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6. No. 10.
POETRY,
THE MAY QUEEN.
ADAPTED TO A BACKWARD SEASON

TT BRET HARTE.
Ii yoare waking call me early, call me carly, mother
dear,
And see that the is warm, mother, and the fire
is burning cIear
And tallow my once more mother. once more ere
you go away,
For Tn to be Queen o. the May, mother, Tn to be
Queen o the May.
1t froze SO hard last night, mother, that really
couldn't break
The ice in my little pitcher mother until / thought
the poker to take:
You'll find it there the hearth, mother, but oh LET
that hot brick stay,
For I'm to be Queen o. the May, mother, I'm to be
Queen O the May.
shall put on my aqud-scutens outside OF my sealskin
coat
And two or three yards of flannel DEAR will 60 around
my throatr
And you will see the boneset tea, mother, is drawn
while your child's away,
For I'm to be Queen o the May mother, I'm to be
Queen o the May.
Little Eie shall go with me, if her nose is fit to he
seen;
And you shall bethere too, dear mother, to see me
made the Queen,
Provided the doctor let you; and if it don't rain in
stead.
Little Johnny is to take me part of the way on his
sled
So, if you're waking, call rue early, call me early
mother dear,
For tomorrow may be the chiest day of all the glad
New Year;
For today is the thtieh mother, and blessd if your
child can say.
If she amt an April Fool mother instead of Queen
O the May.
-N0st'S Almanac for 1915
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NO MORE SHINING PATEs.
If You are Bald Have Your Scalp Plow-
ed Over and Planted With Hair.
From the New Orleans Picayune,

FROM the New Orleans Plcayune.
On Rampant street stands an unpreten-
tlous store whence hangs plain sign bear
ing the inscription, "Human Hair Re-
paired" Hair restorers have grown fre-
quent of late years, invented and patented
all manner of drugs and medicines that
promise to make hair grow on.the baldest
head-eyen ON pumpkin. Yet with all
these capillary improvements, one looks
down from his seat in the peanut gallery on
a sea of bald heads-shining pates.
How modest this sign appears! There is
no boast of restoring hair which has gone;
but the hair-dresser simply offers to repair
ones hair, as a carpenter would repair ones
leg, or doctor ones head.
This repairing is an old art of great sue
cess, but seldom practiced in this country.
Hair being q vegetable can be planted any
where, and if the soil be fruitful will grow
luxuriantly. Thus, if one can get bushy-
headed boy to share his locks, one can bid
defiance to old age and badness.
his art is used in Paris by old French
dandies. Our people, however, have not
generally received it for the reason that
the operation of grating hair fstrathcr
painful. it being necessary to sew the new
hairs into the head with needles.
The artists in this hair planting business
can produce the most astonishing results.
To give a person any colored hair is, CT
course, easy enough; brnnettes may have
red Or blondes black hair; old persons black
and young gray hair. That is the simplest
work.
A person may in like manner have his
head terraced, laid out in patches of vari-
GUS colored hairs, red, white, black and
brown: and in almost any sort of pattern or
design. This style always produces pro-
found sensation, giving its owner the ap-
pearance of an animated lamp-mat.
If human hair be not found, the profess
sor win supply horse hair which will be
found quite useful and able to stand a good
deal of wear and tear in addition to the
fact that itnever requires combing OF brush
ing. Altogether we must regard the intro
duetien of this art here as highly beneficial.
It will give onr colored fellow citizens here
ail opportunity of getting rid Of one of their
bug bears, wool, and thus flt them for the
duties of American citizens, and it may
may introduce new fashions in the hair
line. Certainly it is preferrble to chignons
and ramie.
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Bear Photographed by Lightning
From the Denver Cob News.


At Mr.. Guernsey's photograph gallery,
IN Colorado Springs, there is the photograph
of q bear on a rock. This curious impress
sion interested the members of the Hay
den survey, and the subject came to the
attention of the Professor. Below we re-
produce a note ofexplanation in Mr.. Guern-
sey's possession. The figure, as shown on
the rcck, is called "a great natural curios-
ity''
In the county of Bent, ON the Purga-
toire river, eighteen miles from Los Ami
mas, Colorado, on the smooth face of a
sandstone cliff overhung by wall of rock
q hundred or more feet high, there is a
life-size photograph, as it were of a griz-
zly bear. The picture is not an accidental
resemblance to a bear, but a picture more
perfect and life-like than any human art
can supply. The short tail standing
strs,iglt out, the ears visible, the claws
standing out III bold relief, the mouth open
with eyes and teeth plainly to be seen. the
natural attitude, al demonstrate beyond Il
shadow Of q doubt that tic picture is 4 pho
tograph stroke Of lightning during the
process of a storm. 2
DR.. Hayden, judging from the photo
graph, is of the opinion that il IS the work
Of some of our Indians.
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NUPTIAL NOTES.
From the st. Louis Democrat.


The BRIDES cake was twenty-five inches
in diameter
Lieut.. Fred. Dent Grant is "a years ofagc.
Mrs. Fred. Dent Grants medium sized
brunette. She is 30 years Of age.
Rev. Isaac Erritt united them.
Gen. Phil. Sheridan was not present, be-
ing out of the city on business.
The preacher was Campbelllte. He lee
turod the young couple on the duties of
natrimony.
They both answered yes, in firm tones.
During the ceremony, President Grant
and wife stood near to the contracting par
ties, the Chief Magistrate holding tightly
to the lappels of his swallow-tailed coat.
Fred did not kiss his wife until everybody
else got through.
The wedding robe cost $1,000.
Four hundred guests were at tie recep-
ton.
stcwed terrapin was served at tho COLA
ton.
Four dozen pairs of silk stockings were
imported from England.
The bride was the recipient of a great
number of elegant and costly gifts from adj
miring friends.
The costume III which Mrs. Potter Pal
mer appeared was unquestionably superb.
The material was of the faintest pearl tint
One can form some idea by examining the
inside coating Of a perfect oyster shell.
Miss Louise Kellogg was attired in re-
ception suit of black velvet and silk.
johnny Hands band furnished the mu-
sic.
After the wedding there was q dance
The dancing was kept up until quite late
in the evening, notwithstanding the assign
ed hours for reception guests. All enjoyed
themselves, and they clnng tcnacionsly TO
the pleasant scene.
One elegantly atiired lady, who tlipped
the nlazes ol' tile dance rather numerouslv
sncculnbed to the pressure pf tight corsets,
which were cut to prevent her Iainting.
The old boys who are past flae pleasure
OF dancing, had their fun, nevertheless Il
was humorous 70 see them excuse them
Ives from their wives To go III, stairs and
''see the prssenfs. The sly dogs! They
repaired to 4 little back room from which
they emerged ssnacking ahelr lips and
wiping their whiskers and inquiring for
matches II s,nelIed like brandy. They
said tie cigars we're good.
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How to Propose.

Don't be too sudden about it. Many q
girl has said 'no when she meant "yes,
simply because her lover didn't choose the
right time and pop the question gentle,
Take dark night for it, Have the blinds
closed, the curtains down and the lamp
turned most out. Sit near enough to her
SO that you can hook your little finger into
hers. Wait until conversation begins to
flag, and then quietly remark:
Susie, want to ask you something. !"
She viii fidget around little, reply
"yes, and after pause you can add;
"susie, my actions must have shown
that is, you must have seen-I mean you
must be aware-that-that-''
Pause here for awhile, but keep your lit
tie fingers firmly locked. She may coual
and try TO turn the subject off by asking
you how you liked the circus, but she only
does it to encourage you. After about ten
minutes you can continue:
II was thinking, as l came up the path
tonight, that before I went away would
ask you-that is, [ would broach the SUBJ
ject nearest MY mean I would know
my-"
Stop again and give her hand a gentle
squeeze. She may give a yank to get it
away or she may not. In either case it
augurs well for you. Wait about five min
utes and then go on:
"The past year has been very happy
one to me. But hope that coming years
will still be happer. However, that de-
pends entirely on you. am here tonight
to know-that is, to ask you'll mean I
am here tonight to hear from your own
sweet lips the one SWEET
Wait again. 1t isn't best to be rash
about such things. Give her plenty of
time to recover her composure, and then
put your hand on your heart and continue:
eyes, thought as was coming through
the gate tonight, how happy I had been,
and | said to myself if you would only con-
sent to be my-that is, I said If only
knew-if was only certain that my heart
hadnot deceived me and you were ready to
share"
Hold on-there's no hurry about it. Give
the wind a chance to sob and moan about
the gable. This will make her lonesome
and call up all the love in her heart.
When she begins to cough and grow rest
less, you can go on:
Before I met you this world was des-
ert to me. didn't take any pleasure in
going blackberrying and stealing rare-ripe
peaches, and it didn't matter whether the
sun shone or not. But what change in
one short year: It is for you to say wheth-
er my future shall be prairie of happiness
Or q summer fallow of Canada thistles.
S. eak. dearest Susie, and say-and say that
Give her five minutes more by the clock
and then add:
q That you will be-that is, that you will
i mean that you will-be minew
She will heaye a sigh, look up at the
clock and over the stove, and then as she
slides her head over your vest pocket, she
will whisper:
stYou are just right will. m Quad.
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

And now the Rev. T. T. Merry, of Ma
chias, Me-, is ON the ragged edge Wash
ingtoaa Star.
No wonder the Democratic gun roars. It
was loaded in 1860 and hasn't been fired
since.-RocAester Democrat.
Mr.. Bergh's suggestion for providing
winter quarters for unsettled cats has push
ed his fame up several feet higher.-Er.
In consequence of the rioting fighting
and gouging, perhaps, in New Orleans, a
glass-eye factory is to be started in that
city.-NoraistoeB Herald.
There is no truth in the report that "Ad-
irondack" Murray resigned because his
congregation would not let him fit up the
basement of the church as q stable.-Er.
When Philadelphia critic wishes TO be
very expressive, he compliments a dramatic
star by saying that she shines like a brass
tack in an old hair trunk.-MSlacaakee
Nesos.
Tennyson is said to be at work upon
something for Mrs. Edinburgh's baby. It
begins, it's said:
'Oh, toothless, hairless, royal babe
About thee all the Russians rave"
N. 7. Mail
Andy johnson points with pride to the
fact that Adam was tailor. Andy always
neglects to state, however, that Adam re-
sorted to the trade when approaching the
very Eve of his nakedness.-S. Louis Jour-
nal.
Bowles, of the Springfield Republican,
gravely observes: "There is prevalent
and spreading impression that something is
about to drop" And pray what particu-
larly hot poker has Sam been fooling with
now?-4rgWs.
For tirst-class forethought commend us
to that pair of Danbury doves who started
on their wedding trip yesterday, taking
with them smal[sized two-year-old IN
FAINT, hired for the purpose Of deceiving the
newly found bliss.-Dambury Neaos.
A gentleman sat down at a table in an
Oshkosh restaurant the other day and call
ed for Il ''bill of particulars. Brooklyn,
by thunderw roared the bystanders III
gust of moral Indignation, as they shot him
through the doorway with the velocity of a
Remington rifle ball.-Argus
An exchange tells us that ga young lady
at Elgin, ILL.,, has sold all her jewels and is
going as missionary to the South Sea IS
tands, paying her own expenses" May
the native to whom she is dished up for
breakfast ON the half-shell be as earnest
and deyout Christian as she is.-Courier-
Jourasal.
A sensation novelist speaks of 'swife of
three years standing" 1t is replied that a
man who kept his wife standing three years
must be a brute. His case does not seem
to be more aggravated that that of woman
who keeps a half dozen men dancing''
attendance on her.-4rgus.
One reason why female telegraph opera
tors are not more numerous is because if
one of them wanted to 60 to ball she'd
get up and go even if the Presidents mes
sage was coming over the wires.-Detroit
Free Press. =.e.
Bret IIarte is said to be constantly hard
up. Such, however, is genius. Exchange.
Ifbeing hard up constitutes genius, we
have some spells of remarkable brilliancy,
-Nilaoaukee Sentinel
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hank on. Sir

The Boston Sunday Gazette says: !. The
other day lady reached the railroad depot
just as the train Oh which she desired to
depart moved AWAY As she stood gazing
~ the train, her arms fall Of packages, and
her eyes full af tears, i gentleman arrived
" the depot "a . ran, with valise ID
hand, his coat Oh his arm, and face stream
ing with pelspiration. He, also was after
that train, but alsasl was too late. Heiook-
ed a'lx iosssly after the trim. now moving
swiftly away, he SIT down on his valise,
wiped his face, and very deliberately said:
o-ia that ttainl The Indy heard It,
and smiling On Linn with IN her sweetness
laer face lighted sap with i heavenly glow,
A. She whispered, Thank you, III. s's
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a Powerful Engine.

The 81. Lnllis Dcaa0c1af ssays: /. tn the
press rps1ll t.i' lse Democrat has recently
been placed 4 stsail, apparatus, which may,
ita the near future, revulutionize the
applas,tls,u u ss''ain far p,ver purposes.
It has the ,allsaranee of miniature
engine tise siatce Il occupies heing a0x30
Iiiallts e Is aisiut ten inches III hight.
alnl wel:sl1S esf;sta ave ,af ths. y governor, 4
i,s-f Ie,saaa .Aaal .,sf this compact
l''tis 'aaAssiaa.s' les u slliessIts HI running
I Il. aTzs 7 l,fsSs .sI,all which The
i1f agfftH n nfIattss'as MISS lan eIesats,r.s.
isstsstsssssI ssfe Usslrs,ssse III examine
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WORSE THAN HORACE GREELEY
Shocking Casualty to Fast and In
teligent Compositor Result of Bad
2eumanship.
From the Detroit Free Press.

=
The other day compositor in this office
got hold of part of the page of the cliiro-
graphy of G. NJ. D. Bloss, of the Cincinnati
Enquirer. Tt isn't writing at al, but Bloss
seems to kick the ink bottle at Il sheet Of
paper and then send the paper down to the
compositors as editorial. This part Of u
page was used as foundation of plot to
deliberately destroy a human life. A line
or two was written above it, Bloss' page
marked solid and it was handed to u
"iour'' who had just struck the Office. lie
claimed to be lightning On the set s
and onreading manuscript, and he set up
the Introductory line like Whirlwind.
When he came down to Bloss he grabbed
for cap A, " held it for Il second, and
then dove into the I box. Then lie
threw that back and picked out q dollar
mark, and the typo paused, spat on his
hands and rested one foot on the cross bar
of his rack. After moment he grabbed
an z ffi' but slowly replaced It, and toyed
with mn italie e Z." Then he spat on his
hands some more, corfug ated his PROV ana
hauled the manuscript under his eyes. 1t
was no 60. He held the page further oil,
close to his nose, slanting to the right, and
square before the window, but he couldn't
start It, and he knew in his soul that no
other human compositor outside Of the En-
qsirer could do IL. As afternoon faded
into twilight he laid the page aside, and
then slipped into his coat said he'd got to 60
the depot to see friend, and he was gone.
In his stick he lad set up the words: "Iell
my mother that will meet her on the other
shore. !, He probably viii. He was seea
at the foot of Griswold street, heard ask if
death BY drowning wasn't easier than hang
ing, and II il probable that his marble form
now lies at the bottom Of the cold green
river, while Bloss il a murderer.
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Aching for a Row.

Recently as a policeman was leaning
against the walls of the Detroit and Mil
waukee depot, he was approached by man
about thirty years old, whose red face was
a good match for his hair. lie was little
..sprung" and he felt Ikea steer turned
into clover field. Mister" says he
very CONFIDENTLY, Il don't want to get
locked up and have my name in the papers
and be fined, but / am in from Ionia on a
blow out, and I'd give clean ten dollar
note to have little scrimmage with some
body "You mean you want to fighte'
asked the officer. That's what mean,
I'm just aching for row. | want to stand
before three good fellows and have some
one to give me the word to go in.o The
officer asked if he was heavy on the fight,
and he answered: Heavy should think
I was Why, I'm terrible. They call me
the Russian bear at home, and the hull
town stand up or sit down just as I say.n
The officer said it was his duty to discour-
age disorderly conduct, but in a case like
tilsat3 WACiG " ilIstIl liu CUlIic ISU iHiIGS TO
get up q row he felt it his duty to extend
indirect aid. He told the Russian bear to
go to the corner OF Rcaubien street, enter
some saloon, talk III A loud voice, and he
would soon have his hands full. I. That's
me, much obliged, exclaimed the man,
and he walked of. In about ten .a.ssa,tes
boy came running ds>wn antl said that
man with q chewed car, two black.escs
and q broken nose was mp there iii Il
ditch The officer went back viii, tie b y
and soon came upon tie Russian bear, who
was lying IN the gutter, one leg tImbleel
up blood MI over him, and his coat rip,et
in every seam. z That ) you Il III. asks.i
the officer, as lie pulled at the mans arm.
s Wen did you find that row ~ Up aoliee-
man, replied the man, rs he gsislo.l his
feet and looked At himself md felt of I.is
ear, Policeman. DON Il seem to yos, IL II
! did. Detroit Free Press.
Dresses are made To tit the figure slikass
fF 4x1~%[ r.
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It is favorite theory among the wine
growers of the Rhine, that tile wine pro-
duced during the year Of a comet visitation
is perceptibly enhanced in value and inn
proved in quality. The wine of such years
is called 'sComet" wine, the years !" Com
ct" years, and in all ways the celestial Wis
itor is honored in having his title applied
and his marvellous influence recorded and
recited Now this is q "Comet year, and
naturally the wine-growers of France and
Germany have been OH tue tip-toe Of expee-
tation. And, really, If we are to believe
the statements made, their hopes have not
been baseless. Private letters received in
New York from the Rhine vineyards with
in the past few days state that the grape
harvest Of the present year will exceed in
value and quality all crops ofreeent years.
It is believed that the "Comet" wine of
1874 will possess value in the market and
among connoisseurs which will cause it to
be quoted years hence as an exceptional
and peculiarly palatable brand.
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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

The question now is, shall John China
man vote? 1t has been discovered in San
Francisco that the revised statutes of the
last Congress have authorized the naturali-
zation of the Chinese and any other adult
males of the yellow races. The old law of
1902 declared that "any alien being free
white person., - may be admitted to become
a citizen, &c. In 1870 the provision was
extended to cover aliens of African ma
tiFity and persons of African descent"
Ihesrevision uses the words of the law Of
1862 emitting being a free white person."
and inserts the law of 1870 about Africans.
1t is claimed that the law, as now standing,
breaks down all barriers of race or descent
which California has hitherto successfully
opposed. -----. .=..-..
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This is a sad story of destitution which
comes to lis from Nebraska, caused by the
grasshopper raid, except for which the
country would have been in the enjoyment
of abundance. Within eighteen hours
travel from Chicago, 1000 men, women
and children are in actual danger of dying
from starvation. Several deaths have al
raedy occurred. Fathers are abandoning
their perishing families to seek work and
food. In Boone, Greeley, Sherman, How
ard, Buffalo and all the other counties fifty
miles west of the Missouri river, two-thirds
Of the people are destitute of all the neces-
saries of life. They have neither clothing
nor shoes, aud food is impossible to get.
The Chicago Board of Trade has nobly
taken hold of the work of aiding the suf-
ferers, and committee has been appointed,
with George Armour at its head, to take
charge of contributions. They will receive
and forward contributions of flour, meal,
pork or bacon for food. They want shoes,
shawls, blankets, coats, pantaloons and
stockings. The facts are such as appeal to
human generosity everywhere, and the
response should be quick and liberal.
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Dresses are made To lit the figure q likes
glove and the great ma iority ol New l's,ssss
fashionable women have discardstl c,rssafs.
D. order Il, bring about the & eternal fiEnssss
nf Ilinnslss
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Although His Holiness the Pope is eighty
two years old, one precedent of his family
enables him to hope for eleven years more,
one of his relatives having lived to register
his ninety-third birthday, his father, moth
er and one of his brothers having reached
eighty-eight, and another ninety years. So
their impatienee with the Pope's vital te-
nacity, when the united ages inscribed on
seven of his predecessors tombstones foot
up to within four Of six hundred years.
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Rubber shoes for horses are recent in
vention. The shoe is made and lined in
a precisely similar manner to the articles of
apparel worn by the human race, and, in
fact, present no points of difference save in
it's shape and it's manufacture of the best
quality of India rubber 1t is designed as
q substitute for the iron shoe, and means
of preventing the many maladies to which
horses feet are subject. Horses suffering
with cracked or contracted hoof, and simi-
lar painful hurts, it is said, are quickly
cured by the substitution for the rubber
cover for the unyielding metal shoe. The
device is easily removed orput on the hoof,
and hence, while standing in the stall or
turned out to pasture, the horse may be
left barefooted. AS compared with iron
shoes, the cost of rubber is about one-third
more, and their weight is forty FER cent.
less, while they are very durable. Sixteen
sizes are manufactured, SO that accurate
fits may be obtained.
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