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Show 1 t I Silas Hiving Hecs. ' Did you f git 'em hived, pa V But the old man was to mad to The old gentleman's name ia Silas, and that of his eldest eon is Ueortfe; his wife's name is Matilda, and hit three pretty daughters" aro named is a Helen, Alice and Susie; there - older boy little Silas, too, 'asd an mention. to is too name queer whjse The bees bad alighted in a great meabunch, as large as a in tree a sure, on the limb of peach under the yard. A table is placed th overh'anging limb, spread with a clean white cloth, attd the hive placed thereon, Then one of the boys, one that is into the good for nothing else, is sent tree with a saw to sever the limb; the limb cornea down slowly and easily and the old gent below, dressed in a cowhide great cot, buckskin gloves, boots, and a red quilt tied around his neck and fice,- slyly manipulates a mintwig from the tree, and in two to bee utes has safely co&xed every enter the hive, during all of which time Matilda and Helen and Alice and Susie pound the bottoms out of does just four tin pans; little Silas his prettiest yelling, while the boy with the queer name is just old enough and sharp enough to slip the house and wait for the is thing to cmo to a point. That the way it ought to have gone off; but that isn't the way it did. Silas, the elder, was very comfortably bun died up for to warm a day, and he hd his suit well arranged, only he f.jrgot to tie the strings around the bottoms of his pants legs. The bees had settled on the limb of a peach tree, and Silas, when his table and white cloth and his hive were already, commanded: "Now, George, grab that old rusty saw and climb, I guess you can cut that Bmall jlimb vS easy half-bush- - answer, or even look at the boys. He turned to little Silas and saiii : "Little one, you inesnt all right, and I'm sorry I cuffed you so; the next time don't slap so hard." Then to his wife : "Matilda, to you I owe everything. "We'll Accept my heartfelt gratitude. take no more stock iu bees. I have made up my mind, and it's settled. May our qniet, peaceful farm home never be so stirred up again Seems to me I never had so much of life crowded into a few short minutes before. Hun after the cows now, boys; be off, for it is almcst dark." Toledo Blade. 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Thirty-fiv- e Different Styles, JFor the Parlor and the Church, . The Best Material and Workmanship, Quality and Volume of tone Ineqw J? SucscriptioB Price: Year $4.00 Six Mouths 2.00 Three Months, 1,00 8inele CoDies 0,10 One person sending us a club of five subscribers for one year will receive a copy gratis. Address COLLIN A SMALL, Publishers, 113, Fulton Street, N. Y. Combination FITTED WITH THE NEWLY INVENTED Y01RSELF. One Cva. CABINET THE CHAMPION Litiid COMIC 1 A P E R. Dboooish 1 . IMPROVED AMETUPAW Mezican I Slap me I Can't you me V slap Little Silas crept up behind his & Nortli-- f Infuriated papa and dealt him a live-- . G&icap ly one with a shingle; but poor little Silas landed the next second against for his pa took him Tho direct routo from Omaiia to Ciucago the r nd the East, and his shingle for a swarm of bees, WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. and gently brushed them off. ; Ob the agony of that three mini utcs jig! lie appealed to his wife, Two Dailt Tuaotea Tumi Icare tke Missocftl Km, opposite Omaha upon the arrival "Matilda ! for heaven's sake brin f Trains from the "West ever the me another pair of breeches, won't milk-hous- ' kes effect the 1st cay of Under this law the po' tage January, on newjftnpers must be raid AT THE OFFICE rvn&KA iticx ake .mailku. Ttns will make it nece'ftarv for all snltscrihers or urenta acmlinrr na subscriptions to seud the money TO PAY POST- Aurc, ia AUUITIUN TO THE SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The following are the rates to be paid under the new law. VTKKKLY INTEIt-OCEA- 15 rents ner INTKR-OCEA20 cents per year VAIL.X 1ATER-OCEA80 cents per year Fuecial arrantrenients made with conntrv niih-llshers for clubblrg with their publications. sample copies tree. Money can be setit by draft, money order, express, er registered letter, at out "-ta- A.U., 1876. n KAILWAY. , UO JL XiJ iJi and Mcohboou Liki. mkxts. But we nave the experience of over years of trial, with the most sub thirty etaat AlreBults.aad by a mulktudj of witnesses. If the Liniment is tiot ts recommended, the CLAlttXP "Slap me , ALSO 17 Supt. 84-t- f. wne FRxi copy with every clue or twenty. an- another small bunch and the prospect seemed dropped, when suddenly an old honey good, maker, who hod been in the business before, soared upward. George shut up oue eye quick, gave' one terrific surge on the old rusty saw, get out of at oue jump, and his , that tree anxious mother caught one glimpsa of him as he flew around the corner of the barn twenty rods away. But poor old Silas! The bees ' enme down, and he thought the bunch was as big as a haystack now. They did not go into the hive, but they went through his overcoat and as if these had been only mosquito bars, and they climbed up the inside of his pants legs, and the old gent danced as he had never dinccd before; and he slapped his lops as he never allowed any one else to slap them, and his Voice toweied high above the clatter ot the tin pans and . the shrieks of little Silas as he yelled; "Throw water on mel throw water ' on met soak me, wet me dawn!" He rolled three or four times over in the grass, and sprang up, shout- - II. B. CLAWS0N, FACTOR r ollarB It ICES, COto coo CCP6th CONGRESS STS., AND WAREROOMS, MICHIGAN. . ESTAB & PE71 AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY COUNiT 18HKD IN 1850. Address, Simmons & Clouoh ( roan Co., Pxtroit, Micbioas- - |