LIGHT AND AIRY. A Broken Mirror. The silver circled looking glass I kt Into mj Dora's keeping Is lyina; nhnturpd now, alaal And so my dearest girl I weeping. Poen all thin grief her bnaora swell Because her pretty my I broken, Or foam she lost the lone foretell The death of him who pnve the token f In either ease, could Dora nee How cry plain she look when frying. She'd weep for neither glass nor me, ' Though one were manned and one were dying. 8. St. 0. Lawrence In Life. Inntmetlng Ilia Bponm. "They are making car wheels of paper now," remnrked Mrs. Hojack as she looked tip from the newspaper. "Yes," replied the husband, "and locomo tives, too." "Yon don't tell me!" "Certainly. Have you never heard of stationery engines?" Chicago Iutcr Ooearj. In the Ilullway Station. I "Well, well; hurry tip, there," said the Information clerk, impatiently. "What i It you want?" "If you please, sir," returned the sar castic traveler, "I want to know it all.' You're the gentleman who can tell it, aren't you?" Harper's Bazar. The Good Old Times. How doth the busy Used-to-be, Approve each bygone minute, tJntil the humbled present feels The come-down that is in It Hnw gleefully he nibs It In To latter days because There' nothing extant now to match The Golden L'se-to-was! C. F. L. In Puck. Ills Only Chnnee. Benevolent Person (to old tramp) You ought to be ashamed of yourself to lie beg ging at your ago. Tramp (indignantly) How in thunder can I beg at any other age now, I'd like to know. Gimme a nickel. Washington Star. ICncouragtnK llira. IVtpn I'm sorry, Huns, that your school report is so bad. I hope you will do better next time. "That's right, papa; keep up your cour age. Let hope be the last tiling you lose." t'liegeudo Blatter. A Great Truth. Oh, why should the spiritof mortal be prond? The largest of men Is soon lost in the crowd; And the mas who is talked about inoet never knows That tuo world only records the fit of his clothes. Bore's the truest of all things about man e'er said: The world never makes a man great till he's dead." Chicago Mail. Go West. ' Mother Now that you have become a chiropodist, whero are you going to settle? Ambitious Youth I think, mother, I'll go to Nebraska. All the papers say that it is a great corn state. Good News. Chance for Argument. Private Citizen I think those telegraph poles ought to come down. They are un sightly and dangerous. Telegraph Oflicial Y-e-a, but think of the shado they give. Good News. What the Shop Girl Wants. She stood in a store down town. She was both young and fair; But her faco wore a savage frown As well as lines of oare. When I managed to reach her side I asked her what she'd like heat For a present, and then she cried, "O, heavens! give me rest I" -Pittsburg Dispatch. Catting; Off Discussion. Barber You are getting quits bald, sir. Can't I recommend something for your head? Mr. Hurry Why, yes; I'd like my hat as soon as possible. Puck. A Froulem. . .,, Mathematicians figure that a man 60 years old has spent three years buttoning his collar. How much time has been con sumed by a woman of 45 in putting her bat on straight? Life. As to Nerve. "As nervous as a cat." men say, ' Yet nothing is less true. For Derrousmss in any sense ' The cat tribe never knew. -To stand a nightly hall of clubs, Coal, bootjacks, all the breed, Yet never scare, but keep right on, Requires grout nerve iudeed. Philadelphia Times. Too Much for Tliam. Snougrass (us the band begins to play) There's music in the air. Snively There may be, but the band doesn't seem able to get it out, Harper's Uuzur. They Ilav To. "Deaf and dumb peoplo nre more or less superstitious." "Wliyv" "Becauso they taliovo In signs." West Shore. Ills Flement. The oyster is a uoUe llsh, lint raniwt swim a uiiui; IIu has nu (Ins, ho lias uotull, lie lias no teelh to bite; , But t ill lio swims with purfoct ease, A inl yet, 'tis strange to say, lie never glides uliout the sea, But in ihu consomme. Brooklyn Ufa Advice to Bad Husbands. TERESA H. DEAN TF.U.S MEN TO CULTI VAT E THE COMPANIONSHIP OF THEIR WIVES. Here is some advice to bad hus bands. The "models," ideal or genu ine, can take care of themselves. If you can't be a "model," be honest. Cultivate a feeling of good comrade ship with your wife. Unless too many years have gone by for you to succeed in making her over, you will find that you can have just as good a time with her and at the same time retain a self respect that never comes in cultivating the ' comt ados'' that know your real self so much better than does your wife. As for her, it will not unsex her to become better acquainted with you, but it will lift the shadows of suspicion from her heart, suspicions that come crowding in because she knows there is something lacking in her life. The clouds pile up, and, being a true wo man, there is no way for her to fill the cd to men, and there is nothing to pre void, while you as a man are protected by sot'ietys lenient rules that are extend vent your seeking jolly companionship somewhere else. And about these' 'jolly companions." Don't take it for granted that because some woman not your wife-is will ing to chat with you. laugh with you or indiscreet enough to lunch with you, she is lost to all that is true, loyal and womanly. It is possible that her heart has ached as your wife's is ach ing, and that she is willing to listen to your empty vows of tnendship because of a knowledge that her own husband has found a charm in the society of other women-women whose society is made valuable as much from the fact that it is forbidden by the convention alities of society as anything else. Respect the individual rights of other people-even if one of them hap pens to be your wife. Don't think because you believe one thing and she another that you are right and she is wrong. One hour's practical experi ence is better than years of knowledge gained theoretically. And somehow or other she may have picked up knowledge that can open the pathway even to you. From the Chicago Jlerald. The First Boat on the North Branch Canal, "I can say that I drove the first team that pulled a boat on the canal," remarked a gentleman to a Jlecord representative last Friday. "It was in the Fall ot 1857, after my father, Simeon S. Brown, (my own name is Ebenezer Sturdevant Brown having been named after the late Gen. Sturde vant), had completed the first boat and called it the John C. Fremont, we run it down from Skinner's Eddy to Coxton, expecting to sell it, but the ice caught us and the boat was aband oned until spring, when I took it to Wilkesbarrt. Late in the fall of 1858 I drove the team that hauled the first load of coal carried through the canal. I had three horses and drove them tandem. As I arrived ' at Towanda the bridge was just completed and had part of the plank laid. - Seeing the first boat approach the builder put down additional-plank and I drove my team, the first of any over the bridge into the borough of Towanda. I fol lowed the canal for a few years and then started out in other business. Really it is astonishing .to see the great advances that have ' been made since that year." Wilcesbarre lit cord. The IIelKlit of Iirnlty. Sanso Is he a dignified man!' ltodd Well. I should suy he is. Why, that man could step uu a banana peel with out losing his dignity. Muusey'n Weekly. , i A Natural Inference. He A man who lives in the country ho u ebanca to think. She You have always lived In the city, have you not? Munsey'a Weekly. Itetter to Look Ahead. Before you ask the merry moid To stick t you thro' thick and thin. See that you littvu your plans well laid To get a house to put her in. l'ituburjf Dispatch. Juvenile Ksperlenees. Country Hoy Yes, I lives in Squedunk. Was you ever in Hquedunkf City Hoy Nope. Hut I was In Brooklyn ence. Good News. TI10 Last Straw. Of all the tortures known to man The greatest, wa unaert, Is to wear u utoeu collar Upon a slxtocu shirt. Exchange, No Matter How Hard any druggist tries to sell you his own cough medicine, remember he does it because he makes more money on it. Insist on having Kemp's Balsam for ine tnroat or lungs, tor tnere is no cough remedy so pure and none so quick to break up a cold. For in lluenza. ' soreness of the throat and tickling irritation with constant cough, Kemp's Balsam is an immediate cure. Large bottles 50c and $1. At all druggists. The Oldest Kissing Story. The oldest kissing storv is probably ' that of the Hindoo herdsman who was j walking alo.ig ihe road with an iron 1 kettle on his back, a live goose in one ; hand, and in the other a cane and a rope by which he was leading a goat. Presently a woman joined him, and they walked along together until they reached a dark ravine, when she shrunk back, (K-claMiig she was afraid he might kiss her by force there in the dark. The man explained that by reason of his biudens he cou d not possibly do so. "Yes." said the woman, "but what . is to hinder you from sticking the cane 1 in the ground and tying the goat to it, and then laying the goose on the ground and t ovtring it with the kettle? And then how could 1 help myself if you wickedly persisted in kissing me?" "Many thanks," said the man. "i never should have thought of all that. You are an ingenious woman. May your ingenuity always succeed." So they went on until they reached the darkest part of the ravine. Then he stuck the cane in the ground and tied the goat to it, and Kt the goose under the kettle by the -cane, and then wickedly kissed the woman in spite of her great resistance. Stt MY SPONGE? Yi us? ( DID L f THHt Bt'VBtO, 'tV your Shoo with WOLFF'S ACME BLACKING ONCE A WEEK! Other days wash ttisfn clean with SPQNQE AND WATER. iVCRY Housewife VERY Counting Roorrj VERY Carriage Owner VERY Thrifty Mechanic EVERY Body able to hold a brush should una Wiu STain Oi a Niw rvsniTvst f . win. Stuim aiusa saia emnawaa I VarnUH Will, (ram Timwms 1 Win btim tus Oia BssntTa I am Wiu. ti coam I timet WOLTT RANDOLPH. Phaaaslphl. PATENTS. Caveats find Tmrtn MiirL-u olltnlnivl nnrl nil t'litent business conduct rd for .moiikkatk ol'li OFFICE IS OPPOSITK THE I'. . PAT ENT OFFICE. We linvn 110 NiilKWnrles, nil iMIsliiess dlrm-t, hence run trnnsnet patent busi ness In less time nml at Less Cost tluu those re lume fi-ntn WiishliiiMnn. Heml IniHlel. iliawlinf or photo, with rteserlp tlcni. We iiilvlse If lutentiihlH or nut, frit' of clmnre. Our fee nut due till patent. Is secured- A linok, "How In obt i I n Patents." with refer, enees to actual clients In your stnte, county, or town, sent free. Address c. A. snow a: co.. Washington, I). C. (Opposite I'. S. Patent ofllce.) Catarrh JS a Mood disease. Until too poison i t expelled from tlio system, thero can be no cure for , this loathsome, and tlariRcrous malady. Therefore, the only effective treatment Is a thorough course of Ayer's Sarsaparilln tlio liest of all blood purifiers. The sooner you begin tlio better ; delay is dangerous. " I was troubled with catarrh for over two yenrs. I tried various remedies, and was treated by a number of physi cians, but received no benefit until I liegnu to take Ayer's Sarsnparilla. A few bottles of this medicine cured me of this troublesome complaint and com- filetely restored my health.' Jesse M. Iokrh, lluluiati's Mills, N. C. "When Ayer's Sarsaparilln was rec ommended to me for catarrh, I was In clined to doubt its efficacy. Having tried so many remedies, with little ben efit, I had no faith that anything would , cure me. I became cmaciuted from loss ' of appetite and impaired digestion. I bad nearly lost the sense of smell, and my system was badly deranged. I was about discouraged, when a friend urged me to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and re ferred me to persons whom it hadrured of catarrh. After taking hall a dozen bottles of this medicine, I am convinced that the only sure way of treating this obstinate disease is through the blood." Charles II. ilulouey, 113 lUver it., Lowell, Mass. Ayer's Sarsaparilla, rasrAniD r Dr. J. 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