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TESTIMONY OF THE EXPERT.

There was a bridal couple coming in
on the Bay City train the other day, and
the passengers in that particular cal
were on the grin most of the time over
their antics.
The bride had got the man she loved
and didn't care a copper who saw her
pillow her head on his shoulder.
The bridegroom had got farm with
his wife, and if he wanted to feed her
gum-drops or squeeze her hand, whose
business was itP
A little old man, dried up and bald
headed, sat directly in front of the
couple, and he looked around so often
that the young husband finally eX-
planned:
We're just married.
Iknowed it all the time, chuckled
bald-head.
And we can't help it you know.
No, you can't-l'll be darned if you
kin.
presume il all seems very silly to an
old man like you, continued the hus-
band.
Does it! Does it! cackled the old
man, as he hobbled around. Wall, you
bet your life it doesn't. I've been right
thar three times over, and am now on
my way to Canada to marry fourth
You orter see me week hence. I'll
hug and squeeze and fondle at the rate
of Iorty-five miles an hour, and darn
the skunk that laffs at mel Silly! Why
children, it's parrydise boiled down.
detroit Free Press.
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WISE AND nTHERMIsE.

The man who goes over the bay toe
often is apt to get into a strait Hote
Mail.
High school girl-Oh mother our
minister has got all amanuensis. Mother
You don't say! Is he dOctOring for III
For chronic catarrh, induced by scrofulous
faint, Ayers Sarsaparilla is the true remedy. II
stops catarrhal discharges, removes the sicken
ing odor, and never fails to thoroughly eradicate
every trace of the disease from the blood, Sold
by all dealers in medicines.
Jones Ito his wife)-'Why is husband
like Dough- He was going to tell her it
was because a woman needs him; but
she replied: Because he was hard to get
off her hands,
The need Of mirth for promoting personal
loneliness, is due to j. c. Aver & Co., whose
Hair Yigor is universal beautifer of the hair
Harmless effective, and agreeable, it ranks
among the indispensable toilet articles.
MIR. Dolan, said the coroner TO a wit.
ness at an inquest over a man that had
been shot, can you tell us how the de-
ceased came to his death?
'Besorrah, sor, lie niver came to it at
all. 1t wor comm to him, and divil a
minute did he have to git out av it's
way Merchant Traveller.
He held her hand and her fingers pressed
But he never spoke of love;
For he was n clerk, and at her request,
He was trying on her glove.
Boston Courier.
The breath of chronic catarrh patient
is often so offensive that he cannot go
into society and he becomes an object Of
disgust. After a time liberation sets in +,
the spongy bones are attacked, and fire.
quently, entirely destroyed. A constant
source of discomfort is the dripping of
the purulent secretions into the throat,
sometimes producing Inveterate bron-
chitis, which in its turn has been the
exciting cause of pulmonary disease.
The brilliant results which have at
tended Its use for years past properly
designates EIy's Cream Balm as by far
the best, if not the only real cure for hay
fever, rose cold and catarrh.
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THE DIAMOND RING

Mr.. Elliort had eaten his supper, and
as it was yet early in the evening, he
thought he would go out and get a
cigar.
| won't be away no more than an
| hour, he said to his wife. I'll run into
the barber's and have my hair cut trtle
and be back before you can say Jack
| Robinson.
Mrs. Elliort did not want to say Jack
Robinson; she preferred to say Jack
Elliort.
Don't go off somewhere with those
horrid boys, she said with pout. shall
expect you home at precisely; no re.
spectacle and well behaved married
man
But Mr. Elliort had snatched a kiss
and the sentence neverwas finished.
The hour soon passed,
The girl had finished her work and
gone out. Mrs. Elliort was alone but
she did not mind it as she now expected
her husband every moment.
The clock struck s.
Mrs. Elllort was startled by a ring at
the front door.
Then she remembered Mr.. Elliort said
he would ring, as his latchkey was in
his other coat.
So she hurried to the door expecting
to see her handsome husband-Mr.
ElIort was a sort of Adonis. with brown
curling hair, hazel eyes, white teeth, and
10 v-e-l.y moustache, parted in the
middle and curled at both ends while a
generous beard fell in luXuriant waves
over his shirt front.
Hoping to see this vision Of manly
beauty, Mrs. Elliort opened the door, and
after one look saw that she had admit
ted stranger.
For the man--it was a man-stepped
into the hall, and only that she barred
the way he would have gone into the
parlor.
Sir She demanded, in tones that she
tried to make stern and steady, what
means this intrusion.
come to beg of you
have nothing to give you,
That diamond ring,
Oh, heavens, 1t was her engagement
solitaire.
She looked at the wretch, while all the
thoughts of lifetime crowded into that
brief moment, with this idea the most
prominent:
How shall identify him if he does
not murder me?
shall not part with this ring while l
have life. One word (the wretch has
dimpled chin would bring my husband.
who has seyen.shOOter ready cooked
(shaved skull, looks like cOnvlct), and
you would at once be given over to the
authorities, (the wretch has recently
shaved, traces of mOustache). II you
will 90 at once | will make no OutCry
what fendish expression), and do
not want my husbands hands imbrued
with your blood (the wretch actually
grinned), and you will never, never,
never possess yourself of my diamond |
ring. Oh, heavens! why doesn't Jack
co ueF
Madam, said the wretch, cannot
loiter,my pals are waiting for me round
the corner. Give up the ring without
more ado.
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Ayers Cherry PectOraI,

Never, base wretch! Take that, and
that, and that! And she laid on blows
fast and furious with an umbrella, which
she had secured by a backward motion
of the hand.
Jenny, said calm voice, as the UNI
brella was cody taken out of her hand
by the turn of an athletic wrist. are you
going to give me that ring.
Jack-are you that wretch? and Mrs.
Elliort dropped on the lowest stair, as
limp as rag doll
What on earth have you been doing to
yourself?
Getting my hair cut and my spring
shave on, Perhaps you don't like it.
W-w-h-ere's your mOustache?
At the barber'S.
You look just like a murderer, or-or
burglar, cried Jennie, who discrimi-
mated in the profession. took you for
a
Lawyer, doctor, bcggarman, thief
as we used to say when we were child
rem. Well, they say my best friend
wouldn't know me laughed her hus-
band.
Come in, said Mrs. Elliort, reluc-
family, suppose must give you house
room, but if ever there was bare-faced
swindler, you are one, Jack
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The First SYMPTOMS

or all Lung diseases are much the same (:
feverishness, loss Of appetite, sore
throat, pains in the chest and back,
headache, etc. In few days you may
be well, or, on the other hand, you may
be down with Pneumonia or "galloping
Consumption" Run no risks, but begin
Immediately to take Ayers Cherry
Pectoral.
Several years ago, James Birchard, OF
Darien, Conn, was severely i'll. The
doctors said he was in Consumption
and that they could do nothing for him
but advised him, as a last resort, to try
Ayers Cherry Pectoral. After taking
this medicine, two or three months, he
was pronounced well man. His health
remains good to the present day.
j. S. Bradley, Maiden, Mass, writes
"Three winters ago took severe cold,
which rapidly developed into Bronchitis
and Consumption. l was so weak that
could not sit up, was much emaciated,
and coughed necessarily. 1 consulted
several doctors, but they were power
less, and all agreed that 1 was in Con-
sumption. At last friend brought me
a bottle of Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
From the first dose, 1 found relief,
Two bottles cured me, and my health
has since been perfect"
Ayers Cherry PeCtOraI,
PREPARED by
DR.. J. G. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by oil Druggists Price 81 six bottles, Is.
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This is beyond question the most sue
cessful Cough Medicine we have ever
sold, few doses invariable cures the
worst cases of Cough, Group and Bron
chitls, while its wonderful success in the
cure of Consumption is without a paral-
lei in the history of medicine. Since its
first discovery it has been sold on a
guarantee, a test which no other m edi-
cine can stand. If you have cough
we earnestly ask you to try it. Price It.
cents, 80 cents and 81. If your lung
are sore, chest or back lame, use Shiloh
Porus Plaster. Sold by j. T. Shurtleff
Bennington.
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A correspondent in the London Agri-
cultural Gazette says, that upon a ratio n
of hay with one gallon of bran each day
for two weeks two tested COWS gave a
yield of 221@ pounds of butter. The
same cows, with the same quantity Of
oats substituted for bran produced 30
pounds.
! Clover and other deep rooted plants
bring up nitrogen, phosphates, potash,
and other plant-fOod from the subsoil
and leave them near the surface in the
| form Of vegetable matter; severe
drouth does the same thing.
Sheep should never be allowed to pas
| ture on land which has been top dressed
with manure, or to Craze on land which
| is liable to be overlooked or which con-
tain stagnant pools, on account of the
| danger Of the sheep becoming infested
with parasitiCal life.
Nathaniel Scudder Prime, father of
"Ireneus," at a critical period IN his life
burned all his sermons and thus saved
himself from idleness and self-indul-
gence; and similar story has been re-
lated of the Rev. n. S. Beaman, D. D..
of Troy, though in his case the sermons
were burned fer him and he became an
involuntary beneficiary. He was the
same minister who, having asked that
eight supper" might be prepared for
the presbytery, came home with his
brethren and found the table covered
with 100 lighted candles and nothing
else upon it.
Everybody Likes
to be called handsome, especially the
young ladies'. But that is simply i'm
possible as long as their face is covered
with pimpIes, botches and sores. But
wait, there is no need of this; one or
two bottles of Sulphur Bltters will re-
move all such designations, and make
your face fair and rosy Fannie Bell,
Editress.
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MY mUIHER
SHEE ninE LASI WEAK


SHEE WAS ALL | HAD. SHEE
SEQ SHEAD Bee WaITiN FuR-
And here, boys, the lettering stopped,
After a while ] went back to the man in
charge, and asked him what further he
knew of the little fellow who brought
the stone.
Not much, he said, not much. Didn't
you notice fresh little grave near the
one with the stone? Well, he lies there
He had been coming here every after
noon for some time working at that
stone, and one day / missed him, and
then for several days. Then the man
came from that church that had buried
the mother, and ordered the grave
dug by her side. asked if it was fol
the little chap. He said it was. He had
sold his papers all out one day, and was
hurrying along the street out this way
He didn't notice the runaway team JUS
above the crossing, and-well-he wa!
run over, and didn't live but day o.
two. He had in his hand when he wa
picked up an old file, sharpened dow
10 a point, that he did all the letterin,
on that stone with. They said h
seemed to be thinking only of that unit
he died, for he kept saying: didn't ge
it done, but she'll know | meant to fin
ish it, won't she? I'll tell her 50, 70
she'll be waiting for me, and boys, h
died with those words on his lips.
We were still for a while; none Of u
wanted to say anything.
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1t is to be hoped that in the general
cry for placing the wires under ground,
those cages Of wire which the ladies
carry behind them will not be forgotten
Il Boston Transcript.
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F 7 EN- D
Are You Sick ?

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/. v. ROYCE, N. D.,

may be consulted by letterIathis address Loci
box 1914, Springfield, Mass, His large Illus
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A GOOD VIEW.

So you are going to move, Mrs. Mar
joram.
Yes, Mrs, Sweetbriar. into lovely
house on K street.
Has it good view?
| should say it had. Why, we can
look right into the dining room next
door and see the family eat their
meals.
Dear. dear, how lucky you always
are Detroit Free Press.
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$50 Meals for 800.

The high cost of most prepared foods
them. But the dollar size of Lactated
Food prepared for infants, costs less
than five cents per quart, making it a
cheaper food for infants than cows
milk alone, besides being far healthier,
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WHOLESALE AGENTS.

PRICE-My Kidney Cure is one dollar per bot
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MY WARRANT-If you give my Kidney
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by IL, will refund your money. / wish to be hon.
est and honorable with yOu,and do not want your
money unless | can do you good. Can you EN-
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DR.. ROYCE'S
LIVER AND KIDNEY CURE.

This is the only Liver and Kidney Cure put up
by regular practcing physician of twenty five
years active experience.
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Not OF an abused human being, but of
an abused part of a human being,-an
abused liver. 1t is abused by being let
alone when it first complains. Paine's
Celery Compound cleanses and invIgor-
ates the clogged and torpid liver, and
cures the worst case of liver complaint.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-08
OUR I'LL USTRATIONS.

toNsoLATloN-The trouble Is indeed serious one When
grandma cannot do something towards removing
with the Affairs of life and
comforting words rarely tighten and
all their picture
ideal tender soc
kindly sympathy How gently lovingly
hands laid the shoulders of
her. One almost hear the old lady saying Come
child, tell your troubles" "DOn mind deare,
will all right" Grandmother happy
of aging comforting things when
beautiful illustration and well named Consolation.
GEO. w LINNwe have devoted page issue
wood cut of of Chicagos prominent
prosperous commission merchants, Geo W. Linn.
horn in kennebec county, Maine. February
family in ls4O settling in Lee county, Illinois
Mr. is early life spent farming pom ing
farm engaged in and shipping Subette
county In he removed Chicago where engaged
the produce commission business The firm
Mr. Linn has conducted the without partner
lie for several member of the Chicago
trade When the Chicago produce exchange
identified himself with been
of it's most active members its
twice president the twenty
been located south Water aud
years, the No. From small begin
ming Lnn business steadily increased until II has
attained magnitude but little any below
house the city To the shippers of butter poultry
potatoes and produce of this character Inns
familiar throughout the entire
gladly recognize his picture The produce
assumed such proportions that presenting
readers who has nearly reached the lead this
industry catering large
PiTKfS BROOKS On another page publish grand
terror view the floor the Wholesale
ment Of Pitkn Brooks State Lake
leading crockery establishment They are
porters and bbers of pottery and from all
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-08
"Are you in earnest?'

"Just thus far" she answered, "that | might
have learned to love him "a a wife, had | allowed
myself to do But, Bell, there were two obsta-
cles in the way-your dear fathers memory and
your happiness. read your heart, dearest, and
knew that Ralph need only do So too, to love you
you deserved"
And you have sacrificed yourself for me?"
exclaimed, almost revereRtially, as IL there was
something saint like in her gentle beauty
at was no sacrifice, Isabel. Any ieetng fancy
may once have felt has vanished long ago, and
am more than happy in your happiness"
And SO the unselish. steadfast love of my step
mother conquered my willful nature at last.
YhiiddeiDhid Call
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-08
A LIFE-LESSON.
m JAMES wH1rcoMB RILEY.

There little girl don't cry'
They have broken your doll, know,
And your tea set blue.
And YOUR play house too.
Are things of the long ago
Eut childish troubles Will soon pass hy.
There little girl don't cry
There little girl don't cry
Tkev have broken your slate, know,
And the glad. Wild ways
OF your school girl daAs
Are things 81 the long ago,
But life and love will soon come by
There little girl, don cry
There little girl don't CRY
They have broken your heart. know.
And the rainbow CLEANS
Of your Youthful dreams
are the things Of the long ago,
Eut heaven holds all for which YOU sigh
There little girl, don't cry
old fasbiaaed r.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-08

Prot. Sgambsti of the Roman Conservatory Of
Music, who was a favorite pupil of List, wrote a
wedding march for the recent marriage of the Duke
dAosta with the Princess Letitia. II fell To the
lot of the king ofltaly TO congratulate the maestro
but Humbert, with charming modesty excused
himself on the ground that he was but poor con
nosseur of music and referred the professor TO his
brother law the king of Portugal. The musician
Was delighted with the idea OF being feicitated by
so distinguished dilettante the royal translator
of Hamlet" but he found but slight sympathy
even in him. Il should have become perhaps some
thing of virtuoso, thanks TO the lessons of poor
Casela but" said the monarch, laughing, my
instructor was too much of courier. One day
asked him TO tell me frankly what he thought of
my execution of certain piece. Sire said my
maestro, all that sovereigns do is well done"