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T a .^ about yar simph'ny concerts, with
their furbelow , aud frill..
A n ' yar recitals an’ yer prodigies, with
their Quavers an' their trills—
W h y, fer real soul-stirring music, I'd
hare you understand,
T h sM new-fangled doiu'e ain't a patch on
our old Maiueville aBnd.
That 'era band has a history. W a y back
In alxty-two
It marched away with banners gay to
cheer the Boys in Blue.
A n ' when the w ar waa over and back
they’d come to stay
There warn’t aa many, not by half, aa
wheu they marched away.
8 0 wa albost had to make the hull thing
over, ao to speak.
A n ’ we gathered in the school house fer
to practice twice a week;
A n ’ we'd parade on Decoration Day,
when 'twas hot enough to brile—
But we didn't care, when the womeu
folks 'ud wave their hands snd
smile.
runnln’ gear was yaller, but ths
waggln It was red,
A n' feather plumee, red, white and blua,
adorned each horse’a head.
A n' with them six horaee prancin' with
all their might and main,
Slch an Inapirin' apectacla I'll never eee
again.
They lubecrlbed alx hundred dollars far
to fix an that old band.
But the bulldin’ didn't coat much, fer
the hull town took a hand.
A n ’ the Squire an’ the Mayor’d come In
whenever work was slack,
.A s ’ the mlnlater ‘ud often doff hie coat
an’ take a whack.
W e played our flret engagement hi the
year of fifty-nine,
Down to Mason, on July the Fourth, the
sire d . fre e o f ch arge .
m e SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., A T L A N T A , C A ,
weather It was flue.
A n unknown commodity: Rachel—
A n ’ aa we started playin’, with tha drum V ader! Cohen— Yah. Rachel— I vant
a goin’ thr-r-ap!
some spending money. Cohen— Spend
S t o c k b r o k e r s a n d J u r ie s .
T h e O ld D in n e r B e ll.
That ’ere part of W arren county waa a
ing money?
Vat kind o f money la There's music in ths lowin’ o f ths cattls
A prominent N e w York stockbroker
credit to the map.
dot?— T o w n Topics.
on ths hills,
says:
“Th e n ew sp apers do not get
One't a week we gave a concert »0 the
Maineville folke could hear,
A n ’ we made a heap o' money at engage
ments fur an’ near.
B at at night when home returnin' we'd
wake our kith an’ kin.
A n ’ rouse the sleepln’ echoee with the
stralni of “ Home Agin.”
M. A. ALBIN, P m * .
; . . iix t h ,v .
An’ then our great band waggln— -’twas
the regulation kind—
W ith the driver's seat high up In front
an' the drummer's up behind,
A n ’ t’other seats sloped grajerly, and—
well. I ’ll explain to you
By sayiu’ they resembled Jest a great,
big, shaller U .
A n ' now the old band waggln. with all its
glory shed,
Like a faded specter of the past It stands
in Stephen’s shed.
A n ’ sometimes when children play in it,
it heaves a creaky sigh,
As if longin' for its cronies, and tbs days
that have gone by.
’T w as built right here In Maineville, an’ But. like the old band waggln’, I am
shaky now and old,
the blacksmith bossed the Job—
Hie surname slips my mem'ry, but his A n ’ I cal’late soon to take a trip where
all the streets are gold.
given name was Bob—
A n ’ old “ D addy" Stearns he made the But I feel sure that eome old comrade
will grasp me by the hand
wheels, so powerful, strong and fit
That, thou' flv# and forty year* have A n ’ say. “ 'Mem ber how we used to play
In that Old Maineville Band?”
passed, they're strong and stiddy
— St. Loals Chronicle.
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Teacher— W h at great difficulty w as A n ’ in the lazy laughter of the waterfalls
an' rills;
Demosthenes compelled to surmount
before he became an orator? Soffmore In the tingin' of the bluebird an' tha
hummln’ of the bee,
— H e had to learn how to talk Greek.
A n ’ the ole woodpecker peckin' on the
■— Philadelphia Press.
holler sugar tree.
SI*®— W h en should a young w ido w
discard bei weeds?
H e — Oh. I don’t
know, but I suppose she should cut
John Clinton was the leader (he was
W ell, the baud got eo famous they waa them Just as soon as she wunts to
Mayor of Malnsvllle, too).
wanted everywhere.
raise a second crop o f orange blos
A n ’ ef you’d a bit of talent, why, he’d
To play at celebrations, air, an’ at the
get it out o’ you;
soms.— Baltim ore H erald.
County
Fair,
A n ’ there wne Tufta an’ Stevens, East
Mother— Oh, you bad boy!
Dirty
man.
Gilky,
Owens,
Shawan, A n ’ at Lebanon an' Wilmington, an’ as
hands
again!
I ’m afraid you’re a
fur as Morrowtown,
l.egge and Cain,
Dwlnell and Shields (the tuba player), In fact from several counties did glowin’ hopeless case. Tom m y (eagerly)— Oh.
praise resoun’.
m a! does “ hopeless” mean you’re go
Derelrus, W itham and McClain.
ing to give up talkin’ about It?— Phil
But
now
the
organization
that
waa
once
adelphia Press.
O f course there’e lota of others, their
the
city’s
pride
eons and their grandsons—-
A n absent-minded butcher wns ask
la
basted
up,
aa’
all
the
boys
are
scat
In all more’n three hundred— but them
ed by a you ng mother to weigh her
tered fur and wide.
are the oldest ones
H e put the little one on the
That did the organizin’ ; but Death’s de One's in the Leglslatur, and one’s an baby.
actor great.
scales, and, glancing at the dial, re
vastatin’ hand
H as only spared three fellers from that An' one in Congress represents this dees- m arked: “Just nine pounds, bones Rnd
trlct of the State.
first old Maiueville Band.
all. Shall I remove the bones?”— Ex.
: THE M ULTNO M AH
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“ S . S . S . fo r the b lo o d ” h a s g r o w n to b e •
h o u se h o ld sa y in g .
W h e n the b lo o d is out o f order, o r
needs treatm ent from a n y cause, this g re a t rem edy is the first th o u g h t o f
Kntcker— W h y do you call your auto
an d u sed b y th o u san ds
p eop le a ll o v e r th e co u n try, because it is su p erio r
“T a x e s T ’ Booker— Because folks dodge
to a ll o th er blo od pu rifiers.
It is a p u re ly v eg etab le rem edy, an d w h ile it
It so.— N e w York Bun.
penetrates th e circu la tio n an d forces o u t all po iso n a n d m o rb id m atter, it
Business.— “ H o w much
have you a lso b u ild s u p the en tire system b y its fine tonic effect.
D u r i n g the w in
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g o t Billy?”
“ Fourpence.”
“ I ’ve got ter m o n th s th e n a tu ra l a v e -
twopence.
L e t’s put it together aud
¡ ■ r 0,JbSlilyJ’ i 2 L b.*S
go h a lv es!"— Punch.
becom e d u ll an d w e a k a n d petite, waa losing flesh, and an all-gone tired feel
fa
ile d to perform th e ir lu ll m g that made me miserable. I began the u s e of
"T h ey say there’s no chance for the
n
d u ty , th e bi lood h a s been s lu g - & S. S. and my
blood - waa restored - to - its nor-
rich In the next w orld.” “T h at’s prob
n d an e x tra a m o u n t mal, healthy condition. M y appetite returned, I
g i is
s h a
an
ably the reason they’re getting most
o f p o iso n s an d w aste m a t- increased in
i weight, that “ tirea feeling” left and
everything here!”— Detroit Free Press.
tera h a v e accu m u lated in I w aa again myself.
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Mr. Goodley— H e r age really sur th e system
an d been a b -
Columbus, , Ohio.
Ohm
V ic t o x S t u b b in s ,
prised me. She doesn’t look 28, does sorbed b y it. W i t h the co m -
C o r’ Barthmln * nd Washington Aves.
she?
Mrs. Snappe— Not now; but I In g o f S p r in g an d w a rm w e a th e r the b lo o d is arou sed and stirred to q u ic k e r
suppose she did at one time.— Philadel action an d in its effort to th r o w o ff these acids an d poisons the s k in s u f
phia Ledger.
fers.
B o ils, p im ples, blotches, rash e s a n d eru p tio n s break o u t an d con
S. S . S . is the ideal rem edy
Null— Somebody told me to-day that tin u e u n til th e blo od is clean sed an d m a d e pu re.
I w a s handsome.
Bell— W hen wns fo r th is co n d itio n ; it clears the b lo o d o f a ll im pu rities, m ak es it rich an d
R h eu m atism , C atarrh , C h ro n ic
that?
N ell— To-day.
Belle— No;
I s tro n g a n d these s k in tro u b le s pass a w a y .
mean when w ere you handsome.— P h il Sores an d U lc e rs, S cro fu la, C o n t a g io u s B lo o d P o iso n a n d a ll oth er d iseases
o f the b lo o d are cured b y S . S . S .
B o o k o n the b lo o d an d an y ad vice de
adelphia Ledger.
PLANTS BY ARIiriCIAL LIGHT.
It h u been known fo r aome time
that plant life la affected fa v o ra b ly by
electric light, and now It appears that
acetylene gns light
acts In
a
sim ilar
manner.
Borne In
teresting e x p e r 1 -
ments In this direc
tion have recently
been conducted by
M r. M. J. Jorng of
Cornell A gric u ltu r
al
College.
with
striking
r e s u Its.
P lan ts exposed dur-
the night to the 11 -
1 >1 ® 1 n ® t • o n
of
t a c e t y l e n e
gas g re w
to tw ice the size
o f those left to the
nursin g of the sun
only,
and
vege
tables attained d i
mensions double those which were
unassisted In the m atter o f illu m in a
tion.
T h e accom panying Illustration
shows very clearly the difference In
grow th m ade by plants under the tw o
different conditions. Th e plant
In
bloom w a s stimulated
by
acetylene
gas at night, w hile the leas matured
one depended on sunlight only.
The experim ents
w ere
carried on
through three monthe In a hothouse
This house w as divided Into tw o parts
by a curtain. Thla curtain w as hung
In such a w a y that each h a lf o f the
houae received the s a m i Illumination
from the sun. The beds on each side
w ere exactly alike, not only In size,
but In location and contents
I f a Illy
w as planted In a certain part o f a bed
on one aide, another o f the same apa-
<*es and age w as set out In the same
part o f the corresponding bed on the
other. A n equipment
consisting o f
tw elve
SS-candle
p o w er acetylene
lamps w a s erected on one side o f the
eortsln. Ordinary tin reflectors over
each light threw their rays d o w n w a rd
upon the soil. The lights w ere ran
w henever It w as dark, the length of
time ran ging from nine to fourteen
b o o n , according to the period o f d a y
lig h t
The
sail,
tem perature
and
it A t mixture Were as nearly the
same on each side o f the curtain as It
waa possible to make them.
T h e plants on the acetylene side In
m any Instances m atured tw ice as fast
ns those on the other side o f the parti
tion.
Radishes, onions and several
other kinds o f plants which
develop
their edible parts below the surface of
the ground w ere found to have p u r
sued their usual course, except that
they g re w tw ice as fast as those not
placed under the
Influence o f
the
acetylene lig h t
T O O M U C H A T H L E T IC S .
T en n is a n d S p r i n t i n g A p t
to In d u c e
W e a k n e s s o f th e H e a rt.
Prof. James, of the University o f Il
linois, says that an Investigation of
some years has convinced him that
much evil has re
sulted from college
athletics, according
to
the
Boston
Globe.
College athletes,
he finds, bring on
by overexertion a
num ber of Ills, of
which
the
worst
and most common
Is weakness of the
h e art that, devel
PR O S. JA M i.S.
oping with m atur
ity, unfits the victim for continued effi
cient effort in business, an d eventually
carries him off before his time.
Sprinting and tennis be believes to
he the two sports which w ork the most
havoc with the heart.
O liver W endell H olm es said that a
condition which often promoted long
life w aa prudently poor health at an
early age.
H e meant by this that a
man, like President
Roosevelt we
might say In our own time, w ho In hie
youth had to husband his strength,
and by slow and careful process de
velop tha good health that ha lacked,
would be mors likely to escape the
dangers of overexertlon. in which ths
caralaas giant w aa tempted to Indulge.
A n Oklahom a man has discovered
that there w ere departm ent stores in
ancient H e b re w days. H e quotes the
fourteenth verse In the fourteenth
chapter o f Job:
"A H my appointed
time w ill I wait, till my change come.”
— Ex.
“Oh, doctor,” exclaimed n rheumatic
patient, “ I suffer dreadfully with my
hands and feet.” "B u t, my dear sir,”
rejoined the physician, "ju s t try to
think how much Inconvenience you
w ould suffer without them.”— London
Tit-Bits.
" I understand,” began
the large,
scrappy-looking w ard politician, “dat
youse had a piece In y ou r paper callin’
me a thief.” “ You have been misin
formed. sir,” said the editor, calm ly;
“thla paper publishes only new s.’’—
Cleveland Leader.
There's music in the blossom an' the
clear blue of the sky.
In the screamin’ of the chicken hawk
s-circlin’ 'way up high;
But the sweetest songs of June time
ain't nowherea near a smell
To the music 'long at noontime of ths
old dinner bell.
When plowin’ in the distant fields, clean
out o' sight o’ home,
A-wishin', too, with all your heart that
dinner time would come,
You watch the furrles
stretch
away
aroun’ the lower bend,
A n' potter ’round a bit before you start
for t’other eud,
A a ' you bead your bead an' listen to
ketch the welcome sound.
A n ’ calc'late it’s put nigh noon by shad
ders on ths ground,
When through the hazy atmosphere,
your longin’ to dispel,
Comes the fur-off sllr'ry music of the
ols dinner bell.
When the harvest day is over an' the
tollers' work is done,
Over wavin' corn an' clover tinted by the
settin’ sun.
Low an' sweet the distant music of the
ole bell floats along;
Borne upon the evenin’ breezes, mingled
with the reapers’ song.
A n ’ you look acrost the medder, past the
ole crick windin’ through.
W here the ringer sweet is waitin' with
a welcome there for you.
Oh, there ain't no joys of summer thst
can strike you quite so well
As the ringin’, when you're hungry, of
the ole dinner bell.
— Indianapolis News.
R a ilr o a d T r a v e l i n g In B e lg iu m .
“ W h a t’s the matter?” asked the op
R a ilw ay travel Is cheap in Belgium ,
timist; “ I thought your uncle had left according to a report received at the
you $100,000?” " H e did,” replied the State Departm ent from United States
pessimist, "b u t confound It, he pro Consul M c N ally at Liege.
H e says
vides In bis w ill that I ’ve got to use that the B elgian state ra ilw a y sells
$160 of It to buy him a tombstone.”— tickets on a time basis which enables
Chicago R ecord-Herald.
the holder to travel continuously. If
“ W h y do so many actors Insist on desired, for the period stated on the
playing Shakespeare?”
“ I suspect,” ticket, within the limits o f the country.
answered
Mr. Stormlngton
Barnes, F o r Instance, a Hve-day ticket w ill cost
“that It’s because they can take all the $!!.80, and n fifteen-day ticket, $7.72.
credit If they succeed, and blame the D u rin g the life o f one o f these tiekets
public’s lack o f literary taste If they It serves as a pass, and It Is only neces
The
sary to show it /Upon request.
fall.”— W ashington Star.
abo ve rates refer to second class only.
She— I ’m glad we went.
It w as an
A ll that Is required to obtain
these
excellent perform ance— and for such a
tickets is to present at the office an
charitable purpose.
H e r H u sban d —
unmounted photograph of sm all size,
Yes. Indeed!
W e all feel a thrill of
which is attached to the ticket as a
satisfaction when w e do something means o f identification.
for charity and get the worth o f our
money at the same time.— London Tlt-
H e C e r t a i n l y D id .
Blts.
Knpeck— Green eloped with Brown's
Patient— G re at Scott! Doctor, that’s wife yesterday, I understand.
Mrs. Knpeck— W hy, 1 thought Green
an a w fu l bill for one w eek’a treatment!
was B rown’s best friend.
Physician— M y dear fellow, If
you
Enpeck— W ell, didn't he prove It?
knew w h a t an interesting case yours
w as, and bow strongly I w as tempted
Nothing more detestable does the earth
to let It go to a post-mortem, you produce than an ungrateful man.— An-
w ouldn't gru m ble at a bill three times tonius.
as big as this.— Chicago Tribune.
w ind o f even a sm all fraction of the
suits brought against brokers because
o f m isunderstandings between us and
our customers.
Ninety-nine custom
ers out o f every hundred think w e rob
them when they lose their money In
the market and give us no credit when
they win. W e do our hardest to settle
all suits out o f court, for there is not
a Jury on earth that w ill find a verdict
fo r a stock broker. W h y? Sim ply be
cause every Juror has been scorched
now and then in the m arket and holds
a gru dge against all brokers.”— N e w
Y’ork Press.
To Break In New Shoes.
Always «hake in A lien '« Foot-Ease, a powder.
It cu re« hot, «w estin g, aehing. swollen feet.
Cures corn«. Ingrow in g nails and bunions AI
all druggists and shoe stores,2.V. Don't accept
any substitute Sample mailed FREE. Address
A lien S. Olmsted, 1 « Roy, N. Y.
A n E asy J o b .
B ig Chief Scared-of-IIis-Job had met
with an accident while
acouring the
plains and it was necessary for the army
surgeon to amputate his leg.
A fter a
time the missing limb was replaced by
a wooden one, and meeting him later the
doctor said:
“ llo w do you like your wooden leg, old
matt?”
“ Ugh!” responded Scared-of-IIis-Job.
"In ju n likunt heap much.
Injun likum
you ntakum all wood.”
“ M ake you all wood?” queried the M.
I), in surprise. "W h a t for?”
"In ju n make heap money then,” an
swered the noble red man. “Getum job
standum in front of cigar store. U gh !”
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T h e S am e B oat.
Bess— Charlie, w ill you tell me w h at
time It Is? I ’ve left my watch at my
aunt's.
C h arle— A w fu lly sorry, but I can’t.
I ’ve left mine at my uncle s.— Detroit
Free Press.
S o u r c e o f N u p p llce .
"W illia m ,” auid the minister’s wife,
“ if you want me to repair your trousers
you’ll hare to go down town and get
some buttons.”
“ Never mind, my dear; let it go till
nezt week,” replied the good man. “ I'm
going to take up a collection fo r ths
benstit of the heathen Sunday.”
Mothers w ill find Mrs. W inslow ’s Soothing
Syrup the best remedy to use (or their children
during the teething |<erlod.
N o t h in u lin tn tr.
“ N o w that I have sold you a policy,”
said the Insurance »ge n t, “ I will make
you an Interesting proposition.
G ive
me some letters o f Introduction to peo
ple you know nnd I w ill give you hnlf
my commission on every one o f them
I land.”
"M y dear m an!” cried the new pol
icy
holder. “ I haven't an enemy on
earth!”— N ew ark New s.
" I f yoh husban’ boata you. mebbe
you kin hab him sent to de whlppln-
pos’,” said Mrs. Potomac Jackson. “ If
my husban' ever beats me,” said Mrs.
T olliver Grapevine, “dey kin send him
to de whlppln'-pos' If dey WHiits to.
B ut dey'll have to w ait till he gits
out'n de hospital.” — W ashington Star.
A Southern planter w ns ask ing one
of his colored servants about her w ed
ding.
"Y e s, sub,” she said, “it w as
Jes' the finest weddln' you ever s e e -
six bridesmaids, flowers everyw here,
|
hundreds o f guests, music, an' er heap
er prayin’.” "In d e ed ,” commented her
master. “A n d I suppose Sam bo look
j
ed as handsome as any o f them.” An
em barraased pause.
“ W e ll, no— not
’xactly, suh. W o u ld yer believe It, dat
fool nigger neber ahower up!”
A farm laborer w as w o rk in g In a
field by the roadside one cold day,
when a clergym an came along the
rqad and stopped to speak to him.
"P len ty of work fo r you this weather,
John?” he called o u t “ A h !“ aald John,
" I don’t know when I don't have work,
no
matter w hat
w eather
comes.”
“T h a t ’s hard, John,” said the clergy
m an; “but w ait till you get to the place
o f rest, then you w ill have no work to
do.” “ H u m p h !" grum bled John, "you
needn’t tell me! They'll find a Job for
John, never fe ar!
It will be;
’Now ,
John, polish up the sun!* 'John, you
might ban g out the stare” ’John, be
quick, now and light up the m oonf
N o no, parson, there ain't no place of
rest for John."
•till, given strength and good health
la tha beginning, m oderate exercise of
ooe’e pow ers cannot fell to bo a source
W it, when w a amataura engage In It,
o f rene wad strength as w «U as of
la eomeUtnes pretty gbaatly.
healthful enjoyment.
T h e K in d Y o u l l a t e A lw a y s B o u g h t haa b o rn e th e signa
tu re o f Chits. I I . F le tc h e r , and Inis been m a d e u n d er Ills
personal su pervision fo r o v e r HO yea rs. A llo w n o on e
t o d e c e iv e you in this. C o u n terfeits, Im ita tio n s and
•’ J u st-a s-go o d ” « r e h ut E x p erim en ts, and e n d a n g e r th o
h ealth o f C h ild ren —F x p e r lo n e e a g a in s t E x p e rim e n t.
What is CASTOR IA
C a s to r !« Is n harm less su b stitu te fo r C astor O il, F a re-
g o rie , D rops and H ooth ing S tro p s .
I t Is Pleasan t. I t
contain s n eith er O piu m , M o rp h in e n o r o th e r N a rco tic
substance. Its a g e Is its gu a ra n tee. I t d estroys W orm s
anti allays Feverish n ess. I t cu res D ia rr ln c a and W in d
C olic. It, relieves T e e th in g T ro u b le s , cures C on stipation
and F la tu len cy. I t u ssim ilatcs th e F o o d , regu la tes th e
.Stomach and B o w els, g iv in g h ea lth y nnd iia lu m l sleep.
T h e C h ild re n ’ s I ’ a n a cca —T h e M o th e r ’ s F r ie n d .
The Kind You Haye Always Bought
Bears the Signature of
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In Use For Over 3 0 Years.
TW « C IS » * « »
COM W AMV. T t « U lM M V • m
i t T. M *W VO N « O rr» .