_Plush
correspondence Lakeview Examiner._

FASHION NOTES IN ARIZONA.

Every symptom points to a tendency to spread of style in Tombstone. Among
other instances in this direction, the boys bought a pair of beautiful
barber-pole suspenders and presented them to the amiable dispenser who
shoves the amber extract of cheerfulness over the mahogany of the Parlor
Saloon. He promptly donned the innovation, but claimed that he felt like
he had a fence-rail on each shoulder. Then, when they became
overburdensome, he would unbutton them and permit them to dangle in front,
but he finally got them down fine enough to go to church in. Several
old-timers, conspicuously court attendants from the other end of the
county, have fallen into the habit of wearing boiled shirts, and it looks
as if sky-blue overalls might be discarded as a full-dress costume.
Getting "powerful tony" in town nowadays.--_Tombstone (Arizona)
Prospector._

MULE PAWNED FOR LICENSE.

James Richardson, of Roger Mills County, tendered a mule to-day as a
chattel to a Cheyenne money-lender in order to get funds with which to get
a marriage license and pay the preacher. He had ridden the mule
in--eighteen miles--and expected to walk back home in time for the
wedding.--_Guthrie (Oklahoma) Gazette._.

THE REASON.

Our fat friend, Henry Bowles, fell off his front porch Sunday, but was not
injured. He landed on his stomach.--_Leedsville (Colorado) Light._

IT WONT HAPPEN AGAIN.

Miss Mills, the school-teacher, asked for her salary last Friday night. Of
course it created much surprise, but as it was her first offense, the
board have decided to give her another trial.--_Grafton (North Dakota)
Record._

GATHER YE ROSEBUDS.

A Famous English Lyric of the Seventeenth Century.

BY ROBERT HERRICK.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) has long been known to fame as a writer of some
of the most graceful lyrics in the English language. "Merrie England" has
had many a laughter-loving parson who, peeping over his Book of Common
Prayer, has been unable to resist the temptation to flirt with muses who
have been rather more at home in ballrooms, studios, and old-world taverns
than in the atmosphere of a country parsonage, but that black-garbed
company never sent forth a singer with a lilt so free or a heart so light
as Robert Herrick's.

Of Herrick's life comparatively little is known. He took his degree at
Cambridge in 1620, and in 1629 Charles I made him vicar of D