A Queer Change

It. ivas in the days wheii oü was tirst struek in Pennsylvanin tlmt one lucky posnessorof some valuable land sold it at un excellent bargain. lie liad loog had a desire to visit Europe, and as his present means enabled him to gratlfy bis wtah it was not long before he was on one of the ocean liners plowing his way to the Old World. He did England and Ireland in first clítós style, acquirins a fund of experience from contact, witü landlords and others that was certainly valuable, ü otüy for what it tost him to acquire it. Learning wliat he did at the pnce among those that spoke bis own language, it made him in a measure curious to see how the counterparts of these gentry would trait him in sunny Frunce and Italy. The few inquines he made did not reassure him that Gullic or Italian host were any less frugal or exactiug than tliose of the British kingdom. so that he not unnaturaüy judged froni past experience iliat so nmch of, his time as was not empioyed in sleeping would be chiefly occupied in opening his pocketbook and making various paynicnis and dooationa more or less just to almost everybody he was brought in con tact with. Wlitther he waa right ov wrong in thus assuming that everything went so long as it was paid for, he could not positfively decide for some time. The theory that it was all right had carried him through Paris and othor o? the principal cities, after visititi" v.iiich lie liad come to Marseüles. Here his eyes were delighted with reading the legsml a rather fair looking hotel tliiil EngliM) was spoken tbere. Entering ie found tlus statement only partly veri,ed, lis a li nowledge of that speech was onünecl te t he proprietor. Still as he had made out 1 itherto this v,is nothing of a hoek, altboagh he soou found the petty extortions practiced upou hini were The slightest service was treated in the light of an item for the bill. Opening a window seemcd to be made a memoraudum of by ;he offlciating.waiter, and handing him a light for his cigar had the character of a SDL'cial extra. This went on for abont half a day, when he liad au altercntion with an official vvhom Lie erroneously took for the man that blackecl the boots. As neither understood the other too well, the traveler, possibly miatakingthegarcon's natural vivacity for offensiveües8, knooked liim over a couple of trunks and down the stairs. In a moment up rushed the proprictor. "Mon Dieu, monsieur," he cried. "You have killed the waiterl" ■ . "Killed hira, did 1?" was the somewhat surprised auswer. "Oh, well, charge hiui in the WIL"