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MISCELLANEOUS.
she had ‘
arrow kept in her quiver.
“Your son, Grantley goes aver the hill to
the Burdock's prejty often, Mrs. Webb,”
Raul she,
i don t know it if he does,” replied the
°
‘Naturally ^ he wouldn’t ... X*. tell you until
last, after old Burdock’s quarrelled with his
father, ” said the neighbor—“but
everybody else knows. It’s said to be a
settled thing. ssjssst’j Why Keziah saw him r: kiss
even
motionless at the door. ’
It was some moments before she even
thought of going in and casting herself into
her chair, but she did it at last, and fell to
t?. hemlt iU thiS Wi9e
<. b it s worse than anything that ever
happened to me. I’ve had trouble, heaven
knows, hut it was the kind I had to bear
sent it, hut this doesn’t seem right,
My Grantley to marry Steven Burdock’s
the child of the very worst enemy
his father ever had, a girl brought up by
woman I despise! Sarah Burdock never
had the ways I liked, nor did the things I
right for a woman to do. Every
thing is so different with the Burdocks, so
Like ought to marry like, or
never be a happy home. But that’s
way with men; a pretty face strikes
and away they go, and Grantley is like
rest. W liy should he choose iSarah
Burdock’s daughter ?”
She rocked to and fro as she spoke, letting
neglected knitting drop into her lap.
‘I here’s fanny \\ bite,” she murmured,
( nice, thrifty girl; and Minnie Holm.
her mother is the best friend I have.
are plenty of girls I could have made
my mind to; though I don’t know why
should marry anyone yet. But
Burdock, with her showy ways, and her
and graces, 1 never can welcome her,
never. I must go away and live by
myself if she comes here to lord it over the
; and her mother, no doubt will come
sit and talk in her foolish flighty way;
the sisters will sit in the parlor win
and take Up the table. They’ll be
t iiw, at! make nobody ofme.
kiiuw 1ub inu’rL 4 my (\ri\ntley ooils
But it can’t he! It
Just then a foot struck the floor of the
the window raised a little, and
tin*aperture came flying two let
One a yellow, vulgar-looking missive,
other a little white envelope with a
upon it.
The old lady looked up.
The postman, who had thus easily deliver
his letters, looked over her shoulder, and
and nodded at her as ho hurried
with his leather hag upon his arm,
she put on her spectacles to read the
The yellow envelope had only one of
circulars with which tradesmen of all
are in the habit of flooding the country,
white one was not addressed to her,
to bet son, and the monogram was a
very pretty silver and blue A. B.
“Ann Burdock,” said the old lady. “It’s
a note from her. Now, 1 wonder what she
written to my boy ? I’d like to know,
It’s very easy opening these envelopes.
as if they were sealed; and what
harm would it he for a mother to read to
a letter to her son ? I’ve half a mind to do
it. Only he'd be angry, maybe. Well,
then. I’m angry too, and with more
Yes—I will.”
A little old-fashioned copper kettle
and bubbled upon the stove.
A little spirit of steam arose from its spout,
The old lady looked at it Then risimr
she crept across the floor in a guilty sort of
fashion and held the envelope with its flap
close to the mouth of the spout.
She held ft for a few moments, and then
softly touched it with her thumb and finger.
It was quite damp, and one fold peeled
away from the other very easily, and there
lay the little note in her hand.
She might read it if she chose; if there
were secrets in it, Miss Ann Burdock
should have secured them better than she
could with the little touch of mucilage the
maker of those envelopes had bestowed on
each one.
Mrs. AYehb took off her glasses, wiped
them from the steam that had gathered
upon them, and still standing, opened tlie
sheet of paper adorned with a monogram
like that upon the envelope, and read as
follows :
“Dear GrantleyYou went away
angry with me on Sunday evening, and
said that if I would not take back what 1
had said you would never come to see me
again. And 1 was ton proud and too angry
to say a word to keep you. But Grantley
dear, I’m sorry for it now. You were in
the right, and I was to blame, and 1 take it
all back—every word I never meant it.
You are so downright you think one
mean all one says, but indeed I never
it. And so forgive me and come
next Sunday night. I find that life
be a very sad thing for me if we
quarrelled. l ours forever,
Ann.
“So!” muttered Mrs. Webb,
her teeth. “It has gone so far, then;
-ne lias been showing her temper
angering Grantley. Well, if he has
enough to .stay away one week, h*? ii
spirit enough to stay altogether,
Then she gave an angry stamp.
“Why do I comfort myself with that
she said. “I know this letter will call
back toner, and he’ii be more in Jove
The Democrat
Vol. 2.
“She droped Ann Burdock’s letter upon
the fire. There it lav, a black ■»,<!
shrivelled fold of tinder, as her sons step
sounded in the hall, and she covered it from
sight with the kettle.
In came Grantley, his face bright with
^ the outer cold,
®°Ming 5 0U rself on fire, mother ?” lie
asked. “I smeli something scorching.”
“It’s notroy dress,” she answered, and
busied z&zz herself ssjzt*- with the teapot, and - •***
the bell for the tea-things.
with an eager look in hU face.
“No,” she answered faintly. “Bid you
'
expect one?”
“Not I,” said he, his brows contracting
“ But 1 met t!,e P° stra!U1 the hill,
m and he
called out to me to hurry home and get my
love letter. IBs joke, I suppose.”
“It was impudent of him," said Mrs.
Webb, not daring to meet her son's eye.
“That’s a love-letter, is it ?”
She tossed him the tradesman’s circular,
He glanced at it and put it down,
How sad he looked. What gray tints
there were about his eyes and temples!
How thinner he seemed than he did a a week week
,,r so ago!
Was it all that quarrel with the Burdock’s
girl ? Would it have been better that he
should had that monogrammed note?
The mother put the thought from her.
She spread the little store of dainties be
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Mre her sou and tried to make him eat;
Ms ■Hid and tliouph though questions, slip she host had Lon*» been frightened j "by X
she could not help ap
proacliing the dangerous subject herself.
“Are you going out to-night ?” she asked.
“No," he answered : “I think not.”
“The neighbors were telling me you
went over the hill to the Burdock’s rath 1
often,” she went on.
“Well, if I have, mother,” he answered,
“that is no sign I shall go again.”
“Well, there are better places than the
Burdook’s” said Mrs. Webb, “and I thought
you’d never think of a girl whose father
quarrelled with yours, and may the evil
temper of her mother. She's a flirt, toe,
they say .*
Then s\ie bonne,d qat of the r.li.l
v\iaesrau6 «®im- wick >^-*uinu-y had gc.
upstairs.
She hoard the hoards of his bedroom
iloor creak as he walked up and down for
hours, but she did not sec him again that
night.
“Well well,” she said to herself, “lie’ll
ITt over it.
But whatever the feeling was, love anger,
grief, it did not agree with Grantley
Webb, lie grew thinner and thinner, lie
took less interest in that which went on
around him. lie. avoided all the other
young people of tin; place, and seemed
to have neither youth nor spirit left;
Could it be all about that girl Ann, old
Mrs. Webb asked herself, trying to cheat
herself into the idea that the boy was only
iff
Butin vain she made him warm possets
and howls of herb tea. Even if he had
drunk them, which he did not, for they all
went to water the grass of the orchard—
even if he had drunk them, they would
have done him no good.
Only one thing could help him—the only
tiling that seemed to him impossible as he
sat at his window, staring through the
starlit midnight at the roof of the Burdock
dwelling, never guessing that under its
eaves Ann Burdock sat, at once angry and
sorry, thinking of him and none other.
He had not answered her note : he was
unfoigiving ; hut she had vexed him, She
was partly to blame.
T,le Mdy in the ruffled night-cap
wl ‘° lrf ten started from her sleep i«i the big
front bed-room of the Webb home with a
dr ‘‘ am of |ptters Mat curled up into tinder
over th « red coal—had more on her con
science than she knew.
Fot though Ann grieved she did not wear
lu ' r ,lpart l, P on her sleeve, but was out¬
wardiy gayer than ever, and flirted as she
never had before, until at last the same
neighbor who had brought the news of
" f Orantley’s love affair to his mother,
'Mopping into tea, gave Mrs. Webb and her
son a !,it of Kossip as they sat at the table
together.
‘‘Ann Burdock is going to be married at
,
“I believe weddings when I see them
now,” said Mrs. Webb.
“But Mrs. Burdock herself, told me tnis,”
said the guest.
When she was gone, Grantley, who sat
before the tab)a still, with his elbows upon
M dropped his head upon his arms, and
there was a sound of quick breathing,
For a little while his mother watched him.
Then she. went close.
“Grantley,” she said, to a trembling
voice, “wliat is it? What ails you? Tell
me!”
“I’s only that I’m a fool, mother,”
answered,
“But—Grantley, what about! IIo
up his young, worn far— then, and
swered—
“Mother, don’t you know? It’s
Ann Burdock Its been very hard to
^ 1 ut ,l,i j £ <iots i... .f. ma ^ I r -' thin *">'<*«* Aft e
worth having.
“Life do^sn t a em worth having, if
have Ann l r * the mother said, in
puzzled sort of wav. “But why, what
therejnher?”
1»’
Crawford ville, 25,
truth iboit \ ,fn W let him know
“Grmtlev dear-she falt«r«l ’ "vm, > ou “ vou v
hada nuarrel
“Yes,” he answered
-But if she had written to beg vour
pardon you’d have forgiven her ?”
She almost hoped that he would say
“No"—that she need not go on.
But he answered—
“Yes—but she never wrote.”
"r sr
It—it
think you cared so. You ’see it—it fell
into the fire.”
“Why did you not tell me before?"
cried Grantley.
“Well, 1 somehow didn’t like to ” was all
the mother could say. “And why don't
you go ask her abo^it, and see what it
was?”
Poor Mrs. Webb, when her son, after
many questions, had taken her advice,
cried bitterly. She might have felt even
worse had she heard what Aim was say
Mg.
The story had been told, a reconciliation
effected, a declaration made to the effect
that Mr. Millet had never been loved.
And then Ann Burdock said, with a laugh—
“But Grantley, your mother burnt that
letter on purpose. Only a man could
believe the story you’ve told me. She did
n °l want me for a daughter-in-law. 1 owe
her no grudge—remember that, and don't
tell lioi* what X say **
Grantley never did. And old Mrs. Webb
has often been heard to say that Ann
Burdock lias turned out better than could
have been expected.
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Auction of Young Ladies.
An interesting and novel experiment
is to be tried soon in one of our churches,
"'Mch is as original as it is successful
in the purpose for which it was insti
tuted. The object of the institution to
ite treated of is to raise money for
church purposes, and a more fruitful
so .free of revenue, Httsssi* in connection with
me K »t
idea from some churches in some.of our
Western cities. The modus operand!
of the game, as it may be called, or auc
tion, is about as follows : All the young
ladies are mustered into the service, and
are completely ,^ enveloped by the auction
eer j n s i )et K0 as ji re vent their
r l 8 ' hv hy mo means ms of or tneir their dresses uresscs.
I Mar then pretty faces, like those of the
lmklsli ladies, are completely veiled
pillow-slip or something of that
sort is drawn down over it. They are
permitted to have eye holes to look
through and mouth holes to breathe
through, but nothing more So they
have ‘ them dismiised ' entirely hevnnrl re
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ceeds to auction ( . them off as partners
for the evening to the young men, and
even to old men, if their wives will per
mit them to bid.
The bidding is almost sure to lie live¬
ly. At a recent Western auction of this
kin d, the lowest price at which a young
Mdy was auctioned off was one dollar
and a half. The fun in the thing is the
young men don’t know who they are bid
ding for, and the unveiling of the rnaid
e ns is looked forward to with great ex
f. oectation The ‘ P cent has ' to 10 attend dUU ‘ U tn
1 '** , , , * ' U ™‘ 8 J , ,
to see her home at the close of the festi
val.-i ittsburq Leader
$50 for a Wife, and Credit at That.
Baledonia county’s sensation is a
wife-trade between Noble C. Smith, a
United States whiskey detective, and
Marcellus Colby. Some few years ago
Noble took unto himseif a wife from
\\ est J»urke. a comely lass, who in the
absence of her liege lord, fell into the
way of admiring Colby. Colby, being of
a mercantile disposition, concluded to
gain the woman of hi3 affection by
diplomacy and trade, and soon a bargain
was struck. Smith agreeing to take and
accepting 810 in cash and a note duly
signed and indorsed for 840, in consider
at ion for the wife of his lxisom. Mrs.
Smith consented, and bag and baggage
were transferred to the domicile of
Colby. The note matured, but was not
paid, and discovering at the conclusion
of a justice trial that the consideration
was not a valid one, and that he
not recover, tie determined to
revenged, lie went before the
Jury and complained against Colby
adultery, suppressing the business of
transaction. Colby was indicted, tried,
and convicted, and on the nature of
transaction being made known in
State’s attorney determined
prosecute Smith, but be is not to
f oun( i .—.Jiutland Corresixjwlenee
0tott
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President Bascom, of the ....
of Wisconsin, comes out emphatically
of the mixing of girls and boys
' ’toria Comparatively
Poor.
j“?srs=ras
btato 4
Her nt ie, whatever it may be, has
come were matEftthe fromjdie.ous Prince mvestmenta Consort. which Ho
waS favesteV* * nio.rf^acious 1 directions business which man, have and
yielded luc^we returns. You have uo
idea what ^JP ststo up an es
tablishmei H’Wheu Dr. Langley was
Archbmt- mww entitled to
j livings wife yield was nearly £200,000
per annum.and yet such was the
pense of tl orchiepiscopal position
he died it .penury; and were it not
that the (.fen secured the admittance
of his daug’-er to Hampton Court, she
would bavuieen without a roof to her
head. ThtUarquis of Bute has an
income ftcj his estate of £500,000 a
year, but ».auch of this has to go back
to keep up ita estates that his actual
net incoin-, less than a twelfth of this
amount. ■» the case of tho Duke of
Chatwort, X) servants sit down to his
tables, ami hey in turn have each a ser
vant to wf on them. The same thing
prevails ewywherc, and applies to the
Queen as. i all others.”—Cor. Cktca <jo
Titnt> '
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Take An Ex^j-iniental t\ empty Telephone.
oyster cans and a
stout smish string. Let a mnnll holo
be made 4- the bottom of each can,
through Gch tho string, can say fifty
. hund feut
or a '* in Mngth, is passed
and securd. Then let the experiment¬
ers set Hi their talking telegraph by
choosing Ktr’ched j nr station as far apart as
tightly string will permit, and
while one if tfie operators holds one of
oars > one of the cans, and his
coiiipanioj eudif hi* mouth to tiie can at the
other the line, they will find that
a cqpversfion can be carried on so that
Mwrir aid even a whisper, will ho
Hlatuir. • ^ceptilile. What usually
astoj; vi who make this expert
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the person speaking at the other end of
t lie string,' hut to issue from the can
. .
> .Held to me eat , or me
k 'tener. 1 his at first appears to be a
deception, but it is really so. Tlie ear
tells the exact iiuth. J Jio voice oi the
s l ,(, nker communicates sound producing
vibrations to the walls of the win with
which his voice is in immediate contact.
These vibrations are cumniiinicatcd
G>e string, but so changed that tiny
no longer affect the ear. A person limy
stand by the string while the sound is
l ws 'Mig, and yet hoar nothing. At the
°tM‘r end Vf the string, however, these
bidden vibrated produce themselves as
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Battled. |
Charles H. Smith, a Telegraph opera- ;
of Munster, Illinois, was returning |
New Year’s night from a party,
walking along the railroad track, when
on the middle of a trestle
bridge twenty-five feet high, he was
by an armed tramp, who forced
him to throw up his hands and surrender
Ids revolver, 800 in cash, a valuable gold
watch and some jewelry. “Well, old
boy,” said the highwayman in delight,
“you are, pretty well heeled,” and lie
ordered his victim to hand over his
ulster, dress coat and vest As Smith
took off his vest he watched an oppor¬
tunity, and with a desperate push hurled
the robber from the trestle work upon
the ice twenty-five feet below. Ilurry
ing back for assistance, on bis return
) je found the highwayman lying sense
less, seriously if not fatally wounded,
())1 the ice, with all Ills plunder, and the
man was soon in jail,
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A romatic story is told at Cole-brook,
Oonu., of a couple who were divorced in
Ohio seventeen years ago, tho husband
coming back to live with a sister in
Connecticut, A few days ago the wife
that was, learning of her husband’s
whereabouts, came to Colebrook, drove
up before his door, and sent in a note
asking if he would receive her. lie
respond ed by coming out to her with
open arms, and they are now enjoying a
second honeymoon. JJnrt/onl lirn'i.
* '
A few days since Mr. W. Miller, of
Uniontown, who keeps a pack of fifteen
hounds, captured an earless wild hog in
the mountains of Fayette county. The
animal not oniv has no auriculat -d 1 '
pend ages, but no orifice in the head for
the admission of sound. It has also but
one eye, which, however, islarge enough
for two, being nearly two inches in
diameter. The animal weighs about
one hundred and sixty pounds, and is
ferocious as a bear.-Pittsburg Dispatch,
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Ben You has made 8100,000 *,r» m
cigar trade in Han Francisco and
turned to China. Don’t you wish it
Ben You?
No. 4.
Industrial.
They raise vegetable tallow tn Aus
v. milliner,
The production of tea in India has
reached million pounds recently,
Reading car shops are overcrowded
with work, the men working twelve
hours a day.
Mobile lias three times the population
it luwl at the outbreak of the war.
A florist on Fifth avenue has a sacred
palm tree ovor five hnudrod years old.
Three thousand sharks have been
caught for premiums at Melbourne,
The Western woolen trade is reported
generally fair.
Tuscaloosa, Ala., cotton mills are
now regularly at work,
Fort Bend, Texas, sugar crop runs
two hogsheads to the acre,
Owensboro will market 25,000,000 lbs.
of tobacco this seasou.
Shipbuilding is improving in the
East, but coutiuues dull gu the Pacific
coast.
A Louisiana Sugar Planters’ Associa
tion has recently been organized at Now
Orleans,
A Capital of 8500,000,000 is ropre
sont«l by tho National Steamboat A»»o
of tho United States.
Georgia supports 99,415 cauines, who
during the year ending April, 1875,
destroyed 28,025 sheep.
The acreage in wheat in East Tennea
soe the coming season is exuectcd to
excel any crop ever raised in that section
of the Stato.
Great Britain’s largest contribution
to her revenue is Bass, tins brewer, who
averages 85,000 for every working day
in the year.
Charleston shipped 20,170 bales of cot¬
ton last week. Sixty-six vessels were in
Hie harbor last Sat urday. Duo ship for
Havre took out 805,088 pounds of cotton
Tlle American girl is a success at cigar
Three thousand are now at
TPO,dt * n the co-operative shops of the
^ ew York strikers.
H * 3 estimated that it will take 26,000
,f ” tt0 m “ bales. f 1 ™ ,) lo 1,0 **•
The premiums offered liy the Connecti¬
cut State Poultry Society are worth
85,450. The exhibition will be held at
New Haven, January 9 to 12 inclusive.
It is estimated that 5,000,000 cans of
lotimloes coru, etc., grown and packed
in the second district of Maryland, will
bo shipped from Aberdeen and 1’erry
uiansvillo this season.
Twenty thousand oil wells have been
iVunsvlvinia urnl Vin/inia “ at
an aggregate cost oi 11 , id, 000 , 000 . J be
lias reached 88,000,000 barrels,
valued at tho wells at 8500,000,000
or 8100,000,000 at the seaboard.
Tim population of Richmond, Va.,
lms doubled since the war, and her
manufactories now number 301. The
H ahw in 1870 reached the sum of 822,424,
K0U , her wheat and corn mills producing
82,857,000, her forty-one tobacco factories
12,038,300, and her iron works 82,038,
'The Dallas (’Texas) JJertilil paints
gloomy pictures of the labor market in
that city. It says : “Every fresh ar
riving train blit adds to tho miserable
multitude that suffers, starves, and final
%1'ts its way hack East again. Be
fore the door of nearly every house there
daily begs a swarm that would sadden
the hearts of a satyr.”
Promptly Hang-ed.
A schoolmaster m Lucknow, Indiana
has recently died a martyr to the theory
that “discipline must be maintained.”—
A boy returned to the school after play¬
ing truant for several days. The school¬
master locked him up in a small room in
which there was a large snake. The
child cried, “A snake ! a snake I” and
begged him to open the door. The
schoolmaster kept the door closed.—
About noon the boy’s father came to in¬
quire after him, and on opening the door
beheld the snake near the neck of the
dead child. 'This little incident created
so strong a prejudice against the school¬
master that liis loyalty to the principles
of schoolroom discipline was forgotten,
and he was promptly banged
. Holne5)0 ,- )y Pnteri ll lhc c liurcl\ at
Foxville, in this county, recently, and
; stole the doors belonging to the stove,
tLfcjr<A>y rendering it worthless. The
0D j cause possible to be assigned why
r0 gues didn’t take the stove is
| it wag U)() hot What j# tI)is nati „n
C oming to, anyhow, wiien even the
(i()0rs ot a churc |, stove are not safe from
iril p ioU3 i, an( j 3 ?_Fredre* (Ml.) Times,
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We always admired the cheerful and
hopeful spirit of the colored man, who
, when struck by lightning, simply rubbed
the abraded spot of his skull, and re
nirl1 , ° . t .. ‘^ , f ief llnrH r
’ 1 ,n ' y(
, been struck , ; now I shoold’t wonder «
it let me alone.”
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Hobsm s r f ho ice—-Min. HobeAn.
THE DEMOCRAT.
ADV'ERTISIXO RATOS s
One Square, first Insertion S 1
One Square, each suliseq dent . , ,
One Square, three insertion ‘ 71
One months . 1* «•
Quarter Square, Column, twelve months . . H w
Half twelve month* . , to at
Column twelve months , .eve*
One Column twelve months . uw os
,
t-if~ One Inch or Less considered aa a
square. We have no traction* of a square,
all tractions of squares will be counted m
squares. liberal deduction* mad* oa Cow
tract Advertising.
A smart thing is a mustard plaster.
A great hardship—an iron steamer.
The first thing in a Liot is the last.
Noah’s clock went on the first Ark
tic expedition.
When Oliver Wendell makes a joke,
its Holiues-pun.
Cross-ties—Married couples who do
not agree well together.
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A proper use of the poker is a yrat*
help to a struggling fire.
“Let’s codfish around,” is tho Black
Hills invAMion*to dance.
Two widowers in Perry county, Tuxt»,
married each other's daughters.
An old bachelor in Boston wants to
adopt a girl baby eighteen years old.
Is it quite correct to suppose the coal
dealers necessarily belong to the ton t
Why doesn’t Sweden have to send
abroad for cattle? Because she keeps
her stock-holm.
“At last I have found an opening,”
he exclaimed, mid tumbled through the
coal-hole into the cellar.
The poet Wrote of the “Patience on a
monument,” but the physician’s patients
are generally found under it.
As a politician the cut is a success.
Nono can beat him in his efforts to
maintain a position “on the fence.”
It is said of a hank nipt Michigan
firm : “The schedule of liabilities is
fifteen feet long, assets very small,”
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A wag suggests that a suitable open¬
ing for many choirs should lie: “(>
Lord have mercy on|u» miserable singers ”
“My Lord, wo find the man who stole
the mare not guilty,” said the foreman
of a Welsh jury when giving In the Ver¬
dict.
Two energetic young ladies nave
charge of the Forsyth post office, and it
is newlless to remark that they have full
control of the mails.
A Nashville man answers a Chicago
advertisement, “How to win at poker”
and received for ids two dollars the fol¬
lowing : “Hold four and don't poke.”
IVhat is the difference lietween good
news and a newly married couple ?
There’s no difference. One is happy
tidings, and the others are happy tied
’uns, too.”
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A man out in Western Iowa lias lieen
sentenced to the penitentiary for ninety
nine years. lie thinks it is tho longest
sentence on record since Mr. Evarts
lost his breath,
What is the difference between a
person going to Plymouth church and
one about to ask a lady a favor? One
is going to see Beecher and the other Is
going to beseech her.
A young man sent sixty cents to a
Grin ini Michigan who advertised a re
to Invent had dreams, lie re¬
cwv< * 1 a w! 'J' of l’ a '* !r on whicU WWI
written ; “Don’t go to sleep.”
When 1 ?
“Charles Henry Cooper, are you it
negro?” asked the court of the thick-sot
vagrant.
“No, sir!” was the indignant reply.
‘T low long hap that mud and soot and
coal-dust been accumulating on your face 7”
“Is It any use of a ragged and penniless
feller like me washing my face?” queried
the man,
“When did you set down to a table last,
Charles Ilenry ?”
“I duniior”
“When did you comb your hair last 7”
“1 ditttnof”
“When did you sleep In a regular, lawful
tied last ?"
“1 dunnor.”
“When did you last have a five-dollar
bill?”
"Ust spring. I guess.”
“AU around.”
"Charles Henry Cooper, you were one#
somebody’s darling, There was a time
wl| <-n your childish was like heaven’s music
t0 a fon,t lm,lh er> ear*- You use to be
rockcdi " a lilt,e ,; ratllc, and angels use to
Wk'fqlri
Henry and then ga/.e *m yourself now!
No angel with any self-respoct would hover
within a hundred feet of yon!”
“Can I eat cold slsp jacks, and sleep In
barns and look and act liken gentleman?”
pretested Mr. Cooper,
V ou can t, and thirre s no use tryin *
Go to th « rwrve Mr four
; months and study thf* ways of the ant.
< ^Couldn't suit me I>ctt«*r if vou'd gin mo
j a ferry-boat!” muttered the man, and he
went in and figured the April nuns would
I come out icr»n afo-’i him. Wm
Pr-*»