Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1882 — Page 4

FOOTSTEPS OF DECAY. [The following is a translation from an ancient Bpanisb-poem, which, says the Edinburgh Kevtew, is surpassed by nothing with which we are acquainted, in the Bpanish language, except the “Ode of Louis de Leon.”! Oh, let the soul its slumbers break— Arouse its senses and awake To see how soon Life, in its glories, glides away, And the firm footsteps of decay Come stealing on. And while we view the rolling tide Down which our precious minutes glide Away so fast, Let us the present hour employ And deem its future dream a joy, Already past. Let no vain hope deceive the mind, No happier let us hope to find To-morrow than to-day; Our golden dreams of yore were bright, Like them the present shall delight— Like them decay. Our lives like hastening streams must be That into the ingulfing sea Are doomed to fall— The sea of death, whose waves roll on O'er King and kingdom, crown and throne, And swallows aIL Alike the river’s lordly tide, Alike the humble rivulets glide To that sad wave; Death levels poverty and pride, The rich the poor sleep side by side Within the grave. Our birth is but a starting place; Life is the running of the race, And death the goal; There all our glittering toys are brought— That path, alone of all unsought, is found of all. See, then, how poor and little worth Are all these glittering toys of earth That lnre us here— Dreams of a sleep that death must break; Alas! before it bids us wake, We disappear. Long ere the damp of earth can blight, The cheek’s pure glow of red and white Has passed away; Youth smiled and all was heavenly fair— Age came and laid his finger there— And where are they? W’here is the strength that spumed decay, The steps that roved so light and gay, The heart’s blithe tone? The strength is gone, the step is slow, And joy grows wearisome with woe When age comes on.

THE MADDENED QUILLDRIVER.

Night brooded over the scene a habit that night has between the hours of sunset and sunrise. During those hours the sun rarely shines in our latitude, and night has everything its own way, with a clear field to it-elf. Godfrey Stiehlpen sat at his table in the sanctum of the Morning Tamboree, his idle p -ncil in his listless fingers, and his aching head resting upon one weary hand. The solitary bell in a distant steeple bad just tolled 1 a. in. There was a famine of copy on the hook, and the echoes of the clamors of inappeasable compositors came nimhlirig ip ghostly cadences down the speaking-tuhe, and once the sarcastic tones of the foreman’s voice penetrated the dismal sanctum, conveying to Mr. Stiehlpen the entirely-superfluous information that this “was not an afternoon paper,” and furthermore that he “would like to go to press before the men went to dinner.” Mr. Stiehlpen sighed heavily, and in an abstracted manner turned over the closely-written pages of his notedoook. For twenty-two years lie bad sat at that table and praised everything that ever came within fifty miles of Shawneetown. Horses, bird-dogs, new houses, minstrel troupes, new goods, lectures, eminent citizens, big radishes, tall corn, long jumps, speeches, brass bunds, imported cows, line waltzers, • new roadwagons, fancy gates, concerts, fairs, hops and debating societies. He had noted the uprising of the eminent citizen, and observed liis lying down; lie watched liis coming and going, and tonight he was weary. He had written up two speeches, a social hop, a S9OO horse, an imported pig, a new fence, a big egg, a seventeen-pound tumor, a lecture, and here was a concert to be written up. He knew what a delicate matter this was. He knew that woe waited upon his footsteps if he failed to notice each performer at length and in perfect detail. Wrath and denunciations hovered above his head, ready to fall in one destroying deluge if lie said anybody sang or played better than anybody else. How" could lie meet the father of the young lady who wore the most expensive dress on the stage, and yet got a notice four lines shorter than the shoemaker’s daughter, who had nothing in the w orld but her voice to commend her at all to public notice? How could he look Miss Uppevcea in tlie face when in liis description of her exquisite rendition of “Monastery Bells” he forgot, or perhaps with malice aforethought intentionally omitted, to mention the cost of the diamonds? He sighed as he remembered how often he had been through all this, and here it was 1 o’clock in the morning, his hand was tired and his head ached, and tlie notes of liis 11 tli concert w ere still echoing in his brain, and were waiting on t}ie pages of his own note-hook for his own transcription. He rose, and dragged from its dusty shelf an old bound volume of tlie“Taui--1 oree,” looked over some of his old reports, with a view of changing the dates and names, and using them over, to save time and trouble, as he had often done before. But liis head was heavy, and the concert of the previous evening differed in so many respects from all its predecessors that he was forced to abandon his labor-saving scheme, so dear to the heart of the ambitious and painstaking reporter. “ I have praised people for twentytwo years,” he muttered, again seating himself at liis.table, “and I am tired.of it. I am not in the praising humor tonight, I sigh for something new-. My longing soul aspires to originality. I had rather abuse a man a column than puff him ten lines. I will write up these notes in a style that will have, at least, the merit of originality, and will please everybody who doesn’t find his name in the paper to-morrow.” His pencil flew over the sheets of paper like a walking match; the sarcastic utterance of the foreman ceased, the distant clamor of the intel igent compositors was hushed, and only now and then the muffled groans that came sadly down the speaking-tube told that some printer was endeavoring to decide whether a blot, a long waving line, two dots and a dash was “commencement,” “communion,” “incineration,” or “emancipation.” Mr. Stiehlpen laughed hoarsely as he heard the groans “Howl for copy, will you?” he chuckled defiantly. “I’ll give you copy that will make your hearts ache.” And he wrote more wildly than ever, and only said, “Ha, ha!” when word came that the distracted proof-reader in the next room had hanged himself. **** • * * Next morning, while Godfrey Stiehlpen slept, the Tamboree was opened at a thousand happy breakfast tables, and joy was turned into mourning, as, amid weeping and wailing and guashing of teeth, the first thing the subscribers read was as follows: A Phantom Hoss. —Ben Harrigan came all the way to onr office last evening to tell us that he had just received an imported invertebrate thoroughbred from England, a magnificent stepper, with a record of 2:25, that cost him S9OO. Warnock, at whose stables this matchless wonder is housed, informs us that it is a Maxall county horse, 17 years old, and worth about S2O for lady’s driving. It seems to us Harrigan lies worse as he draws nearer the grave. After tliis came the annexed paragraph : Cheap Pi<j. —Farmer • Thistlepod dragged us seven blocks through the scorching sun yesterday down to a

freight depot to see his new S2OO imported pig. Marshall Henry afterward told us that it was a pig that had been in pound for three weeks, and Thistlepod only paid $2 for it. It is the genuine prairie-schooner breed, with a snout thirty-eight inches long, and can jump a stake-aqd-rider fence without touching a hoof. Thistlepod has always been notorious for keeping miserable stock. The usual eulogistic “personal” paragraph was supplanted by the following: Personal. —Old Archie Mclntosh left town last evening to the great delight of all his acquaintances —he has no friends—for a j trip to Mud Lake. He left a note for us, stating that he was going for his health. This means a two weeks’ drank. We wonder who lent him enough money to get out of town? But the crowning glory of the Morning Tamboree w-as the concert notice. It read as follows: Grand Concert. —The regular annual exhibition of good clothes and bad music, that has grown to be a feature <uf the musical xvorld in Shawneefown, came off last evening at tlie Opera House. Every seat in the halt was taken, for onr patient community has become accustomed to this infliction, and submits to it without a murmur four or five times a year, very much as they take quinine in the spring. Those people who came stamping in late, as usual, after the Shawneefown style, are to be congratulated this time, as" they escaped hearing the “Arion Quartette” sing “Here in Cool Grot.” It it due to the “Arion Quartette,” however, to say thi-t was not the worst singing of the evening. The audience thought it certainly would he the worst; and so, indeed, it was, until 1 iter in the eve: ing the same quartette butchered "Come Where my Love Lies Dreaming. ” It was dreadful beyond description, and the deafening applause which followed it only testified the great joy of the audience on being assured that the “Arion Quartette” would sing no move that evening. M ss Abigail McGinnessy rendered a recitative and aria, by Cappola, in tlie manner that lias long ago become so sadly familiar to our suffering people, and is always a source of profound embarrassment to the accompanist, who floundered along last night in the patient but vijin hope of getting even with the singer somewhere by scrambling across lots, and beading her off'in some unusu 'lly-prolonged run. But I his was impossible, and singer and accompanist ■ were never within six bars of each other during the whole of the alleged performance. Mr. Poundaway, the timehonored accompanist in all these affairs, by tlie way, did even worse than usual last evening. We are pained to notice that his lnbit of playing oil the edge of the piano, two inches away from the keys, grows upon li : m, and lie should either change his drinks or his vocation. •Mr.-. Bangalon played “Monastery Bells,” as usual. It was disguised under a French name in the programme; but every one knows what is coming after Mrs. Bangalon finally gets the piano moved into. precisely the right place—which is always just where it stood before she had moved it the first time, and, after seating licrself for tlie fiftieth time, finally concludes to remain seated. Mrs. Bangalon’s unvarying liabit of wearing lier gloves to the piano and occupying seven minutes in removing them, is not ari affectation. It is an act of mercy, and gives the people nearest the door an opportunity to slip out before she begins to play. The reporters of the city press used to go out at this time; but, since Bangalon lias taken to standing at the door to watch refugees, they have, with excellent taste and better judgment, abandoned the custom, and silently swallowed their full cup of misery. As Mrs. Bangalon loft the stage," Joab Grabey, who was asleep in the gallery, fell off liis chair, and, mistaking the noise for an encore, Mrs. Bangalon returned and pounded out the “Maiden’s Prayer.” Somebody ought to kill that man Grabey. “Professor” Sownpost played a violin solo—De Beriot’s “ Seventh Air. ” Everybody was grateful that lie didn’t try tlie eighth. The professor dresses like a waiter, and handles a fiddle like a graduate from a side-show. He is in great demand at all the dances down at Wyseker's Branch and the Sassafras Bottoms, and it is believed, in fact, that all his musical education was acquired at Dan Coseman’s store, at the old ford, on Clymer’s creek. He is trying to get ujj a class in this city, and, if this man attempts to teach our boys to play the fiddle as he does, he ought to be lynched. And he will be, if the Tam-, boree has any influence in musical circles. It was as good as a circus to hear Madame Parapluie sing “Robert, toi quo j’aime.” If tlie old lady’s lungs were as big as her feet she might sing more and wheeze less. As it is, candor compels us to say that a case of asthma weighing 217 pounds is no artistic addition to a concert. Miss Uppercea played the same old “Improvisation” she began playing in these concerts eighteen years ago. It lasts about as well as her diamonds, and changes about as little. It is time she had it published, and improvised something new. Jim Thurlow came out and sang his unchanging “Ah, so fair.” The agony of the audience during this time of trial was fairly insupportable. His high notes are greatly admired, bee .use his voice always breaks into a thin falsetto squeak on them, and he can’t make so much noise as he can on his best chest tones. If Jim had been born dumb, or liis audience deaf, tlie world would be much happier. Some time he will go away from home and sing, and the Judge will give him sixty days for it. Still this would not be extravagant. His singing is worth it; every day of it. The only excuse for putting Miss Maltby on the programme, every time there is a concert in Shawmetown, is that her father is_ worth SBO,OOO and owns the biggest brewery in Low-ell county. With a voice, musical education and general ability about up to tlie grade of “Baby Mine,” she sang her old stand-by last night, the “Spinning-wlieel Song” from “Faust.” If Marguerite could have sung it as Miss Maltby sang it, it would have saved the poor child a world of trouble. It would have scared Faust, Mephistopheles and the whole gang of them out of the country. There is more music in Mr. Maltby’s bung-starters than there is in his daughter. Mueh has lieretofoi’e been said in these columns about Miss Maltby’s beautyt While the spirit of truth is upon us we are free to admit that she is pretty—in the dark. Mr. Bellows sang “Oh, ye Tears.” Mr. Bellows has a rich baritone voice—a wheelbarrow tone, that is. Unfortunately for his effort last evening, nobody knew he was singing until he finished the butchery of art and bowed himself off the stage. Everybody thought he was just trying his voice. If ever his voice is tried, it will be convicted on its own evidence. James H. Blowson and Elbert Hafut sang “Larboard Watch.” It is a great pity these young men are not aware that their mouths were made.to catch flies rather than for singing. Hafut’s voice is so like a fog-horn that he may be pardoned for a tendency to sing marine songs; but aside from a plea of natural -depravity and fiendish misanthropy there is no excuse whatever for

Our readers will be delighted to learn that this is the last concert of the season, and a man can go to the Opera House in safety for the next six months. The receipts of the pandemonium were $430, and Old Hardwich, proprietor of the hall, with his accustomed rapacity, gobbled nearly one-fourth of that sum for the use of an old barn that looks shabby in comparison with a sec-ond-rate market-house. Six of the thickest-headed young men in Shaw neetown, in borrowed dress-coats, acted as ushers, and acted most wretchedly at that. ' Taken altogether, m it was the dreariest occasion that has bored a long-suffering community since the concert that preceded it. * - * * * * * At the office of the Tamboree people waited for Mr. Stiehlpen, but he did not come. As the day wore away men sought him at his lodgings, but he was not there. All that the ticketagent at the station could tell was that when he bought his ticket for San Antonio, Tex., Mr. Stiehlpen stated that he had been appointed United States Minister to that port, and had been ordered to proceed thither and enter upon his duties at once, and that in all likelihood he would not retui n to this country unti 1 the Peruvian troubles were all settled. They never saw him again. But long long after he had disappeared, mocking Blowsou’s attempting to sing in public. These misguided young men were down on the programme for a second atrocity, but it was omitted at the urgent request of the audience. The piano used at this massacre was the same jingling old harpsichord from the music store of Jingle, Jangle & Co., that has appeared for a free puff at all local outrages of a musical nature for the past twenty years. Last year this enterprising house traded off the old dulcimer for a slver watch; but the man who got the alleged piano brought it back, paid $7 forfeit and got his watch, and, we suppose, all future concerts in Shawneetown will be haunted by this venerable nightmare until the police interfere. hut annonymous postal-cards used to come to the members of the “Mendelssohn Chorus Society of Shawneetown,” asking them to sing him something easy. And oft as they read them the vocalists choked a rising sigh, and as tliev thought of the absent reporter, wished that, wherever he was, the earth might open and swallow him up.— B. J. Burdette. •

DEADLY FEUD.

Sanguinary Battle Fought by Three Men in the Streets of Knox* ville, Tenn. The Belligerent Trio Slain by fach Other and Two Spectators Severely Wounded. [Knoxville (Tenn.) Telegram.] One of the most horrible tragedies in our annals occurred in this city to-day. One year ago Christmas eve Will Mabry was killed under peculiar circumstancea Flis death grew out of a feud between the families of Mabry and Lusby. At the time there was much excitement, owing to the fact that both families were prominent, and it was generally reported that much blood might be .‘-hed between the two families. It will be remembered that on Christmas eve Will Mabry was killed by Don C. Lusby. Afterward, after the lapse of several months, a tragedy occurred in the Recorder’s Court, which lesalted in the dea'h of Dqn C. Lusby and his father, Moses Lusby. Now follows the tragedy which must be reported to-day. It appears that yesterday morning Gen. Mabry met Maj. O’Connor at the fair grounds, where some races were being run, and said to him that he was a thief, scoundrel, of a and a -—- liar; that he was responsible for his (Mabry’s) son’s death. Th s morning, about 10:30 o’clock, Geu. Joseph Mabry was in the street, and made the remark that he wouid kill Maj. O’Connor just as soon as he saw him. Maj. O’Connor had Deen advised that his life was threatened, and naturally armed himself and prepared to meet his enemy. Mai. O’Connor whs the President of the Mechanics’ National Bank of Knoxville. He was standing in his door waiting lor his enemy, who appeared, apparently unarmed, walkng up the street. The Major drew a double-barreled shotgun and shot the General, inflicting a mortal wound. Before the General could arise, he shot him a second time. When he had killed him, Joseph A. Mabry, Jr., who had been trying a case as an attorney in a neighboring street, appeared and drew a revolver, and shot Maj. O’Connor through the heart. Before, however, young Mabry had fired that fatal shot, Thomas O’Connor, who had been given another gun, shot young Joe Mabry, killing him. Thus ended the lives of Thomas O’Connor, Joseph Mabry, Sr., and his son, Joseph Mabry, Jr. Tne whole tragedy occurred within two minutes, and neither of the three spoke a word after being shot. Gen. Mabry had about thirty I uckshot in his body. A bystander was painfully wounded in the thigh, and another in the arm. Four other men had cloi hes pierced by buckshot. There is the most intense excitement here in Knoxvil e, and reoort rs are almost f shamed to report these facts breause it does Tennessee so much harm. It will be remembered that Don Lusby and his fat’.er, Moses Lusby, had an altercation in the Recorder's office with Jo eph A. Mabry, Sr., and Joseph A. Mabry, Ji., and that Don Lusby and his lather, Moses Lusby, were killed. Joseph A. Mabry, Sr., and his son, Joe, were arrested and put under bonds to await a trial for the murder of Lou Lusby and his father. At the trial about two we-ks ago both of the Mabrys were acquitted, but were rearrested for carrying concealed weapons, and also acquitted on that charge. The people of this city were surprised at the acquittal *of the twoMabrys, but thought that the troubles were all over, and now we would have peace in this community. All tire parties to the affair were men of marked prominence in Tennessee, one of them (O’Connor) being the possessor of a fortune estimated at 110,000,000. He was rated as the r cheat man in the State. He was lavish in helpful deeds to deserving persons and institutions, and his death is greatly mourned.

THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

Abstract of the Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. The Commissioner of the Land Office, in his annua! report, states that tl*e lands now embraced within the limits of the public domain amount to 900,000,000 acres, including Alaska. He recommends that the Pre-emp-ti n law be abolished, as the Homestead laws cover all cases now arising. Public sales of land last year amounted to 7,931 acres, embracing 5,016 acres near Toledo, Ohio which were sold for $16,735, an average of $3.38 per acre. Respecting the forfeiture of railroad grants the Commissioner says: “ The status of various grants for railroad purposes where roads have not been constructed within the time prescribed by law was reported to Congress March 28 last. The absence of legislative action touching the renewal of these grants or declaring the forfe ture thereof seriously embarrassed the work of this office. It is not deemed expedient to certify additional lands to the railroad companies, nor to award to the companies lands in dispute between them and settlers or other claimants, pending the determination of Congress in the premises. Large numbers of settlers occupy such lands, and it is important to know whether they can receive their titles from the United States, or whether they will be required to purchase from the railroad companies. Commissioner Macfarland submits an estimate for the salaries and contingent expenses of the next fiscal year, amounting in the aggregate to $453,940, which is an increase of- the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year of $33,940. The increase is distributed generally among the bureau officers, and 'includes $3,000 for an Assistant Commissioner. In accordance with an act passed at the last session of Congress, the Commissioner of the General Land Office is now preparing for publication a volume containing the codified Land laws and the history of the public domain of the United States, compiled and S fired by the Public Land Commission, all of the subsequent Land laws passed up to the day of adjournment of the last Congresa There will be a limited number of volumes published for general distribution, and many applications for them have already been received from lawyers and persons engaged in the land business, to whom the book will be of much value. Amite- county, Miss., has neither paupers nor prisoners.

A WILD WOMAN.

A North Carolina Cannibal That Feeds on Babies. A Tale Like the Stories Told in the Great Forests of the Old Country. [Charlotte (N. C.) Telegram to Chicago Tribune.] For months past there have teen rumors of a terrible apparition, which has terrorized all the women and children in Clear Creek township. The women say that for two weeks they have been subjeet to terrifying visits in the absence of their husbands from a creature like a shiny, black negress, witli long hair and gleaming eyes. She asks in hardly distinguishable gibberish for a baby* to eat, and makes efforts to get hold of the children. The men, getting tired of the fears of their wives, determined to try and cat- li the ireature, and for the last week crowds of farmers have been daily and nigh .ly chasing her without success. The first effort to catch her was made a week ago by Jo.hn Roberts, a blacksmith. The wild creature had appeared several times at a fire which it was the habit of Carey Moore (colored) of the neighborhood to light after dark in the yard of his house for the preparation of his meals. Roberts w. s put to watch her, and she appeared even before the flames were well kindled. She presented such a wild look in the halflight. and asked for food in such wild fashion, that Roberts was demoralized. He recovered, however, made an outcry, and attempted to seize the woman, but she slipped through his hands, and disappeared in the dark shadows of the woods. Tuesday morning Maj. Stephen Cowell caught sight of the creature, and chased her across an open field. He was badly hurt in his efforts to keep up with her, and reported that she outran a buck, and cleared four corn-rows at a leap. That same night she was again enticed from the woods by the kndling of a fire, and was chased by thirty men without succesa Capt. • Marsh Allen, later in the day, met her in the neighborhood with her face tom and bleeding, and a long bloody knife in her hand The creature was naked and so unearthly and terrible-looking to him that he says he is not sure it is a human being. Her hair reached almost to her feet, and was kinky like that of the African. It is not mere fright which has caused the country- people to organize in their attempts to catch the creature, which has been living in the forest and swamp fastnesses for a y6ar or more. Some months aim it is reported an infant was spiritwl away from its parents’ yard while they were in the corn-field, and was never heard from, and the disappearance was from that section of the country in which the wild woman has been seen, and mothers, white and black, are in terror for fear their little ones may also become food for the cannibal negress. Yesterday the farmers, some mounted and others on foot, assembled for the purpose of -surrounding a swamp in which the creature is known to be hid There are 400 men ready for the chase. At first it was attempted to run her down with bloodhounds, hut they refused to chase her, which deepened the superstitious feeling with which the men as well as the women of the community began to regard her. The men made the attempt to catch her, but without success. The excitement among the negroes and simple county folk is intense.

Perfectly Amazed.

In the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, we observe that Mr. Rosenthal, of the wellknown printing’firm, Rosenthal & Roesch, 538 California street, that city, said to one of their reporters: “We all know of St. Jacobs Oil, and are perfectly amazed at the suddenness of the relief it affords. If you know of any one who is suffering with rheumatism, bruise or sprain, tell them to use St. Jacobs Oil.

THE MINTS.

Annual. Report of Director liurcliard. Mr. Burchard, Director of the Mint, has completed his annual report. It presents in detail the operations of the mints and assay offices during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883. The imports of foreign gold coin and bullion for the first half of the year were $30,100,230 greater, but during the last half $28,311,047 less than the exports, the net gain of the year being only $1,789,183. The total amount of gold deposi ed was $66,156,653, which was $74,600,000 less than the preceding year, while the silver purchased for coinage and deposited in bars was about $3,000,600 greater and amounted to $33,720,49L The total coinage was 11,206,003 pieces valued at $89,413,447, nearly $11,000,000 more than in any previous year. The silver coinage consisted of $27,772,075 in silver dollars and $11,313 in fraational coin. Gold bars of the value of $37,505,120 were manufactured from 12,147,674 ounces of fine gold for depositors at the New York Assav Office. Fine silver bars of the value of $7,769,898 were also made, chiefly at the same institution. The purchases of silver for the coinage amounted to 23,627,229 ounces of standard silver, at a cost of $21,130,912. Of gold coin, about $87,000,(XX) belonged to the treasury, $104,0 o,ouo to the national banks, and $310,000,009 to the general public, including other batiks. Of standard dollars, $33,000,000 belonged to the treasury and $86,000,000 to the banks and the general public. Of the total metallic circulation, $148,000,000 belonged to the treasury, $112,000,001 to the national banks, and $441,000,000 was in general circulation. _________________ Certainly an elegant remedy for all aches and pains is St. Jacobs Oil, says Dr. J. Turner, of Shirrell’s Ford, N. C., in the Ravenswood, W. Va., News.

The Retort Sarcastic.

Judge Tarbell tells the following joke on himself. A short timo after his retirement from the bench he happened to meet an old friend whom he had not seen for some time. The Judge,' all smiles and heartiness, effervesced over his friend in such a way as to provoke the inquiry: • “ What office are you a candidate for now, Judge?” The Judge made a deprecatory movement with an outward turned palm, and said: “For none at all, my dear brother; I am simply a candidate for the Kingdom of Heaven.” His friend regarded him sorrowfully for an instant, and, then, with more wit than politeness, and more profanity than either, said: “I’ll bet you don’t carry a d township!” Doubtless the Judge lost sight of tho man’s profanity in admiration of his sublimely truthful candor.

Intelligent Minds.

Intelligent minds can quickly learn a verse by heart. Such knowledge may prove useful at some future time. Then learn this verse by heart: “Dr. Guysott’B Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla contains Yellow Dock, Sarsaparilla, Juniper, Iron, Buchu, Celery and Calisaya, and is the finest strengthening medicine and blood purifier ever compounded from a physician’s prescription.” Ask your druggist to get it for you.

A Fair Story Without a Moral.

At an agricultural fair two farmers were discussing the merits of mowers. Said one: “That is the best mower ever invented. You can clip around a tree so nice and slick that not a spear will be left standing." Said the other: “If I were offered that mower for nothing, on condition I’d mow one swath with it, I’d think it an insult.” They went on to examine other mowers. At last they found one that was best—easiest draft, smallest cost, lightest weight and backed by the most testimonials. Other farmers gathered around and every one said, and emphasized with his forefinger on the palm of his hand—the other hand—that it was the ultimatum, last, best. What mower was this? We take pleasure in making known, for the benefit of farmers in want of mowers, that the mower in question is the mower. Do we intend to continue with fair stories ? No, njum; this is the last. —Providence Journ a 1. Something like 200,000 clams are consumed daily at Coney Island, 10,000 pounds of meat and over 1,000 chickens. Rev. A. N. Ford, of Warsaw, Ky., writes: “I have used Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla with gTeat ben< fit. I think it beats the world as a medicine to give strength and purify the blood. It has currd me of bad blood, weak kidneys and poor digestion. ”

Sackcloth and Ashes.

Mrs. Percy Yerger is a good woman, but she is not well posted about church festivals, and she is not as refined as she might be. The Episcopal clergyman happening to remark in her presence that it would soon be Advent, she replied: “Then we will all have to mortify ourselves again, but I don’t mind it a bit. Last Adyent I saved enough out of butcher’s meat for the servants’ table to get me a $75 cloak to go to church in.” “That was Lent, madame.” “No it wasn’t lent. Three or four of the neighbors’ wives wanted me to lend them that cloak, but I told them it wasn’t mine, and lied out of it that way. —Texas Siftings.

ADVICE TO CONSUMPTIVES.

On the appearance of the first symptoms—as general debility, loss of appetite, pallor, chilly sensations, followed by night sweats and cough —prompt measures for relief should be taken. Consumption is scrofulous disease of the lungs —therefore use the great anti-scrofula, or blood purifier and strength restorer, Dr. Pierce’s “ Golden Medical Discoveiy.” Superior to cod liver oil as a nutritive, and unsurpassed as a pectoral For weak lungs, spitting of blood aud kindred affections it has no equal. Sold by druggists the world over. For Dr. Pieroe’s treatise on Consumption, send two stamps to World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N- Y. “Hold up vour hands,” yelied the Western outlaw, as he b arded a palace-car and showed up his jis cols “Arc you a road agent?” a kcd a frightened pas-enger. “Yes.” “Thank Heave t! I feared you were another poiter.” —Philadelphia News.

"SIGH NO MORE, LADIES,”

for Dr. Pierce’s “ Favorite Prescription ” is a prompt and certain remedy for the painful disorders peculiar to your sex. By all druggists. A Cambridge (Mass.) man arrived in a frontie village, just as a gang of cowboys had taken the town. ” His first exc'amati n was: “Have you fo’ks a college here already?”

WOMAN AND HER DISEASES

is the title of a large illustrated treatise by Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., sent to any address for three stamps. It teaches successful self-treatment. “ What does ‘in memoriam’ mean, pa?” asked Billy. “Oh,” said pa, behind his newspaper, “ it’s nothing. It’s something you write on the tombstone of a man you are going to forget in a week.” —Burlington HawkEye.

Personal!—To Men Only !

The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich., will send Dr. Dye’s Celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete restoration of health and manly vigor. Address as above. N. B.—No risk is incurred, as thirty days’ trial is allowed. Nothing annoys the keeper of a railroad restaurant more than to have one customer ask in a rather loud tone of another: “ Have you ever tried plating war ships with this kind of sandwiches?”

Free to All Ministers of Churches.

I will send one bottle of White Wine of Tar Syrup, gratis, to any minister that will recommend it to his friends after giving it a fair test, and it proves satisfactory for coughs, colds, throat or lflng diseasea Dr. C. D. Warner, Reading, Mich. The young woman who sneeringly remarks that men are»a'l alike generally shows her sincerity by taking the* first man that offers himself to her. —Boston I’ramcript.

Evils to Be Avoided.

Over-eating is, in one sense, as productive of evil as intemperance in drinking. Avoid both, and keep the blood purified with Burdock Blood Bitters, and you wili be rewarded with robust health and an invigorated system. Price SI.OO. “My teeth are full of sand,” said the fairest bather in the surf. “All right, hand them out. ” said au admirer, “and I’li rinse them c ft' for you. ” And now she regards him only as a brother.

In Hot Water.

Orpha M. Hodge, Battle Creek, Mich., writes: “I upset a tea-kettle of boiling hot water on my hand. lat once applied Thomas’ Eclectßic Oil, and the effect was to immediately allay the pain. I was cured in three days. ” Fritz’s boy told his lather that he knew where the rain came from. “There were faucets up in the sky, and the angels turned ’em on. ”

“ The Rest In the Market.”

Fond Du Lac, Wis., Aup. 3,1881. H. H. Warned <V Co.: Sirs —l rep ard your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure the best remedy in the market for kidney and liver diseases. John D. Gilbert, 24 West Division St. “I want to pass away pently while preaching-,” says Evangelist Games, of Kentucky. Many oi his audience are in open sympathy with the remark. #

"Buchupalba.”

Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases. sl. Druggists. Send for pamphlet to E. S. Wells, Jersey City, N. J. A Jersey City woman was arrested for smashing her husband across the nose with a red a d yel ow worsted motto bearing the words “God bless our home. ”

Five Thousand Fetters

Have been received by proprietor of the White Wine of Tar Syrup, from parties claiming to be cured of consumption by its use. A curate on.e asked a little girl in the Sunday-school: “Who made your vile body?* “Mother made the body,” quickly retorted the child; “I only made the skirt.” Common colds neglected cause onehalf the deaths. Consumption lurks in everv cough, offen using as a mask the ruddy cheek and sparkling eye till its deadly seeds are deeply planted in the system. Eilert’s Extract of Tar and Wild Cherry will surely cure colds, coughs, croup, catarrh, bronchial complaints, and ward off consumption. The wife of a Harlem man who is very fond of singing Sankey’s revival hymns has named their baby “Fort,” so that he would want to hold it. For dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of spirits and general debility in their various forms; also as a preventive against fever and ague, and other intermittent fevers, the “Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya,” made by Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York, and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has no equal Ingersoll savs that no such man as Noah ever existed. The mischief he didn’t After whom, then, was Noah Webster, the dictionary man, named?— Si ft us Toxins. Dr. Winchell’s Teething Syrup is just the medicine for mothers to have in the house for the children. It will cure colds, coughs, sore throat, and regulate the bowels. Do not fail to give it a trial, you will be pleased with its charming effect Sold by all druggists. It is said that if a bear is undisturbed he is as harmless as a woodchuck. The statement is easy to prove, in fact every one knows a bear is all right if you don’t go too near him. — Picayune. Natural petroleum, deprived of its color and disagreeable odor without distillation and the aid of acids or alkalies, is wrhat the Carboline is made from. As now improved and perfected it is a beautiful preparation, and performs all that is claimed for it as a hair restorer. Hanlan is not interested in mining operations, notwithstanding he has made so much money out of his oar. Uncle 8 im’s Condition Powders should be used by every one owning or having the care of horses, cattle, hogs or poultry. It improves the appetite, promotes the growth, and restores the sick. Sold by all druggists. When a man’s feelings are so great that he cannot express them, ha-1 he better send them by freight? The Frazer Axle Grease received medals at he Centennial, North Carolina State Fair, Paris Exposition, American Institute, New fork, and others. Beauty and bashfulness are often united, Yet the prettiest maiden is admired for -her cheek. Over 2C0,C00 Howe Scales have been sold, ind the demand increasing continually. Borlen, Selleck & Co., Agents, Chicago, ILL Science teaches us that the whale is really not a fish. Yet some of the most frightful lies on record have been told about whales. Better go at once, young man, while you have the time, to H. B. Bryan .’s Chiccgo Business College.

Corns! Corns! Corns!

Every one suffering from painful corns will be glad to learn that there ft a new and painless remedy discovered by which the very worst class of corns may be removed entirely, in a short time and without pain. Putnam’s Painless Corn Extractor has already been used by thousands, and eaoh person who has given it a trial becomes anxious to recommend it to others. It is the only sure, prompt and painless cure for corns known. Putnam’s Painless Com Extractor is sold everywhere. Wholesale, Lord, Stoutenburgh A Co., Chicago. “I guess I’ll push along, ” is what the man with the wheelbarrow said. Nothing is uglier than a crooked boot or shoe; Btraighten them with Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners. Sold by Shoe and Hardware Dealers. Partners in the butcher business are a joint concern. Try the new brand, Spring Tobaoco. The first round dance originated with Adam when he sat down on a hornet.

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS TO LIVE.

From John Kuhn, L*f»yette, Ind., who announces that he Is now in “perfect health,” we have the following : “One year ago I was, to all appearance, in the last stages of Consumption. Our best physicians gave my case up. I finally got so low that our doctor said I could not live twenty-four hours. My friends then purchased a bottle of DR. WM. HALL’S BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS, which considerably benefited me. 1 continued until I took nine bottles. lam now In perfect health, having used no other medicine.” DR. DeWITT C. KELUNGKR’S LINIMENT4s an infallible cure for Rheumatism, Sprains, Lameness and Diseases of the Scalp, and for promoting the growth of the Hair.

BdHklt FOB RHEUMATISM, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Far and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. He Preparation on earth equals Sr. Jacobs On as a safe, sure, simple and cheap External Remedy A trial entail* but the comparatively trifling outlay of $0 Cents, and every one suffering with pain can have cheap and positive proof of its claims . Directions in Eleven Language*. * * SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS IE MEDICINE. A. VOGEI.ER A CO., Baltimore. MdL. U. t. A

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Cures Rheumatism, Lumbago, Lame Back, Sprains and Bruises, Asthma, Catarrh, Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Diphtheria, Bums, Frost Bites, Tooth, Ear, and Headache, and all pains and aches. The best Internal and external remedy In the world. Every bottle guaranteed. Sold by medicine dealers everywhere. Directions in eight languages. Price 50 cents and |r.oo. FOSTER, MILBURN & CO., Prop’r*, BUFFALO, N. Y„ U. S. A.

CORN-BUSKERS’ SOAP! IS and farmers, whose hands roughen and crack, to keep them in a smooth healthy condition, until IP TUC TIUC to use it. No farmer should Hull 10 Hit 11 Ml be without it. Ask your Druggist or Grocer to send for it, or serid us 15c. and wc will forward by mail. Manufactured by the Clinton M’f’g Co., Clinton, Ct. AGENTS Wanted. Benner Mfg. Co., Pittsburg, Pa. L) Jk I O Send postal for TU'st’d Catalog. HUFF’S ■ » r\ I i» Hair Store, 38 Jk 40 Monroe Chicago. IF YOU DESIRE A GOOD FA KM IN lOWA, address B. M. McQUIN, Norway, lowa. llflTOlirC I Jewelry, Silverware, retailed Wfi I I■H T \ I at wholesale rates. Price-list five. If n I UIIUI « T. W. Kennedy, P.0.80x850, N. Y. ftOOK* MONTH-AGENTS WANTED —9O best V /*, I® selling articles In the world-. 1 sample fr°* dJlwriwPEA Address «I. A. Bronson, Detroit, Mich. YflllNQ Uetl n yon want to learn Telegraphy in a lUVJtvu mblf taw months, and be oertain of a ett nation, address VALENTINE BROS., JoneartUe. Wls. _ AL For Business at the Oldest ft Beni W ~ College. Circular fre*. AddressC.Batlirs, Dubuque, la. SAW WIILLSSirSS-S THE AULTMAN ft TAYLOR CO.. MaaaflakL Ohl* AGENTS WANTED for the Best and Fastest-Sell-ing Pictorial Books and Bibles. Prices reduced 33 per cent. National Publishing Co., Chicago, lU. D f\ n A Postal Card to Clarke Bros., Bible UnUr House, New York, the New Publisher! cf Fine, Cheap Subscription Books, for their “Privatt Circular to Agents " It will puzzle and astonish you. T-TySj Fine Mustache and Whiskers in live weeks. Send 25c for recipe Jk k^ifnotsaiiHfactory,money refunded. Ad’r’ss Marckeus, Anderson & Co., Lockridge, lowa VBIITU n sraHTi. iw. iinnn, - - 1 nU I rl Iht Ur«»t Spanilb S.«r. Aitreiorw / %»d Psychologist, will, for tnnU, with mi, hoifht, / Bwf \ ••lor *f ijm and lock of hair, *«>d a CORRECT PlO-f . » TURK m jnar future hunband or wife, with naate, ttaael^g^VTjr^A. Hhd es Mooting, and 4aU es Marriage, pejebelea* foklir wredieted. Money returned te aU wet eatiefled. A44emb Fros. L. MarUaeu. 10 Mewt’y n.,B*otoM, Kim *

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O WHITNEY & HOI.MEN RCANS Exeel All Otksra In Tone and Du. ■-ability. Illy boat First Class Rep utatlon. Established IS Years, Send for catalogue of new styles. Whitney ft Holmes Organ Co., Quincy, lU. THE CALICRAPH! The Only Perfect Writing Machine. The upper and lower case machine has an independent key for every character. Every bearing is adjustable to wear. Send for circulars and specimens of work to FAIRFIELD ft TAYLOR, comer State and Van Buren Sts., Chicago, lU. jjpaMS U M PIANOS Special prices and terms. HEED'S TEMPFE OF MUSIC, 136 State Street, CHICAGO. KOCH’S *S¥ CONSUMPTION more importantly IUvU I 15111 arationalmeansof CARESS-FREE TRIAL is offered to all afflicted with symptoms of lung disease. Address Box 788, N. Y. (Sty. BOUNTY"*!®: _ ACT OF AUGUST 7th, 1882. Apply to MILO B. STEVENS & CO. OFFICES: Le Droit Building, Washington, D. C.; Case Building, Cleveland. Ohio: Abstract Building. Detroit, Mich.; Metropolitan Block, Chicago, In*

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[This engraving represent* the Lung* In a healthy state.) A GOOD FAMILY REMEDY! STRICTLY PURE. Harmless to the Moat Delicate I By lt» faithful uie CONSUMPTION has been CCKED when other remedies and Phyutcians have failed to effect a cure. William 0. Diogek, merchant of Bowling Omen. Va„ writes April 4,1881, that ho wants us to know that the Lung Balsam has curecl hi* mother of Consumption, after the physician had givon her up as Incurable. He savs, others knowing her case have taken the Balsam and been cured; he thinks all so afflicted should give it a trial. „ .... , . William A. (liiaham k Co., wholesale dniggists, Zanesville, Ohio, write us of the cure of Mathias Fkkkman, a well-known dtiaen, who had lieen-afflictea with Bixmeliitis in its worst form for twelve years. The Lung Balsam cured him, as it has many others, of Bronchitis. As an Expectorant it has No Equal. For Male by nil Aleillcliie Dealer.. prars bkarp Ki.iiia NRN wrl Will iw, a M Myk JTPMhji WHk direshess seeUd ss4 ym*pe.4 ll eomm, 4ln B ..... n iaiTH A CO., Me A*F», TalaUae, lU.

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(Cork) Insoles: What They Do! The Magnetic Insoles contain a series of Magnots, scientifically arranged, that form minute batteries, rocharglug the blood with magnetism, and exerting a trauquilmug influence upon the entire system through the consequent improved circulation. Insulate tlie feet from the cold and damp earth, and thus prevent the abstraction of the positive force from the body. , Generate by their magnetic action an agreeablo warmth and secure perfect circulation in the feet and lower extremities. Cure Chilblains and remove all unnatural boat, perapiration, swelling of the feet and unk!os. Prevent, relieve, and in some cases cure rheumatism, neuralgia and kindred diseases. In all forms of chronic and nervous disease and debility are invaluable. Are a groat conservor and direct promoter of goneral health, aud o.m bewornat all seasons of (lie year; being made very thin, take up very little room in the shoe. One pair ot the Magnetic Insoles will demonstrate the truth of these claims. Prico, 41.00 per pair. Fifty”thousand men, women and children of the city Of Chicago and flic West are wearing them. The Magnetic Insoles will convince the wearer of the power resiiling in our other Magnetic Appliances. Remittances can be made in onc-eeut postage stamps or currency sent in letter at our risk. Sent by mail on receipt of price, and the size of shoe usually worn, by the Magnetic Appliance Co.. 218 State Street, Clilcago, 111., solo manufacturers of the United States. For full instruction in tho new Magnetic Treatment for nervous and chronic diseases send for Hie "new departure” hi healing and physical culture, containing testimonials of the marvelous cures obtained from wearing Magnetic Appliances without tho taking of drugs and medicines. Are You Nervous, and Lack Vital Energy? In all diseases of a nervous or muscular type, such as Nervous Debility, Paralysis, Overworked Brain, Exhaustion, or Loss of Vital Energy, Weak Back, Kidney Disease, our Magnetic Belt or Regenerator is made expressly tor the cure of derangements of the procreative organs. Whenever anv debility of the generative organs occurs, from whatever cell sc. the continuous stream of Magnetism permeating through the parts must restore them to healthy action. There Is no mistake about this appliance. Years ot use have tested it; and thousands of cures are testified to. Weakness from Indiscretion, Incapacity, Lack of Vigor, Sterility—in fact, anv troubles of these organs is cured. Do not confound this with electric belts advertised to cure all 111 a from head to toe. This Is for tho one specific purpose, Price of Belt, $lO. Sent hy express upon receipt of price, and. if not Ipund ns represented, money refunded. In ordering.send measure of waist. Remittance# can be made in currency, sent iu letter at our risk. MAGNETON APPLIANCE COMPANY, 213 State Street. Chicago.

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