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THE OLD SETTLER.
DISOCSTED WITH TItAYKI,—NO PLACE
LIKE HOME.
N» Cider, and Ike Mmrrii Tavern Throo
Jlllei Am-nr and Without a l.lrrn*c.
"Wa'l, boys, b’gosh, I’m glad to see
ye 1 Th’ hain’t no dura place top o’ the
boot stool or under the cab’py, arter all,
ez kin stan’ up an’ hoi’ tbo but eend ol
a taller-dip to yer own vine nn’ fig tree,
is th’? Ye kin galavant, b’gosh-
t’lmiglity, from Dan to Bearsheby, an’
gad the country twixt the gittiu’ up o’
the rub an’ the goin’ down o’ the samo,
till yer new half-soled and heeled cow
hides is wore so that if ye offered ’em
to a tramp he’d tako t’other side o’ the
road, but whar’ll ye find the Bpot that
ye kin knuckle up to nn’ sinp it on the
hack, nn’ say, ‘You’re my honeysuckle 1’
like ye kin to the spot ye kin look back
to, even if yer a million miles nway, an’
see ev’ry spear o’ grass, au’ ov’ry gravel
stun, an’ ev’ry face th’ is in it, jist ez
plain ez if they was standiu’ right afore
ye ? Ye won’t find it. nowhar! Ye
mowt be sot down ’mongst the Rocky
Mountains, an’ couldn’t see the top of
’em, but, gosh 1 how quick ye’d say,
•Thoy’m ’sumpin’ of n mountain, to bo
sure, but tho Knob, ’cross the creek,
back thar to hum, knocks ’em Bky
high 1’ An’ mebby ye’ve hoered a good
deal ’bout tho Miss’sippy River, an’ ye
go tako a squint nt it. ‘Nico river,’ vo
say. ‘Lots o’ water in it. Raftin’
fresh all the time. But, gosht’lmighty,
ye orter see tho Dellywar’ I If yo git
up to war it starts in tho mountains, ye
kin soak it up with a sponge, but it’s
bigger’n ton Miss’sippy rivers 1’ Then
ye git up to Niaggcry Falls, mobbo.
Yo can’t help remarkin’ that it’s quite a
tumble, an’ makes a heap o’ noise, an’
would run a power o’ saw mills. But
ye think back on the creek that ye know
ev’ry inch of, from tho spring whar it
gits its fust drink to tho place whar it
lines the river. An’ ye kin see how it
rushes an’ jumps with a roar from tho
high ledge up yonder, all shet in by
hemlocks, an’ tumbles down inter the
big, dark basin at tho bottom, whirlin’
an’ foamin’, an’ leapin’ zif ’twero crazy,
an’ crowdin’ itself through the narrcr
pass twixt tho two big rocks inter tho
deep pool below; an’ how it slips away
out u t'other eend o’ the pool, sly nn’
slow like, zif 'twore feored somobody’d
see it an’ call it bnck agin, bimoby goin’
fnster an’ faster, au’ gottin’ noisier an’
noisier, an’ playin’ tag an’ leap frog
with tho mossv old rocks an’ tangled
roots, an’ laughin’ ’causo they look so
grim an’ solemn; au' how it hurries on
an’ on, leapin’ over more ledges, gittiu’
skeert ’cause some on cm’s so high an’
jagged, an’ turnin’ white ez a ghost all
over ez it jumps, an’ never comm’ to it
self agin till it gits olean down to tho
knoll o’ bricks an’ winds roan’ it like a
flash, out’n sight o’ the jogged ledge
that skeert it; an’ how it suns itself a
minute jist this sido o’ whar the woods
begins, on’ then glides inter their shod-
der, an’ scoots about ’mongst the trees
till you don't see it no more, but kin
hear it for ever so long, singin’ an’
ihoutin’ to’rds the old road an’ the log
bridge, ’way on t’other side o’ tho ma-
t ies—I say, b’gOBh, that ye jist git a
linkin’ back on that, an’ ye tell it to
be fust man ye seo, an’ then whar’s yer
Waggery? I tell ye, boys, th’ hain’t
no place like hum, an’ I’m twenty years
younger since I got back agin, aii’ I’m
durn glad to seo yo 1
‘Yes, b’gosh, boys,” continue the
Old Settler, ‘‘I don' t room no more. A
away from hum don’t give ye no
money. My trip cost me enough to fat
ten two good pigs, but I’m so darn glad
to git settled down hero ’mongst ye
agtn, ’Squire, that I’ll jist shako the
bones with you for the juice for the
house, an’ if yo stiok mo I’ll sot ’em up.
if it takes nnother pig I”
“Well, Major,’’said the County Clerk,
“have you beon far on your travels ?”
“Fur?" exolaimed tho Old Settlor, ns
if amazed at the quostion, “Hev I lieu
fur ? Didn’t ye know me an’ M’rinr’d
bon to Little Equiuook ? D’yo know
whar Little Eqniuook-is? Ye know
whar Lackawaok is, don’t ye ? Wall,
how fur is Lnokawtick from h’yer?"
“A good twenty miles,” said tho
Clerk.
“Wall, Little Equinook is forty miles
beyent Lnokawack, yit,” said the Old
Settler—"forty miles beyent Laoka-
waok, yit, way up in Wayne county,
b’gosh, and dura uoar ov’ry step o’ tho
way on the keers I Fur? Git out yer
joggerfy an’ look I"
“Whe-w-w-w 1” whistled the 'Squire.
“Way up North I No wonder yer glad
to git home, Major. I s’pose the frost
hain't begun to think o’ gettin’ out ’n
the groan’ up thnr yit, has it ? Say,
Sheriff, d’ye know that if I thort I could
Btan’ the olimate I’d like to spend a win
ter ’roan’ in that country some’rs ?
Thuz only one thing I wanter do ’fore I
die, an’ that is to hev a rossel with a
polar b’ar. Did ye tackle one, Major ?
An’ all the way on the keers, too I"
“Yes, sir,” said the Old Settler, “all
the ways on the keers, ’cepting a ride o’
three miles on a buck-board arter ye git
thar, M’riar’d never ben on the keers
afore, an’ were a leetle narvous. We
hadn’t much more’n started 'fore she
got worked up so that she says to me:
“ ‘Silas,’ she says, clutohin’ her bau’-
box—‘Silas,’she says, ‘jist tell him to
etop at the fust cross roaid. I’d a dura
sight ruther git out an’ walk,’ she says.
“But I got that notion out’n her head,
nn' was a gittin’ her tol’able quiet when
I'gosh, the inline give a yoop, and
.tf’riar grabbed her ban’box.
“‘Tell him to stop!’ she hollered.
‘Tell him to stop 1 I'm a gointer see
my sister ez I hain't see fur twenty-
oight year,’ she says, ‘but if I’ve got to
be carried thar skeert to death, I mout
jist ez well a staid to hum an’ died an’
sent fur her to come to thq funer’l!
Silas,’ she says, ‘tell him to stop, and
I’ll git out.’
“But arter w’ile I got it through her
head w’at the noise were, an’ arter that
everything went right. Ye see, I’d
traveled afore, having been s’penied
wunst on a lawsuit up to Lackawaok,
an’ went thar on the keers. Say, it
beats the deck how nioe an’ ’commodat-
in’ them railroaders is, don’t it ? Goin’
so fur, an’ in a deestrick whar I didn’t
know the lay o’ the land, I made it a
p’int to ast, ev’ry time the train stopped,
if that were the place we was agoin’ to,
an’ the man’d laugh pleasant all over
his face, an’ say it wa’n’t. Bimeby
M’riar got tired an’ dropped to sleep,
and think, says I, I’ll take a snooze my
self, W’en I woke up the keers was
stoppin’.
“ ‘Is this Little Equinock?’I ast. the
(he man w’at runs the keers.
“ ‘Little Equinook ?’ he says. ‘No, it
ain’t,’ says he. ‘We passed Little Equi
nock twenty miledbelow h’yer,’sayshe.
“But he helped us out jist ez good nu
tur’d ez if he hadn’t carried us twenty
fnfletl for nothin’, aD’ w’en he toj’ us
that we could wait three hours an’ then
take the nex’ train back ho smilod ez
pleasant ez if wo’d paid for the hull trip
an’ throwed him in a quarter besides.
“ ‘Any feller that runs a railroad keer
must hef to hev a temper ez smooth ez
a Rooshy iron stove pipe,’ I says to
M’riar.
“ ‘Yos,’ M’riar says, ‘an’ it seems to
mo,’ she says, ‘that if ho should git cur
ried on a railroad keer twenty railed fur-
der’n ho wanted to go,’ sho says, ‘he’d
hev a tempor like a cross-cut saw,’ sho
says.
“I see that M’riar were a leetle ner
vous yit, so I didn’t sny nothin’ an’ at 9
o’clock that night we was safo an’ sound
at her sister’s that neither one of us had
not see, b’gosh, fur twenty-eight yor.
Why, say, Squire,” said the Old Settler,
as if he had just thought of it, “ ’tain’t
more’n thirty degrees colder up there’ll
'tis here ; an’ ns fur polar b'ar th’ hain’t
been nono ’rouu’ there for twenty year
au’ better, so they telled me, au’ I were
darn dissyp’inted, ’enuse I’d counted
heavy on slicin’ up n conplo or ro.”
The Mnjor beamed benevolently on
tho ’Squire. The ’Squire seemed disap
pointed. By-and-by kef said:
“But, ’ccptin’ that leetle dissyp’iut-
nient ye had a first class, inj’yable visit,
didn't yo ?’’ .
"W-a-a-1-1, ’Squire,” said tho Old Set
tler, “I’ll tell yo. It were like this. Ye
see my brother-in-law don't keep even
no cider in tho house, an’ the ninrhest
tavern wore three miled nwny an’ didn’t
hev no license.”
The 'Squire slapped liis hand into the
Old Settler’s hand and shook it.
"Major,” ho snid, “yer right. Th’
hain’t no placo like hum!”
En. Mott.
Building Up the System.
One of tho manifestations of the im
patience of onr people is that when one
“runs down,” as the saying goes, instead
of tnking constitutional remedies that
slowly but surely repair waste to build
up tho system, tho practice is to seek
violent and powerful incitements to
strength, which only prove delusive, and
do more harm than good. The business
man who nt Inst finds thnt he is losing
vitality, and thnt he has sacrificed
health to greed, endeavors to raako
atonement in a day or, at furthest, in
a week, by heavy doses of quinine, or by
brandy, and tho young who lias degen
erated by sloth or moro nctivo vices,
overdoes the oxerciso of tho gymnasium
in tho vain effort to regnin health by a
coup d'etat. Ever tho same story of
national impatience; the feverish alnc-
ritv to ruin tho physique by lnte hours,
tobacco, rapid eating and divers dissipa
tions, and tho absurd zeal to restore its
functions while n locomotive is ranking
its distance botween Now York and
Chicago. Nature has ways of her own,
and even the enterprising Yankee can
not mnko an oak tree grow to maturity
in a week, or put suoh a mnohiue as the
human body in perfect working order in
thnt time, after it has once been fully
abused and utterly deranged. Even the
wealthy invalid cannot mnke good the
drafts ho has drawn too often and too
rashly, by the magio spell of a Euro
pean tour. Tho exhausted body makes
its lamentation heard in a French
boulevard ns well as at home, and there
is no curative property in a foreign rail-
wny oar.
Yenra of transgression need at least
months of expiation, and the man or
woman who lays tho foundation of re
stored hoaltli in six mouths does well.
Meanwhile the simple remedies, air, wa
ter, wholesome food, sleop, judicious ox-
ercise, and time to back them, will bo
fruitful of result. Bo patient and be
of good oheer; don’t use your substanoo
on quack nostrums; study the matter of
diet, tho efficacy of water and a coarse
crash towel; the ventilation of your
sleeping chamber; the value of tho
dumb-bells, and for tonio or alterative
the superiority of tho mineral springs to
all the drugs you can buy. Set your
period for a general improvement at six
months ahead instead of six days, and
you will escape the discouragement and
the dospair which beset tho impatient
American when ho finds that ho is “used
up,” “no account,” and generally flab
bergasted.
A Man That Kisses.
A Washington letter-writer says
Senator Vance likes a joke, and relates
the following:
One day when he was Governor of
North Carolina, it is said that ho wns
riding on horseback nlong a road about
ten miles from tbo capital when a stranger
overtook him. The two men fell into
conversation, and tho stranger told Vance
ho had been to Raleigh to see the Gover
nor nnd that he had called at his house,
but that he was not at home.
“Did you see tho Governor’s wife?”
asked Vanoe.
“Yes,” was the reply.
“And did you not kiss her ?”
The man, very much astonished, re-
f lied: "No; but she was very pretty and
should havo liked nothing better."
“Well, I’ve kissed her,” continued
Vance, “and I never meet her but that I
do so.” And thereupon, after enjoying
the mnn’s astonishment for a moment,
he told him that he was the Governor
Thought So, Too.
In response to a sign of “Boy Want
ed” a lad about 12 years of age npplied
for a position in a Michigan nveuue
store. The proprietor liked his looks
und decided to take him, and after some
general explanations and observations
asked:
“What is your first name ?”
“Henry.”
“Very well; I shall oall you by that.”
“What is your first name?” asked the
bov.
“Why?”
“Oh, I think it’s altogether the beat
plan to oall each other by our first
names. It saves time, and you don’t
get folks mixed up. You can oall me
Hank, and if your name’s William I can
shorten it half a rod."
The boy hasn’t begun work yet In
fact the man has installed a lad in the
place who takes plenty of time to
“Mister” him and give the full name.
M. Quad,
The Reduction of Postage,
THBEK-OENT POSTAGE (OFFICIAL).
Bales of stamp** for quarter end-
ing Deo. 81, 1882 *11,017,090 41
Sales of etamps for quarter end-
ing March 81, 1883 11,825,618 05
B&lec of stamps for quarter end-
ing June 80, 1S83 10,006,519 75
Bales of stamps for quarter end
ing Sept 30, 1883 10,083,609 53
Total for twelve months $43,032,743 74
two-cunt postage (partly estimated).
Bales of stamps for quarter end-
ing Deo. 81, 1888 810,678,674 22
Bales of stamps for quarter end
ing March 31,1834 (estimated) 10,250,000 00
I Bales of stamps for quarter end-
I o ing Juno 1884 (estimated) 9,900,000 00
Bales of stamps for quarter end
ing Sept. 80, 1884 (estimated) 10,000,000 00
Total for twelve mor-ths... .840.828,671 22
So says a letter on the subjeot by a
j vVus king ton correspondent,
MEXICO’S WOMAN BANDIT.
SHOT Hit Alt AFTER AN EXTRAOUDN
NARY CAREER OF CHIMB.
Her rinnn of IHurrierlna Fellow Slime Pa»*
irmeri nnit lloldlna Wealthy Men Pris
oners for llnninm—Her Follower* Flahl
Desperately lor her After her Capture.
A letter from Querotaro, Mexico,
says: La Caramboda, tho woman
brigand, long a terror to travelers in
this region, is dead at lost, with a bul
let in her heart. Her operations ex
tended over a number of years, and
were of tho most daring description.
For a long time the authorities found it
very difficult to trace or even to explain
tho crimes which she committed, for no
ono suspected thnt a woman was the
guilty person, No two of her robberies
were committed in the same manner.
Sometimes sho wns a passenger and at
other times sho was with the bandits,
and took part in tho shooting if any
was to bo done, A woman of some per
sonal charms whim appropriately
dressed, she wns a fiend when about her
business of murder and pillage, whom
very few cored to encounter. Her male
assistants were many and devoted.
Ouo of her schemes, it tins been
learned, was to hide her time in somo
town until she found one or two men of
means who wero goiug by tho diligence
to some distant point, and then io tako
pnssogo with them. It is snspeoted
tlmt on moro than ouo oocosion sho took
tlio driver into her confidence, but when
this could not bo done, she readily de
ceived him or quieted him with a bul •
lot. A perfect mistress of tlio art of
dissimulation, nnd possessing a soft and
insinuating mnnucr, sho had no diffi
culty in working horself into tho good
graces of travelers who did not look for
a Mexican bnndit under her attractive
guise. In this way she easily discovered
who had money nnd valuables and who
bail not. li she found a man who ap
peared to bo of some consequence, but
wlio did not have much money, sho bo-
trayed him into tho hands of her con
federates, who hold him for a ransom.
If her victim proved to be well supplied
with cash, bo usually met a violent
death within twenty-four hours.
Lenving n town before daybreak in
company with two travelers whom she
had mnrked for robbery, -she would coy
ly necopt tho customary innocent atten
tions at their hands, and perhaps in
dulge in a little conversation with them.
An hour later, when well on their jour
ney, watching hor opportunity, she
would draw two revolvers, and, before
they oould detect her movement, lodge
n lmllot iu the back of each of them.
The driver, busy with his team, and
perhaps pnid not to be too attentivo to
what wns going on bohind him, would
not disturb her. With her booty secure,
sho would take her own time about
lenving the stage, always waiting until a
point convenient to tho fastness of
some of her confederates was reached.
It was known that the highways were
infested by robbers, and it was not
thought strange that an occasional mur
der was perpetrated, but the similarity
between several eases soon attracted at
tention, and various experiments led to
the disoovery that a woman, .operating
first on ouo road and then on another,
was at the bottom of them. The plausi
ble stories told by the drivers served to
mystify the offioers more than anything
else. Thoy always asserted that high
waymen had done the work, and if in
quiry was made at ono end of the route
for tlio woman who started, it was al
ways said that she arrived at her desti
nation unmolested. The absence of
telegraphs and of any regular means of
communication made it possible to keep
up this deception for a long time.
When the woman found that she was
suspooted, she abandoned this plan of
operations, and, remaining with the rob
ber band to which she was attached, de
voted tiie greater part of her time to the
abduction of wealthy agriculturists.
Her plan in these oases was very much
the same ns in her stage robbery enter
prises. First winning the confidence of
bur intended victim and getting him in
volved in some intrigue, she would be
tray him at the proper time into tho
hnnds of her associates, who would
spirit him away and presently open ne
gotiations for his return. While these
were in progress she would be busy set
ting tier net for a fresh viotim e Iran
died miles away.
La Coramboda’s latest exploit was un
successful. She was hovering about tbs
San Juanioo hacienda, with the inten
tion of securing tho abduotion of Don
Oivelo Vasquez, or one of his sous,
when a fellow, who had long served in
iu hor train, deserted, and communicated
her secret to the authorities. They
mndo elaborate preparations to capture
her entire party, but, failing in this,
they made sure of her, and soon had her
in irons. Hearing of her fate, her fol
lowers determined on * rescue, They
pursued the officers for twenty miles,
and, overtaking them at Gonr.indad
opened fire at onoe. The troops re
turned the shots and a lively engage
ment ensued, in the course of which
three of the bandits were killed and the
others put to flight. When the troops
approached their prisoner alter the
light they found her dead, presumably
f rom a bullet fired by her own friends.
The chains wore removed from her
limbs, and sho was buried by the foed-
side. One of her captors describes her
as a beuutiful womun, not more than 30
yoars old, with clear complexion and
long abundant hair, but with a wicked
eye and a cruel-looking mouth when in
repose
Music and Insanity.
Tho theory of the close connection
between music and insanity was
never more closely established than in
the case of Mr. Bertram Bolter, of this
city, who was an inmate of a private
asylum here for ten years. At tho ex
piration of that term he suddenly re
covered his reason, and was able to
give a perfectly lucid account of how
lie had lost it. In 1873 Mr. B. lived
next door to a boy who was learning
the piano. The lad was an ardont
young musician, and ono night played
“Come Birdie, Come,” 139 times in suc
cession, in order to learn it properly.
Mr. Bolter was found on the floor of
his bedroom next day devouring a
Eureka hair mattress, and a raving ma
niac. On recovering his reason he told
the above facts to his keeper, who, for
getting that hearing the tune again
might agitate his patient, said thought
lessly : “Why, that’s rather a pretty
tune, I nlways thought. Goes some
thing like this, don’t it?” and he whis
tled the first four bars plaintively.
“How’s that?” he said. “Is that like
it?” But the query was in vain. His
jaw had fallen, and Mr. Bolter was
dead.—San Francisco News-Letter
Emma Abbott nominates General
Sherman for the Presidency. This
would not do at all. For the next
fifty years seventeen million women
would go about boasting that they were
once kissed by the President,
‘ delp/iia Cali.
THE STAGE-DRIVER'S STORY.
How General 8coit>* bite wo* Hared and
JHowHi* Driver Twfco liaciped Death-
Tho traveler of tho preeontday, as he la hur
ried along by the lightning oxpress, in its buf
fet ears and palace sleepers, seldom reverts in
thought to tho tdmo when tho stago coach and
packet wero the only means of communication
betwoen distant points. It is raro that one of
the real old time Btago-drlvers iB met with now-
a-days, and when tho writer recently ran
across Fayette Haskell, of Loekport, N. Y., he
felt like a bibliographer over tho discovery of
some raro volume of “forgotton loro.” Mr.
Haskoll, although ono of tho pioneers in stage
driving (ho formerly ran from Lewiston to
Niagara Falls and Buffalo), is halo and hearty
andblds fair to livo for many yem-s.The strango
stories of his early adventures would fill a vol
ume. At one time when going down a moun
tain, near Lewiston, with no less a personage
than General Scott ns a passenger, tlio brakes
gave wny and tho coach came on the heels of
tho wheel horses. The only remedy wns to
whip the lenders to n gallop. Gaining midi- I
tional momentum with each revolution of tho
wheels the conch swayed nnd pitched down |
tho mountain side nnd into the streets of Low- |
iston. Straight nhond at tho foot of tho steep ,
hill flowed the Niagara river, toward which |
tho four horses dashed, apparently to |
certain death. Yet tho firm hand never :
rolnxed its hold nor the clear brain 1
its conception of what must lie done iu
the emergency. On dashed tho horses until ,
tho narrow dock wns reached on the river
bank, when by a masterly exhibition of nerve |
nnd d icing, the conch was turned in scarcoits
own length, and the horses brought to a stand
still before the pale lookors-on could realize
what hnd occurred. A purs ) wns raised by
General Bcott und presented to Mr. Haskell
witli high compliments for his skill and bra-
ry.
Notwithstanding nil his strength and his
robust Constitution, the strain of continuous
work mid exposure proved too much for Mr.
Haskell’s constitution. The constant jolting
of Hie conch and the necessarily cramped po
sition in which ho was obliged to sit, con
tributed to this end, and ul times ho was
obliged to abandon driving altogether.
Bpeaking of this period ho said:
‘‘1 found it almost impossible to sleep nt
night; my appetite left mo entirely, and 1 hnd
n tired feeling which I never knew before,
ami could not account for.”
“Did you give up driving entirelyP
“No. I tried to keep up, but it, wns only
continued for nearly twenty years until last
October, when I wont all to pieces.”
"In what wny!”
“Oh, I doubled all up; could not walk with
out n cane and was incnpablo of any effort or
exertion. 1 liad a constant desire to urinnto
both day nnd night and all hough I felt like
passing a gallon uvery ten minutes only n few
dro|w could cseapo and they thick with sodl
mont. Finally it ceased to flow ontiroly and I
thought dentil was very near.”
“\Vlint did you do then f”
"What I should have done long before : lis
ten to my wife. Under her advico I began o
now treatment."
“And with what result ?”
“Wonderful. It unstopped tho closed pas
sag™, nnd what was still moro wonderful reg
ulated tho flow. Tho sodlinent vanished; my
api>otito returned ami 1 am now well and
good for twenty moro years wholly through
the aid of Warners’ Safe Cure that has done
wonders for mo as well as for so many
others,"
Mr. Hnskoll's experlonco is re|>ont«d every
day in tho lives of thousands of American men
and women. An unknown evil is undermin
ing the existence of nn inmnnornblo number
who do not realize the dnnger they are in until
health lias entirely departed and death per
haps slares them in tho Cnee. To nog-
jet such important matters is like drift
ing in tlio current of Niagara abovo tlio
falls.
A Rich Little Girl.
Tho Washington Republican says:
The richest little girl in tho world is tlio
7-year-old (Inughter of Capt. George H.
Perkins of tho U. 8. nnvy, who is well
known in Washington, 8ho is worth
$7,000,000 in her own name, tho amount
having been left hor recently liy her
grandfather, William F. Weld, of Bos
ton. Mr. Weld was the father of tho
little girl’s mother, and when he died
four heirs, inoluding the obild, came
into possession of tlio bulk of his for
tune, $28,000,000, which was divided
into four portions. Tho sum of $20,000
and a valuable residence in Boston were
bequeathed to Mrs. Perkins, wife of the
captain, and $20,000 annually to bo used
in earing for tho little millionaire heir
ess until she roaches the legal age and
claims her milliouR. This makes Capt.
Perkins’s incomo in actual cash $40,000,
without including his government salary
or ILe rental from his magnificent resi
dence in Boston. Secretary Chandler
characterized the story that Oapt. Per
kins hnd resigned from tho navy to look
after his estates ns untrue, and said that
he has beon ordered to duty on board of
the steamer Hartford. The captain ap
plied for ono year's leave, with a view of
resigning at the end of the year. The
department, however, declined to grant
the request, os he had boon away from
duty for two years. The Secretary said
the captain was one of the best officers
in the service, and that he would not re
sign, because ho loves sea life too well
Life From the Grave.
The Best of Horses*
There is no better horse in the whole
of wide England than my horse. There
is no quieter, no speedier, no hardier.
Sixty and seventy miles a day my horse
has oarriod mo—I always ride, I never
drive—and been content with the most
meagre faro on the journey, and the
humblest accommodation when the day
was done.
If I bid my horse stand by tho way-
sido whilo I go to somo distance or enter
a houso I find him thero when I return.
He has no bad faults; be neither kioks
nor gibs nor roars nor bolts. Oh I the
J ilcnsnut happy hours I spend with my
lorse—all nlone, our two selves—or
maybe with a book, when summer days
are fine, nmong the wooded fields of
bonnio Berks, nmong the flowery Iruos
of Devon or the wilder scenery of rornnn-
tic Dorsetshire. We care for nothing or
nobody, my horso and I, when wo start
away on somo glorious rnmblo, lenving
all care and trouble and worry behind
us, as free ns the wind, nnd, liko tho
wind, going wherever wo list. Render,
my horso is a tricyclo.
Pour into your ago your wholo life, i
it bo pure anil good, and bo suro that
you liavo dono something—your littlo
nil. There slinll bo no drop of tlmt lifo
wasted. Where you put it thero it shall
be, nn atom in tho slowly-rising monu
ment ot a world redeemed to goodness,
A Chicago naturalist stated in liis lect
ure that a black benr could hug a horso
to death in three minutes, and tho face
of every girl iu tlio nmlienco wore a look
of doubt nnd defiance.
Tho Huckleberry Corillnl.
For a long time it was thought that tho
huckleberry was only for tablo use, but it was
known during tho lato war in the shapo of a
cordial it was •iporior to tho blackberry. Dr.
Diggers' Huckleberry Cordial is tho GREAT
SOUTHERN REMEDY for restoring tho littlo
one from tho effects of toothing; nnd euros
Diarrhccn, Dysentery and all bowel affections.
For sale by all druggists at SOconts a bottlo.
Deer are being slaughtered so rapidly in
Florida that it is Is-lioved thoy will become ex
tinct in a few yenra.
Vonni Men I—Rend Thl*.
The Voltaic Bbi.t Co., of Marshall, Mich.,
offer to send their celebrated Electho-Yoltaic
Belt nnd other Eleotiuo Aitliances on trial
for thirty days, to men (young or old) afflicted
with nervous debility, loss of vitality nnd man
hood, nnd all kindred troubles. Also for rheu
matism, neuralgia, paralysis, and many other
disease*. Complete restoration to health, vigor
and manhood gua nntcod. No risk is incurred
ns thirty day* trial is allowed. Writo them at
onco for illustrated pamphlet free.
A liinety-year-old colored man, of Tnllnhas-
*cc, while "out hunting recently, killed threo
benrs, an altigatyr, a rattlesnake, ten skmlks,
and cut three bee trees.
American women are said to ho tho most
clever, active, and onergotio to bo found j and
well they need to be, considering tho enormous
demands mndo upon them by modern schools,
housekeeping and society. Mrs. Lydia E.
l’inkliam, iu preparing her celebrated Vege
table Compound, lind iu mind all theso count
less demands on a woman’* strength, nnd hor
well known remedy prove* ovory day it* per
fect adaptation to woman's special needs.
It costs 876 by tho year to soil goods in Vir
ginia.
Fob years I have been afflicted with nay-
Fovor. I gavo Ely's Cream Balm a trial. Tho
relief was Immediate. I regard myself cured.
—O. BcunEiiiER, Bupt. of Cordage Co., Eliza
beth, N. J. l’rice 60 cents.
Tho kooper of the New York morgue is dend.
Ho lias handled 40,000 dead hodica during the
timo ho hns been keeper.
Hav-Fkveb. I have used Ely's Cream Balm
for Hay-Fever, and havo experienced groat ro-
liof. I recommend it as the best or all tho
remedies I havo tried.—T. B. Jenkr, Lawyer,
Grand Rapids, Mioh. Price 60 cents.
Mr. Hendricks lias eutored tho campaign
with a pot of red paint In his hand.
For a cold in tho bond, there is nothing so
good as l’iso's Remedy for Catarrh.
FOR CURING CHILLS AND FEVER
Tlio empress of Austria can set typo and th_
cmprcBB of an American farm can sot a hen "
Customs differ in different countries.
cbeSjalm
Causes no Pain,
jtilves Relief at
lOnco. Thorough
A well authenticated story is told at
Loipsio station, on tho Nickel Plato
fond, a few miles from Findlay, Ohio.
A well-known married lady, who was in
m delicate condition, was supposed to
have expired, and plaoed in a vault pre
paratory to burial. Her friends became
'froid that they had not used due can-
Ron in permitting the funeral to take
E l ace without another attempt to restore
er to life, and insisted that the ooffln
ahould be opened. This was done, and
to their astonishment and delight a faint
flush appeared on her cheek. The
body was hurriedly removed from the
eoffln and the lady finally revived. The
•trancest part of the matter is that tho
lady has since become the mother of
twin daughters and all are doing well.
The affair is the sensatioo of the oom-
BHiir’y.
Some portions ure bum uitli u strung
feaioral instinct to be just. But it is
also a habit of mind, whioh may be in
creased and improved by study and re
flection, and which should be sedulously
cultivated. _
Pretty Women.
Ladies who would retain freshness and virao-
*ty. Try “Wells’ Health Ronowor.”
To rEHSEVEBB is one’s duty, and be
silent, is the answer to calumny.
A Denison, Texas, man pawned a cork leg
fitli a pawnbroker for nn advance of twenty-
iTO cents.
Gold In Our Old Fields.
When we consider tho hoalth to lx) hotter
than wealth, then must wo consider tho old
field mnlloin better than gold—at least tho
medical world so recognize it, and attests its
merits over cod livor oil for lung troubles.
Made in a tea and combined with sweet gum
presents iu Taylor’B Chcrokco Remedy, of
Sweet Gum and Mullein, a ploasant and effect
ive euro for Croup, Whooping-cough, Colds
and Consumption. Sold by all druggists at
25c and $1.00 a bottle.
Middle Florida grapo-growers can safely
;ount on a yearly incomo of one hundred dol-
“How many feet are there in a yard ?”
asked a lady of a young fellow in a
store. “Sixty-five,” was the answer.
It was found, on enquiring, that the
young fellow based his calculations on
the number of bools that he thought hit
him as he was going out of a door-yard
where he celled upon a girl whose father
had forbidden him the house.
There is an old unrepealed law in the
District of Columbia, to the effeot that
any one who uses profane language
shall be branded on the tongue with a
hot iron.
Soever take a crooked path when you
pan pee a straight,poe.__
[HAYFEVERfl
jS I refitment will
♦^.^Bcure. Not a Liq*
[uid or Snuff. Ap-
jply with Finger.
|AY'-FJEVER Glvo it~a Trial.
Us at Drufcistn. 60 oonU bj mail r*fiaUr«d.
le Hottle by mail 10 ots.
ELY BJtOTHKRS, Dnujiata, Owgo, N. Y.
Vital Questions!!It
Ash (As most eminent nhysioian
Of any school, what is the best thing in the
world for quioting and allaying all irritation
of the nerves, ana curing all forms of nervous
complaints, giving natural, childlike refresh
ing sleep always)
And they wul tell you unhesitatingly
“Some form of Hops 11 /"
CHAPTER L
Ask any or all of the most eminent physl
dans:
“What is the beat and only remedy that
can be relied on to cure all diseases of the kid
neys and urinary organs ;suoh as Bright's dis
ease, die.betee, retention, or Inabtlltyto retain
urine, and all the diseases and ailments pecu
liar to Women—”
“And they will tell you explioltly and em
phatically, LBuoAu Ilf 1 "
Ask ths same physicians
“What is the most reliable and surest cure
tor all liver diseases or dyspepsia, oonatlpa-
uoc, indigestion, biliousness, malaria, fever,
ague, &c.,” and they will tell you:
“Mandrake I or Dandelioa HIT
Hence, when these remedies are oomblned
with others equally valuable,
And compounded into Hop Bitten, such a
wonderful and mysterious curative power is
developed, which is so varied In its operations
that no disease or ill health can possibly exist
er resist its power, and yet It is
Harmless for the most frail woman, week-
art Invalid or smallest child to use
CHAPTER IL
“Patients
"Almost dead or nearly dying”
—ive been cured.
Women gone nearly crazy lilt!
From agony of neuralgia, norvousuoss,
wakefulness, and various diseases peculiar to
women.
People drawn out of shape from excruciat
ing pangs of rheumatism, inflammatory and
•I'onic, or suffering from scrofula.
Erysipelas I
“Saltrheum, blood poisoning, dyspepsia, in
digestion, and, in fact,almost all diseases frail 1 '
Nature is heir to
Havo been cured by Hop Bitters, proof 01
"ulch can be found in every neighborhood in
tne known world.
137“ None genuine without a bunch of green
Hops on the white label. Hhun all the vile
poisonous stuff with “Hop” or “Hops” in thou
mini .
The first fly of the season came gaylv
into tho sanctum on Monday last and at
once made for his old playground—our
bald head. We had flattered ourself
that our hair was ooming in again lnat
winter, but before the fly had finished
his first hornpipe we decided that the
new hair was a vain delusion. —Fuans-
ville Argue.
A viouv formerly owned by Georg
Washington is valued at $1,500. Ther
was nothing cheap about George.
Twenty-seven women working in a
chain-gang were a sad sight at Atlanta.
AND
Removing the Distressing Effects of Malaria,
AYER’S AGUE CURE
HAS BEEN FOUND SO
NEARLY INFALLIBLE,
THAT
We Authorize Dealers to Return the Money,
If the medicine is taken according to directions, without benefiting the pali e „t
PREPARED BY
DR. J. C. AYER A COi, Analytical Chemists, LOWELL, MASS
Sold by all Druggists. Price ?1, six bottles for $5
Brown’s Iron Bitters com
bines Iron with pure vegetable tonics.
It is compounded on thoroughly sci
entific and medicinal principles, nnd
cannot intoxicate.
All other preparations of Iron cause
headache, nnd produco constipation.
Brown’s Iron Bitters is the
ONLY Iron mcdlcino tlmt
is not injurious — its use duos not
even slacken tho teeth.
It not only cures tho worst cases of|
Dyspepsia, hut insures a hearty np-
pciite and good digestion.
Brown’s Iron Bitters Is tho
Best Liver Regulator re
moves bile, clears the skin,
digests tho food, CURES
Belching, Heartburn, Heat
in tho Stomach, etc.
It is tlio best-known remedy for
female infirmities.
Tlio genuine has nbove trade murk
and crossed red lines oil wrapper
Tako no oilier. Mndo only by
Brown Chemical Co.,
Baltimore, Md.
f.lfe Preserver.
If you are losing your grip on life, try “Wolls’
Health Bcnuwcr." Goes direct to weak spots.
In tho ninety oiglit yoars of its existence the
American Bible society luw issued no loss than
43,892,031 volumes, including Bibles, Testa
ments and portions of the gospel.
''Hough on Tnotlmrlie.”
Instant relief for neuralgia, toothache, faae-
»che. Ask for “Bough ou’toothache." 16 * 260.
Ovan 1750,000 was paid last year as duty
on patent modicines In England"
“Hough on Itch.”
“Rough on Itch” cures humors, eruptions,
ring-worm, tetter, salt rheuni, chilblains.
Ei.kven clorgymnu sailed from Now York
for Europo in ono steamer on Saturday re
cently.
. . It Ntands to Reason
(hat an oil devoid of nil irritating properties,
that ne ver becomes rancid, should make an ex-
cellent Hair Drowsing. Huch is Cnrbolino made
from pure Potrolouin. All druggist*
[Tie pop
not less than 50,000,000.
Henry'* Carbolic Halve,
Tho best huIvo used In tho world for cuts,
bruises, piles, sores, ulcers, sBtrlnum, tettor,
chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all kinds
of i-kin eruptions, freckloi nnd pimples. Tho
snlvj is guaranteed to givo perfect satisfac
tion in every case. Bo sure you got Henry’s
Carbolic Salve, ns nil othors aro but imita-
tions nnd counterfeits.
18 AP03ITIVI 0711
For Female Complaint* an4
tWeaknc**r* no common to
our beat female population.
II wilt ear* nUrdy th* wont form of Femal* Com-
plaint*, all Ovarian trouble*, Inflammation and Ulcer*
""1 Dhplaoemehti, and th* couequeht
adapUd to it*
imIt ,Ip * 1 t ' u 2? r * ,rom the uterttt In as
K/ori ,K^u d “If
o£ r P
Ko family *hoold bo without LTDIA E. FINE HAM'S
t-VWl PILLS. Th*y our* oonatlpatlon, bUloume** and
•oddity of the Urer. K cent* a box at all drueglst*.
Medical Department — University of
Louisiana.
NKW ORLEANS.
•n’s'L 11 * “■'’•'■■atlj admitted that Praotical Medioina
bs taught elsowliere than at th.
.“i? H C H an ‘ l , woum H. tin* institution Juitly
Shb8d advantages in the introduction of it*
oiaa-iea into tho wards of the groat Charity ltosoital
of Pmni-°T.T llummED boda and an annual admmaion
?oa materia? Vn AN 'i P * ti6n . U hup " 1 » ““IbnKei chom-
■ m »t°nal. CJirculara a nt upun application.
IIOW TO CtJItE Aathraa, Bronohitia, Catarrh,
Bore I'-yoa, Felon a, Gonorrhoea, Oravel, Painful M«n-
53 O’lrian Diseases, Piles, Rheumatism. UloVre,
Whites, Heraorrr.ages, Inflammation. DyaDopsia. Can
cer Wonderfully Affective and Simple Itemedie*
For recipe, send 60 cts. to A. J. DIXON, Ilox 47,
Hill u uton, Va«i stating your oaao as well aa you o*n.
A Vno’ptef* 'W VI ' ,:l) fertile beat anil fastest sell,
percent 1 NiTinJl'!" k p„' Wld Bi| )los. Prices reduced 113
percent^ flAUoNAL Puiiushino Oo., Atlanta Ua
144 Madmen Aye., N, Y. Family board. Low rates.
Patents T ,, .°" m r? wash.
V I lf villi V T inK,, 'n. D. a PATENT LAW-
Write fnrlnveutorrp Guide.
HiIkRoliablo book salesmen for each oounty.
Duiren® i‘17 Unqueet.onal.lo references ril
quiyed. Addroaa K. W. Luomis A Oo.. Atlanta. Ga.
Will’s SMAi
Nashville Tenn.
Closed It* XOth year with 354 young ladle*.
W,w erected ill 1 I * 1 ' 8 "iing-room for a quoen
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A. N. IJ Thirty, >31
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OuUfiUallolhrn loto I. Au
liril, a ulhrnlle Com lcl$, Ihe l>»t »nil CkenfeM.
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OPIUM
I Fei ™? Hoffman.—Charles
J cimo Hoflmau died recently at Harris-
>>m-g, Pa. Although he is chiefly kuown
to the younger generation of renders as
miisdn th ° r ° f t ft few brilliant ex-
oni mu°t g8 ’ he ™ 8 f0r “ time oue Of
writers Bt versatlJe and accomplished
Says an exchange: “One of the nioeet
partners fur a girl in a waltz around the
parlor is a broom.” It is dollars to chips
that the editor who wrote that is either
a homely man and ratable to obtain a
waltz*’ ° r 6lBe k® “ too awkward to
address njfe]J<
■temp W. o.
M. !>*, Atlanta. Georgia. j-rJ M'l
Elegant Crloej^te fr»- 1| o,
Dill'll,11,1 Tnbnco* nnm- Yarn lllU ntl.
Tlsompaou Urn.. fWlTTWaln .
ia tn ft Berlin
A Frenchman snid to » PrUriS iiUi
“Your Iron Gross, the highe an
order, is simply ridicul°' M « To
intrinsic value of ? caro0 p :. 1fl8 i ft n c#P itlJ
whioh the native of the P jt ha*
replied: “I don’t deny > po i e on6-'
nevertheless cost you tw - •
“Let me Bee,’’ thoug t h |[" ll old
man who was looking a
“the windlass needs repftj ^ e c tirbinK
leaks, the rope is rotten holo I
is defeolive, but considered as
think it wifido.” _ —- incaslir .
Forfeited repujij*®^wiW aUli
Ably restored by pemteaco,
patient toil,