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Y., April 12.—Gov- causes Enl t of the x i inflammation sand ernor Hill sent to the assembly to- Constipation i night a message vetoing the recently passed high license bill, and on mo- | tion of Mr. Crosby, the promoter of the measure. it was laid on the ta- j ble. The veto is put upon two grounds: First, that it is special | legislation, because it apphes only ito the cities of New York and Brooklyn, notwithstanding the fact thatin a majority ot the other cities and towns of the state the momen | ;of dram shops 1s greater than in | these in proportion to population; /and second, because some of its | Pfovisions are unconstitutional. The message is accompanied by opinions from the attorney general and trom ex-Judge Comstock, view. I was conse- ‘troubled me. ra shade over them, s unable to bear ex- 1 was entirely CURED BY USING ste boxes of Ayer’s Pills. posure to tl T have “onstipation 2 from Headache, hi Atmhe rst. Mass. I suffered from Constipation. which assumed such an obstinate form that I feared it would cause a stop bowels. Two boxes of Ay me, completely. — D. Br Ayer’s Pills, Prepared by Dr. J.C Boid by all Druggiste sustaining that The governor expressly reserves | an expression of his own yiews on | the subject of high ncense, but re- cites the positions of the high li- cense and prohibition advocates, and that of the Germans on the oth- er hand, all of whom he pronounces well meaning citizens. As to the Lowe » Mass. Desens in Medicin a : é | alleged motives actuating the legis- ove Wi » A iZE, | lature in passing the bit! he says: HOA es | pW hile the question of temperance : ts not a party question and can not tr | | be made such, yet it is impossible to find 1 no! Ff ignore the political aspects of the Lit ' IGG LN d e ; Measures, especially when it is well | known that its support was made | |the subject of consideration at a | party caucus of the majority ot the legislature, and where it has been }ingeniously devised and peculiarly formed so as to operate solely upon | the two greater democratic constitu- | jencies are exempted from its bur- den.”’ \ BROKER. | INSURANCE AND NOTARY | PUBLIC. 6 PER CENT ‘Money to Loan On Improved Farms, che nit v2 Saeeh Mean teh A Story of Henry Clay Dean. Towa Register. It was not longago. There wasa car load of passengers going from | Keokuk to Des Moines. Among | them were Judge Clagett and Judge Johnstone and Rev. I. P. Tete and Rev. Burgees. Clagett called Rev. I. P. Tete, ‘‘Beelzebub, jr.,’’ and, by some strange mental anachrosm, dubbed Rey. Burgees as ‘St. Paul, |jr..? However, Brother Dean was the center of attraction. His bril- liant conversational powers shone out on that trip with unwonted ra- diance. He was telling a story ot a loving brother of the strictest sect of the orthodox faith as laid down by John Calvin. Dean did not be- | Five years time, with privilege to |! i | Office over Bernhardt’s jewelry pay before due | —o— store, NORTH SIDE |! i SQUARE. | ENGLAND TRUST CO. SIXTH AND WYANDOTT ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. $150,000. right of kings.”’ occurred on the train. voice, with his wonderfully magnet- ic and twinkling gray eyes; there were learned and famous men will- ing listeners. He said: ‘‘This dear Calvinistic brother came to me one day in great mental distress. |He said he had been reading the daily papers and found a dreadful record of crime; here a murder, there an arson, here incest, adultery, theft, betrayal of trust, infanticide, ingratitude of claldren, baseness of every xind from son to father, from mar. to the beasts of burden he used, defaulters, and the world seemed given away to wickedness. Then,”’ JOHN A. LEFKER & CO. he said, ‘‘I thought of hell and felt Agents for Bates county. Office | retreshed.”” oyer Ed. Steel’s grocery store, north “That is,” said Dean, ‘these fel- padeleaaares lows will be caught some day while I escape.” Calyinistic PAID UP CAPITAL, Interest. paid on deposits. Long time city and tarm loans in Missouri and eastern Kansas a specialty. Thos. T. Crittenden, President; J. H. Austin, Vice-President & coun- selor: Watt Webb, Secretary; H. B. Blevens, Treasurer. Lowest rates ot interest; liberal terms on payment, both principal and interest on limited amount of money ; no delay, when your papers are pic hre air the money is ready. wickedness inthe world. He Call and see betore you borrow. | brother thought. ed.’”’ ; even the huge results shown by our That is what the good | himself. He | frend and said ina loud whisper: looked out over the wilderness of saw | mighty hard to peter it out mght.”” no cure tor it in this hfe, so ‘the thought of hell and he felt retresh- census of national wealth stand upon a sandy toundation it there bulworks to generel habits and mor- als. The railroads, which for years have been endeavoring to make money without much regard to their | own regulations or habits, are at last | tightened up and see the gulf ot ruin they were hanging over by a want ot discipline. The pending two years probably mean a getting ready tor a huge contest over restraint in politics. restraint or no Jeff Davis and His Family. New Orleans Picayune. The city of Richmond is about to | build a new city hall, tor which the corner stone was laid on the 5th of April. The city authorities having requested photographs and auto- . he was seen to-day by a Globe+ graphs of the family of Jefferson emocrat correspondent, who had Davis, to be deposited in a casket | deen given an sale ot her expe- beneath the stone, have received inj} reply to their letter the following: ‘“‘A photograph ot the ex-President, | with his autograph, ‘Jefferson | Davis,’ written in a plain, firm hand | | across the front of the card. This photograph is of cabinet size, and | shows the ex President dressed in a Prince Albert coat, plain black necktie, open in tront, | and standing | collar. His tace is covered with « full beard, and his haw is perfectly gray. On the hack of the photo- graph is written: ‘Fortis cadere cedere non potest. (The brave may tall, but cannot yield), Beauv Miss., March 25, 1887.’ The pl tograph of Mrs. Davis shows Cressed in a black sulk, cath ornaments, Cameo pin and ear ‘The photograph is cabinet size, and | on the back of it is written: ‘Varina Howell Davis, Beauvoir, Mi March 25, 1887, Esta perpetua.’ (Be thou perpetual.) Of course this group would not have been com plete without the face of the ‘Child ot the Contederacy,’ and the photo- graph, of this charming young lady | accompanies that of her tather and mother, and bears the following in= scription, which will serve to increae the love and affection that our peo ple already bear her: ‘Varina Anne Davis, who is proud to call herselt a Virginian, Miss., March 25, 1887.” The photograph of Mar- garet Howell Davis Hayes, ot Mem- phis, Beauvoir, Tenn., a beautiful granddaugh- ter of the ex-President the collection. 5 | Is among | Hard Work to Wind up a Prayer. | Representative W. W. Rice, ot | Massachusetts, being called upon heve in Calvin any more than he! for a few teeble remarks at the end did in Martin Luther, with his im- | of a dinner last week, said that the posing nonsense about the ‘divine | presiding genius reminded him of a 1 wish the scene Methodist conyert down in Maine. could be reproduced on paper as it | He had been anything but a praying There was| man, yet when he had once joined Dean with his singularly emphatic | the church the brethren thought he ought to be praying all the time. He was very slow to set about it. In fact, he positively refused in much fear and trembling. But after awhile by dint of assiduity and dexterous tact, his near neighbor and close triend got him up in a prayer meet- ing one night. Once up he prayed as though he could not stop. He prayed for the universe, the world, America, the United States, the State ot Maine and the county of Aroostook, not forgetting the good people ot Bangor. He prayed tor the church—universal, militant and triumphant, general and particular, abroad and at home. He prayed tor everybody in his own congrega- tion, present or absent, collectively and individually; he began to repeat At last he turned to his “It’s easy enough to pray, but it’s are no A Negress Who 1. | Nora Brown, who ! came here a few days ago to look after the effects of he daughter | Mollie. Who was shot and killed by a negro, Andrew Bouteller, about ® weeks ago. Nora s for yearsa ant in the family of Col. Jona S. Ford, a character celebrated Texas history as Rip Ford. knows the woman intimately an® vouches for the corre detail in her remarkable story. woman's appearance her simple, straightforward manner speak tor themselves. rience. small time to talk, but she finally told her story. she was of a very dark African type, | father on her mother’s side was as | Indian. The red race was so tae removed, however, that at never showed in Nora’s complexion. viced thas jher shoulders | became slower, jine negro texture, short, black and A Buffalo man says that when he Cc HANG ED HER COLOR. Rocome White, we oe San Antonio, Tex., April 10.— ves in’ Austin, He -tness of each The howeyer, and She was very busy and had Seven years age the kind usual! jas the ace of ibed as "black tes.’ Her tather Atric an, but her grand- y descr } Was a pure each thumb >, two minute She ascribed slight dis- attention spread, and, ) wrists, started Recoming alarmed, in, who could find no circulation and could do nothing for her. The march of the white te was verv rapid, but when itreached the body its progress It kept on, howev- er, in some degree, spreading both upward and downward. Loag be- fore it had her lower ex= tremities her neck, ¢ and face ha@ her arm he saw a physici reache become white. Tt has taken seven years to come plete the metamorphosis, but it has aboutended. The tips ot her fingers are still dark, and she 1s black under the arms, and there is « dark line neck. These are the sole reminders of her Ethiopian skin. Her hair has, of course around the > remained as and she keeps it closely covered always. it once was, It is ot the genu— kinked closely to her head. becoming grizzled 1n places. Nora is 40 years ot age and weghs 240 pounds and has never known a day’s sickness. She savs that at no time during her marvelous change did she experience any inconvenience beyond a slight irritation. She bas given birth to eleven children by » negro father and each of them is biack. None have yet manifested any disposttion to turn white. One of the most remarkable things about the case is its completeness. Physicia ans here know of nothing like not leucorrhesis or mill ion: a rare a ase among negroes, noc is it a m, strictly a conger— ital affair Her skin ss not only clear. She has a thor oughly healthy appearance, and her cheeks < The albino eye gs pink, but Nora’s is the guild browm » of the She has the fag nose, but her lips are not abnormally + thick. ; Tt fs white but re rosy. can. An Old Miser’s Crime. Selina, O., April 13.—Joseph Burch. an old and well to do farnt- er of this county, this morning, fi a spasm of mental derangement, went to the bed of his old and teebdle wife and deliberately struck her seyerad serious blows on the head, infecting - such terrible injuries as to cause Res death in a short time. Imntedsately atter the commission of the tesrible and his wife were on their wedding teur and coming from Cleveland on a fast train, she dropped her diamond ring through the opening 1n the bot- crime he started on a run for the woods, halfa mile distant, where he peeled the bark trom a sapling, The expression 18 epigramatic. lt 1s certainly original with Henry Clay Dean. FINE SUITS. «i mad oose of it and hung himselS i i . A tomfot the bowl as she was washing te _s 8 penis pp re : | In every e price and quality pice no Restraint. herhands. The conductor wouldn’t | !*° = . 2 : Gath in the Enquirer. ff at the 0 wards be Borch " it | Stop. and so the pair got o! So acs and had ‘Made to Order) Fe sren-tre vests the purssit| stop, and se ts Pavoom, walking |" nd had oh Sal xt s! of wealth has been without discip- | "© j line. Every man has raced as hard back three miles to a tarm bow | woul : the | as he could to getit. Slowly aiarge | that he had nag oe aoe ws % - See | percentage of our people have been | ring disappeare egan : F coming to the understanding that search. After two hours’ hard work | 7; : JE. TALBOTT, ' unless wealth is acquired by restraint he found it lying against a tre and ok Merchant Tailor | and care it will not stick, and that | glistening in the sunlight and his tamily J guaranteed a fit in every cas Call and see me, south room 1 advice, to diseases, f Address, Medical Asso— . 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