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U V ^ m WHILE SELECTING -YOUR- m PRESENTS CAUL AT THE - ^City Shoe Store. We ofter a full line of Ladies’ and Gents’ l TOILET SLIPPERS ! v m in Plush, Alligator and Ouze. A full line of good and re liable , Pots, 5110881 ¥ For the Ladies, Gents, Misses and Children. All selected specially for the oc casion. . A full line of. Leather Bags, Trunks, Umbrellas, etc., etc., at popular prices. Ehrlich’s City Shoe Store. THE END OF THE QUARREL. | He kept hie row of absence well— For two whole days togetherl But whuu the second twilight fell Love broke the tightened tether. The chilly evening flung It* rain. With peevish gust and sprinkle. To threaten, through the glimmering pane. The firebrand's fitful twinkle. But when a sudden rush of air Blew out the lighted candle. She, looking not, watt etlll aware What ttngerH turned the handle. Bow could he guest) the level lid Some socret tear* dissembled? Or that her silence proudly chid The tone* that would have trembled? So, doubtful, angry, half ashamed. Half pleased to have defied her. Be took the chair the cat had claimed. And, speechless, sat beside hert The rusty clock hand slowly creaked From minute ou to minute; A mouse from out the shadow squeaked. Nor stirred the quiet In It. The flickering firelight seemed to rise And grow to wall and rafter. While Up* that trembled once with sigh* Were trembling now with laughter; Till, spent at last, the sleepy brand Looked ut each silent lover. Blinked thrice, and left them hand In hand Beneath the darkness' cover! —Kate Putnam Osgood in Good Housekeeping. SIGN GOLD BOOT. > /C* j ^E.L. WIGHT SCO. I Couldn't Help Himself. The Rev. Mr. A him thin to tell of the Rev. Mr. B : Brother B is tall and gaunt of figure and pale and serious of countenance. Once, in bringing a meeting of special no lemnity to a close, he caused ninny a smile by saying impressively. "Now let us pronouuee tho Dnxolngy, and I will sing the benediction." Thru, as if realizing that something had gone wrong, he drew himself up. and looking, if possible, more solemn still, added. “No; I mean 1 will siug tho benediction, anil we will pro nounce the Doxology.” The quick wit of a hearer, who at once stnrted "Praise God from whom all blessings flow” in stentorian tones, rescued the others from dis gracing themselves by an outburst of laughter. After the meeting had dispersed, said Brother B to Brother A , "Now, you know, I saw that thing coming wrong end, first, but for the life of me 1 could hot turn it around.Harper's Young People. A Cherry Stone Worth 835,000. Dr. Peter Oliver, who lived iu Eng land during the early part of the Eighteenth century, tells of seeing a carved cherry Btone which would lie a wonder even in this age of fine tools and fine workmanship. The stone was one from a common cherry, and upon it were carved the heads of 124 popes, kings, queens, emperors, saints, etc. Small ns they must necessarily have been, it Ih an nounced on the authority of Professor Oliver that with a good glass the heads of the popes and kings could readily be distinguished from those of the queens and saints by their miters and crowns. The gentleman who brought this little wonder to England purchased it iu Prussia, allowing the original owner £5,000 for his treas ure. Thinkofit—$25,000 for a cherry seed 1—Chicago Herald. Washington Street, Alban?, 6a. jij. , LET’S TAKE A f The Barnes Sale and Livery , Stables, Win. Godwin & Son PROPRIETORS. H is new buggies and the best ol ho:ses, and will furnish you a turn out at very reasonable prices. Ac- v^commodations for drovers unex celled. These stables .are close to ; Hotel Mayo, on Pine' street, being they use, have iron than they obtained from Sweden, ‘centrally located, and- the. best andiAver place in town to put up your team, Call on us for your Sunday tiim- ts. •*» ■ jAisaXxi WM. But Thins* Have Changed. Before I had been a weak in this country I noted three national pecul iarities which had never been men tioned to me by visitors to thestutes. No American hums or whistles a tune either at home or in the street. Not one American in 500 has a dog. Not one American in 1,000 carries a walking stick. 1, who hum perpetu ally, who love dogs, who cannot live without a walking stick’, am greatly distressed nt finding my dear Ameri cans deficient in the three social virtues just enumerated.—Wilkie Collins’ Old Letter. Defining a "Crab." The old story of the Frenchmen who were making a dictionary and defined crab as “a small, red fish that walks backward” illustrates the need of exact knowledge. Cuvier said the definition was excellent, only that the crab was not a fish, was not red and did not walk backward.—House keeper. . Why Horseshoe Nalls Split. Upon investigating the causes that led to brittleness in the manufacture of horseshoe nails, it was found that the pan in which they were annealed was not well luted over, and that enough air leaked through to affect the nails; too great an amount of oxy gen waa the trouble.—Exchange. The bridge of the Holy Trinity, Florence, was built in 1569. It is 822 feet long, of white, marble, ttd -is even now reckoned as being without a rival as a specimen of the bridge building art,' f Qffrf If ftff Enter,,rite Anions En.ll.h Pnpera. The boat race between the representa tive crews of Oxford and Cambridge is rowed annually on the river Thames. This year’s race was noteworthy, uot only on account of the breaking of the record In point of speed of the contest- ants, bnt as enabling the London press to carry out sucessfnlly a remarkable piece of enterprise. The London papers containing the re sult and full details of the race were on sale within four minutes after the Ox ford crew hud passed tho winning post. The press boat as it steamed up the Thames paid ont a cable consisting of a seven strand conductor, insulated with vulcanized rubber, with warps and braids of flax, which had been specially manu factured tor the purpose. Over this ca ble the progress of tho boats at Intervals of a few minntes along the entire conrse wus transmitted to the papers and pub lished all over London almost as the crews wore passing the points indicated. Immediately following the result there was dispatched a complete description of the race from start to finish, which was in tho hands of tho newspapers ami others provided with Instruments long before a single pressman was able to land his “copy” from the press boat at Mortlake, and bIbo long before the pigeons disputched from the scene were able to settle down tnu homeward direc tion. The instruments used were Morse sor. mlers. The short description of the race which was finally sent contained over 150 words.—London News. Super Mttkunt to Stop for Awtlllo. Representatives of nearly all the Hol yoke paper mills that make fine writing papers mid one of the mills in Mit- tinengue anil one in Westfield met hi this city Tuesday morning to consider the matter of the ununul shutdown. These uiaunfactnrers belong to the fine writing paper section of the American Paper Makers' association, and a shut down means a reduction of from sev enty-five to 1H0 tons a day in the output. It was understood that the mills would shut down from July 1 to midnight of July 11, ulthongli no formal vote was taken oti the subject. The Holyoke mills will he forced to shutdown from July 1 until midnight of July 4, as tin water is to be druwu from the canals during these days. The shutdown is to enable the manufacturers to work oil the surplus stock, anil is a little longer thun the usual summer vacation.— Springfield (Mass.) Republican. A Long little on u Snnwbnnk. Friday morning as ten miners were going from the Eureka Mille boarding house to what is called Rough anil Ready, with dinner pails iu hand, to begin -their day’s work, the eoft new snow above the truil on the mountain side began to slide. In a moment the men were being carried down the elope with great speed. The snowBliile sep arated, one part carrying five of the men down a slope about 700 feet, the other part continuing down about 1700 foet, leaping over a precipiee probably thirty feet high anil carrying the five men with it. At different times nil the men but one wure under the snow ntul etrange to sny, bnt one man wns in jurod. It was first thought his leg was broken, but we learu it was only sprained and braised. Another mail was almost smothered.—Pttlmus County Bulletin. A Groom’s Error. A bashful and youthful bridal conple from the rural districts had a painful experience at Danbury circus day. The young husband wrote his own name and his wife'B on separate lines of the hotel register and the purblind clerk assigned tbem to separate rooms. Each waited for the other to set the matter straight, bat it was only after a terribly lonesome hour that the bride plucked, np her cour age and her marrlage.certificate and de scended to interview the clerk. She held out the document finitely and. the eltuatlon at last dawned upon him. The banished benedict was summoned front his Beolasion and the curtain fell' amid profuse apologies!—New Haven Regis ter. y j Files So Thick They Put Out the Lights. About 9 o’clock Tuesday night Battle mountain was infested with a cloud of tiny flies that drifted into the saloons on Front street in myriads, in many in stances darkening the rooms and putting ont the lights. When the pests had passed away it was found that the tops of the lamps were covered an inch and a half deep and the lamp chimneys choked. It would appear that these minute flies were attracted by the lights in the saloons, and in countless millions perished.—Central Nevadan. Enough to Replenish the Burning X.uke. The steamer that has been expected for several days with a cargo of sulphur has arrived. There are 4,500,000 pounds of brimstone in all, half of it being des tined for Wayne, where it.is to be made into sulphurio acid, and hglf for-point* on the Grand Trunk. The Sheffield success depends so largely on the “8MITHY” AND THE VAS9AR (URL, An Roar's Conversation with Her Took • the tioqcelt Ont of Him. When the boys at our table noticed a strange young lady enter the room the other evening at dinner there was a general inquiry as to the new comer's identity. She wtus tall and graceful, with cleurcut features, expressive eyes anil a mouth and chin whose firm lines demited force of character. Her hair wus u light golden brown, and altogether the young lady excited no small degree ofdmriodty. "Tell you what, boys," observed Smithy, "she's a regular hummer. You want to watch yourselves, too, for that’s just about my style, Met and I'm going to make a play for an introduce." 1 may mention here that the scene referred to occurred in the dining room of a fashionable private hotel up $own. Mr. Smith, popularly known as “Smithy,” is a general favorite among the other boarders there, particularly with the lady guest*. His distinguishing charac teristics are good clothes, an exalted opinion of himself and an elaborate knowledge of slang. Miss Ray, the new guest, was in troduced to Smithy that evening. After an hour’s conversation with her Smithy retired to the smoking mom, and. after lighting a cigar, casually remarked that “This here’s a queer world anyhow." "What’s the matter, Smithy!" I asked; "you're not in love already t” "In love! Well, I guess not Say, that girl in the parlor is a regular walkiug dictionary. JuBt tackle her once and she’ll paralyze you—that's all.” "Tell me all nbout it," said I. "Well, it was just this way. She asked me if I believed in sublinenl consciousness. I told her that I couldn't call that hand and suggested making it a jack pot. But she didn't appear to catch on, and that made me tired. "Then she just wndoil in. Wowl but it fairly showered jawbreakers for the next half hour. She’s a grad uate of Vossur college, she told pie, and, so help me Bob, that was tho only part of her conversation I could understand. Paoplo'd Ultuiuplmi Kept In Quad. May I rail attention to the cose of n worthy uuui who is iu prison for resist ing the attempts of luiiilmvnerN to seizs anil Inclose the lanil of the people! The case 1 refer to Is that of the Rev. F. Haydn Williams, who Is incarcerated in Holloway jail, and lias now been Impris oned for a whole month because he knocked down a wall which hud been bnilt to inclose what had been from time immemorial ati open space, called the Abbey plain, where the people used to play football anil other games. The injustice of Mr. Williams' impris onment is, that instead of being properly tried and If it is found that he has done wrong mode to pay for the damage he has done to the wall of the lord of the manor, lie has been sent to prison with out trial on a charge of contempt of court, and tlmro he may remain month after mouth, according to the euprlco of the court of queuti'B bench. This power of committal to prisou for an indefinite period on such a fanciful charge as con tempt pf court scoins to me to be a thing savoring of the proceedings of the court of the Btar chamber, which was abolished for its arbitrary ucts by the breath of popular indignation. Iu my ignorance 1 thought there was passed by the repre sentatives of the people, for their protec tion from arbitrary imprisonment, uti not called the habeas corpus act, which pre vented a man from being capriciously imprisoned for an indefinite time with out fair trial if he has been guilty of uny crime. But hero Is a man—a gentlemnn andn minister—being treated ns If he had been guilty of robbery.—Cor. Lon don Chronicle. -.uys w Of one of our $25.00 Oak bed-room suits. You’ll get more satisfaction out of it in a minute than you get out of any other suit you know of or we know of in a month. About such a purchase as this there can’t be any questionable or doubtful feature. You are in a strange frame of mind if you don’t want your money’s worth; you are of a still stranger turn of mind if you don’t immediately confess that your bed-room is as complete with it as it was formerly incomplete without it. ^ If you want to be suited in a suit, this is the suit to do it. m Most people,' she said, ‘hold ig norance hidden in the interstices of their net of learning.' Then, among other things, she asked me if 1 bo- lie ved that 'fiimplicity is the concom itant of genius’ and what I thought about ‘elective affinities.' Of course all I could do was to pass out every hand. I told her, though, that I'd look these matters up and let her know, But say. I've got a headache. I have." "What did you say when you left her!” I askoil. “Oh, 1 just remarked that as this was a cash gome and os I hod run out of chips I'd see her later when 1 was fixed. * Say, what's the meaning of pachydermatous! And—gee, but my head aches.” Then Smithy relapsed into thought fulness.—New York Herald. One for the Laird. Sir Charles Gordon, of G , had u very hot temper, and very often he found himself at loggerheads with his tenants. One of them, Gibhie Anderson, was a keen, pawky old Scotchman, and generally he had the best of the laird in their many en- ounters. Once Gibbie wanted a jew fence round one of his fields, and when he asked for it Sir Charles very politelv sent him to a place re markable for its heat and where brimstone is the prevaling odor. Gobble replied, “Na, na, laird, I’ll no gang there, for you and me widna gree at a’." “Whatl” blustered Sir Chariest “do you mean to say I’ll go there!" “Oh, weel, as I'm no Roman Catholic and dinna believe in purgatory I dae, and I can prove frae Scripture that you’ll no gang to heaven, for St John in his Revelation says, ‘There shall be no (k)night there.’ ” —Scottish American. University Statistics. less tMa Yale, while versity of Michigan has 2,688, «■“*»**" ■~jtiTi|s»y 'teSsarHSsaitL never found better _j,t, ,, — - - Is it not worl to. free yoursell these distressing comp! yourself of every symptom of listressing complaints? If you : so, call at our store and get a . . Rvery be* bottle of Shiloh’s tie has a prlntei “ '' "" 801 . .cbij OOt- e on it. Use you no.gOOd with 258; the University of Pennsyl vania seoond, with 287; Columbia third, ~.i fourth, with 158, and . with 145. - . ATI! Poor Man. Old Lady,(on beholding a Highlander in hie native costume for the first time)— Well well! That man most he in his .eiond childhood, andha. gpne back Somewhat Keecntrle. A strange case of insunity hue recent ly come to light at Ballston. Tho un fortunate person is Charles H. Morris, thirty-two years of age und an expert accountant. He has for a long time been known as a man of many occen- trlcities, and bos frequently boon made the objeot of practical jokes by sporting men. It is thought that constant joking and teasing have been a potent factor In impairing hlB mental faculties. He has several times lately left town for a few days, sometimes on business, sometimes on pleasure, and before leav ing caused to bo published )n tho local papers paragraphs to the effect that lie “had gone to New York to attend a con vention of the rugplokere at the Fifth Avenue hotel.” About two months ago invitations were sent out uuuuuuuiiig that ho wus about to marry u well kuowu young woman from another town. The invitations wero bona fide, but oil the day of tho wedding Morris roinuined in town, denying that he had any thought of marrying. Ho Is considered a first class accountant, and appears to be as sane ns any one except for these actions —Albany Journal. - m m e sulphur Is valued at $50,000. The vessel and cargo ... . , . SSL 1 ™* **"”• gSHK S&S SfK Why Dry Land I* Increasing. An essential cause of. increase of dry land is the decrease of the ocean itself in consequence of infiltration of water through the crust of the earth, which is a kind of porous mass, into which the liquid element percolates by innumerable fissures, tiding possession of the depths and itself slowly toward the center, as the internal fire diminishes crack open in conse- • activity- of volcanoes and many is lanjply. due to this ' qu of the water, : transforms into 1 : a-TV 1 " ■ one-fiftieth of Science Monthly. Wz hiJreVgjj leedyand postiye' isiiri for catarrh, drahtherla/'caflkefrmouth and headachty^ffi 1 ShTlfih’s CatArrh a Remedy. A nasal injector free with v each bottle. Use it jfyou desire health and sweet breath. Price 60c. Sold by H. J. Lamar A Sons.* «♦*» (6) ThoinmmU of Tom, of OU. Oil is to be used as fuel instead of coal in all the big furnaces at the World's fair grounds. The exposition company will pay the Standard OU company sev enty cents a barrel until 1898, and then have the privilege of getting the oil nt the lowest market price, not to exceed Tiy t cents a barrel. The contract will be for perhaps the largest quuntity ever sold to one consumer. The lowest es timate that has ever been made of the amount of coul'that would be burned nt Jocksou park during the exposition was 75.000 tons. On this basis 225,000 bar rels of oil would be used, but it Is prob able that the amount will be largely in excess of that estimate.—Oleveland Her ald. Divorced for Telling 1.1 el. In tho circuit court at Beatrice, Neb., Saturday, William Truesdale was grant ed an absolute divorce from his wifo. Amelia. The petition reciting tho chargee on which divorce was sued for is tiie most curious one ever filed in court. It recites the fact that the wife is an incorrigible gossip, whose tale tell ing propensities and penchant for gos siping render life with her unbearable. Traesdale avers that in the three years he has lived with his wife she has told 10.000 lies. “She cannot teU the troth,” he declares in his petition, “and while it is in the nature of a disease, I believe it incurable. Hence 1 ask relief in a divorce.”—Cor. Philadelphia Press. HI. Bdttl. Proved to B. Loaded. A young boy named Gilson, in com pany with one or two other hoys, was on tiie sewer dock and discovered sev eral bottles in an old iron tank, in one of the bottles was a white snbstance. Young Gilson's curiosity was aroused. He produced a match and, lighting it, dropped it into the bottle. He held the bottle In his right hand, and no sooner had the match strnck the bottom of the buttle than an explosion foUowed, blow ing the bottle to atoms, fiUing Gilson's hand with the fragments of the glass and also nearly blowing the thumb off his hand.—New Haven Register. Forests of G'rooco. In ancient times Greece possessed about 7,500,000 acres of dense forest, and' she was comparatively rich in timber nntil about fifty years ago. Much of it has, however, now .disappeared.—Phila delphia Ledger. Oh, TVbnt n Cougb. Will ydu’-hfed the warning? The signal perhaps of the sure approach of tbst-more-terrl'' tion. Ask yoi' There Is No Place Like Home. This is more particularly the case if among the attractions of your home is one of our Reclining . Chairs. Nothing is too good for the place you live in; if you want the best anywhere, you want it there. There’s nothing homely about these Reclining Chairs, but homely is the home that hasn’t got them. They would be cheap at a good deal more than we are asking for them; they couldn’t be any cheaper without sending somebody into involuntary bankruptcy, and that somebody wouldn’t be the buyer. Are you a buyer? If not, you never had a better time for becoming one. It’s No Light Matter* •JvJ To get what you exactly want in furniture at exactly what you can afford to pay. Give us a chance to help you out. If we can’t do it, it can’t be done anywhere. Now, here is a plain, straightforward, flatfooted proposition: We agree to sell lower than the lowest, no matter Low low it may be. If your resources are slender, we will put within reach of your pocketbook what has hitherto been out of it.. If you don’t think We will maker-, good what we say, let us quote, ft; .. sample figure, Here it is; A Ear-, lar Suit for $35.00, and everything, else in proportion; , f * If you haven’t all the raQuey fo’ pay cash down, we will sell ; you on installments, - tggf Wg do not offer you Furttit ionercei,t.a])o^' MM" ‘ .WfiVoffw 4Utq^ou,at^,re able profit abqyft &ct(lBjn«i*!Wifi Jwu 5 ati Jo \!1 *d d j »df m itoljf* ' t;Shllo*’q wi ti j.li-iw *« to a - taunp wdfM’ttotridUMsi* * " '.q.jsq.stl 41 J-* aill Alit ikpaSMI iHsiS Plaster. (4) FURf mik - nMiMiiii' ' mHW