Why He Smoked

Th' . bsoleto story of jf smoking tobáceo. 1. was in the time af Jamos the First, wboso dotostation of the habit and of the noxious weed he jonstantly manifestad ; lut it had no effuct apon the boys- thoy still whiffed nway fike littlo Whigs, toshow their independence of bis Majesty. In sRort, tbc dogs sraoked day and night, liko the kilhen ebiiimey of a tavern. This, of course, was ponoealed, as much as you oan oonoeal a smell, from tho Dominio; till one luckloss evening, when tho imps A huddlöd together round the firo of their dormitory, involving oach other in vapors of their own creation, lo ! in burst tlu' tnaster, and stoód in awful dignity before them. " How now ! '' quoth Dominie t.o tho first lad, " bow uaro you be smoking tobacoo?" " Sir," said the boy, " I'm subject to . and a pipo takes off tho puin." "And you? - and you? - and yoü?" inquired tho pedagoguo, questioning bTory boy in nis tuin. One had a raging tooth - another tlio colic - a third a oough - th; fourth - in short, tlny all had somothing. ' Sirnih," belhnwd tho doctor to tlie y, w!i:tt disorder -lo -■■ ■ SBBOke for ': " ' Alas! all the excusos wero exhaua wlien the interrogated urchin, putting down his pipo aftor a fiirewoll wlliff and looking iri-iwly in tlio Dominie's 'face said in a winning, hypooritioal tono : 'Sir, Colmaos " lianilom Records" '..o is rcspousible tor the following: Iu tboso daya of groat complaints of the extortion of railroada, it is refreshing i car of oorporationB that study tho t of their passengere. Nuuh an one, aöoordlug to J. W. Parker, is the iwcnty milos of roadfrora Jaoksonville to Wuyerley. A lady wishecl to got off the train to see a neighbor. They BW rs fiftfen minutes until she went up and found her friend at homo. Then she made up hoc tuind that she would reïiuiiu thcro ; whereujon tho conductor and brakeman seize her trun!-: and oarry itto the house, distan a jjuarter of a injle. Poi tliis pieoa of politenesB tho lady lotanied her thanks and u. paok of apTho railroad men aooepted both, and returning, dividod the apples i n the passenaers. One of the passongers had a noto that vas ovenlm on a largue fchetraok. The conductor stoppcd tho train, huntecl ur the man, they Bat down, reokoned the interest, paid the inonoy, and tho happy reoipieflt got on tin' train again, and it procëeded on its w.iy. ]!y tLiis time the applcs prosonted by the lady had been ooosumed, andas the train was passing alarbe orohard, the conductor stopped fot a third lame to allow the paeeengera time toflU their pockets. In answer to reJaatka that it was an eminently acQommodaling road, Ivp repliod : ' Ihifl is the accoromodation train, and wc do about (is the majority want us ■ i. il1 ih.v saystop, why, we stop." - This is an actual ooounrenoe. Oan any other place show bo aooommodating a set of railway offioiala 'r