them 35. buy until vou set DIRTY EGGS DECREASE VALUE Agricultural Loss to Farmers at $5,000,000 Every Year. Department Estimates ‘While there are a few egg producers who take the best of care of their product, the average farmer considers the eggs produced on the farm a by- product and makes very little pro- vision for their care, aside from gath- ering them. A large loss is caused by dirty eggs, the number being enor mous, and according to the estimate | of Secretary Wilson of the depart- ment of agriculture this money loss to the farmers in the United States amounting to about $6,000,000 annual- ly. This loss is very largely brought about by not gathering the eggs often enough. In wet weather more dirty eggs are found than at any other time, This is caused by the fact that the hen’s feet are often covered with mud | or other filth, and in going on the nest to lay she soils the eggs already im the nest. An insufficient number of nests is often the cause of many of the dirty eggs found. Eggs are laid on the ground and around the hay and straw stacks, and becoming stained, are classed as “dirties.” Again, when too ¢ many eggs are allowed to remain in a : pest some are broken and many of the others become smeared with broken yolks. This condition is often brought about by allowing the broody hens to use the same nests with the layers. On a farm where one nest to every ee four hens is provided and the nests are kept clean and well bedded, it is found that very few dirty eggs are Lone produced After gathering the eggs, care should be taken not to put them where they will become heated, or near oil, onions, or other vegetables, as they | readily absorb odors. Although dirty eggs may be perfect- ly fresh, they invariably sell as “sec- onds,” and when but a few dirty eggs A are mixed with an otherwise fresh, elean lot, they materially decrease the price of the clean eggs. RECORD NEST IS PRACTICAL di Device Works Automatically and Acou- rately, Identifying Each Egg as It Is Laid by Hen, The wide-awake poultrymen who are trying to increase their profits by > systematic breeding and selection will certainly welcome the new reading market for the first time. - These nests Hen Going on Nest. work automatically, accurately identi- fying each egg with the hen that laid it. They were invented by two prac- tical poultrymen who realize the great vyalae of individual records, but, like to watch trap nests, The nest designed by the inventors, ’ for one purpose—to make the keep- ing of individual records a simple and Hen Leaving Nest, easy task. This effort was a complete unique success. y to leave at will RUTTER, REAL ESTATE @& INSURANCE Farmers Trust Builbing x Metldefdelriidfieieirietbedeleiefoife do eile foiled odio fool dfedeniodedo pests which are now placed upon the | other busy poultrymen, have no time | They are in no | a trap nest, and the hen is at ‘the york was dome by * + ole - of ob ; oe man farm tan I 8¢ ead taming farm 3 3 He has ut $2 wk, and h A can ger 3 y + much more in | winon Count n " | r . + \ County kd + ) 14 3 1t "wit tt se i nu aa 1 mount of « pital i! wan 1aVe i oo farm of your own let us send you a list of some of our wonderful % farm bargains. + | \ 1 11 ge Lancaster County people to whom I have sold farms are & 1" 1 \ + making out well and at the same time, their farms a increas 3 1 . ‘ > EY ing in value, many of them having had offers of 5100000 to $15 | > a 11 “+ 00.00 profit since they bought last Fall. + : + I.et me send you a list to took over and, if any of the 3 " farms interest you, arrangements will be made to show vou the 3 farms. 1 ; : \ “~ a Many farms have been selected by L.ancaster Co. buyers §& : ' . : . A within the two weeks, and many others have gotten our lists and 1 ; are arranging to come over » . + . F If you want to get some of the best bargains, write me #$ . \ c what kind of a farm you prefer and get a list by return mail. 1 ) : . , Good farms with splendid buildings near towns and Rail- 3% road Station at $8500 to $6500 a few higher. Don’t . 829 Cumberland St. ALWAYS SOMETHING TO EAT If the Peach Crop Fails There May Be “Punkins” and So On—No Need to Worry. Every »mber of the Oakley Aid so- clety, with one exception, had some complaint to make about the dry sea- n—the blackberries drying up, the tomatoes rotting from sunburn, the sweet corn failing to fill out the scarcity of potatoes, says the Graphic. I'HE ¥. M. € A. Saaday at Landiavill turda ind Sunday will be Met Christian Association | ‘ ndisville camj I the Land \ { Chr tun A Leads ( ¢ yv'eloek by Boeht ecretal of the \ Vl ( Associations 11 Count IN Session Vi w devoted to the scussion of I't rile nd h training.” ftei the openin seasion the Womens Auxiliar of 1 Landis- ille rround Association who 11 hold the annual chicken corn soup dinner ol Saturday evening | will cater t« the appetites of the | young men The evening session {| will be led Prof. Tra Kraybill of | the Millersville Normal School At | this session a program of work will { be presented for use in the associat- | fons in f.ancaster County “The | Country Life Movement" will be the | subject of the address that will be | delivered at the Sunday morning | session by W. J. Cambell, Harris- | burg, Pa., Secretary of the Viilage and Rural Work of the Young Men's Christian Associations of Pennsylvania The last session on | Sunday afternoon will be an open Conference session, at which time | leaders of boys work will give two minute talks, followed by discus- gion from the leaders Mr. Harry Weller, of the Boys’ High School, of [Lancaster will be the first speaker, | followed by Mi Jacob l.andis, Il.ea- man Place, M George Townsley, of Ni folland nd Prof Ira Kray hill Miller le Pro Alvin ( € h I Steve Industrial cl ter hav harge f I "Om ! ¢ T ncaster Co vil 1 I ny further forn 1 f hed from + ( Y A C n ) O01 if W 0 « I p Receiver's Sale of the Property of In fact, a famine might have seemed The Elizabethtown and Marictia inevitable to one who listened to the Blectric Light Company; includ- gloomy talk. Finally, the president of ing Power Plant. Pole . Linas. the society turned to a small woman Franchises. etc. who had been quilting away cheer- f d of he fully but silently through the ailter- | Cou y Pi of Lan noon, the one exception to the fault- | ( er « will finders. “Hasn’t the drought hurt your | offer at Publ Sal ps of fruit and garden at all, Mrs. Bennett?” he Court 7 Pa.. she was asked n Satur q at “Oh, yes, mine is just about like | 2 o'clocl Id property, all the rest” was the calm reply. | Re ona Rights, Privi- “And don’t you ever worry over any- | leg: n I ses the Tliza- thing?” the president asked, most im- ethtow1 n Marietta Electric patiently Ligl t Company i Mrs. Bennett stopped quilting, laid The Real Estate consists of Two her thimble down, and, looking around lots ( g on the west the group of women at the quilt, an- side 0 in the Bor- swered: “I'll tell you what cured me iv 0 Ps : Blown ancaste of worryin I used to fret over every- . : gencriged as to.ows. : hing Vine one spring, when it was No. v -A ot ground, fronting reported that a late frost had killed on oe Ey a > " at n A all the fruit, I sat down to have a good Soh war 1 One TH 0 rec and Five ry, for our peach trees had bloomed Fact. more or less. on which ig ere: beautifully and 1 had been so proud ted & Ono Building of the abundant crop 1 was sure we | . 4 Vesa onininine were to have Enrine. Boilers. Dvnay “Now it happened that my Aunt No A 10 ¢ sronnd. fronting Martha came in just then, and asked | , the west 1 of Wn street me what the trouble was. I told her. | ninety t tov in depth “Child, what's the use fretting over | of ti id t Two Hui it? You'll not starve. I've lived eighty lerd Fe Y hal years and the world’s crop of pio- | { } 1 : f the visions has never falled yet If we | H 1 A \f don’t have peaches we’ll have pun- | and Land i kins.’ A1l tt « “I have lived half as many years | leges, ¢ now as Aunt Martha had lived then, abethtc M and I've found her philosophy sound. rie Light Co i In spite of all the late frosts and | eT 16} AL uy droughts, I don’t believe any of us has hoard, eng ho oo ever suffered for food.” Fran or ner k : The little woman glanced with a And Pole 1 3 n DY smile round the circle of plump, well Moun: ; Joy, As yes fed women, and then taking up her hii an Maviows and the Bor- thimble went to quilting again. They onahs of Flizabethto Moant Joy all laughed rather sheepishly, and the anid Mavietin. alt 1 the Conaty of president sald, thoughtfully: Lancaster “I'd never thought of it that way, The tern Te For Pek but it’s true ‘peaches or punkins.' I'll | ~ nt (ash or Certified ( * to. be try to remember that.” naid_ when SOBER %nocked _ 55 off to the purchaser or purchasers His Irresistible Humor. and the balance to be paid on Oct. Ellis Parker Butler says that his | 2nd, 1912, when possession of the greatest difficulty, now that there is property will be ve to t pur- a demand for his stories, is to find a chaser or Jule pase tal he catd competent secretary. He confided his | 1 1 he sa a Biopetty he 1 6 Jol difficulty to a friend, who at once said: Me oF oe ! i l Sons “Why, 1 know just the man for you. Shall be Roar , Ha 3 ER A good stenographer, temperate hab- sale rer its, absolutely reliable.” BERNARD J MYERS “Fine, but has he sense of humor?” JOHN A. NAUMAN asked Mr. Butler. Receivers. “Yes, he has that,” replied the Covle & Keller. friend. “I fancy he has a very pretty W. U. Hensel wit of his own. In fact "ve heard him | Attornevs Aug T-4t get off one or two rather neat things | — erm of his own.” i PUBLIC SALE “I'm sorry to hear that" replied But- On Saturday, Sept. 14, 1912, will ler. “He won't do, thats plain.” be offered at public sale on the “For Leaven’'s sake, why not?” asked | premises, in Rapho township, the | in confidence,” | the surprised friend. “rn tell you—just sald Mr. Butler. “I had one secretary | once with a sense of humor, and it was | go strong that between us we could | no. do any work because of his laugh- | ing at the things I dictated. I really | can’t afford to pay a chap $4 a day | for laughing.” Explaining Flow of Sap. i There is quite a mystery surround- ! ing the solution of the forces which | | start the flow of sap in the trees. In- | vestigations made in the case of the | | maple, which starts as early as, If not earlier than, any other tree to flow, it has been found that the tempera- ture seems to have only an indirect | influence. The conclusion has been | reachec. that neither expansion of gas in the wood, nor expansion of water, nor expansion of the wood itself, is | the underlying cause of the pressure which produces the flow, but that this | pressure arises from the effects of | temperature in altering the osmotie | permeability of the pith-ray cells. |" Advertise nu the Mt. Joy Bulletin New Milk Wagon John Adam Smith of Kinderhook f a handsome- wagon. arles Frank, of | | {is the proud drive i ly remodeled | in at the house, cistern at the barn The | following wit: prescribed Real Estate, to A TRACT OF LIMESTONE AND GRAVEL LAND Containing 70 Acres, more ar less situated on the public road leading from the Manheim and Mt. Joy i road to Union Square, about mid- way between Manheim and Mt. Joy, adjoining lands of B. B. Gin- der, Jacob E. Becker, D. S. Metzler, A. K. Brubaker and Tobias Musser. The buildings and improvements consist of a Two-Story Stone DWELLING HOUSE, with Two-Story Frame Kitchen attached, Frame Bank Barn, Carriage House with Horse Power Shed attached, | Corn Barn with Tobacco Cellar, Hog | Stables, Poultry House, Wood Shed and other outbuildings; a well of | water and cistern with pumps there- thereon and running water between house { and barn: also a number of fruit | trees and grapevines in bearing or- | der. The entire tract is farming land in a high state of cultivation. i Persons. wishing to view the above, before the day of sale, will | be shown same by calling on the { undersigned’ residing thereon. | Sale to commence at 2 o’clock p. m. of said d4v when the conditions ! will be 1 nown by | E. S. METZLER. | S. G. Summy, Auct. { A. G. Hamaler, Clerk. i ade oy Bullen. | Subscribe for BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, PA. CAUSES OF APOPLEXY|WILL BE | 8 GERMAN CLAIMS HE CAN MAKE COMPANIMENT OF OLX AGE. AIRSHIP INVISIBLE, Undue Worry, Even in Those of Com- uthful Years. Will Proposed Terror Is to Be as Large am paratively Y the Steamer Olympic and Able te Also Induce Dreaded Malady Defy the Telescope at the Victims Jometimes Rew Distance of a Mile. cover, rs - The invisible airship has already The word “apoplexy” generally | bean patented by Its inventor Baron meens a sudden paralysis caused by | Rosnne, Baron Roenne is well known the rupture of a bisod vessel in the | in England as an airship and naval brain; it is popularly called a “stroke.” | engineer, sno more respect must be It 18 a result of a softening of tha ar- | pald. to his ideas than to those who teries that often follows primary dar-| try inventing without any technical dening or arteriosclerosis. | knowledge The disease is a common accompani- | Jaron Roenne has submitted his | ment of old age, so common indeed | idea 0 the officials at the Greenwich that it {s regarded by many as the cme | Royal Observatory, and they declare characteristic senile change. that 't is based on sclentific prinel- | It is not confined to old age, how- | ples, and most certainly practicable. ever, for many comparatively young | They way this remarkable airship is men who have gone too fast and toe | made ‘nvisible {8 as follows: Take a white wall and paste a white sheet of paper on it. At a distance of a few "eet you may be able to detect where the paper leaves off and the far in ths pursuit of wealth or who | have met with reverses and have wor ried unduly over them have hardening arteries and are killed or disabled by apoplexy. wall begins. At a hundred yards the In their hardened blood vessels wall locks all wall. You would never the paper of being there if That is suspect you did not known already. Baron Roenne's idea. The outside covering of his atrship Is made of metal, the composition of which is a secret. It is almost as strong ag steel, yet It only weighs one- much. there may be softening spots which, bulged by the hydraulic pressure of the blood, form little aneurisms. A lit- tle extra strain on the vessels, caused by some violent emotion or the lift. ing of a heavy weight or running to catch a train may then rupture one or more of these little aneurisms and | fourth as No hydrogen can feak from a vessel made of it, so the so let the bleod pour into the brain tissue. If the blood escapes rapidly and in large amount it causes immediate loss of consciousness and paralysis; if the gradually and in small either severe head- danger of an airship exploding from that causes disappears. It is dues to the discovery of chro- mium, in fact, that the invisible air- ship is possible. he most important blood escapes thing about the metal, as far as Baron amount it causes ache and tingling and numbness in Roenne fi 1, is that it pos- one or more of the limbs, or progres. S®8S€s a4 ¥31 shed surface. sive loss of power, gradual dulling This with a thin of the mentai faculties and uitimate c0ating varnish. The unconsciousness. whole surface of the rible, in fact, Apoplexy is not always fatal; in- B5C!S asa the same deed complete recovery without any | color as ing If the sky paralysis sometimes occurs. The suf- | 3 dull, se is ship. If the sky ferer’s immediate fate is commonly de- 3 blue, 8 the cided in two 1vs—either he The sides of the keel of this new mirrors, rangement of dies without r consci 1Sness or his ment gradually re- | ° turn. He is tl en to be paralyzed them the reflected from in either one arm or in one leg, or | ‘Ne earth ghter. Tho kee} in one side of the face, or in all three. | Will taper to and thus there will be no sha he bottom of less yus cases the paralysis . = in Sel +3 trahie All De lessens, the facial expression becomes ae alrsaip Wilk. 8 HES tn § ¢ shame ays lik er. Even when the paralysis is per ® GuaIne yg [io we $4 : ie at alec golor of SUrrou gs. In other manent there is almost always more . HE bo invisto! or less improvement for some weeks Words, it will be invisible Baron Roenr new terror of the after the stroke. Apoplexy can be treated cnly by the physician, but those who fear an at- akies wi The Olympic, if it » as the Olympic. could float in the tack can do much to avert it. Quiet 8kies, would easily be detected at & and calm should for them be the rule | Delight of four or flve miles, yet Roenne’s dirigible will be absolutely should never make any severe muscular effort. They should never run for cars or climb stairs quickly. They should avodd hearty meals and the drinking of much fluid, even water, at any one time.—~Youth’'s Companion. of life. They invisible, even to telescopes, at a dis tance of less than a mile! It is designed to carry 400 passen- gers, or their equivalent in cargo, and it will be fitted with 15 motors, devel power. Pate oping nearly 2,000 horse — ents have already been taken out in Eng 1d t's Shrieks S Murder S Eg and. s Si ; re. TY 2 . Parro rieks Start Murder Sca What this “new sky scraper” will A large green parrot, supposed to have escaped from the Oceana of the Jermuda line, stopped traffic at Mont- gomery and Washington streets, Jer gey City, and s ed on the job until it had t the police reserves and the ratus, says the New mean in time of war can hardly be realize It could carry enough am- muni utterly wreck any city, or blow world's biggest navy to pleces.- arson’s Weekly. called c York World. Ah-Tish-Oo! ir way to work were The only a ition we pay to a st loud shrieks coming sneeze at to endeav- per floor of the Lincoln or to get rid ch causes Trust it, but a in t} 8 of old “It’s fat man. Greece Vv a matter of great concern “It’s y,” declared the and import. fat man. don’t somebody save There was then a god of sneezing, her?” and great undertakings v even be Hundreds of people crowded the abandoned if a man sr 1 at an in- streets, when Martin Grady, head por | appropriate moment, th act being found the looked upon as the oracle of the god. under the A sneeze between midnight and noon was looked upon as a fortunate sign, but between moon and midnight it betokened great misfortune. To sneeze to your right was lucky; to the left unlucky. Two or four sneezes were lucky, one or three very unlucky, and any undertaking in hand should, if possible, be abandoned; more than four sneezes did not count. i There is a saying in many parts of England today, “Once a wish, twice a | kiss, three times a letter, four times something better.” If people sneezed ter of the bird in a eaves. When a fireman got half way up the ladder the parrot flew away. trust company, recess small Why Clink Glasses? “What have you got against that man at the corner table?” asked the bartender of the regular customer. “That was a positive insult you hand- ed him a minute ago. You never of- fered to clink glasses with him.” “What's the use?” said the custom- er. “He is deaf, and deaf men sel- together it was a good sign, particulas dom clink glasses. Why should they? ly if they happened to be discussing | They couldn't hear it. People only | pyginess. : clink glasses to satisfy the fifth sense. At any rate that was why the origina- tors of the practice did it, and suc- ceeding generations have perpetuated the custom. In the ordinary process of quaffing a glass of liquor we are inevitably bound to see the stuff, touch it, smell it, and taste it. That Biddy’s Blunder. Mrs. Howard Hinckle has recently hdd a remarkable experience with a new Irish girl: | “Biddy,” said she, one evening, “we must have some sausages for tea this leaves the ear alone unsatisfied. So evening. I expect company.” ! we clink for its gratification.” “Yes, ma'am.” Tea time arrived, and with it, the ' .. company; the table was spread, the Outlook Promising. | On Sixth avenue, New York, two tea was simmering, but no sausage ap- | peared. | “Where are the sausages, Biddy? inquired Mrs. Hinckle. “And sure they're in the tay-pot, | me’am! Didn't you tsi! me we must | have ’em for tay?” young women walked behind her, con- versing audibly above the roar of the elevated. “And how are you liking your hus- band?” asked one. “Oh, he’s steady,” returned the oth- er; “he don’t drink, he stays home nights, and I kind o’ think I'm going to like him.” How fortunate! thought the woman. | | | | As a Man is Known. “A man, like a watch, is known by his works,” observed the epigram mak- | er. One of Nature’s Noblemen. | “And by the hours he keeps,” added | “M ; don’t seem to have speiled | the wife. Mr ac Bnd a bit" | “And by the spring in him,” sald the Bib? { | athlete. “1 know it. He’s just the same as ever. Last night him and his wife come over to play bridge with my hus- band and I, and he never done a thing to show that he didn’t think folks that “And by his being sometimes fast,” remarked the reformer. “And by the way his hands go up,” | put in the pugilist. hadn't money was just as good as any-| ‘And by his not always going when body, as long as they was refined.”— | We want him to,” finished the girl | . 2 | who'd been robbed of her beauty sleep. | Judge. \ a ma | ret AQ | “We mean business,” says I. D. Larger Output of Cigars Beneman. No goods will be kept! The Lancaster district revenue | for cigars in July were | back. Every stitch of Clothing for receipts i men, young men and boys will be! $25,000 in excess of that month last | sold for less than cost. Now or | year and $20,000 greater than in never. We made up our minds to June. sell. | For the first time in many months eet eee: {beer passed spirits. The receipts | We have also reduced Ladies’ | for the former were $32,815 and goods. We invite you all to come for whisky $28,000. | to this great ymoney saving oppor- mst meen emt tunity. It wil) mean dollars saved i the Bulletin / in your pocketfl, 8 Oy ar th oy Bull ; a Wednsday, August 192 Makes a great difference in most they suffer from backache, headache, sl twitching, hot flashes, dizzy spells, I'he local disorder and inflammation should be treated with Tablets and the irregularity strengthened with Dr, woman or the woman of middle age may be too great for her strength, and strength-giving nervine and regulator, I ! for woman's peculiar weaknesses and distressing atiments. in composition and wrapper, wr slowly but surely grew tors for help. ation, Mga. SCOTT. ind weakness of Pierce's Favorite Prescription ‘ u upon the nerve and blood forming structures— I'his is the I was in bed eleven weeks and got no better. would have to have an operation, but to that I would nos listen. band purchased two bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre 1 I started to take this remedy I could not walk across the fl I had taken three bottles I could feel myself gaining, so 1 dropped the ' doctor and took Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. 1 would have been dead now than in twenty years.” DEADLY FOE mrewwrmmNT ISAS « vomen, hey are troubled with ‘' nerves ''— + sensation of irritability or eplessne or many other symptoms of female weakness, Dr. Pierce's Lotion female system corrected and I'he strain upon the young the ime to tuke this restorative tonic For over forty years sold by druggists The one rem ed) peiioet $0 good in curative effects as to warrant its makers in printing its every ingredient on its outside The one remedy which absolutely contains neither alcohol nor injurious or habit-forming drugs. Following letter selected at random from a large number of similar ones and cited merely to illustrate these remarks : “In the winter of 1908, 1 bee ame greatly run down and jrregular,s es Mis. HENRY Scott, of Swan ( , Mich., Route 1, Box 49. resolved to apply to the doce worse, and, at la The doctor said 1 had inflammatiop, enlargement and lacer« The doctor said I My hus- iption. When wor, but after Only for it I think I really believe it saved my life. 1 feel bette CONEY. » 8 NRE 50 = « AR eal Jewelry Store . . = . =" Jewelry Stores are plenty in the general sense. But this isa = x m jewelry store in all the special senses—not merely a little jewel- - ® ry for Christmas, but for every time—for the gift givers, for the a = birthday, for the June bride, for the Commencement girl, for the ". - : : = silver, gold or diamond weddings. All my gwelry is fairly and = » 5 honestly priced Call and be convinced. = = m Bn n = - 8 H. MILLER, .. ng B « » § MOUNT Joy, ri. 3 .] 2 A) 1 1 1 0 1 — ~ Womens NTA Cb 4 ATC » Sho 330M CITA®Ra SUV TS. SHOES sos fooeofeofesforferfr eof seeleriiefeotofoofoofosfesfoniosfoofonforfonfedonforfecirforfeole tose de fe sfeofonfonfonjertunfecge 1 1 N ) "TES \ I'T1 ND XX7 Vv K S S 11 \ 1 1 Q here a Ba. { ADI NON » ) AD Grab {5 ( ADE NOW $i1.2= SHAUB & RUBBERS and HOSIERY 18 N. Queen Street, eoredoofusfocipofocterfoefocfeefociicioofssfeciscfesfrefocfecds sfosfonesds fosjecfaclesfocfasjofecfecpe-Tnfocfonfsifoniefscfocfonfodocfooioc of pip 1-2 Price Sale of Oxfords and Pumps TON ofssfececfocfocforferfocfenfo do jo Jo Je fo go NOW ¥1,x Ole Ww efoofocfocferfonfoeferfesfoefosfocterfonfosfecerfsefertest irolorfeefscfmjocforfeoiorjocfocfosipdfodorioofoadrofocio-droeadrefocfocfosfocfeocpfocfrdippip id TREASURE TROVE IN OLD GUN| Find of Turquoises in Arab Firearm Raised Interesting Question as to Their Ownership. epths of »d for In tha narrow an old Arab gun rusty a ich had years in the ship of coni, an art dealer of 16 Rue Masse Paris, France turquuises, brilliant » light in a curious manne | An into the shop] searchir ( sort of a decora- tion 1ig room After looking over | , conditions and | » Arab gun, which | weapons of ages, he selected t was standing in a cor sed barrel plugged with a cork. The | pur and the amateur | collector was just about to leave the | ghop when his curiosity to see what | was insidz the gun got the hetter of him. He pulled the cork and lowered | the gun. A stream of the sparkling | stones poured outf, bouncing this Way | and that into the dust-filled@ corners of | the shop. Whea the men recovered | from their surprise they were both on | their knees scrambling for the gems. | Immediately a dispute arose as to their ownership, and this was con- tinusd for mere than half an hour as the two men, both of a naturally dig-| nified disposition, crawled about the | dust and cobwebs hunting the jewels. | “They're mine!” cried the shop-| keeper. “For years this gun has be- | longed to me; therefore its contents | are mine.” i “But I have bought the gun and er, its long un- | was mad rchase | paid for it!” was the retort from be- hind a stack of other firearms of past | ages. “I have bought the gun, and what the gun contains is mine.” ! After a time the search for the tur | quoises was finished, but not so the | argument, which was rising in tem- | perature every moment. Finally both | men agreed to turn the jewels over to | the police and let the commissary de- | cide to whom they belonged. Possibly in some desert camp some | Arab chieftain sits by his lonely fire | and wonders, cursing the while the | i white man who years ago robbed him | of his fortune and the weapon with | which he won his place at the head of his tribe. What's in a Name? Mayor Brand Whitlock, of Toledo, was talking about a certain trust mag- nats. “He's got a bad name,” sald the mayor-novelist. “Hence he can’t get a square deal. He's got as bad a name for a lawsuit as Dodgin had for a manager. Dodgin was the new man- ager of a biscuit concern. There was a workman at the concern who liked to sneak off to a shed at about three o'clock in the afternoon and smoke a pipe and look over the afternoon pa- per for half an hour or so. Well, one day, as the workman sat reading and smoki in the shed, Dodgin ap peared. “Who are you? Dodgin asked sternly, frowning at the idle work man. The workman frowned back. ‘Huh, who are you? said he. Dodgin, the new manager,’ was the, bo At this the workman hi At | “Live there?” | man gazed at him as if | top. kis notion of Home, A New York surveyor had an as | signment that took hima into the depth! | of the wilderness ten miles | camp. The camp wag a hundred miles from from the nearest railroad station. To his surprise, he heard the sound of en ax. He followed the sound and found a busy woodsman at work. He had cleared the timber away for a few rods about, and on that space had put up a snug log cabin. All the rest, on every side, was the profound, ak most untrodden wilderness. The man stopped his work and greeted the sur veyor pleasantly. “And where did you come from?” he asked. “From New York,” answered the surveyor, said he. “Yes.” The amazed, and by and by said: “Well, welll Gosh! I don’t see how you can bear to live so fur away!” Why a Tallor’s Thimble. If you have ever noticed a tallor's thimble ycu must have observed that it is not like the one your mother or your sistess use, because it has no top. As there is a reason for everything, there is a reason for this, | The stuff your mother sews on is usually very light and the needle is easily pushed through by pressing the top of the thimble against the needle. But taflors often have to sew very) coarse and heavy material and they cannot get enough pressure oa the top | of the thimble, so they use the side! and therefore they have no use for a a — Not Like Canute. At the Acorn Club in Philadelphia a young lady was praising the wit of the late Bishop Mackay Smith. “He always had a pun ready” she sald, smiling pensively. “I remember meeting him once in Broad street stae tion. I was on the way to Florida at the time, and I said: “ ‘Will it be very wrong, bishop, for me to bathe on Sunday in the Atlantic off Palm Beach? “‘The Atlantic off Palm Beach sald he. ‘That, I fear, is a see over which I have no jurisdiction.’ ” re ————————— Her Claims to Fame. kK ng Author—Ah, Miss Porkiig- ham, you little know the glory, he self-satisfaction, the pride one fels in having one’s name brought hebre the public mind! Miss Porkingham (a Chica. beauty)—Well, you bet I do! Why, pape has named a patent ham and his best brand of lard after me. i Do You Know? \ A professor of anatomy at Yule College was asked by a boy the otler day why boys were not born W th 10 toes on ersh fgot, and the wik man couldn’t ansyer. Most me! after they get be men, are satlg fled with five # on a foot, but boy really oufisilio be allowed 19, With only ff, a foot he nows| slips back wid bing a tree | to stea hc | hat the eg Yy