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GREAT SPEAR HEAD COMTEK
SAVE THE TAGS.
One Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars,
$173,250.00
In valuable Presents to be Civen Away in Return for
SPEAR HEAD TAGS,
1,155 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.834,650 00
5,775 FINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY,
BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... 28,375 00
23,100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED
POCKET KNIVES... 22,100 00
1 1 5,500 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH
PICKS... 57,750 00
1 1 5,500 LARGE PICTURES (14x28 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing,
no advertising on them..7. 28,875 03
261,030 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO.$173,250 00
. The above articles will be distributed, by counties, among parties who chew SPEAR
HEAD Plug Tobacco, and return to us the TIN TAGS taken therefrom.
We will distribute 226 of these prizes In thia connty as follows:
To THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD
TAGS from this county we will give..1 GOLD WATCH.
To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of
SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, I OPERA GLASS....5 OPERA GLASSES.
To the TWENTY PARTIES sending ns the next greatest number
of SPEAP. HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 POCKET
KNIFE.a POCKET KNIVES.
To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest
number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1
ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM TOOTH PICK.100 TOOTH PICKS.
To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest
number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1
LARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS .100 PICTURE?.
Total Number of Prise, for this County, 226.
CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before January 1st, 1884, nor after February 1st,
1894. Each package containing tags must be marked plainly with Name of Sender, Town,
County, State, and Number of Tags In each package. AU charges on packages must be
prepaid.
READ.—SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of Intrinsic valne than anv other
plug tobacco produced. It is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest. SPEAR HEAD is
absolutely, positively and distinctively different in flavor from any other plug tobacco.
A trial will convince the most skeptical of this fact. It Is the largest seller of any similar
shape and style on earth, which proves that It has caught the popular taste and pleases the
people. Try It, and participate In the contest for prizes. See that a TIN TAG Is on even’
10 cent piece of SPEAR HEAD you buy. Send in the tags, no matter how small tt:
quantity. Very sincerely,
1 THE P. J. SORG COMPANY, Middletown, Ohio.
A list of the people obtaining these prizes In this county will be published in this
paper immediately after February 1st, 1894.
DON’T SEND ANY TAGS BEFORE JANUARY L 1894.
THE 8ECTARY.
A heavy hand the bruised reed to break,
A foot to quench tije smoking flax well shod,
A bitter zeal, alert and keen to make
The breach more wide betwixt mankind and
God.
A visage stern that bids all stand apart
Who dare to worship at a different shrine,
A sullen mood, a cold and sluggish heart,
Unwarmed by any pulse of love divine.
A tongue in chiding swift, in praising slow,
A practiced eye his fellows’ faults to scan—
These are the attributes by which men know
The sectary, unloved by God or man.
—London Spectator.
THE QUIET MAN. .
When I was quite a young fellow and
hadn’t long joined the army, I used to
belong to a fashionable club in London,
the members of which were just the sort
of men you read about in Lever’s novels—
as wild as wild could be, always in some
scrape or other, and spending their whole
time in riding, shooting, gambling or
fightmg—all except one.
That one was a small, quiet, pale
faced, gray haired man, with a very sad,
weary look, as if he had once been
crushed by some great sorrow and had
never been able to shake it off. He hard
ly ever spoke to any one, and when he
did it was in a voice as meek as his face.
So of course we made great fun of him
among ourselves, finding these quiet
ways of his a very queer contrast to our
own rackety, harum scarum style, and
we nicknamed him the “Quietest Man
In the Club,” though, indeed, we might
just as well have called him the only
quiet man in it.
Well, one evening when the room was
pretty full, and our friend the quiet
man was sitting as usual in the far cor
ner away from everybody else, we be
gan to talk about dueling, a subject with
which we were all tolerably familiar, for
there was hardly a man among us who
hadn’t been “out” once.
“They did some tidy dueling in the old
times,” said Lord H., who was killed
afterward in action. “You remember
how those six chums of Henry III of
France fought three to three till there
was only one left alive out of the six.”
“That was pretty fair certainly,” cried
Charlie Thornton of the Guards, “but
after all it doesn’t beat the great dnel 30
years ago between Sir Harry Martingale
and Colonel Fortescue.”
He had hardly spoken when up jumped
the quiet man as if somebody had stuck
a pin into him.
“What on earth’s the matter with
him?” whispered Thornton. “I never
saw him like that before.”
“But what was the story, then, Char
lie?” asked another man. “i’ve heard of
Fortescue, of course, for he was the
most famous duelist of his time in all
England, and I’ve heard of his fight
with Martingale, too, but I don’t think
I’ve ever had any particulars, or at
least none worth speaking of.”
“I can give them to you, then,” an
swered Thornton; “for my uncle was
Martingale's second. I’ve heard him
tell the story many a time, and he al
ways said that although he had been in
plenty of duels he had never seen one
like that and never wanted to see it
again. What they quarreled about I
don’t know, and I dare say they didn’t
know themselves, but my uncle used to
say he knew by the look in their eyes
when they took their places t% fire that
it could not end without blood, and it
uiuni.
“They fired twice, and every shot told,
and then their seconds, seeing that both
men were hard hit and bleeding fast,
wanted to put an end to it. But Fort
escue—who was one of those grim fel
lows who are always most dangerous to
ward the end of the fight—insisted upon
a third shot. The third time, by some
accident, Martingale fired a moment too
soon and gave a him bad wound in the
side,but Fortescue pressed his hand to the
wound to stop the bleeding, and then,
almost bent double with pain though he
was, he fired and brought down his man.”
“Killed him?”
“Rather. Shot him slap through the
heart. But it was his last duel, for from
that day he was never heard of again,
and people said he had either committed
suicide or died of a broken heart.”
“Well, I don’t see why he need have
done that, for, after all, it was a fair
fight,” struck in Lord H., who had been
looking over the newspapers on the ta
ble. “But, if you talk of dueling, what
do you say to this?
“Another duelling tragedy in Paris.
The notorious Parisian bully and duel
list, Armand de Villeneuve, has just
added another wreath to his blood stained
laurels, the new victim being the Chev
alier Henri de Polignac, a fine young
fellow of 23, the only son of a widowed
mother. Some strong expressions of dis
gust used by the chevalier with refer
ence to one of De Villeneuve’s former
duels having come to the latter’s ears, he
sought out De Polignac and insulted
him so grossly as to render a meeting
inevitable.
“The chevalier having fired first and
missed, De Villeneuve called out to him,
‘Look to the second buttonhole of your
coat!’ and sent a bullet through the spot
indicated into the breast of his opponent,
who expired half an hour later in great
agony. His mother is said to be broken
hearted at his death. How much longer,
we wonder, will this savage be allowed
to offer these human sacrifices to his
own inordinate vanity?”
Just then I happened to look up and
saw the quiet man rise slowly from his
chair, with a face so changed that it
startled me almost as much as if I had
seen him disappear bodily and another
man rise up in his stead. I had once
seen an oil painting abroad in which an
avenging angel was hurling lightnings
upon Sodom and Gomorrah, and that
was just how this man looked at that
moment. He glanced at his watch and
then came across the room and went
quickly out.
The next night, and the next, and the
next after that, the quiet man didn’t ap
pear at the club and we all began to
wonder what could have become of him.
But when I came in on the fourth even
tag, there he was, though he looked—as
It seemed to me—rather paler and feebler
than usual.
“Here’s news for you, Fred,” called
out Charlie Thornton. “That rascally
French duelist, De Villeneuve, has met
his match at last, and Dr. Lansett of the
—th Bengal Native infantry, who saw
the whole affair, is just going to tell us
all about it.”
“Well, this was how it happened,” be
gan the doctor. “In passing through
Paris I stopped to visit my old friend,
Colonel de Malet, and he and I were
strolling through the Tuileries gardens
when suddenly a murmur ran through
the crowd, ‘Here comes De Villeneuve.’
Then the throng parted, and I had just
time to catch a glimpse of the bully’s
tall figure and long black mustache
when a man stepped forth from the
crowd and said something to him, and
tnen suddenly dealt mm a mow.
“Then there was a rush and clamor
of voices, and everybody came crowding
round so that I couldn’t see anything.
But presently De Malet came up to me
and said. ‘Lansett, we shall want you
in this affair, although I’m afraid that
you won’t have a chance of showing your
surgery, for De ViUeneuve never wounds
without killing.’ Dust then the crowd
opened, and I saw to my amazement
that this man who had insulted and de
fied the most terrible fighter in all France
was a slim little fellow, with a pale, mea
ger face.
“ ‘As the challenged party, I have the
choice of weapons,’ we heard him say
quite coolly, ‘and I choose swords.’
“ ‘Are you mad?’ cried De Malet, seiz
ing his arm. ‘Don’t you know De Ville
neuve’s the deadliest swordsman in Eu
rope. Choose pistols—give yourself a
chance!’
“ ‘Pistols may miss—swords can’t,’an
swered the stranger in a tone of such
savage determination that every one who
heard him, even De Villenueve himself,
furious though he was, gave a kind of
shudder. ‘I had vowed never to fight
again, save with a man who deserved to
die. But you have deserved it well by
your cold blooded murders, and die you
shall!’
“Where both sides were so eager to
fight there was no need of much prepa
ration. They met that evening, Colonel
de Malet being the stranger's second and
another French officer acting for De Vil
leneuve.
“They fought for some time without
a scratch on either side, and then sud
denly the Englishman stumbled for
ward, exposing his left side. Quick as
lightning the Frenchman’s point darted
in, and instantly the other’s shirt was all
crimson with blood, but the moment he
felt the steel pierce him he made a thrust
with all his strength and buried his
sword up to the hilt in De Villeneuve's
body. Tnen I understood that he had
deliberately laid himself open to his op
ponent’s weapon in order to make sure
of killing him. So he had, for De Vil
leneuve never spoke again.”
Just as the doctor said this, down fell
a chair with a great crash, and looking
np we saw the quiet man trying to slip
past us to the door. Dr. Lansett sprang
up and caught him by both hands.
“You here?” he cried. “Let me con
gratulate you upon having punished, as
he deserved, the most cold hearted cut
throat in existence. I trust your wound
does not pain you much?”
“What?” we all shouted, “was it he
who killed De Villeneuve?”
“Indeed it was,” answered the doctor,
“and it was the pluckiest thing I ever
saw.
We all jumped up from our chairs aud
came crowding round the hero, setting
up a cheer that made the air ring, but
he looked at us so sadly and darkly that
it made the shout die upon our lips.
“Ah, lads! lads!” said he in a tone of
deep dejection, “for heaven’s sake don’t
praise a man for having shed blood and
destroyed life. I killed that ruffian as I
would have killed a wild beast to save
those whom he would have slaughtered.
But God help the man who shall t ake a
human life merely to gratify his own
pride and anger! If you wish to know
what happiness a successful duelist en
joys, look at me. Do you remember that
story which Captain Thornton told here
the other night about the duel in which
Colonel Fortescue—the ‘famous duelist,’
as you call him—killed Sir Henry Martin
gale?”
“To be sure,” answered Charlie Thorn
ton. looking rather scared. “But what
of it?”
“I was once Colonel Fortescue,” was
the answer.—Exchange.
Queer Directions About a Funeral.
John Underwood of Whittlesea, Cam
bridgeshire, who died in 1773, gave di
rections for a curious funeral. None
of his relations was to follow his corpse,
which was to be conveyed to the grave
by six gentlemen, who were specially
desired not to come in black clothes, and
during the ceremony were instructed to
sing the last stanza of the second hook
of Horace. The coffin was green, and
the deceased was placed in it with all
1 his clothes on. Under his head was
placed a copy of Horace, under his feet
Bentley’s Milton, on his right hand a
small Greek Testament and on his left a
miniature Horace, while Bentley’s Hor
ace was put under his back.
A cold supper at his house followed
the ceremony, and after the cloth was
taken away the guests repeated the
thirty-first ode of the first book of Hor
ace. Each was to receive 10 guineas
out of the sum of £0,000 left to the
testator’s sister on condition of carrying
out the will. The will ended with the
words, “Which done, I would have
them drink a cheerful glass and think
no more of John Underwood.”—London
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Mean People In Maine.
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safely ride there, the tires of several fine
wheels having been punctured and
ruined. What champion mean people
we do rnn across in this country!—Ban
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