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SAVE THE TAGS.
One Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Ooiiars,
$173,250.00
In valuable Presents to be Civen Away in Return for
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T 7 5,500 LARGE PICTURES (14x23 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing,
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251,030 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO.$173,250 00
The above articles will be distributed, by counties, among parties who chew SPEAR
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We will distribute 226 of these prizes in this county as follows:
To TIC PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD
TAGS from this county we will give.I GOLD WATCH.
To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of
SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, 1 OPERA GLASS....5 OPERA GLASSES.
3"o the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number
of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 POCKET
KNIFE.20 POCKET KNIVES.
1Co the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest
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To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest
number qf SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1
HARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS.100 PICTURES.
Total Number of Frizes for this County, 336.
CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before January 1st, 18M, nor after February 1st,
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DON’T SEN3 ANY TAS3 3Z?32E JANUAi.. !. 1334.
AGNOSTICISM.
De quarest 'ligion I ebber did hear
Is de 'ligion ob de abnostick.
A-lookln ter somethin ho nebber can fin’.
An a leabln out God an ole Nick.
He nebber ha* knocked at de Bibil do’
Ner wep’ wld de sinners in need;
He don’ b’lieye nuttin in do heaben or de yarth,
Exceptln w’at his eyes had seedl
De quarest ’ligion I ebber did hear
Is de ’ligion ob de abnostick.
He hain’t like de lamps dat de virgins hab,
’Caiso he cam’t show de littlost wickl
He nebber has sot on de mo’ners’ bench
Ner listened ter der Spirit's call.
An de onliest preachin he ebber has dun
Is, “I don’t know nuttin at all’’’
De quarest ’ligion 1 ebber did hear
Is de ’ligion of de abnostick,
Fer he gets no yarbs In searchin aroun
Ter holp out de souls dat is sick!
He’B a study in now; but, yo’ min’ my word.
He’ll ilrap ’gin de gospil wall;
Ef his bearl don’ thump at tlio judgment trump,
’Den I don’ know nuttin at all!
William 11. llayne in Harper’s Weekly.
AN ARTIST’S STORY.
It’s 20 years since that time. I was a
light hearted boy then—a boy of 20. I
lived in Paris, and 1 studied Art. Being
an artist, I always spelled Art with a
oapital A. I have other things to think
of besides Art now. I have to think of
painting what the public will buy. I
have to make it pay—( have made it
pay.
But it is not about myself 1 want to
talk, it is of Orson—of Orson the Hir
sute, Orson the Unrelenting, Orson the
Hater of Art. Of course his name
wasn’t Orson. His real name was
Jobinard, and he lived at the corner of
the Rue de l’Ancienne Comedie, did this
uncompromising grocer, this well to do
Esau of the Quartier Latin, this man
who hated Art, artists, and, above all,
Art students with a peculiar ferocity.
Alcibiade Jobinard had reason to dis
like Art students. They had a nasty
way of getting into his debt, but Jobi
nard took the bull by the horus—he gave
no more credit.
“Ma foil” ho would say, with a super
cilious sneer, “Credit is dead, my good
young sir. He doesn’t live here any long
er. He is dead and buried.”
And then one had to go empty away.
It had been so handy in the good old
days just to run into Jobinard’s for
whatever one wanted, and—well, “stick
it up.” You see, you could get an entire
meal at Jobinard’s, one of those little
sham boneless hams; they’ve quite
enough on them for four. Tinned pro
visions in inexhaustible v;.. :ety, wines
from 75 centimes upward, liquors, des
sert, even in the shape of cheeses of all
sort3, almonds and raisins, grapes and
peaches. It was excessively convenient.
When one was hard up, one dealt with
Jobinard, and it was put down to the ac
count. When one was in funds, one
dined and breakfasted at a restaurant
and left Jobinard’s severely alone.
But now all was changed. Mile. Am
enaide was an uncommonly pretty girl,
and we were all desperately head over
heels in love with her. By “we” I mean
the Art students, but of all the Art stu
dents that were desperately in love with
Mile. Amenaide, Daburon, the sculptor,
was the most demonstrative. Jobinard
hated Daburon with a deadly hatred be
cause Daburon never expended more
than 10 centimes at a time. It was the
society of Mile. Amenaide that Daburon
hungered for, and he got it because he
was entitled to it, being a purchaser.
Mile. Amenaide was Jobinard’s cash
ier. It was a large shop, and there were
several assistants, but all moneys were
paid to Mile. Amenaide, the cashier, who
sat in a glass box underneath the great
chiming clock.
Daburon, the sculptor, would enter
the shop, nod in a cavalier manner to
Jobinard, as though he were the very
dust beneath his feet; then he would
look at Mile. Amenaide, raise his hat
with his right hand, place his left upon
his heart and make her a low bow; then
he would pretend to blow her a kiss
from the tips of his fingers, as though he
were a circus rider; then he would take
up a box of matches or some other pe
culiarly inexpensive article.
“Have the kindness to wrap that up
carefully for me in paper,” he would re
mark in p patronizing manner. Then he
would march up to Mile. Amenaide with
the air of an Alexander—you could al
most hear the tune of “See the Conquer
ing Hero Comes” playing as you saw him
do it. He would pay his 10 centimes
and whisper some compliment into the
ear of Mile. Amenaide. Then he would
receive his purchase from the hand of M.
Jobinard in a magnificent and con
descending manner. Then he would
strike a ridiculous attitude of exagger
ated admiration and stare at the un
happy grocer as though he were one of
the seven wonders of the world.
“What a bust!” or “What arms!” or
“What muscularity!” he would say, and
then he would heave a sigh and swagger
out of the shop.
Jobinard, who was a particularly ugly,
thickset, hairy little man, used at first
rather to resent these references to his
personal advantages. His four ' assist
ants and his cashier would titter, and
Jobinard used to blush, but at length
the poor fellow fell into the snare laid
for him by the villain Daburon.
He got to believe inmseit the perfect
type of manly beauty. When a French
man has once come to this conclusion,
there is no folly of which he is not ready
to be guilty.
The fact is, Daburon bad passed the
word round. The Art students, male
and female, invariably stared apprecia
tively at the little, hairy, thickset Jo
binard as though he were the glass of
fashion and the mold of form. Jobinard
now began to give himself airs. He
swaggered about the shop, he exhibited
himself in the doorway, he posed and at
titudinized all day long, and then we be
gan to make it rather warm for Jobi
nard.
“Ah, M. Jobinard, if you were only a
poor man, what a thing it would be for
Art! Ah, if we only had you to sit to us
in the nude. We are going to do Ajax
defying the lightning next week. What
bn Ajax you would make, Jobinard!"
“You really ought to sacrifice yourself
11 the interests of Art,” another would
remark. “You’d ruin the professional
model. You would indeed.”
“Gentlemen, gentlemen,” Jobinard
would reply, his hairy, baboonlike face
grinning with delight, “a too benevolent
heaven has made mo the man I am,” and
then he struck an attitude.
“What legs!” we all cried in a sort of
chorus.
“Ah, M. Jobinard,” I said pleadingly,
“if you would only permit us to photo
graph your lower extremities."
“Never,gentlemen, never!” repliel the
infatuated Jobinard; “I caro nothing for
Art. Besides, it would be almost inde
cent; I could never look into a print
shop without coming face to face with
the evidences of my too fatal beauty.”
From that day Jobinard ceased to
wear his professional apron.
It was about a week after this that
Daburon, I and another man presented
ourselves at Jobinard’s establishment.
We raised cur hats to Jobinard as one
man, we smiled, and then we bowed.
The hairy little grocer seemed consid
erably astonished at our performance.
“M. Jobinard,” said Daburon, who was
our spokesman, “you see before you a
deputation of three, representing the Art
students of Paris, some 500 in number.
We have come to beg a favor. We know,
alasl too well, that it would be absolute
ly impossible to induce a man of your
position in society to sit to us; but, M.
Jobinard, a man possessing the lower
extremities of a Hercules, a Farnese
Hercules, M. Jobinard—and 1 need hard
ly remind you that Hercules was a demi
god—has his duties as well as his priv
ileges. Those magnificent lower extrem
ities of his are not his own—they belong
to the public.
“Such lower extremities as yours,
monsieur, are not for an age, but for all
time. They must be handed down in
marble to posterity. The legs of Jobi
nard must become a household word in
Art. To refuse our request, monsieur,
would be a crime. You would retain
the copyright of your own legs of course.
They would be multiplied in plaster of
paris and become a marketable commod
ity over the whole civilized world. Such
muscles as these,” said L aburon, respect
fully prodding and patting the unfor
tunate Jobinard, “must not be lost to
the artistic world. What a biceps, what
a deltoid, my friends!” he continued.
“What a magnificent development of the
stemoclidomastoideus!”
The wretched Jobinard, blown out
with pride, seemed like the frog in the
fable, ready to burst. And then he
proudly drew up the leg of his nether
garment to the knee and exhibited a
muscular brown limb as hairy as that of
an ape.
“You will not refuse us?” we cried in
chorus.
“You will not dare to refuse us,” added
Daburon.
“Gentlemen, I yield! I see that Art
cannot get on without me. When would
you like to begin?” said poor Jobinard.
“Tomorrow at noon,” answered Dabu
ron as he shook hands with the little
grocer reverentially, and then we took
our leave. •
Next day a long procession filed into
the shop.
“This way, gentlemen, this way, if you
please,” said M. Jobinard as he indicated
the way to his back yard.
We must have been at least 30. Every
body brought something; there were four
sacks of plaster, some paving stones, bits
of broken iron, bricks, and enough ma
terial to have walled up Jobinard alive.
A great mass of moist plaster was pre
pared, the limbs that had become nec
essary to the world of Art were denuded
of their covering and placed in the moist
mass, then large quantities of the liquid
plaster was poured on them, then the
scraps of old iron, the bars, the paving
stones and the bricks were carefully in
serted and built up into the still soft
mass which was at least a yard high and
a yard thick.
“Don t move, dear M. Jobinard, cned
Daburon, “the plaster is about to set.
We shall return in half an hour, by
which time the molds will be com
plete.”
M. Jobinard, seated in the center of
his back yard, bolt upright, bowed to
each of us as we passed out.
In about a quarter of an hour Jobi
nard began to feel distinctly uncomfort
able. “The molds seem getting terri
bly heavy," he said to one of his assist
ants, who kept him company. “They
seem on fire, and I can’t move.”
At that moment the procession, headed
by Daburon, filed once more into the
courtyard.
“It’s getting painful, gentlemen,” said
Jobinard. “I feel as though I were be
ing turned to stone.”
“Try and bear it bravely. Nothing is
attained in this world, dear monsieur,
without a certain amount of physical
suffering. It will be set as hard as mar
ble in a few minutes. We will obtain
the necessary appliances for your re
lease at once, Jobinard. Remain per
fectly quiet till our return,” said Dabu
ron rather suavely.
And then we each of us kissed our fin
ger tips solemnly to poor Jobinard, and
we filed out once more. It was the last
day of the term at the Art school, and we
were all off for our holidays.
For two hours Jobinard waited for us
in an agony of fear; then he sent for a
stonemason, who dug him out. They
had to get the plaster off with a ham
mer. We had, by the direction of the
Demon Daburon, omitted to oil the
shapely limbs of our victim.
Poor Jobinard!—Tit-Bits.
The English Maid’s Prerogative.
“My English maid,” says a housekeep
er, “is amusingly tenacious of her rights
and her limitations alike. If a friend of
hers rings at the front door, Bayle is
furious at the presumption. If he goes
to the kitchen door, she is equally vexed.
She regards the side door as her preroga
tive and demands a summons from
thence.”—Philadelphia Press.
Man’s Hard Lot.
Allie—I often wish I were a man. Don’t
you? .
Winnie—Indeed I don’t. Do you sup
pose I want to be at the beck and call of
every woman t know?—Truth.
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