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The Mount Holly News.
VOL. XIV. NO 17.
MOUNT HOLLY. BURLINGTON COUNTY, N. J„ TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1893.
ESTABLISHED 1879
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
The standard railway of America. Protect
ed by the inter locking switch and block sig
nal system.
Trams Itavt fror Mount Holly as follotos:
For Pblladulphhl, 5.30, 6.00,0.52,7.30.8.00, 8.57,
9.15, 11.20 A. M., 12.51, 2.81, 4.24, 5.05,6.19,8.37,
10.50 P.M.
On Sundays, 8.36 A. m., 12.05, 5.20, 7.50 P. M.
ror Pemberton, 7..'!3. 9.26 a. m., 12.24, 2.03, 3.32,
4.52, 6.06, 7.03, 7.33 P. M. Sundays, 10.23 a. M„
6.05 P. M.
Tor Brown’s-Mills-in-the-Pines, 7.33,9.26 a. m.,
12.24, 3.32, 4.52, and 7.03 r. M. Sundays, 10.23 a.
For Vincentown. 9.26,11.28 a. m. 3.32, 6.06 P. m
For Burling ton,Borden town,TrentonandNew
York, 6.38, 9.00, 10.50 a. m., 2.50, 4.38, 5.55 P. M.
For Lewistown, Columbus,Kiukora, etc., a.
m. 2.03 p. m. On Sundays, 6.05 r. m.
For Luwberlon, Medford, Marlton, Haddon
fleld and Philadelphia, 6.20, 9.48 a. m., 1.25,
5.10 p. m. On Sundays, 7.32 a. m.
For Toms River, Island Heights, etc., 9.26, a.
P. M.
For Trentou and New York, via Pe mberton
and Klnkora, 2.03, r. m. Sundays, 6.05 p. m.
For Hightstown, 7.33 a. m., 2.08, 4.52 r. m. On
Sundays 6.05 l*. m.
For Asbury Park and Long Branch 9.26 a. m.
Mondays and Saturdays only.
For Tuckerton, 9. 26 a . m., 4.52 p. m.
For Beach Haven on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, 9.26 a. m., and daily at 4.52 i*. m.
For Barnegat City, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, 9.26 a. m. Saturdays oniy, 4.52 a.m.
Trains leave for Mount Holly as follows:
From Philadelphia, 6.30, 7.40, 8.30, 10.00, 11.20
A. M., 1.00 , 2.30, 4.00, 4.30. 6.10, 6.10, 6.30, 8.00,
10.30,11.45 p. m. On Sundays, 9.15 a. m., 1.00,
5.00, 10.30 p. if.
From New York. vlaTrentonand Burlington
8.00. 9.30 A. M., 1.00.4.00,5.00 P. M.
From Trentou, 7.41, 9.25,11.10 a. m., 2.53,5.20,
7.00 p.m. On Sunday at 6.40 a. m.
From Burlington, 8.20,10.06,11.53 a^bgS.82,5.45
7.40 p. M. m' .
From Brown’s-Millsdn-the-Pines, 8.$F, 12.15 a.
M. 1.55. 5.45, 8.05 p. m. Sundays, 4.50 P. M.
tt-__ .... m w 8.32.
From Pemberton, (north) 6.35, ..42,
a. m., 12.19, 4.07, 8.17 p. m. On Sundays,
8.00 a. m. From Pemberton (south), 8.36 a.
m., 12.30, 2.11, 4.50, 6.00, 8.19 p. m. On Sun
days, 5.03 P. M. ^
From Vincent-own, 6.50, 10.55 a.m., 1.66, 4.00
From Hightstown, via Burlington,11.02a.m.
7.00 p. m.
From Medford, $.83, 11.55 a. m., 4.16, 6.35 p.m.
On Sundays, 6.35 p. m.
From Long Branch, 2.35 p.m. Mondays and
Saturdays only.
From Toms River. 7.48 a . m., 4.12 p. m.
From Island Heights, 7.35 a. m., 4.00 r. m.
Chas. E. Pugh, J. R. Wood,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent.
Pemberfou and lllglitNtown Railroad.
Tratr ,-<save Mount Holly for New Egypt
Cream Ridge, Hightstown, etc., at 7.83 a. m.
2.03, 4.52 p. M. Sundays, 6.05 p. m.
Trains leave Philadelphia and connect for
New Egypt, Cream Ridge, Hightstown, etc.,
6.30 a. m., l.Ou and 4.00 r. m. Sundays, 5.00 r. m.
Trains leave Hightstown for New Egypt,
Pemberton, Mount Holly and Philadelphia
at 7.06, 10.00 a. m., 7.05 p. m. Sundays, 6.20
A. M
TVCKEUTON EA1LROAD.
Leave Mount Holly tor Tuckerton, 9.26 a.
ui., 4 52 p. m., daily, except 8unday.
For Beach Haven, 9.26 a. in., Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays, 4.52 p. m. dally, except
Sunday.
Leave Beach Haven for Tuckerton, U.50 a. m.,
dally except Sundays, 3.00 p. no., Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, and 7.1o p. in. on
Saturdays only.
Leave Tuckerton for Beach Haven, 4.55 a. m.
on Mondays only. 10.20 a. m., Tuesdays'
Thursdays and Saturdays, 3.55 p. m. daily
except Sunday.
Leave Beach Haven for Mount Holly, 6.50 a.
hi., dally except Sunday. 3.00 p. m. Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Leave Tuckerton lor Mount Holly, 7.03 a. m.,
3.15 p. m., daily except Sunday.
Mount Solly Post Office.
MAILS LXAVK A8 FOLLOWS .*
New York and East.7.
Pemberton and iilghtstowii....7.
Vlncentown..
Trenton.
Bordentown..
Foreign.
West..
Atlantic City.
Medford.
Philadelphia
Burlington...
Camden..
Luinberton...
10 s.30
10:8.30
10 8.30
10 8.30
10 8.30
10 8.30
58.30
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8.30
2.05
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8.00
8.00
8.00
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2.05 8.00
2.05'8.00
2.05 8.00
4.1518.00
MAILS ARH1VB AND RKADY FOR DISTRIBUTION :
A. M. P.M.
9.00
900
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
New lorkand E..
Pemberton.
Vlnoentown.
High ts town.
Trenton..
Bordentown.
Foreign.
West.
Atlantic City.
Medford.
PhlladelDhia.
Burlington.
Camden ..
^umberton..
7.45 9.15
7.45
11.15
7.45
7.45
7.45
7.45
7.45
7.45
7.45
.45
7.451
7.45 9.15
7.46
7.45|9.15
3.00 5.00
3.00 5.00
11.15
9.15'11.15
9.15 11.15
9 15 11.15
11.15
11.15
3.00
3.00
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3.00 5.00
5.00
MO
6.30
6.30
6.80
6.30
HAMIEL A. ATKINSON,
^ATTORNEY AT LAW', SOLICITOR AND
MASTER IN CHANCERY.
No. 109 Main St., Opposite W'ashlngton House,
Mount Holly, N. J.
QUARLES JH. SLOAN,
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE.
Office in Arcade Building, Mount Holly, N. J
QUARLES EWAN MERRITT,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Main Street, Opposite Arcade,
Mount Holly, N. J.
k
H. CKA1WEB.
SURVEYOR AND CONVEYANCER.
MMISSIONER OF DEEDS,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
CKOABRna. OCIAH COVIfTY, N. J.
gAMUBI. I’ALEY, M. D..
HOMCEOPATH1C PHYSICIAN,
Garden Street, near Cherry Street, Mount
Holly, N. J.
OmoiHours:7 to9 A.n.. 1 to8r.x.,6 8to r u.
QEOR6E W. V AHDERYXIB, ■■ D.
Bomoeooftthiat,
Gardes St. near Buttonwood, Mount Holly.
r Until # a. X.
OrricB Horae: 4 6 to 8 r. x.
I 1 to 2 r. X.
niKh, I.IFE AMU ACCIDENT ISSUE
r, ANCE.
Reliable Companies and lowest rates. Cor.
ispondence solicited.
SAMUEL A. ATKINSON,
General Insurance Agent.
109 Main Street, Mount Holly, N. J.
QMAS. KARKBB, HI. D„ ». D. S.
DENTAL OFFICE AND LAB0RAT0R1
No. I 37 MAIN STREET.
(Cor. Main Sc Unioe Sts.,)
Mount Holly, AT. O'.
First-Olass Work. Reasonable Prices
WILLIAM H. CLINE,
FURNISHING UNDERTAKER,
VINCENTOWN, N. J.
Orders by Telegraph will be promptly at
tAnrlo/i tn
Mount Holly Academy,
A BOARDING and DAY SCHOOL |
—FOR—
Boys and Young Men.
Apply for our catalogue, which contains full
particulars and references.
E*v. JAMES J. COALE, A. M.t (Princeton),
Principal.
gTOtKS
BOUGHT AND SOLD
on Commission and carried on favorable
Terms.
Being members of both the Philadelphia and
New York Stock Exchanges, and having a
private wire direct from our office to New
York, we are prepared to execute orders left
with us promptly and satisfactorily. Ac
• red and interest allowed.
counts receive
DeHaven & Townsend,
NO. 428 CHESTNUT 8TBEBT.rHiLADBi.PHiA
M'
OUNT HOLLVSEMINARY,
Mias M. ADELAIDE ATKINSON. Principal
(Opposite the Court House.)
This well-known establishment for Younp
1-ad lee and Children, will re-open on SEP
TEMBER lBth. The course of Instruction is
most careful and thorough. Three bright,
well-ventilated and carpeted school rooms
offer exceptional advantages, being well fur
nished with ail latest improvements. South
ern exposure. No "cross lights” to ruin the
eyesight Two regular grades in each room.
Piay ground, large and private. The Kinder
garten Idea of combining the amusing and in
teresting with the Instructive, will be entered
Into more fully than ever, in the primary
room, during the coming vear.
JOSEPH 0. BOWER,
THE POPULAR
Baker & Confectioner,
No. 72 Main 8t., Mount Holly.
Fresh Bread, Biscuit and Pies
evert morninu.
FANCY CAKES TO ORDER,
AND OTHER CHOICE PASTRY.
Weddings, Parties and Balls supplied at short
notice. Give me a call.
ICE CREAM A SPECIALTY.
ED. PKicKITT, No. 30 Main street, has th
* beat Hue ol Kamlly lledlolnes on tht
market. His Cough Syrnp, Diniment, Worm
Syrup aadTooth Wash deserve a trial.
| QIRARD
Fire Insurance Company,
OF PHILADELPHIA.
SOUND1 SOLID! SUCCESSFUL
POLICY MEANS INDEMNITY.
Cash Capital. $300,000 00
Reinsurance fund and all other
liabilities. 536,849 42
Net surplus over all. 624,709 82
Assets,.January; 1,1887.-.$1,461,558 75
Is among the soundest institutions of the
country. Its liabilities are very small and
mathematical stauding very high.
Charles M. Sloan,
(•eueral Agent and Resident Director,
MOUNT HOLLY. N. J.
No. 18 Crosswicks Street, Borflentowo
No. 222 High Street. Burlington.
THE LEADING
MILLINERY STORE
IN MOUNT HOLLY.
City Styles at City Prices.
ALSO
Fancy Goods, Notions, Hosiery,
Silks, Satins, Etc.
J. Howard Shinn,
40 MAIN ST., MOUNT HOLLY.
REMOVAL
Elmer D. Prickitt,
30 MAIN STREET.
I wish to call the attention o! the public to
the fact that I have purchased the business
stand of Parsons A Melcher, at No. 30 Main
street, and will bereufter be found there day
and night.
A FULL LINE OF
DRUGS, CHEMICALS,
PATENT MEDICINES,
and
DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES
constantly on hand.
Particular attention is called to my line of
CUTLERY, POCKETIBOOKS HANGING
AND STAND LAMPS.
The greatest care will be given to the Pre
cription department.
Give me a call when needing anything in
my line, and 1 will endeavor to please yon.
ELMER 1). PRICKITT,
30 Main street, Monnt Holly.
Branch store at I umberton.
No. 42 Main Street
MOUNT HOLLY, N. J.
BARRINGTON S PHARMACY
PURE DRUGS
AND
ME ZDICmsTIE S
Prescription carefully compound
ed by competent assistants, at all
hours, day and night.
Patent Medicines
at lowest prices.
A FULL LINE OF
FANCY GOODS
Vases, bisque figures, toilet sets,
ect. A fine assortment of
LK7VtPS.
We are headquarters for
SPRING REMEDIES!
Jones’
f Sarsaparilla, 76c
I Beer, Wine and Iron, pt. 60c
\ Emulsion Cod Liver, 60c
t Cocoa Wine, Tonic, bot. 60c
We have a full line ot Patent Med
icines at reduced rates.
Toilet Articles, Trusses, Sponges,
Chamois, Brushes, Etc.
Prescriptions a Specialty, com
pounded day or night.
E. B. Jones’ Pharmacy
Opposite the Fountain.
We have bought in the city
$2,000 Worth of Stock
for less than HALF VALUE, with which
we want to make a boom in these dull
times. We are willing to give the full
benefit to the public. Come and see.
Our prices will astonish you.
The Philadelphia
WIN STORE.
No. 43 NUN STREET
EU. PR1CK1TT, No. 30 Main street, nas a
• complete assortment of Combs, Intant
and Toilet Powders, Pomades, Imported
Satchets, Bay Hum, etc.
pA TENTH.
Caveat* and Trade Hark* Obtained, and
all other business In the 11.8. Patent Office at
tended to for MODERATE FREE.
Our office Is opposite the U. 8. Patent Office,
and we can obtain Patents In less time than
those remote from WASHINGTON.
Send MODEL OR DRA WING. We advise
as to patentability free of charge; and we mafce
NO CHARGE UNLESS WE OBTAIN A
PA TENT.
We refer.here, to the Postmaster, the 8upt.
of Money Order Dlv.,and to officials #f theu.
8. Patent Office. For circular, advice, terms
i nd references to actual clients In your own
State or County, write to
O. A. SNOW & OO.,
Opposite Patent Office. Wnshington D.C.
SCHOOL 8HPi'Ll JC8.—Text books. reward
cards, HcholurH’ companions, school bags,
noiseless slates, drawing materials, tablets,
copy books, ink, rulers, erasers, pencils,
sponges, etc., at JAMISON'S. Y. M C. A.
Bui id Inc.
ROBERT STREET,
CATERER
MOUNT HOLLY, 18 PR*FAB»I» TO FURNISH ALL TH*
Delicacies of the Season
l'KRTAIlffNO TO
Weddings, Parties and Entertainments
AT SHORT NOTICE.
Table ware supplied. Orders by mail prompt
ly attended to.
CITATION KRY ror the borne, olllce and
o school. Good wrilng paper and envelopes
for every day use, fashionable correspondence
papers in boxes, typewriter papers, account
and memorandum books, copying and col.
ored Inks, atJAMlsON*A, Y, M C. J
Ing
A. Build.
CALL on us if you wish to get a good glassof
Soda Water. We make all ourown syrups
and our fruit syrups being made iroin the
fruit are very line. BARRINOTON'8 Drug
Store,« Main Street.
NORTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP.
Sale of Property for Non
payment of Taxes.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of a
warrant issued by Robert L. Nixon, Thomas
W. Nippins and Charles C. Cowperthwait, the
Township Committee of the township of
Northampton in the County of Burlington, to
make the unpaid taxes assessed on lands, tene
ments, hereditaments and real estate, to the
said townsnip, in the year eighteen hundred
and ninety one, the subscriber, collector of
Taxes for the said township, will on
FRIDAY, the Nineteenth day of May,
next, at the hour of two o’clock in the after
noon, at the Arcade Hotel, in said township,
sell the lands, tenements, hereditaments and
real estate hereinafter descrioed, at public
vendue for the shortest term, not exceeding
thirty years, for which any person or persons
will agree to take the same, and pay such
taxes, with interest thereon at the rate of
twelve per centum p^r annum from the 20th
day ot December A. D. 1891, together with all
costs, fees, charges and expenses.
Allen, James YVT Tax due, $42 00
Description : House and lot west
side ol Madison avenue, adjoihing
Hospital.
Atkinson, Stacy and Abe. Tax due, 3 00
Description: Unfinished house,
Water street, adjoining John Satur
day.
Bodine, Stephen W. Tax due, lf> 75
Description: House and lot east
sid^ of Pine street, adjoining J.
Lewis.
Bishop, Paul. Tax due, 9 00
Description : House and lot east
side of Green street, adjoining Wil.
liam Doran estate.
Barton, Maggie. Tax due, 1 50
Description: House and lot south
side of Monroe street, adjoining E.
Holllnghead.
Buck man, Joseph H. Tax due, 0 00
Description: Lot northeast corner
of Green and Fairview streets.
Buckman, Mrs. Joseph H. Tax due, 75 00
Description : House and lot, corner
of Broad and Buttonwood streets.
Branln, William J. Tax due, 30 00
Description : House and lot south
side of Broad street, adjoining H.
J. Pederick.
Bullock, Elizabeth. Tax due, 9 00
Description : House and lot east side
Church street, adjoining Branson.
Brewer, Mrs. Ann. Tax due. 22 50
Description: House ana lot west
side or Buttonwood, adjoining Rey
nolds.
imi us, ucm,y a. i n a uiic.
Description .- House and lot north
side oi Mill street, adjoining Far
mer’s Bank. Barn east side oi Pax
son street.
Cramer, Anna K. Tax due,
Description: House and lot north
side of Shreve street, adjoining J.
Sprow,
Cronk, George. Tax due,
Description : House und lot south
side of Water street, adjoining Mrs,
Cole.
Costill, Mrs. John. Tax due,
Description: House and lot south
side of Shreve st reet.
Engle, Jno. VV. Tax due.
Description: House and lot north
side oi Washington street, adjoin*
ing E. Engle.
Holland, Mrs. Shed. Tax due,
Description: House and lot north
west corner of Washington and Rose
streets
Holzbaur, William. Tax due,
Description: House and lot north
side oi Hulme street, adjoining C.
Gaskill.
Henry, Nathan. Tax due,
Description: Cot south side of Green
street, adjoining S. H. Chambers.
Hartshorn, M. Tax due.
Description: House and lot west
side of Button wood st reet,adjoining
Spanner.
Haines, Chas. A. Tax due,
Description: House and lot west
side oi Buttonwood street, adjoin
ing Emley.
Haines,J. W. and ttob't. Tax due,
Description: Lot east side of Shreve
street, adjoining Keeley.
Tax due,
Keeley, Edith A. WL_,
Description: Land on Shreve and
Hulme streets. Two houses and lots
north side of Hulme street, adjoin
ing -• Six houses and lots
south side of Monroe street, adjoin
ing A. Mathles. Five houses and
lots south side of Monroe Btreet, ad
joining E. Holeman ; Five houses
and lots south 9ide of Water street,
adjoining J. Mcllvain. Twohouses
and lots east side oi Main street, ad
joining J. Shinn. Two houses and
lots east side of Water street,adjoin
ing Green. Land south side of
Green street, adjoining E. Durand.
Stone yard north side of Washing
ton street. Two houses and lots
south side oi Mill street, adjoining
C. Shuster. Two houses and lots
south side of Mill street, adjoining
Conger.
Keeley, Jackson L. Tax due,
Description: Land on Hulme street.
Keen, Mrs. Chas. B. Tax due,
Description: House and lot south
side of Bralnard street, adjoining
Masonic building.
Kiner, J. Fred. Tax due,
Description : House and lot south
side of Waterfstreet, adjoining E. B.
Jones. House and lot west side of
Blspham street, adjoining J. Satur
day. House and lot we9t side of
Rutland avenue, adjoining Ander
son.
Mason, Josiah. Tux due,
Description: House and lot north
side of Mill street, adjoining W. H.
Mason.
Murdock, Chas. Estate. Tax due,
Description: House and lot north
sldt of Water street, adjoining L.
Haines.
Page, Elmer E. Tax due,
Description: House and lot north
side or Shreve street, adjoining T.
W. Nippins.
Ridgway, Mrs. Mary E. Tax due.
Description: House and lot west
side or White street, adjoining Mrs.
Harbert.
Rock, John D. Tax due,
Description : Land west of P. R. K.,
adjoining A. A. Anderson.
Sooy, Mary. Tax due,
Description: House and lot east
side of Woolman street.
Sapp, Josephine. Tax due,
Description: House and lot east
side of Green street, adjoining
Shreve, J as. D., estate. Tax due,
Description : House andofllce south
side of Mill street, adjoining E. L.
Durand, and land, house and lot, on
Shreve street, adjoining McIntosh.
Shinn, Thomas H. Tax due,
Description: House and lot east
side of Rlsdon street, adjoining S.
Ellis.
Street, Thomas, estate, lax due,
Description: House and lot west
side of Mount, Holly avenue, adjoin
ing E. M at lack.
Spence, Beniamin. Tax due,
Description: Lot north side of Sill-eve
street, adjoining J. D. Shreve.
Stiles, Emellne. Tax doe, balance,
Description: House and lot west
side of Madison avenue, adjoining
Joseph Colkltt; green house, east
side ol Madison avenue, adjoining
Keeley.
Shinn, Samuel K. Tax due,
Description: House and lots west
side ol Mount Holly avenue.
Wilson, Mrs. Jacob. Tax due,
Description: House and lot west
side of Pine street, adjoining Thom
uq Phat'Pu
Warner, Henry C. Tax due,
Description: House and lot south
side of Shreve street, adjoining Dr.
Barrington.
Wells, Mary. Tax due,
Description : House and lot west
side of Broad street, adjoining A.
Aaron son.
Wookey, Frank J. Tax due,
Description: Four Houses and lots
on Chestnut street, near Oak.
Macklin, Mrs. John W. Tax due,
Description : House aud lot west
side of Willow street, adjoining P.
Asay.
3 00
10 00
1 64
34 00
f» 00
4 88
76
2 50
13 50
76
57 76
14 50
12 00
18 00
22 50
7 50*
1 76
8 26
19 05
7 50
9 00
71 26
1 50
4 50
76
17 77
34 21
13 14
6 26
9 00
25 00
3 76
uooper, tioscpn 11.
Description: House and lot south
side of Filbert street, adjoining H.
QtAVAna
Quann, Nelson. Tax due,
Description: House and lot north
side of West Washington street, ad
joining Holland.
Waterman, Keziah, estate. Tax due,
Description: House and lot north
side of West Washington street, ad
joining Gallagher.
Waterman, El wood L. Tax due, balance
Description : House and lot north
side ot West Washington street, ad
joining Mrs. Beulah; house and lot
north side of West Washington
street, adjoining J. H. Gray.
Gaines, Mrs. I. H. Tax duo.
Description: Lot north side of Chest
nut street, adjoining S. Dobbins.
Prichett, Warner. Tax due,
Description : House and lot north
side ot West Washington street, ad
joining J. Jones.
Buck, Anna W. Tax due,
Description: House and lot west
side oi Oak street, adjoining J. Lee.
Tilghynsen, Henry. Tax due,
Description : House and lot south
side of West Washington street, ad
joining II. Htevens.
Johnson. Abram. Tax due.
Description : House and lot coi ner
of West Washington and Carlton
streets. m
A. M. K. Church parsonage. Tax due,
Description : House south side of
West Washington street, adjoining
Jackson.
Butler, Mary K., estate. Tax due.
Description: House north side of
West Washington street, adjoining
Tomlinson.
Willow, Joseph. Tax due.
Description : House and lot, west
Washington street, adjoining lom
llnson.
Buck. Mary. Tax due.
Description : House and lot north
side of West Washington street, ad
6 00
1 50
1 50
3 00
2 76
7 50
4 50
4 50
joining Dr. Ward.
Caving, Gilbert.
1 50
__ Tax due,
Description: Lot north side West
Washington street, adjoining Sin
gleton.
Payment must be made before the conclu
sion of the sule, otherwise the property will
be immediately resold.
Witness my hand this Fourth day oi April
in the year of our Lord one thousand elarht
bundrd nlnety.Um*.^ r dfa
Collector oi Taxes.
nXICCrTOliS’ NOTICK.
..otloe Is hereby given that an order has
been made by the Surrogate ol the County of
Burlington, bearing date on the 8th day of
March, A. 1). I8KI, upon application of .lohn
Thornton, Jr., and Henry Hough ten, the sub
scribers, requiring the creditors of JOHN
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" Yes, ewjry thing is looking fine,
I’m very well inclined
To let the world wag as it will;
The crops are off my mind.
There’s nothing worries me so much
As planting things too late.
I try in other ups and downs
To keep my temper straight”
** There’s Sarah Jane's inclined to fret
And stew from morn till night,
Because she cannot always have
Her plans come out just right
But what’B the use? We cannot have
The earth and heavens too.
I tell her so; but little good
My precepts ever do.
" It looks so strange for anyone
With even common wit,
To let their temper run away,
With either rein or bit
At every little simple thing
That comes to cross their path.
They fret, and foam, and almest raise
The roof to cool their wrath.
M Now if they’d only try it once
When matters went awry.
And keep their tempers well in hand,
They'd hit it, same as I.
Its just as easy to keep cool
If one but stops and thinks—
Jehosaphatl What’s that I see?
Those horrid hogs of Jinks’
M A rooting all my sweet corn out,
Faster than it went in.
I’ll fix’em! Let me get a gun;
I’ll shoot ’em, sure as sin.
I'll learn that wretched old skinflint
To keep his hogs shut up.
I hate a man so mean and slack,
He’s lower than a pup,
M To let his hogs come tearing round
And root my fences down.
I’d really be ashamed to be
The meanest man in town.
Hey, Sarah Jane! What’s that you Bay?
‘I left the gate pin out
When I went in to brush the peas’—
I know what I’m about!
“ I didn’t do it, now—that’s flat,
Don’t stand and waste your breath!
You’re worse than poor old Caudle’s wife—
You'd nag a man to death.
You'd better help me get ’em out,
And not stand there and grin.
Git out, you thieves! Kerwhang! Kerehug!
There! Now’s the gate pin in?”
—Mary Morrison, in Farm, Field and Fireside.
WITH MARKED CARDS.
A Gambler’s Attempt to Reform a
Fallen Bank Cashier.
“I’m bothered about that young fel
low,” said Mellish early one morning
to the professional gambler, Pony
Rowell.
“Why?”
“He comes here night after night,
and he loses more than I imagine he
can afford. He has no income, as far
as I can find out, except what he gets
as salary, and it takes a mighty sight
bigger salary than his to stand the
strain he’s putting on it”
“What does he do?”
“He is cashier in the Ninth national
bank. I don’t know how much he gets,
but it can't be enough to permit this
sort of thing to go on. ”
Pony Rowell shrugged his shoulders.
“I don’t think I would let it trouble
me, if I were you, Mellish. ”
"Nevertheless it does. I have ad
vised him to quit, but it is no use. If I
tell the doorkeeper not to let him in
here he will merely go somewhere else
where they are not so particular. ”
"I must confess I don’t quite under
stand you, Mellish, long as I have
known you. In your place, now, I
would either give up keeping a gamb
ling saloon or I would give up the
moral reformation line of business. I
wouldn’t try to ride two horses of such
different tempers at the same time. ”
“I’ve never tried to reform you.
Pony,” said Mellish, with reproach in
his voice.
“No-, I will give you credit for that
much sense.”
“It’s all right with old stagers like
you and me, Pony, but with a boy just
beginning life, it is different. Now, it
struck me that you might be able to
help me in this”
“Yes, I thought that was what you
were leading up to,” said Rowell,
thrusting his hands deep in his
trousers pockets. “I’m no missionary,
remember. What did you waDt me to
do?"
“I wanted you to give him a sharp
lesson. Couldn't you mark a pack of
cards and get them to play high?
Then, when you have taken all his
ready money and landed him in debt to
you so that he can’t move, give him
back his cash if he promises not to
gamble again."
Rowell looked across at the subject
of their conversation. “I don’t think I
would flatter him so much as to even
stock the cards on him. I’ll clean him
out if you like. But It won’t do any
good, Mellish. Look at his eyes. The
insanity of gambling is in them. I
used to think if I had one hundred
thousand dollars I would quit. I’m old
enough now to know that 1 wouldn't
I’d gamble if 1 had a million "
“1 stopped after I was your age.”
“Oh, yes, Mellish, you are the vir
tuous exception that proves the rule.
You quit gambling the way the old
woman kept tavern," and Rowell cast
a glance over the busy room.
Mellish smiled somewhat grimly,
then he sighed. “I wish 1 was out of
of it,” he sighed. "But anyhow, you
think over what I’ve been talking
about and if you can see your way to
giving him a sharp lesson I wish you
would.”
“All right, 1 will, but merely to ease
your tender conscience, Mellish. It’s
no use, I tell you. When the snake
has bitten the victim is doomed.
Gambling isn’t a simple thing like the
opium habit.”
Reggie Forme, the bank cashier, rose
at last from the roulette table. He was
flushed with success, for there was a
considerable addition to the sum he
had in his pockets when he sat down.
He flattered himself that tne result
was due to the system he had elabor
ately studied out.
Nothing lures a man to destruction
quicker than a system that can be
mathematically demonstrated. It gives
an air of business to gambling which
is soothing to the conscience of a per
son brought up on statistics. The sys
tem generally works beautifully at first
and then a cog slips and a financial
cyclone strikes you before you know
where you are. As young Forme left
the table he felt a hand on his shoulder,
and looking around met the impassive
gaze of I’ony Rowell.
“You're young at the business, I
see." said the professional, quietly.
“Why do you think that?” asked the
youngster, coloring, for one likes to be
taken for a veteran, especially when
one is an amateur.
"Because you fool away your time
at roulette. That is a game for boys
and women. Have you nerve enough
to play a real game?"
"What do you oall a real game?”
“A game with cards in a private
room for something bigger than half
dollar points.”
“How big?”
“Depends on what oapital you have.
How much capital can you command?”
The cashier hesitated for a moment
and his eyes fell from the steady light
of Rowell's, which seemed to have an
uncomfortable habit of looking into
one's inmost soul.
"1 can bring one thousand dollars
here on Saturday night."
"All right That will do as a starter.
Is it an appointment then?”
“Yes, if you like. What time?"
"I generally get here pretty late, but
1 can make an exception in your case.
Wbat do you say to ten o’clock?”
“That will suit me.”
“Very well, then. Don't fool awaj
any of your money or nerve until I
come. You will need all you have of
both.”
The professional gambler and the
amateur began their series of games a
few minutes after ten in a little pri
vate room. The younger man became
more and more excited as the play
went on. As for Pony, he was cool,
under any olrcumstanaea Before an
hour had passed the one thousand dol
lars was transferred from the posses
sion of Forme into the pockets of the
professional and by midnight the
younger man was another one thou
sand dollars in Rowell’s debt
“It isn’t my practice,” said Rowell,
slowly, "to play with a man unless he
has the money in sight. I've made an
exception in your case, as luck was
against you, but 1 think this has gone
far enough. You may bring me the
one thousand dollars you owe any day
next week. No particular hurry, you
know."
The young fellow appeared to be
dazed. He drew his hand across his
brow and then said mechanically, as
if he had just heard his opponent’s re
mark:
“No hurry? All right Next week.
Certainly. 1 guess I’ll go home now.”
Forme went out, leaving Rowell idly
shuffling the cards at the small table.
The moment the young man had dis
appeared all Rowell's indolence van
ished. He sprang up and put on his
overcoat, then slipped out by the rear
exit into the alley. He had made up
his mind what Forme would do. Men
tally he tracked him from the gam
bling rooms to the river and he even
went so far as to believe he would take
certain streets on his way thither. A
gambler is nothing if not superstitious
and so Rowell was not in the least
surprised when he saw the young man
emerge from the dark stairway, hesi
tate for a moment between the two di
rections open to him, and finally choose
the one that the gambler expected him
to take. The cold streets were de
serted and so Rowell had more dif
ficulty in following his late victim un
perceived tnau ne would nave nad
earlier in the evening. Several times
the older man thought the pursued had
become aware of the pursuit, for Forme
stopped and looked around him; once
coming back and taking another street
as If trying to double on whoever was
following him.
Howell began to realize the difficulty
of the task he had set for himself, and
as he had never had any faith in it any
how, he began to feel uncomfortable
and to curse the tender heart of Mel
lish. If the youngster got the idea
into his head that he was followed he
might succeed in giving his pursuer
the slip, and then Howell would find
himself with the fool’s death on his
conscience, and what was to him in
finitely worse, with a thousand dollars
in his pocket that had been unfairly
won. This thought made him curse
Mellish afresh. It had been entirely
against his own will that he had played
with marked cards, but Mellish had in
sisted that they should take no chances,
and the veteran knew too well the un
certainties of playing a fair game
where a great object lesson was to be
taught. It would make them look like
two fools, Mellish had said, if Forme won
the money. In answer to this Rowel)
had remarked that they were two fools,
anyhow, but he had finally succumbed
to Mellish as the whole scheme was
Mellish’s. As Rowell thought bitterly
of these things bis attention was di
verted from the very thing he had in
hand. Few men can pursue a course
of thought and a fellow creature at
at the same time. He suddenly realized
that young Forme had escaped him.
Rowell stood alone in the dimly-lighted
silent street and poured unuttered
maledictions on his own stupidity.
Suddenly a voice rang out from a dark
doorway.
“What the devil are you following
me for?”
"Oh, you’re there, are you?” said
Pony, calmly.
“I’m here. Now what do you want
of me? Aren’t you satisfied with what
you have done to-night?”
"Naturally not, or I wouldn’t be
foolchasing at such an hour as this ”
“Then you admit you have been fol
lowing me?”
“I never denied It.”
“What do you want of me? Do I be
long to myself or do you think I be
long to you, because I owe you some
money?”
“I do not know, I am sure, to whom
you belong,” said Rowell, with his
slow drawl. “1 suspect, however, that
the city police, who seem to be so
scarce at this hour, have the first
claim upon you. What do I want of
you, you say. I want to ask you a
question. Where did you get the
money you played with to night?”
“It’s none of your business.”
“I presume not. But as there are no
witnesses to this interesting conversa
tion I will venture an opinion that you
robbed the bank.”
The young man took a step forward,
but Pony stood his ground, using the
interval to light another cigarette.
“I will also venture an opinion, Mr.
Rowell, and say that the money came
as honestly into my pocket as It did
into yours. ”
“That wouldn’t be saying much for
It I have the advantage of you, how
ever, because the nine points are in my
favor. I have possession."
“What are you following'me for? To
give me up?”
“You admit the robbery, then?”
“I admit nothing. ”
"It won’t be used against you. As I
told you, there are no witnesses. It
will pay you to be frank. Where did
you get the money?”
“Where many smother man gets it
Out of the bank.”
"I thought so. Now, Forme, you’re
not such a fool as you look—or act.
You know where all that sort of thing
leads to. You haven’t any chance. All
the rules of the game are against you.
You have no more show than you had
against me to-night Why not chuck
it before it is too late?”
"It is easy for you to talk like that
when you have my money in your
pocket”
"But that simply is another rule of
the game. The money of a thief is
bound to go into some one else’s pocket.
Who ever enjoys the cash ultimately?
He never does. Now if you had the
money in your pocket what would you
do?”
"X woula go Dactc to wemsn s ana
Have another try.”
“I believe you,” said Eoweli with,
for the first time, some cordiality in
his voice. He recognized a kindred
spirit in this young man. “Neverthe
lers it would be a fool thing to do. You
have two chances before you. You
can become a sport as I am, and spend
your life In gambling-rooms. Or you
can become what is called a respecta
ble business man. But you can’t be
both. In a very short time you will
not have the choice. You will be found
out and then you can only be what 1
am -probably not as successful as 1
have been. If you supplement bank
robbery to your other accomplish
ments, then you will go to prison or,
what is perhaps worse, to Canada.
Which career are you going to choose?”
“Come down to plain facta. What do
you mean by all this talk? If I say 1*11
quit gambling do you mean that you
will return to me the thousand dollars
and call the other thousand square?"
"If you give me your word of honor
that you will quit"
“And if I don’t what then?"
“Then on Monday I will hand over
this money to the bank and advise
them to look into your accounts”
“And suppose my accounts prove to
be all right what then?”
Rowell shrugged his shoulders. “In
that remote possibility I will give the
thousand dollars to you and play you
another game for it”
"1 see. Which means that you cheat
ed to-night”
“If you like to put it that way.”
“And what if 1 denounced you as a
self-confessed cheat?”
"It wouldn’t matter to me. 1 wouldn’t
take the trouble to deny it Nobody
would believe you.”
“You're a cool hand, Pony, I ad
mire your cheek. Still, yoj^e got some
silly elements in you,"
y&KHy trying to reform
ako aav usiatak*
“Oh, you me
you? Donlt
that. It is Mellish’s idea, not mine. I
don’t believe in you for a moment."
The young man laughed. He reflect
ed for a few seconds, then said: “I'll
take your offer. You give me back the
money and I will promise never to
gamble again in any shape or form.”
“You will return the cash to the
bank, if you took it from there?”
“Certainly. I will put it back the
first thing on Monday morning.”
“Then here is your pile,” said
Howell, handing him the roll of billa
Forme took it eagerly and, standing
where the light struck down upon him,
counted the bills, while Rowell looked
on silently with a cynical smile on his
lips.
“Thank you,” said the young man;
“you’re a good fellow, Rowell.”
“I’m obliged for your good opinion.
I hope you found the money correct?”
“Quite right,” said Forme, flushing
a little. “I hope you did not mind my
counting it. Merely a business habit,
you know.”
“Well stick to business habits, Mr.
Forme. Good night.”
Rowell walked briskly back to Mel
lish’s. Forme walked toward the
depot and found that there was a train
for Chicago at four in the morning.
He had one clear day and part of
another before he was missed, and as
it turned out all trace of him was lost
in the big city. The bank found about
six thousand dollars missing. Two
years after, news came that Forme
had been shot dead in a gambling hell
in southern Texas.
“We are two first-class fools,” said
Rowell to Mellish, “and I for one don’t
feel proud of the episode, so we’ll say
nothing more about it.”—Luke Sharp,
in Detroit Free Press.
WOMEN BORROWERS.
The Trouble la They Never Return Any [
thing; Ton Lend Them.
“What! You remember to return my
pencil? Marvelous! Surely, you ought
:o be set on a pedestal as a model for
the rest of your sex.”
Thus spoke a man of whom a little
blonde creature had borrowed a Faber
No. 2, says the Philadelphia Times.
“Well,” she laughed, “I don’t know
whether I would have been any more
thoughtful than the rest of womankind
if I had any place to put It.”
“Ah! that accounts for it, then, for
I thought there must be some good rea
son for that unusual honesty,” went on j
that horrid man.
“What a woman borrows, whetbet.it
Is money or mucilage, I never expect to
see the loaned commodities again.
When she says; ‘May I borrow so-and
so?’ it is only a polite way of asking for
it, and the man who thinks he will ever
get it back knows nothing of feminine
human nature. Umbrellas are common
property for all mankind, but masculine
rapacity stops right there. Not so with
the members of the fair sex.
“They look on everything as borrow
able, which is synonymous for possess
able. They don’t think it wrong to ap
propriate others’ property so long as
they have prefaced its transference by
the polite: ‘May I borrow?’ Books go
for a day and remain for a lifetime.
Money is never once mentioned after
the primary transaction, and the small
things of life, such as scissors, pens and
pencils, are gobbled up with an uncon
scious naivete that staggers the lender.
If a return is even hinted at one would
suppose mortal offense has been given,
and the only way to keep in your pos
session anything you really value is to
swear you haven’t such a thing when
the dulcet: ‘May I borrow, just for a
ihort time please?’ falls on your ear.”
THE CHISHOLM TRAIL.
Bleaching Skull* Mark the Moat famous
of Old Cattle Roads.
The most famous of the old cattle
roads was, according to Scribner's Mag
azine, the “Chisholm Trail.” It was
named after John Chisholm, an eccen
tric frontier stockman, who was the
first to drive over it. Chisholm lived at
Paris, Tex., was a bachelor, and had
many thousand head of cattle on the
ranges in the southern part of the state.
From two hundred to four hundred
yards wide, beaten into bare earth, it
reached over hill and through valley
for over six hundred miles (including
its southern extension), a chocolate
band amid the green prairies, uniting
the north and the south. As the march
ing hoofs wore it down and the wind
blew and the waters washed the earth
away it became lower than the sur
rounding country and was flanked by
little banks of sand drifted there by the
wind. Bleaching skulls and skeletons
of weary brutes who had perished on
the journey gleamed along its borders,
and here and there was a low mound
showing where some cowboy had lit
erally “died with his boots on. ” Occa
sionally a dilapidated wagon frame told
of the breakdown, and spotting the
emerald reaches on either side were the
barren circle-like “bedding grounds,”
each a record that a great herd had
there spent a night.
The weight of un empire passed over
the trail, leaving its mark for decades
to come. The traveler of to-day sees
the wide, trough-like course, with
ridges being washed down by the rains
and with fences and farms of the
settlers and the more civilized red men
intercepting its track, and forgets the
wild and arduous life of which it was
the exponent. It was a life now out
grown and which will never again be
rwiRsible.
THE MIDDLE CAR IS SAFEST.
How a Commercial Traveler Secure* a
Minimum of Risk.
A commercial traveler tells the Wash
ington Star that he is very particular
as to the car he selects. “I travel thou
sands of miles a year,” he says, ‘‘and
have made it a rule to observe in the
accounts of railroad accidents which
cars of the trains are most often de
molished. The result of my experience
—for I have been in a dozen 6mash-ups
—and observation is that the middle
cars are the safest. I never under any
circumstances ride in the rear car. 1
avoid the car next to the baggage ear,
though this is selected by many as the
safest. The greatest danger at present
in railroad traveling is telescoping.
When a man has been in a wreck and
afterward seen the engine of the col
liding train half way inside of the rear
car, or rather what*s left of it, it im
presses him most forcibly. The baggage
car is usually heavily loaded, and in
the collision its weight, together with
the ponderous engine, generally
smashes the next car to splinters,
while the central cars are comparative
ly uninjured. When the train is de
railed the baggage car and next coach,
as a rule, go over. The roadbeds of our
great transcontinental lines are so
solid, each section is so carefully ex
amined, the rolling 6tock is so much
improved that a broken rail, broken
wheel or axle and like mishaps are re
duced to a minimum.”
BRIDAL BLUSHES.
Not A1 way* Caused by the Emotion* ot
the Occasion.
When you see in the paper a nice lit
tie story about blushing brides, dou't
think the blushes are always caused by
the emotions of the occasion. 1 thought
so ohec, but I discovered a secret tin
other evening at a wedding that is real
ly too good to keep
The wedding party was in the vesti
f Imle of the church awaiting the strains
f the wedding march, when they
should advance to the altar. Then i*
was that the bride, anxious about. hc»
I hair, her veil or her train. Was very
pale, says the Boston News, llor maid |
of honor noticed this, and playfully, a
I thought, pinched the fair one’s check
But wh>t scorned a careless action was
evidently premeditated, for no sooner
did the bride's cheeks show u tinge o.
link than the maid of honor proceeded
to manipulate her own fair features ;
and her action was imitated by ail Hu
iride maids. Then the organist playei
and the party proceeded to the alt.tr.
RABBIT ROUND-UPS,
How the California Vlneyardlsta
Deal with the Pests.
An Annu&i Gathering at Which Thou*
•anda or Jack Babbits Are Cor
ralled and Exter
minated.
“The people out in Fresno county,
Cal., are getting ready for their annual
round-up and slaughter of jack rab
bits,” said a leading vlneyardist of Fres
no to a New York Sun man recently.
"If it wasn’t for this early spring sys
tematic raid upon these destructive
pests we would have scarcely a vine
yard or an orchard left in southern
California. On one day in March, gen
erally between the 10th and 15th, the
grape and small-fruit growers collect
together in their respective districts
and beat the country thoroughly to
drive the swarming jack rabbits from
their hiding places into immense wire
inclosed corrals, where they are at the
mercy of their pursuers, and are
knocked in the head with clubs by the
thousand. I have known fifteen thou
sand jack rabbits to be slaughtered in
this way in a few hours. More than
that, these rabbits are such prolific
breeders that every one killed in March
or April means that there will be twen
ty-five or thirty less than there would
have been if the rabbits knocked in the
head in the spring had been permitted
to live until the fall. These round-ups
are the only means we have ever dis
covered by which the jack rabbit pest
has been kept down.
The rabbits are unusually iona oi the
young shoots of the grapevines, when
they make their appearance in the
spring, and of the tender bark of prune,
plum and other fruit trees, when the
sap starts. I have known twenty
acres of vineyard ruined in a single
night by the chopping of the shoots by
these animals, and whole orchards of
valuable bearing trees killed by the
rabbits girding them. Poison, traps
and guns failed to kill off the rabbits
fast enough, and fruit growing in that
part of California could necessarily
have been to a great extent abandoned
if a Fresno county genius hadn't
evolved the corralling idea five years
ago. The rabbits are driven into the
great wire-inclosed pound by hundreds
of people—men, women and children—
closing in around them and pre
venting them from going in any
other direction, except the one
'that leads them into the corral.
Different districts have different days
for setting oirt-«B the round-up, and the
slaughter goes on' through March and
April, It is safe to say that one hun
dred thousand jack rabbits'are thus
killed every spring in that part of the
state. As at that season of the year
this big rabbit’s flesh is in excellent
condition and the animal is highly es
teemed as food a two-fold benefit is de
rived from this great yearly slaughter.
"The California Jack rabbit is the big
gest rabbit in existence, one five feet
long being not uncommon. They are as
fleet as the wind, but will sit still on
their forms, or by the roadside, until
you have almost grabbed them by their
mule-like ears, but before ycfu have
closed your fingers on them there will
be no rabbit there, but if you look thir
ty or forty yards ahead you will see
what you think is another one humped
up in a fluffy bunch, waiting for you in
the same way. But it won’t be another
rabbit. It will be the same one. They
are swift and sudden as the fleas that
swarm on them as soon as the summer
comes. These fleas get so thick upon
the jack rabbit and aye so ravenous that
they have actually reduced the long
eared, four-footed jumper to a skeleton
by the time the fall rains set in. If it
wasn’t for these regular fall rains the
fleas would be of great service to us in
destroying the rabbit pest, for the rab
bits could not stand out many days
longer against the assaults of the lively
parasites. But the fall rains are fatal
to the fleas. The water kills them and
washes them off the rabbits and the lat
ter pitch in our vineyards and orchards
and grain with sharpened appetites. ■’
THE PAPERING OF WALLS.
An Ancient Chinese method of Decorat
ing Houses.
Wall papers were little used in Eu
rope before the eighteenth century,
though they had been long before that
applied to house decoration by the Chi
nese. Those that were first manufac
tured in the west were adaptations of
design from Italian brocades, and at
first they were used in an unobjection
able manner, just as hangings of the
costlier material were employed,
namely: To fill spaces between obvious
structural lines; and, so applied, no ob
jection could be made to their use. On
the contrary, the invention brought it
within the means of almost every
householder to fill blank wall spaces
with agreeable tracery and harmonious
color. . , , .
The cornice, frieze and dado remained
intact; coigns were protected with
molding or plaster work, and the in
mate might feel that he was living in a
built room and not in a bandbox. But
gradually the wall features disap
peared; paper crept over everything ex
cept window and door openings, even
into the very angles of the walls, and
it is nothing uncommon now on enter
ing a saloon of considerable preteusion
and proportions to find the walls close
ly covered with paper from floor to
celling, save a narrow skirting board to
protect the plaster from the housemaid s
broom and a cornice reduced to a
meager molding._
Want Prepared to neap.
A correspondent of the Pittsburgh
Dispatch tells of a young woman who
went to the matinee prepared for the
affecting parts of the play. She carried
lightly sewed to the center of a second
handkerchief a tiny powder puff, which
she proceeded to dust with powder
from a little enameled box into which
it fitted. With the puff concealed in
the handkerchief she calmly watched
the scene progress to the agony point,
ignoring the tears that, sure enough,
began presently to stream down her
cheeks. When the curtain fell, how
ever, she took instant advantage of the
momentary reaction of the audience,
and wiping her face with one handker
chief, with the second she cleverly
dusted her too red nose and cheeks
with the toningdown powder, and tri
umphantly beamed upon the woSien
about her who were not so cleverly
forearmed.
A Shopkeeper with Two Price*.
1 was buying a pair of spectacles not
long ago from the man who has sold
me every pair I ever had. Several
people were standing at the counter. 1
laid down one dollar and fifty cents
and started to go. lie called me back.
“Two dollars, if you please, Mr. By
stander.”
“Why—why,” said I, in astonishment,
“I thought it was only a dollar and a
half.”
“Two dollars, sir. I never sold a
pair of spectacles in this shop for less."
I added the other half dollar, and
turned to go. Again he interrupted me.
"I wish you would step back into the
rear of the shop, Mr. Bystander. 1
have a geological specimen I want to
show you."
I followed him meekly. As soon us
we were out of hearing of ths othe -s
he shoved a half dollar into my hand.
“There’s your geological specimen
be growled." "Don’t yon ever play me
a trick like that again. You never
paid two dollars fora pair of spectacles
in your life.”
I fell that X had met a genius an 1
was humbled accordingly. —Cincinnati
Tribune. ^_
—"But when he was dressed as a
woman whatever made the officers
suspect him of being a man?” “Oil.
mercy! there was evidence enough; he
i aseed three speeial Bale signs without
looking at them."—Inter Oceen.