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r' Court Clerk and Probate
e John T. Gregory.
lor Court--Geo. T. Simmons.
Isister of Deeds R.-J. Lewis.
Solicitor R. O. Burton, Jr
Shenn J. 1. Dawson.
Coroner a
Treasurer Dn L: W. Batehclor.
chool Examiner 11; O. Burton. Jr.
Leepcr of the Poor House J. 11.
Poiiton.
Commissioners II. J. Harvey, W. II.
iields, F. M. Parker, J. II. VVhitaker,
ei-lins Johnson.
fcCourt Every third Monday
.MaTTTraiKl iNontemoer.
ferior Court Every third Monday in
bruary, May, August and November
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'yr Jo. r . v mtaKcr.
nissioners-f- John J. Robertson., E,
Branch. Jj. B. Hunter, R.B.
tt.
liable J. IX Derr
OTELS.
Ionia Hotefc Peter Forbes.
din IIousA Riddick Burnett.
ClJuilCHES. ,
dist Episcopal Services every
lav. at -11,00 jA-k M ana 7.O0
Rev, W Ht Watkms, Pastor
Itist Services every second Simday,
DO A. M., and 7.00 P; AI., and third
ly at 7 30 r. m. feunday school at
I Tfc TIT T IT 1- I .
, m. iiev vv . j . xiopKins, rastor.
testant Episcopal Services every
and third Sundays at 11.00 A. jM
. Smith. Rector.
ft Frotestant services every
rruay. ai ii.w -a., au... auu.
Rev. W. II. Wills, Pastor,
Itv AppointnientF--M. E. Chucrh
tiday, at Elite's School House, at 3
a ,Sn?day,at Pierce's, at 1100 A. M.,
It Smith's, at 3.00 P M.
ISunduy, at Ebeneezer, at 11.00 A. M
Snndav at Havwards at 11.00 A. M
miuunion at each appointment m x eb
Titt. auiL Nov. Rev. AV. II. Wat-
Pastor.
P. Church 1st. Sunday, at Brad-
at 11.00 A. JM., and at Keid's
1 House. 3.00 P. M. H hitaker's
1, every second and fifth Sunday, at
A. M. . Rosencath, 3rd. Sun
1.00 A. M.
list Church. Every first Sunday at
aw at 11 00 a m and 7 oO p m
third Sunday and the Saturday pre
IB- at 11 00 a m. Prayer meeting each
lesday at 7 30 p m Sunday school at
Con's Church, Dawson's X Roads,
kiirth Sunday at 11 am and 7 30
"the .Saturday proceeding the fourth
100 a m rrayer meeting
V) m Sunday school at ')
ms, Pastor,
luduy,
Sv.J.II.
rfMeet every second
irtlTTsdays, at 7.00 P. M.
inf Honor Meet every first and
iesd ays, at seven P. M.
RESS AND FREIGHT.
Express Office, Op jn all day?;
i
aker, Agent.
Freight, and xicKct Agent,
Elor.
nor shipment received after
pon reaching her room, she seized
a bottle from a drawer in a bureau,
and then, as her face lit with a smile
at a happy thought, she seated her
self and wrote a few lines upon a
sheet of paper, which she placed in
the bottle above the powder it con
tained. Recorking it, she again
rushed to her husband and said,
It is time you paid attention to
that cold of voiirSi. It is becoming
chronic c atari". This may be a pa
tent medicine, but everybody recom
mends it, and I bought it for you
yesterday. Now you will use it,
won't you? The directions are
within."
"Certainly. love -certainly.
Thanks ! Good-by !"
Giving his wife a hurried but ar
dent embrace, Mr. Minton put the
bottle in his overcoat pocket and
departed.
"The silly darling !" he smilingly
murmured, as he turned the corner
of the street. '-If I should cut my
self shaving, she'd wish to send for
a surgeon ; and now I'm loaded with
a bottle because I sneezed at break
fast. I must rid myself of the in
cumbrance at once."
As he thus communed with himself,
advancing rapidly, he struck his
valise ugainst the legs of a gentleman
before him and raising his head to
apologize, saw an aged neighbor.
"Ah, Mr. Jobsou, beg pardon !
Am in a b-'irfcy 'to catch the train."
"Ugh, ugh ! It's ugh ! no con
sequence." "That's a bad cough of yours. I
think I've something that will help
you. Highly recommended. Take
it."
The eld gentleman mechanically
extended his hand, and as he received
the bottle, Mr. Minton bowed and
passed on. The gift was scrutinized
with a doubtful sneer;
"Ugh ! urn ! ha ! So Minton has
gone into the quack-medicine busi
ness, has he ? I'm too old a bird to
be caught with chaff, lie sha'n't
poison me with his drugs. Pll stop
it right here. Stop 1 No ugh ! urn !
ba ! I'll give it to my housekeeper ;
she believes in such stuff."
Mr. Jobsou pocketed the bottle,
and slowly shuffled toward his home.
His housekeeper was profuse in her
thanks as she was presented with the
"perfect cure."
"I'm sure I'm much obleged to ye,
sor ! It's the very thing for me
sister's cough. Has it made ycr own
betther. sor "
"I experienced relief from it," said
Mr. Jobson, with a cynical smile, "at
this moment.
"I'm expectin' me sister this very
mornin'. We are both so much
'bleged to ye !"
But the housekeeper s sister prov-
on arrival, to have well-nigh re
covered from her trouble, and was
averse to trying a new remedy. Be
ing, however, a provident person, she
accepted the gift, saying that it
would be a good thing to have in the
house. ' "
It was not destVcd to remain long
there. The husbajJs notice was
attracted to it as he afce his lunch,
the mantelpiece upon wSaich it had
been placed being opposite his seat
at the table.
"More purchases!" he growled.
"What have you . got - there ?
jWhat's the use of throwing money
k 1.1 4-K-.4.!) H'-U.v'o. .-.t"
words? ' " "y
That good woman though
was any joke in the matter; l
joke upon her, and seizing th
cine, nung it out of the windo
an angry frown.
The bottle fell upon the
ground and was-uiibjtfykeirr"""
shown in the sun, it attracted
attention ot a little girl passu
down the street, who directed h
rrown sister s eyes to it, ana wa
thereupon requested to pick it up
The ydvmg la.ly recognized it as a
well advertised compound, and
deemed it worthy of bein deposited
in the reticule she carried. As sh
laughingly exhibited the prize upoi
her return home, a favorite servan
ijeggea lor it. She knew a person
why suffered vrrcatlv from the coin
plaint it would cure, she said, ant
the medicine was rivcn her.
The person for Whbiii she intended
it was a good-looking coachman,
who paid her considerable attention.
He was, in fact, expiiet&l at the gar
den gate that very afternoon:
He came and was given tHe bottle.
He received it with an expression of
the most grateful affection ; but, al
though afflicted ,with a slight cold,
did not feel impelled to vise it; In
deed the false-hearted man thought,
as he placed it in his breast pocket,
that it would make a fine present to
a handsome young cook of bis ac
quaintance, whom he purposed next
to visit.
The cook was none other than the
one employed by the lady first in
troduced to the, reader of this story.
Upon the following morning, as
Mrs, Minton entered her kitchen,
she saw the bottle upon the dresser,
and surprisedly took it up, for she
recognized a peculiarity on it.
"How came this here, Susan ?"
she asked; .
''That's niine, niuni."
But as the cook spoke, her mistress
had pulled the cork from the bottle
and saw the slip of paper she had
the previous morning inserted.
"Susan, I gave this to my hus
band. How did you come Dy it ?"
"It was Mr. Thompson's coach
man left it here, mum. If it's yours5
you are welcome to it.'
"It certainly is mine, Susan. I
wrote this paper myself."
"Mr. Minton must have dropped
it, I suppose, mum."
"That's it, of course."
But as the wife re-read the words
she had penned and-meditated in the
privacy of her own room, she ceased
to believe her gift had merely been
lost. How could it have been drop
ped from the pocket in which it had
been securely packed ? And it was
her parting gift !
She had dwelt with delight, in her
musings, upon her husband's sur
prised smile as his ej'e fell upon her
written directions. She deemed her
expressions of affection therein as
prettily and wittily con ceived. For
four days more she would b4ve to
await his return. Mrs. Mintcn shut
the bottle up in a drawer with a sigh.
The anxiously-awaited knock was
at last heard, but it was accompanied
br a sound which made- the wife
think at once of her gift, and very
shortly after their mutual embrace
asked her husband if he had experienc
ed no benefit from the medicine
which she had given him. At such
a moment what could the popr man
say ?
"It's all gone, but, as you see "
Si
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Coulc
practic
ries aril
Our
of whicll
half a to
many tin
break dc
Keep d
ness and yi
on the baser!
the desire t
force in th
Whatever
making new
muscle or memDfalu
nothing may be callfcj
does not help repair
physical frame. Ai
having no nutritive
however, needed by the
A3 the season for cannj
at hand, we present the
First, prepare the fruit b
it over,, peeling, or whatevi
required. Place it neatly in
in iayers. Use none but the
refined white sugar, as the yi
apt to impart a disagreeable
and color. It i.f hardly neccssar
add any water, though that nUiy
done if you dceixi it best, acc
to the kind of fruit. Place
straws or small sticivs across
1mm f 1 1 .
oottom oi your nouer, put in waq
and set it on the stove to boil. Bril
the water to a boiling point, and
it continue there as long as may
required for that kind ol fruit. Sel
the jars on a table to cooh arid w hen)
the fruit is nearly cold apply the
tops and screw them down tightly.
b or cherries, blackbeines, strawbe
ries, whortleberries, grapes, plur
currants, gooseberries and rasr
ries boil ten to twelve minutej
put a half pound of
quart of berries. For
quince boil twenty minui
the same quautitv of
small fruits. Pears
will require a half hour
boil, and less sugar is
them, especially the it
amine the jars in a fe
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u w altogether too rfiuick to
he replied, and coughed
any of the fruit
lioi
it was
me.
ing, set it on the stovi
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ay line tuai: uvj o oiur uum