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A Defauiter Gives Tn.

CHICAGO, Nov. a2.-A man claiming
to be Charles E. Meuscr. city clerk of
Durango, Col. who says he is wanted
there for embezzling $500 of the city's
funds. entered the HARRISON street
police station last night and surren-
dered to Inspector Hartnett He says
he left Durango October 4 and went
to Denver. He came to Chicago about
. month ago and had been living at
ARG Calumet avenu
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SHE IS MRS.

Lite8e Doubt That Milwaukee wsdding
Vas Square-Pollce Abandoa Ease.
CHICAGO. Nov. 20.-Whatever may
have been the nature of the influence
which Mable Wallace Ketcham exerted
over John h Ketcham. little doubt
seems to remain hat they were act
ually married at Milwaukee.
Numerous witnesses are ready to
swear that for over two years ketch-
ANS infatuation for the woman was
complete. and that he begged her
times without number to become his
wife. Their relations began before
Nettie Poe Ketcham secured q divorce.
The police have dropped the case.
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STURGEON, Mo-, Nov. ? .-Rev. P. 7.
Gentry. one of the oldest ministers in
Missouri, and 4 man with n state rep
utation, died Sunday afternoon, aged
IS years, leaving a wife to whom he
has been married sixty-6ve years and
seven children, some of whom hold
responsible positions of trust in Kinks
Vile. Mexico. Boonville and Columbia.
1t was his desire to die on Sunday.
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War On Pool Rooms.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. Nov. 20-At 1
o'clock yesterday afternoon a raid was
made on the pool rooms of the city by
the police. The employees of all but
one pool room, the Brooklyn, were
taken to the police station and inn
prisoned. The Brooklyn telegraphs
bets out of the city, and for that rea-
SOn was Exempt.
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Train vrecxers In New York.

M1DDLETowN. n. V, Nov. ga
westbound freight train on the Erie
railroad was derailed by train wreck
ers at Sloatsburg early to-day. The
engine and two cars were derailed.
but no one was hurt. Attempts were
made last Sunday at the same place to
wreck an express and freight train.
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s.rIous Trouble in Prospec..

HoUGHroN, Mich, Nov. 21.-There
is every prospect of serious trouble at
the Atlantic mine. superintendent
Stanton will not accede to any de-
mands made by the strikers. Italians
are on the ground to take the place
of the strikers, but the Firms Fave
warned the Italians that they will be
killed if they attempt to enter the
mine.
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ISDIANAPOLIs, Ind. Nov. Getty
Sanitarian Clark has just concluded
IN inquiry into the alarming increase
Of diptheria among public school
pupils since the opening of the fall
sessions and announces that the dis
ease has spread in the distribution OF
lead pencils and penholderk
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rl.od. in Washington state.

TACOMA, WASH, Nov. e0.-Chinook
winds and rains are playing havoc
throughout Western Washington.
Telegraph lines are down in all direc-
tons. rivers and small streams are
swollen and railroads are suffering
from washouts and flooded tracks.
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MAsCoUTHA, ILL.,, Nov. aG.-Martin
Bartholomy. George Roehl and Robert
Loren were attacked by twenty
masked men at the Kolb coal pit near
here last night, and the two former,
both of whom have families, may die.
Bloodhounds will be secured. the au-
thorities say, to ferret out the guilty
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hit Train Wrecked In Kan

a FreIs hit Train Wrecked In Kansas
HORACE, Kan. Nov. aO.-A Missouri
Pacific freight train was wrecked
here last night by running through
an open switch into some cars on a
sidetrack. The engine and several
cars were demolished. William Bar
ret. engineer and his tiremen escaped
with slight injuries BY jumping from
the enU;ne.
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p.;~ Tevaa Ppa1rie Fire.

EMMA, Tex, Nov. pa terrific
prairie fire passed through Lubbock,
Hale and Crosby counties Tuesday.
doing great damage to the ranges.
At least 400 square miles of territory
were burned and many cattle killed.
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Woman Sentenced to Hang.

CAYUGA, Ont, Nov. 22.-Mrs Adele
Sternaman was last night found guilty
of the murder of her husband and
was sentenced to be hanged in the
courtyard of the jail in this town on
January 20, 1855.
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New YoRx. Nov. l9.-The Rev. DR..
George H Houghton. pastor Of the
Church Of the Transfguration. better
known as the Little Church Around
the Corner died last night. He wa
torn in Deerield, Mass, In 1890
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SAN Francisco, Nov. 19. The
steamer Coptic. which sailed to-day
for the Orient, will convey to Japan
seven thoroughbred stations pnr-
chased in Lexington. KY. by Y. Mat
sumokos, the representative Of japan.
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WORCESTER. Mass Nov. e2-Judgo
Thomas Leverett Nelson. of the United
States district court for the district Of
Massachusetts,. died at 1880 o'clock
yesterday morning at his home in this
city. after . long illness. aged 20
wears
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov. se.-Angel
Paz who betrayed General Castillo t
the Spaniards for 5000. was captured
.by the Insurgents on his way to Csen'
eco court-martialed on = drum
head and hung.
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An Old Time Circu. Clown Dead

New YORK. Nov. 90 Thomas Edwin
Cook, who, when in his prime. was a
leading circus clown. is dead at his
home in Paterson, n. ). lie was 80
years old.
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TWO CHILDREN MURDERED

Th0 FNth6f F00nO With B1J TntO1t CUts
But Unable to Explain the Crimes.
OCoNoMOwoC, Wis, Nov. 2a-Willie
and Lille Cornell, aged 6 and 4, re-
spectively, children of Ernest Cornell,
were found dead in their bed at 6
o'clock this morning, while Corneli's
throat was cut from car to ear, but he
was still living. Cornell was able to
talk, but said he did not know
whe Their he committed the murder or
not. John Lewis. a boarder at Cor
nell's, who had been drinking with
Cornell, has been arrested.
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NINA, Ark, Nov. es-Miss Sadie
Rice committed suicide here to-day BY
taking strychninc. The cause VA
that her lover had forsaken her. She
Was 10 years Of age and . we'll ~
Gpected young lady.
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POUGnKEEPsIE, y. v, Nov. 90
Sixty students at Vassar college are
seriously i'll. all having been taken
sick two DAYS ago from eating i'm
properly cooked veal.
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Melbourne Ha. a ss,OoO,OOo Fire.

MeIbOurn Has = Ftre.
MELBOURNE, Nov. GA great fire
broke out here at : o'clock yesterday
morning. Many of the largest bust
ness houses were totally des troyed.
Loss S., 600, 600.
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-Eartha.ake Dol CnuferalA.

RAxDsBuRa. Cal, Nov. es.-Two
very distinct shocks Of earthquake
were felt here yesterday. Buildings
shook pereeptibly, bat no damage ~
done.
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Sir Heory Douleon Dead.

Sir Henry Doulton Dead.
LONDON, Nov. 19.-Sir Henry Doul.
ton, head of the firm of Doulton & Co,
Lambeth potteries. ;s' dead. He was
born in Vauxhall. July a5. 1890.
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PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. sa-A boom
containing 1000. 900 feet of logs and
LOO cords Of single bolts broke loose
1t the mouth Of the Cowlitx river dur.
ing the high water.
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TWO FATAL FIRES.
FOUR PERSONS BURNED TO
DEATH.

Mother aud Daus hter Perish ae IoPe3o
Two Men Lost ut no
oe6, 600, 900 Fire In London-o5'OoSs'
MN Fir. In Austrsiia-Othsf F1roa
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Free from Catarrh

ouepetood at t1so WondosSta cueativO
poWos q tsood'o Sa!oapasina.
"I.hAvO taken. Hoods Sanapparilla for
cataxTh and bronchial troublo and haVo
been surprised ct it, wonderful curative
properties. I I'm now entirely Tree ffom
both these complaints, and heartily rec
ommend Hoods Sarsaparilla for catarrh."
A. q. SAMAN, Clark Mills, Wisconsin.
Hoods Sarsapariua
= ~ bsst IN facttAs One True Blood PuriAsr
10ooa's PsRe ase easily. eassavssy. .e.
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He Saved the NHlunblcs.

One New Year Old man Hiram made
Il rEnnin trade with his good wife,
which was to the general extent that
every time he bought quart Of sperits
for himself he would buy new dress
fer her. From what they say the old
man was as good as his word clean
through for IL months. Amongst other
family records and relics, Andy Lucas
has got u paper which shows old man
Hiram's store account for that particlar
year, and to look at it you would think
he didn't buy nothin much but sperits
and new dresses. All down the line
yon will notice these items:
81 quart of sperits, so cts.
81 frocll for Mandy, so cts.
81 quart Of sporits, 50 cts.
q frock for Mandy, so cts.
Il quart sperits, 50 cts.
Il frock for Mandy, so cts"
And SO forth and so on all down the
line.
But I started out to tell You about
the terrible time when old man Hiram
Lucas driv his wagon into a railroad
out of the smash-up but his own life
and 1.-THE valuablcs.'
The way it come to pass--the old man
hooked up his mule aud his one-horse
wagon and went to town. It was then
way up into the fall of tie year, nearly
in the Christmas. OWN to the stage
Of the weather and the season of the
year he had bought a half gallon jug
Of sperits that day and two "new frocks
fer Mandy" On his return back home
| that evenin it would seem like he got
| most ingloriously and superbly drunk
| COnseQuentially he was "sleepin it off,
when he got to the railroad crossin, and
the first thing he knew his mule and
! wagon had run into tail-end collision
| with railroad train.
BY some strange hook or crook or
! freak Of nature, when old man Hiram
come to his senses his mule was killed
dead and his wagon smashed into
kindlin wood. But he didn't have a
| bone broke, whilst be found his Jug OF
sperits and the bundle of dry goods safe
| and sound.
After supper that night somebody
hailed at the gate. and when went out
to see, who should it be but old man
Hiram Lucas-w'hich he had left his
wagon and dead mule at the wreck and
was HOW footin it towards home. He
had Jug in one hand and a bundle of
dry goods under his arm. He told me
t. the best of his recollection all about
the smash-uT. and then wound up by
suvin;
Hit was a most Relations bad scrape
for white man tc drive into, but any.
how, Rufus, YOU will please take no.
tee that come out alive and saved the
vIluables"
With that old man Hiram ambled on
! down the road towards home with his
| jug OF speT!ta nEd two "Hew :roc!>s for
| AeTas"
s2EElss z a ~.
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Yet All L. WCll.

'Bthy and the baby are both doin as
we'll as You could expect along about this
time Of the year, and in the fuilness of
time | reckon Dave will recover. Hut
for two days and nights it did raley look
10 me like the crazy asylum was right
seriously threatened with his manly
presence and with that Aunt Nancy
went fumblin and foolin around in her
thanky bag after her pipe and tobacco.
THAT night when the doctor first made
his landin with the baby Dave looked
like he didn't know which he had better
do-takc wings and fly away, or faint
and fall over in it. His eyes got as big
as a pair Of cups and sauccrs, and bul%cd
ont till bless gracious if you couldn't
Of took a stick and scrared en- off. lie
couldn't lie down, nor set up, nor keep
still no way he could fix it. lie was ln
plum swivel and in everybody's way.
By daylight next mornin he vas out and
gone to the lot tendin to his stock, and to
zee him stirrin around people that
didn't know nothin about what had
come 10 pass would of thought he WAS
Etliutu Oh a. SIA iitilt III tIi't lisNh Sot
three weeks behind with his work.
"Hcfore breakfast that m0rnin Doc
Minters he come over TO see what was
what and who was who. and turned in
by the lot lookin for Dave. He didn't
find Dave out there, but he found his
signs, and that was a gracious plenty
to tell the whole story.
"Now what do YOU reckon Dave had
went and done, Rufus? Eless the
heavens If he didn't feed his horse on
cotton seed and goober vines. and then
whirl in and give the COW ten ears Of
cora and two bundles Of fodder. And
when Doc saw the general signs of the
times all he had to do was to come on
around to the front gate ard ask what
It was--a girl or a boy.
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Don't YOU remember, Rufus, when
Dave Mullins and Eithy Lest got mar
ried?" says Aunt Nancy, like as if l
didn't have blame thing to do but
keep the weldin records of the country.
l told her l remembered the weddin
clear as a bcll-particular the music and
the dancin and the tremendous big in
fare dinner which folloWed-but to save
my life | couldn't recollect exactly the
year and the day when it all come to
pass,
'Well, it was II years ago the third
day of last November since Dave and
Bithy took to miXin clothes for better
or for worse" Aunt Nancy went on.
"And night before last the good Lord
blessed 'em with their firstborn baby,
and 4 boy blby at that. COnscquentially
YOU understand the general circumfer-
ence of the surroundins at their house,
and you will take my word for it when
| tell you that the outdoinest and most
cOnebveSt cOnfusiOnmenti in the history
Of IIuclleberry Ridge is now goin on
right around there in the Mullins settle
mcDt.
TO be certainly the news was ruther
somewhat student and surprisin to me
when | first beard about it, cause it did
look to ne by this time like Dave and
Bithy never would fulfill the Scrip
lures. And now, naturally of course,
to be there and see their proud looks
and silly ways you would think it must
be the onlycst baby in the round created
world. Now Jest betwixt us gals, as it
were, l have seen q whole pass!e of
| babies in my day ard generation, Rufus,
and | didn't find nothin so very eXtry
and pluperfcctly fine about the late and
the new and the unexpected Mullins
habv-which at the same time it is d
right promisin boy. But yet still al
the same time it is only a baby, and
about like all ihc rest so fur as could
see with two arms and two legs, and
two hands and Two feet, ard two cars
and two eyes, and the general marks and
experiments of a plain American baby
boy. And at this late day if it is pleas
ant for Dave and Bithv to take unto
| themselves the t'atterin, fool notion that
they have got the onlyest baby in the
whole discovered country what's The
difference to us? 81
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settlement from pleasant trip over on
IIucI,Iel;crrv Ridge. She had been over
there unbtkHowance to us on little
family visitation around amongst the
Mullins, he married Miss Bithy Lester
Now from what they tell me Miss
Eithy's mother was Newton, though
never did find out for certain the full
degree of kinnery between her and Aunt
Nancy. But anyhow, that dear, delight
way and come around by our house to
tell me and mother the latest and most
freshest news from over there on Huck-
lcbcrry Ridge.
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81 never am to disre1nember the tin e
when ! sawed Parson Dick Majors off
at the knees and got two drinks instid of
one," said old man Hiram Lucas to me
oncst upon another time.
"Recollect, Rufus, that MO and Dick
Majors was horned and bred and brung
up on farms ajinin, and had been good
friends from our early youtl' up to the
present writin. But in the run of tima
it would seem like we had Gene up TO
what you mought call a forks of the
read. So Dick he went his way as a
| preacher, whilst l went mine IS a full
blood Lucas and natural-born horse
| trader. One day we met up together
in town. The weather was most bella
tious cold, and finally at last by some
hook or mcrcrook l got Dick to go with
NE for I change of breath. We nomi-
| rated our pizen and poured out the
| drinks, and then nothin would do Dick
| but he must stand by the Scriptures
and offer up a short and fervent prayer
| before he took little sometiin for the
| stomach's sake. And in the main time,
whilst he had his eyes shet and was
| givin thanks, I climbed up around his
| drink as well as mine.
Where's my sperits?' says he. when
he opened his eyes and saw the circum-
| ference of the calamity.
"HAsll me no questions and I will tell
you no lies says I, but accordin to
the Scriptures, Dick, you must watch
and pray-watch as well as pray
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ALL SORTS.

Alta Chinese theater in Portland, Ore,
one of the villains of the play was given
his quietus, and died after number
of groans and contortions. \ gang of
hoodums in the auditorium brought
linn to life again with shower Of an
tique eggs, and he jumped up and fled
from the stage.
A fire in stone hut IN Tullamore, Ire
land, occupied by Il poor family, re
vcaled a huge creyiee in the wall. II
the crevice was found AN iron pot which
contained golden coins to the value of
over 6 5 300. a hundred years previous
the hut had been occupied by an old
mlSer.
At a town election in Madison, n. j..
| the canvassers discovered a one-lolial
bill folded in a ballot. One of the can
,assers thought the ballot should be
considered detectives; but the others
solved the knotty problem by counting
the vote as regular, and spending the
money for cigars.
A young lady Of 16, farmers daugh'
| ter, fell into the Ohio, in Jackson count
| ty, W. Va, and was rescued by three
| boys. The girls father muniticently
| rewarded them with a quarter, saying:
| There. divide that among YOU" The
| boys are still disputing as to which OF
them is to get the odd cent.
y newly-patented voting machine has
| the party ballots pasted ON a board Ii
front over q series OF registering levers
| the back of the machine being trans
parent, to show the total number OF
votes cast, but the vote for each caudi
date is not indicated until the machine
is opened Ut the close of the election
fraud being prevented by watching the
total vote Indicator, always in sight al
the back Of the machine.
Peanuts grow in large quantities or
| the northwest coast of Africa, but are
known there as ground nuts. They
are dug up by the natives, and barterec
| with the European traders for n.er
clandisc, tobacco, etc, at many places
| on the Gambia river, and afterwart
| shipped in steamer loads to European
| ports, principally to Marseilles. The
nuts are not roasted for retail sale
rs in this country, but crushed and {
fine oil extracted, which is valuable
commercially.
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mighty good one on Judge Pickins-
which yonunderstandb both of them have
since then throwed their hands to the
pack and went the common way of all
human flesh.
Il have saw the handwritin of many
sundry antn. Rufus. but if there ever
was man that made a plum bust and
fell down IN it every time he went to
write. his Dn3ae was Judge P!ck.as.'
said ola man t:!4-as; ip gi':a ms the
story.
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American Ingenuity.

American ingenuity has always been a
wonder to foreigners. We know of no bet
Ter illustration Of it than is displayed in the
manufacture of guns. For instance, the re-
peating shot gun made by the Winchester
Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Ct,
which 1otails for about $50, will outshoot
foreign hand made guns costing 20 times as
much. This has been demonstrated time
and time again. The leading shots Of the
country appreciate this and have put aside
their expensive guns for the less costly but
better shooting Winchester. The large
illustrated Winchester catalogue is sent
tree upon request.
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"Oncst uDon q time, reco1lect, when

"Oncst upon time, I recollect, when
had made big land trade with Uriah
Beverly-wherein, to tell the Bible
truth, had just naturally snapped the
socks off of Uriah SO smooth and easy
| that it makes my head swim till Yet
when l think about it. Well, at any
rates, | wanted the deeds and title
| ments fixed up bomb proof, so [ went
to Judge Pickins and got him to write
out the papers. But then I never did
read them papers clean through. l
never have saw such hand writin in
nv whole entire natural life. l raley
couldn't have no serious doubts butWhat
| the Judge knowed his business and had
writ everything down aceordln to law.
| But YOU see | wanted to know all them
| things to dead and buried certainty.
| So the next time he come found on
the circuit l took the papers to the
judge and told him I would love for
| him to read his writin through and
| through with me. He looked at the
papers a few minutes, and then says
! to me, says he:
| "IIiram Lucas, did write out them
papers?'
"Judge Piclins, you did, says I.
"'No mistake about that, Hiram?'
| says he.
"'Sho as gun is iron and God made lit
tie apples,' saysI.
"'Well, Hiram says he, you will
have to wait till can throw down about
| three or four good. stiff drinks before
| can read that writin. l was drunk
when l wrote out them papers,"
Now as for me, l never could worry
the story down without a right smart
sprinkle of salt on it, but old man
Hiram maintained till the last that
soon as the judge tanled up sufficient on
the necessary drinks he read them pa
pers through and through as clear and
easy as you could read PLAIN print.
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HOw's THIS:

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for any case of Catarrh that can not be
cured Ly Halls Catarlh Cure.
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We, the undersigned. have known +. J
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out any obligations made by their firm.
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Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
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free
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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and rcJOiccth much,
for a man child IS
horned into t h e
world" or words to
that extent. One
day last week Aunt
Nancy driv by our
house to say good
by and howdydo.
She was on her re-
turn back home to
the Panther Creek
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The same landscape appears beautiful or
! ugly according to what the weather may
be, and the same opinion appears to one
| reasonable or foolish according to the senti.
ments which dominate US at the time.-N.
Y. Weekly.
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The Old Fashioned Way.-"What was
yer daddy lckin' You for:'' asked the half
grown boy. The other half-groNn boy an
sWercd: 20, he was jist provin' to me that
the whale really did swaller joiner. In
dlanapOlis Journal
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Nanny" said Pickan ny Jim, what
makes de folks say dat er mule is de mos
sure-footed animal dat grows?" Dom you
know dat?" Il sbo'ly doesn't" well,
when you gifts chance you wanter watch
mule kick, and see how he nebber misses
is aim. Den you'll know why dey calls him
sure-footed'
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The doors Of your soul are open on others,
and theirs on you. Simply to be in this
world, whatever you are, is to exert an in.
5uence, al influence compared with which
nere Language and persuasion srs feehle.-
anea
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Little Chris Daddy, what makes on
ions:" Daddy" Seeds, of course" Little
Chris" Then what makes seeds?" Dad
-"Onions." Little Chris (triumphantly)
Then why don't us feed the canary on
onions! discontinue and retreat of
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The resolution for statue of Gen.
Banks on the state house grounds has
been adopted by the Massachusetts
house. with t1c appropriation reduced
from $4,000 to 100000.