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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1*1
BURIED GOLD,
OR
HE OLD INDIAN’S SECRET.
A Reminiscence of the Border.
Bv ALBERT POWE.
CHAPTEB XtV.—THE TWO LETTERS.
jiTBe, P.rk*r bid now tarried at tola place a
week, std titer ttotgeut’a story bad been dis
cussed fur a wttle Ha Inlormed bis host that oni tne
following mornlag be wou'd leave lor tbe Canadian
• Very well.” »ald the latter. ‘'I would lns.st
npoa°your »«»>! ■« loog-r, but I kuow jou wm flod
mucb uto-e ui-a-ant company at M™- Howard s
ranch Ha r * would ftdrise you *o loot out. Mias
Hu« ••rdts a. ttr more cnogerom woman :Uan the
Prairie Q .een, and she may take yon captlva,
Tlie yourg mAU blushed, but answered wl.h a
I know her very well, and d jn't think snch^cap-
tlflty
a,*.a, Aouid he hard to hear; at any rate I ghou.d
nor make any very determined resistance.”
4 Nether womi I.” returned the agent, and
really I think a much worse fate might befall you,
for the Is a beautiful, blgi spirited glrL You must
gl?e them ray kindest regards, for they are both
very Rood fdec's of mine. 1 .
The) then separated for the night. J xmes Parker
made up a neat package of the bead work and
wampum string he had bought on the day of his
arrival and addressed It to Miss Laura Steadman
at Fort Smith. He then wrote a short letter to the
same person. _ ..
"I trust,” be wrote, "that you will pardon the
liberty I take In sending yon a small package of
Julian bandlwork which I have picked np at tblj
place, l hope they will please yon. You know
bow anything pertaining to tne Indiana In
terests me. and bow, npon tbls subject,
I think yonr thoughts are In sympathy
wltb in ne. Tbe bead work Is only pretty and
unique, but tbe string of wampum, wltb Its psarl
beauB ls> rare talisman, and wben presented by tbe
Indian lover to tne maid ot bis choice, posesses un
told virtue, and so long as she wears It evil spirits
can bave no power over ber and she bear, a charm
ed life, and knows notbtng b it happiness until ber
lover comes lo claim ber, then It loses all ot its
protecting aid. I know not If ft may bold Its charm
wben presented to a maid of another race, bat If so,
I could wish that all Its virtues might be intensified
In your behalf. I bave not seen Hiss Howard yet,
bnt will go there to-morrow as It Is but a day’, ride
irom infs plac 3, Sincerely your friend.
He then wro e a somewhat lengthy epistle to Mrs.
Grey In teat same banterlog style be nsed wben
talking to ber. A few day, later wben L «nra Stead
man received this package and read tne accompa
nying letter, sbe was very macb pleased and ber
heart grew wonderfully happy and light.
‘ He has time not only to think of. bnt write to
me” she though , ‘-and I believed be was thinking of
noone tut Mlsi Howard and be bas not even Deen
to see berjyet. Wha! a beantlfal fancy It Is of tbe
talisman, and It Is a loverj gift ton,” and at tbe
thought a sllgb' Dlusb suffused ger cheek. "I won
der what be was ’blotting about when be wrote
this letter,” and sbe abtently placed tbe string wltb
which sbe was toying aror.nd bar neck, and again
picked up the letter. She was reading Its contents
for liio twentieth time, wben me door opened
softly and ber aunt entered tbe room. She looked
9'lzs tbls, tbefirst moment I could find nothing else
to do, to send yon my address for tbe next ten days
so that ycu can forward tbe forgiveness.”
‘Dj yon bear that,” exclaimed tbe llrrie lady
again, * be kindly condescends to take the fl-st mo
ment ne finds tmposuble to use otherwise to send
me bis address, st that I can forgive him. It Is
simply preposterous,” The others were all tango
ing heartily, more at her matter of fact construction
of Its language tban at toe oddity or t ne letter Itself.”
••To my addressyon bad best label tbe package
•handle with care,’ for it It Is In the least cracked
I’m afraid It won’t fit,”
“Toeri, ’ she ex italmed again, “don’t that show
that nei, out of b sraind? Whoever heard of
cracked forglreats-?”
“Yon bad bettei do tbls at once ”
“I wooldn’t wi 1 e blm a wold If It was to save him
from being banged which be deserves.”
“For I am apt to take a deadhead pass for tbe
happy banting grouuds at any moment, as I live In
a very atmosphere of pistol balls, which arc ex
tremely careless as to whom they select tor
mark ”
Here followed a vivid description of tbe dnel
boy. or me boras ot An irate steer, there are still
more a’ tractive dangers In store for me ; Not far
distant from here a wells a woman wbo from all
veritable account, appears to be a perfect Bine
Beard In petlcoat,. Hoe nas bad a score of husbands
and is now on tbe look out for another, as ber pres
ent one bas unfortunately fallen nnder tbe ban of
tbe law, and Is liaely to leave her a sorrowing
widow at any time. Tbls persons name at present
Is 8:arr, an appropriate cognomen Is It not? consid
ering ber great popularity, and success In securing
husbands f 8he also sometimes passes under tbe
sobrlq let of tbe Prairie Q leen. In my bumble opln
Ion a more appropriate nomdeguerre would be ‘Me
tAnr > na aha fronnanflw fuuro.nu. a
teor,’ as sue frequently becomes a shooting 8:arr.
However as she seems to be in no wise partlcolar, yon
can fix ber op a name to suit yonr own fancy. Hhe
is represented as being so very expert with ber rifle
and pistol, that she can pat out the light ot a fire fly
on a dark night at a distance as yet not accurately
stated, and yet not bare the fly.”
•*I don’t believe she can do anything of tbe sort,”
exclaimed tne Do stor’d w»le Impatiently. “Pat uc
_ Pat up
that stupid letter and let’s talk;’’ but the others in
sisted upon having the balance of it; so the Jadge
resumed:
"She scorns to mount any borse that has ever
boen backed before, and rides with perf-ct ease. In
up.
•*8ee Aunt,” sbe said, “what a nice present Mr.
Parser has sent me,” and she held up the different
articles of b ?ad work. * and he has written ine such
a nice leit< r to.?. Would you like to read it?”
Mrs. L. took th« letter from her outstretched
haud and glanc *d over I s contents.
‘ It Is very nice,” she said; "and Is that the tails
man he speaks of whlcn you have around your
neck?”
“Yes,’ sb? replied,blushing furiously as she took
It hastily <IT Kit* bad totally forgotten having
placed it there. He: aunt sin'led.
‘Well, my dear, 1 think both the letter and the
ier to send them I did not tulnk be would forget
his friends here at home In spite of tbe attractions
of the B. 1 T. But bring vonr present and letter
down to tbe eltting-room. Uncle will be glad to see
them.”
She gathered them up and they went down the
Stairs fnqttlber.
The D >ctor’s wife had also received her letter that
afternoon; It was a much lengthier one than Miss
Steadman s. and shn read aud re read Its closely
written pages, full of vague hints and wild vagaries,
which the writer well knew would worry her no
little, until she had worked berself into a fever o!
lmpatlei.es; and when her husband entereJ tbe
house at supper-lime, she greeted him impetuously
with
“Dr.Grey, whit do you think ought to be done
with a person who is out cf his mind?”
“Bend him to tha mail hause,” answered that wor
thy briefly.
“I think then that James Parker should ba sent
there right away. Here he has written me four pages
of tools-c »p about horrid murders, hideous Indiana
and a wild woman whom he Is going to see, who rides
wild horses and carries a guu, aud yet says not one
word annul the real obtc; of hl9 trip nor ot his
friends here, nor when he Is coming home, uor any
thing; aud tue tone, too. Is downright disrespectful.
He writes to me J J»t as if I was a great big senool
girl who wanted io t>e amused,” and the llitle lady
•Well
iru uo ei
would J ist cut hls acquaintance, maybe jto
write w you any more men. Let meSem/TT* it
She ha> ded It to him In some surfis e ,
rot often ne p bowed so much Intent tn’A
wltn other folks ai
letter.”
jr l r was
r affairs
Is a very interesting and am/iAir f epistle,”
-
was his comment when he h*u fialsi
she is a desperate character and he maz piy for his
the horrid murder, as you call It, It was a very neat
kilting, though tney might have saved some ot their
powder, as any one of the wounds he speaks of
would have done the work; Rsallylt Is splendid,”
His wife shuddered
• What, Djcior Gr^y, the way those two men shot
each other to pieces? 1 ’
•• Well that was very neat too, but it was the letter
I had reference to, aud 1 think the youQg man was
very far from being out of his mind when be wrote
It. But then as I said my dear, if you don’r like It
you can tell him so, and I dare say he will not worry
you with another one.”
After this unusually long speach the doctor re
lapsed Into silence, and nothing was said by either
ot them for some time, but flnaiy she broke the quiet
with.
Do you really think then that he is In danger from
this visit?”
"I fear so,” he answered abs jacteldy, "there was
fever in the bouse wben he was there, and I do not
like the present symptoms at all,” aud he shook his
bead gravely.
“What on earth are you talking abcut,” she ex
claimed ?*’
“ Why about Johnnie Brown, of course. He went
visiting where there was fever several days ago. and
was taken 111 tbls afternoon. Who did you suppose
J was talking ab ort? ’
• I asked you it you really thought there was any
danger apt to come from James Parker’s visit to
this Atari woman.”
‘ Oh, be may get killed, or married to her daugh
ter, who is, I have been told, a very discreet and
charming young woman. In either event he will
not be apt to write you any disrespectful letters.
But I must see Johnnie Brown again belore bed-
Urn*;” and be arose lo go
• Very weil, 1 shan’t stay here by myself,” she
said, rising also. *1 will go as far as Judge L’s
wl b you, aud you can call there lor me a9 you re
turn. 1 should bj sure to see spooks If 1 stayed
here after reading that letter; bot I do wish he
wasn’t going to see th u woman.”
Ten mlDutes later she entered the sitting room at
Ja’ge L’s ana found them all examining Miss
Bteadmao'a present.
“Where In the world did yon get these?” she ex
claimed her utual Impetuosity. '‘Aren’t they
lovtlj? It *al ludlan werk, too. 1 never saw any
thing . 4 o pretty in my life. Ah! and that reminds
me,’ as If she had ev.-r for a moment forgotten it,
“I received a letter from James Parker to-day,
wfcl;h i tuiafc is Jist perfectly awful;” and sue
raced into a rtcual of l s contents ana flnaliv pro
duced the letter itself frera her pocket. "There,
i ou may read It.” she continued, tossing lr to Judge
,. -it won’t Interest any one, any way;” and sne
paused to recover Lerself. They were ail used to
ter headlong style cf conversation, so did not lu-
ieriupt her.
"Where oil you say yon got these things?” she
resumed,addressirg Miss eteadnuu, but jjst then
her qjlck eye, failing upon the open letter which
was i>fng upon the table, deteettd James Parker's
signature.
“Ah,” she exclaimed, lifting her brown eyes,
*‘lha: is where they came from, is it? Well, I'm
giad rhat he has seen fit to remember some of bis
friends Does he say when he is coming back,
nocent of either bridle or saddle, the wildest mas
tangs. In add! Joa to these accomplishments, she
Is sail to be sarpasslngiv beautiful, well educated,
a dutiful wife and an affec'donate mother. Sae al
ways avenges the death of her husbands—those who
have been banged, on the deputy marshals; those
who died natural deaths, upon the doctors; while
to soch as she has slain herself, she erects hand
some monuments. Thus you see that besides being
something of a novelty among women kind, she Is
also a paragon of excellence; and if she could only
beperfcuadrtd to cod A ie ber marksmanship to fire
flies auu ber husbands, she mignt become a shining
light to society. But ’tl9 said when husband-* are
scarce, she shoots unoffending and harmless p-r-
sons—just to keep ber hand la. This person lam
golDg to visit belore I return, and If I escape being
snot by, or m irrled to her, I shall still ever retain an
exalted opinion of yourself and pray for your eternal
forgiveness. Yours most respectfully,
The Judge laid down the letter, aud wl.n ms wife
and niece laughed so heartily that the Doctor’s wife
forgot her comical indig larion and j lined them.
"It is really too had.” she said, that he should
wrl>e to me like that, and then sign himself most re
spectfuily. It Is oreclous little respect he shows la
his letter, and I just believe the whole thing Is a
hoax and not a word of It true
"A portion of it is true at any rate,” replied the
Jufge. I remember reading in tbe dispatches an
account of the duel at the time, and this woman I
have seen myself, for she was arrested and brought
here some years ago ou a charge of larceny; and
while I thlak the stories tola about her—of which
this le’ter is a very comical bur let q le—are vastly
exaggerated, she 19 wlchout doubt a very remarka
ble and dangerous woman, and is guilty of
more tnau one man’s blood. But there Is little dan
ger for blm. and the tone of these letters leads me
to suspec. that th« real ohj »ct of bis visit bas been
accomplished, for I do not balleve be is a p rson to
idle away bis lime wben there Is work to be done ”
"And what Is the real objact of hls visit?” asked
the Doctor’s wife.
‘•Why, to secure evidence lu a murder case,” he
answered.
Her face brightened visibly. Heretofore sbe bad
no thought but that he had gone solely upon a visit
to Miss How ud.
‘ On,” sbe said, "I supposed that he had gone to
gather evidence in a very dlff areot sort of a case. I
shall write to him to-morrow and Rive him a good
scolding for treating me with so little respect.”
"I thought you had decided to give tbls very Im
pudent young person the cold shoulder and cut hls
acquaintance altogether,” said a voice which
caused them to look towards the door, where stool
the Dictor, who had entered unperedived. ‘ At
least such was the determination I haard you ex
press »n hour slnc u . Miss Laurel, what do you
think,” he continued seating himself in the easy
chair she n*d wheeled on; for him. "should be done
wltn a young man who wiffeg ugly letters to a lady
friend?” Aud he laughed as he stroked her golden
hair, for she had seated herself upon a low s r ool at
hls feet, ghe was a great favorite with the D c'or,
Laura?! I
"Nj; you may read my letter,” she replied, hand
ing it to n*r.
* It is short enough, conscience knows,” was hrr
comment when sne bad read It, “out It is a much
nicer one than in r *. Where is ihe talisman he
speaks of? This 1/ Well, I must say K is ugly
tnough lo possess almost any virtue, and I should
want it to have tvery one that Is claimed for It be
fore i suould consent to wear it around my neck.”
••Perhaps,” Said Mrs. L., considerably amused,
"it you were an Indian maiden yon would be proud
encash to wear such a necklace.”
"O j. 1 dare s&y 1 would and wear eagle feathers
In my hair, a big ring la my nose, and a bear skin
»u UIJ uau, a ui( uu&iu iuj uusc, auu a UCA( BAIU
skirt cut longituillaally short, and trimmed with
scalps presented me by my reasklnned aaorer, but
then you see I ain’t a tqiaw and don’t intend to
The little lady’, picturesque costume and her
earnest manner o! porlra,tu< l: aroused a laugh at
Her expanse, hut she was not at au put out and
J >ln.a in it with as much z sst as auy.
“Now what do you th na of sum a letter?’’ sh8
askec, when tne Judge bad laid It down.
■■wny. 1 tnlnx It capital,’’he replied, “I found it
rery amusing indeed.”
“1 see that yon are all determined to side against
me" she declared; "that Is Just what the D.ctor
said ahout it, but i thing It downright stupid, so
Ih6re."
At Mrs. L’s. suggestion the Judge consented to
read It aloud for me edification ot the others and
wetniaE that we can do no better than to give the
reader a portion of this epistle, which provoaed lhs
Isugnter of the Judge and Doctor, ana tne Ire of
tne lady, so here ft li with tne latter’s comments
thrown in as It was read.
“Most esteemed friend,” It commenced, “ever
since my departure from Fort Hmlm I nave been
uuahle lo quiet my conscience or forgive myself for
me very unceremonious faretreil wh;ci 1 dll not
Uke of you.”
•■He d,dn - t even h .vo the grace to tell me he was
going, muon less tell me goou-bye.”
“ana ever since • trouoied and ghostly vHloas
“Jour displeasure have haunted the ulsused cor
ridors ot my mind.”
“Notice, it was only the disusstl corridors of hls
mine that were tiouhied i that moans none of them—
bat go on.”
“until I bare come to feel were I to die nnlor-
given, yon would uevar have au opportunity to
make me such reparation.”
mJE***-’ Indeed, he speak, as If I were tbe
dwJu^?i7« alnCf Tta'.n I wouldn’t, for >we will
sctan.L°«? sr ? nt clllae3 after death and my con
science win allow me to defer it no longer, so I
aod her very pretence always seemed to make him
lorvet hls cares and become cheeiful and pleasant.
•Oi,” she said, flushing sllghilv, “if I had re
ceived sneb a letter, the worst Pnnls'iment I could
think of lLfl-ctlog would he to require him to write
me another J ust nke It. We have Just been reading
p, and It was so amnstng.”
‘Yes, Interrupted Mrs. Grey, unable longer to re-
stralo her teasing propensities, ’ but she don’t
receive such letters. Here’s the kind she gets;”
and sbe tossed the Doc lor the string of wampnm.
“Ah I” he said, examining It closely, “this Is a
treasure. I have one precisely Uke it, without the
heads Before tbe Indian was contaminated by
civil zitlon and all the superstition and romance
knocked out of him, such strmgs as these were
common enough tn some of the tribes. They were
prepared by tbe prophet or medicine man of tbe
tribe, and by blm were supposed to be endowed
with wonderful properties. You see It Is differently
made and colored from the ordinary wampnm which
they once used for money and they were very costly.
A string like this In those days would have cost two
pontes at least sHthout the beads that were placed
npon It by the yonng brave who Intended It fur hls
sweetheart.”
“Mr. Parker writes some'blng of this” Interrupt
ed hls wife; “show the Doctor yonr letter Lsnra.”
The letter was banded to him and after reading it
be ountlnned:
“Yes, that Is the true signification of tbls string
supposed to possess the power of shielding the
owner from the machination of the evil spirit, wbo
and misfortune, and 1! It was lost grevlons were tbe
consequences which wou'd follow, tor If the evil
spirit found It then In hls hands all Its former vlitnes
became evils which he could Inflict at will upon lu
former owner. 8o you can Imagine they took v-ry
great care of them. Besides this, wben the yonng
brave went forth to batt'e or for the chase, hsb'und
bis talisman aronnd his arm and It wonld strengthen
It greatly and add swiftness and accuracy tc his
arrows. After he gave It to bis sweetheart, as long
as she was true to him, be did not need Its protection,
as the same good spirit that kept watch over her
k-pt him also from svll, but It was no easy mat car
to secure one of these strings, as besides the two
ponies chb medicine man demanded for one, he
would also require ihe applicant to perform some
arcu us task lopiove that be was worthy of so great
a noon. This was usuly some long Jiurney to orlng
a rare plant or mineral, which was only to be found
la distant places. Wueu l was a young mau 1 once
heard a story from the lips of a friendly Indian
ah ju: this wire., wl l Dear repeating If you would all
like to hear it. It will not rtqalreabuveauhoarfof
Its recital.”
(To be Contimced.)
Valuable for the Ladies.
Evary lady effl cted with Womb Diseases or Pain
ful Msnstrual Irregularities is req tested to send
her name and address to Mri Miry A B-annou, No.
6. Pulliam at., Atlanta, Ga., aud get information
now to he cared. Don’t neglect It.
It has been figured out by some statistical
official that there are thirty-one criminals to
every 1.0C0 bachelors and only eleven criminals
to every 1,000 married men. From this show
ing he argues that matrimony restrains men
from crime, and ought therefore to be encour
aged by legislation and otherwise. Oir young
men may take warning from the above statis
tics.
Enjoys a Qood Reputation.
We wish to Impress upon yon the fact that Dslec-
talave Is tbe only dentrlflce on tbe market which Is
recommended by dentists, physicians, druggists and
consumers. It Is an article ot genuine merit. Try
a bottle for SO cents at dragglsts, or sent on receipt
of price by mall by Asa G. Candler A Co., general
agents, Atlanta, Ga.
Weak will power, from physical causes de
ranges a man’s life in every direction. Every
one will strengths i his will powers as well as
his bodily powers, by using Warner’s Log
Cab n Sarsaparilla. It is guaranteed the bear.
Slid by your druggists for £1 • Contains 1”0
doses. Taks no other for it.
The Philadelphia mint coined
cents in Jaly.
o 000,000
The many remarkable cures Hood’s Sarsa
parilla accomplishes are sufficient proof that
it does possess peculiar curative powers.
Miss Mary A. Green is tbe second Massa
chusetts woman lawyer, She will be a mem
ber of the Suffolk County Bar,
State Geologist Proctor, ot Kentucky, says
that tbe most valuable pearls in America are
to be found in the limestone streams of that
State.
TALMAGE’S SERMON,
Brooklyn, October 7.—Although no build
ing has been large enough to hold the audi
ences attracted by the Rev. T. DeWitt
Talmage, D D.. in any part of this country or
Great Britain for the last twenty years, tbe
throngs in and aronnd the immense andience
room of tbe Brooklyn Tabernacle seem to ba
increasing as the years go by. Tne opening
hymns this morning were heartily sung by the
congregation. D.\ Talmags chose for his sub
ject; “Throe Greatest Things to Do." His
text was Daniel xi:32: “The people that do
know their God shall be strong and do ex
ploits.’’ Following is the sermon:
Antiochns Epiphanes, the old sinner, came
down three times with bis army to desolate
the Jews, advancing one time with a hundred
and two trained elephants, swinging their
tranks this way and that, and sixty-two thou-
sand infantry and six thousand cavalry troops,
and they were driven back. Then the second
time he advanced with seventy thousand
armed men and had been again defeated. Bit
the third time he laid sncoessful siege until
the navy of Rome came in with the flash of
their long banks of oars and demanded that
the siege be lifted. And Antiochns Epiphanes
said he wanted time to consult with his
friends about it, and Popilius, one of the
Roman embassadors, took a staff and made
a circle on the ground around Antioohns
Epiphanes and compslled him to decide be
fore he came ont of that circle, whereupon he
lifted the siege. Some of the Jews had sub
mitted to tbe invader, but some of them re
sisted valoroosly, as did Eloazsr when he had
swine’s flosh forced into his mouth, spit it
out, although be knew he must die for it, and
did die for it, and others, as my text says,
were enabled to do exploits.
An exploit I would define to be a heroic aot,
a brave feat, a great achievement. “Well,”
you say, “I admire snch things, but there is
no chance for me; mine is a sort of humdrum
life. If I had an Antiochns Eoiphanes to fight
I also could do exploits.” You are right so
Porcelain shot are now mads in Munich, de
signed for cleaning wine and medicine bottles
Toe advantage over the lead Bhot often nsed
for this purpose is that the p.'rcslaiu is en
tirely free from contamination and is not acted
npon by either acid3 or alkalies.
right
far as great wars are cincerued. There will
probably be no opportunity to distinguish
yourself in battle. The most of the brigadier-
generals of this country would never have baen
heard of had it not been for the war. General
Grant would have remained in the useful work
of tanning hides at Galeoa and Stonewall
Jackson would have continued the quiet col
lege professor in Virginia Aud whatever
military ta'ents you bave will probably lie dor-
mant forever. Neither will you probably be
come a great inventor.
Nineteen hundred and ninety-nine ont of
every two thousand inventions fonnd in the
patent effite at Washington, never yielded their
authors enough money to pay for tbe expenses
of securing the patent. So you will probably
never be a Morse, or an Edison, or a Hum
phrey Davy, or an Eli Whitney. There is not
much probability that you will be the one out
of the hundred that aobieves extraordinary
success in commercial or legal or medic >1 or
literary spheres. What then? Can yon have
no opportunity lo do exploits? I am going to
show you to-day that there are three epportu-
nities open that are grand, thrilling, far-reach
ing, stupendous aDd overwhelming. Tney are
before you now. In one, if not all three of
them, you may do exploits. The three greatest
things on earth to do are to save a mao, or
save a woman, or save a child.
Dorirg the coarse of his life almost every
man gets into an exigency, is caught between
two fires, is ground between two millstones,
aits on the edge of some precipiece, or in some
other way comes near demolition. It may be
financial or a moral, or a domestic, or a
soc al. or a political exigency. You sometimes
see it in court rooms. A young man has got
into bad company aud he has offended the law,
and he is arraigned. All blushing and con
fused he is in the presence of judge and jury
aud lawyers. He can be sent right on in the
wrong direction. He is feeling disgraced, and
he is almost desperate. Let the district attor
ney overhaul him as though he were an old
offender, let the ablest attorneys at the bar
refuse to say a word for him be cause he can
not afford a considerable fee, let the judge
give no opportunity for presenting the miti
gating circumstances, bnrry np the case aud
hustle him up to Auburn or SiDg Sing. If he
live seventy years, for seventy years he will
be a criminal and each deoade of his life will
be blacker than its predecessor. In the inter
regnums of prison life hs can got no work,
and he is glsd to break a window-glass, or
blow np a safe, or play the highwayman, bo as
to get back again within walls where he can
get something to eat and hide himself from
the cruel gaze of the world. Why don’t his
father oome aud help him? His father is
dead. Why don't his mother come and help
him? She is dead. Where are all the ame
liorating and salutary influences of society?
They do not touch him. Why did not some
one long ago in the case understand that there
an opportunity for the exploit which
would be famous In heaven a quadrillion of
years after the earth has become scattered
ashes io the last whirlwind? Why did not
the district attorney take that yonng mac into
his private office aud eay: “My sen, I see
that yon are the victim oi circumstances. This
is yonr first crime. You are sjrry. I will
bring the person you wronged into yonr
presence and yon wili apologize and make ail
the reparation yon can, and I will give you
another chance.’’ Or that yonng man is
presented in the court room aud he has no
friends present, and the jadge says: “Who is
your counsel?’’ And he answers: “I have
none.” And the judge says: “Who will
take this young man’s case?” Aod there is a
dead bait and no one offers, and after awhile
the judge turns to Eome attorney who never
had a good case in all his life and never will,
aud whose advocacy would be enough to
secure the cundemnation of innocence itself.
And the professional incompetent crawls up
beside the prisoner, helplessness to rescue de
spair, when there ought to be a straggle among
all the best men of the profeesion as to who
should have the honor of trying to help that
unfortunate. Hew much would such au attor
ney have received os his fee for such an advo
cacy? Njthing in dollais, but much every
way in a happy consciousness that would make
bis own life origater and his own dying pillow
sweeter aud his own heaven happier—the con
sciousness that he had saved a man!
So there are commercial exigencies. Avery
late spring obliterates the demand for spring
overeats aud spring hats and spring apparel i f
all so.'ts- Hundreds of thousands of people
Bay: “it seems we are going to have no spring
aud we shall go straight out of winter into
warm wea:h9r, at d we can get along without
the usual spring attire.” Or there is no au
tumn weather, the heat plunging into the cold,
and the nsnal clothing, which is a compromise
between summer and winter, is not required.
It makes a d fference in the sale oi millions
and millions of dollars of goo Is, and some over-
eangnioe yonng merchant is caught with a vast
am unt of unsaleable goods that never will be
saleable again except at prices rninonely re
duced. That young merchant wi Jh a some
what limited capital is in a predicament. What
shall tbe old metchants do as they eee that
yoUDg man in this awful crisis? Knb their
hands and laugh and say: “Good for hm. He
might have known better. Wnen he has been
in business as long as we have, he will not
load his shelves in that way. Qai hsl He will
burst up before long. He had no business to
open his store so near to ours anyhow.”
Sheriff’s salt! Red ffig in the window:
How muck is bid for these out-of-the-
fashion spring overcoats and spring hats or
fall clothing out of date? Wnat do I hear
the way of a bid?” “Four dol
lars?’’ “Absurd, I cannot take that bid of
four dollars apices. Why, these coats when
first pat upon the market were off-red at fif
teen dollars each, and now I am offered only
four dollars. Is that all? Five dollars do I
hear? G sing at that! Gone at five dollars! ’
and he takes the whole lot. The young mer
chant goes horns that night and says to his
wife: “Well, Mary, wa will have to move oat
of this house and sell cur piano. That old
merchant that has bad au evil eye on me ever
since I started has bought out all that cloth
ing, and he will have it rejuvenated an 1 next
year put it on the market as new, while we
will do well if we keep oat of the poor-house ”
The young mm, broken-spirited, goes to hard
drinking. Tne yonng wife with her bsby goes
to her father’d house, and not only is his store
wiped ont, hat his home, his morals and his
prospects for two worlds, this and the next.
And devils make a banquet of fire and fill
their cups gall and drink deep to the health
of the old: merchant who swallowed np the
yonng merchant who got stuck on spring goods
aud went dowD. That fs due way, and some
of von have tried it
Bat there is another way. T oat young mer
chant who found that he had miscalculated in
laying in too many goods of ons kind and
been Haag ot the unusual season is standing
behind the connter fse.iag very bine and bit
ing his fi eger-nails or looking over his account
books, which read darker and worse every
time he looks at them, and thinks how his
yonng wife will have to be put In a plainer
honse than she bas ever expected to live in,
or go to a third-rate boarding-house, where
they have tough liver and Boar bread five
mornings out of the seven. An old merchant
comes in and says: “Well, Joe, this has been
a hard season for youog merchants, and this
prolonged cool weather has pat many in the
doldrums, and I have been thinking of you a
great deal of late, for just after I started in
business I once got into the same scrape.
Now, if there is anything I can do to help
you out, I will gladly do it. Batter juBt put
those goods out of sight for the present, and
next season we will plan something abont them.
I will help yon to some goods that you can
sell far me ou commission, aud we wnl go
down to one of the wholesale houses and tell
them that I know you and will b tek you up,
and if you want a few dollars to bridge over
the present, I can let you have them. Ba as
economical as you c«n, keep a stiff upper lip,
and remember that yon have two friends, God
and myself. Good morning.” Tne old mer
chant goes away and the young mau goes be
hind his desk and the tears roll down his
cheeks. It is the first time he Nw’iJied Dis
aster made him mad at every! *1, and mad
at man and mad at God. But this kind
ness melts him, and the tears seem to relieve
his brain, and his spirits rise from ten below
zero to eighty in the shade, and he comes ont
of the crisis. And about three years after
this, the yonng merchant goes into the old
merchant's store and says: “Well, my od
friend, I wss this morning thinking over what
you did for me three yt* s ago. Yon helped
me on; of au awful cri«; in my commercial
history. I learned wisdP*o and prosperity has
come, and the pallor hajg^bue out of my wife’s
cheeks, and the roses that were there when I
courted her in her father’s houie have
blsomed again, and my bnsiness is,'splendid,
and I thought X ought to let you know that
you saved a man.” In a short time after, the
old merchant who had been a good while
shaky in his limbs and had poor spells is
called to leave the world, and one morning
after he had read the twenty-third Psalm
abont “The Lord is my Soepherd,” he closes
hie eyes on this world, and au angel wbo had
been for many yeaes appointed to watch the
old man’s dwelliag, cries upward the news
that the patriarohrs spirit is about ascending.
And the twelve angels who keep the twelve
gates of Heaven unite in crying diwn to this
approaching spirit of the old mau, “Come in
at any of the twelve gates you choose! Ceme
in and welcome, for it has been told all over
these celestial neighborhoods that you saved a
man."
There sometimes come exigencies in the life
ot a woman. One morning abont two years
ago I saw in the newspapers that there was a
young woman in New York whose pocket-book
containing $37 33, had been stolen and she bad
been left without a farthing at the beginning
of the winter in a strange city, and no work.
And although she was a stranger, I did not
allow the nine o’clock mail to leave the lamp
post on oar oorner without carrying the thirty-
seven dollars and thirty-three cents; and tbe
case proved genuine. Now I have read all
Shakspeare’s tragedies and all Victor Hugo’s
tragedies and all Alexander Smith’s tragelies,
but I never read a tragedy more thrilling than
that case, and Bimilar cases by the hundreds
and thousands in all oar large cities; yonng
women without money and without home and
without work in these great maelstroms of
metropolitan life. When such a case cumes
under your observation, how do you treat it?
‘ Get out of my way, we have ne room io oar
establishment far more hands. I don’t believe
in women anyway; they are a lazy, idle,
worthless set. JohD, please show this person
ont of the door.” Or do yon compliment her
personal appearance and say things to which
if any man said to you r sister or daughter you
would kill him on the epot? This is one way,
aud it is tried every day in these large cities,
and many of those who advertise for female
hands in faciorie&and for governesses in fam
ilies have,prnvtt'C^emselfes unfit to be iu any
place outside bLheli.
But there iB another way, and I saw it tbe
other day in the Methodist Book Concern ia
New York, where a yonng woman applied for
work and the gentleman ia tone in manner
said in substance: “My daughter, we employ
women here, but I do not know of any vacant
place in oar department. Yon had better in
quire at each and such a place, and I hope you
will be successful in getting something to do.”
The embarrassed and humiliated woman
seemed to give way to Cor eiim confidence.
She started out with a hopeful look that I
think mast have won for her a place in which
to earn her bread. I rather think that consid
erate and Christian gentleman saved a woman.
New York and Brooklyn ground np last year
about thirty thousand young women, aud
would like to grind np abont as many this
year. Out of all that long prooessiou of wo
men who inarch on with no hope for this
id braised and
world nor the next, battered and
scoffed at and flung off the precipice, not one
but might have been saved for home and God
and heaven. But good men and women are
not in that kind of business. Alas for that
poor thing! nothing but the thread of that
held her, and the thread broke.
ing-giri’s needle hi
" have heard men tell iu pub ic discourse what
man is, but what is a woman? Until some
one shall give a better definition I will tell you
what a woman is. Direct from God, a sacred
and delicate gift, with affections so great that
no measuring line short of that of the infinite
God can tell their bonnd. Fashioned to refine
and soothe and lift and irradiate home and so
ciety and the world. Of snch value that no
one can appreciate it, unless his mother lived
long enough to let him nnderet-and it, or who
in some great crisis of life, when ail else failed
him, had a wife to reinforce him with a faith
in God that nothing coaid disturb. Speak out,
ye cradles, aud tell of the feet that rocked you
and the anxious faces that hovered over yon!
Speak out ye nurses of all Christendom, and
ye homes, whether desolate or still in full
bloom with the faces of wife, mother and
daughter, and help me to define what woman
is. If a man during sll his life accomplish
nothing else except to wm the love and confi
dence and help and companionship of a good
woman, he is a garlanded victor and ought to
bave the hands of all the people between here
and the grave stretched out to him in congrat
ulation.
Bit as tha geographers tall us that the
depths of the sea correspond with the heights
of the mountains, I have to tell you that good
womanhood is not higher up than bad woman
hood is deep down. The grander the palace,
the more awful tbe canflagratioa that destroys
it. The grander the steamer Oregon, the
more terrible her going down jist off the
coast. Now I should not wonder if you trem
bled a little witl a sense of responsibility
when I say that there is hardly a person in
this house but may have an opportunity to
save a woman. It may in your case be done
by good advice, or by financial help, or by
trying to bring to bear soma ons of a thous
and Christian iLli lenccs. You would not
have to go far. If, for instance, you know
among your acquaintances a young woman
who is apt to appear on the streets about the
hoar when gentlemen return from bueiness
and you find her responding to the smile of
entire strangers, hogs that lift the'.r ha’, goto
her aud plainly teil her.tint nearly all the
destroyed womanhood of tha world began the
downward path with that very kind of behav
ior.
Or if, for instance, yon find a woman in
financial distress and breaking down in health
and spirits trying to support her children, now
that her husband is deal or an invalid, doing
that very important and honorable work bat
which is li ,tie appreciated, keeping a boarding
house, where all the gaes .s, according aa they
pay small board, or propose, without paying
any board at all, to decamp, are critical of
everything and hard to please, bus/ yourselves
ia trying to get her more patrons, and tel. her
of divine sympathy. Yea, if yon eee a woman
favored of fortune and with all kiodiy sur
roundings finding in the hollow *1 itteries of
the world her chief regalement, li7.ng for her
self and for time as if there were no eternity,
strive to bring her into the kingdom of God, as
did the other day a Sabbarh-echool teacher
who was the mean3 of the conversion of the
daughter of a man of inmease wealth and
the dsughter resolved to join the church,
and she went home and said: “Father, I am
since, and loves to go. I do not know but
that faithful Sabbath-school teacher not only
saved a woman but saved a man. There may
be in this auditnoe ga hi red from all parts of
the world, the most cosmopolitan.assembly in
all tbe earth; there may be a man whnee be-
havior toward womanhood has been perfidious.
Repent! Stand up, thoq masterpiece of sin
and death,
going to jcia the church and I want you to
come,” “Oi. no,” be said, “I never g * to
church ” “Well,” ■f*''! the daughter, “if I
were going to bs cateeied, wonffi you not ge tn
eee me married?” Aud he said: “Oh, yes.”
“Well,” said she, “this is of more importance
than that.” So he went and css gene ever
that I may. charge yon! As far as
possible, make reparation. Do not boast that
yon have her in yonr power and that she can
not help herself. When that fine collar and
cravat and the elegant suit of clothes comes
off, and your uncovered soul stands in judg
ment and before God, yon will be better off if
you save that woman.
There is au exploit that you can do, and
that is to save a child. A child does not seem
to amonnt to much. It is nearly a year old
before it can walk at all. For the first year
and a half it cannot speak a word. For the
first ten years it would starve if it had to earn
its own food. For tte first fifteen years its
opinion on any subject is absolutely valueless-
And then there are bo many of them. My!
what lots of children! And some people have
contempt for children. They are good for
nothing but to wear out the carpets and break
things aud keep you awake nights crying.
Wei, your estimates of a child is quite dif
ferent from that mother's estimate wbo lost
her child this summer. They took it to the
salt air of the sea shore aud to the tonic air of
the mnuDtains, but do help came, and the brief
paragraph of its life is ended.
Suppose that life aould be restored by pur
chase, how much would that bereaved mother
give? Sae would take all the jewels from her
fingers, aud neck aud bureau, and put them
down. And if told that that was not enough,
she would take her house aud make over the
deed for it, and if that were not enough she
would oall in all her investments aud put
down ail her mortgages and bonds ; and if
told that were not eoough, she wonld ssy : “I
have made over all my property and if I can
have that child back I will now pledge that 1
will toil with my own hands, and carry with
my own shoulders in any kind of hard work,
and live.in a cellar and die in a garret. Oily
give me back that lost darling." I am glad
that there are those who know something of
the value of a lost ohtld. Its possibilities are
tremeodius. What will those hands yet do?
Where will those feet yet walk? Toward
what destiny will that neverdying soul betake
itself? Shall those lips be the throne of blas
phemy or benediction? Come, all ye sur
veyors of the earth, and measure if you can
its possible possessions. Come, all ye astron
omers of the earth, with yonr telescopes and
tell us if you can see the range of its eternal
flight. Come, all ye chronologiets, and calcu
late tbe decades on decades, the centuries on
oentnries, the cycles on cycles, the eternities
on eternities of its lifetime. Oh, to save
child I Am I not right in patting that among
the great exploits? Yea, that beats the other
two, for if you save the child yon save the
man or the woman. Get the first twenty
years of that boy or girl all right aud
I guess you have got manhood or womanhood
all right, aud their entire earthly and
eternal career all right. But what are you
goiDg to do with tnoee children who are
worse off than if their father and mother had
died the day they were born. Tcere are tens
of thousands of such. Their parentage was
against them. Tieir name is against them.
The structure of their skulls agiinst them.
Tneir nerves and mnscles contaminated by
inebriety aud dissoluteness of their parents,
they are practically at their birth laid out on a
plank iu the middle of the Atlantic ccean in
au equinoctial gale and told to make for shore.
The first greeting they get from the world ia to
be called a brat o: a ragamuffin or a wharf rat
What to do with them is the qaestioo often
asked. There is another question qai e ss per
tinent, and that is, what are they going to do
with us? They will ten or eleven years from
now have as many votes as the same number
of well-born children, and they will hand this
land over to anarchy and political damnation
just assure as wa neglect them. Suppose we
each one ns save a boy or a girl. Yon can do
it. Will you? I will- Take a cake of per
fumed soap and a fine-toothed comb and a New
Testament and a little candy and prayer and a
piece of cake and faith in God and common
sense, and begin this afternoon.
Bnt how shall we get ready for one or all of
these three exploits? We shall make a dead
failure if in oar own strength we try to save a
man or woman or child. But my text suggests
where we are to gat equipment. “Toe people
that do know their God shall be strong, and
do exploits.” We must know him through
Jesus Chr-et iu our own salvMfion and then we
shall have his help in the salvation oi jothere.
And while you are saving strangers you may
save some of your own kin. You tb nk your
brothers aud sisters and children and grand
children all safe, but they are not dead aud no
one is safe 'till he is dead. On the English
coast there was a wild storm and a wreck in
the offiag and the cry was: “Man the life
boat.” But Harry, the usual leader of the
sailors’ crew, was not to be found, and they
went without him aud brought back all the
shipwrecked people except o le. By this time
Harry, the leader of tbe crew, appeared and
said: “Why did you leave that one?” The
answer was: “He could not help himself at
all and we oould aot get him into the boat.”
“Man tbeti(e-boat,”|ehouted Harry, “and we
will go for that one.” “No," said his aged
mother standing by, “you most not go.
I lost yonr father in a storm like this, and
yonr brother Will went off six years ago
and I have not heard a word from Will since
he left, and I don't know what has happened
to him, poor Will, and I cannot let you also go
for I am old and dependent on yon." Hie re
ply was: “Mother, I must go and gave that
one man, and if I am lost G ed will take care
of you in your old days.” The lifeboat pat
oat, and after an awfnl straggle with the sea
they picked the poor fellow out of the rigging
jnst in time to save his life, and started to the
shore. And as they came srithin speaking dis
tance, Harry, jnst before he fainted from the
over exertioD, criel out: “We saved him, and
tell mother it was brother Will.’’ Oh, yes,
my friends, let us start out to save eome one
far time and for eternity, some man, eome wo
man, some child. And who knows bnt it may,
directly or indirectly, be the salvation of one
of oar own kindred, and that will be an ex
ploit worthy of celebration when the world
itself is shipwrecked and the sun has gone out
like a spark from a smitten anvil and all the
stars are dead!
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standing ? Do you frequently spit up your food, sometimes
with a sour taste and sometimes with a sweet ? Is thiq
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your vision become impaired? Are there spots before
the eyes? Is there a feeling of great prostration and
weakness? If you suffer from any of these symptoms
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Thla is an imported. Jeweled, expansion talance,
eulck train movement, complete with a 4-ounce Ducber
Eilverlne open face case and guaranteed in every re
spect. o make no mo*>ey on tbls watch, it simply
Lelp-tuato sell gold and gold fllleu watches from our
mammoth o .taiogue which U sent free. Send your
erder immodiatelv. This ad. mar rever ap»>earagain.
thee. W. BEAMS WATCH CO., fii, 63 mad 66 brarhornfSt.,
• *>, -. 4 —\jiy old reliabl > burinesu
CHI (AGO, ill. Retercn
A PERFORATED STAMPING PATTERN
ot above design (6x10 lncb*B) for 5 cenr« postage.
W- J. CUMING & CO..
671-lt 148 W. Fifth sr., Cincinnati, O.
$25.00!_ HOW MANY DOTS IN THE CIRCLE?
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