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THE STOLEN BOY.
The Kidnapping of Charley Ross
in 1874.
THE CHILD UNDOUBTEDLY MURDERED
The abduction of Charley Ross and the en
deavors to Rente him. is retold by Captain
Walling, in ab» ok just published:
>’KW 1 ACTS IN THi; CHARLEY ROSS CASE.
Os all my experiences while connected with
the police, I recall no case which gave mo
greater solicitude than tho abduction of
Charley Hoss. This occurred on the evening
of Wednesday, July 1, 1874, at Germantown,
a suburb c-f ITiladelphia. I became superin
tendent of the police on July 23,and in conse
quence I took an a<live part in the search for
the child and the dis every of the kidnappers.
Christian K. Ross, tho father, was spending a
few week- lit Atlantic City. When Mr. Ifoss
came home on Julyl he discovered that his
twoyoimp st children, Walter and Charley,
w< re iim sing. He began search, and before
night h arm d that two strange men with a
horse and wagon had passed his house, and
hail induced the boys to take a ride. After
driving about eight miles toward the city the
men tleserted Walter. lie was foam! and re
turn 4to his father’s I ou.se. But Charley has
never sin(' been m•< n by his parents.
The cominunity became alarmed and in a
ihojt time the people of tho entire countn-be
came interested and all did v. hat they could to
discover the criminals and restore the missing
child. A long rorrespoden .r followed with the
unknown abductors through the post and the
pres*. They frankly admitted that ( barley
bad been stolen with the hope of getting a
large ransom. They declan dhe would not l>c
retained until th< mom y was paid. Acting
upon the advice <»f the authorities and friends,
Mr. Ross decided not to pay the sum asked,
but to offer large rewards for the recovery of
the child, and the capture and conviction of
the Kidnappers. The mayor of Philadelphia,
at the r* •<(<««•.* t of many citizens, offered a re
ward of for the arrest and conviction of
the abductors and the restoration of the child
to its parents. Tho pulliction • f this n ward
drew a letter from the abductors dated “Phila
delphia, July 21,” in which they .said:
We have him >o that we luul at <• c imrunst nil
the detuHivo son e in tle<ountrx ever fentin'him
put. The authority > hav•• o:< n d $20,U00 for the
ehiki an dele tlon of us it t! ■ y had yu interc ’ at
hurt trds would be the wm thing they could do.
thin U only ofcrin a i eward lor the E.uTiikc of yer
child.
Tho first information received in Philadcl-
Shia that there was any clue known in N« w
r ork wafi through a teh . rain r< ccived on the
avening of August 2, as follows:
Chief of police, Philadelphia s-nd detective
here with ori'.inal letter* of k;dnftpj<rs of Russ
111.a, think 1 have information.
I.EoE ,1. W. WAITING,
Superintendent oi New York !*<>!:< e
The next day Captain Heins, of Philadel
phia. and Mr. Joseph Ross, brother of Charley
Rohm’s fat her, came to New York with the
□rig nal letters of the abductors. They met
me at police headquarters.
“We hone that you nt least have some trust
worthy information, *' said Captain Heins.
“1 think 1 have.” 1 replied. “Through
Captain Ih nry Hedden, of the Thirteenth po
lice district, I have heard of a man who pro
tones to know who tho abductois are. 1 will
lend for Captain Hedden.” Mr. Ross was im
patient to learn the news.
“Have you any idea who tho abductors
were '.'” he asked.
“We Mupect two men named William Mo
ther and Joseph Douglas," 1 answered.
“H we have their names,” he exclaimed
eagerly, “tliey can be hunted down.”
•‘Undoubtedly. And that is what we hope.”
1 do not think before the publication of this
autobiography that the exact reasons have
been given why William Mosher was first sus
pected. A policeman named Doyle came to
me <»«<• day and said: “Superintendent, I have
been talking with (till Mosher, and from all I
have learned I think his brother William had
B hand in < anying off Charley Ross.”
“Bring < till Mosher to see me as soon as you
Ban,” I orde < d.
After a great deal of searching ami trouble
Gill Mosher was found. After asking him
many questions, I finally said:
“What ar©your reasons for suspecting that
your t»i' il»er William took part in the kidnap
ping of (’barley Ross?”
“Well,” he replied, “I was approached by
Bill, wh asked mo if I would join him in car
rying off some child w ho had rich parents. Tho
plan was to st- al one of Commodore Vander
bilt's grand* hildren.” (Some child of tlfo lute
VVilh im H. Vanderbilt.)
“Which one of the children was to be
tak n?“ I asked.
“The youngest one we could got.”
“What would you do with it!”
“Hold it for a ransom.”
“Where did ho prop< so to conceal the
child?”
“In a boat,” said Gill Mosher, and ho added,
H 1 was to n< g‘ tiatu for the ransom.”
“Weil, w hat then
•‘I r« fused to have anything to do with it.”
“Why ’•
“Because I thought there would be too much
risk in trying to get money from the Vander
bilts 1 hey are 100 rich, havotcNi much jMiwer,
and an* not people to be frightened. Then*
would be no trouble in stealing the child. The
difficulty would bu in negotiating fur its
ransom.”
“So you gave up the plan?”
•‘Yus, 1 would not run tho risk of being de
tected. 1 did nut think it was a safe enter
prise.”
(iill Mosher's statement made a strong im
pression <-n inc. 1 was convinced he did not
come to me from any honest motive. He hoped
he might o-urea Kimry of the reward. He
va* a notorious character, and had been in
Hate prison for horse stealing. It was prin
cipally from the clue given by“( Jill” Mosher
that Us followed His iiit>iinr William and
Ihmgl.r-. When Captain Hedden arrived at
txrth e hi adquarteis. he told Captain Heins, of
*hiladclphia, the story us “Gilr Mosher. He
added:
“If my susplcums are correct, this William
Moslk i - the leader of the conspiracy. He
arrangi I th< plot, and is tho writer of the ltd
tors sent to Mr. Ro s. I am iamil at with
Mosht i * writing, ami can tell if I »ee the let
ters w hetla r be is tlu author of them.”
“Ih I- sc w '-how you tb.- letters.” said Cap
tain Heins, “describe to us the peculiarities of
Mosher’s handw riling.”
“He write > very rapidly,” was the reply,
•‘and is careh ss lie seldom finishes a page
without blotting it. He often writes either
above er L uw the lim When he fold> a
letter it :s in ape uli.tr and awkward way.”
The leltvis were pro<luc< d.
“1 h» y are L>, wdituut the shadow of a
doubt!” exclaimed Hidden, “ihre is tho
handwriting, blots and all, just a I told you.
And you m u for yourselves, gentlemen, that !
the h tt» rs an folded tn a p»K'uliar ami awk- '
Ward manner.”
This idem itieatlou of the Ivttor. Rcotucn cott
clw»iv< It produced n profound impression
Spoil Ca; tain Heins and Mr. lo ss.
‘•At l ist ’ exclaimed Charley's uncle.
Arratuements were made with tho New
York d. toi lives that the Philadelphia police
should be kept informed of all that transpired,
and whatever assistance could l>e given in
I‘hiladelphia should Is* f.otheoming.
Captain Held, u afterward learned that
Mosliet and 1 touches manufactured a moth pre-
Tenth e. which they called "Mothee. ’ Tlicv
trave , d al oui ti e country with a horse and
wag.-n, selling this with other small articles.
He a150.:;,-- ...cred that Moshor had a I tother
in t.iv . M ill. an Wt stenelt, a dischamed po
lice "tn, (I , i yiew York, who Was probably im
ph ated m fl v abduction.
I >O4 f. r Wou-rvch, the brvtber-in-law of
Mi>'m <n \ D. I*7l and
*•*" 4i i udmg ihv n.cn and rvcmcrii 2
the <la d. Afu r ion*uh ring tho matter a tew
dnyh ho a„i ?vd to help the police. 1 frvely
<xmfc w tint W< •nt : - entrance into the
Case w.i unfurl abate. I wdl know his rvki-
Uonslilp to X|< shcr “Stt a thief to ian*h i
thkf m.y he ig . tlnir-.td.hit I urn tuved
to it failed mu rly n. tin* case. 1 th.-ught.
at< d .1 nmnv with wh<*m I t m-mlled th it
West.pelt.. .:u .udm.d.b. han m the
reward, to n . un where tee child u.iv J
not think \\ < ; lV when* Cb.arh v
li-i- uonlf!?lo. !’ ‘ ‘
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and I . urth >rw ln>>r < • • . / .
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buU 'm ut' * •* 1 .»o •' r ;i
•Uvvu A w»B<ja imwer.n» to lia. dvKnpuon , >ii
gave me was in paid stable at that time, and may l.e
H er • yet. butpr-dably not; Huy kept in said btablo
a dark bay hcase. He is confident the h•»r«:e h«M
bet n sol I. but dof’B not know to whom. I shov.e 1
h m the drawing . ft be wngo > you gave me, and he
>ayH he coubl n-t make n better one had he the
v a tin Ih lore him, exe< j t (hat lie Link- this would
not be quite so much rouirlo I at tho top. Yours, etc.,
(H>>. W, Walling, Suy>cilntend< nt.
It was aver rtained that a family named Hen
derson had iived at 2'lu Monroe street, Phila
delphia. 'I his proved to be the name Ml. Jut
a •mined when he went to Philadelphia. It
wa- ;i|..,i learned that Jo eph Douglas had
lived with the family, and that Mosher’s wife
and children removed to New York on August
IS. I; ftjflu discovered that there had
been an old stable on Marriott’s lane, which
had been since torn down. A part of this
Mosher rented, and there he kept his horse ami
wagon.
It is certain that when Westervelt was
aware that we wore on tho track of his broth
er-in-law, ho put Mosher and Douglas on their
guard. By means of newspaper advertise
ments he kept the kidnappers thoroughly in
formed as to the methods to be employed by
the police in tracking them. Ho never would
admit that he. hail seen the men, but always
professed that he was looking for them. I
finally learned that ho had seen them, and
told him so. Then he admitted that he had
met them tui e, but asserted that ho could
not. have informed me of the meeting in time
to have been of any service.
It wasom-cf the mo t delicate and difficult
of cases. I sometimes dii-aded that if probed
too closely one of tho ruffians would murder
the child, so as to efface all traces of the crime
of abduction. Tho tracking of Mosher and
Douglas was continuous, and a weary chase it
was, 1 having followed what I thought were
traces of them for days and nights. 1 was
often close to them. The vigilance of the
kidnappers was that of those w ho Were hunted.
The innumerable bays and water-courses about
New Y ork gave them the fullest opportunity
for concealin' at. I had the evidence that the
men rarely *t<q>ped in one place more than one
night in tl.<*-r b at. Often wo were so near to
their biding ’ !. •• that we passed cluse by it in
the dusk. But th( i scar< h lor the men contin
ued : they were bunted as relentlessly as by
bloodhoum’s. S«» hard were they pressed by
the police of New York that they were forced
to remain alim st wholly on tho water, visiting
the city a: rare intcrvals, ami then in the night,
boon tliey were br ught to want, because of
this, and re**- rtou to burglary.
At 2 a. m. on Ih-o-uibci' 11, the night pitch
dark, cold and wet, Mosh<.‘r and Douglas at
tempted t<> rob the summer residence of Judge
Van Brunt, at Bay Ridge, overlooking the
Narrows. When they entered the judge’s
house, which was unoccupied, a burglar-alarm
telegraph rang a bell in ibe house of Mr. J.
H. Van Brunt, the judge s son, who lived
across the way. He roused his son and two
men servants and, arming them, the party
st xh] gun.-<1 at th front and back duors of the
judge s residence.
“Now. boys.” said Mr. Van Brunt,“we have
w<-rk to do and must understand each other.
We must capture the thieves rs wo can without
killing thciji. but if they resist we will have to
defend ourselves. Alix rt you ami Scott stand
before the frontdoor; Frank and I will take
the rear, and whatever happens afterward let
us remain in the positions we first take up, be
cause if we move around we will l»o certain in
the dark to •-hont one anotln r instead of the
thieves. Whichever way they come out. let
the two who mtet them take care of them as best
they can. If they come out and scatter both
wavs then v.o will all have a chance to work.”
The men took their places and watched for
iui hoar, while the thieves went all over the
house. A t length they came down to the base
ment. Through the window of the pantry Mr.
\ an Brunt could see the faces of the two bur
glars. He could have shot them as they stood,
with perfect >afvty to himself, but he did not
wish to take life unless forced to do so.
“Frank,” he said to his hired man, “we may
as well push things. Take the key and open
tho back door quieklv.”
The burglars heard the rattle of the kev in
the keyhole. Instantly they put out their
light and began to ascend the basement cellar
stairs.
“To tlm trapdoor of the cellar, Frank,”
whisper' d Mr. Van Brunt.
The lock of the door had l»een broken. The
door was soon o]»cne<l, and the form of a man
started up. followed by’ tho head of another.
“Halt!” shouted Mr. Vanßrunt.
Two pistol shots flashed almost in his face.
They’ did no injury. Ile fired at the first man,
ami a < ry of agony followed.
The oth r man tired, and ran toward tho
fr< nt of the house. There ho mot Mr. Albert
Vanßrunt, nt whom ho fired two shots, miss
ing him. Before ho could the again Albert
shattered his arm with a blow from his shot
gun.
\\ ith an oath the thief retreated, when the
elder Mr. Vanßrunt shot him in the back. Hu
staggi red for an instant and fell dead.
None of the Vanßrunt party were injured,
w hile the burglars were riddled with shot and
bullets. < )ne was dead, witli his empty revolver
under h * head. The other lived about two
hours. Tho neighbors camo rushing to tho
place. Water was given to the dying man.
“Who are you and where du you come
from s< vcral asked.
“Mi n. I won’t lie to you,” said tlio dying
man. “My name is J<>s< ph Douglas and that
man <v< r there is William Mosher. Mosher
lives in New Yurkfcity. I have no home. I
am a • ingle man and have no relatives except
a brother and sister, whom I have not seen for
tweir< |or fifteen year*. Mosher is a married
man and has five children.”
Belies ing himself mortally wounded, he
said:
“1 have ”10 in my pocket. I w ish to bo
buried with it. I made it honest. It’s no
use lying now. Mosher and 1 stole Charlie
Ross ironi Germantown.”
“\\ by did you steal him?”
“T<> make money.”
“ W ho has the child now ?”
“Mosher knows all about tho child; ask
him.”
“Mi sher is dead.”
Tho men then lifted Douglas up so that he
could see his dead partner.
“God help his poor wife and family !”he ex
claimed.
“Can you tell its where the child is?”he was
again asked.
•‘God knows T tell you the truth,” ho re
plied. ”1 don’t know where he is. Mosher
knew
I’he ii’oe question was repeated. “Super
intendent Wailing knows all about it. and
was after u«, and now he shall havens. Semi
him word. The child w ill be returned home,
safe and sound, in a few days.”
“How did you gut here?” he was asked.
“We u.ii'H* over in ash p which is down in
the cove,” he an- w red. “I’leaso do not ask
me qu»-Mien”. It hurts me to talk or move.”
Writhiii* in agony, lying on the ground,
<1 rein hud with rain, surrounded by darkness,
the life of thu mi>eiable man who had caused
so much serruw and outraged the feelings of
ev< rv i-areiit in the country, went out. He
diusl like a dog. as was fit.
On the _ morning us December It Justice
Church, us Bi\ Ridge, sent me a telegram
say inc that Mu-dier ami Douglas had been
killed. lat <•nee dispat hod D< tective Silleck .
to Bay Ridge, who, as soon as he saw the bod- I
ius. sail! ;
“That is Joo Douglas ami that is ‘Bill’ '
Mosher, l ake the glovw off his left hand and
you will find a withered finger.”
I hv tjvve was removed and tho finger found,
as indicated. The first ting< ref the left hand
was u ithered away, the result of a felon.
Little Walter Ross was brought on from
rhilmlelphiit ami fully identified the two bodies
as they lay in tho Bi\u»k]yn morgue. Rut this
was all. Ch.iiay Ross was ijvver found. I
think he is d» ad. 1 can conceive of no possi
ble rea> n why, after the t” > kidnappers had
b«en ktlh xl and Westervelt was in prison,
t’hai’.uv l; shuuld not have Im « n returned
I .ul he Ikuh alive. Tho promised immunity
from pitnuhmci.t ami the reward offered by
the may ii . I I'hiladulubiaare good re.4M.ms fur
suiq ‘.'’.ng that the child, if alive, would bavo
btvn returned to its pan nu.
< n-t.it.|»t i<>ii < ur< <l.
\u uhl ph>> • ian, retired from practice, hav
incha l j .u-, u in 1 is hands by an East India
mi*-- un.'.n i!.<- foruiubi of a simple vvgoLible
r ‘ ‘ ' •-•!•!’•.• spu. dy and permanent cure of
* ‘ n ''i 1 •». br i chins, catarrh, asthma and
U , a pu”iti\<
amir.uiu.o :<v ivi nervoua debility and all
herxvE* ■ . after having teatud it*
w«.rlu. ui. i-x power* m tli tsauda of
* 1 ‘ '• 11 • b • ifutv to make it known to
his * "ii ;f. ■ Actuated l > tbi” nu>tive
and ad. • t nI. u » hum.m saff’.-mu I will
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THE WEEKLY CONSTITLTICN, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY. DECEMBER 6. 1887.
'TRAINING THE GIRLS,
So That They Will Make Useful
Women.
A GREAT INSTITUTION IN MISSISSIPPI-
Colvmbus, Mies., November 2 >. —[Staff Cor
respondence Constitution.] —There are more
old Georgians resident in this pleasant and
prosperou ■: little town them you can find any
where outside of the state.
It seems that a slice of old Georgia, with
the ho ics, people end fixture, has been
bodily transported and planted here right in
the heart of Mississippi. Tho love for the old
state has not died out yet, but on the contrary,
has perhaps grown stronger, and all ideas of
heaven and a better world that these people
have are indissolubly associated with the name
of Georgia and the memories and recollections
that linger still concerning their old home.
E cry place, no matter what its size mav be,
has some object or institution that constitutes
the show-place or thing of tho town, about
which lingi rs tho ass ections of the people, and
to which they point the stranger with pride.
With us in Georgia, Augusta lias its canal,
Savannah its Bonaventure, Atlanta its Kim
ball house, Athens its university—and, so .Co
lumbus lias its female college.
Nowhere else in the union is there one just
like it!
It seems strange that Mississippi, generally
believed to be backward in many things, should
be first and foremost in educational matters.
For the boys, it has an agricultural college
that is more successful than any similar insti
tution anywhere else, more thorough, more
advanced, more strongly planted in the affec
tions of the people. With commendable jus
tice, tho state has endeavored to do for its
girls what it has already performed for its
boys. Hero in Columbus is an institution for
the practical training of girls, that lias no
superior and perhaps no equal anywhere in
tho country. Years ago there was in Columbus
a female school of small proportions
and operated with varying success. Located
in the center of beautiful grounds, the institu
tion was operated for the b nctit of the girls of
the town. Three or four years ago, the town
of Columbus donated fifty thousand d< liars to
the institution with the proviso that tho state
should take hold of it, and organize and equip
an institution for the practical training of the
girls of the state, in the same manner as it
aided and controlled the agricultural college.
With the money received from Columbus to
gether with that donated by the state, the old
wooden building was replaced by an elegant
brick structure capable of accommodating 300
girls. Eveiy modem convenience was placed
in the building, it is heated by steam, lit by
electricity, and supplied with water and gas.
Large engines in the barement supply the steam
for heating purposes and the power for eleva
tors and laundry. The rooms for recitation
purposes are supplied with every convenience,
and the dormitories are modelsSof simple ele
gance and comfort. Tuition is tree, the object
of the school being to give to poor girls the
training m practical arts that will enable them
to earn their own l iv ing.The basis of attendance
is controlled by the proportion of population
and illiteracy in cacti county. Scholars are
permitted to attend from any part of the state
who are able to pay their own expenses, but
2.30 arc given the training at actual cast. The
expenses of board and clothing for a pupil
during the year will net exceed §l3O, and the
girls reduce this amount largely by doing most
of their own work, for which' they are paid
eight cents per hour. All of the household
work in the large building is performed by the
pupils, save scrubbing, and lhecleanlincssof the
Louse is simply wonderful. The floors are so
clean that they almost look white, ami the
window panes are as clean as artesian water
that flows fresh from the never ending stream.
In the large dining room where 250 girls
take meals three times per day, there was not
a spot or an odor; here they do all their work,
details of a certain number each week per
form the task of washing the dishes, serving
the meals, ami attending to tho various ne
cessities of each tabic. For this they are paid,
the amount being credited on their board ac
count. The girls are all obliged
to wear a uniform made in a certain
way out of certain material; those
who perhaps could afford a better dress are
nevertheless obliged to conform to the rule.
These uniforms, with hats, do not cost exceed
ing nine dollars, and the girls make them,
those not able to accomnlish this having the
work done by others, who get paid for tho
service. These uniforms of blue are worn on
all occasions, even on Sunday, when tho pu
pil attends church. Economy and prudence arc
taught in every department, and the habits
the training is incalculatiug in the minds of
tho coming women of the state, are simply in
valuable.
An excellent education is afforded the pupil.
They are taught everything that a woman
ought to know, or that will add to her worth,
or adorn and beautify her life. Accomplish
ments are not overlooked, but they are made
secondary to the great work of the institution,
and such tilings as music, singing, etc., are
taught not as an accomplishment but as a pro
fession in order that the learner may derive a
comfortable living thereby. Painting
in oil, water colors, or china, etc.,
work in steel, brass, amt bronze, such
as converting a silver cup into the repoussal
style, or a plain piece of tin into a highly orna
mental bread tray or waiter, are taught those
who desire to learn. Wood carving and indus
trial designing are subjects that largo classes
are pursuing, and on tho walls are hung
specimens of their work that would do credit
to tlie practiced hand. These pupils design
patterns here for matting, oilcloths, etc., that
are readily accepted by the manufacturers.
Press-making is a particular department, in
charge of a practical teacher, amt many dresses
of the grande dames of the city are made with
in these college walls, the money received go
ing to the credit of tho pupil. Crayon work is
frequently sent here from many places to bo
performed, and the work of enlarging photo
graphs has grown to be a regular industry. In
the mechanical departments stenography,
type-writing and type-setting are being pur
sued by a large number. The other day in tho
chancery court, two of the girls were sent for
by tho chancellor to take down certain matter
in short-hand, they did their work with tho
skill and accuracy of a professional stenogra
pher. Tx ne-writing machines uro daily ma
nipulated by the girls, and the college has se
cured employment for many graduates who
dexoted them-elvcs t > that ] articular industry.
A college paper of eight pages is gotten out
here, every word and letter being set by those
pupils who take this branch of training.
In short, there is hardly a vocation that a
woman can follow without injury to her repu
tation or without shock to lier modesty that
is not practically taught in this institution,
and while she is being fitted
with these weapon* by which she can earn
a living from the world, .'.she nt the same
time is given every accomplishment that can
possibly adorn and beautify .the female char
acter.
Columns could lie written about this won
derful institution. A movement was made in
the last Georgia legislature to establish an in
stitution of its kind. The state owes it to tiie
women of the state, and if it is over done no
better model can be found anywhere to pattern
after and follow than this model institution at
Columbus. I’resided oter by 1». Jones, a
graduate of tho university of Virginia, and
formerly a professor in the university of Mis
sissippi, assisted by an able corps of professors,
male and female, tho college lias already
achieved a full measure of success, ami is
daily growing in its ixiwer to do good, and is
rapidly changing the position of the women of
Mississippi from one of idle dependence and
suffering to that vi complete independence and
prosjierity.
To see 250 girls pursuing an education that
will tit them for the task of, earning their own
living, to know that they will be obliged to
earn that living, toroa'i. o that in this glo
rious work the state is lending a helping hand,
mid that public sentiment applauds and ap
proves all along the line, makes one feel g<x>u,
h ippy, proud of the girls, of the state, and of
the people that have inaugurated this grand
innovation in tho work of female educath u.
H. u. r.
W——» II ♦ 11 ■ ■
A Curt (soud-bje.
From the Detroit Frvu !»resi.
In May, In J, 1 being then a number of the
Thirteenth lUiti’.<• cuvulry, uu4Ui Gvacntl DtccN 's
cuiuniund*( uiuicaptured, with thno vthvr nnm
ttUtut thirty miles shun l.lti'c K.ek. We were rtrip
ne lof all ouiMde clothing, spurs, bats im l t-exits,
r >: Ju l ~f everythin- of value, and Ibrwarlvd to
I Utile Rock to be cuuLUvd os of wm in the
penitentary. The building was then entirely clear
of cMivirts, and we were confined in the yard,
found about federal prisonerd in there, and had
not f ten in the inclos ire half an hour when I was
iaformedthat a plot was on foot for a general de
Href)' at an early day.
T.iere was a line o.‘ confederate sentinels on U.e
W’ll!', an 1 a second l.’n-. at the la eof the walls
outside. f ] his seemed to the cental '.rates to assure
cur captivity, but, tju or twelve days previous to
i»y arrival, our boys tad begun a tunnel designed
to go under tte waff. Tliey had begun at a spot
about forly feet back f o:a the wall, and the work
had all been done at night. During the day blank
ets w-rc thrown over the spot, an old piece of cau
vas elevated for au awning, and no one cou’.d sus
j cet what wa&going on under the very noses of the
guards. On the second night of my arrival the
tunnel was finished. It came out close to an old
scanty twelve feet outside the wall, and every man
in the inclosure was invited to make u-e ofdt, and
advised how to act when he once got ont-ide.
The night was dark and :a ny, und|themen began
passing out at about 9 o’clock. It was midnight be
fore my turn came, and the man behind me was my
tent-mate and chum. We had our own idei.s of
what course we should take after getting out, and
instead of making a bolt for the country we walked
coolly off into the woods for about a mile and then
el m' ed a tree. We were scarcely in place before a
great hullabaloo at the prison warned us that the
es< aj>e had been discovered. Out of 250 prisoners
in the place 2-17 passed out. The others were too ill
to go. The very last man was out when the confed
crates made the discovery. There was a great com
motion inside of two minutes, and inside of a <_u ir
terof an hour the country was being scoured in
every direction. I may state here that only twelve
of us out of that large number eluded recapture.
Most of them were taken before n ion next day.
Before daylight the woods in which we had taken
refuge were being beaten up by dog«, civilians and
soldiers, and had we been in flight we should cer
tainly have been overhauled. Indeed, they recap
tured numbers of prisoners within our hearing, and
some of them passed under our tree on their way
back to confinement. When daylight came we
climbed higher and secured better shelter, and we
did nut descend from the tree until 10 o’clock at
night. During the day many searchers passed
through the woods, and had any of them lifted
their eyes we must certainly have been discovered.
When we gut down to earth we took a half circuit
to strike the Arkansas river at a point far below the
town, and as we reached it, after three or four hours’
hard travel, we came upon anegiocabiu. The man
was r.'.laid out, and as soon as he knew we were es
caped prisoners he gave us a hearty meal, bundled
us up a large quantity of coarse provisions and in
sisted that we make use of his boat to go down the
river. lie gave us the names of all the towns below,
advised us to lie by during the day and saw us off
with a “May de Lawd bress yer boaian’see ye
frew?”
We were eleven nights paddling down the Arkan
sas, and eleven days lying by in swamps and cane
brakes, After the start we secured food only three
times, and that in small quantities. It was always
from the negroes, and in no case did we fear be
trayal. Daring those long nights we came near be
ing recaptured a score of times, and during the days
we were so harassed and annoyed by hunger, heat
and insects that we were more than once inclined
to give ourselves up. We reached the Mississippi
one morning just at daybreak, and the smoke of the
federal gunt«oat. Little Rubel, was plain to be seen.
We had to hide in a thicket and wait nearly three
hours before she came opposite. Then we s’gnaled
and she checked her way, run out her loaded guns,
and sent a boat to hail us. The officer shouted:
“Who are you?”
”E < aped prisoners!”
“Where from?"
“Little R'«ck!”
“When did ycu escape?”
“Twelve days ago.”
He v a 1 -th to bulieve the story. The gunboat
backed in within rille-snot, the men stoed tn their
guns. a-. 4 \\e were ordered to wade out on a bur m
i r hr*, t nos the small boat (Mien we were <ut
until :h water was up to our necks the boat pule I
slowly in and took us aboard, but it was not until
w - w r.* a' ard the gunbuat that our so y was
fully : ehe\e 1. The captain and others had read of
the • s ape at Little Reek, and we had no trouble
in identifying ourselves.
A Happy Marriage.
Cork, Ga., November 29.—[Special.]—Cork
was the scene of a happy marriage last Wed
ne-day* The contracting parties being Mr. B.
P. Bailey and Miss Rosa F. Streator. Rev. M.
England performed the ceremony in a most
impressive manner, before a large audience of
relatives and friends. Miss Rosa was a reign
ing belle of Midway, Alabama, and her friends
and admirers were legion and wish for her a
long mid uninterrupted life of the happiness
she so justly deserves. Mr. Bailey is a travel
ing salesman for 11. D. Adams & Co., of
Macon, and is a young man of the highest
character, and has the unlimited confidence of
bis employer. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey will go
on an extended bridal trip through Florida,
after which they return to Flovilla, Georgia,
their future home.
ouH.'.dWpTcoLUMji.
Better Than all of Them.
Mr. John Moore, Columbia, Tenn,—l accidentally
saw to lay a copy of Tiie Weekly C institution and
was surprised to see so much interest manifested in
it concerning cattle, horses, dairying, topics which
I am sorry to see other papers abandon for
and other subjects of no interest, or at least no bene
fit to those who aro furnishing the Loef, bread,
clothes, milk, butter and cheese for sixty millions of
people. This, in my opinion, makes The Constitu
tion worth them all to mo, for 1 I now the people
among whom it circulates, and I know their needs.
1 know that prosperity will not follow the plow
share in the cotton field howevt r dilligently our
people labor, so long as our barns are filled from
western grainerics and our cattle and stock interests
are neglected. As proof of this, I have seen this
country of middle Tennessee, that has abandoned
the cotton system grow rich and prosperous by
diversifying their industries and raising grass and
cattle, horses, mules and stock of all kind.
In proof of this, Major Burnes’ annual sale of trot
ting horses held October 20lh. at Ewell Farm, con
sisting of about one-half sucklings and yearlings
averaged ov<r $2301 e; capka, bringing him in same
$13,000.
Colonel J. W. S. Ridley, who abandoned cotton
tun years ago and went to raising mules, sells
annually from GOO to"( 0 in; Is, ami last year cleared
over SBO,OOO.
My own 'a m is a dairy farm and L-st month* from
the milk and butter of twenty-four cows I took
$224.60 and am under three yu..rs contract to turn
over my heifer calves from tbJrty one down in my
herd to a stock farm at $?00 each for heifers and $ 0
each for bulls. Os course my butter was made in thu
best manner and sold at high price per pound.
Hence I am very enthusiastic on dairy pro Ju -ts, for
I see away for the run down fan. s us cc rgia, Ala
bama, Tennessee and other southern states to be
made to pay their present owners mare than they
ever did their first ones, in the days of their virgin
fertility.
“GO CALMLY, YOU CAN’T WIN BY
FORCING.’’
Mrs. Margaret Clark's Advice to Lottery
Flayers— She Won 1iH5,000.
‘Since you will buckle furtune on my Lack,
To bear her burden wtio'r I will or no,
1 must have patience to endure the load.”
These meaning lines of Shakspeare camt vividly
tothe min iof C.e rejmrter of the l icayvi o, who
called Thur* lay uoon at the office of The Louisi
ana State Lottery company and was introduced to
Margaret linen, wife of Thomas Clark.
The lady, who is a native of Irtland, conntv
Feimanagl.. was accompahied by her husLnnJ.
They h. 14 in tl eir possession one-tenth of ticket
number 71,411, which nt the last drawing of the
lottery became entitled to the capital prize of
fl O.IXO.
It was in V 59 ti nt the couple were married.
Tliey have lived happily together and have a fam
ily us six children, all of whom are full grown.
Clark, who has been a txv-s slater by trade for
thirty-one years, pursued the duties of his calling
and Sirs. Clark a' o ided to tie affairs of the
h; usehold. Both parents have been heavy players
in the lottery.
The husband, on the other hand, has also be on an
ardent player and i.as only t een successful unce,
drawinc a prize of Mis. Clark's advice to her
busbar d has al ways been: “Go calmly, you cant
win by forcing.”
Speaking of tho monthly Ura .ins?. Mrs. Clark
stated that the ticket .th win- ’ > l.:;d : u-t
drawn the capital pri’c Mas the tenth of the kiud
that she had ever purchased.
When tho gvexi woman uas handed a check for
IIMOJon the New Orleans National bank she
calmly took it. proceeded to the bank an I depu •
ite 1 it for her ac e 'lint.
Mr. an I Mrs. Clark, trhojhave hitherto been in
ordinary circumsUi:c a, Niy ihe\ will continue
V . -,g, ’ : t t:n'’. ; t: -; • any .xu . .
T tv are. L- waver, pr. ud ft. cir s.c < *>. but d >
; not Ulieve In th“ * .y.r.r -. m u u is ihe r i
kerof his on n furtunan • . le, in o ehr
urv. the trumpet of L s u.m? - New Orleans (La.»
, Ifioajruw*, Au ♦ kUibe: 12, Im h
DURING THE WEEK.
The Week's Sy lopsis of General
and Local News
• CONDENSED FOR OUR WEEKLY FRIENDS
I
Tuesday, November 29.—Ninety-five cigar
sac tories shut down in Havana, Cuba, owing to a de
mand by the cigar-makers for an increase in wages
Twelve thousand hands arc thrown out of employ,
r.ient... .Tho Montgomery, Ala., flouring mills were
destroyed by fire in Montgomery, causing a loss oi
590,GC0....The jaint establishment of Billlugs &
G and the Ohio Steel Barb Wire fence company,
of Cleveland, Ohio, were destroyed by fire, causing a
$35,000 1055.... Baron Hirsch gave the magnificent
sum of £2,000,0 X) for the benefit of the Jews in
Europe, his object being the founding of a primary
school in Russia.... The condition of the crown
prince is flatt ring for ft complete recovery... .The
ginhou e and several bales of cotton belonging to
Mr. Isaac B. Florence, was destroyed by fire in
Powder Springs, causing a loss of 53,C10, with no in
suiance.
Wednesday, November 30. —John IT. Parker,
employed at a plaining mill at Darby’s Mills, Fla.,
was accidentally caught in the shafting and instant
ly killed... .The thermometer registere 1 thirty-nine
degre; s below zero at Waterloo, lowa, on Tuesday,
the coldest weather ever known there up to this
time... .Mr. Baas Harrison, of Columbus, who had a
fit and fell into the fire in that city last week, has
died from injuries recived....The ginhouse, four
bales of cotton, the seed from twenty-one bales of
cotton and a new $250 gin belonging to Mr. V. Thorp,
near Americus, was destroyed by fire, supposed to
be the work of some tramps whom Mr. Thorp had
ordered oil’ his place... .The ginhouso and grist mill
of Mr. I. W. Florence, near Douglasville, were
destroyed by fire, nothing being saved.
Thursday, December I.—“ Aunt” Jane Col
lins, an old negress of Nashville, Tenn., died at the
advanced age of one hundred and nineteen years.
She was ft servant girl to General Jackson.. ..Dr.
McCullough was shot and instantly killed by a
farmer named H cks at Stevenson, A1a.... Daniel
Smith, a small boy of Chattanooga, Tenn., was play
ing with a pulley belt, when his clothes 1 eeame
entangled, mangling him in a horrible manner,
lie lived a (O.iple of hours, when he died in great
agony.... While two pipemen were laying a water
main in Chattanooga a passing freight train came
by and jarred the earth so that the banks of the
ditch caved in, killing Uotii men instantly.... A fire
in Aiken. S. C., destroyed nine buildings, causing a
loss of 840,000.
Friday, December 2. —The Strobridge Litho
graphing company, of Cincinnati, the largest busi
ness of its kind in the world, was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss estimated at from #3CO,COO, to $500,-
OCO •• -The Lawrence hotel in Brookville, Kansas,
was destroyed by firo, burning four men to death,
who were guests of the hotel. Guests were com
pelled to jump from second story windows to save
themselves. The loss is between twenty-five and
thirty thousand dollars... .Jacob Sharp Las been
bailed in the sum of forty thousand dollars. He is
very feeble in health, and it is thought that he will
not live through the new trial that has been granted
him.... A little three year-old child was burned ts’
death at Pikeville, Tenn.... The ginhouse, screw
and four bales of cotton belonging to Mr. S. J.
Coody, near Macon, were destroyed by fire, causing
a loss of S7OO, with $1,030 insurance.
Sat urday,December 3. —A large fire occurred at
Eminence, Ky., destroying Duncan’s jewelry store,
Miller’s grocery, the town hotel. Moody & Proetoi’s
grocery, Morris & Bros., lumber and coal yard,
O’Connell’s butcher shop and a large carriage
factory. No estimate of the damage could be given,
as tlie fire was still raging at the time the news wa;
telegraphed... .Work on the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern railroad, the road which is being built
from Monroe to Atlanta, is progressing rapidly, and
arrangements have just been completed whereby
the hands can work night and day.... A loeomative
boiler, drawing a freight train on the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad explode, killing Alexan
der Walker, engineer, instantly, and injuring
Freeman Gould-x. AVajhue Ettinger, David
Thegcr and Joseph Reifsnider, brakeman, so
badly that they died while being taken
home.... John T. Brooks, who lives at Collins’
ville, Ala., locked three of his children in hi
house, and accompanied by his wife, went visiting
to the house of a neighbor. When they returned
the house was burnt down and one of the children
had perished in the flames... .Simon & Co., clothiers
of Mobile, Ala., failed with liabilities, $15,000, assets,
SIO,OOO.
Sunday, December 4.—An earthquake occurred
at Besigsnano, Calabria, demolishing twenty houses
and killing several persons... .The four-ye.ir old son
ci John W. Bailey, of Frederick county, Vft , fell
backward into a pot of hot lard and was hoirlbly
burned, dying in a few hours.... William Bell, a
highly respected young man us Manchester, Tenn.,
attempted to board a moving passenger train, when
he miss d his footing and fell under the car, which
passed over his body, killing him instantly... .A
mad dog in Chattanooga, Tenn., got loose and going
to the house of William Baxter, bit his two sons and
a neighbor named D riglass. The entire fleshy part
of one of Mr. Baxter's toys’ legs was torn of!', ;md it
is certain that he will die, with the chances against
* the other two.
HER LIFE *FOR HIS.
A gray mist hung over tho lofty peak oi
Terrapin mountain. No sound disturbed tho
slumberous stillness save tho twittering of
awakening birds and the irritable cough of
shy squirrels munching tho hickory nuts gar
nered for the winter’s store.
Up from the massy depths of a gorge pale
blue smoko slowly ascended from the rock
chimney of a mountaineer's cabin. From tho
door issued a lass, whose litho and graceful
figure seemed to float over the rock path which
led to the spring that gushed from the craggy
wall of primeval rocks above her.
“I wonder if Cap'n Earle is here,” she mut
tered, as she placed tho pail she had been carry
ing on the ground. Shading her blue eyes
from tho rays of the now rising sun she peered
into the leafy darkness of tho far-reaching
chasm. “Ho said he'd come of ho could git
away from his men. Tho cap'n hed better bo
pulling up sticks and gittin’ out o’ here, ’cause
dad’s mad an’ Jim Heflin’s mad, too. Au’
when them air two git mad at a revenue man
that’s show to be trouble. Jim Heflin an’ dad
bed jus’ as well put ’tin their pipes an’ smoko
it, too, fcr tho cap’n ain’t a goin’ to git till ho
ketches ’em. Dad’s done got the revenue men
down on him now for makin’ moonshine.
Thar’s goin’ to bo trouble roun’ Terrapin
mounting yit.”.
Talking thus to herself, she started,blushed,
and turned quickly as sho heard a low whistle.
A tall, fine-looking young fellow stepped out
into tho clearing around tho spring.
“Good morning, Mary; you are lookingas
fresh and as pretty as that little mountain
pink. What nows?”
Tho girl blushed to her ears as sho faced him,
but looked him steadily in the eyes.
“Thar’s goin' to be trouble ’round hero to
night. cap’n, an’ dad swore last night he was
goin’ to kill you forsutashin’ his still on t'other
mounting. You better keep both eyes open.” j
“Is that all?” he asked, as be camo closer '
to her.
"Ain’t that enough?”
“No, Mary. I ant not afraid of bis threats.
I fear your pretty face and blue eyes more
than 1 do moonshiners.”
“Look hero, Cap’n Earle, I ain't nothin’ j
but a poor mounting gal, an’ I can’t read or
write. Keep them 'ere sugary things fer tho |
x alley gals. Say 'em to them as will take |
'em.”
As Mary said this sho tamed away. A |
tremor was in her heart, a sob in her voice. :
She had grown to love the handsome o.iicer.
I She loved him with the wild and impassioned '
I fervor ol a nature untaught, untrained. And I
he, had lie conceived such a thing, would have >
smiled at her simplicity. She turned to him
again.
“Oh, cap'n, you must go down to the valley I
tonight. Jim Heflin and dad'll kill you. They •
. air hot 'cause you foun' tho still aii' smashed
“Well, Mary, I can’t r;m from them. That
; would be cowardly. Jt<.-.ide.-. I have this pro
tector," slapping Lis Wiqchcster rifle. “That
i i- g-’d ot -ixie' n m. :i." . .
1" , 'l‘fdiiiise mieop’h. ci you stay on the
I mountain you won't leave Silas Coomiw's cabin,
jPn :■•■•.■ : i omiroma!” Her xvice plead*
[ "I'Ub carol .. .-arj," and turning ho j
walked rapidly away. Reaching the entrance
to tho gorge, ho xvaved his ha t to her as he dis
appear- d in the. thick undorgroxvth. Mary
Mason sighed and returned to the cabin.
That night, xvhile getting supper in the little
shed in the rear of the cabin, she heard her
father and Jim Heflin talking in low tones in
tlie main room. Creeping near the door, slio
listened to their plan for waylaying and mur
dering Jar k Earle, Willi a heart thumping
with terror, she served their supper in silence.
As soon as supper xx as finished, tiie two men
shouldered their guns, got on their horses and
started axvay. It was a dark and starless
night. Tiie wind moaned and sobbed through
the echoing pines.
“O Lord, God Almighty, I never said a
prayer but this one .t. O Lord, give me grit
’nough to git to him before dad and Jim does.”
Out of the cabin she rushed, dashing madly
over the rocks that formed the bed of a winter
torrent, but noxv gone dry. With every
muscle in her supple young body strained to
the utmost, her breath coming with painful
sobs, her lips breathing fervid appeals to
heaven to allow her to reach Silas Coombs’s
before tho men did, on, on sho ran, clutching
in her haste even the briars that cruelly tor©
her hands and face as she clambered up the
mountain. Faster,’faster she ran, now falling
headlong, but only_ to rise again and rush on.
At last sho gained the plateau of Terrapin,
where stood the cabin of Silas Coombs. Down
the declivity she dashed. As she gained th©
cabin, turning, she saw her father and Jim
Heftiin riding to the house as tlie great, round
silvery moon appeared over the peak.
“Open the door, open the door, for God’s
sake! cap’n. Git on your horse and go, go
like satan was after you.”
Earle rushed out. Grasping her with one
arm, as he saw she was faint, he turned and
faced old man Mason and Jim Heflin.
“What do you want!” he asked.
“We want you, cuss yet!” replied Heflin, as
he made a dash at Earle. Earle releassd his
grasp of Mary, and the txvo men clinched in a
deadly struggle. Over and over theyrolled on.
the “gallery,” each trying to disengage his
pistol from his belt. At last Heflin drew his,
and, aiming it, would have bespattered th©
floor with Earle’s brains had not Mary, xvith a
scream of anguish, threw herself bctxveen th©
pistol and Earle. But ’twas too late.
Tho bail went crashing through th©
poor girl’s breast. Heflin started to his feet
xvith an exclamation of horror, and fled madly
doxvn the mountain, folloxved by Mason, who
had not seen the mark of the' bullet. Earl©
rose to his knee, and, catching the dying girl
in his arms, sobbed as if his heart would break,
strong man as lie xvas.
“What can 1 do, what can I do, Mary, dar
ling?”
“Thar ain’t but one thing, cap’n,” the dying
girl gasped; “just let me rest my head on yer
shoulder here, an”” she hesitated, “an’ cap’n,
es yer don’t min’, I’d like to have yer kiss mo
just oncst— ”
And with his kiss on her lips, the little hero
ine gave up to her Maker that life she sacrifice
for Earle.
Warner's Log Cabin remedies—o Id sash
ioned, simple compounds, used in the days of
our hardy forefathers, are “old timers” but
"old reliable.” They comprise a “Sarsaparil
la,” “Hopsand Buchu Remedy,” “Cough and
Consumption Remedy,” “Scalpine, for th©
Hair,” “Extract,” for external and internal
use, “Plasters,” “Rose Cream,” for catarrh,
and “Liver Pills.” They are put jip by IL H.
Warner & Co., proprietors of Warner’s Safe
Remedies, and promise to equal the standard
value of those great preparations. All drug
gists keep them.
A Cracker Courtship.
BY XV.V LT.ACE P. P.EEP.
Old Broxvn and his wife had gone to bed—
A put-up job of Sue’s—
And the xvay look'd smooth to young Jim Head,
Tho’ he blushed xvay doxx’n in his shoes.
The moments fled, and glided on,
The pine knot blaze grew dim,
A good half hour xvas lost and gone,
But not a word spoke Jim.
Instead of that, he silently sxvore—
No: at Sue, xvho had the chair—
But at himself, xvho had the floor,
And then he pull’d his hair.
At last, but sloxvly, the words were spoken:
“I wuz feelin’ poxv’ful weak,
Jes’ after 1 come—sorter broken—
An’ skeercely able ter speak.”
At this, the eyes of Susan Brown
Began to flash xvith pleasure—
She felt that she had got him doxvn,
And could finish him nt her leisure.
"An’ now yer (eel a leetel peerter,” '
She quietly suggested;
“ ’Sposc yer h'ist an’ move up near ter
The tian, an’ git some rested.”
"No, thanky,” said Jim; “we ’uns at home
Air right smairt on our sleep,
An’ you 'uns—tliat is, if I knoxv’m—
Berleeves in it, too, a heap.
"But lemme tell yer, afore I go,
Jes' xvhy I’m feeling better—
Yer mighty nigh guesses, 1 knoxv—
Yer sly leetel critter.
“Well, I lays it all tor possum an’ tater;
Thar’s nothin’ like it, yer see,
Ter strengthen an’ sweeten one’s natur;
An’ that’s what’s the matter xvith me.
An’ you ’uns air the best on tater an' possum
In the xvay uv makin’ um joocey.
That ever I seed, an' I hev saw some
Uv the best, an' that 1 do say.”
The fire blazed up, an’ so did Sue;
But not a word did she say;
Sl.e xvaite I to see v. hat Jim xvonld do.
And xvish'd he'd go his way.
Not much ! for Jim walk'd over to Sue,
And grabb'd her ’round the waist,
And then, xvhat should the raseal do
But kiss her in hurry and haste?
"An' now,” cried Jim, "hoxv will it do
Far xve ’uns, hereater,
Ter fix up possum an’ taters fur two?”
Then Sue;—but wl.at does it matter?
Possum and taters for artful Jim,
Taters ai d possum f >r Sue:
Possum and tale s t< r her and him,
Inters and possum for two 1
Food makes Blood and Blood makes Beauty
Improper digestion cd food m cessarily pro
duces bad blood, resulting in a feeling o£
fullness in the stomach, acidity, heartburn,
sick-headaehe, and other dyspeptic symptoms.
A closely confined life causes indigestion,
constipation, biliousness and loss of appetite.
To remove tlu <e 11 nbles there is no remedy
equal to Prickly Ash Hitters. I has'been tried
and proven to be a specific.
A Cough, Cold, or Sore Throat should not be
neglected. Blows s BiioS' ia.ii I'nocitEs are a
simple remedy, and give prompt relief. 25c a box
Not Always.
From the Lowell Courier.
Somebody says Boston girls are prettier
than they xvere t n years ago. We presume that is
true of those xvho ten years ago were from ten to
fifteen years old.
A Lucky Coal Miner in Pueblo, Col.
Mr. Albert Evans, of Rockvale, was nt th©
victoria. He in , chased one-tenth of ticket
I No. (>1,50 ’> in the Sepiunber drawing of Tho
I Louisiana State Lottery for on<-dollar. ll©
. was found to have drawn one-tenth of the fifty
thousand dollar prize for a dollar invested.
Ho is a young man who has followed coal
mining for a living, but h*v intends to invest
this money in a farm and establish himself for
! life. —Pueblo (Col.) Chieftain, Sep. 22.
Th* n He Couldn’t Be.
I From the Ep wb.
M ife— Mr. Brown, whom you brought home
I to dinner tonight, Is something of a philosopher, is
he not, dea-.'
Husband—He ought to be. H. ha an income of
! 620,000 a j ear.
• Always avoid hursli purgative pills. They
first make you : ick an i then h ave you eonstf-
; pateil. Cart. Little Liver Pili- regulate the
, bowels and luak- you well. I lose, one pill.
Force us Habit*
From the Baltim r? American.
Tbc force of lml.it is always strong. A Bal
timorc young man win • w. calling ou a street-car,
conducn r > dauiriifor a. 1 ' that the father wandered
d n . r ‘"- - r . ; ! '\ i. " r.i : :!- ; ‘ c
, ■ a ■ - . e. -se.
IL there ever w asp. < ifie fur any one com
plaint, then Carter > Lillie Liver Pills are a
F'v.nc for :<k h .i u m-. and * .very womaiT
, auould kuuw ihLs. Only one pill ti duoc.
