Ligonier Banner., Volume 28, Number 51, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 March 1894 — Page 7

AGRICULTURAL HINTS. . | THE OMNIPRESENT CROAKER. He'sg very furiny comforter—the man who.told “youy so— . ’ : A kind of patent right he's got on what he . doesn’t know; ) He has a morbid appetite for everything that - fals; . In fact, his life is all made up of wails, and wails, and wails. I,must allow at farming I have beén a poor suce - cess, . . - A kind o’ sort of averageione, to putitmild, I guess; . : This comforter who visits me—just call him who you pléase— v . He always has some fault to find with everything he sees, : . And he can theorize away the profits of ‘my - land,. - ; R . Until I see them slip away.like little grains of sand. . ) g : “Now, take, for instance,’ he will say, “the wheat you raised this year, . And sell it at the market price, and you have nothing clear; _ For every acre that you sowed it cost you—let us count - And see which side the balance sheet we find . ‘the big amount— For bone dust, plowing, harrowing and seeding B wheat and grass And opening up the furrows for-tolet the water pass, ) . Twelve dollars for each acre, it is safely to com-. pu'e; ‘ . S - | Forharvesting and .threshing it, four more to follow sgit. i | Then add to this the taxes, and interest on the i kna, : ) ) The wear and tear of harness, the board of team and hand, ) The bauling it to market, the tile, and underdrain, Makes five and twenty dollars, cost per acre of your grain. ; ) You got but thirty hushels per acre from your field, ) . At sixty cents per bushel, will eighteen dollarsyield, - . And so you see you're poorer for every acre ¥ sown - - . By seven times the dollars of acres you have - grown. i po 9 Or, let_me try another sum—for figures never lie— ) - And on the dairy question a balance sheet we s try. : ) Your ¢ows an average sbéason will yield from products sold, ) On an average forty dollars, that's counting young and old; . ‘Ani now to feed these cattle, sir,-on fodder, arain and hay, - o Will cost you,-at a moderate guess, full twenty cents a day. . In the year, it’s seventy' dollars, which brings _~ Youout behind S An‘even thirty dollars for each of the milking - kind.” I : I-almost was discourazed at the out the figures ‘ made. . ’ "Twould surely make me bankrupi within the nextidecade; . i So I hastened tothe woodshed and got.a shingle out, . And wrote *For Sale” upon it and tacked it to the spout. o But thenl got to thinking—the figures there an? rae . Fach with & trial balance could never make agree, . & For while the figures made me poor and poorer every day, / : My -bank account was looming up, my barns were full of hay. ) And the mistake my friend had made—the cost of raising grain— | Was simply work that I had dome with brawn as well as brain; Andso my friends discover—yon can theorize and plan, | . But the great successful farmer is the honest workingman. ) —I.. M: Stanley, in Ohio Farmer. WOOD-CUTTING DEVICE. Its Inventor Calls It His “Hard-Times ) Hired Man.” ' This 1s the namme given the' c_ievwe shown in the cut by ‘Mr. C. A. . Wells, of Pennsylvania. - He says that the ‘‘hard times’ compelled him to eut his woodalone.” Like a good householder he cuts enough wood in the winter to last a year. The machine is easily understood. Three poles or rods make a. frawe for the saw to swing on. Another rod fastened to a bolt at the top of the frame plays inside two pieces of beard. The saw is made fast to the lower end of this rod, and then it will swing back and forth as shown in the !

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THE BEST OF DUCKS. Pekins Are Said to Pay Better Than Any ) . Other Variety. I have experimented for twenty years with all the larger breecs of ducks, crocsing in every conceivable way, and lam satisfied with the Pekin. I have got through experimenting, and, as I ‘grow mearly 10,000 ducklings a year, can hardly afford to guess at it, as a cent per bird makes a difference of over $5O in my receipts, one cent per pound, a difference of over $800; I can afford to use only the bird that will grow the largest in the shortest time.. She must also prcduce the first eggs to enable me to get young birds on the market for the highest price. There is more profit from- one early bird than from three later ones. Theé maximum price forearly birds is 45 cents per pouind in Boston and New York, the minimim for late ones 16 cents, the cost of production is the same for both. - - : The Pekins mature earlier, are more hardy and domestic in their habits, never wander far, and return home at night. They are not mischiévo'us, require less water than any other breed, and their pure white, elastic feathers are ‘largely mixed with down. These feathers sell from 40 to 50 cents per pound and are no mean source of in-

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’ SOLSVILLE MIRACLE. | Restoration of Philander Hydsa | from Paralysis. g Helpless and' Bed-Ridden—His Recovery from This Pitiable Condition—A . Remarkable Narrative. [From the Syracuse Standard.] During the past few months there have appeared in the columns of the Standard the particulars of a number of cures so remarkable as to justify the term ‘miraculous. These cases were investigated and vouched for by the Albany Jowrnal, the Detroit News, Albany Express and other papers whose reputation isa guarantee that the facts were as stated. Different schools of medicine and some of the brightest lights in the profession had treated these cases, unsuccessfully; and their recovery later on, therefore, and its means, have created aprofound sensation throughout the country. * The Standard has published the above accounts for what they were worth, and are happily able to supplementsame to-day by an equally striking case near home. The case is over in Madison county, at Solsville, and the subject is Mr. Philander Hyde, who told the reporter the following: “I will be 70 in September. I was born in Brookfield, Madison county, where all my life was spent until recently, when, becoming helpless, I came to live with my daughter here. My life occupation has been that of a farmer. I was always well and rugged until two years ago last winter, when I had the grip. When it left me I had a sensation of numbness in my legs, which gradually grew to be stiff at the joints and very painful. I felt the stiffness in my feet first, and thepain and the stiffness extended to my knees and to my hip joints, and to the bowels and stomach, and prevented digestion. To move the bowels T was compelled to take great quantities of castor oil. “While I was in this condition, cold feelings would begin in my feet'and streak up my legs to my back and would follow the whole length of my back bone. I could not sleep, I had no appetite, I become helpless. While in this condition I was treated by a number of prominent physicians.. They did me no good. Isoon became perfectly helpless and lost all power of motion even in my bed.” . - AThe physicians consulted pronounced father's case treeping paralysis,” said Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, “and when we brought him home he had to be carried all the way in a bed. The doctors said they could only relieve the pain, and for the purpose he took a pint of whiskey a day for three months, and morphine in great quauatities. When he began taking Pink Pills we stopped giving him meoerphine or any other medicine, and cut off all stimulants. In ten days after father began taking the pills, he could get out of bed and walk without assistance, and has continued to improve until now he walks about the house and the streets by the aid of a cane only.” ’ “'jcs," said Mr. Hyde, “‘and the pain has gone out of my back and the numbness out of my legs. " I h;wg no more chills, my digestion is good, and I have anexcellent appetite.”’ And then, after a pause, ‘“But, ah, me, I am an old man; I have seen my best days, and cannot hope to recover my old vigor as a-younger man might, but I am so thankful to have the use of my limbs and to be relieved of those dreadful pains.” Others in Solsville are taking Pink Pills, notably the mother of Abel Curtis, who is using them with satisfactory effect for rheu-. matism, and sMrs. Lippitt, wife of ex-Sen-ator Lippitt, is using them with much benefit for nervous debility.

Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain in a condensed form all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood, and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache the after effects of la grippe, palpitation Of the heart. and that tired feeling resulting from mnervous prostration; all diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, ete. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities and all forms of weakness. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases ariging from mental worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature.

. These Pills are mantfactured by the Dr. Williams® Medicine Company, Schenectady N. Y., and Brockville, Ont., and are sold only in boxes bearing the firm's trade-mark and wrapper at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for #2.50. and are mnever sold in bulk or by the dozen or hundred.

The Way It Sounded.

- At a certain mission Sunday school it was the custom for all the children to'recite the golden text for the day in concert. This is not a good way, as the following incident will show, for sometimes the children fail to ecatch the sense: One Sunday the -school was visited by some ministers of a conference holding its session in the city, and the superintendent - pmt=-the - pupils through their exercises. ‘ ‘‘Repeat the golden text in concert,” said the superintendent, and the school repeated in its collective capacity, as well as it could: ) *They went out and preached that men should repent.” ““Mary.” said the superintendent, turning to a girl about eight years old, ‘‘you may repeat the text yourself.” So Mary stood up straight and observed: ‘“They went out and preached that men should wear pants.”—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegtaph. o A Brief Census. There was an energetic -landlady, a widow, in a large boarding house in New Hampshire, and her brother, who was a widower, joined- her in the business enterprise. . . ‘lt so happened their first guests were a young widow and her father, who had recently buried his second wife. The ‘‘Associated Charities” sent out an agent to investigate a case of distress in that neighborhood, and it chanced thiswwas the first house she hit upon. T 0f whom does your family consist?” she inquired of the mistress. **‘All remnants!” was the prompt reply.—Youth’s Companion. : : - Result of Laziness. 3 ~ The steam engine was made perfectly automatic by a lazy boy who was employed to open and close the valves. Desiring to play instead of to work, he tied a string from one part of the machine to another, th\}s making the engine attend to its own business. He was never heard of again, and even his name is unknown, but a perfect engine was the ountcome of his laziness.—St. Lonis Globe-Democrat. —None of the First Water.—First Wave—*“Will you dance with me?” Second Wave—*‘No, only the rougher elements are out to-day.”—Truth. ? : Striving to Please. 1 *1 want ten cents’ worth of bird seed, if you've got it,” said tue little boy. “I’'m not sure whether we have any. on hand just now,” said the new clerk at the grocery store, dubiously, as he examined the canned, goods on the shelves, ‘‘but we've;got some first-rate egg plums, if that'll do just as well.”— Chicago Iribune. i '

—A Supreme Delight. —Jaspar—*‘People who go to Europe seem to buy lots of things they do not need.” - Jumpuppe—“Yes. They do it so that on their return they may enjoy the delights of smuggling.”—Truth: -

Singing of Good Times. Let's stfll sing of the happy tiraes—-the happy , times to be, ; As sing the rivers, streaming on in music to the sea; - ; ‘ As sing the birds—they know not why—when springtime days begin: : Solet us sing the sad times out, and sing the ~ glad timesin! ; Let's still sing of the happy times; though in the wintry frost : : ‘The sweetest roses of the world are withered " now and lost; Some time they’ll bloom for us again—and all . 'their sweets we'll win; - Levt's sing the withered roses out, and sing the new ones in! > —Atlanta Constitution. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That . Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from vregyutablephfsicmns, asthe damage they will do is ten fold to the }500& you can possibly derive from them. all’s Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J.Cheney & Co.,Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, a.cting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure {ou get the genuine, It is taken internally. and mad% in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. K%Sold by Dmggists, price 75c. pey bottle. all’s Family Pills, 25 cents. - . s e(o e J “How 1s your son getting along in 'college? » asked Farmer Corntossel’'s neighbor. YPurty well in some wza.ys. Idon’t know how he’s doin’ in his studies. But from his last photograph I jedge he's discovered a hair tonic that’ll make his fortune.”—Wasbington Star. - ot e et e e et B Signs of Spring., - | If that tired feeling, the forerunner of . Spring, has told you that your system needs ‘ strengthening, do not take medicine, but go at once to I—%ot Springs, Va. The waters act like magic. The hotels are strictly first class, the scenery sublime, and the $150,000 bath house is unsurpassed in the world, every known description of baths being administered. 5t Take the F. F. V.. Limited, over the C. & O. R’y at Cincinnati at night, and reach Hot Springs the next morning. ¥or pamphlet aé)dress C. B. ‘Ryan, ‘A, G. P. A;; C.&O: R’y, Cincinnati, Ohio.

“You say she has a limited divorce. Then, of course, she didn’t obtain it in South Dakota.’” ‘*What makes you so sure?”’ “There's no limit todivorces there.”—Buffalo.Courier. i

* Frightful Phantoms Haunt the dreams of the sufferer from indigestion. What should the nightmare-rid-den dyspeptic do when waking with a start, the sweat oozing from the pores, sleep for the remainder of the night seems unu]ttain—able? Swallow a wineglassful of Hostetter’s Stomach Bilters, which, it taken before going to bed, would have insured repose. Use the Bitters for nervousness, dyspepsia, rheumatism, malaria. - :

“APPEARANCES are very. deceptive,” remarked the tenor. “Yes,” replied the prima donna; ‘‘especially farewell appearances.”— Washington Star.

| ' Which Will You Be A farm renter orafarm owner?: Itrests with ly;oumelf. Stay where you are and you will v be a renter all your life. Move to Nebraska i where good land is cheag and cheap land is good, and }%ou can easillg ecome an owner. Write to J. Francis, G. P. &T. A., Burlington Route, Omaha, Neb., for descriptive pamphlet. It's free and a postal will bring 1t to you. , :

“SoME people imagine that they cannot have a walk-over without trampling their rivals under foét.—Dallas News. |

: . Best of All l To cleanse the system in a gentie and truly beneficial manner, when the Springtime comes, use the true and perfect remedy, S{rup of Fifs. One bottle will answer for all the family and costs only 50 cents; the large size $l. Try it and be pleased. Manufz;%ured ‘by the California Fig Syrup Co. only.

A Max does not necessaril{ take high %round when he uses a little- bluff.—Lowell Courier. 5

Miie. RuEA begihs a week’s engagement at McVicker’s Theater Monday, April 2. The great World’s Fair spectacle **America'’ is coming the end of April.

' THE boy who is learning to skate generally gets a number of head marks before his lesson is through with. | ; Sorsnsh el - __lr you want to be cured of a cough use Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. —_—_—— ————— 2 Or all the things in the world that are “better late than never,” geing to bed certainly ranks first. ¥ — e P 4 2 For Throat Diseases, Coughs, Colds, etc., effectual relief is found lin the use of ‘“Brown’s Bronchial. Troches.”” . Price 25 cts. “m : THE MARKETS. o NeW YORK, March 26. LIVE STOCK-—Catt1e.......... $3 60 @ 4 2 Sheep. o iuanins s o s 3600 ks 400 Hogse. o toua oo sn 000500 595 FLOUR—Winter Patents...... 335 @ 345 Minnesota Patent 5......... 35) @ 400 WHEAT-—No. 2red. .. ... .0u 601505 60% Ungraded Red..... ..o v voce 60 @~ 65 CORN—NO. 2.5 i sl voivnh Hle@m - 46 Ungraded Mixed. .......... 42150 434, OATS—Track Mixed Western. 35@ 36 RYE--Western.i.. .ci ..ol -~ 90@ 574 PORK-—Mess, ‘New... .... .. 1200 @l2 50" LARD-—Western. ...:; ...:ioms 7024@- 710 BUTTER—Western Creamery. 15 @ 2% cir Western Dalrv .. iaes. . pl2.@ 1D CHICAGO. ’ i BEEVES—Shipping Steers.... 82 9 @5 0) COWSR bbl a 0 0100 @ 300 Stockeras il gt i Unl 128 310 Feeders e iasiaa i o 3 0 @ 865 Buichers! 5teer5............ 28 @ 32 BullS . covianiai il 1 b 0 9@ 380 HUGS: o . vaey 4804 1S SHEBP. . o Seicls fohi e Y 8 @b d 2 BUTlER—Creamery.... ..... % 10 @ 214 DOIRY o i @ 2 BGGS—<Fregh i o iia N 10 @ 101 BROOM CORN— Western (per t0n).......... £0:00 @55 00 Western Dwarf.............. 50 00 @7O 00 © Illinois, Good to Choice. .... 40 00 @7O 00 POTATORS (per b.. . ..... 40 @ 70 PORK—MESS...vnn ceuven.ananan 10 95 @ll 024 BEARD-“Steam... . ..o 68, @ 690 FLOUR—Spring Patents....... 32) @ 360 Spring Strajghtsl..... ... 23) @ 260 Winter Patents.... ......... 280 @ 315 Winter Stralehts..o.. .e.i. 250 @ 260 GRAlN—Wheat, Cash ......... 56 ® 364 Sorn; Wo X ie il sk 323 @. 36 Oats, No-Z. ii i o 30% G - SUKg Rye, No,. 2 .00 cii ol idd Tl dte Barley, Choice 1o Fancy.... B o b 4 LUMBER— Blding. ..ol s vaiiii gl6 000 @2B 50 FIOOPINE Lo e, . 48600 (@37 Db " . Common Boards... ......... 1450 @l4 60 : FeNClng .. o lioui, osmnniiin 18 00- 6316 69 Bath- Dry. i ioo 00 2490 @ 2o Shingles:. .. oo sa2 80 v @ Gan KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shippinzy Steers'.... 7 @ 4 35 Stockers and Foeders......: 270 @3 60 BOGS.. L s i in k 35 il 480 SHERP. oo uua ioB 500 iy I 8 e ‘ "~ UMAHA: . CATTLE—Steers. .......... ... 300 @ 4 2 : Feeders .lonasincoia s 260 @3OO BOGS,. . o e i A 49 SHEER.. il o, 24 G 350

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A Dream in the Night. To My Mother.

Sometix_ne_p it seeins thy tace—thy long-hid

face— Looks out on me as from a passing cloud, _ Till I forget they clad thee in thy shroud, And laid. thee sleeping in thy far-off place— / So once again the tender, healing grace Of thy dear presence is to me allowed. - Wilt thou not bless the head before thee

' bowed? s e Will not thy voice thrill through the empty . space? r

How lone and cold the world without thee seemed! : : - Regaining thee, how warm it is and bright! Yetall in vain to reach thee do I seek— And then I wake to know I have but dreamed, And thou art silent.as the silent night— , . With tears I call thee, yet thou dost ndt speak. : : —Louise Chandler Moulten, in Youth's Companfon. - "

Some of These’ Days.

Some of these days all the skies will be brighter— Some of these days all the burdens be lighter; Hearts will be happier—souls will.-be 'whiter— Some of these days! -

Some of these days, in the deserts upspringCoo dng ' Fountains shall flash, while the joy-bells are .o ringing,’ And the world, with its sweetest of birds shall go singing— Some of these days!

Some of thpse days! Let us bear with -our sorTOowW; : : Faith in the future—its light we may borTOW; 3 : There will be joy in the golden to-morrow— Some of these days! : —Atlanta Constitution.

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The lady whose %ortrait heads this article is Mrs. Mary F. Covell, of Scotland, Bon ‘Homme 'Co., S. Dak. She writes to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Chief Consulting Physician to the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y., as follows: ‘‘l was sick two vears with ‘ falling of the womb’ and leucorrhoea previous to takinfi your medicines. I took six bottles of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, and was entirely cured of both in six months ; it is four years this month, since I was entirely well of both those diseases and have néver had any signs of their appearance since and I am satisfied the ‘ Favorite Prescription’ saved my life, for I could hardly walk around. when [ commenced taking that medicine and 1 think it is a God’s blessing to me that I took it. « I was pronounced incurable by the best doctors here in the West. I gave up all hopes and made up my mind that I was to be taken away from my husband and baby of two years old. I was sick all of the time —could not eat anything at all. Inone week, after beginning the use of the ‘ Favorite Prescription’ my stomach was so much better that I could eat anything : I could see that I was gaining all over, and my husband then went and got me six bott_les + I took three of them and my stomach did not bother me any more. i : We sent to _you and got the People’'s Common Sense Medical Adviser, and found my case described just as' I was: we did what the book toldus, in every way ; in one month’s time I -could see I was much better than T had been; we still kept on just as the beok told us, and in three months I stopped’ taking medicine, and to-day, I can proudly say I am a well women, yes, am well, strong and healthy. ‘When I began to take your-medicine my face was poor and eyes looked dead. I'could not _en}’i)y myself anywhere, [ was tired and sick all the time. I could hardly do my house-work, but now I do that and tend a big garden, help my husband and take in sewing.” The following will prove interesting to feeble women %%%erally, and especially so to those about to ome mothers. Mrs. Dora

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S~aces—“What did %%u think when you read my first poem?”’ aggs—*l can’t put my thoughts into words.” - Snaggs——,“vghy not?”’ Wgz;ggs—“l promised my wite I'd never swear in her presence.’”’—lnter Ocean.

TEACHER (of drawing classg-*“l\' ow, Johnny, do you think you could draw that house over the way?' Police Captain’s Son—*No, miss, but pa says if they don't soon Kut,uglthe stuff he’ll pull it.”—Raymond’s Tonthly. : g G TeE world is full of people who would prefer candlelight to sunlight if they had to pay for it.—Ram’s Horn. : : —_—— 5 : “DoEes Flagson practice what he preaches?”? ‘“Great Caesar! No: he never gets through preaching.’’—Chicago Inter Ocean. e e e s, . ) MEXN e t the Golden Age without the Golden fiule. : A—“WHAT is the extreme penalty fox’ bigamy?’ B—Two mothers-in-law.”’—Life.

A. Guthrie, of Oakley, Overton Co., Tenn., writes : ‘‘ I never can thank you enough for what your treatment has done for me ;-T am stronger now than I bave been for six years. When I began your treatment I was not able to do anything.- I could notstand on my feet long enough to wash my dishes without suffering almost death ; now I do all my houséwork, washing, cooking, sewing and everything fo;t;rny family of eight. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the best medicine to take before conlil)nement; that can be found ; or at least it.proved so -with me. I never suffered so litt}eiwith any of my children as I did with my last and she is the healthiest we have. I recommend your medicines to all of my neighbors and especially ‘Favorite Prescription’ to all women who aresutfering. Have induced ‘several to t§y it, and it has proved good for them.” ours truly, ' Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a positive cure for the most complicated and obstinate leucorrhea, excessive flowing, painful menstruation, uanatural suppressions and irregularities, prolapsus, or fallin% of the womb, weak back, ¢ female weakness, anteversion, retroversion, bearing-down sensations, chronic congestion, inflammation and ulceration of the womb, inflammation, pain and tenderness of the ovaries, accompanied with ‘internal beat.” ' : Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a scientific medicine, carefully compounded by an experienced and skilliful physician, and adapted to woman’s delicate organization. It is purely vegetable in its composition and gerfectly harmless in its effects 1n any condiion of the system. TFor morning sickness or nausea, due to pregn’anfly, weak stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia and kindred symptoms, its use will prove very beneficial. Dr. Pierce’s Book, ‘*‘ Woman and Her Diseases,” (168 pages, illustrated), giving successful means of home treatment, can be had (sealed in plain envelope) by enclosing 10 cts., in one cent stamps, to pay postage, to the Doetor, at his address, as given at the beginning of this article.

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- Visrror—*“lsuppose these are all pictures of ancestors you have hanging here?”’ Mrs. Smith—*Mercy sakes, no; them’sall Smiths, and every one of ’em lis kin.”

A PERSISTENT ONE.—Briscoe—*“Jaysmith is a regular vocalist.” Bunting — ‘“Nonsense.”’ %riscoe,——“lt’s so. He’s always singing his own praises.”

SoAx—*Do -you always pa,yi as you got” Freéshby—‘‘Always.” Soak—**Why?#? Freshby—‘Because -they won’t let me go withou3.’—Brooklyn Life.

| OxNE swallow doesnot:make a summer, but it often takes the overcoat off {. man’s back. —lnter.Ocean. . z 41 BEG your pardon, sir—"? “What is it?"? _“Cax} yvou tell me where I can get the newest idea in antiques?’—Hallo. e i CoMPLAINT of the stafie carpenter—all worl i and no play.—Texas Siftings.

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