Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1895 — Page 6

- THE REPUBLICAN. 1 I ' ~ I Gkurk E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER * INDIANA ' • ■ v ■ L

. “Tub memory of the just Is blessed; but the name of the wicked n - ■ 1 There is talk of a free bridge at St. Louis, but the Globe-Democrat expresses a lack of confidence in the scheme, and states that the city does not so much need a free bridge as a fair bridge. --L. : It is a fact, but not generally known, that several Southern States 'have pensioned their- Con federatesoldiers who suffer from various disabilities. Georgia is now said to be spend i ngi-'tiOO,OIK) per annum inth is _®asL_arid-“Gan afford it,” the State's finances being in a very prosperous condition. The Ameer of Afghani:.t.-n is announced as a possible vis:' >r to the United States some time during the year. The Ameer is a typical despot of the far East and wields the destinies of 5,5(10,000 people. The benighted potentate will doubtless be surprised at the “sights.” but he lost the opportunity of bis life by his failure to come, to the World’s Fair while liis dark-skinned brothren were, rusticating on the Midway. American artisans are not good enough for John Jacob Astor, of New York. LHe has recently com-■pleted..>-a--mansion in ,<hat city, and has had al! of the interior fittings, wainscoating, window frames—the entire walls of many rooms —built to measure in Paris from the most costly woods by the most skillful French mechanics. These fittings have been detained in boiid at New York for some time because of a dispute over the amount of duties on the same.

The Liberals in England are said to be just holding on “by the skin of their teeth,” so to speak. The Gladstone majority of forty in Parliament has dwindled to twelve and has been even less in some test votes- The amusing part of the situation is that reports state Mr. Gladstone is recuperating so fast-by his prolonged, rest that the Liberals are counting on him for most efficient aid in the next campaign. The g. d m. does really seen 1 . 1 to have stopped the “corroding tooth of time,” so far as its ravages on his own person is concern ed. Art development in the United States is achieving some triumphs that are a trifling startling and. as many good people will con tend. de - moralizing. The most liberal patrons of genius in this” line in pur day appear to be tobacco and cigarette manufacturers. The time seems to be near at hand when an industrious user of the weed in any form will be able to decorate his house with some of the choicest artistic re prod uc t ion s~bf the, ah—form divine, gotten up regardless of expense and in a style that would beyond the reach of ordinary pocketbooks a few years ago. Steve Brodie? the famous bridge jumper and “bowery actor,” recently advertised for the “homeliest man in New York” to appear as a supe in a play entitled “On the Bowery." Sixty “beauties" applied for the job. Below are profile portraits of the men accepted —the generous Steve concluding to provide for two of the unfortunates instead of one:

An Associated Press dispatch, Feb. 25, says that the Ferris wheel has finally been located on the North Side at Chicago and that a great amusement (building will be built around it. The last report previous to this stated . that the wheel had already been shipped to New York and that the process of resetting the same had commenced under the auspices of a joint sttjpk company. We would like to see this matter definitely settled before next September, as we contemplate a tour in search of the greatest revolver on ' earth and do not care to-chasc down all the wild rumors the reporters can set afloat. Where is the wheel at, anyway? , It is not especially a credit to the American people that a surging mass of snobbish fools gathered in the street in front of the Gould

' 1 mansion in New York,- one evening rceently/becausc a report had griny forth that Count de Caste Dane and Miss Anna ’Gould,-who were marriee March 4. were to appear on the steps in_ recognition of the popular in torestin —the - thpn—approach ing in the United States, but unfortu nately we have a large percentagi of people wito-^wid--metaphorically “tear their shirts” in an -effort t< see arid do homage to any clianci specimen of the genus who may come our way. The Japanese are “too quick” to catch on to modern progress. Tin city of Osaka. Japan, will socn have .a firs t cl ass watc Ivfacto ry i n opera 7 tion, fitted out with the most ap proved Amoricap machinery tindoi the superintendency of an American citizen. This is a blow at one of our great industries that may in ‘time prove disastrous, because of the remarkable ingenuity of the Japs and their ability to wort for Chinese wages. They: can - flood ..the markets of the world with watches at ruinous figures, to the exclusion of the American product. This is a branch of commerce in -which America has had no real com pet-itor since watches were first extensively made by machinery. The National Woman's Council. rp-c-(',nt-!v iii sossioir at Washington. was made the occasion for many pleasant social events. Mrs. Ruche Foster Avery gave a dinner to Miss Susan B. Anthony on her seventyfifth birthday. The table decorations were remarkable for elegance. At the close of the dinner Mrs. Foster made a brief address in whicl. she presented to the noted suffrage leader an annuity of SBO9 per year during life, in order that Miss Anthony may no longer feel a necessity for working for her daily bread. Miss Anthony was much affected. She simply said: “Girls, 1 don’t know what to say: I can’t say anything,” in a broken voice that was more touching than words.

, Tiie South African gold mines have . been absorbing vast sums, collected I from the apparently inexhaustible . coffers of European and English capitalists, for some years. Until i quite recently the boom in this class i of securities has been unchecked by ! disaster or adverse influence, the ; credulous investor ever lendin<z a willing ear to the promise of a vast return for small investments. The , field has been well worked by astute manipulators, and Irigh and lowhavc suffered from their enterprising ae-tivit-v! Some of the most careful Paris financiers have looked askance at the South African gold mines from the first, although it is concede:: that they do exist, and that gold b even now being obtained in largely increasing quantities. The' <rrcai trouble now appears tp be. that tlu mines have been over capitalized. The original projectors-have in a large measure “realized” all that,, they saw in the mines and have loTt the stockholders to “hold the sack,’ very much-after the-style of sonn of Western “boom” cities. From the best figures obtainable it is mated that the total value of whal are known as the Witwatersrand shares on the market Jan. 1, 1895, ' was £55.350,009. About half that sum ' represented dividend paying shares. I All the companies together paid in I all £1.500,000 in dividends,'or about i 3 per cent, on th<? vast capital ini "vested. Strange as it. may appear, : in the face of this very. unsatislac- ; tory-showing, these Witwatersraiid ; shares continue to he in . good demandon the Paris Bourse, lint, En- ' glish Capitalists are weakening and in many-quarters a great crash" ic anticipated.

The Lovely Duchess Mattie.

New York Commercial Advertiser. The Duchess de la Rochefoucauld, who was once upon a time —and only a few years ago. —lovely Mattie Mitchell, of Oregon, and this city, is said to be one of the most charming hostesses and one of the most brilliantly clever women in suntiv France. Of' the truth of this assertion people Svho have the.average opinion of the clover French women may have doubts, but of ihe Duehess’p beauty there is only one opinion. She is remembered in Nev.' York as a lovely girl with a perfect litrure, superb snowy shoulders, which she always draped with chis sons, gauzes, and tulles in oil shoulder fashion which showed T“ the best advantage the very classical contour of the loVely shoulders. Miss Mitchell alsp had regulap features, bronze goldJiair, a complexion of dazzling pink and white, and lovely eyes like afluamarlpe jewels of a haunting shade of biuo grav. No wonder that Paris imagines Senate • Mitchell’s daughter as clever iq every way as she is pretty. The late Charles Gayarre, the historian, of Louisiana, left an unpub lishetl essay on “The Octoroons iff Louisiana” and the manuscript of u long novel translated from the Spanish of. Quevedo. These papers are to be edited by Miss Grace King, who has become the owner.

CELESTIAL VIANDS.

The Delicious Courses of the Heavenly Banquet. Swfeh That Never Cloy and Do Not Intirxicate Sermon. Dr. Talmage preached at the New York Academy "Of Musicdast Sunday to a large audience, the majority of whom remained to shake hands with the speaker after thtgs.ervice. The subject chosen was, “Seraphic Diet,” the text being Psalms Ixxviii, 25, ■•‘Man. did eat angels’ Ibbd.” He” said: —— ■ Somewhat risky would be the undertaking to tell just what was ,the man mi that fell to the Is realites -UtLXlie—_wi Ide r■; ess, oL what iVwhA" made and who made it. The manna was called angels' food, but why so calleiL? Was it, because it came from the place where angels live, orbecause angels compounded it, or because angels did eat it, or because itwas good enough for angels? On what crystal platter was it carried to the door of heaven and then ‘ throan out? —How did-Yt tiiato? We are told there was in it something like honey, but. if the saccharine taste in it had been too strong manv would not'have liked it, and so it may Lave Lad a commingling of flavors —this delicacy of the skies. It must have been nutritious, for a nation liv-d on it for forty years. It must have been healthful, for it is so itisph-inplv applauded. It must have beell abu:idant, because it disinissod the necessity of a sutler for a great army. But we have all occasionally been in an ecstatic state where we-forgot the necessity of earthly food. We. j were fed by joys, by anticipations, by discovaA-ies. by companionships that dwindled the dining hour into insignificance and made the pleasuresof the table stupid and uninviting. There have been cases where, from seemingly invisible sources, i the human body has been maintained, as in the remarkable case of our invalid and Christian neighbor, Mollie

Fancher, known ’. hroimhout the medical and Christian world for that site was seven week’s without earthly food, fed ami sustained on heav- i enly visions. Our beloved Dr. Irenaeus Prime. editor and theologian, recorded the wonders concerning ; this girl. Prof. West, the great, scientist, marveled over it, and Wil- I lard Parker of world-wide fame in j surgery, threw up his hands in ; amazement at. it. There are times | in-alLour lives when, the soul asserts i itself and says to the body: “Hush! ■ Stand back'! Stand down!” Now, what dq the supernatural : live on? They experience none of j the demands of corporeity and have ■ no hmdrance or environment in the", shape of bone and muscle and flesh, and hence that which may delectate our palate (fryinyigorate our poor, i dying frames would be of no use to ! them. But (hey have food of their ' own. My text says so. There may j be other courses of food, in the t heavenly menu that I am not aw-are ; of, but I know of five or six styl.es_C)f i Tood always on celestial tables when I cherubim and seraphim _and arch- ! angel gather for heavenly repast —. the mysterv of redempttottv eelestiulized music. the heavenly picturesque, sublime. .collou.tiy. eternal enterprises, saintly association, divine companionship, .cel eb native jubilance. There is one subject that excites the curiosity and inquisitiveness of all those angels. St.. Peter savs, ‘-‘Which thiflg the angels desire'to look into”—that is, why did Christ, exchange a palace for a barn? Why did He drop a scepter from His right hand to take a spear into Bis left side? Why quit the anthem of the wdrsbiping heavens to Lear the crooning of a weary mother’s voice. Was a straw better than a, garland? “Could it not have been done in seine other way?” says angel the first. "Was t-lie human race worth such a 'sacrifice?” says angel the second.. “How-could heaven get along without him for thirty-three years?” says angel the third. '“Through that assassination may smt’ifl irnih rise int.> eternal coinjiani'nship,” says angel the fourth. Am! then they all bend toward each other ami talk about, it. and gpess about, it and try to fathom it and prophesy concerning it. But the -subject-is too big, and they only nibble at it. •Unlike the beakers of earth, which poison, these glow with immortal health, tlm wine pressed from the grapes of ihe' heavenly Esehol, and ih -y all drink to. the memory of manger and cross, shattered sepulcher ami Olivetic ascension. . Ohj that rapturous; inspiring,- transporting theme of the world's ransom!, That makes angels’ food. The tailing of that food gives stronger to their gladness, adds several Li-.ririigs of radiance to their foreIs, gives vaster circle to the sweep of their wings on mission intereonsteilation. Seine of the fragments of the angels’ food fall all around oqr wilderness camp today, and we feel like crying with Paul. ‘‘Oh. the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom ami knowledge of God!” or with expiring Stephen, Jesus, receive my spirit!” or with many an enraptured soul, “None but Christ! None lni‘ Christ!” .MrnSib tio Lhemi.s fomi for body, food "Tor mind and food for soul. Frorn what I read in my Bible I think celestiaiized music willmake up a large part of angels’ food. Why do I say “celestializcd music?” IJecause, although music may have been born in heaven, it had not all of, its charms

until it came to earth and took a baptism of tears. Since, then it has had a tenderness and a. pathos it could not otherwise have possessedIt had to-pass under the shadow's and over stormy seas and weep at sCpuE cbers.an'i to be hummed as .a lullaby over the cradle of sick children before it could mount to its present altitude of lieaveniy pbweb. Noorgan on earth would be complete without the stop “tremolo” and the stop “vox humana” of earthly sympathies glorified. Jiist take up the New Testament and find it a note book of ce'estalized music. ' . But- many of masters yvho charmed us on earth will more mightily charm us in heaven. Great music hall of eternity! May you and I” be there some day to acclaim when the -“Hallelujah Chorus” is wakened. As on earth there have been harmonies made up of other harmonies, a strain of music from this cantata, and a strain of music from that overture, and a bar from this and a bar from that, but one great tune or theme, into wjnch all the others were poured as rivers into a sea, so it may be giv e n to th e nnghtiost soul i n th e heavenly world to gather something from all the sacred songs we have sung on earth, or which have been ■gj.ung,in_jaLLthe ages, and roil them on in eternal symphony, but the one .great theme and the. one overmast ermg tbne that shall carry alt before it and uplift all heaven from central throne to farthest gate of pearl and to the highest capstone of amethyst will be, “Unto Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and made us kings unto God and the lamp, to Ti lin be g;ory.” That will be manna enough for all heaven to feed on. That will be a banquet for immortals. That will be angels’ food. Now in the emerald palace of heaven let the cupbearers and servants of the King remove this course from the banquet and bring on another course of angels’ food, which is laying out of mighty enterprise. The Bible lets us know positively that the angels have our worldly affairs on their heart. They afford the rapid transit from world to world. Ministering spirits, escorting spirits, defending spirits, guardian spirits —yea, they have all worlds on their thought. We are told they sang together at the creation, and that implied not only the creation of our world, but of other worlds. Shall they plan only for our little planet and be unconcerned for a planet three hundred times larger? No. They have all the galaxies under their observation, mighty plans of helpfulness to belaid out and executed; shipwrecked worlds to be towed inpplanetary fires to be put out; demoniac hosts riding up to be hurled back and down. These angels of light unhorse an Apollyon with one stroke of battleax celestial, They talk these matters all over. They bend toward each other in sublimest colloquy. They have cabinet tneetpigs of winged immortals. They assemble, the mightiest of them in holy consultation. They .plan out stellar, lunar, solar, constellated achievement. They vie with each other as to who shall do the grandest thing for the eternals. They compose doxologics for the temple of jthe sun. They preside over coronations. If inTheTgreat organ" of ~the universe one key gets out of tune, they plan for its returning! No "undertaldng rr so difficult, ~ no post -of duty is so distant, no mission is-so stupendous buta,t God’s! command they are gladly obtained. When they sit. together in heaven’s places. Gabriel and Michael, the archangel and the angel that pointed Hagar to the fountain in the desert, and the angel that swung open the prison doorand delivered Peter, and the angels who are to be the reapers at the .end of the world, and the anI gel that stood by Paul to encourage him on the foundering cornship of" Alexandria, and the two angels that sen tried the tomb of Christ, and the four angels that St. John saw in Apocalypse at the four -corners of the earth, and the twelve angels that guard the twelve swinging and the 20,000 charioted angels that the psalmist described, and more radian t than all of them put together, and mightier than all, and lovelier than all, “the Angel of the Covenant,” the cadences of his voice the best music that ever entranced mortal or immortal cars, his smile another noon risen on midnoon, his presence enough to make a heaven if there were no other attraction T say, when they meet V’gether in the council chamber close to the throne, ah, that will be regalement infinite! That will be a repast supernal. That will beangels’ food. in the emepajd palace of heaven let the cupbearers .and servants of the King remove this course from the banquet and bring on another course of angels’ food, the last course and the best- —thedessert t the culmination of the feast, which is celebrative j abidance. You and I have known people who have prided themselves tin never getting excited. They have cultivated the phlegmatic; you novel'saw them cry’; you never heard them in a burst of laughter. They are monotonous, and to me intolerable. I am afraid of a man or woman that- cannot cry. I am afraid of a man or a woman that cannot laugh. Christ says in the book of Revelation that such people are to Him nauseating and cause regurgitation —(Revelation, iii, 16), “Because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my -•mouth.” But the angels in heaven have no stolidity or unresponsiveness. There is one thing that agitates them to holy warmth. We know that- absolutely. I( their harp be hung upxm the panels of amethyst, they take it down and with deft

fingers pu’il 3 from among the strings a canticle. They run in to their neighbors On the same golden stniet? and tgll the good news. If Miriam has there symbals "anything like those with which she performed on the banks of the Red sea, she claps them in triumph, and There is a festal table spread, and the best of the apgels’ food is set on it. When is it? It is when a man or woman down in the world who was all wrong by the grace of God is made alt right—(Luke xv, 10.) “There is joy in the presence of the angels 'of God over the one sinner that.repenteth.” And then their festivity is catching. If we hear the bells of a city ring we say, “What is that for?” If we"hear rotting out from an auditorium the sound of a full orchestra we "say, “What, is happening here?” And when the . angels of L God take on jubilance over a case of earthly repentance your friends in heaven will sayE =3j W L hat new thing has happened? Why full diapason? Why the chime from the oldest towers of eternity ?” —Thofact is, my hearers, there are people in heaven who would like to hear from you. Your children there are wondering when father and mother will come into thekingdom, and with more glee than the-y ever danced in the hal 1 wav at your com ing liome at eventide they will dance the floor of the heavenly mansion at the tidings of father and mother saved. Besides that the old folks want to hear from you. They are standing at the head of the celestial stairs waiting lor the news that their prayers have been answered, and that you are coming bn to take from their lips a kiss better than --tlmt—wWoh—now Th ey th ay thro w —you-- Galli iig you by your first name, as they always did, they are talking about you and saying, “There is our s in,” or, ‘lThere is our daughter down in that world of struggle, battling, suffering, sinning, weeping. Why they not see that Christ is the only one who. can help and comfort and save?” That is what they are saying.. about you. and, if you will this hour in one prayer of surrender that will not take more than a second to make decide this, then swifter than telegraphic dispatch the news would reach them, and angels of God who never fell would join your glorified kindred in celebration, and the caterers of heaven would do their best, and the saints and seraphs side by side would take angels’ food. Glory be to God for such a possibility! Ob. that this moment there might be a rush for heaven!

Bought Her Husband.

Baltimore Sun An instance has been cited, at Towson of the purchase in the davs of slavery in Maryland of a slave by his wife, who was a free woman.. The colored man in question, whose name was Elijah, was owned by a Mr. Dimmett, and worked as a teamster for the Rev. John R, Keech, who at that time lived near Fallston, i<i Hartford county, and was rector of churches in that county and in Baltimore county for about forty years. After being purchased by bis wife, Elijah was, of course, free, but he continued for some, time to work for ihe Rev. Mr. Keech. He was paid $lO a montb for his servicos, and was also given his board. The first, year after being free Elijah did not draw any qf"his“W3ges until the encEtff the year, and he then drew the $l2O all in a lump. It. was a large sum of money for him to have, and he was very proud of it, as before his purchase by his wife his wages were paid to bis owner.

Extraordinary Smuggling.

Harper's Younjr People. The genius of the smuggler is a very rein irkabie tiling. One of the most amusing stories of smugglers is that told by an Englislimau who imported into his own 'country a number of fine fat geese at the Christmas season many ago. One of them having excited the suspicions of the inspectors by its wonderful weight, was killed and opened, upon which it was discovered, says the chronicle, that there was concealed in, it a number of small dutiable articles. The rest of the flock having been similarly tnspectefl, it was found that their owner had compelled the unhappy birds to swallow a large quantity of stuff upon which there was q heavy duty, and which would have all come in free had not the first goose excited the suspicion of tlfose in charge.

A Genuine Disappornement.

Philadclphi i Inquirer. Mr. Staidley-—Were disappointed in love? Mrs. Hogburg (ii-,.n < ...cage)— Yes. many a time; hut I think the worst case Was when a real nice fellow, that I intended to make number five, paid for the divorce costs and then died before we got the decree against number four. ”

Women and Cold Feet.

Chicago Tribune. A man who has made nstudv of it called the Tribune reporter's .attention to what he said was a fact, that women can stand more cold in their feet. He said where a dozen men would be found wearing arctic over - shoes more than three time- that number of women w.,uld bh. found comfortable with ordinary rubbers, and that most of the best dressed women who shop down wear no overshoes of anv r— — One is pretty sure -. .. : lie skirts, of gowns wrinkled in traveling, no matter how they may be packed. 1( this happens have them hung' out on the clothesline, stretched out to their extremest width. Every crease wifi be taken out as entirely as il thay had been ironed.

WAS GOULD INSANE?

Financial Worry and Physical Exertion Not the Greatest Destroyer of Human Life. ' ’i —! For Humanity's Sake,After Thirty-six Years of Ncrve-Crecpins Slavery, He 'i‘« lis Ho w He WasStt Free. Caldwell. N. J., March 11. ISftj.—iSpe ••inl’.)-s-Siii«‘ one of-our-protniuent'citi-zens suffered so terribly from tobacco tremens, lias made known his friglitfn) experience in behalf of humanity, the ladies “here are making tobacco-using husbands’ lives miserable wi:h their eutreaties to at once quit tol’',,.; r . The written statement of S. .’. Gould is attracting widb-spreatl a-* Kt.-ton. When inter-re We- to-nighfr-Im-e-a dr T commenced using tobacco at tl irteen; J am now forty-nine; so. for thirty-six years I i bewed„sraoked, snuffed and rubbed snuff. In the morning I chewed Lefort I pvt my pants on. and "for a long time I v c ed two ounces of chewing nnd eight o-oices of smoking a day. Sometimes I had a chew in botli cEceks anti a pipe iir my mouth at once. Ten years ago I quit drinking whisky. I tried to stop tobacco time and again, bift could not. My nerves craved' nicotine and I fed them till my skin turned a tobacco-brown, .cold, sticky perspiratipn oozed from my skin, and trickled down my back at th? least cxertion or excitement. —My u<-rv<> vig<>r and my life was being slowly sapped. 1 made up my mind that I had to quit tobacco or die." "On October 1 r"stoi)pFd.mndMor — three days 1 suffered tlie tortures of the damned., On the -third-dax-that my partner accused me of being drunk. I said. ‘No, I have quit tobacco.’ ‘For God’s sake, man.’, he said, offering me his tobacco box, ‘take a chew: you will go wild.’ ami I -was wild. Tobacco was forced into mq and-I was taken home dazed. I saw double and my memory was beyond <-on.trol._bnt I still knew how _to_<liew and smoke, which 1 did fill day i.-ntil towards night, when my system got jobacco soaked again. The next morning I looked and felt as though I had been through a Jong spell of sickness. I gave up in despair, as I thotight that I could not cure myself. Now, for suffering humanity, I'll tell what saved my life. I’rov-. idence evidently answered my good wife’s prny<-rs ami trirm gh t t o h<■ r all ent ion in our paper an article which read: ‘Don’t . Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away!' words! Just what T was tloing. It told about a guaranteed cure for the tobacco habit, calk’d No-To-Bae. I sent to Druggist Hasler for a box. Without a grain of faith 1 spit out my tobacco cud, and put into my mouth a little tablet upon which was stamped No-To-Bac. 1 know it sounds like a lie when I tell you that 1 took eight tablets the first day, seven the next, five the third day. and all the r;erv.c-creopiiig._feeling, restlessness and mental depression was gone. It' was too good to be true. It seemed like a dream. That was n month ago. I used one box. It cost me sl. and it is worth a thousand. I gained ten pounds in weight and lost all ilosire for tobacco from the first day. I sleep and eat well, and 1 have been benefited in more ways than I can tell. No, the cure was no exception in my case. I know of ten people right here in Caldwell who have bought No-T<>Bac from Hasler, and they have Been cured. Now that I realize what No-To-Bac has done for me and others, 1 know why it is that the makers of this wonderful remedy, the Sterling Remedy Company, of New York and Chicago, say: ‘We don’t claim to cure every case. That’s Fraud’s talk, a lie; but we do guarantee three boxes to cure the tobacco habit, and,in case of failure we are perfectly willing to refund money.’ I would ndf give a public indorsement if I were not certain of its reliability. I know it is backed by men worth a million. No-To-Bac has been a God-send to me, and I firmly believe it will cure any case of tobaccousing if faithfully tried, and there are thousands of tobacco slaves who ought to know how easy it is to get free. -There's happiness in No-To-Bac for the prematlively old-wren, who- think as I did that they are old and worn out, when tobacco is the thing that destroys their vitality and manhood.” The publig should be warned, however, against the purchase of any of the many imitations on the market, as the success of No-To-Bac has ibrought forth a host of counterfeiters mid imitators. The genuine No-To-Bae is sold under a guarantee to cure, by all druggists, and every tablet has the word No-To-Bac plainly stamped thereon, and you run no physical or financial risk in purchasing the genuine article.

HE DECLINED THE OFFER.

The Funny Mistake Resulting from an Old Slaves Ignorance. At the close of th» war there was many a poor, ignorant negro who. Inding himself “lord of himself, that heritage of woe,” knew not where to turn nor to whom to look for aid, says the Philadelphia Times. Many there were who continued as hands in the employ of their former owners, but there were others, a more adventurous set, who struck out for themselves in various directions, some to attain success, but some alas, to fail. Among the class who deemed it advisable to seek “fresh fields and pastures new” was old Uncle Jake,quite a character in his way. Ho took a journey of some twenty or thirty miles to hire himself and family upon Mr. Jones’ farm. The old man made a quick trip of it and was soon back upon the old place again. “Well, I dope come back, old marster.” he said. “What is the matter, Jake?” inquired the judge. thought you were going to'work for Jones?” “No, sir; yer see me an’ him couldn't come ter terms. Ho offered to lemme work er piece er his land, an’ me have no mor’n er fo’th er the crap, hut I wouldn’t work for nobody for such er little bit es thet Es he'd er gimme er tl’th I’d er took it ”

The Prettiest Girl in St, Louis.

Miss Nellie Pratt, who was chosen by the rotes of the exposition visitors m the prettiest of all the pretty girls In the building, is a very handsome and petite young lady, who carries Jher honors easily. She is neither a ,blonde aor brunette, having golden hair, with jgst enough curl in it to give a pretty effect to the well poised head. Deep blue eyes, which the •owner knows how to use to the best advantage, sparkle saucily beneath drooping eyelashes, and a well-round-ed outline, * with shapely arms and .bust, small but well-formed feet and hands, coupled with a ner.t dress, makes an ensemble that is fair to look •upon. Miss Pratt claims 19 summers to her credit, but to the usual observer this looks like ap exaggeration.