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Births.

Catherine and Charles Vehlng. 2lO Preston
street, girl.
Hattie and Joe Budweitsky, SAT East Washing
ton street, girl.
Jennie and Joseph Villa. COS East Washington
street girl.
Eta and Harry Whitney, IT'S Center street, boy
sAnna and John Fraser 504 Willard street girl
Lucy and George McCabe, 40 North California
Louise and Seth Conklin, 2O1a North Delaware
leila and William Ryan. 1874 Beville avenue,
Clara and John Roach, 23O2 Martindale avenue,
boy.
Matilda and S. p. Bridges, Newman street, girl
Kate and Harry Krause, 1875 Temple avenue
Mary and Patrick Clifford. 144 Dorman street,
boy.
Elizabeth and William Clayton. Norwood, girl
Jessie and Charles Benedict. 2t3S North Me
Clara and Frank Diclie 20 Windsor street, girl.
Mrs. and Charles Bunnell, 153 Hillside ave-
nue., girl.
Mrs. and Arthur Kline, indianapolis, boy.
Carry and William Flaherity, South Missouri
Lizzie ana Fred KIiner, 1923 West Michigan
Emma and Paul l<lngstine, 1910 Sheldon street,
girl.
Abby and Newton Mcclure. 2vO Ash street.
Emile and John WINNER. 2429 North Meridian
street, boy.
Nellie and John Ruffing, 5O7 South Alabama
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Value of Her Time.
Chicago Post.


She didn't like homework; she preferred
to have, place in the world of business,
she said.
Il want to earn something" she frequent
~ proclaimed. Il know l have the business
instinct and that l would be a success if
only had a place in some office"
We'll returned the old gentleman
thoughtfully, I'll take you into my office
viii you really?", she cried delightfully."-
And how much will you pay me?"
whatever your time is worth"
But how will you decide that?" she de-
manded.
Lets find the valuation you put on it
first
I'D value it at about dollar a minute"
she returned promptly.
You never have shown any indications
of doing anything like that yet" he said
Wen just figure it out. Now. yesterday
you and your mother went down town,
Yes We went down to get some cloth
for. gown. But what has that to do
Il heard you say that you found just ex-
actly what you wanted at the first place
you stopped but that they asked too much
for it" he continued, ignoring her question
That was right" she admitted. They
wanted 80 cents a yard for it, and both
mamma and l knew that we could get it
for less
did your"
"Ot course we did; I guess we know
dress goods. We had to go pretty nearly
all over town. but we finally got the same
thing precisely for 81 cents yard"
How long did it take you?" he asked
next.
well, we went down town before lunch
and never got home until dinner time
One can't get bargains in a hurry, you
know
"Of course not" he admitted. And how
many yards did you get?"
Six" she answered.
Saving altogether the magnificent sum
of Is cents, he suggested. The problem
is very simple now. Two of you worked
nearly one whole day for IS cents, or 9
cents apiece. Making liberal estimate
for the time you spent al home in the
morning / should say that you and your
mother valued your services at about IL
cents q day each. Now, l shall be very
glad to pay you"
But he never finished. They both of
them declared that he was a mean thing
and there was nothing for him to do but
take refuge in flight.
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SEALS, STENCILS, STAMPS.
lSrOTMAYERs SEALS! dSl
jNUVeLL41A0 STENCILS, STAMPS
CATALOGUE FREE BADGES. CHECKS &c. II
E95S IELI3a6. Is SHERIDAN ST GROUND FLOOR.

strong and active; light, sa.4oQa.5o; mixed, 1925
Sheep-Receipts 5000; shipments, 400. Market
steady; natives, s2.5Oq375 Texans, s.; lambs. So
KANSAS CITY July Cattle-Receipts 6.OoO.
Market steady; Texas steers. $2.4OQ3.j0; Texas
cows and Refers sLSoG410 stockers and feeders
S3;60Q195; bulls. $2Q2. 80.
er. closing weak; bulk Of sales, $32112u3,Sf19;
heavies, s3.3OQ3 40; packers, $32l!@q3.35; mixed,
Sa;8oqS.io; lights. Sa27laa5.35; Workers, $3.50
Sheep-Receipts 1000. Market strong; lambs,
$3Q5; muttons, S275QS.95.
EAST LIBERTY, July 6.-Cattlee, steady; extra,
oxen. s2n375; veal calves. S6G6.50
Workers, S5.65G375: best medium and good York
ers, S3.GQQ365; heavy, $3.45q3j0; roughs, s225q
Sheep steady; choice s895@4 common, s2.6o9
3.25; spring lambs, S42Jq5.50.
sheep, 1On1ic: refrigerator beef, sl@aS54c. Ex-
ports TO-DAY 5o heevS 2$2o quarters Ses of bse5
Hogs~Receipts, 1000. Market higher at $4d4 20.
Sheep and Lambs-lteceipts, z,l4o. sheep steaHy
s4755S5 40 o. -'' '''7'''' -''0p '-'''''''
EAST BUFFALO, July 6.-Cattle draggy.
HogsnaGood to choice pigs and light Workers
pigs, good to choice, S3.7543s0.
sheep-Native yeqrllngs, s2.75a3; native clipped
$2.2502.75
Hogs-Receipts, 700. Market firm: heavies, S3.4O
CAS-; medium, $3.45Q55O; lights, $3.25q3.5O;
Sheep-Keceipts, 400. Market steady; choice
sheep $3.50 p 80; fair, 22592.i5; extra lambs
$4.75Q5; fair, S3.50445O.
CINCINNATI. July 6.--Cattle steady at $2.25
Hogs active at $4,000
Sheep steady at S2QS5o; lambs dull at g. 75g
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inn ers' Supplies.
REAL-ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Five Transfers, with a Total COnsid-
GRAFTON of $4,000.

Instruments filed for record in the recorder s
office of Marion county, Indiana for the twenty
four hours ending at p. ia. July 6, 1881, as
furnished by Theo. Stein, abstracter of titles,
corner of Market and Pennsylvania streets. In
dianapols. Suite 229. first Office floor. The
Lencke. Telephone 1850
William. b. Betz to John T. Orme and 900
wife, Lot 81, Block 20, Tuxedo Park. $500
Same to Mary f. Griffith and husband
Lot &c. Block 10, Tuxedo Park. ............. 300
William l.. Elder to Clara \. Van Treese
Lots 1872 and 1913, Cross trustee 81 Clifford
- avenue addition 100
Lots IS and 10, Gushing subdivision of ao
Hanway & Hanna s Oak Hill addition. 900
Indianapolis Station of the Church of the
United Brethren in Christ to Emma +.
Coburn' s subdivision of Outlot 1S2.......' 500
Transfers. >; ............... S. 300
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Butter, eggs and Cheese.

NEW YORK, July ;-Butter-Receipts 1,7554
Gi5c; Eigns, i5c: factory, 7l2@lO1ac. Cheese.-Re-
eegts Is 939 packageg Market steady aS state
full SKINS, 2lD3c Eggs-Receipts q, 252 packages.
Market steady; state and Pennsylvania, 1lq1ll2c;
Western 10l%Q11c.
KANSAS CITY, July 6-Butter firm; creamery,
1Q@13c dairy Sl9E Eg pt Tn dem aPKet los is
cally absorbs the supply: fresh candlled Missouri
PHILADELPHIA July 6-Butter firm and in
good demand: fancy Western creamery. loo. Eggs
Steady; fresh nearby, 1012@nc; fresh Western,
lea 10hc. Cheese steady.
to-day the butter market firm; creamery,
I2014iac: dairy, 9Q12c. Cheese dull at 712QoAc.
steady: fresh SC.
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Dry Gnnh4.

NEW YORK, July THE holiday yesterday Td9 in
terfered with business in the dry goods trade to-
day. A moderate volume of mail orders is com
ing forward Prices ruled steady and generally
staple cottons the business passing is still of
light proportions. Prints still in fairly active
request staples being in more steady demand
than heretofore, but are not as yet equal in MI the
well, better, in fact, than some sellers had an
ticipated. Wooden goods remain almost as st the
orders of some Importance in widely distributed
lines Jobbers are much occupied with stock
Of business in fan lines except as steadiness of
mail orders for the purpose of stock filling
dictate.
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ls=easd IT. flltnres RANGED AS folloHa:

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour steady.
No spring wheat, 6s14c; No. 3 spring wheat eat
S5a 9se NO yellow Efio corn sq2sc
sc No Wb bJ p rv2 2oaSe e No. No. E Sarey
nominal No b. g 2sg7ss9 P Pqime t timothy 0 by
seed $275. Mess pork, per bril- T70g7.75 da ard
per 100 lbs, $4.10: short-rib sides, loose s. SOl
clear sides, boxed s4.75d4. S2la. Whisky dis
tillers' finished goods per gal N.1s :, ooo hi
corn, bp sss eco BY rye S SSS nT eg
Uhea "a 900 bu: corn 632 900 bu; oats, 10000 bu
rve 80 600 bu: barley, 5000 bu.
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LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
Trade Started n Little Slow. with No
Important ChmnGes in XnIues

As usual after holiday trade was rather
quiet. on the wholesale streets. however, the
natural midsummer dullness cuts something of
figure, dry goods houses selling more small bills
. 10 replenish broken stocks than anything else
Grocers are busy, sugars moving In large guam
titles. Dealers In fruit Jars are pushed with
business. The hide market is active at the ad-
vance in prices of Monday Gather market ac-
tive and prices unsettled. business is improving
WIN The wholesale confectioners. Hardware mer-
chants are having an excellent trade. Seed mer-
chants report more activity In their business
the last few days at unchanged prices. On Com
MISSION row bueineSs is much the for
soine DAYS past, prices q fruit and vegetables
but most OF the time the market is pretty we'll
cleared % stocks. Poultry and eggs are weak al
The LEGAL grain market is without any new fea-
ture- Receipts ~ corn are some larger than last
week oats are finding better sale and all
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Poisoned His child and Himself.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 6.-W. p.
Pearson. formerly employed in the freight
department OF the Santa Fe road in this
murder his eght-year-old daughter to-day
and then committed suicide lie told the
who is dead. if she took poison with him.
He made her drink carbolic acid and drank
prusslc acid himself She may recover.
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Cotton.

NEW ORLEANS July gcott0n quiet saes
613-1sc low middling, ne. middlng. 1l-16c
good middling SC; mddling fair, 7-l6c; net re-
ceipts 271 bales; gross receipts, 314 bales; stock,
&c, GIG bales.
MEMPHIS, July 6.--Cotton firm: middling, 79sc;
receipts 121 bales; shipments, so bales; stock,
II. 4f6 bales: sales 200 bales.
NEW YORK, July 6.---Cotton closed steady;
mddlng uplands, 77sc; middling gulf S$sc; sales,
al bales
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NJ. rria Ee Licenses.

Henry Strobe and Lille T.. Pee.
Sylvester HATFIELD and jennie Miller.
Thomas L. MadduX and Altha Lawson.
Samuel sutton and Ida Crockett
Rufus Ewing and Jennie Spencer.
William Z. Fitzpatrick and Maud. Aiken.
Eft. Sjoerds Heeringa and Kate Jansgaalema
Hilbert Howard and Nellie r. Davis.
Fred Mills and Ethel Ann Widunner
Charles II. Harsin and Finnie b. Ditmer.
George Carter and Laura H Schneider.
Cicero Boicourt and IdeIla Wayman,
Francis J. Moreland and Mary j. Harris
Michael Sullivan and Hannah Norris.
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Oils.

WILMINGTON. July 6-spiritss, Of Of tgrpentin,e
turpentine steady at $3.50, $3.50 and $780, Tar
firm at $1.10.
OH, CITY. July 6.-Credit balances. soc; GER
tifcates no bids; shipments 226,S2l brls; runs,
141. 100 brls
CHARLESTON. July 6.-Spirts of turpentine
quiet at 231ac Rosin firm; sales none.
SAVANNAH, July 6--Spirits of turpentine
steady at 24Ac. Rosin firm.
MONTPELIER. July 6.-Indiana oil, 44c.
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Tuesdays Bank CIearings.

Az Chlcago-clearngs SIS 25s677. New York
exchange. Goo premium. Foreign exchange weak:
demand, s4.S7s sixty days sis6.
Al New DEMONSTRATING. S1,2S4 154.
~ ACCOMPLISHMENTS $3.50 sos; balances
exchange, 25c discount Clearings 81 gS3 600
Al Observation-Disclosures Sa,l65,5SO: balances
AT. Baltimore-clearings. s2.l4S,24s; balances
al New York-Clearnss $50 s,1s2: balances
AZ Boston-Clearngs. sl5,l91,972: balances
81 239. 562
At st. Louis-Ciearings. s4.s73,as1; balances
ssq4,496. Money steady al in7 per cent New
York exchange. acc premium asked, 25c bid
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Dried Fruits.

NEW YORK. July 6.-Callfornia dried fruits
steady; evaporated apples prime wire tray. 412c
wood dried, prime, 4$s@4a4c; choice, 424c; fancy
5@5Ac; prunos. sac. as to size size and quality
unpeeed. oM8c; peeled, 1lMl4c.
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Metals.

NEW YORK, July 6.-Lead strong; Exchange.
& 72S brokers e 3$%e Pg i iron quiet
dull; brokers'. 1I1Bc; Exchange. 11@llAc Tin
dull straits 13556t14c; plates easy. Spelter quiet;
domestic, 4.25G435c.
ST. LOUIS, July 6.-Lead firm at S.521&qS.55c.
Shelter firm at Aloe.
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VANCOUVER, b. c., July 6.-Sixty tons
of butter have arrived here from New
York and win be forwarded TO Sydney by
the steamer Warimo. This is the first ship
ment of American butter ever sent 10 Aus
Iralia.
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choice $475G5; alfalfa, choice s4.4Oa460; GRIM
son or scarlet clover. s27563; timothy. IS lbs
prime. S. aoq1 40; strictly prime si4oqL6o; fancy
Kentucky. IA ms, S1.55G1.65: extra clean, 70q9oc
orchard grass. extra, 81. 75a1 90 red top, choice
sG1.75: English bluegrass. "a lbs Sl.150o1.75 Mi!
let. prime. 55m60c choice. 60q55c; fancy, 65q75c;
Hungarian, 60q75c.
Timers Supplies.
Best brands charcoal tin, &c. 10xl4, 14x20, 12x12
s5.5Oq6; TX, 10x14. 14x20. 1x12. s675@750; roofing
tin best brands &c, 14x20, A.25G475; 20x2s IS. 80
$780, &c. 2cx2S. old style, S1S; block tin in pigs
Ice; block tin in bars, lSc; zinc. sheet &c; copper
bottoms 2lc; planished copper, 2lc; solder, 1l0
lie: iron. 27B. $3.50; &c. So; ron best bloom
galvanized. 75c and 10 per cent; lead. pressed
bars, &C.
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LIVE STOCK.
Cattle Scarce and Steady-HOgs Strong
and Higher-Sheep Quiet.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 6.-Cattle-Receipts, 400;
shipments light. There were but few on sale.
Ieifers ware q shade lower: others steady.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
improvements In Gliding.

In nothing has the superiority of
modern over former methods been made
more manifest than in the various proc
esses employed for gliding. Now the
greater portion of gilded articles are
gold covered by means of the electrical
bath Formerly gliding was done by
laborious and troublesome processes in
certain stages detrimental to the health
Of the workman. The old time glider
used an amalgam of gold and mercury,
causing it 10 adhere to the bronze arti-
Gle by means of nitrate of mercury, the
nitrous and mercurial fumes being poi
sOnous, always endangering the health
of the workman and sometimes induc-
ing incurable disease. Now the article to
be gilded is placed in an electrical bath,
the current is turned on and in short
time the piece is ready for the FURNISH
er Gliding by means of gold leaf and
gold powder is still practiced, the work
being mostly done by hand, but its del
icacy is such as to require long practice
and great experience. An amateur gild-
er has no earthly chance of success.
His work will always show the inexpe-
rience of the workman. Louis
Globe. Democrat.
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That Cake Would Do 1t.

"You seem to be enjoying the cake
this evening, James," said the young
wife, watching the disappearance of
that luxury with a look of the greatest
satisfaction.
"Er-yes, was the rather confused
reply of the devoted husband.
Don't curb your appetite on my &C.
count. 1 shall not think you are greedy,
dear.
Il am going to eat as much as can :"
mumbled James
II am so glad you like it. was
afraid that was not making my cakes
to your liking You have always eaten
so little of them ON previous occasions. I"
This one is just what want today, I"
jerked out the husband
Then she was very, very happy-un-
til she discovered that he had wagered
Brown that he was the heavier and was
eating as much of her cake as possible
SO that he should win the bet, which
was to be decided that evening. Pear
sons Weekly.
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Neal Dows First Temperance Work.

Neal Dow was 20 years old when he
delivered his first temperance speech. 1t
was at an anniversary supper of "a fire
company to which he belonged, and his
strenuous opposition to the use of liquor
was effective to that degree that the fire
company adopted temperance as prin-
ciple. Later he prevailed upon the
Maine Mechanics Charitable associa-
ton to forego the use of wine at its an
nual dinner
At that time liquor was almost uni
versally used in Maine One of the Gu
rious customs of Portland in those days
was the ringing of the town bell at IL
and at A o'clock by way of warning to
mechanics that it was time to leave
work and get drink. This custom the
young reformer succeeded in having
abolished. Then he persuaded most Of
the Portland employers to discontinue
supplying their men with liquor.
After his first successes Neal Dow
felt that temperance was the most i'm
portant cause of the age. 1t was owing
largely to his efforts that the Young
Mems Total Abstinence society of Port
land was organized. Its first meeting, it
is said, was held in the counting room
of a distillery. -Harper's Weekly.
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Greek Officers.

It is perhaps in discipline more than
in anything else that the Greek soldier
is lacking Even the EvZoni, however
good at guerrilla warfare in the noun
tains, would probably feel this defect
in a regular campaign. 1t is no uncom-
mon thing to hear the word OF COM
mand disputed or discussed on the pa
rade ground or on the march. 1t prob
ably would be the same on the battle
field. The Greek is too democratic in
his tradition and character TO admit the
notion of unreasoning obedience to any
superior, and. moreover, it is serious
difficulty that there IS no recognized
class i'll Greece from whom enough Off
GERS can be drawn. Some rise from the
ranks, and no Greek can ever regard his
companion us superior to himself. There
is practically no middle class in Greece.
In the country all are equal, except
village magnates, who would not think
of entering the army, and if they did
would not retain their purely local pres
tige. In Athens there are, indeed, plen-
ty of rich and distinguished families,
and from some of them the best officers
of Greece have come, but the number
of them is naturally limited in so small
q country. Too many of the officers are
who probably despise their men, and
for whom their men have no respect. -
Saturday Review.
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Former instruments OF Torture.

Instead of gymnastics or games, in
struments of torture were used for mod
cling the figure of the young lady of
half century ago. A contemporary
writer says that could the modern
schoolroom (lS3D be preserved it would
pass for refined inquisition. There
would be found stocks for the fingers
(the cheiroplast) and pulleys for the
neck. with weights attached. Z" Fanny
Kemble, to whom nature had been by
no means unkindly, was found wanting
in department., and she writes that she
wore hack board made of steel, COW
cred with red morocco, which consisted
OF a fiat piece placed on my back and
strapped down to my waist with a belt
and secured at the top by two epaulets
strapped over my shoulders. From, the
middle Of this there rose steel rod OF
spine with steel collar, which encir-
cled my throat, fastened behind" The
machine proved failure, and she was
put under the tuition of drill SER
geant, who did for her all that was re-
Quired. SOCIAL England.
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Burning Women.

The horrible punishment of burning
women alive seems TO have existed in
Saxon England. but perhaps only in
the case of slaves. Under the Norman
rulers any woman, bond or free, who
killed her husband was burned alive,
and the same punishment for this crime,
and also for high treason and even for
coming and other minor offenses con-
tinued or arose from time TO time
through the second and third periods
until it was abolished by act of parlia-
ment in 1890. the last actual execution
of this kind having. however, taken
place six years earlier. The whipping
of women for various offenses continued
even later. Public whipping was not
abandoned until 1917, and cases of pri-
safe whipping occur as late as 1920.
There can be no doubt, we think. that
the savage human instinct of cruelty
had something to do with the barbarous
punishments above mentioned. As the
old Roman public longed for the car
mage of the circus, as the Spanish popu-
lace crowded TO the auto-da-fe in the
fiourishing days of the inquisition, so
the lower (perhaps not only the lower)
strata of English nationality took de-
light in witnessing tortures which, in
all probability, were devised and kept
up partly for their entertainment Mr.
Cleveland tells US that Judge Jeffreys,
in sentencing woman to be whipped.
is reported TO have said:
'Hangman, l charge you to pay par
ticular attention to this lady. Scourge
Christmas time, cold time for madam
TO strip; see that you burn her Shout
ders thoroughly. "-Athenaum.
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The Scratch on the Face.

In 1867 Miss g., aged is, died sud
denly of cholera in st. Louis In 1876 a
brother, f. c., who was much attached
10 her, had done good days business
in st. Joseph. He was sending in his
orders to his employers Che is a COM
mercial traveler) and was smoking a
cigar, when he became conscious that
some one was sitting on his left, with one
arm on the table. 1t was his dead sister
He sprang up 10 embrace her (for even
ON meeting a stranger whom we take for
a dead friend we never realize the i'm
possibility in the half moment of sur
prise). but she was gone. Mr.. c. stood
there, the ink wet on his pen, the cigar
lighted in his hand, the name of his Sis
ter ON his lips. He had noted her ex-
preston, features, dress, the kindness of
her eyes, the glow of the complexion,
and, what he had never seen before, a
bright red scratch on the right side Of
her face.
Mr.. q. took the next train home TO
st. Louis and told the story to his par
ents. His father was inclined to ridi-
cule him, but his mother nearly faint
ed. When she could control herself, she
said that, unknown to any one. she had
accidentally scratched the face of the
dead, apparently with the pin of her
brooch, while arranging something
about the corpse She had obliterated
the scratch with powder and had kept
the fact to herself. ANDREW Lang's
Book of Dreams and Ghosts. {"
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Characters-Cook washing up dinner
things, mistress sitting at the window
making entries in her housekeeping
book, little Freddy playing with his
lead soldiers at the table.
Mistress-Meat, los. Cd. vegetables,
3s 4d. yes, but I'm 3 shillings short
All, remember; it was the price of adj
mission 10 the conjuring entertainment
last night
Cook-Was it nice, please, ma'am2
Mistress-Very There were one Oh
two things that struck me as particular.
" clever--for instance, changing a
pocket handkerchief for canary-but
the best ofsall was the magic cupboard.
Cook-What was it like?
Mistress-The professor showed us a
perfectly empty cupboard, shut the door,
said quickly, lone, two, three, opened
the door again, and out stepped little
girl dressed like doll.
Cook-Bah, l can do that myself
Mistress (astonished)-Youl
Cook-JIst give me your attention
for a minute, ma am. Here is an empty
cupboard. You know very well it has
no double sides Now l am going to
take one of the young masters lead
soldiers. | open the cupboard door an
inch or two and throw it in, now say,
lone, two, three.
She opened the door wide. A full
grown soldier stepped out and marched
at the double quick out of the kitchen.
All the thanks she got for the perform
ance was a severe wigging Strand
Magazine.