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Candor.
"I know what you're going to say," she said,
And she stood up looking uncommonly
tall;
"You are going to speak of the hectic fall,
And say you're sorry the summer's dead,
And 110 other summer was like it you know,
And I can imagine what made it so.
Now aren't you, honestly?" " Yes," I said.
^ 'I know what you're going to say," she said;
'' " You are going to ask if I forget
That day in Juno when the woods were
wet,
And you carried me"?here she dropped her
head?
' Over the creek; you are going to say,
Do I remember that horrid day.
2\o\v aren't you, nonestiy r 1 es, i saiu.
"I know what you're going to say," she said;
"You are going to say that since that time
You have rather tended to run to rhyme,
And"?her clear glance fell and her cheek
grew red?
"And have I noticed your tone was queer.
Why, everybody lias seen it hero !
Now aren't you, honestly?" Yes," I said.
(,I know what you're going to say," I said;
* " You're goiug to say you've been much
annoyed,
And I'm short of tact?you will say devoid?
And I'm clumsy and awkward, and call me
Ted,
And I bear abuse like a dear old lamb,
And you'll have me, anyway, just as I am.
Now aren't you, honestly?" "Ye-es," she
said.
?Harver's Weekly.
^ THE PRINCESS OLCrA.
Alone in the starlight of a bright
night in autumn Harold Vincent waited,
f lurking in the blackest of the thick
shadows cast by a half-ruined group of
statuary, gleaming ghostly in the stillness
and gloom of a remote corner in
the garden of the Palais liomanzefT in
St. Petersburg. Surely a lit emblem
of the Homanzeff family were these
broken figures, rearing their fragments
proudly on the spot whish had been
their home for centuries?a relic of
past greatness, old, despoiled, their
glory departed, but still haughtily erect
as the race over which they seemed
keeping'guanl.
Irreverently and impatiently did
this fair-haired, blue-eyed young Eng
iishman stamp his heels on the pedestal
of the statue, while he gazed eagerly
and fixedly at a small door leading
from the palace into the garden. For
what seemed to him an age, though in
reality it was scarcely half an hour, his
watch was unrewarded. That could
be the motive of this noc.urnal visit?
lie appeared to be a well-to-do young
Englishman?a gentleman in position
and character. Still neither this nor a
long rent roll and good looks could entitle
him to an entrance within these
hallowed precincts.
At last the door opened and the
lights from the corridor within shone
for an instant upon no less a personage
than the beautiful young Princess
Olga, the only child of the house of
KomanzefT. The obscure intruder
fondly murmured as he watched her
approach?
"She is coming?my love, my sweet!"
and, as she reached the statue, a pair
of bold arms drew her into the shadow
while Harold, unrebuked, pressed one
kiss and then another on the girl's
rosy lips.
" My love, how late you are!" he exclaimed,
tenderly. "I began to think
I had my scramble over the wall for
nothing to-night. I certainly shall
break my neck there some time, or be
found impaled on one of those villainous
iron spikes in the morning?a victim
to too soaring aspirations."
"Xo.no, Ilarold," the young girl
answered, smiling a little sadly. "You
will be safe enough after to-night, for,
my love, you must never come again."
" But, Olga," began Harold, in dismay.
"Yes, it is only too true," Olga declared,
with something like a sob in
her voice. "1 have very bad news,
Harold. By some means or other the
count has learned our secret. Furiously
jealous, he has complained to my
* lather, who is more angry than I can
tell you. He has told me that I am to
be ready to marry the count within a
week. Oh, Harold?and I detest liira
more and more every day!"
" Olga, my darling, do you love me
well enough to trust me entirely to
take any means I may see tit to save
you from this iniquitous marriage?
Will you place your future in my
hands, believing that I will ask you to
do nothing which will be unworthy of
you ?"
"I trust you and love you with all
my heart, Harold."
"Then take courage, my own; before
the week is over you will have nothing
more to fear from the count."
"Ali. Harold." cried the crirl. sadlv.
y , CJ
"you little know how hopeless is any
r* thought of escape! From now until
my marriage 1 am to he watched continually,
day and night. My father
installed in the house to-day his
maiden sister, who lias made herself
responsible for me during the week.
It is with the greatest difficulty that I
have stolen a few minutes now while
the. maid is preparing her for the
night. She must discover my absence
immediately, if she has not already.
I must return instantly."
" Yes, dear, you are right?you must
go," 'Harold replied, gravely. "Wait
one moment. You say you can trust
vnnr mnirl ?"
" Thoroughly. Poor Babette ! Her
hopeless passion for a policeman, too
poor to ever think of marriage, lias
made her heart very soft for the sorrows
of other unhappy lovers."
" Tell her I wish to speak to her
when she goes to market to-morrow. I
have no plan as yet, Olga, and can
communicate with you only through
Babette. But, even if you "hear nothing
of me for several days, rest assured,
my darling, that it will not be because
I am idle. Xow, good-night, my own!
I daren't keep you any longer."
"With a heart which as yet felt very
little of the hopefulness that he had
been striving to instill into Olga,
Harold watched her slight figure fitting
through the garden walks until
she had disappeared safely within the
palace, after which he as quietly as
possible took his perilous way over the
garden wall, whence he dropped noiselessly
into the street and disappeared
in the darkness.
Harold Vincent had made his first
appearance in St. Petersburg only a
month before, on his homeward route,
after an extended trip in Scandinavia
and Russia, and found shortly, even in
the higher grade of Russian society,
the welcome which his wealth, his
genial kindly nature, and his un
bounded liberality always procured ior
liiiu. A few days after his arrival he
had met the young Princess Olga at a
ball given by the English ambassador,
and l'rom that evening he had in life
an aim and object which up to the
present hail been its only want?the
firm determination to win the fair
young aristocrat for his wife, in spite
of the many obstacles in bis way.
The dilliculties .were almost insurmountable,
for, though the events of
the week which followed gave him
ground to believe that the lady of his
love was by no means indifferent tc
him, he also learned that a few weeks
before Olga's father had formally betrothed
her to a gouty old nobleman
with the bluest of blood, one of the
largest fortunes and the most jealous
disposition in St. Petersburg.
Prince liomanzeff was rich in nothing
but pride of name and ancestry,
* Sorely was help needed to prevent the
utter ruin of the ancient Palais RomanzefT,
and to pay a few of the debts
of the last bearer of the name. But
not to satisfy ins creditors, nor even u
save his ancestral home, would the ok'
prince's haughty pride have consented
to ally the KomanzefF blood with an}
other a whit less ancient than its own
so when Count Kolachewski came for
ward offering such a lordly price foi
his daughter, the shadow of his gene
alogical tree was quite enough to hid<
his wrinkles, his crooked shoulders
and his grizzled head. Olga had dif
ferent ideas on the subject, but that
0 of course, was a matter of no impor
tance whatever.
The jealous count had discovered
the existence of a rival, though the
lovers had cheated themselves with the
, belief that their many precautions had
kept their secret hidden from all the
world, and a crisis had conic, finding
Ilarold more determined than ever to
win his wife in spite of her title.
The next morning little 13abette
blushed and smiled with pleasure as
the handsome young Englishman,
whom she knew that her beloved mistress
loved with all her heart, approached
her where she was buying
grapes and oranges lor the princess,
and, after a cheery "good-morning,"
asked her it' she had time l'or an ice in
the cafe over thj way.
"So you have a lover, Babette?" remarked
Ilarold, a few moments later,
as he enjoyed the girl's unfeigned sat
isfaetion with the cukes unci ices so
lavishly provided for her entertainment.
"What a happv fellow he must
be!"
" True, sir, I have a lover?as handsome
a policeman us ever you saw.
But I am afraid he is not so happy as
you think, for we are both too poor to
hope ever to marry," sighed Babette.
" Your mistress tells me that his beat
is on the street where you live?"
" Yes, sir, he has managed to be
placed there, because I often?when I
am not busy in the evening?I
mean?"
" l>s, I understand," remarked
Harold, approvingly. "You go down
to the gate sometimes and cheer up
the poor fellow a bit. It's a very lonely
street, and it's real charity for you
to give him a little of your society.
Upon, my word, Babette, you're a very
good girl! I wonder if we couldn't
do something to help that policeman?
you and I. I have a plan; now listen."
The plan, whatever it was, sent Babette
almost flying home to her mistress,
with dancing, shining eyes, glowing
cheeks, and a heart almost bursting
with delight and excitement?all
of which she had to hide as best she
might until the evening, for only then
had she an opportunity to speak a few
hurried words to the young princess
??*i n1(1
ill tut; iiiuiui'iiiui > mwuuv vt bnv
watchful and wary aunt. *
The days passed on until only two
intervened before the wedding of the
Count Kolachewski with the Princess
Olga ItomanzeiT. From his sister
Prince ItomanzeiT had heard with some
satisfaction?though it was of course
of trifling importance?that hisdaughter
had evidently overcome her repugnance
to the marriage, her tears and
complaints having ceased entirely,
while she seemed to have quite recovered
her spirits. The count was to bid
adieu to his bachelor gayeties at a large
m isquerade ball that evening, which
Prince PomanzelT was able to attend,
leaving his daughter alone with her
aunt, who, as the eventful day approached,
did not in the least relax her
vigilance, in spite of the apparent docility
of her charge.
On the previous evening Babette
had paid a hurried visit to her faithfid
policeman, whose duty kept him in
the vicinity of the palace only the iirst
part of the night, from 10 till 2. The
young man had then given" the waiting-maid
a note and a small package,
both of which she had, immediately
upon her return to the house, handed
to her young mistress. The package
contained only a small quantity of
white powder.
Prince Konianzeff and Ids future
son-in-law reached the already crowded
ballroom rather early in the evening.
They were passed on the stairs by a
mask very handsomely dressed as
Lohengrin, who entered the room
almost beside them, and very soon
after unmasked, showing the blue eyes
and light brown hair of Ilarold Vincent.
" Conceited imppv!" snarled Count
Kolachewski, gazing spitefully alter
the tall graceful figure?such a contrast
to his own?strolling from one
group to another, yet always somewhere
in the neighborhood of the
prince and his companion.
" For my part I feel much easier for
the assurance hispresence gives me that
for this evening at least my daughter
is safe," remarked'the prince.
A few moments later Lohengrin
wandered into one of the smaller
rooms, watched a game of cards for a
short time, then remasked, entered the
lofty corridor and disappeared for half
an hour.
Slowly he passed through the corridor
and down the broad staircase,
stopping now and then to exchange a
jest with some entering mask. Beaching
the street he quickened his pace,
and walked on hastily for a block,
then turned from the fashionable thoroughfare
into a quiet side street, which
very soon led him into one retired and
shabby enough to have been miles
away instead of close to the center of
the great metropolis.
He stopped before the door of a
smoky little cafe, evidently principally
frequented by the working classes,
and, entering, ran up a low staircase
and knocked quickly at a door at the
top, which was immediately opened by
a young man in policeman's unifofm.
The room bad no other occupant, and
the two somewhat strange companions
transacted the business which had
brought them together behind a locked
door. Only a few moments passed before
they descended into the street;
but a close inspection would have
shown a strange change?black eyes
instead of blue gleaming from under
the mask, while the short hair, almost
hidden by the mufller around the policeman's
throat, had faded from black
to light brown.
At the door the two men parted,
the policeman calling his friend back
for an instant as he moved away to
ask hurriedly:
"You didn't forget to give her the
sleeping powder V"
"No, indeed," replied Lohengrin,
and he went his way. returning to the
ball, where he continued to lind his
pleasure always in the vicinity of
Prince RoiuanzefT, while the policeman
walked on quickly whither his duty
called him, to the neighborhood of the
Palais ltomanzeff.
When he arrived at his fiost lie was
not surprised to find that the policeman
who preceded him had already
departed, for he was fully half an hour
late. Fortunately the street was very
retired, and passers-by at that hour
were very rare, and his breach of duty
had been unnoticed. The weather, for
the district, was mild; very little snow
had as yet fallen; but the evening was
raw, and the air laden with a dampness
which seemed to penetrate to the
very bones. Not a star was visible,
and a thick fog lay like a veil over the
city, making even the gas-lights appear
little brighter than far-off stars
in the gloom.
Up arul down before the KomanzefT
palace tne policeman paced quickly, as
if his whole duty was to guard that
mansion and its inmates alone, stopping
often before the great entrance
gates to gaze up at the windows, cov
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fort within, until the chill dampness
compelled him to move on again.
Olga and her aunt had passed rather
a busy evening, taking advantage of
the absfjjice of the gentlemen to set in
order various weighty trifles in preparation
for the all-important wed.
ding day. Olga was ghul of any ex'
cu.se for constant motion and occupai
tion, anthing to conceal and divert at(
tention from the trepidation and ex>
citement which had taken possession
j of her. At last, however, everything
. was complete, and Olga rather eagerly
l suggested retiring for the night.
, Since Mademoiselle Komanzeflf's ari
rival, a part of her plan of espoinage
had been to occupy the sleeping-room
with her niece, so that not even during
the long hours of the night was the
poor girl free, and she was always expected
to retire at whatever hour best
suited the elder lady.
On this night mademoiselle seemed
> in no hurry to seek the repose which
[ her niece dutifully suggested she so
I much needed after the fatigues of the
- day, and the young lady was forced to
wait, with what, slip nould
command, until her aunt had given her
a detailed and minute description of
her mother's and most of her relatives'
weddings before the summons came to
retire for the night.
At last the bell was rung for Babettc
and the glass of mulled wine which
Mademoiselle Romanzeff considered an
indispensable aid to slumber, and to
[ which Babette added this evening a
; white powder, glancing fearfully about
j her before hastily stirring it into the
[ wine; and presently quiet reigned in
, the palace.
As the last light was extinguished
the policeman below stopped short before
the gate, and for fully fifteen
minutes stood immovable, gazing intently
toward the gloomy mansion, its
outlines almost distinguishable in the
darkness. Suddenly he started forward
eacrerlv. as he heard his name
whispered breathlessly almost at his
very elbow.
" Harold?oh, Ilarold !"
At that moment the sound of approaching
footsteps became audible,
and the policeman scarcely appearing
to notice the two female figures who
had left the palace and drawn near so
noiselessly under cover of the darkness
as to elude even his vigilance,
said very softly, as he turned in the
opposite direotion:
" The carriage is waiting round the
corner. I will join you immediately."
The two figures vanished in the
gloom; the policeman quietly paced up
and down .until the solitary wayfarer
was out of hearing, and then followed
in their footsteps, murmuring exultantly
as he, too, disappeared round the
corner?
"She is won?wo are gone over bank, bush
and scaur;
They'll have fleet steeds that follow!" quoth
young Lochinvar.
Immediately afterward the sound of
swiftly-retreating carriage wheels left
the Palais Komanzefl to silence and
solitude.
Ilarold Vincent took his lady-love
and her maid directly to the house of
his sister in London, whither they were
soon followed by Babetta's happy
lover. Here they remained until
all preparations necessary for Harold's
marriage with the Princess Olga were
completed ; and at last, one happy day
just before Christmas, all the flags in
a remote little village in Devonshire
were waving and all the bells ringing
to welcome the arrival of the muchloved
young squire and his beautiful
foreign bride.
Babette and the ex-policeman, now
man and wife, came with the luggage,
and immediately entered into proud
possession of the pretty little lodge
guarding the entrance to Harold Vincent's
home.
Prince Komanzeff made no attempt
to pursue his daughter. The report
which he received on the day after her
flight of her elouement with a policeman
so filled his soul with horror that
he swore such a renegade could have
neither part nor lot with the illustrious
family of RomanzefT. So he erased
her name from the family Bible, and
went on accumulating debts which
tiiere was now no hope whatever of
paying.
Wolf-Children.
In depicting the temper and disposition
of the wolf, such adjectives as
"ruthless, cunning and treacherous"
are invariably used, and with perfect
justice. It would appear, therefore,
at first sight almost incredible that
there should bo many instances oh
record where children have been carried
away; and instead of being devoured,
as would assuredly have been
the case had the marauder been a
panther or leopard, they have been
suckled, tended and reared by them.
Some of these have afterward "been recovered,
and at this moment there
exists a specimen wolf-child at Secundra,
a small missionary station a few
miles from Agra; so that the story of
ltomuius ana itemus may not ue su
entirely without foundation as we
have hitherto been led to suppose.
Wolves as a rule prey upon the
docks and herds of the inhabitants of
the villages in whose neighborhood
they have made their dens, and upon
such wild animals as they can hunt
down and capture. Among these latter
may be mentioned the gazelle-antelope
and the black-buck; and many
and ingenious are the devices they resort
to in order to achieve their purpose.
But in the northwestern provinces
of India, as about Agra, in Oude
and Rajpootana, they are also very destructive
to children. Hindoos of all
classes are exceedingly superstitious
regarding the destruction of these predatory
brutes, and consider the individual
who has been unfortunate
enough to shed a drop of wolf's blood
doomed to suffer some grievous calamity.
Hence, though a government
reward of three rupees per head is
offered, it is only the very lowest of all
castes?the "Domes or Dungars," as
they are called?who will take the
trouble to snare and destroy wolves.
These people lead a vagrant life and
bivouac in the jungles, and have no
superstitious dread of killing any living
thing.
The following hypothesis may explain
how it comes to pass that so
cruel and relentless an animal as the
wolf should sometimes be found enacting
the interesting part of fostermother
to one of the human species.
A female with cubs goes prowling
about in search of food for its young,
and succeeds in ravishing an Indian
home of its infant for that purpose.
The cubs, for some reason or other?
not oversensitiveness, certainly, but
because their carnivorous instincts are
as yet comparatively dormant?merely
lick the child all over. This probably,
according to the code of wolfish etiquette,
is equivalent to having eaten
salt with an Arab, and the infant is
henceforth adopted by the parent and
suckled una brought up witntne cuos.
Although the human tendency is to
go on two legs, we know that even
among ourselves babies commence by
crawling. Now, man is essentially an
imitative animal, and seeing the wolves
going on all-fours, the .ilien naturally
tries the same method of progression.
It would appear, however, that it has
found the hands ill-adapted for use in
lieu of forefeet, and as a rule the elbows
are employed for that purpose;
in consequence of this choice, the
knees too have to be used instead of
the feet, and hence horny excresences
are usually found on both the knees
and the elbows.
Perhaps the subjoined true narrative
of a wolf-child that has been captured
in India may prove interesting.
One morning many years ago Mr.
II?, who happened at the time to be
magistrate and collector of the Etawali
district, was out riding, accompanied
l.w <? nnnnln nf sn\v:irs nr mounted
orderlies. They were {jessing over a
portion of road that lay in the vicinity
of the ravines of the river Junnia,
when two half-grown wolf-cubs crossed
their path ; and following them more
slowly, came a very remarkable-looking
creature, which shambled along on all
fours in an extraordinarily uncouth
fashion. This turned out to be a
wolf-child. Letting the other two gc
unmolested, the three men proceeded
to hunt down the human cub, and
succeeded in bringing it to bay. As
they wished to take the creature
alive, and were altogether unwilling
to hurt it in any way
they found the greatest difficult)
in attempting to secure it:
for it fought, bit and clawed with extreme
fierceness and pertinacity; indeed,
having driven it into a corner
Mr. II? and one of the sowars had tc
mount guard, while the other native
proceeded to the neareit village and
got a stout blanket for the purpose ol
throwing it over its head; and it wju
bv this means that the capture was al
length effected. All the way home
the wolf-child behaved like a mac
thing, screaming and howling, now
piteouslv, now in a paroxysm of im
potent rage. It was, however, taker
to Mr. II?'s house; but it would not
be comforted, and for a long time re
fused all kinds of food, including raw
meat. The creature was a boy 01
about nine years of age; and it ma]
be here stated that no female wolf
child lias ever been heard of or seen
It is not easy to assign a suflicienl
reason for the fact that females hav<
never been so discovered, unless w<
suppose that, being less vigorously
constituted, they have been unable t<
withstand the terrible hardships o:
such an existence, and have very soor
sickened and died.?Chambers' Jour
nal.
An artificial fuel is made from an
thracite coal dust by a Philadelphia
company. The new fuel consists o
the coal dust, of which thousands oj
tons are annually wasted in the an
thracite coal region of Pennsylvania
mixed with pitch or some similar sub
stance. This is pressed and cut int(
pieces about the shape and size of hen'j
eggs. -
FOR THE LADIES.
A New Profession for Women.
The following is from Franklin
II. Xorth's description of the I3ellevue
training-school for nurses in
the Century. The stranger in Xew
York who may chance to visit
the east side of the city in the
neighborhood of Twenty-sixth street
will have his attention called to a long,
grayish, four-story prison-like structure,
with ii wing, situated in a block
wln'fli pvfpnds to the. East river, and
inclosed by a high, forbidding stone
wall. This is Bellevue hospital, the
chief free public institution of the
kind in New York. For many years
it has been famous for the high medical
and surgical skill of which it is
the theatre, its faculty embracing
many leading members of the profes
sion in the city. For many years to
come it is likely to lie popularly associated
with another high development
of the curative arts?the results of
the founding in 1873 of the Bellevue
training-school for nurses, and of a
new profession for women in America.
* * *
To find a person capable of taking
charge of such an institution proved ^
difficult task. Miss Bowden, otherwise
known as "Sister Helen, of All
Saints," then of Baltimore, but formerly
of the well-known school at
University college, London, was finally
selected. Equal difficulty was experienced
in procuring assistants for
her. Advertisements were inserted in
the journals, and physicians were applied
to ; but such was the scarcity of
educated nurses in this country at that
time, that, after a search of many
months, and after the most liberal
offers, only four were found who were
in any wise capable, one of whom
proved inefficient. Later on, Sister
Helen, compelled to return to England,
was succeeded by Miss Perkins,
of VnrwiVti f'nnn under whose man
agement the school lias continued to
increase in numbers and usefulness.
At first but six pupils were obt ained.
The scheme adopted?that developed
by Miss Nightingale?demanded in the
.applicant a combination of requisites
the mere enumeration of which appalled
many who had been encouraged
to seek admission to the school. These
are: Good education, strong constitution,
freedom from physical defects,
including those of sight and hearing,
and unexceptionable references. The
course of training consists in dressing
wounds, applying fomentations, bathing
and care of helpless patients,
making beds and managing positions.
Then follow the preparation^! application
of bandages, making rollers and
linings of splints. The nurse must also
learn how to prepare, cook and serve
delicacies for the invalid. Instruction
is given in the best practical methods
of supplying fresh air, and of warming
and ventilating the sick room. In
order to remain through the two years'
course and obtain a diploma, still more
is required, viz.: Exemplary deportment,
patience, industry and obedience.
The first year's experience was far
from satisfactory. Among seventythree
applicants, hailing from the various
States. only twenty-nine
were found that gave promise
of ability to . fulfill the conditions.
Qf these ten were dismissed
for various causes before the expiration
of the first nine months. To
serve medicine to the patients in the
wards of a great public hospital smacks
not a little of novelty and romance,
and goes frfr, at first, to compensate
for a hospital's unpleasant surroundings
and its odor of disinfectants; but
a short period of wound-dressing and
night-watching is sufficient to dispe.
such illusions. Every year young
women whose abilities warranted their
admittance at the commencement of
the course have been permitted to de
part before its completion, owing to an
evident distaste on their part for the
duties imposed upon them. But the
managers, though surprised at the
result of their first efforts, were not
discouraged. As time went by the
number of applicants increased, and,
though the high standard first established
was not departed from, the
proportion of those capable of fulfilling
the requirements multiplied.
Some applicants, who did not seem
especially adapted to the work, proved
most efficient, and on this topic the
managers say that, after their long experience,
they have found that the
fitness of an applicant can be determined
only by absolute trial.
The nurses at the Bellevue school
may be divided into two classes: those
who study the art of nursing with a
view to gaining a livelihood or supporting
tlieir families, and those who
look forward to a life of usefulness
among the poor sick. All are lodged
and boarded free of charge during the
two years' course, and are paid a small
sum monthly, while in the school, to
1 r A1?nAn.ioDomf
ueiray wil*u acium ucucpiwi;
and, in order to avoid all distinction
between rich and poor, every nurse is
expected to receive tins pay.
Fnnklon Note*.
Roman striped silks are used for fulldress
occasions.
Langtry bonnets, gloves and slippers
are the rage.
Gilt and amber beads border new
French hats and bonnets.
Collars and cults of ficelle lace are in
high favor, as they look well and never
wear out.
Crochet buttons never go out of
fashion, but fancy netal and composition
buttons are in high favor.
Drap d'ete and Henrietta cloth are
used for handsome and dressy suits,
out of mourning as well as in mourning.
Ruby, very dark pluin color, and
golden brown are the shades most in
vogue for velvet costumes for the
promenade.
White underskirts are completely
superseded nowadays by colored lliinnel
balniorals and petticoats of colored
quilted satin.
A plain, well-finished black cashmere
skirt and a jersey waist of any color
preferred, or black, makes the best
kind of a utility costume.
Waists of black or dark-blue jersey
webbing, witli colars and eulTs of
scarlet or pale-blue cashmere, are in
favor with young ladies and girls in
their teens.
Plaids of every description?lioinan,
I Tartan, Oriental and Swiss, in every
shade and size?are worn for skirts,
with overjackets of velvet or plush in
a monochrome color.
j Small muffs of dark feathers have
i two birds' heads?one head split?for
[ ornamenting the front. A collar to
match has another pair of heads on
. the left shoulder.
When Henrietta cloth and drap
, d'ete are used for dressy suits by ladies
' not in mourning the approved trim;
mings are soutache embroidery and
heavy knotted cord fringes.
The plaited llounces on black satin
> skirts made for winter have the inner
> plaiting of terra-cotta or strawberry
: red instead of the white stripes so
[ fashionable for summer dresses.
Large clasps of steel or gilt play a
1 great part in fashions nowadays.
' They are used to trim hats, shoes,
I dress bodices and cloaks, and to drape
tunics or to ornament the sash bow on
r the back.
{ Black and other colored velvet
^ jaquettes are very fashionable, worn
"""? > <rrnot v'iriofv nf l?f differ
. U,u >1 .....v-v,.
r ent material and colors. The skirts of
[ such dresses are, trimmed around two,
thirds of the lower portion in many
^ different ways, the upper third being
usually enveloped in a wide scarf,
I draped in folds over the hips and end,
ing in a graceful bow and sash-ends at
j' the back.
f One of the newest round liats of the
> season is in the "Chapeau a Crenaux,"
f and one of the models exhibited is of
i black velvet, with the; wide brim turn.
ing up very high on one side and
simply curving up on the other. The,
edge to this hat is buttlemented?that
is, cut out into squares, and finished
i with a fine gold cord. Around the ecf
centric-looking crown are laid, one over
f the other, soft half-plumes, full and
- lluffv, of old gold, dark green, scarlet
' and bronze. The inside of the brim is
also of black velvet, the only color
> brightening it being the gold cord
? which outlines the edge of the batr
tiemeatedborder, '
I . g, :
> mmim
NEWS OF THE WEES, i
I
Eastern and Middle St ites;
Foun tons of powder oiplod'ed at tb 0
Keen an lime works, Smith's Ba Bin, N. ?/.
Dennis Golden and Joseph Cameron, wl 10
had charge of the powder house, weroblofm
to fragments, some parts of them being
found half a mile distant.
,p? ? 1 -1:1 linoiMimpa r>f #.)in %7oll
JLAliS JJUiULltU OUUlUJKi ? -
known artist, Mr. Albert Bierstadt, r.t Irvineton,
on the Hudson, known *3 "Mn'ikasten,"
has been laid in ruins by fire. So quickly
did the flames spread that not moi:e than a
score or so of the many valuable oil - paintings
iu the building coukl bo saved; the remainder,
together with many other valuable
works of art and curiosities, were reducod to
aslies. Mr. Biorstadt estimates his total loss
at .$100,000.
A tabad* at Buffalo, and a banquet in
Boston, wero the methods by which the
jubilant Democrats expressed their satisfaction
at the election of Governors Cleveland
and Butler, both "of'whom mado addresses.
lira one-mile running race bet ween Myers,
American amateur champion, and George,
the English champion, took ulace in New
York and was won by the latter.
A train near Clarksville, Pa., was derailed
and the rtugine, tender, baggage car and two
passenger cars wero thrown down a gorge
thirty feet deep. Tho engineer was killod
and the fireman soriously hurt.
Paiye & Saokett, Providence, woolen
manufacturers, have failed, with liabilities
estimated at $800,000.
Geobos W. Bitroesb, who began thorn annfacture
of friction matches at New York
in 1831, and was tho first to engage in tiiat
business in America, died the other day in
Norristown, Pa., aged seventy-eight yeaxs.
Completed returns of the Now Hampshire
vote give ^ale for governor 38,398, Edgerly
3f>,900, scattering 031). Halo's plurality over
Edgerly is l,4Uf> and his majority 559. The
total vote was 70,237. Last year tho total
vole for governor w:i3 Bell 41,442, Jones 40,813,
scattering 919.
? - ??i T ? />
i'XYB coal barges iounaorea m .uujjg ismuu
Sound during the reoent gale.
Ellert Albee, the defaulting cashier of
the Ashuolot (N. H.) savings bank, has bocn
sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in the
Stat? prison.
Reixtuns received at the New York protluco
exchange show the majority at the recent
State olection in favor of the constitutional
amendment making tho canals free to bo
241,575.
A New York State senate committee, appointed
Cor tho purpose of investigating the
evils of grain speculation, held a meeting at
Buffalo and took testimony. Alonzo Richmond,
ex-president of tho Jittfalo board of
trade, testified that the sysi ;u. of grain dealings
in futures disturbed th ; business of the
entire commercial world.
A water-toweu, sixty-five fcot high, designed
for the New York lire department, was
being tested at one of the city piers when it
suddenly overturned. Beforu tho crowd of
spectators could escapo it killed one man,
fatally crushed a second and badly injured a
third.
The steamerCity of Worcester was on her
way from Now York to Norwich, Conn., when
she ran into and sank a barge in tho East
river. The barge was loaded with sugar,
and had on board Captain William Taylor,
his mother, wife, three children and two deck
hand". Captain Taylor was saved, but ail
tlm rest wore drowned.
At Fhillipsburg, Pa., Mrs. "William Stark,
twenty-two years old, ri bride of only' three
week?, committed snicido by taking poison.
Thk annual meeting of the National
Academy of Sciences took ploco this year in
New York. Many interesting papers on scientific
matters were read by leading scienter.
William Steinitz, champion chess player
of tho world, arrived iu this country a short
time ago, and has been defeating tho best
ulayora of Philadelphia.
South ami West.
Two colored brothers?Samuel and Milton
Hodge?wero hanged .at Knoxville, Tonn.,
for murdering their brother-in-law.
A Louisyillii (Ky.) dispatch says that
Congressman John G. Carlislo, of Kentucky,
has announced himself as a candidate for
speaker of the next House of Representatives
and that ho expects most of the Western
Democratic members will bo for him.
Father J. B. O'Donogiiub, pastor of the
Catholic church at Morrow, Ohio, died from
the effects of a blow from a monkey wrench,
received at the hands of Timothy Green, a
railroad employe. Green declared tho priest
,lm,nnnr?il ln'a wifn no n fhiftf hofnrn flip
congregation.
Recent measures to suppress polygamy in
Utah have been answered by the Mormon*
at a meeting of the higher priesthood by
their compelling every priest and bishop to
marry moro than one wife or resign. One
monogamist resigned his office; tho others
obeyed tho order or pledgod themselves to
do so.
Total number of yellow fever cases at
Pensacola, Fla., up to the 11th, 2,1J2o; total
number of deaths, Y.i2.
Flames destroyod a cabin in Lunnenburg
county, Va., occupied by a colored family,
every member of which wa3 burned to
death.
Fire ai Frankfort, Il'y., destroyed the
Major Opera house, belonging to tho city
and containing a portion of the city records,
and oilier property.
A msPATCii from Santa Ana, Cal., fays:
"Josiah B. Smith, a fisherman, murdered
Ids fourteen-year-old son by cutting his
throat. Ho and his wife are insane on reli^ous
subjects, and claim that the Lord
commanded the sacrifice."
The people of Jackson county, Mo., are
lionizing Frank James, the bandit. All nges,
sexes and kinds of society are represented
among his admirers. Tho men go, they say,
to hear Frank tell of his wonderful exploits,
and the women for the purposes of consoling
and pledging their influence with tho governor
to secure a pardon, should ho be so unfortunate
as to bo convicted. When first incarcerated
James was givon a bare cell, but
tho sympathizing people made up a purse,
and at present the stone floor is covered with
a rich Brussels carpet, and tho wall* are
adorned with elaborate paintings. Fresh
vases of flowers are sent each morning by
some admiring female friends.
Complete returns from Illino if on superintendent
of public instruction givo Raab
(Democrat) 2,S(JS majority over Statton (Republican).
At Ashland, Ky., the coroner's jury inquiring
into the cause of the death of Colonel
Reppert and others who wero killed during
the transfer of tlio murderers Neal and Craft
from Catlettsburg to Lexington, rendered a
verdict in which they find that the deceased
persons wore killed by the State militia on
tho steamer Granite Stato guarding the prisoners,
and that the said firing was not done
in tho lino of duty; and further, the jury
holds Major Allen, commander of the troop*,
culpable for ordering and permitting the
fire.
A fire at Crockett, Texas, destroyed the
court-house, in which were the jail and postoffice.
All tho records woro lost and two
prisoners -one white man and one colored?
were burned to death.
Fbightfol havoc was caused by tho explosion
of the main boiler in tho Forest
City iron works, at Cleveland, Ohio. Tho
building was completely wrecked, four men
were instantly killed, ono or two more received
fatal injuries and several others .were
badly, hurt. Ono man standing 200 yards
away from tho building was struck by a
pioce of flying jron and cut completely in
two.
New Mexico lias returned ft Republican
delegate to Congress.
Yellow fever's ravages liavo ceasod at
Peusacola, Fla., no new cases being rc
In the Illinois legislature tho Republicans
control both branches and liavo a majority
of twelve on joint ballot.
A DEitnicK 100 feet high fell at Cleveland,
Ohio, killing threo men?two colored and
one white?and badly injured a fourth.
Two brothers named Butlor quarreled,
near Texarkann, Ark., with Charles llowoy,
Jr., a merchant. Ilewoy wus followed by
tho Butlers to a cabin, and as the two pursuers
crossed tho threshold ho shot both dead.
A mm of incendiary origin destroyed
fifteen of tho eighteen business houses ii:
Iliverton, Neb. Tho estimated loss was
$70,000, and the citizens wero compelled to
appeal for aid.
TnE Alabama legislature organized by
electing George P. Harrison prosident and
W. C. Clay secretary of tho senate. In t.ho j
house W. F. Foster was elected speaker and
D. W. Melver secretary.
Brave Beau, a Sioux Indian chief, and a
notoriously bad character, was hanged at
Yankton, Dakota, for the murder and robbery
of Joseph Johnson, a discharged soldier,
near Fort Sully in 1
Goveunok Camekox. ?>f Virginia, has commuted
to imprisonment for life the death
sentence of Mary Booth, a colored girl, aged
fourteen, who was convicted in Surry county
of poisoning tho wife of R. C. Gray and his
overseer, Mr. Jones,
. A
PROFESSIONAL CORFESSION.
The Unusual Experience of a Prominent
Man Made Public.
JTbe following article from the Democrat
and Chronicle.. of Rochester, N. Y., is of 00
striking a nature, and emanates from so reliable
a source, that it is herewith republished
entire. In addition to the valuable
matter it contains, it will be found exceedingly
interesting.
To the Editor of the Democrat and Chronicle:
Sib: My motives for the publication of the
most unusual statements which follow are,
first, gratitude for the fact that I have been
saved from a most horrible death, and, secondly,
a desire to warn all who read this
statement against some of the most deceptive
influences by which thoy have ever been
surrounded. It is a fact that to-day thousands
of people are within a foot of the
frave and they do not know it To tell how
was caught away from just tlus position
and to warn others against nearing it, are
my objects in this communication.
On the first day of June 1881,1 lay at my
residence in this city surrounded by my
r' J J :ii x J TT
n iPj.y :
->
As a construction train was backing up
from Grain Valley to Oak Grove, Mo., it
collided with a hand car, on which were four
men. The men on the hand car jumped,
escaping injury, bat the construction train of
five cars and a caboose was ditched, and a
brakeman and two section hands were killed
and thirteen others wounded.
Aftf.b a bitter contest the Georgia legislature,
in joint session, elected ex-Governor
Alfred H. Colquitt to the United States Senate
for the long term. For Ben Hill's unexpired
term his son, Ben Hill, Jr., was defeated
on joint ballot, receiving 99 votes to
116 for Pope Barrow. Barrow is forty-one
years old and a leading lawyer.
A KECKFTiON was given to Mrs. John
Biown, tho widow of John Brown, in the
Eamsos senate chamber. Governor St.
John presided and delivered an address.
Jaspeb Spauldino, a well-to-do farmer liviing
near Itaub, Ind., knocked his wife and
little son senseless with a whiffletiee, and
ihen cut their throats with a . razor, after
which ho cut his own throat with the same
instrument. His mother-in-law discovered
dered practicable. xue oDjeet or m?
guide-books is to furnish intending emigrants
with trustworthy information concerning
the United States,
General Wbioht, chief of engineers, in
his annual report, says that an appropriation
of $150,000 should be made for examinations
and surveys and contingencies for rivet
and harbor improvements for which there is
no special appropriation. The estimate fo:
tho amount required for military surveys,
reconnoisances and surveys of military
reservations by the engineer officers attached
to the various headquarters of military
divisions and departments, is $50,000, being
an average of $5,000 for each of the nine
military divisions and departments west of
tho Mississippi river and $5,000 for publication
of maps.
A large amount of unfinished business
will come before the second session of the
Forty-seventh Congress. During tho lust
session of Congress there were introduced
in the Senate 2,283 bills and joint resolutions
and in tiio House of Representatives 7,182
bills and joint resolutions. About 800 propositions
wero reported favorably to the House
of Representatives and about .'500 bills and
joint resolutions passed that body. The Senate
passed nearly 500 bills and joint resolutions,
but of these only abont 300 found their
place on the statute book.
A Washington glazier asks tho board
auditing tho expenses connected with President
Garfield's sickness and funeral to assist
him in securing a government appointment,
becauso one of the bullets fired at the late
President lodged in his glas3 and putty box
and shattered its contents !
Auoct seven-tenths of the mail that is sent
from Washington goes free under frank or
in free envelopes. The office ranks second
in the United States as to the weight of tho
"mails dispatched, New York being first.
Foreign Hews.
Tiubty families, comprising ICQ persons,
have been evicted from the estate of Isadore
Burke, in county Mayo, Ireland.
General Lynch, tho commander-in-chief
of tho Chilian forces of occupation in Peru,
has levied a fresh tax of $5 on certain see
tiona of tho Peruvian tradespeople.
A Victoria (British Columbia) dispatch
says that the United States revenue cutter
Thomas Corwin has arrived thero from
Al.iqlm. Before leavimr thore she shelled
and burned an Indian village, killing many
of (ho tribe, who held a number of whito
prisoners.
Natives of the Sooloo inlands attacked a
Spanish fort, but were completely routed
with a loss of seventy killed. The Spanish
loss was fifteen killed and several wounded.
Stanley, the explorer, ia preparing for
another expodilion to tho Congo river A/rica,
for the purpose of establishing a solid trade
with the native kings.
Eupeiiob William opened the Prussian
landtag in person with a speech in which he
said that Germany's relations with all foreign
government", together with the revivr'
of commerce and good harvests, gave as;.'. auccsof
peace and prosperity throughout the
empire.
Dubing the first production of Tennyson's
new pastoral drama, "The Promise of
May," in tho Globe theatre, Loudon, a
strange scene occurred. The Marquis of
Queensbury, an avowed free-thinker, was
present and while the play was in progress
he rose excitedly from his seat and loudly
protested against Tennyson's representation
of tho principles of free thought, as enunciated
by one of tho characters of the piny.
At the dosire of an official the marquis left
tho theatre amid much confusion.
A pbaibix fire on the Mongolian frontier
of Russia covered seventy square miles and
destroyed many Cossack outposts and villages.
General Tomas Reina has been appointed
governor of tho province of Havana, vice
Brigadier A rderius, resignod.
AiSalima, Ontario, William Trimble and
his two daughters, aged twenty-five and
eighteen years, were poisoned by some herb
lea which they had taken for a cold. Mr.
Trimble and one daughter died the following
day, and tho other daughter was not expected
to recover.
Patbick Joyce was sentenced in Dublin t)
bo hanged for the murder of one of the
Joyce family
Strong evidence against Arabi Pasha was
taken at Cairo, oiio witness testifying that
Arabi ordered him to fire Alexandria and to
murder the khedive.
A MUMiiEit of the French chamber of deputies
and tho editor of a Paris newspaper have
fought a duel with swords. The editor was
wounded in the arm.
A young merchant named Partes, with
several friends, was trading with Jeventos
Indians in Central America, when tho whole
party was attacked, killed and oalon by the
treacherous natives.
A gale which raged along tho English
coast proved heavily disastrous to shipping
and to life. A brig was lost with all hands
o!T St. Ives and a small vessel went ashore
in St. Ivt B bay. Another vessel was totally
wrecked at Ilaylc. Five pilots were drowned
while atteniping to reach a distressed vessel
i:i the Firth of Forth.
Da. CroiTi'iiiei) Kinkkl, a noted German
revolutionist of lft'!8and distinguished man
of loiters, died a few days ago in Switzerland,
aged sixty-seven years. Dr. lvinkel was
arrested by the German authorities in 1S-1JI,
tried on the charge of treason and sentenced
to imprisonment for Ulo m me lorirtss ?r
Spamlau. 'Through tlio aid of his fornuer
pupil, C'arl Sehurz, !n> escaped in lKoO, visited
America, ami in lSri(> becninu professor of
archaelogy at the university of Zurich, Switzerhiud.
. ?
The eolTee plants sent to Manatee
county, Fla., from Cuba are growing
finely.
The Salem (Mass.) n<<j>st,r mentions:
Mr. .1. S. LeKavour, artist, surprisingly
benefit'd by St. Jacobs Oil.
ilhcumatism twenty years.
The yew in Tortworth churchyard,
riloneestersliire, is said to date back to
the time ot Julius Ciesar.
'J'he Albany (X. Y.) Aryusobserves:
Judge McOmvan, this city, was cured
of rheumatism by St. Jacobs Oil.
The cost of steam power in Xew
York city is estimated at )
aunualiy.
the whole l'amily lying dead on tlio lloor of
the kitclion. The cause of the act was insanity.
From Washington.
Secbetast Foi/Qeb has issued the one
hundred and. nineteenth call for the redemption
of bonds of the five per cent, funded
loan of 1881, continued at throe and a halt
I>er cent, from August 12,1861.
Engineer Melville, in his narrative before
the Jeannette board of inquiry, said that
in the retreat from the vessel Captain
Do Long relieved Mr. Collins from duty on
account of disobedience of orders.
Annual reports from tho several Indian industrial
schools have been received. At
Hampton, Va., the totid attendance during
the year was OG, and there aro now there 84
pupils?30 girls and 54 boys; at the Forest
Grove (Oregon) school there are 91 pupilsfit
boys and \\1 girls?and at the Carlisle
(i'a.) school 183 boys and 102 girls were in
attendance at the end of the fiscal year.
There wore over $5,000 worth of wagons,
harness and shoes made by students during
tho year. The progress of tlio 8tudont3 in
their studies is regarded as highly satisfactory.
A. Wasiitsoton dispatch says that the object
which George Jacob Holyoako came to
this country from Englaud to further?thut
of obtaining a national uuide-book compiled
from materials collected by tho government,
revised under its authority and published in
its name?is steadily advancing. In Mr
Holyoake's late interview with Mr. Frelinghuvsen,
the secretary assumed the desirability
of such a work and considered alone
tho doyces by which it could be ren
ineiiur* uuu wtuuug lur my uuuui. xicuvwu
only knows tho agony I then endured, for
words can never describe it And yet, if a
few years provious, any one had told me that
I was to be brought so low, and by so terrible
a disease, I should have scoffed at tho
iden. I had always beon uncommonly strong
p.nd healthy, had weighedjover 200 pounds and
hardly knew, in my own experience, what
pain or sickness were. Very many people
who will read this statement realizo at times
that they are unusually tired and cannot
account for it. They feel dull and indefinite
pains in various parts of the body
and do not understand it Or thoy are exceedingly
hungry one day and entirely without
appetite tho next. This was just tho
way I felt when the relentless malady which
had fastened itself upon mo first began.
Still I thought it was nothing; that probably
I had taken a cold which would soon pass
away. Shortly after this I noticed a dull,
and at times a neuralgic, pain in my head,
but as it would come one day and bo gone
tho next, I paid but little attention to it
However, my stomach was out of order and
my food often failed to digest, oausing at
times great inconvenience. Yet I had
no idea, even as a physician, that
these things meant anything serious or
that a monstrous disease was becoming fixed
upon me. Candidly, I thought I was suffering
from Malaria and so doctored myself
accordingly. But I got no better. I next
noticed a peculiar color and odor about tho
fluids I was passing?also that there were
large quantities one day and very little the
iiATf nnrl that a nnrfiistAnt frnth nnrl o/?nm
of every other known complaint. Hundreds
of people die daily, whose burials are
authorised by a physician's certificate of
"HeartDisease," ''Apoplexy," "Paralysis,"
"Spinal Complaint," "Rheumatism,"
" Pneumonia," and other common complaints,
when in reality it was Bright's Disease
of the Kidneys. Few physicians, and
fewer people, realize the extent of thischueaae
or its dangerous and insidious nature. It
steals into the system like a thief, manifests
its presence by the commonest symptoms,
and fastens itself upon the constitution
before the victim is aware. It is nearly as
hereditary as consumption, quite as common
and fully as fatal. Entire families;
inheriting it from their ancestors, have
died, and yet nono of the number knew or
realized the mysterions power which was removing
them. Instead of common symptoms
it often shows none whatever, but
brings death suddenly, and as such is usually
supposed to be heart disease. As one who
has suffered and knows by bitter experience
what he says, I implore every one who reads
these words not to neglect the slightest
symptoms of Kidney difficulty. Certain
agony and possible death will be the sure result
of such neglect, and no one can afford to
hazard such chances.
I am awaro that such an unqualified statement
as this, coming from me, known as I
am throughout the entire land as a practitioner
and lecturer, will arise the surprise and
possible animosity of the medical profession
and astonish all with whom I am acquainted,
but I make the foregoing statements basea
upon facte which I am propared to produce
and truths which I can substantiate to the
letter. The welfare of those who may pos
sibly be sufferers such as i was, is an ampie
inducement for me to tako the step I have,
and if I can successfully warn others from
the dangerous path in which I once walked,
I am willing to endure all professional and
personal consequences.
J. B. HENION, M. D.
Xot that Kind of n Blow.
The other day as a young man carrying
an immense pair of blacksmith's
bellows on his shoulder passed along
the street lie was accosted by a dilapidated-looking
stranger who said:
" Excuse me, sir, but will you kindly
do me a great l'avor? Will you let m?
take one pull at your bellows? They
?they?remind me of the long ago,
when I lived at home in the dear old
place, and every morning when I came
down t<> breaktiist found my good old
mother oil her kpees lief ore a-greenwood
lire, blowing, blowing with her
precious bellows ! .lust one blow, my
?lo!ir fellow?iust one blow !"
' Yon shall have it," said tho other,
"with tlio greatest pleasure in the
world. Stand hack so I can get a good
whack at you ! Next to kicking a
thieving dog I should admire to get in
one blow or a dozen on a fellow that
would let his mother get up and"?
lint the stranger was gone?Detroit
Post. *
Oldest Trcu in 1 lie World.
The Ho tree of the second city of !
Amarjapoora is in all probability the
oldest tree in the world of which the
age can be ascertained by historical
evidence. It was planted 2*S B.C.,
and is therefore now 2.17" years old.
Sir.lames Kimnerson 'fennel, in his
work on Ceylon, gives reasons for believing
that the tree is really of (his
wonderful age, and refers to historic
documents in which it is mentioned at ;
different dates, as 1S2 A. I)., A. I
I)., and so on to the present day. "To i
it," says Sir .James. kings have even
dedicated their dominions in testimony
iif a brlitT that it is a uraaeii ol me
identical li<,' tree under which CJotama
llml'liia reclined at Urumelaya when
h:* underwent Ids apotheosis." Its
leaves are carried away as streamers
l?y pilgrims, but it is too saered to
touch with a knife, and therefore they
arc only gathered when they fall.
The Mannfactnre of Tiles.
Tiles, being a thinner ware than
bricks, have to be made of a purer and
stronger clay. They also require
more careful treatment,but the process
of manufacture is not essentially different.
There are many varieties of
tiles, but for practical purposes they
may be reduced to three, namely,
paving tiles, roofing tiles and drain
tiles. In weathering, the clay is
spread in layers of about two inches
thickness during winter, and each
layer is allowed the benefit of at least
one night's frost before the succeeding
layer is put upon it.
Sometimes the process is affected by
sunshine. The comminuted clay is
next placed in pits and allowed to mellow
or ripen under water. Then it is
passed through the pug mill, and the
tempered product cut in thin slices
with a piece of wire fixed to two handles,
in order to detect any stone, and
appeared upon the surface, and n sediment
settled in the bottom. And yet I did not realize
my danger, for, indeed, seeing these
symptoms continually, I finally bocamo accustomed
to them, and my suspicion was
wholly disarmed by the fact that I haa no
nnin in the nffected organs or in their
vicinity. Why I should huve been so blind I
cannot understand.
There i? a terrible future for all physical
neglect, and impendipg danger always brings
a person to his senses even though it may
then be too late. I realized, at last, my critical
condition and aroused myself to overcome
it. And, Oh I how hard I tried 1 I consulted
the best medical skill in tho land. I
visited all the prominent mineral springs in
America and traveled from Maine to California.
Still I grew worse. No two physicians
agreed as to my malady. One said I
was troubled with^pinal irritation; another,
nervous prostration; another, malaria; another
dyspepsia; another, heart disease; anothor,
general debility ; another, congestion
of the base of the brain; and so on through a
long list of common diseases, the symptoms
of all of which I really had. In this way
several years passed, during all of which
time I was steadily growing worse. My condition
had really become pitiable. The
slight symptoms I at first experienced were
developed into terrible and constant disorders?the
little twigs of pain had grown to
oaks of agony. My weight had been reduced
from 207 to loO pounds. My life was
a torture to myself and friends. I could retain
no food upon my stomach, and lived
wholly by injections. I was a living
mass of pain. My pulse was uncontrollable.
In my agony I frequently fell upon the floor!
convulsively clutched the carpet, and prayed
for death. Morphine had little or no effect
in deadening the pain. For six days and
nights I had the death-premonitory hiccoughs
constantly. My urine was filled with
tube casts and albumen. I was struggling
with Bright's Disease of tho Kidneys in its
last stages.
While suffering thus I received a call
from my pastor, Rev. Dr. Foote, rector
of St. Paul's church, of this city. I felt
that it was our last interview, but in the
course of conversation he mentioned a
remedy of which I had heard much but
had never used. Dr. Foote detailed to me
the many remarkable cures whioh had come
under his observation, by moans of this
remedy, and urged me to try it. As a practicing
physician and a graduate of th*
schools, I cherished the prejudice both nat
urr.i ana common witu an regular practitioners,
and derided the idea of any medicine outside
the regular channels beine th# least
beneficial. So solicitous, however, was Dr.
Foote, that I finally promised that I would
waive my prejudice and try the remedy he so
highly recommended. I began its use on the
first day of Juno and took it according to
directions. At first it sickened me; but this
I thought was a g&od sign for me in my debilitated
condition. I continued "to take it;
iho sickening sonsation departed and I wai
able to retain food upon my stomach. Iii a
few days I noticed a decided change for the
better, as also did my wife and frienda. My
hiccoughs ceased and I experienced less pain
than formerly. I was so rejoiced at this improved
condition that, npon what I had believed
but a few days before waa my dying
bed, I vowed, in the presence of my family
and friends,should I recover I would both publicly
and privately make known this remedy
for the good of humanity, wherever and
whenever I had an opportunity. I also determined
that I would give a course of lectures
in the Corinthian Academy of Music
of this city, stating in full the symptoms and
almost hopelessness of my disease and the
remarkable means by which I have been
saved. My improvement was constant from
that time, and in less than three months I
had gained 2G pounds in flesh, became entirely
free from pain, and I believe I owe my
life and present condition wholly to Warner's
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy
which I used.
Since my recovery I have thoroughly reinvestigated
the subject of kidney difficulties
andBright's disease, and the truths developed
are astounding. I therefore state,
deliberately and as a physician, that I beliove
that more than one-half the deaths whith occur
in America are caused by Bright's disease
of the kidneys. This may sound like a
rash statement, but I am prepared to fully
verify it. Blight's disease has no distinctive
symptoms of its own (indeed, it often develops
without any pain whatever in the kidneys
or their vicinity), but has the symptoms
then passed through the pug mill again,
after which it is generally ready for
molding. To take the case of pan tiles
(hand molded) the molder turns the
tile out of the flat mold onto the wash
ing-off frame, on the covered surface
of which, with very wet hands, he
washes it into a curved shape. Then he
strikes it with a semi-cylindrical
instrument called the splaver,
and conveys it on this to the flat block,
where he deposits it, with thc^ convex
side uppermost, and, removing the
splaver, leaves the tile to dry. The tile
is afterward beaten on the thwacking
frame, to correct any warping that may
have occurred, and trimmed with the
thwacking knife. In the kiln, which is
constructed with arched furnaces at the
base of a conical erection called the
dome, the tiles are closely stacked in
upright position, on a bottom of vitrefled
m-icks. The fuel used is coal, and
burning continues usually about six
days. In making pipe drain tiles, the
clay is first molded to a proper length,
width and thickness, then wrapped
around a drum; the edges are closed
together and the tile is carefully
shaped by the operator's hand, sometimes
assisted by a wooden tool. Tiles
as well as bricks can be made by machinery*
with suitable dies almost any
form of tile may be thus had, which is
producible by the advance of a* given
section of claV parallel to itself. In
other machines pressure is exerted on
the clay in a mold.?American Pottery
Reporter.
William Bassett, of Camden, N. J.,
was a well-known colored man. His
great age, 126 years, drew attention to
him, but what wns more remarkable
was that he retained his vigor almost
to the last. He was born in Delaware,
near Smyrna, in 1755, where his
parents were slaves of the Bayard
family. During the war of the Revolution
Bassett, then a young man of
twenty-one or twenty-two, was working
for a farmer named "Wilson, twenty
miles from Dover, where he had moved
shortly before the war began. While
there he married and became the father
of a large family, each member of
which he has outlived. Upon the
death of his wife Bassett married
again. When the war broke out in
1812 he left his home, and became a
body servant for Colonel Morris, of
Jackson's army, whom* he accompanied
to New Orleans. He married
his.third wife upon his return to the
South. He never saw George Washington.
.
Fob dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of
spirits and general debility, in their various
forms; also as a preventive against fever and
acne and other intermittent fevers, the J; erro-Phosphorated
Elixir of Calisaya, made
by Caswell, Hazard <fe Co., New York, and
sold by all Druggists, is the beet tome; and
for patients recovering from fever or other
6ickness it has no equal.
The market is flooded with vile compounds
for the rejuvenation of the hair, but Carboline,
the groat petroleum hair renewer and jessing,
as now improved and perfected,takes the fron
rank as the best preparation ever offered.
buchu-paiba." .
r Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney,
Bladder and Urinary Diseases. $1. Druggists.
Fob Thick Heads, heavy stomachs, biliousness?'WeUtf_May^PPlePd^
3oc.
Nothing is uglier than cr 5?k|d hocj?'
straighten them with Lyon s He?! Stifienera.
Ho\r to Shorten Life.
Th? receipt is simplo. You have only to tak# a Tiolsnt
cold, and neglect it. Abernethy. the great English
?urg*on, askod a lady who told him sho only had a
cough: "What would you ha?e! The plague?" Beware
of "only coughs." The worst cases can, howorer, b#
cured by Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs. In
Whooping Cough and Croup it immediately allays irritfttion,
Mil ifl 9ure to prorent a fatal termination of tho
disease. Sv-ld by all drusgista an.l dealors in medicine.
Dr. Kojccr'? Vegetable Worm Syrup
Is one of the most pleasant or pihtiblo preparations
for worms we havo evor known. It is thoroughly effl-^
cacious, and nover requires any othor medicine to carry
itolTafterumnKit. .
I,I,i;.VS BKA1N FOOli:?.Most reliablo tonle
for the Bruin mid Ucnerntlve Organ*. It
poxitively cures Nervous Debility and f^t'ires J??1
Virile powers. Sold by druggist*. Sit ?{??&?
free l.y nn.il on receipt of price. JO 11a tl.
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FOR
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Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
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Pains and Aches.
Ho Preparation on earth equals St. Jacobs Oil
u a *a/e, sure, simple and cheap External
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Old fashionable {
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IIIII ? 1.1 t iir^T giving ground before
the advance of this
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^ dormant,
SiSas &m?ur
1/ N t; 1.1 S II -REWARD T)00 K S-.
ill Imported reward Albooks tor Holi-JJday ru? .iru?
Superior tn nnytliitiK "? tins country fur the money,
li.x.ks in i|u<iutiti?? for Sc., lUc. and upwara. liejiitiI
til hooks for Joe. toaiic., with big discount for NovumIter
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Sewl for New C'itt!iloij!o-. L. II. KumwII, titration!, Ct.
_ WHAT WILL THE WEA
O Pool's Signs
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(KHPi It will d?c?^d n
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lit SmV comhljstton. This?
Bini.it eminent Fhyt
fi^i^ itic^uin ol
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NatlonM Bnnksfi'r *'
"'"rf^nW'
? l'llis "I" mako
HMA1) W 1
I find Pooj'3 Baron
on it every time, ,?-?
Barometer receive
perfect satisfaction 11
at two dollars.
ajsssrss?
meat, an below;
Rver* lnstrnmont t
31-1 wide. If not sat)
wa ^rill island your o
SHAS BEEN PROVED i
TheSURrST OUflK for
KIDNEY DISEASES.
| l>oos a lama hack or a disordered urine iodl. I
i cats that yon arts a victim? THEN DO NOT
' ; HESITATE i hm KXDNET-WOET at onoe, ,
I (drugglsta recommend It) and it will speedily 1
overcome tho disease and restore healthy action.
I It la a 8URECURIfor all
DISEASES of the LIVER.
It has (pedflo action on tbfa moat important
' OT&an. enabling it to throw off torpidity and inI
action, atlmnlatlng the healthy secretion of the
Bile, and by keeping the?bowela infiroeoondiI
Hon, eflSsctlng lta reffular dlacharye. ( |
Molorlo If you arc sagbrlncfrom
| fwl Ql all CI a malaria, have the chills, |
I are bilious, dyspeptic, or oomtlpatod, Sidney- ,
Wort will surely relieve and quickly cure. ;
I I In the Spring, to cgeanao the System, every 1 ,
, one ahould take a thorough course of it
I off Sag For complain ta peculiar to
LdUivOi your cel. cuohca pain and
I weaknesses, KLDNEY-WOUT la 'ireurpaaaed, !
as it will act promptly and oafely.
Either Sex. Incontlnenoo, retention of urine,
I brick duat or ropy deposits, and dull dragging 1
. 1 pains, all speedily yield to ita curative power,
I i HTIt Acta at theaame.ttae on the KIDNZYB, |
' ' LIVED, AND BOWELS.X3 For Constipation,
' . Piles, or Eheumatlam it la a permanent cure. ,
f 80LD BY DRUOOI8TS. Prlcogl. _(H)j 1
For Internal and External Uie.
CURES RHEUMATISM, J
Burn?, Scalds, Chilblains,
Frost Ultes, Chapped Hands,
Flesh Wounds Sprains, Bruises,
External Poisons, Caked Breasts,
Soro Nipples, Toothacbe,
Cramiw or Spasms of Stomach,
Colic. Asthma, or Internal Pain,
Lame Hack, Bites of Animal;,
Galls of all kinds, Sitfast,
Ringbones, Cracked Teats,
roll Evil, Garget in Cows, Spavins,
Sweeney, Scratches or Grease,
Foot Rot In Sheep, StriuKhalt,
Windfall*, Roup in Poultry,
Foundered Feet, Fistula,
Ciucked Heels, Mange in Dogs.
Ask your nearest Dealer or Druggist for
one of our A lmanacs fur 18S3.
From the Girtetian LeaderN. Y? Oct.28, '71.
MEncHAirr's OAnoLixo Oil.?Wo have
made special personal inquiry in regard to
the merits or this celebrated remedy, and
find it a genuine article of rare value. It. la
by no means a new remedy. The establishment
which produces it dates its manufacture
as far back as 1(533. since which time it
has been steadily growing in public favor.
The patentees are among the foremost business
men of the city of Lockport. They are
every way reliable.
From the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, July 0, 1871.
Meiicttant'8 Gauglinq Oil.?This Old
standard article, under the admirable management
of John Hodge, Esq., has reached
an enormous sale. It is an honestly compounded
article; it has merit, and now that
the best bu?ine*s talent of the country is
handling It, there Is no reason why it should
not double its present usefulness. No family
can afford to be without it. For family use,
as well as for animals, it is simply Indispensable.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
All we ask is a fair trial, but be sure and
follow directions.
The Gargling Oil and Merchant's Worm
Tablets are for sale by all druggistsand dealers
In general merchandise throughout the
world.
Large Size $1.00; Medium 60 c.; Small 25 c.;
Small Size for family use 25 c.
Manufactured at Lockport, N. Y., by Merchant's
Garglin/ Oil Company. . .
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ASS AND THEItMOMETFR f'O.TIBINED,
ILL TEIIII YOU! H
idicato correctly tiny change in tli1 weather 12 to <8hoor?
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!?le In nnvijrntnr*. Farmers can plan their work
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'mumater attached, which aloan is worth the price of tha
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n Hemililul mid Very 1'irt'ul I'rrscnf.
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WORTHLESS IMITATIONS. None genuine I
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