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By T.' 0.111: LEON
Author of Creole and Puritan,” “The
Rock or the Rye, ” “Four Years
_ jm Rebel Capitals,’ etc.
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{Copyright by the Author. All rights reserved]
CHAPTER I.
, LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM.
You’ll go then?” interrupted the
irrepressible Boomerang.
I’ve fixed it at
"Blaze!
“Come along, old boy!
last.’
Thus cried Lieut. Tom Jones, U. S. A.,
bounding into my room in his usual hop.
skip-and-jump style, and causing there-
by a deep gash in both the chins reflect-
ed' in the cracked shaving glass of my
bachelor lodgings.‘
“I rather think you have,” I responded,
half savagely, .as'I mopped my bleeding
feature with a piece of blotting paper—
“I rather think you have; but what in
the world have you fixed, besides my
chin?” '
“Oh, bother your bleeding! Just
listen: I’ve borrowed the major’s gray
and the surgeon’s ‘Jalap,’ done Uncle
Bob out of his double sleigh, and we’ll
drive, over to Shadynook and spend
Christmas. Hurrah!” And Lieut. Tom
Jones, U. S. Boomerangs, spun round.
my room as if he had just been pro-
moted to the first corps of the “Black
Croo. ” I looked at him until he re-
gained a pose on the back of my arm-
chair, with his feet on the cushion. Then
I said gravely—the- tone was meant to
convey the most crushing sarcasm:
‘.‘Slicer' s Jalap and the major’s gray?
“Certainly—why not?”
" 'Why not? Because, firstly, the gray
never was in traces in his life; secondly,
because. the sorrel never would go in
, doublcharness, you know.”
‘ “Yes, I know. But'then, they re both
old enough to begin; so come, old fellOw,
pack your traps. I’ll gji’Ve the poniesa
whirl down the road to keep’ em quiet
and use ’em to the bells. Hurry; I’ll be
back before you say 1‘J ack Robinson!’ ”
I stared at my friend to see if he was
really 1n earnest before I replied:
“Tony Jones, do I look like a lunatic?
Have you any 1eason to justifybelieVing
me a fit subject for the padded room‘t My
dear boy,” I added gently,“my neck 1s far
toovaluable to my country to risk break-
ing it for the sake of breaking old Slic-
er’s sorrel and your uncle‘s sleigh.”
“Why, they’re at the door now—just
look at ’em,” responded the lieutenant,
walking to the window. “They’ re as
quiet as'a pair of lambs. The sorrel has
only one leg over the pol: ;. and the ser-
geant and my orderly can hold the gray’ s
head nearly still!
things into a valise and be- ready by the
time I get back.”
I threw myself on the sofa and stretch-
ed out my comfortable slippers to the
sea coal fire by way of reply. .
“Can’t do it," Tom. , I’m. too valuable
a member of. society to think of suicide
at present.”
" 'Nonsense! We’ll have no end of a
jolly time at Belton’ s—-raise the neigh«
borhood—skate on the pond—make
floods of eggnogg—shock the old ’un—
and have a. glorious german to wind up."
I shook my head.
“Can’t do it, T: Jones. Even did I
want to ruin my life insurance people
I’ve engagements at home I 'cannot
brea ,” anqu looked very important as I ,
dwelt on this announcement. ‘ ‘You
see, I' lead the choir for their Christmas
practice to-night; I’ve been pledged for
a month for my Christmas dinner at the
mayor’s, and I—ahem—I skate Miss Bet
tie on the pond this after”
“Oh, what a head I have!” Tom broke
in. ‘ fDidn’t I mention that? Uncle Bob
says Bet’s to go with us, and she says
you must be sure to acme. ' And mind,
you are to tell him the horses are dog
quiet. Bet swears he’d never believe
nae ”
Miss Bettie was going!
Before that young lieutenant had half
I finished his sentean was at the win-
dow gazing at those horses with an in-
terest no quadrupeds ever possessed for '
The sorrel had fallen.
in his effort to get his leg back
over the. pole, the grizzly old ser-
geant was sitting composedly on his
head, blowing huge clouds from
his pipe, while the orderly unbuckled
the traces. The gray amused himself
meanwhile by snapping viciously at the
boy. who held him; and With every snap
he made a vain lungs With his heels at
the ordérly’ s fatigue cap, the latter dodg-
ing- beautifully as ever did apracticed‘
sparrerbeforea big brmser. The view
was not encouraging. They certainly
were hardly the pair to risk a young
lady’ s—or myo
corps as aperfect Rarey .
' “By Georg e!” I half solilo'q mzed‘,‘
ldon’ty enshrined be safe behind those
devils.” 1- ‘
Come! throw some-
wn—neck With, «even;
though Tomtwas famous throughout his;
1 “But I 1:11:11:wa
“And I certainly know. Genie! Bet’.s
crazy to go, and says she depends on you
to persuade Uncle Bob the horses are
quiet
“Miss Bettiedoes?” Ihesitated. There
lwas a Innip' 111 my throat and a singing
in my ears I- was deucedly afraid of the
beasts myself, but then she wanted.
to go, so I added: “Well, perhaps after
all they may be a little quieter soon.
And, Tom, you do—ah—really think
them safe?”
“Certainly I do, and Bet does, too. 1
' She’s not a bit afraid.” That decided me.
“Tom J ones”-I spoke with deep solem-
nity. I knew that moment what they
felt who saw the tumbril ready to bear
: them to the hungry knife of the first
revolution—“Tom Jones, I will go, of
course. But, Tom, pray do not use that
horrid abbreviation ,- of, your cousin’s
name.
sacred for the profanation of slangy cons
densation, and your cousin ’5' name is”-——
“Bully! You’ll go then?” interrupted
the irrepressible BOOmerang. ‘fI’ll wheel .
’em round the bleak and c’bring’ em in
cool, you—Bet. ” '
He bounded down the stairs, sprang.
into the sleigh, seized the reins, and, as
the men jumped from the ho1 ses’ heads,
was off with a flurry of snow and a
hurrah from. the crowd.
' I am not a dab at the classics, so I will
not say how, having plunged like Cur-
tius into this gaping Sleigh ride, I now
eat like Marius, amid the ruinsof my
wardrobe. But I did tumble all its con-
tents into the middle of the floor and
then sat among them, hopeless of cram- .
ming into my small vaIiSe half enough E
for this all important Xmas visit! But ‘
she wanted to go! I was to risk my
neck for her sake—by her side. Delicious .
thought! So just as the bells again
jingled at the door I jumped upon my
distended pertmanteau, sprung the lock,
and answered T0111 with a. yell as wild
as his own.
Now, perhaps I should explain that
Tom Jones and I had always been chums.
Residents of the same village and chil-
dren of intimate friends, we had thumbed
the same algebra, robbed the same or— g
chards and been flogged by the same
pedagogue.
to West Point, five years before, had
separated us. Tom’ spersevering industry
in running bounds to “Cozzens,” and his!
assiduous. course of "Benny Havens,” had
scarcely been thoroughly rewarded, for5
his graduationathird' in his class count-
ing from the bottom—made him a brevet
second lieutenant in the United States.
Boomerangs. It had found me a dignified
but patient lawyer in the incipient me-
tropolis of Piketou. Happy chance had
thrown Tom at the arsenal near by, and
had introduced his chosen friend to the
family circle of his Uncle Blythe.
‘ There I soon became ami de maison.
Mayor Blythe-hhc was the revered chief
magistrate of Piketon—was a brother
lawyer, and a man of high social and
literary renown. He had a capitally
chosen library, a Warm heart, a cele-
brated cook and a rare assortment of
such wines! And then—hem!--like J eph-
thal1 of old, he had “one fair daughter
and no more.” ._
But such a daughter!
Bettie Blythe was just turned of 19,
and the most perfect mold of female form
divine. Of medium height, just plump
enough for perfection of rounded outline,
and with the tiniest models of feet and .
hands that ever fell to the lot of woman,
her face was. still her chiefest charm.
Not regularly. beautiful, with scarce a
feature in it that would have been pro-
noun ced fine undercrltical analysis, there
was yet an indescribable witchery in
that face, or in thecharacter reflected by
it, that bound me hand and foot from the
first week I knew her. Those rich. dark
oval lines, with heavy bands of glossy
hair, seemed to command, rather than
ask, a second look. And who could look
twice and forget?
There was a. merry devil in her eye— _
large, languid and black as sloe—that'
drew a timid man’s heart right up into
his throat and kept it kicking there with
forty-horse power. And then the face
was but an index of the sprightly but ‘
sound and well stored mind her father
had seduously cultivated during a long i
widowerhood. And the steady, tender
gleam that sometimes replaced the mis-
chievous twinkle' in those eyes could only
have been draWn from the well spring of
a pure heart.
With the first month of our acquain- 1
tance I began to believe I cared for Bet~
tie Blythe; with the seCond I believed I
loved her, and with the third I knew ‘
it for a certainty. On the fourth month
I had told her I adored her wildly; and
for three subsequent ones had come,
again and again, to the very threshold
of a repetition. Gentle and womanly,
she had at first told me gravely—the rest
of the face demure, While the eyes danced
a very witches’ dance to the tune of sup- '
pressed merrimeht—that,’ though we
were very excellent friends, we were still
almost strangers.- 1
edge the truth of what she said, so I
prayed for forgiveness and for hope. She
gave the pardon, the pardon gave the
hope, and I wandered on in a fool’s para-
disc.
better friends, though she let me mean-
der unchecked through the most exteni '
sive fields of rhapsody and lay the tallest
flowers of sentiment at her feet, yet the _
first outright werd I spoke carried up the
taperforefinger 1n arch warning, aflhe
ripe lips formed the one word, 1“Remem-
her!”
I could not. believe Bettie Blythe was
flirting with me. There was something
too genuine, too womanly, about her,
whole being for that.
She could never steep, I said to. myself
for conifert, to a 11‘. tle triumph in the
misery of the heart she knew to be here
in all honesty and order.
of me, or—delicious ideai—she was be-
ginning to love me without admitting it
to herself I Was willing to take the
chances of the first so long as I saw a
possibility of thesecond And besides,
“Bosh! With me dr 5? Only the :‘ _eithergsvemeso much’ofherdehghtfu]
Tho lino spoken was: ever passedbe-
" the mwasyot
u\
There are some subjects too-
I could only acknowL 1
But though we became better and .
No! Either;
.she Was trying to make a real “friend”
i that “mute converse of lundre, $318."!
'and' Tom J ones apparently s V. pathhed
With me most completely- Bettie a‘
were fast friends, and Mayor Blythe,.per-
mitted her to go anywhere under pi'otec-
tidn of “Cousin Tom, ”in Whom he placed
unbounded confidence. During the burn-
1119; days of that August many a charm-
ing picnic had we in the grand old woods I TOLD" IN A FEW SECONDS _OF TIME
about Piketon; in the mellow. evenings of
autumn many a never to be forgotten
sail on the little mirror of a lake. And
What teas were those on the old veran- .
i «In, with the soft breeze sigbing through
the vines in sympathy with the beatings
of my heart, and the light just undecided
enough fer me to imagine any expres-
sion in her face that best suited my. ar-
dent longings! Later, When the early
snows began to fall, how merry were
those sleigh rides in the mayor’ssober
family sleigh, drawn. by the sober family
horse, Tom :11st acting John! And
. when the icier breath of winter blew
i over the little lake, sheeting it with a
I surface glawssy smooth, I had tenderly
strapped the tiny skate thong round that
ravishingly turned ankle-éhad held the
taper fingers in mine 93 we glided in
swift circles over its cod bosom. As I
have said, Tom was always with us on
these jaunts; but we were 'a partie car-
ree and mindful of the philosophy as to
what constitutes “company” and what a
' “crowd."
Anna Bolton was ever Tom’s compan-
ion. A quiet, fair haired, sensitive
mouse of a blonde, she was the direct
antipode' in all things of her sworn ally;
Bettie, under whose fostering protection
she would nestle confidingly_ as though
no harm could reach her there.
She was sole heiress and “sole compan-
ion at her splendid residence, “Shady-
noo ,” of a very deaf but Argus eyed
grandaunt. Unmated herself for the
full allotment of the human span, the
senior Miss Belton had small confidence
-in_the taste or honor of the sterner sex.
She jealously watched the every move—
ment of her niece, religiously‘believing
thatcach man who set his eye upon her
fragile form used it but as a medium
thrOugh which tocast unholy glances at
- the estate—some ten miles back of Pike
ton—whose exponent she was. But the
-l h h ' t z 5
In fact, we had never been 5 ome of t e spms er 11 1d 110 gre 1t charms
two weeks apart until‘his appointment .
for her heiress unless brightened by the
presence of her stronger friend and ally:
so, when Bettie could not be spared
from her household gods, it was great
Comfort to quiet little Anna to sit under
3 these also, and to stay there meekly so
long as Bettie could alternately oajolc or
' coerce the deaf spinster into permitting.
But that ancient and unwinking Cerbe-
rus had carefully reconnoit. cred the sur-
roundings of- the mayor...:_, She had-
long since concluded that I was the
prOperty of the lady of the house, and
Tom, being only a. piece of live furnia
ture, like the cat, was not to be counted.
So little Anna’s last visit had been 3.1-;
lowed to run into months. She could
. skate well, for all her fragility, and her
taste and touch in music were both. deli-
cate but decided. So, after all, we made
her useful, though I felt couipunctious
twingcs when I reflected how h:--'...vy on
hand she must be to poor Tom; for, be-
sides all other reasons, it was an under—
stood thing among us that Miss Bolton
was engaged. If not formally contract-
!
certain Mr. Goldwin as to make that
constunmation a mere matter of time.
Not a very enticing person was Mr.
Goldwin, 60 in years and money grub
in nature, but—as the sonibr Miss Bel-
tcn- was wont to say grimly—if not a
brilliant man, he was at leasta safe one.
Twenty thousand a. year was his allot-
ment of this world's goods, and the very
. soul of the spinster swelled within her
when she reflected what that Would do
for “Shadynool:. ”
Yielding in all things, the White
mouse appeared to accept her fate in this
with perfect composure, but she shrunk
with peculiar sensitiVeness from any al-
lusion to it by one of us. ‘So, of course,
none was ever made; but I—and I was
sure Tom as well—looked upon her as
one'of the least; interesting of the vic-
tims 'to the Moloch _of convenance.
Hence I fully appreciatednfthe unselfish
friendship that caused him to become a
! left tete-a-tete with his glorious cousin.
One night when our bachelor pipes—-cr
. punch —-had been stronger than usual I
1 said words to that effect. Tom’s rejoin-
der was characteristic. He thrust his
. tongue into his cheek, shut one eye very
slowly, and nicking my glass with his
said, “Here: s good luck, and bad ’cess
to old Goldwin!"
Verily, we need never leave our own
circle for evidences of the mysteries of
Nature’ scomplex mechanism, and what“
, very odd errors we make 1n our estimate
. of them sometimes!
At t )ngth its heiress had been' 1mpera-
tively called back to “Shadynook. ” The
'unmated Argus would have her return
for its Xmas dismalness, and when that
3 spinster foot was once put down there
it stayed. Exacting the promise of a
speedy visit from Bettie, before Xmas if
terious whispers and a perfect fusillade
of kisses that set me on pins and needles -
of envy, the whiteomonSey one Wept her-
self into her sleigh and faded out into
the snowy avenue.
Tom and I, as members of Bettie’s
personal staff, had, of course, been in—
cluded in the invitation to “Shady-4
nook,” but no time was decided in our
council, and Weeks rolled by with no
definite plans about it. Happy weeks
they were to me—full of sunshine w1th
only such flecks of shadowas m 9 me
. enjoy the more. I bashed in the smiles
of the only woman I had ever really
I
!
cared for, and, whether the 11
y were all creditors have ample security. Mr. W111-
' lace says the as gument was caused by
l the tight money
for me or not, I was inanely' happy,
For there’s nothing half so sweet in life
As Love 3 young dream. -
To 11:00 t u l n M d ’.Dn'l GazttcL
I u m e: l 0” ”‘1’ * l y : stolen Wiandadiamond ring and started
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Dill you evu buy a. horse and not [1 ye
M the unsaiviugs as to his points till they
wue lu lv .esud? Not. 80 with Ayu’ s
S1 sap» iila , you may. he sure of ii at he 'V .
disappnints ihose who,
awn. It. m-vw
give it » fail and pensisu 111 trial
A new 1d: :1 embraced in Eiy's Cream
Ba m. ( ‘arhinh is our: (1' [1y 1'. Mail-11'; 11d
heuime, nm by dry as up
[hr 1:. m- 119 is ‘cfict a usual and 'a'
thorough tun ment oil: cure the-11101.“.
| cases.V Price too.
The ‘
'pard conceived the details of the crime,
‘ Attorney General Miller had violated the
ed to him she was so far committed to a,
' stabbed' 111 a drunken quarrel at Mechanics-
‘Bros.’ store at St. Helena, Ore” Tuesday.
martyr to her stupidity, that I might be '
; raising money orders, was sentenced to one
possible, and indulging in many my»;
fiscal year.
much hardship.- , .9
rested on suspicion of having committed
It is not a 1
V liqu «i or- i-nufl’ but is easily upp 'iod into
i Which in den.
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BRIEF an EMS GENEWS
Happenings of this World from.
' Pole to Pole: _
The Development! of Each Day During
tho-Week Past CaughtFresh fromtho
Busy Wire; and carefully Edited and
Condensed for Our Readers. .1
Elmer Sharkey and Henry Popp were
hanged at Columbus. 0., Dec. 19.
Arthur H. Day, of Rochester, N. Y., was
hanged at Welland, 01113., Dec. 18, for the
murder of his wife at. Niagara Ealls, July
29,1890. Day pushed his wife over a cliff.
and was convicted upon the testimony of
his sister, Mrs. Quigley, of Rochester, N. Y.
Investigation by the New York Herald
shows that the Queens County Insane asye
111m at MineOla, L. I. is overcrowded,
badly ventilated and poorly supplied with
water and hes The buildings are old
frames, and a file would probably destroy
half the inmates.
William J. Mills, of 70 East Main street,
Rechester,. N. Y., retail dry goods dealer,
has assigned.
A committee of thelocked out operative.
of Clark’s thread mills has issued an ap-
11811! for aid.
Louis Eugene Charpentier, the well
known French painter, is dead. ~
A strong flow of natural gas was struck
while prospecting for coal at Newt-on
Center, Pa, five miles from Scranton.-
Governor Hill has appointed Col. E. S.
J euny. of Syracuse, a trustee of the State
Soldiers and Sailors’ home at Bath, in
place of Capt. Charles Fox. removed from
the state. Col. J euuy served as Colonel of
the One Hundred and Eighty-fifth regi-
ment, New York volunteers, during the
war.
The reports from the patients- under-
going the lymph treatment at New Haven
are of the most favorable character. The
one who is sufiering from lupus shows the
greatest. improvement...
The trial of Michael Eyraud and his
former mistress, Gabrielle Bompard, for
the murder of Notary. Gouife, was con-
tinued in the ussize court in Paris. Eyraud
persisted in his statement that Mlle. Bern-
and that she passed the noose around the
victim’s neck while the latter Was fondling
her at. her home. Mlle. Bompard denied
all of Eyraud’s statements, and claims
that. the part she took in the crime was
due to the hypnotic influence exerted over
her by. Eyraud.
A suit to break the will of eccentric In-
ventor lrWin. of Morton, who left his
fortune to his fiancee, was tried at Media,
Pa, and won by his second wife’s sister.
At Indianapolis the grand jury called
witnesses lu relation to the charge that
poets! laws. The man to whom the al-
leged "tracked” letter was addressed
testified that. it bore a stamp when he re;
mind it.
Professor Koch is said to be much wor-
riéd over the non-success of his experi-
ments, and especially over the spoiling of
his last lymph, which was manufactured
in large quantities.
Franklin Chapman, 2. young man living
in New York, claims he was bound, gagged
and. robbed by a man who occupied the
same stateroom with him on 11 Hudson»:
rive: steamer.
Four Hungarian miners were killed by a
fall of coal in the mines near Hazleton, Pa.
The roof of the city hall at- Camden, NJ
J, was partly'destroyed by fire. The loss
was $10, 000.
Lewis Humes, a passenger on a fast mail
train, stepped from the platform of a car
near Barrie, Pa.,and.1jvas instantly killed
Ayoung man named Rheil was fatally
burg, Pa, by two companions named Bid-
dle and Huber.
Burglars secured $2,000 in money and
$17, 000' in bonds from the safe in .Muckle
United States Senator Gorman’ s resi-
deuce was burned to the ground at Laurel,
Md. The senator’ 5 wife and daughter and
the other inmates of the house escaped in
their night clothes. The senator was not
at home at the time The loss is estimated
at. $20, 000.
The St. James Gazette, a thick and thin
Tory organ, says in the course of an article
on the Behring sea question: “Let Mr.
Blaine remember that the British navy
exists in steel and iron, while the Ameri-
can navy exists only in paper and ink.”
Miles Standish Bromley died at his home
N o. 9 West. Fifty-third street, Dec. 17, from
paralysis; He leaves no children. His
widow is the only sister of V Mrs. William
H. :Vau‘derbilt, ‘
Ex-Mayor George Petry. of Long Island
City, died at his residence m that city Dec.
16, aged 68 years.
The Columbian government and the
liquidators of the Panama Canal company
have signed an agreement providing for
an extension of the period for the comple-
Wtiou of the canal
William M Donahue, The Boston Post
money .order clerk recently convicted of
year 1111 the reformatory.
A nickel minefhas been discovered near
Frankenstein, Prussia. Its oWncrs have
refused an. offer from Krupp of 1,500,000
marks for the pi operty.
The house committee on invalid pensions
have ordered a favorable report on the bill
introduced by Mr. Belknnp, of Michigan,
increasing the pension of the widow of
Gen. Custer from $59 "‘;_,8100_ per month.
The committee 9: pohtcfices and post
roads of the house ha ordered a favorable
report on the sens. ill extending the
privileges of free delivery of the mails' 111
cities having not less than 3,000 popula»
Lion, or where the pcstoifice has showua
gross revenue of $5,000 for the previous
The Clenrfied County bank, of Clear-
field, Pa... owned by: ex—Umted States Sén-
ator William A. Wallace, has made an as-
signment to J. S N Mccarroll, W. E.
Wallace and A. 0.311111119131111 litibilities
are $475, 000 and the assets $750, 000, so that
what.
Three runaway Brooklyn boys, Who had
for the Indian war, were arrested at Pitt's-
burg, which placNhey had reached after
William Moon, a negro hanger on at:
the Guttenburg race course, has been ar-
the ass'dult on Mrs. Beermann V
The liabilities of the Lori-Hard Brick ,
company arsestimated it 99,000000 bath :. .
New ‘l 011:, and receive
"men.
Opera House Block;
' 1nd SOLID; Fu! 1
PR oso'UNeL'D HOPEL res; YET .524 rap. ' ‘
From a leiter Wiiticn by Mrs. Ada E. '
__Hliid,' of Gluten, S. D.,We_ quote :——“Was 1
which settled on, .' '
taken with a bad cold,
my lungs, cough set in and finally termi-
hated in consumption. Four
gave me up saying I could live but ashort
time. 1 gave myself up to my Saviour,
determined if Icould not stay with my
friends on earth, I would meet my absent.
ones above My husband was advised to
get DI. Kizig’ s New DiscoVer for Ocu-
sumption, Coughs and Colds I gave it a
1.1111], took in all right hr utiles; it has
cur-1d me and thank God Inm now a we 1
and llenliy woman. ” Trial bottles nee at
H. R. Hale’s diug store, reguiai size 500.
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‘ They Have Resolved to Marry.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa... Dec. 111—The re-
cent shut down in the coke regions has
been especially hard on the single men,
they being laid off instead of the married
Standard works of the H. C. Frick Coal
cd‘lnpauy met at Mount Pleasant and
passed a resolution to marry before the
new scale is presented. Several engage-
ments have already been announced
d .0.
- scraper. .
This is what you ought to have, in fact,
you must havo' it to fully enjoy life:
Thousands ale sealching for it. daily, and
mourning because ihey find it not.
sands upon thousands of dollars are spent
annually by Olll people in the hope that
they may attain this boob. And yet it
may be had by all. We guarantee. that
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directions, and the use persisted in,- 'will
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eupepsy. We recommend Electiic Bit-
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And 100 men to call on any druggist for
a free trial package of Lane’s Family Med‘
iciue, the guest lost and heib nemedy,
discovered by [)1'. Silas Laue while in the
Rocky Mountains. For diseases of the
blond, liver and kidneys, it is a positive
cur.e Fm' constipation and cleanup: up
the complexion it. does Wonders. It' IS the
in st spling medicine known. Laige size
package 50 cents. At all druggisis.
‘ Joe Domighue Victorious.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 18.-—Iu the champion~
ship skating. tournament here Joe Dou-
aghue, of Newburg, won the mile race for
amateurs in 3:11.94-55. Theice was in
splendid condition. There was a strong
wind blowing.
He Took Paris Green.
. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Dec. 19.—Harry
Lundy, a 17-year old boy, employed on is
farm near this place, committed suicide
by taking: aquuntity of paris green. No
cause for i: he not can be learned.
Ayer__’__ s
Sarsaparilla
lilo Best
Blood Medicine
So say‘ Leading Physician.
and Druggists. and their open-1
{on is indorscd by thousands
cured by it of Scrofula, Ec-
zema, Erysipelas, and other
diseases of the blood. "
“Ayer's Sarsaparlila has won its repué
tation by years of valuable service to the
community. It is the best."—R. S. Lang,
Druggist, 212 Merrimack st., Lewell, Mass.
Dr. W. P. Wright, Paw Paw Ford, Tenth,
says: “In my practice, I invariably pre-
scribe Ayer’s Sarsa'parilla for chronic dis-
eases ot the blood.”
Dr. R. R. Boyle, Third and Oxford sts.,
Philadelphia, Pa., writes: “For two years
I have prescribed Ayer’s Sarsaparllla in
numerous instances, and I find it highly
efficacious in the treatment of all disorders
of the blood."
L. M. Robinson, Pharmacist, Sabina, 0.,
certifies: ”Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has always
been a great seller. My customers think
there is no blood- purifier equal to it. ”
“For many years I was afflicted with
' scrofulous running sores, which, at last, he
came so bad the doctors advised amputating
one of my legs to save my life. I began
taking Ayer‘s Sarsaparilla and soon saw an
improvement. After using about two dozen
bottles the sores were healed. I continue to
take a' few bottles of this medicine each
year, for my blood, and am no longer trou-
bled w1th sorés. I have tried other reputed
blood purifiers, but none does so much good
as Ayer s Sarsapm'ilia. "—D. A. Robinson.
Neal, Kansas.
Don’t fall to get
"Ayer’ sSarsaparilla I
PREPARED BY
DB. J. 0. AYER 8i. 00...,Lowell, Mass.
801d by Druggists. 51. six 35. Worth 55 a bottle.
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formerly editorial rooms of the Gamma
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REPAIRING SK ILLFULLY DONE AT
SHORT \OTICE.
.A. W. AUSTIN, Jeweler
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sex, 11' ho can read and writ
aner instrucuon,m willT work mag“
how to earn ‘I'llounnd I on ’n
1' earln theirown localities,va crever Tthey live. I will also th1-nick
ho situation or employmemmt which you can earn that amount.
\‘0 monev for me unless- successful as above. dEa-lly and quick!
‘ :1- -amcd. I desire 1.1.: one worker from each dlltrlc: crcounty. .'
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lave already taught and providedoo with unplo ment: MIE‘W 9.
1. h kl or $8000 a e as
lumber, w o are fun “isthmus-3‘ 13h . .Addr'n'IN u once,
E. c. . ALLE 91.11 «Inc.
doctors -
All the single men employed at the '
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