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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. CEKfRAL HOTEL.’ El. LI.) AY GEORGIA. My hotel is neatly furnished and is first-class in all its ...//rtments. My rooms and beds are clean and inviting, and table supplied v\ ith the best to be had. Rates reasonable. M. V. Teem, 0-0-ly Proprietor. FAVORITE SINGER! Warrant*'* for.five Years. -LOW ARM “ C1TLY OMR FAVORITE SINGER Pro nit..,. Fancy Cover, Large Drauers, Nickel Rings, Tucker, Ruffer. Binder, Four Widths of Hemmers Bent on trial. Delivered In your home ffree of frisjrit charges. Buy only of Manufacti Manufacturers. si Aa^^^ ^jLrircuiara €4ot <3«»t New Neiv___ W fV clilrite o. and Testimooi&lsL Machine Company, 2S9 S. llth M.. Philadelphia, Pa. strong that we will sent*, treatment on trial. A >en<i for Treatise and fail particulars. Address, The Hall Chenv.tal Co. t 3360 f^lrmount Ki, % Phi(a., Pa :#MlinMiss' CAN be CURED, i ' win PF.N'D FREE by We mail a lar*;e TKIAL BOTTLE ; mm a»'. a trc.iti^e on Ep lc?sy. DON’T SOIFER ANY LONGFR! Give Pc*»Of¬ fice, Sute and Cour.lv, and Age plainly. AiiJiess, THE hall CHEMICAL I’ciuidelphia, CO., Pa. jSl, F„.rujount Avenue, 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.