. i > i Is - Al
t r i ( ■ I 1 I I- \ \ V
' 0UL*
for
stay four lll,llr8 it!
T < I? i 11? III ‘ ' i i < I intelligence, yet he was ignorant of A » / (ilk
- ’ i * • ’ I?
Is. Hartford. This was ancther grBt.
During the evening a large crowd 'rill?
111
I
o I j * * I 1*111 ’>■ •
KiIUplest law of health. I told
| treat for $2. costing us five day's work
, .
. .
••
. ...__ ..1,1
Y amhill R eporter , assembled in the yard and about the
him
that
if a cow
could ¿™>lr
talk eV»
she fl
building, and declared that the A Fhy»iciu>'» Observations on the Habit of would teach him more sense than to Drs.se» that Cost but One Dollar, Worn to Now young men can earn enough ¡J
• Mseting," Sunday.
i half a day, and go out and back in
P bopbiktohs . 1 Yankees had cheated one of their
SXTDZB & ViAMUl*,
take any vigorous exercise, either
Self-Doctoring.
the other half.- {Springfield Repuh
number, and must now make it right
physical or mental, immediately after
| lican.
by
paying
over
a
certain
sum
of
OLD-FASHIONED
W
AV
OF
TRAVEL.
a
hearty
meal.
Most
horses
are
OREGON
M c M innville ,
money and treating the whole com IGNORANT AND RECKLESS I 4 e OF treated more intelligently than this
ING TO BOSTON.
Wir AND HUMOR.
MORPHINE.
pany to liquor.
man was treating himself.
ABSENCE OF MIND. .
The drover very properly refused
" What puzzles me is the fact that
The man who goes into btisintiit
This is an expensive age. Our rich
“ The extensive use of patent med people ure not afraid to meedle with
ISceue:
A sleeping-car. Au absent to yield to their demands, and, with
- ...
n • „ i,„. with the devil I soon finds
out that
his I
•
—
minded paaeenger suddenly arises from his Mr. C----- , retired to his room, leav icines and the enormous quantity of
est
men
began
with
mere
nothing
>
it
p
artller
(e proprietor,
partner ¡ is g so
sole
proprietor.
a delicate organism as the hu
seat and looks aimlessly around him.]
ing them to themselves. But they drugs sold without prescriptions in such
'ffi,,
rj w
;lo was
WQ(j conrle
j by
b J
man body. Few persons who have their brains and hands, and with lit
The ^¡
girl
who
courted
were not so easily to be turned aside
“A heavy weight is on my mind!
watches would attempt to repair them tie education. Chester W. Chapin. Sp
likeo
, rtlce . young
_ lawyer,
' . ■ said ’ she iued
from their purpose, and. after placing dicate bow widespread is the habit if
I know I’ve left something behind!
they should get out of order; yet cue of the richest men in Massachu- to be protected by the strong arm of
It cannot be the brazen check,
some of their number to guard of self-doctoring,” said a popular they
the delicate mechanism of
For trunks which baggage-masters
the law.
against his escape from the tavern, physician to a S un reporter. “ To their tackle
wreck,
own
bodies
with the reckless ! setts, when he was twenty-one years
they began throwing stones through those who know how carelessly and ness of a blacksmith
The minister who divides his dk
For here it is! My hat-box? No!
i
old
let
himself
out
to
work
twelve
to
attempting to
It safely rests the seat below!
thr drover's window.
courses into too many heads will fid
adjust
a
chronometer.
The
evil
is
’
fourteen
hours
a
day
for
§12
a
month,
It must be, then, my new umbrella;
ignorantly
these
drugs
are
used,
the
In an instant the strong man’s
it difficult to procure attentive ear.
My wife will taunt me when 1 tell her,
wide spread, and reaches not only
for all of them.
•Your fifteenth since the glad New Year! blood was up, and he prepared for thought of the harm they do is abso the cases I have alluded to, but many farming and teaming from the arm
Why, bless me, no! How very queer!
war. He was totally unarmed, but. lutely appalling. There is no telling
ory to the boat on the Connecticut
others
more
difficult
and
dangerous
’Tie in the raok there, plain in sight!
"Waiter, these oysters have J
despite his employer's protest leaped how long a prescription once given
My purse and ticket are ail right!
than these. I have known of women river; but he laid his money up. taste.” "We cannot help it, sir; jj
from the window directly into the
What fancies crowd an addled head!
experimenting
with
drugs
in
cases
Now
you
would
insult
a
young
strip
will
be
used,
or
with
what
foolish
lias rained so much this year that th«
Then, with
There's naught amiss! I’ll go to bed!" front ranks of the mob.
I his clinched fists, he attacked them. risk it will be applied in a case where a simple surgical operation of ling of eighteen years to offer him sea has become fresh!”
Full peacefully he sank to rest,
No man could stand up against his where it will not only not do good, a minute’s durtition was all that was such wages. He was the tax collector
Non Compos—“I see that Smith J
If snores a peaceful sleep attest.
necessary. The evil is insiduous,and in 1822 for the town of Springfield.
I terrific blows, and in less time than it but is certain to work harm.”
A tuneful hour had scarce slipped by,
put in nomination. Is he non pat,
one
that
it
would
be
difficult
to
reach
When loud uprose an anguished cry—
takes to tell it he had knocked above a
" Do you think this habit of self by legislation. It is especially com His fees were §80 for collecting §8, tisan!” "No, not exactly; I thin,:
A crazed man's moan of lamentation— score of them senseless, while the re
000—the whole taxes for that town. they call him non compos.”
•'I’ve left the baby at the station!”
doctoring
decreases the practice of mon among those who have that little He pays more taxes now than the
mainder fled like chickens before the
Peanuts are so cheap down id
learning
which
is
a
very
dangerous
swoop of an eagle.
physicians ?”
A STRONG COUPLE.
whole town did then. It cost more
thing. It is a question which are time and travel to collect them, then Georgia that five cents’ worth wiii;
They
had
no
further
annoyance
“
Bv
no
means.
The
efl
’
e
ct
is
ra
make a young man solid with hi."
Some philosophical individual has while they remained theie, and it was
most to be pitied, those who know
declared that the reason why a few not until several years had flown that ther to increase our work. People nothing whatever of their own bod than now. The people were so scat sweetheart for about a month.
persons are gifted with extraordinary the people of that section ceased to who think to do without the services ies, or those who, haging the pre tering and they were so afraid of a
boy at dinner table: "WhatlJ
he said, some would run all Small
mental or physical power is, that we talk of the terrible Yankee.
of a physician will not only do them sumption to act on very slight and tax-collector
that for grandpa?” Mamma*]
and
hide
up
stairs
or
down
cellar
may be able to see, by contrast, how
“No. darling. It’s for you.” Small
But, giant though he was, his ex selves harm by the delay, but also insufficient knowledge, are perpetu
puny the rest of mankind really are. ploits were not more remarkable than with the medicines which they do not ally dosing themselves with nos when they saw him coming, and in boy:—“Ok! what a little bit.”
some
instances
he
hunted
them
up
in
Whether thiB is true or not, we may were those of his wife. It was com know how to use. It is like a man trams, and, with a blind faith equal
Overheard in the cloak-room: "Diffl
not say, but certain it is that once in monly believed of her that she would trying to mend a leak in a water to the most abject superstition, put their hiding-places after their family she
marry well?” “Yes, indeed .He’S
said they “wa’n’t there!” After find
a century or so there appears upon take up a barrel of cider by the chimes pi'lie by soldering it with the poker. ting confidence in panaceas.”
ing the delinquent he would get a worth over a million and drinks sj
the stage of life a man with powers and, holding it before her, march up He generally makes the hole bigger.
of mind or body so vastly superior to a flight of stairs as easily as an or It is. of course, the most difficult part FRIGHTENING CHILDREN TO S1EEP- part of the tax money and go again hard that he never can go into soeietjl
for the rest or pay it himself. He so she's not bothered with him.”
the majority of the race that, to us, dinary person would carry a basket of the physician’s duty to diagnose
A lady overheard her nurse girl the has paid in this way hundreds of dol
Whoever doubts that the news
he seems almost superhuman.
the disease, to tell what is the real
of eggs.
It is not often that two such per On one occasion a traveling mop trouble with the patient. It is not other night talking to the little child lars, finding it easier to earn the papers have a mission should enter«
sons live at the same time, and in the peddler called at the house, and uncommon for even educated physi she was putting to sleep, and among money than to collect it. Money was car and see how useful they are tfl
same community — surely not that found her busily engaged in washing cians to make mistakes in this re other legends of the nursery iu scarce and worth something then. the men when a fat woman with a bil
I recollect in 1825 or '26, in our town basket is looking around for a seat;
they bear to each other such relations her kitchen floor. She declined to spect. The science of medicine has which she indulged was this;
" If yon don’t go right to sleep meeting, the proposition was to raise
as husband and wife. And yet I have purchase, or even examine, his goods; progressed so far that every part of
Mistress (to applicant for cookfl
now to relate some exploits of two but, despite her remonstrance, he the human body has been pretty this very minute, a big, awful black for the coming year §14,000 fol- the position): “Why did you leave yow
bear,
with
eyes
like
coals
of
tire,
and
town of Springfield; Oliver B. Mor last place?” Applicatit: “You’»
such people.
crowded into the room, and began to thoroughly studied, and the treat sharp, white, cruel teeth, will come
In that part of the State of Maine, urge her to buy.
ri arose and ’ objected
’
' ' by
. . saying:
. .. very inquisitive, marm; I didn’t a
ment of the ailments of each part is out from under the bed and e-a-t-y o- ns
“What are we coming to? It is aston j you for what your last cook left youfl
close bordering on the province of
Placing his bundle on {he floor, he a specialty. It is impossible for one u-a-1-1 u-p!”
ishing that pride and ambition, or |
New Brunswick, there lived, a century was in the act of stooping to open it, pliysicain to know all these diseases
The poor little thing nestled down fashion should demand such a tax.” | When they build a railway, tW
ago, a man named C —, who was when the irate woman dropped her as well as the specialists; and it is
tbiug
am,
.
. - . do , is to , break tfl
.j
noted for his prodigious physical mop. seized him by the collar and the a common practice among honest phy under the clothes and after a long But they overruled the old man, i ^and
he
livedto
see
pride,
fashion,
and
am
.
I
ground.
This
is often done wib
season
of
terror
fell
asleep
to
dream
strength, and whose wife was scarce seat of his trousers, and pitched him sicians to refer patients to those who
they breJ
'
frightful dreams of horrid bears eat bition rise much higher. A great ^at ceremony. Then
ly less powerful than himself.
head first through an open window, have made a special study of the dis
change surely.
| the shareholders. This is done witfl
Neither of the twain was above the and, before he could regain his feet, eases which afflict them. It is not un ing her up.
That uight when the stolid nurse
The fashion of those days I recol- j outi
.
average in stature, nor was there any threw his bundle of mops after him. common for a man to go from one
• bright
' S ' little
' " „ girl, . noticing
„ ainon.7
thing very marked in the general The astonished fellow picked himself physician to another in the vain ef had composed herself in her own lect. When my mother was going to j A
comfortable
bed
and
put
the
light
get
a
new
dress,
or
gown,
as
it
was
the
company
at
her
father
’
s
residence,
build of either one.
up r.nd fled from the house without a fort to discover his ailment. Some out, there came a sudden rap at the called then, the woman that was en-1 on “ a certain
occasion ~ a gentlemal),
‘
11
There is no record that any of the word.
times a patient will be treated by suc door, aud the voice of the mistress
ancestors of either the man or the
gaged to come to the house to cut and whose face was considerably pock
But the most remarkable thing she cessive physicians for the wrong ail called loudly through the panels:
woman had been known to possess did I have yet to tell.
make it told her she was so tall and | marked, inquired who the “mot®
ment, because some of the symptoms
“ Maggie! Maggie! for mercy sake
unusual physical power, nor among
It seems that her husband was a of different diseases are similar. How get up as quick as you can! There’s large she must get six yards for it. eaten gentleman was.”
all their decendants (from one of man proud of showing his strength, unlikely is it, therefore, that persons
Five yards was the common pattern,
An old gentleman said to his con
whom I have learned what I relate) and that thiB vanity led him too often who have not studied medicine can a fearful burglar under your bed,and and 50 cents for cutting and making I ceited nephew: “John, you shouk-.’
as
soon
as
you
get
asleep
he
’
s
com
have there been any of such strength to neglect his work. As a consequence, find what ails them?”
and a dinner found. What a change 1 not think so much of yourself^
as to make them famous.
from that day to this! The cloth cost
“ Which do you think do the most ing out to rob and murder you!”
he was frequently in trouble from
At the word burglar she sprang §1 and the making 50 cents, and the “Why, uncle, the other day, when®
But this man and woman were not being able to pay his bills. The self doctoring, women or men?”
sauced that old friend of yours, vi.'
famous throughout that section of sheriff was not an unfrequent visitor
“ Wcmen, decidedly, especially screaming from the bed, tore open dress was worn to meeting. The complained that 1 forget myselfl
the State in which they lived, as well at their home, and as the same per mothers and old women. The reck the door and fell in hysterics into fashion and pay of the preachers has retorted the youth.
as in the adjoining province, and had son held that office year after year, less temerity of some women in this the hall. The lesson was even more changed. The first Methodist preach
At a hotel in Glasgow, a gentlemfl
the facilities for extending the knowl they were always in trepidation when respect is wonderful. They rush in instructive than the mistress hail de er in our town got §100 for one year's
finding that the person who hfl
edge of any fact been such as they now they saw him approaching.
where angels fear to tread. Hastily signed ; but when the girl’s fear was salary, and if he had a present of a acted as waiter could not give lifl
are, doubtless their fame would have
pair of socks he must report it. The
C---- - had long owed a sum of judging from a few symptoms that a calmed she said to her:
been co-extenc've with the continent. money to the keeper of the country case resembles one which tfid, family “ You did not hesitate to tell my second preacher had a wife and three certain information which he wantfl
little
delicate
child,
who
could
not
Of course, the stories of their ex store a few miles away, and had made doctor has treated, they win hunt
’ children, and §35 was added for each put the question, "Do you belong 3
ploits would have become somewhat a good many promises to pay it; but up an old prescription and adminis possibly know that it was a lie,a cruel child. Bishop Hadding in our time I the establishment?” to which Jan
exaggerated tfith the passage of years, he had failed so mauy times to keep ter the dose to some confiding or story of a bear under her bed; now, got less than §75 a year. Also Priest j replied “No, sir; I belong to the Fl
as is always the case where there is his agreement that the storekeeper helpless child. I could tell you some when I treat you to the same kind Clough and Lorenzo Dow less than I Kirk.”
no written account of them, and yet, lost all patience, and determined to amusing stories of the mistakes that of slumber-story, you are nearly either. Our old Methodist preachers
A lady who is properly very shy
after all due allowance has been attach whatever property he could are made in this way, as well as some frightened to death. To morrow you worked for a living and for God, in sausages says that when she recent
made, there remains sufficient basis find on the premises.
instances where more serious conse can go into the kitchen and work— stead of for reputation and a salary. I asked for a certain kind which si
for believing that they were indeed a
It so happened that just then C----- quences resulted. Take, for illus you are not fit to care for little chil I was thinking about the fashion in , knew to be of good quality and flai
brace of giants.
domestic affairs, say music, fifty five , | she was coolly informed by the mi
had in his possession a fine cow. tration,a headache. It may come from dren.”
1 will give only a few of the stories The law of the State was such that a dozen different causes-from hunger,
How many children are there who, years ago. Governor Trash and I ■; chant that ail sausages are of tt
still current regarding them stories the last cow could be seized for debt, from indigestion,from over-excitement every night of their lives, are fright met at Monson for Thanksgiving, , kind, ‘ ‘if you only make up your mi!
which are recited in the traveler’s ear though if the creature had just been of the brain, from eating too much, ened to sleep?
with the family where he got his wife, to think so.”
—,«•» ■—
by the present inhabitants of the killed, it was exempt from taxation. from inhaling foul air. The remedy
—at old Uncle Saul Squires's, uncle 'Baby has been forbidden to a
A
DISGUSTDD
TRAVELER.
little village where they once lived. Both C---- and his wife knew this for a headache varies with its cause.
to us both. Their house music was, for dessert. The other day they ft
And the tirst concerning the husband. fact, though they had no intention of Yet you will find women who have a
A traveler stopped at a Western for treble, the fiax spinning-wheel, :' got to serve him, and as baby is vd
He was one afternoon returning killing the cow. But one morning,
panacea for headache, re hotel the other day and called for played or run by one of the girls; obedient, he remained silent, altliou
homeward from some journey, when when her husband was away, Mrs. universal
gardless of the cause. Beware of dinner, and a glass of whisky as an for the tenor, the large spinning- much affected. "Josephine,” al
he saw a farmer in trouble near the C----- saw the sheriff approaching such
appetizer. The waiter said they had wheel, played by another girl; for the father, “pass me a plate.” “ Woj
women.”
highway. With a couple of boys to the house.
bass, the old lady whacking away at you have mine, papa?” cried the l>ai
“ \\ ith what medicines is the most no whisky.
assist him, the man hail been getting
As he drew rein at the door, she harm done?”
“No whisky! Well, a glass of the old loom, all working to make - “it is very clean.”
in hay from a field bo newly cleaned stepped out, and he met her with the
their music profitable and healthy.
“ Opiates and aperients. The heed brandy, then will do.”
of trees that some of the stumps only remark, "I am sorry, Mrs. C----- ,
“Ma, haven't I been a real g«'
“No brandy, sir; not allowed to The fashion of those days was to
with which morphine in va
were yet remaining. There were in but I must perform my duty as an lessness
I boy since I’ve been going to Sunda'fl
sell
any
kind
of
liquors.
”
have
a
good
healthy
family
of
from
rious
forms
is
now
administered
in
indications of rain, and in their haste officer of the law.”
“You ain’t, eh? I’ll go to some eight to ten children, all learnt to [school?” “Yes, my lamb,” answerA*
families is alarming. The doctor
to reach the barn, a heavily laden
She well knew what that meant, comes to attend a patient who is in other hotel, then.”
work for a living. What a change! the maternal parent, fondly. “Ai
cart had been driven against an un and before he had time to take any
"
But
none
of
the
others
sell
any
Instead
of a good, healthy family you trust me now, don’t you, mt
pain.
He
prescribes
morphia,
and
di
seen stump which struck the axle legal measures, she asked him to ex
thing.
sir.
”
rects
its
use.
and
the
patient
is
re
now,
all
up
in the morning early to “Yea, darling, yes." “Then.” spc
close up to one of the wheels.
cuse her for a moment, and. going lieved. This is enough to start the
“
The
mischief
they
don
’
t!
What's
work,
we
see
from one to three little I up the little innocent, “what mal’
The situation was such that it was into the barn where the cow was, she
pimping children, with a sickly | you keep the preserves locked up
impossible to move the load, either laid hold of the creature by the nos average matron on a course of fell the reason?"
“ The Prohibitionists have carried mother, not able to take care of two j the pantry the same as ever?”
forward or backward, and the angry tril.! and by one horn, and with a destruction with morphia. The next
A New York doctor has been lip
farmer stcxxl, goad in hand, swearing gigantic effort, twisted the head patient may lie of a different temper-1 the • no license' ticket, and they are as easily as our mothers would ten,
ament, or sex, or age. requiring a dif enforcing it for awhile pretty strict fifty years ago, without a hired girl. | ; ing for the past twenty years, 1
at his luck.
around and broke the cow's neck.
ferent kind or quantity of the opiate, I iy-’’
The children now must be in fashion ' has reached the conclusion that v
Mr. C-----saw the condition of
Returning to the house, she in but the old prescription will be used,
“ They are, eh ? \\ ell, what you —lie in bed until eight or nine in the I small feet on a woman means a t
things, and springing over the fence, quired
of the sheriff what he wanted.
morning, no appetite, little vitality. | per like cayenne pepper and a ton:
he told the farmer to start up his He replied that he hail come to put or. worse than all, will be revived got to eat?”
Roast beef, roast mutton, Ixiiled They play on some kind of instru-, which will lie about its best frit
team when ho should give the word. an attachment on their cow, there from memory. Some drug stores
ment, and go to school to be crowded This is a noble effort to com
Then, dropping on all fours, be crept upon she told him that they bad no watch carefully, and refuse to dis | pork and broiled curlews.”
“ What’s a curlew?”
with more kinds of lessons than our old [ women with big feet, but it wi
under the laden cart, placed his living cow in their possession, but pense such drugs without a prescrip
shoulder beneath the axle, and actu that they had a dead one in the barn, tion in each case, but there are many , “It's a bird, sir; something like a school teachers ever knew. But this is j I work.
the fashion and pretended improve- I
ally raised the load so that it was ami she didn’t suppose that he was too eager to make money to care snipe.”
much whether the patient is being
“ Did it have wings? Could it fly?” ment of the age. Perhaps this genera ! "And what age is it you are n
drawn over the stump.
He then fool enough to attach that
dear?” asked the colonel just b
“ Yes.”
treated by a doctor. The same is
tion does not look at these things as I from India of the tall daughter
walked quietly away, leaving the
The officer went to the barn, saw true ef the use of bromide, of chloro
“
Then
I
don
’
t
wan't
any
curlew.
do,
but
I
think
that
health,
economy,
farmer so dumb with amazement that
body of the creature, now out of form
___ ____
and of ether. The bottle that Anything that had wings and could and morality are not improved by get his friend, Tompkinson Soo
he forgot to thank him for hie as the
his
power,
learned
how
it
had
lxx>n
is
left
tilled in a family after fly and didn't leave this d------d coun ting high wages or a fashionable edu “kA ell. that is what I can't quite ir
sistance.
L" ill 111 1 and.
o » , . 1 without
,,,• 4 I. A a •* ......
1 1 —r. A the
1 — —- . patient
— partly has
i been treated « is
.
killed,
--- — word,
---- .< left
-W ...» j one
----- x-..x.KUv UU0
MVVU uviuru LB pretty
IHfllV try. I don't want for my dinner! cation. This generation will spend out,” returned the girl, taking
f vi r» a» AlxnA
al».. woman
__ — _ sure to
A be
1 need 1 for
n
,i
.. . * Give me some roast mutton.”
On one occasion he attended a tllnno
not to meet her mother's eye,
place, fearing
that, if the
another
without
what its fathers have earned. Gener w’hen I go anywhere with papa I
cattle show in a distant part of the should get angry, she might treat the doctor’s knowledge. As for par-
ally it is watching the pulse of the sixteen; but when I go out ’
State. Among the prizes offered was ,n‘ln the same way as she had egoric and laudanum, the amount of
A DISCONTENTED WIFE.
man who has projierty. longing for mamma I am never more than tv
one for the yoke of oxen that should dealt with her cow.
stupefaction that is practiced upon
“I see,"she observed, as she look the time to come when it will come in next birthday.” The cok>nol
draw the heaviest load of stone on a
! children by their use is so common ed up from her paper, “ that im possession of what it has not earned.
flat bottomed drag.
tened to change the subject.
The jester attached to the court of
almost to cease to attract attention. other woman who was r
_____ _ I It is a known fact that the rising gen
perfectly
One after another the farmers had Peter the Great of Russffi was re as
Perhaps
the
child
is
naturally
pee
A Boston man went to a de
eration
are
spendthrifts.
brought their teams, but after much tuarkable for his ingenuity iu extri yish. or is cutting teeth, or has some sane all the time has just been re
Another great change is in the mode and told him. “Doctor, there is s
leased from a lunatic asylum, after a
“geeing and hawing.” and a most cating himself and others from
of traveling. Fifty years ago we had thing the matter with my h
merciless application of the goad trouble. A cousin of his. on one infantile ailment; out comes the par detention of three years."
" Yes.” briefly replied the husband. to go through the country by stages, After any sever, mental exerti
stick, they had all given up the at occasion, had fallen under the czar’s egoric or soothing syrup bottle, and
" She was incarcerated by her hus at the fast s|>eed of seven miles an have a headache. What is the
tempt, and declared that, no single displeasure, and was alxuit to lie exe before long the small dose ceases to
have effect. Then larger doses are band.”
hour. This was much faster than the edy for it?" “The best remedy
pair of cattle could move it.
cuted. The jester presented himself given, until the unfortunate young
“ Yes.”
common farmers traveled. It was con get yourself elected to the Lep
Thereupon, C----- , who had been at court to petition for a reprieve.
“ Who wanted her out of the way. sidered a great treat to take the stage ture, where you will have no occi
looking on quietly, affirmed that he On seeing him enter the chamber of steps system is saturated with the
could draw it without any oxen, and state, and divining his errand, the drug and totally deranged. Sometimes that he might marry another woman.” , at old Jeremy Warriner's tavern— j to think." The patient replied
the lazy ar. I dishonest nurse, to re “ Yes.”
start at four o’clock in the morning | wasn't for the sake of his childre
stepping forward he threw the chain monarch shouted to him:
lieve herself from trouble, admin is
and get to Boston at nine in the even would make the expieriment.
“
In
ca
c
e
you
desire
to
dispose
of
across his shoulder, and. with one
"It s of no use coming here; I
want them to go through
'
gigantic effort, drew the load several swear I will not grant what von are ters the anodyne on her own responsi me you would probably have me shut I ing. if the going was good. When didn't
bility*
iml
the
hapless
child
shows
a
up in a lunatic asylum.”
the fare was reduced to §5. two of us with a stigma attached to t
feet, to the infinite amazement of a going to ask.”
dnlness
and
stupidity
for
which
no
1
“No. ma’am; I should poison you. | worked two weeks to get money names.
large number of spectators, who rent
Quick as thought the fool dropped body can account.
the air with their cheers.
4
That's the cheaper and better way. ' enough to pay our fare to Boston. | A citizen of Des Moines. J<
on his kneesand exclaimed:
“I niet a man once who was doc As a man of business and as an a<l j eighty-eight miles. The young men <
He was as daring as he was strong
owns a pair of sagacious dogs,
"I beseech your imperial higbn.«s
and at one time found use for both to put that scamp of a cousin of mine toring himself for dyspepsia and in- vocate of financial economy. I have in these days earn enough in one day other
<
day one of them rapped at
digestion.
He
told
me
he
wondered
thousrht this matter over time and | to pay their fare, and go in three door as if for admission, but «
of these qualities. He had l>een en to death."
why
he
had
not
cured
himself.
He
gaged by one of the traveling cattle
again, and I should certainly prefer j hours instead of seventeen. Our con the mistress opened it, instead
Peter, thus caught in his own trap,
merchants of that (>eri<xl to accom had no choice but to laugh, and sent was apparently of muscular develop to spend fifteen cents for arsenic to ductors get for driving their team going into the house looked a'
ment
and
gixxl
constitution,
but
he
pany him on a business trip through a pt rdiin to the offender.
paying our $10 to $15 per week for [ through to Boston §3 or §4. and the great excitement ami started tc
hail somehow got the idea into his goodness knows what”
New Brunswick.
I old stage drivers got §12 a mouth.
head that he must exercise vigorous She looked ¿it him a long time with This was Chester W. Chapin's stand the barn, repeating his actions 1
After several days, spent in collect
The man who revenges every wrong ly after every meal in order to pro
some one followed him.
When
ing a “drove,” they turned their stej# tha* is done him has no time for any
a whole iceberg in each eye, and : ard price in those days. Connecticut barn was reached it was found
mote
digestion.
He
took
long
anti
back along the route they had come, thing elm. If you make your life a
then turned to her paper with the re River steamboats, started by Blanch the horse had broken loose and
aud stopped one night at a rough
-•
-- ,llark: “Just like your stingy ways: I ani, fifty-five years ago, cut’down the being closely watched by one
looking tavern.
ile^Hsirj ,irtl,’ngTe.W ?"rse you never want me to have anything fare to Hartford to §1. which enabled „„„„ u
l»ark as you go by.
while the other had gone to the b
( tk was apparently a man of ordinary like other folk*”
I
ns all to go to Hartford and back in for aid.
1