A Frank Confession

A farmer living in Oxford County, Iniiie, went down to a town not s housand miles from Portsmouth for the tirpose of purchaeiog a yoke of oxen, as ie had been ioforuied tlmt there wan a ot of very fine stock for sale by oae of he wealthy land-owneri ol that place. Arriviog in tbe best farming district of he Cumberland County town, our friend net a man driviug an ox team, of vrhom ie inquired : "Cn jou inform me wh.ore Mr. Wall eiides ?" "Tbere'i a numbcr of Walls live round here. Whioh one do you wish o fiod ?" returned the gtranger, who was a stont-built, keen-eyed man, babitd in homespuu, but bearing in general appearance unmistakable tokeni of ease and oomfort, so far ai finalices werc conorned. "I don'l know whak bis Chriatian name s," pursued our friend, "but he is the owner of som very fine oen." "Well," responded thestranger, "they all own pretty fair oxen." "Bot (he ona I wish to find has ozon br sale." "As for that, r, I guees they'd any f 'em sell if they oould get their prioo." "But," exclaimed the Oxford county man, 'the Mr. Wnll I wish to find is uite wealtby." "Yes ; well I reckon there ain't any f them very bad oft," replied the othcr vith a nod. "My Mr. Wall," oontinued my friond ïentatingly, "has been reprecented to mo as being a very close-fisted man, nnd ot scrupulously honest in all of his trauactioní"." With n eurifHis twinklö of tho By, nd a geotlo pat upnn the puiinch of his ear ox, ho said : ' To teil tho truth, ir, I guess they're a olose-fited set all round, nnd I nerer heard tiiat honesty u?ia in tho faraily. Isn't there anytiinijt ele f" "Ycs," replied the searcher for oxen, esperKtely, "they say he has been oaught n the act of robbiug his own brother's bicken coop !" The stranger bowed and smiled. "I guess I'm the man ; como vvith me, nd I'll show you rs fine a stock of catle as you can find in the State; and if ou know what oxen are, there's no anger of being cheated." A man aiid hia wife were opposing andidates for an offioo in Wjoming, and he odds soeraed to be in favor of the ïusband, bnt one morning he canie down ,rwn looking weary and Bleepy, and ormally withdrew from Ihe canvnes in nvor of his wife, who was triumphantly They sty sho kept him awako even nights trying to iuduce him to withdraw, and finally ouooeedcd. He ïad a bandsge around his head and one rm in a slingtho morning he withdrew. Ie says he woulil do any hing for a qiiict life.