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LIBERTY, MISSISSIITI, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1895.
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CARO.-PROFEMIONAl, It.
GEO. F. WEBB,
Attorney at Law,
Offload tbe Butler BuUdlaf, Liberty,
Aaute Ceaaty, Miss. ll-V-M
D. C BRAMLETT,
lfesj d feir il lis,
WOODVILLB. MI8&
Will practice ia all tbe Ooarta U
Amite and adjoining ooeaUe,aiia U
uprsm Court at Jaokaoa. l-t
theo.' Mcknight,
Attorney at Law,
SUMMIT, MISS.
Will praotlo la all tha Courts al
llke aad adjoining counties, and ia
tba Supreaia aad Faderal Courts al
Jaokaoa.
J. R. GALTNEY,
Attorney at Law,
I LIBERTY, MISS.
All bslnes confided to kU ear will
saoelv prompt attention.
E. H.ATCLIFF,
Attorney at Law,
GLGSTER, MISS.
Will praatloa la all tba Ooena al
Amis aad adjoining eoaBtlesaaa la t)M
tapraaaa Caart at Jaokaoa. lHi
H H. Ratcliff, Yf. H. Wilkihmh,
j Uloater, Miss. Qloster, Mis.
! RiTCLIFF&WILRllON,
Attorneys-at-Law
i LIBERTY. MISS.
Will practice in all tbecourtsof Amlta
and adjoining countiea and in tha Su
preme Court at Jaokton.
WILL A. PARSONS,
Attorney-at'Law,
QLOSTER, lit: MISSISSIPPI.
Will practice in the court of Amlu
and adjoining counties, in both criminal
aad civil case, and in the Supromi
Court
Office In tberearof Ratcliff drugstore.
t Louis, Missouri.
ft ft Mcdowell, i : a rent,
Amlta County, Mist.
HOTEL
And Livery Stable
.LIBERTY, MISS.
The undersigned bega to announce
that she ia bow prepared to roceite
boarder and entertain the traveling
public tare the beat the market af
fords. She is also prepared to meet tho
wants of the publiu in the way of feed
ing, stablinj and grooming stock which
may be entrusted to ber care. Charges
reasonable. Give me a trial.
TIRS. V. V. WEBB.
THIS PAPER IS ON FILE
in CHICAGO
H5i nm york
-it ru ostki or-
JITS HOLD-OUT.
BE LeadrUle
ataire pulled out
of Webster sta
tion one even
ing after sup
per with twelve
"pilgrims" for
the city in the
clouds. Web
ater was the
end of the track,
and the route
from there to
the carbonate
camp lay over
the summit of
Kenosha mono
tain, through
the northern
end of the South
park and across
the famous Red
hill, a doubly signi6cant title by rea
son of the color of the soil and tbe
bloody nurders committed there by the
Mexican bandits, the Kspinosoa. From
Red hill the road again enters the
Sooth park, passes through the old
town of Fair play, once bointeroue with
the gayety of pioneer gold diggers, and
now given over to Chinamen, thence to
Iluckskin Joe and over the Mosquito
pass.
Red hill was the danger point on the
first division of the road. Near the
summit is a little basin where the road
is completely hidden from view on all
tides. Little gulches lead up to this
spot from the South park, affording
every opportunity for road agents to
reach the place unseen and to likewise
make their escape. "Pilgrims" for
Leadville usually were supplied with
money, and a great deal of wealth
originally intended for investment in
the carbonate camp was turned over to
gentlemanly persons who encountered
the stage in the little basin on Red hill
The individual who sat on the dusty
old Concord coach and pulled the rib
bons over six bronchos between Web
ster and r airplay was known as Jim.
I made his acquaintance while we were
at dinner in the rough board "eating
house" at Webster, lie was a tall,
slim, muscular man with a swarthy
complexion, dark eyes, and a heavy
mustache black as jet from the copious
use of dye. He Wore high-topped
boots with extremely high heels, and
his feet were small and delicately
shaped. His trousers were of gorgeous
plaid material, the bottoms being worn
inside his boot-tops. A wido-brimmed,
white slouch hat was cocked rakishly
on the side of his head. Some garish
jewelry adorned the front of his waist
coat There was a jaunty air about
him which was less pronounced by rea
son of the stiff and awkward way be
carried his arms; I attributed this to
the natural effectof driving six spirited
horses for years over a mountain road.
He had formerly been a gentleman
of fortune, and at one time in his ca
reer had amassed a considerable sum of
money in the game of chance known
as draw poker. When he was at the
height of his prosperity another gen
tleman of fortune, late of Texas, drifted
unostentatiously Into camp and caused
the report to be circulated that he was
aching for a game. Jim undertook to
relieve the gentleman of the pain
he was suffering on that account,
and they met in the back room of
Undo Hilly Coleman's Palace of Fash
Ion on Main street.
There was a silent controversy In
the early part of the game caused by
a remark of Jim's to tho effeot that
"people from Texas seemed to have
more luck than a Chinaman. "
The gentleman from Texas demurred
to this and said there was no such
thing as luck ia draw poker; the
chance features of the game, he said,
had all been eliminated by the applica-
JIM KKCOONIZF.D THK CONTRIVANCE.
tion of skill and science. Ho then
proceeded to demonstrate his asser
tion, which he did to perfection. At
the end of six hours Jim's earthly pos
sessions consisted of the suit of clothes
he was wearing; everything else he
had owned in the world had passed
into the hands of the skillful and
scientific gentleman from Texas.
The Fairplay gambler arose from the
table and relieved himself of some
choice profanity, most of whioh was
directed against himself. He declared
that he was "better qualified to drive a
stage than to pose as a gentleman of
fortune." The superintendent of the
stage line, who was present, jocosely
offered Jim a job, and the penniless
(rambler in a spirit of bravado accepted
It, and declared then and there that he
would never touch the "pasteboards"
again as long as he lived.
The gentleman from Texas took his
departure as unostentatiously as he
had come, but leaving behind him in
hi room at the hotel a peculiar wire
and elastic contrivance which puzzled
the brain of the landlord to determine
its use. Several persons to whom he
exhibited it declared they hod never
seen anything like It before, but Jim
at once recognized it as a contrivance
known as a hold-out, by means of
which a player retained cards in his
possession, secreted in his sleeves,
which should be In tho deck.
. As JIra waa the only person in Fair
play who had anything like an inti
mate ftequatutMioe with, the scientist
from Texas, the landlord presented
3r
worked the former fifcanefcd rrrltV
Jim's first Impulse was to secrete the
hold-out upon hia person and seek re
venge upon the unsuspecting miners
in the gulch, but be remembered that
he had hired himself to the stage com
pany and forsworn gambling, lie was
a man of his word, and a stage driver
he became. It was a monotonous life
until the road agenta began to pay fre
quent 'visits to the line, and Jim liked
it The only thing that disturbed hit
serenity was the recollection of the
gentleman from Texas. If he could
but once meet that scientist face to
face l.:fe would take on new charms for
him.
I bad a seat beside Jim on the Lead
ville coach, and as the horses crawled
slowly up the grade of Kenosha
taln, preparatory to a wild dash dnwa
the other side into the South park, I
remarked to him that it was going to
le a pleasant night. He replied that
yoa never could tell mnch about night
in that country until the next day; he
had seen nights just as promising as
this one turn out real bad before day
break. The very best of meteorologi
cal predictions were likely to fail in
country so thickly Infested with gen
tlemen of the road.
I expressed a desire to have a good
view of Red hill as we crossed that fa
mous elevation, and wondered If tha
moon would be down before we got
there. Jim vouchsafed the informa
tion that the moon would be up, but
added that he had known of people's
appetites for scenery being permanent
ly destroyed by gazing on Red hill by
moonlight
I was sound asleep with my head on
Jim's shoulder when he nudged me and
said:
"We're going up Red hill now; help
yourself to tbe scenery, an' If you'va
got ar.y valuables about yon you'd bet
ter hide 'em somewhere. We're liable
to see more things than scenery."
Then the horses came to a sudden
halt and Jim and I looked down the
muzzle of a revolver, In the steady hand
of a horseman beside the wheelers.
"Will you step down for a moment,
driver? asked theman on horseback.
Jim replied that he was just think'
Ingof getting down as he was tired ol
"WKI.I., I'LL BE DABNF.D1"
sitting. I followed him and took my
place beside him in time to see the
other passengers descend one by one
from tbe Inside of the eoac b with their
hands above their heads and takg
place in line beside us.
There were but two of the road
agents. While one of them relieved
the passen gers of their weapons and
all art Icles of value the other was in
the front boot of the stage securing
the treasure box.
When the first robber came opposite
to Jim, he drew back in surprise, ex
claiming: "Well, I'll be darned!"
For a second only he was off his.
guard, but that brief space of time was
a fatal one. A pistol cracked and ho
fell shot through the head.
"Hang, crack," went two more shots.
Roth took effect; the second road
agent reeled and fell from the boot of
the stage and Jim was lying beside the
first robber. It was the big six-shooter
of the man on the Btage that had an
swered Jim's first shot and it waa the
crack of a derringer that had termi
nated the brief battle.
Jim was wounded in the leg.
young doctor in the party stanched
the flow of blood and we proceeded on
onr way with the bodies of the two
bandits thrown into the hind boot
The shooting was shrouded in mys
tery so far as the passengers were con
cerned. They ha d seen Jim's six-shooter
taken from his holster by one of the
bandits, after which a careful search
had been made to see that he had no
Other weapon, but when we picked him
up a derringer was clasped in elthei
hand. The question was how had ha
managed to conceal them and bring
them into action at such an opportune
time? The mystery was solved when
his clothing was removed at the hotel
In Fairplay. Under his waistcoat was
the wire and elastic poker hold-out
formerly belonging to the gentleman
from Texas. The nippers for holding
the cards had been removed and a cir
cular clnsp large enough to securely
hold tho handle of a derringer had
been attached in their place. The gen
tleman to whom the contrivance origi
nally belonged was In the hind boot
His surprise on recognizing Jim ac
counted for his presence there.
Jim's leg was broken and the doctor
informed him that when he recovered
that leg would be shorter than the
other; that he would always limp when
he walked.
"It's all my own fault, Doc," said
Jim.
"I don't see how you can make that
out."
"Well, it was this way: When I let
the derringers dawn into my hands I
calculated to shoot the man in the
boot with the gun in my right hand
and take the nighest feller with my
left, but just then I recognized him as
the gent I was mostly seekln' after, a
gent from Texas who skinned me out
o' my pile with this yere hold-out, an',
Doc, the temptation was too great; I
gave it to him with my right, but it
took me too long to get a bead oa the
the other one. Hut, sRy, Doo, thli
science it 9 feat Wlig.'Mog
Hip
HETEROPHEMY.
Aa Askwar Trick for TThk-k MMTnacM
4r Bivrvm A r. Jlpotuikl.
Heterophemy, the curious disease
which consists in u.sing one word hea
meaning to use aa entirely different
one, gives rise to many amusing com
binations. An old lady living in a
town on the lladson river is thus af
flicted. She is tall and stately in ap
pearance, courtly and gracious in man
ner, and this makes her incongruous
sentences all the more ridiculous.
Strange to say, she herself is totally
unconscious of her infirmity, for the
family, friends, and even the servants
endeavor to save her from the martin
eation aha would feel.
Not long ago, when she was recover
ing from a serious illness, the bishop of
the diocese chanced to be making his
annual visitation, and at the sugges
tion of the rector, they went together
to call upon Mrs. Drew.
She was delighted to see them, and
entertained them with her usual grace
and cordiality. The conversation nat
urally touched upon her illness, and
her thankfulness at her recovery, which
for a time had been despaired of.
Presently she turned to the bishop.
saying earnestly, "My dear bishop, let
us have a little drop."
The startled prelate glanced at the
rector. He, knowing hia old friend's
infirmity, cast about in his mind for
her probable meaning.
"liishop," repeated the old lady, ser
iously, "let's have a little drop."
"Certainly, Mrs. Drew," interposed
the rector, waiting for her to make
some move which might disclose her
meaning. Hut Mrs. Drew waited ex
pectantly, also.
"If you have not your Vade Mecum
with you, there is a praver-book," ahe
said, after a moment
The rector, with a sigh of relief,
turned to the bishop. "Mrs. Drew will
be glad to have you read prayers with
her, he said quietly.
Prayers were read, and then the gen
tlcmen prepared to take leave.
Your visit has been a pleasure,"
Mrs. Drew ssid warmly. "Now, Mr.
Hclknap, won't you take this little boy
home to your dear wife, with my best
love?"
For a moment Mr. llcllfnap wondered
if she could mean the bishop, but she
relieved his mind by lifting a magnifi
cent bunch of roses from a vase on the
table.
Allied to this is another form of mis-
speech, to which most of ua are occs
sionally subject the exchange of syl
lables. A certain young lndy, who,
to her Intense mortification, often re
verses her vowels thus, says she is en
tirely nuconscious of it, even after
speaking.
One summer evening she was saun
tering with a friend toward the village
post office of the little town where
they were staying. On the way they
encountered an acquaintance with a
handful of letters.
"Ah, good evening," she said in her
peculiarly gracious, suave manner.
"Are you strailing out for your mole?"
The mystified young woman made
some inarticulate reply and passed on.
As soon as the friend could recover her
gravity ahe gasped: "I suppose you
intended to ask Miss May If she was
strolling out for her mail? '
The same young lady was relating a
sad story of various misfortunes which
had overwhelmed a dear friend.
"Think," she concluded pathetically,
"of losing husband, children, property
and home at one swell foopl" And a
bowl of laughter rent the roof. At
lantic
Th Ruling Faulon.
It was an exceedingly quiet little
game. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Itrown
were deeply interested; but the stakes
were so light that Mr. H. and Mr. H.
would have found quite as much excite
ment in dominos or tic-tac-toe.
Mr. Smith had three aces when Mrs,
Brown, with a pair of threes, called
him. It was this display of intrepidity
that led to her husband a criticism:
"You shouldn't have called, Clara,"
said he. "You should have raised or
dropped out"
"Hut if I hadn't called," replied hia
wife, ''we wouldn't have known what
he had."
"Nobody called me," remarked Mrs.
Smith, dolefully, "when I hod four
sixes"
"Well," said Mr. Smith, "we knew,
that time, we could depend on getting
the information without paying for
It" Puck.
EmbarraMlnair Ambiguous.
"There was quite a fight in front of
the store to-day," said a Rockland man
at the supper table. "Two men got
into a row, one struck the other and then
the crowd gathered. The man who was
struck ran, grabbed a cart stake and
rushed back, his eyes blazing. I thought
sure he'd knock the other man's brains
out, and I stepped right in between
them." The young heir had given over
eating his tart as the narrative pro
ceeded, and his eyes leaned right out
of his head. He was proud of hi;
father's valor, and he cried: "He
couldn't knock any brains out of you
could he, father?" The old man looked
long and curiously at the heir, but the
lad's countenance was frank and inno
cent and open. When it closed with
the tart on the inside the father gasped
slightly and resumed his supper.
Rockland Tribune.
The Dm of It,
Among the many useless invention!
thrust upon the world by people who
like to do useless things was a clock
once exhibited in Bmssels. The pe
culiar thing about this clock was that
instead of striking the hours with a
bell, it fired a pistol every hour.
"It's ingenious," said a visitor to the
exposition; "but of what use is it7
Why fire a pistol?"
"To kill time," said the witty in
renter. Harper's Young People.
H w. Afraid Of ItT
'Tlaie yer Honor, I haven't got any
lawyer.
"Never mind, Pat," said the judirc,
"the court will see that you get jus
tice."
"Faith, yer Honor," replied Pat,
"that, t what i m tvfram on '-I'm-i.
.IN THE ELECTRIC! WORLD.
The . Virginia Telephone Co., of
Norfolk, Va., having obtaiued a char
ter, has aked the Norfolk council for
a franchise permitting the company to
establish a plant Its ofiioers guaran
tee efficient service at two-thirds of
present rates.
Aa English chemist named Arm
strong asserts it as his belief that no
chemical action ever takes piace except
in the presence of some substance cap
able of being decomposed by electric
ity, and that therefore all chemical
phenomena are electrical
Prof. Lucien L Make has succeed
ed, it ia said, in establishing electrical
communication bv wire between the
land and a vessel anchored several
miles out in the ocean. Prof. Blake ia
a Kansas man and occupies the chair
of physics and electrical engineering
at the Kansas State university.
nubia a radius of M miles of New
York city, says Electricity, there are
1.500, 000 people and 15,000 telephones.
In New York city proper there arc 10,
500 telephone stations, 90 per cent of
which are equipped on the metallic cir
cuit system, la that city the Metro
politan Telephone Jt Telegraph Co." op
erates 10 central exchanges, seven of
which are entirely for metallic circuit
service. The New York A New Jersey
Telephone Co. has 10.000 subscribers,
about 75 per cent of whom enjoy the
metallic circuit system.
An improved multiple telearaphio
instrument has been introduced into
France, in which each key sends over
the line wire at each operation an in
termittent current corresponding to a
definite numberof vibrations a minute.
The receiving sounders are each in a
similar way sensitive only to currents
having a determined rate of vibration
corresponding to one of the transmit
ting keys. Consequently each receiver
selects and responds to the current
sent by a transmitter having a corre
sponding period of vibrations.
A new telephone system is said to
be under consideration in '-any, N.
Y. It ia proposed to place telephone
in several places easy of access, where
anyone who wishes to send a notice or
a paid advertisement to any of the Al
bany papers can do so with very little
trouble. The plan was submitted
some time ago to several of the news
papers of Albany. It has been pro
posed to place these instruments in
branch oflices, in stationery or drug
stores, in remote parts of the city and
suburbs. The office will be kept open
all day and until late at night The
promoters of the scheme have tested
five telephones connected with a mile
wire with satisfactory results, viz: the
Phronix, Harrison, D' linger, National
and Colvin.
According to Nature trial have
been made in London, Eng., of a new
apparatus for extracting teeth by elec
tricity. It consists of an induction
coil of extremely fine wire, having an
Interrupter capable of vibration at
the rate of 450 times a second. The pa
tient sits in the regulation arm chair,
and takes the ncgativo electrode in his
left hand and the positive in his right
At this moment the operator turns on
a current, of which the intensity i
gradually increased till it has obtained
the utmost limit that the patient can
support. The extractor is then put in
circuit and fastened on the tooth,
which, under the action of the vibra
tion, is loosened at once. The opera
tion is performed, quickly, and the pa
tient feels no other sensation than the
pricking produced in the hands and
forearms by tho current
THE MORTUARY URN,
A Peculiar and Amusing Initaaea of Mis-
placwd Comment,
More than one man and quite a num
ber of women turned round to look at
the curious adaptation of old to new
methods. A hearse was being driven
slowly up Broadway above Twenty-
third street with the curtain raised so
that the whole Interior could be seen.
There wa no coffin there, but right in
the middle of the inside platform there
stood a small black vase about eight
inches high and perhaps as many
inches in width across the handles.
"Well," said one gentleman, swing
ing round his companion to look at the
hearse, "I knew cremation was get
ting to be more and more practiced.
but I'd no idea that the cremation ists
ever made a funeral of the ashes.
There's the mortuary urn, you see, and
in it, I suppose, is the handful of dust
that represents the dear departed.
wonder, by the by, who the dear de
parted was."
There were no mourning coaches
that could be distinguished in the jam
of cars and carriages, and as the hearse
went slowly along with its curious
little load tho general composite ex
pression on the faces of those that
watched it indicated that the whole
thing might be all right from a hy
gienic point of view, but that as
funeral it was strange, cold and heart
less.
And when tbe hearse stopped at the
undertaker's rooms the driver pulled
out the vase and handed it to the pro
prietor.
"The bit of a spike to that there orn-
amint's dropped out agin," be said,
"and ye'd betther be afther glnin'
eton this toime, l m thinkin . ' N. Y.
Sun. ;
Health Rales for Women.
There are three things that give i
woman perfect form, movement and
disposition. Resolved Into rules, they
are as follows: Don t fret, keep clean.
and, finally, keep nipple. To keep sup
ple a woman must begin by breathing
right; then she must walk with her
muscles Instead of her bones, and, lasV
ly, she must exercise regularly. The
best way to keep :lean is to rub a nico,
soft cream into your skin before taking
a bath, and then take that bath just
hot as possible. The cream feeds the
skin and the hot water cleanses and
softens It The way to keep from fret
ting is to put your thoughts upon some
thing else than yourself, and, above all,
to have an interest or object in life.
No woman need fear old asre If she has
lived up V) WiCfcA J-ukA"tl.k ji) U,.v
;l.
ON SMALL MEANS
How to Lma Ttm irtta Hat LHtlo
When there is very little money to
be spent on clothes it must be ient
udicicuily and carefully, and it is
quite a vexed question as to whether
it pays to make over old gowns. The
necessary trimming to make them look
fresh and smart is a serious item, and
more time is often required to make
over a gown than to have a new one
made.
Two entirely new gowns in the win
ter and four in the summer, well fitted
and well hung, and, above all, well
sewed, will, with old ones remodeled
in the house, give a woman a wardrobe
sufficient for ordinary use. There are
plenty of cheap dressmakers in New
York who can fit very well, who have
quite a knack at hanging skirts. From
ten to fifteen dollars is their charge for
making a gown, and some can even
make one for eight These dressmak
ers do not live in convenient localities,
as may readily be Imagined, for if they
did they could never afford to make
gowns at such reasonable rates. Five
dollars for linings goes a long way to
ward getting ail that is necessary, but
this part must not be intrusted to the
dressmaker, who certainly can not af
ford to have her apprentice take the
time and car fare necessary to buy
these things without adding some
small commission to the original price
of the goods.
A smart jacket and hat both for
summer and winter, are absolutely
necessary in every woman's outfit
Coats and jackets are beyond the skill
of drcKsmakers; they had bettor be
bought in any of the fhops where twice
a year there are also sales, at very much
reduced prices, of extremely well
eut garments For eight and ten dol
lars jackets of very stylish cut ran be
found, but these must be altered to fit
If a woman has any taste at millinery
he can trim her own hats for far less
money than she can buy them ready
made, but it is a very good investment
to pay eight or ten dollars, spring and
fall, for one stunning hat, which must
be becoming; and in this connection it is
a well to remember that a hat which
ia becoming to the full face is often
terribly trying to the profile, and just
ss much care must be taken for the
side aa the front view. Picturesque
effects are much to be avoided by the
woman who has only a small allow
ance for dress. It is the women who
spend thousands a year who can best
afford to go in for big hats, outre gar
ments, indeed, anything conspicuous.
The fashions of picturesque lists and
clothes generally ire very fleeting, and
nothing is more depressing than to put
all one s money into some article of
raiment so conspicuous that one la
known by it for the months one Is
doomed to wear it Harper' Bazar.
THE NEW MAN.
Incident of tho Dar When Women Shall
. Carry tho Latchkeys.
'Er Mildred," he said a trifle ner
vously, as his better half laid down the
morning's paper, and, lighting a clgar-
nte, prepared for her departure to the
jity, "Mildred, dear, do you think you
eould spare me a little money to-day?"
His wife glanced at him impatiently.
"What, again, George?" she said:
"Why, I only gave you your housekeep
ing allowance on let me see Thurs
day, wasn't It? Really, some of you
men seem to think we women are
made of money."
"You forget, my dear," he remarked,
there are girl's wages, and the water
rate, and the children both want new
boots."
'Didn't I give you the money for
that?" she asked.
'No, dear, that was for the flannel
for little Willy's warm petticoats I'm
Baking.
liesiues, dear, I don t be angry,
will you? I saw such a cheap pair of
trousers at the winter clearance sale
yesterday that I couldn't resist buying
them, and you know I've hardly a rag
to my back.
"Always your cry, George," she said
angrily. "Really your extravagance In
Ires is something sinful; it is a pitv
you haven't got to go and earn the
money; you'd know Its value then.
Here take this, and for goodness sake
do try and pay some of your household
puis wuii it ana not In vol the money
away on a lot ot trash."
There's a dear, good, darling wife,"
he cried joyfully; "let me help my
Mildred on with her coat," he added,
following her into the halL "What
time will you be home?"
"Can't say, I'm sure," she answered,
"I've got a lot to attend to at the office
to-day, and I shall drop into the club
for an hour or so after, bo you needn't
wait dinner. "
"0, that'll be nice!" be responded.
"I've got my woman coming to wash
to-day and the girls and I are going to
put up clean curtains and things. Give
me a kiss, dearestl there there' your
bus going now."
And as the breadwinner dashed out
after the passing vehicle George blew
her a parting kiss and went upstairs to
bathe the children. Chicago Tribune,
Canso for Jor.
Oneman You look happy over some
thing?
Tother I am happy. We have a
new girl at our house.
"Ah, let me congratulate you. I
suppose you'd be happier if it were a
boy?"
"Not much. It' the only girl we
have ever had that knew her place and.
kept it and knew her business and at
tended to it And we have to pay her
only two and a half a week."
"Oh ah er let me congratulate
yon more than ever." Detroit Free
Press.
Getting Even.
Friend Moved back to the city, I
ee.
Suburban Resident Yes. A human
porker bought the vacant lot next door
to me, stuck up his house close to the
street, and built a burn alongside of
mv windows.
"What have you done with the prop-
rtv?"
'.S t. -:: '.
There are , - 1
ears cf ,. i: t ; -
school.
The o'. '.-X 1 : -
Cnited Slaves is : i, I -
field, Va. It v..s t-.i .i i.i :
The .- uu4.u---i vu !r
liihthututu 111 t i I
by the Lb'.! fna c
Kev. 'r. 1 'u.-e. a ;
ry amorji? the v---
rei.-ued a'trrl'-.i'v - ;
Maine! i leatm, -
the eomp.ciu-u of t .
t a re as a Iwme i t
at East Feu field. The c-.-. . -
3,600, and is ei t e y 1 .
Eudeavorers of Ma ne.
About mi bun ' red v.
have graduated f,'iu
leges ia lim-a du-. -r t
they havee ited. ( l -
thirti prae'-i-e as d
peasants in the pnt .n
district doctors, suit are
the school and sanitary in
and others are ia private f
J. TaVasusu, a Japiii- A. .
Oxford, has translated into
description of India end ' ''
Islands, written twelte h"ii n i
go by I. Tsing, a (hmese 1 j
priest The book describe toe m
tio life observed by the author I
and contains a great deal of t '
ion about geography, chron--.- , . u
iterature.
In 1'rus.sia the Roman i
church seems to retain its viSiiin
1873 there were in the feint '
conventual establishments, ' i "
members; three years la'.t-r, n t
quence of the repressive h'i
the VMay laws," over a third tf '
institutions were dissolved, but in 5
we find 1,215 establishments, i '
044 monks and nuns.
Recent discoveries In I
have made more clear the see- ' r i
of the terms "deacon" and "b 1
before the establishment of CI
Ity. TexU and inscriptions have 1
found with mention of diacou.n r-- t
ing certain subordinate civ, I i
Episcopol or overneers were f un ' "
ries of a higher grade under tbe 1
regime, and several lists of tin i i
been found.
By the death of Prof. Sir J, li
ley less than three months after We.
Fronde, Iord Roseberry is called upon
to fill the Regius Professorship of !
tory at Cambridge, as well as tbat si
Oxford. Though Prof. Seeley's f- ' "
rith the general public lests on !
Ecce Homo," and "The Expansion of
England," hi best contributions t-i
history are the "Introduction to the
First Book of Livy," and the "Lite of
Stein."
The Church Missionary Society i f
England, which is In a very fiourih
Ing state, has been taking a fnr.v I
step. A thousand a year is Sjtent ia
securing the entire service of two cler
gymen and one layman, who are to ant
as missionary deputation of a new
type. They will seek not so much to
give missionary Information as to
speak on the general duty of the Chris
tian church toward foreign missions. ,
WIT AND WISDOM.
Podner I've got a gnawing in mj
itomach. Lane Walker You're lucky.
There' nothing In mine to gnaw . -
Philadelphia Inquirer.
-First Robber Bill, de noospspers
has printed our picture. Second Bob
ber Den let's quit hidin'; nobody will
know us now. tiyracuse Post
He Say, old woman, what do you
think of the splendid view? She I am
speechless. He Kpeechlessl Tha
we'll stay! Basler Nachrlchtett.
Perhaps the most uncnietmn rir
extant is the individual who tells of
the large number of umbrellas he !-
in the course of a year. Hashing t.ju
Post.
-Tommy Paw, if the lion ia tha
king of beasts, what Is the rhinoceros?
Mr. Flgg The politician, of conr-e.
His hide is two incho thick. Indian
apolis Journal.
Visitor Do you always wrl wih
a bottle of champagne before yon?
Novelist Oh, no! But my tiero nrt he.
roine have just become enaucd.
Fliegende Blatter.
A Lively Time She I was playing-
whist also last night It was the first
meeting of our young ladies' whist
club. He I wondered what made you
so hoarse. Brooklyn Life.
-"Can the baby talk yet, Vr V- -
cer?" "No; but he can count e
right." "Are you sure?" "1
whenever the clock strikes lio I
gins to cry to get up." Los A
Times.
Sheriff (on the morning of t'-ie r
cution) Was the prisoner imin-,!i i t
when you told him to get ready for tha
scaffold? Deputy Er he- Ml i -
he'd be hanged if he would. I n " ,i
Courier.
"How did Oldtimer like fb o '
the Hon tamer?" asked the c
prietor. "He wns bored to b v . .
see, he used to be the manijT ' -oMtra
company with t'uree pint, oo.?-
nas in it Washington Star.
Pushalong This is the second km
you've asked for in a week. T .
pretty quick work; quicker than 1 Li
ning. TheBpicus How do v"u i... . . ., -
Pushalong Lightning nevrr
twice in the same place IU
Landlady Why di.ln t yn r
the dinner bell, Minna? Servant n i
I couldn't find it, ma'am. Lsn'lia.fv-
I told you it wa hanging in tne i
Servant maid Excuse me, nia'am, -.
told me only this morning that it -the
breakfast bell. Eulrnspirml.
O'Money I'm a lurkv
thief got into my room If.
robbed me. Hobbs I c?
that' lucky. O'Money i
see, he did't get nl
ceipted bills, and so he tot i
to debt See? Phiiaf'- j
Transferred, but Not
A La con, I1L, boy ,tta a
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