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; AN President. ~~ March 8, 1897. a \ i - Infilst oxi H The Kind That Never Failed You. ---| -- Tue orntaun company, 77 munnay arncer, mew youn oir. OPEN LETTER \To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD \CASTORIA AND \PITOHERS CASTORIA,\ AS OUR TRADE MARK, I, DR. SAMUEL_PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of \PITCHERS CASTORIA,\ the same 'that has borne and does now -. bear the fac-simile signature of on every z Bless wrapper. ° This is the original \ PITCHERS CASTORIA,\ which has been 'used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty gears.\ LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the hind you have always bought W on the _ 'and has the signalure of ChaZ¥ M wrap per. No one has authority from me cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is. to use my name ex- Apr ReoalCas Pr cP: Do Not Be Decgived.. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in- gredients of which evem He does not know. ~ \The Kind You Have Always Bought\ BEARS THE 'FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF avfiig‘ k ~- 10¢ 25¢ 50c . B CANDY .. CURECONSTIPATION _ _ 4 L ATE i. (4 N cR or personally. tlon, eto. Preparatory De train foe prostical worl ont enter any day. | No vacations. *~ monurmber 6 €5 © Is to take our INSTRUCTION REWARD Bookkeeping ote., thor- TENGERAPHY, ===\ Qur system of teaching gives actual daily ésperionco in overy branch of business, including Booking, Merchandising, Commission, Insurance, 'Pransportn+ rtment for boclkward students, We always sceure situations for worthy graduates of out Business and Shorthand Coursos. K s. Expenses moderate Dou't throw mung: ume golag to wmyomr schools when It will cost you less to attend the BEST - We buve widens who have left Incompetent teachers In: disgust, toll u6 that six months here is equal ton year In any other sthaol. to any. one for first information of a vacant position , ea forn Bookkceoper, Stenographer, Tracher, Crrk or Wolegraph oporstor which we successfully fill. Business houses supplied wish ca tout pasfstants without chargo, _ Refer to prominont patrona In Thwart best thing to attondin lfig’flgi’fiCELHUIIA'I'HD BUSINHSS SOT \>> send ten twecont «tmp for live cary fa ntorthondt. Address {ntention this paper) CLEMENT C. GAINES, Paceicent. New Yor. | ~ work Is performed\ by Hafd\ Iibor afd \the processes in uso seem rather crude. In.some: ports of Formosm a Inyer only 'about an incl thick ig out from the ~.. 'larger roots and from part of the trunk; the object being to obtain the best cam-> phor bearing wood without Iifling the tree. 'Trees thus treated ofteii' dio. Where frees aro cut down the host parts. of the trunks aro. somefimics saved for lumber: From 20 to 50 pounds of ara required for ono pound 'of thips crado game Trees 50: years old in Formosa yield an ayerage of about 188\ pounds of crudo: gum, Many 'different forms of stills and different methods of : ton are employed in. different districts, bul xesalt in msoparation of the gum by means of steani. water. == ' :The treed will gndmmmiai-nnin ar.hot aning jury.\ One-third. : 'the leaves and 'y z shoots may be ~ Temaved at one time without materially shocking the growth of the free. tho camphar tree is Jdlled nearly When to the ground 'by frost, It zend& up vigoroms 'shoots. a ©.. {Clever Work by Convicts. {ESpecial. Correspondence.] a Cart Scuortetn. OUR NEW YORK LETTER. . Rapid Transit on Brooklyn Bridge - A :. Martelous Enginesring Feat New Yorkers are no diferent From the people of other largo cities must have something to kick For many years the facilities, or Jatk of facilities, for tran They about igth’éx’f U| sd to be | geirileged to f Students and ue ney by Such people often vers trirt of the world. wu In Ame ron tint to atty, Ingo, free. If you pro momplufiml and faun 00, 7 A thind rdil was put down in cach roadbed, so that tho trains could bo run 'by olectriclty whenover necessary, and in addition to all this an extra cable /was kept tunning, so that in cato of a bral there would be no such thing as tho old nuisance of being ktalled in the iniddlo of the bridge. Tho croakers wero\ Thero may be befter transpor- tation facilities somewhere on the face of this globo, but those who aro famil« far with sock matters have not heard of it, and they ard on the lookout for fust such information too. | Thero is always, _| oc yory nearly nlways, a seat for a pase aud evet thoso who are crowded out of one tratit havo only to wait about half a minuto for another. | Tho croak» ers were for a timo nouplused; but \they did not have long. to wait, for the deal was soon made whereby the clevat- ed pud trolley lines of Brooklyn are permitted to ran their cars over the 'bridgo. That of Itsolf was bad enough, for. thero is mone too much room thero now,.and every ofa knows that the ro- #ult will only bo delay in getting across the river, buta litle later tho an- nonncemient was made that tho trolley people would beallowed torun their cars dowh to the rtreet level on this side. That wns the eno for the croakers to begin their wail. But this tino they havonlnist everybody the trol« ley officials in sympathy with them. Cleves Work by Convicts, The \prison exhibition\ recently held in this city was a most unique sort of fifair, and to persons of a semimorbid tur of mind ibrwas nok without its in- teresting side, > | Every visitar, to the exhibition was 5 be nicasured 331112191335“!- prison Jocks and keys without end, many of them with inter-. nd . & copies of the Leys used in. many Bardo of bubjedts for Aisoussion ~Ahows that nothing of the slightest relevance to anything nearer than tho antipodes will boallowed. She who looks for such topics as ''How to Out ''The Way to Keep Warm With the Mercury at a Vanishing Point\ and \A Comparative Analysis of the Gastronomic Merits of Rubher Boots and Book Backs will bo disappointed. The motto of the club is \Kulture In Koldesst Klondike.\ Tho colors are yellow and white, signifying the principal products of the region- gold and snow. The badge is in the form of a pin and bears the dosign of a gold pick rampant upon a fleld of ice. To this its youngest daughter, so heart- 'ly in accord with its constitutional aims and interests, the General Federation of Women's Qlubs has already sont a car- dial invitation to become a momber of the great body. Josren RussRLt.. PEOPLE OF THE DAY, , Eenor Sagasta, the now premier of Bpain and the leader of the Liberal par- ty, is by no means a new figure in Span- ish politics, for he has been connected with the government in various capaol~. _ sEXOR SAGASTA ties for many years. Ho has been pro- mier on previous ocensions and lins heen in half a dozen cabinets, though in or- der to do so he swung clear around the 'f political circle. He began his public or- reer as a civil engineer, but at 48 ho had climbed so high that ho was ap- pointed premier. He held this post first in 1871 under King Amadeo, and ho managed to cling to his portfolio dur: ing the stirring times which followed when General Serrano was-chicf of the provisional government which over- throw the republican regime. Ho was aléo at tho head of the cabinet when General Martinez Campos proclaimed Don Alfonso king of Spain. He support- ed Don Alfonso then as he now. sup- ports the regency. In fact, Senor Sngas- to seems to havo cultivated a reversible patriotism which has continued . him in tho service of his country under all cir- royal pay roll. | Premier Sagasta is now nearly 70 years old, but is apparently as willing to hold the reins of govern- ment ns ever, President of Cosmopolitan University. Dr. E. N. Potter, whom Editor John Brisben Walker has chosen as president for his Cosmopolitan Educational Uni- versity extension, is n psominglit educa- tor and a distinguished diving. His fa- Aher was Bishop Alonzo Potter. Bishop Potter of Now York is his brother, and ho himself .was once clected bishop of bn x. x. NMebraskn, an office which ho declined. Y., 61 yours ago, nud after being edu- cated at Union college and Berkeley Di- vinity school ho entered the ministry as # Protestant Episcopal: priest, Ho was 'an army chaplain: and. afterward scoro- 1871 he was elected prosident of Union college, and In 1884, resigned that post» tion to become president of Hobart col- legs, from which post ho retired a fow years ago. __ . astic, slangy expressions. the sprightly comical parts of the book (''Dombey and Son'l) have sometimes honest foreigner to crack. _ A ludicrous tus : sach & flared bocure In chape ter 4, where 3r. Chick's inatrimonial A bickeringn with his better half fornt the themé \of our Inimitable bamorist'8 | aboy thickI retranslate cumstances and kept his namo on the | Dr. Potter was born in Schenectady, N. - tacy of othics in Lehigh university. In- proved. too. bard nuts for the k ban FBG | Datch tobacco Fur reporin f | carey alt before him,\\: The Russian rendering of this sentence, rich I r h yerbstha, renk, \Of» |- ted, whenJ(r. Chick seemed beaten, he iof chairs and makea clatter close to the . me | hote ; The favizm keeper with tobswen, called for the girl Mar- moat, wid %c on wltemately until \the vessel is filled.© Butter is then poured over the wholo,. mud. the cover of the pot is closod with pasto so thatno stoam may escape. It is placed in an oven and cooked for three hours. __ AIR CASTLES. > - T alt ulono tonight and dream In the firelight's Atful fare, And, gazing in the glowing yrate, I seo reflected there, Through fancy's fairy vistas, My castles in the ni. In distant stately splendor Stands famo's linporinl fimo. What would wa not surrondar Her troiured stores to gain? From walls with Jewels glooming, From halls with bonuty beaming, Bound yolees over seoming To enlus to attain. Tho licights ob Guetlo Learning _ Aro gaindd through many scars, Bub when with ardor burning We bent against hor bars , Sho giants to qurendetvor Lonyols that, fading novor, \ Abide with us forever, \ 5 Enduring as the stars. 1 sit alone tonight and dream \ , __ In tho firelight's fitful flaro. Yo gracious fates, but grant,I pray, The will'to do and dare, ., That I may put foundations 'neath My enstles in the air. -Ernost Nol Lyon in New York Sun, AT THE BLACK CAT. \I I6 was a doep, gloomy night The tenvy, leaden that obsoured the envens moved so swiftly as to remind one sof the writhings of tho huge waves of the ocedn when lashed by the storm. A thick fog added to the density of- the night and hid, the houses opposite from each other's view. A chill wind was blowing, penstrating nny chante pedes- trian's marrow with more deddly venge- ance than a colder,-calmer night. A 'conol dashed down the, stroots, olattering or the: cobblestones with ter- rific force, owing to the wild plunging -of horses,. who. seemed sooent rome 'on tho table. His host drained his mug [Guy Fawkes' night. | All-honor to Eng- .\ land, comeradel\\ And<he xefllled the 'stood at his doog.to welcome the coming ! when the man suddenly re- our his companion, 'he stranger placed his hand on the handle of the proffered vessel and waited. . The tav- orn keeper raised his mug in midair and raid: * \Welcome thrice welcome, friend.\ Thero was the least pause. \\God savo the king.\ The traveler bowed low, raised his oup lightly to his lips and replaced 16 to the dregs and pinced it by the pot. \Aud now, good sir, a tale of goodly | days when men were wont contentedly to bow to old England's judgmont-God save the name! Tho night was-a wild ond in 1825. The-bless me-good rons tor, this 'very month, night-Nov. . 6, mug, drank deaply, then relapsed into. allence. 20, tw. h 'By. faith, 'good host, your tale.\ Ayo, nys, once more. \The nliglgt was dark aud stormy. The Boston coach rat- tled down the streob.and halted at The Cat. y grandsize, God rest his ashes, guost., Without heeding: the welcome put forth by the worthy host the travery| or, q tall, slérder man with piercing black eyes, pushed by him, entered the houso and onlled for grog. Under his lefb arm ho carried a black tin box. 'By my faith, the grog was brought. Ho dropped into a chnif, drank 16 down, thon sat in deop meditation for more than an hour, - His groatcont fell apart, and the grandsize forthwith beheld the uniform of n British officer, perfect but for the absonce of one button from the cont.\ . The listener leaned forward, every musclo betraying active interest. The tavern keeper continued the nar- rative. ' bod \My grandsire sat and watched him marked, 'Genial host, a bel -by thy al- leginnce to good King George, a goodly one.' My grandsire arose, lib a taper and led bim to an uppor chamber, the very one, good six, thou shalt have this - e l - \Th6 box, fisfibrflumfltou—thu box with the Jewels and gold!\ : But the man on the bed cluag to the box, gave a violont wrench and knooked his opponent aside, sprang from the bed and faced his glaring adversary. \\The box, or you\'- Tho tall officer rushed fgrword and clutched at his antagonist's throat, The man on tho other band flung his. loft arm forward, thero was n flash of some- thing bright, a low, choking ory, and the soldier swayed forward, then buck- ward and fell to the floor, ~ \Hua ba, Jasper Hamilton, and now. I pray thee . give the box, good fellow! Ayo, I thiink thee, so courteous, so gen- broug,\' - And he bowed mookingly to\ \the fallonmin. . \The man: in the window tried to ory out, bub his volco, refused . utterance: him in a viselike grip.. lu ase . Tha.other living man gazed upon his 'blado out of the bloodless wound, coolly then quickly stooped'over the corpse as if examining At, aroso, moved. over to the dresser and laid: theroon | five but- tons in a pile, walked over to the sido wall, ram his right hand along it, paused, pressed the forefinger, when suddenly and noiselossly a wide, dark opening was visible. Ho turned to the body, dragged it forward, placing the head at the opening, stepped backward, and gave a push with his foot. | Tb was immovable. He stooped down, took it by the knces, made a violent forward movement, and 16 slid silently ont of sight. He closed the aperture gently, ran his hand over the wall, then pngsed from fhe room.: | - Cloads were again filling the sky, the winds began to monn and sigh, the traveler staggored forward. | His breath came in gasps. \The leather wallet man, quick!\ Ho started at the words. A hand was over his mouth. - His oyes opened. He was in the red curtained bed, and. victim complacently, stooped, drow. the |.. wiped ib on the military cont, paused, |. . 55 . 8,\ Bernboge Express. standing over him monacingly, knife |. The Otsego Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Tnsures Farm, Village, and Buslncas properly ab notual cost, | Conmilt your own. Interest by placing your Insurance In & purely Mutual Con- pany wot hampered by combination rates. | Terl- torint District, Otsego aud Chenango: Countfes, K. W. Wright, President; 1. O. Brockway, -Vine- President; Dr. LB Day, Treasurer, -For further information apply to 8. L Kelsey, Berdtary, HOME OFFICE, BURLINGTON FLATS; N. v. ta~Local Agents: _ Geo, R. Bwoet, Mitford; H. M. Bard, Oneonta, N. Y. aro wimp]; fivfi5;?.,wé‘agiélfdy3u employment . . with GOOD PAY, and you gan: work all-or part < : ght\ Some , gigantio-monster scomed homing . [/ necawike & *> ~ RAROAD, Com’cin'g Nov; 19.1895“. GONG EAST-LEAYE JUNCTION, No. 10. Oneonta Local.... \*~ 4. \Boat Express.... .. \ &. Boston Rxpress (runs daily). JURCnC No.. 1. \Local Passanger)... © 7. BuffaloExpressand Mail. # ob, Chicago Bxprest....c.0l \ 9, ~Oneonta \19 | Bloghamton Ex, Sundays A. it Time Tables showing local and; through tra. service botween stations.on all Divisions of the D & H. system, may be obtained at all D, & H tigke« offices. hidden doe -who was endeavoring to aheck their onward progress, Suddonly thera.was asharp turn which almost upset tho vehicly, a light finshed out, and thero was on abrupt halt 'The driver olimbed down from his meat, opened the door and spoke to the ocou- pant, \I say you, good sir, the Ont. '* The person addressed stepped out, a tall, slender man wrapped in a: long, closo cont, its high collar covering the lower part of his face, an odd cooked reaching to the oyebrows, loaving none of tho countenance visible but a pair of piercing black eyes, glowing bright in tho fitful light. Ho banded tho driver a coin, dropped his bands at his sides and stood 'motionless until awakened by the clatter, of the retronting conch, which wis rapidly making its way dowiths fog obscured street. . \\The Sign of the Black Ont, *' homut. tered and moved slightly. / A ray of light flokéred brighter and finshed in a largo, equate white lantern on which, couchant, swith great, lurid, topaz eyes, was n black cat. The travoler shivered ns if atruck by n chill. Ho glanced to- ward the entrance, the door oponed, let- atortling prominence a thicksot, reddy faced man bubbling over with good will, His snuff colored velvet short clothes, black silk stookings and hand- romo:silver buckles betokened tho on- joyment of full prosperity. - Ho peored 'fnto the night apprehonsivoly, 'The traveler advanced. ' Tho 'man in the doorway saw him. 'Be thou for the Black Cat, good siz?\ said ho. \\Of a truth.\\ \Hnston in. thore, frond, and. wol- come, I pray theo, 'The night is nyo too daimp and chill for the liko of thee, Rhoumatism is ints very broath.\ Tho stranger stepped in. Ho throw open his long. cloak, then hastily draw 1t together, but the tavern keoper: had caught a;glimpso of ® scarlet goat. \Murgot ho conlled, \Margot a traveler, Hasten thou and mix n hot grog”, - . Ho looked around. Tho newcomer had gonk into a chair, his oyes closed.. The long closk had opoued aud displayed the scarlet uniform of at EngHah oflcer, \Hasten linston, gixlP\' ho shouted. \Ho appearoth. to kink,\ . hong **Not so,\\ remarked tho stzanger, and a slight maillo Allominated the black eyes under tho cng's vieor, which ho stil wore. His éyer Tell on tho opened cont. He looked up at tho tavern keeper soratinizingly, and \the man in Auto made a slight motion with bis left band. U The gifl Margot now nppeared with a steaming mog of, grog. In ond hand' arid a lighted. candle in the other. Bho held tho ing toward him, Heextended: his right hand for the bevernge, pushed 28 fall to the floor, and. fu so doing dis- flayed thick, wavy; blick siz driwn ck from asmooth, broad forehead and tled at the naps: of the neck with a crimson ribbon, 'The girl leaned for- ward and let the light from the candio fall ou his face. It was pale and deli- cate, with an nquiline nose, a sensitive mouth, but a chin Indicating a will of Ho drank tho grog slowly, In allence, handed the mug to: the girl, who left \be roont, then dropped his head on his breast with an air of weariness.. . \The taverm keepér buslod bimsclf of, every mow and then casting lances at hisslient gaost. Thoold man taised his left hand for a huge | tobi Ing ow m ahelf neat by, when be was startled with: . *\Wortky best, be this the Unt that stood in C-- in 47437\ . The host of the Black Cat syed the \Tee tame, and why?\ - *Neoght,\ stifing a yawn. *'Seventecm hundred. apd fwent;- \ | Ave,\ repestod the tavern keeper. *'Aye ane a scotly gear for the hosts of the **Ays sod it was.\\ This aioad, _ \Ard Row and why?\ aked the 6 , banded coe yipt to his guest, aed soated himself Jn # giz! wp (be rew with x #sal} seakc tatls - \This aha cap with a long visor succeeded in- his faco. He raised his oyes and beheld | ting out 'a food 6f\ light, bringing into |' his cap back with his lof, causing 1} to night. - As be turned to leave the guest ho heard a faint mew and a great black cat with burning oyes souttled past and almost threw him. to the floor, ' Aye, the chill was cold tlint fastened on to the first host of tho Oat, for ho saw in the folino the evil gonius of the family. Ho wont, noy foll, down the stairs and never sought his bed the entire night. In the curly dawn hoe crept up the stairs to peor at the door of his guest's chamber. I6 was open. 'The. bed bad mover been occupied, Not an article was disturbed, but thero on the dresser lying in a pilo were theso five buttons. l And the tavern keepor drow out s emall chain from his side pocket on which hong five brass buttond and handed them to his guest. ' \By the throne of old England, what at*- 'The trveler stopped short. ''Prithco, what?\ demanded tho tay- arn keeper, \What a tale! And did disaster fol- low tho coming of the cnt?\ \Therein Meth tho mystery. From tho moment when my grandsire lay hands on those buttons his fuck changed as by magie.\ \Hni _ Aladdin's strange.\ *. \ reiterated tho tavern keoper. | \But a bed, .my worthy host, a bed. Mino eyes nre Anin to close aby mo- mont.\ \Aye nud tho very one, good mas- ter.\ Ho nroso, lighted n candle and said, 'Follow me.\ Thoy climbed a winding stairs lead- ing from tho rear, | Tho candle cast fit- ful shadows on oithor side, A gust of wind swept by; tho candle. filckered and went out The tavern, keeper on renching the uppermost Innding walked a fow stops arid apened a door, ; A rush of light pouted into the corridor; thero wak a faint por, and a lorgo black cat with blazing éyes rushed out, nearly . upsetting the hots. \ t'Tho oat!'' he gasped. '\'Tho cat!\ simultanconsly exolaimed the stemuiger. ' ' \No sleep for the host of the Cat this- night.\ | And tho invern keoper's volce was husky. e ''Pray thee, man, and wouldst thou bo upset by the like?\\ _ - thou wist not the ent.\ * The younger man laughed ns ho closed the door Ho sat down in'a chilr thoughtfallyys <. is ._ _. _ \Tho - very Cat By good. Kiog. George, the only Cat, and by the bones of every Hamilton past and. to bo this mystery will anzavel itsolf\\ He drow a émall leathérn case from his innermost pocket, opetied 1t, select- cd a dull brown parchment and.read: Jaspor Eesailton, my father, disa and with his iiisappentance was lost the pros- perity of the house of Hamilton. On his por: won were precious stores and gold of great alue. Last heard of was bound in tho night of November Nove & 1725, for \\'The Bign of the Black Cat\ Invern, O- provinte of New Ham America. | Duptey \So be it.. A second Jaspez Hamilton scekest the Cat on Nov: 5, 1777. And this is the very chamber where my grandfather was last seen.\ _ It was low celled. A hugo four post bed, hung with bright green rep, was in the corner, A great chest of drawers eramented with shining brass knobs stood between two windows hung with green rep. A nionster clock stood op- posite. Beféral stern, straight backed: mahogany chairs leaned severelyAtiff against the cak pancled walle. ''The same chamber,\ ha repented, removing his fong coat, Then, beginning 'to unhisten tha military coat, he paused, snuffed cut the candle and threw hime self on the bed. * - lampt Very - Great gasts of wind beat against the |. windows. It menned, then roared as if An onfold rage, Again It cours ful, more gentle, and suddenly ceased, The mite began to fada away. The hoary cloud parted. A pale sliver micon tie The nline reess. The weary tars over the en i. 'The ¢ e cler sighed in cortentment. What rund was that? His started op. 'There was a harsh grating as of some crs at the lock. He Maia-3 555m? gags tbe winduw and HA Bimwif in thodrap fogs: The door opened, Octlzed Jn the pale clearmooniight ihe fntrader stood a Be widow Razed fawert The «berm, Iying witha Pack foo contorted by passion. \Mako haste! Tho wallet!\ The stranger sprang upward. | 'The tavern keeper folb n stinging blow on tho right cheek and staggered back- ward. Tho officer made a rapid back movement with the right band and drew forth a long, thin. bladéd Italian stiletto. ' + \ \To death, my joy host, 'to death!\ The darkness ~obsoured everything, ' yet the labored breathing of his antag- oniat reached him. - ' \As thon wilt,\ muttered the man, and he advauced, . There were soveral close encounters, a low gurgling ary and a-heavy fall. ___ \\To death, my merry Host, to death!\ There was no reply. The night had Become calmer, 'The moon pierced the clouds. It filled the low celled chamber, Tle officer knelt down by the prostrate man, pub his hand in the side cont and drew forth a chain on which bung five brass buttons. Heremoved them nud replaced the chnin, felt in his own brenst pocket and. drow forth a sixth, rose and Haid them in a pio on the dresser, then. moved to the side wall, ran his right band.alopg, pressed with tho forefinger, and thero appenred a wide, dark open- ing. Ho retraced his stops, dragged the body forward, placed the hend at the opening, stooped, grasped it by the 'knees, gave n push ond itsilently disaps peared. - He closed the wall find turned to the dresser. - ''When Jasper Hamilton disapponted, thero remained but five buttons on the dresser, When mino host Glendening'fs found missing, they will have become six,\ 6x C * \Ho drow a paper out of his pocket and wrote: R \Tho sing of tho fatlfers aro visited on tho third and fourth generations,\ nud placed {t by the buttons, picked up ron lightly down the sthirs, ont of the house and disappeared into the. night. 'The huge white lantern hung aloff- but the conchant cat with tho topaz eyes was gone.-Jennie Loofso Haria in Minnenpolis Tribune. ' Advertising. - \ A good headline, it 4n largo typo and of. geent. brevity, is really an, illusirm- ton, and many ndvertleors preferdt to n picture, because the fight kind of a beadlino is not misleading, and is in- stantly nbsorbed by the reader, while & picture, and even n good on6,. may il- lustrato something which the advertiser does not care to bring ont prominently, The public can sometimes misunder stand a pictur, but {6 is not likely to misunderstand a brief headline or short text. + It would secin that the golden rule of advertising fs to use illustrations ouly when they illustrate and to use strong headlines with or without ilustrationg and to use Hlostrations a part of the time and large type headlines tho rest of the time. -Hardward. Equivoest Signs. - \I distrust that man on sight,\ sai Jones meaningly; Jonésis one of the men who still show the effect of the life and doings of the Jate Mr. Sherlock Holmes. \Yes sin I wouldn't trust that man with a plugged «Canadian quarter,\ \Hum said Robinson, who hap- | pened to know (be mandn question and | held avery. different opinion. \\And | why not, ay I ask?! - \'In the first place, do you notice the stooping, insinuating way 4n which. he carries his shoulders? That's craft.'' ... 7 \0h!\ ' - \. \Inthesecord place, you observ thak he clutches his fists as though he had a persaide hii to locsen. 'That's cupid» \ppr \In the tbird place, do you soe. how . | tartively be from sido to side That's gailt.\ . *T haypes to know that an,\ sald \Ard I Mt\ Jones 3mm?” emanied Jones: enough to zo on Ihe: PPrmreniit tial bs scome entraton the | the ruslan ef a orice, ® 254 frame tn THs {Mist { wana Of saci H5 Tp. in band, was hje jolly host, his face |- his long cloak, turned, opened the door; |. grip upon something thatnothing would, | -On **Noyou sta wrong, He his fost bee |- stieet with Rls Hote\ -BPotor|?P \pautes mony them tiny fonts | fhe Caventsyand Trade-Marks ent bristness conducted for M oun orrieris 018 Sid we cansseore patent in fess remote from Washington, Send model, drawing or phi San. Woe nivlsc, {Edwleian argo, - Ounfee not due t T Tos monday, a How to Obtain cost of V- S. and foreign countrise sent free. > C. A. SNOW £ co orp. Patent Orrice, HUMOR.OF THE HOUR, Poor fellow! Ho was \all broke up.\. Tears coursed down his red, puffed cheoks, and ho would not bg comforted. \Come said one of his friends, \brace up, old man. It's too 'bad. that the banguot was too much for. you last night and that you fell by the wayside, but that's liable to happen: to 'almost auy of us. Of course they'll discharge you when thoy find out how 4t was, and {ton needn't worry any nbout the sioney thoy do fine you:. We'll sto that you get out of it all right\\ _. 5. \Ob 'erled tho disconsolate .one, \TH never be able to live this dowill It's awfully nico of you, boys, to fry. to help mo out, but what lias been done can't be undone\ , - 'Prbhaw! Othors havo 'been arrested mistake before you and got out of it I right. Why can't you do thesame?\ ©It isn't the arrest,\ ho sobbed. © \I don't centa. for that, but hero it's 9 o'clock in the morning, aud I've» got, my dress sult on.\ c ws Then ho barfed his fico in his hands, and the-others were sflent. | They katow , that ho was ruined forover.-Cleveland' Loader. h * The Grateful Rattlosnalio, dont in Hyderabad saved: a rattlesnako from _ death. - Tho: suako was grateful, nud: is beantiful friendship grow up bo- tween tho reptile nnd his preseryer, When Br., Blank had completed his . time 48\ India, ho brought the raffle snake back with him to Londox and es tablished him in n spare: room af tho back of his house. | Ono night ho heard w groat molss, and, roxhing. into tho suake's privato apertment, found that tho animal bad chught a burglar in tho folds. of 'its body and was ratfling its tail out of a window to call a' police» moan. \Ab said one of tho lstenors gravely, \I don't think that story can bo truco, because there aro snakes in that part of India.\ .And ho could not think why this conclusiyo stitement broke up the meeting. -Lon- don Quéen: nlc The Gentlowomai Farmer. . Gentlemen farmers havo. been favor- fiction and. picturesque'charao-' tera in real life for generations, The gentlowoman farmér is a newer species and is thus described in the: New York Commercidl Advertiser: Kho is: nelther as hospitable nor as exclusive as her masculine counterpart. She does. not raise big vegetables, inammoth flowers or blooded stock for her wn delight or the edification of her friends, Sho 4s extremely practical Tho basis of all her arguments is necessity, Sho has gone into farming to eam 'a: living, of even more than m living, and if she charges you 8: cents a quart for milk you can buy in town. for 6 cents sho will politely but firmly fell you. that her cows fro of fine: breed than theso which sapply milk for cidinary city costs more than bran and straw as fodder. You meekly adinit the truth of theso argaments, and when your tll is sent soar Atyou c Once upon a time a- gentleman real\ ° é £ ¢ Y H f
