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When you see young man 81

When you see young man sit
ting in a parlor, with the ugliest SIX
year-old boy, that ever frightened
himself in the mirror, clamberlng over
his knees, joking his white tie out of
knot, missing his white vest, kicking
his shins, feeling IN all his pockets for
nickles, bombarding him from time to
time with various bits of light furni-
ture and 6Vouterie, calling him names
at the top Of his tiendjsh lungs, and
yelling necessarily for him to come
out in the yard and play, while the
unresisting victim smiles all the time
like the cover of comic almanac, you
may safely bet, although there isn't
the sign of a girl apparent in a radius
Of 10000 miles, you can bet your bot
tom dollar that bowling boy has a sis
ter who is primping in a room not
twenty feet away, and that the young
man doesn't come there just for the
fun Of playing with her brother.
-Burlinngton Hawk.Eye.
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AT 4 Kentucky dinner, and be.
tween the sherry champagne, to which
period the enfaat terrible Of the family
had been unfortunately permitted to
linger, the host had gone praisins his
own wine in q fashion which was GER
tain1y an evidence ofits great intoxi,
eating qualities.
THAT sherry, sir, cost me sixty dol
lars a dozen. I bought it at the auc.
ton Of the Emperor Napoleon's wines,
and imported it myself"
"Why, papa" interrupted the en-
fant, shat was all gone long ago, and
mamma filled the bottles up from the
California keg. She said that you
never had any friends that could tell
the difference"
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An Editor Who.LOves Babies.

We love babies, and also anybody
else who loves babies. No man has
music in bis soul who doesn't love ba-
bios. Babies were made to be loved,
especially girl babies-when they
grow up. A man isn't worth a
"shuck" who doesn't love baby, and
the same rule applies to woman. A
baby is a spring day in winter, hot
house in summer, a ray of sunshine in
trigid winter, and if it's healthy,
good-natured baby, and it's yours, it's
q bushel of sunshine, no matter how
cold the weather. A man cannot be
a hopeless case so long as he loves ba-
bies-one at time. We love babies
all over, no matter how dirty they are.
Babies were born 10 be dirty. Our
love for babies is only bounded by
the number of ba bies in the world.
We also have sorrowful feelings for
mothers who have no babies. Wo-
men always look downhearted who
have no babies and men who have
none always grumble, crink and stay
out late at night, trying to get music
in their souls but they can't come
it. Babies are babies, and nothing
else can take their place.
Hutchinson Patriot.
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The Man from Boston.

This is the way she told the story
to the Chief of Police, as she sat on
the edge of a chair and wiped her
nose twice every time she wiped her
eyes once. She began:
81 keep clearinghouse on Fort
street east, sir, and week ago last
night, sir, good-looking man rang
the bell and said he liked the cozy
looks of my house, sir. He wanted
to know if I was near-sighted, ard
when I said yes, he said he'd take
board for a week. He said he was
looking up an estate, sir, and that he
lived in Boston"
"Looking up an estate repeated
the Chief, as he wrote it down.
"Well, sir, didn't ask for any
money in advance, as he was such a
gentleman, but yesterday he handed
me twenty,dollar bill and | gave
him back fourteen dollars. | went
down to the store and they said the
bill was counterfeit I told the man
so when got home, and he got mad
in a second 'Who impugns my hon
or? he cried, as he took the bill. i
will 60 down there and make the syc-
ophants grovel in the dust for this !
That about what he said, sir, as he
got on his overcoat, sir"
"Aud he went ?? querled the Chief
"He did, sir, and he hasn't returned,
sir, and the sachel went with him, sir,
and the sycophant here before you, sir,
has been swindled out of fourteen dol
lars and weeks board. Doesn't it
look that way to you, Sir 2"
And the Chief confessed that it did.
Detroit Free Press.
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They had celebrated their tin
wedding, and SO when he casually re-
marked that the new waitress had an
attractive mouth, she said nothing
But when he came home that night
and learned that the new waitress had
left during the day for California, and
that the only person who could be
found to take her place was woman
ninety years old, with two sets of false
teeth and wen. on her chin, he
couldn't help wondering.
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CentauH'
u IMMINENT,

The lame can DO healed and the wounded
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Centaur Liniment will do. They will not
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Scientific skill cannot go beyond the eff
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Chronic Rheumatism Of many years standing,
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Cutaneors Ecuptions.
Mr.. Josiah Westlako, of Marysville, Ohio,
writes
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from the house. The first three bottles Of
Centaur Liniment enabled mo to walk with
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think your Liniment simply o marvel"
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et."
What the Centaur I.iniment has done for
others it will do for you 1t is handy. it is re-
liable, and it is cheap.
The yellow CcniaUr Imminent
is worth its weight in gold to owners of hor-
see and mules.
THIS Liulment has cured moro Sprainod,
Swecuied. Ring bOnod a..d Called Horses IN
thcee years than have all the FarrierS in the
country in an age. lis effects are simply
wonderful.
We have thousands upon thousands OF GER
riica.es as strong as the following
''Nfy horse was lame for a year with fet-
lock wrench All remedies utterly failed to
cure and considered him WOrthlca5 until
commenced to Use Centaur Linimout. which
rapidly cured him. heartily rocoma ond it.
REV. GEO. ". FERRIS,
Manorvilo, Schoharic Co., \. T."
DEAR SIn,-I have used yonr Centaur Lin
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Please send me two dollars worth, one for
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RILEY SICKLES,
Falls Station, Wyoming Co., Pa"
It makes very little difference what the
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Laboratory Of j. b. Rose & Co.,
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GEMS.
The beauty seen is partly in hi

The beauty seen is partly in him
who sees.
The vices Of the rich and great
are mistaken for errors, and those Of
the poor and lowly for crimes.
1t is only through woe we are
taught to reflect, and we gather the
honey Of worldly wisdom not from
flowers, but thorns.
The moral courage that will face
obloquy in good cause is a much
rarer gift than the bodily valor that
will confront death in bad one.
Never seek to he entrusted with
your friends secret for no matter
how faithfully you may keep it, You
will be liable in a thousand contin-
gencies to the suspicion OF having be-
trayed it.
Every base occupation makes one
sharp in its practice, and dull in ev-
cry other.--SW z. Sidney.
How difficult a thing it is to per-
suade 4 man to reason against his
own interest, though he is convinced
that equity is against HIM. --2'us'er
"A single snowhake-who cares
for it ? But q whole day Of snow
flakes, celebrating the landmarks,
drifting owe. the doors, gathering on
the mountains to crash IN avalanches
who does not care for that 2 Pri-
yate opinion is weak, but public opln'
ion is almost omnipotent.
Weep not for death
The fount Of tears is sealed;
Who knows how bright the inward lighs
TO those shut eyes revealed
Who knows what peerless love may fill
The heart that seems 80 cold and still.
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of complimentary letters received from
Druggists of wonderful cures. Three
doses will relieve any case. Try it.
Sample Bottles 10 cents, Regular
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allow is it" asked Bishop Viii
berorce, of one OF his Roman Catholic
seryan: girls, "that you can feel 50
kindly disposed toward me, when you
believe that shall certainly be lost p
ooh, no, said she. "But how can |
be saved" persisted the Bishop,
"when your Church teaches that there
is no salvation out Of its pale q "You
will be saved through your inyincible
ignorance was the reply,
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of DR.. johnson. at is vain to blame and use
less to praise" The lustrc of its long-ago-
STAINED reputa ion has increased as the years
have passed, and its future seems az bright if
not brighter than at any time since the gold
en- hue of prosperity settled around its later
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the first with the better class of readers. 1t
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the eye of the ignorant are never Inserted
CHICAGO Journal.
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DR.. Johnson WAS observed by

DIR. Johnson was observed by a
musical friend of his to be extremely
inattentive at a concert whilst celc-
brated solo player was running up the
divisions and subdivisions of notes
upon bis violin. His friend, to induce
him to take greater notice OF what
was going On, told HIM the perform
anco was very difficult. "Difficult, SIR
replied the Doctor, Il wish it were
impossible"
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Japanese Proverbs.

If you hate any one, let him live.
Regard an old man as thy father.
We cannot build bridge to the
clouds.
The world is just as persons heart
makes it.
The tongue three inches long can
kill a man six feet high.
If you do not enter the tigers den,
you cannot get her cub.
Send the child you love most on a
journey Ito save him from being spoil
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Spotted Tails Daughter.

Spotted Tail has daughter named
Shonokoo, which meaus the Red
Road who has recently been married
to Mr.. Lone Elk, a dashing young
buck. There is a little bit Of romance
about Shonkoo, Not long ago two
sisters of charity visited their Agency,
and were presented to Spotted Tail
during their stay. He was well
pleased to meet them, and had a
friendly stalk with them at Col.
Mills house. In the course OF the
of the conversation they asked him if
he would Ike TO give them Shonkoo
TO 60 and live With them in a convent.
He SAID yes, he would like it very
much. Then they sent for Shonkoo
and asked her if she would like to 60 !;
but she remained silent, vouchsaling
no answer to their question. Her
father urged her to speak, to say yes !;
but still she was silent, and the inter
view thas terminated. That night
Shonkoo eloped with Lone Elk, to
whom she managed to convey the in
telligence that her father was about to
send her away. Shonkoo is consider
ed quite pretty She has good taste
in dress, for an Indian woman, and
understands English but dis]ikes to
speak 1t. She is proud enough to he
a Princess.-Cor. ~. Y. Herald.
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through out the land, as purer. more inter-
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is not published in this or any other country.
Commercial Bulletin, Boston.
The Weekly is the only illustrated paper Of
the day that in its essential charactcrtics is
recognized as a national paper. brooklyn
Eagle.
The leading articles in HG,pe,'S Weekly on
political topics are models of heightened dis
cussion, and its pictorial illustrations are Oft
en- corroborativc arguments of no small force.
Examiner and Chronicle, New York.
The Weekly has to Il still larger degree dis.
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It's illustrations are abunda nj and OF rare cX-
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One LIFE, One AM-A wife said
to her husband, who was scolding
her, "However cross you may be,
there is not y couple who liveiu great
er uuanimity than you and |; for we
always desire the same thing-you
want to be master, and so do l."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

--"My brethren" said Swift in a
sermon, "there are three sorts ofpride,
of birth, of riches, and Of talents. !
shall not now speak OF the latter, none
of you being liable to that abominable
vice"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The Democratic partys position
never was stronger than it is now.
The party is compact and firm, and
marches on to victory.--[Gov Hen
dlicks.
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Ayers

Thereputation it has attained, in consequence Of
the marvellous cures it has produced during the
last half century, is sufficient assurance to the
public that will continue to realize the lappicst
results that can he desired. In Amos. every
section Of country there are persons, publicly
known who have been restored from alarming and
even desperate diseases Of the lungs, by It's use.
All who have tried it,acknowledgei its superiority
and where its virtues are known, no one hcsitatcs
as to what medicine to employ to relieve the dis
tress and suffering peculiar to pulmonary afcc.
tons. CHERRY PICTORIAL always affords in.
slant relief and performs rapid cures of the
millcrvarieties ofbrorchia disorder, as well as
the more formidable diseases Of the lungs.
AS asaleguard to children, amid The distress.
ing diseases which Dcset the Throat and Ches, Of
Childhood, it is Invaluable; for, by its time s use,
multtudes are rescued and restored to hpallh.
This medicine gains friends 1T every u!aI, as
the cures it is constantly producing ar' 100 re-
markaDic to be forgotten. 10 family snouli be
without it, and those who have on,rusri it
never Ni.
Eminent Physicians throughout the country
prescribe it, and Clcrgymen often recommend it
from their knowledge of its effects.
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"A man caught fishing for trout
on another mans land, the other day,
completely silenced the owner, who
mousliated. with the majestic an
swer:
"Who wants to catch your trout ?
l am only trying to drown this
worm"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

"A precocious boy Of eight sum-
mers attributes the death Of pet
gold.fsh--hls sisters idol-lo the
tact that it couldn't take a joke. BY
way Of a joke be used to catch it oc'
casionally With bert pm.
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Castoria.

1t is a mistake to suppose that Castoria is
not adapted to grown persons as well as
Children. They only need TO increase the
quantity. But children have so many COM
plants for which Castoria Is adaptcd-like
Wind collie, Sour Stomach, Worms, Ct
tiers, Tcething and Group, that it Is espcci-
ally recommended for them.
Its effects arc more certain than Castor
Oil. 1t contains no alchohoi and is as
pleasant 10 take as honey. 1t never
gripes. BY regulating tie stomach and
bowels the Castor ia c0Ols the blood, eX-
pels worms and presents fevershness, quets
the nerves and produces heath-then Of
course children can sleep i'll quiet and
mothers can rest.
Castoria is recommend by all physic-
ians and nurses who have tried it, and it is
having rapidly increasing sale. 1t is pre-
pared with great care after the recipe of DR..
Samuel Pitcher of Mass. at the Laboratory
Of j. B Rose & Co., 46 Dcy St., New York.
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.ErrOrS Of Youth .

4 GENTLEMAN who suffered for wears
from Nervous Debility, Premature Decay,
and all the effects Of youthful indiScretion
will, for the sake of suffering humanity, send
free to all who need it. the recipe and dircc-
ton for making the simple remedy by which
he was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by
the advertisers experience can do so by adj
dressing in perfect confidence. l79jm6l
JOHN Il. OGDEN. AZ Cedar St., New ork
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The New York Graphic pictures
the physician Of the future with big
box on his back, crying "Glass put
in !"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The Brooklyn Argus says the
darkness of mans life is too often
nothing but the shadow of his liver.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The stylish gentlemen of South
Carolina wear their boards a la Hamp.
ton.
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