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MARY SMITH.
NY RUGENE FIELD
Away down East, whers 1 was roared among
my Yankee kith,
There used to live a pratty girl whoss name
was Mary Smith;
that pretty girl,
nd though I feel I'm sadly worn by Wastarn
strife and whirl,
Still, oftentimes, I think about ths old familiar
place,
Which, somoway, soomed the brighter for
Miss Mary's protty face,
And in my heart I foul
the glow
f used to feel in those old
Mary's bean,
once mor? ravivifiad
times when I was
On Fri lay night I'l drop aronad to mks my
weekly call,
And, tho igh [ came to
se "am all;
Nith Mary's mother sitting hers and Mary's
father there,
The conversation never flagged so faras I'm
visit hor, I'd have to
AWAre;
Sometimes I'd holl her worstad, sometimes
we'd play at games,
Sometimes dissactthe apples which we named
aach other's names
Oh, how I loathed the shrill-tonad clock that
tld me when to go!
"Twas ten o'clock at ha f-past eight when I was
Mary's bean.
Aud Mary, shoull thes linos of mine seek
out your biding place,
smile
God grant they bring tie old aswaet
back to your pretty face
God grant they b ing you thoughts of ma, not
as 1 am to-day,
W.th faltering s’ep
pect grimly
But thoughus that
of life and glee
As we wera in the olden time as you shall al-
ways be
Think
of me ever, Mary, as the boy you used
to know
When time was fleet and life was aweet, and I
was Mary's bean.
Dear hills of old Now
with tender aye
Upon one li tio, lonely
bosom lies;
For in that cradle sleeps
fair to sen
God yearned to have unto Himaalf the joy
brought to me;
And bid your winds sing soft and low th
@ song
of other days,
i and heart to heart, wa
ur plessant ways
could I.» ng that song of
sgain
r, idle song of being
Mars's
BY J. L. HARBOUR
Perry Dakin had been eageriy scanning
the ‘‘Help Wanted” columaus of the dail;
papers for several days He needes
acmething to do. His father had died
after a brief illness, leaving no property,
and a widow and two litti
Perry. The boy must cs
He was seventeen
active.
Perry faced the situation manfully
He had intended to go to college, but he
gave up his high hopes without bemoan
ing. He procured
from men who knew bim
ing for the sturdy character that he had
nroved.
He was ready to do any
¥
:
for them
vears old, strong and
some rood
well,
+
wu? orl
LOnest work
i
ions of long, lonely nights passed through
his mind; but his need of money was
urgent,
“I'll be glad to go if the pay suits
me,” he said.
“Well, I will give you ten dollars a
week and your board at the cafe and a
ticket on the railroad, so that you can
come to the city every Saturday night and
stay until Monday morning.”
It was more than he expected. Ile
had not hoped to receive more than seven
or eight dollars a week for anything an
inexperienced boy like bimself could
do
“Thank you, sir,” he said. “I will
report for duty to-morrow morning.”
«All right. There is to be a big pie-
nic party out at the lake to-morrow, and
the young man who had charge of the
boats and swings last year will go out
with you and instruct you in your du-
ties 1 would like you to go out on the
seven o'clock train. Call here at about
three this afternoon and get your rail-
road ticket for six months.”
Luke Windom, twenty miles from the
city, was a clear, deep body of water
about three-fourths of a mile long and
Lalf a mile wide. The grass grew to the
very edge of the water all around, and
at one side was a large and pretty grove
fitted up for picnic parties that paid for
the use of the grounds.
There were thirty-five or forty small
boats for hiring out at fifty cents an hour
to picnickers. It was Perry's duty to
take full charge of these boats and to
collect the money for their use.
There were some swings with box seats
for four near the boats, Ten
the
swings. Then there was a bowling alley
in charge of a young man named Hale,
who lived in Crofton. He went to his
home every evening, after turning over
ts of the bowling alley to
persons
Perry.
The total sum thus placed in Perry's
charge sometimes amounted to seventy
five dollars,
Perry's situation was a pleas ant one in
the day time, when the grounds were
often filled with merry picnic parties, but
the silence and loneliness that followed
their departure were depressing. The
lake was secluded, and as night came few i
heard except the dismal |
were the
could do to even a small
One day he read this notice in a paper
published in the city where he lived
YW ANTED
to lwenty
earn
A young man of from eighteen
yoga of age for a responsil
position a few miles irom the ts No pre
TIONS experiance requis ed Must wall
recommended as to chiracter, snd be ready to
go to work at once. Call between nine and
gloven this morning at 269 B stieet, Room 14
come
Perry was at 260 B street, armed with
twenty-five boys and men had formed in
lige. Perry was third in the line,
At nine o'clock the door opened
by an elderly man who gave an exclama-
tion of surprise when he saw how many
were waiting. Then be said
“Well, ‘First come, served
Sorry I can't employ all of you, but I
need only one. I'll talk with you."
wns
first
into the room, and the door was ciosed
The young man came out five minutes
later looking ws little crestfalien. Then
the gentleman came to the door and said,
‘*Next."
and then it was Perry's turn,
« examined.
“These are all good,” said the gentle.
Nan.
Windom is?”
“Yes, sir.”
“If I engaged you, I would want
you to go out there and stay until Octo-
ber.”
“Very well, sir.”
““Have you ever been out there!”
*“Yes, sir, | went out there to a picnic
one day last summer,”
*There are picnic parties at the lake
nearly every day from the middle of May
to about the tenth of October. The
owners of the lake and grounds want
some one to go out there and take
charge of the boats that are hired out by
the hour to pleasure parties, and collect
the charges. There are some other things
to be done, but nothing that a boy of
your age could not do. But I want to
tell Jou beforehand that you will have a
lonely time of it at night.”
“Wouldn't there be any one else there
at night but myself!"
#No, you would be entirely alone.
There is a cafe there, and a peanut stand
or two, and a man who takes tintypes,
But these people go to their homes in
Crofton, a town about a mile from the
_ Inke, at night. We should want you to
© atay at the grove for several reasons, |
think you'd be safe enough, but it would
lonesome.”
“Yes, 1 suppose 50,” said Percy. Vis.
. HY
mournful song of the whippoorwill.
As the
ene
in the
; : {
shadows of the trees length, |
twilight, Perry would sometimes |
i row for an hour or two, |
thro de- |
i by |
a boat and
the
lost
ofter walking around igh
ngs
the picknickers.
The keeper of the cafe always set out
snely meal, time would
tl
LL
drag slowly with
when he ** turned in
boy until © o'clock,
for the night. He
sient in a bare little room at one end of
an unpainted and un
the cafe bullding
yneliness |
but he |
the |
the
place
isited by tramps, whose shouts and |
of
As the season advanced, the |
to an end,
have preferred solitude
that then resorted
Nearly every night the
of Perry's nights came
would to
to
grounds
was
brawls increased the disagrecableness
Perry's situation
The tramps would wander around the
grove, picking up and eating the food |
thrown away by the picoic parties, before |
going to sleep in the dancing pavilion or
the long covered piazza in front of the
Here littie that could be stolen or |
eaten was Kept over night by the pro-|
trade to
Crofton every evening and returned in
the morning before the arrival of picnic
trains,
The tramps never came around in the |
daytime, and Perry tried to believe that
that he
Usually
cafe
had money in his possession
they paid little attention to him.
Perry's instructions that he
should send to the city every Thursday
morning his receipts for the three pre
were
Saturday night the money taken during |
the three closing days of each week. On |
Wednesday night of the fifth week of his |
on successive days amounted to nearly a |
hundred dollars.
The money made a package of con- |
siderable size, Almost half was
Perry had |
The third picnic party left the grove
at five in the afternoon and Perry was
alone on the grounds, sitting in one of
the boats counting the money. He had
made the silver into piles of five dollars
each, and the bills he was running over
in his hands. Suddenly he was startled
by a shout,
**Hello!"”
Perry looked up, Two tramps, whom
on the shore, and were looking at him
“Good morning,” replied Perry, gath-
ering up the money and putting it back
into the handkerchief.
“Rind struck it rich, ain't you,
young feller?” said one of the men.
**No,” replied Perry, *'l haven't,
isn't my money.”
‘Oh, it hain't?
then?”
“It belongs to the company that owns
the grounds.”
While he was speaking he picked up
the onrs and sent the boat out from the
shore,
**Where are you going?”
the men.
“Nowhere in particular,’
still rowing.
“Well, wait a minute, we want to talk
to you."
**] haven't got time,” ealled out Perry,
rowing faster than ever,
The two men exchanged a few words,
which the boy could not hear. Then
they jumped into another boat and
rowed after Periy, who now threw off
his cont, and rowed as hard and as fast
as he could.
He had learned to row very well at
the lake, and was well out on the water
before the tramps started. But th
were two to one, and he soon reali
that they were gaining on him,
They shouted to him to stop, declar-
ing they meant him no harm, but he
fa no heed, and rowed on steadily.
hey were gaining, and Perry feared
that the two boats would reach the op.
te shore at the same time. But one
of the tramps broke an oar. The mea
o
It
Whose might it be,
called one of
«
said Perry,
became angry, sud called out,
“We're after that money, an
have it, boy! It'll be the worse for you
if you don't stop!”
‘erry's boat grated on the pebbly bank
about twenty feet in advance or his pur-
suers’. The boy jumped out and ran
swiftly through a narrow strip of timber
to a wagon round, on the opposite side of
which was a field in which a tall, thin,
elderly farmer was cutting grass with a
scythe. Perry slipped between the ralls
of the fence and ran toward the farmer,
“Help me to defend myself!” ne
shouted to the astonished man. ‘‘There
are two tramps after me. They're after
money that isn’t mine, Here they are!
road, jumped over the fence and ad-
vanced boldly.
his fist at Perry, who was standing close
to the farmer's side.
“* Your money" said Perry, indig-
nantly. *‘It isn't your money, and you
can't touch it.”
“We can't, hey? See if we don't!”
He advanced a few steps,
“Hold en, my
mer. ‘‘Jest stop right where you air un
til we talk this matter over, Now, boy,
go on and give us your side of the case.”
“It belongs to the owners of the lake
grounds, I have charge of the boats over
there, and these fellows have been trying
to take it from me.”
“Well, if that ain't a good one!”
sneered one of thetramps., “But it won't
do, boy. The money's ours, and we
don’t feel called on to say any more "bout
it, "cept that we're goin’ to have it. Stand
aside there, old gentleman.”
“I reckon not!" said the farmer. “I've
heerd both sides o' the case, an’ if you'll
‘scuse me fer speakin’ so plain, I don’t
b'lieve a word you two rascals bave said
—a purty pair you air,
straight -for'd-lookin’ boy, an’ you ain't
pary the one nor the other——no you don't
no you don’t! Not a step nigher!”
He held up the scythe threateningly
“I wouldn't want a better weepin'
than this old ythe to defend mysell
agin a dozen sich fellers as you be. You
j within swing my scythe it
you think it'll be healthy fer you. Law!
I'd cut down fer the two wuthiess
weeds of airth that you be! Here,
boy, jest slip your hand down into the
t of my overalls and you'll find a
there with a blade
You take the koife an
the scythe, an’ I reckon we
10ld the fort for quite a spell.”
sv did not have to bold it lon;
art
This is a clean,
84
’
jest come 0
fe
ve
the
bout
knife
hes long.
to
ire,
the privile re
An hour ater the farmer drove over t
with Perry. and notified
The deputy sheriff
had been looking for two such men, who
A and before
were
was organized,
the two men
They were tried, convicted
and sent to the penitentiary
Perry remained at the lake the rest
that summer, but sent the boat money to
the city every day, and was never m ested
again Youth's (
WILLOW
posse
in the
Crofton ail.
f
Of
Jompanion
AS A CROP.
Cutting Time Comes Once In Four
Years, But It Pays,
In a beau iful sweepofl lowland north
tral Railroad, and about nine miles from
the city, there is a peculiar farm, It is
peculiar in that it renders to its owner
and tiller but one crop in four years, and
The farmer, Antone Spath, came from
Frankfort, Germany, many years agy
stands in the
willows,
house, which still
{ter row until the valley bas become
Spath had learned
the art of weaving willow ware in his
boyhood days by the shores of the River
Main, and as fast as his little plantation
grew he gathered the shoots, stripped
them of their green outer covering, and,
conceivable form or size,
““It seems rather peculiar work in this
country,” ssid the willow farmer, in
“but in all
parts of Europe, especially in the Ger.
man provirces, it is a very common
thing to find willow plantations and
willow weavers, for there willow is used
in many forms and for a greater number
of purjoses than I find it used in this
country. In Germany and France
willow is employed in making at least
twenty different sorts of bird cages,
while in America metal is used-—brass or
iron wire—and different woods, Among
Then there are a hundred and one shapes
of marketing baskets, baskets used by
milliners and lauodresses, baskets and
panniers to be carried upon the backs of
man and beasts for holding fish’ and
fowl.
*In preparing the willow for the
parallel with a running stream of water,
and cut them when they have attained
four years of growth. The cutting time
is early in the spring, before the sap is
done running, and after tying them in
bundles they are placed In ponds of
water to kesp them in a green state until
ready for stripping. Stripping the wil
switches through and between two heavy
iron stanchions, whose edges peel the
light green bark from the white hesrt,
and then, after drying or curing them
upon long racks, we have got the willow
in a form for the weaver.
“It was many years sfter [ planted
this farm with willows before any one
thought of imitating my example, but
now there are several other plantations
located upon the Washington and An:
napolis roads, and though you may find
quite as busy scenes there, you will
scarcely find a more picturesque place
than this anywhere, that was one of
the reasons that led me to settle here.”
«{ Baltimore American.
Tur great national pastime of the
Spanish populace is the bull ring, and
15,000 or 20,000 People, can often ba
seen at & bull fight in Madrid, The In.
fanta Eulalia is a member of the royal
family who finds enjoyment in the spors
Aunt Masie the Snake Woman,
There has recently died a well known
character of Okolonn, Miss., known as
¢ Aunt Masie Huggins,” or the ** Spake
Woman,” who lived an isolated life with
snakes as her only friends. She had
built herself a hovel composed of
branches of trees, clay and other debris,
which, though often washed down by
the rains, she would build up again.
This novel residence is said to have been
fairly alive with snakes of every local
| under foot, the
chinks in
and creeping from
the wall, The
near her cabin, which she cultivated her-
self, With the exception of the neces.
i-sary intercourse with those from whoo
she purchased the few things she re
thirty years to have held any conversa
| tion with any human being, She could
| often be met after dark walking through
{ the town with
| twined about
! nestling
her neck,
with their ugly
her arms,
in her bosom,
| heads protruding,
that passed,
* On these occasions, hewever, when
i hailed or questioned she would make no
| reply. Ounce some boys of the neighbor
{ bood prowling about her cabin found
| several of the snakes on the outside and
| killed them, and belore they were aware
| of it Aunt Masie aopeared in the door
way with a shotgun, which she let fly
the crowd None of the boys
killed, but one of them was shot through
; the ear, and the rest scattered in a hurry
That the woman's mind was affected there
seems little doubt, Her only son while
out hunting in the woods was bitten by
a rattlesnake, and days afterward his
swollen and discolored body was found,
This appeared to craze his
i home, saying the snakes were
live with them,
¢ her het
nt
mother,
left her
calling her to come and
and that they would
boy
She
ory
Riv back
is said to have come of
1 and to have been
When discovered she had been dead for
d and the snakes were cr
the body, but fled on the Appearance ol
a
gO i
amily, well educated.
avs
awling over
and have not been seen near the
ince By th who have
her surrounded by her queer adopted
family it b estimated that
must have at 200
numbering among them several] ve
woman did not
have charmed them,
but it is probable that her
lessnoas ? the
Times
sirangers
cabin si
3 yal seen
as been thers
bean least of them,
varieties. The
as the savis
je rie
- rey ed 1 eit
BRineda m.~ Pils
Why Stars * Twinkle.”
I
notice that th
light is constantly
we look intently at a bright star we
¢ color and intensity of the
changing from bril
and
Yellow,
usually
ie ‘twinkling or scin-
The “twinkling”
pisinly when the
horizon, and will di.
it rises un is
at which time the twink
ling is scarcely noticeable It must be
confesssd that this twinkling has never
besa explained to the satisfaction of ali
Investigators. However, it is generally
believed to be due to controlling causes
within the earth's atmosphere. That the
cause may be looked for within the belt
of air that surrounds our planet (to par
ticles of vapor, dust, elec.) may in
ferred from the fact that the planets
never exhibit the charateristic twinkling
so noticeable in the star, One reason for
this is the size (apparent; of the planets,
The planets each show a sensible disk
even to the naked eye, while the strong
est instrument world only shows
the stars as being mere points of light.
This being, the case, any foreign sub-
stance in the atmosphere would moment
arily hide the light and make the star
appear to “‘twinkle."—{St. L IL
public.
. $e
liancy to alm tal obscurity,
from bright red
This is t
is 1
the stars
to blue, orange,
he Wenomenon
iticed mors
is near the
minish in intensity as
| near the zenith,
#4 »
wl
be
in the
ais
Founded by a Numismatist,
George W. Becker, of Dover town
ship, exhibits a number of coins which
he found in the Conewago Mountains
There are fourteen pieces in all. They
are all brass except one, which is com-
posed of nickel or lead. Five of the
ooing are about the size of a twenty
dollar gold piece, while the balance are
the size of a cent. They are all round
except one of the large ones, which is
cight-cornered. On one side of the
large coins are the Eaglish letters **N,
P. V, A.” and the figures 8" and “728,
| the former at the top and the latter at
the bottom of the coin On the reverse
side is an “N.,” with strange figures and
hieroglyphics in the spaces between the
“X." On the lead piece the hierogiyph-
tes are the same, but the letters
are different. viz.: *S, V, L,
The coins are not tarnished and
The
{ long.
are in a good state of preservation.
strawberries. He also found near the
same place a number of Indian relics.
The coins will be sent to the Snithsonian
Institution at Washington, — [Baltimore
American,
Freaks of the West,
An extraordinary freak of nature is
reported.at Rigdon, nine miles north of
Elwood, IIL, in the shape of a call with
two perieotly develo heads, It is
healthy, playful, and it seems to have
two separate and distinct appetites,
Hardly less wonderful is the four-legged
chicken hatched at Portland, Ind., a few
days ago. Itisre nted as extremely
vivacious and self-nssertive, and a long
and useful life is fondly anticipated for
the little quadruped. extra legs
come out just behind the others and
doubtless will be found convenient for
prposss of rest when the regular legs
tired, Too much iin cannot
be bestowed on the faithful telegraphio
correspondents to whose tireless ene
and unerriog instinot in the search for
exciting news the Julie is indebted for
these remarkable
em ~-{Chicago Tri-
THE JOKERS’ BUDGET,
JESTS AND YARNS RY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS,
Unbalanced ~A Dangerous Question
A Good Foundation-—Not be
Overworked A Passing Object,
Ete,, Ete.
to
USBALANCEKD,
Doodle~1 hear that Tikkle has entered
taken
the third wife,
Noodle—Yes,
Doodle—I thought he'd vowed to re-
Noodle—S0 he had, but you see the
trouble with him was that he never had
joston Courier.
A DANGEROUS QUESTION.
Wykoff — Dear me! Old fellow, bow
ame you so dreadfully
y hoarse t
Raykoff —Adswerigg the blabed
thut ask be how |
caught
Good-bordige.”"—[ Chicago Tribune
this
A GOOD FOUNDATION
Foreign Visitor—Your American
"i
OOS
Ameri nn (Girl
mit: but (brighten
scandals,
N-o, we haven't, [ad
Lr
JO
we have pien ty of
A WISE PROVIBRION OF NATURE.
Teacher— What are marsupisls?
Boy—Animals which have pouches in
their stomachs,
Tewher—And what
pouces for f
By
anives
-To crawl into and
when they
ia
KOT TO BE
Mra. }
to bake my own bread!
Mr. Yo Just
iearest
MOZIOYE-—
ngs
Vi
aking
PAREING OR
Did
tw
3 x
\itoranes
between the
Witness
Attorney— Yo
vi
O men « JUArTe!
"e
“1,
Bir
U werg present ware vou
yes, sir: but
to fol
my
ri WON a
LFig
ridoet did, mum,
iss Dukkets—What did he
doet He said, ** Well, tel
: OWE BS 804 aus
{Puck
yu she is
What caused
‘Is it possible? is
fective hammock.” [W ash
4 Iw
iar
HOT.
Too hot to drink, too hot to writ
Too hot for joy and laugh
Too hot for Georgia fish to
Aud
ter:
bite
lie about "em after
-! Atlanta Co
AWEETY D»
yastit
EDUCTION,
~Paw, 1
swing tobacco by eating
y you suppose that is true?
Mr. Fige Probably.
T mmy--5ay, paw,
kept filled up with candy
don't you suppose that he
want to lears to chew U
napolis Journal.
Candy
:
ail the
would
bacco?! Indi-
time,
never
IT WAR FAR TOO TEMPTING.
“I think, Willie,” said his father, who
had becw looking through the new house,
1 shall give you one of the rooms at the
sther end of the building.”
“What's matter with this
suired Willie, anxiously
“The matter, my son,” rej the
experienced parent, his left eyelid com
ing slowly down over the eve, “‘is that
the the Kitchen
roof, the
kite
——
the one”
in
oined
window Opens out on
the coal
and this is
Tribune.
close to
cuc
shed is
hon, the
hi nro
us season
TRUE
¥
Bumiy—I thought you told me yester
day that Mehling was a pressman,
ou say he an expressman
hat?
Quingly == He was
night. That's how he
Pressman.
5 is How is
discharged last
became an ex-
IT HAR ITR USES,
Cholly-~Fweddy, we can’t get through
this crowd.
Fweddy-—~Wait a minute, Chelly.
Here comes a lady with a parasol. We
will follow her.—[Truth.
SAME THING IX THE END.
Maud —The word “homely” ix not used
A homely girl there means
one who is fond of domestic surround.
ings.
Marie — Domestic surroundings are the
only things a homely girl has a chance of
being fond of, whether in England or
America, —{ Life,
WELL NAMED.
Friend —1 see you have named a new
brand of cigarettes after Cicero,
Manufatturer-—Just
Friend But Cicero
about tobacco.
Manufacturer —That's all right,
tobacco in ‘em, [Good News,
AN AWKWARD QUESTION,
Miss Keedick—Oh, yes, I know Miss
Gilderslecve very well, She's a friend
of my youth.
Miss Gaskett — And what is your
youth's name!
A LOUD SXORER,
“My dear, Johnny must not use his
scroll.saw while I am taking my nap.
knew nothing
No
You know it makes me nervous,
tell him to stop.”
“Johnny isn't sawing. He isn't home
Te Y suppose what 1
‘ | an w
heard was an echo from a saw.mill some:
where off in the mountahs.”
“No, Mr. Wilkins, it was not,
wes your own snoring you heard."
CAR THELP THEMSELVES,
He —1If there is anything I detest it's a
flirty woman.
She-—Humph! Why not a flirty man?
He--Oh, well, 8 man has some excuse,
Women are #0 attractive
[New York Weekly
INDEVINIT PF
VOU Know, ee
LAINE]
“Does she asked
man,
“Oh, ves,” replied the girl to whom
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POWER OF THE PHERS
Famous Bcientist Some
thing must be done to stop the spread of
the opium habit among women
Great Editor (calmly) Very well, sir;
I'll put in a paragraph sayiog that a han-
kering for opium is & sign of old age
New York Weekly
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Holland’s Herring Aristocracy.
Needless to say thas being so
i Dutch are great
Indeed, social rank is
asumption of fish,
| and strange to say that for this purpose
he humblest of all fish, the common
| herring, has been selected.
At a good restaurant at Amsterdam I
| asked for a thoroughly Dutch dish, and
| to my great surprise a small raw herring
| was served to me, and for this strange
| dish I was made to very large
price. lo answer to iquiries | was
informed in a particu » indicative
something surprisi and wonderful
| that it I was fur
ther tol ET Ting st a iow
as $1 each i pro
London new herring were
me cent each or three her
Ian answer to this |
informed that in Holland
the season any
. though just as fresh, ther
called a hersing. The
w herring, and 8 new
1 herring of SEASON, OT
ng that heralds the coming
is these rare and early herring
sold at $1 each. Then the price
falls to hall a dollar, then to twenty
| pents, to ten cents, to five cents, and
{ finally to one cent or less.
When the new herring sre first an-
nounced Dutchmen inquire of one an-
other, * Have you already eaten a new
herring 7" If you are able to answer *“Yes”
early in the season then you are consid-
ered a man of means and importance.
But if you continue for long confessing
that you have not eaten any new herring
then your kind and charitable friends
conclude you must be involved in serious
financial difficulties. —{ Chicago Times.
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i weeks Ago as much
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r for two cents
ing {
{ was smilingly
herring were vot during
dearer: only
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i the fis
| season
i that are
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He Dies Once a Week.
An Italian, who cannot be other than
a most remarkable impostor, has been
playing wonderful tricks upon the good
people of Tiflis, in the Caucasus, Russia.
{is name is Tagarelli, and while he can-
not be termed an Italian in the strict
sense of the word, having been bora in
Russia, of parents bora in the same
country, itis koown that he is of that
extraction.
He is known all over the land of the
Cezar as ‘The Dying Prophet,” his ability
to delude the public depending on a
queer faculty he has for dying sad re.
turning to life once every week.
A person who has viewed the situation
on the ground says: The audacity of
his ons, the skill with which they
are maintained, and above all the pro
found effect ueed upon all who come
in contact with him, have vo parallel in
history, He is a most extraordinary
being, and if he be an impostor, then he
is the most marvellous i of the
He dies, to all and
his doings while on these *
he can tell the spiritual of
SERN Ie ¢
ho cares
make inquiries, «New | ork Journal. £