WHEN ROSES BLOOM.
O It hen the rosea bloom and waft
Motiicious odors through the Qir,
ril gather them—the white, the red—
And bring them to my lad.ve faire.
Bweet roses, all your fragrance lend
, / When suing at her feet I bond!
White speaks her purity; and red
Denotes the surging, glowing tide
Of fervid love that thrills my
VVhepe'er I seek my ladye's side.
O lend to love your beauty bright,
Sweet roses red and roses whitel
White is for constancy; and red,
The crown of love's delicious flower;
I'll take the red rose and the white
To deck my beauteous ladye's bower.
O flowers of snow and flowers of fire
Breathe to her all my heart's desire!
—[Edith M .Vorris, in Detroit Free Press*
" A FIDDLE."
"Undo Si's puritanical notions took in
stpiitalarm at the very mention of that
wick ed instrument, that (to him) verita
ble backbone of Satan, strung with every
sin iu the calendar, attuned to all the
bad impulses of youthful natures.
Aunt Priscilla seemed about to say
something, as her gaze wandered from
the disappointed face of their only I
nephew to the stern, not to say hard one,
of her husband, but,* on reflection, dc- j
sisted, the gleam in her eye, however,
bespeaking a merry thought, possibly a
thought of bv-gone days.
"But, Uncle Si," said the delicate
Abncr, "the blind boy does fairly make
the thing talk, and talk good, too. Why
I almost cried when lie played 'Auld
Lang Syne.'"
"Auld Lang Sync!" repeated his
uncle, the stern face relaxing somewhat, 1
"on a fiddle? Why, 1 never knowed
you could play on that instrument any- '
thin* 'ccpt 'money-musk,' and jigs and
hornpipes, and sich. Be'nt you slightly j
mistaken, Abner?"
Abner suppressed a smile, us ho met
the sharp gaze of his uncle.
''No, sir, I'm not," he answered ;i
"and he plays ever so many tunes, too, !
the 'Doxology,' and—"
The Doxology on a fiddle! That
was too mucli for the unbelieving old
man.
"That's wickeder than all the rest,"
he interrupted. "Hed you stopped at
•Auld Lang Syne,' I might hev give In
bought the fiddle for ye, but"—and
the speaker's face settled into so stern
an expression, that Abner knew further
argument to be useless.
" 'And they played on a harp of a
thousand striugs,'" quoted Aunt Pris
cilla, " 'and they rejoiced with the
trumpet, and brazen instrument*,• and
no doubt with various stringed ones be
side."
"But not on a fiddle," stoutly main
tained her husband, picking up his hat.
"that's the devil's own instrument,"
and out he went to close the argu
ment.
"I don't see," testily said Abner,
"why Uncle Si has such au antipathy to
a violin. Its ignorance, and nothing
else, Aunt, which makes some old peo
ple so intolerant of modern advancement,
in the sciences, and and every
thing."
"It's not exnetly ignorance that causes
your Uncle's dislike of the fiddle," re
turned his Aunt Priscilla, with a demure
smile. "lie never liked one since—since
b$ caught me dancing a contra dance
once, with—with—"
"Oh," interrupted Abner, "did you
ever dance, Aunt?"
"Yes, and your uncle was very
jealous of my partner," and a faint pink
flush dyed Aunt Priscilla's wrinkles.
"Oh," cried Abner again. "How
funny!" picturing, as he spoke, the bent
form of his aunt, capering up and down i
the long line of dancers, auu Uncle Si, |
leaning upon his stout stick, glowering i
from under his shaggy gray brows upon j
his rival.
That 44 how funny," touched the old
lady somewhat, until, divining how the
youth's thoughts were tending, she
arose, unlocked a drawer in the old
fashioned side-board, and, among the i
many daguerreotypes therein, selected
two, which she laid beforo the smiling
Abner.
44 Your Uncle Si was a well-favored
lad," said she primly, 44 as you will see,
and—and in those days, I was looked
upon as a right bonny lass, too," witli
which words, and a faint sigh, Aunt
Priseilla turned and left the room.
The next day found her and Abner in
close consultation. She loved the lad
and deeply sympathized with his taste
for music.
4 'We must use strategy " said she.
"Arguments are of no avail against the
deen seated prejudice of your uncle."
That evening the Farmer's Journal
had been thoroughly scanned, even to
the last advertisement, and the old man
Bat half dozing in his chintz-covered arm
chair, the old lady opposite, placidly j
knitting, and near by Abner seemingly
intent upon squaring the circle.
Faintly upon the evening stillness '
broke a note or two of plaintive music, i
Abner and his aunt exchanged glances. I
Like an irolian harp swept by unseen I
fingers of the air, came, at intervals, j
those low sweet strains to their listening
cars. b |
t "That's powerful sweet," murmured
Undo Si, half dreamily, "powerful
Bweot, I kin tell ye."
Clearer and clearer came the sounds, |
till presently, with almost a human j
voice, t>j lnstnimc nt sobbed out the
notes of 44 Auld Lung Syne."
*Like ono electrified, Uncle Si sat up- !
right in his cliair.
"We'll have a thought of kindness yet,
For mild langsync."
The obi man's voice rose and fell with
the instrument, and when the air was
done, neither of his listeners smiled as
he drew forth his cotton bandanna and
lustily blew a clarion note of emotion. |
"That sounded somethin' like a
fiddle," he snid meditatively, "but,"
sturdily, "no fiddle could talk like that
r — ways 1 never heard one."
lira wife made no reply, for at this
moment arose the air of one of Tom
Moore's melodies:
"Believe me, if all those endearing young
charms,
Which I gaze on so foundly to-day,
Were to change by to morrow, and fleet
in my arms,
Like fairy gifts fading away."
Uncle Si looked sheepishly at his wife,
and she in turn laid down her knitting
and smiled happily upon him.
"You turned that tune well, Si, in the
old days," she snid, beating time to the
%iusic with her knitting needle j "in the
oid days. Si, when—she hesitated und
blushed like a girl of sixteen.
"Thou woubl'st still be adored, as this
moment thou art,
Let thy loveliness fade as it will,
And around the dear ruin each wish of
my heart
Would entwine itself verdantly still."
The oid man's voice, wavering and
broken, took up the words, and his faded
eyes lingered on thd wrinkled face before
him with much the same expression they
bore, wheu years ugo they had agreed to
go down the bill of life together. They
were nearing the foot now, but listening
to those strains they turned back, and
for one fleeting moment stood at the
summit again, smiling with youth, and
hope, and love.
No one broke the silence after the last
sweet note had died away. A heavy sigh ■
or two from the old people, and that was
all till a gentle knock was heard at the
door.
Abner opened it.
A boy stood there with a half-smiling,
half- beseeching expression upon his
pinched little face.
Sightless, poor, yet not altogether un
happy, for clasped in his arms was that
loved instrument whose voice, at the
touch of the bow, rejoiced when he re
joiced, sorrowed wheu he sorrowed. An
insensate creature whose strings, to the
blind boy, seemed as vocal chords lent
by some divine singer, long since
crumbled into dust.
Abncr led him to the chair of his
uncle.
"Why do you part with the fiddle?"
abruptly queried the old man, turning
the instrument giugerly about iu his
hand, "you'll miss it right smart, I
reckon."
Tears welled into the sightless eyes.
"It's like selling a brother, sir, but
mother and me are going West to find
some of our relatives, aud we need the
money to take us there."
"It's a heap to pay for a crooked piece
of wood," said the close old farmer,
fumbling the notes which filled his well
worn leathern wallet, "but," with a re
flective gaze at the face of the blind boy,
where hope and pain strove for mastery,
"I reckon I'll take it," reluctantly pass
ing as he spoke, to the lud, two ten dol
lar bills.
"1 can already play some of the tunes
you love," cried the delighted Abncr,
and to the old man's apparent satisfac
tion he did execute pretty fairiy a verse
j of "Auld Lung Syne."
Twelve months or more have passed,
and nightly had Uncle Si listened to tbo
familiar airs played on that "ere fiddle,"
i as he persisted in calling the instrument.
But even his untrained ears recognized
that the bit of wood, cat-gut, and rosin
j squeaked most unmercifully under Ab
ner's manipulation of the bow.
i "The critter seems to find its new
home and master not to its likin\ he
would say at such times, discontentedly,
not soothed by the uncertain strains, "it
'pears like to be a jawin' back," and
more than once had the old man repented
him of his bargain.
I "But," would remark Aunt Priscilla
| soothingly, "it enabled Josef and his
mother to reach their friends, you know,"
to which bit of womanly reasoning Uncle
Si only replied with a grunt.
Presently, however, other matters,
more momentous than the purchase of a
i tiddle, arose to disturb the old man's
! mind. A bad investment of his small
means, the failure of successive crops, a
pinching want of money. Many were
the consultations between the old folks,
and at last, one day, Uncle Si journeyed
to a distant town, to return with a well
filled wallet, but accompanied by a
shadow which was from that day to
make its homo under their once inde
pendent roof ; a shadow which the next
year beckoned another to keep it com-
I pany; a shadow that in time would de
; velop iuto a monster, n monster with
i the grip and tenacity of death.
The homestead was mortgaged!
Diligently these days did Abner prac
tice upon his violin; to it was given all
his spare moments.
The shadow of the second mortgage
was now darkening the home, when tho
, lad began to make nightly trips to the
neighboring town, a town which in the
■ summer months was known as a "water
| ing place."
Uncle Si grumbled not a little -when
immediately after supper Abncr, violin
in hand, trudged of! during the season.
"lie's pi ay in' danein' tunes like
! enough," he growled, all his prejudices
l against the violin returning. "Jigs and
sich for the sons and daughters of Belial,
j I warrant he's not giving them fly-away
folks up yonder any' Doxologics, or the
I old tunes I'm a-hankerin' after. I never
would a bought that fiddle, Priscilly,
had I knowed what a purpose lie d a put
' it to."
Aunt Priseilla shook her dear head as
she gazed affectionately after the reced
ing form of the lad.
| " Abner is a good boy, Si, and he's
! lookin' forward to doin' his duty by us," ,
. but she made no mention, for certain
reasons, of the old broken pitcher in the
! closet, half filled with the dimes and
I larger silver pieces, which the boy had
already earned with that selfsame
fiddle.
So that evening, as usual, Abner
stood, violin in hand, before the prin
| cipal hotel in the village. Not without
a blush, did lie draw the bow across the
1 taut strings; a blush which one might
| construe into an apology for any inhar
monious strains.
I An old gentleman, lounging upon the
, piazza, smiled as he listened, but pres
i ently those about him, saw that smile re
! placed by a look of eager, intense in
terest. 'TWHB plain he could ill restrain
his impatience till the air was done,
j then, with an imperious beck of his
band, he summoned Abner to him.
I "That instrument, boy! "Will you
| let me see it?"
I Abner smilingly put it in his hand.
! Like a woman gazing upon an inesti
mable jewel, did the man gloat upon the
j bit of turned wood, noting with rapture
I how the simple, classical outlines blent
, harmoniously with the graceful curves
of the back and belly; the scroll executed
with great boldness and the highest fin
ish; the varnish of a deep orange color,
brilliant, transparent, velvet-like in tex-
J ture.
Almost reverently, the man drew the
, bow across its strings. Full, sweet aud
' noble were the tones which the master
drew from the instrument, an evenness
of quality from the highest to the lowest
j register, as rare as it is satisfying to the
| ear.
Abner, like those about him, stood
lost in admiration and wonder.
" Tis Olc Bull," whispered ono to
; another, "the great virtuoso."
*****
"Hey!" exclaimed Uncle Si the next
day, to a remark made by this same old
gentleman. "A genuine Straddlevarius.
did you say? That ere fiddle worth five
thousand dollars! Du tell?" aud the
look with which he favored the stranger
as plainly questioned his sanity as looks
| j could have done.
II # "Yes," quietly said the stranger, "the '
; violin is a genuine Stradivarius, and fully
worth five thousand dollars. The date
1715, you will find here," displaying, as
1 he spoke, the figures to the wondering
farmer.
"And you'll give five thousand dollars
for them ere figures, eh?" increduously
queried Uncle Si. "Well, I reckon it's a
' bargain," he chuckled, "fer Abner kin
[ i play most like better onto a lßlil fiddle
than he could on that bit of ancient
wood." and when, a whilo later, Abner
drew his bow across a brand new violin,
his uncle found no reason to alter his
opinion.
"I don't sec," he said critically, "bnt
what that ten-dollar fiddle gives out jes'
as good music, Abner, as that ere genu
ine Stroddlevarius. Leastways, the Dox
°l°gy sounds every bit as solemn—when
the thing don't git the squeaks, that
is—"
"It was a fortunate day for us, Si,"
his wife happily remarked, "when
ner and I overcame your prejudices
against the violin. But for tbo Stradi
various, we should never have been able
to lift those mortgages."
The old man looked quizzingly from
her to Abner, a light slowly dawning up
on his understanding.
"Il'm, I see!" lie replied with a chuckle,
"I see. Well, it were au ignorant pre
judice, that's a fact, and—mebbe—us
old folks what won't keep up with the
times, desarve to have a little strategy
used onto 'em now and then—eh, Pre
silly?"
A NEW BONE GKOWS.
Remarkable Surgical Case in a Bos
ton Hospital.
Last April Dr. E. H. Bradford, of
Boston, removed a diseased thigh bone
from the leg of a boy at the Children's
Hospital in that city. Since that time a
new bone has grown in place, and the
prospects are the boy will have a sound
limb to walk with before next Christ
mas.
The operation of scsquiotomy is not
new to surgery, but the cases are ex
tremely rare in which so large a bone has
been replaced by nature. In this instance
the piece cut away was about nine
inches in length. The limb was laid
open from the knee joint to the liip and
the disease bone tissue removed. The !
periosteum, or skin of the bone, how
ever, was carefully preserved, for upon
it depended the success of the opera
tion, it being a well-established fuct in i
[ surgery that healthy periosteum will re
produce lost bone tissue.
I The wound in the leg was kept open
to prevent the flesh from healing into
the place intended for the new bone. In
the course of time delicate shoots, re
sembling coral growths, appeared upon
the periosteum, and these gradually in
terlaced and knit together, filling the
hiatus between the hip and the Knee.
When the new growth was sufficiently
established, the lips of the wound were
sewed together and the boy was dis
charged lrom the hospital as cured.
It will be some mouths yet before the
leg will be serviceable,but there is every
reason to believe that it will eventually
become as sound as its mate. During
the time required for the growth of the
new tissue the limb was extended to its
full length by an arrangement of weights
and pulleys and kept iu position by
plaster of Paris bandages. This was to
prevent shrinkage and a consequent
shortening of the limb.
A similar operation was successfully
performed a few years ago by Dr. George
F. Shrady at the Presbyterian Hospital
in this city. An entirely new bono was
reproduced from the shoulder to the el
bow in the arm of a man who had lost
the original bone as the result of an ac
cident.—[New York Becorder.
Electricity for Rheumatism.
Standing among the electrical devices
exhibited at Washington recently an old
doctor with nearly half a century of
experience told of the use recently made
of electricity in a case of sciatic rheuma
tism. lie did not apply the cuiVent to
cure the rhcumatisn, but for a very differ
ent purpose. The current was so applied
that it would iun along the patient's leg.
That was the part affected. All previous
treatment had failed to give relief. As
the current coursed along it created no
unpleasant sensation save in one pniticu
lur spot, where it burned so that the pa
tient screamed out. That spot the doctor
guessed was the scat of all the trouble.
He applied a 11}' blister directly over the
spot. Of course the skin came off. Tho
doctor put on another blister. The result,
quickly, was a deep sore which dis
charged freely for a few days. There
was immediate relief from the rheuma
tism. The sore rapidly healed. Tho
patient left his beu and walked. No
other attack has occurred.
"You see," said the doctor, "the trouble
was that the sheath of the nerve had be
come attached to the nerve, and there
was an impediment of the nerve cir
culation ami consequent rheumatism of
the whole limb. The electric current
rau along the nerve until it struck the
part where the sheath interfered.
There it burned. The blistering started
the sore and relieved the interference
of the sheath with the nerve. Then
the whole trouble was removed.—[New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
A Leg of Mutton Drama.
A curious affair with a serious ending
happened to a butcher in the Central
Market in Paris, yesterday. It appears
that the keeper of a restaurant in the
Terues quarter bought a ten-pound leg of
mutton from him, and to his surprise,
about an hour afterwards the butcher
called and asked to be allowed to take
the joint back again. The restaurant
keeper wondered what the reason was
and refused ; his wonder increased wheu
the butcher offered him S2O for the joint,
and it increased still more, when on his
refusing, the man doubled his offer.
Thinking there must be some reason for
this absurd liberality, for the butcher
seemed perfectly saue, mine host held off
and the butcher made a final bid of SIOO.
This convinced the hotel proprietor that
the leg must bo stuffed with something
valuable, perhaps with gold, as the but
cher became very excited. So he re
fused.
When the joint was cooked and
brought to the table the host as he put
his knife in, struck something hard, and
expecting a rich find removed slice after
slice until he came to an iron weight
which turned the scale at two pounds.
The irate proprietor went to the market,
found the butcher, and had hiin arrested,
and to add insult to injury gave him a
thorough kicking. '1 hough whether
it was for blighting his hopes or for sell
ing iron at the price of meat, he did not
condescend to say.—[Boston Transcript.
Timber for Shingles.
Any kind of timber that will split well
may be used for shingles, for if they are
laid right and painted they will not rot
in many years. White pine, rod cedar,
or eyprus are the best, but all the oaks,
chestnut, poplar, and even hemlock will
make good shingles if good timber is
selected. The roof should be painted
as it is lain, each row being coated before
the next is laid, and the upper side only
needs paint. Iron paint and raw linseed
oil is the best.—[New York Times.
The Swiss people are nlurraod at the
decadonceof the watch industry.
THE JOKER'S BUDGET.
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS.
Not Changeable—Judging From Ap
pearances—Not as She Meant It
—A Base Joke, Etc., Etc.
NOT CHANGEABLE.
"She refused you, then?''
"She did."
"l wouldn't give her up for all that.
I would propose again."
"No, I won't, at least not for a week
or so. She isn't one who changes her
mind quickly.—[New York Press.
JUDGING FIIOM APPEARANCES.
"Is that tall, slim fellow over there a
Russian?"
"lie looks more like a Pole.—[Epoch.
NOT AS SIIE MEANT IT.
"Where is that black cloud going to?"
Asked the boy of his grandma dear;
And the old lady said, as she shook her
head,
"It's going to thunder, I fear."
—[Detroit Free Press.
A BASE JOKE.
"How's that, umpire?" asked the
pitcher, as the ball llew over the fence
and scattered the cackling hens in the
farm yard.
"Fowl bawl!" replied the umpire; and
the enemy stole a base before the pitcher
could catch his breath again.
A KEEN-MINDED SUITOR.
"Why do you send Ethel such hand
some presents? Candy aud flowers are
enough."
"That's all right. She cats the candy
and the flowers fade. When we get
married I get the diamonds back."—
[Brooklyn Life.
TUB ROOT OF THE EVIL.
Wife—For three months now Tommy
has refused to wear his new necktie to
school; I don't kuow what I shall do
with him.
fc Husband—You had better let him buy
his own neckties.—[Clothier and Fur
nisher.
BOTII ASHAMED.
Old Gotrox—Look here, to come right
down to the solid truth, aren't you just !
a little ashamed of your old daddy?
Honest, now.
Young Gotrox—Why, gov'nor, I
cawn't say ashamed exactly, but you
know you are not always good fawm, ye
know.
Old Gotrox—Well, I don't blame you
for being ashamed of me. Every time I
look at you and think of what a job I
made of your bringing up, lam ashamed j
of myself.—[Newark Standard.
IN THE TRAIN.
"That fellow over there must feel un
comfortable."
"Why?"
"He tried to shut the window for the
girl in front of him, but couldn't do it.
After he gave it up the girl tried and
succeeded."—[Boston Herald.
WILL SETTLE DOWN.
Cora—l hear that young Wroundcr
has turned over a new leaf, and that his
mother hopes now he will settle down.
Harry—Well, ho owes me about S4O,
and I hope he'll settle up.—[Light.
FORCE OF HABIT.
A lady who wished to weigh her baby,
two months old, but who had no scales
at hniid suitable for the purpose, took
the child to a neighboring butcher shop.
The butcher put the baby in his spring
scules, looked at the dial, and re
marked :
"With the bones and all, mum, it's
fourteen pounds and a half. Shall I—?"
"How dare you make such a sugges
tion," screamed the woman, as she
snatched her baby and rushed out of the
shop.—[Youth's Companion.
THE TYRANNY OF CAPITAL.
"A penny, sir, if you please?"
"What! begging at night?"
"It's my misfortune, sir. I have to
work over hours or I couldn't live."—
[Philadelphia Times.
SHE WAS NEVER ANYTHING TO HIM.
She—So you loved and lost, did you?
He—No, she returned all my pres
ents.—[Epoch.
FRAGILE.
Maud—The men of the present day
seem to be very fragile.
Jack—Why do you say so ?
Maud—Because they seldom fall in love
without getting broke.
STRANGE.
The very strangest thing alive ;
No mortal can divine ;
Thermometer at ninety-five
Beneath an ice cream sign 1
[Atlanta Constitution.
RATHER AMBIGUOUS.
"Am las dear to you as ever, George?"
asked the wife, caressingly.
"My love," answered George, can
didly, " since von took to tailor made
clothes you grow dearer and dearer every
day."
nER DRESS AND HER ESSAY.
"Your graduating dress i 9 a perfect
poem, I understand."
"Oh, it is just lovely ! Why, the
trimmings cost more than the dress
itself."
44 50 I heard. By the way, what was the
subject of your graduating essay ?"
14 'The Frivolties of Fashion.'"
IN ANCIENT ROME.
44 Where's the best place to get board
in Rome, Metullius ?" asked Hayseedius
of Pompeii.
4 'Bored ?" returned Metullius. "Why
not try the Augurs ?"
POSITIONS REVERSED.
She his amanuensis was
A few short weeks ago ;
He wooed and married her, because,
They say, he loved her so.
lie used to dictate to her then,
And she with manner prim,
Wrote out his words with facile pen,
She now dictates to him.
[New York Press.
AN OLD MAN'S DARLING.
She—Would you believe it? That
vicious little* Mrs. Weston has taught
her baby to call its father "grandpa."
He—What did she do that for?
She—So that Weston shan't forget he
is old enough to be her father.—[Life.
SHAKEBPEARE's HOGGIBHNEBS.
I'm fond of reading Shakespeare, yet
must say
The Bard was mighty mean to write
so much.
Ho might have left a few things for
this day,
With nil its scribbling, struggling
bards, to touch.
A NEW CHAPTER OF PROVERBS.
As a pink pearl in a scullion's ear, so
is a fair woman without e good dress
maker.
Whoso tolleth the truth concerning his
neighbor i§ ijot infrequently liable to
Leavy damdges.
Better is a chop with a peer than a
seven and sixpenny dinner with a person
of no position.
What is sweeter to a soured woman
than the failings of her dearest friend?
—[London World.
CHANCE TO SAVE MONEY.
Agent—l am informed, sir, that you
are about to build a new house, and I
should like to sell you a book on archi
tecture.
Mr. Suburb—Don't want it.
Agent—lt may save you a lot of
money, sir. May I inquire what sort of
a house you intend to erect?
Mr. S.—l have accepted a plan for a
$5,000 house.
Agent (triumphantly)— Well, sir, this
book shows you how to build a $5,000
house for only SIO,OOO. —[New York
Weekly.
BEGINNING ON THE OLD MAN.
"Your son has been graduated?"
"Yes."
"Now the question is, will he bo able
to make his kuowledge useful, to impart
it to others?"
"I guess so. lie has begun to impart
it to me."—[New York Press.
SUCCESS IN LIFE.
"My son," said the venerable man. as
he sent his boy forth to do battle with
the world, "select your calling, stick to
that one thing alone, and you will suc
ceed. "
The boy selected the calling of village
lawyer, stuck to it faithfully, and now
he is known for miles around as the best
checker player in Pike County.—[Chi
cago Tribune.
A CONVENIENT ARRANGEMENT.
"Sir, I take the liberty of saying that
you have my umbrella."
"Very well, yon take the liberty; I'll
take the umbrella."
AMERICAN GIRL.
American Girl (at Windsor Castle) —
Porter, is there any chance to get a
glimpse of the queen?
Gentleman at the gate—l am not the
porter. lam the Prince of Wales.
Americrn Girl—How lncky lam! Is
your mother in?— Good News.
GOOD ADVICE TO A SON.
Closefist, Jr.—You don't seem to
think that a fellow wants to sow his
wild oats.
Closefist, Sr.—Don't sow 'em, plant
'em, and make the hills wide apart.
COLD BUT FLUENT.
"Miss Ilynatia Bluesocks, of Boston,
cold as she is, ha 9 a nice flow of lan
guage."
44 Yes, an ice floe."
GRADUATED RATES.
Hotel Clerk—This guest has been hero
over two weeks. Nothing was said about
rates. Shall we charge him by the week
or by the day?
Proprietor—What's in that package ho
left in the safe?
"Bouds."
41 Charge him by the day."—[Good
News.
EVIDENCE.
"I read your spring poem, Binks."
"That wasn't a spring poem."
"It must havebceu. It gave me those
tired feelings right off."—[New York
Sun.
OFFERING AN INDUCEMENT.
" Where are you going this Summer ?"
asked the steamship agent.
44 Don't know; guess Europe's good
enough."
44 Why don't you go down to Hnyti ?
I can sell you tickets at a bargain."
44 What would I do in Hayti in Sum
mer time ?"
44 No cud of fun if you like excitement.
They're going to assassinate the President
and kill off half the Cabinet. It's the
chance of your lifetime."—[New Y'ork
Recorder.
CREDULOUS.
Mrs. Briggs (reading from the morn
ing paper) —I see they've discovered a
wonderful wild orange grove in Mexico.
Old Briggs—That's the way with
those newspapers. Always discovering
some wonderful thing a long ways off.
Let 'em discover a wild orange grove
right here in this State and I'll believe
'em.—[New Y'ork Recorder.
What is Worsted ?
A woolen yarn is soft and fluffy, while
a worsted yarn is hard and firm, posses
sing a much greater tensile strength. In
the woolen yarn the fibers are tangled
aud crossed, and drawing is avoided as
much as possible in preparing the raw
material for spinning, so as to leave the
natural curvature of the fibers undis
turbed and ufford the greatest freedom of
action to the folting quality of the wool.
In worsted yarns the object is to obli
terate the felting quality and to secure
elongation aud parallel arrangement of
the fibers.
Iu the early days of the manufacture
the best results were only attainable in
worsted yarns from loug-fibered fleece.
The English wools are commonly called
combing-wools for this reason, and it
was the possession of this fleece of an un
rivaled quality which made Kugland the
birthplace of the worsted manufacture,
and has kept it at the front in this pro
cess.
One of the results of improved machin
ery has been to remove any distinction
between woolens and worsteds based
upon the difference between the wools
employed in the two processes. Short
wool of merino blood can now be combed
as successfully as the longer staple.
The processes of treatment, however, con
tinue to differ radically. This differ
ence, as already seen, is primarily crea
ted by the introduction of the combing
machine, an instrument unknown to the
wool manufacture proper.—[Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
Effect of Various Intoxicants.
Dr. Shorthou9e has been diagnosing
the effect of various intoxicating liquors
on different parts of the cerebellum when
imbibed not 44 wisely but too well," and
the tendency of the result of his investi
gations is to iudicate that inebriety can
be reduced to an exact science so far as
its subsequent demonstrations are con
cerned. I)r. Shorthouse finds that good
wine and beer indiscreetly imbibed nave
the effect of making a man fall on his
side; whisky, and especially Irish
whisky, on his face, aud cider on his
back, these disturbances of equilibrium
corresponding exactly with those caused
by injury to the lateral lobes and to the
nnterioi nnd posterior parts of the middle
lobe of the cerebellum respectively.
YOU ARE INVITED
To call and inspect our im
mense stock of
DRY GOODS,
Groceries, Provisions,
FURNITURE, Etc.
Our store is full of the new
est assortment. The prices are
the lowest. All are invited to
see our goods and all will be
pleased.
J. P. McDonald,
8. W. Corner Centre and South Sts., Freeland.
FERRY & CHRISTY,
dealers in
Stationary, School Books,
Periodicals,-Song Books, Musical
Instruments,
CIGARS and TOBACCO,
srForßTiisra- G-OOIDS
Window Fixtures and Shades, Mirrors,
Pictures and Frames made to order.
Pictures enlarged and Framed.
Crayon Work a Specialty.
41 Centre Street, Quinn's Building
lEISFffI SpaSS
umns@ss
the name of every newspaper published, hav
ing a circulation rating in the American News
paper Directory of more than 25,000 copies each
issue, with the est per line for advertising in
them. A list of the best papers of local circula
tion, in every city and town of more than 5,01)0
population with prices ly the inch lor one
month. Special lists of daily, country, village
and class .papers. Bargain offers of value to
small advertisers or those wishing to experi
ment judiciously with a small amount of money.
Shows conclusively "how to get the most ser
vice for the money, I 'etc., etc. Sent post paid
to any address for 30 cents. Address, GEO. P.
HOWELL & Co., Publishers and General Adver
tising Agents, 10 Spruce Street, New York City.
|£- C. D. ROHRBACH,
Dealer In
Hardware, Paints, Varnish,
Oil, Wall Paper, Mining
Tools and mining Sup
plies of all kinds,
Lamps, Globes, Tinware, Etc.
Having purchased the stock
of Wm. J. Eckert and added a
considerable amount to the
present stock I am prepared to
sell at prices that defy compe
tition.
Don't forget to try my special
brand of MINING OIL.
Centre Street, Freeland Pa.
E. M. GERITZ,
23 years In Germany and America, opposite
the Central Hotel, Centre Street, Freclaeu. The
C lieu pest Repairing Store in town.
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
Now Watches, Clocks and
Jewelry on hand for the Holi.
days; the lowest cash price in
town. Jewelry repaired in
short notice. All Watch Re
pairing guaranteed for one
year.
Eight Day Clocks from $3.00
to 813.00; New Watches from
8-1.00 up.
E. M. GERITZ,
Opposite Central Hotel, Centre St., Freeland.
GO TO
Fisher Bros.
Livery Stable
FOB
FIRST-CLASS TURNOUTS
At Short Notice, for Weddings, Parties and
Funerals. Front Street, two squares
below Freeland Opcru House.
" JOB
PRINTING
STEOUTBD JIT THIS o*7lo® AX
Lowest Living Prices.
CMtI COAL!
The undersigned has been appoint
ed agent for the sale of G. B. Markle
& Co.'s
Highland Goal.
The quality of the Highland Coal
needs no recommendation, being hand
picked, thoroughly screened and free
from slate, makes it desirable for
Domestic purposes. All orders left
at the TRIBUNE office will receive
prompt attention.
Price $3.75 per two-horse wagon
load. T. A. BUCKLEY, Agent.
PETER TIMONY,
BOTTLER,
And Dealer in all kinds of
Liquors, Beer and Porter,
Temperance Drinks,
Etc., Etc.
Geo. Ringler&Co.'s
Celebrated LAGER BEER put
in Patent Sealed Bottles here
on the premises. Goods de
livered in any quantity, and to
any part of the country.
FREELAND BOTTLING WORKS,
Cor. Centre and Carbon Sts. , Freeland.
(Near Lehigh Yalley Depot.)
H. M. BRISLIN, ~
UNDERTAKER
AND
Also dealer in
FURNITURE
of every description.
Centre Street, above Luzerne, Freeland,
7 WKENDALUS^%
IpSRAVI NIC UR E#w| *
_
The Most Successful Remedy over discov
ered, as It Is certain In ita effects and does not I
blister. Read proof below :
T. t t— BROOKLYN, Conn., May 5, '9A
Dn. B. J. KENDALL C<. ;
Sirs: —Last Summer I cured a Curhupon my horse
with your celebrated Keudull's Spavin Cure and It
was the best job I ever siw done. I Imve a dozen
empty lottles. having u*d it with i>erfect success,
curing every thing I tried it on. Mv neighbor had
2• ncrse with a very bail Spavin t hut made him lame.
He asked me how to cure it. I recommended
Kendall's Spavin Cure. He cured the Spavin in
Just three weeks.
Yours respectfully,
WoLCOTT WITTHIL
_ „ . _ COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 4, W.
Dr. B. J. KKNDAI.L CO.:
Dear Sirs I have been selling moro of Kendall's
Spavin Cure and Flint's Condition Powders than
ever before. One man said to ne, it was the best
Powder I ever kept and the b.-st lie ever used.
Respectfully, /
orro L. HOFFMAN.
_ _ CHITTENANQO, N. Y., May 19, '9O.
DR. B. J. KENDALL CO.. "*
Dear Sirs I havo used several bottles of your ,
Kendall's Spavin Cure with perfect success, on a
valuable and blooded maro that was quite la mo
with a Bone Spavin. The mare is new entirely free
from lameness and shows no bunch on the Joint.
Respectfully, p. U. HUTCUINS.
KENDALL'S SPffl CUBE.
T . t, Tt— MONROE, La., May 8, '9O.
DR. B. J. KENDALL CO.,
Gents:—l tiling it my duty to render you my
thanks for your far famed Kendall's Spavin Cure.
u. h u'i a /'. )U C • V( ,' ar ° ,< l ,tllv w hlch I prized very
highly. She had a very severe swollen leg. I tried
about eight different kinds of medicines which did
no good. I purchased a bottle of your Kendall's
Spavin Cure which cured her in four days.
I remain yours,
MARION DOVTDEN.
Prlco $1 per bottle, or six bottles for All drug
gists havo it or can get it for you, or it will be sent \
! to any address on receipt of price by the proprie
tors. ll. 11. J. KENDALL CO.,
Knosh'trgli FalU, Vermont-
A. RUDEWICK,
GENERAL STORE.
SOUTH HEBERTON, PA.
Clothing, Groceries, Etc., Etc.
Agent for the sale of 2
PASSAGE TICKETS
From all tli, principal points in Europe
to all points in the United States.
Agent for the transmission of
MONEY
To all parts of Europe. Checks, Drafts,
and Letters of Exchange on Foreign
Banks cashed at reasonable rat as.
S. RUDEWICK,
Wholesale Dealer In
Imported Brandy, Wine
And All Kinds Of
LIQUORS.
THE BEST
Beer,
Sorter,
Bro-wn Stout-, j
Foreign and Domestic. 11
Cigars Kept on Hand. I]
S. RUDEWICK, I
SOUTH HEBERTON. I]
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