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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
WARM WEATHER WIT.

The uamp's motto: "God bless our
roin,.' Whitehall Times.
A bur, zen at hand is worse than two in
the dist nee Boston Globe.
SuIlivau's motto: It'S an i'll blow that
dou'C knock the wind out of somebody"
Stockton Maverick.
Adam AMI Eve were the oniv yeople
who never bewalled the successful DAYS
of their ancestors. Waterloo OBSERVER
In the early Eden time domestic traI-
qlility was never disturbed bv dispute
as to who should Weir the tIoluers.
Yonkers Gazette.
When girl is young she wants num-
erous dolls, but when she grows older
her wants increase aud she desires several
dollars. Boston Budget.
An insult from certain sources is a
compliment. Whep an ass kicks at YOU
he does $50 because he recognizes that You
IRE unlike him. Boston Post.
A girl with three arms has been dis
covered in Louisiana. If that girl ever
marIics she can haug on tn her hGsl and
with two Of her hanGs and pull out his
hair with the third. Boston Post.
Priur - Adam going into the ample
business mis- record was staiuless one.
Aud vet ne was one Of the great army OF
model huS ands who ere never trusted
Win latch.key. Fall River Advance.
The golden summer time
Again is near its prime;
The meadows and the orchards are iu bloom,
boom, bloom.
And with the early apple
The small boy soon will graphic,
ini cramps will bring him very near the
tomb, tomb, tomb. Boston Courier.
An oil country gentleman returning
i.""e ,aiher late discovered a yokel
" tn lantern under his kitcnen window.
=" bo, hen asked his bus,n,ss there,
.ajed t.'a' he lad only come a corrting.
= me what?' said tie irare gentle
man. "A cou ting. Tse cour,inc NARY"
: LIS a liel What do you want a lantern
!l? I never used one when / was a
you4g man." "No, sir" was the yohei's
rrply; Il didn't think yer 'aj, judging
by the missis." indianapolis News.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
SHOE.STRETCHERS.

A Chicago paper headed local female
foOt-race "Cinderellas on the Cinder~
path" These Chicago men are nothing
if not satirical. Philadelphia Call.
There is always one positive advantage
in marrying a Chicago girl. She comes
N handy for stretching her husbands
new shoes. Fall River Adj; ance.
When Chicago girl walks out with
her beau she never takes his arm-t1at
would bring her feet too close To his and
she would tread on his. Kentucky
State Journal.
In Chicago, when girls shoe wears
out, it has windows put in the sides.
Trucks ran under it. and it is run as a
strcet-car That's what makes the car
drivers strike in that town. Cincinnati
Merchant Traveller.
Chicago Boy Say, Nom, the man is
here with TIE ton oi coal, and there's no
place TO dump it.
Chicago Mother-Well, just take. that
old shoe of mine out and havet him
dump the coal in it. Philadelphia Call.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
He Had Met Her Before.

Young Feeblemlud (who has Just been
presented to Miss Montaeue) law
think I've had the pleasure -aw-
meet,Dg vou he.ore, Miss Montague
Miss Montague (quite positively u
think not
Young Feeblemind (embarrassed) >
Aw cren't y"u at Sawatoga lawst season.
Miss er-Montagu'
Miss Montp.ue-I was never there in
my lie.
Young Fceblemind (hopclessly embar.
raised )-Well-aw-it5 doosid queer
You know. NUT have net some young
lady at Sawatoga law>t season that bea hs
a stwange resemblance to you, or land
there happy thought struck him]
must have met yon, Observation-Disclosures
at some place--aw that beabs stwance
wese mblance to S,watoga, bah Joye! n
Y, fumes.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
FRENCH ROMANCE.
women whose Husbands are Ahve'
but wboare virtually Widows.

know of three women, mother ana
her two daughters, who have for years
lived in the midst of madness, murder
and crime whose husbands are all alive
and vet who are virtually widows.
Years ago Boi>lisle de Murat was pros
porous miller at Periguex. He lived
with his wife in fine style, drove good
horses, had splendid equipages and was
waited on by liver.ed servants. After
awhile the mill began to prove less pro-
fitable, severe business losses followed
each other closely, and from one ex-
pedient to another Boislisle de Murat at
last resorted to that of raising money on
false signatures. When the forgeries
we're discovered he managed TO make
HIS EsCAPETo ENGLAND.
His wife sold out everything, paid off
the creditors so far a. she was able. then
removed to Paris, where she had mar
ried daughter living, and set about trying
to support herself by taking in sewing
and by embroidering for small shops.
| The dishOnor and fight of his father-in-
| law caused the husband of the eldest
daughter, a NJ. Fernand TOulzac, to be.
come insane, and he is now an inmate of
a lunatic asylum. The eldest son of
Nine. Boisiisle de Murat enlisted. One
dav he got drunk and struck his officer
tried by court-martial he was condemned
and shot To death. The second son soon
after died of consumption. One day
Nine. de Murat saw an advertisement
for female apprentices to Team the trade
of matchmaking. She ami her two
daughters answered il, and in this way
made the acquaintance Of Pei, who then
held small factory out of Passy. The
unmarried daughter was ID, and striking.
" handsome. After shoIt while this
Pei asked her to he his wife; they were
married and it was shortly after that he
was arrested on suspicion of having
KILLED THE SERVANT MAID
and of having got rid of the body b,
burning it to ashes. Such succession o
tragic sorrows as having thus uccumu
lated on the head of poor Nine. Boislisl,
de Murat would seem eXtravagant eX
aggeration i'll a novel or in a melodrama
Her husband Is a dishUnored fugitiv,
from justice; her eldest son was shot
her eldest daughter is the wife of luna
tic and mother of an idiot, and the hus
band of her youngest, who recently be
came mother, is about to be tried 70
double murder; but neither she no
her daughter will appear at the trial, a
some weeks ago, after turning everything
: they possessed into money, they sud
, denly left Paris for parts unknown
Presumably they have gone to joil
Boislisle de Murat, who is supposed to b.
! living somewhere in the north of En-
gland. The Oldest daughter left at tn
, time of her brother-in-law' arrest and
now keeping small cigar shop in Lon
don. Letter in New Orleans Picayune.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
Sandy,s Economical Thought

A Scotchman end his wife were c.f,.
ing from Scarborough to London b. lo.i.
When off the coast great storm a,n-c
and the vessel bad several narrow e
cspes from laundering.
''Oh, Sandy" moaned his wife. 'T'a
ma afear'd o DEEM, bUi Ginna carr a.
dee at sea ~
"Dinna think o. deeil' yin" Answered
Sandy, "but when We do yc'd better be-
drooned at sea than LIlyuhere els
a m why, Sand, p asked lis wife.
"Whyw exclaimed Sandy, ':tec;luse =, I,
wouldna cost sac much to burvw Plris
American Register.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
A fearful Decision.

A Cabbage which had arrived at Re-
spectacle Dimensions BEGAN Dragging
about the size of lis head. when BDss
Watermelon raj ed its Voice in Dispute.
The Hubbard So m>h chigned in for first
place, and PUMPKIN Reared out That it
wouldn't play second fiddle to no Wee
table on earth They were having ii
lot and heavy, when along came Phil
osopher, aud he WIS a,kcd to decide
which had the Largest Head.
As to the Head" he replied, that it
a matter to be settled 10y Il Tape line.
Any o You will measure ten times the
size of this little Onion. bnt when YOU
come down to What's under the
Uranium that's a aha abb tirrpnt
thing, and you will please lead me q
Handkerchief while weep"
MORAL
He who judges man by the Size OF
his Head will find him all Hat as often as
all Brains.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
Don't Eat in a Hurry.

health journal says that people
ought to take three quarters of an hour
for dinner. This is well ifthere is enough
dinner to hold out so long. The penalty
for hurryinE meals, as most people do. is
a crievous attack of dyspepsia. In such
IA case you will have to resort tn Browns
Iron Bitteis for cIre, a1 did Mr. J. r
PEkston, Shorter's Depot, Ala, who
writes, 81 found relief in Browns Iron
Bitters after years of suffering from dys
pepsia."
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
The Hero Was Slain.

One OF the farmers who succeeded in
backing his wagon into place at the City
Hall marke. the other morning had sew
eral erranis to do around the neighbor-
hood, and he left his son of ii on the
vehicle 10 make sale of five or six bags
of potatoes. The old man had scarcely
disappeared when a bill distributor came
along and threw into the wagon the
first chapters of a sensational serial.
The boy grabbed for the "fy" and began
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
An barrassIHg Position.

Arkansaw citizen 10 colored justice OF
the peace)-"Why didn't You fine that
fellow five dollars for being drunk and
disorderly?"
Colored justice-'COs owes him five
dollahs borrored money, sab, an l wuz
1, fraid ned wan Inc ter turn dat deb
Der ter de majesty oh de law"
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
Caution Dair, men.

Ask for Well, Richardson q Co.'S. I'm
proved Butter Color, and take no other. ks-
ware of all limitations, and of all other oil
colors, for every other one is liable to become
rancid and spoil the butter into which IL is
put. III you cannot get il write 10 us al Bur
lngton, VT, to know where aud how to get il
without extra expense. Thousands of rests
have been made, aud they always prove it the
best.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
4 Hotel Mans Discovery.

San Francisco Cal.-Mr. George H..
Arnold, proprietor of the Occidental
Hotel, says that "a the air is purer as we
ascend, man should not object to b ing
assigned to a room on the uppermost
floor; that he shouldn't mind taking a
room-attic, as it were, in view of the fact
that st. Jacobs Oil so promptly cures the
rheumatic. He states that throughout
California it is regarded as the great
pain. cure of the age.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

The Society of Political Economy in
France has struck centenary EIcda, iii
honor of Adam Smiths Wealth of Ma
liOnS.'
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

Mr.. Francis c. Gummere. headmaster
of the Swain Free school, New Bedford,
Mass, is the author OLA Handbook of
PGc,ics."
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

The conclusion of Lord Lytion's Glen
averie" is to be published Immediately.
The beginSing of it ought never to have
been published.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

Professor David Mason has written
small volume on Carlyle, considered ne,'
sOnally and in his writings. We are gIad
the book is small. e~N
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

Mrs Grace A. Oliver is tire aut' or OF
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley" and considers
therein his life, work aud teachings.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

DIR. Damaso Sotomayor, a Mexican an
tiquarian, of Mazatlan, mas written a
work which purports to give the key to
the Aztec hierOgly phs.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

Apropos of pleasure in the woods, AN
Old Hunt r" has brought ont volume
named "The Hunters Hand Book"
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

P,ickiy Ash Baters Is NO, an IntoxNatins
beverage, but o pleasant, mild laxative sno
efficient Tonic, acting directly on the Liver.
Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

Justice and Police by f. w. Matt
land, has reference to the domain Of
English justice and deals in Instructive
criminal statistics.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
nyou arc tired taking the large oId-fa

nyoQ are tired taking the large old-fash-
toned gripping pills, and are satisfied thet
purginG yourself till you are weak and sick y
not good common-sense, then try Carriers
Little Liver Pills and lean how easy II is TO
be free from Biliousnees, Headache, Consti-
patton, and all Liver troubles. These little
bills arc smaller, castor to take and give
quicker relief than any pill In use. Forty In
Vial One dose. Price IS cents.
PATENTS obtsnedby Louis Dagger Co., At
torneys Washingt L. C. Estd 1884. Advice free
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

Save time and money 6y using Stewd,t', Heal
ing PoIgder for cuts end sores on anfm0,s Sois
eUerYwhere. IS and SO cts a Dor. IrHn
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

What character is now going to he
ascribed to Herod the Great? A new
story of HIM is about to he issued by a
LnndOn firm.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

Miss Cleveland Is experiencing the
triumphs of an author who Ii fortunate
enough to be sister of the presiden,.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
If YOU WANT A DOG

Send ID cents for DOG BUYERS GUIDE, 100 en-
cravings, colored plate. Associated Faneiers.
237 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

Diseases of the kidneys, liver, or urinary
organs, are speedily cured by the infalliblc
Hunts Kidney aud Iivcrl Remedy.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

Captain Winship. Providence Police, suf-
fered five years from kidney DISEASE, was
cured by Hunts Kidney aud Liverl X ,medy
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

Thus far iorr editions of Miss Jewitts
"A Marsh Island" have been printed.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

George RawinsoD's essay on the re-
licions of the ancient world has appeared
in cheap form.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
SROuxh on Cntarrh,v

COrrects offensive odOrs at once. Complete cure for
worst chronic cases. also unegualed M gaiCle foT
Diphtheria, sore Throat, Foul Breath JDc.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
The Hope Of the Nation.

Children. slow in development. puny, scrawny and
delicate, use wells Health Remover"
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
Catarrh of the R,adder.

Singing. irritation, Inflammation, all Kidney anC
Urinary Complaints, cured by "Buchu-Paiba. IL.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-18

tragedies of human existence. We paused in Paris while picked up rare volumes, long lacking on my shelves. We walked in Sutherland and rowed on Lake Geneva by moonlight under the shadow of Mont Blanc. We crossed into Italy, and here l felt my interest in humanity revive. We were happy, as man may be once in his life at least, for little space. We found our happiness in each other, and each enjoyed the others pleasure. At times it has seemed to me that the me~ ory of this happiness has embittered the sorrow which followed it swiftly. In a dream sometimes live those joyful days again, and then l awake to feel myself alone. and to know myself what am. Alter all, sleep is but palliative for the disease of lfe-death is the only remedy.
 When we left Italy we passed up into the Tyroi, and there one day heard a chance allusion te the arseni:-eaters, and l recalled an early desire to investigate for myself the habit of the workers in the arsenic mines, who feed daily on mixed portion of the deadly mineral, not merely without injury or danger, but with ad- vantage, in that they are thereby pro- tected from the insidious assault of the fatal product of their labor. went to the mines alone, for my wife had horror of poison in all it's forms. The word eyed vas painful to her. She believed her brother to be innocent, but whenever she chose to close her eyes she could see him lying in prison, under the awful accusa- ton of parricide. 4
 My examination of the mine was to me most interesting and instructive. Strange as 1t may seem, discovered that it was possible 10 poison by refusing to give
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-18

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The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-18

Senlcal polsenlng. There could be no doubt as to the success of the experiment.
 b l did not at once give her the portion
 of arsenic to which she had become &C., customed, she would die. On the eighth day after the cessation I gave her the roi son again, in her coffee, at breakfast. It was but trifiing dose, but its effect was instantaneous. She revived and began to improve. In ten days l had returned to the full dose had even increased it slightly and Lillian had recovered her strength. Yet she was taking every day four grains of arsenic, a quantity sufficient to kill two able bodied men.
 l now began to prepare for the end, and longed for the end to come that I might get on with my work. For several months so severe was the tension on my nerves that had been unable to 20 on with the search for the Elixir of Death. Beyond few barren experiments, me chanically conducted to an unsatisfactory conclusion, had done rothing, and l vas possessed by a passionate longing to get to work again as soon as might be. Every days delay maddened me. Anx- icus as l was, and eager as l was, to gain possession of the money which l needed in my great work, Twas not wanting in caution. had no wish to sec the man who was on the brink of the discovery of the Elixir of Death hauled to prison for . vulgar murder. taok counsel of my cunning. Hitherto I had ministered to all my wife's ailments. and she never dreamed of consulting another physician. 1 knew a conceited, good-natured, foolish young fellow who had just been gradu- ated from the medical school, where he had been . fayoEite pupil of the poor dod- dering old professor of analytical chem
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-18

could make another. And had power to get money in ways unknown to other men.
 l had often smiled as read the story of the seekers after the philosophers stone, which might transmute the baser metals into gold and silver. What was
 gold and what was silver to a true phil osoPher given over, body and soul, to the solution of problem which seemed in- scrutable even to those who were capable
 of conceiving its conditions ? As vain as the efforts of the seekers after the phil osopher's stone were the wanderings of those who thought to find the fountain of youth. But their motives were more laudable. That man should desire to be young even after he had acquired the wisdom of years--that he should wish to have an unclouded eye and a quick hand to execute what his more mature mind had conceived-this could understand and tolerate But like wealth, youth is means only, and the alchemists made it an end. To live torever-which was the ann of those who sought the Elixir of Life-what paltry endeavor was this Of what account IS life, in comparisop with knowledge and power? And when men have attained to perpetual life, they have always found 1t curse and never a blessing. Ahasuerus, the Wandering lev, and Vanderdecken, the Flying Dutchman-they had forced upon them what the seekers after the Elixir of Life were in search of, and they hated 1t, and they held themselves accursed that thev had it. What. Ahasuerus and Wander deckea would have given their souls to possess vas the Elixir oi Death.
 That should be debarred from this
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-01
SEPARATION.

"a wall grown up between the two
strong, thick wall, though all unseen
None knew when the first stones were laid
Nor how the wall was builtI ween.
And so their lives were wide apart,
Although they shared one board, one bed
a careless eye saw naught amiss,
Yet each was 10 the other dead.
He. much absorbed in work and gain,
Grew soon unmindiul OF his loss,
4 hard indifference worse than hate
Changed loves pure gold to worthless
dross.
She suffered toTtures sill untold
Too proud to mourn, too strong TO die;
The wall pressed heavily on her heart;
Her white face showed her misery.
such walls are growing day by day
'Twixt HIan and wife, 'iwixt friend and
friend.
Would they could know, who lightly build
How sad and bitter is the end.
a careless word, an unklnd thought,
a slight NEGLECT, d haunting tone
Such Things as these, before we know,
Have laid the wallis foundatio stone
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-01
stop that Cough

By using DR.. Frazier's Throat and
Lung Balsam-the only sure cure for
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness and Sore
Throat, and all diseases of the throat
and lungs. Do not neglect cough. 1t
may prove fatal; Scores and hundreds
of grateful people owe their lives to DR.;
no family will ever be without it after
Q Veon s pow a It IS put up ir in large large
family hotties and sold for the small
price of IS cents per bottle. Frazier
Medicine Co., Props, Cleveland, Ohio.
Sold by 2. c. NJ. l. Drug Store.
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A CARD.

To all who are suffering from errors and
indiseretions of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss of manhood. etes Il viii Ill
send recipe that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was 81
covered by missionary in South Ame9lc
~eni se.'- 'd1.essed envelope 70 REV
icseps I. iNMAS, Station D. New ioFA.
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DISFIGURING
HUMORS
HUMILIATING
ERUPTIOHJS
and Burning
TORTURES

1 have tried for eleven years to have my
wife cured of a terrible skin disease. The
CUTIcURA REMEDIES (CUTICURA REsoLvENG T,
the new Blood Purifier, internally, and CUTI
CURA, the great Skin Cure, and CUuCURA
SOAP, an exquisite Skin Beautffer, ex-
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tried for eleven years TO have done You
shall have the particulars as soon as can
give them to you, and as we are so well
known in this part of the country, it viii
benefit Won. and the remedies will cure ali
who use them. CHAS. H. WHITE.
MAYSYILLE KY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-01
BLOTCHEs CURED.

used your CUTIcURA REMEDIES for
Blotches, and am completely cured, to my
inexpressible joy. CUTIcURA SOAP is the best
have ever used, and to the profession it is
invaluable for cleansing the skin, thereby
removing all cork" grease, paint, and all
the stuff used by them. leavini the skin pure
and white and soft. My greatest pleasure is
in recommending such an article.
H. MACK.
Champion Comique Roller Skater
YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO.
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A Great Medical Work on Manhood.

Exhausted Vitality, Nervous and Physical
Debility Premature Decline in Man, Errors
of Youth. and the untold .miseries resulting
from indiscretion or. excuses. a book for
every man. young, middle-aged and old. 1t
contains lbs prescriptions for all acute and
chronic diseases, each one of which is in
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never before fell TO the lot of any physician.
300 pages, bound in beautiful French muslin
embossed covers, full gilt, guaranteed to be q
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only 800 by mail, postpaid. Illustrative
sample, 6 cents. Send now. Gold medal
awarded the author by the National Medical
Association, TO the officers of which he re-
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This book should be read by the Young for
instruction, and by the afflicted for relief. l.
wilt benefit all-LORdOR Lancet
There is no member of society to whom
This book VIII not be useful, whether youth.
parent, guardian, instructor or clergyman
ATg0Rdut.
Address the Peabody Medical Institute, or
] NV. II. Parker, No. Bullhnch Street, Bos-
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equiring skill and experience. Chronic
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