got her foot into something, and she
blushed and backed out, and asked the traveling man what keno meant. He
said he didn't know exactly, but he had always seen people, when they
won anything at that game, yell "keno." She isn't exactly clear yet
what keno is, but she says she has sworn off on taking advice from pious
looking traveling men. They call her "Little Keno" now.

THE ADVENT PREACHER AND THE BALLOON.

There occasionally occurs an incident in this world that will make a
person laugh though the laughing may border on the sacrilegious. For
instance, there is not a Christian but will smile at the ignorance of
the Advent preacher up in Jackson county who, when he saw the balloon of
King, the balloonist, going through the air, thought it was the second
coming of Christ, and got down on his knees and shouted to King, who
was throwing out a sand bag, while his companion was opening a bottle of
export beer, "O, Jesus, do not pass me by."

And yet it is wrong to laugh at the poor man, who took an advertising
agent for a Chicago clothing store for the Savior, who he supposed was
making his second farewell tour. The minister had been preaching the
second coming of Christ until he looked for Him every minute. He would
have been as apt to think, living as he did in the back woods, that a
fellow riding a bicycle, with his hair and legs parted in the middle,
along the country road, was the object of his search.

We should pity the poor man for his ignorance, we who believe that when
Christ _does_ come He will come in the old fashioned way, and not in a
palace car, or straddle of the basket of a balloon. But we can't help
wondering what the Adventist must have thought, when he appealed to his
Savior, as he supposed, and the balloonist shied a sand bag at him and
the other fellow in the basket threw out a beer bottle and asked, "Where
in ------ are we?"

The Adventist must have thought that the Savior of mankind was traveling
in mighty queer company, or that He had taken the other fellow along as
a frightful example. And what could the Adventist have thought when he
saw a message thrown out of the balloon, and went with trembling limbs
and beating heart to pick it up, believing that it was a command from
on high to sinners, and found that it was nothing but a hand bill for a
Chicago hand-me-down clothing store.

He must have come to the conclusion that the Son o Man had got pretty
low down to take a job of bill pos