Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1881 — Page 4

M THE CHILDREN LAUGHED AND SAND.** It wm in the chill December That the Angel of Death came by. And he rustled his wing* of darkness As be swept the wintry sky; A household of happy creatures [ Dwelt quiet and free from care, And the angel sto e in softly, end stood all silent there. (But the children laughed and sang at their play; Never a fear nor a pang had they.) And the angel swiftly In silence Struck home the mortal blow, And in.the wintry morning He laid the father low; And wildly the sorrowful mother. Bewildered and stunned with woe, Wailed in her lone bereavement. And wished that she, too, might go I (But the children laughed and sang at their plqg; Never a fear nor a pang had they.) Cold in the lonely chamber Lay the father’s form at rest, And they laid the delicate flower-wreaths Upon his quiet breast; And forth from his home they bore him, And hid f rom sound and sight, And then heaped the cold earth above him While the children’s feet trod light. (But the boys went home to their happy play; Never a fear nor a pang had they.) And often the childish footsteps Are turned to their father’s grave. Where the grass, with its glistening hoar frost, Lies over the heart so brave; And sometimes they watch their mother Bending in sorrow and pain; And they say, in their childish voioee: “ Will papa never come again T” (But soon they will laugh and sing at their play; Never a fear ndr * pang have they.) So God, in His Infinite pity, Shuts the eyes of the children dear, And they see not the fell destroyer, Though their eyes are so bright and clear. And I said: “ There's no past for the children, With its terrible pangs and stings; And for them no brooding future Spreading its threatening wings. AU they see is the present—to-day ; And so they laugh and sing at their play.’' —Chambrrt’ Journal.

THE OLD WOMAN.

N6d Huntline sat at the breakfast table and abstractedly sipped his coffee. Ned was considered a great “ catch’ among the girls of Sleepy Hollow; not that he was either rich or handsome, for he was not, Dor was there anything remarkable about him, except his tidy habits and his well-known determination to take care of his parents, who had spent their earnings of a lifetime in rearing and educating their many children, all of whom, except Ned, were well married and comfortably settled in establishments of their own, in the far-away States, where constant application to business enabled them to live in peace and plenty. M'd Huntine, the senior, after whom the junior Ned had been named in infancy. and the worthy sire of the seven Huntlines, was now on his deathbed, and the wife and son were the only occupants of the breakfast table, where, in the years agone, there had been nine chairs promptly filled at every meal. “Do you think father will live the day out ?” asked Ned, sending up his cup for the second time and speaking for the first. “ It’s doubtful, son. There has been a rapid change within a half-dozen hours; ” The wife buried her face in her hands and wept silently. She was an oldfashioned woman, an exemplary wife, wlio had cheerfully borne her share of life’s many burdens through all the years of her union. She had been a strong woman in her day, too, but her step was feeble now, and her eyes were dim and her hands unsteady. “ Don’t cry, mother,” said Ned, softly, as he left his last cup untasted and went around where she was sitting. “ We’ve all got to take our turn when it comes. Death is only a transition. It’s but a question of time till we, too, shall die. Cheer up, mother. You are to have a valuable legacy to-day.” “ My son; I know I have a valuable legacy in you, and I try to be comforted. Your father is ready and willing to die, and it won’t be many years till I shall join him. But oh, Ned, it’s hard ! What will become of me ?” Tears choked her utterance, and Ned placed his arm around her tenderly and drew her head to his shoulder. “lam your legacy, dearest mother, and I shall prove a support to you that shall never fail. Mollie will love you, too. Don’t worry. Yqj| shall spend the balance of your days in ease and contentment and plenty.” “ Mollie, did you saj, Ned ?” “Yes, mother.” “ Not Mollie Hawkins ?” “ Yes ; Mollie Hawkins. We’ve been engaged for a year, and it is her wish and mine to be married to-day, so that father may witness the ceremony.” “ Oh, Ned ! It seems but wicked and cruel to be thinking about a wedding day. Wait a year, do I” “Father and I talked it over while you were getting breakfast, and he is glad to know of our plan, and seconds it heartily-. ” “Why didn’t you tell me before, Ned ? ” ‘ “ Because there wasn’t anything to tell. Mollie has always said you didn’t like her, and she begged me to wait till you have time to overcome your prejudices before I should speak to you about it. Mollie watched father with me during the after part of the night, and he had an easy, rational spell toward morning, and he said, ‘ I’d like to give Mollie to you before I die, as your mother’s legacy.’ I hadn’t supposed Mollie was his to give, but then she wasn’t anybody else’s, and I thought he enjoyed the fancy. The property is all mine, mother.” “ And so I shall lose you, my baby son, and your father, too. on the same day I ” cried Mrs. Huntline throwing her arms'around Ned and crying uncontrollably. Ned was vexed and annoyed. For his life he couldn’t see why his mother was not pleased with the idea of becoming the lifetime companion of Mollie Hawkins, the village dressmaker. Mollie was an orphan, steady, industrious, selfwilled and handsome. Mrs. Huntline would have been reasonably satisfied with her daughter-in-law if it had not been for the prospect of living with her as a dependent upon her bounty. Ned’s father, feeling that he was soon to die, had bequeathed to him the homestead and retail grocery store as a legacy, upon the condition that his mother should have a home and its comforts during all her declining years. Mrs. Huntline was sorely grieved because of the will, but she was not the woman to protest against her husban’s dying wish, so she wept over it in bitter and secret humiliation, and at last resigned herself, as a silent martyr, to a state of dependence upon the good will of her son and whomsoever he might marry. But she had not dreamed that he would marry Mollie Hawkips, whom, of all the girls of her acquaintance, she most thoroughly disliked. “I do not think I can live happily with Mollie, Ned. You know I have nowhere else to go, and you ought to consider .my wishes a little.” “ Why, of course you can, if you’ll be reasonable. You've only to turn everything over, just as it stands, to her, and you can make yourself comfortable. I’d be thankful to anybody that would take ' everything out of my hands and guarantee me a support, without effort on my part, during the remainder of my natural life.” “ You don’t know what you are talking about, Ned. It was never the design of nature that any person should live in that way.” “I know it wasn’t bo designed for men, but with women it’s altogether different.” Mollie Hawkins, who had been an assiduous attendant upon Ned’s father during his long illness, appeared on the scene at this juncture, as she had done for a fortnight past, to know if she could be of any service during the day. “ Mollie,” said Ned, rifling. Moth-

er, allow me to introduce your new future mistress,” thought Mrs. Huntlme, rising to salute her, and trying hard to smile through her tears. “Mr Huntline is awake now, and seems easy,” said the nurse, entering the dining-room on tiptoe, and helping Herself to the coffee with the air of a person to the manor born. “ Eat your breakfast, nurse, while we visit the chamber together,” said Mrs. Huntline. „ , “ I will go and procure the license and the preacher,” said Ned. “Father is rational now, and he may grow delirious if we wait longer.” The other sons of the family were too far away to be summoned to his bedside. The dying man greeted his prospectire (laughter with a wan smile of welcome. „ “She will beyonr legacy, mother, he whispered. “ Ned has the property and you will have her, and may you all be happy. Where’s Ned ?” “Gone for the preacher, father. He will be here presently,” said Mollie, stooping to kiss him on the forehead. “ Mother,” exclaimed the dying man, “I have provided as well as I could for your support. You will have no more care and no more work during the remainder of your days.” “And no more liberty,” was the poor wife’s silent echo, but she made no audible reply. “ I’m going a long road, mother, but the journey will soon Iw over. Don t weep for me. We’ll meet again in the morning of a new existence.” Ned entered with the license and the minister, and the dying man’s attention was engrossed to his latest moment of consciousness in witnessing the ceremony that was to unite the young people ’till death or divorce should part them. “Take good care of mother, Mollie, was his parting injunction. The death-damp gathered on his forehead, the death-rattle sounded in his throat and all was over. The funeral obsequies passed off quietly, and Ned Huntline and his new wife returned to the old homestead to take up their new life, and Mrs. Huntline returned also to existence, since she was (jglh homeless and widowed. The new Mrs. Huntline elbowed her mother-in-law from her place at the head of the table, where she hail presided for over thirty years. The old Mrs. Huntline accepted the situation. She did not interfere with any of the new-fangled airs that took the place of the old-fash-ioned regulations. She glided in and out of the rooms like a ghost, and grew more and more conscious that she was considered a burden as the family’s expenses increased. Ned Huntline did not prosper in his business, and, as the years rolled on, the homestead was mortgaged to meet the demands of his creditors. Little responsibilities were added to the household in annual reinforcements, and the old adage, “ A fool for luck and a poor man for children,” was amply verified. Mrs. Huntline’s legacy did not prove a financial success. She was compelled to act as child’s nurse even more constantly than when her own babies were growing. She had been a servant without wages in her husband’s lifetime, but she was a servant of servants now. The Chinese cook would not tolerate her in the kitchen, nor could he prepare her food to her liking. The junior Mrs. Huntline grew more and more cold-hearted and exacting. Adversity pressed hard upon Ned, who gradually grew to think with his wife that his mother was a burden and in the way. Interest accrued upon the mortgage, and there was no money to meet the debt. Ned grew morose and uncivil, and when his mother, who had toiled beyond her strength in caring for his children, was laid low with a rheumatic fever, he inwardly confessed that her room would be more acceptable than her company. The anxiety and poverty and noise and discomfort preyed upon her spirits, and her recovery was slow. Mrs. Huntline was just able to sit up and occupy a chair at the breakfast table on the tenth- anniversary of her husband’s death. The children were noisy, the food was not to her liking, and the tablecloth was awry. She could not eat; she leaned back in her chair and wept silently. “ You have an easier time than any of us,” said Ned, petulantly, as he noticed her tears. “ Mollie says you have always been a trial to her. Can’t you be a little more reasonable ? It seems to me that if I hadn’t anything to worry me but the quality of my victuals I would not put on airs. ”

Mrs. Huntline was stung into open retort for the first time in all these years. “If your father had left me this homestead, as the legacy that is rightfully mine, I should have been able to surround myself with every needed comfort, and I wouldn’t have been obliged to overdo iny strength and catch the rheumatic fever by being a child’s nurse, either. ” “I’d like to know what you’d have done with the homestead if you had it,” surlily answered Ned. “ I wouldn’t have mortgaged it,” was the tearful reply. “ Suppose I, instead of your father, had died, Ned,” she continued, “ do you think he would have been contented with his lot if I had willed his homestead into other hands and left him to feel himself a burden in the house of his children? Do you think the legacy of a daughter-in-law, who would have thought him a nuisance no matter what he did, would have compensated him for the loss of his home ? ” Ned Huntline did not reply. But his brow contracted; he was thinking, thinking. Ten years had wrought a great change in him. No one would have thought, on the day of his marriage, that he would deteriorate in so short a time from the tidy, well-preserved young man of the decade gone by into the seedy, careless and wretched-appearing fellow that he now was. “If the homestead had remained mine,” said his mother, “you would not be living under a mortgaged roof now, Ned, nor would 1 have been a dependent Irudge during all these years. I don’t think I can live a’ great while—l hope [ can’t—but I wish to impress on you an important duty before my change comes. ” “ What is it, mother ?”

“It is this: Never wrong your wife, even on your death-bed, by willing the hard-earned home away from her; and never imagine that you can make her comfortable in her widowhood by depriving her of everything else and bestowing upon her a daughter-in-law that she did not choose as her only legacy.” There was a rap at the door, and a magistrate entered, bringing the lookedfor but unwelcomed news that the homestead had been sold under the hammer, and had barely brought enough to cover the principal, interest and expense of sale. “ We might get along very well if we were unincumbered,” said the daughter-in-law; “but I don’t see how we’re to live and take care of the old woman. ” And so it was settled that the old woman, whom nobody had any room for, should be sent to the East, by the cheapest style of transportation, to spend her remaining days with her eldest son, whose wife and caldron she had never seen, and in whose home she would be compelled to feel herself an interloper. She never knew that Mrs. Huntline, Jr., could never fill her pli\ce in the household with the work of any servant, no matter how high the wages. But she died, as she had lived during all the days of her widowhood, a pauper upon the bounty of her children, when she should haye bud » competence fmd jts accom-

panying feeling of independence through all her days. . , . . Si . Ned Huntline sees the injustice of it all now, and, though it is too late for him to profit by it, for his mother s interest, there is not a man in Sleepy Hollow who is more determined than he to so shape the legislation of the future that the superannuated mothers of men shall not be left homeless in their closing years.

THE CHROMIQUE.

Squiffffinß Dabbles lu tlie Fine Arts. You haven’t seen that now invention, the chromique, have you ? Well, it is a kind of second cousin to a chromo. It looks like' a plate of ground glass, and in the center is a circular place that looks like transparent glass; but it isn’t, for when the eye is applied to it a lovely colored picture appears. Squiggins boards up town, ana is a very moral man. He is devoted to his wife, and she, poor thing, has always supposed that the sun rose and set in his mild blue eyes. Last week she went away to see her mother, and it was while she was gone that the chromique peddler called at Squiggins’ room. The agent explained how nicely the chromique worked, and Squiggins was delighted, but said that he boarded with a ounoua kind of a landlady, and she might grumble even if he took out one of her panes of glass and put in a $4,000 oil painting ; but the peddler knew his business, and, seeing that Squiggins was quite taken with the new invention, he finally persuaded him to let him set a pane with the chromique in it in the old transon over the door. So Squiggins selected a mild and lovely picture of Pharaoh’s daughter finding little Moses, and was so delighted with it that he paid the agent in advance and then hurried down town to work. Now this agent took an occasional drink, and so elated was he at his good luck that he went out and took about four too many, and when he got back to the room he couldn’t tell a photo of the Niagara falls from a wood-cut of a man with a sprink-ling-pot, and barely reme’mbering that there was a woman in the picture that Squiggins picked out, he made a wild dive at the lot and fished out a picture of an actress in a very high low suit (high in the skirt and low in the neck), that was intended only for bar and clubrooms, and fixing this in nicely he left the house. The landlady, meanwhile, had had her suspicions aroused. She could not understand this ground-glass business, and was convinced that Squiggins was up to some mischief while his poor, dear wife was away, and had put up the glass to keep her from finding it out. She did not propose to have any room in her house that she could not see into, so, after trying her usual place, the key-hole, and seeing nothing, she mounted a chair and looked through the little place in the transom. The boarders say that the yell she gave startled even the fat and lazy people in the institution, and every woman in the bouse came running to look at her, and, to crown all, Mr. Squiggins’ wife, who came four days earlier than she was expected to, came ;»rancing up the stairs. “What is it?” yelled she, taking leaps that would have paralyzed a kangaroo. “What?” yelled the landlady, “just look at tne brazen-faced thing that your husband has brought into this house, my house, my boarding house ! Look, you poor deceived creature, and never trust man again.” Mrs. S. looked, and then she yelled, and this hurried up Squiggins, who was just coming home, and who, thinking from the yells that some one was beating his wife, came up stairs even faster than she did ; but, instead of embracing him, his wife flew at him like a tiger, while the other boarders pointed at the glass and yelled “Shame!” He caught their gestures and yelled: “ It’s a cromique,” but his wife only yelled the louder and scratched and shrieked : “Yes, I know she’sacomique ! Some variety singer, I’ll warrant,” and heaven knows what would have become of poor Squiggins; but at this moment four old maids that were trying to get a peep pressed too hard against the still-soft putty, and the cromique dropped out and disclosed a vacant room. This stopped everything, and Squiggins, after being nearly hugged to death by his now-repentant wife, stamped the glass into a thousand pieces, ana, turning around, then and there gave the inquisitive landlady a piece of his mind and commenced packing up to move. A vacant room is for rent. You can tell the house by seeing four old maids with cut fingers looking out the windows.— Evansville Araus.

Popular Delusions.

That milk is a compound of water, chalk and sheep’s stomach. Milk always comes from the cow—a great way from the cow. That brass band music is unpleasant to the ear. We know of a man who has lived for years next door to a bandroom and has never uttered one complaint in all that time. He is a deaf mute. That railroads are intended for the benefit of corporations. They are intended for the benefit of the people—the people who hold the majority of stock. That a small boy hates an overcoat. He dislikes it so well that he dislikes to wear it out. That whistling is disagreeable. It is always agreeable—to the whistler. That druggists are extortionate in their prices. They pay such high salaries to their clerks that they are forced to sell their goods at one thousand per cent, above cost in order to make any money for themselves. That the market is overburdened with spring poetry. The waste basket captures so much of it that but very little of it comes on the market. That any fool can write poetry. It is only a fool here and there that can do it. That women go to church to see other women’s bonnets. They merely go to show their own. That a boy thinks he knows more than his father. He only prides himself on his superior intelligence. That a widow wears weeds to catch a husband. She would rather catch a man who is not a husband. That a silver watch will tell the time just as well as a gold one. A gold watch will tell the time ten times to a silver watch’s once, and be just as fresh as ever. The shopkeepers never mark their goods below cost. They frequently mark them down much below what the goods cost the purchaser, especially if he be a particular friend, you know. That the self-conceited man thinks everybody is a fool. He does not include one person in that category, namely, himself. That extemporaneous speakers prepare their speeches beforehand. They get somebody else to do that. That the average married man dislikes marriage. He is all the time yearning for another opportunity to enter the sacred state. That parents love their children because the little ones are so much like themselves. That is just what they punish them Tor. That people hate to be laughed at. Look at the low comedian, for instance. That it is hard to attend to one’s business. Lots of people think nothing of it, and have plenty of time to attend to the business of a score of others.

Rise.

lufinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist, but, by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement. We wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher at-

The Growth of the Gun.

Hunting for game was practiced with bow and arrow only, until in the sixteenth century the Spaniards contrived the arquebus or matchlock. Here the match was fitted to a “serpentin” or cock, hung upon a pivot, and brought into contact with the priming by a working substantially the same as that of the modern hammer and trigger. This was further improved by the German invention of a steel wheel with serrated edge, fitted to a spring, and made to revolve rapidly, the edge coming in contact with a piece of pyrites, and, by this friction, producing the sparks to ignite the priming. The use of the wheel-lock for sporting purposes was very general in the middle of the sixteenth century, and for a long time it was not improved upon. But necessity is the 'mother of invention. A band of Dutch chicken-stealers or of Spanish marauders—it is disputed which—being too poor to provide themselves with the hign-priced wheellock, and afraid to use the matchlock because its light revealed their whereabouts to the minions of the law, abstained from their evil practices long enough to devise a weapon better adapted to the needs of roost-robbers. The result was the flintlock, and the pothunting fraternity scored a long creditmark. The flintlock reached its perfection in the hands of “ that king of gunmakers,” Joseph Manton, in the early part of the present century, and it gave way only to a worthy superior in the modern gun exploded by percussion. The discovery of fulminating powders and their application to gunnery mark a moat important epoch in the manufacture and employment of firearms. The charge in the gun was at first placed above the fulminating powder, which was ignited by the concussion of an iron plunger struck by a cock. Then this plunger was dispensed with, and the iulminate was simply placed in the flash-pan. The successive steps are familiar to almost all gunners; the priming was placed between two bits of paper, and called percussion pellets; the fulminate was affixed to the breech by the newly-invented cartridge, and fired by a penetrating needle; then came the copper cap, and then the culminating improvement of the cartridge containing both the charge and the priming, and ignited at first by the pin, and afterward rim fire and central fire principle.— Forest and Stream

[From the Battle Creek (Mich.) Dally Journal.] Upon being spoken to concerning St. Jacobs Oil, our fellow townsman, Mr. Theodore Wakelee, said: I had been suffering with rheumatism, and obtained the greatest relief from the use of St. Jacobs Oil. It has also been used in my family for some time, and has never been found to fail in giving prompt relief. One day about a year ago, a medium sized gentleman, with a sharp, intelligent eye, was standing about 8 o’clock in the evening, on the side of the Bowery. A policeman came along. The gentleman asked the officer what the crowd was doing there, and the latter replied gruffly: “I don’t know. It’s none of your business, anyhow. Move on. ” “I asked you a civil question,” said the other, quietly. “I don’t give a ,” retorted the officer. “You move on.” “I won’t,” persisted the man firmly. “Well, I’ll take you in,” announced the cop, and he did. About a block from the station house, the two met the sergeant, who saluted the arrested man politely, while the cop looked on in astonishment. The sergeant asked, what the trouble was. “He was disorderly and I arrested him,” returned the officer averting his face as he spoke. “You infernal fool!” exclaimed the sergeant, “don’t you know who that is ?” “No,” said the officer, faintly. “It’s Commissioner Sid Nichols.” The cop fainted dead away. The joke was so rich that, after giving the fellow a good scare, “Sid” let up. But you can rely on it, he won’t commit the mistake of arresting a Police Commissioner again. -•■New York Star. [From the South Bend Evening Register.) When certain powers are claimed for an article, and everybody testifies that it does more than is claimed for it, to gainsay its worth is useless. This is the substance of the St. Jacobs Oil record.

Mustard as a Remedy.

A lady suffered long and excruciatingly from an attack of bilious colic before she would consent to have a physician called. When at last one came, his simple prescription was mustard, by which the pain was shortly subdued, “Always remembering,” was the parting injunction of the doctor, who rather commended his patient’s spirit in being her own physician in every day ailment —“ that for pain anywhere mustard is a safe and sure remedy, as sure as any, besides being something that every family has on hand, so that no time need be lost.” The following is recommended as a mustard plaster that will not blister. Take the white of one egg, stir in mustard until thick enough to spread nicely ; then take a thin cloth as long again as you wish the plaster, spread the mustard half the length, not too near the edges, double the dry end of the cloth back over the mustard and apply warm.

A Losing Joke.

A prominent physician of Pittsburgh said jokingly to a lady patient who was complaining of her continued ill-health, and of his inability to cure her, “Try Hop Bitters!” The lady took it in earnest and used the Bitters, from which she obtained permanent health. She now laughs at the doctor for his joke, but he is not so well pleased with it, as it cost him a good patient.— Harrisburg Patriot.

Love of Confectionery.

A French writer says that in the United States the confectionery shops f<»r ladies are as numerous as the liquor shops for men. American girls have a passion for swedi stuff. They only leave one bonbon shop to go and sit down in another. We thought, he adds, that the French women were the worst gourmandes of the Old and New Worlds. We have now to offer them our most humble excuses.

Look Out for Sudden Changes

of weather, and guard against them by using Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.

Lamentations.

Life is a strange mass of contradictions. When you expect least enjoyment you obtain the most; where you think you have given most satisfaction, you have given least. When you are sick, you would be well; when well you try to be Sick. When you fancy yourself the wisest of men, you are the dadoist of fools. The girl you are most in love with is least in love with you. What you cannot get you would obtain ; what you have you do not value. Druggists and physicians recommend and prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for all female complaints. There is a sound reason why there are bones in our meat and stones in our land. A world where everything was easy would be a nursery lot for babies, but not at all a fit place for men. Celery is not sweet until it has felt the frost, and men don’t come to their perfection till disappointment has dropped a half-hundred weight or two on their toes. Who would know good horses if there were no heavy loads ? “ Did you cail your brother a liar ?" asked the stern parent, and the culprit remarked : “ Well, 1 said he was a sew-ing-machine agent” Guard against fever and Ml malarial diseases by using Kidney-Wort,

Advertising Cheats.

It has become bo common to write the beginning of an elegant, interesting article and then ran it into some advertisement that we avoid all such cheats and simply call attention to the merits of Hop Bitters in as plain, honest terms as possible, to induce people to give them one trial, as no one who knows their value will ever use anyth ng else.— Providence Advertiser.

The Texas Climate.

The funny man of the Texas press Writes: The climate of Texas is an unabridged one, and we would be doing it an injustice if we did not devote some space to it in this paper. When the pious old Spanish missionaries first came to Western Texas to convert the Indians, and everything else they could lay their hands on, to their own use, they noticed the extreme balminess of the atmosphere, the gorgeous Italian sunsets, and the superior quality of the climate. They were surprised that the Creator would waste so much good climate on the wicked heathen. Back where they came from, where all the folks were good Catholics and observed 211 holy days in the year, they couldn’t raise as much climate per annum as they could harvest in Western Texas in one short week. . In the early days of the Republic ot Texas, and even after annexation, many of the white men who came to Western Texas from all parte of the United States had strong sanitary reasons for preferring a change of climate. . To .be more explicit the most of the invalids had been threatened with throat disease. So sudden and dangerous is this disease that the slightest delay in moving to a new and milder climate is apt to be fatal, the subject dying of dislocation of the spinal vertebra at the end of a few minutes and a rope. A great many men, as soon as they heard of Western Texas, left their homes in Arkansas, Indiana and other States— left immediately, between two days, the necessity of their departure being so urgent that they were obliged to borrow the horse they rode to Texas on. All these invalids recovered on reaching Austin. In fact they began to feel better, and considered themselves out of danger as soon as they crossed the Brazos River. Some of those who would not have lived twenty-four hours longer if they had not left their old homes reached a green old age in Western Texas, and, by carefully avoiding the causes that led to their former troubles, were never again in any danger of the bronchial affection already referred to. As soon as it was discovered that the climate of Western Tevas was favorably disposed towards invalids, a large number of that class of unfortunates came to Austin. Many well authenticated cases of recovery are recorded. Men have been known to come to Austin far gone in consumption, and so far recover as to be able to run for office within a year, and to be defeated by a large and respectable majority all owing to the atmosphere and the popularity of the other candidate. There is very little winter in Western Texas. But for the northers Austin would have almost a tropical climate, as it is situated on the same parallel of latitude of Cairo, in Egypt, where they have tropics all the year around. As it is, there is seldom any frost, although it is not an unusual thing for lumps of ice several inches thick to be found—in tumblers by those who go to market in the early morning. Occasionally New Year’s calls are made in white linen suits and an intoxicated condition. Spring begins seriously in February. The forest trees put on their beautiful garments of green and the fruit trees come out in bloom. Prairie flowers and freckles come out in this month, and the rural editor begins to file away spring poetry. In February stove pipes are laid away in the woodshed and the syrup of squills and kough kure man puts a coat of illuminated texts on the garden fences. Seedticks are not pulled until April, but after the middle of March there is no danger of the musquito crop being frozen. Early in March the doctors oil their stomach-pumps, for the green mulberry ripens about that time and has to be removed from the schoolboy.

Did Not Understand Journalism.

I recollect sitting at table in London beside the editor of a leading journal. He said: “I am in distress; I have lost one of my regular writers.” I did not know about journalism at the time, so I remarked : “I suppose you will have to get another.” He replied: “Get another! I will have to get three, and I will be surprised if at the end of a year one of these three writers does as well as the writer I have lost.”— Goldwin Smith.

The True Metal.

By answering a boor in his own rude fashion, you sink yourself to his level. “My boy,” said a father to his young son, “treat every one ■with politeness; even those who are rude to you. For remember that you show courtesy to others, not because they are gentlemen, but because you are one. ”

Ladies, Attention.

We want intelligent, energetic lady agents to Bell to women only, an article of real hygienic merit. For particulars and liberal terms, address Wagner & Co., Chicago, IIL

Bed-Bugs, Roaches,

rats, cats, mice, ants, flies, insects, cleared out by “Rough on Rats.” 15c., druggists. Eilebt’s Extbact or Tab and Wild Cherry has been used for twenty years, and during that time has saved many very valuable lives. Do not neglect a cough or cold until it is too late. Try this excellent remedy, and we are sure you will be convinced of its merits. Chronic Coughs, and even Consumptives, are cured by following the directions. Every bottle is warranted to give satisfaction. Prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago. Sold by all good druggists. Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration and all forms of general debility relieved by taking Mensman's Peptonized Bees' Tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-mak-ing, force-generating and life-sustaining properties; is invaluable m all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary camplaints. Caswell, Hazard 4 Co., proprietors, New York. Uncle Sam's Condition Powders are recommended by stock-owners who have used them as the best Horse and Cattle Medicine to be had. If the animal is Scraggy, Spiritless, or has no appetite, these Powders are an excellent remedy, and every owner of stock will do well to try them. They are prepared by the Emmert Proprietary C 0.., Chicago, Hl., a very reliable firm, and sold by all good druggists. Solid men admire the beautiful, and this accounts in some measure for the thousands upon thousands of bottles of Carboline, the deodorized petroleum hair renewer and dressing, wliich have been sold yearly since its invention by Messrs. Kennedy <fc Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa Youb Stomach and Liver are the offspring of nearly all your ills. Why in the name of common sense don’t you use Db. Holman’s Stomach Pad, Plaster and Medicated Foot-baths ? They won’t fail you. Every farmer and teamster should know that Frazer axle grease cures sore and scratches on horses. Buy it anywhere.

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William J. Coughlin, of Somerville, Maae., says: In the fall of 1876 I was taken with bleeding of the lungs, followed by a severe cough. I lost my appetite and flesh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 I was admitted to the hospital. The doctors said I had a hole in my Inng as big as a half dollar. At one time a report went around that I was dead. I gave up hope, but a friend told me of Db. William Hall’s Balsam tor the Lungs. I got a bottle, when, to my surprise, I commenced to feel better, and to-day I feel better than for three years past. I write this hoping every one afflicted with diseased lungs will take Db. William Hall’s Balsam, and be convinced that consumption can be cured. I can positively say it has done more good thamril the other medicines I have taken since my sickness. FREE MUSIC I—Prof. Rice’s new Music-teaching system is 24 times more rapid than all other correct methods combined. Organ, Piano, Guitar and Voice at sight. Two bdoks free! Address THE G. 8. RICE SYSTEM CO.. 343 State St., Chicago. Agents wanted

sin nA A MA Send the addresses of Wof $0.60 for 40c. SVI ivv. retlil(OT | lo6(| This la an honest offer. If von want a fortune, don’t let it slip. Address », JUSETi Boa 127. »• T.

PERKY DAVIS’ fain-W A SAFE AMD SUSE W-J*r REMEDY FOR 131 Rlwimatism, 13 Neuralgia, 1 Cramps, Cholera, Diarrhoea, MBoH Cisontory. IS i(h\\ Rl Sprains lAn AND ■W KI Bruises, I S Burns I th U m AND | Scalds, h j g'/ H Toothache and ™ Headache. FOB SALE BT ALL DRUGGISTS. Fitters Feeble and Sickly- Person* Recover their vitality by panning a course of Hoatet tor’s Stomach Bitten, the most popular Invigorant and alterative medicine in use. General debility, fever and ague, dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatism and other maladies are completely removed by it. Ask those who have used it what it has done for them. |W For sale by all Druggists and Dealen generally.

IRON TONIC Is a preparation of Protoxide of Iron, Peruvian Bark and the Phosphates, associated with the Vegetable Aromatics. Endorsed by the Medical Profession, and recommended by them for Dyspepala. General Debility, Female Diseases, Want of Vitality, Nervous Prostration, Convalescence From Fevers and Chronic Chills and Fever. It serves every purpose where a Tonic is necessary. Manufactured by The Dr. Harter Medicine Co., St Louis. The following is one of the very many testimonials we are receiving dally: Gentlemen:—Some three months ago I began the nse of Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic, upon the advice of many friends who knew its virtues. I was Suffering from general debility to such an extent that mylabor was exceedingly burdensome tome. A vacation of a month did not give me much relief, but on the contrary, wees followed by increased prostration and sinking chills. At this time I began the use of your Iron Tonic, from which I realized almost immediate and wonderful results. The old energy returned and 1 found that my natural force was not permanently abated. I have used three bottles of the Tonic. Since using it I have done twice the labor that I ever did in the same time during my illness, and with double the ease. With the tranquil nerve and vlgorof body, has come also a clearness of thought never before enjoyed. If the Tonic has not done the work, I know not what. I give it the credit. Most gratefully yours, J. P. WATSOk, Troy, O , 2, 1878. Pastor Christian Church. For Sale by Druggists and General Dealers Everywhere

HOLMAN’S PAD cures ft Simply Without ft y A by MEDICINE LfrtSHj Absorption TKADBMAJUL The Only True Malarial Antidote. Dm. Holman’s Pad 1* no guess-work remedyno feeble l.itativ. experiment —ns purloined hodge podge "f some other Inventor’s idea ; it is the original and only genuine curative Pad, the only remedy that has an hon-estly-acquired righttouse the title-word “Pad” in connection with a treatment for chronic diseasea of the Stomach, Liver and Spleen. By a recently perfected improvement Dr. Holman has greatly increased the scope of the Pad’s usefulness, and appreciably augmented its active curative power. This great improvement gives Holman’s Pad (with its Adjuvants) such complete and unfailing control over the most persistent and unyielding forms of Chronic Disease of the Stomach and ißiver, as well as Malarial Blood-PolsonlnV, •» to amply justify the eminent Profeeeor Loomie' high encomium: “IT IS NEARER A UNIVERSAL PANACEA THAN ANYTHING IN MbDICINK I” The success of Holman’s Pads has inspired imitators who offer Pads similar in form and odor to the genuine HOLM AN PAD. Beware of these Bogus and Imitation Pads, gotten up to sell on the reputation of the GENUINE HOLMAN PAD. Each Genuine Holman Pad bears the Private Revenue Stamp of the HOLMAN PAD COMPANY with the ab~e Trade Mark printed in green, FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS, Or sent by mail, post- paid on receipt of $3.00, HOLMAN PAD CO., O. Boa 2112.] 744 Broadway, N. Y.

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If yon are Interested In the inquiry—Which is the best Liniment for Man and Beast {—this is the answer, attested by two generations: the MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT. The reason is simple. It penetrates every sore, wound, or lameness, to the very bone, and drives ont all inflammatory and morbid matter. It “ goes to the root” of the trouble, and never foils to cure in double quick time, Electric light! rw-NKRVOUS DEBILITY. Let Manhood, and impaired power, cured by MATHEWS Improved Kleotro-MagneUc Belt and Abaorlient Pad combined; aize of Pad, 7xlo inchre—four time, larger than other.. Do not purchxa. any old-atyle S2O Belta when you can get th. UteaV improved for $2. “ Electric .Light,” a 24-odnmn paper, aent fro. nnaMled ; waled. So. D. S D. MATHEWS A 00., 84, 86 and 88 Fifth Av.nu., Chicago, 111. CIV FfiY WAgTI MONXYI Tm,.u«>U OIA It . Uu.rl.e mooiueh.. Ara,.. CTC whUkm or a k..iy jrr-ralh rs h.„ ra b.ld V I O hr>4> „ u THKXr.S. BTRCNUTHCN LaMB INVIOOKATIt th. HAIR *»'< b. l„.mb. (r <Hl. TSF Try th. ,ra.t Bpul.h dlMovMv «hk«h hu NXVKK YET VMMm''. rAll.au. HradONl.r HIX CENT* <• br J. (lONZA. UZ, Bu IW, Bww., Maw. *.var. daU laaHallaM. C.N. U. Ro. g» XATHEN WRITING TO ADVBRTIMERH. VV please aay you aaw the advertiaem'eut in this paper.