[Fox a Queer Character,
Henry Stephen Fox, one of the earl!
est English mind at Washingt
Was s0 eccentric as to make
the laughing stock of the whole town
He gencrally did mot arise until other
people were almost ready to go to bed.
When duty compelled him to rise earl
he was Ilke an cwl I~ the daytime
“How strange.” sald he to Mme. Cald
ron, one morning at a state “function”
~'‘how strange we look to each
er by daylight.” His debts compelled
him to economy, and he rarely gave
inners. He once Invite: a large par
ty to his house—Mr. Clay, Mr. Calhoun,
Mr. Webster and all the glants—and
when they were all assembled, he sald
“Gentlemen, now be good enough to
put on your hats and follow me.” And
then he led them to a neighboring eat
ing house.—Ohlo St Journal,
en —————
sters
himself
oth
inte
Curing tho Hens.
Terry, the Minden
know to keep his
out of his
Editor
wants to
bors’ hens
Charley, take a lot of
about 1
“Please
home,"
with
the st
hens
biddy go!
the pri ize,
stowing
card, then
home,
lite
us know how
Mich.) Standar
a
of Herald,
neign
Well,
a rel
varus
how
garden
small, »
write them
hes, on
Keep Your darned old hen
tie string to each
a grain of corn at the otl
liose
Cong,
vou wil
ng i
Try
earryl
request,
A parting gift—A brush
rR —
and comb.
Prayer and Prefanity
ara all right in thetr
have Tet p
worm, be
fine." 5 o
fromdJ. T
proper pla
There is one 3
anybody, and that is everybody.--Talleyrand.
Catarri
With x
the }
const
If afm
son's Kye -w
N rio ’
den
SCROFULOUS HUMOR
Sores Healed by Flond's Sarsaparilla
and
Hetuarned,
Hood’ 'S Sa
Is the bes t
Hood's Pifls ©
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Watch ve. Locomotive,
Y ry : f 3
who «
wonderful
and
ber of tur
with
watct
wonderful piecs
exceeded by ar
made an int
parison
cation In a wi
A wateh
a year a
minute the bu
axis 450 times, and 2
hour. Accepting
3
apeq
one
11
up
to show
wheel
oe
innce turns ot
L000 times in an
the year as the time
the ordinary watch will run with one
oiling he finds that If the driver of a
locomotive was as well oiled as the bhal-
anee wheel of a wateh it ought to
sixty miles an hour day and night
O48 days, or well on to two years with
one oiling. In that time it would tra-
verse a distance equal to nearly four
times the circumference of the earth.
In view of the fact that in reality fow
locomotives will run one day without
reolling, he maintains that the wateh-
maker has developed his art to a far
greater degree than the locomotive
builder bas yet been able to reach.--
Philadelphia Record
run
for
Vegetable
Sicilian
Prevents the hair from fall-
ing out, and makes a new
come in. You
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COMMUNITY OF ZOAR,
Old World Organization
ing in Chio,
communistie societies of
intere
about
sillon
Among the
Amnerica
this
none are more
of Zoar,
southeast of
located
Ma
to a reli
of the
HW years
thou one
owes its existence
unlike that
founded in Germany if
from that land
persecution, In INIT
sect left Bavaria,
and after many weary days
bean
decid
Olilo, It
EiOUN
Friends
ago and
society not
driven by re
Hgiqus
of the
ana Baden,
ces in Ohio, where
4
aie
they
lement named Zoar,
a flourishing condition
sett Was
have not
Indians
are
and pass
on Mexics
Columbus di
wrecked
before
vegse| cons
« enturie es wovered
World. But this tradition is
tantial
folk-lore tale. «¢ Among
their came
water hundreds of n
founded nothing
than a
that
big
on more subs
urrent
ancestors over
the salt
io0ons
have never been ahle
is people. Nominally, in
they Mexiean rule, but
ily they are governed by their own
chief, and whenever the Mexican Gov
ernment has interfered with them they
have taken up getting the best
of the serimmage every time Their
nearest Indian neighbors are the Ya-
quis, and two warlike t
have reciprocity down to a fine
The Mexicans
are under
arms,
thene
point
cans attack them
The Mayas live principally
chase, although they
corn and garden truck, The men
large and well formed, and some om
the women are remarkably handsome
blondes.
by the
cultivate some
ae
Soaring a Bulldog.
story of an old citizen of that town,
Dexter lee, who had a wonderful pow-
er over animals,
with a ferocious oulldog came into
of
COnveren
1
ida
town, and
L.ee rem
dog out 16 Wagol "ls
vid tl { |
ory yard of
Lee said n
Caro
the you
Die]
and drew Hp betwee
hi chin
in an
manner
the
ani
teeth, which caused
ker to the
extraordinary and alarming
T he fixed his eves sharply
"hen
and slowly approached the
wiry
whis project into alr
on
mal
The
ment as if
when
the
and with a
bounded
for a
presently
him,
ap out of the wagon
of 1
terrified
the
hed him
but
dive at
bulldog wate
fascinated
made
made a le
mo
a little
I ©
dog
’ 4
HOWIis
and
hetweer
street
tail
or Induce
10
COs
man had gone
VILLACE BUILT BY PILFERINC.
the
whale,
mpus
ys Chi'd,
fathom the
Lying
of its nt s, in it arriage or
ita larg wondering
eyes roam over a gea of faces, till
into a sweet
3 in its eves,
extended
bound as
The Eve of a
Who can explain or
drous instinct f a child
the
elsewhere.
in
arms
sud-
ita features break
smile, gh dan
perhaps the {iny ha
and the little body
though it would throw itself through
gpace. What has happened? It has
recognized a friend, nothing more and
no less. It makes no mistake. Wiser,
perchance, in that moment of inexperi-
enced helplessness than it will be years
afterward, when the world and its in-
denly
a baby lav
nds are
gives a
fering Is seldom if ever mistakenly
presented. By what power is this
By what subtle
after years it may strive in tata to
. discern ?--Philadeiphia Times.
Good Ingratn Carpet, 29¢. per yard,
Heavy Brussels Cao pet, 48 - per ya d.
For the asking, we mu free of
nll ¢t new Cole 4 Carpet
Calta Ts shows all g
Ithogra; voloras, You of i
gelections § vil Bs IT
st the inti, and save fi
cont, pr I are p
deaior. If you wish «
carpet, send Bo, In
issue a general cata
Draper fled ng
wo mall (ree of all charg
Julius ned Son,
2 TIBORE, MD.
opian and
Quite Different.
here are fine distinctions, though
nsually with a diff In the days
when Beotland was even strict ;
ybwervances than it a visitor to
Edinburgh was whistling in the street
m Sunday.
“Mon,” sald another, reproving!
maunna whustle”
“1 am whistiing to my dog
| posclliatory answer,
“Oh.” was the
| whustle to the doagle,
whustle. "Youth
erence,
er in its
is now,
. was the
CONCEKRION, “v0 aay
but ye maunna
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The Musical Blacksiitls,
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pireect in
remarked n
rest in th
The »
with the
rolled up
vig leather
turesque a son of Vulean as
“1 watched
old bellows,
fashioning a horses
Into rong. It was ‘The
from Robin Hood,
rafters rin
" +1 et
he
tnture, and
tne]
houlde
apron on, he
him blowing
and then as lhe
lLioe 114
Armory
that made
hammer op
blow
iron nfter
inngles
A TALK WITH MRS
at Pe Bp
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