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ESTABLISHED 1842, , 36 cy. : I I miss yoi, my darling, m7 darling; The embers burn Icrvroo th hejirth;. - ' -And stilled is the air of the Ixxuehold, - - - Andhuihed is the voice of its mirth; The rain plashes fast tm tbeterrice, The winds part the lattices moan; The midnight chimes out from the minister, . And I am alone. J J- I want you, my darling, my darling; I am tired with care and wftb fret( 1 would nestle in silence behind you, And all but your presence forget, In the hush of the happiness given To those, who thro' trusting have grown To the fullness of love in contentment ; But I am alone. , . . I call you, my darling, my darling, My voice echoes back on my heart. I stretch my arms to you in longing, And lol they fall empty, apart. I whisper the sweet words you taught me, The words that we only have known, Till the blank of the dumb air is bitter, For I am alone. I nped you, my darling, my darling, With its yearning my very heart aches; The load that divides us weighs harder ; I shrink from the jar that it makes. Old sorrows rice up to beset me; Old doubts make my spirit their own. Oh, come thro' the darkness, and save me, For I am alone. All the Year Round. Dolly's Destiny, 'I shouldn't be surprised any day, Dolly, to see David Wigsin tying his horse at your gate,' said Mr. Blount, roguishly, gathering up the reins. 'Nonsense, brother I Anything the matter with his own hitching post?' retorted Miss Dolly turning in the doorway. Mr. Blount laughed. Everybody felt bound to laugh at Miss Dolly's crisp saying that he had kept her friend ingood hutnor these forty years. 'And when David does call on you,' pursued Mr. Liount more seriously, '1 do hope, Dolly, you'll give him a chance to do his errand. That'll be no more than fair, and the man won't be easy until he has freed his mind ' 'What mischief are you the fore runner of now, James Blount?' cried Miss Dolly, about like a soldier on drill. 'What facing on earth have I to do with David's errands!' 'Well, his wife has been dead a year or more,' sai'd Mr. Blount, sug gestively, shutting one eye, and squinting with tke other down the length of his whipstallr, 'and latety he has been asking about you. You can put that and that together to suit yourself.' 'Fiddlesticks !' exclaimed Miss Dol ly, energetically. 'I shan't say have him or don't have him though there isn't a like lier man living than David but I do say, Dolly, you ought to give him a hearing,' and having convinced himself beyond a reasonable doubt that the whip was all right, Mr. Blount tickled his horse with it and drove away. 'Oh, niy sorrows !' ejaculated Miss Dolly, closing the door with an afflict ed countenance, and sitting down so quietly for once, that a photographer might have copied her then and there. Not that ho could have done her justice, for her expression was too quick and varied to be caught by a trick of chemicals, and without it Miss Dolly's phisiogomy vould have been rather characterless but for her prominent Roman nose. This organ gave tons to her face. By which I would not be understood literally, ae saying that sho talked through a nasal whine. I mean simply in a metaphorical sense, this bold feature spoke loudly of energy. And Miss Dolly had abundant need of energy else why the nose! Every two years during her childhood she had been tiptoed into the east bedroom to see a now baby, till at her mother's death, five little brothers fell to her charge to be coaxed and scolded into man hood. . 'You can't bring up those boys,' groaned a dolorous aunt. 'The'll run square over you, Forothy Almenda.' 'Let them run over mo so long as it does not hurt ,ern 1' laughed Miss Dolly, skewing ' her flaxen hair with a goose-quill and tying a calico apron over he calico longshort, preparatory to "bringing up" 6aid youths. From that day forward she went cheerily on, making tho best of ev erything, though it must be confessed -that she had odds and ends to work -..ith, as people usually do nave who are' born with a faculty. Somehow she foand time for' all her duties ex cept matrimony, j If that were a duty, it was one she wouldn't and couldn't attend to while her father and children needed her. 'Don't be silly, David !' said Dolly, when he hinted as much to her whereupon David went off and mar ried Olive Searle, the plainest looking girl in the parish. This ' happened thirty years ago, and David was again wifeless and the current of his thoughts turned to ward Dolly, who still lived at the old homestead at the foot of Bryant's Falls, Her father had died some months before. 'Ot the boys, James and Ezekiel hadj settled on neighbor ing farms' and the remaining three had gone west. David's benevolent heart warmed with compassion as he remembered Doily's lonely condi tion, and he felt thai it, would, be ex ceedingly kind in him to offer her a ALONE-. home especially aa he owned as good a place as you can find on the river, while the Blount cottage was falling into decay. i .- s . He wouldn't let her former refusal tell against her, for as he looked back he couldn't really see how she could have married anyone at that period. She ought to be rewarded for the devotion she had shown to the fami ly, and, for his part, he felt magnani mous enough to give her a second chance to accept him. Such was the worthy widower's state of mind when he asked James Blount with mock humility whether it would be of any use for him to try and make a bargain with Dolly. 'That's more than I can tell,' Mr. Blount had answered: 'Dolly's a puzzle ; you'll have to find out your self.' Mr. Wiggin smiled in complacent anticipation of ' acceptance ;' indeed if it might not seem like reproach to his lost Olive. I should say the kind hearted man rejoiced in this opporj tunityof making Miss Dolly's happi ness. Benevolence was in his face, benevolence was in his spirit, as he sallied forth at an early day to ac quaint her with her good fortune. The broken harrow, which he had strapped into tho wagon to give the neighbors a plausible, reason for his trip to the Falls was by ho means typical of mental laceration to its owner. His feeling &s he approached Miss Dolly moss-grown' cottage' was purely one of thankfulness that it was in his power to provide her a better home. Not that be was grate ful to his wife for leaving a vacancy there. Mr. Wiggin had mourned faithfully for Olive a year and ja day. Miss Dolly was out in the garden gathering catnip. ' She had built a chip fire under the teakettle and then whisked off to pick an apronful of the pungent leaves while the water was boiling. There she was stooping beneath the eaves of a log-cabin sun bonnet, humming a lively tune when Mr. Wiggin drove up. "Come, my beioved, haste away, piped Mis3 Dolly, cheerily, snapping away briskly at the stalks. ' , 'Cut bhort the hours of your delay, Fly like a youthful' " " 'Fly like a youthful' struck in a wheezy bass The sun bonnet tipped back like a cart-bod'. 'Sakes alive!' cried Miss Dolly, not in the words of the hymn, as Mr. Wiggin strode toward her on his slightly rheumatic legs. I didn't mean to put you out, he laughed; 'but it seemed kind o' nateral to take part with you in 'Invitation." 'You always had a way of falling in at the most unheard of time, I remember,' retorted Miss Dolly, saucily, recovering herself and going on gathering catnip. 'You used to say I kept good time, only too much of it,' pursued Mr. Wiggin, with a sudden inspiration; 'but I tell you what Dolly time never did drag with me more than it does these days.' a 'It is a dull season,' said Miss Dolly with exasperating simplicity. 'I suppose the grasshopps havPeaten most of your wheat haven't thoy so it'll hardly pay for reaping?' Just so,' assented Mr. Wiggin dis comfited. V : He had not travelled five miles in the heat to discuss the state of the crops. . " 'Walk in and sit down, wou't you!' said Dolly, with reluctant hospitality. Her apron was crammed to its ut most capacity. She devoutly wished it hnd been larger. Well, yes, I donVbare if I do,' an swered Mr. Wiggin after a hypocriti cal show of hesitancy. 'I bad a little business further on at the black smith's. No hurry, though, as I know ,' and he turned to let down the bars for Miss Dolly who meanwhile slipped through the fence, catnip and all. 'Bless my heart ! I don't see but you are as smart as you ever was,' said he, &3 he puffed along in her wake. 'Still you must bo getting into years, Dolly, as well as I no offence, I hope and I wa3 wondering wheth er or no it wasn't lonesome for you living hero a woman so?' 'Oh, I never was one of the lone some kind,' responded Miss Dolly, briskly, seating her guest in the patch work 'cushioned rocking-chair, 'and for that matter hardly a day passes without seme of the James' folks running in.' 'Yec, I knovr ; but if you was to chance your situation, wouldn't you enjoy life better, think I' Miss Dolly fidtea at the green paper curtains and intimated that her happiness wouldjbe complete if the grasshoppers would stop feeding on her garden sause. 'That's just it,' continued Mr. Wig gin, eagerly; you do seem to need a man to look out for your farming intererts now, don't you, Dolly? a man that will be ready and will do for you, andjpake you, comfortable ?' I dont 'luroir,- said -Miss Dolly, dryly. "The year father died I did have Silas Potter, and heis thennost faithful creature living; but what with the extra cooking and washing I had to do for bim, my work, was about double, . but - when ; Wud time came, ;! was gjad to send him. off and hire by,he diiyv j; I.m&4e. upnry. mind that men folks around the house cost more thai they come to.' 'I gtiefs wxj don't understand one another,' said .Mr, Wiggin slightly disconcerted at this unflattering view Of his sex ' 'I wasn't speaking of hir ing heir, -Dolly; -Naturally you would gtt tired of that: It's a wor rying j tc a'wonianv But if you was to have & companion; now one that could jgie you a good borne, with wood anl water under cover '- - "Shoo ! shoo !' cried Miss Dolly, fly ing out ifter an inquiring chicken on the door tep. " ' II , .' " ' Mr. Wiggin arew his Ved handker chief from his hat to wipe his glowing face. Certainly he had not felt the heat so bad through haying. 'How's your health, now-a days?' asked Miss Dolly, frisking back with a look of resolute unconsciousness. 'Very good; remarkably good! I don't know where you will find a man with a tougher constitution than I have got.' i . . 'Ah!' and Dolly blushed like a sumac in October. 'Yes I'm well,' pursued Mr. Wig gin, pe rseveringly, and I'm tolerably well to do, with nothing to hinder my marrying again, providing I can see a woman to my mind. "There's the deacon's widow,' sug gested Dolly, officiously ; 'she's pious, economical : - - She's left with means enough to carry her through handsomely,' in terrupted Mr. Wiggin, quickly. 'Now I'd rather have a wife to pro vide for one that neede&A home. In fact, Dolly, I have my eye on a little woman that I want this very minute.' He had both eyes on her for that matter, and Miss Dolly was forced to recognize the situation, whether she accepted it or not. Tvo managed . to sweaten my tea so far, David, without calling on my neighbors,' chirruped she, stooping to lay straight the braided mat, 'and I might as well keep on. I don't feel it a tax as some folks would. But there's Martha Dunning she's having a hard time, to get along. Why don't you take her, David? She'd appreciate euch a rice home as yours.' 'It would seem as if most any wom an might,' said Mr. Wiggin in an in jured tone; 'all finished off complete, painted out3ide and in ' 'She'd bo delighted with it I'm sure of it !' broke in Miss Dolly, with an air of conviction, as she darted into the kitchen to lift the boiling kettle from the crane. 'But you don't mean that you won't marry me, Dolly?' pleaded Mr. Wiggin, anxiously following her to the door. 'I have been doting on see ing you at the head of things at my house.' 'Martha is a good manager,' said Miss Dolly, coolly. 'David needn't think he can buy me with a new suit of buildings,' added she, mentally, snapping down the lid of the pug nosed teapot. I never did have the name of being croping.' 'I tell you, Dolly, I won't have Martha. I don't like her turn !' cried Mr. Wiggin, testily balancing himself on the threshold yet not daring to step oyer it. Miss Dolly gave her undivided at tention to winging the hearth. 'You know you was always the woman of my choice, Doily,' pursued Mr. Wiggin, as tenderly as he could consistently with the distance be tween them. 'And when we were both young ' 'Pshaw?' snapped Dolly, scorching her wing, 'that's beyond the memory of man.' Mr. Wiggins position was becom ing: painful. Mis3 Dolly wes not to be won by the attractions of wealth and position, nor even by tender allusions to the past. He would ap peal to her kindness of heart. 'I used to. believe you had some feeling, Dolly,' he said tremulously; 'but you don't seem to have any for me. Here I am left here all alone in the world ; children all paired off, 'thout's Matilda, and she'll go before the enow flies; house empty' 'I suppose you can have a home with any cf your boys and welcome,' put in Miss Dolly, still fluttering about the chimney like a swallow. 'Yes, if worse comes to worse, I suppose I can, assented Mr. Wiggin mournfully, anything but consoled by his reflection. It vrould break me up terribly, though, you may de pend, to give up my plaoe that I set so much by and crowd on my child ren.' Mo respond save the clattering of the tongs. 'And its dreadful melancholy busi ness for a man at ary time of life to drag along without a partner. Fm getting too old, Dolly,' and Mr. Wig gin brushed his sleeve across his eyes as a feruled schoolboy might havw done. 'Yes, I'm getting to be old Dolly, and it stands to reason that I haven't many years to live but I did hope that we might go down hill together, Dolly, you chirking n o up with that spry way of your'n that I always took to, and carrying the heft of' . : Here Miss Dolly gave a little sniff, nothing worth mentioning only for the effect it produced on Mr. Wiggin. 'Can't you make up your mind to have me, Dolly?" pleaded Mr. WTig gin. 'I' dont see how I am going to stand it if you can't.' . ' uThen Miss Martha wouldn't suit,' said Miss Dolly, archly. 'What a shame now, when she needs property so much '.' Hang the property! Pd mortga; the whole of it Hither than not get ! you!' cried Mr. Wiggin, with a vehe mence that quite closed her month. And so at last he had bis Dolly. The Iron-Clad Oath. ira. cox's qraxb speacti in defense Or CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY, Mr. Speaker: This test oath is for thesaiie noture as the test -oaths of history. VTelLnoiIv what they were. This test oath of loyalty differs only in degree, though not in kind, frvm the whipping at the cart's tail, the thumbscrew, the rack, the disembowl ing and quartering of tho dead, and the burning of the live body. What would you think of a law that would apply the thumbscrew to my gallant colleague Gen. Slocum and allow the "rebel brigaclers" to go free? What do you think of a law which would fix uj-on the rack niy patriot ic and soldierly colleagues Mr. Peg ers and Mr. Greenleaf, who fought on the Union side, and leave tho "hot spurs" of 1861 now the sedate Solons of 1881 in better case than my gal lant Unionist colleagues? The gen tleman from Maine Mr. BoUtellej should study the reductio ad absur dum. He may not intend it, but he does defend the Southern men here, and asks that the chaplet of honor be placed on their brows, while he would continue the stigma of the Northern men. Because they were loyal they may not take the simple oath of loy alty. These tests as to opinion and fealty are evidences of incivism if not of barbarism. They have no associa. tion with civism, liberty or justice. The only good, perhaps, t hey ever did was to help to people America. The revolution of 1640, turned upon an oatfi of conformity to the established Church. It was not so long as oar oath. It was known as"theet caetera oath." It bound men never to change opinions. It was so indefinite like our own "'iron clad" oath as to be the very essence of folly and despotism. It raised up Baxter 111 reli gion and Pym in Par liament. It lost" to the,Englisb Chureh two thousand of its best ministers. Hallam calls it 4"jold blooded, perse cution, . worse than tho foment and fury of civil war." It led as most oaths lead, to subterfuges and rester vations, prevarications and perjury. It gave more strength to quakerism than perhaps any other kind of per secution except martyrdom could have accomplished. The historv 01 ooitical oatus iseue history of oath-breaking. They its cheap as those of dicers, or of the custom house; they made the proverb in Spain that ' ho who made the law made also its evasion." Talleyrand swore thirteen times to his allegiance under various govern ments. Other men not so able made a merit of being forsworn a white rose to-dciy, a red to-morrow ! Per haps the inost odious test oath ever enacted in any country was that know as 'the Missouri test-oath." It was decided unconstitutional iithe case of Cummiugi vs. the State of Missouri, 4 Wallace, page 277. Tho plaintiff was a Catholic-priest. He was convicted of teaching and preach ing without having taken the oath presented by the constitution of April, 1865. He was sent to jail. The Su preme court of Missouri affirmed the judgment, althongh the oath was di vided into more than thirty distinct iest-s, some not against law and some not blameworthy, most of them char itable actions. Under the same law Sisters of Charity were imprisoned in Missouri in Cape Giradeau county, and why? . Simply because they taught in a convent, and had not ta ken the oath. They were dragged in to court, indicted and tried. Theso cases are evidences, of course, of ex treme cruelty, and cannot now be re peated, and yet we preserve upon our ttatue this rare memory of the war, in the form of an invocation to God. Of all the oaths from the time of Abraham, who swore after a peculiar manner down to our own statutory requirement, there is nothing which so exemplifies hate and spite, as this "iron-clad" oath. There has been much metaphysics as to an oath. It is a religious affirm ation, or an invocation to God as a witness? It is an imprecation for di vine vengeance, or a mere promise ? The original Greek word meant "I adjure thee;" "1 call on thee to wit ness." This is tho Hebrew as well as the Greek. It is the sacred and ma. jestiy adjuration U3ed by the high -priest to evoke the truth. Is it not lessened by too much frequency, friv olity and flippancy ? Does i t not ttien become an abuse of the name of God ? Augustine summed up his creed ; that false swearing is fatal, true swearing dangerous, -swearing not at all is safe. There is a history of oath taking. Homer's heroes swore ;the gods swore the Roman's swore by then- swords and their Caesars, the Egyptians by cats and onions; the East Indian by holding a cow by the fail, the cow be ing sacred to the Brahmim, Howev ludicijous these various oaths maybe, there is not in all of them so utterly ridiculous repulsive ami undigr.iiieu as tho -'iron chvV oath as-; t?!;in by the innocence cf th:. II -v! In view of the hk-toi y wg, aud with mu- h admiration ivr the Moravian and-the Ouaker, ujhi t reverentian aw. of the) Almlghry Power which is m curt-lt-ssly invoked I hope that this relic of bailxu -Urn may bo wiped from our statue book. Other nations are progressing in this respect. ! .Why should not we also make progress? England in 1KC3 abolish ed eleven different statutes made sinr the time of Ilonry jlll. Why ( In order to get rid of thesp test oaths. No longer in England -do they have such an abundance of oaths. Nlon is the Jew, the (Juaktr, the Catholic or Dissenter disqualified in tho Ln glish Parliament. A better civiliza tion exists under uiuie liberal con ditions. ? The law of July 31, 1S(S, reduced the ringiish oath of allegiance to a model ef brevity and sense. It reads: "I do swear that 1 will bo faithful and bear true allegiance t Her Ma jesty Oiieen Victoria, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God." The list of -officers who take this oath are few in number compared with former days. Besides, in England wholesale swearing in custom-houses and elsewhere has been abolished. Simple declarations aro the practice. In Spain under the lead of CastoIIa, an effort is making to abolish all oaths, . It was Jeremy Benthem who said that "the oath neither implied faith giyen or faith receivod. Why then," he atked -'require it? Why take.it? Why this farce!" I think it was th'. same great philosophic statesman who said that it win strange that the nations whose religion va3 based on the teachings of Jesus Christ should be tho very nations who disowned his teaching as to oath-taking, and who discarded Him who prescribed, "yea, yea," and "nay, nay," and whose best spirit was, "yvreeir not all." We are now approaching an ara of good ieeiing, if not of Democratic ascendency. This ascendency should inure to the interest of public liberty in its largest acceptation. We are here to exalt the ilepublic. We should remove every suspicion that poisons political integrity or embit ters patriotic union. .Neither oaths as a test of past patrotism, nor n7i2S of past Bailies, should hi their h .-nd bring reproach of fire aniir,';s.!y. Applause.! As Civjl wars are do meslic calamities, we should be heed ful of perpetuating their memories Is their liever to b-j reconciliation ly .tvveen tho sections? Is the hatred to be cotinued by these sacred invoca tions? Why, even Caviar wept for his great enemy. Rivals sleep together in the Walhaila.of B.ivaria. Even Russia permits a monument to her Polish foes at Cracow. The factions ofltaly are entom'ed under ono roof ia Santa Croce. Let us bridge-over the abysses of civil strife as t ho Romans did, with abridge of gold.: Applause. Iet, us herald at the begin:. ing of the -Congress to y'r p--opb. North. and South, iu the snii it of th-- sermon ou the -Mount, that the grace w hich has been growing in tho bear's cf oar p. o: pie since 'the war shall have no hale ful trophy, no lesson save tl.-fit wlueb is patriotic and peaceful, above party passions and ignoble force; and especially let us practice that ration al goodness which will deliver those of us who were faithful in the trials of the Republic frorn the reproach of taking an oath at ouco meaningless and sinister detest able in the sight of men and God, and. only welcome among those who cultivate tho spirit of uncharitablencss and diabolism. Abolish this empty form, whose only service is to corrupt by familiar ity, which calls down trom the skies the holiest of religions iiito the muck of mortal depravity to vitiat-j the eprinj.8 of truth and justice by its ill ogical and irreverent ribaldry.' It is not a question of party or. pa tronism. I would net caressly and causelesfely invoke for political duty that appalling and abiding sense of j'tbe Divine Majesty, nor suffer the ef fulgence with emanates from the di vine Promise and the eternal verities to be contaminated by the inperfec tions and vices of men. Loud ap plause. If disease has entered the system the only way to drive it out isAo pu rify and enrich the blood. To this end as is acknowledged by all medi cal men, nothing ia better adapted than iron. The fault hitherto has been that iron could not be so pre pared as "to bo absolutely harmless to the teeth. This iiriiculty has been overcome by - the Brown Chemical Company of Baltimore, Md., who of fer their Brown's Iron Bitters as a faultless iron preparation a positive cure for dyspepsia, indigestion, kid ney troub-es. et 'Your father is worth at least half a million, said he to his jealous sweet heart. 'That is true,' she murmered. 'And yet you doubt my love,' he re plied, in an injured tone. Mr. A. A. Miller, Armiteld P. N. C, says: "My wife has proven yonr raadicine to be good for nervous ness and general debility." ft liad it in n tta. no of tho gaily painted Mini! wag on v. hi.-h ply between the post off; co arut the various depots, and which tvntrin.ilUr roiuind the pedestrian of 'the gr, ".test show ou eaiih," was devwi at the Union depot tho Other day, n a .sintri,;-. r luv.ked it caro fullyxvyr and lrquirod of n' policxv man : "Circus in town?,' No, not exactly.' 'What sort of an animal have they got in thcrj." - . - 'Can't you read?'. 'I can when I'm to hum. but thU show blinds nie.' 'Well, its a dodo. I IwlioVe.' "Well, where are thoy going to take u , 'Oh, up town a piece. If you low the wagon vou'll be -ant to fob see it unloaded.' ' I believe I will. I haven't seen oneo' -those animals since I was aboy," and if there ain't no charge on it I might as well go 'round aud take a squint.' He followed the wagon at a trot and. was absent about half an hour when he returned and the officer uk ed: ' s 'Well did you see it?' ' i 'Not a hair on him,' was tho dis gusted reply. "I got already, to, but I'll bo hanged if they didn't hevo it in a leather bag." Detroit Free Twisto uiul T-Atneei. "My brethren," shontoi I)r. Tal-r mage on one bri6nt autumnal Suu day, -"hero is a lesion from tho corn ficlu. God has arranged that tho ear and tho husk 6hall be parted. Every rheumatic pain is but a thrust of th3 husking peg. and ovcr.y neuralgic twingo is only a twit,t of the liua- J kcr." - - Possibly but tiobody wants .to bo husked, for all that and nature teach es us to resist tho process. Therefore we accept with grattinide whatever helps us (o suppress those very twists and twinges. From hie pleasant homo, Green mont, near Sing-Sing, N. Y., M. A.. Baer, a French gentleman, writes. " "I have suffered almost Intolerable torments from rheumatism -for many years. Of the numerous remedies which' I tried, none benefited mo. But Parker's Tonic ga ve-ine gn at sat isfaction. I certify ith pleasure that it red mv health.' You aro welcome to ubli.-.-ii th::j and use my nam::." l!!fv..v ec V'K cull s;-eeia a! t-ini.ioi a ration. to lb.. tot that this nrep- i has been known as Parker's (linger Tonic, will hereafter be advertised and sold simply Under the name, of Paruer's-Tenie. As" un principled deal ei :i are eonblantly'doJ ceiviag their customers , by substitu. ting infei ior preparations under tho! name of ginger, and as ginger is really .an unimportant ingredient, wo drop tho misleading word. , There is no change, however, in the preparation itself, and all bottles remaining in tho hands of dealers, wrapped ur.der the uamo of Parkers PC inger Tonic, contain tho genuine medicine if the facsimile signature of lliscox ei Co. is at the bottom. of the,, outside wrapper. ! Jii.j Only Chance, ' A passenger on a smaljLoamer run ning along the American shore of Lake.Huibn hunted out the captain f an i.l said: ' .1 ' "Captain the mate is drunk.'. 'Yes, I pro.su me so,' was the reply. 'That's his greatest fault -ho will get drunk.' Pretfy soon tho Passenger return ed with further news,. lie had found that the chief engineer had been acci dently left behind. 'Ob well." replied the captain, 'some of the firemen v, ill put her through all right.' ' In the course of half an hour tho passenger discovered that the lloat was ov'erlo.vicl, shoit handed 'and leaking, and he returned to the cap tain and reported, and added: r 'I expeet nothing less than to bo blown up before wo roach ticxi'ng ton.' , : ' 'Iy friend, ' caid the captain in a fatherly way, 'that's your only chance wo won't have a nlorm, the mate is sobering up, the boys liave gone down to stop the leaks, and if we can't blow you up and settle with your widow for about $250, I'm afraid you'll live for several years yet. "PlI go down and se if there's any chance for an- exploaion!' He Has no OLec-iion. Indianapolis, Ind.--The non. Dan iel W. Voorhecs, United States Scna- tor from this St Lq rernar: :s: ''My opinion sir, I have nO objection in giving, I suffered from rheumatism of the back, used, some St. 'Jacobs Oil, which gave me instantaneous relief and finally cured me completely. . I think it a remarkable remedy, in deed." His candid aud court ous ex pression carried weight. Ayer's Pills eurca constipation, im prove the appetite, promote digestion restore healthy action, and regulate everp function. They are pleasant to take, gent Is intheir operation, yet thorough, searching and powerful in subduing disease. r S1 .
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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Jan. 31, 1884, edition 1
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