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L-t" si EWfl ' if tot 3, ; S It 1 1 I I i u HAND TO HAND. By EEBEOOA HAEDING DAVIS. Copyrighted. PART I. The managing editor's patience was al most exhausted. "Positively, Maj. Stand ish, I don't see that we can find any room for anything of yours in The Camera this week. Or any week," ho added with an in ward oath to him-x-lf, glancing impatiently at the heap of "revises" waiting upon his desk. He did not take them up, however, but stood outwardly respectful, for he was a young fellow, and Standish, though a notori ous bore, was old and white headed. The major patted him patronizingly on the shoulder. "My dear fellow," in his most luscious, grandiloquent tone, "let me give you a hint. I've been twenty years in the very thick and heat of American journalism, and you are but a neoplrytu. You want to make The Camera weighty? I call it dull, air, dulL Too much resjectability kills a Iper. It needs a different class of articles something at once forcible and light. Philosophic and vif, sparkling and well, do you take my meaning P "Something like that in your hand, ehF laughed Stinger. "Precisclj-. You've hit it," complacently twitching his white whiskers. "No. Not today, major." "Suppose we try a short thing on fish culture? I've got mj-self up on fishes thoroughl." "The Times did that on Friday." The major stcod a moment anxious and silent. "This new asteroid, now. When I was on The London News, Griffin used al ways to say: 'For anything taking in the scientific line, Dan Standish i3 our man.' Don't want it, eh! Who's doing that hang ing down in Delaware for you? I'll make you a two column job of it for $5, and pay my own expenses. That road always dead beads me." Stinger took np his proofs. "We sent a stenographer reporter this morning. We really have no use for you, Maj. Standish." "You never were mora mistaken in your life. Where you need me, my dear boy, is to take charge of your rejwrtorial corps. Yd make those lazj fellows toe the mark." "Mr. Stinger!" It was the proprietor Mc Murray's voice, which rasped through the room like the filing of a saw. He came to the door of his oflice. A sandy, flat built Scotchman, to whose making up nature had grudged every atom of flesh save in the one matter of u keen, red, tomahawk shaped nose. "Have not those proofs gone up yet? You encourage too many idlers in the office, sir. You hero again, Standish P "You here again, Standish?" "Ah, Mr. McMurrav! A de-ligbtfol morning, sir!" The major beamed on him effulgent. Stinger and Withrow, the news editor, both driving their pens furiously at McMurray's appearance, winked at each other. Tho seedy major, with his grand brawny build, his imperturbable suavity and his dauntless lying, always came off first best in these encounters. McMurray, in his fault less black clothes, with all his backing of wealth and conscientious religion, seemed to feel himself thin aud sour, and cowed before him. "I wonder," he said, with a sneer, "that with your higher literary occupations, you can spare time to besiego this office as yoa do." "'Pon my kouI, I wonder, too. Now that Is precisely what my publishers bay to me. 'Writo a book, Standish,' they say. 'Take the public between tho eyes with s knock down blow.' Then those magazine fellows in New York and Boston are crying out every month for me to come to their help. Hut I like to see tho old Camera suc ceed, that's the truth." "Tho Camera is under obligation to you. "Not at all. I'm glad to help build it up. I've a pride Philadelphia enterprise, sir a pride in it," lacking to tho door. "What I have hero, sir," touching his forehead, "was meant for mankind, not to barter for fame or money. By the war, have you seen that last little thing of mine in tho Westmin ster?" "No, nor nobody else," savagely. "Ah," you don't take the quarterlies? I'll" send it to you. Til send it to you. Good morning, Mr. McMurray, good morning." "Keep that liar nnd braggart out of the office, Mr. Stinger," said McMurray in his coldest, ci vilest tones; for when other men would have raged, his sense of duty kept him quietest. He smoothed his face before going back into office. Young John Proc tor was there, tho clergyman to whom Mc-Murray-s church, through his influence, had just given a call. Ho hatt justconio from tho dojwt after two j-ears' absence in the west, und McMurray was striving to do him honor in his hard, ungenial way. Proctor had been a sort of ward of his, and it was whispered about in tho oflice that McMurray would be glad to have him now for a son-in-law. This church was his idol, and to see his only child the wife of one of its ministers was, in his opinion, to inclose her in the pearly gates of salvation while yet alive. "The oflice" felt as if the delicate, bright haired little heiress would be thrown away on Proctor- "These penniless preachers know how to feather their nests." Stinger had said but a few minutes before. Mr. McMurray could not forget Standish wEen he went back to his office. "Lazj- old Bohemian!" he growled. "If you want the most disreputable vices, Mr. Proctor, always look for them in an old man who lives by his wits." "Who was itr "Standish the major. You know him." "What! Thcref' Proctor dashed out into the office without his hat, aud down tLe stairs, shouting, "Hillo, major!" leaving McMurray astonished behind him. Ho took op his pen and legan to write severely. The carnal flesh was stronger in the young man than he had thought. Withrow, out of cu riosity, lounge! down the stairs and found John at tho door looking anxiously up and down the street. "Ah, Mr. Withrow! doj-ou remember me? John Proctor," wringing his hand in a hearty fashion which he used to have when a bov. "Pm looking for a friend of mine, Maj. Standish." "Yes? Maj. Munchausen, we call him in the office." "He is a friend of mine," coolly. "The office does not know him as well as I do, probably." Withrow felt himself rebuffed, but only for a minute. "The old fellow has a cockloft over a ware house somewhere, where he cooks for himself. How he lives, God knows. He has nothing now but the odd jobs we give him here in the office. He's had nothing from us for two weeks." "Is he alone? There was a little girl, or woman, rather?" Proctor hesitated. The story of -the -old major and Madeline was something which he could not drag out be fore this fellow. "Niece or something? She lives in some country town now, I believe, and colors pho tographs. A great artist, the major says. She a dull girl, I fancy. Women without brains have to scratch bard for a living now adays." Mr. Proctor did not care to enter into the woman question. He stood whistline under bis breath, with some queer ideas in his cler ical head, which Mr. Withrow would have hardly thought befitted it. They grew out ! or mo remembrance of those Saturday after aoons when, for year after year, he used to escape JFrom boarding school and repair to that same cockloft over the warehouse, there to feel himself a Gypsy or a Crusoe for a few delicious hours. What a vagabond, uncer- tain life it was! the poverty, the shifts, the fun, the' inextinguishable jollity and tender love nnder it all! What a prince the major ad Madeline made of him saving all week "to comoass the Saturday's roast chicken and MaL I At igp . . gas cranDerry tart! iroctor naa never known father or mother; his ideas of love or a home were all drawn from oor Standish and his crazy menage. So strong was this boyish in stinct in him just now that he actually stood breathless when anybody resembling the major came in sight. If the old man should not recognize him, or should meet him with the formal deference of other respectable people, why, then, good-by to that old boy hood, so horribly dear and disreputable! Now the major was in a restaurant a few doors down the street. "Try an advertise ment in The Camera, Sam," he said to the bookkeeper. "I swear it will pay you like like" Hi talk halted; the ideas seemed to stagger through his brain. "I believe you've had a drop too much, Standish," said Sam. "No; I've had to stop drinking. You can't get a glass of champagne tit for a gen tleman in this accursed town. But about the advertisement?" (The Camera paid him a small percentage en this sort of business, and a few cents now would buy him his din ner.) "No." The major leaned on the glass counter for a moment. It was two days since he had tasted food. The steam of savory dishes be low was too much for him. A collapsed stomach in a powerful frame liko his is a deadly drag upon a man's pluck. He looked at Sam. The fellow would give him his din ner if he asked it, he knew. He gathered himself up with an effort. "I'd steal, but I can't beg," he said, silently. He nodded affably to Sam, and filliped to tho liarrot as ho went out His high featured, usually florid face, had turned cold and blue nnder the mustache and whiskers, but ho carried himself jauntily. John Proctor saw him as soon as he stepped on tho street. There was the identical broad cloth suit cut twenty years ago, and the vast expanse of shirt bosom, frayed in the plaits, but immaculately white, Tho major was a property of the town, well known as the city clock. With his bushy white mane, his im posing shoulders, his lofty bow, ho radiated and filled tho pavement from wall to curb. Proctor thought tho old man would bo glad to see him, but he certainly had not expected the strange effect which the sight of him pro duced. Standish stopped a3 though ho had been struck a blow, holding him off at arm's length. His pomposity seemed to suddenly drop from him. "Why, Jack! Jack!" ho stammered, "I did not look to see you. I beg your pardon, Mr. Proctor. I forget" drawing back, yet still holding the young man's coat sleeve with what would have been very liko a caress in a woman. "Forgot? You forget old friends, I think." "Priuco Hal Las changed his state," said the major, smiling, with an effort to be him self. "It is time he shook off old Falstaff. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! So surfeit swelled, so old and so profane T touching his big breast with a bitter laugh. "You did not use to affect the cynic." "No. It is the sight of you that reminds me of what I had better forget." Proctor was ashamed, as one man always is of emotion in another. "You had always an unreasonable liking for me, vicious young dog that I was!" ho said, lightly. "You're at the old placs, I suppose? I'll come round at dusk. We'll broil a steak together, hey, major? My hand has not lost its cunning.' Tho old man looked down at him steadil; with an inexplicable brightness in his keen eyes. "I did not think you would go so for as that, my boy," ho said quietly. Mr. McMurray's carnage drew up at th-) door at that moment. It was plain but rich, the horses thoroughbred. An innocent look ing, delicate little blonde, dressed with Quaker like plainness, looked out and blushed crimson at the sight of John. At that tho blood mounted also into tho fellow's tell tulo face, and ho went down to the carriage, lean ing on the door to speak to her. "A handsome pair, major," whispered Withrow, who was -.till loitering near. Standish nodded. "She looks like a good religious woman. McMurray would raiso his daughter cleaner than other girls." "She's worth a cool half million; that's the way in which I'd think you would look at her." "So I do, Mr. Withrow. Proctor is lucky, very lucky. Talents and education and re ligion, and now a good wife with money. The boy could not ask for more." There was something in tho old man's un usual quiet, and tho look which he fastened on Proctor, that roused Withrow's curiosity. "There used to be some connection be tween you and the young man, wasn't there? He was under your guardianship when ho was a boj-, I think I've heard F' "Not at all, sir," eagerly, "not at all. It was a mere business transaction. I held cer tain moneys for the lad's use from his father, and jaid his bills; that was all. I placed him under Mr. McMurray's care when he m was entered here first at school. McMurray has the entrance to tho best society, and is religious; thoso wero tho two things I looked at. Why, the boy's blood is of the best. His father was one of the old blue bloods of Vir ginia. He would never have trusted his son to the guardianship of an old scnllnwag liko Dan Standish." Tho major was himself again, his rolling voice and theatrical gest ures keeping time and apparently enjoying each other thoroughly. "Oh, that's it? You were not one of tho blue bloods then!" "My father was a butcher, sir. I've lived 1)3 my wits; and an infernally poor capital they are for any man. I'll say that, l'vo dined with dukes and ragpickers in my day, Mr. Withrow. But tho smell of tho slaughter house followed me. A man is nothing with out family here iu Philadelphia." And again his eye rested on Proctor, with the anxious thoughtfulness so strangely at variance with his ordinary stagey manner. Withrow clapped his hand to one pocket, then to the other. "By the way! Where the deuce Oh, here it is. Come this way, major," drawing him into the doorway, aud owning a New York jMper. "Here in the Personals. "Richard Standish.' You see? No relation of yours, ohf' The major had the paper up lefore his face. He took out his cracked eyeglasses and adjusted them on his nose; took them down and wiped them leisurely; read the card once, a second time. "No; I don't know tho man." "From Virginia, 3011 see," said Withrow, putting the paper in his pocket again; "and came here about the samo time you sav vou did. But your name's Dan. Certainly. It looks like a trick of the police to get hold of a criminal to me." "So it does to inc.' "Going, eh? Proctor's busy," with a sig nificant wink. "He has no need of old fel lows like us, now." "No." The major stood a moment watch ing John's eager gestures, and the bright, blushing face bent over him. "No; he has no more need of me," he said quietly, and turned away with a bow as he passed the carriage, though neither of them saw him. Mr. McMurray, with the young clergyman again in his oflice, safely trapied, could not let him go without a word or two of rebuke. "Should you accept it" (they were talking of tho call), "j-ou must be careful, my dear sir, to avoid even the appearance of eviL Yoa are young and inipulsive,fond of your friends. The dignity of your position would render-improper many associates whom you knew as a boy, unless, indeed, you approach them officially, administering the Word as the hope of salvation. This Maj. Standish now, for example" VI am very uncertain about accepting this church at all," broke out Jack. "There is a place in the west that suits my ways better. But I could not marry on their salary. It's the merest pittance. I could barely live on it" Mr. McMurray paused, and answered with deliberation: "In the matter of marriage, must you consult that point of salary at all, Mr. Proctor? The wife you may select may will, in ell probabUity be independent A woman ought to feel herself honored in being called to share the spiritual work of a Christian minister, and should rejoice if she can bear her part in his temporal burdens." "m never be supported by a rich wife," said John, bluntly. 'Til be frank with you, Mr. McMurray. There is a woman whom I have loved long and faithfully. I will marry her, if I can. If she has money, well and good; but I must be the provider in my own household." "It is a natural feeling, and a manly one," said McMurray, not ill pleased. "We differ, too, in this matter of associ ates," obstinately resumed Jack. "I have never felt that my 'cloth,' as the vulgar phrase has it, placed me one whit apart from other men. When I measure myself with a prince or ruffian in the dock by his courage or good sense or faithfulness to his friend, I touch a brotherhood between us stronger titan any cnurch bond. "ve get our naked bands together. You understand? And oftener then it is he. who gives the Word to me than I to him," he added, under his breath. Mr. McMurray checked the angry rebuke on his lips. All young men were flighty now adays, and given to this visionary, talk. .He remembered John Proctor's brilliant reputa tion in the church, the crowds that- pressed ; to hear him as he went from city to city. If Clara were his wife, no woman in the church would hold higher rank. "I cannot under stand," he said, gently, "what bearing this has on your intimacy with Maj. Standish, particularly" raising bis voice when Proc tor would have spoken "when I nave every reason to believe the police are on his track as a long escaped criminal." John's face burned as though he himself had been accused. "What proof have you of tbisT he said, rising. "There is a New York detective hero to identify him now," in a mysterious whisper. "I could learn no more from him than that Standish is living under an assumed name. But I fear, the. worst, Mr. Proctor, the very worst" "Bah !" muttered John to himself. "Whero la this fellow? I'll go to him at once," put ting on his cap. McMurray rose and put out his hand. It wag high time that ho became tho mouth piece of the church and Clara. "Mr. Proc tor, I beg that you will not espouse this dis reputable old man's cause so vehemently. His name is a public by-word of inamy among newspaper men. A vaporing boaster and liar." "Newspaper men know bn$ one side of the fellow," retorted John, hotly. "I could tell yon tales of him, ofj his unselfishness and his noblo charity, that would put the lives of many of our professors to shame. Besides, hs was kind to me when I was a boy. I'll not turn by back on him now." McMurray's sallow check began to burn. "Then I regret to say, Mr. Proctor, that you mustmako your choice between the church and your very boyish impulse. A clergy man who makes an associate of so doubtful a character Is hardly suited to our society. As for his good traits, I know nothing. I do not know that the righteousness of the carnal flesh is filthy rags." "And I know that courago and self-sacri fice are proofs of, as good mettle in poor old Standish as in a church member, and come as direct from tho Master of both. I must judge for myself in these matters." "Assuredly. But if your judgment in points so essential differs so widely from ours, I must beg leave, as chairman of the committee, to withdraw the calL Do not bo rath, my dear sir," changing his voice and laying his hand on John's shoulder. "There I don't answer mo now. Think it over, and by evening you'll see that I was right. You cro j-oung and pardon me a little hot headed." A friendly word disarmed Jack. Ho laughed. "You're right there, anyhow. Lot tho matter go till evening. But I will not change my mind." And, nodding a hasty good-by, ho ran down the office stairs. Now tho quality of loyulty to his friends van exaggerated iu John Proctor. But yet ho wa3 a young man, with all tho ambition, tistcs nnd shrewd knowledge of the world be longing to young men of tho present day. Ween he reached the pavement he sawth Stately towers of the church in which he wj called to minister, and beyond, the exquisite parsonage, its picturesquo walls draped with ivy. Mr. McMurray's carriage rolled by again, and soft, tender little Clara beckoned smiling to him with her white jeweled hand. Ii was a high path and a flowery one that opened itself before him. No wonder that the doubt suggested itself to him, as he stood hesitating, whether it was worth giving it up for a bit of quixotism a romantic fealty to a boyish fancj. part n. Later in the afternoon tho major stood leaning against a pile of bales in front of the wore house, loftily tapping his chin with his pinchbeck headed cane and listening to Mr. ilcMurray. That gentleman, in his anxiety lest tho church should actually Ioso Proctor, had resorted to tho desperate remedy of an appeal to Standish. The old man kept his malicious eyes fixed upon him, and grinning with enjoyment of his emlurrassment, but nnder tho grin he looked haggard and anxious. "So the boy has a mind to take the part of his old friend? He'd stick by tho hulk be cause it's going down? Tut! tut! Thorn's Stupidity for you." "I do not talk in metaphor about hulks. I only thought it likely, from my knowledge of you, you might presume on your acquaint ance with the lad and his generous nature to draw him into trouble, aud I warn you what th" result will be to him." "It will ruin him to be known as even my friend. I understand." McMurray hesitated. After all, why not give .Standish a hint of the detective on his track? If he would escape, all difficulty would be over. "Inquiries of a significant kind have locii made for you this week, Maj. Blandish,"' he said. "So I have luxm told." "I do not know to what jwrt of your past jarecr they refer." "And you'd letter not nsk too closely, Mac. Dan Standish has led a hot life, 1 tell you,'" with a vicious wink that made the deacon shudder from hat to boots. "Well, I have discharged my duty," ho said, uf ter an irresolute pause. "It is most probable that young Proctor will come to seek you this afternoon." "And if ho comes, I am not to see him?" with an attempt ut a jocular tone that had more terrible force in it even to tho cold blooded hearer than any painful outcry. " Why, man, I am pushed nearer to the wall today than nnylxnly knows. As for th'is loy well, no matter hat ho is to me. I gave up something for him once. It seems as if I had the right to ask his help now, when when death has ine by the throat." Ho looked vacantly, quickly about him, at the boxes, the cars rattling by, at the head of his cane. McMurray thought he had been drink ing. "I am sorry I troubled myself about it," he said, with dignity. "Good day, Maj. Standish." "Good dav," effecting a flourishing bow with his unsteady hand. "Take old Dan to point jour next sermon, will you? I've lived by my wits. I've made myself tho compan ion of ixets of nobles, sir! And now when the end comes, damn it, man, I haven't a friend!" Mr. McMurray hurried nervously away, picking his steps among the boxes and bales. Standish stood a moment looking at tho ground, and then turned and stumped up the narrow rickety stairs that led to tho top of the building. He did not know what especial sin of old times was coming back to give him tho last blow, nor did he care. That was all fair enough. It seemed to him sometimes, comparing his life with that of other men, that he had lived just like a beast from hour to hour, out of whatever impulse was in him. He was ready to meet any old abomination of his past life and take the punishment "I've had tho dance, and I'll pay the piper," he said, kicking open tho door of his room and going in. "But the boyr Now the major's cockloft was in reality a garret room covering the whole sixth story of the warehouse. The beams overhead, the plastered walls, the half dozen squat dormer windows, the pine floor, were as clean as lime and scrubbing could make them. It looked, in fact like a big white plain with a little camping ground at one end, in which was a grate with a good fire, a tent bed neatly made, a table with pens and paper laid in exact order, the "Men of our Day," out of which tho major furnished obituaries at ten minutes' notice for The Camera, and an odd volume of Appleton's Cyclopaedia, out of which he drew its supplies of science. Great decency of cleanliness everywhere, buE nothing to eat If there had been, perhaps the major's acts in the next hour would have been less guilty in tho eyes of religious people. But when it comes to looking out in the world from a starving body, a man is apt to slip the orthodox leashes and follow his own notions of right and wrong. He took off bis black coat carefully, hung it up, threw bis braces loose down his back, and sat down in his shirt sleeves before the fire, bis bands on his fat knees. He wished, dully, Madeline was bere to puzzle it outfor him; remarking half aloud, that if that girl undertook to write a leader it would be bosh, but in every thing else she never failed to hit the nail plump on the head. . There was a round roly-poly brown crock in the window, in which bloomed a buttony little rose, one of the Burgundy sort, red, fresh and pungent Madeline bad left it It was like her somehow, the major thought Do what he would, his thoughts would go back, to the irirl and tothejeanabehad lived with him, instead of this question or lire ana death which must be settled today. There was the door to her little room ajar. He always bad contrived to pay the trifle of rent for the room after she left him, liking to think of it as hers. He remembered the day be brought her there first He had had a tough siege nursing old Durbrow, her father (on The Camera like himself). When ho was dead, the major settled up the estate: there were WOO of debts, and for assets, one trunk, empty; one suit of clothes, patched; one watch, gold ; a pretty lot of meerschaums ; and the little girl of 5, just over the measles. The watch went to pay the debts, and the little girl, of course, must goto da asylum. But the major brought her home for a week, to cheer her up a bit He took her to tho theatre and circuses every afternoon; he bought her a gay little plaid silk suit (it was a flush time with him just then); he stuffed her with oysters and caramels; and in tho night, when she cried for her father, took her on his knee in her white nightgown, made her say over her prayers again, and then rocked and croaked over her some old ditty alwut "Shepherds, have you seen my love?" till shefell asleep. Thootheriuen, whomissed him at billiards or over their stews and ale when the papers were out toward morning, used to unearth old Standish at this sort of work, and joked him about it roughly enough. But they wero pleased when he kept her week after week, and used to be coming in per petually with serais of anxious advice about croup or nettle rash, and fell iuto the habit of buying all sorts of expensive and useless things for "poor Durbrow's baby." So it went on for years. There was always a strong smell of cigars and printer's ink in tho air tho child breathed, and no doubt when she came to boa young lady she learned to think in a scrappy, itemizing, newspaper way; but Madeline's life was in fact as cleanly, and sweet, and tender among these men, as if she had been one of any rosebud garden of girls, ierhaps more so. Whatever garment of lies tho major choso to put on as armor, or to perk and vaunt himself in out among other men, he never wore it into "the cockloft." Nobody could account f-ir the almost pathetic tenderness of his love to the girl. It was more than seemed duo for her father's sake, or even hor own. Once, however, ho had said to her, "You canio to take tho place of a child that I lost." That was tho only time ho had hinted at tho secret of his former life. He kept it hidden even from himself. It came to him to-day, and would not be thrust aside. In a few hours it would be known to all the world. John Proctor was his son. He remembered well now tho last day when ae nan caneu tue uoy oy tnat name, it was a dreary, rainy season in Novemb r. three or four years lx.fore he took Madeline. He s&t by a hotel window with Jack on his knee. It was a week since he had come from Richmond, leaving tho child's mother dead there. He had spent the week going from one newspaper office to another, vaunting aud vaporing, and drinking hard, but with a still cold consciousness all the tiino of stand ing by her grave, on which the rain pat tered, with her child's life left in his hands to do with it what ho would. Mary's boy would have grown into n truth ful, God fearing man. if she had lived; a gentleman, too; the class which Standish, with all his tawdry bragging, watched far off with jealous awe. Now What could he make of the loy? He took the little chap's hands in his, and pulled him closer, trying with his bleared eyes to penetrate tho future. Liko father, liko son; it was so always. For himself, whether it was tho taint of the butcher shop or some flaw in his make up he did not know, but he was labeled everywhere for contempt Even here, whero he was n stranger, ho was marked already, ho saw, as disreputable, vulgar, a frothy bubble of r man. Ho was soro nnd galled by the snubs ho had met with today. He sat. quiet iu the gaudy hotel parlor, holding Jack close while tho servants lighted tho lamps and people came and went; he looked steadily at the cost of what ho meant to do. "I'll take the weight of your eld father off of you. Jack,"' he said at last, stooping to kiss the fat, red little face. "Good-by, my son."' He did take ir off. Ho entered the boy under tho name of Proctor at a fashionablo boarding school, setting aside tb.3 entire sum he had saved with which to start a pa)er in Philadelphia. "I can scratch for myself," he saitl. "Let the lad have everything ho wants," he urged his governess ono day. "His father had tho best blood in Virginia in his veins, madam. Aud teach him religion. His mother"' but he broke down her. "She's yonder," he said quietly nt last, glancing up. Tho governess nodded, and understood him. So tho feint succeeded. Of what it cost himself, ho said nothing; it had lifted tho boy at once, ho thought, into a pure region of fashion, and refinement, and salvation. Tho glories of the Proctors, in tho course of years, grew and multiplied readily in the major's handling. There were times when he became confused himself, so real had Jack's illustri ous family grown. "Remember your father tho general, lad!" ho would cry, when urging tho loy to manliness or courage. "Noblesse oblige!" "Damned if I know whether there was a Gen. Proctor or not!" ho would mutter per plexed to himself afterward. Well, there was tho end of it all now. Tho lie had been played successfully for years, yet now all Jack's world was to know it was n lie. Sitting by the fire in his shirt sleeves, tapping his i:nees with his clumsy lingers, tho major went over it this afternoon. "There's nobody who knew mo in Virginia, and knows my name is Richard and not Dan, that can't tell about tho boy." He saw no way of escape. "If to call himself my friend was ruin to tho lad, what will lecoine of him as my sonf And to-day, Juck's fate stood iu the balance, as McMurray had said. Again and again the major reasoned round the dreary circle. "On one sidu the charge of a great church, wealth, and tho woman he loves; on tho other me." There was nothing beyond that To-night must end it one way or the other. The drumming of his fingers grew slower on his knees, till he sat like a block staring in the fire. Tho gnawing hunger tearing at his flesh made his brain clearer. He was to bo hung on his boy like a mill stone to drag him down, till one or other of tliem died? What if he wero dead now? Giwit train would follow: and as for loss K'iri(.,'( ;ic.i trtv;.) Bravery and the aiacmne nun. British troops havo done great thing3 in their day. and in tho face of overpower ing numbers, too, as when Wellington, with 23.000 men. somo of them Spaniards and Portugucso and of no value, turned upon his 70,000 pursuers under Ney, at Busaco, in tho Peninsular war. and beat them: end again when, iu tho Crimea, CoL Scarlet, with a single brigade of cavalry, tho "Heavy" brigade, charged successfully 10.000 Russian horse. Theso are but specimens of what tho British soldier can do nistory abounds with similar incidents. But in those days, thcro is reason to believe, brawn and courage wero of more valuo than now, when tho direful machino gun and its cousin, tho magazine rifle, havo como into general uso. Tho soldier whoso nerves cannot stand tho approach of cold steel has heart enough for tho work behind tho machine gun batter, and may provo a very d mon with a repeating rifle on a half mile range. Scientific American Original Idea of Common Schools. Aro freo schools "maintained by the fiublic and for the pnblic." a New "Eng and idea or invention, or shall wo say that the idea was Dutch or English? Motley holds to a Dutch origin. Ho says that tho patriarch of the Nassau family, as early as 1590, urged the estab lishment of a system of common schools in the United Netherlands His advice was that "according to tho example of the pope and the Jesuits, there should be freo schools where children of quality as well as of poor families, for a very small sum, can bo christianly educated. Tho institution thus recommended according to Sumner and Motley was transported by English Pilgrims from Leyden to Massachusetts." Again Motley says of Holland hi 1603. "it was a land where every child went to school." Motley gives no authorities or details. James D. But ler in Magazine of American History. Didn't Want Time Called oa Him. "George, dear, shall we hang the ham mock out under that beautiful chestnut tree?" asked Maude, softly. "No. no. not that tree; not that one," be cried, hoarsely "Why not. George?" "Because. Maude, there are a number of things that I wish to say to you to nhrht. Merchant Traveler. A FAR CRY TO HEAVEN. What! dust thou pray that the ootgoae tide to roll-nl IkicIc ou the strand. The ltariM Im rekindled that mounted awaj boss tlie'xiuoUerini; brand, Tbe Kist summer harvest (low goldea Iferovglf stuhil4 lauds uaked and .tear. The nrii.tet cray woods upgatber aad qulekea the leaves of last year? Thy prayers are as clouds in a drouth: regardless. utiiniiifut they roll; For this, (hat Uiou prayest Tain things, 'Ua a far cry to heaven, my rout On. a tar cry to beareo! Thou dreaoiest the word shall return, shot arrow like into the air. The wound in the breast whero It lodged be bahucd and closed for thy prayer. The ear of the dead be unsealed till thou whisper a booii once denied. Thy white hour of life be restored, that pi wed thee unprized, undescriedl For this, that thou prayest fond things, thy prayers shall fall wide of the goal; God bloweth them back with a breath, lis a far cry to heaven, my houI Oh, a for cry to heavent And era vest thou foudly the quivering sands shall be linn to thy feet. The bruckiahpool or the waste to thy lips be made wholesome and sweet r And cruvest thou subtly the bane thou desireet be wrought to thy good. As forth from a poisonous dower a bee conveyeth safe food? For this, tliat thou prayest ill things, thy prayers are an anger rent scroll; The chamber of audit Is closed 'tis a far cry to heaven, my soul Oh. a far cry to heavent Edith M. Thomas la The Century. A Xewxpaper Man's Vacation. Several newspaper men were speaking of h;w generous tho proprietors of their papers were in granting them vacations, when a fellow named Skagga remarked. "Vr-s, I worked for one of those fellows once I asked him one day if he would give mc a vacation. He replied that the granting of my reqnest would give him great pleasure. I went away and stayed throe weeks." "Well." somo one remarked, "was there anything wrong about thatf "About the vacation? Oh. no. Tin vacation was all right, but the proprietor made it too long, wheu I went back he told me to let it run on. That was five years ago, and it is still running on Very kind in him, I must say. but ouo trouble arose. Ho stoped my pay." Arkansaw Traveler. In a Scotch Railway Station. rScenc Scotch railway station. Ticket collector, in makinur his collection, finds an old gentleman fumbling In hin pockets for his ticket. J Ticket Collector Tickets please? Old Gentleman I'm just lookin for it. Ticket Collector Well, I'll look in again in a few minutes. See and have it ready then. Ticket collector returns shortly; but the old gentleman Is still hunting for it. Ticket Collector (suddenly) Why you have it in your mouth, man! Old Gentleman (giving him the ticket Oh, so I hael Hero you are! Another Gentleman iu tho carriage, as the train moves on, to first gentleman I'm afraid you're losing your memory, sir. Old Gen tleman Xae fearo' that; lino fear o' that! Tha ticket was a fornicht auld, and I wis jist sookin' the date all'tl Tableau. The Argonaut. Where It Got Its Name. Many persons havo wondered how doing a lively galop got to bo called "dancing tho racquet." Mrs. Simmons, a wefl known young lady of Washington, com posed a few years ago a galop and was at a loss to givo it a name. Ono day, being disturbed by children in the room, alio called out. "Don't mako such a racket," which was caught up and repeated by tho children as they went out. It occurred to her that it was a good name for her piece, and so, with a touch of French, she called it the "Racquet Galop," and over 200.000 copies of it havo been sold. Phil adelphia Times. DidD't Quite Understand It. Johann Schncll, a new messenger in the navy department at Washington, Is ex tremely nervous regarding a telephone, never having seen ono until a few days ago. Ho was obliged to answer a call from tho instrument recently, and his iu coherent answers exasperated the speaker at tho other end of the line. "You must havo been drinking. Schncll heard the angry individual exclaim. - "No, I haven't," said tho messenger, gently. "It must bo the strong tobacco I am chewing that you smell." New York World. An Amcuiit Dilemma. It is really one ef tho most amusing and anomalous situations in politics that has ever been known when a party is unanimous for a candidate whom they do not liko aud whom nine-tenths of its members would like to see thrown over board into tho deep sea if they had any body to tako his place. This ts the atti tude of the Democratic party today toward Mr. Cleveland. It is a case of a party being led about by the nose, dependent and helpless. National Republican. Stick a Pin Here, Vote. If tho Republican party is to win this fall it can afford to make no mistake in tho choice of a candidate. It has to make its fight upon puro principle and by a demonstration that its candidate and its platform aro better for the interests of the American people than the candidate and the platform opposed to it." It will require tho veto of every man who has a drop of Republican blood in bis veins to elect the candidate chosen at Chicago. Iowa State Register. A Curo for Scandal. Mrs. Dusenberry What queer ways they have in somo countries! This paper says that in Morocco when the women talk scandal their lips are rubbed with cayenne pepper. Mr. Dusenberry An odd cuRtom indeed. (Half an hour later.) Whero are you going, my dear? Mrs. Dusenberry To the sewing circle Lot me see: l'vo got my scissors, thread, thimble Mr. Dusenberry And the cayenne pep per? Detroit Free Press. Cheap Paint for Outbuildings. The American Cultivator recommends a mixture of hydraulic cement and skim milk for painting form buildings and fences. Tho cement is placed in a bucket and sweet skim milk stirred in until the mixturo is of the consistency of cream. The proportions are about one quart of cement to a gallon of milk. Color may be added if desired. This plan Is cheap and durable. Frank Leslie's. Monogolian Plieaaanta iu Oregon. Tho farmers of Willamette valley. Ore., complain that the Monogolian pheasants introduced a fow years ago and protected by law are becoming too numer ous. In cold weather they crowd Into the barns among domestic fowls, sometimes whipping barnyard cocks on their own dunghills, and making themselves as ob noxious as the "heathen Chinee." Bos ton Budget. A Neighbor Corrected. The Bloomington Telephone makes the thrilling announcement that "Eph Hughes has added a bathing department to his tonsorial establishment. "Bathing de partment" is very ordinary language for a progressive newspaper; it should have said "ablutionary annex." Indianapolis Press. A I moat Absolut Alcohol. If gelatine be suspended in ordinary alcohol it will absorb the water; but as it is insoluble in alcohol, that substance will remain behind, and thus nearly absolute alcohol may be obtained without distill tion. Frank Leslie's. From observations on the Conra. M Dnpont. of the Brussels Natural Uistory museum, is convinced that the waters in the interior of -central Africa once col lected hi a great hike, of which Stanley pool is the last remnant. Th City of Glasgow. Glasgow will soon be the 6econl city of tho United Kingdom. Its boundaries art: to be extended so as to Include a uutut-et of populous suburban towns; and it i.i es timated that it will then have apo-ula tion of nearly 800.000. Chicago Tribun Slow tailing up appears to be favored tj numerous writers on ensilage. "Did n't Know 't was Loaded" , 3f ay do tor a stupid boy's excase ; but what ca be said for the parent who sees his child languishing daily and fails to recognize the want of a tonic and blood-purifier? Formerly, a course of bitters, or sulphur and molasses, was the rale la well-regulated families ; but now all intelligent households keep AVer's Sarsaparilla, which is at once pleasaut to the taste, and the most searching and effective blood mediciue ever discovered. Nathan S. Cleveland, 27 E. Canton st., Boston, writes : " Hy daughter, now 21 years old, was in perfect health until a year ago when she began to complain ol fatigue, headache, debility, dizziness, indigestion, and loss of appetite. I con cluded that all her complaints originated in impure blood, and induced her to take Ayer s SarsapariUa. This medicine soon restored her blood-making organs to healthy action, and in due time reestab lished her former health. I find Aynr's .SarsapariUa a most valuable remedy for the lassitude and debility incident to spring time." J. Castright, Brooklyn Power Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., says : "As a Spring, Medicine, I find a splendid substitute for the old-time compounds in Ayer's SarsapariUa, with a few doses of Ayer's Pills. After their use, I feel fresher and stronger to go through the summer." Ayer's SarsapariUa, PREPARED BY " Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mast. Price f 1 ; six bottle. $5. Worth $5 bouts. BfatU of a Feather. The dent has an umaaing carjadtv for fellowa who were blatant con- perbeads during the war to sit in judjr- ment on questions which they are no mora fit to decide than Jeff Davis, unless they have totally changed then- opinions. We can see no good in any such Insults to men who struggled with Lincoln and Grant when fellows like Fuller were abus ing northern men who were loyal and snapping at the backs of the Union sol diers in the field. Lincoln (Neb.) Nows. Aa Orsrwhelsalas; Majority. The New England Homestead has taken a vote of the fanners in New England and Eastern New York on the Mills bill, with this result: Out of 2.832 returns from legal voters. 2,590 were against the bill and 242 in its favor. Maine went four to one; New Hampshire, thirty to one; Ver mont, twenty to one; Massachusetts, twelve to one; Rhode Island, seven to one; Connecticut, seven to one, and New York, nine to one. Tbe riaoe to Settle It. The renomlnation of Mr. Cleveland means that the question of reaintninlng our tariff system must be decided at the polls. The campaign will not, therefore, be like that of 1884, a conflict between persons, but a test of the strength of prin ciples. This in itself will be a great pub lic gain. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. I'arklen's Araira Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hunds, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively enres Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Dowty & Becher. july27 To have money is a fear, not to have it a grief. The Commercial Travelers Protective Association of the United States, has a membership of over sixteen thousand and is probably the strongest association of the kind in the world. Mr. John R. Stone, their national secretary and treas urer, y .isearuone street, unicago, in a letter states that he has been severely troubled at times, for the past twenty years, with cramp and bilious colic which would compel him to take to his bed from three to six days while in St. Louis at their last annual meeting he procured a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhcea Remedy and bus since used it with the best results. It is the only remedy he ever found that ef fected a rapid and complete cure. No one can safely travel without it. Sold by Dowty & Becher. The cat sees not the mouse ever. Aa Absolute Care. The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT MENT is only putnp in large two-ounce tin boxes, nnd is an absolute cure for old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands and all kinds of skin eruptions. Will positively cure all kinds of piles. Aak for the ORIGINAL ABITINE OINTMENT Sold by Dowty & Becher at 25 cents per box by mail 30 cents. mar7y Little dogs start the bare, the great get her. The Paweigrr Department thili Union Paciilc, ''The. Overland RouteMjas gotten out a Hy-bill design ed to calTattention to the summer re sorts along theline of this railway. It is a goodVbill and tourists, pleasure seekers, sportsmen and fishermen should apply at once to J. S. Tebbets, General Passenger agent, Omaha, Neb., for in formation in regard to the points of in terest along the line, before deciding where they will spend the summer sea son, or vacation holidays. Stf The command of custom is great. He that contemplates, hath a day without night. ilitKf no Mfatakr. By ilisp'liti-; tlie symptoms so often .!iit:ii:n fur Consumption. SANTA .ii.iKli.Ls brought gladness to many a Household. By its prompt use for break irg up the cold that too often develops into that fatal disease, thousands can be raved from an untimely grave. You make uo mistake by keeping a bottle of this pleasant remedy in your tiottse. CALI FORNIA CAT-K-CUKB is equally ef fective in eradicating nil traces of Nasal Catarrh. Both of theso wonderful Cali fornia remedies are sold und warranted by Dowty E Becher. SI.UO a package, 3 for 5J-J..a. Rivers need a spring. K!---irir Hitter.-. Thiri remedy ii? b- ouuug j-o well known nnd r- i.-ott!,ir ;:s V) u-d uo t;iMH-i;il mention. All who have u&ed Electric Hitter Miijr tho Kiltie Ming of praise. X purer uic-iii-iue doi-n not exist aud it is guaranteed to il all that is claimed. Elcttric liitters will euro all diseases of Ibo Liver and Kidneys, will remove all I'imples. Loils, Salt llheum and other affections and prevent as well as cure nil Mai.irial fevers. For curo of headache, .--:iri:uiptioii and indigct-tion try Elee '.ric iiilters -Entire satisfaction guaran teed, or money refunded. Price ft) cents und $1.00 per bottle at Dowty A- Becher 's drug store. A good judge conceives quickly, judg es slowly. The liPORTiNG LINCOLN, MjffJiBiiiTu JKJc lwYTF'VOTB!DHBiBBHBiDK9ESuiHt a&Kvk2jMSMBHRp's'A "r w?vsMSHaHpiSHBrT!ns?v glfceH- JJRajVrRa - --- : -RRaNNsk tiS 'J RRRRT pjnWi 'Iri'tJft3sTsWafc RRRRRRRRRk HMSRPk9jHB RBRV JRM ln.. ,ur?!itZ-vfwrRRRRRRRM JRRRbb7iR71RhRbP?wx.l''.w -j JBaMNBVdRiiRHlRflaJLe,.'ftFC,k' -- RRYpjJJIRRRB '& jVRRRRRJMj7Vff 'MlMwm!MMlm&tfto' Ntt" - m9 RM H"RH "" URRRrif2RVHRlRlHV9MRHRRHreT r IMFOUTEKS Or Pure-bred French Draft (Percheron or Norman) AND ENGLISH SHIRE HORSES. isitms uirraja nt-lrumt-.. Call ami nee our lioix-8 ur 8nl for ctalutU. t"'"! "r.-5- This is the Top of the Genuine Pearl Top Lamp Chimney. Allothers, similar are imitation. XLE This exact Label is on each Pearl Top Chimney. A dealer may say and think he has others as ood, ilMBI BUT HE HAS NOT. Insist upon the Exact Label and Top. FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. MADE ONLY BY 6E0. A. MACBETH & CO., Pittsbvrgli, RICHLY REWARDED are ttnuw who ivut this ami thtm art? uiej- will nnu nouoruhU eiu IiloMlicnt that will not tut... Uum from their home aud fninilit-s. Th profits are large and wiro for every indiixtrioua penton, many nave maiie and are now uiukiui; several hundred dollars n month, it it oohy for any one to make $5 and upward per day. who ia willing to work. Either hex, young or old; capi tal not needed; we mart you. Everything new. No Bjecial ability required; jou, reader, ran do it as well oh any one. Write to u at omv fur full, particulars, which we mail free. Addmw Stinson &. Co., Portland, ile. dee'jyy English Spavin Liniment removes nl hard, soft or calloused lumps and blem ishes from horses; blood spavin, curbs, splints, sweeney, ring-bone, BtiHes, sprains, all swolen throats, coughs, etc. Save 850 by use of ono bottle. Warranted. Sold by O. B. Stillman. dnnririst. Co- nmbns. v God is at the end when we think He is furthest off it. aily excursions have been arranged pver tbe Union Pacific Railway, to nyrancisco, fcan Diego, Colton, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Jose, California, also to Portland, Oregon, at OOO.UU ior ine rounu inp. xicKets are good 60. days for the going passage and good for the return trip for six months from dato of sale, with the usual stop over privileges in both directions within these limits. These tickets are also good by way of Denver and Salt Lake City in each direction. The Agent, Mr. J. R. Meagher, tells us quite a number are thinking of making the trip soon, and it would be well for those intending to go in select parties to see him and arrange for their accommodations. Mr. J. B. Frawley, Traveling Agent, Union Pacific, at Omaha, is arranging for theso select parties, and will be glad to gi'e any fur ther information in regard to theso ex cursions. Parties who prefer can corres pond with Mr. J. Tebbets, G. P. .t T. A., Omaha, Neb. The thread weakest. breaks where it is the On and after April 29th, the day coaches on tue Union Pacific s No. ."J. known as the "Overland Flyer," will be taken off, to better enable it to make time. This will add largely to the popu larity that has already been gained by this fast train. After that date it will carry only passengers holding first-class tickets, to ioints whore the train makes regular stops, letveen Council Bluffs and Ogden. Such passengers must pur chase tickets for seats or berths in Pull man sleepers, before entering the cars. a-tf A good prayer is master of another's purse. CarnVIu Itraurti. On the (heat Salt Lako near Salt Lake City, onl the Uniou Pacific, "Tho Over land Route," will lie formally opened to the public on Decoration day, M.- .'KHh. Ample accommodations havo been pro- r -,1 ... -r. ... . . viuou, nnu tiio 1'aciuc uotel company will have charge of tho hotel accommo dations at this famous resort under the supervision of the Union Pacific railway. No pains or expense have leon spared to make this (he summer resort of the west. It is only eighteen miles from Salt Lake City on tho Utah & Nevada branch of tho Union Pacific. Trains will be run at frequent intervals daily between Salt Lako City and tho Beach. Cheap trains, good baths, and excellent meals will be among the attractions. 3tf Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood. Is Consuiuption lii'-imiblr? Head the following: C. II. Morris, New ark, Ark., says: 'Was down with Aljscess uf Iungs,and friends and physicians pro nounced ine an Incurable Consumptive Began taking Ur. King's New Discovery for Consumption, am now on my third bottle, and able to overceo the work on my farm. It it. the tinest medicine ever made." Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio, says; "Had it not been for Dr. King's New Dibcovery for Consumption I would have died of lung troubles. Was given up by the doctors. Am now in best of health." Try it. Sample bottles freo at Dowty Jfc Becher's drug store. The fat -man lean thinketh. knoweth not what the Ladies In delicate health needing a gentle yet effective laxative will find the California liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, pleas ing to the taste, acceptible to the stom ach, and perfectly safe in all cases. s-It is the most easily taken and pleasantly ef fective remedy known to cure and'pre vent coetiveneee, to impell headaches, colds and fevers, and strengthen the kidneys, liver and bowels and is there fore a favorite remedy with the ladies. . l. .'O''i liSrtSHRW m V ?or sale only by Dowty &. Becher. Draft Horse Co. NEBRASKA. NEBRASKA FAMILY : JOURNAL A "WVekly Newspaper- issued every Wednesday. 32 Columns of reading matter, con sisting of Nebraska State News Items, Selected Stories aiid Miscellany. taSiunple copiet. xviit rte tt auy aJ.ireet."S3 Subscription price, SI a year, in Id.anct. Address: JI. K. Tuknrk A- Co., CrtluinhtK), , Platte Co., Nebr. LOUIS SCHREIBER. All kinds of Repairing duie oo Short Notice. Biggies, Wag ons, etc., made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A Wood Mowers. Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harresters, and 8elf-Mndtrs the best made. Shop opposite the "Tattersall, ou Olive St.. COLUMBUS. 3u-m Health is Wealth ! DilE. CZWest'h Nerve and Huain Thkat ment, a itnaninteed specific for Hjmtwia, Dizzi iihw, ConvultionB, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia. Heiut-iche. Nervous Prostration cautil by tliAUHo of alcohol or toiacco, Wakefulnetw. Mental Dc" rtstMon, Koftfninxof the Brain resaltin-rin iu winity and leading to misery, demy and death, rreiuature Old Ak, Barrenness, Lob of ix-wer in either eex, Involnntary Losses and Sperinint orrheca cirawil by over-exertion of tho brainwlf iibuso or over indulKence. Earn box contain one month's treatment, il.00 a box, or six boxes for yi.t)U.Bcnt by mail prepaid on receipt of prico. , WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXiS To curo any case. With each order lvceivt-dLy us for six boxes, accompanied with $."i.C0, wo will send th purchaser our written iruarantf to re fund the money if tho treatment dfwn not erl-ct a cure. Guarantees issued only by Dowty &. Becher, druggists, sole agents. Colon-bus. Neb. d-c77y DiHENDEflSON ,09 f W. flinth St., MMSAS CITY. MO. The only Specialist In the City who it a Rtg-jlar Graduate in Mtdieine. Over 20 years' Practice, iz years in inieago. THE OLDEST 1 6E, M0 L0N6EST LOCATED. THE OLDEST I aaHSaC ' fp "aa"a"a"Bjr Authorized by the Stat to treat Chronic, Nervous and "Special Dis eases," Hemtnal Weakness nigM lotset)fiexuxl Debility (lotsofimial power), Nervoiu Debility. Poisoned Blood, Ulcere aniiSwlllnrs ol every kind. Urinary Diseases, and ln fact. all troubles or diseases in either male or female. Cures -ruarante?.! or money refunded. Charges low. Thousand of cases cured. Experience is Important. All medi cines are guaranteed to be puro and efilcaclou-i, being compounded In my perfectly appointed laboratory, and are furnished ready for ue. No running to drug stores to have uncertain pre scriptions tilled. No mercury or injurious mwll cinesused. No detention from buiiness. l'atlents at a distance treated by letter and exprem. m-dl-cines sent everywhere free from gaze or break age. State your case and send for term-i. Con sultation free and contldentlal. personally or by letter. A &t page PAflTT Par Bath Hexes, sent Illustrated .MW.J sealed in plain envelop furcciu stamps. Kvery male, froju the B - IS to 43, should read this book. RHEUMATISM THE MHTTUIKISH RHEUMATIC CUKE. A POSITIVE CUBE Sr EHKUSIATISM. e&O fbraajewe UiU tnuimt fail to care or help. Umtt diMoirrr la aanalt fiaedicliu. One 1m glie rlltr : afcw doted mnoTt frrrr aad aala In jolat Care compltl In S la I t). S-c.l rtate xMBt of eae vita stamp for Circular. Call, or addreu Or.HENOERSON,l09W.9thSt..KaataCity.Mo. lOJrASTCT-ncTHTOCOlJGUCl iWS LIKf), ky 1-1 t'AsrKMil.CotJGH-s, LB ron ch 'i 1 1 s.i ,nisrisES-THiOAVm 1-fMa- -- " - M II a- . J Ocr-d for Cti-CuIjr,!rWtlt3k"' iABtETINEMCDtifligHffLLifALi thcONLY- fctrmiu.1? cure' row 5l2ajCl5CUcAi CATARRH ABICnWEMCnsVOROVlLLECAl. DOWl'lf fc BECHER. Trade anpi lied by the H. T. Cisbx Dbuo Co., MNVVU.) ivu 7marba-lj-, Blarai ana Wason Maker SSaStSSSj I mT i t -i'Sl ft fl i I it-" BBBBsm iij im A-J arm . W 1 W TJ Baaar BF r If 1 LJ W "l W - . -iMI-lC rfS9rVnaTOi fmMStJlMWlP .SSffl rr o muj.. s" TvrrM-Ni-ati a o r-Tl x k f