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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-28
True IA Things Now Stand.
The Politicians.

1t is queer phase of this discussion that
every public man who is opposed to Mr..
Cleveland is set down as mere pOliti-
cian," while every Insignificant nobody
who speaks out for Cleveland is promptly
cracked up to DO lone of tie people"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-28

CHOP FOR RENT. u
1000 per apnum. SEW BRICK s'f
Brond street near Shafer strc.f. -...
Deutsr- shop or other busin,-., .t *
FRANK %. iilIi
Eeli t-ff-"
taosrt gu.th I.,r.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02
WORDS OF WISDOM.

The reward of one duty done is the
power to fulfil another.
The fear of being called a coward
makes lots of towards act like brave
men.
The turn In the long road travelled by
most men is usually the turn into the
cemetery.
IT'S astonishing how soon the whole
conscience begins to ravel if o single
stitch is dropped.
The sudden death of friend of his
own age has greater effect on a man
than 1000 sermons.
The world is getting on towards 6
o'clock in the morning, instead of 6
o'clock in the evening.
When you find two men in the same
business who claim to be friends, you
have two more hypocrites.
There probably never was a man so
good that he did not hope in his heart
that his successor would be failure.
If people worked as hard after mar
rage to keep each other as they did be-
fore the engagement to win each other,
marriage would be more of success.
Why is it that everyone has something
to be ashamed off, The fact that there
are no exceptions to the rule would seem
to indicate that no one can be wise
enough to prepare for to-morrow's evil.
Good manners are the settled medium
of social life, as specie is of commercial
life; returns are equally expected of
both; and people will no more advance
their civility to bear than they will
their money to bankrupt.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02
Bears Tackle a Locomotive.

Engineer Smith, of one of the Lake.
land aud Barlow trains in Florida, re-
ports having quite little adventure the
other day while on his soutnbound trip.
While crossing "Rattlesnake Fork"
trestle two large bears, it appears,
emerged from the woods at the side of
the track, and trotted on the trestle
ahead of the train. Smith gave pull
with the throttle, and the engine
bounded forward. Tine bears heard the
on-coming train, and plainly did not like
the situation. They were afraid to leap
from the trestle, which was quite high,
and began trotting to gain the other side.
Finding that the train was gaining on
them, both turned just before reaching
the middle of the trestle, and standing
upright, faced the train, and put up their
fore-paws like accomplished and trained
prize fighters.
The train rushed on, and the cow
catcher struck both bears, fairly throw
ing one about twenty feet into the air
and off the trestle, and lifting the other
one some ten feet into the air. The
latter, as he came down, fell on the plat
form IN front of the boiler, and, clutch
ing at the brass rods, managed to retain
his hold there. Frightened by the roar
of the engine so close to him and the hot
iron beneath him, bruin hastily scrambled
up and crawled onto the fore part of the
board that runs from the cab onto the
front of the engine.
Catching sight of the fireman's face
through the window, the bear growled
savagely, suffering severely from his
wounds, probably, and started for the
window. The fireman had just been
raking the fire and his huge iron poker
was red-hot. As the bear crawled along
near the window he threw. it open and
unged at the bear with the red-hot iron
poker. The hot iron went sizzling into
bruins hide, and the agonized beast gave
a terrible howl and tried to spring up at
his assailant. The engine gave lunge
at that moment and off dropped the
bear, falling almost directly under the
wheels, but he scrambled off in some
manner, only losing part of his hind leg.
He rolled down the embankment, and,
with loud growl of pain and rage,
bounded off into the dark woods.
1t all passed so quickly that the
engineer and fireman could hardly realize
the facts in this strange adventure, and
when they got to Barlow they had a
wondering crowd around the engine
examining the bloody trail made by the
bear as be elm bled up the engine and
ran along the footboard.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02
All About Asbestos.

Asbestos is fbrous, white, gray, or
green mineral not fusible. The variety
called rock cork very much resembles
cork, is sof. and easily cut, and so light
as to float on water. Rock leather and
rock wood are varieties somewhat similar
to rock cork, but not so light. The
finest fibrous variety with easily separable
ibres is called amainthus, because cloth
made of it was cleansed by passing it
through fire. This cloth was used by
the ancients to enwrap dead bodies placed
on the funeral pile so as to preserve the
ashes of the body unmixed. 1t was also
woven by them into handkerchiefs and
towels. OF late years it has been con-
siderably used as tire-proof roofing, floor
ing and packing in safes, journal boxes
and around steampipes. Paper has also
been made of it, but though, at red heat,
the paper remains uninjured, the writing
disappears. 1t is said that Charlemagne
had tablecloth of asbestos, which, for
the amusement of his guests, he was wont
to throw into the fire at the close of the
meal. The finest specimens of this
mineral come from Corsica and Savoy,
though some are found in the Alps,
Pyrenees and Ural mountains, and in
North America and New South Wales,
while commoner varieties, such as the
rock cork and rock wood, are found in
Lanarkshire, Tyron, Dauphiny and parts
Of Scotland.-Neu York Dispatch.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02
Deafness Can't be Cured

By local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu-
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining OF the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have rumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when il Is entirely closed,
deafness is the result, and unless the infam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which IS nothing but an in
famed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of deafness caused by catarrh) that We
cannot cure by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
+. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, Is cents.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

Syrup"
We have selected two o.

We have selected two or
Group. three lines from letters
freshly received from pa
rents who have given German Syrup
to their children in the emergencies
of Group. You will credit these,
because they come from good, SUBJ
stantial people, happy in finding
what so many families lack-a med
icine containing no evil drug, which
mother can administer with con-
fdence to the little ones in their
most critical hours, safe and sure
that it will carry them through.
ED. L. WILLIS, of Mrs. JAs.W. KIRK,
Alma, Neb. l give it Daughters College,
to nv children when Harrodsburg, Ky. I
troubled with Group have depended upon
and never saw any it in attacks of Group
preparation act like with my little daugh-
1t. 1t is simply mi ter, and find 1t an in
raculous. valuable remedy.
Fully one-half of our customers
are mothers who use Boschee'S Ger
man Syrup among their children.
A medicine to be successful with the
little folks must be a treatment for
the sudden and terrible foes of child
hood, whooping cough, Group, diph-
iberia and the dangerous inflamma-
tions of delicate threats and lungs. q
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02
yynaI was vorc-, rnc oen,ennrn.

Now that the matter of appropriations
for exhibits at the Worlds Columbian
Exposition is one of the paramount SUBJ
.jects of discussion in many State Legis-
latures it may be interesting to know
what amounts were subscribed by the
various States toward the Centennial Of
1876. The official record. as produced
by a man who was connected with the
Centennial, is as follows:
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02
Progress.

It is very important in this age Of vast mate
rial progress that remedy be pleasing to the
taste and to the eye, easily taken, acceptable
to the stomach and healthy in It's nature and
effects. Possessing these qualities, Syrup Of
Figs is the one perfect laxative and most gen.
tie diuretio known.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

I FITS stopped free by DIR. KLINE's GREA1
NERVE REsToRER No fits after first day.
use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 tria
bottle free. DIR. klire, 93l Arch St., Phila
delphia, Pa.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

feel it my duty to inform others Of my sue
cess plating spoons, castOrs, Jewelry, etc. The
first week cleared 81 81, and In three weeks
$50. BY addressing the Lake Electric Co,
Englewood, Ill, you can get circulars Six
months ago was pOorI now have q nice homo
and bank account all the product of % in
vested in q Platter. A READKR.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

For impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Ma
laria. Neuralgia, Indigestion and Blliousness,
take Browns Iron Bitters-it gives strength,
making old persons feel young-and young
persons strong: pleasant to take.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

BUMPT1oUs LAwYER-When I began
my profession 1 hadn't penny to call
my own, sir! Cynic (quietly) And
have Won nowp
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomahc
disorders, use Browns Iron Bi.ters. The
Best tonic, it rebuilds the system, cleans the
Blood and strengthens the muscles A splendid
tonic for weak and debilitated persons.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

II afflicted with sore eyes, use DR.. Isaa
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell a
25c per bottle
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

The cultivation of oysters along New
Hampshire's short coast-line is about to be
ate mpted by the State Fish Commission.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

There are about g., 90 arrests each year in
Paris, and of those arrests thirty-fve are
aSsaSsins.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

The State of New Jersey, in addition
to her regular appropriation for the ex-
penses of collecting exhibits, subscribed
outright for $780, 900 of the stock of the
ENTERPRISE
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

A matter Of course-table d'hote bill Of
are.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

For every man in love, there Gre nine hun.
dred and ninety-nine men who think they
are.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

Millionaires competed for a running prize
at Tuxedo Park recently-a wei -to-do race
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

Everyone knows how to cure sorrow, but
everybody has it. The principal thing re-
commended is mot to think of it,"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

The road to eternity issues no return
tickets.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

A MAN will excuse any fault in the
woman who is not his wife. Hutchinson
Globe.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

Those who believe that DIR.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy will
cure them are more liable
to get we'll than those who
don't.
If you happen to be one Of
those who don't believe, there's
a matter of $500 to help your
faith. It's for you if the max
ers of DIR. Sage's remedy can't
cure you, no matter how bad
or of how long standing your
catarrh in the head may be.
The makers are the Worlds
Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton of Buffalo, NY. They're
known to every newspaper
publisher and every druggist
in the land, and you can cas-
lily ascertain that their words
as good as their bond.
Begin right. The first stage
is to purify the system. You
don't want to build on a wrong
foundation, when you're build
ing for health. And don't
shock the stomach with harsh
treatment. Use the milder
means.
You wind your watch once
a day. Your liver and bowels
should act as regularly. If
they do not, use a key.
Tile key is-Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. One a dose.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-02

Am. n. U.s No. IS, 1891
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-15

that refused to accept any pay for the
work, and offered to read the answer just
as soon as he should bring it to me.
The next day one of the chambermaids
came to me to write letter accepting an
invitation to dance She had been able
to spell out the precious message that the
postman had Unexpectedly brought her,
and wanted to send an equally neat and
polite reply. So | answered my own let
Ter py proxy.
AFTER that an energetic epistolary
bombardment was commenced, and fur
nisbed the ammunition for boto sides. |
will confess that [ grew greatly interested
in the contest. Bo.h of my patrons were
desperately in love with each other, and
as the management Of their amours de-
volved upon me handled the matter as
delicately and automatically as | could
Can you blame me if | occasionally gave
then chance to learn from experience
that the course of ture love never runs
smoothly?
well. right or worng, l did it; md
after mixing into the case about as many
lovers quaIrels as thought would add
zest to the wooing, untaugling
all TIE snarls had purposely made, |
brought the play to an end by writing a
proposal and its acceptance, and was re-
warded for my work as a matchmaker by
an invitation to the wedding. 1t was all
the pay deserved-practIce is worth
something in such matters you know. ."
New York Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-15
LIS. ST. P. & u.
These Letters are the initials of the
New Line through Wyoming and
Idaho to the Pacific Northwest

This line is composed Of the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha and Union Pacific Rail
ways, and reaches more Fai
Western Cities than any other line
as follows:
Haley, Boise City, Lewiston,
Moscow and principal Idaho
points.
Walla Walla, Colfax, Farming
ton, Rockford, Spokane Falls and
numerous Washington points.
Baker City, Pendleton, Portland
and principal Oregon points.
Ogden and Salt Lake City, the
largest points in Utah.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and
all California points from Mt
Shasta to San Diego.
And this line also reaches Butte,
Anaconda and many other points
in Montana.
Also note that by this line
accommodation are furnished in
Pullman Family Sleeping Cars
very low rates to holders
econd-class tickets going to
Washington, Oregon and Califor-
MIA.
When you get ready to go
West, before deciding upon your
route, call on agents of c., St. P.
M. & O. Ry., who will cheerfully
furnish rates and information
about through Car service over
the "Lake Superior, St. Pail &
Union Pacific Line" and connec-
tons, or for pamphlets and map
address
T. w. TEASDALE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-15
Success.
Greenwood,

Fight your own battles. Hoe your own
row. Ask no favors of any one and you
will succeed five thousand times better
than one who is always beseeching some
ones patronage. No one will help you as
you will help yourself, because no one will
be as heartily interested in your affairs.
The first step will not be such long OF y
perhaps; but, carving your way up the
mountain, you make each step lead to an
other and stand firm in that while you
chop still another out. Men who made
fortunes are not those who had five thous-
and dollars gwen them to start With, but
started fair with veil earned dollar or
wo. Men who by their exertions acquired
anne, have been thrust into popularity by
puffs paid for or given in friendly spirit.
L hey have outstreic hed their hands, and
reached the public heart. Men who win
love do their own wooing, aud | never
knew man to fail so signally as one who
had induced his affectionate grandmother
to speak good word for him. Whether
you work for money, or anything else,
work with your hands heart and brain.
Say Il will, and some day you will con-
quer. Never let any man say II have
dragged you up" Too many friends hurt
a man more than none at all
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-15
MODERN SAMSONS.
Many of the Strong Men Kill Themse1ve
by Their Exertions.

by Their Exertions.
The strong-man mania has subsidized
somewhat Three months ago 1t was at
high-tide. Scores of exponents were 60
ing about the country on the museum cir
cults, the objects of ardent admiration.
They performed various feats, some good
and some hardly out of the ordinary. All
issued challenges by the scores, many of
them for notoriety. OF course this kind of
business developed many novices. Men
who thought they were strong tried their
hands. and as soon as they cultivated the
sleight, which it must be admitted is be-
hind all actions of this kind, they could
accomplish clever feats. Each large work
shop developed its strong man.
There is one promising novice in this
city. He is young man, and with prac-
tIce will unquestionably develop into a
good litter, because his excellent act just
now is a sheer lift. The other day the
workmen at the old Hainsworth steel mill,
corner of sandman and Twentysixth
streets, were trying their hands on "a mass
of iron Weighing 500 pounds. 1t was a
good lift for them with both hands.
While at work Laboring Boss Solomon
came along and was invited to try his
strength. Solomon took the weight in one
hand and raised it quickly far above his
knees. The men were astonished, but
when Solomon added 100 pounds and rails
ed the 400 pounds with one hand to the
level of his knees and lowered it slowly
they were more surprised None could
equal the feat. Solomon had never tried
weight lifting before. He is 30 years old.
FIVE feet uine inches. and weighs ITO
pounds. Andy Siebert, the old oarsman,
who is rated as one of Pittsburgh's good
Hfters, thinks Solomon powerful man.
There are some warehousemen In this city
who can handle weighty articles Arbuck-
les 4 Co. boast of man who can take a
200 pound barrel, eaten it bv the ends, and
lift it into high wagon. He does it with
ease, in the bargain.
Heavy weight lifting is hardly much of
a developer, although the leading expo
nents are pretty we'll developed. Here are
the chest measurements of the leaders
Cyr, IS inches: Sandow, 45%: Sampson,
A; Biatt, AZ; Miller, AK; Apollo,
A.
Practice of this sport is attended with
much danger. Early death has been the
penalty of many. They exhausted their
vitality in the performance Of hercuean
feats.
Charles A. Bennett, of San Francisco,
died Of consumption in 1892 and was a
man who lifted 967 pounds Of pig-iron
with his hands alone, lifted fourteen tons
of iron in minutes time, put up 1884
pound bell, swung pair Of ten-pound
Indian clubs 4,309 times In less than an
hour, and turned 2)5 back somersanlts in
fifty-four minutes and ten seconds. He
lived to be only IS years of age.
Richard A. Pennell who twenty years
ago was one of the strongest men in Amer
lea, and put up 2ol4-pound dumb-bell
(making record wnica stood for years.,
of his life, his vitality having been impair
ed by over-exertion.-Pitts Chron-
icle-Ielegraph.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-15
What to do With Bad Temper.


Starve It. Give 1t nothing to feed on.
When something tempts you to grow an
cry, do not yield to the temptation. 1t
may for minute or two Je difficult to
control yourself; but try ii. Force your.
self to do nothing, to say nothing, and the
rising temper Will be forced TO 60 down,
because it has nothing to hold up. The
person who can and does not control
tongue, hand, and heart, in the face of
great provocation, is hero. The world
may not own him or her as such, but God
does. The Bible says That he that ruIeth
his spirit is better than he that taketh a
city.
What is gained by yielding to temper?
For moment there Is feeling of relief;
but soon comes sense of sorrow and
shame, with wish that the temper had
been controlled. Friends are separated
by bad temper, trouble is caused by it,
and pain is given to others as we'll as to
self. That pain too often lasts for days.
even years-sometimes for life. An out
burst of temper Is like the bursting of a
steam boiler; it is impossible to tell be fore
what will be the result. The evil done
may never be remedied. Starve your
temper. It is not worth keeping alive.
Let it de
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-15
Love Makes Life.

"Our life path is not straight, nor does
it lie in gently varying curves. God
marks his ways for US with angles. We
may think we see miles ahead, but quickly
we are whirled around an unsuspected
corner. The whole direction is altered:
the sun suddenly turns our shadow to
new point of the compass; the foliage that
shone like translucent gold becomes in
moment dun and drakly green. The old
path is In sight no longer, turn and view
the Toad as we may. As we go on the
aspect changes, the sight changes, the
man changes. This is what we live for
to move in newappointed ways. 1t is
not ours to sleep as yet but we are chang
ed because dear one sleeps. One day
we, too, shall sleep. Shall others then be
changed, and move to their new-appoint-
ed ways? Love turns our courses. Love
makes life life. $. S. Times.