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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-11-24

Logansport. Ind. Dec. i. 1880.
For long time ! have been a
sufferer from stomach and kidney
disease. My appetite was very poor
and the very small amount i did eat
disagreed with me. Twas annoyed
very much from non-retcn,ion OF
urine. l tried many remedies with
no success, until 1 used Browns
Iron Bitters. Since used that my
stomach does not bother me any.
appetite is simply immense. My
kidney trouble is no more, and my
general health is such, that l feel
like a new man. After the use of
Browns Iron Bitiers for one month.
! have gained twenty pounds in
weight. .. B. SARGENT.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-11-24
dbt Atnnebtt yournaI.

Published at AUGUSTA, MAINE, Water Street, foot
,iCourt, by SPRAGUE Son.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-11-24
oh, MyBack!

That's a common express
sion and has a world of
meaning. How much suf-
fering is summed up in it.
The singular thing about
it is, that pain in the back
is occasioned by SO many
things. May be caused by
kidney disease, liver COM
plant, consumption, cold,
rheumatism, dyspepsia, over
work, nervous debility, &c.
Whatever the cause, don't
neglect it. Something is
wrong and needs prompt
attention. No medicine has
yet been discovered that
will SO quickly and surely
cure such diseases as
Browns IRON BITTERs, and
it does this by commencing
at the foundation, and max
ing the blood pure and rich.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-11-24

Mr. DEAR FRIENDS: Replying to your let
ter would say, have been acquainted with
my highly valued friend. the Rev. S. d. Hop
kins about eighteen months, and very init
mately acquainted for about six months past
For little more than Ave months he was an
inmate of my house. and we enjoyed constant
intercourse with each other. When he came
in April last he was almost perfect wreck
in point Of health. thought he had come
to Us but TO die. Soon afterwards he began
the use of some Of H. II. Warner & Co.'S
remedies. namely: the Safe Kidney and Liv-
er Cure, Safe Nerviue and Safe Pills, From
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
Influence of Newspaper.

A school teacher, who had been a
long time in his profession, and wit
messed the influence of a newspaper
upon the minds of family of children,
writes as follows:
have found it to be a universal fact,
without exception, that those scholars
of both sexes and all ages who have ac-
cess to newspapers at home, when com
pared with those who have not, are
|. Better readers, excellent in pronun-
citation, and consequently read more
and understandingly.
2. They are better spoilers, and de-
fine words with ease and accuracy.
3. They obtain apractical knowledge OF
geography in almost half the time it re-
quires of others as the newspapers have
made them acquainted with the location
of the important places, of nations, their
government and doings on the globe.
4. They are better grammarians, for
having become 80 familiar with every
variety of style in the newspapers, from
the commonplace advertisement to the
finishing and classical orations of states.
men, they more readily comprehend the
meaning of the text, and constantly ana
I'VE its construction with accuracy.
5. They write better compositions,
using better language, containing more
tbourhts-more clearly and correctly ex-
pressed.
6. Those young men who have for
years been readers of newspapers are
always taking the lead in debating so
cieties, exhibiting more extensive
knowledge upon great variety of sub
jects, and expressing their views with
greater tiuency, clearness and correct
ness
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
How Birds Learn to sing.
Holden Bird Magazine.

A wren built her nest in box on a
New Jersey farm. The ouccupauts OF
farm house saw the mother teach her
young to sing. She sat in front of them
and sang her whole song very distinct
ly. One of the young attempted to i'm
itate her. After proceeding through
few notes its voice broke and IL lost the
tune. The mother Immediately recon-
menced where the young one had
failed, and went very distinctly through
with the remainder. The young bird
made a second attempt, commencing
where it had ceased before, and con-
tinuing the song rs long as it was able,
and when the note was again lost the
mother began anew where it had stopped,
and completed it. Then the young one
resumed the tune, aud finished it. This
done, the mother sang over the whole
series of notes second time with great
precision, and again the young one at
tempted to follow her. The wren pur-
sued the same course with this one as
with the first and so with the third
anu fourth. This was repeated day af.
ter day, and several times a day, until
each of the birds became perfect song.
ster.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
Rescued From Death.

j. Coughlin, of Somerville, Mass, says
I'm the fall Of 1876 was taken i'll with
violent bleeding Of the lungs, followed by q
severe cough. | soon began to lose my ap.
petite and flesh. | was so weak at one time
that could not ieaue my bed. In the summer
flsSl was admitted to the city hospital.
While there the doctors said had hole
in my left lung "a big as n half dollar.
expended over hundred dollars in doctors
and medicines. | was so far gone at one
time that report went round that l was
dead. ] gave up hope, but a friend told me
of DIR. VIM. Halls Balsam for the Lungs.
laughed at my friends thinking that my case
was incurable, but got bottle to satisfy
them, when to my surprise and qualification
1 Commenced 10 feel better. NY hope, once
dead. began to revive, and to-day feel in
better spirits than have the past three
years.
| write this, hoping you will publish 1t, so
that every one afflicted with diseased lungs
will be induced to take DR.. VIM. Halls Bal
sam for the lungs, and be convinced that
consumption can be cured. have taken
two bottles, and can positively say that 1t
has done me more good than all The medicines
Ihave taken since my sickness, my cough
has almost entirely disappeared and shall
soon be able to go to work.
Sold by all druggists.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29

he conceived the idea of becoming fire.
proof, and before he was TWENTY-FIVE he
was veritable fire-king. How he ac-
auired the power to perform the feats of
placing his hands and arms in vessel of
boiling water and keeping them there
for ten minutes, licking red-hot shovel
holding in his mouth molten lead, and
even swallowing it, as well as many
others more daring, without apparent in.
jury, no one knows, or has he ever re-
vealed the secret. In fact, it is doubtful
il he can himself explain the mystery;
but he can aud does handle bars of iron
glowing with white heat, eat glowing
walk barefooted ON red.hot bar of iron
sixteen feet long, with perfect coolness
and deliberation. These facts are attest.
ed by many respectable witnesses. He
used to delight in frightening the ignor-
ant country people, to whom he was un.
known, whenever he could find a crowd
gathered around the stove in village or
country store, by stalking in, opening
the stove door, and running his hand
down in the fire, deliberately taking a
live coal in his fingers and coolly place it
in his pipe aud walk of.
He was at one time on exhibition, and
his strange feats created considerable
excitement, but owing to his dislike of
notoriety and lack of education he re-
tired from the stage. His power of re-
sisting the effects of fire is singular, and
has never, SO far as know, been explain
ed, though he has been examined by a
number of scientific men. Many of the
colored people, and in fact not few of
the whites who had been taught by the
crude theologians of fifty wears ago to be.
lieve in personal devil with horns, tail
and cloven foot, whose kingdom was the
bottom,ess pit, and who occasionally
treated his refractory subjects to doses
of II often lead, firmly believed, and
perhaps some OF them still believe, that
Nathan was sort of brevet devil him
self.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
He Couldn't Fit Him with u Pair of shoes.
Kew Orleans Tlmes-Democra

A negro, with nothing but a ragged look
and big pair Of shoes TO distinguish
him, entered Rube HOflensteih's store at
New Orleans and asked 10 look at some
shoes.
"vat number do you wear ?" inquired
Hofienstein.
Il don't 'zactly member" replied the
negro, "but it pears to me de number is
somewhar round fourteen" and he held
up broad, flat-looking foot, which shut
out the Light from the door like a screen.
my gr-racieus % exclaimed Huheu-
stein as he gazed at the dimensions of
the negro's pedal extremity, "ef your
feet vas a couple uf inches longer, my
trent, dey would be pair uf wings, IN
ven Gabriel bIays his drumpet all you
would haf to do is to work your feet and
you hys snust go good as a little mocking
bird. My gr-r-acious, vat feet" !"
Look hyar," said the negro, indig-
nantly, 81 didn't come to dis store to be
suited. | nebber talk bout anybody,
and ! amt gwine to low any body to
talk bout me- God made dem feet, and
'pinted me to tote 'em ffew dis world an
you amt got no right to find fault wild
desc times, pears to me-"
"Vell, my trent, you don't must get
mad, you know. you see my broder $
feet vot vas in New Jersey, you don't
dink you vas nobody. Wy, if my broder
vas in New Orleans, und walk on his
hands in de summer time, he nefer get
struck on de head NIT de sun. His feet
would be dwice as much better as an UNI
perella. He vas proud uf his feet, my
frient, und everybody vot has been any
we're near him say dot dey vas his sdrong-
est point"
II didn't come hyar TO talk bout feet" "
said the negro. 81 come fur de 'spress pur-
pose OBJ gettin' pair OBJ shoes; if you
amt got any, say so, an I'm gwine some
whar else"
"vait, my trent. Herman, come and
dake look at de shentleman's feet und
see if dere vas anyding in the store vat
vii Wit him"
The clerk did as he was hidden and
said that there was not a pair of shoes in
the house that was large enough.
."If you is all gwine to keep a shoe
store" said the negro in disgust, why
don't you hab shoes on hand dat will fit
foxes ?"
"Vell. myfrent, replied Hoffenstein,
I've don't can't afford to keep shoes in de
stock vat will vityour feet. II would pay
us peter, you know, TO put lid und a
couple uf handles TO desc kind uf shoes
and sell dem for ledder trunk" aud with
bland smile Hoffenstien bowed the
negro out.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
A Tale of n Trunk.
Dptrnit News

Some months ago Methodist sister
was sent from this part of the world as q
missionary to Rosario, South America
and part Of her outfit in Detroit was a
trunk procured by a city friend from
one ofthe city factories.
Pasted on the under side of the lid
was the picture of a gay and gorgeous
beauty Of the Lydia Thompson stripe,
with a wonderful wealth of bare arms
and shoulders, and that recklessness of
coloring for which the professional trunk
embellisher is keld unapproachable.
In due course of time the trunk was
landed with its precious contents on the
wharf at Rosario, Argentine republic.
The owner had heard mu'h about the
rapicity of South American custom Of
ficials, and when she handed over the
key to the inspector, it was with lively
apprehension that her precious effects
were likely TO be stolen. coniiscated or
subjected TO exorbitant duties.
She could speak no Spanish and he no
English, but he got the idea somehow
that she was a missionary. On opening
the trunk the first thing to strike his as
tonished vision was the dazzling Lydia.
Gazing at il intentiy for minute he
soemnly crossed himself, closed the
trunk without further investigation and
returned the key without word.
His action was so unexpected and ex-
traordinary that an explanation was
sought through an interpreter, to whom
the official said in effect that the lady
was a sister of charity come TO take
charge of missionary school, and that
no customs officer had any business to
examine her trunk with an image Of
the Virgin in it.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29

THE bill board must go. The show
managers have at last come to a realiz-
ing sense OF the enormous folly of stick
ing costly paper upon the walls for the
ecification of penniless hoodlums and
the delectation of famishing billy goats.
Respectable people who have money and
patronize shows, never make blooming
gawks of themselves by halting in front
of bill boards to devour the megatherin
language and Italian sunsets therein.
They take the newspapers and get their
Information in mild and more reliable
shape, but of course they cannot get it in
colors. Downward the course of the bill
board gropes its way. Its days are mum.
bered.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
Leading n Forlorn Hope.
Lord Afacaulay,

The author of a great reformation is
always unpopular in his own age. He
generally passes his life in disquiet and
danger. 1t is therefore for the interest
of the human race that the memory of
such men should be held in reverence,
and that they should be supported
against the scorn and hatred Of their
contemporaries by the hope of leaving q
great and imperishabe name.
To go on the forlorn hope of Truth is
a service Of peril-who will undertake
it, if it be not also service of honor :?
II is easy enough, after the ramparts are
carried, to find men to plant the flags on
the highest tower. The difficulty is to
find men who are ready to go first into
the breach.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29

but familiarity had bred love not con-
tempt. He had never desired TO live
elsewhere. His life had been passed
among scenes that were full of beauty,
and their beauty had entered into and
become a part OF his soul. lie had no
very extensive knowledge of books, but
the Few books he did know he knew well,
and they were books worth knowing.
Wise as men may grow, the wisest after
all. know but very little more than their
fellows And this calm life had given TO
him much knowledge which renowned
philosophers have not and and could not
have but by just such experience and
education as his.
/ accepted his invitation, and spent
the night with him. In the morning, as
took the reinsto drive off, the boy stood
by, looking somewhat as he would like
to go away, too, and see the world. Good
bye, my boy" said |. Don't go away from
here; there's nothing in all the world
worth leaving this spot to see; grow up
like your grandfather, to be fisherman
and man" consider the advice sound.
hope the boy will take it.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
Eat Slowly
London Lancet,

1t is a mistake to eat quickly. Masti-
cation performed in haste must be i'm
perfect even with the hest teeth, and
due admixture of the salivary secretion
with the food cannot take place. When
crude mass of inadequately crushed
muscular fiber, or undivided solid ma.
teral of any description, ia thrown into
the stomach, it acts as mechanical ir
ritaut, and sets up condition in the
mucous membrane lining that organ
which greatly impedes, il it does not
altogether prevent, the process Of diges-
ton. When the practice of eating quick
ly and filling the stomach with unpre-
pared food il habitual, the digestive Or
gan is rendered incapable of performing
its proper function Either much
larger quantity of food than would be
necessary under natural conditions is re-
quired, or the system suffers from lack
of nourishment. Those animals which
are intended to feed hurriedly were
either gifted with the power of rumin-
alton or provided with gizzirds, Man is
not so furnished, and it is fair to as.
sumo that he was intended to eat slow
ly.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
They Are Past Finding Out.
English Paper.


/ believe there is more pepper, more
potash, more saltpeter, more tartar, m ore
aqua-iortis, and more pluck in woman's
nature than in any other nature extant.
All these, however, lie dormant in a
thin sack, woven of modesty, timidity,
coyness and gentleness. Once shake
them up and you may look out for Il
blaze, accompanied by peculiar kind OF
! thunder.
Woman flesh is thought by some to be
confection, composition of sugar and
molasses, or some other saccharine mat
ter. Grant that it be all sweetness yet
| would have you know that when
the acid of anger, insult or ill-nature
Comes in contact with it, such an eher.
vescence occurs as one never saw exem-
plified in ginger pop, sedlitz powders or
soda water.
Women, when put out of tune. are like
summer storms. At first they are cloudy
make no noise, but their thinking ma
chimes are busy in motion. Then comes
the thunder-rippling, tearing thunder !
and the lightning that flashes from their
eyes is enough to appall the stoutest OF
hearts. You fall back in wonderment, if
not perfectly amazed. Unwilling 10 re-
treat further, and not having chance or
the courage to Slip pltiIul boo J" you
stan1 and take il like hitchel horse in
hail storm.
Wheu the wrath of the feminine is
nearly expended, you plnck mp courage
and are down on her with argument,
reasoning and reprimand; but Ii all this
going to make her turn tail not bit OF
it. Having wasted her thunder and
lightning, she begins to rain ;she knows
what effect that will have. With impet-
nous showers she drenches the furious
fire that burns in your bosom, and adds
freshness to every bud and blosssm OF
feeling.
Then you begin to give in--she begins
to clear Other sky grows brighter, she
goes to the expense of a smile, her whole
horizon, Landscape and lady scape, look
charming, gay and serene, and you can't
help giving her d kiss, and acknowledg.
ing beat.
So you see, my friends, that the women
are bound to get the better of us. In
them you behold the wi III cat, the lamb
and dove. If they cansccomplish moth
ing by letting loosetheir untemed feline
propensities, they give the juvinlle sheep
trial and if that fail they rely upon
the loving dove. With one of the three
they seldom or never fail to effect their
purpose.
They are called the weaker sex but
with what proprety it IS hard for me to
imagine, for | know that many of them
are strong enough TO lit barrel of beer
and drink out OF the tap. They can draw
like horses. They araw us to church,
draw us to the theatre-draw us from
our business draw MS into trouble,-and
draw us lowell, anywhere.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
Alrs Well That Ends Well.
Edinburgh Courant.

"All's well that ends well" would be a
very appropriate title for romance in
real life which ended happily in Paris on
Saturday. The son of rich man resid-
ing in the Faubourg st. German bad
fallen desperately in love with pretty,
amiable. but dowerlesa girl. The course
of true love ran smoothly enough so long
as the young mans father was not aware
of what was going forward but when his
consent TO the marriage was asked he
fatty refused to give it, A last meeting
took place, VOWS OF eternal oonstancy
were interchanged, and the lovers separ-
ated. They young lady, deeply affected
by the parting, took the rash determine
ton to drown herself and her sorrows in
the Seine, and about twilight on Satur
day she carried ont her intention. A
gentleman walking along the quays at
the time saw her struggling in the water,
and, without moments hesitation,
plunged in to the rescue. The would-be
suicide was saved, but the most curious
part of the story is that the gentleman
who saved her CHANGED to be the father
OF the man she loved. The denouement
of the affair can he easily guessed. The
stern parents ipfexibe resolution to re-
fuse his consent to the union gave way
under the emotion he felt at the drown
ing accident. He conveyed the poor girl
home, sent for his son, told the delighted
young people that they were free to take
each other for better or worse, and that
the wedding might take place as soon as
the young lady had recovered from the
effects Of her immersion in the river.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
Cult vate n sweet Voice.


There is no power of love so hard to
get and keep as a kind voice. A kind
hand is deaf and dumb. 1t may be rough
in flesh and blood, vet do the work of q
soft heart, and do it with a soft touch
But there is no one thing that love SO
much needs as a sweet voice to tell what
it means and feels, and it is hard to get il
and keep it in the right tone. One must
start in youth, and be on the watch night
and day, at work and play to get and
keep voice that shall speak at all times
the thought of kind heart. But this is
the time when a sharp voice is most apt
to be got. You often hear bows and girls
say words at play with quick, sharp
tone, as If it were the snap of a whip
When one of them gets vexed you will
hear voice that sounds as if it were
made up of snarl, whine and bark.
Such voice speaks wore than the heart
feels. ltshows more i'll will in the tones
than the words. 1t is often in mirth that
one get voice or tone that is sharp,
and sticks to him through life and s,irs
up ill-will and grief, and fslls like drop
OF gall on the sweet joys at home. Such
as these get sharp home voice for use
and keep their best voice for those they
meet elsewhere, just as they would save
their best cakes and pies for guests and
all their sour food for their own board.
would say to all boys and girls, use
your guests voice at home" Watch it
by day as a pearl of great price, for it will
be worth more to you in the days to
come than the best pearl hid in the sea.
A kind voice is lark's song to hearth
and home. 1t is to the heart what light
is to the eye.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
Strange Power to Resist Fire Possessed by
Maryland Negro.
Wilmington News.

Nathan Coker is of pure African
lineage, black as ebony and of stalwar,
{ anne. He is now somewhere between
60 and 20 years of age, and has resided
all his lite in the lower part of Tuckahoe
Neck, Md. He has no knowledge oi
books-can not even repeat the alpha.
bet-but is much above mediocrity in
point of general intelligence and good
hard, corn-feld common sense as com,
pared with his race. When quite young
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
K,IAN,zoo. Mich. Fen. .. 1880

know Hop Bitters will bear recon-
mendation honestly. All who use them
confer upon them the highest encomiums
and give them credit for making cures
all the proprietors claim for them. have
kept them since they were first offered
to the public. They took high rank from
the first, and maintained il, and are more
called for than all others combined. So
long as they keep up their high reputation
for purity and usefulness, shall continue
to recommend them-something | have
never dore before with any other patent
medicine. J.. J. BABCOCK, MD.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29

A rAe-sEEISG and thrifty youth, who
was keeping steady company" with one
of our city bellies, carefully brushes the
bowder which he gathers nightly on the
left breast of his coat into box lid, from
which he empires it into suitable YES
sci, and preserves it He is going to pre-.
sent that girl with dozen boxes of fine
face powder next Christmas, and all it's
going to cost him is the price of the
boxes and the little chromos to ornament
their covers.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
BRIGHTEST INTELLECrs SUFFER- MOST

Young men who have led life of dissipa-
tion and excess, reform Give tone to the
regulate the liver, strengthen the
urinary organs, relieve those dull pains in
the limbs, rid yourself Of that feeling OF
nausea, nervousness, languor, and debility
by using DIR. Guysotts Yellow Dock and
then will you experience a
genial warmth and awakening lie, in place
of that dead feeling of decay, and dyspepsia,
milky urine, etc, no longer undermine your
Delay is dangerous.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
IiIlpDrtAuf.

When you visit or leave New York city
ave baggage and expressage and carriage
lire, and step at the Grand Union Hotel
'early opposite the Grand Central Depo,
100 elegant rooms, single and in suits. fitted
Ip at an expense of one million dollars
Rooms reduced to 81 and upwards per day.
m European plan, Elevators, Restaurant
'urplied with the best. Horse cars, stages
md elevated railroad TO all depots.
The Osceola times., 1882-07-29
PENMAN's ART JOURNAL.

The Penman's Art journal published by
the well known Pen Artist of New York
ID. T. Ames is one of the most attractive
and valuable illustrated periodicals of the
day. Its lessons in practical writing are OF
immense value TO every teacher and pupil
Of writing, while its finely illustrated pages
are feast to the eyes Of every admirer OF
beautiful penmanship.