Show I i f I I I I I I I I 1 HOMESPUN N of YARNS ARNS Y A suburban contemporary co announced the other morning that a tramp named s had been taken to St Marks larks Ital with a 11 badly injured head but t it It i f Is is net nt lt believed wilt will be necessary nece n sary it Is true that there has h hs as been a great grea in medical science s during the age and it Ms equally tS true t rue that the staff physicians at the tho In S named deserve d re credit for nr a art g rt reat many marty successful surgical s operations tr there t is said aad d to be no probability of their removing r the patients head Not immedi at any rate Stroe his return rAtum a short time ime t ago word has reached Josh Davis DavisI that one of the Blue church candidates is sunning gunning with a horse pistol for Josh It H t appears that the young man woo Is the Je t son BOn of a prominent ago attorney but who is roughing it at Mercur Mer ur for his health was waa played for a ft sucker from The start but being beine bel undecided as to what course ourse c he should pursue wired his lathe father Shall 1 join the BJ lodge The father answered By all means mears rs join Oln the Blue lod He Ji iVan as accordingly put through the degrees accordingly of Josh in tn one on evening and not until recently dk dl he learn Jarn that was wasa a distinction between blue lodge a branch of Masony and Il Blue church Hence the horse hor e pistol wI Josh maintains however that It it was not his fault that the candidate candida te got the title mixed in his dispatch to papa When at Bingham President Pre Evans of I the United States Mining company as ever was on the alert lert to learn every loophole where economies in mining could i ue be e in IB In looking over the books kept by Mr Wilkinson the store keeper wh ln was charged char ed th tb the supplies and materials Used u in each mine Ine Old Jordan Niagara Nia ra and Old Telegraph lie lle was wa amazed at the great feat number of or boxes of candles candle consumed It seemed this was far too much artificial light and lit it was wu too costly and ap d he could not nor get it of off his mind A little later lter as the party was about to start for the Old Telegraph he be was overheard to speak to Mr Kelly on this topic of candies candles Mr extravagance in candles candies surprises me i 1 cannot see why he dont save Ve candles by working two or three times tim S as s many men in the day time and an fewer re er at night Sergeant Oscar f the late battery A was not always a nor I has bas ne no forever held down a stool in the recorders office At one on time the se ser sergeant geant was in the theatrical business Many lany of his chums remember an elaborate ate production p of Uncle Un le Toma Cabin on back porch many mrm years ears ago was manager hero slave Little Eva and Topsy all ail in one but even then was not content When the auction of Uncle Tom began Oscar led off with witha a bid of for him rind MId when some ome someone one went him better Oscar of o OOOO The bidding was quite lively for a time but the young man nian playing Legree the slave siave trader could not conceive con elve figures greater graster gr lter than Uan Oscars and the latter walked off triumphantly with Un le Tom seriously interfering with the th lot of o the drama |