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SIDNEY'S COURAGE. jump from the wagon, but ms zees
were entangled. in thereins, and ho
Sidney Sill was a cash -boy in a great could, only cling desperately to the
city shop. side,
He came early to sweep and dust, In that instant, however, some one
and help polish the windows and un- rushed in. front of the horse, and
cover the goods --lie crept home late at seized holdof the reins, which were
nights, feeling a:s if he could almost now dragging under the horse's feet,
drop to sleep before he ate his supper, dinging to them with all his weight.
It was not mucin of ai< home, either. The horse, mechanically obeying
:]las, Brigs kens a sallors' boarding- the pressure of the curb, began
house, and the sights and sounds there back—and George Hall, taking ad
were not of •a nature to edify our for- vantage of the opportunity,' got hi
lore little lad feet louse, and tumbled out of th
But Mrs. Blrirgs was goon to him, in wao-on, More dead than alive. One o
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those lrlr Intend
ileus lir ti:�t(' d so from
the e,t.anu,ars.turer. The
dealer who buys to sell
again must ueeessarily
t Lave a profit. We ':]shin
to ;,41•etiae purchasers the
tenetit, W ,1Ch oanaot tai)
5 to levet tin, vietxa of the
e tireugers. Our• osnc'nsas
✓ arelessthan tLose ofcfte
nialAnlaCtRrerfconsequent
her coarse rough way, and she was tat next who had followed the run
all the guardian that Sid had ever away animal now came breathless]
];nowt], up, and took charge of halve.
Ile could not remember his mother, , "Is this the little fellow that stopped
:asstl his father, a sailor, had died sed- old Garibaldi?" said one. “Eil
denly in the interval between two , What's the matter?"
soy t ee', is Itirs. Brigg's house, when "Yes. I stopped him," said a voice
Sid was. only live years old. faint with pain. "But he stepped 4
She lead tirade a little errand -boy ut foot as 1 snatelled at the reins, an
and drudge' of ]lith], until be was old I'ln afraid it is broken."
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all the Different
yr t•.B WO itLD,
71' eel) speeielatttentio
co our undertakingdepiatrq
oaent,whkch is more vont
th
pletearaever,as we have
addedseverulnew designs]
of late The best ctflins
caskets slimuds,aud evety
'uueral requisite at tl,0:
low est pruls Our new E
hearse is i,ronourmed by
competent judges to be 4
second to nos., U the
,+
,rotiincea;
Societies.
n Neils:\1\T
d UNDERTAKER AND
ent,Wr.t to get a piece as cash boy, and "Why, it «s Sid Sill!" exeiaimed the
then cite pocketed his earnings anti man, who was 1)r, Sturgis's gardener. • Fmterais rarr::ished .a:.:-
Sef'tuetl to think that she Bail been the "1 deeiare, Sill, you're a regular little ct'ruii :t at the very tor•
making of him.hero. Ilea you know that another stepMy StockotatudertApking
Se, when the guise greav too loud of ,..of the old 'horse would, 11 are}liusht e i ,ti% itsaar{a •1 nil aria
a bight down -stairs, Sid los fee,],. thesoli over into Kingdom Come?'er,on:ectuirinuaustitim
,loo:• of lila attic•mOnl, and lay trout- "I don't "know, --I didn't stop to as a,: it )eft el! rtta
ling and looking up at the stars, and think," said Sid. I only saw that a r ail Ili s e'' ''' . ut, tel
wondering if he should always live se, . George Hall would be killed if some- teetesetras,
One day, however, there was an ac- body didn't stop the•iteree,"
eident at the big stucco -fronted shop, It was discovered, When they got
awl poor little Sid Sill was taken No him to the house and sent for a doctor,
for dead.
"Take hint home," said Mr. ];eggs, that sonic ofr kee Ana so bones of the
tine heard elan. foot were broken, and Sid ryas confined •
"I don't believe he's et anyhome, to his boli for venae tho4
lily." said Mike. ileo porter. Deb durlag this fleshed ht! was exAttatd
"'Wish], then, take orae to the ams- Into the position of talo most popular
pita]," said Mc Regis,. boy in school, Even Dr, Sturgis said
And he tented his beck on the small that ate had acted like ti, hero; And
insensible f Gcorgu hall actually cried, when he
or mi. iny-
'They wore Rory good to
motleymotleycy begged Sid's pardon for the waat which he had behaved.
the hospital- The doctor calledhian ..A "And VII he your friend always.
brava little elms." and brought him au Sid, if you'll lot Ino," said he,
mange orapicture,.now and ties. So when Sidney recovered, kine].
Sister Sopia, the nurse, used. to tell ]kiss, stems deehmed that ha should
hila all the aloe old fairy stories that 8o flack to hitt Intel, denser,
his loveless childhood had beoD '11oat- Sbo ]tad; taritolt # ,great piney to the
ed out as, gentle patient little lad, and oho an-
llut r"7 has zzulZ4e autve carne. pounced her intention of-adoptinghiaa
on, they 'w"Oro parai:tled what to do to be educated and reared with her
with hint, for when they had trent to own hos.
Mrs. Briggs, they_found the house shut ••I Wu' he will do toe credit," said
u p, with s big ',To pet" on it, and to elite.
lkfrs.
Urfa Has to be found? And hero ended all the 50r1011
*•kigtaplal" said the dastaa7 ,.he troubles hero
ended
8lii'a lata,
aught to iuNre a little +reentry sir, and Aad abort Siatet 8ophita heard tate
thtasot ag! urea afmilkraid h, .andwill till twet_irrt et story she only nodded her head awl
ta alwltye AIM
to limp through life on & lame leg."s:d.l' know that that boy would. tura
Stater Sophia sighed. eat well,'"
"However." continued the doctor,
4.there's no reason why you and I irr lfrrttinn,
should oau'oern ourselToe about it!
His time is up on Monday, sad after Woet•ot'lhe dlirauuri the majority of
that he will have to shift for himself!" the surface of tate earth is more or Less
But Slater Sophia could not so soil neglected try the oolostial spriaklaag
dispose of the question in her min pot, and it behooves poor weak man to
She had a brother, who kept a boye" Irrigate artidoially wherever be can..
school in the country. Now •ou .can go into California, Utah
"I wonder if he could ,find room for And Colorado, and by irrigation raise
poor Sid." sate thought. "1111 writs to garden sass that will make your eyes
him." bulge; but through Wyompo
ing, °sofs].
She did so, and Dr. Sturgis wrote LY on tho Laramie plains, the growing
back that he would keep Sidney Sill season is confined to the time.botweon
^if there for n few week, if the hey iuly 31 and August I. So that things
would make himself nsciul in cleaning don't have time to mature. I will ca-
hoots and knives, and helptag the copt promissory notes paying two per
cook. cent. per month, however.
It seemed a great deal for little The season is so abrupt, and when it
half -sick boy to do, but Sister Sophia conies is gone again with that spon
did not know how to make any better taneity and forthwith immediate move
did
and SId himself was delighted went peculiar to the flea, that before
at the idea. you can put ear muffs on your corn, the
Brook Hall was a long, loss, red -
ears are frozen and the season's work
brick house, nil covered with ivy, with is nothing but frost bitten chaos and
a pretty river winding in front, and wilted wreck.
nice orchards at the rear. Dr. Sturgis Still with allthis knowledge and itt
patted Sidney's head when he arrived
the light of a full experience we had
andgood boy, years ago a man on the plains named
hoped he would be a
and thought nothing more about vim. Playford, who had been a fever and
And the cook was cross, and the big ague doctor a year or two in the South
till people told hint that they preferred
boys were tyrannical, and the little
boys christened him "Limp," and the ague to the style of knowledge he
him for his shabby clothes lied, Then he drifted West, worked
laughed at
and pale face. And one dap the big on the night shift in a Colorado mine
in
and practiced la
bull chased him across the pasture, law in quiet, shyster
and he nearly fainted with terror, and kind of a. way till the vigilantes got all
after that he was generally hooted athis practice and threatened to get him
as a coward! 'Then ho carne to Wyoming to grow up
All this was very hard to bear, but with the country, started a paper and
what could Sid do? printed it on one of those little anon -
George Hall was a lubberly fellow tour card presses that sell for throe
who troubled Sid more than any of dollars. This paper he published every
the rest. He seemed to take a vicious day, and in the old flush times during
delimit in tormenting the little fellow the building of the Union Pacific rail -
lie possibly could. way sold it at twenty -live cents a
in every way that
He would not take oil" his boots to be week. He used it as a little -pocket
blacked, but made Sidney black them blackmailer and worried himself into
on his feet—and one dray he lifted nn
office by knowing things about premi-
en
• foot during the process and knocked. nent men and threatening to publish
Sid down on to the grass! them.
"What clivi you do that for?" said Well, are was the lib:+'mp!ga of irri-
Sid, struggling up with tears of re- (ration in Wyoming, :tum he devoted a
pressed pain and mortification in his stickful a day to Wyoming agricultural
eyes. possibilities. Ile favored, the organi-
"Because I chose to! So there, zatien of a stock company for the pur-
now," said George insolently. pose of constructing a canal thirty
"I wouldn't stand that, Sid," said miles long to irrigate it dozen town -
Alien Barker, who was sitting on a ships. He said we had heretofore
log near by—anti all the other boys raised nothing but hemp and hell, and
cried out: lie favored this great scheme. Finally
"Fight him, Sid! Give it to the he got it to going and the company
bully! We'll see fair play!" was organized, and a civil engineer
For a moment the temptation was from Missouri named Croat took a cast -
very strong. But then Sidney remem-
bered what Sister Sophia had taught strueted the pioneer canal, as it was
him. called. The canal worked well enough
"No!" said he. "Two wrongs never where the cuts were, but along the fill
yet made a right." Mr. Grout found, when it was too late,
"Coward! coward!" shouted George that he had. forgotten to pat on any
gall, side boards, and therefore the water
"Hall ought to be ashamed of him- slopped ever :and wentdown the gulch -
self!" said the other boys -and George
es and buffalo wallows and alkali flats
slunk away_ with his boots only` half that didn't need any irrigation. Alto-
blaokod.•gether the scheme was a failure. There
One night George Hall was out driv is some water back a mile from the
ing Mr. Peter's skittish white horse on fiver whore it has rim down during the
the road by moonlight. But. in' unite Juno freshets when the snow melts in
of his boasts, he knew nothing what the mountains, and there the antelope
ever of driving, so that when'the horse" comes to drink and wriggle • his brief
shied at a sheet fluttering on a clothes- ' .tail, but there 'are no fie'] of waver-
line.
averline, he lost,all control of the reins, and . ing grain. Not a wave. Irrigation' on
flung, yelling and shrieking, to the the• Laramie, plains is' still. confined to
side of 'the,• little box -wagon; while . that class of agricu.ture where two
""Garibaldi" -Which was the'name of" men soal:slices of pine apple in spirits
the recreant steed—dashed down a and greet each other , with,the Indian
steep side. road, now never used, which toast, "Howl"—Bill• Nye, in, New York
terminated .,abruptly in a deep stone- i Mercury,
quarry.
Geoge Hall saw it alL He tried to i
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i'oOits „f every er n-
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tit lien(+ sett l laoc;suer.
aliray ea heat•
The latest stales Of
Chamber and l'arlor Suits
All kinds „f furniture. at
the leRest rates.
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acasr,i�l 331t aa►if
Ezcotor Frost Office Time Table,
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Office hoeraf.otu7.30a.nr.to? p, st,
Lettorsintended forregiatratfon Must be posted IS minutesbetore the closing of each mall.
N B—ft ti pa:Miniary requested. thatthe sanders of matter will kindly add the names of th
Counties totke addressee.
D:JOIINS, Postmaster.
ITCHING PILES —SYMPTOMS ANDCUBE
The symptoms aro moisture, like perspir-
ation, intense itching increased by soratehing;
yery distressing, particular at night; seems as
If pin.tvorms were crawling in and about the
rectnrn, the private parts are sometimes af-
fected. If allowed to continue very serious re-
sultsmay follow. "SVYAYNE'S OINTMENT"
is a pleasant, sure erre. Also for Tettor,
kb, ;fall-liheuui, Soaltl•lioad Erysipelas,
Barbers' Itch. Blotches, all scaly.ornst Skin
Diseases,. Bos, by mail, 6O Cts.; 8 for $1,25.
Address, DR, SWAYNE & SON, Phila., Pa.
Sold by Druggists.
ADVICE,TO MOTIIERS.
1 Are you disturbed at night and broken of your
rest byneck child. suffering and crying with
pain of cutting teeth? If so, send at once and.
got abottle of MRS WINSLOW'S SOOTHING
SYRUP- Its value is incalculable. It will re-
lieve the poor little sufferer immediately. De-
pend upon it mothers, there is no mistake about
it. It cures dysentery and diarrhoea, regulates
the stomach and- bowels, cures winch colic
softens the bums, reduces inflammation, and
gives tone acct energy to the whole system
inns. WINSLOW'S ZOOMING- STROP NOR Cube
BEN TEETHINo is pleasant to the taste, and i
the prescription of one of the oldest and bee t
female nurses and physicians in the united
States, and is for sale by all druggists through-
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TENNENT tC TENNENT, Voteri.
nary Surgeons, Graduates of too Ontario
Veterinary College,'Poron
-canecd an office
rnent of all
imals, on Main
is , ! „��.� ter. Calls from
distance
-- prorontly ut
ended to. Medicines for Horses; Cattle, &e
always on hand.
to, have op•
fa the treat
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street. Exe-
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Biliousiess,•'1-leadache, Dys-
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Jaundice. roof y., Fluttering
of the -Heist,
And every species of ct v' 'se arising' Trot
Sinpnre !31 „r' tY.' .'
ARNICA and OIL
LBTIBENT
CURES ALL
Pains and Aches,
AND IS THE MOST PERFECT
F i IY
imam in tin WORLD !
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PRICE, 25 AND 50 CENTS Fs i13TTLE,
A MARVELOUS STORY
TOLD IN TWO LE1' ERS.
FROM THE SON, `72`147,04'8718'61
Grntfeme7: My father resides at (lover,
1•t. Heim bees a Brett sufferer from Scrot-
r,ta, and theiuclosed leiter titin toll yea wks:
e. mar re'.ous eWeet
Ayer's Susapanlia
lie'+ load in his case. 1 third; his b1ood
hare contained t'_te humor for at le:.t te-1
year:,; t.:It it did not show, except tattle fort:
of a scrofulous sore 0n the wrist, until aby,i:
fro years ago. l{'rom as fax spots
seared at that time, it gradually spread so ss
to corer his entire body. I assure yo:i be i. z t
terribly aii ett 1, and au object of
hebe„ato1;3i1:;"y s'-trreedkiae. Now, the as)
few men of his age who enjoy AS good 1:es:t'.►
AS Le Las. 1 e .:;1'1(roily name fifty par ::.a
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FROM THE FATHER. RI fare R a
A dutp fns me to state to yea the besedt I
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SIF months ago I was comp]': tett corered with
a terrible ]tumor and scrofulous *'ret. The
humor caused ars tncessant and intolerable
ttehlrg, and the akin (melee so as to cause
the blood to Dow in many places whenover
I moved, Illy sufferings were great, and ray
WA A bunion. I commenced the lase of the
SARSAPARILLA lA April last, and here rased
it rP„t uRCly *Mee that ilme. Zify ee7dhtifm
ate -9 s t„ r a:t .,1' at race, The Aorta have.
all 1 e .'i. c • l f e1 perfectly well In every
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O Consumption, Couchs, . 1
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Are pleasant to take. Contain their own
Purgative. Is a safe, surd, and cLectual-
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BILIOUSNESS,
DYSPEPSIA,
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DIZZINESS,
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TOROMTrt.
RE NSALL
PORK PACKING HOUSE
tlavfng commenced business tor the
Fall and Winter Trade
We are prepared topurcbaseanyZnantityof
Pork ,subject.to the following regulations
We will take off two pounds per hundred if
dry, and three pound if soft. Shoulder tacit
twenty-five cents. If any of the l nog guts
are left in, 25 e nts extra will be deducted.
No proK will be bought at any price
it warm..'
We vant all hogs Cutting right through
w„,..,„„,, breast to lice I. and .Elam s opened out to tai
Climax Cha Iz iC. G J. PETTY
T OF ARMERS!
CREAT REDUCTiOP IN PRICES.
NOAH FRIED.
--OI' THF
Dashwood Flouring dill
Wishes to return thanks to his numerous
customers, for the past liberal patronage
given ]rim, and since making im-
provements, which is a large
saving on fuel, will do
—CHOPPING—
unitil further notice, at the following
--rates :
OATS, SIX CENTS PER BAO,,
And for all other grains (Peas excepted),
SEVEN CENTS PER BAG._
TUESDAY, THURSDAY Ge SATURDAY,.;
Are my regular grinding days
TERMS - Strictly Cash.,
N. B,—Flour & Feed sold at a' close mar-
gin: Don't forget to give us a call
oo-
ZiTOwt, 1' .XZD
Daalmeetl, Feb'y 9tit, '54