Bobbie has been learning business methods recently, which may account for a bill which his father found recently upon the breakfast table, reading as follows:

New York, January 15, 1897.

Mr. Papa to Bobbie, Dr.

For not paying him his allowance for three weeks, at 25 cents a week.75
Interest at 6%.05
—-
.80

Please pay up!


AN ACCOMPLISHMENT.

"I can run faster than you can, Hal," bragged Jimmie.

"That's all right," returned Harry; "but I can stand faster than you can, and when war breaks out they'll think more of me than they will of you."