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Lucknow Sentinel, 1892-07-15, Page 3r Ai., "Laugh a Little Blt Here's a motto, justyourfit; "Laugh a little bit" When you think you're trouble -hit "Laugh a little bit." Look misfortune in the face, Brave the beldam's rude grimace; Ten to one 'twill yield its place If you have the grit and -wit Just to laugh a little bit. • • Keep your face with sunshine lit— " Laugh a little bit." Gloomy shadows off will flit If you have the wit and grit Just to laugh a little bit. Cherish this as sacred writ " Laugh a little bit." Keep it with you, sample it— " Laugh a little bit." Little ills will sure betide you, Fortune may not sit beside you. Men may mock and Fame deride you But you 11 mind them not a whit, If you laugh a little bit. PLANS THAT WENT AMISS. Janet - match-Makine. Which Was Not a Success for Her. - 0 NE soft, warm June day two young ladies were sitting on the long, vine -embowered veranda of an old-fashioned farm -house. i' One was a plump, well-rounded brunette, whose fingers were busy with some fancy work ; the other, a tall, fair beauty, who lolled idly in her seat, now and then making a bare preten e�oi reading. For a hour neither had spoken, but at last the brunette, having finished her work, held it up to view, saying : " There, Janet, what do you think of my taste ?" " Oh, dear, Lou," replied Janet, with a yawn,` how horridly tiresome you are. Why •qill you persist in working when you know bow vulgar it is ? What's the use of being rich if we are not to act like ladies ? " " I am sure, Janet," Lou answered, de; murely, " there can be no harm in such trifling employment, and it is a great pleasure to Me." ""Oh, I dare say," Janet cried, petu- lantly. "I suppose there would be no harm in your going into the fields to help with the harvests. I do wish you would not insist on bringing your disgrace to me, even if you have no care for yourself." " I do not see where there is any dis- grace in work, Janet." • ." I suppose it is riot a disgrace to ,have once earned our own living, and I presume thore is no harm in proclaiming that fact to the world," Janet replied sarcastically. " No, 1 am sure we did not think honest work disgraceful when we were compelled to labor and I do not think so now." " What will society say, Lou ?" " I do not know, nor do 1 care." " I believe you, and I believe, too, that you have • no care for what Robert Barton may think." " I haven't Janet. If society or Robert Barton think it a disgrace to have earned one's living in preference to begging, steal- ing or starving I have no respect for their opinions and they are welcome to think of me as they please." " Lou," said Janet, after a short pause, " if you have no care for yourself, I wish you would have a little for me. Robert will be here to -day, and you know what a great catch he is. I /have made up my mind to win him and I will. if you don't shock him with your rude ways. So, Lou, for my sake, act like a lady. Do not dis- grace me before Robert Barton." " Well, sister, for you're sake I'll try and not (shock the sensitive Mr: Barton. As it is impossible, though, for me to be otherwise than natural and as I can't pre- tend to be a lady when I am not, the safest way is to keep myself out of Mr.' Barton's sight. So, as he will be here soon, I'll take myself to the woods." Janet sighed hopelessly and closed her eyes as if worried beyond forbearance: " Ah ! Lou, Lou !', she cried at last, " what am I ever to do with you ? It will kill me to see you married to some common man, a farmer or a laborer, but with such horrid taste as you havelcan expectnothing better. Oh, dear !" " Don't worry, Janet. 1 shall not marry at present, and when I do I shall marry the man I love. He may be a farmer, but whatever he is I'll warrant him to be a good man, for I shall never love any other kind." Lou went down across a wooded meadow, and, coming to a rustic bridge, sat down. , " Ah," she sighed, " I do so wish Janet was not sotinged. I am half sorry we are not st.il oor, for I hate affectation, and I know I shall never succeed in beingany- thing but a plain, matter-of-fact goose. I can't be a lady and affect grand airs, and there's no use in trying." Atter a long pause she resumed : y"" Rob- ert, Barton will come, and when he sees Janet he will like her, and after awhile they will marry. What a fine wife she will make, too, and what a grand lady ! She is just the sort of a person, with her calm self-possession and her stately dig- nity, to do honor to a fine old mansion like Oakview. Ah, dear old Oakview; how I love you already, ,because you are so solid and unpretentious. I hope Janet and Robert Barton will be happy." Janet and Lou Harding had been left parentless and poor, and through the care, of a kind but poor old uncle, they se- cured work in a dressmaker's shop, which they gladly accepted and retained, and whereby they had been able to earn a scanty supe rt for themselves. '' After thio years of this hard, poorly remunerat, abor, their benefnctor brought them news one day of some good fortune that had befallen them. A rich uncle had died in Mexico, leaving his entire fortune to his sister's children, and through the efforts that i had been made to find the two orphans; a foster sister of their father had been discovered in the northern part of the State, and already she had sent a letter instructing the two girls to comp at once and make their home with her. " How grandly fortunate," Janet had cried when the good tidings ' were made known to them. " It's good-bye once and for all to that miserable little shop, and as soon as we can get a few decent things to- gether we shall take the train for good old Aunt Barton's." " But what is to become of dear' old Uncle Dunkin ?" Lou asked. ""Oh, I don't know, I'm sure. He caul not expect us to chain ourselves down hero to this life just for his sake." ,';f, Perhaps not, Janet, but I shall not leave him after all he's done for us." 7 W " Well, you can do as you like, Lon ; as foz no, I'm going at once." But there was no need of any worrying over Uncle Dunkin, for the very next day he was found drowned . in the river, and the girls left the city within a week and were whirled away to the North, through the great, open country, so full of freedom and beauty, dotted here and - there • -with clean, sunny villages; and within a few hours were safely lodged at Mrs. Barton's dear old home—picturesque Oakview. Once during the journey Lou had turned to her sister, and with her voice so soft and trembling, said : " Janet, how I wish good old Uncle Dun- kin could have lived to see this. I should have enjoyed it more if he could have been with us." "I'm thankful he isn't, Lou. He was well enough in our old life, but he wouldn't do no*." From the date of that speech Lou had felt a pang of sorrow that was new to her, and as she sat in the shade of the elm tree flown by the bride the change in her sister came back to her and she sighed. Robert Barton was Mrs. Barton's only child, a young man of 22, who had been abroad for a year and waa expected home that evening. The carriage had •already 'been sent to the station to meet him, and Janet, having made up her mind to ensnare and capture him and become the mistress, of Oakview, had been practising the art of luxurious leisure from the day of her ar- rival. Lou had remained by the bridge almost an hour when she saw the carriage rolling along. the lane, and she watched it until it rolled up to the gate and disappeared among ,the trees that lined the drive. So intent was her gaze and so absorbed her thoughts that she started with a little cry of alarm when she was suddenly awakened by the sound offootsteps on the bridge close behind her. Beg pardon," said a dusty, travel - stained man with a tanned face, as he lifted his hat. " 1 am sorry that I frightened you. I used to like this walk, and 'especially at. this time of day, since it is so quiet and restful, and then the clover scents always bring back the days of my childhood,' and when we reached the turn over there 1 left the carriage to walk acress to the house." " Then you are Mr. Barton ?" Lou said. " Yes, excuse me. I should have intro- duced myself. But when one has been away so long and is getting home again- he feels wild with pleasurable excitement. You, I, presumeare Miss Harding ?" Harding." I am Lou • " Oh, indeed ! Well, I am anxious., to meet dear mother, so if you are going to the house we will walk back together." But little was said'by either of them as they went back across the sward, but Lou was conscious more than once of the hand- some man's e3 es being fixed intently on her. When they reached the house Janet affected a manner so cold and distant and so listless that Lou looked at her in surprise. That • night ti hen the sisters promen aded arm in ar :a across the lawn Janet asked : " Lou, what do you think of Robert?" " I do not know that I ought to express an opinion," Lou replied, " since I know so little about him," " Don't you think he is handsome 9" " Well, no ; not handsome, but well enough looking." " I hope you like him Lou, for I mean that he shall be your brother. Do you think you will like him for a brother ?" " I shall like him for your sake, Janet," Lou answered. "" Thank you sister. Now, since you are such a dutiful little dumpling I'm going to tell you something. I've got it all planned out how we are to manage when Robert and I are married and I am mistress of Oakview. You are to live with us, . of course, and I know Robert won't, object.,,. And as for the old house, I'm going to have it overhauled and modernized so that it will be respecta- ble. And as for aunt and her traps, they shall be packed off to some obscure room out of the way. Ah, I'm going to have a thorough renovation, and society will find Oakview charmingly fashionable. Don't you like that 9" " No, I don't like it,° and if I was Mr.'Bar= ton I'd never consent to have the old house changed. It is so dear in its old-fashioned simplicity, and besides, I know good old aunt would not like any changes. It ought to be left as it is." " You little goose, when will you ever begin to learn anything?. What do I care. fo'r what aunt likes, and who cares for sim- plicity ? Don't I tell you we are in society and must lay aside old-fashioned nonsense 9I do hope,Lou,you won't mortify me with any of your absurd manners and speeches when Robert is present, for if you do I believe I shall die." Janet printed a light kiss on her sister's brow and tripped away. Lou continued walking slowly to and fro and her face had the marks of a deep sorrow. " If that is to become the outcome of our riches," she mused, " it would have been better for us to have remained poor forever." Through the succeeding days Lou kept away from Robert Barton as much as possible. She slipped out alone for long rambles in the fields, or shut herself up in her room, thus leaving Janet free to enjoy Robert's company undisturbed. Yet Lou was not happy. ' Unconsciously she had learned to love Robert herself, and as earnestly as she tried to place him out of her heart she could not. One night, when a month had passed, she walked alone on the lawn. There was a sad yearning in her soul arid a sigh escaped, her. The next moment her hand was imprisoned( in' a strong but tender grasp, and looking with . a little cry she saw Robert Barton bending over her. " Lou," he said, " why are you so un- happy!" She did not speak, but her hand trembled and her eyes were east down. " Lou," he continued, " I, too, am un- happy, " and often of late I have sighed. Can't you, won't you, guess the cause of my unhappiness ?" " f cannot," she murmured. " Then I' must tell you," he said. " It is because. you avoid me. Lou, I -love you, and I cannot bo happy without you. Won't you try to learn to love mo." " I cannot," she whispered. " I have already learned." He threw his arms about her and drew her to him. " My precious jewel," he cried. " My true child of nature 1 I am the most for- tunate of men in winning you, for you are capable of love and feeling, and you will make me happy always." And it was so.— Chicago . 'ventng News. Who Fired the Barn Y A barn had Been burned in the suburbs and'a tramp had` `'been arrested for setting fire to it, says the Detroit Free Press. After moat of the testimony was in, the prisoner was permitted to make a state- ment. " Your Honor," he said, " if anybody set this barn afire it wasthe prosecuting attorney 1" The prosecuting attorney was on his feet in an instant, and the tramp held up his hands appealingly. " Let me go on," he said, and the court let him go on. " Didn't you," he said, addressing the prosecutor, " throw a man out of your second story -window yesterday evening ?" The prosecuting attorney said he had caught a tramp in his house about 8 o'clock the evening before, and had fired him through a window. "Thanks ! " said the prisoner. " That was Bae. I wentout on to a shed roof that broke my ,fall and almost broke my neck, and went on down, where I lit on the hired girl, and scared her so she made a break for the back yard, where she startled a stray dog so that he made off with a howl for the street, running between a policeman's legs and upsetting him. The policeman made a swipe at him with his club and bit a horse standing by the curbstone and he ran away, and up street he scattered a crowd of women, ,and then scared a horse hitched to a milk waggon, and he broke for home and there scared a cow, and she rail over a cat in the stable yard watching a rat hole, and the cat went into the barn, . where a lantern was hanging, and the lantern was turned over on to a pile of hay and set it afire, and the man that ought to have been there was downtown trying to catch the horse that scared the crowd that scared his horse that ran away and set the barn on fire. And that's how it happened," con- cluded the tramp with a long breath of relief. The court was paralyzed. " And where were you all this time?" was the next en- quiry. " Me ?" he asked innocently. "Oh ! I was in the gentleman's kitchen eating the hired girl's supper, while she was out trying to find the policeman the dog upset, so's he ,could come and see what had dropped on the hired girl." ' • The ease isn't settled yet. Lynch Law Among Bats. In the neighborhood of Burley the other day a gentleman looking over a wall saw a dead hen in the field. Presently a rat ran up, sniffed at the defunct fowl with . much satisfaction, and went away in some haste. The onlooker, who is a student of natural history, knew what that meant and re- moved the hen from the spot. In a minute or two the rat came back with half a dozen friends, with the evident intention of removing the carcass for future , use. Arrived at the spot where the fowl had lain the rat raised a loud squeak of aston- ishment at its absence. In a trice the other- rats therrats fell upon him so savagely that they left him dead on the field as a warning not to play practical jokes with his friends.— Leeds (Eng.) Evening Post, None but the Brave, Etc. He was poor, but nerq, and she was beautifel and rich. " Will you marry me?" he asked, plumply. _ " Why," she exclaimed, " how abrupt you are ! You won't give me time." " I can't do it," he snapped. t" This is a cash transaction." And so they were married and lived hap- pily to a good old age. Quite Beady. ' Ethel—Old Mrs. Matchmaker has found a husband for Miss Frostique. Maud—I suppose Miss Frostique asked a lot of questions when she was told of it ? Ethel—No. She simply said, " Is it a man ?" and when she was told it was, she said, " Let him bring a preacher along with him." Time for Action. Mrs. Brown—You'd better hurry to bed, my dear. Little Johnnie—It's early yet, ma. Mrs. Brown—I know it is. But I see your father coming down the street, . and I don't think he caught many fish to -day. On the Other Foot. " The Irish are incapable of self -govern-. ment ; see how they act in a campaign," say the English. Mr. Stanley, however, is running in England, not Ireland.—New York Herald. The man who always agrees with you may be a pleasant companion, but when you want advice go to someone else. Professor Marshal tells us that the oak in a general way requires to grow from 120 to 200 years before it is fit to cut for large timber. The looking-for-a-gas-leakyy,'vith--lighted match idea is winning d" ret among the didn't -know -it -was -loaded and starting -the fire • wi th -keroseoe schemes. Did you ever really know a woman too busy to run to the parlor window to look at a neighbor with a new hat ? When the clocks tolled twelve strokes last night and the first day of July made its appearance, nearly 150,000 Pittsburg workmen, who ' had toiled almost inces- santly during the past year, were out of employment. Tho scale in fgrce during the past year expired at midhight, and in all he mills, the proprietors of which had not jgned the scale for the ensuing year, work c gsed entirely at that time. All was quiet at Homestead and in the city to -day. The streets were filled with idle men, but the best of order prevailed. Hon. A. G. Porter, the American Min- ister at Rome, and Lord Vivian, the British Ambassador, have handed to Signor Brin, the Italian Prime Minister, a request from their respective Governments, that King Humbert appoint an arbitrator to take part in the settlement of the controversy be- tween the United States and Great Britain regarding. the Behring Sea. "" Ma?" ""Yes, 'darling 1"" " Mr. Le Beau asked me if I loved him last night." " Yes ? Yea ? Go on, darling." 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I guess womens is the same way. sal Estate Agent What Makes a Prohibitionist Y -1111-01.4; Old Rtes,: v`- ".._.._ - Then there ie the tale of the lady whose husband is taken suddenly ill one night at a hotel. She rushes downstairs and pre- pares a stiff mustard plaster to put on hint, and runs up with it again. In her excite- ,. ment, however, she charges into the wrong room, and, rolling down the bed-olother; presses it lovingly upon the Wrong man. I have heard that story so often that I ant quite nervous about going to bed in a hotel now. Each man who has told me has in- variably slept in the room next door to that of the victim, and has been awakened by the man's yell as the plaster came down upon him. That is how he (the story -teller) came to know all about it.—Jerome lir- Jerome in Idler. ISSUE NO 28. 1892. NOTE. In replying to any of these - Advertlsments kindly mention this paper 11. 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