He Had Faith

A young man about 2D years oíd was sitting in the waiting room of the Erie depot the other dav with a yearold baby on his knee, and his alarm and helplessness when the "young un" suddenly be?an to howl was so marked as to attract att(intion. By and by a waiting passenger walked over to him with a smile of pity on his face and queried: "A woman gave you that baby to hold while she went to see about her baggage, didn'tshe?" ■Yes," "Ha! Ha! Ha! I tumbled to the fact as soon as í saw you. You expected her back, I suppose?" ' Of coursa " Ha! ha! ha! That is rich. Looking for hor every blessed minute, ain't you?" "I think she'llcome back." "Well, this makes me langh - hai ha! ha! 1 had a woinan play that same trick on me in a Chicago depot once, but no one ever will again. Young man, you're stuck. You've been played for a hayseed. Better turn that thing over to a policeman and make askip bef ore some reporter gets on to you." "Oh, she'U come back," replied the young man, as he looked anxioualy around. 'She will, eh? Ha! ha! ha! Joke grows richer andi-icher! What makes you tbink she'll come back?" "Because she is my wife and this ia our first babj!" "Oh - um - I see", muttered the fat man, who got over feeling tickled all at once, and in his vexation he crossed the room and kicked a dog which a farmer had tied to one of the seat8