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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-6-21, Page 3MISCELLANEOUS READING ORATE AS WELL AS We Ohl and 'Young wili:Rnd these Selections Interesting and Profitabte as they are OurefaIly Selected. gOood-Psere, cline Take X. stcsr of Yoursete." Old ma» ntiver bad teach to say - 'Conn' to eim- gild ;Sim was the wile est boy he had, And the old man jes' wrappedup in Mtn 1 Never board him speak bat once Er twin in ma Me. acid ihst Mine woe When the army broke out, and Jim he went, The old man lateldn' Wm. ler three mouths, And all 'at I heard the old man say WaS, jos' 41$ WO tUrnea tO Start aNTay, "Well, good-bye, Jim ; Take keer of yonrsel 1" Feared like he was more satisfied lea' lookin' at Jim, . And lildn' hint all to hissel-like, see? 'Cause he was jos' wrapped up in him 1 And over and over, I mind the day. • 'The old man c om e and stood ramie to the way, While we was drilli a% a-watehin' Jon; And down cd the depot an eerini btu say, "Well, good-bye, Ji in ; ' Take keer of yoursel 1" Never was nuthin' about the farm Distinglelied Jim, .„ Neighbers n11 Mt to wonder why, ' The old mon 'pared 'wrapped up in him; But when Capt. Bigler, he writ back 'At ate. WaS tie braveSt boy we had In the whole atop espemeet, white er black, And. his fightin' g.ocal as his farmin' bad - 'At he bad led. -with a bullet clean . Bored through his thigh, an' carried tho flag Through ilic bloodiest battle you ever seen, The old man wound up a lettertohim ' A.t Cap. read to us, 'at stdd : "Tell jiin Good-bye ; And take keer of Mese 1" Jim come back les' long enough To take the whim 'At he'd like to go back in the calvely.--- And the old man jos' wrapned up III him 1 • Jim 'lowed 'at he'd had sich luck afore, Guess he'd taekle her three years more. ' And the old man giVe him a colt 'he'd raised, And loitered him over to Camp Ben Wade, And laid around far a week er so, Watchin' Jim on dress parade; Tel finally he rid away. And last'he beard was the Old man•say : "Well, g.00d-bye,- Jim; E Take keer of yoursel 1" . Tak the papers, the old man did, A-watchin' for Jim ; Fully believin' he'd Make his . mark :Some way -j es' wrapped up in kiln! " And limy 1111041 the word 'fill come \ 'At stirred him up like the tap of a dram; At Petersborg, for instance, where , Jim rid right into their cannons there, ',Aad Mk 'em, and p'inted 'em Vother way, 'And socked it Immo to the boys in gray, --' As they stooted ler timber, and on and on - Jim it lieutenant, and ono arm gone,. And the old man's words in mind all day: "W111. good-bye Jim f_ Take keer of yousel 1" Think of a private, now, perhaps, We'll say like Jim. 'At's cluniii clean up to the shorilder-straps. And the old. man jes' wrapped up in him 1 Think of him--eith the war plum' through ,And the glorious old Red -White -an d -Blue A-laughin' the news down over Jim, And the old man, bendin! over him -,- The surgeon turnin' away with tears 'At hadn't leaked for years and years -- As the hand of the dying boy clung to His fathers; the old. voice in his ears: "Well, good-bye, Jim „- Take keer of yoUrsel 1" Visiting the OM Hoene. "Hello, Jim! Where have you been lately ?" shouted. a broker the other even- ing to a portly, finely dressedhnan in the corridor of the Fifth. Avenue Hotel. The gentleman stopped, shook hands with his friend, and replied: ",I've been home to see my old father and mother, for tho fast time' in sixteen years, and I tell you, old. man, I:wouldn't have missed one day of all that visit for all my fortune." " Wind o' good to visit your boyhood nine, eb ?" " You bet. Sit down. I was just hiking about the old. folks, and. fc el lkative. 11 you have a few minutee to sfare, sit down, light a cigar and lieten to the story of a rich mau who in the chase for wealth had almost forgotten his lather and mother." They sat down and the man told his tory: " How I came to visit my home hap- pened in a curious way. Six weeks ago I went down to Fire Island fishing. I had a lunch put up for me, and you ean imagine my astonishment when I opened the hamper to fi.nd a package of crackers Wrapped up in a piece of the little, patent inside, country weekly published in my home in Wisconsin. I read every word of it, advertisements and all. There'was George Kellogg, who was a schoolmate of mine, advertising hams and salt pork, anti another boy was postmaster. By George It made me homesick, and I determined then and there to go home, and go home I did. " In the first place I must tell you how I came to New York. I had a tilt with my father and left home. Ifi.nally turned up in New York .with a dollar in my pocket. I got a job running a freight elevator in the very house in which I am now a partner. My haste to get rich drove the thought of myparents from me, when I think of them, the hard words that my father last spoke to me rankled in my bosom. Well, I went home. I tell you, John, my train seeraed to creep. 1 was actually worse than a schoolboy going borne for vacation. At last we neared the town. Familiar sights met my eyes, and, upon my word, they filled with tears. There -was Bill Lyman' s red barn, just the same ; but -great Scott! whet ,were all the other houses? We tillr-rotie nearly a nine before coming to the :station, passing many houses, of which only an occasional one was familiar. The town had growo to ten times its eize When IkiloW it, Tho train stopped and I 'jumped off, Not a face in sight Weed' knew, and 1 stated down the pletform to go home. In the office door stood the station agent. 1 waked up ad said : Howdy, Mr. Collins?' Ho stared at ree and replied You've got the best of mo, '1 told him who I was and what I had been doing in New York, and he didn't make any bones in talking to me. Said he: a,botit timo you came borne, You in New York rieh, and your father scratching gravel to get a bare living,' "1 toll you, Jolla, it knocked me all in a heep. I thought my father' ho,a enough to live upon comfortably. Then a notion stretch me. Beim% going home 1 toles graphed. to Chicago to one of our corms sepondents there to send me $1,000 by first mall. Theu I went into Mr. 'Collins' back office, got ely trunk in there and put on An old hend-meglown suit that I use for fishing and hunting. My plug hat I replaced by a soft one, OA my velise in my hand, and went home, Somehow the plus) dide't, look right, The ailment bushes had been dug up from the front yard, and the fume was gone. All the old loonst trees had been alit down and young maple trees were planted. The house looked smaller somehow, too. Bet went up to the front door and rang the bell. Mother cense to the door and said: 4 We don't wish to btty anything to -day, "It didn't take me a minute to survey her from head to foot, Neatly dressed, John, but a patch and a dean here and there, her hair streaked with gray, her face thin, drawn arid wrinkled. Yet over her eyeglasses shone those good, honest, benevolent eyes. I stood staring at her, and, she began to stare at me. I saw the blood rush to her face, and with a great sob she threw herself tipon me and nervously clasped me about the neck, hysterically crying It's Jimmy, it's Jimmy!' "Then I cried too, John. I just broke down and cried like a baby. She got me into the house, hugging and kissing me, and then she went to the beck door and shouted, George !' "Father cried from the depths of the kAchen: 'What do you want, Oar'line ?' "Then he came in. He knew me in a moment. He stuck out his hand and grasped mine, and said sternly: 'Well, young man; do you propose to behave youeself now?' He tried to put on a brave front, bat he broke clown. There we three sat like whipped school children, all whimpering. At last supper -time came, and mother went out to prepare it. I went into the kitchen with her. " Where do you live, Jimmy ?' she asked. In New York,' I replied. " What are you working at now, Jimmy'?' "I am working in a dry goods store.' " Then I suppose you a.on't live very high, for I hear of city- clerks who don't get eno-ugh money to keep body and soul together. So I'll just tell you, Jimmy, we've nothing but roast spareribs for sup- per. We haven't any money now, Jim- my. We're poorer nor Job's turkey." "1 told her I would be delighted with the spareribs, and to tell the truth, John, I haven't eaten a meal in New York that tasted as good as those crisp roasted spareribs did, I spent the evening play- ing cheekers with father, while mother sat by telling me all about their misfor- tia'nes, from old white Mealy getting drowned in. the pond to father's signing a note for a friend and. having to mort- gage the place to pay it. The mortgage was due inside of a week, and not a cent to pay it with -just $800. She supposed. they would be turned out of house and home, but in my mind I supposed they wouldn't. At last 9 o'clock carae and. father said: Jim, go out to the barn and. see if Kit is all right. Bring in an arm - "f old shingles that are just inside the duceand fill up the water -pail. Then we'll go off to bed and get up early ancl go a -fishing.' "1 didn't say a word, but I went out to the barn, bedded down the horse, broke -up an armful of shingles, pumped up a pail of water, filled the woodbox and than we all went to bed. Father called me at .4:30 in the morning, and. while he was getting a cup of coffee I skipped over to the depot cross lots and got my best bass rod. Father took nothing but a trolling line and a spoon hook. He rowed the boat with the trolling line in his mouth, while I stood in the stern with a silver shiner rigged on. Now, Jim, I never saw a man catch fish as he did. To make a long story short, he caught four bass and. five pickerel, and I never got a bite. "Ab noon we went ashore and father went home, while I went to the pod -office. I got a letter from Chicago with a check for $1,000 in it. With some trouble I got it cashed, getting paid in $5 and $10 bills, making mike a roll. I then got a roast joint of beef and a lot of delicacies, and had them sent home. After that I went visiting among my old schoolrosees Lor two hours, and. went home. The joint was in the ovens Mother had put on hor only silk dress and father had donned his Sunday -go -to -meeting clothes, none too good, either. This is whore 1 played. a joke on the old folks. Mother was in the kitchen watching the roast. Father was out to the barn, and I had a clear coast. I dumped the sugar ottb of the old, blue bowl, put the thousand dollars in it, and placed the cover on again. At last sup- per was ready. Father asked a blessing over le, and he actually trembled when he stuck his knife in the roast. head. Bet it was too necte11 for mother. She raised her twee to heavenand sai,d slowly; Put yonr trust in the Lord, for He will provide.' 44 Then she faiated away. Well, John, there's not much more to tell, We threw water in her We and brought her to, and then we demolished that dinner, inother all the time saying: My boy Jimmy! My boy Jimmy l' "1 stayed home a month. I fixed up the place, paid off all the debts, had a good thne, and came back again to Now York. I MU going tot send $50 home every week. 'tell you., John, it's mighty nice to have a home," John was looking stealthily at 'the head of his &nee, When he spoke he took'slina by tlae hand and said: "Tins, old friend, whet you havo told me has affected me greatly. I haven't heard from rtiy home way up in Maine for ten years, I'm go- ing home to-n-corrow." " We haven' thad a piece of meat like this in five years, Sim,' ho said, and mother put in with, And we haven't had any coffee in a year, excepting the times when we went a-visitinh' Then she poured out the coffee and lifted the cover of the diger-bowl, asking as she aid SO: 'How many spoonfuls, Jimmy 95 " Then she streak something; that wasn't sugar. She picked up the bowl ancl peered into it. Aha, Master Jimmy, playin,' your old trick e on your mammy, ? Well, boys will be boys.' " Then she gasped for broeth. She saw it was money. She looked at me, then at father, and thou with trembling fingets drew the great roll of bills onte ho! ha 1 1 Can see father now OS he stood there, thee, on tiptoe, with his'knife in one hand., fork in the other and his Oyes fairly bulging out of his SOME SUPEHSTITIONS. Queer Fancies That Influence Credulous People -They Are as Potent To -day as in. Olden Times -Signs and Omens and Their Accepted Meanings -The "Thirteen" raney-Ilnlueky 13'r1day -Horseshoe and Moon Lore.*.1 There are superstitions and sapersti- tions. In the ago of clear -seeing and clear -thinking, of scientific) knowledge and. cool, hard-headocl logic, there is an increase of superstitioue fancies that keeps pace with the increase of popula- tion. No sooner does one enter this troublesome world than the code formul- ated. Here is a few notes from the cradle -lore of superstition. They begin with the day of birth: Born on a Sunday, a gentleman ; 13orn on a Monday, fair of face; Born on a Tuesclay„ full of grace; Born on a Wednesday, sour and glum; Born on a Thursday, welcome home; Born on a Friday, free in giving; 13orn on a Saturday, work for a living. A baby born in May is always delicate. If anyone rocks the cradle when the baby is not in it, the ehild will die before the year is out. To cut a baby's finger nails before it is a year old will cause the child to be dis- honest when it grows op. "rimy must be bitten off for its moral ,goocl. To let a child see itself in a mirror be- fore it is four months old will bring it bad luck. A. child born when church bells are chiming will be able to see spirits. To be born with a caul is considered great good luck. Fortune tellers adver- tise this special favor as a gift of sooth- saying. David Copperfield was born with a caul, Dickens utilizing the old super- stition in his novel of that name. These are only a few of the supersti- tions attendant upon infancy, every family having certain special forms or fancies, which they will candidly assure you they do not believe in, but- practice them out of respect to family traditions. "What about that unlucky number thirteen ?" asks one. The questioner might be directed to the thirteen club, which meets on. the 13th day of the month, sits down thirteen at tale, spills the salt, evalks under ladders, raises an umbrella under a roof without fear of consequences, and whose members always ask for room thirteen at a hotel. What will the man -or woman -who considers thirteen an unlucky number do with the new twenty-five cent coin, that has ten thirteens engraved upon. it? Who will refuse a handful of this un- luckily -denominated coin ? It may be that there are thirteens, and thirteens. Cheuncey Depew will not dine at a table where the guests number thirteen. He says he has a prejudice against it. If there could be a fatality in numbers, the eriminal of this one might be suggestive. It sprung from the feet that thirteen at- tended the last supper where Christ sat with his disciples. The spilling of the salt is also believed to have originated on that occasion, when Judas, reaching over to grasp the money bag, upset the salt. The modern. antidote is to take up a pinch of the spilled salt and fling it over your right shoulder. If a °look strikes thir. teen -as it sometimes does when off its balance -there is an immediate stir in the family where it happened., as it is supposed to be a prognostication of evil. Once, however, a clock striking thirteen savell a man's life. A soldier on duty as a sentinel eves eondemn.ed to clea,th for sleeping at his post at midnight. He swore solemnly that he was awake and heard the clock strike thirteen instead of twelve. His word was sustained by a nmnber of witnesses who had noticed the strange circumstance, and the man's life was saved. • It is a common occurrence with men who have names that average thirbeen letters to add one to obviate any harm from the fateful combination. Friday is oonsidered by popular opinicn an unlucky day. The Friday which by some freak of norelenolature is called "Good" is no doubt responsible for this, which, indeed, gives fa, dignity to this supers.tition, equal to that of tho'number thirteen. To begin anything on Friday, or to start on a journey, is to court an adverse fate. ' No one will marry on Friday, but all who hang must hang on Friday. The nails must not be pared on Friday. Fri- day the 131311 is even more unlucky than the 0,verases Friday. There is a proverb that he who laughs on Friday will eveep on Sunday. There was a superstition in the days of ineclie-val romance that fairies were converted into hideous animals on Friday, and remained so until Monday. Tho American people are less influenced bef Friday suporstitioas than the English, Irish or Scotch, possibly for the reason that Colambus discovered. Aniceissa on Friday, Annust 3, 1492, when he fled saw land. In certain parte of Pennsylvania the county' people care their ehildren of whooping ;cough by giving them a raw egg to eat that has bee'e iaia on the last Friday of a new moon. Money should be turned ill the hand in the new of the moon, when it will bo sue to double if well invested. The dian form of the old moon is some - tines Nell to outline the Pawn -loon, a sign that some believe presages disester to sail- ors. sow the moon late yestreen, Wil the old moon under her arm. And if we go to sea master, I fear we WM coMe to harm. To cure warts it is only necessary to weah the hands in the moonlight, repeat- ing these lines : Warts, warts. fly from harm, Silver moonlight be any charm. The latek that is founcl in a horseshoe is another harmless fancy that is com- monly observed., It is an old belief paid ons tho is populerly respected in Eng- land, as we find the statement made by an authority, that most of the houses in the west end of London have a horseshoe nailed to the threshold. There was a horseshoe under the pore's at St. Stan- field. church. in Suffolk, and it was placed on a tile as a sacred relic. In Fluclibms be read of a conjurer who could: Obese evil spirits away by dint Of sickle, horseshoe and hollow flint. And one of Gay's fables has this coup - bot; The fad of the new moon es ono of our most popelar beliefs in the neeroxnancy of fate. To see the moon for the first time, not throtigh a window, but in the open air, your right shoulder tamed lac- ing her, and money loose in your hand.„ indicates a month of good, luck. But to see her over your left shoulder betols.ons sorrow. When looking at the new moon, if you make a Wish, it will certainly dome true if all the conditions of money, posi- tion, dm, have been fulfilled. If it does not come true it will be r000rded in the moon in a vase marked witb the wi.shoe's Immo, as everything 11.1 the way of miss spent time and evealth, broken vows, fruitless tears end unfulfilled petitions is recorded there to be kept 'until the lest judgment. It is co/mew:meetly most clesirs ablo that the wish ithould be one deserv- ing Buell 0 fate. Straws Mid across my path retard, The horseshoes nailed, each threshold guard. Lord Nelson believed in the luck of the horseshoe, and had one nailed to the mast of his ship 'Victory. The horseshoe must always be nailecl with the ends up to hold the luck in, otherwise it will fall out and turn to misfortune. 'Whittier kept a horseshoe nailed over the door of the room in his house at Danvers to keep the witches out, as he used t ) say gleefully. It was a pleasing recognition of an amus- ing. custom, nothing more, for the last of the witches lay buried at the foot of the hill, and had lain there for a hundred or more years. There is an old friendly wish often drank as a toast: "May the horseshoe never be pulled from my threshhold." It is considered lucky to find a horse- shoe, and there am few who will pass one lying in the road without picking it up, if only to laugh at the folly of the ,action. Patting ou a shoe wrong is an omen of ill -luck. It is recorded that Augustus Omar put on his left sandal in a careless and crooked manner on the morning of t,he day on which he came near losing his life in a mutiny. To put the left foot out first on. getting up in the morning is believed to be a lucky proceeding. The phrase, "You must have got out of bed wrong foot foremost," is commonly heard. in intelligent homilies of the present day, and is an echo of the old foible. Then there is a host of lesser supersti- tions, such as follows: Never sweep a floor at night. And the pin fallacy: See a pin and pick it up, All the clay you'll have good luck; See 1111) and let it lie, All the day you'll need to cry. ' To singbefore breakfast indicates that you will cry before supper. To fall upstairs is a slgn to a single per- son that he or she will not marry within the year. 11 you shave on Monday you will have bad luck all tb.e week. It is an oaa omen that breaking a look- ing -glass will bring you seven years of sorrow. There are fow people who do not find their nerves shaken by this ordeal. Napoleon was so alarmed when he broke the glass over Josephine's portrait, which he carried with him to Italy, that he sent a eourier to learn if she were well. To crose the street along which a funeral is passing is another omen of dangerous import. These are a few of the queer supersti- tions which dominate the beliefs of a large proportion of the people to -day, who, an being questioned, will declare that they only practiee such follies for amusement. There is always a modicum of truth at the bottom of these errors; either we be- lieve them because our grandfathers did, or it is easy to observe the condition im- posed. as to avoid it ; or a pet myth has a picturesque place in the line gi nation , just as the idioms of the language are as ne- cessary as its grammar. Ib is foolish to speak of superstition as the heritage of the ignorant only, when to -morrow you will see a man of seience stay his steps to phis up a pin. reciting 1.1n) lormula as an apology for his net. In the light of science NVO may not find the litany of the York- shire elastic a misapplied prayer: From witches and wizards and long-talled lizards, And creeping things that run in bedge-bottoms, Good Lord, deliver us. Desolation la a Cyclone's Track. About noon a party of omiggants reach- ed, the Red. River half a mile helots' US. We counted twenty-six white- topped waggons, Texas -bound., and there must have been close on to a hundred men, women and ehildren. The Red was over its banks and a mile wide at that point, and. the party encamped on the bluffs to wait for a fall. The horses were turned out, fires lighted and the voices of the children and the songs of the women floated up to us as the noon -day- meal was prepared by the blazing wood lixe. It was a summer's day and. almost cloudless. The grass on the bluffs was green and thick, and forty feet below ran the flood. There was nothing- to feat - nothing to cause ehe slightest tweedy. The flood would subside in a day or two ancl make the crossing safe. In the meantime they laughed and wore happy, "Look bliere !" On. a dead tree to our right, sitting side by side with folded wings and necks outstretched, are four great vultures-- scevengers of plain and. prailie. Never an hour bo'bween sunrise and sunset when ere0 cannot else them circling in the air -never a day's travel when you will not lie= their croak! croak I croak 1 as they call eaeh other to a feast. The birds have come on silent wing, They utter no sound. There is no move - meet except of their nooks es they look down into the emigrant camp. It gives ono a creepy- feeling to watch them. The air has brought them no taint,. There are no worn-out horns waiting to die. If thOrd Was a human being silt unto death down there the songs and shouts walla be hushed, neve the horrible birds feasted and alighted tip there to rest No 1 They are lean erid hungry -looking, and the vulture never bites. Our camp is much the nottrost, but their attention is wholly occupied with the other, They iii1176 every living thing Under their oyes, 10611311J1212M Armalmr,4,124w: Varicocele, Emissions, NerYoliS Debility, Seminal 'Weakness, °lea, Stricture, BYPilliis, UsznaturalDischarges, Sett AlsifeV. Kidney and Bladder Diseases Positively cured by TRoiluifilUtoglioritial@gri0gerfilliliscoiierll IV -You can Deposit the Money le Your nage er with Your Postmaster *0 he paid us after you are Ulltig.0 tader a written Ouarenteel 8eV4buoe, Amos 0(1004 71tood IThreasee have wrecked the lives of thonsarals of young men and middle incedrnen. 'elle farm, the workshop, t 1.0 Sanaa: 5010101, the 011ie°, the moles., oions-all have its vietirai. g wan, if you. have beea indiaereet, beware of the /attire. 1ifiddls at/edition, you aro growlmi. -prematurely weak and old, both, eexnally and physical:11y. Consult us before too late. NO NAMES USED 111 1 fiOUT WRITTEN ONSEN‘Tv,. 80.cionotle:flaval,, VARICOCELE EMISSIONS AND SYPHILfS CURED. W. . COLVDTS. W. S. Collins, of Saginaw. Speaks, "I am 20. At 11337 learned a bad habit whioli I contin- ued 00 1 10. 37 then became "one.of the boys" and led a g 1Y life. 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Afar off on their trail, where Sky and plain seem to meet, is a black spot, looking for a moment like a bruise on the white skin of a babe. At first a hand would cover it, lint as we look it grows larger and larger, and. darker and darker. It is a cloud which seems to ha-ve sisen from the earth as if following an explosion,. It spreads out to take in the width of the valley -it mounts up until it stands like a great wall against the sky, and we wa.teli and wonder and tremble. About us everything is as quiet as th.e grave. Down in the ea;mp of the emigrants a group of children are sing- ing. Hark! There's 01111141 that is fairer than day, And by faith we can see it afar;1 Our Father waits over the way -- It is tb.e words of the " Sweet Bye and Bye," and men and women joie with the children. I turn my eyes from the cloud to the vultures. They still oc- cupy the limb -their horrible necks are still outstretched. • Bank to the cloud,. which has now assumed a strange, menac- ing appearance. It seems to be whirling round and round for a few seconds. Theu. with the rush of a cannon ball and the resistless force of a tidal wave, it conies sweeping up the valley and strikes the capes We hear e moan -wild, weird. awful -a roar -a crash. For a, minute it is as dark as midnight down there. There is a breath of wind like ice. We hear a eraehieg and grinding on the other side of the rsver. The darkness slowly awey, Where is the camp -the wattertme-licasses -ruen, women and little, singiret chil- dren? The bluff is bare. There is not a, living thing in sight -not the sliirhrest trace of what was there five minutes a g I glance up at the bee. The vultures are just taking wing to follow the =sweet ef the stream. They have not waited in vain, We rush clown ta the eke of the tamp and ask ea.cia other if 11 wae all a dreem. 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