RUBBER ROOFING 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
A SAFE FAMILY REMEDY 
ESPECIALLY SUITED FOR 
This is the dude's own season. Everything 
is fresh and green. 
Poet—“A nd you will print my poem?” 
Editor—“Yes, sir; in the puzzle department.” 
— Tid-Bits. 
At this season, when an arm of the sea 
encircles a neck of land, you may look out for 
(fishing) smacks. 
The funniest thing isn’t a frog. The man 
who said it was, had never seen a fat woman 
try to run.— The ^TOtna. 
When an idler enters the sanctum of a busy 
editor, and the editor says, “Glad to see you’re 
back,” what does he mean? 
The man with a No. 15 neck and a No. 14 
collar, has a hard struggle to make both ends 
meet.— Detroit Free Press. 
“Sally, what time do your folks dine?” 
“Soon as you go away—that’s Missus’s 
orders. ”— Com ic Weekly. 
Young Wipe—“W on’t you try some of my 
home-made bread, dear?” He—“I have tried 
and I’ll try again, but it’s a very trying situ¬ 
ation to be placed in.” 
No, Ethel; when you hear of a young girl 
having made’a good.“matc.b,” it doesn’t signi¬ 
fy that she has got something that will get up 
every morning and light the fire. 
Hit it Square.— “Wall, that’s a now idee. 
I never heard o’ puttin’ spittoons on the side o’ 
the houses before,” remarked an old country¬ 
man, as he walked up to onr telephone trans- 
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25 cents per bottle. Sold by DrttaoUtt. 
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M Tlic Beet Tool in the world for preparing 
Wheat Ground and for Summer Fallows. 
NASIl A: DUO.. Sole Manufacturers, 
Harrisburg, T*u., & Millington, Now Jersey 
ff.B .—“ Tillage is Manure " unU Other t**uys e*<U 
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STRAWBERRY, Crimson Cluster. 
OFFERED THIS SF.ASON FOR THE FIRST TIME, 
v _ t ^ On the JOtheof dune of this year, we ex- 
Ks, ride of'over win' i|uartf> per acre.’ The crop 
Hr'feifti^ iifeiiso ^Uistcnl, and tliat it’Is one of the 
M fTBj'Mt fc* i.atkht as well s« the *uhukst, as Its great 
_CirculurofStr^jmr.yandCeleryPlantsnov^adyand — ^^^torUandt St., 
asked a man, approaching an engineer who 
was oiling up his locomotive. “I don’t know 
anything about your cow,” replied the engi¬ 
neer, sharply, “I am the engineer, and not the 
cow-catcher of this t( - ain.”— Exchange. 
A Frenchman thinks the English language 
is very tough. “Dare is ‘look out,’ ” he says, 
“which is to put out your head and see; and 
‘look out,’ which is to haul in your head and 
not for to see—just contraire .’’—Comic 
Weekly. 
“Papa, are you in favor of the eight-hour 
system?” “Yes. daughter, under certain cir 
cumstances. Why do you ask?” “Because, 
papa, George has only been staying four hours 
every evening, and he told me last night that 
if you favored the new system he needn’t go 
home so early .”—Farm Journal. 
Eighteen CaraTs.— Jeweler (to new boy) 
—“Did you sell anything while I was out, 
Johnny?” New boy—“Yes, sir. I sold six 
*.lain gold rings.” Jeweler (very much 
pleased)—“Good, my boy. We'll make a first- 
class jeweler of you one of these days. You 
got the regular price, of course.” New boy 
“Oh, yes, sir. The price was marked on the 
inside, 18c., an’ the gentleman took all there 
was left, sir.”— N. Y. Sun. 
Last week Gilhooly went to Onion creek, 
near Austin, to shoot quail. He got dinner at 
the ranch of Macbeth Simmons, a granger 
living in that vicinity. While at dinner Gil- 
hooley remarked; “Isn’t this rather early to 
be killing pigs?” “Of course it’s too early to 
be killing hogs. IV ho is killing hogs such 
warm weather as this?” “Why, I’ve heard 
pigs squealing ever since we sat down to din¬ 
ner.” “Pigs squealing! Why, that's my 
oldest daughter practicing her singing les¬ 
son.”— Texas Siftings. 
“Mr. Fka therly,” said Bobby at the din¬ 
ner table, “what’s an average?” “An aver¬ 
age?” “Yes. Pa says you come to see 6ister 
twiee a week on uu average.” Featherly was 
very much amused. After explaining to Bob- 
saoo^REWARD w c\ l v l e b n e 
to any person that can furnish an 
s' -Jpc* Automatic Swinging Straw Stacker 
tJjSJvlj that can ilo better work than the 
Mg! IMPERIAL STACKER 
that wc are building. Rend for 
cfroularand price list which will 
be mailed free. All are war¬ 
ranted to do good work or no sale. 
NEWARK MACHINE CO., Columbus,0. 
Alai Engine on Cornish Boiler, 
Tb * tjhuupca*. ^ 
clw»*. horizontal Kn* 
Kiuc In th« market, g? j\ 
KnRim* of nil kinds, 
nit l UK Machine*, 
cio., » specialty. 
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by all to be 
considering 
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SOUTH HEND, INDIANA. 
Collotrlate Institute for Young Ln dies and Prepara 
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BOOKWALTER ENGINES 
UPRIGHT AND HORIZONTAL, 
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OVER 3,000 IN SUCCESSFUL OPERATION. 
Illustrated Pamphlet sent free. Address, 
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The Belcher & Taylor 
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