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PECCY BLEIGH.
I haven't a penny to bless with myself—
Lord, what a pauper am I!
I haven’t a penny to bless with myself,
I never had cared for the bothersome pelf:
But, oh, how I long for a mountain of
wealth
Since you X have met, Peggy Bleigh.
Most humble and lowly till now my es
tate—
Lord, who obscurer than I!
Most humble and lowly till now my estate,
I never had wished a more glorious fate;
But, oh, how 1 long to be famuus and
great.
Since you I have met, Peggy Bleigh.
I always have done as I chanced to see .St—
Lord, what a sinner am 11
I always have done as I chanced to see fit.
My conscience has troubled me sorra the
bit;
But, oh, how I long all Piy evil to quit
Since you I have met, Peggy Bleigh.
Contented was 1 with mv drear, empty
life—
Lord, what a cynic was 1!
Contented was X with my drear, empty
life,
And marriage 1 swore was beginning of
strife—
But, oh, how I long now to get me a wife
Since you I have met, Peggy Bleigh.
I never shall ask you the question I
would—
laird, what a duffer were 1!
I never shall ask you the question I would,
Too wealthy are you, too noble and good;
What ails me. no doubt, you have long un
derstood,
Since you I have met, Peggy Bleigh.
—Egomet, in New York Sun.
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.MOM. ABRIEL SHOBE was seat
ed astraddle o£ a log, at
O I O the end of which was a
H '“*■ hollow, out of which he
'WOW' had just taken a gallon
jug. Extracting a corn
cob from the month of the jug, he ap
plied his lips to the orifice from which
the cob had been taken, elevated the
jug, threw his head back, and, with
his gaze directed heavenward and his
thoughts fixed on the crossroads gro
cery store where the nectar had been
obtained, allowed a portion of the pre
cious contents of the jug to gurgle
down his throat. Having tested the
utmost capacity of his interior for re
ceiving and containing liquids, with
out, however, in the least appeasing
his appetite therefor, ne lowered his
jug, and, inserting the cob in the
mouth, replaced it in the hollow stump,
and, covering it with leves, resumed
his seat on the log, and soliloquized
thus:
“E£ Jim Peters thinks I'm gwiue to
le: him and Suze marry, he's mighty
mistaken. I’d like to know how Bets
and me and the childreu would git
along without old Brindle. IVe’d
starve, that's what we’d do.”
Old Brindle, as Shobe called her,
Ijiough she was only six years old, had
been given to his daughter Susan when
a calf by one of her uncles, with the
express understanding that it was to
be hers, and hers only, to do with as
she pleased. The calf had grown to be
a fine cow, whose milk and butter
formed about half the living of Shobe’s
family.
Jim Peters was a one-horse school
teacher, who divided his time about
equally between teaching school, loaf
ing around Bill Stickney’s grocery, and
hunting and fishing.
“The ornery cuss,” continued Shobe,
“he's ashamed to show his face in day
light, and so he comes a sneakin’
around in the night. ’Feard uv ghosts,
too. Wish I had a lookin’-glass here
to see what sort uv a ghost I’d make:”
and, picking up a sheet that he had
brought with him. he wrapped it
around him in the most approved
gnost style.
“I guess I’ll make a bully old ghost
in the dark,” said he; and. resuming
his seat on the log in his ghostly at
tire, he awaited the approach o£ dark
ness, which was now at hand.
The earth having at length donned
its mantle of darkness, ihobe came to
a perpendicular, remarking at the
same time:
‘‘X guess it's about time Jim wuz
navigatin’ along this way.”
Starting for the road along which
lie expected Jim to “navigate,” on
reaching the stump in which, his jug
was hid, the temptation was too strong
to resist; so reaching down, he drew
it forth once more, remarking as he
did so: “I guess I’ll have to give
Sweet Lips another buss before I go;”
and, turning it up, took another hearty
swig. Returning the jug to its place
of concealment, lie resumed his ghost
ly march in the direction of the road.
'^Leaning his back against a tree that
grew near the road, or, rather, path
way, along which . he expected liis
prospective, though undesired, son-in
law to pass, he waited with most ex
emplary patience the arrival of that
interesting individual for the space of
perhaps two minutes and a half.
At the end of that time his pa
tience being exhausted, he eased him
self down to a sitting posture, his
back being still against the tree, iji
which position he remained for an
other two minutes and a half, when
his patience and backbone being both
exhausted, his head dropped over to
one side, his body in a state of limp
ness followed in the direction of the
head, and the next moment Gabriel
Shobe was reclining on the ground,
from which, and immediately under
him, some half-dozen short' stubs pro
jected.
Scarcely had he struck the ground
when he was asleep, and snoring with
an energy in striking contrast to that
usually displayed by him in the ordi
nary avocations of life, the sound
whereof could only be compared to the
combined efforts of half a dozen hand
saws ripping their way crosswise
through as many dry boards. This
music was not allowed to -waste its
sweetness on the desert air, for, many
minutes before, the footsteps of au
approaching auditor were arrested by
the sound.
"What’s that!” whispered Jim Pe
ters to himself, as he came to a sud
den halt, while a creeping sensation
pervaded Ills cuticle. Peering in the
darkness, he discovered a white-look
ing object lying at the root of a tree
some twenty yards in front of him,
from which the sounds evidently ema
nated*, Spellbound, he stood rooted to
the spot, his hair bristling, his flesh,
creeping, and his knees smiting to
gether.
About this time the stubs, on the
points of which Stobe was so grace
fully. though somewhat uncomforta
bly, reclining, were beginning to give
color to his dreams. He dreamed that
be was in the infernal regions, and,
while eugaged in the discussion of
some grave theological subject with
his satanic majesty, a little demon
came at him with a red hot pitchfork.
Springing to his feet with an unearth
ly yell, that sundered the bonds of
.Tim Peters’ enchantment and uprooted
his feet from the ground, the terrified
pedagogue wheeled to the right-about,
and broke for home with the speed of
the wind.
Shobe,'smarting from the wounds of
the imaginary pitchfork, and, fearing
another thrust, started hastily in the
same direction. Catching sight of the
sheet which, fastened around his neck,
was streaming in the wind behind,
and, forgetful of the fact of his hav
ing arrayed himself ns h ghost pre
vious to his descent to the regions be
low, the appriation lent additional fear
to the already terror stricken Shobe,
and he fairly flew.
Away went Peters, with the unearth,
ly creature of some sort in his wake;
and on came Shobe. with a legion of
demons, as he imagined, in his rear.
Peters, in going down the slant ot
a hill, stubbed his toe and, falling for
ward, fainted as he struck the ground.
Shobe, blowing like a porpoise, hum
bered past with slightly diminished
speed, and with fright aggravated, if
possible, by the persistence of his im
aginary pursuers. Presently his speed
having diminished to such a degree
that the sheet no longer retaining its
horizontal position caught on a limb of
a fallen tree in such a way as not only
to arrest his onward course, but to
jerk him around with his face in the
direction of his imaginary pursuers.
On being thus brought face to face
with the sheet, the recollection flashed
upon his mind at once as to how it
came to be attached to him, and the
ludicrousness of the idea of liis get
ting so badly scared at what be bad
intended to frighten another with,
caused him to explode in a volley of up
roarous laughter.
Wrapping the sheet around him, he
started homeward, and had proceed
ed but a short distance, when Jim Pe
ters, having recovered from his swoon,
hove in sight.
Catching sight of the queer looking
object approaching in the opposite di
rection, Peters took to the woods, when
Shobe, with a demoniac yell, dashed
after him. But, while fear lent wings
to Peters' heels, the want of that stim
ulus on Shobe’s part enabled the fright
ened pedagogue to distance his pur
suer, who presently gave up the chase
and went home, not forgetting to vis
it the hollow stump cn the way in or
der to satisfy himself that the jug
hadn’t been disturbed in his absence.
Sunrise next morning found Peters,
with his worldly possessions done up
in a handkerchief, wending his way in
the direction of the setting sun. The
most authentic accounts we have of
him since then are to the effect that,
after serving a session or two in the
Legislature in one of the Western
States, he was sent to the penitentiary
for stealing horses. After serving out
his time in the penitentiary, he prac
ticed'medicine a while; then drove a
stage; and at the present time is a resi
dent of Utah, where, with three slab
sided, lantern-jawed women attached
to him as wives, he has every reason
in the world for wishing himself back
in the penitentiary again.—New York
Weekly.
ALMOST
The C'Cremeasi of a Thonshllem Youth
Averts an Acceptable Proposal.
It was a beautiful evening in the
gladsome spring. A majestic calm per
vaded ail things. The sweet-scented
zephyrs danced in and out the sighing
elms and weeping willows. The warb
lers gay had long gone to rest, whil^
the daisy and the bluebell bad close '
their tiny heads and lay wrapped it
slumber; but there was one little blue!
bell still awake, and she was eominj
down the garden path with him—th?
catch of the town—by hej side. Silenl
and colorful, the countryside lay
stretched before them, and over th?
summit of a distant hill came th«
beams of a new moon, like streamers
of gold and silver.
“Yes,” he continued, his arm mean
while moving dangerously near to her
sylphlike waist, “it is indeed- a glorious
night. . See the lily’s drooping head.
She has gone to slumberland along
with her other fair sisters. Not a sound
breaks oil the languid air. All nature
seems lost in happy dreams.”
She drew a wee bit nearer to his
manly form and tailor-made suit. Was
he gding to—to- Her heart was al
most In her mouth, fluttering madly.
Now was the time—the happy time—
the time she had longed and prayed
for.
“Beautiful!’’ she answered in dulcet
tones, dropping her dainty eyelashes,
but still keeping a watchful eye on
him. “One could almost weave a ro
mance here, in this spot.”
Did he comprehend? She held her
breath.
“Yes,” he continued, "and look at the
bright, twinkling stars. See how they
peep down like tiny angels keeping
guard over our hearts."
Hearts! He Was surely coming to it
now.
“And look at fair Luna. She is mag
nificent to-night in her silvery bright
neSSrWlt with all her beauty she is not
as fair as—” I
“What?" asked the trembling bluej
bell. i
She nestled a little closer.
He dropped his eyes and gazed into
hers for moment, but that moment
was euougbt He had nearly fallen.
Now for a little strategy, and with his
eyes glued on the distant moon he went
on—"as she was last night.”
And they walked slowly on.—Wash
ington Post.
Keeping Ike I>ate«.
Alexander V/ilkinshaw, a well
known man of London, uses las arm
as a genealogical tree. It has been
tattooed with dates. In addition to
his own and his wife’s birth dates,
and the record of their marriage, he
has the name and date of the birth
ot each of his children.
A FRANK ADMISSION. X
I do not care when others fall
Crushed by this worldly strife; /
It does not bother me at all—s '
I lead the selfish life.
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HAPPY IGNORANCE. '***.
"As you make your bed. so must you
lie iu it,” quoth Aunt Matilda to her
butterfly niece. •
"Then it is lucky I never learned to
make beds,” came the frivolous re
sponse.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ,
OBSTINATE YOUTH. :
"Chawley’s hahd tip.”
“What’s the twoubie?” *■
“Why, he wefuses to do the only
thing in the world he could do.”
“What is it?”
“Be a dwessmaker’s model.”—San
Francisco Call.
RELIEVED HIMSELF. ...
Judge—“You are charged with pro
fanity.”
Prisoner—“I am not.”
Judge—“You are, sir! What do ybu
mean?”
Prisoner—“I was, but I got rid of
It.”—Cleveland Leader.
TOO MANY FINES.
“When it comes to running a racing
automobile,” said the man in the big
goggles, “it is certainly a fine art.”
“I should say it is a fine art,” re
sponded the mile-a-minute chauffeur.
“You have to pay a fine about every
twenty miles.”—Columbus Dispatch.
SOMETHING WRONG.
"A New York girl has been arrested
for trying to blackmail her father.”
“Well, the New York girl who doesn't
know enough to get w-hat she wants
out of her father without blackmailing
him doesn’t deserve to have a parent.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A NEW ONE NEEDED.
Mr. Nagget—“A man is as old as lie
feels, they say, and I nssure you your
extravagant ideas make me feel-”
Mrs. Nagget—“And a woman is as
old as she looks. But, thank goodness,
I can never be as old as this bonnet of
mine looks.’’—Philadelphia Press.
WORK IN PROSPECT.
“If you keep on,” said the credu
lous layman, “you will find cures for
all diseases that flesh is heir to. Then
what will you do?”
“Then,” said the scientist, “we will
proceed to seek cures for the new dis
eases to which our remedies have
given rise.”—Washington Star.
THE FACT.
He was telling of a sad catastrophe
where a bucket of earth went crashing
down upon a laborer in a well.
“Oh, it was pitiful!” exclaimed, a
young lady listener.
“No, it wa'n’t, marm,” was the quick
response. “It was a pailful. I was
there, and seen the whole on't.”—Bos
ton Transcript.
HER IDEA AND HIS.
Miss Running — “Every woman
should work hard for a husband-”
Mr. Marryat—“That’s what I say, but
my wife’s so lazy-”
Miss Running—“You misunderstand
me. I mean she should work hard to
get a husband, but after she gets him
she shouldn’t have to work at all.”—
Philadelphia Press. __—
A NONENTITY.
“Beg pardon, but are you a waller?”
“Private detective?” jjf '
“Not a guest?” •
“What are you, then?”
“Oh, I’m only the man who is giving
the party.’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
UNDER A STRAIN.
“But,” asked Miss Mattie Nay, “did
you never have stage fright?”
“Only once,” replied the actor, “and
that was before an audience of only
live or six people.”
“My! Where was that?”
“Out West. You see, the audience
informed us that if our show didn’t
suit them'they’d fill us full of holes.”—
Philadelphia Press.
“THEM,” NOT “IT,”
Dumley—“Say, old man, I bought a
birthday present for my fiancee to-day
and I'd wish you’d take it home and
let your wife see it.”
Benedick—“What for?”
Dumley—“Well, when I looked at
the thing in the store I thought it
was a necklace, but they sent a pair
of them home and I’m sure they’re
not I'racelets.”—Philadelphia Press.
A NEW INDUSTRY.
Agent—“I will just leave this pros
pectus, sir, and when you read it
through carefully, you will see that
you cannot possibly do without our
company, if you want to- make sure of
tlie future of your wife and little
ones." i
Busiuess Man—“What's your spec',
laity?”
Agent—“We Insure you against loss
on your life insurance policies.”—Bal
timore American.
A Quod Suggestion.
It has been suggested in England
that every automobilist be compelled
to carry a coop of live chickens in his
car. From this he could make good
any vacancies caused in barnyard
flocks by stray fowls disputing his
right of way.
The Summer Girl Win*.
The doctors have found that kissing
in winter is especially dangerous.
Those who can should arrange to do
most of their klsing in the good old
summer ti,me.-Xo!a3« Blade.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW,
The Irish dramatist, iu his library.
AN EARLY TYPEWRITTEN.
So widespread and general Is the use
of the typewriter in nearly every phase
of the world’s activity to-day, that it is
difficult for us to realize that it is
strictly a modern invention, and that
the first practical commercial writing
machine was placed upon the market
little over a quarter of a century ago.
Notwithstanding that the main ele
ments of the mechanism had been in
vented by the early sixties, they were
not practically embodied in one ma
chine till the first Sholes typewriter
appeared in 1873. Curiously enough,
Mr. Sholes collaborating later with
Glidden aud Soule, was induced to at
tempt the construction of a typewriter
by an article iu the Scientific . Ameri
can, describing an invention of John
Pratt, called the “pterotype,” a curious
but rather useless form of writing
machine. The accompanying engrav
ing is of one of the earlier forms of
typewriter, broadly a predecessor of
the present day machine. It was con
structed by R. T. P. Allen, who was
granted a patent covering the inven
tion in 1870.
In Allen’s machine the carriage is
moved back for a new line by means
of a cord, pulley and weight, the last
named sliding in a suitable casing at
the inside of the frame, and in the
other direction, by a cord and button,
the weight serving in connection with
a double pawl to move the paper later
ally, with each marking of a type,
while the button serves to bring the
carriage and paper back to admit the
MUST BE ON PEACE TREATY.
The treaty of peace between Japan
and Russia was not officially complete
until the signature aud seal of Emperor
II
THE MIKADO’S SEAL AND SIGNATURE,
Mutsuhito, the Japauese Mikado, was
affixed thereto.
Iu the reproduction of this signature
and seal the signature of the Emperor
is placed at the top in- two symbols.
It is simply the word “Mutsuhito.”
Then comes the great seal that has
been used for centuries, and is writ
ten in the old Chinese characters. The
A TYPEWRITER OF 187G.
forward feeding of the latter for the
next line. The types are arranged in a
circular “basket” so as to strike a com
mon centre, and are connected by
curved type rods and levers with keys
disposed in a maimer similar to the ar
rangement in the ordinary typewriter
of to-day. The movable carriage and
paper feeding mechanism Is arranged
at the upper or tqp part of the frame
work, while in front of the same tipi
keys are disposed in the step-shaped
manner shown. The keys, arranged
according to frequency and conven
ience of use, are connected by down
ward descending wire rods with a co.<|.
responding number of parallel levers
that are fulcrumed to cross pivots of
the frame and extended backward, car
rying at their rear ends the type-rods,
which are curved iu an upward and
Inward direction toward a common
centre, being guided by suitable guide
plates.—Scientific American.
Kantern College* and Western Critics.
I have always had an Idea that the
undergraduate body at Harvard and
the other big Eastern colleges was of
a sort different from that with which
I had been brought iuto^familinr con
tact In'the fresh water colleges of the
West. But the Harvard bunch had a
strangely familiar look. They were
coming on every trolley car the day
we were in Cambridge, and while the
proportion was not so great as at
Washburn, for instance, there were a
good many who looked as though they
had yet to take their first lesson in
sleeping in a night shirt. And I con
cluded, after a careful scrutiny of the
bunch, the Bud Hickses do not all mat
riculate at K. U.—Topeka Capital.
A Really Knda Bull.
During the bull fight at Santa Mon
ica a savage animal kicked a genteel
matador in the stomach and otherwise
was real rude to him. This is an out
rage and the bull should be given a
hard slap with a shingle.-Los Angeles
(Cal.) Times.
symbols in this square, freely trans
lated, would read:
‘•Supreme Ruler of Great Dal Nip
pon.”
Formerly Japan was known as Nip
pon, which is the name of the largest
of the Japanese islands; and Great Dai
Nippon would mean the entire Empire
of Japan.
The last time this signature and seal
were aiilxed to a great international
treaty as the result of a war was at
the conclusion , of the Chiuese-Japan:
ese war in ISOS', when Li Hung Chang,
for China, and Marquis Ito, for Japan,
concluded a peace treaty at Shimou
eseki.—Philadelphia Record.
Titled Vegetarian*.
Vegetarianism is becoming very pop
ular in English society circles. Lady
Windsor ami Lady Gwendoiin Herbert
are both rigid vegetarian*. Lord and
Lady de Meyer eat nothing but nuts
and vegetables at their dinner parties,
and Lady Essex imputes the recovery
of her health to her strict vegetarian
diet. Lord Charles Breseford and
Lord Buchan are also converts to veg
otarianisra, and in many of the great
houses, top, fruit luncheons have been
,a popular feature (Airing (he fast year,
—North Amerlcau Journal of Homeo
pathy.
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The Kverlaating Hoodoo.
The desperate man, weary of life,
opened an upper window in the sky
scraper and threw himself out.
He landed on top of a ioad of mat
tresses with which a teamster hap
pened to be driving along at the mo
ment.
"Hang the luck!" he exclaimed, as he
rose to his feet, shook himself, and
found he was practically uninjured.
“I might have known this would have
been the result of jumping from the
thirteenth floor!’’—Chicago Tribune.
Twenty-flve per cent, of the student*
at Finland’s university are women.
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JOHN J. CARROLL, who for years,
Das been in the firm of Looney & Cab
roll, has formed a partnership with '
his son, WILLIAM J. CARROLL, and
they are now ready to receive orders for
Plumbing,Tinning, Steam
and Gas Fitting
at their OFFICE, 41 Mill street, tele
phone 284-1, or at the store of William
H. Hibler, South street, city.
The Senior member of this partner
ship, JOHN J. CARROLL, has been
plumbing in this city for twenty-nine
years, and his reputation as a plumber
is too well known for any further com
ment. 2538.
Established 1830.
George E.Voorhees
MORRISTOWN, N. J.
Hardware and Iron Merchant
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Carpenter and Builder
CARPENTER WORK IN ALL
ITS BRANCHES.
Estimates Cheerfully Given on all kinds of
work In my Line.
Office and Shop on Morris street, below the
Depot.
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