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A KNOT OF RIBBON.
_ , , my°frk-nd ° l.
No more, -ADd yet"-day you)
1 “Kitiooth it with such tcuder touch.”
“A Ktary, ahyou "thought sis
And yon would have me “tell It here:
Jtay know just bow"—(thedeuce: yon say:)
-it is himself.- is«!<*re!
Your hand,okt toy- Not, not from the.
This story would | now concent,
l ujucihnI it with aKoft tsanm
Put yuu'tl not blame me if you knew
The one that wore the ribbou blue.
“Sbe wore it." (ask you) '-where, and whcni'
wid.
H ;l i’.'»tl»t*ivd all her i^raci- aiul pride.
n. m*vt*r was luon? bravo array
Thou ou that autumn holiday
sin? from out tim throng uiwrt.
Arid I. With proudly be-anns: lit-mt,
Watched, bo* lx-foreher all the^rowd,
’«» coifoUOt Admiration IlowihI
Tin* «•> ,» of u'l were tunj»*iJ on her,
< With rapture utili. my pulsus
Ail Joakcd at her My fnen.l, hut sho.
Had • r<*f< for none, f*»r none but mo;*
Oh. thought to thrill the blood like wine!
Thi* pvrkss one Is mine: is uiino*
From dainty head to slender foot,
only mine, my own. my sweet!
ThiMi through the crowd ran whispering.
“What is there here, the loveliest thing,”
“From mount towe >, could Gwr^ia bring
"Why, she it is beyond compare."
'♦Tlie queen, the queen of the Cieorgiu fair!"
Well, the judges so decided it.
And this they lied iu her bridle Idt,
This “riijboa blue" nt tht* Georgia fair.
Was won. my friend, by my bonuin bay mare'
-Xt% B W. Hunt iu Atlanta Constitution.
A x.w itac ..f vv„i T „ fc
. J . , , N , .. •
A W . Hera* . . ,
to TT.e NewYorh ^a.hml
Idv 1 , 000 le of till, eo n.tr- are nn<f ii •
donine Xntiim hefiscr tofamin" • i, t ,m J
tbete te^amracures Ib^vU.ou
and Z Xn 1|,
sands ol b i
drrcu t vat ion ' inu2 Shorn i
.!, 1 1 ,l Kl ■, ml " (l o* e ' ,r >
On^L“|roL“t^bsSc i Greatmmfo^of S hxs , .mwLc"^wei
V iwa v V U ^ ^
fhe ,■ 1 celelo'UocP'*Newf i dhi ih! 'hived*
of 7 wliteb c .“ , '• indeed lU(l w lotiuclt.inu <iu i bind,
exeeedmgly pure But s(K*emiens are
and hardi, rare. and they coupled were
BLong when
were employed by the with poorer elusses
to draw sleds laden limber and
hrenooil in ihc-.se/iJemeiitsaiongibe
coast, or of m the hunting expeditions m the
mtet-tor country.
In the suminei time, in spite of
stimgent u s regarding precautions.
requciitly \\ destroved valuable
• 'f *£. was l>r ( ’l?°«' d ’<> mtretducc
the reimleer in their stead. In lie
meantime tne retention or abolitioi ol
these dogs has fo-en made t.ic bu let
have aGiiished't'li'-m ” Completely o.'td 1
liaie . introduced 11 sheep farming on a
large scale. The measure, however,
aas produced one incidental incon
" a Ur ?l lnS °T
Ar 110 / ’! l, ' <>u 5 fb t tiio negli
'
/ J ,, / /? H1 Bmmgh do have the
, re"'' l,w,10r i’ F»
.^e 1 sut ,r < red to escape to the forests
of and ‘ these destruction. mhuuds^have Si^de^rre
This may become a serious dann-erin
tlie future. The wolf is only a dog
run wild. Already dangerous encouir
tors have occurred Bheep ' have been
slain by them. Cattle wandering
over the plains or through the woods
have been attacked by tlietn. Parties
of women ZcVy engaged m ffioK berry pickin«
hare tecn
from the seUlements Men compelled have bee t
attacked by them and te
take refuse in search'of trees O-iite lately a
herdsmen in ^voum'nuns cattle came "vis
across a litter b*v UiiTihoi^ and
fiercely attacked her For
tu.lately, he was armed wi h a pitch -
fork, and after a ctesperatecoiitaststew
her and destroyed the cubit The hunt
jug become of this new race of wolves mav
a national snort or a national
business, and our legislature may find
itsete compelled again to nravklc for
thei 1 rices of wolves' beads. neaas.
Rh> (n Urbcs.
Idealist—Even in winter, ami in
your busy city, I find coustant re¬
minders of midsummer in tliecountry.
is Realist—Imaginative it fellow I What
uow?
Idealist—Over in your tailor's shop
there hangs a sign that recalls a slum¬
brous day of mid-August, when the
suit is like a furnace and the sportive
sheep are gathered beneath the shade of
a tree, gasping for breath.
Realist—And that sign reads
Idealist—“All frool pants.”—Pitts¬
burg Bulletin.
The British admiralty havo , increased , ,
the Zanzibar division of the Last Iudia
squadron tleet of to the extent of allowing it
a steam piutmces. Tlie olivet
of this is to better effect the suppres¬
sion of the slave trade.___
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED IN THE SOCIAL AND AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS OF STEWART COUNTY, GA,
The Gift at Cora.
fesses The following tell how legend, which pro
to that valuable plant
maize, or Indian corn, was given to
•lie. Indians; has much more purpose
than a^ story from tho “Arabian
’'lights.” Mr. George It was Johnston. related by Nabuuwa
u When the
Ottawas were driven from the beauti
ful Vlanitoulin Islands, in Lake Hu¬
ron, Mass-wa-wc-in-im, by the Iroquois, their magician,
remained behind.
One day Mass-tva-we-iu-ini was
crossing a wide plain when he was ac¬
costed by a little man with a feather on
his head,
“Where are you going!” asked tlie
little man, cheerily, and invited the
said magician to smoke*with him. “Pray,”
he. as they smoked, “wherei. 1
does your strength l.'o<”
we-in-ini, “My strength,” is that of answered tlieiiuman Mass-wa family,
no more.”
“We must wrestle,’’said tho man of
the red feather. “If you should make
mo fall, you Wn-'-enic will sav to me, ‘I have
I tin-own you na ’ ”
go they wrestled, and for a time the
strife was doubtful, and Mass-wa wc
in-ini feared for liimsclf, tlie little tuan
was him so active, but at length he threw
to the ground.
1 ’ ia ve tlirowit you, Wa go me nu!
. RftCriCtl, ttlHl lit that »is
Vauislu'd tliccai Iljstaiit", Oppo
JJJjto tily
On looking at tile spot YU-wa-we-in where the
little man disappeared
nl discovered a crooked eat of mon
daniin , (Indian com) lying tin
on
ground, with tiic usual red, hairy tas
scl at the top. While he gazed ht
heard, a voice jiiid say, “Divest bod^ me of my
covering ic\<Ml 4ny .
--ate lue into parts and cast tne upon
the plain. Return then in one moon ’■
Mass-wa- wo in-iui obeved these di
”**»* aad when, at the expiration
■ IHOOIl, II© CJUUC Ug’lllll to til©
and wrestling place, he found the spikes
blades of young corn, and vvliere
t were h “‘ ^.ro\NiJi^ i lliro "' u I hixunantJv. tbc cob r ,,,i,kiu viucs
A voice addressed him from the corn
field: "MlkSS-wa vve-ill-illij you con¬
quered nte. Had you not done so,
vour life would have been forfeited.
Victory lias crowned your streugtli,
ami henceforth my body shall give
ivourisliment to the human race.”
Thus the Ottawa* received the gift
of corn, and they have ever lieen noted
for their fine crops of this grain, and
from thrir custom of trading in Indian
corn this tribo waa coiled Ottawas.—
Indian Legends.
i-a aucieue.. wiioso knowledge ot
meteorology w.as exceedingly limited.
liiougnt uralorigm l:.at storms were of supernal
io our without VL.H 1 ancestors, nothingeoulil
bapiK-n direct reference to
i 1,e,r f M ;' Lo, ! ( 0 - *» ,( * u *«'■'
mamcmdto be convin,-.-dtlmi tlie
toives of nature work wU.ioutauy rel
1 »««»•» ,he &«A’ty or peril the
,e St °. nl V °y ( ' 1( »ie and bl./.
sunshine just tlie a* formation i.utura; phenomena dew as
or of Yet
U. many persona the why and where
fo "' ar,; f ll Ul(lc!( of a
1Uo I ,!ic,c "b.eli suirounds
our earth is hkea great sea, constantly
f‘ oi ‘ v i "- aml lossu, = 111111000 o0
less -
immense.
This is due to several causes. The
rotation of the earl!, on its axis is one
cause; but the main cause is change
of tem^rature. If the temperetm-e
of the air vtere the same every where,
the atmosphere ivouW be in equiiib
Hum, and a calm would always pro
vail, but while, one portion is being
heated another is cooling, and in con
s i-qut*m-c the equilibrium is disturbed.
this causes a movement of the air from
the col.l to tho warm region.
When air is heated i l expands, be
comes in light the and rises, and as it How.
f/P^ , way vl upper i( ’b iseafied regions causes a
' 011 ' ‘ the "area of
the low barometer, because as tlie
1 column of mercury in the tube exactly
balances a column of air of equal til
ameter, the mercury falls as tile pres
■a"’'’ decreases.
Now. as tlie atmosphere, like water,
j<, always trying to seek its level, the
a ir from the "area high barometer”—
that is. the urea where the pressure is
^va iu Golden Dai's.
' ' ' r ' -
Mor , " ,,m “ ** "CoUrgo Mao."
hen you get out of college, young
n* ; ‘n, gc-t ch-ar out. You can get back
twl ’half if day or so any time—at a boat
race i a football nuitch, at commence
ment ' v b 01 " !Vcr l bt'ie is a reasonable
CKU , “’.,, ta ,n > oul *. daily walk aim
^a^prsatton be , something more than
a lclul college-be a ction. Be even an al
' “ 11 ' lf jouoriin. Take t.-io world
^ 1'° f Ra ^°? tooka ‘ io " rll,11 ff
t( ? be bis, and don , t forciei-limit y our
V ° f ,l b y wlmt was once visible
P<jml ,u Ne ' v «■ »»
n < ^. 1,b ^ d ft'
, °,r re 10 “ 7? n UU u ‘ s,,ml raele i w in-, b» « r<5 laduato - Don t
f ? r a /I AA'T iOU ov ’ e .'i our
alma mater u debt tliat you are ahvays
r Ud T| V' P aj ' il ,ld a j°P‘lty that
S i ‘A U d laV / ™/ . l if , ks 1 " A/ '‘cn
^u . U ii , l f ,. Ve " i ’ c, / tl to ’-be size - of Daniel
Webster ond your Dartmouth asks
yoa to defend her n, court, you are
going to be proud when you do tt.
That is all right You can t do too
much for her, or do tt too well. If you
accumulate any reputation that is
worth ha\ in<j, feel honored indeed
when she oilers to share it with you,
but don t be too peisistentlv anxious
to strut in her plumes .i’zpiSk to the disnar
menu's
cater p “"' ol Vi ~-'"
Professor Stargaize (enraptured)—
And you really love me? I thought
your heart belonged to that scapegrace
boy Lucy—N«; of mine. it is you, dear old
A nd. then-s* you
goosc . a man of set
ence-I-thought i you would like mo
, lo s low you a total eclipse of site son.
j -Pittsburg Bulletin,
1890.
"THE IRON DUKE.”
Uli Appreciation of Event* nnd Tersely
KxprenMHl Opinion*.
Tlic Duke of Wellington was much
more than a soldier. In the council
chamber his nice appreciation of
events made itself Wwn bv opinions 1
clearly Whon and tersely expressed.
the news of Gough’s hard
shah won fight reached with England, tlie Sikhs at Fereze
Sir Robert
Peel, the prime minister spoke at the
meeting of the cabinet of the heave
losses pressed sustained by the armv. and ex
himself as apprehensive of
danger to the Indian empire. Other
ministers regarded the fight asa drawn
nattle. but the duke said:
"Make it a victory; tire a salute and
in.tg the bellsl You must lose oilicers
nn u men I if yon third tight a battle. At As
save lost a of my force.”
In 1814 the relations of Poland
with France were so strained fliat war
seem imminent. At a council meeting
the duke, while sitting silent and out
of spirits, was shown the report in the
m.K.iwuor
The boy’s knowledge T.e of geography
was so limited that was unable to
answer questions ami chief about France, its de
oartments towns. The ques
lions were repeated until tlie boy, los
imr “i his don’t patience, know growled anything out: about
France; but 1 do know that one Eng
ii.shinan can lick three Frenchmen!”
The duke laughed heartily, and pat
ting U' the book as if it were the bov ’ liim
se s . ( j,}.
Send "A him very good Paris. boy! very good boy!
to I)o a great deal of
° i’-oo'I there!”
In 18-10 tlie queen announced that
she would visit the duke at Strathlieid
Sayc, by the estate and mansion given
him the nation. Before lier majes
t.y s arrival the clerk of the works
went down to see that tho rooms were
The properly duke, prepared however, for would her reception.
not brook
interference by the official, and stern
ly ordered him oil’ the place.
“1 just got a few.tables and a harp
sichoid, and I asked a few neighbors to
meet her,” he said to a friend.
queen dier’s simple was delighted welcome, with tlie old sol
so unlike the
usual routine at a royal visit.—Youth’s
(Jomnanion companion.
A.. Auecilotf. ,.f Ilumbolttt*
The Russian newspaper Russkaya t,
Stonka gives the followung Uillterto
unpublished Humboldt, anecdote tho of Alexander
von German traveler
and savant. It was in 1829, during
Humboldt’s trip through .Siberia Cur
tlie purpose of making astronomical
observations. He yisite.l the town of
Isohnn, m thedistnct of ToboUk. anil,
although provided with the highest
recommendations, he excited the sus
p.c.on of the local prefect o police,
who addressed the subiomed dispatch
to the governor general:
A few days of shortish ago there arrived here
a German stature, u.siginii
cant appeanmee, fus.sy and bearing a
letter of introduction from your ex
eelleney to me 1 accordingly received
him politely mid but must dangerous, say I find i him dis
suspicious ‘‘UeHbin. from even tlie first. lie talks
too
nutch, and despises my hosintaltty.
He pays no attention to the leading
officials of tho town, and associates
with Roles and other political crimi
mils. 1 take the liberty Ins of informing
your with (Kihticai excellency criminals that does intercourse not
es
ctqie prw.reded my vigilance. with On one occasion
lie them to a bill over
looking the town. They took a box
with llicnt. and got out of it nn iastru'
ment we all shaped loot for like a gun. a long After tube, fastening wliicl
the it to three and feitthey jiointed it down on
town, one after the other ex
ami,led whether it was properly sight
ed. Tins was evidently a great dan
ger P, the town, which was built cn
lirely of wood, so I sent a detachment
of trexips with loaded rillea to watch
the German on the hill. If tho treach
orem machinations of this man justify
give my suspicions, lives for we sliail be ready to
our the czar and holy
Russia. I send this dispatch to your
excellency by sjpecial messenger.”—
ment No portion eagerly in The sought postel after depart- by
is more
young men than that of postal clerk
or route agent in the railway mail de
partmenL It is sometimes a hare! po
sitjon to secure, and very few kinds of
employment Soinu are more easily lost.
that it young is soft men appear “work to imagine tlie
a snap to
mail” on a postal 1 route, but those who
assigned get i„, and especially those who are
where large to quantities duty on a of long route
handletT, mail are to
be stxm letiru that they have
struck a job that requires hard work
and close application. More than one
half of those who secure apixiintments
in this branch of the service drop out
during her the clerks first year. The larger mim
of the are required to be on
she route but foit half of the time, some of
them less, in order to be.eomo efii
cient it is necessary to study almoot
constantly, b<Vcen and part of each interval
runs must be spent in getting
ready for all the times uext trip. ready A postal clerk
must at be for tho in
spec tor whose duty it Is to examine
a clerk at any tinio without givin" a
moment’s notice, and if he falls below
a certain percentage twice in succes
sio „ his resiguation is requested.
Postal Clerk in 8t Louis Globo-Aanf
cra t.
“-»»*•“ «• «»<«
p/„i!i Bride-Ask me L,..,T,, something .V,5k,?iiA; easy
Could \w.u^,. Naiiolcon c mnt all ii the bullets
tired at AusterJitz/—Pittsburg Bullo
tin.
Tho Lawww Anavrer«t.
“What does little Birdie soy
Li bis nest at p;- .> ol uayi”
In his nest at n. -aung's peep
Birdie pipeth “'i ’k tsclieexx”
__- .Miirpcr's Lazar, j
A BOV’S DERELICTION.
!1 is Roits Kicked Reenrreo He Captured and
Tied Only One Burglar.
At about the age of 151 wentto clerk
in a country store in Indiana, and
°' hcr duties that
sleeping R n tbc store nights big . as a pro
t f tor ' jas a great barn of a
f ™ d ‘ "«* “*» f ° Hr
/ / lbout C rod * awa Y- T ^
3 * >C ' !II Z a,, y real value as a
s ”" P " a ha t I'SftLF” 1 ,VRS to 'tb** 0iel ' c ,
| , one
"°'* . r gHt . ,n to ' ,at W l} nt 1 dld » , ot I T
, and and shiv
^ ,'‘ h fcar uutl1 slee P E ot tbc hatter
,' c f^turday . night, ...... after several ,
* f iZ llad b f e « P aid »>>; tb°
| ,! •* 1 ' 1 , b, .' 10 0 .° and a tea chest,
° c ' t ',‘ * f “ f « '™. nt homo,
® tb, f
'• 0o 5 l * ° bl *t about ,
lS^”SSr , • , . , &35
, X
aul,,lo ,| l * canie sure that someone
.! "m 1 ’ Vt L t,T?VTiJ ^hefth.it Tf the ,°. big, utof dark , bcd
‘
tloor room would be safer for mein
casc *7 f,!Uch (,,le c «™ ,"l«'«>rs. There
"/*?. a . or onenn.g in the center
“ f {he ixk)"'. and I crept softly to tins
?," d lf >ohed down upon the heads of
'bice men working at the safe. I hey
J\ ou no1 ,avo known that 1 slept in
’he store, as no one bad been up, and
as they were taking matters as cool as
' 0 u ’.’’aase. It was an old fashioued
“ fc ,. -, and hey bad stolen tools from a
blacksmith in town to open it.
,ls . ,3° ' w )nt V n,Bcl ‘ do >' ou U gijer oni”
.ivi ..V. UI IUI !i . T , „ replied .. . another,
.i-,y bilts »' l;>t apiece/ asked the
1
A , „ , >egan to ... ligure, and , after ten
m| notes 11 by made it out that each
'•‘->>0. FIns tieklixl them
f. , ul , llo lp y ,,M began work. It was wondcr
' V ! 1 old safo 1101(1 < >ut - For
, hanged rou J ol and 'g hours pounded, they taking , hanuuered ’urns , and us
,0 >' tlrotl ol,t ’ 1(11(1 about., oclock in
110 . they Iliey al
’“ had f,l j liu >p light got who m,
a to See should first
l 1 ! 1 out the money, and when it was
discovered that an old sixpence,
with crossed marks on it, and a *l bill
T ° bl ^‘ Cd 'f/'H 00 " s > itU t° ( > all
tho wealth behind (he iron door there
was a moment of awful' suspense.
Then they began at each other, and
oacli robber, bis father, mother, brotli
lTS ami sisters had to take it. They
called each other liars thieves
swindlers, barn banters and every
thin" Unully else thov could think of l/gau. and
a three'cornered light
[ u \[ XG one uf them rw
knocked umainscious. and the other
two fo. ft l, im and skipped out. It was
getting daylight now, and I went
down, found the fellow quiet, and
tied his hands and feet with a clothes
| ilic . 1 had just concluded when he
0 pene<l his eyes, realized the situation,
and worked a sweet smile to his face as
|„, “Say,'hub,
I’m awful glad to see
,- ou . Rm the ltcv. Stephet, Baker, of
acred Lafayette you know and hive wan
01lt here in my sleep and got
into this place somehow I often walk
/s in my tifk^ sleep hut l^but hardly ever will "mv <re as fur
My wl.-it con
SkX grc»-ation say if ^ I’m not hack ou'tiiiie L
go",?, fob Cb, HI
fo. dSiie"love as f-ust as a U
an Zcon,v&,, little bovs Cairt vou '
B„t l ran aildToW v Uome,-chant nnd
the “Rev ” was ultimatclv rewarj landed in
Ktato tL ,, 1 -ison As a for mv cf
^ forts / owner thVruiliTs^o- of the store raid tome
--J^/k h c ur vcved
at that wreck ilmndi audit's all
vour r .. 1,1 W i , r do I
havvoufcla 1-obber.s <Sf, month for rnttota UutauS
and here you’vo Void-! j
J.... lot t wo of 'em ^ HI awav ^ I"— New 1
‘ ,
"-- - -
tk« IUsM h» ' tir*.
For conv , nience „ k _ ftn ,,
m . rm j Uc<1 ’ wit) : . ,.^- 00 ,, limitations
which va rv , n various countries to
„. i'/ lv who shall have his nrnnortv his^housea when
SsESjh j; jj e heaueatli
diUdreu'Tr Umy be'S^uot* toTm
but to themselves. No more can he
bequeath the story of It is life to any
one’s exclusive uso or to disuse, for
that is not his either. That is part of
history, Adam who and belongs to any son ol
it. The cares notion to that investigate the and
uso world's
acquaintance is be with the man Thackeray
might to only hav so intimate as Thackeray
e chosen to permit is not
sound.
What is told or saidof a man while
he is alive ho is permitted to resent, if
he doesn’t like it, but if he tries to
ord bind after posterity ho not dead, to lie explore tries his control rcc
is to
what is no longer bis. What he did
in tho world ho left in the world, and
it belongs while to the world; and, if it is
worth exploring, tho world is
convenience. perfectly at liberty to look js it up. at its
human lives and History thetr results. tho record Con- of
sidering history; be what Thackeray the last got out of
was man wlio
should have objected that history
should get b its own from him.-Scrib
ncr’s
—
Thu I* proer*«»i'» Franc*.
An American who spent ninety-two
days in in that France says l»saw only two
niea whole eomiti-v and those
h^ dono its full towlrels ‘s
nas aoM k* iutt snare slmre towaras mak- mak
mg tlns tbe greatest nation on the
globe. -Detroit Free Press.
. Something Ultw.
Guest (to waiter)—What 4° you mean by
bringing me such asinnllpitcoof meatt Uavw
you uotliing Inr^erl
Waiter—Oh, yea, I'Ugo and get your bill,
—New York Bun.
TOLD AN UNDERTAKER.
Iii'lil.nta of tlie Fnneral Direc¬
tor's Grave Culling.
“I liavo met with a thousand and
one odd fancies and curious notions
during my connection with the under¬
taking funeral business,” said a prominent
director to a reporter the other
day. that ninety-nine “Indeed, I think it is safe tosay
out of every hundred
persons have and express a preference
of some kind or another as to the dis¬
Sometimes position of their their bodies after death.
with, and sometimes requests flrey’re arc complied
not. Gen¬
erally tho preference relates only to
some minor detail, cither of the coffin,
of the grave, or of the burial cere¬
mony. wooden collin—mahogany, Some people want a plain,
ebony. Some metal walnut, or
want a casket.
Some want their caskets covered with
black cloth, some- with white. The
desire for a certain style of handle is
often expressed, and women are fre¬
quently wanting concerned about the lining,
it of a color to suit the.ir com¬
plexion. Seme people, too, want their
collins large and roomy, others to lit
exactly. “Very
often people want (o bo bur¬
ied in a particular spot, and give ex¬
press instructions as to the direction
m which the grave is to lie, and how
deep it must be. Then, too, some per¬
sons while want others a quiet, private funeral,
are uneasy given until prom¬
ised that they will bo a grand
and costly burial.
“All these arc matters that can be
easily But attended to, and they generally
are. there arc requests made by
people extraordinary, in regard to their obsequies that
aro and in some in¬
stances ridiculous. I'll tell you about
a few cases that liuvc come under my
own notice.
“There was an old lady died a few
years ago .who had a new and very
costly set of teeth made just before*
her last illness. When she learned
that death was imminent, her greatest
foment, seemed to he. that she should
never have nn opportunity to wear
those leeth. Finally a bright thought
struck her, anil calling her husband
to her bedside she begged him to have
her lips so arranged after death that
her friends would bo able to sec and
admire her beautiful teeth. The old
man dying promised, breath and almost with her
she reminded him of it.
Wo were summoned to perform the
necessary duties after tier death, nnd
tho widower, having explained the
matter of the teeth, declared that his
wife's request must he carried out. He
had promised and could not think of
could. deceiving her. We did the best we
The result was rather start¬
old ling, hut the teeth showed, and the
have man anything was satisfied, so we didn't
to say. of course.
"I remeinbor another ease of it mid
die „ aged single man who had been a
great dresser-a regular dandy, in
a°f- lie left directions that ho should
>° buried in the last suit of clothes lie
bad bought. As he was a man of con
siderable wealth, and had left some
they rery generous bequests to his friends
decided to comply with bisre
quest, and his valet was told to bring
’be suit. When lie returned he car
rio(l ’be loudest suit of clothes I ever
11 «“« of plaid two or three
hiclies broad, and with green, blue and yel
b’W in color, it came a shirt
covered with pictures of bullet dancers
111 every conceivable attitude, and a
.icektieto matclu The appearance of
these unexpected articles cau«<d Boinc
consternation, friends but the dead man's
bis finally decidwl to let him have
way and bury hint as ho had re
< robod l«cstt*d. iu The bytly wusaceordinglv
the ihisliy shirt and suit, a
Jl0 « d P'» stuck into the tie, a single
<! 1111(1 J' ( 'Sb ’be u “ s dandv placed over the staring eye,
' was ready for his last
resting ‘*«°metimes place.
, buried with them. people hadv want things
A whose prin
cipal fortune consisted "of her many
costly her jewels made a great stir among
friends and relatives by requesting orn*
in her will that she should to
rented with all of them when finally
P«sp»ml vided, for the grave. Sliehadpro
too, that unless this was done
,lot ,J,ie of her friends should receive
SI '-5 f eilf
;j' 1 lbl ; ,1 ’ ‘ or bad remained
3 s the vault, removing
,.7''. I was once called ,, . upon , to , bury a
oil !!•“ one al of his great P rcvl ° Ux-s. (Ui Period Just
scr °7 d °' 11 ‘- 1 / ieCOver
ll'i'A/ ^b'' 1 ' ? ,>ls suia11 weeping /i 110 1(11,1 widow said came that
, ’
“ w ‘a*} llb eX x lnm. press! 1 y looked desired at her it
found that , it was . tlie „ missing ... toe,
aud ca, ' cfui A' R rQ8ervod m aI '
°! f r ' n f TCr bur , '9 . d , f 111 ^! 10 wll , ° had ,
, but I have heard of
// Several tunes, however, I
sold people their ow-n coffin*, and
" Uvo °'\ tb ™ Years or
( ,n k' or before the v died. bonieUmes
1 boxes were left with mo until
100(1,xl > un ^ sometimes they were taken
f ’h | .s a kind f - ol ', CP I ; ever r,ie had ,n o st peculiar that of case
was an
whodived in a couple of rooms
in nself over in the western part of
city. He had plenty of money, and
" s , all 1 ?, (,m ' s the ’, wore «H'aritly somber colors. furnished,
in most One
ho came to me and ordered a coffin
It was to be black inside and j
a«d was to be large: enough for
', lm 7 he m comfortably. Another
lie was explicit about was that it
; during m,, for all that bed—sleeping time he had in used it
co a leftTrefuest
V s-and itl^id l,e bad {!eh^^ to ;
to it, arid did not think ho would
well in any other.”—Baltimore |
i
The ill co?)sequescos of one imnru-1 I
step will be felt tu many an after
A LUXURIOUS SHAVE.
flow a Tontiorfal 1 Artist Plies tlie Razor
and Its AcrumpnnitQctts.
You aro ensconced in^tchair of lux
urious comfort, which allows you to
tion. recline The at any professional angle and in any who posi¬
matt, is
your the president slave for is the the time being—just of tho as
servant peo¬
ple-goes with over your mobile counte¬
nance a soft, moist sponge. This
removes the carbon, gravel, food railroad
iron and unconsumed of twenty
four hours’ sojourn in a railroad car
from your features. lie next heats
you to a thin layer gf Yiot lather, and
apologetically by sponges mistake, it but off, as isn’t; if it
were put on it it
is a part of the programme. Next be
puts on a heavier coat of lather, which
Lie presses down into the roots of tbs
_._bblo stu with soft, magnetic fingers.
This lather, too, is removed and the
dividual third course hair, placed which on. Then each in¬
once did stand
on end like quills upon a fretful por¬
cupine, becomes soft and pliable.
from The its artist now broad carefully "haded removes
case a razor,
with a double concave, so thin that it
sings as be air strops which iL makes lie brings it think out
with an you
that razor never touched any face be¬
low the rank of governor. You feel
honored. Then lie shaves you. lie
doesn't ask you if you want it close.
Or does the razor hurt, lie knows his
business. He knows you want the
hail- oil' ami nothing else, and he
knows the razor doesn't hurt.
Tho pleasant tifiliation which ae
companies the progress of the inst.ru
ment reminds ouo of the sensation
which old King George swore to as a
that, luxury lit before for monarchs, and since
was the days of flesh
brushes stately courtiers used to eon
tend for the privilege of employing
their otherwise idle fingers iu scratch
iiiLf Having the vovnl buck. .
sliavetl you, does tic artist
swab your face twice with a soonge,
slap v-'iui- checks with bay rum, fill
your mouth with powder, scratch your
head with a comb and veil “nextI”
Ohl no! He isn’t hal'f through,
First, lie sponges oil* the skin. Then
he takes u soft towel, folded thick.
wrings it in liot water and places ii
across the lower part of your face.
Another cover-} the upper part., with
only a breathing placo for your nose.
This treatment You almyst is kept up for ten min
utes. aro lulled to slum
bcr. In realitv batli. your face is given
a Turkish The hot towels are
followed by a cold sponging to pro
duce a reaction, and then a towel, wet
in bav rum, is laid over tlio face. Af
ter tfiis comes a dry-towel. This is
laid over the face ateo and the hands
passed over it, drying the skin with
out You" hiir r it
If a barber should clamp a lowel
around his hand and draw it across a
customer's newly shaven and sensitive
face he would he discharged. NovV
comes the liair combing. Y ou can see
how earnest the barber is by imiicim.
how he squints along the parting Ik
nutkes, liko a farmer testing his First
Jurrow when lie plows afield. You
Ore completed, and it has cost vou
twenty-live cents; but if it were tlie
last quarter you had in tlie world von
would go out of that parlor feeling ”
Worth'$109,000. — Washington Post.
Trapping Dovlts
S z&iziz
consultation. All this time tL people VlW
dwell in morbid fear, pending
eranco. their ultimatum. At length the priest announces
It will require a fee
of 100 taels (about $1153 American
money) to procure safety. The money
is raised by public subscription and
X
the iteSflBaifiJdrsiwa shape of imitation gold and sil vo
ino money—hero again showing their
and tho priest has again impressed his
niunity importance to the welfare of tho com- ;
and at the same time replen- i
ished his bank account. Tho iicad “Tsung
li Yaincit,” or ollico of tho priest
of this sect, is a curiosity. It has forge
halls ami rooms filled with dust cov
ered and scaled jars, in every ono of
which is confined a devil, captured in
the abovo unique plan. And were
ami every jar filled with silvet
I question if it would equal the sums
paid for tlie capture of these irnpris- ,
devils.—“The Taouist Religion,”
Warren G. Benton, in Popular Scienco
Ono third of tho fools iu tliecountry
they the can law. beat a lawyer in ex
One half think
sick. they can Two-thirds beat the doctor healing
of them think
can put the minister in a holo in !
the gospel: and all of them
they newspaper.—Hardwioke can beat the editor in run- j
a Ga
!
T "-”1
.
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, Stess
' ll f ,Js ul Canada cover upward
WO,000 square miles. There are
extensiv, oil fields, comparative-
7 Kl, i vW„„,d. i,, South Afi-ica, New
a ,a,K *; Australia and Lur
na1 . '; As iDe Boutli African oil fields
the diumoud and g'old luiu
districts, it would setm to boas
ing of nearly a speedy hundred development, dollai’S fuel
u a ton
~&ieucc.
Terms $1,80 PerAnmim.
NO.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Tliis powder never vanes. A marvelous
purity, strength and wholesomeness.
More cc vr.on.ioal than tl-.e ordinary kinds,
d cannot be sold in competition with the
multitude of low test, short weight alum or
phosphate powders. Sold only in tans.
Royal Bakino IYwdeb Co., IOC al St.,
N. Y
A DOG STORY.
\ RtMnlniKceiice of Old Days Tfh©» Crino¬
line Kuled.
11 ,, happened , , in the old ,, crinoline .
, “,V alI ”L who was theu hviug
»>«» country town, had gone out shop
^ om morning talking and was to standing l-^oy
\ lx ! o n a
M0,,d . - “ Gum worthy, the doc
lors °he (my aunt) had on a
[ ,ew crinoline tin it morning, ui v.a»h,
l c fancied ° us .° h, iierselt. 01 * <non expression, It was a tremendous* she rather
’y h:g heaulifutiy. one, as still asa wire fencs. It
!** Jenkins, They were drapers; stanuiug-
1,1 U-ont ot the and
rll Y aunt thinks that it (the crino.iiv-)
n n .’- st have got caught up m smne
Jhing, tween , it and and an Uic opening ground, thus left be
^ 0 ' vev01- lhls « la v bo - 0O1 ' t! »n it is.
.. -
[ Ji u ( , an °o* ao ^ lua |y ^ looiing ur ff9 anc round powerful about
l” 01 ’ 0 *d the time, managed^ somehow
or vnnol .other, to and squirm eilectually m under tuy aunt &
mo impi-iucm
”nr.se.f beneaJi it. I' lulling himself
“ h° U( hlon!y ’ho in a dar.t nod glc^^o.ny enough, chain
lightened r (.og, and naturally made got
Irantie rushes
®,° l ou f' hat w.ucliever way ha
charged U-ont of linn. t.icro ,, As vyas he flew, the ho cmyolmo in
of course,
Cll! '' 10(1 !t ''’ ll h him, and with tho
°r Cut ,!loll uobody ! K V °f knew cou, the f c - explanation. (vellt “unt. My
? Mllt hora-.-lf clid not know what had
happene.l Nobody had seen the dog
cn 'P}! 1, ! , - u ' f ‘ ’-'‘‘ernioliiio.
and 4 11 eininent the people y respectable did see was middle a staid
a ” 0( ‘ la «y. suddenly, and without any¬
a l , l l:ll '°! lt rvuson, throw her umbrella
dm011 111 ’he road, t.v up High street
al the rate ot teuuules.au hour, rush
»«’.*««* ’ 1( e numment risk of her hie,
dal J- (,< .’; vn >’ugmn on the other side,
rusl ‘ salcvvavs, like an excited crab,
. lnto “hop. rush three
a P 1 ’ 000 !' 14 times
I’ouud , the shop, u|.-setting the waole
stock iu Irt-.tle, come out of the shop
backward and knock down a postman.
dash into the roadway and spin rcuuet
£
»SitdWiSMWt f sohtebpdy her.
I’u C> ' " K ‘° ‘»' to stop
)f cou, ,!,a,l 'f °verybody lho people tl,ought flew fltat sao
as before her
; k :, , u "., f U,, fj*'[?? T , A ' 10 S' , 1 ' W street “ <L , 1,1 was ,eS3 a
LS . ^ lt T £lt) t , townsfolk seanipered into
,i sb ', "l ,s d bo,1 «« »"’*i harrtea:;ied
T m's ! WOuU ’ hava happened
1, ' il'.?P“, 4 . ! ? the ternfierf steto of
,a 1
Customer—How is . this? Did you
mo twenty-five cents for a
liJ ?, ve
Barber , ,, Yes; . but I , shaved , face
a,1(, heat'd had your
‘ °. vor - ■>' ( ! (ir oeen
l ’°'y ln S a tnonth. W hat have you
o ” 0sa y?
, Oustomer-Simply robbery. that Herald, it is a bare
Y° e “ I i os ton
The purifying department of tho
Erie gas worksls an clilcient whoop
cou g 1 1 hospital. The fumes of
“i” s l jpnt , S! ve ’^mediate relief,
superintendent scud whooping says: “Ene doo
? ra n0 down ' v hero day. cough Last pa
, every
atu, ' da / we had ,uuetoc n callers -
Y aIi roturuod home well." i „
,, ollrecos „ vl , uesM tnc,no<ilclncm..si
itmusLoutai.. T-.» ho ;>«r
.»u»cnt,
TotliC, Alterative H 3 <1
PTOD€Pt?C <ii «
pnfoti.cs6H«»ua«s i»
^miueait tlvgroo, and
re___ &p©Cully J'-l_ JKj©SgO 3*0 «
th© t>ow«l» their uatuai rcKuUr pcriHtuUto “Y
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