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alone, jamie" said viii, with a supe-
rior air, you can't expect much from
girls, anyway. | think it is great
fuss to make about calf's leg when it
has three more left to walk on"
.'She mas spoiled our Fourth, .
growled Jamie, when grandpa had
promised to take us to town. sup
pose she will go just the same. What
( does a girl know about the Fourth,
scared at the least bit Of noise? Grand
pa ought not to take her, just in his
/ busy time, too"
You would not be so thoughtful
4 about his busy time if you should have
an invitation" laughed win. Come
on, let's go to the creek for minnows. p"
MAY | go?'' begged Beth. II want
! some minnows for my pond"
NO" said VIII, shortly, 1--WE have
/ had all we want of girls"
| Beth wandered disconsolately to the
end of the porch where Jerry sat dos
ing brood of downy chickens with
cornmeal and cayenne pepper for the
pips, and sitting down by him picked
4 up one of the chicks. holding IL close to
/ her check, aud the great tear that
/ dropped on him made the little fellow
/ think that sudden shower had come
/ up, and he peeped loudly to tell the
/ others to run in out of the rain.
Meanwhile, Jamie and VIII turned
/ their steps to the creek, half ashamed
\ of being so cross with Beth, but they
/ were very sore at the idea of their care
/ lessness having lost them the expected
J, NM t
vent it on some one, and Beth was the
/ only one on whom they could. As they
passed the milk house they saw their
/ grandmother busy among her milk
/ pans, and overheard a few words of her
/ conversation with grandpa, who had
/ stopped for glass of milk.
1T is a pity, father, that the Fourth
| does not come on Saturday this year,
/ then you could take in the butter at
/ the same time and save an extra trip
/ this busy season"
1T does, replied Mr.. Downs; that's
W hat calculated on when ! told Beth
+ | would take her"
You surely are mistaken" and
I grandma raised her voice a trifle higher.
well, well, mother, we won't quar-
4 rel. the almanac Will ScIllt H.
The boys passed on, but what they
4 had heard wakened train of thought.
ut would be monstrous good joke
if grandpa should get hold of the wrong
| almanac and miss the day. | wonder
/ how Beth would feel getting into town
/ q day after the show" and VIII rolled
over and over on the grass at the
thought OF Beth's disappointment.
1T wouldn't be much trouble to slip
/ an old almanac in the place of the new
one; there is pile of them in the gar
4 ret, and ten TO one grandpa would never
/ know the difference" said Jamie.
The plan was SO brilliant a one that
the seining for minnows seemed very
tame, and the boys dropped their nets
| and ran back to the house. consulting
J as they ran.
A hurried search for an almanac 70
suit their purpose, and as quickly down
/ stairs again, for it was nearly time for
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HE EAsT.


FLAMES in stable in Philadelphia
caused the death of 100 horses.
AT Elberon, y. J., Frederick BrOSaw
was drowned while trying to save the
life of Miss Doyle. who was being car
ried out 10 sea while bathing The
girl was also drowned. Young Brokaw
was the heir 70 $1,000, O00-
AT Vailsburg, y. j., fire destroyed
the post office, town hall, nine houses
and SIX barns.
A STATUE Of the late Henry Ward
Beecher was unveiled in the city hall
square at BROOKLYN On the 18th
FRANCIS II. BRowN, the celebrated
composer and author, died at Stamford,
Conn
Is New York Chauncey NJ. Depew
and ten other directors of the New
York. New raven Il Hartford railroad
were acquitted Of responsibility for the
accident in :.nnel by which eight
lives were lost.
THE eiCnt-oare.l race at New London.
Conn. between the freshmen crews of
Columbia, Yale aud Harvard colleges
was won by Columbia by three lengths;
time, 9:4l.
The sudden death was announced of
Lieu; Gov. Alsop. Of Connecticut, at
his summer nome. "Fenwick."
IN Boston Emile Marquese & Co,
leather dealers. failed for $3.50. 600.
HERNAN HoRNLEIN and Josie Gibbons,
of Middletown. y. Y, took poison
with fatal result because of a lovers
quarrel.
ON the 25th Julia Adams. of Read
field Ne. had taken no food whatso-
ever and only one swallow of water for
twenty days and suffered no incon-
veuieuce.
The sudden death of Col Thomas
Fitzgerald founder of the Philadelphia
Item in IS4s. occurred in London from
an attack of the grip. lie was ~ years
of age and was the oldest newspaper
man in Philadelphia.
CORNELL won the eight-oared 3
mile race at New London, Conn, in
l4-2s 3, Pennsylvania second by four
[ lengths and Columbia a bad third.
Cornells time beats the record.
THE supreme court of Connecticut
has handed down an opinion in the suit
of Gov. Bulkeley's secretary, recogniz-
. lliE BuAhtAf-N ID EbfNAApAs anu NhaN Ills
acts stand.
\ BREAKER of the Patterson Coal
Company at Natalie, Pa, was destroyed
/ by a cyclone and six men were killed
KNBALL BRos.,. manufacturers and
/ dealers i'm carriages at Boston, failed
/ for 500, 600.
THE famous steeple climber, James
/ Ferguson, known all over the country
[ for his daring ascents, was killed by
/ falling ~ feet at Albany, y. Y.
THE annual four-mile race between
/ Yale and Harvard at New London,
/ Conn, was won by the former by
I eleven lengths. Time. 81 minutes %
I seconds.
/ FIRE destroyed the stables and car
/ house of the New buryport x Amesbury
Street Railway Company at Newbury-
port. Mass, the loss being 100000.
/ FLAMES destroyed the old ferry roll
+ ing mill at Wilmington, Del, causing a
4 loss al S500. 600
/ Is New York the armory of ;he Sew
/ enty-first regiment was burned, the
i loss being SEQ. 00U.
/ Ar Warrensburg. y. V, Rev. William
/ VI. ogden, rector of the Church of the
4 Holy Cross. fell dead in the pulpit while
| preaching.
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WHAT HE REQUIRED.
He Did Not Purchase She Entire Estab-
lishmeut.

He Did Not Purchase She Entire Estab-
Iishment-
by the great guns, sir, said a stout
man in an ulster and white nechtie,
looking down from the balcony slIirting
the upholstery department of n we'll
known dry-goods store, this is an inn
mense place huge, simply stupendous. :
''Oh, yes; nice store, said the clerk,
obligingly.
THE Bon-Marche isn't comparison.
/ No, sir; not comparison, sir. How
much of a stock do you carry?"
About two hundred thousand dol
/ lars worth
Good! First-rate! And furniture
how about furniture?''
s.Over one hundred thousand dollars"
admirable. Take a house and go
right through it, / s'pose- furnish it
complete, could you-from top to bot
/ tom, eh?''
'Yes; everything from carpets to
bric-a-brac."
and lace curtains and tapestries, you
keep theme
keep everything"
"And you know what style is, too
( RENAISSANCE ioihPduout' hehiy IL anu
the LOUISE"
NO one better posted than our man
ager P'r'aps you'd better see him.
/ Mr. X, here one moment" and the
manager came up with a smile on him
/ like half-moon.
mo idea of it," unused the ulster.
''No idea Had an impression you had
/ TO go to Europe for such things Good
taste-everything correct, surprising,
really"
IF you could give me an idea" ven
1 tured the manager, 'of about what You
required. you know
/ ''Ah, yes, | forgot / want two and
/ half yards of green shade fringe.
Magnificent establishments - Uphol-
/ sterer.
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BROKE HIS WOODEN LEG.
But lie Imagined II Was His Bones, and
suffered Accordingly.

But lie Imagined It Was His Bones, and
suffered Accordingly.
A police officer found man lying on
the sidewalk writing in agsny and
moaning piteously that his leg was
broken. He said he had been run down
by a street ear. An ambulance was
called and the sufferer was removed to
the county hospital. He was lifted
gently into the wagon. and three oiii-
GERS carried him into the examing room.
He was stretched out on cot, and
called feebly for morphine. DIR. Graves
hurried downstairs with his physicians
case in hand. With pair of scissors
he cut the trousers leg covering the in
iured member. The fractured bone
could he plainly seen by the impression
through The cloth. Its a bad frac-
ture." soliloquized the doctor. Hui
loa, what's this? Bounce that fellow
out of here he ordered, angrily. Il
wonder if he thinks this Is wooden
leg factory"
The man raised up at the doctors re-
mark about wooden leg and inSpect-
ed his fractured limb.
burned if you amt right, doc" he
said. My wooden leg is broke square
in two. burned if it hurt worse than a
real leg. Got some string, any of you
feIlows?"
The fellows wooden leg had been
broken and imagination did the rest.
He was provided with string. and, tying
the parts together hobbled off with a
smile Chicago Mail.
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almanac for nifty years, and guess

almanac for nifty years, and ! guess
will abide by it now"
Saturday morning came clear and
bright, and Beth. in her fresh white
dress and broad brimmed hat, stood
waiting for Jerry TO bring around the
old chaise which had been in use thirty
years, or more.
VIII and Jamie could afford to be
pleasant after the magnificent joke
they had played on her.
Don't scream when the firecrackers
go off, Beth, for people will think You
never saw any before"
''Ten Us all about everything, Beth,
and be sure to bring Us a red balloon. ="
''oh. don't forget some peanuts. .
begged VIII, 1t Wi be the only Fourth
we will have
Il wish you would go, the Fourth is
more for boys then for girls" began
Beth, but Jamie in errupted her; You
can tell rs all you saw, aud that will
be fun for us" and he gave VIII a
nudge.
Beth and grandpa rode off in the high
old ehaise, Beth with her pockets filled
with ginger-snaps, while under the seat
was a well-flled lunch-basket- She
sang little songs of happiness to the
nodding clover and daisies along the
road as they passed, for a day IN town
only came once in a long time, and be-
sides, this was the Fourth OF July,
when all nice things happened. They
lived far from neighbors, and the ont
side world seemed very wonderful &c
her, so she was glad when the long
drive came TO an end. and the streets
of the village appeared.
But what a deserted look they had
Tired and sleepy-as though after a
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Came to Grief.

Six young men, formerly residents of
MOndori, Buffalo county, have come to
grief in Washington, having been con-
victed of horse stealing at Spokane
Falls and given sixteen years each in
state prison. They were members of a
large gang who have been operating
extensively in that region for several
years. They brought a drove of their
ill-gotten booty to this state last fall,
some of which were sold in the vicinit,
of Dnrand
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Wisconsin school Funds.

State Superintendent of Public In
situations Wells has distributed the
state school fund income to the various
towns, villages and cities in the state
in pursuance of law passed in 1887.
The total number of children in the
state of school age, between the ages
of and 20, was 1928 the total
amount of money to be distributed for
school purposes was SsJ6,s1O Thus
making it 81. SO for each child. This is
the last year that the school funds viii
be distributed
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cast
Their lot in life and anchored fast;
The yoke Of toll the fathers wore,
The ehildren's children gladly bore
For love OF thee.
Fair country free
From mountain top to boundiess seq
America America
With loyal hearts and courage strong
They fought the rising tyrant, wrong,
And freely their red Iife-blood gave,
The nations future good 10 save.
How brightly independence day
Greets US through them with banners gay,
And clangs its bell,
The note 10 tell
OF liberty we love so we'll
-AmeTica! Amerieai
For aye shall fond respect be done
Unto our noble Washington
And those brave souls that shared with hin
The musket smoke and cannon din.
Truth, freedom, honor, glory, might,
They wrote upon the banner bright
That waved DER them,
Fair, starry gem.
Our eountry's matchless diadem-
America! Americal
Strong union, whose might overcame
Opposing foes of aouio fame,
And on whose face intestine war
Could trace no lasting mars or scar,
We cheer thee and thy glories great
OF valiant navy and Of state;
While blue and gray
Proudly obey
Thy powerful and upright sway
Americal America!
Firm union where sweet peace abides
In valleys green, on broad hillsides;
Wbpra gallant sons and laughfe-S fair
Guard thy renown with tenderesl care,
We hail thy future from the past
Where shadows came but could not last
And with warm zeal
To God appeal
For thy success and lasting veal
America, America.
Grace w. Hal ght, in Good Housekeeping.
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the men to be in to dinner. There was
no one in the large, airy kitchen, and
it look but a minute to transfer the old
almanac to the nail by the door, where
the new one had so lately swung to and
fro. The boys hearts beat quickly
when they went in to dinner and found
grandpa studying the almanac.
1T is just as said, mother, running
his finger down the page, the Fourth
comes on Saturday; you certainly can
not dispute the almanac; who ever
knew il to be wrong?e
VIII and Jamie bent low over their
plates, while grandma brought forth
proof after proof to show that the
Fourth was on Thursday last year, and
consequently must be on Friday now,
as it was not leap year. Grandpa us
tened with a good-natured smile.
swell, mother, ] have followed the
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DIR. Joquish, well-known citizen of
Osseo, claims that his soul recently de
parted from the body and went up into
the heavens, where it met and talked
with his old father. He processes to re-
member the circumstances well. The
doctor is man of strong mind, and his
story is an alarming one to some of his
relatives, who think he is somewhat
insane. He has a great deal to say
ABBOTT the visit, and thinks it as strange
that others have not had the same
pleasure
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WABASH, Ind, June 27.-Elizabeth
McVey, the wonder full faster of Rose
Hill, died Friday, forty-three days after
any food whatever had been taken
DIR. Tanner, the celebrated faster, was
with Mrs. McVey day before she
died and diagnosed her case carefully,
but could not determine the nature of
the malady. A post-mortem examina-
ton will be held under the direction of
skilled physicians, and if possible they
will discover and make known the dis
ease. 1t is one of the most remarkable
cases On TecO d
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Hay for Bin ing Twine.

New York part have been buy
ing up all the V ld marsh hay that
IS to be had abou, jefferson and ship
ping it east in bale 1t is now an
nounced that experimel Is are going on
to use it for making a cheap but superior
article of binding Irvine. Should the
venture prove success, of which the
interested parties feel confident, a
Irvine factory is to be erected at Dous-
man, and a fair quality of binding
Irvine can be sold at cost of less tn an
one cent a pound.
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THEN AND NOW.

When they first invented gunpOwder,
They did most dreadful things with it
They blew up p0pes and p2riaments,
And emperors and kings with II.
They put on funny hats and boots,
And skulked about in cellars, oh!
With shaking shoes they laid a fuse
And blew it with the bellows oh,
They wore great ruffs. the stupid NUTS!
eat least that's my oplnionl them;
AMI said; -What ho.'' and So9th. I IS so''
And called each other .'Minion, then
But now. the world has tuf- ed about
Five hundred years. and more. you see;
And folks have learned thing or two
TEev did not know before, you see.
So nowadays the powder serves
To give the boys jolly day,
And try their Aunt LOuisa'5 nerves,
And make a general holiday
In omen day We blaze away
With popguns and with crackers OH
With rockets bright We crown the night,
tAnd some Of them are whackers ohy.
And pop" and "azze and "bangi" and
'.whizzr
Sounds louder still and louder. oh
And that's the way we use today
The funny gunny-powder. oh!
Laura z Richards, in st. Nicholas.
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The New Board of Control.

Gov. Peek has appointed the new
state board of control as follows:
Charles Leeling. of Manitowoc; Henry
Graetner, of Milwaukee; Clarence
Snyder, of Ashland; J. L. Jones, of
Portage; Charles f. Parker, of River
Falls, and DIR ]. L. Clary, of Kenosha.
Leeling is a member of the state board
of supervision and a republican; Parker
is ex-lieutenant governor and also a
republican. The other members of the
board are democrats.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Given His Freedom.

Hugh Perkins, who had occupied the
courts at Neillsville for several years
accused of murder, has been allowed to
go out free man. Seven years ago
Hugh Perkins shot Isaac Meddaugh in
the Perkins mill in the town of Sher-
wood forest. Perkins claimed to have
shot in self-defens3 and Immediately
gave himself up To the authorities and
remained in Clark county Jail awaiting
trial until November 4, 1884. at which
time he broke out of jail. lie was not
found until four years later, in octo,
Der, 1855, when he was captured at De-
troit. Mich,
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JoHS ". EookwALTEE. ~ Ohio. owns
sixty Thousand acres # land in Ne
braska upon which hc contemplatcS
organizing a farming community. Tie
will build a village in the center of the
tract which shall have large town
hall and library. The tenants will
work their land 10y day and return To-
the village at night
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LUMBER ABLAZE.
Ten Million Feet Destroyed by Fire in
the Nelson NMrds at CIoqmet.

DULUTH. Mimi, June ~. - Fire
started about q o'clock Friday after
noon in one of the bib lumber yards of
the G. n. Nelson Lumber Company at
Cloquet, and ut last accounts was still
burning, but was supposed to be under
control The mill escaped, and it was
thought that the lumber in the other
yards would also be saved. The lum-
Der was all of the highest grade. 1t is
estimated that at least 10000, 600 feet
were burned, causing a loss of $3.50, 600.
The insurance is about 500, 600. The
fire is supposed to have started from q
spark from the mill
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JoHN RUSSELL EoUNG. who knows Sir
William Gordon Cumming well, says of
him: "A high-tempered, impetuous.
hrusque, outspohen, r,.>olute man, with
capacity for instant anger, sensitive,
irritable. ready with word ar blow. the
military temperament at times unduly
developed; stern with men. infinite svm-
pathy for dogs and dumb domestic ami
mails, could imagine anything of Sir
William Gordon Cumming rather than
his cheating AT cards
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Drowned Her Children.

Mrs John Larson, wife of "a farmer
living in the town of Troy, drowned
her three children in Lake st. Croix
during a fit of insanity. Her usband
on finding her absent from the house
began a search, and found her at the
lake shore, and two of the children
lying on the sand dead. The third could
not be found. Mrs. Larson imagines
that devils pursue her. She was taken
to the asylum.
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THERE has been opened in Boston the
first woman's outdoor gymnasium
which the world has seen. II is ON the
Charles river embankment. and Is sur
rounded 10y "a high board fence. All
suitable appliances for exercise are sup
piled. together with a running track
having eight laps to the mile \ city
ordinance has been passed that will al
low the arrest and punishment Of those
who oven stop in teams To watch the
gymnasium classes al work
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THE slot machine has been put To
new use in birmingham. Eng. being
applied Ia the gas meter in tenement
houses When gas is wanted you drop
a two-penny piece in the Slot and get
Eas for an hour. at the end Of which
time Il goe, ont and it requires another
coin L. turn IL ON
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a NAN in Meade county. Kan. sold a
section ~ land. fenced entire. good
pump and windmill house. sheds. etc,
ami free IL encumhrancc. for one dol
lar per acre during the dry spell in the
earlier part Of the season The man
had fifty acres soNu 10 wheat and this
was thrown in The rain came. the
wheat revived. and il now looks n
good as any ia Kansas and It alone Will
more than reimburse the purchaser If
the land. TIE former owner has, it is
said. already expended half the pro
ceeds derived from the sale Of the land
in hiring able-bCiicd men To kick him
for his folly
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CIV HTFoLYTE, e Hayti, Is about
sixty year Of age and IF coal-blaclS
complexion. lie Is the political idol of
the pure blacks, whose blood has not
been contaminated 10y intermarriage
with the crcol-s- lie il the son Of "a
college professor IF Port an Prince
and i a man IF considerable learning
ami cultivation
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in the best schools of New York
city the teachers seize the cigarette
pictures which they see stuffing the tiny
pockets of the school boys. This is not
because the boys get the pictures with
cigarettes, for they do not but il IS be-
cause the young shavers have invented
gambling games to be played with these
picture cards. The most taxing OF the
games is one wherein the trick is TO
throw the cards 50 that they fall face
upward. All which fall that way are
won by him who throws them; the rest
are lost. Seven hundred of these cards
were confiscated in one primary school
the other day.
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simmons Gets Six Years.

NEW YORK, June 27.-James A. Sim
mons. who was convicted of aiding
Gen. Peter J. Claasen, president of the
Sixth national bank, in the embezzle-
ment of the funds of the institution,
has been sentenced to six years inn
prisonment in the Erie county peniten-
tiary. An appeal will be taken to the
United States supreme court.
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Mas ROSETTA l. HosrETTER. Of
Pittsburgh. is one Of the five richest
women in America She Is the widow
az the manufacturer Of the celebrated
bitters, and enjoys an income larger
than that of most crowned heads.
She travels a great deal, and is accom-
panied only by a maid ami a secretary
who assists her in taking care of the
So 900 ON her husband loft
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Yur would think Stanley awcd
enough black men i'm Africa to match
just one Pullman porter just one But
you're mistaken \ purter remarks
in san Francisco The other day that
when he finished run with Stanley
this stern ruler Of men yielded mp 10
the potentate 81 the Pullman Just 500.
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.THE craze for foreign ira 81 Is illus
trated in a New York girl and the
daughter Of a prominent judge, vino
has made several trips t. Europe. and
only last weck. SAYS an Eastern jour
nal, .'niade her first visit to brooklyn. +"
The ignorance of American travellers
in Europe Of their own country has
frequently been commented upon by
intelligent foreigners