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the doctor here for a good many years.
and he wanted toFsehd his boy. to col
lege, but Jim wouldn't go. He liked
Workin' with his hands better than
studyin books. HeFsaid he could make
more money in the long run his way,
and when he hired out to old man
Thompson he declared that he'd be
manager of the big farm some day,
and SO he is now, as told you a little
while ago..
Maybe I'm getting Off the story
little bit, but I just wanted to explain
how Jim and Sarah stood in this neigh
borhood in the old days. Sarah is a
tine-lookin' woman even now, and when
she was girl she was about the best
'lookin' of the hull lot. No; she wasn't
slender and willowy nor anything like
that, but she was tall and healthy and
red-cheeked and bright-eyed, and she
held her head up and looked as though
she was glad to be alive all the time.
AS 1 said before, Jim was good talker
only when he was lookin' girl in the
face. Then he was about the bashfulest
critter you ever seen, and he used to
set and say nothing ut all, meal times,
at old man Thompson's, where his chair
stood just across the table from
Sarah's. Thompson and his wife, they
used to joke Jim good deal about
Sarah and so did the other hired men.
No; they didn't all feed at Thompson's
table, but they all knew how bashfu!
Jim was. There was hull lot of 'em
and some of 'em was married men and
lived in the tenant houses that are
scattered over the place. and them that
wasn't married-all but Jim-boarded
with the tenants. Jim lived with
Thompson because he was a kind of
head man. OF course, Jim had to talk
with Sarah good deal, in the natural
course of things, for they was together
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A Water MicrObe.

One of the unaccountable phenomena
of the Black sea has lately been ex-
planned by the bacteriologists and the
microbologists. Since time out of men,
ory it has been a well-known fact that
there were no deep-sea fish in the body
of water mentioned. Away back in 1880
the scientists made an investigation
and found that fish could not live at u
greater depth than 100 fathoms in the
water of the Black sea on account Of
the presence of superabundance of
sulphuretted hydrogen. Time and
again the waters were stocked with
deep-sea fish, but all died on account
of the poisonous gas which was gen.
Grated in such quantities in those por-
tions of the water which should have
been their natural habitat. It was
known that the gas was at the bottom
of all tie trouble, but exactly where
the gas came from was what so puzzled
the investigators. The microbologists
finally took the matter in hand and a
recent observer now announces that the
gas is generated by the countless num-
Der of microbes which make their home
in the ooze at the bottom. This microbe
decomposes mineral sulphates and has
been named Bacillus Hydrosulfuricus
Ponticus.-St. Louis Republic.
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New Line to Washtnxtoa.

The popular Monon Route has established
a new through Sleeping Car line to Wash.
lngton, D: c., via Cincinnati and Parkers.
burg, by the c. H. a. D., B.. Il o. s. w. and
B. & O. Rys. The sleeper is ready for oc.
cupancy in Dearborn Station any time after
W: NJ, and leaves at 2:45 A. NJ daily, ar
irving at Washington at 6:47 the following
morning: This schedule will be in effect on
January 24th, and thereafter. Ast the sleeper
goes through without change. and the hours
OF leaving and arriv ng are mostcouvenient.
this will prove altogether the most COM
Portable, as well as the most picturesque
route to the national capital. City Ticket
Office, 232 Clark St., Chicago. Depot, Dear
born Station
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2S;5arren .&hcaf
JOHN ?. MATrsoN, Editor. and Prop.
WARREN. AslNN
BABY BELLE.

II you'll come into our cottage. Will show
you something rare,
And doubt II eyes have ever seen a sight
more sweet and fair; -
ror, than all the dainty working hands OF
man have done or do,
sure. the Masters work is fa1rest, as His
skill Is greatest, too; 80 ~
ana OF all the things of beauty which upon
the world have smiled, s
None can touch the heart so deeply as the
beauty Of a child.
So we love her! Yes, we love her, more
than words can ever tell
Little Weesome, winsome darling! Bright
eyed. blue-eyed Baby Belle!
Seated on the cottage floor. pulling of her
tiny shoes,
Little bare foot. white and dimpled-arms
and shoulders dimpled too
Eyes as blue as summer blossoms, tender
skin as pure as pearl,
And the sunlight dropping golden or each
shining little curl s-
Artists pencil, e'er so cunning, fairer
thing could never trace;
Every feature perfect beauty. every mo-
ton perfect grace.
Do you wonder that we love her more than
words can ever tell
Little Winsome, weesome darling! Airy,
fairy, Baby Belle!
Kings may have their crowns and dia-
mOndS and their robes of purple hue,
Have their works of art and beauty-keep
their wealth, and welcome, too
Well not envy all their splendors while we
have this single gem,
Far more precious to our bosoms than their
riches are to them
We've no store of worldly treasure, Meth
er lands nor gold, and yet
We are rich beyond all measure in our
priceless household pet,
And we love her-yes, we love her, more
than words can ever tell
Little winsome, weesome darling! Dainty,
darling Baby Belle!
It is written of our Saviour, when He
lived and walked on earth,
Mothers brought their treasures to Him
for blessing on their birth:
And when others would have chided: go,
and let the Master be-
Gently He rebuked them, saying: Suffer
them to come to me-
Took the little ones and blessed them in
His arms and on His knees,
Saying: who would enter Heaven must
become like one of these
Do you wonder that we love her more than
words can ever tell?
Jesus left a blessing for her-weesome,
winsome Baby Belle!
--Mattie Dyer Britts, in Golden Days.
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Devfness Cannot r.. Cared

BY local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear There !.
raly one way TO cure deafness, and that 10
sy constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an infamed condition OF the mu-
cous lining Of the Eustachian Tube When
this tube gets infiamed you have rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out Of ten are caused by catarrh,
which Is nothing but an infamed condition
Of the mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case OF Deafness Caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Cat ,rrh Cure.
Send for circulars, Free
+. J. CHENEY Il Co., Toledo, @.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best. zzs
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he. told Sarah about it good while
aafterward, and she told my wife,, As
for Sarah, wei, she was ,nladder than
anything and twas about two.montlls
before she'd speak to Jim agin. No;
there didn't any Of the boys give Jim
any sass about it. They didn't want
any lambastin' in theirn. It was
mighty uncomfortable around old man
Thompson's for a spell after that.
Thompso said he'd have fired Jim for
treatin' Sarah that way only Jim was
too good man to let go: >.
It was along in June some time, Just
about the beginnin' of hayin', that Jim
made his second break for Sarah. He'd
got it in his head, from the way she
looked at him once in awhile, that she
kind of liked him after all. Everybody
else knew she did, for once, when some,
body made fun Of Jim when she was
by, for bein' so bashful, she turned
round and gave them piece of her
mind that they didn't forget right
away. I tell you.
Well, as said, it was in early hayin!
that, Jim took courage agin. He had
got the mornin' chores all tended to
around the barn and had gone to the
house with pail of milk for the Thomp-
sons own private use. and he met Sara h
in the kitchen, starting the breakfast.
1t was not far from sunrise. ~
Sarah" said Jim, "I'm no account
and know it, but if you'll just drop
that breakfast work for about half an
hour and get into my buggy''-,Iim had
just bought bran'-new buggy and had
a young horse of his own-''we'n drive
down to the elders and get married and
come right back and tell the folks we're
man and wife afterward.''
If Sarah was s'prised when he asked.
her to go to the concert, she was good
deal more so this time. She didn't say
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21
EARNEST. J1M?''

much, though. She just looked at Jim
and she says:
"Are you in earnest, Jim?"
"Of course, am," said Jim; 'but I'm
such coward that if you don't say
yes right now I'm afraid I'll never dare
ask you again."
But, Jim,' said Sarah, "think of
bein' married without weddin' dress!"
"What do I care about a weddin'
Dress" says Jim. "Come on, or I'll get
scared again.
By this time Jim had got over his
bashfulness little bit and he stood
there with a smile on his face that, as
Sarah told my wife afterward, made
her forget all about the weddin' dress
"All right, Jim," she says, "hitch up
q'lick!"
It wasn't two minutes before they
was a-sittin' together in the buggy and
Jim's three-year-old colt was a-takin'
them down to the elders, double quick
time. When they got there they found
the elder behind the parsonage in his
little garden, a-weedin' his onion bed
SOS to get up an appetite for breakfast.
The elder was as s'prised as Sarah had
been.
well, yes" he said to Jim, Ito be
sure. Just let me wash up little - ~~
''Oh, never mind that" says Jim,
without thinkin' he was talkin' to the
preacher. We've got to get back be-
fore breakfast. You can marry US right
out in the front yard"
So the elder walked out in front Of
the house and told them to join hands,
under the big elm tree that stands by
the front door of the parsonage. He
stopped just long enough to call his
wife and daughter as witnesses. Jim
thought that was unnecessary, but the
elder insisted upon it. The elders mar
riage ceremony took up less than a
minute and Jim told Sarah afterward
that he should always feel thankful
that it wasn't long drawn out.
Salute your bride, JIM" said the ell.
der when they were married hard and
fast, "and I'll make out a certificate
and send it around to your wife after
breakfast ~
Jim wasn't SO bashful then but that
ne could kiss Sarah right before the
minister and his wife and daughter,
but he did it in hurry because the
breakfast wasn't got yet at the Thomp-
son house. Then Mr.. and Mrs. Wright
drove back, and they've been happy
pair all their lives. It made new man
OF Jim to get married, and, as said
little while ago, he's one of our promi-
nent citizens now, and whether he ever
gets to the legislature or not, he could
have my vote and the vote Of everyone
ct the neighbors round here for any
thing, no matter how big an office he
wanted, or what ticket he run on. Here
he is now, comm back. Let me intro
duce you to him.
PAUL DANBY.
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A NEVER-FAlLlNG MAGNET.
why the Crowd Gathered and Remained
aM for the Show.

why the Crowd Gathered and Remained
for the Show.
For days beforehand the billboards of
Queen City had been af1ame with post
ers announcing the nature of an enter
tainment which was to take place on
the outskirts of the city on the after
noon of June IL, and which was her
aided as the greatest effort to which the
professional entertainer could aspire.
Great were the excitement and low
when the news became known, for what
man had not cherished the fond hope
that he would some day behold this
wondrous sight?
When the day came round the resi-
dents of Queen City turned out ell
masse and, with beaming faces that told
of cares for the once forgotten, they
repaired to the rendezvous on the out
skirts of the city. Arrived there, they
found a square inclosure of great area
which had been boarded to height of
some 20 feet, added to which, after one
lad been successful in the mad rush for
admission, one beheld a three-storv
brick house in the center of the inclo-
sure. This house was all that the arena
contained, and as every spectator made
point of getting as close to it as possi-
BILE, it was evident that it was to figure
prominently in the days spectacle.
The grounds were quickly packed
with an eager, surging multitude that
impatiently awaited the happening of
what was destined to be the greatest
event in Queen City's history.
Flush! 1t has begun!" AS the word
is breathlessly passed, everyone is on
tiptoe, with eyes riveted on the brick
house.
Five, ten, fifteen minutes pass. Dur
ing this time the immense throng
stands transfxed with awe and admira-
tion.
Then comes the rude awakening from
that blissful repose; for the block and
tackle have done their work, and as the
freproof safe disappears through Sec
ond-story window the mob breathes
freely again and then sallies forth to
continue the battle of life.-N. Y.
World.
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ARE YOU IN

lot every day, but, SO far as anybody
knows, he never said any more than he
was obliged to. But every day he
thought she was a little nicer than he
did the day before. 1 s'pose if was
writin' a novel about it I'd say he was
in love with her, and my wife-she was
a girl then, and was engaged to marry
me-used to tell me that she thought
Sarah was in love with Jim. She said
no girl would speak so short about a
feller as Sarah did about Jim, unless
she liked him well enough to marry
him. / used to think that was kind
of curious, and l think so yet.
Well, Sarah and Jim had been work
in for old man Thompson about a
year before Jim ever said any thing par
ticular to her. How he finally come to
speak out was about this way:
There was a professor of "vocal
music'-a feller that parted his hair in
the middle and put beeswax on his
mustache-come to the Corners and
aeld singin' school all winter. He got
fve dollars night once a week, besides
half of what they should take in at the
door at concert at the end of the
singin' school. Jim didn't go to singin'
school, mostly cause he was so BASH
full. Sarah didn't go neither, for.some
reason or other. But the morning before
the concert he up and asked Sarah if
she'd 60 to it with him. She told nv
wife afterward that she was so frustrated
she hadn't hardly breath to tell him
she would. But she didn't let on she
was s'prised. She only said: "Why, GER
tainly, Jim," and when candle-light
come on they started away from
Thompson's house afoot together. 1t
was about a mile from there to the
meetin' house where the concert was
held, but Jim never said word all the
way down. Sarah tried to talk 10 him,
but it want no use. When they got
to the steps there was quite lot of the
boys standin' outside the meetin' house
door and one of them said, out loud, so
that Jim heard it:
I "Say, boys, here comes Jim Wright
and Sarah Anderson"
Jim flushed all up; then he turned to
Sarah and said: Excuse me a min
ute;" then he took quarter out of his
pocket and he walked up to Hod Smith
and said: ts. .E-.- -E..
Here, Hod; you take Miss Anderson
into the meetin' house; I've got some
thin else to tend to-"
Sarah was so dazed that she said
never word and went into the church
with Hod. Then Jim he started In %
away, as if he was afraid of his
shadow. But he hadn'tg gone ten steps
before he turned round and lam basted
that feller till he squealed for mercy.
Then Jim he went home and clum up
in the haymow and lay there and
hated himself all night. How do I
know what he done that night? Well,
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JIM WRIGHTS COURTSHIP
Related by Silas Hawkins, P. M.
and Storekeeper.
COPYRIGHT, 1877

I amt much of a story teller, but
guess can give you the straight facts
about Jim Wright's courtship and mar
riage as well as anybody. It happened
about 20 years ago, and it interested
the folks around Barkley's corners so
much that for four or five years there
wasn't no quiltin' bee, nor mite So
ciety, nor apple cut, nor raisin', nor
stump pullin' that somebody didn't tell
something new about it, and 1 guess
they're talking about it yet at the tea
drinkin's. 1t was all brought back
fresh to my mind one day last week,
when found out my oldest boy, Sile.
was kind O. shinin' up to Jim's oldest
girl, Sarah, named after her mother.
Jim's pretty prominent citizen now.
He's the manager of the Barkley place
and member of the county board of
supervisors, and some do say he's got
his eye on the legislature for next term.
Yes; that's him goin' by now. You see,
he's big, tall feller and looks kind Of
imposin' like. When he was a young
ster he wasn't exactly what you'd call
handsome, but he looked as solid as
rock, and his eyes was always wide
open, only when he had to face girl,
then he used to weaken. That's what
made his courtship and marriage so
curious.
A good tal]1er? Well, yes, he is, now
Not very polished, maybe, but he can
speak to the pint, and that's more than
some of your college educated fellers
can do. But he never was much of
speaker till after he got married to
Sarah Anderson.
Jim got we'll acquainted with Sarah
when he was nothing but a hired man,
workin' on the Barkley place, when old
man Thompson was manager. Sarah
was workin' there, too, then. She was
Mrs. Thompson's hired girl. No; you
couldn't call 'em servants, the way you
city folks look at it. Sarah's father was
old Deacon Anderson, and he stood just
as well in the community as old man
Thompson did; maybe better, because
Deacon Anderson owned his own farm
and Thompson was kind of hired
man for Barkley. The Barkley place,
YOU know is about 800 acres. It's the
biggest farm in this town, and Barkley
himself spends most of his time in New
York and Boston and Europe, and other
far-away places, where folks has more
money than brains, and has coachmen
to drive for 'em and puts on different
coats at different times of the day and
all that. Sarah Anderson used to eat
at the same table with tie Thompsons,
of oo,,rco and so did Tim Whv ~
either of them had been asked to eat sep
arate from the family they'd have quit
right of and everybody around the cor
ners would have backed 'em up in it, too.
Why, the ThomPsons would have been
run out of the neighborhood if they'd
set themselves up to be too good to
have Jim Wright and Sarah Anderson
set with them when they ct their meals.
Jim Wright's father, you know, was
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James' Answer.

James" said the schoolmaster to .
pupil, what is an average?"
"A thing, sir" replied the scholar,
shat hens lay eggs on
"You silly boy; why do you say
that?" asked the pedagogue.
because. SIR answered the lad, ST
heard gentleman say the other day
as hen would lay on an average 100
eggs year. Spare Moments.
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

"!M somewhat disfgured," said tho torn
negHgee shirt, as the washerwoman
squeezed the water out of it, "but I'm still
IN the wiring. ."-Buffalo Express
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

THERE seems to be nothing people enjoy
talking about so much as married couple
that don't get along very well.-Washing.
ton Democrat.
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Going to WASHINGTON. u. G.. .

A rate Of one fare round trip has been
made via Big Four Route and picturesque
Chesapeake and Ohio Ry. to Washington
account Inauguration Of Mr. Mckinley,
March 4th. For particulars and sleeping
car reservations address q. L. TRTTrT, n.
w. p. A., 234 Clark Street, Chicago.
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

PERSON has to have lots of push to sue
ceed IN this world. He can't even run
lawn mower without it.-Rochester Demo
crat and Chronicle
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

THERE is an unwritten law among women
that no woman should go further from
home than two blocks with shawl over
her head
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

THERE is nothing that makes agood wom-
ans heart so swell with pride as to have her
pastor notice her absence from church,
Atchison Globe.
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

A CORN doctor says that il people walked
more they would not have corns. II they
didn't have to walk go much they wouldn't
care for corns.-W ashington Democrat.
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

Has just been issued by the Lake Shore 81
Michigan Southern Ry. Copy can be Sc
cured by sending six cents in stamps to-
cover postage, to A. ]. SMITH, G. P. A.,
Cleveland
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

CoRRECr.-'Which is right, Mr. Railroad.
"a quarter of six or "a quarter to sxl'''
m sure do not know, Miss Lovely. Ee
always say five forty -fve.'n
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

No WONDER that the old folks stand
A troop Of chiding mockers,
When little boys wear trousers and
Grown men wear kDickerbockers.
-Washington Star.
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

FITS stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DR.. Hines
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 50 trial bottle Il
treatise. DR.. KLINE, 933 Arch ST., ,PhiIa. Pa
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

PEOPLE often abuse their own relatives
merely for the sake of having you contra
dict them.-Washingto Democrat.
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

EVERYONE who doesn't have to light the
fires in the morning breaches against using
coal oil for that purpose.
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

IDEAS are capital that bear interest onlv
In the hands of talent.-N. Y. Weekly.
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

some very trihing people are well posted
on Scripture. Washington Democrat,
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

JUST try 10c. box Of Cascarets CANDY ca
thartic, ,fnestliver and bowel regulator n adt
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

STAND straight and strong-St. Jacobs
Oil cures lame back-cures promptly.
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

A sPRA1N may cripple but st. Jacobs OH
will cure it before it can. It cures.
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21
No-Eo-Bac for Fifty Cents.

Over 400, ,00o cured. Why not let No-To-Bao
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco.
Saves money, makes health and manhood
Cure guaranteed, SOC and 81 90, all druggists.
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

USE St. Jacobs Oil promptly and freely
and say goodbye to neuralgia. s-'-
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

The longer woman has been married tho
larger dollar grows to her.
Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

SORE and stiff from cold; don't wait and
suffer; use St. Jacobs Oil and get cured.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

Oftimes one will buy a cheap
suit of clothes or a cheap pair of
shoes and be satisfied, but who
will be satisfied with a cheap
photograph of himself. Nothing
but the best will give satisfaction.
w. F. Kellogg's work always salts
fies because it is the best.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

A company of young people,
numbering about sixteen, met at
the home of Miss Mamie Hale Sat-
urday evening where very pleas
ant time was spent playing games
and pulling candy.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

WALL paper at cost at Ras-
mussen s.
One week from next Thursday
is THANKSGIVING Day.
Wood wanted at once at the
TIMES office on subscription.
A farmers institute will be held
at Ellsworth Dec. Ii and IA, and
at New Richmond Dee. 81 and -.
Taggart has a complete line of
window glass especially for one
light windows.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
NJ. Z. church will meet with Mrs.
Louise Reynolds Thursday after
noon,