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LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY; NOVEMBER 24, 1897.
WHOLE NO. 1449.
, THE TOWN OF NOQOOD.
My friends have you heard of the town
of Nogood?
On the banks of the River Slow.
Where blooms the Waitau-hil..
fair,
Where the Sometimeorother scents the air
And the Softeasys grow.
It lies in the valley of Whatstheuse,
in tlie province of Leterslide;
Thattiredfeeling is a native there.
It's the home of the reckless I don't
care,
Where the Giveitups abide.
The town is as old as the human race,
And it grows with the flight of years;
It israpped"in the fog of;idler's dreams,
Its streets are paved with discarded
schemes
And sprinkled with useless tears.
The Collegebredfool and the Richman's
heir
Are plentiful there no doubt;
The rest of its crowd are a niotleyjcrew,
With every class except one in view
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The town of Nogood is all hedged about
By the Mountains of Despair;
No-sentinel stands on its gloomy walls,
No trumpet to battle and triumph calls,
For cowards alone are there.
My friend, from the dead-alive town
Nogood
If you would keep far away,
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ill;
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The day had been wot. Toward
night it cleared, and there was
promise of a beautiful sunset.
"I am going for a long walk over
the hills, Lucius," said Mrs. Con
yers to a servant 9he met in the
hall an old family servant, who
was at once the comfort and bane
of her life. "I will have some tea
when I get back."
Lucius was gracious enough to
promts that she would, then he
added,
"No news yet of the young gem
man, Miss Elsie?"
"No, Lucius 1 thought he would
have got here by this morning but,
I suppose I was mistaken about the
day the steamer would arrive."
"Ah, I know dem steamers, con-
sarn 'eml" returned Lucius, with
a lofty air for Lucius was a trav
eled man.
j Aa she walked rapidly forward,
I Elsie was thinking of the "young
gemman," concerning whose non-
arrival Lucius had spoken. He
was her vard though she ha d nev
er yet seen him. Her ward Elsie
could not say the words without
laughing; yet she sighed, and felt
frighened, too, for she was barely
twenty-one herself, though she
had been a widow for a year ; and
to be left guardian to a growing
boy, who must be at least fourteen,
seemed at once ludicrous and ter
rifying.
This was the way it happened.
When Elsie Barrington was
eighteen, she married Edgar Con
yers a man old enough to have
been her grandfather, and whom
Elsie wrote' one letter to the or
phan, kindly, gently telling him
that when he returned to America,
her house was to bo his home, and
promising to fulfill, as well as she
could, tho duties which had de
volved upon her.
Soon after her husband's death
she and her mother sailed for South
America, to visit Mrs. Barring
ton's step-daughter; and I fear
that, in spite of her wise resolu
tions, Elsie thought very little
about her new charge. However,
not long before the time where 1
begin my story, she received a let
ter from Lester Warne, her ward ;
a very short letter, beginning,
"Dear Madam," and ending with
a ''Yours respectfully," in which
ho informed her that he was com
ing home.
Busy with her own affairs, Elsie
simply wrote to the lawyers in New
York, who had charge of the boy's
future, that, after Master Letter
Warne's arrival, she would go down
to confer with them and there
the matter rested.
It was past eight o'clock when
Mrs. Conyers reached the house.
The May evening had been so
sweet, she had been beguiled into
wandering father than she intend
ed. When she entered the hall.
Lucius met her with his usual
grand bow, and the information :
"If you please, madam, de'trab-
lors has arrove; de young gem-
man, being non compos with a sick
headache, has retired, but do od
der, I spose he's de tutor, waits
in de library."
Elsie ran up stairs to get rid of
her wraps and thick boots, and
slip into another black dress.
I dare say he is an old pump
tutors always are," she thought,
as she took a glance at her pretty
self in the mirror; "still one likes
to be decent, even if one sits
alone."
Down stairs she flew. She was
a little, lithe thing, with great,
soft blue eyes, and golded hair,
looking more like seventeen than
twenty-one; but in spite of her
gentle manners and caressing
ways, she was as decided a woman
as one could find.
"Now for the old prose," she
thought, as she opened the library-
door. "It is a shame that mamma
should be out tc:;i"ht ?f all oth
ers 1 I hope the old thing won't
talk either eonehoLogy or geology,
at least."
She entered the room a hand
some, luxurious chamber, which
was Elsie's favorite retreat. A fire
was burning in the grate Elsie
liked a fire as long as she could
make any pretence for having one.
Her reading table was drawn up,
as usual, in her pet corner, her pet
arm-chair beside it, but, lo and
behold, the stranger had estab
Ushed himself in that special nook
He was half liyngbackin the seat,
so that she could only see the top
of his head, and below, his legs
she had known and been petted- by , stretched completely out upon the
all her short life. Her mother hearth
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made the match, of course. El
sie's father had died when the girl
was fifteen died insolvent.
The old gentleman adored his
young bride, and Elsie, ; knowing
no more about love than I know
about Chinese, was acquiescent,
and, indeed, quietly happy during
her wedded life.
At the time of his marriage, Mr.
Conyers had written to a friend of
his, who lived in the South of Eu
rope, that he was taking to him
self a wife, the daughter of their
formor friend Barrington. Now
Mr. Barrington had another
daugter, Elsie's half-sister a wid
ow of near forty, residing in South
America. Mr. Mannering took it
for granted that it was she whom
Convers had married, and wrote
back his earnest congratulations
Only three months before his
death there came another letter
from Mannering.
"My health is failing fast," he
wroto, "I may go any day; the
sooner the better. I will ask a last
favor of you, Edgar. Yon will re
member my writing to you, two
voars since, that my poor sister
wuh dead, and had left mo guard i
an to her boy. When I go, I want
you to be his guardian. I have
api ornted you in my will. In case
you should follow me, tho guardi
anship will devolve upon your
wife."
The two friends died about the
same time. Almost the last words
Conyers fpoke were to confide his
frir-nd's wphew to Elsie's care. A
letter Mannering wrote, just before
hi death, informed them that he
had doc'uled his boy was to travel
for another yoar under the charge
of a tutor, then go homo.
I know I shall hate him," she
thought. "If he had the brains
of an oyster, he would have known
by instinct that he had taken my
favorite place. Well he must be
deaf into the bargain!"
She was half way across the
room by this time, but the auda
cious tutor had not stirred. In
passing a table her loose sleeve
swent a book off, which fell to
A.
the floor ; still he did not move
"'If I had a percussion-cap I'd
crack it on the top of his old
head!" thought Elsie.
On she floated to the hearth
As she reached it the gentleman
rose with a start, but, instead of
being elderly, he was an exceed
ingly handsome young fellow
looking about twenty-six, tall ele
gantly formed, with beautifu
black eyes, and a heavy, curling
black mustache.
"I beg ten thousand, pardons 1
Cried he, not a bit confused, though
he looked a little bewildered by
the golden-haired apparition whic
had so suddenly appeared before
him. "I believe I was fast
asleep."
Elsie felt somewhat fluttered by
t he sight of such a Prince Charm
ing in place of the elderly pump
she had looked to see; but, of
courso, it was not in keeping with
her dignity as mistress ot tne nouse
to show it. She said gravely :
"You are tired from your voy
age, I presume."
had to wait a whole age at somr-by-station
for a return train."
"It was very vexatious," Elsie
said, pleasantly, though in her
heart she was thinking thi3 tutor
much too free and unembarrassed
for his position. "I fear your
young charge is quite worn out.
My servant told me he had gone
to bed."
"Yes; poor little fellow 1 he
suffers terribly from sick head
aches, and is-quite done tip."
"Can I do anything for him, or
is he better left alone?" she ask
ed. "No, thanks! Sleep is all he
wantSi That magnificent colored
individual gave him some capital
tea, and he went fast to sleep as
soon as his head touched the pil
low. He'll be all right in the
morning," -answered the tutor,
wit h a carelessness which did not
please Mrs. Conyers.
"l hope Lucius is attending to
your dinner," was all she said.
"Oh, thanks! Wre dined at
that station where we were detain
ed; but , if you will excuse me, I'd
be awfully glad of some tea."
"Lucius will bring it in a mo
ment."
"And I'll just run up and be
sure that little beggar is all right."
When he came back, the tea was
waiting, and Elsie was busy with
the cups and saucers,
i "He's fast as a dormouse," said
the young gentieman, again star
ing at her with his handsome eyes
full of undisguised admiration.
I am glad," said she, and gave
him a cup of tea. "Do you like
milk and sugar?" she added, Slav
ing her hand toward the tray, in
sign for him to help himself if he
did.
"Yes, both ; but I shall spoil it,
if I try. Please put it right for
me," said he coolly.
She complied in silence, thinking:
"I wonder when jrour quarter
will be up, young man ; when it is,
you will be free to find another
situation."
He was lazily sinking back again
into his former seat, and said :
"I suppose I have taken posses
sion of your mamma's pet corner.'
"No, it is mine," she replied,
quietly.
He rose, laughing, and made a
pretence of offering it to her,
though he added, "It's a shame
to make me give it up. I'm aw
fully comfortable; and, besides,
I'm ever so much the oldest 1"
She was struck dumbl She
said eoldly;
"Pray keep it, if you like ; I will
take mamma's place."
"Your mamma is out, the man
said."
"Yes; lam very sorry."
"bo am I. JNaturally, i am
crazy to see her 1" he said, laugh
ing. "Do tell me what she is like.
don't know her at all, you know,
mean to be awfully fond of her
doat on elderly people."
If her mother could hear him ;
the stateliest, haughtiest woman
that one could imagine I
"I did not even know she had a
daughter," he went on. "I was
'Not that; I never suffer on
ship-board," lie replied.
But we
h.iYohad such a fatiguing day of
it. When we changed at Pough
kcepsic, I stupidly took the wrong
train wo went careering up to
ward I don't " know where ; then
quite dazed when you came in;
beg your pardon ; but tne sooner
I get the hang of the family, the
fewer mistakes I shall make. Lu
cius called you Miss Elsie. Am I
to or"
"You may call me Mrs. Con
yers, ii you please, sne sai, as
he paused, leaving his sentence
unfinished, and dropping her
words out slowly and distinctly.
"What!" He fairly shouted,
springing to his feet "I beg your
pardon I What did you say?"
She began to think him a raving
lunatic, but replied composedly :
"I am Mrs. Edgar Conyers."
He set his cup down on the ta
ble- stared at her, clapped his
hands, and went into a perfect
paroxysm of laughter. She was
more frightened than angry he
certainly was mad ! If he moved
again she would ring. Luckily
the bell was close to her.
"It can't be!" he cried, as soon
as he could get breatli. "It is a
joke. You just want to sell me
I am Mrs. Gonyers, she re
peated sternly, fixing her ej'es full
upon him with a vague recollec
tion of having read somewhere
that one may keep lunatics and
lions in order, by staring fixedly
into their eyes.
He burst into a more insane fit
of merriment; laughed till the
tears actually ran down his cheeks.
Mad or not. there was only one
thing to be done she must leave
the room. She rose ; but he put
out his" hand.
"Don't 1" he said, brokenly. "I
lo believe you don't know who I
am, any more than I I knew who
you were. Ha, ha, ha."
"I do not, sir?" she said, in a
voice that Bhook with fear and an
?er. ..
"Oh, Lord! . I think I shall
die 1 " he shrieked , 1 'You are Mrs .
Conyers, and I am Lester
Warne 1"
She sank back on her chair and
stared at him.
"It is true," he said. "See,
here are the letters, and all."
He pulled a packet from his
coat, laid it on the table, tried to
compose himself, but could only
go into renewed peals of mirth.
"Who is the young gentleman
up stairs?" she asked, still unbe
lieving. '-'Little Thaddy Williamson. I
telegraphed you from New York to
know if I might bring him up for
a few days, till his people could
know,we had arrived."
"I had no telegram," she said.
"Oh dear! such a bundle of
blunders! I said, if not conven
ient, send me word. As I got no
answer, I brought him. Oh, please
laugh ! I shall die if you don't.
Mr. Montagu will be here tomor
row; lie will tell you. Indeed, in
deed, I am Lester Warne!"
She believed it at last. The lu
dicrous side suddenly struck her,
too. She laughed until she was
almost hysterical ; and he laughed
till he was forced to go and fling
himself on a sofa, and hold his
sides in sheer exhaustion.
It must have been a good half
hour before they were sane enough
to get at the facts in the case. He
had supposed her a middle-aged
lady ; his uncle would have con
sidered him a boy till he went on
cratches. ine explanations on
either side were so often interrupt
ed by bursts of laughter that they
were a long time getting through
them ; by the time they ended,
the pair felt as if they had known
each other for years.
"I shall call you 'Guardy,' as
the children do their guardians in
novels! cried he. And you
shall call me 'Ward;' nothing
else, I insist on it ."
Then they shrieked again.
l ne upshot o I tne matter was
that ten o'clock came before they
were aware. The carriage brought
Mrs. Barrington back without
their hearing it, and they were so
earnest in conversation that the
stately iady entered the room un-
perceived by either. She had
heard from Lucius of the arrivals,
jumped to the conclusion that this
handsome young fellow was the
tutor, and stood aghast at the
sight of her daughter laughing and
talking with her ward's instructor
as freely and familiarly as if he
had been an old friend.
"Oh, mamma, back at last !"
cried Elsie, when they percieved
her.
"Back at last?" returned the
old lady, in an icy voice, and glar
ing at her offspring with anger and
dismay.
This is Lester Warne," said
Elsie, trying hard to say the words
composedly.
Now Mrs. Barrington was rather
deaf, though she would have gone
to the stake sooner than admit it
She did not catch the name, but
disdained !to ask. She wheeled
slowly round and confronted the
stranger, who had risen.
"I hope your young charge is
quite well, sir," said she.
It was too much ; neither of her
Iistners could keep from laughing
again like mad ; and the old lady
stocf-d gazing from one to the other
with a face of indignant horror
and outraged pride, which ought
to have turned the offenders to
stone. "
Concluded next week.
Prosperity of a Queer Kind.
Boston Herald
At the meeting of tlie Home
Market Club this evening, will
Congressman Dingley, Mark Han-
na or Senator Hoar answer the
following questions? Will they
answer them without fling or jest;
without claiming that they are
free trade arguments which they
are not? Will they answer them
as vital questions bearing . upon
the welfare of every man, woman
and child of this country? Fail
ing to answer them will they give
a valid reason for not touching
them?
If we are in the midst of pros
perity why is it that the cost of
iving has been so greatly increas
ed?
Why are all the prime necessa
ries of life and the principal sta
ples so much higher than a year
ago
Flour is fully 55 per cent higher
than at the lowest point a year
ago. Corn is 9 to 10 per cent
ligher. Granulated sugar is over
17 per cent higher. Molassess is
7 per cent to 9 per cent higher.
Pork, is over 33 1-3 per cent
higher.
Mutton"' is over 25 per cent high
er.
Potatoes are over 100 per cent
higher.
Apples are more than 100 per
cent higher.
Butter is more than 15 per cent
higher. Eggs are over 10 nercent
higher.
Wool is from 80 to 100 per cent
higher, and the trade in woolen
goods is struggling to get the prices
of woolen cloths up to par with
wool, who is to pay for this in
creased cost of woolen cloths.
Hides are 40 per cent higher,
and boot and shoe manufacturers
are trying hard to get this
increased cost out of boots and
shoes. Is this of supreme benefit
to the great majority?
If we are extremely prosperous
and daily growing more so, how
does it happen that printed cloths
involving one of our greatest man
ufacturing industries, have just
reached the lowest price ever re
corded, viz., 2 5-16 cents?
How does it happen that the
cotton market has continued to
sag if a home market only is de
sirable? And how does it hap
pen that the cotton people are
setting up the argument that
low price of cotton is largely
to the fact that Europe
not been buying freely?
If a home market is the
note to prosperity, how does it
happen that all the good that has
come to the farmers of the West
from higher wheat is due to the
tremendous export trade of the
past four or five months?
How much have wages been
increased?.
the
due
has
key
A Ripe Old Age.
Fayetteville Observer.
Mr. Augus McQuaig of Robeson
county was at the Fair last week
visiting his grand niece, Mrs. G. G
Myrover. Mr. McQuaig is one of
tho oldest citizens of Robeson,
if not the oldest, having reached
the great age of 90; but he is still
remarkably well preserved and
auite active. He is one of the
old time traders with Fayetteville
and was intimately acquainted
with many of our leading mer
chants of the long ago. It is both
entertaining and instructive to
converse with these old Scotch-Irish
pioneers who settled this sec
tion and laid" a solid foundation
for the prosperity and usefulness
of the present generation.
- :
- Yoti can't cure consumption but you
cau avoid it and cure every other form of
throat or lung trouble by the use of One
Minute Cough Cure, J. D. McMillan
The Loyal Devotion of Two Lovers.
Salisbury Sun.
Miss Minnie Stirewalt, daugh
r of Rufus Stirewalt, of near
Ebenezer, this county, was quite
recently taken to the State Hos
pital at Morganton. For a long
time she had been afflicted and
some time since her mind became
affected and it was thought best
to have her taken to the Hospital
where she could ' be properly at
tended.
Rev. G. H. Cox relates to us a
pathetic incident, or series of -in
cidents, in connection with Mips
Stirewalt's affliction. She was
engaged to a young man some
years ago and they would have
married but for the affliction
which came upon her. Four years
ago this young man who was work
ing in Concord, became very ill.
He was taken with fever which
it was thought would prove fatal.
But he was brought back to health.
The physician attending stated
that the presence of the young la
dy and her attentions is what
saved the young man's life.
And when the lady became af
flicted and lost her mind the
young man became, it possiDie,
more loyal in his devotion than
ever. He was with her often and
paid every attention possible.
Last week he accompanied her
to Morganton and saw that she
would be properly cared tor m
the State Hospital.
The Common Cilm : of MurJer.
Philadelphia Tlmw .
There is not a single State or
Territory in the Union in which
there is not a trial for murder
pending. In the State of Ken
tucky there are forty seven cases
concerning ninety-one prisoners
for murder awaiting trial. In
Virginia there are at least twenty
three charges of murder. In the
first State only seven of the men
in jail to be tried for tho capital
offence of murder aro negroes, in
Virginia there are eight. North
Carolina has twenty cases or more,
Georgia twenty-seven, Louisiana
a score, Texas thirty-two or thirty-
three, Missouri twenty-four Illi
nois sixteen, Indiana seven, Ohio
eight, Michigan three, Pennsylva
nia twenty-six, New York forty
two, Connecticut, Rhode Island
and Vermont one, New Hampshire
has just settled one of her three
by a sentence of thirty years im
posed upon a crazed assassin, Cal
ifornia has twenty seven cases on
her docket, and altogether with a
dozen more or less there are 280
charges of murder on the crinii
nal dockets of the various Stales
and Territories.
Some of these have only passed
as yet from the hands of the cor
oner or committing magistrates,
n j i
uiuera are on mat, some are on
appeal, and a few have gone thro'
all the judicial procedure and the
convicted men are only awaiting
the executive action of the law to
complete their record.
In the Sunday Times of yester
day there was published a dozen
or so oi tne most strikiug cases.
They were selected from the broad
field, and it was intended to show
the generality and variety of the
crimes. For that purpose the
exchanges that come into this of
fice for a week, about 250 each
day were used as the sources of
information, and from them the
figures given above were also ta
ken. It can be readily understood
that there may be a causo of mur
der in a city, say like St. Paul,
where a man fully committed - for
and awaiting the action of the
grand jury may not be mentioned
tor several weeKs. mere is one
case in this city and the man
charged with the crime is in Moy
amensing, of which no mention
has been made in the local press
for at least ten days. The figures
given above are, therefore, utterly
inadequate the more so as they
do not embrace any crime in which
some one is not charged with, the
offense and is at least under arrest
for it.
What an awful showing this
is. however! It becomes the
more significant as it is ob
served that there is no dornina
ting cause of the crimes unless
it be that in the largo cities they
are more frequently connected
with ,robbery. Love, revenge,
madness, pure thirst of shedding
blood, gain, jealousy, political
wrangles, family feuds and drunk
brawls are a few ot the sources
from which these homicidal acts
have origin. Some seem not to
haye oven the plea of madness, to
which so many of the causeless
crimes are referred.
It is a mooted point whether le
gal punishment has any deterrent
effect upon crime, but no one can
read even the brief record in yes
terday's Times or note the terrible
suggestive figures given above
without an earnest wish that
punishment have a real test.
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New York Mail and Express.
H who has traded out his
neighbor's good opinion is pretty
sure to die a poor man, however
high the price for which he sold
it.
When business is attended by
minuteness of detail, 6trict punct
uality, it runs evenly, without jar
or friction, and insures success
In dress, be neat and unobtru
sive. The perfection of dress is to
be so perfectly in keeping with
your occupation that the attention
of an observer is not directed to it
at all.
Vainly shall a man hope.to live
and thrive by buying and selling
after his neighbors and customers
have learned by" sad experience
that his word is not reliable, that
his representations of the cost or
oualit v of his wares are not to be
x
trusted.
Fuming and fretting in and
around a store, finding fault with
clerks and employes, denotes a
lack of order and business tact,
and exposes the merchant to ridi
cule and "unpleasant comments
from those from whom he should '.ken
have respect and confidence.
Morbid SensltlvcneM.
Baltimore Bur.
Some people render t horns.;) v
unhappy unnecessarily by morbid
sensitiveness. They seern to bo
on the alert at all times to dett
slights or insults and resent nian
injuries that, even when real, hart
been inflicted upon them unwit
tingly. Super-sensitive people
generally very timid and usu-.llv
have a very good opinion of th.-m-.
selves. If they were not timid
they would by self assertion dicov
pate all doubt as to the attitudw
of other people toward them ; ii
they were riot inordinately conceit
ed they would not imagine that'
everything said or done relrt-d.
to themselves. This suner-se;i.- i-
tive disposition does not b-.rv -any
useful purpose and oniy ma lim
its victim unhappy, and, as ii i -.
a cultivated disposition, one lnny
guard against its developmci-it .
Nearly all people talk and et
with no ulterior purpose, r.i,
this being the case, it ia foolish
to find mysterious meanings in
what they say or do. One man
is busy with his own project ;
he passes his super-sensitive fiiead
with a bare acknowledgment oi"
the latter's presence, not be:jiraj
ho has any ill feeling but he i-i
grossed in other matters, trl
the victim of a sensitive dispo-i
tion immediately sets his fancy
work inventing explanations :
this behavior, all of them wido .
the mark and all having eoj.-
personal bearing. Another f im .
comes along who is in a parc..
larly good humor and is effu- .
simply because he wants to t
to somebody. Fancy again rr.:
riot in trying to explain this ..' i
natural conduct, and again ii:;
sensitive man is wide afield,
cause he always sets himself u;- ;
the central figure in the actii. v"
his fellow men. Innocent rcmarLi
are twisted by him from their nat
ural and obvious meaning,mucb
Benedict found signs ol love in
Beatrice's remark, "Against my
will I am sent to bid you coma in
to dinner," the only differft'yo ;
being that the morbid sensitive
man always gets a derogatory
meaning out of the mystc-r
created by his imagination." TV .
foundation of all this misre-;;v-sentation
and unhappinesa i fir
egotism that dares not asse-r, it
sen. Only weaK people ei.i..!
from it those who hold very
opinions ot tnemseives, uui i-
afraid to assert themselv'j-. Ii
they have a grievance, real or Im
aginary, they do not go with r.
the man responsible therefor,
content themselves with com:hI. -
ines to friends, who can do
ing for them. And thtio ;
grievance remains to rankle ?
which' a bolder person would ir
swept away by an explains
Such super-sensitiveness shu:ii 1
avoided not merely becausu ii, i
source of unhappiness to "
self, but because it is uujiut ic
others. The egotism upon wliici: k
is founded is of a petty chunct r
secret, not self-assertive, i: .
itself, is a vice to be corii-cri
Then the habit of brooding owr
injuries, real or supposed, u? n bio
one. Frankness would sweej.' a A )
imaginary grievances and
not aggravate real ones. J" '"r
thinks he has been mjnn-u hy .
another in speech or acii' !. ' h
frank thing to do is to go to bin.
and ask an explanation. If ucUr- -
ing was meant, as will be t!v
nine times out of ten, the i'n.zi-
nary grievance disappears a t .':jc :;
if the grievance is real tno i:u . -m
established beyond any doubt , aiui
that is better than to have it- a
matter of uncertainty. Thr-. vt un
manly fellow is never in nailer
of becoming super-sensitive ; u v;
therefore well to cultivator .- i.
disposition, and, as a ru. , wte
ordinary meanings out o:
people say, not toeeekfer ;nv r
ies in their remarks.
It often happens that the do'-i-r i "t:l
of town when most needed T'.-o t -
year old daughter of J. Y. vichcuck, wt
Caddo, Ind. Ter., was thrcau-l v.-U.
croup. He writes: "My wif fi t v
I go for the doctor at once, U .
out of town I purchased a botil - .( C ; i i -berlain's
Cough Remedy, which 'x'iV.-ve.l
tne child immediately." A bciur- cr u',l.
remedy in the house will often suve r.- '
expense of a doctor's bill, bes:-i -s lh-.! n x
iety always occasioned by stnonr-
ness. When it is given as wxn
croupy cougn appears, u win pr-n;r
attack. Thousands of mothers m - .
keep it in their homes. The 25 ?"'! v
cent bottles for sale by Dr. J.D. MrTi
!.
McKinley announces . hi"'
satisfied with the result o h :
cent elections. The que Li
arises: What would it i-.iv- r
to disappoint
change.