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I INVITE ATTENTION to Mine of the most extraordi
nary cutes by my -
PECTORAL SYRUP.
They Art at home anil any on« who bo* donbu can fa
quir* of the person! who bare bun cared by-it.
Dr. KEY9ER IS PREPARED AT ANY TIME TO EX
AMINE LONGS, WITHOUT CHARGE, FOR ALL THOSE
WHO NEBDJUI3 MEDICINE.
ATTEND TO YPUR-COLDS. —A com of five yean (land
ing cured bv
DR. KEYSER’S
PECTORAL SYRUP.
Frtsbcro, Jan. Uth, 1800.
Da. Kcnn:—My wife has been afflicted wilti a bad
cough .and difficulty of breathing for fire or six years,
which fur wrerat yean back bod gradually Increased in
violence. The complaint ba« boon hereditary, and ebe bod
heen treated by several pbyiiciane without any rollef. In
this stats of bee case I procured some of your Pectoral
Cough Syrup. I bought the first time a fifty cunt'buttle,
which relieved. her very much; I then called and got a
Uullaf bottle, which cured her entirely, and she bas.no w
no trace of the former disease, except weakness*. I would
also state that I need the medicine ,myself to a cold and
tough. The medicine cured me by taking one dose. I ex
press my entire satlsCuitiou with the medicine, and you
ars at liberty to publish this if you desire to do so.
WM. WILSON,
Alderman, Fifth Ward.
Dn. Kitszr s— Althongh not ah advocate of Patent Modi
clue In general, dt affords mo great pleasure to recommend
i your Pectoral Syrup. As a medicine it is well worthy the
attention W anyperson who may in any manner be affec
ted with coughs,-colds and hoarseness of any kind, and for
the peculiar qualifications for removing all.that disagreea
ble sensation attending a cold.
I hare been more or less, in my life affected with the
severest colds of hoarseness. At times my throat would
become so closed os to prevent my speakfng above a vth le
per, and by taking a few doses of the above Syrup it would
relieve me entirely.
In recommending this medicine, I must unhesitatingly
say that it Is the best medictae I ever found, purporting to
care the above; nor should any family be without this
- remedy for diseases to prevalent.
Tours; most respectfully,
EDWARD J. JONES.
Cashier, Citizens’ Deposit Bank.
BncDZ.wiLLt, Or, March 14th, 1889.
1 have used Dr. Keyser'e Cough' Syrup for a bad cough
qf several years standing, and can cheerfully say it is the
fcsSt.aedleine for tha jams that 1 hare ever taken.
J. W- PRICE.
COL. PRATT AND DR. KEYSER'S PECTORAL SYR
t P.—D*. Kituk—Dear Sir: Excuse thedelsy of my ac
knowledging the excellence of your Pectoral Syrup tooner.
I take great pleaeuro in saying that it b ail yon say it Is..
XT KNOCKED TUB NOISE OUT OP 3IY COUOU, and
the wont one I was arer afflicted with; I hare not need
more then one. half of the bottle,, and can and do wish that
aH who are afflicted would glre it ns fair atrial as 1 hare
done, and they will be proud'to say, “ It Is no quack medi
cine.” I would not suffer another such an attack for any
euhsideralioh. Or at any cost. lam confident I can breathe
more.freely thou I srer did. I shall always acknowledge
a debt of gratitude for inventing so excellent a reitiody.—
You are at liberty to use my name in this regard, as you
think proper. £. F. PRATT,
Messenger, Common Council, Pittsburgh, Pa,
Pittsbcko, Slay 11th, 1859.
If. B.—l am no stranger to my fellow citizens, and all
wbe entertain doubts can consult mp personally.
SCAD Tire TRUTH—DI. Knsn: I havo a daughter
who has taken several medicine! Ibr a bad cough, who hoe
tokehraeveral medicine* for a bad cough, without benefit—
among them Ayor'a Chen? Pectoral. I purchased from
you a bottle of your PECTORAL STRCP, and before she
had used half a bottle she was relieved. The second bot
,tle enred her entirely other cough
, Pittsbcm. December Slat, 1833.
A GREAT CURB BT DR. KEYSEH’S PECTORAL'
SYRUP—I live in Peebles Allegheny county.—
1 had a coughing aid' spitting, which commenced about
the 4th of February last, and continued eight months, 1
employed the best physicians in the country, and my
oough sontinued unabated until early in October. At that
time I was advised to try your PECTORAL SYRUP, which
l-dld, and after I had taken one bottle I wag entirely free
from the coughing and (pitting. I bad dispaired of ever
getting well, and I think it should bo known that this
valuable remedy wilt do for others what It has done in
my Case. JOHN C. LITTLE, Peebles township.
If lines*—B. M. Knuc.
Pstto* townsnip, April Uth, 1867.
A WOROBKFUL CURB.—Some time ago, an old neigh
her of mlpo wasvsry Ul with a bad congh which everyone
supposed to be consumption. Hi* relative* told me lie had
taken every remedy they heard of without benefit; hi*
brother cam* to *oe him die, and ail wore confirmed u. the
belief that he could not live. I had about the third of a
.Vottl* ofyOur'Pectoral Syrup, which I gave him, and it
entirely ctfredhlm, to the astonishment of all. What
, make* the oaae mor* remarkable, 1* the extreme ago of
’ Ah* man, he belng abont eighty years old. I have no doubt
the Pectoral •eavedWslifc. JOHN M’OINNIS.
DR. KETSER’S PECTORAL STROP IN BLAIR -
flLLK.—Please send me another supply of your valuable
Pectoral Syrup." Almost everybody around us has the
.sold and are inquiring for “ Dr. Keyset-’* Pectoral Syrup,’’
.Wabavs sold sixteen bottles lost week, and are now en
tirely out. Mr. Alter and Mr. P. Maher, both of lltairs
(Tille, Pa., tell us they would not be wilhqut it in their
families. In fact, alrwho use It once want it again.
J. 8. WATTEHBONI SON’S.
January 30th, 1800. ' i
ANOTHER NEW CERTIFICATE—DR. KEYSEE’S
PECTORAL SYRUP.—I hava been troubled with a cough
and add for several wseks—so bad wasit that I could not
sleep. Ihad tho advice and prescriptions from three of.
the Wt physicians in the- city,- whom'l could name, but
do not do so.- '2 finally procured a bottle of your Pectoral
Syrup, which enrOd-meentlrely. Signed, '
'• J. W. SIMONTON.
*M Liberty St, Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 9th, 1860.
"STOP THAI COUQUmO.’'—“How uni do it I”
“Go to Keyser’i os' Wood street aod got a bottle of his
Cough Pectoral, and if that don’t cure you, your ease most
ba deaperata Indosd,’’ This Is a spceltnen of Uia colloquy
ona bears almost every day in cold catching saasons of the
ysar.Asweean, from actual experiment, cheerfully,con
cnr in tbe adriser’s admonition as shore, for wo hare tried
the“Pectorat” in a moat stubborn case, with entire suc
-v ««.. Near two weeka ago we went to Pittsburg with one
'®» the moat distressing contrary, mulish, nnsnbdnable
coughs we have, ever experienced since onr advent upon
tato mundane Sphere. We coughed steadily and laborons
ijr lor one whole week, in hopes of tiring it out, bnt it was
.* u “ ct *1 seemed rather to improve by practice
ana to nave acquired strength, potency and distrceslbility i
py tha operation. In this state of tlm siege, we conghod
. "WO Wood street, procured a fifty
**°, , e Pootoral, took it according to directions,
•Odin forty-eight hours wo wtra master of the field, the
.haring unconditionally surrendered after a brief
“"JOeel conflict with so formidable an adversary as
Keyset • Cough Pectoral.—Brownsville Clipper, Dec. 14th,
PECTORAL SYRUP is prepared and
?R- QEO. It. KBYBEH,
, ■ ■ Xd® Wood street, Pitsbnrg, Pa.
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A SURE CUR E.
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The light at homo, how bright it beams,
When evening (hades around us toll!
And from the lattice, far it gleams
To love, and rest, and common call.
When wearied with the toils of day,
Ajnd slrifs for glory, gold or fame,
How swoet to seek the quiet way,
Where loving lips will lisp our name,
Around the light at homo. '
When tlirough the dark and stormy night
Tfie wayward wanderer homeward flies,
How cheering is that twinkling light
Which through the forest gloom she spies I
It if the light at home—he feels
That loving hearts will greet him there;
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The joy. that banishes his care,
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COMMUTATION OF THE TONNAGE
DUTIES.
The Coinmittee on Ways and Means
has reported the following bill. It will
be seen that the tonnage duties are not
actually repealed,' but that the payments
of the same are shaped differently than
they wjiire heretofore. We have not been
able to read tho bill carefully, and there
fore commend the same to the careful at
tention of our readers. We shall, how
ever, analize the bill shortly and give our
opinion of it-
AN ACT for the commutation of Ton
nage] duties.
Whereas, By a provision of the Act
to incorporate the Pennsylvania Railroad
company, approved the thirteenth of
April, eighteen hundred and forty- six, i
and a supplement thereto, approved the
twenty-seventh of March, eighteen hun
dred aiid forty-eight, a tax or duty was im
posed 1 m all tonnage loaded or received at
Harrisburg, Pittsburg and intermediate
Sts, and carried or conveyed on the
read of the said Company more than
twenty miles, which said tax was intended
to compensate for any probable,
dinmnitipn in the receits of the Main
Line of the Public Works, (then owned
by the State,) by reason of the construc
tion and operation of the said Railroad.
And. Whereatj It was provided in the
third, isection of the Act for the Main
Line of the Public Works,, approved the
sixteenth day of May, eighteen hundred
and fifty-seven, that if the Pennsylvania
Railroad ..company 'should become; the
purchasers of the said works; the said
company, in addition to the sum of seven
millions five hundred thousand dollars
($7,600,000), the price limited by the
stud Act should pay the sum of one mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars ($l,-
600,01)0), in five per cent bonds of the
company, and that thereupon the said
compeny,ahd the Harrisburg, Portsmouth,
Moupt' Joy and Lancaster Rail Road
Company should, in consideration thereof)
be discharged by the Commonwealth for
ever from the payment of. all taxes upon
tonnage or freight carried over said rail
roads, and the said Pennsylvania Railroad
company should be released from the pay?
ment of all. other taxes of duties on its
capital stock, bonds, dividends or pro
perty.’ ; ,/■ '' f
And Whereat, 1 It was subsequently de
cided by tho Supreme Court of this Com
monwealth, that while the Legislature had
Tull authority to repeal the provisions of
the said; Acts, yet, inasmuch os part of
.the last mentioned section in the Act for
the the sale of the Main Line placed all
[.INDEPENDENT -IN EVERYTHING.} ■ ’
,H. C. BERN,
the property of the taxing power, it was
therefore, to that extent, unconstitutional
and void.
And Whereas , It was the clear inten
tion of the Lcgislature r by the said Act
for the sale of the Main Line, in case the
Pennsylvania Railroad company should
become the purchaser of the same, to ex
hon orate and release the said company
from further liability for the payment of
said tonnage tax, and for the additional
consideration therein named, all other
taxes; and as the tonnage tax now falls
indirectly on flour, grain, cattle, iron,
minerals and other domestic products
transported on one line of improvements,
while similar products transported on
other lines, are exempt from the same;
and as a reason for the imposition thereof
ceased to exist on the sale of the works
it was intended to protect, the right of
the State any longer to demand the pay
ment of the said tax is denied, and said
demand has led to litigation between the
State and the company, and will probably
involve the parties in litigation with the
citizens of other States, to tfee injury of
our internal trade and commerce, which is
the duty of the government to encourage
and protect, by all lawful means.
And whereas , The said company has
proposed a compromise and final settle
ment of the question, by paying into the
Treasury, in commutation of the said
tonnage tax and in discharge thereof, such
additional sum semi-annually, over and
above the instalment of principal and
the interest on its debt to the State, as
may be required to make said payment
amount to four hundred and sixty thous
and dollars (8460,000) annually, until the
year eighteen hundred and ninety, at
which time the entire balaqce of the prin
cipal and interest shall be paid in full;
and by paying, also, in addition to the
said semi-annual instalments, all other
taxes on their property to which they
may hereafter be made liable under the
general revenue laws of the State, and
agree to make reductions for transporta
tion of local trade, as hereinafter pro
vides, and to aid, also, in the construction
of certain lateral railroads, the comple
tion of which is essential as a means of
facilitating the settlement and improve
ment of valuable districts of the Com
monwealth yet undeveloped.
And whereas , In the opinion of this
Legislature, it is expedient to accept the
said proposition, and to relieve all agri
cultural, mineral, and industrial products,
and other property passing over any rail
road, canal, or slackwater navigation in
this Commonwealth, from the payment of
tonnage tax or duty to the State j there
fore,
Section 1. . Be it enacted by the Sen
ate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen
eral Assembly met and it is hereby enac
ted by the authority of the same, That if
a majority of the Directors of the Penn
sylvania Railroad company, who, for the
purposes of this act are hereby vested
with all needful authority, shall at a
meeting called for'that purpose, resolve
to accept tho provisions of this Act, and
shall authorize the execution of a written
contract under its corporate seal with the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to pay
into the State Treasury on account of its
indebtedness to the Commonwealth, by
reason of a purchase of the Main Line
of the Public Works, oU tho thirty-first
days of January and July in every year,
until tho thirty-first of July, eighteen
hundred and ninety, inclusive, such sum,
in addition to the interest on its bonds
owned by the State, and in addition to its
annual liability to the State on account of
purchase money for said line of improve
ments, as will increase each semi-annual
payment on account of said debt and, in
terest to. the sum of two hundred and
thirty thousand dollars, ($230,000,) and
the aggregate of all such payments to the
sum of thirteen millions five hundred and
seventy thousand (513,570,000,)
and shall agree to pay, on the said
thirty-first day of July, eighteen hundred
and ninety, into the Treasury, the balance
then unpaid of the principal and interest
of said bonds, and shall further agree to
reduce its local charges for the transporta
tion of grain, flour, cattle, iron, minerals
and other property, as hereinafter provid
ed ; and if the said company shall, in the
manner aforesaid, on or before the first of
July, make and enter into, with the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania a written con
tract to that effect, and shall on or be
fore the said day deliver the same to the
Commonwealth, by depositing the Same in
the office of the Auditor General, then
and in such case, and in consideration
thereof, the Commonwealth of Pennsyh
yania shall not at any time hereafter lay,
impose, levy, or collect any tax or duty
upon, or in respect to freight or tonnage
passing over the said Pennsylvania Rail
road,. pf the Harrisburg, Portsmouth
Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad, or
any part of them, or either Of them, un
less a . like tax shall at the same time bo
imposed, laid or levied upon all other
railroads or railroad companies of this
Commonwealth; and all laws imposing
taxes or duties upon freight or tonnage
upon the. railroads, canals and slack water
navigation companies, for the use of the
Commonwealth, be and
repealed, and no further
lugs shall be had or talc*
the Commonwealth to c
tiou of any tax or do
given tlierefor, or judgn
obtained in pursuance
laws on. tonnage ca:
on the railroad of said
roa,d Company, or on ;:
company incorporated b
the said companies fchal'
officers of the Common
;ed, released and relieyi
and liability to the
thereof.
Sec. 2. That from; and after the pas
sage of this Act, all i lilroad, canal and
slackwater navigation oc mpanics incorpor
ated by this State, and 1 able for the pay
ment of taxes and duties on tonnage, im
posed by' any laws heretofore enacted,
shall make the reduction of their charges
for transportation on i heir local freight,
as fixed by their respective toll sheets, on
the first day of one thousand
eight hundred and sixtj-one,equal to the
full amount of the taj; or duty chargea
ble upon such freight )r tonnage by the
laws aforesaid ; the pn isent winter rates
between the first day of December and
the'first day of May, shall be considered
as fixed at 90 cents per 100 lbs, for first
class, 75 cents per 100 lbs- for second
class, 60 cents per 100 lbs. for third class,
40. per 100 lbs. for fourth class, on 1 all
trade carried between [Philadelphia and
Pittsburg, and a failure on the part of
either ot said Companies to make such re
duction, shall render the company so ne
glecting liable to the Commonwealth for
double the amount of the tonnage tax
heretofore chargeable agaipst them upon
such trade—and every such Company
shall, within thirty days after the passage
of this Act, under a like penalty, file in
the office of the Auditor General, under
the oath of the President or other officer,
a toll sheet of their rates of charges for
transportation of locat freights, upon the
first day of February, ojnc thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one, [accompanied by a
statement of the reduction; td be tqade in
pursuance of this Act, |md the said rates
as so reduced shall bej the highest rates
that can be charged forlthe transportation
of such freight and tonnage by any com
pany accepting the provisions of this Act:
Further, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany shall not at any time charge or col
lect rates on any description of freights
from any eastern or sea-board cities to
Pittsburg, higher thafi the gross rates
charged or collected by the same route
from same points to |ny point west of
Pittsburg; nor shall thjo said Pennsylva
nia Company jit any time charge
or .collect rates on any description of
freights from Pittsburg to Philadelphia,
Baltimore or New York* or other seaboard
cities higher than the gross rates .that
may be charged by the same route from
any point west of Pittsburg to the same
points on the same description of proper
ty.. The local rates from Pittsburg or
Philadelphia to stations on the lido of the
Pennsylvania. Railroad shall at no time
exceed the gross rates charged through
between Philadelphia jiud Pittsburg ex
ceed the through rates jas made from time
to time under the provisions of this Act,
nor shall the rates charged to any 'points
exceed those charged | to any point of
greater distance in the same direction
from the place of Jshipment: And
further , all shippers off western products,
under through bills ;oft lading, from any
point west of Pittsburg, to the seaboard
cities, shall have the Privilege of dispos
ing, of their property at Pittsburg, by
giving ti&cly notice, b; fore its arrival at
that poibt, to the trac sfer' .agents of the
Pennsylvania Railroad" Company,andby
delivering up their through bills of lad
ing? thus ’ releasing be Pennsylvania
Railroad Company frqm all liability on
account thereof. ; If ti e property is not
sold at Pittsburg, the qwncr, consignee or
shipper of said property shall have the
right to deliver the ssjnie. to the transfer
agency of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company at FittshurgJ and forward the
same within ten days; after its arrival at
Pittsburg, under the conditions and rates
of tho original though bill of lading.
Sec. 3. That tbe Pennsylvania Rail:
road company shall bo liable to taxation
for all State purposes,, and the said com
pany shall pay the sane rate of taxation
which is now, or may Hereafter, be impos
ed by any general law operating upon all
other Railroad companies incorporated by
this Cdmmonwealtn. {:, Tho semi-annual
installments of the .said sum of thirteen
millions fire hundred and seventy thous
and dollars, and the bal
ance of the said debt and interest so to
be paid into the State'Treasury as.is hero
in provided, are hereby pledged ; to, and
the same shall be applied only to the pay
ment and extinguishment of the princi
pal and interest of the funded debt of
this Commonwealth, and to no other pur
pose whatsoever. ; ’
Seo. 4. That, for :the purpose of de
veloping the resources of the State,
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
is hereby authorized and required to ex
pend the sum of eight hundred and fifty,
thousand dolla/s in aid to the Cbartiera
they are hereby
or other proceed
n on the part of
iforee the colleo
ty, or obligation
tent recovered, or
of any existing
ied or conveyed
Pennsylvania Rail
hat of any other
f the State; and
be, by the proper
wealth, exhonora
-4 from every lien
tate on account
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
Valley Railroad company; the Pittsburg
an d Stubenville Railroad company; the
F ayette Conner Railroad company, (be
tween Greensbarg and the Youghiogheny
River;) the West Pennsylvania Railroad
company, (between Blairsville and Sut
ler; the Ebensburg and Creseon Railroad
company ; the Bedford Railroad company,
(between Hopewell and Bedford;) the Ty
rone and Clearfield company, and the
Pbilipsbnrg and Waterford Railroad com
pany, (between Tyrone and Brookville;)
the Tyrone and Look Haven Railroad
company; tho Mifflin and Centre County
Railroad company, (between Lewiatown
and Reedville jf) the Chambereburg and
Allegheny Rmlroad company, (between
Chaihbersburg and the point of connec
tion with the Bedford Railroad near Hope
well ;) or their successors or ensigns, in sums
proportionated to their respective lengths be
tween the above designated points, purchasing
their bonds respectively from said Companies,
payable in twenty years, with interest, payable
semi-annnally, secured by a first mortgage
created for. the purpose on their property, real
and personal, and franchises acquired and to be
acquired, and the said Companies are hereby
respectively authorized and empowered to cre
ate and issue such bonds, and secure the pay
ment thereof by such majority of their respec
tive stockholders present at a meeting to-be
called for that purpose, of whioh notice shall
be giten, as provided by .their chatters or by
laws, respectively; said bonds, and the mort
gages given to seoure the same shall not exceed
in amount the sum required for the cost of the
supersilcaoture of bridges, the. rails, cross-ties,
tffo chairs and spikes, andj laying the track of
the said roads, required for the cost of said
roads, respectively—and the proceeds of all the
said bonds, so securedj shall bo exclusively
applied to the said purposes—-and the said pur
chases of bonds, shall be required to bo made
of each of the said companies in installments,
after sections of said roads, respectively of the
length of five miles from each end, os herein
before designated, shall have been duly and
properly graded and the masonry completed,
and after the said grading and masonry shall
have, been approved by'a competent civil engin
eer, appointed by the Governor for that pur
pose—and who shall ,be paid for his services
by the said companies receiving aid under the
provisions of this Act—and when each section
of five miles so graded from each such end of
the said roads respectively, shall have been so
completed and such certificate so given, then
the pra rata proportion of the said bonds shall
be purchased, and so continued from time to
time-until tho amount payable to the said com- '
panics shall be exhaused—and the sum psid
upon the completion of tbe said section as
aforesaid respectively, shall be exclusively
appropriated and be used for the purposes
above mentioned, upon the section for and in
respect to. which .the purchase is mode—and for
no other purpose or portion of said road what
soever—provided, however, that if either of the
said companies shall fail to grade and prepare
for bridges, snpentrnotnre, and laying of track
at least one section of five miles at each of such
tend of Us road within one year—or the whole
of their respective roads within three years
from the;passage of this act, any such company,
so in default, shall no longer have any right to
demand or require any further purchase of
their bonds as aforesaid, and tbe sums which
any such defaulting companies would have
been entitled to demand in payment of their
bonds , shall be added pro rata to tbe purchase'
to be made of such of the said companies as
shall comply with the provisions of this sec
tion.
Sic. 5 That if any stockholder or stock*
holders of any railrokd, canal, or slaokwater
navigation companies shall bedissatisfieilwUb,
or object to any of the provisions of this Act,
to apply by petition to the Court of Common
Pleas of the eonnty in which the chief office of.
the companies, may respectively be held—
to appoint three disinterested persona to esti
mate and appraise the damage, if any, done to
each stockholder or stockholders, and whose
award, or that of a majority of them, when
confirmed by. the said Court, shall bo final and
■conclusive. 1 And the person so appointed shall
also , appraise the share or shares of said stock
holders in the said company at the full market
value thereof, without regard to any deprecia
tion in. consequence of the passage of this Act.
and the said company may, at its election,
either pay to the said holder the amount of
damages so found, or the value of tbo stock so
ascertained, and upon payment of the value of
the stock as aforesaid, the said stockholder
shall transfer the stock so held by him to the
said company, to bo Imposed by directors of
said company, or be retained by them for tbs
benefit of the remaining stockholders. Ask! all
"V* inconsistent with the provisions of thin
Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
A StBSTCHin.—IVo once heard an old follow,
famous all over tho country for bis tough yarns,
tell the following: He was telling what heavy
wheat be had seen in New York.
My father,” said ho, “once had a field of
wheat, the heads of whioh were so close to
gether that the wild turkeys when they bomb
to eat, could walk.around on tho top of It any
where.” 1 ,
We suggested that the turkeys attest have
been small ones. . [
“No,-sir,” continued ho, “they were very
large ones. . I shot one of them one day* and
when I took hold of bis legs to carry him his
bead dragged in the snow behind roe.”
“ A carious country you mast hare bad, to
hare had sno w in harvest time. 1 ’
' “ Well, I declare, 1 ’ said he, looking a littln
foolish, “ I reckon I’ve got part of two stories
mixed I”
A Dooms Husband. —ln Portland, Oregon,
there is a man who lived with his wife several
years, and they had several children. At last
she got tired of him, and proposed that they
should get a divorce. lie stud he had no ob
jection if she would support him.® She agreed
to do so, and they were divorced. She is now
married to another man, and supports her for
mer husband by retaining him in the family at,
a servant,
AST If the spring brings forth no blossoms,,
in summer there will bO no b<*teW,, arf. to,-
autumn no fruit. So If youth bo'Wde4.avrn| ,r
without improvement ripeir -year* vraFjto
temptible, and old age mlsyjmble. ' ‘ ;
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