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The Monitor-register., 1896-08-14
I'm the Man Who Shot YOU"

j. II. Wyman, of Chicago, went to
Newport News recently, and while watt
ing for ferryboat stranger, q man
about Wyman's age, came up and shared
his seat. They were waiting for the same
boat.
"You were in the Union army" said
Wyman's lapel. "Where did you serve ?'
l was in the first Wisconsin Heavy
Artillery, and put in good share of the
time guarding the big bridge over the
Green River, in Kentucky" answered
the Northerner.
you did! twice helped to blow up
that bridge, and was there when the
third attempt, which you fellows stopped;
was made.
sit was black night in winter when
we went up for the third time. There
were only few of us, but enough to do
the work if it were done quickly, and we
could pass through the Federal pickets.
We reached point 1000 yards south of
where we thought your picket line was,
and | was sent forward alone to locate
the line and find some place through
which we could pass. l walked along
freely until thought 1 ought to take
some care and then dropped to my
hands and knees and went that way for
while. 1t was so dark l could see
absolutely nothing. All at once l struck
a dry bush and snapped stick under my
knee at the same time. Then rifle shot
came from picket at point not twenty
yards away and my right arm was broken
by the ball. The fellow had fired at the
noise and made good shot. 1t alarmed
the guard, and our third attempt to blow
up the bridge was failure. Were you
there then ?"
YES" said Wyman, 81 am the man
who shot you. never saw you, but I
heard the moving of the brush and the
breaking Of the twig. After shot, you
walked straight to the right for about
ten yards and then ran back for your
command"
THAT 1 did exactly" said the South
erner.
"We found your tracks in the sand the
next day. did not know 1 hit you. I
am glad 1 did not kill you, and I'm
mighty glad to see you"
Then they shook hands and took up
the journey together.
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ST. MICHAEL THE WElGHER.

Stood the tall archangel weighing
All mans dreaming, doing. saying,
All the failure and the pain,
All the triumph and the gain
In the unlmagined years.
Full of hopes, more full of tears.
Since old Adams hopeless eyes
backward searched for paradise,
And, instead, the flame blade saw
OF ineXorable law
Waking, l beheld him there,
With his fire gold, tliclzering hair
In his binding armor stand,
And the scales were i'll his hand
Mighty We're they and full well they coul,
poise both heaven and hell
Angel, asked humbly then,
"Wcighest thou the souls of menP
That thine Office is, l know"
May" he answered me, mot so
But | weigh the hope of man
Since the power of choice began
In the world, of good or ill.,
Then | waited and was still.
In one scale saw HIM place
All the glories of our race
Cups that lit Belshazzar's S feast,
Gems, the lightning of the east,
kublal 5 scepteT, Caesars sword,
Many poets golden word,
Many Il skill of science, vain
To make men as gods again.
In the other scale he threw
Things regardless, outcast, few,
Martyr ash, arena sand,
OF St. Francis cord a strand,
Beechen cups of men whose need
Tasted that the poor might feed.
Disillusions and despairs
OF young saints with grief grayed hairs,
Broken hearts that brake for man
Marvel through my pulses ran
Seeing then the beam divine
Swiftly on this hand decline,
While earths splendor and renown
Mounted light as thistle down.
james Russell Lowell.
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When a man owns blooded horse be
is always careful of its health. He looks
after its diet and is particular that the
feeding shall be regular and right. While
he is doing this it is likely as not that he
is himself suffering from some disease or
disorder. When the trouble gets so bad
that he cannot work, he will begin to
give himself the care he gave the horse at
the start. Good pure, rich, red blood is
the best insurance against disease of any
kind. Almost all diseases come from
impure or impoverished blood. Keep the
blood pure and strong and disease can
find no foothold. That is the principle
upon which DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery works. 1t cleanses, purifies
and euriches the blood, puts and keeps
the whole body in perfect order; makes
appetite good, digestion strong, assimila-
tion perfect. 1t brings ruddy, virile
health. 1t builds up solid, wholesome
flesh (not fst) when from any cause, re.
duced below the healthy standard.
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How They Figured It Out.

Harkins had covered the backs of two
or three envelopes with figures and had
begun third when Mrs. Harkins looked
up from her sewing and said:
'What are you figuring out there? ?"
ooh! nothing"
"Well! it takes good many figures to
figure out nothing. What's it all about?"
'Oh, it don't amount to anything.
was just making kind of calculation"
"About what?"
SWELL, if you must know, was just
figuring out how much I'd in all proba-
bility be worth to day if hadn't married
and gone to rearing family"
"Humph! Spose you think you'd been
a millionaire ?"
mo; but from the way figure it out
I'd been worth a cool fifty thousand or
so. Not that 1 regret marrying and
doing my duty by rearing family and
all that Not at all, but"
GLOW old were you when 1 took pity
on you and married you, Sam Harkins ?"
"Why, you know that was 35."
"And how long had you been in receipt
of good, comfortable salary?"
"Well, about twelve years."
And you'd no one to support but
yourself in all that time?"
"Well, no, /"
"And how much did you have saved
up when we were married ?''
Hang it all, Maria, you're always"
GLOW much, SamP I'm doing little
figuring in my head, aud 1 want to
know"
"You know as we'll as l do"
Eyes, 1 do. Sam Harkins, you didn't
have money enough to last you through
our wedding trip, that's just what you
didn't have. And had to loan you 500
before we got home, because"
YOU'RE always fliDgiDg that in my
face!"
TITS a good time to fl g it in your
face when you sit down right before me
and try to figure out how much you'd
had to day if you hadn't married me, 1t
took you ten years to pay off your baehe.
lor debts after We were married, and
you'd been in the poor house to day if 1
hadn't married you and helped you to get
rid of some of your fast habits. You've
got roof of your own over your head
and are fairly respectable and respected
citizen, which you wouldn't have been if
you hadn't married, can tell you that"
And the CALLING part of this statement
was that it was true, Detroit Free Press.
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Had Faith in the Scriptures.

A colored man, past middle age, but
active and polite of manner, approached
the captain of one of the lake boats, says
the Detroit Free Press.
II un'stan'," he said, ''dat you alls is
lookin' fob er man ter hep out on Won
all's boat"
eyes. Have you ever had any expert
ence on the water ?'
"No sub. l dist come ter dis paht er
de country, an I amt much on navi-
gatin'. But rs pow 'ful good cook, an
reckon kin cook dist ez good on watah
ez kin on land, eff gifts de chance"
"Well, guess we can give you place,
If that's the case. Well have your
abilities tested to morrow, and if you
suit you can come along"
"Thanky, sub. Thapky, berry much,
indeed. But dab is dist one question dat
I'd like fur ter ask yer"
"What is it?''
"Hab yoh boat got two masts or three
masts ?"
sit has three masts; but l don't see
how that can soncern you"
slit doan seem to concern me none,
sub. But ef yoh boat wus er two-master,
sub, couldn't go wifi yer, much ez
needs de sitivation."
"Why not ?"
cease de Good Book done pervent it,
sub. Use done heard de minister read it
over an over agin, dat no man kin serve
two masters, an eff yoh ship wuz er two
master, sub, I'd er halter ham in mer
resignation befoh done got hired.'
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run that night. The best of care, how
ever, brought her back to her old spirited
self before summer was over.
A month after that terrible night the
grateful conductor left present for Will
with the agent at Glenville. 1t was a
fine bride and saddle, with gay saddle
cloth, all complete-just what Will had
been wishing for, but what father was
not able to buy for him. Accom-
paDying the other things was beautiful
horse. blanket, the softest material and
the prettiest pattern ever saw, with the
name "Tony" embroidered in blue and
gold on each side. The note left with
the things said "For the brave boy and
his brave Tony from the grateful onas
on that train"
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-14

Palms Business College, ITO Chestnut
street, has issued an unusually interest.
ing catalogue of its work, adding a re-
view of the great points Of interest in
Philadelphia. The circular will reflect
credit on the city wherever it goes, and
the list of students who have recently
graduated there shows that it will 90 to
the utsermost parts of the country, where
those graduates have carried into bust
ness the knowledge acquired at this
college. The good points of Palms Col
lege are too numerous to set forth in
brief article as Is done In the forty hand
somely illustrated pages of the readable
circular. The advantages offered young
men and women seeking to fit themselves
for business will be carefully studied by
those who are anxious to get the best
training in the shortest time.-PhiladeI
ptia Inquirer.
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According to a celebrated apatomist
there are wards of :. 100000 little gland,
in the human stomach. These glands
pour out the digestive juices which dis
solve or digest the food. Indigestion il
want of Juice, weakness of glands. need
of help to restore the health OF these
organs. The best and most natural help
is that given by Shaker Digestive Cordial
Natural, because it supplies the materials
needed by the glands to prepare the
digestive juices. Because it strengthens
and invigorates the glands and the
stomach, until they are able to 90 tnelr
work alone. Shaker Digestive Cordial
cnres indigestion certainly and perman-
emily. 1t does so by natural means, and
therein lies the secret of its wonderful
and UNMARRIED success.
At druggists, price 10 cents to 81 per
hottla.
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If You VIII Use a Little ReasonIn

and not be influenced by the claim that
catarrh is a blood disease, you can easily
prove that catarrh is climatic. Have you
not the severest catarrh attacks during
winter and spring, and have you but
little evidence of catarrh during the sum-
merP Yes. Well. this proves it is cli-
matte disorder, ipfaming the membrane
OF the Dasal passages. 1t is a waste of
time and money to invest in blood
remedies. The proper treatment is a
local application, and the most prompt to
cure is that popular remedy, Ely's Cream
Balm
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-14

Since 1878 there have been nine epi.
denies of dysentery in different parts OF
the country in which Chamberlain's Collie
Cholera and Diarrh93 Remedy was used
with perfect success. Dgsentery, when
epidemic, is almost as severe and danger
GUS as Asiatic cholera. Heretofore the
best efforts of the most skilled physicians
have failed to check its raYages, this
remedy, however, has cured the most
malignant cases, both of children and
adults, and under the, most trying con
ditions. which proves it to be the best
medicine in the world for bowel COM
plants. For sale by Geo. M. Andrews
Drusgist.
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Bufld Up whiIe You work

With DR.. Humphreys Specific No "a
for Brain Fag, General Debility, and all
forms of Physical Weakness. For sale
by druggists.
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Re sure You Arc Right

And then go ahead. If your blood is
impure, your appetite failing, your nerves
weak, you may be sure that Hoods Sarsa-
parilla is what you need. Then take no
substitute. Insist upon Hoods and only
Hoods. This is the medicine which has
the largest sales in the world. Hood s
Sarsaparilia is the One True Blood Pnri.
fer.
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Administrators Notice.

3. FOGG. Administrator cum test. an
HI. nexo of Joseph W Brown, deceased,
by direction of the Surrogate OF the county
of Salem, hereby gives nouce TO the creol
to bring in their debts. demands and claims
against the estate of the said decedent
nnder oath or affirmation, within nine
fnreyer barred of any action thereof against
the said Administrator. 4. ). FOGG.
DATED June l5. 1896. CIV I'm
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Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer
is, unquestiona bly,, the best presarvs tive
of the hair. 1t is also curative ,f dam
druff, letter, and all scalp Affections. -
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-14

II should think it would irritate you,
DR.. Founder, to see mem bers of your
congregation falling asleep during your
Sermon"
"Not at all, madam" replied the
preacher; ION the contrary, it delights
me. Sleep is sign of an easy con-
science. Those who can sleep do not
need sermons"
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-14

The famous base ball pitcher had
walked the floor with the youngest of his
family for an hour or so. "Mary," said
he, eff the manager saw me now l bet
I'd get soaked with fiue."
"WhyP" asked his wife, sleepily.
81 don't seem to have any control of
the bawl at all, DON'T"
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-14
summer Colds.

Summer colds or hay fever, rose cold
or rose catarrh, are prevented and cured
by DR.. Humphreys Specific II. For
sale by all druggists, 25 cents.
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LIFE OF MCKINLEY

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IT FLOATS
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IT FLOATS

To retain the bliancy of Gnghams wash them only in
luke warm water which tablespoonful equal
quantity Ivory Soap each gallon of water been dis
solved Dry in the shade
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A GOOD school.

HOODS PILLS are easy to take, easy to
operate. Cure indigestion, headache.
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followed Will from Glenvile as soon as
they could, found him.
"Well, l wouldn't give two straws for
boy as couldn't cry for joy over savin'
his father and mother" one old man re-
marked to young fellow, who had
sneeringly asked Will what he was crying
about.
Boats were procured, and the passen.
gers who wished to come on to Glenville
were brought across. Wagons were then
brought to convey them the rest OF the
way,
Father and mother were among those
who crossed over. I know their meeting
with Will was full of tender love and joy.
But he is very silent about that.
The conductor, too, came across with
them and offered Will money, but be
refused it, stoutly.
mo. sir; I won't take it. 1t was Tony
who saved you all, not l." and he pointed
with pride to his exhausted colt.
o"SoA OAOukho o AOAcO NUN hOAuo w
hitch in with Pilot, and took US home
from the station.
A man who happened to be taking
some COWS out of pasture in the wood
had discovered that the railroad bridge
was gone. Without waiting to tell any
one, he had started as hard as he could
ride for the nearest station on that side
of Prairie creek, believing be would
reach there in plenty of time to give
warning and stop the train. But the
roads were ia a bad condition, the horse,
a large, lubberly farm animal, not used
to swift travelling, and be reached the
station just after the train had pulled
out. The agent could do nothing but
telegraph the agent at Glenville to try to
avert the awful disaster.
| Tony had sick spell after her hard
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-29
AT SENATOR DANIELS HOME.

One of the most striking evidences OF
the widespread revolt in the Demo
cratic party against the Chicago plat
form and nominees comes from Lynch
burg, Va, where two hundred Demo-
Gratis of high standing and representing
the professions, and the financial. COM
mercial and manufacturing interests Of
the city, have united in calling a meet
ing which is to send delegates to the
sound money states convention, which
met In Richmond, August q, and
which elected delegates to the national
Democratic convention TO be held in
Indianapolis. Lynchburg is the home
of United States Senator John W. Dan
rel. and many of the signers OF the
sound money call are intimate personal
friends of the senator and have been
material factors in his political ad-
vancement. Lynchburg Is also the
home OF Congressman Peter ]. Otey.
who is a political hustler and the most
active promoter and organizer OF the
free silver movement in Virginia Sem
stor Daniel and Congressman Otey
practically dictated the action OF the
Virginia Democratic convention held In
Staunton in June last. Further, the
Daily News, published in Lynchourg,
is the ablest and most aggressive free
silver paper published In Virginia III,
with all this influence Lynchburg re-
volts what may be expected In the
other sections Of the old Common
wealth. where this personal influence
is certainly less pronounced? With all
of his elouuence and popularity, IL viii
be impossible for the silver-tonsued
senator 20 make the ranks or the VIZ
GINA Democracy touch elbows dur
ing the campaign with free silver as bis
slogan
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-29
ALONG THE KANSAS NILz

The Grant County Republican thinks
thu, Longs speech makes him John sher-
man OF Kansas
The appointment a. Andy Riddle a. SUP
ersutensent OF Insurance II worth q good
many votes to Major Morrill,
According 20 the Newton Republican.
Joe Fugate h helping oat the Republican
ticket IN Harvey county.
Tn frafsrnzl Insurance companies of
Kansas are not saying much but they
feel better since Biddis's appointment
a A Robinson. OF the Asxican Central
Is at presea; In Kan1ss lie IL for free
silver and VIII probably BE- in;sr.r-sd
Knfpscheer. the on~-iewges man who
sieo; the chates al Ksrsas CITY on a b.
cycle. was formerly a resident % Newton
The RspubI.o@ns IN Better county have
notified the o2poei,ioa ina, they WI maze
IL bot for them from nou on ua;il ssrctsoo
day.
Tho y Doraso Hepabn-az ssys 'hat
Do4,er IN, otser cay went % bank win
rorn@ eertsfazies Of depos.t aSsc asked for
gosA
The way TIE PoYulists - ever The fact
thst Jerry siarp-os Introduces . hil -
congress far TIE esze2stzzssou ard re-
tsrsrnsnt q al 1sfaiis faoosy = b saying
Jerry iatrossossi u --sy request
Henry Aa-is q Pratt nr~< O. sorns boys
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1T Is DANGEROUS.

Although not itself inclined to sup
port another Democratic ticket, the
New Orleans Picayune DEM wei
comes the call in Louisiana for a con-
ference to choose delegates TO the In
dianapolis convention, as a means ito
prevent the detection and departure OF
many sound money Democrats TO the
Republican party. Not few." it says,
shave already announced their deter
mination to act with the Republicans
in the coming election. Should they
carry out such project, they may be
lost 10 the Democratic party for ever.
The Democracy Of Louisiana cannot ar
ford to sit idly by and see their young
men. and even the old, driven into the
Republican party for lack Of congeniai
party utilization. If they can he saved
from apostasy by the maintenance or
the old party organizations, it should
be done by all means"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-29

One of the finest things said In the
campaign is Benjamin Harrison's de-
scription Of the frenzy of the Chica go
convention He said: ''The spirit that
exhibited itself in this convention was
20 wild and strangely enthused that
Mr.. Bryan himself likened il 10 the Zeal
that possessed the crusaders when they
responded 10 the inrpasSioned appeals
Of Peter the Hermit, to rescue the Sc
pulchre Of our Lord from the hands Of
the infidels. His historical iilustra-
hons ere more potent and more forcible
than he knew; for the zeal OF the cru
saders was a blind and ignorant zeal;
they sought 10 rescue the transient and
Intellectual sepulchre that had held the
body of the Son of God. while they
srampled upon the precepts OF love and
mercy which He had left for their
guidance in life. He told us that the
sileyr crusade had arrayed father
against son and brother against
brother and had severed the ties OF
AAxar