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**•- SB* flSKji. " .** - 'V*"" * r ' * * < Hp * «/ < #. . »,«* > : :. /,» »!V-" ILLINOIS HAPPENINGS SMALL CHANCE TO GET AWAY. Deserter from United States Army Must Hide Carefully to' " * E s c a p e D e t e c t i o n ; * ' r HONORS, WERE WITH FARMER Mai! Carrier Must Have Realized He Picked Out Wrong Mafjiy' to Have Fun With, AUTHOR'S NOTE. •S Tilt material facte In Ws ^>orv of eircurnsiantia! evidence are drjwn from an actual re­ corded ease, only such change of names and local color being mide as to remove them from the classification of legal re­ ports to that of fiction. All the essential points of evidence, however, are retained. * bommmaooooooooot 3 the members of the Call- Skin club dropped into their accustomed places Judge Dennett entered with a stranger of distin­ guished mein, and dignified bearing. His white hair andwhite mutton-chop whis­ kers betokened the coun­ try jurist of long experi­ ence whose reverence for the English bench caused him unwittingly to assume the person­ al appearance of* a wearer of the wig sind ermine of Blackstonian dayis. Jud&e Dennett introduced him as Judge Tanner and assured the club that his guest was primed with many a reminiscence of his long career and would gladly furnish the story of the evening. After the pipes of good fel­ lowship had been burned for & spfce Judge Tanner arose and began his Btory of circumstantial evidence. "I often wonder," he said, "if there is, a trial judge of any considerable •experience who has not carried some one case as & load on his mind and conscience for years after the verdict •of the jury is In and the condemned led away to execution. It is a wise provision of the law that makes the Jury the judge both of the law and the evidence, and the judge but the medium through which the law reaches the twelve; and I cannot con­ ceive the condition of mind of those early English judges, before whom, when they had arrived at a conviction of guilt, even the jury was power­ less. It was from their arbitrary and unreasonable rulings, now happily not held within the power of. the judge, that most of our records Of miscarried justice have resulted. "Within my own experience there lias come one case which I believe is as strange as any of record and which for years, as I looked back upon it, caused me to doubt the ability of man ever infallibly to pass judgment upon <a fellow creature. The parties now an all dead and I tell it for the first time. But to the story. "In a little city on the circuit in which I have held court for more years than I care to think of there was at one time a hotel Itept by a "Very respectable man named Jona­ than Miller. It was the favorite stop­ ping place for commercial travellers and thus the most prominent and best paying hotel in the city. "One evening a jewelry salesman by ' the name of Robert Conway arrived at the hotel just before supper. He Instructed Miller to send his grips up , to bis room and remarked in the hear­ ing of several at the desk that he did Hot care to have them left in the gen- ' 4ral baggage room as he was carrying a far more expensive line of samples than usual. He also Asked that the door be carefully locked and the key ' " brought to him. "Supper over, he fell in with a salesman for a shoe house and one lor a clothing firm and they repaired ' * to the bar where they played cards and drank until 11 o'clock, when they all retired. It happened that the hotel was well filled and the clothing man and the shoe man had been forced to ? take a double room together. This Toom was directly across the hall •from the one occupied by the jewelry -salesman. |i; i "About two o'clock in the morning the two roommates were awakened by fefV groans which seemed to come from |||/ the room of their companion of the evening across the hall. , < "They arose and without stopping to Ip* dress hurried out to see what the trou- We was. You can imagine their hor­ ror to find Conway, the jewelry man, dead, the bed blood-soaked, and stand­ ing over him, a dark lantern in one hand and a bloody knife in the other, Jonathan Miller, the landlord, who trembled violently and gasped inco­ herently when they burst into the chamber of death. £k,,;: "The ease seemied bfack enough v him. There was not a sus- j-i», J in the mind of anyone in the c£ty that he could be otherwise than gtiilty. Yet when taken before a jus­ tice for a preliminary hearing he most stoutly maintained his Innocence and told a story which had it not paled into improbability by the side of damning circumstances against him would bare been plausible in the ex­ treme. "He said he had just reached his *Toom after, as was his custom, sit­ ting up until a train due at half past one, came in. He had not had time to remove his clothing ^when he, too, beard groans coming from the neigh- Ijorhood of Conway's room. Like the salesmen, he had hurried to in­ vestigate, and as a weapon of de- . Jfense he had taken the knife. He Also picked up the dark lantern which • ; %e always used in making his last • ffouuds of the hotel and which was . "itlil lighted. r "Wh%n he reached the jeweler's ,' door he was surprised to find it stand- h- lng opens The groans had ceased, nfcMr*? fl a % m r mi and he entered, and going up to the bed. flashed his light upon the bloody spectacle of the murdered man's body. So great was his horror and surprise that he dropped the knife upon the bloody sheets, and had only just picked It up again when the two traveling men entered. "His trembling and fear at their arrival he attributed to the natural horror of the situation and the ter­ ror of the instant thought that guilt might point to him. "With such a degree of sincerity was his story told, and so firm was the landlord's bearing before the pre­ liminary court that he attracted many sympathizers who believed his story and looked upon him as the unfortu­ nate victim of a most peculiar com­ bination of circumstances. "But these circumstances were too patent to he ignored and Miller was bound over to await the action of the grand jury, indicted and in due course of time "brought to trial be­ fore me. "In the time intervening' between his arrest and his trial the landlord's attitude was a mixture of terror and bravado which did not tend to in­ crease the belief of the general pub­ lic in his innocence. 1 myself, al­ though I have always endeavored to enter a trial free from prejudice, had I been a venireman, should have been forced to admit that I had formed an opinion concerning the guilt or innocence of the accused.' "The state naturally rested upon the testimony of the two salesmen who swore to the events of the fatal evening and to entering the room just in time to find the landlord bend­ ing over the body. They were both firm in the conclusion that his terror upon seeing them was the terror of discovered guilt. I admit that de­ fendant's counsel should not have al- iki. aI 4V«V(. 1U v* cu tUIB (AilUVU VI bUCIl ICOUUiUU^ to go to the jury, but no objection was made to it. "Also further damaging evidence against him was produced to the ef­ fect that he had a short time before become liable through indorsing a note for a large sum of money aiid that his ownership of the hotel was threatened in case he was not able to raise the amount. This seemed to furnish a powerful motive for the crime. That he had always borne a good reputation, that his record for honesty was <such that he might eas­ ily have raised the sum of money he required on a loan, and his own story of going to Conway's room and find­ ing the body were all that the unfor­ tunate lahdlord had to offer 1^ his own defense. "There could have been but one conclusion as to what the verdict of the jury would be, although I am sure that 1 gave them the law without par­ tiality. Miller took his sentence with resignation and when I asked him if he had anything to say, he arose and addressed the court as follows: 'Your honor, it comes to ©very man once to die. For the sake of my dear wife who stood by me so nobly through this terrible ordeal I should have chosen for myself a different end from that which is to be my lot I have no fault to find with the view the jury and thl# court have taken of their duty, hut you are miking a terrible mistake. You have convicted an innocent man. I am not guilty of the death of Robert Conway. I had nothing whatever to do with his death. Some day the truth will ,come out, but I fear It will be long after I have done with this world. I have I no more to say but that I aril inno- I never could understand why he didn't see me. When they put it on him I hadn't the nerve to speak up My God, I've got Miller on my soul, too! There they' both stand. Take 'em away,' and he went into unintelligible ravings which finally ended in the gasp of death. "You can imagine my state of mind upon hearing this terrible con­ fession. Was not Miller's death upon my soul as well? Was I not equally culpable for not having keener Insight into character that I might have read his innocence in his steadfast attitude? Many a long night as I walked the floor of my cent, and this 1 will declare to the end.' "How many men when facing death on the gallows have said the same. I wonder how smany men have said it truly. It is true, as Pope says, that hope springs eternal in the hu­ man breast, but I often wonder if we do not make a grievous error in not giving greater credence to the dying statement of a condemned man. "Jonathan Miller paid the penalty of the death of Robert Conway with the same stoical resignation which had marked the end of many a man in the same extremity. With his death the case seemed at an end anid it passed from my mind along with many other cases which have arisen in a long and busy career. I probably never again would have recalled it except incidentally had it not been for a strange occurrence. "I was just retiring for the night one evening about two years after the execution of Miller when I was startled by the sound of a hafse dash­ ing madly up to my gate. There was a loud rapping on the door and upon opening it the panting horseman cried: \ " "Buck Everett's Just been shot down in Klley's saloon. He's dying and wants to see you right away. Says he's got an Important confession to make.' "I hurried out, and mounting the messenger's horse, spurred full speed for Kiley's place, which was a disrep­ utable roadhouse about a mile dis­ tant. On the way I tried to recall who Buck Everett might be, and at last remembered him as the porter in Miller's hotel at the time of the Conway murder. When I arrived at J the place he was almost gone, but with the aid of a stiff drink of whisky he revived sufficiently to make the following confession: "'I'm a goner, judge, but before I cash in I've got to get something off, my mind. It's Conway. seen him day and night. My God, judge, there he is now pointing his bony finger at me! Take him away. For God's sake take him away.' He gasped In terror and the froth upon his pallid lips was bloody: We thought, he was going before his weighty secret was told. " 'Come, Buck, have it out and you'll go easier/ I said at I held his head. " 'Yes, judge, I've got to tell it,' be whispered. 'It was me that killed Con­ way. Miller never done it. The thing took hold on me when I took his grips upstairs and he said they was full of jewelry. I slipped in and knifed him as he slept and got what there was in his pockets. I was just turnin' to the grips when I heard the landlord comln' down the hall slipped out and got past him, and chamber I turned these questions over ing my mind, never finding an an­ swer that was satisfactory to my conscience. I seriously considered re­ signing from the bench. My faith in man's justice had received a crush* ing blow. For five years I carried that weight of self accusing guilt, and only the sympathy of my friends and the loyalty and trust of my townsmen sustained me, 'One night I was seated In the study of Rev Charles Poindexter, the rec­ tor of the Episcopalian church. Be­ fore a cbeery grate fire we talked into the night and to him I unburdened my soul. " 'My heavens, judge' he said to me, laying his hand on my shoulder. 'Why haven't you told me all this be­ fore? I might have saved you these years of troubling. Never before have I disclosed that which has been im­ parted to me in the confessional, but in this case I believe my duty to the dead is outweighted by my duty to the living. When you sentenced Jonathan Miller you condemned a guilty man. You remember that I at­ tended him as a spiritual adviser in his last hours. To me alone he told the' true story of that fatal night. He was guilty of Conway's death although his hand did not strike the blow. He went to Conway's room with the intent to murder him and rob him of his wealth. It was for that fell pur­ pose that he took the knife and lan­ tern. When he reached* the. room he found the deed already done, and even as the two traveling men en­ tered the room he was meditating upon how he might secure the con­ tents of the satchels and hide them. Let your mind rest, judge; his hand was as guilty as the hand that struck the blow! "Thus was the weight of years lift­ ed from my mind, and this, gentle­ men, is my story." Amid the congratulations and thanks of the members of the Calf Skin club Judge Grower from the chair announced that Judge Sturgis had a story for the next meeting. (Copyright, 1909, by W. G. Chapman.) sf'V Used His Victim's Care t's a good rule never to give your i^fcurn your loan of 50 cents or one dol- lar," remarked a New York clergy- the other day- "Hoc lows "ago," he continued, "a man in clerical clothes *- * ^ called on me, presented the c »rd of a a'u.^.'.fmJcister oat on Long Island, <-nd bor- ferowed enough money "to get h<xae on-' He asked fotffny card, promising to re- „ , »turn the aqxiant promptly, and that • i was the list I heard , of him 4*tU 1 learned that he had been arrested in a near-by town for swindling. As my card was the only one found on him, be was docketed in my name. I dis­ covered in the newspapers that I was behind the bars without knowing it." Did a maa ever ask you to go on a fishing trip with, him but what lie asked you if vouoould row? America's Famous 8ong. The author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was Francis Scott Key, who lives in American history as one of its notable flgurep. The inspiration for the song came from the bombard­ ment of Fort McHenry, near Balti­ more, by the British fleet. Key had been taken prisoner and witnessed the bombardment from one of the British men-of-war on which he was detained. As the battle pro­ gressed' the Americah "piatHot could catch fleeting glimpses of the Stan and Stripes waving defiance at tht British guns from the tall staff on the parapet of the fort,,. This suggested the song to Key, and almost before the guns had been silenced he had written some of the inspiring lines sfhich later wer# com pleted. #- Of Course They Are. "Shad ip a fine thing." "So is marriage. Sometime* 1 bon­ der If either is Louis vile Couric t -coble."- Belleville.--A hard fight will be epde against the extradition of Roy 3. Griswold, who is believed to "be Sidney Baker, now under arrest at Georgetown, Cel., on the charge of Sitrderiiig Peter Waelu at Belleville ast November. An officer from Belle- rille went to Colorado to take Gris- vold to Belleville. Mrs. Minnie Gris­ wold of Denver, Roy's mother, de­ clared she had evidence necessary to iefeat extradition, and that it could ae proved conclusively that her son was not within a thousand miles of 3elleville on the night of the murder.' 3riswold admits that at one time he ased the alias of Baker, and says he was employed in a shoe factory at Springfield. He and his mother went :o Denver four years ago from Spring- leld. He denies that he ever was in Belleville. Monmouth.--In <the Democratic Fourth district judicial convention 3eorge A. Cooke of Aledo was named is candidate to succeed the late Judge 3hiy C. Scott. The most surprising feature of the convention to many was the good feeling, harmony and unanimity that pervaded throughout the deliberations. Notwithstanding the predictions that Judge Scofield of Carthage probably would carry off the high honor with Truman Plantz as a dark horse, neither n$me was mentioned in the convention. The name of Cooke was placed before the 3onvention by Elmer Hurst of Rock Island. He was nominated by ac­ clamation. After passing appropriate resolutions on the death of Judge 3eott the convention adjourned. Champaign.--In an attempt to save *er two-year-old son Emmet from be­ ing run over by a fast west-bound Big Pour train at this place, Mrs. Richard Alexander and the boy were hurled to instant death. The little fellow, with his brother, had gone .to a neighbor­ hood grocery store and was running to meet his mother, not heeding warn­ ings to stay back. The mother made ft frantic effort to carry the child to safety and succeeded in getting a five- year-old son across the tracks, but she and the two-year-old boy were 3truck and killed. Peoria.--After leaving the court­ room, where Judge Sletnmons ordered him to pay $4.50 a week to the sup­ port of his wife and child until sev­ eral weeks' belated alimony had been paid and four dollars a week there after, Clinton Dace terribly beat both his wife and his mother-in-law as they were leaving the courtroom. His mother also engaged in the battle, and Mrs. Dace, Jr., and her mother suf­ fered injuries. Taylprville.--Crippled and unable to work and in financial straits John Reigle of Mosquito township ap­ peared in Taylorvil'e to make the ar­ rangements for entering suit to break the will left by his' wife, in which she left her estate valued at $800, to her niece, Mrs. Sarah Brenneck of Mount Auburn. At the time of her death she, was 84 years old. He claims that he gave her all the money she had dur­ ing her lifetime. Taylorville.--Asserting that for sev­ eral years her husband had been guilty of protracted sprees and that while in an intoxicated condition he beats, kicks and curses her, Mrs. Margaret Swank of Morrisonville ap­ plied for divorce from W. H. Swank. The defendant la a real-estate dealer in Litchfield. Taylorville.--Because of the refusal of Rev. R. E. Elmore of Roanoke, Va., to accept the call to the pastorate of the Christian church, that congrega­ tion is now without a pastor, Rev. M. L. Pontius having preached his fare­ well sermon. Pana.--Mrs. Josephine Fournier has filed suit for $10,000 damages against the Smith-Lohr Coal Company, in the circuit court, to recover for the death of her husband who was killed by a fall of slate in the company's mine ~ "'uul a ti£t>. Morris.--While boiling linseed oil, preparatory to placing it on the kitch­ en floor, Mrs. Anna Tredenich re ceived fatal burns and Miss Maggie Harris who was assisting her, was se­ riously burned. Kewanee.--Forgetting that she had placed her savings in a kitchen range, Mrs. James Williams started a fire in the stove on her return from a visit, the heat destroying the wallet and money entirely. Belleville.--Heads of the various de­ partment^ of the St. Clair County Fair association have been elected and the date of the exhibition hag been announced for the week com' menclng September 14. Newton.--Rev. Charles W. Estes oi Fort Branch, Ind., has been secured ae pastor of the Presbyterian church and will report in a short time to assume his new charge. • Paris,--Because they induced hei husband to take his first drink of beer in several years, Mrs. Bentley Bone steel had two "John Doe" warrants is­ sued for their arrest. Danville.--A sensation was prom­ ised when John Struckler caught a turtle in a small creek, the body of a nude baby being held by the turtle, but it was revealed that the child had been buried by the side of the stream, the .high waters washing the little body away. Peoria.--A white pearl, valued at $250 was found in the river hy Henry Klausen of Averyvllle and sold to a pearl buyer from Hardin. Kewanee.--William Potter, aged 21 years, is in a serious condition from injuries suffered by falling on a pitch- fork which penetrated his back. Savanna.--Because of the great number of ground hogs which have been killed in Jo Daviess county and for which the county pays a bounty of 25 cents a head, the authorities are planning for a larger fund in the county line for next year, as $%000 had been paid out. Coleta.--Caught in' a pulley while stacking hay in a bam; Clifford Col- eord received injuries which cost him his right hand. Rockford.--Plans have been drawn ind the contract awarded for the erec -ion of a stadium by the high schoo' bulletin board lb Nfc? poet office one frequently sees a proclama­ tion announcing in large type that a reward of $50 is offered by the govern­ ment for the apprehension of So-and- so, who has deserted from the United sfotga army, and accompanying the notice are two pictures of the man in question, showing his' full face and profile, together with a complete and accurate description of" his personal appearance. When you consider that such a proc­ lamation is sent broadcast throughout the country to every village post of­ fice, constable, police station, sheriff and United States marshal, it is evi­ dent that the deserter has but a very slender chance of escaping detection. In addition to the ordinary marks of recognition, the soldier carries with him the inevitable mannerisms of the service, especially that peculiar stride which characterizes the profession he has followed and which is more diffi­ cult to disguise than the lockstep of the convict. Fully four-fifths of the men who de­ sert from our army are of foreign birth. This does not imply that the vast majority of our enlisted men are naturalized citizens, but simply that a great many of that class are profes­ sional army deserters and have bad records behind them in Europe. After deserting from a foreign army they came here and, being unable to secure work, joined our forces.^, But the old dissatisfaction with the soldiering life again became too strong to be resisted and the result is another desertion and, the almost certain result, a term in the guard-house or in the national prison.--Harper's Weekly. if- J- The new mail carrier on the rural free delivery route glanced at the name on the letter box by the road­ side, stopped his horse, and spoke to' the roughly attired farmer with the old slouch hat, who was resting his sun-browned arms on the gate looking at him. "I see," he -your' name is Holmes." - ' '"Yes." V.v V.;: *" "Beverly G.?*' "Yes, I'm the man that lives here.4* "Any relation of Sherlock HolmesY** gravely asked the carrier. "Nor sir," answered the farmer, "but I'm detective enough to know that you're not a very good judge of hu­ man nature. You took me for an igno­ ramus because I've got my old work­ ing duds on. I'm Sherlock Holmes enough to look at a man's face and eyes before I size him up as a-- Some mail for me? Thanks."--Youth's Companion. What Cinderella Really Wore. Doubtless in reading the parch­ ments of the old French chroniclers many mistakes and misunderstand­ ings occurred. The manuscripts were so dingy and difficult and undecipher­ able! Of all - such errors, one made by Charles Perrault is the most evident and the widest spread. When he was writing his fairy-tales to amuse the seventeenth-century courtiers of France, he had, naturally enough, re­ course to the old French chronicles. There he read that Cinderella--or whatever her name was in those by­ gone days--went to the ball in slip­ pers of "vair," \the royal fur of that time, miniver, as it is now known. But Perrault, misreading the text, decked out his heroine in slippers of "verre"--glass--a very different thing. The real Cinderella probably glided softly down the dance in those point­ ed, curving, fur-bordered shoes of me­ dieval days. Thanks to good Mon­ sieur Perrault, however, she will for­ ever click-clack down the corridors of time, for those little, clattering glass slippers belong to her as much now as his swaggering shoes of leather to Puss in Boots.--Youth's Companion. Modern Eves. .. If anybody doubts the emancipation of the modern girl Just let him walk down gome street where sporting bul­ letins are shown between four and five o'clock in the afternoon and he will mighty soon be convinced," said the man with the red mustache. "There are mobs of women abroad at that time who seem almost as deep­ ly interested in baseball and racing news as the men. Nice, proper-look­ ing girls they are, too. They do not hang around the corner where tiie men congregate, but sidle off into a stationery or confectionery store near by where they can loaf around and peep out every few seconds to see how the game is going. "There is one Broadway drug store that has become the favorite haunt of these athletic young women. Every day a squad of them comes trooping in for the ostensible purpose of gus- zling soda water, but in reality to learn whether the Cubs are beating the Giants or whether a favorite horse is getting to the no«t on time. Strange to say, they do not dp much talking-- for women. Their education in out­ door spor'ts has had a sobering ef­ fect, and when they do talk their re­ marks are almost sensible enough to be made by a man." ITCHED FOR TWELVE YEAttfc Eczema Made Hands and Feet Swell* . Peel and Got Raw--Arms Affected Too--Gave Up All Hope of Curat Quickly Cured by Cutlcura. "I suffered from eczema on lay hands, arms and feet for about twelve years, my hands and feet would swell, sweat and itch, then would become callous and g$t very dry, then peel off and get raw. I tried most every kind of salve and ointment without success. I tried several doctors, but at last gave up thinking there was a cure for eczema. A friend of mine insisted on my trying the Cuticura Remedies, but I did not give them a trial until I got so bad that I had to do something. I secured a set and by the time they were used I could see a vast Improvement and my hands and feet were healed up in no time. I have had no trouble since. Charles T. Bauer, Volant, Pa., Mar. 11, 1908." Potter Prag * Obem. Corp* Solo Prop** STARTED THE TEARS AFRESH Thoughtless Act of Little Ebsn That Reminded Sorrowful Widow of Her Loss. Mr. Jefferson' had not been alto gether an exemplary husband and fa­ ther, but be possessed certain engag­ ing qualities which secured him many friends and made his death the cause of sincere mourning to his widow. "Mis' Jeff'son, she's done broke up over Eb'nezer's being took off fr'm pneumony," said one of the neigh­ bors. "She eutt'nly is," said another. "Mournte' round de house all de time, she goes. Why, day befo' yist'day ,1 was thar helpin' her, an' she only stop cryin' once, an' dat was to spank little Eben for takin' m'lasses out'n de jug right Into his mouf when her back was turned. "When she spanked him good an' set him down, slie say to me: *He makes me t'ink ob his pa so much I cyan't bear it!' and bus' right out cryin' agin."--Youth's Companion. A LONG WAY BACK. Shows Woes of Child Toilers. A new sort of children's day has been instituted by the Hamline Methodist Episcopal church In Washington. The committee in charge of this year's program secured from the National Child Labor committee a series of lan­ tern slides illustrating conditions among the children who work -- or, rather, are worked--in mines and fac­ tories and tenement sweatshops. The pupils of the Sunday school, who, of course, were coached for the occa­ sion, showed the pictures and ex­ plained their significance^ and the large audience was so impressed that the minister was requested to show the same views on the following Sun­ day and to preach on the conditions among child toilers. At the end of the children's day services one man, a retired minister, remarked: "Not one of these children will ever again be able to assume an indiffer­ ent attitude toward children who are suffering from wrongs which ought to be righted." What a Pity! Why should man have been given teeth, when it is so difficult to keep them? asks a writer in the Boston Herald. He could have got on pre­ cisely as well without them. Why, then, from the moment those first milk teeth begin to "come through" to worry and fret him till the day he dies, with grinders much impaired, if not wholly us*eless, must only pain and trouble, to say nothing of expense confront him? Why, why? A philos­ opher says teeth are a special disci­ pline; they were not Intended to grat­ ify, or even to embellish, the race, but simply to be an eternal source of misery, by which character shall be molded and special traits that make foij a higher life developed. It Is all nonsense to suppose teeth were in­ tended for purposes of mastication! If man never had any teeth he would still have been nourished, not as a carnivorous animal, but as the* tooth- ess birds of the air. Well, isn't It $ pity we were made this way? She-George--There's Miss Passay. claims she's never been kissed. Harry--Why, I've kissed ber myself, years ago. She means not since she caftxeuaember. A City Clerk's Garden. A city clerk never misses a chance of expatiating on his garden to his colleagues, who, however, were never taken home to see it, but were under the impression it was of enor­ mous size. Five of them resolved to have a look at it, discovered his ad­ dress, t and called one Saturday after­ noon to see the hundreds of roses all a-growing and a-blooming. On being taken to the rear of the house, Judge of their surprise on seeing a back yard about 12 feet by ten feet One bold spirit ventured that it was not very big. "Big!" replied the proud owner, pointing to the sky. "Why, man, alive, look at the height of it!"---Chicago Daily Socialist. A Hot Prescription. "I want you to prescribe for me. doctor." said the sallow-complexioned man. "I have cold feet; what would you suggest?" "A ton of coal, promptly replied the witty physician. "Five dollars, please." Hie man who is only marking time la meat likely to be singing about marching to Zion. 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