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VOL. xx7 RISING SUN, CECIL COUNTY. Ml)., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER •><}. l,S}>7. No. !•>
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[continued.]
X.
THE SARCOPHAGUS.
The soldiers at Minersvale were daily
and nightly called upon to arrest de
certers from the Union armies.
The term deserter was applied by
law alike to volunteers who fled from
the front in violation of their enlist
ment obligations, and to such drafted
men as refused to report to the pro
test marshal in obedience to his or
ders.
It was not always an easy matter to
effect the capture of determined de
linquents of either class. Facilities
for escape and concealment were am
plified by a popular inu.sposition to
afford information to the troop 3, whiie
on the contrary all possible aid, in
formation, food, shelter and conceal
ment wore given to the deserters.
Here and the-'e was found a loyal
man; but detestation of the provost
marshal was too nearly universal to
make it safe for such as might be in
clined to aid that officer or the forces
assisting him to do them any ser
vice.
Or.ry.r r* + <■ 1* AJ* COD
cealing deserters were ingenious and
unique.
One plan became so common that it
became wholly useless. The desert
er would shave clean, put on a night
gown and nightcap and retire to the
bed of some woman or girl of the
household, relying upon the delicacy
of the soldiers to prevent discovery.
There was one young man at Jer
myn for whom search was made al
most daily for weeks, as there was
positive information of his presence in
the house. Every search was fruitless,
save as each renewed effort afforded
the women of the house opportunity
to ridicule the soldiers. One night a
soldier thrust his sabre into what had
always been mistaken for a hogshead
of bran. The blade penetrated six
inches of bran and stuck upright
in a board. Cleats had been nailed to
the inside of the vessel, upon those a
lid was placed; below the lid, scores
of very small holes were bored from
within—a work of tremendous and te
dious labor! These holes,, impercep
tible from without, in the darkness of
the cellar, afforded ventilation for the
deserter, who, upon alarm, jumped
into the hogshead, when a member of
the family would adjust the lid and
empty upon it a bag of bran which
was kept there for that purpose, ready
for instant use, and the emptied bag
was concealed in the bran as the de
serter was concealed beneath it.
At Arehbald the middle shelf of an
old-fashioned corner cupboard was re
moved and the compartment thus en
larged was utilized as a place of con
cealment which proved effectual for
a long time. No one ever thought of
searching a small corner cupboard for
a man. Indeed, so small did it look
that if they had been looking for
a truant boy they probably would
have considered it useless to
search there for him. After many
visits to the house a soldier
chanced to observe that the door press
ed hard against the wooden button by
which it was secured, and with some
effort he succeeded in opening it.
There drawn un in a cramped and con
strained position was the object of
their search! Crawling out, the de
serter sarcastically inquired!
“Are you hungry, that you rummage
a woman’s cupboard?”
At Minersvale a man was rolled in a
big carpet and evaded discovery for
nearly a month, though search was
made three or four times every week.
At Minersvale another deserter suc
cessfully escaped for a long time by
being buried under a lot of onions kept
in a garret and was discovered at last
only because one foot was exposed by
his own movement.
Troops frequently scoured the hills
and searched the wood and brush for
delinquents.
i On the day that the adjutant had
that startling interview with Mrs. Ze
nith and Miss Stella, a detachment was
among the hills. About five miles
| from town they came upon an odd
, structure which at once interested
i them. It was a long, low hut; its
■ thick walls and arched roof all built
) of heavy stones. There was no win
s dow. The door was clad in a promis
[ cuous patchwork of iron that had the
j appearance of having been gathered
i from different scrap heaps at different
periods.
“That looks like a promising hiding
place for skulkers,” the lieutenant in
command said.
“No danger of a deserter finding
5 quarters there; I have heard of the
, place,” said the gossip of the company;
; a man who always acquired the com
■ plete local history and traditions of a
place at which the troops camped for
i a week.
1 "Why not?”
“Which Prophet?”
“John the Baptist.”
] “I thought that his head was struck
2 off, some centuries since, by order of
)| General Herod, to please a pretty bal
| j let girl the tyrant was struck on.”
2 "That was the real, or.ginal and
) 1 genuine prophet.”
5j “Who is this?”
® I “He is a crazy old fellow who be
j lieves himself to be John the Baptist.
* He goes about preaching and is fed
5 by the charitable. Everybody knows
1 him hereabouts, from Kingston to
* Honesdale.”
® "He hasn’t got au attractive home!
5 I’d as scon dwell ir a sarcophagus.”
2 The troops having reached the sar
f cophagus, as they now called it, halted
[ at the door and the commandant or
dered a search within,
A trooper struck repeated heavy.
blows upon the mailed'door with his
sabre without elicHing response. No
latch, knob, lock or hinge was visible;
therefore, if they secured entrance
they must first break down the door.
It was determine! to do that, for
experience had tauf-ht them to suspect
every habitation, h~use, hut and other
structure as a place which was liable
to be used to conceal a deserter, if it
afforded space into which a man might
crawl.
A, heavy log was found and six files
of soldiers were <’ smounted and or
dered to take the lc ? upon their shoul
der and assault the door. Having his
men in place the lieutenant command
ed:
“Squad, attention; forward, double
quick, charge!”
The living machine dashed its inan
imate head at the mailed door which
at that instant opened inward and al
lowed egress to an old man who
stepped to the threshold —too late to
avoid the catapult; too late for the liv
ing machine to halt —and was struck
violently and hurled to the ground
within his dark abode.
“We have killed the Prophet!”
“Carry him to the open air!”
XL
JOHN THE BAPTIST.
The Prophet was carried outside. Ex
amination disclosed nothing more seri
ous than a severe bruise on one shoul
der, another on one side and a greater
one on the breast of the unconscious
man.
The assailants poured water from
their canteens upon the head, face,
neck and contusions of the unoffend
ing victim of their violence and in
ten minutes he revived. Opening his
eyes he said:
“Have you come from the East to
see the virgin who shall bring forth
the Son?”
“Yes; is the virgin within?”
"The time is ripe; yet is she not re
vealed unto me.”
He ar> r '"'!rpd to he entirely uncon
scious of his injuries and after his re
sponse arose and looked in silence up
on his unbidden visitors who looked
upon him with silent curiosity.
He'was of powerful frame; quite six
feet and five inches in stature; enorm
ous depth of chest and his weight was
not below two hundred and eighty
pounds. His apparel was nondescript.
A cloak-like garment hung from his
shoulders, reaching almost to his
knees, and was confined at the waist
by a leather girdle. One limb was
clothed in a ridirg boot; upon the
other was a cavalryman’s boot, above
which was a buckskin legging. A pew
Bible was tied to the girdle by a small
chain such as is used for restraining
pets. There were no sleeves to the
cloak, and his huge, brawny, brown,
hirsute arms were bare to the shoul
ders. His hair and beard, as white as
washen wool, were long and flowing,
and carefully combed. His eyes were
as black as sloes, bright, keen, pene
trating. His protruding brows were
overgrown with forests of shaggy bris
tles as white as his hair and beard, im
parting an appearance of savage fierce
ness that was the reverse of his na
ture.
He approached each soldier in turn,
looking at him intently and minutely
inspecting his features. When he
reached the commandant, who was the
last, the prophet said:
“Nay, ye seek not the virgin; you
are not the wise iren from the East.”
“Well you are quite correct; we are
not wise; we are not from the east;
we are not exactly on a scout in search
of a virgin; we seek a creature of a
very different sort and we are not
wise enough always to find the lurking
place of many of him.’
“You, sir, are not the Centurian?”
“No; only a seco d lieutenant. The
rank of Centurian has been abolished
in our armies; we now call him Cap
tain. Who are yo"?”
“I am the voice of one crying in the
wilderness, saying, ‘Prepare ye the
way of the Lord, make His path
straight.”
“You have the physical appearance of
a stalwart and robust voice! What is
the rest of your name?”
“I am that prophet spoken of by the
holy authors as the Baptist. I
am the voice of one crying in the wil
derness; I am he that came to Jordan
and cried: ’Behold the Lamb of God
that taketh away the sin of the
world.”
“When were you resurrected? The
reporters don’t seem to have got onto
you ?”
“I was not buri d; I did not die.
That is a mistake v-hich seems impos
sible to correct, t" ough I have tried
daily for many centuries. Will you
correct it hereafter?”
“It was regularly and officially re
ported to the war ('epartment that you
were decapitated by order of Herod,
the commander-ir-chief or secretary
of war, or somethi g of that rank?”
“It is so written, but if it be not a
mistake of the scribes or of the trans
lators, then it was a mistake of the
apostles and evangels. He who was
beheaded was mine uncle, my father’s
brother.”
“Very careless of the apostles, sc:ibe3
and evangelists! I am glad to learn
that you were not the victim, however.
I have heard many mourn your sad
end. Do you remember if your uncle
found th 1 method of departure very un
pleasant?”
“I am the voice of or.e crying in the
wilderness, saying. ‘Prepare ye the
way of the Lord, make h.s path
straight!’ I stood before the Master
when he prophesied the end of the
world and he looked upon me and said:
’There be some standing here who
Shall not taste of death till all these
things be fulfilled!’ and the meaning
thereof is that as I was sent into the
world to prepare it for His first coming,
so I must remain in the world to pre
jpare the way for His second coming.
|‘l am the voice of one crying in the
jwilderness, saying, Prepare ye the way
|of the Lord, make his path straight.’ ”
"You look about the right age! Have
'you ever met that sacriligious old cob
bler, whom people now call the Wan
dering Jew?”
| "He is not. 1 am. I it is who am
the Wandering Jew. ‘I am the voice of
jone crying in the wilderness, say
|ing, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
Imake his path straight.' "
Do you expect him very soon?”
! “The time is ripe! I await the com
ing of the virgin who shall bring forth
the Son, the Lamb of God who having
taken away the sin of the world as 1
said aforetime, will now come to trans
late the redeemed in the twinkling of
an eye and to condemn and banish the
unrepentant. Wherefore, repent and
ibe converted; flee from the wrath to
.come, oh ye generation of vipers! He
shall baptize you with fire and with the
iHoly Ghost! Behold He cometh and
!all His holy hosts with Him; like
'clouds mounted upon swift winds! All
•the earth shall tremble and the dead
shall rise and the heavens rejoice; and
His people shall sing glad hallelujahs,
and the trees shall clap their hands
and declare His praise; and the little
hills shall skip like lambs. Woe, woe,
in that day; woe to them that believe
not and are not baptized! ‘I am the
voice of one ciying in the wilderness,
saying, ‘Prepare ye the way of the
Lord; make his path straight!”
“I am really pleased to hear it! Are
there any deserters harboring within
there?”
“They trembled and fell down and
fled when the angel rolled away the
stone.”
“They may have crawled into the
sarcophagus when they fled from the
sepulchre. If they did we will have
them out. Sergeant, search within
there!”
The Prophet's curious habitation was
searched thoroughly, but no deserter
was found there.
XII.
MISS ZENITH TELLS A LIE.
Pursuant to appointment the adju
tant called at the Morton’s and for
hours waited in anxiety for Miss Stel
la. Weary with waiting, fearful that
she was in trouble at home, he at
length went to Captain Zenith’s and
being shown in saw Miss Zenith to
whom he said:
"Can I see Miss Stella?”
"Stella went to New York last night
with a relative and will not return for
an indefinite time ”
vh'-'m r : s sho wo? Why did
she go so suddenly? What Is her New
York address?”
“She went with a cousin who tele
graphed for her from Scranton as he
was enroute home from Wilkesbarre. I
have forgotten their address in New
York but we will have it when she
writes. The visit is one long promised
but it was not just now expected to
occur so soon.”
The adjutant was bewildered by this
Information aud finding it impossible
to elicit the name of the relatives to
whom his affianced had gone he return
ed to his quarters in camp.
That Miss Stella had gone to New
York he did not doubt and he was wor
ried by her apparent neglect to write
to him before her departure, even
though it was so hurried and unpre
meditated. He ren embered that she
had spoken of s-.n anticipated visit to
an uncle in New Yo k, whose name, he
recalled, was Wills. He slept but little
that night, his mind being occupied by
the situation of his 'ove affairs.
The next morning he procured
through his Colonel, an order from the
department commander, to proceed to
New York for the purpose of execut
ing verbal orders to be communicated
to him by Colonel Boyden, this method
being frequently resorted to to evade a
record of leave of absence, when offi
cers desired to visit any place for prl
■ vate purposes. Accompanying this or
der came one for the detachment to
move to Scranton.
Thus, at the hour that Miss Stella
left Barton, the adjutant started to
New York, and the detachment
marched out <of Minersvale toward
Scranton.
So little did the adjutant doubt that
Miss Zenith had told him the truth
that he never thought of consulting
Miss Morton but proceeded to New
York without communicating with her.
He communicated with no one, except
the Colonel of the regiment who was
at Scranton and Captain Welter, who
commanded the detachment at Miners
vale; thus leaving everybody in Mi
persvale under the impression that he
bad departed with the troops.
He reached the metropolis in the
night and before he retired procured a
city directory and made a list of all
those named Wills whose ad
! dresses were found in that
| volume. He intended to call
: upon them, one after another, and to
j say to each that he had just arrived
S from Minersvale and carried a mes
sage for Miss Stella Zenith, lately ar
-1 rived in the city to visit relatives
j whose name he knew to be Wills, but
Whose address he had lost. He had no
| doubt that by this method of search
he would succeed in finding his affi
anced very easily. As soon as he
found her, they would be married, if he
! could gain her consent.
Having thus fixed his plan of cam
; paign, he prepared and sent to each
morning paper this personal:
“The young lady from Minersvale
will receive an important message if
she will send her address to Adjutant
Homer at the Gilsey House.”
XIII.
“ON, PERSEVERINGLY ON.”
Miss Zenith sat at the piano playing
"All Quiet Along the Potomac To
night,” a new war ballad, and her sis
ters were clustered about her, learning
to sing it, Captain Zenith reclined on
a sofa, listening and occasionally criU
icising one of the vocalist# or the play,
er, for which he was invariably criti
cised by Mrs. Zenith. There was a
Tharp ring at the door bell and a mo
ment later the “undomesticated enemy
from Ballycrag” entered the room with
a telegram and approached Mrs. Ze
nith!
"Please ma’am, here’s a ’spatch an’
the boy says if there is any answer,
1 ma’am?”
“Who can be telegraphing to us?”
said Miss Zenith.
“Something has happened at Aunt
Sue’s,” said Miss Lettie.
“I’m frightened to death! a telegram
always scares me half out of my wits,”
said little Miss May. She was so far
; from being frightened to death that she
| did not even pale, and instead of los
ing her wits in any measure she evine.
, ed the keenest curiosity as to the pur
port of the unexpected message and
:added:
“Why don’t you open it ma, and not
keep us in such a fright?”
“What can it mean?” said Mrs. Ze
nith, holding the missive between her
eyes and the window, as if trying to
read it unopened.
“If I wanted to know what a letter
contained, and held the letter in my
hand, I would open and read it; If my
education qualified me to read it,” the
Captain suggested.
| Mrs. Zenith ignored the sarcasm and
sent Miss May for a pair of scissors
and when they were brought she care
fully cut the flimsy envelope and read
the message:
“Has Stella arrived?”
“Why, it is from Miss Letson! What
In the world can sihe mean?” said Mrs.
Zenith.
“She means that Stell has quarreled
with her and left, and she does not
know where she went,” Miss Zenith
suggested.
“That may be the case, but probably
it is not; I am going right over to Mor
ton’s to see if Stell is there or if Bell
knows anything about it. There is
something wrong or Miss Letson would
not telegraph! I suspect that it all
comes from you persecuting the poor
child!” Miss Carrie rejoined, and with
out waiting for the recrimination or
discussion likely to follow If she tar
ried, she procured her hat and wraps
and went out.
The family waited for her return
without great anxiety, having little
doubt that, whatever had been amiss at
■Barton, Miss Stella had returned to
Minersvale and had proceeded to the
Mortons and was with her friend.
Miss Carrie returned alone and
looked so anxious and depressed that
Captain Zenith’s inquiry was but a
hopeless form:
“Did you find her?”
“mey have not heard from her. They
did not even know that she was out
of town. The adjutant waited there
for hours this afternoon, expecting
Stell, as he said that he had an engage
ment to meet her here.”
' "What is to be done? What can be
done? Where can she be?” said Mrs.
Zenith.
“I have telegraphed to Miss Letson
in your name,” Miss Carrie answered,
“and I have told her that we have not
heard from Stella since she left home
and that we do not understand her tel
egram.”
An hour of expectation, anxiety,
hope, fear, passed before the response
came from Miss Letson;
“Stella left for homo on foot after j
three o’c:ock. We could net •: d ice her
to remain here after she missed the !
train. We start at once to look for
her.”
"Pa, get a good pair of horses and a
strong buggy and go after- her, quick!
I will go with you,” said Miss Carrie.
“I will go with Pa,” said Miss Ze
nith.
“Neither of you will go: I will go
myself,” said Mrs. Zenith; but the
Captain interposed:
“Ma, the trip would be too fatiguing
for you. Carrie can go; her head is al
ways clear and her wits are quicker
than all of yours together; a clear
headed woman may be needed. Mollie
has no right to go; for I’ll be bound
that she is at the bottom of the child’s
trouble, if there is any trouble, which
we will try to hope the e is not.”
Mrs. Zenith took up the defense of
her eldest child:
“Now, Pa! Don’t make such ugly
charges, at a time like this when we
don’t know what may have happened to
Stella. Mollie is not to blame for any
thing and does not deserve to be scold
ed. The child went to Letson’s of her
own accord and Mollie told me in her
presence not to allow her to go. Of |
course it was of her own will that she
started to walk home at such an hour.
Very likely she stopped at some house
on the way when it beg in to get dark;
but hurry off and get your te m f~r It
would be just like her to stick to her
resolution when she once started, and
try to walk all the way, day or night!
It is terrible; I hope that nothing will
happen to her!”
"I do not think that there is a house
on the way; the road is altogether
unused; I do not know how far we can
manage to get with a team; but we
will drive as far as possible and I
will .then walk on unless we meet her
sooner,” the Captain answered.
While Captain Zenith procured a
team Miss Carrie pul up wine and oth
er refreshments and prepared herself
for the trip. She was ready wnen her
father drove to the gate and they set
out at once.
They found the old road little better
than an abandoned by-way. It was
furrowed, seamed and gashed by the
floods of many years; rough with
stones and rocks that lay bare upon
the track; obstructed here and there
hy trees that had been wrenched from
their strong roots by the violent as
saults of raging winds. Travel there
in the day would have been difficult;
at night it was dangerous and progress
was uncertain and slow.
As they slowly ascended a hill the
wheels of one side of the buggy
dropped into a deep washout and the
vehicle was upset. Both the occupants
were pitched out, but neither was
harmed. The Captain righted the bug
gy which was uninjured and with little
delay they resumed their slow and toil
some advance, until they reached the
crest of the hill. It waß then past mid
night and they were uncertain what
distance they had covered. At the top
of the hill the road was found worse
than usual and the Captain took out
p lantern and walked ahead, selecting
g practicable route, while Miss Carrie
carefully drove after him as he directed
her from time to time. Having pro
ceeded in this manner for a hundred
yards or more, the Captain returned to
his seat when it appeared that the
worst had been passed.
At the instant that he started the
horses there came a sound that caused
him to stop then} suddenly, It was a
woman singing, There was In the
voice a weird plaintiveness that the
startled listeners attributed to the
weirdness of their own surroundings—
the darkness, the bleak desolate hills,
the wild locality, the hour and their
own anxieties.
“A mansion in heaven we see,
“And a light in the window for thee;
“A mansion in heaven we see,
"And a light In the window for thee.
“Then on, perseverlngly on, brother,
“Till from conflict and suffering free;
“Bright angels now beckon you over
the stream,
“There’s a light in the window for
thee.”
“A mansiop ip heaven we see,
“And a light in the window for thee;
“A mansion in heaven we see,
"And a light in the window for thee.”
“Poor creature! She sings as though
she was lonely and sad,” said Miss
Carrie.
“It is only because of our own cir
cumstances and our own feelings that
it so strikes us.”
“I feel as if it were some one in dis
tress appealing to us for help; only
one doesn’t cry out for help by sing
ing hymns.”
It is doubtless some lonely squatter
who sings to kill time. It is a late
hour for country people to be up and
that shows that Providence has in
spired her to sing that song as a mes
sage to us! ‘On, perseveringly on!’ We
should not waste time for our dear
child is anxious! ‘Blight angels now
beckon you over the stream!’ Bright
angels; our dear Stella the chief among
them! We are sure to find her in the
first house beyond the next stream!
She is sure to wait for us there, just 1
over the stream, with a light in the
window to signal to us! Carrie, my
child, take heart! That is a message
from Providence. Be sure that we
shall find our pet lamb safely harbored
in the sheltering fold of some good Sa
maritan of the hills!”
[to be continued.]
Presideut McKinley’s address at the
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Londoa Guyed Her.
Mrs. Kilpatrick, a well-known Amer
ican cyclist, upon her return from a re
cent visit in London, said:
“It is impossible for a woman to
ride comfortably in London unless she
keeps to the parks. Rude boys, men
and women stand on the sidewalk and
shout all sorts of outrageous things as
you pass. They cry out ‘You ought to
be ashamed,’ ’You are a disgrace to
the country,’ ‘You are no lady.’
Mr. Kilpatrick and I rode down
j town one day. I wore a skirt only six
! inches from the ground. When a rain
1 come on I dismounted and took my
wheel under an awning to wait until
j the shower was over. Somehow I
lost Charley in the crowd. Over 500
people gathered to look at me. They
blocked the pavement and actually
stopped the traffic in the street. I
called a policeman to protect me, and
he said, ‘You’ve no business to be
down here on a wheel dressed that
way, and he stepped back in the
crowd. This was enough for the mob.
They began to guy me and I again
called the policeman, This time he
asked me how one or two policemen
could disperse such a crowd, and I told
him it would take two New York cops
less than two minutes to scatter them
and if they could not do it alone they
would call for help. Then I tried to
make my way into the street to a cab,
and the men and women poked um
brellas and canes at my wheel, trying
to break the spokes. I was almost
killed by a wagon, and the drivers of
the first two cabs that passed said tuey
were engaged. The third had a man
in it, but he saw my predicament,
jumped out and told me to get in. As
he lifted my wheel up, the mob tried
,to pull it out, and he raised his cane
| and threatened to s rike the next man
who dared to touch it. They followed
the cab for two blocks, yelling like
gavages, and in the heart of London.”
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hills ifl whieh its native home
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some of the shngg’ness of mane, tail
and fetlocks which are its distinctive
characteristics. Even in Shetland, as
the foreign demand for ponies make
them more valuable, the tendency is
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pony are disappearing, it may be just
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outside its native home, a breed for
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A PERFECT TREASURE.
Mistress —Now, you must always
sweep well behind the doors, Mary.
Mary—Yes’m, trust me for that; it’s
the only way one can get the dust out of
sight.—Pick-Me-Up.
—The First Fire.—“ And now, chil
dren, can you tell me how the blazing
sword got there? You may answer,
jWillie." •'Please, ma'am, I guess it
caught when Adam got fired.”—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
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Conquered.
She (after a lovers’ quarrel)—l sup
pose you warut your presents back.
He—Ah, no; keep them. If any of the
fellows ask about the presents. I’ll ex
plain that they were fHilly paid for in
hugs and kisses.
She (on second thought)—My dear,
suppose we forget we have quarreled,
and beg-'n over again.—Y’ellow Kid
iMagazine.
Learned Her Lesson Well.
Mrs. Manhattan —Now, Favette, It Is
only necessary for you to know one
English word. no. If my husband says
anything about kissing you, you are to
say, firmly: “No!”
Favette—Oui, madame.
Mr. Manhattan (an hour later) —Do
you mind if I kiss you, Favette?
Favette—No!—Town Topics.
Her Lovely Eyes.
She could not rightly see the stage.
Save through her dainty glass;
Without her “specs’* the printed page
For paper white would pass.
But with her naked optics keen
Of any summer day
An ice cream sign was always seen
At least a mile away.
—Chicago News.
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cured himself of the worst kind of piles by
using a few boxes of DeWitt’s Witch
I-lazel Salve. He had been troubled with
piles for over thirty years and had used
many different kinds of so-called cures;
but DeWitt’s was the one that did the
work and he will verify this statement if
any one wishes to write to him. Eli T.
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A Peculiar Woman.
“Mrs. Ilomer isn’t at all interested Id
public affairs.”
“No, she's the most insipid creature.
She permits home affairs to absorb all
her time and talk.”—Philadelphia
North American.
Her Strong Points.
“Mrs. Meeker,” observed a friend of
the family, “is i- very superior woman.
She can converse intelligently, I be
lieve, on a thousand different topics.”
“Y'es,” sighed Mr. Meeker. “And she
does.”—Chicago Tribune.
Waiting for Work.
“I assure you, madam,” said he, “that
l would not be begging my bread from
door to door if I could but procure em
ployment at my profession."
“Poor man,” replied the good woman,
as she handed out a pie,'“what is your
profession?”
“I am an airship pilot, madam."—De
troit Free Press.
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A Strung Personality.
Willy—Why, Cholly, you heah? I
thought I passed you on the street just
now.
Cholly—Haven’t been out for am
houali, deah boy.
Willy—Well, then it must have been
some othah fellau, with a dawg and
cane just like yours.—Harlem Life.
Why She Prayed.
“Why does sister Nellie pray when
you come to see her?” asked Johnnie
Chaffie of the visitor.
“She doesn’t pray, does she?”
“Y'es, she does. Every time the serv
ant comes upstairs and says you are
here, Nellie says: ‘O, Lord!’”—Tam
many Times.
Wonderful Ingenuity.
Crimsonbealc —That man Keys is a
genius.
Y’east—What's he done now?
“Why, he’s a devised a plan to keep
his wife from playing the piano.”
“Indeed!”
“Yes; he told her he had seen a mouse
in it.”—Y'onkers Statesman.
Feminine Carioilty.
“That pretty young Mrs. Dawson is
such a queer woman.”
“In what way?"
“Every time I meet her in a book
store she is buying a book which the
critics have pronounced unfit for pub
lication.” —Detroit Free Press.
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