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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN.
IXrAIIUSHED IN 1554,
By CHAS. W. HANCOCK.
VOL. 18.
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Charles F. Crisp,
•flit or new al laiu\
AM mucus, GA.
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B. P, HOLLIS,
• iHornetf at SAmu
AMEKICUS, GA.
Ollioo, Forsyth Street, in National Bank
building. dec2otf
E. G. SIMMONS,
•Ittorney at JjUW,
AMERICUS GA.,
Oiiice in Hawkins’building, soutli side of
f.amar Street, in the old oftice of Fort&
Simmons. jan6tf
• JT. .V. AKSLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY,
Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’
Clothing Store, Americus, Ga.
After a brief respite I return again to the
practice of law. An in the past it will be
my earnest purpose to represent my clients
faithfully and look to their interests. The
commercial practice will receive close atten
tion and remittances promptly made. The
Equity practice, and cases involving titles of
land and real estato are my favorites. Will
practice in the Courts of Southwest Georgia,
the Supreme Court and the United States
Courts. Thankful to my friends for their
patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf
CAED.
I offer my professional services again to the
good people of Americus. After thirty years’
of medical service, I have found It difficult
to withdraw entirely. Office next door to
l)r. Eldrldge’s drugstore, on the Square
janlTtf R. C. BLACK, M. D.
Dr.J.A. FORT,
Physician a rd Surgeon,
Offers his professional services to the
people of Americus and vicinity. Office at
Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. At night can
be found at residence at the Taylor house,
on Lamar street.
Calls will receive prompt attention.
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Dr. 0,7.
DewmsT,
America*, - - - Georgia
Treatssuccessfully all diseasesof the Den
tal organs. Fills teeth by the improved
method, and inserts artificial teeth on the
best material known to the profession.
KTOFFICE over Davenport and Son’s
Drug Store. marllt
J. B. C. Smith &. Sons,
mnrnm ah Minim
Americus, Ga.
We are prepared to do any kind of work
in the carpenter lino at short notice and on
reasonable terms. Having had years of ex
perience in tho business, wo feel competent
to give satisfaction. All orders for con
tracts for building will receive prompt at
tention. Jobbing promptly attended to.
may2G-3m
” CASH,
STRICTLY
CAS 11,
ON AND AFTER THE FIRST DAY OF
SEPTEMBER NEXT, OUR TERMS
WILL BE
STRICTLY CASH.
WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY,
and our friends will save unpleasantness to
us, and perhaps mortification to themselves
by recognizing tho fact at once.
Persons indebted to us aro requested to
call and settle their bills as early as possi
ble. Wo are determined to close our books
speedily, to
“Ring out the old, ring in tho new,
King out tho false, ring in the true.”
M. H. FORD & CO.,
Lamar Street, Americus, Ga.
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New Orleans, August l, 1883.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Investigate for Yourselves!
Postmaster-General Gresham having pub
lished a wilful and malicious falsehood in
regard to the character of The Louisiana
State Lottery Company, the following facts
are given to the public, to prove his state
ment, that we are engaged in a fraudulent
business, to be false and untrue:
Amount of prizes paid by The Louisiana
State Lottery Company from January 1,
1879, te present date:
Paid to Southern Express Cos., New
Orleans,!’. M. Wescoat, Manager.§l,3o(l,3o9
Paid to Louisiana National Bank,
Jos. 11. Oglesby, President 103,909
Paid to Louisiana State National
Bank, S. H. Kennedy, President. 125,100
Paid to New Orleans National
Bank, A. Baldwin, President 88,550
Paid to Union National Bank, S.
Cliarlaron, Cashier 01,150
Paid to Citizens’ Bank, E. L. Car
riere. President 57,000
Paid to Germania National Bank,
Jules Cassard, President 80,000
Paid to Hibernia National Bank,
Ohas. Palfrey, Cashier 37,000
Paid to Canal Bank, Ed. Toby,
Cashier 13,150
Paid to Mutual National Bank, Jos.
Mitchell, Cashier 8,200
Total paid as above 52,253,650
Paid in sums of under §I,OOO at the
various offices of the Company
throughout the United States 2,027,110
Total paid by all §4,881,000
For the truth of the above facts we refer
the public to the officers of the above-named
corporations, and for our legality and stand
ing to the Mayor and Officers of the City of
New Orleans, to the State authorities of
Louisiana, and also to the U. S. Officials of
Louisiana. Wo claim to be legal, honest
and correct in all our transactions, as much
so as any business in the country. Out
standing is conceded by all who will inves
tigate, and our stock lias for years been sold
at our Board of Brokers, and owned by
many of our best known and respected citi
zens.
M A. DAUPHIN, President.
WCAPITAI. PRIZE, 875,000...*
’■'lclrctw only 85, shares in proportion
b.S.L.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO,
“We do hereby certify that ivc supervise the
arrangements for all Monthly and Semi-Annual
Drawings of The Louisiana Slate Lottery
Company , and in person manage and control the
Drawings themselves , and that the same are
conducted with honesty , fairness , and in good
faith toward all parties , and we authorize the
Company to use this certificate , with fac simile,
of our signatures attached , in its culvertisementss”
//A,,
Com 121 Ins loners.
Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by the
Legislature for Educational and Charitable
purposes—with a capital of §l,ooo,ooo—to
which a reserve fund of over §550,000 has
since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its
franchise was made a part of the present
State Constitution adopted December 2d,
A.D., 1879.
The only Lottery ever roteil on and endorsed
by the people of any State.
It never scales or postpones.
ItN (fraud Single Number Drawings
take place month Iy.
A S I*I,UNDID OI*I>OH’MJNITY TO
WIN A FOItXDNE. NINTH GRAND
DRAWING, CLASS I, AT NEW OR
LEANS, TUESDAY, September 11, 1883
—luoth Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize, $75,000.
100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, in Fifths in proportion.
LIST OF FRIZES.
I CAPITAL PRIZE of §75,000
1 do do 25,000
1 do do 10,000
2 PRIZES OF §6,000 12,000
5 do 2,000 10,000
10 do 1,000 10,000
20 do 500 10,000
100 do 200 20,000
300 do 100 30,000
500 do 50 25,000
1000 do 25 25,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
9 Approximation Frizes of §750 6,750
9 do do 500 4,500
9 do do 250 2,250
19G7 Prizes, amounting to §265,500
Application for rates to clubs should bo
made only to the office of the Company in
New Orleans.
For information write clearly, giving full
address. Address P. O. Mouey Orders or
Registered Letters to
NKW OKI.EANK NATIONAL HANK,
New Orleans, l.a.
Ordinary Letters by Mail or Express to
M. A. DAUPHIN,
fnew Orleans, liU.,
m M. A. DAUPHIN,
(107 Neveutb D,C
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A Valuable Plantation
FOR SALE!
I offer for sale the plantation located
three and a half miles northwest of Ameri
cus, on the Muckalee Creek, containing
Eight Hundred anil Fifty Acres
of land, about four hundred acres in a good
state of cultivation, and known as the John
Teel place. There is a good Gin house, ten
ants and other out-houses on the place, and
is supplied with excellent well water.
Parties wishing to purchase will call on
mo on tho place, or address meat Americus,
Ga. WM. USRY.
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REMOVAL,
Can bo found on and after September 1,
at the Store on Cotton Avenue, now occu
pied by Janies G. Edmundson, where wc
will be glad to welcome our customers and
friends. Wo will keep
A SELECT STOCK OF
HEAVY AND FANCY GRO
CERIES.
Thankful for past favors, wo aro
Yours truly,
Schumpert, Roney & King.
Amkricus, Ga., August 1, 1883.
Cigars, cigars, smoking tobacco.
The best live and ten cent cigars.—
Pipes, snuff, etc., etc., at .
Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store.
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1883.
Miss KATE KING
Invites the attention of the Ladies to her
SELECT STOCK OF
MliqaiiFiifMs,
NOTIONS, Etc.
ALL OF THE LATEST STYLES,
Which she keeps on hand at all times,
and at the
LOWEST (SASH PRICES!
NEW GOODS
ARRIVING DAILY.
FIIE fISSORTMEHT BF ZEPH &IBDS.YR
tSF'Don’t Tail to Call and Examine her
stock before purchasing elsewhere.
Miss Kate King,
PUBLIC SQUARE, AMKIUCUS, GA.
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LOOK!
Mrs, M. T. Elam
Has a Large Lot of
Buttons
Of various styles and qualities,
which she will sell at
5 Cents per Dozen.
Ajiekicus, Ga., June 2, iss;;.
k Ills Finals
HIGH SCHOOL!
The Fall Term of this School Opens
August 20!h, and Closes in
December.
Board with the Principal at SIO
Per Month !
Tuition 82, tfii and §4 Ter Month !
Due on the last day of eacli month.
In accepting the care of this school I do
so without opposition to any already estab
lished in the city. My object will be to
make this School a success, and I shall strive
to merit a liberal patronage.
A. J. cI, AUK, Principal.
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WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE,
Macon,. 4. corgia.
The Forty-sixth Annual Session wilt begin
September 19th, 1883. Tho most elegant
College building in the South, furnished
with all tho modern ajipiianccs looking to
the health, happiness and comfort of its
inmates.
Unsurpassed advantages in Literature,
Music and Art at moderate rates.
Apply for Catalogue to
Rev. W. C. Bas's, President,
or Rev. C. W. Sutra, Secretary.
july2o-tf
COLLEGE OF
Physicians and Surgeons
JIAI.TIMOKK, MB,
Tho practical advantages of this sclfool
aro unsurpassed. Clinics licit! at City Hos
pital, Maternite and Maryland Woman’s
Hospital, all of which belong to this school.
Physiological and Chemical Laboratory
Work required of every student. Apply for
a catalogue to
dk. Thomas opib, Denn,
39 N. Carey Street.
the university or Mississippi
JL AT OXFORD.
Tuition free to everybody lmt Law Stu
dents.
This Institution will open its. next session
anil September, 1883.
The course is complete; the Faculty is
large, able and efficient.
The terms are very moderate.
Tho whole Institution is open to botli
sexes.
For catalogue and information apply to
Gen. A. P. Stewaht, Chancellor.
U. M. SULLIVAN, Secretary.
DIVORCES— No publicity; residents of
Desertion, Non-Support. Advice and
applications for stamps, W. H. LEE, Att’y,
239 B’way, N. Y.
Newspaper Advertising lliirean, 10
Spritce Street, Now York,
Vegetable Sicilian
HAIR RENEWER
was the first preparation perfectly adapted to
cure diseases of the scalp, and the first suc
cessful restorer of faded or gray hair to its
natural color, growth, and youthful beauty.
It has had many imitators, but none have so
fully met all the requirements needful for
the proper treatment of the hair and scalp.
Hall’s Hair Renewer has steadily grown
in favor, and spread its famo and usefulness
to every quarter of the globe. Its unparal
leled success can be attributed to but ono
cause: the entire fulfilment of its promises.
The proprietors have often been surprised
at the receipt of orders from remote coun
tries, where they had never made au effort for
its introduction.
The use for a short time of 11 all’s Hair
It knew eu wonderfully ir.. proves the per
sonal appearance. It cleanses the scalp from
all impurities, cures all humors, fever, and
dryness, and thus provents baldness. It
stimulates the weakened glands, and enables
them to push forward anew and vigorous
growth. The effects of this article are not
transient, like those of aleoliolie prepara
tions, but remain a long time, which makes
its use a matter of economy.
BUCKINGHAM’S DYE
FOR TIIE
WHISKERS
Will change the beard to a natural brown,
or black, as desired. 1 1 produces a permanent
color that will not wash away. Consisting of
a single preparation, it is applied without
trouble.
PREPARED BY
R. r. HALL S CO., Mia, N.H.
Sold by all Dealers in Medicines.
tFOR ALL THE FORMS
Scrofulous, Mercurial, ami
Blood Disorders,
the best remedy, because the
most searching and thorough
blood-purifier, is
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
Sold by all Druggists; sl, six bottles, ?5.
HOSllSift
fcltTEflS
llostotter’s Stomach Bitters, by increasing
vital power, and rendering the physical
functions regular and active, keeps the sys
tem in good working order, and protects it
against disease. For constipation, dyspep
sia and liver complaint nervousness, kidney
and rheumatic ailments, it is invaluable,
and it affords a sure defence against mala
rial fevers, besides removing all traces of
such disease from the system.
For sale by all Druggists and Dealers
generally.
AYER'S
Ague Cure
IS WARRANTED to euro all cases of ma
larial disease, sucli as Fever and Ague, Inter
mittent or Chill Fever, Remittent Fever,
Dumb Ague, Bilious Fever, and Liver Com
plaint. In case of failure, after due trial
dealers are authorized, by our circular >*
July Ist, lf?S2, t<> refund the money.
Dr.J.C. Ayer & Cos., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists.
Notice of Dissolution.
The firm of BOS WORTH & JOS
SE Y was dissolved by mutual consent, on
August Ist, 1883, L. B. Bosworth having
purchased the interest of B. F. Jossey, and
assuming all liabilities of the late firm.
Parties indebted to the late firm will make
payments to L. B. Bosworth.
[Signed,] L. B. BOSWORTH,
B. F. JOSSEY.
Thanking our many friends and custom
ers for their liberal patronage in the past,
and hoping by strict personal attention to
business, and attending to the wants of our
customers, that 1 will be favored witli a
sharo of their patronage, when in want of
any articles in ray line, Respectfully,
augß-tf. L. B. BOSWORTH.
[Continued.]
CHAPTER 11.
wonderful and mysterious curative power
is developed which is so varied in its opera
tions that no disease or ill health can possi
bly exist or resist its power, and yet it is
Harmless for the most frail woman, weak
est invalid or smallest child to use.
“Patients
“Almost dead or nearly dying”
For years, and given up by physicians of
Bright’s and other kidney diseases, liver
complaints, severe coughs called consump
tion, have been cured.
Women gone nearly crazy!
From agony of neuralgia, nervousness,
wakefulness and various diseases peculiar
to women.
People drawn out of shape from excruci
ating pangs of Rheumatism.
Inflammatory and chronic, or suffering
from scrofula!
Erysipelas!
Salt rheum, blood poisoning, dyspepsia,
indigestion, and in fact almost all diseases
frail
Nature is heir to
Have boon cured by Hop Bitters, proof of
whicli can bo found in nearly every neigh
borhood in tlie known world.
Hungarian moustache wtix is the
latest for fixing tho moustache. Cos
metics for tho hair. Oonlroy’s bail'
iloline, etc., etc., at
Dr. KM ridge’s Drug Store.
WY s S.
FOR ANOTHER’S SIN.
11Y ETTIE ItOGEItS.
“He has fine abilities, he is strictly
upright, and a thorough gentleman,”
the people of Stcthtoivn had averred >1
Roll Knight. And beautiful women
had smiled their sweetest when lie was
near, and good men ha i felt honored
by his fellowship.
Bat this pleasant appreciation was
somehow lessened after Horace Wal
den came back to the place.
This individual had been traveling
for a season, and bad returned to tako
permanent possession of a noble prop
erty that ho had purchased a few years
before. He was a handsome man,
young, brilliant, genial, ami was re
garded as a flattering acquisition to the
more exclusive society of the pretty,
prosy old town. For mistress of his
elegant mansion lie had chosen the
loveliest lady in the place—Clara
Thayer—a fair, stately creature, whose
fancies perhaps had been but dazzled
by the fascinations of the lover, for the
time had come when the jealous and
unreasoning love of the promised hus
band was to her a regret and a weari
ness unutterable.
She was not inconstant, for he had
never aroused her heart. Ho had ap
pealed to her vanity, to her fondness
for the splendors and gayeties of life;
but no sentiment of his had ever stir
red or satisfied the higher needs and
deeper sympathies of her nature. And
now that she had a better knowledge
of him and of herself, she discerned
something beneatli the polish and
suavity of the man that was to her as
distasteful as it was indefinable.
The girl had become singularly seri
ous and thoughtful, and she was less
unreserved toward him than she had
been when they were first betrothed;
while he, ever prone to the suspicious,
was swift to conjecture that she had
been estranged by some influence hos
tile to himself.
“She is not the same toward me,”
he thought in ready jealousy. “I
doubt not that while I have been away
Rolf Knight has robbed mo of her con
fidence and affection. Siie lias ever
been inclined to extol his perfections,
and none but he lias the power to turn
her heart from me.”
It so happened that a subtle rumor
began to obtain some dubious consid
eration in Stethtown. Intimations not
creditable to the career of Rolf Knight
had bee',', onnninglv disseminated, and
he began to suffer the thrust of deadly
enmity before lie was aware that hs
had a foe. Men who had sought his
companionship scorned to avoid him;
women who had schemed for his favor
seemed politely unconscious cf his
presence when he chanced to meet
them.
But he went liis way with sufficient
serenity, and if the envenomed shaft
struck deep, he bore the pang with
philosophic fortitude.
“1 wonder at the fellow’s audacity,”
Horace Walden once remarked to
Clara. “I should not suppose lie
would venture to present himself among
reputable people; especially here, when
1, at least, know what his past has
been. The effrontery with which he
would have come between you and me
is something amazing,” he concluded
tentatively.
The girl looked up in wonder, and
her fair face flushed from brow to chin.
‘‘l scarcely understand,” she falter
ed coldly.
“Do you not?” he returned with a
jarring little laugh. “Denials are ab
surd, Clara; liis admiration of you lias
been obvious; and I fancy lie meant to
take your love from me, even if he may
not have absolutely said evil tilings of
me to you."
“He is too truly a gentleman to
speak ill of any person; and certainly
he would not of you—his friend,"
Clara answered gently, meaning neith
er satire nor reproach.
“I. am sorry I am compelled to spoil
your illusions concerning him,” Wal
den enunciated with a harsh chuckle;
“but unfortunately Rolf Knight is but
recently out of p.ison.”
The girl started, and then stood as
motionless as an image in marble, and
to a marble palor paled the exquisite
fairness of her lovely features. That
hateful assertion was too blunt and dar
ing to be untruth! and yet it seemed
incredible that Rolf Knight bad ever
committed a heinous offense. She had
believed him superior to human errors,
and her faith in that superiority could
not be spoiled by even this declaration,
shocking as it might be. Ho had been
to her the ideal of all that is endearing
and noble in manhood; and in that in
stance Clara Thayer knew that she
loved him as she could never love the
man beside her. lint this abrupt real
ization of her disloyalty was very hu
miliating; this sudden consciousness of
a love that might bring her naught but
sorrow was very, very bitter. She felt
stricken and bewildered, and could
only stand there, white and mute, her
proud head bowed, aud every nervo
quivering with the perplexity, and mor
tification, and pain of it ail. Mean
while her companion keenly watched
her; a scowl disfigured his countenance;
a dull deadly jealousy smouldered in his
attentive eyes.
“Rolf Knight is a convict,” ho repeat
ed, with an unnoccasaTy emphasis of
the odious substantive. “A felon
among felons, within prison walls, lie
served his scutollee, paid the penalty
for—”
He paused as if smitten dumb, and,
with a movement unmistakably craven,
he took a step backward. His incom
plete explanation was finished by Rolf
Knight, who unseen and unheard in
the excitement of the colloquy, had hut
a moment before approached them.
“1 paid the penalty for another’s
sin,” he said, in a calm but accusing
voice. “And you, Horace—you whom
l loved as a brother—you for whose
sake 1 suffered undeserved shame—
would traduce me. Your ingratitude
has taught me that the man who will
permit such a sacrifice as I made, is the
man who can not be worthy of it.
I our ingratitude lias convinced me
that to longer bear the blame of your
offense would bo weakness, cowardice,
madness. 1 have determined to justify
myself; and first to you, Clara, you of
all others who have most esteemed
me,” he said, turning to her with a
look, eloquent of the tenderness and
reverence he had always felt for her.
“Do you adjudge me guilty?”
With a glance pathetic, of infinite
trust and ineffable sympathy, she lifted
her sweet eyes to his countenance—a
countenance that was majestic in its
masterly composure.
“No, 1 do not,” she averred simply.
“I thank you,” he said quite as sim
ply. “You make my painful explana
tion less difficult for me.”
Then for a moment while a gleam
of more than human pity softened his
gaze of human contempt, lie silently
regarded his ungenerous foe.
“All our lives, Horace,” lie at length
began with deep feeling, “yon and I
lived together like brothers. Yonr
uncle was like a father to me; you to
him were dearer than a son. Ho had
neither wife nor child, nor any living
creature of his kin to share the .affec
tion that lie gave you. Yon were his
pride, his hope, his all. But he was a
stern man in his way, and just. Had
he known you as you were, profligate
and prodigal, he would never have al
lowed you to inherit one farthing of liis
wealth. But you hid your vices well;
and I, in my blind attachment for you,
too often shielded you from bis suspic
ions.
The denounced man frowned, with
a gesture of impatience, but seemed too
abashed to utter any sort of contradic
tion.
“Then came liis mortal sickness,”
continued Rolf, “and your shameless
offense. In the deep midnight, like a
common thief, you skulked into his
chamber, and, even while the shadow
of deatii was nearing the old man who
loved and trusted you, rifled his safe
for a few hundred paltry dollars. You
would have been defeated bad I not
recklessly assumed the role of a robber,
in my anxiety to alet your flight from
the apartment. I attempted not the
slightest refutation of the accusations
made against me, although I could
have fully and easily vindicated my
self, as you arc aware. Had the truth
been known to your austere relative,
you would have been disinherited; and
therefore, for your sake, I maintained
the reticence that condemned me. We
were in a strange city, among people
who knew little of us, and cared less,
and a year or two of my life did not
seem too much to give that my best
beloved friend might not forfeit a for
tune. I certainly never apprehended
that you might become my enemy and
a relentless defamer. You allowed me
to wrong myself for you, Horace, and
you have used that wrong to defame
me among honorable men by whom I
have been honored. And I claim now
the justice that, perhaps you are un
aware, I can secure if I choose.”
“I fancy few people will credit your
preposterous story,” the other sneered.
“There is one whose testimony none
will disbelieve,” Rolf announced slow
ly; “one witness—your uncle’s faithful
old physician—who knew you better
than 1, and whose friendly interposition
I can command whenever I deem such
an extremity advisable.”
His manner was significant, but lie
meant a warning rather than a threat
perhaps. But evidently Horace Wal
den was persuaded that the man who
had been so generous a friend would
be a victorious antagonist. Yet, as if
more in deliberation than submission,
he haughtily inclined his head, then
turned, and without a word, walked
thoughtfully away.
But before the next rising of the sun
he had gone from Stethtown, to come
back nevermore, even to the gill, whom,
wild and wicked as lie bad ever been,
lie had loved well in his way.
And after a becoming time Rolf
Knight went to fair Clara, and begged
her to listen to his words of wooing.
“I always felt, Clara, that you were
to be my wife,” he said to her. “I
should have been less lenient toward
poor Horace, only my great love for
you seemed very like a wrong to him.”
“And I loved you from the first,”
she confessed, sweetly. “After I had
met you, I knew I had never really
cared foi him.”
And fair Clara’s husband is as hap
py and esteemed as if he had never
endured sorrow and penance for anoth
er’s sin.
Young, old and middle-aged,
all experience the wonderful beneticial
effects of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Young
children suffering from sore eyes, soie
ears, scald-head, or with any scrofu
lous or syphilitic taint, may be made
healthy and strong by its use.
The strength of criticism lies only in
the weakness of the thing criticised.
No child can be healthy if
worms abound in its stomach. Send
for Shrincr’s Indian Vermifuge, the
reliable remedy.
FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM,
NO. 95.
AROUSING HIS SYMPATHIES.
“I see you have a lot of misfit pants,”
observed a stranger as he halted be
fore a Jefferson avenue clothing store
yesterday.
“My frendt, vlialk in. I liaf more
misfits ash vould fit half der State of
Michigan.”
“What do you call a misfit?”
‘Vliell, somedings ash doan’ blease
somepody who orders dem, and some
dimes der cutter makes a mistake in
der figgers.”
“You keep a tailor, I suppose.”
•‘Six tailors, my frendt, and all dey
do is to make mistakes and misfits in
order to keep up my stock like you
see.”
“Is that so? Well, now, what ails
this pair.”
“Dot pair,” replied the dealer as he
shook them out, “vlias made for a
young man who vlias to be married
last week. Der gal she dies mit a
fever, and so he doan’ come after his
close. I lose shust four dollars on dot
pair.”
“And these?”
"Vliell, dot pair vlias made for a
deacon in der shurch who vlias spark
ing up a vidder vomans. Der left leg
is smaller ash de right, and lie doan’
take ’em. 1 sell you dot pair for tree
tollar.”
“Here’s a stylish looking pair which
would about fit me. Whom were these
made for?”
“My frendt, dot slitrikes a sad
chord in my heart. He vlias a young
man who vlias to wear dose pants at a
bridal. Der color vlias selected to
match dcr bride’s complexion, but
shust one day pefore her marriage she
changes complexions und dose pants
vlias no good. Dot vlias a loss of ten
tollar to me, und dcr young man vlias
so mortified dot lie sliump in der rifer
und vbas diowned.”
“YY hom were this blue pair made
for!” 1
“For a slindge, my frendt—one of
onr leading shudges. Der cutter
makes a mistake, you see? Dcr sliudgo
vlias a man who vlialks mit his toes
turned out, vhile docs pants vlias cut
for a man who vhalks mit liis toes
turned. I lose seven dollar on dot
pair.”
“Well, I declare! You’ll lose all of
SSOO on this lot, won’t yon?”
“My loss vhill be oafev SI,OOO, und
last week I haf a lire and no insurance,
my vhife breaks her leg, aud der land
lord raises on my rent almost half.”
“Great ginger! Why, I should
think you’d shut up shop!”
“If I do dot den where you gat some
misfit'pants.”
“That s so—that’s so. You are
what they call a human—a humanita
rian, I reckon.”
hell, I vhas human, I s’hpose.”
“You bet you are! And soam I, and
when I meet a man with a soul like
yom’s I’m his inutten and he’s my
chicken!”
“Vhill you vlialk in?”
“Sartin 1 will, and you can paw over
that pile of misfits and hand me about
thirty dollars worih and do ’em up
and take your cash! A man who al
lows himself to be paralyzed, pulver
ized and smashed to a jelly to accom
modate the public deserves to be patron
ized, and you needn’t be a mite partic
ular whether them pants match my
complexion or are built to fit bow-legs
or straight. Shut the door, keep the
children out, and lemme jump into five
or six pairs.” —Detroit Free Press.
LITTLE LAUGHS.
“Please give me something, sir?”
says an old woman. “I had a blind
child; lie was my only means of sub
sistence, and the poor hoy recovered
his sight!”
The idea that “a man loses his dig
nity when lie has his hair close crop
ped” is absurd. The man who orders
his hair close cropped never had any
dignity to lose.
A plant lias been found that cures
bashfulness. It should lie promptly
tried on the man who leaves the hotel
by the back window because he is too
diffident to say good-bye to the cashier
and clerk.
It brooms are wet in boiling suds
once a week they become very tough,
and will not break up so easily when a
fond wife is remonstrating with her
husband and trying to induce him to
do better.
Not one of the cackling old liens in
this country appear to know or care
that a Florida turtle will lay 150 eggs
in a day without making the least bit
of noise. The ben fuss over one little
egg is absurd.
When a lady living in Chelsea sent
to London for a doctor, she apologized
for asking him to come such a distance.
“Don’t speak of it,” answered the M.
1). “I happened to have another pa
tient in the neighborhood, and can thus
kill two birds with one stone.”
The groom of Iroijuios, the fiist
American Derby winner, says he
“thinks as much of his horse as lie
does of his wife.” If all owners of fast
horses thought as much of their wives
as they do of their horses, these women
would bo much liappierand he the envy
of their sex.
When you see a young man standing
in front of an ice-cream saloon in the
evening, do not go so far as to decide
he has given his girl his last fifteen
cents, and is waiting outside while she
eats it up. One should not hastily
condemn on circumstantial evidence, no
matter how strong it may he.