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WHEN SAM FOUND HIS COURAGE.

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HUMOROUS.

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••You UdoV nrhat Uu- Jcdp’ t° !l1 TO»i m U:o 'radcmy oxhlblllen. Sammy,” f«M Hiram banc, idowly. hts eyes

lied on the graaa

lemy e 9 1-am

flx«t on the boy atrctched a"1 to leave Moorby t

r you

let him know; imethine tor a

boy with such a ro.-k! brain, and a head lor fljpire*. Tlioee were his words.

Sammy."

The boy's thin face Bushed as he turned to look at his uncle, and he

apoke

"He

before this, I'n. le Hiram. Why. that fcrhooT exhibition was two years apo laat June, and the Judge didn't come to Moorby last summer, you know. I should be afraid to go and ask any

favor of him."

"I wish you hadn't snch a bashful streak in you. Sammy.” said Uncle Hlram. looking down at the boy with a half-reproachful, wholly affectionate smile. "You're Just like your poor pa. A better man never lived, but he wasn't built to pet on in this world, and he didn't pet on. 1 was hoping you might have a little more push than your pa. Sammy, along with the goodness. Now your ma's gone. I could be moved anywhere: or 1 could.be put In >nnty farm. Sammy, if so be it

d best for you to strike

city alone. I'm nothing but

old hulk, any way.”

"Don't you say that again. Undo Hiram! Don't you dare to!" cried the boy. fiercely, springing to his feet, and rushing like a whirlwind upon the figure in the old armchair. "Aren't you alb I've got in the world that be- • longs to me? Do you suppose I'd go away and leave you for the town to take care of? I'd deserve to be hung!" “Sho. now, Sammy!" raid the oceupv nt of the armchair, gently, as he saw the hot tears that stood In the boy's eye*. "We haven't got anything but . each other, either of us: but here I am. lame so I'm no good to stl- about; hands a^ knotted up with rheumatics, so 1 can't use 'em. and you 'Jjrst spending lour days distributing milk, and sawing and splitting, which any boy with no such head for figures as you've got could do full aa well. How much did you earn last week. Sammy?” “Only three dollars. Uncle Hiram.” answered the boy. slowly. "YAj know my work i* always slack after tie summer people have gone. The judge and hi* family are going next week. Their hired girl told me to have Mr. Sargent make out the milk bill. When I went there yesterday morning the Judge was sitting on the ride plazxa. but he didn't

know me."

"Did you make ypur manners to

r with nervous qulckn<

He's forgotten all about me long

r farm. Sammy, if

seemed best for you to strike out to the

_ him, and give him a good Ipok at you. Sim try T' asked the anpW? anxiously "I mistrust you klntr of half-turned your head away, or maybe the sun

was in hls eyes."

'1 took off my cap the best 1 knew . how." said Sammy ; "but he barely nodded to me. He wasn't reading or

head!” suggested M

glancing up at the boy. and then averting hls eyes. "You recall how he told you he used to love to do thoee sums, sane as you did at

e mental * exhlbi

for a moment looking across the fields up to the hill on which stood the Judge’s house, its windows gleaming bright in the morning sun. "No, he's Just forgotten me. Uncle Hiram, that's all." he said, after a few moments of silence. "I'm Just one of snd I

n

e me a Mia L

Now I must run over to and finish piling her wood.

-stay here and read till 1 come at noon? The sun's good and warm

today.”

"You'll find me sitting in my castle, same as yon see me now." said Mr. I^uie. cheerily. "Pay my respects to Mrs. kapham. and tell her I wish she could get out to enjoy this beautiful weather, but I always think of what a rightly view she has from that south window of her*. I took special note of It that day of the town celebration when I rode past the house, three years

back.”

The cheery smile lingered on Uncle Hiram's face.till the boy was w»!| ont . of tight beyond the turn In the rdad, and then It gave place to a look of

£

f £

ing him," said the crippled man. turning his head wearily against the toll old cushion. "I know it Just as well as l! he’d said so! "If the Judge had shown signs of remembering him. Sammy would have plucked up courage ask him If there was any chance for him down below. Don't I know how by* kept at bis study evenings rhen he's been 'most too tired to sit ap? Seventeen years old laA week, and going to be hived up here all winter. and only Just earn enough to keep

the

Tire

_ Lane pounded on the ground

with his crutch In excitement, and reared away a squirrel which was on a

Journey to a neighboring elm.

"Poor little crqttnr". I didn't mean course of the moral

to fright you.” said Uncle Hiram, re- work grelfully; "but I juat recollect that - '

Sammy asked me If I'd full as

u and

11 him 'Sam.' now he's I've clean forgotten it

this minute! And he such a boy. and me such a drag on him. and forgetting peek an easy thing as ttat! HI get my mouth fixed for It when '

back. 'Sam.' Ill say to him. feam. I'm glad to set- you back. Sam: and. Sam.

had

I'll

Sam.' 1 reckon 1

practice It off and on the rest <•' the morning to keep my hand In." sal I

Uncle Hliam, wisely.

Sammy's thought*, a* he hurried down the road that led to the I-apha-.i juse, were not very comforting. “I'm' nothing but what the children call a 'tralri cat:' that's all 1 am'." ho said, bitterly. "Any other boy would speak up to the judge and make him remember, and perhaps get a chance. Uncle Hiram mind*, too. He's hardly slked about the old war-tlmta. when he na* a drummer-boy and got h.s wound*, once, ior the la*t week. Ha'd ratlfrr be In an attic In Boston and know I was working my way up than herein Moorby; there's noboly here he cares enough ahou^ to make him want to stay. And 1 might earn money enough to buy him a wheeled chair l>efore long. While mother live! I couldn t go. hut now I could." Mrs. iapham's house laced the south, nd a* Sammy entered the yard •>> looked for Mrs. l.apham'* smile at th • window of the room where all hir

days were spent.

She had been bedridden for ten years: the old sitting-room of her early married life had been changed tc her bedroom, and every morning before Mr. I^apham started for his "Harness and Shoe Shop" he dragged the bed close to the window. All pa*ser*-by were used to the Right of Mrs. Lapham’s pale face propped Into View by many pillows, and her Ihlmbie tapped many a summon* to enter on the low-

est right-hand pane.

There wan no face at the wlndov that morning, although, a*' Sammy drew dose to the house, he could sec that the bed was in Its usual place. Aa ho stood a moment irresolutely at the turn where the path branched or toward th* woodrticd. a man hailed him from a parsing • art. saying: "Hullo. Sammy! How's business with

you these day*? '

“Fair." returned the hoy. soberly adding under his breath. “I wish pie wouldn't call me 'Sammy!'

such a baby name!"

Thera came a tap at the window as the cart rattled out of sight, and Sammy turned quickly to **e Mrs. I,upham's face, white and drawn, at the

Wlgg—“Ho is a young man of

tild leave promise." . Wngg—"I prefer a young her lied, sir. Her husband pull* it up roan who pays."

1 ! tp the window every morning before • niobbs—“What did you do to the he goes off to work, so she can look painless dentist when he broke your out. She can see Just a irtrip of sky! Jaw?" Slobbs—"Threw him out of a

and tliis piece of yoot meadow; your paneJcss window.” -

willows and the old apple-tree are Tier \ Hoax—“That's something that could picture, all ihe ha* to look at!” never be construed as a singular coinThe Judge stooped to pick up a long ddence of birth." Joax—"What's blade of gras* a* the boy stopped for I that?" Hoax—"Twins." breath, but did not Interrupt him. Joltn OpUm 1st—“What's the use in being

stood open- —

In the Judge's me with 'em! They'

Roberts and the other n

mouthed behind their employer. "In the spring she watches for the very first sign of green on the old apple-tree," Sammy rushed on. never taking hi* eye* from the Judge's fare, “and »hc sees It. too. And then when the blossoms come, and are in full bloom, why. that’s her happiest time, sir. That long, straggly branch," the boy pointed to one arm of the old tree a* he spoke, "lies right sons* her win dow. sir. with the wlliow* behind It. You see. 'way acrors the road the meadow space between the apple-tree and the willows doesn't show: they look dose together, all In her pidurc." Sammy paused, and the Hush fauod from hls face. leaving U unusually pale. The Judge stood looking off across the meadow, drawing the blade

of grass through hls fingers.

"That's all. air.” faltered Sammy, "but—but I thought you wouldn't— icrhaps you wouldn't have the trees

sore about it? That doesn't do any

that's

r Mrs. I-apham has

o pleasi

g so sad about the trees.'

isure. sir. and

very

sbe's feeling i

'Tim! I'm sorry for that.' said oe Judge, turning hls keen eye* 'award the boy at last. "I suppose you're overran with pleasure yourself, aren't you —like moet of the reel of us?” "Sir!” hammered the i-oy. “Do those old willows over there come Into your friend's picture?” asked (he man. abrtiptly. pointing to a clump far along the llttlV meadow brook. "Oh. no. sir." said Sammy, quickly. "She can't see those at all" "Take the men orer there Robert*, and begin work at once. These tree* rosy stand as long as they're needed to make a picture for Mi*. Lapham." said the judge. Then, a* the men moved away, he turned again to the

boy.

"It's a pity you'd rather help run a milk route than learn to be an accountant." he said. In hls iormer curt tone. "I'm rather disappointed In what I hear of you now. I thought you had ambition." Sammy's fare grew scarlet again ard

good." Pessimist—"I know; what makes me so sore."

Closeflst—“By shaving myself all my life I estimate that I have saved over a »1000." Wigwag—"Ah, your

face is your fortune, eh?”

"Bigbraln expects to get a fortune out of bis new Incubator." 'Any great Improvement?" “Yes; it has a phonograph attachment that aays:

•Cluck-cluck!'"

Wantoneau—“Do you ever find anything interesting in t

appet

a fee of a hundred or ao In every one I operate upon.” Mistress—“What was the policeman doing in the kitchen. Nora?” Nora— Courting me. mum.” Mistress— “Then hell have to stop. I'll not let you make a police court out of ry kitchen." Sue^-'Pauline's father is quite a genius." Belle—“In what way?" Sue —“Why. he had a pair of recording scales attached to her hammock. If they registered over 130 he knew Jack had been sharing her seat.” Walter—“You'll find a broiled steak nice, sir.” Hcnpeck—"None for me. You advertise everything 'home style' In this hotel, don't you?” 'Yes. sir.” Well. I'm dining her# because I want to get away from borne broils.” Street railway superintendent—"So you -want a Job as conductor. What”expericnec have you had?" plicant—“I am a hero of the Spanish war." 8nperintendent-»-"How do that fit you for being a conductor?” Applicant—“Well, you know they, say none but the brave deserve the fare.” THROUGH GERMANY'S CARDENS. TVhsr* No Land Bans Jo and tha Fields l ook Lika Bed Qallt*. North Germany is a low and level plain, bearing the strongest, possible outward resemblance to a pifehwork bed quilt of the old fashioned log cabin pattern. The land is cut into patches no

n anxio " be sal

I thought you <1 forgotten all about me. and I didn't like; to say anything, and

out of thoughts about hls own trouble*, as he entered the house. There was no longer any doubt In his mind when he stood in the door way and taw the Invalid's great daik

eyes.

"Sammy!” she cried. In a high, strained voiee, "The men are at work

meadow, and he's there -y're going to cut down

all my willows and my old applc-tr-e. Sammy! John Roberts is there wTh ’em. superintending under the jndge. I tapped him in this morning Just alter j Mr. 1-aphatn had gone, and he told me.

Why. Sammy, it seem* as If those I grave young f

trees belonged to me! My view'll !»c ! "How glsd ahcH be. sir!” he aa’o. died, and It’s evervthlng I have ! "I don't see how I ran thank you—for

—I have ray uncle to support. Judge

Saunders."

"I never forget a face.'" said judge, briskly, “and yon can earn more money In an office 1 know of than you ever can here. I'll call to see your uncle this afternoon, and have a talk with him. Now you'd better go barV to Mrs. Lapham and ease her mind. I'm not sure that you wouldn't make a good advocate." he added, with a grim smile. "Perhaps I shall be defrauding the law if 1 get you start-1

in busincsn

As the boy turned to go be looked

up at the Lapham window, grave young face broke latn a smile

all spot . to look at. that meadow is. Sammy!" j her and for mysi

“I,ook here!" said the Judge, layh

iw,v*a "1 .[aft

quick sympathy. M suppo the mtadow'l! be better

f'Ycs'm. 1 know." said the hoy. with |

Jipofr he thinks

H_I]wi-.lout the'

I willows, and that the apple-tree doesn't [bear much of any fruit. He doesn't realise about you. Mrs. Laphair. th# Judge doesn't; I don't believe he fcvgn knows about yon. You see he'rf only here in the summer, and he doesn't wc much of us villsge people." added Sammy, gently. "It's an awful pity

Mrs. Lapham.''

“If he knew.” said the invalid, crushing her handkerchief

clast

i appose |__

Sammy?' Look! Here* where I s«e the bud* on that long branch first; and then the blossoms come, all whll • and pink, and then the apples. And the branches are lovely even wh.t they're bare; and yon know how they shine In the enow and Ice. I’ve ahown you ao often. The-road Is so narrow, how can the Judge help knowing ?bout me. Sammy? And the pillows shine so in the son after a ratit: 1 shall be gone before thdy could grow high enough for me to see them again!'' Sammy's face flushed a curious red

in streaks.

| "I will go and fell the Judge about it. Mrs. Lapham.” he said. | Even ready-tonguad people hesitate 1 to ask favors lightly of Judge Saniiders. who was counted Just but by no | means benevolent. Fear and excitement choked together in Sammy's throat. Many Ideas shot through the boy's brain as he ran along the rea l to -the break In the wall where the meadow bar* were down, and across the meadow toward the tail figure of tkc judge, t^t-more vivid!/ than all else there rose before hls mid the invalid's farm and it was the only spur he needed. “You may b#gin on that oldest apple-

tree.

1 have

WHlis. but I shall

tpham ace bn

loll

v I can

lelf."

11 be. bark In th* ring to so* how the

"Judge Saunders, please stop!" came a boy's voice behind him, and the Judge turned to confront Sammy's

flushed snd excited face.

••Whaf* the trouble, my ytmaj friend?" hr asked. In a curt tone “Where and ^hy do you wish me to

stop?”

hls hand on ihc boy's shoulder. “Listen to me. Take seven, multiply by tout divide by two. subtract five, add three multiply by eleven, divide by four, add two. divide by seven, multiply by s'*, divide by ten—and what do yon have? * The judge had rpoken as rapidly as hls tongue could move, but none too

fast for Sammy.

'Three, sir." came the instant reply,

Judge, calmly. T have three boys, and not one of them can add twelve and thirteen without a pencil and paper. Good-by!” When Mr*. Lapham. crying soft'y for Joy. had'been left behind, and a whirlwind' had fallen upon Unci* Hiram I,ane. and made clear to hls mind the morning's news, the lame nan set hU lips for a self-appointed

task.

"Sam.” he said, carefully, "you deserve It all. and, Sam. your old uncle Is glad. Sam. and from this day on. Providence permitting. I will never you Sammy again!"—Youth’a

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