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THE THO oHTLEss DARLING.
She Blocks Street Tramo While Duyins
Q Few LilaCs. $50

- &c 4 ~
She Blocks Street Trafnc While Duyina
Few Liiacs.
a pretty young girl stopped : cab in
which she was riding in front Of the
New York entrance Of the Brooklyn
bridge to buy bunch of lilacs from a
street vendef. The cab came to q stand.
still just at the bridge entrance, with
the hind wheels across the trucks on
which the Avenue B, Third and Fourth
avenue cars run and blocked traffic for
half an hour. There were about twelve
cars and fifty vehicles of all kinds
tangled up in an almost hopeless block
ade.
The bridge policemen, in their efforts
to make the vehicles move on, seemed
to forget the fact that the little girl in
the cab was still in the way, and appar-
emily unconscious of the trouble she
had caused, fumbled in her pocketbook
for change to pay the vender, who
hung on to the open cab door.
The cabby, fearing that his cab would
be damaged and the swinging door torn
off by the angry drivers of wagons and
trucks about him, whipped up his horse.
Then the little girl put one dainty foot
out on the step and swinging her body
out Of the doorway, berated cabby for
his carelessness.
Don't you see that I am busy?' sho
said. "How rude of you to start up be-
fore tell you to go!'
Then a big policeman came along,
drove the vender away and closed the
cab door. At the same time another
policeman took the cab horse by tho
bride and led him away. The weeping
lilac vender overlook the cab containing
his little customer and received tho
money in payment for the flowers 1t
was fully twenty minutes after that
before traffic on the thoroughfare was
resumed.-N Y Recorder
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The August Wide Awake

Is a veritable vacation number, es-
pecially noticeable for short, practical
papers on out-of-door doings: "How
Botanize,' Annie Sawyer Downs; 'Star-
board and PORT" Capt. Julius A. Palm
er, Jr.; LETS Have Fire." Willis
Boyd Allen; "iiow Not to Get Lost
Prof. Charles E. Fay; "Iiints for
Trampers," Charles NJ. Skinner; Glow
to Put Paddles on a Rowboat,' Vesper
L. George; and such summer articles as
''Sport in the Water" by Alexander
Black; "A Mountain Pageant" by Mrs.
A. G. Lewis. There is capital story
of camping out, "Frcnch Leave by
Gertrude Adams; Margaret Sidney has
striking and dramatic story of life in
the ''SlSy Country of North Carolina,
'Trypheny's Bicycle;" Robert Beverly
Hale contributes ''In Thunderstorm
to the Fair Harvard Series of stories;
Willis Boyd Allen has characteristic
story of life and adventure on an ocean
steamer, ''The Crimson handkerchief, -
and the serials-Kirl< Munroe's ssThe
Coral Ship and Kate Epson Clark's
THAT Mary Ann are equally absorbing.
Price 20 cents a number, $40 a year.
On sale at news stands, or sent postpaid
on receipt of price, by D. Lothrop Com
pany, Publishers, Boston.
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s,l - ttTERs ON EDuoAr,on.

Believe 70 in eddiea.ion, sir' Wei, les, guess
I've seen too much o. how It works to take the
other view. sss-
I've seen how knowledge takes spot that's SORT
'tsO' cold and bare,
nd covers Of it up with quite . nickcl-plated
sees the difference every day tween dedicated
= : folks S. =, :,
md them Us thinks it's nothin' but fraud nd
Why right TO home sees it. There's my wife,
she's studied well
Notonly how to read n write, to cipher md to
spell, ~
But she's an artis' likewise In n most uncom.
mon way, ~
Nd believe to find her like you'd travel many
a day.
For instance, she can knock q tune from our
I've seen that woman play song with one note
upinG,
ND then the next one came 'way down-as far.
ls'pose, as z
ND not bit Of difference did it ever seem to
make
If she had twenty-seven notes, or only one to
take;
Her fingers they would hop about, nd all the
She'd seem to strike as easy, sir, as you or I
could sneeze.
But best Of all her talents is the way she dec
Oratea
She'll make a lovely whatnot with two simple
apple crates;
ND all the picture frames we have upon our
parlor wall
She's made Of colored maple leaves she'd gath
cred in the fall:
Nd all our books. from almanacs to Doctor
Brown ON Hope
She's got in cases that she's built OF boxes made
for soap.
The organ stool she uses when she sets her
down to play
Amt store-made, as you'd think, but Jest q
stump she found one day.
She's covered Of it up with cloth all trimmed
with fringe and stars
ND set cushion on the top. Nd all our ginger
jars
She sort o. paints in gewgaw style, with DRAGONS
in o fight:
Nd when she sets 'em round the house thew
~ makes pretty sight
1tell We, sir, it takes gal that knows fearful
pile
To take q lot o. common things md give 'em
e. such style
They seem to be worth having, nd my wife she
tt does all that
I've seen her make a basket Of busted beaver
It's eddications done it, nd if my kids isn't
III see they gets as much Of 1t as there is in the
schools.
-Harper's Magazine.
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A BUSY MAN,
Why the Tramp Was Obliged to Refuse
Work.

Why the Tramp Was Obliged to Refuse
Just as Cass avenue man turned in
to his gate he met a tramp coming out.
Here" said the gentleman, you're
the very man I'm looking for"
II hain't done nothing, sir" pleaded
the tramp.
''Oh, don't suppose you have. ]
don't imagine you ever did, but I want
you to now.'
''What is it,sir?'' trembled the tramp.
''Will you do some work for me out
there in the back yard right away?'
The wanderers face lost its lines OF
care for he felt that he was safe.
I'D love to, SIR" he said, ''love to the
best in the world, but really l can't do
it now, for I'm busy"
''Busy?" and the gentlemans sur
prise was manifest in his tone.
Eyes, sir; busy
"Busy at what, I'd like to know?"
BUSY tryin' to git bite, sir. ]
haven't had any thing to eat, since last
night, and I've been to fifty houses.
Your cook refused me not five minutes
ago, and I've got to hustle err go hun.
cry. I'm dead sorry, sir, but you'll
have to get somebody else to work.
Bye bye," and he SHE'D around the cor.
ner and got away.-Detroit Free Press.
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AMPUTATED LIMBS,

Extract from q Lecture by DIR. j. III. Kcl.
logg, of The Battle Creek sanitarium.
The rhilos ophy of the peculiar phe.
nomenon by which person who has
lost limb is conscious of its presence
as still part of himself, and which
causes him to complain of pain in it OF
even to attempt to use it, is not gen.
erall y unders TODD by people and yet ii
is simple enough. A man whose arm
was cut off day or two ago says, II
can feel my arm the same as if it had
not been cut off and wouldn't know
it was gone without looking at the
stump" The brain is conscious of the
various parts of the arm and hand
simply because it sends down nerves
1lto those parts, and after amputation
they report as before. In case Of an
amputa ton, all the nerves of the arm,
even to the ends of the fingers, are in
the stump, and when nerve which
goes to a finger is irritated in the stump,
it says finger" to the brain, because it
cannot say anything else, and other
nerves will say just what they have been
accustomed to saying while the arm was
entire. Suppose you put your thumb just
back of the little prominence of the
elbow, and press down upon it--you
will feel numb ensation clear to the
end of your finger: You have not
touched the finger and yet the nerve re,
ports to the brain that something is the
matter with it. Sometimes the muscles
which close the hand are irritated and
the individual imagines that his hand
is shutting up. Instances nave been
frequently known where patients have
insisted that the h and or leg which had
been taken off should be unburied and
its position changed. The nerves con.
tinue to. report the sensations which
they last experienced. However, this
state of things does not last very long.
The nerves which went to the parts re.
moved are gradually absorbed, and
while this is taking place the sensations
which they produce as gradually
shorten. While the loss of an arm is
fresh, the individual is still conscious OF
the tips of his fingers; but by and by
the sensations only extend to the palm
OF his hand and SO keep on shortening,
until he finally feels the stump just as
it is, and this occurs usually in the
course of six months.-Reported bv
Helen L. Manning.
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August
Flower

I used August Flower for Loss of
vitality and general debility. After
taking two bottles I gained 60 lbs.
I have sold more of your August
Flower since I have been in business
than any other medicine I ever kept.
Mr.. Peter Zi1ville says he was made
new man by the use of August
Flower, recommended by me. I
have hundreds tell me that August
Flower has done them more good
than any other medicine they ever
took. GEORGE w. DYE, Sardis,
Mason Co., KY. q
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taking fire. Very soon the tree in which
he had thought himself so safe would
be wrapped in flames.
What would he do? He tried to shift
his position, to think of some means Of
escape. He felt numb and stupeficd.
He could neither think nor move.
He felt as if he was floating away on
sea of flames when new sound
aroused him.
1t was several ringing reports from :.
gun, which sent the wolves scampering
off in wild alarm across the prairie.
The next moment he recognized
through the smoke his fathers form
as he hurried toward him.
Catching up a strong pole from tho
drift, Trapper Wheeler pushed tho
loose burning brush from one side of
the tree.
A moment later Ed, half unconscious
and nearly strangled with smoke, was
!, rescued from his perilous position.
AD III. GIBSON
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Benedict Arnold had made the i

Benedict Arnold had made the in
vasion of Canada in the year ITS under
great difficulties, with great bravery,
and had distinguished himself at the
unsuccessful attack on Quebec, Decem-
Der 81, 1875, and also at the second bat
tie of Saltwater, October Z, TIT, by his
gallantry. In 1850 he was commander
( Of the strong fortress of West Point on
the Hudson. This point he offered to
betray to the British on condition he
was made general in their army and
paid CSC, 900. His treason was discov-
cred, but he had escaped to the British,
{ in whose army he afterwards fought
against America lss II.
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Grammar in st. Louis.-Mother-
''What have You been at, Daisy?''
Daisy-''l amt been dom nothin',
nav" Mother-'How often have l
told you to sound your i-n-g-s? I amt
been doing nothing is what you should
have said. - Brookly n Eagle.
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is the favorite:
It Is the Oldest and was first in the field.
It's train service is the very hest.
It is the first to adopt improvements.
It's sleepers ore palaces on wheels.
1t runs elegant Drawing Room sleepers
on all night trains.
It's trains are lighted by electricity.
1t runs luxurious chair cars on all dav
trains.
It is the only line using the electric berth
lamp.
It's dining car service is unexcelled.
It's trains run solid to Milwaukee and
Chicago.
It is the best route to St. Louis and the
South.
It is the best route to Kansas City and
the West.
It runs four daily trains to Milwaukee
and Chicago.
1t runs two daily trains to st. Louis and
Kansas City.
1t is the Government Fast Mail Route.
It is popularity styled the "Old Reliable. "
1t furnishes safety, comfort and speed to
patrons.
For information as to the lowest rates to
all points in United States, and Canada via
THE MILWAUKEE" apply to any Coupon
Ticket Agent, or to
J. T. CoNLEY, Asst Gen'l Pass. Agent,
st. Paul, MINI.
LITTLE Mamma, my hands are
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MRS Wards

Mrs. Ward-''You accuse young
Blank of being sentimental, yet I
imagine he's fully abreast Of the times .
Miss Ward That he is, mamma. lie
was talking to me last evening about
love in flat. Kate Fields Washing.
ton.
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Picktnx.a Mate.

Mrs. de Smythe And what became
Of that pretty Miss Standish / met at
your country place some seasons ago?
Mrs. Bullion Brown-Why, haven't
You heard? She went as q missionarv
to China, and now she's engaged q
marry Q Chinese mandolin. Puck;
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Had some Self Respect.

Miss Footlite- Tilda, want you to
run down to the druggists and get me
some rouge. ~
Tilda-Would you mind gib'n me a
ordah?
Il gave you the money, didn't I?''
"Yassum. But dey might tink l
wanted it TO myself. Idoan' want people
to tink paints. ''-Philadelphia Press.
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The Presumption Strong.

Johnny-Whoi is it that's in the parlor?
Willie with his ear at the keyholc)
Il think it's the college professor.
Mammals voice has got its Boston stop
pulled wide Chicago Tribune.
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MANS system ia like town, 1t must be
well drained and nothing is so efficient as
Bcecham's Pills. For sale by all druggists
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VIZ will give 500 reward for any case of
catarrh that cannot be cured with Halle
Catarrh Cure. Taken internally
+. j. CHENEY & Co., PrOprs Toledo, 0.
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A MANS days are numbered, but he can
not recover any Of the back numbers
Puck.
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Tho RcaEOns Whv

"HAKD llnes," said Mr.. FlunAer when he
couldn't translate passage in Homer
Yale Record.
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IN summer hotel there always seems t,
be room at the top.-Texas Siftings.
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TIME and tide wait for no mans three
months Dote.-Texas SiftinRA
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HEALTH T1D-BITs save weak nervous men.
81 trial lcc. Ohio Chemical Co. Cincinnati, o
wild oats
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To the representations of INSCRIPTIONS
dealers who tell you that their bogus nos
trums and local bitters are identical with
or akin to Hostettcr's Stomach Bitters.
Such statements arc false. Ask for, and in
sist upon having, the genuine article. which
is II well-ascertained remedy for malaria,
dyspepsia, liver complaint, rheumatism,
kidney disorder and the intirmities incident
to age.
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RED, angry eruptions yield to the action
OF Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents.
A LITTLE behind hand-The train-bearing
page Puck.
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4 EOOEHOT.n

A MODEL woman-a po,er.-Texas Sift
ingS
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a FOOL thinks he 10 right because - can't
- very far.-1am's HORN. s..
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suceessful 1.reAs,s,A,.

Mrs. Hojack-Dr. Kapsool makes I
specially Of reducing fat people, but
Mr.. Keedick has been under his treat
ment for q year without the desired re-
suit.
Hojack-1 am not SO sure about that.
Keedick mortgaged his house yesterday
to pay Kapsoors bilL-Truth.
The Only Ono Ever Printed-Can You Flnd
the Word? SS.ss
There Is inch display advertisement
in this paper, this week, which has no two
words alike except one word The same is
true OF each new one appearing each week,
from The DR.. Harter Medicine Co. This
house laces Crescent" ON everything
they make and publish. Look for it, send
them the name of the word and they will
return you book, beautiful Autographs or
samples free.
No MATTER how little man gets here be-
low he never gets quite oil OF it-Dallas
News.
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The RAMS Horn Is published at Indian
apolis, Indiana, at 81 50 per year.
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LITTLE V1cToR-'' Mamma, my hands are
dirty; shall wash them or put on gloves2"
Paris Figaro:
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= tHT6S1s
u 1856 a trap
pel''s little, din
gy cabin stood
on an isolated
bluff OverlOOlx-
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Shut Your Ears

No MATTER how little man gets here be-
low he mover gets quite all OF it-Dallas
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-04-06
Electric Bitters.

This remedy is becoming so well
known and so popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song of
praise. A purer medicine does not
exist and it is guaranteed to do all that
is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure
all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys,
will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt
Rheum and other affections caused by
impure blood. Will drive Malaria from
the system and prevent as we'll as cure
all Malarial fevers. For cure of Head
ache, Constipation and Indigestion try
Electric Bitters-Entire satisfaction
guaranteed, or money refunded. Price
so cents and $1.00 per bottle at Hughes
& Bells Drug Store.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-04-06
Don't Monkey With the Snake

1t is stated that rattle-snake can
not bite if held up by the tail. Would
you like to put the statement to q
practical test? Probably not; but how
often do you take far greater riskss A
snake-bite is not-the only means of
introducing poison into the. system-
If your liver is sluggish, it fails to re-
move the impurities from the blood
which passes through it, and deadly
poisons are thus thrown into the circu-
lation, all the more dangerous because
they are insidious. If your blood is
impure, if your liver is out of order, if
you have blotches, pimples, boils, or
eruptions, don't monkey with the
snake !" Take DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, the only specific
against all blood-pOisOns, no matter of
what name or nature. 1t is sold under
a positioe guarantee that it will benefit
or cure, or your money will be re-
funded
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NO.. 80.
PENSION COMMISSIONER RAuM.

PENSION COMMISSIONER RAUM.-
The Philadelphia Record thus photo
graphs Pension Commissioner Raum:-
aside from the purely administra-
tive side of Pension Commissioner
Raum's examination, the revelations
made of the personality of this official
are such that it would seem impossible
for any self-respecting Executive to
tolerate him in office. He has steadily
used his position to advance the private
fortunes and personal chances of his
immediate family, and he has done this
with the supercilious ignorance and
brutal self-satisfaction of hog with
both forefeet planted firmly in the
trough. There is nothing heroic or pic
turesque about Mr.. Raum. He is sim
ply fine and full grown specimen of
the greediest and most selfish class of
petty politicians which this country
has produced
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How the Babies Are Named

In some countries curious customs
prevail in regard to selecting a name
| for the baby.
A hindoo baby is named when it is 12
days old, and usually by the MOTHER
Sometimes the father wishes for
another name than that selected by
| the mother, in that case two lamps are
| placed over the two names, and the
name over which the lamp burns the
| brightest is the one given to the child.
In the Egyptian family the parents
| choose name for their baby by light
| ing three wax candles to each of these
they give name, one of the three al
ways belonging to some deified per-
sonage. The candle that burns the
longest bestOws the name upon the
baby.
The Mohammedans sometimes write
desirable names on five slips of paper
and these they place in the Koran
The name upon the first slip drawn out
is given to the child.
The children of the Amos, people
living in northern Japan, do not re-
ceive their names until they are five
years old. 1t is the father who then
chooses the name by which the child is
afterward to be called.
Inc Ch1neSe give their boy babies a
name in addition to their surnames,
and they must call themselves by these
names until they are 30 years old. At
that age the father gives his son new
name.
The Chinese care so little for their
girl babies that they don't give them a
baby name, but just call them Number
One, Number Two, Number Three,
Number Four, and SO on, according to
their birth.
Boys are thought so much more of in
China than girls are, that if you ask a
| Chinese father who has both boy and
a girl how many children he has, he
will always reply:
"Only one child"
German parents sometimes change
the name of their baby if it is ill; and
the Japanese are said to change the
| names of their children four times.
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Uncle Isham Diagnoses the Parties.

"Seems ter me,n said old man Isham,
as he scratched his back against tele-
graph pole, "dat you dimmykrats amt
very salubr'ous wild one anudder Jess
bout dis time. Dar's bout er thousan'
of yer wants Cleavelan', but l b'leeves
you's got er rough Hill ter climb afore
yer gifts him. Den dar's German, an,
Boies (de folks dom want no boys), an
Springer, (you watch dat NAM, an
Campbell (de Campbells 'pear ter be
comin), but de man you all wants is dat
N'yOrk man whar's name tas' so much
like biskit-n "You mean Flower,
presume" we interjected "Yaas, dat
him-Flour. Jesse; of dar's ennything
de dimmykrat party need, tits flour, ter
make pas wild ter stick 'em tergedder" /"
well, how is it with you republicans d?
You seem to be as far apart as the
democrats" ''Dat's so, boss dats so
but yer see de publikins jess lex er
| flock O. sheep; yer see one of 'em down
in de riar-partch, anudder on de hill
side, anudder one in de branch and
anudder one ober de fence 'mongst de
cattle; every one gwyne his own way
an mar one look lex he carin' for de
balance-but you jess let dat ar ole ram
on de hillside fling up he head an say,
'B-b-b-ba- -a-a-ah = and watch dem sheep
como er-runnin' so fas' dat dey mos
swing dar tails off. Dey dom know
whut de ram want-don' keer; dey
come all de same. Now, Merhone, he
de, ram he in Washin'on now; purity
soon he gwynter sap BIB -b-ba-a-a-a-
ahH an you watch dem publikins
come" We thought the old man had
pretty accurately stated the case
Charlottesville Jefersonian.
Take Simmons Liver Regulator to