A SONG BY A CONIEVTED FELLOW.
“No more than’one might
! interrupted Joscelind, with i
catory motion of the hand.
| ants are mere frauds, nowadays!"
“And nothing goes right snout the
| place."
I “Nothing ‘ever’ does!" said Josce-
’ lind.
, | Uncle Black eyed
r,
her qneerly.
don’t know what his temper has got.
to be,’ said she, and I’m going to'
Oh, ’tis all on» to ma, all one,
Whether I've money or «hather I’ve none.
show him.’ And, bless her sweet
heart, her plan has worked like a
He who has money can buy him a wife,
charm!”
And he who has none o tn be free for life.
It had, in good truth. Uncle Black
He who has money can traie if he choose,
wa3 a changed man. And Joscelind
And he who has none has nothing to lose.
had relapsed into the original sun
He who has money hi» cures not a few,
shine of her temper- and all the do­
And he who has none on sleep the night Thi„ waH llito different froln the de- mestic wheels of Black Grange
through.
.
•
x1.
. ,
termined cheerfulness and systematic seotued to revolve on velvet.
He who has money can »quint at the fair,
. good spirits of her three sisters.
But Uncle Black took all the credit
And he who has none escapes with much '
At breakfast, the next morning, to himself. He never knew that Jos­
care.
Uncle Black began to scold, as usual, celind had taught him a lesson.
He who has money can go to the piny.
i “Fish
he.
“This
----- again!" said .....
----- . “We get along nicely,” said he.
And he who hue none at home can stay.
makes four mornings in the week “now that my niece. has subdued
»,„.1 tish. » ”
those little tempers of hers.”
we’ve had
He who has money can travel about.
And hi who has none can do without.
“I detest fish!" said Joscelind,
____________
And Joscelind ______
was his ___________
heiress and
j pushing away her plate with a gri- darling after all—for he will always
He who has money can be coarse at will,
mace.
lieli ive that it was he who “formed
And he who hue noue can be courser still.
“And the rolls heavy again!” \ her character.”
BIG SWELL.
all sorts
NOTORIETY.
Ranks high—Old butter.
A shell race- Oysters.
Ara the New.pi.per> to Bl»,,,,.. .
Curious Circumstances that Brought
dent An.wer to u Great
*
Food for thought—fish.
Together Billy Cripps
and Jimmie
clant.
ot 'Hu.
Billduck.
The light guard—a glass chimney.
Match safe—the married man.
This is the view that some p^l
Another mammoth cave—the latest
“Streaks o’ wet weather mos’ alluz
are taking of the prevalence of* I
leather failure.
fetches bad luck,” said the Old Set
The hight of the season—cayenne cide and other forms of violent chi
—that the newspapers are parth I
tier of Pipe county. Pa., “but I never pepper.
sponsible.
They give more ot U. I
see a wet season sech ez this un’s ben
A leading feature at a horse show—
but I think o' the bully luck that The halter.
space, according to their eh...J*!
Billy Cripps tumbled into in tbe fall
All dogs have their daze when hit to news of this kind. Persons of (L I
o’ '39. Uncle Jonas Billduck had a with a club.
lower grades of intelligence especially I
farm down in Jersey. Durned if I - There’s always room for one mower read the criminal records. eonceptioZ I
don’t b’lieve tbe apples they raised —in the hay field.
of murder and self murder becom» I
Coal men are familiar with the familiar to them, and when som, |
on that farm of a season would a
weighs that are dark.
bought the hull o’ Lackawack. Billy
The successful photographer ¡8 a crisis comes the mind turns mon I
He who han money can drink the Lett wine, i growled
Uncle
Black,
breaking
one
!
wanted
to
marry
Jonas
’
darter
Je-
_
_
i
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---------
swiftly to the thought! that ends with I
And he who hat none with the gout will not | open.
man of oxteusive views.
the CANDLES AND LAMPS OF ANTIQUITY.
pine.
inime, but tbe ole man didn’t seem to
a blow or a pistol shot than it would I
Guns
kick
a
good
deal
4he
same
as
“Please give me the plate. Uncle . It is from a passage in Apuleiue’s like the notion, though he hain’t
He who has money the cash most pay,
if it were not already saturated with I
men
do
—
with
what
’
s
in
their
breech-
And he who has none Bays “Charge it, I Black,” said Joscelind; ana she rang | Metam, IV. that we get the most val nothin’ agin’ Billy ’cept that he
1 es.
such ideas. And this is only partnf I
the table-liell sharply.
■ liable and conclusive information on
pray.”
Orain merchants seldom indulge the general indictment which¡is often I
Betty, the cook, a stout, good- this point. A noise being heard in wa’n’t rollin’ very much in wealth.
Ke who han money must die some day,
“Wall, in '36 the apple crop was , in short stories; they prefer cereak. made—that publicity is one ol th I
And he who has none must go the same way. humored Irishwoman, made her ap- the middle of the night we are told
pearance.
_
_
j that the household come in with I immense. Uncle Jonas he’d more'n i
Can anybody give ub the address crying evils of the age. These crities I
Oh, ’tin all one to me, all one,
“
Betty,
”
said
Miss
Darkridge,
“
be
"ta-dls,
lucerna,
sebaeeis,
et
ceteris.
”
-'
“
ji
(
lutriua,
nruatriB,
ri
vricun,
say that nothing is sacred again« I
j
big
sheer,
like
the
rest
on
’
em.
One
•
of
the man whose name is Legion!
Whether I’ve money or whether I’ve none [
I so good as to throw these rolls out of that is, with torches of pine, lamris. 1 day a smart neighbor o’ his’n got an
When a Wall street man goes to a the inquisitiveness of the newspaper, I
winrLuv
"
A_11
_
____
Jl._
_
_
J
__
_
?_
.
_
.L!-L
the window.”
i tallow candles, and was tapers, which . idee. He come to Jonas and argied sulphur spring he gets a taste of Private life is invaded, and the titre« I
UNCLE BLACK'S HEIRESS.
light of the press beats into even I
Betty stared.
therefore clearly proves that candles, I that mes' likely the chances was, ' “futures.”
home.
”1
“Do you hear what I tell you?” both of wax and tallow, were in use b’gosh, that nex’ year the apple
“I can get along with him. j, ; ■ said
The
original
D
’
Arc
horse
is
sup-
There <Are newspapers and news I
Miss Darkridge, with emphasis. | at this date. It seems, however, that
very sure,” said Joscelind Darkridge. j And Betty flung the rolls among the candle was probably used by the crop’d be a dead failur’, an’ taat [ posed to have been that which Joan papers, of course, and some of them I
“Nobody could get along with him!” j | the rosebushes, where they were I poorer people. At all events, the nat’rally there’d be a big call for first rode.
have a good deal to answer for I
chorused the three other Miss Dark speedily devoured by Cato, tbe New ! lamp was a mark of respectability, as dried apples.
Is the black man who runs the Those that make a trade of sensation
“‘Now, Uncle Jonas,’ says he,
ridges in unison.
’
three-card
game
a
native
of
Monte
­
foundland dog, and Rob aud Roy, the ■ in another verse of Martial (Apoph, ’ ‘we’ll jist kind ’ogo pardners lik», an’
plism are not scrupulous as to either
Uncle Black was the personage of
setters.
j 42) we find that an apology is made i peel an’ dry a snortin’ ole pile o’ ap negro ?
their matter or their manner of pre
whom they spoke—a crabbed, ill- | I two
“But what am I to eat for break-I for the use of a wax light instead of ' pies this fall, lay ’em over, an’ ketch i
A newspaper reporter accidentally seuting it. But a little reflection will
tempered, little old man—who lived fast?
” bewailed Uncle Black.
j a lamp:
the market heavy when it gets a 1 knockel a ladder down, but immo show any one that these form com­
in a superb old country seat among
I
Grackeis, of course, said Josce -I «Qi» tibi nocturnes pmstabit cereua igni
diately set about righting it up.
hankerin’ fur sech goods nex’ fall,’
paratively a small class among the
the Catskills.
lind. “Anything is better than im- j Subducts eet puero uamque lucerna tuo.”
“The idee struck Uncle Jonas, an’
A sailor is called an old salt be journals of the country. Charles
He had money to leave, but bis periling one’s digestion with such Juvenal (III. 287) also speaks of the
niecesand uephewB secretly believed stuff as this! And Betty, if you send , “breve lumen candehe.” In theBrit- he sot the hull family pselin’ apple», ' cause the minute he gets on shore he Dudley Warner, in speaking on the |
subject of the press two or three
that it would be a deal easier to go to up any more fish in a month, you may I jBh Museum, too, there is a fragment an’ 'twa'n't long’fore tney had 4(X) or is in a pickle.
California or Golconda, or some of consider yourself discharged—do you of a large candle found in Vaison. 500 bushel» o’ dried apples on hand. |
Nobody ever thought it necessary years ago, said that the moral too«
Uncle Jonas's house wa’n’t a very
of a newspaper was usually higher
those fabulous places, and dig fort­ hear?”
near Orange, and said to belong to , large un, an’ it stood ’bout fifty foot to urge a pawnbroker to take more than that of the community in which
unes out, nugget by nugget, thau to
!
interest
in
his
business.
“But, my dear, l am rather fond of I the first century A. C Such candles from the line o’ a pastur’ lot b’longin’
it was printed. There was no little
stay at home und earn them by mak fish,
Rowing men always said it would truth in this observation. Even the
” put in the old gentleman.
were probably provided with wicks to Hoppy Dusenberry. Nor mor’n
ing themselves acceptable to an old
take a strong team to beat Hanlan, most sensational newspaper hardly
“One can t eat tish the ‘whole time, consisting of tbe pith of rushes rude-
gentleman who had as many augles said Jos 'elind, imperiously. “Here, i jy covered with crude wax or tallow. 100 foot from one side o’ the house, and it has taken a Teenier.
furnishes crime and scandal enough
as a rose diamond, and as many Betty, this coffee inn t fit to drink! Candlesticks lor these existed, and whar they was only one winder, an’
It is a grave question in onr mind to satisfy its readers, and the respect
prickly spikes of temper and dispo­ and the toast is burned; and you ; later on they had a spike to penetrate , that was up stairs, they was quite a
whether
Mr.
Courtney
could
beat
an
steep knoll, an’ at the foot o’ this
able newspaper has to make up in
sition as a porcupine.
must have put the cooking butter on • the butt of the candle. However, the
Naomi Darkridge had tried it first. the table by mistake!’ Let these er name candelabrum was more gener- Jonas hed built a high wall. The i egg.—[Cincinnati Enquirer. He can’t mind to do without the custom of s
groun’ twixt that an’ the house was i even beat the shell.
large portion of the community be­
Naomi was a soft voiced, slender girl, rors be rectified at once.”
j any HpplieJ to the pillar on which the stony, an’ wa’n’t used fur anything,
When Fogg was asked regarding cause it will not pander to a diseased
with a head which reminded one of a
Betty retired, with an ominous I oil lamp stood or from which it was so Jonas concluded to spread his the latest additions to the English appetite for details of revolting crimes
drooping lily.
of her stiffly-starched apron. ! I suspended. Since no attempt was dried apples on boards twixt the language, he said he would ask his or unclean gossip. There is another
“No one can help loving Naomi,” rustle
“My dear,’ said Mr Black, rather luaJo to . provide
for tbe current of r house and the wall. He built a roof
.................
on which the newspapers are
»aid Mrs. Darkridge, as she kissed her apprehensively. “Betty is a very old —‘---- --------------
' proper combus­ over 'em, an’ thar he had ’em stowed wife. She always had the last word. point
air so necessary for
daughter good-bye.
The tailors of America will meet liable to be misunderstood by the
servant, and—•”
tion,
these
old
lamps
smoked
exceed
away snug enough.
But in three weeks Naomi came
in convention at Philadelphia next public, through lack of information.
“I don’t care if she is the age of
“Wall, that fall Billy Cripps was month. We presume they w;ll meet The public doos not see, and there­
back, half frightened out of her wits, i Methuselah,” said Joscelind; “no­ ingly—so much, indeed, that it was
fore cannot appreciate, the vigilance
“He scolds so dreadfully,” said body can be expected to put up with the duty of one of the slaves of the pesterin’ the old man more'n ever to to discuss measures, not men
household to go round each morning let up an' give him Jemine. One day
which is exercised in every respect­
Naomi. “Aud he looks at me as the such wretched cookery as this!”
The
man
who
uses
profane
language
and wipe the soot from the pictures Jonas got mad.
able newspaper office to keep such
wolf must have looked at Little Red
“I really think she is not so bad, and statues. In one ease, however,
“ ‘See yer. Billy.’ says he, ‘I’m a may have considerable dash about news out of its columns. More care
Riding Hood. Oh, mamma, 1 couldn’t | if—’’
him,
but
he
is
running
a
risk
of
going
at the ErectliQum of tbe Athens, gittin' durn tired o’ this. They ain’t
stay there, not if I was to be made
“Ob, pray don't apologize for her, Acropolis, the lamp, which was of no use. You’re jist ez likely to git I where they have altogether too much aud discretion are needed in thii
matter than the average reader real­
richer thau Miss Burdett Coutts her­ Uncle Black!” said Joscelind. "They
■'
pure gold, was provided with a flue. Jemime ez 1 am to be a livin’ over colon.
izes. The system of news collection
self!”
are all shiftless, lazy creatures, who I This was a very large lamp, requir­ thar in Hoppy Dusenberry’s pastur!
A
St.
Louis
brewer
was
killed
the
becomes more complete every year,
Magdalen Darkridge went next; I must be discharged promptly if they
other
day
by
being
struck
with
the
ing
to
be
tilled
but
once
a
year.
Cal
Now. the fus’ fine mornin’ you come
and the field is swept more thorough­
but Magdalen, although a fine, tall don’t do their duties.”
limachuB designed it for the qew tern 'long this way an’ find me a livin’ head of an exploding beer barrel.
girl, with a spirit, of her own, was
Uncle Black began to look fright­ pie about 400 B. C., but the smoke over thar, jist walk in. tell me, an’ Getting at lager beads is extremely ly each time than the time before.
The wheat and chaff come in together
cowered by Uncle Black’s savage eyes ened. He had kept Betty, Sylvia and
was found to be so great an evil in | i then you kin walk off with Jemine.' dangerous.
and it is the province of the clean
in less than a week.
old John for ten years. Was it pos anything designed for such a purpose
“Ez mad ez he were. JonaH had to
The editor who kicked a poet down newspaper to see that as little of the
“I’d sooner sweep crossings for a sible that he had scolded at them for
that
the
lamp
was
provided
with
a
laugh
to
think
o
’
the
joke
o
’
the
stairs
apologized
to
a
friend
who
had
latter is used as possible. Probably
living," said she, “than to be Uncle | ten years, only to have Joscelind
chimney in the shape of a bronze thing. Billy ho toddled off an’ made come in to steal exchanges by saying the average reader would be surprised
Black's heiress.”
Darkridge outscold him now?
palru
tree
inverted.
But
however
up
his
mind
that
he
and
Jemine
that he couldn't help it; he had a if he could see the quantity of news
And so she camo homo without loss
“1 wouldn’t be too short with 'em, magnificent and elaborate the design, couldn’t never hitch.
sole for poetry.
of time.
that is thrown qsideeach day because
my dear, if I were you!" he remon­ it is certain that the economy of the
“The season had been wet all
Rhoda Darkridge, in no wise strated.
“Poor creatures!” exclaimed Mrs. it is not of a kind that ought to come
lamp remained stationary. " It was through the summer, an’ was keepin’ Grosgrain, looking at the pictures of before the eyes of his girls and boys
abashed by the successive failures of
“Then lot them do their duty!”
her sisters, was the third one to try said Joscelind, with tbe air of an em­ i generally filled with olive oil and pro­ it up. One night, jist arter Jonas nude savage women; “no clothing of
At the same time, the papers must
vided with a wick of either oakum or had give Billy Cripps his last walkin’ any kind! I wonder what the poor print the news. The widespread
Black Grange and its possibilities. press.
But sha also succumbed before the j “We are all mortal," pleaded Uncle of the dearer Caspian flax (cotton.) papers, there come up an ole tearer things have to talk about?”
publication of a murder arouses a
Occasionally, Pliny informs us, bitu­ of a rain—one o’ them warm fellers
terrible scourge of Uncle Black’s [ Black.
A girl named Gable in a New Eng whole community, and often brings a
men
was
used
to
till
the
lamp.
Italy,
that
soaks
right
iD.
There
was
a
tongue.
“I expect every one around me to in some parts, being rich in springs rippin’ wind come ’long with it. I land town shot and wounded a bur thousand eyes and ears to tbe help
“It’s scold, snarl, snarl, scold, from
live
up to their conditions,” said Jos­ of that mineral and pretrolium. Fur recomember twere on Saturday night, glarwho was trying to get in at a of justice. Then, too, there is a
morning till n'ght!” said .Rhoda, as celind.
I natural aud pardonable curiosity with
ther east, and especially among the fur Uncle Jonas’ family alluz took a window. It was a good thing for regard to some sensational occur
in three days’ time she tearfully re
him
that
it
was
not
a
house
of
seven
Uncle
Black
ate
the
rest
of
his
tribes dwelling on the shores of the rest Sunday mornin's, not gittin’ up
lated her experience to her parents.
rences that must be satisfied. When
breakfast with but little appetite. Dead Sea. bitumen and naphtha were ’fore half-past 6 or 7. That Sunday Gables.
“Ob, ycu don’t know nobody can Sylvia,
the
housemaid,
was
finishing
The better class of people—those men hear of a friend’s death, they
know—what a dreadful man Uucle dusting his library as he entered it. much used as illuminating agents, mornin’, though, there come a ran at
are eager to know tbe details of his
and for other purposes. It may be the door »’fore 6 o’clock. Jonas got who have a proper respect for them­ sickness, or the accident that befell
Black is!”
“
Not
through
yet?
”
growled
Uncle
selves
and
their
surroundings
—
will
suggested
that
the
sacred
pit
tireNep-
up
an
’
dressed
hisself
an'
went
down.
“Oh, hang the old scamp!” said I
have nothing to do with watermelons, him, or if he has gone astray, to
Mr. Darkridge, who was of a free- [ Black, the fretwork of wrinkles once ti was of this nature. The well- Thar was Billy Cripps.
understand how and why. This is a
more
coming
into
bis
brow.
because
they are always so seedy.
known
Egyptologist,
Mr.
Basil
“
‘
Mornin
’
Uncle
Jonas,
’
says
he.
and easy nature, and thought his
human instinct, to which few of us
I
“
Sylvia,
’
said
Miss
Darkridge,
Coopor,
has
suggested
the
following
“
‘
Mornin.
’
says
Uncle
Jonas.
Why ¡ b Miss L., who tells so many are superior. It is the delicate duty
girls a great deal too sweet and nice
severely,
“
if
this
happens
again,
I
as
the
origin
of
the
word
naphtha,
‘What in the name o’ the grizzly untruths, like a microscope? Because
to be snarled at by any rich old
dispense with your services! namely: N A, water of Phtha, the king be you doin’ yer this time o’ she is a magnifying lass. [Critics of the newspaper to satisfy it without
miser. “Let him alone. My daugh­ shall
going so far as to make its news
Look
at
that
clock!"
Hephrestos, or Vulcan of Egypt’s day.’
will say this pun doesn’t “g;” but we demoralizing.
ter needn’t go negging for any wan'»
‘My dear,” said Uncle Black, “Syl­ deities, the god of fire. This idea re­
“‘Wall, says Billy, ‘I were jist all know who the critics are. ]
money.”
If the extreme publicity of the pres
Bitt here Joscelind. the youngest, via is generally a very good girl, l ceives some support from the fact goin’ by, and seen as you’d moved
A young man went into the kitchen, ent day is an evil—and there are
if
—
”
that
the
Indians
who
sold
the
first
over
inter
Hoppy
Dusenberry
’
s
tallest and prittiest of the four girls,
where his girl was baking, and in­
when it seems so—what, shall
"Dear Uncle,” interrupted Josce 1 petroleum (as Seneca oil. and used it I pastur lot, I thort I'd drop in an’ advertently sat down on a hot pie times
■poke up:
lie said of the love of notoriety!
largely
in
their
rites
of
worship,
lind.
“
pray
permit
me
to
be
the
judge
!
walk
off
with
Jemime
jist
ez
you
“I’ll go!” said she.
just from the oven, now boasts that This is the other side of the shield.
“You don’t know what you are un­ of these matters. You have ruled termed it fire-water, which name is tole me to,' says he.
he “descended from the ‘upper crust.’ ” The newspapers are accused of prying
now
applied
to
alcohol.
—
|
Journal
of
your
household
with
a
slack
and
in
­
“Sure ez guns, thar were Jonas’s
dertaking,” said Naomi, with a shud
“It seems to me that the lard is into the affairs of the home, filling
the
Society
of
Arts.
dulgent baud altogether too long. I:
house standin’ plumb over the line
der
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inter Hoppy's pastur lot. You see diminishing rapidly, Mary.” said the their columns full of offensive per­
“He'd wear out a stone;” said Mag 1 shall now institute a refoim.”
And poor Sylvia had never moved CINCINNATI CULTURE AS SHOWN BY THE the high wind o’ the night afore hed mistress to the servant girl. “Yes’m,” sonalities, etc., and some of them are
daleu.
PORK MERCHANT S DAUGHTER.
lifted the roof ofTn Jonas' dried ap­ was the reply of the maid; “butthen not without sin in tbe matter. But
“He's a ghoul!” shuddered Rhcda. about so briskly, as she did that day. !
know when you bought it that do the public ever'think of the striv­
Old John, the gardener, was notex- _ In tbe elegant
o
_____ ____ __ of _ a ple shed. The warm rain had belted you
drawing-room
“I can get along with him, I am
it was short’ning.
ing and labor on the part of a large
i
empt
from
bis
share
of
the
general
Cinciuuati
pork
merchant
’
s
mansion
in
on
'em,
and
soaked
inter
’
em
very sure,” said Joscelind, brightly.
class in the community to get them­
President
Grevy
is
fond
of
going
[
turmoil.
Miss
Darkridge
chanced
to
a
large
company
was
assembled.
All
through
an
’
through.
Wall
you
And she packed up her little trunk,
i
I overhear her uucle reproaching the the luxury that wealth could com­ know dried apples. They jist begun into the kitchen and bossing the cook. selves into the newspapers—yes, and
and went to Black Grange.
old
man
for
some
fancied
neglect
in
mand
contributed
to
the
gratification
to swell an’ swell. They couldn’t [New York Journal. Thereby revers even their home affairs! This hunger
It was sunset—a red, flaming sun­
for notoriety is seen in all classes—
set, like one of Gifford’s pictures— the flower beds, whose diamonds, j of the guests. Upon a blue satin push the wall down, but sumpin’ had ing the usual order cf things. The rich and poor, learned and ignorant
when she came up the terraced flight j ovals and cresents of brilliant colors divan the pork merchant’s daughter, to give. That sumpin’ were the cook generally bosses the gravy. If business men, professional men,
of step* that led to the old house. | were the pride of his horticultural gorgeous in silks and pearls and dia house. Ez them 500 bushels o’ ap­ we were that cook we’d gravy the writers, soldiers and poets. This
Everything blushed blood red in the heart, and she came promptly to his monde, was conversing with a friend. ples kep’ a doublin’ tfieirself in size, boss.—[Boston Star.
J Presently her father approached and they jist quietly puihed that house
“What are you going to do when tendency, too, has to be held in check
deep light, and Joscelind could see I Rid.
along, b'gosh, never wakix.’ a mortal you grow up if you don’t know how If the growth of the newspaper has
how lovely was tbe scenery; how sub­
“Gardening, indeed! Do yon call! RR’d:
developed the vice of publicity, it has
“Pauline, I want to say a word to up in it, till they landed it safe an' to cipher?” asked a school teacher of itself
stantial thia old gray house, with its this gardening?” she said. “Uncle
been developed and impelled by
a
slow
boy.
sound
over
on
Hoppy
Dusenberry
’
»
square towers and semi circular, col Black, I'm astonished that you keep 1 you.”
“I’m going to be a school teacher a kindred vice—the love of publicity'
------- ’ lot. Wall, o’ course Jonas
onnaded porch. Uncle Black stood such a man as this about the place!" | The girl arose and accompanied t pastur
And the torrent of taunts and re- l>*'r parent to the seclusion of a bay couldn't go back on his word, an’ and make the boys do tbe ciphering,” 1 —I New York Tribune.
on the steps, in a wig and black silk
i Billy
got ' de gal. But the dried ap- was the reply.
"
stockings, surmounted by huge silver preaches which she showered upon window.
A DELIBERATE SEARCH FOR CHEEK.
the luckless head of poor old John
“Pauline,” began the old man. pies was «p’ilt.”
kneebuckles.
“Too bad! only one instead of two
We hear of all sorts of develop­
And the Old Settler took his um- weeks’ vacation this summer!” grum­
“No you are Joscelind’’’ said Uncle was enough, as that individual ob “there's a couple of Cleveland dudes
>n the dining room having a hot talk brella out of the wood box and went bled Racket throwing himself back ment in ideas in these days, but the
Black, surveying her with little twiuk-1 aervad, "to make one.s flesh creep.”
"My niece is a young lady of spirit »bout Copernicus. I was afraid they home beaming.—[New York Sun.
ling eyes, like black beads.
in the hammock. “Never mind, dear.” latest is that of a young man of my
“Yes, I am Joscelind!" said the I and energy,” apologized Mr. Black, were going to ask me to decide the
replied tbe consoling Mrs. R; “you acquaintance who is natuAlly modest
retiring, and who has deliber­
bright-cheeked girl, giving him a when at last Joscelind had gone back j dispute, so I made some excuse n to get
“ ! M ore H eartless than a C at .—Fri- know, half a loaf is better than none.” and
ately set about curing himself of
I to the house.
I out aud come to you. J Now
’
kiaa.
tell mo. (]ay morning a little three year old
The convicts working in chain­ I basfifulness and acquiring cheek by#
“Verra like you, sir— verra like who
Corpenicus,
“You’re lata!” said Uncle Black.
•«»> was iti
* »>
i anyhow?"
’ ’i
i-
Andy Glover’s in Schley gangs in Alabama coal mines die at
“ < Ob,
“I am late." said Joscelind. "I you!” said old John, scratching his
b, father,” exclaimed I auline. county. Gi. was delighted beyond the fearful rate of eighty-seven per . regular course of expedients formal
: ing himself conspicuous and crest-
, “I how could , you be so ignorant?
„
___ Why, measure, aud called his sister's at- thousand per month.
thought the old thing of a stage never i ¡lead.
| ing remarks. Therefore comes he
"Like me!" said Mr. Black, slowly. Rny »chool-boy knows who Corperni- tent ion to h “nice ittle bushy tail
would have got hero. The horses
Eleven police justices in New York
And he stood tor full five minutes, cus was. He sailed from Palos, I R1I1W)11
fairly crept and the roeds were
kitten playing on the barn with the draw salaries of ¡$8,000 each, or nearlv in and out of church at udiwu *
I hours, stands up in the cars and
f quite speechless and motionless, star- j Spain, on the
(( ca
horrul”
me 3d
.M of
or August.
August, 1492,
141'2, and o[ ld
cat. ( •• " The sis^r looked and was
* *^Iuerlca
“It's a dreadfully warm day," ling down at the mossy rim of an ! **
following surprised to see a squirrel romping as much as the judges on the Su­ sits down on the boats, scramble#
preme Bench at Washington.
for front Beats and places of obsei'
I ancient sun-dial, half sunk in the October.
growler! Uncle Black.
.
.
over the roof of the barn with the
The M omen's Christian Temper vation everywhere; and in a general
“I'm almost roasted." sighed Josce- velvety grass.
The * venerable purveyor of swine house cat. They seemed on tbe best
“Like—me!”
gazixl exnltingly at his daughter a terms, would roll over together, just ance Union of Missouri has sixty-five way tries to copy some of his bn#-
lind.
"There's no khowin' the masther,' moment and then said, with a sug- life® two playful kittens. Glover’s unions, forty-five of which are aux­ fling associates. I regret that so far
“The whole summer has been in­
f(imlly
on for a long while at iliary to the new State organization. | his efforts are not promising to avail
d,” said Bel
Betty, in the geetion of sadness m his tones:
tolerably warm,” said the old gentle­ . he's that changed,''
1 kitchen, a week or so after.
“ > He’s as
man.
1 auline. my child, if I had your
antics of the squirrel and cat
Some Cincinnati Hebrews have : much toward the end desired. But
“We might ns well l»e in the tropics mild as a lamb and as peaceable as a b™>nsl might have been a I nited An older acn of Mr. Glover's then been eating clams, crabs, frogs' legs it must not be inferred that all these
states Senator from Ohio. —[Brook tooka shot gun and killed the squir- and other forbidden fruit, and are I young men at the theaters who come
and done with it,” retorted Joscelind, kitten."
“Sure, isn’t that jus* what the i *^n ,L8Kle-
flinging off her shawl and fanning
I pel, whereupon the cat became getting criticisms from Jewish papers. in late and leave early and rush for
young lady told
said Sylvia,
herself vehemently.
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' strangely distressed and would not ' The body of a fox was found near the door at the close of each act
Uncle Black gave her the key« that “when she came down into* the
Sydney Rosenfeld has completed be comforted. She walked around Newport the other day. after a fash­ trampling over dresses and French
night, just as he had three times be­ kitchen that first morning before the an i arrangement with Michael Gunn,
Clunn. mewing and calling, bnt
but the poor ionable hunting party had returned boots and disturbing alike feminine
fore given them to her three sisters. tire waa lighted, and told ns as she of Dublin, to produce his comic little squirrel did not go to the call. from the chase. The verdict of the flounces and equanimity, are pupil#
“I shall expect you to take charge was goin’ to try an experiment and opera, "The Mystic Isle," in London. Her playmate being dead, the cat hid coroner's jnry was, “Died from fatty of his school.—[Boston Globe.
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of the whole establishment,'' said he. we wasn't to mind a won! she said, They
mi^ht
“strike ___
ile” by firing off in the barn and kept out of sight— degeneration of the tissues, caused
,, ground hog very obviously make*
‘cause it was all by contraries. ‘He n
Gunn . ’s piece in this
The servants are miserable—”
. country?
i [Sumter Republican.
by lack of exercise.”
ths best sausages.