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/HeuyF. Allen, ft MMtf man ©on-1 nee ted wit* the IllinaiaTyjje Founding Ctopmwty, of Chieago, has invented a etowlMchine, which promises to be- com® vwy useful is the commercial -worl̂ L For the nat of * better name hecalls itan rfeetrie tras^itti^ de­ vice, and its mission Is t» warrey small packages letters,newspafxsrs, sod im­ portant document* from que place to another in an Almost incredible short time. The machine itself is a venr simple device, and consists of two euipticaUy shaped metallic boxes, 6 feet long, plaoed parallel with each other. The diameter of these boxes the long way of ' the ellipse is eight inches and the short way five incites. To each end of each box is fastened a pair of metallic arms, the latter being suspended from the »Y axes of two wheels about two feet in diameter. The machine is saddled upon an angular track, as shown in the following cut. a box being suspended .:A;, Jfcxm each side 3' " %.**• i •! , , > t> 'inLsi large B indfaates the metallic boxes; small a the arms supporting the boxes; large A the wheels, and G the angular track. The track rests on iron gudgeons fastened on the top of high poles similar to telegraph poles, placed a little over 100 feet apart. The poles are marked P and the gudgeons £ in the cut. A wire cable runs in the hollow part of the rail, just beneath the upper surface, Upon which the wheels run. It rests on toe tops of the iron gudgeons, the latter being carefully insolated. This cable is marked C in the cut, and is charged with electricity. The wire marked W is for the return current, and completes the circuit. In one end of one of the metallic boxes It 4 small dynamo, or electric motor. The above cut gives a view of the aaachine looking directly from above. The small wheel marked e runs along the side of the rail, and carries the em-rent by means of the wire marked b to the motor. The circuit is completed *»y a trail wheel, marked D, which runs on the return wire. This wheel is con­ nected with the motor by a wire, which passes through the box. The motive power thus generated is conveyed to the large forward wheel by meaus of a belt marked a ia the first cut, which runs upon the wheels marked a in the following cut: tk1' -4.\V" I L A H - " 1 ' " * i | v' " JI : * 4 1 The machine will be stopped by dis­ connecting the oircnit by a device at­ tached to a gudgeon wherever it is de- aired to make a station. The gudgeons which support the track are insulated at both ends, and the car is stopped by means of a trip- ping device attached to one aide of any pole which serves to break the cirouit, and applies breaks at tne same opera­ tion. It may be necessary to use the cable on which the track is saddled as a trass support for the track by drawing it two or three feet below the traok at points midway between the poles, and using connecting pieces between the track and cable. In this manner the track could be made practically straight if the poles were not more that thirty to fifty feet apart. The whole machine ia not intended to weigh more than thirty to forty pounds, is to be made of steel and tangent spokes and ball bearings. It is thought that a load of from thirty to fifty pounds can be carried and the track will be made sufficiently strong to bear up this amount without saging. With this light car and single over­ head rail Mr. Allen thinks he will be able to gain a speed of two or two and one-half miles a minute, and the cost of construction should be only _ about Jiffe to eight hundred dollars a mile. « The Fellows That Win. I have been in the grain option busi­ ness for years, and have made and lost two moderate fortunes, and my honest opinion is that there is scarcely one chance in a thousand that the outside speculator--the man who merely bets on the fluctuations of the market--will quit winner. He may be as shrewd as you like, but as long as he merely in­ vests money on the question, "Is the market going up or down?" he is but a guesser, and in the majority of cases he is going to guess wrong. Three classes of men have a chance to win at grain gambling--the broker who gets a com­ mission, no matter who loses; the bucket shop proprietor, who takes everybody's money and pays a little of it over to the winners; and the million­ aire "operator" (they don't call him a "gambier"), who can get hold of the en­ tire supply and hold it for any price he chooses to name. Outside these three classes it's a hopeless battle with fate. I consider the poor man who tackles the "futures" dragon and gets downed the first time is the lucky man in the end. for a burned child dreads the fire; but1 the fellow who wins a little to start on is practically sure to leave the business! broken in pocket, spirits, and credit, and incapacitated for those lines of labor in which he formerly made a comfort­ able living.--St. Louis Globe-Demo­ crat. The Anther of Rab ani Mis Frieads. One day in the early summer of 1860, we took the early train from Edinburgh to Melrose. A heavy shower was fall­ ing that rendered the prospect for .a day out of doors rather disappointing; but we were so fnll of interest in every­ thing around us that we took little heed of the weather. At one of the way stations a kindly, breezy man leaped hurriedly into our carriage, nodding to to us in a cheerful fashion, and then almost without pause he began a friendly talk, eatching sneedily at the idea of what would chiefly interest us as Ameri­ cans. "Can you tell us anything of a »an in Edinburgh who has written a book eallai 'Howa Salfcteoiue T" ire he Mf&iiid, "he is and I Vfftl give you a note him -with piaacott*" . . . And. thus we favnd oniadfoB shortly after at Dr. Brown's tea-table, with the family, not forgetting his friendly doggie Dick." I can well recall how rich we felt as we car tway after that first visit; rich firet of all in his friendship, and again rich in the memory of good things which had fallen from his lips, rich above all with that sense of a generous nature' which gives and gives and still hath all. . . . Eve* then a great shadow had fallen upon Dr. Brown, and the new thoughts which were awakened by this visit and the little excitement seemed to have been helpful to him. He wrote two letters on the following day to his new friends, in the first of which he con­ fesses to hare lain awake a good part of the night thinking over many things, but adds, in his own kindly fashion, "we had not been so happy for many a day." In this same letter he adds something which may be considered a dramatic episode indeed for autograph lovers: "I am quite sorry that I cannot give you the manuscript of 'Rab.' Only three days ago I found it in my desk and threw it into the waste basket, and by this time it is in ashes and up the ohin- ,ney.--Mrs. Field#, in Seribners. - : A IMa Stoty. Wide Awake tells the .following about Lincoln and "Master Tad" that I do not remember to have seen before in print. Both the steward and the kid had remonstrated with "Master Tad" upon bringing into the kitchen of the White House "such squads ol poor, dirty, hungry street urchins to be fed;" and at last Mrs. Linboln must be told. Tad flew into a rage, ran up stairs to see his mother himself, and on finding her out, searched the plaoe for his busy fathor. Meanwhile the small objects of his charity waited at the lower door--for Peter had absolutely refused to let them "step inside." The indignant boy spied his father just across the yard, with head bowed, eyes to the ground, talking earnestly to Mr. Seward as they walked to the De­ partment of State together. He cried out to him at once! "Father! father! can't I bring those poor, cold, hungry boys home with me whenever I want to ? Isn't it yonr kitchen ?" By this time Tad had his father by the hand, who stopped short to listen to the frantic appeal. "Can't I give them a good warm din­ ner to-day, say ? They're just aa- hun­ gry as bears, and two of 'em are boys of a soldier, too!--and, father, I'm going to discharge Peter this minute, if he don't ge,t out the meat and chickens and pies aud all the things we had left yes­ terday. Say, mayn't I ? Isn't it your kitchen, father? Secretary Seward was shaking with laughter. Mr. Lin­ coln turned to him witjh a twinkle. "Seward, advise ma This case re­ quires diplomacy." Mr. Seward patted Tad on the back and said he must be careful not to run the Government in debt, and the Presi­ dent took Tad's little brown hand in his ren big oat, and with a very droll smile bid him to "run along home and feed the boys," and added, "Tell Peter that you are really required to obey the Bible by getting in the maimed and the blind, and that he must be a better Christiau than he is." In less than an honr Mr. ^Seward said they passed through the yard on their way to the Cabinet meeting, and no less than ten small boys were sitting with Tad on the lower stops, cracking nuts and having a "State dinner." Mr. Lincoln remarked that the "kitchen was ours." -- Minneapolis Tribune. Pure Air for Pneumonia. An interesting and valuable article under the title "Pneumonia--It's In- creaning Death-Rate," by Governeur M. Smith, M. D., appears in the Med­ ical Rep6rd, of New York. We quote the closing paragraphs: It is clear, from what has been said, that in the treatment of pneumonia a super-abundance of pure air is specifi­ cally indicated. The patient's breath­ ing appartus is only partially perform­ ing its functions, as the diseased parts of the lungs are substantially useless. The working portion must perform the work of two lungs,for a week or ten days, in order to maintain the blood in proper condition rto sustain life. The patient requires purer air and vastly more air than one in sound health. In estimat­ ing the amonnt of genial, and possibly moistened, air which should gently and freely pass through the sick chamber, allowance should be made, lx>6h for the requirements of the patient and for the requirements of the attendants. The latter should be as few as possible, in order to lessen the chances of aerial contamination. Our atmosphere at times is harsh, but it always contains a life-giving ele­ ment. When exposed to its inclemen­ cies, care must protect from its bitter­ ness, while extracting its sweetening oxygen. When admitted to homes, it can be artificially tempered as. a boon to the shorn and to the unshorn. While remedies often behave benignly to hu­ man economy, nevertheless, pure air, as a remedical agent in the management of pneumonia and of other disorders, both acute and chronic, has ever been a more important ally of therapeutics than any panacea offered by alchemy or any hobbledehoy presented by mod­ ern chemistry. Physicians will constantly meet with cases where, owing to the surroundings of the patients, it is impracticable to •carry out the beat methods of treat­ ment. If a physician, however, through inadvertence on his part, allows a pa­ tient to die from want of fresh air, he de­ serves a stigma as ignominious, if not as lienious, as that which four centuries ago attached itself to Richard, Duke of| Gloucester, for the crime of amoth$riflg princes in the Tower of London. f ^ Homemade Frames. The rage for homemade photograph frames is growmg rapidly, so that a few hints as to how to make these pretty ornaments may prove acceptable. Cut your frames out of moderately heavy pasteboard, in whatever shape or size you wish. Those of three sides, hold­ ing six phographs, are the best. Then take whatever material you wish to use, plush or sateen being the best; cover the backs first, laying the three pieces far enough apart to allow the frame to fold together when finished. Line the front or back with India silk and put another strip of material between the backs, where the pasteboard does not come, so as to make the hinge or place where it folds, stronger. Then cover the front carefully, using some strong paste or glue, and join them to the baok, leaving an open space top and bottom for the photographs to be put in. Press for some; time with a heavy weight, and do not use until thoroughly d«y. TIM! Qtttlurfe "Getnm" * Uttt* Aheaft'tkAt U*li Up to It* Title. The salutary; of the CHrftafe Ghtup, theftrst newspaper published in Okla­ homa, breathea the air of tike free and unfettered West. ' " We prance into the field at the head of the procession. Praise Jehovah, all ye good people, and let the praises re­ sound to the measured stroke erf our new job press. Ah, there's the nb! If yon do not give us job work we must go back to our wife's folk. This would place us in a wretched fix, for we are not married. This last statement," adds the editor facetiously, "is particu­ larly directed to single women who hold corner lots." Then the policy of the paper is briefly outlined in vigorous language. "Should any man even as much as kick his dog we will give the public an ac­ curate estimate of the motive power used. Pastors, free of charge, can look at our devil, and the W. C. T. U. is hereby approved. The correct weight of the newly born will be given." From a peculiar phase of the situa­ tion the "long-felt want" paragraph ia missing, but the editor presages much for the future. "Our Washington hand press is in soak, niita this mxxmuis for the post­ age stamp size of the present edition, as it had to be printed on our new job press. The next issue expects to put on enlarged and more j dignified pacts, and then well make i things hum-until Guthrie is a manu- i factoring capital of 100,000 people." , j A suspicious and lugubrious note fol- j lows: j "Funeral notices will be published at j a discount of 60per cent" j The rural localette column fairly teems with scintillating brilliancy. "Our streets are being laid out. Thank heaven this cannot be said of our citizens* "Uncle Sam stopped the selling of water at the little village of Oklahoma. Poor fellows! They will now have to drink beer. "A few lying pups are reporting stories of free-flowing blood and numer­ ous killings. The whelps know better. There hasn't been a man killed in Guthrie since the 22(1. The first Sabbath in Oklahoma was quiet and orderly one. No real estate business was done, the gambling games were postponed until Monday morning, and no one was killed. "The first fire in Guthrie was the burning of Marshal Jones' tent. The writer had a rifle stock badly scorched, and this curiosity is now for sale. All relics of the conflagration now on sale at the Getup office. "An excursion from Arkansas city Sunday. That's proper, boys. ^ "We have three banks, but one of them is a sand bank. Ha! Ha! "Jonathan Bowers is the first sub­ scriber. Lord bless him. Gome for­ ward, brethren. •"Guthrie has no flies on her. •"East Guthrie boasts of the fairest elaimholder in the West. She hails from Chicago. Sings like a lark, and will make it hot for jumpers." OM View of the Railroad Problem. It is now well settled that the State has a right to fix reasonable charges for railroad service. This right gives the public ample protection against exoes- sive charges. It then becomes the in­ terest of the public and of the railroad companies alike to have uniform rates and the most economical and efficient service. This can only be secured by co-operation between the roads. With­ out this co-operation there is an enor­ mous waste, from which both the public and the railroads suffer. The inter­ state commerce bill forbids this co­ operation and stimulates the waste and destruction of railroad property. It is for the interest of the public that there should be co-operation and economy, because of that way only can charges be ultimately further reduced. There may have been more useless roads constructed than are needed to­ day, but in most cases the building was demanded by the public, and the com­ panies built because they were prac­ tically compelled to do it to prevent the occupation of the territory by other parties. But if co-operation were al­ lowed and the enormous waste pre­ vented, nine-tenths of the railroads ir tho West would be making reasonable returns to-day and the public have bet­ ter service. Massachusetts, after long years of ex­ perience, has discovered this, and has authorized the consolidation of three lines running north from Boston and two lines running south. Few here now doubt the wisdom of this policy. The public get better service, and there is an enormous saving. But twenty years ago these consolidations would have been impossible, and a suggestion of them would have blighted the pros­ pects of the most promising politician. In time the great West and South will learn that co-operation or consoli­ dation are for the advantage of the pub­ lic, and then railroad property will be safe. The only question is, how much bitter experienco is needed to teach this.--Boston Advertiser. GrafliiatM of coiUfcii W Employment In "Why don't ytm ear clerks?* asked a of a druggist the other *T)Ukthas been tried vas the reply, "and hn , well; bnt soinehowfemale have not yet become a fixt ington. I never had but tikm for a posftk&rby a w< was a graduate of a Chi pharmacy. I didn't amp! because I had any objection female clerk, but because I hfi1 cancy. I don't know of but" gist in the city who has woman behind his counter, ani at the soda fountain." "Is she still there?" asked the re­ porter, thinking that with the advent of warm weather the soda fountain was fully ripe. , "No, I don't think she was a success. I've no doubt she attended to her du­ ties, but you know men are peculiar. Some like to kick and swear at the clerk, and they can't do that at a wo­ man." ^ \ "But the regular business of com­ pounding prescriptions," said the re­ porter. "Cant a woman do that well as a mmV "I see no reason why she shouldn't. She is quick and apt to acquire knowl­ edge, she has a good memory, is care­ ful in making her measures, and can certainly make the pills, powders or so­ lutions that may be ordered. A woman, too, is naturally neat and would be of value so far as the fancy articles usually for sale in a drug store goes. But don't you know a drug clerk's life is an awful hard one?' I stay in this store from 9 o'clock in the morning until after midnight, and: I am on my feet nearly all the time. Now, that would be verv wearing on a woman, and I doubt if many of them have the physical endurance to stand such a tour of * duty day in and day out right through the year. "Still," he continued as the reporter jotted down some notes, "I have no doubt that many women, if they should graduate in pharmacy, could manage a drug store as successfully as a man-- more so than a good many men --but then she would have a male clerk, and don't you forget it," "Why so?" • \ - y" "Because she woald p«t more confi­ de nee in a man than she would in one ol her own sex. That's the way with women. But there is one other difficulty that stands in the way of a woman's success as a drug clerk. By a great many peo­ ple we are considered in the light of a physician, and men and women, too, consult us just the same as they would a regular doctor. The majority of women have not as much confidence in a female as in a male physician, even in regard to their own peculiar ailments. I don't know that this should be EO, but it is, and you see how it would op­ erate against a female drug clerk so far as her own sex is concerned, while men, of course, would not consult her at all. All these obstacles may be removed in time, and we may have female drug clerks, but it will not be this year." An Industrious Squirrel. inbury farmer points to fhe squir­ rel as affording an instanoe of agility, quickness, and hard work. Last fall he stored several bushels of butternuts in the second story of his corn house, and recently he noticed that they were dis appearing much faster than the legiti­ mate demands for his family supply warranted. He discovered soon after­ ward that a small red squirrel had found a hole under the eaves of the building, and was stocking iier store-houhe with the nuts the farmer had gathered. As an experiment to learn how rapidly the squirrel had worked, he removed all but twenty of the nuts and set a watch upon them. Six hours later every nut was gone. The distance from the corn house to the tree where the squirrel had its nest was just eighty rods. lu going for a nut and returning with it the sprightly little animal had to travel a distanwe of one hundred and sixty rods. Computation showed that the theft of the twenty nuts required just ten miles of travel. But *hwt did mot include all. Several times dogs fright­ ened the squirrel, and it had to turn back, and twice the family eat got aftei it, requiring it to take a circuitous route to reach the store-house. The nest wa examined soon afterward, and a big, fat, lazy male squirrel was found snoozing quietly while his little mate was per- lous feat to supjaly him n your oome forming prodigio with food. True American. Entile was a little boy born in New England of French-Cauadian parents. His father and mother loved their own race and language, as these people com­ monly do. When talking together, they always spoke in French, and Emile's two sisters, older than himself, were apt to do the same when talking with them. Not so with Emile. They could not get him to talk French. When Bpoken to in that tongue, he never failed to re­ ply in English. The only exception to this rule was in his prayers, which had been taught him in French when he was a baby, and which his mother supervised nightly; but even his prayers did not long remain an exception, for by and by he began to attend the public schools, and at the same time a Catho­ lic Sunday school, where pupils sad teachers, being mainly of Irish descent, spoke only English. At the end of his second attendance at Sunday school he had mastered his prayers in English, and that very night astonished and shocked his mother by refusing to say them in French. "It is no use, mother," he said, in answer to her expostulations. "I don't believe God knows anything about French, for if He did, somebody in this great big country would talk it I don't want to be m Frenchman; I want to be a Yankee." "Ah P exclaimed his mother. "It is as the priest it Canada used to say; we lose our language and ourselves by coming her«4" If only Emilo's spirit was shared by some other foreigners, who beoosM American citizens, but remain claajsb to th* third and fou'tft venerations! The Parson Was Bight After Alt Elder Thompson, the fatuous Univer- salist preacher who died some years ago, was once asked to marry « oouple who:« religious views were at variance with his own. After the ceremony the tridegroom expressed his entire satis­ faction with the service. "I don't see," he said, "that you could have done il any better if you'd believed in a helL" A little theological discussion followed, in which Elder Thompson advanced the idea that "a man gets his hell in this world." Two years after Father Thomp­ son met the man again. "Tou remember you married me?" the man said. "Yes." "And that I said I hoped it would be just as happy a marriage aa if you be­ lieved in a hell ?" "You said something like thai." "And that you said some folks got all their hell in this world?" "I might have said so." "Parson, you was right"--£*ioiston Journal. lhe Inventor of the Barbed Wire Fence. The barbed wire patents, whieh have netted fortunes to their owners, have an interesting history. The first patents were issued to a man named Kelly, living down east About two years" later a farmer at DeKalb, I1L, conceived the idea of keeping his unruly cattle in the pasture by putting short barbs on a wire and then twisting it with * plain wire. This is know in the market as the Gidden wire, being named alter its inventor, Joseph F. Gidden. One day while he was out experimenting with it a neighbor going by shouted: "Joe, A Hint H yon wish to cultivate *. £ medaMnfr, censorious' spirit children, be sure, when tfcey home from church, a visit, or to whieh you do not acoainpany to ply them with questions concerning what everviiody wore, how everybody looked, and what everybody said and did; and if you find anything in all this to censure, always do it in their hearing. You may rest assured if you pursue a course of this kind, they will not return to you unladen with intel­ ligence ; and, rather than it should be uninteresting, they will by degree* learn to embellish in such a manner as shall not fail to call forth remarks and S»ressions of wonder from you. You 1 by this course render a spirit of curosity--which is so early visible in children, and whieh, if rightly directed, may be made the instrument of en­ riching and enlarging their minds--a vehicle of mischief which shall serve q^ly to narrow them. Aa ladotoat OrgMb TOMB th« livmr i« indolent, aa it mnit MOM- airily lie when it fa.ile to aecrets th« Ml* la anflU ctont qq*ntitiM to m«et th« requirements of dU- (action a&d eyacuation, it ahoold be set at work wttb Hostettfir's Stomacb Bitter*. The health, fol stimuli!* to activity imparted by thia incom­ patible siwdiif rnmms itssii' is s departure of iae uncomiormwe nwssfttions ia th« right side; the nausea; for upon the tongue; in­ digestion, and sick head&cha ooneequant upon inactivity of the llrar and the diversion of the Wle from its proper channel. Irregularity of the bovrele is always &nd painlessly reformed by the oorrectivs indicated, which is infinitely to be preferred, both because it is safe and more effica­ cious, to blue pill, calomel, and drenching purges tives of every class. It cures and preyentu fever and ague, and rheumatism*. Punishment All Around. At Eai Feng Fu, China, a prfrirte soldier was on guard over thirty boxes of bullets, which it was the duty of a ?etty officer to inspect twice a day. 'he soldier skillfully abstracted the bullets from the boxes, and was finally found out. Then the punishment, be­ gan. The soldier was condemned to penal servitude for life and a flogging of 100 blows. The petty officer, who had failed to insdect the boxes satisfac­ torily, was dismissed from the service and received eighty blows. His lieu­ tenant has been cashiered in order to be tried for connivance in the theft, and he has disappeared. And the mili­ tary authorities in Pekin are consider­ ing what punishment to infljue|. general in command. • Happy *••»§• Bere's a health to tho wives and the mothars Who sit in our households to-day; Who are glad when they brighten for oUkSt* The hours that go drifting away. Mftv their eyes keep the light of the RUMMS^ Their hearts hold the fullness of bliss That banishes shadows and sadness-- And what need we ask more than this? But how can thiB happiness be kept? "What shall protect those wo love--those who make a heaven of tho home--(rom the ravages of disease that is often worse than death--that is. in fact, a lingering death? The question is easily answered; Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription--the standard remedy for all of those peculiar diseases to which women are subject--Is what must be relied on to preserve the health of wives and mother®. It prevents those diseases, and it etires them. It is a blessing to women, and therefore a national blessing, because it (rives health to those about whom t&s happiness of home centers, and the strength Of a nation 1B in Its happy homes. DR. Picncs's PiLLiii, or AatUbiUous Granules; in vials, 85 eanta; one a dose. Druggists. fotton Bale Curlestttes* At the Wampanoag Mill the other day the workmen in the picker-room stopped a package of matches just as the bundle was disappearing into the picker. It had come out of a cotton bale the men had just opened. Had they gone into the machine there would have been a lively blaze. Speaking of this incident, a man who has tended a picker for several years said that the things which oome out of a cotton bale and evidently grow on bushes would astonish one. One day he heard some­ thing grind inside the picker, and, stopping the machine, found a Bilver spoon. Lizards and small snakes were common.. A set of false teeth, small coins, knives, tobaooo, and occasionally articles of more value, have been found. These things undoubtedly get inside the bales accidentally, but there are other things which evidently get inside in accordance with a fixed purpose, and, by strange -coincidents, they are found to weigh more than cotton, and not to be worth as much per pound on the market. Sand, scrap iron and dirt are often found wrapped inside a cotton bale for ballast.--Fall Jttvtr Corres­ pondent • • ^ BOO Ladles WsnM And 100 men to call daily on any druggist for a free trial package of Lane's Family Medicine, the great root and herb remedy, discovered by Dr. Silas Lane white ia the Rocky Mountains, For diseases of the blood, liver and kidneys it is a positive care. For constipation «nd clearing up the complexion it does wonders. Children like it Everyone praises it. Large sdze pack­ age, 60 esnts. At oil druggists. A Fine Country. it" ^ Patrick (in Ireland)--"Sure fifta a foine counthry Americky is, Biddy. Oi'll be afther sthartin' there at onct. Biddy--"D'yez not have to work there the same as here?" Patrick--"No, indade. Me brother Moike writes that he is a policeman, an' has nothing to do but shtand on a corner »nd assist foine ladies acrost the strate, an' ate oranges an' nuts an' ba­ nanas."--New York Weekly. **5-m mm MWmWKm* to "New when he ypipvisiOBi _ the Montgomery (Ala.) York World: In the has planted his one-mule five acres) to cotton, a he must have $100 to with. He goes to a commission' mer­ chant, who says he can have the money for 8 per cent. (It is really 10 per cent., for the debt must be canceled in the fall, when the cotton is market­ ed.) That is $8. Then come the other stipulations: 1. The negro must agree to deposit with the commission man ten bales of cotton and pay 50 cents a bale storage thereon. That is $5. Then the negro must agree to let the commission man sell this cotton on a commission of $1.25 per bale. That is $12.50. Then the commission man takes upon himself the right to grade the cotton, say 1 cent a pound below the market price, which enables him to make a quick sale--and that is $50. All these items foot up $75.50, which the farmer pays for the use of $100 for three months ? And this is not all. If there should be a drouth or a flood, and the farmer should have no cotton to store with the commission man, in­ terest, storage and commission would have to be paid just the same. Of oourse the principal figure in this illus tratiou is the Shy lock of the commisv- ' sion business; he has respectable! neighbors who pay a certain degree of- homage to the golden mile. COUNSEL OF EMINENT PHT&Cuia Thm Psopls of Oakland County Wild with Kxeltemant. POWYIAC. Mich., March 16. 1887. On the 10th day of December, 1886,1 came from Orion to Pontiae to visit my parents, and was taken suddenly il). Dr. Galbreith, of this place, was called, and alter making caretal examination of my case, desired a council, and named as councilor. Dr. Mc- Graw. of Detroit. They met in eouneli Dec. 15th, made a careful examination, and Eronouneed my disease as Canoar of the iver, and stated that there was no hope for me. and It was impossible to cure me. The pain was very severe and Dr. Gaibreith continued his visits, administering quieting powders, A swelling or bunsh had formed upon my right ribs almost as large as my fist, and I had given up all hones of recov­ ery. But having heard of Hibbard'a Bfceu- I matie Syrup. I sent. Feb. 1. 1887, and bought a bottle of the Syrup from Mr. Peter SchmitE. a druggist of this plaoe. and took It as directed. About March 1st something broke and the swelling commenced to go down, until it has almost disappeared. Up to this date I have taken two and one-haft bottles of the Syruo, and have so far re­ covered as to be able to visit, my neighbors, and am truly rejoicing that I am fast being relieved of suoh terrible pain, and desiring to acknowledge the benefit I have received in using your Syrnp. I send you this state- meat, hoping you will it so that often who are affile ted may be benefited and re­ lieved from pain as I have been. Tory truly, CHARLES A, SPIES, of Orion, Mich. POXTIAC, Mich.. March 16, 1887. Hits Is to certify that Mr. Charles A. Spier, my son, has made a correct state­ ment of his case, as I have watched by his bedside during his entire illness. JOHN KPTO. The undersigned certify that they are well acquainted with Charles A. Spier, whose signature appears above, and we have no hesitation in saying that any state­ ment made by him can be relied upon as be.ng true in every particular. BERIIIDGE & BKBRIDOE. Drupgtsts, Orion, Mieh. J. A. NKAIm Editor Wetkt$ Review and Justice of the Peace, Orion, Mieh. J. 8. KITCHES. Postmaster. OBION, Mieh., March IB, 1887. Mr. HAYSEED--How is my old friend Gump getting along? Philadelphian --O, so so. Mr. Gump will never amount to much. He's been in City Councils ten years and isn't rich yet, fW» STRAWS AND NEW Alwprlw. AND STRONG CASES. •lUlaail Amklc. cimiMri, 0., j Waa ia M wltk •tnta«4 uklt; •ghMj ««r«t ky St. Jaesfei qu. ~ AT DRCIJGISTS ANB DEALERS. niWMLX>A«06CUn CO, Battae •ae out fori I^Viir Bafctr Bel C*TON'SE®gl»ITtt®f£ A UMirfl IMJ for list of IjOOO •SSM! I ReprewnUUreg ; Gooas new ^onfu-'boM necessity. So Eliti Mfx- €»., jf'nSi and Mil on I No ouraa man ("Altaian TMt OUest Medicine ia tkc U arid it IJIAAC T HOIH raelPii , • century. There are rew diseases to whieh i •xe *ubject more dlstrcMdng than note e7«t Kwe,jmrhApa, for which mace remedtet ' trted withoutirooerw. rotilleiienud lalnnD ef the tt is aa tafMttbi* remedy. 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Rxpnlnei not tiee«#«ry. »«id U. itwM QnfUiM0lti6tiviltfllvC§t 44Afca4t»Ciii€lNtfttitQt The People •ostetter Stomach BltUrs Score Another Foiat In tbetUnited States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Shipman banded down an opplnion a few days ago In the suit of the owners of the trademarits covering Hoetetter's Stomach Hitters against Arnold Theiler and Cornell TbeUer, the compounders, located <m Vesey street, New York Ciky, in which It was decided that, although the defendant* m^iii nee-of their own names on the lal>ele af­ fixed to the bottles containing bittere prepared by tham, wet as they were evidently designed to inn* ate tie Hoatetter labels, they were infrin- Kerb, and a perpet ual injunction was granted and an acconu&ng of damages ordered, together With the coats ot the suit. It is the e«®dent in- tention of the Hostetter people to protect their valuable trademark against all infringers, and the granting<af the above injunction will en­ courage them to renew their < fforta against the raviahaa of fee .omnipresent infringer. Weighed and Wanting. Miss A--"Did yon apply for that po- ~ .. . . , . sition at Cash's store. The proprietor, you better he out harrenn m your oats _ou ^now, advertised for a good luok- instead of fool in' away your time with capable youiag lad v." patents r <Jidden thought otherwise, I Miss B "No, I didn't." and in less than two years received a bonus of $60,000 with the guarantee of j a royalty on all made under his patents. I In one year his royalties exceeded $174,- 000. She Was a Fast Female. Mrs. Cumso (to her husband)--What girl was that Mr. Fangle was talking to you about ? He said she was only fif­ teen and the fastest thing he knew. Mr. Cumso--Don't remember his talking of any girl. Did he mention her name? 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