Bloomington Progress, Volume 21, Number 44, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 December 1887 — Page 4
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ING out, ring oat, ye choral bells, A pecan to the moral Thy speech, in oadant mMiaw, telle Of blessing newly
born;
I But be thy tones m pare sad clear As cloistered maiden's prayer, For all of eaxth is liat'uing here,
And an of Heaven, there. Deer Christmas t enemy to fear. And foe to table in thou art the day of aU the year Vac joy to triumph In ; That bills are batbed in floods of gold. The frowning eloud are furled, Andeheerfnl sunlight, fold on fold. Enwraps a loving world. BiBgont.yeDena.'taieartbandatr Beonetammttnonssea Of liquid eonnd. and everywhere) Is drowned in melody ; Bet softly as the Orient sob The lilies doth caress Of all the creeds He tanght hnt oae. The taw OX tenderness. lbs skies that bead to meet the M Are softer on this day? The winds that stir the holly tree Axe gentler In their play; The crystal flakes thai kiss the earth Seem pnrer, -whiter far, Te morning of oar Savior's birth. Than other anowflakes are. Then ring, ye tongues of silver, ring Til tremble earth and sky t Te brassn throats, awake and sing A world-wide synrphonyt Neath every roof is white-robed Peaoa, And Golden Hair and Gray, Alike from care have fall release Tis many Christmas Day. THE BED GOBBLEE. BT ONE F. BXAD.
iHOHAS BLUE-
coogfav editor and proprietor of the
Hickory Btoff
Seatoned Timber,
a weekly paper,
which, in a tang
line of heavy-face type, constantly
kept standing, de
clared itself to be
neAHahed in the interest of Vast Fork
Go., was deeply troubled. His trouble was not caused by aninabOitvto meet any financial demand made against tha office, nor was it the result of an indiscreet political Hianoe. BvaseanaedbytswlaotthatMr. Blnecoogle had found UmaeK unable to provide tor hie readers an mierestmg and w holly original Christmas story. He had offered a prize of one year's subscription for an available story, and although this nmnifieent proposal had greatly sttmntated fits "literarlans'' of West Fork County, yet a critical examination of the mass of mannseript that had been turned in failed to discover a story of even paagable skill. Tve got to go to press to-morrow," said the editor, addressing Ida wife, "and I
haven't founds story yet." He had gone
borne, and was sitting in front of his fire, madt cheerless by his own dejection. "Can't yon clip one from some paper?"
Mrs. Bhieeoogle asked, as she placed a dish-nan of apples on a stool-bottom
BWeeVesEeaienSBSs
in a tree. He was a great big thing, and was as red as blood, and when he saw Bill looking at him he gobbled so loud tha
twigs war shaken from the tree, and he
winked at Bill and stretched one leg at him. Bill sat down and tried to think, but he couldn't; so he pat his gun on a log and took good aim at the red gobbler's breast, and fired. The red gobbler lifted up both wings and gobbled so load that Bill began to tremble. Then the gobbler flew away, and all at once Bill felt an awful pain in his breast. It hurt him so that he rolled on the ground, and then being
afraid that he might die out there by him
self, he took up his gun and staggered home. When he got home he found his mother and sister both suffering with pains in their breasta, and he fell down on the
Be put Ms rifle against a (res.
"That wouldn't let me out, for I hare
manned that it shall be original.''
Sin. Bhieeoogle sighed sympathetically,
tacked np her skirts, and began to busy herself with paring the apples. Just then ' the editor's son a sprightly, boy twelve
i of age, entered the room.
"Have you got aChristmaa story yet?" he
asked. "No," the editor replied. "Going to have one?" -I am afraid not." ' "Flint mine." "Tours!" "Yes; I wrote one. Here it fa." Be handed the editor a scrawling manu
script, and, in a sort of embarrassed glee,
ran from the room. The editor read the
following:
One time in a country way off somewhere, I don't know where, there lived a boy
LBiB. He lived with his mother and
His father was dead. They were
poor and lived in a house Oat they rented
from a rnighty mean man. in that country a red turkey gobbler would show himself
every year hist before Clniitun Tha
oldest men said Oat their grandfathers eonld not remember when the red gobbler; flint come. Somehow it was known mat anyone that killed the red gobbler would have good lnck, but that anybody who tried to kill him and failed would have bad luck. For years and years people tried to kill the red gobbler, but eonld not, and such bad luck had eome to everyone who had tried, that every year, jost before Christmas, the rjreacherB would warn everybody not to go near the awful bird. One) night in December the mean man came over and told Bill's mother that if she didn't have the rent money by Christmas morning he would have her put out of the house. The poor woman had been sick for a longtime and was not able to get out of her bed. Bill was not in the room when the mean man told Ids mother what she would have to do, and when he came in
after the man left and found her crying, he thought thai it was becan8"ahe had such pains, but when she told him what tha
mean man had said, he felt like crying top, but he didn't. BUI sat down by the fire,
and after thinking a longtime said, that he
wished he oould kill the red gobbler when
he came around again.
"My son," said his mother, "dent talk
that wiry; that gobbler has caused hun
dreds of people to be rained. The last
floor and rolled. Bill and his mother and sister rolled and tumbled all night, and the poor woman said: "Oh, me, William, didn't you shoot at that rad gobbler?" And Bill he said: "Oh, my, what would I wanterdothatforr The next day was the day before Christ mas, and Bill, after rolling around until late in the evening, saying, "Oh, my!" and "Ah, me!" got up and took the gun and went out in the woods. It was all be eonld do to walk, but he pushed ahead, for he thought that if he didn't kill something for his mother and sister to est they would die. I forgot to say that they didn't have anything in the house to eat. Well, he had got a good ways out in the woods when the reddest bird he ever did see flew np in a tree in front of him. "Ton try so hard to look like that red
gobbler that I'll settle with you right here," said BUI, and he lifted up the big rifle and
took aim, but the little bird looked so pitiful that he took the gun down. The bird
flew away, and Bill went on and snot at a rabbit but missed it. When he went to load
his gun again he found that he didn't have
another bullet, and while he stood think
ing about it, with the pain in his breast hurting sum all the time, the little red bird flew oyer and lighted on a tree and began to sing, "Put in a red grain o' corn; put in a red grain o' corn."
What do you mean?" said Bill, much
surprised, for he never had heard a bird
sing that way before.
Put in a red grain o' corn; put in a red
grain o corn, sang toe oira-
The pain in Bill's breast got so bad that
he turned away to go home. The bird flew away, but before Bill had gone very far the bird flew in front of him and dropped something and sang:
"But in a red grain o' com; pat in a red
o'eom."
BSl looked down and saw that the bird had dropped a red grain of corn. He
picked it up and said: "1 will put it in my rifle just for luck." So he loaded his rifle with the red grain of corn and started on home. He had not gone but a short distance further when he heard a noise that made him shake until his teeth chattered, and, looking no in a tree, he saw the big red gobbler. The gobbler looked at him and the pain in Bill's breast greit worse. Just then the bird that had been following along sang: "Shoot him! shoot him!" Bill was scared nearly to death, but knowing that he had. already been marked by the gobbler for death or something else that was awful, said: "Ton can't do any more than you are going to do, anyway, so 111 try you, even if it is with a grain of corn." He put the rifle against a tree, but somehow couldn't take a good aim, and while
"To; J wrote on.
Here it U."
man that Wed to kill him took fire and burnt up. If you were to try, something
awful would happen."
Bill didn't say anything, but he shook
bis head, and thought a good deal, and that evening, when ho went out walking in the woods, fie took the gnat big rifle that his father used to kill hears and dears with
a long, long time ago.
"It might not do forme to shoot at Am
red gobbler," he said, as he walked along throoeh the woods: "but he better not
corse flopping abootma. Great goodness!
Whafs the!
nn.aid.bett thegohhj
The gobbler wa so heavy.
Matters and Things in Which Our Fair Readers Are Interested,
NUMEROUS SWEET MORSELS.
A little Humor, a Bit of Poetry, and Some
Gossip About Modest
Maidens and Giddy Girts,
ho was trying to get down closer, he
touched the trigger. Bang! went the gun, and with an awful flopping
the red gobbler fell with his head shot off,
and in a minute Bill's pain was gone. The gobbler was so heavy it was as much as
Bill could do to drag it home, but he got
there after a while. It was dark when he
got home, and being afraid that he might
scare his mother and sister he went into
the kitchen and picked the gobbler, and
when he got through he piled all the red
feathers up in a corner. Than he put the
turkey on a table and went in to tell his
mother and sister, and he found them sit
ting by the fire, laughing, without any
pains in their breasts, "I have killed the
red gobbler," oried Bill, and his mother
said "Oh, me!" and his sister said "Oh,
my!" Then he took them out in the
kitchen, and when they had looked on the table, instead of finding a gobbler they
found a whole lot of silk dresses, and
when they looked for the red feathers they
found a big pile of gold.
That night the mean man took a pain in
his breast and died, and Bill and his
mother lived a long time and were happy,
and that's all.
The boy opened the door and peeped into the room. "Here, John," cried tha editor, "I'll be hanged if I don't print your story. Of course you don't want the prize, so I'll compensate yon in another way. I'll pay yon back that money I borrowed from yon as soon as I can."
MATH Kit A FULL STOCKING. "Papa, I had a lovely dream last night," said Olarindella to her father, several days before Christmas. "I dreamed that I hung my stocking, and in the morning I found Santa Clans had filled it to the brim and that everything I had wished far was inside. I wish you would make my dream true, papa; will yon?" "What was in tie stocking of your dreams, my child?" asked the father, as he gently stroked his motherless darlings' golden tresses. "A pony phaeton, a new Saratoga trunk mine's worn out, you know a sealskin cloak, a pug dog, a new coachman, an ebony parlor set, a silver tea service, an opera box, a toboggan, and--let me think there was something else. O, I remember! Twas a tour in Europe." "Bather a foil stookwg, wasn't ft?" raid
Her Reason. A bit of conversation took place last week between a Boston lady and a friend's cook. The family in which the latter lived have recently moved from a noisy street to a quiet one, a proceeding which chanced not to please the oook. The mistress was showing an old friend over the house when (he latter said to the cook : "Yon have a nice, quiet place here, Margaret, with none of the noise of the old house." "It's the noise of the city that Pm after likin mo self, ma'am," returned Margaret, sourly. "Do yon?" snid the lady, pleasantly, "Oh, I don't I cant stand the rattle and the roar of the noisy streets of the city." "Very likely not," Margaret assented, grimly. "I s'pose most likely your brain isn't as strong as mine, ma'am."
Boston letter in the Providence
Journal Sot I'erfecU
Mrs. Conscience Oh, Mrs. Mer
cenary, how do yon do? Lovely day! I inst oh, I have just heard of Mar-
saxet Lovering's marriage. Has she
married well? Mrs. Mercenary Oh, yes, indeed
splendidly. She has married old Simon
Money-weight He is worth every cent
of a million has a perfect mansion on
Fifth avenne, cottages at Bar Harbor
and at Newport, and Margaret will
live in elegant style. She is a lucky
girl. Mrs. 0. -Bnt, oh, Mrs. Mercenary,
have heard such dreadful things about
him. They say ho drinks awfully, that
he (rambles, that he hectored his last
wife into her grave, that he has a fear
ful temper, and that he actually beat
his first wife. Think of it!
Mrs. M. Oh. well, well, my dear
Mrs. Conscience, ono can't expect
man to be perfect in these days; the
best of men have their little failings.
Tid-Bits. .
A Coquette in the Butt.
Flossie is a doar little golden-haired
creature, with large blue eyes, dainty
red lips, and the roundest, pinkest
cheeks in the world. She loves her
papa and mamma dearly. Her pretty
ways and sunny smiles endear her to
her hosts of playmates, and her gentle thoughtfnlness of others makes her the pet of ar indulgent, doting house
hold.
"Ma'ma," said the little one softly
one day as she nestled lovingly in her mother's arms, "I love to walk with
Mamie Brown."
Tears sprang to her mother's eyes at
this proof of her darling's unselfish
nature. Mamie is a poor little crippled
girl, whose plain, pinched features are
in pitiful contrast to r lossies prigni
beauty, and her attire, though always
neat, is very plain and inexpensive.
And why does my little Flossie
love to walk with Mamie?" asked the
mother.
"Because she is so plain and her
dresses are so shabby," artlessly lisped
the little one, "that when we are together everybody notices only just me, "
BinQhamton Republican. Women and the ATeeeWe.
She is used to the needle, and she
uses it for all the world, does woman,
but of late she has taken to another sort of needle which she uses with no
less devotion and industry.
The etching needle, ambitiously
seized at first by the wives of the two
Morans, has been taken up now by Eastern artists, and an interesting exhibition of their work is now being held
at the Boston Museum. It is called an exhibition of the work of the women etchers of America, and displays 388
prints, the work of twenty-one artists.
Two hundred and fifty-eight of these
prints are the work of eleven Philadel
phians, over whom Miss Emily Sartain
no doubt exercised an inspiring influence. Mrs. M Ninnie Moran, with her
display of fifty-seven prints, has re
ceived oredit from the critics for the
most striking and original work. Her
style is said to be broad and f nil
spirit, and distinguished by no little
variety. She etches directly from nature, thouch she has executed some
plates from her husband's composi
tions. The work of Mrs. Emily Moran
is remarkable for its exceeding deli cacy. Both of these ladies are the pupils of their husbands. The entire collection is spoken of as being good,
though a number of the contributions
are commonplace.
editors." There is no disposition here to read a homily on woman's worship of the trivial, but it is possible that something of value may be extracted
from the account of an actual occur
rence which a writer in the Chicago
"ews furnishes by way of illustrating
the utterly puerile time-killing of unoccupied women. The scene was the
second-floor front of a popular board
ing-house, where were assembled ten
married ladies from 30 to 45 years old. They were neither laughing nor talking much. It was evident that they meant "business." Responsibility of the gravest kind seemed to weigh upon their spirits, and to forbid indulgence in levity. Even the giggle was silent.
They sat and waited while the hostess,
or officer of the day, so to say, went in search of something. It was in the very air that something important and unusual was impending. When the
woman who had gone in searoh of
something returned she brought into the room an armful of tinted tissue papers. All the ladies pounced upon it and set tq work. The object of their
conclave was now clear. They had come together to make tissue-paper flowers. One lady acted as principal instructor and all the others regarded her with emotions little short of veneration. It was a glorious spectacle.
There were ten matrons, all pleasing to
the eye and all obviously in full command of their faculties; yet there they
sat that live-long afternoon making pa
per flowers. They had not even the cue for benevolence which a church fair or a military bazar gives. They simply thought it would be entertaining to make paper flowers, and well, they made them. After they were done they probably went to swell the im
measurable mass of indifferent embroidery, badly painted vases, heterogeneous tidies, and omnipresent ottomans that clustered their domestio apartments. It was an innocent employment, perhaps, if so cheap a holding of intellect can be innocent. In a school-girl it might not be silly ; in matrons it is amazing. What, asks the
stirred-up historian of this episode,
what if business men in the prime of life should assemble in coteries of ten and spend their afternoons in whittling
toy boats or making kites?
These ten ladies "board for a living."
None of them has children. Now,
then, at their best, what are they good
for? Are they not the merest dead-
wood incumbrances? They give no labor in return for what they consume;
they invent nothing, benefit nobody,
think infiniteaimally, and move
languidly. They have impaired diges
tion, and the Seaside Library habit is upon them. They are honest in the
conviction that they devote their lives
and energies to their' husbands whose
hands they have a trick of squeezing
at table and whose rebellious neckties
they readjust in public. What a lam'
entable waste of victuals it is, this
keening some people alive! Detroit
Free Press.
How Ten
Chicago Matron Gravely Em
ployed an Afternoon.
Ceremonies Oret- a Tree.
Buddhists readers will receive with
dismay the news which last mail briuga from Ceylon. The sacred Bo treo of
Anuraduapurn, the most anoien uuu
authentic relic of Gutvtama, and probably the most aged tree in the world, has been shattered in a storm.
The facts as related by more than
one local correspondent are as follows : The district of Anuradhapura suf
fered this year, as it frequently does,
from a continuous cirougus oi eigui months. Ootober 4, the inhabitants were bidden by boat of tom-tom to assemble at the Bo tree and pray for rain.
The same night, apparently before tue
invocation, the storm broke with violent wind, lightning, thunder and rain. The main braneh of the sacred tree was
severed, leaving only a stem of four
foet. but whether this is in height or
in circumference is not stated.
The Bo tree is a semi-sentient being;
it is "worshipful" and "ever victorious. "
Wherefore, when a pate or. it cues, it receives last rites similiar to those paid to kings and priests, the most honored
of mankind ; it is aremated. This cere
mony took place with full honors Oc
tober 6. Early in the morning two men called kapuwas ("cutters'), arrayed in suits of black, arrived at tho
tree. xney coverea up men iuuuwb with black handkerchiefs, tying the ends at tha back of their heads, and
sitli a small oross-out saw divided tue
broken branch." Two tom-tom beat
ers supplied the music of thoir craft while the ceremony proceeded. The branch was then sawn into convenient
pieces and loaded in a cart "prepared for the purpose with white eloth ceiling,
'etc." Thus was it borne in perahera
(solemn procession) to the Thupurama Dagoba, where the cremation of the
local ohief priest is wont to be held.
The ashes were reverently carnea to the tank of Tisawewa hard by, and there dissolved. Le Roi est niorf, vive le Roil The remnant of the tree now re
ceived its appropriate treatment. Women bore water for the bathing of the
bleaching trunk, and on the following
night the Pint service, tor tne exorcism
of evil spirit, was solemnly performed
at the tune-honored site, where tne re- . . . i ,
muning stem, tnougn prooaoiy unsightly now, will in time flourish with
all the vitality of the a ions reugiosa.
Voloraao Jsaicnange.
"Ah mo 1" Blgbod Potts, Tm tired of living,
The world is hollow, ambition a vain. "Como now !" said his chum, "I know the symptoms ; It's all yonr livor-that's very plain. "You need ix.t auffor, for holp is ensy: Ploroo'K Pellots yo right to tho plnco. A friend to tho bilio'ia," 1 well mil! lit cull them There's nothing bettor ; they'll suit yonr case." Potts coitsed hi sighing and bought the "Pcl-U-tB." No more ho mouruetu bi haplo lotl His fucu is cheerful, his heart ia lightsome, His molancholy is quite forgot 1 End of a Boom. First Easterner I guess you remember me. We met in Los Angeles. Second Easterner I remember you perfectly. You are the good angel who sold ino a coiner lot on which I made a small fortune. I sold that lot for $00,000. You know I only paid you $30,000 for it. "Yes, and as yon did so well I don't mind confessing that nearly all that $30,000 was clear profit 1 bought that lot for a couple of hundred dollars. By the way, what became of the man you sold to?" "The last I heard of him he was in the almshouse." Omaha World. For 'I'liroat IHmcumc-n and Cousrfa
uo Baovra's Meonouiai, Tbooubs. JUko all reaUu n.to.l lhui28. tuov are imitated. The
genuine art wltl only in boxes.
Yod can outlive a slander in half the
timo yoa can outawue it. Lain Circular.
Tit Popular Thoroughfare. Tho Wisconsin Central Lino, although a comparatively now factor in the rauroaasyatoius of the Northwest, has acquired and enviable popularity. Through careful attention to details, its service Is as near perfection as might be looked for. Tho train attendants seem to regard their trusts as individual property and as a result the public is served par-oxcellenoo. The road now runs solid through fast trains betwoen Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul, and Minneapolis with Pullman's best and uiiequaled dining-cars; it also runs through, solid sleepers between Chicago, Ashland, Duluth, and tho famous mining regions of Northorn Wisconsin and Michigan. Piso's aemedy for Catarrh is asrooable to use. It is not a liquid or a satin. 50c
noW THEY VAlt BBHINlt. ttftflUal At 'W There is really no I I aV JIISbB profit in recom- lUUHaaii ' ' "' KT 1 mending the worth- HH m moL 'jyaHek f less, for the reac- DH 1 1 jjfc 'fwUf Hon in the minds aflltg. ''Bff . of those who buy aiaHal VrjgBi. Z0r: e deceived k 119 ''WmF ISES&&kzga pointedly against ill WM M. everything sold by .-.JaJt : .. -Pt J" " -v fh a ftniliip aaBaWiSSSBBBBaSlw .iysKkM
Hence, thcforceoflhe following voluntary letter, which i.i based upon the conscientious conviction formed from the long and cautious experience of a leading drug house of Boston, represents in every line a roost important and valued revelation: "Boston July 11, 1887. The Cbarlei A. Vogeler 'Co. Gentle men: Many preparations are placed before the public, and for a time at least they have a large but temporary sale large, because of the extensive advertfsine; temporary as the nurt'ering class soon realize that the comrxiuiid nossesses but little merit Not so with
i St. Jacobs Oil. Its success has keen constant
from the start, and to-day w regard it as one of those standard remedies that eur trade consider as absolutely essential to always carry in their stock. Personal experience and the good words or the druggists of New England all tend to prove that each year will add to its sale and well deserved popularity. Signed, Doolittle & Smith." Taking the inanv cases of cure. Dublished bv the pro
prietors, examples arc given of its unvarying
effects in the worst chronic cases, and there is nothing in trade which can approach Us efficacy.
A part of the gospel of Jean Jacques Bousseau is that "the world is the book of women." It is a part of the Shake
spearian gospel that "A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man,
Verily, verily, she is an inexhausti-
W thame. "Woman's Ways," under
many titles, occupy thousands of columns of space in the daily newspapers of the world. Her doings, her gowns, her fancies, her foibles, her follies, her bustles, her corsets, her shoestrings, her bonnets, her gloves, her jewels, her hair, her goings forth, her comings home all that she has, is, or would like to be are so many inspirations for those whom the late Mr, Thomas vMlrbfMI vast to frwttfMto Mttt
OVtt BOUNDARY HUBS.
A crlance at the map of the United
States shows that its boundary adjoin
ing Canada follows, the larger part of
the distance, an irregular waterline
formed bv the -great lakes and their
outlets.
Thence from the Lake of the Woods,
i the north of Minnesota, a more di
rect course is taken through the wilder
ness and over the mountains of the wild
West to the Pacific coast.
This boundary between the countries
is marked at regular intervals by pillars of wood and iron, earth mounds, or
stone cairns.
Beginning at the Lake of the Woods,
cast-iron pillars have been placed al
ternately by the English and our Gov
ernment, one mile apart, until reach
ing the Bed River Valley.
Those set by our neighbor were
brought from over the ocean, while
ours were made in Detroit. They are
a hollow casting of a pyramidal form,
eight feet in height, having a base eight
inches square and octagon flange one
inch in thickness, with a top four inches
square, surmounted by a solid cap.
Into these hollow posts are fitted well-
seasoned cedar joist, with spikes driven
through apertures made for that pur
pose in the casting. One-half the lencth of the pillars are firmly im
bedded in the ground, so that the in
scriptions on their sides, in raised letters two inches high, face the north and south, the first reading "Convention of
London," the latter "Oct, 20, 1818."
Beyond the Bed Biver, earth mounds
and stone cairns seven feet by eight
generally denote the boundary line.
Whenever wooden posts are used, they
are of the same height as the iron
Ttillara. and oainted red above the
x . ground.
Through forests a clearing has been
made a rod wide, so that the course is
nlainlv indicated. Where bodies of
water are crossed, monuments of stone
have been raised several feet above
high tide.
Over the mountains, shafts of granite
like grim sentinels guard the way. Al
together the fixing of the boundary marks were expensive, but it was well
done. Golden Days.
AK EXTKAtttOt!tABt Tit J MP.
"No, sir, Til not give you a cent,
You are a useless tramp, and I was so
badlv deceived yesterday that I'll
never give money to a beggar again,"
roared old Bloatem, the banker, when a noor fellow appoached him for a
dime.
"What, you deceived?" asked an as
tonished friend. "I thought you were
a man that no one could fooL"
"But I was fooled, sir, and I don't
forget it A miserable bummor struok
mevesterdav for ten cents to get a
cocktail with. I gave it to him, sir,
for I always encourage those beggars to drink themselves to death. And what do you think, sir? I caught the thief two minutes later in a coffee sa
loon eating mutton stew, sir; and on my money, sir. Ugh! Ill not be fooled
train that way." -San. Francisco Post
New Amesthetlc
"Anvthinsr new in medical circles?"
repeated a gent eman of the profession,
in resnonse to the Question of a re
porter. "Of course there is. The
most important new tmng just at
present is a new anaesthetic. It will
probably be as interesting to patients as to physicians."
"Ana what is it r
"Well, sir, a few weeks ago a horse-
doctor down in Louisiana wanted a soothing poultice for a sore leg. He
went out and gathered some leaves
from under a tree and applied them to
the sore, Thev relieved the pain so
much that he went baok to see what the tree was, and learned that it was a common honey-locust. The circumstance was communicated to pharmacists and physicians, and a number of experiments were made by them, the
result of which was tnat wuniu tne
last two months a new anaesthetic, twioe
as powerful as cocaine, has been derived from the leaves of the common honey-locust "
-Do you think it wut taKe tne piece
of cocaine?"
"That is hard to tell, as yet, but very
probably it will. Cooaine has been reduoed greatly in prices as it has come into general use, but it is still costly. In 1883 it was quoted at 50 cents per grain ; now it k 5 cents per grain, but that means $350 per pound avoirdupois. I presume the new amcsthetic oah be put on the market at a muoh lower figure, and if it oan, unless it should
be found to have some opjeotionaoie
quality which is yet unknown, it will, of course, take the place of cocaine."
Popular Education. We sympathise with the feeling which often
leads c.tizens to boast that no child born in
this country uoed grow op m ignorance, and
ret it is a fact that many people who have oarnod to read and write have never tanght
themselves to tkinlc. A man who suffered
from catarrh, censnmption, bronohitia,
scrofula, er "liver oomplaint, might read, tilt Ms oyea dropped ont, how these and many ether diseases have beea eared by Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, bnt It tie did not take the lessoa to himself and test the virtues
of this great mediciae, hia time would be
Hood's Sarsaparilla This faceup f at mdietn is a carefully-prepared extract of tha beat mUi of tha vegetable kingdom known to medical science at Alter tiraa. Blood rrifleri, Piarattca, andTonlca, inch as Saritparin, Yellow Dock. Stlllingia, Dandelion, Jtwlper Barries, Uasdrake, Wild Cherrr Bark aad other selected root, bark and herb. A medicine, llko anything elea, can be fairly lodged only by it roaalt. W point with utisfaetioa to the glorion record Hood'a SaxsaparUla ha entered tor ItKlf upon tho heart of thoataad of people who have personally or indirectly been relieved of terrible suffering which all other remedies failed to roach. Sold by aUdrafgUt. fl; she for $S. Made only by C. I. HOOD CO., Apothecaries. Lowell, It. IOO Doses One Dollar
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riKKlV ABB msaora m
muvtriarnuKi mp erantsen bei Blntta, rat flrtifrtgujtB her 8er, aSe, Wiercn nub bee &Ugcn$ tetania.
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atPNOVtlif DAVDHfH WlfK.
AlphonseDaudet, the popular French novelist, whose books are read in this
country almost as much as in France,
always reads his manuscripts to his wife
before they are sent to the publisher,
and he declares that she is the
nritirv Mms. Daudet is said to be a
woman of rare intellectual endow
ments, and her salon is one of tho
most attractive in Paris. There one is
alwavs sure of meeting interesting peo
ple, or hearing tome strange perform-
an by muWaJuiWBwr-otf twuairit
thrown away.
Not An Amazon. A Whe is that stout, bold-looking
woman over there t
B. That's Mrs. Horsey. She is a
magnificent rider, and takes great pleasure in --athletic sports. In fact, she is a regular Amazon.
"Is she a widow "No. she is a married woman, and got
half a dozen young children."
"Got a lot of young children, has sue t
Well, then, you should not call her an
Amazon. It would be more appropriate to call her a Mamma-zon."
Texas sijvmgs.
He who possesses a friend whom he
oan trust, one who is found faithful
through storm and sunshine, has one of the rarest treasures which this world holds.
Tue first iron boat is said to have
been built in 1777 on the Biver Foss, in Yorkshire. It was fifteen feet long and made of sheet iron.
Dii. Page's Catarrh Remedy cures when
every otlra so-called remedy fails.
Tax first steps of love are found in the
admiring stares of the young oeuple. Bon-
tan mueun.
In General IXWUtf, Emaciation,
Consumption, and wasting in children, Scott's BmuUiott of Fow Oed liver 08 with Hypophosphites is a meat vatqable fond and medic'mo. It creates an appetite for food, strengthens (he nervous system, and bnilds up the body. Please read: "1 tried Scott's Emulnion on a young man whom physicians at tones rave up hope. Sines he began using the Emulsion his cough has eeased, gained flesh
and strength, and from ail appearances ma life will he prolonged many years. "John Cuhjvam, Hospital Steward, Uorganaa, 1'a.
Sozzle says the reason he takes his
whisky straight is because his mouth al
ways waters for H. Boston Commercial.
tfaicKXY Aaa UiTTEits warm up and fnyfgo-
rate tho stomach, improves and strengthens the (liffostivo organs, opens the pores, promotes prospiration, and equalize!) tlie circulation. As a oorroctor of disordered system tiioro is nothing to equal it
Thgius is one tie-up that ov. lyone can
approve of, and that is marriag -..ttouon
Cheap Farming Lands South.
It is a recognised fact that tho cheapest
farmm? lands in America to-day are in tuo
South, and men of much or moderate means, looking for roal estate investments, or porma- ! nent homes, chould not fail to visit the follow- j
tag points, where so many Northern people aro now settling, viz: Jckson, 7'ennes.iee; Aber
deen and JaeJatn, MUiimpin; nammona.
OroieUy, Jenningn, Wchh and Lake Charles,
Louisiana. Bound Trip Tourist taoketa, limited to June 1st. 188S, with stop-over privileges south of Cairo, Illinois, are on sale to Now Or
leans, Jennings and Lnko Charles. or rates apply to nearost ticket agent, and be sure your ticket reads via the Illinois Central Railroad from Chicago or St Iouis. For pamphlot en
titled 'Southern Home Bookers uuute, ana circulars coneoruiug the above named pointsj address the undersigned, at tlanoheater, Iowa. J. F. Mebbt, Gen. West, fass. Agfc Consumption Surely Cured, To the Kditor: -rt8ao inform your rollers that I have a positive remedy for tho ahovo-n-:inod disease. By it timely nsn thoiisaniisot hopeloBs aea havo bot-n permanently curefl. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my romody kiwis to any of your readB who have consumption if tnay will send mo their Express and
BITTERS
CURES
mQisasEsorraCl
LIVER
KIDNEYS
STOMACH AND
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lit tin Buratnnats Xuatis
mutcWaaouBBTBiaiusausi I3 tta (Bttcant Stbtambt
uxrfctn, eonotWf feureicU
ntn angtstnus $cf4ma4
laju iKtte(iigtBt.
Prickly Ash Bitten C.
'uuunni- Louis lUBWCnj
atW faej
oroatraoon or eaw
Sm. ootaSnti
88. FOB the year 1888 Frank Leslie's F0P9ULiR MONTH IT, which has been aptly stylod "The Monarch of the Monthlies, ' will be better than ever. Articles npon topics of current public interest ; sketches of eminent persons ; strong and brilliant stories ; poetry of a high order ; all crof uaolv illustrated, and by writers of
recognized merit, will fill its pages. To tho old and favorite corps of contributors will be added writers of promise, and no effort will be spared to keep the magazine in the foremost rank. In tha November number was begun an earnest and powerful tale, PRINCE LUCIFER, By ETTA W. FIERCE, which has already attracted widespread attention, and charmed rau'titudes of readers. Subscriptions may begin, if desired, with the November number. Each issue contains a Fall-Pap Picture Id Colon, the series of twelve forming for the year a beautiful collection of gems of modern art. The POPULAR MONTHLY contains 128 large octavo pages, nearly twice the matter of similar publications, and is not only the bast tmt by far the cheapest of any of the magazines for the people. $8.00 per Tear; 25c. a Copy. BsscrxEH Coras, 15 oxs. MBS. FRANK LESLIE, St. and bt Vm Ptacb. Kkw Toaa.
Do you feel dutt. languid, tow-eclrttlMa-less, and indescribably mJsefsJote. hoU wayaW callv and mentally: experfeuoe a ansa ejoT
fullness or bloating- after eattes, or at -turn," or emptiness of stomach In. bsm
inaT, tongue oosuxn. siihsv .
mouth, n-rejualar ar, headaches, twined c
Mum thf evfla. narvousl
hauation. Irritability. of ten alternating' with orally as
feet, drowsiness after meals, Alat,-RA llll I Hf I SIM I IllM
indescribable feeling of dreisl, or of ino- calamity?
If you have an, or any
inesw
your
tbe nusubftr
fainw Ka snataer sr
Sir. Msu-asa sSsaUaua
will subdue it, if taken tiona for a i nssonshlH lei miMkil tvtmnllAAtJntia sasS
IT, i7. m In Tifar lassie If i ant 1
Hheiiuiatism, Kidney .Disease, or other fTavs
maladies axe quae name oa m ana, aw
covery act powerfully npoh tfrB.Ltrer. i
lurougn wax a-nsas aeon cieanses the syaxem of an 1 ntirlttea. from whmttemt a
equally efflcaatotss In acting- opoo
nova, ana auser csranov
strengtnening, ana 1 an niinetiiJiisr. reate
digestion and nutrition, thereby tml luith flAah and atmsnfli. In iMaMHal
tl.ta wnnftorflll mjttrit, baa Ined
eelebrltr In curiae Fevoramd Aje, OhUlss
ever, J r. 1
eoverr
CURES ALL HUMORS.
or Brnatleci, to at
or these symptoms, yoa s sjisim
from A nftmman
wnrat flerofum- Salt
Scaly or Kourh Skin, In short, all.
caused by bad uooa are
puwcnui, uunuuojiww ; cine. Great Eatimr Ulcers
its beniorn influence.
tested its potency In RrvMinnlaa. Bolla.tJarb
uloua Sores and Swell!
and Enlarged Glands. Send fas
j-iuauss.. want
by (MP
plates, on Skin Diseases, or tem-mmf mm
in pcroruiooa aweoaausa.
STEKETEE'S Dry Bitters! Make Your Own Bitters.
a Dollar for a battle of Stomach BlHr.
Maiilshu more noorahlakr than mod cine, when
thaunaerateaed will aend you br man one o. uukase of HOOTS, BBO$ and BERRIES. whK wUJmaXeONEqilNoftoo best TONIC anfooo eVaroMKl. Tnenso!f this Tunic has, cured fNM7ua,i nvanvniii v vs? mxtA ArtTTR : ae an an-
KHzer none better; acta on the Kldueys and General iWUtr, and (tlve Ton to pic atpmacU ; in fact. I caelleiKB all other Tontea. U i far the cho;.pcst Sonic Known. One vactace will esual one dozen attlea of ordinary Bitter 10H for One Dollar per
botu. kuii uirtcuynyjmeveE' wacij. mjviit
t doeendt xr-ep them on sale, then aend to
tho uiideraift-ned. 1 will aend one nscxege 10 am aadvTtlnn the U.S. on reetiptoi -.Tj.8.Ba am
INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA. Ovnr 3.000 Physiclana have sent us their approval of DIOESTYUN, saying that it ia the beat preparation for IndiKestton that Uiey have evar used. Wo have.nerer heard of a 01s of Dyspepsia where MtiSTYLIX was taken that wa not eared. FOB CHOLERA INFANTUM. " iflr vn r BET.IItVK imtiSTTBaTION.
e
I disorder oi
im hwllirMinnn. Aak
tr wss
For Bummer Oomplaint sad Chronic which are the direct results of imperfect
IJlliKol 1 l.L-i wui caecc an imuiuquw cure Tale DIGBSTTUK for all pain and die . rinmuih tbar all come from tnaiffeal
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hoklal. If ho docs not have It, send oho dollar te us
ana w Tin nfti
rellabl. Eatauuaaed twenty-Ore yeara.
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ur assas a
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ELY'S CREAM BALM Is the beat remedy for children auffertuic from COLO in HEAD, SNUFFLES CATARRH. Apply Balm into each nostril. ELY BROS., in OmawlckSt., N, T.
so's Remedy foi , Easiest to Use
Catarrh is the
, and Cheapest.
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FOIt THE
CONSUMPTIOIV,
which is Scrofwl or laat) bninpaTHM and cured by this remedy. Itjtitm in earlier stages of tho dlsfeaae. . wpff.'J" mdniia nower over tola terrioly Tatal ojaasaBaa,
hpn find nlfpritiar tills I
ndv to the DublioTur. Pleree t
e nailing id kfa "(Vimamnns
abandoned that name. as toJg m mMiM whloh fraOl IDS WtBDBS
blnation of tonic, or streriatrietniis. aiti
or blood-cleansing, anti-oilious.
as a remedy for Consurpptibn, but foe Ch route IMseaaes of the
Liver, Blood, and
For VTcak Icings, Spitting of
ncss of lireatn, enronic jssaau
Cor
cbitis. Asthma, Severe Coughs, aaa
affcctloiis, it Is an cflknent repjedy. Sold try Drnaiiats, at $lW,or Sts J
T Send ten oento In starojPSDr.Pleswerar hook on Consumption. Aiinirsa, t Iirid's DlaimaiTliliwilUM, 668 Balm St WWJXliiyt
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imiu wobk. pok isovam.
aat aaaaAlai hawh.ni4lWafl i
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be obtained by tboso eoiaf w nawni
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and took the situation over, and BSe JWjf self, or least obtain fortW iitfomaaoivffc whjoh will be aent free, if yon C. H. WAaaaW, Gn. rasa. Agt, Be, Minn. n
no
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