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those who have to rise early and
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Winter I was on a trip to the City
of Vicksburg, Miss, .where I got well
drenched in a shower of rain. I
went home and was soon after seized
with a dry, hacking cough. This
grew worse every day, until I had
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who has since died, and he told me
to get a bottle of Boschee's German
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came along and I caught that also
very severely. My condition then
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much of the second bottle, I was
entirely clear of the Cough that had
hung to me so long, the Grippe, and
all its bad effects. I felt tip-top and
have felt that way ever since."
PetkrJ.Brials, Jr., Cayuga, Hines
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TWO CRIES.
'1 a Jnnot, eannot let him go I
Ah I me, the baby lips are paling,
Listen, the (eeble breath la (ailing. '
Women I your hand, are cold and alow I
gaaten with all the arta ye know,
ring baok again life', rosy glow,
Bring back my boy 1
"I eannot, cannot Me him die,
All that I have, my life, my heart I
Dear God, Thou wilt not let us lartl
B.areat Thou not my oryj
My baby I All that thou has given.
To help me wait for Heaven I
"Spare us good Lord 1' How the words run
Thine agony and bloody sweat.
Thy cross and passion.' Bearost thou jett
Is all Thy meroy doaof
I oannot, oannot live alone,
Let me die too, It die he must,
Pear Lord, thy Lazarus slept In dust;
Bpeak Thou again I 'Como forth 1' Ah me
Kearest Thouf Canst Thou seet"
Tha walls melt outward Into space.
There Is the slow dark river rolling,
Timed to the dead-bell's sonorous tolling.
Beyond the wave one stands
Outstretching tender hands.
"My child I my little son I
Mine too, my only one."
"Cease I for thy heaven Is won, j
But I am bound to earth.
Lord, by the pangs of birth,
That saored anguish, half despair.
The crown that mothers wear,
Bear I Answer prayer.
He Is not his I not Thine 1
Be IS mine, mine, mine I
Lordsparel"
Th. walls shut In, the vision dies,
. There Is a new light in her eyes,
The oolor Ilk. a dawn on snow
On that wan face begins to glow.
The child will live. Oh I willful heart,
Thou hast thy par
Thy way, thy will,
For good or ill.
Backward to lite he tnrns again
ttoborn by mother-pain.
Faster than that river's rolling;
More dreadful than the dead-bell's tolling.
The hurried years go by,
On sullen wings they fly.
Hark I ringing down the night,
A hopeless, starless night,
Too black for sight,
Another cry:
"Lord of the wide world! why
Did I not die I
Die In my senseless, spotless Infanoyi
Die with my soul unstained,
Earth lost and Heaven gained;
This sin and woe and shamo unknown,
Safe by Thy throne
Why have I lived to drain this eun of life.
This bitter wine of agony and strife,
And drunken with despair
Give curse for prayorf
OhMakerl Olverl Lord I is this Thy caret
Why, Lord of this lost earth, why
Could I not diet"
-Rose Terry Cooke, In N. Y. Independent, ,
MRS. BODDLE'S AILMENTS.
(Sho Was Speedily Cured Without
the Aid of Doctors.
NCL E BILLY
BODDLE was a
quiet, easy-jro-ing,
elderly
man, -who was
much respected
by his neigh
bors in a pity
inp;, patronizing1
sort y. If
he h ad any
special failings,
they rested
largely upon
the considera
tion that he was
too unenergetio to possess himself of
pronounced vices, and was thought to be
lieve that his wife was the most perfect
and patient of women.
The gossips about Swallowfork Flats
said that:
"Uncle Billy was good too all-flred
good. In fact, so good that he hadn't
gumption enough to be bad When a
man wallers contentedly through life
believing that black is white just be
cause his wife tells him so, his friends
can't help wishing he had something in
his head more like brains than soft
boiled eggs."
And yet Uncle Billy's Intentions
were always of the best. If he chose
to make himself the slave of Mrs.' Bod
die and her ailments, it might be said
to be a family rather than a publio af
fair. But his neighbors naturally hated
to Bee a man so angelically befooled.
To any friendly remonstrance Uncle
Billy would only shake his head.
"You don't know Malindy's constitu
tion like me and her does. Hit's a won
der that last attack o' dropsy on the
liver didn't kill her dead. Dr. Samp
son said it was a plump wonder the
way he pulled her through."'
Probably the doctor had his private
opinion, but as Mrs. Boddle had been
for years a most profitable patient, it
was not to his interest to make light of
the many complicated disorders with
which that astute woman declared her
Belf afflicted from time to time. Of
course Uncle Billy's friends could only
hint their opinions delicately. But
Aunt Easter, the hired cook, and a
rather privileged character, was wont
to be more openly skeptical.
"Drapsy ob de libberl" she said,
rather scornfully one morning, as she
returned from Mrs. Boddle's room with
"FIllEl ilKM'l MUKDKBl"
an armful of empty breakfast dishes.
"Bit's stittlngly mo' like drapsy ob de
stummlck. She's allays a drappin' Tit
tles down her throat "
But Uncle Billy remained faithful to
his domestic, ideals, and month after
month submitted to his wife's every
whim with a patience and serenity both
aggravating and admirable. One time
Doctor Sampson would be sent for,
posthaste, to relieve an acute "misery"
about the heurt. At another, Mrs.
Boddle had a presentiment that she
was destlued to die of nervous prostra
tion, superinduced by the exhaustion
consequent upon several previous c at
tacks, all equally severe and myster
ious. Upon tha last occasion Mrs. Boddle,
lying propped up with pillows, insisted
that Drs. Popperplll and Hlambang
should be called tn, to consult with Dr.
Sampson.
"For somehow," said she feebly, "hit
seems to me I'm bound to go this
time, ef something extronnery hain't
done."
"AUrltflit, JIulInfly," BaM Undo Hil
ly, feollngly. "I don't keer for the
trouble where your wishes are con
cerned. But, are you sure them fried
sausages ye sta last night didn't disa
gree with ye?"
Mrs. BvcliHo aat a look of piteous re
proach at her husband, then K mad to
l)r. Sampson, who, uu tun otlisr slds et
the bed, was soUcltlously offering
sedative draught
"I I'm jist too weak to .waller the
stuff," the whispered, faintly, "and yet
my owu husband talks like that. I
might as well die to once and leave
uch an onfeeling world."
"Good Lord, Malindy, no! I'll send
for 'em right straight Here, Easter, tell
Jim, to fly around and saddle up, and.
fetch PepperpilL I'll go for Slambang
myself. Cheer up, Malindy. Dr. Samp
son, with Easter's help, will keep y
alive 'till we git back."
Mrs. Boddle looked the thanks shti
seemed too weak to express in words,
as Uncle Billy hurried away. Dr.
Sampson went below to smoke a plpt
leaving Aunt Easter with the sioli
woman,
"Easter," said Mrs. Boddle, after a
long silence, "seems as if another plate
of that kraut I could hardly eat this
morning would help me some. You
needn't tell Sampson, doctors are so
peculiar. But ef three of 'em are go
ing to set over me, I'll surely need
something strengthening."
Aunt Easter departed rather unwill
ingly, with her nose in the air. She under
stood that Mrs. Boddle's ailments were
largely in the nature of humbugs. In
a little while the. smell of smoke began
to, permeate the' room, and the aiok
IfBS. BODDLK WAS ITAHDINS OVKB TBK
emiDLK.
woman, after snuffing suspiolonsly, be
gan to revive. .
Dr. Sampson and Aunt Easter, be
low, heard a shrill cry over their heads.
"B'lre! Fire! Fire! H-e-l-pl Mur
der! F-l-r-e!"
The tones were so shrill, strong and
startling, that the two, utterly mysti
fied, ran upstairs to find Mrs. Boddle
with a wrapper thrown loosely on,
striding about the upper rooms as vig
orously as if she had never been in a
sick bed in her life.
"Bring up water, Easter," she ex
claimed, rummaging in a closet near
the chimney. "The house is afire
under this upper floor. Hit's caught
from a flue, I reckon. Doctor, you
must help me down with the things."
The doctor, though greatly startled,
proceeded to lug down the furniture.
Aunt Easter stood as if paralyzed at
first, then she actually grinned as she
hurried away. Meanwhile Mrs. Boddle
was throwing bedding and clothing
from the windows, and making frantic
attempts to discover where the flames
were located, and also shouting con
tinuously to the full extent of what
now seemed to be a vigorous pair of
lungs. The fire was somewhere be
tween floor and ceiling. Smoke was
bubbling up here and there through
the chinks, in increasing volumes.
The doctor and Aunt Easter also
added their shouts, and soon the neigh
bors came running. ' Many willing
hands were now removing the furni
ture and other household fixings, while
others tore open the floor and began to
drench things generally with water
from the well.
Amidst all this, up rode Uncle Billy,
accompanied by Drs. Pepperplll and
Slambang, who had been easily found.
The first sight that greeted the alarmed
husband as he looked to see if his half
dying wife had been rescued, was that
of her figure bent under a load of
clothes, quilts and blankets that would
have sorely taxed his own strength.
She flung them down in the yard,
turned bock, and without stopping,
called to the amazed Mr. Boddle:
"Come! Stir your stumps, old man.
I'll get out the rest of the bedding
while you help 'em with the furni
ture." There was no time for comment then;
and all hands worked with a will until
the fire was subdued, though by that
time most of their things lay helter
skelter all round tha house. Then did
Mrs. Boddle bethink herself of her ill
ness, and quietly withdrew to the
shelter of some friendly currant bush
es, where she found a featherbed and
lay down with an appearanoe of utter
exhaustion.
When at length Uncle Billy came up,
panting from his own exertions, Mrs.
Boddle very faintly asked when the
doctors were going to begin their con
sultation. "Pepperplll and Slambang have done
rid off mad as Tuckerl" said Uncle
Billy, biting at a long straw and eyeing
his wife in a way that made her turn
her head aside. "They said I was a
fool a plum fool, and I reckon I am.
In fact, if there's a bigger fool than me,
anywheres round, I'd give a nlokel just
to take one solid look at hi m."
"Can't I see Sampson? I feel a
mighty goneness a oomra' all over me;
like hit was"
"I told Sampson to go home that's
what I done. If he ever dares to sand
in a bill I I'll go over thar and shoot
the top of his head oil with a bacon
rine. If thar's a bigger humbug than
you air, Malindy Boddle, hit's that same
Doc Sampson."
"Mr. Boddle, I'm sartinly a-goin to
faint Bend Eostor "
' "Easter's goln' to leave, too. Ef
thar's any more oookin' done about
these premises, Malindy Jane Boddle,
hlt'llbe done by you "
"Now, Billy did I ever"
"No nor you won't never ag'ln. The
folks are lcavln", 'nd I'm goln' to kindle
a fire In the kituhon. Then, while me
'nd Jim moves the things back in agin,
I shall be lookln' for sassage 'nd buck
wheat cakes for supper. And I want
ye to remember that I don't intend be
In' disappointed."
With this Unole Billy took a fresh
bite at the straw, drove his hat more
firmly upon his head, and walked
away with an undeniable shade of
blood In his eye. Mrs. Boddle lay still
for a fow moments, then she rose and
disappeared in the direction of the
kitchen.
An hour or two later, Uncle Billy and
his hired man sat down to as good a
meal as hod ever been cooked upon the
place before, Mrs. Boddle was standing
over the griddle, ereot and vigorous.
"I hope, Malindy," said the husband,
as he finished bis fifth plateful, "I hopo
ye don't fool any rotnrn of your symp
tomsyet?" "Hhetyour mouth, onloss ye haven't
eat enough. If I am a bigger fool than
you, you can take your look at me; but
you vo got to hold yonr tongue."
Vr,o Tlllly's eyes twinkled. Erb
dently Mi-, toddle was cured, and
without the aid of doctors, too. Nor
did her former ailments return; for
aomethingln Mr. ltoil.llo's 'luially amia
ble eye told her that It would not do.
Willif 10 Perry Brown, in Yankee Blade
DOMESTIO LIFE.
Certain ttuaiitie. whivii Axv Xuu!,r.";
to th. True Moat or Uosteaa.
When Emerson remarked that "the
ornaments of a home are the friends
who frequent it," he embodied one of
the deepest truths of domestic life.
The easy-g-1.ng atmosphere, where a
friend or in a may drop in unbidden
and unannounced, and , share the re
sources of the moment, is that atmos
phere most stimulating to mental and
social sympathies. ' It i the atmos
phere that is especially educative to
children developing their powers of
observation and expression, and their
attention to topics" 'of conversation.
Many a house whose' formal entertain
ments are famous for- magnificence and
luxury are yet as barren of genuine so
elal life as are the homes of Ignorance
and poverty. :
The reception, the formal dinner,
while they hold a rightful plaoe in cere
monial elegance, are no more a substi
tute for easy conversational meeting
than is the court presentation to the
queen at one of her. drawing-rooms a
matter of soclaV intercourse. It is not
hospitality to only throw open one's
house at a certain hour, made as per
fect as the combined art of the florist
and the caterer can make it, and mere
ly to warm, light and feed one's guests.
But the house where a friend may be
asked to dine in an impromptu way,
sharing the culinary fortunes of the
moment, without anxious thought or
preparation, and where conversation
supplies a stimulus beyond the power
of the rarest vintage or the most per
fect chef, is the home of true hospital
ities. In the autobiographical reminiscenoes
of great men and women, the conver
sation incidentally heard in childhood,
is almost always noted as one of the
chief among the formative influences.
Mrs. Stowe, James Freeman Clarke,
Dr. Hale and many others have shown
this to the recorder of their reminis
cences Of early life.
It is a question if any child was ever
taught to think by the spectacle of cer
emonial entertainments. But the at
mosphere of ideas that is generated by
the allusion, and comment and narra
tion and wit of bright and cultivated
people is the most important of educa
tive influences. The friend who drops
in to share the simple dinner, whose
only preparation is the laying of an
extra plate; and who is "up" on the
latest excavations at Delphi or Mycense;
or the poems and the literary rank of
De Banville, or can discuss Tolstoi's
latest theories, the Ibsen fad and the
sense behind It; the Italian situation or
Sir Walter's journal; who can talk of
Sir Edwin Arnold's latest poem, com
paring it intelligently with his former
great epic, or of the latest developments
in electrical science, is the guest who
truly ornaments the home, and enables
it to offer, too, of its best
It is sad when a household is so in
bondage to things that the fact that the
cook is ill, and the second girl gone to
her grandmother's funeral, and the
culinary department thus at a disad
vantage, will serve to reverse the hos
pitality that under more auspicious cir
cumstances would have been offered
Give your guest bread and milk, if you
will, but give him yourself your inter
est your attention, you. sympathetic
response and he will be happy. Elab
orate dinners are easily enough pro
cured They are to be bought with a
price at any corner. But the cultivated
and responsive hostess can give her
guest that which no money could buy.
We have all smiled over Mrs. Stowe's
story of the time when her learned hus
band brought home unexpectedly some
wandering savant when there was lit
tle but potatoes and tea to serve; but It
may be believed that tea and potatoes,
with the presence of Prof, and Mrs.
Stowe, would suffer some magio trans
formation into the nectar and ambrosia
of the gods. Boston Budget
HOQ VERSUS DOG.
A Savage Fight In Which th. Canines Got
Hadljr Worsted.
A couple of young farmers of Sparta
township, near Lawrenceburg, Indi,
lately witnessed a most exciting con
test while hunting, the other day, be
tween three dogs and a couple of
ground-hogs. The farmer boys had
taken their dogs and gone to the woods
for an afternoon's hunt when tha
canines discovered the weather prophets
snugly housed between the roots of an
old and decayed tree.
When rouBed from their March slum
bers the ground hogs made a vicious at
tack on the dogs, and one, a small but
valuable rabbit dog, that had orawled
into the nest of hogs, was speedily
killed, the tusks of the male hog com
pletely disembowling the plucky little
dog. The female had fastened her
teeth in the nose of a big shepherd
dog.
The poor brute was howling piteous
ly, but was unable to release itself from
the jaws of its adversary, whose com
panion was making savage attempts to
plunge its long tusks into the side of
the struggling dog and rip its stomach
open. Its owner, however, managed to
get In a blow with an ax on
the body of the creature that was tear
ing the face off of his prized dog, al
most cutting it in two. It relaxed Its
hold on the dog's nose, and the badly
punished animal dropped his tail and
bounded off for home, yelping ai every
jump.
This left Bossong's dog contending
alone with the furious ground-hog, and,
although a powerful brute, the dog
would undoubtedly have been whipped
but for the assistance of the two men,
who were raining kicks and blows upon
the fierce little hog whenever an oppor
tunity presented.
So hard was the struggle for mastery
between the fighting animals that the
men could not get them separated long
enough to shoot or even use the ax
without endangering the life of the dog
that was underneath as many times as
It was on top in the rolling and tumb
ling fight At last Marshall caught the
hog by the hind leg, and, jerking it
from the dog, Bossong got in a blow
with the ax that ended the fight
The fight lasted over half an hour.
The tusks of the male hog, when taken
from its mouth, measured two and a
half Inches, clear of the jaw-bone. N.
Y. Journal.
Insor.no. Frr.
Fire-proof buildings, strange to say,
ore not the objects of an insurance
agent's undisguised affection. Per
contra, ho gazes upon their storied
bricks over a cold shoulder, with an
tagonistic sentiments born of unre
quited love. The diligent and Inde
fatigable agent derives the emoluments
Incident to his hustling proclivities from
commissions on the policies he secures
for his company. The owner of an ab
solutely fire-proof building, however,
like many people, can worry through
life without any policy, for if his build
ing is non-cnmbnstible it will not burn,
and If it will not burn he bos as little
use for Insurance as an engaged girl
has for vain suspicions. Chicago News.
"Tho coolest man I ever knew In
my life," said a congresslonol arrival,
"was a native of Kansas. A cyclone
had struck him and set him down, with
I1I1 entire family and a portion of his
furniture, willilu twenty fuet of my
House. 1 sum U i liuu. lluilo, butul
What are you doing over here?' K)h,
he replied, m lin dumped a handful of
tobueoo into Hk pipe, 'I jiytt came over
to get out of tlie Uralt,"- 'Wliio17to
PoBt,
ti HE FARMING WORLD.
V . THB SWAMP DOGWOOD.
; On. Flitut Will In a Short Tim. Cover a
J ' Square Rod of Land.
I In riding from Talmadge to the north
western corner of Ravenna; O., the trav
eler passes through one of the most
fertile and beautiful portions of the
western reserve, and it would bo diffi
cult to persuade a foreigner who saw
the fine, nicely painted farmhouses
and huge bank barns, that It was not a
prosperous, wealthy region. In going
to Mr. Jennings' home your correspond
ent went through a neighborhood
known in Portage county as red brush,
so called because of the great abund
ance of the swamp dogwood or "red
willow" that grows in that region.
This is the oornua sanguinea of the
catalogues, and a young lady once told
how she sent to a distant nursery for a
plant of this when they might have got
thousands of plants within her own
township had she known it was the
same.
This' pretty winter shrub In its wild
state is a fine illustration of nature's
methods of extending the area of her
wild growths. It is simply a natural
method of layering by which people can,
if they will, Indefinitely multiply almost
all the pretty shrubs and bushes which
rented in dooryard' adornment Fig.
1 is a two-year plaqtt of the red willow.
After a habit of this bush, one branch
will grow long and curved, as a. This
branch will send out upright shoots
and become top-heavy, and the long
grass will fall over it when the frosts
come in autumn. By spring the
branch will have been weighted to the
ground by snow and ice, and tha clog
ging grass will hold it down in the po
rta. 2.
sltion indicated in Fig. 2. Being in
contact with the moist swampy earth
It strikes root and beoomes a separate
bush If the connecting branch is brok
ed, and if not it remains a partner in
the firm of Cornus & Son. The bend
ing of the main branch brings the as
cending shoots of last year's growth in
a partially prostrate position and in
goods hape to renew the previous proc
ess. In this way, under favoring cir
oumstanoes. a lively and pushing red
willow could walk across a ten-acre
lot, just as a wild strawberry will push
itself along a fence-row. The snow
ball, wiegela, syringe andother shrubs,
sometimes self-layer themselves in this
way, but not so persistently as the red
willow. A neighbor sent to Blooming
ton, 111., for a little plant of this shrub,
and in a few years it covered a rod
square, simply by the process de
scribed. Cor. Ohio Farmer.
BUCKWHEAT AND BEES.
Th. Japan... Ha. Bean Found Superior
to All Other Varieties.
Ever since I have been engaged in
bee-keeping I have been hearing of the
good reputation of buckwheat as a
honey plant The good qualities of the
common and silver-hulled have been
discussed, and now we have a new can
didate for publio favor In the Japanese
buckwheat This Is the fourth season
that it has been before the public. It
has been weighed in the balance and
found superior to all other known vari
eties. The grain is large in size, aud gives
very much larger yield of grain. The
JAPANESK BUCKWHEAT.
quality of the flour is equal to that 'of
the well-known varieties, and ahead of
them in quantity. 1 regard the sowing
of buckwheat as a safe investment
although in many localities it only
yields honey occasionally. Years ago
I was accustomed to drive by a farm
where there was a low place near the
road, where yearly grew the rankest of
weeds. The farm changed tenants,
and the new one put this piece of
ground into buokwheat, and it changed
the appearance of the whole farm. The
following year I noticed this piece of
ground remarkably clear of weeds.
Low places in corn fields are occasion
ally drowned out by heavy ruins In
June, and produce both honey and
cakes for their owner. Japanese buck
wheat Is advertised by seedsmen for one
dollar per bushel. Pralrio Farmer.
POULTRY PICKINGS.
Clear straw is good for the hens to
scratch in. -
Put turpentine in the drinking wator
to prevent gapes.
Soiflt recommend soaking corn lu
kerosene for cholera.
Qeksb eat the grass close down to
the roots and often kill it out In this
way.
WnBff hawks bother the chickens a
few brush piles will afford a good pro
tection. Poiw-tbt will readily digest bones If
they are broken fine enough for them
to eat
Cleanliness now will aid materially
in preventing the lice from getting a
good start
Hens will lay more eggs without tho
roosters than with them, but of con r 10
the eggs will not hatch.
Tim tendency of wheat fed whole Is
to produce a healthy growth and to a'd
materially in laying eggs.
Is a majority of cases It Is Impossible
to compete to advantage with incubat
ed ohickens as regards earliness.
Fkkd only what is eaten up clean and
at certain hours in order to kcop the
fowls from getting too fat
Duoks and geose can be picked now
whenever their feathers are ripe; there
Is no advantage In letting them go to
waste. i
Koopln Farm Aoeonntf
Every furinor ought to know at the
end of the season what work has paid
Islin lir:;t, whf. wwtr baa paid leaM,
and what has returned no proHt what
ever. We need snore of business meth
ods on the farm and less haphazard
work some of which Is very lllculy car
ried on at 4 loss. Amerl" Agricul
turist I
via. 1.
tilt
IMITATION IS WEAKNESS.
m. Seir-R.lliino. th. Prop.. Iking So
. Cultivate
' An old man died lately who had held
an important position in the post office
ef one of our largest cities for more
thaa thirty, years. He wa appointed
"before the war." One administration
suoceeded another, and one person after
another was postmaster, but this man
remained undisturbed. When the rea
son was asked, the postmaster answer
ed: "There were two: First, his work was
thoroughly done. Second, he lived his
own life imitated nobody, flattered no
body. He never looked at other men
as belonging to this or that party, or as
being above or below him In rank.
They were to him only men, true or un
true. He did his own work, and turned
the same face to a shoeblack and a gov
ernor." ..-..
"The man," says the terse Spanish
proverb, 'who Imitates cuts his own
throat"
Certainly the nation that imitates an
other commits an intellectual suicide.
Germany, for more than a century,
used French books, wrote French ideas
in the French tongue. It was when
Gothe and Schiller expressed German
life In its own language that German
literature sprang into new life. The
same lesson has been taught In the his
tory of Russian and of our own liter
ature. Self-assertion and vulgar boastings
are not to be confounded with true self
reliance Nothing can be more weak
and contemptible than the imitative at
titude which many young people hold
en entering the world They are ready
to dress, talk, think, even worship God,
after the fashion set by some man or
woman whom circumstances have ele
vated above them socially, but who
may possibly be their inferior in sense,
taste and right feeling.
"There must be a bell-wether in
every flock," says Sir Walter. The
position of the bell-wether is undoubt
edly the most agreeable and honorable.
Why, then, voluntarily sentence your
self to be one of the despised flock that
run forever at his heels? Youth's Com
panion. '
Precaution. "Why do you always
insist upon your wife's singing in com
pany when you know she has abso
lutely no voice7 "Because thenI am
sure she is not talking." Fliegcnde
Blatter.
The man who was cured by a pat
ent medicine advertisement probably
made himself sick by reading a bill of
fare. Puck
THE MARKETS.
Cincinnati. Mny 19.
LIVESTOCK Ciittle-Coromon2 " ia 23
Choice liu tenors 6 Oil & i 7s
HOGS Common 8 7 & "
Good packers i do & Ii 0!)
SHEEP Good toohulce 4 IS H 6 00
LAMBS Spring 4 UO 8 60
FLOUR Family IH 4 60
GRAIN Wheat No. Sred 1 07
No. Dred a 1 03
Corn No. t mixed " 63
Oats No. mixed & t't'-t
Itye No. J .. a M
HAY-Prime to choice 13 00 IS 50
TOBACCO Medium leaf 10 W 13 00
Good leaf . u V5 10 75
PR0VI810NS-Mes:pork......ll 87',ill 51)
Lnrd, prime stenm H 6 10 0 1.1
BUTTER Choloe dnlry 18 W
Prime to oholce oreamery.... 24 5
APPLES Prime, perbbl 4 00
POTATOES per buh. 1 SO 1 85
NEW YORK.
FLOUR Fair to Fancy 4 00 9 N)
GRA IN Wheat No. 8 red 1 05 J OS
No. I red 1 15X 1 1X
Corn No. S mixed, new ...... 6!ina TO
Oats Mixed 6!4 584
PORK New mess ...13 00 18 85
LARD Western stenm 8 68
CHICAGO. .
FLOUR Winter patents ......... 8 00 8 8
GRAIN Wheat No. red 1 08 1 08
No. t Cbloag. spring J 011
Corn-No. 8. ..... BJ
Oats-No. ... 61
PORK Mess........M..........ll 16 1180
LARD Steam.. .. 6 60
BALTIMORE.
FLOUR Family. 8 00 dial
GRAIN Wheat No. 1.... 1 16 I 10J
Corn Mlxed...... .. 70
Oats Mixed . 68 60
LAHD Re lined .... 8 60
PORK Mesa . 18 00
CATTLE First quality.......... 5 00 6 T5
nOGS.... 8 00 8 85
INDIANAPOLIS.
GRAIN Wneat No. Red A 1 OS
Corn No, t , 88
Oats No. 8 60
LOUISVILLE.
FLOUR Family i 88 8 85
GRAIN Wheat No. 8 red 1 08
Corn Mixed.... . 71J4
Oats Mixed......... . 68
PORK Mrss.... 18 01
LAUD Steam 8 73
T-,7 W
VI i 'i -wr it -- T 1 IV
4 ihe JLaaies tit
TV T!1 4m AMit
auivicuicu uj cuiy
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FEW of the leading
features embrace
Mrs. Beecher's
Reminiscences of
4 y ! ' (BALANCE V fy. 'f
I OF THIS YEAR) J 7 g
& I On Receipt of only t I 4
I ' 50 Cents J I
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HENRY WARD BEECHER
Sketching their entire home-life. Society
Women as Housekeepers. "How to
M ake and Save Money," by Henry Ci.ews,
the eminent New York Banker. Musical
Helps, by Clara Louise Kellogg, Annie
I i-, tiu r? f idv I UDicTtMir
And others. "How to
lv Kate UrsoN Clark
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trilnrra frr tlii autumn nnH
6"
CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY,
"I have withdrawn from yuah araa
tuah aotlng club," said Willie Washing
ton. "Why?" "I couldn't stand It any
longah, you know. I was oawst for tho
villain, and Miss Pepperton was the
heroine, and she was to say: 'Villain,
do youah worst'" "That was easy."
"Ya-a-s; but Miss Pepperton wouldn't
repeat the words. 8he said I had al
ready done as badly as any one could
reasonably expeot" Washington Post
McCrass I'd havo you to under
stand that I've a mind of my ownl
Fogg I never said you hadn't But I
once knew a man with a club foot I
never knew him to boast of it, however.
Boston Transcript
Bummer Toarlsta. a
Take the Chicago, St Panl & Kansas
City Railway, the popular route to all points
of Interest In the scenic Northwest and the
Puget Bound region. Connects with trans
continental trains for all resorts dear to the
hearts of pleasure seekers. F. H. Loud,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
Phoenix Building, Chloago, 111.
!L "Do van know of anvthlnamnvi
rhtful than a real true lovri-111 Maud
es." Etliel-"Whatl" Maud "Xivo of
them.
im." Man
rper's Bazar.
Harsh purgative remcdios are fast giving
way to the gentle action and mild effects of
Carter's Little Liver Pills. If you try them,
they will certainly please you.
Tss most polite rmn we know of Is one
who never permits himsolf to look over his
own shoulder. Boston Transcript
IuvniES who possess the finest; complex
ions are patrons of Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hill's Hair end Whisker Dye, 60a
Visitors to the Zoo should not attempt to
make light of the tapir. Pittsburgh Chron
iole. Fob any case of nervousness, sleepless
ness, weak stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia,
relief is sure lu Curter s Little Liver Pills.
Tbb man who has "a sight of trouble"
should go to an ,oouliatJiiaga.
. Ths best cough medicine la Piso's Cure
for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25o.
Evun vinegar has to work to be worth
anything. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
CURES PERMANENTLY
J Sciatica I
RacKftcbes
IT Has noeqUAL.
IT IS TriE feEST!
DO SHEET MUSIC 3 CTS.
A series of popular songs,
Villi arranged for piano or organ,
-- KJ consiHtlnr of 40 nieroa !r,aii.
rv-w-r t iarsis.1, will do sent on receipt
STNIt V of 11.00, or a single piece on
KJA-LA VJ receipt of 8 cents.
Send 3 Cents In Pottage Stamps for Sample ind List
THE HENRY STIER COMPANY,
r. 0. Box 690. Baltimohb, Us
asriuHa ran rnaa-- mi.
UIV CCU CD CURED TO STAY CURED.
lift I la.ia.il
We want the name and ad
dress of everv sufferer in the
& ACTUM I U.S. and Canada. Address,
HO I nilln r.HiroidiTi,..D.iriio,i.T.
"60L15EIT MEMORIES '&gftMK
tlons and the cholera. wrltiiiLfH ot the best Authors,
write for terms to Hunt fc Eitton. 160 6th Ave., K. Y.
tVMAMl T111S PAPER wnrj Uujou writs.
ilMM .ii hi mmmmmmmmmmmmmmimvi
PISO'S KEMEDT FOB OATARKEL Best Easlut to OSS.
Cheapest, llellef Is Immediate. A cure Is oertaln. For
Cold In the Uead it has no equal.
IMsanOhTtment? 1
nostrils. I'rice.Mc. Sold by druggists or sent by mil. II
Address, li. T. lUzsivriNa, Warren. Pa fci nJ
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nrlliaAnnfwMim nMir
auui coo iium nuw
rlTTearxT vT..a Ufvirvo
Keep City Boarders," jf
and hundrH-? of other rood ',
winter nnmrra
T.';3 lis. Vi Z W m
There's a patent mediciae
which is not a patent medicine
paradoxical , as that may
sound. It's a discovery I the
golden discovery of medical
science I It's the medicine for
you tired, run-down, exhaust
ed, nerve - wasted men and
....mom fnv trMl CIlfTjarprQ. ft-furl
diseases of skin or scalp, liver
or lungs it's chance 13 with
every one, it's season always,
because it aims to purify the
fountain of life the blood-
upon which all such diseases
depend.
The medicine is Dr. Pierce 3
Golden Medical Discovery.
The makers of it have
enough confidence in it to
sell it on trial.
That is you can get it from
your druggist, and if it doesn't
do what it's claimed to do, you
can get your money back,
every cent of it.
That's what its makers call
taking the risk of tfieir words.
Tiny, little, sugar-coated
granules, are what Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets are. The best
Liver Pills ever invented ; ac
tive, yet mild in operation;
wire sick and bilious head-
DyspBDSia is the to
of the present generation. Itt for Its)
cur. and it. attendant., HtcU Head,
acli.. Constipation and Pile., that
have ti.com. . famous. Th.y
speedily and gently on b.llae.tlva
organ, giving- tliem tone and vigor to
assimilate rood. JUog-riplng ornauMa.
Bold Everywhere.
Office, 44 Murray St.. New YorlC
Beware of Imitations,
NOTICE . ,
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fc .rurl writs for IlluatraMd Caulosus. mailed Tn
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u.rnM assnnnan H hsVTss
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for ar.c WritaTHBaissBoortao.1SUasri,oai.
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