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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN
ESVABUSUGO IN 1554, 1
By CHAS. W. HANCOCK, (
VOL. 18.
WHALING j
BIG BARGAINS!
TOHU IR,. SHAW,
Forsyth Street.
AMEEICTJS, GA.
Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!
THE LARGEST STOCK EVER EXHIBITED A^ERiGUB.
OH 550 DIFFERENT STILES.
Including Indies, Misses and Children's
‘fIILADELPHIA CUSTOM MADE GOODS.
ALL OF WHICH 1* AM OFFERING AT
PRICES I
SPECIAL DRIVES IN
NEWPORT and OXFORD TIES,
OPERA, VICTORIA and JERSEY LILY SLIPPERS,
MID ALL LOW CUT SUMMER WORK TO CLOSE.
This Immense [j*|*[j[(K Of jjjlOH Must be educed.
The best value for the PRICE can always lie obtained every day in the week
Sunday excopted) from 6 a. in., to 8 p. ni., at
' JOHN R. SHAW’S
Forsyth Street, Air\ericus, Ga.,
aft JVJS nOJY'T \*OMJ FORGET STS
fO THE PUBLIC.
MRS. F. LEWIS
-WILL OPEN A
STORE
a the first of September next, in the Haw-
Ins building, south side of the Public
quare, second door from the corner, where
ho will keep a full supply of
mil BOOKS,
Stationery, &c., &c.,
rhich she will sell cheap for CASH. A
hare of public patronage respectfully so
icited; aug22-lm
CASH.
STRICTLY
I CASH.
IN AND AFTER THE FIRST DAY OF
SEPTEMBER NEXT, OUR TERMS
WILL BE
Itrictly cash.
ft WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY,
nd our friends will save unpleasantness to
s, and perhaps mortification to themselves
y Recognizing the fact at once.
Persons indebted to us are requested to
K§ and settle their bills as early as possi
te. We are determined to close our books
Ppdily, to
*@“Ring out the old, ring in the new,
lulling out the false, ring in the true.”
|. H. FORD & CO.,
I Lamar Street, Americus, Ga.
J|jgl-3tn
iREW OVAL.
Can be found on and after September 1,
tthe Store on Cotton Avenue, now occu
ed by James G. Edmundson, where we
fall be glad to welcome our customers and
ffcnds. We will keep
A SELECT STOCK OF
&EAVY AND FANCY GRO
CERIES.
Thankful for past favors, wo are
Yours truly,
Schumpert, Roney & King.
&MEBKTS. GA., August 1, 1883.
JTOHIIsr R. SHAW,
Forsyth. Street,
AMERICUS, GrA..
Mrs. M. E. RAINES
Is now opening her stock of
Spring Milling!
She will have on exhibition in a few days a
full line of
HATS, BONNETS
NECKWEAR,
HAIRGOODS
. AND
JJEWJEJLRJ*:
Those who wish to purchase All LLINEIIY
will do well to call and examine her goods,
as they have been selected witli great care-
decStf
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.
Amkiucus, Ga., June 2, 1883.
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1883.
New Orleans, August 1, 1883.
TO THE PUBLIC,
Investigate for Yourselves!
Vostmastor-General Gresham having pub
lished a wilful and malicious falsehood in
regard to tho 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, to present date:
Paid to Southern Express Cos., New
Orleans,']'. M. Wescoat, Manager.tfl, 366,300
Paid to Louisiana National Bant,
Jos. H. Oglesby, President 403,900
Paid to Louisiana State National
liank, S. H. Kennedy, President. 123,100
Paid to New Orleans National
Bank, A. Baldwin, President 88,550
Paid to Union National Bank, S.
Charlaron, Cashier 04,450
Paid to Citizens’ Bank, E. L. Car
nere, President 57,000
Paid to Germania National Bank.
Jules Cassard, President 30,000
Paid to Hibernia National Bank,
Chas. 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 §2,253,630
Paid in sums of undergl,oooat the
various offices of the Company
throughout the United States 2,627,410
Total paid by all §1,881,060
For the truth of the above facts we refer
the public to tho 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, We claim to bo legal, honest
and edrreet in all our transactions, as much
so as any business in the country. Our
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.
31 A. DAUPHIN, President.
*s-capitai, vieize, *75,000..e.
Ticket, only S5. Shares in proportion
L.S.L.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO.
il We do hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for all Monthly and Semi-Annual
Drawings of The Louisiana State 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 ti use this certificate , with fac simile,
of our signatures attached , in its advertisementss"
commb.touert
Incorporated in 1808 for 25 years by the
Legislature for Educational and Charitable
purposes—with a capital of 81,000,000— t0
which a reserve fund of over 8550,000 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., 1871).
The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed
! by the people _ of any State.
Jt never scales or postpones.
Its tirasid Single A’i-.inber Drawings
take place monthly.
A M’I.KMII!) OPPORTUNITY TO
wit a Kumisi:. NINTH GRAND
DRAWING, CLASS 1, AT NEW OR
LEANS, TUESDAY, September 11, ISS3
—l6oth Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize, $75,000.
100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, in Fifths in proportion.
LIST OF PRIZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE of 875,000
1 do do 25,000
1 do do 10,000
2 PRIZES OF 80,000 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.
8 Approximation Prizes of 8730...... 6,750
8 do do 500 4,500
8 do do 250 2,250
1067 Prizes, amounting to 8265,5qp
Application for rates to clubs should be
made only to the office of the Company in
New Orleans.
For information write clearly, giving full
address. Address P. O. Money Orders or
Registered Letters to
NEW OUIiEA9 NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, S.u.
Ordinary I,otters by Mail or Express to
M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.,
or {VI. A. DAUPHIN,
007 Seventh D.C*
augls-4w
isiwmmi
Thankful for past patronage, a continua
tion is earnestly solicited. One new 45 saw
Gin for sale at 82.35 per saw. One 45 and
! two 40 second band Gins in first-class re
pair for sale at St per saw, all warrant
ed. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Shop
on Lee street, Americus, Ga.
auglß-lm P. L. MIZE.
Notice of Dissolution.
The firm of BOSWORTH & JOS
SEY was dissolved by mutual consent, on
August Ist, 1883, L. fi. Bosworth having
purchased the interest of B, F. Jossoy, 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,
H. 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 he favored with a
share of their patronage, when in want of
any articles in iny line, Respectfully,
augs-tf. L. B. BOSWORTH.
|6ApiL JYJ) |f
Iron Levers, Steel Bearings, Brass TAB! BEAM. I B *.
JONES, HE PAYS THE * HEIGH T. Ifl Ml
Bold on trial. Warrants 5 years. All blz.es as low. I I J
For free book, address
JONES OF BINGHAMTON,
BINWUMTOJf,
AYER’S
Cherry Pectoral.
No other complaints are so insidious in their
attack as those affecting the tliroat and lungs:
none so trilled with by tho majority of suffer
ers. Tho ordinary cough or cold, resulting
perhaps from a trifling or unconscious ex
posure, is often but tho beginning of a fatal
sickness. Ayer's Cheery Pectoral has
well proven its efficacy in a forty years’ fight
with throat and lung diseases, and should be
taken in all cases without delay.
A Terrible Cough Cured.
“In 18571 took a severe cold, which affected
my lungs. 1 had a terrible cough, and passed
night after night without sleep. The doctors
gave me up. 1 tried Ayer’s Cherry Pec
toral, which relieved my lungs, induced
sleep, and afforded me the rest necessary
for the recovery of my strength. By tho
continued use of the Pectoral a perma
nent cure was effected. I am now 02 years
old, halo and hearty, and am satisfied your
Chj.rky Pia saved *>
lIOItACE FAIRBROTHEK.”
Buckingham, Yt., July 15,1882.
Croup.— A Mother’s Tribute.
“ While in the country last winter my little
boy, three years old, was taken ill with croup;
it seeded as if he would die from strangu
lation. One of the family suggested the use
of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, a bottle of
which was always kept in the house. This
was tried in small and frequent doses, and
to our delight in less than half an hour the
little patient was breathing easily. The doc
tor siiid that the Cherry Pectoral had
saved my darling’s life. Can you wonder at
our gratitude ? Sincerely yours,
Mrs." Emma Gedney.”
159 West 12Sth St., New York, May 1(5, 1882.
“ I have used Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
in iny family for several years, and do not
hesitate to pronounce it the most effectual
remedy for coughs and colds we have ever
tried. A. J. Crane.”
Lake Crystal, Minn., March 19, 1882.
“ I suffered for eight, years from Bronchitis,
and after trying many remedies with no suc
cess, I was cured by the use of Ayer’s Ciier
r s' Pec tor a e. Joseph Walden.”
Byhalia, Miss., April 5, 1882.
“ I cannot say enough in praise of AYER’S
Cherry .Pectoral, believing as L do that
but for its use I should long since have died
from lung troubles K. Bragdon.”
Palestine. Texas, April 22, 1882.
No case of an affection of tho throat or
lungs exists which cannot be greatly relieved
bv the use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
and it Mill a/trays cure when the disease is
not already beyond the control of medicine.
prepared by
Dr. j.C. Ayer & Cos., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists.
THE SEW PATENT
DUST-PROOF
STi ISIIIII OI'ES f JIM,
MANUFACTURED BY THE
American Watch Go.,
WALTHAM, MASS.
This case is foniied4ii une soiiu piece vi ab
out joint or seam, opening in front only,
thus avoiding the usual Cap, and securing
greater strength and durability.
These watches are all open face. The
bezel, into which au extra strong crystal is
fitted with an especially prepared water
proof cement, is attached to the case by
screwing it thereon, and thus forms an air
tight junction with the body of the ease,
which is proof against dust and moisture.
To railroad men, travelers, miners, lum
bermen and others who are almost constant
ly exposed and who have to make frequent
reference to the watch, these qualities are
of the utmost importance.
Tlic Following' Letters tell their
own Story.
“Valdosta, Georgia, July 20, 1882.
“I sold one of your Patent Dust-Proof
Cases about ten months ago, and the other
day it came hack to me with the request to
make it wind easier. On examination I
found that the stem was rusty, and I inquir
ed into the cause of it. The gentlemen
stated to me that lie was starting some saw
logs that had lodged in the bend of the river,
when liis chain caught in a bush and threw
his watch into about twelve feet of water,
and lie was about two hours finding it.
When he got it out it was running and lie
thought all right. In about three months
he found that the stem was hard to turn
and sent it to me.
I can say that the watch is all that the
company claims for it and recommend it to
all railroad and mill men.
B. W- BENTLY.”
“Clinton, lowa, April 29,1881.
“I wish you would send me a spring for
the Wm. Ellery Watch. # * * By the way
this is a watch I sold in your Screw Bezel
Case to a farmer last fall. The first of Jan
uary ho lost the watch in the woods, and
found it this week in about ono foot of
water. It had lain three months and over
in snow and water, with but slight injury
to the watch—only a hair spring.
“C. S. RAYMOND.”
The above were very severe test3, and de
monstrate beyond a doubt, that for any rea
sonable length of time during which a watch
might he under water it would receive no
injury whatever.
We make these cases in botli gold and sil
ver, and as a Perfectly Dust-Proof Stem
winding- Watch Case, Challenge the
World to Produce its Equal.
Forsale by all fi#st-olass Jewelers.
angle-w3m
AYER'S
Agile Cure
IS WARBANTED to oure all eases of ma
larial disease, sueli as Fever and Ague, Inter
mittent or Chill Fever, remittent Fever,
Dumb Ague,. Bilious Fever, and Liver Coni
plaint. In ease of failure, after due trial
dealers are authorized, by our circular o'
July Ist, 1882, to reluml the money*
Dr.J.C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all I>ruggistß.
Metalie cartridges, various sizes.
Fish hooks, silk, grass, linen and eot
ton lines and tackle generally at
Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store.
WV S Ci\VLLV^Y.Q-CS.
ANN I E’S REVENGE.
Annie Harrison was twenty-seven,
and the handsomest young lady in Lar
onville.
Her grace of manner was wonderful,
and the women who on vied and disliked
her were won to admiration hy her
matchless courtesy. And of course, it
was difficult for any man to withstand
her.
She was a flirt. Hearts and fortunes
innumerable had been laid at her feet,
but slio rejected them all. To do her
justice she never sought admiration,
and tho men all averred that she had
never encouraged them.
By and by Julian Eiskino came home
from the Gape, AJiandsomc fellow,
with self conceit enough to sink a ship,
and fortune enough to enable him to
practice his profession, the law, or to
let it alone as he chose.
Erskine was in some degree unprin
cipled. He had been left an orphan at
a tender age and adopted by a miserly,
eccentric uncle, who alternately petted
him and swore at him, until the boy
became, in a degree reckless. Then
his uncle died and left him a fortune,
so there was nothing for the young
man to do but enjoy himself. He trav
eled extensively, and broke ali the
hearts which were ready to be broken.
Against one unfortunate girl bo bad
committed the deepest and bitterest
wrong in the whole black catalogue of
crime and sin! Helen Andrews died
when her child was born and was glad
to hide herself in the grave. Julian
Erskine held up his head, and fair wo
men, virtuous women they called them
selves, smiled on him.
Of course Mr. Ersldno soon met Miss
Harrison.
He admired her intensely and left
every other fancy to devote himself to
her. And I think no man was ever
more a devoted slave to a woman than
he was to her.
It went on for three months in the
usual way, Erskine everywhere Miss
Harrison’s attendant.
_ In February there was a fete at Har
rison’s lodge. All our set were pres
ent. Miss Harrison was magnificent
and moved among her guest with
queenly grace and beauty.
Burton whispered to me, “look out
for breakers ahead Alden. Miss Har
rier, is on her highjiorse to-night and
Erskine is spoonierthan ever.”
“Pshaw!” replied i; “Erskine cut
his eyeteeth long ago, and Miss Annie
knows it.
■‘Perhaps so,” returned II niton
quietly. “But lam satisfied this is a
real tiling with Erskine. Look at him
now, while she is talking to him. Why
man, there’s a flush on his cheek like a
girl’s blush at the first kiss of her lov
er. And she, by Jove—don’t 1 know
the steely gleam in those eyes others?
Well, 1 rather think I do.
I laughed, for I had not given Juli
an Erskine the credit of having any
heart; and as for Miss Harrison, I ac
cepted society’s verdict, and looked on
her as a scientific coquette.
A little after my conversation with
Burton 1 strolled into the conservatory.
1 glanced up and saw Mr. Erskine and
Miss Harrison.
“I implore you to answer me!” he
said, grasping her hands; “for three
interminable weeks you have kept me
in agony. A week more like this would
kill me.”
“Oh, no, indeed,” she said, “I think
you exaggerate, Mr. Erskine. People
are uot so easily killed.”
“But I love you! 1 love you! ho cried
almost savagely.
“Do you? That is very kind ot you,”
she returned, languidly.
Do.you mean to drive me mad? An
nie Harrison, 1 love you with my
whole heart and soul, with every nerve
and fibre of my body! I want you for
my wife! my [own, own wife. Gome
to my arms—it is my right to hold you
against the heart which knows no life
but that you give it.”
She retreated a pace or two and rais
ed her face to his. Every word she
spoke was clear and distinct, and yet
her voice was lifted scarcely above a
whisper.
“I will answer you, Mr. Erskine.
with pleasure. You have heard of
Helen Andrews? Yes; I see you have.
She was my half sister, and 1 loved her
next to my God. You know your part
in the tragedy where you and slie were
the principal actors—you know how it
ended. It was fortunate for you, cow
ard and hypocrite, that I was in a
foreign land at the time she died, for if
I had been on the same soil with you
I should have killed yon. When the
wretched tale came to my ears, I swore
to be revenged on you, and I have
taken my own way to fulfil my vow.
Sooner than wed yon I would make
myself the wife of the lowest brute in
the universe who could be called a
man. There, you have your answer!
Go!”
She pointed to the door. He obeyed
her without a word. His face was
white as death, and his eyes had in
them a sort of stony desperation, which
sent a chill to my heart.
Half an hour later I was sent for in
haste to the Royal hotel. Erskine
stayed there. He had shot himself,
the messenger said, but was still living.
1 found him conscious, hut sinking
rapidly. He was bleeding internally,
and the agony he was suffering would
soon bo over. There was nothing I
could do but administer something to
make his pain less poignant.
I “Alden,” said he, leebly, “1 meant
I to do the job without bungling, but
failed miserably. You know the reason
why I judged it better to die than live.
Miss Harrison ”
“Yes, yes,” I said, “I heard your
conversation in the conservatory.”'
"She was just, a don’t blame her.
But oh, doctor, I loved her so ! and
she might have changed the whole
tenor of my life! I would have been
just what she had willed 1 should be!
And I must seoher before I die! 1 want
to ask her forgiveness —to hear her say
that she will accept the sacrifice of my
worthless life as an atonement for the
wrong 1 did her sister.”
1 tried to dissuade him, for 1 knew
Miss Harrison’s haughty pride. As 1
was arguing with my patient the door
of the room opened and Annie Harri
son came in.
She went straight to tho bedside,
knelt down, and lifted hlrskine’s head
against her bosom.
“My darling,” she said, in a tone
whose wondrous tenderness made my
own blood thrill like wine, “will you
forgive me? 1 had no right to take
God’s vengeance out of His wise hands.
I lmd no right to spurn you as I did.
And yet only He knows vvhat it cost
me, for Julian, I love you as I have
never loved any earthly thing! Oh,
my darling! my darling!” and bowing
ber face on bis she gave way to a lit of
sobbing which shook her from head to
foot.
1 left them together. When 1 went
back death was already dropping its
palor over the brow of poor Erskine.
He knew that he was passing rapidly;
and with his last strength he turned
his lips to her cheek.
“Farewell, dearest,” he said softly,
“I will wait for you in another world.”
His eyes closed—he lay still. After
a while I touched his pulse, and knew
lie was dead.
Annie Harrison is an old woman
no,v, but she has never married. She
is living out. her life quietly.
THE 1JAI) ROY.
The Boy Discusses Solomon in All
His Glory’ with the Groceryman—
Argues that a Thousand Wives
are too Much of a Goon Thing.
“What yon sitting there like a
bump on a log for?” asked the groee
ryman of the bad boy, as the youth
had sat on a box for half an hour, with
his hands in his pockets, looking at a
hole in the floor until his eyes were set
like a dying horse. What yon think
ing of, anyway? It seems to mo boys
set around and think more than they
used to when I was a boy,” and the
grocery man brushed the wilted lettuce
and shook it, and tried to make it
stand up stiff and crisp, before he put
it out of doors, but the contrary lettuce
had been picked the day before, looked
so tired the boy noticed it.
“That lettuce reminds me of a girl.
Yesterday I was in here when it was
new, like the girl going to the picnic,
and it was so fresh and proud and
parched up, and kitteny, and full of
life, and as sassy as a girl starting out
for a picnic. To-day it has got back
from the picnic, and like tho girl, the
starch is all taken out, and it is limber
and languid, and tired, and can’t stand
up alone, and it looks as though it
wanted to be laid at rest beside the rot
ten apples in the alley, rather than be
set out, in front of a store to be sold to
honest people, and give them the gan
grene of the liver,” and the hoy put on
a health commissioner air that fright
ened the groceryman, and he threw the
lettuce out the back door.
“You nevermind my lettuce,” said
the groceryman. “I can attend to my
affairs. But now toll me what you
were thinking about hero all tho morn
ing?”
“I was thinking what a fool King
Solomon was,” said the boy with the
air of one who has made a statement
that has got to bo argued pretty strong
to make it hold water.
“Now, look-a-here,” said the grocery
man, in anger, “I have stood it to have
you play tricks on me, and have listen
ed to your condemned foolishness with
out a murmur, as long as you have con
fined yourself to people now living,
but when you attack Solomon, the
wisest man, the great king, and call
him a fool, friendship ceases, and you
must get out of this store. Solomon
in all of his glory is a friend of mine,
and no fool hoy is going to abuse him
in my presence. Now yon dry up!”
“Sit down on the ico box,” said the
boy to the grocery man. “What you
need is rest. You are overworked,
Your alleged brain is equal to wilted
lettuce, and it can devise ways and
means to hide rotten peaches under
good ones, so as to sell them to blind
orphans, but when it comes to grasp
ing great questions, your small brain
cannot comprehend them Your brain
may go up sideways to a great ques
tion, and rub against it, but it cannot
surround it and grasp it. That’s where
you are deformed. Now, it is differ
ent with me. I can raise brain to sell
to yon grocery men. Listen. This Solo
mon is credited with being the wisest
man, and yet history says he had a
thousand wives. dust think of it.
You have got one wife, and pa has got
one, and all of the neighbors have got
one if they have had any luck. Does
not one wife make you pay attention?
Wouldn’t two wives break you up?
Wouldn’t three cause you to see stars?
How would ten strike von? Why,
man alive, you do not grasp the mag
i nitude of the statement that Solomon
j had a thousand wives, A thousand
j wives standing sido by side, would
I reach about four blocks. Marching
| FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
by fours it would take them twenty
minutes to pass a given point. The
largest summer resort hotel only holds
about live hundred people, so old Sol
would have had to hire two hotels if
he took his wives out for a day in the
country. If you would stop and think
once in a while you would know more.”
The groceryman’,', eyes began to
stick out as the bad boy continued, as
though the statistics had never been
brought to bis attention before, but lie
was bound to stand by liis old friend
Solomon, and lie said, “Well, Solo
mon’s wives must have been different
from our wives of the present day.”
“Not much,” said the boy, as he
saw lie was paralyzing the groceryman.
“Women have been about the same
ever since Eve. She got mashed on
the old original dude, and it stands to
reason that Solomon’s wives were no
better than the mother of tho human
race. Statistics show that one woman
out of every ten is red headed. That
would give Solomon an even hundred
red headed wives. Just that hundred
red headed wives would be enough to
make an ordinary man think that there
was a land that, was fairer than this.
Then there would be out. of the other
nine hundred, about three hundred
blondes, and the other six hundred
would ho brunettes, and maybe he bad
a few albinos, and a bearded woman,
and fat woman, and dwarfs. Now,
these thousand style tlio same as ali
women. Imagine Solomon saying to
them, “Girls, lets all go down to the
ice cream saloon and have a dish of ice
cream.”
“Can you with your brain muddled
with codfish and new potatoes, realize
the scene that would follow? Suppose,
after Solomon’s broom brigade bad got
seated in the ice creamery, one of the
red headed wives should catch Solo
mon winking at a strange girl at an
other table. You may think Solomon
did not know enough "to wink, or that
he was that kind of a flirt, but lie must
have been or lie could notbave succeed
ed in marrying a thousand wives in a
sparsely settled country. No, Sir, it
looks to me as though Solomon in all
his glory, was an old masher, and
from what I have seen of men being
bossed around by one wife, I don’t
envy Solomon his thousand wives go
ing and ordering fall bonnets. Solo
mon would have to he a king, or a
\ anderbilt to stand it. Ma wears five
dollar silk stockings, and pa kicks aw
fully when the bill comes in. Imagine
Solomon putting up for a few thousand
pair of silk stockings. lam glad you
will sit down and reason with me in a
rational way about some of these Bible
stories that take my breath arvay. The
minister stands me off when I try to
talk with him about such things, and
tells me to study the parable of the
Prodigal Son, and the deacons tells me
to go and soak my head. There is
darn little encouragement for a hoy to
try and figure out things. How would
you like to have a thousand red headed
wives come into the store this minute
and tell you they wanted you to send
carriages around t,o the house at three
o’clock so they could go for a drive?
< >r how would you like to have a hired
girl come in and tell you to send up
six hundred doctors, because six hun
dred of your wives had been taken with
cholera morbus? Or ”
“O, don’t mention it,” said the gro
ceryman, with a shudder. “I wouldn’t
take Solomon’s place, and be the nat
ural protector of a thousand wives if
anybody would give me the earth.
Think of getting up in a cold winter
morning and building a thousand fires.
Think of two thousand pair of hands
in a fellow’s hair! Boy, you have
shown mo that Solomon needed a guar
dian over him. He didn’t have any
sense.”
“Yes,” says the boy, “and think of
two thousand feet, each one as cold as
a brick of chocolate ice cream. A man
would want a back as big as the fence
to a fair ground. But I don’t want to
harrow up your feelings. I must go
and put some arnica on pa. He has
got home, and says ho has been to a
summer resort on a vacation, and he is
all covered with blothes. He says it
is mosquito bites, but ma thinks lie
has been shot full of bird shot by some
water mellon farmer. Ma hasn’t got
any sympathy for pa because he didn’t
take he along, but if she bad been there
she would have been filled with bird
shot too. But you musn’t detain me.
Between pa and the baby 1 have got
all I can attend to. The baby is teeth
ing, and ma makes me put my fingers
in the baby’s mouth to help it cut
teeth. That is a humiliating position
for a boy as big as I am. Say, liow
many babies do you figure that Solo
mon bad to buy rubber toothing rings
for, iu all his glory?”
And the boy went out leaving the
grocery man reflecting on wbat a fam
ily Solomon must have had, and liow
be needed to be tlio wisest man to get
along without a circus, afternoon and
evening.
Skill iu the Workshop.
To do good work the mechanic
must have good health. It'long hours ,
of confinement in close rooms have en
feebled his hand or dimmed his sight,
lot him at once, and before some or
ganic trouble appears, take plenty of
Hop Hitters. His system will be re
juvenated, his nerves strengthened, his
sight beconio clear, and the whole con
stitution be built up to a higher woik
j ing condition.
j Prescriptions carefully prepared as
i reasonably as can be done, from pure
j medicines, Ring bell foy night calls
at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store.
NO. 98.