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FAME.

I dug an unpretentious well, And when I had it dug

I placed upon the curb near by A little earthen mug. ,,

And by that mug I placed a girl ' As pretty as a pink, •

And paid her fifty cents a day T To charge five cents a drink.

And then I advertised that well c

As "Cure-All Spring,".you know, And everybody came to see

If what I said was so.

And now, as in my brownstone front I sit and write my name

To countless checks, it makes me smile To think that this is fame.

—New York Truth.

A BURNT MATCH. Indeed there was ouite a mixture in

the gutter. There' were quids'of tobacco, stumps of cigars, lemon and banana peels, bottle corks, cheese parings, dirty slops and many other refuse fragments, all commingled in one filthy mass. One Iragment of this common compound found in the street, I bad aimost forgotten to men­tion. It was simply the remains of a burnt match. Lifce the other contents of the gutter, it bad served its turn. Having my curiosity aroused concern­ing these repulsive objects, and seeing that the burnt match was the most decent looking of this motly mixture. I addressed it and begged it to give me a history of its disgusting sur­roundings.

Said the match: "You behold be­fore you one of the most loathsome objects which ever meet the eye of man. There is nothing so low and abominable as the filth of the gutter. It is the embodiment of all that is dis­gusting to the sight and scent of man. Think of it! I. who was once a clean, trim little match, snugly housed in a neat box with my sisters, no .v float­ing, half consumed, in the slime and slop of the gutter! But let that pass for the present.

"My home originally was in the forest I wa3 made from the heart of a noble pine tree which, for many and many a year, swayed its dark green crown in the merry breezes, and de­fiantly withstood the shocks of storm. Straight as an arrow it stood, far above its fellows. It was the first to greet the rising sun and it was the first of its brothers the sun saluted, kissing the dews from his emerald brow. The happiest days of my ex -istence were those in which 1 dwelt within the heart of the great pine tree. But in an evil hour came the woodman. He viewed the shapely trunk of the tree and soon the glitter-tering steel of his axe sunk into its heart. The sound of the heavy blows echoed far and wide through the silent forest They were the death knells of the great tree. Soon the blows ceased, when, with a mighty crash, the magnificent monarch of the forest fell to the earth.

"The body was divided into con­venient lengths and transferred. • first by oxen, then by locomotive, to the match-works of a great city; subdi­vided into millions of tiny sticks like myself: boxed and sent out over the world, so that now the body of the tree must be scattered far and wide over the eai th. Even my companions that dwelt with me in the same box, must now be scattered thousands of miles from each other. After we had been packed into thousands of little boxes, they were placed into larger boxes and sent from the factory to other cities. Many, many miles my companions and myself traveled be­fore we saw the light of day. This event happened in a large city a great many miles from here One day I found myself: when the cover of our box had been removed, upon the counter of a cigar store and was viewing the strangeness of my sur­roundings when in steps a young man.

••He buys a cigar, takes up the match at my side, strikes it and be­hold! a beautiful light burst forth, which the young gentleman imme­diately applied to h'.s cigar. He took some half dozen other matches from the box, among which I was included, and put us in his vest pocket I could not see where he went but 1 knew we were going the rounds of the city, by the conversations we overheard. Fin­ally the young man took the train leaving the city, and after a long journey, we arrived at this place. After leaving the train he suddenly grasped me from his pocket struck me against some hard substance and in an instant I was all ablaze. I saw glasses and bottles before me. out of which I supposed the young man had been drinking. My brilliant existence was very brief. No sooner had the gentleman lit his cigar, than he threw mo away. 1 found half of my shapely body consumed, and what remained was lyine in a filthy condition.

"I felt very crestfallen at this sud­den change in my career. Looking about I found myself in company with a dozen or more cast off cigar and ci­garette ends, and a mass of nasty looking tobacco quids and spittle. The man of the house next morning threw filthy water over us, and emptied us into the gutter. 1 w.as la­menting my degraded and wretched state to my filthy companion* when a dilapidated quid of tobacco thus ad­dressed me:

" My friend, you have not as good reason for complaint as myself, l^ook at me. Do I look anything like a beautiful green leaf, drinking in the sunshine and the dews of heaven? Yet I was all that once. I grew on a great strong stock with my brothers fend sisters, until I was plucked off hv man. How nicely they handled me*! What pains they took to sweeten me! And when I began to pride myself on my elevation and was lolled under the tongue of a fine gentleman for a few momenta what does the wretch do bat

fragments! O. you have nothing of which to complain.1 • "

•Here the tobbacco quid g*Te jviir.

self a shake and fell Into a dozen pieces. He had no sooner ceased speaking than a cigar stump thus ad­dressed me:

• • 'My unfortunate friend, cease com­plaining. I once held a more elevated position in the estimation of man than you. I was fondled and caressed with the hands and the lips of one of the most prominent men—in fact I be­lieve he was a congressman. He en­joyed me for a few minutes, and while I was congratulating myself over the importance or my position, and the conspicuous figure I was makinr in the world. I suddenly found mys-. ' in this slum and filth, the most dirt i d disgusting of objects. But let that pass. Do you know*, my dear stump of a match, that such is life with man­kind? You have not yet seen all of our associates of the gutter. Wait but a little while, and perhaps you will see men. and may he. women our com­panions in this filthy abode.'

' 'The cigar stump ceased speaking, and I was wondering at his strange re­marks. when, with an oath and a splash, a man fell into our midst and threw me with great violence on his back. I soon became composed, how­ever, and began at once to view my change of scene. I noticed that the man's clothing was coarse, threadbare and dirty, that his hair was long, matted and unclean; that his trousers were ragged and greasy, and that his shoes were rusty and full of holes. The cigar stump nestled under one of his arms: the cork stoppers wabbled about his face; the straggling quids of tobacco found lodging in his hair, and a cheese paring clung behind one of his ears.

" 'This is strange,1 said I to mj-self. 'Is this man, too,' I soliloquized a castaway? Has he answered the pur­pose of some one's gratification, and when he became of no further use. has he been cast off ? Whose work was this? Did the man. of his own free choice, select this unusual bed? Did others help him to it? Or did some other power, far beyond mv humble ken, precipitate him to the level of a brute?'—for hogs and men were, of all the animal creation, the only creatures I had ever beheld, wal­lowing in the gutter.'

"Perhaps he. too, was as much changed from his original state as an insignificant half-burnt match or cigar stump. So snugly lay the huge, bloated bulk in our midst that the passers-by at night could not well have distinguished him from the gen­eral offensive, slimy mass.

"Although my own state was de­graded and wretched, 1 now took a more cheerful view of my fallen con­dition. I had been made simply for man's use and held a very .insignifi­cant position, but here was one of the lords of creation who had fallen far beneath my humble degradation. He. too, like myself, had no doubt been, at some time or other, the instrument of another's pleasure, profit, ambition or revenge.

' 'The more I looked at the man, and the more I reflected upon his condi­tion. the less I lamented my o*.vn. •Ihis man,' I thought to myself, 'was once the joy of a mother's—the pride of a father's heart And is this the harvest of that joy arid pride, to find their erstwhile chubby-faced babe besotted, bedraggled. ragged and dirty, lying in the slum and filth of the street?'

"After the man had lain in deep stupor for several hours, he began to move restlessly, and soon his reeling form moved on, and I was ones more thrown into the gutter. Since then. I have seen many other men tumbling in upon us. Some would often stag­ger through our midst but would ob­tain sufficient equilibrium to prevent them from falling. They were of all ages, young, middle-aged and old men —men of all stations in life; men of all grades of intellect and virtue."

Thus ended the tale of the match. I leave it to the reader to extract the moral, if it contains one. —Arkansaw Traveler.

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THE MESSENGER OF HEALTH HEARTILY ENDORSED.

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A STATEMENT UNDER OATH. MOVHT PMASAHT, MICH.,

_ _ August 15, 1898. THK OWSKELSCTBIC BZLT AXD AFFUAHCI Co.:

Deter Bin:—I now am able to Bay, after having purchased one of your No. 4 Electric Belts with Spinal Appliance about one year ago, that I thank God I have found relief from my terrible suffering through the wonderful healing influence of your wonderful Body Belt. August 29.1891, at which time I was a great sufferer, and had been for more than four years, from extreme nervous prostration, so much so that, on the least excitement, my whole nervous system would be all of a tremble from head to foot, and unable to control myself in the least, and would affect me to tears like a little child. I a farmer by profession; in the fields, or at work on the farm, or at any excitement, it had the same effect I could not lift the weight of five pounds. It EO continued with increased suffering, until I was unable to help myself, and for eight long months my suffering was intense. My stomach was so weak that I could not take any food but crackers and warm water for the above time. My kidneys were so weak that I could not retain my urine, it would pass from me continually, and I was under the necessity of leaving my couch from six to eight times of a night to void my urine, which waB very painful. I was also troubled with severe constipation and piles, so that I was obliged to use injections to produce evacuations of the bowels.* It was very distressing, so much BO that I had to be lifted in and out of my bed for several months. The doctors could do me no good whatever, and I had made up mv mind that there was no help for me this side of the grave. My limbs would become numb and cold, seem­ingly as ice, ani ( would try with hot bricks, rubbing and all other methods to restore the cir­culation and natural feeling, but all to no effect, and then it would pass off. Then again another at:ack would occur which would leave me help­less, and so continued periodically, and I could get no relief. The doctors told me that [ must not do any work, and that it would be three yean at least before I would be able to work. I agreed with them, for i could not. nor did I ever expect to wain. The whole world seemed to me a blank, and my vital_ forces all had left me, and my life was fast ebbing away from me through the loss of m~ life fluids, which doctors were unable even to check. I had given up all hope of ever getting help, ana death in all its terrible forms stared me in the face, from which there eeemed to be no avenue of escape from this living horror, of which no living person is able to know or feel, except bis sufferings be as mine has been. In this state of suffering and agony I continued until about one year ago now I met a friend "who. on seeing mv helpless condition, advised me to try one of the Owen Electric Beits. Por several

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weeks I doubted his statements about what he told me of the wonderful healing properties of it, but he was so earnest and persistent that I finally consented to6end for one. He advised me to send for a No. 4 with spinal appliance, which I did, at a cost of 830.00, which is ycor grice for No. 4 and spinal appliance. I will say

ere that it is the best 830.09 investment that I ever made In my life in the way of docter's remedies or anything else, as I had spent dollars, up into the hundreds, but could get no relief whatever. As soon as I received the Beit and Appliance^ I had it charged end adjusted and

Futit on, and in a short time after putting it ca began to feel wonderful soothing and gentle

currents of its healing power passing all through me, clear to the end of my tees and Sneers, a prickling sensation like thousands of needies. Many were the sieepless nights I had pasted, unable to sleep but from one to two* hours through the whole night for months. On tho third night after wearing the Belt I slept until morning and awoke greatly refreshed.* I was not disturbed, nor had I to void mv urine once through the night, and I have not been bothered in that way since. All the drains upon the system have ceased, and constipation and piles all have left me as if by magic. My nerves have regained their former strength, my evesight and mind have become clear, and I have gained in weight at'out 15 pounds, and I feel I:7:c- a new man. My stomach has got back it? power cf digestion, and I can eat almost any kind of food that my appetite craves, without pain or distress I am gaining daily and I feel better and weigh more than I have for the post ten years, and it seems I have a new lease of life. I cannot say enough in favor of your wonderful Electric Body Belt. It is far superior to all medicines com­pounded for the relief and cure of chronic and complicated diseases and broken down constitu­tions. I would not take fci.000 for rav Belt if I could not get another like it. There is nothing like it for relief and cure where all other remedies fail. I can not praise your Belts enough, for what it has done for me "words can not express. I will say here that I recommend the Owen Electric Belt to all sutferini; humanity who fail to find relief from other remedies. It is the messenger of quick relief and certain care Oi ail nervous debiliiv and other nervo troubles. I know it will cure all diseases which ycu adver­tise it to cure.

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