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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
Something Perhaps He Would Eat.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

Heard good story on West End
minister one day last week. He is a
vegetarian of the slightest order, and in
the course of his pastoral career he was
invited out to Sunday dinner by one
of his sisters of bis flock, whose name for
the nonce shall be Smith. Old man
Smith didn't go to. church that morning.
His wife told him to expect her to bring
home some company to dine, and he,
With the aid of the cook, laid the found
alton for a superb repast. Mrs. Smith
came home, but all the company she
brought was the minister. They we're
seated at the table when a sort of con-
versation ensued.
Mr.. Jones'" meaning the minister;
@whas part Of the chicken do you like
best?"
"Really, Mr.. Smith, / don't care about
any chicken"
"Well, here is some extra fine roast
beef; try some of this"
Excuse me, Mr.. Smith, L will forego
the beef"
al have some tender lamb here-how
will that suit" -&ff .i e
81 never eat lamb"
"well, now know you can't refuse
this boiled ham,"
pardon me, but ham / never touch
During all this time. Smiths father
an old gray-haired sinner, had beer
seated near him watching the operation
and, standing it as long as he could
squeaked out in piping voice
"John, maybe the - fool Will sucl
an egep ,o MIND -..-. -.
!. The enjoy ment Of that dinner wa
spoiled.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
, Bnl Nye on Campaign Songs.


!. Along WITH the blessing of freedom
= and the divine right Of suffrage comes
the incubus, the blot upoh our glorious
institutions, known az stHe campaign
song. Dynamite under the, throne is
bad, but when the shattered monarch is
gathered together in royal gunny sack
and buried, peace once more reigns over
the kingdom, but in republic we know
that every four years we are OVERHEAD
owed by the campaign song. set to the
time of John Browns body, which ID sup
posed to be marching on.
Four years ago had the honor of in
venting and hurting forth upon the ma
ton song which did much to deepen
the horror of the campaign. II consist
ed ola song which was known every
where as the adjustable campaign song,
to be warbled to the tune, Empty is the
cradle, Baby's Gone" Itcculd be. used
both by the democrats and republicans
equally well, and has vacant space left
in the chorus. where by means of slot
and adjustable thumb-screws the names
of either candidates can be inserted.
This song was cast in solid plates, and
about the country along with
the iail-bird wood-cuts of the candidates,
and did much damage where no precau-
tons were taken against its ravages.
The campaign song of the present
great war is now upon us. Let us be
watchfll and evade il whenever it is
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
CHARITY.

The rich man gave his dole, not i'll content
To find his heart still moved by human
woe;
The poor man to his neighbor simply lent
The scanty savings he could scarce forego.
The one passed on, and asked to know no
more; -.
The others wife all night with pity brave,
That neighbours dying child was pendlng en-
And never deeming 1t was much she gave.
OH God forgive US that we dare TO ask
SoIace OF costly gifts and fruitless signs!
Scorn on the sigh that shuns the unweicome
task, .a a,
The dole that lacks the salt of sacrifice! =
No gildcd palm the crushing weight eanlift;
No soothing sigh the maddening woe can
cure: -, -
STis love that gives its wealth to every gift;
Ill would the poor man fare without the
The Spectator.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
Fond Hear ts ut Last United.

The nine o'clock fast Western express
yesterday morning carried among its passen-
gers young and loving pair, just starting
out ON the journey Of life along the matri-
monial highway. The marriage OF the
young people was contaminated Tuesday
night at the Miners Arms Hotel, on White
hall street, by the Rev. Isaac Mcclure, rec
tor or the Seamen's Society, and closed the
last chapter of q romantic courtship under
difficulties, begun in the land of bonnie Scots
and terminated on Americas free soil.
Eight years ago, In the charming city o
Aberdeen, Scotland, Andrew Williams, then
a canpy Scotch lad, 10 years old, fell in love
with bewitching Annie Patterson, lassie
fair to look upon, just budding into sweet
womanhood. She was the belle at az tne
the Highland Fling with such grace and win
some WAYS as pretty, blue-eyed Annie. The
hearts of the young Scotch gallants were
laid at her feet in scores, but her sweetest
smile was for Andrew, bonnie muckle and
true, and her eyes danced with pleasure
whenever he attended her:
But 'the course of true love ne'er did run
smooth" Andrew was too poor to take
wife and for that reason the girls family OPP
posed the match. Five years Is long time
for young people to struggle, against adyer-
sity' In love matters. At the. end OF this
time Andrew found he could not earn
enough in Scotland TO support Q wife and
determined to seek his fortune In America,
the country he had had heard such .Yonder-
full stories about 50, after fearful fare
well and promises to write and one day Ne
turn and claim her as his bonnie bride,
Andrew left his sweet heart and set sail for
New York. He arrived at Castle Garden
three years ago and, having little money
with him, at once started for the far West,
settling In, Hazleton, Buchanan county,
Iowa. He took to farming, prospered and
grew rich and Is now one Of the largest
landowners in that section of the country.
While her lover was tOiling in America
Annie was faithful, and not long ago. she
received letter postmarked America. y
The letter contained q ESQ note and these
simple words: Come to me, Will meet
You In New York, Have prospered. She
! came by the GuiOn ON Monday and after the
greeting came the wedding. New York
Truth. .. -e
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
Sleep.
Halls Journal of Health,


l think the intellectual and moral con-
nections of sleeping have not been suffi-
GENTLY appreciated. Men and boys have
been praised for burning the midnight
OIL" Now, this, midnight oil" is a de-
fusion and snare. The student who is
fast asleep at eleven o'clock every night
and wide awake at seven o'clock every
morning is going to surpass another
student of the same intellectual ability,
who goes to bed after twelve and arises
before FIVE. In sleep, the plate ON which
the picture is to be taken is receiving Its
chemical preparation; and it is plain
that that which is the best prepared will
take the best picture.
Men who are the fastest asleep when
they are asleep, are the widest awake
when they are awake. , ..y .
Great workers must be great rosters.
Every man who has clerks in his EN-
ploy ought to know what their sleeping
habits are. The young man who Is w
till two, three and four o'clock In the
morning, and must Put in his appearance
at the bank or store at nine or ten
o'clock and work all day, cannot repeat
this process many days without certain
shakiness coming into his system, which
he will endeavor to steady by some de-
lusive stimulus. 1t is in this way that
many a young man begins his course to
rum. He need not necessarily have been
in bad company. He has lost his sleep
and losing sleep is losing strength and
grace. :"
Here is an ontline of the history of a
suicide within my own knowledge. A
young man, stranger in New York, In
g BOD situation, in large boarding-house
has pleasant young csmpan .ons; spends
his evenings out; goes to midnight par
ties from eleven to seven: his nerves be
come disturbed: then little drink; a lit
tie mistake in business, another drink
reproof from EMPLOYER, more drink; more
mistakes. loss of situation; no help from
frivolous companions; money all gone
then credit all gone; then turned out o.
the boarding house; wanders in the street
notification; desperation; shoots him
self.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
A Printers Error.

Sweet are the uses of adversely, the
printers copy said, but he set it up,
sweet are the uses of advertising. Sweet
indeed, to those who in sickness and
suffering have seen the advertisement OF
some sovereign remedy, which upon
trial has brought them from deaths
door. 'The best thing 1 ever saw in my
paper was the advertisement of DIR
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" is
again and again the testimony of those
who have been healed by it Of lung dis
ease, bronchial affections, tumors, ulcers
liver complaints and the ills of which
flesh is heir.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
who is said to have been unusually at

who is said to have been unusually at
tractive in personal appearance, and very
bright and quick, mentally, had attended
the High School at Shenandoah for sew
eral years. She was ahead of her class
mates in all her studies, and in her am.
bition extremely DESTROYS of going to the
Normal seminary, where she could take
j. la, her course All through the vaca-
.ion she debated the point with her pa
tents, both father and mother thinking
it would he best for her to continue at
the High school for another year. At
the breakfast table Mabel forced the
matter to settlement, as school was to
open the next day, and she wanted to
know the final decision. After a little
talk Mr.. Griffiths told her that she must
attend the High school for awhile.
Mabel made bitter objections, and de-
family said she "would die first" Think
ing it was a mere childish pout from
which she would recover in short time,
Mr.. and Mrs. Griffiths went to church,
leaving her at home. In their absence
the girl wrote pathetic note of farewell
saying that she had thought of suicide
before and would rather die than be dis
graced by being sent back to the public
school. She requested that her body
might be cremated, or thrown into the
river, or disposed of in any way except
buried in the ground, as she was afraid
she might come to life again. This note
Mabel pinned to the front of her dress,
and going to her room in the second sto-
~, stood, pistol in hand. at the window,
watching for her parents return from
church. Just as the family were enter
ing the front gate she shot herself in the
head, the ball going through the skull
and killing her instantly. None of the
family heard the report, and the terrible
tragedy was not known until MabePs
younger sister entered the room and
| found her stretched on the floor.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
SOLID SENSE.
United States Democrat.

United states Democrat.
Life is too short to quarrel over old
quarrels.
Bringing children into the world does
not confer a right to abuse them.
1 believe what believe, but am will
ing to DE converted to any other belief on
proof that it is better than mine.
For a man to speak against his own
family or against the property that he
owns an interest in, is like boring holes
to let water into boat in which he ia
riding, and which he has to bail out to
escape going down.
ifyou are Christian and cannot bear
with the petulancies and annoyance of
children, how Jcan you expect God to
bear with and forgive your skipping and
. jumping? ...
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
DESPAIR.

know not in what awful sea
Lieth the Island of Despair
And yet it hath been told to me
The horror of those living there.
No blossom showeth there. no fruit,
No fountain springeth I'm the land,
But wrecks Of trees bark'd to the root,
Along tue waste on either hand.
With mournful eyes and tangled hair,
With hands outstretched and visage pale
They stand, the weary jewellers there,
Their voices raised in bitter wall.
Some moan alone, some crouch in caves,
Stabbed by deathless agony;
Others are digging useless graves
Beside the restless. mocking sea.
And all are doom'd, and all accurs'd,
And pray throughout the endless day
The black skies with thunder burst
And sw eep their withered lives away.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
Hints About Letter writing.
Youths Companion.


As Mrs. Glass said of the hare soup,
First catch your hare" in writing a let
ter first have something to say. Life is
too busy, in these hurried days, for time
to be wasted in the platitudes even of
politeness. A letter should have a real
cause-some social or friendly duty to
discharge, some business question to ask
or answer, some opinions to interchange
or tidihgs to communicate. Then, hav-
ing a good reason for writing, comes the
secondary question of how to doit.
Most of the transient fashions for col
ored or decorated paper are unsafe. Ec-
centricity is unwise. If a person could
afford to give up life to the pursuit of
fashion, she might succeed in following
its caprices successfully; but, for people
who have something else to do than 10
catch every within of a moment, and pur-
sue it Just far enough, and not too far,
the safest stationery is good white paper
with envelopes to match-stationery
thick enough not to reveal its secrets to
outside readers-and of that good style
which is insured by plainness. Simpli-
city is the one thing that cannot be ridi-
,culous. x -. s'....-..'-.
Then, as to ink-te use good black. ink
almost amounts to social duty. Who
has not felt that he would have foretone
letter rather than weary over pale
pages in some blind handwriting, no
matter how eloquent those pages might
And speaking of eloquence-the temp
tation to be eloquent is another foe to
epistolary success. Hpeople only would
write simply, and say that they have
I. pleasant memories of this or that, In.
stead oftelling us that beautiful pictures
are inscribed on the tablets of their
memory,"o Or that "their recollection sur.
rounds the past with an aureole of glory,
. we should be grateful. m $, b.
Above all, why should person who
is not Quaker, who has gone tranqhilly
"youts." suddenly, at the end, Become
thine Truly'7 =, - q
We remember letter once written in
the veritable crisis Of q life, which utter
ly.sMiled to move the stony. heart II
which it was addressed, because al
through, it was an. amusing mixture o
lyon andthee1.Yoh know how long afs
4 deeply L have loved thee" for instane'
/. lard for; this. reason the ahara.heartet
receiver was able to put it cruelty 10 tn,
waste basket, eoolly saying. "Nc one VIII,
really fell could mix up things m TIA
.bHsy.s 5..s.Isl g.. g. 2
This brings us back to our text ths
simplicity in letter-writing is the secre
of success, and that the SLIGHTEST touc
, OF afe :tation orsentimentality Is Is fats
to letter as to person.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

Those persons who do not need Iron,
but who are troubled with Nervousness,
and Dyspepsia, will find in Carriers Lit
lie Nerve Pills most desirable article.
rhev are mostly used in combination
With Carriers Little Liver Pills, and Ill
his way often exert most magical ef-
ect. Take Just one pill of each kind
Immediately after eating and you will
he free from Indigestion and Dyspepsia
In vials at % cents. Sold by dill Drug
gusts.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

from Hay Fever for 10 years. and have tried
various things without doing any good. read
of the many wondrous cures of Ely's Cream
Balm, and thought would try once more In
Is minutes after one application was wonder.
fully helped. Two weeks ago / commenced
using IL, and now 1 feel entirely cured. 1t is
the greatest discovery ever known or heard Of
-Duhamel Clark (farmer) Lee, Mass.
Price 80 cents.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
A Quiet Citizen In Mexico.

A prominent citizen of Mexico return
ed from a trip into South America last
week. He had been gone three months.
ELECTED a new President since I've
been gomez" he asked of a friend.
ooh, yes"
"How many?"
"Oniy one" sJ--
ANY revolutions"
"Only three"
whats become of Mar"
ooh, he was shot last week"
"And Zaguaf?" "
Transported"
"And St. Badier"
"The same as when you left"
as that so? Pm surprised that he
should be at one thing ST long. He was
avery enterprisingsort ofainan. Where
is hep
Dead"
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
"Nip't I'm the Bud!"

Sad to say, many a good thing attains
to nothing more than fair beginning.
On the other hand it is matter for con-
graduation that the growth of some evil
things may be also promptly frustrated.
A large proportion of the cases of the
most widespread and fatal of diseases
consumption have their inception in
nasal catarrh. DIR. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edy is pleasant, soothing and etfectual.
Try it. 1t has cured thousands. All
druggists.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

A CARD.-To all who arc suffering from er"
rors and indiscretions of youth, nervous weak.
ness early decay, loss of II 'nhood, &C., will
send a recipe that will CT you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great rem ~ was discovered
by missionary IN South America. Send self
addressed envelope to REV. JOSEPH J. 1NMAN.
.SntiOrl d. Mem York
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
Tired Pens.

Rev. DIR. Talmage once said of tired
literary folks: There are many new
kinds of pen being manufactured, but no
man has yet been able to invent pen
that will not get weary. We have often
had hold of pen that seemed determ-
ined to skip and gambol. 1t leaped from
paragraph to paragraph; it flew from
simile to trophe: it made a dash as it
went; it slurred unimportant events; it
threw interections Of surprise and inter-
rogations ofinquiry, and hour after hour
rushed along the line. But after while
it dropped, as though dead. Talk of
weary legs and arms, let some one tell
us the story of weary pens. They may
be found late at night in editorial rooms
and on reporters desks, and in the hand
of poet essayist, romancist and historian.
For the most part, they hunger for more
bread and yearn for more sleep. and,
worn out, long for the grave of oblitera-
lion. Kept in a fine case at Abbotsford,
you may find the expired pen of Walter
Scott, and in the venerable hall of Phila-
delphia, the pen which signed the Declar-
alton of Independence. But post NOR
tenn honors are seldom accorded to de-
ceased quilts. They are generally thrown
away. They drop into the dust and are
trod on, aud the places that knew them
once know them no more. But our chief
sympathy is for the living pens, which
write and write and wish they could die.
Nothing in all the world has such hard
work in making livelihood as pen and
pencil. The one languishes in the pic
ture gallery, the other faints in the study.
May the day speed on when literature
and art shall come to higher apprecia-
ton. That will be the Elysium of pen
and pencil
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
Mullen w. Cod Liver Oil.

DIR. Quillsn, the leading authority of Great
Britain on lung diseases. says while one of his
patients gained only seven pounds by the use
Of cod liver oil, she gained over thirteen by the
use of mullein The old field mullen made into a
tea and combined with sweet gum, presents in
Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and
Mullen a pleasant and effective cure for
Group, Whooping- Cough, Colds and Consump.
ton.
Sold by all druggists at 25c. and 81 bottle.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

Central depot. save ,eeaee Expressags and
% Carriage Hire, q stop at the Grand Union
Hotel, opposite :aid depot Six hundred ele-
CANT rooms 4 led up at q cost of one million
dollars; and upwards per day. European
plan. &.evator. Restaurant supplied with
the ST. Horse cars. stages and elevated
ra- Dad to oil depots. Families can live better
n less money at the Grand Union Hotel thai
at any other hrs.-class hotel in the city.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

NOTICE: In another column viii De Iouno an an
article i'm which all whether they VIII OF no,
are interested. Neglecting 10 reau IL my
ppT,;r We refer TO the advertisement OF
pr;ctiv Ash BItters. knowledge OF lts mer-
its and the benefit you or your family may p no
r1sT dollars Otherwise expended in doctors
hills
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

***@ Loss of power in either sex,
however induced, speedily, thoroughly
and permanently cured. Address with
three letter stamps for reply and book of
particulars, Worlds Dispensary Medical
Association, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
New York Journal.

Mabel Grifiths, the Is year-old daugh-
ter of Hon. John X. Griffiths of Page
county, Iowa, committed suicide at her
fathers house in Shenandoah. Mabel,
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27
A Remarkable Cordial.

1t is a well-known fact that gum camphor is
one Of the best remedies for bowel troubles
and combined in q cordial with peppermint
presents in DIR. Biggers' Huckleberry Cord al,
the GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY, that re-
stores the little one suffering from the effects
of teething, and cures Diarrh9a, Dysentery
and all bowel troubles
For sale by all druggists at 30 cents bottle.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

perfect remedy for all abrasions of the
skin, and all diseases of the feet of Horses
and Cattle. Invaluable to stockmen. Coles
Veterinary Carbolisalve.
In SOC and e1.00 cans, at druggists or by mail.
J. w. COLE q CO., Props, Black River Falls,
Wiz
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

A gentleman of Goodwater, Ala, writes:
my wife was down so long. do not know
what all she had taken. had doctors attend
ing her and they failed to relieve her; so get
a bottle of your Female Regulator, and she
used il and has been mending ever since. She
can now go about the house and do her work
and we know ii to be a very valuable medi
cine"
Treatise on the Health and Happiness OF
Woman mailed free.
RRADFIELD REGULATOR Co.,
Box 70, Atlanta, Ga.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

The oldest active Freemsson liz Ohio
is E. s. Kendrick of Chillicothe, who is
in bis 95th year.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

A special act gives Simpson Harris, of
Nvrth Carolina. pension of $50 month
for services rendered in 1914. He is 104
wears old.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

PURIFY THE BLOOD with Eilert's Daylight
Liver Pills. They act directly on the Liver,
Stomach and Bowels, being mild and cleansing,
but never gripping or painful.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

On the 92d birthday of Mrs. Anna
MCINTYRE. of Fonoa, New York, she de,
lighted her guests by playing Aud
Lang Syne" ON the piano. 81.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

Terry johnson Of Jamaica, Long Is
land, is over a century old. His wife
died last month aged 102 years.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

The centennial anniversary of the birth
of Mrs. Eunice Hollister was celebrated
at East Glastonbury, Connecticut, on
Aup1lst Q
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

For Dysyepsia, Indigestion, Depression On
Spiris and General Debility in their various
forms; also as q preventive against Fever and
Ague and other Intermittent Fevers, the "Ferro-
Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by al
Druggists, is the best tonic; and for patients re
covering from Fever or ether sickness, 1t has nj
equal
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

The widow of Peter Finegan of West
Chester, Pennsylvaia, is "a years old.
Her husband died at the age of 9S.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

A soldier named Pradier. who died re-
Gently at Auroux, France, was century
old before he married, he lived with his
wife for eight years.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-27

SAVE YOUR EARNESTLY oiling with
Uncle Sans Harness on, which will make it
soft and pliable. This is the best oil ever made
for leather. Sold by all harness makers.