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tmrn mm m A KEliABKABLfc STORY. The following narrative is self-explanatory. The letter whicli precedes it is a true copy of the original, and was sent to us, together with the details, by an officer now m the United Suites Navy. United States Flagship Nomad, ) Navy Yard, Boston, Mass.. * - January 10,188-. 5 My dear Friend—Your kind favor con taining congratulations on my restoration to health is before me. When we parted thirty months ago little did we imagine that either would be brought near death’s door by a dis ease which selects for its victims those who present an internal field of constitutional weakness for its first attack, because you and 1 were in those days the personification of health—and can claim this to-day,thank Godl Why I can do so will be told to-morrow,when we meet at your dinner, as you only know that I have passed through a terrible illness; my delivery from death being due to the wonderful discovery in medical science, made by a man who to-day stands in the front rank of his fellow workers—unequaled by any in my own opinion. That 1, who heretofore have ever been the most orthodox believer in the old school of medicine, its application and results, should thus recant in favor of that which is sneered at by old practitioners, may startle you, but “seeing is believing,” and when I recount the attack made on my old hulk, how near I came to lowering my colors, and the final volley which, through the agency above mentioned, gave mo victory, you will at lea ’t credit me with just cause for sincerity in my thankful ness and belief. I will also spin my yarn anent my China cruise, and altogether^ ex pect to entertain as well as be entertained by you. With best wishes, Sincerely yours, Rear Admiral U. S. Navy. Hon. Gkohoe Wkndetx, Sinclair Place, Boston. An autumnal afternoon in the year 188- found the taut flagship Nomad rounding the treacherous and dangerous extremity of South America. And this day certainly in tended to place itself on record with those of its predecessors marked stormy, its nasti ness in wind and weather giving all hands on board the flagship their fill in hard work and discjmforts. The record of the Nonia'I on this cruise, which she was now complet ing on her homeward Itound passage to Bos ton, had been most disagreeable, when con sidered in the light of heavy weather work. From Suez to Aden, then on to Bombay, Point de Galle, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nagasaki and Yokohama, the balance sheet stood largely in favor of old Neptune's rough characteristics, but with remarkable evenness the health and original roster of the ship’s company stood this day as it did nearly three years ago—with one exception. Throughout the diverse and varied exposures incidental to cruising over the Asiatic station, where cholera, fevers, liver complaints, malaria, and colds of all degrees reign in full force, none of the crtw had suffered more than temporary incon venience, and thus it seemed very hard that now, in the closing days of the cruise, there stood nine chances for, to one against, a vic tory being at last scored for the destroying angel Death. When the Nomad reached Shanghai in the early portion of her cruise ner admiral was the healthiest man aboard. A grand specimen of manhood was he. Over six feet in height, weighing two hundred pounds, broad in chest and strong in limb, lie rightly claimed for himself a full share of Nature’s blessings. While returning late one night from a diplomatic reception at ch > Consulate at Shanghai, through overheat ing and insufficient protection from the dan gerous effects of the peculiar damp and eta cliiug night air, he caught cold. “Only a cold,” remarked the admiral to the doctors of his ship, “and easy to cure.” So though; the medical officers, but with a quiet though insidious progression, this cold clung to the admiral in spile of their best effort*to erad icate it, and when the time came for leaving Yokohama, homeward bound, the admiral re alized that his lung* and throat were decid edly out of order. The doctors advised re turning home by mail steamer to San Fran- cisec so that greater means for curing this nersintent cough might be found in the Nava; Hospital there; but the admiral pre ferred to stick to his ship, still imagining that his trouble would eventually be over come by the doctors’ treatment. No one who looked at the admiral even in those days imagined that he would fall a victim to lung troubl*. _ But It -was the old story again typified in this case. Only a cold at first; and in spite of orthodox treat ment the neenlinr ellmntin effeeta tyf Chinn nursed it, and hastened the sure result of such a deep-seated trouble. Time passed after leaving Yokohama for Boston, bringing varying symptoms in the admiral's case, and the doctors imagined that they held the dis ease in check at least. But with the forma tion of tubercles, night-sweats and the now rap d consumption of lung tissues, which had set in willi alarming symptoms, the pa tient realized that his cold had laid the seeds of that fell agent of Death, consumption. The hacking cough of the admiral hud in itself been sufficient food for serious consid eration. and now, as in the warm autumn days the flagship gallantly rode over the blue waters of the Pacific, bound for Cape Horn, the doctors hoped much for success. But this boisterous afternoon found the good ship struggling with gigantic seas setoff from the Cape by a fierce nortlierly wind. Leaden were the heavens and sad the hearts of all aboard, for that morning the usual bulletin of the medical officers had set forth this intelligence: “The admiral is in same condition its reported last night. A burning fever has been slightly reduced, while other symptoms are ns heretofore an nounced.” All understood these words without Questioning. The beloved admiral baa during me past two weeks sunk very low. j. he symptoms ol blood-poisoning, a torpid liver, intense pains throughout the body, eyesight and mental faculties affected, appe tite gone, through inaction of that great reg ulator—the liver. These were the means which had reduced the admiral from the pinacle of health to the valley and shadow of death. Contuniptiun held full sway now, and the well-known skill of naval doctors was in this instance at least completely foiled. The admiral had issued orders for the flag ship to touch at Montevideo for coal, and it was the intention of the doctors to land the admiral there for treatment. But one man in the ship was wrapped in the gloom of de spair, as staudiim by the weather rigging on the poop deck lie gized absently over the eeetliiag waste of waters. This was the ad miral’s sou, a lieutenant, and atta die 1 to his father’s staff. He feared that the we.ir and tear of ship life would sap his father's strength beyond endurance, and before the ship could resell Montevideo. Among a group of sailors gathered around one of the great guns on the spar deck stoo Ithe captain of the foretop, Brown, a slight but healthy- looking man. His companions were listen ing to a recital of his sufferings from con sumption, which had developed while he was attached to the s'oop-of-war Hanger, lying in the harbor of Yokohama a year ago, this “yam” having been started by a discussion about the ad’ firal’s cor.diti >n. The men had just returnc : from some work around the deck, an order for which l al interrupted Brown’s story a few moments previously. “ A year ago this day I was hove to in the Vill man's’ sick bay in the Hanger, then off Yokohama, an’ I tell you, paras, ’twas no use pipin’ my number, ’cause I was nigh on passin’ in my enlistment papers for a long cruise aloft,” continued Brown. “Con sumption hod me flat aback, and the doctor says it was no use to stow away his lush in my hold seein’ that my hallows was con demned bv a higher power than he could wrastle with.” “How did you pucker out of it?” asked a gunner’s mate. “W'a’all,” replied Brown, “my Chinee washman came to me oue moruin’ an’ he says to me, “me hab got allee same Melican man medikin, do you heap go id!’ I says, ‘bring it off, Chang; 1 buy all the same.' Ih it afternoon Chang hove up with fourteen bottles of a lush, enough to kill or cure the whole ship’s crew, an* that looked fresh in their nice wrappers. Says Chang. ‘China man doctor hab got plentee more, he make heap good well with my aick, this number one mediken allee same through A oko'oama.' Wa’all, 1 took the bottles an’ told the doctor I was goin’ to try one as by the sailin’ or ders on the bottle, and the docter he laughed and said ’twas no good, but I done as the regulations says from the first, an’ here I am, aj;'in the doctor’s idea', to be sure!’’ With this .triumphant assertion Brown looked about the circle. Then, lowering his voice, said: “Boys, I’ve four of those precious bottles left—ain’t give ’em all away yet af ter I was cured—an’ if you all think that it would not be too free with the ‘old man,’ suppose I go to his son there on the poop deck an’ say what I have to you, an’ askin’ his pardon, say we wa-vt the ad miral to try the stuff in my bottles, seein’ that they cured u;yconsumption.” This idea met with approval from all Therefore Brown walked off for an interview w«n ui6 admiral’s son, wifn no little anxiety in his good heart as to the re sult of his mission. Approaching the lieu tenant. Brown saluted, and asked for per mission to state his reasons lor doing so. This was readily granted, and Brown spoke oat. “Seeing that I was once cored of con Bumptign, lieutenant, I make bold to ask if I can tell you how, ai:’ why I’ve the rea sons for wishing yon to use on your father what was my salvation.” In a few moments the lieutenant had Brown’s story out, and much to the latter’s gratification, granted a ready permission to him. It did not take Brown long to run to his ditty box, get the bottles of medicine, and return to tl a lieutenant with them. “I’m afearedthat the doctors will kick ng’in the nse of this blessed staff, an’ what will you do. sir,” said Brown, as he placed the medicine in the cabin onWij'a hands to be taken into the admiral's room. “ I will attend to that, Brown, and rest as sured that your remedy will have a fair trial in spite of any opposition. It will not harm my father, judging from your statement and Ihe opinion of the Medical officers of the Hanner.” “ Thank you, sir, an’ God help the admiral to weather his trouble, is the prayer of all the ship,” said Brown, as the lieutenant turned to enter the cabin. There was no cessation in the storm that evening. The gale howled through the rig ging in wild, discordant tones; the great ship labored through the white-capped moun tains of water threatened to engulph her with each burst of their storm-whipped crests. Within the admiral’s cabin the Ar- gand lights, the comfortable furniture, and the numerous evidences of the admiral’s wanderings over land and water, as displayed in choice bric-a-brao and trimmings, gave to the room a warm, snug appearance, most pleasing this wild night to those within. In his stateroom lay the admiral, made, oiiin. fortable by all that lovii -- .'-.UkIs arm mV.::, j hearts could suggest hy his e iae sat i son, who in qniet voice was mjduntiiu- : i his father the interview v'tlh B'owu. ami fl> i opposition met with from the doctor when the idea of giving this new medicine was broached. “ You were sleeping at the time, father, and therefore missed t. laughable scone, made so, in spite of your onuition, by the intense dislike displayed by the doctors for this ‘new-fangled stuff,’ thv ‘patent liquid,’ which they declared with their consent should never be given to yon. Well, I cut the matter short by saying that I would taka all the responsibility, and w.th your pern., sion would administer it. That I obtained when I found you awake, and now you ar • under way with the first bottle as per direr tions. I am satisfied, dear father, th-t I will do you good, a premonition tilling mj heart that at last we have found the means of arresting the burning fever and hacking cough which have been troubling you so much.” The admiral's reply was cut short by a severe spell of coughing, during which he spat blood, and when finished sank back ex hausted. But the grateful look which he be stowed on his son was an additional assur ance of belief in that which the admiral had at first sight dubbed as a possible but doubt ful means of doing him any good. But lay ing aside his dislike for any but old-estab lished remedies, the admiral acquiesced in his son's request, and now, af,er this last spell, admitted that the effect of the dose had softened the d.ended severity of the racking congh. * # * « « « « Three weeks later found the Nomad mak ing the harbor of Montevideo. After severe and prolonged weather she had rounded the Cape and was now standing in the harbor for the purpose of recoaling and watering. To one given to the study of human linea ments the faces of those aboard the flagship this bright morning would have afforded in finite scope for such pursuit. But the source of each man’s happiness flowed from the same fountain of grateful joy. The beloved admiral was the cause of this. And why? 1 If you could have seen the admiral this bright morning, dear reader, yoar answer would have been easily foand in his face. A changed man was he. Victory was perched on his guidons! the dread enemy was s'owly retreating! Tiie fight was a severe on*, but with no cessation in vigilant action and care ful application of the contents of four bottles the admiral had turned the flank of consumntion, and was slowly, but surely driving liim off tl e field with a power which astounded the doctors and tilled all hearts with ioy and thnnkfatn©'*. What was this then that had won the vic tory for the seauinn Brown, and was now leudlug the Huuiirai’s simtiered forces to tlie same grand result? When asked this ques tion by one of his officers on duty, in Mon tevideo, the admiral, slowly lifting his hand, replied, “I would that in letters of gold, and so placed that all the world could read them, the name of this great remedy could be show n. coupled with the genius who discov ered it—’The Golden Medical Discovery! Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo. N. Y.,’ the man who has given to his fellow men the greatest te- lief from all ills that mortal flesh is heir to!” “This is the name of the contents of that bottle on my table, and God bless the man who has found the secret of filling it with a medicine at once purifying and strengthen ing, wholesome and thorough in its results, and claiming, in my humble opinion, noth ing for itself that it cannot reasonably per form. Nature’s ally against th* abuse of man!” Well might the admiral sing the praises of that which had so unexpectedly rescued him from a fatal illness. When the ship anchored the first commission for the admiral's son to execute was a large purchase of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, which, ns *ho ad miral sadly admitted, he had seen in ev ry port the world around and had only admired as an evidence of the energy and enterprise of an American who could thus placo his Golden Medical Discovery in every nook' and comer of the globe. Bat now he was one more to testify to the wonderful power of this medieine, and certainly did so in Montevideo, by praising it up to all the high officials who visited him. A week later and the Nomad sailed for Boston direct. What the condition of the admiral was when she arrived there is shown in his letter above. Let it be recorded to the credit of the doctors on the flagship that they were completely cured of all dislike for the Golden Medical Discovery, used it faith fully on the voyage to Boston, and 1 inded, through its wonderful power, the admiral completely restored; and more than one poor follow wh) started out in the sick bay of the Nomad. What stanch friends the Golden Medical Discovery made in that ship! The above, reader, is an outline of the story, spin by the admiral to his friend when they met at the dinner. We will not touch on otlie portions of his interesting recital of his cruise in general, oar aim being to re cord his testimony for the greatest wonder in medical science that this nineteenth cen tury of surprising developments has pro duced. From the wonderful power of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery over that terribly fatal disease, consumption, which is scrofula of the lung*, when first offering this now world-famed remedy to the public. Dr. Pierce thought favorably of calling it his | “consumption cure,” but abandoned that name as too restrictive for a medicine t.mt from its wonderful combination of germ-de stroying, as well as tonic, or strengthening, alterative or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, diuretic, pectoral and nutritive nroperiie-, is unequaled, not only as a remedy for con sumption of the lungs, bat for all chronic diseases of the liver, blood, kidneys and lungs. Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors, from the we st scrofula to a com mon blotch, pimple or eruption. Erysipe las, salt-rheum, fever-soree, scaly or rough skin, in short, all diseases caused by disease germs in the blood, are conquered by this powerful, purifying and invigorating medi cine. Great eating ulcers rapidly heal under its benign influences. Especially has it manifested its potency in caring tetter, rose rash, boils, carbuncles, sore eyes, scrofulous sores and swellings, white swellings, goitre or thick neck, and enlarged glands. “The blood is the life. Thoroughly cleanse this fountain of health by using Golden M< d eal Discovery, and good diges tion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength and soundness of constitution ore established. For weak longs, spitting of blood, short breith. consuinn'ive night-sweats and kin dred affections, It )s a sovereign remedy. In the cure of bronchitis, severe coughs and consumption, it has astonished the medical facility, and eminent physicians prononne? it the greatest medical disoovsry of the age. The nutritive properties possessed by cod liver oil are trifling when compared with those of the Golden Medical Discovery. It tapidly builds up the system and increase the flesh and weight of those reduced belo* the usual standard of health by wasting di*- sases. • e • • • • % The reader will pardon the foregoing di- I zressiou, prompted by our admiration for a remedy that performs such marvelous cures, ind permit tu to «*v that when th* admiral returned to his home in New York the pmy cloud oast upon the happiness of the reunion with his family was caused by the continued illness of his eldest son, a young man of twenty-four, whose disease, when the ad miral sailed fr'm Montevedio, had been re ported as sue uubing to the treatment of the family doctor. But his father thought it otherwise; the unfortunate young man was suffering severely from chronic disease of the kidneys and bladder. Before leaving Boston the admiral had purchased a copy of Dr. Pierce’s boob “The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser.” He read this val uable book thoroughly, and upon his arrival home had made up his mind as to the future treatment for his son. The latter was sent to the famous Invalids’ Hotel, at Buffalo, N. Y., conducted by Dr. R. V. Pierce, and his competent staff of s; ecialists, where, under skillful treatment, the snfferer soon foand relief and a permanent core. AGRICULTURE Milking.—If there is cause for par ticular care and watchfulness on the part of the husbandman who employs help it is most assuredly with those who do the milking of his cows. The mr.n- ner of milking has a more powerful in fluence on the productiveness of the cow than most dairymen are aware of. A slow and careless milker soon dries up the best cow. The first requisite for a good milker is utter cleanliness; the udder should therefore be carefully washed before milking if the cow has been lying in a yard or stable. The milker should begin gradually and very gently, but should steadily increase the rapidity of the operation until the udder is emptied, using a pail large enough to hold the milk without changing. Cows are very sensitive, and the pail cannot be changed without leading the cow more or less to withhold her milk. The greatest care should be taken to strip the last drop, and it should be done rapidly. If any milk is left it is re-ab sorbed into the system, or else become caked and diminishes the capacity of the udder. If gentle and mild treatment is observed,the operation is one of plea sure to the cow; but if an opposite course is pursued, if nt every restless movement caused by pressing a sore teat the adimal is harshly spoken to, she will be likely to kick, and thus form a habit which it will be difficult to break. Avoid change of milkers, and be loth to part with a good one Kindness to Stock.—Occasionally we see domestic animals that are as wild as foxes, and at the approach of man manifest the greatest alarm. This is usually caused by ill-treatment on the part of some one in the past. It is a positive disadvantage to have animals treated unkindly,it matters not whether they be horses, sheep, or cattle, the re sults are the same. They will not eat so well; they are likely to be restless; they will not grow as last as they should and there is a constant loss from this wholly unnecessary cause. Therefore, we say. treat your animals with the greatest kindness, and don’t allow any one to strike, kick or abuse them. Your animals will always give you a cordial v elcome when they have no reason for expecting abuse. Treat them kindly, and they will reward yon well for it by bringing into your pockets more profits for their keeping. Cake of Wagon Wheels.—The sever est strain in the cart or carriage comes upon the wheels. The felloes especially are exposed to alternate mud and drought, according to the prevailing weutner. The paint soon wears off and the wood absorbs the water from every mud puddle through which the vehicle is driven. In a dry time the wood shrinks, and the tire gets loose. The remedy is a new setting of the tire, and a bill from the blacksmith. It is much cheaper to clean up the carriage occa sionally, and giving the wheel a dres sing of linseed oil as hot as it can be put on. The wood will absorb a good deal of the oil, and will swell the rim so us to make the tire tight. It will pre vent the rotting ot the wood, and make long-lived wheels. When the wheels have soaked up all the oil they will take, put on a good coat of paint. It is an injury to plants to frequently wrier on the surface:to watorthoroughly when the plants require it is essential. Reflection will convince any one that a pot full of soil and a mass of roots in the centre cannot receive sufficient wa ter to wet the roots thoroughly, if ap plied on the top of the pot in moderate quantities daily. I; is lime saved once a week to place the plants in a deep ves sel of water; keep in tl e water until the air bubbles cease, and also syringe over end under the leaves; it will keep the plants healthy, as does the evening dew. In i'eediug lambs for the market it is less important that they come early than that they are kept growing without ohjck from lack of food. After the lamb is ten days or two weeks old it will usually begin to eat something besides it’s mother’s milk. No gram is better tnan whole oat* placed in shallow troughs wheze the lambs can run and the old sheep cannot. A very little grain fed in this way will bring greater profit than if fed to auy other Mnd of stock. The best lambs arc always salable at fancy prices, while stunted specimens ara of ten a drug and do not pay expenses. Chickens wben first hatched, should uot be Lurried out of the .setting nest. For twenty-four hour* at le»\*t from the time the earliest commence to snow themselves, it is better to leave them under or with the hen mother. They need no food for from a day to a dav and a half usually. When they get strong en ough to venture from beneath their mother’s wings, it is time to move the breed. When cows are fed with a liberality that develops a full How of miltc, they will not overload with a food so little concentrated os green grass The fact that they do overload is an evidence that their previous food was too scanty for profit, and consequently that loss Jiad been endured on account of it. When a change is to be made the herd should be admitted gradually tithe new feed, and they should be supplied with all the salt and water they desire. The cattle of the Pampas are compu ted at 20,000.000. They are the descen dants of a bull and eight cows, which were brought there by two Portuguese brothers in 1553 It is only near Bue nos Ayres that they have been crossed with finer stock. The old herds are ill- shaped and ugly. Layering consists simply in bending down a branch and keoping it m contact with or buried te a small depth in the soil, until roots are formed. The con nection with tbe parent plant may then be served. Many plants can be far more easily propagated thus than by outhngs, DOMESTIC. Delicious Coffee.—Tu coffee-grow ing countries, where the terry makes but a short journey from the bush to the mouth, this process is not necessary; and in the mountains of St. Domingo, the -.ative darkies make coffee in very quick fashion. They take the fresh berries and parch them for a few min utes, then crush them in a mortar—and for each persrn put a taolespoonful of fragrant fragments into a conical-shaped bag; the exact number of coffee-cups full of boiling water is measured out and poured twice through tbe bag. This completes the process, and the result is —“nectar.” But some one comes for ward with an air of authority and says: Take a ooffee-cup of tbe best Java coffee browned to the color of chocolate (not scorched), ground not too fine, and mix with it half an egg. Put this into a coffee pot, or boiler, (which is as clean as the onp you drink from) and poor over it one quart of boiling water, stir ring as yon put the water in; boil slow ly for fifteen minutes, then stand the boiler on the back of the ran je ten min utes to settle: tnra all coffee off from the grounds at once into an run or coffee pot that can stand upon the stove to keep hot. Coffee loses its flavor by standing on the grounds longer than half an hoar, and should be very hot to be good. To Make Negus.—To every pint of port wine allow oue quart of boiling water, one-quarter pound of sugar, one lemon, grated nutmeg to taste. As this beverage is more usually drunk at child ren’s parties than at auy other, the wine need not be very old or expensive for the purpose, a new, fruity wine answer ing very well for it. Put the wine into a jug, rub some lumps of sugar (equal to a quarter pound) on the lemon-rind until all the yellow part of the skin is absorbed, then squeeze the juice and strain it. Add the sugar and lemon- juice to the port wine, with the grated nutmeg; pour over it the boiling water, cover the jug, and, when the beverage has cooled a little, it will be fit for use. Negus may also be made of sherry, or any other sweet white wine, but is more usually made of port than of auy other beverage. Sufficient—Allow one pmt of wine, with the other ingredients in proportion for a party of nine or ten children. Cbeame Patissiebe.—Put the yelks of six eggs and two teaspoonfuls of sifted flour iuto a stew-pan. Add gradually to it a pint and a half of boiling cream and a pinch of salt; then place it on a moderate fire, stirring it with a spatula till i< begins to thicken, when you take it off, continuing to stir it. in order to make it perfectly smooth. Then put it back on the fire, stirring it for five or six minutes, until it is set. Put a quar ter of a pound of butter m a pan ou the fire, skim it, and continue it on the fire till it has acquired a light-brown color, when you instantly mix it with the cream, after which add to it a quarter of a pound of grated cocoa paste; to gether with four ounces of macaroons coarsely broken up. You may flavor it with a little maraschino or orange-flavor water. In cose the cream should be too stiff add a little more cream; if the con trary, the yelks of two eggs. Silver in constant use should be washed every day in a pan of suds made of good wlute soap and warm water, drying it with old soft linen oloths. Twice a week rafter thia woaViirrrY v .. _ —o/ it a thorough brightening with finely- powdered whiting, mixed to a thin paste with alcohol, rubbing longer and harder where there are stains. Then wipe this off and polish with clean, soft old linen. The plaid flamels which are offered at surprisingly low prices at this season of the year make desirable covers for comforters. They are so firm that they do not need to be tackeu very closely, and can be easily ripped apart and washed when it is necessary. Although one would prefer to be engaged in sew ing on muslin and summer garments, it is nevertheless true that it is *a good time now to consider the needs of anoth er winter. Insect Destroyer.—We see it stated that the best insect destroyer known is alum water. All you are required to do is to put the alum into hot water and let it boil 111 all the alum is dissolved, then apply it hot with a brush to all cracks, closets, bedsteads, and other places where insects are found. Ants, bedbugs, cockroaches and other creep ing things are killed by it, while it has no danger of poisoning the la nily or injuring property. The staining of bricks red is effected by melting one ounce of glue iu a gal lon of water, then adding a piece of alum as large as an egg, one-half pound of Yenetianred, and oue pound of Span ish brown; redness or darkness is in creased by using more red or brown. For coloring black, heat the bricks and dip in fluid asphaltum or in a hot mix ture of linseed oil and asphalt. Durable and pretty coders for a bu reau are made of drab aida canvas, with the edge finished with deep scallops crocheted of macreme cord, or make the cover so large that the edge will fall over the edge of the bureau. After the canvas is fringed to the depth of an mob, overcast the canvas so that it will not ravel. A narrow border of worsted above ihe fringe is a pretty additim. Pickied Eggs.—The eggs should be boiled hard (about ten minutes) and then divested of their shells; when cold put them in jars and cover with vinegar in which have been boiled the usual spices for pickling. Tie the jare down tight with oiled brown paper. This is an exctTent pickle to be eaten with cold meat, etc. Hard Pomatum. —Lard and mutton suet, of each one pound; white wax four ounces. Melt with as gentle a heat as possible; skim and strum, and clear Irom the dfega which arc deposited on standing; and one ounce of essence of bergamot and pour ia moulds. Retelling Moths.—If fine out to* bacco be sprinkled under the edge of carpets, and under those places where bureaus, book-cases and the like make it dark, the mot.is will be prevented from laying their eggs iu them, as it will drive them away. Cream Tea Oakes.—One quart of flour and a teaspoonful of salt, oae pint of sour cream, ana a half cup of melted butter, half spoonful of saleratns in a spoonful of hot water. Mix lightly in dough, mould ir small cakes and bake m buttered tins. Stave Rods.—To clean stair rods, use woolen cloth wet with water and dipped in sifted coal ashes; afterwards rub with a dry doth. HUMOROUS. Two New Yorkers, traveling South, were waiting in the depot at Memphis, and talking about the needs of the South, and they had been at it three- quarters of an hour, when a long-haired man in an old sombero and an “over flowed” look in his face, stepped up and said: “Gentlemen, you was talking about the south?” “Yes, air.” “You were talking about her pros pects, progress and needs?” “We were, sir.” “Well, now, I ain’t so well posted ou ner prospects and progress, but if you want to know the great present need of the South, just invite me out to take a whisky straight 1” — „ a Advance Step In Dentistry Havana, Cuba.—The must populai dentist of this city, Dr. D. Francisco Gar cia, member of the Royal University, states that in all cases of troublisome neu ralgia, arising from the teeth, bis patrons are recommended to use St. Jacob’s Ob, and tbe most satisfactory cures have fol lowed. It is a specific for toothache, ear ache, bodi y pains, and proof against household accidents. “What time does the State road train leave ?” asked a lady of a railroad man. “Two forty-five.” was the ready reply, •‘Well, I declare,” she said, with a puz zled look covering her face. ^'Atlanta is the strangest place I ever saw about giving information.” “Why so?” asked the railroad man. “Because, just now I asked a gentleman what hoar the train left, and he said a quarter to three, and now you say two forty-five; I can’t understand it to save my life.” The man walked off leaving her to study out the problem. Bay City, Mich , Feb. 3,1880 I think it my ^uty to send you a recom mend for the benefit of any person wishing to know whether Hop Bitters are good or not. I know they are good for general debility and indigestion; strengthen the nervous system and make new life, 1 rec ommend my patients to use them. DR. A. PRATT. When Bass moved into an apartment house. J ogg remarked to Mm. B., “Quite appropriate, Mrs. Bass; sweet to the suites you know,” Fendenon, who was pienent, thought it was a pret ty nice compliment; so when he saw Basa next day he thought he would try it. “I hear you have moved into a family hotel,” he began; “quite appro priate, flat to tne flats, you know.” And Fenderson still wonders why Bass should get mad over a remark that had made Mrs. B. smile so sweetly. Vbange or stlna. I declined to Insert your advertisement of Hop Bitters last year, because I then thought they might not be promotivh of the cause of Temperance, but find they are, and a very valuable medicine, myself and wife having been greatly benefltted by them, and I take great pleasure in making them known. REV. JOHN SEAMAN, Editor Home Sentinel, Afton, N. Y. Gentleman—“You ask me for a small gift, and do not even take off your hat from your head. Is that any way to act?” Beggar—“Excuse me, most hon orable sir. I dare not do it, for yonder stands a policeman. If he should see me take my hat off, it will occur to him at once that 1 am a beggar, and he will arrest me. At present, as we are now, he merely supposes that we are two old acquaintances having a frieudly chat.” An Edltoi’■ Tputtunorial. A. M. Vaughn,elitor of t!o "Greenwich Review," Greenwich, O., writes: lA't January I met with a very s vere accident, caused by a runaway hor-e. I UB ;d almost every kind of g dye to h al ihe wounds, which tur.:ed to running sores, but found nothing to do me any good t il I w.s recommended Henry’s Carbolic Salve. I bought a box and it hslped me at once, and a* the end of two months I was completely well. It is the bjs: sa ve in the mtrket, and Inver fail of ta ling my friends about it. and urge them to use it whenever they need a salve. Durno’g Catarrh Snutf cures a'J affections the mucous mtmbrjue of th) head and throat “1 tell yon, said a man whose char acter is way down below zero, “that it doesn’t do no good to compel children to read the Bible. When I was a young kid they used to keep me at it half the time. I knew it nil by heart afore I •wwvn* H J ~ ~ » .9 Axivv-VAAy AM AS V KX'J lb IsAlAHl 11 AI glllSll 1 ttll yer.” It was the unanimous opinion of all who knew him that his argument was unanswerable, Mensman’s Peptonized beef tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its en tire nutritious properties. It contains blood-making, force generating and life- sustaining pioperties; invaluable for indi gestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also,. m all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork or acute disease, particularly if resulting bom pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York. Bold by all druggists. Her father stood at the gate talking with a gentleman, and the seven-year- oldmiss threw out several hints about supper being ready without success. At length, anxious and impatient, she call ed out from the side stoop: “Papa, if you don’t come right into supper the ice cream will all get cold !” Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer is the marvel of the age for all nerve diseases All fits stopped free. Send to 931 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. An Ohio physician says that the fife, flute, comet and other wind insti aments, if played vigorously, will cure weak lungs. This may be true, but the man who tries the experiment may meet with a fatal Accident before he effects a permanent cure, unless he resides on some isolated island iu the Pacific ocean. That Husband of Mine Is three times the man tie was before he began using Wells’ Health Itenewer. tl. Druggists. Those who us* Oarbohne as now Im proved and perfected, the great petroleum hair renewer, are always distinguished by the beautiful soft texture of the hair pro duced by tbe use of that mo it exquisite ot all toilet preparations. Charles Moon, of Denver, swallowed a live bull-frog, six inches long and two inches across the breast, and afterwards drank a pint of whisky. The saddest thing about the affair is that it was the frog that died. Almost as depressing was OJ6 of the pipers of the city calling the fro" swallower a “full Moon.” Per haps the word “fuli” Was a misprint for “fool.” Ladies and children's boots and shoes cannot run over if Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners are used “My home is not upon this earth,” was the pious remark of Deacon Crow foot; “my mansion is in the skies.” “Well,” replied Fogg, “I would not advise you to move into it until you find ont what kind of neighbors you are going to have.” Emory’s Little Cathartic Pill—best made for Liver Complaint and Biliousness. Tasteless, harmless, infallible. 15c. Willie has a 4-year-old sister, Mary, who complained to mamma that her button shoes wore hurting her. “Wby, Matcie, yon-ve put them on the wrong feet.” Puzzled and ready to cry, she made answer: “What’ll I do. mamma? A hey're ail the feet I’ve got.” Why don’t yen use 8t. Patrick’s Salve? Try it. Use it. 25j at all druggists. “Europe is treading on a volcano,” reads old X. in his paper aloud. ^Pa pa, what is a volcano?” asked the youngest. “Why, it is something to tread on, my boy.” For Thick Heads, Heavy stomachs, billons conditions—Wells’ May Apple anti-bilious, cathartic. 10 and 26c. Fogg says that he has bottled np enough health during the winter to last nearly through the two weeks which he intends cpending at some health resort next summer. Should yon be a snfferer from dyspepsia, indi gestion, malaria, or weakness, yon can be cured by Brown’s Iron Bitters. “Confound the dog I” he said, “I’ll settle his hash for him when I go down there to see Kate to-night.” And he proceeded to saturate the seat of his pants with strychuine. Fish may be scaled much easier by first dipping them in scalding water for a minute. We learn from a fashion item that it is now the correct form to use a little pompadour slipper filled with white flowers. Instead of the proverbial old shoe, to throw qfter tbe departing bride. From certain legends we have read, we infer that the new idea would be much safer than the old one tri a Chicago wedding. The bride would be leis liable to have her skull fractured. A man in California reports having seen a rattlesnake with two legs. Tne fact that it didn’t also have two heads is evidence that the whisky might have been much worse. But peruaps the California man took only six drinks.” Fvitver Axle Grease. One gres'in^ iaitstwo weeks: all others two or three days. D> n it be mpjs xl on by the hnmbug stuffs offers I. ' sk your dealer for Fra ser's, wiih label on. Saves your horse labor and jo i too. It r.oeved first medal at the Centen nial and Paris Expositions. Bold every whurj. “John is a mighty mean man,” said Biggs; “he sold me a tub of butter that was strong enough to - go aloue, but I got rid of it. I sold It to my brother ; and the best of it is I gut more than I paid John for it.” Toocu City, Ga.—Dr. J. P. Newman gays: “Biown's Iron Bitters are very popular .an 1 meir nse always results saiisfau or ly.” “One to job of nature,” etc. Street preacher—“I now ask. brethren, wuat can 1 do te move you in this world of wickedness?” Array—“Send round the ’at, guv’nor. That'll mo£e ’em.” TValcott, the gentleman who ate thirtj’ brace of quails in thirty days, was relieved from any disagreeable stomach troubles by using Gastrin E, and took nothing elso dur ing the task. Sold by druggists. “Three new asylums tor the insane are to be built at once in Indiana.” We didn’t suppose thatdndeism was making converts so rapidly in that State. OPIUM The other day one of Atlanta’s chronic rag-pickers tfent. into Swartz’s junk shop with a bag full of miscellaneous rags to sell Swartz looked dubiously at the sack and then exclaimed: “Py ohiminy grioky, vich shell I veigh—vot you got on, or vot you got off?” Then the picker got insulted and went off to another shop. _ Baltimore, Md.—Rev. w. H. Chapman say a: “I deem Brown’s Iron Blttere a most valuable tonia for general ill-health.” A teaches defining a transitive verb as one that expresses an action which is “passed over” from the deer, gave for illustration “The dog wags his tail.” Whereupon a youngster arose with the criticism: “Please, ma’am, the action don’t pass over; it stays in the dog.” Skinny Men. “Wella’Health Renewer’’restores health and vigor cures Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility. $1. THE GREATGERM! REMEDY FOR nun Believes and cures B11EUMAT18] Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago BACKACHE, HEADACHE, TOOTEAO SORE THROAT, QUINSY. SWELLIh SPRAIN*, Soreness, Cuts, Brule FROSTBITES, It IT HNS, NCALI And all other bodily a and pains. FIFTY CENTS A BOT Sold by all Druggists a Dealers. Directions In languages. The Charlet A. Vogtler ( (Swohmti » A. VOGIUtl 101 Baltimore. Ceflei iio9ii 6> | E 4 T ”r“‘-a C BlTTlR^ WIES WHIJt AH lit! FAILS, p. Best Cougn Syrup. Tnstesgood M Use in time. Sofa by druggists. B CONSUMPTION There has never been sn Instance In which tiuJ sterling invlgorant and anti-febrlle medicine hd failed to want off the complaint, when taken iloijj as a protection against malaria. Hundreds physicians have abtindoned all the officinal sped ics, and now prescribe this harmless vegttablJ tonic for chills and fever, as well as dyspersii and nervous affections. Hostetler’s Bitters Is ft specific yon need. For sale br all Druggists and Dealers generalljJ HEALTH IS WEALTH! DR. E. C. WRST'S RKRYI AND HUH TREATMENT, i i guarantoed specific for Hysteria. DiEzineea.ConvulsRms.FIta, ! Nervoua Neuralgia, Headache, Nervous Prostration caused ' by the use of alcohol or tobacco, WakefUlneaa, Mental De> premiou, Softening of the Brain resulting in insanity sad leading to misery, decay and death; Premature Old Ain, Barrenness, Lota of Power in either sex, Involuntary Loceai and Spermatorrhoea caused by over-exertion of the brail, aelf-abaae or over-indulgence. Each box con tains one month 1 ! treatment, ft a box, oraix boxes for sent by mall pn- paid ou receipt of price. WE GUARANTEE 6IX BOXES To care any caw. With each order received by us for ah boxes, accompanied with f 5, we will send the purchaser oar written guarantee to refund the money if the treatment do« not effect a cure. G uarantecaiaaned only by KISNKR * WKXDHiSOS, 320 Bace Street. PhlThdelphia, Pi. 44 UPTTOEUTVAJM.” The celebrated vegetable Blood I’uriller. It Immediately cures Headache, Constipation, Purifies the Skin. Mailed anvwhere upon receipt of 25 cents. Unsnrpaeeed for cuihinm. EISNER & MENDELftON, 320 Race Street, Philadelphia, P*. rUIDCnm Powder ehemil'a'iy rreps^A. for Um j UnnnUUHL completion, whitening’ the teeth,! bad breath, purifying the B <x by mall II ( Cents. Ml’ Vernon (io.. boathin: ton. Cons. OPIUM B£or3*ltine It table In 19 to 20day*. No pnjr till Cared : Dr. J.'HtrpwT3M*. Ibhanon. Ohio f DRS. J. N.& J. B. HOBENSAl'K. THOSE AFFLICTED WITH THE EFFEUIK OF SELF-ABUSE AND MERCURIAL1ZATIONI should not hes Lite to consult J. N. anil J. B. 110- BBN3ACK, of 206 Norm Second street, PnilaJel-1 phla, either by mail or by per* n, diirirg the boon 1 from 8 A. M. to 2 P. M., aud 6 to 3 P. M. Advice free. Whosoever would know his con<tt> Uou and the wav to improve It should read “WISDOM IN A NUTrilELL.” Sent on receipt or S-cent s amp. I Bi| A STOPPED FREE Mambui auctu. ■ f lns*n*+’er$on» Kestored MSr.KLINE’S G&EAT B nerve Restorer ■ ftr 3S Krsvs DISC.-.SBS. Only ners ““ cur, for Nervt Afffctiont. Fits, Fpil'fsj. ttc. 1KFALL1BLB if taken as directed. Ho Fits afUr first tiny's ust. Treatise And f.% trlnl bottle free t* ^ ■ | afflict Drugs “THt BEST IS CHEAPEST." .“‘HTHRESHERSK (Btfft*d to til aectlonA.) Write for a'Bhe tffua PannhM and PHoaa to ThBAoltman* Taylor Oa, ii.ji.ruM rwu. oayno’s Automatic engine*. Nothlne in the world equal to it for the 1 r cure of ScriTuIa, Pimples, Boils, Tetter, Old Sores, ^ Sore Eye*, Mercurial Diseases, Catarrh. Lots of Appetite, Female Com plain Is, and all Blood ' diseaus. It never fails. All druggists and country store keepers sell it. R. K tellers it <'Om Prop’s Plttwbargh, on every bottle. Tbe Bad and Worthless are never imitated or counterfeited. ThU is especially tree of a family medicine, and It is positive proof that the remedy Imitated la of the highest vaiee. Aa soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitter* was the purest, beat and most valuable family medicine on earth, many Imitations sprang np am' began to steal the notice* In which the pres* and tne people of the country had expressed the merit* of H. B., and in every way trying to In duce suffering Invalid* to nse their staff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B Many others started nostrum* put np tn similar style to H. B., with variously devised names in which the word “Hop,” or “Hops" were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitten. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their styie or came is, and especially those with tne word “Hop”or “Hops”In their n.m. or In any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hop on the white label. Trust nothing else. Druggists and dealers are warned against dealing in imitations or counterfeits. YOUNG [VIPN If you want to become TELE- ■ uunu inui g a ih opfjutokh. and bt guaranteed employment, address F. W. R£ )M Ada,0. THE SUJN M,LLI D uble It! A YEAI fhAif and to telitheTum tholwh n th?hS, awjhe two great purposes oi THE SUN. r^SSragSrSd f£ y ai f atSS&affiTi Pag*), by mall, B8e. a month, or *S.30 $1.30 per year; Wsaanv <i ENGLAND. Publisher, New Yoi •10* ^-er^ear. PETER COOPER. His Life and Character. Bv O. Edwards r, VarurtijJvn r}* 16 a “d 8u» iie o; Eng and:” eA P ? T ( h D JS v,t . Vl < i t0 .1««n*tr"ted. Pipe ctM tl >th X5 ct».| liRlf Kiiririia 35 rt* Poi slam™taten. Not.oil by drid rs priiM too Also the tol owing, large type, uuabr.dged? 1 i IS! ™ u. LEX - H ktefhbks. io •. 25o. am Lir? 21 ** 1KVINO - Stoddard, Rir VAN 8 vt by Fartoa, Aii* van »INKLK, by Vianh intern r/itur O'KOMX. by CaoifouiVnr.*’ . f&T® viSSkodd mil! JOHN B. 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