Why He Quit

-No. boya, i'm godog to quit- thta timie for good," said a ínelaiu-holly young man to crowd of cronies as thoy etopped him lo front OÍ a saloon and asked him to "take sometháng." "Ton know I have been ivith yon tor y-ars, and the -paiinini;' we have done lias giren thte town a vtrmiliom Inie. Hut I must tjuit now. It may go a little hard witli rae at firM, but n a ffliort while I gness I wili ix' atole to rid mywell of ail desire for those jolly reata and reveis that w have had together. "Yes, the resolution is a sudden one, but it is nooe the Vem Brm. Yon see, after I ivas married I quit yon tellowB for la long time and then gravitated back to you. It was not tliat I loveil my wife any the leas. I just iíot careles and 1'uoutrlitlrss. SomeJmw I seemed to think that since I MU provldtag her with all the material luxuries of life that she aoght to be ntttefled. l dlfln't intend to neclect her, you know, and tihomghi wouldn't care if I dld conie down town occaaionaüy at nifriit. ■ since these noctara) absences frorn home have lierome so frequent I notice that a changa has appeared in her nature. Her sparkling vivacity that used to eharm and electrify me eommenced to wane. StJll siie Btrivee to appear happy. Kut lio is not the ■noman .slie setl to le. Her face lias jp-own vi.n, lier cheeks have sunkcn a.mi tibe merry gleam has lelt her 'yes. When I nrise in the mornin.c: with reddened eyes and no appetite, sbe looks at me pityinly and luiers the baby closer to her bosom than I ever notieed her do before. "Xo, Jie has never spoken to me about it. You see, tïiat's the devil of it. If 6Ïie WOOdd pitch in and Rive me a toníruc lashing, her sorrowing look wouldn't ïnake me feel so like a dog:. .She just looks - that's all ! Oh, no ,she doesn't fear for herself eicepi as I am affected. That look teUs me pLiiner than words tliat ihe feels I am killing myself and will soon be lost to her. ■"This morninpT ',he told baby to kiss papa good-bye. Hiere was a stranjïo pathoss in her volee when she spoke the .words, 1 liat I never heard before. And thon hhe turned „nvay and bi-oke tato low cib-s tliat she tried to Iiide Irom me. Good God, boys I didn't .thhik tliose thinjis ever existed out öf novéis or off the stam1. That's .the re-ason I teil you tliat I have quit. I like you all, know you are splemlid fellown and t'liat you are my friends. Hut-- but- er- she's the best friend I ever had or expeet to have, aod- and- well, I'm going to be - be- her friend, too." The crowd disperaed. Nobotly took anything.- Washington .Star. Oto, tila i-inging in the ears ! Oh, this humming in the head ! Hawking, blowing, snuffing, gasping, Wat crinií eyes and fhroat a-rasping, lícalili inijjalred and comfort fled, Till I would that I were dead ! What folly to miffer so vrtth catarrhal troubles, "wüien the worst cases of clironic catari'h in the liead are relicvcd and eured by tüie mild, clea&slng and iüttíSng pro]ertie,s of Dr. Sage's ('atarrli Kemely. It purifies the foul breatlli, by removing the cause of offence, heals the eore nnd inf lamed passages, arxl perfecta a lastime cure.