The Dark Side Of Things

Some pcoplc will persist in tking a gloomy view of everything. Thoro u a man of that kind living in I'hiladelphia. A noighbor happencd to drop in to sco him the othcr day, and found eyerybody livcly excopt the hcad of the faraily. "We are all tolerable, except Bob. Iïe is laughing and joking because lie is going fishing. I juat know he is going to oomo home drowned, or howling with a tLsh hook stieking in him somewhorel" "Well, the rest secm to be chcerful." "Yea - sorter. Jcinimy is jumping and .skipping about becauoe she is going to a candy-pulling ; but I know something will happen to her! I rcad of a girl here in l'liilailelphia, only lant year, who was eomíág homo from a onndy-pulling, when a drunken man threw his wife out of a window and killed her. ' "Killed who?" "Jeiuimy." "Why, no!- there she is ' " "Woll, it might hiive been hor if she had been on the pavement below whore the woman feil !" "Well, yon are looking healthy. " "Yesl 1 feil just liko the man dil who dropped dead in New York last week from henrt diease. He wiih in high spiritu, and had a irood appetito - and them h jn.st my yuiptoniH Í"