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VOL. VI. : PLYMOUTH, N.'C, FKIDAY, APRIL 5, 1895. ' J-:jfO.'39.;?
THE FIRST SONG-SPARROW,
Sunshine set to inunlc!
Hear the sparrow slngl
In his note is freshness
Of the now-born spring.
Xn his trill delicious
Summer overflows
Whiteness of the Illy,
Sweetness of the rose.
Splendor of tho sunrlKe,
Fragrance of the breeze,
Crystal of the brooklet
Trickling under trees,
Over mo3S and pebbles
Hark! you have them all
l'rophesiod and chanted
In the sparrow's call.
nigrira of tho tree-tops,
Burdened with a sonj?
That he drops among us
As he flies along,
Promises and blessings
Scattering at our feet,
' Till we sing together,
"Oh, but life is sweet!"?
Listen! the song-sparrow!
Spirit'' or a bird?
Simple joy of singing
In his song is heard.
Somewhere, far in glory,
Love our life has kissed;
He resounds the rapture,
Heavenly optimist!
Resurrection-singer!
Gladness of the yeai
In thine Easter-carol
. ' Bringing heaven so near
A : That we scarcely know it
From the earth apart
Ding immortal summer
To the wintry heart!
Waft us down faith's message
, From behind the sky,
Till our aspirations
: With thee sing and fly!
"God is good forever!
Nothing shall go wrongl
Sunshine set to music
'Ti8 tho sparrow's song!
Lucy Larcom. in Youth's Companion.
A LITTLE TEACHER.
US EMMA A. OPPER.
i
ABCIA P. EM-
sea was putting
Monday's spell
ing lesson o n
the blackboard
when David
Leach came in,
in his heavily
stepping, i m
portant w ay.
Maroia could
not wholly con
o e a 1 her dis
pleasure at hie
appearance.
"I'm awfully busy just now, Mr.
Leach," she remarked, unveraciously
out) uaii niiuuau uunucn
Bat David sat down. He was clumsy
in feature, in manner and in mind;
.but he had a very substantial opinion
of himself. He wore patent-leather
shoes in all weathers, and ponderous
watch charms.
"Father's been talking it over with
the .other directors," he observed,
with, fascinated eyes on Marc ia's coiled
brown braids she would not face
-"and they're going to introduce
some' kind of a chart system here I
don't know how -like they have in the
city schools, you know. Thought
maybe you'd like to know it."
' "I should have known it when your
father and the other directors got
ready to tell me,"BaidMarcia, crisply.
'-"You're spunky," said David.
I am," tho little teacher re-
sponded, turning about ; "and while
I am at it I might as well say some
thing else, Mr. Leach. I don't like
... . . . i
To nave you coming nere aner buuuui
this way. I'm busy generally, and
I don't like it, anyhow. You'd do
me a great favor," suidMarcia, writing
"accommodation" on the board in
large characters, "if you'd stop com
mg. .
"Harmon Lester comes all he wants
to," said Mr. Leach, sullenly.
"That is an entirely different mat
, tor,j Marcia retorted,
i' Her blue eyes flashed at him.
"All right," said fhe director's son,
leisurely rising.
He was not seriously decomposed ;
his admiration of himself did not ad
mit of that. He was convinced that
Maroia Remsen was secretly proud of
his attentions, but that she bad "taken
..Jtt tr . : 1 n.n n r An
. .'..'Maybe I'll call around at the house
some evening," he said.
' She made no answer, and he took
Lis slow departure.
Marcia dusted her chalky fingers,
and put on her hat in the cloak-room
and ran down stairs. At the door she
almost bumped into a tall young fel
low just, coming in. ;v
"Harmon !" she said.
Her lips parted in a glad smile, and
she flushed beautifully.
"Weill" taid Harmon Lester. '
There was a look on his handsome,
dark-eyed face that made his sweet
Heart look at him again. . .
"I met Dave Leach," he said, signifi
cantly. ..,''.
f'Yes," said Marcia, with humorous
emphasis. "Yes, be came
'tf know he came, lie canie to-uay,
and day before yesterday, and last Fri-
day, if I remember rightly," gaid Hat-
mon. "I know how often he comes,
And everybody knows it.
"Harmon I said Marcia.
Harmon, dear, you know "
"Why,
She tried to meet his frowning eyes,'
bat he looked straight ahead.
"It's like tbip, Marcia," said the
young man. "I can't play second
fiddle to anybodythat isn't my style.
You're engaged to me, but half the
town thinks you're engaged to Dave
Leach, I presume. Everybody sees
him tagging after you, and sees you
encouraging him."
- Encouraging him! Marcia could
have laughed had she not been too
amazed an! indignant-. She could not
speak.
"It's unfair to me and you know
it," went on her lover. "I didn't
think you'd be capable of it, but see
ing you are, I don't think, to put it
to you plainly, that you are the girl
for me, after all. I like a girl that s
constant and faithful and single
minded. I don't like a flirt."
The poor little teaoher I The out
rageous injustice of it stunned her;
nor did any thought of hex lover's
natural ignorance of the real facts
soften hr indignation. .
"Do you think I like David Leach ?:'
she demanded.
"I don't think that you do," Har
mon -beater responded. "X aon I
pretend to know what your motive is
in . leading him on so. But if yon
want to know what I think well, he's
well off, for one thing, and the
Leaches are supposed to be 'way up,
-..ci Ills father is school director. Al
together, I think you're rather afraid
of him. That's why you're so so
tiweet to him, I suppose, "said Harmon,
in the recklessness of his warm resent
ment.
If arcia gazed at him. David Leach
Lad thought her "spunky." .Now.
stung by the wrongful cruelty of her.
lover s accusations, she turned square
ly upon him, her cheeks hotly flushed
and her lips for an instant pressed to-
gether with ominous tightness.
"Of course, Mr. Lester," she said,
"I can't' consider myself engaged to
you after this. You will be glad to
hear it, since you don't want me. I
am very glad we hadn't told anybody
of our engagement. It prevents all
Borte. of complications, doesn't it?
You hadn't even given me a ring. It's
so fortunate 1"
She cast at him a coolly-mocking
smile, and turned down a side street
abruptly. It was not her street, but
she could not walk longer with Har
mon Lester.
There were snowballs in whito
bloom, and red roses and pink, and
whole fields of daisies.
Marcia 6tarcd at the flowery beauty
of the view without seeing it. All her
happiness was gone.
She had cared for him so much, so
dearly, and yes, yes, he had cared
for her! They had been so happy in
their love that they had kept it a se
cret, with a tender sort of jealousy.
Now it was all over. They were not
even friends.
Her heart was heavy with a wretch
edness which she would not, in her
pride, admit to herself ; and then in
the midst of her misery came the com
paratively frivolous thought, as frivo
lous thoughts will intrude themselves,
should ehe go to the picnic to-morrow?
Would Harmon go? What did she
care whether he went or not? Her
caramel cake was already made and in
the ice-box, and her cucumber pickles
were already packed in a glass jar.
Go she would, she determined, with
some of the "spunk" which had awed
David Leach.
Evidently Harmon Lester had
reached the same decision along the
same line of reasoning. His was the
first face she saw when the old band
wagon, filled with the picknicsers,
drew up at her gato at ten o'clock the
next morning. ,
Mabel Watson, who was famous for
soying the wrong thing, called out to
her gaily that she had Baved a seat for
her next to Harmon Lester.'
Marcia smiled coldly, and Harmon
helped her in with chill politeness,
and disposed of her cake and pickle
jar, and even held her jacket and para
sol till she got settled.
Between them they managed to
give forth the impression that noth
ing was the matter.
"Though I don't know why they
shouldn't know it now; it's got to be
known," Marcia thought. "I'd like
to stand up in this band-wagon and
tell them all that it's all over between
ns, because Harnidn was jealous of
David Leach. David Leach! Think
of it J"
The sole speck of brightness on her
gloomy sky was that David Leach had
had to go out of town that day, and
had not been able to go to the picnic.
That wes a comfort. Other wia i .the
day was abominable.
It showered once ; there were
thousands of mosquitoes ; Kitty San
ford's bisouits were heavy and Gertie
Cooper's chicken salad was a caution.
Marcia realized with astonishment
that everybody else was havinfc a de
lightful time, with tha possible Nexcep
tion of Harmon Lester, but she was
miserable.
Mabel Walson and Fred GrtKnby,
who were in an incipient staget ot
fondness for each other, had chancYd
their minds at the outset and deaertc';??
. UnnA" an.. dlMVPIl tn thft" Vi' v
1 g,.0unds in Fred's new side-bar bug, : ,
iih red wheels. " ' ' ' 4
Nobody but Mabel would have done
anything so eccentric, and nobody but
Mabel would have rushed up to Mar
cia, as the young men were putting the
horses into the band-wagon for the
return trip, and" detailed a fresh
scheme of-ber own and Fred's.
"What do you think Fred and I
are going to do?" she demanded.
"Going to walk over to theEngleburg
station it's only a mile and take
the train home. We'll get home, as
soon as the rest of yon, and it will be
jolly for a change. And we want you
and Harmon to drive home in Fred's
buggy ; it's got to be got home some
how, you know. You will, won't
yon?"
"You're a goose a perfect goose I"
said Marcia, in hot vexation.
She felt an almost uncontrollable
wish to shake her. But Harmon was
near enough to hear her, and so were
several others.
"If it will accommodate you, cer
tainly," said Harmon, after a notice
able pause.
"lie waited for me to make some
excuse," Marcia told herself, with
burning cheeks. "Why didn't I?" '
And when Fred's pretty chestnut
hor3e had been put iDto his shining
buggy, and Harmon offered her his
hand with frigid politeness, she looked
a charming statue of Dignity or of
Wrath as she stepped into the vehicle.
"After all," she said, buttoning her
jacket, "it is ridiculous to try to keep
it from people that that you under
hand, Mr. Lester. It's absurd. I
shan't keep it up, if you do."
"I agree with you exactly," eaiu
Harmon.
"I shall tell peeple plainly that
there is nothing between us," said
Marcia.
She turned up. the collar of her
jacket, and spoke no more. It was
getting dark; the picknickers had de
parted lothly. The scent of roses
and of new-cut grass was sweet on the
air.
Fred Granby's horse was a good
traveler ; he oovered the miles rapidly.
It being accustomed of late to Mabel
Watson's ceaseless chatter, he was as
tonished ot the unbroken silence of
the pair behind him, he gave no sign,
but trotted on evenly. They left the
band-wagon far behind them.
As thev turned from the traveled
road into a narrower cross-road, Har
mon slackened the lines and let the
horse walk.
Itwas quite dark by that time ; but
Marcia, looking down the shadowy
road, made out the figures of two men
standi Dg together in the middle of it a
few rods ahead. There were no houses
within sight.
Marcia glanced at Harmon. He was
utaring at the trees on his side of the
drive, apparently oblivious of all else.
The mon were not talking ; they were
watching the approaching buggy.
Marcia felt a chill of fear.
What were the men waiting there
for ? Did not Harmon see them ?
She would have spoken to him had
not that benumbing anger closed her
lips. She was silly to be afraid, she
supposed.
Then her heart gave a stifliDg, groat
leap, and stood still. They were close
upon the two men. One stood back a
littlej but the other, a heavily built
fellow, whose ragged clothes and
coarse face made themselves visible
through the dimness, took a swag
gering step forward and caught the
horse's bit.
Hold on herel" he uttered, ia a
threatening voice. "Got any money
about you, you fellows? If you hav
w'y we want" iV
Marcia had gTasped the whip. She
gave the fellow a cut across his face
and another. She aimed a third blow
at him. The other man was coming
to his aid, she saw with fright, and she
raised the whip again.
But the spirited little horse, wita
an excited whinny, jumped forward,
tore loose from the clutching hand,
and was off down the road at a wild
pace. They heard angered sho its and
oaths. But they were safe.
Marcia was shaking like a leaf. She
could not control herself she began
to cry. She felt Harmon's arm around
her, and even in that confused mo
ment she drew away from him. But
he pulled her closer.
"There, Marcia I"
little girl! There,
he said, "Beat
don't be fright-
pnftd. We're safe.
Thev won t dare
to go near the picnic wagon, with vl
teen fellows in it. They were tramps,
and don't know much about highway
robbery. I could have done a better
job myself. Don't cry, dear I"
His faca was close to hers, nor could
she free herself. They were tearing
on hard and fast.
"You'd better t-tend to the horse, '
Marcia faltered, tearfully.
"He' all right. He's trying to get
away from the ruffians. Marcia,
what a bright little girl you are!
What sand you've got! I'd like to
see the girl that would have done that
as you did. I never saw them till we
were close up to them, and ii you
hadn't done just what yon did I'tr.
proud of you, dear 1" He kissed her,
"What are you doing?" said Mar
cia. . "You ouaht to know," Harmon
'answered, coolly. "Dear girl, I said
to you yesterday that you were afraid
of Dave Leach, and that that was why
yon encouraged him. And I. really
. thought it. Bat I know better now.
I know more about it. Ton aren't
afraid of anything. Tell me why
did you let him hang around you bo?
Oh, Marcia, you don't like him better
than me? I love you I always shall
and I can't bear it; I can't!"
"Like him?", said Maroia, gently.
In her regained happiness she coald
be nothing but gentle. "Harmon, I
dislike him terribly. I'll tell you all
about it about all tho bother he has
made me. I should have told you last
night. ' You were hasty, and I was
angry. We are sorry, aren't we?"
"1 don't know," Harmon responded.
"It's almost worth while to have
twenty-eight hours of misery, and
then to get back to such perfect hap
piness as I'm feeling just now."
"We had such a lovely drive home!"
the little teaiher said, next day, to
Mabel Watson. "We were glad you
and Fred went home the way you did."
And Mabel, who had heard the ru
mor that two tramps had "held them
up" and demanded their money down
on the lonely crossroad, and who. had
a score of excited question on the end
of her tongue Mabel stared at her in
dazed astonishment. Saturday Night.
SELECT SIFTING!?.
Napoleon's coronation robes cost
$4000.
The Chinese kill 10,000,000 dogs an
nually for food purposes.
"Orts" are tho stub-ends of straw
left by cattle in feeding from the
manger.
In England it is difficult to enum
erate the number .of clergymen who
are tutors.
A Chicago man is the proud owner
of a parrot that spaans both Knglish
and German.
In India the native will Bhave you
while asleep without awakening you,
so light is his touch.
Greenland was so called because in
summer its hills were oovered with a
beautiful green moss.
A German match manufacturer has
invented a machine capable of making
15,000,000 splints a day.
Queen Victoria's will is engroised
nn vellnm. nnarto size, and is Dound
-as a volume and secured by a private
lack.
Since the organization of our mint,
in 1793. it has coined, of crold, 81,
612,405.375.50, and of silver, $6G9,
299,323.
Mr. Gladstone has become a sub
scriber to the fund for providing a
memorial to "Llewelyn.the last Prince
of Wales."
Cicero, it is said, had a theory that
any disease could be overcome by fast
ing, and often abstained from food for
davs at a time, drinking only water.
Steelyards dug up in Herculaneum
ata Hkft those of to-dav. with u nan.
and a bar with graduated scale and a
weight molded into the neaci oi iuer
cury.
Tt in huh. that one comDttnv o Derat
ing several London cafes consumed
last year 53,000 pouuds of tea, 830.
000 pounds of beof and328, 000 pounds
of sugar.
Stanley found tobacco perfectly ac
climated among the African tribes
that had never seen a white man. The
nso of the weed is universal in the
dark continent.
J. W. Jones, of Robertson, Ky.,has
found a pearl on which is the perfect
outline of a man's hand. Seen through
a inicrosoope even the veins appear.
It is valued by experts at $150.
About the year 1400, the Queen of
France astonished the kingdom by
driving about in a swinging chariot
mounted with gold and gems. It was
the only wheeled vehicle for pleasure
purposes in France.
A runaway horse in Canton N. Y.,
recently, after two miles of good
sleighing, turned down a railroad
track and crossed a high and long
bridge, carefully picking its way over
the ties without accident.
Sixty thousand dollars ia gold wai
found recently by Jesse J. Drew, at
his sawmill, near Hollandale, Wash
ington County, Mo. The treasure is
supposed to have been buried during
the Civil War by a Captain Barfield.
Cotton Wool in the Nostrils.
Says Dr. E. P. Mann in the Pacific
Medical J jurnal : "Abandant experi
ment long ago demonstrated that cot
ton wool wis capable of arresting
germinal matter with which the air is
filled. By placing within the nostrils,
out of sight, a thin pledget of cotton,
not sufficiently dense to interfere with
froe inspiration, the air may be greatly
purified. The cotton immediately be
comes moistened during expiration,'
which adds materially to its efficiency
us a filter. That, thus placed, jt will
arrest dust, particles of soot, etc., may
be easilv shown by introducing the
cledcrets. and then, after an hour'a
walk through the streets, removing
them, when they will be found blackj
ened and soiled. Microscopical ex-;
amcnUion discloses quite a museum
of germinal matter. Irominentaraong
the displays are found various forms
of catarrhal and bronchial secretion
that have been desiccated and pulver
ized by passing feet, thus liberating
the cerms which, planted upon a eon
genial soil, will produce catarrh tr
irdcr."
TRAPPING WILY MUSKRATS
HOflE THAN 100,000 FELTS T7SE-J IN
NEW YOBK AinrUAIXY.
They Do Duty as a Chep Substitute
for Sealskin Wisdom of th
Muskrat as a House Builder.
FURRIERS Cf New York
City," said one ot them
in the New York Sun, "bay
more than 100,000 musk-
rat skins every winter, and that isn't
more than they need to supply the de
mand for imitation sealskin gloves,
caps, muffs, boas, trimtnings: and
other articles in that line. If the"
muskrat was as big as the fur seal its
pelt would be readily, worth $25 to
the trapper, instead of fifteen or
twenty cents, as now.
"There is no other fur that resem
bles the sealskin so closely, and there'
in lies its value to the furrier, for it
makes a handsoma but cheap substi
tute for that costly fur in many ways.
The fur is always Bold for what it is,
but purchasers of article's made frcm
it usually refer to them as their setl
skin so-and-so.
"Tho beaver alone excels the musk
rat in ingenuity and system in its do
mestic arrangements. In building its
house the muskrat selects a spot in
the low marsh land which will be
flooded at high tide. The site for its
house selected, the muskrat tunnels
from the bank of the stream or lagoon,
beginning below the edge of the water
at ebb tide, a passage underground to
the spot where its house is to be.
Then the busy animal cuts with it
teeth the broad, strong stalks and
leaves of the flag and the long, coarse
grass which form th- principal veg
etation of the marshes. Dragging
them to the building site the muskrat
braids and twists the flags and grasses
together in circular form, and builds
them layer upon layer, gradually nar
rowing the stiucture until a firm,
cone-shaped house is the result. This
is further strengthened and made
comfortable by the liberal intermix
ture of mortar made from the marsh
mud, with which the muskrat plasters
its house inside and out. The only
entrance to the houso is the subter
ranean passage from the bank of the
stream, the ground floor being on a
level with that tunnel.
"The interior of a muskrat's housa
is always divided into two floors or
studies. Sometimes it will have as
many as four. These are )d to by a
chamber built around the inner edge
of the house, and rising like a spiral
stairway. The number of stairs to the
house are regulated by the height to
which the tide rises. The muskrat ex
pects and wants the ground floor to
be flooded, but there must always be
a dry rocm at the top of the house to
whioh the occupants may retire in
time of high water. Dwelled near
streams that are not affected by the
tide, but are liable to heavy freshet',
often look for warning of high watei
to the way the muskrots build theii
houses in the fall If the houses are
made high above the level, it is a sure
sign that there are to be floods some
time during the season.
"Tho interior of the muskrat's
dwelling is warmly lined with dry
grasses and leaves, and frequently as
as many as half a dozen muskrats will
inhabit one house. The reason that
this wise little animal in constructing
its dwelling engineers so that its
ground floor and the tunnel are always
under water is that thereby it hu9 an
exit in case an enemy assail its house,
and an entrance if an enemy pursue,
which is bidden from sight, and lends
greatly to the safety of the muskrat in
either case. But the instinct of the
animal does not warn it against the
traps that its greatest and most per
sistent enemy places at this hidden
entrance and exit, changing it from
a way to liberty and safety to a path
way to certain death.
"During the day the muskrat re'
mains hidden in its house, unless the
day is cloudy and dark. At night it
goes forth to feed on the 'juicy roots
of water grasses and plants. The
muskrat is dainty at its meals, and
will not put its mouth to a root until
it washes away every particle of mud
from it. A great many muskrats are
killed on moonlight nights by hunters
who hide on the banks and lie in wait
for the little fur bearers as they come
out of the water and prepare for
feeding. But the wooden traps
are what reap the biggest crop
of muskrats. The traps are placed
at the tunnel entrances of the animals
dwellings, and whether the muskrat is
going out to feed or has been out and
is coming home, it swims into the trap
iust the same. If this animal when
caught had time. It could easily gnaw
its way put of the trap, but before
that can be accomplished the muskrat
drowns. A whole colony of muskrats
may be taken in a single trap in one
night, and the trapper who has out
many of the traps is sure to gather a
rich yield every night. It is not an
uncommon thing for a Maryland musk
ratter to capture 100 pelts of a night.
"On windy days a gTeat many of
these animals are killed by spearing.
The muskrat has a most acute sense of
hearing, and tha cracking of a dry
fiaz leaf a hundred yards awav: on a
still day" is sufficient to alarm a house
fnl of the rats and send them scamper
ing out into the water for safety.
When the wind b.owi strong &nd at
high tide the mnskratter arm himself
with a frier, the lone iron tires of whioh
will reach from top to bottom of" the
muskrat's nest. Approaching a nest
with arrest' caution, atrainst the wind.
the hunter jabs his apear into it. Cud
dled together in tne upper pars oi iuw
house may , be half a dozen muskrats.
Leaving the spear sticking' in the nest,
the muskratter knocks ttie rooi on.
Frequently he will find threv or more
muskrats impaled on nis spear,
"Another proutowe metnod ai ias
fntf the muskrat. and one that has
manv elements ot good sport in it, ii
thp. shootintr of the animals at' nut fit.'
The hunters course in boats slowly
along the streams', or bayous, some
times throwing . a lignt aneaa ot tneni
from a jack, but generally trusting toi
tneir own trained eyes and tneiisnt oi
the stars and moon. They detect in
stantly the ripple on . the water that
hetrava the Bwimminff. muskrat, and it
U seldom that the report of a gnn doesr -
not mean a muskrat less.
5!pasois of nhusnal tides and floods
are best for the hunters and trappers,
. m 1 '
for then tne mnsicrata are xorcea io
lvo their dwellings in cmte of tha
instinct they are alleged to have isx
guarding against just such a calamity,
and they ara compelled to seek safety
in the opn' country." - Their hiding
places are easily found, and they ara
slaughtered by day and night."
Apartment Houses of Ancient Origia,
The architect should not forget that ,
the modern system of hotels an,
apartment houses on a vast scale it
-. itl.Vi i-ilttT rr.m-na.Tftd with the
,. V V-J...-. f "
sractico of the ancients in the samf
-r . . . 1 ft J.-
airectiotu, says -i.u3h-'ji uvu-.
and Builder; Recently excavations at
Pompeii; have unearthed some enor
mous 1 buildings of such beauty and
.solidity in architecture, such perfeol
drainasre afid - such provisions foi
... . . nil 11 V
health and comiort as io nu u wiw
have seen : them with astonishment
These newly, discovered buildings con
tain thirty or loriy lmooense upt-ciuu
apartments on the .first floor and as
many on iuo bbuuuu. -;v --'
looked out on a' rotunda nearly forty
. . . . . i - 3 1 .
feet long ; courts supporw- uy -
nmnssurronnd the bedrooms, which
i. ..' '.. -.
opened upon large, ornamennu gar
dens .with fountains.- Provision for
lizht and air was made upon tne most
extensive scale, On the second floor
were found evidences mat mere werw
suites of rooms built , upon the flat
plan of to-day. In fact, the revela
tions made bv the exhumers at Pom
peii snow tnat place w nave uevu. uu ,
-m -1. -. .1 .nnJfn1 wit.fnr.-ncr T.lu.Hst
for Bolendor, oomiori, ueww en
joyment, and gave , every evidenca
that floor renting, like, many other
modern improvements, is. not anew
thing under, the sun. .
. m ... 1 lit- - An.
rinnn frrlilen obiects have
been unearthed from Etruscan tombs.
j ii .3 A Viaf. tVio-v had
It Was Ullttiij uo.iu. "" l
been used as the .heads of walking
canea. r .
ACUTE DYSPEmA.: "
ITMPATHKTICHEAJRTDISE-lSEOrTK-
ATTENDS IT. ,
The
Modern Treatment Conusts lnxive-
xnovlng the Canac . .
CFrom the Republican, Cedar Jtapide, iowa;.
Mis. V. Curley, who has resided In Clarence,
Iowa, for the past twenty-two years, tells an
Interesting story ot what she considers rescue
torn premature death. Her narrative is as
follows: " ,:.
"Tot ten years prior to 18M, I was a con
stant sufferer from acute stomach trouble, i
had all the manifold symptoms of acute dys-?
pepela, and at times other troubles were pres
ent In oomplloatioa I did not know what it
was to enjoy a meaL No matter how careful
I might be as to the quality, quantity and
preparation of my food, distress always fol
lowed eatlcff.' I was despondent and blue.
Almost to the point of insanity at times, and
would have been glad to die. Often and
often 1 could not sleep. Sympathetic heart
trouble set In and time and again I was ob
liged to call a doctor In the night to relieve
sadden attacks of suffocation which would
come on without a moment's warning.
'Mvtroi.hl(i inArAAMAd m time wore on nnd
I spent large sums In doctor bills, being com
pelled to have medical attendants almost con
stantly. During 1892 and 1833, it was im-
poasible for me to retain food, and water,
brashes plagued me, ' I was reduced to a
skeleton. A consultation of physicians was
unable to determine just , what did ail me.'
The doctors gave us as their opinion that the
probable trouble was ulceration of the coats
of the stomach and held out no hope ot re
covery. One doctor said, 'All I can do to
relieve yoursnffering is by the use of oplurc.v
'About this time a mend oi mine, ai.-.
Symantha Smith, of Olldden, Iowa, told p
about tne case oi Mrs. Taunton, oi oxtora
Junction, Iowa. - This lady said she had been
afflicted much the same as I had. fihe bs 1
consulted local physicians without relief, ar 1
bad gone to Davenport ior treatment, uiti
ud all hone of reooverv. she was Dersuad -d
by a friend to take Dr. Williams' Fink Fills.
The result was almost magical.
"I was led to try them Iwmher experience.
and before many months I felt better than
I had for a doeen years. I am now airs-, t
free from trouble, and If through some es r r
of diet I feel badly, this splendid rem? Iy t .
me right again. I have regained my "ei .
and am once more in my usual flesh. I s! - p
well and can eat without distress. I r
doubt that I owe my recovery to J
Hams' Flak Fills.- i only wish that
heard of thorn years ago, thereby
myself ten years of sui-Vrlag an i
i i.
!-ftV
HV
money." 1
' Dr. Williams' Fink Fills contain all the i
m'snta necessary to give new lila fnid rK'ht
to the blood and ret-t f - il - -They
are for pale by all rtrv ' .'-. or
had by mall fror ! Dr. V
Company, Sohea. ;a..v, N. i.. ' r . -
jboi, or fix belies i f.;,