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
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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
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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<ig» ot war I . that locality, t'lula
delphiu l.ediii r
Kir»t Hi ll« "lln ii I tli Men
Mvkulil* Mid lii rr l.i ii aim had made
lav an uft« r . otai . wluuli »»
tin luck) man ?»«Ci'lel Ihllo "Hel 112
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IMa riaudi i Hoii
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• .!•<« I- » ki a in„i IH Vi r« u
"111 41|» I ii-.it hill: t< U till lilt.
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