Wanted to Settle

Among the passengers in a stage coach, stopped one day by road agent s in Montana, was a Buft'alo man who was out there to look over the ground with a view of establishing a elothing store. He was the last one out of the coach, and as he was ordered to hold up his hands he called out: "Shentlemcn, I like to seltle dis case like an honest man." "Keep your hands up!" "If I can'tmako anassign inent to my brudder Moses I settle mit you for twenty cents on der dollar." "You sluit up and shell out!" was the stern eornmand. "Shentlemens," continued the viutim, as he wriggled around, "I havo made threo iissignments and failod seex timos in peesness, and I nefer vhas treated like dis bt'foro. I sha!l uow oöer thirty cents on der dollar, und if jou daon' takc him i'll go iuto bankruptcy und my wiie puts all peroaah in lierpocket " Confideuco is that l'eeling by whieh the mind embarks in grent and honorable courses wilh a suro hoin and trust