The National Banner, Volume 11, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 February 1877 — Page 1

The Fational Banney e o Wk : : " (PUBLISHED BY - , JOHN B. STOLL, " LIGONIER NOBLECOUNTY IND. o™ e ¥ : Terms of Subseription: ' ; S Oneyea.l-,inadvan(:e,........_(........'......_3200C ~ Six months, in adVance..- ... eeeeeveceeazaa. 100 . Hlevencopies te one address, one year,. i3.+--2000 - s@Subseribers outside of Noble county are . harged I%cents extra [per year] for postage, ' whichis prepaid by the publisher. -

; ’ CITIZENS’ BANK, * LIGONIER, INDIANA. ) FirstaClass Notes wanted at a Low . Rate of Discount. I All parties having *“Public Sale Notes,” will do well to see us befors disposing of them else- - - where. ) ' L . : Ezékangc ‘Bought and Sold, and Foreign Draftsdrawnon all the Principal Cities of Europe. Agénts’ for First-Class Fire and Life Insurance Companies.. i - _ . STRAUS BROTHERS. M. M. RITTERBAND, Notary Public. Ligonier, Ind., Dec 16, 1875.-6-26 | S — . R PD. W. GREEN, . ~ : ‘2 ¥ 3 JusticeofthePeace& Collection Agt, Office—Second Story, Laadon’s Brick Block, . LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. ¢ - .C. VANCAMP, ATFORNEY AT LAW, Ligonier, : : : Indiana. - Spegial attention given to collections and conveyrsncing, and the writing of deeds, mortgages, and contracts. Legal business promptly attended to. Office over Jacobs & Goldsmith’s Cash Store. 9-50 S TS s e .G, ZINMMERMAN, . Attorney at Law & Notary Public,: - Office over Gerber’s Hardware, Cav‘in Street, : : Ligonier, Indiana. g January 7, 1875.-9-37 . " I, E. KNISELY, = ATTORNEY AT LAW, LIGONIEE, - - - INDIANA 4. g=—Office on second floor of Landon’s Block. 7-3 i ) ALBERT BANTA, ¥ Justiceof she Peace & Conveyancer: LIGONIER, INDIANA. K Speeiaiattention given toconveyancing andcol_ections. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up and all lagal business aitended to promptly and sccurately. Office over Straus & Meagher’sstore, _ : . May 15187315-8-3 . H. WAKEMAN, TnsuranceAn't &Justice of the Pears aNCeAT 7 ) EKENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. Officewith A. A. Chapin, Mitehell Block. Will receive sabscriptiops to Toe NATIONAL Bs NNER. e S P. W.CRUM, Physician and Surgeon, LIGONIER, : INDIANA, Office over Baum’s Grotery Store. v 9 n3-ly. - ¢ G. W. CARR, , Physician and Surgeon, 1 LIGONIER,6 - - - - - - IND., Willpromptlyatiendail calls intrustedto him. Office and residence on 4th Street. ) J. M. TEAE, BN ‘ DENTT Sk Rooms over L. E. Pike’s Grocery, ; Corner of Main and Mitchell Streets, opposise the Post Offlce, Kendall--ville, Ind. . 8 All work warranted. <6B -~ Kendallville, May 1,1874.. . Lo Langhing Gas! i y'_ AIJ, } . ! ~FOR THE- . /;f 8 PAINLESS EXTRACTION e A 2 —OF— ' =iv T p 25 N.TEETH e e, RS . - S iy AT 25N g . B 2N . | Filling Teeth a Specialty Ligonier, Ind., Nov. 11, 1875, 1-1 TEEGARDEN HOTUSE, i . Laporte, Indiana. . V.W.AXTELL, : : : Proprietor. Laporte, Aprils.lB7l. . . ¢ oy e CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE., e keep constantly on hand-and sellinlargeor | small gquantities, to suit custumers, Win:ofOur Own Manufacture,, Pare — Nothing but the Juice of i -the Grape.- - : e . SACK BROTHERS. Ligonier,July 3 71L—tf : Winsbrenner & Hoxworth, | ' HOUSE, SIGN AND ORNAMENTAL ; & PAINTERS, . @raimers,Glaziersand Paper-Hangers.. . Shop near corner of Fourch and Cavin Sts., opposite Kerr’s Cabinet Shop. . Ligzonier, - - - - Indians, = ________,__.__,__—————-—-'———- STOP AT TEE : BRICK KELLY HOUSE KENDALLVILLE,INDIANA. \: EW COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK <N Hotel,onlytenrods from the L. 8. &M.S. R. R. Depot, and foursquares from the G, R. R.R.— Onlyfive minutes walk to any of the principalbuinesshousesofthecity. Traveling menandstrangers willfind thisa first-classhouse. Fares 2 per day. ’ J. B. KELLY, Proprietor, Ken("i‘-lvipe.An!.li.'l 870.-14 ; . PHILIP A. CARR, ' AUCTIONEER, Offers his services to the publicingeneral. Terms moderate. - Orders may be left ai the shoestore of ‘P. Sisterhen.. . ELig-:mierkflammry 8,773-37 = o o C.V.INKS, g DEALERIN MONUMENTS, 5 : Vaults, Tombstones, AND BUILDING STONES LIGONIER, IND. April 12, 1871.-50 AT AVILIfo . For Sale ; Barpain! or Sale : Bargain!

The subscriber offers for gale, on favorable terms, A HOUSE AND LOT, favorably situated in the town of Avilla. The House was built two yearg ago, and is a very gub-, stantial and conveniently arranged dwelling. Any person wanting to procure a comfortable houseé at Avilla, willfind this a rare oppertunity. For téerms, &c., address the subscriber ,or call apon LEONARD 8. HERSH, at Avilla, who is. daly asthorized to sell the prbpertg. ; . ] J.B.STOLL, s e Ligonier, Indiana. e ——————— - | HIGGINBOTHAM & SON, - = ¥ N‘\ av / L ’eg RN . / ,me. e _°' = é&\ ’_, . /; ‘g*;'\‘ \.\\ LS | |l ":‘ls\\:":’"w “ / ; WiE N =g ) ) : Rl .o g ) KO Cg'lr\ @0 7Y : N i WATCH-MAKERS, JEWELERS, ' —anddeslers in—--4 j i Watches, €locks, Jewelry, v e e ewen ) v . Fancy Goods, REPAIRING Boglt ot sStot v ' ‘of the Big Watch, opposite the Banner mfifi - ~8ep,80,'75-85

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BANKING ANKING HOUSE . SO R . SOLL: MIKR, Conrad’s New Brick Bioek, LEGONIER, IND’NA. Moneyloaned on longg;nd ghorttime. s Notes discounted at reasonablerates. Moniesreceived on depositandinterestallowed onspecified time, ' ! Exchange bought and sold, and Foreign Drafts drawn on principalcities of Europe, 8-2 T MO THE FARMERS: YOU willplease take notice that T.am stillen- .-~ gaged in buying wheat, for which I pay the hifzheet-markétpnce. i ! f you do not.find me on the street, call before selling,at my Banking Office, in Conrad’s Brick Block. SOL. MIER. Ligonier,lndiana, May 7th,1874.—tf i ' SACK BROTHERS Bakers & Grocerxs, ) CavinStreet,Ligonier,lndian . Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c. ChoiceG:;pceries,Provisions,YankeeNo.tions,& Thehi‘ghpstcashp_ricepaidforCountry Produc May13,768-t1 st SACKBRO’S _ EMPIRIE Billiard Hall Ten-Pin Alley en=-x'lii AJlie L. R. HATHAWAY Prop'sr, - HAS BEEN BIZ_I\-lOV‘EI‘, TO 'I“HE 01d Pierce Btilldiug, 3 * :.: Ligenier, Ind. r . O . ] Tobaeco and Cigors, Candies,Nuts, CHICAG é) CIDEF & FRESH LEMONADE, All lovers of a nice | quiet game of billiards or tenpins,will find thi7, to be just the place * 24tf Ge W, CHAPNY N, " J. B. BTOLL ‘hapman & Stoll Chapman & Stoll, B/.EAL ESTATE . AGENTS. . : Office in the Banner Block, LIGONIER, - - - - - INDIANA. WE have a large list of preperty for sale, con- . sisting of dwellings, choice town lots, farms and western lands. Those wishing to buy or sell will find it to their advantage to call and see us at our office. - - April g, 1876, WEOFFERFORSALE

A TRACT OF LAND, situate one mile-west of Ligonier, consisting of 12 acres more or less. The land ‘s all improved extepting one acre. There is.a good hewed log house, smoke house, gpring house, cabin stable, a splendid well of water, &c,, on the property. :

A FARM OF 170 ACRES, 150 OF which is under improvement, in Washington twp. Fifty-five acres gre in clover, and all isin good com{it;on. On the property is the best orchard in the county, a-good two-story frame house with 9 rooms, good cellar, well and cistern, 2 springs of sufficient volume 'to water stock, good barn and out-baildings, &c:- Between 45. and 50 acres of wheat were seeded in the fall, . .

2% LOTSIN WELLMAN’S ADDltion to the town of Ligonier.. Theabove arc allin one Block and are corner lots, fronting on Martin and Union streets. T

A - CONVENIENT HOUSE. — A Frame House 1}; stories high; containing six rooms, in good condition, in Miller’s addition to Ligonier, on reasonable terms. '

A NICE LITTLE TRACT OF Land, containing-30- acres, lying one mile from Ligonier, 14 acres cleared ready for corn. A very desirable home for any one who wishes to live near a thriving town.

A GOODSMALL FRAMYE HOUSE in Chapman’s addition, with six rooms and good ‘cellar, situate on a corner lot, hus good well of water and cistern,-on good and easy terms,

A NICE DWELLING HOUSE on Cavin streef, one and a half stories high, contain. ing 8 rooms, good eellar, well and cistern, and is the handsomest location on the street. ?ne-hulf aown; palanve vn lung Ime witn INterest.

A FARM, containing 820 acres, lying four miles south-east from Ligonier, on the Albion road, the most desirable farm for raising stock and grain in the connty, well known as the Dia~ mbond Lake Farm, for sale on good terms. .

| VACANT LOTS in Wood’s addition to Ligonier for sdle on inviting terms; aldo, four Vacant Lots in Miller’s addition to-Ligonier. Now is the time for bargains. - ~ § A LARGE FRAME HOUSE, two stories high, containing 10 rooms, with closets, wardrobes, . and outbuildings, such as summer ‘kitchen, wood house, barn, corn crib and hog pen, about one acre of land,. a good orchard—apples, peaches, -cherries, currants -and grapes. - The most desirable situation in the town of Ligonier “or-a retiring farmer who wishes to educate his children. For sale on terms easy to purchaser. : . CHAPMAN & STOLL. - . VICK’S: . ‘ - . - lllustrated - Priced Catalogue. Fifty pages—3oo IlJustrations, with Descriptions of thousands or the best Flowers and Vegetables in the world, end the way to grow them—all for a Two CrnT postage stamp. l'rinted in German and English. L : Vick’s Fioral Guide, Quarterly, 25 cents a year. Vick’s Flower and Vegetable Garden, 50 cents in paper; in €legant cloth covers, $l.OO. Addrese,- . JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y. Vick’s F'loral Guide a beantiful Quarterly Journa', finely illustrated. and containing an elegant colored Flower Plate with the first number. Price only 25 cents for the year. 'l'ne first No. for 1877 just issued in German and Ernglish. Yick’s Flower and Vegetable Garden, in' paper 50 cents, with elegant.eloth covers, $l.OO. . . Yick’s Catalogue—3oo Illustrations, only 2 cents ‘Address. JAMES VICK, Rcchester, N, Y. . I VICK'S . Flower and Vegetable Garden is the most b&?utiful work of -the kzind in the world. . 1t contains nearly 150 pages, hundreds of fine illustrations, and siz Chromo Plates of Flowers, beautifully drawn and colored from nature. Price 50 cents in paper covers; sl.ooin elegant cloth., Printed in German and English. Vick’s Fioral Guide, Quarterly, 25 cents a year. YVick’s Catalogue—3oo Illustrations, only 2 cents Address, JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y.

VICK S Flower & Vegetable Seeds ARE PLANTED BY AhIILLION PEOPLE IN AI\IERIOA. BEE Vick’s Catalogue-—3OO Illustrations.only 2 cents. Viek’s Floral Guide, Quarterly, 20 cents a year. Yick’s Flower and Vegetable Garden, 50 cents; with elegant cloth covers $l.OO, All my publications are printed-in English and German. 3Tm3 Address, JAMES VICK, Rochester, N, Y. To the working Class.—We are now prepared fo furnish all classes with comstant employnié nt at home, the whole of the time, or for their spare moments, Business new, light and profitable. Persons of either gex easily earn from 50 cents to €5 perfevening, and a proportional sum by devotlng their whole time to the-busi-ness. Boys and girls earn mearly as much as men. That all who see this notice may send their address, and sest the business we make this un~ paralleled-offer: Tasuch as are not well satisfied ‘we will send _one dollar to pay for writing. ¥ull particulars, samples worth several dollars to commence work op, and a copy. of Home and Fireside, ong of the largest and best Illusirated Publications, appsent free by mail. - Reader, if you want permanent, grofimble work, address, Geogex SrinsoN & Co.; Portland, Me. 11-8-miB \ Can’t beymade by every agent everymonthinthe business we fornisgh, but those willinF to work can earn a dozen dollars a.day right n their own localites. Haveé no room to explain here, Businegspleasantand honorable, Women, and boys and girls do as well as men. We will furnish you a complete outfit free. The business pays better than anything else. We will bear expenge of starting you. Particulars free. Write and see, Farmers and mechanics, their sons and daughters, and all classes in need of paying work at home, should write to us and ledrn all about the work at once.. Wow is the time. Don’t delay. Address Trur:& Co., Angustsa, Maine, 11-8-mlB B s e s Norise] for Printers ENcLiISH B TOI' FTlNters. ! ews, Book and Job Inks, : = all warranted of-Superior | ?nality. No chmor inerior grades of made : by us, ~ EXCELSIOR INTING INK CO. "MANUFACTURERS, (Formerly of London, England), 184 & 186 MONRO¥ ST., CHICAGO, And 13 Barclay Street, New Yorlks ALL EINDS B emen N S | FOR BALE AT THIS OFFICE.

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A TRIAL will INGURE IT6 DOBULARITY : EVERYWHERE. % el . — ol i A/fiffi! e ,’%’L , i"“ s‘:éq';f"'T‘;J;«,“:;g;‘,.&":.,,‘:l','”_:-A,":" Ai iy 1 C Te o L e BN \/I‘l3‘ e J:/w. Ay en ; -z;,ffi;jr:;;;!.‘l‘,'.’:‘!,;!;“;‘s‘,!,\':; fi’i"’:‘fit?:;?@h;,;,";l:;r—l'fi‘?',’:f;@;\(’:&],( j”%flm: M /i)-( 8 ‘\;",)’l e i Vi e r—x\ | - 4l i 17 8 ¢ ‘. A d | Ret oaamenn - Wl o ) i‘—_fi. - TIRITE SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINE, ’ ‘When once used will retain its place forever. 3 IT 1S CELEBRATED FOR ITS ADVANTAGES IN THAT IT IS ONE OF THE LARGEST SEWING MACHINES MANUFACTURED,—ADAPTED ALIKE T 0 THE USE OF THE FAMILY OR THE WORKSHOP. IT HAS THE LARGEST SHUTTLE, WITH #HBR%%%IN THAT 'HOLDS ALMOS;T A SPOOL OF - THE SHUTTLE TENSION 1S ADJUSTABLE \Mvgél'?ll& REMOVING THE SHUTTLE FROM THE THIS MACHINE IS SO CONSTRUCTED THAT THE POWER IS APPLIED DIRECTLY ‘OVER THE NEEDLE, THUS ENABLING IT TO SEW THE HEAVIEST MATERIAL WITH UNEQUALED EASE. IT IS VERY SIMPLE IN ITS CONSTRUCTION, DURABLE AS IRON AND STEEL CAN MAKE IT, ALL ITS WEARING PARTS CASE-HARDENED OR STEEL, AND INGENIOUSLY PROVIDED WITH MEANS FOR TAKING UP LOST MOTION, SO WE ARE JUSTIFIED IN el i Warranting Every Machine for 3 Years. IT IS THE LIGHTEST AND EASIEST-RUNNING MACHINE IN THE MARKET. IT IS, ALSO, THE MOST ELABORATELY ORNAMENTED AND ' PRETTIEST MACHINE EVER PRODUCED. WITH ALL THESE ADVANTAGES, IT IS SOLD FROM $l5 TO $256 LESS THAN QTHER FIRSTCLASS MACHINES. SR EXCLUSIVE CONTROL OF TERFITORY GIVEN TO AGENTS. | i EXTRAORDINARY INDUCEMENTS OFFERED FOR CASH OR ON CREDIT. SEND FOR CIRCULARS AND TERMS T 0 White Sewt ' te Sewing Maching 0., 358 Euclid Avenue, ACENTS acents) CLEVELAND, O. For:Sale in Noble County by D. Nicodemus, AlAN bion,lnd, 11-38-I%y

R £BEST WOOOD COOKING STOVE S 30 U . It is the Quickest Baker, : Economvical, MuST { Convenient ( and Durable. s, Syles & Price 1 il every e, S A anufactured by WM. RESOR & CO., Cincinnadk 0. For Sale bv John Weir Ligonier.

. "TO CONSUMPTIVES.

The advertiger, having been permanently cured og that dread disease, Consumption, by a simple remedy, is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure. T'oall who degire it, he will gend & copy ol the Freecrtption used, (free of charEe), with the directions for prepariug and “h::,g the same, which they will find a sugeE OURE for CONSUMPTION; ASTIIMA, BRONOHITIS, &C, ' Parties wishing the %:sctilfnon ‘will §leuo address, : y. B, A, WILSON, .194 Penn Bt., Williamsburgh, New York,

LIGONIER. NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1,.1877.

OUT OF THE DARK.

““I do wish father’d come!” said little Mrs. Knowles, laying down the sock she was mending and crossing over to the window that commanded a view of the street up which her husband could not reasonably be expected for a good two hours. ' - “Night’s setting in early, and pitch dark, too; not asign of any moon, and I shouldn’t 'woz%am if it stormed. The air’s felt like it all day.”' She held the curtain-aside with. one hand and shaded with the other her anxious blue eyes that were strained out into the gréwing dark! “I hope Henry won’t get wet. Poor fellow!” : She let the curtain fall, then drew a chair, over wich hting a merino dressing-gown, closer to the fire, which she stirred vigorously, pulled the teakettle over to the front lid of the Stuart, waited a minute to stroke-.the side of a Maltese cat—a huge, handsome fellow, whose right vo the chintzcovered lounge nobody ever thought of disputing—then she went back to her mending. . “Youre a good wife, Mary,” said Grandmother Keese, Mrs. Knowleg’ mother, who had seemed too occupied in taking up the stitches of a heel just bound off to hear what her daughter said or to notice what she did, but whose keen eyes and ears saw and heard everything. “A good wife.— There’d be fewer bad, men in the wor]g if there were more women like you.”? /; : & “Do you think so, mother?” -

] know so,” grandma’' answered, holding her half-sock up to the light and trying to find the stitches. “And I didn’t use te think you’d ever amount to -much--as ‘helpmeet’ to a man. You were such a giddy girl, you know.” ‘ “But I love Harry, mother,” the blue eyes brightening in:ithe lamplight, “and it seems to e -that, any girl with good common sense to start with, and who loves the man she marries, will do what she can to help as well as to make him happy! At least —why, here, mother, let me take up those stitches.”” =~ = - “Well, I reckon you may, child. My sight ain’t so good as.’t once was. Hark! ain’t the wind blowing uncommon hard ?” :

. Ax if for answer, a stormful gust shook the windows at that moment and beat upon' the door till it flew wide open, letting in the snow and putting out the lights. . “Dear! dear! exclaimed the old lady, and “Dear! dear!” echoed the young one, shutting and boiting the door.and then relighting the lamps. . “Qh, I do wish Harry. would come!” Mrs. Knowles added anxiously. Then, after a pause, in which her blue eyes had been slowly -filling with - tears, “Do you remember, mother, that it was on just such a night as this the children went away!” she asked. - . “Yes, child, T remember it well. How the wind came tearing out ’o the beech woods, with- the blinding, beating snow a-burying up the fences.”

»» “And mother”—Mrs. Knowlés’ voice was very low and full of sorrow—“do you know it seemed the hardest thing of all to me that the little white souls should; have %o start out to the unknown! from the heart of so terrible a nilgh't? So.lo?es&)m,e for them, so— Oh, mother, on’t kKnow, 1 aon'tv know, but it seems to me I could have borne it better in the daytime, with the sun a shining, and the blue sky full in sight!” . e “God was in the dark and the storm, my girl, Would he let the babies go alone, do you think ?” ; - “No, mother, no. I know that he carried, and carries them in his bosom ;. but mine is empty—but for the pain; and it aches so hard, so hard, mother.” AEN

~ «I know, I know, dear.” Grand‘mother was smoothing the brown hair rippling -over her knee, and her eyes had/ a far-away look in’ them, as: if their faded lids were touched by the fingers of some mournful memory.

I And the old arms went around the young neck, and the old eyes and the young wept together in the silence—the silence broxen only by the hiss of the kettle on the stove, the -tick of the clock on the mantel, and the feet of the storm beating their wild way everywhere without. i - LEY

“Toot’s so tired, sister, can’t-we sit down. just a tiny minute now ?” They were half way up the high hill beyond which a quarter. of a mile stood the warm, lovelit home of Harry Knowles. ' : Such delicate little waifs they were, boy and girl, apparently six'and eight years old, and their pale, pinched features told a pitiful story. “And Toot’s so sleepy,” the boy continued. “If you'll lie down with me and hold me up close, as mamma used toy just five minutes, I'll go—oh —ever so farl” pe

- The gitl hesitated, she was.tired and sleepy, too, and the storm seemed to have taken all her strength. Her feet, were like sticks that would scarcely obey her will, and rshe had nearly fainted twice in the last halfmile's walk. Ly -

“Isn’t this ‘’way in the country?’” the boy went on. ‘“Here are trees and fences, and I ’spects lots of birds, and bushes with red, xipe berries on—only it snows so we can’t see ’em. And you know mamma said, ‘Don’t stop till you get’way in the country.--Ain’t this the country, Helen?” - “Yes, darling,” the girl replied, “and we'll stop at the very next house.” “But I can’t go till I rest and sleep. Oh, 'm so sleepy!” And the boy sank down in ‘a little heap by the roadside, pulling his ‘sister after him. She had little wish to resist and less power. ' '= “Sister!”—the boy . was nestled up to the girl’s warm heart, and the snow was spreading over them its soft deathful covers.. : : “Y es, Tootl.” o “Do. you s’pose (xod’d let anything hurt—-anything hurt us—if we’d say our prayers twice ?” “1 hadn’t thought of that,” finswer—ed the girl. “We might try.” “But I'm so sleepy I can’t think how it beging.” ' “Well, say it after me, Toot. ‘Now I lay me down to sleep’”— : : “Now I lay me down to sleep—don’t let my nedd slip, Helen.” “No, ‘I pray the Lord my soul to keep.”” » , “I pray the Lord my soul to keep,” slowly repeated the boy, clinging to the bosom that was his only home, .“If I should die before I wake.” ' _ “‘lf I should.die™—Oh, lam so cold! And, Helen, just feel the icicles in my eyes.” = .| e - The girl put her numb finger on the sleepy. shut lids. e ' “They’re tears, pet,” she said tenderly. “You’ve been crying and I didn’t know it. Don’t ery, Toot.” - . “But you’re crying,” persisted the oy. ; o : “Only a little, dear; I was thinking of mamma.” - el “Do you B’pose her eyes shine, up in heaven, just as -they used to when she put her a:%s around me and said *Dear Toot?” ' « - e

“T guess so,’-’_&élen' whispered, try ing to choke down the sobs. Sl

“But do you suppose she sees us down here in the snow ?” <

“Yes, Toot; ’cause you know she said she should glways be seeing and lovingus.” - : “Then—then—l don’t believe she’s singing ' with the angels. She never sang when we were cold and hungry.”

“Maybe she's asking God to take us out of the dark and the snow. Shall we finish the prayers now?” = “0,: yes. . I'd mos’ forgot. Where was we ?” ' “Lets begin again and go straight through twice, without stopping,” said Helen. P L The snow had covered them clogely ere the prayers were said—the prayers that had been finished with a'low “Dear God, don’t let anything hurt us, for mamma's sake. Amen!” And a minute later both children were fast asleep upon their co/d, wet couches on the hillside. S

The storm increased.- - The winds grew keener and angrier. = Young Harry Knowles,* wending his. way from the- ¢ity, where he went to market every day, had vacated his high *spring seatiand was cropching on the floor of his wagon, wrapped in blanketsr and talking cheerily to his iron grays, whilethey trotted briskly against the storm. = ; . “Never mind, my beauties,” he was saying, “only amother mile and the. shelter iand the food!” Then, after a pause, “These for. them; but oh, so much more for me! .And there’s many a poor fellow going home in this ‘awful storm thathad about as lief stay -out as go in, I think. But my home 18 a home.” - t And the man half forgot the cold without, his heart grew so warm within him. .

~His horses shied presently, threw up their heads, snorted, ‘and | stood stone still. i i = «“Why, Bess! Why, Beauty! What’s up now ?” their master said, springing to his feet and tightening the reins. “Not a thing in sight but the ‘snow. Go’long! Do you hear?” And he gave Bess a sharp cut aeross her flank, which made her rear and plunge, but go forwark she would not. Cwesar, Mr. Knowles’ big dog, who accompanied his master everywhere, had been standing all this time with his fore feet on the side-board, snuffing the air, and looking around, as dogs that are lost do, quickly, eagerly ; suddenly he bounded from the wagon, scenting and barking his way to a little white heap in the roadside. “Well, this beats me!” Mr. Knowles said, obeying something that bade him follow the brute. i And there he found them—the liftle waifs half way up the hill, asleep in each other’s arms. ‘ ~ The wife went out when the horses stopped in the back yard, close by the porch door—went out wrapped in a waterproof, and carrying a lighted lantern. t

-“Aren’t you most frozen, dear ?” she asked. / :

“Not a bit of it,” her husband answered, cheerily, jumping from the wagoh and kissing the bright face lifted to his own. i *“Mary,” he added, “I think God has meant, to be very kind to you and to me. Sée here.” ; tle lifteda tne lantern which he had taken from his wife’s hand, and held it so that the light fell upon the two faces looking from the blankets and guarded by Ceesar, who had stretched himself half over the small limbs that might, and- might not, have life in them. il : . “00, Harry! are they dead ?” the lit‘tle woman cried. : ] “I.hope not. I think not. Let us see.” o e And so, by human hands, two little lives were borne into. the home out of which, by divine hands;, two little lives had been taken on 'just such a night three years before; for the children lived, and live. : “I guess our own mamma heard us praying down there in the snow,” Toot said mext day, with his arms around his new mamma’s neck, while Ellen sat on grandma’s knee. ' Politics and Collection Plates. : ! (Atlanta Constitution.) Recently a Radical, who is also a preacher, tackled old Uncle Remus on the subject of politics. : : “I understand, old man,” said he, “that you are a Democrat.” . “I dunno ’bout-dat, boss.” : “Well, it comes pretty straight.” - “I know dey got two sides, one what dey call Demmycrat an” de udder what dey call Radikel, but I don’t bodder wid ’em w’en de wedder gets as stiff as dis.” : :

“But I hear you vote the Democratic ticket every time.” e

“I wote wid my young marster what I nussed w’en he want no bigger dan a buck rabbit.” He ‘ “Now, don’t you know that this is going back on your c¢olor.” - : “Bat hit aint gwine back on my belly, an’ of I don’t tend ter dat de fus’ cole rain dat come ’long mout wash de color right outen me. I aint fakin’ no chances in dis bizness, boss. I'm a gettin® ole, an’ de ol'en/I gets de hungrier I gets—l duz forsa fac’.” - “Look at me. I vote the Republican ticket, and I'm not losing any of my flesh.” gl ! “You sorter preaches ’round like, don’t you,.boss ?” . “Sometimes. Yes. Why?” “Caze dats whar de fun comes in. I don’t git no chance for ter feed outen no beaver hat, an’ I don’t eat offen no plates what dey takes up church kleckshuns in. I’'m a mighty lonesome ole nigger, an’ I has ter scuffle long de bes’ I kin widout enny congregashun at my back.” [ e _The preacher looked at his watch, and said that he would talk some more another day, while Uncle Remus,with a serenesmileupon his face went down the street singing: |@ ° ¢ i Oh ! whar'shill we go w’en de great day comes Wid de blowin’ uv de trumpets an’ de bangin» uv de horns? How Iméeenny poor sinners will.be cotched out, An’ fin% no latch on de golden gate? <O~ B—— £ ‘True Merit Will Wian., =~ | . A few years since Ethe proprietors of Dr. Morris’ Syrup of Tar, Wild Cherry and Horehound introduced it here. 1t was not puffed, but sold on its merits. Our people soon found it to be reliable, and already it has become the most staple and popular pulmonary remedy in the market. It quickly cures the worst coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, asthma and incipient consumption. Nothing acts so nicely in whooping cough, and it is so pleasant that children readily take it. Containing no opium, or other dangerous drug, it is as safe as it is sure. Trial size, 10 cts; large sizes, 50 cts. and one dollar. Bold by C. Eldred & Son, Ligonier, Ind. Also agents for Prof. Parkers’ Pleasant Worm Syrup, whi&t} never fails. Pleasant to take, and ri quires no physic. Price 25 cts. £ 1 9‘GOW. :

It should be more generally understood that the lady who uses any other ink than regulation black is liable tz be expelled from fashionable society. ; :

© “THE PLAN.”: What the Papers Say of it. ‘New Albany Ledger-Standard, (Democratic). It is a matter of congratulation that the representatives of the'country, in both houses, have shown so much moderation and patriotism in coming to their conclusions. - : = : Philadelphia Times, (Independent). : Henceforth the snarl of pet-house politicans and the jangle of the organ will be powerless to fret the hopes of a faithful people. Congress has acted with a singleness in behalf of law and peace, and more than forty millions of free people will respond with their sovereign approval. o -Detroit Evening News, (Independent). Does anybody suppose. that, if the republican ' organs were absolutely sure of the justice of their cause and of the honest success of their ticket in the recent election, they would oppose any objections to the plan proposed by the joint congressional committeefor counting the electoral votes ? i Evansyille Courier, (Democratic). . Should it be adopted we are satisfied that it will cause very general satisfaction withoutregard to partylines. The truth is that the people are growing weary of all the loud noise and the tricks and counter-tricks which they have seen exercised since the assembling of. Congress. They want the question decided on its merits. A : Cincinnati‘;finquirer, (Democratic). . . It matters nét that prominent men, Democrats and Republicans, , favor: this bill and that it seems likely to pass. It is none the less vicious per se, and none the less perilous as a precedent. If the members of Congress choose to plead guilty to incapacity to perform the duties they allege arg devolved upon them it cannot be helped. We must take them at their word. Fort Wayne Sentinel, (Democratic).

The Sentinel is oppose to any compromise. The Democratic position is right; the Republicans themselves know it is right; the world at large knows it is right. But if the bill supported by the committee is adopted, then, of course the question will be settled.. Whether unwise or not, it will be the law of the land, and wiill be cheerfully supported and acquiesced in by.the people of all parties.

Nev?_f York Herald, (Independent). - - There is a method all the elements of which are constitutional and promi3e an honest and legal result. If this plan.should be rejected by Congress, no other can be contrived, for there is not time. The country would then be left to a fate we do not like to contemplate—to a wrangling and furious Congress; to the secret intrigues and bolder strokes of demagogues: to an increasing excitement among the people, all ending probably in violence and perhaps in civil war, or at the best in lasting discontent on one side or the other. Is that a desirable 'prospect? Detroit Evening News, [lndependent]. We have been loth to believe in the republican conspiracy to count Hayes in. We have witnessed with unconcern the efforts of republican managers to make it appéar that he was elected, just as no possible objection could ba i:;xtl‘arposed to the Democrats making as strong a case ag' possible for Tilden. But the refusal of Chandler and -his associates to acquiesce in the reference of the question to a fair and honest tribunal, and their attempt to bull-doze the matter through by any means, fair' or foul, must be tegarded as proof by right-thinking men that, to put it very mildly, they are doubtful of the justness of their cause. Al :

- Boston Advertise;‘, {Republican). ’i‘here may be technical and legal objections "requiring serious and respectful consideration, about which honest scruples may be entertained. It will require all the moral support that can be given by those who desire substantial justice, and nothing more, to overcome the difficulties which will be thrown in its way. Whoever may be declared .elected in pursuance of this arrangement will take his seat without a dissenting voice, and| will receive the loyal support of an undivided country. This is of vastly greater consequence than that either party should prevail by an exercise of doubtful powers, with the imminent risk of two parties- attempting to set up a governmeht, the rightfulness of one ar the other to be determined ultimately by trial of force. G ' Terrve Haute Express, (Independent),z‘ .

Neither political party seems to have any percéptible advantage. The five House members of the commission will be Democrats ard the five Senate members will be Republicans. The actual-decision will be made by the five Supreme Judges. * * * The verdict of such a commission will cemmand respect, and will give to the successful party a creditable indorsement. Best of all, it affords a'means of determining who is the lJawful President; even if the justice of the verdict is questioned, as to the law. The members of the commitfee who have done this work are entitled to the gratitude of all the people. They=have shown the best statesmauship and the highest patriotism. They have prevented all danger of Mexicanization. They have saved the Republic from becoming an object of contempt. : The Business Outlook. The general impression with business men is that the coming 'spring trade will be decidedly more lively than for the past three years. This opinion is based upon the fact that stocks of goods in the generality of! retail establishments are lower than ever before known; that farmers have been receiving good prices for their products; that nearly everybody has ‘been economizing, and that consequently the community is not only in a: better condition to. buy and pay for their purchases, but that the necessity: of replenishing wardrobes, ete., has become next to imperative. All that seems now to be needed is the settlement of the presidential problem. If itisdefinitely determined within the next fortnight who is to be inaugurated -President on the 4th of March, and the assurance given that the event will not be attended with a popular outbreak, business will ationce take a healthy and vigorous start, and the country will again enter upon a career of prosperity.— South Bend Tribume.. ‘

All efforts to compromise the presidential dispute between Oko Jumbo and Ja Ja, at Bouny, Africa, have failed. A palaver was taking place at last accounts, but the impression was general that the candidates would soon call out their militia and begin the fighting. ; - . ,_._.._.____‘..:b___‘._.‘_. : The Vienna correspondent of the New York Herald telegraphs that he has learned that the Porte has intimated that, soon after the closing of the Conference, it would spontaneously offer considerable concessions to the Powers which it now refuses to yield on compulsion, '

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT BE i ° .PUT OFF. 5 From Rev. John Hall, D. D., in N. Y. Ledger. About the end of 1876, and the'beginning of this year, there were many 2of our readers well pleased with themselves, not because of anything done by them, or for them, but because of the good intentions they had formed. They “made up their minds” to some admirable courses, and felt almost as happy in consequence as if the things were already accomplished. But they are not yet begun. Before the year has passed out of its youth, let us play the part of an outward conscience to these good friends, ‘and remind them of what they meant to do, and are in danger of neglecting. G

What a pity the things we should not put off are so unlike the things that will not be put off. An energetic dun, for example, who intends to have his money, if perseverance can effect anything; a disagreeable acquaintance, who means to serve himself with us; a mosquito, which disregards the broadest hints; a redness on the extremity of the nose; a broxEn patch Vil tho uppor 1p; as AL WILLpUL U 1o one would perceive the “cold in your head;” a “loafer” whom you have helped three times, and who feels his rights omryou established by prescription; these, and a hundred like them, will not be put off. Barnacles, wax, plaster, mucilage, a bad name, or whatever else is made to “stick,” will imperfectly represent their adhesive power. Hi e L

But how many are_the things which we can put off and should not. Our indolence is, as Lord Chesterfield said truly, a sort of suicide, for the marf is ruined though the brute survive. |lf we have readers in-what Locke called the “sauntering humor,” whose lives are running to waste, we bespeak their attention to a few points, specimens of a large class. il 1. Do not put off getting a home. Think of growing old in a.boardinghouse; living all your life in a hotel; having your meals forever at a restaurant. You have not much money ? Then save all you can. Your earnings are little? . Then live upon less. You do not know if any one would share your lot? Make a lot worth sharing, and do not .despair.; If indeed you put yourself, my dear sir, through a long course of hotel or clubr life, till the admonitory gray begins to tinge your hair, a wise and good woman may not covet a partne}"ship,. unless indeed you are rich, and | then a lady may marry you because she swants her hotel, in which case ngfither of you will have a home. Instgad of the cigar, the glass of beer, the showy gloves, the fancy neckties, and the like, get a pass-beok in a good and reliable savings-bank; and withoufid waiting to be rich set up a home, and aim at being a fully developed human being. : e

2. Don’t put off the education of your children. There is a time in -which they can be taught. TLet that slip, and they will have acquired a good ‘deal that has to be unlearned, when you or they wake up to the need ;of knowledge. Think of compulsory education being necessary! - Think of the necessity of employing policemen to “détect” young savages growing up in barbarism in our best cities, and -prevent the evils they would be sure to spread. Sitting Bull and his braves in the wilderness are cheap and folerable evils compared with a thousand ignorant, vicious adults among half a ' million of people. 4 , 3. Don’t put off proviston for the Juture, your own old age, or feebleness, or others dependent on you. The forms of effort are determined by circumstances; but the duty is fixed. Many professional men, obliged te maintain a certain “style” of life, are haunted by the idea that they may leave children, used to luxury,in comparative poverty. And the strugglesof many a widow and her children do justify the fear. If you can find an “Insurance Company” that will not sell you and yours ouf, or go into a receiver’'s hands, that is absolutely.reliable to your own judgment, then insure. If you ca’l.:u}ot, then be your own Company.: The idea that “faith” in God forbids any such provision is only in the mind that does not know what faith is. If such care for the dependent ig a sin, for example, to the missionary to the Rarotongese, why do not the gentlemen who send him. forsake it ? e 4

4, Do n’t put off going to the doctor wn time. 'What he coeuld control today may be unmanageable to-morrow. ‘What ten cents’ worth of a drug would cure this week, may be very serious next week. . Go in time to the medical man, and pay him for his aid. He must live like another, The dentist, and even the boot-maker and tailor may come under the same rule. A “neglected cold” fills many ‘graves. ‘We forget the good Book which likens man to a flower. “The wind passeth over it, and it is gone.!” . | 5. Don’t put off “making up” 'with gour wife. There will be little “miffs.” Don’t let them last. ' A bit of wrath nursed is worse than a bad tooth; it is a spreading leprosy, both dangerand disgusting. Do n’t make up your mind not to be the first to give in. You poor simpleton, if your hand and foot . quarrel, no matter which wins; you suffer. And are not you twain oneflesh? The same principle applies to brother and sister, uncle and aunt, cousin and friend, aye, even to mother-in-law. S

6. Don’t put off getting out.of bad company-—the union, or the club, or the society, or whatever it may be ‘that consumes money, injures your habits, makes home insipid, weans you from your duty, or compromises conscience or character. © The longer : you stay the worse. - When the fly has. got into the edge of the spider’s web, you know what the fiy ought to do: - The same rule applies to a bad com- ‘ pany—written “Co.”. If it is paying dividends out of stock, lying in its prospectus, or playing |a desperate ‘ gambler’s game, you had better “close out,” no matter how great the loss. The longer you are in the worse. : And now, having said so much, no one will wonder, no one will be vexed, when we say in the seventh place—seven used to be the sacred, perfect number-—do not put off getting ready Jor the next life. Have an understanding with the Creator of your whole being. . It would be most forlorn, ‘surely, for you to drop into a land, all ‘strange to you, from which the King ‘had been sending you messages—and without getting any fitting response! “Thou hast an alarm in thy breast,” 'said Sir T. Browne, two hundred years ago, “which tells thee thou hast a living spirit in thee, above two thousand times an hour.” We shall not stay to _settle how often Conscience speaks, ‘and Eternity makes itself felt. It cannot be too often, or too much, if we will only be wise, and have a clear understanding with the Ruler and Judge. e e

The Boston Board of Health has issued an order declaring scarlet fever among contagious diseases, and placing the usual restrictions in such cases. The malignant type of this disease is now fully as much dreaded ‘by intelligent physicians as small-pox, o

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Baxter’s New/ Temperance Bill. - "An Entirely’ New Scheme. By Mr. Baxter, Senate bill 138: An -act to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors, appointing a State commissioner, defining his duties, giving authority to county commissioners and ‘mayors and councils of ‘cities to appoint persons to manufacture and sell intgxicating' liquors, to authorize city and town agents, providing penalties fbr»violati(on_ of this act, for notifying persong’ not to deliver intoxi--cating liquors to those who are in the habit of drinking to access, punishing drunkards and drunkenness, providing for the drunkard to testify against the person or persons who furnished him with drinks, and for damages done by a person while in a state of intoxication; finding the unlawful seller ‘eqally- guilty and responsible with the-drunkard, and for searching places where intexicating liquor is unlawfully kept and sold, and for other matters pertaining to the manufacture and sale of liquors; repealing. WL AWV A AR ik AL e sions of this act, and declaring an emergency. o It provides Tor a State Commissioner to be-appointed by.the Governor, who shall have control of the liquor traflicot the State as the Superintendent of’ ‘Public Instruction has: over all| the public schools. ~ All ‘packages of liquor sold by him shall be stamped with his official seal.. He shall sell liquors at a profit not exceeding five per cent. He shall keep an account of all sales and purchases, which shall be reported to the Governor annually. He shall appoint not more than four agencies in Indianapolis, who shall sell only for medicinal; mechanical and art purposés. The mayors of cities and:county commissioners shall appoint one agent inthe various cities and counties for the. sale of liquor, who shall enteér into .a bond to sell only for mechanical, medical and art purposes. Mayors of cities and county commissioners shall have power to permit persons to manufacture, who shall not, ‘however, be permitted to sell in packages of less than fifty gallons. - The relations or friends of drunkards shall notify dealers not to sell to them. - If they do so they shall be fined. The drunkard is required to testify from whom he got the liguor. For failure to testify he shall be imprisoned.. - The. saloon-keeper who sells to the drunkard contrary to law shall be jointly responsible for damage done by the drunkard while in a state of intoxication. . The wife of the- drunkard may sue the . saloonkeeper.for damages. Liquors kept by parties for unlawful sale are liable to seizure and confiscation, The bill is very similar in its provisions to the Massachusetts liquorlaw, ' .

5o Buy for Cash. v The praetice of buying on credit the necessary articles of the household is fatal to good economy.. The housekeeper has always to pay dearer when he.does not pay cash. The tradesman must have interest for his money, for ‘a man will never in a busy communi'ty be willing, and is seldom able, if he were ‘willing, to forget it. To the ordinary cash ‘price of -the article, he therefore adds the interest which may accerue during- the time the ecredit is allowed.. This, moreover, is not all; there must be a premium exacted ' by the dealer for the risk "he runs in trusting his goods to that class of more or less dangerous customers who never pay ready money. Even the most honestly-disposed of these are. often unsafe debtors, for they are generally such as are imprudent enough to anticipate their incomes,~and to overrun them’in expenditures. The credit system, moreover, is a tempta‘tion to unnecessary purchases. - There is a sort of check in the sight and touch of hard-worn money to the disposition to dispose. of it lightly. On the other hand, there is something in the facility of credit, removing, as it does, the disagreeable necessity of payment {o the vague future, very seductive to the buyer, who can gratify his love of possession with a momentary sense at any rate, that its gratification costs him nothing. There is no such ‘cheap and cautious purchaser as ‘cash.—Connersville ExamLner.- o g 0 iy |

Another Monopoly,

1t is a great misfortune that so important an article of domestic use as kerosene oil should be in the control of'a monopoly. Yet such is the case. ‘Daily. we hear the inquiry “Why the advance in kerosene oil over the price' of four or five months ago?”’ Some people have understood that this was because the supply was. giving out and this report has been industriously circulated by the parties in interest. The truth is, coal oil was never more plenty than now, and the prospect is that it will eontinue to be plenty, the ‘wells are yieldingliberally. The reason of the advance is explained in the control of the market by the Standard oOil Cempany, of Cleveland, Ohio, the leading oil refining company of the ‘United States.. This ;company has | been for years at the head of the business of refining; has become rich and powerful, crushing corporation after corporation, until all its rivals were in its puwer, ana tnen raised the price to suit itself. © The supply is as great ag ever, the cost of obtaining the crude oil is even cheaper than before on account of the cheapness of labor; the cost of refining and frejghting is as low; yet the millions of consumers are forced to pay morethan two prices for it. 'At present prices it-isestimat-ed that there is a net profit of over #5,000 on one train load of oil, and hundreds of loads leave the Standard refinery every month, - ol

. Disease Grows Apace, : Like an jll 'wind, and cannot be mastered too early. . What is a trifling ‘attack of sickness to-day may, if unattended to, become a serious case in a week, Small ailments should be nipped in the bud bifore they blossom into full-blown maladies. . If this advice were. attended to, many a heavy bill for medical attendance might beavoided.” When the liver is disordered, the stomach foul, the bowels ob_gtructed, or the nerves disturbed, re-' :gort should at once be had to that supreme remedy, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a few doses of whieh will regtore healthy action and put the system in perfect order. It is a wise precaution to keep this incomparable preventivein the house, since it checks _with unrivaled promptitude disorders which breed others far more danger“ous, and in their latest developments are themselves often fatal. 41-dw ' | L et B— e - Wade Hampton’s father, a milion-| ‘aire, left to each of his daughtprs, by his will, $100,000; the rest of his prop= erty ‘he bequeathed to his only son. ~After the funeral the will was shown to young Wade, He read it through very carefully,;%dithen threw it into the fire, saying, “I'll never consent to take alarger share of the estate than the others. Let the property. be. divvided equally among the three.” This, ‘it is said, was actually done. =~

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. Law for Municipal Indebtedness. The Legislature now! in session would, in our opinion, (1110 a wise thing: if they would repeal all laws:in force by which cities, townships and counties can be involved in/ruinous debt by vote and petition for aid 'to publie ‘improvements. They would do well to go one step further and pass an: amendment to the constitution of the State prohibiting all jsuch legislation. The time was when 'such'legislation and such aid were well enough in Indiana. The State needed the public improvements, and the property taxed ‘to -pay the forced loans was largely benefited by them. This time has passed. No State in the Union is better provided with railroad accommodations in proportion to its po%)ulat.ion than Indiana. Our railroad facilities ‘are such that the traveler can leave the cavital of the State in the morning, yisit any county in the commonwealth, and geturn in the evening. We are well provided with roads for way traffic; in fact, have already built more of them than are paying r,unningqexggan‘sgs.' Scarcely a monsh does not pass into the hands of a receiver. What we need in Indiana now is greater facilities for reaching the seaboard. These we cannot get or aid in getting by means of these laws. There is no way provided by law for ascertaining the exact amount ofsthe municipal indebtedness already created ' under this legislation. If these debts were collected and placed before the Legislature we have no .doubt the rules would be suspended and the laws repealed at once. Of _course, any repealing law should have a'saving clause against the invalidation of debts already contracted. We ‘have heard the aggregate indebtedness ot the cities, townships and counties in the State placed at $20,000,000, which is doubtless not an over-esti-mate. - The .average rate of interest is probably mine per cent., requiring an. annual payment of interest of $1,800,000. This indebtedness must entail nupon the people of the State a grievous and burdensome tax for many years to come. It has the'effect to impair the value of property and impede the growth and prosperity of the State.—lndianapolis Journal.

; Why Advertise ? : - People sometimes ask why does Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., spend so much money in advertising his family medicines,which are so well known and surpass all other remedies in popularity and sale, It is well known that A. T. Stewart considered it good policy, and no doubt it paid him, to’ spend miany hundred thousand dollars in advertising his goods, yet nobody questioned the excellence of his merchandise. The grand secret of succesg lies in offering only goods which possess merit to sustain themselves, | and then through liberal and persist- = ent advertising make the people thoroughly acquainted with their gocd qualities. “Men, do: not succeed: in amassing great fortunes, establishingthriving and permanent husiness, and founding substa‘ntiaxi institutions like Dr. Pierce’s Grand Invalid’s Hotel at Buffalo, which costs over two hundred thousand dollars, unless their /- ) business be legitimate,their goods meritorivus, and thefr services: which thef™ rendéy the people genuine and valuable. | Ibr. Pierce does not attempt to humbug you by telling you that his Golden Medical DPiscovery will cure all diseases. He says, “if your lungs are half wasted by consumption, my Discovery will not cure you, yet &s a | remedy for severe coughs, and all curable bronchial, throat, and ‘lung affections, I believe it to be unsurpassed * as a remedy.” The people have confidence in his medicines because he does not over-recommend them, and when tried they give satisfaction. His Medical Adviser, a book of over nine hun- . dred pages, IHustrated by two hundred * and eighty-two engravings and bound in cloth and gilt, is offered to the people at so moderate a price ($1.50, post paid), thatit is no wonder that almost one hundred thousand have dlready been |sold. His memorandum books are on every druggist’s counter for: free distribution.

Senator Nye and Secretary Stanton. . From the Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise.

Senator Nye went to Secretary Stanton once to make a petition for some dead soldiers’ orphans. It was in the darkest days of the war. Mr. Stanton said, “I havenot time, Mr. Nye, to see to ‘what you want.” “Suppose you take time, Mr. Secretary,” said Nye. “You are unreasonable, Mr. Nye, in pressing such a. thing at this time,” said Stanton. “Permit me to say that you are the unreasonable man,” answered Nye. “If you werg not a United States Senator I should say you were very in@ertinen&"said Stanton, haughtily. (“If you were not a great Secretary of }War I should be tempted to say you are making a damned fool of yourself,” retorted the old Gray Eagle, with his eyes blazing. Stanton looked at him a moment,and then softening said: “May be I am, Jim,—who knows P—come inside and tell me all about it.” “Now, Ned, my boy, you are growing sensible,” said Nye, and the business was quickly arranged.

o it a twn daye’® hoond and ~anAeimc%€e(fv gy}}a dashed into a Mgin= street saloon, this morning, and gasped out to the bar keeper: “For the love of God give me a drink of whisky.” “What on?” inquired the unimpres‘sible drink-builder. “Oh, don’t talk,” .appealed the tremtiling wretch; “I'm gittin’ ’em, sure. I see wingless men, beardless horses, hornless dogs, and. hairy cats. Quick!” “Good Lord!” gasped the bar-keeper, passing over the bottle swiftly, “take a big horn an’ go an’ see a doctor.” The afilicted man took two drinks and bolted. This afternoon the bar-keeper looks like a person who has learned somethingy and who is brooding upon deeds _of blood—@Qold Hill News.

A Philadelphia man, having $2,000 in greenbacks that he did not know what to do with, concealed the notes in alot of lead lining out of tea-boxes which lay in his celler. Another family lives in the same house, and one day Lw‘hen a rag-man came round and offered to buy anything that could be weighed with scales, Mr. Shields, the co-tenant, sold him the lead, without, of course, knowing anything abou{ ‘the money. Mr. Owens is making an jactive search for the rag-man,

Orville Grant has brought a suit in { the St. Louis Cireuit Court for $75,000 for his “influence” in securing a Government contract—the first instance in the history of the country ‘when the brother of a President open1y confessed the use of his relation- | ship for dollars and cents. The peo- | ple pay what it was worth. I e A ——e : | The national banks are making a ‘determined effort to reduce taxation . on their institutions, and it is pretty | well understood .tba? if something is not done.to relieve' them they will change their base of'operations in & way that will prove detrimental ‘business. ' At least such is the vie of the situation in New York. =~ ey i ;