Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 34, Number 2, Jasper, Dubois County, 25 September 1891 — Page 3

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OMAHA. SURE THING. tlMseUt a self easts WrWm EeJT t4BfEtt Clertlea day Ulnga Mm4 m In4aet Mm route Iim4m TIM iHMi ballet pllta up sis big waJerUy; Bet m he eesaVes Mm nrtm art t e'elcek tart stent. Buree "Ml' KNlMto mmm la a4 kW kk office out of atsbt. n Beww kaockei set Mwlrtely erasaea. sis tttiafnnatt aVnA)eBl eAAat "lie How Miiu k Wh! Mekswaceea A e4 , iuUu .ua ka Imm4 a ruik km, WSo rstsrln4ae4et bug, s4 W't ke4 aklaat: . - ...... t.. .a hfctoaetrlue. With cesJtceeee be asked wke see "tresM neste Mm MiMrful ear." Ad found aa weeM net "mmm" at all. ike'tt onlr u la mmt. So, to hi empty peeket 1m reteraes Mm etmo4 rin. And (uu 4 kt'il Kla4 seme yeiats-akwit A Des4 TbMff. AIM I Uek l i ttWM "'C tJH We all Save stnMt4 ever It ia esexneetec AVA. It mar have seen a tip rtxwt awe ayer at tM track. Or el red wm a eeeea times. aa4 ihtn wa ,aydtkeWaek: . braklafact w all Save camMe a A Dead Sere Tkiag. Harry Berneies. la Detroit Kree Pre. WAS the brightest day that ever anyone saw. My wedding-day. Th e 1st of Jane. 1774. I never shall forget the day or the date. Ahr"""' lavm he married in -ta 1 1 mamamamamaftr I Tt 5 w v rV' njPNB ... the little stone church, ob the hill-Ralph Holliater and I aad they had drew! ia bit weddiag dreea, and hade look at, myself aad sec how pretty I was. Well-hat that fat aot for ate to Mr. Only I did not feel as if I knew myaelf standing there all white, with a veil ob my head nad white roses in my hand. We eouMk't get oraage-blos-soma, and we were all clad, I think. I know I waa ae happy as the angels are m Heaven. Yon should hare seen the picture from oar door. One aide the green woods, the other the jrreen prairielike a aea it looked with the wind sw erring its Ion grass gently up and down, as waves rise and fall, and jrt cisrhty little houses and then bar ns gathered together and the atone church on the hill and the school houae ImjIow it It was called Hone Settlement, anil it was prosperous and others were coining out to us shortly. 'and in so small n pi see we were all friends, and everyone was bidden to the weddtnjr, and everyone earn. We walked to the church, and I walked beside Ralph, and the rest cause after, arm in arm, with many a Joke and asany a laugh. The minister and his wife and five little girls in white muslin gowns were already at the church. So was the old man who kept it tidy, and a wagon full of men, passing by us to clear a place farther on, bad stopped to see the wedding. Before we went in my father invited them all to some over and share the supper and the danee, and they thanked mm Kinair ami sefcl tnev would if their niDVH III Bill II UB ISTM T ltd numaAajl Aaa nau no noitday clothes with them; and ... we went mto the ehureh; and then tkk wKDmss rnocRMioir. 11 were silent and reverential, uad we two stood before our good Parson Tyier ana promtsed to eleave unto, one another, in good renort or evil renorL in sickneM or in health, until death.dtd us pari; and the pastor kissed me upon ny foreheatl, and nay parents took me in their arrna and all the folks oame abont to greet me as a wife, and I was &o longer Prudence Lee but Prudence Holliater; and away again along the footpath that cut a brown way through the green grass from the church to the ettlement, every woman with her few a over her arm, every man with his nn over his shoulder. No, I make no mistake. Ia 177S men always took their gnus to ehureh with on Sundays, and at any time when mere was a meeting there or a "Mf, fur, ie yea, there

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wtmhi he upon a pi see. Thejr were always ready to kill and wake prisoner They revenged on those who would gladly have been at peaee with all tne emel treatment they had bad from wicked pale face: and onee revenge Mils the heart of a savnffe it goes with hhn to his grave. Ye. K goes down to hk children, and rankles in the heart of hk greatgrandehlldren. There is no forgivwneks in a haathea soul. liut Hope Settlement had been spared m far. Wa had been very quiet ami aantWss, it is true, hut Mmt was bo We were out of the way of the worst tribes, and not in plain sight of the paths they mostly took; and we were aot ia terror, only prudent in keeping ourselves ready for defense; and onee home the guns were all stacked outside the door and we had our feast Simple enough, bat we were healthy and happy and aot. used to great dainties. They drank my health in cider, and they warned me au tne happiness the world could give and Heaven after it; and tnen tne uaaee IWe had a eontrs-dance, and i led it with Ralph. I stood there smiling, joyous, full of hope, without a fear in my mmd, wneu suoueniy irom me crowd outside the door eame a cry that froae the blood ia my viens: -The Indians: The Indians are uplas!" I dung to Ralph. The world grew black before me. Then all waa hurry and bustle. The young women, white with terror, gathered their children together; old women cried to God to help us; men flew to their weapons; and, oh, the scene that followed! But I will not try to describe it; I could not do it even now without losing my senses for the time, as I did then. I the painted faces of the lends; I see my mother's eyes and feel her gray hair dropping from her comb over my arms as I held her close. "Your father!" she gasped. They will kill your father!" I dragged her down into the cellar below the house; many of the women and children crouched there. We heard the sounds of the firing, the shrieks of the red fiends, the cries ami groans of the wounded. One moment I cried: "Ralph!" The next: "Father!, How long it lasted none f ns could ever tell; but there was silence at last, and feet came over the floor and down the ladder to the cellar my father, with his head bound in a handkerchief, but alive able to walk. They had the worst of it! They had the worst of it this time!" he said, and fainted in our arms. And there were other men who found their women folk and clasped them to their hearts, but my Ralph dkl aot come to me. I knew he would not from the first I knew my doom was written when that cry: "TAe Idtn are vpn tM.'" smote my ear. Well, death had come to some, and some were missing, carried oft! to he killed more barbarously, to be tortured before they died. My Ralph waa among these my Ralph. Bat many Indiana lay dead also, and they had been bravely withstood, and had the worst of it ia numbers slain, as my father said. All the village was ia grief, for we were like one great family, but each mourns his own. I mourned Ralph my Ralph. There was no hope of mercy, as the day had gone. They had left too many braves upon the ground to spare their prisoners, and yet it seemed to me, day by day, hour by hour, for a long while, s4 though Ralph might return. Not a figure came along the prairie or over, the brow of the hill but I fancied it was be, until at last despair seised upon me. Oh, I leave it to those who have suffered as I did to know what I felt then. Ah for others to whom such grief has never eome, they cannot understand. God grant they never may. And while our hearts break the years go on all the while, and the skies are blue, and the spring flowers bloom. How many moons grew fall and waned? How many dark nights through which I wept incessantly? How asany harveets were gathered? How many times did young flowers spring up ia the young grass, and the winter eome with its snows and sleet-storms? Enough to make my elder sister's Utile daughter seventeen years of age she was but ten on my wedding day and to bring her to her own marriage eve. There had been weddings, of course, but not in our own family, and I had been to none; but bow I must go to Annie's. The settlement was larger; the safety greater. The men were never without their guns, but they had had no reason to nee 'them for some time. Bid they know how the memories trooped upon me all that time when they were making little Annie's wedding clothes and talking of her happiness? Just so they talked of mine seven years before seven years before. I had put on a black dress and a widow's eap when I gave up all hope that Ralph . was living, and nothing else teemed right for me to wear. My heart within me was like a lump of lead, but 1 said nothing. Only, as I climbed the hill with the rest, I said to myself: ''Ah! if they only came here, following me in my cofiin. with my hand erossed upon my heart and that heart at rest, 1 testing no more, aching no more broken, not breaking, at last!" And ever ia my ears I heard the words: "Ralph is dead! Your Ralph is dead 1" Ami could I be the same woman who climbed the hill with my hand In hie. and my bride dress over my arm, and the white rose Sn my bosom? Ho happy I So happy! Oh, so happy! Could it be I a thing with a lump of lead for a heart aad no hone of -happiness while she lived? .And Annie went on before us on her htdegroom's arm, just as I went on that past day, aad, we followed her into the ehureh. The minister's daughters were mostly grown, but there -they were. There, was their mother, aot as much altered as they. There waa the good parson himself, with the groat sear across his oueoK inn, its mm worn svnee tne tay he married me. Outside the grave of the mea murdered oa aajr

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wImmu they found eVsafl n her dead husband' arms. It ua only what I thought of every Sunday, after all, and the parson began hi service, and the words were said that made those twain one, and we had gathered about the bride, whoa auddenly the shadow of aa Indian ia his blanket fell upon the wall behind the low pulpit, and every bead turned. An Indian stood there, his blanket drawn across his face, but about him he wore the tokens of peace andfriendly intention, and he made a kindly gvfcture with his hand aad kaelt as though in prayer, eoreriag his face yet more with his blanket Rut redskins are treacherous. The men ran to the door, hut saw nothiii", to alarm them. The bride's color ku all gone. As for me, 1 expected every moment to hoar the hideous warwhoop. The men, each with his gun in his hand, encircled the kneeling Indian. He arose then, and his eyes looked into theirs. "I am alone," he said. "No oae comes with me; and I eome in lore, not in hate." "You do not speak like aa Indian," said my father. "I have lived with white mea; I have learned their speech," replied the Indian. "Hare no fear. I swear there is no treachery." "lie speaks the truth," said my lather. He held out his hand. The Indian grasped it Yet he was an Indian, and we had no reason to do aught but hate his kind. And now wu ,vere on our homeward way, and I lingered a little to shed a tear, and suddenly I saw the Indian at my side. His eyes only were visible under his blanket "You wear black clothes, squaw," he said. "Why do you not wear white and blue and p'uk like the others?" "llecatise seven years ago the Indiana killed my husband, aad I am a widow," I said. "Hat you are pretty!" the man said. "Some other man should have made you his wife." "These are things not to be talked of," I said. "Ah, how do I know but you are one of his murderers!" He shook his head. "Did you see the Indian who killed him?" he asked. I answered him rudely and fiercely. "No hut you are all alike. They bore, him away to torture by fire and poisoned arrows. Oh, my Ralph! my Ralph! Kill me, also, if you like, but do not talk to me! I loathe you all!" But the Indian dkl not move. "Indians do not always kill prisoners," he sakt "I knew a white man once who was spared and lived with A WHITE MAX STOOO BSrOMC MX. them for years. His name was like your husband's Ralph. Oh, yes; they do not always kill." I was trembling now from head to foot "Ralph!'' I cried. "Tell me where he k! Tell me where you saw him! Speak! Speak! Savage, have mercy for onee! Is it he? I will go to him if it it through fire! Tell met" He shrugged his shoulders. "Yon would not know him if you saw him," he answered. "Has he so altered? Have they disfigured him? Ah, but I should know him aad love him still!" I cried. "IN'o. You might meet him and never that you saw your husband," he wered, aad turned away. A little spring was close at hand, he boat -over it I sat down upon the grass. I could bo longer stand. Was ho drinking? No; he was washing his face, aad suddenly he wheeled about aad looked at me, aad I saw no Indian but a white man. He threw away his head-band aad feathers; his blanket lay upon the ground; a white man stood before me. ''Don't you know mo ow, Prue?" he cried; aad I lay ia his arms. It was Ralph -my Ralph, aad I know how the blessed spirits feel when they meet their lost nad loved in Heaven. Oh! how could 1 live through such sorrow to meet such joy! Has any other ever been so comforted? What a day that was! What joy all seemed to feel! How good was Godl How I loved Him and all mr fellow beings! I was gladder than the bride, and young again, though the tale he told of his captivity ami his longing for home made me weep. Yet he was with mo agcin. Thank God we are together still, though twenty years have flown; and it is now the year of our Lord 179. In those days when we have both passed away from earth they will toll our story ia the town that has taken the place of our settlement; but I can nerot1 tell them why the Indians spared Ralph's life white the other prisoners were all kill!, or why they were always good to him until the day of his escape, for that he never knew himself. Mary Kyle Dallas, m X. Y, Ledger. Combating the iaeoets which have been ruining the tree aad crops m Ravsria has, it Is said, cost the govern ment 3, , marks, aad the nsunsl authorities probably as HHTeS aftMT KMrthavJf t&M aVavel VTaram a avPH eially preparad preventive.

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Mfftr frkM I 1U frmU 4es The Wa4 m a Trt.t aad His TavH B e MnapiUU WaVHt Ma tnuMtUr. Maay a honnewlfe has been pussied as well as annoyed at the higher pries of glass fruit jam this year. The writer of this was recently visitiag a farmer's family whoa the subject of canning fruit oame up. The good wife had seat to a neighboring etty to bur a supply of jars for her large crop of fruit aad matoew. To her surprise a consider able higher price was charged, aad the merchant, being a friend, warned her that tha price was likely to go still higher. Ro oae hi the family knew that a had put up the price of those jars; and when the writer iaformed them of taw loots of oar high protective tariff oa the farmers' pocket The tariff oa glass jars for fruit is w cent oa the host kinds aad still higher on the cheaper grades. Meaides this, glass jars are very expensive things to pack aad ship, being very liable to break in handling; aad the aew law makes no allowance for glass broken ia shipment from abroad, unless the part broken is as much aa onetea th of the whole. Under these circumstances it is aot singular that our imports of glass fruit jars are so iaoonsklerable that they are not separately named in the government reports. The domestic manu facturers, therefore, have the market eatlrely to themselves, aad being few in number they can easily combine and force trust prices upon the people. The high protection given these men is entirely uncalled for. The New York Tribune, the leading high tariff journal in this country, has made the claim that plain glassware can be made here aa cheaply as ia Knrope. Moreover, It is known that the manufactur ers of all kiads of glassware have been making enormous profits for years past A gentleman having the most intimate relations with the glassware trade recently made, in n confidential way. some startling statements concerning the profits which the maaufacturers have been making. The only purpose, therefore, which the present high duties on glass jars can serve is to compel our women to pay tribute to a rich and powerful trust It is time for such things to stop, aad these monopolists must not fancy that the people are going to permit this tariff spoliation forever. The people are patient, but once aroused they are ter rible in their wrath. SENTIMENTAL TRADE. af4 Will Not I'ar H ler rriM at M ease Tksn They WW Abroad Merely to Gratify Loeet rride. The attempt to get people to buy an article for the sentimental reason that it waa made ia their town, or stato. or even in the United States, always breaks down ia the end. They will perhaps buy at first with much en thus! asm, led oa by local pride, but at last the moving principle of all trade wm assert itself aad they will buy where they can got the beet for their money. An interesting illustration of this is found in the followiag case: "Last ye there was a big agitation down south about the nee of jute for bagging, while bagging made from cotton was said to aaswer the purpose and would assist materially ia usiag up the cotton crop. A procession of farmers marched into a southern city with flags flying and banners, vowing allegiance to cotton bagging. They went in n body to the loading store in the city aad, with much parade, purchased supplies of cotton bagging to cover tadir cotton, aad then marched out of town again to the tune of Dixie. The proprietor of the store was much surprised a few nights afterward to have the leader of the farmers' cotton bagging parade drive up to his store after nightfall aad, after much blank blaaketing, purchase a big supply of jute bagging nad thea implore the store keeper to keep the transaction a dei secret Practical experience showed him that jute was the best fiber for his purpose, evoa if It were a foreign proeV new Once ia a lifetime our protected insaurseturers and their political allies may take a fancy to give a banquet at which everything shall he American, even to the wine nad cigars, Mm table linen, knives aad forks, crockery aad, glai ware. Bat after their heads are cooled from the effects of champagne these en thueiaetie protectionists will go on buy lag whore they can buy cheapest, ear lag nothing whether a article bo made ia America or la Africa, VALUES IN OHIO. 'sPJm emrflJsaV SCnVaHnrfl) ToaMVn" Sn a7aVa(B The "home market" idea, with which the protectionists seek to beguile the farmer into votiag for a high tariff. has received a heavy blow ia Ohio. Build np manufacturers through protection, say the high tariff crowd, and they will build up agriculture; big maaufacturiag population will en sure good aad steady prices for farm nroduce. It is a beautiful idea and is so captivating to the protectionist mind that Census superintendent Robert P. Porter assures the farmer that "the di rect benefits he receives from the present tariff are far in excess of the benefits received by any other class." If the fnrmer is getting such great benefits from protection, figures ought to show It But figures show the eon trary. The most recent figures oa the subject arc those of the Ohio eeoeaaial hoard of equal isatioa, which i a republican body. The board has just published the results of its work; aad its figures will be very etttloait for Mo Kialey and other "homo atarket" theorists to explain. The total value of real aetata ia Ohio is bow il,M,tt6,Mt, ayaiaet fil.MT,Mt.SM ten years ago. The valuation of real estate iu villages, towns aad eHies has rieen in ten years from t4t,MM14 to tew,, 74, or over H per eeat This iaoisacs waa mane np of Nsf fM9 faa aWsTBwttaaf A4btbs OIMsHT sbbV fraYtirHMnMHm wH aWNal $W&m&& aPaWHT lanamMni aaa aja I -- LaamA an grewns as rasas, aveji B,

is stated iu Ohio Ami att property hi assetsed at only about una third of la market vaiuo, AttfcfeMWthittereete of value in eMas nad town has bee equal toiM,emeM. Ami how have matters gone in the country, where protection has been

dispensing its exeessive "benefits?" Farm lands wore valued at twli,na,sit tea years ago; bow hey are put at fftir.aTMTJ. or a loss of W7.o9t.oM. But the farmers spent W,00a,M ia im provements la these ten years, aad the actual loss is therefore t97.aM.0M. Kvea if bo allowance he here made for the lower aiaaaaaa valuation, as pared with market prices, it will found that Ohio farms are worth ly 14 per eeat leas than tea years ago. while village, town aad city property has galaed 54 per coat la value. How can this be if the farmers are lined by protection so much more) manufacturers are? Aad hew can it be if the "home market" Is so much better for our farmers than the foreign market? THE TWINE TRUST. A Flsuriehtng Mwaeetr An Onjeec Leo sea wertnjr er Orest tKudjr, The National Cordage Co. or twine trust, which threatened last year to shut up If its protection were lowered, shows no signs of being hurt by the lower duty on twine. Not long ago it got possession of nil the cordage fac tories la Canada, aad bow it has bought the Boston Cordage Co., the largest and strongest competitor of the trust These evidences of prosperity are exhibited, notwithstanding the fact that the lower duty on twine has com pelled the trust to charge the farmers much lower prices for twine this year than last year. This is aa object lesson which ought not. to be lost sight of when the tuiff again comes up for revision and reform. At such times manufacturers flock to Washington and fill the air of the com mittee rooms with doleful tales of ruin and disaster which are sure to follow if duties arc lowered over so little. Last year the cordage trust tried tni out trick when the duty on binder twine was about to be reduced a little. But. thanks to the action of fifteen north western republican senators in voting with the democrats, the duty on twine was put much lower than the trifling reduction which made the trust ery ruin and destruction. What has followed? Any signs that the twine trust is going to close up? Not so. On the contrary it goes on buying up its rivale at the same time that the reduced protective duty forces it to soil twine at lower prices. It may not be earning the 40 per cent divi dends now thnt Senator Davis, of Min nesota, said it was earning last year. but it caa live and thrive on even small duty which the McKialeyita ame to save from the wicked democrats aad the fifteen "traitor" republican senators. Hereafter whoa a protictid iadustry threatens to die If duties are lowered aobody need be frightened. It is aa old trick which has been played much too often. Let the knife cut deep, though the patient wince and writhe. CHanM When Moses sent out spies to go into Canaan and spy out the land, they cama back aad reported that all the people they saw in it were "mea of great stature," were "giants" aad "stronger than we," aad one cowardly spy added: "We were ia our own sight as grasshoppers." All this has been inverted by our protectionist spies who go to Europe to investigate the condition of pauper labor. Our spies never bring back word that we cannot compote with European labor because it is "stronger than we," hut because it "eats meat only once a week." Our spies do not report that they felt themselves aa grasshoppers before Europe's "pauper labor," but nil the name they are sura they cannot compete with it The climax of absurdity before MeKinley's committee was reach by a button manufacturer who thought that Bohemia was "the curse of this country, so far as manufacturing is concerned." What was the reason for his alarm? Listea:-"The little girls eome to the factories at tea years old, or alato years, or seven years. Do you suppose oar women nad men can compete agaiast such labor?" To such a depth of cowardice aad stupidity does the protection superstition sink men that they bo longer argue that they cannot moot their opponents, since they themselves are oaly grasshoppers aad the opponents giants, hut because their opponents are grasshoppers aad themselves are but giaatal Mlt Naear Over re mar. Protectionist papers are still rejoieiag over the cheapness of sugar and are lauding the MoKinley law 4 to the seveath heaven for the money it is saving the people oa their sugar. The New York Tribune says! "The difference of more than two cento per pound in cost means that more thaa ftS,tOO, tot has been saved to consumers la this country by a single clause of the new tariff. This is not far from Si for every man, woman and child, aad there is scarcely any other product of whioh the consumption per head of the working population approaches more closely that of the wealthy." The refrain to every song which the protectionists sing Is that "British free trade" ma ana ruin to toe country; yet now they never weary of praising the MeKinley law for its cheapening effect at the oae important point where it gives us "British free trade" absolute aad unadulterated Do they think to 'float" the high protective features of the bow law by continually harpiag upon the oae brtgntspotof "free trade in it? Their argument now seems to be, "Protection ie a great thing when you take it off;" jast as a certain small boy onee defined salt as "the thing what makes food taste bad when yoa j I. s doa t put any in." 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FCSSONAL AMO LIT ERA NY. The late ex-do-. Paul IMlliagheay sf Vermont, always weed the apneasage of "Jr." to his name, though aimeet ninety-one years of age. ,. Among the manuscript left by the late Count von Moltke, Prof, Felix Doha, his hiograjsher. has found a "Confession of Faith." The great marshal affirms his belief in Uod aad a future Ufa. The "Confession" will be published among tke other works. George Washington's nearest living kin Is Mrs. Faany Washington Pinch, of Waahiagtoa, D. C, a great grand

aieoe of the Father of his Couatry. fa a tall, majestic woman, aad fat tares resembles the portraits of horatstmguisbed relative. She is the youngest aad the oaly survivor ot twelve eaftdrea. Oae of the moat iafluontial men ia Copenhagen fa Hsrr Councilor Persia r who owns five newspapers: National, Tiasada,Dagens Nyheder, Afteapossea, Dagu-Telc rafen aad DagMadot With the exception of Borlingske the Tieeade aad Avfaea, Herr Forsler eoatreu every conservative paper in the Danish capital. 1 Robert J. Burdette ia making his mark aa a preacher, and een get off as good a sermon as he can write a joke. And his pulpit utterances are free from disagreeable drawbacks. There is no editor to blue-pencil his happy thoughts, aad the foreman doesn't come around to announce that ke haa "no room for that stuff." Mrs. Jamas T. Field, of Boston, the wife of the publisher, is aaid to poasaas one of the most valuable literary col lections in the world. In the library are numbers of valuable MSS. and autograph letters, and in the garden, at the rear of the house, grow trees which were planted by many famous authors and public men. Richard Mansfield, the aetor, is the son ot Mac Kudersnonr, tne once fa mous opera-singer and musical instructor. She waa much opposed to her son's choice of the stage as a profession. Mr. Mansfield wss successfully engsged in business in the dry-good house of Jordan, Marsh & Co. in Boston before he began his career as an aetor. It is said that Amelie Rives will ap ply the money received for her new novel "According to St. John" in the interests of a friend. The book contains the impressions of Paris received by the writer during nor stay tjharc. She k credited with saying: "I hare worked very hard and hope I have quieted down the extravagances of sty In which offended people so much. I con sider the thiags I do bow as simply studies, and I am searching all the while." The empress dowager of Chiaa is a strong-minded lady and rules her fam ily with aa iron hnnd. She is a woman of powerful physique, and so strikingly was aad of no firm aad sir sag a dfopositkm thnt all wills must bond to When the oaawcror madvarfsmtbr does something to diesloase her he fa made to regret It, aad aa for hie all. She fan't crest allowed to have a good time, as sho might have if aha loft alone. Mr. WhHtier recently sakt in re gard to "Skipper Ireson's Rido," the controversy eouoerninfr whioh has broken out again: "I thought I bad made nil the amende possible for that. The story waa told me by en old schoolmate, and I east It ia veree form. When the fact was made known to sue that not Skipper Iresoei bat his crew were responsible for the abevndonioeat of the wrecked ship, I so stated it kt my published poems. I would aot mtoa tloaally do nana to anyone." HUMOROUS. "Johnny, have you sees your papa's tooth anywhere?" "Yea'sum. Me aad Annie was crack in' nuta with 'em euly tea minutes ago." Epoeh. Visitor 'You've grown. Tommy, since Inst year." Tommy, (diedaiafslly) "Oh! yea! Why, I only eame up as far as my necktie then."' Clothier aad Furnisher. A scientist mbouuoos that be haa discovered a 'peculiarly beautiful m my" at Thebes. The soieatific idea of beauty is sometimes aa eonfuMag aa that of the crank aesthete. Washington Star. Judged by the) Prion. Customir Yoa say those twenty -five cent sears are fresh?" Clerk-"Ys, sir; but f yoa have any doubts abont H perhaps I had better charge you thirty cents." Yankee Blade. Shopman "Will you allow me ta scad this for yon, madam?" Ledy "No, thank you; I'm driving." Lady' a Little Girl (ia ecstasy) "Oh, mummy! Are we going book ia the yellow 'bus?" Miss Smllax "I like to waits with yoa, Mr. Wooden; but why don't yon ever reverse?" Wooden "Well, I have reverses enough in my bnsinsss without bringing thorn into my pleaonres." Boston Courier. Watts "I don't approve of thle idea of burying every eminent cHiaea with a brass band." Potts "It would not be so bad, though, if they'd bury a brass bend with each eminent eitisen." A Sad Misapprehension. Mkn Sovenfigures. "Oh Mr. Gilthuat, this sudden proposal surprises me I am embarrassed " Mr. Gllthunt "1mbarrssfted: Thea I take it all back. I thought your fortune was as secure aa the bank of England. "Kate Field's Washington. "You don't love ate so much as yen did?" pouted young Mrs., MeBride. "Didn't I just any you wore worth your weight ia gold?" remonstrated her hua"Yes; but you aend thnt when first married, and I weigh pounds leas now."- PittaVurgh Chronicle Telegraph. Not long ago, in a public school examination, nn eccentric examiner ee-maeded-"What vfawa would King A1-. frod take of universal suffrage, thesenacripiiaa aad printed books, if he werev Irving new?" A pepit wrote ia answer -If flag Alfred were still alive, ho wauid be tee eM tembaaay mvarsetan.

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