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Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24
After Thirty Years.

Among the marriage notices in a re-
cent issue of the Savannah (Tenn.
Transcript is the following. 1t tells
how two sundered hearts were united
after many years:
cat the residence of Mr.. Lafayette
Callens, by the Rev. J. 7. White, Mr.
Thomas White to Mrs. Rutha Polk.
"These parties were engaged to each
other more than thirty years ago, and
each married to other parties and raised
large families. Death removed the bar
riers, and now they have fulfilled their
former engagement
1--WE should always fill our engage
ments."
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24
Hang On Like q Beaver.

When our Tom was six years old, he
went into the forest one afternoon to
meet the hired man, who was coming
home with a load of wood. The man
placed master Tommy on the top of the
load, and drove homeward. Just before
g aching the farm the team went pretty
briskly down a steep hill. When
Tommy entered the house his mother
said:
Tommy, my dear, were you not
frightened when the horses went trotting
so swiftly down Grow hill ?"
eyes, mother, little," replied
Tommy, honestly, "but 1 asked God
to help me, and hung on like a beaver. F."
Sensible Toni Why sensible Be-
cause he joined work to praying. Let
his words teach the life lesson; in all
troubles pray and hang on like beaver
by which I mean that, while you ask
God to help you, you must help your.
self with all your might.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24
Taking Things Easy.

There is no small art in taking things
easy, 70 long as we must suffer annoy.
ances in this breathing world, saying as
little as possible about them, and making
no parade Of our martyrdom. II making
fuss and rendering every one else about
us uncomfortable in any way abated the
ills that flesh and spirit are heir TO,
there would be some slight excuse for
the folly and self1shness; but since we
can not escape tribulations Of one kind or
another, fretting only aggravates them.
Either let us be silent and endure, or
take arms against our woes, and by con.
tending end them. In general he who
makes no ado is supposed to have no trou;
bles Of his own, or an organization so n.
ferior that it is not Jared out Of tune by
the rough usage of fortune; to make tbs
very worst of every trouble, big or 1T
tie, from the fracture of tea-cup 70
that Of skull, is considered by mapSa
proof Of great sensibility and depth of
character, while he who pursues the
other course, who endures reverseS.
sights, injuries, pin-pricks Of annoy
ance, agues Of anxiety. physical and
mental anxiety, physical and mental
neuralgiss, without reporting them to
every passer, and bowling his grievances
into the ears of every listener, is often
spoken of as of fibre too coarse to feel
acutely and suffer keenly. at is his
temperament" we are told. "He takes
nothing to heart" Some one, however,
wittily advises us, "Never tell your
misfortunes; no body likes to have I'M
fortunate friends;" but in spite Of this
warning many seem to think that disas'
ter itself is a recommendation to favlr;
that they deserve bonus for serving as
target for fortunes arrows; and they
are not seldom acutely jealous lest some
other should be deemed their superb in
suffering. In the mean time, everyone has
a welcome for the person who has the
good sense to take things easy. 1t is
comfortable to be able to agonize over
ones own trials, to ga mind at leisHFe
from ITSELF" The person who can go
without her dinner and her spring suit
and not advertise the fact; who can lose
her purse and keep her temper; who
makes light of heavy weight, and can
wear a shoe that pinches without any
one being the wiser; who does Tot
magnify the splinter in her finger into
stick OF timber, nor the mote in her
neighbor's eye into beam; whoswallows
her bitters without leaving the taste in
other peoples mouths; who can give up
her own way without giving up the
ghost; who can have a thorn IN the
flesh and yet not prick all her friends
with it-such one surely carries a
passport into the good graces Of all
renkind. .--Hwpex.s Rss -
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24
Post Offices In China.

Each city has certain number Of
licensed companies who make bust
ness of receiving aud sending letters
and small parcels at charges depending
upon weight or distance, but always
most moderate; and the companies OF
the several cities being in partnership
or in confidential relations one with the
other, network of communication of
the most efficient character, considering
the materials, is kept up from one end
of China to the other. So much reli-
ance is placed by the public upon the
safety and certainty Of these conveyance
companies, that large sums of money in
paper, and smaller amounts in cash,
are fearlessly consigned to their charge,
and instances are rare of trust being be-
trayed. Speed, of course, is less of a
consideration than safety, owing to the
defective means of communication at
present existing but the carriers en-
ployed by the companies travel at the
fastest rate POSSIBLE under the circum-
stances, and cover much more ground
in the same time than was the habit
with English postboys previous to the
mail coach days, who never exceeded,
even on horseback, their three-and-half
miles per hour. Robberies OF the bags
must at times occur, but the public are
at any rate safe from the risk to their
letters which our ancestors 80 frequently
incurred through the loltering and
peculiar to the English
postboy tribe. The practice OF using
carrier pigeons for express intelligence
is common throughout China, and is
largely resorted to by merchants and
traders for business purposes. They
are usually provided with one or more
often of elaborate make and
finish, to protect them from the ravages
Of hawks etc., en- route. COrnhtAl.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24

The Continental Register, published
in Paris, says that an immense lottery
is to be organized at the end of the Ex.
position, containing two million tickets
at fifty cents. This sum will be devoted
to the purchase of works of art in the
EXPEDITION, which will be distributed by
lot amongst the purchasers Of the tick
cts.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24
One Of Life's Shadows.

At eight O'Clock the other morning
Second street wife followed 'her hus'
band down to the gate as he was start
ing for down town, and kindly said Ia
him: 'l.... .~y :
William, you know how sadly ! need
blue bunting Dress"
eyes, dear, he remarked, "but you
know how hard up I am. As soon as
can zee my way clear you shall have the
dress, and a new hat to boot. Be. pa
tient, be good, and your reward shall be
great" \
Forty minutes after that he emerged
from a restaurant with q big basket and
fsh.polo, bound up the river. In the
basket was a chicken, pickles, cake,
fruit. pie, and . bottle Of liquid Of .
rich color. and he was juse fighting q
twenty cent cigar when his wife came
along.
"What you here ?" he exclaimed.
"Yes, was going to the market.
Where are you going ?-what's in that
basket"
~ was going to carry this fish-pole
around to friend on Jefferson avenue" "
he modestly answered.
"And that basket ?" or
"This basket-well, I was going to
take it to the Orphan Asylum as pres
ent to the children. It is donation
from six leading citizens"
William, I don't believe it r.,
"Sh Don't talk SO loud I"
William, I shall talk louder yet I"
she exclaimed. "I'll bet you are going
fishing I"
MARY, have ever deceived you ?"
he plaintively asked. CT never have.
As proof Of my sincerity you can take
this basket to the asylum yourself"
"And I'll do it !" she promptly re-.
piled as she relieved him of it.
"Mary, hadn't you-?"
"No, sir, I hadn't. You'd better
hurry up with that fish.pole, as the man
may want it, and be careful how you
stand around in the hot sun p
She left him there. He watched her
take the Car for home, and then he re-
turned the fish.pole and crossed the
street and said to an acquaintance:
"Tom, I'm suffering with neuralgia
and the excursion is off till next week.
Too bad, but we can never tell what a
day may bring FORTH"
There were chicken and pickles and
other good things on the table at dinner,
but he never smiled. Even when his
wife wished she was an orphan, if that
was the way they were fed, he never
betrayed the gloom in his heart. 1t
was only when she handed him the bot
tie he had SO carefully tucked into the
basket and he saw it labled, "Good for
Little Children" that he said:
Mary, it is an awful thing for wife
to getth iinpssssiez that her hushfnd
is cold FLOODED liar I"
It must be, she replied, as she took
the other chicken leg.-Detroit Free
Press,
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24
A FAREWELL,
FAREWELL days and months and years;
Farewell, thoughts and hopes and fears;
Farewell, old delight and woe;

Farewell, days and months and years;
Farewell, thoughts and hopes and fea
Farewell, old delight and woe;
Farewell, self Of long sgol
In the old familiar place.
'Time sped on at slower pace
Past recall indeed you lie,
Days and months and years gone by,
Now the old familiar door
Shuts US out forevermore
Farewell, house-no more our homo
Others In the years to come,
Hither homeward will return
On the hearth their fires will burn;
Children that We do not know
Gather round the blithesome glow;
Other feet will tread the stair,
Other guests be welcomed there.
We, whose home II was before,
Shall be strangers evermore .
May be, in the years to come,
Past tho house our feet may roam
Over all a subtle change
Will have stolen and made It strange,
And the house we leave to-day
Will have vanished quite away.
In this houses Joy and care
We shall have no lot nor share;
And all our life herein will seem
Like half forgotten dream,
We shall be as ghosts, that come
Lingering round their ancient home,
II our feet pass evermore
Near the old familiar door.
Farewell, days and months and years,
Farewell, buried hopes and fears!
Whereso'er our footsteps stray,
Whether long or brief our stay,
Whatsoever good we find,
Many graves we leave behind.
So farewell, old Joy and pain,
We shall never know again
Farewell, all things that we leave
Surely life and warmth must cleave
To the house when we are gone.
Can it empty seem, and lone,
When the echoes of the years,
Hopes and joys, and griefs and fears,
Scarce have died from roof and wall?
Surely ghostly steps will fall
On the bare dismantled floors,
Gliding in at open doors,
Fitting up and down the stair,
Will not shadows wander there
Shades more vague than shadows are,
Or than ghosts that break deaths bar :?
Sure our wraiths, when we are gone,
Oft will haunt the chambers lone
Come to seek (ah, ne'er to flnd)
All the years we leave behind.
Farewell, house, forevermore
Farewell, old familiar door!
Farewell, home-yet no, not So
Home goes with us where we go!
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24

The novelties in ladies' handkerchiefs
are of fine cambria with colored borders
and exceedingly small.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24

She waits and listens. Footsteps fall
She knows they are not his.
She waits and listens for sound
That sweetest music is.
He comes-and with sudden thrill
And heartbeat loud and clear,
She does not hear, she does not see
She feels that he is near;
And coyly lifting to his face
Her eyes Of heavenly blue,
She murmurs, in loves softest tones,
"My darling, is it you?"
AFTER MARRIAGE.
Again she listens. Footsteps reach
And footsteps pass her door.
She listens, but her needle flies
More swiftly than before.
She hears at length the tread that time
And cares are making slow,
And with a start that sends her chair
Hard rocking to and fro
Springs to the landing, and with voice
More shrill than any lute's,
She screams, above the baluster, /.
Augustus, wipe your boots"
Man pithoM Wife.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24
Items Of Interest.
A rising MANA balloonist

A rising MANA balioonlst.
What plaything is above evdy other :
The top.
There i. no hunor uisboil Of
Thermometer. ~
Paste the date afr1ke next eclipse in
your hat: You 4 fnt y. May 8.
M4sRobert Bond = York, is
said 3 be worth oi6 10 He has
spent in advertising over q million doll
lars. 80 AZ VI s-.ss
The Triapon hat, with . large, bow In
front made Of plaid or striped nsbob
gause, is worn in Paris vith panie er COS !, ,
tunes. - agss,i~s. - Y
"Dr. Carver can: knock hole in a
silver dollar every time" So can we.
every tims&e take our girl for q walk
down b sheet thaSlbQlsts az icA cream
saloon and deuced Dig hole II is, too.
Puck.
In England the bicycle business is
assuming large dimensions. There are
1870 makers, million pounds are invest
ed in the business, and sixty thousand
bicycles are in existence in London and
the provinces.
If q man works for week and gets
nothing for his labor, he takes it as bad
luck and says nothing; but when he
spends five minutes in sharpening
lead. pencil and the point breaks off, he
jumps about like madman.
When man falls off horse he goes
to the hospital (if he isn't killed) and
takes the whole thing in good part, but
when he simply trips and falls in the
street he gets up and swears and dances,
and isn't himself for ten minutes.
"Why do ducks put their heads in
the water? For divers reasons. Why
do they take them..out For sundry
reasons. Why do they put them in
again? To liquidate their little bills.
Why do they take them out again9 To
make a run on the banks"
It is safe to say that there would be a
great deal more bread cast upon the
waters than there is, if people were only
sure it would be returned to them with
ten per cent. interest," It is the uncer-
tainty of the investment that makes peo-
pie hesitate. Rome Sentinel.
]
A Norwich man saw, the other even.
ing, swallow, whose actions reminded
him Of cats playful antics with a
mouse. The bird was in pursuit of a
gaudily -colored butterfly, and as it
chased the insect over the house-top and
through the tree.boughs, the observer
noticed that as often as the butterfly was
caught by the bird it was elected from
its mouth and the chase, with all its fea-
lures Of hot pursuit, capture and escape,
was.rspeatea score nr morelof times.
At length the bird, tired Of it's sport, de-
scended on the insect with a swoop,
caught it in its beak and quickly de-
voured it.-New Haven Palladium.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24

Among the latest curiosities is whet-
stone to sharpen the waters edge.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-04-03
] JENKINS ANNIHILATOR
THE GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY
FOR
RHEUMATISM, G0UT & NEURALGIA.

THOsE TERRIBLE ENEMIES OF HUI
Il man happiness. Rheumatism, Gout
and Neuralgia, heretofore seemingly I'M
conquerahle. have indeed found their mas
ter in JENKINS ANNIHILATOR. We
have the testimony of men of the highest
standing in Louisiana and other States,
that after suffering indescribable pans for
years, from which they sought relief in
vain by visiting the Hot aud Warm
Springs of Arkansas and Virginia, and by
using dozens of remedies more or less high
ly praised, when, in fact. hope had almost
died out, they have found relief from pain
by the use of the ANNIHILATOR, and by
continuing it for short time. have been
perfectly cured. The ANNlHILATOR is
a preparation purely vegetable, agreeable
to the taste. and may be taken without
fear of any injurious results by the deli
cate as we'll as the robust in constitution.
- Price 81 10 per bottle. For sale by
all Druggists. Ask your Druggist for cir
cular containing certificates, or send to
N. JENKINS & CO., Proprietors.
New Orleans, La.
Finlay & Thompson, Wholesale Drug
gists. New Orleans, La, General Agents
for Louisiana. Texas, Mississippi, Alabama
Arkansas and Florida.
March 6, 1S78-1yr.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-04-03

NEAL Dow is out in another
letter against alcohol as medicine,
declaring that alcoholic medication
is a far more more dangerous and
deadly practice than any other which
has preceded it." About the only
notable passage in the pronuncia-
mento is as follows: elm discussing
this matter with a doctor we have
this adyantage-that while he pro-
poses to know all about It, being
professional with him, we can point
him to the many radical changes in
medical practice within the memory
of the present generation; changes
from an universal practice, laid down
in the books and followed implicitly
by the entire profession, which in
our day would be considered little
less than murder. T b e doctors,
therefore, when they come now be-
fore the public to defend aay cues,
tionable mode of practice, had better
not put on lofty airs, as if with them
were all the knowledge and common
sense, and all the ignorance with the
people"
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0ny goet's Corner -Selettea
BE MERRY WHILE YOU MAY.

"There is crook in every lot"
A shadow on the road
Through which we journey on to reach
A happier abode.
As surely as the evening comes
To close the eyes of day.,
viii grief appear, and so, my dear,
Be merry while you may
We cannot say to joy-Remain,
Nor unto grief-Depart:
Tie morning and the night must come
To every human heart.
And though the twilight hour dispels
The cheerful, snnEy rays,
Shed not a tear, but oh, my dear,
Be merry while you may.
The sky may not be always bright,
The sea not always calm,
Nor hreezes bring an argosy
Of spices or of balm.
IT'S time enough to weep and mourn
When sorrow has its day;
And you'll agree tits we'll to be
Right merry while we may.
Along the shores of life the tides
Have ceaseless ebb and flow;
And through the year the seasons have
Their time to come and go.
Then let us make the best of life,
And if not always gay
Or full of glee, why shouldn't We
Be merry while you may.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-04-03
Advertising in Dull Times.

The Augusta Constitutionalist and
Sentinel says that the most sagacious
merchants in that part of the Union
advertise, if anything, more freely
and literally when times are dull
than when they are brisk. This is
founded upon the shrewd and ration
al idea that, when purchasers are
laggard, they most require stirring
up, and that the only way to create
the necessary agitation is through
the medium of widely-circulated
public press. There is another
reason why merchants and others
should proclaim in the papers what
they have to sell, and that is the in
evitable dispersion thereby Of the
very dizziness complained of. We
venture to say that frequent, telling,
live advertising will wake up the
sleepy community, and that all bust
ness men who practice this true
business precept will infallibly
reap the reward of their superior
enterprise.
A Mobile contemporary puts the
case pithily thus: "Every man, in
any business, who does not take the
trouble to tell the public what he
has for sale, will soon find that the
public does not take the trouble to
inquire for itself. He will tind-as
some are finding today, whether
they confess it or not-that his reti-
cence is practically putting up his
blinds for him, and that his clerks
might as we'll 60 fishing as tumble
over goods that they do not sell.
Neither need such reticent merchant
wonder greatly why people pass his
store, and go next door. For human
nature has much of the bull in it,
and will run after highly colored
announcement, as the taurine will
after red flag. Only the kind of
red flag it does not run after, worth
speaking of, is that which is apt to
follow too long and too persistent
folding of ones hands in ones lap"
-[Exchange.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-04-03
) NO. SO.

and bottled up within her own local
limits. This Of itselfis a relief, and
neither the country nor the National
Democracy will take any more inter
est in the wrongs Of a State whose
people seem to have either no law
susceptible of being construed for
the protection of their franchise as
freemen or no courts brave enough
TO construe them properly in the face
of impotent threats from powerless
Federal Administration. It may be
that more complete information will
tend to modify these hasty conc!u
sions, but at present there secms to
be no alternative to them.--[Wash-
ington Post.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

Mrs. ANN C. MANNING, ExEcUTRrx,
vs..
JOSEPH E. ROBERT.
No. 1913 9th Judicial District Court,
Parish of Rapides, La.
DY VIRTUE OF AND TO SATISFY
ID writ of Fieri Facias issued and
70 me directed in the above entitled
and numbered salt, have seized and
will offer for sale at Public Auction in
front of the Court House door, in the
Town of Alexandria, La, between the
hours prescribed by law, on
SATURDAY, APRIL 6TH, A. D.
1873,
the following described property, to-
Wit
Two certain tracts or parcels of land
situated in the Parish of Rapides, on
the lett descending bank of Bayou Ra
pides, aud fronting on said Bayou.
bounded above by lands of Mrs. Dan
!ei Robert, aud below by lands of Mrs.
Caroline A. Simms, and containing
each the quantity of one hundred and
swenty-seven acres, and designated on
the Surveyors plat as Lots Nos. four
a aud 1--we (5l IN the partition of the
Succession OF Daniel Robert. with all
she improvements thereon.
Terms OF SALE:-This being the
aesond and last offering the property
Will be sold for whatever it will bring,
on twelve months credit or bond, the
purchaser being required to furnish,
GOOD and approved JOINT security,
bearing interest from the day of adiu
ascatlon at the rate of eight per cent
per annum from that date until full
ana final payment, and special mort
gage retained on the property sold
=, Ii. NJ. ROBINSON,
March 20. 1873. Siberia.
Printers Fees $500.
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VICK'S
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE GARDEN

Is the most beautiful work Of the kind in
the world. It contains nearly $50 pages,
hundreds of fine illustrations, and six
Chrome Plates of Flowers, beautifully
drawn and colored from Nature. Price
so cents in paper coyers-S1 in elegant
CLOTH Printed in German and English.
VICK'S ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY
pages, fine illustrations,
and Colored Plate in each number. Price
SIPS a year. Five copies for $500.
VICK'S CATALOGUE-30 illustrations
only 2 cents. Address,
JAMES WICK,
Feb. 81, 1873. Rochester, n. 7
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MISCELLANEOUS.

THE FIRST BOTTLE HAS NEVER
l. failed to relieve from pain in the
most aggravated case. Should the pa
tient find no relief from the use of one or
two bottles, he may feel assured he is not
suffering from any of the above diseases.
and it will be of no use to continue. Upon
its own merit, without advertising, it has
established tor itself great reputation
throughout the South, and is used in the
practice of large number of our leading
physicians. For sale in Alexandria, La,
by HENRY ST. JOHN Price. $3.50 per
bottle. I. L. LYONS, Wholesale Agent,
New Orleans. FER>LEW & CO, Propri-
etors, P. o. Box 1406, New Orleans
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q IA Confederate monument in the
soldiers cemetery At Lynchburg, Va.
was struck by lightning during q
storm on Monday night, and 90 bad-
" broken that there is danger OF the
whole failing. The two top blocks
of marble, representing the States of
Maryland and Texas. and the eagle
surmounting them were knocked To
pieces.
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