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memories spacious Among the life at W gton. happy possessors ¢ asure are Bob In Missouri. gift, culti fection. mm contra regular ha phys who hives weil, nposing ique he of one ique, the » never worres, and thinks t } » | ' thinks to please $ Ve world last. is as variable in his moods as an Ap jubilant, and the prince of story- -tellers one minute, gloomy and speechless the next. A small, ! angular-shouldered, sunken-chested specimen of humanity, wearing al- | ways a cynical look on his pinched | teatures. Only at odd times does he arouse himself to some special oc- j casion and give the country a test of | He and In- re his oratorical quality. gersol! have the same views ligion, and both are at home in bib- Mr. Vest, it is said, can bible on lical lore. recite nearly memory (though he probably does the entire from not devote five minutes in a month tothe theory of redemption), and} his mind, like Ingersoll’s, 1s a store- house of illustrations and quotations. Mr. Vest is also tamed Missouri for his power in citing precedents in They say give the of a though he has not seen it for years. —New York Graphic. in court. he can number page from An A Ancient Traveler. Lafayette, Ind., April rr. Mary Beneman of Ames, Ia.,arrived m this city last evening ona visit to Mrs. Michael Siegel, her grand- daughter. Mrs. Beneman was born in Lewiston, Del., March 14, 1773, and is consequently 112 years of age. Her tather was Captain Christopher R. Perry, a revolutionary soldier, while her brother, Oliver H.,achiev- ed a reputationas the hero of the battle of Lake Erie. Mrs. Bene- man was married to William Colton and the | ee i other hand memory, | A Brakeman’s Perilous Ride. e Wenn,a brat 1 the Short narrow escape fr He } very r Wer and that happened j and el] +d to itas a drow: clings to a straw. He was between the two cars, barely | hold himself up. but know | he let go his hold it meant, | | deat Finally he was found. As soon as he was taken up he fainted. | It was found that he was horribly | ; bras -d about the face and body. He | | was prought to this city and carried to his home on Wenzel and aie | con streets, and Dr. Rudell cailed.— | | Louisville Times. | | Arkansas, Sedalis & Chicago Railroad, i Ata meeting of representative men ' | from the various counties named was 1 1 | held at the office of Judge | Shater, in Greenfield, Mo.. | 1885, tor the purpose of or | a company to build a line ofr Route ern line | trom some point on the rorth throu jut Arkansas, tl Barry, Lawrence, Dade, Cedar, Clair, Henry, Benton, to Pettis, and] Satine counties, some point on the Miss The election of D. P. i river | gamzed by the ratton. of Vernon meeting or St county, chairman, and E. T. Ken- nedy, ot Dade county, secretary. On motion, it was resolved to ap- | point a committe of three trom each county to represent said county in all preliminary steps necessary to per- tect the organization of a railroad company under the laws of the State of Missouri. at Lewiston in y8oo, and in 1806] nq. Fie with two children emigrated to | were elected to represent Dade coun- ircleville, O., where they went to | ty; John E. Hartley, J. R. Owens farming. Four children were born, three of whom are vet living. On motion, L. W. Shafer, James } Travis and Geo. B. Mitchell and S. L. Walker, Cedar county; At/ Commodore G. B. Simonds and J. this place she married her second L. Hall to represent Pettis county, | husband, John Beneman, who lived} with power to select an additional | but a short time. to Tippecanoe county, and resided onthe Wea plains with her son In 1849 she came} committeeman, also to confer with citizens of Saline county in reference to the election of a committee to rep- Joseph tor about sixteen years, or} resent that county. | i until his death, when she went to} Ames, Ia., where she has since lived | with Mre. Black, her granddaughter. For years Mrs, Siegel, another grand- daughter, had supposed she was dead, but recently learned that she was living and persuaded her to pay | them a visit. Altogether Mrs. Rene- man has about 120 children, grand Ghildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren hving. She still enjoys remarkable good health, although quite deaf. She will prob ably make her home in this city. { The Holiness People ef Georgia. | Athens, Ga., Apri! 15.—The Holiness people, who are recruited from the Southern Methodist church, are holding a convention here which is developing similar traits to those Miller is, One of the number, accostec of the Salvation Army. Rev. Wi a bank president standing on a step reading the morning paper. | Steppirg iato the door Mr. Wilhs, i vor in “Cursed are all the money tor they shall hell.’ Meeti street warning see r gentlernan on the d: ‘My going?’* ‘*To the court house." was the reply. “N you are bound fer heil,”* the But Mr. W his match when he asked a simner if he did heart. “No,”? was the reply, Iam badly in need of a new Walsville, I., August 20th ter the birth of my first child my erv was very slow and it seemed that I snouild never get well again. The doctors who treated me did aot seem understand my case, or it they did, unable to restore me to m I grew weaker and poorer thought I should die. duced to try Merrell surprise { found almost trom the first cose, and 2 Iwas as strong and well as ev- Respecttully, friend, where are you oO, you are not; ister retorted. not need a new liver. recov- to me to were for 5 onths Finally I w. ‘but | On motion, it was ordered that D. | P. Stratton, 3s chairman of this meet- | ing haye authority to select and ap— point. by correspondence, com— mittees to represent the Barry, Lawrence, St Clair and Hen- counties of | ry. i On motion, L. W. Shafer, ot Dade county, was elected chairman | ot said General Committe with authority to call such committee to- gether at such time and place as may be deemed advisable, and to whom all communications can be address- ed. On motion enterprise be named Sedalia and Cineago railroad. On motion the meeting adjourned. ; EP (e L. KENNEDAY, Secretary.— c it was ordered that thi Arkansas, | the Srratton, Chairman EB. Henry ibutes an ge Gover frontispiece is a = ant ever taken and one of distingurst a i t of the aie rz Baie was from a * tallass. Iss se-/ Ma | A, etc., and ‘vet it is simple end | Sc ence and med mbined with rbs which nature ire of disease t 20rates the whole custem. Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, the distingutahe sressman, ouce wrote to a fellow mem ber w ring from indigestion and kidney @: ¥ Mishler’s Herb Bitters, I believe it will cu u. I have used it for both indigestion and af tion of the kidneys, and it isthe moat wo: combination of medicinal herbs I ever naw MISHLER HERB BITTERS C 525 Commerce &t., Philadelphia. Parker's Pleasant Worm Syrup Never Fail; strer 12% (Continued from last week.) How Watch Cases are Made. Was inv This process of manufactur ness in who started by James By 1854, and the methods and :ools used in making these patents. This ts the only wach case under this process. For ma troduction of these goods was slow, owing to popular prejudice against “plated” goods, but gradually the public learned that the Gold Watch € ed or electro-plated covered watch cases a the years was not a James Boss’ but was made of genuine gold plates of standard quality and thickness. Conscientious adherence to the determination to make the best watch case ever put on the market, and the adoption of every improvement suggested, has made the James Boss’ Gold Watch Case the STARDARD. — yoy Se wane In this watch case the parts most subject to wear—the bow, crown, / thumb-catches, etc., are made of SOLID GOLD. Bend 3 cent stamp to Keystone Watch Case Factories, Phila so & dolphin, Pi handsome Illustrated Pampblet showing bow dames Bows’ and Keystone Watch Cases are wade. 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