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deception which had been practiced
upon him In fact, in tho dim light,
the mixture looked dark, and he sup
posed it was all right. After rubbing
in what he supposed would be sufficient
for the first application. and l may re-
mark that upon this point he certainly
did not exhibit any remarkable econ
omy, Mr.. Jenkins leisurely proceeded
to dress himself in his most becom ing
attire.
His toilet was somewhat protraeted,
and | should be afraid to tell you how
many minutes he expended in adjusting
his cravat. But tho fact was that our
hero had mado up his mind to make this
evening the declaration which he had
long contemplated, provided he could
find favorable opportunity.
But there is an end to all things, and
so there was an end to NJ. Jenkins
toilet About eight o'clock he came
downstairs, and merely opened the sit
ting-room door to say:
-- Il am going out to party this even
ing Mrs -Niggin, and ,shan,t at
home very early. You need not sit up
for me, as you know l have pass
key"
Mrs. Wiggin-eould scarcely keep her
countenance while her ledger was
speaking. for she saw at once that he
had fallen into the trap she had laid for
him, and in consequence that both his
hair and whiskers had become decided
blue.
Il guess she laughed to herself,
that Sophronia won't fancy that color
any better than the other"
Quite unconscious of what had be-
fallen him, Mr.. Jenkins proceeded to
the party. Going up to the gentlemen's
room, he took off his hat and coat and
went down to the parlors where most Of
the company had already ssembled.
Somehow he seemed to attract agreat
deal OF attention, but this he expected,
and very naturally attributed it to what
he considered the very decided improve
mentwhich had taken. place in his APP
pearance.
NO doubt, he thought proudly, "they
scarcely recognize me. j look so much
younger than before"
And he glanced around the room with
look Of complacent dissatisfaction
But there was oaJ thing that puzzled
him not LITTLE. The expression of
every face that looked at him seemed to
be struggling with laughter Now
what there'was to laugh at in his APP
pearance was more than he could divine.
To dye the hair was quite common
thing, and not all amusing
He looked towards Sophronia, but she,
too, had q smile upon her face. He fat
tered himself, however, that it was from
different cause. No doubt she was
happy to see him looking so we'll He
would go up apd speak with her.
1T is beautiful evening, Sophro-
Miss JONES'. he, said, stammering in
some confusion
Very" said she, casting down her
eyes and toying with the fan which she
carried.
II need not ask il you are WE'LL for
have seldom seen you looking BETTER"
he continued, In tone OF gallantry, re-
covering his self-cor mand as he OBJ
served her evident en- rassment.
THANK you,' said sophronia tsill
looking down
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main its original color, a glossy black.
This 1t was that -ambittered his exist
ence, in spite Of his good health, good
income and prosperity in other respects.
This it was, as Mr.. Jenkins conjectured,
which stood in the way of his accept
Ance by Sophronia Jones, with whom he
fancied himself wildly III love.
Mr.. Jenkins felt that he had not ar
rived at an age which justified his gray
haiFs.s He had only just passed his 4oth
birthday. lIowever, it was a family
popularity, and he must submit to it
with the best grace that he could mus
ter.
But all at once light dawned on his
gloomy dissatisfaction. On one of his
quarterly visits to tho city, for the pur-
pose OF receiving his bank dividends,
his attention was called to a-placard
upon wall, wherein the merits of Hig-
ginbotam's celebrated hair dye were set
forth in large capitals.
THAT will be just the thing for me, y
thought our friend Paul. Il don't think
it's at all out OF tho way to call in art
to the assistance of nature, when ma
-ture= don,t-do--as- Mell--by- -as-she
might reasonably be expected to-
There's no good reason why such good
looking young fellow as am"
Il beg the reader to observe that gentle
men are. mnch i1ore subject to vanity
than ladies, althct 81 know that some
prejudiced persons hold different
opinion). There's no reason why such a
good docking young fellow as am"
con tinued Mr.. Jenkins, should wear
the livery of old age"
Mr., Paul jenkins accordingly decided
to procure a bottle of the mixture
Proceeding to the store where it was to
be procured, he went in and nauired
in a low tone for Higginbotams cele-
brated hair dye. While the clerk was
wrapping up the bottle, he assured the
delighted customer that it was decidedly
the best thing@of the kind in the mar
ket, and would, make him look at least
tenyears younger. s'
.Sophronia Jones shall be mine, y
said Jenkins, exultingly as he pushed
the bottle into his overcoat pocket and
made his way to the railroad station.
He was anxious to be at home in or
der to test'the wonderful effects of the
celebrated hair dye. The ride over and
the village reached, Mr.. Jenkins rapid
ly took his way to the residence of Mrs.
Selma Wiggin, where he boarded He
seemed in unusual spirits, which led
Mrs. Wiggin to imagine that the banks
had paid a larger dividend than usual,
but how little could she guess that the
little bottle which She could -see.-pro-
truding from his pocket was the sole
cause of his good spirits. II she had
known that by the help of this he ex-
pected to win the hand of -Sophronia
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FOOD FOR THE FLOCK.
It should BE Succulent-A Varied Bill .

1t should Be Succulent-A Varied Bill of
Now that the subject of sheep feeding
is fairly before us great interest will be
taken in producing greatersvafiety of
feed for that animal which appreciates
so we'll a bill of fare in which variety is a
marked feature. In the early fall the pas
lures will be less inviting to the lambs
than they should be and supplemental
feeding rightly conducted will pay
handsomely. But car this be accom-
plished? We have seen sheep and
lambs turned into tie corn-feld, after
the ears had pushed out, with excellent
results. All the lower leaves, large por.
tion of which are usually wasted, are
greedily eaten by the flock, while the
ears Of corn are high enough to be out
of reach. Scattering weeds are also
utilized, and the fence corners and
borders Of the field nicely trimmed out.
But why not go further and SOW some
nish additional feed? At the last cult
walton of the corn, which may be given
before the stalks are breast high, grain
can be sown broadcast'by hand, or from
horseback, or with seeders specially
prepared for drilling. in grain between
the rows. Rye is probably the best
grain to be sown forthis purpose In some
cases the corn will doubtless be-se dense
that the grain will make little growth
until after the corn crop has matured
and let in the sunshine, but even then
there should be enough fall pasturage
to pay large dividends fer the labor and
expense. Under favorable conditions,
where the corn is not too thick the rye
should make sufficient growth to prove
satisfactory fer turning into the field
before husking time Here is a sub
ject as. yet little worked out by our
farmers, but 1t is promising one land
merits more than a passing notice.
Toothsome mutton is now in order, but
to produceit we must give larger va
riety OF feed to the flock and in abund-
ance; to do this in such manner as to
leave good-margin Of profit calls for
considerate action. Those who first de-
velop this opening will secure the
largest returns Breeders Gazette.
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NSb tftc NtcItk
the consumptiye who's not be-
reft of Judgment and good sense.
He's taking DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. If taken in
time and given . fair trial, 1t will
effect q cure. Consumption is
Lung-scrofula. For Scrofula, in its
myriad forms, and for all Liver,
Blood and Lung diseases, the Dis
coyery" is an unequalled remedy.
It's the only guaranteed one. II
it doesn't benefit or cure, you get
your money back, You only pay
for the good you get.
discovery" strengthens Weak
Lungs, and cures Splitting of Blood,
Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis,
Severe Coughs, and kindred affec--
tons. Don't be fooled into taking
something else, said to be "just as
good" that the dealer may make q
larger profit. There's nothing at
all like the "Discovery." 1t con-
tains no alcohol to inebriate no
syrup or sugar to derange di-
gestion. As peculiar in it's cura-
tive effects as in its composition.
Equally good for adults or children.
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HIS HUMBLE OPINION.

ia set my heart ON raisiu' john"
The worthy farmer said,
With just glance at little hat
That hung up tn the shed.
He was 80 cunning. and so peart,
And fonder OF his dad
always used 70 tell ,em 80 ~
Than any child had.
"IIe listened TO each word spoke =
In such a reEercnt way
As II he really Thought ,hatI
Had something wise to say
And though might be rather harsh !,
TO Tom the scamp or Jim. M
! never was the least bit rough L
At any time TO him.
II couldn't be. And once, when Tom
Had made me tearin' mad,
And went cut toward tho barn
Toexercf5c the CAD
The little fellow JOHN ran up,
And clambered FER me so,
All thoughts Of anger left my breast;
could not strike blow.
II pondered. many Bible verse,
Those texts Of Holy Writ,
And all around my little child
Their meanings seemed tofit;
And oft felt as Joseph must,
In olden Galilee.
AS II the boy within my home
Did not belong to me.
81 used to wonder how he learned
The many things he know
About the mountains and the woods,
And all the flowers that grew;
And though he went to dccstrick school,
Along o Tom and Jim,
Twas piafn enough TO soc we All
We're going to school with him.
II didn't sense"it then. The sun,
When close, will blind the eyes; ''~-
And often angels in our midst
We fail to recognize.
The Lord knows what IL best for US,
AZ often Eve allowed;
: And had my boy been spared to me,
might have been too proud. !"
Josephine Pollard. in N, Y. Ledger.
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A rnol A. \ nonrdlnr.Hou.,.

Jinks-That fellow Sjllipate is the
most inexcusable fool ever saw.
Winks-What has he been doing to
you?
Jinks-A few days ago some one in
vited him to dinner at our boarding
house. Well, sir that idiot just praised
every dish on the table, and compli-
mented the landlady on her cooking,
until she raised our rates TIVE dollars
week. IN, X, wsskly.
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II enllty ef.Assault and natterY

Upon your stomach with blue pill, pody-
phyllin or other rasping purgatives, pos
itivey despair Of helping your liver. Vic
lence committed upon your inner man will
do no good. Real help, prompt and thor
ough, is to be found in the wholesome anti
bilious medicine, Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers, which is, moreover, productive of hap
Ply results in malarial disease, rheumatism,
dyspepsia, nervousness and kidney troubles.
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Some folks claim that there is no
evil that is not followed by an overplus
of compromising good. At Pueblo, Col,
a cat and dog, which; had been playing
with some clothing belonging to child
that had been taken with scarlet fever,
both took the disease and died. Dis
couraged people who have lost faith in
boot jacks should paste this in their
hats.-Ram's Horn.
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A. Hx1r xArzs; Via WABAsH .IaxEs VIII -
nm September 9th and 23d, and October
18th, to points in Southwest Missouri, KAN
sas. Nebraska, Arkansas, Indian Territory,
Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico
N yoming, Utah, idaho, Montana, South and
North Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.
RATr-One Fare for Round Trip. FOR
time tables, tickets and other particulars
apply to the nearest ticket agent Of the Wa
bash or connecting lines.
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The principle of the thermometer,
which may be described as a small self
registering Windmill, has been applied
to device for indicating the speed of
vessels. The cup-armed wheel, protect
ed as much as possible, is placed Under
tho keel OF the vessel amidships, and it's
motion is impaired to a vertical shaft
passing upward to point on the 'declS,
where-the number of revolutions caused
by the vessels passage through the
water is registered on dial.
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Oscar Pcschef3 the renowned geo.
.grapher.@saYs the more familiar we
have become with foreign customs, the
more firmly has it become established
that nudity and modesty are not incom-
patible, and. further, that the sense of
shame in different nations demands that
at one time one part, and another time
another part, of the body shall be COW
cred" Among savages persons not tat
toed excite feeling of contempt as
great as wo might feel toward those who
recklessly expose nakedness.
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n. EXCELLENT Qualities

Commend to public approval the California
liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs. 1t is
pleasing to the eye, and to the taste and by
gently acting on the kidneys, liver and bow
els, it cleanses the system effectually, there
by promoting the health and comfort of all
who use it.
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PAUL. JENKINS.
AID Interesting Tale Of Love and
Hair Dye. '"'' '~'-''''s''

A u Ls j f N
KIN S W GU | d
-bav g O. "a
happy man but
for a single cir.
c Il ms { a n C @.
The ci &c u m
stance WIS the
pcrverse deter
nination of his
hal t urn
gray, when no
would decidedly
have preferred
to have it rn-
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"STRucK the right note at lssti" ex-
claimed the persistent author, when he re-
-ceived his frat five dollar bill from the pub,
lishers.-Puck.
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Musrnot be confSpnded with common cath
artic or purgativepills Carter's Little Liv-
err Pills are entirely unlike them in every re-
spect One trial viii prove their superiority.
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CONCERNING CUCUMBERS.

How to Raise and Handle Them SO as to
Make Money.
The subject of this article is Illus
trated in the cask flied with strong
brine, into which the young, green Gu
cumbers are immersed for preservation
until picking time. In many sections
the profit of the culture of the cueum-
Der has brought it into prominence and
many acres are annually devoted to it.
1t has been difficult thing to keep the
eueumbers under Brine ard once -ex=
posed to the air they are spoiled. Fol
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flannel next the skin often produces a
rash, removable with GLENN s Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, SO cents
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MISS BEAcox-..This waltz is divinel Do
YOU ever dance the ianciers, doctorfn DR..
Boylston-,N No; but sometimes lance the
dancers. Boston Budget. .z-
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TIE popularity Of Dobbins' Electric Soap
is that il acts right on the dirt ard stains in
clothes and makes them pure as sno,r, at the
same time it preserves The clothes, and makes
them keep clean longer. Have your grocer
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CONDUCTOR f. D. LooMIs, Detroit, Mich,
saws: 1.-The effect of Halls Catarrh Cure is
wonderful y Write him about it Sold by
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GRArEvINEs planted in the, chicken
runs and trained to the fence afroro
shade to poultry; and also fruit to the
farmer In autumn The wires should
b trained high w
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LATTER being discharged, / am lead into
bad company" as the bullet remarked whom
in lodged in a tramp. -Jester.
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THERE may be sermons in stones" but
don i imagine, friend, that there are "rocks
in religion. Harvard Laznpoon.
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ARE as small as hon mpathic pellets, and
as easy TO take as sugar. Everybody likes
them Carter's Little Liver Pills. Try them.
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BorrInp IEpyex4TIox-First F1ask-"rm
broke" Second Flask--"That IL just what
expected The last time ! saw you, you
were full. '--Drake's Magazine
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THE melon trust has been squashed and
the soda water apparatus trust has fzzled
out-Philadelphia Ledger.
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TIE oyster VIII remain at the seashoro
all summer; but the clam will be most in
society-N. O. Picayune.
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IN Texas It is uulucly to find a horsesho
if horse happens to be attached to 1t
Yenowines News.
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MAN can not fly, but he can utilize the
flight OF stairs when he wants to go up
Binghampton Republican.
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"HERE are some fine specimens Of reld
bearing quarts, said the milk dealer, as his
specially manufactured pint and three
quarter measuring cups arrived. WashinR
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STUDENT medals are all right; but If
student NEEDLES with too many things his
studies will be intorfered with.-Texaa
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The bridge of sighs-a prominent nose
Iudua
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srREET-mApE WORDS.
Editors and Literary Men should Nd
Countenance Their Use.

Editors anu Literary men cn0uA4 wv
Countenanee Their Use.
The imam in the street" will beat the
cultivated, we may be sure, In the end,
and we only want to protest just now
against his mischieyousness in degrad-
ing words. 1t is his habit to take
good word, perceive its goodness, use II
for every thing, thereby destroying all
its value as sound intended to express
a definite meaning, and then to leave II
in a condition so degraded that 1t is Of
no use whatever Who, after the usage
to which it has been subjected, is to en-
ploy the really beautiful and expressive
word .'elegant" for any purpose what
ever; or what can any one do with the
adjective chastity, with its deep sug-
cestion of the awe and horror that any
thing disembodied must strike into the
soul still clothed In the flesh, now that
It Is used by half the young in the sense
Of ICON temptible'' According to DR..
Murray the astounding popular habit Of
using the word bloody is merely an
instance of tfTis practice 40 IN an In
the street" takes word like blood" in
its sense of pedigree; and because he
thinks pedigree important, makes an
intensive adjective of 1t, then gradually
forgets its meaning altogether, and
finally uses it as a part blasphemous,
part brutal, and part meaningless equiv
alent for s'very." That is an extreme
instance, no doubt, but he is always do
ing it about some word or other till he
takes out of its greatest value, its pecu-
liar definiteness- in fact, doing all
that he can to deprive language OF its
beauty and utility at once. Ii no word
had definite meaning we might as we'll
be dumb, and every derogation in the
meaning of word is direct injury
done to language.
Sometimes the imam in the street"
positively degrades word by attaching
to it, nobody knows. how, dishonoring
meaning. lie hasdone this almost COM
pleteiy with the word MISTRESS (which
originally meant always and still
means in poetry, the woman loved by
the man spoken Of; and is doing 1t now
with such words as sfnancier" and
politician" The original sense has
not quite left them; but a "financier"
may now mean an adept in state finance
Or dishonest speculator in money,
while a politician is rapidly coming
into use to describe, mott man who is
immersed in politics, but a man who
trades in them. We do not know that
there is any complete remedy against
this practice, for not only is there no
authoritative referee, but it is the En-
pI;cb IA d bit IN dpc1are that tho yaluo OF
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The potato digger. always endeavors t
get at the root of the thing.
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SOME flies go around looking for spider,
to catch hem.-Atchison Globe.
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We offer you ready made medicine for Coughs
Bronchitis and other diseases of the Throat and Lungs
Like other socaled Patent Medicines is well adver-
tsed and having merit it has attained to wide SALE
Call it "Nostrum" you WILL but believe us when
say that at first it compounded after prescnp-
ton BY regular physician with no idea that it would
ever go on the market proprietary medicine.
Whyeis it not just as good as though costing fifty
cents to dollar for prescription and equal sum
to have it put up drug store3
EFT. HAzELTINE. Warren. Pa
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HAVE the dumps-the street cleaning men
IN. Y. Mail and Express.
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BEST, easiest to use and cheapest Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 25c.
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SINGULAR that man with no money to
trouble him should have money troubles
Texas Siftings
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MosT men will follow suit, ii it is tailor
made and on pretty girl Burlington Free
Press
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A HEAD of time-the one that wears tn
foielock. Siftings.
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The mosquito is never asked to zeal
again" when he presents his bill.
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Prck
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"HousEs built on the sands''-seaside
hotels
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ONE paper for two-the marriage certia-
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A KICKING gun is rarely discharged cured
Texas Siftings.
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HAVE to get their fine work in-watch-
makers.=N. Y. Mall and Express.
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HEREDITARY humors-the Children which.
are the Little Children of the Joke-Puck.
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ONLY 1t for dog to live ina kennel.
The wisdom of the owl is all in it's eye.
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An angie-worm-the geometrical fend.
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OUGHT to have good licking