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"CROWDEn nUT.n

II vhNs treGtet in saamelnl manner.
he began yestei day, as lie halted a police
man on Gratiot street
"Htve the boys been after youagain?'
No. der poys vAhs all right. it yhhs
young man who makes fool OF me
He comes into my bhce two or three
weeks ago und says be vahs society re.
porter nit bapar. DIT vhas all right.
Ifanypody likes my society Idont bounce
him oudt."
What did be waut?'
"Vntll, py-und,py he says TO me:
Mister Oud-rdunker, how you like me
to say in der baper dot your daughter
Katie gif a barty last vheek und eafery.
tnps vhas lovely like Boston stylef
Well, feels uckled dot my X ltis vhas
to be in der blpers, und set oop der
peer
"Nopody sees. After awhile der re-
porter comes RrounGt und tells me dot it
vhns crowded ont He feels v-ry sorry.
but he can't help it, und py-uud-py he
says. MFR Oaderdunker, how you lik-
me say in der naper dot your vhife vhas
in Toledo ON visit nit frierds?" Vnell,
l like dot, My vhife vhas home nit der
kitchen. but it looks vhell in der baper
dot she goes Of on visit"
aud you set mp the beeIi'
"Yes. / like him to make a fine
notice, but II doan' come oudt in de
baper. He comes arouudt IN few days
und says it yhas crowded oudt, but he
vhas sorry und can't help it, Was
maat, but py.uud-pY he says: Mr..
Ouderdunker, how you like me say dot
you gif a cofloe init your palatial resi-
dence, und dot il vhas der most rechercht
affair Of der sensou2 Vhell, always
have some coffee for breakfast, und il
der vhas some recherche around here
like some in my family. I bays taxes
und vhas MS good as anybody. 1 t-lls
him to 60 aheal init his item, und he
fills oop NIT peer und gnes off. "
"And it didn't come ou?'
"Not an oudlt He vhas shwindler.
found oult he vhas house painter.
You see how you can fool man when
you tiekles him shust right"
well, he's so much ahead"
"Maype be yhas, but in a day or two
he Will come pack for some more peer,
Den shall fix an item like dis; Our
fellow-tOwnsmin. Mr.. OnderdunAer,
who vhas in Detroit ten years und bays
his taxes, can mop somepody all oafer
der floor und preak his bones. und
black his eyes, und step on him in such
recherche style rs beats Boston all to
pieces in der middle of list vheek!"
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knew tho language and habits Of the
Persians as we'll as if be had bsen one OF
them himself; and so. like good fellow
that he WAS, he gave me all the informa
tion he could think of about the ways
of the place, SO that I shouldn't get in.
to any scrape through my inexperience.
Among other things he warned me
that I'd be likely to have great deal OF
trouble with these pilgrim-beggars. He
said it was common trick of theirs &c
dnd out some European who had lately
arrived, sit down at his door, and refuse
to go away till he gave them some none!
In tho meantime they would keep VI
such hideous bowling and screechinR
that any one would soon bo glad TO pay
to get rid of them.
"As for drying them away, any man
who ventured to lay finger on them
would be instantly murdered by the rab-
BILE of the town, SO that they were very
awkward customers in every way.
This gave me an idea, ] saw plainly
enough that to pay b5actmail 10 one OF
these rogues would only lay me open to
be preyed upon by hundred more. So
l made up my mind to give the irst that
came such lesson as would make all
the rest glad to leave me alone.
L had not long to wait for an oppor.
tunity. The very next morning tall
lean, ragged, dirty-looking scare-crow.
with one eye and face like monkey
came and squattej on my porch, an.
nouncing his determination to stay there
TILL guYe him some money, and attempt
ing to spur my charity by yelling out
at the top Of his voice various scraps OF
the koran.
Il bore it as best might until mid
day, when, as I hnd expected, the rascal
took n mop, and then / commenced oper-
ations in my turn.
Il was making some experiments in
electricity just then, and had brought
with me from Earope very powerful
electric battery, [ hitched the wire 10
the metal cup that the fellow held in his
hand for aims, and gave him slight
shock. Just enough to awake him,
Then 1 told HIM once more to be of,
and, as he vas beginning TO answer i'm
pndently, 1 let him have it in real earnest
with the whole strength of the battery.
"Oh, if you had only seen hin! He
flew head over heels right down the steps
into the street. and rolled over and over
in the dirt, kicking, roaring and Shrek
ing like mailman.
His metal cup, with all the money
that he Lad begged TINT mor1ing, tum-
bled ont Of his hand, and passing boy
promptly snatched 1t up and ran of with
it; and what with that and The two teeth
which he knocked out in his fall it was
rather a bad mornings work for my
friend.
"MY wife always says it was very cruel
of me, and perhaps it was. However,
my cruelty had at leHst one good result.
for was never troubled again by him
or any other beRgars, so long as I re-
niaiued at T'ehpran"
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-SuoScriOe Tor ana read the ADVOCATE
it contains all the latest local news up to
the time Of going to press.
OFF for the summer flanncIs.
An opera gllss-the one taken be-
tween the acts
Can sorrel team be set down MS a
pair of red drawers.
Never give up? Won can find remedy
fNr It"nrt Disease. every one who has tried
Or. Graves Heart Regulator say 1t is a sure
cure.
The bandits of the West nre known
rs road agents, Iu the East they nio
hank presidents.
1t takes long time for woman to
get into the thirties, but when she does
got there she stays!
"A cler lyman does not necessarily
pray for lettuce when he says at the ia
bile: "Let us pray"
GUARANTEED IN cure a cold or coprh
--Acker's celrhratel English Remedy. Sold
hv DR. c 7 Horn, Lehightou, ana A Horn,
Weissport.
A bicycle rider is said to be like n
South American State, because he is al.
ways on the brink of revelation.
1t is a question whether it is better
to talk in church. MS members of the
choir do, or go to sleep, like the eldest
deacon.
UsE AcEFR's ENGLrsH REMEDY for Con-
sumption. Sold hv Dr. c r Horn. Le-
highton' and L, A, Horn. Weisspnrt.
Did it ever occur to you why law.
yer in conducting dispnte1 will case is
like trarez, performer? Well. il is be-
c'nse he flies through the heir with the
greatest nf fees.
Hon. C W. ITavziitt. Waterloo. Iowa, n
member of the State Legislature. kpaps ST..
Jacobs OIL. tho great pain cure. on the fam
ilv shetland saws he considers it the greatest
remedy ever used fnr bodily ailments.
IN, aid Brown 10 Robinson With
a sigh. Il haven't got change for five
but I should like to have it for a
change"
1t may seem singular. hut it is nev-
erthelcss true. that woman can stand
sq1arely in Pennsylvania and yet be in
New Jersey.
HUNDREDS Write they owe their life
and present good health 10 Ackers English
Remedy for Cousumpiion, Coughs, Colds.
&c. Sold by @. Y. Horn, Lehighton, aud
z. A. lIorn, Wessport.
A Virginia girl married tramp who
turned oat to be Duke, We've no pity
for her She should haye known what
he was before she mnrried him.
-Elit asks: "WiIl you please SET d
me receipt for nice home made pie?"
Yes, Edit h, we will send the r. CENT in
the very first mail after we receive the
pie.
Offering candy to an elephant is like
Offering marriage TO nn old maid. She
may turn up her nose, but she accepts
it all the same,
The demand for napkinliups made
of wood grown at Walter Scott's home,
Abbottsford, is proving great drain on
the forests Of Maine.
Don't let any one convince vou that those
pains around yonr heart are not heart d
sease, they ARE, ln not delay hut procnre Dir
Graves Heart Regulator. 80 years have
proved It's value.
ave need more insane as,Inms in
this conntry!' excliimsa phil4ntbr y,i.t
who has evidently been crowded out in
some mysterious manner.
The mau who whistles need never
be feared, p" said philosopher but at the
time h made this assertion Sweet V!o.
let's" h,d not ice written.
Now is the TINA of mr. when the
newly a 'dged Pradn tie he itates between
beoo mug an editor right of or going as
: w.iteT in a Summer hetsl.
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A LAWYERS Opinion Of Iptare,t n All

J. A. Tawney. esq a leading attorney Of
Winnna, linn, writes. "Aher using it tor
more than three years. take great p'eas.
ure in stating that regard DR.. Kings New
Discovery Tor Consumption, as tho best
reniedy in the world FIR coughs aud cnlls.
l has never failed 81 cure the mnsl severe
colds have had, and invariably relieves
the pain in the chest"
Trial bntiles Of this sure cure FOR al throat
and lung diseases NAV be hal Tree At T. d.
Thomas drug stnre Lsrge size 81 90.
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TIE kind OF man for me and you;
However little Of worth we do
He credits full, and abides in trust
That time will tearh us how more is just,
II walks abroad and he meets all kinds
or queruous and uneasy minds,
And, synpathisiug, be shares the PAIN
or the doubts that rack us, heart aud branj
And, knowing this, as we grasp his hand,
We are surely coming to understand
lie looks on sin with pItying eyes
Fen as the Lord, since Paradise
Else, should we read, though our sins
should glow
As scarlet, they shall be as white as snow
And feeling still, with grief half glad,
That the bad are good as the good are bad,
He strikes straight out for the Right and
he is
The kind Of man for you and mel
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Have you Bright's Disease
"Elluey No' cured me when my water was JuAJ
like chalk Enl t4en Ike blood"
Frank Wilson, Peabody, Mass.
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Arc Won ConstipotedP P

Havo you Kidney Disease?
IIlacy-yJort made mo so'i in liver and kidneys
n.tcr Years. Of u-succcg5lDl Coctoring. Its worth
SO 6oS "-S---lI Hodges, NilIoin1town, Vest Va.
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Is your Back IGLlo and oohipg?
'IIdncy-Wort, Il bSttC) cured no when was so
l1rIe had TO lol ou5 Of he'd"
C. II. Ial.ilacc, l-.lwaukcc, Wis.
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OUR KIND OF MAN.
BY JAMES W. RILEY.
|.

The kind Of man for you and me
He faces the world unlinchingly,
Aud smites, as long as the world resists,
With knuckled faith aud force like fstst
He lives the life he is preaching Of,
Aud loves where most is the need OF loye;
His voice IS clear to the deaf mans ears,
And his face sublime through the blind
mans tearsi
The light shines out where the clouds were
dmj
And the widows prayers 50 up for him.
The latch is clicked at the hovel door,
Aud the sick man Sees the sun once more,
And out DER the barren field he sees
Spring blossoms and waying trees
Feeling, rs only the dying may,
That God s own servant has come that way,
Smoothing the path as it still winds on
Through the golden gate where his loved
haYe gone.
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Have you Livor Coulplaint2
"Ildncy-yYo.t cured ilo cf chronic L.'er DiseascI
honiy Ta-d, iato ccl CA I,as Guard, n. X.
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Are your nerves weak ?

''Kl4ney Wort cured me iroln nervous W akneHs
&c ntttr was not expected 20 livC." Nrl. H. II. Z,
GoodNIn, Ed ChrtstlGa A0aiLOr CIevcllnd, o.
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GAHN
Health and Happiness.
@T2 " do rs oTHEhS
cSCVO = HIVE DONE.

Arc your Kidneys disordered?
kidney Wort brought mo from l4y grave IS It
wero, after had been given up by - lost doctors IN
Detroit" II. w. DeyerauX, Mechanic, lonia, Mish.
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Are you rheumatism racked ?
~ Ga, y-NJort cured nc, after was riyoa up to
die by Lhy yscians and lad sun, rod thirty ycass.
Elbridso Mslccl-l, Vest LAt-.i Eaino.
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JLtVU Q yNIII IlltlLltI lNb
"Kidacy-NJort has doao better t-cp any other
remedy have ever used IN ny prccticc.n
d. Il. l.. Clark, South uero, Vt.
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''Ilid1cy-y'ort cau1o5 cay ovuc-a! oEs ard cured
mo after 10 years r13 Of o her medic nesn
E,lscn lalrcl!lld, 81. Aibaaa Vt
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DuLlS lSEll{S from DltbDSUStS {
''Kidn ay-Nors iJtdo most tuccci sful remedy kay
over used. Gives ol;no7t iCinediats rclici."
Dr.. Phillip c. pallUu, GonEton, VI
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Ladies, are you sufferinRp
"KidnCy-Nor6 cured ne q T-t-LJr truu.lcs OF
several year3 t1ndinr Many fHeds ''ge grd rrslso
It." A-Ia. IL. LSmorea.-l 4zll - Aotte, VI.
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t'llilncJ-TYort ha9 demo mo riorp good than any
other remedy h1vc CsCr taken"
Hrs. J. y Galloway, Tx Tat, Oregon.
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ARG you tOrmonJCd With FlIo5'P
"kidncy-lIort permanently cYycl 10 of tl1CCiAg
piles. Dr. W g. limo rccC;2- -lCadt q 4 20 Ilo"
Geo. y, uJls., CaaL.cr L. E-Il-s, yer. own, Pa.
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Suffering from Diabetes?
"Ildn3J. .Wors iJtdo most gucccisfr lremely hnvo
DT. Phillip c. Daiioa, GonGton, Vt.
Have you Liver Complaint?
.Ildncy-Wo=t cured ilo Ct chronic L.'lr Diseascl
w haaiy TaSd, ia;o Gel. GA la. Guard, ny.
Is your Back larlo and oohing?
"Ii4Rey-lyort, 4 b5.iloJ ,eqrcd, no when wasso
larae had to iol oT5 q 1cd.P ,-,,-..,.. ,--,,
Hevo you Kidney Disease?
''lL-lcy-'fort made ilo sQtu inlvcr and lsdncy9
SO Gaz "-Siil Hodges, 7il!-alnltoWn, Vest Va.
Are you ConstipatedP
h~lscn laircLlld, 80. Adams, Vt
.,,,..: Have you Malaria? ..,..
''-''' '0 '''t d. Vi t. L. ciar 2 soath Hero. w.
Arc you Bilious?
TT. ,ISlineyTort ha5 deno mo nisEEo GOOD than any
'''' '''' Mrs J. = galloway, Ilk Tat. Oregon
Are you tormented with PilosP
%,kidney-}7ort Pey9nanc9:iJ cure! ~ q ti9eeMG
dco. u lIols;, caah!or Ii. I-l.- i.yer-sovn, Pa.
Arc you rheumatism rackedP
die by Lay SlclaiiS ana had su rcd thirty Ncase.
Ebrids0 Malccl-l, Vest l-.1t-ii Eaino.
Ladies, are you sufferinRP
"KidncyNor6 cured me q u.tDA5r Ireu-lcs OF
It." A-la, Il. Lamor,a.- l4I- Ia 1io,te, Vt
II you would Rari1h Disease
l AID gain Health, 9llEa
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-26
Notification Of the Bible.

A Chicago Board of Trade man set
out to do" Europe and the East in a
week or ten days, or such a matter. In
youth he had absorbed some New Tes-
lament legends, and felt sudden in
terest on arriving in the Holy Land to
cross the Sea of Galilee. The laziness
of the ferryman and the indescribable
slowness of the craft terribly exasper-
ated the Chicago man, when he testify
inquired:
See here, stranger, how long have
you been rnnin' this ferry?"
"Forty-fva years, was the placid
and lazy answer.
"Who held it before you?" asked
Chicago.
any father, who ran it fifty years"
was the calm reply.
well, how long has this burned
monopoly been in your family, any
how?"
three thousand years, pensively
spoke the ferryman, as his dreamy gaze
wandered to the palm trees upon the
shore.
well, by thunder!" shouted the Chi
cago man, with muttering disgust. at
is no wonder the Lord wanted to walk
over I"
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A Secret of the Dead.

More than half century ago Chan
cellor Lansing, of New York, man
holding high position both in social
and professional life, disappeared in a
sudden and unaccountable manner. To
strengthen the theory of suicide, which
was advanced, it was asserted, says the
New York correspondent of the Troy
Times, that his business affairs were In
great confusion. 1t has often been said
that Thurlow Weed was the only man
who could solve the mystery. The lat
ter was aggravated by its connection
with the Manhattan we'll murder, which
was also deeply mysterious. Chancellor
Lansing presided at the trial of Levi
Weeks for the murder of Gulielma
Sands, who was found dead in the Man
haitian we'll in the suburbs Of the city.
Weeks was no doubt guilty, but escaped
justice. When his acquittal took place
one of the friends of the murdered girl
Mrs. Comfort Sands) arose IN court
and denounced both the Judge and the
prisoners lawyers, and said that divine
justice would follow them. Strange to
say, before the lapse of four years one
of these lawyers shot the other in q
duel, and henceforth became so ac-
cursed that the very name of Aaron Burr
makes one almost shudder. The Judge,
who was thought to have unfairly fav-
ored the defense, disappeared in the
above mentioned manner. Now that
Thurlow Weed is gone, the matter will
never be solved.
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Had Enough OF the Office.

The following resignation of a
country Judge was recently sent to the
Governor of Arkansas: Il have got
enough of this blamed office. 1 took
this here place expectin' to be respect
ed, but mud has been flung at me ever
since. The temperance people and the
stillhouse folks have been pullin' at
me all the time, an finally, when 1 con-
cluded to go with the still-house folks,
the temperance people vowed L didn't
have no sense, an was an ole fraud !;
jes' like man didn't have right to do
as he pleases in this here free country.
Well, they KEEP on aharpin' an aharpin'
till lowed that mebbe was wrong,
so turned over to the temperance
people. Then the still-house folks gun
ter howl, an swore that wuz fool an
a thief, nohow. So, you see, don't
know which way to turn, an wanter
say right here that you may take the
blamed Office yourself. "-Arkansalo
Traveller.
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A Tree Of Temper.

A specimen of the "angry tree" in
digenous to Australia, is growing on q
farm in Nevada, and is now eight feet
high. When the sun sets its leaves
fold together and tire ends of the tender
twigs coil up like a pigtail. If the
twigs are handled the leaves move un-
easily for minute or more. A singu-
lar thing concerning the tree was its
apparent resentment on being removed
from pot, in which it had matured,
into a much larger pot. Hardly had it
been placed in its new quarters before
the leaves began to stand up in all di-
rections, like the hair on the tail of an
angry cat, and soon the whole plant
was in culver. At the same time it
gave out en- odor most pungent and
sickening, resembling the odor given
off by rattlesnakes and other kinds of
snakes when leased. So strong and
offensive was this smell that it had to
be removed from the house for several
DAVIS
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Times That We're and Are.

A 13-year old-boy was sent off to q
boarding-school. Meeting an old friend,
the latter began to tell him of the days
when he was boy, and for years kept
at boarding-school. He told of the
routine at the seminary. the trials of
the boys, their sports and scrapes, and
escapes, etc. The little Californian
listened attentively, and then asked:
"Did you have to go to prayers in
your SCHOOL,"
ooh, yes"
"And sit with your arms folded?"
Eyes"
"Did you have better dinners when
your mother came to see you?"
Yes"
did you ever wish all the teachers
were on top of the building and the
house was on fire, and they couldn't get
DOWN."
The "old boy" overcome by flood
of recollections, declined to confess to
his youthful bloodthirstiness, but re-
fected that times that were are ever so
much like times that are.-Sdn Fran
cisco Record.
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Henry Clay's Good-HumOr.

Henry Clay was fond of light skir-
mish debates, in which his imperturba-
BILE good-humor frequently gave him
an advantage over his antagonists. On
one occasion, when he was replying to
somewhat heated opponent, sudden
squall came up and ratified the window
curtains so as to produce considerable
noise. The orator stopped short in the
midst of his remarks and inquired
aloud, what was the matter; and then.
as if divining the cause of the disturb
ance, he said: STORMS seem to be COM
ing in upon us on all sides" The OBJ
servation, though trivial as related,
was highly amusing under the circum-
stances which gave rise to it, and from
the manner in which it was uttered.
Mr.. Clay rarely failed to rivet the at
tention of his audience, and to reward
it, His enunciation was clear and melo-
dious, and he expressed strongly what
he deeply felt. He was not over-cau-
tious in his choice of phrases and cpl
thets, when speaking of the usurpations
of the incumbent of the Presidential
chair as "lean and hungry parasites"
who fattened and misled HIM. He was
always happy in his illustrations, and
no one could tell good story with bet
ter effect. Ben: Perley Poore.
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Character In the Hand.

A hand which is hard and stiff and
has difficulty in opening to its full
extension indicates obstinacy and stab
bornness. A large hand indicates love
of minutie and detail; medium hand
takes in detail and also appreciates
entirety. Among musical people the
most correct and learned musici ms
have square fingers; Instrumentation,
whether it be the art of performing, or
composing for instruments, is invariably
found in spatulate fingers; while singers
have nearly always the third phalange
pointed. Thus it will be understood
that while knots beautify and improve
a spatulate or square fingered hand on
account of their natural usefulness and
aptitude for combination, to have the
joints largely developed would be
deformity and misfortune TO a pointed
or conical-fngered hand, seeing that
the latter are devoted to the finer and
more liberal arts, which necessarily
succeed best when they are the offspring
of inspiration and spontaneity.
The inherent natural shape of hand
never alters. It's concomitant condi-
tions may be changed by the subject
being forced into an occupation the OPP
posite of his genius, inclination, and
natural tendency, but the original apti-
tude, and the form of finger which do
mates it, always remain. Thus: If
subject obviously reclined toward, and
born for, poetry or art be forced by
circumstances to become an engineer,
or to pursue any other practical en-
ployment, the hand will become hard,
gross and mechanical, but the pointed
smooth shape will still remain undis-
guised.
Take the absolute rustic, free az air,
without thought or mental cares of any
kind, his hand will be spatulate or
square, with large joints. Take the
circus rider, iuggler, gymnast, dancer,
rider, and so on, his hand will be either
spatulate and smooth or large and con-
zeal, and very hard, for these possess
kind of rugged, instructive grace
Firth and Allen, IN Language of
the Hand"