davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13

him to his own house under a new
name, and shield him against all pur-
suers. AS for me, tell you plainly, my
great hope is that he win not live long
enough to turn you adriftand disinherit
your boy"
To cut short for the present this ex-
traordinary part of our story, Lewis
Carruthers, alias Leonard MOnckton,
entered fine house and took posses
sion of eleven thousand acres of hilly
pasture, and the undivided moiety of q
lake brimful of fish. He accounted for
his change of name by the favors Car
ruthers, deceased, had shown him.
Therein he did his best to lie, but his
truth. Old Carruthers had become so
peevish that all his relations disliked
him, and he disliked them. So he left
his personal estate to his heir-at-law
simply because he had never seen him.
The personality was very large. The
house was full Of pictures, and China,
and cabinets, etc. There was q large
balance at the bankers, u heavy fall of
timber not paid for, rents due, and as
many as two thousand four hundred
sheep upon that hill, which the old fell
low had kept in his own hands. So,
when the new proprietor took posses
sion as Carruthers, nobody was SurpriS-
ed, though many were furious. Lucy
installed him in grand suit of apart
ments as an invalid, and let nobody
come near him. Waddy was dismissed
with muniflcent present, and could be
trusted to hold his tongue. BY the adj
vice of Middleton, not a single servant
was dismissed, and so no enemies were
made. The family lawyer and steward
were also retained, and. in short, all
conversation was avoided. In a month
or two the new proprietor began to i'm
prove in health, and drive about his
own grounds, or be rowed on his lake,
lying on soft beds.
But in the fifth month Of his resi-
dence, local pains seized him, and he
began TO waste. For some time the
precise nature OF the disorder was OBJ
scure; but at last a rising surgeon de-
Clared it to be an abscess in the intes-
tines (caused, 10 doubt, by external
violence).
BY degrees the patient became unable
TO take solid food, and the drain upon
his system was too great for mere
mucilaginous diet to sustain him.
Wasted to the bone, and yellow as q
guinea, he presented pitiable specta-
Gle, and would gladly have exchanged
his fine house and pictures, his heath
cry hills dotted with sheep, and his
CLASSY lake full Of spotted trout, for q
ragged lrishman's bowl OF potatoes and
his mug Of buttermilk, and his stomach.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13
TIE END.
Actors Jokes.

Some men are funny for fun, while
others are only SO for business purposes.
Henry L. DiXey, the comedian, is
clownish by nature. At the commence
ment Of his current engagement in this
city he took board at a Broadway hotel
near the theatre. He wrote his name
on three lines of the register, after the
modest manner of an actor, and then
the clerk put down the number of the
room assigned to the guest. Simultan-
eously huge mosquito alighted on the
page, straddled slowly to the figures,
and stood still by them. Dixey gazed
in affected alarm, and held his dramatic
attitude until the insect flew away.
"I'll foil him yeti" he exclaimed;
change my rOOm"
Now there is Joseph Jefferson, the
jocose and dubious Rip Van Wrinkle OF
the stage, as digniiied in private life as
the prelate whom he resembles. His
friends say that he never cracks q joke
spontaneously, and it is certain that il
ever he remarked to the bank cashier,
in order to identify himself, IF my tog
Schneider vos here he would know me"
las the old story says), then it was for a
utilitarian purpose only. Jefferson lives
at Hohokus, over in New Jersey, farm
ing it for recreation, painting pictures
for a change of diversion, and holding
occasional spiritualstic seances for the
sake of investigation. He lately spent
two weeks in town to rehearse some
actors engaged for his forthcoming sea-
son. One day he went into Broadway
store to buy hat. He is inclined to
originality in hats, and this time took
one out of lot which had hitherto
proved unstable. 1t was peculiar in
shape, being mixture of helmet and
turban such as New Workers had stead
tasty declined to wear. The merchant
thought he saw an opportunity to work
off the bad stock by means of the act
or's purchase. He Immediately had
some autographs hastily made of Jeffer-
son with the odd hat on his head, and
underneath the inscription: Joseph
Jefferson, the great comedian, wears
this new hat" The original of the pic
ture saw it next day, and instantly grew
so angry that all resemblance to the
genial portrait was destroyed. He re-
turned directly to his hotel and the hat
has not since been seen.
1t is indeed difficult to separate an act
or from his professional personality.
That anything so grim as death should
overtake a woman whom had never
seen except in footlight jollity seemed
incongruous enough; but when thepall-
bearers appeared in the persons of The
Dixey whom / have mentioned, the &C.
centric G. T.. FlocktOn, the Jim Barton
of Grosvenor memory, and the Ed.Rice
of burles1ue, absolute difficulty arose
i'm feeling the seriousness of the occa-
sion.-N. Y. Letter IN Noshritte An1ertcdn
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13
WASHINGTON.

The decrease of the public debt during
The prop Ss ifo eaiih tTHs y tg.s
Uutcd States and Nicaragua has unani-
mously passed the Nicaraguan Senate.
Sew ntpen ste guns. riled and eech-
loading, are being constructed at the Wash
ingtOn navy yard Experiments made with
some Of them lead 10 the belief that the
best English Or German ordnance viii be
su passed.
An examination made by experts under
the direction OF the Military Committee of
the House az Washington has revealed q
d crepapcy In tn accounts OF the Nation
al Soldiers Homes dur NJ the I me that
Gen. b. +. Butler wa President and Treas
urer of $211, 023.
A court-martial has been ordered to try
MedicalDirector Philip S.Wales on charges
preferred by Secretary Chandler of neglect
of duty in the administration OF the offices
OF SurgeOu-General of the Navy and Chief
of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
1t Is alleged that through his carelessncss
voucher frauds Oh the bureau were made
possible.
Albert d. Gihon, son Of Medcal-Director
Gihon OF the navy. was severely cowhided
on the street in Washington by young
clerk in the War Department named Ores
ham. The trouble Is said to have sprung
from the misbehavior of young Gihon at
theatre party at which both he and Ores
nam were guests. lie ldJJeT WdS dITeSIeNt
for assault, together with two friends who
were present-as witnesses Of the affray.
At meeting OF the House Expenditures
Committee at the Department. of Justice in
Washington Representative Springer's re-
port Of THE result of the investigation OF the
conduct of United States Marshal Lot
Wright at the Ohio October election was
agreed to by party vote of to 4. The re-
port was to the effect that Democratic v0t-
ers had been inundated at the polls. A
minority report was rendered condemning
the action of the committee and declaring
that no evidence had been presented during
the investigation which In any manner
warranted the conclusions embodied in tie
r.sS-
Tie result Of the spring elections
in New York State show surprising
Republican gains, and indicate {
Republican majority in the State o
not less than 10000. In only two
coublies are there Democratic gains
The gain of Republican Supervisors
Is equal to about one in every county
o. a,x.y in the State.
- the hitherto temperance village
OF Vaudeville, and Portland, til,
saloon men carried the election OF
tuesday of last week.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13

Bernard Murphy, champion youth
walker OF Australia, says in the Mel
bourne Sportsman: On Monday
previous 10 the match with Ormes. o.
Sydney, | was attacked with the
Stitch. | could not walk another
yard, and gave up all hope of winning,
was advised to try ST. jacobs Oil.
| did 81, rubbing little on my side.
| have not been troubled since, and
won nv match"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13
Permanent,

There are medicines which give
only temporary relief and then leave
the sufferer worse off than before, es-
pecially in cases of dyspepsia. Re.
member that this is not the case with
Browns Iron Bitters. See what Mr..
J NJ. Gaines, of Gaines, S. c., says
about this prince of tones, "My wife
has been greatly benefited by 1t; she
had been troubled with dyspepsia for
years, and now / believe she is per-
manently cured" 1t also cures kid.
ney and liver complaints.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13

$50 far, SO good" said the boy
after eating the stolen tart. Alter
reviewing the thousands of colds aud
coughs that have leen conquered by
DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup VIC can read
lily say so far so good.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13
Detroit, Grand Haven,
q, r.ggs lsgasEsS E-. r.,

GOING EAST.
Trains leave Owosso follows. Detroit
Express. $3.50 am; Through Mail, 1:45 D. M;
Steamboat Express, 6:35 y. m. Atlantic En-.
press, 10 am
GOING WEST.
Morning Express 10:C2 am; Through Mail
Mint E%pfdss,s saRiqa Eaals ~ p q "a;
Mixed from the West 7:f0 p. m.
Refreshments at Detroit, Owosso and Grand
Haven. Mail east and west has parior day car
attached The Telegraph Line fer the Public
sag- Through Sleeping Cars on all night trains
between Grand Haven and Detroit
Nigrt Express east and west daily ard all ether
trains daily Sunday excepted.
CONNECTIONS.
AT DETROIT-Great Observation-Disclosures points
east. Michigan Central, Michigan Southern and
Grand Trunk Railroads.
AT MILWAUKEE-With the Milwaukee and st,
Paul Western Union, Milwaukee and Northern,
and Chicago and Northwestern Railways to all
points north and west.
ey-The Railway Company's Ferry Steamer
leaves d. G.. IL. & NJ. Dock, Detroit, OF arrival Of
trains. Tickets are sold at the Detroit. Grand
Haven and Milwaukee Railway Ticket ONCE, 30
al principal places in the United states.
w. j. SPICER, General Manager.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13
Advertising Cheats

IT has secome so common TO begin an
article in an elegant, interesting style
Then run it into some advertisement that
We avoid all such,
''And simply call attention to the merits
of Hop Bitters in as plain, honest terms as
possible.
"To induce people
''To give them enc niai, which so proves
their value that they will nevcr use anything
else"
the REMEDr so favorally noticed in all the
papers,
Religious and secular Is
Having laiSc sale, and is supplanting all other
medicines. ~ ~ a
There IL no denying the virtues of the Hop
plant, and the proprietors of Hop Btters have
shown great shrewdness and ability
I'm c0mpoundng medicine whose virtues are SO
palIable 10 OYery ones OhserNation.n
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13
"John Baker"

Slr.
"You had better mind what you are
about, or you'll get fonder OF her than
Of Walter himself"
Never, Colonel, never! And so will
YOU"
Then, after a moments reflection,
John Baker inquired how they were to
help it. "Look here, Colonel" said he,
"a mans man, but woman's a wO-
man. 1t isn't likely as Master Walter
will always be putting his hand round
your neck and kissing of you when
you're good, and pick white hair Oil
your coat if he do but see one when
you're going out, and shine upon you
indoors more than the sun does on you
out-of-doors; and faint to be supposed
as Mr.. Walter will never meet ma on
the stairs without breaking out into q
smile to cheer an old fellows heart, and
showing $4,000 worth of ivory all at one
time; and if I've cold or a bit of q
headache he won't send his lady's maid
to see after me and tell me what l am
to do, and threaten to come and nurse
me himself if don't mend"
"Well," said the Colonel, there's
something in all this"
For all that" said John Baker, can
didly, 81 shall make you my confession,
oil. O6lu w w uitCl III DULL Out0 -,
Here's pretty business said 1; I've
known and loved you from q child, and
Mrs. Walter has only been here six
months, and now I'm afraid shell make
me love her more than do you.'"
"Why of course she WILL" said Mr..
Walter. "Why, 1 love her better. than
i do myself, and you've got to follow
suit or else I'll murder you."
So that question was settled.
The five hundred guineas reward
ranked in the minds of those detectives,
and after few months, with the assis-
lance Of the ordinary police in all the
northern towns, they got upon a cold
scent, and then upon q warm scent, and
ut last they suspected their bird, under
the alias of Carruthers. So they came
to the house to get sight of him, and
make sure before applying for o war
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13
Did She Dies

mo
''She fingered and suffered along, .pining
away all the time for years"
"The doctors doing herno good;'
"An'i at last was cured by this Hop Bit
tersthc papers say so much about"
"lndeed Indeed -
How thankful we should be for that
incidence
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13
4 Daughter's Misery.


Eleven years our daughter suffered on a
bed OF misery,
From complication of kidney, liver.
rheumatic trouble and Nervous debility
Under the care of the best physicians,
Who gave her disease various names,
"But no relief
"A-nd now she is restored TO us in good
health by as simple remedy as Hop Bitters
thar we had Stunned for years before using
it."-THE PARROTS.
Father is Getting Well
My Daughters say:
How much better father is since he used
Hop Bitters."
lie is getting well alter his long suffering
no disease declared incurablc"
land we are so glad that he used your
Bittcrs. "A LADY Of Utica, n. "
bD-Nonc gcnuiue without bunch OF green Hops
on The white label. Shun al vile, poisonous stun
with HOP or Hops" in their name.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-22
WILLIAM III. DICKSON.

United States Prosecuting Attorney
Dickson has resigned. Mr.. Dickson has
been an honest, energetic and efficient
officer, and very greatly the superior of
his predecessors in Office. He has vindi-
Gated the law in Utah as it was never
vindicated before, and to him, perhaps.
more than to all others, is owing the
check that has been put upon polygamy.
Polygamy and unlawful cohabitation have
not been suppressed in Utah, and will not
be for long time to come, no matter
what measures may be adopted for
their extirpation. The first great
thing to do was to check its spread.
and this was done to a very con-
siderable extent by Mr.. Dickson.
In the work which he thus accomplished
there must be associated with his name
that OF his worthy assistant, Mr.. Varian,
and that of Judge Zane. In some of the
cases which Mr.. Dickson prosecuted he
at times became somewhat more ardent
than could have been wished, but when
all things are considered, especially the
intense partisan feeling which exists in
Utah, feeling that at times approaches
malignant hatred, perhaps this ardor was |
but natural, and that it was not greater
han it was is to the credit of Mr.. Dick
'on. He was cordially disliked by the
great majority of the people of Utah, but
his dislike came from the fact that he
vas earnestly and successfully assaulting
heir illegal practices. The people of
Utah will never hold Mr.. Dickson in con-
empt as they do, and rightly, the major
ty of his predecessors. We hope his
uccessor will in all respects be his equal,
ct We cannot but think that it will be
'ng before we see his like again in Utah.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-22
PASTEUR.

The name of Louis Pasteur will 90
down to posterity along with the names
OF the benefactors of mankind. To this
fame he will be justly entitled, for well
has he earned it. For the last few days
his name has been prominently before the
country on account of the sending of
a. number of children to Paris to
be treated by him for hydrophobia.
Pasteur says he can cure these unfortu-
nate ones, and Pasteur, although san
guine and enthusiastic man. is not n
visionary nor one given to raising false
hopes. When he differed from Liebeg as
to the causes OF fermentation he demon
strated his position by actual experiment
and did not confine himself to mere
argument and refutation. When
he announced to the Academic des
Sciences that he had discovered
a cure for splenic fever he was prepared
to prove his assertion. Invited to Melun
to demonstrate what he had asserted at
Paris, he announced, on his arrival at
Melun, that he would take fifty head of
sheep and would kill twenty-five of them
by innoculating them with the blood of
sheep that had died of splenic fever,
and that the other twenty-five would
not die from this innoculation.
where the innoculation was made after he
had treated the sheep that would not
die. He merely vaccinated these sheep |
with some virus which he had greatly at
tenuated by cultivation. and the result
was as he predicted. For the past few |
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-22
A CURIOUS PETITION.

Utah is not slow at getting up peti-
tons, but Utah alone cannot claim to be
the originator of curious petitions On
last Wednesday Senator Ingalls, presented
to the Senate the petition of S. D. J.
Moore, of Jefferson county, Alabama,
praying for such legislation as will remove
the causes of taxation in this country
and prevent poverty. To petition for
such legislation proves that Mr.. Moore
has noble heart but that the turn of his
mind is not eminently practical. 1t is
trite saying that no man can escape death
and taxes, but it may be added that taxes
often induce death. There was once
means of avoiding the causes of taxation
and of preventing poverty, but this means
no longer exists. The time when
this means existed and was avail
able was before Adam. sinned. Just
why Adam sinned has never been fully
and satisfactorily explained. But the
great fact remains that he did sin, and
among the most direful consequences of
Adams SHINING are taxation and poverty.
1t is said thatngepentance, baptism and
justification [4ith will rid man of his
sins, but certain it is that these will never
relieve him from taxes, while as topov-
erty that is dependent upon other condi-
tions. 1t is believed by keen observers
and students of humanity, that if men
were given a. choice between kingdom
in heaven, accompanied by guaranty
against sin, and an exemption from taxa
ton and poverty in this world, the ma
jority would choose the exemption from
taxation and poverty. 1t is scarcely
probable that Congress will see its way
to the enactment of the legislation prayed
for by the Alabama petitioner, although we
feel confident that the Utah Witenagemote
could, by recommending that it be done,
the right of confirmation and
approval to the Utah Commission.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-22
LENGTH OF PRESIDENTIAL MES
SAGES.
Says the Chicago Tribune:

Says the Chicago Tribune:
There is no reason why the message should
be an annual review of events. No require
ments of the Constitution or of common
sense need make it long or exhaustive. The
President has more than one chance every
year to make himself heard. He may send
In to Congress as many messages as he de-
sires, and no one in law is more Especial"
than the other.
Neither is there any requirement in the
Constitution that the Presidents Message
shall be terse. The American people
have become accustomed to lengthy mes
sages and they look to these messages as
a sort of blue book, and for this reason
they uncomplainingly tolerate their
great length. 1t is desirable to know
what the views of the President are upon
any question, and these views are very
properly expressed in messages. The
Presidents message is the very antipodes
of the Queens speech. In the United
States the President introduces no meas
ures, but has power of veto over them.
In England the Government introduces
all bills. while to the House and Lords
belongs the veto power. The field of pos
tive legislative action is always more con-
fined than the field of negation. Those
who have charge of introducing bills and
carrying them through are more reticent
as to their intentions than those who
merely approve or disapprove them. The
in England is that the Queens
speech is too short and indefinite, while
The complaint in this country is that the
Presidents messages are too long. Presi-
lential messages could be made much
shorter than they are and the recon-
more specific and to the point
han they are, and this would give to the
messages greater strength no doubt, but
10 long as the people look upon Presiden-
ial messages in the light they do there is
10 likelihood of their being shortened.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-22
THE LEGISLATURE.

1t is only short time until the Terri
torial Legislature meets. In most States
and Territories the meeting of the Legis-
lature is an event; in Utah it is not. In
other places people have some idea of the
work that will be performed in the Legis-
lature, and whether or not certain meas
ures will be enacted, but in Utah
such is not the case. The legislators of
Utah do not know what they will do
when the body to which they belong con-
venes until after it has met and they be-
gin to cast around and ask of each other
what is to be done. The legislators of
Utah are elected without any effort on
their part, and such being the case.
they never discuss before their con-
stituents the questions which NAV
be uppermost in the minds of all.
But this is not the worst. When thew
meet they never address themselves to
those matters which keep our Territory
In a continual turmoil. They absolutely
boycott the most important questions in
Utah, the questions over which the whole
nation is more or less agitated. They re-
fuse to condemn or to praise the practices
of their constituents which are in viola
ion of the laws of Congress. This in any
,ther place than Utah would be most
curious and anomalous thing, but here
my other course would be looked upon |
Is seven days. wonder. At the present
lme all Utah is discussing the new Ed
nunds bill, and this bill is to come up in |
he Senate Immediately after the holi- |
lays, the time when the Legislature will |
meet, but it is absolutely safe to say that
he Legislature will never once consider
ny one of the matters mentioned in that
I'LL. The Legislature have it in their
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-22
MEDICAL.

This man came to Salt Lake City representing
himself as the son of DR.. E. B. FOoTE OF New
York, the well known specialist as abundantly
proved by afhdavits. As rumors came into Salt
Lake City from Dakota and Montana from an
expose made there, he changed his base and
represented himself as the son of more noted
specialist in New York City than DR.. E. B.
FooTE, the well known author. Mr. JOHN f.
TRow, of the well known Trow's Directory, in
New York City Gorty years in the directory
business, Ex-Governor FRANK FULLER, of Utah,
and the Hon. ABRAM WAKEMAN, for many years
Postmaster in New York City, also Surveyor of
the PORT gave their affidavits that there are no
other doctors in New York by the name of Foor
or FooTE, excepting DR.. E. B. FOoTE, the author
OF Medical Common Sense" ETC., and his two
sons, DR.. E. B. FooTE Jr., and DR.. HUBERT T.
FOoTE. The genuine DIR. FeoTE, Jr will here
after always employ the initials, E. b. in desig-
mating his name. Heretofore he has been
known not only at home but wherever his pub
!lcations have been. circulated, by the name of
De FoorE Jr. Greater care will be taken here.
after, in view of the fact that an unprincipled
person has assumed to profit by his and his
fathers reputation.
Those desiring further and more detniled in.
formation in respect to this matter, will receive
1t by addressing Box 414, Salt Lake Ctr, Utah.
Persons having information of advantage to
plaintlffs will kindly communicate the same to
J. w. !vey, with Sutherland & Mcbride. Salt
Lake City. ~Ni'
Those desiring to consult Dr. FoerE profes
sionaily or to order remedies should address
either e''
Dr. E. B. F00TE, Sr., or DR.. E. B. FOOTE. jr..
1e0 Lexington Ave-, New York.
Consultation Free, in person or by letter.