Norwalk Chronicler

Evening gazette, Saturday, November 27, 1897 · page 7

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EgfiORK.D .NEW HAVEN dz. HARTFOI D
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October 3,1897.

Trains leave South No-rwalk as follows:

FOR NEW YORK — Accommodation
trainsat 9. 36 a. m., 1.11, 3.04, 4.07, 5.33,
6. 41. 8.11, 10. 20 p. m. Exp1ess t1 aims
at 4. 55, 5. 45, 6.15, (local), 6.55, (local),
7.13, (local), 7.56, (local), 8.17, 9.03 (local)
9. 58, 10. 35, 11. 37, (local) a. m. 12. 471
2.25, 5.05 5.55, 7. 55 p. m. For Washing
ton via Harlem River 12. 53 a. m. (dail3)

SUNDAYS—Accommodation 9.15 a. m.
5. 43, (local), 7. 23, (local) 9.28 p. in. Ex
press 4. 55, 5. 45a

FOR NEW HAVEN AND THE EAST—
Accommodation trains at 6. 32, 7. 42,
8.46 and 11.42 a. m., 1.37, 2.42, (to B’p’t),
4.20, 5.27, 6.27, 7.28 (to B’p‘t), 8.41, 9.41
and 11.15 p. m. Express trains at 1.11,
1.20, 9.11, 10.05, 11.0821. 111. 12.02, 3.05,
5.04 (Naugatuck Express) 7.10 p. m.

SUNDAYS—Accommodation 7.42, 9.12
a. m. and 7.15 p. m. Express 1.11 and
1. 20 a. m.
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I A TERRIBLE FRIGIIT

“How does fright affect you? It
ways makes me cold all ove1, 31: d shiv
cry, like. water down one’s back, ym
lillOVt'. ’ .

'Fz-iglit‘!” que-tioned one cf those ad
dressed. “Oh, if I’m frightened,
screrm right straight out, nothing ca:
stop 1110—1 just yell.”

“You just do!” corroborated anothe.
of the pretty conclave round the fire
with a laugh. “I never heard anything
like it; when that tramp we met yes
te1 day in the avenue at dusk suddenly
addressed us, you made the welkir
ring, and pinched my arm black am
blue, until I,made you understand thl
wretched creature had only asked hi:
way.”

There was the usual desultory ch'a

'and exchange of confidencs, betweer

mouthfuls of muffin, concerning alarm.
past, present and future, when a hand
some woman with mischievous eyes
hitherto spoken, ex
claim-ed,—

“Were none of you girls ever strucl
dumb with fright?”

“What a question?" they chorused
“Why, Mrs. Treherne, were you ever
taken like that?” '

"On one memorable occasion," wa:
the reply, while a comical expression
settled about the corners of a moutl
which Venus herself might have en

‘ vied fol1 its outlines, “I lost the entir:

faculty of speech during fully ten min
utes. I was struck dumb, and only
found my tongue too late to be of any
use.”

The speaker looked across at he]
hostess. She was met by an amusec’
air of incredulity. '

“Let us hear the story, Kitty. I can’v
believe in your being frightened; bu‘
unbosom yourself, dear. I intent
keeping you until the men come in t1
int10duce my brother, so you’ve plent3
of time.”

Amid murmurs of excited anticipa
tion Mrs. Treherne began,—

“It was an evening like this—darl
and dreary, with a thick, whit-e fog
But I’d better go back to the beginning
"or you won’t understand. We were liv~

ing in.Highfordshire during the lasr

years of my husband’s lifetime, and my
dream was to become an artist. 1’11
sorry to say it has never been realized

“There was even at that time a
school of painting near us at Tree
leigh, and I soon found a lady artis:
willing to teach me the rudiments. A
drawback to complete happiness in my
newly-adopted vocation was the dis
tance between our house and this wo:
man’s studio, for Mr; Treherne, much
as he disliked my painting craze, as he
called it, objected to my being alone
about the roads still more; and I'mus:
admit they were uncommonly .dark at
times. I may add also”-—and the drol:
look crept‘ up to her eyes—“he had two
special bugbears. These were the art
ists and the models.

“He declared they were all scamps,
and that, if I escaped from the arti
fices of the one, I should sooner 01
later be garotted by the other. The
male sex he more particularly referred
to, but I must confess he had no very
high opinion of the women, either.

“Therefore, much as he hated his
horses being out at night, he insistec
on sending the carriage for me in a1.
weathers, and I firmly believe the
coachman had orders to give a rebeipl
for my- person every evening.

“Whether the presence of a good
looking young fellow who used to go
about with one of the artists, anc-
whose, no doubt well intentioned glanc.
es my husband had surprised in church
contributed" at all to this frame 0:
mind, I. never knew. But I had my
suspicions, although, as a matter 01
fact, I never as much as spoke to the
man or heard his name.

“O’he day in the winter, I had been
working in the life class till after five
and owing to a dense fog the carriage
was late. I suppose I ought to have
waited for it, but the tempter in the
shape of a. girl friend persuaded me tc
take tea in her rooms. Nor am I
quite clear if directions were left at the
studio to enable the carriage to find me

“I dare say you imagine the party in-
cluded men. If you do, yon/are wroug
Whatever Mr. Treherne thought, ‘mor-
als were very strict, I can tell you, in
Treeleigh.

“We were half a dozen girl students
of whom one played divinely on the
’cello, and it must have been quite at
hour later before I started, my body:
guard not having turned up, to trudge
home in the mud alone.

, “I have said that the roadsicould he
very dark, but I never knew them st
bad ’as they were on this particular
evening. Lamps were few, even in the
village, and the fog obscured such a:
there were. I felt very sorry for my
self on leaving the comparatiVe illumi~
nation ofthe street for the utter black-
ness of the lonely road that lay be
tween me and home.

“I wondered where the broughan.
could be, and for once missed its com-
fortable'cushions, "and the inspiriting
presence of our fat coachman. The
fog penetrated eyes, nose and ears. ll
blinded me and made me cough.

“With difficulty, by aid of my um
brella and the palings, I was able tG
keep upon the apology for a sidewalk
though in places I literally had tc
crawl along as best I could.

“Just at first there were people about
grown large and indistinguishable if
the mist. A boy passed me whistling
a-popular air. I envied him his cour-
age, and would have liked to imitate
it- He passed on, and I felt more lone
1y than ever. The tree trunks loomed

, like huge phantoms in the murky still

ness, and the whble world seemed

dead
“Then I remembered an encampment

of gypsies, of whom somehad pcsec'

as models, and nearlv all had been up

an

 

before my husband in his capacity‘a.
magistrate, during the past month
Supposing one of them had noticed my
watch or rings during a sitting? Th1
thought was appalling.

“Footsteps behind me made my hear-

, Jump into my mouth, but they diet

away in the distance. I shuddered
stepped in a puddle up to my ankles
and, .had I been a man and not so
frightened, should< undoubtedly have
used bad language. 1
_ “Ihad reached a hollow, the yer)
darkest part of the road where the fog
lay thickest, when all at once I wa.
conscious of a presence beside me. I.
was exactly as if the very mist had to.
ken shape and put its arm round my
waist. The shock was so sudden that
for an instant, I felt as if struck by a
dagger.
of my mouth, and how I didn’t fain.
on the spot has always been a mystery
to me.

“The spirit of the fog, or the high

. wayman, kept a firm hold on me, bu»
. did not change‘ the direction of my fom

steps. When the first intense fright gaw
place to a sort of semi—consciousness, i
found myselfbeing guided in a fashion
which gave me to understand that the
ghost, gypsy or garotter, whichever it
might be, at least knew- the road. I m
longer stepped into puddles, or scratch

,zed my hands in the hedges, but was as-

sisted along, apparently without an ef-
fort.

“Why I did not cry out is the inex‘
plicable thing. It was doubtless tha‘
first shock which had paralyzed my
tongue, yet I was being taken to some
lonely Spot, there, I presumed, to be
robbed or murdered, or both, by one
whom I. could recognize only as :1
blurred shape, if indeed it was of this
world at all. '

“And all this while terror kept me
dumb, while the thing neither relin
quished n01 tightened its g1asp, so fa1
not a rough one, but held on the ever.
tenor of its way up the hill which, un
less fright had sent my wits wool- gath
ering altogether, should lead, I knew
to 0111 own avenue.

“Of course I was fully aware that
some terrible design was in the mind 01
my ghostly companion, and feared les:
every moment should be my last. Still
with life there was hope, though 1
specially dreaded the by-lane which
branched off toward the gypsy en
campment, and which we must pass
directly. s

“Then a new, strange feeling crept
over me. I was dreamily conscious 01
leaning heavily on the garrotter’s arm
and finding it a strong one, wondering
at the same time if this awful experi
ence was the punishment of my diso
bedience. How fervently I vowed that
if I got safely out of this scrape, noth
ing on earth would ever again tempt
me to 115k my life after dark among
the lanes of Tieeleigh.

“Suddenly we stopped. I gasped, still
mute as a fish, and shut my eyes tight.
Already, in anticipation, I felt the

' murderous knife at my throat, the rob-

ber’s hand rifiing my dead body. The
arm around me perceptibly tightened
its grip; my heart stopped beating,
when a deep, musical voice whispered
in my car,—

“There really are footpads about, but
you have no reason to be frightened
All I~want from you is one kiss to last
me my lifetime.”

“Before I could recover my senses
the highwayman had pressed his lips
to my cheek. The spell was broken, I
opened my eyes with a piercing shriek.
But he had vanished as silently and
adroitly as he had come. All I saw
was'the indistinct light of a lantern as
Our lodge-keeper opened the gate and
hastened toWard me.

“In a dazed kind of way I reached
the house without further adventure
Who my assailant had been I never
knew. I assumed him to be'a gypsy
impertinently retaliating on me for
some of Mr. Treherne’s judgments. The

voice was one I had never heard be-

fore, but so remarkable was its low
and peculiar quality, that I should rec-
ognize it again among thousands. ]
may addthat my husband was so
vexed at my missing the carriage,
which had returned without me, and
also at my making a show of myself
by (shrieking outside our owu gate, that
I had tt’ifigive up the school and my ar-
tistic dreams f01 ever.

The door opened, and following the

host, there entered a tall, good— —look-
ing, sunburned man of about thirty-
five.

Mrs. Treherne, still immersed in her
reminiscences, was gazing at the fire
when her hostess’ voice aroused her,—

“Kitty, here is my brother, who is
dying to be introduced to you. He has
only just returned from South Africa,
where he has been ever since he left
Treeleigh many years ago.”

Mrs. Treherne looked up with the
half-interested air of a woman to
whom a stranger has just been present-
ed. She held out her hand.

“Indeed,” she said, carelessly; ' do
you also know that little artist colony's
We were just mentioning it.”

“I thought no one ever remembered
Treeleigh but me, Mrs. Treherne. Ten
years ago I carried away from there a
memory that will last my lifetime.”

This remark, innocent enough in it-
self, was uttered in a particularly deep
musical voice. Something quite unu
sual in its timbre arrested the atten-
tion of eve1ybody present, who, as it
impelled by a common impulse, ’100 had
ac1oss at Mrs. Treherne, and it must be
admitted that that lady gaJI'e abundant
cause for cu11051ty At the first sound
of the new comer’s voice she started 3"-
olently, and stared at the owner there-
of with an expression of mute dismay.
She made an effort to speak, but with-
on. success, and falling back in he.
chair, Covered her “fare with he1 hands.

ii‘o. an instant , there was silence,
their. came a burst of laugnter.

“The Phantom of “1° Mist'“

1...... t-h3)’
cried.

My tongue clave to the roe.-

!

- Gould once gave it to me:

ANTS USED TO sew WOUNDS.
Remarkable Surgical Methods Practised
by the Nativgs of Brazil.

The method of securing a wound,
which is still prevalent among the Bra-
zilian Indians, can be looked upon as

at least strictly antiseptic. ,-

The materials required for perform-
ing the operation are found handy al-.
most any where in a Brazilian forest.
These. are a species of a very large ant,
which has mandibles which can bite
through almost any substance. The
mouth is furnished with transversely
movable jaws and does not possess a
sting. A bite from one of these ‘ants.
.is perfectly harmless,_and is followed
by no swelling or other evil results.

The lower lip of the ant, instead of
being a simple cover for the mouth, is
developed into a strange jointed organ,
which can be shot out much further
than. the upper flip or, when at rest,

can be folded flat ofér the face and can _

be rapidly protruded or withdrawn. It

is furnished at its extremity with a)

pair of forceps, and is able to grasp ob-
jects with the strength and firmness
of a small pair of pincers. Nothing,
unless cased in metal, can resist those
iaws.

What the Brazilian Indian does when
he receives a gash is thisz—He catches
some of these ants,,and, hoLding them
to the wound, which he has previously
closed together, lets them bite. They
fix their mandibles on each side of the
wound, and then he pinches off the rest
of the body, leaving the mandibles and
jaws to close up the wound. A row of
these ants’ heads keep a Wound togeth-
er quite as effectively as the needle and

thread of a surgeon, but the pain given.

to the victim Of this rude style of sur-
gery must be considerable.

Rude as this method may seem, how-
ever, it has its advantages in being
strictly antiseptic and causing no evil
after effects. The jaws of the ants are
extracted with a pair of forceps after
the wound has satisfactorily healed.—
Ne-w York Herald.

 

A PROVIDENTIAL DELIVERY.

Thankful His Son Was Discovered and not

Mixed with the Clay for a Chimney.

One of our exchanges had something
to say recently about “Georgia Clay
Eaters.” Here is a story, however,
which hasn’t gone the rounds yet: .

In a certain Georgia neighborhood "a
farmer had two boys who fairly flour-
ished on red clay. All effort to break
them of the habit proved futile, and
they had been given over as hopele5s
cases.

One night one of them was missed
from home, and search for him proved
unavailing. His brother had left him
in the clay bank, where he had bur-
rowed a hole.

Late next mor‘hing a farmer went to
that identical clay bank for material
to build a chimney, and dug him out
while loading his wagon.

That night, after giving the boy a
good whipping, his father went to
prayer meeting, and in delivering his
experience said:

“I feel thankful to the L01d for the
providence he showed my little clay-
eatin’ John this mornin’, for Brother
Jones was makin’ of a chimbley,
and he loaded John up with the other
clay, an' ef it hadn’t been fur provi-
dence, John might er been a part of
that chimbley now-a—smokin’, an’
a-smokin’, fur from his friends an’ lov-
ed ones! I want .a prayer er thanks-
givin’ ter be offered up in this here
meetin’ right now. Brother Johnson,
will you lead us?”—Atlanta Constitu-
tion.

Byron a. Hero of Greece.

With the faults and foibles of Byron
Greece had nothin to do; she knew
nothing of them; to her he was only
‘ the great and noble.’ Crossing the
Gulf of Salamis one day in a boat, with
a rougn mountain captain and his men,
I pulled out a volume of Byron and was
reading. The wind blowing Open the
leaves, the captain caught a glimpse of
the portrait and recognized it. He
begged to take the book, and looking
for a moment, with melancholy, at the
face of the noble lord, he kissed it and
passed it'to his men,/ who did the same
saying: “Eeton megalos kai kalos”
(he was great and noble)—From “Lord
Byron in the Greek Revolution,” by F.
B.- Sanborn in Scribner’s.

NOTES OF INTEREST.

 

 

The city of Santa Fe, New Mexico,
is without rats, mice and cats, as the
air is too rarified for those animals.

Among the donors at this novel egg
service were the Duchess of York, the
Duchess of Fife and Princess Christian.
—Eng1ish Exchange.

Some sheep were frightened by dogs
at Grenoble, France, and 242 blindly
“followed their leader” over a precipice
150 feet high.

Russell Sage said to “a reporter the
other day, “I’ll give you a point; Mr.
‘What’s
past is history; what may be is mys-
tery.’ ” L

In the famous Garden of Olives, at
Jerusalem, there are eight flourishing
oLive trees that are known to be over
1,000 years old.

During his recent visit to Denmark
the King of Siam was taken to the
grave of Hamlet, and, after standing a
moment in reverential silence, he turn-
ed to Crown Prince Frederick and said

sympathetically: “A relation of your
,Royal Highness, I presume. Has he
been long”de‘ad?’.’ '. . 1 .
_ It is st *ange to read that ins-feedlot

the usual fruit and fioWer offerings to
a hospital charity service, the congre«
gation at the church of 'St. John,
Streatham were recently requested to

 

send new laid eggs, and responded in
:1. most generous manne1 for no less
han five thousand Were distribute!
(mong variou‘svbdndon. hospitals. '

spinal canal had been removed,

JUGGLED THE SPINAL CORD. ‘

Remarkable Fe’at of i'Sh‘rgeon Performed
to Remove the Effect of 3 Bullet

Dr. J. W. Norris, cf Palmyra, Mo.,
Lble to say that his spinal cord has
1een lifted entirely out of place, ex-
1mined and put back again without
permanent injury resulting.

An instrument of the must powerful
X ray type had failed to locate a. bul-
let which had been fired into Dr. Nor-
ris’s back, and so he was taken, to the
Baptist Hospital in St. Louis. Here
the doctors said the chances were that
1119 life could be saved if he could en-
dure ‘the operation to which medical
icience has given the frightful name of
laminectomy. Dr. A. C. Bernays per-
formed the operation.

The patient, although he knew the
operation was a life and death matter,
was cool and collected. An anaesthetic
was administered. Gently the patient
was placed in position, and in less time
than it takes to tell it the keen knife
in the hands of Dr. Bernays hadlmade
its way through the flesh. Finally the
backbone was reached and the flesh on
each side of the long cut was laid back,

exposing seven or eight inches of the

vertebrae to View.

The delicate work of removing quar-
ter sections of the joints in the back-
bone so as to expose the spinal cord
began. With an instrument made for
the purpose Dr.'Bernays cut out a.
thick wedge-shaped section of one of
the backbone joints, leaving exposed
plainly to view the spinal cord, in-
closed in its filmy sac. Another and
another of these wedge-shaped pieces
were taken out, until about five inches
of the spinal cord were exposed to
view, sections of bone having been
taken from four of the vertebrae.

The lungs and heart were both per-
ceptibly affected, and the patie-ntfor a
time seemed on the point of collapse;

but the dangerous symptoms ceased,

and the Operation was then proceeded
with. It was found'that the damage
done by the bullet resulted from its
passage through the bone, and that the
ball itself was ,not affecting the patient
in any way. Finally, Dr. Bernays lift-
ed the spinal column entirely out of its
bed in the bone a distance of five in-
ches.

It was found that the ball, in its
passage, had pressed a portion of the
bone into the spinal/ canal in such a
way as to press heavily against the
spinal cord and was the probable cause
of. the total paralysis of Dr. Norris’s
lower limbs. This obstruction, which
was about the size of a pea, was re-
mbved with a sharp‘bone chisel and
forceps. As the bullet was not thought
to be doing any damage, it was not re-
moved. '

After the bony obstruction in the
the
spinal cord” was put back into place,
the vertebrae were replaced, the flesh
put back and the- incision sewed up.
The operation took just one hour and
a. quarter, and after it was over the
patient recovered sufficiently from the
shock to carry on a conversation.

 

SOME QUEER FUELS.

[11 Egypt Dried Mummies -Are Used for
Running Trains.

Some ofthe materials used for fuel.

in various parts of the world seem ex-
traordinary. In certain shoe—making
towns in Massachusetts, such as Lynn,
there are some very poor people who
burn nothing else but leather chips
from one end of the winter‘ to the oth-
er. They get them from the factories
by the wheelbarrow load.

Such chips, of course, smoulder with
a great deal of smoke. They form in-
candescent masses which have to be
broken up from time to time with the
poker.

In Egypt it is said that mummies,
chiefly those of cats, ibises and other
animals held sacred by the ancient in-
habitants have been employed for run-
ning trains between Cairo and Alex-
andria.

Dried fishes, particularly the salmon,
have been, and perhaps are to this day,
employed to some extent as fuel by
the Indians in parts of British Colum-
bia..They contain enough oil and mus-
cular fibre to burn well.

———.—-——.. ,.-..-...

DlDN’T WANT ’CASH.

Wouldn’t, Rent His Fa‘rm'» Because the
Man “’anted to Pay in Advance..

“The Atlanta Constitution’ relates
1 story which illustrates one phase of
he ‘negro problem.

A negro rented a farm from a man
who had a store but for everything
He needed during the year the renter
naid cash.

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‘BlTTEN BY A JEALOUS‘ PET VR‘AT. ‘

 

. Did Not Like Its Playmate to Give Cake

& to the Dog.
Three-years- old Violet

en in the Hahnemann Hospital. the

other afternoon suffering intense ago- ,

ny from a severe wound in her "right
hand, caused by the bite of a rat. The
rodent which caused the child’s ‘in-
juries belongs—to the next-door neigh-
bor of the Ricketts, and was captured
in a trap several years ago and tamed.
It is in the habit of running about the
neighborhood, and for a long time has

been a fféquent visitor at the Rick-‘

etts house.

The child and‘theirat became great
friends.‘ Yesterday afternoon the lit-
tle girl was feeding it when,a big dog
belonging to her father came into the
room, and she tossed the‘canine a bit
of cake. The rat became angry and
jumped at‘th‘e baby, catching the lit-
tle one’s hand with its teeth. The
child’s cries brought her mether, who
tried to set the dog on the rat, but the
dog refused to interfere, as the pair
had been long friends.

The rat then turned upon Mrs. Rick—
etts, who (had a hard time to prevent
it biting her. She finally threw a
piece of wood at the little animal, and

he ran through a small hole in the‘

kitchen by which he had been accus-
tomed to go and come to the adjoin-
ing house. The child was taken to
the hospital, and the physicians found
it necessary to take five stitches in the
wound—Philadelphia. Record.

 

-A SENSITIVE cousclervce.

\Vhich Needed to Be Linked with a. Little
Common Sense.

Augustus J. C. Hare, in “The Story

of My Life,” tells a story of. an Ox‘

ford undergraduate whose morbid

conscience made him an oddity. One
day a man said to him. “How do you.
do, R.?” and he ans 9‘. mod: “Quit. well,

The no. t day the man
ed at receiving fro m R.
“Dear Sir: I am

thank you.”
was astonish
the following note:

sorry to tell you that I have been act~_

ing a deceptive part. When I told you
yesterday that I was quite well I had
really a headache; this has been upon
my conscience ever since.” The note
amused the man, whose name was
Burton, and he showed it to a friend,
who, knowing R’s weakness, said to
him: “0h, R., how could you act so
wrongly as to call Mr. Burton ‘dear
sir,’ thereby giving him the impres-
sion that you liked him, when you
know that you dislike him extreme-
ly?” R. was sadly distressed, and a

few days later Mr. Burton received the ,
“Burton, I am sorry to

following:
trouble you again, but I have been
shown that, under the mask of friend-
ship, I have been for the second time

deceiving you; by calling you ‘dear'

sir’ I may have led you to suppose I
liked you, which I never did, and nev-
er can do. I am, Burton, yours,” etc

LIVING WITHOUT A BRAIN.

ATortolse Exisled Three Months Minus
This Part of His Anatomy.

The way the common tortoise will
cling to life is one of the most remark-
able things in nature. At Cambridge,
England, one lived for three months
after the brain had been removed. The
heart will continue to beat .for fifty
minutes after being. cut out of the
body.

There is a case or! record of a for
toise being kept in a corner of an ice-
house for twelve months. During all
that time he slept without once mov-
ing or eating.

At the end of it he was taken out,
put in the warm sun, and in a few
minutes was walking about quite hap-
rily. What’s more, the fat around the
muscles had not decreased in the
slightest. The tortoise’ 3 blood is very
much lower in temperature than that
)f almost any creature, except a snake
)r fish. ——Golden Days.

 

 

A 1:101. G'ift to'tb'e Queen.

Ricketts, _
.who lives with her parent at 1525
Sumner street, Philadelphia, was tak-'

The Parsees of Bombay have sent as ‘

a gift to Queen Victoria a casket rep-

resenting, in rich gold and silver em:

bossed work, an old Persian palace.
On the palace are seen in relief Persian
figures in ancient national costume,
while the antique. batons or maces
'with bull’s‘heads, the old-fashioned
war clubs, form the extreme corners of
the casket, which is about twenty
inches long, half as wide ' and
as high. The

 

At the close of the season he had a .

‘ine crop on hand and plenty of money
’n sight. The rent was paid in full,
1nd he solicited another year’s lease
from his landlord.

“You can’t‘fint from me no more,”
aid the landlord. “I’m 'done with you
for good.”

“Didn’t I pay you for all I got?”
ished the negro, “and ain’t I ready to
pay you in advance for another year ?”

“That’s just where the trouble comes
in, ” replied the landlord. “You’ re too
fond of payin’ cash. What I want in
my business is a nigger that farms on
1 credit!”

g__._1_

 

palace is crowned with three figures
symbolic of Parsee worship. They are
pure gold A Parsee king is praying
before a fire altar, and in the center is
seen an angel. Kneeling elephants
form the four feet of the casket, trac-
ing an allusion to the period when,
driven from Persia by the worshippers
of Islam, the Parsees found a resting
place inlndia.

 

7 A Problem in Algebra.

Tattered N. Torn—“Our finances
ain’t an unknown quantity.”

Traveling Tank.— “They
Why ?”

T. N. T. '——“ ’Cause if they were they’ d

ain’t ?

be equal to an X. Guess yOu wasn’t'

educated in algebra.”

 

31—:

 
 
 

 

THE ORIGINAL

 

Stamped 1“ Boss g, 1
Always the Same

 

 

 

miniature .

 

 

 

 

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