A Damaged Eye

There are some people who have no imagination, but cling to the literal with pain ful assi i n i tv. Jim lihiisilull was one of these, and his happy faculty of . things seriously lost him an elegant wife. Jt was this way. Colonel Lafitte is a Southerner and very sensitive, especially about his general appearance, whieh is quite distinguished. He rather liked Jim. and Jim doled on the colonel's daughter, and was a foregone conclusión ia the family that Jim would win the girl, as the i'ather was on his skle. One day the eolonel took Jim out to ride behind his cantankerous Kentucky mare, and she kicked the dashboard of the buggy into smithereens and landed both gentlemen by the roadside. This wouldn't have been so bad, as neither of them was hurt, and the colonel was doing the driving, but Jim had to discover a fracture in the colonel's right eye and he began at once to make a fuss about it "You're seriously hurt, sir, " he said in Ijs most sympatheticmanner. "Xothing wrong with me," snapped the colonel, who was looking for the mare in a dazed sort of way. "But your eye, sir, is badly damaged. " "Xever mind the eye. Help me to catch the critter." "1 must insist on bandaging your eye first, colonel. Why, it is a blurred mass and I greatly fear you have lost the sight of it," persisted Jim. "Look here, you young fooi," roared the colonel, lican't you attend to your own atïairs. That eye, sir, is glass- do you hear - glass! glass!" And that is why Jim didn't marry the colonel's daughter.