Blind
Sometimes persons become blind
from impure blood, which develOps
scrofulous ulcers on the eyeballs, iritis,
granulated eyelids, etc. In such cases
Hood’s Sarsaparilla has been marvel-
ously successful in restoring sight.
It shows its powers as a blood purifier
and radical cure for scrofula, by
removing the cause, thus curing the
Sore
eyes and restoring all the affected
par ts to healthy condition. Read this .
“As an act of justice and for the ben-
efit of other mothers who may have
afllicted children, I write this. About
the first of February, 1892, my daughter
Zola, then three years old, contracted sore
eyes of the worst form and in a few weeks
was entirely blind, being unable to tol—
erate light of any kind. She suffered and
cried until- I was almost heartbroken.
The best eye specialist in the county
treated her for months, but the
became worse. Then I took her to a special-
ist in Indianapolis, who said he could do
nothing. I came away with a heavy heart.
I met my father’ 3 physician, Dr. Berry-
man, who e2. amined. Zola 5 eyes, and told
me to try Hood’ s Sarsaparilla. I began to
give it as directed and wash her eyes
with warm water. Soon I began to notice
improvement, and now, having given the
child over a half dozen bottles, her eyes
are greatly improved and she can see as
well as any one. She is five years of age,
and goes to school. When she began to '
take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, she had to eat
her meals in a darkened room, but now
red
she is able to sit at the table with the
rest of the family.” MRS. CLLIE BUSER,
Colfax, Indiana.
Leading Citizens
6f Colfax, including John D. Blacker, Township
T1ustec,W.H.Coon, Druggist, and D1. J. A.
Berryman, cordially endorse this statement.
This and mun) other similar cures prove that
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'T HE EVENING
THE POPCORN BOY. '
A Business Reversal Unheralded
by Dun cr Bradstreet.
The financial stress from which the
country is now emerging has left- its
wrecks in the industrial and commer-
cial centers. VV hen the stringency w as
most severe the daily press reported
how this prominent bank had closed.
its doors, that well known mercantile
house had gone to pieces and this ex-
tensive manufactory had shut down.
But there w are many minor tragedies
in this distressing period—stories of
destitution and dismay— that were full
of desolate significance to individual
lives, even though they gave the com-
mercial world no thrill of alarm. This
is the story of one of these unreported
“failures,” the details of which ap-
pealed to the writer with pathetic in-
terest.
A slight and shriveled figure of me-
mium height—his growth seeming to
have been arrested before he attained
his natural stature—with thin and rue-
ful features, and eyes under a project-
ing forehead, and the ghost of a. beard
at the chin. This w as “We 1tcr the
pop'cor n boy,” as travelers over the old
road of the Lake Shore have seen him
times without number at the station
in a Southern Michigan village, search-
ing the car windows with a wistful
gaze for prospective patrons. So many
years has he been attendant upon the
arrival of the day t1 ains that his queer
and homely figure, one shoulder borne
down below the other by the weight of
the painted box he carried, suspended
by a strap and steadied with his long,
restless hands, had become as much of
a fixture as the sign board that swung
under the caves of the little passenger
hou 3e. Every arrival of a. train meant
more or less raising of windows and
the exchange of nickels and pennies
for the plump sacks and the Michigan
fruit. All the t1 ainmen we e goo-d
patrons of the faithful vender, but it
is difiisult to tell which they sought
the most—the corn and apples they
munched or the privilege of seeing the
happiness their purchases gave Walter,
particularly when the extent of busi-
ness made it necessary for him to hur-
ry home and stock up again. It was
pininthut the vendor’s soul was in his
humble trade. You could tell that by
tho gleam of joy that came int-.1 the
usually plaintivo face when trade was
b1.sk at the t1 nius or some li noral pas—
sengers threw out a. nickel or dime for
an apple or a bag of corn with the
cheery instructions to “never mind t 1e
change.”
T111: big railway corporation, usually
cvry conservative about granting eon-
cessions, allowed Walter to ply his
trade at the tr uius out of a. sentim .‘nt
of loyalty (also a. rare trait in 1ail .vay
corporations) to his deceased father—
a b.ight, capable man who v.01 kcd
himself to death in the employ of the
road. Walter did not inherit his fa-
tl1e1 s uucloude d menia lity, but he
recog nized the responsibility put upon
his youthful slrdulders by the removal
of the brczrdwinner of t.1e family and
at once took up tue line of efiort to
Which his taste inclined and which was
happily within the limited range of his
faculties.
The extraordinary perseverance and
unselfislrness with which he followed
his humble merchandising from boy-
hood up, relinquishing all thoughts of
the thousand and one diversions in
which youth so much delights, and
foregoing any participation beyond
his bare necessities in the results of
his labors, which, though not princely
by any means, went a. great ways
toward keeping off the gaunt visitor,
want, from tue father less cir ole——
tlrcse acts of self-abneguptiou belong to
those annals of silent heroism which
the world never sees or applauds, but
which are written in t .10 hearts of the
faithful ones of eurtn and credited
above.
For nearly twenty-five years he car-
..ried on his chosen vocation with a. de-
votion to duty that suggested martyr-
dom. To make all the trains (the com-
ing of a second railroad had enlarged
his oper atious), to always b.. punctual
and to make the most of the remain-
ing hour: of the day in his trade about
town was the purpose that so pos-
sessed his nature that hardly half a
dozen times in the Whole period did the
faithful fellow ‘feel disposed to give
himself a holiday, and then his recrea-
tion was limited to a day only.
The family by the thriftiness of their
combined effor ts had placed themselves
beyond the need of the son’s industry,
but his work had so grown into his
life anc. he invosted it with so much
pride and rater1st that he could not
think of giving .1. up. No longer a. lad,
but nearinr :o; -_'t-,, he was still the
same persistent, pa rotual vender; still
know as VV alter the popcorn boy. It
was merciful for him but pitiful for
others to think that it never dawned
upon him that the range of his facul-
ties was any narrower than that of
men in other callings; it never oc-
curred to him that there was anything
insignificant or petty in his poor ef-
‘forts. But the crude system of ac-
counts which he carried in a little
pocket memorandum he was 0. ten seen
working upon as he stood w 1th his box
before him on the street corner; the
stress he put upon never missing a.
train or losing any time in pleasure and
his strict insrstonce upon the cash basis
——ull these ind.cated that his business
interests were as weighty to him as
the multiplied responsibilities of a
great mercantile house to 11. Stewart or
alVlandel; and they were faint evi-
dences of what a. sterile, unflagging
nature, keen business acumen and
genius for conception and execution
had been f..ted to go crippled through
the world. _
Even the tormouts and cruel sport-
ivencss of the boys who belittled his
trade and madcgumc of his air of au-
thority and rrnportauce about the
trains, did not '01 int! to his conscious-
ness any hint 01' hrs mental infirmity.
And well murht the lads who guyed
and derided t is silent hr‘ro have 1:". ken
a lesson from his faithfulness, his in-
dustry 11;: "l business system, as well as
from 2.1.2,; l‘:1"uclz., :.‘.Ir.'.1'.;cc::r 01‘ his
life. Evenings found him always at.
home, and on Sunday it was his pride
the church work an a. post of duty in
the Sunday school library which he
discharged with greatest zeal and tol-
erated no usur ping of his place by
others.
Thus the monotonous tenor of Wal-
ter the popcorn boy’s life went on till
the fall of 1894, when the baneful in-
fluence of the panic first became ap-
parent in the village. No matter how
banks might tremble and fall and
capital take alarm, no one would think
that the sale of popcorn and apples
would be affected. But they were, for
at length Walter was heard bemoa-ning
thelet- -up in trade. Perhaps there
was not such a. serious slump in his
line, after all, and he had simply
caught the calamity note from others
—it is so quick to spread. Anyway,
the popcorn boy’s face grew more de-
spairing, his tones more nrournful.
Often he was» seen shivering in the
chill air and making figures with a
stub of a. pencil in the pocket ledger.
He was making comparisons with
sales the day before, the week before
and 3 ye. 11 bacl. ' He had heard some
of t .1e mer chants tell how their trade
had fallen ofiz‘. The compzu isons Were
not encouraging.
“Oh, it’s dreadful,” he would be
heard to wail often and "again.
“What’s the matter, Walter?” one of
the boys would ask.
“My tradc‘s falling off like every-
thing,” was his rueful answer. “These
hard times will ruin me.”
He was really in despair. The calam-
ity contagion had hold of him. The
business aspect was as serious to him
as to the man of millions. Ills receipts
for years ha]. never fallen below a. cer-
tain average. To his dismay the boast
he hail always ma. lc would not again
be true. It was seen that the worry
looking, he began to look paler and
thinner.
"Oh, cheer up, Walter!” some eon-
siderate bystander would say. “You’ll
come out all right.”
It was no use. “The figures speak
for themselves,” he said as he produced
the little book all filled with rude pen-
cilings. "I‘m falling behind—I know
I am.” Many merchants sitting in
their offices in sixteen-story buildings
could sympathize with him.
Walter, the popcorn boy, was incon-
sola-ble. It was common remark that
he was getting worse. Elc'h day
seemed to add to his burden of despair.
In all his quarter of a century of mer-
clrun.li..ing, humble as it hal been. he
could count on profits. Tire prospect
of anything different was too much for
him.
1 remember the last time I saw him.
It was just before the fast mail r'rom
the west was due, shortly before two
o’clock in the afternoon of a. wintry
day. Walter was standing around the
corner of the passenger station out of
the sweep {1f the biting winds. He
was a. picture of despondency as he
stood there silent in the sullen weather,
making figures with his shaking fin-
gers in the pocket memorandum.
"Here it is nearly two o‘clock,” he
cents—not enough to pay expenses.”
He did not take into consideratlon
that home and health and a good liv-
ing were certainties with him what-
ever might happen. He thought only
of his life-work———the thing that had
commanded all his time, all his ener-
gies. “If 1 don’t do well with No. 16 I
shall give up!”
Two of the boys, touched by the tone
of despair, tried to cheer him up by
buying half a. dozen sacks of corn
apiece. IIe brightened up a. moment
as he shook some salt on the corn and
handed it out, and then relapsed again
into despondency. The whistle of the
mail pierced the frosty air, and a few
seconds later the great engine was
panting at the water-tank. Walter
walked along the length of the train
according to his custom, but the win-
dows were shut and frost-covered and
no cheery voice cried out: “Here, bring
your corn this way!” Even his old
friends, the trainmen, failed to notice
the mournful figure and appealing
looks of Walter, the popcorn boy.
Several who had heard his despairing
words watched the course of matters
with anxiety that was almost painful.
They had hoped he would be cheered
and lifted up by a. brisk demand for
his goods. As the train went shriek-
ing on its way he was seen to set his
sad face homeward, crushed in spirit.
plunged in despair—as if mourning at
the grave of life- long ”hopes—as indeed
he was.
Since that day Lake Shore passen-
gers have looked in vain for a. sign of
the well-remembered face and figure.
Trainmen and travelers have won-
dered at the absence of the faithful
Walter, who had not failed to be there
before for a. quarter of a. century. He
is missed also from the village corners.
from his accustomed place at the organ
lever in the church choir, and some
one else now hands out the books in
the Sunday school. From his bed of
sickness, Where he lies helpless from a
serious nervous and mental ailment
from which he is fated never to rise,
he sends every month a. verse of con-
secration to the young people’s prayer
meeting. Brave, faithful spirit! The
whistle of the incoming train reminds
him that he must take Ins box and go,
and then he remembers that it cannot
be—no, never more! Some dim con-
sciousness of his enfeebled mentality
has come to him for the first time in
the long days of helplessness and he is
heard to ask, sometimes at frequent in-
tervals: “VV ill my other life ever come
back again?”
It is sweet to think the answer has
long been written. Though Walter,
theD popcorn boy, will never take up
tnere is One, the help of the helpless,
who has said.
“Y-e have been faithful over afew
things. I will. make you ruler over
gma.ny.”—Detroit Free Press.
—At the Intelligence 0ffice.——~“Madam,
why did you not keep the last girl I
sent you?" “She was too good look-
ing. I told you I wanted a plum cook.”
I ——Detroit h‘ree Press.
to have a. humble part to perform in '
was telling on him. Never strong
moaned, “and I've taken in only nine-
hls humble calling again in this world, ‘
' Speed of the'Dragon Fly.
It is the popular belief -that the
flight of birds is much swifter than that
of insects, but a number of naturalists,
who have been making a. study of the
matter, think that is not the case. A
common house fly, for. example, is not
very rapid in its flight, but its wings
make 800 beats a second and send it
through the air 25 feet, under ordin-
ary circumstances, in the space of that
time. When the insect is alarmed,
however, it has been found that it can
increase its speed to 160 feet per sec- '
011d. If it could continue such rapid
flight for a mile in a. straight line it
would cover that distance in exactly 33
seconds. It is not an uncommon thing,
when traveling by rail in the sum-
mer time, to see a. bee or wasp keeping,
11p with the train and trying to get in at
the windows. A swallow is considered
one of the swiftest of flying birds, and
it was thought until recently that no in-
sect could escape it. A naturalist tells
of an exciting chase he saw between a.
swallow and a dragon fly, which is the
swiftest of insects. The insect flew
with incredible speed, and wheeled and
dodged with such case that the swal-
low, despite its utmost efforts, com-
pletely failed to overtake and capture
it. —Golden Day s.
Blubber Baths for Rheumatism.
In Australia they have a. whale cure
for rheumatism which is said to be ef-
fective, though disagreeable. It was
discovered by a drunken man, who was
staggering along the beach near the
whaling station at Twofold bay, and
who, seeing a. dead whale cut open,
took a header into the decomposed
blubber. It took two hours for him
to work his way out, but he was then
not only sober but cured of his rheu-
matism. Now a hotel has been built
in the neighboring town of Eden,
where rheumatic patients wait for the
arrival of a. whale in-order to takeblub-
ber baths—Detroit Free Press.
Queen Elizabeth was of medium
height and weight, but gave the im-
pression of being much taller than she
was. She had n. 1101111111 nose and in
the last few years of her life it became
very red. IIer cheeks were prominent
and forehead broad and shelving. Her
eyes were a- gray-blue- and her hair a
decided red.
Messzrlinu, the infamous wife of
Claudius Cmsar, “ as small and lively;
she had black eyes that. sparkled when
she talked and a persuading, pleading
way that. no one could resist. It was
said of her that she was so clever 11
hypocrite that she could smile into a
lover’s eyes when he was drinking the
poison she had prepared for him.
Mme. Scarrnn, afterward the famous
Mme. de lVl'ztinteuon,wife of Louis XVI,
was remarkably beautiful in her girl-
hood. She was dark, with piercing
black eyes and wavy hair. In middle
life her grunt-y of deportmcnt was corr-
sldcrcd, in that. age of gaycty, quite re-
markable. One of her enemies said
she did not. Smile once a. year.
Tender Feet, the very best
thing is
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Group, 1' Sail Rheum.
None of the old remedies is so-
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all these.
Twosizcs, 25 and so cents.
At druggisrs, or by mail.
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