. Most every one
iLns what the bucking of the barbarous
h 10 | i, orsa uiLums. The wild horso prob.
’uvlarned it from the antilope. for the
alter dew it the same way, i. e„ lie jumps
.rsiclit UP into the nir, r.t the same instant
’ jj,,. },(* back ami coming down stitY-
ulm*!, with nil four of his foot in n bunch.
The concitstfion is considera! tie.
I tried it onco myself. 1 partinlly roio ft
„ bronco, one spring day, which will nl-
ways l)e green in my memory. Tho day, I
m ein. not tho l«*o»co.
■***'■*•
When lie Began to Ride Me.
It occupied my entire attention to safely
ride tin* cunning little beast, and when ho
bc;:n» to ride me, I put in a minority report
against it.
r j |, n vn passed through on earthquake and
ii ji Jmlian out break, but I would rut her ride
an e.’irthquakn without saddle or bridle than
to bestride a successful bronco eruption. I
remember that I wore a largj pair of M:xi-
«an spurs, but I forgot about them until tho
saddle turned. Then I remembered them.
Sitting down on them in an Impulsive way
brought them to my mind. Then the bronco
str-d sat down on me, mid that gave tho
spur* an opportunity to make a moro lasting
impression on my mind.
To those who observed the chargor with
the double “cinch” across his back and tho
saddle in front of him like a big leather cor
set, sitting nt tho same time on my person,
there must have been a tinge of amusement;
but to me it wns not so frolicsome.
There may be joy in a wild gallop across
the boundless plains, in the crisp morning,
on the hack of n fleet bronco; but when you
return with your ribs sticking through your
vest, and Hud that your nimble steed has re
turned to town two hours ahead of you,
there i> a tinge of sadtiosi about it all.
K-niico Sam. however, made u specialty
of doing all the riding himself. Ho wouldn’t
ent^r into any compromise uucl allow the
hoi>* to ride him.
In a reckless moment ho offered to bet ton
dollars that he could mount and ride a w ild
Texan steer. The money w as put up. That
settled it. Sam never took water. This was
true in a double sense. Well, he climbed tho
eriKs.lwr of tho corral -gate, und usked the
othi-r boys to turn out their best steer, Mar
quis of Queens berry rules.
II Took Sum Four Dags to 11 all: Rue/;.
As tli* steer passed out, Sam slid down
and uni plied those parenthetical legs of hi?
around that l:igh-hcadnd, broad-horned
brute, and he rode him till tin fleet-foot 'd
unbind fell down on the bulTulo grass, ran
bis hot, red tongue out across the b!u.
horizon, Shook his tail convulsively, swelleJ
up stuwaud died.
it took Sam four days to walk buck.
A ten-dollar bill looks as largo to me a.-
the Star Spangled banner sometimes; but
that is nil avenue of wealth that li;ui not
occurred to me.
I’d rather ride a buzz-saw at two dollars n
day and found.
What tlie Blonde Reporter .Should
Huvc Said.
|Pittsburg Dispatch.]
“In soft, adumbrant meshes of sieved sil
v -*r, the sunbeams melt*! through the
leaves and dripped in spangles of gold upon
th- brown and black moquettrio of tho
nhadows that left to the rugged edge of the
curb, where a fragile little fragment of liu-
f'anity lay moaning.”
"That’s all right enough,” said the inmir;* j
ln » editor, “but it’i§ a little too long. Make !
it shorter.”
“But what will I say, sir?” asked Lite j
Monde reporter. '
* 0h, I’d just say, ‘Honnessy Mulcnli.- a
httb boy Pat fell into an open sower and i
broke his nosj.’ That'll do for au introduc
i>on, and then you can go oil and say wliatV |
necessary ubout tho careless manner ii.,
’•hieh these things are conducted, und that
“nder another administration of our local ;
government, and so on, you know. Give
urn a rap, that’s ail.”
At the Opera.
[Drake's Travellers’ Mazagino.]
lueywei-eat the French opera, und a* ,
seated themselves ho remarked, im
patiently;
‘There 1 I have forgotten the oiiera-
Jla'ses ngaiti?’’
‘Uh, well,” said his wife, soothiugly, *‘w» !
get along nicely without it” j
Nonseuse," he replied. “1 will have at !
t'p'ra glasa if I Imve to rent one.”
”V m ‘Ldn’t make such u fuss about for- |
getting the glass when wo went to set !
m?iry Irving in Hamlet,” she remarked, r
“«le sternly. i
i know I didn’t, but Humlet and » I
rr.-iieh ojiera are very differenttbiugs. Yoi
, M t imagine a man can appreciate fine—
--er-music wiihout an opera-glass, dt I
Commenced Shopping Young.
[Life]
Drug t‘|. rkWhat do you winh.l Ittle girl
tie Girl:—I want to know liow mud |
. "ur best pi lb are. Your very beat pills. i
J i,lr }»rs lunar: A practical hint foral ,
•• want to get r;c!>. Kend three-cen :
_ and have tho ne«v*t exposed,” wasai ,
, i ' w rt ‘ M3DW;U in a washy paper. Th !
*Mmiek** at J? ^ttWe*^*** ‘’Daa’t U j
Um »«* aU tw
STICKING ON THE STAMPS.
The JnatComplnlnt.raDlacouraz.il
Postofllce Clerk.
[Philadelphia Reconi.]
“Tliero is .no of the sort of letter,
tuat make me tired, absolutely so tired
that I can't even swear,” remarked a
clerk at the postoiiice in a tone of deep
disgust, as ho tossed aside a pink on-
! 'elope from a pile of letters on wjii.di
| he was cancelling the stumps. The of-
j tensive missive fell on a corner of the
| tal) lo among a dozen of others, which
j had all, in a measure, contributed to
the clerk’s “fatigue,” and after he had
concluded hrs task he reached over and
i pulled the lot toward him.
I “Just see here,” lie said continuing
« his wail; “not one of those letters is
j properly stamped. Look at this, down
j at the bottom, and this right in tho
center, with u heart drawn around it,
* and hang it, why here s a new racket,
\ the stamp stuck on tho back,” an.I as
j lie rattled on lie gave each of the
epistles n vicirnm jab with tho cancel-*
! ing stamp and f hen tossed it into tho
j mail-bag.
j “Do yon run Across many of that
kind?”
“Do I? Well, I’m pretty good-na- !
lured, and you wouldn’t hear me kick-
• ing if it was only once in a while; but
; they come along by dozens, und, by
1 Jove! around Christmas and St. Valen-
! tine's day about half the extra mail is
j stamped in some awkward way.”
! “W ho do it?”
: “Well, principally silly people who
I are in love. I fancy most of the letters
i slam pod in those queer ways aro lovo
i letters or valentines or Christinas cards,
j Look at this,” and ho tished out the
pink envelope before mentioned. It was
i directed in a fominino hand to a man in
Norristown, had tho stamp in tho cen
ter with a conventional heart drawn
around it and smelt like a cake of hotel
toilet soap. “Now, I must say I don’t
often get ’em that bad. If I did I’d
soon go crazy, for you don't know how
exasperating it is to have to stop and
change your regular clock-like work be
cause one of these things comes along
and breaks up your steady troi, as it
were.”
“Perhaps there is some languago of
postage stamps, and dillerent positions
mean dincrent sentiments,” suggested
the reporter. “For instance: l'p in
tho left corner, M lovo fin tho lower left
corner, ‘doyou lovo?’”
“Of course there is; and I’ll tell you
just how it goes. Whenever a stamp i * put
anywhere but in the upper right-hand
corner it means just this: Tne man,
woman or child who stamped the letter
is cither a fool, or a crank, or au idiot,
or wants io bo smart, or” Hero
tho conversation was cut offby the irate
clerk being called away,
I'liforeseen and DlMOMtrou*.
[“Uucl*.* Bill” in Chicago Herald.]
Threadbare dignity is hard to sustain.
Almost anybody of sullicient height and
girth c.n easily onougli ho portly while
his broadcloth is now; but wlion tho
fabric of his exterior presentab.l.ty is
fraye.l at tho elbows and gro.isy at tuo
collar a great deal of stamina is ro-
qu.site or else the structure goes lo
piecos more or less. The man whom I
studied to this conclusion was big-
hcaiied and gray, tiiick and very
straight, composed and sc\ero, and in
all aspccls a millionaire except as to tho
dilapidation of his apparel. IIo re
joined a coi;ira lo in tne reading-room
of a U.oalway hotel, and I couldn't
holp ovorhear.ng tlio> eonversa: on.
“Did you get it/” askod tho ono wl.o
ha.l cv.deutiy waited hopefully for tho
outcome of a small linaucial expedition.
“No, I did not, sir,” was the reply of
dignified disconsolation.
“Hut you said lio'd give you a fiver as
soon as ho looked at you ?”
“Mol did say, and so I did think. Put
mo mission, simj ly and sure us it
seemed, caiuo into encounter with un
foreseen and disastrous vicissitudes,
I.isten, my friend.”
Wbeu ho said “mo” for “my” I knew
that ho was an actor, und it was im
mediately revealed that ho had called
on a theatre manager for a loan.
“ 1 hat man is deep as the sou, and lit
em ors his dangerous, hidden rocks liko
tho rap ds of Niagara,” Hagio l*om-
posio continued. 'Look you, friend-
lie had digged a pit at his very door
way for mo self-possession to fall into.
How? Why, sir, the entry is dark and
tho floor slopes rather abruptly just as I
you come to tho sill. The incline j
catches you unawares, and you stumble |
into bis presenco instead of quietly (
walking in. 1- rom the moment of 1
that entrance me case was hopelos*.
\\ hat won ier that I set mo hut on his
desk with the rent toward him, thrust
mo arm into a tear in my overcoat in
stead of tho sleeve-hole, and became an
abject beggar rather than a casual and
quite unaccnsti med borrower? No,
comrade, I did not get 5C». He offered
me 5cents, and I took it.”
Mnmethlns To He l.ooUcil After.
[HiilwMphiu Pit*-.!
A story which is worth tho attention
of the library committee of congress,
comes from Washington. It is apropos
of lira midis historial allegory of tin*
“Goddess of Liberty Dis|>ci>ing Ty
rants,” which is in the top of the cap*
itol dome. The story goes that Bru-
midi w as indiscriminate in his associa
tiou w.th tho opposite sex, to whom he
promised to return for favors received
that ho would preservo their faces
where they could be seen by the nation.
He kept his word, and all the faces
of females in the allegory arc portraits
of his “mashesthe Goddess of Liberty
being an exact 1 keuess of his favorite
liotiri. Another point about tho picture
is that the tyrants who aro fleeing from
the wrath of Brumidi’s favorite aro Jell
Davis, llobert K. Lee, Alexander II.
Stephens, ’.Stonewall’ Jackson, Judah
P, Benjamin and‘Bob’Toombs. As the
narrator of the story sail; ‘ 1 ake away
the frightened expression from their
faces, and they would make good
faiuilv portraits. Just think of such a
collection in tho top of tho capitol
dome. Brumidi said he was going to
do it, and he did.
Pastoral Letter : There can hardly
fail to be before long e general effort to
supplant with pure but entertaining
reading the ruinous publications that ■
&io poisoning readers of all ranks—a ;
literature of dDorce, of MdaetiOBfOl
ad’.iltor/i of aeral defttfc*
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