THE WOOING OF BETSEY BIT HOTT. ' w they do it I can't imagine," said the man from over Sinne* mahoningway. "How they just lay back and think it all up and then go and do it is a good many rods beyond me. Bears, I mean. Sinnemahon ing bears. There are bears and bears, but when you come right down to bears that are bears, they grow only on the Sinnemahone spread. They're always up to date. There are no back -lumbers among the Sinne mahoning bears. Nay, nay! "Is there anybody here who knows Toby Groo—Toby Groo, of Lonesome IIollow? It doesn't matter. Only if any one wants to buy a nice, snug little place the Toby Groo place is for sale. Easy terms, too. It was put on the market sudden, because Toby Groo went away sudden. All on account o' bears— Sinnemahoning bears. I met Toby when he was going away. " 'Toby,' said I, 'what's up?' " 'lt's all up,' said he. 'All up with me!" " 'Meaning Betsey?' said I. " 'The same,' said he. " 'What did it?' said I. " 'Education,' said he. " 'Education?' said I. " 'There's nothing better to have in a district,' said he, 'than education, provided you keep it iu bounds. It's ull right and proper among the rising generation of human folks, but when you come to spreading it among bears you're carrying it too far. That's my opinion,' said Toby Groo. 'Education is what does me up with Betse}\ Edu cation among bears!' said Tobey. "And away he went from the Sinno raahone; and when a fellow has the heart to leave the Sinnemahone coun try, you can make up your mind that he's done up bad. And the Toby Groo place is for sale. Aud what led up to it was this: "The Briektons are great people over on the Sinnemahone, you know. Great people. Been there for generations. The greatest of the present generation is Betsey, although she isn't very big and isn't twenty years old yet. " 'Takin' her from the ground up,' as Uncle Jabez Fiddler puts it, 'an' con siderin' of her fer gencr'l scrumptious ness, Sinnemahone can't turn out the ekal o' Betsey Briekton.' "I want to give you a pointer on Betsey, though, so that if any of you should happen to buy the Toby Groo place and go over on the Sinnainahone and be somebod}', you'll know how to act and keep out o' trouble. Betsey has got a red head. An amazing red head. Now I rather like that red head of Betsey's,and a good many other folks do, but Betsey thiuks it's a drawback. She is sensitive about it to a degree. In the soft Sinnainahone tongue, she's as tetchy as nettles about it. And Betsey is so full o' snap and fire that it isn't safe to mention torchlights, or bricks, or anything of that sort around where Betsey is, for she takes it as a personal slur on her topknot, and the way she flares up and gives it to you is some thing to remember. " 'lt's a cortion to peppersass!' Jabez says. "Everybody knows this, and4s care ful not to get Betsy's red head between them and her if they want to keep on the riff lit side of her. Iletsey Brickton is popular, though. So popular that there ain't a young chap on the Sinnc mahone that wouldn't be happier than a bear in a bee tree if he could shine up to her and know that Betsey liked it. Toby Groo, as far as money went, was the best catch for a girl of all the young fellows on the Kiunemahone spread. Not bad looking, and not much over twenty-two. But he wasn't over popular. because he was what Uncle Jabcz calls 'a leetle nigh in his dent in's,' and rather inclined to get the best end of a dicker, even if he had to stretch a point. For all that, old Billy Brickton. Betsey's father, got it into his head some time ago that Toby Groo's money would be a good thing to have in the Brickton familj', and so he did his best to help Toby get on the right side o* Betsey, Toby being not only willing but more than eager, lie was crazy after Betsey. "All the same Betsey didn't care for Toby not a little bit, nor for any one else in particular. Toby kept pes tering Betsey to marry him, and her father talked her almost blind about it, until one day, a mouth or so ago, after Toby had asked licr for about the nine hundredth time if she'd marry him, she snapped out: " 'Yes!' " 'When?' said Toby, tickled all but to death. 14 4 When I find a bear that can spell my name!' said Betsey. "Then Betsey laughed and laughed, for she judged that she had settled the business then and there, and Toby went away feeling mighty glum and way down in the mouth. 44 1f none o' you fellows knows Bar naby BeestulTer, of Ninnemahone, there is a large waste place in your life, liarnaby Beestuffer is a citizen to whom all Sinnemahoning points with pride, lie lias genius such as could only have germinated, sprouted, grown and blossomed on the storied Sinnc mahone. Barnaby has a little clear ing, but he scorns toil, and devotes all his time to taming bears and snakes and coons and wildcats and porcupines, and such indigenous products of the Sinnemahone soil, and teaching them tricks and capers. About the time that Betsey Brick ton told Toby Groo what'd have to happen before she'd marry him there was a show in the hall over to the county seat, and Bar naby went over tu see it. One of the actors was an educated pig. It could play cards, spell out things by string ing little blocks on the floor with letters painted ou 'em, and do lots of other amazing l things. The spelling took Barnaby's eye more than anything else the pig did. 44 'Pigs kin Tarn to do that, k*n they?' says Baruaby. 'Then I'll bet a farm that b'ars kin l'arn to do it, too, an' durn quick, an' I'll l'arn 'em!' "When Barnnby got back home he started right in to teach one of his young bears to spell as well as the learned pig could. One day as he was practising his bear on a lesson, Toby Groo happened to be going by Barna by's clearing. Barnaby was feeling pretty sore against Toby on account of a little dicker in steers they'd had a few days before, in which Toby had got a good deal the best of Barnaby. " 'What are you doing, anyhow, Bar naby?' " 'Givin' my b'ar his spellin' lesson,' said he. " 'Can you teach him anything you want to?' said Toby. " 'Bet ye I kin!" said Barnaby. " 'Could you teach that bear to spell Betsey lirickton?' said Tobj', turning hot. "Barnaby had heard all about the answer Betsey had given Toby, and knew at once what Toby's little game was. " 'Kin I larn that b'ar to spell Bet sey Briekton?' said Barnabj. 'I kin fer money.' " 'Can you teach that bear to spell Betsey Briekton for ten dollars?" said Toby. " I kin l'arn tlmt b'ar to spell Betsey Briekton fer twenty dollars, spot cash! said Barnaby. " 'ln how long?' said Toby. " 'ln two weeks,' said Barnaby. "Toby tried to get Barnaby to do it for fifteen dollars, but Barnaby stuck out for twenty, and Toby made a bar gain with him. When the two weeks were up Toby went over to Barnaby's and was delighted to find that the bear could lay out the blocks that spelled Betsey's name, and could do it in short order without a skip or a break. " 'lie danced fer joy an' felt so rip pin' good,' says Barnaby, 'that I fool like kickin' myself all around my elearin' an' then rollin' 'round in a bullpen full o' porcupines 'cause I didn't tell him I'd lief ter hev five dollars more!' "Next day Toby drove to the Brick ton place. " 'Betsey,' said he, 'don't you want to ride over and see Barnaby Beestuf fer's menagerie? It's worth seeing.' "Betsey said she'd just as lief as not, and she got in the wagon und went along. She was tickled all to pieces at the cute things the animals and the snakes did, and Toby said: " 'That was pretty hard lines you held me to about marrying, wasn't it, Betsey?' " 'Think so?' said Betsey, laughing. 'Oh, I don't know! I didn't want to hurt your feelings by saying "No," plump out!' said she. " T suppose you'll stick to what you said about marrying me?' said Toby, 'if you see a bear that will spell your name you'll stick to what you said?' " 'Certainly,' said Betsey. 'Why not?' "Then Toby nodded to Barnaby and Barnaby nodded to the bear. The bear jumped for a pile of blocks that lay on the ground, and the next second put a big letter B at Betsey's feet. "'I guess Betsey must a begun to smell a rat,' Barnaby says, 'fer when she see the letter B she sort o' turned pale.' "The bear followed the B with an E and then dropped a T after the E, and kept on putting down letters till he had Betsey spelled out as proper as Betsey could have done it herself. Betsey got cold and shivery, and had to take hold of the fence to steady her self. Toby stood by, grinning arid gloating. Then the bear brought out another B. The second name was be gun right, and it kept on right. Betsey couldn't keep her eyes off the proceedings, although she saw the bear sealing her fate, letter by letter. B-R-I-C-K-T-O the bear laid down, and Betsey was so near fainting that she grabbed botli hands on the fence, and Barnuby jumped to cateh her if she fell. 4 4 4 Only one letter more!' Toby said, 4 and the strain'll be over, Betsey. And then you and I'll get married!' "The bear put down the last letter. It wasn't ail N. It was a I'. And there was spread out in a line of big black letters that anybody with half an eyo could read, 4 BETSSEY BItICK TOPI' Betsey's face quit being white in a second, and flashed as red, almost, as her hair was. She turned on Toby, and Barnaby says that ho actually saw fire shoot out of her eyes. Nobody knows what she would have done to Toby, because he didn't wait to have it done. lie jumped the fence and into bis wagon, and away he went. And that is why, as near as the facts can be got at, the Toby Groo place is for sale, terms easj\ "They say, over on the Sinnemahone, tli-*.t Barnaby BeestuiTer, seeing a chance to get even with Toby on the steer dicker, had educated two bears and ruug the wrong one in on Toby when the time came. Barnaby doesn't deny it nor admit it, but when anyone charges him with it he just sits and grins. But doht you wonder at those bears, those Sinnemahoning bear&V"—• N. Y. Sun. BASIS C* MARRIAGE. Without I.OTP There Can Be No HAPPING In Times of Trial. One girl who wrote to me recently said: "Wouldn't a marriage based on friendship, on good comradeship, and on thorough respect be a happy one?'" I don't know. It might be a placid one, it might be a respectable one, but a marriage without love cannot be the one for which you or I were intend ed, writes Iluth Ashmore in Ladies' Home Journal. Comradeship and re spect and a thorough liking might bo; all that were necessary during the sun- ! shiny days, but what would they i amount to when the gloomy days j came? And do you think if a man were try ing to solve some great question, were 1 trying to drive from his soul the demon j of unbelief, that ho would turn to the | good comrade for help? No; he would j go to the woman who loved him, ant l whom he knew knelt down ever\ night of her life and said a prayer foi him. When people are suffering, mentally or physically, they do not tarn for lien or sympathy to that one whose speech is brilliant and witty and whose brair. is strong, but they reach out, like a lit tle child, to that one who loves them best, and whose heart is overflowing with sympathy and pity. Friendship I is a great blessing, but it cannot take I the place of love. And. if either a mar or a woman marry, believing that r. friendly feeling will be sufficient in their united lives, they surely in time will realize only too sadly the possi bility of love coming to them, and tin dread of a tragedy if he should be greeted with joy. Therefore I say t< you, my girl, in building up your 1 if• you need as foundation for its nbeltei the corner-stone of love and no otliei will answer. If in its place you put friendship, mental sympathy, or good comradeship, the house will te>pplc over when the wind of misery comes for its foundation stone will drift away, carried along into the sands of indifference, and you will stand alone, weeping for that one who is not, and having around you only friendship and its kindness, while you long for lov' and its sympathy. CURLING FEATHERS. llow t > Restore Hrillhttiey to Dull one 1 Dusty Plumes. There are few things that give a hat a more rumpled and shabby appear ance than an ostrich feather limp and dejected, looking almost as forlorn as when it nnd its fellows arrive fresh from ostrieliland. Any one seeing an ostrich feather then would think it only fit for the ragbag, but a series of brisk scrubbings in warm soapsuds on n washboard, a judicious patching to gether nnd elimination of ragged places, where Sir Ostrich has preened himself too vigorously, a curling and combing, soon make of the ostrich feather a thing of beauty and a joy forever—until it gets wet—when tlic process of rejuvenation again becomes necessary. Have a tea-kettle full of boiling water; shako the feather vigorously through the escaping steam, taking care that it does not get too damp. This livens up the plume and restores brilliancy if it has become dull and dusty. Next take a silver fruit knife, and, beginning with the feathers near est the quill, take a small bunch be tween thumb and forefinger and draw gently over tlic blade of the knife until they curl as closely as desired. Follow tills process up each side of the tip; then take a very coarse comb, comb out carefully and you have your plume as good as ever. A HANDY RECEPTACLE. Novel aud Very Kffoctlvo Arrangement for Holding Letters. The fertility of inventive power is shown nowadays in the novel and va ried arrangements for holding the small things that are apt to accumulate and prove annoying if not kept o derly. For letters this receptacle will be cut from cardboard, formed in cres cent shape and covered with white silk. A pale-blue silk pocket crosses the low er edge, and the word "letters" may he marked in pla-gold, silver or sepia. Ribbon bands radiate from the right end of the pocket to the inner edge of the crescent, and the article is suspend ed by a ribbon loop, a bow being placed at each end of the loop, and a dainty Cupid painted on the crescent.—St. Louis Republic. Candy. To two cupfuls of granulated nilgai add the grated rind and half the juiced a small orange, together with enough cold water to thoroughly moisten the sugar. When it comes to a lioil add half a cupful of desiccated, or better, freshly-grated cocoanut. Let it boil without stirring until it stiffens in cold water, so that you can take it up in n very soft ball. Take from the fire and set saucepan and all in a cool place un til the sirup is nearly cool; then stir vigorously until it becomes thick and white, and pour quickly on a but tered plate. Cut in squares. To ItoHtoro lllearlicd llnlr, Ilalr that lias been bleached by the use of peroxide of hydrogen will return to its natural color when the use of the peroxide is discontinued, but the change will he very gradual. Frequent washes will hasten the process. I'artttkon Of Previously. ITowio —I could swear nobody has .alien ray Hat off that hook since I hung it there this morning. I've been here all (lay. Bought the hat now when 1 same clown town. It was a perfect (it. There it hangs just as it lias hung all day. And yet it isn't the same hat. This hat is a whole size larger than the one 1 put on that hook this morning. How do you explain it? Appleawim—Spirits.—Chicago Trib une. Not In Ills Experience. Mrs. Skinner (the landlady)— You ap pear to be very interested in that bock, Mr. Forthflohr. One of those realistic novels, I suppose? Mr. Forthflohr—lt is not realistic to me, for I can hardly think such things exist as 1 read of here. Mrs. Skinner—What is the title of the book? Mr. Forthflohr—"Mrs. Fuller's Cook Book."—Puck. Rain Makes a Change. A llttlo iron, A cunning curl. A box of powder, A pretty girl A little rain, Away it goes; A homely girl, With a frecklod nose. —ltohol'oth Herald. THEN THE FIGHT BEGAN. "Me man hasn't touched a drup for a wake." "Yis; Oi heard that Casey had stopped his credit."—Judg-e. riionographH in the Future. Mother —What in the world shall we io? Our son cannot aiYord to marry, yet he is determined on it. Father—l'll fix him. The very next night he comes in late, I'll start that Did phonograph to screeching' out some Df your midnight talks to me. —N. Y. Weekly. Zealous Officer. Officer Me Wart—Here, now! It is agin the law to ride tliot wheel aim the sidewalk. Beginner—But I'm not riding; I'm only trying to. "Be jabers, thin, Oi will run ye in for givin' an aklcyrobatic exhibition wid out a license."—Cincinnati Tribune. Got Daylight Through It. Clubby—Did you know that Wcggy actually put a bullet through his head last night? Willie—Weally! I thought that he was particularly rational this looming when I met him.—N. Y. World. Scandalous. Hojack—Did you hear how Skidmore disgraced his family at church last Sunday? Tomdik—No; how was it? Ilojack—The minister read two chap ters from the Acts, anil he insisted on going out between them.—Judge. Why They Came Late. Husband (in hat and overcoat) —Good gracious! Haven't you got your coat on yet? ife—lt's all fixed, except tucking in iny dress sleeves so they won't get mussed. I'll he ready in half an hour. -N. Y. Weekly. At the Races. Hill—How do you manage to win every day? Berg—A friend who knows all about it tells me which horses to buy. Hill—And you do just as he tells you? Berg—No; just the opposite.—N. Y. World. Little Room. Smithers—How many jokes on tlio bathing suit have you written to-day, Pen Dennis? Pen Dennis—My dear hoy, there's not room enough on the average bath ing suit to write more than one.—Town Topics. Our Parlor Soldiery. She—ls Mr. Dudley much of a mili tary man? lie (of "Ours")— Well, I should sav lie was. lie can put on a fresh uniform every morninif, with two changes dur ing the day.—Detroit Free Press. Conclusive Proof. Mother—l sent you my photograph. Don't you think it is a good likeness? Married Daughter—Well, I should say it is. It is so lifelike that when my husband saw it he turned as pale as a ghost. —Texas Siftings. George W'us All Right. Her Mother —I abhor kissing. The idea of placing your lips to the lips of a ! mu n! Herself But I don't, mamma. George's mustache always proven is it. —Brooklyn Life. Another Widow Joke. First Doctor—Well, doctor, I ha J a peculiar case to day. Second Doctor—What was it, please? First Doctor I attended a grass widow who is a filiated with hay fever. —Oakland Times. An Inducement. "Why, you've already had four wives!" "Hut they are not alive, dearest."— I Life. In Th<hq Days. "What is a fad?" "One's pot sin. ' 1 —Puck SUMMER VERSE. Thro* the Wood. There's a road loiding down thro* the wood where 1 pass On these diamond-docked mornings of May, Soft and damp Is the track running close to the grass Where the saucv young buttercups play, \n-1 the violets peon from the bid lug they keep With such innocent, conflden*. oyes, That I long to remain and remove the disguise Needed out on the public highway Oh. beautiful road of the wood l So velvety, silont and gray. The few who have followed our trail as they should Are xho nearest to Heaven to-day. I have paused on my way thro* the sweet scented wood E'er I came to the turn for tbo town. And my soul would havo stayed In tho shade if it could. And forgotten the doubtful renown Of a battle for pelf, where tho good in one's self If discolored, distorted and mnrre 1, And tho virtue* we love moot a snoering re gard Or the blight of an autocrat's frown. Oh. happiest pathway of life! The fault is in turning away From our perfect delight to tho wither ing strife Of the city's delirous fray. As 1 rest in tho dim lighted aisle on my way To the scone of unequal debate, I am tompte 1 by every con lition In play To relinquish my purpose and wait nut my heart heeds a cry it can never deny. Tho' the violets mourn, half afraid That at last I may fail to return to the shade Prisined fast by a gloomier fate. Dour road o' tho wood! may the fears Of tho violets win mo at last. With victories torn from the deeperat A reproach to the desolato past —George E. Bowen, in Chicago Inter Ocoan. When All Goes Wrong or Well. When all goes wrong about tho school; When logic seems but folly; When knotty problems vox tho brain And make us melancholy: When German verbs and substantives Seem sadly disconnected, And passing strange the way In which Quadratics aro affocted; Wacn Rome with Carthago wr declares jxnd gives us care and sorrow- When shall we frown and fret and fume? To-morrow, boys, to-morrowl When all goes well about the school; When study is a pleasure; When sclonco proves a source of Joy, And tadpoles our chief trensuro: When fractions aro a rare delight. And Latin recreation: When Father Time brings round the date Of tho summer-tide vacation; When life is young and skies are bright, And ail tho world Is guy— When shall wo smile, sing and rejoioey To-day, dear girls, to-dayl —E. E. Armstrong, In Outlook. A Song of Night. Through drifting cloud-fleece burn the stars, (Tho mockingbird is singing) Tho cattle stand by pasturo bars, (Tho mocking bird is singing) Down by the alders night-winds blow, On swaying grasses dowdrops glow, The roso drops petals soft as snow. (Tho mocking bird is singing.) The moonlight sifts o'er moaning pines, (Tho mocking bird is singing) Tho glo ming white road sadly winds (The mocking bird is singing) Around tho moadow. by tho mill, Whore nil the noise of day is still, And silent broods the whip-poor-will. (Tho mocking bird Is singing.) Tho song of night above day's death— (Tho mocking bird is singing) It needs no words, tho thing he salth (Tho mocking bird Is singing) With ovormoro that minor strain Blont In tho haunting swoot refrain, Such as hearts sing when taught by pain. (Tho mocking bird is singing ) —lrono N. McKay, In Youth's Companion. An Old-Fashioned Girl. There's an old-fashioned girl in an old-fash ioned street, Dressed in old-fashioned clothes from her head to hor foot; And she spends all her tlmo In an old-fash ioned way. A-caring for poor people's children all day She nevor has been to cotillon or ball, And sho knows not tho stylo of the spring or the fall; Two Uundre 1 a year will suffice for her needs, And an old-fashioned Hlblo is all that she reads. And sho has an old-fashioned heart, that Is To a fellow who died In an old coat of blue. With its buttons all brass—who Is waiting above For tho woman who loved him with old-fasb ioued love. —Philadelphia Times. Only a Dream. When wlntor winds were blowing, And all the flowers wero dead, I dreamed of Juno and roses. And blue skies overhead. Of days of perfect ploasure. When you and I would go Together all along tho way, And glad to have it so. Now June is here and the roses Are lavish with their bloom, And summer's gentle breezes Aro rich with r.ire perfume, Hut I am lone and lonely— My dream did not prove true— For you are gone, and June Is drear As winter, without you. —Miller Purvis, In Womunklnd A Utility Day. 'Neath a lowering, leaden sky, Tho day creeps drearily by; Like tiny, magical hoofs, Fall tho p '.ttering drops on tho roofs; And the little ones at tho pauo Woep with tho falling rain. But the Jonquil, looking up. Oilers her golden cup; And tho lily's fragile form Gratefully greets tho storm; Tho \ iolet swoetor grows, And blushlngly blooms tho rose Then weep not, llttlo ones donr, Sunshine is lingering near; Its glowing rays will unfold Pet als of purple and gold; No quocn gives so rich a dower As n long, soft, Bummor shower. —Florence K Cooper, in N Y Independent A Nover-Mind Fellow. I nover mind tho weather—if it's springtime many a tree Is shakin' down its blossoms in a shower over mo; An' I know the girls alrgoin' where tho honey suckles grow. An' I seo the rivers flowin' an' I'm glad I'm fur from snow. I nover mind the weathor—if It's summer, woll, I seem To pull myself together an' Jost dream au dream an' dream I For tho roses roll around mo in a perfect foam An' tho good Lord runs the weathor, an' It's all alike to me I I nover mind tho weather—if it's winter, well, 1 see A dozen happy facet round the llresldo for An' 1 know the kettle's steainin', an' 1 know the lire's bright, An' 1 see blue eyes a-beamin', an' I'm all at home at uighti -JS. Y Mere for infants and Children. THIRTY yearn' observation of Castoria with the patronage of millions of persons, permit ns to Kpoak of it without gnessinq. It is unquestionably the best remedy for Infants and Children the world has ever known. It is harmless Children like it. It gives them health. It wiUjmvo_ their_lives._ln it Mother* have ■omething which in absolutely safe and practically perfect an a child's medicine. Castoria destroys "Worms. Castoria allays Feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd. 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We have also j added recently an improved | fast running press, which en-1 ables us to turn out the best work in the shortest time. Our prices are consistent with good ; work. We carry at all times a large j stock of fiat papers of various weights and sizes, as well as ! colored, news and cover papers j of good quality, cardboard, cut i cards, etc., which we will sell blank at low rates. Our enve- i lopes, noteheads, letterheads, 1 billheads and statements are made from the highest grade j stock used in commercial print ing, whilst our prices on this kind of work are as low as any. Having a large and pow erful cutter, we are in a posi tiou to do paper cutting of any kind at a low figure. P Chichester's F.ngli*h IHUIUOIKI Itiiin.fi ENNYRGYAL FILLS ' l'e !'\ I ''| y nl n " other. Ilrf>i*e <I<11111<1••hh yr f ~ fjflionanHil imitation*. At DrUipii-n, or semi 40. 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