The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 31, 1885 Page: 3 of 4
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on the
i NMeilr Alarmed
T K<|ua! to Ike
^ITSiw n
swallowed up
as it (truck
• . ; -w ——- - ■ ■ — a hundred feet
into the idr end turned to clonda of
blackest sinnke. Foiled in its work of
deatmotion in that direction, the Are
the line of
expired.
■■■■■■■«.__________and 1 had
witnesned one of the most grand aa well
aa awful sights it ever falls to the lot of
man to witness. As long
•Jowly burned down along the
Oie river’s edge and sullenly
The ranch ana town were safe i
-
In view of the feet that prairie
iw raging in Dakota, the following
I ires
Jwill
ng reading:
Con Uroner the cowboy
Platte a fie i euturtaining
^Interesting stories uf the
of the exciting times in
eampaign to the sea ami
OUt his live limes wounded
bet Mi at there is nothing so
terrible as a prairie lire. Why, just
think of the Chicago and your Boston
Area when eolid wood and stone walls
were the fttel, and you can judge what u
hurricane of dectruction must ensue
k when the thick, tall, dry grass of the
plains gets started, and there are none
of the barriers in the shape of streets, to
stay it. Great Scott! how it makes u
fellow’s hair stand on end, even when
he thinks of it.”
“Well,"said Buck Taylor, as he length-
ened out another section of his gigantic
frame, “that was no slouch of a scare lit
'The Platte’ last tail, if my memory serves
«ne right,”
“k ou can bet your Inst dol-piccc that
it waan’t,” says Jim Lawson. "I thought
Beth would lose his long hair that day.
Why.itjuM waked old John Nelson■■
lasts I shall never forget the afternoon
last November, when Bill and theH
Im a
irget
■hXflW
conquered the prairie Are."
"»SK I NUKH WATKH.
Klaka Which the Divers Heu-Uuiug Iv
Sleep—Cerpeee—Wegee.
‘Tm not going to tell you about ghosts
under water, corpses sitting upright in
the steterooms of steemers, with books
open on their knees as if they had been
reading when they were drowned, be-
cause 1 haven’t seen such. Nor has any
other diver. You can’t see anything in
a sunken vessel If any one tells you
such stories he’s uot s diver—he’s
liar.”
The speaker was Robert 8. Russell, No.
I of the New York divers.
“People always associate diving with
wrecks dead bodies, or treasure; but
that’s a small part of our work, and not
a particularly fine line of it either. The
fine work of a diver’s occupation is that
in which he has to ply some trade like
carpentering or pipe laying under water.
You see, a diver should be skilled at
many trades to be a success. That’s
what I mean by being handy. On ac-
count of the sewerage, I suppose, it’s
pitch dark under the water all about
New York. That’s the reason New York
up i divers are at the top of the profession
and he did work like a beaver—you’d j Put them in clear water and their work
hought he had a five years’ job to do in seem* child’s play to them. They can
a day—well he just fit it ti'l his beard
and eyebrows were singed.”
, “You’re just right lie did,” chimed in
Broncho Bill, “Cidy’s homestead, horse
ranch and the Wild West ranch, where
old John's outfit was, came darned near
going, hoys.”
Old Pop Whitiker wan on a visit to
Oody’s, and when Johnny Burke asked
him what he thought ofit, the old man
swung his one fin to heaven and said :
“Oh, dear, oh, dear, I thought the judg-
ut day had come, and for once I’d
be bet my pile on the Bible,” and
i everything had settled down, poor
JPop asked Burke on the quiet. ' Sav,
; how soon do we stait for New
fork?” contributed Seth, the pony ex-
i rider.
K'-'^F'se, and Bnrke and Pop lit out
fei
work twice as fast there os divers from
elsewhere. But get a diver from else-
where, for instance an English diver,
here and he can’t do a stroke of work.
Now, we can work as fast in dark
waters by touch as they can trk in
their own waters by sight,”
“Is there any skill required iu the act
of diving—I mean getting down to the
object on which you are to work?”
“No. That is to say, no particular
skill, only care. You must be careful not
to go down the lile line too fast, because
il you did tlio pressure on you would be
be too sudden. But tlie art of going down
is easy enough. The dress weighs a di-
ver down. You see, his shoes weigh
twenty pounds each. Then he has on
his chest and buck, weights of forty
pounds each. In addition to this the
I w*1'* •»»»«• a sstr out n • * ** »llv
of days after, and said they had I helmet and collar are heavy. The dress
business In New York,” sarcastically of two layers of duck with a
remarked little Dude Baker. layer of rubber between them. To the
“Heve’s Jule Keen, our handsome t°P P®r* of the dress a collar of copper
treasurer, he can tell about It. I heard >» affixed, and to this the helmet is firm-
nim and Major North, God bless him, screwed after it has been placed over
tell about it, and had the nightmare t*le <l‘ver’* head. The heralet is large
afterwards. I dreamt that Bill’s beau-, '-•nougli to allow a space of three inches
tifttl home, his immense horse ranch, aroun*l the head, and there are three
Idrns, stables and corrals had gone, and Ul*>eH through which the air reaches the
the Wild West camp, too, and these interior ol the helmet. Before the diver
“You really do not eeem to know,”
■aid Mia. Moore to her husband, “how
ufly that little one la Is she not, Will-
iam?”
And Mr. Moore gravely answered his
wife;
“But, my dear, you have already said
it 100 times, and were you to say it 100
times more Rose would not become lees
ugly for your saying so.”
Rosanna wai a little girl of about 14.
She was their only child, and, to do her
mother justice, was really very ugly—
nay, atmoat revolting—with her little
gray eyes. flat nose, large mouth, thick,
protruding lips, red hair, and above all,
a form remarkably awry.
Rose w as, then, very ugly; but site was
a sweet girl, nevertheless. Kind and in-
telligent, she possessed a mind of the
highest order. Nature seemed to have
compensated her with every good quali-
ty of the heart for the want of every
beauty of person.
The yoor little thing was profoundly
hurt as she listened to her mother’s ob-
set vation,
“Oh, you little fright, you will never
get a husband.”
Eight o’clock struck. Mrs. Moore wss
sorely vexed.
“Go to bed, Rosanna.”
Tremblingly the little girl approached
her mother to give her the kiss of good-
night.
| ’Tis useiess, you little monster,” said
her mother.
A tear rolled from the little one’s eye.
She hastily wiped it away, and turning
to her father, presented him the yet bu-
na cheek. He kissed her tenderlv.
“I am not altogether miserable,'’ she
murmured, leaving the room.
Retired to herchamber,Fhecomn.enc-
ed embroidering a scarf, and worked
thus part of the nipht, for she desired to
be able to present it to her mother when
she rose in the morning. The clock
struck 12. She had just finished, and,
nutting it by, the little girl calmly re-
signed herself to rest. Her renose was
undisturbed.
On the morrow Rose presented the
scarf to her mother. Wiiat wns the jsiin
the little one experienced when her
mother received it coldly, and expressed
none of those tender sentiments which
were to have been the sweet little one’s
reward. Her eyes, by chance, glanced
over a neighboring mirror.
“Yes,” she said, internally, “I am ugly
—they are right”—and sought in her
young head to find a remedy for ugli-
ness.
And then in the world—new pangs
wounded the little ugly ono’s heart. A
first impression alienated all the young
girls of her own age; but then she was
so good, so amiable, so amusing, that
they approached, then listened, and then
loved her. Now indeed our little one
was happy.
One day Mr. Moore went home in a
violent passion, anil because in conse- i
quence of some trifling prevarication,!
highly incensed against his wife. Their
domestic felicity was troubled for eight!
long days—for eight long days Mrs.
Moore was continually crying. Rosanna
.^eornered!*after
to r.irrender, be ex-
claimed:
“Never, to men who fire el mv beck!”
Before ho was taken, five bulleU had
gone clear through him, bat strange to
relate, he got well, in the hands of a rude
backwoods nurse."
By the way, if Garfield had been in
the hands of a backwoods nnrse, hs
might have lived, A heap of volunteer
testimony against the infelllbilty of the
physicians has been accumulating of late,
and people are encouraged to do their
own doctoring more and more. It is
cheaper and quite as certain.
Before Detective Curtin of Buffalo
■•aught Tom Ballard lie “covered" him
Tom saw the
ight To;
with his revolver,
and tumbled 1
Joe Goss wss “coveied" a few weeks
ago and be tumbled, and so did Dan
Mace. Death “fetched no" with that
dreaded weapon—kidney disease But
they should have been lively and drawn
first. They could easily have disarmed
tne monster had they oovered him w;ith
that dead shot—Warner’s safe cure,
which, drawn promptly, always takes
the prey. It is doubtless true that sport-
ing men dread this enemy more than
any mishap of their profession, and pre-
s'iniaMv this explains why they aa a
ruleare so partial to that celebrated “dead
shot.”
Redmond was right. No man should
surrender when attacked in the hack.
He should “draw," face about and pro-
seed to the defence, for such attacks, so
common among all classes, will fetch a
man every time unless “covered” bv
that wonderfully successful “dead shot.”
Sportsman’■ News.
“Trousers are getting wider." says the
fashion note, but that’s nothing new,
for they always did get widtr—at the
knees. Boston Globe.
Hs Wants* a Work.
A party of gentlemen, among whom
was a physician, were relating queer ex-
trienres at an aptown hotel last night,
ben the doctor aa.di
“Oesiyou remember when the Turkish
baths were started? A great many doc-
tors introduced baths in one form or an-
other all over the country, on the
strength of the Turkish bath being a
N. My old college mate, who had
just got out his diploma, Fred Winters,,
went out to Chicago and started a Turk-'
ish hath, with medicated baths as an ac-
companiment. Among other things, he
advertised to cure consumption and rua-
Drranss asa* Pnasslllon Which D*
Mel 4'uase In rasa are Korgeitni.
“I’m going to tell you something that
is true,” said a Brooklyn man the other
day. “You ecu believe it or not, but it’s
true. I hare a cousin who went to
Eurepe for her h with last year. While
in France she died. Comparing time
between France and America it must
have been within an hour uf her death
that tier mother, who was knitting in
tlie sitting room at her Iioilc, laid her
knitting work iu her lap with a sort of
stunned expression. ‘Why, Alice is
KILLINU AN ELEPHANT.
Our
ol Harttam’s Big and Vicious
Beasts I ssd as a Target.
Barnum’s large Asiat'c elephant,
Albert, which killed his keeper at
Nashua, was taken to a wooden ravine
near Katene, N. II., chained to four im-
mense trees and otherwise fastened.
The location ofheart and brain was then
marked by clutlk. Thirty-three members
laria. He had a big box, with glass side# dead,'she said. Next day w e got a die*
point i I® which lie shut his victims wlilla he i l**°h by cable saying she was dead.”
turned on the steam and baked them.! ‘ There was,” said another munilicr
One day a tall, lank chap eame in. llo J cf the party, ‘ a curious illustration of
was at least six feet two inches high, mind reading, or spiritual telegraph, or
and w ith a frame to carry 250 pounds whatever you like to call it, during the
actually weighed only ISA. war. You remember Unit the lmttle ol
“ ‘I’ve not got consumption, though I j Gettysburg was settled r n the 3d of
may look like it,’ said the fellow; ‘hut •,n,y« though lose lay on his armsexpect-
I’ve got the malaria worst kind.’ intr another attack on the 4th, and he
, “^T1 hl*2 il! ?*.* nan his retreat that night. Tlie surrender
, bath "he shut the man upYn hia taking '.’f Vick*^ °<*urml ”n «"* llt‘-
| box. Then* wum u little thermometer I >ur** a*u1 ' IckabajR are 800 miles apart,
indicator on the outaide. The doctor |**rhap8 more, ami no telegraph
took a newspaper and sat down in a message hail ls ei, rc elved at Gettysburg
indicator, ""v/hen*7t todtoated^nl'net'y unnou,llin« Wrreuder of Vicksburg
degree, the patient tapped on the glass. ~if there had been, it could
Hs it all right, Doc.'.” lie asked; because hardly have reached headquarters before
it’a mighty hot, 1 can tell you.’ The dec- sundown on the 4tb. The Twelfth ■•■ run
tores tired lam that lie could stand It 1i i , . ,. *
up to 120 degeet. Before the bulb had ' ’ ,lraw“ u» *“»”*' on the after-
| pushed the record to 100 degrees (,e 1 noon of the 4th with a view to changing
bnke out again, and again the doctor position at‘in place, rest,'when one of
pacified him. The 100-degree point was the soldiers exclaimed 'Vicksburg's
just passed, when the victim shouted , . ' "rf8
out in a voiee of sheer desperalion lakcn. I lie w rd |«issnl down the
“ ‘I say, Doe,; bring me n fork, won’t line> 11 ' beer broke from tin- I mops,
you?
“‘What do you want w ith a fork." ask-
ed the doctor.
’“1 want to stick il into me to see if 1
arn done. 1 know I am.’” New York
Tribune.
TUB NEW BOV U ADPIIIU.
Would Have Been Licked
Been a Coward.
Four boys bubUsl on a line
viding two bouses on John
attracted the attention of a pedestrian
of the Keene Light GuurdB were marshal- yesterday and lie halted and asked them
ed into line at fifteen jiacea distant, each w hat they were looking at.
man armed with a Springfield rifle. At "New family moving in there to-day,"
replied one.
“Well, what of it?”
“They’ve got a boy about as big as us."
“Well, what of it?”
“Nothing, only was trying him.”
At that moment the new hov appeared
on the grass about twenty feet away.
the command to fire the same number
of bullets penetrated the vital spots. The
huge beast fell without noise or struggle,
death lieing instantaneous. This
was the signal for 2,000 spectators to
rend the air with shouts and cheers.
The soldiers were then conducted by
Mr. Hutchinson, tlie only show proprietor
present, to the groat mass of flesh to
inspect the result of their first elephant
hunt on American soil.
During the time Albert has been
manacled he seemed to exhibit almost
human consciousness, and cried piteously
one instant, while he would make a
The news and the certainty that Lee
had sustained a severe defeat put new
life into them. But when an attempt
was made to trfu-e the news to official
sources it couldn’t he done. The soldier
'felt it iu his nones,' and hud' siKiken
rigid out. Next day dispatches arrived
that proved the soldier hud ,-pokou the
»l«rt lie truth.”
"A is, these things arc unaccountable,”
fence di- B*bl a third speaker. The intuitions, or
l; str..ui wbal«ver they are, needn't tw so verv
. important, either. I remember that my
father was sitting in lus librnrv one af-
ternoon, when lie took out Lis watch,
anil said : ‘K—— will be I,etc in ten
minutes.’ E--was hit brother-in-law,
who lived in a neighboring town, and,
though he called over frequently, he was
not expected that day. After lie had
spoken, my father seemed rathersur-
prised ai himself, and laughed a litllu
awkwardly. My mother asked lihw he
knew that I.— would be there, and he
said lie uidn't know; lie had spoken on
the impulse of the moment. Sure enough
Nlrtaf •■! Truu
Tliis is one of the curious things float-
ing about: Take apiece of paper, and
upon it put in figures your age in years,
dropping months, weeks and days.
Multiply it by two; then add to the!
result obtained the fiuurea 'J.TUH; add
two, and then divide by two. Hubtract |
from the result obtained your number j
of years on earth, and see if you do uot
obtain figures that you will not be likely j
to forget.
l’ower of I ho tolled Blairs.
Hon. Juines X. Kellis. United States
.Marshal of Pennsylvania, writes that
during the severe winter weather his
family used Red star I 'ough Cure and
were much benefited by il. llu slates |
that ho knows nothin* better Iu reliev?
ing . olds or sore throat,
Il would be invidious, as well as eon-
trary to (he laws of nature, to compare
the “Northern Lights” to the Southern
livers Barbers' Gaaotte.
II-ANTKtl -kxi-kkiTncki) agents TO I
M SELL Zell’s New Encyclopedia*, In earn
or hound. T. Kl wood /.ell. No. 47. l ltii St., Phil i
The Mexicans make a mate h w ith a
tip at both ends. It ought to be called
the waiter's match, lkmtoti BJdgct.
PATENTS obtsinM to I -*.n I, H uurt r A Co., At.
tarnrr*, Wind, liutoii.il. U. F.cM iSSI. Advise free
The youthful buss bawler usually
strikes out when his mother makes a
base hit. 1'i xbh Siftings.
btRtiAN
F°Ru;t
Rheumatism, Vcurahjia
limhsgo. Backache. KeaMSbO.
m
io* .
Lumbago. Backache, ,
AIL OTHKR HGDu.V PAI
Hold by Dra^f iMaar l Dnkianerrfhsi
Dnwfigne la 11 LsiifiM
I'HK ( IIA^LEI A. VOU
f—sBSI niel Toqium ft U0.> Bail
euralglfl, Sci‘
e. ileadMhc lootn
SCTSSiiSBC-s
MALARIA
Kntan Uir ajatam Own aaaalumowlu
Itafnlara.
One of the strongest prootu or the vwluoof
Kidney-Wort ns a remedy for all diseases of
K idiieve. Liter nnd llowels, lithe fact I hut It
Is used end prescribed by “rviular" nbyal
Philip C. Ilnllou, M. l>„ of Monkton.
i sy .
aaaauua. at «U «aaa
Shatters th, lrr)„ l.npain I
, Eufrabl,,
elans. I'hlMr
Vt., suya: "l______
sure, uatul remedy 1
lou, w
Take It all In all. It la the moat
* have ever uacd.”
would ]
new hoy i
pontes here were blackened cinders,”
ways John Hancock, ex-marshal of North
Platte, with a sorious look, as if the
picture still haunted his memory
"The town had a narrow eecaj
aa it was my first view <
can never forget it,”_
as he turned tlie j
“That day I
•—there t
goes down, a weighted line is sunk to
the s|iot he is to reach below. The life
line is tied around his wait, and to his
helmet is attached the hose through
w hich the air is pumped into the helmet.
wn the weighted line,
boy.
"You can’t do it! ’
The four boys made as if I hey
jump over the fence, but the
stood firm.
herculean effort to free himself the I "?,!! 'Jare Y‘1,1 ul’ '
next. The elephant was one of the j I B,dare yon down here
in vain racked her vouuir'brains to ilia 1 'arke*l owned bv the show, and was1.. He a all right—lie s game,
Sisss «~Kat. ”t.'ii0^'t'itrJSTi
ed angry and her mother was still con-1 ?*? „ periorminjjiiord,
tinuslly weeping. At last she reflected vlt,T disposiUon manifwjting |
in Iter mind how to reconcile them. t!'e,f ** wa9 tho">-’ht w,8e to withdraw
They were all three seated in the par- i1"* .““‘‘.Tr 'h,,t
ior-Mr. Moore was arranging the Ure- ' h? 118,1 J^en tractable till last Sun-
when this was concluded he threw the ?‘y' whf.n J‘‘‘hout r'ot,«> 1,e “"'lerous-
-----— u,----. t , ... y assaulted the man who had been his “Money won’t buy beauty? Indeed
keeper for two years, Albert was with 1
' ~ ‘ i-ir
Une ol the lioys on the fence made up a in ten minute- the hell rang. K — was
face at him. lie promptly responded, at the ....... He had only come to din-
Tlicn another bev threw a stone at him. nor. and his visit was not inqiortiin!; Iml
lie hurled it back. lie had.somehow, projected hisiiereonai-
“Say, I’ll hek you!” called the biggest, ity ahead of him.”
Said a fourth : “There is really such
thing us seeing beyond the limit of hu-
man vision, t'll tell yon a little circum-
stance that I ran swear lo, and then
let's talk nlmut something else. When
I was 16 years old I had no more idea of
going to London than I Iiad of going to
Nova Zembla. 1 knew practically nolle
said the
If be wus a
we wns going to lick him, but
now we’ll go over and let him hare a
whiff on our cigar stub.” Detroit Free
Press.
stream-
and there,
ling couriers,
rival was greeted
i ciders were quickly
, and soon I could see that
’ and its commander had
sod experiences how
Dipping the ropes in
the eame, Cody
rode alongside
“any sound
i pump.”
Tie are watchful for any
EXl. and when they get the
, ITul the diver up promptly, do
aally land him safe and sound?”
ally not. If a diver is careful
; his work, nothing should happen
Jif anyth ing does happen, it’s usually
aver with him. A tug on the Une
tans death, especially if lie's down
ep. The diver doesn’t perish because
e’s cut off too long from the supply of
jir, but from tlio frightful pressure. Take
or instance, the death of Jenkins in
1800. His hose burst. They hauled him
Jup In two minutes. Ho was a corpse. I
•don’t care to describe his appearance,
lit was harrowing. I can give you, froai
[Bn cxp'-ricnce of mine, some idea of the
I pro-sure. 1 was at work below, when
■ suddenly the supply of air gave out. I
[ tugged the lifeline. Fortunately I wasn’t
in deep water, and they hauled me out
alive. Bui I felt while they were bald-
ing me as If 1 had a hydraulic jack on
each side of my head. The hose hail
not burst, and the pump had lieen work-
ing all right, so we were at a loss to
know why the supply of air Lad given
out till we made a careful examination
of the lio .e. We found a lot of paper
halls in it. I don’t know any one who
Is an enemy of mine, so in my case a
f*ol must have put the paper ladle in the
hose. The kind ol danger I’ve just des-
cribed—that of the stoppage of air and
death from pressure—is perhaps the
greatest, because a diver can do nothing
10 avoid it. It is the danger of accident
through circumstances beyond his con-
trol.
“There is another dauger, and a very
curious one, too, which fortunately,
however, is not often incurred. Tlie
drees of a diver is fearfully heavy and
hot. On a warm day the perspiration
from a diver, while his dress is being
put on. will sometimes show through
the duck and rubber. Now, when you
get into the water the delightful coolness
makes you drowsy. Divers actually go
to sleep over their work, I have fallen
asleep hut once. 1 was laying pipe in
Caukill creek. I slept at the bottom of
the creek soundly lor one hour and a
salf. Now, suppose you had ajobttiat
vou could work at only during one hour
of slack water, aa is the case with the lob
and tbedloe’s islands, and on going be-
lowBou fell asleep and slept over yonr
timev The tide would come in with a
sli,? your hose and rope would snap,
' that would be the eud of you.
ts tot
wrecks for corpses
a moment a ago. That reminds me of
what I shifi when I began our conversa-
tion about the stories that are told of
corpses being found in all kinds of
startling |>ositions. I repeat that such
stories are lies. A driver who works a
vessel for corpees looks, or rather feels,
for them only in two placoe— along the
floors and .along the ceilings. If the
wreck is very new—that is, If it has been
rnsdo but a day or two—a diver will feel
along both floor and ceiliDg; if the wreck
is older, only along the ceiling.”
“What is s diver’s day?”
^our hours, and his pay is»6. That
tongs from him, snatched a !>ook from
the mantel, and opened it abruptly; but
after a moment’s perusal, he closed it
again, iu a violent humor cast a fierce
nee at his trembling wife, and hur-
'j was about to
^ _ caressed him.
uer innoeent-coaxing
thinking she had stic-
r Touching his heart, took in her
the moi tened handkerchief
ewith her mother had teen drying
Uer weeping eyes, and then tenderly em-
braced her mother, who returned her
affectionate caress with all a mother's
fondness.
The par'ies being now favorably dis-
posed, naught remained but to estahlis:i
the peace. This was no easy matter—
neither would make the first overture -
and without the penetration of little
Rose, reconciliation would not have
taken place.
She took her father’s hand between
her own littlo hands, and pressed it to
her bosom; she then took her mother’s
hand and joined it to her father's, as it
lay near her heart. Human pride could
resist no longer—the alienated parents
rose at the mine moment and cordially
embraced eflhh other.
From that hour Rose was the idel of
them both.
Six years after this, Rosanna, the ugly
Rosanna, was the ornament of every
■oclety to which her mother presented
her. Amiable, witty and observing, her
conversation was universally ceurted.
One summer evening the'sun, which,
during the day, had shed over nature an
intense heat, liad just disappeared, leav-
ing the horixon covered with long wide
braids of red—clouds more and more
dark were heaping themselves on the
eastern say—the atmosphere was suffoca-
ting. and one wonhl deem the earth was
returning to the sun the heat she had
been receiving from the latter during
the day. All was heavy and weary—the
air inhaled seemed rather to suffocate
than nourish. A drowsy languor over-
came every one.
lb a saloon, whose every window was
thrown open, might have been seen glid-
ing here and there in the darkened light
groups of young females, whose white
dresses, slightly agitated by the rising
breeaeol the evening, offered something
mysterious and poetical wherein the im
agination loved to dwell. A low, lan-
guishing wliiarvcr was then heard, like
the soothing murmur of some distant
rivulet. A young woman, seated before
a piano, was expressing nor heart’s sen-
timeuts by an extraordinary melody,
now smooth and tender, now deep and
trembling.
No more whispering, hut a general si-
lence, took place, for hers was a celestial
symphony, a seraph’s song.
Lord Melton, a fine, handsome young
nobleman, was so deeply touched by Ute
melody that bis frame seemed agitated
bv a momentary convulsion He listen
ed to the angel’s voice, so softly harmon-
ising with tlie sweet tones of the instru-
ment, and felt an indescribable sensa-
tion thrill through his frame.
The music ceased, but the sweet voice
vibrated on Melton’s ear, and there waa
a charm in the witty and original trifle
to which he listened that transfixed him
where he stood.
“How beautifbl must that young girl
be,” thought Melton. “Happy the man
en whom may fall her choice,” and he
involuntarily sighed.
Suddenly the lights are brought in.
The young woman was the ugly Rosanna.
lord Melton was stupefied—he closed
his eyes; but the t charm of that voice
haunted his memory. He eased on her
he
Money Mill Buy Bcuuly.
the Great London circus during its tour
of the World, and was 30 years of age.
Messrs. Barnuin, Bailev & Hutchinson
sotne cotlin andat 6 a m. the atta.Ies
do^f r ‘OW eslcor,eJ G*e remains to the
(I< |m»(, from Wbmtoe i»«• WM Hhinmvl to i i
his father’s home. The oortege was °n' 1 a creiftwi^er the stin shone
headed by (he l and, and at the station i my wSndo* daily hcrcVdio
very impressive ceremonies were Reid. : equipage is fihe, lu i
DABN1NO HER STOCKIN';.
bevy of fair girl* they were,
Aod all oxoeodlDg busy;
*ud sewed upon a oraxy quilt.
And no did .Teas and Lizzie;
Jun-.-----
Maud so
And
While
ing aheut the city. One night I dream-
ed that I was in a paik there facing
some public buildings, and over the
trees and roofs at the right w ere tlie
towers of Westminster abbey and par
liament buildings. That night an im-
portant letter was on lis way summon-
ing me to London. I Went there, ar-
riving just as the man Who iuqi written
the letter was leaving his house fora
walk. I Saw my trunk safelv stowed
and then went along with him. We
strolled out to 8t. Jerome’s park to hear
a bend play. At one polnt in the park
>n fac'al improvements. But the man J looked behind me, and there the
as beaut i tm-ingnt of money can purchase l*h,’dire I had seen in my dream — iices,
towers, public buildings, and all. Be
fore I went there l hadn't the slightei-t
rides past idea how the City w as built. For aught,
-............. TTfS'a, 1! t knew Mt.-Paul's Westminster abbey,
Mem inUm 1*1 W^U 'dgo the love? stoo2,l>t« bar «nd the British museum
‘2*“' s|h' has a curi •us wne I manage*' ro" 1,11 onL' rt|i d. How did
i when IS out font di iv ' '"o'" in''s ,:,sl <«*'■
lo a rich old i>-ilow ,*elt1,n1‘rB •»*! eixe. shape and !?»* „ "!,-h?
reputable "'ey leally have?” New York Sim.
but it will, though,” writes ('lam Belle.
.“I don’t mean to say that an ugly woman
with $1,000,0(M) could become handsome
through the ' xpenditurc of her for'une
rat and
wnilo Jennie painted on a fan
Homo charming cheru h fares.
And Nell and Bell right skilfully
Wove yards of pretty tacos.
“^,Sf?lj5 wicker chair bedeokod
With ribbons gently rooking,
h*nu ■
ll«r dainty, b aok silk stock In*
"iSSsp:
One saw at once her taak wm Sot
A taak to think of II
! won’t asHociato with her of
, she well knows that th, vVolaS' ,Ut
I ties of person ami wardrobe ■„
: doubtless a compensation " ’ ' ,H
Tlio hh* Hide is a good deal to th« iu:m
Mind in one eye. Merchant Traveler. I
iW~ lio l| Ycmracir. With Diamond Dye? j
any lad) c^uirot m* good mmltM mm the host
practical dyer. Every dye wumint* d true to |
name and MMinple. UK- at druyKlfts. Well
Kichaidson k Co . nurliiiKton, \t.
■ ■ '- • • ----'■■■
Misery—A girl with a r.ew 'Iress and <
no place to go. Marathon Independent,
— YXVjiiMay
BlTT^
mm * m best
THE
' to Q iirblj and'VinijdftMjriiniD .^i7r»rlu,iuid < bill*
Jl*. and Frvrra. h r InirrmUfi r.t l < l.n**-
' wilill.nt'li of Cucr^v, it bia j$o •qAaJ it
ihiim'Ian and i
t'urfei Pi If i
Bleeding, I
iiiw i v
• * If ohm it on Mlr«.”
or KeiuorrhiM'In, lie
111■ • 111hI or oiliwi - Into
Ml oil I'iii'k MRO. H'll
di'Hnitii
Tht* |m>jx)lur
('ash kouu*where elat*.
it k, rrofrtidiiii;,
lot itrtl mii*i Kuterusl
<>, Me. Innu ’tot*1.
of ejwbitr-
hife*
Hall4>r<t SaiM-c, ur«m| at uil lio-
tolH. MHkcayuur foo«l more nutrlcioua.
\ iMuebati in the hiuid i- worih tir^in 1
the rye. Taft vilie Newt*.
klOO.UOO,(*H) l> THE HlUTIMI Col HI oF j
I'n antiihv ! A lurxe pari of tliis VHHt auiii
heloiur* to the peonlr of Annnira. I'ox A-
Co., ti. Southampton huiMnms, Holhoni,
hoiidtin, Kilt., have just published u Lisi of
the lieirn hi tnlaenorinou wealth UeAder,
semi a dollar ami they will forward you this j
valuahl*’ I.i*r: and if you find hy it t'luit you
••laiiij
the
are entitled to any money or property, H«
yonr own. Cox k <’o. will Mmw vou'
* ay- .
Tlie “('old Day'* theal rind eo
well named.
Citizen.
It luM jfot left. Lowell j
anv w
'*ll*‘tijth gu TfrofhJMhg.'* IubIm'di rfeiiwf. 1.V'.
One who takes lots «*fi rite rest in hia
l>iisine.*H - the pa uni'inker. stocktc-n
Ahmriik.
woriri, |s*i|t>r,
ivy I amt, t-at
“If oiimIi «!I 11eli.“
HtT!'» 11T lntni!>r»,>ru
Tlie toiler of a tnoitumr newspaper i« .
well up in the mvideriiM of the nights of
labor, st. 1’aul Herald.
pftit*. and stri'iiatii etMtiu* hudm'Im Mod Mrm.
It tfoM not injure tlm tewsth cmumw bMfedMob". off
I't 'I'b H u»h»r /r<7« nietir/BM •#»».
Fathfr T .1 itunj.T. (Im periotic aud soholaH/
C'ttitolir Divino. •*# /irkenMiN aay*'
"I har« meed Rrown'ft Iron Bittwre with th« fra«*-
nit kf art inti for Mftlarin fend a prewvntlwa of
Chilli, and liliD diuawiM**. and will alway* keep Hun
hum I an a rt-a.1v friond.'*
<.<'tniin« ItaHrlxon t ratio mark andumaaed rml Imw
on wrapper T1U1* tin siilirr- Mwie «ttlf by
iinow \ AYitwieAi. < n.. n\i TMiOKK. Mi>.
I,Anna' Hand Kook- «>m»rnl and atfraeilve cn»-
taintnir list <*I un/ttH ft>r reripm. informal ion alioat
eoinw etc., «irt*n tway hy all dealerM In miwficioe GT
W|*ii*d to SUV " .-n rm-nlnt Ilf **,. rt.mi,
DROPSY
TREATED FREE.
DR. H. H. GREEN,
A R|ifcUllH for Eleven lean Path
lla* trratrd I'ropey and Ita compllcatlona with the
n oat wonjrrfiil aurorae; naea vrgotablu re nedtea.
foiirrlr liarn l*‘.»a hmuovcfl all ajmpiania of dropey
1 ctnrl • lOerlta pronouacfrd hopeleaa by the boat of
flUfltdlM.
F*Y)inihc nrat done the armpMii rapldlr dlaap-
P' »r ami fa tea days at learn tHo-iUlrda of all aymt>-
toiiia are to nnred.
Bo inn roar try humbug without knowing an> ildn«
about m. neuieinix r. It doea not oo-«t yoa anyib nr
lorenllfle the in* rlta o# mv ircRtme»L fur voniaeir.
1 am t •ire'uit'lv rurlriK<*aae« of Ionic ■nuidlnjr. caaee
tltai have bmi taw cl a number uf l I'Des. «ttd tne
fatlew tie. Ian ,i utiaHie to live a week- Oljr run
I Imi ry of < a»e Name »ex, huw Ionffaiflluted. Imw
ta lly nr- !•• u nn<J where. 1ft boWelacd*»lv«. hftVu lfr|p»
I u Bfe-i and <lt li»ped witter. Krnd f«»r fra ; pain hlet.
ron'ftinii.f tealinioniala,quefltlou*. o‘« .
IO day* treat uient fiirnlalietl free l»y im»II.*
tpfhp-y fltipoMilvaiy cured,
li wruct trial, aeud 7 cent* In Htaiiinn'opar
11. If. okke>. yf u..
Ift Jones Avrniif kUanfa Ga-
BURNS and N*a1da are inatantly r
pauileu, and Invariably cared wiikottt A Bear,
the line of CeebollaiUve, Hie jjrunt ftkin remedy.
Hi and 00 cent a, at Druguiftts or by mail. Cole Ji
Co., lilack Hirer Falla. W ia.
Mi
-
GANGER. {•« t
dRYANTtS
has
Chi
The man who Is no busy that
no time to laugh needs a vacate;
cegcr laulper.
♦ ' —J- ■
Autumn’.-* -advance iijrent in in tQwn.
Bosh*:» < ii"i e,
The aim pleat. RMd beat rrgu lAtor of the Diaor*
der<*d Liver in the world, ate Carter’ll Little i
Livor IMIla. They ylvr nioinpt relief in Sick I
llendHcho, Dizzinraa, Naureft, Ac.: prevent
and cure Comdlpation and Pilot; remove Sal- I
lowncMund Him plea from the com plea ion. and |
arc mild and pcntH* in their operation on the
bOWdA. Carter's Littlo Liver Pilla Are amAll
and aft easy to take na sugar. One pilladoi
Price U6
iTRATTOrt
DuftlneM and
_ 8b«rt-hand School,
i at vtuui*
tubus 4* h !•» '
er’s Little Live:
ay to take aa sugar. One p:
L'llU.
from real life
And with hei
The atltchea interlocking,
thread through.
ANUKL t'OI HI ,
rNIDKRIt'K K, WKATtlKIIUY
uraiu
©d wa
B|W "“^Musnt wh..8XcVthe pah
But the* h*Ve ll,ru,t “-------- 1
"Whai
“Our fi
"hat t'aukfd it.
Ihitlmr Mo vuHtoincr in • lmii
<iuite lualtl, sir.
f-UMouiet—Yep.
Barber—Younjf fnan, too.'
( uatt'iMcr—Yep.
BxrhtT—Wear your bat to , muclr.’
1 tiHtouier— Nop.
You* re
Wttllg
•y.-* •)
> guard —
I
lfl''
1 lut. bet.
A waltz Wash-!
No greater mil8anre>uwl'.wi/< be found.
rnm Smith's Riic Q
removed the Idle,
doea Is smile.
j lever fr.l
Thr 11 «>"KTn"' h“" 6riii
N!1, ,ma.v ^ 1 ■
~ 1 "necir-'
I want
\ cry I'jhh A boy w itti tm aslcv. UiV. ]
- ami ml on animals. 6o/d
It. I^.u . «O0aP
k*^| .it*. r -oil-kAmM, p
5 t.c.HDU
For any tuaohtut Hu tiuj a 4 ^
’ 'Baltic Di for utarkki bn snweU
r lever Meed tn ONM DAY
vi*crts
DOUBLE
HULLER
IHast rated
Ur me led f*<
NKWAUK _ -
MAC.IIIMF. < Q> C -^vtuhVF «»Klo.
0% The oldest rrAdicttift in the Wo
|1 bilhiv Dr. 1S.\At:THOM;
UELEERATED EYE
TalssulCH in h earefuliy prepare
prescription, mud has been in co
nearly acentory, and uotwlthstanditig tli
other pn pirauouM that have been Introduced
to the muter, the sale ot this article is oonatantlv
Increasin'. It the dl recti ana are followed it will
r Du. We particularly InvHe the attention
yftciana to its mcrlta.
Jthn /,. Thump*<m. Sons Jt Co., Troy, N. Y.
:^pro n
WATEIl
physiclan'M
>0*11 in coustant use for
otwithstanding the i
< >pej
! ou*
■exproaa j
Co. 851»ey
P. b i ttrujlma. xeusooa, Ohi<» -
tll-M u.sc. 1/
a second time,
ugly. The'
transferred to
small
found her less
of her mind seemed
A Practical tlogfratlon,
A Texas judge showed considerable
unwillingness to grant a man a divorce.
The judge said to the applicant:
"Reflect for a moment that your wife i
with all her faults has her good qualities,
and that by mutual concession you may
I* able to get along very well together.”
The applicant for divorce seemed to
lie very much moved by what the judge
said, and the latter begun to flatter him-
self that lie had carried his point. At
last the man said :
“Your Honor is not married, I Ite-
lieve? ’
“No, I am a widower.”
"Well, then, judge; suppose you grant
me x dlvorco from this woman,and then
marrv her yourself, and see if you can
stand hi r devilish temper.”
The judge begged leave respectfully to
decline.
“Yes,” responded the applicant,;cotn-
fully, “you are mighty kind prescribing
medicine for other people, but you don’t
care to try a dose of it yotirsell.” flirt-
ings. •
"Whore no you lire, my litlio instatr ’
“In Angel Court ,*' saul abe;
“And It’a All so dark; f only oamt>
Juat once the flowora to see;
We have no ffnwera In Angel Court,"
Hbe murmured bitterly.
Out I he little Prince looked up to boa veil,
•That la our Horae,'’ said he; I
“Our Father loves us all. ” he
"Where’eron earth we be.”
The years went by; the boggar t
In an Angel Horne waa bleat;
In a distant land the bright you
IVrLA'i ' -
Customer—JSop.
BarlKT— Fever?
('uf ton; er—Nop.
Harbor—fir wife?
Customer— Vop.
Harbor (Uef'perAteJy)—>Wiiat
that baldness?
(‘lurtoiuer—Harber’e Preventive.
York Hun.
oil lifted
Sow
said.
fpi&usjDMiyp,
^J’.Wgf^r.rsn:. "-HSp
orror, lirnoraaDe, t|it hum . gfl'ilrLlyaael Lu*llj
f-cVviALE TREATIWENT':
I nowlirinTyr* HDiiJtre.Mii Aiwri.'N*«»l«*l» b« l|asr..*rlta
tbe (JfHll<i I rlHurv OrgMu*. Itrssln NM«I Verves.
fbsfrllMl, f.T«re.i.tn III I Of-" t f«'»f ll»l ■III* I*. I.UlU
T.tl MUacs’Waltf,,,. riV.el
PSiilet.-tl Cor-*#,. “
Minn:
^ t!nli
i of [ I
f bjHB’
_r y/
I £ K i
R.
er,
orL.
jhtld
young Prince j
DEATH AND I.
HAT* L. BROWN.
1 looked upon my brother Death;
There was no room for weeping; t
8o beautiful and calm he am fled.
Bo holy in hla Bleeping.
I had no worda to apeak hla name.
Kevcxled the spirit's sunder.
And yet the eame blue eky aroh
The larii'e delicious elnslDg;
Through one broad track of qul
upward wlpglng.
arched o'er
wring gold.
agreed with Napoleon.
At a certain battle of the late war a
federal chaplain hnppened to get In the
vicinity of a buttery of aitillery which
I was hotly engaged. The confederate
J shells were ploughing burrows about tlie
I guns, and Hie canoneers were grimly
anil actively at work to answer shot for
shut. The captain addressed himself to
Liked it Firs. Hate. a sergeant, w ho was very efficient, but
at the same tune rallier prolan?, in the
A little miss of three years, who lives following w ords :
under the shadows of Ho|»c Church, was “My friend, if you go on this way can
playing with the neighbors’ children ^t tl'" “*>Pl«'ri of Diviiie I’rovi-
‘‘Ain't expectin’ it,1
n a distant land the bright
Was pawing to hla real-
Far from hla home, and wife, and child,
And all ho loved the beat.
Hut he turned and aai
An iitigel at hla aide
r Father lov
withh am
Our F
Am!
e;i the beat,
,nd saw a face he knew,
a side,
icr loves ua well.” sheatld,
h h smile he tiled.
re-culver.
I \ % ( lipping". «»n l til
• is.-lil. sn,| tjltlll
DR. JOHN BULL’S
SifsToiiicSynifff®
■ aware
THAT
Lorilkrd’e Climax Plug
Im m ring a r*4i fn tma; that fsortpnrd'%
If «M*f ls»nf Ihmrut; Utul I^rfUard’a
tigts, i»n«l fit'll LoftOnM** F*miIIft.
ilHYTOftsWcfNl?
OMIMft «r?
I'Mith end E.T|
Bu <
•Tl our
«*r Woman In
t'BIIVBBBlUK o
I Stiver wai
rj>« It-, M K«pt'tie«s
i;iitht rRKK! Parti
msmr
(QhiarrKit.
rtmiln
*
one morning, when the latter were called .<A1(l-t ) x,#(.tin- it)” yai,i the sergeant;
in for prayers. She accompanied them, l “the Ninth New Jersey lias been ordered
-- !- — room, | to support this battery." Southern
and, when seated in the sitting
i.lie observed that, she whs the only ono
with, ut a book, flo she jumped down
and helped herself from tne bookcase in
tho room, returned to her chair, and
opened her l>ook like the others, and
endeavored to read unrequested. After
reading slio shut her (took she waited
till they had all kneeled, then she as-
sumed a like position, pulling her hand
to her face, but keening a lookout be-
tween the fingers all the while to observe
what was taking place. When the
others rose from their knees, she ran
to support
Bivouac.
"What we learn with pleasure >ve
never forget ”—Alfred Merrier. The
following is a ease in pond. “1 paid out
hundreds of dollars without receiving
any benefit,” says Mrs. F.mily Rhoads, of
McBrides, M’e’.t, “I had lemale com-
plaints, especially‘dragging down,’ for
over six years. Dr. It. V. Pierce’s ‘Fu
vorite Prescription' did me more good
than any medicine T ever took. 1 ad-
vise c’ erv siek lady to take it.” And so
do we. ft never disappoints its patrons.
over to one of the littlegirls, ana,calling I Druggists sell
her hy name, said: “I like this game --
first rate. Wiiat is the Dame of it?” A scientist says that the negro natur-
Springfleld Republican,
ally requires but little sleep. Nature
has wisely fortified him against the
fatigues or robbing hen roosts and melon
patches. Burlington Free Press,
“WhAt shAlt WA <!o with our l>Augh(rrft?“
This question is asked by u well known
lady lecturer. Well, we can do a great , j,-or ^,Hk lungs, spitting of blood,
many t imgs with them; one thing, we j deftness of breath, consumption, night
,'*1re of their hca1th, and ,weatF ai,.i lingering cough
not let them rtin down and liecome en-
feebled. For the feminine ailments,
which may be summed up in oue word—
debility, we have a sovereign remedv in
Brown s Iron Bitters, which has done
Dr.
Pierce’s "Golden Medical Discovery ''
a sovereign remedy. Superior in cod
liver oil. By druggists.
_____ _________ ______ ____ _____ A Wiseonslu man was drivcu insane
much good. Mibb Marv Greenfield, oCl beeiuse he had to pay as old debt of
Galatia, III., writer, “Brown’s Iron Bit- seventy-five cents. Men who pey old
‘-------• —of nervousness, indigestion debts are always looked upon u- insane.
health.” Lettheolher Detroit Freo Press,
e the hlnL
FOR THE CURE OF
FEVER and AGUE
Or CHILLS and FEVER,
AND AIL MALARIAL DISEASES.
The proprietor of thie celebrated medicine
justly claims for It a superiority over all rem
erttea evtr offered to the pobllo for the SAFE,
CERTAIN. SPEEDY and PERMANENT own
of Ague and Fever,or Chills and Favor, wheth-
er of short or long standing. Be refers to thr
entire Western and Southern oountry to hear
him testimony to tho troth of the assertion
that in no osso whatever will It fell to oure it
the directions are atriotlyfollowodandcarriod
out. In a groat many oases a single dose has
icon »"(Relent for a curs, and whole families
hi* VO h -I cored by a single bottle, with a per-
fect restoration o'tho general health. It is,
however, irodent.and in every oate more oei?
tain to *. re. lfti ute isoentinned inamaller
doses for a wo h or two after the disease hat
been checked, more egpeoially in titflonlt and
long-standing oases, usually this medicine
will not require any aid to keep the bowels in
good order. Should the patient, howtvar,
tntreacatharti odieine.after’
throe or four do*et of tho Toni
of KENTS VEGETABLE F,
will be sufficient. Ute no othtT-
DR. JOHN BULL’S
SMITH'S TONIC SYRUP, *
BULL'S SARSAPARILLA,
BULL’S WORM DESTROYER,
The Popular Remedies of th* Dap.
tMc.lnal (ilWi-e. ?«• -ala St., l.niwiri.a gv
$66
Galatia, III., writei
tors cured me of si
LIFE OFC
Thr WatM'a arrMtjfet
fSAynsfiain. 1
i in faucy note usper is
‘' ‘ Ini known as
right red tin
*
gon iw.
are the records of rome of the cures of
consumption eff*' ted hv that most won-
nml
Thr BIT ERB’ (.HUE Im
Imhc! Nrpt. mid Miirth,
r«rh j-ror. *# JfMI
;* 111 a »iM'hrs,BvU»i ovr
3,000 lllHMlrAfWuM - A
whole PUinrf UaUrrf.
HIVKM UholfMlr Fr «XB
dircet to ronsuntnru *»•» all Moodit for
pfMOAaf or fBiiillK um . Trlls. U»x% to
outer, and kIvj r rxavt roal of f -‘
IhliiA you n»r, r»l| ‘
l»ftvr f ill H llh.
IM>014 h riHilBln
flYnm I hr marhrl* i
in IM mull n mp)'
drrai H|Min rrrely* of lOl
rijH rtwr of niPi’mf, r _ ^
p«... Ilr ,„ rlfSlty, ; .
M0MTGnv-<*'' 'V.'.t-rt %rc'
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