'rirl(f,,p ,ln-f\ifi 'IiWBIVjf'*' .13, he whirled 'round an' come back to Deaf fqr_A Year A pen is the silent mouthpiece of the us lookin' the soberest an' solemnest There Are Countries Where It Seems mind, which gives abiquity and permanence I ever seen a feller look in all my life. to Supply Every Human W a to the evanescent thought of a mo By gosh, stranger, you may not believe «4 It recently fell to my lot to pass ment. There are countries where bamboo a in to a a a it, but I'd most swear they was seems to supply almost every human Soap a Sunday in a small Kansas town, and SarsapariHa --. tears in old Jim's eyes, an' I know he O O E Printed requirement, and where the feathery as.it was a wet day I was forced to remain when he spoke to us his voice was all I "Rochester. N Y.. July 27. 1891. CAR YOU FIND THE WORD? There is a 3 masses of its foliage, drooping like inch display advertisement in this paper, a-tremble like his feelin's was too "Three yean ago. as a result of catarrh, I look in the greater part of it cooped the weeping willow over road and river this week, which has no two words alike much for him. my hearing entirely and was deaf for more thaa up in the, little hotel. The house had Rots Clothes and and village, bespeak an ideal of life except one word. The same is true of each a year. I tried various things to cure it, and "It was a good bit before Jim said new one appearing each week, from The beyond the reach of less primitive no other guest, and so for the want had several physicians, bnt no improvement was Chaps Hands. Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house a word, an' all the time he jes set thar communities. Here man is unspoiled apparent, I could *. ,45^ of better company I went to the office places a "Crescent" on everything they on a inverted bucket nussin' his head by artificial wants, untouched by the Distinguish No Sound. make and publish. Look for it, send them and entered into conversation with IVORY in his hands, an' actin' as if he was march of thought or of science, and the name of the word and they will return I was intending putting myself under the care of tne landlord, a tall, sunbronzed, dreadful cut up. We stood 'round an' nature, unsolicited, supplies with lavish a specialist when some one suggested that possibly yOU BOOK, BEAUTIFUL LITHOGRAPHS OT SAMPLES looked at him, a-wonderin' what it hand his simple needs. It is an FKEE. leathery-featured man past middle Houd's Sarsaprilla would do me some good*. meant, but after awhile I ventured to ideal which it seems almost sacrilege I began taking it without expecting muchhelpuTo Flatt age, who I soon learned, had spent ittery is like champange it soon gets speak to him, say in': SOAP to disturb, and in presence of which my surprise and great joy I found when 5 into the head. 4, many years in the West, and who had had taken three bottles that my hearing was 'What's ailin' you, Jim?' the highest aim of the foreign intruder N a S a returning. I kept on taking seen some rough as well as interesting "Then he raised his head sorter should, be to preserve its primary conditions To have the shakes that are produced by intact. No better example Hood's SarsapariHa slow like, an' in atone so sad an' indifferent experiences, and who was chuck full chills and fever or bilious remittent fever. can be cited of the land of the bamboo from what his alius was, of reminiscences. Prevent them and every other form of malarial than one of those Indo-Chinese that I didn't recognize it, he said: Till I had taken three more, when I stopped. I disease with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, DOES NOT. After we had talked for a couple of provinces, of which Burmah is the best is now over a year, and I am troubled but very the grand fortifier and defensive medicine 'Boys, I'm jis' completely upsot known to Europeans. Like thefirin ot the age. Dyspepsia, kidney an# little with the catarrh. I consider this a -very !••-. hours on various subjects my host by what I heard, over thar, an' feel so liver complaint, constipation, rheumatism Northern climates, it is the bamboo blame sneakin' mean that I've a great markable case." HEBMAN HICKS, 30 Carter St. suddenly remarked: and debility are also remedied by this HOOD'S PILLS—For theliverand bowels, acw which here gives an unmistakable notion to shoot myself. Inever knowed Hi beneficent medicine. "I reckon, stranger, you've heard easily yet promptly and efficiently. Price 25e»- stamp to the rural landscape, while it A W O W O N E O E before how onery I am.' tell of 'Big Jim, as we alius called him." SICKHEADACHE is literally the framework and foundation Flowers fling their wealth npon the "Course we was all s'prised at that "No, I think not I was compelled of nearly every work of man. vacant air, and rich men often fling theirs sort 'o talk from Jim, 'cause he was so he W for to admit, though I realized from the upon the vacant heir. It is no exaggeration to say that the blamed tough we didn't s'posenothing a a is E Positively eared toy tone which the question was asked same jungles which give cover to animal 'ud tech his heart, and we was anxious these Little Pills. a it a a for $ 7 5 0 Umversal household remedy," is the that it was a humilatmg admission to life of every form and tiibe exert They also relieve to know what he'd heard over to the By a fortunate arrangement with the common people's name for Johnson's Anodyne make. a beneficent influence also on every tress from Dyspepsis.In Liniment. wagon, an' so we axed him. publishers of the Revised Encyclopedia digestionandTooHssxtj "Never'" the landlord repeated. step of life of their human inhabitants. Britannica, the Pioneer Press is enabled to 'Wal,' he said, I went over thar Bating. A perfect! "Wal, that's strange Thought shorely The Burmese child plays with bamboo make an offer which twelve months ago The greatest friend of Truth is Time her edytorDizaness,Kv Heto shoot that settler, an' I was would have been regarded as impossible, ever'body knowed 'bout Jim. greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant Drowsiness, Bad toys in a house of which roof and slippin' up to the wagon to git the in the Mouth, Coated not to say ridiculous. companion is Humility. was the foremost man on the border, walls and floors are for the most part Tongae.Pain in the Sid*. draw on him, when all at once I heard Any one, parent or child, teacher or an' he made a record that'll stand a made from the same generous plant. TORPID IJVKR. They pupil, employer or employe, sending to "I often prescribe Johnson's Anodyne a voice—the meekest, pitifulest little regulate the Bowels. good many years. He was a great Through boyhood and manhood and Liniment for Erysipelas," said a physician the Pioneer Press Company, St Paul, Minn., voice I ever heard in my life, an' I Purely Vegetable. to us. man, Jim was a wonderful feller, old age this helpful comrade is ever by $7.50 will receive in return, and absolutely Price Cents. knowed in a minute it was the voice shore Tough' oh my, stranger, I his side.^ On land or water, in peace free of all delivery charges, the Weekly There is nothing which a vulgar mind CASTES MEDICINE CO., NEW TOSS. of a leetle gal.' Pioneer Press for one year and a complete or war, in the homes of rich and poor, reckon he was. He wasn't afeard of so unhesitatingly seizes on for «arcasm as "Jim's yoice choked up so he set of the Revised Encyclopedia Britannica. in art and manufacture, in the market nothin', an' I guess the happiest times the endeavor oi a poor man to appear a Small Pill. Small Dose. Small Price. This magmfacent work is comprised in wascouldn't say nothin' more, so he waited and the field, at feast and funeral, gentleman. he ever knowed was when he twenty octavo volumes of seven thousand a moment, an' then he went on: this is the substance of all that man pages, fourteen thousand columns and mixed up a shootin' scrape. Thar's 'Fellers,' he said, 'that voice jest most needs and values for ornament eight million words, and has ninety-six no tellin' how many men Jim killed went through me like a knife, an' I maps, printed in colors I is most emphatically or use. Towns and villages are built first an' last, for he was so reckless LOST TIME. never felt so cussed quaire since I was "up to date" in all relating to from its stems and leaves the fisherman's he'd just pop 'em over at the crook of art, literature and science, and has four born. It was so weak, an' so pitiful, rod and float and raft the a finger, an' didn't no more keer for it thousand biographies of dead or living celebrities. an* so helpless like. I heard it say: hunter's snare it bridges the torrent, than nothin'. Twixt you an' me, stranger, It is the most complete dictionary Newton, 111. 'Is the land pretty, pa? Is it green bears water from the well and irrigates of America extant and contains all the information I think Jim carried the shootin' with grass like the old home back of the Encyclopedia Britannica the fields. It is food and medicine From 1863 to 1885—about business a leetle to fer. I like fer a and hundreds of additional facts. It is preeminently East?' for cattle, and even for men and man to stand up fer his rights, and if modern and peculiarly correct. 'Yes, it is very beautiful, darling,' there is music, too, not only in the 22 years—I suffered with rheu- a teller needs drappin', why then drap No such offer was ever made by anew spaper a man replied like he was cryin'. 'It's rustle of its leaves, but in its woody 'im, but there ain't no call fer gettin' before. N such offer could have very pretty, an' you will find the heart, from which more than one musical been made one month ago. The twenty matism of the hip.. I was cured by the use of too blamed promisc'us 'bout it an' green prairie almost as nice as the big instrument is made.—Blackwood's volumes are bound in heavy jute manilla, puttin' a hole through a chap jest fer the paper of the printed pages is excellent, meadow back at the old home. When Magazine. T. C. DODD. the tun of it. ST. JACOBS OIL. and the type, maps and illustrations are you get well vou can romp over the the same as used in the sheep, Russian or Elain and gather flowers and be very "I reckon, stranger, every man calf-skin bound editions. I "ALL RIGHT I ST. JACOBS OIL DID IT." 4 appy.' what Jim made up his mind to kill Present subscribers to the Weekly Pioneer W E PAI POLITICIANS 'I ain't never goin' to be well any Press by sending $7.50 will receive the caught it, 'cept one, an' that one, I more, pa,' the little voice said, 'and I Encyclopedia as described above and will guess was the last one he ever laid off have their paper continued one year from won never gather no flowers nor Brazilian is a to A a to plant." the expiration of their present subscription. romp over the prairie but I'm glad $ 3 7 5 0 a "Jim caught it that time himself, N»o charge for delivery. Yo can send it's pretty, 'cause when I'm in Heaven It took 50 sittings of the Brazilian your distant friend the Weekly and the eh9" I suggested. where the angels are, an' where everything twenty volumes for $7.50 Congress to pass its first important "No, he didn't," the landlord replied is so beautiful an' bright, I want bill, and that related to the salary of a tone of slight disgust. "Narry to know that you an' ma have a nice Congress The precedents brought out time, sir. Jim wasn't the man to be The following doubtful compliment Patents foMnventions home like the old one we lost. I won't planted premachoorly, an' the feller in the debate on that measure of pressing Indian Depredation is a fragment from a love letter. "How be with you very long now, pa, 'cause that could drap 'im never lived." public importance show that the I can hear the angels singm', an' I I wish, my darling Adelaide, my engagement "How did it happen that he didn't stipend of the members of the first know they're comin' to take me away. would permit me to leave kill the man you speak of, then?" I Constituent Assembly after the separation Claims. Don't cry, dear pa an' ma, 'cause I THE PIONEER PRESS Pt~ town and come and see you. It would asked from Portugal was $1,200 a BUREAU OF CLAIMS ain't sorry to go—only I don't like to be like visiting some old ruin, hallowed "Wal, sir, it was a quaire piece of year. That amount continued to be theleave you. I'm so glad you're goin' business, that was, an' one o' by time, and fraught with a thousand paid to the representatives in Parliament to have a beautiful home where the most techm' things I ever see. I never Obtain Patents, pleasing recollections." down to 1873, when the change Persons who have lost property grass an the flowers grow, an' somemaybe, knowed a feller so broke up in all my Conduct Interferences, was made to the rate of $37.50 per no-times, I'll come back to see life as Jim was, an', sir, it was from Indian raids should file their Make Special Examinations, $*$EiSSs you.' legislative day for Senators and $25 bodoj but a little gal that done it— Prosecute Rejected Cases, claims under the Indian Depredation "Wal, sir, we never heard nothin' a a for Deputies. A natural differ-i Register Trade Marks and Copy- a little bit o' shaver, 'bout six or seven ence to the length of the sessions was more 'bout keepin' settlers off en the Act of March 3, 1891.The rt years old, I reckon, an' the poorest time is Shts, observable under that arrangement, valley, an' Ave never tried to hold none peekedist little thing I ever set eyes on Render Opinions as to Scope a limited, and the claims are taken up of it 'cept what the law 'titled us to and was urged as an argument against 'Want to hear 'bout it, eh? Wal, Validity of Patents, ,± hold. Big Jim an' all the rest of us continuing it in the Republic. But a by the court in the order in which the way of it was this Prosecute and Defend Infringement helped the settlers ever'way, we could "You see 'bout the time Oklahoma proposition to make the salary $500 Suits, Etc. they are received. and when the angels came ter bis leetle was opened tor settlement, Big Jim, for each session was voted down, and A If you have an invention on hand sen gal an' took her spirit away, we made an' me, an'four other fellers was herdin' the old plan of payment by the day THE PIONEER PRESS BUREAU a sketch a grave on the prairie an' buried her on a range in Western Texas. We'd adopted. There was some dispute between TAKE NOTICE THAT ALL CONTRACTS or photograph thereof, together with a brief whar the grass growed and whar Big been up the territory herdm' a right the two houses, however, over description of the important features, and ENTERED INTO WITH Jim planted a tree an' some flowers. smart, but the.soldiers drove us out the distinction made in estimating you will be at once advised as to the best I never see old Jim cry before, stranger, with the rest of the cattle fellers, you ATTORNEYS PRIOR TO THE ACT course to pursue. Models are not necessary the value of the services of each. It thebut he shed tears over that grave like kion, and so we laid down on unless the invention is of a complicated was finally agreed, though, that genuine ARE MADE NULL AND VOID. the leetle gal was his own, and from border sorter waitin' for developments. nature. If others are in ringing on your Republican principles required that day he was a different man, an' rights, or if y\u are charged with infringe, equality of payment, and as the Senators as kind an' gentle as a woman."— "While we was in the territory we ment by others, submit the matter to would not come down, the Deputies Information given and all claims Thomas P. Montfort in Detroit Free picked out a valley what had 'bout BUREAU for a Reliable OPINION be ore. OJS11S E N O consented to go up, and so the Press. three thousan' acres o' the best land promptly attended to. acting on the matter. rate for either was made $37.50 per an' richest grass I ever see anywhere, Both the method and results when legislative day.—New York Evening an' we 'lowed as soon as the country S O O O N I N A E S Syrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant Post. was open for settlement we'd come and refreshing to the taste, and acts back an' take possession of it an' us iv gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, make a ranch thar in spite o' all *cre-~ at S Origin of the Postage Stamp. Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system Pensions procured for soldiers of the Rebellion served 90 ation. Schoolboys are almost invariably "Few people, perhaps, realize of how effectually, dispels colds, head* days and are NOW disabled from ANY cause. This pension is a "Wal, by an'by the President issued known to their fellows by some strange recent origin is the postage stamp. It aches and fevers and cures habitual his proclamation, an' then when the able whether the disability a incurred before, during or since was first issued by Great Britain in day fer enterin' the Territory come constipation. Syrup of Figs is the sobriquets, rarely indeed, by their service. Pensions for widows and children without regard to cause 'round we moved in with our cattle 1840. Brazil was the first nation to only remedy of its kind ever produced, proper names. The variation of these of soldier's death. Pensions for mothers and fathers oar N O W an' took possession of the valley. follow the example, which they did in pleasing to the taste and acceptable is extremely curious, and sometimes dependent, whether they were dependent on soldier when he died 'Now,' said I that night as we 1843, and in 1847 the United States to the stomach, prompt in considerable quickness in seizing upon not. Widows, children and parents are regarded as "dependent"* squatted 'bout our camp-fire, 'if none began the use of postage stamps. its action and truly beneficial in its in all cases where they have not sufficient income from propertyfor o' those blamed settlers don't come a peculiarity is shown in fitting anew There are now 211 stamp-issuing effects, prepared only from the most foolin' 'round yere to take up claims their support. boy with a nickname which will last countries. It is estimated now that healthy and agreeable substances, it! in this alley we're fixed, fer this'll Soldiers pensioned at less than twelve ($12.00) dollars perand the whole of his school career, and every year some 50,000,000,000 many excellent qualities commend it make one o' the nicest little ranches letters' are posted in the world. suffering from disability in addition to at named in* very possibly will descend, as is often in the ountry.' to all and have made it the most America leads with over 25,000,000,000, their pension certificate, a obtain increase under the new law 'Wal," said Big Jim, with an oath, the case, to the brothers who may popular remedy known. and England follows with 700,000,000. 'if any settler wants to take a claim Information and advice given without charge. Best facilitiesever succeed him. In one school five Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50o Japan now mails annually yere, an' thinks he can, jis' let him try offered to claimants to have their claims properly and diligently brothers who attended the school consecutively, and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. 95,000,000 letters, and the canceled it I 'low he'll find out mouty blamed prosecuted. N charges unless successful. Write for in were known by the name Any reliable druggist who soon that he's undertook a most miserable stamps on these letters are worth on formation. may not have it on hand will procure of "Bones." The family name being unhealthy job. This valley's an average of each. Last year PIONEER PRESS BUREAU OF AM it promptly for any one who ours an' we're goin' to hold it spite o' Jones, the transition was easy and there were 26,000 letters posted in the dickens, an' I can tell you right wishes to try it Do not accept any England without any address on natural. now, fellers, that I'll shoot the first substitute. them. In 1600 of these gold com and A very curious nickname was that chap what offers to stop here. I'll "Duo-money were inclosed. The canceled CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. of the boy who was known as make sich a example of him that ther S A postage stamps of many countries decim Snails," and it was acquired in won't another settler come in forty SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. This Bureau is guaranteed by the Pioneer Press, the San Francisco Examiner and th» are worth quite as much as unused a funny way. The class was engaged IDUI8VILLE. KY. 1EW YORK. N.t. mile ot us.' Omaha Bee. at a Latin lesson, and to a question specimens, and many are issued solely »il, we wras purty well tired out so of the master this boy replied "duode for collections, the revenue being an DR. TALMAGE'S "LIFE OF CHRIST." we tu»ned quick as supper was GOOD NEWS cira" instead of "duodecimus" to the important item. Monaco was the over' an' we slept like logs till mornin amusement of the class generally. latest to issue stamps but StofEaland, Covering his greaF trip TO, Through, and From the Christ-Land, Illustrated with over 4 0 When we woke the sun was up, wonderful engravings, also a grand picture of Jerusalem on the day of the Crucifixion, in 12 coloreand Later in the lesson, the same boy in an' the fust thing we see when we its "fifty houses and three F0RTHEMILLI0NS0FC0NSUMERSUF, Tntt's Pills. ten feet in length, with translating Virgil hesitated at a word. AfiCUTC \ifAllTCn Immense Sales, No capital needed. Write quick to, glanced 'cross the valley was a old stores," is probably themostinsignificant, AUCniO If AnlkU W. D. CONDIT, & CO., Des Moines, Iowa. A boy next to him mischievously covered wagon not more'n a quarter even more so than Heligoland whispered "snails," and, without a THE NORTHWESTERN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC of a mile away. The wagon had It gives Dr. Tutt pleasure to a A -JPXJLJSTCD or the Virgin Islands. Bhopal has moment's thought, the translator repeated 608 1-8 Nicollet Ave. Minneapolis. Minn. nonnce that lie is now putting up a W come m, I recon, jis' after we went to the oldest stamp, Nicaragua the •TINT LIVER PILL* All Orchestral Instruments, Must \J (~~\~T~f^i L1 cal Education Elocution, Lianirua*e«L the word. There was a roar sleep, an' the folks had put up a tent BEST TEACHERS Tuition V-Z-JLV^/-C Low. Send for -(ataloguef Fa finest, Siberia the largest, Zealand the of laughter, in which the master joined, Term opens, September 7th. A /v 1 I 3ike as if they were fixin' to stay. smallest, Guatemala the most striking, which is of exceedingly small size, yet CLARENCE A. MARSHALL, Director. Vw? JCOVJT'-A-J 4 and ever after that boy was Big Jim he took a squint at the outfit^ retaining all the virtues of the larger and Sarawak and Great Britain "Duodecim Snails." then he tore loose an' sworefitt ones. They are guaranteed purely yULjrATtoAJ.SAWYER&CO..DULUTHROSMINNEAPOLI divide the honor of having the cheapest I vegetable. Both sixes of these pills If a stranger overheard a boy talking set a sword afire. Then he got his 'are stUl issued. The exact size of and meanest.—-The Book-Keeper. to another about "the Rats" he pistols, an' when •somebody axed I 'I'U'jrr's Timr I E I I S might be puzzled, yet this cognomen what he was goin' to (do, he said: is shown in the border of this "ad." Two Kinds of Sleeoers. was borne by three brothers who attended Taai goin' over thar an, vwipe that In noticing two men whe were sleepingtn the school together. The PronptBetirns! LlberalAdMBcesr •denied settler out. I'm goin' to shoot Ely's Cream Balm a short journey today, 1 could Christian name of the elder was Batcliffe, ihim so full o' lead that he'll weigh a AND COARSEMAINplacingetradeshavefutureverE W also the beat faoilltiea for not but note the difference in attitude which was capable of convenient ^yn. I'll break up this squatter busi.aess for delivery in a|l markets. abbreviation, and when the younger and eyeless expression of the slumbering right on the start.* QUICKLY CURES O E S O N E N 8 0 I E to ones. One was limp as a muslin brothers came to the school the three "I knowed Big Jim meaaat what he COLD in HEAD were known as "the Rats." sash. His mouth was open. His said, an' I felt kind o' sorry for the PISO'S CURE FOR Sometimes thesameboyis known by head wobbled about and his whole settler, hut I didn't say nothin/ Me Price 5 0 Cents. an enormous number of names. The appearance indicated complete subjugation aa' the other boys jest set down an' writer remembers a case in which several and a mental blank. At theELTBBOS Apnly Balm intoeach nostril. Beeommended by Physician*. watched Jim as he strided 'cross the .56 WarrenStN.Y and agreeable tolbe fellows once calculated that another other end of the seat another man prairie, an' waited to see what was objection. boy in the school bore between druggists. goin' to happen. was sleeping, but he looked as if he HAT LK We want the nameand addressof forty and fifty nicknames. Some of had first arranged his posture and "When Jim got up sorter CIOST to every sufiVrer inthe O N S I O N these were doubtless improvised for the wagon we see him draw his gun .then invited sleep to visit him for a andCanada Addres? & ASTHMA the occasion, but most of them were little. His head was thrown back, An' git ready to shoot, then we see quite genuine. Needless to say, this lima edge up a little closer kinder his face firmly fixed and his uninterrupted boy was one of the best-tempered in keerful like, then all to once we seen breathing deep. One sleeper the school. him stop an' wait like he was listening was pleasing to look upon, for even in A tall, thin boy was always- known at somethin'. his slumber he had a self-control which as "the Broomstick," and another "Wal, I reckon mosfc a half hour was wanting in -the other, and the absence must a passed that way, an' we got who had spent part of his life in India of it made him ridiculous and a was called indiscriminately "the to wondering what made Jim stan' little disgusting.—Toronto Globe. Thug" or "Buddha."—Tid-Bits. there actin' like that, when all at once ff "WOOID'W'^JRJD Ss OOao^ASTYV Mtaaea^ollk or JDv less* ti J£i A^* $i