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,v !'You want ta know how it Is I'm
on tramp? Well, if you'll Rive va
the loan of your 'bacco pouch Til tell
you, mister. You remember the
hard frost that set in about' Christ
mas and lasted two or three weeks T
That threw me, and a . good many
more what's in the building line, out
of work for some time, and haying
spent all up at Christmas we were,
stone-broke at our house by - the
time the New Year come in, and to'
make things wuss we was a bit.'
back'ard with th rent. ,
-"It . were all the fault of my old
woman. I said: 'Look 'ere, mlssla,
; if you don't go an, pawn that'
dangle an settle with that there
agent about the rent, we shall 'ave'
the bums in as sure as " your name's
Lizer Clopsale." . i
"Well, she says, 1 shan't, "and
there's an end on it, and if you can't
chuck out any bums as comes here,
you're"no man, that's all.
, '.It's no use argufying with a
woman, is it? I found that out long
ago, and maybe you 'axe too.-
"One night the weather was very
severe, and we went to bed early as
we couldn't afford to keep up a fire
to warm us. It was just getting
light rfext morn in' when I was woke
up by some one a-thunderin and
bangin' at tfie street door. So I
jumps up and looks through the witt
. dow, and there I saw a man as I
didn t know. 1
if ui. a up, uutici x euuuut.
" 'Come downstairs; I want to see
you,' he bawled. j . r j
"So I was putting on ;my, togs
ready to go down, thinking It might
be a foreman or some one as wanted
a extra 'and, and just as I was go-i
ing my old woman, who had peeped
out o the window, says: i
" 'Where you gom'?' '
" Why says I, 'to see what the
feller wants.
You big fule,' says she, 'why
it's Tommy Spriggins, the bum
bailiff I . ;
'Well, I was that flabbergasted
you could ave knocked me down
with a poker. ;And my old. dutch
says no more, but ups with the water
jug and empties it . on Spriggins'
head for she's a regular scorcher,"
she is.
'I reckon that's put 'is pipe out,'
says she, tumbling into bed ag'in,
for it was mortal cold, and I got
back myself to 'ave another fortr
winks
I should think I had slept anoth
er hour or two when I was wakened
by such a din all down the street as
I never heard. I looked out, an
there were about two hundred peo
ple standing round looking, at
some thin in front o' th' house.
When I put my head out o' the win
dow they all bust out laughing, and
I looks down at the door and there
was that bailiff still standing there
on the door step.
" Wot's up, Billy Driver?' I shouts
to a neighbortanding by; 'can't you
shift that fellow for us?'
" 'No ' safs he, 'he's frozen fast.
"I lodks down again, and blow me
if he wasn't all covered with bicycles
no, I mean icicles, from the water
my missis had thrown on him, and
he had stood there ever since. I
was pretty Tmad, I can tell you, for
I put.it to you, ! sir, how would you
like a bumbailiff frozen to yer door
step, an' all" the neighbors see him
there as they come home to breaks
fast? , ;
.rresenuy a peruceman came
along, and he said I'd better see if I
couldn't revive the feller, or I'd get
into trouble u they had to old a
cobbler's conquest on him. So I
went down and borrowed a shovel.
and me an. Bill Driver managed to
get him loose from the doorstep.
Then Bill went for two pen orth of
gin, and I boiled a quart of water In
a kettle and then we laid the bailiff
on the hearth. Bill opened his
mouth which was frozen up. and
then I poured th& kettle of gin and
hot water down his throat.
'You'd better pour steady,' said
Bill, 'for as he's frozen he might
bust like my grandmother's kitchen
boiler did once when the pipes got
froze.
'"By an' by we got him thawed an
I gave him summat to eat. He sat
for awhile, and then-1 gave him a
hint like that it was time to go,
when he up n' says No, duty is
duty; I've got orders to take pos
session here, and" so I shall stop,'
and he pulls out his pipe and makes
himself comfortable.
"Yen see it never struck me in the
excitement about 'is being a bailiff.
an' when he said that it made me
sweat all over at once. And who
would have thought any man capa
ble of such base Ingratitude after me
a' Billy Driver 'ad saved his life?
' T uTia Sri t finA fiv T Attn flf VOf
for yer see my old woman was in bed
fast asleep, an' I knew when she
came down an' found out ow I'd
been fool enough to let the bum in
quite innercent like, there'd be the
very dickens to pay. " So wot does I
do but picks up my hat an' swag and
'When am I going "back? Well, I
don't know: that depends on some
thing beside the state of the weath
er. I've got a bloke as can write to
send to Bill Driver to see if the bum
is cleared out, and if he ain't I reck
on I'm going to march ahead for an
other spelL By-the-by, if yer do
read of the shocking death of a bum
youll guess it's my old woman's do
ings, and I reckon youll about guess
right." ,
SOLVED AT LAST.
The Elstorio Mystery of the
1 In tbe Iron Mask.
Maul
A MINISTERIAL CANDIDATE.
Vies President SUvenaon Tttts a Qo4
Negro Story.
Vice President Stevenson told tfct 1
.
iouowing story to a group of. sena
tors the other .night: There was an
old darky in southern Illinola who
wanted to kln the ministry. TT
Of all historical problems perhaps I had progressed through many years
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S Gov't Report. .
f Voutm XIV. Brian LJckt
; Identity f a Tmwtnm Bmt Kalf
! . Mtl
Hunter
CAPTURING A BULL MOOSE.
How It Was Accomplished by Hunter
Sellick.
Sellick has for several
years been the possessor of two fine
cow moose, and his great ambition
has been to go Into the moose-rais
ing business. Year after year he
has endeavored to capture a male
moose, but up to this winter failed.
Some time ago he left Moncton for
the forest country lying between the
head waters of the Tobicrue and
Miramlchi rivers. For days his
search was unavailing, until one
day, about thirty miles from any
settlement and in .the heart of the
forest, he sighted the object of his
search. ; '
It was a magnificent specimen,
nearly six feet high. At this season
its antlers had been shed, but the
I new ones were already jutting forth.
ihe dogs were , set to nipping the
moose in the rear, driving it toward
a tree, ; Sellick,' creeping round,
suddenly threw his' lasso over the
animal's head, twisted the rope
around a tree and had the moose a
prisoner. ' !
.It is comparatively easy for a suc
cessful hunter to bring home a dead
moose, Dut it is cot so easy with a
live one. It took five weeks, climb
ing; over the hills, wading the
morasses or fording the rivers which
marked the thirty miles' distance
between the scene of the capture and
the first settlement. The hunter at
times had to employ a catamaran to
cross the streams, the moose swim
ming behind. Finally he reached
the Intercolonial, took a box car,
which was just high enough for the
moose, and brought his prize to
Moncton. N. Y. Journal.
CHAPLAIN OF i THE
HOUSE.
R.
Something About the Young Man
centty Elected to This Office.
Rev. Edward B.: Bagby. who was
recently: elected to be chaplain, of
the house in place of Rev. S. ,W.
Haddaway, who died after a brief
occupation of the office, is a very
young man td occupy so conspicu
ous apposition, though Rev. WI H.
Milbura, the blind chaplain of the
senate, was chosen chaplain of the
house when but twenty-two years of
age. Rev. Mr. Bagby was born
September 29, 1SC5, in King and
Queen county, Ya., so that he is but
little more than twenty-eight. He
was reared in Richmond, obtained
his education at Aberdeen academy,
the Kentucky university and tha
Yale divinity school. This young
Virginian, enlisted in Christian
work as a representative of the de
nomination of the Disciples of Christ,
found his first charge along the1 line
of the Chesapeake! & Ohio railroad,
ministering to the p&ple of Ronce-
verte, Clifton Forge and Sinks
Grove. From these little churches
in these towns he went to Newport
News to preach, until he became en
gaged in evangelistic work among
many churches, which he visited to
conduct ; revivals.' In ApriL " 1891,
the Vermont Avenue Christian
church, -Washington, built a chapel
on Capitol JJill, and called upon Rev.
Mr. Bagby to conduct a revival
meeting to awaken interest in the
undertaking At that meeting about
one hundred converts were added to
the church, and the interest aroused
has been so maintained under the
ministrations of the young pastor
that the Ninth' Street Christian
church numbers, with two and one-
half years, of existence, more : than
four hundred members, including a
very large body of active Christian
Endeavours. : Mr. Bagby is tall,
dark, slight and beardless. He does
not wear clothes 'of ministerial cut,
and he does not wear; a white tie.
His voice is soft and smooth, and he
uses it without dramatic effort in
prayers of the simplest. character,
none of which are long. Harper's
Weekly. t--i -
Southern Railroad Building.
The financial depression has not
had a very decided effect on railroad
construction in the south. The to
tal number of miles of railway built
in this section since the 1st of last
January, 1893, is only fifty-seven
miles less than was built during all
of last year. The total new mileage
in the south for this year, up to De
cember 1, was 1,112 miles. Texas
leads with 216 miles, Florida comes
a close second with 208 t miles and
Georgia is third with 171 miles. At
lanta Journal ' j
Senator Hoar as a Wit. :
Senator Hoar has a rather droll
wit andhas been known to say things
upon occasion. Some one once asked
him about a young man said to be
from his city who was' just then oc
cupying a prominent pew in the
amen corner of 'the public press
ihroughout the oountry. "Why, no,"
! he can t be from
I know about everybody
41 ... T Vn I V1 V.-. M
bucici A lie t ci ucai v& iiiiii uvivto.
As the other urged positively to' the
contrary the old gentleman reflect
ively admitted that "then he must
purely national
that of the identity of Man In the
Iron Mask has most excited intelli
gent curiosity. But at last the mys
tery has bexm solved and all doubts
set at rest by the patient investiga
tions of Commandant Bazeries of the
French army. While in garrison at
Nantes II. Bazeries determined to
decipher certain dispatches of Louis
XTV. and his Minister Louvois ad
dressed to Marshal De Catlnat,
whose cipher system had never been
unraveled, although many special
ists had tried to master its secret.
The explanation of the historical
enigma of the Man in the Iron Mask
is found In one of. these cipher ' dis
patches of Louvois to De Catlnat.
After much research and patient
plodding investigation, M. Bazeries
was enabled to decipher the dispatch
which contains' the actual order from
the king to imprison the Man with
the Iron Mask. It is dated "Ver
sailles, 8th July, 1C91," and consist
of nothing but groups of figures.
Vivien Labbe, SigrDe Bulonde
was, then,- the "Man in the Iron
Mask," who, having raised the siege
of Coni against his orders and the
king's pleasure, was condemned to
imprisonment for life and to wear a
mask when he quitted (he privacy of
his cell. . i
Bulonde, a lieutenant general of
the king's armies; entered the army
young and had a fairly brilliant mil
itary career. During the war with
Italy he was sent with M. Feu-
quieres to Invest the town of Coni.
Tbe first attack on this place proved
a complete failure, and on the news
of the arrival of reinforcements under
Prince Eugene Bulonde was seized
with panic; he raised the siege,
abandoned his wounded, his artillery
and the ammunition of war. This
shameful retreat provoked Louis
XIV. to such anger that nothing
could assuage his wrath.
Catlnat's official reply to the ex
planation demanded by tbe king's
minister arrived at Versailles on
July 1, 1691, and on the 8th of that
month, by the famous cipher mes
sage, the extraordinary punishment
of Bulonde was decreed. On July 15
he was imprisoned in the citadel of
Pignerol, whence he wrote letters to
the king and the minister trying to
justify his action. His pleas were
of little avail, and In a letter to
Catlnat, dated August 7, the king
con armed the sentence, and from
that date nothing further was heard
of M. de Bulonde.
lhe unhappy general who bad re
treated before Prince Eugene had
henceforth ' to expiate his fa"ult in
prison. For two years he remained
in the fortress of Pignerol, whence.
by Louis order, he was removed to
the Isle Ste. Marguerite, Saint Mars,
the governor of which was ordered
by a celebrated dispatch to tell ab
solutely nobody about 'the general
he had received from PigneroL" In
May, 1693, Saint Mars became gov
ernor of the Bastille, and in Septem
ber he arrived with his "old prisoner
of Pignerol, who was always obliged
to wear a mask of black velvet, and
of whom no one has ever known his
name or estate."
Five years afterward, in Novem
ber, 1703, the man with the mask
died and was buried in the cemetery
of St Paul under the name of March
laly. This historic puzzle has then
been spoiled in its dramatic mystery
by M. Bazeries, and henceforth his
tory will know M. de Bulonde as the
legendary prisoner in lhe iron mask.
St. James Budget.
of trial and tribulation to the digni
fled office of sexton and chief bell
ringer of the white folks' church in
the same town. He couldn't read.
but his granddaughter Lucindy
could, and be made her read to him
every evening from the Good Book.
He was finally brought before the
Doara lor examination, which was
conducted as follows:
"Brer Tias, do you know the
Bible?"
"Yas, praise de Lawd." -
"Brer Uas, do you believe it to
be the word of God?!
"Yas, dat I do, praise the Lawd.
"Do you believe the parables?"
"Dat I do,1 every wud ob dem
par'bles is facs, sho nuff. Gospel
troof."
Do you know any of them well
enough to repeat. Brer Xlas?"
"Dat I do. I know dem alL bet
dat one of Potlphar andJezebal is
de truest an' mos' powerful one ob
all Hit goes dis away. You see Pot
lphar was a-ridln'down in his chary
it rum Jerusalem into Jerico. . He
drove ; long III bit when lone come
JexebaL- bhe say Wite man,
gimme a ride;' an' he done tuk her
up behin'hlm in his chary I L An
dey went crlong a 111 furder an' fell
among tleves. An dey say: Trow
down Jezebair ,
"An Potlphar he say: Xel him
among you widout sin cas de f us'
stone.? -i -
But dey say all de louder: Trow
down Jezebair
An' finally he f rew down JexebaL
But dey wan't satisfied, an' veil:
rrow down Jezebair
"An' he frew ber down ergala.
An' den dey yell out: Trow her down
some mo'.' And he frew her down
seben times. But dey was dat mean
dey warn't satisfied no how, an' dey
kep a hollerin': Trow down . Jeze
bair An' he frew her down seb'nty
times seb'n. An ob de remains dev
gaddered up seb'n basketsfuL"
Washington Post.
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9 PowfelP
ARgQlLTTEiy . PURE
HOW T1IEV OUiUINATED.
Bome
cf the Q-eer Bxpreaelooa
Now In Common Use.
designed to interfere with the arbi
trary government of James IL are
spoken of "as such spokes in their
chariot wheels that made them drivt
much heavier." N. Y. Jouraal.
SAFE FROM
THIEVES..
Its Fate
settle with the bum. I felt a kind : " ;; VTT
. io! ! mJ lU"U-
there, smoking 'is pipe quite uncon
cerned like; he little knew what he
was in for, an if he stopped under
two days he's not only a tero, but ; Uhu Q atataa
Nightmare Poetry.
Dr. Smith, the man who wrote
"My Country Tis of Thee," tells a
story about an anthem which he
composed in his sleep. He got up
out of bed and wrote it down In the
dark while it was fresh in his mem
ory. In the morning he tried to re
member it and could not. He looked
for the paper on which he had writ
ten it and found that the pencil he
had used was a stub and that there
was nothing but some few faint
marks. So perished. Dr. Smith
thinks, his greatest work.
The composition of poetry and
Tjrose while asleep is -cot. uncom
mon. Many perfectly proved In
stances are known where men have
written stuff of -one kind or another
while dreaming. A friend of mine.
who was never guilty of writing
poetry, had an experience of this
'kind tbe other night. He dreamed
he was writing poems lor a maga
zine and he wrote a quatrain which
lingered In his memory long enough
to enable him to. put it on paper
after he had risen. This Is it:
ramvoeom. .
B soat to rtsoh Mf lavsl rf tM stars.
Bat tailed. TbM straight he weat
Amd dropped a nickel ta lbs slot sad (a"
.. At painted Brmameat
Leaving the fact that that is as
good poetry as the run of magazine
verse out of the question. It was
rather a queer circumstance, wasn't
it? Duffo'o Fr,r
- A Friendly Tip.
, Mistress I don't want you to
have so much company. You have
more callers in a day than I have in
a week. .
Domestic Well, mum, perhaps if
you'd try to be a little more agree
able you'd have as many friends as
Uve.N. Y. Weekly.
Costly Ring That Is Left to
. . In Spain's Capital.
A costly ring, -unguarded by police
or other special protection, hangs
suspended to a silken cord round
the neck of a statue of the maid of
Almadena, the patron saint of Mad
rid, in one of the much frequented
parks of the Spanish capital. It is
set with valuable diamonds and
pearls, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord, but, notwithstanding, there is
not the least danger of its . being
stolen; the greatest thief in Spain
would sooner steal tbe plate from
his own mother's coffin than to even
so much, as to touch the uncanny
relics. !
Its history is curious and interest
ing, being equal to anything related
In mediaeval folklore. It was made
in accordance with a special order
from the late ! Alfonso XII., who
gave It to his cousin, the beautiful
Mercedes, on the day oKthelr .be
trothaL She -wore it constantly
during her short married life.
Upon her death tbe king presented
it to his grandmother, Queen Chris
tina. She died soon after accept
ing it, and the king then passed tbe
deadly little jeweled band of gold to
his sister. Infanta de Pilar." who
died within a month after. -
Again the accursed circlet started
on Its deadly rounds, finding a place
on the finger of Christina, daughter
of the duke of Montpensler. In
ess than one hundred days she, too,
was dead.
Alfonso then put the cursed jewel
n his own casket oi precious relics,
and lived less '.than a year after so
doing. Is it any wonder that such
a harbinger of death can safely hang
on a statue In an unguarded square?
DM4 m Pur VmST
kMvMft ta Cars' Stra C4 ay
CifS' "Tas. tfee CmJka-
- CMtrtbvtlM.
"Mad as a March hare" Vs another
much-used phrase. The hare Is not
reputed to be ferocious at any time.
Those who hare given Information
respecting tbe hare assert that in
March the animal is particularly
wild and sly. Consequently the
phrase can have no meaning except
as a sarcastic allusion to pne s lack
of oourage and spirit.
One often hears "He s as dead as
a door-nail," yet it is probable that
most of those who uso the phrase
cannot tell why a door-nail should
be deader than any other nail that is
made of metaL It is explained, how
ever, that the door-nail in earlier
times was the plate on the door
upon which the oid-xasblonea and
now unused "knocker" struck to
arouse the Inmates of the bouse. As
the plate or nail was struck many
more times than any other nail, it
was assumed to be deader than
nails struck only when driven Into
wood.
"I acknowledge the corn," mean
ing to retract or take back, has a
number of explanations", the. most
plausible of which is that, lo 1S23,
one Stewart, of Ohio, made a speech
in congress in which he declared
lhat "Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky
sent their haystacks and cornfields
to New York and Philadelphia for a
market.- Wkkclllfe, of Kentucky,
questioned the correctness of tbe
statement "What do they send 7"
asked Stewart. "Why, horses,
mules, cattle and hogs." "What
makes your horyes, mules, cattle
and .hogs? continued the Ohio man;
"you feed one hundred dollars' worth
of hay to a horse; you just animate
and get on top ot your hay stack
and ride off to market. now is
It with your cattle? You make
one of them carry fifty dollars worth
of hay and grass to the eastern
market How much corn does It
take at thirty-three cents a bushel
to fatten a hog? Why. thirty
A TWENTIETH
Peris Is to
CENTURY FAIR.
Fair in
A Girl's Disappointments.
The girl with the inquiring mind
says, In the Philadelphia Times, that
she wishes some one would explain to
her why it is
That all the things that she likes
to eat are bad for her complexion.
and all tbe things she hates like
oatmeal and rye bread are very-4
wholesome.
That the lady who runs her board
log house insists upon cooking eith
er cabbage -or onions for dinner
whenever she expects callers in the
evening.
lhat the only time she wants a
drink of water is when the water
ptps are frozen up.
That nothing ever offends the ten
men that she simply can't tolerate,
while two hasty words4 or a silly
little note will cause a most heart
breaking quarrel with the one man
that in rash moments she thinks
she'd die for.
That after she gets home from a
party she thinks of hundreds of
smart things that she might have
said if she'd only bad her wits about
her. '
That whenever she hears about
a "wonderfully cheap sale" and
rushes down town in the morning to
bushels. Then you put thirty bush
els in the shape of a bog and make
walk off to the eastern market"
1 acknowledge the corn," shouted
the Kentucky member. . .
To take the cake" had its or-
gia la the cake walk in which col
ored couples participated, the prize
being a cake. Hence, anyone who
does a thing conspicuously well. or.
sarcastically and more usually, one
wha fails is said "to take the cake."
"A little bird told me" is an al
most universal' adage, based upon
the Idea that this ubiquitous wan
derer from the vantage of the upper
air spies out all strange and secret
things and tells them to those who
can understand. Thus, in Ecclesi-
as tea, x, 20: "Curse not the king.
no, not In thy thought; and curse
not the rich in thy bed chamber; for
the bird of the air will carry thy
voice, and that which hath .wings
shall tell the matter."
Let us return to our muttons,"
meaning let us return to the sub
ject matter from which we have wan
dered.' The phrase comes from an old
French play, in which a draper who
had been cheated by a lawyer of six
ells of cloth appears in court to de
fend a. shepherd who has stolen
twenty-eight sheep of tbe draper.
The pretense of the thieTlsh lawyer
caused the draper to wander from
tbe sheep thief to his swindling law
yer, eonf using the two misdemeaa
ors which caused the judge to fre
quently exclaim: "Let us return to
.our muttons" (sheep).
"Not worth a tiakers damn" is
really not profane in Itself, as the
last word should be spelled without
an "n." A tinker's dam is a wall of
dough or day -raised around a spot
which the plumber is repairing, just
as he desires it, fixed with solder.
The material. tan be used but once;
consequently, after - being used, is
worthless. Hence the force of the
adage for a comparison of worthless
things.
"Everything is lovely and the
goose hangs high" is a much-used
expression, but why the banging of
the goose high should have anything
to do with making everything love
ly is not dear, unless It is explained.
Hangs is a ' misapprehension of the
word "honks," the cry of the wild
goose as It files. On clear days wild
geese Cy high, hence they "honk"
high. Consequently the adage means
everything Is lovely and the weather
is fair.
'Til put a spoke In his wheel" has
very little ' meaning as the word
spoke Is sow used, and, instead of
Have Another
iooa
The site of the exposition of 1XK)
has been definitely scIccUmL At tlx
meeting of the sub-commit te es
pecially appointed to settle thequrst
tion. It was decided that the CLarap "
de Mars, the Trocadero, tKo Esplanade-
dos lava' ides, the Qha
d'Orsay, the Palais de lladustrie
and the surrounding ground should
all be devoted to the great world's
show that is to be held there at tbe
close of the Century, and ttat the
banks of the Seine should be further
connected by a bridge to be con
structed between tbe Pont de la Con
corde and the Pont des Invaltdes.
It is interesting to note, now that
this problem has been solved, that
all the members of the subcommit
tee who attended the meeting wero
In favor of this choice, M. .Berger,
who was the sole absentee, U ing the
only one who would have preferred
Auteuil; yet, as a matter of fact,
M. Bcrger's views were origin
ally shared by meet of his col
leagues. It was objected, however,
that the distance from the center of
the metropolis would ' bg too great,
and the Parisian tradesmen, fearing
that a smaller .number of visitors
would thus beattracted to the city,
also made their voices heard with
good c fleet. One. by one "tbe sub
committee were brought around to
the opinion that the old site
after all, the best, and the rvso'.u
tlon at whifh th?y hare arrived
completely settles tbe affair.
One of the principal entrances to
tbe exhibition will be on the Piaco
de la Concorde, but the square it
self will not be interfered with, nor,
indeed, will any attempt be made to
include such well-known establish
ments as Ledoyen's restaurant and
theca!e fhantant of the Horlogc,
situated between the Plare de La
Concorde and the Palais de 1'In Jus
trie, within the boundaries of tho
world's show.
People hare been Inquiring with
much curiosity whether the E:.JTel
tower, which was the crowning fea
ture of the exhibition of l-- U to
be allowed to stand, as the archi
tect of the city of Fafls Las .len
In favor of its partial demolition.
M. ickard, however, said that
nothing had Tct been decided on tho
subject London Tclrgraph.
Queer Names for Streets.
A woman lately returned from
Brazil tells cf the curious nomen
clature of the streets of Para. Thcjr
are Biblical or commemorative of
some event in the Brazilian history.
It seemed to her quite - irreverent to
be told that a desirable locality was
"at the corner of St John the Bap-,
tlst .and .St John the EraugrlUt
streets." She went with h- uncle,
who was on business, to dine at tho
boese of a wealthy merchant
Everything was very generous and
lavish, in South American styl bet
on leaving she was amazed to have
her hospitable host say to ler: -
"If you have, any washing, send it
here."
It is the custom there. It seems,
for wealthy house-holds to take In
laundry work as an rrnrJovment for
their large retinue cf wrvants.
"It did, however,- said the re
lator. 'Vive me a turn at tbe end of
s frrrr.i dinner rirty to tie asked
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iwu iu ui uivruiuK w k-I- - (V tV. w :
take advantage of It she get. there I Tu.
be told that "the last 7 .71 "r v "V
just in time to
one was sold not two minutes ago,
lady."
That this life is so full of disap
pointments, anyway. .
' 'l ; .
origin many years axra when wheels
were solid except three boles to re J
xelva a "spoke" or pin when going
down hlH, which acted as a brake.
In 1CS9. In a memorial, two maure .
The Old Friend
And the best friend, tLat never
fails you, is Simmons Liver Kera
la tor, (the Bed Zttafs what
you hear at the mention cf tLis
excellent Liver raediciae, and
people should cot be persuaded
that anything else will do.
It is the King cf Liver Medi
cines; is better than pills, and
takes the place of'Quinino and
Calomel. It acts directly on the
Liver, Kidneys and Bowels and
gives new lifo to the whole sys
tem. Thi3 is the medicine you
want Sold by all Druggists in
Liquid, or in Powder to be taken
dry or made into a tea. ;
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