TO BLOCK FUTURE
PARMEACIIM.
Republican Legislative Candidates
Must Pledge to Stand by
the Caucus.
Attorney Urnernl Klkln Talka on
the Senntorinl luanr and l'rrdlct
a Great Majority For McKlnley lu
Fennnylvania.
(Special Correspondence.)
Harrisburg, Jan. 16. A movement
has been inaugurated among active
Republicans of Pennsylvania to re
Quire every candidate for the legisla
ture before he is nominated to pledge
that in the event of his election he will
attend the Republican caucus on the
United States senatorship and for the
organization of the legislature, and
will abide by the action of a majority
of the members of the caucus. The
purpose of this is to prevent a repeti
tion of the experience at the recent ses
sion of, the legislature, when a small
minority of the men elected as Repub
licans refused to attend the caucus and
followed , Martin and Flinn In their
combination with the Guffey Demo
crats and prevented the election of &
Vnited States senator unless the candi
date would be of their selection. No
matter whether the choice of the ma
jority shall be Colonel Quay or ram
pant anti-Quay men the advocates of
this proposition say that they wish
the Republican party t0 name the sen
ator, and they, are entirely satisfied
to support tne candidate of a majority
of the Republican legislators.
It is known that in Philadelphia
there are influential party leaders who
declare that no man will be allowed to
have his name in the Republican col
umn unless he publicly promises to go
Into the Republican caucus and stand
by the choice of the majority of the
Republican senators and representa
tives. COOPER'S STALWART PLATFORM.
Former State Chairman Thomas V.
Cooper a few Bays ago made a formal
announcement of his candidacy for
member of the house of representatives
from Delaware county. He will go as
a stalwart, and in a public statement
of his position he said:
"Manv of the leading and active cit
izens, Republicans, of Delaware county
having expressed personally and by mes
sage and letter a desire to see me return
to the halls of the legislature at Har
risburg, it is proper for me to say that
I appreciate these marks of kindness
and that I will be a candidate for the
house from the western district in this
county. This does not interfere with
any former general plans or desires,
since the present Incumbent declines ta
seek a third nomination and gracefully
retires. If I am chosen I will act for
and with the Republican organization,
seeking and promoting its unity and
endeavoring by all means in my power
to secure better election laws and bet
ter politics."
JONES WINS IN LEHIGH.
Supporters of the regular Republican
organization are gratified over the vic
tory won by 'Squire Jones, the stal
wart leader of Lehigh, at the Republi
can primaries there last week. The
Insurgents in Philadelphia made a
special effort to defeat the 'squire in
his home ward by sending up Immense
stacks of literature designed to preju
dice the Republican voters against
him. They were given no satisfaction
for their efforts, however, aj 'Squire
Jones carried this ward by a vote of
320 to 40. He will continue to control
the organization of the entire county
and will name the delegate to the Re
publican national convention and also
all the delegates to the state conven
tion. Attorney General John P. Elkin
has been down to Washington looking
over the senatorial situation, and he
says the outlook lor the seating of Col
onel Quay is very gratifying to the
friends of the Beaver statesman.
ELKIN'S CONFIDENT TALK.
"Senator Quay's friends in Washing
ton," remarked Mr. Elkln, "seem to
have no doubt about the outcome of
the Issue that will be decided by the
senate. They feel that the matter has
ceased to be a question of politics but
that the members of the senate are go
ing to decide this case purely on ques
tions of law and the construction of
the constitution. It Is not a question
whether Senator Quay is a Republican
or a Democrat, or what Influences are
for or against him, but the issue is to
be determined by a careful study of the
law governing appointments by gover
nors to vacancies in the United States
senate and the proper Interpretation of
the constitutional provisions affecting
this matter. Those who are seeking to
make this purely a matter of politics
will find that the members of the sen
ate who are most influential in that
body have no sympathy with their at
tacks upon and personal abuse of Col
onel Quay and his supporters."
"What about the political situation
in Pennsylvania?" former State Chair
man Elkin was asked.
"As to that," he replied, "I think I
am in a position to speak by the card.
I have had occasion to get around the
state considerably of late and I have
met a number of leading Republicans
who have visited Harrisburg, and
while In Washington I talked to most
of the congressmen from Pennsylvania.
They report that the Republicans of
the Keystone state are In full accord
with the party organization, and that
they propose to have Pennsylvania
once more lead the procession of states
of this Union in her majority for Pres
ident McKinley at next November's
election. With her record of 300,000
majority In 1896. Pennsylvania sur
passed the largest majority previously
given to any presidential candidate by
any state, and this year, with all onr
renple prosperous under the magnifi
cent administration of President Mc
Klnley, and with a splendid future
opening before us. I feel that we caa
safely predict that Pennsylvania will
. do as well this year as she did four
years ago, and that she may even but-
llavliia;
Ureal Kaa on Chambertaia
1'anna Kenedy.
Manager Martin, of the Piersoo drug
store informs us that he is having a great
run on Chamberlain ftCough Itemed v. Ue
sella five bottle of 'bat medicine to one
of any other kind, and it gives grea' satiiu
faction. In these day of la grippe there is
nothing like Chamberlains Cough Reme
dy to Mop the cough, heal up the sore throat
and lung and give relief within a very
abort time. The sales are growing, and
all who try it are pleased with its prompt
action. South Chicago Daily Calumet.
For sale by all druggists.
The Sire photograph gallery will le
open lor business on Saturday of each
week. Don't forget the day. tf
pass that remarkable majority.
AGAINST QUAY AND FOR BRYAN.
The frequent claims of the regular
Republican leaders that the Guffey out
fit in Pennsylvania politics, which is
acting with the Republican insurgents,
is a dyed-ln-the-wool Bryanlte com
bine was verified a few days ago by the
action of State Chairman John S. Rill
ing in calling a meeting of the Demo
cratic state committee. Some weeks
ago It was announced that William
Jennings Bryan proposed to visit Penn
sylvania. It was not known upon what
date he would arrive. After an unsuc
cessful effort to find out when the free
silver champion would reach here.
Rilling called the state committee to
meet in this city on the 24th tnst On
the same day Mayor Frltchey received
a telegram from Bryan stating that
he would arrive in Harrisburg on the
25th. This fact was communicated to
Rilling, and he at once changed the
date for the state committee meeting
to the 25th, and secured the hall of the
house of representatives instead of the
senate chamber, so that a large recep
tion could be gotten up in Bryan's
honor. It is undoubtedly the Intention
of Guffey to swing the Pennsylvania
delegation to the Democratic national
:onvention to Bryan for president. Rill
ing and his other lieutenants who have
been co-operating with the Martin
Fllnn Republicans in the anti-Quay
fight will now have to divide their time
between fighting Quay and booming
Bryan, and they will have steady em
ployment at both games for some time
to come.
THE NEW MONARCH.
Ob, what care I for her aweet smllea
Who charmed me long agof
I've grown beyond her and her wiles,
And you may tell ber to.
She ia my dearest sister's child;
My fond heart uaed to throb .
Whene'er she looked at me and amiled
And called me "Unity Bob."
Tet let her hunt tome other out
To buy her awceta and tun;
Ber away o'er me ia put to rout.
But through no fault of hers.
A little boy haa come to town
The eweeteat, brightest tad!
And at hia basket, kneeling down,
Am I, hia doting dadl
Chicago News.
BEGINNING OF BOOKS.
Early Work of Gutenberg;, Fanat,
Schoeffer and Caxton.
When and where the first attempts in
the art of printing were ninde cannot
be with certainty ascertained, because
the earliest work printed by Gutenberg
bore neither dute nor name. The reason
for this was obvious. The earliest
printed books were made to resemble
writing and sold as such. This much "is
certain that movable wooden types
were first employed by him about the
year 14,"18.
In 1443 he returned to Mayencc and
formed a great friendship with Johan
nes Fust, or Faust, who agreed to loan
him 800 guilders at C per cent for five
years; but four years passed before the
wealthy goldsmith would advance the
money, because Gutenberg would not
admit htm into the secret of his business.
In 1440 the first money was advanced
and a printing office set up.
It was necessary to have assistance in
the printing ollice, ind one Peter
Schoeffer was engaged, "he being
mechanical." Peter kept his eyes open
and soon found that wooden types were
too slow to make, and he discovered the
art of cutting the letters in a matrix so
that the letters might be cast singly.
Instead of telling Gutenberg his em
ployer, he went to the money lender and
persuaded him to advance more money,
so that Schoeffer might work at his in
vention apart from Gutenberg. So
pleased was Faust that he gave Feter
his daughter Christian in marriage.
William Caxton, secretury to the
Duchess of Burgundy, had seen the xylo
graphic printing of Lawrence Coster in
Haarlem and thu printing of movablt
blocks as Invented by Gutenberg.' lie
saw the great opportunities printing
would afford, and, with the aid of Colard
Mansion, set up a printing press at
Bruges in 1471. The. first book he print
ed was the "Recneil," or summary "ol
the Ilistoryes of Troye," compiled by a
friend of his, Raoul le Fcvre, priest and
chaplain to the Duke of Burgundy. It
was printed and published at Bruges
and was soon followed by the printing ot
a Latin oration delivered there by Dr,
Russell, bishop of Lincoln, at the cere
mony of proclaiming the Duke and
Duchess of Burgundy. Another work
from the pen of Raoul le Fevre wai
translated into English and printed by
Caxton, entitled "The Game and Play
of Chess," a treatise of moral and politi
cal offices and duties and the gradatioc
of social ranks founded on the placet
and "moves" respectively assigned to dif
ferent pieces on the chessboard.
The first book printed in England wai
"The Dictes and Sayings of Philoso
pheres," a collection of anecdotes, wist
and witty sayings of aucient philoso
phers. It is stated in a notice at the end
of the volume to have been finished "on
the xviii day of the moueth of Novembre,
and the seventeenth yere of the reign ol
Kxng Edwd the IV." The title bean
the words, "Emprynted be mo, William
Caxton, Westministere, the yere of out
Lord, m.occcjxxvij.
The first book to be printed with a ti
tie page was issued in 1409 by Wynken
de erdc, the successor of Caxton.
John De Morgan in Donahue's.
Ai English Pan.
A pun so good that it was not only par
doned, but enjoyed, was once made in a
reply to Lord North. It could not have
been made outside of Englaud, where a
clerk is invariably a "dark."
Lord North had just begun to make his
annual budget speech iu the house of
commons when a dog, which had wan
dered in, lifted up his voice in a series of
lively yelps.
"By what new opposition am I attack
ed now?" inquired Lord North facetious
ly. "I think, my lord," replied a voice well
known to most of the hearers, "it was
the member from Unrkshire." Youth's
Companion.
A Banff.
"Rehfuse meh proffered love, proud
gerrul," cried the heavy villain, "and by
meh halidome I'll dash yeh over yondch
beetling cliff!"
The girl gazed iu the direction desig
nated by his grimy fopctiinrer.
"Huh!" cee cried. "That's only I
bluff."
For she was up in topiieraphy as well
as some other things. Standard and
Catholic Times.
I want to let the people who suffer from
rneumatlsm and sciatica know mat una-n
berlain's Pain Balut relieved me after a
number of other medicines and a doctor
had failed. It ia the best liniment I have
ever known of. J. A. Dodgen, Alpharet
la, Ga Thousands have been cured of
rheumatism bv this remedy. One appli
cation relieves the pain. For sale by all
druggists.
It takes but a minute to overcome tick
ling in the throat and to stop a cough by
the use of One M inut Cure. This rem
edy quickly cure, all forms of throat and
lung troubles. Ha nolens and pleasant to
take. It oreventn consumption. A la
inoua remedy for grt ppe and its after ef
fect. Jleatu x Killnier.
Hopkins sells the .clothing and shoes.
quay mum
Republican City Committee For
mally Transferred to
Their Friends.
Republican , titers Tarn Down Ren
reaentatlvea of the So-Called Boal
lem Mrn'a Republican Leagae at
the Primaries.
(Special Correspondence.)
Philadelphia. Jan. 16. With the re
organization of the Republican city
committee yesterday the complete vic
tory of the Quay-Penrose element In
the Republican party of this city was
forcibly expressed. The will of the
Republican voters was indicated at the
primary election last Tuesday and the
ward committees elected representa
tives to the city committee who are in
accord with the stalwart element.
There are 41 wards In this city, and
from all but seven of these wards
friends of the Quay-Penrose leadership
were chosen to the city committee. It
was demonstrated yesterday that ths
city organization will hereafter be
overwhelmingly In favor of maintain
ing the regular Republican organiza
tion of the state, of which General
Frank Reeder is chairman, and which
sustains the administration of Gov
ernor William A. Stone and will sup
port Quay and Penrose In national
politics. All of the ten delegates elect
ed In this city to the Republican na
tional convention will co-operate with
the state organization, as even the one
delegate picked out by Martin Man
ufacturer Bromley, is a stalwart Re
publican. Republicans of Philadelphia do not
appear to be eager to help Martin get
back at Quay, nor do they seem to
grow wildly enthusiastic over Wana
maker's ambition, regardless of ex
pense, to shine as a member of the
United States senate.
A BEGGARLY SHOWING.
A grand total of nine delegates out
the 88 to the state convention from
Philadelphia (Wanamaker's own city)
is the full strength of the Martin
Wanamaker combine against Quay, de
veloped as the result of the appeal to
the Republican voters at last Tues
day's primaries.
The roost significant feature of the
delegate election returns came from
the fashionable suburb of German
town, where many of the most pros
perous business men reside. The fight
against the Quay forces in these dis
tricts was led by the secretary of the
Bo-called Business Men's Republican
League, which since it espoused the
cause of Wanamaker has dwindled In
membership until it includes but few
more than the manufacturers and mer
chants who sell goods to the merchant
prince's big department stores. They
are, of course, staunch wanamaker
men, and the names of many of them
appear attached to frequent anti-Quay
pronunciamentos, wnicn are issuea
from this league for publication In the
newspapers which carry the Immense
Wanamaker advertisements. William
T. Tilden, the secretary of this league,
and a rampant anti-Quay man, and
State Senator Henry, who has been a
constant visitor to Washington recent
ly, working against the seating ot
Colonel Quay In the United States sen
ate, were both defeated at the primary
election and full fledged Quay adher
ents were elected. Senator Henry,
throughout his entire senatorial dis
trict, did not Bucceed in electing a sin
gle anti-Quay delegate to the state
convention. There was gloom at the
headquarters of the Business Mens
League when the news was received
that the conventions had all been con
trolled by the Quay men in the dis
tricts in which they counted on as
their strongholds.
The importance of the capture of all
but nine of the delegates to the state
convention may be appreciated when
it is known that outside of Pittsburg
there will scarcely be a corporal s
guard of anti-Quay delegates In the
coming state convention. The cities
of Harrisburg, Altoona, Scranton,
Reading, Allentown, Wllkesbarre, Lan
caster and many of the smaller towns
will all go on record as supporting
Colonel Quay, and the country districts
where Quay has always been strongest
will be sure to follow the lead of those
that have already been heard from.
WILL REPEAT ITS INDORSEMENT.
The Republican state convention
which nomlnpted Colonel Barnett, who
was elected state treasurer In Novem
ber, indorsed the action of Governor
Stone in appointing Colonel Quay to
the vacancy in the United States sen
ate, and the action of Philadelphia's
district conventions leaves no room to
doubt that a similar resolution could
be passed at the coming state conven
tion by a large majority.
The Quay issue was brought promi
nently to the front In the Republican
city convention which met In Indus
trial Hall. Ten candidates were named
for magistrates. The convention was
absolutely in the control of the Quay-
Penrose element. They could nomi
nate any one they pleased. It is al
most superfluous to say that they were
not kindly disposed toward Magistrate
Jermon, before whom Senator Quay's
political enemies had him arraigned in
the celebrated conspiracy case. Though
Quay's counsel then and there produc
ed evidence to show the conspiracy
back of the prosecution and protested
that the arrests were made purely to
Injure him politically and to help his
political opponents, Magistrate Jer
mon, to the great delight of all the
Wanamakerites, held Colonel Quay for
court, and it was thus made impossible
for him to secure the vindication he
received by the verdict of the Jury
until the next day after the legislature
adjourned, with the deadlock on the
United States senatorship unbroken,
The minority of the Republicans, fol
lowers of Martin, of this city, and
Flinn, the boss of the Pittsburg ma
chine, with the Wanamaker newspa
per influence backing them, held their
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Children all like it," writes H. N. Will
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is the only harmless remedy that gives
immediate results. Cures coughs, colds.
hoarseness, croup, pneumonia, bronchit
is and all throat and lung troubles. It
early use prevents consumption, - Heath
fc Killnier.
Miss Annie K. Gunning, Tyre, Mich.,
says, "I suffered a long time from dys-
iiepsia; lost flesh end became very w ak.
vodol Pyspepsia Cure completely cured
me." It digests what you eat and cures
all forms ot stomach trouble. It never
tails to give immediate relief in the worst
cases. Ueatb & Killnier,
combination wttn me Democrats ana
prevented an election ot senator.
This, however, was a time when the
newspapers of Philadelphia, which
carry a dally full page advertisement
of Wanamaker's shops on their back
pages, failed to Influence the Republi
cans of the Quaker City. For the last
month the columns of these journals
have fairly teemed with fulsome praise
of Magistrate Jermon and the influ
ences back of Jermon were manifest In
the booming of this aspirant for re
nominatlon. Wanamaker's dally news
paper and that owned by a son-in-law
of the ambitious merchant were most
persistent champions of the magis
trate who held Senator Quay for court
Every one of the five morning papers
and two of the afternoon . journals
which have been assailing Colonel
Quay made Jermon a particular favor
ite of all the candidates seeking re-
nomination.
JERMON SNOWED UNDER.
The Republican convention placed
It 8 estimate of the influence of this
newspaper booming on a ballot taken
by the delegates elected by the Re
publican voters. Adam C. Ackerman,
who is a member of the legislature,
who went Into the Republican caucus
and voted for Colonel Quay for the
United States senate, and who In the
long drawn out contest voted for Quay
on every ballot until the adjournment
of the session, was placed upon the
ticket for magistrate, with 902 votes
to his credit, while Jermon, with the
prestige of being now on the bench,
had but 35 votes in the convention.
This crushing defeat of Jermon is
generally regarded as a direct shot at
the Wanamaker taction.
Former President Pro Tem. of the
Senate Hon. John C. Grady, who was
chairman of the joint Republican
caucus on the United States senator
ship at the recent session of the leg
islature and who, on adjourning that
caucus, said, "I herewith declare Hon.
Matthew Stanley Quay to be the unani
mous nominee of the Republican party
tor United States senator from Penn
sylvania," in reviewing the action of
the Philadelphia conventions said:
'The friends and supporters of Colonel
Quay have certainly good reason to be
gratified at the result of the voting at
the Republican primary elections last
Tuesday, and the expression given to
the will of the party by the conven
tions. It Is a vindication and an in
dorsement of the most emphatic kind
of the action of those Republicans who,
as members of the legislature of Penn
sylvania, stood to the last by the unani
mous nominee of their party's caucus
for United States senator.
QUAY'S STRENGTH IN PENNSYL
VANIA.
"With very few exceptions the dele
gates elected to the Republican state
convention to the Republican state
convention are in accord with the pres
ent leadership of the Republican party
in Pennsylvania, and in entire sym
pathy with the action of the last Re
publican state convention, which, by
an overwhelming vote, indorsed the
action of Governor Stone in appoint
ing Matthew Stanley Quay to the va
cancy in the United States senate, oc
casioned by the failure of the legis
lature to elect. A great majority of
the Republicans are in entire harmony
with their party organization, and de
spite the efforts of the so-called insur
gents they elected Colonel William A.
Stone to the governorship. Colonel
James E. Barnett, the brave com
mander of the "fighting Tenth Penn
sylvania regiment.' who, last fall,
with the laurels still fresh upon his
brow from glorious work in fighting
the Insurgents in the Philippines, was
called upon to confront a horde of po
litical guerrillas ,n n'8 native state,
whose sole reasons for opposing his
election as state treasurer were that
he was a friend of Colonel Quay and
the fear that his election might
strengthen Quay and thwart the po
litical ambitions of his Republican op
ponents. Well, the Republicans of
Pennsylvania passed upon that Issue,
rnd when the election returns came
In Colonel Barnett, an avowed Quay
supporter, was found to have received
a plurality of 109.831. He was the first
Republican candidate in several years
to receive a majority of all the votes
cast in this state, receiving 85,512 more
votes than the Democratic, Prohibition
and scattering votes combined.
"The people of Pennsylvania have
more than once ahown, as Philadel
phia did today, their contempt for the
methods employed in these anti-Quay
campaigns. When the Republican na
tional convention meets in this city
in June next Colonel Quay will be
found at the head of the Pennsylva
nia delegation to that convention, and
by more than a three-fourths vote he
will be chosen to again represent this
state on the Republican national com
mittee. The opposition to Quay, as it
was to Governor Stone and Colonel
Barnett, Is largely to be found In cer
tain newspapers"
A Privileged Dob:.
A charming little story is told of Queen
Victoria's first visit to Crathie church,
near Balmoral. On that occasion a fine
dog which belonged to the clergyman fol
lowed his master up the pulpit steps and
lay against the door during the entire
service. Although the dog made not the
slightest disturbance, Sir George Grey,
who was then in attendance on her maj
esty, regarded the animal's presence as
somewhat disrespectful and suggested to
the clergyman that it had better be dis
pensed with in future.
The next Sunday, therefore, the dog
was denied his usual privilege of church
going and remained sorrowfully at home.
A day or two later the clergyman was
honored by an invitation to dine with the
royal family. To his surprise Queen Vic
toria presently inquired for his dog, say
ing she had noticed he was not at church
on Sunday.
"I kept my dog at home last Sunday,
your majesty," replied the clergyman,
"as Sir George Grey thought his pres
ence in church would annoy you."
"Oh, no," said the queen heartily, "let
him come as usual. I only wish every
body behaved nt church as well as your
noble dog, added her majesty, with a
decided spice of mischief in her tone.
Youth's Companion.
When a Chinaman tukes n walk, he
likes to take ulnug a cage witli a ennnry
bird, bang it up on a tree and listen to
the song which the sui-roundiiigs inspire,
Under the laws of China the man who
loses his temper in a discussion is sent to
jail for live days to cool down.
"I was nearly dead with dyspepsia,
tried doctors, visited mineral springs, and
grew worse. I used Kodel Dyspepsia
Cure. That cured me." It digests what
you eat. Cures indigestion, sour stom
ach, heart burn and all forms of dyspep
sia. Ueatb & Killnier.
Mr. J. Sheer. Bert alia. Mo., saved his
child's life by One Minute Cough Cure.
Doctors had given her up to die with
croup. It's an infallible cure for coughs,
colds, grippe, pneumonia, bronchitis and
throat and lung troubles. Relieves at
once. Heath & Killmer.
DeWitfs Little Early Risers purifv
the blood, clean tho liver, invigorate the
system. Famous little pills for constipa
tion and liver troubles. Hea'h & Killmer.
SAM RICKETTS WASN'T IN.
And Bla Amiable Wife Cara Good
Reaaon for Ilia Abaenee.
"I ran a newspaper oucc at tho couuty
seat of a backwoods Pennsylvania coun
ty," said Colouel Jim Rail of Potter
county, "and oue day I started out
among my patrons in the outlying town
ships ou a collecting tour. In the course
of the day I came to a clearing to which
I had been directed as the domooiie of
one Samuel Ricketts, to whom I was
anxious to present my autograph at the
bottom of a receipt for $2.23. 1 knocked
at the door of the Ricketts residence,
aud by and by a sharp faced woman
with snappy eyes and her sleeves rolled
above her elbows responded to the knock.
"'Does. Mr. Rickott live here?' I
asked.
' 'Sam Ricketts Y snapped the woman,
who I rightly guessed was Mrs. Rick
etts. " 'Yes, ma'am,' I replied.
" 'He has the name o' livin here,' said
Mrs. Ricketts, with line scorn, 'but tint's
darn little life in him!'
"I pretended not to notice tlie irony of
my patron's amiable helpmeet and as
sumed anxiety.
" 'He isu't sick, is he?' I asked.
" 'No,' replied Mrs. Ricketts, 'he aiu't
sick.'
"'Is he iur I Inquired.
"'No, he ain't in!' was the answer.
" 'Is he about the place?' I asked.
"Yes, he's about the place!' Biiid Mis.
Ricketts. 'The Inst I seen o' him he was
h'istin hisself up the ladder to tho hay
mow, a lettle faster than I've seen him
move In a coon's age, an lie's seroochin
in one corner o' the mow now, I
shouldn't wonder.'
"Will he bo back to the house soon?
I asked.
"Meanin this afternoon?' said my
patron's wife.
"Oh, yes! Certainly!' I replied.
'"No, ho won't!' exclaimed Mrs. Rick
etts, with a positiveness that satisfied
mo that, although the deed for that clear
ing might be in the name of Samuel
Ricketts, he wasn't the boss of it. I
stood a moment undecided what to sny
or do next when Mrs. Ricketts snapped
out:
" 'Would you want to know why Sam
Ricketts wou't be here soon?
"I said that I would.
Well,' said she, 'Sam Ricketts had
the siioopiuist, sueekiuist, humliest old
yaller houn' that ever licked n platter,
an I got sick an tired o' kickiu it out o'
doors. I hate dogs wuss'n p'ison any
how, 'tiekelly houn' dogs, an so I up an
told Sam Ricketts this iiioruin that if he
didn't take that houn' off an sell it or
give it away I'd knock it in the head an
him, too, maybe. So Sam'l he took the
dog away, an 'long about an hour ago
he come back. An what do you think he
had done? lie had traded that dog off
for two darn straddlin coon" dog pups an
fetched 'em home! That's the reason
Snm Ricketts hustled up that ladder to
the haymow so suddent an pulled thu
ladder up after him. An that's the rea
son why he won t be back soon. lie
won't be back till after I'm gone to bed
an asleep tonight, Sam Ricketts won't,
nn you kin bet yer boots on it!'
I didn t see any point in waiting to
see ramuel Ricketts, and 1 heard a
month or so later that he was wondering
what in thunder that editor stopped his
paper for." Chicago Inter Ocean.
I.rland Stnnford'a Dream.'
The Lelaud Stanford, Jr., university is
a monument to the munificent philanthro
py of Sir. and Mrs. Stanford. In 1S.S4
their 10-year-old son, after whom the
great university of the Pacific slope was
nnined, died of typhoid fever iu Florence.
He was the bright, particular joy and
hope of his parents.
The heartbroken father fell asleep dur
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to live for. Live for humanity, father."
It was the innate philanthropy of Sena
tor Stanford which undoubtedly prompt
ed this dream, and over the body of his
son he vowed to fulfill his impressive vi
sion. lie Caught Iter.
Miss Jinks was out walking with an
admirer on each side. A storm came on,
accompanied by lightning. Jones said he
was frightened.
Brown thought it a capital opportunity
to show off his superior courage before
the adored one.
"What are you frightened at? I am as
cool as a cucumber."
"Yes, I should not fear." replied
Jones, "if you and I were alone, but I
am afraid of Miss Jinks In this lightning.
She is so attractive."
Brown is still a bachelor, but Jones is
not.
No Officeholder.
"Did you ever hold an office?" Inquired
the new arrival at Eagle Eye.
aal, not exactly, stranger," replied
Amber Pete. "When we had the cyclone.
I tried to hold the postofBce, but the
thins just slipped outer my hands and
I'arted for the stars. I guess that's 'bout
!iie last office I tried to hold, stranger."
hit-ago Jvews.
He Mood Corrected.
l-ooKing school .' Kinpli! I Mi;-ji'ise
you've learned everything except how to
bake bread, young woman?
les, sir. We dou t bake bread at
cooking school."
"Oil, you don't?"
"No, sir. Wo bake the douirh." Chi
cago Tribune.
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