A SHADOW ON THE WALL.
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A valiant youth wna Tommy Strutt, *
. A» brave as any tuttRht ot old:
H? km* it to cut oti ui ivnts’ hoods,
lie was *o very blufl and bold.
Afraid! Ah, that ho never toit—
At toast, this Was whnl Tommy sold:
£4$.;
ptoant* to note how Tommy loo!<«ti
- One night when ho ha<l gorin to bed:
ttioro wn* Somethin;? on the wall,
, And what it was ho could not toll,
Bjit htron’lv did ho fool inclined
U To give one loud, torriilc joll.
^ferh! nth! Too chnttcrtn? of his tooth!
M ^His hair rose up and .stoo l on end;
• T«*t 'twu* a shadow, nothin i mare.
That no alarmed our valiant friend
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’Twjwotilv Tommy's Cousin Dick,
A wooden da i?or in his hand
Ant! why our hero looked so seared
la more thau 1 cun undorstami.
BLIND JUSTICE.
KY 11KKKN It. MATH RKS.
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CHAPTER I—Continued.
. .Lot us picture lior then watching
his tin availing stfiijrrvlos and agonies
till the opiate deadened the olToets
of the poison, and ho sank down in a
•tupor that she know must end in
death, nay, that may so havo ended
Abruptly, as she stood by and
walchod him. Her crime Is accom
plished, but how to hide it? See her
eyus wander hither and thithor over
tho walls, tlio floor, upon tho door
through which she might drag this
heavy weight, but that she may
meet her lover on tho threshold!
Her glance falls on a discolored ring
level with tho ground, and scarcely
viaihlo savo to those who know whoro
to look for it| sho cronps nearer and
wearer to it. Sho knools down and
drags at tho rusty ring; a sfuaro
door, about tho width of a strong
man's shoulders, rises towards her,
beneath is a black void, and that
-void is to bo tho hiding-placo of her
husband’s body. Close at hand lies
•» coil of cord, sho dellboratoly cuts
It in half, and knooling down besido
him. makes one portion fast round
his body lielow tho armpits, ttien
with the ends drags that huddled,
helpless body onuily enough along
the floor until tho open s.]uaro is
reached. And now comos tho most
dllllcult part, physically, of hor en
terprise. To thrust him foot foromost
down that pit would be easy enough,
hut with all a woman's extraor
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aiaary Insensibility to orimo, but
sensitiveness to a' cruelty, she could
»»ot bring herself to do this, but with
arms stronger suroly than a woman's
®ver were, lowered them socurofully
that not a bruise or a mark was any
where to be found on his person.
Picture her placing her husband,
his foel to the pit, his head to hor
knees, see hor givo him a strong
push that sends his foot over the
«dgo. and instantly the body disap
pears with such a jerk as nearly to
throw her forward on tha ground;
but with straining muscles sho holds
grimly on, hor thighs bent back,
resisting iu every libra the dead
we.ght that seeks to drag hor down
*<Vtho place to which she has con
demned him! Now tho head is over,
has vanished, bit by bit sho lets out
tho cords that are twisted round hor
hands; presently they grow slack, a
dull tremble runs through them, the
body has reached the ground, sho
easts the cords in after him, drops
Who t ap door, and all is over.
*■'» far. she ha9 acted with extraor
dinary promptitude and skill, ably
seconded by great physical strongth,
Sihe is even able to greet Stophen
Croft as if nothing had happened,
and to wash tho cup out of which
hor husband drank; but in the inorn
jtog she breaks down, and attracts
suspicion to herself in a wily little
short of madness. At breakfast sho
sots aside food as if for a visitor, she
returns to tho house after they have
both presumably left it fO1 ever, sho
lifts tho trap door,and leaves it open,
and from a hook insido suspends a
long piece of cord, by which a per
son might easily descend to tho vault
below, or ascend from it to tho room
above. By tho trap-door she plaoos
the plate?of broken food, and having
-thus drawn attention to what would
have never been suspected but for
her indication, she rejoins hor hus
I'i naan, very soon after committing an
p other and even worse act of stupid
<[ tty. since it is witnessed by ono who
p- >«vasps the full significance of the
i V incident, and who in following up
tte clue then given, brings all tho
tacts home to the woman at last.
fS Mti* gentleman, on reading of the
vsnhfder, went straight to the village
.-* '<* Trevemck, found the police
i supije, and tile villagers convinced
•of Judith's guilt, although they had
■only their spite to convinco thorn.
I; The rural police thought that tho
I -man might liave got in after tho two
K* dell; and had chosen, for his own
i| reasons, to conceal hirascif below;
tout the medical evidence proved that
If? ' *»® bal been dead at least three
% the hoy was found by the
igi landlord in the plaeo agreed upon,
|j: while every window was securely
bolted from within.
But suspicion was not certainty,
or Judith would probably have
\p: reached Australia unmolosted, and
r remained tliere to this day, had not
the stranger who traveled with thorn
fit produced the arsenic box and his
f evidence. nt the enquiry then being
; JieJd. 'J’ho result you lenow, tho
}~p woman was brought back and com
.mitted to prison1 to await her trial.
One cannot sufficiently admire the
. J sagacity and acumen of this amateur
detective who put to shame a—but 1
| beard no more. His praise sickened
. I, Mo, 1 no longer felt proud ol my
work, but as a mean fellow who had
-deliberately hounded down a possibly
S’. -Innocent woman, lsut or lay evidence
*Jr about the poison seen in her pos
fe. session, and that her of husband (the
U ’ «**!y being in tho world who loved
■/- lierijt-bout the rope, she would be
ffi. •tending' a free creature in primeval
'■ forests now. Why did. 1' put the
|p.' '•lumbering police on her track, why
-uoable to the po. tr where they landed.
and socuro hor arrest? She had dono
mo no harm, nor suroly should I have
dono any in leaving that hunted soul
ono chance of salvation and a life
with the man who honored her, the
mainspring of whoso happy existence
was now as suroly broken as hers.
CHAPTER II.
I stood still in tho Cornish market
place in tho midst of the Cornish
sing-song voices, trying to think of
any loop-hole by which she might
oscapo, but found none; then I bo
thought mo how ablor brains than
raino would marshall every little of
ovidonco in her favor, for, I, who had
brought hop there, could do no loss
than ongage dno o.f tho most brilliunt
advocates in tho world to defend her.
He was' probubly now speaking,
for tho burst of applause that just
now broke forth announced tho end
of tho opposing counsel’s speech.
I wont back, found a man holding
tho court breathless, and as I listen
ed, felt mji doubts wuvor more and
more of her guilt, while a hope
began to stir in mo that she might
escape.
Ho began by contemptuously dis
missing as hyperbole, and wild
imagination, his learned friend’s
sketch of what went on in the
kitchen of Smugglars’ Hole on
tho night of Seth Trcloar's return.
In some points that imagination did
not carry him far enough, for why
was not tho court treated to a de
scription of a man in ah tho agonies
of poison, which must have declared
itsolf long before tho narcotic had
time to take effort? The fisherman
within earshot of tho house heard
not a sound—not oven raised voices
—and was it for a moment credible
that a maddonod and betrayed man,
realizing that his wifo had mur
dered him, would not have raised
a cry for help, or uttered a
single shriek at tho agony
which devoured his entrails? Such
conduct was not only incredible,
it was physically impossible, and no
woman, howover powerful, could
havo strangled his furious cries and
cursos, that not oven nn echo crossed
the threshold. Tlie real truth was
that she never gave him the arsenic,
f'v how. pray.did she manago to dis
solve it in water boforo his oyes, and
then add it to milk, for if she had
meroly shaken the powder into tho
cup, it would havo risen to tho sur
face, and attracted his attention im
mediately. I say that this woman
did not touch or see any poison, but
that sho did administor a narcotic
she had with her, probably with an
intontion of gniniqg time while ho
was asleep to think out her terrible
situation. Tho sight of the trap
door suggested to her mind a hiding
placo, and grasping the idea with
fatal hurry, she did actually, by tho
oxortion of her unusual strength,
lower him into tho vault while ho
was unconscious, in tho hope that lie
would not wako heforo sho and Sto
phon Croft left tho house. That she
had no Wish to harm liitn, is -abun
dantly proved by tho cure with which
sho inunagod his descent; that she
folt sure ofdiis awaking, is provod
by tho ropo sho affixed to the hook
insido tho trap-door, left purposely
open by her that he might sco the
moans^of ascent, and climb through
it. If’further proof is wanted thut
her mind was not murdorish, abund
ant proof was given by the plato of
victuals sho set bosido the open trap
door, nay more, it was tho good
hoartod and gentle action by a wo
man who, while nerving herself to
an act of force made nocossary by
her dosporato situation, could think
of tho comfort of the man who .had
been a brute to her, and by such
thought show that she bore no mal
ice against him. True, tho man’s
body contained arsenic, but who was
to prove that sho gavo it him? He
had been in the house three days be
fore ho was discovered, and., what
might not havo happened in that
time? An old enemy might havo
pursued him thore, some ol# com
panion havo followed and quarreled
with him in tho deserted house; or
he might havo died by his own hand;
it was utterly impossible to prove
mat me arsenic lound in his body
was taken from the box subsequent
ly found in her possession. Moro
than this—(and the learned counsel
looked steadily around the court be
fore advancing his daring theory)—
ho would boldly assert that she’ did
not even know there was arsenic in
the box, it had been jorked from the
man’s pocket previous to her lower
ing him into tho vault; and after
wards in tho stress and hurry of tho
moment, she had thrust it into her
pocket and forgotten all about it. till
j she drew it out with her handker
chief in the train.
j I saw Judith, whose eyes never
loft her counsel’s face,bow her grand
head as if she had said: ••Yes,—that
is „rue,” and then sho turn;*d and
laid her hand on that of'. Stephen
(whom she could just reach) and tho
utter conlidcnce of the gesture and
the look they exchanged of pure love,
quite apart from passion,might havo
moved tho hearts of many who sat
there.
“If," continued her counsel, “he
carried about arsenic, might ho not
have had more with him, or at any
rate enough to take his own life?
True, his arms were bound, but who
• was to prove tout the prisoner hound
| them? They may have been bound
and unbound a d- zen times in that
i deserted place where no villagers
! ever came, and that stood as much
j alone as if it were a hundred miles
1 from-a human habitation. Then, if
j antecedents went for'anything,where
1 could a woman be found with more
! blameless ones than this? Kvon her
j drunken scoundrel of a husband was
; not neglected or deserted by her.and
I when she was lclt alone, in tho full
j flower of her magnificent btautv.hcr
| name was never lightly coupled'with
any man s, and sho was ashamod of
no work, howovor lowly, by which
she might koop hersolf from beg
gary, or tho pauper’s home. It was
only whon the sum of years that are
supposed to constitute legal death
had elapsed, that she cliosu for a
husband a man of character as pure
as her own and you may see, a man
physically. her match, and though
tho spite and venom of their neigh
bors may have affected to consider
the bond between them illegal, they
woro unquestionably in the sight of
man and (iod, husband and wife.
“Could such a woman’s nature
cliango all at once, could her venera
tion for all things holy, all things of
good reputo, Tail her utterly in the
ono supremo moment of her life, when
she found her heaven suddenly trans
formed into hell? Was yonder the
woman to boldly conceive and exo- .
cute a murder with a skill and rap
idity that tho most experienced
criminal might have envied, and
striven to imitate in vain? No! That
she had displayed extraordinary
norvo and resource in carrying out a
wrong act, ho fully admitted; but
when one comes to think of tho im
mensity of tho stakes involved, of
what life in bondago meant with this
man,of what love in freedom awaited
her in tho now world, you may con
demn her, but you cannot wonder
that she snatched at any raeans.liow
over unlawful, by which to save her
self.
‘•I contend, then, that there is no
caso against this woman, and that
each and all of you, gcntlomcn of
tho jury, will be guilty of murder if
you send this innocent and soroly
tried creature to the gallows!”
Ho sat down amidst applause from
tlio legal fraternity, and strangers
present,but low murmurs and growls
of dissent rose from the fishermen
and their wives in tho body of the
court.
“W no else hart a motive in getting
rid oi Seth Treloar? And the motive
was everything in murder! Why
was tho door found locked.and every
window fastened from the inside (for
hadn’t somo of them prowled around
to see after tho pair left), and tho
key found hanging in the place the
landlord and Croft had agreod on?
Didn't tho doctors say he had been
doad a good three days, and how
could he have poisoned himself when
his arms wero fastened to his sides
with cords? Wouldn’t an artful jade
like her have tiod a rope to the
hook, and put the food there, just to
make pooplo think she expected him
to got up again? Wasn't, his face
fixed in tho most awful look of hun
gry agony, moro like a famine-struck
wolf than a human being? Only to
•droam of it was to lie awake all
night afterwards.”
And then the Cornish sing-song of
bitter tonguos ceased as the first
witness was called for tlm prosecu
tion—Stephon Croft.
I have said that he and Judith
made the handsomest pair I evor saw
in my life, but the man’s beauty was
tho more pre-eminent of tho two.
Savo in sculptured images of
Antinous, whom he most curiously
resembled, alike in foature and the
sweetness tinged with melancholy of
his expression. I never saw anything
in tho least like him, and from the
crown of eloso sunny curls on his
splendid head to the solo of the
finely shaped foot, ho looked a man
who would wear a fisherman’s dress
or a king’s robe with equal grace
and dignity. No wonder, thought I,
that tho women of the village hated
Judith—I saw ovil looks pass among
them as Stephen’s blue eyes sought
hers as ho left her to take his place.
And now she stood alone, and the
man who loved her was on oath to
give evidenco against her.
And surely this was a'cruel thing
to soo, for had ho been tlys woman’s
husband, tho law would have closed
his lips, so that ho might noitbor
help to save nor to hang her; but
Seth Treloar’s return had broken
the tie between them, and she was
no more than any other stranger to
him In tho eye of the law.
Pro BE CONTINUED.]
A PROPOSED MUTINY.
An Kffort at the Desperate Game Darius
the Franco-Prussian War.
Under the title of “The Word of
Honor of a French General” the
Cologne Gazette publishes a curious
story of General de Bauffremont,
whose death was recently announc
ed. According to that paper General
BaulTrcmont was one of the numerous
band of French officers who, after
being captured during the war of
1870, were allowed to reside on
parole at Bonn. Not very far off, at
the camps of Wahn and Gremburg,
near Cologno and Coblentz, were
tmany thousands of prisoners of war
belonging to the rauk and file of the
French army.
In the course of November, 1870, a
French agent went about among these
soldiers trying to induce them to joiu
In an attempt tocsqppe and to march
to France in order, to fall on the roar
of the German army, and the like
overtures were made to some of the
officers at Bonn. • A number of
chassepots and cartridges were
actually smuggled into Germany
from Franco. On hearing that some
of the French officers were inclined
to countenance the project General
do Bauffremont gave information to
General von Bittenfeld, governor of
the province, who instantly t<y>k
such measures as prevented the pro
posed rising.
It Was a Different ( asp.
One of the local justices of the
peace identified the prisoner at the
bar as an old offender.
Justice—What is your name?
Prisoner—Sam Jackson.
, “Three years ago, when you were
up before mo your name was John
Smith.”
■ ••Yes, but that was an entirely
I different case.”—Texas SiftingB.
^jjritultarfc
va £«»enlnir Demand for Horses.
The following is from an address by
Hon. F. A. Derthick, Mantua, O., be
fore the students of the School of Ag
riculture of the Ohio state university:
The breeding of horses has hereto
fore been a profitable feature of agri
culture, and its demoralisation is no
doubt an important contributor to the
depression that is said to overshadow
the vocation of the farmer. If our
surplus horses could be disposed of, as
in former times, it would relieve the
stringency felt upon most farms in two
ways. First, by the money received
for the horses, and then by the release
of thousands of tops of hay and grain
now held to feed to unprofitable stock.
It is impossible, however, to dispose of
any but the more desirable animals,
and these at prices greatly reduced.
THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
This change is due to several causes,
among which can be numbered the
general depression in business circles.
There are, however, causes that will
not be removed by a return of business
prosperity. First, the quite general
introduction of cable and electric cars
within the past five years. Within this
time the demand for horses for the
street car service has practically
ceased. The influence of this alone can
hardly be estimated. The life of the
Btreet car horse was exhaustive and
therefore brief, and to supply, his place
gave a steadiness to the horse market.
The change in the motive power of
street cars not only cut off the demand,
but the thousands of horses already in
use, now no longer needed, have found
their way back into the country and
are to-day distributed upon our farma
ELECTRICITY".
Nor is the end yet. The road com
mission appointed by the governor last
winter to investigate the subject of
improving our public highways is quite
likely to report adversely to the use
of stone and gravel in the construction
of free turnpikes on the more import
ant roads. A part of the membership
of this board is known to favor the use
of steel rails. The plan is, that im
portant roads shall be traversed by
electric cars, which will not only
transport passengers at frequent in
tervals, but also, with night trains,
haul produce to market. It would be
folly to predict failure for this plan,
for already suburban trains are run
between adjoining cities, and roads
are in process of construction in many
parts of the state. There seems to be
no limit to the skill and inventive
genius of man, and the day may not
be far distant when the services of
horses will be dispensed with in ordi
nary _ country travel. It is insisted
that it is not a question of possibility,
but—“how soon” we shall be able to
connect our individual trolley with the
public electric wire and bowl across
the country independent of horses.
Who shall say that in the near future
the _ young man, with his carriage
equipped with a storage battery, may
not go for a ride with his best girl, in
which event the material for “a spark”
would be an unfailing accompani
ment?
BICYCLES AND WINGS.
The advent of the bicycle has also
contributed to the general slaughter
of price and demand for horses. Large
numbers of men and women who, until
recently, kept a horse each, either for
pleasure or business, have purchased a
wheel and disposed of the horses.
Again, I notice that on the 18th of
November last, the first canal boat in
the world to be propelled byelectricity
plowed the waters of the Erie canal.
It is expected that at an expense of 50
cents per day per boat for electricity
furnished by Niagara falls, a boat will
be sent from Buffalo to Now York in
much less time than at Present, and
with no outlay for driver! hay, oats or
horse flesh. It would not be so bad if
this were all. Did you notice the re
port of the international meeting of
scientists held at Chicago during the
World’s Fair,and that they discussed iu
all seriousness the question of a flying
machine? Ten years ago this body
would have ridiculed the idea, but to
ri-}y these learned and dignified men
declare, in all seeming sincerity, that
the time is coming, and early too, when
men will fly where and when they
please, and from dizzy heights
look down upon those of us
who content ourselves with the snail
like pace of the old-fashioned horse.
You will admit that a good part of this
review recounts facts accomplished.
A part, it is true, is speculation, yet
who dare say, that is conversant with
the development of the last decade,
that it will not be realized in the de
cade to come?
BETTER HORSES.
At all events steam, electricity, the
waves and the wind are all competing
for the honor of ministering to the
wants of man, and I have been saying
all this to establish this one point,
namely: The majority of farmers mnst
make a change in the number and
character of the horses bred and reared
upon their farms. Fewer animal sand
of better quality must be the watch
word to insure success. There are
thousands of idle horses in Ohio to
day that will not sell for an amount,
on April 1 next, that will balance the
value of the bay and grain consumed
by them during the winter. Speaking
in general terms 1 believe the time is
past and gone forever when an indif
ferent horse of any age or condi
tion can be sold for a price in excess
of the cost of rearing. It is doubt
ful if a horse can be brought to
maturity, or four years old, for less
than one hundred dollars ($100), and I
believe that certainly 50 per cent of
the sound horses in Ohio can be bought
for less than $100. Where then is the !
profit? Some one has lost money.
Upon the other hand, I do not think
the time will ever come when the
business condition of the country is
normal that a horse of fine form and
great powers of endurance, or an
animal of good form, fine style and
action, will not sell for a price that
will compare favorably in profit with
other lines in agriculture. If then
these propositions be true it follows
that the business of breeding horses
upon the farm must be reduced to that
same system which has become neces
sary in -every other line of farming.
That is close attention to details. We
should use not only thoroughbred sires,
but dams possessing individual merit.
Harmonious crosses, one that will
produce a colt bred for a specific pur
pose.- - .-i- w.-. *!r-./v
“COD BLESS A DA RICH.”
The Street rlan let He* u Experience on
e W»)hln(ton Street.
It was noon on F street and on all
sides there was a hurrying to and
fro of clerks and typewriter girls
towards the lunch rooms of the vi
cinage. Under foot slop reigned;
overhead the heavens rained. By a
curb a street pianist was converting
the east winds into strains of "Annie
Rooney.” By his side stood the
partner of his sorrows — joys he
bad none, for he wore a face as
long as a funeral, and twice as
mournful. She was wrapped cris
cross in a big green and blue shatvl,
and as 6ho turned slowly around to
sweep the horizon with her eagle
eye in search of some penny or nickel
she resembled a boy’s brightly
paintod top.
Suddenly a shout was heard:
Wahoo! Wahoo! Wahoo!
At an cpen window in the top
story of the Hood building a group
of savants in shirt sleeves were
gesticulating and shouting, says the
Washington Star.
One of them was shaking a glitter
ing coin in his hand.
The pianist became slightly ex
cited and with his free hand gesticu
lated violently to his wife.
"Skippa tra loo! Ho gotta da
mon!” ho shouted above the tumultu
ous notes of his instrument.
•T noclimbada wall. You make
tire. Go getta da monk.”
The woman looked up despairingly
at the shining reward a hundred feet
up in the air in the hand of a young
Ph. D., or something of that sort,
who might after all be teasing her
and put the coin back in his pocket.
“Gotta damova, Tina. He droppa
da mon pret’ soona.’”
The man waved his arm at the
fourth-story scientist and beckoned
to him to throw down the coin.
The hint bore quick fruit. A sil
very gleam flashed from the window
to the asphalt and fa musical ring
followed that not even the notes of
“Annie Rooney” could drown.
"Zip! Biff! Datta granda! O. K.,
vor gooua: Map pa tra loo! uetta da
mon! We go’n eata da din’, drinka
da beer, feeda da sick monk. Datta
vor nice man upa da skyahigh. ”
Tina waddled nimbly across the
street. The bit of silver was half a
dollar and it had finally rolled into
the 'middle of an English sparrow’s
dinner under a buggy. Tina hesi
tated, but was not lost. A tall, well
dressed old gentleman stepped off
the sidewalk, came around to Tina’s
side, and with his cane poked the
half dollar from under the wheels.
When he straightened up his silk hat
fell off, the woman screamed and
jumped to pick it up. As she gave it
to him she bowed, and her little yel
low black eyes twinkled and snapped
with gratitude.
The pianist lifted his hat to the
savant in shirt sleeves and the polite
old man, and started his music fac
tory down the street
••God blessa da rich, da poor taka
cara daselves!”
Five Vowels in a Kow.
The Hawaiian language is com
posed mainly of vowels, and a few
consonants put in to vary the mo
notony. And the beauty of the sys
tem is that there is no waste. Every
vowel is pronounced. For instance,
when the American eye winks at the
appearance of the simple word
“naauao,” the glib native roils out
th - five syllables with neatness and
dispatch. This means “enlighten.”
Double vowels are very frequent, but
never a diphthong. Three vowels
are not uncommon, and, as above,
four and sometimes more are found
unseparated by consonants. In the
mouth of the uneducated native, the
language is apt to be explosive, but
the higher classes speak it with a
fluent grace that surpasses the French
or the Italian. In sound it some
what resembles the general flow of
the continental European languages,
for the vowels all have the French
quality, and the accents are not dis
similar.—Washington Star.
Gordon's Soudan Throne.
Gordon’s “Soudan Throne’’ is a
folding armchair he always sat in at
Khartoum and carried with him on
his camel journeys. It was a little
Btraight-backei chair, having a
skeleton frame of round iron, a car
pet back and seat, gilt knobs for or
nament and small pads on the arms
for comfort. The carpet had grown
dim in the African sun, which de
prived it, of all royal pretensions, so
that when Gordon returned from his
governorship of the Soudan and sud
denly asked, "Where is my throne?
Has it been brought in?” they were
all surprised, his throne? Nobndy
had seeh a throne. But at length
the camp-stool was found whore it
hai been stowed away.—Chamber’s
Journal.
Hearing a Fly Walk.
The microphone makes the sounds
of a My’s footsteps perfectly audible.
The apparatus consists of a box with
a strong sheet of paper stretched
over it in piaco of the customary lid.
Two carbons separated by a thin
strip of wood and connected by two
wires charged with electricity are
fastened to it and connected with a
carbon pencil which communicates
with the papor tympanum. When
everything is in readiness and the
ear is hold to the sounding trumpet
a Uy allowed to cross the papor
makes a sound which to the listener
is equal to the noise mado by ahorse
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Parents should exert themselves
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Old people who are poor seldom have
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Mr. George W. Tuleg
Benjamin, MissourL
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Quickly Followed
Cured of Rheumatism by
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hardly endur^them? A friend carnet meand
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have taken eight bottles ol it.
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