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III Might Have Been"

Yesterday morning Il man who lives in
the Saginaw valley was at the depot to
take the train for home. As he was buy
inc his ticket an old friend who lives here
slapped him on the shoulder and gave
him greeting. After a few salutations
the Detroter asked
Have YOU married again 2"
"Non
''Do You want to :"
"Ies"
"Come with me. | know widow
whom can recommend
"Can we get back to the depot in fifty
minutes?'
eyes, easily
every we'll lead the way"
That's all that was said about it until
they reached the Central market The
Detroiter walked the Valley man up to
the stand Of well known and fair-look-
ing widow and said:
"Mrs. Blank, my friend has only few
minutes to spare. You are widow ?"
"Yesr
"Three children?'
Eyes"
"Worth $4,000"
YES"
''IIealthy, good natured and member
OF the Baptist church?
"NeS."
Every we'll This is Mr.. Blank of Sag
NAV. He is AZ years old, sound as a
dollar, owns a good farm, has two chill
dren and is looking for second wife
Do you like his looks Do you think
you could love him? VIII you encourage
him. He is in hurry and can't fool
away time. Yes or no."
"No," replied the widow, as she arrang-
ed her pie plants and radishes "He's
10 days too late. | am engaged to a
widower in Toledo"
"That's honest Injung 2"
"True as live"
"Nuf ced-good morning, and he has
81 minutes left to go to the train"
And the Saginaw widower picked up
his grip sack and walked off without a
change of countenance. Detroit Free
Press.
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Fog.

q, all pervading, all enshrouding fog,
Art thou the teecy hair Of that dire dog
W hose days, but now, we celebrate, and whence
Dilst emanate. and how come hither thence
| nreal mocktry of rainy days,
Hast thou no care for washerwomen's waysl
No thought for island parties doomed to wait
And picnic luncheons Wondering on the plate
Or, art thou some udine, soft and broad,
cold. clammy bride seeking reluctant lord
lrcadng the weeping shores with noseless feet
And haunting turtvely the dripping street
fake him, fair spirit, 10 the swelling main
And let MS have the blessed Sun again
| Portland Press.
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Tilden COMEDIES With Bookwalter.

We can imagine how Mr.. Bookwalter,
the novice, looked into the eyes of Mr..
Tilden, the expert, and asked him for aid
and friendly counsel. 81 am afraid" we
can hear Samuel mutter, 'that you have
played the game too openly. Now a bar
rel"--and Mr.. Tilden CLUES his cold lips
to the shrinking ear from Springfield ga
barrel to be valuable must be kept out Of
view. Let the boys get a smell of it, but
don't put it up in public sight"
al understand" says Mr.. Barrelwalter,
family.
"Now am told" says Uncle Sammy
still in that hOarse whisper, 'that you took
your barrelup on an express car, that you
sent it to the convention on dray, that
you placed it upon the platform, and that
you had five hundred men in the gallery
pointing at the cask and shouting There
it is There it is. Nominate it. Nomi-
nate it" Am I, or am not, correctly in
formed as to these particulars n
"1ou are wrong" says Mr.. Barrelwal-
ter eagerly; ''we did not keep it in PLAN
sight. My manager, Mr.. Ballentine, sat
on it, and covered it with his coat tails"
"ln law and in fact" whispers Sammy,
lit was still in sight. Mr.. Ballentine, thus
seated, became fixture attached to the
reality. (See Blackstone, Kent and Bill
Heisley.) Ballentine was Barrel Barrel
was Ballentine; and Ballentne became
Bookwalter. You catch the legal drift,
see. Well, never would have done things
so openly. You ought to have kept it in
the cellar, covered with the American flag,
the constitution, my letter of acceptance
and Frank Hurds tariff resolution"
''But, unseen, how could it have helped
me through! Who would have known it
was there =
Mr.. Tilden pushed Mr.. Bookwalter back
into the sunlight at the window, took his
cha in his hand, raised the Ohio head up
at an angle Of forty five degrees, and took
a long, long look. He then let go, moved
back pace, and shook his head.
81 see, | see" He resumed sadly after
a moment. ''Green. green green y
"In my eye ?" asked the gentleman from
Ohio
Everywhere Everywhere How long
have you been Democrat =
six years"
"And how long Il politician -
"SiX months"
"My son. and the old gentleman KEYED
his voice to a plaintive note, 81 would
never venture into the water until knew
how to swim. But, only six years Dem
ocrat only six months a politician how
could YOU know of that fine Democratic
scent that leads Il Democratic manager to
barrel through thick and thin, over stone
walls, across water, through fire and
storm Young man, You have much to
learn. But the mischief is done now. 1t
is little help that can give YOU"
SIS hope all lost, then y
zone thing only can YOU do You have
shown the barrel, empty it. Fill it up and
empty it again. And again. And again.
OF course it cannot elect YOU, but it will!
make fan for the boys. And what" said
Mr.. Tilden as he showed his guest to the
door, $50 lightens ones way to the tomb
as to do good unto his fellow man-to be
stow without return, to be open handed
without the expectation of reward ~
Cleveland Herald.
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A New Poet.

In the Midsummer Scribner there is a group of
six Songs of Nature" by new poet, MIR. Roger
Riordan of New York, who has long been one of
the artists OF the magazine and who has made a
characteristic illustration to accompany one of the
poems From them We quote the following
TWILIGHT.
Women, moths, bats, beetles, toads
Love the passing away of day.
The craving of all colors bodies
TO them soft circumstance, fair play
For purposeless activities
And underlined sympathies
Now ones mind is like his dress
No one can its color guess
Now ones heart is like the sky
Changing, doubtful, rich
And conscience like the cross roads sign
That tells not which is which
take some vagrant scent for guide
Sweet brier, lilac, mignonette.
Woodbine, hawthorn, violet
And wander far and wide,
Homeless, nameless,-kith nor kin
Nor law above me nor within
But ay-sde things gladly greet
AS of my bood's most cherished strain.
They feed me with forbidden sweet;
Though drawn apart I'm theirs again
kiss the stars, | clasp the sky,
And with the clouds on hill tops lie
For | have DOTTED humanity
And put looser vesture on;
Dead things have living tongues for me
In deserts am not alone.
Though outcast, rebel renegade,
Dark nature maketh me amends
Her springs tabooed yield Inc sweet aid,
Her creatures are my secret friends.
THE CHRISTOPHER.
Grasshopper grasshopper, dressed all in green,
And scarlet, aud copper and utramarine,
\ cure the gayest grasshopper, that ever I've seen
Where are you going to Where have you been
Did the hot sun from dew drop create you
Is there brlllianter being to mate you +!
Is nature pledged with her last sou to tete you
Does all the 10y in the world await you
0 king of creation Small bridegroom of June
q white spark thrown off from the white heat OF
noon
Musician who tindest the whole world in tune
Dry dnnker, good fellow, pray grant me boon
Tell me, If | IN the fields were to live, now.
TO leap over leaves and mong lilies to dive, now
To revel, and take some gay girl to wife, now,
And give up all thought how to study and strive
now,
But lie in the grass, on the brink of the river,
Singing would such fine life last forever
W ond summer ne'er go Would ne'er hav. to
Shiver
IN winters cold blasts for my lack Of end>avor
What You say that the summer is not yet
going
That 4o" do not feel winters breath yet blowing
That roses can only be slipped while they re grow
ing:
That, in harvest It's better be reapng than sowing
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Summer
Complaints

At this season, various diseases of the
bowels are prevalent, and ma1,y lires are
lost through lack of knowledge of a safe
and sure remedy. PERRY DAVIS PAIN
KILLER is a sure cure for Diarrhpa, Dys-
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Read the following:
BAISBR1DGE, n. Y, March %. 1881.
PERRY DAVIS PAIN KILLER nerer fails 10 afford
t"sfaat ret'tf for cranlp and pain in the stomach
NIcHoLvILLE, n. Y, Feb 3 1851
The rery best medicine know Of Tor dysentery
cholera morbus, and cramps in the stomach. Have
Mo1NGoNA Iowa, March IL, ISL
have used your PAIN KILLER in severe cases Of
eranp, colo and cholera morbu7 and it gave almost
instant relief GAINESVILLE Z e. E. f fa5P s ISL
For twenty years have used your PAN KILLER
IN my family Have used it many times for bowel
without bottle in the house. j. B. WE.
Have DAVIS sf pa2s Mi tw ss
years, It is sac, sure, and relia5le No mother
should allow it to be out of the family ! Nv,
ONEIDA, N. Y, Feb /; 1 ls, Isl 81
always ss i Gsf re WSSd hard
TO go to bed without a bottle i'll the house
cosyAzn9no, s e y. z: s5 8: Isl:
in H {Ss family in this section bR bottle
US CoNsuLArE,
CREFELD, RHENIsH PRUSSIA. Feb. 8. 1881.
have known PERRY DAVIS PAIN KILLER almost
from the day it was introduced and after years of
observation and use I regard its presence in my
household as an indispensable necessity.
l s. POTTER, U. 8. Consul.
BURTON N-TRENT. ENG.
had been several days suffering severely from
diarrh9a, accompanied with intense pain, when
tried your PAIN KILLER, and found almost instant
relief. II. J. NooNE.
q MONTAGUE ST, LONDON, ENG.
During residence of twenty three years in India,
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terry, and cholera, and knew it to fail to give
relief Il. CLARIDGE.
No family can safely be without this
invaluable remedy. Its price brings it
within the reach Of all.
For sale by all druggists at 25c, soc.
and $l.00 per bottle.
PERRY DAVIS & son, Proprietors,
Providence, r. l.
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for all those Painful Complaiuts and Weaknessea
1t will entirely the worst form of Female Com
plants, all ovarian troubles Inflammation and Ulcera
ton, Falling and Displacements, and the consequent
Spinal Weakness and is particularly adapted to the
Change of Life.
1t will dissolve and expe tumors from the uterus in
early stage of Development The tendency to can
humors there is che cked very speedily by its use
1t faintness fatuency, destroys all craving
1t cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostitution.
General Debility, Seelessness Depression and lndi
gestion.
That feeling of bearing down. causing pain weight
and hackache, is always permanently cured by its
II will at all times and under all circumstances net i'll
harmony with the laws that govern the female system.
For the of Kidney Complaints OF either sex this
Compound is unsurpassed
LYDIA f. PINkHAM's VEGETABLE COM
POUNDS prepared at 2a3 and $50 Western Avenue,
Lynn, Mass Price 81 Six bottlesfor s.. Sent by mail
in the form of pills, also n the form of lozenges,
receipt of price, 81 per box for either Mrs PinEham
let Address as above. Mention this Paper
No family should be without LYDIA f. plNkHAMS
LIVER PILLS. They constipation, biousneA9
and torpidty of the liver. 70 cents per box.
Hg- Sold by all Druggists. -ua
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AGENTS AND CAyyAssERs


alb got plenty of fire. and the bells are now ringing
for water
AGENTS AND CANVAssERs
e. &. RIDEOUT & co, 10 Barclay Street, New York.
Send for their Catalogue and terms. lyr34
A Chicago drummer is in limbo in Wisconsin
Jail for hitting a hotel landlord with twenty one
out of possible twenty three Goldfish balls
The Peruvian Syrup has cured thousands who
were suffering from Dyspepsia, Debility, Liver
Complaint, Boils Humors, Female Complaints
etc Pamphlets free to any address Seth W.
Fowle a. Sons, Boston.
An exchange says "The last thing man wants
to do is to die " Well isn't it the last thing he
does do
Fruit of the tropic burning cline
Thy wondrous virtues tadeless still.
Exert an influence sublime.
In mlnlSterlng to human i'll:
And many pang along our way
Santord's Ginger doth allay. lm.0
Girls, don't think fellow is gentleman because
he gives you polite bow. Bowers are always
knaves, so euchre players inform
Its No Use,'' He Said
And We do not blame him for saying it, lie was
sick and in pain he had been for months lie
had tried physicians prescriptions and all the nos
trums that had been recommended to him So
when friend came in one night and said: II have
known DR. David kennedy's Favorte Remedy
actually to cure cases than yours" the weary
answer was, Its no use, but I'll try it to please
you, Here's the dollar. 10 and get bottle = 1t
was done and III few weeks there was new man
in that town In his gratitude he declared
when | am in Rondout, n. Y, I'll stop in Dr.
kennedys office and tell him of this Exchange
Put pebbles Of different sizes into a box shake
them up. aud the largest will be found at the bot
tom 1t is different with strawberries
How to Secure Health
Ii is strange any one will suffer from derange
ments brought on by impure blood. When SEQ
WILLS SARSAPARILI.A ANDSTlLLINGIA or
BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP will restore health
to the physical organizations 1t is strengthen
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Kidneys. Stomach, Skin, etc
BAKERS PAIN PANAcEA cures pain III Man and
Beast
Dir. ROGERS WonM syKrr instantly destroys
WORMS
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The bark Ibis, from Pensacola, lay the
other day at the foot Of Seventeenth ST..
North River. A sun reporter boarded
her and asked Capt. Sawyer if he had
really seen whales of Pimlico Sound on
the genial Captain. "Any number oi
them. There must have been two miles
OF black backs and water spouts.'
Captain Sawyer unrolled time worn
chart on the table in his cabin. and, with
his diyiders, followed down Il number of
pencil marks to latitude 20 degrees and
longitude II degrees Is minutes This
brought him TO Il point about - miles off
Pimlico Sound, and further northeast of
Cape lIatteras
at was on Saturday and Sunday" he
continued 'When we encountered these
sperm whales going south, or southwest,
as if to round Flatteras They were 90
ing very slowly, backs above the water,
and were spouting all of the time They
were strolling along in groups, summing
themselves half an hour at time, and
then taking Il header and coming up to
spout"
GLOW many were there =
'Well, first we met two schools Of
about 100 each | should say. OCCASION
ally they trolicked and topped about
heavily in a sort of dignifed and elephant
Inc sport More followed, and the next
morning, Sunday, we saw more. Alto
gether there were over 700 on the picnic
We passed within 800 feet Of two big fel-
lows, but they seemed preoccupicd and
didn't notice the ship. | don't think they
knew we were there"
clad you any means of capturing
them ?"
'No, and it did seem pity to have 50
much valuable sperm oil indolently swim
ming away from us. There We're some
big whales there too. | said to Limerick
one of my men here, "Now, there's fell
low that's worth S2,OOO,' and he must
have been, and there were bigger ones in
the school. 1t would have been IL har-
vest for whaling ship. a million dol
lars in sperm whales is too good Il haul to
let 90 by, but we couldn't do ANYTHING
Occasionally I've seen a sperm whale
cruising along as far south as Savannah
and once in a while I've heard of whale
ships off and about there. But | never
saw so many whales at one time before
anywhere"
"Where were they going ?"
''For squidS. probably. That a favor
tie food with them"
Now that the commencement are over
and the students free, there seems to be
no manner Of reason why a school OF
whales should not 60 on Il vacation n.
\. Sun.
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yI|HF PoWEI. OF AKRE~TINtt DISEASE DI>
1 plavei by this preparation j. hnnolab!y ac
km0Wir,i.reG bv ti.r Ntliral Faculty mcN,rl section
~ here it ha- been Introduced, and the large sale j.
lie best guarantee ot the estimation IN hirh it t.
nt.ld IN tAc public. For The effect produced by
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Those who suffer with lame back will be glad to
learn that one bottle Of ELIXIR OF LIFE RooT Will
cure the most obstinate case. [Courier,
care dose bells ringing for fire ?" inquired Simon
of Tiberlus mo, indeed answered Tbe; ''dey
alb got plenty of fire. and the bells are ringing
for water
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Administrative Sale Of Real Estate.
MANHOOD RESTORED.

A victim of early imprudencc, causing nervous
debility, premature decay etc, having tried in vain
every know n remedy has discovered a simple means
of sclfcure. which he Will send free to his fellow
sufferers. Address j. II. REEN Els, A Chatham ST.,
n Y. lyrl6
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renews the growth, and always -trcly restores it,
color when faded or cray. 1t stimulates the nutri
tive organs to healthy activity and preserves both
the hair and its beauty. Thus IItshy, weak on sick
ly hair become, glossy, pliablr and strengthened.
lost hair regroW, WITH lively expression, falling
hair is checked and -tabli-hcd thin hair tnickcno
and faded or gray hairs resume their original color.
IT. operation i and harmless Il cures dam
drum heals all humor-, ANA Keeps the -c;lp rool.
clean and sntt -lMdcr which con,lirion diseases of
the scalp are impossible.
~ ADDRESSING for ladies hair the NlGoE is praised
for i,- grateful ana agreeable perfume, ANA >iucd
for hr -of lu-trr and richness IF tpnc il inpart.
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A Well Known Ladv

Escapes the Graye, and Prays for her De,erer.
SPASMS.
Mrs. ;. A. McIlwain, of FergusonyiIle Delaware
county, n " writes: "Only few DAYS before
commenced using the 'Favorite Remedy in one of
my spasms and sinking spells, my friends thought
was dead, and gave up the attempt to restore me
to consciousness. | am confident that if | had not
taken your medicine 'Fayoritc Remedy, during my
periods of critical illness | should never have re
covered.
That the Lord may bless YOU and in
crease Your means of doing good is my daily PRAYER
and may many yet unborn praise the 'Favorite
Remedy and its discovercr."
THE RUBY RIVER.
TO keep the blood pure is the principal end of in
VcntionS and discoveries in medicine. To this OBJ
iert probably no one has contributed more signally
than Dr. David Kennedy, of Rondout, y. Y, in the
production OF medicine which has become famous;
under the title of the "Favoritr Remedy" 1t re
moves all Impurities of the Blood regulates the dis.
ordered Liver and Kidneys, cures Constipation,
Dyspepsia, and all diseases aud Weaknesses pccu-
cuGar to Females.
~ W hen inquirng Of Your druggist for this new
medicine, avoid mistakes by remembering the name,
lpr. David ktnnedy's "FaNOritc Remedy" and the
price, which is only one dollar bottle, and that the
doctors address is Rondout, Wy. Ed. ly3G
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AYERS
HAIR VlGOR,
For Restoring Gray Hair
TO lis NnturUI JHaity amt E0for.

Advancing years,
sickness, care, di-ap-
pointment, ami hcredi-
tn'y prc'li,po~iliou, all
turn the hair gray, and
either of them incline
it to SHEET prcnlaturell
AYERS IlAlF NGuF,
Wy long and extensive
use, has proven that il
stops the falling of the
hairinllnr,liaIcly often
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DR.. j. c AVER & CO, Lowell. Mass,
Practical ana Analytic Chemists. Iy31
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An Elaborate Chinese Funeral.

one of the most elaborate Chinese tu-
nerals that New York has seen occurred
Monday. 1t was that Of Con LuitO, who
kept laundry. He is said to have been
the first member of the Chinese Lodge Of
Freemas0nS to die in that city. The flu
neral attracted a crowd of several thou
sand persons. First in the procession
came stage cOntaininga Chinese band
next came the hearse, and following it
were forty carriages and several hundred
Cinnamon. On the way to Evergreen
Cemetery mock money was scattered in
the street to attract the attention of the
devil, 1t being calculated that he will stop
to pick up the money and he delayed, so
that the burial can take place without in
reference from him. At the cemetery
the body was quickly bur ed the band
with gongs, horns and cymbals, played
a martial air to cheer the soul of Con LII
ito and then three candles were lighted
and the garments Of Con Lutte were
thrown Oh II pile of burning Joss sticks.
This was the end of the ceremony and
with obeisances to the grave the China
men went away.
Riding out Il few miles from Auburn on
the road to Poland, you come on neat
little place, so full of whimsicality that
you have to stop and look at it. The
house is about the size of dry goods box,
and a man of ordinary size can't 90 in the
front door without STOPPING. 1t is in the
midst of a neat little flower garden and
vegetable patch, and rustic squirrel
cage hangs ut the door. "What kind of
a bower might this be ~ you ask yourself
You discover that the flower beds are in
alphabetical form, and you easily make
this out "New Star" An unfamiliar
plant, which you ascertain to be tobacco,
is growing in field near the house The
inhabtant of this queer little house is
Leonard Ducharmc, an old French gar
dener in poor health, who here leads u
hermit life. He has one acre of land and
by selling his flowers, berresa vegeta-
bles, turns many an honest penny. His
Children live in Lewiston. Last year Mr..
Ducharme raised 50 pounds of good smok-
ing tobacco. He has home made press
He will double his plantation next year
He built his little box three years ago
Lewiston Journal.