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MIR. AND MRS. BOwSEK.
Ky mrA. HOWAer.

nJ Nhlb
suppose there are other husbands
just as impatient as Mr.. Bowser, but
really wish he would take matters more
calmly. He had been gone about an houl
the other morning when he came run
ming back with a telegram in his hand
and exclaimed:
I've got to go to Chicago, and you and
baby can 60 along!
What time tonight do we go?
Tonight! We go at 1920 this morning
Why, Mr.. Bowser, we can't get ready
in an hour.
Yes, you can. Go right at it and jumr
around. You've always wanted to go tc
Chicago, and news your chance. Leave
everything for the girl to pick, and new
er mind how you look.
But, Mr.. Bow
Don't waste time arguing the matter
Fling things into the trunk just as they
come to hand. You attend to yourself
and baby and I'll get my own things.
Bot don't want to go to Chicago.
Yes you do. You've always said you
wanted to smell of the Chicago river,
and now you shall have it. Hurry up
you've wasted ten minutes already.
didn't want to go, but l felt that
Mr.. Bowser was determined. The girl
washed babys face and dressed. him
while l dressed myself, and was not
yet through when Mr.. Bowser dragged
the trunk into the hall, locked and also
rushed in to say:
I've go: everything we'll need in that
trunk and it's all ready to go. Come,
now, don't wait to primp and quicker,
Give me half an hour.
Can't give you but eighteen minutes.
If you amt ready then l shall take baby
and the trunk and go alone.
l was ready. / didn't look much bet
ter than woman who had escaped
from a burning house, but l hoped to
improve some after we got on the train.
A wagon came up on the gallop for our
trunk, and hack came up on the gal.
lop for us, and we got off with a rush
Half way to the depot Mr., Bowser offer.
ed the driver so cents to drive faster
and he went through the business street
as if bound for Canada ahead OF the
sheriff. We got out and hurried into
the depot and into the baggage room.
and Mr.. Bowser was rushing about like
a Gagged lion when the baggageman asked
him where he was going.
To Chicago, OF course.
BY way of Milwaukee
No. sir! What do l want TO go by way
Milwaukee for
That's none of my business, but that's
the only way our trains run. You have
got the wrong depot.
Mr.. Bowser looked ten years older as
he grabbed the baby and told me to fol.
low him to a hack, and we had another
wild ride to the other depot. We rushed
in, the trunk came up with a whew and
the baggageman asked If it wac TO 60 to
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TnELATE WAR.

We had stopped a: a farm house to
get drink of water and rest the horses
bit, and as saw that the door was
held open by cannon ball lying against
it, | presently asked of the old farm
er:
You were in the war, of course?
Yes. fit from first to last, he replied.
You mean the late war, suppose!
Yes.
That's the one mean. wasn't in the
Mexican war. nor the war of 1879, nor
yet the Revolutionary war, | could lie
about it and deceive you, but | won't do
it. Never told a lie IN my life.
Were you in many battles?
Over a hundred. could lie about il
and say over 200 but won't. l never
exaggerate about anything.
Ever woundedI
Fourteen times, sir,
Is that possible?
Reckon it is sir. Some of the fellers
around here would tell you they had
been wounded thirty or forty times, but
that isn't my style. l was hit just four
teen times and don't propose to add to
the number.
You were lucky not to lose leg or an
arm.
Yes | was. could lie to you and say
had, but won't do it. hate liar.
What prominent battles did you take
part in2
Do you mean in the last war?
Yes.
Because that's the only war was ever
in. Never tell thing | can't swear to.
What prominent battles was in?
Yes.
All of 'em of course. That was what
l enlisted for Ito be in all the prominent
battles, could lie to you and say
wasn't in any of 'em but | won't do it.
never have any thing to do with liar.
What was your hardest fight?
In the last war?
Yes,
Between the Yanks and Rebs?
Yes.
couldn't hardly say. Some folks
would say this or that one was the hard
est, but was brought up by religious
mother, and can't be deceiver. l sim
ply fit and fit in each one, and when |
got through had one of the boys take
towel and wipe the blood off.
You must have killed a great many
Yankees. What do you place the num-
Der at?.
Yankees in the last war;
Yes.
Not in the Revolutionary war.
No.
Well, at about 3O00
Noa.
That's what said, stranger. Some Cf
the fellows around here claim to have
killed from 1000 to 1000, but can't do
1t. 1t goes agin the grain. couldn't
look you in the face and say over 3000
Did the Union soldiers know what
terror you weTeg
Union soldiers IN the last war?
Yes,
War of the rebellion?
That's the one.
reckon they did, sir.I could lie to you
and say reckon they didn't but know
you want it straight. My father lies
buried right across the road and I'd look
purity telling lies in the shadow Of his
tombstone J
Were you ever taken prisoner / asked
after a short silence.
Prisoner Of war?
Yes.
In the Mexican war;
No; in the last war.
Never, sir. Some Of our fellows round
here are allus telling how many times
they were taken prisoner. but won't lie
TO you. You look honest and I'm going
to tell you the truth. A liar may get
along all right for few years, but he's
tripped up at last.
You must have come out Of the war
colonel, at least.
This last war;
Yes.
So did. Yes, won't deoeiye you.
could lie and say didn't, but you'd stop
at my son in laws up the road and find
out the truth. Tween a boss thief and
liar prefer the thief. It's much more
honorable.
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practice and yet are unaccOUntahle and
inexphcable by means of science, Hard
coal ashes are said to contain practically
no plant food, and the chemists tell us
they are,worthless as fertilizer. And
yet few farmers who have used them on
their fields or gardens but declare them
to have been notably serviceable.-[New
York Tribune.
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SKIN SCALP
BLOOD

Having been a sufferer for two years and half
from disease caused by bruise on II g leg. and
having been cured by the Cuticura Remedies when
all other methods and remedies fsiled, deem it
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John P. Finley Ito whom shall ever feel CRATE
full, spoke to me about the Cutcura Remedies, so
l consented to give them trial with the result
that am perfectly cured. There is no sore about
me. think can show the largest surface where
my suherings sprang from of any one in the State.
The Cuticura Remedies are the best blood and
skin cures manufactured. l refer to druggist j,
p Finlay and DIR d Montgomery, both Of this
place and to DIR Smith of Lake Lee. Miss.
ALEXANDER BEACH, Greenville, Miss.
Mr. Beach used the Cuticura Remedies at our
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A b FINLAY & co, Druggists.
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NEW YORK, RUTLAND & MONTREAL RAIL
IN WAY TIME TABLE

Leave Bennington, S 80. II 40 a M, S Is D. m.
Arrive, Bennington, 80 a. m, IS, 8 90 p. m.
Arrive, North Pownal' %. a. me- q. 6 80 D. m.
POwnal'. y 81, m, ~ %. o IS p m Wilkins
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SPIN; Pittsiield'. 10 50 a m, 3 S. p m;
Springfield y pm o ~ p m :Northamp-
tons, 10. ~ p m; New Ravens, I sos 2S
pm; New York;, l5pm.
Leave New York. 10 80 m; New Haveng Is,
II %, Northampton IS am, 81 p m
Springfield, 800, HAS m:
rittsheld, II Is a m. 10 p m: Boston,.
$50 IL IS a m, Aver Junction 2 q a m,
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SAVED My MOTnER,S LIFE,

Ever since can rcmember.my mother has suf.
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To Save Life

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n PER CENT. FIRST MORTGAGES IN
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WISE AND OTHERWISE.

I The hustle is going. says a fashion
paper. The fashion paper is right, be-
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began with nothing; boasted a mil
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Can't something be done to make
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They VIII never make any noise in the
world'atter they graduate
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A. W. PERRIN. Geng Passenger Agent.
:. P. HOPSON, SUPERINTENDENT
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-02-12
MONSTER SKELETON.
A Skeleton of Mastodonic Pro-
portions Unearthed in Texas.

Ic4aSs
Cisco, Tex, Feb. 11.-A problem for
scientists to solve. The largest skeleton
ever heard of has been discovered in
Eastland county, and is being exhumed.
A. 0. McROane. an Eastland comfy
farmer and highly respected gestle-
man, came into town yesterday after
noon and brought two petrified teeth
and portions Of the skull of skeleton
that was discovered by Archie Brown
few days ago. The teeth, which Mr..
McROane placed on exhibition, weigh
eight and sixteen pounds orespectively,
the lighter one being partly decayed.
Mr.. McRoane told of the discovery as
follows: Archie Brown was travel
ing through the woods near
creek when he discovered a
horn sticking out of the
side of the bank. He tried to pull it
out but could not, and commenced dig
ging, and finally reached the head of
the animal, and found the horn to be
six feet long and twelve inches in di-
ameter, two feet from the head. He got
assistance and eXhumed the other horn,
the head, some of the ribs and the left
foreleg of the animal, which was seven
feet under hard clay. Its under jaw
bone measures two and a-half feet
across and three feet long. The head
from tip to tip of nose, is five feet, and
is three feet between the eyes. Its left
foreleg bone from the knee joint to the
shoulder blade Joint is five feet, and
measures eight inches in diameter at
the knee joint. The other part of the
leg crumbled so it could not be meas
ured. The remaining part of the skele
ton has not been unearthed yet, but a
ctYiaf nd &c lyant
geSt that it is mastodon, and lived
during the carboniferous age; but its
size and shape does not bear out that
idea. Its horns and head resemble
goats. The whole skeleton will be
eXhumed.