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[From the Sfiluaukoc Bun.}
Some writer htut given the following
description of “the first shave."
“The first timo in a liurber’s shop is an
event of importance in every young
man’s life. Ho will wait, in some eases,
throe weeks after determining to do it,
and on the eventful day he has been
known to sneak by tho shop seventeen
times, summing up his oourago for this
trying ordeal. On entering the door ho
feels that every one in tho room knows
that this is his first appearaneo, and
that they are microscopically searching
for his beard. The barber gives him a
hard look when notifying him that it is
now his turn. But ho is determined to
put on a stiff upper lip, as worldly
people say, and go through tho opera
tion with the stoicism of a veteran, no
is remarkably Sensitive to ridicule, and
not for the world would ho huvo tho
barber know that this was his first shave.
Bo he site on tho arm of the chair, in
stead of on tho seat, and in getting
down lies too far back. When told to
bring up bis head, ho hastily does it,
and knocks over tho stool in the opera
tion. This causes tho blood to rush to
his face, and the embarrassment which
produces it is not at all modified by de
tecting the barber
glances with the operator at the next
chair. When the lather is being put
on, he cannot control the working of his
imagination, anil he finds himself pos
sessed of an irresistible desire to smile
sheepishly. This proneness to grin is
inexplicable, but it is inseparable from
tho first shavo, and tho victim is obligod
to resort to every facial artifice to over
come it, and then doesn’t succeed.”
Tho above is true to nature, but it is
not nature enough. The writer should
have gone on to i Into how tho yonng
fellow feels for about six months hofore
ho goto up oourago to go to u barber
shop, and how ho looks at that eater
pillor-looking, mouldy-oomplootod stuff
on his upper lip. He sees the fuzz on
his lip before anybody else does, and ho
wonders that all the world is not on to
it. Ho goes closer to his girl, on the
way home from school, hoping she will
see it, and if she does, and speaks of it,
liefore he has called her attention to the
phenomenon, he is very happy, and
votes hor one of tho most discerning
womeh in the world, and ho resolves to
make hor his wife, if he lives. After his
girl has spoken of the hair on his lip,
the boy feels liotter, and when he goes
into tho presence of grown people, ho
expeots they will at once stop all con
versation and call attention to his lip,
aud when they go on talking about
something else, he feels hurt, and when
someone tolls him to go to the door nnd
let tho dog in, or bring in Homo wood,
ho feels crushed, and thinks suoh re
marks should be addressed to children,
aud not to men who have hair on their
lips.
From the timo n boy first notices the
flew on his nppoy lip, to tho time tho
motutnohe is nnmistnlishle, whioh is
shout a year nnd a half, he is miserable.
He does not go to a barber at first, but
confides in his father, if 110 has mio, and
tho father finally gets out his rnzor and
slinveH the boy’s upper lip, for a joke,
partly because ho was a boy once him
self. But during the operation the
father makes the boy feel small by tell
ing him that the razor ia spoiled, the
edge all taken off, nnd finally paralyzes
tho youth by showing him the lather in
whioh there is not a sign of a hair.
After thlß operation the hoy rubs his
fingers on his lip and he can feel the
heard, and it is harsh, nnd pricks his fin
gers, and he wants to go right off nnd
rub that lip against the chock of his
girl, to show her that tho world moves.
Then he waits weary mouths for it tc
grow out again, and wonders how it is
that people recognize him with his
moustache out off. When it comes out
again he tokos his father’s razor, while
the folks are to church, and shaves him
self. llis parents know what he has
done, when they corns home by the
blood on tho towel, and the court-plaster
at the corner of Ins month, where he has
gouged himself while tryiug to look
cross-eyed in a mirror, and shave him
self left-handed. The next timo tho
heard comoa out 110 calls up all his reso
lution and goes to a barber, and this is
where the above quoted remarks arc
)>ortinent to his case. But tho writer
above hae not told half of the annoyance
the barber gives tho boy. The first
thing the barber does is to put a doth
around tho Ixjy’s neck, aud take down a
pair of shears. Though the boy’s bait
may he as short, as pie crust, the barber
pretends he supposes the boy wants his
liair ctit, and tlio poor boy lias to strug
gle with his voice, and bring it away
out of liis throat, and say lie wants to bo
shaved. Tlio barber lays down tho
hears, comes up to the trembling hoy,
laid out in a chair, looks at him, and
says, “Where?” That ia the trying
time for the hoy. Ho feels tlint ho would
like to murder that barber, and he would
give all he has got if ho could get out of
that shop, but he has to put liis finger
on his upper lip, and in a firm voioo sav,
"There 1” though he feels more like cry
ing. Then the barber Bays "Oh,” iu a
tone of voice that sounds as though it
was all he oonld do to keep from snort
ing right out laughing. In about two
seconds the barber has tho boy shaved,
and says “next,” and the boy gets out
of the chair in a profuse perspiration,
thongh it may be the coldest day of
winter, nnd when he pays for the shavo
he is proud to notice that the harbor
charges him full price. It would kill
him to have the barber charge half
rates. Then he goes out, and as he
steps on the street and feels of his lip,
ne wonders why people do not notice
that he came out of the barber shop. In
time lie becomes a regular customer of
tiie barber shop, and eventually raises
whiskers, but he always hates the bar
ber that shaved him first, and treated
him so disdainfully, and always patron
izes a rival shop,
SMELTING IN MAINE.
WhFMi NmHfft Holil In ftnalon nnd New York
< nine From noil Wlint (he Fluhermro
Kara.
One of Maine’s midwintor industries
that outsiders hear little or nothing about
is that of smelting—not smelting iron,
but flsliing for a little silvery scaled fish,
something akin to the shiner and perch,
and very palatable—in fact a metropoli
tan delicacy. Ono of the principal fish
ing grounds is at tlio in-ad of Patten's
Bay, in . the town of Surry, Hancock
county. Here, about tho mouth of a
little stream, tho smelts swarm from
November to February, and many peo
ple of the neighborhood find a lucrative
occupation in angling for them. There
arc now fifty men fishing at Surry, each
man occupying a little tent on the ice.
In one side of the tent is an opening,
directly in front of which is a square hole
in the ice. At the top of the opening or
door is hung n pole, in horizontal posi
tion, from which depend six lines about
a foot apart. The hooks are baited with
a part of a smelt’s belly, thrown in anil
then tho fisher sits him down and watches.
When a line is swayed to one side or
otherwise agitated he quickly pnlls it in,
and with it a smelt When luck is “ big ”
n single fisher sometimes takes as high
as ISO pounds a day; when it is poor,
thirty or forty pounds; and the avorago
is, say, fifty pounds a day. The fish are
laid on Itonrds while limp and allowed to
freeze straight and stiff. Thoy are then
packed in barrels and shipped to Boston
and Now York commission merohanis.
The commission men sell the fish, take
out their commission fee and the freight
elinrges and remit the balance to the
fisherman. The smelts can lie sold on
tho ice, just as thoy are caught, for live
cents a pound, Hatnrday a boy of fif
teen years caught sixty pounds of smelts
in a few hours and sold them on the spot
for 3 .00. But only a few of tho fishers,
those who are neediest aud want money
immediately, sell at this rate, for by send
ing them to Now York and Boston they
can realize eight to ten cents per pound.
Tho fishermen are sailors, farmeVs and
miscellaneous men-alongshorc. Thoy
often make good wagos for two months.
Ono man made $1(H) in one month last
winter. A couple of Bangor fishers se
cured sixty pounds in four hours one day
rocenily. The fishing liegins at about
two hours flood, that is, two houra after
tho tide liegins to rise, and continues till
high water. Tho fish first swim low, lint
toward high wator they oome within two
hot of tho surface. Hoon night fishing
will commence; now all tho operations
are condneted by day. After the ti rst of
February the fish begin to go off into
deep water. Many smelts are also caught
in tho Penobscot river for a distance of
several miles up and down near Ban
gor, but here they are taken with dip
nets, like tom-oods.
Slop that Cough.
Oonghs and colds are prevalent now.
especially among children, too often
from the ignorance or carelessness of
their elder guardians. Many mothers
nppoar to accept with resignation the
repeated and violent colds from which
their children suffer as providential and
unavoidable. A cold is by no means
always due to exposure. Indigestion,
constipation, a lack of scrupulous clean
liuess, the unwise habit of sleeping in
much of the clothing worn during the
day, unaired bod chambers—all, or any
of these things may liavo far more to do
with your child's tendency to cold than
tho keenest breath of the bracing winter
air. Aud in great measure these things
are under your control. Mothers should
understand that it is a fact, whether
they can sec it or not, that numerous
colds and sore throats are directly
traceable to indigestion and dietetic
errors. Quantities of greasy food, fried
meats, pastry, and the like, ill-ventilated
ris'ms, and continued constipation, have
to answer for many cases of croup and
putrid sore throats. All thesi tilings
weaken the system and render it far less
able to resist changes of temperature.
Give every bedroom a thorough airing
every day, more especially if sevoral
children are obliged to sleep together,
or with their parents. This is to lie
avoided, if possible; if not, always lower
a window slightly from the top—or if
this cannot lie done, raise it from below.
There is frequently bad air enough gen
erated and breathed in the sloeping
apartment of a family with small chil
dren, to snpply them all not only oolds,
but with a number of so-called “mn
larions” diseases, to last a year, perhaps
longer. Neglect of bathing is another
proliflo source of oolds. A child from
three to ten years old should certainly
receive an entire bath twice a week in
winter. A warm bath at night, taking
special care to avoid any chill after, will
frequently break up a sudden cold.
Keep children from playing in chilly,
unused rooms in antnnui and winter
weather. Let them play out doors as
much ns possible, taking care to hnve
their foot warm and dry. A flannel suit
and rubber overshoes will often savo
much medicine and doctor's bills. Keep
them warmly clad, but do not lie eon
tent with thick coats and worsted hoods,
while short skirts Imi relv cover their
knees, leaving the limbs chilled.—
American Agriculturist
Ruffians Torturino a Child. — One
evening recently, while both John
Brash aud his wife were away from their
home, in Milwaukee, two yonng men
entered tho house and endeavored to
compel their seven-year-old daughter to
tell them wh§re a small sum of money
known to be in the house was concealed.
The child refused and they tied stnii>-<
nr<uu)d the little girl’s thumbs, drew her
up on her tip-toes, fastening the strings
to a dothes-hook in the wall. The
child’s screams attracted the attention
ot people ou the street aud she was re
leased. The men escaped.
FIFE IN TIIE NORTHWEST.
A VIVID DKHCRIPTION OF A DAKOTA
IIAII^HTOUM.
A I'loMnnt Pine® to Camp In-A Bummer
Thtinrienaiorm Turn® Nioddonly to a Win
ter llnllalorm
A Dakota correspondent writes as
follows of a little storm he met up in the
Northwest:
We were just finishing sapper one
evening when, to some one’s observation
that it was getting dark mighty fast, our
chief, looking up, dropped knife and
fork and yelled :
"Thunder I boys, it’s going to rain.
Hurry up 1 get the things inside the
tent"
Get the misohief 1 for pltter patter
whiz—bang I and one of the worst hail
storms that ever swept the plains was
upon ns, driving us all—a round dozen
in numlier—into a little eight by ten
tent. Three minutes after the first drop
fell it would have cost a man his life to
have gone any distance from shelter, for
the ioe was coming down in blocks six
inches in eiroumferenoe and in perfect
sheets. Onr covered wagon started off
on a trip across tho country-proving
itself literally a prairie schooner—and
Jironglit up in the river lieyond, and, de
spite the effort of a dozen stalwart men,
onr tent came nearly after. All- aronnd
inside tho men were either on their
knees holding down the canvass, or
hanging on to tho ridge-pole with might
and main, while the hail pelted the roof,
sides and ends of onr tent with such
force that no one could stand against tho
canvass, nnd through the hollows which
tho stones knocked in our supposed
tightly-stretched tent tho wator poured
in volumes. Tho mules of onr outfit
tore loose from their pickets, and, rush
ing wildly about, sought shelter along j
tho high banks of tho river. One wise j
old ass called Balaam backed np agam-d 1
the lee side of our tent and assisted not a
little in keeping it from blowing over.
One particular untie—tho meanest brute
that ever wore long ears—too stubborn
to run, stood kicking throughout the '
storm, whioh lasted about twenty min
utes.
We were about a mile away from tho
nearest point of shelter—a village of
rough clap-board houses, which had
been run up in a day or so with the
first talk of building a road. 80, after
the storm, for this village we started.
Wet to the skin we waded across tho in
tervening plain, many places over shoes
in ioo and water, and to add to our
misery it kept getting colder and colder
ns we splashed through the water and
ioe. Arriving at the only hotel in the
town wo found the usual Western hos
pitality. To onr demand for a fire by
which to dry our clothing tho landlord
replied that we should have ono just as
hikiii as lie could hunt up the necessary
fuel. In the ooitrse of an hour the tire was
started and around it wo clustered, aud
by alternating “fore and aft," drying
outside and wetting inside, we finally
succeeded in restoring circulation.
A heavy rain now set in, and how it
can rain out bore on tho prairies I Onr
landlord and his son stood in the hall
sweeping back the water as it flooded iu
under the dixir—a practical illustration
of King Canute and the flood, and about
as successful. Bed-timo arrived nnd a
dozen stiff hoys, shoeless, costless, as
less several other articles of attire which
need not be mentioned, all of whioh
were left behind to dry by tho only tire
the hotel offered, marched out through
the wet hall, and climbed a ladder to the
loft. Here we wrestled manfully with
the hngH till near morning, when it be
gan blowing such a terrifio gale that a
dozen fellows came ui a sitting posture
to debate tho question of hunting the
cellar. Ono of the regular boarders
awakened by tho din, settled the ques
tion by calling out: “You infernal
fools; there’s not a oellnr in town; lily
down and sleep; it's better to lie on top
than under, any day." We laid down.
In tho morning our landlord brought
up our shoes, clothes, etc., in a bushel
basket aud emptied them out on the floor
to be.sorambled for. On going out, the
worst scene of devastation it has ewr
been the lot of the writer to see, met his
eye. The day before, largo fields of
grain ripe for the sickle, could be seen,
stretching away in all directions, of
which not a stalk remained standing;
garden growth of all kinds utterly de
stroyed; hardly a pane of glass was left
in the village; the foliage of tho trees
was so out and mangled that tho limits
looked as bare as iu winter time. A belt
eight miles in width and twice its many
in length was entirely ooarod of vege
tation.
The Adirondack Region.
A bill to establish an Adirondack res
ervation, whioh was draw n up by the
Chamber of Commerce committee, was
presented to the Legislature of New
York State by Senator Gibbs. It pro
vides for the appointment of commis
sioners to learn the value of the forest
lands in tho Adirondack region owned
by private persons, and authorizes the
Legislature to appropriate 8500,000 fot
the purchase of these lands, for thepur
|xiso of adding them to the State lands
m the same region and thus forming a
reservation. The lands are to be selcot
. and in the comities of Washington, Sara
toga, Warren, Essex, Clinton, Franklin,
St. Lawrence, Hamilton, Fulton,Oneida,
Herkimer and Lewis. It is plainly
stated that the lands are to be selected
I mainly with a view to protecting the
water supply of the Hudson, Black and
Mohawk rivers. Moreover it is desired
to secure a supply of water sufficient for
the navigation of the Erie and Black
river canals, "for the preservation of tho
public health, for the protection and
| preservation of the valleys of the Hud
son, the Mohawk, and Black rivers, and
| their tributaries, from inundation.”
A savin os bank cashier in Wisconsin
| has just died from the bite of a mad oak
i Friends of the cat ask for a suspension
•f public opinion until the bank's ac
counts can l>e investigated
RUM AND TOBACCO.
Whßt a Veteran tin* to Hor About Their
Hue.
In an interview with P. T. Barnum
by a New York Sun reporter, the follow- !
ing conversation took place:
“How long have you maintained snob
regular habits ?”
“As far as practicable since 1847, when
I became a teetotaler, although when I
was a traveling showman my hours were
necessarily not so good.”
“Did you drink much prior to 1847?"
“Well, I wouldn’t have allowed auy-
Ixxly to toll me so, but when I look back
over that time I know now that I did.
When I built my magnificent Oriental
country seat, Iranistan, I was proud of
tlfe house, but ton times prouder of my
wino cellar than of anything else I had.
I was not in the habit of drinking dis
tilled liquors, but every day at dinner
took my bottle of champagne, or its
equivalent in other wines or malt liquors.
I did no business after noon, and my
mother-in-law used to say sometimes
that I was ‘ heady ’ after dinner. I felt
quite offended at the suggestion and
threatened to go book to whisky if it
whs repeated, for I really considered my
self quite a temperance man, since 1
drank only wine, and thonght my after
dinner feelings were duo to overeating
rather than drinking. But I got the
Rev. Dr, Chapin to come up to Bridge
port and deliver a temperanoe lecture,
for tho Bubjeot of which he took ' the
moderate drinker,’ and I saw myself in
quite anew light. I realized for the first
time the had example I was setting, and
when I went home that night was so
worried that I could scarcely sleep. The
next morning I hod my coachman knock
the nooks off all the champagne bottles
I bad in my collar, some five or six
dozen ; the port and other medicinal
wines I gave away in cases of sickness,
and the liquors I returned to the dealers
That was the end of my drinking. As
bumblebees jro biggest when they are
first hatched, so I was, in the first heat
of conversion, an enthusiast on tho sub
ject of tectotiilism. I went all ovet
Connecticut aud New York delivering
free lectures on the subject, and even
went out to Wisconsin, stnmped the
State at my own expense, and at least
helped to carry it on a temperance plat
form.”
“You swore off on tobacco also?"
"Yes—or at least I stopped its nse. I
never chewed, but I was a great smoker
When I went over to England lecturing, •
in 1856, after the Jerome Clock Com
pany disaster overwhelmed me, I was in
such a situation that evory ponnd was
of importance to me, and as I was than
HHing over/ week a sovereign’s worth of
cigars, I thought I would practice econ
omy ami atop it. One Sunday I chewed
chamomile flowers all day instead of
smoking, tiy a druggist's advice, and
they almost killed me. The next day I ,
went to smoking again, and continued it
up to 1800. I could give up liquor cos
ily enough, but not tobacco, aud I aver
aged ten cigars a day. Ono day in 1860,
on my way down to the museum, I felt
a Htrange choking sensation away down
in my throat, and then a throbbing or
palpitation of my heart. I bad noticed
it a little for a year before, but paid no
particular attention to it until then. 1
asked my manager, Greenwocxl, what it
was, and he said it was heart disease, I
and the symptoms I described as mine ;
meant death. That scared me pretty
badly. I determined to give up busi- j
ness at once, retire to the country, and
prepare to die, but before doing so con
sulted Dr. Willard Parker. He examined
me, and said : ‘You may liavo a very
hard heart, for all I know, lint you have j
as strong a one as there is in New York.
Nicotine is all that is the matter with
you. Stop smoking.' I did so at once, j
I was so scared, aud never smoked again.
For a year, however, I used to carry bits
of calamus in my pocket to chow on
when I wanted to smoke.”
A Matter of Principle.
“Say, Uncle Mose,” said young Jack
Snow us he met tho old man; “Who
am dis nunty-monop’ly I heerd sorno ob
do folks talkin’ about ?”
‘ Hnsh, chile, doan go ’ronn’ ’spo’sen
for igu’renee like dat. Aunty-monop ly
ain't nobody lint jesw’atsnm people
b'leoves. ’’
"How’s dat ?’’
“W’y, yor see, w’on aman has all dere
is, dat’s monoply. An’ w’en you doan
b’leevo in one man bailin' all dere is,
dat’s miuty-monop'ly.”
“How'd dey git to callin’ hit dat way,
Uncle Moeo? Doan peer to hab much
souse in hit, no way.”
“Now jes hole on, an’ let me ’splain.
Dere was a ole nigger name Monop’ly,
and he had a power o’ chickens. An
dere war ole Aunty-Monop'ly as hadn't
none, and she war 'posed to ole Monop'ly
bailin’ all dem pullets he’s owuse’f. Dat's
de way hit fnst started, an' now w'eneber
a man hab all dey is, dey says he’s ole
Monop’ly, an’ w’en anndder ono ain’t
got nothin’ and wants to diwido, den dey
say he’s old Aunty-Monop’ly.”
“Is you fer Aunty-Monop’ly, Uncle
Mose?”
■“Now, see yer, chile, dis am a mattali
ob princerple. I’se got a lot ob chickens
an’ a cow, darfo’, on do chicken and cow
qustiou I’zo monop’ly. But Boseiiile,
he hab a bank, an' a railrode, darfo’, on
de bank an’ railrode question I'zeAuntv-
Monop’lv elierv time. Dis yar flng am
a mattali "ob princerple.”— Texas Sift
ings.
A farm in the town of Eliot, Me.,
has been tlio home of nine generations
of one family, having been handed down
from father to son for nearly 250 years.
Tho first bouse was bnilt of bricks im
ported from the old country, but in 1736
it was so shaken by an earthquake that
it was torn down and the present struc
ture bnilt of heavy oak timber. Upward
of 75 children have been born and
brought np there, and it is recorded that
only one unmarried person lias ever died
iu it, except one child,who was accident
allykilled. _
A HUNTER’S STORY.
Dow H# Was Ov.rrnitio nnd the Way bi
tilch Its (hi. Filially Maxed.
Kpirlt of the Tinioa
An unuual adventure which recently oc
curred to your correspondent while hunting
ht Brookmere, in this Htite, is so timely ana
contains* so much (hat can he made valuable
to all readers, that 1 venture to reproduce it
entire:
'lhe <lay was n most inclement one and the
Miow quite deep. Knb'iit tracks were plenti
ful, but they princij ally led ii the direo’ion
of a large hwtunp, in which the rubbiU
c* u!d run without difficulty, but wheie the
hunter con-tantly broke through the thin
ioe, sinking into the half-frozen in ire to his
kne-s. Notwithstanding these difficulties,
the writer lad persevered, although
a very small ba; of gam wa*
the result. While tramping ob ut through
a particularly ma’arial portion ot' tho
ftwauip, a middle a and man suddenly came
into view, tarrying a muzzle-loading i-hotguu
and Cow; total v loaded down with game of
tho Unest description. Natural curio ity,
abide from the involuntary • nvy that in
stinctively arose, promote 1 the writer to en
t r into conversation with the man, with the
following result:
“You’ve bail fine succesq where did you
get ail that game?
“Right here, in the *wanip."
“It's pretty rough hunting in these parts,
e j-ecially when a man g<jea up to his wai-t
every other st*p."
“Ye*, it' not very pleasant, b it I am used
to It an I don't mind it.’
“How long hove you huntrd hereabout*. n
“Why, blt-Ho you, I-lave lived here most of
my Jiff and hunted up to ten years ago every
year.”
“How doe* it haupe you omitted tho last
ton vt’am f"
“because I was soaroely able to move,much
l*s* hunt”
“I dont understand youf”
“Well, you see, about len years ago, after
I had been tramping around all day iu the
tarn® hwump, 1 felt quite a |ain in my ankle.
I didn t mind it very much, but it kent
troubling me for a day or two, and I could
#e.- that, it kept increasing. The next thing I
kn* w, I feit the same kind of a | ain in my
shoulder and 1 found it pained me to move
my arm. This thing kept going on and in
creasing, and though I t* off the
foiling and make myself think it only tt
little temi*orary trouble, 1 found that it did
not go. Shortly aft**r this my joint* begun
to ache at the knees and I fi; a y t>e< am**
lad that 1 had to remain in tho Uoumj most of
the time.”
“And did you trace oil this to the fact that
yu had huntei so much in this swamp/’’
“No, 1 didn’t know what to lay it to, but
I knew that I was in misery. My joints
swelled until it seemed us thouch ail tbs tie*h
I had left was bun* he i at tho joints, my
fingers crooked in'e.ory way, and some of
them became double-, urn ted. In fact, every
joint in my body fremed to v; with ti.#
others to see which could becou e the
ami rau-* me the greatest suitor.ng. In this
way several years [a hxl on, during which
time 1 was pietty nearly lie pies* I became
*■> nerveu-. and 'motive that 1 would sit
bolstered up m the chair ad call to peo, m
that enttfred the room not to come near mo,
or even touch my chair. While all this wa
going on, i felt an awful burning heat and
fever, with < ocadona duds running all over
my body, but i>'pe< iaily along niv hack anti
through my shoulders. Then un my biood
seemed to be ti fifing and my biaiu to l e ou
fire.”
“Didn’t you try to \ revent all this agony f'
“Try! 1 should think 1 did try. i tried
every doctor ihar came withiu iny renh a id
all the proprietory medicines I cou.d hear of.
I n*ed w lanes an i liniments enough to hist
me for a.J time, but the only relief I received j
wu< by injections of morphine.’*
“Well, you talk in aver. strange manner j
for a man who ha tramped abound on a day
like thus uiid in a swamp like tin* How in
the world do you dare to do it?
“ikcaiL-e i am completely well and a*
Bound as *a dollar. It may sewm strange,
but it is true, that 1 was entirely cured; the
rheumatim all driven <>ut of my blood: my
w oints leducel to their natural .-i. e, and my
strength male as great as ever before, by
means of tout great and simple remedy, \V ar
ner's .Safe Rheumatic Cure, which 1 believe
saved my life. ’
“ And so you now have no fear of rheum i
tisriif’
Why, no. Even if it should come on, I
can easily get rid of *t by using the san e i
remedy.”
The writer turned to leave, at it was grow
ing dark, but before I h id reached the< ity j
precis uy she same symptoms i bad jus; heard 1
des Tibe t came U})nn me with grent violence.
Impressed wi h the hunter s story, 1 tried the i
same remedy, and withiu twauty-four hours
all pain and infammation had "iisapioiro 1.
If any reader is sutlermg from any manner
of rheumatic or neunalgx* troubles an 1 de
sires relief let him by a 1 means try this fame
great remedy. And it any readers doubt tho
truth of the nbo\e incident or its .statements,
let them write to A H. Coates. Biookmere,
I s *. Y., who was tho man with whom the
writer conversed. and couviuce themselves of
its truth or falsity. J. R. C.
An Independent Wife.
A few days ago a prominent Boston
financier died, aaya the 7Ynr# Her of that
city, leaving a widow hardly half bis
ago, whom he married for a second wife
some lifteen years since. At the time
of his second marriage he had several
grown-up children, who, as nan ally hap
pens, were very angry, and who insisted
that his new wife had accepted him on
account of his wealth. Despite the dif
ference of their ages they were in sym
pathy and lived happily together. She
always reseuted the charge of merce
uariness and now that he is dead she has
opened a boardiug-house, resolved to
take care of herself. Although her late
husband was held to he worth several
millions, it is said that he had lost his
fortune in Wall street and that he had
left no will. Some of the widow’s
friends have urged her to insist on her
legal rights, but she stubbornly refuses
to. The dead financier, who devotedly
loved her, is thought to have provided
generously for her in his will. But even
if the will had been destroyed she would
be entitled to her dower, but she will al
low no action in her behalf.
Otf.r a Year.—The American bark i
Minnie M. Watts, owned in Thomas
tou, Me., by Thomas W. Dunn, sailed
from New York for Portland, Oregon,
on Dec. 12, 1882, and was spoken off j
Cape Horn on July 22. Since then no tid- j
ings have been received of her, and she *
is supposed to have foundered at sea.
Besides her crew and Captain, Edwin |
Watts, she had on board the Captain’s
wife and child. The vessel was valued
at $40,000, and her cargo was worth
about 800,000.
A Bavaria editor urged in his neys
paper that the King did not appear in
public often enough. The* King has
managed it so that the editor will not
appear in public for two months.—Bos
ton Qlobe .
MOTHER %
If the little darling is spending such sleepless
nights si and slowly and_ pitifully wasting away
by the drainage upon it* system from the ef
fect of teething, procure a bottle of Dr. Dig
ger's Southern Remedy and find what many
other mothers have by* its use —a complete cure
as it will in all bowel affections in both young
and old. This, with a bottle of Taylor's Cher
okee Remedy of Sweet Gum ard Mullein, com
bining the s imulfttiug expectorant principle
of the sweet gum with the demulcent healing
one of the mullein, for the cure of croup,
whooping cough, colds and consumption, pre
sent a little medicine CHEST no household
should be without for the speedy relief of sud
den and dangerous, attacks of the lungs and
bowels. .Ask vour druggist for them. Manu
factured by Walter A. Taylor, proprietor Tay
lor's Piemium Cologne. Atlanta. Ga.
Animals feed, men eat: but only men of in
telligence know how to eat.
Ladies* and children's Boot* and Shoe* cannot
turn 9r U Lyon iTawatMaal Stiffen art
Reeeaed treat Deaths
William J. Coughlin, of Somerville, Mass.,
•ay*: “In the fall of 18701 vas taken with
bleeding of lungs followed by a severe cough,
1 lost my apjietite and and was confined
to my bed. In 1877 I was admitted to the
hospital. The docto s said 1 had a hole in my
lung at big as a half dollar. At one time a
report went around that I was dead. I gave
-np hop *, but a frien 1 tdd me of Dr. Wm. <
Hall's Balsam for the Lungs. I got a bott e, |
when, to rny surprise, I commenced to get
well, and to-day I feel bitter than for three
years.”
Flattery is a sort of bad money to whioh our
vrnity gives currency.
A Itoatiilfu! Ilcnd of ilnlr,
•long, silken in texture, rich chestnut brown,
reai hing to the ground; *ueli are the effects of
the justly celebrated and widely known Car
boiine, tut* prince of aii Ilair lh-ntorers.
For we are the eanje our falh* ra have been ;
We view the name sights our fathers have seen ;
We breathe the name air and feel the same sun.
And ruu the same course our father* have run.
"(/rins of ihe Norilurcat”
Is the title of a Tourist*’ Guide issued by th
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. It
m a handsome book well worthy of the enter
prising management of this great railway sys
; tem. Tourist* and summer travelers should
send to A. V. H. Carpenter, General Passenger
Agent, Milwaukee, Wi*., and set. urea copy.
The virus of a# dis’ei arise from I he b'oed
| 'iimaritan Nervine Curts all bio'd disord re
The worst kind of !*orrower is he who bor
rowa with the intention **f repaying ; for yon
know to a moral certainty that he intends to
Uirrow agayi.
Dr. J. A. I atmore, of Riley, lad , truly re
mu kr. “Samaritan Nervine cures epilepsy. 1
Although the greatest cotton grower, Texas
I plants about 200,000 acres more in corn than in
I cotton.
\Vnlk >lor*'.sn l S'ret* No. n llv.
Mr. John V,. Co.c, I‘riuc pal oi the f -ale 1
School, Troy, N. Y., write* us:
Tbuv, N Y., April 7,18 KL
“Having been afflicted for several y.ar
past with lilne-a, the cause of which was un
known to me for a 1< ng time, and my con
tinued disab hty getliug t Ik* of s > *’ri< us
aud a ebaru -toi as to cause great
anxietv with, rnv family an l friends. 1 bs
came satisfied upon clo investigation that. ;
the <-aU' of my sickness was the and I
condition of n y kidneys an i liver. At this
time by a* cidfiit a fr e id who ha* 1 aims ar j
►ynipt*tins to mi e, informed me of the gr.*?it j
iuq rovi ment in bis health by takin_ Hunt’s
Remedy, and persuade! mo to try it. I im
mediately commenced taking it. aud from
the first b >ttlo b gan to improve, and it con
tinued use affords very en* oura ing results.
I can sleep soundly, walk better, am free ,
from pams, and the severe uttack.s of h* a I
ache irorn which I suffered so much have •
disappeared, an i I cheerfully recommend j
Hunts Remedy for all which it U j
advertised. 1 will a*ld in closing that my
wife ha> u e 1 it very bucceadully for jru- j
venting the attacks of sick lr auache with
which she ha l been a tlicted from youth.
Almo-t Diwheai en<*d.
A prominent citizen sends us the following !
statement: i
“ For several years I l ave been very >ri- :
oualy alllicted with a severe [ ain in the back, j
which I long suplaced io be lumbago or j
rheumatism of the back. More rece.itly the
pains had liecome more severe, so much so
that it was with difficulty that I was able to j
get out of be lin the morning. Iba 1 tried
various remed es Without any apparent re
lief. By the earnest > -lie t ition of a fi ivn I
1 commenced taking Hunt's Remedy, ab ut
three weeks ago, an I it s instantaneous bene
fits are wonderful for I have had no {ain*
in ruy back rince raking the first three and se
and am relieved fr-m the pa ns a dies aud
exhaustive w<a n., the )*auiful symptoms
that usually ac-oiuj*any disease of the kid
i eys. Ana I confi ieutly expoc’ to be eom
pletely anti | erm > neatly cured by the use of
it. t most cheerful y recommend Hum's
Remedy to aii who at e a>dieted with any kid
ney or liver disease.
WILLIAM O. ARNOLD,
Walnut Street, Providence, R L
March i?J, I$S&
The truest mark of being born with great
qualities is being bofil without envy.
Public speakers and singers use Piso's Cure j
for hoarseness and weak lungs.
Poverty destroy* pride. It is difficult for an j
empty bag to stand upright.
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IS UKFAIUWQ
C Sla AND INK VIM HI K
IN < I KING
W FAILS>> \ „ ~
f piop ti? put,
*1 Kutlinn !
'any Cumul- ■
lions, St. Vitus Dance, Alcoholism, j
Opium Eating, Seminal Weakuess, Im- ;
potency, Syphilis, Scrofula, and all
Nervous and Blood Diseases.
£*-To Clergymen, Lawyer*, Literary Men,
Merchants, Rankers, Ladies and all whoee j
sedentary employment causes Nervous Pros
tration, Irregularities of the blood, stomach, j
bowels or Kidneys, or who require a nerve
tonic, appetizer or stimulant, Samaritan A'w !
me is invaluable. j — iT""- ' ' \
CthejCgreatj
wonderful Invigor- ~—,
ant that cversustain- I l{ CO U £ !
ed a linking system. LtiCft 9 21 j
$1.30 at Druggists. —L. lr
ThsDR S.A RICHMOND
ME DICAI CO . Sole Pro- [COhQUERORi !
prictors. St Joseph. Mo. ■—
Ch&s. N. Crittcnton, Agent, New York. (81
/St m PAYS f- r Life S* liolir^htpin th#
IL* JM f \ I •lihiiir llMlrr** < oilrmr.
WK #■ ■ ■N*wrk. N-w Jrxy. P -mti.-nt f-rr j
*[■ . ■
u--'m-alrmto H . COI.KM AN A CO.
CAUTION.
Don't be persuaded to buy old styles; get only
tho new improved dust-proof, Patent Regulator
Watches. Send for Catalogue.
J. P. STEVENS WATCH CO.,
ATLANTA. GA.
\ G rvr* WANTFT) fthe bf • uni fetot v'
-V
ptrowt. Nathkai. Pm.is.n -o t> , A.>*■*. ti\
AGENTS WANT'D
Oils. K. F DUSTER 1< IIS Cleveland, Ohio.
n ti a ■ n t*< R*ldi-r an.l stump
PP W Cin HC f M ,:u CO I. L. 111. NO.
rLHOIU'TO IIAM, Atty. Washington, D C.
. . —■ .. S**nri t imp I t "nr N<w Ft ok ou
PATHUTX P- •>:<* 1.. It IM.il A Ala Pat
I Hltl* I v eut Lawyer. ulnnffton, D. C.
HIIKJ AH ("W-T-t r TV.*, tv n i MiU Pimp*.
rUmrS a
for cßtal'Hjm'. r “Id Force P imp Cos., Lock port, N.Y.
KIDNEY COMPLAINTS. Sample remedy
fr*e. N. 11. PEURINE. Hoboken, N. J.
UZIKK IJIVU STAPLE COTTON.
TIIF. FINEST IN THE WORLD
Has taken more premiums than any other.
84,000
Offered in cash premiums for 184. Price of seed re
-1 duced to *1 per bushel. Send for pamphlet.
J. t). O/.IER, Corinth, Mlm.
I Mention this paper.
I>RAIDF.D All.K “IHXINi HSS*? FINH
I > LINKS, samples yds. tn>ut line, ;
bar**, "So. Wa te a-wmc s.lk, black or mixed colors, 2f>c.
p ror. E. J. MARTIN, Rockville. Conn.
Reasons "Why Yon Feel Badly.'
Because your stomach is not doing its work properly.
Because your liver is out of order, and wants righting
Because your blood is thin, and needs iron in it.
Because you are troubled with nervous aches and pains.
Because you are vexed with languor and debility,
All these Reasons Can be Set Aside by the Use of Brown's Iron Bitters, which w r b
Tone up your enfeebled stomach, and help it to digest "*
* Refresh your wearied liver and put it in splendid order.
Enrich your watery blood, and give it a rich red color.
Calm your worried nerves, and give them restful peace.
Strengthen, your whole system and drive debility and languor out.
, Considering that any man who has a dollar may buy of the nearest
druggist a bottle of Brown's Iron Bitters, there is no reason why people
should continue to feel badly, just for the his ef id
iV.i
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CELEBRATED PAHCN ESGIHE
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Traction Engines t Southern Eip HtiUon, laouis
vifle, Ky.. len*. far~BKNi run Cir* ui.auw
[focndry *bd machinery department
HARRISBURG CAR MANUFACTURING CO ,
lIAKIMMU IML.IM;
Home Items.
—“ Ail your own fault
If you remain sick when you ran
Get hop bitters that never- Fail.
—The w. akeet woman, smallest child, aivl
si- kiwt invalid canu.se hop bitter* with safety
und groat goal.
—Old men t tiering around froffi Rheuma
ism, kidney tro ble r any wt-akn .*w wfii U
Boost new by usi ig hop bitters.
—Mv wife and daughter were made bealih*
bv the us* of hop b:tb*rs unci 1 recommena
them to my people Meihodi*t Clergyman.
Ask any go >d doett r if hop
Bitter, are not the best family medicine
On earth.
—Malarial fever, Ague and Bi’i<-usne,
will leave every neighborhood as soou as hop
bitter arrive.
4—“ My mother drove the paralysis and
neuralgia all out ot her system with hop bit
ters.” — Ed. Otavryo Sun.
—Keep the kidneys healthy with hop bit
teii* and you ne.'d not fe ;r sieknos*.
—lce wateri* rendcrixl harmless and mors
refr *>hmg ad reviving with hop bitters in
each draught.
The vigor of youth for the aged and in
firm in hop bitten? S
Hop but r. to allay all troubles incident
Thereto.”
—.“The best piTiolical f**r lad es to tak
monthly aftd from wh.ch they wiU receivs
tire great ast- benefit is hop bi tiers. ”
—M*> hers with sickly, fretful, nursing
chihiren, wiil cu *> the children an : benefit
them elves b> taking hop bitters daily-
Th >usan<is die annually from some form
of .i hi* y disease ilia’ muiit h ive been pre
vented by a timely use of h >p b tters.
indige-ti n, w• ik stoma h, irregulari
ti* sf th** IxiweLs, cannot exist when hop bit
ters are u el.
A timely * * * use of hop
Bitters will kt**;> a whole family
In robust health a year at a little cost.
—To produce real genuine sleep and child
rike rei*ose all night, take a little hop bitters
on retiring.
That indigestion orsfcomnc’i gas at nighty
pro. enting rest and *, will disappear by
using hop bitters.
Faralytic, nerv its, tremu lons old lad es
are mode i*- f* cty quiei aid sprightly by
using hop bitter*.
■uftlH. AomalSStf. Not eT3 *‘n,!v.' ) - IM
month*' trMximvnt In ono packoP. Oof r<*r low
i* in.- 11 Hoiwlacho. l*xinw. Hay K • ver,
CONSUMPTION.
1 ;<•• a pf>*ulT remaU f r Ihe atM,Fe iUsee/te. hi it®
r• trioueamie of of tr:e worn kind and of lone
• hae cured. Indeed,eo etrong le mi f*iu
In lie efficacy, that 1 will eer.d TWO BOTTLES FKBK, to
c ther with aVAM ABI R T ' KATIHB on Uite dhHiaae, te
a-y •aibitr GiveKxprwM end P. O eddreea.
iilL T. A faLOCI M, iSI PearlSL, ktew York.
Paynes' Automatic Engines and Saw-iflilU
out i.i'Aiii’it.
We offer an “ t • 1 ) I P. mounted Engine with Mill,
|* n eetid Saw. 50 ft. b**ltinir caat-bodks, n* complete
tor -i-riti hi, on can*. s.'o . I nline on eki !-
n” w. PA YN k del
Manufaeti r -ra of 11 Ktyh-H A ntoinntic Kru
slurs, from 3t03 4i 11. I*, ale** Pulley*. H&DKuni and
Au&fttiK, Elmira, N. V. Ilox 1 800. T
THt'A M.CO-WPINGER.
51MPI f.
WHITE
mtlSSs.iil—iiriYr---—-, 1 —-T __
To Speculators.
R. lindhlom 4 G-, J. Wilier 4 Cos.,
5 aud 7 l Jhaxnber of 55
Conui*-rt*. Ohl’*o. New Yor*.
Crain and Provision Brokers
M.rnber* of Ml prou. u nt Produce BUcj nfe io
New *--rW. ht. and Milwauk •.
Wo have en-Utaive princ- telrßrap i wtr- l>etw(-cu
Ciucsmo an I N.v York. Will otecute order* n <mr
itutirmen? when rqe tod. K*-n*l for circular* cont un
ina partwuUra, HOd l. LINDKLOM A CO., C hic -.*o
AGENTS WANTED EETZETO?
It w a! knit a trreat variety <•( fancy work for which
, , - . .>-a r dy market L/. rir f
~ Ci- TU KMTTIN. MM Hl>i
CO.. IH3 Tr£M 'NrMiiHT, HOSTON. __
R. I* the onleVeet. pleaeantert -
A/ - . sTC -ur •( n J b-et re n •Ty -or
Hr r, it mich, blvider an 1 blo>J
cieeaeo-*, and only real curative eve*
Sf s*ecoerod t r ante amt cbronla
rhearaatiem, v mt. lumbaaco, • •♦W
' rA . 0 u taint-*, e’o Hae cured hopv
|em> c.am Bn*i t' dW**-' and dyapepMa in 3
lorme of rhwumat*) diw rl-rem 1 to 12 waeka—reUevee
mrtammatory .n 1 d.y. C-an rvfer t-, rmndr-di ot rella
tie peopUt rnred who had vrm.l in n everythmr elae.
Purely botanic. harn.l*e*. and mo<* to frluk. Aek yo-.
dreu at lo rf**l it He deMioee *nd U> 'J* t [} k A
lea. tiim nf, Adam* AOo.. W" UaameU ,S.J
XX.- NOTICE.-XX.
AS BLUE FLAHIiEL EARHEHTS
OfTufei'lor Qualify of Goode
are m\A *' the ” jenuine Mi ‘ ’ *•*. ' wh! h ere nof
made by that mill, The Cormmnv, In order
t protect their cuetemer* and the public .five notice
l i tUhereefV-r all Clothiinf !e from THE MH>DLE-
K ' \ BTAVO AHD INDIfiO I. LEE FLANNTI-8 AND
•
t t - fie ‘ SILK If ASOElts Viirnlsh.-d by the BellUl*
Agent* to all partie* ordering the pood*.
WENDELL, FAY II CO.,
KELLI NO AGENTS. M!T)I<I.I>FY COMPANY
and WorthS’ N-w *, rk. Jt*7 KrankllaßL,
Bo 3 u>n; *l4 Chestnut St. Philadelphia.
GOOD NEWS
Bpffijgp. TO LADJESJ
• B>* (.r i-tt indacem ts over of.
MB fervd. Now's your t m to ret up
—jjte-y otnlorn for our celetr.ted Ten*
it rid 4 abeauti*
■'■'■fier i 1 O t w Ht-t. nr hands >ine l>fci rated
Gold Bent Moee ftoee l>mii*-r s* t, or Uolil Band Mon
D-< r t**d Toilet Bet. T' r full iMiticnlare addroee
Till: GREAT A.VKKII AN TEA CO.,
P. U. Bo* ai and aii Veeey tit., New \ork, .
TCttp FITS!
When I ray cure l do *% mean merely to atop M
■ IU. .nd (A.. 6.™ ttl.ni (.turn W*'s- < m “* ,VJSt
eal cere. I have made the dteeaee of FlTfc. BPILaPe*
or FALLING eiCRNESS a life-long etudv X warrant my
remedy to core the worst raeee Ooceute other* have
failed fno reeacn for ■* nw reoeivtnf acore. *end a*
once for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my infallible
remedy. Give and P-wt Office. It 00*“. y o>
nothin* for a trial, and I will core yoe.
Addreea Dr! H. G. HOOT, 1M Pearl Bt.. Kew York.
a.NU whisky habits cured
PH M IN THBEE WEEKS
| H ■ 111 IVI Fo Pamphlet*, Proof* and Term*,
WA iU Jfc! A tddrw-**, in ooufi ence. w:th .ict.
atamp. W. C. BELLAMY, M. D.. 7H Broad Street.
Atlanta, Georgia.
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