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Citi-rdTlltn
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r ALKER County Messengm.
VOL. VII.
THE MESSENGER, f
I.A FAYKITE, - - - GEORGiA. ;
i 111
SUBSCRIPTION !
One Year - - - -isl 00
Six Months r>o Cents.
Thtoe Months - - -2!) Cents.
Finding’ The Trail.
' *•*.
Here in the sh tdow of this grim
mom,lain in camp of calvary-200
men in faded ai d raged blue uni
forms, every face sunburned and
br nzed, eye y sable and oirbiue
showing long use, every horse lif *
ting its head from the grass at short
intervals Fra swift glance up and
down the valley.
Here, at the foot of the mountain :
the Apache trail, whihe has
followed for three days, has grown
cold Aye, it has been lost. It is
as if the white man had followed
a path which suddenly ended at-a
precipice, From this point the fed
demons took wings, and the oldest
trailer is at fault.
The men oh picket looked up
and down the narrow valley with
anxious faces. Down the vaHey,
a mile away, a solitary wild horse
paws aiid prances anS utters shrill
neighs of wonderment and alarm
Up the valley is a long stretch of
grass, the earth as-level as a floor
and no visible sign of life. The
pii es and ehrubs and rocks on
the mountain side might hide ten
thousand Indians, but there is not
the slightest movement to arouse
suspicion. It i a a still, hot day.
Not a bird chirps, not a branch
waves. Tho eye of a lynx could
detect nothing beyond the erratic
movement of the lone wild horse
do vn the valley and tb<j circular
flight of an eagle so high in the air
that the proud bird seemed no lar
ger than a sparow.
For an hour every man and
horse has looked for "signs,”
but nothing has been discovred
beyond what has been described. It
is a slow trail. There is something
in it to amuse suspicioi a3 well as
annoyance. Ten miles away the
rail wat as plain a3 s country high
way, and the Indians had no sus
picion of pursuit. Five miles
back there were signs of commo
tion, Hete, in the center of the
the valley, every foot print suddec
tly disappeared.
Look, now! A rergent with grizzly
looks and fighting jaw rides down
the valley followed by five iroopirs.
They are to scout for the lost trajl.
Every man has unslurg his carbine
every saddle-girth hue been tigh
tened, and every man of the six
looks over the camp ns he rides
out as ifhe had been told that he
was bidding a last fnrewell to com
rades. They ride at a slow gallop.
Each man casts swift glances along
the moun'nin side to bis right—
along the mountain side to his left
—at the given grssi; under (pis hor
se's feet.
What’s that! Afar up tho «]■ pe
lio the right something waves to'
' and fro f>r a niotnent. Higher up
| th« signa' is ans wered. Acro-s
! the valley on the other s lope it s
answered again, Down tlie yslky,
a fu 1 two tirles tieyond whiretbe
nil d funs’ now stands like a figure
of stone ami wb< r, the valley sw,eps
to the right like 'he sudden turn
of a river, the rignnl is caught up
and 200 Apaches, excited
and mounted, draw hack into lire
fringe allhe barer f the mountain
and wait. '
Ihe fit>l band gallop down upon
the b»Tte horse. No v tlt<-y nfio-ly
half a miio away, ai d ids brcuh
came quick and his nostrils qeiv
iras Ic '-tands and stages at the
stranje spectacle. A htfle nearer
and bis munctlo twitch and quiver
and hid sharj pointed ears work fas
ter. Only eighty rods now, (sL<i
with a fierce snort of alarm and
deri mce he rents ui', whir's abou'
ike d is off down ti e'
vabey-i*. . . riow gent bv e i
strong hod. Tli s ght may ilnifl,
out d es fi-it ’ncr-sast- The puie of
s wlio follow. The ojco sc
t 'W.-i '.•.!* I’-e Ag i-efOTH ibetn
t*ut ‘he V « - i.'.t held lliejr
; ev.-’ Li te ri a- - i-efcOi.it. To the
rid-t —so t|i>- bft—atiove them
u wi the vuiler—they are look-
LAFAYKTTE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JULY *26, 1883.
imr tor a honf-priot. for u broken I
twig —for n aig’i however ii.s'gnlfi
eant to jvrove men have pHssed
that way. They ft id nothing. The
signals up tha mount linside w -re
yisiled only for second*.
Atiof the fiist wild burst c.fspcod
the ‘one- horse looks bick Ho
ee«* that be la no* being pushed,
and he recovers courage. He no
longer runs in aitralehthne hut no
sweeps away to the h ft—swervet
ovtaV to the tight, and changes
his gate to a trot. Whin hb hears
tlieshnut of pursuit and the lou
der thump of hoof neats ho will
straighten away and show the pur
suers a gait which nothing but a
whirlwind can edtinl.
Look 1 It is only a quarter of a
tui’e now to the turn in the valle. .
Tli s lone horse h is sud lonly stop
ped to sniff the air. liis ears are
pointed straight ahead, his eyes
grow larger and take on a frigh
tened look an ! he half wheels as it
he would gall >p back to those who
have seemingly pursued. Five,
eight, ten seconds, and with a snort
of alarm he breaks into a terrific
run, takes the extreme left of the
valley, and goes taring out of sight
as if followed by lions.
‘•Halt!”
The grim sergeant secs “signs”
in the actions of the horse. Every
trooper is looking ahead an l to
the right. The green valley runs
into tlie fringe, the fring l into dense
thicket, the thi iket into reck and
pine and mountain slope. No eye
can penetrate lhat fringe. The In
dians may he in ambush thtro, or
the horse may have scented a wolf
or grizzly.
“Forward!”
No man knows whaldnnger luik
in the fringe, but the order was to
s out beyond the bend. To di9e
b y is ignominy and disgrace ; to
ride forward is—wat! ’ih n is
no a’r s'i'ing in the valley. Every
limb and bough is as still a< if
made of iron. There is a silence
which weighs hke a heavy b ird -n,
and the harsh notß of hawk or
buzzard would be a relief.
Here is the bend. The valley
continues as bef(#e—no wider —no
narrower—level and unbroken.
Tbe wild horse was out of s gbl
long ago, aad the fix treopers see
nothing but the green grass as there
ej es sweep the valley from side to
side.
"Turn the bend, and ride down
the valley for a mile or so and
keep your eys open to discover
any pass leading out.”
"Haiti”
It is more than a mile beyond the
hand. No pns-i has been discovered.
No signs of a trail has been picked
up. The setgenut has raised himself
up fi r a long and careful scrutiny,
when an exclumation caused him
to turn bis face up the valley. Out
frim the fringe ride the demons
who have been lurking there to
drink bl >od. Fjve—ten—twenty—
fifty—tie line lias no end. Ii
slretclirs clear across the valley
before a word has beou spoken.
Then it faces to the right and 200
1 ndinns in w if p lint face the grim
ol ’ *er cant and his Gve ropers.
"Inin line—right dris-!”
I is the sergeant who whispers
the older. Six to 200, bit he wi 1
face the danger. To retreat down
thcvilley is'o be overtiken one
by one i rid sh»it from the saddle
or reserved for tnriure. L> .w i the
valley there it no hope; up the val
ley is the camp and rescue.
The t«v > lines face oich otl er for a
moment withoufti movement.
,"N >w, in-ii, one volley—sling
car Lin- —'draw sabres a d charge!”
A si eel of flame -a roar—a
cloud of smoke, and the six horses
xpring f irwirrt. Then tli’ro is u
grand veil, a rush by every horse j
and rider, »n 1 a whirlpool begins
to lire e. fibers flash and clang
arrows whistle —revolvers pop—
voice- shout an I scream, arid (lion
tlie whirlpool ceases. It is net
t! res minutes sii.se the first
car'olnft n l B li ed, but the tragedy
i 1-bh end-1! Evi ry trooper is down ]
[and scat pod, has a drz-n redskins
! are de-d or ay trip, a dozen hor-e
--\ strut'; ii aor etaugering.an 1 'uroi 1 V 1
I the Inn-1 a' « uoid guitbj' >s t 1 e- r-
ise-i t- lidt'flee* torse -liee.twes
lan atri.vi in !iis . hi uldo-, all I there
[is blood on the ’ Saddle, pi ! ’e
; minute* ho will be in ceinpiahd tUe
j i o*e- of tlie bugle will prove thm
the li st trai: has l eer found.
tv ss;--it l { .w iNriV.t m-
AbiilCA.
A Thrilling Story of the Iteseue of Four
Men by a llrave (lauudiuii.
Just ns r. grain scow containin',
a crew *>f four men, ai d towed by
two lior-es, swung out of the Chip
pewa (Jut into the Niagara rivjr,
she met a raft of timber rather
near to the shore for t e scow to
piss hetwion it and tiielnnd. Tin.
scow was foiced to take I lie outside
The driver of tho horses did bis
best to keep ibe line clear by urg
ing his lior-es, b it it finally caught
in the logs and snapped. As the
rope parted, the boat trembled on
the s'-.rtace of the water for an in
ntaiit, as if io dread of the t-rril lo
fute that awaited it, and then
swung around and started for Niag
ara Fhl'b at a terrifio pace The
scow, being distinrd for canal rav
'igalion, bad no small bail or an
clior.
Appreciating in an instant their
awful danger, the men on the scow
yelled to the men on the raft to gut
a boat quick. O e of their number
sprang ashoro and ran for' Chip
pewa, shouting as he ran: “Help!
a boat, quick, intm going over the
falls! ’ The sound of his voice
reached the village considerably in
advance of the man, and the cry
was there taken up and repeated
from street to street. The p'opfe
poured nut of their houses and
shops, laoh inquiring of the other
what could he dene. Some scatter
ed to hunt for one,-while those who
felt that they c old be of i o use if
a boat were found, rail down the
i reek Link to see what was the
situation on the river. ,
On reaching it we were horrified
to see that the scow had already
got conridtrahly below the mouth
of the creek, nod was speeding
down stream with its precious hu
man trcifiht to what set med certain
destruction. Some of the men on
the vessel were on their knees,
with clasped hands and upturned
faces, commending their souls te
God. Very si on the Canadian
bank i f the ri’er was lined with
hundreds of penp'c, whi e quite a
crowd could also bz seen on the
Goat Is ! and side. They wore all
agonized witnesses cf four fe 1 low
beings in horrible terror.
Just as all hope bad been aban
doned, nppar ntly. by people on
land and the n.en on tte scow,
a voice cried from the upper end
of the crowd, “Here comes a boat.”
[n an inefact everv eye was turned
in the dln chon of Chippewa creek,
and there most of them recog
nized she tall and athli'ic form of
a bargeman- name 1 Smith, in an
oidinnry clinker 1) at, boldly pul
ing into tho rivzr
As he forged out in'o the stream
he made a hasty survey of tbe sit
uation and then plied the white
ash with 'redoubled energy. As
he sped along, the boat n'most
leiipiog fr m the water at each
stroke, a cheer arose from the peo
ple on tbe shore that fairly rent
the air, Tho moment Smith »p
--peirel the attention of the.men on
the so. w was r voted U| on him and
bis frail cralt. On and on he shot,
each stroke narrowing the distance
between hi n and tho scow, but the
latter was getting alarmingly close
to the ripifls, ,r > enter which was
i-6 tain d'-ttruclioß to all on
hoard.
Those of Hi nn shore could not
help admiring and applauding
the heroism of young Smith, but
we could an y feel tfi it the resul'
of his daring would be U> add an
other to ihe bet of ti e lost. At he
neared this cow lie turned Iris head
and shouted to the men: “Hctt'tei
alo/ig the side of the boat an i
drop in as I pass by.” The com
mgrid was promptly obeyed and in
an instant the iittlo craft was
alongside. One nfi;r another the
rival sprang In, until the lour wer.
solely in the bottom.
Now came a moment of painful
ar.xiely. “ Vhat will he do7” wa
tbe query that i nine to ev-ry mind.
Smith rad hi- pi in of atti u. and
never beeita'ci a momonl. Aiaj
point «on e !i-t,i ,ce from th •On - j
«dx e! oiu the cur out ohioi-d mi I
the held of tb< rapids, part of tl c !
itream flowing aioui.d an isianu l
in the vicinity of the burnt spring.
In reaching the current leading
around the island lay the only
hope of escape. Taking a diago
mil course across and down the
stream, Smith bint every effort to
reach the Canadian divide. It was
a desperate struggle for the life of
five men between the seething,
boiling waters and the muscle and
endurance of young Smith, with
the odds seemingly against him.
But ti c divide was finally gnined,
with not a boat's length to spare,
and the frail craft shot down be
tween the island ar.d the u ninland
like a rtekoi. At the foot of the
island tbe channel widened mate
rially. the current slackened and
the wa'er leonine more shallow,
and nere young ,Smi h landed hu
licit, having per.ormed one of the
ino.t lien ie and during foils ever
performed hy niorlnl man, -lujfn
tu Commercial.
Bill .tip's Ball) Talk.
Tbe poet hath said that “baby
in the house is a well-spring of
pleamrc.” There is a burn iew
one here now, llie fiist in_ right
years, and it has railed a poweiftl!
coinn olion.'' It's not our l aby,
exactly, I ut it is in rim lire of de
scent, and Mrs. Arp takes on over
it all the same as she used to when
she was regularly io the business.
I thought maybe she had forgot
how to nurse ’em and talk to ’em,
hut she is singing tho same old
familiar snugs that have sweetened
the dreams of half n score, ai.l she
blesses tlie little Cyes and swiel lit
tle mouth, and us s the same io
finrile language that n body but
l)ihit'S.undeistai d. For she says
“aim here to ils dnnmudder,” and
“bess its ’i'tie heart, and talks
about its sw'-et little tootsy-toolites,
and Mold* it up to the windows to
see tbe wagons go by and the
wheels going round pouny, anil
now my liberty is curtaile 1. fi/r as
Iso stamping arourd wiih my
heavy farm shoes sl e si okes her
ominous linger at me just aa she
used to do, slid says don’t you fee
the baby is' nsleip, and so I have
to tip toe around, and ever and
anon she wants a little fire, or
some hot water, cr a little catnip,
for the baby is a-orying and surely
his g t the echo. The doors have
to lie kepi shut now for fear of a
drift of air on riiejonhy, and a lit
■le hole in the window-pane ahoui
as big ns a dime had to lie patched,
and 1 h'.ve to hunt up a paesel of
kin’lingß every ni; ht end put Vn,
where.they will be handy, and they
have sent me off to another room
wliei-e tho baby can’t hiar me
snore, and nil things considered the
baby is running riie machine, and
the well spring of pleasure is the
c.i.t r of space.
A grindrr.olh'f f is a wonderful
help, and a (fei.t comfort at such a
lime as this, for what rims a young
rri6thor with her firs* Child h now
about co'le, ar<) thrash, and hives,
and hiccups, and it takes a good
deal of faith to dose ’em with suet
ten, and catnip, ,itul Itmo water,
and paregoric, arid soothing-syrup,
und Some'inns with all of these
the child gets worse, and if it get*
better I’ve alwdys had a curiosity
to know which remedy it was that
did the Work, Children horn ot
healthy parents cun stand a power
of medicine and get over it, for
alter the try conus the kleAp, and
sleep is a wonderful restorer.
B ick ’em qwhile in the cr.tdle,
and then take ’em up and j 'll ’em
if lit'lo on the kn'ei, anil turn ’em
over arid jolt 'em on the oth- r side,
and then givg 'em some sugar in a
rag, and alt* r awhi'e t ey will go
to sleep and let the poor mother
rest. ’lhere is no pit t.t on tl.i*
business, no Way of ra sing ’em all
th* same way, bu’. it i* troufi'e.
trout,lr from the itart, an 1 nobody
lint a mother knows hmv much
trouble it, is. A man on ditto be a
mighty good nian ju t tor his
mo h.eris ~ike, if nothinc else, for
there in to to I or trouble like
nursing and c.ring for a little ehiJ'i
:im' there is no grid so gnwt as a
~, -t,hers if dll her care and ftpxie
y .ire wasted an «u utigi'in/01.
child. '?■,,
'Juke your e unt. paper.
NO. 1.
The W roll if Man baptized.
Stammering dr ritittterHix ** on< *
of iho most U'lpleiiAunt things at
tunes, lli.it a man Curt bn iiftiioted
with. A mun may Irhtdfed ftitli
nlinost any oilier inaludy and lie
cured or helped, lut n man «h
itu'ler*, though I * mar at limes
be Iren from tlie babit.be never lias
confidence in bis tn I Icing itter.srla.
Tlmv may rnrt all right lor a time,
but just as ho expects 111 •*i mfnWt
fiimi bis vooul nrgun-.aiid withW to
do bis hi. »t, limy go back ort him,
and be hem dc s til out d, mid ean’i
express hii thoughts to save him*
sell*. A stutterer is usually the best
natiired man in Iho world, li
seems as though nvture picket
etit the jollit st fell' we its a watch
. cure to put poor vocal works i to
,so ill re won’t bo any kicking
I There is a gentleman fivii <5 in this
state wli i htii tors jest when lie
don’t waiit to, I ut, olio cun talk
right along whan there is nothing
particular to he said. If Jic gets
excited of interested and wants to
orate, he gets RtDck and has time
to walk around the bhek before
tie can get Unrigs to working again.
He wa< iii lows recently, at d a
a hotel where he was stopping, the
travelling men wero getting op a
party one Sunday to go to a town
a f w miles distance, where there
were to be u number of converts
baptized, and they invited our
friend, thesuttcer, logo along.
“Not m m-much,"said he, as lie
worked at u tangling a fish fine,
while a boy brought fn a tomato
ciin full of angle worms, ‘ If f knot?
in ln-my own hear), J don’t go to
no U-k-k-cunp meeting where
they b-b-h-buptizo. I at-t t atten
ded a baptizing sertpe once, and
my k-k-oluthes Imye not got d-d-d
dry yet.”
“What was the matter," Paid a
drummer for a Chicago grocery
house. “Didn’t full iu Iho water
■id you?”
“N-n-n-o,” said the, stutterer, gs
lie shifted a wad of paper < own on
top of the angle worms to keep
them from crawling out, “I didn’t
f-f f-fall in, but I got in all the ss
«-B.,me. 1 was snu-ena-snatched
in .* Jf you won’t tell any one, 1
will t t-t-tell you about it."
'i he buys swore they would nev
er give it away ; and the stutterer
wct.t ou.
“ lVe’l about twenty years ago I
was editing‘ll p-p-p-psp.r in VV’ie
c-ccnrsih and tin re was a revival
at the tovrit Rt| winter, And in the
spring they advertised to b-h-h
--brtptize nil of the k k If-crttiVerts
livery body went, and l w w-w
--went down to tiis k'k k-rreek to
see '.liPin s-s-8-souk. They bad a
presiding elder, a stranger to me,
to d-J-d-de the hup i zing, end Alien
they had dipped a f-f-ffew, 1
noticed the older ne’c.l s-s-s rort oi
t : re l wh.n he pu-bed the last wo
men n-hore, trtl I th-fh-thonght
lie w in'ed to corns out of the w w
waler, ho I reached nut my li-h
--hand to help him up the b-ti-bai k.
Do ymr know, he thought I was a
c-e c-em did/rtc for baptism, and
lie took hold of my hand and was
n-p pulling me in, when I said,
‘elder, don’t p p-p—' and before J
could say any n -rii-more lie said,
‘Have no f-f-f.ar my yotihg It k k
chrislirn friend,' and he put his
arms around me and was pulling
me richt in. I wasn't as st-st
strong as I am now, and he had a
g-g-prip like a piizefighter, and Ire
tore I kreiv what he Was about, tie
was saying 'I I-b-haptizi-—’and I
ns was weak as a cit. I tried to get
Away from him, and tried to explain
chat I w-w-waui’t the lel'er, aid
that I hadn’t h n-never been con
verted, but the naturally pious
l"ok bu my faco b h* bet rayed me.
and I sttltterpd so I couldn't get
in a word in time, ai.d lie put me
under. As I went down 1 ebu'd
see the crowd oa the b-b-bmik
laugning, because t’iey all I,new i ,
was bb-bad, ami tli t it was a ,
ii intake o’ the strange preie her. J
came op strangling, and the hist '
thing Is'id was, elder, you have
■undo the d d-tlori <iist mis ake of
your life,’And I went out bn the
!ai k and shook myself. You may
talk abort n.-m ministers not j. k
'ing, bu * 1 gr. b us. Jshrll a : wa>a
thing In .I i residing cider kiriv
ilia' I was no Christian.' It wag t
picnic lor the Crowd, and they
laugh at me to this day. Wo, gen-
Ueitien, I can't go to ttio camp
meeting for I shouldn't feel g-s
safe there," a fid the stuttering man
.tonit hie ftfc.li puleftndangle worms,
and went down towards the pond,
while tire traveling men went In
the camp meeting.
nailer as Seen liy a Member of the Leg
isi.it'ye Committee on Technology,
110 is a short, stout man, rot
tidier Ilian /dnr should, r* and
wiigldug near (nrt hundred
pounds. Ills head is us Itrrga as a
hnlf bushel and hb innud a* g
pumpkin. His faco untie full—
now Hobby and hunt in in. folds,
rather than wrinkhs,gives Duple-t
of one who lots been fund of loud
and drink, Hitt has nut lived his
must vigorous days. His eyrs is
iiis nor t striking feature. The lids
are so thick tbat one se>-nn to ba
looking iii'o a deep hohow to sttri
tlierp. Tory nro not S'-t square
across his luce, but the outer cor
ners arc considerably lower than
the ii.ij. r making die cyeg aat in td
me. t at art Angle pointing upward.
This gives him an appearance of
bring cross eyed, wbich, however,
to one who olserves more closely,
is not irue. ,
Aftiran ii. trod tic lion in whi h
thfrw «ns a very little formality,
die trovi rnor o| coed a fiee mid ea
sy conversation liy remarking that
lie “euppo.S'd wo knew at leust bow
men.» bo was." S me one replied
that "wo certainly bad bad good
opportunity to know, for wo heard
t often enough.” After this wo
spgnt an hour or mr.ri in very
plonsKiit enp Vermilion with Ilia
and ivuro all prepired to nidorsi
til" remark Unit be is said to liava
made of bim-elf to-tv It: “tlnit
what v,r >lse people' may chons*
to cal 1 him, nobody, ev; r calls bin),
u fool.'.’
Hu slinwsd in (inran spicimens of
‘T'«i Ksbt rry leather” raude of tho
sKiIH ol till' poor people that died
at the T.b Kabo rry Abn rheme,
It was queer lo .King leather,
but there wire suffinenl uvidenoi
iu llio lo'illi er was certainly very
poor 1c .t'lcr and I am at u lotg to
. trlvewhy tlieeutlmritifsofan Aluia
h . use gin u!U wist !o ski the I o bln
to inane such stuil out of the sgins
of the dead ) nupers uii'psb it via* to
[ rove the doctrine of the total de
pravity of tho human heart.--
Sumpter Hepnblican,
A Mccoikl Mari lugs.
A convict at a French y on»I set
tlement,’who was undergoing a life
sentence, desired to many a fema'e
convict, such marriages being of
frequent occurrence. The xovern-t
or of tb« colonv bad no
but the ~ricet proceeded to cross-’
exnmino the prisoner:
‘Did you not marry in France?"
itSKci the cleigytnnii,
■Yea’ .
‘Aod your wife is dead?”
‘Shu is.”
‘Have yon any documents to
show that she is dead? ’
•-No."
'Then I must refuse so marry
you. You irnisi bring some proof
of the death of yonr wife.’
There was a pause,during which
the prosjreeUve bride looked at the
at.*‘mi>ly wonld-bo-grooin. Fi
nally he said;
‘I nin piovu that my former
wife is dead.’
‘How will you prey.- i'?’
‘I wis rent he'e for having Killed
| her ’— Texas Sifting).
i A Word of hon'bt appreciation
jis whai fcve y vvfrlar need*. It ia
thrt dullest of dull tt iogg and tlie
driiu iost of drjary to toil on nod
on wtnovt ever a word of appie
cialton for yotir work falling from
; kindly bps. Nothirg sajs the
1 strength of the fine fiiher cfenthu
j siiisni sooner. T here fore, let your
lips he fragrant with kindly ap
preciation of the work of nil those
who serve you, whettierin the pul
pit, or t'.'.ft mhoolr om, or tiie gieK
chu'mher, or the editorial chair,
whether the mi r shunt, or the tradt s
mnr. or the day liiboror, or the
ni m who ur ofi.eS your Horse,
Kvcry iimn who is ullks in the
great :'bain of the world’s nree-n
--iie», however mighty or I’oKev r
bumble, sbou'd leel the touch i f
ijlpreciiitioo upon Ids toil-aching
brow, a belied cti'ii of cheer,
K|ille|isy nf Mu« fears t
“I thank the giver of all good
gifts,’ writes J N. Ylarahall, i.I
(iranl.y, Nwton Co., V"., *fr
giving ti e Sumuritnu Senior. It
cure.) iiiv diiiigiilir’« epil-ptio fi*-,
ol t) yi: r- ,i. ruling.” tit i.t dro 0 -
gi-t . «i.r,u,