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VOL, XXVI. LEXINGTON, S. C., FEBRUARY 12, 189G. NO. 13.
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WANTING.
The new year has brought back the same old
blooms,
The daisies for the leas.
The bluebells sweet, and the cowslips' plumes,
And the pale anemones.
And again with the golden fires of spring
The woods arid groves are bright,
And the same old songs the blackbirds sing
In tho apple orchards white.
And the dawns are bright and the eves arc fair
As e'er in the days of old,
And the fragrant hawthorn scents the air,
And tho gorse is of burnished gold.
And the wind has come o'er the southern seas
From shores where the nereids play,
And as of old do the brigand bees
On their clover blossoms stray.
There's an amber sea in the far off west,
Where the hills and the sunset meet.
And the hymn of the throstle by its nest
Is tender and clear and sweet,
And I wait and watch, as in days of yore,
By the ivied trysting tree,
But, ah, never, never, never more
Can my sweetheart come to mc!
?Chambers' Journal.
THE RED LANTERN.
"Oh, pshaw, pop! What made you get
a red one?"
"Why, my son, I thought a red lantern
would tickle you to death."
"Naw," returned Jimmy, contemptuously.
"I wanted one with a green light.
They're twice as nice."
"Well, now, that's strange," said
John Saunders, looking at his boy's
disappointed face. "When I was a
youngster, I liked anything if 'twas red
?a red wagon, sled, top. As long as
there was some red about it I thought
'twas stylish and first class."
"Red is so common," said Jimmy,
with great airs.
"Go 'long," saidihe father. "Aren't
p-cu ashamed, sir? That's the sort of airs
rou learn from playing with boys that
rave money?at least their fathers have.
Red common. Well, so am I common;
?o's your ma, and, for the matter of
hat, so are you, too, I reckon. Don't
'orget that, Jimmy. You're the son of a
.aboring man. Don't try to ape folks
rvho are better off in this world."
Jimmy Saunders picked up the demised
lantern and went out to the barn
>rith it. His father Lad just returned
'rom the town with a few purchases for
he family and among them this lantern,
vhich was net up to Jimmy's ideas cf
anterns. He wanted one with a bright
?reen light and nickel trimmings like
he one used at Mr. Somers' stables.
Charlie Somers said they were much
licer than red lanterns, which were
;ommon looking and only used by rail
oad men. And what Charlie Sobers
;aid was law to Jimmy baunders.
Charlie lived in Chicago daring the
.vinter and only spent his vacations oat
n Indiana on his father's handsome
:onntry placs. So, of coarse, being the
;on of a rich mau and a dweller in the
ritios, his word bad a great weight w**Ii
he boy who had never been farther
iway from tho farm than to the neigh- 1
>oring town of Dexter.
Mr. Saunders' farm lay next to the
ailroad, which wound like a great shinug
serpeut through tho woods, the deep
:ut beyond the creek and across the
iwarnp and on to Chicago, that wonder- j
rul city of which Jimmy never tired of j
learing Charlie's descriptions.
But just now there was troublo in the
ireat city?mobs and strikes and confuliou
and chaos almost. Every day the
toys could hear Mr. Somersspeak of the
;ta*e of affairs to the gentlemen who j
,vere visiting him, and all agreed that j
here were to be terrible times unless I
be city was declared under martial law.
And as the days went on and rumors \
)f fires and killing and destruction lloat;d
out through the quiet countryside
Jharlie and Jimmy both became greatly
uterested in tho news and plied Iheir
athers with questions about the great j
trike.
"What did you hear in town today, j
ather?" asked Jimmy, having recovered i
rom his vexation over the red lantern, J
is his father was unharnessing Zebedee, j
he old gray horse.
''TUotq'o oil cmrfc ncwrc \cnrst I
joings on in Chicago ever you heard of,''
mswered his father. "And Dexter, too,
s full of a crowd that's threatening to
)urn the depot. They've overturned a
ot of freight cars and upset things genially
around the station. I heard folks
laying that soldiers are corning from
Sew York some time tonight to re-en'orce
the troops in Chicago, and they
,vere making threats that they shouldn't
;et farther than Dexter. I dunno,"
Roomily shaking his head, "I dunno
vhat's going to happen, but I tell yon
me thing?I'm glad we don't live in
Chicago, my son."
Jimmy secretly wished they did, so
hat he might see some cf these exciting
cenes, but as they didn't he tried to
ronteut himself by going to the Somers
:ountry place, half a mile tip the road, j
o play tag with Charlie in pursuance
>f an engagement made early that mornDg
When be went into the house to ask
or his playmate, who was not outside
is usual, he found an excited little
$roup standing about the telephone in
be hall and Mr. Somers listening in- j
ently to the unseen messenger.
"Perfectpanic there tonight," he said
is he dropped the repeater. "Troops
ired into the mob this afternoon ; killed
lalf a dozen people; fires everywhere;
wrecking going on and re-euforcemeuts
:oming from New York tonight."
"Hello, Jim," said Charlie, coming
rorward. "Come on. Let's play strike,
itou be a freight car, and I'll be a striker
and overturn you."
This new game was followed awhile,
?ud then Charlie's fertile brain suggest:d
another scheme. "You be a train full
>f soldiers coming from New York, and
i'll be the mob and stop you."
So Jimmy, with many a toot and
;nort and "chug chug," rushed here
md there among the shrubbery, playing
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re was a tram, wmie ^uarue jjik-u
sticks on the track and flagged the train
md stopped it with a smart green lan:ern
from the stable until both boys
(Vere tired out. The sun had long since
set, and the darkness was coming on
fast "I must go home," suddenly cried
Tkrcw Away His Canes.
Mr. D. "Wiley, ex postmaster. Black
3reek, X. Y., was so badly afflicted
vith rheumatism that be was only
ible to hobble around with canes,
md even then it caused him great
pain. After using Chamberlain's
Pain Balm he was so much improved
that he threw away his canes. He
says this liniment did him more good
than all other medicines and treatment
put together. For sale at 50
cents per bottle by Julian E. Kauffman.
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| Knights of the MaccabeesThe
State Commander writes us !
j from Lincolu, Xeb., as follows: "Af- j
! ter trying other medicines for what I
j seemed to be a very obstinate cough i
| in our two children we tried Dr. i
I King's New Discovery and at the i
end of two days the cough entirely j
: left them. We will not be without i
j it hereafter, as our experience proves !
that it cures where all other reme- I
! dies fail."?Signed F. W. Stevens, !
. ?
I State Com.?"Why not give this great |
medicine a trial as it is guaranteed I
and trial bottles are free at the ;
Bazaar.
Jimmy. "Gracious! I didn't know it j
was so late. Mother will be awfully j
worried."
"Well, be sure and come over tomor- {
row," cried Charlie after biin, "ana
we'll play strike again."
"All riahr," answered Jimmy as he
went whistling down the road.
As he came near the road Jimmy I
heard a strange sound. It was like the
distant snarl and roar of the animals he
remembered in the one circus he had attended
in his life. He stopped for a moment
to listen. The noise rose and died
j on the evening air, and mingled with it
rose another sound liko the clink of ini
struments against steel.
"That sounds as if somebody was
hammering on the track," he said as ho
listened. But he was late aud so hurried
on toward home.
As ho neared the gate bis mother
came running down the walk, her apron
over her head. "Jimmy, "she cried hysterically,
"whero is your father?"
"I don't know," answered the boy,
staring in dismay at his mother, who j
was pale and trembling.
"Oh, my child," she screamed,
"there's something wrong. Your father
went over an hour ago down into the
woods to find the stray lambs, and lie
never stays so late, and 10 or 15 minutes
ago a crowd of yelling, cursing men
swept by here like a cyclone and down
into the woods, and father's there, and
maybe they've killed him."
"Hold on, mother," cried Jimmy.
'TVin'fc tat-o nn <?n T'll vnn rlnwn tn thn !
i edge of the woods ami see what's up.
i Father's all right. What would they
j hurt him for, I'd like to know?"'
Though ho speko so stoutly, the boy
was frightened, but lie run as fast as b8
could toward the woods. He rememberi
ed the noise he had heard at the track
and suddenly it rushed over him what
it meant. "They're sympathizers of Ibo
strikers," he whispered as he tore across j
the field, "and they're tearing up the I
| track, I'll bet."
When he reached the weeds, ho stole J
| along as cautiously as possiblo toward j
| the din and uproar, which every moj
ment grew louder. Suddenly he saw
1 them.
There were 50 at least, bareheaded, !
ragged, prying up the track with crow- j
bars?a frightful sight to a lonely little
boy creeping among the trees. The stray
lambs, huddled together under a tree,
were bleating in a frightened, helpless
way. Jimmy felt sure his father must
be near them, so, creeping on hands and
knees now, the boy crawled slowly along
and suddeuly saw his father tied to a
tree, watching the rioters completing
their work cf destruction. As Jimmy
saw his father Mr. Saunders, turning
his head, saw his son.
Jimmy was not 10 feet away from
his father, while the mob was at least
10 feet away from both.
"Jimmy," murmured his father,
"run, my boy, run! The New York
special with soldiers! Hun up the road
Hurt sionnl it ! Novei* niiiid rue. but save I
the train."
With a half sob the boj crept back
through the tall grass to the edge of the
forest anil then darted across the field
toward the farmhouse like au arrow.
His mother met him. "Don't stop me,
mother," he gasped. "Father's alive,
hut the strikers have got him. You run
to 3Ir. Somers' for help. I'm goiug to
signal the special." Signal tho special!
Suddenly he stopped. What with? How
could he, a little boy, step a train beforo !
it reached the cut yonder? Ah, the red !
lantern, the despised, common thing ho |
had sneered at that very day.
Two minutes later this towheaded, J
freckled faced young hero was flying up i
the track, his red lantern lighted, his j
bare feet spurning the earth, panting,
stumbling, sobbing, falling, up again !
and cu, on.
A low rumble broke on bis ear. The j
rails began singing under his feet. "It's J
coming!" he shrieked, and putting all j
his remaining strength into this last |
effort he dashed on a few rods farther.
There came a great white light glow- j
ing at him like an angry eye, nearer i
and nearer, larger, brighter. Would |
they ever sec him as he stood there, j
! desperately gripping his red lantern and '
| swinging it with both his tired little
j arms?
At last! The engine gave a scream.
I "I see you, Jimmy!" it seemed to cry to
: the poor child. Then a shiver ran j
I through the Jong train. It groaned and j
! stopped, the engine panting and sighing,
i at the feet of James Saunders, hero.
Do you suppose, if Jimmy lives to be j
; 100 years old, he will ever forget that j
moment?the shouts, the questions, the I
j excitement, the soldiers crowding around :
' him, the glistening bayonets, the praise, j
: the thanks, all the pride of the instant i
i as he knew that he, a little prairie lad, !
had saved the special laden with Uncle j
: Sam's troops??Advance.
The First Log; Cabin In Kentucky.
The flourishing little city cf Harrods- i
burg, the county seat of Mercer county, j
' Ky., was the scene in the latter part cf j
: the last century of seme very exciting
i episodes in the history of the early set|
tiers in tho young state. On June 16,
| 177-1, Captain James Harrod of Virginia,
1 s? o narfr r?-f tn
I \>JJU 11UU t* .
| the new country, laid off a town site at ;
i Big Spring Camp, where they had erected j
j the first cabin ever built in Kentucky. I
I They allotted to each man a half acre J
| lot and a teu acre out lot. The town's j
| first name was Harrodstown, but later
j this was changed to Harrodsburg. A
| clearing was made in the east end of
! the town boundary, and hero it was that ,
John Harman planted and raised the '
first corn that was known to have been j
i grown in the state. Only a few weeks I
after this auspicious beginning of the j
! town's promoters four of Harrod's men
j were ambushed by Indians. Jared Cow- j
| an was killed. The other men escaped, j
I only ouo of them being injured.?Louis- I
| ville Post.
Medicated cough drops and the
j best cough syrup, for sale at the
Bazaar.
PIKE WANTED A FOTJT
zeb white was sick, but he had
A SUBSTITUTE.
Ho* a Critter Named Pike Became the i
Wollopedeet Man In Sight and How a |
Good Wife Was Spoiled as a Very Nat- I
nral Consequence.
One October flay Zeb White, the possum
hunter of Tennessee, took iue along
with him when ho went the rounds of
his woodchuck traps, and as we were
coming heme he told me this story:
"I worked so hard fur ibreo or fo'
y'ars arter the wah," he began, "that I
got ail run down and couldn't skeercely
git abont. Thar war days when I felt
purty well, and days when I jest sot
around and hadn't strength 'nnff to
move outdoahs. That samo y'ar a crit
ter named Pibo moved into the naybur- I
hood. He was from Alabamy, I believe, j
and he let it be known powerful soon
that he was a hefty man in a scrimmage.
He talked so loud and blowed so
high that ever1 body was skeart o1 him,
and he jest went around steppin high
and bossin the roost. Reckon ye hev
met up with sich chaps in the no'tb?"
"Yes, I've seen several of them. "
"That perky critter used to cum down
to my cabiu and brag and blow and tell
how many men he'd licked, and one day
I gin him plain tounderstan that I didn't
believe in his stories. That made him
mad, and lie went away savin as how
he'd wollop mo fur his next victim.
He knowed I was in pore health and
couldn't fight a fly, but every two or
three days lie'd cum down and stand in
front of the cabin and yell:
" 'Now, then, Zeb White, cmn out
yere and gio i-ho awfullest wcllopin a
hnman cricer ever received. I'm no
hand to brag, but I kin tie both hands
behind mo and then chaw ye up in two
minits. I've licked 47 different men and
never even got my nose skinned. Either
own up that ye dasu't fight a man or
cam out and bo wolloped.'
"That's the way he'd talk to rue,"
continued Zeb, "and I'd git so mad that
I cried lilro a child. Biineby I begun to
git a leetle better, and one day when ho
was callin on mo to cum forth and bo
wollcped I told him that if he'd show
up a week from that, day I'd tackle him.
Ho went away crackin bis heels and
whoopin and rejoiciu, and the old woman
sez to me, sez she:
" 'Zeb White, if yo was a well man
ye could wollop that critter befo' I
could mako a hce cake, but ye've bin
down the banks all summer, and ye'
can't git- well in a week. I'm sorry ye
passed yer word, but bein it's passed
we'll fcev to abide by it. I'll git whisky
and rools toirorrer and brace ye up.' "
"And did you get better?" I asked.
"No, I got wnss. Whisky and roots
didn't do mo no good. When the week
was up, I was in bed and too feeble to
walk across the room. That pesky critter
knowed jest- how it was with me, and
yit he cum and stood in front of the
cabin and shouts to the olo woman :
" 'Ar' this the dwellin place of a
varmint named Zeb White?'
" 'She be.'
" 'Calls hisself the Possum Hunter
cf Tennessee, don't he?'
" 'Yes, ho do.'
" 'Has wrassled with b'ars and wildcats
and painters, and thinks hisself
powerful on the fight?'
" 'That's my Zeb.'
" 'Then I hain't made no mistake. /
Would ye do me the everlastin kindness
to tell him to step out yero while I chaw
his ears off to stay my hunger!'
" 'He's sick abed jest now, but if
yo'il cum back arter dark he'll make yo
eat grass and bcller like a calf!'
" 'I'll do it, ma'am! Thar' won't be
uo mo' delay?'
" 'No, sah!'
" 'He'll cum right out and be pulver:ji
: n i. ~ ?
izeu, wjji iie:
" 'Ho will!'
" 'Then ye kin be lookin fur rue,
Widder White! I'll bo kinder sorry to
see death take biru from ye, but I must
kev him fur my forty-eighth victim!
Good arternoou, Widder White?good
arteruoon!'
"That's how they talked," said Zeb
as he heaved a rock at a snake sunning
himself on a rock, "and of co'se I heard
every word of it. I jest couldn't help
weepin with my madness. How was I
to go out and fight him when I couldn't
git outer bed? That's what I asked the
ole woman, and she sorter winked and
smiled and scz to me, sez she:
" 'Zeb, doan' ye worry no] mo' 'bout
this wollopin bizness, but leavo it all to
me. If that varmint shows up yere tonight,
he'll be tho wurst licked man in
all Tennessee befo' he gits away !'
" 'But who's gwine to lick him?'
" 'Never ye mind!'
"She wouldn't say nomo'," continued
Zeb, "and I was too feeble to figger it
out. I cried myself to sleep, and it was
arter dark when I woke up. That thar
varmint had cum back, 'cordin to promise,
and was in front of the cabin
a-shontin:
" 'Zeb White, the time has cum fur
ye to be pulverized. Ivlebbe I won't do
no mo' than chaw yer cars off and cripple
ye fur life, but I'll do that much fur I
shore. Cum outer yer bole and stand up. J
to me like a man.' i
"Jest about the time he begun tn iiol- {
ler my ole woman begun to git outer her j
clothes and inter mine.
" 'What ye gwino to do?' sez I.
" 'Gwine cut to wollop that critter or j
die,' sez she.
" 'But ye ar' a woman and he's a !
powerful fighter.'
" 'Zeb White, ye snuggle down and j
keep quiet. He's cum fur a fout. He's j
bin promised one and has to hev it. As i
ye can't fight him I shall, and I'm j
a-fee)in that the Lord will put a jaw- |
bone inter my hand to slather him.'
" 'It wasn't no use to talk to her. '
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A L:i3 Saved.
i
Jamestown, Term., October 15, iSOl. j
Mv daughter tried physicia-jS j
nearly all remedies for Femr ,ie irregularities,
but. received no 3T-lief or
benefit whatever. V> e nearly
despaired of her rccore? -v when we
were induced by our postmaster,
Mr. A. A. Gooding, to. try Gerstle s
Female Pauacea, ar.<) a .'ter using four
bottles she was entire'y cured, for
which I feoi it i jy dr^y to let it be
known to the war I- { and suffering
humanity, for I believe she owes her
life to the Pnmoea. A. J". MACE,
Sheriff of Fentress County, Tenn.
For further information call at
Julian E. Kauffmanrs drug store and
get free, a pamphlet entitled, "Advice
to Women, and O^jer Useful In?formation.''
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Whcu she got dressed up, she looked like j
a man, and as she stood in the door that
varmint cracked his heels together and
crowed like a rooster. I jest had tho
strength to git to the winder, and I j
saw all that took place. When the feller
had crowed and cracked, he yells out:
" 'My forty-eighth victim ar' now j
befo' me to bo chawed. Speak up, Zeb
White, and tell me which ear ve'd ray- j
ther I'd begin on to git up my appertitc.
Whoop! Whoopee!' "
"And about the fight?" I asked as j
Zeb was silent for several minutes.
"It was full of surprises," he answer- i
ed. "That varmint was only a blow- j
hard arter all. The old woman walked i
around him two or thrco times and then :
sailed in. He hollered at the fust jump
and tried to git away, but she wouldn't
let him. She scratched, kicked and
pulled ha'r, and when she finally let up
ou him ho wouldn't hev looked wuss if
half a dozen b'ars had played with him.
I've seen a heap of men wolloped, but j
he was the wollopedest man of the hull
let."
"And didn't be know it was a worn- i
an?" I asked.
"Never kuowed it till he got home I
and his own wife examined the claw 1
marks and the bites. The story got j
around party soon, and he had to jest j
pull np and move away. Ke had bin i
licked by a woman, and it was tho wuss
lickin he ever got."
"And how did Mrs. White come ont
of it?"
"She didn't git a scratch, but I've
alius bin sorry about it."
"For what reason?"
"Waal," said Zeb as he turned his
face away from me, "befo' that font
sho was a mighty humble woman and
left all the hossin to me. Senco then
she's?she's"?
"She's not so humble?"
"Jest so. Jest got tho idea that she
kin wollop mo same as she did him, and
thar ar' days when she's all ready to
make a try at it. Spiles a woman to git j
such noshuns into her head?of oc'se it
does.''
And an hour after wo got homo that
evening I overheard her saying to him:
"Now, Zeb White, ye git me up a
heap o' firewood by the hack door toinorrer
cr take tho consequences, and
I'm tellin ye that them same consequences
will make yer back ache fur a j
hull month to cum."?M. Quad in De- !
troit Free Press.
A Serious Objection.
Denis?Faitb, Pat, what cher doin? j
Pat?Coinmittiu suicide.
Denis?Why don't yez put the rope
around yer neck?
Pat?Sure and Oi did, but I couldn't .
get me breath.?Truth.
i
Eea*'n:ss Canno: be Cured.
By local applications, as they can- {
not reach the diseased portion of tbe
ear. There is only one way to cure
Deafness, and that is by constitu- f
tional remedies. Deafness is caused', i
by an inflamed condition of the rr.u- I
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube, j
When this tube gets inflamed you J
have a rumbling sound or imperfect-!
hearing, and when it is entirely i
closed Deafness is the result, and ;
unless the inflam nation can be taken j
tr> its 1101'- :
UUL UJLJLU. lUlO IUVL. ?.-w - - ~
mal condition, bearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out of ten i
are caused by catarrb, which is
nothing but an inflamed condition of
the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case oi Deafness (caused
by catarrb) that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catanh Cure. Send for circulars,
free.
F. J. CHE?,EY & CO., Props.,
Toledo, 0.
figySold by druggists, price 75c.
15.
If there is any one thing that needs
to be purified, it is politics, so the
reformer says, and maDy agree thereto.
But blood tells, and as a blood
purifier and liver corrector Simmons
liver Regulator 5s the best medicine.
"I use it in pre erence to any other.
So wrote Mr. S. M. Hysell, of
Middle] ort, Ob io. Aud Dr. D. SRussel\,
of Farroville, Va, writes, "It
fulfills, jdl you promise for it."
*" * ? -1- - A AM
supanoi no ah u-uc*.
Gerento, Miss., May Gtb, 1892.
lltbough I never used any set ret
rfi'.aedies before, I prescribe Sfc.
Joseph's iSarsaparilla in my practice
as 1 would any prescription of my
own compounding, and any phys ician
who will do t ne same will b 3
j greatly pleased at the results
I achieved. In mv op. nion it is supej
rior to all others and lias been es
> pecially useful to me in Rheumatic
' and Scrofulous eases.
| 11. M. KITTREL, M. D.
I For further information call at
[ Julian E. Karffmamn's drug store
, and ask for a panphlet entitled,
"A Treatise on the Blood.'' 15.
! If you ha-ve aching sides and back
] or suffering from rheumatism of an}
form and want relief and permaneT|i
| cure, then try Spirittine Balsam, 21
; and 50 ccait bottles. Bo* sale atth(
' Bazaar.
A Slavs from Boyhood.
From the Red Wing, (Minn.) Republican.
' T am now twenty four years old,"
said Edwin Lawnson, of "WhileRock,
Goodhue county, Minn., to a Republican
representative, "and as you can
see I ara not very large of stature.
When I was eleven years old I became
afflicted with a sickness which
baffled the skill and knowledge of
the physician. I was not taken suddenly
ill but on the contrary I can
hardly state the exact time when it
began. The first symptoms were
pains in my back and restless nights.
The disease did not trouble me much
at first, but it seemed to have settled
* i i i i t i J
in my oociy to stay ana my outer experience
during the last thirteen
years proved that to be the case. I
was of course a child and never
dreamed of the suffering in store for
me. I complained to ray parents
and they concluded that in time I
would outgrow my trouble, but when
they heard me groaning during my
sleep they became thoroughly
alarmed. Medical advice v. as sought
but to no avail, I grew rapidly worse
and was soon unable to move
about and fiually became confined
continually to my bed. The best
doctors that could be had were consulted,
but did notlnDg for me. I
tiied various kinds of extensively advertised
patent medicines with but
the same result.
"For twelve long years I was thus
a sufferer in constant agcny without
respite, abscesses formed on my body
in rapid succession and the world indeed
looked very dark to me. About
this time when all hope was gone
and nothing seemed left but to resign
myself to my most bitter fate my attention
was called to Dr. Williams'
PiDk Pills for Pale People. Like a
drowning man grasping at a straw,
in sheer desperation I concluded to
make one more attempt?not to regain
my health ([ dare not to hope so
much) but if possible to ease my
paiD.
"I bought a box of the pills and
they seemed to do me good. I felt
encouraged and continued their use.
After taking six boxes I was up and
able to walk around the house. I
have not felt so well for thirteen
years as during the past year. Only
one year have I taken Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills and I am able now to do
chores and attend to light duties.
4'Do I hesitate to let you publish
what I have said? No. Why should
I ? It is the truth and I ara only
too glad to let other sufferers know
my experience. It may help those
whose cup of misery is as full to-day
as mine was in the past."
Dr. Williams' Pick Pills contain,
in a condensed form, all the elements
necessary to give new life and rich- ,
ness to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are al?o a
specific for t oubles peculiar to females,
such as suppressions, irregularities
and all fcims of weakness.
They build up the blood, and restore
the glow of health to pale and sallow
cheeks. In men they effect a radical
cure in all cases arising from mental
worry, overwork or excesses of whatever
nature. Pink Pills are sold in
boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50
cents a box or six boxes for $2.50,
and may be had of all druggists, or
direct by mail from Dr. Williams'
Medicine Company, Schenectady,
N. Y.
PROGRESSIVE DINNER PARTIES.
The Revival of en Entertainment That
Promotes Sociability.
Frances E. Lnnigan in Ladies' Home
Journal writes that tbo progressive dini
ner party has experienced a revival this
i winter and is once more established in
fashionable favor. As 1896 is a leap
year the dinner is now arranged so that
. the men remain in their original seats
; throughout the meal, while the women
| progress with the cuurses. The first aa|
nouncemeut that the dinner is in any
i respect different from the ordinary cere
mouial meal of society is in the appcari
auce at the host's place of a small silver
j bell, which he rings at the conclusion
f of each course, and in the quotations
j rcpou the guest cards, the line given to
1 the lady occupying the seat of honor?
j the right of the host?being, "Westward
| the course of empire takes its way,"
j thus indicating the direction of the pro'
gression. The other ladies' guest cards
I may read: "All things journey; we go
I with them," "Press bravely onward,"
* "Let ns then be up and doing," "Cn:
ward, onward may we press," "A love'
apparition sent to he a moment's ornrnsont."
f Fes the cards of the men, who retain
>: their original seats throughout the
meal the following quotations will
\ eerve: "How happy could I he with
either were t'other dear charmer aW?>yl"
i "Welcome the coming, speed the going
l guest," "We must endure their going
] hence, even as their coming hither,"
( "Variety's t2ie very spice of life, ""It
j is something ioget this far if one is not
'j permitted to go farther," "Stay in that
[ station in which you have been placed."
j The rnlo to be observed by the hostess
hnr.0 ns mnnv courses
I 18 Ulill OUU iliwov .? ?
j for her dinner as she has couples pres|
ent. This is made necessary by the fact
! that the progressions ere made with the
i courses, and that the round must bo
completed with the end of the dinner.
i ?he should of course .aim to arrange so
; rthat the peoplo who are most congenial
I filial 1 be partners during the longest
courses?the roast and the dessert. This
| may he easily arranged by placing them
! | two .or three courses apart at the begii*
j ning of the dinner.
G. A. Sala's Career.
| I first made the acquaintance of G. A.
. Sala about 30 years ago, and I have
known him well ever since. I always
found him a perfect encyclopedia of
i knowledge, coupled (which is rare) with
} a keen sense of humor. No man probaI
bly wrote more "copy" in bis life than
[ lie did and few more readable. His
I mode of writing was curious. He had a
' vast amount of collected notes on all
' matters carefully indexed. These he
\ would consult. Then he would walk up
t i and down the room for a time, aftei
) | which ho would write or dictate with,
j j out pause. I have heard him make verj
| jnany good speeches, conceived on tht
same lines as bis articles, fie bad at
times a strong desiro to enter tbe house
of commons, but I somewhat doubt
whether be would have succeeded there.
Always occupied ou the press and cn
the magazines, he managed occasionally
to write a novel. They were really very
good novels, and if he had turned his
attention more exclusively to novel
writing he would have run Charles
Dickens and other masters of tbe art
close. In business matters he was a
mere child. Ho earned a great deal of
money, he was not extravagant, and
yet he never seemed to have any. In
his first wife bo was fortunate in finding
not only an amiable and beautiful
woman, but a woman of business, and
she was a terrible less to him. It is satisfactory
to think that- ho was well
cared for in his last sickness owing to
the kindness and liberality of tbe proprietors
of The Daily Telegraph, with
which newspaper he had been so long
connected.?London Truth.
rtussian same.
Russian sable owes its warmth and
gloss to the fact that the longer hairs,
as well as the under fur, are absolutely
uniform in size and "section." Thus,
the sable tail makes a perfectly proportioned
natural pendant to the skin when
used as a cape, and the whole skin has
the unity of a manufactured fabric, with
the other qualities only found in natural
fur. This pre-eminence of sable fur gives
it a value in the most minute quantities.
The longer hairs, or surplus pieces of
the fur, are carefully saved and made
into the best paint brushes, which always
"keep a point," and in the colormen's
catalogues tho price of thess
brushes is only approximately fixed and
varies according to the prior "f sables.
Sealskin and beaver fur not only
softer, but warmer than any of the furs
which, at first sight, seem to approach
them closely in color and texture. Hareskin
can be clipped and dyed so as to resemble
sealskin, but even if lined with
wool it docs not approach the pelagic
fur in warmth or in luster. The wonderful
fineness cf the under fur of the seal
causes it to hold minute quantities of
air in the infinitely small interstices between
the hairs, and while the air inclosed
is warmed by contact with the
body the fur is a nonconductor to the
cold from without.?Loudon Spectator.
A Chnrch With hut One Member.
There is a Baptist church at Cornish,
Me., which now reports only one member.
It is one of the oldest churches in
the country, having been organized in
1792. Zion's Advocate declares that the
rhnrch has not had a pastor for many
years, but its members have regularly
contributed to our denominational benevolences
and maintained their organization.
Notwithstanding tho opportunities
which offer themselves to the membership
cf this organization, the one member
holds but one office, that of church
clerk, but this is not surprising, as this
member is a woman, and tho women
generally do most of tho work, although
holding comparatively few cf the offices.
?Chicago Standard.
Pens are polished with emery powder
in a large revolving drum.
Indigestion is often taken for consumption.
The woid consumption
means wasting away, and dyspeptics
often waste away as badly as consumptives.
The reason people waste away is
because either they don't get enough
to cat, or they don't digest what they
do eat.
If the latter is your trouble, take
Shaker Digestive Co dial. This will
help you to digest your food and stop
your loss of tlesh.
Shaker Digestive Cordial is made
from herbs, barks and the juices of
fruit, by the well-known Shakers at
MVmnt, Lebanon. It possesses great
tonic and digestive powers.
Shaker Digestive Cordial has cured
many supposed consumptives (who
were really dyspeptics), by simply
helping their stomachs to digest their
food, thus giving them nourishment
and new strength.
Sold by druggists. Trial bottles
10 cents.
|
An I.asler Way.
"No," said the elderly lady, "I don't
think that woman is advancing the right
way. She is getting to a point where she
is liable to be imposed upcu."
"Don't you think she ought to vote?"
"Of course if she can't do any better,
But in my younger days a woman made
t;p her mind bow she wanted a vote cast
and sent her husband to the polls to cast
it while she staid at heme and busied
herself with whatever she thought proper.
That 's what I call woman's rights."
?Washington Star.
Home.
Woman (in bookstore)?I want a
motto of some kind to hang up iu my
parlor.
Clerk?Yes, madam. How does "God
bless our home" strike you?
Madam?Old fashioned, ain't it?
Clerk?It is a trifle old fashioned.
Well, there's "Thrice is he armed that
hath his quarrel just."?Harlem Life.
Her Turn at the Falsehood.
"Yonare the only man I ever loved,"
she protested.
"How dare you tell that falsehood?"
demanded he fiercely.
"Why not? It's leap year."
With which she smiled a hard, advanced
smile.?Detroit Tribune.
His Torpid Liver.
"What dedoctor say is do matter wiv
you?"
Rastus?He say I got what he call a
torpedo libbah.
Mandy (in evident trepidation)?It
ain't liable to splode, is it??Indianapolis
Journal
Hood's Is Wonderful.
Xo less than wondeiful are the
cures accomplished by Hood's Sarsaparilla.
even afer other preparations
and physicians" prescriptions have
failed. The reason, however, is sim
1 pie. "When the blood is enriched and
1 purified, disease disappears and good
| health returns, and Hood's Sarsapa|
rilla is the one true blood purifier.
Hood's Pills are prompt and
r efficient and do not purge, pain 01
j gripe. 25c.
ADVERTISING RATES.
Advertisements will be inserted at the
rate of 75 cents per square of one inch
space for first insertion, and 50 cents per
inch tor each subsequent insertion.
Liberal contracts made with those wishing
to advertise for three, six and twelve
months.
Notices in the local column 10 cents per
line each inser ion
Marriage notices inserted free.
Obituaries charged for at the rate of one
cent a word.
Address
G. M. HARHAN, Editor.
HIS IDEA OF A SHARK.
The Boy Had Head About the Fish and
Jetted HU Ideas Down.
An examiner of lads under 16 fox the
civil service commission gave for a question,
"Describe the habits of fish." Here
is a literal transcript of one out of a
batch of some hundreds of answers:
"The shark is about 20 feet long and
has five rows of teeth whets the shark is
going to catch its pray it turns on its
side. The sharks are found in Indiad,
where they are vcrry numerous in Africa,
etc. The way they catch sharks is
lowering a pieco of meat on a sharp
hook (and sailers will do it for amusement),
and the shark is very hungry always,
that he Will grab at the meat and
find himself caught.
"un oi nis ices are tne sora nsn is
will go and rtln its sword through its
stummick.
"When the shark has been floating
about on the water for sometime it gets
a lot of small fish in its mouth and they
will go and lay on the beach and let
small birds come in their mouth and
pick them off and will not heart them.
The shark can live in water and on land.
Going from England to Indiad, you will
see sharks in the nile, they will follow
ships for many miles on purpose to get
some meat, and then perhaps not get
any. They are different kinds of sharks,
the Black shark, Etc.
"The shark is a very curious animal,
it can lay its teeth down when not
catching any food.
"Once upon a time thero was a ship
goiDg to america, and on board some
slaves the slaves were pack so close together
that they could not live, and the
captin of the ship yous't to let some
come upon deck, and many of the slaves
yous't to jump overboard, and be eat
with sharks, so the captin determined to
stop it if he could. So one day a black
slave woman was just in the acted to
jump overboard when the captin caugnt
her, and had had as many slaves as he
could get upon deck. And then he had a
rope fastened around her wast, and lowered
her overboard, wen a shark came
and bitt a half off her off, and then the
captin had the other half pulled up and
sown to the slaves on deck, and then
cnirt to thpm that, htt would do anv one
of them the same way if the jumped
overboard."?Londcu Church Times.
Undignified For % StatesmanIt
is said that a woman remembers a
man whom she has known well as a little
boy always as the iittle boy and never
can think of him as grown up. This
saying seems to be borne out to a certain
extent at least by an amusing story told
in connection with the appointment of
M. Edouard Lockroy as minister of marine
in France.
When M. Lockroy was a small boy,
his father lived in a house in the street
in Paris which now bears the name Rue
Washington. His home was in the fifth
story of this building, and it appears
that he had certain habits which rendered
him objectionable to some of the other
residents of tho building, particularly
to the concierge, or woman who looked
out for the door. He found, fcr instance,
a more expeditious way of coming down
from the fifth floor than by tho stairs.
This excellent woman is still living.
When she beard that Edouard Lockroy
had become a minister, she threw up
her hands in astonishment and exclaimed
:
"What! That little Edouard Lockroy!
And to think of his always sliding down
from the fifth story of the palace cf the
Elyeeo on the balusters!"?Youth's
Companion.
From a Financial Point of View.
"I beg your pardon," said the man
with the slightly bald head who eat in
a parquet seat near one of the boxes in a
down town theater the other evening.
"I beg your pardon," he repeated, "but
wonld yon mind looking at the figures
on this check and telling mo what they
are? I'm a little nearsighted. "
The youngest member of the noisy box
party, an amiablo looking youth with
highly plastered hair, suspended his
conversation with the interesting blond
in the green dress a moment, leaned
over the front of the box, and in answer
to the questioner, who had risen to his
feet and was smilingly holding out for
his inspection the check end of a ticket,
he said:
"Certainly, sir. The figures are
$1.50."
"Well," rejoined the questioner,
"that's exactly what I paid to hear this
play tonight, and I'm going to get the
worth of my money, or I'll lift my
voice right now and raise a fnss and
make a scene. You'll oblige me by telling
the rest of them."
He was not disturbed again during
the evening.?Chicago Tribune.
Not IIU Name.
A TT,vr.,irr rnnTl Wf-nt illfOS StOrO tO bUV
XI jr ij ?. _
a fountain peu. The girl in charge of
the counter supplied him with a sheet
of paper, a bottle of ink and several
pens, and in trying them one after another
he covered the sheet with the
words tempos fugit (time flies), the girl
looking on with a kindly interest.
"If you boy one and it doesn't suit
you, Mr. Fugit,"she remarked, "yoa
can bring it back and change it,"-*
Pacific.
Why lie Feared.
"No," she said, "father does not like
you."
"Bat he seemed very friendly last
night."
"You played poker with him?"
"Yes."
"Well, he says that he cannot conscientiously
intrust my future to a man
who bets only one white chip on three
deuces."?Washington Star.
An After Effect.
Mrs. Matchmaker?I wonder you do
not make up to Miss Singleton. She's a
splendid girl, a bargain for any man
who gets her.
Tom Alley?Did you ever notice that
a, bargain is almost always disappointing
when you get it home:?Boston
Transcript.
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or no pay required. It is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction or money
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For sale at the Bazaar.
1 When you come to town don't for
get to call and settle your subscription
due the Dispatch.