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CHAPTER III-(Continued.) ,

Mrs. Jack was not at all offended,
She had the reputation at Percival
house of being "touchy" as well as
''fighty," but she would bear many
rough words from people whose af-
fection she believed in. She continued
to discuss the matter in hand with her
friend until the tea was all drunk, and
Miss Barnasconi rose to put on her
bonnet again, saying that 1t was time
for her to go and give a lesson.
Another lesson! Why, it's han-past
five o'clock"
"Yes; but 1 go to young Mugger-
idge every Wednesday afternoon, be-
cause he gets from the Office an hour
earlier ON that day. Poor dear young
man, he is very docile and industrious,
and think it's better for him to spend
his pocket money on singing lessons
than on bears grease, or cheap cigars,
or billiards. So l teach him. But I
hope you may never hear him sing
Believe me If all those endearing
young charms,' all the same"
why, Barney?"
Because it requires more self-com-
mand than can be expected at your
years"
Poor Barney! how hard you work!
Oh, Barneyw exclaimed Mrs. Jack,
jumping up and clasping her hands,
I've got such an idea! 1t has just
come into my head this very minute,
and I only wonder that never thought
Of it before. Why shouldn't I give
lessons and earn some money? I can
draw in pencil and crayon, l can paint
flowers, can teach French and music,
IN oh toll
recting herself. Not for the world
would Mrs. Jack have put herself into
competition with Barney" But ge-
ography and history, and things. I'm
sure l know as much about them as
our English governess at school knew.
Oh, Barney, what a glorious idea!
Isn't it? Why don't you say it Is,
Barney"
Miss Barnasconi was tying on her
bonnet before a little distorting bit of
looking glass, which hung on one side
of the fireplace. She did not turn
round as she answered:
''Well, my dear, don't say so, be-
cause I don't think So which is a weak
minded reason, perhaps; but have no
better
You don't think so? Oh, Barney!
Why, it is the best idea ever had in
my life. 1t is quite an inspiration!
All, perhaps you think should be idle
and wanting in perseverance; but I
should not. No; should keep saying
to myself, pounds for Popsy,' and that
would encourage me, and make me
work like horse"
But, suppose" suggested Mis- Bar
nasconi, still intent on her bonnet
strings, 1T should come to be not
pounds, but shillings, perhaps scarcely
even pence for Popsy.' How then?"
''Well, even then / should not be
discouraged. I should expect not to
earn great deal just at first; not more
than fifty or sixty pounds, perhaps.
But, then, as do know drawing and
painting, and-and different things, of
course people would soon find out that
could teach well, and 1 should soon
get on"
"Ah! only fifty or sixty pounds to
begin with, eh?"
':But even that would make all the
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No Gun, No Pointer.

A well known local sportsman owns
a pair Of fine pointer dogs-Count, a
staunch veteran of several seasons,
and Bingo, two-year=old, who still has
something to learn. One Friday last
fall the owner Of the dogs started for
Virginia for his usual cunning trip,
and ON the succeeding Sunday, as
neither of his dogs had had much exer-
ciss, he unclaimed them for a ramble
through the fields in his company.
At the start Count seemed to think
there was something wrong, as his
master was without his gun and shoot
ing coat.
He shifted around suspiciously for a
while, took a short run ahead as II to
go to work, then stopped, waited for
his master to come up to him, and
quietly fell In at his heels. Regardless
of both coaxing and imperative orders,
he maintained his position in the rear,
until the young dog found covey Of
birds and came to a stand. He back
ed'' his hunting partners point" all
right, evidently not quite certain yet
that he would not hear the longed for
report of the gun. WheR the birds
were flushed, however, without the
burning of powder, and few away uh'
harmed, he turned toward his master,
gave hinl look of disgust, as much as
/ to say, You're not going to make a
| fool of me- and went back to the
house, hunted up his masters gun case,
and lay down beside it, refusing to
move all Philadelphia Press.
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Small POx II Recommendation.

DR.. Lancaster finds In old newspapers
advertisements which show that cen
tury ago small pox was so common
that people advertised for servants who
were "oFeF" it. in much the same way
as we now advertise for dog cover"
the distemper. He quotes the follow
ing: Wanted, man between twenty
and thirty years of age, to be a foot,
EQan and under butler in great family.
He paaast be of the Church of England,
and haye had the small pox in the
natural way. Also q woman, middle
aged, to wait upon q young lady of
great fashion and fortune; the woman
must be Of the Church Of England,
have had the small pox in the natural
way, very sober, steady, and well be
haved, and understand dress, getting
up lace and fine linen, and doing all
things necessary for young lady that
gees into all public places and keeps
ihe besE company. Enquire of the
printer of this paper. October LIST,
74."-Tit- Bits.
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WHY HE LOOKED SAD.
Kicked His own Boy Into the stree
and Smashed His own Bicycle.

Kicked His own Boy Into the street
and Smashed His own Bicycle.
"You look trifle doleful tonight"
said one OF a group of gentlemen to
another, while all were sitting one Sat
urday evening before the fire In one
OF the clubs.
"Well," said the gentleman address
ed, Il have as good right to look
doleful tonight as any man ] know
Of" ~
whats upT' asked the other mem
bsrs of the group, in chorus,
''It is this way: You know that am
an ardent bicyclist, and ! have q boy
who has the same passion. This even
ing, Just after dark, as / was coming
down the street to the club, walking
along thinking Of nothing in particular,
/ was hit in the back by what seemed
to be q locomotive, and knocked
sprawing into the ditch. 1t was muddy
there, and when I had collected my
scattered senses was all covered with
dirt and also very mad. / looked
around to see what hit me, thinking
that perhaps in my abstraction l had
walked on to a railway line some
where, and found a young man and a
safety bicycle ON the pavement, all
tangled up. / was mad, as said be-
fore, and, without stopping to think
what / did, took the young man by
the coat collar and kicked him off the
pavement. Then 1 jumped on the BIZ
cycle, stamped all the spokes out Of
the wheels, and generally disfgured
It,"
Here the gentleman stopped. And
one of the audience said:
''Well, why should that make you
feel as you do? You did just the right
thing"
'I suppose 1 hadn't ought to feel so,"
said the speaker, but you see, it was
my boy and my bicycle"
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THE FAMOUS PONY EXPRESS.
Dangerous Riding With Letters for
the Gold DigEers.

Dangerous Riding With Letters for
the Gold DigEers.
The regular work OF the daring and
romantic overland Pony Express riders
has never been exceeded, even by the
recent specially trained for long dis
trian army officers. When it is con-
sidered that the average time made
was 250 miles day, it will be seen that
even the governments which pay atten-
ton to such matters have no such
courier. system to call upon. But this
system was organized for the accommo-
datiOn of the gold miners Of California,
who were able and willing to pay, and
in fact did pay, S. for each half ounce
of mail brought to them from the old
folks at home by the daring little
Pony Express riders. Each rider was
limited to fifteen pounds Of mail, for
which the company received ST 200.
The route of the Pony Express be-
gan at st. Joseph, Mo-, and extended
due west to Fort Kearney, Neb., thence
up the Platte river to Julesburg, Colo,
and on to Salt Lake, Utah. The de-
scent into the plains Of Nevada was
made by the route through Ruby tal-
ley and thence along the Humboldt
river. The Sierra Neyadas were crossed
by way Of Canon City, Placerville, then
known as Hangtown, and the Sacra-
mento valley, reached by the road the
miners had made down by Folsom to
Sacramento, and thence along the valley
and over the foothills into San Francis
CO, where the long journey ended.
There were always eighty riders in
the saddle, forty going east and forty
west. Change stations were close to-
gether, specially over the mountainous
sections, as the ponies were kept at
top speed from station to station, no
matter what kind Of country they had
to travel.
The wonder was that the service was
kept up at all; that SO many of the
riders escaped the Indians, and the
dangers Of flood, storm, snow, heat and
cold. Their chief advantage in encoun-
ters with the Indians was that the Pony
Express riders were always better
mounted, on better fed horses than the
Indians, and could take care of them
selves in q chase.
The Pony Express, says the New
York Sun, went out of existence when
the overland railroad and telegraph
service was completed, in 1869.
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A correspondent asks whether plants
can see or not, and suggests that as
plants will turn their tendrils in the
direction of something to cling to, that
may indicate that plants can possibly
see. 1t is certainly fact that the
proximity of something to cling to will
make parts of plants turn In that di-
rection. There is evidently some at
traction, but as for seeing as we gen.
orally understand by sight. this is, of
course, entirely out of the question.
A very pretty experiment may be
made by placing stakes in among a
mass of garlic. The leaves viii in
many cases be found twisting around
the stakes, occasionally cHnging tight.
ly to them, but, as generally seen, the.
garlic would be the last thing we would
think of as having twning habit,
and yet we see by this that when there
is chance to twine they evidently
know that the chance is there 1T is
not sight, but it some remarkably at
tractive power. What the nature of
that power is has not yet been deter
mined. .-Meehan's Monthly.
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SPOILED BY SOTHERN.

The Actor Plays a Practical Joke
ON One of His Associates.
And here one of Sothern's practical
Jokes obtrudes itself, and we must give
it room. During his engagement in
London Money had been performed
with phenomenal cast on the occa-
sion Of some benefit. Charles Mathews
appeared as Capt. Dudley Smooth, e.
A. Sothern as Sir Frederick Blount,
John Ryder as the Old Member, and
the other characters were assigned to
persons Of equal prominence in the pro-
fession. The part of. the Old Member
appears only in the club scene. He
calls loudly every now and then for a.
waiter to bring him the Snuf-box, but
as other members are making the
same demand at the same time, the
waiter always passes him by, and he
does not get the snuff-box until 1t is
empty, which fact he emphasizes by
turning it upside down, at the same
time exclaiming, And it is all gone!"
This is a small part, but it generally
"goes" with roars of laughter. and on
this important occasion Jack Ryder
had laid himself out to make the most
of it. But on calling for the snuff-box,
the waiter, according to the business
of the scene, passed him by and was
on the point Of handing it to Sir Fred
erick Blount, the Old Member still vo-
ciferating, waiter, snuff -boxr' Judge,
then, Of his horror, indignation and
CONSERVATION when Sothern coolly
waved the waiter off, and, pointing to
Ryder, said, THAT old gentleman
seems to be making such a fuss about
it, let him have it first" Of course.
the snuff box being handed to the Old
Member thus early in the proceedings,
killed the entire scene On the first
impulse of the moment Ryder was on
the point Of hurting the object at
Sothern's head, but then the ludicrous
nature of the sell struck him, when he
commenced to roar with laughter, and,
being unable to control himself, arose
and left the stage. There were num-
ber of actors present in the audience,
and they called Ryder back several
times upon the scene, Sothern all the
while gazing from one to the other, an
apparent look of amazement upon his
face, as much as to say, "What is all
this aboutT' After q few minutes
Ryder, having gained the mastery over
his feelings, reseated himself, and the
scene commenced all over again as if
nothing had happened.-Inter-Oc Ocean.
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The term starboard or port when ap-
piled to the wheel of ship is a conun-
drum to landsman which he has diff
Guilty in getting through his head. How
the turning Of the wheel which acts
on the r1dder brings about the de-
sired result of starboard and port can
be illustrated by reference to a China
man. A starboard wheel throws the
stern Of vessel to starboard, chang
ing the course of the bow to port and
vice-versa. So, with the Chinaman,
when he turns his head to the left,
which is port, his pigtail swings to the
right, which is starboard. Opposite re-
suits are obtained when he turns his
head the other way.
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products 10
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
Laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
ative; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
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The Meaning of Red Hair.

Scientists say that it means that there
is a superabundance of iron in the
blood. And the analyst says that it
is the matter that enters red hair that
imparts the vigor, the elasticity, the
great vitality, the overf1owing, thor
Oughly healthful animal life which runs
through the veins of the ruddy- y-haired,
and this strong sentient animal life
is what renders them more intense in
their emotions than their more languid
fellow creatures. Philosophers notice
it as a peculiar fact that red-haired
old maids are very rare.
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of quarreling with Popsy. But you
must allow me to tell you that you are
acting very foolishly in refusing to
come and live here, and doing some
wrong to your child Mr.. Lilly will
not be pleased with you"
"Oh, Mrs, Lilly, what can I do?
Would 1t be good for my child to see
family jars and discord and conten-
tion? / can't only think of the money
and the good dinners and the handsome
rooms"
"You like your own way best of all,
In short That Ia enough, Bell"
Mrs Lilly waved her hand very
slightly, as though dismissing the sub
ject; and then took up her garden
shears again, and began to clip at a
rose tree.
Bell stood with clasped hands and
flushed face beside her. "I dare say I
seem very disagreeable and thankless," I"
she said, humbly. II know 1 don't al
ways choose my words well. But, in
deed, / don't mean to be harsh. And
perhaps-perh1ps Mr.. Lilly does think
1t would be better for me to live here
than to have an annual allowance from
him. But when / feel So sure that it
would never, never answer, how can I
consent? We must each believe that
the other means to do right"
''Will you be kind enough to stand a
little more to the left. Bell? You are
crushing one Of my finest roses with
your heavy black gown"
Then Bell understood that the sub
ject was closed, as far as Mrs. Lilly
was concerned.
"Now, my dear. must tell you"
said Mrs. Lilly, that there is a very
unpleasant report going about town,
and 1t Is right you should know It,
How 1t originated 1 cannot say. But
we have all heard it from various quar-
ters"
"a report about me, Mrs. LillyT'
"Yes; it is said that you are going to
give lessons in Codlington-lessons for
money"
To Be Continued.)
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Boston Ma--What does baby want?
Is it this pencil?
Boston Baby-Ahgoo agoo!
''Of course that's it. And does baby
want paper?'
Ma! ma! me! MAJ
''Yes, mamma cognizes correctly. 1
wonder what baby wants Of pencil and
paper?"
Me! mo! me! mo! me! NOR
BLESS his heart! He wants to begin
to write his memoirs Good News.
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Never buy yvhislxcy for medici-
nal purposes unless you know the bottlers
Of II TO be reliable, as most whiskies sold
under celebrated names are spurious. cheap
have their names on the labels.
. Uncle Sans Monogram Whiskey is bottled
by the oldest and largest firm in the Liquor
line in the Northwest and the favor with
which it has been received is the best proof
OF Its superior quality. Ask your druggist
or retail dealer for st.
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The emperor Duc-Tu Of Cochin China
protects his treasures by placing them
In followed trunks Of trees, which
float about huge tank situated in the
center of the royal palace. There
are twenty crocodiles in the tank as
well. When he wishes to draw upon
this bank, all the reptiles are killed;
but this cannot take place without the
Joint consent of the emperor and his
minister Of finance.
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why, it Is the Best Idea Ever had.
difference to my income. I told Mr..
Lilly that I would be content with
fifty pounds year, and he wouldn't
allow me even that!'
"And do you suppose" said Miss
Barnasconi, facing round from the
looking-glass and showing her brown
face framed in white ribbon and roses;
''do you suppose you have nothing to
do but to walk into peoples houses
and say, Let me teach your childrenT
Do you know the kind of drudgery
that you would have to go through,
the kind Of rebuffs that you would
have to take without wincing, the kind
of dogged, determined patience you
would have to exercise? But it is sheer
nonsense to ask you such questions
You can't answer them; but I can.
In one word, you know as much about
it all as Popsy. And Popsy would have
better chance at it than you, for she
isn't half so sensitive, and a great
deal more obstinate. There! I've said
my say. 1t won't have much effect
I dare say, except that of letting me
sleep tonight with pretty clear con-
science. And now I must be off to
young Muggeridge"
Mrs Jack was not in the least
luenched by this douche of cold water
She quite believed that Barney had
had to go through a severe struggle;
but then it was so very unlikely that
what had happened to Barney should
happen to her! She ran up stairs, and
began Immediately to draw out a CIR
cllIar setting forth her accomplish
ments; and when her nurse and child
returned from their walk Biddy was
agreeably surprised to find her mis-
| tress full of cheerful excitement.
BY way of testing her own firmness,
and getting herself forthwith into train
ing for her part of governess, Mrs.
| Jack assumed q stern tone with Popsy,
and insisted on that young lady's car
| rying away the little square-toed shoe
| that lay on the hearth rug, and putting
| it in it's place in the nursery. When
| Biddy was about to take it up, Mrs.
Jack interposed with much gravity:
| mo, Biddy, she must learn to obey
me, and do things for herself Take
away the shoe, Popsy. You know quite
we'll where to put it, miss"
| Popsey toddied off with the shoe
| quietly enough. And her mother, much
elated by this victory, and the evident
ease with which you could make chill
| dren obey you if you only showed
them firmly that your will was the
strongef, sat DOWN again to finish her
circular. - az
It was we'll she could not see through
the partition wall, or her complacent
state Of mind would have been dis
/ turbed by the spectacle of Popsy's
l kneelipg at the nursery washhand-
stand, and sailing the shoe on sea of
soap and water having manned the
gallant craft with tin soldier and two
trunkless elephants out Of Noah's ark.
CHAPTER Nv.
It vas not long before rumor of
Mrs. Jacks intention reached Percival
House, where it excited great indigna-
ton,
4 cannot believe it," said Rebecea.
II will never believe it Of BeH. With
all her absurdities and want Of dignity,
she would never deliberately disgrace
the family in that way" Nevertheless
Rebocca seemed to be quite as angry
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An American Heroine.

Modiste-Haf you look Offer zee new
fashion plates I send you?
Lady-Yes, very carefully,
"And vat you decide?"
Il have made a composite photo
graph Of them all, and I wish you to
make my dress look as much unlike ii
as possible.-New Yok Weekly.
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rangements, painful disorders, and chronic
weaknesses peculiar to the sex.
For young girls just entering womAnhood;
for women at the critical Change of nfe";
for women approaching confinement; nurs.
ing mothers; and eUsTy woman who IL
rundown" tired, or overworked-it Is q
special, safe, and certain help.
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Born underneath tho british Flag

BY piece of righteousness on the
part Of patriotic English couple living
In South Brooklyn, Uncle Sam was
cheated of prospective citizeness the
other day. In the household child
was born to English parents, and the
mother took the precautioh to spread
the Union Jack over the top of the
bed, SO that the child was born under
the British dag.
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Learning to Speak Russian,

In order to make the visit of our
Russian guests entirely agreeable to
them, it Is imoeratively necessary that
the people, but especially the officials
Of the places where the Russians will
visit, should learn a-few simple phrases
In order that both they and the French
whom they meet may clearly under
stand the sentiments expressed. There
fore, il you are standing in the streets
to see the visitors go by and want to
cry "Hurrah for the Russian sailorsr'
you must say: "Da Zdraustwouioute
Rousskie mouriakl!" If, on meeting
Russian, you wish to say You are
welcome" you can express all that in
one word: "Dobropojalwal." Also you
can say "Good day" in a single word:
"Zarawstwrouite. To wish Pleasant
voyage to you,"' however, you will have
to employ two words: "Schiasliwago
poutiH' You will be sure to want to
say "'Come back some day" and for
that one little word will be needed;
"Woswrascheatess!w If a Russian
whom you encounter says to you, 'Da
zdrawstwouete Franszouskhia Res
poublikav' he will mean: "Hurrah for
the French Republicw Should he say,
'Spassibo ga lRasche gosteprunstwov'
his meaning will be, Thanks for your
hospitality" BY learning these and d
few more like phrases we shall all be
able to do the polite thing by our Rus
sian friends.-Le Petit Journal, Paris.
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German
Syrup

Justice of the Peace, George VIII
kinson, of Lowville, Murray Co.
Mimi, makes deposition concern
ing severe cold. Listen TO 1t. I'm
the Spring of 1888, through ex-
posure contracted q very severe
cold that settled on my lungs. This
was accompanied by excessive night
sweats. One bottle of Boschee's
German Syrup broke up the cold,
night sweats, and all and left me
in a good, healthy condition. can
give German Syrup my most earnest
commendation."
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what foh?'

The Western Normal College, Lincoln
Neb., has a large attendance this year
Ihey pay 100 miles railroad fare a term
20 courses and 125 classes from which r.
select. Catalogue free. Enter at any time
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LUCAS COUNTY.
FRANK ]. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of +. J-CHENEY Co.,
doing business in the City of Toledo, County and
State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and
every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the
use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres
ence this 9Th day of December, A. D. 1885.
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A sore throat or cough, if suffered to
progress, often results in an incurable
throat or lung trouble. Browns Bronchial
Troches' give instant relief.