Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 25, Number 7, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 January 1883 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

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rteissfM

rami.

save

fans te wrleatot awl careworn m m.

fee ymrlw aaae ww.

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wan

low M. too.

Oatr rrOmta? VMtolni alert

LM to a ttaaMns;." irmMw aajrs. -Aad ram to Jim aas-aa;

Bat I aw kntttia te Urn of Mia,

iH aty worm w i

- VMb av toasts we towta to kaM,

Am ta rinsta w anaoat pet?: MVmavcw4ut4,ajKtt4iaMawwaU,

isrer.

eCaeaar

ataat wr:

,ay a In to aatty rtpaad aawaoartolalraaaftraac.

That la Ut are hart te bear:

Aswel

haatea tar heal wn tsae.

Bat am aaaVat aaeatea ttewteteat aaajBK aaa ym woanesnnsv VlHBfll 4MHf lMMt'VWMBy aWemenemT ftW(ft"Hl

mediately, as Mm river wu rising rapidly, and Martia's boat had been aught and crushed in the km. Martin Cad baa drowned, but his wife, with bar child la her areas, bad ehing to tba wtmv'i of tba skiff, and had been carried by the current to a little low-lying isiandjust iabruat nf tba towa. portaooe. boweter, than what people saw nuat happen. Tba poor woman

and baby out lhare on tba Wand, drenched a they had been in the ley water, moat anon die with cold, ana, moreover, the is'sod vu now nearly

I earner water, whim ib groat irvan was ising rapidly. It was evident that wtUua an hour or two the water would nreeu over the whola surface of the

sstauo, and the great fields of toe would of course carry the woman and chial to a terrible death. Many wild suggestions ware made for

tlipfr reacui. but none that gave tba

it-u-t hope of success. It wee simply

possible to launch a boat The raat ,

fields of ice. two or three feet in thickneas. and front twenty feet to a hundred

yard in breadth, were crusning and , grinding down the river at the rate of four or five miles an hour, turning and

t wiat lag' about, sometime jamming ; their edgea together with to great a

force that one wouia lap over anotner.

and sonu-times drifti&g apart and leav

ing wide open spa es between for a

bv mset or two. .una misjnt as wen go upon Bucb a river in an egg shell as in , the stoutest rpw-boat everooilt. The poor woman with her babe eould be seen from the shore, standing there alone cn the rapidly narrowing strip of I island. Her voice eould not reach the i

people on the bank. but when abe hejd j brandy and vigorous rubbing with bar poor little baby toward them in coarse towels, he soon warmed. Then

mute appeal tor neip, me moumn wane t he wanted to saw enougn wooa lor toe understood her agony. j doctor to pay for his treatment, and There was nothing to be done, how-1 thereupon the doctor threatened to ever. Human aymaathy was rie i poisoa him if be should aver renters to tt I 1 Wait knHMM kln WflS Mt M tM ' i . !. M WSw.

r . . t . . . -i ' - v. - . .v

quesuon. r-reryooay on me rrrwamtrv

scraad in that opinion, every

y ta ay Btwaisat, MaawkwaaMaaTnti

UJaWCVTS FKJUtT.

It was a

wind

si wall at brave.

sad be meant to do all that he oonkl to

save these poor oreatorea for whom bs had risked his lift so heroically. Tak

ing out his knife be made the woman cut bar skirts off at the kneel, so that h anight walk and leap more freely. Ibea plsehag the baby ia the basket whieh was airappad upon bit bejtk. be rautioaad the woman ag uaat gi v bag way to fright, and Instructed her carefully about the method of eroeeuagOn the return Journey Joe was able to avoid one great risk. Am it was not necessary to land at any particular point, time was of little oonaeuueaw.

and beaas when no latg held of toe .was at hand, he oovld wait for one to approach without attempting o make use of the smaller ones. Leading the woman wherever that was necessary, he slowly made his way toward shore, i drifting down tba river, of course, while all the people of the town marched along the bank. When at last Joe leaped ashore in

company with the woman, and bearing icoordiasr to a pamphlet lost famed her babe m be basket on hi back, the j tn4 International Telephone Com-

iwvpie "toiubu kh; w mwhw Mjty ol rwia were are ioz eiiies in uk

that Me ferry prtvileajes gave ban the riarbi to run any kiad of ferry

between the villages which had now grown to such alas that they called thtmaelvas eitisa. The remit waa that the railroads made a contract with Joe to carry their cars across, and he had some tone boats built for that purpose.

All this occurred a good many yean go, and Joe Lambert U not called Joe now, but Captain Lambert. Bo is one of thevmott prosperous men In the lit-

ta i4r tv. and owns mssv lam rtv-

. . . ...w

er steamers oesiaes His lerry-Doaw.

Nobody ! readier than he to aeipi poor boy or a poor man; but he has ail own way of doing Is. He will never tow so ntucb as a cent to a beggar, bat

he never refuses to give man or boy a eh nee to earn money by work. He hai an - odd theory that money which

mum without work does more harm

than need (ho. (Mm KagUttOH in

Wide Mwake,

tontl PEaWMU Al UTBaUlT.

Tel

each other In their eagerness to shake

hands witn their nero. - Their hero was barely able to stand, however. Drenched as ha had been in the icy water, the sharp March wind had chillfd him to to the marrow, and one of the village doctors Speedily lifted him into bis carriage, widen he had

brought for that

ranidiv awav,

took chanre of Mrs. Martin and the)

baby. Joe was a strong, healthy fallow, and

under the doctor' s treatment of hot

world furnished with that latest adjunct af nuadani alvilisntiaa. the telenboae.

Of these M are located in the United

otatoa. 46 in Great Britain, 12 in Italy,

10 in Germany eight in trance, alx in Belgium, three each in Austro-Hungary. Russia. Switzerland and British India,

tht Purpose, and drove esch in Denmark. Sweden andnfealoo, JttSTL while the oAer pbyslciaa l-huisaprettygnodihowing consider- MhSH of If n. Martin and the i u- ik. tu. feels in reality the reverse at ocnesnsn

-Senator Bayard Is ranked by Onosws)

A. 8ala as the best story-teOsr hi taw

country.

Milton received fOS for his "narn-

dise Lost," and Tennyson 16.000 for nhY

nvauai af ssa

-Mr. tm tfya, af the Laramie

tnmg, epeaksof nederCaaaoaasafc

. aa

pry ator-iamutaa.

If me. NuSSOa. SBSSalna? of

Wilde to a Chicago reporter, said: "he

ought to have been taken by the ear and taken to the boat and driven out nf

this country."

-In the opinion of the nrtladeUmti

JVeaf Mm. Langtry could have "get Into" her critics in the meet eroel way by saying: "How uy yon follows earn while I was king tM,000.

It is now said that Uovernor Cleva-

land is a direct lineal doacsndant of

Henry Sewell. Esq., who, m the nays of

Uueen Elisabeth, was several wmes chosen mayor of Coventry.

Mrs. Charlotte Carpenter, who no-

came tba wife of Walter Scott, wrote

before marriage that she did nut ap

prove of rafiectfaur. and bane adieu te

all thoughts, for she meant to ham n

Tba London eorresponaent ot me Manchester Oumrdim saya that Herbert Spencer looks well, ban ptoteste tbatbbi

breatk

by tam. It

eaUrbt In

of anybody H aoukfi

tee opposite

TlWamst.too, illed people's eves

while the damp, raw

air easily found its way through

the best ebwbhag, and turned boys' skias hate pimply awedeah.

nwasaronsait qisacreeanie a

ink far nsinaT out as can be

aal rat everybody ia tee Katie

r tawn who could get awt went oat

boys seid ftrls, and

ehdbfrea. ran to the river oatce there they steyed, with

, it seeaaed. af going baa te

i or their work.

Tba w septa of the town ween wftal with eumasaeat. and everybody told everybody saw what had bapwrned. aKhongh every body knew alt about It already. Xverybeary. I mean, except Joe Lambert, and be had been so busy ever amee emyugbt, mains wood in Sonire GranweTs woodshed, that he had neither saea nor heard anything at alL Joe was the poorest person in th town.

Ha was the onlv boy there

and nobody to care for

or' four tears before this

ting. Joe had been left aa

and betng utterly destitute, he

have been sent to

or M booed

i of aofvaat. Bat Joe Lambert

body, that U to say, except Joe Lambert. He had been to long in the habit of neding ways to help himself under difficulties that be did not easily make np his mind to think any ease hopeless. No sooner did Joe clearly understand bow matters stood than he ran away from the crowd, nobody paying any at-

W t. ' teniion to wnax ne am. nasi

.i ' later, aomeeotrr cneu vm,:

to nfrr toere: wno s tnat, anu wna in

awaySse i XoWng iaTnaidectkm, the people

eatch there tewaoaaeone tawee quanan.

direction, i WJ a?,nK , ""TJT

and ice in me nver. ne aaa a wepja men-

nawam strappeci npom mm awwwm while in his hands he held a plunk. As the ice-field upon which he stood peared another, the youth ran forward, threw his plank down, inching a bridge of it, and crossed to the farther field. Then picking up his ntaak. be waited for a chance to res sat the proceai Ashe thus drifted down the river, every eye was strained fat his dirscsfoa. Presently some ewe cried owt: "It's Jos Lambert; and he's trying te cross to the ielaad!" There wae a shoot as the people understood the nature of Joe'aTmrekJ at-

If aturallv eaouarh the vilbare nesnln

talked of nothlnar but Joe Lambert' a

heroic deed, and the feeling waa general that they had never done their duty toward the poor orphan, boy. There was aa eager wish to l-elp him now, and many offers were made to him; but these all took the form ost charity, and Joe would not accept nkaritr at all. Ftr vaar aal Mai. as X

hour ; hTe already said, he had refused to go " Look to the poor-boose or to be bound ont?1

declaring that he could take care mi himself; and when some teoughtleee person had said In his hearing teat he wenhfhavc to live en cnartty, Joe's ronlv had been:

1 m never cat a mouthful in thin town that I haven't worked for if I

i starve." And be had kept his word. : Now that he waa fifteen years old he

was not willing te begin to receive

charity, even ia the form of a

i for his good deed. t One dnr when some of the

prominent men of the village were talkt ing to him on the subject Joe eaid: 1 don't want anything exospt n ehaaec to work, betrll teO yon wane

yon may do for me if yon wflL Now that poor Martin is dead the ferry pivikge will be to leaea again, and I'd like to ret it for a good long term. May be I

can make aoeiething out of it by being

ic across, me

insr the very short time that the tele

phone hat been In practical use. The total number of subscribers to the teleuhone exchanges in these l.r8 cities are

56,89, of whom the United States have 87.199. or nearly two-thitds. the other

third being scattered over the globe as

follows: Great Britain. 4.S4o; ranee,

3.640: Italy. 2.903; Germany. 2,9X3;

Bebrium. 2156; Austro-Hungary. 970;

owrden. 97-2: Switaerland; oxi; Den

mark, 898; Mexico, ); Russia. W;

nrUiak India. 213: Kgrpt, 183: ana the

KstberUada. 151. The statistics for the

United States are nether behmd date.

having been gathered chiefly during hut

rear, out tssose ior toe wama

ride the United States are l

Tacant and therefore much more re-

name

The oontrasts presented between the

extent to which the telephone is

here and between its use elsewhere

would, therefore, be even more violent

were the nrescat ftsTures of our own ex

changes to be used instead of those of a

year ago. Those of London represent the degree to which the telephone was a .a a a e,J a. a.

emptoyea on wo xtn or jaarcn nw.

There were then l.oel suhscrihem in a

district hariasr a nopulation of 4.7H

O0a la the district served by the Metrcmolkaa Teleehone Company, which

. M e "e a a

Incioos xsew xotk city, orooasyn ana Hobokse, and having a populattoa of 1.94S.000. or about forty per cent of

the Laadoti distri jt. there were in May,

1881, 4.000 subscribers, so that if London were supplied at the same rate aa

bv hta trip.

The prospective Mrs. ciereiaan.

who ia eaeeted to nreaide over the ex

ecutive mansion at Albany. Is Miss Mag

Burlingame, a lady reaMtng near uatmv The Go vernor elect baa been about six years making up his mind to it, but the

quesuon is aam w nave nscApoppeuaa last.

Senreant BaTlantsne, though a eekv

orated and eloquent speaker, la rather awkward hi manner and baa an odd way of altering hh phrases liks a lawyer dictating an important brief to an amanuensis, He has spokea six hones

a day in court for three aucooedingcawa without notes, but snys that he is afraid to address aa American audience.

Dr. David Parsons, the old-time

pastor of the church in Amherst, noted for Ids aeeantridties, and. aa

AfcW vaearias. used to have a Plate i

at his table for a favorite cat. une nay. while asking a blessing at tbenwrnbjg meal he was taken with a fit of oosagh-

ing, and before the paroxysm was over tbeoatmewed. As soon as the par

son could sneak ho turned to the eat

a . .M . a V

ana exciatmea: "namt npi x east mm aloasf wHhout yonr help!" and then

streck

in whore ba had left

-Has any one

aTCHOMMlS.

always ready to row people across.

March

asa

aaai

te

t tempt, and then a hush as ite dkawer be .-ante aooarent.

, . ra . ;...... . . . , , 1 . . . . ......

Joe and lata nn piacs wmeiy ana weu. i mar even DC ante to pnt on somewnag lut it seemed impoaaibie thai he ahouid better than a skiff rilpny ; succeed. His purpose was, with the aid the village what Martin paid." of the plank to cross from one ice-held ; The tenUecaen were glad enough of a to aaotber until be should reach the ' chance to do Joe even this small favor, , isdand; but as thatwonU require a good nsd there was no difficulty in the way. deal of time, and the ice was moving , The authorities gtadly granted Joe a

wkn iwaJI,- "Own Mrcam prewy nwauy, w aw Msee oi ine jerry privilege r woay WBO roam . . mt . tttt. mKnva tka - , ,v . VMr TanSi

town. Joe bad gone about a mile up , which was the rate Martin bad pai'l the river before going on the ice, and At tint Jos rowed people back sand when first seen from the town he had j forth, saving what money he got very

tk now. ' aireaay reacneu uw caaaaa. i eareiuuv. ise was au nv saw

te .-, . ,,.Min Aner uuh ars saum a wwiapui reqairen us one. ous n eaauai WtMl - . 1 . .t - I U- ., ". ,. i , , M , .

Bet Joe Lhmhert T?Zt ZXJZZ ' iau ,a na f ,errJT rTZ

m amsWJ ssmmvi, uvi m mTCMMA IUWT nWWWV aWU V'eaVfWV IWH el

1 1 mm . a m a . . O .

Now York was then it would have now C a. , A t.,S 4 Llm

aOOUC 1V.WW aanuanw onwaa v m.

bsggady 1.661. 8Si4ia. arhieh bow has a nooulation

almost aa large as Kew lor Uty. nas 9S1 iastrameats. which is a considera

ble advance over London, and Paris is

ahead of Berlia. then being i.449 td

phones in operation there in a district astiaaated to contain 2,000,000. In Italy

In Katnrsl Hteter y What

tof

- Amlaadah saya thebamnee nf

m geaevaUy i

or

rote the

A nor. He aaa ae-

hts ability te take care of himat by workiaw hard at odd jobs.

mwing wood, rollmg barrels on the whart, pwking apples or weeding oa-

to support himself after a smaller canes or we.

. wnw. - mLI ; warraiarr for nnn to

Tnat ia to any. ae generafly get enough ihem. bia welgnt waa snmcteet to mane toaat,ajdsctothea to vwJ He HtOt, and his footing was Tory insesMnt kt a wwtbonw abed, the owner ' enre. After awhile aa he was wearing

give him keve to do am em tne nann. ne camemto a large ootiec-

that a weand aes as a start af hob wra

attair-t awed the spectetora, and tnc

mci imtar- expectation that he would disappear forever amid the crushing ice-Acids nude them hold their breath in anxiety and terror. His arreateat dancer wan from the

good

deal of freight would be sent

the river, lor. be waa a iongf-

headed' follow, at I have said One day a ehenoe oafared, and be nought for twenty-arc dollars a largo nlif wmnrl knat wnloll Iras aimiJr S

When H became 1 sonars bam fo. tv feet lonr and fifteen

step upon one of i feet wide, with leveled bow nod stem.

made to hold cord wood for the steaaav

boats. With his own hands bo laid a

stout deck on this, and. with the

anoe of a man whom, be hired for that

purpose, he constructed a pair of pnd'

smaller iee-cukee. For'

on the

Jee Lambert alnac f all the vUtagers i .Tti iSJlu JZZ M ali , 1 knew nethmg of what bad aefpene , t ,"2? ffi mV?? and rfTa Jem larbertd daet ' 7 ? bnaad, and that acenmumted a 1 1TTKZ!TZJ be nws either trust himself te the houarnt a hcrai

luraavthiasf ha the estlmatian of

peupte who had houses t live in. The i efy 'inaaim I have gone out of the way i te naake an exception of so anianper- 1 tent a jpcrsen is that I think Joe did reent for scnaethmg on that particular , Marrh day nt least. Wkenhe fmnmed the into of wood nmt he bad to mw; and went te the bouse te get his money, he found no- f bony tbere. Go.ng down the street be faemd the town empty, and, looking down a cross street, he saw the crowds thmhad gathered on the river-bank, : thneSsmraing at last that somefhlngnnnsnelhad ooi-urred. (course he ran

tenWrrvertoieara wbatK was.

awhile be waited, hooins? that a lanrer ; ,tl. wheels. Bv thai time Joe was omt

..U Amll kHt. W aftatr ai l tk lw wkt

apt mnai Mn, i " w--w u. uiuiki i . aw nin. mam tare "

.... . ...... . . . i . ... . , 1

wiiue. n nen ne nnu

little more money, lie

be nrtet either trust hbnaelf te the bought a horse-power, and placed

treacherous broken ice, or fail in hiset-.h la the middle of his bostf, tempt to save the womaa and child. ! connecting; it with the shaft of Mis rk.xiaiaa- tba haat ml the floes, he laid wheefak Then he made -a rudder and

his plan'c and passed access suecessfnl-; helm, and his horse-boat waa ready for ly. Ia the next pammge, however, the nee. It bad coat him a hundred dollnr. cake Ulted up. and Jee Lambert went 1 besides his own labor upon it, but It down into the water! A shudder penned would carry lire stock and freight as through the crowd on shore. , well as passenger, and so the business Poor fellow!" executed seme ten-; of the ferry rapidly increased, and J der-bearted spadator; 'It ia all over I began to put a little money away in the aritk him m." thank.

Xo; look, look! ' shouted another, i After awhile a railroad waa built Into trvlaw t eHmb noon the ice. the villsure. and then a second one

Hurrah! he's on his feet aa-atoP With came. A year later another railromd

tnat the whale near of snectatora , was open on the other aide of the river.

begot tbere be learned that artm, the fisherman who was

the ferryman betweeat the village

on tne otner amoot tne wen drowned during the

kt n foolish Itcannt to

Me ferrskkT across the stream.

The ice wMekhad Moched the river for two meat ha, bad began to move on the ear before, and Marttn with hat wife and baby e child about a year oldwere on the other side of the river at

the time. Early on that moi'iilng there led hoan a temporary gorging of the

JeMI enwiPttw. tuV aWi)nl enaHW wMil lOWaa MML

anonted for joy. and all the iaaMngers who came to ome Joc had inanaged to regain his plank 1 rUlnge by railroad had to beferrted as well as toXaVninm a cake cTkoe i the river in crder to xmUn tbelr

the fields

around

now moving eanfilciiily, be ray little by mtle toward the

aehanamL

wnh ma wwbbw aannw

before

him.

made his way

islana. MHnrrah! Hurrah! he's there at laett" shouted the people on the shore, Bot will be get back asminr was the question each one asked himself a montent later. Having reached the ialaad. Joe very

well knew that the more difficult part

was stilt

of his task

lite above the town, and, wet one thing for an active bey to work age of the eoaanmntirery bis way over fknmng lea, and quite anstartht had triad to erces ether to carry a child and nmd a lOoman

ftaaf Jwoaayeew(n jP&V&tVB&Jf

fnt wee i

wite aad ohaVL te lua

i Immw tnr tkj, nHnaiiti tkafa. Tfas

horse boat was too small and too alow for the business, and Joe Lambert had

to buy two steam ferry-boats to take Its Ehv. These cost more money than be ad. but, as the owner of the ferry privilege, his credit was good, and the

i boats soon paid for themselves, wnvue

Joa's bank account rrew arain.

Finally the railroad people determined to ran throuarh cars for pasaengn

L. x ' and fiebrht. and to earrr them scroes

"v OW . " a . "aaaa.. n .

tee river on lanre ooats outit lorssam

pmpoee: bntbeiow they gave their tw aaate their bemt beBders. their WCjW

waited upon by the attorneys el Jos

iMHoert, wno

Sent a loving wife te her husband: Do yon know, my near, that beAterfty rnaaaents an eery fnahionabier Parkaaa aa. ha srraftv iwntted. bnt

Perhane so," he a4nffly repbed,

- - Wa. aa - t

grub w the great oesioeraaum. An exehanare thinks that

man euU bistaroata

a e a

441 nnn. 1ST in Vino. I SWW Wt a wwww va -I"

- - - a n i ulattn a

A.Z'lm:' in Boloi. -The verdict of the CorWsrr at

Z. ' VJi- eoe nnn. iia iH vunna Tnnbridsre Wells on the aeath of n

lL!i..: 141 nnn. ..j ini Vattia child was: "The child

.'' rul,:;. i:rw but there M no evidence to show that

HMUMHIB WW inww. V I r. ., " . m ... ...

t m.m 1 annnliaif ritHaMllia I I Be MIBWMaa wa HMM W

la nABttlatSnS kaiaa mBWlard as Lua I death.'

. trT . . ,. ,, u.j I ..T..ti. ..... . , ... . ' - -

4am arhiia KAtiu ta Tiiuv aa wan aunniiea i "wuua. an- uvanj ciaaiii wum uu

""rt - fw - -

HavYnrk. i Tour sister unm iwturar rfUHsu -a

In the Rnss aa Empire the three don't know." Wdn't she my aay-

phtces where the tehfihone has been in-1 thing before she went aweyf aua: troducsd are St Petersburg. Moscow I -She sa d, if you cnjne to sec her, thnt

and Odessa. The former has IM out of

the 2tf Instruments the other two havinsr sixty-six and twenty-seren, re-

apeetlvelv. Vienna. Pesth and Tr este,

are tne three Austrian nines into which it baa made its war. Vienna has but 800 subscribers, although the district baa a population falling bot about 900,' 000 abort of that of New York CHy. In . a a at- Vl

tfemgittm some ot tae snuuier oies are remarkabiy well supplied with instru

ments, unanerow wnicn aaa ovt inhabitants, having m of them, which ia almost as many as Leadvllle had when it was of the same ah.

The lines are operated by private

companies evervwhvre excepting in

liermaay ana owiuennnu, m non m which States the (iorernmcnt has reserved to itself the exciusivs privilege of construct ng and working them. In Belgium the Government rescrvM the risdCt to take possession of them at any

name oa xtavment of a fan mice, In

Great Britain the concession is for

thirtv-cne Years, m Austria for

years, and in Hungary for twenty

vaan. La Kumia each lint rccetves a

aneoisi erm cess ion: in Italy the oo

ceasions nm for thirty years subject to renewal, but the Government regulates the rates under certain restrictions; hi Denmark the concession is for twelve years; while m Sweden all that toneoee-

aary is to maae an amioaoai a ment with the telegraph people.

The liberalitr. or the contrary,

played by the different Goa trainee ts kt sramtinsr nermisskm to coastrnat the

Harca Udonbtiem one. of the principal reasotu for the afanndnnccor thepaaeity of telenbone instruments: nut other

causes, such aa concentration of popula

tion, which onnMea merchants to go from ran hoesc to another without any

of time, and above au, aaasonalsn-

ft their

(Jrantes.

aaru4aa. kaM

-jv. r.

as.- - - - - --'- - la

I f sua aiw WTHim vaaaaw r

lonabcmturitemoat

she'd be gone till dootneduy."

What impudence!" exi

Mrs. Shoddy. "Here hi a an bv letter for a situation as

who signs himself Tonr obedient servant. ' and I have not even thought of

hiring him yet"eaqee JTeme.

-Where a oban gets ahead of oat

Father Time la when ha dreams. He can dream oft going te England and fooling around for a year and reanrning home again in ton seoonds. ft ah saves expense. Detroit res JVest.

Mr. J. J. H. Gfegory mys tnat an

acre of land may ceatela sbc tons of

worms. So it may; but, if Mr. Gregory ever tried to digs box of bait on ton minutes' notice of an mvitsttou to go

fishing in a dry time he knowa H don't. Lowell (barter.

Why, John, where have yon been

an nlghtr' was the greeting, as be suimbted ap-stalra. "Cornet party, my dear, shat's alL" Cenaet party? Wh v. it ought not to take all nignt to

mtbecomst." yon thee as many

eomets ah 1 OM, t wouia tane yon,

poor, weak woman, a whole

Yeshh

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erne

-An old darky said to hts wife at the

Look aaere, esa, yer yesagoa

to make npyeraaind: of yer nine to

take de shoes yer can't go to eecwent, an' ef yer la gwine to de drees yer can' t

get, do anoee," iust nnoui. snas uaa the baal struck nn a Uveiy air, and

Suse told the oM man ana

barefooted a whfm

bound to see do oirons.

A countryman stepped into n fruit tore and invested in a niekera worth ofekestnuts. In half an hoar ho returned and bended the ptnprietAwonn of the nuts. "What dona t&smeauF" aakodthe denlor. WoILM teaatfaed

the customer, "that m tne onry sonnn chestnut 1 foond in the .pint, and so

i von smfl mat wm ny nwstaae. i

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