SULLIVAN JUSH REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XII. There is ft movement iu the direc -1 tion of woman's suffrage in France. About 8200,000,000 worth of regis* i tereil United States bonds are held by ! private individuals. In order to protect an invention nli over the world no less than sixty-four patents are required at a cost of about SI 7,500._ The railway mileage of Europe, Asia and Africa now aggregates 159, 055 miles. The railways of the United States reach miles. New Zealand is bent on preserving her remarkable wild birds and other animals, and has set apart two islands on whicli nil hunting and trapping is forbidden. Scarcely a stream issues from the lower slopes of the Andes, either to the Amazon on the east or the Pacific on the west, the sands of which are not auriferous. The amount of gold in the country must be almost fab ulous. Thomas (Jodbepraised, of Eugland, after the rush and excitement of the World's F air, sought rest, appropri ately enough, observes the St. Louis Republic, in Philadelphia. Rut one of the. live reporters of that city found him out and wrote him up. Of course his mine goes back to Round-head days. A widower's association has been formed in Dresden, Germany. No man can join unless his wife is dead, and if jhe marries again he becomes an hon orary member merely. One of the chief purposes of the association is to help newly-made widowers by looking after their wives' funerals aud caring for their children. Samory, the great Mohammedan chief of interior Africa, is about the last semi-savage of the dark oountry to yield to civilization and the force of arms. The French have been gradual ly driving them into closer quarters and now the Hritish are conducting raids against his warriors. Samory is the greatest bandit -r.'ug in the world. Metropolitan fashions have long pre vailed throughout the country. In no one thing is this more plainly ap parent than in the uniforms of police men. In the smaller cities, and even in small towns, the policeman nowa days wears a uniform like that of his city bruther. He may not have the city brother's repose of manner and cool jauntiness of bearing, but liis clothes are strictly up to date. The railway companies of the United States have no reasonable cause, as serts the New N ork News, to complain of their business tor the fiscal year. Including all the bankrupt and non paying lines the aggregate net earn ings were more than three hundred and fifty million dollars. This is equivalent to about three and one hulf per cent, of the capitalization, a very good rate of interest in view of the tact that the roads are gcticritllv capitalized at from two to live times their actual cost. It is estimated that there are 10,00(1 books of poet ry in the National Library at Washington. The rules of the library require the keepiug of every copyrighted book, so that the collec tion miiKt iiieludc ati enormous amount ot t ra-.lt Ihe San Franc. .'oC'hroiildt believes it is safe to say that nine tenths of this vei iM represent* work which Mo publisher Mould Issue with out advance payment ot cost, and which is absolutely Worthies* 'Chert* ollght to lit- souic pliivlniuH tor Wccil ing out i hi- trash, which ik not worth shelf room It llluslralt - the Heed ol a I'u iH.i cable that tin iu «> of lh« |»o mosl important . wilt, in tin Hawaiian epi. mm It: pmwe I la !»«<«. it Washington and Honolulu onlv all'i ti n. In, luck ward round thl glob siu< 41,• m ll ol 111. dtciaion of I'f" odelil »'ln daud to alt' ittpl till ri«tul4llUH ol Ito lit in to H'We ln I H>tw >ll II In »li alio I Ut I, Me M| ,| m m il, ,| || t . | , ~ tl a-tkitt iioit l>< |> 4 ii ti iIM II iim It .4 Only about four per cent, of tho sea-goiug vessels constructed ut the present time are of wood. The development of college sports is indicated, thinks the Chicago Her ald, by the fact that Harvard now has a salaried manager. In Canada positions in the Civil Ser vice are obtainable after examination and nre held during good behavior, which, as a rule, means life. In Japan a man can live like a gen tleman for about #250 a year. This sum will pay the rent of a house, the salaries of two servants and supply plenty of food. The Hungarian Government has re cently passed a law providing for the payment ol indemnities to prisoners innocently condemned to penal-servi tude, and to their families iu cases where such prisoners have been found to have suffered capital punishment. The Argentine Republic is rapidly becoming a prominent competitor in the business of supplying grain to the European markets. Shipowners of Nova Scotia and New Rrunswick are taking ndvautage of the trade and find ing employment for their vessels at remunerative rates between the River Plate and Old World ports. The low price of wheat this year is due, maintains the New York Witness, to the fact that a very large surplus was held over from the big crops of the past two years. The farmers of the world are producing more wheat than the people of the world can buy, though not more than could be con sumed if all the people who need it were able lo pay for it. A curious lawsuit has just been con cluded at Brussels. A widow named Moens died intestate, leaving a large fortune. A dispute at once began anions; her relatives aud a lawsuit to settle the various claims was institut ed. At the trial it was proved that uo fewer than 3500 persons were related to the testatrix. Judgment has been pronounced in their favor- that is, iu javor of relatives, even twelve degrees removed. The reclamation of the' arid wastes of southwestern desert lauds proceeds marvelously apace. Another reclama tion company was incorporated at San -Bernardino, Cat., a few days ago, with' a capital stock of $2,500,000. A dam is to bo erected at Victor Narrows, on the Mojave River, in San Bernardino County, fifteen feet ill height, which will make a lake nine miles long and about three wide, whose waters will be used to irrigate about 200,000 acres of land on the Mojave Desert, which will then be especially adapted for growing raisin grapes and alfalfa. According to iheSviet, a St. Peters burg paper, Russia, unliki other Ku ropeau countries, incorporates in the army only out-fourth of the young men who are drafted every year when they reach the legal age for military service. The recruiting in INW2 ,m listed 7t»B,ti™2 conscripts, but only 2ii0,2 iO were actually s*'iif into the ranks. Of tlit'i*. 1 !>!'., 001) were Or thi do*. Id, ooo Isruclites ami 00. ill \l. hauimcdttu-i; the Hussum amiy in therefore coffipn- 1 of men belonging to tin' Vatiomil rt ligiou. I'lieiv were »Uo in tint oiitni r int called to service •t IHSI2 lt» i.uiio ,|J, I, of pur. HiiKMiau origiu, 17,000 ivies, toon German*. lH,lWfl Jews, ■( i s l ltashk ii e». and a •mall number of Lithuanian*. Tartars, ile, *o that th Kit wo.Ml army e«u be DOWllkirtil u b 1114 quite tlOlliogcUi ut" in regard t i it, nationality. livery I'tllr while the polie. aire . a man wiil» •< kit of burglars tools in d« r« where tie \ all cout« from. It is and tUu lie I reputable eilu. n v. old Utalui bet who would know where to %»•«-*g »* - t| *t LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 16. 1894. HOW-DE-DO. Bay "how-de-(lo," an' say "goodby," Meet an' shake, an' then pass by j Ain't mnch difference twixt the two, Say "goodby" or "how-de-do." "How-de-do," with chilly heart, Ain't much difference, meet or part j Jes' a look, an' jes' a bow, Sometimes only jes' a "how Ain't much difference which they say, "How-de-do" or tother way. Meet a friend—yer grasp his hand, An' je9' stand, an' stand, an' stand— Glad yer met an' hate ter part, Kinder trembly in the heart. Neighbors lived on "Moody Hill," He was "Tom" an' you was "Bill," Kinder stop an' look an' say "How-de-do?" an' then "good day 1" Been away from home a spell, Swing the gate back, stand, an' well, Kinder don't know what ter do. Heart thumps like 'twas bustin' through. Said "goodby" a year afore— Betsy standing in the door— Said "goodby," but "how-de-do," Seems the strangest o' the two. Braeo right up an' waltz right in, Bhako the tremble from yer chin, Betsy's waitin' there for you, Waltz right in with—"How-de-do?" —The Housekeeper. THAT JDO(J JAGS, 13Y EDNA 0. JACKSON. «OOR Jags was hungry. In fact, he was almost L starved. His ribs were sharply out ftVi lined against his mangy hide and | there was an un quenchable 'crav v ing inside of them for benes. It seems funny when m one thinks of it, when there was nothing to him but bones. He raised his head from his paws and snapped eagerly at a great, bulgy bluefly that buzzed lazily around, and swallowed it with a gulp. Rut one fly is not much when one has a hollow within him that feels as big as a j church. Those hollows were common in Rat Row. It was the river street of a large j city, where squalid men, women and j childreu fought, quarreled, cursed and | stole their wretched lives long to keep ' that inner void just sufficiently filled to ward oft'the Potter's Field. "Stole," I I said. The younger habitants, per- I haps, limit v 1 their achievements to : this. As for their elders—well, if a man with a comfortably tilled stomach strayed into their power and would give up his "ticker" and other valu ables like a gentleman and evince no j disposition to "squeal," all right, i perhaps; if he rebelled, the river was ' handy. Then a fresh flow of fire- j water, more desperate lighting, curs- j ing and cutting for a day or two. j Sometimes a rush of patrol-wagon and i armed police, a bleeding body carried ' away, a living, sullen, horrible one or j two to answer for it—it was an old : story to the blue-coats. Thus, Jags was a dog of the slums, ! kicked, cuffed and starved, with good ! points iu him that once led an uptown clubman to coax him off the street when Jags inadvertently wandered, foraging, to a respectable quarter. > For three days Jags was fed, petted ! and began to grow handsome. The i lirst hour of liberty found him fawn- | ing joyfully ut the feet of Rliuks, the most brutal of all the llrit Row brutes, whom .lags followed with a worship ing fidelity only found iu some women and most dogs. He was ready to i starve with his horrible idol rather 1 than desert him for soft treatment and unlimited bones with meat on them. "Here ye be, bo ye, yo cuss? Thought yo'd mosey, did ye? Been feedin', has ye? Thought yo'd sneak ' Take'tluit 'ud that 'ud that!" '•That" was a series of brutal kieks that made the poor dog yelp out iu piteous agony. When they Ceased one of Jags'* beautiful, loving brown eyes nas gone, knocked out of its bleeding socket by t lie master for whom he had sacrificed wealth and comfort That was merely u variation of the tortures that Jags'H master habitually put ii|tou him. If it ever occurred to tho dog that he hud anything to tor give he did so, freely, generously aud loviugly, creeping all the more adoruitilv to the fuel that kicked huu If be ever thought, wistfully, that his master might have done a more uierci ful tliiug and relieved hint of a real troiibli by kickiut: out his stomach, he in vet said uu. Just HOW 111 dragged Ilia laiuy length lit tile si lo ol HlinWs, keeping a Watch ful 1)11 for kicks, and bristled along, sobbing sigh of r.dief a hen he Kol ehtse to Ilia idol willful awak.mn* him I lie man it -<;*t. >1 on a bfoki n euair out»nie the tottering tenement kuili. while hi .ii I .lags hod a kenn*! III* bloai. d». t I nee «> tamed U|< ward I . Ike anil, Ins hiealb teek. il b* I WblafM, tlo k* ft stliuUicf bit e*u allOttd hi* loatli no I , Oil. amid'l | t ., s eve |t 111 j In, tum eoiltd teoll il ill, Mmk >a a •-n > Mi aa i mil hit ul thai mntr i aft lutufy, food, hut Ills 4>«lmlh t «t< mn.lt llstutbsd U.i % ♦|da h. • > l»o| it* i,| fill* filliii 11, ' I't, |. .1,1,1 ! I'lo ,i ,||n,l I It Ml. I*• » i«• i i I* ,«• or windows, two or three blear-eyed men, among whom was Blinks,lurched lazily toward the place where the small, dirty figure had gone under the muddy water, giving it plenty of time to drown in the most leisurely way before their arrival. Only the screech ing mother and the dog wero really alive to the situation. Jags was weak from long fasting, but the instinct inherited from a long line of noble ancestors nerved him. In a flash, it seemed, his gaunt body was in the water aud out, and Betsy had snatched her soaked "kid," drained the water out of him and ad ministered a ringing slap. "Ye spalpanc? Will yez be kapin' away from the wather—will yez?" The child replied with a vicious squirm and an unchildlike curse. Betsy went back to her washtub, while Jags crept patiently to the side of his master who, with another, had dropped from sheer exhaustion on the yellow earth. No one thought of praising or thanking Jags. Such small, sweet courtesies were not customary in Rat Row. Only Rliuks's companion, who seemed more alive than his surround ings, looked approvingly at the dog. "Fetch 'n carry?" he said laconi cally, nodding in Jags's direction. "Like J" drawled his master, with a laziness strangely at variance with the lurid comparison. "Hyar, dawg! Git it!" Jags looked up imploringly as a stick flew far into tho water. Ho was willing enough, heaven knows! But ! when one has had only ono fly to eat for twenty-four hours, aud had just dragged a heavy squirming body from the water, he may bo pardoned for feeling trembly and averse to unneces sary exertion. "Git it!" snarled his muster. There | was a kick in the eye, Jags went j meekly out into the turbid water and ; came trembling all over to lay the j stick beside the tyrant. Again it flew ! out, farther than before. This time ! Jags was almost swept down the river. "Letup !" said Blinks's companion ; ! "the dawg's nigh croaked." "Lazy, cuss 'im!" drawled Jags's ' energetic owner. Jags gave a whine ' of almost human entreaty when tho stick was thrown again, but tottered away to almost certain death. Amicable relations are easily dis turbed in Rat Row. Big Audy caught Rliuks by that part of his garment where the collar should have been and shook him into a stupid protest. "Blame yer mizzable hide!" he shouted furiously. "Call 'iui back or I'll fling ye in arter 'im !" Blinks fell limply to the ground and obeyed. But J: ;•» had already turned to defend his master and bounded back with a growl at his assailant. "Cussed if the dawg wouldn't light fer ye now, ye snoakin' hound !" mut terod Rig Andy with an admiring grin at .Tags, He went into his own nest iu the tenement house and tluug Jags a bone. "Hyar, dawg ! Put that down your neck!" Jags snatched it with the fervor of starvation, but his master was filled with a sullen spite against the inno cent cause of his shaking, aud, look ing to see that liig Andy was at a safe distance, he called : "Hyar, ye imp." The dog came, clinging desperately to the precious food. "Drop it!" Tho poor animal obeyed, eyeing it wistfully the while. "Now, come git it!" Jags bounded joyfully forward to meet a kick that made him howl. Re peating this amusing performance un til he was weary, the human brute finally threw the bone into the river, .lags started weakly after it, but obeyed with something like tears in his one pathetic eye w hen commanded to lie down. Well, he had been hungry before, itid if his master willed this, he must know best. It has been seen, long before this, that Jags was an ideal Christian. Hours after this even lint Itow was wrapped in slumber the heavy sleep of the drunkard or the leaden ouo of exhaustion aud weakness. Blinks, af ter taking several morn drinks from a flat, black bottle, staggered into sonic corner of the Old Mill, alter ordering .lags tu language savoring of brimstone to stay out, wheu the poor dog tried to follow huu lu. The ntars shone a» serenely down 011 the foul smelling city slums us upon the clover-sweet meadows far away. I lie river murmured and gurgled sloiim the black piers Hume times th. "chug chug" of a steamboat cam, clearly through the night, then its hoarse whistle one long drawn, three short, another hoig woke the echoes and It puffed past, Its high, colored lights aud Irailliivi smoke making II look through the darkiteaa like some Uurv i led demon ol tlli mists, Jsga, lying prone oil the ttckeO • tip..if the Old Villi, iiioalis slid ern-i a little in hta sh «s as vs pie n aluu lloiia ul his Wluteiied life and eMlptl stomach trial! his dlesut Hud-lslll> he stall. .|p, n««s U| sir, and lull ws I'ln i la uiitliiUjf unusual, laga! Ihe in.,(m le. „ii ~ul» lilt »t«M lamklu Ufa iliitiio I, lln It l» ti*< tans!ton ol sight of .. .tin-1 that h > man tntud caw detect y,| hunisn unn I, |t«tlt4|*». »nl big Mtsiin#! |ni»ii«, he aitiN* ill. ail an t aslk. stem lints**!) M* l"l«t an I 10, i altd fails th *ln litrak* Ibb'a tuhe iti i||ill ||.(«t Hmi ty thai till il ib I, siim «n. la that ttaifoa 11. ,|, tgat ioa-|a 1 Vrt"-1 Hut lU| n «t i(e i t. *i , t ia it, ,t t t»„ , niMk <• wl a tinder-box, that tinder-box on fire and only he, Jags, a dumb, helpless ani mal, to know aud save them I And he —his idolized tyrant, in there ! Jags throws himself against the dooi with a yell of agony. It falls open. thin puff of smoke wavers to meet him. Rarking, howling, fairly shrieking, Jags tears straight for the room where he and Blinks have their kennel. Ho isn't there! Out again, jumping against doors in his frantic search, choked with smoke, rushing through curling tongues of flame, goes the dog. Are they all dead in there! His mas ter, where is he? It is well that ouo in that vast hive is not too tired nor too drunk to awaken. Big Andy rouses to realize that the dog is making "a fuss," fanes in the situation in a flash, aud bounds out of the smoke filled room. "Great God ! The house is on fire !" "Fire, fire, fire!" Somewhere a wire vibrates above the city streets. A great bell tolls out on the night. Clang, clang, clang 1 Rattle, rattle, rush ! Streams of sparks in the wake of flying engines. Sharp and clear the engine and patrol gongs strike, in time with rattling hoofs and wheels. Over all booms slowly and solemnly, with pauses between the strokes, the great bell. All this time a dog was flying, with feet scorched now by the heated floor, from room to room, hunting for one object. He finds him at last, in the second story, coiled up in a drunken heap on the floor. He springs upon him, tugs at his clothing, barks,whines and tries to drag him toward toe door. At last the man awakes, stolidly, stu pidly, then to a vague terror and ab ject fright. He bounds to the door. It is a wall of flames. He reaches the window; no thought of the creature who saved him comes to the brute's mind. He raises the sash and leaps out. It falls behind him. Jags is im prisoned in a tomb of fire. The people have swarmed out, dirty, dazed, lialf-dressed. The cordon is thrown out; the engines throb and scream. The firemen work quietly, streams of perspiration dripping be neath their helmets. Floods of water glitter like liquidfirein thered flames. The Old Mill is doomed. "Is every one out!" asks the Chief brusquely, gazing up toward the tot tering furnace. As if in answer there is a crash of breaking glass at a second-story win dow and a living thing appears there, pitiful, pleading, ablaze with little tongues of llaiue. It whines implor ingly. Rig Andy has private reasons of his own for preferring to .remain incog, among a swarm of polioemen. Rut! now into tho full blazo of light he dashes forward. "The dawg, the dawg that saved all our lives! Git 'iin, boys; git 'im out! My God! I hain't got uo money, boys, but look liyar! They's a re ward of 3500 out fer me! I'm Rig Andy, the safe-cracker. You know me! I'll give myself up to anybody that'll save thut dtiwg. I mean it, boys!" There was good in Big Andy ;ho was sobbing aloud. For the credit of human nature be it said, no one ever claimed that reward. A quiet order through the Chief's trumpet, and a stream of water from tho hose drove the crazy window in. The dog sprung tothesill and tottered weakly. A fireman ran lightly up the ladder and carried him down to the eool earth. There he fell, bleeding and scorched. He roused himself to gaze longingly around, dragged his mangled body to where Blinks stood, stariug stupidly, uud laid his head, with a faint moan, against his master's feet. "Speak to him!" bawled Uior \ndy furiously. "Pet 'im, or I'll kill ye!" Perhaps something human stirred in the heart of the lower brute. lie stooped mid laid a not ungentle llitud ou the bleeding lleutl, "W'y, w'y. Jags, ole lei!" Hut with a rapturous look of grati tude from his out- loving, beautiful eve, the dog had gone. Where? lij there is uo dog heaven, what will the Creator do with the faithful, martyr i. oil lof Jags? Tin' Voice. A Hiiilke Mury. *'l never realized the strength ol the Distinct ol selfpreservatloll IU luaii. said Joint I'. I'hoiiipsou to the corridor man at the Itaclede, "until I witnessi d a test uf it uu a steamboat. Vinous the pa -.sen 'l'll, wis a man wlnl liatl a black rattl. aiiakc in a box with a gtai-s lop. Ihe suaku was a very vicious ouc, and would strike the wbevtvet any one approached. The oWUcr of the reptile challenge I auy one tu the crowd io hold hia linger ou lie gla and let the suaki striki a! il lin rt could uol Oe any danger, aud llm re was not a mail who did uot think il an i«a,t think to 4a "One log fellow, who |m»ked aa if it, and, tlftlrf frpralf l alt. lupts gate II up Ih i e». t , pas-matron the ul!* « l iniltut lii|txiii>| I I: Il i , 'lit | i. i? • ia. Hp. a. I.on oil. 'l V, I. nils lib I l». ni.. Ml Im n 4*s4 I •• u| t|ail"i«. It u n»i . Uu i in, cli.apn •« ol il U|..la 11..11 Ik., Imi U«|n<4 in ih I,'kit, i .ittt. t t* m || 44 , , « ul *| iu laAi si it, IIMII W> 11 M IM H n| a I I **4-- 'I ft i»»'» * IMtlMfl V tHltjlsl Terms -SI.OO in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months. PROPHETIC GROUNDHOGS. A CROSS BETWEEN A MOUSE AND A MONKEY. Their Habits, Home and Food and How Tliey Live Through the Winter—-Queerest of Mammals. WHEN the legendary and prophetical groundhog comes Dut of its hole and looks around for its shadow, if he sees it, which will natur ally be the case if the sun shines, he returns to his underground habitation tor another long rest, being convinced that winter is destined to linger iu tho lap of the forthcoming spring. This interesting animal is equally well known as the "woodchuck." But it has a great many other names be sides. In fact, people would seem to have exhausted ingenuity in devising varied designations for the beast. Linnaeus, the famous founder of the modern school of natural history, en titled it "mns monax," which, being interpreted, means a cross between a mouse and a monkey. The Canadian French speak of it as the "sitHeur," or "whistler." This is on account of the whistling noise which it sometimes utters when startled. In the great fur-bearing region about Hudson's Bay it answers to tho name of the "thickwood badger," while to the westward the liardy inhabitants of Alaska mean woodchuck when they exclaim "tarbagan," and the wild Chippewas likewise when they grunt "kath-hilloe-kooay." The animal's habits do not vary with the multitude of his titles. He lives in a burrow remarkable for its extent. It is dug in the slope of a hill or by the side of a big stone, making an ex cavation twenty or thirty feet long, which descends obliquely four or five feet, then gradually rising to u large round chamber, where the groundhog family sleeps and brings up its young. The little ones are born three to eight at a time. When the flipper, with his horses and mowing machine, chances to slump into one of these holes, dis appearing from view until excavated by charitable neighbors, he is apt to feel annoyed and to revile the whole woodchuck tribe with discrimination. It is largely in this account that bounties for killing the creatures have been offered in New Hampshire and other Statif. as much as ten cents for each tail being paid. Hunters will not kill them, for the fur is worthless and the flesh by no means palatable. It is not true that in certain parts of the country farmers have found it necessary to shovel paths through groundhogs iu over to reach their barns. Save in the way just mentioned, the woodchuck does little or no harm to anybody. He is strictly a vegetarian, feeding mostly on clover and grass. Rarely does lie enter the garden, pre ferring the open meadows and rocky hillsides. The first rains that fall copiously after haying is over cause the fresh green grass to spring up anew. This second crop in many places consists largely of red clover, which the groundhog regards as a most delightful delicacy. It eats so much during the latter part of August aud the first half of the following month that it becomes exceedingly fat and inert. About September 30 or a little later it goes into winter quarters, and it does not coiue out again to stay un til the middle of March. This creature isthe most remarkable existing example of a hibernating mammal. It lays up no store of pro visions as the squirrel does. Its food is of such a nature that it doe.-. not keep, and so th" groundhog must sleep to save itselt from starving. It ! disappear-with astonishing precision 1 within a few days ot the autumnal ; equinox aid remains underground uu 111 about tin time when the sun cuts the plane o< tint equator at the vernal ' cqniuox. Often the weather in very I warm when it retire*, mul it willcoiuo out iu March when snow in ou the j groiiud making loug journeys to timl j places w licit patches of the coveted ' greeu grass has been laid bare by thaw. At the i n I of the winti r the animal is thin and doubtless l< els rutller needy, ! having lived on its own tissues and without subsistence fur no long a time. Milium the term of hibernation physical waste is reduced to u vcrv low point, the heart s oclU'U slacken tug aud the breathiiik becoming so ' nil lit thut it esu only l>e delccte I by thlicule iiiitrituiMiil- t.ven when kepi iu s win m hut** through the Co Id m a soil afaiuc groundhog becomes toi eld a| (lie u«llsl lists aud rrluslUS mi until tin lutediimv habit has been earned i. , »»-1• .nary leriu In this Ist til ti lh>; liiliiitl.alloii ol the anneal is not to e-nu| litu ai tsltbvt until*, aud a lew bundled mile* ta» Itle| Sl'llltl U I# i|»l«l l ltpted 111 pnttoii* uf wuke.i.luun, during which the Woii.U'hu it 'Si al toad mill gits it# UMUtla lb' | i». tus ut htl'vitotting I# tttetrif a »l« tun til ..ni ne lot iu ItltJii I' l.tUNfti t' • flel ai lUg Mllilottl In id at I in- •• tlnii I hai e i0 Hi i food Im I ill 111. ».«. ' » .I I ,o| il aud Hi i|ii- left i* i|l*l Iss'uisu ettinei \ t !«»> In! ' It* Hi -,ll*lll $ Willi u >l,l II limy lia *!•« t »l, b»eutlHeit It lliv. * '*• * tli *i«otn«i >|-i«sl fa . alt I.i | ii4* I i i| ista |i,tt ii, .iiui 1 • . I iel, let ahull |>.|| I tlx « Wl e I »« I |M|i«ftM! IU I I* 11 In «, sir. iliml lit t|ieu> ..'la es |• i ipiue# • i* i ill * 11 l ■ i ' ' •»' a 1 * "• - * » * I NO. 23. A SONO OF LOVE'S WA * What, sweet mistress, should there be 'Twixt thy heart anil mine this day/ There no barrier I see Whieh Love may not kiss away. Do thou waft one smile to me— Love will find his way to thee ! If a rose should bar his path— Thorny, with a jealous frowr. Love such winning favor hath Ho would quickly kiss it down ; Then would sweetly, tenderly Bear it on bis breast to thee. Love will come his own to greet. Though uo light his day adorns, Through a world of roses, sweet- Through a wilderness of thorns ! Do thou waft one smile to me. Love shall find his way to thee! —Frank L. Ktjinton, in Atlanta Constitution. HUMOR OF THE HAY. A backslider—The crab.—Hallo. A spark of genius—Winning an heir ess.—Truth. The man who agrees with us doesn't come around near often enough.— Ram's Horn. The stock exchange is where hope is exchanged for experience.—Florida Times-Union. A man with an elastic imagination is too liable to use it for a conscience. —Rochester Democrat. This is a world of compensations men who lack long heads generally have long faces. —Truth. The worst of the rosy colors in which some things are painted is that they are not fast.—Puck. "How much is this dress worth?"' "I really don't know what it's worth —the price is 83." —Hallo. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but it's the uniform that tnkes young women's eyes.—Judge. "Johnny, add seven applet- to two apples, and what will you have?" "Colic, sir."—Harper's Bazar. A dog's tail is not necessarily a "has been" because it always points to the past. Bimghuiuton Republican. One reason why some men are so lean is because they have thrown all their fat into the tire.—Dallas News. Tommy (with pride)—"My pa's a banker.'' Willie—"An' my pa's re ceiver for his bank." —Chicago Rec ord. "The foreign husband is the absorb ing idea!" said the American million aire as he wrote the wedding check. — Cleveland Plain Dealer. He—"Do you believe in such a thing as love at first sight?" She— "Certainly. A hasty glance does not discover imperfections. Transcript. Huugry Higgins— "Wot's right nowadays- t'ank yon, or t'anks?" Weary Watkins - '' l guess tanks would hit us about right." Indianap olis Journal. The man who is always careful to keep out of debt is seldom so "well supplied with the modern conveni ences of life as his less considerate fellow. Puck. He—"What would you do if I Were to kiss you?" She "Are you vtry curious to know?" He-*-"Very! ' She -"Well, youmighttry andsee!' Boston Traveler. "It makes no ditterenoe tom»." said the old theologian, "whether 1 came from a tadpole or a monkey. How t ■ get out of the scrape is what bothe: me." Newport News. tn the cannibal islands. Mother "What is tin- matter with you, my son? Have you eaten anything thai •lisagreed with you?" Son- "That is why 1 ate hitu." Boston Transcript. Tommy -"I guess he must be tin best dentist in town." Papa "IMdli't lie hurt you?" Tommy "No; I just went up to tIK - dot tr mil my tooth Htop|>ed hurling.l'liica-go luter- Occan. "Did you anythi i- from ib.it man you ju*t a plied to for li> lp? "Only good ndvu i " "What advice did In ffoa \ll 11 "I -.all I *ll wU and lie told till tog.. to bbi/en. New York IV. • lln acari'itt of food ill lia. • hu> compelled flu bew lu'ed troop/- t" n sort to caul lie* li.hed up lu varioii! »ty lc». I'liel'i l» a li«\ia- anion,. flu il w hi » » V -ii "VI i t « ii. * I Ii «v.lit, I nhi • .!•<« I- » ki a in„i IH Vi r« u "111 41|» I ii-.it hill: t< U till lilt. 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