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rg, "There could be no disappointment in any case," Ralph answered, calmly. "I came here to see you, not yout lands. But I must tell you, Uncle Gilbert, the inheritance would not stop me if I wished to marry " "Would not atop you? Heavens, boy, don't tell me that already?" "No," he said, laughing and coloring all over his handsome young face. "Not already, sir; and I hope never; for I confess to a liking for being the master of Woodvale when the houi comes for it to change masters?an hour which I trust is far away." .? s , " ? ?1 The Evening Hour. " Hu goetb forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening.?Psalm civ.. 23. b, calm, sweet evening hour, What lulling charm (loth o'r my senses flow, As fans your cooling breath my fevered brow With soothingpower ? Oh ! sweet to sit and muse? As wanes the day o'er dell and meadow fair, While song-birds' swelling throats are hushed and still, Aud flowers diffuse Chioce fragrance on the airOne line of yellow light lost into pink, Bimt the horizon round as pictures set In bordering fair. i The picture is thu-j fair I gaze upon; and God hath made it so; Aad now He wills I rest from labor done, ^ With grateful prayer. ? Good Words. _ LITTLE BUTTERCUP. 41 I'm called Little Buttercup," slie answered, looking up into his face, with a gay little half-defiant laugh. It seemed the best name for her, certainly, as she sat there on the mossy meadow bank, beside the brook, with the small golden blossoms starring all tho sward about her. She had thrown her hat by, on the grass, and had tucked a bunch of the same gold-burnished oups into the loose knot of her hair, which here and there had much the same bright glow and glint. And as bright as sunshine was the light in the round laughing eyes she lifted to tho young man who had just paused across the brook, with only that babbling hurry of ripples between him and her sunny resting-place. He looked more than half-minded to set the barrier at naught. " Dear Little Buttercup," he quoted la ms turn, nan unuer ms oream; ai least in a tone which the girl need not hear if she did not choose. Whether Ehe did or not he was at a loss to guess, her next quotation being as applicable to her own preceding speech as to his. '"I'm sure I could never could tell why'?" demurely plucking at her lapful of flowers, with tho prettiest rosy tips of fingers. " But my name," she said, presently, looking up at him again, "won't help to guide you to Woodvale, where you say you want to go. You must follow this brook?no, no, not on this side," she added, hastily, seeing him glance about him for a convenient spot at which to spring across to her. " You must keep on, along the bank you are on, until you come to where* two pathways Tork." "But, you see, I lose myself so easily I" He shot a furtive, laughing glance at her from under the slouched brim of his straw bat ; a glanco which he meant her to miss, and which he fancied from. her unmoved face, she did. " Your namesakes, all tlie little buttercups, are climbing up my side of tne bank, and I think you ought to be among them to insure my not straying from the right road." She got up, dropping him the demurest of courtesies, taking hold of the skirt of her brown Holland frock, with her two hands full as they were of the field-flowers she had gathered. "I'll show you the way with pleasure, sir," she said?"only you must keep on that side, on your own side, or you c^n't go right. There is no need for me to cross, thank you"?drawing back as he would have reached forward to help her. " I can show you the way from hero; and our paths don't lie in the same direction." " I am sorry to hear that; but won't they sometimes cross?" he asked, with % % touch of meaning in his voice, at which many a rustic coquette would have bridled or looked conscious. But this girl lifted her eyes to him innocently, shaking her head. "No, indeed; how should they, with the brook growing wider and wider between ? You see, it is too wide already "?for they had both been walk; ingon as they spoke. "And hero we are at the fori. This is your path, to ? the left; it takes vou straight to Woodle." ^With a hasty nod, before he knew what she would* do, she had turned and v * pushed her way midst a clump of alders straggling toward the stream just there - , * spun her side. Upon the other, the . young man stopptd short; but all that : - / * na ifiould see was only the shaking of ' ^ . -V the green boughs that screened her from his view, as she went through them. If he could have had a glimpse between hr>norVi? Vio trnnlrl lmvo snr .MOT,** ?w prised byj^the pantomime enacted there. For little Buttercup no sooner found herself alone in her green covert, than w. v 8he let fall all the golden blossoms she ?* ?r bad been carrying, and brought her two empty hands together with a soundless clap of delight; then she executed a pirouette, unmistakably expressive of the sam9 feeling; and lastly, wheeling round lightly a tip-toe, until she faced Bin the direction the stranger had taken, she blew an airy kiss daintily from the i tips of her fingers?a kiss, no hint of i which, she knew, could possibly reach j him through the intercepting branches'. Then, demurely picking up her hat, which had dropped from her arm during all this displav, she struck into a path which led her back in the very direction whence she had come. It was easy j , .? enough to spring across the brooklet j there; and after awhile, but slowly, she was following the self-same way which he had taken an hour before her. So soon, for all she had said to the contrary, did their paths cross! The man, meantime, after standing ?-'"-disconcerted for a moment, gazing blankly at the spot where she had dis appeared, and where that pantomime was being enacted for the benefit of the birds and a small squirrel peeping out omnncr lpnven liarl tnrnorl ami tnlrpn to his designated path. It led him quickly and easily into the well-kept and handsome grounds of Woodvale, and to its doors, which he had once thought would open to him as the master, but which he entered now as guest. For Ralph "Wood's story was a somewhat strange one. His father, who had died in Ralph's infancy, was the younger of the two sons of the old mas ter of Woodvale, and had estranged himself from his family by his marriage with the "prettiest low-l'orn lass" that ever made a man fo., et family and fortune. Though estrt, iged, his father at his death had not left this younger son quite penniless, though Woodvale had gone to the elder son, an eccentric j scholar and traveler, who had been spending years in wanderings and re- j searches in the far East. About a year ago young Ralph Wood had received tidings through the family lawyer of bis , uncle's death in one of those Eastern lands, and of his succession as the only one of that name. Ralph was at that ( time hard at work studying in a German university, and he did not allow the news of his improved fortunes to i disturb him, unless it were with golden I visions of a bright future in store for ; him when he should have finished his I course. But before he did finish it there came another letter from the law- ; yer, inclosing one from his uncle him- ! self, who was not dead, but living, and ; on his way back to Woodvale the mis- ! take havirg arisen from the death of another Englishman of the same name in the East also. This was some four or five months ago; and to-day Ralph had come, at his uncle's invitation, to take his first view of the inheritance which for a few months he had supposed to be hi -i own. "You'll not begrudge it to me for a little'while, eh, Ralph, my boy?" the old Tnnm was saving to him, as the two were seated in the library together, an hour or so after the young man's following of the path pointed out to him by Little Butteroup had brought him to Woodvale. " It will only be for a little while; and then the old place will go to you, I hope. For though it is not entailed, I cannot approve of land going out of the name. With other property, of course, it is different?a man must provide for his own. But Woodvale should go down to a Wood; agirl counts for nothing there." Ralph looked at him rather vacantly; what had a girl to do with the question? Bat he had not time to think it over, : ? for his uncle was resuming: rr"There is only one condition I shall make, Ralph. That you shall marry in your own rank of life. There, you need not frown?I did not mean the least reflection on your mother, who lived and died a very estimable woman, I have heard. But?call it a whim of an old mas, if you will?my father had it before me?I do not mean that Woodvale which is mine absolutely, to leave a8 I please, sltall be-yours unless you do marry in your own rank. I tell you this now, that hereafter there may be BO disappointment." h. i 72?i There was a hearty ring in the words, at which the old man looked pleased. He was about to make some answer, when a servant entered to announce diunei?giving his master at the same time a little twisted note, which, when he had read, the old man put into his pocket with a puzzled air. Ralph would have been still more puzzled, could he have glanced over his shoulder, but perhaps the reader will understand more a? a glimpse of it: "Dear Papa?If you havn't told him anything about me, dou't. I am not comitig in to dinner. It is just a whim of mine, which you must obey." So the two men went into the old dining-hall togethtr, and there was no mention of any absentee. During the week that ensued Ralph found his time very much on his own hands. His uncle did not attempt to make a change in his studious habits upon his nephew's account; and his long wanderings abroad had made him so thoroughly un-English, that there was absolutely no intercourse between him and his neighbors. The very servants were all Orientals, brought here by him on his home-coming ; so that Ralph, for conversation however limited, was restricted to his uncle's society, in the few hours -which diil not find the latter engrossed in books and papers. Entirely restricted, the old man might have said, if he had thought about it at all. But in reality there was one exception. Down in the meadow, by the brookside, the buttercups were blooming still; and Ralph found bimself there among them day after day. Perhaps he was becoming a botanist; at any rate the buttercni is said to be verv useful to the student of botany, as being an excellent type of all flowers. He was saying this to Little Buttercup just now, and she was listening between a laugh and a blush. Certainly the roses and the lilies were in her face, as well as the yellow gold in her hair, and the violet-blae in the soft eyes which lifted themselves to him and then dropped shyly under their long lashes. " So, you see, if I might gather the Little Buttercup for my very own"?he was adding?" I would' have all that is sweetest and loveliest upon earth." She did not answer him; what could she say ? and he bent forward?he was leaning on his elbow beside her, ou the mossy bank?and took in his the small hand that was plucking at the mosse3. "Dear Little Buttercup, do not keep me in suspense. Tell me if I am to go empty-handed away ?" Sho turned beS eyes upon him then, wit.li a sfranco, searching caze. "Empty-handed?" she said. "Emptyhanded? If yon take me will yon not have to let fall everything else? I have heard it said that the old master of Woodvale is a proud maD; will he not be angry if you marry a little country giil, not of your own rank? and one, indeed, of which you know so little; for what have our chance meetings, when our paths have crossed in the woods and tields, reallv taught you of me?" " That you are the one thing needful to me in the world," he said, promptly. " Anything else I am content to learn when you are ready to tell me. Am I so blind as not to see for myself what a good, true girl you are, my darling? As for my uncle "?he said, still meeting her gaze frankly?"I am sorry to vex him, for the old man has been good to me; but I do not propose to sell myself for Woodvale. No; if I may have my little Buttercup I shall have all I want on. earth." She drew herself away from him suddenly, with a shy laugh, and sprang to hpr fppf. "You mean to intimate that I shall prove a handful?" Ho had risen, too. He was standing before her, pale with his earnestness. " Do not trifle with me," ho said. "Answer me. It is no jest to me." "I am not trifling"?gently, but not making any movement to put her hand in hie, outstretched for it. "I am not trifling; but I cannot answer you just yet. You must see your uncle first. Then I will answer you." " But surely?" She did not wait for him to finish. As on the first day, she brushed hastily in among the alders which closed round her, leaving Ralph aloneHe did not linger there. It was but a little later when he stood in the Wood vale library, and startled the old man out of a curious-looking folio he was poring over. " I have come to tell you, Uncle Gilbert," the young fellow said, abruptly? " I am' going away from "NVoodvale. I auisuun iu c?(y (^wu-ujc uu jvu, uvuv*j sorry if it vex you?but I must be going." "Going away!" The old man leaned back in his chair and took off his spectacles as if he could read the young one better without them. " What is the matter, Ralph? What has happened? Going away? When?" " When you phase," said the other, with a short laugh. " I am afraid it is the only way I can please you now, sir. The fact is" -stammering a little, and then angry with himself for it?" I am not ashamed of it, Uncle Gilbert, though I am-sorry to vex you?but the fact is I mean to marry?if she will but have me?a little village girl of this neighborhood; and I can't stay any longer under your roof under false pretenses, you thinking that I mean to please you in this matter of my marriage." Ho had gone straight on to the end, apparently unheedful of such commentary on his words as the old man's surprised and angry gestures and his listless sinking back into the chair might make. But he had not really, been unheedful; there was a troubled look in his eyes that showed he had not lost the lneatiingof one movement. " I thought something would go wrong!" cried the old man, ft-ebly. "I had a misgiving that I should have spoken out right from the first. But it may not be too late cow. Ralph, you have not had altogether an English education: von are not bound down bv insular prejudicsV" Ralph did not know what to answer to this; he stood leaning against the chimuey-piece, waiting for the sequence of this preamble. It came hurriedly and nervously. "You must often have heard, when abroad, of marriages arranged by the heads of families ; and you must have known that they often turn out more happily than so-called love matches. Now, I have a marriage in my mind for you?" For very amazement Ralph forgot to interrupt,'save by a gesture, which the old man disregarded, hurrying on: "Myown was a love-match?yes, you start at that; you did not know I had been married. It was before I went abroad; soon after your father's death, i We did not resemble each other, we two brothers ; but I was like him in this, that I, too, fell in love with a girl lowly born, and married her. But?I don't know how it was with your father's mar ; riage, Ralph, mine did not make me j happy. Perhaps the fault began with me," he went on moodily; " perbaps it j was that I did not come out boldly, as my brother had, but feared to tell my father, aud trusted to bringing matt enround. But meantime my poor Mattj died?her life had been spoiled, too, foi it was her vanity which had made hei pleased at being courted by a fine gen ! tleman. as it was her pretty face wh'cl had attracted me She left me a child ; ?a little girl, whom I had to intrust to 1 her kindred?good, homely foil; in ? distant county, who had no clear idet of the identity of poor Matty's husband, but were willing to undertake the charge for Matty's sake and a liberal remunera tion. You see now, Ralph," he wenl on, looking earnestly at the young man " why I sent fQr you to come to me here I alwavs meant to tell my father of mj man-iage, that he might see how botl of his sons were on the same footing but he died while I was still putting ii off; and then I thought of this way o: righting the matter. If you t-houlc marry my little Maud?the child ii rarely lovely?"' Ralph had been trying now to stoj him in good earnest. "Do not let ns bring her name in Uncle Gilbert. I have come to tel yon of the girl I hope to marry." " But you have not seen Maud," saic the old.man, testily. "She has beei j keeping out of your way; she will not see you. And she is such a willful little minx "?his features relaxing in a smile half pleased and half abashed? ' " I can do nothing but just let her have j her way. I thought in time all must j come right. I never thought that in ! nno ttopIt " "You must not regret it," said the young man, gently. " My Cousin ; Maud?I'm afraid I have been exiling > j her from home all this while?will not i be so willful when you find some one better worth her having." ; " But?Woodvale?and the girl is, , j after all, my child?" j " And rightful heir, Uncle Gilbert. Let her have Woodvale, and welcome, i "And now, that is settled, perhaps you ( will not be angry with mo that I take my own wav?" i "Ralph-" There was a stir amidst the heavy i j lace curtains which screened the library i j from the picture gallery. And then ;, the curtain was pushed aside, and a email white figure stood against the ; crimson. | "Ralph, perhaps your uncle will let you introduce me to him ?" The young man sprang forward ' eagerly, though in his bewilderment it seemed, to mm as n ne were in a aream. He took her two hands in her own, and drew her toward him proudly. " Uncle Gilbert, you see?" The old man put on his spectacles, as if not sure that he di<! ece. I " Maud!" i "Or Little Buttercup,'' she said, with a charming blush, turning her face round on her lover, while she disengaged one hand and held it out to her father. An F>cape From Siberia. The Geneva correspondent of the London Daily Xeirs sends a narrative of the escape from Siberia of M. Mokrievitch, a Russian socialist, whose arrival in Switzerland was recently announced. M. Mokrievitch, who is about tliirty[ three years of age, is the son of a coun! try gentleman, and highly educated. In : January, 1879, he was at Kiefl, conducting a secret printing oflice, which was j seized by the police, and Mokrievitch, i beiug captured, was sentenced by a court-martial to fourteen years penal servitude in Siberia. In July following j j he and some other state convicts set out i on their long journey for Oust Kara, I where they had to undergo their seni TIi/it* f^Qvoln/1 iiart, nf fliA tp?ir I via Nijni Novgorod, by railway, steamboat and on horseback. The remainj der of the journey, 1450 miles, had to be done on foot and in chains. The | narrative continues: "Between Krasnoyarsk and Irkontsk I M. Mokrievitch and two of his companj ions, Isbitzky and OrlofT, changed names and dresses with three ordinary | convicts who were under sentence of i perpetual exile. This, M. Mokrievitch, ; assures me, is a very common expedient, i and can be affected at a cost of a few ! rubles. His destination was now that of tlio peasant whose name he had taken, a settlement in the province of Irkontsk. Izbitzkey and Orlofl got away before reaching Irkoutsk, probably by the connivance of the guard. Orloff was soon recaptured. Isbitzkey has never been heard of since, and is supposed to have perished of hunger, or been devoured by wolves in the trackj less forests of eastern Siberia. On November 13, 1879, a few days after leaving Irkoutsk for Balaganask?his final ! destination?M. Mokrievitch also gavb j his escort the slip. As soon as his flight was discovered a number of Bouryats, half-savage Mongol horsemen, as keen as sleuth hounds and as cunning as red Indians, were sent after him, but | he succeeded in evading their pursuit and reaching Irkoutsk. To avoid recapture, which had he gone west would have been almost certain, he made off towards the Chinese frontier, and after a walk of seven hundred miles in the depth of a Siberian winter he doubled , back in the direction of European Russia, which he reached after a jour| ney of 4,000 miles, performed mostly on ! foot. He underwent terrible hardships, | and met with many adventures. Without the frequent aid and generous hos ! pniuuy ui tuu cuimiry peupie, wuu aiu I noted for tlieir kindness to fugitive convicts, he could not possibly have made good his escape, and, lest he should expose those who helped him to the vengeance of the Russian government, he does not desire to make publicly known the exact direction which he took. M. i Mokrievitcli's journey across Russia, j though not unattended with difficulty i and risk, was child's play compared j j with his walk through Siberia. Furi nished by his friends with false papers, : he succeeded in getting safely out of i the country, and a few days ago reached ! Switzerland. Except Wiotrowsky in | ; the last century, M. Debagoria MokrieI vitch is the only state prisoner condemned to hard labor that ever escaped from Siberia. Beards. Exceptionally long beards have ali ways attracted a good deal of attention, | and history records many instances of; i this kind. Rauber von Talber^, a German knight, and councillor of Maximilian II. (d. 1575), rejoiced in a beard that reached to his feet, and from there j again to his waist. John Mayo, a cele- j : brated painter of the sixteenth century, I ; who accompanied Charles V. in his ! ! campaign, had a beard so long, that al- J j though he was a till man, it would hang j upon the ground when he stood upright; he wore it, therefore, fastened to his girdle. George Killiugworth, sent by Queen Mary as one of her agents in 1555 to Czar Ivan the Terrible, is said to have had a beard five feet two inches Jong. In the olden time, when every part of the body had its price, the beard was valued at twenty shillings?a large sum for that time?while the loss of a leg was only estimated at twelve shillings. We can easily imagine that at periods when the beard and whiskers were looked upon as ornamental, false beards [ were substituted for the genuine article. Pedro IV., of Aragon (1351), found himself compelled to prohibit his Catalouian subjects from wearing false beards. But '.he most singular substitute is the 1 golden beard, which, Chrysostemus * says, was worn by the kings of Persia. Suetonius says the same of Caligula, the Roman emperor. According to Andreas Favvn, the kings of France of the first dynasty wore beards entwined with gold threads. Duke Renatus, of Lorraine, was the last, and it is related that he wore rt the funeral of Charles of Burgnndy, who died at Nancy in 1477, a beard of gold thread hanging down to j his girdle. As Jupiter was sometimes ] adorned with a golden beard, the phrase i aitream brirbam habere was equivalent to ; saying Duum esse. Beards were at various times taxed in England. Thus we read in Xotes and j Queries that the sheriff of Canterbury paid three shilling and fourpence for wearing a beard. In the first year of Elizabeth every beard above a fortnight's growth was taxed three shillings and sixpence; but the law was too absurd to be enforced. The duty imposed upon beards by Peter the Great was a ! rul>le (about three shillings). This tax met with a fate similar to that of Elizai betli's, and was soon canceled. The development of the beard, as well as the hairiness of the body, dif| fers not merely in different races, but ' j also in families of the same race. In I Europe and a portion of Asia beards i prevail, until we go beyond India, when 1! gradually beards disappear, as is the j case with the Siamese, Chinese and 11 Japanese. Touching Evidence of Instinct. ? One of the most touching incidents ' on record, illustrative of animal instinct i and affection, occurred during a recent ' bear hunt in this vicinity. The parties ' who vouch for the truth of the narrative 1 are all known in Santa Barbara. One ! o! them shot a small cub through the l ! head, killing it instantly, the ball enterl I ing the skull just back of the eyes. 1 ! Something callcd the attention of the i ! hunters away from the spot, and when i I they returned a half hour afterward they . j found the mother bear standing over 5 j her lifeless cub, apparently engaged in i licking and caressing its head. A couple t i of well-directed shots soon stretched ? ! the she bear by the side of her dead offspring and the hunters approached f to secure their game. To their surprise i th*y found the bullet wound to the cub's ; head partly filled with finely chewed t grass and leaves. The mother had evif dently seen the blood from the wound I and had endeavored to do what she i could toward stanching its flow.? Santa Barbara (Cal.) Press. ) n Paper belting is UBed with success in , | the machinery hall of an exhibition now 1 held in Japan. It is said that the belting made of paper has been tested, and 1 found to be much stronger than that i made ofordin&ry leather. L ? .. FACTS ;AND COMMENTS. M. Munkacsv, the Hungarian painter, has just declined to take less than $160,000 for his new picture of " Clirist before Pilate." It is not so long ;igo that this brilliant and now wealthy artist was a cabinet-maker's apprentice, and was thankful to earn small sums in his leisure hours by painting flowers upon the furniture of the peasant farmers of his native town, taking his commissions from them as he stood in the market?1o/>q uritli Viia maafor'fl TUftrpq. A nliance talk with two art students, who stood ] with him under a gateway during a I heavy shown-, first opened to him the way to a regular academical education. "If it were only possible," Mrs. Garfield said, "for my husband and ine to i go around and see all these dear people j who Lave been so grateful in their remembrance for us here of late days, I would be so happy; and I know he would, too. I want to thank them?to tell them j all how kindly I feel toward them for I what they have said to me. I never could understand anything about politics, and if I liked a person it made no difference whether they were KepubliI cans or Democrats; and now I have j grown to think that there is not much i difference between the two great parties, for one says just as kind words in our present ailliction as the other. It mikes me feel like forming an opinion as to what I would do were women permitted to vote as well as men. I believe I would get twc tickets, fold them together so as to look like one, and drop them back in the ballot-box." Lieutenant-Governor Tabor, of Colorado. owns from four to eight millions, all acquired within four years. But his sudden wealth was preceded by eighteen years of poverty, deprivation and struggle for himself and his wife. They went West from Maine during the Pike's Peak excitement, spent all their money, found no gold, and thereafter roughed it in border settlements, working for small wages at first, and afterward keeping stores in mining camps. In 1377 he bought in Denver 82,500 worth of goods for a Leadville store, and tried to induce the firm to take half of the Little Pittsburg claim in payment, but they preferred to take his note. That mine yielded him $150,000 in three months, and eventually $51,300,000. The original cost was " grub stakes" for the two prospectors, the bargain being that he should have half of whatever they discovered on the trip. A wealthy land-ownex at Goiiesse, France, has founded upon his estate a private asylum for superannuated ani 1- 1. * 1%ir? VWAiAAflATt 1111113) WlllUii) UAUUpU IV/l iilO frould perish of neglect. Many of the inmates of this strange establishment have attained extraordinary ages; indeed, the figures representing the number of their years, which their benefactor carefully records, severely tax credulity. The patriarch of the family is a mule in his seventy-third year; next come a cow thirty-six years old. a pig of twenty-seven, and a goat of eighteen summers. In the quarters assigned to fowls the visitor is introduced to a goose in its thirty-eighth year, whose paunch touches the ground and whose , feet are disfigured by countless warts. In the aviary are a sparro'v in his , thirty-second year, and a bullfinch re- j puted to be twenty-eight yoars old. Young and frolicsome creatures need j not apply for admittance to thi. j asylum, j for only the aged are received. A curious provision of the criminal code of Gormany, for which there is no . analogy in English or American legisla- : tion, makes deliberate homicide, where it is perpetrated at the request of the victim, a lesser, grade of crime than ' murder, and places it within the discretion of the court to impose as low a sentence as three years' imprisonment for the offense. Under this law u mil- : ler's apprentice 01 iserim nas just oeeu sentenced for cutting his wife's throat. He was out of work and money, and he and his wife formed the resolution to commit suicide by taking poison. His wife, however, drained the cup containing the mixture alone, leaving none for him, and after a whilo begged him to kill her at once, to put an end to the suffering that ensued. Ho complied with her request by making several gashes in her throat. This state of facts was deemed sufficient to warrant a sentence of only four years' imprisonment. The Atlanta Industrial exposition, to open October 5, promises to be a great success. The entries already number over 1,100, representing all branches of industry and production. Foreign exhibits are being offered freely, and two steamers are under charter to sail from Liverpool for Savannah with goods for 4."U~ wliila ftTMV.i'fiJ Wl'll IUU CAJ-ll UiUlUil, II UiJLW vwaawx .T... follow either in specially chartered vessels or by the regular channels of commerce. Some of the machinery and processes to bo exhibited will be of an unusually interesting Character, and ome will bo entirely new development of industry. The exhibition of cotton and silk fabrics will be especially attractive. Tho associated railroads of the South will make a representative display of woods, soils and minerals from j all sections of the Southern States, and i the planters of the Mississippi valley will make a typical exhibition of sugar, cotton and tobacco. Tho last will be seen in all stages of growth and manufacture, from the springing plant to the finished cigar and plug. One of the largest and most active displays, will be a competitive exhibition of fifty cotton gins, by as many different manufacturers. The influence of this exposition upon the prosperity of the South, and indoprl nf fchfl whole countrv. in the i stimulus it will give to enterprise and j invention, and the enlargement of exit-ting fields of competition, will undoubtedly be very great. Mayor Richmond, of Pueblo, in the mining region of Colorado, tells the Philadelphia Times tbat many of the stock companies are operated without honor or decency, being merely schemes to beguile unsuspecting people in the East. He gives the following account of how the trick is usually played : "A company will bo formed representing a | cash capital of perhaps S100,000, for the | 1 purpose of opening new mines and of carrying on the business of mining generally. A claim is bought and : opened. Suppose the mine shows up i or 'sights' for $100,000, the capital ! stock. The company then proceeds to j i i .1 ? it- ?f ! j put IU6 mine oil me uumuiu mai&cu ?? | a capital of 81,000,000, or possibly, if : tbo company is unusually sharp, at j 85,000,000. This is dono by going to a ! few prominent, capitalists and saying, j j ' Here, wo will let you in on the ground j : floor of this company if you will take | Rome stock and help us along by your influence.1 The capitalists bny the stock i and lend their names, and ir. a short j time the entire stock is taken by East- j ern investors, who are deceived by see- 1 ing the prominent capitalists as heavy ; stockholders. When the stock has all j ; been takeu the money is divided between j those on tho ' ground floor,' and opera- 1 ! tions go on as in all well regulated com- I ! panics. The concern never pays a j j dividend in the world, and the second j i class of stockholders never ste a cent I of their money."' John Chinaman has made, literally, a new departure in which we are more interested perhaps than anybody except himself. The Sydney (Australia) Her- : altl states that in a fortnight over 2,000 ! j Chinese arrived at that port, and that i i they described themselves as but the , j pioneers of an immense body of emi! grants who were en route from Hong Kong. Both pioneers and main body j were of the poorer class, "who had t ! scraped together tho ?S for their passage and landed penniless." They received almost as cool a reception in Sydney as they would have dono in San Frnn; eiseo, and were as unwelcome to no one as to the rich Chinese merchauts and I traders in Sydney, who were compelled to keep them from starving until work ! could he found for them. These traders declared that 20,000 of their less lucky ' brethren would pour in on them before j j the year was out, and that there would be no cessation to this flood of paupers unless prompt and decisive measures I were taken to stop it. No books have ever given us an idea of .lie insufferable poverty which eye-witnesses describe as existing in the rice district of the north of China, a poverty so extreme that fathers not lacking in domestic affection j ! sell their children for less than a dollar j | to save them from slow starvation, and ; strangle the new-born babe to keep it \ | from further knowledge of a life which | I has in it nothing but torture. It is no I | wonder, says a New York paper, that ' ; this torrent of misery seeks every outlet | I of possible escape. It will escape, no ] I matter how it is driven back. It has i never been found in history that any starring horde remained within enforced limits to die while there were fat unfilled spaces of the earth's surface lying vacant. Tangier as Seen From a House Top,, It was Sunday. I do not know whose Sunday it was, for there are three to the week in Tangier, the Mohammedan, the Jew and the Christian having each his own. It was Sunday; but what was more to the purpose, it was al:30 a market day. I had caught the town in one of its spasms of business. Bofcween these spasms, and when the Aiseawa are not over-running it, or no fete is going on, the place is said to be as dull and silent as a plague-smitten city. It being my last as well as my first day in Africa, I did not wait for the hadji to call me that morning. I was an early bird, astir even before the slightest worm of a breakfast was practicable. Having completed my toilet I wandered out on the platform in front of my bedroom to kill the intervening hour. Discovering a stone staircase leading still higher I mounted the steps and four.d myself on the roof of the hotel. The Kasha on the- height had all its windows illuminated by the daybreak, but the rest of the town lay in cool shadow. At my feet stretched a confused mass of square-cut white houses, reaching to the sea's edge on one side and ending in drifts on the slant of a hill at my left?a town of snow that had seemingly dropped flake by flake from the clouds during the night. There were figures moving on several rtf t.liA nftifrlibnrini? house toos. All the roofs were perfectly flat, and most of them surrounded by low battlements. Yonder was a young n egress in sulphurhued caftan and green girdle, shaking a striped rug over a parapet, and looking consciously picturesque. On a terrace further off a Moorish washerwoman and a little girl were spreading out their harcks and embroidered napkins on the flag-stones; the sun would reach them by-and-byc. At my right was a man Indolently lifting himself off a I piece of carpet laid dangerously near the nnprotected roof-edge?possibly a summer boarder who had chosen that - ? \ tt ??v.io fury L'eUCiltlUJUei'. X1U ttnaiuuuiij^ mo I eyes, and had evidently slept there overnight. In this temperate climate, where the thermometer seldom rises above ninety degrees, and rarely falls below forty degrees, the house top would bo preferable to a summer boarder. On many of the roofs was evidence of pretty attempts at gardening, oleanders, acacias, palms and dwarf almond trees being set out in ornamental jars and tubs. There, no doubt, was the family resort after nightfall, the scene of ceremonious or social visits, and, I imagine, of much starry love-making. Behind the hotel, in a desolate vacant lot checkered by small vats halffilled with clyestuffa, was an Arab tanner at work. Standing in the midst of his colored squares, ho resembled a solitary chessman. I could look directly down on his smooth, bare skull, which seemed cast of gilt bronze or bell metal. He wore nothing but a breech-cloth. The Moorish tanners are very expert, and employ arts not known to the trade elsewhere. They have a process by which lion and panther skins are rendered ar. pliable as satin, and of creamy whiteness. The green leather of TaGlet, the red of Fez, and the yellow of Morocco are highly esteemed.?T. D. Alilrich, in Harper's Magazine. Chemical Paradoxes. We are accustomed to associate the idea of combustibility with paper. If it be wrapped tightly around a metallic rod it can be held in a gas-flame without burning. The metal carries the heat away from it as fast a3 applied, becoming hot itself. After a while it will reach a temperature, provided tho flame is large enough, at which the paper nill burn. The same phenomenon can be more strikingly exhibited by making a vessel of paper, filling it with water, and applying heat. No matter how hot the flame over which it is placed may be, it will not bum. Tho water will boil, and the he:\t be absorbed, or rendered latent, in the production of steam. An egg can thus be boiled in a paper saucepan. A sieve may be made to hold water or to float. If the interstices are very fine and the wire bright nn/I drv t.liA water will not wet it. be causo a film of air will adhere to the wires. The lower surface of the water is divided by the meshes into a number of little spheroidal projections, in which the capillaryforce or internal gravitation and also cohesion come into play. These hold the water together so that some considerable power is required to force the water through the meshes. Thus we can put quite a quantity of water in a fine sieve, or place one in water, and it will float. If the wires are not perfectly bright we may distribute over their surface some powder which water will not wet. The dust of bituminous coal is excellent. Carrying out thi3 principle, needles, if bright, may be made to float without the least trouble, and will float for a long time. Water is to bo maae to uou Dy coia. A flask half fall of water is maintained at ebullition for some minutes. It is removed from the source of heat, corked, inverted and placed in one of the rings of a retort stand. If cold water is poured on the upturned bottom of the the fluid will start into violent ebullition. The upper portion of the flask is filled with steam which maintains a certain pressure on the water. By cooling the upper portion of the flask some of this is condensed, and the pressure reduced. T1 e temperature at which water boils var es with the pressure. When it is reduced, water boils at a lower heat. By pouring the cold water over the flask we condense the steam so that the water is hot enough to boil at the reduced pressure. To assert that water boils by the application of cold is a chemical sophism.?Scientific American. Weighing a Hog. A dog-fight sends the pulse of a village up to 130, and a foot-race or a knock-down will almost restore gray hairs to their natural color; but for real excitement let a man come along in front of the tavern about sundDwn driving a hog. " Hav, where you going?" "Going to sell this hog." "Hold on a minute! What does he weigh V" "Oh! about 225." "You're off; ho won't go over 203." Every chair is vacated on the instant. Every eyo is fastened on the hog rooming in the gutter, and every man flatters himself that he can guess within a pound of the porker's weight. " That hog will pull down jist exactly 195 pounds," says the blacksmith, after a ioug squint. "Ho won't go* an ounce over 185," adds the cooper. "I've got a $2 bill that says that hog will kick at 210," says tho hardware man. "You must be wild," growls 'Jhe grocer. " I can't see over 150 pounds of meat there." Twenty men take a walk around the porker, and squint and shako their heads and look wise, and the owner finally says: "If ho don't go over 220 I shall feel that I am no guesser." "Over 220? If that hog weighs 2C0 pounds I'll treat this crowd!" f xclaims the owner of tho 'bus line. "I dunno 'bout that," muses the 'squire, who is on his way to the grocery after butter. " Some hogs weigh more and some less. What breed is this hog?" " Berkshire." " Well, I've soon some o' them Berksheers that weighed like a load o' sand, and then agin I've seen 'em where they were all sliiu and bone. Has anybody guessed that this hog will weigh GOO?" "No." " Well, that's a leetle steep, but I've kinder sot my idea on 250." By thia tiiue the crowd has increased to a hundred and the excitement is iutense. The 'squire lays half a dollar on 250, and tho owuer of the, hog rakes in several bets on "between 221) and 225." The porker is driven to the hayscales, and the silence is almost painful as the weighing takes place. "Two hundred and twenty-three!" calls the weigher. Growls and lamentations smite the evening air, and stakeholders pass over the wagers to the lucky guasseTs, chief of whom is the owner of the hog. " Well, I'm clear beat out," says the 'squire. " I felt dead sure ho would weigh' over 300." " Oh, I knew you were all way off," explains the guileless owner. " When we weighed him here at noon ho tipped at exactly 223, and I knew he couldn't havo picked up or lo?t over a 25?lind I" ?Detroit Free Press, ===?S-r NEWS OF THE WEEK \ East and Middla. ( Nathan Oblando Greenfield was hanged at | Syracuse, N. Y., for the murder of his wife | through jealousy in Octobor, 1875. Greenfield | declared his innocence to the last. I The census returns show that the number oi , working collieries in the Pennsylvania anthra- \ cite region has increased during the past teo < years from 225 to 273, and the output from j 15,590,000 tons in 1870 to 27,433,000 tons j in 1880. j The suffering from the extreme hoat has i been very great in New York city, especially i among the poor, and many fatal cases of sun- < fitroke have been reported. ' Hit Twnnq?N-n narsnnB hn.vn bflfin thrown out i of employment by the order of Trustee Chaffee directing the entire mills of the Sprague estate in Rhode Island and elsewhoro to be closed. Tha cause of the order is the inability of the trustee to control funds sufficient to carry on the buaineeH. Hajob-General Robert Patterson, a veteran of three wars, died the other day in Philadel- 1 phia, aged eighty-nine years. General'Patterson was born in Ireland, came to this country when a child, fought in the war of 1812, cotninR out a captain, was a major-general in tha , Mexican war and also served in the civil war. He was at one time the largest individual cotton manufacturer in the United States, having had i more than thirty mills running simultaneously. According to the report of the secretary ol the American Iron and Steel association a* Philadelphia the United States produced in 1880 4,295,414 tons of pig-iron, 1,397,015 tons of steel, 23,437,242 tons of anthracite coal and 43,000,000 tons of bituminous coal. Augustus D. Wixf.et.ock, the confidential j clerk of J. C. Walcott & Co., New York brokers, i has disappeared with $40,000 in bonds and $10,000 in money realized on checks of the firm. The Centennial days are recalled by the sale the other day of the main exhibition building in Philadelphia for $97,000. The original coat of tho structure was $1,600,000. ( John Reagan and Newton Martin were fighting :in Binghamton, N. Y., when a son of Reagan, age about fourteen, struck Martin, who ( [ had Reagan down at the time, with a baseball bat, hitting him at the base of the brain and | causing instant death. James C. Kavanagh, a bright boy of twelvo, died the other day in New York of hydrophobia, i having been bitten by a dog last April. Tho boy suffered torribly before his agony was i relieved by death. Within a few days twenty claims for gold i mines, all located in Fulton, Hamilton and Sara- < toga counties, N. Y., were Hied with the New i York secretary of state. The Pennsylvania Democratic State com- i mittco has named September 28 as the time i and Williamsport tho place for holding the State convention. 1 Ax the opening of the annual convention of tho American Bankers' association in Saratoga, i N. Y.. delegates from all Darts of the countrv i wore in attendance anil various papers on financial and kindred topics were read. The mare Hand S. trotted a mile at Rochester in 2.103-4, beating her former record, the boat in the world, by one-quarter of a sccond. Mrs. Millard Fillmobf., -widow of President Fillmore, died a few days since in Buffalo, aged seventy years. A fire at Beach Haven, N. J., destroyed the Parry house. The firo broko out at 3 o'clock in the morning, and the 300 guests woro compelled to escapo in their night clothes. Wost and South. Concertino tlio outrages by the Apache '.lends in New Mexico, a dispatch from Socorro, in that Territory, says: The murderous red devils are now ravaging in this neighborhood and killing off people by the score. An encounter occurred between them and the Mexicans at Paraje, resulting in the death ol thirteen Mexicans. Two Indians who were captured were burned alive. Reports come in hourly of fresh ravages and murders, and a party is being hurriedly raised and armed to go to the rescue of the miners at Pueblo Springs, where they are surrounded and in imminent danger. The other evening a miner and his wife are supposed to have been Bur- i prised by the savages as they were returning to | their mine, and were probably tortured. Tho j baud is a part of Victorio's band, now led by ; Nina, a ehicf even more barbarous than hia ; prcdoees-or. Unless tho Indians turn their J attacks elsewhere a general Indian war will doubtless result. Five convicts at Folsom, Cal.?George Lupton, Georgo Walker, Robert Durkin, John Cooney and James Gordon?knocked down the prison guard and ran for the river. Thoy were pursued by the officers and guards. Walkei was shot dead; Durkin was wounded in the leg and captured; Lupton tried to cross tho rive-. ( but. was drowned, and Cooney, being afraid to | take to tho river, was captured. Gordon escaped. Twenty white workmen were standing close to a house near Hartaville, 8. C., when a stroke or ligntmng Killed lour 01 mo men ami mjurca ten more, six of them seriously. A dispatch from Deadwood saya that Crow Dog, captain of the police at the Rosebud Indian agency, shot and instantly killed Spot- | tod Tail, the well-known Indian chief. ] At Cornisliville, Ky., Thomas Brown mot I ] Daniel Hoffman and asked him to take a drink J j and then, without a word, instantly shot him j i dead with a pistol. Almost immediately Brown | < himself fell dead, pierced by a ball from a pistol P in the hands of some ono unknown. A feud 1 had existed between Hoffman and Brown for : < two years. ! ' Jonx Hoffman headed a party of forty men I ^ who entcrod the jail at Frcdonia, Kansas, for 1 the purpose of lynching two brother named ' Hardin, in confinement on the charge of mur- 1 der. One of the guards, who had been over- ! powered, passed a pistol to one of the Hardin*, and when Hoffman approached the cell with a ; crowbar he was fired npon by the prisoner and ' mortally wounded. Tho crowd thon fled, tak- , ing along Hoffman's body. A r.ain-cr.ocn suddenly burst a few miles i from Central City, Col., and instantly after- ( ward a heavy volume of water came rushing through the streets, tearing away everything in i its track and doing damage to tho extent of , about $50,000. Several persons were drowned, i A fiug at Pawnee City, Neb., destroyed i twenty-four business houses, two banks and a --! 1.. I I newspaper oince, comprising ucnn/ nuuw j business part of the place. Fifteen "regulators" rode into Grayeon, | ; Ky., anil attempted to assume control. The j ' marshal raised a posse, killod three of the ! regulators and captured four. i Cotton" reports from the various cotton- | 1 growing States received by the New Orleans j cotvon exchange state that although the growth j of tho crop was retarded by the drought of ' I July tho prospects are fairly good. In Arkan- : I sas the drought still prevails. Seven negroes?six of tliem convicts?were j ' j killed by a sudden slide in a railroad cut at j ! which they were working near Lexington, Ya. ' . Fourteen business houses in Trafalgar, Ind., J j were burned the other morning, leaving only J three in tho town untouched. The total wheat crop of Minnesota in 1880 i : was 3'),371,709 bushels, and the total estimated ! | yield of 1881 is 10,850,085, an excess of 1,184,- ; 886 over the preceding year. At Burton, Mo., one Jackson insulted a Mrs. Langford. The woman told Jirr husband, who hunted up Jackson and attempted to chastise j . him. Jackaon stabbed Langford soveral times. J Mrs. Langford then shot Jackaon in the -breast, j whereupon ho turned on the woman and cut her slightly two or three times, when lie fell exhausted from loss of blood. Both men were mortally wounded. From Washington. j (j>Nsri. I'orrKn, at Cretield, reports to tlie i I Mate department that thoro still continues to I be iV-lt among dealers and consumers of Ameri- ! j can pi irk, hams and bacon in that part of Gcr; many much anxiety and alarm growing out ol i rumors which have recently been circulated i through the public press regarding the presence . ! <>f trichina.1 in such articles of food. Cossrr, Hu.oKitMA.v, at Bangkok, Siam, re- j ! ports to the state department, under dato ol I ! March 25, that the ceremonies incident to the [ i cremation of the late queen and infant child | i have just terminated, after a duration of eleven j ' days. It will bo remembered that these royal I personages were accidentally drowned in the ! i Mcn&m river, on Slay 31, 1880. The doctors in attendance on President Garfield, having found that another pus cavity was j | forming, decided to perform a second operation I by cutting into tho channel of the wound, giv- j i ing the pus free vent. A Washington dispatch ; gives tho following particulars of the manner in which the operation was performed by Dr. Agnew: As soon as tho patient had been put I under the influence of ether, a long and slightly curved instrument was introduced 1 into the wound, pushed between the ribs, and I carricd downward along the track of the bullet ' until its end could be felt below tho last lib from tho outside. Holding this instrument in j tho wound as a guide Dr. Agnew then made a j counter incision below tho twelfth rib, cutting j directly through the integument until his knife I met tho end of tho first-mentioned instrument , I at tho pcint where he wished to intersect th.i i track of tho ball. The operation was not a dif- j i ficult or dangerous one, and the pationt bore j I it and the etherization well. Thoro ii? now an I I. ' s.J-iCr.. : Jfttf which can always be kept' frerf and tmob^ structad, and no other trouble from theacnimulation of pus is anticipated The slit in the President's back ia now about three inches long, extending on either side of the injured rib. The new drainage pipe taps the wound from below, permitting tho discharge to fall naturally downward, instead of forcing its way Sp hill or around the comer, as has been the :ase heretofore. Tho operation was of course performed with perfect accuracy, and accomplished its purpose. Thus another obstruction to rocovery has been boldly and skillfully gotten ont Of the way. Tho President speedily recovered from the eflecta or the 3thor, and asked Dr. Bliss what had been done, rhe doctor told him, and he expressed himself is well satisfied. Minister Foster writes to the department of state that the Bussian wheat crop is likelj to bo one of tho largest over raised in the empire, and that the export promises to bo mucl greater than usual. D cuing tho last fiscal year there were 4,384 pilots examinod by tho United States Marin< hospital service, of which number 116 were found to be color-blind. Consul-general Stanton reports the appearance of tho Siberian cattle plague in the governments adjoiuing that of St. Petersburg. In some localities to save the skins the peasants flayed tho dead animals, contributing to the spread of *ho disease, and were themselves in many instances fatally infected. An order has been made by the secretary of the interior (' it about 2,000,000 acres of public lands in the Luiuth (Minn.) district, shall be sold at public sale. Proclamation to this effect will probably be issued by tho President as soon as ho is able to transact business. Homo of tho land embraced in this tract ia said to bo very valuable timber land. Foreitrn News Another plot to kill tho Russian imperial family has beon discovered. 8ixty persons, gome of tbem of high rank, wore concerned in this plot. At Paris General Noyes took leave of President Grevy and Mr. Levi P. Morton, tho new American minister, presented his credential*. Speeches were mado with reference to the friendly relations that eo long existed between France and the United States, President Grevy speaking sympathetically of President Garfield John Dillon, the Irish agitator, has been released from jail. The St. Petersburg Oolos, a leading Russian newt-paper, has beon suspended six months for criticising tho Prince of Bulgaria and showing up existing disorders in the Russian navy. Ax English company has be'en formed with a capital of $20,000,000 to reclaim the waato land in Ireland. The wheat harvest in England, it is reported, will be below the average. A dlspatch from Vienna says a Nihilist named Grunherg, of noble birth, has been arrested at Belgrade. It is stated that tho police found documents upon him proving that tho Nihilists and Socialists have designs to spectivoly on the Jives of the czar and the Emporor William. Seven more Socialists have been expelled trom Leipsic. Mn. Biudlatoii haa become dangerously ill from erysipelas resulting from injuries ro:eived while trying to forco his way into the British house of commons. Five persons were k lied and thirty injured jy a collision between two trains near Blackburn, England. A cable dispatch fays that so many towns and villages in Western Russia whoso population are principally Jewish have recently been burned that it is impossible to resist a suspicion of systematic incendiarism. Up to the 2nd of June sixteen towns and villages were burned. 8ince then fresh firos have occurred, two of the most terrible of which wero at Koroz and Minsk. From ten to twenty hrfbses ind shops were destroyed at Korez and thirtynine persons were killed. The bulk of tho survivors woro rondered destitute. The International Exhibition of Electricity ivas formally opened in Paris by President Srevv. Edison, tho American inventor, makes i large display. Several Panama canal officials have died of fever, and thero is dismay in the canal service. 3ix superintendents of tho Isthmus excavations have died there. James Wetherell, a widower aged seventy, and Margaret Doherty, a widow aged fifty, ivero married at Ottawa, Canada, and during kli n *1 i/vUl n nA?4tr rtf VAtmVta intft +V> tUD hl^ub ill yttt Ujr \ji iuuguf} uiunw iuiv vuu i bouse of the licwiy-marriod pair and demanded money. Upon being refused the roughs murdered Wetherell. A oreat drought prevails in Switzerland. Water is scarce and in many places whole herds have perishod. The boat race on the Danubo between the Cornell University crow and an Austrian crew, selected from four rowing clubs of Vienna, resulted in a victory for tho Austrians. The Americana led at the beginning of the race, but when it was about half over one of their number was seized with cramps at the stomach and stopped rowing, and tho Austrians then had an easy victory. The Marriage of Two Deaf-Mutes. A Philadelphia paper of a recent date iias the following communication from j Reading, Pa.: A marriage of a.novel ind interesting character took place in ;his city last evening. Kate O. Miller, iriio has been educated during the past ^ear in Philadelphia, was married to Eugh E. Gross, a young business man sf Reading. Both are deaf-mutes. The bride is about eighteen, and her afflic cion came almost in nerimancy, tnrougn i lingering scarlet fever. The young :ouple were introduced to each other a number of years ago. Finally an engagement was made, and last evening, in the presence of many friends, the Rev. Mr. Neitz joined the young couple in marriage. It was impossible to procure a minister who was likewise a deafmute. Three of their friends, however, Mr. and Mrs. Richards and Charles Goelitz, also deaf-mutes, acted as ushers. Shortly after tho arrival of the Rev. Mr. Neitz, he took the groom alone to a side room and questioned him concerning the marriage. Their communication was by writing. Subsequently the bride was questioned in the same way. They answered quite satisfactorily. The entire comjmny was then summoned to the parlor, where the young couple presented themselves. The question usually put to the groom was written upon a slate by the minister, read aloud, and then held np eo that the groom could read it: "Do you take this woman?" etc. Tho groom read it, nodded his head and wrote beneath: "I do." The bride was similarly questioned, and after nodding affirmatively wrote her answer in a delicate and firm band. Subsequently there was vocal and instrumental music, merrymaking, j laughter and gossip, but the young cou- j pie heard it not. They were, however, j congratulated in a manner that showed j the earnest good wishes of the company j for their future happiness. After the i reception they left Reading, and will j make a wedding journey of several weeks. | A Mr. Authoii, alleged to be an American, has been amazing Rome by violin playing with his toea, in the absence of j any fingers. He also wipes his face i with a toe-held handkerchief. > | Vegetine / For Chills, Shakes, Fev^r and Ague. j 1 TARUono, N. C-< 1^78. I l>n. H. H. Stevens: . I)":ir Sir?I foot very prateful for what j' /1"' ilua- ; hi" medicine, Yi:?:etink. bin done in my yanVy. I wish tnexpress my thank* by inforininu jvifSi't the wonderful cure of my sou: alsotolet >11, *.v that Vi:i;i:riN!: is the bust medicine I over snAs sic doll*, SIkiI -1, l-'rftr ami Aan'. My con w/i,.;n/ -k with measles in 1*7.1. which lejt him with //?/'? ,.f wlisease. .My s<ii: -u'! red a tfreat th ai of pain .lUi.n' .-lie time: lie lain v.is so creat he did not hi) - J, uyry. 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Vr.or.riNE.?Whon tbo blood ilecomes lifeless and stagnant, either fromehanjjeof/wfcatherorot climate, want "I exereise. irregular dii>t?'or frmu any other cause, the ViiiiitNK will rei?w/the Mood, carry off the ; ntrid humors, cleanse11#, stomach, regulate the bowels, jnd impart a tone ^/viyr to the whole body. Druggists'#Testimony. "it. II. H. StkvkNs: B / Dear Sir?We have bcl,, s/ 1.5 your remedy, the Vkcktin::. fur about tlA., cs. and take pleasure in ri'commerdiiirt it to istouiers. and in no instance whi re a blood wmr-ii.' would reach the case, has it ever failed to ejlr., ( cure to our knowledge. . It certainiv is the in' ,, 1.1 of renovators. llesiKJCtfuW, . K. Ijj, tt,i:rjERD, DriiRuistfl, F.i' Mount Vernon, 111. W*getine is sold/y all druggists. ' M- I ol the National Stock Yards, Chicago, j? 111., applies to his sufferings. He say a: M I, for one, "wish to speak a word of & praise for St. Jacobs Oil. I suffered tib with a pain in my shoulder and arm for some six months and at timee it was terrible. One bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, p, however, cured me thoroughly. oj 81 ' al This event illustrates with striking m emphasis the progress that has been m made in American journalism during ai the last half century. Here was a President of the United States shot. ^ Within a few minutes the fact and all _ the details of it were known to the re- b< motest corners of the country. Adams <j, and Jefferson died Jnly 4, 1826, and n. months elapsed before the news reached the confines of the country. This growth in journalism is the com- c panion of growth in nearly every mate- I rial enterprise known in the United a1 States.?Detroit Free Press. i ? ??? b [Harriaburg (Pa.) Independent.] ai For five years, says Mr. J. Echter, this city, I have been afflicted with ,j rheumatism, and for two years have had a sore on my leg the size of a silver dollar, which nothiDg wonld heal. St. d Jacobs Oil cnred the rhenmatism and h healed the sore. * b A lady writes: '' I have often noticed that most newspaper reporters are yonng men. I never hear them spoken abont after they become aged. The | question that troubles me is what becomes of them ?" Some are in Congress, and several in the Cabinet, but a 1 few met with reverses and are editing New York and Chicago papers.? Philadelphia News. Wicked for Clergymen. " I believe it to be all wrong and even wicked for clergymen or other public mon to be led into giving testimonials to quack doctors for. vile stuffs called medicines, but when a really meritorious article is mado up of common valuable remedies known to all, and that all physicians use and trust in daily, we should freely commend it. I therefore cheerfully and heartily commend Hon Bitters for the good they have done me ana my friends, firmly believing thev have no equal for family use. I will not be without them." Itev. , Washington, D. C. Secretary Kirkwood has appointed Frank La Fescho, a brother of Bright Eyes, the Ponca maiden, to a clerkship in the Indian bureau. A Talented Lady'a Views. Mrs. 0. F. Flemming, State Lecturer of Missouri, and also an artist of raro merit, whose picture of Adelaide Neilson is pronounce*: by the Sresa to be the most beautiful portrait in the nited States, in a recent lecture said: "I have been troubled with kidney disease since my childhood, and it finally culminated in chronic catarrh of the bladder. It would be impossible for me to describo how much I have suffered, and I bad abandoned all hope of ever being cured. I was, however, recommended to try Warner's Safe Remedy and Liver Cure, and it had <2ono mo moro good than the combined skill of all the physicians I have ever tried during my entire life." Such testimony is beyond question, and proves the value to all ladies of the remedy it advocates. Prince Bismarck says world's fairs are _ largely responsible for spoiling the world, and is obstinately opposed to the I holding of one in Berlin. | Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration and all forms of general debility relieved by taking Menbman's Peptonized Bkef Tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire i nutritious properties. It contains blood-making, force-generating and life-srstaining properties; ci is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions, whether 2 the result of exhaustion, liervous prostration, i overwork, or acute disease, particularly if J resulting from pulmonary com^'Mnts. Caswell, | lauzaru Ol *jU., piupnuivrs, iiutr xum. ;; iM ConTs Will Buy -i a Treatise upon the Horso and bis Diseases. 9 Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner g of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent post- I paid by Now York Newspaper Union, 150 Worth | Street, New York. f Vegetdte is composed of the beat vegetable ingredients the dispensary of nature furnishes. The juices are extracted in a way which preserves their undiminished medical properties, making it one of the greatest clcansers of the blood that can be put together. jj Bcd-Bnen, Roaches, Rats, cats, mice, ants, flies, insects, cleared out by "Rough on Rats." 15c., druggists. Que-rious that the Chinese men should have such long hair. Ladies, if you would have your hair as long as the Chinese, and as beantiful as an houri's, use Carboline, the deodorized petroleum hair renewer and dresser. HOW TO SECURE HEALTH. It Is strange any one will suffer from derangements brought on by Impure blood, when SCOVILL'S SAR3APARILLA AXDSTILLIXGIA.or BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP will restore health to the physical organization. It Is a strengthen^,, syrup, pleasant to take, and the BEST BLOOD PURIFIER ever discovered, curing Scrofula, Syphilitic disorders, Weakness of the Kidneys, Erysipelas, Malaria, Nervous disorders, Debility, Bilious complaints and Diseases of the Blood, I.lver, Kidneys, Stomach, Skin, etc. Tanner's German Ointment enres Bums, Cuts, Wounds, Sores, Sprains, Chilblains, etc., soothes Inflammation, and relieves pain In the side, chest, shoulders, etc. _ WARRANTED FOR 34 YEARS 1| A SI) SEVER FAILED W M3 To CURE Croup, Spasms, Diarrhrca, Dvsenterv and 1 Sea Sickness, taken internally, and GUARANTEED m perfectly harmless; also externally. unit* Uralses, tii Chronic Rheumatism. Old Sores, Pains in the limbs, I, back and chest. S11M1 a remedy If pa. TOBIAS' S_ VENETIAN LINIMENT. / rr-.\o one once trying it will eye' bfc without it; i si ovcrGuO pliysiciansjwe ir.__ / ji 25 C'eut? will liny n Tr?rti4e npon the K Horse and his Diseases. Book of 10J p/ujo*. Valuable to every owner of horses. Postage/stamps taken. I" Sent postpaid by NEW YORK NEWSPAPER UNION, 150 Worth Street, New York. } G ri ?f- ? ? N SI THE P GREAT GERMAN 8 REMEDY RHEUMATISM, . iipiinn da \v 11r te i ixcunnlom, I? J sciatica, ? IlllllllflU' Blifflf lumbago tj I iliill mm backache, iiJP M j aouT, ? soreness % i 11' mr i^i s s 07 the la IDfflmifi arnimmismwj i chest, % i iijpii^^/ii[sore throat, | i quinsy, ? | i i swellings 5 SPRAINS, !$ | I ||l]llBtrauHiiJllD | | prosted feet ' !|jlk^ ears, \t j <11 II B-dTE=i.3Nr? | j I iliflPI SC^DS': i 1 i 1L JpaenlMilyPaiis, | ; ? w tooth. ear i i gr,| HEADACHE, J j / Nolpreparation 011 earth equals St. J.\cona Oil an a sxrt, i BCR^'sj^plk and cnr.AP External Remedy. A trial enuili j , but -.he comparatively triflfug outlay of SOCkxt*. and every ! 2 one'guftering with paiu can have cheap and positive |>r??of of j Si its -Itima. DIRECTION IN ELEYE5 LaXGCAGES. I ~J i SOLO BY All ORUQQISTS AND DEALERS IN MEDICINE. x A. VQGELER & CO. y naltimorr. Mi).. U.S.At p; >70 A WEEK, fl:! a day at bome easily mVle. Costlj <t ??t Outtit free. Aild's Tiice & Co.. AnKUslii.Maiiio. * [ Ob MET] fBBat E5 v 63 ESE2 & Dr. METTAUKS HEADACHE PI short time both SICK anil KKKVOUi the nervous system, elennso 1ho etoi regular healthy ictlon of the bowel A full fire box of 'i."so v::I':r.b!o * plrto euro. mailed to my ntUtrri' i < abtnips. X''.*a- saio by it 11 1ZROV.Z1 CIV. PETROLEUMl Used and approved by the leadingCIANS of EUEOPE and AMERICA. The most Valuable ^^^^^^CATASE^HmOREHOED Coughs, Colds, Sore Threat, Croup an J03~Try them. ?5 and 50 cent sizes of 6BA>D MEDAL AT THE PHILADELPHIA MLVXB KJEOAL AT THE TXSUM EX r v kiaand other moans are often resorts to MB a purpoeo of remedying this, bat with uoper^H anont^good effect. The wiser way is to crad is and a hunfred other harraaain^feymptoma. flj jgr?!8ion in^that organ MtdMi fl 1 the indicia of chronic indigestion are re- 1 oved by Hostetter's Stomach Bittern, toreoat of stomachics and invlgoranta. Appetite id nerve tntnqnillity are imparted by (to use. : . Thackeray's idea of a dandy is given j t the following note: My Dear Edward >1 -A 'dandy' is an individual whovworud v a a lady if he conld, but, as he can't, aes all he can to show the world hefo . to a man." ^ It U Worth a. Trial. ' " I was troubled for many years with Kidney omplaint, Gravel, etc.; my blood became tbin; waa dull and inactive; could hardly cfawi.'. ' boat, and was an old worn out man all over,; < ad could get nothing to help me, until I got .: ;op Bitters, and now I am a boy again. My <i y lood and kidneys are all right, and Z am M .. :tivo as a man of thirty, although I am even- r-two, and I have no doubt it will doafratall ->r others of my age. It is worth the trial."? . rather.) Mr. George Bancroft, the historian* ivides his time between his writings, is roses and horseback rides. Ho will ?? e eighty-one in October next ' _, PERRY DAVIS' Pam-Killor Aft SAFE AtfD REMEDY-FOR |' (lb HI Sprains Mm AKT>' 3 ii i JKIr n ai I HHr Headache. FOR SuJk BY ALL DRPOGI8T8. AMEIf CAN AND FOREIGN < PATENTS f WASHINGTON, D. C. Beferwes given to actual cllcnto in neariy eyew - ; ountyWthe U. 8. Corresjxmdencs Invited. Sena Letch #modol for opinion as to patentability. Mo. mive m services unleas successful.' Btfbltan'a 1866. ???gg? TflP.re.t.-dBe.t MMtlne | &3&&SS I mSft cl nratire properties of ail otbar BMtere, - < . A&at oaVHHMHMB ****?> Xo disease cVanpoarfbly long exist VbmHctt liittcra aro u?\od^ovariedandperfectaretbdr Q*7 gin nwuVk adtlfortottiscidttMata. To all whose ewapIojro^tocMi* Imidwl'' ? ty of the bowelsoi% urinary organs, or vbo re- -< quire an Appetfee^Tonto and mQdBttmn tort, A Hop Bitters are inral^ kaahk, without IntOX- 8 . No matter what your te%e lings or afttptoaa aro what tho disease or allWnent to tiae Hop Bfc. ters. 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