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Over Thirty Years Without Sickness. Mr. II. \Vettstkix, a well-known, enterprising citizen of Byron, 111., writes: “Before I paid much attention to regulating the bowels, I hardly knew a well day; but since I learned the evil results of constipation, and the etlioacy of AYER’S Pills, I have not had one day’s sickness for over thirty years ■y — not one attack that did not readily yield to this remedy. My wife had been, previous to our marriage, an invalid for years. She had a prejudice against cathartics, but as soon as she began to use Ayer’s Pills her health was restored.”

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AN INDIAN ROMANCE.

Two

Brothers In Love with the Bamo Maiden.

The Diaoar^ed Snttor Sought the Ufe of Ilia 8«ec**fl*ful Rival, But Was Killed Hlmaclf—The Marvelous Preservation of the Intended Victim.

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In couples and in snfftll companies the Indians hunted the deer, elk and antelope; and while danger was always present, tragedies sometimes occurred in which neither wild animals nor inimical tribes had part, but which arose from feelings and impulses common to human nature. The following wellauthenticated adventure, writes Alice C. Fletcher in Century, took place in the last century. Two brothers loved the same woman. She favored the younger, but by some means the elder took her to wife. They were married in the fall of the year, and winter passed by, and one day in spring the brothers went forth to liunt together. Walking near the breaks of the Clearwater, the elder stopped to look over the edge of the canyon, where, a thousand feet below, the river glistened in the morning sun. Half way down the rocky wall, upon a ledge that jutted out from the sheer face of the precipice, he saw a nest of young eagles, lie called to his brother, who returned and looked down upon the nest. “I know what I will do,” he said; “I will make a rope.” So the two set to work. They stripped the bark from young willows, and plaited it into a rope strong enough to hold a man. This done, they threw one end over the precipice to see if it was long enough to reach the nest; but it fell far short. Then they worked on, lengthening the rope until finally it rested upon the ledge. They agreed that one was to let the other down to secure the eagles. The elder tied the rope about his body, and the younger lowered him carefully until his feet were well on the ledge. As he walked along toward the nest he saw the rope suddenly tossed over the cliff; instinctively he steadied himself, caught the rope, and pulled it in. He was alone, with a precipice above and a precipice below, on a narrow ledge, with no living thing but himself and the halfgrown eagles. By and by the old eagles returned, and, seeing the intruder, were inclined to bo hostile; but the man was careful not to anger them, and when they went away again he secured a part of the game they had brought to their young. Days wore on, and the man’s life was sustained by the food the old eagles brought; but his distress from thirst was great, so he cleared out the little hollows in the rock to catch the rain, covering them carefully to prevent evaporation. The young eagles became accustomed to his companionship and the touch of his hand; but by and by the time came when they were ready to fly, and death looked the lonely man in the face. lie resolved to make an effort to reach the ground. He had hidden his rope in a crevice in the rock to keep it from drying; he now tied it firmly about his body, fastening each end strongly to an eagle, leaving sufficient length between the birds and himself to give full play for their wings. lie reasoned that if the eagles were not able to fly with his weight they would break his fall by their endeavors to save themselves. At all events, it was death to remain upon the ledge after they had gone. When all was ready, with his bow and quiver fastened upon his back, he pushed the wondering eagles off their nest over the cliff, and they bore their strange burden down, down the canyon, and finally, weary with their enforced flight, alighted upon a tree at the bottom. The man took a feather from each of his preservers and released them; then he swung himself down through the branches to the ground, and, taking the shortest trail to his home, came upon his brother and his wife sitting together outside the tent. It took but a moment to send an arrow through the unsuspecting man who had so cruelly betrayed him; then, confronting the woman, in intensity of hope, he asked: “Are you glad I have come?” She was silent, but her face told him the truth, and a second arrow pierced her heart Her body fell over the prostrate form of the younger brother before anyone in camp realized that he who had long been given up as dead had returned to avenge his grievous wrongs. NO WONDE3 HE FLED. Hla Wife Had a Tongue and Knew How

to fee It.

‘Look here,” she said, defiantly, as she strode into the detective’s office, my husband’s missing.”. “You don’t say so!” “I do say so, don't I? Well, I’d have you to understand that I do say so; and, what's more, you heard me say so. And don't propose to stand here and be contradicted by any man that lives.” She paused for brcatU. says the Washington Post, and the officer murmured: “I didn’t mean any offense.” “If that ain't like a man! What difference does it make what you mean? \ ou don't suppose I care what you meant? \ ou've got your business to attend to, haven’t you? All I ask is that you mind it and not ask fool questions and make silly remarks. Where’s my husband?” “Why—how do I know where your husband is?” “Of course you don’t know where he You rc not paid fur knowing where he is, are you? 1 haven’t been up to the tax collector’s office twice a year for the last twenty—I mean ten—years paying my share of your salary to look after just such cases as this.”

POISON IN MATCH "s.

Very 8«rlon» 4'on»eqiience» May Rreult

from Its Absorption.

A commission appointed by the French government has been imcstigatlng the manufacture of matches, with the object of ascertaining if there was not some substance whose substitution for phosphorus would render that industry one in which men and women could engage without becoming the victims of horrible and fatal forms of poisoning. The commission, says the New York Times, has just made its report and the conclusions reached by it are of great interest. There is, the commissioners say, nothing that can replace phosphorus as a quick and convenient means to start combustion. Other chemicals would, indeed, be safer for the employes, but none of them is even approximately as safe or useful from the standpoint of the public. It is evident, therefore, that the use of phosphorus must continue; but though that is the case it by no means follows that the manufacture of matches must

CONFUSED IDENTITY.

Many Mistakes Result from Similarity of Nam a a.

The RenmrkAhle and Annoying: Experience of a IVarthliifftnn Woman Who Waa Ttfkon for One Who Had Died.

“I am not a believer in the supernatural, and I am certainly not a theosophist,” asserted a bright, chipper old lady, as she turned from the post office window one day lately after an interview with the “powers” in which she was endeavoring to establish her Identity, says the Washington Star, “and neither do I believe in the ‘fates’ or evil stars or anything of that kind, but I am haunted, or hoodooed, whichever you may desire to call it, by a dead woman. I never knew her in life, never knew that she had lived, in

fact, until she had given up the strug-

be at the cost of hundreds of lives every; It was the day she died and the year, liy using proper precautions,! notlce " as F ut in thc P a P+ >rs that my the commissioners declare, in the ven-1 *' an * began business. This lady lived

tilation of factories, in the structure of machines and in the personal habits of the work people practically all danger can be removed. In the best regulated establishments measures have already been taken that put an end to the diseases that a careless ami unscientific use of phosphorus produces in those that handle it. Adequate safeguards against necrosis and blood poisoning are known and in use by some manufacturers. Others persist In the old ways, and their employes continue to die, also in the old way. A startling feature of the report is Its assertion that the match factories owned and conducted by the French government itself are precisely those in which the conditions are the worst, while many private companies have already made their premises models of arrangement and method, as healthful to work in as could bo desired. It has long been known that the “allumittes de la regie” were the worst in tho world, but perhaps the labors of this bold and outspoken commission will result in improving tho official matches as well as

the places where they arc made. THE CHINESE DOCTOR.

Kills the Hartlng ftmtke In tile Patient's Do<ly with » Pin. “When I was acting American consul at Amoy, China,” said Dr. W. E. Fales to a New Y’ork Recorder reporter, “one of my employes fell sick with a severe attack of rheumatism. He stood the pain bravely for three days, refusing aH ‘foreign devil medicine,' and on the fourth sent for a native physician. Thc latter duly arrived and began preparations for treatment ol tho malady, which he pronounced to be due to tho presence of a 'darting snake’ in the sufferer’s body. Incense sticks were lighted and placed just outside the door, and also in tho room. A pack of firecrackers was set off and a talismanij paper pasted to the wall. This was done to drive away evil spirits and attract good ones. Tho doctor next wrote a lot of characters on a thick piece of paper with a vermillion pencil and set tire to it. It burned into a black ash, which was broken into a cup of water and drunk by the patient. A great bowl of herb tea was made, of which a cup an hour was the allotted dose. The son of Esculapius next bared tho body of my servant and drove deep down into it at nine points a long needle moistened with peppermint. He did it with such skill in avoiding large vessels that the hemorrhage was insignificant. Bethen covered each acupuncture with a brownish paste, and this, in turn, with a piece of dark paper. He collected his fee, fifty cents, and departed. The sufferer soon fell into a sleep and the next day announced that his pains had departed. He remained in the bunk two more days, laughing, chatting, smoking cigarettes ^ud once or twice using tho opium pipe, and then reported as being well. He left the paste and paper in place until they fell off. The skin was smooth and the sear hardly perceptible. He took his recovery as a matter of course, his only comment being that the darting snake was thoroughly dead.”

A CONFIRMED

The <Jueer

WANDERER.

Existence of an Agenl Austra-

lian Laborer.

Here is the pathetic figure of a delightfully simple old man whom we discovered In diligent poru.-ial of his IIibis, aud who invariably camped by himself and did not encourage intruders on his privacy. When we broke through his reserve he gave us the following strange history of his manner of working: “1 only work at two places all the year,” he said. “One is at a station up here, where 1 do thc wool picking; that is always a two months’ job. Then I go back to Richmond river in New South Wales for the cane cutting; that is a four months job. The remaining six months I spend in traveling to and fro, as these two stations ore eight hundred miles apart, and it takes me three months to do the journey. 'l have been doing this for twenty years, and shall continue to do it as long as 1 live.” He flatly refused an offer of hBft, for to alWr his habits would make him miserable. T? T always turn up to tho day, for, sec here Is my plan drawn out,” and he showed us a rough chart of each day’s route marked out like a ship’s course. “I shall go on Hire this +11) 1 can do so no longer. They will wait a week for me up at the station, and if I don’t turn up, then the boys will come [ out and put up a cross for me. for they’ll know I have gone home for good and all. Good-by.”—Temple Bar. X'ofclo:] h Floating Theater. Boston has a floating theater, a play house built on a ilatboat that rides at

“Well, madam, I don’t know where ! anchor in Marine Park. It is hand-

ne is, but I’ve got a clew.”

“You don't say so!”

“The first thing we do is to look for a

on the same street with me, about fourteen blocks distant, so I have learned since, and we moved to another street on the same day that this estimable woman departed for the silent

land.

“The next day my daughter got two letters of condolence on her sad bereavement. Of course, we didn’t know what to make of it. That evening a lady called to leave her card. Our maid, knowing the lady quite well, said Mrs. M , my daughter, was receiving, and in a surprised but subdued manner she walked into my daughter’s presence, and, being tender hearted and recently bereaved herself, burst into a passion of sympathetic tears. My daughter naturally asked an explanation, and, though it was a sorry joke, we all had a merry laugh over it. “Tho lady who died was my own age, bore my own initials and name and was bon* in the town where I spent most of my life. The publication of her death notice having been seen by friends led them to think that I had parted this life. The next day cards rained in on us, and five more letters. The next week the mail of the dead woman began to come to me. Letters, paperr,, magazines—they all found their way to mir house, because the lady, who had lived alone, had no friends to look after her affairs, I presume, and the house was shut up, and tho city directory gave my address, but not hers. “I wouldn’t have minded them so much, but there also came duns and circulars, bills for the literature and newspapers. Finally we got worried. Wo could not teU until the letters were opened whether they were for mo or the dead woman. So often I sent back opened letters marked ‘opened by mistake' that I began to fear the law. Then casual acquaintances of the dead woman began to call on me, having seen my name in the society notes, to congratulate me on not being dead! And all the time I was, or rather tho woman whom they thought wasn’t dead, was dead, while I was alive. Then we moved again, and people who used to be our best friends began to drop me from their invitation list, having got tho vague impression that I was dead, which a few speaking acquaintances confirmed by asserting that my name was on a handsome monument in Oakwood. ‘It certainly was, for they had seen it!' “The worst of it was, they had seen my name, but I was not there; that is, if it is I who lie under the stone, my astral body is pretty lively, don't you think so? At last I had got rid of tho namesake’s letters and papers, but mine also were missing from the time we moved to our present address. My daughter’s mail came all right, but mine suddenly stopped. I came up today to investigate, and find that my namesake now appears in the directory ns ‘dead,’ while I do not appear at all for some inscrutable reason, so that the spectral mail forwarded by our other postman to our new address has fallen into the hands of one who knew the ‘bant’ and of her death, and who had been sending the mail back to the writers or to the dead letter office, much to my distress of mind. I am npw trying to establish my identity. Really, it is almost uncanny, and my nerves arc actually suffering from the persistent manner in w’aich the dead woman’s personality pursues :nc.”

A Orest Truck Garden. The New York board of health lately discovered that Biker’s island, a deserted bit of land on which the city was In the habit of dumping its garbage, was, if not blossoming like the rose, at least bringing forth produce after the fashion of a Harlem truck patch. The reason of its fruitfulness lay in thc fact that the garbage was spread out in the low places of the island and then covered with a dressing of dirt. In due .course of time the seeds of all kinds of vegetables naturally sprouted, and consequently a luxuriant crop of cantaloupes, watermelons, squashes, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, boots and carrots grew to maturity, much to the surprise of Sanitary Inspector Springer, who visited the island the other day to look into its condition.

BLOOD SPOTS IN APPLES.

Paenllur Phenomenon Notleed In a Par. tleular Variety of Fruit. A peculiar species of fruit In the Norwich (Conn.) market is the “Mike” apple. It has a fair skin, an excellent flavor and Is extensively propagated thereabouts. Each individual apple exhibits somewhere In its pulp a red speck, like a tinge of fresh blood, and thereby hangs a strange legend. The apple, says the New Y'ork Herald, obtains its name from Micah Rood, a farmer who lived upon the outlands of tho Connecticut town in the eighteenth century. The son of Thomas Rood, one of Norwich’s early settlers, Micah tilled the soil with all the zest of youthful ambitioa. Rut of a sudden his habits changed; he grew idle, restless and intemperate, lie lost all interest in both work and workshop. His cattle were neglected and his neighbors shunned. Some attributed the change to witchcraft; others to insanity. Winter wore away, spring returned, and the orchard of Micah Rood burst into blossoms. On one tree, it was then observed, the flowers had turned from white to red. The superstitious neighbors wondered, especially as Rood seemed drawn to thin tree by some resistless fascination. August came and the red blossoms developed into fruit. When the large yellow apples fell from the branches each one was fouml to contain a well defined globule, known thereafter as “the drop of blood.” The freak of the apple tree deepened tho mystery of Micah’s behavior. Conjecture followed surmise, and soon it was remembered that during the previous fall a foreign peddler had passed through Norwich and passed the night at Micah Rood’s. He had never been seen again. Some one suggested that the young farmer had murdered him for his money and buried the body under the apple tree. Search was made for the body of the stranger, but in vain. Nor was any trace of his stock found among the possessions of the unhappy Micah. If a load of crime rested upon the conscicnce.of the suspected farmer it never forced a confession from his lips. IIis farm drifted gradually into decay, and, too broken down to reclaim it, he wandered about town, disordered in mind and body. He died in 172S, but while the bloodspotted apple continues to grow his name and history will be perpetuated. THE QUICK LUNCH. It In ItPHponiilhlc for tho Prevalence of IndlffOMtlon. The prevalence of indigestion in America has been variously accounted for, iced water and sweets being two of the favorite explanations. Rut as a matter of fact it is not so much what one cats as the way in which one eats it which works the mischief, and in America thc way is a standing affront to the art of gastronomy. For in what other country than America, as a writer in the London Critic very pertinently asks, would the legend “Quick Lunch” prove an attraction to the hungry man? A foreigner (especially if he were a Rritish workman) would regard it in tho light of an insult. A Frenchman will do anything in a hurry except eat, and, in consequence, his digestive apparatus does its duty. Rut the average American seems to think that the time spent at tabic Is wasted. Indeed, the writer in the Critic declares that it is tho commonest thing to see men bolting their food at a lunch counter, not to get back to the business, but in order to loaf about the streets till the mid-day interval is spent. Even those who enjoy more leisure show a similar disregard for tho high art of dining, and an American lady lias been heard to say that she thought the nicest way to live would be to go to the pantry when you were hungry and take a bite of something, but that to sit at table was a sheer waste of time. “Ten minutes for refreshments,” in fact, waa her idea of rational refection. Here at least is one of the things which we manage better in the effete old mother country. Record breaking is all very well, but it is a bad ideal to aim at where speed in eating is concerned. Here, at any rate, the policy of Gladstone is above reproach.

Slave Trau'e In Morocco.

A recent writer from Morocco says that tho slave trade in that country was never so actively prosecuted as it is at the present time. For some time past, ever since luo accession of tho present sultan, thc southern tribes liavc been in active revolt, raiding and destroying the towns and villages and carrying off the women and children, whom they sell into slavery at different points on the coast. The slaves are purchased for the most part by Jewish traders, who are largely under Rritish

His Specialty. Perhaps to be admired for mistaken virtues is harder to bear with patience than not to be admired nt nil. There is a story of an artist whose cluuda were very highly approved by the public until they learned that the strokes were intended to represent a cascade. Another instance of mistaken appreciation is told of the painter constable. He was one day leaving tho Royal academy where he hud been busy with his colleagues of the hanging Committee iu un'uugiug the pictures for the exhibition, and at the door he met Sam, tho porter, who had been helping with the mechanical part of the work. They had just been moving into place one of constable’s own landscapes, painted in his characteristic manner, and full of the spots of light which he was accustomed to introduce into his pictures. “Well, Mr. Constable, sir,” said Sam, “that’s a picture of yours, sir! Wonderful, sir!” “Glad you approve of it, feam,” said the artist, feeling in his pocket for a shilling wherewith to entourage Mam’s taste. “Wonderful, : sir!” repeated the man. “1 never see J snow painted so natural in all my life!”

somcly finished in white and gold, profusely decorated with potted plants and

ferns, and thc walls are covered 1 and Portuguese protection. The writer

motive. I think I’ve found out wh> ! nautical paintings and divers | thinks that thc Christian powers should your husband left home. If I ieurn an v i ‘uUcIk... It has a seating capacity of make an agreement to -.vitl draw their

time cards' am] full infonnrtion in regard te 1 morc WI lct 5’ ou know.”’ And he dodged 1 ' 400 ' a lar P c an ‘ l roomy stage with a j protection from any individual, native ratea, through cars, etc., urUiresR j into his private ofllee and behind tho dozen or more appropriate settings, and i or alien, who engages in tnc M.iw

F. J Rlbo g p a Chicago^^’ AgCn *’ 4 ' an artistically designed curtain. 'trade.

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I-rlnglng the Moon Down. It is a very difficult but highly interesting undertaking which a certain M. ! Mantois has'in view for the Paris exhi- ; bition of 1000. He proposes to eon1 struct a telescope nearly two hundred i feet long, with an object glass more than four and one-third feet in dinnipter. By means of this enormous lens he hopes to bring the moon, to all intents and purposes, within six miles of thc gay French capital, and to be able ' to throw the image of the moon, as it S would look at that distance, upon a screen night after night in a hall holdi ing half a thousand spectators.

Call It a Craze. AN ALARMING STATEMENT CONCERNING WOMEN. MOIV BAD HABITS ARE FORMED. The York Tntorne says : “ Thc habit of taking headache powders' is increasing to an alarming extent among a great number of women throughout the country. These powders as their name indicates, are claimed by the manufacturers to be a positive and speedy cure for nny form nf headache. Iu many cases their chief ingredient is morphine, opium . c >cainc or some other equally injurious drug having a tendengr to deaden pain. Thc habit of taking them ts easily formed, but almost impossible to shake off. Women usually begin taking then: to relieve a raging headache and soon resort to the powder to alleviate any little pain or ache they may be subjected to, and finally like the morphineor opium fiend,yet into the habit of taking then regularly, imagining that they nre In pain if they happen to miss their regular dose.” In nine cases out of ten, the trouble is in thc stomach and liver. Take a simple laxative and liver tonic and remove the offending matter which deranges the stomach and causes the headache. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are composed entirely of thc purest, concentrated, vegetable extracts. One Pellet is a dose; sugar-coated, easily swallowed; once used, always in favor. They positively cure sick headache and remove the disposition to it. Mr. F,. Varcason, of Otter Ijike. IJipfn Co., Mich., writes: “I not infrequently harenn attack of the headache. It usually conics on in i the forenoon. At my dinner I cat my regular meal, and take one or two of Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets immediately nflcr, and in the course of an hour my headache is cured nnd r.o bad effects. I feel better every way for having taken them— not worse, as is usual nfter taking other kinds of pills. Pleasant Pellets' are worth more than their weight in gold, if for nothing else H. Varoasox. Esq. than to cure headache." The Trick a Passenger Played Lpon • Grouty Railroad OfUclul. At a station on one of our great railroad lines there is a gate-man noted for his gruffness. One day there came a man who lived on the line and had an annual ticket. The gate man alway: passed this passenger without troublin; him to show the ticket; but one day being more than usually gruff, ha ordered him to produce it, adding, in a severe tone: “Mind, I want to see this every time you take a train.” A week later, at two o’clock in the morning, the gate-man was aroused from a sound slumber by a ring at the door bell. Looking out of tho window, he saw a man in a great state of excitement. “Come down, quick!” ho cried. “Railroad business!" The official hurried on his clothes and came down to the door. “I want you to look at this ticket,” said the visitor. “I’m going on tlie three a. m. train, and you said you wanted to see the ticket every time.” The gate-man uttered an exclamation of rage, and slammed the door, without even glancing at the ticket; and, furthermore, he never afterward asked to see it at the gate.

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BEAUTY JS^ POWER. Perfpolion of Form, Feature, anti Mind Render Women All-powerful.

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