FAIR MOUNTAINS OF FLESH. “There is something fanny about a fat woman. In thé first place she is the only one of her generation in a family with that affistion, and in the second she is uniformly good-natured aod kind. I have never yet seen one in the business who was bad-tempered, said a close observer to a Detroit cor- respondent. “Sometimes I persuade myself that flesh is the ground-work of affability. The fleshiest woman in America to-Jay is the Kindest-hearted being iu the world. These curiosities are the best standard attractivs in museums and circuses, They can earn more money and are more popu, lar with visitors. Besides this, they are the patron spirits of the curiosity halls, and look after the welfare aod comfort of those around them, Another fuany thing about these wo, waen is their love for dwarfs. They take to them as a fly does to sugar. They would be good people to bave in this state about this time, for their intemperance excesses amount simply to sarsaparilla pop drivking. Namiab, a German, whose home was orignally in Kansas City, drinks beer. She is the only fat woman on exhibition to- . day who tastes ardent spirits of any sort. There is a reason for all this Flesh and alxohol are antagonistic. A fleshy person is possessed of more blood. It is of a warmer tempera- ture, and liquor heats blood. Just stop and think how many fat drunk- ards you ever saw. Ifa person 18 GIVEN TO FLESH be will not wake liquor his compaa- jou to the extent of the gutter aod po. lice station. But these big people have no sboormal sppetite fur liguic- nourishment, They drink sarsaparil. ls pop by the bottle, and Namish disposes of beer by cases. Auvother characteristic of fl-shy wowaen is their preference for men slender build. Han- pah Battersby, the best known of fat women, married a tall, emaciated fell low who weighed seventy-four pounds at the time the knot was tier. This was some years 830, aod ever since then the husband has beeu growing in | weight. He pow weighs 158 pounds, Mrs. Battersby’s husband was known as a ‘skeleton’ at the time of bis mar- riage, and =8 he and bis wife wire with Baroum at that time a good deal $ of capital was made of lea Hue mater: | People got the i always marri d sk not the case, and so | Mis. Battersby is the . ip ever did so. But Ler conic mporari 8, | § Jor men | pevertheicss, have 8 wea Win d fat Le of slight usigue, : t 1 2 the highest salar stage, has for a man whom she wedded The) . v sof Mrs, Joansor i 500 have four a0. the tim weigh i 8 11 tips the i , beam at 7 duces i i v v Laan nd. .}] pec } 3 ranges (erma there are a great mupy women who might earn good salaries in Museums, wouldn't pe: of the 34) buat it to import ti The wou em Furopear : 1 tof : JIS B en 3 COnii- } : FOC dy, 83 & class, than { ie of the Atlantic, an i 4] Upol Ley geld 114] devel Wp F ae A such Jd superlinous tissue Haouos tL corpu y lent woman in America. She is forty four vears old aad weighs 728 pounds Mrs. Battersby « $100 per week, and continues to in. | Two weeks ago she fl eraende in weizht, became blind, the eyed ¢hutting out the side is if Mrs Batiersby is ber asility to climb stairs, wWol i TFET 8 ly : Although usable to walk a dozen feet fthout support, she ean climb any staivway by simply grasping the ban pister: rail, Mrs. Batiersby is well educated.’ She hus been fifteen years before the public, Her greatest rival is Mri. Johnson, a colored woman from Indianapolis, whe ls getting $260 at & Chicago museum, This is the highest salary paid any woman in this line ¢f 2urics. Mrs, Jolinson is forty-two years old, rt cighteen her wel as was 200 pounds, Ads Briggs, nineteen years old, 486 pounds, is five feet, four inches in height SUB HAS A MAGNIVIOENT FIOURR and 1s ranked the handsomest woman in the profession, There are two in- stances where two childiea in one family were given (0 remarkable America pro- | yumands a salary « rl obesity, The Hill children, both girls, and twine, are sixteen years old aud weigh 198 and 228: pounds, Peter and Nellie Brahim are respect~ fully twenty-five and twenty-one years old aod their combined weight is 800 pounds. Every woman on exhibition has a weakness for confectionary and cake. Hannah Battersby can eat a prund of confections a day without flinching. She and Mrs. Johnson are transported from town to town in bag: gage cars, Fifty years is the limit of life with the people of this class.” “Are fat men good curiosities?” “No; fat men have all played out. People do not care to see a great, dropsical seething man, sitting calmly ou a stage all day long, doingnotbing but breatheand not doing that very well. The reason these curiosities continue to gain flesh is because they take no exercise. They all die of heart disease or choke to death. A WORD TU YOUNG MEN. cm I want to say a word to the young men, Itis a grand thing to be a young man; to have life before you, Lifeis behind me. My record is pretty nearly made; yours is;to make, [ cant undo a deed I have dove or unsay a word I have spoken to] save my soul. No more can you. You are making your record. We old men have our record nearly made, aod can’t change it. Itis an awful thing when » man is sixty-five years of age to look out upon a stained, smeared, smudged record, and know he can’t change it. Thaok Godjthere is a man who caa wipe out the io- iquity sufficient to save us, as a schoo! boy wipes his sum off the slate, Even if & man is forgiven, it leaves a mark apon him he will vever recover from —pever. Young men, you have life before you and will have to map out which direction you will take. Thev teil us that eight miles above us nothing It is death to all aniwal life eight miles in that direc tion. It don’t depend ou the distance you travel, but ou the direction; and animal can exist. when a man takes a wrong dircetion he not tell me when you are doing wrong You do. There is not » young msn that breaking his mother's heart by dissipation, but koows it. Young men, you peed you don't know it. is glass he of knows it; knows that every drinks will be a thora in the way { med {this i aud picked up bis luggage and asked Fis with i *% CAr Ahead 1 | 3 ! 3 ! traveing « FF : h { him nto the hr “Bat sented,’ id or you?i' “No ‘ ’ we have just ymiortable ed 2 INAKE | ce the wi too Ie Pp ie s we cha Car yr i i 1 or the temperture is all right, " I 0 cold, mebbe ? ] “No, it's not too cold.” the ap o go nto the front car’! “Well, I'll You know {1 uted to be a railroad man, a coun Then what is matter? wi y ald we ' : 2 tell you. ) « | ductor, and of course, 1 picked up : | sone that gets only from experience, ideas on the road & man As soon as the train started my cars told me | there wes a flat wheel under this ear Don’t you hear rapping on the rails? Wait till the trains slow up for the first stop and then you'll hear it— running tou fast now. Yes, sir; car wheels flatten out kad have to be close ly watched. Some imperfections or unevenness in the iron, or some extra ordinary blow ou the rail or obstruc- tion makes an impression on the sar face of the wheel, and then every rev. olution adds to the injury. A wheel will flatten out in a remarkably short time, aud on long runs of through trains a flat wheet is a source of dau- ger. If this wheel runs from here to New York and happens to be a pret ty soft wheel, the chances are that it will arrive there in a very bad condi tion, after doing much damage to the track on the journey as the company will get in passenger money from all the occupants of the car. Of course there's not much danger ; bat I make it a rule never to ride in a car that has flat wheel under it, and if you dou’s mind, we'll go up abesd. W.C0 T.U. 90LUMA, “HE W 0.7 U. MEETS EVERY THURSDAY AT B O'CLOCK IN THE Y. M. 0 A. HALL JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE ON THE LICENSE QUESTION, “How can we help workin’, sister Miokley ? How can we hold our hauvds up, sod rest on our feather- beds? If a deadly serpent bad broken loose from some circus, ano was wreathin’ and twistin’ his way through Jonesville, swallerin’ down a man or & woman every few days, would men stand with their hands in their pockets, or a leanio’ up ag'iost barn-doors a-whittlin,’ arguin’ feebly trom year to year, whether it was best to try to catch the serpent and cut its head off or weather it was best after all to let him go free? After they had seen some of their best friends swallered down by it, would'nt they make an effort to capture it? Woulden't they chase it into any hole they could get it ioto? Wouldn't they turn the first key on it they could get hold of? And it it broke loose from that, would'nt they try another key, and another till they get one that would hold him ? “*‘Do you suppose they would rent oul that serpent at so much s year to crunch and swaller folks accordin’ to law? Aod would it be any easier for the folks that was crunched and swal. lered, and for the survivin’ friends of the same, if they was killed by act of congress ! What would such a law! be thought of, Bister Minkley ?! And that is nothin’ to the laws as they be. For what 1s ove middlesized serpent | in a circus, that couldn't eat more'n | ove man & week with any relish to] this intemperavce, that swallers down | hundred thousand every year, and is as big as the Great Midgard serpent I | bave heard Thomas J. read about, whose folds encompassed the earth.’ | Sister Minkley sithed so loud that | it sounded some like a groan and I | kep’ on in a dreadful eloquent way: “We have got to take these things | to home, Sister Minkley, in order to] realize "em. Yours and mine are as | far apart +s the poles when we are] talkin’ about such things. Asa gen. eral rale we can Dear other folkses | trials and sufferin’s with resignation. | When it is your brother and husband that is goia’ the downward road, we | can endure it with considerable calm- 2 ness; but when iv is a part of my own heart, my Willie, or my Charley that is goin’ down to rain, we feel as if} men and angels must help rescue him. | I + a was this that sent forth the wonder. | WW manus Crusade, that made ten. | der, timid women into heroes willin’ to oppose their we akness banded i : : LAA to was this that made vic- | them, What was the | Holy Land that I have | read about to this ? tect the sepulchere | ody of our Lord once laid, | s Was to defend (y d of the liviug | ¢ in man,” "Cops Samantha Josiah | 2 -— JOHN B. FINCHR W THE WORLDS GOOD TEMPLARS —————— HON OF i The drink habit and its associations | are bad, Every drinker will that they would injure his wile. habit and associations admit A which would injure a woman will injure a man, A bad man is as bad ssa bad woman. | A fast girl is not a whit viler, lower and meaner than the young man who visits her, Vice cannot be made vir tue by dressing it in paotaloons, KING ALCOHOL! In dark rooms and dingy cellars, in secret conclave, he devises his plans and mixes his druge. By night and by day he draws out the catalogues of crime. With bands polluted with blood and locks that wriggle and crawl and hiss; with purpose fixed for slaughter, and with heart wopityiog and unrelenting, he presses his jofer- nal work. With the gold “his crimes have brought him, be seeks to secure friends in the halls of legislation; to put his judges upon the bench, his ad vocates at the bar, his witnesses on the stand, and to make surety doubly sure, his views in the public mind. He would control, if he could, not only our alms houses &ad prisons, but also our legislative halls and our pub. lic presses, He would fill not only our cells and graveyards, but algo our precautions as if actual war existed. I dodged two or three put-up jobs to | murder me, and luck had made ne | sort o' reckless, when I brought up |ceotre, the boys bave gives me thirty could go, when a bnliet kvocked my | | tongue. fifieen rods away, with nary brush or { stone between us, ed at me, and he bad aimed at my head. | but as the one who fired bad missed his | target and allowed me Lo secure cov” er the advantage now rested with me in several points, shots, | was ou higher ground, the | bushes grew quite up to around "em, 8 | some minits that there | sun hit twelve o'clock that day. Li |r t | but I was as safe as in a { then { through the bushes missions, This is our foe—cunping as a fox, Wise ns a serpeut, strong as an ox, bold as u lion, merciless as a tig: r remorseless us a hyens, fierce as a | pestilence, deadly ws a plague. To condemn and correct such a crimiosl is not the pastime of an Lour, but the mauly, herc-born wariyr-bred work of a lifetime, A LUCKY WESTEGN SCOUT. “1 was a scout and huwer for Forg Station, io New Mexico, tor a couple of seasons,” said Tom White, Tue fort is on one of the upper branches of the Booita river, with a spur of the Soledad mountaivs 10 the vorth and east. Injuns were preuty thick and mighty mean, though they wade a pretence of being at peace, and wore or less of ‘em were lying around the fort all the time. | bad the firsr wio- chester rifle I had ever seen in that locality, sad the redskios just tum- bled over each other in their efforts t+ buy the gun. They offered me three times the value of it, but it was a present from av old fricod of wive, and I couldn't let it go. [I koew enough of Injun natur, however, to feel sirtin that some of the bucks would lay for me and shoot me down fore when out on a huot or with dis, patches I had to observe just as many with a round. [ bad wounded a deer io the foothills sirly one morpiog, sod was pushing oo after bim as bard as I Bmall Hose, and aiter a bit [ asked him if he kuew where Out in-the-Rain and Cloudy Day were summering, He said be ex; ected 1 see them at the fort that afternvon, and I told him to prepare bis wind for «dis appointment’ The bodies were fons snd a boudred different bucks swore to bave my life, but I'm will living sod in good health, sod was never fired on agin.” BEST KIND GF SECURITY The other morning, as a jauitor of a bank not very far from the pulace, opened the doors, be wus surprised 10 observe three rather tired looking | | citizens seated on the steps, the cen. | held a seated velope carefully in sight of his ¢ m- pavions, Want to muke a deposit, gentle. men ? asked the cashier, who arrived | shortly ; step insid . No; I want 10 negotinte =» oar | said the man with the envelope ; sua | there ain't a mioute 10 lowe; | want | tre one of whom en $5,000 quicker than Lades can scorch | a feather, What collaterals have you-—gore ernment ? inquired the bauk official. | Government nothin ; I've got some- | to get possession of the gun, and there thing that beats four per ceuts. all | | bollow ; you see, I've been sitiing in .| poker game macros the street, aod | there's over $4 000 in the pot ; there | are three or four pretty strong hands out, abd as | have ev ry cent io the minutes to raise a stack on wy band ; | it's in this envelope ; just look at it | but don't give it away to these gentle- hat off, and I heard two lodians give | In about five minutes I was lying flat on my face behind a big rock, and in five more had made out that the two rede were bebiod another rock, Only one had fr- It was an out-and-out ambush, I bad the most my back, while they had open olf whon I figgered out the lay of he ground, and made up my wind in groond all | *9¢ : | I chuckled away to my | disappointed spplicavt snd friend® | HUCK i™ WE | | men. They're iu the game nud cane along to see I dou't monkey with the cards, But, my dear sir, said the cashier, who had quietly opened the enveiope and found it to contain four kings and | ralar an ace; this is entirely irreg we don’t lend money on cards, But you ain't going to see me raised out on & baud like that? whispered the pokerist. These think I'm bluffing and 1 can Just clenu out | the whole gang. Yuu playing flashes, so I've got eliows see, we aio’t] ein sight / in the door, Can't kelp it, sir; never beard of | bh a thing, said the cashier and the | drified sadly out. i On the voroer they met the bauk's | no Was hitmsell i . . ! 1 ¢ | tribe finiuns inNew Mexico whod miss i i two bucks from their ranks afore the | To | | be sartin sure that they were layin for was a sartin | president, » ma little He $100. BEAID, abag | me I got holdof a stick snd pulled | in my cap and elevated it, ¢ thr Then I called out but ‘em Sent a bullet sgh it quicker en i g ) than 32 wink snd told ‘em who | was, and jeer rd at me in \ A) Was to Keep Che wmdy for me, while the me that they were in airpesi bullets chipped the roc ks all around, 2 fort, i et em fool around fr half sn bh worked my way took a halfcircle, | and presently hit s spot not 300 feet | behind ‘em from which I could see the pair plain, Both were on koees the one holding his fire i * I me | to rise up. AND THE OTHER BLAZING AWAY as fast as he the could load. foul, sud to try and bluff me in that way made me grin all over. 1 could have shot tem down at once, but I waited awhile to enjoy the situation. Qoe of ‘em was 8 buck named Cloudy Day, and the other was called Outen the-Rain, Both were at the fort the previous day trying to buy the gun, and pro= fessing the greatest friendship for we. “I waited about ten minutes, and then Idrewup and sent a bullet into Uloudy Day's spine. He tumbled backward, snd 111 wager he didn" kick twice. The shot, of course, alarmed the other, and he sprang 10 bis feet and Jooked around. He start- ed to bolt, but I called to him to halt, and stoud there a fair mark and shout. od to bim to shoot. I didn’t want to knock him over in cold blood, you sce. He drew up his gun an blazed away, but the bullet went wild, Then be threw down his gun and started to 100, bot he bado’s gove ten feet be fore 1 tumbled him over. I left the carcasses lying there and overtook my deer and carried him into the fort. fellow |" dazed away every minute to show | | His | our, and | backward | the ir i I had "em | . . . : bred injuns being jackasses enough judgment seats and our police com | There was a subchicf thre named | | nd oneof | : why I » Enap, | always | N Ab! th you did yi WHA Bir . 3 i kpow what 31) i lateral remember thst four kn i sn ace, flushes bar good in this instito- ngs fi red, are always ur entice asscls, sir- i Lion for « | tire assets i i | i i idea of two thorough- } CONQUERED SWAYNE'S WILD CHERRY, blood wid ldots, beooming very SWAYNE'S OINTMENT our en- | 1S59-1SS87. (Great Reduction PRICES!!! [ am now Prepared lo Give BIG BARGAINS. DRY GOODS, Dress Goods from 5c to $2 per yard. NC7JONS, Hose from 3c lo $1 per p wr GROCERIES. in future | | Lower Tan the Loew est. Give us a Call. We Guarantee Satige faction. Countrv Produce On hand, and Wanted at all times. C. U. HOFFER Sp ei
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