Bi ta Hn pon RAID ON Hoa en AA ww well koown not hut throughout He ae electe d ne the Fae ier Pay Tape, OW leader 15 part of the ios 3 marred the ot heres The com: 5 Sanding David ember of tongros. : ne tom, Cotambon Ohio. FOR AMONG CLERKS. ns Works for Uncle Sam Eighty Years Old. Restor among the clarks at the Washington is Judge who was appointed it in 1861 and has served since. From a little by 8 seen the Pension office one of the largest and most ances of the govern thousands of clerks to do spite his 80 years, he is ctive duty. Judge Tomiins ishing mwyer in Wisconsin I visited Washi ington President Lincoln's faaugn- ith no thought of seck- : ing a government office. pursusded by Timothy O. #t the capital and on the ground that 0 be declared and it erosting 10 study It at = "Once a government A government ejerk” and Mr. Tomkins has y are ir ner and 1d Sandlesticks, for exam: modern En Fl aivhsd pee and & trained eye. meh in color, its shade proportion of cop used in iis composition, 18 hue of the capper em: As nkor than others there is silkiness of ound in the sorts mide 1s partly due, it ia sald, at ot Rent for turn! shings The Ship of [heams.” Twain In the days of the California. Twaln was Bewspaper man named | nd as the men drifted acquaintance was never fol Mr. Forsslund modestly #ny further knowledge of rid-famed humorist. Mark elf is less diffident, as a Boing 8 second round sh papers testifies, Dur. réslience in England he in what seemed to him an nstance, Accordingly riendly protest to the 1 gor: | ow you.” he write, bur 8 He was at tession in the Strand, It isa! We whisper or we dupe gtd ang when she told us The Wanpry Blackbird, aid the blackbird at the glowworm's oor: “P've lost my way tonight; come. out and guide me homeward with Your pretty little hight” Said the glowworm: “Sir, I greatly fear f { cole sut to shine, Though you might reach your home, that ) Shoud not return to mine! His Beward. It wax Donald's first year at schoo! and le came home ane day a very seloy boy, “Mamma,” he wild “the teachinr eas if we do it again we'll all bare fo stay after school I don't know just what bat anyway ite some: together.” “Well” said mamms Foy paid foal badly, becamse I (don't snppos ¥ou will have to stay.” and she gare! Donnid a repssnring smile ; “WHY? he aaked, “Pocanee vou have too meh Tr most bea x pay and 'w hisper e Bave to stay fn and sid time” Pronld seomad bopper viow of fhe case Two days afer, §i coming up the street bx sa high be fairly 2 ward, He ime in hat, “Ho! Rome boys may like ta pla and whisper anid got kept, bur sense! All the boyy buat me got an ordinary piece “of tines thread, po- {body will know that it has been pres pared. Buspepd a fight ring from the thread: sed fire fo the thread and barn it up. The ring will stay sus. pended, ahtbough the thread is burnt Thie experimenr must be execnted with great care, ns a Bue Shire of salt suspends the ring instead of the burnt thromd, and the feast bit of draft or pshaking will snd the vxperiment. Tals ales he dare in the fo sdvd ig the nly A Fep-al-War. two together, When he pulls the handkerchief apart the coin slips into | ‘his left hand, Buaking the handker | chief, be removes wax and coin, and | MISSING PARENTS’ TN hy! PUZZLE. Find the fat ler Had fsadinr of hos chiidren. We can't tell yor which it was—whis per or not siudy—-but it wis ote © ‘em, and 1 just was xtill and worked | and bere T am!" Youth's Companion. | Sami ATriek With a Coin, 3 “Give me a fivecent piece and a i handkerchief. 1 place the coin io the Li middle of the eluthk, and cover it with all four ends of the banilierchief un til the coin cannot be sein any more, Convince yourself, please, that the coin | fu still in its place.” The performer slips hiz two bands In between “a” and “B." pulls the | handkerchief apart, and the coin 8 eq gone, abauiutely gone. pEreeky would run eff Cather corner of Ait mn himself, og Mother Hen axon found out this grecdy trick of Mr, Specky, aod so on day when she fond a aloe faloy worss, nated of giving it 16 bim, she called iittle Topknot. Topknot ran off with her prize and 1 al} the rest of the chickens after her, NOPKY Wen! f6n. you may be anre, 2d heesuse Be wan siratgér than the Frost, he pushed through and grablied held of that Invely warm al ihe hte i iy for they Loew at he was eH strange ro than Tapkaot and sth Coon Ger. Ra pe iol nat a if then yaling against ane, I don’t know bow 0 would have ended, for Sperky was very strong. aut Mother Hen saw ths tural a: Bru i wit b angry Fug Pedr Specky’ Rb av Bith A perk thar gent him Sying and a away tambled the athern over barkeard, And thea a ar Yow ora warm bevself, iE opesam a VE a % Had wre ab fines pn ta those who fear the ntare dotuinution of settlers from the Biter I is estimated that in the trast Boden montas of 5 GOO aores of : Noe thrwest & Greet Hy ottizen recent issue of aX Aiine Fiat sl¥s "The iz 1x of settlers to Canedan Weert ie sbaply wonder Cink At Medicine Hat we are In a po ‘ sition to gige cis the great orang, of. pecially of Ateriians, 28 we gap here. ‘While folding end “87 over the colt the performer slips a staal ball of | 4 “wax underneath the end amd presses | ope the end against the coin. fastening tis | returns the handkerchief to its owner, | New York Tribune. An Amusing Trick With Fire, Soak a plece of linen thread In a ptrong solution of salt itwo tablespoon. fuls of water to one tablespoontul of galt), Take it out and let it dry, ro ting this three or four times before are ready for the performance of low the piece of thread to the andl and as the thread will look like i 74 ak ¥ 3 = pany, tein hood alter train load af sodtiors. bring! with them norsed entile imbies . hodechal d stufl, The rush of settlers I unpreces dewied, and is taxing the railways to the Halt to handles the business ia Con nection with thelr trade” Mewt to Craw. The proprietor of a small store in New York says his trade came frou only a small seciion of the oily nutil ir Began to advertise in a newspaper. Now he draws enough feade from be. youd his old limits to se than pay for tis advertizing. “Besides” Le says, “1 am sowing seed for the time when 1 shall have a large department store. The only way for my establishment to | 1 grow is by newspaper advertising.” dda of milsceils effect ee Louisville, Ky San’ Francisco. Cal. For eae by hi drudgista, ti Acts Gently; Acts Pleasantly. y J Acts Beneficially, * | fects truly-as-a Laxative. Syrup of Figs appeals to the cultured and the well-intorined and to the healthy, because its coms ponent parts are Simple and wholesome and be- cause it Acts without d sturbing the natural func. tions, as itis wholly free from every objectionable quality or substance. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal virtues of Syrup of Figs are obtained from an excellent combination of plants known to be medicinally laxative and to art most beneficially, To get its beneficial effects—buy the genune—manufactured by the New York. NY. Price fifty cents per. bottle. Germany's Army ls for Defense. The German army. like the German mition, hes Lwon agneered into exist. ence. Germany, open on every aide to attack, has been tha gros battle ground of Burne through all the ven Luries wi by rongiant pressure with in and ort the Briny Bas had jis Krew, war the result of sfern I was defense or death n spite of the commonly re pirtod mi of the {Haw hint Kis iT, i pe kernels of the sve tern, Pha army ptsat he made power ful enough to defend the counters from the attacks of any Ane power or ail of them togwther. If it Is pecessary to mare into Prando In the eogras of mich 8 wir, well and good: but that i not the Tundawenial purpose of the army. bg 5 PAR A Public Forest for Germans. Emperor William, of Germany, car rying out hiz purpose of converting the Grunewald isto a vast pleisure | ground for the use of the inhabitants of Berlin, has approved plans for new roads, plavgrounds, plenickers’ glados the Emperors objects ls to encourage Hal ide HIT ath! silos 11.650 acres it is a roval huniing preserve hal the forestérs are gow there Found Ring in a Fish Henry uermann, of New York, found whit be says is a solid gold | westding rong in See stomach of & fish é cate &L NG, g rol, ou Ax Fron thee al fs tore an woth a hail of a 83m boread The ¢ Bad roms fron Bosion on the Bay State i 8 wage car he niga hed ¢ Wak preparing ring imbedded in th PE Ine than & LBireadth, and “leew to Loa, I OA OR The best way ta cure indigestion is to 7 remare le daeee. This iz best done By the prompt wee of Dr. Aogust Koenig's Ham barg Drops, which regulate the stomach i an eTectual manner In Hungry the le ite of an dadivie dual dates cnly from bap fea How's This? We afer Cine Hondeed Dollars Reward tar lw Any ages of ‘AtarTh that sainot be pared by Hall's Catarrh Cure, FL Cay xy & Co, Prova, Toledo, £3, Wa thaunders ime Tavs known P. J. nay for the bel Ul made by their Vie rapists Taleds, Warnrsn, Kowwax 2 Manviy, Wioissale Drag. i da, Oki i Hall's Catierrh Cure bs jalan mtamall 7, ants Ing directly upon the and masons sare faces of the system. Price, The, par hottie, | Bald by aii Tiragaists, Testimonials free, Hail's Fas ly Pills Are tha best. The leech ia the snly animal which pos seases thre separate JAWS, FITS permanant iy sured. No As 4 OT BATYOaN- peasaline drs day's gue of Dre Hilne's Graal Nervellestorsr. §3trial bottle an: i treatisatron XA br. BH. Kul NE, Lt t 18 8 pot talile fact wyoat of the ga ; & E beard 5 are. . teat tom, aay p ln, aura bir bs 5 ole, 360. abotiis GIR The dentist that harts the most doesn't! always charge the least A BA RN, SA You ean do your. dyeing mm half an hour with 1 Prrxax Fapgrzss Dyes. Exports ¢ of catt] cattle have increased twenty | per cent in Sve years. Chie forest contains | ing of the desr and wild boar y en and Ie liove Bim rer. feotiyv Ranarable in ail Busiaesas tranaastiong nnd Aaancially sble to carry out any obliga | on ¥ Where Conrecticut Got Its Name. CSrewho eolony arrived . a : : © of awn a To g ud SERS gs § 5s * n.d ind restaurants in the forest. One of | T0MAale politician ever seen fn Wash | Minister in regard to a place for a Texas chanstitnent Snot Hs posed 0 give the pace to her! Odd Sunday Law in Scotland. Af an instance of the observance ied the “land of steady habe | of the Rabhath in Scotland sn Eng aunt of the exeinplary con | lish paper tells of a postman having doct of Ha ¥ zens. But it obtained 4 route between Stirling and Rlaird differant manner. Jon | rommond, He was observed to ride a RB Matthews told just how recently at) bieyele over his six miles on week fght he imagined thar Connect EP AH I the Walkie Astoria. “In the early days and to walk the same distance slonial times” he said, “It was the on Sunday, and when asked why. ro nm th provide every one who 8% nlfed that be was not allowed to use sisted at a dedie atfon church bulid. the machine on Banday. An investi : "of gation followed, and the postman's These functions. (explanation proved to be correct. gk te say, re popiiar. When | charter rent Corpectieont a | there was of conrke, A celebration. The firet gov Chicago Through British Glasses. Chicago's university professors are ernor. John Winthrop, refused to pro- ‘ailed “slangy freaks” by a recent vides rum and in hin mrgural address Britinh vigitor, oa whom all the hos red the custom of tinpling, say | jiralities of the town bad been rit odid not ead to altendy Babitu poured in sparkiing showers” But a the Nutmeg State had a tite 55 he also called its policemen “pore ito hand down to posterity. : Ccupine sluggards ” honors are compar a mst mises sas : atbrely easy between the cops and the Cleverest Woman Politician. | faculty, anyhow, with the rest of the Miss J N. Strong. private secretary community looking on rather amused to ex-Congressman Hawley, of Texas Dan otherwise is credited with being the pleveresat ngton. Hhe is conversant with every eonnty in Texas, knows every man of | prominence In the State and attends to nearly ali details of Federal pat ronage thers It iz related of her t she once went to ses a Cabinet The official was, applicant, but In a pleasant and courts | SOUR RIALNer ee “1 Ars sorry to 3 Appoint you after looking Into mach y eyes” lt seems to me then” Bo gulek anawer That the eves ta have 07 The Cabin of 3 Giesmad with the Petor he ade the Apptnt ine ent, Rheumatism Neuralgia Backache Headache Feetache SC Sr Price of White Star Line. It waz officially anpovneed in Lone: Enziand, that the purchase price | 3 the White Star Lige, an its loining International M antils Marine | spany, i B47. 180 of whi “h $15.1 i pavabis in cash, $205 (TE ob] praferonee shares snd $12.587.000 in commen stock. The aharehokliers recalve aver $00.0040 for each yo a ZTE ¢ A — alloy fg now i as a. appear in the anufae. : amd taekx The white | cheaper and in every | ; copper, | The simplest remedy for lndifes ; a wr MERE | tion, constipation, billousness and “Two years sgo my hair was § |] the many ailments arising from a falling out badly. | purchased 2 B disoriterad stomach, liver or bowels bottle of Ayer’s Hair Vigor, and | is Ripaus Tabules. They have ac soon my hair stopped coming out.” complished wonders, and thelr time Miss Minnie Hoover, Paris, Ill. iy aid removes the necessity of wll : - ing a phrsician for the many little ills that beset mankind. They go straight to the sear of the trouble, relieve the distress, cleanse and cure ‘had thin hair, but that is § | | = no reason why you must | || 2 teed pers aad sive the are go through life with half- ren starved hair. If you want § || tse Five Cent packet is on ough for an long, thick hair, feed it & cena, contains & supply + Ty Satie. with Ayer’s Hair Vigor, and make it rich, dark, Perhaps your mother
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