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T. 1$. KIIiIIV, Editor and Publisher.
VOL.
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
Superior Court meets Sd Monday
May ami 2 i Monday in October,
lion. Will J. Winn, Judge.
lion. George R. Brown,Solicitor Gen’l
COUNTY OFFICERS.
A. M. Johnson, Ordinary,
r. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court
L. Cox, Sheriff.
I. R. Kincaid, Tax Collector.
Locke Langley, Tax Receiver.
• las. West, Surveyor.
G. M. Rice, Coroner. ___
Co, ‘ rt oi Ordinary meets Ut Monday
in , each month. 3
town COUNCIL.
A. J. Hutchison, Mayor.
Seaborn Hill, 1
C. II. Foote, I
J. R. Johnson, / Louncilmen.
*• S. Tankersley. I
M. L. Cox, Marshal.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Methodist Episcopal Church Sore!,
Rev hvery 3d Sun 'ay anu sa'urdav bciore”
W. L. Singleton.
Sunday, Baptist Church-Every 2d ami 3d
by Rev. E li. Sbope.
Methodist Episcopal Church—Every
1st Saturday and Sunday, by Rev T G
Chase. ' *
fraternal record.
J. S. Tankersley, W. M.
W. S. Coleman, S. W.
•I. 1*. Cobb, Jr., J. W.
R. Z. Roberts, Treasurer.
David Gaisken, Secretary'.
8am P. Carmen, Tyler.
ELNA 7 HM I. COLEMAN,
A 1 T 0 IJXEY AT LAW
Et-LIJAY^GA.
Will practice in Blue Ridge Circuit, Countv
b loiirt, Justice Court of (iilu.oro County. LensJ
usiiiohs solicited, “fr 'inptiag a” is oiir motto.
np,_' T. a; dtmKSON,
Physician and Surgeon
ELLIJAY, GEORGIA.
Tenders his professional services to the
people of Gilmer and surrounding coun
ties and asks the support of his friends as
heretofore. All call* promptly filled.
fioffl Waldo Tfidintfln.D. D. s.
TiST,
CALHOUN, - - GEORGIA.
visit EUijav and !UorK*ntou at both th*
■■ bpriny and Fall term of the Superior Court—
) and often, r by special justify oontract, when in making sulfi -ient th*
work is Address guaranteed above. to me uiaiTI-iN
visit.
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THAT FIGHT
The Original Wins.
C. F. Simmons, SL Loais, Prop'r
M. A. Sim mens Liver Medicine, Est’d
11 Zetiin. ia tbe Prop’r U. S. A. Court Simmons ufiats Liv* J.
. Q,
li ,V. ..f A. v-Fator. S. Est’d M. by Zeilic 1S6S.
L. has for 47 years
■^vsrErsL'.g-icK ja? IxrrcrsTios, UkagacszL-ost Biliocsmss.
. rriTnA, !*ev. Sola Stomach, Etc.
T B. Reams, Pastor VI. K.
Juhink ICborvh, Adams, Tenn., writes: “l
I shoatd have been dead but
“ Ic Genuine M. A. Sun¬
* r v^ r
ni' r'W .ver Medicine. I have
. I sc-m«in-.ts haJ to substitute
‘Xt io.'f stuff” for your Meii
' cine, but it don’t answer Use
purpose.** Dr. J. R. Graves, Editor Tkt
1/ if till, Memph^Tenn. packa^bf rays: sa
1 received a your Live*
M- c.;-, aal bave used ball ot L
It wertshke a charm. I vraift ao
better Liver cer
L tainly so more ct ZeiUa'snAtaiek
THE
THE SONG.
Two maidens read together,
Alt in the AutumiTtime7
A little love-sick poem.
Some humble poet’s rhyme.
One glanced it lightly over—
“Oh, what a love-lorn wail!'*
One hid it in her bosom—*
She understood its tale.
There came another Autumn;
Oh! it was passing strange
If any year departed
That left no solenin change.
Ft Love, the tireless hunter,
b shooting night and day,
.tnd some of his barbed arrows
Are sui e to go astray.
Lke some lost leaf of Autumn,
Th' litt le rhyme once n>< >re
Was I dew's unto the maidens,
Who read it- as hefore.
But she wlm called it love-lorn
Crieu. And laujheA h p thaj«ig|i sweet „f youth,
! ca?trnwitjtnith.” verses,
n
So poets write forever.
And when ‘.be song is sung,
i’o half the heart* that hear it
It is an unknown tongue.
But Pain, the great translator,
follies by nod by- along.
And he interprets fully
The meaning of the song.
hJ In It heeler Hi/rua*.
PUT TO THE TEST
RV HELEN KiiRIIKST graves.
said “A Airs. crabaojilc MeYrywi.se, jellr-'-iko .loih iin
with tears behind
r spectacle glasses. “And j made j,
m.rsolf. affjcr the recipe you used to lik,
"nen vou v'-’.-c a ilttlo bov b,,y am ,n,l '
scarcely tasted it !” ~ ‘ ,ou vo
“It's very ni,L , uo i ller>
additional sunburned youui,’ \
with mont
an.r.f.’in
horse ami
“Going to s?
'aid Mrs. Merryiv
jenlousv.
"I'm going t,, asl. i„. r to gw
•hcstnniting lay, picnic '■'th me. next
mother.”
I won't lie of no ns:.,” or'tT.
•ji"kc Mis. .Merrywise, beginning briskly
to clear away the table.
“**f no us, 1 , mother? And w
shouldn t it lie of use?” ilciuaioted
thnm, stoimini. .-l. i,i ms shn
pink necktie half tied.
Mrs. Merrywise shrugged her pig
old shoulders.
v t iu must lie oliud, Jotham, said
she, not to that girl tl,e (
see every m
neighborhood is eicuued liewitehed with
ioat New Mexico major fellow, with his ,
gold shoulder straps and buttons, and his
little cap worn on one side, and them end¬
less yarns lie's always spinning about the
brave things he’n going to do, ami tin*
valiant actions he’s done! There ain't
never nothin’. I've noticed, about what
lie’s doin’ now!’’
••lie's a stringer in town." said Jo
rha;n, going on with the shrimp-pink
■ail's. “Of course ilievliavo to be polite
o him.”
I , w . ‘f . hht , ' ) vns s*mnger yet-and
rhere ain't no *of course’ to it as I know
of,” ret irted Mrs. Merrywise. clattering
• he spoons together with a great noise.
"All 1 know is that Honor Belknap has
quarreled with her young man Rbout him
iready, and Bessie Morton lias left olT
>ecpin' steady eompaiiy with Simon
>rk ney—”
“Hut you don't suppose that Eloise—”
“I s'pose she ain't mucii different
i'. sat olliei gn)..*' tnrtly Mi.. Mer
rywine, who had not yet forgiven the af
front of her jejly-cake.
Jotham made a feint of laughing in
credulously as lie jum|><.<i into the buggy
and gathered up the reins to drive away
But vvluMi he came insight of the Elton
cottage Ids heart -auk within him; for
there, sprawling comfortably in the piazza
liamtnoek, appeared an apparition in mi- '
drees uniform, witii :i gokl-laced c:tp on
the floor, and a good deal of well waxed
moustache visible. Eloise Elton sat
crocheting ou a low chair close by, and
Sadie, her elder sister, was hemming
handkerchiefs on the piazza steps.
Eloise colored a little, juaijied up, and
performed the cereinouy >f introducing
.Major Bathurst, of the -ih Calvary, U.
8. A., to Air. Merrywise. Jotham
h . >wi-d stid 'iv. Toe MXor neffded, aa/l
made a grasp at his cap.
“How de do, sir? <£jnd to meet you,
I’m suah!” simpered tBl* man of war.
“Merrywise! A good Lame— ha, ha. ha!
•It's well $0 lie merry and wise; it's good
to be hone-t ami true.' ”
“Vns. I know,” un. crcmoniously in¬
terrupted Jotham; “mi<i perhaps you
haven't forgotten the last two lines of
the verse, sir:
*' "It's w. II to Is? off with the *»M love
Before you are on with th" new*.'
**I ve ixilled. Kioise. to ask you if roll'll
go up Rattlesnake Hill with me, on the
chestnutting picnic, next Tuesday.”
Til*- Major sat up in his hammock,
pushing the |M rfun>isi curls from his fore¬
head.
“She can't—ha. In. la!" said he.
“ Mready i niyiy'i■*i. Mr. Merrywise.
Your humble servant—ha, ha. ha! Battle
snake Hill—is that the nanu- of tin
mountain? An odd name, very. Wi used
to have lots of rattlesnakes around when
l v.as qiL-irtert''! in West Virginia. Don't
mind 'em any more than snails. 1 law
you get used to the rattle, it's all riirlit.
I've a way of gripping Yin by the back
of the neck, ami hey. presto! out comes
your |sK-ki'i knife or your liamly dagger,
or anything you h ip(>on to rant, ami the
business is done! I don't know- how inanr
rattles and dried skins I have got at
home. You can easily charm the crea¬
tures, * 00 . once you girt the knack. One
of my men. a Hindoo, taught me."
•-indeed
“The simplest thing in the world—
<|uite the simples;,'' -a:.i Major Boiiur-:.
“i'll sliow vou. if j.mVI like."'
“Thanks' I needn't tr*ml>li y<«i."*ai*i
Jotham. frigidly. ‘ Tb< a yon won't go
with me, Eloise?”
CAI> OF BUST urn 1 vast concerns:'
J ^FF~irs fro FLucrm
—_
ELLIJAY. 9 . 189 ft
“I’m * ui ever i much M
Eloise, shyly . ® »ged,”
science-stricken, away. Eloise, ^f rar
io\U 1Sf co con
gate. bim to the
‘v. *• "“ jorp, "««'r
*id
“I “Humph'” eommett c>( ] Lot
wish you cbuld ....
stories he has “Wiling .
told us of ■ hunting
Arabia and elephant sli ot i n
gal.” '°8 « Ben
“I must try and dime. i
drily uttered Jotham. c with ... cm,”,
‘•And those dreadful skirn.w-.es with
Sitting Bull and his savage hordes, out
ui New Mexico!”
‘•Sitting Bull wasn’t a Pueblo brave,
tl.at ever I heard of,” said Jotham.
-‘-It was (Jeronimo, then!”
“Wrong again,” corrected Jotham.
I jwrhaps your Major realizes that it :
very necessary to be accurate in
! reminiscences, when women are
cerned.”
“Jotham. how can vou lie so unjust?”
flashed up Eloise. “My Major, indeed!
I ve a great mind never tc speak to vou
agaiu."
And it ended in Jotham Mcrrywise’s
inviting Theodosia Milner to go with
him upon the famous picnic party, whose
Tiieo was not radiantly rrs,sr
so pretty as
I ! f | >r ,K * r ’Lpither ?® lf but had sUe she ha so l much win.some, to say
‘ ‘ “
. ’kmg(-violet : sort of
'” :la, way with her,
! VV ! , ". b ? : V' ,U K ' t m,,M,u 'r there was some
thing wise'........* lutiilitciy , lestinl to .Irali.-^-Aia-.^
lls one better.” !
“Nice phi-e this inountnm,'” said .
Major, “but it isn't to be compared with
t i 1( . sierras. Ami as for evergreen-forests
I just wish you had seen tin womls at
|, :l ke Mistassini, where 1 ramped
i-r. As for rattlesnakes—”
Al that moment a piercing scream rent
toe air. The. Major jumped up from the
tree stump where he was sitting, a sar
dine saudwielt m one hand a wedge of i
ii arble-eake in tin other Two imrddle.
some little lads li.nl pried a moss-enameled
rock from its resting-piaee. it fell with
a resounding crash down the steep mount
aiu side, revealing a most startling siglit.
*'eorge, a nest of rattlers!
s ].o„te.l George Ikicey.
Thc little grmi;) scattered in all ilirec
tions. One or two girls fainted, the
children van away; an ominous sound of
hissing lilted the air. Jotham Merry
wise sprang from liis seat at Theodosia
Milner's side.
••Hello, Major!" said he, “here’s a i
opportunity to try the back-of-thc-ucck
knack. Or you might do a little snake
charming—eh?” Bathurst had turned very
Tttu Major sandwich
pale. He dropped hwsardine
ami took promptly to his heels, speeding
ilovvn tin* mountain like a practiced
runner trying for the stakes.
Klcise had sprang up. too. blit on the
default of her eavnlier, stood there with
dilated eyes and crimsoned cheeks, over
come half with iudiguant mortification,
v .ith terror.
“It would almost appear,” said Mer¬
rywise, picking up a convenient jagged
stone, “as if the valiant cavalry officer
was afraid.”
••Kill Yin. somebody!" bawled Major
Eatimrst. from the bottom of the hill.
“I've a constitutional horror of snakes.
My mother was just so, and my grand
father on the Bathurst side. If you’ll
just step down this way, Miss Eloise”—
_ a tardy sense of Ills social rvsponst
bilitics—“I'll see that you are protected."
“1 need not go so far as that to Ik*
protected," said Kioise. haughtily. ‘'You
ran conse back. Major; Mr. Merrvwise
’
has killed the rattlesnake.”
“Got bitten? Whisky’s good foi
that—<>r a red-hot iron to cauteri 7 .c the
wound.” shouted back the Major. **f
IV1 latter go for the doctor,
Tie re ain't a second of time to be lost!’"
Ami lie vanished, leaving Mis* Elton
t * return from the picnic ground as best
-he might.
“Au old rattler ami two vouog ones,
eu ?*’said Si|uirt* Elton, when he came
! nun- the next evening. “And .Toe Mer
rywise killed ’em all, ftid he? Well,
sooner lie than me. It take-a good
of straight out pluck to tackle a good
old . fashioned _ rattler, such as used to
grow- 0:1 Rattlesnake Hilt, though I did
sup|M>se they jot were all hunted out long
am'. But ham's one of the kind that
i-nt't easily scared, rhi the Major showed
'em a clean )wir of heei«, di«i he? Well,
I ve sort oi mistrusted that fellow all
along. IIis big stories were somehow
too big to Ik- true.”
The coward!” cried Eloise “to
leave us all to perish! He need neFer 1 “
come here again!
fAVeii. 1 don't think he will!'' chuckled
the Miiiire. “I saw 'em pilin' a big trank
up on the stage as I pa>~ed the hotel, ami
m. initials on the end were *B. B..'
which l take to lie -Basil iKithurst.* with
a *U. S. A..' in extra big letters, painted
nimvTiicnth. Ily-the-way, The' Milner
is going to have that snake skin cured
ami mounted f.*r her parlor cabinet of
curiosities.
• Tiieo Milner!" repeated Klo;se. red
den ing tie- roots of her bright auburn
.
I »4££i? i>air. „ ui _ vTkb it.
Iquire.
Thej
Eloise Elton Z, cheeks
and ; pi, fire.
■ eyes thatYe! 3*
« be
dizzied by the Jj Jtfial F Tv
Are works; j -
fhani. she W
and this w« rt” said
“Why deep, EL,^' ‘ to her
ai ' V
CVyj . agi What she rc
a liiugifith littl. lattempt liit sand id
a of
m niy “It’s on light now!
I’ve “What just b Thera!
“And I’m- sure I| w'ltit
all my heart!” i rou
“For what, I^oi’se? 1 1 Eloise.
“Your engagement t
ner.”
lVTlhiET OF fun
SKETCHES VBOV
H,'MO HOI'S SOURCES
VARIOUS
“TST*. —■
« “ - ‘
—She Was Duplicate'll— **.* r
lion-;Not to Ktf*.
Oiiiic Appropriate,
“But I’m not eng*; Ip
happens” her, as
i “Isn’t “Yes; she but to be married^,
not tome—
down at the sawmill.
: he engaged, Eloise. :
“ Ii 5'?“?T 3 < ,eak
A ““wererf
!*? * 1 1 t ^ , 4 rou *
" ,s
™
Bathurst.”
about “Not the half so ridiculousil
nest of ftittiers,'
bygones laughing. “But wme,
be bygoipw
TO ! j d nn ew!”
And And , Mrs. Mrs. M M Merrvw. ,,
a daughter-in-law,
yings about Major Bathurst.—
U.
are bad
!"itiir bride
, undergo
I Ls affections
parent ■»
to tiie
^do not
kievita
. pro.
krile
ipr
,eir niissTl
lie mam who ssrssion^__ sect
speak m.-complishiufes. of hi 4jrio T'l?,”
lewling' flints.
^ ; i|Iriintei 1 at thcKi;
j- io%vs n-fmetory *nd runs avk mug
‘,i le ringlets of her hair as dires.
The female embassadors, luivi^L v»oi.‘ the
consent of the parents, drag Leg from her
concealment and carry her by three to the
kousie of her destined huslme.r and t here
| cllv( . her. She » coinpelli >^^rted. ii to live here
<,.v, v;d days, silent and refus
ing final, f 0(M l, till till at at last, last, made^|iibmit if if- ntreatir s
„ ot 1MVV aiL she is Karfr' bv.
u , 'Hie who ha’s
j| 1( , |^.|,ntnti,m of iiaving cnmniitt hI a
number of murders of Mohammed,n* en
j ( ,,. s exeoptional privileges; fco anlex- A rc
sjweted by all the neighborhood, prf»
pnenees little or no difficulty in ur
ing a wife. The Kaffir woman L.droomed
to a life of toil and drudgery wlmlever .land the
husband can discard her he
feels so disposed. ------% J
A Case of Cow anil 1
‘These Western jieoplehave a
humorous way of telling unpler
haven't they? ’ said Captain
ton, a welt known Westcliest
business man, to me « few days
‘How is that?” I asked.
“Why, l just received a letter, which
is IS an an illustration. iiiusinunm. 1 * used u*si to kngw *.t,ii n fcl
low, whom I will call Charlie* I-amon.
when I was a boy up in the Stijte. Wc
were together * " during • -— the •* war* -..... In - the
same regiment. He was a hnppy-gn
lucky sort of a fellow then, but I did not
think there was any bad in hint. After
the war he settled down in the upper
part of the city and followed Iris trade
as butcher. A few years ago he went
(Vast and, while we hadn't lxen
intimate, he commenced writing to me,
and as his letters were very interesting I
kept up the correspondence. The las'.
letter I had was from Burte agi-Jand (fit) fie
That was about two years
wrote that he was in grexi Ir.s bie and
was going to Southern California, and
said not to write to him agaiS until I
heard from him. I never heard. A
few weeks ago I decided to writ^ again,
and I sent a letter to the Marshal oi
Butte City asking where he triuld be
found. The letter I got read in this
way: ‘Your friend found a cow. Then
be found a rope. Ii 1 . 1 t was two year.
ago. and I don t think you il ever find
him
“That was all. but it would have
j sounded a good harsher if he had w-rit
ten that ( harlie was lynched for . ittli
‘ stealing, wouldn t it. AY if It’d Star.
“ ■
Bismarck* _ Last Cigar. *
Wlut Bismarck did with his las- cigat
at the battle of Konigratz Dr. Kohut in a
! recent work has allowed him to jtell in
his own words.
“I hoarded my last cigar durR" the
battle is a miser ho-u ds h is tre i-fePT I
painted in glowing COliiSMhe i^Abtful
hour wrhen, after th* battle 8®t was ikJftli 1^ I
could smoke it inp*se* ?F>l»Ieri -
calculated. I saw. a poor
1 dra^-.'A. He lay there
less, less, with with both arms smssfci
wuimpere*! for some kind of relhf. I
went through my pockets but onaii)
only niouey. and that would not "V Vjf
him. But wait; I had still a fine tjgar!
This I lighted for him aud stuck i; fec
tween his teeth. You ought to Tiave
seen that poor fellow's grateful snile!
No cigar ever tasted so good to tie at
this oue which I did not smoke.”
A fifty-year-old grai«evine growi ic
Germantown, Penn., on a trunk which
measures two feet ami a half round.
isfaction FOUJOTH; >
SAT Bea U
Mother—‘ ‘Tommy, I J
thrashing in schoo J ^ tcach ev
Tommy— «*» is getting so old
U( .
rS the next bloc^ « “ uW to ”
heard it on do toat.
Why did you the
a-J +r\ make OW
Rome
you're w heezing and sneezing,
When
b, manner most stunning.
a
InRourv^^-hedloiv, Sumls full vf woe;
And give intimation,
Kolks mucWHnformaMo^
Aud often yoxxxe^
I'or full youVe got a r
UiVhy, S „„.
.
ARITHMETICAL.
W.-..DO ?» «*""* I
dog
to
ae."
him
—Ycr
York Sun.
tiif whole family.
l .. ;
.
T'ooker Priallcv—“Whom dill you marry?”
Tii iker- “Milly Joiu-s, her ntotherd^lJ
and .......
1 l<irj*r'v, liuzur.
is it
__ __ cooking
yic to
wc first lu
tji'm
TO Ilf? Diiri.kmCIP
Ti le •fkiMUfli'.* I'giVxiiy excited)—“Don't you
knavv. fitrs get ids e-e-eane* 1
' fiead fast in hi^inoiith, ami c e-ean’t gel i
it out
Yamleri loly'i—“Can’t it In? du
plicated? Yiele—“Y-Y-Ycs, hul * IS-II-Ujffie
can’t.”— Purl-.
ipuTi; APi’iioeiiiATE.
“J noticed.” said old Misfit, ns lie i
walked out of church after service, “ilia!
the choir made «>i honest acknowledge¬ '
ment in one of tile responses?”
“Indeed,” said Mr. Penholder, “in
what part of the service was that?”,
“Why, when they all said ‘we are
miserable singers. —Yonkert fiuzetit.
, NOT til* BOXANZ.A.,
' “Will you be mine, Miss Bullion?”
asked, Gi*ofgc.
“No, George* I don’t waul to benny.
Iiiidyie mine," replied the lady, with a
„-..b wnr ■
And then George called a' meeting of
his creditors and effected, a,compromise
lor two cent* on the dollar. —Ifmi•ey's
MtUjj. ■- ■
IIE KNEW WIIAT AILED HIM.
Wife—“The doctor says that if it is
yoltr stomach tliat is trouhlin*} you. you
must take some brandy; but if it is vour
head, yonjnust let tV brandy alone."
ffi-1!’ 1 ho'fni^ny m!»re rim’r shalM hale 1
to tel! you that my illness is wholly con
fined to my stomach?”— YtntkeeMhule.
^ . A MARTYR.
Johnson—“There are martyrs now. as
wclTas iff the days of old. I have in
mind ’ youml who is' Veritable
a r-.iau a
BmeteAidfWtftifry'iii.'lAyr. It js Oliaflie
Smythe. Know him?” .... - •;• t
Jackson—“Tliat^iluile! Whut.Nlgj.a
martyrjfb? “To styleHe •- liardlj ew*“yitif ubfifla.^ ,
for fear his |i»uts wilLfeg knees: ;
— }Yr{« Bl/tth. . , .
-•—v 7“
CHANCES'.' , ,
HE took NO
She—“Spc-ik «jUt,*Mr. Prudence, if
fpn have a*iythii:g|f> sif.” . . , . ...
He—Nee. thank •¥»«. T ^ re 'j
• r
phonograph l.uLamdemshe center tabl*.
your .little bn,tUiw^niLer the ? !a; the*
lured girl I- bstetauAit tin*. keyrnd, amt
doui*t' as to tfoe.'yfh/lrtaboois- of -vij ih
father. Moil. ,. .
EXTREMELY CKOBtKLE.
Soft pate—-“Wbatcher think of the
dawg, - Miss Sprightly? Pirn: dawg
that.”
Miss Sprigh; jy—,-TT.- is a spfe’ndid
creature.'" - ■ * * '
Softpate—“I have refused a cool
sand foh him—fact. J aastire y..a. Vi ould j
it *urpti- j.'on if I toid jiwt dawg knows
as much as T do: ’ *- '' *1H ! !
Miss SprighHy ~ _ at -V.
Amerind. •' " j
. -
_
-—-—r -
, ALiricATfoNs. -
XNK.v ttT« t*«
Old Gentiemati < iudigmtntiy)—“Well,
rir. whst are you doing around here
agiin? I thought tliat delicate hint I
gave vou just as vou left -the frout door
fast night woiibi give you to understand >
that I don't lik.- yon very well.'
Young Mac—“It did. lmt 1 thought J
would co;ne and ask
• ijkek me wSiit?" •
“If you wouldn't lik’ to join our fowl
IrtU ussoeiatioc - J "—/W*» Haetat.
no words, young man. /^“Xs^dear
WITH ^.Uat-atbemaUerwith AN KVK. TO BUSINESS.
Downey
that watch?” cleaning.”
.lcweler •But , 1 U u) ,, ,.leaned last
Downey
week.
DoS-* you.h«W; 1 'i W T fc\U*\v> clou t
understand Jeweler-“Oh. ^
Dovvney^'nid von i*vcr look i'i
\
COULD be misaoKU.
He—“Du believe there is any
the adage that a mm is known
truth in keeps.
■ i )V tlic company he its truth
1 * she— “Certainly. "«
i illustrated every day- rnystii, HW \ I in
1 _u| believe m it
tcudto act upon it- . f it is good
She—“A wise resolution, if
like 1 to keep. !«*«„•»- y, i/, ”” * - w ,
siiiiV'Tt' eovild ........ managed
uo doubt be
!„tl<m Coni Ur. _ -. /
Struggtogr Tint ^ n". y 'i< t ‘2_,i^gby. De Poesy- last
1 u K ,kWas your
e^eriems a sm-eess?” • that it
book ‘ j^o-o, can t say
S .‘Published popular uovol, perhips !
a
*^Co.** pl
._vii. then you have wri tten a y■
|,:.ve always iilhhe: held tli«t playwriflftiP h
ttm tLe * form of art, was r
thele-s---”
“I have written no play,
You haven't? Where did tiiesc flue
clothes come from! How did you pay for
that handsome turn-out?”
“I have al land oms I literature, and I'.m
peddling clams."—A- .r Turk ll< ! hj.
I’lX's \s A KEOI I.U: W1ET.
Little Girl—“Du folks always die Unit
swallow pins?” they
Mother—no, but art* not
considered good for food, and sometimes
they kill people grandmother
i.ittle Girl—“1 heard sav
that sjie had eaten lots of them and liked
them so much anti that they made her
fat.”
Mother—“i guess not. When did she
say that?”
Little Girl—“When we were down
East to her house last summer.”
Mother—“But it was nut pins, was it ?”
Little Girl—“Ye<, I’m sure: some kind
°*
Mother-*-*' 'bai¬ Oh, yes. I know mnv.
Terrapin 1 , you mean." -1 At roil .A«o««/,
‘ \ SIXTEEN CKIi CENT. IMVIllKXIl.
The directors of tie* llamville Savings
Bank le-M a meeting the other day. am•
when they lent looked over tlu* books
and counted tin* cash, they sent for flu
cashier in considerable agitation.
“Mr. Steel,'"sjtiiltbe chairman,”we cti
iustitution because the bank ^ with which
you were formally conm*ted, yon assured
ns, paid sixteen per cent, dividend as tin
result of your management."
“And so it did, sir: all the depositors
got -ixfecn per cent. I mean when we
wound up. I Ix'lieve it's about the best
savings bank liipiidation 011 recorl," and
the young ofiieial smileil blandly a- In
looked’aroiiin _____ 1 for *iic**essful contrailic
The,disretors.gazed at-each other for a
moment, aiul ,tly*o a'LiouniisI with tin
tfloughtfnI and ab-tr icted appearance of
driegtitiou that had got ou the wrong
alnl wer>- thinking of tin- bc-t
statiou to get off at.— Jtrule's Magaiiut.
' *- • '___
Touching Glasses.
TurecuMOm among the German- ol
(n-fore drinking arose
^ ()f th( . , mwlia . v:1 ,
' -l i ,cup'
] Uu{ tho uati(>n v OT UJ
^ % - «»•• ^
ad were -of one mind; but the ’’loving
pup" was of necessity so large as to lie
unhandy. In place of this, smallei cops
and glasses Were- given to each, and the
tradition of the “loving cup’’ was pre¬
served by the elicking of tile glasses.
Tlte custom of having smaller glasses for
each is -said to have arisen Bom the assas¬
sination of King Edward. It was then the
habit of the Anglo-Saxons to jxass around
a large enp, from which each guest
__
,i rjui ^ ; . he who thus drank stood up,took
t |, ( . large.veseei in l>oth haud'.and raised
it to his lips. As he lifted: the cup his
body was exposed, and this occasion was
seized by treacherous enemies to murder
him. This «laugi:r le*i to the adoption of
the plan that. a- one ilrank. liis next
friend was resjamsibie for his safety dur
ing the act, and usually arose also aud
stood withdrawn sword
_ .---—
Memliers of the Iowa tribe of Indians
r well off. They have been re
duced in number to eighty-three persons,
have W0.000 acres of rich farming
land, which they are to sell to tiic Gov
. rnmtnt—an average of ovir 2|"0 acres
each.
OUTTOOUDAURTMAHVa 1
M d «. ».r,W
It alt comes back so clear
TBougu I aul the lane
nut bv the barn lot
We patter along in the dust age -
tips of the drips of »*«*>•
AS light as the Mai
Out to old Aunt > »•
Wecross the pasture, and
Where the old gray snag U opped
Where the hammering reil near. .
And lol.eil Out and to eirckdi«J <
‘“Xi3£..... u«—
=s==s u
“TS.....—•
STLu, S-rs
And, O mj^^ wahsbMlay J| ! '
l’o ,ecp welcome this m-w.n^;XX us. Aunt ^• 1I > " .-Toll
As well
^^X^iM Aum lWn'/eoni/' Mary s Uile'J
—,/<ours
AND P 01 S 1 .
blowluru The late hurricane,
^ great i\it$ clown is a dry
The thirsty
truth of a
bear Story. tsa£ Arc
liable to have shatterc
JiT KvmthinK Sfol .«U" * U..,; «•
That gets rattled.
Wlmn the ofliee seeks the man, you
w.*ri,u■->;
i, muh-iUii^ lie ,l ’™ 1
wiis ri
Authors ofltMiFi r _
it a paying business, for it enables llu-in" _
to live oil the fat of the land .—JtuUimoii
Ameriean.
Little Freddie (to sister’s caller) --“It
must be awful nice to be a man. Don’t
you wish you were a man. Mr. Nobrune? ’
— Yankee Blade.
He wooed lu-r and sued Iter mid sought her
Till lie melted her heart so eohl,
Then lie married the iceman's ihtugiit -r
Aud now h« is rolling in eohl.
—/inslnii Courier.
There may lie as big fish in the sea a*
ever were caught, but wc doubt vciy
much if there are any ns big usMhosc
claimed to have been caught.— Siihs
man.
My Lucy's eyes
Are summer skies
Whene'er her heart is light nml cheery,
But when she’s sad
The weather's bad
And all my skies are dark and dreary
—Chieatju llri altl.
Fortunes in Glass Jars.
A number of gentlemen were ad¬
miring the display of beaut it til and costly
chemicals made during the session nl
the National Wholesale Druggists’ Asso
ciatiou. “Why does that cost so much?'
inipiired one of the gazers of Chemist
liurty, who stood near, pointing as In
spoke to a six pound jar which bore tin
laliel “Hom-Atropine liydrobroniate,
cryst.,” valued at §3100 for the quan¬
tity displayed, or per pound.
‘■I have paid for a few grains of that,”
said the chemist, “at the rate of sixty
cents a grain, or id'■?•*•• a |M»und. Why
does it cost so much? In the first place
the basis of the cost is in the labor anil
skill required to produce it. Beginning
with the plant from which this is nli
tained. belladonna leaves, the lalmr id
extracting aud presenting this form id
the active principle, atropine, is almost
interminable. Perhaps from the la-gin
ning of the process until th*- product i
in hand one year's time ha- clapped, li
has gone through a series of processe
that even to attem|it to follow in th*
mind would drive one to distraction
After the product has l*een obtained it
must be taken into account that there is
but a very limited demand .for it. That
chemical is used in eye praetiec for dil
atiug the pupil, and in that one liottlc
thcre is enough for all the earth and for
the inhabitants of any of the other plan
sts whose eyes require treatment. It is
the limited use of many of the chemicals
here displayed quite as much as the diffi¬
culty of production that puts them upon
priee currents at such high figures.
When the demand gets to lie great the
price rapidly declines. cocaine
“Take, for iu'tancc. (pro¬
nounced ko-ka-een), which a few year
ago sold at nearly §50<i an ounce and
now sells at §5 an ounce. To pharma¬
cists ticlong most of the credit of haring
brought it into use. It was the phatina
cists who made it aud who employed
men in the hospitals to ni ike eiimeal olj
servations upon it. Tin- result of the-'
investigations were distributed among
pharmacists and druggists ail over t!i>
land, and these in turn did more than all
other agencies combine I to bring p'iv-1
eians to notice and employ the new
reineily. In fact, these dealers fairiy put
chain- upon the necks of the physicians
aud dragged them up to the remedy."—
fu.tin o u if Jix J'. : . r -I
Tli* French army officers are now all
amici with revolvers; during the war v>
167U thc-v had none.
