Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 May 1884 — Page 4

I ehallnever know how It could have hapOr whether she gave some look or sign, Or whether I leaned my Mm towardB her. Or whether she raised her face to mine. I shall never know how it dnreci to lumpen; But close and glad as the wild! bee sins From his lioney-oloyej', I know kissed her, Full and square on her 1 She turned within, O, Ood bless and keep her! The door closed softly, and all was still. I walked In a dream through the- moonlight’s enao splendor, The crisp snow oraokled—the air blew ehill. How will she meet me again 1 How greet me— With lofty anger or keen delight? Have I opened tbe gate of her love forever, Or closed myself Into darkest night? SHE. He held my hand—the qnlet moon was shining; The street lay half in shadow, half in - light, As on the doorstep for one little minute We stood to see the beauty of the night. He, just to say good-bye, my h and had taken, -I could not snatch it rudely from his grasp; And so, the while we talked, be held It gently, In the kind, friendly shelter of his clasp. And, somehow, though we praised tha night’s still beauty, 1 think we looked more a; each other's eyes— His, flashing dark and warm, had all the brightness. And, more than all, the softness of the 1 don’t know how it happened—I shall never Know how it could have happened—yet ’tls true That, as we said good-night, we kissed each Other, Just as acknowledged promised lovers do. My cheeks are burning and my heart is beating; I.ought to feel displeased, of course, for he— It must have been his fault—yet I can’t blame him; I only wonder—what he thinks of me!

HANNAH, One day a great colony of waterfowl sailed over the hamlet. They flew in a straight line in orderly timehorored fashion, well marshaled by their captain. They were glad to breathe again the resinous-scented air of their northern pine woods. For they had traveled hundreds of miles from Floridian groves of wild orange trees, and low-lying reedy marshes by the warm blue sea. They were so near their summer home as they flew over Mishawamee that they began to congratulate themselves upon their safe arrival. Hannah put down, for a moment, tho heavy pail of water she was carrying to the house and looked up to watch their graceful flight and listen to their shrill voices. Then she said, with a little sigh: “Yes, the wild geese are back again. Spring will soon be here now, and I am glad enough, it has been such a long, hard winter.” From the scattered houses blue smoke rose in the elear, still air. The forest, vast, dark and mysterious, .stretched its huge arms around the settlement, and the cold sky of the north, w-ith its oppressive melancholy like a haunting, monotonous 3ong, whose minor tones suggested loss and desolation, brooded over all. Soon the big logs woulc. come floating down the brown, swift current of Wolf River, and the wild songs of the adventurous raftsmen would waken the echoes in those sleeping forest aisles. A. dare-<devil set were thesis lumbermen of the north. A reckless, red-shirted, picturesque band of crusaders, whose arms were turned against sturdy trees. With much of the lawlessness and ignorance, though very little of the piety, of those mail-clad hordes of the middle ages, who went out to light the Moslem, these men fought; against unrelenting enemies, too—against the bitter cold of the long winters, when feet and hands were frozen by exposure to the cruel air, against the home-sickness and despondency, natural to a lot so isolated, so lull of hardship in various forms. What wander that they drank sometimes until look or word provoked tho fierce quarrel possibly crime?” Yet tho majority of the dwellers in Mishawamee were contented enough. It was a? cheerful and refined as any life they had ever known. Not so was it with Hannah Barry. The two years she had spent there seemed: an eternity. She was of finer mold than the ’ heavy Norwegian or Swedish wives who largely composed the female portion of the settlement. She could not speak to them of sorrows or aspirations that to them were wholly incomprehensible. So her heart was lull of a great hunger for some slight measure of sympathy, of confidence from one of her own sex. Day by day her great, patient black eyes carried the pathetic shadow of her longing in their depths and her wellcut, rather refined features, grew more sharp and her cheek thinner. which

&ae was a slender, nervous, ambitious little American woman, wh o had drifted away from a comfortable home in a State farther south. And 1>he privations she’ had borne, the struggles agaiMfe poverty and despondency had ‘never even been hinted at by her to any of her former friends. For she had married. Dick sorely against her father’s will, and was far too proud and independent to admit to those who blamed or. Pitted her for her choice that her life with him so far had been a constant struggle to keep up his courage as wall as her own. For poor Diek, though always kind and brave, did indeed seem to be dogged by some malicious spirit of ill-luck. Hannah had not undergone quite such marvelous misfortunes, it is true, as that mariner in “Billee Tailor,” who was “bitten by a crocodile” and “swallowed by a whale, ’ “all on account of Eliza,’.’ but site had been scorched by throes of fever brought on by oyer- work and exposure to cold, to say nothing of mental troubles, care end sorrow of various kinds, ail on account of Dick. But if you imagine for a moment that she wavered, or loved him less, you know little of a true woman’s heart. Undoubtedly, Hannah was illogical enough to jling all ;he more tenderly to him with each misfortune. Her old-fashioned, unenlightened mind argued that when the world tattered the poor fellow most heartlessly theu he had most need of the devotion of his wife, and the best right to it Only a fanner’s daughter, and brought up in the agricultural districts, she knew little of that selfish philosophy which would have .advised her to take the child and leave Diek to his fate, thus causing herself to be included in the prosperous m& ority. Hannah had always from a child mended the broken legs of forlorn birds, and nursed the weak lambkins back to life and vigor: usually fa> have the latter taken from her and sold as soon as they grew frolicsome and had attained condition under her sheltering care. And thus it was that the stood in

Dick, the hi ill for nearly a weather, and, as gaged, It had taxed Hannah's strength to the utmost to provide the few comforts he required, and save a small sum toward the first payment it the mortgage, which came due in the spring, but she was a brave little woman, and worked on faithfully, taking in washing or sewing for the null-panels and lumbermen, so that by the first of April she had saved nearly enough money to make the first payment on the home. Only this morning sh e had been quite cheerful over the prospect, until a letter had been brought to her from ter native village in Illinois, It came from a former lover, who was now engaged to be married to her sister Ituth. d rank Dennison was a wealthy young merchant, who had once sought Hannah McLean's hand in marriage. When she refused him and msrriea Dick Barry her father had infused to speak to her, or see her. Dennison had heard ot Hannah’s poverty, and how hard she toiled, and dow had written a. letter of friendly advice, suggesting to her that t would be well for her la leave her husband and come home for a time at least. He was cauti ous in the wording of his letter, yet the tone of it pained her. She read it carefully and then put it away out of sight, in her workbox. She was angry at its patronizing tone, and womanlitie wished to spare Diok the unpleasant feelings the reading of it would occasion his proud nature.. Therefore she intended to treat it with quiet contempt and to speak of it to no one.

x i. ot cvcmug wucn no cauiq uuiue she left him with the child, while she stepped into a neighbor’s upon an errand. Dick went to the work-box to find a pencil to cast np his accounts with his employer, us he had been at work for several days. Seeing Dennison’s letter lying there he, of course, read it, and wondered why Hannah had not told him of it before. He was indignant at its tone. But the chief pain came from a suspicion that his wife had been influenced by it and intended to act upon its advice,' else why should she have kept it from him? He knew all her loyalty, her goodness-, but his lack of fa th was in himself, in his power to keep her love since he had failed to make the happy, comfortable home for her that he had intended to when they were married, yet he was fully conscious that buried beneath a mass of faults and weaknesses there was a manliness, ay, a power of self-sacrifice for those he loved that Dennison, prosperj ous and pompous, was utterly incapable I of even comprehending. This was a new blow, and just as. he began tb take fresh heart in the spring weather and was maturing a plan which bade fair to succeed—apian that would enable him to take Hannah away and place her in a pretty cottage amidst the flowers and trees of some genial climate—he meant to surprise her with this. It depended upon the answer his ' employer, a '’apitalist and owner of a ranch in Galifomia, would give him within the next throe days, and now, perhaps, she .was coldly thinking of leaving him. She came in looking quite cheerful and smiling kindly. He had folded the letter, placing it carefully tack in the box. Richard sat with bowed head, scarcely looking up as she came in, and Hannah rocked little Jack to sleep looking wistfully at her husband. "You are ill. 1 am afraid you are working too hard before your strength ha* returned. That attack of pneumonia has left you weak,” she said. He made no reply., Then hoping to beguile him from his sorrowful mood, she continued cheerfully: “I am so glad spring has come , As soon as we can And time let us have the garden plowed; I mean to have a fine garden this summer.” “I don’t think we can make any plans, Hannah, for the future. You were foolish to many me, and I was wicked to ask you, but I loved you. Ah! well, better leave me to my fate; take the boy and go home. ” He said this, more in the hope of hearing her denial of any such thought than really meaning it. "But her loyal, long-suffering heart was stung to be thus doubted, or it was possible she thought that be really was tired of her. Oh! that was a cruel, maddening thought! She loved him, vet he must not think she would weakly cling to a man who did not care for her, who would not also cleave to her through every storm and trouble. She clasped Jack’s little sleeping form to her heart, and paused a moment before replying.' She aid not choose that he should find her voice trembling. “Very well, but! supposed you had more independence ana pride than to allow your wife to go back to those who would insult you." . Dick, whose head seemed to be on fire and his heart like ice at this their first quarrel, arose abruptly and left the house. It was late when he returned and the subject was not renewed. Hannah found he had prepared his own breakfast and gone away much earlier than usual the next morning.

xi was jaie wnen sue awoKe trom a troubled sleep. All that day she went over in her mind tb-eir brief married life. Poor Diok hac, worked very hard but they had labored under great disadvantages. beginning life with almost nothing. Then she remembered how he looked that day when the horses ran away with the mower and he had saved her life. She feared she had been wrong in not frankly showing Dennison's letter to him, then tearing it to pieces before him and reassuring him of her devotion, of her soorn of any proposal to leave him. Thus she reproached herself, full of tender contrition. Late that afternoon, her work over, the room in order, she dressed herself in a dark merino that Dick had always liked5 to* see her in. It was her one good dress and her eyes sparkled with quite the olden lustet as she thought how kind she would be to Dick when he came in. After all love was enough she thought, and if they but worked on together with hope tad courage, fortune could not fail to come, some day. “Papa will be here soon now,” she said gaily to Jack, taking him in her arms to the door a nd looking up the long stretch of road towards the woods and the planing mill. A man was running towards the house. It was Neal Peterson, one of the workmen, not Dick. He oame up breathlessly. ■ ' - •‘Oh. Mrs. Barty they sent me to toll yon!'1 Ho paused. A rough, kindly Norwegian, he drended to tell the unconscious woman, his sad message. Sho waited—all the blood ebbing back to her heart. “Your husband, Mrs. Barrv. He went down into the new well they are

_ roll had crumbled in, the perspiration standing out upon each forehead as they labored. \ “ Can he lire or breathe under all that earth?” she asked, with pallid lips, of a man standing near. He did not answer, but turned away at the sight of her agonized! face, muttering an evasion. She remained there watching them, looking like a statue of despair, unconscious of everything but the utter horror of the calamity. The sun went down. From the great woods came the melancholy hoot of the owl. The workmen paused! There was a brief consultation. Then one of them came to her. “Have you found him?” she whispered. “ Have you found his poor dead body? Oh let me go to him.” “No. ma am, it's not that.” said the man, “but they do say as how the well was almost two hundred feet, dug out already, and there ain’t a shadow of hope for him bein’ alive, and ve see, ma'am, as it’s Saturday night, we thought we would rest and then dig again Monday morning.” "Hannah was roused at last from her stupor. “Yet it might be that the breath still lingered.” The sentence came to her mind. “No. I beg you to go on. I will return to the house 1 have a little money that I have saved; you can divide it among you, but do not leave the .... work.

one Liioii went Java. 10 me nouse, look the little hoard s:ived*for the mortgage, and carried it out to the men. They were idle sitting in groups. "Ma’am, you trill need the money for the child and yourself.” “Nevermind, only commence your work again,” she said, and they began; again to work rigorously. Ha” hour ^passed "It is no use, ma’am, he is buried al-. ready, dead, hours ago; it caves in almost as fast as we wok;, the soil is so loose here.” Hannah seized, a spade. "Let me work with you,” she cried. “Something tells me that my husband lives. Take every cent of the money, and when it is gone you can stop, but I will work lalf an Again they on! Then as though in reply to her, a faint, faint sound, as of a strong man's last cry for help, comes from beneath the mass of crumbling earth at bar feet! He had heard her brave words. He lived. Poor Dick had just started to come up when the well began to give way, but a ladder that he had taken down With him leaned slantingly against the wall, and kept much of the earth off as he crouched in the hollow thus formed. The foul air had caused him to fall into a state of unconsciousness from which his wife’s voice roused him, for he had heard her last speech to the men, and had just enough strength remaining to cry out with ml his fast-failing power.! In his suspense as to whether they would abandon the work or not he had gnawed a leathern belt that he wore into pieces. Hannah keeps the metal clasps of the same belt among her treasured relics to this day. When, a few moments later, they carried him up and out into the blessed air, they saw by the light of their lanterns that his hair had turned quite white, like an old man’s of e lay quietly upon his own bed a few hours later. The curious neighbors had departed. The early sun peeped in at the windows and kissed ibhe face of baby Jack in his cradle, sioftlv sleeping. They formed a halo around Hannah's head as she leaned, over Richard, bathing his temples with camphor. He was still very faint and ill. His heart was full of peace and humble thankfulness. He feebly tried to kiss his wife’s hand as she arranged his pillows. All the morbid pride and dis-! trust had left him forever. Full of this blessed confidence, this child-like humility, he slept. The sound of bells awakened him. It came from the rude little Swedish church of the settlement. " What are those bells ringing for?1' he asked. “They come front the church, I suppose, dear Richard. It is Sunday, you know,” answered: Hannah, her eyes full of tears. “Oh! Hannah, ” said Dick, “can you forgive me? I read Dennison’s letter. I used to be jealous of him, and began to think they might influence you against me. When Mr. Lawrence, at the planing-mill, asked me to go down into the well he was having dug, I did not care what happened to me, and so went, although I knew it was very dangerous. Can you forgive me, my own my wife, for ever doubting your staunch devotion to me?” Her arms, were round hia neck for reply, and their lips met in a kiss more fraught with deep feeling, more earnst with a love now sanctified by trial than, any they had ever known as lovers in long past days at the old homestead.— Eva Katherine Clapp, in Chicago Standard.

American Fables. A BEAL GOOD MAN. A Murderer who was About to be ex-ecuted-for his crime suddenly raised serious objections and Demanded a Postponement. “But do you not see that a large crowd has Assembled to witness the Performance?” protested the Hangman. “It is a Itad man Indeed who will not Consent to a sacrifice to please the Many.” “Oh, well,” replied the murderer, “if you put it on that ground you can r) Ahead with your Panorama! While kick Against being Hung for Murder, I Submit to be Strangled to Accommodate a crowd whioh has gathered to see some Fun.” Moral—No matter what the grounds, so long as those Fellows are made to Pull Hemp. HOUSE-TALK. A Horse who was led out of the Bam for the Inspection of a Person who wished to Purchase was Amazed to hear his Master remark that Such Another Horse was not to be found in all the oountry. Ho wta Speedy, Gentle, In-! telligent, Strong, Young and an Easy Keeper. The Sale was not Effected, However, and as soon as the Animal was returned to h is Stall the Master began to Pound him with a club. “If I am such a Valuable and Perfect Animal as you Bepresented just now, why do you Maltoreat me?” asked the Horse. “Idiot! If I were Inspecting you I could have Pointed out a Hundred Faults! Take that for being so Simple!” Moral.—In a horse trade always make an Allowance of seventy-five perfor Taffy.—Z ! Free Press.

—A driven well at Palatka, Fla., 207 — deep, passed through 117 feet of 40 feet of shells ana the rest sand l clay. It gives 250 gallons of water hour, and throws it to a height * of the law requiring the inspecof tea went Into effect^ a year ago, 0,000 pounds have been received iew York, of which 650,000 have been condemned as adulterated—mostly green teas.—N. Y. Herald. —The Astora are still buying real estats in New York. They have bought much on Broadway and Wall street, and in the now district above Harlem River. In 1880 they bought $6,000,000 worth of property.—N. Y. Sun. -Illinois has 55,405 square miles of territory, and Iowa 55,045. The peninsula of Italy has 98,067 square miles, on 3-half of w hich is as mountainous as Colorado, so that it has no more fertile aci-es than Illinois or Iowa, and yet Italy has 26, (XX),000 inhabitants.—Chicwjo Journal. _ —The power developed by the explosion of a ton of dynamite is equal to 45.665 tons raised one foot, or 45,675 foot-tons. One ton of nitro-glycerine similarly exploded will exert a power of 65,452 tonit, and one ton of blasting gelatine similarly exploded, 71,050 foottoiis.—Chicago Times. —The prejKinderance of widows over widowers in England is often remarked. The census returns show this to be unmistakably the case. There were in 18 SI close upon 1,000,000 widows in England ana Wales, the number of widowers being less than half as many. OJ these 1,000,000 widows 57,000 were urider thirty-five years of age. In Ireland and Scotland the number of widows was in each case three times that of the widow ers. —The annual crop of human hair bought and sold amounts to fully 100 tons. Four ounces is an average clipping from a human head; so that 100 tons represenUthe product of from 800,0C0 to 1,000, 900 heads. In Europe the heads of female criminals are shorn, and they supply a large market, but the greater part is bought by traveling peddlers. B etween the ages of fifteen and forty a woman can grow about seven crops cIt hair.—Boston Herald. —The rate of fire destruction in the United States is steadily increasing. Eight or nine years ago it was about $70,000,000 a year, or $1,000,000,000 in fifteen years. Now it is $100,000,000 a year, or $1,000,000,000 in only ten years. Let i:his rate continue, and at the end of fii'ty or sixty years more the annual fire waste will not be less than $7,000,000,000, which would be more th an the net profits of the entire industries of the country.—Chicaqo Herald.

WD’ AND WISDOM. —The wise man avenges injuries by benefits.— Chinese. ‘—An exchange says: “Don’t borrow trouble.” No, don’t; but if you are tempted to borrow trouble, borrow from a Friend, and do him the kindness not to return it —De good man outen place ain’ ’spected no more den de bad man is. Djcorawhui grows’twixt do rows is plowed up jes’ de same ez de weed.— A rfansaw Traveller. —A certain professional beaiity has been photographed in one hundred and .filty positions. It is said that the only person who can beat her fir variety of attitudes is a boy told to sit still on a chair. —About as mad a man as ever came out of an opera house was a young man w iio had just started his first mustache. He got wrathy because some one in the audience shouted: “Down in front!” — Peck's Sun. —Wo saw an article the other day headed: “ How to Enjoy Good Health. jW e did not read it through, but we know all about it. What the masses want to know is how to enjoy bad health.—Oil City Derrick. I —Husband (airily)—they had just returned from their wedding trip—If I'm net home from the club by—ah—ten, love, you won’t wait—” Wife (quietly)—No, dear—(but with appalling firmness)—111 come for you! He was ibiick at 9:45 sharp!—London Punch. —“Look here, Jdiss Toantwo,” said jCrimsonbeal: to the village schoolteacher; “ my hoy says you hissed him the other day for saying his lesson. Is that so?” ‘“Yes, sir,” timidly replied thB spinster. “ Well,” continued Crimso nbeak, “ don’t let that occur again. If there is any punishing to be dune, I’ll attend 1» him!”—Yonkers Statesman.

—Just as soon as a 'man succeeds in buying his uife two or three of the biggest diamonds in the market, the styles change. A fashion item says: “Tiny diamonds are now the correct thing among ladies who are supposed to set the style.” It is very discouraging. to cart the big diamonds into We shall have to a saw-mill! and have ’em *0010; pioper sizes—and that will cost dickens.—Norristown Herald. —To be pnident is not necessarily to be miserly 01: ungenerous, but simply to avoid the extravagances which tempt al. young me n, and old ones also. Lifers real and rational pleasures are not costly; and the avoidance of money wasting can be followed without the loss of friendships worth having. There is no need to specify particulars in which those who have yet their way to make in the world, throw away their advances of the cap;ht make a good Ledger. Oriental Superstition. Two young ladies were gazing at the white elephant as it stood enthroned in all its sacred splendor and surrounded by the mystic emblems of its holy character and the adoring priests who were kceeling devoutly on every side. “ How canons it is,” remarked one, “that any race of people should be so deluded as to worship an elephant.” "It is, indeed,” replied the other, sally. . "When I look npon this worshiping' throng of ignorant, superstitious creatures and realize how earnest' and sincere they are, I can not but feel th»t there should be no rest until the m smmmftT'v m m ssionary n one of these ben! is borne to the last heathen." the first speaker; duty-” the animal in the! SB exclaimed, in

-Place the loops well apart, so that tho chicks wil hare a large area Where; they can fora re for insects and green food. —A folded 1 ewspaper, or a part of a newspaper fol ied, is good for a holder and saves bur ling the lingers, spoiling the temper or 'oiling a dish towel when in haste to re no ove a boiling pot, open an oven door or take up a hot poker or pan. ~~y°T Chilbl ains: Take a turnip, boil with the skin on; then take out the pullp and beat it up, and add to it half a oeaspoonful of grated horse-radish. Lay this on a rag and tie it on to the part affected.—Toledo Blade. —Moore, the rur&list, says horticulture is the poetry of agriculture. It is lefining in its nature, broadens the mijid. creates a love for the beautiful, i,nd its products are the most healthful food of man. An indifferent farmer never made a good horticulturist. --Leave some of the old beaten paths. Routine is a good thing in its jilase, but divergence has ks advantage. Tiy some of the new methods. There may be chaff among the wheat 1 nt the first success will scatter it, and a ct as an entering wedge to be followed by many more.—•■Albany Journal. —Keep your best cows, remarks the -9e«) England Homestead. Sell the poorest, if you must sell any. They can tiadily be replaced. The place of a good cow can not always be filled. The cost oi keeping is abont equal, while the good animal yields by far the most piolit. Remember this while trading CCW5. —The large lace tidies with deep scil oped edges are made very ornamental if. they are tied tightly in the 'center, then spread out the ends after the style of a butterfly’s wings; and 'after pinning them in place place a large bow of broad bright hned ribbon just above the place where the tidy is tied.—N. Y. Post. —Egg Pudding: Four eggs well beaten; four tablespoonfuls of flour; add to the eggs until a smooth mass; then add a pint of milk slowly, a pinch of salt. Beat all smooth together. Pnt in a well-buttered dish, and bake about twenty minutes. Eat with sauce made of butter and sugar beaten together to a cream, flavored with vanilla.—The, Household. 11 *

Plowing Corn. There may be beneficial effects from trot-pruning of fruit trees, but we ate far from believing there is any advantage to corn by such a process. And yet some claim it. But those who do not claim the good results contend that plowing deeply close along by the hill after the roots have spread widely, does not injure it by cutting off the roots. Various experiments have been made in root-pruning of corn, both by deepElowing it when it is five or six feet igh, and by sticking down a spade six or eight inches all around from the corn, , and that many inches deep. Profs. Sturtevant ana M’Bryde have both experimented on this root-prun-ing, but claim that a long series of years and careful experiments wouli^ tje required for a finality on the sub. feet The writer has made' several experiments by the plow whrh corn was just silking out. Whon the. plow was run five inches deep close to the row, in warm: or moderately reasonable weather for corn growth, the corn would wilt, and in a few days show a considerable shade of yellow, and where al ternate rows were thus plowed, with the other? very shallow, so as not to touch the roots, there was a decided depreciation of the crop where it was root-pruned by the plow. There is no doubt where the plow cuts or injures the roots, the corn is greatly injured in growth. The tendency of late is to level cultivation, as near as possible, and keep the surface mellow. If the season be too dry this is the position to have the soif Jio retain the moisture. If it be too "wet, it is advisable to throw the soil up the hill, but do it by merely skimming the ground with the plow. But thq best time to make a crop is to cultivate the corn early, before it has roots long; enough to disturb. This should be done before it Is up and constantly every day afterwards. If your corn-field is clean and the ground soft and mellow, ■where the corn is eight inches high, the crop is made. Home say do not disturb the soil if it be wet. * A great; mistake. It greatly aids the soil in drying out to be stirred. If it is too dry, •pulverize the sifrface, even if it be to tine dust. It will aid in retaining the moisture. This seems a contradiction, and yet is not, but a veritable fact, capable of the plainest demonstration. We are inclined to think the soil is generally thrown up too high about oar corn rows. But it is seldom plowed and harrowed enough, especially in the infancy of the corn. But do not tolerate the humbug of the benefit of rootpruning. It is certainly an injury, though some wi-*e college professors have recommended it. But it is not astonishing this class of men do favor such foil es, as they are generally the men who teach free trade and everything else in theory, but know nothing .about it in practice.—Iowa Slate Ilegis■

The Druggist. C. J. Seybold, in business at Peabody, Kan., thus toasted the druggist: “May bis occupation never become a drug in the market as long as he sticks like his own plaster to business. May he never be bruised in the mortar of adversity by the pestle of misfortune, and may his rise in his profession be as accurately marked as his graduate measure. May his cared!' be as unsullied as distilled water, and as smooth and pleasant as strained honey. May his success never be alloyed by a mixture of ill-luck «£ a tincture of regret. May his counter prove the crucible whereby he transmutes human ailments into precious metal, and precipitates the golden metal into his pocket. May Jhe never be called upon to swallow the hitter pill of disappointment, or be macerated in the cruel spirit of enmity. Should fickle fortune ever refuse him her smiles may he find an antidote in the soothing opiate of woman's love, strengthened by the tonic of experience and purified by the sudorific of patience. Thus, his best days being evaporated, and the lamp of his existence past trimmine, when Dr. Death sends to his shop his dreadful prescription indorsed: ‘To be taken at bedtime,’ may be carefully prepared, accurately dispensed, permanently entered in the day-book of memory, neatly put up in the white wrapper of purity, sealed with the melting tears of loving friends, Btamped with the trade-mark of honesty, and only labeled and directed to Heaven.”-— St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

relieved. I continued ' rearing the Hesters ' a week, and was entl lely cured. I also i used them for a stiff neck, which Ax.hr | COOK’S Plasters cure<. in four hours. • S. A. MtTLLAT. .! Cube ofTjmbawo. | l«fti 8CMMIT Ate, J <rsey Citt, B. X, | 1 ebnary 18, MM. f This is to certify that I have been troubled with lumbago for a long time, and hay? tried everyth ing, and could not get relief until I used dlXCOCK’s PaRObS Plasters. I have also used Br. .ysRExa’s Pn.LS iv. my family for the la it live years for biliousness, and would have no. other, as they give me the best i atisfaction. ' a _M. VRKgLA.sn. Darwin says there hi a living principle in fruit. We suppos i he refers to the in that simple remedy called Br. ttuesoti’s Yellow Dock and S« reaparilla, ft will cure yon by purify, ig the blood and strengthening the wes i portions of your body. You will also i ad it very refreshing to the brain and n< rvous system. Tire proprietors receive hu tdreds of letters bestowing upon it the hi) best praise. Kotm prisoners have escaped from SingSing—over the guard! m wall.— Rochester Post-Dispatch. Come, Gentle Spring, end bring malaria, dy 3pepsic, biliousness, torpidity of liver and a train of kindred maladies. Fortunate! t Kidney- Wort is at hand. It may be had of the nearest druggist, and will purify the system, correct the stomach and bowets, stimulate the liver and kidneys to health r action, remove all poisonous humors anti make you fee! like a new man. As a sp ing medicine, tonic and blood Purifier it i >3 ao equal. The hairdresser’s v idow is a relict of barberism.

Cancer Tor Twenty Tears. Mr. W: R. Robinson, Davisboro, Gs., writes, under date Jan. 3,1884: “ I am getting on finely, the ulcer is gradually healing. I feel that Swift's Specific will euro the horrible cancer which has been feeding on me for over twenty years.” Mr. O. G. Barron, of Banning, Ga.,writes, dated March 3, 1884: “The soreness has aft gone out of the Cancer, and my health has greatly improved. I have taken six; bottles oi Swift’s Specific, fora Skin Cancer, which I have had for years.” Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. The Swift Spbcik<?Co., Drawers, Atlanta,Gat, Good advice for the better—Better quit. —JV. Y. Journal. Papidlon Cough Cure does not contain any drugs or chemicals; it is purely vegetable. It cures Whooping Cough, Bronchial Cough, or tickliug in the throat, and Winter Cough so prevalent in older people. A regular poser—The photographer.— Philadelphia Chronicle. &5*Get the Best Dyes. The Diamond Dyes for family use have no equals. All popular colors easily dyei fast and beautiful. Only 10c. a package at druggists. Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vfc. Sample Card, 33 colors, and book of directions /or 2c. stamp._ A man without k future—a bursted stock broker.—Merchant Traveler. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is to be had at the nearest drug store for a dollar. It is not claime 1 that this remedy will cure every disease under the sun, but that it does all that it claims to do, thousands of goodwomen know and declare. When a coal fire is almost exhausted for want of fuel just give it a scuttle of coal, aud notice how grateful it will look. Papillon Catarrh Cure is soothing, does not smart or burn; it is used by inssiffia. tion, or by spraying. * The question of the hour—What time is it?—Boston Post. Ladies who intend to visit <• Balls and parties most exquisite, Or, with lovers to elope. Should not only dress in style, But should .always use a while u Beeson’s Jtfum Sulphur i>oap.,,—&o by druggists. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is not only pleasant to take, but it is sure to cui e. “ Is snoring bad for the health 2” asks a correspondent. Not unless the parson he sleeps with is bigger than he is. Deserving of Confidence.—There is no article which so richly deserves the confidence of the public as Brown’s Bronchial Troches. Those suffering from Asthmatic and Bronchial Diseases, Coughs and Colds, should try them. Sold only in boxes. Ir afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaau Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it, 2&o, Hole's Honey of Horehoand and Tar Soothes the lungs convulsed with a cough. . Pike’s toothache drops cure iu one minute,

BRYANT ft CATTLE-! THE MARKETS. NEW YORK, Ml 18J4. !—Exports..t 6 50'S# 7 fri COTTON—Middling.. 11 %W ilH FLOUR—Good to Choioe. 3 85 ® 6 Ki WHEAT—No. 3 Had. 1 mm 1 V63S CORN—No. a. &‘3£« &*1 OATS—Western Mixed.. ST © 83 PORK—New Mess. .... ® j ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling..... IBs BEEVES—Exports..:..... 6 40 Fair to Good.;..... 6 00 HOG8—Common to Select.... 5 08 SHEEP-Fair to Choice....... 3 76 FLOUR—XXX to Choice. 350 WHEAT-No.2Winter........ i 13 „ No. 3 “ ........ ItJS CORN—No.a Mixed.. 61s OATS—No. 3.. 83 rve—No. *... TOBACCO-Lugs............... 6 SP Medium Leaf. 9 IV) HAT—Choioe Timothy..i6 60 B UTTER—Choice Baity... 14 EGGS—Choioe... POKK-NewMess......... 18 75 BACON-Clear Rib...... LARD—Prune Steam.. „_. _ CHICAGO. CATTLE—Exports. It 50 HOGS—Good to choice.. 5 35 8HEEP—Good to choice. 3 00 FLOUE-Winter. 5 WHEAT-^o^priDg:'..’.'”." 4 mi 3 & 5 7) 5 £5 If S*?< i sa I JO 50 v No. 2 Rea. * OORN-No. a. 54 f OATS—No. 2.... « PORK-New Mesa............ 16 mm KANSAS C1T?. CATTLE-NativeSteers .... .. K 45 & a a? HOGS—Sales at. 5 20 «# 5 45 WHEAT-No. 2..... & ILK CORN-No. 2 mixeii... ® « oats—No. a...... (*) NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grades. .. 5 35 Si a m OORN-White . OATS—Western.... HAY—Choice.. .. PORK—Mess. BACON-Clear Bib............ COTTON—Middling............ LOUISVilJ.E. WHEAT—No. 3 Red OORN-No. a Mixed. OATS—Mixod Western, PORK-Mess... .( BACON-Clear Rib, COTTON—Middling. $250

BMW 59 AMEBIOAF' Setta 5ji Ctttioj&e. ME LAW SCHOOL..! SPiofemort, nd'lress Hew T “ST.BM0 VEGETABLE KLL8.V __S’!.* a*et Cere for ll-rer and - at Dr«i»rririRij5 nr by mail, fiawplea ftf®. £ St. Bernard FUJI Sfakwe, SSSferoer St .Hew York. “THE BEST IS CHKAPIST." H6RH T|4DCtl|CDQSiVHLL& itratfam * nntdntndcknrg.Hen fflwNnl (» «!1 eeetiw*. > Writo r«r tr kb On Pamphlet MKi Paam to The AnluiKm 4 Tartar Co.. MjuuuJeld. Ohio. 'P!SO S'Ctr,RE for setw mm an list faiis. | BeatOraghByrop. Taatesgood. I Uae In iim«. Sold by druggists. | CONSUMPTION

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Fro® Major Down*, dt. Pleasant Academy, l» very sold weather [ km suffering with :a.t,arrh. My head and liroat ached *o seveTei'wt. Ely’* Cream 3 am was suggested. W ithin an boor 1 felt ttlirved. In a few day* I urns cared. W. A. Downs. Cream Balm anuses no pain. Gives itJtefat once. Clea:_ iw> head Causes iiialihy secretions. Abates Inflammation.

with the tu^r. ttend for circular. 50 ccutt ct drupKista; h/ mall, rcftiatrrctl. Sleenta. ELY BROTHERS, Praia Owcgo, N, Y. GOLD GIVEN AWAY! To increase oc.r subscription list for the monthly xnagaatne “KSOS'IXIN SCtRAJPS’* for the year com' mencing July nexr»we will give to those sending &\ for s year’s subscription tsa follows: S100.00to the sabscr i ber sendinglargest stnumter of English words .1 Boston Scraps” composed of the letters in * —ana *51 to the onu send • HHP ing longest verse in the Bible. To those sending 25 cents for three months’ subscription, ss follows: SiOto the one sending largest number of words, and 830 to the one sending longest fine. If more thanone hare same number ox words or longest verse: to the P«\ BOSTON SC RAPS PUBLISH. INC COatd» School Street. Office 45, Boston, Mass;

. . LYDIA E. PINKHAM'8 . . VEGETABLE COMPOUND ••«I8APOSmVECEREFOR»*» All thoso painful CompUlnU * an*t Weaknesses so common* ***••♦ to onr beat •••*♦• 5v« * FE&ALK 10PULATI0Y. • • Mm « is n«*M, pillar kmaaeftom.

•Its purpose is sotciif /or the icguimats healing or disease and the relief of pitint and tkvtU does all it claims to do, thousands of ladies can gladly testify. • • It will cure entirely all Omria:i trouble?. Inflammation and Ulceration, Falling and Displacements, and consequent Spinal Weakness, and is particularly-adapt-ed to toe Change of Life. ***•**•*••«•••• * ItreraoresFalntne^.FlatulencT. destroys allcrayta* for stiwulmts, aad relieves Weakness of the Stomach. St cures Bloating, n»vJlichee. Nervous rostratioiji General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Inal gestion. That feelingcf bearing down, causing pan* aad backache, is always permanently cured by Its ua * fiend , stamp to L'*nn, Mass., for pamphlet. Letters at t i&uairy confidentially answered. For sale at druggist* A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CH>

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tot enfeebled systems, suffering from » general went of tone, and Ita Uf—' * - nun nervousness, ,1a seldom derivable from the use of s nourishing diet and stimuli of appetite, unaided. A medicine, that will effectaremovalofths specific obstacle to renewed health and vigor, that la a genuine corrective, la the real need. It is the possession cf this grand re-e qu Irement which mahea Hoe tetter’s Stomach Bitters so effective as an tnvigc rant. For sale by an Druggists and Dealers generally.

tyf IS the TIME. To preveci.andcore all “Skin ^wenae*,” *:Hl to secure a white* V aotl and beautiful Complexion, in ^BEESON3 dramatic Hum Sulphur Soap. Ouecaice will bci DOS North gESTSS'^rMeWooM gnderg&rments (eleaue; whlte and sweet) t* Baatdby«uw£e<Male especially Merino, Woolen* and mwmmm Poison Oak Seems to yield era* time to I Spedic.

FAPILLON CATARRH CURE, An unfailing means of curing nasal catarrh bjr insufflation. Catarrh, cold in the head, broth thiol catarrn. nod hay foyer yield almost in- ' rftantly to this sovereign remedy. It Is a liquid medicine that does not smart, hum or irritate; IV ft tiay a the inti tun* nation, prevents accumulations of matter, and permits free breathing. It relieves those teoiadiea thoroughly and will pc-nmtaently oore. its efficacy as a cure for bay fever Is established, as many testimonials certify. It ho* been used several years. For otto naive rtischaixo from tlsa nose, or lost W»«o of smell, taste or hearing, and pains in Tonr heart, use PfcpSlton Catarrh Care. We constantly reoulvo reports from physicians, so d Cram drusrylslaachaowlodglnff the success of tub remedy. Cvtarrh is a deceptive disease. and if ebroaio 5s dangerous. Paplllon Catarrh Cute tuts produced cores of many fcdknowifidged tocurabfB eases. Price, «.GI p«sr boetta, six for tsm DirecMourf fc ten: anjtuaipis accompany e vary bottle. pS~ior sale by all druggists. A. ST. K.&T ' •»" TV1USX WKXWO TO AJOVliRTISICHSI piease say you sow the advertisement In this paper. Advertisers tike to know when and where their advertisements ax* S«hWM*t