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The Cicada's Drum.
It is in July that the cicada asserts
itself. It crawls out of the ground after
a sojourn of two years therein, as a grub
climbs a tree trunk, cracks its shell down
the back, takes a sun bath, flies to an­
other tree, and, life's burden resting
lightly on its shoulders now, as I have
said, asserts itself. It means that the
world shall know of it, by making a
great noise. The method may be original
with it, but is not its own exclusively,
any more. The world over the cicada is
copied.
Tucked out of sight, on either side, the
cicaila has a "kettle drum" of intricate
construction and means of plaiyng it of
infinite complexity. The result is a rap­
id, shrill, whizzing sound that sets July's
noons all a-tremble! Not that they are
done with ail their noise in this month,
for they are more numerous and active
in August, but it is in July that they
commence, what for poetry's sake we
will call their celebrating of Queen Sum­
mer's reign.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Needed for Decoration.
Chaffour on an Around-the-World-in
an-Automobile Trip (to the projector of
the affair)—Now, sir, that right fore
wheel has given away, and we're in a
pickle.
Projector—What's to be done?
Chauffeur—Nothing, except to put on
the reserve wheel.
Projector—Put on the reserve wheel,
indeed! What do you suppose we are
going to do then for another reserve
wheel to decorate the vehicle with?—The
Automobile Magazine.
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—Crossed bugles, a death's head and
iother marks are stamped on the wings
of a pigeon which has just been caught
here, writes a correspondent from Llau
erfyl, Montgomeryshire, to the London
Daily Mail.
Piso's Cure for Consumption cured me
of a tenacious and persistent cough.—
Wm. H. Harrison, 227 W. 121st street,
New York, March 25, 1901.
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—The territorial board of health of
Hawaii is to begin a series of experi­
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in the treatment of leprosy.
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SPINNING WHEEL.
THE BELLES.
Oh! the belles!
Summer belles:
What a plenitude of heartaches their giddi­
ness compels
How they giggle, giggle, giggle,
In the sea breeze lnden night,
How their victims squirm and wriggle
Iu au ecstasy of fright.
Iloiy they hurt
When they flirt,
When with ghoulish glee they gloat
On the squirming of a fellow when they
h.tve him by tne throat.
Oh! the belles!
Brazen belles:
How they conjure, scheme and plan
To entrap the summer man,
The ribbon counter gentlemen who mas­
querade as swells.
Oh! the belles!
Greedy belles:
IIow they wring, wring, wring
Soda water, everything,
From the pockets of those "Cash!" exclaim­
ing swells.
Ob! the belles!
Foxy belles
What a wealth of hinrs they fling
To compel the pleasant ring,
Diamond ring,
Ah! the heart engaging ring
Of the golden wedding bells, bells, bells,
bells, bells.
Oh! the belles.
—The Catholic Standard and Times.
At a recent gathering of prominent
citizens in New York city, the object of
which was to raise funds for the benefit
of a hospital, a number of speeches were
made commending the worthy charity
and sounding the praise of the manage­
ment of the institution. But none of the
speakers once during the little talks al­
luded to the main object of the meeting
until it came to Representative Goldfogle
to address the gathering. He was greet­
ed with applause when he stepped for­
ward on the platform.
After stating that h'» had listened with
pleasure to the high words of praise and
commendation bestowed by the speakers
on the management of the hospital, he
said he had failed to note that any oue
had felt it necessary to call attention of
the audience to the purpose that had
brought them together. This oversight
on the part of the gentlemen who had
preceded him reminded him of a story.
"When Lincoln was President of the
United States," he said, "he took a walk
down Pennsylvania avenue one cold win­
ter evening. During the stroll he met a
poor, forlorn woman, thinly clad, shiver­
ing with cold. When she saw the Pres
dent she mistook him for a minister, and
falling upon her knees, with hands up­
lifted, begged his blessing, saying that
she had three small children at home
starving to death. She said: 'Oh, Mr.
Minister, pray to the Lord to help me.'
"When she had finished President Lin­
coln said: 'My good woman, it's not a
minister that you need. You need a gro­
cer,' and the President took a card out
of his pocket and gave her an order for
$25 worth o* groceries."
The point was at once seen by the au­
dience, who applauded loudly, and the
result was a liberal subscription to the
benefit fund for the hospital.
Mr. Goldfogle has a happy faculty of
always illustrating a point with a tell­
ing story, and therefore he is much in
demand at conventions, political and
business gatherings.—New York Paily.
News.
"Do you pull out teeth gratis, mis­
ter?" said a ferocious-looking tramp to
a dentist.
"No," replied the dentist politely "but
I have a bulldog that inserts thein
gratis."
"I won't wait to consult 'im," growled
the loafer, as he shambled out.—New
York Daily News.
One day when Senator-elect McCreary
of Kentucky was out looking after his
political fences he stopped before a house
where there was a well in the yard and
asked for a drink.
"Sorry, mister," responded the man of
the house, "but there ain't a drop on this
here place, and I am getting purty dry
myself."
"Isn't there any water in the well?"
exclaimed McCreary.
"Of course there is," blurted out the
man "I didn't know you wanted water.
I thought you wanted a drink."—New
York Times.
Careless Girl.—"'Such carelessness is
little short of criminal," thundered Dr.
Price-Price angrily. "Oh, doctor," sobbed
Mrs. Sassiety-Lieder's nurse girl, "do
you blame me for the baby's illness?"
"Most assuredly. You should know bet­
ter than to leave it alone in the care of
its mother even for a moment."—Phila­
delphia Press.
"Where are you going this summer?"
"I'm goiug to a stretch of barren sand,
where I can be surrounded by the lux­
uries of the seashore."
"By yourself?"
"No. Whole family. Wife and chil­
dren, servants, nurses, etc."
"Cottage?"
"Yes. Has eight rooms for sixteen
people. Each room will hold comfort­
ably about one-half of a human being."
"Cottage alone?"
"Oh, no. W:e shall be next to a lot of
others. Each with an assortment of
childreu."
"Nice people?"
"Well, they're people I wouldu't think
of associating with on ordinary occa­
sions, but of course
"Oh, certainly. Where do you get
your vegetables?"
"From the city."
"And your water?"
"From the nearest well."
"Typhoid?"
"Probably."
"FlieS?"
"Heaps."
"What are you going for?"
"Two reasons. Because I can't afford
to and my wife wants to."—Life.
"I am Mr. Phake, sir," said the .ob­
trusive stranger, "maker of Phake's
panacea." "Ah, yes," remarked Oad
leigh. "Your medicine, sir, has bene­
fited me greatly." "Glad to hear it. I—"
"Yes a rich uncle of mine took .it, and
I was his sole heir."—Tit-B.its.
Farmer Honk—I understand that the
young city feller that has been boardin'
at Eli Summertime's died la-at night in
sort of a peculiar manner.
Farmer Hornbeak—D'know as there
was anything specially peculiar about it?
He died dead, same as folks generally do.
Farmer Honk—Aw, you know what I
mean—the cause of his death was pe­
culiar.
Farmer Hornbeak—D'know as it was,
either. He died of a combination of
mushroom appetite and toadstool judg­
ment—a pretty common failin' amongst
city folks, I've noticed.—Judge.
——u):—~
Mrs. Carr—Nellie is forever upsetting
my plans.
Mrs, Marr—-What has she done now?
Mrs. Carr—She has learned to swim,
and so her chances of getting a husband
at the seashore are all gone—Chelsea,
Mass., Gazette.
In a little towii in Nova Scotia are two
churches, situated in the two divisions of
the village locally designated as the
"North End" and "South End," At a
Sunday morning service the officiating
clergyman read the .following notice:
"There will be preaching at 11 o'clock
next Sunday morning in the church' at
the Noi-th End and at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon in the church at the South
End. Infants will be baptized at both
ends."—New York Times.
Proof Positive.—"You say that your
parent is mentally incapable to taking
care of his money, and you wish a
guardian appointed?" asked the judge.
"Well, what proof have you that he is
a spendthrift?" "Why, he has been
known to attend as many as six church
fairs in a week!" ^''Petition granted,"
said the judge.—Baltimore Herald.
Howling, the poor dog rushes adown
the street, a bunch of fireworks firmly
attached to his caudal appendage, and
accelerating his speed with its incessant
explosions.
"How cruel!" says a meek-looking per­
son.
"Cruel?" we answer. "It is positively
wicked to treat the dogun that way."
"Oh, the dog?" he z*emarks. "I wasn't
thinking of that. But the boys*who tied
those firecrackers to his tail took them by
force from that poor little boy on the
other corner. Is it not sad?"
Now that the howls of the dog are be­
ing lost in the distance we can hear the
wails of the lad referred to.—Baltimore
American.
Times Were Changed.—Clara (to her
old chum)—And that horrid Jones boy
that used to pester you with his love
making—does he worry you as much as
ever? Ethel—Well, hardly you see,
we're married now.—Washington New*.
There was at least one responsive hear­
er iu the crowded little church in a
Southern village, and it happened this
way
Guests had arrived unexpectedly at
the country parsonage on Sunday morn­
ing.
The weekly supply of butter had run
short, so the hospitable host dispatched
old Joe, the handy man, to his neighbor,
Mr. Paul, whose dairy always boasted a
surplus. The parson proceeded to
church with his well prepared sermon on
some of the deep sayiugs of the great
apostle, and was well under way with it
when old Joe, returning empty handed,
concluded he would quietly slip in and
hear his master preach.
Just as he entered the preacher leaned
over the pulpit, stretched forth his hand
with a most impressive interrogation in
voice and manner, and called out: "And
what did Paul say?" Distinctly sounded
through the church old Joe's reply:.
"He say, marster, he ain't going to let
you have no more Trotter till you pay for
the last you got."—Tit-Bits.
The Retort Unkind.—Benliam—there's
no place like home. Mrs. Benham—If
there were you wouldn't know it. Beu
liam—What do you mean? Mrs. Ben
ham—You are not at home enoiigh to
know what home is like.—Brooklyn Life.
Hard on Both of Them.—An irishman
whose face was so plain that his friends
used to tell him it was an offence to the
landscape happened also to be as poor as
he was homely.
One day a neighbor met him, and
asked:
"How are you, Pat?"
"Mighty bad! Sure, 'tis starvation
that's starin' me in the face."
"Begorra," exclaimed his neighbor,
sympathetically, "it can't be very pleas­
ant for either of 5'ez!"—London Outlook.
His Chief Solicitude.—"How do you
think you stand with the voters in your
town?" "I never trouble myself about
that," answered Senator Sorghum
I stand all right with the men who con­
trol the voters."—Washington Star.
John B. Gougli, whose early training
as an actor had given him a good equip­
ment for liis later work as a temperance
orator, and who, because of his effective
manner, seldom met with opposition
from those who listened to him iu pub­
lic, was lecturing one evening in a near­
by town,-and, after painting the tavern
as a place of contamination even for the
abstainer, asked:
"Don't you all a^ree with me, friends,
that there is uo place a man should go,
and of which he should tell his mother
and sisters, unless he might take them,
too, there? Should there be any such
place?"
"Oh! y-e-s!" came drawlingly from a
rear seat.
The audience was roused from its spell
of admiration for the orator, and turned
to look at the owuer of the voice. Gough
smiled as though he thought no discus­
sion possible, and blandly asked:
"Where, friend, would you go, telling
mother and sisters, but refusing to take
them with you?"
"The barber's" was the reply.—Phila­
delphia Times.
The day after the election a candidate
who had sat up all night only to find his
name among the also-rans, met a friend
and neighbor.
"How is it," he asked, "that all my
friends promised to stand by me in this
emergency, and then woefully betrayed
my confidence.?"
"You are mistaken. Being truly your
friends we voted for the other man."—In­
dianapolis News.
The following little scene at an inquest
upon the body of a murdered man is re­
ported by a correspondent of the Anglo
Russian from Astrakhan: The coroner
dictating to his clerk: "On the table
was found a bottle. No stop
for a moment we must ascertain its
contents." The coroner, tasting the
liquid, dictates: "The bottle contained
English gin. perhaps not, I am
not sure taste lit yourself." The clerk,
having done, so replies: "I think it is
simply strong vodka." The coroner, toss­
ing off another glass: "No really, it tastes
like gin." The clerk, tasting the liquor
again: "I still think it is only vodka."
The bottle having gradually become
empty, the coroner proceeded to dictate
in a decisive tone. Write: An einptv
bottle was found
011
the table, and ail
measures taken to ascertain what it con­
tained, were of 110 use."
Sociable. "Weil, well," remarked
Farmer Korntop at the zoo, "this here
lion 'pears to be real good-natured."
"Mebbe," suggested his good wife, "it's
one o' them social lions ye read about in
the papers."—Philadelphia Press.
A correspondent waiites: "Two women
weiye strong supporters of a local co
onftca.tive store but one day, as one of
them was passing down the street, she
was surprised to see her friend coming
out ©f a licensed grocer's shop. 'I
thocht, Mrs. Broon, ye wis a member o'
the Co.?' was her remark. *So I am
but, dae ye ken this, there's nae shop in
Gtesca I get sic nice beef ham as in
here.' Some days later Mrs. Broon's
friend went into this shop to buy a sam­
ple of beef ham. On entering the shop,
she asked the man if he would give her
'a pun' o' the beef ham Mrs. Broon gets
here.' A quiet smile stole over the shop­
man's face. 'Oh, yes,' he said
4I
can
obleege you. Hiv you brocht a bottle
wi' you?* "•—Glasgow Evening Times.
:n*-—
Comparisons.—First Little Boy—My
Paw got an ottomobeel. Second Little
Boy—That's nothing my paw's got dy
spepey.—Ohio State Journal.
A WOMAN'S DEN
1
Something More Serviceable Than the
V-' "Mother's Room" of Fiction is
Often Needed.
Why not a den for the womau, as well
as for the man? Every man has one:
nowadays. Sometimes he has it because
he wants it. Sometimes he has it be­
cause his wife and the upholsterer agree
that no happy home can be complete
without one, says the Sun.
The 'theory is excellent. The practice
is frequently fearful and wonderful.
When a poor,' tiretl man returns to the
bosom of his family after a day of honest
toil, what he needs is sweet repose.
There must be no domestic jar, no fric­
tion. The sweetness of home must steal
insensibly into his soul and smooth the
wrinkles of strife and worry and nerve
strain.
After his wife has met him at the door
with the traditional smile, and he has
eaten a good dinner, during which the
children have sat around the festal board
like a covey of freshly washed mute and
beaming cherubs, father is to take his
evening paper and his cigar and retreat
to a cozy sanctum, where hallowed peace
shall surround him, and he shall digest
his food iu a mellow mood of drowsy se­
renity.
There's the theory. 'Incidentally, it
would, if well carried out, make a mon­
ster of selfishness out of any normal man
within three months, but, posssibly be­
cause a beneficent Providence wants to
avert such calamity, the theory never is
carried out.
In the first place the average den
would drive even the most primirive
beast to the open field to growl over his
bone. The man who evolved the propo­
sition that because a man smokes in his
theoretical den, a den should be con­
ceived along oriental lines, has much to
answer for. and unless the American
manufacturers of oriental stuffs and
Bagdad curtains and Benares brass and
tin armor exert a pull in his favor, he
will have difficulty in squaring himself
with St. Peter.
"Why, in the name of all that is ra­
tional," asked a sufferer recently, "if a
man must have a den thrust upon him.
can': he have a comfortable, restful
room?—all hardwood and leather, no
stuff1* hangings to catch and hold stale
smoke. 110 absurd oriental kickshaws
cluttering space, 110 divans on which a
middle-aged business man inclined to
stoutness cannot make himself comfort­
able.
"Give the poor fellow a light, cheerful
room, with substantial, comfortable fur­
niture, even if there can I10 little of it,
a big table for magazines, a book case
for a man's books, a good reading lamp,
handy, serviceable smoking parapherna­
lia, a couch with a few cushions. Make
it a room that the average woman would
thin'* !are, yet which contains every es­
sential for a man's comfort. Put the
fellow In the
sanctuan*.
Set up a Gat-
ling gtm before the door .".nd train it
upon any children wno dispiav a per­
nicious and reprehensible desire to make
the acquaintance of the author of .their
being. So may the den be a howling
success and its owner grow more unen­
durable daily.'"
But why not a den for the woman?
If any mortal under heaven's canopy
needs a refuge from storm, a sanctum
sanctorum where she can have an hour's
quiet and pull quivering nerves together,
and rest, and put herself into tune that
mortal is a housewife and mother. From
the time she wakens in the morning un­
til) she goes to bed at night petty cares
are snapping at her heels. Her re­
sponsibilities may not be colossal, but
they are legion, and if she is conscien­
tious she never lays them down. She
flies from one thing to another, whirling
like a human pin wheel around and
around the domestic axis. There's little
that is stimulating, little that is enliven­
ing in her day, yet the day is full and
running over.
There's a lovely sentimental tradition
about "mother's room." Poets have writ­
ten of it. Essayists have wept over it.
To this haven the dear children bring ail
their sorrows and joys. Here they come
to have a cut finger tied up. Here they
stammer their lessons with mother's help
against the morrow when a sterner
teacher will require knowledge of them.
Here they come to have clamorous rows
settled. Here they bring captive toads
and beetles to display the trophies to ap­
preciative eyes. Here they sit at moth­
er's knee and listen to fairy stories and
nursery tales. Here is the rock around
which all domestic waves and tides
swirl.
It is a beautiful theorv. In that re­
spect it resembles father's den. But it is
a trifle hard on mother.
One woman in New York has a room
on the third floor which is her last resort
in times of storm and distress. It is a
bare little room, but it has a comfortable
couch and a low table and an easy chair
and a few books. On the outside of the
door hanks a large placard. One sid«»
bears the word "in." The other side is
blank.
The mistress of the house doesn't go to
that room every day. She snatches liber­
ally punctuated repose iu her second
floqr bedroom when she can. and goes
about her thousaud and one little duties
cheerfully when she has strength and
nerves for them. But sometimes there
comes a day and an hour when her world
is distinctly too much for her. when she
is desperately tired and nervous and
bothered, when the children rasp her
nerves and the servants seem possessed
of the devil and everything goes a-gley.
Every woman knows those days.
She might scold the children and the
servants and go about looking like a
thunder cloud. She might hold on to her
amiability with both hands—have "a nig­
ger sittin' on the safety valve." so to
speak, and wear herself out with the ef­
fort.
She doesn't do either. She stops. She
goes to the third floor room, turns the
placard so that who runs may read "In,"
shuts the door behind her and lies down
on the comfortable couch. Every soul in
the house understands that nothing save
murder or. sudden death is adequate ex­
cuse for tapping at that door. Only a
sudden and desperate emergency disturbs
the woman in her den. She rests, re­
laxes, "finds herself," and, after a time,
the third floor door opens, a tranquil,
cheerful woman goes down stairs. The
den is teuantless.
That is a wise woman. Her sisters
might follow her exam-pie, but the den,
like opium, is a habit not to be abused.
It should be an emergency medicine, not
a promoter of selfishness, but every wom­
an should have some nook or corner
where she would be safe from intrusion.
The mother's room traditkm could be pre­
served unimpaired in other and more pub­
lic quarters.
Our Latent Nomad Instinct.
In our work we get further and furth­
er away from the earliest types of civil­
ization, but in our play we come at times
very near to prehistoric life. Our pic­
nics are an attempt to satisfy our latent
nomad instinct, our games and races are
a symbol of the fierce struggle for ex­
istence which was a very real literal con­
flict in those far-off days, but has been
modernized under the name of trade
competition. And out love of shooting
and fishing and hunting has no doubt
been inherited from those who long ago
hunted, not for pleasure, but for dinner.
-•People's Friend,
REED ON CAStOftlA.
Vice Chancellor Heed Sustains Charles
H. Fletcher ifi His Suit. 'V-"
Vice Chancellor Reed, sitting in the
Court of Chancery at Trenton, N. J.,
has just rendered a decision of vital
Importance in the case of The Centaur
Company agairigta party calling them­
selves the C. W. Link Drug Company.
It seems for the past year or more
Mr. Charles H. Fletcher, president of
The Centaur Company, the manufac­
turers of Castoria, has been fighting,
through the courts, counterfeiters and
imitators of their goods.'
All of the take goods are put. up. .in,
a manner to lead the purchaser to think
they are getting the same Castoria they
have always bought, and the Chancel­
lor dwells fit length on this pointy show­
ing how easy it would be to inform the
public of the difference between the
packages if it were not their object to
mislead the consumer. He says in
part: "Every one of the packages put
in evidence by the defendant show a
persistent adoption of the size of the
bottle and the label of the complain­
ant. All these manufacturers knew,
just as the. defendant knew, that if the
remedy was put up in round bottles or
in bottles distinctively larger or small­
er, or if the bottles were so differently
wrapped, as to at once arrest the at­
tention of the casual purchaser, the sale
of the remedy in such packages would
at once become substantially reduced."
Citing numerous cases in line with this
opinion, he gave Mr. Charles H.
Fletcher the injunction asked for and
the C. W. Link Drug Company must
seek new fields.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
MR. ROOSEVELT'S CHICKENS.
Under the Shade at the McKinley Tree
at the White House.
The white house grounds at Washing­
ton are noted for their large and beau­
tiful trees. One of the prettiest of the
younger trees is the little white oak
planted by President McKinley on the
morning of the first day of November,
1898.
Norris, the old gardener who held the
tree while the President shoveled on the
earth, said that at the time it was plant­
ed he did not expect it to live a month,
but at present it looks as though it were
good for a cenury. The little tree stands
just in front of the old conservatory,
now being torn down to make room for
the new office building of the present chief
executive. During the heat of the day
one generally can see the President's
two game chickens resting peacefully in
its shade.
Just to the right as one enters the
white house grounds is a flourishing
chestnut oak that was" planted by Mrs.
Cleveland during her husband's last ad­
ministration.
Caprice and Luck.
In gambling one thing is certain, and
that is the very large percentage is in
favor of the bank or the game. Caprice
is the only law of chance. And the re­
sults are as fanciful as they are unantici­
pated. One summer—the last'of John
Morrissey's life—a party from Washing­
ton were making merry in the wine room
of the club house in Saratoga, among
whom was a youthful attache of the
French embassy. Without remark, this
attache suddenly rose, entered the play­
room and going to a roulette table,
tossed a hundred dollar bill on ten, black.
The dealer politely /informed him that he
had exceeded the limit.' The attache
was insistent., Morrissey, sauntering up,
nodded to the dealer to let it go. It won.
Refusing to accept chips, the attache
gathered in his winnings and rejoined
his friends. Half an hour later he did
the same thing, and was again success­
ful. At frequent intervals he repeated
his trips, invariably winning, never once
losing until he had won $17,000. when
his friends carried him off. As he left,
Morrissey remarked to a friend: "I
never take the limit off that the bank
doesn't lose. Nevertheless, there was a
profit on the night's play for the bank.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
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Sonoma, Mich., July 21.—Mr. Delos
Ilutchins of this place says: "If I could
liave had Dodd's Kidney Pills 25 jrears
ago I would not now be crippled as
I am."
Mr. Hutchins spent from 18tl to
1SG4 in the swamps of Louisiana as a
northern soldier and with the result
that he contracted Rheumatism, which
gave him much pain till Mr. Fred Par­
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try Dodd's Kidney Pills. The first two
boxes did not seem to help him very
much, but Mr. Parker, knowing that
Dodd's Kidney Pills would eventually
cure him, pressed Mr. Hutchins to con­
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used the short, sharp, shooting pains
which had tortured his back, hip and
legs were entirely gone. Mr. Hutchins
says: "I cannot tell you how much bet­
ter I am feeling. If it were not for
the way my hands, feet and knees are
drawn out of shape I would be about
as good as ever.
Australia's Blackberry Pest.
Blackberries thrive more luxuriantly
in Australia than in Europe or America,
their growth being so rapid that in many
places they are regarded as an agri­
cultural pest. Like the first rabbits, the
original .blackberry vines have grown
and multiplied until they bid fair to
cover the face of the country. The
bushes are not cultivated—they can look
after themselves, as many Australian
agriculturists are painfully aware—but
the jam made from their fruit is suf­
ficiently tempting to make one forget
their unwelcome presence on the farm.
—Garden.
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A rural Virginia preacher took ad­
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take up a c'lection for ta repar dis
church an I ean' to say dat, if dar am
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I doan' wan' him to put nuffin' in de
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Chronic dyspepsia is generally a long
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—The water company that supplies, the
city of Birmingham, Ala., has acceded
to tne demands of the city for a purer
water supply, and will install two fil­
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