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Losses will almost surely be avoided, if these directions are followed. Foreign subscriptions may he sent to our Euro ean agents, the INTERNATIONAL Nsws COMPANY,11 ou- verie street (Fleet street), London, England. W All communications, subscri tions, and let- ters on business should be address to BEADLE AND ADAMS, Pumsnmas. 98 WILLIAM ST.. NEW YORK. lg. New readers will please notify their news- dealer of their purpose to take THE BANNER WEEKLYregularly, so as to be sure of secur- ing it. Back numbers always on hand. Starting in No. 639. J. C. Cowdriok’s Star Serial, Gool Joho,ll1e llolooedo Delootive. A very novel creation, certainly, and woven, in warp and woof, With the fine spun silk of a versatile invention. As The Sport About Town. The Man to Tie-to, The Genius of Silence. Cool John, forced by strangest circumstances, in his own defense and in defense of his be- trothed, to become a detective, enters upon a trail which leads to remarkable results. To cover the crime of her son, a mother at- tempts tO baffle the hounds of the law by a blind lead; but Cool John, the Sphinx, keeping his Own counsel, little by little pene- trates the maze and does such wonderful work that the impenetrable mystery of a young spend- thrift’s murder is revealed at last, making the denouement one of startling surprises. In truth The Unexpected Happens! and the author’s ingenious art compels the reader to the admission that this romance of DENVER AND NEW YORK is a clear-cut gem. Every reader should make it his own. “ Born Tired.” And Not Even the Sting of a. Bee Was Sufficient to Arouse Him. BY WILL s. GIDLEY. _ ONE warm summer afternoon in ’93 I was tak- inga trip on the Housatonic Railroad, up the beautiful and picturesque Housatonic Valley (the best sort of a tonic for a tired city man, by the way), when I had occasion to stop over a train—a matter of several hours—at a wayside station. When I got off the train I noticed a fleshy gentleman seated on a bench at one end of the statrOn platform, apparently half-asleep, and when I returned from my trip around the place, two hours later, 'he was still there, sitting In the same position, with his eyes half-closed and alOOk of dreamy contentment on his face. V_Vh_ile chatting with the station agent, and assmting him to kill time, of which he seemed to have plenty on his hands, I happened to mention the gentleman on the bench outside, and inquired if he.was a fixture that went with the place in case it was ever sold. “ IV ell, no,” said the agent, “ can’t call him a fixture, exactly: sometimes he goes away. His boy generally brings him his meals, but he usually goes home to sleep nights unless the weather is pretty warm, and then he stretches out on the bench and roosts right there till his boy Dan (full name is Dan Tucker, same as his father’s), comes along and wakes him up to eat his breakfast.” “ He must be middling lazy?” “ Middling is no name for it. He is the lazi- est man without doubt in the whole United States. Go out and poke him up with a question or two and you’ll find out that I’m giving you the straight facts.” . It lacked a trifle over fifteen minutes yet till train time, so I acted on the station agent’s suggestion and went forth to interview the man on the bench. Approaching him, I asked: “Is this Mr. Tucker?” An affirmative grunt was the only response. But feeling encouraged at getting even that, I went on: I “ I am looking for a desirable investment in real estate in this vicinity, and I have been re- ferred to you as a gentleman who might be able to give me some information.” Which wasn’t so, by the way, but I had to have some excuse for interviewing him and this was the first thing that Occurred to me. “ Who said so?” he demanded, sleepily. “ The station-agent.” “ Agent’s a liar, then. Ain’t got no real estate to sell. Don’t know anybody that has. G’way and don’t bother me.” “ DO you want to earn a dollar?” I asked. “Now! Not if I’ve got to work for it,” he growled. “ It. won’t be very hard work. All you’ve got to do Is to step inside and tell the station-agent what you’ve just told me.” “Guess not. He’d call me another, and then I’d have to lick him, and it’s worth more’n a do!- lar to do that in this weather.” _“ Do you ever smoke?” said I, olfering him a cigar. “ Don’t want it,” he grunted. “ Smoked a cheap Cigar a chap give me once, and it was such hard work drawin’ the smoke through it I don’t care to try another.” “Just then a bee dropped down on his hand and stung it, but instead of knocking the insect off and making a big fuss over the matter, same as. an ordinary mortal would do, he simply blinked a couple of times and sat still. “ Great Peters! man, why don’t you wake up and mash that bee, or knock it Off your hand?” exclaimed I, excitedly. “ What’s the use?” muttered he, drowsilp. “It has used up the only stinger it’s got, and can’t do any more harm, so there ain’t any use of exerting myself to kill it; and now, mister, I wish you’d g’way and quit botherin’ me.” . It was nearly train time, anyway, so I com- plied with his request, feeling that It would be unnecessary cruelty to compel a man as lazy as he was to keep awake long enough to answer an- other question; and three minutes later, as I swung myself aboard of the train, I glanced back, and discovered that the man on the bench was already sound asleep, and snoring away in rhythmic cadence with the pulling of the engine. Happy-Bollier Papers. Boggles’s Wife’s Uncle. DEAR BANNER:- The following sad-eyed tale of.woe from Bog- gles came to hand by fast freight early this A. M., and I hasten to lay it before the hat-mil- lion readers of the BANNER WEEELY, with its Harlem dialect and other trimmings, just as received: “ FROG HOLLOW, NEAR YAPHANK, ) LONG ISLAND, r “ January, Something-or-other, 1895. l “DEAR NOAH:— _ "‘ I’m not sure whether it Is the ’leventeenth of January or the thirty-first. In fact for all I know it may be only the sixth or seventh. I heard Christmas and New Year’s whizz past a spell ago, so I know it is some time in January, but I can’t keep track of Uncle Ebenezer and the days of the month, too; or for that matter even the days of the week. . “ In the mixed-up state of my mind and other things around here at present I am jest as liable to go fishing or hitch up and start 03 to mill on Sunday as any other day, and only last Friday ——I didn’t know it was Friday on the start but I heard so later in the dayf-I shaved and rigged myself up in my best suit, and then noticing that Hanner Maria was still busy with the housework, I got kinder provoked and said: “ ‘ Well, Mrs. Buggies, I’m going 011 to church, and when you get ready, in case you ever do, you can come along alone. I’m tired Of waiting half an hour or an hour for you every Sunday morning.’ , “ She yelled something after me, as I went out slamming the door behind me in a way I some- times havc, but I paid no attention to what she said. When I get my dander up and start off in that style it generally don’t do much good to yell after me. If any one has got anything special to say to me at such a time, the best plan. I have always noticed, is to wait till I get back and say it then. _ " “ Well, I got to the church and found it shut up tighter than the Harlem saloons ever used to be on Sunday, and after hanging around fifteen or twenty minutes and wondering how my watch happened to be so fast, who should I see coming along but Bill Perkins seated on a bed of baled bay. The latter circumstance kinder took my breath away, but after gasping once or twice, I braced up and said: “ ‘Bill, I see you’re getting to be a regular heathen, drawing Off your hay on Sunday, but maybe you can tell me what I want to know.’ “ ‘ Mebbe I kin. What is it?’ demanded Bill, hauling up his team and expectorating careless- l y over his shoulder. “ ‘ Is the minister dead, or what is the reason there hain’t any church here to-dayl’ asked I. “ ‘Church is there all right, same‘ as it allers was,’ responded Bill, sarcastic like, ‘ but I reckon they hain’t gointer hold any meetin’ in it till Sunday, if that is what you wanter know.’ “ ‘What day do (you call it to-day?’ said I; and Bill straightene up and yanked on the reins andgrowledout: , ' , ' ‘ ’~' f. , “ ‘ Friday, of course. s-G’lang, Nance and. J ake! Got no more time to fool awe on a man who hain’t got gumption enough to eep track of the days Of the week. Git up there, out of the dust!’ ‘ “ I didn’t hang around the church any longer, but meandered home and asked Hanner, in purty savage tones, too, you cambet, what she wanted to let me make a fool of myself for, and she said( quick as a flash, she didn’t have anything to do with it; the job was completed before she knew me. “ ' Well,’ says I, ‘ if that is the case you must have been one too or you wouldn’t have married me.’ “ I thought I had her there, but I didn’t. Says she, smiling as ever: . “ ‘ Not at all, Mr. Boggles; not at all. I mar- ried you out of pity, thinking I might bring you to your senses if I kept on dinging at you, but after to-day’s experience I guess I wiil have to give it up as a bad job. I kept calling to you and telling you it wasn’t Sunday when you went out, but-—’ ., “Did, eh?’ interrupted I, jest as savage as ever. ‘S’posing you did? I didn’t hear you; and besides, I got within two days of the right day of the week, anyhow, and I’d like to know how you expect a feller to come any close: than that to it and keep track of your Uncle Ebenezer at the same time? There he goes now! Jest hear the clatter! I’ll bet two cents he has tumbled down the cellar stairs or got tangled up with the wheelbarrow again.’ “ And, sure enough, when I dashed forth to the rescue (a thing which I have to do regular— ly every half-hour or so when Uncle Ebenezer is awake; at night when he is asleep is about the only time really that I get a chance to rest and collect my thoughts: though I hain’t found a great many of them that were worth collecting since the aforesaid gentleman dawned in on us), there Uncle Ebenezer was, on his back, with the wheelbarrow on top of him, kicking and thrashing around and trying his best to get away. But, of course, the more he fioundered and thrashed around the worse he got tangled up. That is Uncle Ebenezer every time. He can tumble over a rocking-chair, or ii. patent clothes-horse, or a wheelbarrow, or-anything in that line, and mix himself up more completely and thoroughly with the article in question, whichever it may happen to be, than any two~legged critter I ever met, or ever hope or expect to. ,. “ He couldn’t make any better, or any worse job of it, jest as a feller happens to look at it, if he had six or eight arms and the same num- ber of legs, same as a chap I paid ten cents to See once in a traveling side-show. He and Uncle Ebenezer would have made a good team at putting their foot, or feet in it, rather. Uncle Ebenezer has got only the regular num- ber of feet—they may be a trifle lar er than the usual run of pedal extremities, I a mit, but he has got only two of ’em; I know because I count- ed ’em once when he was holding them still— but he seems to have such poor control of them and they make so many excursions around on their own book that any one would naturally get the idea that he had as many feet as a centi- e. . “ If I mix up a pan of chicken-feed and set it out in the woodshed to cool Off for a few min— utes before escorting it to the hennery, Uncle the woodshed right Off quick, or thereabouts, and manage to get one or both feet in that pan of feed and upset it and spill the contents over everything in the p ace, then fall over the empty pan and claw and kick and flounder around till he knocks down three or four piles of stove-wood, upsets the bucket of soft soap, bangs the stuffing out of a brand-new milk-pail, kicks over the sawbuck, and inaugu- rates more anarchy and chaos generally in three minutes than an able-bodied man (which means yours truly) can clear up in all day. “ [forgot to say on the start that Uncle Eben- ezer is an uncle on my wife’s side—his full name is_ Ebenezer Tubbs—and he is visiting us this Winter, and sort of choring around for his board, though the hardest work he has done so far is to fall over things and pick himself up again, or wait for somebody else to do it. “ I would like to say that he is an infernal, un- mitigated nuisance, which would be drawing it has got to come out. Ebenezer ibpurty sure to have business out Its lentv mild enough, but I am afraid if I did Mrs. oggles might see it in print, and then I’d suffer more than I do now. I don’t know how she found it out, but Hanner has a sort of an idea that Uncle Ebenezer is worth ten or fifteen thou- sand dollara—he used to be aNew York police captain-and that he is going to leave it all to her, when he gets through walking over and up- setting things on this mundane spear, as the poet tells about. > ' . “ Wealth is a mighty ood thing In its way, but if it is all the same to anner and her Uncle Ebenezer, I’d rather earn the mo ey sawing cord-wood. That’s the way I fee about the matter. and if you can think of any way in which I can at rid of Uncle Ebenezer without laying mysel liable, or injuring his feelings too severely, I wish you would let me know right off immediately, as soon as you receive this, and greatly oblige, yours in a hurry, “ BOGGLES. “P. S. Is there any law against setting a bear-trap out back of the barn, where Uncle Ebenezer would be liable to blunder into it? Maybel could get partly square with him in that way, even if he didn’t take the hint and clear out altogether. BooGLEs.” I have written Boggles, expressing my sym- pathy for him in his present affliction, and ask- ing him if he has tried any of his original poetry (the brand that he sent me a few weeks ago) on Uncle EbeneZer. I told him I thought he would find that would work as well as a beauter in inducing the aforesaid—Felative on his wife’s side to disperse; and besides, a person must have some good excuse for setting a bear-trap, and as there are no bears on Long Island—except the tame ones in the Brooklyn Zoo—I wrote him that probably it would be safer “and better to pepper Uncle Ebenezer with home=made poetry for awhile, and see what result that would have before resorting to bear-traps or more barbarous instruments of torture. NOAH NUFF. ' letter-peiPapeis. ON EARLY RISING. EARLY to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and—terribly cross all day. It was this getting up in the morning that has ruined me from boyhood. I wouldn’t be half as aged if I had been allowed to finish my last dream in the mornings when I was a boy. I never had yeast powder enough in me to make me get up of my own accord before break- fast. “It is all very nice to get up and see the sun rise, but I always thought that one or two sights of this singular phenomenon was sufl‘icient, at least for me. - The early bird will catch the early worm, but if the early worm wasn’t a fool it would stay in its little bed and not come out. That’s the way I look at that; and besides, who wants to get up and go out into the damp and dig for fish-worms, and fish for a bad bronchitis? The sun will rise whether I rise or not, so I can’t see the use of me getting up to assist it, with my eyes so full of sleep that the lids won’t obey orders. ‘ Who desires anybody to rise early and go stamping around the house waking everybody up? It is not in my ten commandments. It is well enough to go to bed early, but getting up early is a little too much for one night. Nature has given us sleep, and rather than detract from it I would add to it—I’m a liberal and generous soul. , Somebody has said that sixteen hours of sleep is too much, where is that man? » When old Ben Franklin invented early rising he did it just for the sake of turning a rhym and Film ve dollaré of old Ben slept-while he , f , A man m’a livea'llttle Ion or; wch u . early, but I on’t think he live as lo , {or there is just so much sleep in a‘ person, a d it If a man sleeps twelve hours it is very evi. dent he will have but twolve hours to worry and trouble himself over his cares, and that is a great blessing. I once read 0 a man who got up early, started to cross a creek on a log and was drowned. That is the reason I have sworn off getting up ear y. “ Most of our men who go down-town after the early drink are early risers, and it is a dreadful bad habit. A man who don’t wake up until after he gets his breakfast don’t consume so much pro- vendor. I know a man who was always up by daylight and he eventually died before he was fifty, and I always laid it tothat. ' ‘ I never like to wake up until it is perfectly light enou h to see how tojopen my eyes. If desire to leave on the our o’clock train I always leave orders to be waked promptly at nine o’clock, and then go on the next train. When I see a man getting up so veryearly I al- ways think he is trying to take some advantage of his neighbor who innocently sleelps. My mind is never clear until get all the sleep .out of it~—say at ten o’clock the next morning. My father used to get me out of my early bed with a stick, and he idn’t use it as a pry either, though it made me roll—out. He rather set me against getting up too soon. . ' I would always rather do my early rising by proxy, if it cost me something; my wife gets up early enou h for both of us. , If _I shou d happen to be routed out of bed early it takes me several hours to go once, awn and stretch the nap off me before am ab 9 to go to work, and my work’s very light—I .work as much at nothing as I can, and put a good deal of interest in it. I never know how dreadful much I weigh until I try to get myself up a little too early, and then I fin I am too heavy to lift myself up out of bed. ‘ It may make a man wealthy, but then I never thought money was much of an object to_me when I was asleep. My neighbor can get up as early as he wants to, for I know I shal never get up early enough to try to prevent him. , If.the folks want to call me to an early break- fast I havelinstructed them to ring a vigorous hand-bell Without any clapper in it just outside of my door. I have lost money by being waked earl -—I have frequently been dreaming of being a out to receive some countless sums when some one hammered on my door before I got a cent of it In my pocket; of course this has made me mad and disagreeable all day. I lie in bed for economy’s sake—the longer I sleep the less shoes and clothes I wear out. I was rented out so early this morning that I thought it was day before yesterday, and I wanted .to go to bed and sleep till day after to- morrow. I never could see why they couldn’t have the mornings longer than any other time of the day, or put more minutes into an hour. .In wialter my head clinches on the pillow so strong at It is impossible to rise u , and my wife saves a good deal of growling by lettin me sleep. In fact I never refer to get up til the next day at any time. rowsily, RESERVED Forms, 1’. H. D. ——-—-———§. _ A BRILLIANT scheme was adopted the other day by a theatrical company which found itself stranded at Dayton, Ohio, and its next engage- ment at Cleveland. A Ian was made for the arrest of one of the mem ers of the company on the charge of opening a letter belonging to an- other member. The accused was taken before the United States Commissioner at Cleveland, where the other members of' the company were subpoenaed as_ witnesses. They of course se- cured his acquittal, and also their fees, amount- lug to $0.25 apiece. It was the most profitable engagement they have played this Season, but the Commissioner is w lling to bet they can’t play it on him again. a. uro’w‘ men, e shelf ' «infamous moi; ,... '. . 9 - tribth a Bannerelles. IT is surprising to know that so much wild ame is yet found in several of the old States— gllaine, New York, Pennsylvania all supplying deer and bear quite plentifully, With an almost infinite quantity of the smaller animals, coons, opossums rabbits, squirrels, etc. In West Vire ginia, an , indeed, throughout the whole Alle- gheny and Cumberland regions, vast numbers of people yet subsist on what the wilderness produces. As an evidence of this game abun- dance ,we have the story of a grand barbecue held recently in Logan county, West Virginia, to celebrate the division of the big county. Tables were, spread, we are told, in the street and all traffic was suspended. Hundreds O stalwart mountaineers came in with their wives and children from the region roundabout. Eight big black bears had been shot within a mile or two of the town, and their carcasses, served in barbecue style,were thepicce cle resistance of the feast. The bears were flanked and surrounded with roasted and baked ’possums, wild turkeys, pheasants, nail, rabbits and all sorts of domes- tic fowls. otatocs by the barrel were roasted, and pum kin-pies by the hundred lined the tables. ard cider was the beverage. BUT, after all, the queerest feature of‘ this affair was the fact that “ Devil Anse” Hatfield, the noted leader of the Hatfield-McCoy vendetta, was master of ceremonies! He stood, it is stated, at the head of the table with a half-open valise, from which the but-ts of three big revolvers protruded! Though there is a generous price set upon “ Devil Anse’s” head, it is said there was not a disturbing word spoken, and that the barbecue was a great success. The popular satisfaction with the presiding officer largely grew out of the fact that there are over a score of graves on the adjacent hillsides testifying to his deadly skill with those pistols. If this had been said of the rough-and-tumble Wild West it would be regarded as “sensational,” and many a reader would pronounce it an exaggeration or an absurd untruth; yet, here it is, not in the wilds Of I’Vyoming, the camps of Colorado, the tough towns of Utah, but right under the shad- ow of the National Capitol. “ Check by jowl ” are civilization and outlawry in that region, where feuds and hates and revenges mock courts and sheriffs alike. ; 0 IT is announced that Mrs. Nat Collins, widely known as the “Montana Cattle Queen,” will soon issue a volume of reminiscences, giving a history of over forty years of life in the camp and on the prairie. Mr. and Mrs. Collins have a pleasant home at the foot of the Rocky Moun- tains, in Teton county, near Belleview. The lady has seen so much of ranch and range life, and is so versed in wilderness character that she will speak as by authority. and her book will read like an issue of our DIME LIBRARY romances which, as the truest transcript of pioneer, border and wilderness in our literature have won enormous currency in Europe as well as in America. ‘ THE jack-rabbit of the West defies all at- tempts at extermination. The creature seems to breed like vermin. You kill fifty and one hundred attend the funeral. In Southern Colo~ redo, rece tlthen score of hunters sallied out for a day sslaughter, around Laar, and slaugh- tered until darkness put an end to the fun, if such it could be termed. The count numbered over ten thousand! The best record was b four Pueblo s ortsmen, who killed 225 jacks in two hours. he bodies were gathered the next day and stacked; then the stack and hunters were photographed;then the whole bag was shipped to Denver for distribution among the poor of that city. In the southern art of Colorado ‘l hunnie" has become a that cannot 7 chars, man ee . help' them to make war on the rabbit by giving the s rtsmen a nominal rate to the fields, besides Ea g free of charge whatever game they may agl Wine of the Wits. . IIIS STAGE EXPERIENCE. TATTERSALL (the tramp) -—“ W’ot ye been do- in’ lately, Wragges?” Wragges—“ 'l'ravelin’ with a theatrical com- Pan - Tgttersall—J‘ W’ot part did you play?” Wragges—“Didn‘t play no part. I joined ’f‘m viben they was walkin’ back to town.”-—— rut . SHOULD WORK BOTH WAYS. His WIEE—“ George, you are becominga con- firmed smoker.” Suburbanite—“My dear, I am compelled to ride in the smoking-car so much that ‘I often have to light a cigar in self-defense.” Same Suburbanite (a few hours later)— “ Amanda, you smell frightfully of raw onions.” His Wife—“ My dear, Bridget frequently eats raw onions, and I’ve been eating one in self- defense.” ART FURNITURE. “ THAT stove,” began the customer with dead- ly calmness, “ you sold me last week as an ‘ art stove,’ I believe?” “ Yes,” admitted the dealer. “ Isn’t it?” “ It doosn‘t know any more about art than a hog does about Sunday.” / “ Eh! What?” ' 5 “ I say it doesn’t, know the first thing about art. I haven’t tried it on painting yet, but it cari’t draw worth a cent.”——Indianapolis Jour- na . ONE- BETTER. “ MADAM,” briskly spoke up the gent in the check suit, when the lad of the house appeared at the dOOr, “ I have ere an invaluable in- vention for daily domestic use; a combination of useful utensils no household should be with- out, combining, as it‘does, in one compact tool, a corkscrew, a paper cutter, a can opener, a nut fiick, a bodkin, a shoe-buttoner, a— ’ ’ “ 0, thank on!" she answered curtly; “I have all the h r-pins I need!” The next moment the door was slammed in his face. ' I MERELY WANTED TO KNOW. THE little girl had been fibbing and been caught in the act. Discipline was necessary, and her father, a prominent West Side politi- cian, took her into the nursery, gave her a lec- tare on the sin of lying, and scrubbed her mouth out thoroughly with soap and water. “ Now, Winifred,” he said, with fatherly firm- ness, as be wiped away her tears, “ ,you will never do the like again, will you, dear? “No, papa,” answered Winifred, checking a sob. “ IIave y-you scoped your mouth out since the ’lection, papal”——("hicago Tribune. run DRUMMER’S REVEN 2E. “ HAVEN‘T you got anything solid toeat?” said a traveler, discontentedly eying the profusion of pies and small cakes on the counter of a restau- rant at one of the way stations. “ Shall I give you some beans?” said the pro prietor, with his most rsuasive smile. The traveler assent , and making short work of them, asked: :: 'Ii‘low much i" went -tive cents," was the bland response. “ What! ’ cried the traveler. “ Twenty‘five cents for a spoonful of cold beans.” The propr etor continuing firm in his price, the man paid it and departed. , But late thatafternoon a telegram was handed in to the restaurant-keeper, for which he paid twgigy—fivo ceiitlils‘. kIt ran thus: on you n 'our rice It litt beans!"—-Silrer Crosg. p 18 high on can source! y little. age” at twenty-one. in any of the States. formed. Her dry-which see. Md. of I “ "is f" . Correspondenls' Column. [This column is open to all correspondents. Inquiries answered as fully and as promptly as circumstances will permit. Contributions not entered as “declined” may be considered ac- cepted. No MSS. returned unless stamps are inclosed.l Declined: “ At Killarney'” “ Beautiful Lives;” “ A Speck of War;” “ otlce to Quit;” ‘-‘ The Big Chief of the Bow String ;" “ Doctor or Devil?” “ The Lost House;" ‘l A Double Run-Ing" “ The Violin’s Last Chord ;” " Little Lightnin ;” “ Three to Thirteen ;” “ The Unex ted i” “ he Driver’s Story ;” “ Lem Sam’s aka; ’ “ The Sword of the Veteran :” “ At the White Portal :” “ The Rakeshaw Affair ;” “ Bounded to the End ;" “ Patching a Truce ;” “ Don’t You Do It.” 0. G. A. A bet cannot be collected by law.— Richard 2. Calamity Jane was a real character. v—Dan G. Riata is same as lariat.—-J. A. K. See No. 63! for answer to similar uery.-e H. 0. B. Andrew Jackson was not a “ oreign— er born.”-—Susie. Don’t know Miss Anthony’s address—C. E. C. Aluminum 18 not German silver. CUMMINCFOBD. A good Winchester rifle can not be had for less than $40. PAS. Your Member of Congress is the person to do the “ favor." Go for him. 3. C. J. We have the Pocket Library in stock and can probably fill any order. , TREASURER. It certainly is essential to un- derstand bookkeeping by double entry. ELLEN A. The ring being a Christmas present be regarded as an engagement ring. ' - ' ‘ OPELIKA STUDENT. as to v< i :e training. case exactly. AMOS J. E. tion (tuberculosis) there is no cure. have to be killed. SENECA Scoros. An American gomg to Scotland “expatriates” himself only by l‘emain- ing in that country permanently. FARM J OUR. According to the census of 1890, the number of horses in the United States was 14,969,467; mules 3nd asses, 2,295,532. CANAWL. All the ocean greyhounds are nar- row and long. The Campania is 622 feet in length, with a width of but 65 feet 3 inches. A. G. A. See last three or four issues of our DIME DIALOGUES, and select one of a dozen pieces just the thing for your entertainment. HOWARD L. Kenneth is a, pretty name. Don’t know just what it mean or implies. Isley the same. It will be a nice combina- Only recently we advised The answlr covered your If the horse really has consump- He will tion. TILLIE F. The nose sore may mean much or Go to a good physician at once. LIZZIE W. Both men and women are “of No one is so at eighteen, You have been misin- T RUE TEST. brother so long your claim agai If you have sup rted your and aid all his bi ls, of course nst h s estate is a just one and can be enforced. ELISE T. We are not versed in escutcheon~ If {on have a famllly shield, it can be ted y here is a book on ’ , . v .' marks. into an expert. ism, ' j _ t” is" of?" W rev. it, or one," how shall you proveit for you? She secrecylto n extreme cases. Be weary of any man who y Justifiablc pleads for secrecy. Be on your guard! ' CONSTANT READER. You will have to attend the common school to acquire the rudiments— the primary department. Persons do not enter college until after having passed all throu h the graded courses of common schools and we 1 into the academic course. UPSALA. A pastel picture can have real art value. If your little sister does such fine work she should be well compensated, of course. The dealer is not treating her honorably, that is evident. Take specimen of her work to several dealers and get orders. \ C. W. C. The heart action probably is purely from speaker’s fright. Even experienced orators are so affected, at times. It is no sign of heart trouble, but is due to nervous excitement. As a rule, experience as a public speaker will give you the necessary courage and equanimitv. HENNESSEY G. The cheapest manuscript or correspondent paper to buy is that sold for the type-writer. It comes in 500 single sheet pack- ages, and can be had for from 60 to 120 cents per package. according to the weight of the paplei? which is usually of superior water-line qua y. CASTLETON ENGINEER. German silver is an alloy. It is not an original metal. Aluminum and nickel and zinc are originals. There is no such metal as “ goloid.” It was a composition— a proposed substitute for our silver coinage to be made of gold, silver, copper, and zinc. See answer to C. EC. All coin is “base” that is composed of two or more metals, and which is, as coin, not sanctioned by law. '. READER. The silver dollar of 1798 is noted at big prices. The coin with_13 stars is s 0 for fine and $5 for good specimen. The 1798 dollar with fillet head and eagle on reverse is 83, $2." . 32, according to state of coin. The half‘dollar of 1837 is $1 for uncirculated and 75 cents for fine. The worn coin of that date has but its face value. If you have the dollar as above in good specimen, submit it to some Coin collector or numismatic crank, to get the big price named. A dealer will “ shave ” you if he can. _ BEN D. W. The magazines have no “estab~ liahed rates.” They have to pay each author such price as can be agreed upon. The compen— sation which may now be regarded as the mini~ mum for magazine matter is one cent per word for short story-and sketch contributionsw“ solid ” matter, woth no illustrations. But, as We state. the usage is to arrange with each author, who is paid according to his or her popularity. The highest terms at present paid, we believe, are to kipling, Howell, Stevonson, Stockton, Cable, Crawford, king, in the order named. J ORN D. sendsthis quotated answer from the. N. Y. Sunday Sun and asks if it is correct: , “Some judge or police justice, rha , recent- ly decided that the native-born Erin c an alien was not an American by birth, but would have tobe naturalized. Such a son is a native citi- zen, if he chooses to be. Belling a choice be- tween the country of his birth and that of his father._ If, when he is :2! he registers, he holds himself out as an American. Heneed not become naturalized to register and voti.” This is wholly correct. The judge or justice Who de- gdeddto the contrary did not know the law, that evn en . QUESTIONER. Epsom salts in water is an antidote for poisoning b sugar of lead and olive or castor oil for car he acid.-~—The bats.— vians .were a people of ancient Germany. They inhabited that rt of the European continent now known as olland, but then called Bat..- vorum Insula, from an island at the mouth of the.Rhine, between it and the Wool. The B» tavmns were subject to the Romans until abOut the close of the third century. when they were conquered by the Franks. In 1798 their descem dants._ca!led Dutch or Hollander-s, formed the Batavian Republic. Eight years later, Na leon Bonaparte created the Kin dom of flex: land, and made his brother, Louis compares, its . king. ...........,_.W -... 4*“ , -. .. a». ~-‘-'~ 3. '~ .. . If can- I cerous, the only treatment is to cut it out before growth. . your“ meta? ’ 4;. 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