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ABEL's GHOST.

- Ne NAAsOGr
IT'S about Ave years since Abel Carr.
A short, round-favored, mery
Old soldier Of the rebel van
Was welded to
most abominable shrew.
The temper, sir, Of shakspeares Catharine
Gould be no more compared to hers, ~
Than mine :
To Lucifer's.
Her eye was like a weasel's; she had harsh
Face like a cranberry marsh,
All spread
with spots of white and red;
Hair the color
OF wisp of straw,
And disposition
Like a cross-cut saw.
The appellation OF this lovely dame
Was Ann or Nancy-9on't forget the name.
Her brother David was a tall,
Good looking chap, AID that was all
one Of your
Great
Nothins' A. thew saw.
In this here state, picking up old jokes,
And cracking them on other folks.
Well, David undertook one night to play
The ghost, and brighten Abel, who
He knew
grove Of forest wood
That stood
Some distance, half mile orso
With long, taper
Cap Of white paper,
Just made to cover
wig, nearly as large over
As corn basket; and a sheet
With both ends made to meet
Across the breast,
(The'way in which good ghosts are always
dressed.)
He took
His station near
huge oak tree
Where he could overlook
The road and see
:, Whatever might appear.
Il happened about an hour before, friend Abel
Had left the table
OF Dew Drop Inn,
Where he had made a halt
With his horse and wagon
To take hagOn
Liquor and so forth which being done
He went on
Caring no more for twenty ghosts
THAI If they were many posts.
David was nearly tired of waiting
his patience abating;
At length he heard the careless tones
OF his kinsmanas voice,
And then the noise
of wagon wheels among the stones;
Able quite elated, and was roaring
With all his might, and pouring
Out, in great confusion,
Scraps of old songs OF the recent :" Revolution"
His head was full of DonelsOn and Chickamauga,
And jovially he sung and felt his grOg, q
ScarirG the Vhippoorwills among the trees
With rhymes like these:
" See the Yanks
At Malvern Hill,
With bavonets declining,
With face about
And toes turned out,
And knapsacks brightly shining"
g See the Yanks-WhOa! Why what is that 2"
Said Abel staring like a cat,
As slowly on the fearful figure strobe
he pf he
d" Ny conscience! what suit Ct clothes?
Some crazy fellow suppose;
Hello! friend, what's yOur name?
By the powers of sin,
That's strange garb to travel in"
90 Be silent Abel; for now have come
To read your doom:
Then hearken while your fate 1 now declare:
J an a spirit "-''I suppose you are,
But you'll not hurt me and I'll tell you why,
Here is a fact which no man can deny:
All spirits must be either good
Or bad,
That's understood
And he You good or evil, I am sure
That I'm secure;
II good spirit, am safe. If evil
md don't know but you may be the devil;
If that's the case, you1l recollect, fancy,
That am married to your sister Nancy"
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THOSE FAVORITE HOME REMEDIES,
PERRY DAVIS
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ALIENS
Lung BalSana,
And sohy they should al,oays be kept near at
hand.

And sohy they should al,0ays be kept near at
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Cd ALIENS LUNG BALsAM is a cure for Coughs,
Colds. Bronchitis, sthma, and all diseases
of the Pulmonary Organs.
Sd. PAIN KILLER will cure Cramps or Pains in
any part OF the ystem. a single dose usual
ly effects cure.
4th ALLFE's LUNG BA1 SAM will cure that terri
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5th PAIN KILLER has proved a sovereign RENE
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7th PAIN KILLER = a Imminent Is uns oualed for
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Hprains, etc.
keep it on hand IN ca of Group.
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10th. ALIENS LUXE BALsAM has been before the
public period Of ten year. and III IN that time
serti0nS oI foreign countfies RI has tound
many rivals but no equals.
18th. PAM KILLER is purely vegetable prepare
T8e sim attending It's use. together
with the great variety Of seases thai may
amount of pain and suffering that be al
Ieviated through its use. makes it imperative
mon every person to supply themselves with
this valuable remedy, ana to keep it mt ar at
hand.
18th. Al LENS LUNG BALsAM is largely endorsed
by Physicians. Druggists, Minister'S Public
Speakers and he Press-an OF whom speak
of it in the highest terms, and recommend its
use in all cases of Coughs and Colds.
Every hous ekeeper should keep these two valu-
able remedies at hand with them. to use them in
time of need. Many an hour of So ffering and
may a physicians II will be saved.
Directions accompany each bottle.
]. N HARRIS, Proprietor.
Cincinnati, ohio
For sale by ali Druggists and Eelcal Dealers.
For sale by Richard on d o., St : ouis; J. D.
Park, CfnciuEati; h. A. Robinson d Co. Louis
vile; G. w. Jones q Co, Memphis; E. J. Hart d
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IT WAS an ancient custom of the Spar
tans, in order to inculcate among their
youth an adherence of intemperance
and its kindred vices, to make their
slaves drunk with wine in the public
market places, so that the rising gener-
alton, upon whom would some day de-
volve the honor and safety of the Lace
demonian Republic, might see before
them all the CHASTITY details of the
drunkald's disgrace, his loss of reason,
and of physical strength. 'Twere we'll,
perhaps, to-day, could some of our
young men contemplate similar in
structive lesson drawn from the life,
showing them, by a sharply drawn con-
trast, the advantages and true lowell
ness of abstinence and virtue.
For such as appreciate these, Vinegar
Bitters is the beverage best adapted, it
being purely a vegetable draught, de-
void of alcohol or mineral poisons, and
possessing all the virtues, but none of
the damning curses, of the different
poisons which year by year are sweep
ing away thousands Of dollars and lives.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-05-15

THE works of fiction published in
England last year numbered only one
third more than the contemporaneous
book-issues of science and art, from
which it is inferred that popular taste
for reading on the latter subjects is up
on the increase-possibly because so
many of the highest modern novelists
and poets rather whet such taste by
scientific and artistic touches in their
own writings.
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WE have often wondered whether
there is a person in the country who does not
know and appreciate the value of Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment as a family medicine? 1t
is adapted to most all purposes, and is the
best pain destroyer that can be used.
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the Lord Raleigh grape vine, 4"
which was growing when Sir Walter
landed at Roanoke island in 1910. and
was then but thee inches in diameter.
is now spoken of as one of the largest
vines in the world. 1t covers one and
a half acres, and last year yielded forty
six barrels of wine-one thousand eight
hundred and forty gallons in all, which
sold for two dollars per gallon, yielding
three thousand six hundred and eighty
dollars. There is a Scuppernong grape
vine in TOrrell county, North Carolina,
which is said to be much larger than the
Raleigh vine, and to produce at least
fourth more wine. The wine from the
vintage of last year measured two thou
sand five hundred ard twenty gallons,
and brought the handsome sum of five
thousand AMI forty dollars.
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PROFITABLE EMPLOYMENT

Work for Everybody. Good Wages.
Perm ne MT EmpI..yment. Men and We
men wanted. Full Par iculars free.
Address w. A. Hen DEKSON az CO., Cleveland
Ohio, or st. Louis Mo.
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READ WHAT 1T WILL DO.

BAOOKVILLE, "a, April Y, 1917.
DR.. R. Y PIERcE-Hsying first applied to
number of physicians and failed tor ct relief,
resolved to try your remedy. Four bottles
have completely cured me of one Of the worst
cases of catarrh of which have any know
ledge, having suffered for months with an
acute pain in the head, and breathed only with
the greatest difficulty. deem it due you, as
well as suffering humanity, that this recogni-
ton be made of what we deem an invaluable
medicine. CHAs. O. ANDERSON
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-05-15

DIR. SCHUBERT, of New Orleans, pro-
poses a simple method of extinguishing
fires on ship-board. He would place at
various points in the hold of a vessel
boxes filed with marble waste. Each
box communicates with the deck by
means of lead pipes, terminating in
funnel. Should fire break out in the
hold, sulphuric acid Is poured down the
pipes, and this coming in contact with
the marble, causes the active evolution
of carbonic acid gas, which finds its
way in quantity into the hold, through
perforations in the boxes, and thus the
cargo is quickly surrounded by an at
mosphere which Will not permit COM
bustion. As carbonic acid gas is much
heavier than the air, it is anticipated
that it will not escape in any consider
able quantity until the hold is filed to
OVERLOOKING.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-05-15

The potato only came into general use
one hundred years ago, and it is entitled
to centennial celebration. The Span
iards found the potato in Peru in the
sixteenth century, and sent a few of
them to the pope. John Hawkins first
introduced the potato into England in
1865. Sir Walter Raleigh brought them
there in 1884, and Admiral Drake in
1856. At first the English ate the seed
bolls, but at last, by accident, the root
was baked and eaten. In 1000 the queen
OF England made the note in her house
book that pound of potatoes cost two
shllllngs about five cents). In France
they are called rOnlnaeS de terre, and in
Germany erd aEfel.
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SCIENTIFIC FRAGMENTS.

BRoAnDE OF CHORAL is a medicine
that has been only discovered a few
years ago to have valuable medicinal
properties. Some years ago it was
only 10 be found on the shelves OF
few laboratories, where it was only kept
as q chemical curiosity, whereas 1t is
now extensively used in medicine, hav-
ing to great extent taken the place OF
assafedita in the treatment of nervous
distances
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-05-15

NOTHING can convey a more impress
sive idea of the power of water as gen
eral agent than the wonderful canons of
Mexico, Texas, and the Rocky noun
tains, where the torrents may be seen
rushing along through the incision it
has cut for itself in the hard rock, at
depth of several thousand feet between
perpendicular walls. The greatest of
these canons, that of Colorado, is two
hundred and ninety eight miles in
length, and its sides rise perpendicular
ly to a height of five or six thousand
feet
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a GE<TS want d to sell our iuslI y &c eOrated ar
rs trIes for adj s. wear. Indlspensab aud ahso-
lutely necessary 10000 SOLD MONTH";
LY. They give com fort and salts action. NO
FEMALE CAN DO WITHOUT THE N.
A1hSample sent on receipt of $500 FhEEs
send for illustrated Circular. LIZ PERLE RUE
BIER CO., 80 Chambers street, New York.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-05-15

THE island of Martinique is infested
with a species of serpent called the
iron lance. This reptile chooses the cool
est and most delightful places in the
garden for its retreat, and it is literally
at the risk of ones life that one lies
down on the grass, or even takes a rest
IN the arbor. The wound inflicted by
the iron lance is very apt to be fatal, I'M
less Immediately cared for. 1t is said
that on an average eight hundred per-
sons arc bitten every year, of which
number sixty TO seventy cases prove ia
tai, while many others result in nervous
diseases almost as bad as death.
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We do not much believe in stimuIat-
ing sick folks, unless it is by air, sun
Light, rest, proper food. and healthy
mental state. Many a person, sick
with fever, or slow, lingering disease,
is simulated out of the world by beef
tea, brandy, champagne, ammonia and
other nostrums, when he might have
lived by good nursing and nutritious
food. They die of starvation. The
blood soon becomes impoverished, and,
If in addition it is loaded with noxious
drugs, its character is greatly changed,
and lit becomes quite unfit to yield
nourishment to the tissues through
which it circulates.
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AN ENGLIsHNIAN with rheumatic govt
found this singular remedy a cure for
his ailment =" He insulated his bed
stead from the floor by placing under
each post a brolen-off bottom of glass
bottle" He says the effect was magi-
cal that he had not been free from
rheumatic govt for fifteen years, and
that he began to improve Immediately
after the application of the insulators.
eve are reminded of this statement"
says the Scientific American. "of a
patent obtained through this office for a
physician, some twelve or more years
ago, which created considerable inter
est at the time. The patent consisted
in placing glass cups under the bed
posts in a similar manner to the above,
and the patentee claimed to have effected
some remarkable cures by the use of his
remarkable insulators."
A PRACTICAL river man of st. Louis
makes public a new and not altogether
unreasonable theory of boiler explo-
sions at ceri ain seasons of the year, and
in certain localities when the Ohio river
and its Cumberland aud Tennessee
tributaries are all at flood height. His
theory is simply this-that when the
latter rivers are at flood height they
pour out waters strongly impregnated
with the limestone sediment of the re-
piou through which they run, and that
this sediment miugling with the clayey
deposit of the Ohio forms a putty like
paste, which under the influence of the
extreme heat when 1T accumulates IN the
boilers is soon roasted into a thick, in
durlsad state, which coats the inner sur
face of the boilers'and thus renders it all
the easier for the fires to burn the iron
OF which they are composed.
DURING the heavy fogs which pre-
vailed IN London in the early part of
the present year, the death rate was I'M
prccadentedly high, and the patients in
the hospitals suffered severely, especial
IL those affii cted with heart and lung
diseases. Nor were the suffering and
discomfort confined to the human race
for animals seem to have been affected
to au equal degree. Thus the hardest
rhiuocefos in the Geological gardens
died. having suffered dreadfully, it is
said, during the fog. One poor beast,
VIII .ch appeared to suffer "A great deal,
was taken int a yard and encouraged
TO drink old ale out of a tub. After
this he felt 50 much better that he was
able to resume his place in the cattle
show. The pigs stood the fog like Lon
dOners. and did not require old ale.
sherry, or uegus. The sheep also OBJ
served comparatively calm demeancr
in the suffocating atmosphere.
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EMPLOYMENT,

LIVERY man woman, Toy and Rir who would
" like n engage in the business OF selling Pc
lures charts, etc. should send their sddrtss AZ
once. From ~ 10 90 per day easily be made.
send for private {. rms and catalogue. -
Address w. NJ HURnOW,
% Maln street. Bristol, Tenn.
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NOthings,

In this here state, picking up old jokes,
And cracking them on other folks.
Well, David undertook one night to play
The ghost and brighten Abel who
He knew
Would be returning from journey through
grove of forest wood
That stood
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symptoms of Catarrh.

Dull, heavy, headache, obstruction Of nasal
passages, discharge falling into throat. some
times profuse, watery, acrid, thick and tepa-
cious, mucous, purulent, muco-purulent bloody,
putrid, offensive, etc. In others q dryness,
dry, watery, weak or infamed eyes, ringing in
ears, deafness, hawking and coughing to clear
the throat, alterations, scabs from ulcers,
voice altered, nasal twaLe. offensive breath,
impaired smell and to see, dizziness, mental de-
preston, tickling coughs. etc. Only a.few of
the above sympto4S are likely to be present
in any case at one &me. No disease is more
common or less understood by physicians.
The proprietor OF DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
will pay $500 reward for an incurable case.
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S.% % ~ n 70 S SSSs5'f 10 fiSOs
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For sale by Richard on d Co., st 3 ouis J. d.
Park, CinciuEati; II. A. Robinson & Co. Louis.
vile; G. w. JonesTe Co, Memphis; e. ]. Hart d
Co., New Orleans; g. W. George, Galveston.
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Go TO Riverside Water Cure, Hamilton, Ill
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3 SCHOOL TEACHERS WANTED

DOnK OF Medical Wonders Should be
DNNCh read by all. Sent free Tor stamps
Addr- ss DR. hONA PA RTE. Cincinnati, Ohio.
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"That wasn't for God, Joseph" said
the Squire ;" twas all for you. God
never'll thank you for running an asy-
lum for paupers fit to work. You'll
find in the twenty-ffth chapter of Mat
thew a description of those that's going
into the kingdom of heaven-they'r re
the people that give food and clothing
to the needy, aud that visit the sick and
prisoners, while those that don't do
these things don't go in, to put it mildly.
He don't say a word about belief there,
Joseph for He knows that giving away
property don't happen till mans be-
lief's pretty strong"
Joe felt troubled. Could it really be
that his internal insurance was going to
cost more money? Joe thought envi-
ously of Col. Bung, president of the
Bungfeld railroad company-the col
onel didn't believe in anything; so he
saved all his money, and Joe wished he
had some of the colonel's courage.
Joe's meditatious were interrupted by
the entrance of Sam Ottrey, poor fell
low who owed Joe some money. Joe
had lent Sam a hundred dollars. dis
counted ten per cent. for ninety days,
and secured by chattel mortgage on
Sans horse and wagon. But Sam had
been sick during most of the ninety
DAYS, and when he went to Joe to beg a
few days of grace that exemplary business
man insisted upon immediate payment.
It was easy to see by Sans hopeless
eye aud strained features that he had
not come to pay-he was staring ruin IN
the face, and felt as uncomfortable as If
the amount were millions instead of a
horse and wagon, his only means of
support. AS for Joe, he had got that
hundred dollars and horse and wagon
mixed up in the oldest way with what
he and his partner had been talking
about. It was utterly unbusiness-like =
he k. ew it-he tried to make business
business and religion religion, but he
could not succeed. Joe thought briskly:
he determined to try an experiment.
"Sam," said he, % got the money %
"No," Sam replied; "luck's agin
me-Pve got to stand it, I suppose.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-04-02

b.
JOHN No MANI" The following pTis-
on record of this person is copied from the
New Philadelphia AdVocGte:
From Captain Cunningham of the
night-watch at the Ohio Penitentiary at
Columbus, who was in town last week,
having been summoned as a witness in the
case OF Ohio VS.. Shepfer, we obtained the
Prison Record" Of JEFF Davis, which is as
follows
he was first sent TO the penitentiary
from Lucas County, in December, 1855,
under the name of John Franhiger, and
gave his age as % years: nativity, SWItz-
erland. He was convicted of grand lar
ceny, and sentenced for three years. He
was released by expiration Of term, Oct
8th, 1883. lIll .-a
As John Smith, he Ras next sent up
from Muskingum County in December,
1861, upon charge of grand larceny, for
one year. He gave his age this time as
30, nativity, Grrmany, and was released
December 1st, 1862. 81
DE pext appears at this institution ia
June, 1868, as Richard Roe, from Stark
County. sent up for grand larceny. for
three years. Age, 80 years; nativity, Ger
many. Released Aug 30th, 1865.
Hls next and last appearance was as
JeteIsoR Davis. from TuscaraWas county
IN November 23rd. 1868, U on sentence
OF four years for assault with intent to
commit rape. THIS time be gives his age
as 30. Released September 18th, 1872.
Alter his release from this last impris-
onment, he was in Jail in New Philadel-
bhla, Millerburg and Wooster, aun had
ouly escaped from the latter prison about
Two weeks previous to has tragic death at
Ragersville, July last. -e-.
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i, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1874

time to do so: His impression was that
he would vote against it.
Mr.. Ferry said he would vote to make
the volume of iegal-tenders $4OO, ,OOO.-
600 and for free banking.
Mr.. Thurman said this bill fixed the
amount of greenbacks of 1892 600. 900 and
only increased the National Bank circuia.
ton to the extent of $1l0,OOOOO0 Free
banking meant an extension of the Nation
al Bank circulation to many millions of
dollars. The only limit would be the
amount OF Government bonds which could
be procured to put up as securities. II
meant an indefinite extension of ire
oeemaole paper currency and the perpet-
ustlen OF National indebtedness. If Ma
tional banking was to be perpetuated Ma
tlonal indebtedness must be, and with this
high taxation and high tariff would con.
tlnue. The perpetual National Banking
system meant that the people of Ohio
must pay three or four dollars more per
thousand for their lumber from Michigan
than they would have to pay ifthey could
get 1T from Canada. 1t meant death to
free trade, and if the Senator (Ferry) was
IN favor OF extending the system Of Nat
lonal Banks he was in favor of extending
National indebtedness He denied that
the bill just reported made the currency
elastic. On the contrary, it fixed the a.
mount by just as arbitrary rule as that
OF the present day. Though he felt ad-
verse to the bill now. he thought it indef-
nltely better that imitation.
Pending the discussion the Senate went
into Exesutive Session aad soon after ad.
journed.