A New Brand

une day last month.when trade was dull, a groo#ry olork procured a píceo oí' solé leather t'roiu a shoeinaker, painted it black ¦dud laid it aside for futuro use. Within a few days an oíd chap f rom back in the country carne in and asked for a plug of chewing tobáceo. The piece of sole featuer was tied up, paid for, and the purohasor started for home. At the end of the sixth day he rcturned, looking downoast and dejected, and walking into the store ho inquired for the clerk. " 'Mouiber tbat terbackcr I got herc the other duy." "Yes, air." "Well, was that a new brand 't" "Yes." "Recular terbaoker was it?" "Yes." "Well, then, it's me. It's right bcre in my jaws," sadly replied the old man. " I knowed I was frettin' pretty old, but I was allus handy on bitin' plug. I never seed a plug aforo this ono tfiat I eoulda't tcar to pieces at a chew. I sot my teeth on this ono anl bit and pulled and twisted likc a dog at a root, and I've kept bitin1 and pullin1 br six days, and there she am now, the same as the day you sold lier to me !" "Seems to be a good ]lug," remarked the clerk, as he umeTt of the counterfeit. "Sbe's all right; it'smothat's failiog !" escUimtd the ild man. Pass me out some fine cut, imd I'll go homo and dood the farm to the boys and get readj for tlio grave mysclf."