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In the early days when our classical stu dent rode horse to plow corn or smacked a churn handle up and down, or superintend ed the lire under the vernal snip kettle, he was saluted hy the name "Johnny," and he W.l* supposed to reside 'two miles and a half north of the earner* lint when he went to college all this underwent a change that was new and also strange. He deter mined to break his birth's invidious bar, to grasp the skirts of happy chance and grap ple with his evil star. In pursuance of this design he ehungtsl his name in the next college catalogue frni John 1,. to J. l.i\ <-r --more, and tried to change the Milk Creek to Foil du Lac; hut in this his evil star over c line him. To young men from Milk Creek, the most iin|M>rtaiit ]M*ople of this earth are college fw id ties : none can \ i- with them in social or intellectual position. Learning brings iconoclasiu. J. Liver more unseated the jsistmaster of Milk Creek from liis mind's throne and in his place crowned the college president, ltut learning brings ambition ; what if this student could raise himself to the president's proud rank ? This lieeame the dream of his lite ; lie thought of it as he looked out ago in the Latin dictionary,as he swept out his little riNiin, as hcstum{Kuse as to the deep scheme that lind worked itself out in J. Liveruiore's fresh man hraiu ? His plan was this : When a rain should come, he would scour the town, find Angela hv mere chance, and extempor aneously offer his protection. The rest would follow. t'll AI'TKK 11. lii his simple youth,.!.Livormore h;ul hal a friend, Nicholas Smith hy name, who was still adhearing to the farm and wearing lu bricated boots as of old. In his Tennyson iau day-dreams our hero, after iiiiagiiiing himself at the highest rung of the ladder, hod derived much satisfaction from pictur ing, Nicholas a* standing in the furrow for the purjH(.*e of InqTrtrtng ; ' iJouh tlLI friend rememlier me And J. L. had d termined that lie would not rememlsT Mr. Smith to any abnormal extent. Nicholas had never as yet thought of love. Ixive had never entered Nicholas' mind. Neith er in the simplicity of his life had he known of social distinctions—except, indeed, to coinpreliend that there were people far from being exalted as himself. Nicholas is one of our heroes, aud when he was arrayed in his liest, no cheaper suit for the money could lie found anywhere. Nicholas enters our story on a load of wood which he was driving to the very col lege town where J. Livermore aspires to the daughter of the college president. There is no hand liefoie him, no procession of public citizens following him, to interrupt our view. Therefore, if we use the opjmrtunity we ran obtain a sight of him which, with economy, will last us for years. It so hap pened that Nicholas overtook J. Livermore, and it Impelled too,that he asked if "John ny wouldn't ride." As Mr. CJriggs, for li nancial reasons which we will not enter in to, lived a long way out of town, he put his dignity into his otherwise empty pockets and rode. He listened condescendingly to young Smith's budget of news alotit the crops and the new lightning-roils that had gone up, and when the wagon reached the suburbs, dropped off lx-hind, craftily ex plaining that he "would walk the rest of the way for exercise." What that ride cost him will appear in the next chapter. CIIAITKU 111. "Fat, Fat, Fat*!" This Is not a professor calling the janitor. It is a vivid scenic effect showing a rain storm that came up while ,1. Livermore was at recitation. It was the first rain follow ing the purchase of the umbrella. J. L. was excused, went to the cloak-room, and with out loss of time began to tear his hair. He had left hi* umbrella on the load of wood. But be remembered that fortune always fa vors the brave man—who is in luck—and he hnrriisi to the market-place. Turning into that street, he saw Angelina not three blocks ahead. Further on, the wagon of Nicholas. What else did he sec? Well, we may lie sure that he saw all there was to see, and that consisted of the following tableau : Angelina approolies the wagon of Nicholas. This one here stops yelling : "Here's where you get ver elegun shag hark hick'ry," and eyes the maiden with open mouth. Instantly he loves. He seizes the umbrella off the lo:id, and places him self at the maiden's side. J. L. rushes up just in time to hear the maiden say to Nich olas : "1 think 1 will have to take your arm." J. L. did not rush up expressly to hear this, hut he got there on time. "It's notion* lint a fresluna's uiubrel," says Nicholas. "O, those fresh !" cries Angelina ; and J. L. walked two miles in the rain to his lioard ing-place. CHAPTER IV. Hut the reader has read the character of our hero to little purpose if he imagines that this contre-temps left him nothing hut despair, lie determined now not to seek admiration but to command it. In accor dance with this design, he let his hair grow long, his face white, w'ore an uneven pair of side-whiskers, and began to appear in public with a library under bis arm. There would ho no use, with our limited space, to deny that, at this epoch, he looked brainy. When people saw him with his head on one side, a finger and thumb pulling at a wisp of red whisker adjoining liis ear, they in variably said : "Hero is the human mind iu action." And they wore filled with awe. And at last come a second opportunity. The president, who entertained very hand somely, threw open his house to the Kuta 11.1 gas. lie gave a cattily pull. J. L. was there In Prince Albert coat ami full-dress pijsriMills. He sal apart with gloomy brow aud fohh-d arms. "A penny for your thoughts," said An gelina, after an hour or more, iu which J. Livermore Wcaine slightly tired of his im pressive attitude ; "what are you thinking of ?" He started out of his imitation reverb* with artificial Plank tic**: "I was thinking," lie answered simply. "What of?" asked the young woman, who was a perfect conversationalist. "You are so bright aud gay you would not care to know." •'Yes 1 would." "I was revolving iu my mind tin- condi tion of Athenian existence." "Well, you going to have some candy ?" "All, candy, candy ? No; no candy." "What's the matter ?" "I don't care for eating.*; "You don't." "No it interferes with reflection." Angelina ejaciilahxl a "ha" through her lovely nose. "You must have a good lmard iug-placc if you get enough to do that. Where do you Ixnrd "Near the stone mill." "Way out there !" "It is peaceful ami quiet, with nothing to disturb my thought*." "That is so," said the young lady kindly; "luff there are some real cheap lioardiug places right in town. Why don't you try them ?" This was a staggerer to a man who was jiosing as a mighty thinker, hut, with true freshman craft, J. Livermore not only ral lied hut made an adroit attack at the same time. "I must Is* among the daisies and featherltells if 1 write poetry." "If yon what f" "Write jsietry." "I thought that only seniors wrote joc try." "True, hut since seeing a certain young lady, I have fairly thought in numbers." "What uumbers asked Angelina, with great interest. Number tens?" "You make me confess myself. It is you who have waked all my jioteiit nature. 1 feel that with you to inspire me 1 could write volumes—volumes. Then when the world praised me, 1 would point to you and say : "Hers is the meed." 'Angelina turned her face away, siully vvijied off a smile, aud answered, solemnly : "It can not be ; I am already engaged." "Then yours will not be the meed." "I don't care for Xny mead," replied An gelina, purposely mistaking bis beautiful language ; "soda water is good enough for me." The lofty ambition of Livermore was crushed at one blow. The president bad no more daughters. "Whom will you wed?" lie cried ; "some proud senior ?" "No, indeed : I shall marry Mr. Nicho las Smith, of Milk Creek." "Nick Smith ? What a fate !" "You are very rude," cried Angelina. "Mr. Smith is a true gciiTTciiiAii ; Be vrnttM not board out hy the mill and eat cabbage to save a dollar a week ; he wouldn't buy an umbrella and go stioopiug around town a year " But J. L. waited to hear uo more. Mad ly he rushed out in the night. Those who saw the expression of his face as lie passed out fell back in awe ; for it was the ex pression of one who has determined to leave immediately. The next day he took his rhyming dictionary down town and con verted it into gold. Later he reeled p;ist the college president, smoking a drug store ci garette. "You were lucky to get me," said Angel ina to Nicholas, after their nuptials had lieen celebrated. "I have Ihxmi proposed to hy thirty-nine fresh tneuat different times." The last one was your friend, Mr. Griggs." "Oh, him ?" said sturdy Nicholas ; "gosh !" Men-of-Wurmen's Gossip. "Bpeakin' of birds," said old Tom Top sail, "1 don see why jioople make such a fuss about English sparrows. If they was Mexican crow canaries, now, ther'd be some sense to it." Tom stopped, knowing that ho would be asked for an explanation. "Why," resumed Tom, when the expect ed question had been asked, "crow canaries are birds found only in Mexico. They are about the size of a crow, and have yellow lK>lies [and black wings. Forty or fifty years ago a Germain ship that had about 10,000 canaries on hoard was wrecked off Cant peachy. The canaries, most of 'em,got away, and took to the woods. There were only common crows there before, but now the erow canaries are as common ;is IH*IIS on a Dago's jacket. They are beautiful birds, and sing bass. Tell yon, a big flock of'em, when they get into a tree aud tune up, soun like so litany bass viols. Mighty curious thing to hear, and breaks a man all up the first time he hears it." The crowd said they should think it would. "But it ain't so scary a thing, after all, as to hear a chorus of crocodiles singing in the moonlight. When we was in the Amazon, whenever the ship's band struck up, the crocodiles would put on full cry, and, though the band master put all his men on bass drums, the crocodiles would plrovvn 'em out every time. Crocodiles are know ing, hut they will go to sleep on the sand when the sun's hot. Then is your time to catch hold of 'eiu,and, with a quick motion, over with 'em. 1 tnrned one over, and we manacled him and got him on lsiard ship. 1 cut my name on his hide, and when we got him into New York 1 sold him to Bar naul." "NVell, I'll lie goldarned !" said Ben Pipecly, the old soldier, who had served twenty-five years in the regular army. "I saw him in Barnum's museum in IS(>3 with your name on him, but I never thought I should know you. Shake !" And the alliance of the two services was cemented on the spot. A Devoted Relative. The worthy Guibullard has just lost his mother-in-law. He had the following touching inscription engraved on her tombstone : "She lived but for my happiness ; in fact, she'd do anything for me. Her death proved it." -First-class iob work done at the JOURNAL office. Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. WKItK \VK A FA It 51 Kit. Hero Are n Few Things We Ortululy Would Not lo. I __ Sleep on nn old packed straw bod when there win clean, bright straw to bo had. * Spend ovon one hour idly in town till wo had wood nndkindling cut and piled near the kitchen stove to last at leust six weeks ahead as a foundation, below which the wood pile should not drop. Compel our children to (at from soiled dishes, andthus educate them in sloveuliness Break our backs on feats of strength to see which neighbor could lift the most, thcu grunt for a mouth, and let our wife lug a swill pai! to and fro. Borrow any tools or other articles unless the owner would agree to come for them and take them home after we are through with them. Pile or hang soiled clothes in a bad room till it smelt like shop washing. Let the calf chew harness except it belongs to a visitor we never wish to see again. Spend more for beer than for books, or more for tobacco tbao for news papers. Never give a note to any man if we could help it, aud never sign a contract with a stranger. Drop tools etc., where they were used, and thus spend an hour or a day burning fur them. Never ask or expect our children to cut wood, hoc, mow, or do any kind of farm work except with the best of tools in good order, lest tbey tire of farm life and go to the devil across lots. Would have no more land to culti vate than we could keep entirely free from weeds* Never leave a horse standing in a storm, or out in the cold while we were in town. Never have more pnimals than we had good shelter for. Never neglect to vote, and this ac cording to our judgment, without re gard to prcjuice. Never sell the best and keep the poorest, but would have everything from wile, children, cattle, barn, wood-shed, stables, furniture and food the best that could be produced, even if all we had that could bo loaded on one wheelbarrow. Would envy no man, but so live, that others may envy us. Nor would we ever permit the cel lar to be a dirt filled disease breeder —" Brick 1 ' Tomery in Advance Thought. I'sed Perfumery In the Dark. 'To catch up a bottle of perfume and dab the stopple at one's upper lip'' said a fashionable girl to me, "is a fashionable trick with many women I know. I've sceu lots do it, and did it myself the other night. Starting to see Langtry I did that trick in a dark room and have quit it altogether. You see I ran back for a glove but toner, and prowling over the dress ing-case struck the glass stopple of a bottle of 'Cherry Blossom,' caught it up and smoothed it across my upper Hp and gave two little dabs behind my ears so my neighbors should have a smell. 'Tisn't 'Cherry Blossom/ after all, thought I ; it's the 'White Rose,' extract all the same. And I pranced down and joined my party. We had got into a car when some one said .* 'Good Mercy ! what have you got on your face V 'The usual a mount of powder I suppose,' I replied aggressively. 'Why you've got a purple mustache' Great heavens ! it broke on me in a minute. That nasty bottle of scented ink that I myself had carelessly left on the dressing-bureau! There was no Langtry for me that night. Nino-tysix washingsonly weak ened the stain. Sandpaper and pumice-stone have removed some of my lip, but it's so dark now(ten days ago it happened) that folks say to me: 'You must stop using that vaseline ; you certainly are getting a mustache ; and just behind ray ears arc two spots that look as if mortification had taken place.'— Albany Journal. When Ttaby waa sick, we pavo her Caaiorla, When sho was a Child, she cried fur Castoria, When sho became Miss, sho clang to Castoria, When sho had Children, she gare them Castoria, Quite too Enthusiastic. Wife—What flu you think of the now girl, John ? Husband —Was that her that just let me iu? Wife—Yes. Husband—Well, she's just a daisy. Wife(icily)—Think so ? Husband (enthusiastically)— Think so! Why, sho has a complexion like a moss rose, and like—like—l don't know what. And her teeth are splendid, too. Next day when John went home to din ner he w is let in by a girl with a complex ion 1 ke polished ebony, eyes as large as saucers and teeth like two rows of piano keys. NO. 32. NKWBJAPBR UWB If •nlMCi'lU js urt.n tu* tflfiHmllMitkH W •it*s|'nt'rs the iiui'lltthciT may continue to •rod them until all arrearage* are paM. if ra refuse or neglect Itake their new >n;i imtk from the offier to hteh they im*ctit ilioy arc lick I responsible until they hafe settled tu* bill* ai.l ordered Ihein dlTiMit liuwhl. If Mib*erll>er* move toother place* wllhoutln forming liie publisher, and tlic newspHpera are •mil to tho former place, thevarc r^-ntelWe. ▲ DVBRTnilltO RATM~ 1 k, i mo. 13 mo*. 0 mi* 11 fear 1 square ♦2 00 ♦tool ISOO * BU| WOO IU) 6 001 10 00 IS 001 18 00 d •• 7(10 10 00 Ift 00 301 WOO 1 " 1000 lftool 26 00 wool 7508 One Inch makes a square. Administrators and Kxecutors' Notice* to-W. Transient adver ri*ement*nd local* 10 cents Per line for first insertion and 5 cent* par line for each addition al Insertion Secretary Whitney's New Katate. Ao interesting story may be told of how tie Secretary managed to win over the tormer proprietor of the es tate (Grasslands) the tenacity of the old-time Maryland or Virginia plant er tor bis patrimonial estate is pro verbial. He would often rather eke out an existence of debt and incon venience than to sacrifice'bis acres and live in competency and relief. With out a word the Secretary made up his mind what he was willing to pay for far the estate, which comprised 105 a crcs. Instead of greenbacks, prom isscries, bonds, mortgages, and such mythical evidences of tangible values to the average rural mind, the Secre tary converted the whole sum - into hard bimetallic cash, 'eagles' with golden wings and 'standards' bearing the legend 'ln God We Trust.' He drove to the mansion, and seating himself at a rickety table of the co | louial era, placed the bags of ringing ; coin before the mystified relic of the j old regime. Twenty thousand in sight versus speculative crops, realist | ic taxation and increasing ratio of 'di lapidation was enough to shake even the traditional loyalty of long-suffer i ing aud impecunious legatee of an an cient family and noble name. The bargain was struck. The Secretary that evening drove back to town the proprietor of a beautiful estate, the planter remained with bis docats. Twenty thousand dollars restored the old family seat to more than its form er splendor, and never was hospitality more lavishly dispensed than it is to day under its generous host and hostess.— Philadelphia Times. A Cat's Fight With Sparrows. A stray tabby strolled into the residence of Mrs. Captain H. 11. Drown a few weeks ago, and at once made arrangements to stay permanently. A number of sparrows hare long been in the habit of nesting under the eaves of the Methodist Book Concern and in the rear of the C.,H.and D. offices and on the roof of Sunderbruch's floral establish ment on West Fourth street, which over looks Mrs. I) rown's backyard. Crumbs of bread were thrown out, and the inquisitive sparrows were not long in learning the fact. Yesterday pussy made np her mind that sparrows were good to eat, and squatting close on the brick pavement watched the chirping fighting fallows "as they gobbled up the bread cruinta. She selected a fat one and pounced on it with a spring. The flock all arose a few feet in the air, and then, as if recognizing the fact that one of their number was attacked, all circled and {touuctxl on the cat's hack. Then the circus Itegun. The cat scratched, bit, jumped and pawed. Her back was black with the chirping, fighting, picking nuisances. The noise they made aroused a Scotch terrier, which rushed out of a dry goods box and barked vociferously. The cat flew at him and scratched him severely in the right eye. The sparrows chirped and flew, and the cat struck right and left, and at last lay down and rolled over, crushing several with the rapidity of her motions, and tear ing the feathers off from a score or more as they flew abont her head. At htst they flew away, and tabby quietly mouthed her bird and inarched into the front fi&rlor, purriug with conscious pride, while the yard was strewn with feathers enough for a good-sized bed.—Cincinnati Enquirer. \ * * Tough Snake Story. Speaking of snake stories, here's one from DouglassvUle, Ga., and if the author of it is not already president of the club he'll get there before long. A short time back Mr.Aderhold witnessed a large snake swallowed a nest of par tridge eggs on which the partridge hsd been sitting and was nearly ready to batch. A few days later Mr. But ler came across the same snake sur rounded by a conyey of young par tridges, the eggs having been hatched while in the snake and passed oat in the form of young birds, to which her snakesbip seemed very much attached. And a few days later on, Mr. McEl reatb was through an oats patch near by, and was attacked by a snake pass ing through the oats with its head ele vated about even with the top of the oats, which were beaded out, and on examination found the snake was picking the kernels from the beads of the oats and dropping them on the ground to feed tLe young partrid es, which were following along by her picking them np. Africa's Age of Stone. Many travelers have failed to discover any stone implements in Africa, and in view of the comparative rarity of these Audi it seems probable that the use of these man ufactures was never so prevalent among the ancient inhabitants of Africa as among the prehistoric races of Europe and America. A possible reason for this may be found in the fact that in no part of the world do out cropping® of iron cover so large an area as in Africa. It is within easy reach of the na tive tribes, and those destitute of it are sup plied in the native markets with is manu factured product by those that have learned how to smelt iron ore. It is not at all unlikely that before the making of stone implements had become a great industry in Africa, as it did in more northern latitudes, some ingenious tribe dis covered the uses and advantages of iron. It is proverbial that news spread rapidly in Africa. Tribe after tribe may have learned of this discovery until Africa suddenly emerged into the iron age without lingering long in the greater barbarism of the stone epoch.