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Show t V jy I, 'what's the use uv' foolin'? " Foolin' shout w hat T sajs che. Aboiit me anJ you.' a s I. ISAX 8TEBB1N3 r " I ain't a rnnY' says she. 3s "hy TT od3a The know It.' a You I. on aiuTyeu air,' looking girl 'Lf you don't lik- - me, Lem Skaggs,' rassy Lick, wlth-heln- g ramik a she. bridlin' up ail over, 'ou kin ou to stop, I didn't ably beautiful, for go 'long beauty Is not a no- did V c ticeable charat '"lint I do I'i.e von. Su-asajs I. ami trviu' to pull the of mountain giuln' hkeiii or gale op( n bo's I could git clos t enough hi women, young aud bo she to her to ( oax In r had ever feme to "1 mien you tike Mary Flnnet a to a wr wonder tne, Lew sight lnl'rr, sues she, hoUlia the gate Skaggs marry for Lem 3i b all odds the homeliest ag in' nu'I rei kon I don't.' says I. and I man on tbe Lirk. anti homeliness is a harartertrtfc of jnonnta'urncn. I knew tool I fee! the gate give a lUtle. ef Lrm quite well, and ttn I aak d my ' "'You wouldn't talk that she wuz in bearin' distant e, says she. Question he blushed and grinned, She was tuck b) toy good looks." he 'Wouldn't says I. and I heaved laughed. and sot on the gate, hut it didnt move "ilJ31dnt - you court her pretty hard" a peg 'You J'st feti h her up here oud ejjjj j.- aD(j j0 ,jrett a ()ng jneatij gee ef I wouldnt.' a of relief at the 'No, ou go dow n thar,' sa) s she. thought of Its btlng over. Well. I should so I did. Why, Thars wharjut von started fer. I come mighty nigh mortglgin' the " I didn't do nothin' uv the sort, farm to git her things the didn't stem says I giitin desprtier every minute. to want when I give em to lut ' 'You told me )ou did,' says rhe, and What did you give her?" I could feel the gate give some aad then "Everything, Cedent I. It got so had shet up ag'ln toYtlg the last tho folks at the stoie 'You oughter know, Suaan,' sas Ii told me cf l'd lump my Healin' they eerlom that I was J.st and I Teckoned they could let me have 'em at coull feel the gate way and wholesale prices ' shettin' and then glvin' way agin. "She couldn't eland your librrallty, " 'An' you aint ivlnnow, says Lem. That's what got her. she, a heap sight softer thin any tlrao "Nof a bit uv It," be continued. "All In her life. the time I was takin' her all sorts uv .Course I ain't, Susan, says I, and things, ilie wju rankin' ees at every the gate tomo open about six indies, teller that come- aloag. and sorter " Ef I only thought you wuzn't, Lem, pectin' me t keep up iry end uv the says she, lettln' the gate slip my way a swingle tree, JIt caw 1 kinder seetmd leetle more every minute. to hanker atter doin If that a way.' ?Yon know 1 ain't. Susan. says I, Out yott kept atLF1 y it. "I reckon not," he laughed "All uv glvin the gale the strongest pull I never sudden I aot In fer Mary Finnel, and 'You know It, and you know give a snap uv ray finger fer any other gve the store folks a rest on buy In'." "Then what happened?" I Inquired, gal In these part, and that all the time atter you and with a hope that I would now get some Ive been for but you kep' wantin wife, my you luformxtlon, bustin lie laughed a I&, gurgling laugh, foolin' with me all along and such as a boy would give vent to when my heart mighty nigh, and maltin' mo down on caught la rumn of bis natural dcpirda want to go off and chop a tree myself. You know It, Susan, you know i lion "Well," he aald, "she kinder swapped It, and she hialed her hands and J.he ends on t'other fellers, and swung gate swung wide open. What about Mary?' says she, round my way, but I wuznt glvin' a Inch, and I didn't have no talk with her standln thar before me lookin sweet-er'- n for nilghty nigh two weeks, and then peaches and roses. one evenin' as I wut pausin' her house Hang Mary,' says I, dean forgittin on my way to Mary's, and she koowed my manners, and I retch out both hands H, I seen her bangin' on the gate lookin' for Susan. out Into the future, cr somethin' uv , Oh, Lem! says she, and well, that sort that I seen a p icier uv onc't Colonel," he langhed, as hi" honest face an agent wua Bellin'. reddened lieneath Its safTron hue, I reekon you're old enough to know tho balance." I wouldn't be surprised, Lem." I replied. blushing just a shade myself as a memory or two came slowly back from the rosy past. He looked up smiling. And say. Colonel, he said, I wuzn't any pur tier that night than I wuz before'" dtome oft, LemuelVaild I. slapping . him on the back, it was so dark Susan iuldnt see jou." A. MOUNTAIN' IUYf, a-- u. ter-lai- - , v ' I' - f X 4f - , j if CHILDREN BV TMK DOZEN. Famine. In Ifirwukn Ilnv Inch ) Twelve Deceeadante. Mrs. Matilda Craig, who Uvea near SaW Hill, Lewis county, Ky., Is the oldrst child of a family of twelve children. Her mother was the youngest chthkof a dozen children, Mrs. Craig Is the mother of a dozen children, and all three 'of these families bad a pair of twins. Mrs. Craig was born May 3, 1S28, In, Bath county, and lf she lives to see May 3 next she will have been married 60 years. Her children and grandchildren hnd one have made arrangements to bold a ft the old homestead on this fiftieth anniversary day golden wedding of their parents, and the event Is looked forward to with pleasure and dolight A number of ministers who bRve at the marriage of the children have accepted Invitations to be present, and prayers, and songs, and reminiscence and tears of Joy will be mlngisd together. "YOU AIN'T LYIN NOW, LEM?" Ooodyenla aayi I, not offerin to atop. " Good evenlnV fays she, "Pear to me you're In a powerful hurry. 'Kinder, says I, slackin up some. I promised to be down to Mary t 'bout this time,' She kinder looked down at the ground when 1 told her that, and kicked a little rock out of the path that wua lay in' thnr, and I felt like a aheep-ateall- n' do fer say In wbat I had, reckon you'd better by hurryln along then, for Mary aint the kind that likes to he kep waitin, eays she. .! a pose. say T, 'that you don't keer ef I atop and talk to you frr a It. 111. Jaw llrok.n In Joking VY.y minute, do you R. E. Fratt. a prominent grain dealer 'I ain't keerln what you do, say v of Chicago, Is known as a practical Jokshe. kinder aullen. You look like you wua expectin er. Akendlng In an elevator with Mr. somebody yerslf,' say a I, fcelln' cx ef Parker the other day Mr. Pratt gave hU "1 1 I friend a Ihtlr tap on thw shoutder and wuz. turned aside with an innocent look to"That's what,' srya she, and I felt ward the top of the elevator shaft. Mr. rnoren ever like chokin eoraebody Parker, who Is a tall and heavily built Who Is It?-- ay I, wathln' tbe man, was standing close to Mr. Pratt streak uv a laugh 'round her mouth whoa the little joke was perpetrated, and eyea. " Thats fer me to know and yon to aad turning suddenly to see who touched, brought his elbow around with find out, nays ahe, laughin right out. a powerful swing. It caught Mr. Pratt I reckon Ill be goln' to dirt-tly under the chin and broke h!i In Mary', mjs I, think that I vtirn'l jaw in two places. tnakln nothin hangln' round Susan. Mobbe you wouldnt ef you know'd MINERALS. who wua cornin', gays she, kinder reachln over the gate. The zircon has been found in Calime.' aays I, 'and nee ef fornia, I'll aUy.1- :LThe opal has been found In New f reckon not. ay she, still me, mebbe they wouldn't like it! Mexico. Green crocidpUte it found la New Who they I' says J. "She give a little chuckle, and I come Mexico. Alabaster exists in seventeen differup to the gate and reseed my hands on ent states It to one side uv her'n. " Pup and mother, aays she. They've The Venus hatr stone ts found In New gone down to the schoolhouae to Mexico, Rose quartz is found In Colorado and prvachln' and won't ho back tell clock.' Montana. Rhode Island In 1S9 produced 500 'Aint you kinder lonesome waitin hyer by yerself, Susan T saya I, half tins of coaj. . wajMryln1 to pull the gate open, but - Our total product of zinc in 1S90 was she held It shot. 63.CSJ tons. 7 I reckon I wui, says she, That's Marble is said to exist In twenty-fou- r why I came out and hung on the gate. of our states. L a mighty still like la the house. Serpentine exlsts ln New England You reckon you wur gays I. Aint and Virginia. you now? and 1 chuckled to myself for Coral, white end red, ts found on the - - - ' ketch in' her. -- r . Florida coaster z. zz- Praps I am p'r'apa I aint, she The chrysoprase has been found In . sniggered, and tossed her head. North Carolina. "I tried to open the gate, but she Jet has been discovered in A dozen held it sheL different places. ! Ef you want me to stay, why don't you say so? aayt I, gettln' ugly. TIs greatly wise to talk with our past 1 reckon you kin er you want to hours. And ask them what report they bore te pays she, mighty pesky, ( heaven. . great-grandchi- ld olfi-clat- ed vl n ( I n FAMOUS x J JUVEH A STRANGE MIN. EXPERIENCE. t Only Siull llwili riiMileroofb.w, l,ut t!the e Hnnifred Ki.nrry tiA Available to female missionaries offend SOCIAL IDEAS. MooBollan. Consider Women Inferior anil Quickly Ink. lmlir(. When They AttiMk Their Religion ( UIJ irnlirn of omen A troclouk f bine. Bedouins ever held as American s'avs, lWyau.1 Mor !ur" Attr- - whiles away the hours of Uls declining . years by thinking of the Presidents whose personal fileudshlp he has enfor he has known all the Presijoyed, EARING the mou h of the River Mm, j dents since Andrew Jackson, and wrs once a servant in. the family of James from 1tm MANUFACTURE V HE distressing massacre of women in inlsstonar i e s China has called forth many expressions of opinion that women should not be encouraged by the societies that nt.ssion-ar- y oiganize tflort to go to posts, end happily this view means for the presem, to he accepted by the societies Probably, Indeed, women missionaries aitjact special dislike fioni foieigti men in Just the same spirit of masculm douiination that actuates Wealeans hero in voting against worn n member of their conference. Of ionise toth Coufudans. the BmUlM., and the 3io- bammedans their own iei,'on is d certainly the one and oulv t e revela tlon from heaven as Chi .stianu.v is to the missionary tins mnv be difficult for lls to realize, but it must be reaped if the case is to be understood. P is of fenslve, therefore, for the honest devotee of one of these heathen lalths to hear his religion attai ked and as a baseless. Immoral. nd evil superstition. It must be doubly offen- sive to bear his faith so.attacV.ed by a the'eea, there K. Polk. The old man is a genuine appears to be no Bedouin In appearance. He Is almeit entrance thrift aH of moan-- , black, but his white hair and heavy izt tains wtu-- guard beard ero perfectly straight. Ills eyes are small and keen, his nose is clear cut the coast. TUf and he has all the peculiarities comgateway is there mon to the sens Of the desert, except however, and pokhe has always led a quiet. Indusing thiough it o:i that marleaves Sharp peak trious life. Three times he has when was he ried times gold three and Mdinl on the right and proceed up the a slave. He is the father of four chilblr.im dren, but supposes them to be all dead conirat Peak Isa bill, about S.'imp wl-'li are. bullt the i.; t , except a sou. from whom he never Pet high, ou "thirteen jears the and tlK cable hia-t- i hears. For the last sauitailums nni.uv been a laborer at Pullman, man has old of the hill are beauti-The slopes in but was hurt by fulling from a car last full) ttria.ed from the summit to tne May, and has not since worked, says as i are s indeed the most of w.iu dge, San Fran Itico Jo&t, hill-in the immediate vicinity of For-- 1 was born in Tennessee, He . Haddex t how This is done to enable the know his exact age, but says does net on them rice, which trnurs to grow that he was a young man when Andrew must be pl.iuttil under water. Jackson was first elected to the presiHctween siharp Peak and Pagoda alxty-seve- n years ago. Jackseventeen miles up the river, i dency, was not far from Had-d-x- 's son's plantation the mountains twke again close in and master's, and Haddex, who knew t hi eaten to bar approach, thus forming well, tells an amusing anecdote Jackson n and the the Kim-Ppasses, j about Old Hickory. These passes are hardly half a mile said Haddex, General Jackson, wide, and formidable forts frown dowu was a mighty line man, and treated These forts, if on pHssers through. properly manned and equlpped. wrouhi he impregnable. In going up the river from Pagodi n amhorage to Foochow one passes (Drum Mountain), 3,200 feet high, on whit h is situated a famous Buddhist monastery. Foorbow is thirty miles from iho the females of his fcmUj . this amm- oriver's mouth, and is the head of even for Ch'nese junks, and all lty towards effort' made to pl.lce women in antagonism to him, war European steamers and sailing vessels naively expressed at the tongieisof Restop at Pagoda ar.choiage, thirteen ligions in Chicago. A ically capital lades below. Above Foochow the traveler must paper on Confucianism was contributed by the chief secretary of the Chi. t pioceed by small boat and can follow nL nese Legation at Washington, and even this Intelligent person explained that to attempt to convert women to Christianity was equally atrocious with sheltering crime. "If such a practice as giving religious Instruction directly to women and girls, or as screening the wicked from the pursuit of justice be allowed this will have the effect of driving away all who value filial piety, propriety, sincerity, truth, and rectitude, and who have a sense of shame. The same writer tells us the husband is recognized iu Chinese religion as thq master of the wife, tn the tame degree as hcavem Is of earth, and the sovereverybody, even the slaves, with com- eign Is of the subject; that the State mon courtesy, I knew the General well takes no care of female education, since and he always spoke to me. One day as It rests with the nead of each family I was going along the road In Tennesto do as he please with regard to Its see I met General Jackson, who was female members; and that so thoroughriding out with another white gentle- - ly is the responsibility, and therefore mam As was customary for slaves, I the power, of the father and husband took oT my hat as the carriage passed. carried that the men actually bear the General Jackson returned the complipenalty of any offenses done by the ment and spoke to me very pleasantly. woman! A woman burning incense in What, General, cried his companion, the cloisters shall be punished with do you speak and take of? your hat to but the punishment is infiictel stripes, a nigger? 'Why, of course,' replied vicariously namely: on the hbad of the THE CHINESE STREAM THAT Jackson, 'I can't allow a colored man family to whleh she belongs. This printo have more manners than I. Poor FLOWS THROUGH of the Chinese law is applicable old General Jackson." continued the ciple THE SCENE OF THE not only to thlH case, but also to all vioold man, I reinemeber when they burRIOTS, lations of law in which the offender Is the river for something like 300 miles, led him down yonder In old Tennessee, a ferotle person." This is truly a lively the scenery growing grander and and this here hickory cane of mine was prospect for. the Chinese husbands and cut from a tree above his grave. fathers! No wonder they require their grander. Sheer cliffs, hundreds of feet For many years James K. Polk lived women to have high, rl3e in places from the water's crippled feet In order Just across the road from Haddcxa that their goings-o- n edge. Rocks of unique formation stand may be easily master in Columbia, Tenn. Haddex' out from 50 to 60 feet high, while on No wonder that they teach supervised! the other bank will be seen a gentle elder brother, who is still living in Co- their women a precept of Confucius, was Polks body servant, and that Sir John slope, covered with feathery bamboos, lumbia, Bowring thus translated: A man should never talk about what which wave gracefully in the breeze, served his master In the White House and look like giant green ostrich during Polk's presidency. Later on Asa happens his ow'n home within; but for himself became a servant iu the Polk a woman tis a sin to know of what plumes. Still further up the river the moun- family. Among the Presidents whom takes place without. This Is enough tains are covered with dense forests, Haddex has known Intimately are: to indicate how particularly objectionwhere game of all kinds abound, -- rang Jackson, Van Buren, Wiliam Henry able Christian missions specially adHarrison. Polk, Tyler and Fillmore. He dressed to Chinese women must seem to ing In size from the royal Bengal tiger and wild boar to tlnud little deer and has had conversations with Lincoln, the true believer in the national reliBuchanan and Andrew gion, and how hopeless must be the monkeys, the latter being found in Grant, Pierce, Johnson, and has shaken hands with "warfare to which tbe great numbers. missionary soCleveland and Harri- cieties send Christian women In fact, the attractions offered by this Hayes, Garfield, at the ith also-wthe late Secretary beautiful country are equal for the son, and peril of their lives. Mrs. Fenwlck-MIl-le- r G. and other James Blaine presidential In London Illustrated sportsman and lover of mtu-- e In her s- Haddex has been mnanoT "grdndej- - moods, and, liaTing been it. candidateone has something to remember for the herdiWin strength and build. In his DHotletl or DUhonext. prime he conld carry a bale of cotton on It Is common obsmation that men rest of his life. his back. How his ancestors were cap- kiay have much ability and much tured he does not know, but he always j knowledge of certain kinds, with the A Exrhanga JllnUtrr'. rrijr.r, knew that he came from a different faculty of ready expression which Is so Some little time ago the mini er tribe than other elavea. His father, he u;:ful to politicians and public men, from Scarboro, Me., exchanged pulpita was a peculiar man, and, even without having the power of clear and with the minister from Sacarappa, in says, a slave, managed to secure a logicalTeasonlng. They may have perth same state. When the Saearappa though sum of silver money, with which versities of intellect and defects of large minister arrived at Scarboro he wak met he Intended to purchase his family's moral sense, which make them less "Mr. by a deacon, who said to him but tblrprtrllege was refused capable of reaching sound conclusions y do I that in jour freedom, Jones, hope Haddex lives all alone with his than the "plain people, who need only him. prayer you will make an evpvial effort third wife, a eo'mely 14 4ady,-w- ho is to understand a subject to he about for rain. Our crops are being destroye 1 His his Is right in thetr Judgment of it. Fanatics Junior. mind several years and I can see nothing but dpsolatum and he bears up remarklike Bland, of Missouri, are generally here. So when the minister was about perfectly clear, under his burden ot years. well ably but irrational. In brains that sincere, he said. making hts petition, Oh, are strong but not wholly sound deluLord, I pray Thee that Thou eenldst sion takes deeper hold than In those Long rrl by K mploy.it. send copious rairs upon the soil of A remarkable case of long service by that are weaker but more t. nearly Scarboro, that It may bring forth a in a description of a Are these able and experienced Ubuntifurharvest, and that the pee ,. employes appears brass factory In Haydenvllle. Mass. Out men. who formed tbe nucleus of the 111 be made glad, and Oh, Lord! they of 265 men in the employ of the com111 b.esa Washington silver convention and were you for It I desrire, Oh, Lord, 155 have been IS Us service for responsible for the fiasco in which it to taie that I malce this petition in the pany or longer. Among these aro resulted, still deluded on the subject of ten years name of the good people of Searlwj), twenty-seve- n men whose terms of em- free coinage And Its effects? The only for Oh, Lord. I know that Thou, in Thy from twenty to thirty alternative supposition Is that they are range divine wisdom, will say It is not rsin ployment ten have been In the same works not honest,-an-d fo seekieg te derive that the soil of Scarboro needs, ft Is years; or forty years, and six have soma advantage for themselves from s for thirty more top dressing. , been there for forty years or longer. policy that would surely be disastrous The longest continuous service was , to the country Th. TJlfl, Old. forty-thre- e years, with hardly a day of , Just as circulation was about to ceaae Interruption Such facts are creditable IMpth of th Baa. Small boys often ask their parents, she' Impulsively nestled upon the other to both sides, How deep is the sea? The answer deknee. : Edward. pend entirely upon the sea The FolTh. jok.r Jolt'S. A practical Joker has Just received lowing table, compiled by one who has Darling. Tell me the old, old story, Edward. his deserts at Babylon, N, Y. Jle 1 investigated, may help one ts the solu-- 1 For a moment he was ellent. thought It a droll Idea to induce a f tlon of one of the small boy's problems; He was rapidly revlesfng the situa- friend to drink hartshorn on the Average depth In yards: Pacific, 4,232; that it was gin. The vic- t Atlantic, 4,026; Indian, 3.638; Antarctic, tion, and trying to decide which was the older, the tim had different views on the subject. 3,000; Arctic, 1.690; Mediterranean, apple story, or the story of the tramp He also had a horsewhip and he lashed ij 1.476; Irish, 240; English channel, 110; Adriatic, 45; Baltic, 43. and the home-mad- e pte. Joker vigorously. le i- J h -- t' 1 ai Min-Nga- Ku-sha- rfavl-gntio- i , ? tb. Only lUtKtal TraUa, A commission appointed by the French Government ha, been investigating the manufacture of matches, with the object of ascertaining If thero was not some substance whose substitution for phmphorus would render that Industry one in which men and women could engage without becom'ng the victims of horrible and fatal forma of poisoning.' The commission has just made its report, and the conclusions reached hy It are of grest Interest. There Is, the commission says, nothing tuat can replace phosphorus as a quick snd convenient means to 'start BbustIon. Other chemical woud, ine deed, be safer for the emplojes, m even is of tin approximately safe or Useful from the standpoint of the public. It Is evident, therefore, that the use of phosphorus must continue; but, though that is the case, it by no means follows that the manufacture of matches must be at thekost of hundreds of lives evtrj veer. Ey Using proper pi cautions, tbe commissioner declare, in the ventilation of factories, in the btrudtue of machines and in the id1 vonal habta of the vvoikpcople. prac-- 1 tic ally all the dnnger can bd removed. In the best legulatej establishments measiires'hpte already been taken that mt aa to the diseases that a enro!fJ aniJ urisciontlflc use of phosphorus proJaces in those that handle it. Adequate safeguard against neccosis and blood poisoning are known and in use Others persist by some manufacturers in the old ways, and their employes continue to die, also in the old way. A ot 1110 report is Us as sertion that the match factories owned and conducted by the French Government itself are precisely those In which the conditions are tbe worst, while many private companies have already made their premises models of arrangement and method, as healthful to voik h !n as cofl bta, the allumctLs de la regie were the worst In tho world, but perhaps the labois of this bo!d and outspoken commission will result in improving the official matches as well as the places where they are made. but-non- ,us'n v FOO-CitO- to-da- nor-ma- , - on .u MATCHES. OF Fho.jboru ImhI to lie tb. Orwmtsoa ct of IWdottln ( hlef. ImiTottage at 7337 Eilis avenue Ara Iladdex, over eighty years old, grandson of a Bedouin chief whose descendants were' probably the only family of fjt.rotlns History attractive Jo sportsman and lover of nature. LIKE WOMEN. DON'T ( urioim Fat of Sclfnit. A new lead for deet sea rounding per- ries a cartridge which explodes on A submerged touching the bottom. microphone receives the sound and tlio depth Is estimated from the time occupied by the lead in sinking to the bottom. When leeches were kept in every chemist's shop and often in private houses their behavior w as subject to constant observation, and it was generally noticed that in still weather, dry or wet, they remained at the bottom, but rose, often as much as twenty-fou- r hours in advance, before a change, and In case of a thundu'Ftorm rose very quickly to the surface, descending when It was pasL Spiders are met with in the forests of Java whose webs are so strong that-i- t requires a knife to cu through them. A spider weighing four pounds, which has taken up his residence in a cathedral at Munich, regales herself with a large A Texas spider 3uppiy of lamp oil. weaves a balloon four feet long and two feet wide, which she fallens to a tree by a single thread, then marches on hoard with her half doz n litt'e ones, ruts the thread ami awav goes the airship to some far distant point on the prairie. We have it on the authority of the Brooklyn Eagle that smoke never does issue from a volcano. Nor does fire. The red light seen above the crater is no flamo. It Is the glow of molten lava reflected on the under side of the clouds of Just. And the clouds of dusL are never mixed with smoke. Thete are bursts of steam sometimes, but rocks do not burn as wood dues, and give oJT tho d carbon dust that we know as smoke. The pictures of eruptions in the geographies of our youth are wrong, and so are reports from Prescott, Ariz., that smoke is Issuing from one of the peaks of the Harque Haia range, thus indicating "that an active volcano Is developing A very curious pheromenon hi3 been much commented upon in the German f. pres?, saj s the Phl'a'bdphTa Record.-ProK. G. Fiedler, who las been investigating the appetence of fulgurites for many y earc,. haj recently received two specimens, which are the largest he has ever seen. Their origin is due to lightning etriking a bank of sand. This action of lightning Is explained in tho following way: The heat of the electric disuka.-gmolts tho quartz to a uld trass, which becomes The shape Is solid after cooling off. very odd. branching and forking out, tapering toward the cbIs. These fulgurites are hollow their entire length, the forked ends pointing downward where found. They, ore from seven tv hine feet long, and their end3 reoefeed Into very wet sand, where nil traces of the lightning ceased. finely-divide- omHhln; H 'Needl'd. Have you got anyth nr that' good for a man with a darn bad case of chronic "rheumatism? inquired the customer at the country drug store. ' the conscientious "Yes, sir, druggist, handing him a tract entitled: 0 Sin Sick Soul, Repent and Be ' Healed. sour-looki- rg FmrKff in tb f hnln Cl mr Rev. J. Murray has been sentenced to the chain gang In Murray county, Gx, For violation of the state liquor law The preacher eloped with a widow not long since. ..... . Bicycles have seriously affected the When a girl la asked piano trade. which she prefers for a present, a she piano or a bicycle. In- most cases ' chooses the bicycle -- |