Wellsboro Agitator, The (Newspaper) - April 30, 1889, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania VOL IS I w or U JOURNAL PUBLISHED TUESDAY BY l- 104 Main Wellsboro Fa i at u and PROFESSIONAL CARDS S M s- I'M SURGEON All Aug PHYSICIAN SURGEON i in the maj be made A M will visit any part to perform APRII New f and of quality R CO have pot a full line of choice L Pa Of- office Special attention i of women all a lo 1 JO lu 8 i Of block As Y or and La every N AT U Fa Into their onu entire of the building Tbe stock Is complete and IB fresh of of all an of Cwood all Uie leading brands of Smoked and Sailed Preserved Oar B Glassi AND To a BT I the Bontan with petals prated odor with tbo three Lent long than If host and By by on tbo O And love thee beat i In onr bid garden of the i Whether about mj thatch you Or tbat maid of Who on her lawny O royal Roacl A not be to because of new for we will continue to lead the ID that lino Everybody i ta invited to CALL AND SEE OUR GOODS Absolutely Pure This powder beret A of 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DUH na 050 fm 15 400 1230 H 910 m W 4.15 930 040 730 am The AGITATOR is too old an require any introduction to the people of Tioga county It has been a welcome visitor in a multitude of homes in this and the neighboring and with a view of extending its culation further publishers make this offer The PHILADELPHIA LY is an excellent the representative Republican paper of It is an able and vigorous advocate of the protection of American in- and baa many attractive urea for readers of all classes We will send these Two Lively papers to any for Two Dollars a Year cash in advance f BARNES ROY Pa Danced the Cotillon OF tbe Tnra i The coach is at tho Tour lency IV was the vexed der How often hare I begged of you fn tbe past Week not to me In that way enough to drive one pi 1 or not lo repeat the Your Washington stopped short la bis ry toward the you he his face with unwonted M have none of your feathers Ibis You shall noli again did at the first fallen overcome reminder of his famous ventured no reply Opening wide with a courtesy that ed of anl Eastern he saw the eral enter the Cinderella coach that waa to carry him to the balh into the saddle of a champing he ed off at full gallop Broadway to the path for what be deemed a right royal progress Through the open window of his riage Washington beard the reckless clat tbe jingle of tbe Colonell the clinking of bia die heraldic shouts to the crowds throned the highway disregarding hid his ordure Washington waa in no mood for kingly ceremonies He still chafed under the thought pf thb bitter debates that had at- tended the choice of a title for the elected he remembered how some of jhe younger Senators had ridiculed his own suggestion of nigh Mightiness be recalled the of tbe the growls nf the who charged him witb princely ambition and starched modes aped from the Court of Si Dowagers folded and lost the point the Scandal had come only that morning from And ceased their wlnaomo chatter with stranger coxcombs from Boston and ruder blades from tbe provinces Every turned to Washington a trace of hit recent annoyance ed in hie face Just the faintest cloud passed over It when who was among tbe first to address ex- pressed regret Lidy had not arrived lit season to share In ibe ing's festival i madam one of bpr spunks one buxom dame in of whispered to I bu those good old here were ladles I you tell her that the Southern riyers ad stopped carriage She had It Torn a in Richmond that Lady ashington bad no heart at all fine foolish fashions and French flatly refused to take any part in such And she had told the General ly enough that now wars were over his business was to atop at home with her and the children And Martha never been a of the were And everybody knows that she had a very tidy estate when the eral married and that tbe and the bad been strous anxious for the en only knows where tbe old gossip would bare ended had not at that moment a pudgy little Dutchman cried from bis perch in the iv A flood of melody waxen lights in to and fro and flickered anon in rhythm the SoOn the polished threw back tho shadows of twinkling resplendent with buckles of brilliants and Fiddler and piper his Swifter the step and lighter the tread waved faster in of saffron and pink and like downy clusters of From bis chair Washington look ed on in pride and delight All tbat was that was brave In the duelling capital of a century had ered here this evening There were maids and youths to live aa the there were men and souls the times had tried in not an iota WHOLE NO l ure In striking relief against his gown white brocade He fairly ed above her Yet not a dame nor a seMn the room that would not fi half her years to tie In Lady Lee's Hilary holds her age right one coquette f rota Quakerdom And the General's regard no her ancient chaperon indeed fall yean since they were lovers Beshrew me word for child Young W ington paid ardent to Sally Grim And a monstrous die w prettiest in all county you and here tbe fan was something 6 I have In the before s wedded Kichard There be they say twas Sally Grimes who tbe Ge jilting jade cries Prue She merits not Ibis So the ballroom Cru dowagers told tbe piquant story to mat fresh from and t imparted U to of beaux from Cambridge Sally Grimes then the who fo yean before had played fast and 1 with George's boyish fancy And ber be had slighted the belles of 1 land in tbat Humphreys meant immortality I Romantic 1 exclaimed I Count de with French effusi ness and upturned eyes and quaintly the cherry-lipped brunette at bis side BT f a conqueror marching to bin Tho warfare finished and tbe victory won And oil the pageant of bis triumph Seeks jilt resplendent chamber in tbe Ton like ind drest In troop slowly Bearing abroad of the tun Tbat proudly maay a In the azure Held a utar Lifta Eu pale and the train Of errant from their and join again Their father In bte golden panting snuffed the western main f figures are tbat T can to bear on tuch While argument may touch tbe and con- vict of we mart refer lo official re lo refute each ing to tbe last census the population of Kansas wai 995 which ia twice thai of Nebraska which numbered same census Kansas be- came prohibitory Nebraska has cense in cities and ia towna The following table Is formulated from the Report and shows the amount of beer drank io these two from 1880 to 1887 High 40.000 1882 1883 1885 r r m 10.000 Mrs D BUTTS of the tit women and found F Temperance Reform in Politics CON SI OP PRINCIPLES IKO ON We print the at the quest of the U- of 3 In the moral this com- j both and went into the mysteries of Government in the er- erU upon the people at large We are Ueos of tbe National Government as well as of the Captain Ambrose THE when the Presidential party shall the East river New opposite Wall a barge manned by a crew of f ram the Marine ety of the with Captain Ambrose President of that as Ccick- will row the President The of thd barge Towed Washington from to the foot of Wall members of tho same In u few the figure would end lie dunce tbo second Whom he 1 210 400 71 MAIN Antrim Division To 6 1 j p m TjQ 310 nm Up Antrim Ar j I Jan 1 IN II 720 4 11 10 4 7 4 4 J 10 4 Wl 1 20 Top 11 Valley Middle bury Holiday lev H or s in H H 5fl Ar 120 100 Ilk 12 12 10 11 57 11 47 11 11 11 22 M 12 10 50 25 p mj 010 00 47 OO 458 450 440 4 lii fTm WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Ice Cream Pealer 800 747 744 on A full line of Fine Choice Fruits in Season Hew reverie for the Grand from I 7 r 7 020 f f Pine Creek Division out People's Market on t their and merit a nf mwr of charge ROLAND'S m I I 1040 100 P 111 1 t 1 I m II 47 li 11 11 Ul 4 VU 4 4 Ansonia 071 lOi ft J Him IK 1 40 7 11 W rn 7 H 1 1 400 14 11 14 i oo i rjo The best AH of PaM -T Business Change i I have my to A but shall to ran the Planing Mill l 71 p am 4 am 6 Cowanesque Branch 1 8 1 1 in COO 4 b in 4 n m 8 10 747 U 111 A rooming 10 TiD 1 1 HO 3 t p mi n m TJo 840 V 1 a largo stock of and heavy ON which I to will or exchange for Hemlock nnd U PIECE JOF TIT Elkland 7411000 740.10 JO 41 7 14 Academy 00 10 STOltE I for kindred luy Fancy in thin region to fair the ALF C- LES MO 45 2 8 1 08 manner appropriate to a honor ed with the highest dignity of tbe Anil 1 be re was Col Humphreys through the streets of the ordering coach and cab to stand threatening to trample tbe patriotic lace under waving as if at a horde of routed and capering genet ally like 1 justt arousing lib figood could like a and a if he ed his carriage he Humphrey ft bawl to the ing Tbe of the United States I General muttered un- der breath lo point his he took no note of the bund and strode unattended up tbe of the Assembly rooms nothing daunted by the General's twixt you and told to every lady's maid and pretty pantry wench could boast acquaintance witb Boots close at ton's Ue passed him at the first and pushing aside a curtain of Flemish he bowed tbe distinguished val the room that had been set for hi a use He fairly yearned to cry His Imperial Dignity or His Serene or anything tbat would relief to his own exalted notion of Can I be of any service to Your He caught himself and ended with He hid determined ID the busy week bis inauguration that in so Tar j should lead out he must decide in the next aa concerned his official capacity be would L pause of the music A score of names oc conduct himself in the possible cur lo a dozen fair faces crime before his eyes though he he knew well enough that his choice would many aye perhaps Gome shrewish you needn't arch your either they weren't beyond that thing a hundred years jigo the gossips in the bad solved the problem their own tion possibly before it occurred lo ington Lady they buzzed behind fans I assure you tis my dear 1 have it from my who had it from Lady Livi Twas settled weeks And there Was certainly some ground for this chatter Tho Livingstons a conspicuous part in the General's career It was only a week before tbat a ston had administered to the ble oath of the and then turning to the throng that stood Jo Federal cried in a voice tremulous witb J Long live George the President of ibe United It fras tbe husband of science tbat part of ethics which consists in the regulation and government of a Nation or State for the preservation of ita eafe y peace and doctrines of morality butler social According to the above definition it is inseparably with government and is a part of ethic i or morals as 1 L I is of Divine origin and Paul The powers that be are ordain of A ruler is a revenger to execute wrath upon him tt t doeth The one object and office government is to secure the good of protection pf its citizens preservation of their Although it is n at the province of government to force morality in the yet it in accordance witb its origin and seek tbe highest outward or of its citizens And its own acts governed by tho strict principles of All State action must be kept in the of and all its f il- muat be made to rest upon mere Moral Oa its tbe very lady of whom Ibe swell gadabouts were that met Washington on his way lo command of the army in Boston and assured him in formal address of the love and loyalty of ajl New But I have it from the General broke in Mrs who had long been His that his first dance is ised to Mias was more than kind to the General in those There was much suppressed at much nudging of true politics and morality It is true that the word is used a in a looser sense to denote between parties fur power and 3 of office This ia not in its and primary Bense APPLICATION OF Brook 641 Harrison 1 OOi 8 11 52 8 40 21 50 IS INDEED A tram ni p Somerville at at Kali ji it leaves at and at ot p m with Male A 11 Trains 4 and moke clothe connect SOUK lor nil Kant and and from Lyons to York aud and Auburn Branch N Y C R R All north bound trains make Ko f Yan Q A Northern Central K K L E W K and 1 A W It- H Branch U G A A try Tioga H to and from ria P R It Cum between U Fi NZE R'S COMES AS NEAR BEING A FINE PIECE OF PLUG TOBACCO JAMES S PROPRIETOR town It fleam heEti batk nad There arc The hotel ta and IT 1 BINDING AH kinds of Printing in the beat at Wedding or Cardd and of mil n specialty y Call and sec Office the BINDING AND IS KNOWN ASA Washington answered mky my man In instant was at negro who had for ty years aa same trusty fellow that the dock had given to his young lieutenant on that fatal day in the the same op who followed Washington when he went pop young Widow and who stood beside the General when j tendered his conquered sword A few deft twists at his master's a breath and a polish upon the silver touch to the a brush at the sleeve and hta ties fur time were over As be turned to go Washington recalled him and bade UDUuckle the email sword that he wore at his Hide it with he said 41 Humphrey a broke in J present haa been by the master of by Mrs lo r you waa the imperturbable re- n 11 Thent to us ft of in 10 fro eight Pino In SHOE FOR v GENTLEMEN W I DOUGLAS Our ia to tarnish power to ww K 000 feet pf hemlock In 10 Our La HUM time Oar Bo- arc to f A leal foci And water than an or not fitted wi tb If you want a Stationary or Portable Saw Shafting or Iron send for lonr for Information and B W A N at OLD Pa AMONG DEALERS WE ARE SURE THAT ONE WILL CONVINCE You OF Irs MERITS LOOK FOR THIS TAG ON EACH Oct J Greatest leal Corset SALS BT TIOGA BOM ad Wagon EVER MADE Eld Elastic OO auj dealer who onr take boe wemr i 4 and If not factory return tho Cor- and your dollar Cortland Corset for vale Jan a t 1880 roa SAU AT Mar 1 the aide decamp queried aa they neared the to the will you honor with the Washington replied that be bad given the no a delicate affair General If you will pedant mo to say with an It means ty for fair chroniclers whose memoirs 1 have examined are painfully bilent as to Wash comment on this remark of but 1 have a vivid impression that thq reply was not wholly grandmother I Be certain that when entered the on tbe occasion of inauguration ball he yet determined upon what he should bestow the signal of bin choice for a partner I am even in- lo question whether he had any in- tention of at all He no longer a nor even one He had never danced with exceptional even when be was of the bade tq their Christmas parties of by no me inn a loosed limbs minuets ITL Raul's was on the stroke of ten when Washington stepped into the brilliant scene in his honor Tho paster of to meet Jed the way to a couch raised on a of crimson at the other end of the A murmurous hush greeted the read gleaming floor The in the balcony above struck their kits ID Lofter tbe tinkle of the claT ichord mellowed into cadence 41 Bless came from a demure bit af a belle in a marvelously short waidt r of celestial lake vastly small account In your guessing of Lady Or of Lady Kilty up an- other And the de 11 simpered a say you lo the Donna Diego 14 In good came a perfect of since the Spaniards have been so kind to And so they ran through almost the en- tire list of the notables Now twas Mrs who was to receive tbe cherished distinction now Lady ton DOW the Mayoress now Miss Bayard One Lady Alexander Hamilton should of right be chosen an- other declared the honor due to Mr a r ert Morris a whose had fallen oh the heights of and who was a as well Spirited they grew in debate until the flash of their cheeks put even the liberal rouge to shame and the tossing of shapely heads threatened danger to lofty A cry from the caller's gallery quieted the coterie The leader waa proclaiming the second Now their doubts would be dispelled They flaw Washington step down from the dais and walk with his wonted majesty of gait a c room He paused for a moment Gambling houses of immoral etc are huj ful to public and heribe are under Slate prohibition When these e removal of or ia a If they should exist under government sanction and should be persistently upheld by the patty in our country government isj Society At an early age Captain Snow became of u and idays pf our merchant marine he ed in ships John John and When forty years old he established a leading Chipping firm in New slill ex- Captain Snow's maternal grandfather soldier under Washing the battles of Long land elsewhere i l A Tragedy BOTLE A bird from the Fell In love with a flame VT And It wheeled round the tower on i And floated and cried like ft lovelorn It brooded all day and tt ill Bat could DO look from tbe Hght For the Ste heart with the at It WAS thinking of and Of and to lira l Bat the bird had Its tender bottom On the where lut it Ite The light only the brighter to Bat tbe bird dead on the rocks below P i administered by a political the only way to reform them and to reform the government at the same time by political action Organized effort I to elect men who would so legislate and ati minister laws as these would carrying the reform into i Tbe manufacture and sale df intoxicants as a with all its terrific is an evil is second to none exists in society Yet it is legalized and protected by Sbiti and National and tbe parti ID power have r through license and revenue laws There is a class of men who have com to reason as follows Temperance refo by moral suasion it has don much is utterly to remote the evils of intemperance while ing is legalized and protected by the State and if is then rum is Immoral If ing la then giving it license protection is immoral Ho that gives a and comfort to the perpetrator of a becomes a party to the crime This com fe of reasoning has led the class of men to to withdraw aid and comfort the license policy and parUes uphold It Believing it to be and remembering tbat they then selves are a part of the by their votes to antagonize pri legalized rum selling What is cod they seek Y It is to change the a 11 i Vl Mrs Peter VanBrugh I tude of Government toward surrounded by a train of her admirers I put it in the same attitude lie some word in passing to Lady that traffic that it maintains de whom he had known in other daughter of the rich o social to deliver from fa -i anomalous position of authorizing had whole Colony 1 sell rum and the men whom talking by her extravagant pranks and ish gowns On he to where Light Horse Harry Lee was binding over a faced mation Of all the women in the world lft was muttered behind square of with hef proud face radiant this unexpected Lady Lee was led to her place the dance Baron Steuben started the figure He waa the Acknowledged Brummel of the re- publican grace and finesse despite his German which he had contrived to thin in of a career in the household of His partner was the Mrs who as Annie Willing hud aet all England raving of her She wort a gown of of satin About her of Ian gauze veiled the that ahow above an They win lively indeed for those who were to follow in the rather simple figure Tbe virile had not yet ed to Gallic refinement Never If we may put truat in of tbat olden had ton appeared to belter advantage than on occasion of elegant of eatin placed hb commanding A Connecticut j A BEAUTIFUL A BAND TWO The ancient and picturesque town of is rich in historical its elderly residents possess fund of stories that are too good to be left to be handed down from generation to each adding to the one until the original story is hardly One of relates to two in the which have sheltered many generations of fair woman and brave and it shows that the women of the good old days did not differ much from those of i Before the British bullets of Gen forces the ears of the brave band of Continentals under who sought to protect the stores of the Revolutionary army in Matthew a prosperous farmer and a man of local prominence owned one- twenty-ninth part of the town of and was at the head of large ly the aa a girl was the queen of all the apple and husking bees She was a girl of rare beauty ind something of not aa we of to day define the but in Ibe way she loved no but accepted all the young men's attentions as by She was a dashing with and roguish and for mites around the young men came to kneel at the shrine of Hannah At of 18 Hannah had developed into a handsome woman In those days early marriages were proper and the local gossips hinted that was time for Matthew's Seymour's youngest daughter to settle down with a family of her own She a Jeremiah Keeler appe fell deeply in love with womanlike encouraged him He met with little Hannah seemed and so did ber parents Keeler owned a fine and his station in life was equal lo her own The ship ran on until one day there came up from a young man named Nathan Dauchy Dauchy had been a schoolmate of and had a touch of the passion while yet a girl He had left the dull old town and had gone to Nor then a thriving where he had come in contract with townspeople acquired a certain amount of The old spark waa and his daibing ways threw Farmer Jerry into tbe shaded Yet Jerry was not going to give up BO easily The double went on for several months The people eides Some insisted that Dauchy ought to hare while ers upheld tbe sturdy young farmer who had been first in the field to Hannah did not know which to choose Each and to each she the same She was in a fix Either man would have made a good husband They were manly young of good principles and of equal unes Hannah ber could not determine First Cupid Inclined the scales toward whose worth she did L of closets and kitchen and attic and cellar ri r She looked at the weighing not so much cost as the taste and com- fort ta be and then decided tbat Keeler had shown the moat taste and tbe greater skill The marriage was and the neighbors said Hannah had at last come to ber senses and had married ier true as she had intended to all the time she had weighed the ter carefully and conscientiously Tbe two- houses are standing to-day The Jeremiah Keeler homestead -is by a descendant of the John and the house is now owned and occupied by Henry A Mexican Story THB TWELVE WISE OF LAGOS from upon a great the Town Council of Lagos went to the parish church to hear the mass And all tbe members of the Council were dressed in seemly state in coats and tight black trousers and flowing and each wore a brimmed hat of black over which a feather gallantly curled For their com- fort a bench was placed before the chancel rail And wheo they came to each in tbe order of bis down upon tbe bench and beside him bis But when six of the twelve Councilors were seated tbe bench was Then a whispered conference was and N it was decided tbat the bench must be stretched So six of them took hold of one end and the other six took hold of the and they pulled hard Then they came to sit again And now the first Councilor put his hat beneath Ibe and the second did and so did they all And they all in com- fort sal which they knew that they had sufficiently bench Being thus seated the first Councilor ed bis right leg over his left and eo did and so did they alL the time ia the mass when must of the Councilors tell certainly which two of tbe 24 legs were for all were clad in tight black trousers and all were crossed And each man looked at the many legs among which were his and sorrowfully wondered if he ever should know bis own legs among so many and Bo be able to rise and walk And while thus pondered it that the first Councilor wis ten by flea fiercely in Vis rearward parts And the first Councilor slapped at the and that he might better his legs Then the second Councilor knew which were hip and ao did the and so did they alL And so they all un- crossed their and with great ness Some From fhe Washington Critic There wu a young man from A tatty bold lie WAS sore of lie dropped ia the loop And now mt i There wu an old man from With a Lo be rather Ho overmuch The of tte And DOW gone back to Milwaukee A Colonel came oc from A gentlemen and plucky He took what they 1 bad And himself p tacky r A came down from With a name nor He WM given Bet he wanted the earth And it been eat on u Toune Lore Is Lone Love Prom the St Louis With hazel co waste ot Bach street child inch winning Ai other wear Oh the whom 1 Sach has no other being proved I wooed her long ID talc and rang And often she near relent Then boyish MS oft would waste My wrapped in bewilderment if I bad such I'd win I her then I taw her Eate upon her wait Her grown-up men Her U Though not so sweet u it wan When She queen and I her Too blest if bat a she garc r a young in bright and Prohibition versus FACTS ADD PROHIBITION AND STATES 2b Uu April iel who is a close student of V the liquor and who has solved some problems and found some jias arranged the following which is based on the report for 1837 In be A large portion of these dealers in the prohibition 1 r States are druggists V VTe trt M TH 1 17 1 019 8 1 U2 77 ol 367 444 368 Ohio 371 130 they drunk the of Intemperance have two one in individual other in a legalized business that and feeds the appetite Hence the temperance reform the one Ing out to save the the other ing out to paralyse the legalized izer One arm works through moral Gospel the through political seeking to I not and then the more cultivated the traffic Neither arm supersedes J ways of Dauchy overbalanced the t fe J 1 A I ft 1 C rh ft t n I- u other each complements the Tina jt i is the justification of if reform in The for ance injo National politics Is found i In the fact that the liquor traffic ia permitted by tp its shame- ful colors In the faces of the and visitors from all civilized wHo come to our National and In lui work in all Territories subject 2 In tbe fact that all the distilleries breweries hi the country are under the Im- mediate control of the National and that a Tery large from Its interest In the of whisky to make its citizens drank and she was inclined to bestow her After much thought and ful consideration a bright thought struck her The young men were summoned to her she told them that the one who within tho next build and furnish a bouse most comfortable and tasteful could claim her hand With ing better to they accepted the tion The queen of their hearts made them hands upon and promise that tbe other should accept the decision in a manly way seek some other fair maiden to share the house he waa to build They went to work in tbe year the houses were finished and a At last the time for nah to make the Important decision corted by the two young men the examined Thus while Kansas gained prohibition in Iowa in 1833 and Maine in these three States combined have one holding United States tax for 444 while the three above-named license States hare one for 183 the population from the census of and according to the latest official reports the prohibition is more and more in the We will take room only for the latest report from which in the month of was aa follows Number of counties reporting a de- crease ia crime criminal decrease varying from 20 to 60 per cent Number of counties reporting crease consumption of 75 de- crease varying from 25 to 70 per cent Total number of ing who in 1888 paid United States special liquor tax la Four number was over During the last two years the ber of convicts In our State prisons has de- creased 35 per cent 5 The Sheriffs from being the basin many the In over one-half of tbe counties the jails have stood empty during the past Tear Peace and happiness abound in hundreds of Ia tbe of the want and crime pre- It Is farther said by some that is a failure and license a J 7 t The Side of THE BIG DAM An enthusiastic old fellow and bis wife recently visited Niagara Falls They the Fails from the piazza ia froat of their and retired over its wondera At an early hour next morning the old gentleman was on the qui and as soon aa he saw tbe Falls he sang f Wife wife I'll be durned if the ain't over tbe THE STARTLED DEACON Mr A was more eminent in bis day for brilliancy nf his imagination than Ibe force of his logic On one sion he was preaching on of and in the peroration he suddenly I hear a whisper The of tone startled tbe who sat from a drowsy springing to his exclaimed I guAs the in NOT WHICH ONE 1 An young lawyer one-day last week n quested a private interview with cme of wealthiest men Austin As soon aa the door was closed the young lawyer said earnestly Life iu a burden to me unless you consent to my marriage with your daughter I come to atk your The did not have use for replied which one of my daughters do you refer I have ever one you want me lo waa the candid THE FOOLISH TENANT There en- ters unto him a tenant who de- mands a large reduction of rent on tbe plea of free bad etc The Squire is about io come to he receives a kick on the shins from his who has entered the room durinc the landlord dismiss the I'll think ever Exit the tenant When the door was the following conversation ensues my isiL V Why shouldn't Lbe rent be reduced Why shouldn't it did you not see that the bat was a brand new Lincoln And I haven't had a bonnet for six months WIVES AND a a friend ed me a book containing the reminiscences of Henry A Wise In it be says that he was riding out one evening with President who informed him that be was ing to get married lo Miss Gardner V said she is too young for Not at replied the 11 I'm in my reminds of an old darky down in who was generally con- by his old on any affair ok any importance to both Tbe old master was a and when be got the con- sent of a young lady to marry him he com- the fact to the old darky Lord said she is too young for a bit of the ter I'm still in my re- you ate in your prime but wait till she gets in her then where will your prime be A ON THE BOX Albert the White Bouse is a broad minded philosopher Aa tbe Harrison coach was standing in front of the portico other man came looked at tbe horses with A critical and remarked is not aa good team as land's seal is it Albert's face waa covered with an ex- rt pression of unutterable aa he said you ought to know more than to be saying such things like that to me You want lo get me in trouble Look the other day I waa standing out and some came and One of them says I am glad tbat President Harrisen kept you in your old Thank says for your Mrs Harrison is not as young a lady as Mrs is she were lots of people standing around here listening to what sbe waa ing to me and what I was saying tp and I thought I would fall off the hut I just drew myself up and said 4 1 no judge of women York Tribune ON The following experience of pi lawyer was related by to the writer many years ago He said 141 was a defending a prisoner for Stealing and seeing no other means of de- fending under the I set up the plea of insanity I argued it at read many extracts from works on medical and had the patient attention of the CourL The prosecuting attorney did not attempt to reply to my or controvert my authorities I seemed to have things my own and whispered to the prisoner that needn't be uneasy Then came the in which reminded the jury that there was no dispute between counsel as lo the facts of there could not have tor several witnesses had sworn positively that they saw my client steal tbe l concluded the the plea of insanity has been act and I charge gentlemen of tht that it should receive your Tery grave and serious deliberation bat I must be allowed to for upon review of the whole I can Discover no dence of Insanity the part of the in of his t v f
