Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1883 — Page 7

VHh 1NÜ1AJNA STATK feEM'EL WEDNKMAi. AUGUSTS, 1883.

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KY HABRT l SHELUf Alt. It 'j eared to me I wo'ant no ose oat In the Geld to-day: I, somehow, couldn't swing the scythe nor toss thu iewmowu bay, An' so I thought I'd jest tit here among the apple tree. To reft a while beneath their shade an watch the tuzzlii' tees. "Well, no! e.'an't say I'm tired, but I somehow Wanted rest. Tobe awsy Irora evsrytalng teemed sorter to be best; For every time I go around where there ii himin kind. I kinder hunger alter what I know I can not Cad. It's sing'lar how la natur the sweet Bpple blOSKmh frt.ll. The brc ze if 'reart to kaow and pirk the purUest cf 'm all; I'.'s only rutted ones, perhaj-s, cau stand ajia' the blast The tza.ii and delicate are made too beautiful to last. W hy, tight here In the orchard, among the oldest uie. I had it nice yonns? apple tree jest btartin out to lear An' when the cklnoctial storm come tearln' 'cross the frm It tore that up, wLUe to the rott It d.du'tdono hrm. An' so you're been away a spell? Well, how 1 thine, in town? Iare fay It's geitia close an hot. To take it up an' down I like the country best. I'm glad to see you're lookiu' sur . "o! Thiers dot.'t go iest right with me; I scueely am by why. Oh, yea: the crop is Iookln" fair, I've no rig at ti complain. My corn inns well, an I havo got a purty stand of grrela: My hay is almost made, an Well, yes. Betsy? bhe'sto noShe never is as hearty as she ought to be, you know. The boys? They're la the iceddcr lot dowa by tho old mill race; As line i.iece of grass ground as l're got upon the plati : It'a queer tow. when the grass prows up. an iis to lookin' best. That then'a the time to cut it down. It's S3 with ail the rest Of things hi natur', I suppose. The harvest comes lor all Borne day, but I can't understand jest why the best fruit (alls: "The Lord knows best. lie fixes things to suit His own wise laws, A a' yet its cut'ous oftentimes to figger out the cause. Mirardy? Yep, she's dorn' well; 6he'a helpia mother cow About too house. A lively gal to bike, or milk a COW, An' No; I'm not half the man I were tea ycRr ago; But then the years will toll upjn the best of us, you know. Another ' Yes, our Llztswere the best ol thera ul; Our baby, cnlj seventn, so sweet, an fair, aa' tail. Jest lüe a lily; always Rood, yet cheerful, bright an' faj We laid 1 er in the churchys.nl over yonder, yesterday. Thai's why I felt I wa'ant no use out la the Ceil to-dny, I somehow couldn't swing the scythe nor toss the new mown bay; Aa' so 1 thocght I'd j3S si: here among the trees au' rest ; Thee thirds rne harder when we're old; but then the Lord Luowa be-r. H.w on Transcript. BbtM,: Jfcor. Chlcsgu Tribune. J Little Brune Aliddleton, & pretty girl with a trim w aisle, bright dark gry ryes, a krowa ccnplexioa and stiil browner htir, a mouth and brow that shovel a tho-igatful charsv. ter, stood, leaning grünst a Uree oak tree on the Bumcit of one of the many hills encircling her father'fl homo. IJ'uno had bean leading a strong-minded wom&n'a opinion of Aimless Liivea,M and now, a3 she gazed dowa upoa the wiüdin f river, the uadulstirg hills, and grore -embosomed house, ahe was filled with self -reproach that she wa3 merely living, and enjoyra;; it too, without knowirg why or doing any appreciable gocd to any one. It had beert mada vry clear to her that she had been put here for eorue use but for what? To out, drink, and be merrj ? O no, that wasn't enough; that was only for self. Her spirit rose impatient, and bar band turned to bo doing "with tiioir mighf." but thero wa3 nothing, absolutely nothing, for them to fall upon. Tho tears roeo to her eyes aid she bittarly exclaimed: I'm nothing but a curat) irer of (lod's busy earth." It muit be adenitt-jd that Uruto a range cf thought wa3 ra.her circumscribed, for, save through books ml papers, she knew nothing of tha ro-t wsrl i cutside her own ill-sarrounda i country leme. I'rof, Midlleton, an abstracts 1, though kicd hoarted taaa and dovoted goj'o gt, in ioKowicg the aim of his own lua hi J broken through mny an outer crmt ail looted deeply int the inner nature of Mjti er Earth, but it had never once occurred to him that thero wsu more in the character oi hia children than waa shown upon ta.i suface, ard ho knew absolutel y nothing of tho-n beyond their names and their faca. Mr?. -Middlcton sometimes wondered by what totuition he knew that much. A to Brun9,:u whom he might haya found a study worthv of himself, he regarded hor as a pojr'ect child, and abentiy remarked to his wife one day, 'How large Urune grows " Yes," cried Mra. Middleton, haUeiing to epeak while his mind was o2 his rt.ckä and pebbles. "Ye?, indeed; slia is well-grown and pretty, and I wish very mica ene mih see mere of Eociety. iladrrioatlla will hav, no more of hor in tha school -room and taenia absolutely nothing Leioto employ hvr time fv it should be." Lut the hint fell upon unheeding ears; the PrcfoES.r'B thoughts were in the fourtQ stratum already, mmtia&'i wore called to tit numry, and meanwhile lr? ye ars-uld B-un stocd hcldiig outcmptj, lunging haiilit warl an object to i:ve for dwoat, fair Mrs. 3Iidd!eion, whoso loving heart an! bu?y Landä were all davo'.i m "to hor lutta fleck, scarcely fancied tha half that pavoi in Bruno's active mind, ßba fcr k.nd, affecliosate, and consiicrttsi to all, npparait ly Ceppy and intereateu in all ab )Ut hor. leu toe Drißn. innuercs or nerunnv nat.irt aca cmv can realize! tc&. a gr-atar va.ety than their quiet home life afforded was ually cece-s-sary to her dtugüter's dvelopment and happiness Alia-ugh ehe had not yet forgotten tho bright days of her ov i ycuth, and would havo wihl for Urune a glimpse cf euch gayeties as belong to girl hcod, she failed to urg9 it up a her hub in 1 that Lrne should have companions of her own ago. -Had the Middletoas been ia lois prosperous circumstances thaa they ware, s that some daily household dutios might have vfallen unon Erune. I don't think wa should a have found ber musing in this diafsä-J way upon her lot. Iiat bsyoni amuaiag herself Ki was most agreoabl-a to tfr, aai ea teitainiEg Ler merry littlt brothers and sis tors when they sought from her aoag, or Btcry, or comfort for some childish Burrow, she found nothing for Ler hands to dx h9 poyessed far tco mu:h o' her fathsr'd talent and her mother's energe'.i3 spirit not to have already foit diitreed at her forced iüaetien. This appeal frun the strong minded wctnan had aroused her whole nature, SO now she stood clamping the miht. bedy of her favorito . tree ai i Wishing that it miirht devlp' th faculty of speech like the. ?a'king cak," or at least with waving braacbji

point out the ipet where her mission lay. Finally she resolved to po t9 nf fatter, though sho inwardly dreaded tha amazed look with which he would great her questions. However, the desire for action was greater than the fear of being misundaritood, and tathering up her drei ahe turnei a tout to descend the hill, when a curly poll appeared from behind a great moisy rock, and with dancing eyes and laughing faca ber little sister lierenico ran to meot her. "O swler Erune, where have you baon and what is the matter with, you?" sho cried. "Have ycu teen to the moon, or are you only moonstruck?" ".TSo, lieDy, I haven t," gravely replied RriT.e, still imprassed with the subject ot hor meaitatioiis. "I have been trying to taiak what ia the object of my life. "Tell ma what it is, J(ar," sho added laughinly, as lily's mystified ltok struck her as irresistibly comical. "Have mercy, Brune: isn't it enough to be obliged to furriish objects for my verbs," retorted tha ready-witted child. "And do come along. Mamma sent me to Had you became papa has brought homs a visitor, only think, and that's so extraordinary that I den't know what will happen next. I wish something would, for my part. I don't belitve evory place can be as stupid a3 this.ani perhaps papa might leave tha valley if a real awlul tragedy should occur," and Ii3ny's eyes ipaikied, while her ehouldors were drawn up in a comical affectation of a shiver of e! read. Unine laughed again and reminded Bany of Ler distress a few days beforo whea their lather brought home a littlo wounded fox from tho old quarry. "Diin't that erttisfy your thirst for blood, little savage?" she as ked. Ucny'a only reply was t skip gayly along from side to tido ot the slo?p narrow path; then turning around with sn arch look on her blight littie face she criod oil: "0 I don't know; I only wirh eocnthing would happen. I'd even wUa you would find your 'object, if that would "mako any difference between Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, "Wed need ay, Thuwday. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday again V and out of breath she skipped a littlo too far on the outer edge of the path and fell headlong upon the rocks below, before the frightened Brine could nach her. "O Beny, Beny," sho cried, "Why are ycu so care. ess?" and she hastened forward half expecting the merry child would spring up in an ecstasy of fun at having succ joded in frightening her more timid or rather loss j eck lets sister. But the littlo twisted body seemed almost tireless, it waj so rigid, and all Bruue's efforts to take her up only availed to elicit moans of pain. Throwing her arrxs about ber, sho lifted hor as tender ly as possible, and, with trembling limb;, carried he: swiftly (town tho et?p winding walk to the be use. Ah, Brune, Brune, little did you think v?hen 3 ou climbed the hill, seeking your obj ct," that it would be thus you should una it. It is almost impossible to describe tho scene of distress and confusion that ensued, asbeittime after, when Brune, with pale, awe-strucü countenance, almost tainting ith fatigue and fright, but with a brave l'ght. for al-, in her oyes, and a firm look beut her sweet mouth, entered with her burden. Gently placing Berenice upon a K ungn, sho explained the accident in fewest orCa to Ler father, soothed her mother with tady and kind sympathy, and endeavored n vain to subdue the noisy grief of the curt e, an old Irish country woman, who saw .fre a fine opportunity for a whilleluT' She had met one of the servants as she came n end dispatched him for Dr. ilearns, their tneted physician, and now she busiod herelf bathing the injured child's face and try. rg to arouso her from a stupor into which the had fallen. Beny's boly wa? still strangely contorted ard hor breathing heavy ani unnatural. I'rof. iliddleton seemed in a maze, and locked helple?sly toward his wife, who was fully occupied in quieting the frightened sEd" excited children, wbocast fearfnl glances upon the helpless form of their once merry Berenice. In the midat of the confusion there came a gentle knock at' the front door, which was replied to by a general rujh to opon it, every on fancying it to ba Iiiearns. The tall figure standing ba!ore them appeared quite abashed, and saying p'l g6tically: "I beg pardon, I thought I might bo of service, perhaps" was about to retreat when his hands were grarped by I'rof. Middlcton, who drew him into the to jm.saying: "Come in I Come in, Doctor! You my relieve her. Dr. Hartley, my dear," to hii wife, and "my daughter, "eir," ha added, turning to Brune. Unine, looking aniiomly into his face, began telling how Barenica bed fallen, but bafore Ehe had finished, although Dr. Hartley heard all sha said, the room was quite clear of the excited group of cervants and children, and ho was carefully examining tte littla one. A grave look over-shadowed his face, but whilst he cut away her twiited clothing and applied something pur gent and aromatic to her forehead nd liOie sho appeared to revi70. Tnon Dr. UsTtley lo king around was met by Prof. Niddleton and Dr. Mearns, and Brune left he room, aniiovs, yet dreading the rosuli of Lo firm nation, "ller father came forth Utkirg much agitated, and in answer to her 'squiring lace kiäsod her twice, saying quite tm Veniy : Brune, your sifter is much hurt. The ta!l has injured her spice," and he disappeared into tho study, whither no one ever üsreo to follow. Brune wont to her mother, ho was greatly distressed for little Be i cr, ice, but whoso anxieties were also reused in behalf or baby Jeaa, who with the cs.nl cer.sideratioa of babies showed dauitrcu3 sjinptotna ofcrup. Sho sent Brune ack to Berenice, saving: '-The charge of -.1 r must devolvo upon you for the present. C'cEtf.nt watchfulness and care aro requiied;'' and, seeing ia her daughter's faca he samo brave, sttady look that it had vein when she came in with Berenice ia her arms, she cried: 'Bltsä you, my daughter, what should I do without you to depend t'pon?" Tears i rarg to Brune's eyo3 and hor heart swelled with pleasure attbese words. She was cf use, Her all, a d she tad a placo to fill. Although she realized tho danger her dear i;ttl sifter was in, it was a relief to find that npcu her devolved something no one else t o'i'd do, and she went to Beny's room n-i oU t d to leave nothing undone that could crefit her or allay her psin. Dr. llearns finding rn Dr. Hartley an accomplished and experienced surgeon despite hie apparent youth, tad left the little pat'eat in his charge, and through the night long tbey, Brune, nurse hforah, and the stranger, watched beside the child's bedaido. It was prtttv to soe how deft and skillful a nurse wss Bmne; so intuitive were her parcop-ticn-cf what should be done that sheseerrnd to Dr.Hartley the very embodiment of grace ir.d mercy. Toward morning the stupor gavowsy to delirium and Bany talked iaOEantly, constantly calling for ''Sister Brune," and asking "where was her object," at d what it was that kept her from going down the hill. "It ia the O jact, the Object that holds me and hurts me," she ecreamed Kgain, and it rtq aired all their efforts to icth and restrain her. Bruce flushed as she thcugbt of hor discontented nursing in the afternoon, which seemed wicked aad umattral to her row that eh9 contrasted the trouble of the pretest with the poaceful serenity of that time. She glanc ad qiicklyat Dr. Hartley to see if be beedod Bany's wild

wtrds, atd caught his clear blue eyes Ux-J qt-etionii glj upon her. Can Lt have an orjtfct?" sha wonlarei icvcluntarily, and tbe-u reprcaching hor..i. bitterly for ksii g sight of her sistar's p?ril vtn fer a nioniont, she bent over hr witn rerewed care. D went on and lengthened into we A, ai d the i'ttJe sufferer so far recover! ttiV. all imn ediate darger was pvfed. Uow-v .r, the steck t her syEtem wa great sil bo: vital powers w ere rxuch reduced. It w a Q' - etsar to carry her from place t plac an i j careless grap made her shriek ina ns-. Nocto carried her so co nfortably b I) Uartley cr "my Dr. Dick" as she affaclK.tiately called him. He bad become so completely domeicated that it certtvinly has been bis due u bave lis sudden appearanco en the scene ex plained l eg ere this He wa the sin of a-i old friend ot I'rof. Middleton's, and bin? i s Beiyntcn a vilisge nar the Professor' Va -ley Iloru, on some buFiness for hi- father on the cay f Berenice's aev'idnt, had met and intr düced timsel to the Professor. Tna old familiar rame aDd the resemblance to his friend eo touched the wirm-hearted ol l gentleman that he would listen to no e-xu or delay, but carried eff his prize forthwith to his home that be might more completely erjoy hearing of his boyhood's friend. 11 ciard Hartley bad a soul full of love tor hi chosen woik and a mind and body well fitted to do well whatever he undertook. With these good grcunda for success and, favoriag circumstatces, it is small wonder that ho steed well in his profession. Tha errand tbat tad brought him had long been sat sfactorjlj attended to, bu. to his coaecionce aa i bis neglected and remonstrating parents ahad tho same reply: "Tie daughser of m; filter's dear old friend has the bast right t my attention." As the Valley Ilimahipresence was a wonderful addition The Pre fe or thawed visibly under his cenialinfiuenc, and M-s. Middleton seemed to turn naturally to him in all her troubles about her little enf s. Berenice clamored for him and wouldn't willingly permit any one else to bear her about from place to place, and, aa the conftaxiiy demanded her devoted Brune to read and sing for her, what was so natural and unavoidable as that Brune and Dr. Hartley were frequently together. Bruno's brilliant color had not faded, notwithstanding all her watching over Berenice, aad her pretty hair - id not the less ring itself abau' her bead because she had less time to bestow ujon it, nor were her eyes less bright that they were soft and dewy with pity tor her EuSoricg little sister. "Well, time doth fly, we all do know. It was early spring when B ny's fall male ha tte chief interest in the Valley Homa, ani now the days were shortening fat and mis hucg lute and early ever the redieain hills. Berenice still claimed her doctor's a d and her Brune's entertainment, and all thirgs still yielded to her rather arbiträr. will. However, urgent calls from his Southern heme demand that Dr. Hartley shall re turn, ard long grow all countenance wheo the wcrd goes .orth that oaiy a few more days cf grace remain. Shortly after making this announcement the Doctor joins Prüf. Äliddleton as he rallies forlh on his usual geologizing expodition, which lats evoa longer than usual, and results in the Proio-sor returning with a be wi'dered look on his face, a basket empty of specimens, and minus hia hammer, the inevitable companion of many a walk. He weat straightway to Mrs. iliddietcn, demanded u her why she had cot told him that Brute waa a woman, and without awaiting a rep!) strode off to bis library. Meantime Dr. D.ck came into the housa, and, catching the sound of a swoet voioe sinjing in lleny's room, ho betook hi use f there also. Pausing a moment at the door to subdue a glancing light in his eyes and smooth away a toll tale smile from bis lip, he heard the words: II we are poor and would bo rich, it will not be by pining. No! steady heart and hopeful minds are Life's bngbt silver lining. There'6 ne' r a mau ba'.h dared to hope, hath of his choice repented The happiest souls on earth axe those who smile und are contented. Then as tho song ceased he heard the querultus, sharp tones of lleny's volco demand: "Brune, did you ever find your objec ?" "Why, what doyoumean, dear?" re3pon led Brur.e' softer voice. 'Don t you recollect the day I broke m back-, y u know, the day my Dr. D.ck cam you were up on the hill uader the great oa treo looking for your object, and I've alway war.tcd to see it." "You are my object, then, I expect, Beny, for I was thinking what an idle girl I was, and lonped for something to do, and you've furniihed me with quite enough, you little puss." This was an innocent speech to make, I'm suro. and I can not understand why the color mounted to Brune's very eyes as sue made it, nor why those eeif-sam9 eye3 should seek a book ail unsought of before, just as Dr. Dick came in, too. Beny wasn't satisfied at all, stnd stretched cut her arm3 to him. exclaiming eagerlj: Dr. Dick, Brune was looking for aa object on the hill when I went to find her! Waa'. is that? An objact to live for," sho Btid she wanted. "Have you got one? r she asked curie uly. Dr. D.ck's eyes looked deeper and bluer than ever, and. bendinp down to help find the still looked-for volume, he accidently encouutered Brune's little hand outstretched oa the same quest, and Bany heard him say: "Have 1, Brune?' Beny's eyes grew larger and larger, and her indignation knew no bounds when Dr. Dick, after first neglecting to reply to her questions and then forgetting to givo her toe much-hunted book, deliberately stood up beforo her with her Brune's haad in his aad said quietly: "Here is my objact, B?ny." A winter south was tne only thing for Beny'a health; Dr. Hartley said so; Dr. M earns reiterated it Tho Profossor and Mrs. Middleton could not gainsay two such authorities. Accordingly a month or two later wo find her z 'mfortably and happily settled at Livingpton, the home of Dr. Hartley's father, carefully and lovingly tend i as before by her two obedient servants, C'un ; and Dr. Dick. Bat to this day ehe wondars why it is that Brune never Bteks for an object in life, and what Dr. Dxk could have meant bv his reply that memorablo day at Valley Home whn he and B-une made up their minds to mtrry each other.

"When the Cows Come Home." IXew Yord Dalry.l Becently there was a great revival of religion in a Western town, where butter, cheese and milk wwre the principal products. One evening, after meeting, a dairyman approsched tho dominie and remarked: 'You are doing a noble work here, sir, I'm pleased to soV "Ye-s; a great many prodigal sons are returnir g h me," replied the minister. 'Ahl' exclaimed the dairyman, "what effect do you suppose that will have on the veal rctrket?" 'Sir!" said tho a3tonished preacher, "what do you mean by such a worldly allusion as that?" Oh, I didn't know but that the return of eo many procieal sons might cause a greit dmand for farsed cal ve, an I thus rane the price of veil," retorted the wicked man as he walked off whistling, "When the cows come heme.'

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.V I.'. V. I:UK. rn ii. ' Y.rU- a ;r.c " 5n the Aucnn Centurr. ' 'ill h arts t Mai.k.' Jt mini., Iii It m!" 1 ib m. Niw Youjc, Jaly It, 1SS3. 1K I: tilHL'. Tie t'-wi! Ko.toa as though It thn: !.r j in sil'.l erc III it; " ! L- n oi; i e ff-cnn scarce to know ri tl ii bff- io-l i luutt 1 Pe ;tf! c i:;e, trie people fSM; j h j 4 . k .eej en fc-'ii iil'itf : , A j.ii ' li ! i.kh tue LmiofiiI pmti of grais !'!'!'. t.t vee-J are pncklcg. I tl.f'iiuht 'iwo'ild never come the sprius -!i,f,-you bat l-f" the city ; iu ' lire- u rw-d'tft li'ixering At Inst i he 'ties ook pliy Tl i Hummel' ye l-iw warmed the sun, Iml Jro!e-li'g li-U' ct; I rtll dvu't knew h-jw twasdone Ui'.ix.i.t your kn.d afistauee. Aunt Van, of course, still holds the fort; I've t till the call of rtu'y ; fclif eave re i.e fctnull ijUss of port !v8t- '.''I and fruit. lb- fnttii ure w-s draped In gloom O" liueu brown and wriiikle.l; I Mum tn nmt( ihout theroora The pucgeut camphor sprlukled. I t upon the sofa where Yon tat and drorped your thimble You ki'OW you said you didn't cate; Lut I Was nob'y nimnle Gi haud si;d knees 1 droppe! and tried In well, 1 tried to tniss it; Yon tHpted jour hand down by your side You khow 1 meant to aLsa it. Auut Van, I fear we put to harne Pri piiety and precision: Ku prUed La love, that kis just came B yoi d jour line of vKou. D.-Mr Buid auut! th kus. more sweet IU cause 'tis Mirr putid.is. You never 6Tret(:hed a hand to tne jt, .o dlnjpud. dear, delirious. I sought the park last Sunday ; I leuud the drives ''e'erted; The vater-tTcunhs lxidv1 the way tsad snd super liuous spurted I sum d whete Hi-mboldt guards the gate, Hroi ze. bumpt ons, sunned and streaky There a a sparr w en his ptte, A sparrow chirp and cheeky. Ten months ago! Ten months ago! It seems a happy second, Apainei a life time lone and slow. By love's wild time pitce recaoued Yoi. smiled, by aunt's protecting side, Wheie thick t e drags were making, On one young man who didn't ride. But stood and watched you parsing. I haunt Purssell's to his amxze N' t that I rare to eat there; But for tbe dear clandestine days When we two had to meet there. Oh blessed is that baker's bake. Past cavil and past quewilon ; I ate a bun for your &eet sake. Aid rarEiory helped digestion. The Norths are t their Newport ranch; Van Brunt has gone to Vo dee; LcHdnia invites me to the Bran h. And lutes me with lawn teuLis. 0 bustling barracks by the aea! -piles, canals, and island-.! Your varied charms are nauent to m' My be art is in the Highlands ! My paper trembles in the breeze That all too falutly flutters Arno! g the rtu&ty city trees, And thr ugh my half-closed shutters; A northern captive in the town, Its native vigor deadened, 1 h"pe that, ss it wandered dowa. Your dear pale check it reddened. I'll write no more! A vis a-vis In halcyon vncadon Will sure sllord a much more free Mode of cromunieatioti. I'm tantalfz d and crtboed and checked In making love by letter; I know a style more brief, direct And generally better! TABLK GOSSIP. ODly the leaf ot a rosebud. That fell to tbe ball room floor, Fell from the tinted clusters Oi the big bouquet she wore. Quickly ho stooped and seized it, Tis the leaf of a rose "said he; Timed with summer's blushes And dearer thau gold to me. "Lovely ani frasrant petal, borne sweet suumer night, who knows, I uay hae a t ha ce to tell her I treasured the leaf of the rose." But when to his Hps he pressed it. He muttered in acceuw wroth, "The blamed thing is artificial And made out cf cotton cloth!" S imerville Journal. Professor Proctor has no doubt that this earth bas been right hero and in its present cordition for 50 000,000 years. Ioys, we've mi srd a heap of good fishing. Detroit Free Press. Seo tbe oternal fitness of things. A silver dollar cf 1801 was recently sold for $104 fcilo the Eilver dollar of the present day is wcTh about TS cents. This is progreas. Oil City Derrick. A medical journal dovotos a whole column to explaining what causes cold perapiratioi Any one who has gone up a dark alley aad e'epped on a dog would be wasting valuable time reeding it. Worcester Gazette. The ten plagues of a newspaper office are bores poets, cockroaches, typographical errors, exchange fiends, book envassors, de Iii quent subscribers, and the man who always (cows how to run the paper better than the editor does himself. A celebrated circus manager is oa th huDt for a new curiosity for his show. 11-; i seeking to find a young married man whos i!e can ccok as well as his mother did. Twenty-six States have been explored thufar without succers. Boston Globe. At a wedding in Harlem, N. Yn whore '.be bride was very dilatory in arriving at ;cp church, a lady remarked, concerning the .flair: "Well, the idea of that women being :t in getting here when she has been wait ir.p twenty-six years for just such a chaaca as thisl" He had turned and twisted in his seat for r.earlyan hour, vainly trying to make aa in predion upon the young lady who sat ba iiedbim: At last, he asked: "Dea taw irain stop at Cicero?" "I don't know, sir.' be quickly replied, adding, '-but 1 hopa bo, .f you think of getting otl there." "So you are going to Saratoga, Cicely, my dear? ""Well, 1 am 6orry for you." "Way, edetd I If not Saratoga a charming place tb society, the balls, the music, the waters?" "Ah j es; bitter waters of disappointment. I ABS there last year, and three broken en-ifcg-nents was the result and still and s ili." 'Unmarried?" Yes. Don't go to aratoi a." Hartford Post. An Expensive Wife. Old gentleman ia a te'Tgardtn, near the railroad dep it, waitrg for bis wife to arrive on tha next train, of mpla'tT itg to himself: "Here I have alrady drunk six glasse3 of lMsener, and OooMrg at bis watch) tbe train will not b -ere for one hour to come. This will CDrnel rce to drirrk six more glasses. Its terri- ' ''. W bat an expensive wife I have got!" Fliegende Blatter. Tbe cashier of a country bank suddenly expired. When tbe President reached the it stitution the next morning he found a comn.ittee of depositors busily engaged overhaul.rg tho bocks. 'What are you doing?'' he h: kfd, incensed by tbe intrusion and rosontIrg tte presence of tbe committer as an interfeTf cce with hi3 authority. Doa't you know the cashier's deal?" "Yes," returned the spokefman, "and we're looked through Ms cr counts to see whether he died a natural death." Is your railroxd well equipped?" liailrcad President "Well equipped?" I should ssy it was Splendidly equipped, 6'.', splerdidly. For instance there are our mortgage eevens, ard our second moitgage ixff, ard cur (quipmeni bonis and our If.rd prar.t brnd, and our coamn t -ck, rnd our prererred stock, and try J biggest

Costing debt cf any road ia the country. But that isn't all, sir. AYe've got the finest klby that any corporation can show; a parfeet daisy, sir. If you know of a road that's tetter equipped than ours is, nana it, sir; tame it it you please." Boston Transcript. Yes," said the liquor seller, "Jim is a very popu ar ba tender; very popular, indeed, but I shall discbarge him. lie always turns bis back on a customer when tho lattar is pourir g out a drink, when a look of surprise will step a man when the glass is half full." The Pennsylvania women who,armed with pistols and knives, recently raided a priza rirg, put the spectators U flight, and broka op tbe fight, should not ha too severely cen nired by their gentler sisters. In the gapleg thrcrg around the topes were tha raid us' husbands, sons and brothers. 'The scona was different from that at the Al'.en-Gos prize fight in Kentucky a few years r go. A woman appeared on the ground at the latter ccntest, and tbe fight was stopped, but it was only to enable the fighters to shake bands with the woman, and then tho brutal xl it itien proceeded, tbe female visitor ramain'EglAs one of the most pleasantly entertained spectators. The Itad Boy. Peck's öun.J "Come in," said tho groceryman ti the bad Doy, as tha youth -itood ea tie step ia a uncertain sort of a way, a3 though he did not know whether he would be welcoma or not. "1 tell you, boy, I pity you. I understand your pa has got to drinking again It ii to bad. I can't think of anything that hu nilt , ates a boy, and makes him so ashamed, as to bave a lather that is in the habit of hoisting in to a much benzine. A boy foels ai though everjbody was down on him, and I d m't wr ne'er that such boys often turn out bad. What Btaited your pa to drin king aain?" 0, ma thinks it was losing money on the Chicago races. Y'ou see, pais great on point er. He doh't usually bet unless he h3 got a sure thing, but when he gets what they call a pointer, that is, somebody tells him a cartain horse is sure to win, bocause the other horses are to be palled back, he thinks a job has been put up, and if he thinks he is indies the ring he will bet. He says it does not do any hurt to bet, if you win, and ho argues that a man who wins lots of money can do a great deal of good with it. But he had to walk home from the Chicago races all the some,aad he has been steaming ever since. Pa cant stand adversity. Bat.i guess we have got him all right now. He is the 6caitoet man you ever saw," and the boy took a can opener and began to cut the zinc under the s.oe, just to seo if it would woik as well on zinc a .n tin. 'What, you haven't bien dissecting him again, bave you?" sail the grocery man, as be pulled a stool up beside the boy to hear the news. 'How did you bring him to his senses? 'Well, ma tried having the minister talk to pa, but p talked Biole, about taking a little wine for the stomach's sake, and gave illustrations about Neab getting full, so th mir üter couldn't brace him up. and then ma bad some of the sisters come aid talk to him, but he bmke them all up by talking about what an appetito they had for champagne punch when thoy were out in camp last summer, and they couldn't have any effect on him, and eo traf ad she gueeeed I wou'd bave to exercisa my ingenuity oa pa again. Ma has an idea that I havo got some sons y et, eo 1 told her that if che would do j ust as I said, me and my chum would scare pa so he would swear off She said she would, and we went to work. First I took pa's spectacles down to au optician, Saturday nigat, and bad the glasses taken, out, and a p.air put in their place that would magnify, and I took them home and put them in pa's spectacle case. Then I got a suit of clothes from my chum's uncle's trunk, about half the size of pa's Rothes. My chum's uncle is a very small man, end pa is corpulent. I got a plug hat tares sizes smaller than pa's hat, and took the name out of pa's bat and put it in the small bat. I got a shirt about half big enough for pa, and put his initials on the thing under the bosom, and got anumbar fourteen collar. Pa wears seventeen, l'a had promised to brace up and go to church Sunday morning, and ma put these small clothes where pa could putth?m on. I told ma, when pa woke up, to toll him he looked awfully bloated, and excito his curiosity, and then send for me." "You didn't p ay such a trick as that on a rxor old man, did you?" said the grocery rum, as a smiie came over bis faca. "You bet. D. sperate diseases require desperate remedies. Well, ma told him he looked awfully bloated, and that his dissipation askiiiing bim, as well a3 all the rest of the family- Pa said he guessed he wasn't tloatod very much, but he got up and put on his spec ac lea and looked at himself in tbe glass. You'd a dido to see him look at himself. His face looked as big as two aces, through the glasses, and his noäe was a e'ght. I looked scared, and then he held up his band and lookod at that. His band iccked like a bam. Just then I cane ir, end I turned pa'e,? with some chalk n my face, and I begun to cry, and I said, O, pa, what ails you? You are eo swelled up I hardly knew you.' Ba looked sick to his stomach, and then ha triod to ztt on the pacts. O, my, it was all I could Jo to keep from lauchicg to see him pull them pants on. He could just get his es in, and when I got a shoe horn and gave It to him, he was mad. He said it was a aiean boy that would give his pa ashoa horn to put cn pants with. The pants wouldn't come around pa into ton inches, and pa said he must have eat something that disagraed with bim, and ho laid it to watermelon. Ma -tulltd her handkerchief in her mouth to !ef p from laffing, when sho eeo pa look at u'ssel'. The lew of the pants were so tight pa couldnt hardly breathe, and he lamed ( mo, and Baid, 'Hennery, your pa i3 a mtgity sick man,' and then ma and mo both laughed, and be said we wanted him to die so we could perd his life insurance in riotous living. Kut when pa put on that condensed shirt, ma eho laid down on the lounge and fairly yell- ' d, and I laughed till my side ached. Pa got it over hia head, and got his hands ia the sleeves, ard couldn't got it either way, aDd be couldn't see us laugh, but he could hear u, and be said, 'It's darnel funny, aint it, u. have a parent swelled up this way. If I bust you will both be sorry.' Well, ma toe k hold of one side of the shirt, and I took bold of the other, and we pulled it on, and when pa's bead came up through the e-ollar, his face was fairly blue. Ma told - im she waa afraid he would have a stroke of apoplexy before he eot his clothes on, and 1 gii ss pa thought so too. He tried to get i he collar on, but it w uldn't go half way HTcurd bis neck, and he looked n the glass and crie d, be looked so. He sat dowa in a i hair at d panted, he was so out of breath, tnd tbe shirt and pants ripped, aad pa said there was no use of living if he was going to be a rival to a fat woman in tho side-show. .J ait then I put the plug hat on pa's head, ar d it was so small it was going to roll off, wl cn pa trkd to fit it on his head, and then te took it orT and looked insid of it, to see if it was his hatnd when be foand hii name in it, he raid, "Take it away. My head is s.11 wrorg too." Then he told me to go for ibo dector mighty quick. I got the doctor -r d tt Id bim what we were trying to do with pn, ,cd he said he would finis l tne j ob. So .re d- r cme in and pa was on the lounge, tr hen the doc saw him be sail it wa lircky he was called just as he was, or we

wccldbave called an tmderliaer. Ha pa' seme pounded ice on pa's head the first thicg, ordered tbe shirt cut open, and got tbe pants oil. Then he gave pa t e -oe tic, and bad hia feet soaked, and pa said, 'Doc, if you will bring me out ot this I wn never drink another drop " The doc told pa that hia life was not worth a button if h ever drank again, and left about a pint of sugar pill to be fired into pa every five minutes. Ma and me sat up with pa all day Sunday, and Monday morning I changed the spectacles, and took the clothes home, and along about noon pa said he felt aa though he could ge. up. Well, you never Be a tickloder man than be was when he found the swelling had gene down so he could get his pants and shirt on, and he says that doctor is the test m this town. Ma says I am a smart boy, and pa has taken the pledge, and we are all right. Say, ycu don't think there is anything wrong in a boy playing it on his pa, once in a while, do you?" " "Not nach! you hnve very likely saved your ya's life. "No, 6ir, joking is all right when by so doing you can break a p?rso& ot a bad balit," and tbe gro;ery man cut a chew of tobucco off a pieco of plug that was cn tho counter, which the boy had soaked in kerosene and before he had fairly got it relied in his chok he epit it out and began to gag, and as the boy started leisurely out the dcor the grteary man said, "Look-a-bere, condemn you, d .n't you ever tamper wilb my tobacco again, or by thunder, I'll mauljou." and ho followed the boy to tha door, slitting cotton all the way. As tha boy wont around thecorcer the grocery man thought bow different a joke seemed when it was on eotcebody else. And then he turned to go ia acd ri'nso tho kei' sene out of bis mouth, and found a sign on a box of new green apples, as follows: "Colic or cholera iiffistuni. You pays your money and takes ycur choice "

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I luve take a several different nedicines, and nts treated by prominent physicians for my liver, kvdreys, jowl spteco, but 1 pot no rrllcC 1 thought 1 would try Diwn's Iron Hitters ; I liave now taken one bottle and a half and am about well pain in side and back all gore soreness all out of xaf liea-t, and I bare a good eppetite. and am gaining ia strength and fish. Itcan juüybe C!ied the ntcJUitKi. Jous K. Aule:;def. Brown's Iron Bitters is composed of Iron in soluble form; Cinchona the great tonic, together with other standard remedies, making a remarkable non-alcoholic tonic, which will cure Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Malaria, Weakness, and relieve all Lung and Kidney diseases. fOUMpHREYS' rÄIOMEOPATHIC t USPECIFICS: In ispjlyeir. Kach number tha secial preacrjptiou of aa eminent phvsu'lan. The oolr Klmpir. SftfandrMirc Medx-luesfortha p -or! UtfT i-Rivoip. L h.os. ccJ3. raxca. j t. Keirera, t'Olipest'.on, I&Üamatlon ?5 2. Worrrj, Worn Sever. Worm to'.ie... .Ii .3. Lftiiii C?oÜc. or Teething of Infants .2 ' -! -lirrhea of h;l.lr?n er Adulta 2J t"Ä. Il,enlirv, Griping Fillioua Colic,.. J-L i. holrra Morb.n, omitin$, .v 7. Cous'w. Cold. iSroncuirti .25 h. rura,U. Toothru be. SaeeaoKe V T iieadarlrea. Sic Headaches. Vertigo .i 1. Iftisia. bil.inus Nomcii,.. t II. Hiinprr4 or l'alnlul IVrioc va ti. While, too Profus l'ertoda.... .2 1 t. Crnun. Cough. lißlcuU lirealblnit 24 It. Malt llhruiu. Krvsipelaa. r'rui.tlvas, .tt ti. IthrutnaiUrn. Kh"fnat to PalAj... . .4 1. Fever ani Acue. chill, lever, ffuea .Ät 17 INlrs. Uiind or Lleedinc 6 f'. f'iarrh. acute or chronic; lnflnonia AO ?-. viiooplnjr ',:igh. lolftit coofh. ,ft 2 I. General nubility. Hiysical Weakness. Ä Z7. Kidney lr ftO '2. eri-uu lebility t M HO. Urinary calteM. Wettlrntfha bed .SO Si. li-ol ih Heart. lalpi.ailun. l ijit hol.l ly tlruias. or sent by the ef, o.- sin- ? I!, fre of hante. on receipt of rrire. send tor Dr. Humphrey nook on l)irae ti' rix also liliKtrated :au.rne FH I.K-Achirt-ss, HnrnMin-)!' HmnrooLthv Mel. cine Co.. lO'J Fulton oirret. Atw Vork. . The Milwaukee Medical 2nd Surgical Instituts (Cra.t'-f by the State Leg'tlature.) S.X Ccr. East Water and Kaon Sts., Milwaukee, Wx. lor (he rely and permanent eure of a!l Spetial, rCfrvoos ao t'brotiic AHictloii8, e,let, SUrio f j vT, li!-, ypnius in all its forma J?J ?' 1'1'X'd and fk'.n 1 i.isr. smlnai vj-and Nervous lH-biluy, allt ndeA f'-m -AJP hy lisa of Memory, Kvil Fon Ti-rlini r Ulni(;s. l'rnialiire iHny. etc. An nil nnnirTi o tne Ki1ii and liliulder. :hiimalim. IN.ea, e'liron-.c ealarth aod barglrtl Iissi pcnrHHv. TO YOÜKG rSiEN. yonnjc loen jtisi tli loi,it fnr fatln-ni to put In i lie:'- mii;' iini.ds. Mr l ate on receiptor twa Ure.it sijiups. Dr. Viilliama, loraVd in ths ssme rffiee for LS jear. I a regular pliVHician. ho baa mvlra Di ia't v cf rIm- e ailnte'otw. for yeara, ! estabbtbed reptiUIioti a plj.vsiclan and aurgeon, well ki''wii hill !' m a. eudiil by ieadniK citlccna. Huti.T.u unable to visit him can be treated b CirrpsH(ii leii"t an t hare liarmle-t renn-dipa. aaSi hW. sun . r"v:irir; no rhanc of di t or btismesa, a. i t by imiil or express in plain packaefi. Thon i i m e t cf honest, anentiSc tretment, bIikuU roii'uil Iii Di lwfnrej!oiirriif.ine tlielrrae Uli quarks who make Sua promuea but fall to cure. Address T. WILLIAMS, M.D. ivzir-wAUKEr:. wicr HAPPT RELIEF Speedily obtsiiied in a l stage of Chronic Idsease?, t-irbrueinrf the viiisus 1 :ras cf Sklu Di-a,-es. i.t.euiortii'm. Sorv.fula, Primary and Scondary -nbi is, ( eet, Impo'ency. Seminal Weakrs ai d s. ermatorrbea pctmareatiy cured. Skill and f x,-ere!icecan le n iied om. es I am a erdaav' of i ed.ftnc- ud Mirvcry. a c d lT.grer loeatel In tb"s t iir trs.u any itfer phyrii-laa !i my sjeriUy. 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