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“ll“??lfuflrilftflfl C0. z. n; { z er Year, Ahmf’M au pnmffigigfigggm: figs evict $1. STRICTLY #FvOL. I. ADVANCEMENT AND PROSPERITY is our MoTTO. MIL'FORD ;OTSEGO CO.,_N Y., FRIDAY DECEMBER 241, 1889 NO. 8. 5 € ‘fimflenh,'0k°‘flnin Cards; Why --- gob Prmtmg . THE TLDRGS OFFICE 18 NOW PREPARED To DO ALL EINDS OF JOB z= PRINTING-7 i \ am LOWEST PRICES * | gale Bills, Largest Posters, Lettor Heads, PROMPTLY EXECUTED, T f Presage. lin matte #4 You very rately bear one ~- More foscinating-guesst~ . Her merry volce is sweeter Than en'yflllck’a P Hex-laugh has nioro of metrd U ; 4t$ eep hor and thi ub best end them were at least a _ dozon: sho thought, af \herald woman't took the bundle and informed ~her son that \Is a nleefild woman who does mlne np' Hike new-you sonldd't got. the job USEFUL GROWS CHILDREN'S ~COLUMN. ~ . 'Old Songs Over and over again, In every time and laughs, ways fot every dollar, « And Phrosy \Thought altogether too ' much of hor patient and kind-heartdd brother, who dgnle§\hlmsell so. mith ; 5,51: plid mother from I want, to add to Hle burdens® by tolling anything-of.the kind was welcome until- further orders, That week, in the neighbors' estima- tone, .Bon Millorfairly blossomed with: shirts, for the number of those usoful away from her if you wanted to, my |* dear, \. - * |___. Phrosy's face was n slght to geo now, botwoon laughing and ergirg, embar- rmsment and half-frightened 'amuso- 14 --- [Itxllzed in Omaha as Scavengers . and Weather Prophets. Recognition of- Their Services. nmuney's ppr BQUIRREL One day when Chasloy was walking in the weods near his home he found n little gray +q rirrel lying on the ground. at the foot of a pine tree. It was sucly a baby equlrrel that ho folt sure Jt had\ In every style and strain_~ . Have the world's old songs been sung: Binge the sigh from the soul was stirred, Blige the heart of a man was broken, Have the notes of despatt been heard And the rythm of pat beenspoken. Than ony song I know.. . Ker Tovely eyes that thtu) ~ When robina.softly sing« Are like thgakies that brighten. At dawn in carly. nprlng, Her'checks-his brain is duller . Thah\duncé's who'W not own Thdy‘m all the pinkycolor Of apple buds half blown., You will agree tts pleasant . That subli'a one should send Eath yearmpcharmiog present 'To m; ther desrest friend.\ And thleyeurlve a presage- - It makes my pulses start- Thit t with a tender, message Bhel give to me her heart. . - Bitlet Clthton tn Harper's Magazine, o ~ ° “A NICE - OLD WOMAN *! By FLORENCE ALLEN. « & “Oh B,deer}\ ,. 1. It was a pretty Tittle face which was all puckgred up into, sucan lot of wor- Tiedlittlg wrinklas; iprotfy in. epjte of the shadow of caro in the fair blue eyes, and tho tired drop af the corner of the gxrllglepqtyt The owner . of ~ tho-face and thg. wiflakles* end ghabine - ayes and the mou‘th in questlon, was a nbour’lfivjxxp stpodxy altired in a fafted calico dsps, nthe. doorway of wamflll wood. colored coltngo (or ''eabjn'' its -they more truthfully call such edifices in tho mountains) looking out nt the Bunny slops of the roud before har. Two {rash-{need smiling girls of her cown ego had Q?“ {igloo by; stopping to say a pleasant» bors mo Jas\ they passed; AQQ “thvpght'bt their pretty; . though,”mphrlexmmamssesmpdefionw llng ribbons had- brought, as thoy de- parted, those worrled-wrinkles to the face that should have been as bright us theirs, and the impationt exclamation with which our. story Legins to.het generally uncomplaining lips. As a general thing Phrosy Miller (she was Euphrosyne by rights, through the lnelrumenmlnty of hor father, who had found fineluume in his somewhat limited reading, nud had delighted in its long- , drawn swpgtness,) was a very cheerful mud contented girl in spite of the \troubles and hard work that had come into hor young lifo so carly; but, just, at-presbnt; thore iwgs sompthing ds pecinl upon hor mind, and that was the pic- nic. Jt was to bo in just four waeks from today, and all the girls wore going; nad she, who had stayed ng homo so much and so piationtly for the Jast yoar, felt as though sho rea'ly must. go, too. But how? That was tho question that brought the worried little wrinkles to the front so conspicuously. All the girls were going (6 have now lawn dresses ahd fresh ribbong for the occasion, and 'Yo up\ -her bue muslin as\ bast she could (and sho was somethmg wonder (y! in the Ig¥ndrpes{ Jing: pil _ hor (neighbogs said,) It would not look any way but old and faded; and hor ribbons-well, her small-stock thereof had been eleanad and dyed and ''done over\ so often that they were merely n travesty upon their kind. Of courso a new dress and the requisite adornmonts would cost véry little; but, as Phrosy said, tersely but truly, \If diamonds could be bought for a nickel apiece and one didn't have > lags ig the nickel, where-would be the comfort of it?\ < Monoy had ~been very fight in the Inllqckmllyfiveremce Mr. Miller's long.. (pdngn his death, bad jut Qfiz household._imder a lord of debt which seemed at first, simply over- whetgl \Lg. g x‘ifild‘and rétkless 5°an fellow “than,” 'whild his father was well and strong and able to care for the mother and ulster—bed de led wonderfully and 4aken the burdens“ ex. istence .on his shoulders patiently and n + m D.‘ manlnlly L ulna sad Phrosy had economi awry way, even to the '' extent of eme of the many wood. chowm g’lfithey had worked carly apd Tate and sewed and dented (bemm _ tintil the deb§\ was pai Surd®B Hess to baat tle brghter. Then fate frowned on them onceegah. [Not fearg and some: i Wis-going flown the becl-steps bnorday o mi and fell, receiving an mm? -her side which made her utterly help. less. mewmmmm \harder i Addthx! degt \bills pHe tapas theta; Mea Yhifer instead. of 19mg as before was rew as helpless as a baby and so nervoasly im: table that beakiory® Ruger: wat an even Phroky bers able ta da the work. - So it Wis thet ! every fi§m fife the féenly bad | to be $y \Ben; «d fo it was that , the new lawn dress, no ardently désived, geamed 'o be among the impessibilitie: . cf existence, for Rea's yoges . seem to b, . - bim-horown bluuumfi\ = = \4t thereowas only somuthing 'that I could do.tmyself to cant alittlo. money, (# sho said to: herself, \but- there doogpl.t Mother woillda't héar to my ruoning the machine steadily, oven - if I could got sowing to do, .and thoto Jg_nothing elso. | It's a hopeless case, I guess.\ > And, sighing bonvily, Phrosy turned to enter the howe in answor to a fretful call from within, but as sho did 'so her syos foll upon the clothos-line in the aide-yard. ©'Tn gno minute, mother,\ sho said cheerily. \Pll-just bring Ben's shirts ta as I come by, -they'ro all rendy to | raw- starch end I cag fron them by: the / suppor, a How whlle and clean and sweet they werel As Phrosy gathered thom into a stiffly nwkwnrd§md$fln har- atms, she could not holp Bending her head to in- hale the ('amoil of oufdoors\ (ap she called it) that came from thom. «'They smoll differeht from Chiffese washing,'' she thought. \There's one thng cprleim—poor as wo are Bon's |-shirts ate always the nicest done up in toage?\. and then as that tholight passed throug'ii Kor mind it left an inspiration behind it. the Millors® line was eomethmg abso- dutgly. unprecedented. * ©Thirteon shirts for one poor work» ingman is the worst I over heard!\ as- sevorated tho woman=text door, whose | propinguity gave hor, in. her own call- with more frankness than . \manners.\ ''I wouldn't slave myself to death for the sake of Ben's vanlty # I was his sistor 1\ But Phrosy smiled serenely. \I don't call Ben over vain myself,\ she answered, 'and -I'm sure I am not slaving myself to doagh or near it for any one, and as long as I'm satisfied 1 don't seo what difference the size of my washings ought to make to any one ols.\ - Aude with this the officious and would-be inquisitive neighbor was forced to retire 22 Phrosy went to the picnic under Mrs. Jenkins' protecting wing . (one of Mrs. Miller's whilom cronies consenting glad Iy to come and spond the day with het) and she had on a frosh plak-lawa-and ribbons to match and Inokod for all the world like a peach- blossom. The picnic was neat the \old Brad- bury ranch\ and Its now owners tall - mont mation, a right to criticise the Millors\ pushing him- away very foolly, \you'll never wart to marr -ur wow, for it isn't Ben's shirts I am thinking of at all-it's yours; and I-I never meant to deceivstyou at all, 'but I wanted a now dress so badly, at first; and than, alter: wards, it was such an -eary way go earn a little, and it helped along so. Please don't be angry, and pleass don't laugh, but I'm the 'nice old\ women, John, and Lam very sorry I\ * ;* u ® «.@ Phrosy Millor is Mriz Johre Dalton now, and is as happy as possible in her lovely home, where her mother has grown strong aad: wall, fad whore Ben has always a room and. place of his own, Bho doesn't \'do up\ shirts at all now, for the bables claim hor attontion; but as her husband's linen is always im- maculate it is to be supposed that some other \nice old woman\ has been found who gives. satisfaction it that lino. - The Houseuw:fa. contin-... . Can Fish Smell and Taste? Vision and hearing in fish being the sonsos most important to the angler in his water sports, those noxt id value prosmo'land taste, 'The possession of : That night after supper, wlv-n Bon was resting himself from his day's Iabor by i*puttering\ around tho ch cen- house and back-yard generally, and Mrs. Miller was chatting with n ncigh- bor who kad opportunely dropped in,\ Phrosy, pleading an cftand at the store, slipped nway from them all aud pro- cealod to put her inspiration to the test of practicality, \\It might be a gooi ideo,\ sa{d kindly Mrs. Jonk'ns, to whom she had gone in her emergoney, \hut thero's so many o' thom -plagusy Chineso around that it brings prices down dreadful, and niost folks don't caro how a thing is dohe'so it is done cheap.\ . But my things don't smell of opium and nastiness as tho Chinamen's 49,\ averred Phrosy stoutly, thero must bo some one who would rather pay a little higher and bave things r ‘55 an R <, ¥ ** Buch folks is rorrcor than din- monds in dust heaps,\ was the senton- tious reply. «I would myself, of ourse, but old Ma'am Gilman has kind of gota mortgage on ms, and though she's failing dreadful an1 dor't send things bome fit to be seen some weeks, I kinder can't go back on her all at once.\ OL course not,\ assented Phrosy unhcntntlngly, Uthat isn't what I want Fut a'l. - But-seo hem—you ask Joe to inquire around up to Loron's mill and Ido believe he'll find 'somgthing for me, . I don't caro to say a wild to Ben or he'd fly all to piccos-nor you needn't tell Joo whoit is that wants the things-just let him say - some one who'll do them the, best they can be dona and needs the money.' '' 'All right,\ said Mra. Fonkins, Pl Keop {t asstill as m'ce, whothor it turas out well or not. You come by tomor- row night and 1'1 toll you the verdict.\ Aotl so, full of hopes and fears and fond imaginings, Phrosy went home. The noxt night Mrs. Jenkins met hor with her bred? face beaming. | \I've ave ; got six for you,\ sho said, delightediy, sun-burned, | masterful young follow with a plain, sensible face and a pabinof oyes that ssemed to Phrosy the kindest that sho had over sson-mado them wol- come to his home aad was as as a tius Californian always is; | and some way Parosy was shyly conscious 'nfter tho first, that those kinl oyes looked a trifle more kindlf upon her than they did upon some of the more noticonble girls. Phrosy was always one of the wioful ones, and when it fell to bor lot to oversee the arrangoment-of the lunch her now requaintance vory | quietly dis- engaged himsoll from the others and. devoted himself to har assistance, and Ben. Miller, looking on from a distance, | saw and approved. *'Phroay's worth her weight in gold,\ ho said to himself, \and Dilton is just the kind of a follow that sho ought to have. Td give four bits to have it turn. out that way,\ That night Phrosy c'mr‘home tired but radiant, John Dalton had har- messed: up his two-horse torm and brought part of the picuickors down . to tho village himself, ©jist to be socio- ble,\ hohad said; and he had invited her to sit beside him on the front sent, nad ho had, moreover, told Bon that he was coming dow to play him n game of checkars no and then when the avenings got a little longer. What wonder was it that the world seomed rosc-colored to Phrosy! and what wonder was it that when John Dalton-not waiting for the evenings to lengthen percoptibly-mado his appear- uce in her Bome and, after making frieads with her mother, proceeded to devote himself especially to that. Indy's daughter, that sho thought hersblf The happiest girl in the world. Only one thing shadowed har heart. Supposing that ho should be angry when he found out that tho shirts, which still came, through Mrs. Jenkins, to that mysteri- ous \old woman\ were her task, and that ho was making love to his washep woman? That fear made her almost these by fish seoms to bo n disputed poiat. They have cvidenily taste Jn a\ modificd dogreo, as they will fiteet the artificial lure if the bard cf the hook is not 1mmedmtey imbeddel in their flesh; but, on the «other hand, they will take a lenthor or rubber imitation of the natural bait with as much giusto as a live minnow or bug-honce the question is n see-saw ono. i Fish, no doubt, in common with other anfmals, have the in:tinct of an- ger developed almost to the quality of renson; and it is no bar to the truth of this - to - argue - -that, | because . a fish will taks the bait with a half dozon broken hooks in its mouth, it | follows a bratish appotite that is blind to dan- ger; for, look you, be yo an angler‘or a butcher, that stomach of yours {1 death to you every day of your life; that smoking dish, be it a red horring or canvasback. duck, ds cosusing you to- mako rapid strides graveward, and you know' it; and yet you gorge yourself every day upon your favorito dish, It ill becomes a man to arguo that, because an animal esunot control its appotite, it has not the lordly gift of reason. 'To sum up: * Can a fish taste? Certainly -he spits out his artificial bait. Can, a fish smell? Ayoy»there's the rub; yet why tho anointed lures so prized by old anglers and many modern ones? * This fact, is sure; fish aro suscoptible to auger and jealousy; for we 'have seen thom fight, and wo all know how tiger: like in combat salmon and «trout aro on their spawning beds, -New York News. -----ame--_-_. Spectaci+s. Spectacle wearers, especia'ly elderly people, frequently imagine that specta- cles with large glasses ara preferable to those with stBaller glasses. Thero: is but one advantage in using large glasses, which is, when the spectacle frame they with remaiicthero-untit maas, does not fit the face so fhat the centre ( the leases_do. “no come nnnnxha to \'and six times two bits is a dollar and a hall! you are in luck, Phrosy! 'Tain't one of the mill hands either, but n young fellow that has bought out the 'old B-adbury rauch. He's been up to the city for the last week and more and come home with about a carlorad of dirty things=\its been that hot up there, oe says, that you can't keep nothing decent two minutes, and old Mrs Bal- gal that cooks up there don't know sus about doing: up, so the grist naturally comes Mon: mill, and I m glad of it for one.\ N ''Aud I for two,\ answored Phrosy gicefolly, and then, with @ Fight and | thankful beart she took possession of her somewhat\ bulky buadie and went merrily homeward. The next day six white shirts fittered day-stiff and shiny and odorous only RLRi: mother'in return the silver : looked to Phrosy brighter sad better than silver ever looked before. He 8 brought something «ist, too, an over gnaw: bundle of shirts which had «=i dentiyeecnsorrow and had not lived the Hives that aristocratic white shirts angina: **These belong to the mill boys, ~ he erpained, 'They Rot & fight af rC. * (“N's and nothing to do but they =' these down. They're a preg rd \y megahg the abirts . 22d : ‘b- wi bers C Pog guess your o: woman can get em cles», mother,\ + cowardly after she began to feel that she\Was growing to care for this quiet, Amanly, young fellow as she had never cared for any ome else before; and al- though sho knew that she must tell him some day, she put that diy off as long as possible and grew, girl- fashion, as nervous aud feverish aad miserably, as possible over her inncesat little secret, until even her mother noticed that Phrosy was ''fretting\ as she called it, aad wondered thereat. One day, John Daiton brought mat- ~{ fors to a focus by simply and seriously asking Phrosy if she could make up her mind to come to hm, and let him take care of her as he hal longed to do ever since he first met her. a iq think that I foll in love with you at first nigh,\ ho said, in his straight- Epon the Millers' clothecTine; the next | Kad bie methm, check anfittienn forward way, \'and ever since then I have been hoping that you would let 'df Heaven's pure breezes-they went to | me make things easier for you some their aod Joe brought back lolday- Do you care for me e€ough to be my wile, Phrowgt' Por Phrosy!-shs biked and hesi- ' tated and thea put out her hands like a frightened child. \-I am afrail I do.\\ she faltered, but first I must tell you. about -about the shirts\ ~ Jobn Daiton was mystified, but cer. tanly there was nothing about shirts \hat c~uld separate thein. He prisoned vea sta hen bashing free 20 snd, as Con ma youlji reve: ans abe fig mine, for thew ¢ the pupil of the 87054 Threeqmrten pf one inch is plenty large enought if the lenses are set ima frome that causes their centres to come opposite to the pupil for the following reason: In the first place, the glasses being small, they can be much thinner, a very decided advaitage ; secondly, only about one-quarter of (an iach of glass can be used, because wo cannot see dis- tinctly through a glass, excopt we look straight through, and not obliquely, hence all spectacles and eyeglasses i I i _, the nlesdiag bands lovingly and emiled . (Nev: 1:1“;9 shorts oe said, Bea mort ‘rv cove sue esc to do hx dp for fie should be worn at the some angle that we generally hold the print or the paper which we are reading or writing upon; thirdly, a great many rays of light pass l from behind over out shoulder, fall on the glass, and are reflected in the eye, without baving passed through\ the glass. The Boys Are Aftached. The Lawrence churches have a system of interchangeable girls. When one church gives an entertainment each of the other churches leads a girl or so to p the festivities slong. This secures the final—lug tride of a dozen or so young 1 men' who are attached to no eburch but | who are attacled to the girls -Li#- rence (Ken Journal. He Cave-fl Hiteif in Time. f Eila-I know I ar ugly bet 1 love 1 you. | I bave $20,000 at year. } Wil yoo marry me! Erastca- Fer, dams. Td marg yes poarwere t wioe as agiv -as you think ; o afa mse beantifot birdie ~ i ; babit of eating his food very .rap-1ly. habit. F nally his mother one Gay an- grily eaid fast?\ l pest.\.-.Dercit 1745—11. by the Authofltles. An article bas been go ng the rounds of 'the press regarding the great scay- ongers of Omaba-the crows. The ar- ticle is correct, but it does not tell onc- half of the peculiarities of the situn- tion. - Thg.home of the crows, or to [put it-more correctly, their roost, is on ''the island,\ a sandbar of some thirty - or forty pcres located about one milo nerch of\ the city. | It is 'cut off from the river by a change in the channel, and although on the west side of. the river, it lies within the Towa boundary. This istand is covere1 with a thiek ua- dergrowth and by; willow and watet birch trees of several yoars' growth. Here the crows have been congregating for a number of years past. During the daytime there are but few to be seen about the island, excopt a scattering con- tingent seemingly left bohind to aet as sentinels. But from sundown fo sunrise there are thousands upon thousands of them on the Island, and until 'théshades of night finally 'closs the commotion. abcu', the place is exceedingly great As soon as duylight appears the noise hegins'again, each patticular crow. seem- ing to ctaffor his very loudest as if with the object of reducing his neighbor to silence. (he sun upreirs his head over tho lows bluffs the roost breaks up into small partics of about n score, which start off ia all directions to forage. Smo of the crows spen l the day in the back yards and alloys of the city and even in the sitsets of the quieter parts and make away with all kinds of edible r-fuis In fact, they are the most careful seavengers the city has, and the local. authorities have ree- ognized their services in this particular «by placing on the statute-books a Inw making sacred the life of the crows and uphold 'ng their \crws' in letter ns weil as in spirit. Others of the crows visit South Omaha with the same interst | The packing-house thore, however, turn out little refuse, as protty nearly everything exbopting the horn: of tho steor and-the |- #q real of the pig 11 utilized on the spot? Other parties of birds invads the sur- rounding country for miles nround, to come buck agnin at night to their frvor- ite roosting place. Jer: Hil, am-otdcgharnafer who lives in a small hoyse on the northern part of the islaod, has found a new ure for the crows, . A long and persistent stuly of their habits and instincts has convinced him that the crow is the most compe: tent and reliable weather prophet in ex- Astoncs - Hill told the\ writer a short time ago that he could tell what the weather was going to be twenty-four or forty-oight hours ahead as casily as though he had the full Signal Service Ireporh. In fact, ho says he has suror information than the Signal Sirvice men, M'fimy' frequently err,, while his - crows nover fail to tell the truth. * \Why said he, 'Sovery time we have a cold cast storm you will see these crows rise up in a body and take themselves over the hill yonder into tho sheltered Papio valley, and. bone of the storm is | brokem nnd then come back, teling me that clearing! weather is at hand. If there is a cold sleet or show storm coming from the west or northwest, they will move aczoss the tiver and take up quarters - on the cast side of the Towa bluffs - The other day, before we had the frost, I noticed the crows fluttering around in a peculigr manner, aod just before suaset they moved over to th swanip along Cat-off lake. I at once knew that there. [wis going to be colder weather, and- that the crows were seaking a warmer placa uear the water. They have plenty | of other ways of teliing me what to cxpect in the way of weather, and 'really I bave got so used to them thit I would be lost if they were to move their quar- tera\ ' . The man is likely, however, to lose his pets, as the island, which has never been built up, t-~ise of the fear that the Missouri river might some day take a nation to return to its old chan- mel, is soon to be occupied by railroad | yards -X. T. Trbuse. Keeping Up With the Supply. Freddie E. aged five, contracted the { Repeated scoldings failed to correct the 1 *Ereddie, what makes you est sc; | With a meuthfal of food, asd with | Mfg for an a bis mar é fieatory operations, the pocageter mom , | bled: I wast to rea what's [~ By and by his teeth cams,.and then strayed away fron its home in some holiow tree and lost its way back., Charlie's first thought was to. hunt for the treo and find the zest end give the baby beck to its mother, but as he looked up he saw n great blac't cloud inthosky and felt a fow spatters of rain on his face, so his second thought was to carry his foundling home. . Ie tucked the little furry thing un- der his jacket and ran home to-his mother. \A# be held the little creature against, his heart and kept it warm there he began to love it, and when he get home he asked his mother if he might keep it and take care of, it add have it- for his own pet. His mother consented, and told him she hoped he woul l always be good to the little orphan squirrel and nover forget to -| g.ve it fool and drink and tender care. Tuen sho huoted up a basket an 1 a soft old | blan'cet that wed to be. wrapped aroun 1 Charloy himself when he was a baby, and she laid the blanket in. the basket, so as to make a nice warm nest, and thoi sho put the baby squirrel into it. => .. C.aricy named him Dick, and then ns ho had a nam s and a> nest, the next thing was to fied him some supper. It was [Hill-l thit Dick coull not eat uu's, for he was n biby and had no teeth; p~rhnpt he would lap milk like a kitten.. Cliarley brought fone warm milk m a and put Dick's nose into It but that on'y nade him sneoze. Charley begin to look serious, and his mother thoughtful, but she smiled as she spoke: \When babies lose their mothers they linve to take their milk from a bottle; let us ses if Baby Dock will do that. . Here, Charley, take this money and go to the drug store and buy a nursing Lotte.\ Charley ran down streot ns fast as he could, and soon came back out of breath with the nursing bottle in his hand. - Hi: mother poured the warm milk into it, and put the aoft rubber top into Dick's mouth, and what do you think? baby, anctI don't believe ho ever missed his own buany mother again. Charley was so pleased that he danced around the rom for joy. At First Dick did't like the féoling of the bottle against his fur, so Charley's mother covered it with soft fnnnel, and then D c't was satisfied. Ho would always put his baby paws around it and hold it close to him as hesucked away at his breakfast or supper. It whi such a funny thing forn baby squirrel to use a nursing bottle, that people who beard of it camo from all dircetions to see the sight, and Dick | was quite the wonder of the village, | lam glad to say that Charley war very faitliful to his little pet; he never failed to have the milk warm and the bott's clean ani ready, tnd D ck never went hungry. I wish all the babies in the world could havs as good care as Bahy D ck had. He soon grew so fond of Charley that ho would rof take his bottle from anybody eli, and he would uu ail over the house after his little In a little while Dick grow into a> very--hand some-rquirroh;--bris- for { was silver gray sod very thick and glowy, his e,.cs were as bright as stars and his tail was so bros and bushy thit when he sat down and it spread over him like an umbrella it covered h:m all up. he to eat nuts. It was great fun tosee Dick sit upon his hind legs with his great feathery tail waving over him, picking up nuts with his little. paws sod eating them so neatly. Every. boly in the hou. petted the little roguc, nad he led a vory happy life. Charley's grandmother used to sit at the witdow knltbng a'most all dag, and Dick had a frick of jamping into her lap. One diy as he wss lying on her lap he smelled a nut in. her pocket, so he found his way in and ate the nui and made a little visit there After that grandmother took care to have a few nuts in her pocket every day, and roguey Dick found that out and made a real nest in grandmother's pockek. He used to run in and stay there a ; Indeed Dick wa: very fond of pockets. long time and keep as still cs a mouse. After awhile be got tired of slseping in bis basket and took a fancy to the pocket of papa's uvercost. Every night when be was ready to go to bed he ran to the hat tree in the enfry and climibed into his pocket nest, and slept ibere fil merviing. That wis ibe nestest Rs ceuld come to sleeping i a ttea The man who objects to being duzsed he siteked away just Tike a littlo humuh | The sor@'that you sing today, . ... Bwoet on the printed pages, Was the fitaway, . In the youth of the'wurn-ou‘t ages} | The charm of your love-born-tunt, - Theigems that your lines uncover, Were setin some savage tune By the heart of some-pagan lover. The'fancies that fill your thymes, The visiong'that haunt your lays, Are the spdctres of olden times + And the ghosts of forgotten days; G 5&9me on hotes of wor, | dreamers of Tove and sorrow, They sang in tho years ago The songs you will. ring to- morrow. 1 i sow 4 But what if the rhymes are new, *- And what if the thoughts are old, If the touch of the chord betrue R And the flight of the singer Dotd! ' Let them come to us still again, To-morrow and yet hereafter, Fresh as a morning's rain, Old as the sob and the laughter, HEMOROUS. A flourishing man-Tho professor of poomanship. _ these your Paternal estntcsl\ Iago, they stgamy gunt hilts. . un el Why not ca'l a balloon a trump] Io 0. has no visible means of suppoit. ° ~ emigre pe e+ irst Cucumber-I'm in bad shape. Becond Cueumber-You do look seedy. The eagle is dear to .the American heart, but the double carlo is twice as - dear. uo * wos The monkey goes to the sunny side of the tree when he wants u warmer climb, a. First Aspen Lonf-What'sthe mattort \ S:cond Aspen Leaf-O3, I'm all of a tremble. , O'd Lady (to clerk in general store) -Young man, I want some powder. Clerk-Yes, 'm, boy or girl? . The sentence \Ten dollars or thirty duys? Is another proof of the ireth of the s@age that tims is money. The Philosopher at 'the Boarding- house-Mrs. Brown, am I so very large today, or is it The slice of bread that is so small?? Do- Wo know men who insist at svery-- point upon beating their way through life, but we observe that they all draw the line at a carpet, Stanley has taug't the Africhas s oric- thing about exploration, but he has not taught them how to spell. The names of some of the places he has visited would break a R issinn's jaw, «--name How the Trout Was Caught, Ots Qolllnrd of East Hill, walked into B'akesley, Pena., the 'other day to have his oxen shod. While wait- fog in the b'ackam'th shop; the brawny youog backwoodsman told this fish story, declaring that Jack Hayner, who was with him when ho caught the trout, would swear to every word of his statement. Fer months. God- dard had tried to land a wily old trout that lusked in one of the deop pools in Tobyhanna Creek. Hs bad angled, be said, with flies, grasshop. pors, worms, tainbows and other kinds of bait, but he coulda't get ths big trout to notice any of them. He had seen the cunning speckled follop tima. and again and he wanted him ever so much, Ore day in July 46 caught a ._ little Heer mouse in the pasture, 'and he stuck his hook through tho loose skin on the mouse's neck and threw it into the pool lt wars a lively swimmer, but it hadn't swam six feet before the trout gobbled it with a 'dash that sent his snout out -of tb watdn. That was an unfortunate Hhove for the trout, because within five-ces~ onds Goddard had him flopping on dry land, witlt his bat over the figHt- fog trout pounds and Idufl‘een ounces, Goddard~ ~> declared. - nosen A The Trinmphs of Surgery. A remarkable instance of surgical | progress which ogeurred in the practice } of Prof. von Bergmann of Berlin the / other day is reported. The Professor had two patients who. wero simultane- ->> ously brought to him for operations, one requiring amputation of the thigh. at the hip joint, the other needing. portion of the humerus removed on 462 count of the bone being extensiyely diseased. The- fst operation to be done was the unpzuzwa, a24 mm- rather lfkes being feend cot
