—— 1 expo- mpleting n church 3. Procla- ollowing ould ey- thanks- mercy eir be- tone day evoted to we have nd to the 3 loving presi- )y desip- Oth day as a day ept and and. On ry work our us- ay recall nd there ibute of one of and so- and en- ous gifts oor and thanks- LAND.” of grapes vineyard for poor rd devot- pes, and he ranch d better from the hem. cross the de. The nd about 1 the dis- pool 1000 ANZ Lrous nd Baha- ates now nk of the n, which the tops ce. The 1 of carp tunity to is garden OL US Ms i to is Gr iO nn AN / CUSTOMS DUFTES, LEVYING UNCLE SANSEZVTNUD ON COAST AND FRARPIER, An Intricate System of Invoices and Official Papers —The Speedy Rev- erue Cutters—Smuggling on the Canadian kronticr. FOREIGN merchant desiring to ship goods to the United | States must first go before oe the American Consul resid- ing at the port from which he intends to ship the merchandise and make oath to the kind, quality and quantity of the articles he wishes to ship to the United States. This affidavit is called a ‘‘consular certificate,” and is at- tached to the invoice of goods the merchant is going to export. Three of these invoices, properly ceriiiied, are made out, one of which is kept by the Consul, one sent to the Collector of the Port to which the goods are to be shipped, and one given to the ex- porting merchant, who sends it to his customer in the United States. The in7oice which goes to the Collector of tlie Port in this country is sent by the " captain of the vessel which carries the freight listed in the invoice. After the vessel crosses the ocean and is within fifteen leagues of the main shore it is .possible that it may run across one of Uncle Sam's reve- nue cutters. It may be well to ex- plain here that the revenue cutters are an important factor in the protection and collection of the customs duties. The revenue marine was established by Congress in 1790 for the purpose of preventing smuggling. Fen of these cutters were built at that time and or- dered placed in commission. Since then the revenue marine has grown in importance, until now the service numbers about forty vesseis. A mod- ern revenue cutter is a small vessel, steel armored, and equipped with sev- eral fine guns of long range. The vessels are built for speed, and besides being propelled by powerful engines, are also supplied with a large spread of canvas. But to return to our incoming ves- sel. If the ship is in the regular chan- ne! and making directly for port the revenue cutter will not molest it. But if the vessel is out of the beaten track, or has nc colors flying, or if there is anything rakish or suspicious looking about it, the revenue cutter will signal it to ‘‘bring to,” as coming to a halt is called in sailor parlance. To make this signal the revenue cutter runs up the revenue jack or fires a gun across the bows of the incoming vessel. When the vessel comes to a halt a boat is lowered from the cutter and two officers are sent aboard the ship to make an examination. If the captain can show his clearance and other ship papers, and they are found to be reg- ular, he is permitted to go on, other- wise the vessel is placed under arrest and taken to the nearest port. After the vessel lands the captain must within twenty-four hours thereafter ‘‘enter’’ his vessel—that is, he must report to the Collector of the Port, de- livering to him copies of the manifest and clearance papers. To do this he first deposits his clearance papers with the Consul of the Nation from which the ship sailed. The Consul examines the papers and if they are regular he gives the captain of the vessel a cer- tificate to this effect. The captain then gives tae collector this certificate, which is official evidence that the ves- sel is from the country that it claims to be. Besides delivering his clearance papers to the collector the captain also delivers to him the manifest of the ship, containing a list of the passen- gers on board the vessel and the in- voice of goods sent to the merchant in this country, which it will be remem- bered was indorsed by an American Consul in a foreign port before the goods were shipped to this country. The captain must make oath that his manifest is in every way correct to the best of his knowledge and belief. When these regulations have been complied with the collector issues an order for the delivery of the cargo. But before the importing merchant or consignee can secure his goods he must go before the collector and se- cure a permit allowing him to unload his freight. To do this he goes to the custom house and produces his in- voice and bill of lading. The invoice is compared with the invoice in pos- gession of the collector and which was sent to him by the Consul residing in the country from which the goods were shipped. The bill of entry which is presented by the importing mer- chant is also compared with the bill of entry which the captain gives to the Collector at the same time that he ‘does his manifest and clearance papers. These papers are then taken to the naval office, where the work is veri- POLICEMAN ON THE SHORE. fied. When these papersare returned to the custom house and found to be regular the collector makes out what’ is known as an ‘‘estimate” of the amount of duties that should be paid. He also names a certain number of packages that must be sent to the pub- Lic stores for appraisement in order that the rate of duty may beaccurately ascertained. After these formalities are through with the importer pays: the estimated duty on the goods he wishes to trans- fer immediately to his store or ship to other merchants in the interior of the country. He may, if he wishes, get two permits, ore allowing him tohave immediate possession of the goods np- on which he has paid a duty and the other to allow him toremove the goods on which the duty is not paid to a bonded warehouse. INITIAL MONUMENT MARKING MEXICAN BOUNDARY ON PACIFIC COAST. ‘When a merchant imports a cargo of goods which he does not wish to place immediately upon the market he can store his merchandise in a bonded warehouse by getting a permit to do so, and by giving a bond to secure the payment of the duties, The bond is to the effect that if the merchandise be withdrawn within three years from the date of importation and the duties paid then the bond is to be void. If merchandise is removed within a year after being placed in bond then only the regular duties are imposed, but if it remains in bond longer than one year an extra charge of fen per cent. upon the regular duty is added. All merchandise placed in a bonded ware- house must be withdrawn within three years or the goods will be sold to pay the duties. ; At ports other than seaports the methods employed in collecting duties are the same as those just described, except, of course, that there are no revenue cutters or tugs. The manner of collecting the customs at some of the frontier custom houses is quite in- formal. This is especially true of the customs offices on the Mexican frontier and on the boundary line between the States and the British provinces. There is a peculiarity about the Mexican frontier that is entirely its own. It consists in what is known as the ¢‘free zone,” and is situated in Old Mexico. Several years ago the Mexican Government passed a law set- ting apart a narrow strip of territory on the boundary line between that country and the United States to be a ‘‘zona libra,” or free zome, into which goods and merchandise could be shipped from any part of the world FRONTIER CUSTOM HOUSE AT LOCHIEL, ARIZONA. duty free. The object of this legis- lation was to build up a narrow strip of Mexican territory at the expense of the United States frontier. This piece of strategy by the Mexican Gov- ernment is accomplishing its purpose, because the United States is debarred from retaliating with a similar law, for the reason that it would be con- trary to the provision of the Constitu- tion, which declares that ‘all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.” The free zone is a strip of territory twenty miles wide on the Mexican side of the line, and extends from Matamoras to Tijana. The United States frontier adjoining Old Mexico is poorly guarded. There are custom houses at Brownsville, Laredo, Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, and at Nogales, New Mexico. Mounted in- spectors patrol this part of the frontier, but they only act as detectives, and there are not enough of them to guard properly ‘the boundary line between this country and the ‘‘free zore” in Mexico. It is doubtful if any ordinary number of men could guard the Mexican frontier. The barren plains in the northern part of Texas and in the southern part of New Mexico and Arizona afford great protection to the smugglers. Usually natural impedi- ments make smuggling unprofitable. But it is the reverse in this instance. To the professional smuggler this sterile and wild tract of country is a bridge between Mexico and the in- habited part of the United States, which, if he can but safely cross, he feels that be is secure from pursuit and capture. tance of one mile apari. These posts: mark the line between the United: States and Canada as settled by the: Ashburton treaty in 1842. i The custom houses are at the rail-; road stations on or near the line., The collectors at these ports do not exert themselves very much in the way! of guarding the frontier. Insome in-, stances they lend a helping hand toi the smuggler. A collector of a small! post on the New York frontier told! the writer of a scheme he had devised: to help the ‘‘boys” bring horses from Canada to the United States. He talked freely about the matter, and! seemed to think that he owed thesso! courtesies to the “boys” for having in-! dorsed him for the office of collector.’ Along the New York and Vermont frontier every few miles can be found what is known as the ‘line store.” These stores are built on the boundary, lina, part of the store beingin Canada! and part in the United States. Thel chief object of these stores is to avoid] the payment of the Government license; required of retail dealers in liquor.i Another object is to avoid the customs’ duties on such articles as-are generally sold in country stores. They are closely watched, however, and not much is done in the way of evading’ customs duties. But as respects the avoidance of the Government license tax, the scheme is almost perfection itself. When the American customer comes to buy whisky he must go to the Canada side of the store, but when a Canadian wants his jug filled he must go over to the counter on the American side. Saturday afternoons and rainy days it is a common sight to see the lines of customers going and coming, one from Canada and the other from the United States. The proprietor eschpes paying a tax in the United States for the reason that he does not sell liquor to a citizen of this country on American soiland the Gov- ernment cannot bring a foreigner into this country as a witness. —New York Advertiser. ee ——— Oldest Dentist -in America. Dr. Robert B. Baynes, the oldest dentist in America, supposed to be the oldest Freemason in the New England States, and among the oldest people in the State of Maine, celebrated his DR. ROBERT BE. BAYNE ninety-eighth birthday on September 28 at hisresidence, Rockland. He was born of wealthy parents in London, England, but through the dishonesty of a clerk his father was ruined when young Baynes was sixteen years old. Ten years later the young man sailed for America, learned the watchmaker’s trade in New York, and then went tc Boston, where he studied dentistry for five years. After practicing in Boston for years he moved to Rockland, where he has been for thirty-five years. For half a century he has not tasted meat, his principal diet being graham bread and cocoa. Liquor and tobacco are his pet aversions, and his most noticeable peculiarity is that he never speaks un- til spoken to. He was married in early life, but his wife died many years ago, and since then Baynes has lived alone, making a good part of his own cloth- ing, including his shirts and collars. Dr. Baynes has no living relatives that he knows of, and his taciturnity is so marked that he may be said to be with- out even an intimate friend. —Chicago Herald. Those Big Sleeves. Zn, - ny —- t ‘I wonder what that queer-looking creature can he?” The frontier between Canada and the United States is not patrolled in | any manner. The only guards are | the iron posts which stand like sen- | tinels on the boundary line at a dis- isn’t Miss “Good gracious? If it De Rigeur tying her shoe!’’—Flie- gende Blaetter. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. MENDING KITCHEN UTENSILS. Mending the kitchen utensils, or having them meaded, rather, is a small matter when one lives in the city and can have them sent for and returned by the tinsmith, who lives on the ave- nue just around the corner, but when one happens to live in village, with the nearest tinsmith a mile away and is compelled to carry a mountain of in- valid ware to that Mahomet, it is quite another thing. Of such a necessity the following invention was born: Scrape the: tin thoroughly clean around the leak, take a bit of fresh, soft putty and press it over the aper- ture hard enough to force some of it through the opposite side; press both sides smoothly and set away for a day or two to harden. In a porcelain or iron kettle, holes located above the stove can be closed by pulling a bit of cotton cloth loosely through, then drive a soft wooden peg in the center, projecting a trifle on each side and hammer the wood flat.—New York Recorder. WASHING WINDOS. There is method in everything, and that there is method even in the wash- ing of windows shows simply that there is nothing too small but that method has a place 1n it. Frobably eleven out of every dozen housemaids never care or consider whether it is better to wash a window on the outside or in- side first, or whether there is the slightest reason for considering whether the sunshine falls on it during the washing or not. Yet these are two very im- portant matters to consider in the washing of windows. If the window is washed when the sun is shining on it, it is sure to show cloudy and streaky places from drying more rapidly in these places than in others, and if itis not washed on the inside first the dirt and dust which belong on the outside cannot be so readily distinguished. These are simple little facts which it does not need a philosopher or a scientist to confirm, and simple as they are they will always save trouble if they are considered in the work of washing windows. The correct method to clean a win- dow glass is to first dust the sash and glass on the inside and wash the panes, with a little ammonia in the water, using a cloth to wipe it off with and soft paper to polish it after it is dry. Take a small brush or pointed stick and cover it with a piece of cloth for the purpose of reaching the corners. Be sure that the: cloth is free from lint. The corners should always be thoroughly brushed with a brush of this sort, as in them are sometimes concealed some very disagreeable germs, as indeed germs, of some kind or other, seem nowadays to find an abiding placein every possible corner. When theinside is entirely finished, then begin on the outside, and you will see at once the advantage spoken of, for all the dirt and imperfections that would otherwise have been con- cealed from you will stand revealed in contrast with the clean surface of the inside. = Wash the outside as you do the inside, but in rinsing it, it is preferable to dash the water on rather than use a cloth, or a good-sized sponge will be equally as good. The outer panes should be wiped as soon ag possible after rinsing, and they should be polished thoroughly with a chamois or with soft paper. —New York Tribune. THANKSGIVING DAINTIES. Thanksgiving Cake—Cream a pound of butter and a pound of sugar to- gether ; beat six eggs and stir in alter- nately with a pound of sifted flour; beat well and add a pint of sour milk; flavor with nutmeg and ground cinna- mon ; dissolve a small teaspoon of soda in a tablespoonful of hot water, and pour in ; pour the batter in a greased pan, and bake in a hot oven. Savoy Cake—Take twelve eggs and their weight in sugar, with half as much flour; beat the yolks and whites separately ; add first the sugar, then the flour, with half a grated lemon; pour in a greased mold and bake. Old-fashioned Raisin Cake—Take three pounds of flour, one and a half pounds of sugar, a teaspoon each of ground cloves, cinnamon, ginger and mace ; mix in four tablespoonfuls of yeast ; beat twelve eggs and add ; work all together and set to rise; when light, add a pound of butter; have ready two pounds of stoned raisins, and mix in the batter ; pour in a mold; set in a slow oven to bake ; when done let stand in the pan until cold. New England Doughnuts—Sift a pound and a half of flour, divide it into two parts. Make a hole in the centre of one part, pour in a wine glass of hop yeast; mix the flour in gradually, adding warm milk to make soft dough. Cover and set by the fire for two hours. With the remaining flour put five ounces of butter cut in bits, half a pound of powdered sugar, 2 teaspoonful each of powdered cin- namon, one grated nutmeg, a table- spoonful of rose water and half a pint of milk. Beat three eggs very light, and stir in the mixture. Set by the fire until light. Then turn out on a pas- try board and cut in fancy shapes. Have a shallow kettle of boiling lard, drop the doughnuts in and fry them brown. ‘When cool roll in sugar. Grandmother’s Pound Cake—Wash the salt from a pound of butter and rub it with a spoon until it is creamy ; have ready a pound of sifted flour, a pound of powdered sugar and twelve eggs, well beaten; add alternately to the butter, the sugar, flour, yolks and ‘whites of the eggs; continue to beat until the mixture is very light. Flavor with nutmeg and grated lemon peel Grease a cake pan, pour in the batter and bake. —Courier-Journal. —— te ees A lobster ‘‘farm’ near Southport, Me., produces 1,000,000 lobsters a year KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS CHOKED BY MASKED MEN. CHREE ROBBERS BRUTALLY TREAT A 76-YEAR- OLD MAN. Erie.—Bartholemew Crowley, a farmer. 10 years old, living four miles east of Erie, was choked to insensibility by three masked men, because he refused toreveal the hiding place of money supposed to be in his pos- session. His daughter, Mrs. Carey, was first brutally treated, but the robbers loft her in a barred room while they poured oil on Crowley, threatening to burn him jalive and continued to search the house. Mrs. Carey jumped from a second story window tothe ground, sustaining serious zpinal injuries, but reached the house of neighbors to give the alarm. The house ot Mrs. John Crowley. nearby, ‘was ransacked and no one being there, the furniture ruin- ed with an ax, but the thieves secured only 2.5) in cash. Three suspects arrested by the Erie police have been released. BIG FIRE AT PARKER. SEVERAL BUSINESS HOUSES DESTROYED AND $30,000 DAMAGE DONE. Parker-—Fire started in Clint Elder’s bil- liard hall and before it was subdued it had destroyed T. J. Blair's stationery store, Mrs. Wilkin’s millinery store, Durbin Mobley's gents’ furnishing store, Knight's barber shop, the postoffice and Mrs. White's res- taurant. The property owners sustaining losses are: Henry Bohem, Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs, Featherston, Mrs. Elder, Henry Surk, Mrs. Wallrobinstein and Mrs. E.M. Parker, The loss is about $30,000, with §12,000 in- surance. PHILADELPHIA B NKS. PuiLapeLraia—The weekly statement of the banks in this city for the past week show an increase in the reserve of $423,000; due from other banks an increase of $407,- 000; due to other banks a decrease of $232,- 900. The deposits increase $314,000; the cir- culation increase, $28,000 and the loans and discounts show a decrease of $97,000. — AWARDED $2,250 DAMAGES. Beaver—The cass of Lawrence Dilworth et al. vs. the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Rail road Company resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for $2,250 When the company changed its ro:dbed it shut off the water supply of the plaintiffs, who were operating the paper mill fuctory at Beaver Falls. ——— DOGS DESTROYING SHEEP, HoLLIpAYSBURG.— Blair county farmers are troubled by the onslaughts made upon their stock by roaming dogs. Farmer R. I, Walker. of Duncansville lost 23 sheep— slaughterel by a pack of dogs. a Ar Hazelton while Albert Sponeburg, wife and child were driving across the Penn- sylvania track,they were struck by a freight engine. Mrs. Sponeburg was instantly killed and the husband badly injured, The child escaped without a scratch. Taree hunters discovered a band of counterfeitersin a cave in the Laurel Hill mountains, near Greensburg, The coun- terfeiters got away, but the hunters counfis- cated their tools. A hunt for the counter feiters is being made. Suxpay evening while Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Sell, of West Derry, were out walking their house was set on fire and destroyed by one of their five little children upsetting a lamp.Neighbors rescued the children. GEORGE FRAUGER, a wealthy farmer living near Pleasant Unity, was swindled out of $5,000 by the farm buying and tin box game by two unknown buncoers. : A p1seask that is puzzling the veterinary surgeons has broken out among the horses in the vicinity of Mt. Pleasant and many animals have died. MicHAEL MILLER, employed in the mines near Avonmore, was instantly killed by a fall of slate. He was about 30 years old and unmarried. 3 THE $1,709 raised a year ago by employes to help start the Witherow iron plant at New Castle will be returned with 5 per cent interest. Mack BALSINGER was fatally crushed by a fall of limestone near MecClellandtown while mining under the face of the stone. EmymA Broow, a domestic employed at the Kromer House, Scottdale, fell from a second- story window and was fatally injured. J. M. BECKWITH, a New York jewelry salesman, was robbed of $4,000 worth of diamonds at Erie Saturday. SuirMENTS of anthracite coal through Philadelphia up to date show an increase of 982,133 tons oves last year. BurcLARs robbed the hardware store of S. W. Bortz at Greensburg Sunday night of a lot of valuable goods, AT Meadow Lands Sunday night Mrs. John Edwards drove a burglar from the house with a hot poker, Davip G. DoNxonvE, Associate Judge of Adams connty died suddenly Sunday night. Ho was 45 years old. Rarer RuoDES of Vniontown,aged 13 has died of lockjaw, induced by a blow with a etone on the jaw. GrorGE SHELTON, aged 16.0f Connellsville. was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. THE soldiers’ home at Erie has its full quota of inmates, 400, at present, At Dunbar 150 coke ovens were fired. — Fortune in the Field. Recent experiments point to the growth of a new and profitable in- dustry from the prolific scrub growth of the Florida forests and flelds. It has been proved that the leaf of the saw palmetto can be ground into a pulp which makes an excellent article of hollow-ware for domestic and other uses, and the present ex- periments are expected to prove the adaptability of this material to the making of all kinds of paper. Yor some time past the peculiar cabbage- like substance in the top of the cab- bage palmetto has been used with the tender tops as well, as a flber in the manufacture of parchment. It is now proposed toobtain cheap paper fiber from the ordinary scrub plant. Some of this pulp has been success- fully worked up into pails, tubs, basins and other hollow-ware. The supply of saw palmetto is practically inexhaustible in Florida. Millions of acres are covered with it, and when cut down to the ground it grows up again two or three times a year. A crop that grows without cultivation and in such very large quantities bids fair to have “millicns in it.” re us - with all sorts of ‘‘comforts” SOLDIERS’ COLUMN THE OLD 55th. A Graphic Sketch of One of the Hoosier Regiments in Kentucky. PERMIT a few \ words trom one wha 55th . The organization was composed of odds and ends from dif- (ferent parts of the State, called out to guard prisoners at Camp Morton. I do not mean that the men were “odds and ends,” but the company. We were muster- . a Bed into service on May 27, 1862, Early in July Gov. Morton addressed the regiment and stated that there was urgent call tor troops in Kentucky, and while we had enlisted to guard prisoners. he would beglad if we would consent to go to the front. egave any who might not desire to go the opportunity of stepping 10 the rear. Only two of Co, Cdid. I donot know how many of other companies, but not many. We at once made ready to start, and in twodays we were being hurried from Louis- ville to Frankfort, K y., where it was expect- ed Morgan would make an attack that Sun- day p. m- As our train pulled into Bagdad, a few miles from Frankio-t. we discovered that great excitement p-e ail:d, and we were hailed with joy by some uo. our own rela- tives, citizens of the place. We reached Frankfort late in the after- noon and were marchéd to the Statehouse grounds, where the loyal ladies of the city had provided a fine lunch for the whole regiment. Scouts reported that Morgan was advanc- ing and Lieut-Col. John R. Mahon, com- manding the regiment, led us out and up the long hill on the Louisville turnpike at double-quick. . As we started we were well loaded down rolled up in and upon our knapsacks. We had not gone far, however, before the baggage was loos- ened and the knapsacks were chasing each other down the hill and many of them were never seen by the owners again. After reacning the top of the hill we marched a short distance and were drawn up in line-of-battle in the woods on the right of the Turik e expecting every mo- ment to be attacked by twice our number. The elements seemed to conspire to make us fearful, for the sky darkened and thunder and lightning played havoc with our feel- ings. After waiting for some time we were or- dared to lie down in line-of-battle till morn- ing. News then came that Morgan had crossed the Kentucky River above us, and was hurrying toward Gedrgetown. For some time we were kept busy chasing these bold riders, but never overtook them except a rear guard. To Georgetown, to Paris, to Winchester, to Lexingion we went. but nothing more than a skirmish was the result. During the latter part of August we were at Nicholasville where we learned of Buell's rear movement and Bragg s advance, Our rations consisted mostly of roasting ears gathered from the tields, when we received orders to march toward Cumberland Gap, where Kirby Smith was entering Ken ucky. We marched all night wading the Kentue- ky River,and reached Richmond about 9 a. m., exhausted and hungry, but drew rations in plenty,though not of the choicest kind. Here word reached us that Kirby Smith was marching from Big Hill,and a fight was expected soon. Our time had expired, but Gen. Manson urged us not to leave him, as we were the onlv drilled men he had, except a portion of of the 18th Ky. Cav. We consented to see him through,and on Aug 29 the picket-firing announced that the fight was on. e were marched out on double quick toward the firing and during the afternoon captured a small field piece, which gave us great satisfaction, as wesup— posed that was only the beginning of our achievements. On that night we lay in line-of-battle;and a little after sunrise we resumed the march, as we supposed, to victory and glory. We had not proceeded far when batteries op2n- ed out upon us with grape and canister. The fighting was sharpand the loss heavy. Several regiments just organized in Indiana and Ohio stood by us nobly, but ere the night came our men had been routed and a retreat was on. Our loss in killed. wounded and prisoners was heavy and many poor fellows, whose term of enlistment had expired three days before were killed or maimed for life. Back we went to Lexington, thence to Maysville and by boat and rail to Cinein- nati and Indianapolis where we were paid off and sent to (ur homes. For some reason no discharges were made out and given to the men. So tar as I know, not one of that reziment has ever received a discharge, — Geo. W. Reap in ‘National Tribune,” ee A Good War Story. One of the best arinv stories I have heard for a long time was told by a Johnstown veteran of the Forty-fifth regiment who was here at this reunion recently. The hero of the story was a Jew. The veteran announc- ed that he was going to the sulter’s quar- ters, some two miles away, to make some purchases. The Jew, Conn, lying in his 158, heard this, and calling the ve.eran in said: 1 give you 30 cents, you buy me :iobac- co The 59 cents was handed over. The veteran made his trip te the su ter's quarters, but could get no tobacco. Instead, he bought 5¢ cents worth of cigars, all of which, except two, he gave away to the boys and one of those left he himself smoked. The remain- ing one he carefully wrapped up in half a dozen papers and handel them into the tent to Conn. The Jew spent some time getting all the wrappers offand was almost paralyzed when he found it contained a sing'a cheap cigar. “What youdo mit mine 50 cents,” said the Jew. His ‘riend told him the sutler had no to- bacco so he had tought cigars. Coun gazed Jong and earnestly at the small return he had got for his half-dollar, and then loak- ing up at his friend said: ‘Vell, de next time I send a fool ‘or to- Dad I goes myselt,”’—Somerset (Pua.) Ve- delle. qo Wise Advice. In the ‘Life of Rowland Hill,” by Mr. Charlesworth, published iu Lon- don some years ago, there are many anecdotes of that remarkable man. At one time when Mr. Hill was preaching for the benetit of a charity, a note was handed to him, the writer of which asked whether it would be right for a bankrupt to contribute to the good cause. “No,” said the preacher, after he had read the note; ‘but, my friends, I would advise you who are not in- solvent not to pass the plate this evening, as people will be sure to say, ‘There goes the bankrupt.’ ” el ee JONES HNew is WwearKness. Somebody challenged Jones to fight a duel, thinking to scare him. “Well, it’s a go,” replied that cheer- ful lunatic, “but only on one condi- tion. You know how near-sighted I am? Well, to make things equal I insist that I shall be placed ten paces nearer my opponent than he is to me, for the fellow’s got an eye like a ” haw.” oo. as } : 2 1 5 4 1 RRR ¢ wu 3 3 & 5 $ § 4 5 i 7 4 3 0 3
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