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A TALE OF JEEICHO. THE DIRE AFTER EFFECTS OF DEACON BRADLY'S HAIR CUT. 4: Pap Perkins, Postmaster, Tells the Commotion It Caused In the Community In Which the Deacon Was Honored and Respected. [Copyright, 1902, by C. B. Lewis.] Deacon bradly was one of the pioneers of Jericho, and he attended more funerals, prayer meetings, weddings ? and camp meetings than any other three men in the town combined. He had hair that fell down on his shoulders, and he had a meek and humble countenance. It was said that about - once a year his wife used the shears to clip the ends of his locks, but that was only rumor. There was no doubt ' about the deacon's goodness of heart. It had been tested on a hundred occa: THE BAJRBEB WE>T TO WOEK. J sions and found simon pure, lie - 1 ; been known to put a feather bed in . the henhouse on a cold night for use of the fowls and to make a special brand of ice water for his pigs in hot weather. Nobody could remember of his being out of temper or having a word to say against anybody, and the good man was jogging along toward his reward when a calamity happened. A wedding and a funeral were the same thing to Deacon Bradly. He expected a glass of cider and a fried cake on either occasion, and he always xu. i.:?~ a arose m me piopei umtr aim uuserved that man dieth and fadeth away and that our loss is his gain. Hearing that Farmer Dan Skinner ! was going to be married to Lucy Ran- j I dall on a certain day, the deacon drove seven miles to be present. He was made welcome and kindly entertained. In honor of the auspicious occasion peach brandy had been liberally mixed with the hard cider, and Deacon Bradly hung on to a good thing. He was more loquacious than usual, and he tried to tell a funny story, but his legs j were fairly steady when he started j for home. Half the journey had been completed when the good man met a j wandering barber. The barber pleaded misfortune and poverty and offered to cut the deacon's hair for 10 cents, and the offer was accepted. Deacon Bradly sat down under a roadside tree, and the barber went to work. While the deacon hummed the barber clip- j ped, and it was a winning combination. At the end of half an hour there was no longer any Deacon Bradly of j i Jericho. In his stead there was a fellow with his chin cocked up, a squint to his left eye and a hair cut of such pugilistic excellence that John L. Sul- j livan wouia nave do wed before it. The long locks bad hidden a head as round as a cannon ball, and when the hair had been clipped close the head seemed i ready to duck a right hand swing. "You've got a head on you, you have, old man!" said the barber as he stood I back and admired his handiwork, and j the deacon almost winked at him as ! J^e climbed into his buggy to drive on. ! He hadn't gone a mile before he met >' a load of hay. The farmer stuck for the whole of the road and yelled out that he'd have it or die, but when he . took notice of that fighting cut he apologized at once and drew dear into j the fence. Ten minutes later a hog j driver was encountered. He began to j rip and cuss about folks frightening ? his hogs, but as the deacon held up a warning finger his words died away i In his throat. He knew a scrapper j when he saw one. and he didn't ache j for a broken jaw. When the deacon reached home, his wife looked at him for a full minut? before she recognized him. Then she clasped her hands over her heart and wailed out: "Oh, Deacon Bradiy. what have you went and done to change you so? You look just like the picture of the Omaha Kid I saw in the paper the other j day!" The deacon explained that it was nothicg but a hair cut. but that was a house of mourning and lamentations. Mrs. Bradiy sent for Deacon Taylor to come over and see if anything could be done, and the neighbor came, took a look at that bullet head and gently murmured: "I don't think I will say anything to : Brother Bradiy about it. He appears . to be ready to hit out with both hands ; If nrrtvnvp/1 " The news of the hair cut flew over j the town of Jericho in an hour, and i the ezcitemeut was greater than if a barn had beeu burned. The effects of the brandy cider had worn off by 7 j o'clock in the evening, and the deacon j looked at himself in the glass and shed j tears, but everybody insisted on mis- j understanding him. Deacon Jones, j .who had known him for forty-five i years and never heard of his harming I a grasshopper, looked at that head and noted the pose of it and said: "Deacon Bradly, you are a wolf in sheep's clothing. I never saw but one picture of,a prizefight, but you ?an't deceive nfe. You are a slugger and have been lying low on us all these years." A tin peddle? was stopping at the hotel over night, and, hearing the postoffice crowd talking of the event, he chipped in with: "I've done a little scrapping myself in my day, and you can't fool me on a pug. You can't judge by the hair cut alone. If you boys will go up and get the deacon outdoors, I'll soon find out whether he can put up his dukes or not." Three or four of the crowd called at the deacon's and got him out to the gate, and the peddler came along and gave him the "yah." Every man contended that the good man instinctively squared off for a nrwi ti,n nrvidipr hacked water and solemnly said: "Don't any of you boys try any monkey work 011 that old codger. He's ace high and all there, and if he breaks loose you'll need an addition to your cemetery." There was some talk of calling a public meeting at the town hall, but the idea was abandoned for fear of exciting the deacon. He didn't want to give up Thursday night prayer meetings, but he had to, and another brother took his place in passing the contribution box on Sundays. That lighting hair cut worked him out of his job, and no matter how much he complained his head was there as an offset. The minister was about the only man who stuck by the deacon. He had never seen a scrapper either in picture or in the flesh, and all heads were alike to him. Even when it was pointed out to him that the deacon had one shoulder hunched up and his chin stuck out he contended that it might be only the natural pose of a good man?one who had helped to send 10,000 Bibles to the heathen in Africa. Deacon Bradly's hair would have grown out again in time, but the people wouldn't give him time. They continued to misjudge him and keep his heart on the ache, and this brought about the end. One day, six weeks after the malign work of the barber, the deacon was sitting on his veranda and singing a hymn in a sad voice when the town bully of Dobbs Ferry came along and offered to fight him four rounds for the championship. The good man refused with tears ruL :ing down his cheeks, but the bully began dancing around and shooting out his right and left, and after a minute the deacon sat down and gasped once or twice and was no more. That hair cut and public criticism had broken his heart. M. QUAD. Brain. Food Nonsense. Another ridiculous food fad has been branded by the most competent authorities. They have dispelled the silly notion that ode kind of food is needed for brain, another for muscles and still another for bones. A correct diet will not only nourish a particular part of the body, but it will sustain every other part. Yet, however good your food may be, its nutriment is destroyed by indigestion or dyspepsia. You must prepare for their appearance or prevent their comiDg by taking regular doses of Green's August Flower, the favorite medicine of the healthy millions. A few doses aids digestion, stimulates the liver to healthy action, purifies the blood, and makes you feel buoyant and vigorous. You can get this reliable remedy at Kaufmann's Drug Store. Get Green's Special Almanac. 61?32 No Harm Done. o "Take care, waiter! You are putting your thumb in my soup!" "Oh, that's all right, sir! It ain't very warm." On the Wrons Line. D'Auber (with mock modesty)?Of course, I may never be a great artist, but? Critteek?You should certainly be able to make a good living. D'Auber?Think so? Ottteek? Yes; you should be able to get u job doing something else.?Philadelphia Press. The Treasure of Today. "I don't know what it is uat makes people so willin' to trust me," said Meandering Mike. "Who has been dat innocent?" asked Plodding Pete. "Lots o' people. I was asked to carry in a ton o' coal no less dan four times yesterday.'?\\ asmngiun star. Owes His Life to a Neighbor's Zindness. Mr. D P. Daugberty, well known throughout Mercer and Sumner counties, W. Va., most likely owes his life to the kindoese of a neighbor. He was almost hopeless afflicted with diarrhoea; was attended by two physicians who gave him little, if any. re ief, when a neighbor learning of bis serious condition, brought him a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which cured him in less than twenty-four hours. For sale by J. E. Kaufmann. "IMPOSSIBLE 9 the happiness of | motherhood," says the doctor. Sometimes he qualifies the statement, and says: " Impossible without an operation." Yet both these "impossibles" have been made possibles by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Many times the hindrances to motherhood are to be found in womanly diseases or value of Dr. Pierce's medicines," writes Mrs. Ida M. De Ford, of Latona, Hubbard Co., Minn. " Have doctored with a great many physicians?some specialists; have twice been :n a hosoital for treatment. My case has been regarded as a hopeless one. and thev knew not what the trouble was. Heart was bad ; stomach all oat of order; tired out; severe pains in all parts of the body ; sinking spells, and nearly every ailment a woman could have. I took many a bottle of ' patent medicines' without effect I began taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. and ten months afterward 'I gave birth to a ten-pound boy. All physicians had slated as c fact that I never could bear a child. Both the baby and myself were strong, and I got along splendidly?thanks to your medicine." The Common Sense Medical Adviser, 100S large pages, in paper covers, is sent fres or. receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. R. "V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. HENRY CLAY AS AN ACTOR. How the Great Lawyer Wou a Hopeless Case. An old and well known traveler, who has recently settled in Chicago, while corning in from Pewee valley* e other afternoon told an interesting story about Henry Clay, the great Kentucky statesman. The story teller in his youth lived in Mr. Clay's district during the time when Henry Clay was at his prime as a lawyer. "A man was once being tried for murder," said the narrator, "and his case looked hopeless indeed. He had without any seeming provocation murdered one of his neighbors in cold blood. Not a lawyer in the county would touch the case. It looked bad enough to ruin the reputation of any barrister. 'The man as a last extremity appealed to Mr. Clay to take the case for him. Every one thought that Clay would certainly refuse, but when the celebrated lawyer looked into the matter his fighting blood was roused, and, to the great surprise of all, he accepted. "Then came a trial the like of which I have never seen. Clay slowly carried on the case, and it looked more and more hopeless. The only ground of defense the prisoner had was that the murdered man had looked at him with such a tierce, murderous look that out of self defense he had struck first. A ripple passed through the jury at this evidence. "The time came for Clay to make his defense. It was settled in the minds of the spectators that the man was guilty of murder in the first degree. Clay calmly proceeded, laid all the proof before them in his masterly way, then, just as he was about to conclude, he played his last and master CUiU. " 'Gentlemen of the jury/ he said, assuming the fiercest, blackest look and carrying the most undying hatred in it that I have ever seen, 'gentlemen, if a man should look at you like this what would you doV' "That was all he said, but that was enough. The jury was startled, and some even quailed on their seats. The judge moved uneasily 011 his bench. After fifteen minutes the jury filed slowly back with a 'Not guilty, your honor/ The victory was complete. "When Clay was congratulated on his easy victory, he said: " 'It was not so easy as you think. I spent days and days in my room before the mirror practicing that look. It took more hard work to give that look than to investigate the most obtuse case.' "?Louisville Courier-Journal. An Ancient Bible. In the Cottonian library in England is an old manuscript copy of a part of the Bible in Latin. The London Chronicle says it was used at the coronations of English sovereigns 300 years before the "stone of destiny" was brought from Scone to Westminster by Edward I. If this be true, the use of this Bible for the purpose dates back to the year 1000. It is a quarto of 217 leaves, containing the four gospels, and seems from the style of the writing and illuminations, which are very beautiful, to have been made about the end of the ninth century. It narrowly escaped destruction in the tire at Ashburnham House in 1731, of which it bears evidence in its crumpled leaves and singed margins. There is some evidence that the son of Edward the Elder, Athelstan the Glorious, who was king of the West Saxons from 925 to 940, owned this Bible and gave it to the church of Dover. Brts nut] Vampire*. At sunset in the forest of Guiana the bats hit from their hiding places, some taking the pkice of the parrots and flocking around the fruit trees, while the horrid vampires wander far and near in search of some sleeping animal, or even man, in order to obtain a meal. Gows, goats, hogs, fowls as well as came birds and quadrupeds all suffer from their attacks if hot secured in well latticed pens, while the traveler must dot be surprised when awaking to find blood oozing from a wound in his foot or temple. In some places domestic animals cannot be kept at all, as they are so weakened by repeated attacks as to ultimately die of exhaustion. Fortunately, however, the vampires are not very common, and with proper care may be excluded from dwelling houses and stock pens.?Longman's Magazine. r Idea* of Happiiiew.s. Two young women, patently of the "saleslady" persuasion, roue aown Chestnut street in a crowded trolley car on a recent morning. They chatted animatedly about the merits and demerits of Will and Gus till they reached Broad street. From there to Twelfth they preserved a dreamy silence. Then one broke out with: "I say, Ag. what would you choose if you could have everything in the world you asked for?" "Well," said Ag slowly and musingly, "I think I'd choose enough silk dresses to last me for the next ten years. Wliat'u'd you take. Sade?" "Me?" replied Sade. "It's the dream of me life. Ag. to have all the money I'd want, so I could go to me job in a cab every morning." ? Philadelphia | Times. French Maid. Mrs. Ilouseleigh?Your name, I understand, is Bridget McShane. You are Irish. I suppose? Applicant?No. mem; Oi'm Frinch. Mrs. Houseleigh?French? Were you ! not born in Ireland? Applicant?Yis, mem; but Oi took Frinch rave from it.?Boston Transcript. Nearly 1,000 vessels are lost annually. ? ? ?* A Parson's Noble Act. 41 want all the world to know," writes Rbv. C J. Budloug, of Ashwar, R I, "what a thoroughly good and reiiihle medicine I found it Elecir.e Bitters. Tbey cured me oJ jaundice and liver troubles that had caused m? great suffering for many years. For a genuine, all-around cure tbey excel anything I ever saw." Electric Bitters are the surprise of all for their wonderful work in Liver, Kidney and Stomach troubles. Don'i fail to try them. Ooly 50c Satisfaction guaranteed by J. E. Kauf rnann. a Pair. Hp. pley?There seemed to be some excitement at your house last night. Popley (dejectedly)?Yes; we had a deuce of a time. Hopley?A deuce of a time, eh? Popley?Yes; twins.?Ohio State Jouraal. Speer at the Tragedian. Woodby Booth?Why, she's in the same company. Grinand Barrett?I know; but when she's off the stage I should think she'd prefer to be in some other company.? Puck. Higher. The Other Man?Hello, Arkey! Building another skyscraper, as usual? The Busy Contractor?No: it's a skypiercer this time. I'm building a cathedral.?Chicago Tribune. A Pertinent Q,nery. Summer Boarder?Is this what you call five minutes from the station? Farmer Geebaw?Yes. sir. Summer Boarder?How many miles In hour is that??Puck. "Millions More" Like Him. 'Tis not thy beauty makes me sue: I never did just care For eyes 'tween shades of green and blue And Turner sunset hair. And yot my passion is sincere; My love is ever bold, And to the test it rings as clear As newly minted gold. But hadst thou not the Midas touch The thing would be a bore: I could not love thee, dear, so much Loved I not millions more. -Life. If the Baby is Cutting Teeth. Be sure and use that old and well - - - - - -TT< 1 1 O _ it. tried remedy, Mrs. winsiow s oooming Syrup for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. It is the best of all. From a Warm limate.? "Is there any message from my poor husband V" asked the widow of the medium. "There is." replied the medium, "aud it's hot stuff too."'?Atlanta Constitution. A Definition. Little Clarence?Pa, what is experience V Mr. Callipers?Experience, my son. is the headaches you acquire from butting against the world.?Puck. To Improve the Horne. If some owners of horses would spend more for feed and less for whips, they would have more spirited animals.?Atchison tilcbe. Edward I. was *1 feet 2 inches high, and it is said that the tips of his middle fingers extended below his knees. DeWitt's Salve For Piles, Burns, Sores, ? 1 have had occasion to use your? ^Black-Draught Stock and Poultry Medi-M I cine and am pleased to say that 1 never I used anything for stock that gave half as |l B good satisfaction. I heartily recom- a I mend it to all owners of stock. J. B. BELSHER, St. Louis, Mo. 8 I Sick stock or poultry should not i B eat cheap stock food any more than I | sick persons, should expect to be I h cured by food. When your stock I S and poultry are sick give them med- I 8 icine. Don't stuff thein with worth- I 9 less stock foods. Unload the bowel3 ft I and stir up the torpid liver and the 8 9 animal will be cured, if it be possi- I I ble to cure it. Black-Draught Stock a I and Poultry Medicine unloads the 1 bowels and stirs up the torpid liver. 2 It cures every malady ctf stock if B taken in time. Secure a 25-cent caji n of Black-Draught Stock and Poultry g Medicine and it will pay for itself ten times over. Horses work better. Cows I give more milk. Hogs gain flesh. R And hens lay more eggs. It solves the problem of making as much blood, 9 flesh and energy as possible out of 9 the smallest amount of food con sumed. Buy a can from your dealer. HE TOOKTHE SHOWER BATH And It Drove Him From the Yosemite Back to Xew England. After a week of little journeys, striking here and there a few miles to absorb the Yosemite valley from a dozen coignes of vantage, we were whipping the Ulilouette one afternoon for mountain trout, says the World's Work. "Tomorrow," said a voice, "I shall take a shower bath under the seventeen hundred foot fall." "You," said another voice, "are a fool." "Not at all," came back argumentatively. "The river's very low. What there is of it turns to spray in the first hundred feet; it will simply come down like rain. Why, you'd go under the Bridal Veil yourself. Only that's prosaic. This is something big. Come on." "Not I." But I was there to see. The water, as he had said, came down, a considerable part of it, in rain and spray that flew out on the wind incredible distances. But to crawl down, dressed in a bathing suit, closer to the main stream that falls to the pool and upon the rocks with a murderous swish in the air and a roar like a railway trainwhen it strikes was daring to foolhardiness. At any moment a veering wind might swing the whole mass upon the tall, slim figure backing tentatively on all fours down the jagged talus slope, his eyeglass pebbles glinting cheerfully. A steady breeze kept the fall swung out a little the other way, and the spray burgeoned out far up the other slope. The roar was deafening. All at once the wind shifted, the water swung back, and in a flash the human figure was blotted out in a deluge that turned me sick. For a second?that seemed an hour?it played on the spot fiendishly, it seemed to me, standing horrified there, and then slowly it swept away. And then there was a movement, a painful, crawling movement, down there on the slope, and I scrambled down the slippery rocks to help a blinking, creeping. much surprised youth, bleeding from a hundred cuts, up to where his clothes lay. He was still too dazed to speak. When his breath returned and his extra glasses were perched again on his nose, he said: "The oceans fell upon me! For God's sake, come back to New England!" And we went. NATURAL HISTORY. Ostriches live to the age of about sixty years. The mandarin duck is one of the most beautiful of aquatic birds. So voracious is the cod that it will swallow anything it sees in motion. An eel has two separate hearts. One beats GO, the other 1G0, times a minute. A ladybird can travel 20.000.000,000 times its own length in an hour. In that time a sloth can only travel fifty times its own length. There is no country in the world in which the raven is not found to be native; it is also the only bird known to ornithologists which is of such cosmopolitan character. Only one existing reptile can sustain j itself in the air. This is the fiying dragon of the East Indies. It has no real wings, but can glide from tree to tree like a flying squirrel. The common house fly usually produces the note F in flying. To do so it must vibrate its wings 1135 times a second. rphe honey bee sounds A, which mci 3 that its wing vibrations are 440 to the second. I Fortune Favors A Texan. "Having distressing pains in head, back and stomach, and being without appetite, I began to use Dr. King's New Life Pills," writes W. P. Whitehead, of Kennedale, Tex , "and soon felt like a new man." Infallible in stomach and liver troubles. Oaly 25c at J. E Kaufmann's drug store. YOUNG GRANT'S COLT. \ The Story of a Purchase That Earned the Doy Much Tenalnff. "When Ulysses S. Grant was a small * boy living in Georgetown, ()., he wanted, like most boys, to own a horse, and one particular colt belonging to a man named Ralston he wished especially to have. To indulge the boy's taste and buy the colt his father offered Mr. Ralston $20, but the owner d valued the colt at $25 and Refused the offer, taking the animal home with him. < 3 As the hours passed after the little 3 hcrse had trotted away with its owner ^ Ulysses' disappointment and eagerness for possession increased, and he finally begged his father to pay the $25 de- a manded. His father said that $20 was all the animal was worth, but since Ulysses desired it so much he might go to Mr. Ralston and offer $20 again. If, his father added, he could not buy it for $20, he might offer $22.50, and if the owner would not let it go for $22.50 he might, in order to obtain it, give $25. Ulysses therefore mounted a horse i and set out for Mr. Ualston's. He waa at that time probably about eight years I old. J When he found the owner, he told ( him, "Papa says I may offer you $20 } for the colt, but if you won't take that to offer you $22.50, and if you won't take that to give you $25." The eagerness of the boy to gain the horse could not brook any barrier. It is needless to say that he paid $25 and led the animal home. Grant said, in writing his memoirs, J that the story of this purchase of his ^ got out in the village and it was long before he heard the last of it. The schoolboys delighted in teasing him about it; schoolboys are very often little barbarians for tormenting one another, and they did not let Ulysses f forget this" one instance when he was behind the rest in cleverness. He kept the horse for several years and finally sold it for $20, the poor animal having become blind. Later he found it taken from the road and working the tread wheel of a ferryboat | which plied between the Ohio and Kentucky banks of the Ohio river. ^ A Fine Live? Cure. Greenville, TenD. I have thoroughly convinced mynolf fhnf T5r "Rakfir'fi Blond and Liver Cure is the finest medicine made for Indigestion $nd Constipation. (I have tried them all) and was cured by the use of this medicine, after all others had failed. I most cheerfully and unhesitatingly endorse it. Yours truly, H. N. Baker, Mayor. 1 For sale at the Bazaar. First Analysis of Aerolites. J In 170G a stone weighing tifty-six 1 pounds was exhibited in London. It was said to have fallen from the sky in Yorkshire in the previous December, but this statement was received with great incredulity. At that time Sir Joseph Banks was president of the Royal society, and he noticed a strong resemblance between the Yorkshire stone and one sent to him from Siena, in Italy, which was said to have fallen from the sky. Two or three years later he received an account of a fall of stones near Benares, in Hindustan, a chemical analysis of the stones from all three sources proved them to be identical in composition, and incredulity as to their meteoric origin began to give way.?Notes and Queries. Eccentricities of English. There is a new maid in the family, a Swedish girl, who has many things besides language to learn, says an exchange. Her new mistress, who is a young wife with a husband many j years her senior, is trying to instruct her. One of the lessons was upon bread, the girl being told that she should speak of bread which had lost its freshness as stale, and not old. The girl was sure to remember this, for she was quick to learn, and she did. j So the young wife knew when a few days later the maid remarked to her confidentially: "It is too bad, isn't it, that your husband is so much more stale than you are.'"?Detroit Free Press. Preliminary. The policeman heard high 'ftrordsand poked his head in the door. "What's goin' on here?" he demand- j ed. "Nawthin'I Nawthin' at all," answer-" ed one of the belligerent Irishmen in the middle of the floor. "There's nawthin' goin' on, but there's a fight com in' off in liss than a mmuie ir ye n oniy keep movin'."?Chicago Post. He Had to Die. "If you refuse me," cried Moody, "my blood will be upon your head. I cannot live without you!" "Well, self preservation is the first law of nature," replied Miss Cooley. "I simply couldn't live with you."? Philadelphia Tress. Lingering Summer Colds. Don't let a cold run at this season. Summer colds are the hardest kind J to cure and if neglected may linger i along for months. A long siege like this will pull down the strongest constitution. One Minute Cough Cure will break up the attack at once. Safe, sure, acts at once. Cures | coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, all throat and lung troubles. The chilu-? i;i-? u T 77 XT onfmonn i UiCU UbC 1 La 'J a U IXBUlUIQUlJa An old negro named Jerry Hunter barricaded himself in his bouse in New Yoik and before the policemen could arrest bim he wounded 14 of them and two citizens and then set J bis house on fire. \ J