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taken out every night but one, and as
consequence my friend had had no oppor-
tunity of trying the animal. The Gypsy
was surprised. At his suggestion the horse
was allowed to stay another night and he
also. The next morning the horse had all
the appearances of being out all night.
The Gypsy watched. He said that it was
all plain to him and asked my friend If he
was sure that he Qny friend) cYild not
account for it. My friend said that it was
the most mysterious thing he ever heard of
and could not account for it in any way.
the Gypsy asked one more night and
claimed he could explain the whole affair.
That night my friend visited the stall.
and, after saddling Rocco, attempted to
lead him out, but was awakened by the
Gypsy. who ascertained from the previous
nights exposure, that my friend was q
sleep-waker. OF course my friend was
greatly surprised to find himself out of the
house and on Rocco's back. It was then
plain that my friend had been the guilty
party, as the only night on which the horse
was not taken out was the night he sat up
and watched. The negro on watch the
other night claimed that he saw my friend
down at the barn every night, and that my
friend told him to go to bed, as he would
watch. My friend when child had been
somewhat given to somnambulistic per-
formances, but it was thought he had out
grown the habit The peculiar request of
the Gypsy and desire to prevent the horse
being taken out, had SO worked him up
mentally that it caused him to walk in his
sleep.
''Of course the horse was bought, and so
far as l know, he was never sorry of his
bargain, and was never troubled after that
with walking in his sleep. No one ever
thought to ask the Gypsy why he made
the peculiar request" UNDE GRUNDY.
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the minister was coming up to take
his Thanksgiving dinner with my old man
We also found out that they had some nice
white cider to give to the guest. knew,
the cider jug, the white cider jug. and 1
also knew where the good old Holland gin
was kept. What did we do but change the
cider for the gin. At the dinner table the
minister and others enjoyed the white cider
and drank quite freely of It; drank so much
in fact that the minister was actually tipsy,
and my father, an elder in the church. was
also quite happy.
'Of course, it came out afterwards, and
we were considered the worst boys IN the
village. How well do 1 remember the old
minister's talk to me the next time he saw
me. and how ashamed l was. You were
taken very sick soon after that. and really
thought that your sickness was divine in
dication of dspleasure. We were boys
then, Pete. How funny it sounds to talk
of such pranks."
At this juncture little boy came strolling
out OF the office. and walking up to the two
old men, addressed one of them as
grandpa" and began climbing up into his
lap.
Grandma wants you, .lisped the little
fellow, and straightway Peter Myers started
for the office, his grandson holding on to
his hand. ;Y4@
''I'l tell Mandy you're here" said the
grandfather. land I'll come down and fetch
you up. She will remember File sure.
I'll be back in minute"
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Hired Seaside Finery.

From the Baltimore American.
While chatting with the proprietor of a
well-known Long Branch hotel the other
day, remarked that / could already see
signs of the coming summer exodus. He
laughed and said: ''Well, my dear boy,
fear that the more signs you see the less
visitors Wen have. / have just dropped
On to one or two of the latest wrinkles of
those people who pose as swell summer
tourists On excessively small incomes. A
dressmaker WHOM my. wife went to see to-
day told her that she had great variety of
dresses for the summer season which she
would hire out on reasonable terms. and
change for others once every week. Now,
amt that an ideal You see, Miss De
Smith can go to Long Branch with seven
morning ami seven evening dresses, and
after week she secures another fourteen.
and can bloom out in an entirely new set
for the following week. All these cos
tunes are made upon sliding SCALE with
big seams and wide aouhces. which facili-
tate their being changed to tit many sizes.
Yon see that with four sets of dresses the
customer can change them from one water
ing place to another, and thus serve four
people simultaneously, giving each con-
slant succession of new toilets. For about
S25 week the girls can have the use of a
wardrobe that couldn't be duplicated under
SO, 600. Think of that for American en-
terprise."
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THE CHASE.

''Henry went up in the air like he'd been
shot out of a gun, and most broke his
spine on the picket fence, where he landed
and hung, yelling like mad.
Tine sofa flew round, now on its hind
legs and then on its front ones, and tore up
flowers by the roots and ripped up the sod
in big gobs till the air was full of dirt and
grass 1 yanked Henry off the fence and
we tried to catch the blamed thing We
had an awful time with it, too. 1t turned
the baby-carriage over and knocked out two
of little Sammy's front teeth. and tore half
the hired girls clothes off. When Henry
tried to lasso it with the clothes-lne it ran
its head under the stoOp and went about a
foot into the ground 1t took the bark
clean off a Siberian cherry tree that I'd just
got from a tree agent. He said it was the
only specimen in the country. Well. il
ruined =. the tree and the sofa,
besides laying Henry up for two
days. He didn't try to get up any
more contraptions for long while, seem
ing somehow to have lost interest in 'em.
/ thought now he's really cured, and we're
going to have peace. But one day early in
the spring, when he was sitting ashes out
in the back yard in an old hand-sifter,
saw him stop and begin to ponder. After
LlldI IL COulllIGuCCu dll OfCl again. L Was
worried and nagged at him a good deal,
but knew there wasn't any use in saying
anything, for when he set, he's set, and
nothing'H stop him until he's run the length
of histether.
..He sat up in bed one night and woke
me up with his chuckling. Says l, What's
the matter? Burglars?' Man, says he,
Eve got an idea l went to sleep ano
thought no more about it, but he'd got
started again. This time it was an auto
matte ash-sifter' which would work itself.
Ali you had to do was to put in your cind-
ers and they were to be sifted while you
went off about your work. Well. he made
it. He put it Oh the outside of the house
and made square hole into the cellar wall
for the sitter to discharge the good coal
back into the coal-bn inside. The sitter
was sort of halfround box like an old
fashioned cradle, with a big wheel
on, one end and other little wheels under
meath. A sort of clock-work affair. you
see. The good coal went into the cellar
and the ashes fell out into the ash-tub on
the other side us the sitter rocked to and fro.
1t worked well and seemed big success.
Henry was very proud of it and seemed to
sit for hours out in the yard and watch it
work.. | caught him trying to put the baby
in it one day while he was terding him. ]
put my foot down on that.
But that sitter shared the fate of all
| Henry,s inventions. He says they are all
'hoo-dooed. whatever that means Early
one. Monday morning this June | got up
and Was helping the girl get breakfast ready
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Miss AIEco Nh. Frazier, 141e Cass

Miss AIico M. Frazier, I4IG Cass
Avenue.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. Q,
49,
Il am Miss Frazier" said pretty black.
eyed miss of 16 summers, as she ushered the
reporter into the sitting-room.
Are you the young girl that was so badly
deformed?" asked the visitor looking doubt
fully at her.
Eyes. You would not think so would you?
But if you will listen will tell you all about
The reporter seated himself and listened
II was born sixteen years ago. she said,
with club foot
1t was SO crooked that it was altogether
useless. was compelled to walk entirely
upon the ankle. During my lifetime my par
ents nave consulted many physicians. Their
opinions were numerous and varied, so much
SO that they did not know
WHOSE ADVICE TO TAKE
Some time ago we moved from Sparta, ILL.,.
TO Lebanon, Mo. While there attempted to
attend the school, which was half a mile from
our home, found was unable to do so. T
mad TO give up going to school. 1 used to
watch my companions dancing and PLAYING
and often longed to be one of them. NV
father noticed how unhappy was and de-
termined to help me. He gave I'D his BUSH
ness and came to st. Louis for the sole pur-
pose OF having my foot examined. He saw
several physicians, and himself suggested an
operation. They said an operation
WOULD BE USELESS,
and that there was nothing else to do but
wear brace and depend upon time to
straighten the foot. This news was very dis
eouraging. We had heard of DR.. McCoy's
treatment of Miss Westerman and called to
see her. She said she was well, and spoke so
highly of DR.. Mccoy that we decided to see
him. After an examination, he said he
Lhought my foot could be made perfect in a
few weeks. The case was placed in his
hands. L wore brace only a month, when
he performed an operation on the foot, and
now it is as perfect, as anybody's. I can
walk with ease, and feel as If l could travel
on foot for miles without the least exertion.'
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ConVicts' Whirils.
Rocton G10ha

DOSUOu GlOUe.
THE boys adopt various methods for
passing away the time,' remarked a state
prison officer. Chicken WEIGH. who. with
three other prisoners, escaped fom this in
stitution last summer by scaling the roof of
the south wing. but was recaptured has hit
upon an idea which apparently interests
him greatly. He is initiating Harry Jen-
ningS and is raising rats. He has got about
half dozen at present. 1t is amusing to
see him as he passes to and from his cell
to the shop where the men stay during the
day. His rodent companions which are
quite large. put their heads out of his peck
cts and if there is no one very near thew
will rim up OH his shoulder and even on top
his head. They are very tame and seem to
affectionately regard the convict. who is
certainly proud of his pets. He is learning
them To perform several interesting feats.
When Harry Jennings was a resident at
the institution, under Warden Haynes, he
bred mice and had at one time in the eel
lar, under the clerks ofiice about 400 of
these little creatures, some of which were
Whire. some bi>ck, some brown and some a
mixture of these colorS. Descendants of
Jennings mice are quite numerous in the
prison. not few of the convicts having one
or two specimens. The men enjoy The
comlmnionship of these vermin and, prize
tiR':n ...gl.. The prisoners. hoWeNer; who
are the fortunate pos:saSSoTS of canary birds
do not take kindly TO the mice" ri r.
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UNDER THE GAS LIGHT.
Something About the Night ToiIs
nm n Nh N r,n l1 a mar

something About the Night TOfIera
on a Morning Paper.
Mr.. Bernard Vanderhagen was for SOME
time employed at the proofreader's table i,
the Office Of the Missouri Republican. Hit
health completely gave out and he had to re-
sign his position.
To reporter he said: 81 had been ailinf
more or less for two years. and had been grow,
ing worse, slowly, all the time. l had been tt
two or three doctors. One of them told me
had case of dyspeptic catarrh, which wa
incurable. He said that he could do nothini
more than relieve me; that 1 never could ID
cured My work on the Republican was, q
course, night work. and I knew, sooner Of
later, would have to give it up. We are no
rich, andwe
NEED FOR OUR LIVING
all the money 1 can make. But grew so bsf
III time that had to give up all work. Yoy
can't imagine how weak and miserable felt
Joined to my worry at not being able 70 work
there was the pain and nausea of my disease
You can't Imagine what miserable diseaa
it is. had continual discharge OF ruucui
soreness in my nose and tho back OF M
throat, q cough and pain across Dy ford
head. just over the eyes; hawking UP
phlegTu, the loss of appetite and q roaring il
the ears. and a general feeling OF wreeohsll
ness. Ny mother had read in one OF tho news
papers something about DR.. McCeJ'S cares
She persuaded me to go and gee bira
This was about five months ago. I went UNI
der his treatment. and III short time
BEGAN TO GET STRONGER.
In two months was able TO WORK se ain. rnt
you can't imagine how happy l felt. Taea |
thought 1 was WE'LL but DR.. Mccoy insists}
on my continuing taking medicine. Tvt
weeks ago he pronounced NE cured. and. 10
my own part. don't detect a trace of my ole
trouble. I an IS well rs ever
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tramp In the sitter. rushed into the cell
lar and found that he'd filed himself with
three dozen of our choicest Ballantine.
Henry's despair was pitiful to witness.
Then it turned to wild rage, and ne wanted
to get his gun and kill the tramp as he
slept, but thought we'd better not. The
thought came into my mind that somewhere
fond mothers heart was aching for the
lost one; that he was somebody's baby, and
dimmed yet loving eyes were watching for
his return, and we spared him.
Meanwhile the ash-sifter rocked mer-
rily to and fro. The tramp smiled in his
sleep, dreaming, perhaps, that he was
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His Offices are on the ground floor, occupy
ing nve rooms fronting Oh Henuepin a9eaue.
minneapolis, where he treats with equal suc-
cess all durable eases. Entrance elthsr stod,
the street or the hotel rotIInda.
Dr. McUoy's speciaities in medicine ar.
chiefly confined to the treatmcf:. of uix4a. es
OF the nose, ttroa. and lungs. incladtnE
Catarrh; also Btisht's Disease. dyspepsia.
Rheumatism and nervous diseasss. Ali as
eases peculiar TO The sexes specially.
Surgical speeialsies--Dr. McCny has had
wonderful success in The treaInrn. OF Club
Feet. Bow Legs Knock Knees, Hip D.seasa
Spinal Disease and Rupture.
CONSULTATION at Office or by mall ST.
Many diseases are treated successfully, br
Dr.. Mccoy through the mail. aud ty this
means many persons, unable 10 mako q
journey. can receive skillful hospital TngaT.
MENT At TREIR HOMES.
Office hours: 80 to IL q. H.: to 0. M:
6 to p. IN.
Correspondence receives prompt attention.
No letters answered unless accompanied by
four cen.s in sta;nps.
Address ALL NAIL 10 Dr. J. C.. Mccoy.
West Hotel, Minneapolis, Mimi.
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pLANNING THE MAcHrNERy.

!. ''He was pottering over some new idea.
I could see that, but you know he's grown
cautious lately, and he don't tell anybody
what he's up to till he's made up his mind
and got things where he thinks they're all
right. He LAID around ON the floor with
big sheets of paper. and he'd spread himself
outand draw figures Oh 'em all day long.
After awhile he took up the woodshed. a
sign that he was about settled and was get
a ting to work. Pretty soon the sofa disap-
peared from the front room. Of course l
objected, but it didn't do any good. Then
he got to drawing more plans, and sud-
denly he jumped up and whooped and hol-
Tered.
1--WE got it!' So l knew something was
RimahN ha 1Mant % x.rorl-- n1nd in q
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Recalling old Fimes.

Two men sat in adjoining chairs on the
large open lobby in front of the Merchants
hotel. Their hair and boards were white
with age. and their brows were fuTowed
with care and years. The rain was falling,
making quasi indoor position enjoyable
and most desirable. The two tourists-for
such they were-gaZed at the gentle fall of
the rain. at the wet sidewalks and streets,
and looked at each other.
80 YOU used to live in Vincennes Indi-
.sna?" repeated one of them. Il guess you
remember Miller--old RUFF Miller?"
Not Miller that kept the hotel and had
the freckliest- faced boy that ever blew
putty balls at a village school? Well,
should say did"
..WeH" continued the first speaker,
..J,m that frecke- faced boy"
Not Philetus Miiler-little File, as we
used to call him?"
'.Thats me. Now who in the devil are
yon?" ..-.
my name IS Peter Myers. 1 guess you
remember me-"
The two men shook hands and asked any
nnmber OF questions about the others eX-
perience and progress i'll the busy world OF
care since leaving the old, old home. Many
Incidents of boyhood's days were related
and lived over to the evident enjoyment OF
both Of the parties.
do you remember" said Philetus Miller,
as be attempted to nundate distant large
sized cuspidor by relieving his mouth of al
abnormal quantity of tobacco saliva,
'.the time you and me played that trick on
nv old father and his minister I never
gill forget it to my dying day, and never
go to the old burying ground, where are
sleeping the good Old minister and my old
father. or look at the headstones without
thfnking OF that day"
at was showing on that Thanksgiving
dav-let me see, fifty years ago nexi
Thanksgiving day. That was a good long
fine ago. You came over to the tavern ID
get me to 90 to, church. We didn't 20
though, but went out and hunted rabbits.
By and by we got tired, as we could not
find any. 1 remember Just where we
stopped, down in the lane in front of the
old Widow BeRjamin's house. We went
back to the tavern and then found out that
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AN EpHTApH.

Here lies poor woman who always was
tired,
For she lived in world where too much was
required:
"Dont weep for me, friends" (thus she said,)
"for I'm going
To where there's no reading, nor writing, nor
sewing;
Do not weep for me friends, for when Hfe's
thread shall sever,
I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever"
Toronto Truth.
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Lessons I'm Natural History

Texas Siftings.
Mamma, arc we all made of dustq'
Eyes, my son."
Il was born in January, wasn't l?a
''Yes, little boy"
''Rut there amt any. dust in January.
The The ground is ali frozen in January, amt
''For heavens sake, johnny, don't ask
so many foolish questions
''But [ am made OF DUST amt I?o
''Y es. of course"
Why don't get muddy inside when |
drink water?"
''Oh Lord, child, do give me rest"
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SOMEBODY'S BABY

when. to my surprise, l heard the sitter
clicking. away outside. ] knew. no ashes
were.to be sifted. for, you see. the supply
of one house couldn't keep a machine like
that going all the time. and went outside.
/ found a great, big tramp snoozng peace
fully in the trough. with his legs hanging
over and 'don't-wake-me-till Tuesday
EXPRESSION on his features. | was para
lyzed for moment. Then called Henry.
He stood and stared at the sight. He tried
to wake the intruder but couldn't do it, and
then discovered lot of empty beer bot.
ties on the ground and stuck in around the
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tsEuREK w

on the legs and lot of things and springs
on it, and for once [ thought that Henry
, had really accomplished something useful.
+ He. was SO stuck up about it that he'd
hardly look at US. Well, he steered it
round and it run up and down the walk
with Henry lying on it, reading, and then
all of a sudden we heard something crack,
and away the thing went like wild horse.
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New York Loves Flowers.

Troy Times. q
Something of the extent of the flower
business in New York, and also the risks
attending it, may be gathered from the fall
ure OF leading tourist there for S35, Oo0.
The unfortunate dealer has $40, 600 on his
books. and owes one concern $4,000 for
vases. New York society must have its
floral ornaments, even if it does not pay for
them.
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couple of weeks he
showed us the sofa.
|. He brought it out i'm
the front yard and
lay down on it. Then
he pulled a little.
bar. and Pm blessed
if it did't begin to
move along the
walk. It.had wheels
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HENRY LOOKED AT HIM.

down at the fishing banks hauling in big
blacklist. Henry conceived the idea of
dumping the tramp out by making the big
wheel revolve further around. He got a
wrench and unscrewed nut on the side
and the thing went off like sky rocket and
the sitter began to revoive. The tramp
woke up, but the thing went so fast that
he couldn't fall out. Then it shot him
partly into the hole in the cellar wall, but
it caught his legs and began to wind them
around the trough. The remarks he made
then brought out all the neighbors, who
got axes and clubs and broke the sitter to
pieces. The tramp fell into the cellar.
He had no clothes on to speak OF and
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Not Select Enough for Her r..

II.
The queen was far from pleased at some
of the arrangements at the Holloway col
lege opening last week. Her Majesty was
angry because so few of her own particular
''bet had been invited to the chapel, and
hear that she considered the company by
no means SO select as she would have
wished 2
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ming. She takes keen delight in narrating
her husbands experiences.
Il suppose you've heard about Henry's
last piece OF tomfoolery," she began. | con-
fessed that 1 had been too busy for the past
twelve months to have kept posted upon
her husbands erratic movements. She eX-
claimed: t"sAVhat! Didn't you know about
his self-propelling sofa? Well! Well!
That beat all creation. L must tell you
first, for l know you take an interest in
the dear old fellow. 1t was nearly year
ago. and Henry was home pretty much all
the time, being laid up with the malaria.
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Henry went. down with
a couple of other men
and brought him up on
a. ladder. covered with
a piece of carpet. His
legs were twisted into
a spiral shape and were
about seven feet long.
He looked dreadful and
threatened when he re-
covered from the shock
to bring a suit for dam
ages. but he didn't.
The last time Henry
twas in New York he
saw on a museum in
the Bowery a picture
.,of the great spiral
II
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USStU IIoII IIUIII DID
zip and he went in. There was Mr..
Tramp, with sweet, pensive smile, on
the platform getting $40 week showing
those spiral legs twisted incur patent auto
matte ash-sifter" VIII. MCDoUGALL.
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Learn SI,orti,nnd

And type-writing. Anna c. Drew. room
9, Hale block. opposite Merchants. =.
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BBEIGGS AS AN INVENTOR
His selfPropelling Sofa and Dire Cen
sequences, as Told by
la sa2ft Mrs. Miggs. ).
reka 1.-THE Wonderful Auto
~ matte Ash-Sifter.
Ihe Narrowing Experience of a
Tramp into a
L.. IN -ssSpiraI-Legged'' Man.

,HILE taking a walk in
Irvington one day last
week ! met my old
+ ri e n d, Mrs. Miggs.
She, too, was abroad to
enjoy the beauties OF
1.-THE June day. and we
walked together along
1.-THE banks of the wind.
ing stream. l asked
after Mr.. Miggs, and,
as l expected, set Mrs.
Miggs' tongue a-run-
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Watches OF Precision

At A. L. Hannah 6 Co. g, 305 Jackson street.
opposite Merchants.