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The most power ful engine must stop if
(he fires are aot fed. Man is the moat won*
derful piece of machinery in the world, yet
no matter how strong and well-made his
bodily frame may be, if the fire of life
within him is not constantly fed his limbs
and muscles become powerless and useless.
The reason men become helpless and
diseased is because the food they eat,
which is the fuel of life, is not properly
digested and appropriated by the stomacn
and nutritive organs. It is not completely
transformed into the strength and working
power which is to man what steam is to
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That wonderful power-making “Golden
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Pierce, chief consulting physician of the
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, of
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capacity to extract abundant nourishment
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What it did for Mr. P S. Hughes, of Junction,
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lie writes: ** 1 received your kind letter, and
in reply would say that mine was a bad case of
klducy and liver trouble, and that six bottles of
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and four
bottles of little * Pellets ' effected a complete cure.
It is well known that almost every eugincer is
troubled more or less with kidney trouble, especi
ally on our fast express trains. 1 run one hun
dred and forty-four miles on these trains every
day in the wreck, and have had no return of the
trouble since taking the remedies, nearly three
years ago.**
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THE OLD HUMORISTS.
MRS. CAUDLE DELIVERS THE SECOND
OF HER FAMOUS LECTURES.
Nfcl ruth, T.b*r<~.> Kmokp- I. th. 1..
HU., On. of tb. Udr, TUkMI,* la
sesaafas—Ell Parkins Describes aa Old
Time Conrtlng Scea* In Texas.
“I'm sure I don’t know who’d boa
poor woman! I don’t know who’d tie
themselves up to a man. if they only
knew half they’d have to bear. A wife
most stay at home and be a drudge,
while a man can go anywhere. It’s
enough for a wife to sit like Cinderella
by the ashes while her husband can go
drinking and singing at a tavern. You
never sing? How do 1 know you uever
■ing? It’s very well for yon to say so,
but if 1 could hear yon 1 dure say you’re
among the worst of 'em.
“And now. 1 suppose, it will be the
tavern every night? If you think I’m
going to sit up for yon, Mr. Caudle,
"WHEWGH! THAT FILTHT TOBACCO SMOKE!"
you’re very much mistaken. No. and
I’m not going to get oat of my warm
bed to let you in either. No, nor Susan
sha’n’t Bit up for you. No. ncr you
shan't have a latchkey. I’m not going
to sleep with the door upon the latch to
be murdered liefore the morning.
“Faugh! Pah! Whewgh! That filthy
tobacco smoke ! It’s enough to kill any
decent woman. You know 1 hate tobuo
co, and yet you will do it. You don’t
smoke yourself? What of that? If you
go among people who do smoke, you’re
just as bad or worse. You might as well
smoke—indeed, better. Better smoko
yourself than como homo with other
people’s smoko all in your hair and
whiskers.
“I never knew any good come to a
man who went to a tavern. Nice com
panions he picks np there! Yes; people
who make it a boast to tr »at their wives
like slaves and ruin their families.
There’s that wretch Harry Prettyman.
See what he’s come to! He doesn’t now
get home till 2 in tho moruiug, and
then in what a state! He begins quar
reling with the doormat, that his poor
wife may be afraid to speak to him. A
mean wretch! But don’t you think I*U
be like Mrs. Prettyman. No; I wouldn't
put np with it from tbe best man that
ever trod. You’ll not make me afraid
to speak to you, however you may swear
at the doormat. No. Sir. Caudle, that
you won’t.
“Yon don't intend to stay ont till 2
in the morning? How do you know
what you’ll do when you get uinong
such people? Men can’t answer for
themselves when they get to boozing
one with another. They never think of
their pom* wives, who tu-e grieving and
wearing themselves ont at home. A nice
headache you'll have tomorrow morn
ing, or rather this morning, for it ronst
be past 12. Yon mou’t have a headache?
It’s very well for you to say so, but 1
know you will, and then you may nurse
yourself for me. Ha! That filthy tobacco
again! No; I shall not go to sleep like a
good soul. How's people to go to sleep
when they’re suffocated?
“Yes, Mr. Caudle, you’ll be nice and
ill in tbe morning! Bat don't yon think
I'm going to let you have your break
fast in bed, like Mrs. Prettyman I’ll
not be such a fool. No, nor I won’t have
discredit brought upon the bonne by
sending for soda water early, for all tbe
neighborhood to say, ‘Candle was drank
last night. ’ No; I’ve some regard for
tbe dear children, if yon haven’t No,
nor you shan’t have broth for dinner.
Not a neck of mutton crosses iny thresh
old, I can tell yon.
“You won't want soda and yon won’t
want broth? All tbe better. You
wouldn't get ’em if you did, I can as
sure you. Dear, dear, dear! That filthy
tobacco! I’m sure it's enough to make
me aa bad aa you are. Talking about
getting divorced, I'm sure tobacco ought
to be good grounds How little does a
woman think when she marries that she
gives herself up to be poisoned! You
men contrive to have it all of your own
side, you da Now, if I was to go and
leave you and the children, a pretty
noise tbere’d be! You, however, can go
and moke no end of pipes and — you
didn't moke! It's all the same, Mr.
Caudle, if you go among smoking peo
ple. Folks are known by their company.
You'd batter smoke yourself than bring
home the pipes of all tho world.
“Yea 1 see how it will be. Now
you've oooe gone to a tavern you'll al
ways be going. . You’ll be eoming homo
tipsy every night, and tumbling down
and breaking your leg. and putting out
your shoulder, and bringing all aorta of
disgrace and expense upoo na. And then
you’ll be getting Into a street fight—bhl
I know your tamper, too well to doubt
it, Mr. Caudle- and be knocking down
soma of the police. And then Ikpow
what will follow. It must follow. -Yea,
you'll be sent far a mouth or six weeks
to the treadmill. Pretty thing that for
a respectable tradettnad. Mr. Candle, to
be pat upon the treadmill with all
ct thieves and vagabonds, and there,
again, that horrible tobsoop—and rig
rag of every kind. 1 should Hke to know
bow your obllifiun are to hold ap their
heads after their father has bean upon
the treadmill! Vo 1 won't go to rtaepi
And I'm not talking of what's impossj
bl*v I know it will nil happen—t*vei>
bit of it If it wasn’t for the dear chil
dreu, yon might be ruined nml 1
wouldn't so much as speak about it,
but—-oh, dear, dear, at least you might
go where they smoko good tobacco- but
I can’t forget that I’m their mother. At
least they shall have oue parent.
’'Taverns! Never did a man go to a
tavern who didn't die a beggar. And
how your pot companions will laugh at
you when they see your name in Tho
Gazette! For it must happen. Your
biuiDiM is sure to fall off, for what re
spectable people will buy toys for their
children of a drunkard? You’re not a
drunkard! No, but you will bo—it's all
the same.
“You’ve begun by staying out till
midnight By and by 'twill be all night
Bat don’t you think, Mr. Caudle, you
shall ever have a key. 1 know you.
Yes, you’d do exactly like that Pretty
man, and what did he do. only last
Wednesday? Why, ho let himwlf in
about 4 in the morning and brought
home with him his pot companion,
Puffy. His dear wife woke at 6 and saw
Prcttyman'a dirty boots at her bedside.
And where was the wretch, her hus
band? Why. ho was drinking down
stairs—swilling. Yes, worse than a
midnight robber, he’d taken the keys
out of his dear wife’s pockets—ha!
what that poor creature has to l •ear—
and had got nt the brandy. A pretty
thing for a wife to wake at fi in tho
morniug and instead of her husband to
see his dirty boots!
“You’ll be rained, bat if I cam help
it—you shall ruin nobody but yourself.
“Oh, that hor-hor-hor-i-ble tob-ac
oo!“
To this lecture Caudle affixes uncom
ment—a certain proof, we think, that
the man had nothing to say for himself.
—Douglas Jerrold.
Courting In Texas,
They both sat in big hickory rocking
chairs, both rockiug incessantly. She
holds a sewing basket iu her lap and
sews. He holds his hat in his lap and
sight lovingly and heavily, looking
straight in her face. At last he speaks:
“£ay, Mary!”
“What, John?”
“I’ze been a-thinkin."
“Thinkin what, John?" both rocking
violently.
“Oh—ah—pshnw'* (gets and
looks suddenly down at the dog with a
sigh).
“What’s your dog’s name, Mar}?"
“Coony, John.”
(Then both sigh.)
“What is ho good fur?"
“What is who good fur?" (Abstract
edly.)
“Your dog, Coony?”
“Fur ketchin possum* **
(Silence of two minute*)
“He looks like a deer dog."
“Who looks like * deer dog?*’
“Coony.”
“He is, but he’s kinder bellowed an
gettin old an slow now. An he am’ no
’count on * cold trail. ”
(More silence.)
“Your ma raisin many chicking*?’’
“Forty odd.”
(More silence, more violent rocking,
when the chairs rock up side by wide.)
“How many has your ma got?’*
•'How many what?”
“Chicking*”
“Nigh on to a hundred. ”
(Chairs so close together that they
can’t rock.)
“The minks has eat most all oar* ’’
(More silence.)
“Making bedquilts?"
“Yes” (brightening up). “I’ve just
finished a 'Roarin Kgul of Brazeel,* a
"DO TOO UKK CABBAtitf" -:'J
‘Hittin Sun* and a ‘Nation's Pride. 1
Have 70a ever aaw tho ‘Yellow Boh oo
tho Parary?’ ”
••No.”
(Hon alienee)
“Do yon like cabbage?”
“I do that “
(Puta hia arm arotmd her.)
“I'ae a great a mind to bite yon.”
“What yon gnat a mind to Uta ma
fur)”
“Kaae yon won’t have me. "
“Kan yon ain't axed mu.”
“Well, now 1 ax you. ”
“Then, now, I turn yon."
“Oh, Mary 1“ (lovingly)
“Oh, John!” (mote lovingly).— Kll
Perkina
Vhe Haakral.
Tha mao krai la n game fish,
ought tew ka wall edukated, for they
en etwaye in eeboole.
They an my easy to bite and an
aaaght with a piece or old red flannel
pettyooat tied unto a book.
They ain’t the only kind or II* that
an eaoflbt by tbe aame kind nv bait
Hacknl inhabit tbe eea. bat than
which inhabit tbe grooerya alwH Hat*
to an an thongh they had been Men and
fatted ou salt
they want a flood deal or rmb’alafl
badoao they an oaten nod want a flnfl
deal or fnab'aiac afterward
If 1 can lat plenty ov mackfSl for I
kWkfMH 1 can flonornlly mate the Other
two nook ont nr cold water.
Maeknl on eonoidend by atoMpf
folks tbe beat flah that ohm and an
called “theHit of the earth.”— Jo*
Mlttnae
COUNTY AND VALLEY.
Th« News ClesneN With Pen and Scis
sors From Our Valley Exchanges.
An Ordway farmer had five horses
stolen one night last week.
The harvesting of the wheat
crop in this county is in progress.
Rocky Ford’s huge watermelon
took the second prize at Pueblo on
the Fourth as a typical float.
The Holbrook farmers are claim
ing that their wheat crop will aver
age forty-five bushels to the acre.
The patrons of the High Line
canal have had about forty days'
run of water thus far this season.
There is a great demand for farm
hands in the vicinity of Nicholes
ville. One 15-year-old boy has so
many offers of work that he has
hard work to choose.
Rocky Ford will send twenty
five cars of watermelons and canta
loupes to the Omaha Exposition.
September 9th has been fixed as
the date of watermelon day at
Omaha.
The Lamar Register says: “Al
most every day families are com
pelled to give up the idea of set
tling here, as not so much as a
room, to say nothing of a whole
house, is obtainable."
The Lamar Commercial Club
has appointed a committee to ex
tend an invitation to the members
of the National Editorial Associa
tion to visit Prowers county, when
they meet in Denver in September.
Eighteen head of horses were
stolen from a pasture south of Las
Animas July 14th, and eleven ani
mals from Baca county the same
day. There is evidently a well
organized gang of horse thieves
operating in the Arkansas Valley.
The Holbrook artesian well has
been cased and fully completed,
and flows about 100 gallons a min
ute. Its benefits to the Holbrook
country will be very great. Two
other wells in that same section
are talked of.— Rocky Ford Enter
prise.
Such fine fall wheat as that now
being harvested in this section was
never seen in any state. Many of
the fields will average fifty bushels
to the acre, while the grain will
run three or four pounds over
standard weight. Harvesting is
now about two-thirds done.—La
mar Sparks.
The Otero canal is once more in
shape to do business. Its patrons
have been very unfortunate this
season, but thanks to the generous
rainfall, they have not suffered to
any very great extent as yet, and if
the canal will perform its duty the
remainder of the season, everybody
will come out all right.—Manza
nola News.
The farmers near Holly are in a
quandary as to what they are go
ing to do with the tons and tons of
alfalfa, milo maize, Kaffir corn,
and wheat and oat straw now be
ing put up in that vicinity. The
Chieftain advises them to get to
gether and make an effort to get
cattle and sheep shipped in from
the range for winter feeding.
Prof. L. G. Carpenter, the irri
gation expert of the state agricul
tural college at Fort Collins, ex
presses the opinion that the Ar
kansas Valle} is by far the most
important agricultural section of
Colorado owing to its great area,
and that it will within a short time
be the most densely populated por
tion of the state. —Pueblo Call.
The Lamar Register thus irrev
erently chronicles a recent happen
ing in that village: “A very small
congregation of people and a large
number of flies attended services
at the Methodist church on last
Sunday morning.” It is possible
that attending divine services is
•uch an unusual occurrence in
Lamar that chronicling the fact
makes an interesting news item.
J. H. Crowley, in a letter to the
Rocky Ford Enterprise, says: “As
superintendent of the fruit depart
ment at the fair I want to ask
•very grower in the county to save
a sample of each kind of fruit he
muses and bring it in. If each per
son will bring from one to twenty
plates of fruit we will make a fine
display. I hope the county com
missioners will appropriate ftoo
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and appoint a man to collect and
make a fruit exhibit at the State
Horticultural fair at Pueblo this
fall.”
The electric fans now operated
in Santa Fe route dining cars are
desirable and seasonable accessor
ies to an already unsurpassed ser
vice.
The coming Arkansas Valley
Fair at Rocky Ford will have grand
stand accommodations for 10,000
people. Seats in it will be free—
to those who pay for them.—Pueblo
Saturday Mail. The intelligent
compositor placed one too many
ciphers in your figures, Mr. Editor.
The Rocky Ford Times-Repub
lican says that the cantaloupes in
the hail district are fast catching
up with the others and it is claimed
they will not be over a week be
hind time. Last week this yellow
journal asserted the cantaloupes
in the bail district would not be
over two weeks behind. Next
week it will claim the race is neck
and neck, with odds on the hailed
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