Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-20
A WAR ECHO.
EVERY HONORABLE VETERAN
DESERVES HIS PENSION.
Aud the Lone Limb IC Rot the Only
Reason for a Government Re-
ward Either.

REASON TOT a OOVernmenC he
ward Either.
F'rom the Journal, Lewiston, Me)
Samuel r. Jordan has Just given the
Journal an account of his life, which
in view of his extremely hard lot for the
past few years is of great interest.
II am 48 years old and have always
lived in New Portland. I enlisted in
the army in 1862 as a private in Com
pany A, Twenty-eighty Maine Volun-
teers Ny army experience injured my
health to some extent, although I
worked at blacksmithing some part of
the time, when suddenly, several years
ago, was Frustrated with what able
physicians pronounced LOcomotor
Ataxia. AT first I could get around
somewhat, yet the disease progressed
quite rapidly until I had hardly anv
like; sticks of wood, and grew so much
worse that I could not move for three
years without help, as my neighbors
and friends could testify. I employed
several physicians in my vicinity, and
elsewhere, and they all told me that
medicines would not help me, that
they could do nothing to effect a cure
and that in time I should become en-
tirely helpless. i became discouraged
was a great care to nv wife and
friends. Shortly after I met an old
army comrade, Mr.. All. Parlin, a resi-
dent of Madison, Me-, and he incidentIy
mentioned how he had tried DR.. Will
Jams Pink Pills for a severe case of
rheumatism and a spinal and maIariaI
trouble, that he had suffered with con-
sequent of his army life and had been
greatly benefited by their use. BY his
earnest recommendation I was induced
to try the pills. After taking them for
q time / began to feel prickly sensations
in my legs and a return of strength SO
I could move them little. After a few
weeks / began to feel a marked i'm
proVement in my condition. l soon was
enabled to walk around a little with
the help of cT-utcheS. After taking for
some time I can now walk without
crutches, my general health is much inn
proved and ] have regained my old
time Yigor. / can walk about and eniov
life once more, for which I feel very
thankful, and this happy result is due
to the use of DR.. Williams Pink Pills"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale PEG
pie were first compounded as
prescription and used as such in
general practice by an eminent
cacy that it was deemed wise to
place them within the reach of all. They
are now manufactured by the DR. Will
Jams Medicine company, Schenectady
N. Y, and are sold in boxes (never in
loose form by the dozen or hundred and
the public are cautioned against num-
erous limitations sold in this shape) at
80 cents box, or six boxes for 81. so, and
may be had of all druggists or direct by
mail from DR.. Williams Med. Co.
+.John," said a furniture salesman,
the other day, to the mover whom he
had summoned, g this bedroom set is
sold, but it is not to be delivered just
yet. Move it out of the salesroom at
once and store it somewhere till want
it."
whats the use of moving it till you
send it up to me?" asked the purchaser,
idly. 'Why don't you leave it where
it is?'
The salesman uttered a queer laugh,
and said:
at is evident that you were never
in the furniture business, or you would
not ask that question. If I should
mark that set sold and leave it here
in the salesroom in plain sight it would
probably lose US several good sales"
'How sol" asked the purchaser, with
an unbelieving look.
"1t illustrates a universal weakness
of nature" laughed the salesman. CIV
erybody wants what he can't get, and
there is nothing quite so attractive to
Tic Ouy 81 d JlSCS q luTA1-
ture that somebody else has bought
before he came around. If 1 left that
bedroom set out marked sold half a
dozen persons would say before night
that it was exactly the set they wanted,
and when they heard there were no
duplicates they would fuss around en-
T1ously and nothing else in the estab-
lishment would satisfy them.
Eventually they would go off dis
contentedly and buy elsewhere, though
the chances are that if there was no
sold tag on the set none of them would
give it more than a passing glance,
while a fair proportion of them would
purchase other sets. 1t is little human
weakness, that's all.
$50 arises one of the tricks Of the
trade. When a dealer sells a piece Of
furniture of which he has no duplicates
he hustles it out of the salesroom as
quick as he can, lest it lose him other
trade. But when he sells a piece of
which he has duplicates he puts a big
sold tag on it and leaves it in open
sight as long as possible for bait for