How Would Sal Look?

ago a young m ,u in Uarson gotmarned and started for California with lus young wife. Ilis father badehim good bye and gave him the parental blessing "My son," said the aged sire, shakinj with emotion, etc, "remcmber these words if you never see me agaiu : Never go into a place where you would no fake your wife." Qne day the old man went down to visit thera. He proposec a bear kunt, and they were fortúnate enough in tracking a grizzly in his lair among some of the boulders in the chap paral. As the two approached, the bear roused np and sent forth a grow of defiance which shook the trees. "Go in there and kill 'im," said the old man excitedly. "Count me out," said the son. "llave I crqssed the seas and set tled in America to raiso a cowardí1' shouted the father, brandishing his gun. "I recollect your advice when ] lef t Carson," was the reply, " Didn'i you teil me never to go where I couldn'i take my wife ? Now, how would Sa look in there with that bear?" The ok man clasped his dutiful son to his bosom, and as the bear issued forth ex claimed: "Speaking of Sally, let us hasten home ; our prolongad absence might cause her needies alarm." Ir about flfteen minutes they had reachec the ranch, the old man a little ahead, and the distance was four miles. In Assam ordinary coolies on the tea plantations are only paid 5 or 6 rupees a month, and the total co3t of raising and shipping every pound of tra doe not exceed 31 cents.