Church Keno

liile most of our traveling men, our commercial tourists, are nice Christisn gentlemen, tlicre is oecasionally one that ia as full of' old Nick as an egg, at ihis time of the year, is full of malaria. There was one of them stopped at a country town a few niiihts ago where there was a churoh fair. He is a blonde, good-natured looking, serieus chap, and haviog stopped at that town every mon'.h fora dozen years, evcrybody knowa him. He always chips in towards a collection, a wake or a rooster fight, and the town swears by him. He attendcd the fair, and a jolly little sister of the church, a raarried lady, took him by the hand and led him through green fields, where the girls sold him ten cent chances in fawdust dolls, and beside still waters, where a girl sold hioi sweetenod water with a sour stomaeh, for lemonade, from Rebecca's wel!. Tho sister finally stood beside him while the deacon was reading off numbers. They were drawing a quilt, and as the nu tubera were drawn all were anzious to know who drew it. l'inally, after several numbers were drawn, it was announced by the deacon that number lificrn drew the quilt, and the little sister tiirncil to the traveling man and said : "My! that is my number. [ havo drawn it. What shall I do?" "Hold up your ticket and shout keno," he said. The little deaconess did not stop to think there might be guile lurking in the traveling man, but being full of' joy at drawing the quilt, and ice cream because the traveling man bought t, she rushed into the crowd towards tho deacon, holding her numbor, and shouted, so thoy oould hear it all over the house, "keno!" If a bank had burst in the building there couldn't have been so tnuch aütonishment. The deacon turned palé and looked at bis poor littlo sinter as tliouifli she had fallen ('rom race, and al) the churcli peoplc looked sadly at her, while the worldy-.minded people snickered. The little woman saw that she had ot her foot into something, and she blushed and backed out, and asked the traveling man what keno meant. He said he didn't know eractly, but he had always seen people, when they won anything at that game, yell "keoo." She isn't ezactly clear yet what keno is, but sho says she has sworn off taking advice froni pious-looking traveling men. They cali lier Little Keno now.