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HE TRIED TO BE POLITE.

But the Old Lady, Who Didn't Under
stand Him, Wouldn't Have 1t That Way.
WAS there ever fifteen minutes DUR
ing the day when you were not smol1-
ing?" asked of a devoted lover of the
weed
YES" he answered, 'there was one
occasion when didn't smoke for six
hours. That was the longest six hours
I have ever known"
How was that2" I asked "You
must have been stranded somewhere
without any cigars, otherwise you
never would have stopped; know you
too we'll"
by no MEANS" he answered. "My
pocket was full of cigars, ard had my
pipe and tobacco pouch TO boot, 1t was
when was travelling in Germany" he
said, reminiscently, as he struck q
match. II once got on an excursion
train going into Berlin, and, as was my
custom, went into smoking car. The
train was SO crowded that several
women came into the car TO get seats.
Two of them, one young and good
looking, the other middle aged and
buxom, sat opposite me. ! was about
TO light fresh cigar, when II occurred
to me that my smoking might possibly
be offensive. could not speak "a word
of German, but felt il wise to get per-
mission of the old woman opposite. |
took my cigar out Of my mouth, raised
my hat to the woman and began a
series Of pantomimic gestures that ]
thought could not fail TO make her I'M
derstand my meaning and would elicit
an asserting nod in reply
"She stared at me ferociously. Still
holding that cigar and looking from
one woman to the other, ] kept on mo-
tioning deprecatingly, half apologetic-
ally but still persistently. The woman
looked mad enough to eat me. Then
she suddenly snatched the cigar out OF
my fingers and threw il out of the win
dow with look that implied that she
wanted none of my impertinence.
Whether she thought I was trying to
fiirt with her protcge or that meant TO
insult her by offering her cigar ]
never learned. But I Immediately sub
sided, and until we got to Berlin had
to content myself with the memory OF
my last smoke" and an expression OF
amusement commingled with gentle
regret stole over the face of the adorer
of Lady Nicotine as he pulled away in
silence. IN. Y. Herald.
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He Had Evidence.

The man had been to see
prestidigitateur and when he came
home he was telling his wife about
it.
Zone of his acts" he said, twas
to cut woman's head off right on
the stage in front of all of us"
"Pshaw,' she protested, "he
didn't cut her head off.
"Yes he did, too. | saw him,
and he carried it over to a pedestal
and it began talking"
"How do you know it was a
woman?"
Didn't | see herr"
1T might have been man
or boy dressed like u woman"
mo it wasn't, either, tell you.
1t was woman. Didn't | say it
kept on talking after its head was
emf Off
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promptly 10 an order like that, even
from the man she loves, and Ahe result
was an angry rupture.
For some weeks they never met, and
all this time Spur was staying at the
Austell ranch or camping close TO II.
pushing his suit with Chummie; and
Chummie, with the indirection of the
weaker ex-thinking 10 scare Jim into
repentance allowed herself TO be
drawn into n sort OF promise, which
Spur Immediately fastened upon, sent
to San Antonio for an immense dia-
mond solitaire, and, with the support
Of the old people, hurried on the mar
riage, so that, before she realized
where she stood, the frightened and I'M
happy girl was actually putting on her
wedding dress.
And jim?
The season was bad, there had been
no rain for long, Roggy Run was run
out, the grass was dry rs finder and
the stock was beginning TO suffer. The
sheep could do whore they were-a we'll
regulated Texas sheep can come as near
dispensing with drinking water as a
Kentucky colonel-but the cattle were
rounded up and started out on the trail
for 1.-The territory" Jim, who usually
stayed with the sheep, took charge of
cattle this year. There was a most UNI
comfortable. soreness in the region of
his heart, which IL seemed somehow 10
him might be more or less worked of
In the toll of managing n herd of trail
:attle, lamming recalcitrant steers,
lighting TO keep the bunch to the trail
in the face of norther, or struggling to
prevent or TO quell an incipient STAN
pede.
They had been out on the trail nearly
week, and were pretty well up
toward the state line, when Bob Eng
fish rode into their camp one eve ming.
After supper, when Jim's two cowboys
were out riding round the herd, getting
them bedded down for the night, Bob
remarked confidentially to Jim:
The weddin's a-comin' off next
Thursday. You done the very thing to
Jest skip. She's sorry enough-Good
God, Jim! thought you knew all
about it!'
In two hours time Jim was far from
mis- camp and Bobs, headed for Doggy
Run on the best pony in the saddle
band and leading another, cursing his
folly for thinking Cinco too good for SO
hard trip. -Four days later, on Thurs
day. he rode up TO the ranch house door
at Doggy Run about noon aud threw
himself upon the bed without word,
while Gillespie, equally speechless with
amazement, arose from his solitary
dinner and attended To- the used up
horses. That evening Jim was saying
TO Gillespie ian older man and hard
headed Scotchman), while he BACKED
his boots vigorously, turned the bare
little ranch house upside down and
dragged out all his own and Gillespie's
entire wardrobe to mako n suitable
full dress toilets Let up, John. There's
no use talking. I'm goin' over there an
look at her-that's all. II this is her
own deal and she's satisfied, Why I'm
bound to be. IL it isn't-if that little
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old swelled-up prairie dog an the ola
folks have sort Of rushed II in on her
No, you can't 20, nor Billy. I'm just
going by myself, all peaceablo and nat
ural"
They were waiting for the preacher
at the Austell ranch-he was an hour
overdue. There was sort of strained
uneasiness in the air since Jim's unex-
pected arrival, despite his quiet man
ner and friendly greeting.
He only needed one glance al
Chummie's little face, and her look Of
half terrified delight would have
melted more obdurate and injured
lover Presently some lively young
spirit out on the porch exclaimed: "Oh,
let's play hide and seek; the moons
bright as day"
Jim watched Chummie, and, as she
crossed darkened entry, caught her
In his arms an instant, whispering:
Hide out at the far side of the corral
-Cinco's there, hitched." She slipped
around back way unseen, while Jim
walked boldly over In front, and there,
behind the cight-foot stockade, they
met at Cinco's head.
You don't want him, do you,
darlinq2"
"Oh, mol Oh. no, Jim"
"Will you risk II with me and
Cincop"
"Oh. yes! Quickw
They'll follow. Where's the
saddles and bridlcs7 I'll put you on
Rascal"
"All on the back porch-there isn't
time, anyhow-oh, listen!"
Jim lifted the little figure instantly
upon Cinco behind the saddle, swept
the bride rein up from the snag over
which it hung and sprang into the
saddle In front of her; and her arms
were round him. Even while he
wheeled Cinco at the corral gate,
jerked II open, dashed in, and eircline
once round IL, drove the horses snort
ing out before them with swinging
quirt, Jim thrilled within that On.
circling girdle, and remembered how
once, riding over from Doggy Run, he
had found her afoot at the far end Of
the ranch, Rascal having given her the
slip; how he had taken her up behind
him on Cinco, and how he had gricv.
ously spurred and mistreatcd that I'M
offending and astonished friend, and
put him into dead run, for the rare
delight of feeling those shy arms about
him.
II would have been prudent TO start
north and circle round to the trail.
avoiding the house. But IL wouldn't
have been Jim-nor IL wouldn't have
been Texas. When he felt himself In
that sweet clasp, SO long desired, so
barely snatched and won at last, when
It seemed lost for good, with those
frightened arms clingiuR about him,
gether below his heart, Jim felt like q
warrior god. Touching Cinco with the
spurs, he sprang forward and dashed
down the trail close behind the string
OF Gathering, snorting saddle ponies,
right past the open front door and the
whole assembled company in the clear
white light of Texas full moon. As
they came up TO the group Jim, in a
reckless burst of understandable de-
light and triumph, rose In the stirrups,
and, swinging his hat, remarked, In
the tone of an intoxicated steam
whistle: "whirr-oo-oo-irp! whooirpl
Whoo-oo-ooeyr'
Translated freely this reads: go
to Halifax I've got you nowl Let's
see you help yourselvesl" And so the
gentlemen TO whom IL was addressed
received II. But Cinco accepted IL as
only regular straightout horse talk
the most pressing form of exhortation
TO git" known 70 his tribe; and he
got forthwith.
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The ponies scattered out and let
them pass. Several of the older and
soberer ones, pauslng to question and
debate a little. were caught and
saddled. and the Austell boys and some
others followed over TO Doggy Run.
Gillespie came out and told them, with
the grim, chuckling enjoyment of a
sober old fellow over beloved young
ster's dashing prank, that Jim and
Chummie, on Cinco and Gillespie's best
pony, had ridden down to be married
at Del Rio and take the morning train
TO Uvalde, where Jim's people live.
Jim and Chummie could afford ia be
magnanimous and say nothing TO the
old folks, when we heard last week
that Spur was living meekly at Dallas
with very aggressive wife and four
children that came from the east some
where and rounded up and corralled
that gay butterfy.-N. Y. Herald.
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Believed in Keeping Her Sober

On an excursion given to Chare-
voiX last summer Frant, an old
squaw, who had combined business
with pleasure, was seen seated on the
stern of the boat with bundle of
Indian baskets, she was asked if it
was hard work to make them.
Belly hard" she replied.
Does your husband help YOU to
make them? ?" inquired the woman.
"Oh, my hole man he's bad man,
he's dunk all time"
"Where does he get his fire-wa-
ter?"
"Oh, he's bad man, he takes IL
away from me. "-Artesian Well.
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TWO OLD GREEK RECIPES.

A Sucking Fig Served Half Boiled and
Half Roasted
Mix boiled hogs lard and milk with
thick Cruel, Stir it well together with
fresh cheese, yolks of eggs and brains.
Wrap II In fragrant figleaf and boil In
the gravy Of chicken or kid. When
taken out remove the leaf and souse II
In potful of boiling honey. The name
of this comestible Is derived from the
figleaf but the mixture consists of
equal parts of each, but rather more
eggs, because this gives it consistency.
This appears to have been a popular
dish among the Greeks. To us IL seems
about as nice as an oyster eaten with
brown sugar. Aristophanes mentions
q thirum of salt fish and thirum OF
fat. In the Frogs" there is dismal
joke in the form of reasonable objec-
ton made to leaping from high tower:
II should lose two tgleaves of brain"
The word occurs no less than twelve
times in the fragments of the comic
poets, according to Meincke's Index.
Atheneus, in the mirth book, repre-
sents cook giving an account of how
a sucking pig was put on table with
a half of it roasted and the other half
boiled, its paunch being filled with
small birds of various kinds, yolks of
eggs, and force meat well peppered.
1.-THE pig was killed." says the chef
"by a shallow stab under the shoulder.
After nearly all the blood had run from
II rinsed the contents of the paunch,
offal and all, several times carefully
with wine and hung 1t up by the feet
Then gave II another good soaking In
wine, and, having first boiled with
plenty of pepper the tit-bit of the force
meat, I stuffed them in through the
mouth, pouring in plenty of very rich
gravy. Next I plastered half the pig
with dough made OF barley meal moist
ened with oil and wine. Then put IL In
the oven on n bronze supporter and
baked II slowly, so as neither TO burn
it nor take 1t off underdone. When the
skin was nicely Drowned l conjectured
that the part beneath the dough was
sufficiently cooked, and so, gentlemen,
took off the barley meal and placed 1t
on the table for you-boiled or roast,
as you please. "-Fraser's Magazine.
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Deserving Praise.

We desire to say to our citiceEs, that
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New discovery for Consumption. 90.
King'sENew Life Pills, Ducklon's Aruic1
Salve and Electric Btters, aud have never
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that have given such universal sat. lac.
ten. We do not hesitate to guarantee
them every time and we stand ready to
refund the purchase price, IL satisfactory
results do not follow their use. These
remedies have won their great popularity
purely on their merits. }. i. Field 60.
Druggists.
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A Billion Friends.

A f,send In need ~ friend indeed. and
not less than one million people have
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New discovery for Consumption, Coughs,
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ALpENA ARGUS
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE WOES OF FARMER FRILL.


THE WOES OF FARMER FRiLL.
My son, Lord Byron James Fttzlaines
Orlando Homer Frill,
To poetry has lately turned.
While the land must TIL.
Attuned to natures harmony,
Inspired by autumn's breeze,
His tender verse my poet weayes,
Nor hoe nor spade he sees,
EOf country life sweet rural scenes,
And happiness galore,
He's ground OF 'pomes" enough 10 reach
From here to Baltimore
nc sings of "brown and rustling leaves
In dark and shadowy wood
Now I'll admit In later hills
Brown leaves are mighty good
In frenzy hnc nc rolls his eyes,
White roll up my sleeves;
He sings OF autumn's autumness,
While rake up the leaves;
OF wildwood nuts now falling fast
With soft, seductive sound
He'd better help me COOLERS dig;
They're wasting IN the ground
OF lowing kline" he sweetly raves
But ne'er milks he the COW;
The glory OF a farmers life
But neer drives he the plow
He sings OF "birdlets by the brook
And "fiowrets IN the fen
.'Twould better pay think, 10 feed
The piglets in the pen.
tell you, folks, I'm gettin' riled,
Mi Lord andso-forth Fril
Don't hump himself and get TO work,
Ill'cut him I'm my viii!
Pleasant Riderhood in Detroit Free Press.
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.REAsURER's NOTICE.

l.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned,
Treasurer OF the city OF Alpena will receive the tax
roll for general city and highway taxes for the year
1898, Monday, July 10th, and the same will be re-
tanned by him during July and August that dur
ing July said Treasurer will receive all taxes as
sessed thereon without the addition of any COM
mission percentage for collection (; that during
August. persons paying taxes will be charged one
per cent additional on their assessment and that
after the expiration OF said time, said roll will be
returned 10 the Comptroller of said city, who will
cause to be made out copy of as much OF said as
sessment roll us shall be due and unpaid, adding
thereon such percentage shall have been fixed
by the Common Council, for the collection OF such
taxes assessments not exceeding four per cent,
and that within ten DAYS thereafter the said Treas
urer will receive said metoned roll and proceed to
collect and receive taxes thereon assessed, up to
the last Saturday in October next.
Notice is further given that the said Treasurer is
not required by law 20 call upon the persons as
sessed upon SAID roll, or demand the payment of
such taxes.
JAS. II. KERR,
l0s0w6 City Treasurer.
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Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The Best Salve In the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
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Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
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is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
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box. For sale by j. +. Field & Co.
1104y1
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Deg Z ar WIN
blood in his eye and as many devils In
his disposition ms there are cookie burrs
in his tail
| wish some of the people who
imagine that droves of such little beasts
arc the horses generally raised on
Texas ranches could see Jim McQueen's
Cinco. His sire was a four-mile horse
whose ancestry ran vaguely back to-
ward Kentucky; and he unites with tho
beauty, speed, smooth coat, good tenn
per and larger size of this stock the
indomitablc pluck and hardihood and
the inexhaustible bottom of his native
Texas blood Jim traded five ponies
for him when he was n raw, slim leg
ged yearling, and called him Cinco In
commemoration.
He Is six years old now and has
never known the feeling of collar II
is true that IL some uninstructed out
slider should insist on putting him into
harness Cinco would probably end by
kicking the vehicle into kindlipg wood
and himself clean of every scrap of har-
ness, but this would be simply a con-
temptuous protest-a forcible eXplana-
ton of the fact that he wasn't built TO
haul loads
Cinco is the best horse in this, a coun-
ty of good horses. His qualifications
and accomplishments are varied. He Is
an unapproachable COW horse, a fin
ished expert in all the horse maneuv-
ers incident to rounding up, ropipg and
cutting OUT perfect mine Of endur-
ance and good spirits on the trail, and
always wins all the long distance and
handicap races at the county fair.
He won his last handicap about a
month ago under circumstances of
thrilling interest to a romance loving
frontier society.
Jim is the junior partner at the bach
elor Gillespie & Mcqueen sheep and
cattle ranch on Boggy Run. Their
nearest neighbor, five miles above, is
the Austell ranch, at Crockett's we'll.
Miss Chummie Austell when she came
out to the ranch year ago from some
East Texas school, had as easy a walk
over of the undisputed belleship of the
whole county as Ciuco would have in
an open race against a field of COW
ponies, and without an ounce of handi-
cap. II was Jim, with his good looks,
boyish spirits and what Wade Keener
bitterly styled This blame winnin
ways" who first gained her maiden
preference and held it so long, in the
face of SO much and such spirited, not
to say desperate, rivalry that it looked
rs though the course of true love might
be going to run smooth once, just to
show its West Texas originality.
But now came upon the scene the
cause of discord, misunderstanding,
jealousy and reproaches, spirited re-
forts and secret tears and final angry
separation, in the person of sheep
man, 'drifter,' from somewhere up
in the Panhandle.
Spur was a most unromantic figure,
about five feet in height and three feet
across, with sort of air of good fell
lowship about him, and giving a vague
impression, somehow, Of great and
Astounding wealth.
Now a"d-ifting" sheepman, is general
~ speaking, not very kindly taken to by
cattlemen, or even 10y sheep ranchers.
He is a man who may have ten,
fifteen or twenty thousand sheep, and
grow rich off the wool and mutton
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Strictly Pure
White Lead

The market is flooded with spurious
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made by eminent chemists, Of two of
these misleading brands show the
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they contain:
Misleading Brand
STANDARD Lead Co. Strictly Pure White
Lead. 81. Louis"
Materials Proportions Analysed by
Barytcs 59.3G per cent. Regis Chauvenet
Oxide OF Zinc 3i.is per cent a Bro,
White Lead CHS per cent. St. Louis,
Less than 7 per cent. white lead.
Misleading Brand
"Paeihc Warranted Pure tAl White Lead"
Materials Proportions Analysed by
sulphate of Lead 4.18 per cent Ledoux 81 Co.,
Oxide OF Zinc 4Sot per cent. New York
Barytes 506S per cent.
No white lead in it.
You can avoid bogus lead by pur-
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They are manufactured by the "Old
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"Fahnestock" "Anchor"
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"Davis- Chambers"
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lANGWORTHY & HlSER.

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n you want fine DRESS SHOE, made In the latest
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The Pyramid Pile Cure
Is new discovery for the prompt, per.
manent cure of Piles in every form.
Every druggist has it,
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without even owning a foot of land.
While the cattleman, of any size and
account, must have a ranch, and lin
this dry section) wells and windmills,
and probably watering tanks, all of
which represent much outlay, the
drifter parcels out his sheep into flocks,
under Mexican herders, drifts all sum-
mer in the northern part of the state
and winters down here in this warm,
sheltered country, running more or less
over other peoples ranges and making
money on smaller investment than the
ranchman.
but old Austell and Mrs. Austell
were undeniably impressed by the at
mosphere of wealth that went about
with Spur, and when he laid violent
siege TO Chummie's affections he got
more or less support from the family
even the boys, who were Jims spe-
cial friends, standing off neutral. Jim,
hurt and angry, rode over TO see Chum-
mie and demanded that she give that
chump his vamos, right straight.
IL Is hard for pretty girl who knows
her power 70 ascede gracefully and
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Bogus white lead
20 ~ sale did it not
afford makers a larger profit than
Strictly Pure White Lead.
The wise man is never persuaded to
buy paint that is said to be "just as
good" or "better than