tbrough tbe long hall and ushered tbe man into the old fashioned dining room.

"You are very fortunate in having so tnucb beautiful old furniture," their guest remarked. "In so many fami lies it gets scattered, but you seem to have a mine of it here, and the china, If it is the china"—

He stopped. Elmira was fumbling it the doorknob. She entered proudly ,< and walked across to the table, where | ?he deposited her burden. There were !

I pitcher, soieie cups and a platter, with a dull red pattern running over them. "It is!" he cried exnltingly. "Of course!" Elmira assented care lessly. "I knew it as soon as the pa per told about it and wanted to find the other pieces. There are move up Stairs, but this is all I could bring at once."

There was some more conversation and a search in the family Bible, and tbe man departed.

Elmira saw blm to the door; then she slammed it hard and fairly ran back to where her Bister was waiting and drop ped into the old rocker and began to rock violently to and fro. .

"We are somebody," she announced triumphantly; "we are big somebodies, Amelia. We can be Daughters of the Revolution and Colonial Dames and Descendants of the Mayflower and— and"— She was fairly out of breath.

"I'd cool off a little If I were you," her sister suggested. "Kind of slow up, can't you, Elmira, and tell me all about it? You know I couldn't go."

"Of course not, you poor dear!" El mira leaned forward and kissed her tenderly. "But you're a Josslyn just tbe same, Amdtla, and you've the looks tnore'n any one there. I always said you bad, you know.

"There was a lot there, and at first I felt kind of queer. And you had to tell all you knew about your ancestors to a man, and he had a lot of papers and seemed to know everybody, and he said I was very straight descended— that means you, of course, too, only you weren't there—and he wa*s talking about me, and he Introduced me to a woman and said something that I did not hear, but it made her extra nice to me, and she took me around and intro duced me to 'most everybody, and they was as fine % looking set of folks as I ever see, even if I do say it, and they're relations. "They've been having a dreadful time straightening out some records and try ing to trace some pattern that was on some china that came over in the May flower and was used in England before that. A lot of the sons had had whole sets made like it, and it had got all scattered round, and when they came to describe it it came across me all of a sudden of that box of crockery up in the attic that grandfather gave us and we didn't ever use 'cause 'twas so old and cracked. So I up and told 'em about it."

"Right out afore everybody?" Amelia gasped.

"Of course! Wasn't I as much a Joss lyn as any of 'em, even if my last name Isn't Josslyn? My middle name is, any way, and a person's middle name is just as much tlielr own as their last.

"Well, they were dreadfully interest ed, and I told 'em lots of things they didn't seem to know, and I guess they was glad 1 came.

"That man didn't seem to more'n half believe we bad tho china, so I just brought him out to see for himself. I guess the Josslyns ain't Impostors. He could see for himself." She turned her bead proudly.

"And that man Is worth $3,000,000," she confided to her sister impressively. "Three million dollars, and he's a big swell, and lie hasn't but one piece of the china with the Josslyn pattern on it, and that came to him through an aunt."

She glanced at the table exultingly. "There's more up in tbe attic," she said as she clasped her hands.

Amelia moved laboriously across the room, took up the cups and wiped them carefully with a fine towel. Then she took the teapot off the stove. "We might have a cup of tea in them to night," she suggested.

"I suppose we could use them quite often," Elmira said. "It's only proper that we should use the family china." She sipped her tea slowly.

"I've ordered a new set of cards," she announced, with a furtive glance at her sister, "and they're going to read Elmira Josslyn-Bumstead." There was a silence for a moment. "And I ordered some for you, too," Amelia," she added, "because we are both Josslyns, you know." — Atlanta Constitution.

A Bad Guess.

John Hawtrey was one of England's famous whipping schoolmasters. At Eton, in autumn, the small boys used to buy chestnuts and roast them in a shovel over the fire. One day a boy named F., who was a great favorite of Hawtrey's, had a lot of chestnuts and as a special favor was allowed to make Use of the pupil room fire while pupil room was still going on.

Hawtrey was going in and out of the room while we were working, and on one occasion, coming In rather quietly, he caught sight of F. kneeling over the fire arranging his chestnuts. The boy's position was irresistible to any lover of the art of chastisement. Not seeing his face and supposing it was one of the other boys stealing the chestnuts, John Hawtrey quietly took his cane from his desk and, creeping forward on tip toe, gave the wretched F. a most tre mendous whack.

The boy jumped up with a yell, his hands clapped behind him. Then the tutor saw who he was and said, em bracing him:

"Oh, my poor boy! I am so sorry I I •thought It was another boy stealing your chestnuts."

We, of course, were ail delighted and soared with laughter.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN; BATUBB\X APRTL 14, WO

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TO ALL MY OLD CLIENTS FARMERS, AND RESIDENTS OF ASHBURTON COUNTY. I BEG to inform you that I have severed my connection with the Canterbury Mill, which was under my management for over seven years, and have PURCHASED frotn Mr Edwin Thomas the WAKANUI ROLLER^FLOUR MILLS. The Canterbury Mill, which is the property of the Bank of New Zealand Asset! Board, is still trading under the name of Rcilifct & Co., so to avoid confusion with correspondence, I would like to ask you to address all orders to THOMAS ROLLITT^ WAKANUI ROLLER FLOUR MILLS, ASHBURTON On and after October Ist, I shall be pleased to supply you with first-class ROLLER FLOUR, WHEAT MEAL,BRAN k SHARPS, at loweßt current rates* FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF FARMERS DOING GRISTING, I have arranged to keep a supply of Floor Bran, and Sharps at the Stores of the N.Z. Farmers' Association, West Street,' whert Farmers, Shareholders or non-Shareholders can leave their Wheat and get Flour, Bran, and Sharps in exchange. THOMAS~ROLLITT, WAKANOI ROLLER FLOUR MILLS 9 285 ASHBURTON. PE ?!£* *r fwsa Sound the Ek PfiMH&ES OF I •I*l wbel iavAij c PORE CEYLON OR BLENDED