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THE BIGWIG PAPERS.
BY S. F. FIESTER.
Bigwig, Jan. 14, 1889.
T—xEAK FIDOLA
I J —I told you to
J —' send me some
_clieering com
6®** f° r * * u y° ur nex^>
and lo and be
lle nounce tiiat home
>| sll tjlSn ly Kate is wanting
JlB 'll/lolSjl 1° galavant over
J| wfmF MX/? here. Disguise it
rag aa B^ie w^>B * ie
wj§wants is to come
ilWim '*B**'’ over and rob So
• phia Jane of her
prospects, but let
her beware I I have my head set for
business, and “the likes of her shall
not prevail against me.” I believe
that is in the Bible somewhere, but if
it is not, it is just as true as preach
ing.
Don’t you think! Miss Hessbold has
left, and so I am out of that boarder.
You see she had been here about ten
days, and, as I needed a little change,
I asked her for a week’s board. She
Hew mad in a minute, and after we
quarreled she took her things and left
without paying a cent. She says
George is a fool, and that his mother is
a fool with a little “d.”" lam trying to
find out what “d” means, but have not
struck it yet in my dictionary.
Daddy and mammy came the next
day after I wrote you the last letter,
and that was one thing that made Miss
Hessbold leave. She said she didn’t
like grannies—much she knows about
it, as she is an orphan. All that ails
her is that she got down on George
since Solomon was here. I think she
is a wolf in sheep’s clothing anyhow,
and the fleece is pretty well worn out
besides.
Daudy and mammy did not sell out
—the man who was to buy backed
out —but they are going to stay here
awhile, to see how they like it.
The soap-grease butter came all
right. It is so white-livered that lam
going to work it over and put in some
grated carrots to give it a fine color.
I notice granny won’t touch the butter,
and daddy thinks the bread don’t taste
like it used to when he was a boy. He
is so childish that ho believes anything
he is told, and so I make him think it
is his taste, but granny won’t take stuff
ing so easily.
With granny and daddy and the
clerk we expect to make money, and
I tell you Sophia Jane shall have some
clothes. The clerk is rather tall and
slim—all bones and no pussyness —and
he walks so straight that if he ever
falls it will be backward, for his center
of gravity is in his heels. However,
he is good-natured, and praises up the
victuals, and yet don’t eat much. The
clerk and daddy are good friends, but
father don’t like him; it is just like
him to be contrary, you know. I heard
him wish once that he had a seed-wart
on the end of his nose, so I wouldn’t
keep telling folks how handsome he
was. Goodness knows, he isn’t troubled
much with beauty nowadays.
But I must tell you about Sophia
Jane's aspiring to teach school for
girls; you know how hard it is for her
to learn, and she never had a chance
to go to college and cover up her ig
norance of the common branches by
flaunting a diploma in people’s Places.
You see, Elmira Diggings took the
Shucknest school last fall, and she
carried a first-class certificate, but her
government whsn’t worth <*ftrrying out
on a shovel, and when the big boys
got through shucking corn they came
in for a big time, and I gues3 they had
it, for they filled ink-bottles with pow
der and put them on the stove to pop,
chewed gum and spit on the floor, and
called the teacher such names that
she left. We heard about it, as the
school is only three miles from here,
and, remembering our checking the
riot at the meeting I told you about,
I said to Sophia Jane, “Wade in, pound
the school, and get yourself up as a
schoolmam.” We went out to see the
director, and he was high up for her
having the school, but he said she
must be examined and get a certificate.
This staggered her, for she calculated
teaching on her sand, and didn t care
a rat for the learning; nevertheless, she
is not one to give up when once her foot
is in, and, besides, triumph and money
are worth fighting for. So she went
over to see tho County Super
intendent and be examined. She
spent two days writing the ex
amination and came home jubilant,
feeling sure she had written so much
that he would giant her a certificate
regardless of any seeming fallacies.
She hadn’t heard from him on Monday,
but, feeling sure of her success, she be
gan the school promptly at 9 o’clock
by rapping on her desk for order.
There was a big brute of a boy who
wouldn’t come in, and it made Sophia
Jane so mad that she bawled out, and,
not knowing his name, she called him
“Long-legged Jim” for short, and told
him if he didn’t come in she would
fetch him in by tho hair. At this he
flew in her face and wanted to fight,
but Sophia Jane, the brave soul, shook
her fist under his nose, and he conclud
ed all at once to take his seat and be
decent.
She began by bearing the primer
class say their a, b, cs, when a big
lubber of a boy called out: “Miss,
them childer can read, and tain't stylo
now to hear alphabets.” Well, you
know “how great a matter a little ire
kindleth,” as Ben Thompson says, and
Sophia Jane never was built to stand
impudence; so she just asked him
what grade of certificate he carried,
and how much he would charge to
keep his mouth shut. He stopped
when she told him she was educated
beforo he was born, and that Daniel
Webster began his education by learn
ing the alphabet, and that kind of
learning was good enough for her.
So she went on, and when they
got through she called out the
Fifth Header class. There were
three big girls, fite big boys,
and one cute little Johnny in the
class, and they all looked as ignorant
as the trash of Brush Hollow'. Sophia
Jane chuckled to herself as she
thought liow she would swamp them
on the big words. The. head one
began reading a piece w hich begins,
‘Now that tho epoch of their ominous
ordeal was past, with jaunty air and
hypocritical raillery the scathless vil
lains made inquiry. ”
“Stop!” said Sophia Jane; “you
don’t know enough to last a bedbug
over night; the idea of your reading
epock instead of eposli, calling railery
rallery, and pronouncing inquiry with
long i is enough to make an educated
teacher like myself disgusted,” and
then she called on the next in a dead
monotone, but cute little Johnny spoke
up and saic^
“Please, mi3s, our other teacher was
a first-class, and she called the words
the same as he did, and she looked in
Webster to see.”
Sophia Jane cast a withering glance,
straightened herself on tip-toe, and,
pointing her finger scorn-like at him,
she said:
“Smarty, if your other teacher knew
so much, why on earth didn’t you keep
her?”
This silenced him, and she was
about to go on, when there came a
knock at the door, and in came the
Director, tlie Superintendent, and a
lady teacher. Sophia Jane took the
hint, and when the Superintendent
told her she had failed to make an av
erage, and he had brought a teacher
along with him, and she could dismiss
the class, she just took her things and
made her exit.
What on earth the Superintendent
meant by average is more than either
of us know. Sohia Jane don’t remem
ber of studying such a branch, and I
am inclined to think the new teacher
is some relative, and that he stumped
Sophia J ane in average on purpose to
defeat her. Let him also beware!
We have tongues in our head, and elec
tion time is coming. Phvletus voted
for him the time he run, but he will
not fail to remember the blight on
Sophia Jane’s education next fall.
Homely Kate has just arrived and
I must close. I don’t think much of
your allpwing her to come over here
and eat our substance, and perhaps rob
Sophia J ane of her prospects. Your
afflicted sister, Tryphena Higgins.
—Chicago Ledger.
IT IVAS AWFUL.
Xli® Only Thing That Made the Neighbors
Hope Was Their Belief That It Would
Not Last.
It was by the merest accident that I
happened to hear the following dis
tressing conversation between young
Mr. and Mrs. Mushy. They had just
returned from their wedding tour, and
were about to undergo the mortal agony
of their first separation, for Mushy was
going back to his office desk, there to
remain for four long, weary, dreadful
hours.
“How shall I ever live a whole half
day without you, dearie?” whispered
Mrs. Mushy.
“You won’t miss me much, will you,
darling?”
“Miss you? O Horace?”
“Ever and ever so much ?”
“Every moment will seem an age!’
“My darling!”
“And you will come home just as
soon as ever you can, dearie ?”
“You know that I will.”
“O Horace! I’m so glad!”
“Glad you are my ora dear little
wifey ?”
“Yes, darling.”
“I’m a thousand, thousand times
glad!”
“You old darling?”
“But now I really must go!”
“O Horace!”
“There, there! The little girly must
not cry. ”
“I just oan’t help it, Horace. Its so
hard to soe you go! Why must we ever
be separated for a single hour ? It is
too cruel!”
“But I’ll be back so soon. Be a brave
little woman!”
“O Horace! I can’t!”
“But you must. I’m not worth cry
ing for.”
“Yes you are, too.”
“Indeed I’m not, Birdie.”
“Indeed you are!”
“Well, well, sweetheart, I’m off now.
Just one more kiss.”
He took a dozen and then gasped
out:
“Just one more.”
“I’ve a mind to keep tight hold of
you, and not let you go at all,” she
whispered.
“\\ hat would you do with ugly old
me around all the time?”
“I’d be the happiest woman in all the
wide world!”
“No ?”
“I would!”
“You don’t love me that much?”
“Love you? O, Horace!”
“You little precious!”
“You dear old boy!”
He took another, and another, and a
few more. She also seemed to be
helping herself to a bountiful supply.
Then he said:
“Good-by, darling.”—“ls it time for
you to really go?”—“lndeed it is.
Good-by, birdie.” “G-o-o-d-by—pr
ecious! Are you sure your watch isn’t
too fast?”—“Oh, it’s just right. Good
by, wifey, dear.”—“By-by, darling.
Gome home just the minute you can.”
—“Yes, indeed; I’ll run all the way.”—
“You dear fellow! Good-by!”—-
“Good-by. Throw me a kiss.” “Good
by, my treasure boy!”
The door bangs and I hear him go
down the steps, and I think the -agony
is ended. But the next moment the
door opens, his head pops in and he
says:
“Just one more kiss; I couldn’t go
without it. ” He doesn’t go without it
and a good many others besides, and
gasps. “Now I am off - .”
Then he goes out to the corner, walk
ing backward half the way, and flutter
ing his handkerchief. I catch sight of
a dainty little bit of cambric waving
from the window below my room, and
I drop into a chair in all the queru
lousness and cynicism of my old
baclielorhood, and says:
“Well, I hope to goodness it will
last; but I just don’t believe it will. II
I felt sure it would, I—l—don’t know
but I’d get married myself.”— Zenas
Dane, in Christmas Puck.
A Vermont man bought a picture
of a hen w hich was so lifelike that the
day he brought it home, his wife broke
two panes of glass trying to drive it
out of the house.
THINGS DOCTORS DO NOT KNOW.
Their Ignornncn lllnetrrUed In the Robin
eon Poisoning Case*.
There was a commotion among the doctors at
a reoent meeting of the Massachusetts Medico-
Legal Society, when it was found that reporters
for secular newspapers wore taking notos. Pa
pers bearing specially on the notorious Robin
son arsenical poisoning cases had been an
nounced.
Dr. Holt declared that there was genoral ig
norance of the symptoms of arsenical poisoning,
and claimed that because of this ignorance the
Robinson poisoning cases had gone on without
arousing suspicions on the part of medical men.
There were, he said, at least eight cases of
criminal poisoning ; seven occurred within five
years, and in one family, and theo ther was that
of a relative.
The cases wero all treated by physicians of
large praotice, prominent in tho profession,
and yet no suspicion of arsenical poisioning
was aroused until an organization in which the
victims were insured tried to determine by
investigation why so many persons died sudden
ly in this family.
In support of his statement as to the ignor
norance of medical men of the symptoms of
arsenical poisoning, tho doctor remarked that
certificates of death were given in five of the
Robinso# cases as follows : pueumonia, typhoid
fever, meningitis, bowel disease and Bright's
disease.
The startling disclosure of tho stupid ignor
ance shown in the treat,nv nt of those cases is
quite in keeping with tho usual indiscretion
manifested by the profession in the treatment
of persons who are sufferers from the sloand
subtle poison which is generated in the system
fiom a di-u ased state of tho kidneys.
The afflicted «ro treated fur consumption,
apoplexy, for bra n and various nervous disor
ders, when in m >gt instances, it is shown, w.ten
too late, that.the patient was wrongfully and
ignorantly treated for a supposed disease winch
was, in reality, but a symptom of kidney dis
i ase, and should have been timely treated as
such by the use of Warner’s Safe Cure, which
is the only r medy known that can he
successfully relied on in the treatment of such
disease.
Such exhibitions of stupidity by those who
piofess great intelligence in suck matters is
caloulat d to destroy confidence, and it can be
well laid that a remedy like Warner’s Safe
Cure, which places tho direct means of preserv
ing health in the sufferer’s hands, is far more
meritorious than high-priced medical advice
which is so generally worthless and too often
based upon an erroneous opinion as to the trus
cause of Illness.
Human life is just a little too precious to the
average individual to be sacrificed to the bigot
ry or lgnoranco of others.
Immense Vessels.
In addition to the 38 war ships of one
kind or another now in construction by
the British, 70 more are to be laid down
at a cost of £22,000,000, making 501
war ships by 1894. Of all the war ves
sels of the United States, the largest and
most powerful will be the Maine. She
will be 310 feet long, with a displace
ment of 0,648 tons and a horse power of
9,000. She will have two batteries and
her armor will be 11 inches thick. She
will be a very ugly customer to attack.
A Georgia physician writes to tha
Conititution, of Atlanta, that the solution
used in the hand grenades now offered
so extensively for sale is easily and
cheaply made by taking twenty pounds
of common salt, ten pounds of sal am
moniac (muriate of ammonia, to be had
of any druggist), and dissolving in seven
gallons of water. When it is dis
solved it can be bottled and kept
in each room in the house. In casa
of fire, one or two bottles should ba
thrown with force into the burning place,
hard enough to break them, and the fire
will certainly be extinguished.
That Tired Feeling:
Is experienced by almost every one at this season,
aod many people resort to Hood's Sarsaparilla to
drive away the languor and exhaustion. The blood,
laden with Impurities which have been accumulat
ing for months, moves sluggishly through tho
veins, the mind falls co think quickly, and the body
Is still slower to respond. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is
Just what Is needed. It purifies, vitalises and en
riches tho blood, makes the head clear, creates an
appetite, overcomes that tired feeling, tones tho
nervous system, and imparts new strsßfftli and
vigor to the whole body.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is proven to bom vastly superior to any other sarsa
parilla, or btaod purifier, that one has Veil sold:
“Its health-gMng effects upon Ike blood and entire
human organism are as muff more positive than
the remedies of a quarter of a century ago as the
steam power of to-day is in advance of the slow and
laborious drudgery of years ago."
“For years I was sick every spring, but last year
took Hood’s Sarsaparilla and have not been sick
since.”—G. W. Sloax, Milton, Mass.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only
by O. L HOOD ft CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses Ono Dollar
A Man of Muscle.
Several years ago an a-tist of Dresden
Eersuaded a locksmith there to give up
is trade aud become an artists’ model.
It was a good thing for the locksmith,
who is now the famous “muscle man of
Dresden," whose magnificently develop
ed body makes him probably the most
renowned model in the world. In order
to preserve for future artists an exact
duplicate of his extraordinary figure the
director of the Royal Saxon Povzellan
fabrik at Meissen reoently invited him
there that a cast from life might be taken
of the upper part of his body. It is said
that “his muscular development is to
complete aud detained that even the
least and slightest cord of every muscle
stands forth prominently, aud his
whole body looks as if it were woven to
gether or plaited like basket work. His
muscles have such a hardness that they
feel to the touch as if they were carved
in wood.
She Forgot.
A piece dramatized from a novel by
Miss Braddon was damned by oversight.
A scene wns introduced in which a child
was kidnapped from its mother, and at
the end, when all w T ere made happy, the
restoration of the child was taken for
granted. It was the fault of the novel
ist and passed unnoticed for quite a min
ute after the fall of the curtain. Then a
“god” leaned over from the balcony and
solemnly inquired: “What about that
kid?” The piece was swamped in au in
extinguishable burst of laughter.
A colored church in Indianapolis,
Ind., will reproduce, on its own platform,
the scenes of the inauguration of Presi
dent Harrison, all the members of the
Administration and their w’ives being
represented in the show by members of
the congregation.
Somethin* Sore.
“I want something sure,” said a genial look
ing gentleman of hia druggist, who was wrap*
ping a bottle of medicine for the gentleman’s
wife. Poor man * his heart had grown skeptic,
and with good causo, for his wife bad suffered
for years with painful weakness, nervousness,
constant fatigue, rheumatism and other symp
toms of ill health, and, although he had tried
many remedies, found nothing that gave relief.
“ Well,” said the druggist, “I do believe this
is sure. I have only been selling it a few
months, yet, in that short time, tho sales have
increased rapidly. Sometimes some ono oomes
in and says, ‘I want a bottle of that remedy that
cured Mrs. Brown or Mrs. Sm.th of rheum
atism.’ • What name?’ I would ask. They had
forgotten, so 1 would say, ‘ls it B. B. B?’ ‘That’s
it! that’s it!’ would invariably be tho answer.
I tell you B. B. B. is rapidly gaining the great
est reputation of Any remedy ever sold.
It has proven itself a sure cure for the many
annoying symptoms that follow an impover
ished condition of tho blood. Impure blood is
the cause of innumerable aches, pains, impaired
functions, indigestion, catarrh, eto., all of
which readily yield to tne wonderful recupera
tive virtue contained in B. B. B. I believe some
day it will bo the only thing used by the peo
ple as a cure for the constitutional evils arising
from a state of blood impurity.
Mr. Dibb3, the new Protectionist Pre
mier of New South Wales, is an expert
at wood carving, having learned the art
while serving twelve months in a Sydney
jail for contempt of court.
Thy secret of the universal success of
Brown’s Iron Bitters Is owing to the fact that
it is the very bßt iron preparation made. By
a thorough and rapid assimilation with the
bio d it reaches every part of the body, giving
health, strength and endurance to every por
tion. Thus beginning at the foundation It
builds up and restores lost health. It does not
contain whisky or alcohol. It will not blacken
the teeth. It does not constipate or causo
headache. It will cure dyspepsia, Indigestion,
heartburn, sleeplessness, dizziness, nervous
debility, weakness, eto.
The wife of Prof. Richard A. Proctor has
been granted a pension of SSOO a year.
A Wonderful Food nnd Medicine,
Known and used by Physicians all over the
world. Scott’s Emulsion not only gives flesh
and strength by virtue of Its own nutritious
properties, but creates an appetio for food that
builds up the wasted body. “I have been us
ing Scott’s Emulsion for several years, and am
pleased with its action. My patients say It Is
i leasant and palatable, and all grow stronger
and gain flesh from the use of it. I use it in all
cases of Wasting Diseases, and it is specially
useful for children when nutrient medication
is needed, as in Marasmus.”—!'. W. Pierce,
M. D., Knoxville, Ala.
The tanning industry will go, If making
leather by electricity proves success.
Dangerous Negligence.
It is as unwise to neglect a cose of constipa
tion or indigestion as a case of fever or other
more serious disease, for, If allowed to progress
as great danger to life may result. A few Ham
burg Figs will put the bowel 6 In a healthy con
dition,ln which they may be kept by occasional
use of this medicine. 2o cents. Dose one Fig.
Mack Drug Go., N. Y.
A Radical Cura for Epileptic Fits.
To the Editor—Please Inform your readers
that I have a positive remedy for the above
lamed disease which I warrant to cure the
ivorst cases. So strong ie my faith In Its vir
tues that I will send fr ee a sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give
tne bis P. O. and Express address. Resp’y,
H.G. ROOT. M. O . 183 Pearl SL. New York.
Work fur workers I Are you ready to work,
and do you want to make money ? Then write
to B. F. Johnson & Go., of Richmond, V*., and
see If they cannot help you.
Bradfield's Female Regulator"cures all ir
regularities peculiar to woman. Those suf
fering should use it. Sokiiy all druggists.
If a filleted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son’s Eye-water. Druggists sell at2sc.perbottl«
Tha best cough medicineAs Piso’s Cure foi
Consumption. ’Sold eve<l 23 cents.
Nearly everybody needs a wral spring fSJ*
like Hood's Sarsaparilla to e(^J lmpuritia 11'
accumulate In the blood during the winter, v >jffup
strength as warm weather comes on, create ajjyfop©-
: titc and promote healthy digestion. Try HooJjP'ar
gaparilla and you will he convinced of its peculiar
1 merits. It Is the Ideal spring medicine, reliable,
| beneficial, pleasant to take, and gives full value for
the money.
“I take Hood's Sarsaparilla as a spring tonic, and I
recommend It to all who have that miserable tired
f eellng. C. Parmblbe, 840 Bridge Bt, Brooklyn,K.Y.
Makes the Weak Strong
“My appetite was poor. I could not sleep, had head
ache a great deal, pains in my back, my bowels did
not move regularly. Hood’s Sarsaparilla In a short
time did me so much good that I feel like a new
man. My pains and aches are relieved, my appetite
Improved. I say to others who noed a good medi
cine, try Hood’s Sarsaparilla and see."—Gbooob F.
Jackson, Roxbury Station, Conn.
N. B.—Be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla, do not
be Induced to buy any other.
Sold by aU druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared only
by C. L HOOD ft CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
I oo Doses One Collar
Sleepless Nights
“For nearly a
month I was not
— 4J at)le slee Pi but
( after using Paine’s
iL . A CELERY COMPOUND
0M /r^w f Ja tor tw ° day3, in ‘
JfcJ somnla fled and
Ijbo. i J strength retum-
I KVV\| ed.” E. G.SMITH,
H I I Claussen, s. c.
'' “i have taken
only a part of a bottle of Paine’s Celery Com
pound, and it has entirely relieved me of
sleeplessness, from which I have suffered
greatly.” Mrs. E. Autcufp, Peoria, lIL
“ For a long time I was so nervous and worn
out that I could not work. I tried many medi
cines, but none gave me relief until 1 used
Paine’s Celery Compound, which at once
strengthened and Invigorated my nerves.
Harley Sherman, Burlington, Vt.
Paine’s
Celery Compound
quickly quiets and strengthens the nerves, when
irritated or weakened by overwork, excesses,
disease, or shock. It cures nervousness, head
ache, dyspepsia, sleeplessness, melancholia, ana
other disorders of the nervous system.
Tones up the
Shattered Nerves
“ For two years I was a sufferer from nervous
debility, and I thank God and the discoverer of
the valuable remedy, that Paine’s Celery Com
pound cured me. Let any one write to me
tor advice.’ *
George W. Bouton, Stamford, Conn.
Paine’s Celery Compound produces sound and
refreshing sleep. A physician’s prescription. It
does not contain one harmful drug. Like noth
ing else, it Is a guaranteed cure for sleepless
ness, if directions are faithfully followed. .
si.oo. Six for $3.00. Druggists.
Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington. Vt.
DIAMOND DYES Before of poor imitation*.
LAC TA TED FOOD
THE FRlEinys ADVICE.
“Don’t give up, my poor, «ck friend,
While there’s life there’s hope, ’tis said;
Bicker persons often mend;
Time to give up when you’re dead.”
“These letters stand for ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ (Dr. Pierce’s), the
greatest nutritive, tonic and blood-purifier of the age.”
“You have been told that consumption is incurable; that when the lungs are
attacked by this malady, which is scrofula affecting the lungs and rotting theia
out, the sufferer is past all help, and the end is a mere question of time. You
have noted with alarm the unmistakable symptoms of the disease; you have tried
all manner of so-called cures in vaiu, and you are now despondent and preparing
for the worst. But 1 don’t give up the ship ’ while Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Discovery remains untried. It is not a cure-all, nor will it perform miracles,
but it is guaranteed to benefit or cure Consumption, if taken in time ana
given a fair trial, or money paid for it will be promply refunded.
Copyright, 1888, by World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors,
&Cnn REWARD.-£2£S
BAS Zs II a S ■ 11 '' 1 ■""" 1 1 nniiimiii. Ill—- era of I)r. Sago’s
V wlr V Catarrh Remedy of their ability to cure Catarrh in the Head, no matter
how bad or of how long standing, that they offer, in pood faith, the above reward for a case
Which they cannot cure. Remedy 60 cents, by druggists.
How a King Looks.
The aristocracy at Kingston, St. Vin
cent Island, West Indies, have a blue
blooded member of the royalty who is
being lionized. This remarkable person
is a king in exile. King Ja Ja, of Opobo,
West Africa, who for many years lorded
it over a small district among the Oil
rivers of the Niger delta. The king
appears at the government house recep
tions and other state occasions. He
wears an admiral’s coat with immense
bullion epaulettes, over a yellow plush
vest with big, green enamel buttons.
The vest is cut very low, displaying a
large area of immaculate liuen. His jean
trousers have broad stripes of blue an 1
red, and black silk hose and a pair of
gorgeous, flower-embroidered slippers
cover his neither extremities. On his
head he wears a broad-brimmed hat of
African manufacture, something like a
sombrero, and in the band are stuck at
uniform distances, five long ostrich
feathers. In his ears are gold rings of
unique design, and encircling his neck is
a collar of sharks’ teeth, with a bear’s
tooth tripped with gold by way of a pen
dant. He wears white cotton gloves,
and as many rings as his fingers and
thumbs will accommodate.
Whittier, the poet, protests against the en
forced idleness of convicts in N. Y. prisons.
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