iT 003T him $20.
you (mm flinch Snakes Are Fund or
Wildcats.
\ “If it hadn't lxien that there was a
of $3 I head on Wildcats tin-n,"
said hole Joe Vondersmlth of York
county, Pa. “it wouldn’t have cost me a
not to learn that black snakes were fond
efwlldcats. As itwas, itcost memo. But
Is’pescca the knowledge I got was worth
“ used to peddle through the lower
miles and down through Maryland.
Timur” great districts for snakes, es-
mug; snakesandcopperbeads. It’ I
teleo olkl doing their haying down
ghthere, especime when they're
‘ lending it after it is out and cumd. A man
will take up a forkiul of dried grass, but
‘, he won’t pitch it on the wagon right
J away.
lhlkeltorattle the snakes out of it. If
He gives it three or four peculiar
it!!! or five copperheads don’ t tumble out.
I . bitumen ain’t satisfied and gives the bay
"tether shake. It’s worth going a long
journey to see 'cm load hay down there
“They never speak about big black
snakes in that country. Therojs no use of
It, because there ain‘t any little black
snakes. At least you never see one un-
less you call one nine feet longa little
one. They don't run much finer than
that. If one is killed smaller than that, it
is toted around as a curiosity. It was in
that stretch of territory that I learned to
talk intelligently about the partlality of
black snakes for Wildcats. I was driving
along one day through a scrubby piece of
woods near the York county border, and
hearing a peculiar noise at the side of the
road I got out of my wagon to investi-
gate. In a hollow'stump I found nine
wildcat’klttcus almost as big as full grown
house cats.
“ ‘Hal hai' I says.
sure enough!’
“While I was busy appropriating the
scrambling and scratching young cats
‘llcrc‘s $18 for me,
‘ out of the woods came the mother of the
litter and made right for me. I put two
or three pistol balls into her, and that
wusall there was of the fight.
‘-‘ ‘Have to call it $20 now,’ I says, and
I tumbled the old cat's carcass into the
wagon and put the nine kittens in by her.
They snuggled down as meek as mice, and
I started on feeling good.
“I had gone a mile or so when I hap-
pened to look back along the road and
saw a big black streak coming toward me
liken hurricane. I knew what it was ill a
‘seuond. It was one of the famous black
snakes of that district. I put whip to my
horse, thinking I might get away from
my pursuer, but I didn‘t know the quail-
ties of those snakes. This one closed up
the space between us so fast that he was
almost at the hind wheels of my wagon
before my horse had run live rods. I
thought, of course, that the snake wanted
me, and Iquickiy turned over in my mind
what was best to be done to save myself.
Having often mud of travelers pursued by
wolves tossing dogs and otlwribings from
their sleds us sops to the Wolves, thus
gaining time and distance, a happy
thought struck me, and I grabbed a wild—
cat kitten and tossed it out to this snake
00598 how it would work. It worked first
rate. The snake stopped. lwhippod up
my horse. Looking back, I saw the snake
getting ready to envelop the kitten, and
ought lrwas saved. lut just then out
he Woods at one side of the road whiz‘n-d
thcr black snake, as big as tho- ilrst.and
t to climbing right up into the wagon.
bhcd another kitten and chucked it
and had to groan a little, for it was
another $2 contribution to snakes.
, “Then away I went again, hoping to
save the rest of my prize money. By and
by] looked back to see hon-“tho laud lay.
It wasn't ‘laying' at all. It was all torn
up by four more luuucnsc black snakes,
which were putting in their best licks to
catch me, not more than loo yards in the
rear. I threw another kitten out, suppos-
ing the four snakes wuuld stop and how u
squabble for it. lint they didn't. (im-
got it, and the other tbm: came right on.
Andmom snakes moment of Illi' Woods
and joined in the chase. I saw it was no
use, and so I stood up, my horse going: at
full jump. and fed those snakes \vildi-ul
kittens until the wlxolo nine “we gum-
and I was $18 out.
“I was pretty bear out of the woods by
this time. I could 2-1-0 tho clearings right
ahead.
“ ‘I’ll save the old dead (at, by guml' I
says, ‘nnd clean up $2 out of thlsuuyhow!’
“Bill: I Was overhauled by a irl'uu-nduus
big black snake before I got to tho i'lill of
the woods, and ‘1 know by tho humps on
hlmthnt ho had at least twooi the kit
tam inside of himself already. I had to
give up the old cal and went out of (bom-
woods into the 1b nrmg nhununiug. i
looked batk and saw the whole ( abo mile of
snakes having a grand old rough and
tumble chr the body of the motlu- r \\ ild
cut, but I didn't stay to Rev how it cann-
otlt. So I found out by personal observe
tion that black sunki s are fond ofw ”(if ate,
but it cost me it‘d. "~\’(~w iork Hun
Natural Mistake.
One of tho oddv st ('Xlli‘l'li tires that 1
ever had with my utamuwriug. says a man
who has an incurable impvdlnu-nt in his
speech, happened in the shop of an npothc-
csry in London.
As I was suffering from a stomach tron.
bio, I went into the apotln‘uiry’s to get a
little iyxrcac.
”I want some ip—ip~lp-ip"-——- l simmncr»
ed, unable to get out iiII' rest.
“Sonic what?" he nsla d.
"Ipdp -ip"———-—
“Hooray!" shout: d the nootbicory at
the top of his \olco. lie thought i am
giving him the Word iocluor ~\outb .~
Companion.
Greatest Nerve I n the “'nrid.
, “Waddlee,” n-maria-d llimnal ’l‘oddlcr
lawfully, “I have woriwd the district be»
tween Cbicargn on I’m” y for 13 years, and
, I thought I'd seed all i imls o’ nerve. but
“rope to be caught working if I haven't
Jolt struck nerve for the. first time, and in
ottoman I00. ”
“Wat's the matter?"
“I called at that house over them and
asked for xlddolts. and when Iliad sprung
my title of “on the lady asked me if 1
Wouldn'twhisiio lot the dog eoihat slu-
could set him on me. "~—~( hieugo Tribune
High Praise.
“Mrs. Winks can't say enough in praise
of her new servant.”
“Alli Con ks dilighti‘uliy?”
“No, lnlivroi dy.
”Never imai.» any china, iii?‘
continually."
t it...”
JET. u l with Mr Wi
we titer ccan.
Alina”!
I mtzhmw’
at do on want new?
sub is that heather
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Wanted new M
”I like the way Gilbert and Sullivan
have of writing their operas in two sets,
but I didn't like the way the ‘Piratcs' was
billed when I played in it in San Francis-
co some years ago," said George Fr‘othing-
burn, the noted singer.
“The printer made a mistake and put
on the programmes,'Comio Opera In Three
Acts. ' instead of two. The audience never
knew that there was anything wrong.
We gave the performance all right, and it
wont beautifully. There was a big curtain
call after the first act, and every one of us
had to come out and how. The people
could not get enough of it, it seemed.
“ Well, we did just us well in the second
act, and everything was encored time and
time again till our threats were pretty
well worn out. But we had to respond
to a call, no matter how tired we got.
“Finally the curtain went down on the
last act—the green curtain—and we
thought it was all over, though we waited
fora call, which came with a vengeance.
The curtain was raised again, and we
stood there and bowed and then dropped
it. But the audience were still in their
seats. There was no getting up for them.
The musicians climbed down under the
stage and were getting ready to go home
when the gamma rushed back and said
that the people wouldn’t let him put the
lights out. They thought there was an-
other act—the programme said so—and
they Were going to stay and see it. They
wouldn't be bunkocd by a lot of Boston
people. Well, we were afraid of a riot
and didn‘t know what to do till there be-
gan to he cries of ‘Managcr' and we sent
the stage manager out to make an explana-
tion. lie did it as well as he could, and
the people gradually got up grumbling
and went home. "~Boston Traveller.
A Novel Mud Bath Treatment.
There is nothing particularly enticing
in the sound of “mud baths,” and those
who have tried them at Ilomhurg and oth-
er places find them not agreeable as expe-
riences, however efficacious they may be
as a treatment. At most spas the process
is simply that of pouring mud into one’s
bath, but at some Italian baths to which
the fashionably sick are turninga traveler
who has taken them finds that they are
quite diilcrent. The mud, in a hot and
almost dry form, much of the consistency of
brick clay, is applied locally to those parts
of the body which are afioctcd. The pa-
tient lies on a straw bed, on which is placed
a sheet. The attendant, having ascertain-
ed the suil'cring parts, dnubs them to the
thickness of several inches with the mud.
The invalid, covered with a hot sheet or
blankets, lies for half an hour, pcrspiring
freely, then gets into a hot sulphur bath,
is thoroughly cleansed, rubbed dry and
returns to a bed artificially warmed, where
the perspiration continues for an hour or
so longer. This treatment is rem-uteri al-
most cvcry morning for about :30 days and
is of great value in all manifestations of
rheumatism. 'l‘ho mud is dug out of a
mountain a few miles from the spa and
brought to the establishment and allowed
to soak for several years in tanks of bolii
lug sulphur water until required for use.
~Ncw York Times.
A Romance Spoiled.
For more than loo years Frenchmen
have wept over the sorrowsof Laludedvho
was imprisoned in the Bastille for lib years.
One of the most popular dramas ever
written is called ”llatudc; or, ’l‘birty~ilvo
Years of Captivity." There is undoubt
that the story of Latudc's unincritcd suf-
ferings, as written by himself, had much
to do with the popular feeling which led
to the destruction of tho Bastille in 178i).
lint, alas! the story, we are now told,
must be relegated to the category of ficti-
tious legends. A writer in The .‘latin has
been led to look up the subject owing to
the fact that a portrait of Latudc and a
ladder said to be the one by means of
which the immune prisoner made his cs-
cnpo have been added to the curiosities in
the llotol Cnrnavalot. The (,‘hcvulier do
Lntudc, or La ’l‘udo, as he called himself,
was, it seems, in lity named llnury, and
his narrative is 1 ch of lies. lie was a
surgmu's assistant who was several times
i111prisoned for swiudliug. 0n ouooccw
sion he sent a mysterious powder to Mme.
do l’ompadour and then made overturm
inordcr toobiain money for denouncing
certain imaginary accomplices with whom
he was supposed to be conspiring against
her life. Mme. do i’ompudour did not fall
into the trap. ”l‘hat llnnry was ever a
political prisoner is confidently denied.—
Loudou Toll-graph.
Measuring Sound “With it Microscope.
ltcr uly is an odd statruu-nt to say
that the micrioscnpe is better t til the car
for measuring some sounds, b it is true.
In determining the pitch of very high
notes Mr. l". Mellie has found that the ear
cannot be deanded on, and he has there-
fore turned to the microscope for aid.
Sound is a phenomenon of vibration,
and the pitch of any musical note can be
determined if the sound wave correspond-
ing to it is in any manner rendered meas-
urnbio.
Mr. Mcldo has solved the problem in
this way:
and stearine, the surface of which is
slightly ridged by rubbing it delicately
with the finger. Too high pitched tuning
fork a short hair is attached, and a simi-
lar hair is fastened to another vibrating
body, such as a rod,whuso pitch is known.
The ends of those hairs trail across the
prepared plate as it is passed rapidly over
them, and thus mark upon its surface a
double series of wave lines con-impending
to the Marimba of vibration of the fork and
the rod. The microscom is then called
into [wtion in order to compare the length
and depth of the waves, and thus deter-
mine ihc musical pitch of the vibrating
fork with an accuracy not attainable by
the ear aionc.--Youth's Companion.
Cryptograms Made Easy.
“Clphers and codes are sometimes very
easy to read," said the thoughtful man.
“They run in families. There is the num-
ber cipher and the every other word cipher
and the lot tor before and letter after
cipher. All you haveto do is to get the
key and read like clock work. Now. for
instance, here is a young person who fond-
ly imagined she knew a thing or tw o, and
with some little new pointed a wreonal.
I will wager at least half the people who
read the personal will be able to translate
it. It is one of the letter before class and
read:
"MPV—Gps hpet tblf cf nfsdjgvm nflu
nf upojhin. L'sJi'.
“Just see how easy he who runs may
read if he choose:
"Doe-«For God's sake, be merciful.
Meet me tonight Tier.
"I hope M Triley‘s lake Lou met her.
but lulu) hope,“ added the th tfui
taco. "that the people whom Trix Hired
“hoopla the dark did netthiuk of the
th-
WALLPAP
lie covers a plate with a thin .
laycrcouuxismi of a mixture of olive oil.
link“.
“Midsimnierilisposal andlleilicketi
1 ii:
I a
New is'the time to buy when rices are the
lowest. Well lPsper never has on or will it
sin as low as we are selling it. Notwith-
stan ing the low price that we have been
charging for it. we intend to carry them dew it
one peg lower.
Commencing June 20th, until further
notice» we will give a discount of 10 per
cent. on all our grades of Gilt Papers
and Borders, we have a large stock and
must sell it, as we do not wish to carry
it over.
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DEPARTMENT
ls complrte. We carry the for cat stock of
Mouldings. and our prices are I if! lowest for
first class worh.0 er Mats are cut by machin-
ery. Vie can sell them lower than parties can
that cut them by hand. Picture moulding by
that foot. A large assortment of unframed
illl‘irw'f We arethe only one that carry a
u no of
ARTISTS MATERIALS
For Crayon. Water and Oil W ork.
The famous art amateur studies. Regular
price. 85c; our price, lilo. We have a gold mini
bar will not tarnish. and can be washer, 16c
and ~5c a bottle.
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Coach Colors and v arnislies. Our prices are
the lowest for first class goods.
keep seconds.
Painting. Paper hanging
Decorating and Frescoing. '
L. H. Decker,
19 Washington St. 80. Hawaii
We do not
Sign Writing,
P. J. FLYNN
Plumbing, Steam and Gas Filling
108 WASHINGTON ST.
J. F. Flynn will have personal chargelof this
department.
Plumbing overhauled and put in first class
sanitary condition.
PORTER WATER MOTOR
Best in the world. Call and get prices.
11111 if
Bulimia mun, .IIJLY ilith.
BALANCE or SUMMER STOCK AND JOBS IN OTHER,
GOODS AT STRIKING PRICES.
Ladies’ and Children's Jackets, half price. Dress geods worth 75c to $1.00 for 50c. Dress
goods worth 396 to 50c for 25c. Scotch Zephy Ginghams, for 100. Summer Outings, worth 10c,
be. Bargains' 1n Gent’s Outing Shirts, Ladies’ Shirt Waists, Silk Skirts, and Print Wrappers. Bun- , .
Umbrellas. , “
A. DiCkerman & Son,
84 WASHINGTON STREET. SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.’
CAR LOAD
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Lumber BOXWegons
, JUST RECEIVED. _
Prices Reasonable. tome and See Them.
iliiiiiii WilliiiiT’S tarriage Repository
Corner Franklin and Madison Streets.
DO YOU WANT COMFORT,
3“
if so, you can get more out of an easy, good-
fitting Shoe than anything in the world.
LADIES’,
Y on need an OXFORD TIE, one that is easy and will cure
and prevent sore feet. Well, we have got them in RUSSETT that
are perfection, and at prices so low that you cannot help buying. Just
call and see them, the goodsfand prices Will do the rest.
J/
GENTLEMEN,
You need a RUSSETT shoe 110W, and we have got them,
and they are Robby, comfortable and cheap. We want to close them
all out in the next 30 days, and to do so give you prices way down.
In CHILDRENS’ SHOES we have everythine.
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