The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-08-08

ont the provisions. was let of easy |
was told to bring dishes for ten and
pepper Thought I'd bring enough,
so brought pound.
Il was told to bring pepper and
dishes for ten, too. saysI. 81
sJust the came with me- said silas
Pone's wife.
sMetoo,' says some one else, and
then everybody spoke mp. Wed all
been told 10 bring dishes for ten aud
pepper. We all had.
There We were ON top of Gregg's
Peak, with the wagons sent home, and
nothing to eat all day but pepper.
we'd done q smart thing inviting
those two jokers. They'd played a
nice trick ON us. Never shall forget
that picnic as long % I live. There
we sot and scoldsa. III
sally and Peleg went of together.
After = while one Of the boys went
after them and found 'em eating lunch
that she'd brought in her reticule; and
then they fetched Peleg back, and
stuffed his mouth with pepper, and
then he fought 'em, and Silas Pone got
rolled over the precipice, only he
osntht in ! biz bush and cliMtsd up
again, and Mrs. Pone she got hold of
Sally and boxed her oyer the back and
smacked her in the face, and there was
an awful time, I teN you. a ~
And then it came on TO rain, and it
poured and poured, and we had to
pack up the china and go down the
Peak and hide in the woods, and we
were half drowned. AndMrs. Mason's
little boy had got lost, and it took all
day TO find him and when it cleared
up and we went into the sun to dry,
there came along mad bull and tossed
little Jane Perriwinkle. Didn't hurt
her much, but tore her clothes all off.
Everybody was starved, aud wet, and
angry, and such . lot as went home in
the wagons you never saw. 1t was
the meanest picnic ever remember
going to, and picnics usually do turn
ont mean; think. lsEt
None of Ms never spoke to Sally
Sproat or Pelsg Pottington again.
But they got married, just as 1 said
they would, and their practical joking
brought them to an untimely end.
You see one evening he'd just gone
down the back stairs, you know. set
in the wall-and it struck her that if
she threw down big bundle of some
thing and groaned, he'd think she had
tumbled down, and be scared and it
struck him, that if he put the kerosene
lamp into paper bag with two holes
in it for eyes, and held it over his head
and wrapped the table cloth around
him, and went up stairs, why. she'd
think it was q ghost. So he started
just - the bundle came down, and
they met . sFssS
They put . beautiful obituary notice
in the paper about them. 'They was
united In life,' they said, 8 and in death
they weren't Separated And SO they
weren't.
A NEW aesmEDYs EOS LUNG CON.
- = SUMPTIONs =
A Minneapolis, MIMI, physician
writes to the Chicago Tribune: 'Some
months ago little daughter (aged lI
Of trunkmaker in this city, one Mr..
Gatden-I am permitted to use his
name-was pronounced q hopeless
consumptive and, to have seen her at
that time, one would have supposed
that there was good grounds for the
decision, - she was.s mere skeleton,
had : terrible cough. .expectorated over
hAlf pint \ day of grsenish, blood
streaked tuberculous matter, and was
SO exceedingly nervous that she could
scarce sleep It ALL night or day. She
had been doctOred y long time with
cough and consnmptfon specifics, and
one or twe physicians had tried their
skill upon her, but Without avail-her
life gradually drawing to its close.
Meeting her father, (whO was almost
heartbroken at the thonghf Of losing
herr one day, gave him this pre-
scriptiOn:
One-haif pound finely cut up beef
steak, (fresh).
One drachm pulvcrized charcoal.
Four ounces pulverized sugar.
-Four ounces. rye whisky.
One pint boiling water.
Mix all together, let it stand in q
cool place over night, and give from
one to two teaspO0nfuls liquid and
meat-before each meal.
This was tried, and in, four or five
weeks this little girl was SO rosy and
healthy, tree from all cough aud other
symptoms of disease, that it was con.
sidered almost . miracle in the neigh.
borhood in which she lived.
What caused this great change
Simply the supplying her system with
more carbon thGn She disease could
exhaust, thereby giving nature the
upper hand in the conflict.
/ have used this preparation very
frequently, and haye never found it te
act otherwise than beneficial. The
dose should be small st first, until tht
stomach becomes used to 1t, and ther
gradually increased.
Let all consumptives try it who read
this-weighing themselves before they
commence, and again after they have
taken it for week or ten days. Tt
their astonishment, they will discover