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Brief certificates of some of those cured by Royal Germetuer
Texas-B' ----' Ge"- A. T. Hawthorne
Texas. ■ Cured bleeding X X Baltimore, Md,: “Cured of
piles anddyspepsia of sixteen .dfjjMBMlML dyspepsia diabetes, rheuma-
>eais standing-; My baby, tism and general prostration.”
ten months old, cured of boils; J!||W| Ml T t r 1 a i
■r i , . r , ’ JKIlllll J ■ J • -Durk, Arkansas City,
wife cured of general fema e K . ttr y’
trouble.” Ml fR Kas-- ‘Cured of diabetes,
anc^ propose to devote my life
L-. B. Chilton, of Marlin., §||jjjj^ 1 to spread of Germetuer s
Texas, prince merchant of merits.”
Central Texas: “Cured of L. D. Collins, M. D,
Zephyr, Texas: “Cured of
paralysis caused by excessive
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rjA J. LAROEN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Lampasas, Texas.
Humphreys
BsaaKagHaBaaBawaaiaiwH js
nasal catarrh of twenty years
standing.”
Rev. Marshall Mcllhany,
Lampasas, Texas: “Cured of
dyspepsia — would not take
ten thousand dollars for what
it has done for me.
jp BOSEMAN KING,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office Below Mo >rehs Drug Store,
Lampasas, Texas,
J L. LINCEOUM,
physician and surgeon.
Oilice beJo\v Moore’s drug store,
LAMPASAS, TEX.
use of tobacco.
Prof. W, P, Griffin, Center
Point, Ark.: “Cured of ca-
DR. C TTkING ^rrh 1the stomach> dysyep-
Discoverer of (Royal Germetuer. s^dtg^^ m“y y6arS
•'wuut'V! . SlcUlUlIlg.
Rev. J. F. Elder, Bend, Texas; “The best nerve tranquilizer I ever saw.’
JQR. W, S. BECHTOL,
SURGEON DENTIST.
Office over Hurlbut & Semple’s, - -
LAMPASAS, TEX
ISIS?,"5
lead
OUR FLACi.
- * .50
.......1.00
-J Bed. .50
itationl.00
:reS~£S
!®®sneis ,greetedult with a cheer- which was re-
sponded to with their last breath by the loyal
captain and his men.)
Across the peach blow sky of spring
The storm dark clouds are looming;
With sullen voice the breakers ring,
The thunder loudly booming.
The huddled war ships ride apace,
Each at her anchor straining;
Black, black is all of heaven’s face;
It lightens ’twixt the raining.
Like crumpled rose leaves the mist edge
The hidden reef enwreathing,
But cruel as hell the jagged ledge
Beneath those waters seething.
CL A. Snow & Co, attorneys at law,
Washington, D. €,, write?
cWaAfiiLi-MoiT, T. 6 Luc 20, ’89
C. R, KING, ESQ.: J ’
„ • Dear SK:---Yours of the 15th inst. recieved. The words
“l1LC/Pbe kllle.r are not ProPer subject matter for a trade mark
and the patent office eannot, under the iaw, grant a trade mark
for words like these, which are purely descriptive. You have a
right to use those words and no one has a right to monopolize them,
as they are public property. If the court granted an injunction
against you for their use it was certainly through ignorance or
misapprehension. If we wished to use the word “microbe killer”
USf 'Vn e*te"siyel3r we pleased and defy the so-called
injunction. In the first place the court of Travis county is not a
coin t that has jurisdiction of trade marks and the idea of its is-
suing an injunction against anyone using a brown or gray iust
sounds so ridiculous that we must believe it is a joke. g y J
Yours Truly, C. A. SNOW & CO.
TT _ Patent Attorneys-
Use Dr. King’s Liver Blood and Kidney Pills, Companions to
xioyal Germetuer.
j^R. J. U. BIERBOWER,
DENTIST,
Office opposite Courthouse; North side
Square, over Coleman’s Saddlery store. 6-8-tf
G WALKER,
ATTORNEYS-AT-L A W,
Lampasas, Texas.
IVTATTHEWS & WOOD, f J. C. MATTHEWS
AtX ( LEWIS WOOD.
HI RES
25* HIRES’ IMPROVED 25c
ROOT BEER!
IN LIQUID NO BOILING EASILY MADE
THISPACKAGE MAKES FIVE GALLONS
fcoof'
BIEi
The most APPETIZING and WHOLESOME
TEMPERANCE DRINK in the world. Tltv IT,
LAWYERS,
Lampasas, Texas)
B. ABNEY,
(Successor to Acker & Abney.)
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Lampasas, Texas.
Civil Practice Exclusively.
Ask your Drug-g-ist or Grocer fo-r it.
€** E, HIRES, PHILADELPHIA.
On, on they come, the poor dumb things,
The storm winds fiercely driving;
At her dread work each breaker sine-^ '
For conquest madly striving..,- ’
If we must die”—tlie'teader’s voice
i( Outswelledtjlie roar of thunder—
‘It is oupown and solemn choice
ie our dear flag under.
“For us today the battle field
Is where the seas are lying.
We claim a right we cannot yield,
Tp glory in our dying.”
He ceased; upon the topmost mast
The Stars and Stripes were floating.
The sight is like a trumpet blast, °
And other ships quick noting,
Up to the sky there sounds a cheer
That starts the echoes flying.
Back comes the answer, loud and clear
From gallant hearts, though dying.
A moment’s space, the waves in brine
Baptize the flag low lying,
And from the breakers comes no sign
Of living or of dying
O flag, dear flag, once more thy name.
As always in thy story,
Has set a thousand hearts aflame
■nw —-i «— • )ry
Harper’s Bazar.
For thee and for thy glory
—Annie Bronson King in Hs
BOYER’S STRATAGEM.
J" L. LEWIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
■Lampasas, . . . Texas.
Office witli District Attorney, up-
stairs in Court House.
«bSSK5HI!:R,S ENGLISH
PlimOYAL FILLS
BED CS0S2 DIAMnwn bmmu *
^^^riPboa' M ffi’ueeists. Accept
J'o other. All pills in paste-
V /A Pjjrnenlars and “Belief for f»
.noniaT^oG flDKS'Oio^aTO^ised'thlnn!1’ Name^Paper.***1"
iThe Unvarnished Truthi
DR. KING’S ROYAL GERMETUER;
Mr. Badam has a medicine to sell whether eood or Bad i dn nnt cuies> but in wondeiful sales as well,
trying to pull some one else down? I knowI hafe agoodmedicine .f2r-a?an bonest man 1 camiot ^ord to rise by
5SiCTSE*“P; ana is now .Sparing' to cross ti« Sand
vc/ A IVL/C/tU Ul UJJV .
who can have nothing against me, (except that
seems to he wonderfully exercised at the un-
merits of our respective medicines, he resorts to the “Frail,” “ini So?’ aid SwS t0 R?et n-le *ac.e to faca upon the
^ «««•«»smnS-‘xriih a
^f^THE FACTS IN THE CASF.^ riw
tion), supposing 1 Iiad aStlNfettewords'cnrrantinMw liigfisManiuage1^buTuo?!fiTrirS'LNn’eiiJs(”0t Fre"'!,1 i,ITen"
fped to enjoin me from using brown or grey jugs, but I knew iny father A up2 hA registered trade mark. (He also
mily and of the King name, had used broVn and grey jn|s^ ?,each brandy^and SfiU ll1lus1tlioas Physicians in the King
yes beheld the light of day). I at once notified Mr, Badam through my attorney tnlt T had J?6 naik beRre Mr’ Radam’s infant
and there was no need of injunction, nor did I know that an injunction had been andoiifa use of Microbe Killer
wavingwthemame Microbe Killer, 1 coined the word Germetuer' and resSSS A J £Lm0nths atter l1: was 8ranted. On
BOl AL GERMEIUER, m the use of which I am protected by the patent laws’of the^Tffifpd for my medicine,
on and enjoined me from using his registered trade mark, and now it seems lie did so fS' •Radam> however, went
as a kind of cheap advertising. GERMETUER needs no such advertising we •esInt Un, Si? V!'a?e the writ of i«Juuction
of those who have been cured by our great discovery. I want also to inform SlemihlfP,c/®Je.nt.ials t° respect the certificates
against my medicine, but simply against using the words MiUho 1T aRbe injunction granted Mr. Radam
ROYAL GERMETUER is an original discovery of mire a well arvano-pH ni ■ R Killer. I want the world to know that
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bs o]ioSs"iKOT\dVefe?to 'S^traS thePm'tt S1°Ph' bjt lf “BeSSai-s(?) might
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FIRE AND ACCIDENT
INSURANCE AGENT,
LAMPASAS, TEXAS.
Office 1st Floor, Rear First National Bank.
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Fresh Oysters Always on Hand.
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country,
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Mtage ““T Y"5 th6m' Tllls "'orW Is
suffering humanity a remedy ior their ills, the greatest yet discovered ’ “ slai, i a,ul glorious one-that of giving to
S'OY'Ai.rj GEEMETITEE,
tr^tMe^dtArS»'Shed by the best ctieens of our town
\Yiti an earnest desire to bless mankind and do no wrong, I am sincerely yours
G f ’ KING,
Discoverer of Royal Germetuer
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CHAS. R. KING AND ROYAL GERMETUER:
To all to whom thesepresents Come:
and proprietor ofltoya^G^ a^ifizen^ouM^ that Wh kT?w -Dr’ C' R- King. the
the word, a man of ability and worthy of every confidence : ^ wn ^01 nine years! that he is a gentleman in eve
discoverer
every sense of
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lodging furnished.
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H. & T. C R. R. and 1. & G. N R. R
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LAMPASAS.
Prior to 1857 a large tract of lake ter-
ritory lying between the Upper Des
Moines and the Big Sioux rivers was in-
fested by one of the most villainous
bands of Indian outlaws which the In-
dian policy of the government has ever
called into being. It was the band of
eleven, led by Inkpaduta—Scarlet Point
-who in the winter of ’57 massacred a
ialf hundred settlers in their scattered
cabins about Okoboji, Spirit and Pelican
lakes, and carried a number of women
into a captivity far worse than death.
These Indians, disaffected Wapekuta
Sioux, had been outlawed from their
own tribe for the murder of their chief,
Tosagi. They were the pest and terror
of settlers in middle and western Iowa
fiom the time that scattering colonies
(list came in until tlieir depredations
and atrocities culminated in the Spirit
Lake massacre. On that occasion whole
settlements were annihilated, their in-
habitants being generally taken by sur-
piise and killed inside their snowbound
cabins.
Previous to this massacre, which re-
sulted in the capture and punishment of
a part of them and the disbanding of
the rest, these Indians subsisted by beg-
ging and plundering among the frontier
settlements, by hunting and fishing about
the northern lakes, and by a sort of black-
mail mpon the Wapekutas, whose village
was in the pipe stone region.
The village of Inkpaduta was on the
upper Des Moines, near the Minnesota
line. It was more than a hundred miles
from any settlement, until the ill fated
squatters of the Spirit lake tragedy set-
tled about the lakes. There were no
troops stationed within a week’s march,
and the frontier settlements were too
weak and scattered to offer organized
resistance.
Occasionally bold trappers, in spite of
numerous warnings of the danger, es-
tablished and maintained their trapping
grounds within the hunting circuit of
Inkpaduta s band. Among them was
Jake Boyer, a fearless frontiersman,
who went among Indians regardless of
danger one of the sort of adventurers
whom, strangely enough, the savages
seldom molested.
Jake knew Inkpaduta and his follow-
ers. He visited their village every fall
and spring to trade ammunition or
trinkets for furs.
On one of these excursions he carried
a double barreled rifle which he had
bought in Dubuque. It was a fine wea-
pon of German pattern, silver mounted,
and had cost him a hundred dollars.
The Indians were much taken with this
gun, and one of them, Feto Atanka (Big
Face), wanted to swap a pony for it.
Boyer told him that nothing less than
twenty-five prime mink skins would get
the gun, that when he could produce so
many whole skins, smooth and white in-
side, he would 6wap. These terms of
trade were made known by signs and by
the use of such simple English words as
the Indians understood.
A few months later, in autumn, Boyer
was visited at his cabin on the Ocheyedan
by several of Inkpaduta’s band, among
them Husan (One Leg), Makpi Opetu
(Fire Cloud, a son of the chief) and Big
Face. Boyer found them squatted in
front of his dugout upon the side of a
bluff as he came in from a morning
round of his traps. They rose as he ap-
proached with his rifle across his shoul-
der. After a friendly round of “How-
Hows!” Big Face drew from his blanket
a bundle of black looking skins. “Huh!”
said he. “Me bling urn mink, you give
um up gun. ”
Jake saw at once that the mink were
warm weather skins, and worthless. No
doubt they were the pelts of all the minks
taken or shot by the members of the
band during the summer and early fall
months, and had been intrusted to Big
Face in order that so fine a rifle might
belong to one of the band.
The trapper drew back and shook his
head in refusal to receive the skins. He
was about to explain what they perfectly
knew to be true, that the pelts were of
no account, when, with a sudden spring,
Big Face was upon him. The others in-
stantly sprang forward also, and Boyer’s
rifle was wrenched from him. When he
was forced to let go his gun he dodged
quickly into a thicket of bushes which
grew up to the door of his habitation.
The Indians fired several shots after
nim, but he was not harmed. He reached
fiis canoe, in which he kept a squirrel
rifle for shooting muskrat and other
small game, secured the weapon and
made his escape through the tall grass
of the bottom, whither the Indians did
not pursue him.
He made his way to a settlement sixty
miles distant, and tried to raise a party
to go and hunt Inkpaduta’s band, and
drive them out of the region; but he
could not find half a dozen men within
a circuit of thirty miles who had in-
terest enough in his cause to make it
their own. But he found one adven-
turous fellow, who went back with him
to his trapping grounds on the Ochey-
edam Upon reaohing the dugout, they
found, to their surprise, that its con-
tents had not been disturbed. Lying
inside the door was the identical pack
of worthless mink skins which Big Face
had brought to trade for the rifle? The
traps were also all in their places.
Evidently the Indians had been some-
what alarmed after Jake’s escape, and
wished to leave the impression that they
had been dealing in good faith, and had
kept to the letter the bargain which had
been made for the gun.
This fact gave Boyer confidence, and
he boldly set about his trapping again,
detei mined to watch his opportunity
outwit the
uable rifle. Durm^^i^
busied his brain every dayvv^S
and Anally hit upon a plan which he de?
terrain ed to carry out at once.
Leaving his companion in charge of
the dugout and the trapping, he set out
.for Foi’t Dodge with two small ponies
packed with the fall catch. At the Fort,
which was merely a frontier trading
station, he sold his furs, procured am-
munition, blankets and some trinkets to
trade upon, and set out for Inkpaduta’s
village, as he had been in the habit of
doing at that season of the year.
In spite of all that had happened he
expected to make the savages believe
that he was still friendly to them, and
could not afford to lose their fur trade
for such trifles as the loss of his rifle and
the attempt on his life. He did not be-
lieve they would dare injure him again,
for they would surely know that he had
spread the story of their attack upon
him at the settlements, and his going to
them directly from the Fort would nat-
urally make them cautious how they of-
fended him. After getting among them
he hoped to recover his much prized rifle
by a stratagem.
He found only a few old squaws and
children at the Des Moines village, but
was informed that the bucks were
camped at Lost Island lake, where they
had gone to hunt for elk.
It was but a half day’s ride to the place,
and he discovered the tepees of the band
as he approached the lake shore at sun-
set. The most of the Indians had got in
fiom the day’s hunt, and as he rode up
were lying about the fires waiting for the
women to boil some meat for their even-
ing meal.
They got up and gave some grunts of
surprise as he approached, but immedi-
ately broke into most cordial “How-
EIow’s!” and grinned in a way that be-
trayed their pleasure that he should
come among them in so friendly a fash-
ion. He had always dealt more fairly
with them than traders were in the
habit of doing.
Big Face, One Leg and Inkpaduta
were among those who greeted him. He
shook hands with all, telling them he
had come to “swap” again, and acted as
though nothing had happened. They
were immensely pleased, and one of the
young bucks assisted him in unpacking
and then picketed his ponies with their
own.
That evening and the next morning
were spent in trade; and for a half dozen
red blankets, some ammunition and
beads, Jake came into possession of all
the beaver, mink and muskrat skins the
Indians had.
After the swap had been completed to
the satisfaction of all parties, Jake pro-
posed to Inkpaduta that he and a picked
number of his men should ride over to
his tepee on the Ocheyedan—a little more
than a half day s ride—and hunt elk at
the head waters of Stony creek, where
he knew that a big herd of them were
feeding.
He had no winter’s meat laid in, he
told the chief, and since he had traded
his large gun to Big Face he had no rifle
that carried a ball large enough to kill
an elk. If he would go over with his
men and kill him—Jake—two big elk, he
would give the chief the smallest pony
he had brought with him.
Inkpaduta was taken with the offer,
and evidently took all the trapper had
said in sincerity. He consulted his bucks
and found them all eager to go, as the
white man had described the herd as a
bi" one.
The camp was hastily struck and the
whole party set out for Jake’s headquar-
ters, where they arrived that evening
and camped for the night. Jake had
told Inkpaduta of his partner who, he
said, had no gun, but an old musket that
would only shoot small shot.
That night, when they were alone in
the dugout, Jake instructed Williams,
his partner, that as soon as the party
should have got out of sight he was to
pack what furs he could on the pony left
him, cache the rest with the traps, and
make haste for the nearest settlement on
the Little Sioux.
Next day, at noon, the hunters were
camped near the source of the Stony,
and scouts w -re sent out to look for the
elk herd, which was sighted before night.
A plan of the hunt was determined on
before they 6lept, and as Jake was con-
sulted, he so managed that he was to be
of the party. They were to go in three
squads inclosing the band in a triangle,
in which rode Big Face with Inkpaduta
and one of the chief’s sons, Roaring
Cloud, or Makpeahotoman.
Big Face had made no attempt to
conceal the rifle, which was still in his
possession; in fact, he had carried it
with a good deal of flourish and dis-
play, evidently proud of owning such a
piece of property.
Before daylight the next morning the
hunting parties were mounted, and cir-
cling the region where the elk had been
seen. There was a keen wind blowing
from the northwest, and a,i the elk were
in that direction the herd was sur-
rounded without difficulty. Two par-
ties converged, one from the north, an-
other from the west, and the third, in
which was Jake, moved slowly forward
from the southeast.
It was plain that the herd should be
driven toward this last party, who were
to rush in upon their front and turn
them about. This would bring the whole
hunting party upon them.
In one respect the plan was perfect.
At about sunrise the big drove was seen
by Inkpaduta’s party, and Boyer ob-
served, with no little satisfaction, that
the elk were coming directly toward hina.
They came right on without seeming
to see the hunters, who had spread a lit-
tle and lay close along the backs of their
ponies.
There were more than two hundred
elk, and Boyer said it was a splendid
sight to see them come on, the bulls in
the lead, “an acre of branchin’ horns,”
as he expressed it, “movin’ down swift
like the front of the wind in a blizzard.”
When the foremost elk were within
gunshot the Indians straightened up,
and with loud yells dashed their ponies
at the face of the herd. But instead of
turning the whole bunch spread out like
a fan and went by like a shot, scattering
continually as they sped on.
The Indians whirled their jponies and ,
gave chase, havingTlred severaUIneffec-
tive shots, and as each selected his game
the maneuvers drew them rapidly apart.
This was precisely what Boyer had
hoped for, and he followed Big Face,
keeping him all the time in view. The
Indian soon overtook a fat cow elk,
whose calf got in her way and impeded
her progress. Big Face rode alongside,
shoved the muzzle of his gun almost
against the cow’s side, and killed her in-
stantly.
He had fired one barrel before, and
with a whoop he now circled his pony
about, sprang to the ground and stood
th^dead elk, evidently satisfied
fcyer wanted at
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of the herd. ^
But, knowing that he a mo-
ment to spare if he would allay suspicion
and catch Big Face with unloaded gun,
he drew up alongside. Quickly dismount-
ing, he stepped in front of the Indian and \
covered him with the light rifle, which \
he had not unloaded.
“Give me my gun or I’ll shoot,” said
the trapper, sharply.
Big Face saw that he was. tricked, and
that Boyer had the best of him. Like
all of his kind he was a coward at heart,
and with a sickly grin of fear he laid the
ill gotten rifle against the elk’s body and
stepped back.
“Now, let go that pony and walk off!”
commanded Jake, with a meaning ges-
ture. The Indian obeyed, and hurried
away toward the retreating elk at a pace
the meaning of which Boyer knew well.
Jake’s first move was hastily to load
his recovered rifle with heavy charge,
having kept balls in his pockets t
would fit the bore. Then fastening
small rifle to the saddle of the pon
had ridden, and tying that anj
lariat dragging at the neck of
pony, he mounted the Indian’s
turned and rode northeast towar
Minnesota settlements which were the
the nearest white habitations.
Just as he started he looked back over
his shoulder and saw Big Face making
frantic gestures from the top of a knoll
about a hundred rods away. But the
whole party, elk and all, had passed out
of sight into the valley of the Stony, and
the last that Jake ever saw of the band,
as he spurred his pony in the opposite di-
rection, was the outwitted Big Face wav-
ing his arms.
It was a daring stratagem which had
secured him his rifle and a “pony for
damage, and one which a man less
hardy and keen witted would never have
planned, and certainly could not hav
succeeded in carrying out.
Inkpaduta and his men evidently gave
the big elk herd a long chase, without
any notion of what had happened in their
rear. If any of them had seen Big Face and
Boyer near the dead elk they must have
thought the white man had stopped onl;
to take charge of his game. At any rate
they did not overtake Jake, who pushed
lapidiy on to Lake Shetek, where at a
settlement lie was safe from Indian as-
sault.
Later, he joined Williams at Fort
Dodge, having passed through Inkpa-
duta’s country in the night. After that
he trapped west of the Big Sioux, as he
considered the lake region “unhealthy”
for him. Frank Welles Calkins in
Youth’s Companion.
Sir Edwin Arnold.
Any one who expects to see in Sir Ed-
win Arnold a man who suggests the wild
romance of his poetry will be disap-
pointed. He is quite small, witLa very
thin face, the most striking featuWof
which is a long nose, which
him a somewhat Jewish cast of _
nance. His beard is iron gray and thin""
and he brushes it out from his chin. My
impression is that he is bald, but I cannot
speak with certainty on this point, for he
v ore a skull cap all the evening. Sir
Edwin is an amiable gentleman and a
clever journalist as well as a poet. It
was, however, his poetry that made him
famous. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, by the
way, owns the original manuscript of the
“Light of Asia,” which was presented to
him by Sir Edwin a short time after the
book was published. --Boston Transcript.
Clews to Crimes Through Conversation,
“To my mind there is no field for the
silent, mysterious detective who never
sa^s anything to anybody except the
story book writers,” remarked a man
who is old and experienced in police
work. “I have made lots of cases, and
every one of them I made by talking.
You can’t get people to tell you anything
without talking to them. Wherever I
gol always try to get into conversation
with people, especially with children.
Children are very close observers; they
always remember what they see, and aa
a rule tell it accurately.”—Washington
Critic.
Anxious to Get the News.
Don t forget the editor when you have
a news item. If your wife whips you,
let us know of it and we will set you
right before the public. If you have
company tell us—if you are not ashamed
of your visitors. If a youngster arrives
at your house and demands food and
raiment, buy a quarter’s worth of cigars
and come around, and if you are a cash
subscriber we will furnish a name for
him or her, as circumstances warrant.
If you have a social gathering of a few
friends bring around a big cake, six or
seven pies and a ham—not necessarily to
eat, but as a guarantee of good faith.
You needn’t bother to invite us as it m?r
be a little too cool for our wardrobe.
We mention these little things because
we want the news, and we will have it.
—Mifflinburg Times.
He Kissed Me.
A Nebraska paper narrates this educa-
tional incident: A high school girl, class
A, being told by her teacher to parse the
sentence, “He kissed me,” consented re-
luctantly, because opposed to speaking
of private affairs in public. “He,” she
commenced, with unnecessary emphasis
and a fond^ lingering over the word fchai
brought crimson to her cheeks, “is a pro-
noun; third person, singular number,
masculine gender; a gentleman, pretty
well fixed; universally considered a good
catch. Kissed is a verb, transitive—too'
much so; regular—every evening; indi-
cative mood—indicating affection; first
and third person, plural number and gov.
erned by circumstances. Me—oh, every,
body knows me,” and down she went.
Well Provided For.
“Hello, old man! Congratulate ye
How are the wife and baby gettin
along?”
“All right, thank you.”
“And how is it with yourself?”
“Oh, I am living way up on the things
the neighbors send in for my wife.”—
Boston Heiuld.
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