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HUMOROUS.

=" Blessed arc the piece makers"
said tie hired girl when she dropped a
fine French china dish on the brick
pavement.-C Cincinnati Merchant ana
IFdr6ter. 1.e-.
Mrs. Ilomespun, who has terrible
time every morning TO get her Young
brood out of their beds, saws she can
not understand why children are called
the rising generation.
Speaking of umbrellas. n scholar
says: The English name is borrowed
from the Italian om6reUa.'' This is
proof positive that there has been from
the start something borrowed about an
umbrella.
-Rhubarb pies. says cookery item.
are improved by being baked in a slow
oven. So there is one thing i'm this
world which is the better done for be-
lng done in Il slow-oyenly manner
Tie Judgc.
"A boy of four summers was ridino
ON a hobby-horse with companion.
He was seated rather uncomfortable on
the horses neck. After reflective
pause, he said: Il think if one of us
Mamma said little boy, Il gave
Carrie a pretty good hint to 90 home to-
day" What did you do, my son?''
asked his mother. "Oh, | filled her
mouth with mustard and called il
applc-sauce. and she took the hintr'-
Golden Days.
AYE. there's the Rubr'-Bathcr
No. 1: Il say, Charlie, shall be clad
of glass of ale when / get outside.
Shan't YOU? By-the-bve. why is II
people get so thirsty after coming out
of the water?" Bather No. >: Il
don't know. unless it is because they
rub themselves dry" Finn
"A lecturer undertook to explain to
n village audience the word phenom-
enon. "May be YOU don't know
what n phenomenon is? Well. | will
tell you. You have seen a COW. no
doubt? Well, COW is not a phenom-
enon. You have seen an apple-tree?
Well, an apple-tree is not a phenom-
enon. But when you see the cow 90
up the tree tail foremost, to pick the
apples, that is phenomenon.
A gentleman sent his coachman
with favorite setter to have the animal
photographed. When the man re-
turned and presented the proof. his
master observed: This is a good pict-
ure, Mike; but there is a good deal
more OF you in it than of Flora"
''Yes, sor,' returned the coachman:
''but, We see, sor. she was ristless, an |
tho't she'd be more contint if she knew
| was there. "-Brootlyn Eagle.
At n wood-cutting contest in
Mexican County two women won the
iirst prize for cross-cut saving. 1t is
safe TO wager that the aesthetic educa-
ton of these women has been fearfully
neglected. The probabilities are that
they don't know thing about crochet
ing sky-blue dog on pink canvas. OF
painting frightful things on plaques.
bit they may be pretty well up in the
accomplishment of kicking n tramp of
tie front stoop.-NOrriStoicn Herald.
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Wise Sayings.

To-day is ours; the future belongs
TO God.-Hordce Greeley.
What we ought not to do, we should
not ever think of doing. -Epictetus.
Choose always the way that seems
the best, however rough it may be. Gus
tom will render it easy and agreeable
-Iythag0raS.
Gods mercy as naturally covers
the great sins of those who love Him
and keep His commandments as the
ocean covers the great rocks that sleep
in It's bed.
- Religion gives part of its reward in
hand, the present comfort of having
done our duty; and for the rest, it oil
fers us the best security that Heaven
can give TriiotSon.
People may make injuries worse by
unreasonable conduct, by giving way
TO anger and satisfying that for the
moment, instead of thinking what will
be the effect in the future George
Eliot
How beautiful is that simple prayer,
which, it is said, the Breton sailors are
wont to utter when LAUGHING out upon
the heaving ocean: Keep me. nv
God; my boat is SO small, and Thy
ocean is SO wide!''
Experience is the Lords school:
and they who are taught by Him usually
learn by the mistakes they make that
they have no wisdom. and by the slips
and falls they meet with that they have
no strcngth.-John Merton.
i do not find that to give up anxiety
and TO trust in God is difficult now,
though it used TO be. Blessed be nv
Lord, | can not help believing Him, fer
He loads me down with evidences of
his truth and fidelity.-C II. Spurgeon.
Mr.. Emerson wrote to friend in
1929: - | suppose that prosperity is al
ways dangerous, especially for the yer,
young. In college / used to echo an
ejaculation of my wise aunt: .Oh,
blessed, blessed poverty when / saw
young men of fine capabilities, whose
only and fatal disadvantage was
wealth. ="
-Materialists are always in trouble.
They build theories on nothing, and
change with the seasons. They glory
in facts, and build largely on magma
ton. They boast of logic, and bridge
chasms by assertions to conceal their
poverty of connecting links. They leap
from nothing to matter and from mat
ter To life, though an unabridged gulf
divide them. They evolve the highest
from the lowest, and yet ridicule the
thought of the Highest creating the low
er. They assume the eternity of mind
They imagine force before substance.
yet discard the Almighty and Infinite
God. They scorn the faith of the Chris
tan, but build on their imagination.
They confess their reasoning unsatisfac-
tory, and still plod in the dark, insist
ing that facts must justify them, though
unable to find them. They treat living
as if it were the offspring Of dead mat
ter, though no case Of life out of dead
substance is recorded. Thus they foun-
der, imagine, guess, dogmatize, and
end where they begin, in agnosticism.
We need not fear their bite, for they
knock out their own teeth; Christianity
will not suffer, for it rests on a Rock
Morning Star.
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Quaker Weddings.

The wedding ceremony of the Society
of Friends is unique and beautiful. The
bride and groom, with their attendants,
march into the church at the regular
weekday meeting at eleven o'clock.
and, after being seated with faces front
ing the audience, they afisc, and the
groom, taking the bride by the hand.
says: Friends. in the presence of the
Lord and this assembly / take thee, Mary
Jones. to be my wife, promising, with
Divine assistance, to be unto thee low
ing husband until death shall separate
u.s." The bride repeats the same prom
Use, and they are seated. The clerk of
the meeting then arises and reads the
marriage certificate, and invites the
congregation to write their names as
witnesses. This ended, after few mo.
ments of silent worship or a vocal pray
er, the married couple and their attend
ants retire to the home of the brides
where there is usually a sumptuous
feast, followed the next day by what is
termed an Unfair at the home of the
groom. Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Personal AND LITERARY.


Harry Garfield, eldest son of the
late President. was one of the prize
speakers at Williams College.
Adirondack Murray. having failed
in the cattle business in Texas. will open
law Office in New York.-N Y. SIM.
james Payn, the novelist, declares
that he is a slow writer, producing only
three or four pages a day: yet he has
published over thirty novels.
Having carried to a triumphant
conclusion the plans of his father for
he East River Bridge, at New York.
Colonel w. A. ROebling has resigned
the position of Chief Engineer.
General Sir Edward Sabine. who
recently died in England. at the age OF
ninety-live, took part in the war of 1912
in this country. In 1914 he commanded
the British batteries at the siege OF
Fort Erie.
Mr.. Phil ID. Armour, of Chicago.
90 the ruler of the provision market OF
The world" is fifty-four year of age,
started as York State farmer boy, and
Is now estimated to be worth over &c.
JO0, 0O0.-C Chicago journal.
Mr.. Frank C. Bangs, the success
tul actor, has decided to quit the stage
since marrying an heiress. 1t is given
out that he will invest S25, 900 in a
Philadelphia soap factory. He believes
that while THERE'S life there's soap.
Rev. Stephen Ii. Tying, ST., who is
eighty-four years old, has no recol-
lection of anything occurring in the
past fifty years, but rs to events in
1880 and before he is perfectly clear
Tie celebrated his golden wedding few
days ago.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the lady law
yer of Washington. has eight clerks in
her office, over 5000 pension cases on
file, no end of lawsuits and claims, rides
a tricycle. wherever she goes. and has an
income of over $4,000 a year WASH
iRqtOR Star.
An acquaintance of Mrs. Langtrv
says that the lady is employing some of
her spare time writing a book, in which
she gives her impressions very fully OF
American customs and American people.
A New York publisher has arranged for
the copyright.
Simon Cameron says that Daniel
'NDStCi N'slhuS dlohc. Ills lnicllccJ
was gigantic. Greater than his con-
tcmpOrarieS, he has been unequaled in
the directions in which he was particu-
larly strong, and nature is not likely
to repeat her work again. He was a
stately column marrcd by little de-
fccts."
Mr.. Charles Wooley, of Urbana,
o.. and Miss Louise Billman, of Hedge
vile, Pa. were recently united in mar
riage at the home of the groom father,
near Urbana. The groom stands four
feet three inches, and weighs liz
pounds, while the bride stands four
feet even. and weighs 1OS pounds The
bride made the trip from Hedgeville
alone to marry her af1ianced, whom she
had never seen before.
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THE HAMuER IND TIE SAW.

LNHuu sONg.
There's the music of the birds
And the music OF the bacs:
There 4 the music Of the forests
in tile grand old trees:
Natures symphony b. sweet,
And without n single iinw,
Yet there's nothing like the music
uf the Hammer and the Saw.
Hail to Liberty and Peace!
Hail 10 Order. Heavens first law -
And tho worlds CnnObling chorus
or the Hammer and the saw.
Though the little birds may sing.
And the haImy fcphyrs blow,
Yet the lnrGrr may D" empty,
Aud the wheat crop low:
Hut when labor strikes note.
Then the heart that was IN awe
Dances lightly tu the music
or the Hammer and the Saw.
Hail ~ itorty uud Pcacoi
HAIL to Order. Heavens FIRST law 80
Aud the worlds enuobling chorus
OF the Hammer and the Saw.
Tho man may not be- skilled
iOr the harm n. tor the Tyre.
Hat have cuuvht M inspiration !
From ambition uOll" IRE.
"I'll earn ms bread Hud bod. :. IL.
Though" Ir cries. "a crust md ~frnw
while I'm climbing "a the music
OF thc HinuTrr Rpd the Sirg"'
ffyiEfu T. hcrty and PcacSi - q.
1iaihtO hrler. Heavens FIRST laWi''
And the words cnuuhling chorus
ct tho Hammer aud the saw.
--Hrs. ". 4. kbhicr. 70 " i. Lo,iccr.
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Religious Reading.
HYMN FOR THE SABBATH

Lord, with the Sab baths earliest RAYS.
wake IN our hearts the notes of praise,
And when we to Thy house repair.
., let Thy Spirit meet us there.
Under the preaching of Thy word.
lie faith and hope within us stirred:
Teach US the strains of that new song.
"hich thrills the Heavenly harps along.
Soon shall our earthly race be run.
An, And work and warfare soon be done:
Ihen with Thy saints may we arise.
Ana JON the worship of the skies.
-ChdTtes Il. LfnctSlcu, in N. Y, Observer.
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CHAPTER XVIII.

"GooD-BYE. AND GooD-BYE FOREVER"
Some small portion of this story Mrs.
Oliphant told TO Launt Harrington be-
fore they parted.
II tell you what my husband would
tell you If you were togo to him. she
said. in a constrained yet impassioned
way. "He never knew the real truth
of my earlier life-never knew that your
fathers ruin and death were laid TO nv
charge. We will not discuss that.
Think of me as you like. it matters very
little now, but spare him, it will not be
for long"
Launt's heart hardened toward her.
''You ask what is simply impossible.
IL strikes me, Mrs. Oliphant. that you
are only anxious to spare yourself. /
can not consent to appear in the light
Of coward or a villain for the sake of
shielding you from the consequence of
your sins. To know what you have
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FRO BE coxT1NuEr.1

-"Say, Pat, whatever made You pc
to work for old Uncle DAM He's the
meanest man in the country" "Mane
is it p said Pat, Why, shure an he's
the foinest. aisiest-goin' master ever I
had bedad; he gives man fifteen
hours to do DAVIS work in. '-Harper's
Bqxdr.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-10

The old corn-mill, about three miles
from town, known as Cowherd's Mill. il
aow 100 years old. On square stone
above the door are the figures 1881.
Years ago wheat was made into -four
there, but the old machinery gave way
and has never been renewed. - GordOns-
vitte (Ed.) Gazette.
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Sunday.SchO0l Lessons.
THIRD ouARrEu

Third QUARTER.
Aug. 5-The Cities of Refuge Josh %. 1fa
Aug. E-The Last Days of Joshua Josh, "a :Ii-sa
Aug. 26-Gideon's Army JudS :: T.
Sept THE Death of Samson .Judg. I6:si-sI
sept. s-huth and Naomi. .. Ruth I:Il-e3
Sept ia PRAYING Mother. I sam. I:2i-2S
Sept. E3-The Child Samuel. .....ISam. 8: liz
Sent 30-Rnyiav >N'"'' " 4-AS
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EER LIES SECRET.

ny JENNIE DAVIS BURTON,
Luihar ~ "sirrnJ.iy uoi," "Th- Thornh,,rs
Avsicv." "Tie VIdt Marriage ErV
Vas" " Csrd's ss,rs'," " 4 McT.
eacss Ftr stc., etc.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-02
Why We're Dyspeptic in Hot Weather.

''As rule" said DIR. j. A. Oldshue,
yesterday, 1.-The American lunch is re-
sponsible for American dyspepsia. The
prevailing custom of perching on high
stools where elbow room is at a pre-
MUM, and shoveling down hot dishes
is barbaric and only fit for Hottentots.
Most of the lunch-roOms in the lower
part of the city are fixed up in this
way. The American breakfast, with
its steak, potatoes, hot coffee and ice
water. taken at an early hour in the
morning, is hard enough on the digest
i've functions; but the repetition of this
thing at noon or one o'clock is even
wore, swallowed as it is with precipi.
tation and want of care.
Lunch should be small, cooling.
quiet meal. 1t should not be heavy
enough to fill the stomach, but Just
light enough to stay the cravings until
the heavier meal in the evening.
''In this weather lunch should be a
cold meal. Nothing is better than a
slice of cold spring lamb with mint
sauce and salad dressed in the French
style. A leg or wing of cold green
goose, or bit of cold. broiled gosline,
is dainty and palatable. The heavy
meats. such as beef and veal, ought to
be avoided. They overburden the
stomach. and render man practically
unfit for the afternoon work.
If any hot dish is eaten for lunch it
should be at the most slice of fish.
Nothing is more delicious than a piece
OF cold salmon or blue-fsh, with either
mayonnaise or plain salad dressing.
Pittsburgh pa. Gazette.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-02

to croquet, however, remember to what
an undue indulgence in this fascinating
game may lead. 1t requires great
deal of grace to play game of croquet
without cheating some and quar-
reling a little. Especially after the
evening grows dark. ] do not like
to play croquet, because l am
sure to be caught in the act, and it is
not pleasant to be suddenly called upon
to play and discover that you put the
wrong ball in your pocket. But if you
enjoy any of these games, put on soft
felt hat and play. Don't attempt to
play baseball in stove-pipe hat. Don't
be too dignified. Rigidity isn't dignity.
The wooden Indian who stands before
the cigar store never bends, and never
laughs. But he isn't majestic and he
isn't dignified, by long chalk. Don't
be a wooden Indian. Better be a live,
wild one, hair, paint, grease, dirt and
all. / wouldn't carry pistol in my hip
pocket, if / were you, but if you have a
gun and love to shoot, day in the
marsh or on the meadows may infuse
new life in your sermons. l hunt a
great deal, both in and out of game sea-
son. l used to carry gun with me.
But it was heavy, and a trouble to car
ry it, and was always leaving the caps
or wetting the powder, SO gave the gun
away. shoot just as much game with
out it, think, as used to bring down
with it, and have just as good time.
So can Burlington Ha'ckeye.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-02
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mr.. A. A. Abel. proprietor OF the
Baltimore Sun, is estimated to be worth
BIS, 900, 600. @4
General Bradley T. johnson has
finished writing book on the early his
tory of Maryland. $780,
Clara Louise Kellogg has leased .
house at New Hartford, Conn.,, near her
birthplace, and will spend the summer
there. ~
The two candidates for Governor Of
Ohio. Judges Foraker and Hoadly.
vote in the same precinct in Cincinnati.
Cleveland Leader.
Mrs. Alma Tadema, wife of the
English painter, is one of the three SIS
tiers who are called Nutritious
Grateful and Comforting"
Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Jr.. has
given up the pulpit, become perma-
nent Partisan, and is to be the general
European agent of the Equitable Life
Insurance Company, of New Yerk.-
~ y Sun.
The breach of promise case of
Mary Alice Livingston against Henry
Fleming, a New York millionaire, in
which the lady got a judgment for $751;
900, has been compromised by the pay
ment of S35, 900. =.
The following ext Governors Of Yer
mont are octogenarians: Inland Hall,
Bennington; Ryland Fletcher, Caven-
dish; Julius Converse, Woodstock; Paul
Dillingham;, Waterbury; Frederick Hol-
brook, Brattleboro.
I'm Burke County, Ga, a few days
ago Daniel Dowse, aged ninety, married
Rachel Jones, aged seventy-five- The
timid bride nervously clutched the arm
of her groom, who bore himself with
manly pride.-M. Y. Graphic.
Mayor Buckley, of Hartford,
spends much more for the city every
year than his salary covers. His enter
tainment of the Charleston Is. CO.
militiamen cost him several thousand
dollars, the expense of the little feast
at his own house being about 81, 100
Hartford Comm Post.
Mrs. Margaret Haughery is to have
life-sized statue in New Orleans. For
forty years she was the most self-sacri-
ficing philanthrOpist in that city. Many
instances of her heroism are borne in
mind by her admirers. On one Occa.
sion, when she applied at large
grocery for provisions, she was laugh
ingly told by a member of the firm:
"We'n give you all You can pile on
wheelbarrow, if you will take it to the
asylum YOURSELF" She accepted the
offer and rolled the barrow in triumph
through the streets.-Chicago Journal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-02
A Rich Man Starved.

$50 Jones is dead said one Somer.
vile man to another.
"Yes, poor fellow was the reply;
she's gone.''
"W6at did he die OFF" inquired the
first speaker.
Starvation" was the answer.
Starvation! Good gracious, the
man was worth $4,000"
Il know that; nevertheless, he died
of starvation. I'll tell YOU how it was:
Jones was always fancying that there
was something the matter with him; so
he went to doctor one day and had
himself examined, and the doctor in
formed him that he had kidney disease,
and that, besides taking medicine, he
must diet himself Said the doctor:
: You must avoid all kinds of salt
salt fish, potatoes, cabbage and
of every kind Jones fol-
lowed the advice, but found himself nc
better. He went to another doctor,
and, after being examined, was in
formed that he must avoid all kinds Of
fresh meats also. This did not do him
any good, as he thought, and he went
to another doctor, who highly approved
of the advice which had previously
been given, and further warned him
against all kinds of pastry, likewise
shell-tish, including oysters and CLANS.
The best thing for you is milk Diet
said this doctor; SO Jones lived wholly
upon milk. Not feeling himself any
better, he went to another doctor, who
cautioned him to avoid milk, above all
things, if he wanted to get well. This
Jones to diet of cold water
and fresh air, and, finding himself no
better under this regime, he went to
another doctor, who advised him to be-
ware of drinking too much water and
being too much in the air. This last
advice cut off the last of Jones article
If diet, and he died of starvation, as ]
,ave told you. '-Somerctlle Journal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-02

The old adage that q cat has nine
lives may perhaps in some instances be
applied to q dog, for certainly the ca
nine who can survive a trip over the
falls was surely not born to be drowned.
Mr.. G. Chorman has had in his posses
sion for time dog, which, although
by no means vicious, had become adj
dicted to barking at teams and pedes-
TRANS as they passed along the street.
much to the annoyance of its owner,
who has tried to break him of the habit.
Failing in his teachings Mr.. Chorman
decided to put the dog out of the way,
and thinking . trip over the fs'ls the
most effective, proceeded early Sunday
morning. with the assistance of one of
his employees, to drop him into the riv-
err from the center of Goat Island
bridge; Bidding doggy goodbye as he
hoated down the rapids, he returned
home; but doggy would not have it that
way. During the afternoon stranger.
walking across the new suspension
bridge, observed dog under the bank,
and notified the gate-keeper at the
American end of the bridge, who, with
a glass, recognized the dog, and know
ing that he had been sent over the falls,
notified Mr.. Chorman that the dog was
below the bank. Later in the day MIR.
chorman went down the inclined rail-
way, but could not find the animal; but
early yesterday morning his son went
down and soon discovered the dog, who
seemed As risky as though nothing had
happened. All ct once the dog has be-
come the hero Of the hour. and will
now be allowed to remain and live out
the. full measure Of bis days. iagGra
Fdlh Fz3eke.
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afraid that we would get lost like father

afraid that we would get lost ike father
did"
Weren't you afraid YOURSELF"
"Afraid of what?''
afraid that you'd be shipwrecked
some day."
"Naw. After You get used to it you
don't mind it at all"
"Were YOU ever mistreated on board
the ship by the mate or Captain?''
"They didn' have anything to do with
me. l was a potato-peeler, as l told
you before, and 1 was kept in the cook
house most all the time. The second
cook was my boss.
care you ever going to sea again."
'.If my mother lets me will. I'd 60
right now if she'd say so.'
'Can you swim?'
''Well, should say so. learned to
swim when l was six years old"
Jump overheard here" said Cap
tain Devan, land let's see if you can
get out without us helping yOu.'
''No. My mother might find it out.
She's scared to let any of us boys go
near the water since father got
drowned"
"Where do you live?'
"Up here on Jefferson street, near
Hancock The youthful mariner
espied the cook-house of steamboat
lying above the station. "rm going
up there on that steamboat" said he,
as he started off, Ito see what kind of
cook-houses they've got on these little
fresh-water crafts" In the course of
few minutes he could be seen aboard the
boat in earnest conversation with the
potato-peeler No doubt he was relat-
ing to the latter his experience on the
ocean in the same capacity.
Alex. is a bri ght little German lad,
with large blue eyes and an honest ex-
preston of countenance. He will be
eleven years old on the Goth of next
month. He loves to be about the water,
and can handle pair of oars like an
old tar. He is very small for his age,
and nobody would ever suspect that he
has had the experience on the Atlantic
which he says he has.-Louisville Com
7nercinl