ce, and no one
should know who the Committee is. They should keep their eyes out from
now till the time of the Fair, and they should compare notes once in a
while. You have got some splendid judges of girls there in Janesville,
but you better appoint married men. They are usually more unbiased. They
should not let any girl know that she is suspected of being the premium
girl, until the judgment is rendered, so no one will be embarrassed by
feeling that she is competing tor a prize.

Now, Boss, I leave the constitution and the girls in your hands; and if
this premium is the means of creating any additional interest in your
Fair, and making people feel good natured and jolly, I shall be amply
repaid.

Your friend,

Geo. W. Peck.

DON'T APPRECIATE KINDNESS.

One of the members of the Humane Society, who lives in an aristocratic
ward, had been annoyed at hearing sounds from a stable near his
residence, which indicated that a boy who had charge of a horse was
in the habit of pounding the animal vigorously every morning, while
cleaning off the dirt. It seemed to the humane man that the boy must use
a barrel stave or fence board to curry off the horse, and the way the
animal danced around the barn was terrible.

It occurred every morning, and the humane man made up his mind that it
was his duty to put a stop to it. He went to the barn one morning, just
as the cotillion commenced. Looking through a knot hole he saw the horse
tied so his head was away up to the top of the barn, so he could not use
his teeth to defend himself. The boy stood with a curry comb in one hand
and a piece of plank in the other, and he warmed the horse with both,
and the animal kicked for all that was out.

The humane man thought this was the worst case of cruelty to animals
that ever was, and he rapped for admission. The boy, covered with
perspiration, horse tail, stable refuse and indignation, opened the
door, and the humane man proceeded to read him a lecture about cruelty
to dumb animals, called him a fiend in human form, and told him that
kindness was what was necessary, instead of a club.

The boy couldn't get in a word edgeways for a while, but when the man
had exhausted his talk the boy told him that kindness might work on
ordinary horses, but this horse was the meanest animal in the world.
He would bite and kick without any provocation, and the present owner
couldn't sell him or give him away. He said that the only way he could