19 Mar 1891 Part B - Green River Republican, Butler County, Kentucky *********************************************************** Submitted by: Butler County KYGenweb GRR Transcription Team Date: 11 Jun 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** 1891 March 19 Part B This transcribed by Tamara Kincaide < > from images scanned by Alice Warner To be proofread later by Alice Warner, original images available online at http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/butler/photos/grr/19Mar1891.pdf You will need Acrobat Reader or another PDF viewer to open the image PAGE B COLUMN 1 Poem with first 3 verses partially obscured I begin with verse 4, ----- or Marriage Now we wondered Now our wild wood Has become a garden plot Something missed of that strange sweetness In the method of our lot Ordered walks and formal bard-- For the wood paths strange and wild Rose superb and stately lily Where the careless wood flowers smile Summer grave and sober matron Fr young spring the eager child Which O which preferred shall be Twelve years wife by thee and me Nay the garden has its glory Stately flower and fruit mature And the wildwood had its dearness Strange nights and won are pure And the summer has fulfillment Is the spring has promise store And the river is the deeper If the young brook laughter more And there’s joy abideth When the tossing dreams are o'er And the broad blue sky has glories If the morn was wildly fair And the gathered rose is safer If the buds more pungent were And the pearl is rare and precious If the dive was full of glee And we would not orange our honey For the flower quest of the bee Sweet courtship sweet is marriage Crown them darling equally J. R. VERNON in Leisure Hours CROOKED PEOPLE - SOME OF THEM I HAVE MET AND OVERCOME Swinging by wrong footings - Fishing for money by an ingenious boy - Other thieveries- A somnambulist who stole his own money. I happened into the office of a large factory one day to see a friend, and during the call I met the proprietor and asked him how business was, I'm about discouraged he replied. But you seem to be very busy filling orders. So I am but for some reason I can't make any money. It seems as if the more we did the less profit we made. On the desk before him was a bill he had marked O.K. It was for stuff purchased-lumber, paint and oil. Without meaning to do so I glanced at the items and footed up the column of figures. It stood as follows: Dr to: -kegs paint at $1.-0 each --$10.80 10 gallons oil at 63 cents per gallon --6.30 Lumber from NEFF'S--15.00 Hauling same--1.75 Hoop Iron---?.80 Paint brushes--4.30 TOTAL--53.95 The bill was in the handwriting of the man who acted as book keeper, cashier and buyer for the factory, and was six bills put together to save O.k.'s. Does the reader see any thing wrong with the figures? I did at a glance. The total should have been forty four dollars and twenty five cents. Where is your book keeper this afternoon, I asked. He's out. Well find me all the bills you can. He brought me half a dozen from the book, and we discovered that each one had been falsified in adding up the figures. Next day the man was sent away on an errand and an expert brought in to overhaul his books, and in half a day over four thousand dollars in small embezzlements could be footed up. He had taken the simplest way to rob his employer and one which is always practiced with the most success. A similar discovery was brought about in a still more singular manner. I was riding along the highway when I noticed a folded paper which had evidently fallen from some one's pocket. When I slighted and picked it up, I found it to be the weekly pay-roll of a brick and tile yard. The owner of the yard while a very successful businessman was a poor scholar, and he employed a young man to keep his books and handle more or less cash. The pay-roll stood as follows; ADAMS---$13.00 AMES--11.88 BE--OE--10.90 CARTER--10.95 DAVIS--10.90 E---IS--13.14 FRICK--18.00 GORMAN--9.80 HANNON--8.25 TOTAL--112.86 The laborers were working at piece work and each one's credit differed from another's. I ran the column of figures up and found an error. I tried it again and was satisfied that the true total was only $98.38. I took the paper to the brick man, learned who had made out the roll and within an hour had got a hold of evidence to prove that in one year his young had defrauded him of $890 by means of false footings. For several years I was detailed on a branch of detective work known as "mysterious thefts" and many of them did really have mysterious appearances at the outset. One of my very first cases was that of loss of money in a retail store. A girl eighteen years of age acted as cashier and she had a office in the rear of the store. This office was railed in to a height of seven or eight feet and had two each windows. The cashier occupied it exclusively and it had come about on several occasions that her cash wouldn't balance the tips on the book, She would be short as 22, 23 or ---,There must be something wrong. Some where, As she had to make the shortages good, she could not be --- and indeed it was on her --- NEXT 7 SENTENCES ARE UNREADABLE--- CONTINUED NEXT COLUMN 2 twelve feet from either of the cash windows. I called the store at half past eleven o'clock in the afternoon. At twelve half of employees went out to dinner and three or four others lunched from their baskets. Among the latter was the cashier. She sat on a stool facing the front of the store with her back to the money, and kept up a conversation with a girl seated just outside the railing she had been thus about ten minutes when I saw a string slowly descend from the floor above her head. It came down alongside the wall and this little black ball at the end of it rested for a moment on the top bill of the pile of bank notes, Then it was drawn up and went away a bill with it, and was drawn through a hole above. The cashier neither saw nor heard. The few employees of the store were busy and the festoons of dress goods, handkerchiefs, etc. from pillar to pillar obstructed their vision. I went softly upstairs and found a stock boy eating his dinner just over the office, I stood him up and found a $10.00 bill in his vest pocket with a fresh spot of pitch on it, and his fish line --- concealed under a box near by. There was a hole in the floor where some heavy box smashed a board ---- owned right up, and the mystery was no longer. He had never taken but one bill at a time, and that always when the cashier was eating. Men have always obliged to trust, other men and they always will be and whom an employer has once satisfied himself is all right, it is the hardest kind of work to convince him that there is any thing wrong. This loyalty is all right in one sense but it has shielded many criminals. Were every employee to be continually under espionage or suspicion it would be a sad state of affairs. The senior partner of an old dry goods house called me to his office to report leakage which the house had vainly endeavored to stop. The shortage was not in cash but in stock --- had been set to watch for shoplifters but none of that class had been spotted. All employees had been watched that no one had been caught taking goods away. Most of the salesmen had been with the house for years and the floor walker the longest of all. Suspicion pointed to no one and yet it was certain that a leak existed. Aided by my usual luck I was only three or four days in discovering it. The store had a fine high class trade and many articles were sent on approval. In lounging about I saw articles brought back and handed to the floor walker to be returned to the office as returned. It occurred to me that there might be two sides to this system and it wasn't two hours before a lady came in and said to him; I came to pay $20 for the cloak sent on Tuesday sent for approval. He took her name and money went back to the office and reported the cloak as returned and pocketed the money. I got three cases on him before making my report, and when I did report to the senior partner he flew out and declared that it looked like a put up job to earn my money. It was easy enough to satisfy him however as I had kept the addresses of the different buyers. A call at each address brought forth the declaration that the goods had been paid for, but we waited for a fourth case and then caught the man in a box. He was wound up so tightly that he made a full confession and begged for mercy. He had taken over $6000 in this way and had been playing the game for years and was the last man in the store who would have been suspected. JOHN GILMAN an insurance agent in a city of 25,000 inhabitants had a mystery which he called me to solve. He had an office on the ground floor of a building at the corner of Main and Walnut streets but fronting on Main and rearing on Walnut. On Walnut adjoining him was a tobacco store, His safe stood in a recess at the back of the store and this recess was just two feet wider than the safe. It was wainscoted up to the height of the safe. Now GILMAN had been missing money right along for two or three months and the mystery was that it had been in each instance taken out of the safe. He alone knew the combination and in every case it had been opened in the regular way. I found it hard to credit his statements, no one had broken in to the office as far as he could see, had touched the safe and yet he was sure the money had been taken. For instance he had placed $200 in it at night and next morning $80 was missing. Out of $100, $15 was taken, out of a package of $300 drawn from the bank and carefully recounted $35 had been taken. To make sure that the fault was not his he had kept a memorandum, for instance written down $250 counted over three times. There are 10, 20 bills and 10, 5 bills. That money had been put into the safe at night and next morning it was about short $20. GILMAN had no occasion to rob himself nor was he a somnambulist and it puzzled me not a little how to go to work. One afternoon I asked him to lock and unlock the safe in my presence. It was a combination of four letters and as he worked it he called out JANE, JANE the name of his wife. With that as a starter I began to investigate the tobacco store, I found that the clerk who was a young man of twenty slept there nights. I got a chance to look at the wall opposite GILMAN'S safe and I found it wainscoted up as the other side and right here was the book keeper’s desk. Every thing appeared regular but that night I remained in the office after the agent went home. The office was dark and I took a seat within three feet of the safe. At about eleven o'clock I heard a slight noise in the recess and next moment a part of the wainscoting was lifted out some one crawled through from the tobacco store and presently the intruder sat down before the safe opened the slide of a dark lantern just a bit and opened the door as quickly as GILMAN could have done it. He took out a roll of bills containing $230 counted them over and then returned all but 30. When he had closed the door I heard him say J A N E , I then nabbed him and he proved to be the clerk at the tobacco store, he had played a pretty sharp game. There was a loose knot in one of the boards and one evening in moving a box he had jarred this and he had applied pressure to the knot and was restoring it to place when he heard GILMAN locking the safe ------ pronouncing the combination this gave him an idea. Purchased a fine saw he cut a panel out of the ---- large enough to enable him to crawl through and after that he --------------------- ---------------------- NEXT 2 SENTENCES OBSCURED CONTINUED NEXT COLUMN END OF COLUMN 2 PAGE B, COLUMN 3 any sum he found was a good one, but luck and accident helped me get the best of him. Another mysterious case was that of a retail druggist. He was a single man and --- --- --- --- He had been robbed repeatedly and always at night and he had --- over the matter until he was heartsick. The money was always taken from the safe the same as in the GILMAN case, but here it was surrounded by brick walls. I looked the ground over thoroughly and failed to strike a clue. Then I asked him to state his financial condition. He was in debt eight hundred dollars but doing an excellent business meeting his payments as they came in. not only that but for the robbery he would soon have had money to marry and set up housekeeping, Then I asked him to let me sit up in the store all night and before midnight I had solved the mystery. He got up in his sleep took fifteen dollars out of the safe and deposited in a jar on the top shelf. The jar upon investigation turned up every dollar he had lost, He had in his mind figured on saving so much a week to get married on. It was exactly the sum he had stolen every time and laid away, and yet no argument could convince him he was a somnambulist. N. Y. SUN THE WORD NEVER Its origin and the manner of its abuse in our language. Few words in our language are more frequently taken in vain than the emphatic adverb NEVER. It is of pure Saxon origin and like most of its verbal kin is forcible and comprehensive. Followed out through all its legitimate meanings and applications a more potential word is scarcely to be found in our grand old mother tongue. Yet in all our vocabulary there is not one more shamefully abused. It is played with a pitch and tossed by the unstable the frivolous, the false. I will never forgive him never, never, never says the deceived and outraged wife and yet perhaps before a week is over the offending husband is pardoned and the implacable wife is as wax in the wrong doer's hands. Never shall a drop of any thing intoxicating pass my lips again, cries the helpless wild eyed victim of debauch as his nerves shake and quiver under the maddening lash wired and knotted by his own hands. Ah could we believe him. But unfortunately experience teaches us that case recants vows made in pain, and that no vows are more valueless than those of the inebriated. There is scarcely an old man in the land who has not heard either in his own family or in the family of some friend the torture-born never of the drunkard. It is sometimes kept it might always be kept if men would but assert their manhood. The dignity and strength of moral manhood once triumphantly asserted each succeeding triumph will become easier, until at last temptation will lose its power and with absolute determination to do right will expire the last remnant of the inclination to do wrong. We have seen victories hope to see more of them. They are possible to all who err. N. Y. LEDGER. BANK DEPOSITS THE BENEFTS DERIVED OF HAVING A SAVINGS ACCOUNT The state can show a large percentage of savings bank deposits certainly possess a population that is characterized by thrift and economy. The importance of inculcating the habits of saving can not be too often impressed not only on account of its beneficial effect upon the individual the family and municipality but upon the state as well. The man who begins to deposit in a savings bank or to save a little and invest it in some other way has an incentive toward economy, industry and sobriety that can not help making him a better citizen in every way. He then begins to feel a sense of responsibility that acts as a balance wheel and a desire to increase his savings leads him to seek to increase his earnings by the exercise of his intelligence thus keeping him from failing into ruts and living along upon a dead level. It is also true that the greater part of the fortunes of to day had their basis in small earnings, cent by cent, dollar by dollar, at the start the habits thus formed being the main factors in bringing about the later prosperity. Of course every man can not expect to become a millionaire but every man ought to be able in this land of steady habits to lay up a little money year by year, giving him something to fall back upon in adversity and supplying an incentive toward a life of usefulness. NEW HAVEN REGISTER. BIRDS ARE GOOD SCHOLARS Before the war said an old traveler, I was in the south quite a good deal and stopped at both the cities of Savannah and Charleston and while at these places I noticed that on market days a large number of turkey buzzards would be seen perched on the roofs of the market gazing down into the streets. I was told by a friend that such sights were common on market days and if I waited I could see why the birds came, I did so and found that they descended to the ground and hunted stray pieces of meat as soon as the market space was vacated. I also learned what was a more interesting fact that the buzzards flew from one city to the other in regular succession on market days. This habit of being fed regularly is soon learned by birds, and they will flock to their feeding ground with precision of clockwork. In Venice there is a flock of pigeons that are fed every day in the public square and the birds are on hand as regularly as noon comes. An Italian lady left a bequest to provide for their feeding. CHOCAGO JOURNAL. COOLNESS ITSELF MRS. HICKS, Who was the most impudent man you ever knew? MRS. DIX, Well I always thought the pretty well of a fellow who used to drink my milk on the front step every morning and rang the bell for a napkin. MONNEY WEEKLY NOT SO EASY TO SUIT Married man, Why don't you get married Miss, you are getting to look like a back number - will soon be an old maid, MISS, If I was as easy to please as your wife I would have been married long ago. TENN S---- LAST 4 SENTENCES OBSCURED. END OF COLUMN 3 PAGE B, COLUMN 4 RUINED PROSPECTS The stuffed prospect overwhelmed by the rising tides. Mr. CLEVELAND personal admirers are laying great emphasis on his Coopers Union letter against free silver coinage. They declare that whether or not the letter was a political error, it illustrated beyond the extraordinary outrage of a man who maintains his convictions at whatever cost to his own political fortunes. This February silver letter is likened to the December tariff message of something over three years ago on which the national democracy eleven months afterward, was defeated, routed and driven out of its entrenchments. MR CLEVELAND for a second time has ruined democratic prospects for a presidential year, we are quite inclined to believe. But we are compelled to question the courage of the act. We do not wish to judge MR. CLEVELAND harshly. But we are incline to believe that so far from being a courageous act his letter was the joint product of protracted procrastination bungling incompetence and shrinking cowardice. It should be remembered that MR CLEVELAND made no new departure, that the Cooper Union letter was simply a reaffirmation of his views on silver which were contained in his letter of February, 1885, to Congressman A. J. WARNER of Ohio, and later on were incorporated in his own and Secretary MANNING'S message to congress. Any departure from the financial views entertained by him as president would have branded MR. CLEVELAND as a political trimmer or as having been aggressively ignorant on the silver question when he assumed the presidency. Much as MR. CLEVELAND may have realized the democratic drift toward free silver and may have desired to effect a change of base, his stubborn pride doubtless forebode in maintaining a position consistent with his past record, he vainly endeavored to ignore the silver question and hold aloft the antiquated shibboleth of tariff reform. Since the middle of last June when the Evening Journal, noticing Senator VEST'S declaration that MR CLEVELAND had experienced conversation on the silver question called for an expression of his views, the demand has gone up from every section and quarter of the union that he answer the general inquiry. To all such entreaties however MR. CLEVELAND turned a deaf ear, for nearly eight months he was silent. His frantic appeals to stand by the tariff issue met with cynical rejoinder, inspired by the consciousness that the tariff had already been reformed by the Republicans and eliminated from issues of the day. In helplessness and despair MR. CLEVELAND has beheld the rising of the tide of democratic free silver sentiment. He cannot have been so lacking in political perspicacity as to have failed to realize that on the question of free silver coinage he had taken a position in opposition to the drift of democratic thought. Unable to advance a retreat was equally out of the question and the history of American politics cannot present another case where a public man was placed so completely between the devil and the deep sea. But wherein did MR. CLEVELAND manifest either courage or judgment in acting the part of a whistling buoy of tariff reform. Would it not have been far more creditable to the man and fraught with practical results, had he sounded the dangers of free silver coinage and consigned the tariff mute to the waves. When last June the enemies of an honest dollar and a sound financial system gathered in force at Washington when the democratic party was being rallied on the side of the free silver when Senator VEST of Missouri was proclaiming MR. CLEVELAND conversation to the free coinage of silver programming when the senate was carried for inflation then the stalwart REED of Maine stood alone apparently between the vast business financial, commercial and industrial interests of the country and the disturbance and disaster of free silver coinage, why did MR. CLEVELAND remain silent? That was the time when he should have sounded an anti silver warning. It was cowardly in him to suffer, MR VEST to put him in the position of a Jous-faced statesman. Nevertheless he timely permitted the silver inflationist to seize control of the democratic party and after his friends in congress had committed themselves to free silver coinage and gone on record he asserts himself and condemns their course. Procrastination incompetence and cowardice are mild terms with which to express MR. CLEVELAND conduct on the silver question. However it is scarcely befitting to speak ill of the dead, and if we have offended the tender sensibilities of any friend of the late MR. CLEVELAND our apology can be that reason has usurped the bounds of judgment. ALBANY JOURNAL. THE TARIFF BILL Free trade democrats disappointed at the outcome. No person can now estimate the effects of the tariff law of 18?0 upon the industries of this country, it is too early. The law went into effect less than five months ago and the business of the year had closed so far as the great production and distribution centers of the country are concerned. But the coming season will demonstrate its benefits and prove the adventures its advocates claim, or the contrary will appear beyond question. It will make itself felt in no uncertain manner for the eyes of the whole country, and of the whole world for that matter are watching its effects upon every conceivable industry calling and profession. Its friends claim that its provisions have been misrepresented and lied about, while its enemies assert that it was framed and enacted in the interests of the rich manufacturer and consumer. It comes as close to what a tariff law should be as the wisdom of man can conceive and we have no doubt that before the next presidential candidate shall have been placed in nomination the American people will have become convinced that that it was drawn up in the interest of no special class, as has been time and again charged but to benefit and encourage home manufactories and American industries of every class and grade. At ready indications in this directions are dropping out in the increase of our production in the line of the -------- guide the ----- it is --- --- the organization of ---- mills in the northwest and --- were enterprise in every section of the industry,-----tally in the ---- the MCKINLEY law present the ---- ---- ---- ----. The farmers are not the ---- that they are ----- as free ----- ----- have them ---- -- continued COLUMN 5 PAGE B, COLUMN 5 may mention the fact the proprietors of the Farm and Home of Chicago, and the New England Homestead of Springfield, Minn. had a canvas made among the farmers for the purpose of obtaining their views upon the new tariff law. The question submitted was ; Will the new tariff help American farmers as a whole? There were 110,000 responses 35,255 of which were in the affirmative. That tin poll dodge played by the democrats in the last campaign is being even now turned against those who invented it. Over a dozen tin plate factories have already been established in the country and nearly five months must pass before the new tariff goes into effect. To be sure the workingman is still paying the old price for his dinner pail and the farmer for his tin pans though the price has been raised the fraction of a cent, but that fraction now borne by the shopkeeper will soon disappear and two or three cents with it. And the same might be said of other industries. The fact is that the tariff bill is disappointing its opponents and they will be more disappointed as the growing prosperity of the country becomes more apparent. In harmony with the proactive system our imports are bound to increase and these imports will before to such things this country does not produce, and our own industries as a consequence must develop and widen which in the larger exports of our manufactures will force a return in such things as we want. Our exports for the month of December were the largest of any month in history of the country amounting to $98,439,560 exceeding by nearly a million and a half the exports of December 1889. This is confounding to our opponents who predicted a large falling off in our exports. Thanks to the protective system the markets of the world will soon contribute to our wealth and give employment to our industries to such an extent as to make the American British free trade democrat sick. The American farmer will then find that he was not sacrificed nor the American workingman degraded by the MCKINLEY law. The products of the farm and the factory will find their way into the markets of the world, and few persons on American soil will be found to shed a tear over the final burial of the last vestige of free trade ideals in the country. MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE WINDOM'S SUCCESSOR The new secretary of the treasury and his political record. In placing the treasury portfolio in the hands of CHARLES FOSTER of Ohio, PRES HARRISON has strengthened his cabinet and pleased the country. MR FOSTER may be said to possess in an eminent degree the qualifications needed in the chief of the financial arm of the government. As a business man he is well known throughout his state while his political career has made his name familiar over a much broader area. During his eight years of service in congress he revealed a comprehensive and accurate knowledge of the great questions of the day, together with a earnestness and an industry when won him the admiration of his political friends everywhere and the respect of his political foes. His district has never had a more useful or satisfactory representative. His service on the ways and means committee while in congress gave him a familiarity with financial issues and methods which he will be able to turn to good use to the country in the important field of labor to which he has just been called. The service which he rendered in governorship after his retirement from congress added to the regard in which he was held by the people of his state Ohio never had a purer more economical or more efficient administration than he enjoyed from 1880 to 1884 when CHARLES FOSTER was at the head of its affairs. In a political sense the appointment is especially gratifying MR FOSTER is personally one of the most popular of the prominent men of the country. The district which he represented in congress was usually strongly democratic except in his case. Republicans and democrats alike were aware that he was about the only republican who could carry it. He always --- ahead of his tickets. Last fall when a candidate for congress in a district gerrymandered against him and at a time too when the tide of public favor was set against his party, he cut down the normal democratic majority more than one half. Moreover his republicanism is of the progressive and inspiring sort. He always keeps himself abreast of the sentiment of the most thoughtful and intelligent members of his political faith. At all times he is in touch with the masses of the party. In putting this worthy Ohioan in the recent place in the cabinet the president has displayed political sagacity and a deference to the wishes of his fellow citizens which are creditable to his judgment and public spirit. ST LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT. COMMENT AND OPINION CLEVELAND in his conventional role as the great American ----- pauses to deny that he is not willing. An example of superfluity which could only be equaled by a statement that he is willing. TROY TIMES One of the principals of the democratic party according to MR CLEVELAND is absolute acquiescence in the decision of the majority. Why then was the rebellion inaugurated when LINCOLN was elected president. ST LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT MR CLEVELAND is not in good odor with the silver men of his party just now, It is the misfortune of the prophet of an unintelligent party that no matter what he does he will lose their blind affection occasionally. Above all he must never show a glimmering of sense. That is fatal. CHICAGO JOURNAL The Atlanta and Columbus GA boards of trade recently passed resolution endorsing the policy of reciprocity of trade with foreign nations, on the plan as recently adopted with the republic of Brazil, secured by the effort of JAMES G BLAINE secretary of state. MR CLEVELAND ought to submit a writ of injunction to prevent his solid south from falling in love with BLAINE'S way of doing business. STATE REGISTER Democrats who have noticed the affected kicking an electric light wire --- it is ---- are ---- kicking GROVER CLEVELAND When GROVER says point up or point down and wiggle waggle they will all have to wiggle waggle and they know it.--- ---- ---- that CLEVELAND is an Last 4 sentences obscured. END OF COLUMN 5 PAGE B COLUMN 6 PERSONAL AND LITERARY The widow of MARK LEMON once editor of the London Publish has just died having survived her husband for twenty years. By she will of the late DR. ALVAN TALCOTT of Cullford, Conn., Yale College will receive $25,000 and a valuable medical library. Henry Gasper of Michigan City, In. is an enterprising youth. He is only sixteen years old yet he confesses to ten burglaries and has stolen $5,000 worth of property. Mrs. J. WELLS CHAMPNEY author of Vassar girls Abroad produces three books each year. With her artist husband she has visited every nook and corner of both Europe and America. MRS LILLA CABOT PERRY whose poem A Plea of Truth appears in the current Atlantic is the author of the volume The Heart of the Wheel which was published anonymously and has reached a third edition. American Horse the Olallain chief is known as the DANIEL DOUGHERTY of the Sioux tribe. He is most eloquent silver tongued aborigines on the continent. He is naturally a man of great influence among the Indians. MISS FRANCES POWER COBBE author of many books and one of the ablest of literary women is at the age of seventy, hard at work as writer and reformer she is full of health and vigor which she attributes to her simple diet and regular habits, and gives much time to the Antivivisection Society in London of which she is president. CAPT. SCHLEY commanding the cruiser Baltimore the vessel that bore Eriesmon return to Sweden says the fine ship made foreign navy officers open their eyes. The enthusiastic Captain who came home to attend his daughters wedding, says he could catch any ship the French, German or English navies without exerting the Baltimore at all. The vulnerable DAVID DUDLEY FIELD attributes his prolonged activity of mind and body it is said to his habit of taking a short nap of twenty to thirty minutes after dinner. He awakes refreshed and strengthened and ready to spend the evening in reading or conversation without fatigue. The same restful habit is recorded of PROF DELITZSCH the eminent biblical commentator. PRINCE ZATCHARSKY otherwise known MILTON NAKARITSCHEY who was arrested recently in Constantinople in company with LIEUTENTANT LUTZKY is said to be guilty of causing the disaster at Berk two years ago when the Czar narrowly escaped meeting his death. The Russian government has long been on the hunt for the PRINCE who has spent the greater part of his time since the disaster in Sophia. The mother of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON it is recorded keeps a scrapbook, in which she has gathered every thing that has been written concerning her son, On the title page of the scrap book these lines are inscribed, Speak week o my love, Speak ill o my love. But aye be speaking o him. MRS.. STEVENSON is an agreeable scotch lady and the author of Treasure Island is her only son. She is about to join her son and his wife in Tampa. Namby- She is very rich Do you suppose he has a tender feeling for her, Books- of course of course a legal tender feeling. Our astronomer claim to know to a certainty that there is no water on the moon, and so the rest of us might as well take it for granted that there is no soap, Rain's Horn I think the wine is too dear Too dear answered the host Do you know what I calculate each bottle at? No but I should calculate about half water. ELLEGENDE BLATTER MR SCHOOLMASTER - I hope you will treat this little boy of mine exactly as if he were your own son, Oh yes certainly I will give him a whipping everyday since you desire it. Youth in new suit to evident tailor-I will give you a fifty dollar watch and we'll call it square. Evident tailor- Let me have it, Youth-Well you will have to wait till the close of the fair but it’s all right here’s my ticket for the chance, prettiest watch you ever saw. Philadelphia Record END COLUMN 6 PAGE b COLUMN 7 MARCH, APRIL, MAY Are the best months in which to purify your blood. During the long cold winter the blood becomes thin and impures the body, --------- and tired the appetite may as --- and --- --- the system craves the aid of a reliable medicine, Hood's Sarsaparillas is particularly adapted to purify and enrich the blood to ---- a good appetite and to overcome that tired feeling, HOOD'S SARSAPRILLA Sold by all druggists $1, six for $5, Prepared daily by C. L. HOOD & CO, Lowell, Mass. 100 DOSES ONE DOLLAR AUGUST FLOWER How does he feel? He feels cranky and is constantly experimenting, dieting himself, adopting strange notions and changing the cooking, the dishes, the hours and manner of his eating, August Flower the Remedy How does he feel? He feels at times gnawing, voracious, insatiable appetite, wholly unaccountable, unnatural and unhealthy. August Flower the remedy How does he feel? He feels no desire to go to the table and a grumbling fault finding, over nicety about what is set before him when he is there. August Flower the remedy How does he feel? He feels after a spell of abnormal appetite an utter abhorrence loathing and desolation of food as if a mouthful would kill him. August Flower the remedy. How does he fell? He has irregular bowels and peculiar stools. August Flower the remedy. W L DOUGLAS $3 SHOE for the gentlemen. $5 genuine handmade an elegant and --- --- dress shoe ---- recommends ----- $4 handmade well a shoe ---- sharp ---- ---- and durability $3.50 good wear is the standard dress ---- at a popular price $3 ---- is the ---- $2.50 D---gate shoes for ladies is a new --- ---- handmade very popular $2 shoe for ladies and ---- for ---- their --- for style --- All goods warranted and shipped with --- and horn, if --- formal --- supply just asked --- to factory advertised price of a postal for ------ -----. W L DOUGLAS , Brooklyn, Mass Wanted ---- dealer is every city and state -- occupied is -----,all agents and ---- name the paper every time you ---- BERMUDA BOTTLED You must go to Bermuda. If you do not I will not be responsible for the consequences. But doctor I can't afford neither the time nor money, Well if that is impossible try SCOTT'S EMULSION OF PURE NORWEGIAN COD LIVER OIL I sometimes call it Bermuda Bottled and mainly cures of consumption, bronchitis, cough or severe cold. I have cured with it and the advantage in that the most sensitive stomach can take it, Another thing which commends it to the stimulating properties of the hypophrephites which it contains, You will find it for sale at your druggist but see you get the original SCOTT'S EMULSION THE CHASTLY RECORD of deaths that results from malaria is frightful. There is no disease that is ---- --- in its attack. Its approach is healthy and it per----- every sore of the body and remedies which if applied at the outset by delay lose their power. DR TUTT'S LIVER PILLS have proven most valuable medical antidote ever discovered. A method clergyman of New York proclaimed the greatest blessing of the -------- and says in these days of decorative plumbing and sewer gas no family should be without them. They are pleasant to take being served with a vanilla sugar coating. TUTT'S LIVER PILLS SURE ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA sold everywhere .24 cents FLAGS THE BEST OF U.S. BUNTING FLAGS are sold by O. W. SIMMONS & CO. Boston Mass Military Goods DR BULLS COUGH SYRUP A salvation oil $500 REWARD (2 sentences obscured)-------5 ton wagon scale $60---------- --unreadable sentences Golden memories (unreadable) END OF PAGE B