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.Subsfii] >t j (ii ] SJ.OO jiui' yo»J-,' so„‘>U Six
months; fO.Jothree inionlhf.'
,Chili will absorb Peru.
Mad dogs are in Columbus.
hi * c *as is quarantining ngaintyil
low fever.
\
heat in Texas has suffered by
the late frosts.
The Union depot in Chattanooga
will cost Sfio.flOO. i ■
Atlanta,,at her Exposition, will j
run two miles of shafting.
Chattanooga is getting jeady to
hum powder on the 4th of July.
Thomas county will pay a tax of
only 25 cents on the hundred dol
lars.
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Os Virginia’s debt of $45,000,000,
the Readjustee propose to wipeout
$25,000,000.
Akron, 0., a' place of i 0.512 in- ,
habitants, is illuminated with the I
electric light j
Twelve thousand people have ,
been exiled to Siberia by the Rus
sian government.
( General Preston, a distinguished 1
Carolinian, died at his home in j
Columbia, S. C., May Ist.
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, A Rritish „vyar ship blew up id j
Strait of MagJUan; out of her
crew, but twelve were saved. '
Several thousand persons hake J
.been driven from their homes by |
the flood in Missouri valley.
|
In Stone county, Ark., a mover j
n ime 1 Cement lost by fire his wife j
and two children,, two horses, and
a wagon.
The Resident and Mrs. GSrfield
hope to be present at the unveiling
of the Morgan statue at Spartan
burg, S. C.
Any mail that is not carried by
rail, is marked in the Post Office
department with a star. Hence
the name, star route.
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The Republican Senators have
given up tli“ fight to elect Riddle
.berger and Gorham. Executive
business will te taken up.
At a drug store in Memphis,
|the owner, Capt. Fowler, and Dr.
Ray, a physician, were killed by
the explosion of a soda fountain.
During a western flood, a man
was killed by a government steam
er crashing into a h .use on the
balcony of, which he was standing.
The last Confederate killed by a
.Federal bullet was Capt. Ben Cov
ington, of Columbus, Miss. He
.was shot on the parapet of a fort
in Mobile bay, after Hie surrender.
When a railroli hand reiched
home at St. Paul, he found his
three children in bed with their
throats cut, and bis wife lying on
the floor. She left but the two
words, “Good-bye." ~ l
At a foot race in San Francisco,
Haley, ot the University of Cali
fornia, made his two hundred
yardst in twenty-one seconds, the
best American time on reco.rd.. )ie.
was traveyogjit tbe . rate of nearly
'ten yards |>er second.
April 30th the manufacturing
company of Alabama, known as
Rock Mills, were burnt'out. Loss,
between GO.OOO and 75,000. No
insurance. One hundred
out of VirlplntiAent' It was tire
work of an incendiary.
A United Jjß.ates Deputy Marshal
in the west was searching a lionse
for counterfiit money. He couldn't ■
find it. At last a happy thought
entered his head. There was a pot!
of potatoes on the stove, and in it,
under the potatoes were SIo,(XSD in
S2O pieces.
In.Mississyiftj the school attend
ance has been 72,88jf ‘whites and
83,880 blacks. The State paid {or
school purposes $241,793.75. The
count'es §334,7(19,90. The country
schools averaged a sesion of seventy
{opt days and a and in the
cities' one* Vuffdred arid seventy
seven days.
The. Oregon law, requiring a man
take out a five dollar license be
fore iuoan patronize a saloon, and
compelling the newspapers to pub
lish the names of those who have
paid the fee, must have one effect!
Gel a i nan tq come put in print ns
One of the privileged, and he no
longer has any use for the back
-Ifoor of a grocery.
A short time since, at North San
Juan, Edward Fsmt, aged nine years
narrowly escaped a horrible death. He
was flying a kite ip the vicinity of the
bank of the- Eureka mining ground*
which descends almost perpendicularly
12.‘i feet, atidwhile running backward,
fell over the'eilge of tile preMpibe. ITe
reached allpost unhurt- His,
iyilyatioii'wnsi!.Ufc,fb,hi.s holding fast to
tiie string of the kite, which materially
checked the rapidity of his fall.
Walker County Messenger.
VOL. IV.
The C*Wm r's Story.
I have a little story,
To tell you all to-day,
Jf you will listen quietly,
To what 1 have to say.
By trade ! am a cobbler,
My name is Thomas Brown.
And though I’m not a Christian,
I Work for God’s renown.
1 used .to he a sinner,
Ten thoiwniijl times the, worse
i Than what I ,ain at present,
i , For now;.l’ve changed my course,
j 1 used be so w tekqd,
That forking in my shop;
My conscience often, made me,
Eav down my last and stop.
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. One niglit in cold December,
When working all alone,
I canglit myself a thinking
| Os Jesus, that dear son,
Who gave his life for sinners,
Who shed his pryc'jqoa blood,
j For us to make atonement
And let us live with God,
k y? 1 i
* Wliile thinking thus, I nodded
And soon asleep i fell,
| And dreamed of some poor sinner,
| „ Whose sold had gone to hell.
| I dreamed of all the torments
It passed thro’ while ’twasthere,
And then how it was rescued,
By never ceasing prayer.
I dreamed liow blessed Jesus
Had washed this wandering soul,
And brought it by Ids pleading
A lamb into the fold;
I And liovv every poor sinner
Might least expect to have
A portion of the love
That to ttiis soul lie gave.
My dreams then turned to Satan,
IV ho, with his hellish horde,
Ilad tempted this poor sinner
] To turn away from God.
Then Ip my dreams I Saw them,
Approaching toward me:
And Heaven being my refuge,
For once 1 hunt my knee.
I prayed .then long and liiind iy,
Before our Father’s throne,
That lie would save me quickly,
And take me to his home.
My eyes then opening wide,
I saw ’twas broad day light,
And all the imps of Satan,
Had vanished from thy sight. !
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My fears vvue still upon me,
And in that dawning day,
l swore to give up sinning
- And once more tried to pray.
I know that Jesus heard me,
For ever since that time
i When evil thoughts oppressed me,
He’d take them from my mind.
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. Aud ever since that morning,
‘ I’ve been a better man,;.
For where I once did yvickedncss.
I do what good t can.
My iife I owe to Jesus,
i And when lie opes the door,
I Apd calls repentant sinners,
I hope I’ll get to go.
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Tills ends' iny little story.
The moral, I will say,
Is that you’ll never get to God,
Unless you learn to pray.
And last of all I’ll tell you,
Though many may be nobler,
you'll never find a better friend
Than this converted cobbler.
THAT ONE DOLLAR RILL
llow it did rain that November
\ niglit. None of your undecided
; with hesitating intervals,
ias it weie, between; none of your
mild, persi-tent patterings on the j
j roof, but a regular tempest, a wild
| deluge, a rush of arrowy drops and !
\ a thunder of opening floods!
Squire'Pratlet heard the rattling
tip against the casements, and drew
his sung easy chair closer to the
fire—a great, open mass of glim
mering anthracite, and gazed witli
! a sort of,sleepy, reflective satisfac-
at tjie crimson moreen cur
i tains, and’a gray cat fast asleep on
j the hearth and the canary bird
! rolled into a drowsy bull of yellow
down upon its pearch.
‘This is snug,/quoth the ’squire;
’l’m glad.l had the leaky spot in
, the barn fixed last week. 1 don’t
object to a stormy night once in a
while when a fellow’s under cover,
and there is nothing particularly
to he done.’
‘Yes.’ Mrs. Pratlet answered. She
i was flitting about between the
kitchen and sitting room with aj
great blue checkered apion tied I
I about her waist. ‘I am nearly ready j
to come in now. * Well, I c wonder,’ j
sotto vcce, ‘if that was a knock at
, the door or just a little rush of the j
wind.’
She went to the doer neverthe
less, and a minute ,or two after j
1 ward she went to her husband’s)
; LAFAVE^TI^K,%E(MIGIA, Til l RSI)AY, MAY 12, IBBIN
chair. ’ “ • •«
‘Joe, dear, it's Luke Ruddilove!’
she said, half apprehensively. The
squ’re never looked from his read-'
ing.
'Till him he has madqa mistake.
The tavern is on the second corner
beyond.’
‘But he wants to know if',y<J«
will lend him a dollar,’ said Mis.
Pratlet.
‘Couldn’t you te’l him no, with
out the ceremony of coming to me?
Is it likely that L should lend a dol
-1 >r or even a ceut, to Luke Ruddi
luve? Why, I’d a great deal rather
throw it among yon red coals. No
—of course not.’
Mrs. iVatlet hesitated.
‘He looks so pinched and cold
and wretched, Josiali. He says
there is nobody in the world to let
him have a cent.’
‘AH the better for him, if he did
but snow it,’ sharply enunciated
the old squire. ‘lt he had come to
that half a doJfen years ago, per
haps he would not have been the
miserable vagqbond he now is.’
‘Wo used togo to sohool together,’
said Mrs. Pratlet gently. ‘He was
the smartest boy in the class.’
‘That’s probable enough,’ said
the squire ‘but it don’t alter the
fact. _ He is a poor drunken wretch
now. Send him about his business,
Mary, and if his time is of any con
sequence just let ldm know that he
had better not waste it coming
her? qfier dollars.’
Avid the squire leaned . .Ijgpk in
his chair, after a positive fashion,
as if the whole matter was settled.
Mrs Pratlet went back to the
kitchen, where Luke Ruddilove
was spreading his poor fingers ever
the blase of the fire, his tattered
garments streaming as if he was a
pillar of vapor.
‘Then I’ve got to starve like any
other dog !’said Luke Ruddilove,
turning away. ‘But after all I don’t
suppose it makes any difference if
I shuffle out ot this world to-day
orto-moirqw.’ ,
‘Oh, Luke, no difference to your
wife?’; : ,i
‘Bhe’d be better off without me,’
he said down l^artedly.
‘But she ought not to be.’
‘Ought, and is, are two different
things, Mrs. Pratlet.. ‘Good night;
I ain’t going to the tavern,although
Pi 1 wager the squire thought I
was.’
‘And isn’t it natural enough that
he should think so, Luke?’
‘Yes, yes, Mary; I don’t say
but what it is/ murmured Luke in
the samedejectetl tone he used dur
ring the interview.
‘Stop,’ Mrs. Pratlet called to
him os his hand lay,on;,the door
latch, in a low voice./ /Here is a
dollar, Lube, Mr. Pratlet gave it to
me for an oil cloth to go in fiont of
the parlor siove; but I will try and
make the old one last a little .loe
ger. And Luke, for the sake of
your poor wife and little ones at
home, and for the sale of old time?,
do try and do belter. Won’t jou ?’
Luke Ruddilove locked vacantly
at the new bank hill in his hai.d,
and then at the blooming young
mairon who had placed :i there.
‘Thank yqu, I\|» y, I will. God
bless you,’he said, and crept out
into the sto'in that reigned with
out. Mrs. Pratlet stood looking
into the kitchen fire.
*1 dare *ay I’ve -lone a foolish
thing, but indeed, I could not help
it. If he will take i* home and not
-pend 4at the. tavern, I shall not
miss my oil cloth.’
And there was a conscious flush
on her cheeks as if she had done
something wrong, when she joined
her husband in the sitting room.
‘Well,’ said Squire Pratlet, ‘has
that unfortunate gone at last?’
‘ Y “-’ ■ - ■ . t
‘To the Stoke’s tavern, I sup
pose ?’
‘I hope not, Josiah.’
. ‘l’m afraid it’s past hoping for,’
said the squire shrugging his shoul
tiers. But Mrs. Pratlet kept her
secret in her own heart.
It was six months afterward that
the squire came into the din
ing room w here Jiis wife was pre
serving great red apples into jellv.
‘Well, well,’ quoth he, ‘wonders
will never cease. The Ituddiloves
have gone away.’
‘Where ?’
‘I don’t know—out some-
—jl "■"
whefe with a colony. Ami they
say iAike’s not drank a drop of
whisky for six months.’
'I am gltid of that,’ said Mrs.
Pratlet.
It won’t last long,' he suggested,
despairingly.
'Why not ?’
‘Oh, I don’t know, I haven’t any
faith ir. these sudden reforms,’
Mrs. Pratlet was silent; she
thought thankfully that, after all, ]
Luke had not sper.t the dollar for
liquor.
* ,* * *
Six moothe—six years; the time
sped a’ong in days and weeks, al
most before busy little Mrs. Pratlet
knew that it was gone. The Rud
diJoves had returned to Sequosset.
Luke had made his fortune, so the
story went, fur off" in Eldorado.
‘They do say,’ said Mrs. Bucking
ham, ‘that lie-has bought that ’ere
lot down opposite the court house,
apiLhe is going to build such a
hojqsc as never was.
‘fie must have prospered greatly,’
observed Mrs. Pratlet.
‘And his wife, she wears a silk
gown that will stand alone with its
own richness ! J remember when
Ruddilove was nothing but a poor
drunken crature.’ | (l
‘All the more credit to him now,’
said Mrs. Pratlet, emphatically.
‘lt’s to be all of stone, with white
mantles and inlaid floors; and he
las pat a lot of papers mid things
under the corner one, like they do
in public buildings.’
‘Well,, that is natural enough.’
‘| knew, yet it seems kind o’
queer that he should pot a dollar
bill in with the other things. He
must have lots of money to throw
it (Jwny in that manner.”
IBs.pratlet felt her cheeks flush.
Involuntarily she glanced at the
squire. But he never looked around.
She met Mr.,Ruddilove that , after
! noon for the first time since his re
turn to Sequosset—Luke himself,
save: the demon of intemperance
had been completely crushed, and
and lis belter nature triumphant
at last. He looked her brightly in
the face and held out his band, say
irg but the one word :
‘Mary.’
Tremulously she replied : ‘I am
glad to see you here again.’
When Luke bad overcome his
emotions he continued
‘Do you temember that stormy
night when you gave me that one
dollar bill and begged me not to go
to the tavern ?’ ‘
‘Y«h’ ,
‘That night was tbo pivot on
yvhicty my whole destiuy turned.
Yop were kjpd to me when all
others gavejne naught but the cold
sjioufder. You trusted me when
ajl other tapes were averted. That
night t took avow to myself to
p"ove worthy of your confidence,
and I kept it. I treasured it. up,
and heaven has added m’ghlily to
my lit tie store. I have put the bill
in the corner-stone of my new
house, for it rose alone from that
dollar bill. (
I won’t offer to pay you back,
lor 1 am afraid, ’ be said smilingly,
‘the luck will go from me with it.
hut I’ll tel! you what I’ll do; I’ll
give money and words of trust and
encouragement to some other poor
wretches as yo i gave me.’
The next day Mrs. Pratlet receiv
ed from the delivery man at her
door a bundle which when she had
opened it,.revealed to hpr astonish
ed gaze the most beautiful pietie of
oil-cloth ,her eyes had .ever beheld.
This naturally attracted the squire’s .
attention, and when Mrs. Pratlet!
told him all, he only replied with j
some,ei)iotion: ‘You were right,
and I was wrong.’
TlfifoM lady kept a private bottle, I
from which she refreshed herseil
from time to time, as she felt the!
need,‘though none of the family ;
knew it. One evening her daughter !
in rummaging through the pantry j
for doughnuts for her bean, spibd
the bottle and bad the curiosity j
to draw the cork and apply her I
nose to the aperture. At this mo-j
merit the old lady hove in sight I
and angrily demanded : ‘Well, are 1
you any wiser than you were?)
What do you suppose it is ?’ ‘I do
not Know what it is, mamma,’ an- j
swered the shrinking maden, but it j
smells just liKe Charlie’s mustache. ’’
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The Lbne-K.ln Plait.
I
‘Let me warn vou,’ began the old
man ns Pickles Smith hung up the
wnter-lipper and sat down with n
heavy jar, ‘let ire warn ye dal de
man who has dp .urns’ inimieg am
de man who flnl’eis hisself on Iris
bluntners, uu.hfuloissnn’comnooii
sense. De grandest motto on nirlli
am de one which r.ys: Spoke de
truf at all •'ime.*,’ hut it ain’t de
'wisest one to foPe,. I has foun’
! dat exaggeraslmn j pleases wliar’
trut hurts, an’ dat flaleiy amuse?
whariruf engenders anger. Spoke
debofol your naybure, undone
of ye wi>l have to move inside of a
y’ar. Spoke de truf of yer friends,
an’ you vyih he confronted by a
legion of inimics. You mi y know
i v yer qw i mind dat dis man vm a
rogup,idru ore a inecnl an’ do odder
one iij,bl upjen’ down wicktrt, but
you iqusr.t iaU what ye know. One
hhutv.o dwi', 1 «psot ahull r.aybor-
iruitiful statement will
re ! Be up a best of liow'Lt’ inimieg.
De pujson who wont (latter an’ ca
jole, a, p avoided andsuspecled. De
biggesl.ii imies I have in all dis
world mu people who b.rve had my
hone3t opinyun, an’ io whom 1
have spoken do p.’nin truf. Only
one man opto." fry rxe» yer bones*,
opirvun wid any ideah of ’ceptin’
it if itdiffe-s bom hi?. Not one
in a bundled axes yer advice wid
any ideali of folltrin’ :l on’ess it
jile3 wid Li? pirns.
‘Dtiifove, I say 'o you, he Idurt
only whet yea Ijf.ve no Leer so
fiiendship. lie ut i only when
you am reedy •.) make : irnies
Condemn e.t'y r, ,f i yon t u a '
packed up an’ 'eady 'o becon ea
hermit. Ted a lie aho.it a man, 1
at’ l.e will gii t o’ot,' it. H'l bun!
wid da truf ao’ be will Collet: you.
until be brs secu ed. levsage Iy
walkin’ arcund (iv half a day I kli
make a sen e cf mart f tends by
praisin’ de 'ooka of a hat, desetfhf
a co.it. de {.race of a s-'ep or de-fii
of a new pa'r of Luies. Months
ar.d mor.ibs ago I d epp-d g word
of praise fur a car dog which was
’rollin' long behind a u'izen. De
(dd.r day dat tame mao walked,
•last twenty to gib me n job of
whitewasbin’.. Fact i?, though I’m
old a pi! bivld-headed an’ ojuop
shocldere.l, it does rue a reap
of g od o l ave sc.ue man stop me
c i,de »t eet an' lie io me like bl.zes
in seyi t’dr t I’m lookin a? young
jMS.a hi 9 n of .v,” —Detroit Kce
Press.
A It." :.a ii a W.’ ila.H.
UrCci’ily .he e up- a ‘'rodt-o” nut
on Lo-t .iver, I.a’..e cor->yy, Oregon.
Rotichicoi. bad l-ered for a ci--
i t >• t "
cuit. of t rvfiM v.five niiies ~o claim
and brand their young cy’Ue, and
when a coition of sur
rounded a Vrgfc hand, amo g wbicli
< rs a Sp. >h tu'f, a r,s. ule r.rv se
ahonta ‘irta’lct-iieK l ;" o' c; ls .hat
bad eM.ped i‘e Sj: ir.g brr ding.
T ; e d’scu.-sion grew warm, none of
the s oc.. tolders hying a' le o set a
vr !;, !c ! aimor ci fitiish an uodoub - -
ed I’l’e. At "asl, in a spirit of
bcr-vw'o, a troche prc.vr.sed that
tv. neve * vto.t'd nice >■ e hub vi •-
cut sadd'e < r bai e , shen'd be de
cl: e<) ow .er c*f he c. *f. The’-e
was a veil of .apmoval, but not a
general s'.mt.ede of volnnieero, tor
taurus uas b.J ilbhumor and Ids
foaming mouth and liloodsb.ot eve*
gave token ihat whoever ode him
would have a ride as,, wild
Mazeppa’s, cud one 'hat might pot |
end so well. At ’as, a “vaqpcro” ;
named Frick accepted lie challenge j
and the wild hu’l was immediately ]
lassoed and ! eld by a hiriei round I
horn and foot. D’smoiin.'ug f ntn
his horse .1 e vaquepo fastened his
long-roweled Bpurs securely, tied a
handkereliief round his head, ap-,
proncl.ed the infurialed animal, and
grasping the tail io his hands sprung
lightly on it, setting thespurs deeply ',
in the flank as he settled stcurely
in his seat. The lariats were slack- ,
hull gave a roar of rage (
and terror and flung his head to the (
ground; but the rider had bis back |
to the horns and a firm grip on tho j
t&ii, and kept hit seat. Another (
roar that shook the ground, a wild ,
plunge, and thf now maddened bull
shot out across the sage piain with
lightning speed, his plucky rider
twisting the ( tajl that to him was a.
sl’eet-anchor until the blowings
IS T O. 41.
were lost in the w,ind. For over a
mile and a half; tlt c mice continued,
amid the excited cheers of the vn
quero’s comrades. Occasionally tho
bullgaveadesperate plunge through
n heavy clump of sage in the vain
attempt to'rid himself of his tor- i
mentor, but the long rowels only ,
clung more firmly to his flanks, j
! Sometimes the animal and :iderj
were hidden by undulations in the j
ground, and bets wer« even made
that Frick would be thrown and i
gored; liut at last tho bull, exhausi.-
ed from sheer flight, fell, and t|io
plucky vnquero, stepping light ly off,
returned to claim his prize, which
was unanimously awarded.
A Terrible Charge.
At a Danville hotel dinner-table, i
conversation turning upon the war, j
a Richmond (Va.) mercantile trav- j
eler protested against n compliment j
lo tho North Carolina Confederuies,
claiming that North Carolina troops \
were neyer ready for action except j
at meal times, and that they would ,
not fight anybody hut each other 1
and then only when there was
whisky in ramp.
‘’Why,” he added, ,- in one on
go-ement Borne dismounted Virgin
ia dragoons had to charge right'over
the lucks of a regiment of tbi se
cowardly ‘tar-heels’ who lay flat on
tbeir bellies afraid to get up.”
'•An’ them foot cavalry rid right
over tlie rosin-chawers, did they?”
put in an old chap who had been
100 busy to speak before. ,
‘‘Right ovei them!” repeated the
ijrutnmer, evidently pleased to ob
serve the apparent interest and de
,light of the odd-looking old gentle
; ttnrtn, “though I"m a Careliner coon
brnyself. I’m free to iokhowledge that
bthom tiller* ilttl Vieat
j h——l a chargin. They’d jist
ch.-rge right over anything. Why,”
be continued (and even the active
waiters stopped lo lisieo), ‘ I’ve
knowd em many no many o’time
during the war to charge over — i
over seven!if-fice cents for a quart o'
buttermilk!" -Detroit Free Press.
Some Has f» K,:.is t
Avoid tort w' icli you see amiss j
inotbp s.
Follow ti e examples only of the j
good.
Keep your C’ sr. -cn tea’l that is ,
wcith licit’ing and closed to all [
that is nob
A i o’der pe\ n’« expe ience is
e f no value toyoa Unless you piofit 1
by iu.
You.r e rot l.r 1 ling on t'»e u- !
lure hut on the « sland p ever'
Evil comrU- ’c. I’ens coriu tt;
S'-
good nrn *rer".
Nohvsdy wi ■.s to deal with a I
douh’e mint 1 ad boy.
lie ’ dus‘ "nits; the wo Id wauls
hoys who a e no- a''aid of bird,
s etulr wo, k.
“Tlieemp y ve: 'el makes tl;c
£ eatest Sol’
Someho.'s ' ihe’it golden in.-
tunes, hut no boy ever i heri.ed a
scholeisb'P, a good cbnrac’er ora
uses life.
If you wou’d he cenah e, cj l .:-
vote you-mi-c; ! f you would be |
J .ved.cu' ivalayou " bea-1.
Never excuse a w oiig rc.lon by
laying acme one e'se does lhe ,ne
thing; this is no excuse a. a•—
A ion.
A Ln- !> < Joke.
«: i '
proininent physician of I’llts-1
said jokingly to a lady ( jta- j
Lieut who was complaining of iM
health, and of hW ioftlfilitv to cure
her, “t k Hop liiltu ?! 1 Too ladv j
took it in earnest an used the Bit-!
te.'s, from which she obiainod per- |
iL'iineot health. She now laughs
at the doejor for his joke, but he j
is nos so well, pleased with if, as it |
cost b ! m a good pai'ent.— Harris' j
burgh I‘arioi.
Ak ui Ol io, May 7th, 1880.
Some three years rgo I bed a Iloise .
tn come ve j lame from a .spav" ■?, I 1
trait ed it with Kendall’s. Spayin
Cure with marked success. Since 1
llien I have sold a great many bo'-
lles and have lie- rd cf cU’es . 1
ing from ifs use. I am fruik to
say I esn cheerfully recommend it j 1
as an hones, remedy. I remain j
Yours truly. A. M. Armstrong.
Read the adve. tis ment.
, /’ank of Rqine building was j
bought by T. F. Howell for SO.OOO.
ViT /,
Wei'lp.f l,eai* l**n« , ils. ,
The net of putting a lead pencil
to the tongue to wet it, just before
wjriting, which we notice inso many
pepuie, is ono of the oddities for
j which it is hard to give any reason
—unless it began in tho days rtthep
lend was poorer than r.ow, and wap
continued by example into Lue next
! gene a ,! o>i. ,
A > , net' should newer be
wot. It r.'-dena the lead und ruins
tho pencil. 'lnis fact is known to
news,it.| or men rod stenographers.
Hut re: i'y eve y one e!-;e dees wet
ape. c‘‘ tiofiire us'ng it; This fact
was detiniily settled by a news
paper c i ■ k away down emt.
Jieiog of a mat he.nt>licn! turn of
mint, lie a .co4t.i.i u'd, by actual
count, tnat of fifty persons who
came *nto h's olllce to write r.n
ad vet.'tßenae.it or chi*, eh not'eo,
forty nioe put a pencil in their
nioui's before using it. Now this
e'ek a'waj’B used the best pencils,
cherielvog a good one with some*
, thing of the pride a soldier feels
|in bis gun or sword, ar.d it >hdrt
his feelings to have his per oil spoiL
j ed. liut po’iteiess and business
' ooo'.ideratioae required h ! m to lend
! ills peso'l scores of fires ever/ day
And of.en abe* ii bad beci wqi
| until it was Irani and biit.ie an^
| relosed to mark, this feeling would
ovt -power him.
i Fi,rally, he got some cheap pen
| oils and sha peoed them and kept
| them to lend. Tile fi?el person
: who .tunup'the stock pencil was
a data’mi •, wno.se b-ea h smeit
;of oni s ni whiskey. He held
the point i i l. : s mouth and soaked
it-for stve al minutes while he was
torturing himself in the effort to
w i'enn ad : ve tisement' fora mis
sing hull dog.
Then a sweef-Jook’ng young lady
came to the oflice, witli kid g'oves
| thin, buttoned half the length of
| her arm. She picked up the same
old pencil and n''e:;..ed it to her
lips pveparedo.y to w.iting an ad
veriieament f.: • i. tost, bracelet. The
e'erk wonM h: ve stayed her lmnd
even at the lisk of a box of the
best pent'U Faber cate ed, but, ho
i was ioo late. • i, . |
| And thus that pencil passed
i from mouth to mouth for a week.
li whhsucWcA liy people of all ranks
t, | and stations, and ail degrees of
’ | cleanliness and uncleaniinas. Hut
,| we forcear. Surely no one who
leads this wi I ev? • again wet a lead
1 pone i.— AL'nnC't wlii Irihunc.
leach li .a ’> to l‘j! ■i.
Train your o ii hen to he polite
at home, and y a ni 1 ! never have
cause <o l.'n h at 1 ''fir • udeness
ahroad. '1 c ; .y checked hoy and
gi 1 a I the £ : .r>icg, vigorous young
man «h - sit i their coni<bi!able
| seats in crowded c.us, while g ay
lieadid g'lindfat hers and grand
mothers tug rhe sl,.ip3, are poor
j comment. :ies on home training,
• Notiiing 's cl tape - thr.i politeness)
1 and no.king ;r vs belter. Itshouid
j not I 3 1. uget because it pay?, but
j bom p■' c . s. The young man
i who : s reglige >t of I is mother and
4j|er ri. !:<• ne, or ,l e sifter who is
i seifist. o,),l i’ it' ovgh,.Vl, will be iiq
| tiles'" g :r> any oilier ku'me into
; which they are eng ei.ed, until
“they Ui learn v iiat .they have
•’e.rr.ed air'°s.” T.i’s is often
<'ilficult a. .1 rn .oying, and robs
li'e i.f tie )e; r Ji hours pnd its
rich, s g 'si T, uin your chiiJien
in roMteae s r. tl uns-,!tishne.?3 in
all i •> -i, and l:e greater will
come pinout til effo:.. — Inter-
Uceuii.
r-—♦
Tlip Cherokee Indians, the most
civilized nation in tiie Indian Ter
ritory, number thenty ihoitband
actual cirzer.s. ft supports ono
bund ed an seven school?, in which
the instruction is given in English,
a boys’h’gh school, n girls’ high
school, an orphan asylum, and
I a very good asylqw for tho
! insane, bi id and indigent and
I other public institutions. Out of
j five thousand one hundred anil
sixty-nine men over eighteen years
of age, only sixteen fire hunters
and five fishermen, three thousand
live hundred find forty-six nra
farmers, and the rest are profession
al men, merchants, meohanice and
laborers.
AilSwo. a to Co -. 3 "ISOll! 1' .
t
Hi rep’y to the many inquiries,
which we have received regarding
a most prominent modern remedy
we would say: To tlie best of our
belief Wr.raei-’s Sife Kidney and.
L’vir Cure is pure ; o ils nature,
efficient ia its action and certain .
in its result?. We have learned of
some remarl.able cures wli’c’i it
lias effected, aid believe Uiat as a.
preventive of disease it is une-,
quailed. For deb'eftte. ladies and
enfeebled men it is iovaiubte, ( and,
its ppre vegetable qualitiesopminod
it to the favor and use of all.