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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-05
STATES BALANCE SHEET.
Treasurer Anterior Issues His Month
ly Report.

State Treasurer Anterior has issued
his monthly report for May. The re-
port shows disbursements to the
amount Of s104 65s.10, and balances on
hand May 81 to the amount of $721,-
55S 90.
The receipts for the month were
S7,6S8-67, and from the following
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-05
a Bank Quits Business

Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has
been notified that the directors of the
Peoples Saving bank of Fort Scott has
desided to go into liquidation The de-
the bank VIII go out Of business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-05

Ladies shirt waists Iaundered 50 that
the colors Will not fade by Peerless
steam Laundry 112 and ia ". sth-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-05
fHE STAR GROCERY
Wholesale and Retail.

Save ten cents when you can, BY buying from you
will dollars In time. Flour is cheaper we Will
uaranae to save you cents on every hundred pounds
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We can Iaunder ladies' shirtwaists to
s114t the most critical customer Peer
less steam Laundry, 112 and ia West
Eighth.
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More Work on Central Branch.

Orders have been received by Mas
ter Mechanic Weller of the Central
Branch shops at AtchisOn. to increase
the working time of the shops ten hours
a week For several months past the
shops have been working but four days
a week, the men laying of each Wed
nesday and Saturday The new order
viii apply to all departments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-05

Broken edge collars made smooth by
Peerless Steam Laundry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-05

n . Jordan. Bell telephone SIS; cleo
+ric lirht and bell wiring; repairing
promptly-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-05

watch for Boutwell, & 1Iunson's vege
table and fruit wagons
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Washburn Contest

The annual academy defamation
contest of Washburn viii take place
this evening Six VIII contest 1ASy
are Adelaide NIcKeighau, Forest C.
Cochran. Maude Best, Katharyn Ar
mold. Grace Chandler, Alfred Newton
and Paul Noble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-05

Pond's sehool Is algebra. -. &c.
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Pond's school at COZ Topeka avenue.
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good will, are sold under order of court
the right to use the firm name in con-
tinuing the business belongs to the pur-
chaser of the assets and good will, and
is subject to be transferred to a cor
poration of which he is a member or
ganized to carry on the business.
The right of a tenant to the man
ure produced on leased premises by
livestock in excess of what could be
maintained by the products of the prem
ises is sustained in recent New
Hampshire case, and such right is held
not to be lost by his intermixing the
manure which belongs to him with that
owned by the landlord. The annexation
to the case is upon the right of landlord
and tenant in respect to manure on
leased premises.
A sale Of lots to be drawn by the
purchasers is held to be contrary to
public policy and void in Indiana, where
the advantages of location, character
size or condition as between lots of the
same class as arranged by the prices
marked are determined wholly by lot,
while prize lot is to be given to some
one of the purchasers as the result OF
chance
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and maintained with torrents of elO-
quence and invective that both gold and
silver would circulate at the ratio of
1G to / simply by allowing the owner of
bullion to have his bars coined. But
they have lucid intervals in one of which
that wonderful man that they were
going to run for President, Mr.. Sibley
of Pennsylvania, said in a speech In
Congress, '"They say gold will go to
premium Well it has been at a prem
ium for twenty years and you did not
know it, Let it so to a premium and
when the Ward McAllisters and the
other 400 go to Europe it will cost a
little more to make their exchanges and
if they bring home fine clothes it will
cost them a good deal more money"
and more drivel of similar nature.
What financierS they are. They would
plunge this nation over a precipice
simply to crafty blind spite and po-
litical bigotry Of the rankest type.
NOT BUILT THAT WAY.
Marysville Democrat: An Idaho edi-
tor being asked if he had ever seen a
baldheaded woman, replied: mo; we
never did. Nor have we ever seen a
woman Waiting around town in her
shirt sleeves, with a cigar between her
teeth. We have never seen a woman go
fishing with bottle in her hip pocket,
sit on the damp ground all day and
then go home drunk at night. Nor have
we ever seen woman yank off her coat
and swear she could lick any man in
town. God bless her She's not built
that way"
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RECENT INTERESTING CASES.

Among the recent business decisions
of American courts which it is well for
business men to understand is one by
an Ohio court that the refusal of a bank
to pay a check which 1t has not accepted
gives the holder no right of action
against the bank, though the drawer
has sufficient credit in the bank to meet
the check. This follows the line of
American decisions for years, but seems
not to have been understood by bust
ness men in Ohio.
Another decision recently given in
Washington is to the effect that
loss of public money by bank
failure is no excuse for failure of a
County Treasurer to pay over the mon
ey. There is a conflict of authorities
on this point, and it cannot be called
other than unsettled. In California ii
has been held that public official who
kept money in regular order of custom
and lost by reason of robbery is relieved
Of responsibility.
Still another case of interest is one In
which a decision was handed down in
this State, wherein it was held that
signing another's name as his agent
and adding ones own initials to show
agency, in the presence of the person
who pays over money on the faith OF
such signature, is not forgery, though
the claim of authority was false and
may constitute some other crime.
In Arkansas 1t has been decided that
it is not fraud for one creditor to try
to keep another ignorant of trade he
is seeking to make with the debtor
merely for his own protection. In Ala
bama it has been decided that an agree
ment by one person to take all the
chances of proposed scheme to raf-
lie off property is lawful. because all
the elements of chance are thereby
eliminated, and a definite price for the
property is fixed.
In an Ohio court it has been held
that on dissolution of trading CO.
partnership when its assets, including
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July last, that as it Is fully in accord
with the demand for a larger use of sill
yer, safe middle ground may be found,
and to that end it advanced the propo-
sition to make all kinds of silver coin
age legal tender for sums of $50 and
less; issue no bills or coin of gold, or
based on gold, for less than $40; coin
the bullion now in the treasury,
amounting to S60,0OO,O00. This would
practically make silver a legal tender,
for nearly all domestic bills can be paid
in silver. This course would put in cir
culation four or five hundred millions
of silver, because transactions will nee
essarily be in silver since there will be
nothing in the gold form of less than
$50. There is nothing in the Republican
platform to prevent the party from
adopting this solution of the question.
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LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining In the Postoffice at Sacra
mento, August 81, 1896
LADIES' LIST.

Remaining in the Postoffice at Sacra-
mento August 81, 1896.
LADIES LIST.
Aikens Mrs; Aiken Mrs Lille: Andrews
Mrs I L; Arnold Miss Addie.
Carroll Mrs; Chamberlain Mrs Anne;
Chaves Mrs Maria Jose; Chrisman Mrs F,
NJ; Conrad Miss Abby; Coy Mrs; Guard
Misses Adna-
Darcy Miss Kitty: Davis Mrs E; Davis
Sonora Gregoria M: Dunton Mrs H L;
Dunwoody Miss Winnie: Durant Mrs H F.
Ea19n Miss sr Luz; Em f9;I3 ME- Mrs.. Amelia
Fisher Miss Maud Freeman Miss John.
ellis Mrs; Goodrich Mrs Mollie; Ora
ham Miss May.
Kaiser Mrs Fred; Kinney Miss Annie;
Kline Kate; Knaggs Miss Ada.
Leek Mrs M J; Lee Miss Rosey; Lewis
Mrs H.
Menish Mrs Sarah; Meredith Mrs G. E
| Mitchell Miss NJ; Montague Mrs Daisy
Moore Mrs James w; Moore Mrs Lillian;
Murray Mrs VIII.
Nelson Mrs Emma.
Patrisa Mrs Maria; Plank Mrs d.
Randof Miss Daisy; Reid Mrs Anna;
shaefer Miss Pearl; Shields Mrs E;
Straight Mrs Fannie.
Thorn Mrs A.
Ward Miss Lou; Weber Mrs Peter;
Wells Mrs Kate; Whipple Miss Eva
GENTLEMEN'S LIST.
Adams Edison F; Allen George; Buford
Bell Harry; Bilows Morris; Buford
Thomas; Burke Master Johnnie; Burns P.
Chase E F; Clements c C; Copper George;
Craddock John.
Dasgonville c H; Davis H ]; Dobble Gil
Easton r A; Ebel & Stehr.
Fawcett ] H; FELTON, Charles-6; Fisher
George; Fisher Luke; Fogg ] F-3.
Gay John H; Gustin D; Guthrie G c;
Hackney E ]; Harmon Andrew: Heart
Charlie; Hegg Charley; Henry F; Holgate
| NJ To; Holmes Ben; Hone Roberts; Hor-
rigan Thomas; Hughes Joseph Alloysius
Hust w w.
johnson F A; Johnson victor-2; John
kaufman G 0; Kean E R; Klnger G.
Levin r; Luby James; Luce c W.
Martin George "; McCue J s; McGurty
Mat; Menzies Arch; Meredith 5 b; Miller
Frank; Mitchell Peter; Morrison George;
Myer Albert.
Norman George.
Pearson D w; Pimentell F; Pool s w;
Powell Walter: Prewett c.
Raymond w H L; Reyes fabian; Rich
ardson c D; Roddan w B; Romo Frank:
Robinson B; Ruedy & Voightlin; Russell
Con.
Grant; slawson So; Smith Eugene E-2;
Smith James; Smith "; Stlllson George
S; Stretch c. Strong Ed; Stubs John l.;
Taiiows S: Thomas Jack R; Trigueiro
Joas F; Tucker Milton.
Epson w S.
Voegelin & Rudy.
Vail NJ; Wallace W. q; Welcht Louis
West M l.; Wharton A; Wise William A;
Wolf Edward.
Zandella Professor G A.
FOREIGN.
Giovanni Celeste Casseli; Antonio NJ
Souiza; Pellegrino Bertoni; Giotinno Mus
sachia; Antonio de p Agurre.
Japanese-O Arai; s Arimoto; K Ueda-
Chinese-Food Chan; Fow Jan; Sin Oh.
Neutrality-suspicious. Shoe Store.
Third and Fourth Class-JameS l. FORBES.
THOMAS FOX, Postmaster.
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Bright Hopes.

Circus Manager Ito clown who ha.
just been engaged)-Have you family
Clown-I've got boy and a girl. The
girl never will amount to much, but the
boy has got genius. He will be an art
ist some day.
What makes you think so?"
He is only 8 years old, and already
he can tie his legs in a bowknot around
his neck. Texas Sitter.
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+. de Wolfe Hennah

Will be at his exhibit at the Pavilion
during the three weeks of fair, after
noon and evening. AT Masonic Tenn
pie, 8 to /. He makes speciality Of
glasses for the eye.
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Dairymen MIX Cans.

Seamless necks, extra heavy and very
strong. See this can and get our price
before purchasing. American Cash
Store, Eighth and K.
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Prescriptions reliably. compounded at
Green's new drug store, corner Seventh
and x, Golden Eagle HotAl block
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This paper is for sale at the following
places: L. p. Fishers, room Il, Mer-
chants Exchange, California street; the
principal News Stands and Hotels ana at
the Market-street Ferry, San FRANCISCO
LOS ANGELES-Eclectic Book Store,
corner Second and Main streets
SAN DIEGO-Emmel & Co., $50 Filth
street.
CORONADO-Hopkins & Cox. Coro-
pado Hotel.
SANTA BARBARA-Hassinge News
Depot.
FRESNO-C. IT. Cearley I'LL street.
SANTA CRUZ-Cooper Bros News
Depot.
Also for sale on all trains leaving and
Sonling into Sacramento.
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Weather Forecast.
: Northern California-Partly cloudy weather
Monday; fresh northwest winds; warmer in
the northeast portion.
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100000
The Leading Paper Of The b.
terror of California

The pioneer Journal,
which, from early
years In the history Of
the coast, has main
tanned THE FRONT
RANK OF JOURNAL
ISM, having every
news facility with the
San Francisco leading
dailies, and sustaining
the fullest public conf
dence.
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Record-Union Telephone.

Entered at the Postoff1ce at Sacramento
as second-class matter.
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DR.. Weldon, S06 j street, extracts
teeth without pain: local anaesthetic.
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THB WEEKLY UNION
10 PapeSl.

Is the cheapest and most desirable Home.
News and Literary Journal publlshed Oh
the Pacific Coast. 20
The Weekly Union, per year. .......$l oO
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Eastern Business omces.

Eastern Business Offfces.
'"The Tribune Building, New YORK
City.
Western Business Office, THE Rock
cry" Chicago.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
sole agents foreign advertising
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These publications are sent either ny
Mail or f,xpress to agents or single sub
scribers with charges prepaid. All fos'-
masters are agents. -.
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast.
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Special Agencies.

EEdi+oriaI Rooms 131
Business Office. black 1o1
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A LEAP IN THE DARK

Reno Gazette: The ablest financiers
in the world have warned poor people
that free coinage of the worlds silver
would put the United States on a sill
yer basis and reduce wages, crops, prop
erty and everything negotiable to that
level. The silver men have denied this
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ooooooooo

~A~oh sn oil dStdk
ments, and therefore
pre- eminently THE
FAMILY JOURNAL.
The best paper for the
Homeseeker, for the
Merchant, Farmer, Me-
chdnic and all who
desire the full news OF
the day presented in a
clearly manner.
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emily brought forth bundle Of red
cloth. This he placed on the floor in
a circle around the bundle. He I'M
rolled the cloth until he came to an
oval-shaped mirror. The frame was
heavy and richly carved, and shone as
bright as new silver shines.
Aaron placed the beautiful mirror
carefully on the floor, face up. Then
he threw the red cloth over his head
and over the children's heads. If any
one had been peeping through the
chinks of the chimney he would have
been very much puzzled by what he
saw and heard. lie would have seen
the red cloth bobbing up and down, as
if those beneath it were bowling their
heads back and forth, and he would
have heard muffled ordinations OF
wonder, the loudest Of all being Dru-
silla's Involuntary cry: Don't dat
beat ALI"
The children never told what hap
pened under the cloth, nor what they
saw in the mirror. When Aaron rose
to his feet, the cloth still over his
head, he made few movements with
his arms, and 10! there was the bundle
in his hands with the mirror wrapped
in its folds.
Sweetest Susan looked at Buster
John. Wasn't it casy?" she cried.
did you ever see anything as bright
-" She would have said more, but
Aaron touched her gently on the arm
and put his finger on his lips. At that
moment a gander in the spring lot be
gan to scream.
What did you say?" asked Aaron,
looking at Drusilla.
''He say, I'm gwine after water
water-who wanter go?'"
Aaron seemed satisfied with the an
swer. He replaced the bundle in the
chest, turned the key, and then lean
ed against the rude mantel shelf he
had nailed over the fireplace.
.'You think I'm niger, don't your
He turned to Buster John.
"Of course" said the youngster
without hesitation. what else are
you?"
'I'll show you" From his pocket
Aaron drew "a little package some
thing raped in soft leather and Sc
curely tied. 1t was a memorandum
book. Opening this small book, Aaron
held it toward Buster John, saying,
Whats here?"
1T looks like pothooks," replied the
boy frankly.
'Ain't word in it I can't read, >
said Aaron.
Read some Of it, please" pleaded
Sweetest Susan.
Thereupon Aaron began to read
from the book in a strange tongue.
the tone of his voice taking on modula-
tions the children had never heard be-
fore.
II amt never heard no jabber like
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Finally he seized the thmb, bent il
back as far as it would 90, and made
o cross mark on it. Aaron playfully
ierI<ed his hand away, but Buster
John caught it again, bent the thumb
back, and again made the cross mark
Apparently Aaron paid no attention to
this. for he failed to take his hand
away. Once more, and for the third
time, Buster John bent the thumb
back and made the cross mark. At
once Aaron put him gently aside and
went to the door and closed it. Then
he turned 10 Buster John and said in a
whisper:
.'Iow come? Where you been? Who
told you?"
Buster John was so much surprised
that he hesitated a moment, and then
began to reply in a tone of voice some
what louder than usual.
''Sh-sh! talk low!" whispered Aaron.
did somebody tell you to do that?'
yes" said Buster John.
Round anywhere by the spring."
Aaron was very cautious in putting
questions. Apparently he wanted to
make himself perfectly sure.
Yes cried Sweetest Susan. ''The
spring is the gate, you know"
she, too?" asked Aaron, nodding his
head toward Drusilla.
''Of course" said Buster John.
II dunner how come | can't go whar
de yuthers does remarked Drnsilla.
"AlI right,all right" exclaimed
Aaron. Then he counted them. "One
two three! And now you've come
TO me- What for?"
1--WE want to learn how to talk with
the animals said Buster John.
Aaron, who had been frowning lit
tie, seemed to be relieved The frown
disappeared.
"Oho," he cried, "is that all? faint
much, yet it's IA heap. You'll hear lots
Of sassy talk. Sometimes, maybe,
you'll have to stop up your ears
"Ne won't mind that" remarked
Buster John.
"Maybe not" said Aaron. Then he
went TO large wooden chest that sat
in the corner, unlocked it, and pres
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IA .11g-Iea. -
..lASS<S i on # H AZ .s -
Csr.sssdI AES ofBEMAli
81 Toel Chendter HarrS
By Joel Chandler HafFlS'
Copyright, 1896 by Joel Chandler Harris

Copyright, 1896, by Joel Chandler Harris.
them to take no liberties with him.
Another story was that he was OF
Indian blood. But he had no Indian
characteristic, except that of serenity.
His color was dark brown. lie was
both quick in his movements and
fluent in his speech, but his talk was
different from that of the negroes.
Still another story about Aaron was
that he was very dangerous. 1T was
whispered that he had killed several
people, number of women and chill
dren among them. This story grew
out of the fact that he alone could
manage Timoleon, the big black stall
lion. This horse, wild in his ways and
fierce of temper, was as gentle as II
dog in Aaron's hands, and followed
him about as the chickens follows the
mother hen.
1t was on Saturday when Buster
John, Sweetest Susan, and Drusilla
went to Aaron's cabin On the planta-
ton there was a half-holiday every
Saturday, if crop work was not press
ing, and sometimes when the corn
was laid by the negroes had whole
holiday This was the case now. The
children saw Aaron go into his cabin
and half close the door after him. Bus
ter John went forward and knocked.
There was no invitation to ''come in,
as there would have been at any
other cabin in the negro quarters. In
stead. Aaron came to the door, pulled
it open, and looked out with something
like frown on his face. But he smiled
when he saw the children.
"Oh, you?" he said with a laugh.
Il didn't know who. Jump in"
There was step lacking among
those leading 10 the door. so he seized
Buster John by the hand and swung
him into the room. Then he lifted
Sweetest Susan a little more carefully,
but ignored Drusilla altogether. This
was not regarded by Drusilla as a
slight, for she was not anxious to be
touched by him. She was not anxious
to go into the cabin, but her curiosity
was more powerful than her vague
fears, and so after a while she followed
the children in.
Aaron, still smiling, lifted Buster
John high in the air. Lee me see;
Like enough you'd weigh 90 poun'."
"Eighty-seyen," replied Buster
John.
"Heavy! hcavyn' exclaimed Aaron.
Zone night / totcd your uncle all night
long. Tie was is year old and weighed
50 poun'."
''T'hat was Uncle Crockett, who is
dead said Buster john.
Eyes. Folks named him Little
Crockett" Aaron remarked.
''That was ever 50 long ago" sug-
gested Sweetest Susan.
Fifteen year." said aaron.
Meanwhile Buster John pretended to
be playing with Aaron's left hand.
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dat" said Drusilla.
what sort of talk is it?" asked Bus
ter John
"Tain't no creetur talk" remarked
Drusilla; u know dat mighty we'll"
Its the talk Of Ben Ali, said Aaron
Zen Ali my daddy. Every word
here was put down by him"
Why, I've heard grandpa talk about
Uncle Ben Ali" suggested Buster
John.
Aaron nodded. MANY a time. Your
grandpa, my master, tried to buy nv
daddy, but Ben Ali was worth too
much. ] went to see him with my
master twice a year till he died. lie
was no niger"
What then?" Buster John asked.
'Arab-man of the desert-slave
hunter-all put down here" said
Aaron, tapping the little book with his
finger.
The children were anxious to hear
more about Ben Ali, the Arab-Ben
Ali the slave hunter, who had himself
become a slave. There was not much
to tell, but that little was full of in
terest as Aaron told it, sitting in his
door, the children sitting on. the steps
below him. For the most part the
book was a diary of the events that
had happened to Ben Ali after he
landed in this country; being written
in one Of the desert dialects; but the
first few pages told how the Arab chief
happened TO be a slave.
Ben Ali was the leader of a band
that made constant war on some of tho
African tribes in the Senegambian re-
gion. With their captives this band OF
Arabs frequently pushed on to the
Guinea coast, and there sold them to
the slave traders. These excursions
continued until on one occasion the
Arabs CHANGED to clash with war
loving tribe, which was also engaged
in plnndering and raiding its neigh
bors, The meeting was unexpected to
the Arabs. but not to the Africans.
The Arabs who were left alive were
led captive 10 the coast and there sold
with other prisoners to slave traders.
Among them was Ben Ali, who was
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CHAPTER II.
RIDE on ruE BLACK STALLION

Aaron was not ready as soon as the
children were, but they waited for him
with lamblike patience, considering
their eagerness. Finally Aaron came
out of his cabin and waved his hand as
a signal that he was ready. The chill
dren ran to him, and together they
went to the barn, where Timoleon had
his stable This barn had once been
the corn crib. 1t was built of stout
logs, hewn square and mortised togeth-
er. and was in the middle of five acre
field that had once been in cultivation.
but was now overrun with Bermuda
grass. Here Timoleon reigned in sol
itude, except when Aaron was with
him In this stable he remained Sc
curely imprisoned, save when Aaron
took him out for exercise.
Timoleon was horse renowned
throughout the country-renowned
for his victories on the race track and
for his vicious temper. Even i'm his
old age he was fleet and fierce, more
dangerous, people said, than a tiger
and stronger than lion. Fierce and
strong, ne was also beautiful His
coat glistened in the sun like satin.
His name was flowing and heavy, his
tail long and full. His neck and shout
ders were thick and powerful; his
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-02
EVERYWHERE WE GO

We find some one who has been cured
by Hoods Sarsaparilla, and people on
all hands are praising this great mcdi-
cine for what it has done for them and
their friends. Taken in time Hoods
Sarsaparilla prevents serious Illness
by keeping the blood pure and all the
organs in q healthy condition. 1t is
the great blood purifier.
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Hoods Pills become the favorite
cathartic with every one who tries
them. 25c. per box.