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Has any amount of Honey to Loan BO por mt, on good Mortgages INSURANCE| effected at the Lowest Rates in. Good ! English Companies. ALT emt Allan Line of Steam Ayers Sursaparilia, Or. 4. C. Ayer & Oc., Lowell, Mass, Price $1; six botlles, $5. Worth $6 8 bottlds adventures was an attempt to the Lo Lo trail in the spring of 1865: Hehad wintered at Idaboand the news' if grow on the sunny hillsides above the Clearwater River. With the patieoe to shut off the = east land of miner every 'day left the pleasant |® valleys farther behind and encountered nnw obstacles in the unknown region | bhefsought to cross. He gained the summit of the great range. The rigitg san, as it glistened on the level packed snow and 'warmed the half starved | OK ery {His guide showed int two : tortured inmates. 'All from ber eye after the boy left looking blac ote : sy were + 'Well; you see, , 'and so we have ' fixed ' this ar- | rangement,' and taking a ladle be fish- ed out one of the lumps, cooled it with by call pis breath and handed it too me to dorwirt ot Init, Took at; . § was of iron about the size | gPateful lock brightened her faded an he had |of ou goose egg,' continued Dave, with had reoagniz- |; Binge on one side and a lock on the Was mortally other, and & name written. in the iron. ind keep up the chase day and thus avoiding deldy; They ex- with friend or foe, regarding it bery. One horse is as good as for on' the range; but a fresh is better than a tired one on the L They had left a good horse for f one taken, and the dying boy not comprehend the justice of Bhite man. who shot him down for pg o fair exchange, raged hermit im his lonely cabin fe has but one sorrow, and the dim his eyes 'when he tells the bof the dying Indian boy. 4 a TATE ands bave been relieved of in- and loss of appetite by a fo bottle of Ayers Sarsepanila. of this medicine, by giving and strength to the assimilative has made innumerable cures of ic dyspepsia. Price $1. Worth names of several I had known, and finally wound up with the name of Deacon ----, and 'asked the question, Did you know him f 'Know him !' I replied, 'why, he was my father-in- law. 1 knew he was small, but it isn't possible that he was small enough to gointo one of these things, is it?-- Yes,' said the imp, 'he is allin there,' and was about to throw the egg back into the kettle when suddenly he stop- ped, held it up to his ear, shook it, and exclaimed : 'Fioly Moses! Theres room enough in there for another.' Bit Me Too. The old doctor and the old captain were fast friends,both inveterate jokers and both, despite their aggregate sixseore years, rabid sportsmen. The doctor's frightful stammer did not seem to impede the flow of a joke, nor did the captain's equatorial girth lessen his ability. One afternoon the old men "set out on a rabbit hunt. As they passed through an orchard sowethirg scurried into a burrow. 'A-r-r--wist--rabbit I' shouted the doctor. 'L-let's p-pull him out ; and kneoling at the hole, he thrust his arm in up to the shoulder. 'Sssay !' he A moments fumbling . ecuting a war danse sround the tree, waving a bloody finger. Blankety -blank-blank ! That's no rabbit ; it's a ground-hog.' 'D'd--wist--did be bite you, J-John ¥ queried the doctor, anxiously. "Bite # Blankety-blank Don't you see he took off the whole end of my 1] finger? 'Wh, wh--uh-- why, that's too b-b-- when. T weet thom. The worldly aunt tear 2 said, audibly "Just like his dear other? : About three minutes later, 45 the lady passed the mother and three chlldren, she saw a pretty. sight--the| family feasting as perhaps they had Tho dainty sand- begun dey ao Vo oo or dey might go over to the St "| Nobady can't tell, _ wi wighty quick, of power, an' won'tifuss," butter said': 'Was the a boy so * angel, mamma ¥ 'No,' answered the mother, and o eyes. 'But he is doing an sagelef work, bless his dear heart I' And ve, too, said less his so] York Sun, and as T was unlocking door about 10 o'cleck at night he same » | down the hall and asked. 'Well, have you located 'em ¥ 'What ¥ "The fire escapes.' 'No. I never things 7 'You don't 1 Well, you are in fora roasting some might. 1 never go to bed in a hotel until after I have located every stairway and fire escape. If there was to be "an alarm here to- night I could jump out of bed with the fullest cofifidence of saving See here & minute.' And he took me to his room and produced from his trunk a fire escape made of ropes, and explained : 'Should I happen to Le cut off from the stairs or escapes here is my other chance. Tocatech this hook on the window sill, so ; throw the rope out,so, and I can lower myself fifty feet in forty seconds." We had been in bed about two hours when I was awakened by the order of smoke, and was hardly on my feet when a gong sounded and there were shouts of 'Fire I The smoke was so thin that I knew the danger was yet far oft and began: dressing. While so engaged I heard the drummer canter- ing up and down the hall shouting 'Fire !" at the top of his voice. When I finally got out I found him jammed into a linen: claset half way down the ild. attended to such myself. when the watchman, who was . going ahout to quiet the people, reached our hall the drummer clasped him around the neck and shouted : Say | say! Show me the way down-steirs.and I'll give you a million gittin' poverful * anxious. de Baker Jorond mow. is ane from & bot New Fi not only insists that the cus n : took root here, but adds that 'except - in very high or very low life there is little kissing before "engagements for marriage." He says that he was not certain about it, but happeuing to mentiou the subjezt at a whist club of half a dozen married couples, it turned out that not one of the women had kissed until her troth was plighted. A funny incident marked the discussion according to wy informant. 'One of the men had a lose menory." 'We used to kiss sometimes, dida't'we 1. he, said to his'wife, 'No, sir,' she said, with deep indignation, 'you never kiss- od me until after we were engaged ; - you tried to and you 'fought for the privilege, but you never, succeeded: "Is that 80 1 the husband remarked. 'I've kissed so many 'What's that 1 What did you say ¥ the wife asked. 4 '1 say,' snid the 'husband; 5 Lave. kissed you so many tithes 'that I can't: remember when I began.' °° Some years ago when thé boats were running oh the canal bétween.Glasgow and Paisley, an Irishman asked = the boatman at the Jatter place'tf he could tet him work his'passage "to Glasgow : The boatman (a bit of 3 3 'All right, take and lead Pat started, and led on Wi