Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 29, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 February 1887 — Page 7

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ladnaaniliagalrbe gans daimtail Om langggjanw aalf -feeWwl leal flTlMBeWfs' BaJfJ HeJ tfinM nfein) MKImMMNTi )4ng Me wMaed aad bowled, ata grief to Ml; Ilia fatten IUahi A Wafejai J W wanw nranp W eMnafSWal jUtd W! tbe mm w torrent toU, Watte long WMlto4tlMWuMMtorNttL me did not mind Um angry Mom Tnat beat upon Mi IroaaWtrg form. Wan stent beiow? AvtrtkltHiw An Mi owtoNMt, people aetd. A waifa imy-a ragged thwnp, Wa gladly aluu Me erwetnf breed WtU tbe fend bruW. me eely friead, Wh lived to guard bia, aa4 (Mwi TTwy bad been ewwtdii tadtetreat; MtsforMine merited tbem lUewa; And uw he aataeed tnat rase 6inw, Mew oent, bow dark, Um werM bed grows. Ha drooped Me fee. Ma eyoa g rew dim ; Lite beMae rag oUignt Serbia. JI MWght AM Kyia iHM iH VftM, For dotatg ladle ebmsk away, Held baek Wr aktrta in eoM (MSdeia; Xough arebina kkskod alai m be lay. They beeeed not aia grief, far be Was but a ewr of low degree! M!.t'a drewa Um orator tea nrefctes eried. One lt deepatriag Howl Mi gv, Rolled over on hi wearv side. And died upon the lowly grave, UBomieed, unwept, ae If to prove How well a faithful brute eatt level -farmy orrenVr, tm Ckmim-t' Jtwnat. SAVED FROM EUIN. Good Daughter with a BtwhMM Head. Bee stole into the library one evening in early spring, to have ker usual "quiet think," in the Sleepy-Hollow chair on the rug before the lire-place, A cheerful fire of dry pine cones crackled 'ami snapped merrily in the early twilight, making the room very inviting to the little dreamer, as she cosily settled herself among the soft, red cushions, ami ltegan to erect her castle-in-tlte-nir. Site had just reached the first turret in her building process, when nlte was arrested hy a sigh from the farther corner of the long room. Now, as Bee had supjmted that she was the only occupant of the library, that sigh startled her considerably, and caused her pretty castle to fall to the ground in sad confusion. She turned her head front the of SleepyHollow, ami gazed in the direction from whence the nigh had roceeded, and seeing a dark object on a far-away lounge, she quickly made her way toward it, stumbling over the ruins of her castle in her haste. "Why papa!" she cried, a site n eared the lounge. "Yon here? I thought I wa alone. What is the matter? You awe not ill, are you?" Papa laughed, but there was something wrong about the laugh. It sounded as if there was a sigh behind, and Bee's quick ear detected it at once. "No, my dear," he replied, fondly patting the rosy cheek laid against his. 'Tm not ill, only a. trifle tired, and somewhat worried." "Worried, papa? And what about? Tell me. I'm a capital hand to drive away worries." "I know yo are, dear; but I am afraid this worn- is altogether too big for my girl, for it surely is for me," ami pap sighed again. Bee curled up on the rag by his skin, anddeauiag her head againet his hand, said, eoaxingly: "Well, tU me about it. anv wav. Perhajw yon and I together can scare it away." Her father smiled in srdte of himself. There was something so inspiring aooui oee ami her cheery voice. She always brought sunshine with her, and carried away gloom and sorrow. "Why, Bee, you see," he began, in explanation, "these striking times are beginning to affect business sadly. Oar expenses are heavy, sales slow and light, and things are looking dark ahead of us. We are obliged to keep up, ami especially to keep our goods in order, which requires good help, as the wares we deal in are delicate and requre careful handling. I had hoped we could get along without any inside trouble, and perhaps weather it through, but to-day our under lookkeeper and three of our best and most experienced clerks struck for higher wages. We are paying all we can ftord to now, in fact more, according to the business we are doing, and yet "we can not possibly get along without these men. Altogether it is bad business, and I must confess, forthe first Upm in my life, I see no way out of a Jiff?1 I should like to be able to tell these fellows to leave the sooner the better. That's what ought to be done, but we are so dependent upon them that I can't do as I want to, and t would Iks right to do, either. They know wo can't trust our goods to new of h! " tlte3 tke tki 1mM6 "vantage Bee thought a moment, when her hr stopped talking, ami then aM: Wht do these three clerks do?" Ihey look after the tine glass and aweware; keep it clean and properly rranged, and show It to customers." And the under book-keeper?" "He assists Ranks in hU office work." "I shouldn't think any of it was hard wheavy work,'' and Bee gmmk down t her white hands. w,,lt.k dy H is responsible work. ZLT'Uf9. " rdi lpmm wWt it." "Yet, I gee." Cffitela nwe mawi VSSMVWS

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dust then mamma earns in and, waving her to comfort awl eer her father, B crept quietly away and up to bw own pretty room, whr she put on her thinking cap, and, looking her door, so mi one eould disturb her, she Ued down in her low rocking ehair hy the west window, and fell Into a brown study. It was after midnight when she at last came out of it, and nutiousiy opening her door atole across the dark hall to an opposite door and rld softly. "Come in," called deep, musical voice, ami Bee obeyed the summons and entered a large, lteantif idly-appointed room, where two young women were slowly and sleepily preparing to retire, after an evening spent at a brilliant reception. The taller of the two greeted Bee with a smile, as she stood wrapped in a wine-colored dress-ing-gowu, her dark In-own hair hanging altout her shoulders, and the brush in her uplifted hand, while her sister sat laaily toasting her daintily-slippered feet at the open fire, looking bewitching even at that time of night in hor becoming pink robe. "Alice, are you ami May too tired to talk?" said Bee, returning Iter oldest sister's smile. "Of course not Are girls ever too tired to talk?" and Alioe laughed, musically. "Tell away, lies, that's a dear," drawled May. "I know by your looks that you've something interesting to relate." "What's up?" cried a new voice, and a tall, lily-faced girl came from an inner room, a gold jen held lightly in her right hand and her pale blue teagown trailing gracefully aftor her. "You still awake?" said Alice, in surprise. Tlio nowcomer rublted her forehead with her disengaged hand, and replied, sleepily f "Yes, I got interested in my writing and couldn't stop. Did you have a good time at the fandango?" and she curled herself up on the rug with a little shiver, and rested her head against May's knee. "Just as usual," replied May, with a yawn. "I'm getting dreadfully tired of this life, though." "So am I," cried Alice. "I feel as if I didn't amount to any thing, ami I am so sick of this everlasting dress, dress, dress, and parties, lunches, dinners, iers6, etc., that I am ready to go to the ends of the world to get away from it." "If you tfant a different kind of life, I am ready to offer you one," said Bee, soberly, from her perch on the foot of the lied. "You?" and all three turned to look in amaaement at their youngest sister, and the pet and lmby of the family. 'Vrua ilnM1 f iua fcn tu UrriUv surprised," she replied, with a little pout. "I can have thoughts and plans as well as the rest of voti, if I can't sing divinely,' 'paint exquisitely,' or write 'heart-melting stories. ' " "Of course you can," cried Alice, warmly. "And I can see that you are brimful of thoughts and plans this very minute. So proceed to unburden yourself lest they prove too much for you." "Your audience is in waiting," said May, clasping Iter slender hands above her dark head, while Ida, the sister in blue, only smiled up into Bee's Mushed face. "Well, if Alice will put down her hair-brush, and settle herself in an audience manner," said Bee, laughingly, "I'll proceed with my lecture, unfold my plans and air my thoughts." . Alice obediently laid aside her ivoryhandled brush ami joined the group on the rug. And Bee began in her sweet, earnest voice, while her wistful brown eyes watched the faces of her beautiful sisters, as they looked up at her on her lofty seat above them. "Now, girls, pap is in awful trouble, and" "Fap in trouble?" ejaculated Alice and Ida, in one ltreath, while May added, slowly: "In trouble? " "Yes, in trouble, don't interrupt," and Bee frowned as hard as she could. "I'll tell you all about it. You know these horrid strikes have made business fearfully dull ami probably will make it so for some time to come " "Yes, yes!" sahl Alice, hurriedly. "Well, that affects papa's business, as well as every body else; ami, of course, he has to be very careful and not pay out too much money, 'cause so little money's coming in. Do you see?" "Of eourse! go on," sakl Alice, as spokesman for the audience. "Papa thinks they oouW have got through all right, only, what do you think?" "What? do hurry!" said Ida, raising her head from May's knee to get a bettar view of the speaker. "Why, the under book-keeper and three of the best clerks struck to-day, ami papa can't pewt'Wjr do without them. Ami he can't afford to pay them higher wages, but he's just got to, 'cause they understand the business, 'specially the clerks, ami they take oharge of all those lovely new-style dishes, Dresden ami Sevres, you know, and that exquisite cut-glass we were Admiring the other day: and nam doesn't dare hire new, green hands to take their place. If he could he'd fust toll those men to leave. And now, girls, this is my plan" and here Bee jumped up in her excitement "Let's take the place of those clerks, and help papa save the business." "Bee, are yon eraay?1 naked May, slowly, while Ida and Alice looked at ", rm not," refdied their sister, rmly, "hut you art, M yott won't half

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living, besides having the disgraee.'' "But he won't fail?' said Ida. "He may, don't you be too sure. Ee looked awfully blue to-night when he told mo about It Ok, girls! yon say you are tired of the Hie you are living. 80 am I, and now let us go to work and really amount to somethiag. Papa needs our help, and we may not always have him, and then we'll be sorry if we have let him struggle on alone, working and worrying to keep us in idtoness, and to give us all the pretty clothes and alee, easy times we want," and Bee wiped her eyes and resumed her seat on the bed again. Quiet reigned for a few moments, then Alioe spoke; "Girls, Bee is right, and I am ashamed of myself to think I have lived along in this miserably selfish way when I might have been of some real use in the world." "Oh! but Alice, think how dreadfully eople will talk," and May turned up Iter pug nose in disgust. " Let them!" replied Alioe, concise!'. " They will talk no matter what we do; so what is the use of thinking of that?" "I'd so much rather write stories, and earn money that way," said Ida, tenderly handling her pretty mi that was such a good servant to her slender lingers. "And I'd rather paint," said May. "I'd prefer to sing and give music lessons, I will confess," replied Alioe, "but girls, you know as well as I do that those professions are full and overflowing now, and it is foolish for us to try to make any thing out of them. I shall offer my services to papa Jayne as under book-keeper to-morrow. I'm sure Mr. Banks will be kind enough to teach me, and in time I'll make quite a business woman." " Oh, Alioe, you old darling!" cried Bee, impulsively, giving her sister a good hug. " I knew you'd stand by papa, and I believe May and Ida will, too, when they think it over." "I'm ready now," said Ida, soberly, laying aside her pen, and standing up, as if ready to begin work at once. "Oh, girls, I can't!" said May, covering her face with her hands. "It's too awful; and I'm sure our set will cut us. "May Jayne, you are acting too silly for any use," cried Alioe; but Bee stole to her sister's side, and putting her arm around her sakl: "You don't need to, May, dear. I know its harder for you than for the rest. We cm 00 your part, too, so don't fret about U' May looked up with a smile through her tears, and said, as site kissed Bee's loving face: "You little rogue! you know how to manage your old sister, don't you? Well, girls,"and she sighed, although she tried to laugh. "I'm with you, ami if society and our friends drop us, why we'll have to stay dropped, that's all." "Our friends won't do any such thing," said Alice, earnestly. "And as we are tired of society, it won't hurt us very badly to be dropped for a time. I'm so weary of this sort of thing," she added, swinging her arms around, "that if this way hadn't opened I believe I'd have hired out as a washwoman or a scrub-girl." "Oh, Alice don't!" ami May put up her hands in horror. Ida, seeing the talk was ended, crept off to bed, leaving Bee to do likewise, while Alice lay awake planning the new life before them, upon which with all the ardor of her strong nature, site fairly longed to ettter, as much as her prouder sister May dreaded it The next morning the four girls met at' the breakfast-table with their father and mother, an unusual occurrence in that family, especially after being out late the night before, as were both Alice and May, while Ida and Bee were up as late, if not out at a reception. Breakfast, therefore, was a very pleasant meal, for the girls laughed and chatted as if they hadn't a care in the world, and their good spirits were so contagious that both Pap and Mamma Jayne felt enlivened and ready for the day's work and worries when they at last rose from the table. "Paps," satd Alice, as her father opened the door to let his girls pass out ahead of himself and mamma. "We wish to see you in the library for a few minutes. Mamma may come, too," she added with a smile, as her mother looked from one lteaming face to the other to re ml the secret So the procession of six marched in a stately manner to the library and entered, Alice closing the door after her. " Now, Bee!" site satd, when the were all seated, with Bee on her father's knee, mamma at his right hand, Ida at his loft, and Alice and May near by. " You tell," replied Bee, modestly, hiding her face on her father's shoulder. Alice laughed. "That's just like Bee. Well, never mind, only let me state in the first place that it is all her doings. Shu thought and planned the whole thing, and we have simply promised to aid her, hut let me also add that we are glad to do so," and she gave both Bee and Papa Jayne one of her warm, bright smiles. "What can it mean?" queried papa, looking altout him with the air of a man who had been caught in a trap, all unknown to himself. " Wait and see," replied mamma, calmly, having unlimited confidence In her four girls, and their capabilities. "It means jnst this," continued Alice. "Bee has been telling us about iVja liMgai tl jifMl eajul WtW jj, Vfmfhf help have struck far higher wages, bu IJJ flnJe) ltt jaJ 'AlfedM aMMfaJae, JVBaTWf "M efst jWt wPWaj '

hney worklfkave eome to propose oar servSees in place of the eierks that aavo struck. We want you to send thesn away at once, and until business starts up again we will fill their plaoee to tM best of our abilities." And Alioe stooned. with a little nhnke in lata eiwwpe . w9 eeFeep aawpweJ ei vouse, while Papa Jayne took out his mamma and the girls to keep him company. But that didn't last long, and, when papa emerged from his handkerchief, with a red and beaming face, ho could only cry: "Bless you, my dear daughters, you have taken a load from me that waa fast pulling me to the ground." 3 Then followed one of those delightful home scenes, when every one talked at ottos, and nobody understood what anybody else said, but all eame out at the end feeling that there was nothing so beautiful In this life as love, after all, and that they had never half loved or appreciated each other before. After which papa and his new eierks eame to terms in a most business-like way, and he departed to tlte store to send his striking l)ook-keeper and eierks away, walking ae if he were fiye-and-twenty instead of five-and-sixty years of age. When he was gone, the girUt flew around like madcaps, donning their, plainest street-suits and strongest shoes in place of their dainty morning gowns ami kid slippers, while mamma ottered assistance in a bewildered manner, feeling that her flock was about to take wings and fly away, never to come back again. "What will you do about your stories, dear?" she asked Ida, anxiously, as she helped her into her jacket "Let them grow for a time, while I live one out myself," she answered, laughing gayly. "And your painting, dear child?" she said to May, tying her heavy vail over her rosy cheeks to keep their freshness from the prying spring wind. "It will do it good to rest awhile, and I'll paint all the better after this new experience," replied the daughter, giving the kind old face, so full of interest in her girls, a loving tat "I shall keep up my music, mamma dear," said -Alice, merrily, "by singing for you and, papa, evenings. It always rests me to sing, so don't worry about 1118." "I won't have any thing to give up, or keep up either," sighed Bee, struggling into her gray ulster. "Yes, you will," responded Alice,

!"you must keep up your bright spirits, my darling, so as to help your .followers on." And with a last kiss and a merry good-bye, the four 1 girls, never more lovely in their mother's eyes as in tlteir modest clothes, they started hopefully out to aid their fatlter; hastened away to enter upon their new duties at the large and beautiful store of Jayne ft Co., on one of the finest streets in the city of M . The new order of things, of course, caused a great deal of comment at first, and perhaps half-a-dosen socalled friends felt obliged to drop the Jayne girls' acquaintance, but when these half-a-doed no1odies saw how their new departure had raised instead of lowered them in tlte estimation of all true people, they repented thJr hasty action and ever after lived in a state of perpetual bowing and bending to the afore-mentioned young ladies, much to the amusement of the family. Mr. Banks very soon succeeded in instructing Miss Alice in the mysteries of book-keeping, so ae to make her of great assistance in the office; while the other girls took such an interest in their part of the work that the alwaysinteresting store was doubly so now, and attracted customers from near and far. Papa Jayne, having so many reliable helpers, found he could leave tlte store for an afternoon now and then, and take mamma out to drive in the country, coming home at night refreshed and joyful as a boy, while he was the envy of all his business friends who were not fortunate enough to have four tine, sensible daughters. Mamma missed her girls from home, but occupied her time in superintending wonderful and appetising meals, to which they did full justice, healthful and regular work giving them "appetites like farmers," as Alice said. The summer assed rapidly, each girl having her vacation of a week in the country, and the strike was a thing of the past when one evening papa Jayne read, as they sat around tlte lamp, in the pleasant library: J " Well, my girls, our business is out of danger now, and I suppose you will be thinking of leaving, so I'll have to bo looking up other clerks." " No indeed, papa," said Alice, warmly; "wo shouldn't know what to do now without regular work, and we mean to stay with you as long as you want us." "Good!" cried papa Jayne; "1 was terribly afraid you would leave. But now, my dears, I shall take groat pleasure in itaying you regular wares for regular work, so from to-morrow your pay begins. " "Dear papa, we have been paid all along," cried all his daughters, "by seeing you so hamtv. and bv knowlna that we really are of some use in the world." Ami so the business was saved; and who can say but what the girls were saved, too? JfsoWe Wit Ah4t4. in CmVseo Sttmktrd. A lady qf this city presented her narlor rirl with a ear net swaemw na Christmas, and the girl swept into a new ptaee Um noxt day, taking the gift with her. TWs was kicking tap a Ami In the vrong d4rseiioetM--JaVM'ieft tfa j ...

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fYostorn farmers has) few if any mora interesting features than the improvement manifest in the dairy industry. Butter-making was formerly oonJlnod to the farmer's kitoheows was set in poorly-selected situations in wide crooks or shallow pans. A dash ehatrn served to make the butter; the finger was the only thermomethe instrument to further kill the grain and quality of the butter. Com04f)tl JfOfVfeWf gfni nnijigfdi tl tieWf) Wfli WWJoJ abused article, and the greasy rolls were done up in nice eloaa cloths. At the store of the country merchant, these rolls were tumbled into an indieerimwai mass of all shades of white and yellow. From them they took a long ride in wagons, oars and boats, with the temperature at the melting point Last but not least, the suffering consumer was reached, and his tastes were so uneducated that the article was taken along with other necessaries. With combined dairying came in better practices, fine, uniform butter, coming from these places in considerable bulk, began to educate, not only tlte taste of consumers, but the eye and methods of the dairy trade. Associated dairying has now spread to nearly all parts of the Northwest, and markets are furnished with great quantities of creamery, factory and dairy products of high and uniform quality. More and better goods are furnished the markets than could have been produced under the old system. Practical experience, with much aid from science, has enabled associated butter and cheese making to be carried to a higher degree of perfection. Tlte work InsMle many of these establishments is carried on with system and accuracy, which, aided by marvelous improvements in methods of transportation, enables them to lay down prime goods in New York or Boston. The patrons who furnish tlte cream have only a partial connection with the process of the manufacture, and, in too many cases, are not abreast with the times, in progressive dairying. Tlte cattle are not improved to produce more milk or butter. The milk or butterproducing capacity is very often lessened, rather than increased, by breeding for looks. The average creamery has very little influence over the breeding toward the dairy type. Feeding for milk and butter is not attended to, as it would if farmers and manufacturers were in more close sympathy. The questions of water, shelter and pasture tie not receive attention as they would if advanced dairying was universally appreciated. The new generation, of Western farmers is growing up without fully keeping pace with the great improvement in dairying. They do not appreciate the necessity of painstaking care. While there is improvement in tlte butter supplied in the markets, the farmers are comparatively slow in improving the small part they manufacture for their own tables. Improved churns, thermometers, small lever butter workers and refrigerators are very slow in finding their way into the farmer's home. Books and newspapers akl, but more interest should be taken, that farmers learn how to produce finer milk and cream, and to make giltedged butter for use in their own fami lies. Prairie Farmer. THfc HOQ IN WINTER. V niMtlnna Wkhli fltinllU a. -- ejhAnKjgAaAb, gp BnaeeW BjaJfai einnisiiinitvTi anw Ja a"iMMjffa The hog has digestive organs that are particularly well calculated for the digestion of fibrous food. This, in a state of nature, was his main food; in fact leaving out nuts and grubs, pretty much his entire source of living. When the hog is shut away from pasture and put into winter quarters, the change from a variety of food to the customary ration of corn, and nothing but corn, is not always conducive to health. In fact, indigestion for even the hog may have this affects many hogs that are thus changed from grass and other fibrous food to corn alone or corn mainly. It should be borne in mind that the animal has no power to change the elements in the food given to it He can only appropriate what is given him. In his native condition the hog had, as he now has when on pasture, food containing a nutritive ratio of about 1 of albuminoids to 4 J of carbohydrates, while the usual winter feed, corn, contains a nutritive ratio of I to 8.6, establishing tlte fact that the hog in his native condition, and in modern times, when on pasture, is furnished with food far more conducive to growth of muscle and frame than when he fat confined to corn alone. Before the improvement made upon the pig during tlte past one hundred years, he had a much larger proportion of lean flesh as compared to the fat than now. The feeding of corn during winter is proper enough in view of its adaptability to the condition imposed by a low temperature, as fat is one of the best shields against coW. But the plan adopted by many of allowing the hog no exercise, and ho food except corn, during the winter, is, in both directions, bad practice. In the absence of grass it is an excellent phut to cut up hay, mixing this with ground feed, eomrd ef oats, bran and oil-oak meal, feeding this wet, most hogs, but not all will eat it with avidity, and an improved condition will at once follow. A noticeable improvement In tint evacuations will be olmrved, a eompared to what was seen when 00m alone was fpd, and noon airorwards a change in tfc ffisiial thrift ef th ios wm h pSjifrj rA.jn jn Ma javen) taTrnjnt,

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her first post when she was dsvsn years old. Th last iatolHgibM words ma and by General Logaa went: U this hi th end, lam ready." Hannibal Hamlin had a brother named Julius Caesar PtncianntiH. and hut four sisters bore the names of Miss LUUe SeidaMrn, the WashingefJn 4iSPftalafaiMft SF e eJ(fsn(41nl n(TifHfli fetl snMTa tfciaJnV fl&&Le JQs4fSuT SattaMfmsT now lives in Japan. The most noted entertainer in Boston is Mrs. Clara Brskine Clement Waters, the art writer. Her salon is modeled after that of the famous Mm. Reoamier, aad at her receptions it i said that on is sure to meet all the social lions, of the day. Jesfoa fferaid. General Sherman spends many of hi evenings at the opera and theater. He Is very popular in New York, and has so many Invitations to dinner that he is obliged to keep a memorandum of them and consult in daily order that none jnay be forgotten. N. Y. Tribune. Major William Dickey, the oldest legislator at Augusta, was brought up in the Franklin County wilderness. He used to walk fifteen miles to go to school in Farmington, and helped hi widowed mother make both ends meet by ringing the bell, sweeping out th schoolhouse, and doing other chores. LewiUm (Me.) Journal. "Coal-Oil Johnny," who was made immensely rich by the discovery ef petroleum, and who scattered hi wealth with such a lavish hand, ha descended step by step until be now has no place to lay his head save in a dreary cell in the Mount Holly (N. J.) jail. The quondam possessor of millions is now a common tramp. Ar. Y. BeraW. 0 Mr. Lamar's late courtship was the most thoroughly carried out 'affair of th kind ever dreamed of in the philosophy of the Romeos of Macon. It may do to tell now that the Secretary's morning visit began just after an early breakfast and ended generally about dark, with a brief intermission for dinner, and that the evening oall lasted well into the night Macon Tlgraph. Miss Boom, the editor of Harpr Baar, express 0 often her partiality for household pets, and not only in her writings, but in practice, carries et her belief in their usefulness. Her fine Maltose eat, a showy combination, of mouse-color aad white, appears in the parlors at her receptions with a frill of white embroidery around hi nock, and seems unawed at th distinguished guests. HUMOROUS. When the Pilgrim Fathers hax that Plymouth has had a dance in honor of their landing, they will be sorry they landed. jfrimrfsfcim CnlL A Financial Peril. If taey aheaM dana Wtagara's aenrse la peril weald nnaaea be, Bjaaanaa a sikMtfe 4 Isl Aa draa 0MM)jj3 m raVDK mj WNfr swVTOfj nfM WeM wre Mtraot Um nrrmt mf tmmm 4 ttf4ffJfUC JlfBaM' VefWfWBJarf' fcnanrwe "See hare, Silas, I don't t'ink muoh of dkt yere Leghorn bonnet of a hen. She sets a bad eggsample. She had! oughter had chicks free weeks ago. "Dat failure's easily spUined, Dinah. She's not in 'ernost all de time." C-r-a-o-k! Why should tho act of kissing a pretty girl under th mistletoe be looked upon as nothing short of "a hanging matter?" Why, because moot young people look upon it as quite a "capital offense. " Judy. A paper recording the arrest of an. actor for stealing, says he was "caught in the act," though it falls to state whether it was the first second or third act It must have made a queer scene, however. Texas Sifting. "I see in the paper that the new comet is visible to the naked eye," said Amy to her friend, the high-school girl. "Would it not be better to say it is visible to the unclothed organ of vision?" gently suggested Mildred. FUttburgh Chronicle. No Impediment Mr. Pebbleberry I should ce-certainly g-go into P-Farliament if I ha-hada't such a oo-oon founded imp-imp-ediment in my speech." Mr. Flithers "My dear boy, Parliament's the very place for you on that account." jPtM. Countryman (loos in a book store) 'Have you got prayer-books, Mister?" Clerk "Yes. Th Book of Common Prayer, I suppose?" Countryman "Ne, it's for a young schoolmam down my way, and I want book of th beet prayers you've got in the WWin'."-. Y. Sun. A clergyman sat in a ehair to be shaved. The artist began: "Who shaved you? Have your hair out Try a bottle of our TryoophegueP Have a shampoo?" The clergyman turned to the barber, aad said : "Lot me up. If I hav got to say . my catechism, I prefer to say it sitting up. But I came here to be shaved." JsSsr4uVigjsii WmmIsii CwlwfVv X r WViMj A man who got up in his sleep th Jther night inadvertently placed his foot on a small spool of eotton at the head of th stairs and landed at th bottom rather emphatically without touobinf mors than two stops. H was instantly aroused from his sosnhtmp in th occipital rin,DfoeliaX roniarked: "WA, that Is th seesnsl tins Pre been fool sneagh to go down a fnibiier an a alteW. ami Vnn hnc It wlti V --tnm'Wa armawy swerwai m avw mw n sibb ka felt lut.111.

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