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VOLUME XXVII.
RLVIN1 US,
PRACTICAL
Watches, Clocks
1 KWKI.IIY,
Silverware. Mnslcal Instrnmnnt?
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Sole Agent
- Kt i K 1 11 !:
Celebrated Rockford
WATCHKS.
In Kry ami Sti'ni Winders.
uAHUK SKI-KCTIOV of AM, KIM
of .IKWKIiUY alwaypon hand.
f.f Mv line of .Icwelry N uosnrpassprt
; :.nn' rtnd see for yourselfliefore pure1 has
nu ft;- wlit-re.
JAI.I. WOllK PFARANTEEP jfj
CARL RIVINIIJS.
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see " The Rochester '
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brighter than gas ILht,
more cheerful than either.
iikstfu. If the lniupdenlrr hrmn't the irrnnlne
m-uJ to u-i lor our new illti-.trntcl c iui!.ktii.
rrs your thoice jt over i,lOt
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1 Ane Kocnesxer.
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OLD RELIABLE 1 ETNA"
ail ofitr rirol t lami Cuiiipan tu.
T. W. DICK,
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1704,.
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Shaving Parlor,
Main Street, Near Post Office
ttn.'l h unilerslunf.l il.-lrrs t Intorro the puh
llr Ihat lluy l ave i.iientvt nhaviuvf par or on
Mam r'rmi, nenr the p"bt office where liarherlmc
in nil It hraiielie h will ne carried on in the
future. Kvrryl hinif ne;tt and clean.
V. ,.. r ,..ron te-.l lei ted. yyy
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.... ii.. u ..i.in I 'ui in ielcKrai-h "in-
IjuniHtJ
Proprietor.
THE OLD
DAKN roof.
I can s.'t' the harn r.of
standing as it loaned to
III. -ft ill,' rra-is
Its f.irin Is l.mly jiuuitfil In mi'miiry'i kx.Ling-
ri- -
That Nl..iii.' rKifof shlnrli-s. with In mossy
4 iial of fray.
Which f..rmi'.i the playirround for our fun on
many u .siiininiT day.
It was Imilt just ly tht" orcharU. and the eaves
dr.HlM-J tl.iwtl r.o l,iw
Tnat tli.'y a!rast l.iuli-U tlio crass-tops, where
l!n ,lais- l.l.is-;'iiiis lilow:
Ami au :jiili-:r,M: .-roa iu where you came
1om ii u ilti a whirl.
To yii 1.1 a s;iicy luncheon to eaih hdnt'ry Uiy
uaJ k'irL
fllr N-tt-r than the coa-stlnu on a Mir UMfrp-an-
sli.le
Was the ecstasy of sittintr on that barn r.M'f for
a ri.le'
After crawling slowly upward to the sharply-
poillteU IK'aU
To hoi. I n ly the edj?es while you play at hide
Uitd seek.
An.l then with fun and
frolic as yo'i looked
your wary clasp.
To feel the sliding islldiup' and to give
. hap-
l tra .p.
As you fouu.l yourself drawn downward, with
tin reasia;' uiolion iKiuud.
For a ra:. l ro!l through clover, on the softly
w aitiuf (rruuud.
Alice Crary. in Wide Awake.
NAT LACK'S rAlillOT.
Story of a Homarkable Man and a
Remarkable Bird.
"Kv-pr liear of Nat Lask's parrot?"
aslcetl Jim liortlon, of I.ittK' Jltn-k.
Never was such a reinarkalile parn t.
1 don't think. Hut then, Nat l.ask was
siiinewliat of a reiiiarkalih man. lie
was an old Arkansas and Mississippi
river lMiatsnia-.i. Ho nsoti tt run Ih
tween Little Uoik and New Orleans in
I he ef'"' old times Ik fore the war. lie
owned twenty ni,'o-ers otiee, and they
all yot their freedom just ln'eause Nat
was such a remarkalde uiun. There
was a ixmI many niters runniri-; away
about that time, and makin"; tlu-ir run
for -rood. Nat jave it out that he'd
like to see any of his !,ret away. For
every out" that pit away, he said, he'd
set another free. Less than a week
after that one of Nat's hest niyers
1 timed up missing, and he eouldn't he
found. Over the l.rler. sure. The
runaway's wife belonged to Nat.
'Suse,' saiil Nut, l'ye know wliar
.Iik is?'
" Ves, massa.
" "Wall then, you jes' g-olong- an' jine
him!"
So he kept his word and set one
slave fret beeausi; another had suc
ceeded in riiniiinir away, and he showed
what a remarkable man he was by si-t-tin'
free the wife of the fugitive. And
N.rt wouldn't take lia-dc his i" r eilh.-r,
and his iii-o-i-rs kept runnin;r away,
and he kept .ettii: others fret? t;i
match eiii, until lie hadn't one left.
'Kn't make no diirnee,' Nat tisd
to say. "NolMxly tlitln' "bleeye m? to
set my niirers fr,-e.
1 nst alout the time the war broke
out Nat wa . in New Orleans taking on
ear".-o. On the levee one tlay he w;is
passiri, an old voma:t who was SfHiiif
parrots, when one of the hi it Is yelled
out:
'Damn f.ml!"
That fetehetl Nat up standi ntr. and
he as Let I tin; woman whieh parrot had
addressed him in such familiar tones.
'lie knows me. said Nat, 'but I swar
1 never kut.wcd him!"
"Nat didn't have to wait for the old
woman to tell him which parrot it was.
lor the bird yelled out its compliments
to him ae-ain on the spot, and Nat was
so li !. l.-.l with the parrot that he
Ihiu'IiI '.t. lie was s taken up with
hi lo w companion that he paid no at
tention to aiiylhintr else ull the way
back oil the trip to Little K i.-k. .-ell
he arrived there he j-av up his lxiat.
"tioiii" to tpiit Itoatiu',' he saiil. 'It'll
take all my time uow un to 'tend to this
parr. .U
"And if he didn't quit. ri','ht there
and the:t, I hope to holler! lie tied
liiinself up to tdat parrot and had no
time f..r auvthimr or anvl"o-lv. Then
the war bcan tt stir things tip, an-1
one tlay Nat said:
"Thar's (join' ter be the deuee ter pay
'roii:;d hyah 'fore lony, an' 1 take to the
woods!"
"lie was rtit h1 as his word, lie ttvk
his e-iui anil his parrot, went "way back
into the wilderness :ilonr I'.i- Mam
mclee creek anl put up a Miiijf lo
cabin. And it was there that the par
rot came out strong. The woods were
full of ffaiiio vtild turkey, leer, lnar.
jttiiitlii-r. The creek held plenty of wild
ducks and iLree.se. Nat trained the par
rot to hunt. The bird pot so he could
jrive all the calls and cries of the wiltl
turkey lietter than the wild turkey
could it.clf. ami he never missed tret
tin;"- the riht call or cry in at just the
ri-ht time, lie found out that a lost
fawn, or a fawn hidden by its mother,
couhl summon its mother or some o' her
tleer iuiekly to where it was by a
plaintive Ideal intf, and the parrot j,'ot
on to that bleat only too quick. He im
itated the unearthly screech of the
panther mi ably that Nat used to say it
was nothiiiir out of the common for
Hobby that was the parrot's name
to call as many as a dozen bi- fellows
around the cabin of an evening' ami set
them all to lightine- at once. Hobby
couldn't only do the tpiack of a duck or
the gabble of a goose to perfection, but
he could manipulate those cries so that
you would think he was a whole flock
"of thicks or geese. So, if there were
thicks or geese Hying over, it was no
trick at all for Hobby to let himself
lot-M" just as if it was a 'o.en or so
fowl jabtiering together, ami a Hying
Hock, hearing him going on, would say
to themselves: "The."" ducks must have
struck g-MKl luck down there in the
creek. Let's drop down and get a piece
of it.' And when they had dropped
tlown near enough Nat, hid in the
bushes, would tumble a half dozen or
mi Kfore they could get on to the way
they were fooled.
Hobby liked to hunt wild turkeys
lst. If there was a turkey within
hearingofhim.it couldn't resist that
seductive call of hi:;, and when it came
within gunshot and Nat put a ball in it.
Hobby became a very tiend in his gloat
ing over its death struggles. He would
Hy around the jioor bird and laugh and
yell like a demon. Hut if Nat hap
pened to miss the turkey after Hobby
had called it up, then in ay lie he would
get fits. The parrot would fill the
woods with language that Nat used to
say made him sit tlown ami w ait for the
shower of tire ami brimstone that he
felt sure must lie sent down on them
for that bird's wickedness. Ami he'd
Hy at Nat and pull his hair out in
bunches, and make vicious grabs at his
FKKEMAN WHOM THE TRCTH MAKES FKEE AND ALL APE SLAVES BESIDE.
'HE IS A
i:iu;nshukg. pa.. Friday, august a. is,3.
eves and face. At tnese unfortunate
times, whieh. luckily, were rare. Nat
used to lie down on his face and let
Hobby peg away and pull at him until
his frenzy passed over. Nat kacv
when that was by the bird perching
somen here near ami easing himself jj
bv simply yelling: 'Damn fool" Then
Nat would get up and start for home
Hobby would tly to his usuaT""pls "
Nat's ".hou'.der. where he would at ::i
tervals yell in Nat's ear: 'Damn f,ol.''
Nat never jawed back. He said that he
knew he deserved all that Hobby gave
him at such times. There wasn't any
thing too ban for a man ho missed his
turkey.
Whenever Nat would take his gur.
to. go out hunting. Hobby would cock
his head on one side and say:
" -Turkey.'
"If Nat would say: 'No,' Hobby would
say:
" 'Quack, quackr
"If Nat replied in the negative. Hob
by would make the peculiar bleating
sound of the fawn interrogatively. If
Nat saitl he wasn't going after deer.
Hobby would say, decisively:
"'liar!'
"Turkey, ducks or geese, deer and
ltear were all the game Nat hunted, and
Hohhy knew if it wasn't any of the
first three lie was going out after it
must of course lie ltear. Hut he always
wanted to know what the hunt was to
Ik- lie fore he started. He was of no
particular use in a ltearjiunt.
" 'I jes" take him 'long to do the swar
iti, Nat use to say.
"Hut Hobby always went out for lear
with the greatest enthusiasm, ami once
he wasof actual service. Nat had started
a bear, and it went into a thick swamp a
short distance, where no man or dog
couhl get. Whether Hobby saw the
liear or not, or whether he hail a stroke
of genius, all at once he Hew from Nat's
shoulder into the swamp. Such a hair
raising collection of yells and exple
tives as he tumbled around in that
swamp no living thing had ever heard
before. Hobby was evidently directing
them straight at the ltear, for the
frightened animal came tearing out of
the swamp with a smash and a crash
that a hurricane couldn't have made.
Nat said the ltear' s eyes hung out, its
terror was so great. Nat down.etl the
War wit'h a couple of rille balls, ami
out of the swamp came a couple of terror-stricken
cubs, with Hobby yelling
and cussing right ln-hind them. Nat
captured the two cubs alive and took
them home, against the vclieineiit pro
tests of Hobby, who yelled his favorite
opinion of Nat in the hitter's ear all
the way in. Nat showed great fond
ness for the cubs, but they were a jer
pet tia! thorn in Hobby's side. He wa
wildly jealous of them, and gave both
them and Nat continual Uts. Nat kept
the i uli in the cabin, and one night,
after he'd lia I them about a week, he
was awakened by a noise. He heard
Hobby swearing like a pirafe and the
cubs whiiiiug. Nat listene 1. and by
by he heard the cabin door opened.
That was an easy matter to do. for
n i"h'ui.' fa-tened it. and it swung on u
leather hiirje. When the door ten-net!
and let the moonlight in. Nat saw that
it wa. Hobby who had pulled it open
with ids bill. Nat lay stiil to see what
the parrot would do. and what did he
do but drive ltoth of those cubs out.
tii;ping them with his bill, and talk
ni'r to them worse than any canal mule
driver ever talked to his mules. Hobby
not only drove the cubi out of the
cabin, but he escorted them some dis
tanee into the woods, and they under
stood well enough that they were to
keep on going. Hobby came back to
the cabin chuckling like a little fiend,
and close 1 tin door and went to sleep.
The whole proceeding1 had increased
Nat's veneration for the parrot so much
that In said he couhl no more have in
terfered than he could have' inter
rupted a preacher in a funeral sermon.
A few flays after that Nat took down
his gun to go out hunting,
"Turkey?" saiil Hobby.
" 'No, said Nat. 'We're goin atter
bar.'
Hobby bristled tip, and yelled at the
top of his voice.
" -No. no! No. nit!'
"He rememlHTcd the trials and trib
ulations that had come to him throu-jh
his last lcar hunt, and he wanted no
more ltear in his. And he wouldn't go
ln-ar hunting, and never could be in
duced tog, i again.
"Nat and Hob lived that hermit life
on the I!ig Maiiiuiclet for more than
twenty years. Then one tlay Nat came
into Little I lock, alone and discons.t
late. Hobby was dead accidentally
shot by Nat himself. I don't know
what ever liecame of Nat, but he was a
remarkable man. Ami there never was
such a remarkable parrot as Hobby."
N. Y. Sun.
JOKES AT THE FAIR.
IN MlHWAY 11. I"A XCK. "I Suppose
you hear a greater number of tongues
than anv
('nan! "No. sir, the
Woman's building is right over in that
direction!" lntcr-4 (ceati.
II txnlcAl'i Kii.-"Not going to the
fair? Your fortune doesn't seem to be
doing oil much good, old man." " hy,
ii tlear lxy. the governor left me only
three million. If I went I would want
to stay a week at any rate." Truth.
SAKK ll ItINt T1IK WoKl.li'S l'AIIt.
Chicago Man "There goes the luckiest
man in the city." Hostoii Man -"Successful
in sjteciilatioii, eh? Chicago
jlan Speculation nothing! He has
no relations and not a friend in the
worhl.".l udge.
A tthk Faik. Attendant "Two dol
lars, please." Yisitor 'What? 1
haven't ltceii buying a thing!" "No,
sir: but ou and the lady have been
standing here just twenty minutes
breathing, and I've a mortgage on the
air for ten feet in each direction."
Truth.
FARM NOTES.
Limk salt and plaster are auxiliary
fertilizers.
Cl.ovK.it aids materially to keep down
the weeds.
Co.NsntKK your market as well as
you crop.
I ) Kt a v I n t organic matter in the soil
gives warmth.
IUFKr.KF.ST kinds of grasses do not do
well in meadows.
I'VKitv kind of fotttl is relished by
some kind of stttck.
I r is the raising f ptt.tr crops that
inqtoverishes the average farmer.
TakI.no good care of young stock
lays the foundation fur future development-
TWENTY.
Sweet and twenty, and fair as tht day;
l'U uly of lovcra are bound this way.
Sweet and twenty, with eyes that shine.
And li&ttoiue curves that are rare and tine.
Iiimples that play at hide-and-seek
Cm the lender mouth and the rounded cheek.
Never bad maiden a lily-white hand
"softer and nucculicr to command.
Never had maiden a foot more lik'ht
1 o dance a measure at worn or uh-'ut
Sweet and twenty can row and ride,
ttverthe rippling wavelets glide;
Harness and drive and climb and flh:
Make you many a dainty dish:
Talk In Knlish and French and German
Which the sweetest, you'll not determine
Sweet and tweniv has life before her.
And all w ho meet w ill of course adore her.
Hut wha shall come to her after all
yueen ui rcii'tt, or to serve, a thrall
Only the a tars attove can tell.
Ltumh stars that hide their secret well.
II an -er a Hazar
SHE WAS HIS MODEL.
S'-t Her Picture Was Galled
Artist's Wife."
'The
"Now." said Richard "Lacy, with a
sigh which denoted intense joy, "iny
chance has come at last!"
An old friecd of his, who had made
great fame and some money as a novel
ist, Kdmund Shelton, to wit. had se
lected him to illustrate an edition de
luxe of his famous novel. "Claire inge
low," which you have no doubt read,
and had offered very liberal terms.
Here was the opportunity for which
Richard Lacy had been waiting ever
since he came to London, a youth of
seventeen, more than ten years ago.
He was a struggling artist, who
painted pictures (which never sold) in
the daytime, and earned his bread and
cheese at night by designing for the
stationery trade, and such black-and-white
work as he could get hold of.
He managed to make about six hun
dred dollars a year, one-third of which
went for the rent of the gaunt, bare
studio in which he worked, and the
little bcdr.tom attached in which he
slept. The purchase of materials ex
hausted another third, aud on the re
maining two hundred dollars he lived,
but did not grow fat.
L'uless he could in some way arrest
the attention of the public he would
probably remain all his life an ill-paid
designer.
True, by some freak of. fortune, one
of his pictures had once been exhibited
at the Koya! academy. Hut it had been
"skied, not a single critic noticed it,
and it was reproduced in none of the il
lustrated catalogues. liven now he
was in debt for it very gorgeous
frame.
A timid rat-tat at the door interrupt
ed his soliloquy. '-Come in."
A tall young girl stttod lnfore him.
She was not exactly lteautiful. but with
an ar ist's instinct he at once noticed
tlie line poise t if her head and hersaajK
ly hand. She was meanly dressed, and
she hesitateit.
"t'.tod morning." he said, at length.
"Model?"
She nodded gravely and handed him a
card. "Mary Hlacknottd" was thei.ame
it Is ire.
Lvidently she was a beginner at the
justness. Tlie old bauds never called
tn him, for they knew his means would
lot allow him to engage a model, ex--ept
very ttccasionally.
"Well. 1 may lc wanting a nittdel
.hortly," Lacy said; "may I ask what
four terms are?"
She stated them. They were ridicu
lously low.
"IVrhaps you can call to-morrow, and
I could then say w hether you would be
likely to suit me."
When Richard Lacy had hail three
sittings with Marj- Hlackwood he begau
to wonder how in the world he would
have got m without her.
Not only had she read "Claire Inge
low." but she seemed thoroughly t t un
dcrstuiid the somewhat diflicult char
acter of Claire. She was ever ready
with useful suggestions. He admitted
to himself that she really inspired his
ict nil.
lie h Hiked forward with eagerness to
her visi s. Not that they were partic
ularly lively affairs. Miss Hlackwood
spoke only as occasion demanded, and
Lacy was not one of those artists w ho
t-an talk and work simultaneously
One tlay when she came he wis al
most prostrated by a more than usually
severe headache, a complaint from
which he frequently buffered. In the
middle ofthe morniug's work she sud
denly jumped up.
"Why, Mr. Lacy, you are ill.'
cried.
"Only one of my headaches," he said,
faintlv ami wearily. "You know. I
often have them. Hut I think I will sit
ttown a bit "
' Then he fainted.
When he recovered consciousness he
found himself lying tin the only couch
which the studio Wasted, while Mary
Hlat-kwotMl sttntd over him with a bot
tle of smelling salts.
"Where do you keep the tea?-' she
asked, with a smile. "I must make a
cup at once.'
Years afterwards he remembered the
quiet joy w ith which he watched her
quick, graceful movements as she set
altout preparing that lea.
"Hy the way," Lacy said, as he con-
....o.. ll.- ..infied the tea. "how came I
i .. ."i t --
oil this couch?"
"I carried you there," said Mary, with
a suspicion of red in her cheeks.
"Oh er I see!"
"I nursed my mother for three years
In-fore she died, and I know what to do;
ami you aren't very heavy."
Froin that time they were no longer
artist and model, but close friends.
Richard suddenly discovered that it
was necessary for Mary to sit four times
a week instead of three.
Then he said he would like to paint
her portrait as "Clare Ingelow" for the
academy, which would open in a couple
of months.
It was about this time that Richard
found that he could talk an! work as
well. They discussed everything; and
the man discovered to his surprise that
in all domains of knowledge outside
art, the woman was hisequaL
It was remarkable that their discus
sions never emits! with the sittings.
Richard said that perhaps if he tttok
more exercise he might have less head
ache, and so he fell into the habit of
! escorting her to her rooms. And even
. at her tl.mr he reniemltered many tilings
J that h wanted to say.
f v
81.50 and
During one of these walks Jlary re
marked that the portrait, was nearly
comnlcted.
"tif course you will call it Claire In
gelow?" she said.
Yes. I suppose I must," was the re
ply, "but I could suggest at least two
better titles."
"Indeed: And may I ask what they
are?"
"Well, one is 'The dearest girl in the
world.' and the other, " Portrait of the
artist's wife.' "
She was silent. It was dark, and the
road was deserted. His arm crept
round her waist. She looked up, and
fier lips met his descending to meet
them.
And so it wis arrangeth
The picture, lteing at last linishcL
was dispatched with much trembling.
Richard saitl it ought to In accepted,
the subject w as so tine. Mary said it
ought to U accepted, the handling was
so masterly. They were both right.
The eagerly exHs-t-d anil much
prized vamishiing ticket duly arrived,
but attacks of headache hail lately 1k
eome more frequent and more severe,
and on the eventful day he was incapa
ble tif movement.
The doctor cross-examined him close
ly and then said: "I think your best
course is to consult an ttcnlist."
"I can see perfectly well," Lacy said,
with st tine astonishment.
"I know 3-ou can now," the doctor an
swered; "but I feel convinced that your
headaches proceed from weakness of
the eyes."
Richard's brow liecame clammy. He
saitl nothing aKtut it to Mary and went
privily to a great specialist in Harley
strtet
"Yon must have absolute rest for two
or three years," said the great man.
"Hut I can't I must live!"
"If you don't rest 3011 will be blind
before you are thirty-five."
With great dillieuity he gathered suf
ficient courage to tell Mary. She re
mained silent a little.
"Then, of course, you must give your
ptxir eyes a rest, tlear," she said.
"Hut how?"
"Well, you will have the money for
the Vlaire Ingelow' drawings, and
pcrhais the picture will sell. Some one
is sure to buy it."
"The money for the drawings won't
last six months, and pictures by un
known artists never sell."
"Well, I can earn a little."
She was determined to keep cheerful
for his sake. He closed her mouth with
a kiss.
"No!" he said. "I shall give myself
six months' holiday; that is all I can
afford. And then I must liegin again
end take my chance. IVrhaps the doe
tors are mistaken. They often are."
"Yes, very often." echoed Mary.
It was the tlay of the private view,
and Lacy sat in his studio wotulericg
if any among the brilliant crowd at
Hurlington house had cast a pasi-.ing
glance at his picture. Toward dusk a
telegram came, reply paid.
"What is name and address." it ran.
"tif lady who sat for Claire Ingelow?
Mark Ffolliott. Hetlford r...v."
Now, every one knew Mark Ffolliott.
He was the solicit"! r. and acted for half
the aristocracy. What couhl it mean?
Lacy telegraphed Inick the required
information. He went to see Mary next
m in ling.
"Richard, dear," she ln"gan almost
immediate lv. "1 know I am a brazen
minx, but I think we ought to get mar
ried at otiee. Then I can keep an eye
on you to see that you don't work."
"Don't joke, old girl!" he said, with a
tremor in his voi. e. "I've In-cii think
ing, and I've made up my mind that I
ought to release you. as there is no
prospect now of my lteing able to keep
even myself, to say nothing of a fain-
iiy."
"What if I refused to lie released?
"I must insist on it."
"Then I shall sue you for damages for
breach of promise."
Mary went softly up to hi m.
Then she showed him a letter whieh
she had that morning received from Mr.
Mark Ffolliott, of I led ford row.
It set forth, with the usual legal for
mality of phrase, how the writer, catch
ing sight of Mr. Lacy's picture at the
academy, had leen astonished at the
likeness which it lsire to a Miss Nor
ris. who, twenty years since, had sev
eral times visited his ofliee in company
with her uncle. Sir James Norris. who
was an old client of his; that Sir James
Norris had died altout a year ago, in
testate; that it had lieen discovered that
the deceased left no relations except
his niece, and that the latter hail mar
lied a gentleman named UlackwtHl
and subsequently died, leaving a daugh
ter; that Mr. Ffolliott hail hitherto
been unable to trace the issue of this
nurriage; ami, finally, that he was con
vinced that the original of "Claire In
gelow" must be the daughter of Mrs.
HlackwiHHl and heires.. to one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars and a coun
try house.
"Man-," Richard said, "accept my
congratulations! Hut, of course, a
girl with one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars and an ancestral hall won't
throw herself away on a penniless
artist."
"Won't she?" was the reply.
Richard Lacy puts A. Ii. A. after his
name now and paints portraits for five
thousand dollars apiece. Hut Mary al
ways tells the children that the Itest
portrait their father ever did was that
of "Claire Ingelow." Huston Ulole.
Insuring a. Cool Hummer.
lie had been seeking olliee, but was
now on his homeward way.
"I say," he exclaimed to an old ac
quaintance whom he met on his jour
ney to the depot, "you people aren't
worrying about your ice supply this
summer, are you?"
"The subject has given us some Itoth
er," was the reply.
"It's unnecessary."
"Do you think so?"
"Of course I do. You noticed how
late spring was, didn't you?'
"Yes."
"Well, you can't keep oflice-seekers
out of Washington, and you can depend
on getting a cold wave every time one
of them strikes the executive mansion."
Washington Star.
They Mere All C.ullly.
In preaching against the sin of flirta
tion a French priest pTcw quite warm
in charging the female mcniliers of his
congregation with the offense. Sudden
ly he tiMtk off his skull cap, ami, pre
tending to throw it, said: "I'll throw
my cap at the worst among you." Im
mediately every woman ill the cougre
Ifatktu ducked her head.
postage per year In advance.
NUMBER 33.
LAUGHING PHILOSOPHY.
If nature dt -Un-i to charm the eye
W 1th liowcr of every hue,
lit joichi.-. though at tiurht they din.
U'h Diil lie happy loo?
Why not why not
Why nit le happy loo?
A thousand creatures frisk and fly
And aeel and sfs ud. and woo;
Shall we the common law deny?
Why not U happy too
Why u.t why Hot
Why not Is- happy too?
Sijuirrel and 1s t- with rapture ply
The arts their fathers knew:
If these rejoice, why so may I:
Why not tc happy too?
Why not why not
Why aot be happy too?
The l-eady brook po lautrhini? by.
The birds sin? in the biue.
The very heavens exult, and cry:
Why not Is- happy too?
hy hot w hy not
Why not lie happy t.o?
Pora Uead t.oodalc, in Journal of Kduc
tion. 3IY WIFE'S LEGACY.
Why We Didn't Get a New House
and Furniture.
"I don't like to calculate upon such
things," oliscrved my wife, "but if
Aunt Jane were to die. I should not lie
a bit surprised if she left us that old
fashioned set of silver that belonged to
my great-grandparents."
Out of consideration for the printer,
I w ill omit indications of the emphasis
with which she usually spoke. If the
reader will kindly consider every second
wortl printed in small caps or italics, he
will have some faint idea of her manner
of expressing herself.
"It is a very handsome set," 1 re
turned, glancing alstut our modest din-ing-ro.un,
"and will hardly accord with
our furniture."
"It wouldn't look at all well with
that sideUiartl," returned my wife,
promptly, "it's so very shabby oh, of
course, 1 mean the sidelioard, not the
silver."
"I suppose, then, if such a thing were
to hapjH-n, you would want a new side
IsianL" She nodded.
"I saw a lovely one down town to
day; antique oak, lteautifully carved. I
do admire oak so muclu"
"lint the rest of the furniture is wal
nut." I objected.
"Walnut is altogether out of style,"
she said, with a disdainful glance at the
chairs whi;h we h:wl once admired:
"and a siilelioard is so much the most
expensivo piece of furniture in a dining
room that it tl(Hsti"t cost much more to
get a whole set than just that one
piece. And even a walnut sidclsiard,
new, would not look well with these
chairs and this table."
I said nothing and the tacit surrender
was acewpted by my w i.'e. Thenceforth
it was untlersttHsl that if Aunt Jane
should ltcqucath us the silver, we were
to purchase a new set of tlining-room
furniture.
The next evening, as we were again
at dinner, mv wife remarked:
"I have ltceii looking at carpets to
day, and saw one that just suits me;
rich and snUlm-d. you know."
"CarjH-ts." I repeated, in some sur
prise. "I didn't know that there was
one needed this season."
"Why, stupid," rejoined my wife,
petulantly (the emphasis was all upon
the pet name), "did we not agree that
the tlini:;g-room must lie refurnished?
Atnl thi:, cariH-t is so old aud worn, of
course it would not do with all new
furniture."
Again 1 acquiesced silently, and she
proceeded tit make plans for meeting
me the nest tlay, to cxa mine and choose
the carpet and furniture to lie pur
chased later 011. Well, if my wife's re
lations left her hamlsomesilver, I must,
of course, pro vide things in keeping
with it
She met me according to appoint
ment, and, having inspected the arti
cles, gave me to understand that my
taste was so execrable as not to merit
a moment's consideration, and, an
nouncing her own choice, suggested
o tolly:
"And now let us go and look at the
wall papers."
"Wall papers. I echoed.
"of course the room must be re
paiHTed if it is refurnished. As for the
wot d work. I suppose there is no help
for that; it will just have to lie re
grained. Can they make that natural
wood finish on wihkI that has been
painted?'
I stared aghast; that silver was going
to cost me a pretty sum. Hut I was
helpless, entirely so; my wife had made,
up her mind.
That evening she was much elated at
the prospect of Wing surrounded by
such things as she had that day se
lected. There' was but one cloud on her
horizon.
"The dining-room will be nicer than
the parlors," she remarked, plaintively;
"I'm afraid they will look shabby."
I saitl nothing, hoping that if she
were not contradicted she would not
pursue the subject further. Yain hope!
She had fixed it in her own mind that
silence gave consent, and when I came
home the next evening hail assumed
that the parlors were to le newly fitted
up.
"Don't you think," she said coaxing
ly, "that as long as the parlors and
dining-room are to lie torn up, and we
are to have the painters and paper
hangers here, we might as well have
the whole house done? It would lie
very little more trouble, and then it
will all look nice together, you know."
"It would lie considerably more ex
pensive," I remonstrated.
'You miglt draw the money out of
the building association," she sug
gested. 'Our savings in that institution are
doomed." I said to myself.
Aunt Jane lingered a long time. In
justice to my wif., I must admit she
had liecome oblivious tif the fact that
all these improvements depended upon
a legacy which could only lie pustessed
after the death of her venerable rela
tive. A "day or so after she hail decided
that the house was to Ik- thoroughly
renovated mv wife said to me:
"I have Iteen examining the parlor
carpets, and find by using the Itest parts
of botli. and buying, a wide border, I
can get quite a new carpet for our bed
rtHtiii." "Can you, indeed!" 1 remarked with
pleased suprisc.
There was fine thing that she would
not want, anyhow.
"Yes, and the carpet that is now on
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inverted at id. ioiiowiiik iuw nm .
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Nintr anil .ttuli.r Notice awl
-Keolat miu or ropellnr ot any hth ra
tlon or rociety and oumviunlratlon deFl(0d to
call attention to any matter of limited or Indl
vidual Interrat mui.1 t aid ir i advertiruiemi.
Kuok aid Job rriotin of all kind, neatly and
ezedloariy exerated at tbe loweM rice. And
doo'tyoa loriet It.
it has in it enough good to cover the
children's rootn, if I put the worn part
under the In-d. Oh inaylte I'd ln-tter
put that fin the children's riHim," she
added, reflectively, "and give that one
to the children. Theirs gets such hard
wear tint an old one w ill not last any
time."
"True."
"As long a we don't have to buy a
Itcdroom carpet," she remarked, insin
uatingly, "don't you think we might
have a new set of furniture?"
"No!" savagely.
She burst into tears and called me a
heartless monster. To pacify her I had
to promise the furniture, together with
a new silk and a sealskin, that the
mistress of the house might lie as line
as her dwelling.
"It diH-s st em a shame." she said a
few days afterwards, "to sjiciid so much
money on this old house. That's very
handsome and expensive pajter that we
looked at. and to substitute an arch
way for the folding diMirs will cost
s. imcthing "
"An archway!" I gasped.
This was the first that I had heard of
such a thing. Hut my wife sailed right
tin. unheeding my exclamation.
"And then those lovely carpets cut
up to fit these small rooms, tts!"
"Yes, it is a shame," I replied, hard
ly crediting my senses.
Not all had been lost, though much
had been in danger.
"I am so glad that you think so," re
turned my wife, briskly. "I was so
sure you would agree with me that it
would Ik? w iser fr us to find a house
that suits us lietter, and buy right
away. Real estate is cheap now. they
say, there is so much in tht market."
".., tried to put "ti a knowing look;
if she nail know n half as much alsnit
that subject as almut managing me. I
should have felt impressed. As it was,
1 objected weakly.
"My tlear, I don't know where in the
world I could get the money to buy a
larger and lietter house."
"You could sell this," she replied,
nothing daunted.
Thinking cunningly 'to turn her own
weapon on herself. I retorted:
"Hut if real estate is a drug on the
market I do not w ant to sell."
"There are those shares of stock,
couhl you not scil them?"
"Hut that stK-k is going up daily; if I
wait six months 1 can get double w hat
it would bring now; or hold it and
draw a big interest on my investment."
"Well, what else are you going to do?
Ytiu said yourself that we must have a
larger and better house."
Thereupon I mental bade a rcget
f ill farewell to the st-K-k. and the
money which I had expected to make
by holding it.
My wife occupied her leisure time f r
the next three weeks in looking for a
residence which should be in all re
spects suitable for the furniture we
were going to buy. What she would
desire next 1 could not guess, unless
she should lKeome thoroughly dissatis
fied with me.
At the end of the period mentioned 1
came home one evening to tind het in
tears.
"Aunt Jane's dead," she sobbed: "the
pi tor old la !y died this morning. I have
jst eotne from her house."
. s Aunt Jane had In-cn at the point
of death for tli ." past six months. I was
hardly surprised tri hear this bit of
news. I tlid my lK-st to comfort my
wife, however, and comported uij'scif
like a dutiful iiephcw-in-law ut the
mournful ceremonies following the
death.
When I returned home the day after
the funeral, my wife met me at the
distr. her fae flushed, her eyes blazing.
"What do j'ou suppose that old cranio
has done?"
"What old crank?"
"Aunt Jane,"
"I'm sure I don't know, but you must
remcnilier. my tlear"
"Oh, I know she's death She would
n't give her things away under any cir
cumstances. Siio lias left me JlttO in
cash and tiiat tlear old silver to my
second cousin. John Scott!"
I could hardly hide a smile, but I
managed to saj"
"What a pity!"'
"He'll sell it, and spend every cent
on liquor and cigars."
Then the blaze in her eyes was
quenched by a fliKtd tif tears.
I did my liest to sitothe her, but mv
efforts were useless. I assured her that
if her cousin sold the silver we would
buy it.
"I don't want it!" she declared; "I
won't have it! I won't get a single new
thing in the house or a new dnss fir
that sealskin or anything. I'll just
stay here with things as they are. and
John Scott can keep his silver, and j-mi
can keepyour buihlir.g association mon
ey anil stock, too. So there, now!"
After that I did not try to assuage
her grief. I was afraid that consola
tion might cost more than I could pay.
Waverley.
Aa the Yankee 1'ronouneed It.
Cunning in the use tif language to
give false impression is a 'i ankee trick
celebrated in song and story. Many in
stances of its use come to light in the
testimony given in courts. An illustra
tion of such dishonest craftiness is re
lated by a Maine gentleman. A man
came to him wanting him to buy a
share in a county lottery in which the
principal prize was a horse. "I'll take
one," he said, "if you'll warrant me I
shall draw the horse." "Oh, 3es," said
the seller, glibl3 pocketing the cash.
'I'll warrant j'ou to get the horse."
The horse went in another direction,
and the ticket holder, meeting the
seller said, jokingly: "I thought j'ou
warranted me to draw that horse."
"Oh, no," said the other, shrewdly, "1
did not saj- warrant, but want. I said
I wanted you to get the horse, and 1
did." Hangor Commercial.
Held a Ootid Hand.
I was traveling not long ago in Amer
ica when 1 met a man who used to tie
coroner in a town out west, who told
me the following card story. Said he:
"I was once sitting down to a game of
cards with a Texas man. a half-breed In
dian, and a fellow named Dick Jimson.
The ante was five dollars, and there
was ni limit. There was five hundred
dollars tin the cloth, and when we
'showed down' the half-breed held a
'straight, Dick Jimson held au ace and
three kings, the Texas man held four
aces, and " tood heaveus!" I inler
ruptetl. "and what did you hold?"
"Well," he said slowly, "Win" as I was
the coroner at the time, 1 held an in
quest on the Tcxab man." Loudon
l-'ioaro.
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