The Idol Of A Happy Home

llistory goes on to show that when u boy is sent after a hatehet lie u-.s ït along the road to peel stade trees or chop down picket fenCM, If vou seiul lnm tor a Dammer he eenerally batte rs up tomething witii it so that when the balance lias been itruck you lind that it, would have been cheaper to buy several new hatchets mul euth'ii in the ürst place. l.iot winter, however, there was an neiUent occurred in Colorado which changad the opinions of several people relativa to the average juvenile with ooe suspender, and a tin box of caterpillers la his pockcts. An old niiner askeü his little worthless 9Ón to go up the gulch and jfet a piek that he had lett near the trail and bring it down to where the old man was wording a prospect hale. The old man was a litile agitaled over the tact that he couldu't tind the lead, and he swore at the boy in au Impulbive kind of a way that was calculatcd lo niake tlie youth ny around and get hack during the Suinmer. But he was one of those prrrane kiüs who are not inuch appalled by profanity, and when he got the piek he began to whack it into the ground and tear up the virgin soil partly lor ïuu an 1 partly to kill time. By and by he dug out a corner of a chutik of rock that roused his curiosity,and atter spittiujr on it and wijiing it earefully on his pants, he looked at it with one eye closed, like an expert. vh pniH Sjo to jfiixoo ai tlie value of a mine. Then he took the rock back to the old man, and when the cruel parent was about to attack liim with an iron drill the boy showud liiiu the specimen. The old man looked at it and changed liis mind about knocking the boy jjalley wc.-t u he had at lirst intended to do. He went up the gulch and opened up a mine that he gold lately f'or $100,000. The boy is red lieaded and has freckles on his nose as big as a m ss agate, and his eyelashes are white and his teetb are put in crooked, but he is the idol of a happy iiome. When he puts a split stick on tlie tail of the family dog, or lilis the creuin pitcher full of young frogs, or makes an aquarium of the soup tareen, the parents eimply pass it by as an eccentricity ut genus, and he does aknosl ai lie Uk es. Tlie jarental heart is warm toward hini, and lis lite is one broad avenue of golden suuijrlit, adowo wbose vista be sof Uy ste&ls, ind the bright beanteoiis anlreNS holds lot in all lts inighly grip a ly whose orthy and freckle be-spattered face is ighicd wilh joy more peeullarly potent