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The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
THE PRIEST AND THE MULBERRY TRIE.

Did you hear of the curate who mounted his mare,
And merriIy trotted along to the fair
of creature more tractable none ever heard
In the height of her speed she would stop at word
And again with word, when the curate said
She would put forth her mettle and gallop away.
AS near to the gates of city he rode,
While the glorious all brilliantly glowed,
The good man discovered, with eyes OF des1res
A mulberry tree in a hedge of wild briar;
High up on q bough, might have tempted brute,
Large glossy and black, hung the beautiful fruit
The curate was hungry, and thirsty to boot;
He shrank from the thorns, though he longed for
the fruit;
With word he arrested his courseris keen speed,
Then stood up erect on the back Of his steed;
On the saddle he stood, while the creature kept
still,
And he gathered the fruit till he'd taken his fill.
" Sure never" he said, 90 was creature so rare
How docile, how true, is this excellent mare
:" As safe aud as steady as if on the ground;
Yet how had il been, if some fellow this way
Had, dreaming mischief but chanced to say
fHeyH"
He stood With his head in the mulberry tree,
And he spoke out aloud in the height of his giee;
At the sound of his "a hey !" the mare made push,
And down went the priest in the wild briar bush;
He remembered too late, on h thorny green bed,
1' Much that well may be thought cannot wisely be
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
4 Sunbeam.


The greatest of physical paradoxes
is the sunbeam. 1t is the most potent
and versatile force we have, and vet it
behaves itself like the gentlest and
most accommodating. Nothing can
fall more softly or more silently upon
the earth than the rays of our most
great luminary-not even the feathery
fakes of snow which thread their wav
through the atmosphere as if they were
too filmy to yield to the demands of
gravity like gros er things. The most
delicate slip of gold leaf, exposed as
targ to the SUMS shafts, is not stirred
to the extent of hair, though an in
fant's faintest breath would set it trem-
ulous motion. The tenderest of human
organs-the apple of the eye-though
pierced and buffeted each day by thous-
ands of sunbeams, suffers no pain dur
ing the process, but rejoices in their
sweetness, blesses the useful light.
Yet few of those rays insinuating
ibraTanIiia IifDufara prfege. VIII lcbmtjsI
the closely. knit particles to separate,
and will move the whole enormous fab
ric with as much ease as a giant would
q straw. The play of those beams upon
our sheets of water lifts up layer after
layer into the atmosphere, and hoists
who e rivers from their beds, only to
drop them again in SHOWS upon the hills
or in fattening showers upon the plants.
Let but the air drink in a little more
sunshine at one place than another, and
it desolates whole region in its lunatic
wrath. The marvel is that power which
is capable of assuming such diversity
of forms, and of producing such stu
pendous results, should come to MS in
50 gentle, so peaceful and so unpreten-
tious a manner.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
The Indian Box Trick.

The celebrated bOx-and- bag mystery,
which has bewildered all London, put
New York in fever of excitement, and
for few days puzzled the knowing ones
of San Francisco, has by accident come
to an untimely end. The cat was let out
of the bag recently at the California
thcater, in San Francisco. The trick is
to overcome an apparent impossibility.
A person securely tied in a sack is 10
pass from that confinement to the in
side of locked box, additionally Sc
cured by strong cords wound around,
and the knots of the cords tied and
sealed. The bag is similarly secured
by the mouth being tied with ropes,
and the knot of the rope sealed with
wax. How, then, is it possible to effect
an exchange from a secure bag to n still
more secure box? That is what the
professor does-in the dark-and leaves
for the audience to bring TO light if they
can. Some of them did so on Monday
night. Those who were seated on the
right-hand side of the parquette, neaf
the stage, saw the vigorous investigas
ton made by one of the inspectors-he
wore number mines, double soled, and
investigated W tn his foot-disturbed it
IN such fashion that the beholders drop
ped on the little trick. How? Why, the
solid piece of wood at the end, securely
nailed and screwed, was bogus as to
size and securing; instead of taking up
the whole space at the end, and appar-
emily held by strong screws, it was in
two parts, with a space of an inch be-
tween, and this vacant space hid by the
broad iron bands securing ii /; the screws
are only heads and do not penetrate by
lifting this board it comes out of a sock
ct IN which it fits snugly, and in which
swings like a gate, pushing TO the inside
of the box. Now, with this aperture
discovered, it is only necessary to find
the person who can push aside the ropes,
crawl in, and replace the ropes and push
the wood back into place, making it APP
pear like the solid end again. The seals
have not been disturbed, nor the rope
cut, nor the knots united nor tie locks
picked. Granted. Now, how does the
person escape from the sack, leave the
knots undisturbed, the sack uncut, and
take advantage of even the simple plan
of getting into the solid wooden box p?
Not very easily, even by the plan sug-
gested in the New York papers, but with
very little difficulty, if the person hass
concealed in the Turkish costume du-
plicate bag, with duplicate knots, and
duplicate seal then it is only necessary
to cut asu1der the confning sack, hide
it in the recesses of the garment from
which the other one is taken, crawl into
the box and await the result. This lat
ter discovery was made at the previous
when the bag was returned
from the audience-a careless throw
sent it Just to the foot-lights, and before
it could be rescued was slightly scorched
by the gas flames. When the trick was
the bag remaining was not
at all scorched. And thus is exploded
a mystery that was incomprehensible
until a kick of number-nine' brogan
it Alta- Californian.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

/ have invented secret form of writ
ing expressly for the use of our gov IN
tinae of warfare the public demands it.
1T is different from eny other invention
known to the publick IN this or any 9TH
er gov. 1t consists simply of the Eng
lish alphabet and can be changed to any
form that the safety of our gov. de-
mands it no higherglyphicks are en-
ployed but it is practicable and safe L
propose to sell it to our gov for the sum
of one million dollars / will met any
committee appointed to investigate the
matter. If you viii give me your in
fiuence in Congress and aid in bringing
sale L the invention about to our
governnN INT or any other, will reward
yon with the sum of ten thousand dol
lars 10000. 1t is no illusion or whim
of the brain, but it is what represent
it to be, scientific, practicable and safe.
Wishing to hear from you on the suffi-
ject, 4-emain, yours most truly.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
The Coming Barber.


The golden age has come at last.
Bliss turks in the deadly razor and
danceN in the romantic lather-cup.
The cSning woman is to shave-not
herself, but man. Indeed she has
already come, and she shaveth in West
Fourth street. New York. a reporter
of the New York Sun. in the pursuit of
his calling called in upon the fair en-
shaver, and laid his reportorial head
upon the block. He described with
imaginative grace and with the soap
suds of eloquent establishment, the
beauty Of her hair, which was the color
OF Messlna lemon, and rose, terrace
upon terrace, from frowsy little hedge
to mountain. Need we say she was
twenty-five and pretty? "Will you haf
re shave, or re hair cut?" said she,
with bewitching smile. "Shave," said
he, with that delicate grace that sits
upon the reportorial cheek. She laid
his massive brow softly on the guillo-
tine, took up the razor, and began to
stir up the lather in fancy cup. She
bent over him; her breath, and the
soap-suds fell softly npon his face, and
she said not word upon the weather
Still ske smiled, and he stammered
forth s6mething about the atmosphere.
" Excooze me, said the barberess; q
am so sorry (suds in MOUTH, "but,
vat for you open your mouth ?" Her
hand was plump and smooth, and fell
upon his birsute stubble like the pol
ish of nutmeg crater, with a satin
ring. He felt that he could lie there
and be lathered for the rest of his life,
which is scarcely to be wondered at
when one considers the disagreeable
things a Sun reporter has generally to
he upon. But the largest face viii too
soon be lathered, and the hair viii van
ish from the most colossal of chins
1t was finished, and with a sigh the Sun
reporter voHed he would come in there
twice day long as he lived It was
a dream of bliss cut off too soon
soup "erific whose Joy was all too sud
denly brushed away.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
Go TO Riverside Water Cure, Hamilton, III.
THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE OF AN
OLD NTRSE

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is the prescrip-
Ion of of the best female physicians and nurses
I'm the United States, and has been used for thirty
years with falling safety and success by mil
lions of mothers and children, from the feeble in
fant of one week Old to the adult. 1t corrects acid
ity of the stomach, relieves wind collie, regulates
the bowels, and gives rest, health and comfort TO
mother and child. We believe it to be the best and
surest remedy in the worid In all cases of dysen-
terry and diarrhea in children, whether &c arises
from teethius from any other cause. Full di-
rections for using viii accompany each bottle.
None genuine unless the fac-simile of CURTIS &
PERKINS is on the outside wrapper.
Sold by all medicine dealers
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
HOrse-Hair Worm.

The history of the fresh water gor-
dius-thd horse-hair" worms very
curious. 1t is named from a common
superstition growing out of its resem-
blance to hair, and leading to the idea
that a single horse-hair may be trans
formed into q worm. This worm lays
abont 5000, b eggs, and did all their
eggs come tdmaturity, our brooks and
ponds would be full of them. As with
the delicate eggs of many of the lower
animals, comparatively few of those
which are laid survive, aud these ami
mails are very rare. They are Matched
in the water from eggs, but after time
they leave the water; go on wet days
into the grass creep along the legs of
torpid grass-hoppers; enter their abdo-
minal cavities, and undergo further
transformations as parasitic worms. From
this living prison they then escape, re
turn to the water, and end their varied
existence as the long, thread-lke worms
which have been mistaken for living
and moving hairs.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
How Weeds Migrate.

1t is stated that there are now no less
than pa weeds which have been intro
duced into the United States from for
elgn countries. AS a proof OF the ra-
pldlty with which useless plants are
accidentally brought over the seas, 1t is
SAID that in 1897 there were only I3l
foreign weeds known in this country.
As far back as 1882 curious little vol
ume called "New England Raritles
gives list Of twenty-five plants, which
the author considered had sprung up
since the English had kept cattle IN
New England. The author mentions
the 'plantain" which he says the Indians
call the ''Englishman's foot, as though
produced bv the tread of the white
settlers. The common "yellow-toad
fax, it is stated, was originally intro
duced into the province of Pennsylvania
as garden flower, by Mr.. Ranstead,
Welchman, residing at Philadelphia,
| from whom it has derived the name OF
Ranstead weed.
In 1868 this weed had overrun the
pastures in the inhabited par aof Penn
sylvania, and was the cause o. very bit
ter complaints from the agrlculturlsf $
of that day. Chicken-weed, oftener
called chick,weed, was introduced into
South Carolina rs a food for canary
birds, and in ten years spread fifty
miles, and now occupies the outposts OF
civilization. The Scotch thistle is said
to have been brought to America by a
clergyman, who carried with him a pad
stuffed with thistle-down in which some
seed remained. Feathers, being cheap
in the new country, were substituted
for the dowa which was soon emptled
ont, and the seeds springing up, filled
the countrySFith the thistles. Another
account says some enthusiastic Scotch
man introS@eed the thistle as an en-
blem of his country, which soon made
! itself at home and became Q nuisance.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

Mrs JONES always believed her
Frederick when he told her that the
"club" W. S for the social intercourse
and discussion of professional topics,
until the other night, when he came
into the hall with rush and evinced a
desire to sleep on the front stairs.
g Mary" said he, his voice broken with
emotion, g Mary, you have been partak-
ing Of the Intoxicating sledge, you
have broken the cup. Itsh no ush
d'nying it, Mary. I shee it in your
breath and smell it in your eye. Oh,
Mary p With some difficulty he was
put to bed, but since that night he has
Lot visited the club.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

COMMON SENSE REASONS why DIR.
Walkers California Vinegar Bitters
should be used
1st. They are an entire Vegetable Bit
ters, free from all alcoholic stimulants.
ID. They are the result of careful
study, experiment and labor
81. The greatest care is taken to Sc
cure medicinal virtues, and exclude
everything Objectionable.
4th. They unite, as a life-restoring
scientific tonic, the greatest strengthen
ing and vitalizing principles
9TH. Persons of sedentary habits and
over worked, find in them a sAecifc for
want of appetite, palpitationS debility,
constipation, and many other nameless
ailments.
9th. The aged find in them guarantee
of prolonged health and life, and weak
and delicate females and mothers find
especial benefit from their use.
7th. They are the master of disease.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

SIXTY thousand dollars worth of an
paratus and appliances for the cure of deform-
tiles, are annually made and applied at the Ma
tional Surgical Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana
1t has the greatest reputation of any institu-
ton in the Union for the successful treatment
of all kinds of human deformities, paralysis,
piles, fistnla, catarrh, and chronic diseases.
Their large journal will be sent free to any ad-
dress upon application.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

WE have seen it stated in various pa
pers throughout the country, that agents for
the sale of SieriqGR'S CGrG5,y Condition
J7o,cl}fl-S we're authorized to refund the money
to any person who should use them and not be
satisfied with the result. We doubted this at
first, but the proprietors authorize us TO say
that il is true.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

.J0hnSOn's AilOdyne LiTlin7e11t is, with
out doubt the safest, surest, and best remedy
tlat has ever been invented for internal and
external use. It is applicable to a great
riety Of complaints and is equally beneficial
for man or beast.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

LIEuT-Gov. CAMPBELL, of Bengal,
gives a most narrowing picture of the
famine in India. He says over 1,600,-
dition.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

An INFERIOR quality of soap is soft
and spongy when fresh and wastes away rap
idly when put in water, or should you keep it
till it becomes hard it shrinks half its original
size. Proctor CANDLES Extra Olive Soap
does not shrink nor waste, but wears well, yet
rrasles nasv
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
Aliens Lung Balsam.
Ministers and Public Speakers

who are so often aniIcted with throat diseases,
vii ma a sure rene1y in this Balsam- 1Sozenges
ano Waiers some lines give relief, but this bal
cure. siHS9' -
~, VIII all those afiicted with coughs or consnImp
I Slon eiHe this Balsam far tIlal tney VII VII oe
pieased with the result and confess That the suRH
REMEDY Is FOUND AT LAST.
READ THE FOLLOWING
W nat the 81. Louis Jos- EGt has TO say: .,-
EEAD AND REFLFcT--To such as may aesIle a
remedy for this curse Of humanity; consnimpIioh-
Ailsn : Lug Balsam gives the ancn91 or n mop, Pc
Alien 8 Lung Ralss am has been trlee ny Lnon- @
sailus VINO give evidence, not only oy W.ins III e.
physical appearance
The experimentation this valuable remeey mas
5sceiVeo from those who know the gooo J.. nas .h
gone ior them, place Aliens Lung Baisain IN @ Lne
'front.' rank of the healing and nfe-restoring RENE
dies OF this century.
CAUTION
DO net be deceived Call for and be sure yon re. Le
ceiEe Aliens Lung Balsan try NO experimens
with worthless remedies.
in HARRIS & CO., Proprietors,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
For sale by ali sOu.hsrn druggists and genera
dealer
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

Dr. j. walkers California III
egar Bitters are a purely Vegetable
preparation, maas chiefly from the ma
live herbs found on the lower ranges cf
the Sierra Nevada mountains Of Califor-
MA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted thcrefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The questioneis almost
daily asked. "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success Of VINEGAR Brr-
rERs?" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and Il ife-giving principle,
q perfect Renovator and lnvigorator
of the system. Never before i'll the
history Of the world has a medicine beer.
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities Of VINEGAR BIrTERs in healing tie
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
arc n gentle Purgative as well as Tonic
relieving Congestion or Inflammation D.
the Liver and Yisceral Organs, IN Bilious
Diseases.
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The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
award Of Che Prairie Bind com

.sward of the Prairie Bird COM
suicide on the voyage from
- to New Orleans. The extract
il the captains log which the news.
ms publish is a mixture of the nau-
| and literal The steward went
yhe cabin with the dish-baskef.
I'd report. The carpenter sung ont.
h God. he has shot himself Laid
tke TRain hatch, and found a
-srigbt temple Then
e<fnk IN sts1board
1 2Ikf2fe aud aft
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

THE best Observation-Disclosures TIP
PED Shoes. Five cents laid out for Silver
Tips adds one dollar to the worth of pair of
shoes Parents try it. a
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

EVERY one knows that cold or cough
ought not 70 DC ~ eSieJ'eI' C7o II; nIsh9It
anv druggist. DR.. Wishart's Worm Sugar
Drops are the best remedy for worms ever dis
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

THE fact that Barbara Frietchie has
not yet turned up in Washington, with
a claim of S25, 600 for holding the ma
tional flag out of her window in Fred
ericktown, and soaring Robert E. Lee,
goes far to prove that Whittier was
fooled in that little transaction, and
that B, f. is, as has been suspected, a
myth.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
An Outgrowth of other Disease.
Catarrh sometimes exists alone. but is more
frequently a symptom OF other diseased con-
ditions. The following letter explains it:

CoLIISGWoOD, OnOndaga county,
New York, January 25 1872.
DIR. Il. V PIERCE, Buffalo. New York-Allow
me to give You brief history Of the effect Of
YOUR medicine called 81 Golden Medical Discov-
cry" in my case. I am now in my seventy
fourth wear, and naturally Of firm constitu-
ton. Within the last few years from over
exercise | have been afflicted with a compli-
cation Of diseases almost incredible to relate.
In he first place, catarrh, to a degree that 10
me il seemed that my voice passed out at the
ears, to which was added its natural ally
bronchitis TO which. at no great length OF
time, were added neuralgia pains in the head
and shoulders snd bloating of the lower limbs
the most of which was supernduced by a tor
pid state of the liver. / had the advice Of sew
eral eminent physicians. and tried almost
every known remedy for such complaints
without relief A rapid loss of strength and
long Withstand the combined force OF disease
which was fast bearing me down. / gave up
all business. made my WILL had my graYestone
placed in position and lettered except date Of
exit, and resigned myself to my couch TO
await events. Not long after this, I saw your
advertisement, procured your remedies-I am
now on the second half-doZen bottles of Gold
en- Medical Discoyery-have a good appetite
have gained fifteen pounds of flesh-no more
talk out Of nv ears, no more bloating Of the
limbs, can walk two or three miles with ease
and feel that you have given me a lease OF ten
or fifteen years-subject, however. to the rati-
fcation of the court above. That you NAV
live long TO do good to suffering humanity, is
the sincere wish or your unknown friend,
o.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
OFFICIAL REPORT VIENNA EXPOSITION
SEWING MACHINES. ETC.

-" The greatest Sewing Machine ManufactOrIM6n
the world is that OF W heeier d Wilson New Y ok
which alone has brought already over 10000 OF
their sewtngMachines INTO practical use. The COM
plete production OF the parts fy machinery j. S
regulated that each complete nachiue may be
used as a sample for exhibition. This firm pro-
duces COO well adjusted machines daily.
- The latest prod on OF this firm, and which
is the wonder of the Vienna Exposition is their
sw No. Sewing Machine. THIS universal ma
chine sews the heaviest leather harness and the
finest gauzes with a truly pearl stitch.
.. Wheeler & Wilson have received the highest
prizes at all Worlds ENpositions, and the Wen
ma Exposition were extraordinarily distinguished
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

Every drop OF the "a LLIAH " Il.
SOLVENT com nic1tf ID tho BIO
Sweat, Urine, and other h<r-WW juiceA ~
system the vigcr OF life. for -onh1kLs the ws1ts1
the body with new aud sound niaierial-s trrnink
In the throat. Mouth, Tumors Nodes in the olan1.
and other parts OF the system. Sore C{ {es ~
mOrous discharges FROM the Ears. and the woI
scald Head. Ring WOrm salt RhecIn, hryHipeilN
Acne, Black Spots, Worms In the Fiesh, Innou.'.
Cancers, In the Womb, and all Weakening andt \
ana all wastes OF the life principle are within tI
curative range OF this wonder OF Moderu Dhemln1
Try, and n few days use viii prove 70 say per1oN
II the patisut, daily becoming redpced BY the
wastes and dscomp'aieioa chat e connnuaky Pro.
pairs the win material made nom nE.t..
thy blood AID this the sA TtsA PA RILlskAn VII
aDd 1ss sscnIsa cure is certain s9f m1,ferr.3so1
nd succeeds In al niehing the loss OF Wa1te4. ~
repairs will he rapid, and every day the patfnt w.
feel himself growiDe better and stroneerl TIE ll4
Not oaiy doe tie sAnsAYAnrLLrzs y TnsoEVus4
ercpl all known remedial agent8 In tho CUR. ~
Chroulc, ecTofnisus. ConstitutioRal and skin o,ar
eases: bat II d the only positive cure Tor =
Kidney and Bladder Complaints,
Urinary and womb diaeascs. 0raveA Dlnpe.r.
Dropsyr rstoppAge Of Water; and Lnfo.,.ne1,es ~,
griae. tr.zhts 6rf < tor "a, a.. 11s
water is thick cloudy. mi1ed win e1fT71I \
che VI hite OF egg Or threads has wntINF
there Il . morbid. dark. bilious nppeart
whits bone-dnst depOs.ts. and WhQl ihef1 -
and rain In the Small OF The Back and e-3n< "
Loinh.
Tumor OF Ia Years. Growth CHriI
by Radway's Resolveut.
PRICE = al PEH Eca1LAL1@
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
5000 WORDS.

FTNHE Pronouncing Handbook of Words often
Il Mispronounced, as given by the best authori
Sent TO any address on receipt of sixty cents.
LEE & SHEPARD. Boston.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

MAY 1872.
Hoas FRIEND-iSolicitor of Patents
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
PAYING EMPLOYMENT

For all having spare time in selling our New
Book. : o fancy transient tC0T}t, but a neces-
sity 10 all classes of people, actually saving
money to buyers. Book Agents seeking some
any spare time for pieasaRt work; without risk
curIar and liberal termW to +. a. HUrCHIN-
sos & co Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

Grateful Thousands proclaim vIN-
EGAR BITTERS the most wonderful In
yigorant that ever sustained the sinking
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
No Person can take these Bitters

according to directions, and remain long
unwell, provided their bones are not de-
strOyed by mineral poison or other
means, and vital organs wasted beyond
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

-F.Sss p T.S7r-.s PefIeilt, Dlaphoretie
Carminative, NutrititM Laxative, Diuretit
Sedative, Counter Irritant, Sudoritic, Al:er
i've and Anti Bilious.