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to Pim s.
Have you ever wondered what bM
become of the thousands of old onM
tire wheels that were in such universal
mo before pneumatics* Hvoluticoiaed
things? A reporter put the question tog
dealer tbe other day.
"A few were converted into pdeu-
matics and cushions and are still m, the
streets,” be Mid, "and some were taken
by the dealers as part payment on new
machines, and are still stowed away in
their shops, there being no Mie for solid
tires. The secondhand dealers and re-
pairers bought a great many of them up,
diatectod them, so to speak, and are now
utilising tbe parte in repair work. The
balls, bubs, spokea, axles, bolts and nuts
are ail useful, and at the laat the old
frames and rime can be broken up and
sold as scrap iron.
"Some have gone to tbe country, and
Josh Hayseed maybe seen complacently
pedaling down to the mill for a hag n/
corn. Machinists use them foe msking
models, occasionally a pushcart will ba
seen mounted on two rusty old wheels,
and even tbe boys on the street take the
small wheels foe the making of expreM
wagons. And tbe balance, I suppose,
you'll And stowed away in the nwltere
and wood sheds ot their possessors. Once
true and stanch friends, they are now of
no use in the world. Abandoned to cob»
webs and ashM, with no company but
rata and mice, they dream away their
few remaining day*. Once again they
stand in full suit et glittering nickel.
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But the prettiest game of bluff I
IV • «ài* who wm
nenner a drummer nor a reporter, but
Sarsaparilla
orders to have that man brought to the
axeoutive maMion.
When the man appoarud. the govern
or, calling him by name, asked him if
ho badn t once been the mate of a Mis
souri river steamboat. The convict ad
mitted that he bad. been, and then the
following oonverMtion ensued, the gov
ernor beginning:
Tbe (tee-True Bteed Purifier. St; six fern
HKRCUU8
had applied for a leave of absence and
gone south to recuperate. He had drawn
a certain sum for the trip and resolved
not to exceed it. Foolishly he bed De
tected to buy an excursion ticket, argu
ing that he might want to return by a
different route. And then, m a matter
of oonrse.be found that be had spent bis
money pot wiMly but, too well, so that
he was hundreds of miles from home,
ticketiesa and friendleM and well nigh
peimi lees.
Hie checkbook wm useless,
for no one knew him and he must be I
identified.
>MWad the superintended of the
"The circumstance doesn’t rscur to
W tlii hMt M A ims Ox, all New Haves,
me now, but doubtlew I did it A
at a salary of
a year.
steamboat mate in those daya had to be
It was after thia long term of active
oonriderable of a brutu ’’
labor as a buainoM man that he found
"Y m , sir, and you filled the Mil ad himself incapacitated for further MFV-
Skfï
mirably. I was the boy yon robbed and
ioe by the embargo which rheumatism
wlthoet
kicked aahore very near to thia capital
end cur-
had laid upon him and resigned his
city, and thus I became enabled to give
position mere than two yean ago, and
you your pardon. Here, sir, take it
Now, right about March out of that returned to Belchertown, Mam, when
he now line and owns the Phelphs
door and off them premises, and nyvsr
1 let me see your brutal old face again." farm, a retired spot when be has five
The old convict walked away quite hundred acres of land.
Being a man of mrsna ho did not I
briskly for one of bis age.
spare
the coot and wm treated by lead
A little while ago a senator told toe
that one day about the close of the war, ing phyriciana and by bathe at oelebrat-
ed springe without receiving any bene
or peihaps a little later, be was walk
During the summer dB of te» Storiate cara, fraa to aa v BaSfenm
ing down Pennsylvania avenue In Wash fit worth notice.
ington with another senator when bis
confined to his house in
oompenion abruptly called bis attention
to a rather distinguished looking man JWrtwtown, being unable to rise from
/ tujered terriNy
in a gang of laborers who were cleaning J111 k«* without assistance, and suffer roaring in mg head
ing
continually
with
acute
pains
and
the streets, and I think he mid under
an attack of catarrh, andM^ttaAEr
with no taste or desire for food, nor taro«« very deaf,
police surveillance.
The impecunious one, his bat cocked
"Do you know who that man is?" wm he able to obtain sufficient sleep, Blg’e Cream Balm and 0.^1
over one eye, wm peacefully sleeping in tbe second senator asked.
u
18M Mr dough three weckt could hear ae^T^
one corner of his seat, leaning toward
haard of Dr. Williama’ Pink Pills for
well at ever.-A. E.
su open window. Tbe conductor shook
Pale People! He began taking these pilU
man,
Orating, Mieh.
him, gently at first, ao that he stirred,
uSfl’tJSi
aud hie hat dropped farther over his
eye, but be did not wake. Then more
of September following.
The first
roughly, Mying, ’Gome, sir, vour ticket,
effect noticed was a better appetite and
pleas*.’
be began to note more ability to help
“At that the impecunious one awoke
hirnmlf off the bed and to be better
with a big start. His bat flew out of tbe
generally. Last August (18M) be waa
window, and he flew into a great rage.
able to go alone to hia summer reei-
He swore st the conductor ai 1 abused
denoe and farm of IM aoha co Grena
him up and down, him and bia fore
dier island, amonr the Thonanui
fathers unto the third and fourth geuer-1
ation. What did be mean by waking
him in that way? Didn’t be know that
rest wm invaluable to an invalid? That
such a sudden, rude awakening might be j
fatal to a weak heart? Were his nerve*
URE
of no account? And now he had loat bis
fast and would catch cold. It wm out-
rageoua
“The conductor bowed before the1
than
vuta upon the ®^Drm* and when
hud
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long rough bills and through aand and
'tend. Onoe again they aee tbe smooth,
bard track respond to the. efforts of the
riders as they throw every ounce of ef
fort into the last sprint, and bear tbe
shouts of the excited crowds m they
whis acroM the tape. Abandoned and
alone, eating out thair hearts with rust,
they gradually drop to pieces, too proud
of their vanished prestige to give one
thought
modern pneu-
AN-ANGEL IN 0I8GUISE.
High street went to bis place of buri-
ness at an unusually early hour the oth
er morning. In fact, tbe eon .had not yet
risen when he turned the key in the
door. On entering he wm surprised to
flndnnnm trying to. open the door of
hissufa.
He stood and watched him for some,
time, apparently deeply interested in tbe
proceedings, when finally the burglar
swuBg open the door of tbe safe with a
delighted chuckle, bat happening to
turn be mw that he wag discovered and
became very much alarmed. He jumped
np and wm about to make hia escape
When tbe swelk ia heavy in the ice
through a back window when the mer pack, it is often Ary difficult to ascer
chant called to Mm :
tain from which direction it cornea, and
^’Don't be in a hurry, my friend. just ss difficult m it is, just so impor
Como back and ate down awhile and tant may it be that it should bo found
smoke a cigar while I straighten things oct rightly, m tbe safety of the ship
up a bit, and then come home to break might wholly depend upon correct judg
fast with ma You have done me a great I
ment m to this When the huge ice
fhvor.”
w m begin to move and screw and
“Why, bow's that!” naked the bur prem on the rides of tbe vessel, rising
glar in great surprise.
and falling in a heavy swell, then there
“Well, you sm , I had the combination ft only one.escape—namely, to work tbe
of thé safe on a bit of paper, and last vesMl into the fields away from tbe ride
night I accidentally locked it in the safe from which the gale blows. A mistake
and forgot how to w ork it. I spent most M to tbe direction of tbe running swell
of tbe night trying to get tbe thing open brn often proved fatal, and the mistake
and came in early this morning to have is CMily made.
another try at it
West Medford
An old arctic sealer told me how in
(Mam) WindmilL
hours of dread in the arctic icepack he
company and teach you to be more care •,000.
ful how you startle a nervous msn. ’
“The conductor tried to soothe him,
Jered to take faim through to the end
During Roeecrsne' campaign in Tu»-
the division. But the impecunious nacsee the qneetion arose as to whether
one would not bo appeased. Much good be would rather be a poet or a victor.
it would-do him to bo landed in some Mr. J. R. Gilmore relates the incident in
little
tbe Louisville Courier-Journal:
hundreds of miles from nowhere, fie "•On tbe following day 1 rode out with
wanted to get through to Chicago Bo Roeecrana, General Garfield,, then hi*
moot get through. He had an appoint chief of staff, several others officers and
ment there that was worth thousands of a squad at about 100 men to Grantlands,
dollars. Finally the conductor, by this the birthplace and home of Mise Mur-
time badly frightened, promised to get free, tbe well known anther, bat then
him tickets or passes all the way occupied by General Sheridan m hie
through, and the impecunious one sub headquarters
sided. And to the end of that road the
Aa we entered tbeforest inclosing tbe
conductor, having replaced the dear de town Gsrfield broke out with Lowell’s
parted hat, maintained an humbly apol pbem, "IdO believe in freedom’sesuse,"
ogetic tone that would have wrung tears bis words being echoed back from tbe
had laid bis esr down to the ice floe and of blood from a stone.
great spreading trees and act to tbe mu
listened to tbe roar of tbe coming swell
"And it wm only a bl-ff all so well ale of 100 horeea’ heels. He bad acaroely
A csrtain lawyer’s face wm a pussle —that terrible message from tbe furious carried out that the conductor was
ended when General Roaecrane told bov
the other day m he pored over a pam gale—and bow be thus bad discovered completely taken in, and the rest of us
lek Ie arey' up, quite unbeknown.
phlet. Finally be broke out with:
whence tbe gale wm pressing and had nibbed our eyes and wondered whether
And peeked In thru thu winder,
"What tbe deuce they call thia Tbe been able to mvo tbe ship from destruc the impecunious one’s sttempt to touch
Whilq there sot Huhly all ali.ua
'Ith no one nigh to binder.
Law Bulletin for I can’t see."
tion. I tried his method snd found that us was not, after a’l, a dream.
" What would you give to have writ-
His companion shouted with laughter. it worked admirably. What is well
“Later on, traveling over that same
"It’s The L. A. W. Bulletin, you worth noticing is that open water nearly road, I told the conductor bow he had ten that?” be aaked m be finished th<
jsy!” he cried, and then be chortled in always is to be found in tbe ice pack on been worked. And be said be knew it, recitation.
"All the CMtles I ever built in th?
his glee.—Worcester Gasetta.
one side of icebergs. The icebergs that for shortly after that trip be bad receiv
we met were generally in moi ion, car ed a letter.And a check, the former ooo- clouds," I replied.
"So would I," mid Rosecrans "Yor
ried onward by tbe ruling current. Of feacing the fraud, the latter paying him
ten they ran forward in the icefields st the full price of the passage. And be know wbat Wolfe Mid iwfwe his gnai
a speed of several knots, piling up tbe added: 'That fellow wm a genius If he victory?”
“That he Would rather have writtei
huge Don before their cold, glittering had made a fuM at first about hie tick
bows, but behind them they left an open ets, I’d have been co to him in a min Gray’s ‘Elegy’ than take Quebec
sheet of water large enough for any ship. ute, but his tickets were forgotten. It Would you have Mid that before Stotw
Now, there would of ooume be many wm his nerves, his health, his heart, his Riverì”
Be hesitated a moment, thou answer
dangers for a vosm I tugged along In tbe hat that were of importance. And to
ice pack by such a floating monster, but think that be bad no nerves, or health, ed, "No, for we need victorien mort
I believe neverthelem that thia method er hat—or heart. Oh, it was wicked I than poema ”
might be instrumental in mving a voe- But that man has missed hie vocation.
■el from being c
Now and then, not often, ghostly ap
is moving beavi:
pearanees or sounds are explained to th«
in Century.
peaaant’s satisfaction. Thnain tbecoun
A Uttle BH Beety.
"Doctor,’’ Mid a distressed wife to ty of Durham "Gabriel’s bounds” were
“I’ve gut to have something to fill the family physician, m be wm coming fur long, long years believed to shriek
out thiccolumn with, ’’ Mid tbe foremen down stairs from his patient’s room, and howl through 1 be air on dark nights
of the Spiketown BlisMrd, poking bi* "can you give me no hope of my hus and to forebode death to him who heard
and saw them. But prosaic modern re
bead into the editorial Mnctum. "That’s band? Can nothing be done?" ”
all there ia about it. I’ve nue in all ihe
"Madam, ’’ Mid the delighted doctor, learah baa proved them to bo nothing
bait flocks of wild geese migrating south
dead ads and all the catch lines and rubbing his hands, "allow me to con
slugged everything out till there isn’t gratulate you. Our patient has taken a* ward on the approach of winter and
even a piece of wood reg let left in tbe turn for the better, and now we may choosing dark nighta for their journeys
office, and I’m short yet half a <I omo hope to have him about again in a few Similarly the ghost of Irbydsle, in the
Lincolnshire wolds, a goblin who terri
lines or more."
"Oh, doctor I” exclaimed the horrified fied travelers at night with its heart
Whereupon Editor Clugston Mt down
rending cries, and who was Mid to be
end wrote m follows: "Owing to tbe lady, throwing up her hands. "Yon
crowded state of our columns this week told me be could not possibly get better, a witch who had been worried to death
by dogs in a long past age, has bean
we arc compelled to omit several iater- abd 1 have sold alt his elotbeaf”—Par-
THS OUAT
*hown to be nothing but an owL On the
aon
’
a
Weekly
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eeting
communications
now
standing
the
other hand, no true Oornishman will
in type. Friends will please bMr with
ever be induced to reliuquieh the be
v,,1*1”" Internally, It C ntm
us Advertisers must bo accommodated.
Little Effie went to synagogue, and lief that the spirit of King Arthur still
Cmmp, end Pein in the
Until tbe pressure on our columns has When the rabbi called next day, wishing
haunts the ruins of Tintagel in the
“»*1», Sore Throat, Sudden Colds,
eased up correspondents will phaae Io be sociable, she Mid to him, *‘1 heard
shape of a white chough, and assuredly
'■oaKns, Ac., Ac.
write briefly and confine themselves to you speak yOur piece yesterday. ’’
the many EtagJish families who poasam
.
Externally, It Cares
simple statements of fact. "—Chicago
"Did you, say. child?" he said, half, g white .bird of omen, such m that
surprised, half amused. "How did you which iff: Jcjin Oxenham nw in "West
like it?"
ward. Ho I” cling firmly to tbe tradition
if not to tbe belief in it.
Husband—RMlly, 1 didn’t notice the
And so. ghosts, or no ghosts, the posi
drecsM. Mrs. Brown, though, wore bn
tion is just tbe same at the end of the
gown en train.
nineteenth century M at tbe end of the
Wife— lift a wonder yon noticed that
Cepe Hern is one mm of black rock eighteenth—all argument is against
much!
without vegetation or bird* Tbe m al
Husband—Couldn't help it—I stepped ways run. off it with tremendous force, them, and if all belief is not for them m ,
very great deal more is than people like
catpteioago Record.
and rounding the cape ia considered by
Milers one of the roughest of passagm
pain
killer
Family Medicine of
Schenectady, N. Y., and a« mid only’
in boxM bearing the firm’s- trade mark
and wrapper, at 60 cento a box or six
5®?"
50/and sre never sold in
bulk. They maybe had of all dxug-
giato or direct by mail from Dr. Wiil-
Hams’ Medicine Company.
Some of ou£ clever IdwyuM are not ।
clever at all when they are called upon ■
to give evidence. They can hack ami
tear teetimou# to pieces, but when it
devolves upon IbemselvM to make state:
menta from the wituem stand tl ’ are
not "in IL” Proof of tbe truth
thia
assertion came out at a trial a day or
two ago One of our celebrated lawyers
WM called npcu to testify. Instead of
giving direct answers to his interrogator
— m he himself would insist on having
a witness do—his replies, or, rather,
statemeuta, were entirely foreign to the
line of hia examination. He was repeat
edly cautioned against this style of giv
ing testimony, but the warnings might
have been leveled at tbe statue in tbe
courtroom for all tbe results that ac
crued.—Boston Traveller.
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voncbaaMtoua by nature. How often it ia
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Htotefter-rttomacb
Bitter* lii tbe teat aaent for ita raau.r.tlou t>
vteor and aclivttv., Ibotb dlseiUon and vum
lite are h nawad by thia Una tonic, which ate J
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