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- “A 'LEADVILLE SERMON. HOW A HARD-FEATURED OLD MINER " PREACHED. How a DNMinister Teold the Story eof the Prodigal Sen. Moncure D. Conway, in a letter from the West, tells this story : At one of our evening entertainments Mr. J. L. Dow, M. P. (Victoria), a Sootchman of excellent humor, who is returning from a tour in America, read us a sermon which he had taken down as he heard it in Leadvilie. The service was in a variety theater ; some whisky barrels made the pulpit. After the | singing of ‘‘A day’s march nearer home,” a hard-featured miner rose to address the hard-featured congregation : Friends, the regular preacher has gone down smong the boys who are working the new carbonate mines at Gunnison, and I have been appointed to take his hand and heave it for all it’s ‘worth. To many of you present it won’t be necessary to tell yon that I'm kinder new to this business, but I don’t believe there’s & rooster in the camp mean enough to take advantage of my ignor ance and cold-deck me on the first deal. I have been reading in this yere book that yarn about the Prodigal Son and I will try to tell you the story. Thebook don’t give no dates, but I guess it hap- | pened a considerable spell back in his tory. It seems the Prod’s father was pretty flush with the stamps, and a real good sort into the bargain, as he always shelled out freely when the kid struck him for a stake, and never bucked at the size of the pile neither, so long as the , boy heaved in hearty on the ranche and generally behaved hisself handsum, But by and by the kid began to git restless and wanted to rmstle out the travel; so he got the ole man to ante up in ad vance of the death racket and let him go. He nosooner got his divvy in his pocket _ than he shook the ranche and spread himself out to take in some of the far-off camps, Wal, according to the book, he had a way-up time at first and slung his * coinaround as if he owned the best pay ing lead within a thousand miles of Denver. But, my friends, this game didn’t last forever, Hard luck struck him at last, and the Prod is found in one of his sober intervals remarking in a confidential way to one of his chums : “I say, old pard, I'm busted clean to the bed-rock, and them’s the cold blooded facts.” The book don’t say what the Prod. went broke on, but prob’bly he steered up against some brace game. Be that as it may, however, he was so beautifully cleaned out that he hadn’t a two-bit piece left to go and eat on. In this condition he struck a ranche belonging to an old granger, who, taking pity on the poor, busted Prod, gave him a job of herding hogs, The granger wasn’t a bad old sample in a general way, but he was inclined to be kinder mean on the feed, and so it came that often Prod got so frightfully sharp “set for & meal he had to go whacks in the hog-trough. You bet the kid who in his flush times had been boozing round among the best of everything like a silver king or a big railway monopolist, had now plenty of time on his hands for doing & tall lot of thinking, and one day he said to himself : *l'll just ding this business. Why, even the meanest help in any old governor's hired service are living on square grub, and plenty of it, while I'm worrying along on a shook linch. I know what I'll do—T'll just skip back home to the old man and ask him for a new deal.” 8o away he went, but he had a hard time reaching the old ranche, and don't you forget it. When you have plenty of coin, my friends, everybody’s pleasant, but when you're on the borrow you don’t find it so good. Finally he did strike the familiar trail leading down to the old home and while crossing some open lots the old man, as the book puts in, saw him a-coming afar off. Yes, that ole man’s eyes were very dim, but he did not fail te spot his boy afar off, And what d'ye suppose that Prod’s father did? Did he whistle the dogs to chase him off the ranche? You bet he didn't. Did he go and take down his shot-gun and wait till he got a good drop on him? Youbet he didn’t. No, but Tl tell you what he did. He just waltzed right out of the gate to meet him, and froze to that poor scarecrow right on the spot, and fell to kissing of him and weeping over him and calling him his poor, long-lost boy until the Prod got broke all up and like a sluice dam when the snow comes down off Pike’s Peak under a July sun. The old man then took him right away to acloth ing store and rigged him out in the noblest suit to be had for coin and put an elegant ring on his finger, ordered the fattest steer on the ranche to be slaughtered, invited all the neighbors in, and had the biggest blow-out the camp had ever seen, Now it appears that the Prod’s elder brother was out at work with the teams, and when he eame in he asked some of the help what was the meaning of the picnio they were having inside, and when he was told the reason he just got real mad, The old man hearing of this went out to him and said; “‘Come in, lad; your brother’s come back and we're having a regular old-fashioned jubilee; now you come right along, like a good fellow, and take s share in the break down.” But the brother wouldn’t budge, and said: “Look here, ‘dad, I have stuck to the ranche and have never trans gressed your orders, but it never struck you to have a picnic of this kind until you give it in honor of a loafer who has disgraced our name.” But, my friends, you make your bets on it that old man had a level head and wasn’t to be easily bluffed. Hesays: ‘My son, you say you have never transgressed my orders, but are you quite sure that's so, I tell you that you have grievously trans gressed my commandments now by your unbrotherly and uncharitable be bavior. Learn, then, that I am pot pleased by service of mere form, if the heart is nop in aocord, You may count that your service is according to the letter of the law, but I tell you it don’t fill the bushel worth a cent so far as the spirit is concerned. The spirit you are showing, my lad, is the one that leads to narrow-mindedness, to bigotry, to intolerance and to fooling round and burning folks because they don’t fix up their formal observances just exactly as you have arranged and as you assert must be right.” And now, friends, it is to the credit of the brother that he took his old father's square talk in good part, and yon bet that old man was a real thoroughbred—and don’t you for get it. T Feeding and Dressing Fowls, Mrs., Fanny Field, an authority on poultry matters, reports through 7The Prairie Farmer that she has had best suocess in fattening by use of as much as the hens or turkeys can eat clean of a mixture morning and noon of boiled potatoes, beets and carrots, thickened with corn and barley meal, and whole corn at night, and milk kept by them constantly in abundant supply : “Ten days or two weeks of such feed ing will put fowls in prime condition fox market, i. ¢., if they are in decent order to begin with; but if they have been half starved all summer, no amount of extra feeding will ever make them as good for table use as the fowls that have been well kept all their lives, The best market turkeys I ever saw were well fed from the time they were twenty hours old. For the last month they were fed three times daily—cooked vegetables and meal at morning and noon, and corn at night. They had all they would eat up clean each time, but no food was left in their feeding places. They had free range, but I don’t think they went ten rods from the buildings. When killed they were between six and seven months of age, and the dressed weight of the eighty was 1,286 pounds.”’ Reasonable objection is made to con fining in close, dark pens; give light and comfortable room for exercise, even if this humane treatment renders necessary the use of a handful more of food : “T'wice we tried fattening turkeys in pens in a barn cellar where it was only light enough to enable the fowls to see ‘ to eat; the cellar was dry and warm, food and drink were kept in the pens all i the time, but those turkeys would only '} eat just enongh to keep from starvation, | and they actually weighed less after three weeks of confinement than they did when we shut them up. I happen | to know half a dozen other people who ‘ tried the same thing with the same re sult.” Mr. D. W. Lewis takes up the sub ject from the commercial point of view, and in a recent circular reminds farmers of the requisites for securing highest prices in the New York market : “Fowls should not be fed for twenty four hours before killing, as food in the crop is liable to sour and injure its sale, Bleeding in the mouth is the best mode of killing. Heads and feet should be left on. In dressing, the water shonld | be as near the boiling point as possible, without actually boiling. Dip the bird | into the water three times, holding it by the legs. The feathers must be then quickly and thoroughly removed, with out breaking the skin. Then dip into boiling water two seconds, and imme diately afterward into oold water the same length of time. Wet dressed poul try is generally preferred up to Thanks giving, after which time dry picked has the preference. Small fat turkeys sell best the season through, except at Thanksgiving and Christmas, when large, dry picked birds only are wanted, ‘ Geeseell best at Christmas.” Why he Reformed, “You must excuse me, gentlemen, for { cannot drink anything,” said a man who was known to the entire town as a drunkard, “This is the first time you ever re fused a drink,” said an acquaintance, “The other day you were hustling aronnd after a cocktail, and in fact yon even asked me te set ’em up,” ‘“That’s very true, but I am a very different man now,” ‘‘Preachers had a hold of you ?” “No sir, no one has said anything to me.” ““Well, what has caused the reforma tion ?” “I'll tell you, After leaving you the other day, I kept on hustling for a cock tail, a 8 you term it, until I met = party of friends. When I left them I was about half drunk. I would not have stopped at this, but my friends had to hurry away to catch a train, To a man of my temperament, a half-drunk is a miserable condition, for the desire for more i 8 8o strong that he forgets his self respect in his efforts to get more to drink. Failing at the saloons, I re membered that there was a half pint of whisky at home, which had been pur chased for medicinal purposes. Just before reaching the gate I heard voices in the garden, and looking over the fenee I saw my little son and daughter playing ‘No, you be ma,’ said the boy, ‘and I'll be pa. Now you sit here an’ T'll come in drunk., Wait now till I fill my bottle.” He took a bottle which he ran away and filled with water. Pretty soon he returned and entering the play house, nodded idiotically at his little girl, and sat down without saying any thing. Then the girl looked up from her work and said : " ¢« «James, why will you do this way ?’ ‘“ ‘Whizzer way?’ he replied. ‘¢ ‘Qettin’ drunk.’ ‘“ ‘Who’s drunk ?’ ‘““You are, an’ you promised when the baby died that yom wouldn’t drink any more. The czildren are almost ragged an’ we haven’t anything to eat hardly, but you still throw your money away. Don't you know you are break in’ my heart ? ‘I hurried away. The acting was too life-like. I could think of nothing during the day but those little children laying in the garden, and I vowed that fvould never take another drink, and T will not, 8o help me God,”«~4rkancaw zmveler7 2 JIM FISK’S PALACE CAR. Fitted Up Regardiess of Expeiise and Now Serving as a Wrecking Car. On a siding near the repair shops of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad is an old ecar, bearing on its side the legend “Tool Car.” It is nsed to carry the wrecking gang of the Sus quehanna division and their tools, I was looking at the car recently, says a Sun correspondent, and one-of the em ployees said : ““I suppose you would be surprised you knew to whom this car used to be long.” ‘‘Whose was it ?” I asked. ‘“This car,” he replied, ‘‘has rather a remarkable history, When Jim Fisk was President of the old Erie he had a car built for his own private use, and it was named after Josie Mansfield,. The car was built down in Delaware some where, I think, and it cost a mint of money. When Fisk ordered it he only gave instructions to build him a ecar in which he could travel and enjoy himself, When it was finished and delivered to Fisk he was so pleased with the work manship that he immediately sent a check for $l,OOO to the man who had de signed the car and had charge of the work. The actual cost of the car was not far from $75,000, which in those days was an enormous sum for one car, It was fitted up throughout in the most luxurious style. It was finished inside with oiled walnut and cherry, and the panels were adorned with oil paintings which alone cost a large sum, All the appointments of the car were correspond ingly expensive. At one end were sleep ing apartments, and dressing and toilet rooms. The remainder of the car wasa traveling drawing-room. In those days the idea of taking meals on board a train was unheard of, but Fisk used to have wine and delicacies for lunch, and hired a butler, whose special duty was to take charge of the car, whereyer it went. “In those days he used to do some pretty tall traveling. He had an engine at his command, and when he wanted to go over the Erie he went flying along at at rapid rate, regardless of all other rains, which had to get out of the wey. It was Fisk who ran the fast train over the Erie carrying relief for the sufferers by the Chicago fire. When he made up his mind to send out the relief train, he sent for Engineer Sam Walker, of Port Jervis, to come to his private office, ‘“‘Sam,’ he says, ‘I want you to run that train through to Port Jervis as quick as God will let you, If you are killed I'll look out for the wife and little ones,’ ““Walker took the train through in the anparalleled time of two hours and ten minutes. Nat Taft, I think, took it over the Delaware division, At any rate, it was a tremendous run, and the Erie beat them all into Chicago. “Fisk was a great favorite with the railroad men. He always had a good word for us whenever he was around. When Fisk died the car was used by his successor for a while, and afterward did some duty on the eastern part of the road. It afterward found its way here for repairs. When they came to look it over, they decided that it would be use less expense to repair it, and so, after lying on the switch for a year or two, it was turned into a wrecking car, as you now see it."”’ Lest She Should Fall Dead. Philip Guyer of Paterson, N, J., losy a large sum of money by theft recently. He suspected an old woman in the neighborhood, but did not have suffi cient evidence to warrant his making a complaint against her. What made it the more suspicious was that the woman called every morning to ask Mr. Guyer if he had got any trace of the thief. The following story is told by a Paterson police official : Mr. Guyer ascertained that she was very superstitous, and the next morning when she called and asked as usual, if there was any news of the thief, he replied : “No; but I expect to know who it was to-night.” “How ?” usked the woman, “Do you see those three nails?” said Mr. Guyer, showing the woman three very old and rusty nails. ‘“Well, they came from a coffin that has been buried for a hundred years.” “The Virgin save us,” said the woman, “ And do you see that paper ?” ] do.” “ Well, that is a prayer, which I just got from the priest.” *“And what are you going to do with those things ?” Well,” answered Mr. Guyer, slowly and impressively looking the woman in the face, ‘‘ to-night at 12 o’clock I am to go into a certain yard where there is a pear tree. lam to nail that prayer to the tree with these three nails. Every time I drive a nail I am to repeat that prayer aloud. When I drive the last nail and repeat the prayer for the last time, the person who stole the money will drop dead.” The woman turned pale, and departed without saying a word. That evening, about 8 o’clock, there was arap at his front door. He went to the door and there was no one in sight, but on the sill he found a small package containing the money that had been stolen, An Old Superstition, A curious story comes from Brent. ford, England. A servant of Dr. Terry wag sent out to carry a message. She was short-sighted, and, failing to return, it was feared she had fallen into the canal, It was dragged, but without success. Several days later an old barge woman suggested that a loaf of bread in which some quicksilver had been placed should be floated on the water. This was done and the loaf became stationary at a certain point. The dragging was resumed at this point and the body found. The superstition is said to be centuries old, but ne one had seen it tried there for many a year, THE OLD LADY BEAT JOHN. THE JUDGE’S STORY ABOUT Taß WILL THAT WASN'T FINISHED. After a Fearfu! Drive of Twe Miles on a Stormy Night to Minister te a Dying Woman Ske Decides te Live to Spite Jobn, The judge and I had been driving ont some miles in the afternoon, and coming home in the twilight, passed a substan tial-looking, though very old farm house, with comfortable barns and out-build ings, indicating a well-to-do householder. The rich bottom lands which stretched away a half mile from the river to the hill slopes, ecovered with abundant birch and maple were luxuriant with grain and corn, - That evening, when we were sitting in the library, after dinner, smoking and chatting, I asked the judge: ‘“To whom does that farm we passed on the level belong ?” When T asked him the question, the judge laughed outright, and after a mo ment’s pause, said: “I will teil youa story. “‘One stormy, winter night, after mia night I was sitting here reading, the rest of the family having gone to sleep long before, when old Dr. Strong thundered at the door-knocker, and made noise enough to wake the Seven Sleepers. It isa way he has, and neither my wife nor the girls, who were roused out of slumber, nor I myself, had any question who was at the door. Ilet him in myself, and a tempest of wind and snow with him, The blast that drove him into my arms also put out the hall lights, whirled into the library, and flared the reading lamp so that it broke the chimney, and blazed up to a colored tissue-paper affair which Susie had put over the shade, set it on fire, and for a moment threatened a general conflagration of papers and books on the table. ¢ ‘Shut the door yourself,” I shouted, and rushed back here to put out the fire, That done, I went back and found the old doctor out of breath, in the dark, trying to shut the door against the wind. It took the strength of both of us to doit. Then I told him to find his way to the library, for he knew it, and I went off in search of another lamp, ‘““‘When I came back, he was just re covering his wind, and after a gasp or two, told me his errand. °‘Old Mrs. Norton is dying. She can’t live til morning. She's alive now only on stimu lants, She wants to make a will, and I have come for you.’ ‘“‘A nice night,” I said, ‘for a two mile drive to make a will for a woman who hasn’t a cent in the world to leave. Why didn’t you tell her so, and have done with it? ‘“‘Now, look here,’ said the doctor, ‘this is a case of an old woman, and an old neighbor and a friend, and she wants you to do something for her, and yowll do it, if it is only to comfort her last hours. Get your things and come with me. We shall not find her alive it you don’t hurry, and you'll be sorry if that happens,’ ““The upshot of it was that I went, We had a fearful drive out to the farm house on the fist, which you are asking about, Mrs, Norton was the widow of John Norton, who died forty odd years before this, John Norton, when he married her, was a widower with ¢ne son, John. He was a man of considera ble property, and when he died left a widow, that son John by his first wife, and two sons by his second wife. The older son, John, had never been on very warm terms with his stepmother, and for some years had had no intercourse with the family., “I found the old lady lying in the big room, on a great bedstead on one side of the room, opposite to the broad chim ney, in which was a roaring fire, the only light in the room., After the doc tor had spoken to her and administered something, a stimulant, I suppose, he came over to me and said in a whisper, ‘Hurry up, she’s very weak.’ “I had broaght paper and pen and ink with me, I found astand and a candle, placed them at the head of the bed, and after safing a 2 few words to her, told her was ready to prepare the will, if she would now go on and tell me what she wanted me to do. I wrote the introductory phrase rapidly, and leaning over toward her said: ‘Now go on, Mrs, Norton.” Her voice was quite faint, and she seemed to speak with an effort. She said: ‘First of all I want to give the farm to my sons, Harry and James; just put that down.’ ‘But,” said I, ‘you can’t do that, Mrs. Norton; the farm isn’'t yours to give away.’ ““‘The farm isn’t mine !’ she said in a voice decidedly stronger than before, ‘“‘No, the farm isn’t yours, You have only a life interest in it.’ ¢ This farm that I've run for goin’ on forty-three year next spring isn’t mine to do what I please with it! Why not, judge? T'd like te know what you mean ?’ “‘Why, Mr. Norton, your husband, gave you a life estate in all his property, and on your death the property gces to his son John, and your children get the village houses.’ ‘“ ‘And when I die John Norton is to have this house and farm whether I will or no.’ ‘ “Just so, 1t will be his,’ ‘““Then I ain’t going to die,’ said the old woman in a clear and decidedly ringing, healthy voice, And so saying she threw her feet over the front of the bed, sat up, gathered a blanket and coverlid about her, straightened up her gaunt form, walked across the room and sat down in a great chair before the fire. The doctor and I came home, That was fifteen years ago. The old lady is alive to-day. And she accomplished her intent, ‘“She beat John after all. He died four years ago in Boston, and I don’t know what will be left. But whoever comes into the farm-house when she goes out, it will not beJohn, And since John’s death the farm has been better kept, and everything about it is in vastly better condition for strangers “éhan it would have been for John,"” A TERRIBLE PROPHECY. . nd Earthe TS, S g —~Heo 1 The recent l!lndyzatm-iuus appearances follow ing sunset and preceding sunrise have at tracted wide attention from students of the skies and th= people generally. Duriu,% the days of recent weeks the sun seems to have been obscured by a thin veil of a dull leaden hue which, as the sun receded toward the horizon, became more luminous, then yellow, then orange, then red; and, as night aettlo& down upon the earth, a dull purple. At first it was thought these appearances were or dinary sunset reflections of light, but it is now pretty certain that they are either the misty substance of the tail of some uns-en comet, in which the ear.h is envelojel, or a surrounding stratum of world dust or very small meteors. Professor Brooks, of the Red House Observatory, Phelfi)s, New York, has turncd his tele scope upon those objects and discovered what he thinks are myriads of telescopic meteors. If it is unorganized world dust, or decomposed vapors, as the Democrat and Chronicle, of Rochester, N, Y., remarks: ‘“How is this matter to be disposel of? Will it settle and form a deposit usgon the earth, or remain a partial opaque shell about the earth to _cut off a portion of the sun’s light upon it " Whatever the mystery is, there is no deny ing that some very strange forces are at work in the upper airs. The terrible torna does and cyclones which have swept our own ‘country, and the fearful volcanoes and earth: quakes which have destroyed so many cities and thousands of people—the tidal waves wh'ch mysteriously rise and fall on coasts bitherto unvexed by them—the tremendous activity which is evilent in the sun by the constant revelation of enormous spots upon itssurface—all indicate unusual energy in the heavenly bcdies, These circumstances recall Professor Grim= mer’s prophecies, that from 1851 to 1887, the ras:agze of the five great planets—Mars, fiep tune, Jupiter, Uranus and Saturn—around the sun would produc2 strange and wonder ful phenomena. He says: ‘“The waters of the earth will become more or 185 poionous, The air will be foul with noisome odors. Ancient races will disapfiear from the earth.” He attempts to prove his prophecy by the fact that in 1720, when Mars um{ Saturn made their passage around the sunh coincidentally, great destruction and mor tality visited all parts of the globe: He also found the same results in previous perehielion passages of the planets, and argues that these circumstances alwsys produce epidemics and destructive diseases which will bafle the skill of the most eminent J)hysicians; that the poor will die bf’ thousands, the weak and intem- Eerate falling first, thcse whose i)lood has een impoverished by excess of Work or dissi pation next, and only those who are in com parative vigor shall es ape to enoy the era of renewed activity and prosperity whi h will follow tie period of destruct on. Inasmuch as the entire world seems sub ect to the sway of the heavenly bodies no part of the earth, he thinks, can escape seourging, He even predicts that America will lose over ten millions of people; that the farmers will be stricken with fearand cease totill the soil: that famine will make human misery more wretched. That hundreds will lt;yee to overcrowed cities for &id in vain, That sudden changes in ccean ecur rents, temperature and surroundings will entirely transform the face of nature and climate of countries; that the air will he so foul witb malaria and other noxious gases, that those who survive will be troub!e(f with disorders of the digestive organs. That many who escape other ills will bloat with dropsy and suddenly pass away, while others will grow thin and drag out amiserable existence in indescribable agony for weeks, Neuralgic pains in diferent parts of 5,9 body will torment them. They will easily tire and become despondent, A faint, hot feeling will be succeeded by chilly sensations while hallucinations and dread of impending ill will paralize all effort, “The birds in the air, the Yx‘ast.s of the fiela and even the fish of the sea will become dis eased, poisoning the air and poisoning the waters of the globe.” We are told on the other hand that those who shall pass through this period of trial will have llnr,;er en joy ment of life and health. The earth will i:ield more abuundantly than ever before, he animal kingdom will be more prolific and life prolonged very ma terially. This prolongation of life will be owing to the healthy electric and magnetic influences that will yervade the at mosphere. It would jerhapsseem that the present redress of the sun, and the pre-en-e of a belt or veil of cosmic matter, Justified, in a Ineasure, the jrediction of Professor Grimmer, but disturbing a; his prediction may be we are told for our com fort that the strong and pure blooded need have little to fear inthese calamities, tha those who are delicate or indisposed shoult adopt means to keep the system well sup ported and the blood pure, and that the most philosophical and effective method of accom plishing this is to keep the kidneys and liver n good condition. From the testimorials of such men as Dr. Dio Lewis and Professor R, A. Gunn, M. D., Dean of the Unitcd States Medical Coliege, New York, and thousands of influential non-professional peo; le, it ceems almost certain that for this purpose there is no preparation known to science equai to Warner's Safe Cure, better known as Warnei’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. This medicine has acquired the finest reputation of any preparation that was ever pvt upon the market. It is a radieal blood purifier, which soothes and heals all inflamed crgans, strengthens the nervous system, washes out all evidences of decay, regu'ales digestion, prevents malassimilation of food in a phil osopbical and rational manner, {or:ifies the iystem agaiust climatic changes and malarial Influences and the destructive agencies which seem to be so abundant in these ** evil days.” It is not our purpose to dispute the correct ness of Professor Grimmer’s prophecies. As we have said, the marked di-turbances of the past few years would seem to give a ;emg!ance of verification of his theory. It s certain, as above stated, that we are pass ing through what may be rezarded as a crucial period and it is the part of the wise men not to ignore, but to learn to fortify themselves against the possibility of being overcome by these evils, 1t is a duty which each man owes to him telf, and his fellows, to mitigate as much as possible the suffering of humnnit{ and in no way better can he accomplish this urpose than to see to it that he, him:elf, is f‘(’)nlfled by the best known pre aration in the strong est possible manner and that he exert the in fluence of his own example upon his fellows to the end that they, too, may share with him immunity from the destructive influences which seek his ruin. A Capture. A Chicago constable® went into the suburbs to serve a judgment for $B6 on a poor widow, The woman had not the means to satisfy the judgment, and the constable looked around to see if there wasn’t something he could levy upon, But the widow had nothing in the house save a rickety bedstead, three or four common chairs, a pine table and a few other things of no value. The consta ble was about to return disgusted, when he noticed a flock of geesein a pool of water near the house, ‘‘Are these beau tiful geese yours?” asked the constable of the old lady. ‘‘Yis, sir,” was the in nocent-reply, ‘“them is mine, an’ they are all the comfort I have,” ‘‘Well,” said the constable, “I guess I’ll take em,” and stripping off his coat, he pro ceeded to capture and tie the geese, a performance which took him several hours. He then made a proud entry into the city. e e el e e . A New York man who had been out of employment for several months, ob tained a job, and the next day killed himself in a fit of temporary insanity, if you want to drive a New York man crazy, set him to work, R s, T C. Farley, city mashal, 248 Broadway, N. Y., says: ‘I had rheumatic gout twenty years; tried everything; now take Dr, Elmore's R. G. It has cured my crippled feet, and beats all other medi ines and treatments in the world." With good humor and kindness, a mans more agreeable in the world than with a su. perior mt.el.lnfi devoid of gayety and goodncss LaDres’ & ohildren’'s Boots & SBuoves swui run overif Lyon's Patent Heel Btifters are used Twenty-four Hours to Live. From John Kuhn, Lafayotte, Ind., wh» announces that he is now in “perfect healith,” we have the f llowing: One year ago I was, to all appearance, in the last stages of con sumption. Our best physicians gave my (ase up. I finally got s) low that our doctor said I cculd omly live twenty-four hours. My friends then purchased a bottle of Dr. Wm, Hall's Balsam for the Lungs. which con siderably benefited me. I continued until T took nine bottles, and I am now in perfect health. A man's ruling passion is the key to his character, Young Ladies, If you want your hair to have that %ecnliar glossy appearance that always adorns the head of beauty, use Carboline, the unatural hair re storer and dressing. In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal Pmdence lessen your sail when filled witn & too fortunate gale of prosperity. For nausea, dizziness and sick headache, Dr Banford’s Liver Invigorator has no equal. A man's ruling passion is the key to his character, What ails {)ou? If it is a cough, take Pizo’ Cure. Sold by druggists. 26 cents, Man i 8 an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run to weeds, Menseman’s Peptonized Beef Tonie, the otnr? at:plutiou of beef comtaining its entire nutri ious properties, It contains blood-making, fone-genenunfn-nd life-sustaining properties; iavaluable for diFeltion, d{upeplis nervous prostration, and all forms o genenf debility; also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the l’.lfit of exhaustion, nervous prostration or soute diseases, particulariy if rosulting from ulmonary compaints, Caswell, Hazar. & Co, groptiokm, New York. Sold by druggists, Truth becomes effective by frequent contem plation ; and the hatitual recurrence of its pre cepts induces practice, Pimples, pustules, and all skin disorders are cured by using Samaritan Nervine, A man who is able to em{ulo.y himself inno cently is never miserable. 1t is the idle who are w etched. If I wanted to inflict the greatest punishment on a fellow creature, I would s'hut him alone in_a dark room without employ ment.—Johnsoh, Ernest Reese of Hannilal, Mo. ,says:*“‘Samar itan Nervine cured me of sick headache.” He who lives to no purpose lives to a bad purpose i I FAILING | AND INFALLIBLE IN CURING -+ Epileptic Fits, N Spasms, Falling : v Sickness, Conyul sions, Bt. Vitus Dance, Alcoholism, Opium Fating, Seminal Weakness, Im potency, Byphilis, Scrofula, and alt Nervous and Blood Diseases. I 3 To Clergymen, Lawyers, Literary Men, Merchants, Bankers: Ladies and allrs;vhog; sedentnrf' employment causes Nervous Pros tration, Irregularities of the blood, stomach, bowels or Kidneys, or whe require a nerve tonic, appetizeror stimulant, Samaritan Nery ine is invaluable. proclaim it the most wonderful Invigor- . ant that eversustains ed a sinking system. $1.50 at Druggists. TheDR.S.A.RICHMOND MEDICAL CO., Sole Pro- Goucumon. prietors, St. Joseph, Mo. Chas. N. 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Whyt Because the Mustang pene. trates thronil(lmskin and flesh to the very bone, driving oqt all pain and soreness apg morblid s%(;;-etti(ans, :1!;1(;0 restor. ing the afilicted pa 80 angd supple healt.fi. - Delicate and Feeble Ladies, Those languid, tiresome censations, causiny you to feel scarcely able to he on vour foet: that constant drain that is taking from you, system all its former e asticity ; driving ths bloom from your cheeks; that (-o,,{i‘"ua, strain upon fronr vital forces, rendering yoy irritable and fretfu!, can easily be remoyeg by theuse of that marvelous remedy, Hq Bitters. Irregularities and obstruct.on. g 3 obstructions of your system are relieved at once, while the special cause of periodical pain are perms. nently removed. None receive so much bep. efit, an'l none are £0 profoundly gratefu] and show such an interest in recommending Hop Bitters as women. Feels Yourg Agnin. *‘ My mother was afflicted a long 'ime wity, Neuralgia and a dull, heavy, inactive vondf tion of the whole system: headache, neryoys prostration, and was almost helpless, N, g‘hysicians or medicines did her any good hree months ago she began to use H?)p Bit. ters with such gool effect that she sesms apq feels young again, a'though over 0 yeqry 6l). ‘We think there i:no other medicine fit touse in the family.”—A Ilzay, in Provi. dence. BRADYORD, Fa., May &, 1875, It has curel me of several diseases, such ag nervousness, sickne:s at the stomach, month. ly troubles, etc, 1 have not seen a sick day in a year since I took Hop Bitters, All my neighbors use them. MRS. FANNIE GREEY. §3,000 Lost,—*“A tour of Europe that cost me £3,000, done me less good than one lottls of Hop Bitters; they also cured my wife of fifteen years’ nervous weakness, sleeplessnes; and dyspepsia.” R. M., Auburn, N. Y. High Avthority. 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