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- ^ H The Farmer's Son?. HI The harvest fields arc stripped of grain; H The late-sown corw shocked in dun, B And husked beneai!. a chilly sun; B The ragged stubble checks the plain. The hills are desolate and cold, RH The maples stand in grim array, B And through the forest's muffled gray B The winds of heaven strike the wold. BE Yet while the harvest splendors fail. B The grain is sold, the barter made, 13 And work, and care of crop, and trade B Are put aside with plow and flail. B The bins are filled, the barns are stored. The orchards robbed of scanty fruit, And in the garret cold and mute, The thrifty squirrels share the hoard. Although the drought was long and sore, And scorched the field beside tho road Till half the croi> was left unhoed, Nor aftermath repaid the mower; Though half the rye was winter-killed, And here the wheat was struck by blight, Yet all is good in heaven's sight, And still the waiting barns aro filled. And still, through every empty mood Beyond the moment's harsh surprise, At last a truer knowledge lies? The sense of some essential good. So, since the harvest moon has waned, By yonder shining crescent's edge, Our hands are struck upon a pledge, And much is lost?and more is gained! The Pilgrim seed has taken root, Despite the land so hard and gray, And, flowered to this Thanksgiving day, Shall yet bring forth abundant fruit. ?Dora Hend Goodale. IN THE HILLS. I That old Anstice Purcell loved her home was not to he wondered at. She , had been born in it, and so had her mother before her. She had remembrance of no other, and it was as much a part of her existence as the sky and air. It would have seemed no stranger to her to be without a coping of blue sky than it would to see four different walls from these about her and to call them home. And, certainly, if beauty could give one reason to love a spot, Anstice had reason enough. For was not the long, low stone house perched on a crag, so that it looked like nothing but alicHen on that crag ? And did it not overlook purpling hilltops below and far away, and elm-fringed intervales, with silver streams looping and doubling through them? And was not old Greyhead towering above her. with all his woods and precipices and storm-scored sides, and casting a shadow over her ; and Redcap, taking the sunset fires on opposite upper heights ; and greater ; peaks, looming blue in the horizon? And did she not know when the j S weather was to be line by the vapors round great Monasset? And, when tempests of rain or snow set in, did she not feel that Momisset and liedcap and Grey head stood, like three powerful genii, and shut her in and kept watch and ward over her and her grandchildren, in their sad fortunes, as they had kept it over her ancestors for generations ? " For her only son had been smitten with a strange unrest among these mountains?an unrest new to the Purcells (and he twice a Purcell, since Anstice had married her cousin)?and, . spurred by the fear of poverty, perhaps, and his children's fortune in the future, should Greta give him children, he had gone away to sea, ten years ago, as if only boundless horizons, after these imprisoning hills, could fill his yearning for space. lie had left Margaret ,hisyoung wife, with his mother; for, although the Purcell acrts had shrunk with every generation, there was yet a pittance which would support the household till he could send back or bring back the iw. "Rnfr tho lllclt lie lurnut iu 1K4? v. .ft'vtv v*?v moment when she saw his bright black eyes flashing through her tears, as he ran clown the rocky path to cross field .and wood, and take the coach, and turned a moment to wave his hand joyously, was the last in which Anstice had ever seen him. The bark Alba' tross, the owners after a time wrote her. had gone down, with all on board. For a season, then, it did not seem to old Anstice that she lived. The world was blotted out, the crags and hills, Greyhead and lledca'p and the rest were not, and she saw only the gray waste of waters for days and weeks and months, till she was awakened from herhpathy by the sound of a child's voice in the night, the quick, amazed cry of a new-born baby. Of nf flmmt vilio rnco tnt UUC." WX VI VIAVftl*. www '? teringly to her feet, looked about her . in a half-bewilderment, then hurriedly dressed herself, as she had not done for ' . so long, and went out into another room. "Greta," she said, "you have given me back my boy." And Greta used to think in after days that An"4. stice really felt as if the babies were * ' her own, and she herself was only a well-meaning nurse. But she never ; J grudged the care of her boys to their - grandmother, great as the comfort of that care was to herself. She knew what their love of their mother inust needs be; and she used to tell them that it was because of them, stung to madness by the thought of their coming to live the life of poverty and care that he saw stretching out to.old age, that her own son had gone away to come hack no more. A woman, this * sweet Greta, who shut her sorrow up in her own heart, a .id never 4 whispered it except to her babies, I . *in the watches of the night, when she would say to them how beautiful, how bright, how brave a man their father was ; how he loved her and she had worshiped him ; how , they must grow like him and make haste to be strong and good enough ; to take care of their little grand; mother, and let her herself away to her husband. The only trouble that ever came between her and Anstice was that she would not give either of the boys the father's name. "So," she said. "It is like parting his rai* ment. Call them what you will, but not John." And so Anstice called the " '.w one Ben on i, the son of my sorrow, and the other Asher, because of her happiness that had been restored to her with him. And little Ash and Ben, as they presently were known, grew and thrived, and ruled the household - w with rods of iron. "What pretty little 5"" ' darlings they were, rolling round the floor in their dimpled play, fiirlf vnll/n\- hn:wl< in the sun ; their dark-fringed I ~ eyes, tlieir father's eyes, dancing with mirth and mischief; their rosy faces so velvety soft and sweet. Anstice would : ? catch one to her heart, and drop him for the other, and go back to the lirst, ? and hardly let them alone at all, in the swelling testacy of her love, but for the kicking and struggling and loudvoiced protestations that they set up; but Margaret would only pause in her work, and follow them with wistful eyes, wondering if this was the way that their father looked at their age, and silently thanking Heaven, that, if the father had been taken, it had, at any rate given them each other. They needed each other, the little fellows, as they increased tlieir days. They had nobody else. It was long since Anstice had-.kept a servant, and, although the old furnishing remained in other rooms, tlie small family lived cliielly in the narrow quarters of two, opening into one another. Neighbors were scarce in that hill country. Children did not exist at all. The only person within rcaHi was the man round the side of the mountain, who managed Anstice*s little farm for her. There was no school, of course (the nearest was down in 'the valley, ten miles t- away); no church any nearer ; wayr-. farcr.s did not fare that way; no] soldiers marching through bannered streets with music ; no streets ; no other torchlight procession than that V" of the eternal stars; nothing to break the calm monotony but the mail-coach, that once a day could be seen, a mere speck, winding down the distant highway. But it all made no odds to the children. The day was not long enough for their pleasure. They knew nothing of any world outside of their kites and balls and gardens and birds'-nests in the lovely, swift summers; their snow forts and snowshoes and sleds in the long winters.* If it had not been for their perpetual longing and yearning ... / for what was not Greta anil Anstice might have felt something like a retleetion <51* their happiness in looking at them. " Do other little boys have fathers?" asked Ash, one day. "Only when they don't have brothers," answered Ben. " But fathers are niee to have." reasoned Ash. " Don't you remember the tart tlu* minister over at Bareback brought us? And he said his little boy had one." " Yes. It had raisins in it. Raisins are so good!" "But 1 think I'd rather have a brother," urged Ash. "The brother's there next day to plav and the raisin isn't." "Hear the darlings," said Anstiee. "They will be father and brother both to each other. Oh ! and they will have need of it." For poor Anstiee's age was even more troubled than her youth had been. Then she had seen, piece bv piece, the substance of the old estate depart?farm by farm, lield by Held. For two generations, except to sow and reap the few acres left the homeplace, her people had done nothing but to seil their patrimony, till, at length, it had reached a point where all the fertile glebe was gone and there was nuthing left to sell. The Porter place had kept them alive so many years, the Green property so many more. When her father went to college the sale of the Rye farm paid the bills?big bills too. "When he was buried the great funeral cost the barley fields. The long acres down in the valley had furnished her and John with food and clothes, after her own husband's death from the mountain fever. And then there was no remnant of it all, but the home place, that any one w'ould take so much as a mortgage on; and it was when she mortgaged that that John, in despera| tion, went away to sea. Anstice had depended on the rent of two or three little outlying spots to pay the interest on the mortgage; and now, this cruel year, they had been deserted by their tenants, who left the sterile heaps of stone and moss for the rich Western lands, and there was no other tenants to take them. She had no money; and, come the last part of November, the mortgage would lie foreclosed, and she and Greta and the boys would be turned loose upon the world, without a dollar. Greta could work, maybe; but she herself and the litte lads?there was not even the poor house before them. I p in tnat inn j country the abject poor were so few that they were farmed out and boarded from place to place. And that was the end of all the Purcell wealth anil Purcell hope. .Death would have been a kind tl-ing to old Anstice in comparison. She used to lie awake in the nights, thinking over the possibilities. The horror of them grew upon her. She would start up and pace the lloor, and Hinging something on would run'out, as if to get help from all outdoors?the stars, the wind, the sky?and end by wondering, as she leaned over the parapet of the old stone wall, if it would not be best to put an end to themselves at once down the precipice below her. " "When I think of it," she said, as Greta came once to fetch her in?"when I think that as far ;is the eye could see an object and tell what it was, so far the land was the land of my family, yielding revenue, and now a bare two days and their children will not own a foot of their inheritance cr have a roof over thfiir liwwlc T ilonlit. l,rnviih>npp and it drives nie wild!" "No, mother, dear," said Greta's gentle voice, as, with her arms round Anstice, she led her back to the house ?"no, mother, dear, if we doubt Providence, then all is gone, indeed." "To think of it!" cried Anstice, again. "You! old Parson Mildredge's daughter and my son's wife, adrift on the world, to earn your bread or starve ! And the little lads?the last of thePurcells?with no future before them, no clothes to their backs! Think of the Thanksgiving dinners all this country over, and not a tart will my bovs have. Other boys?" "But, indeed, mother, so long as they have bread and milk andask for no more, we need not fret at that. Such happy little rogues?" " Happy they'll be in the state almshouse !" " It will never come to that! I have a pair of hands?" "Much you can do with your hands, vrm ;ic frncrilo :is n ?' ** "O"" "" ? " I can work for you and the children with them. Don't fear." " If you can get work !" " I shall see. We will go down to one of the great mill towns ; and it will go hard but?" "Go down to a mill town! Down in a dark, stifling alley of a town! Away from all the light and freedom here?the hills, the glory of them, the strength of them ! Oh ! I will die first. I had rather die !" 44 But we can't die, you see. And if we doubt Providence, that is worse than death." 44Oh! we are tried," half sobbed Greta. 44 We are being tried ! But somehow I seem to feel? I know ! I know !?that help is on the way to us, just as much as though I heard a voice from heaven saying so." And she went to bed and took the shivering little mother in her arms, and the nervous storm throbbed itself off into sleep for the weary old Anstice; and then Greta took her turn to see the stars slide by the window, pausing to look solemnly in, while she thought that, somewhere in the wide world, thev were looking down on the spot where her husband slept. Once or twice she rose, after Anstice had been soothed to slumber, and moved abc ut the room. When a great meteor went slipping by, in a swift blaze of glory, her heart gave a plunge; and then it seemed to be as if the stars themselves had sent her messages of comfort, and she slept. " .Ben," said little Asher, in the morning, sitting up in bed, with the sunshine breaking in new luster on his pretty golden head and the color tlushing freslily up his face, " did you ever see an angel V" "No," said lien. " Did youV" "Once I did. Yes. I saw an angel l;ust night, lien." " I guess so." "I did. Really and truly, I did," said Ash. "I.saw two of them, lien. I woke up in the night when it was dark and the tire was out, and one was standing by the hearth, and the stars shone all over it. And I saw it all in white; and it went away. And it looked just like the angels mother reads about to us in the liible." "I guess it was mother," said lien. "The other wasn't mother!" answered Ash, indignantly. " The other was a real angel, any way. It went sailing by the window with great wings like lire, and it left a path shining bei.5n/i if And I know it was the Ansel ! of the Lord." " Do you really suppose it was,Ash?" " I know it was. And, of course, it! came for something, you know, IJen. I shouldn't wonder if we were going to have Thanksgiving to-day, after all." " I hope there'll l?e raisins in it, then," said Ben. " I like raisins so!" ".lust hear the darlings," whispered Anstiee, after her custom, to Greta. "I'd give my hand to get him raisins for the day. * Going to have Thanksgiving after all! Thanksgiving for being cast adrift upon the world!" And she began to cry bitterly. "Conic, boys,'' called Greta, who had been gently moving about till the lircs were bright in the two rooms, for of wood they had still plenty. " One should be stirring early on Thanksgiving morning. Porridge is ready when you have said your prayers." And she sat down where the rose and purple of the sunrise fell over her like an aureole, as the two little chaps came pattering out to the snapping lire, in their long whitenightgowns, and, kneeling before her, hid their faces in her lap while she said , the prayer. One would have thought it little ' enough that Greta Pureed had to give j thanks for that day?husbandless, i homeless, portionless, and with three | helpless souls hanging on her for help, j liut to one hearing the simple words that she offered in her morning sacrifice it would have seemed as though princes had no more to be grateful for?as she gave her thanks for life, for health', for hearts not yet broken altogether, for the bright morning, the lovely earth, for hope of heaven, for each other. "Amen !" said a voice at the door. None thought of fastening any door in that unvisited country. The children lifted their faces as they kneeled, and Greta turned her head, to see a tall man standing in the doorway, with a loose cloak wrapped about him. "Perhapsit is the angel," whispered lien, still a little under the spell of his mother's prayer. "John! John!" came a cry from the inner room. "Oh! John!" cried old Anstice. " My son ! my son !" And she would have fallen before she reached the bearded, blackeyed stranger, with a sort of wild beauty on his dark, sweet face, had he not caught her on one arm while the other already folded Greta,who sat like a white stone. " I knew him! I knew him first!" cried Anstice, presently, to Greta. "Oh! I trust a mother's instinct. lie's my llesh and blood!" "And do you suppose I did not know him?" Hashed back Greta, not yet quite herself. "lie is my very self! And I always knew he was alive. I always felt it. I was sure half of me was not dead!" " But half of you came mighty near it twice," said John, from where he was sitting then, with an abashed and undraped urchin on either knee and his cloak about them both. " I shall never be any nearer death, after last night, than ! was on the day the |A1batross went down. I have thought, all these ten cruel years, that I had better have been dead; for I was picked up by it craft that carried me into a Formosan port, and j I have been a slave," he said, i " I have been a slave, with slavery made more terrible by thought of what had become of my mother, my wife, my child. I did not know that I had two of them!" said John with half ;t sob. " Oh ! John ! Dear John !" " To think of us." cried Anstice, lifting uj) her voice, "when you were suffering so yourself, mv boy !" " To think of you.!" he exclaimed, with a Hash in his eyes that melted in the dew that followed. "There never was day or night, sleeping or waking, that I did not. The agony of it passed all the rest, and 1 see now my worst forebodings almost true. You would have been starving in a little?" " And the mortgage is foreclosed to-day," cried Anstice, wringing her hands, with the sudden remembrance thrust upon her joy. " Xot exactly," he laughed?and lie was fumbling in his breast for a little, goatskin bag as he spoke ? "although heaven knows what might have been if la^t night, just as I was going over "Whitehorse ledge, a huge meteor had not suddenly blazed out and showed me the chasm into which the next step would lead. Xot exactly; for, when I escaped, months ago. and found my way to the Cape?South Africa, you know?I went to the diamond fields while I waited for a ship. CJreat Heaven ! How good it was to go where 1 would! Do you see this, Greta? Do you see this, mother? These little crystals are worthless-looking tilings, are they not?" And lie poured them out in his palm. " They are diamonds, and of my own finding. I have sold enough already for emergencies?" " And I need not leave my home, my father's home, this spot of heaven to me. and all of earth, full of the Purcell's life and death!" cried Anstiee, sharply, springing forward, to look in her son's face again. "Never, mother. And we wiL make it what it used to he; for, worthless as they look, in that handful lies a whole universe of happy possibilities for us. Oh! Greta, mv faithful wife ! there lies home regained, my mother blessed, my children educated, and you without a care. There lie all the Purcell fortunes and all the Purcell acres once again our own." " It was the angel, you see," whispered Ash. "And raisins, father?" asked Ben. ?Harriet Prescott Xpofford. Noteworthy Trees. An elm near Lawrenceburg, Tenn., is 150 feet in diameter from tip to tip of its branches, and 329 feet in circumference. George II. Cook, of Lancaster, Pa., lias a pear tree in his yard which recently had ripe fruit and blossoms on its branches at the same time. A Pennsylvania walnut tree that was hollow and nine feet in diameter was sawed down lately, and the stump is used as a pen for a number of hogs. A cherry tree in Carter county, Ky., is thirteen and a half feet in circumference and sixty feet high, and its branches shade a plot fortythree feet across. Near the Fair street depot, Kingston, X. Y., is a grand old elm. It is of bouquet shape, artd during the present season over 200 birds built nests in its branches. At the mouth of Grassy Run, in Springhill township, Pa., there stood a sycamore tree that was hollow at the butt, and Joshua Brooks used it as a stable for his horse. In Greene county, Miss., is a double pine tree which has two distinct trunks twenty feet apart, uniting thirty feet above the ground, forming at that point one solid trunk, round and svm metrical. In the village of Pedur, in India, grows a marvelous palm. Some children plucked its fruit at 5 o'clock one afternoon, and Hocked early the next morning to gather more, but tliev found the branches now far above their heads. They ran to their parents with the story that a date tree which they saw on the previous day lying upon the ground was now standing. Observation disclosed that the tree had been changing its position every morning and evening. The tree is eleven feet high, not including the leaves and stems. One who has seen it writes: At 5:30 the tree was almost lying toward the west. The foot of the tree was at an angle of live to seven degrees with the ground, and we were given to understand that it had already commenced to rise from 4 o'clock. A handkerchief which had been tied by the district munsiff to one of the leaves, so that its other end might just touch the ground, had risen six inches. At 8 p. M. the kerchief was eighteen inches from the ground, and at 3 A. M. nine feet. For Young Folks Winter Nights. The following may serve to while away some long winter evenings : Can you place a newspaper on the lloor in such a way that two persons can easily stand upon it and not be able to touch one another with their hands? Answer?Yes, by putting the paper in the doorway, one-half inside and the other half outside of the room, and closing the door over it, two persons can easily stand upon it and still be be? U yoiw eacn omcr s ieacn. van u |un, one- of your hands where the other can-1 not touch it? Easily ; by putting one hand on the elbow of the other arm. I Can you place a pencil on the floor in I such a way that no one can jump over it ? Yes, if 1 place it close enough to the wall of the room. Can you push a chair through a linger ring? Yes; by putting a ring on the linger and pushing the chair with the linger. You can put yourself through a keyhole by taking a piece of paper with the vards "yourself" written upon it and pushing it through the hole. You can ask a question that no one can answer with a "no," ! y-aying what does y-e-s spell? You < ;: i go out of the room with two 1-g-i and return with six, by bringing a chair with you. Twolargp snow-plows over eighty feet in length are being built at Kprague, Washington Territory, for use in the mountain passes on the North- ! ern Pacific railroad. The women of the land are once more divided into two classes?those who have sealskin sacks and those who have not.?Boston Globe. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States. A stobm uk" great damage to property in Buffalo, IS. Y., and to shipping in Lake Erie, l'hree vessels and three floating olevators were wrecked at Buffalo. The official figures in Connecticut give T. M. Waller (Democrat) for governor a majority over all of 2,391. General Frark I). Sloat (Republican) is elected comptroller by a majority of 681. Completed official returns from evory county in New York give the total vote for governor as 856,195, of which Cleveland (Democrat) received 535,ICC; Folger (Republican), :U1,:V11; Howe (Greenback) 11,734, and Hopkinn (Prohibition) 25,777. Cleveland's majority is 193,825. The total vote lor President in 1S80 was 1,103,915. Mits. RnnnT tried t.o enter her burning house in Providence, Pa., to save $2G0 in gold, and was burned to death. Three of her children were burned also, one fatally. Adam Fobsytii, employed in a coal mine at Belleville, Penn., obtained several sticks of frozen dynamite with which to catch fish, and hardly aware of the explosive's dangerous nature, put them in the oven of the kitchen stovo to thaw out, after which he went to work. While his family were at supper a terrific explosion blew out the entiro eud of the house and hurled the inmates in different directions. The eldest son was horribly mangled and died in two hours; Mrs. Forsyth was struck by about thirty different pieces of iron and fatally injured; another son tif seven was terribly cut, and only the youngest boy escaped uninjured. Fivk persons were whipped the other day at Newcastle, Del. Three of them, convicted of larceny, were given ten lashes each, and Robert Lynn and Henry Magruder, for highway robbery, forty lashes each. An explosion of oil tanks at the works of the Standard Oil company, on Newtown creek. Long Island, opposite New York, was followed by a fire which partially destroyed the company's property, a bark and a barge filled with oil and adjoining buildings, causing an estimated loss of $130,000. Two sailors who jumped into Newtown creek to I escape the flames were reported missing. Av rmorinn with Rll loaded OrO Cars Was thrown from the track near Warwick, N. Y.? and the engineer and fireman were scalded to death under tho wreck. A brakeman had several ribs broken. The official vote of Connecticut for governor is as follows: Waller (Democrat), 59,014; Bulkiey (Republican), Rogers (Prohibition), 1,01)4, Tanner (Greenback), G'J7; scattering, 36; Waller's majority is 2,394. The pluralities in the vote for Con. gressmen are as follows: Eaton (Democrat), 01)3; Mitchell (Democrat;, 1,71)5; Wait (Republican), 1C5, and Seymour (Democrat), 1,440. ~ R. Poetek Lee, late president of the First National bank of Buffalo, N. Y., convicted at the United Stites circuit court at Syracuse of embezzlment, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. A large and enthusiastic meeting in New York?held for the purpose of arousing moro fully public interest in the erection upon Bedloe's Island, New York harbor, of a pedestal for the statue of " Liberty Enlightening the World," presented to the American people by the people of France? was presided over by William M. E\arts and addressed by well-known orators. General Daniel T^ler, oldest living graduate of the West Point military academy, -:?,1 ? foitr /lovo nrrr\ in Ww Vnrlr. nwil U1CU U it ?Y uujf *? , eighty-three years. While workmen at Plattsburg, N. Y., were lowering from a derrick-car a heavy stone the derrick-car was overturned into the river, and dragged with it the tender of an engine. William Hefferman, master mason, was instantly killed, two others were seriousi; injured, and a mason named Murray was reported missing and supposed to be under the tender in the river. * Myebs, American amateur champion, was defeated by George, English champion, in a hree-quarter-mile running race at New Vork; and on the same day, on the same rround, Yale defeated Princeton at football, .. inning the college championship. The inhabitants of North Newport, Me., were startled by hearing three pistol shots in rapid succession, and shortly afterward n horse and carryall ran into the dooryard of John Dodge. In the carriage Miss Nellie Prilay, of North Newport, lay dying with a bullet hole in her left temple. Charles Crowdll jumped from the carriage and dropped before reaching the door; he had a bullet hole in his right temple. They were carried into Mr. Dodge's house, and both soon expired. Crowell had called at the schoolhouse in St. Albans that afternoon, where Miss Prilay was teaching, to take her to her home in Newport South and West. Two female servants were suffocated at liie burning of a boarding-house in Indian apolis, Ind. A national labor congress has been in session at Cleveland, Ohio. A platform was adopted and tho following legislative committee for the ensuing year was chosen; Robert Howard, Massachusetts; Gabriel Edmanston, Washington; Richard Powers, Chicago; Samuel Gomper, New York. N. H. Foster, Cincinnati, was re-elected general secretary. A kemaukakle crime was unearthed near Havana, I!l., by the confession of Theodore Gardner that he had murdered His aunt, Mrs. John 13. Weller, wife of a wealthy farmer, for whom the murderer was working as a farm hand. Gardner, who is only nineteen years old, confessed that he had quarreled with his aunt, and upon her telling him to leave the place ho had choked her to death. A. labqe wholesale Chicago boot and shoo house has been robbed of about $40,000 dur ing the past ten months by some of its traveling salesmen in collusion with others of its most trusted employes. Tiihee sailors belonging to the schooner Collingwood, wrocked in Lako Michigan, were picked up by a steamer while clinginr to a piece of wreckago on which they had floated for thirty-one hours. Tho captain had been drowned and the steward frozen to death. At Lanesboro, Minn.; Christian Johnson shot his sweetheart and then killed himself* The girl was but slightly hurt. Thomas Newboweu <fc Sons, wholesale clothing manufacturers of Milwaukee, have failed. Liabilities, :S2{K),000: assets, $125,000. The Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, for many years prominent in State politics in Ohio, and several years chairmnti of the ways and means committeo of the House of Representatives at Washington, died a few days ago in Hamilton, Ohio. The Alabama legislature almost unanimously rc-eleeiod John T. Morgan to the United States Senate. G::m:?al Andhkw S. IlrnnoN, Congressman elect from the sixth Louisiana district, died very suddenly at his residence, a few nights ago, of heart disease. Goveuv >n M;12ve.iy. of Louisiana, refused to issue a certificate of election to Senator Kellogg (who wis a candidate for Congress in the Third district) on the ground of nonresidence in the district <>r State.- Senator Kellogg submitted a statement to the effect that he was a resident j.nd legal voter in the State. Fbakk Fratne, an actor, has been per. forming for years in a play ?" Si Slocuin " ?in which ho shoots an apple off another performer's head. A few days ago he was playing in a Cincinnati theatre. Frank Frayne personated Si S!ocum ami Miss Annie Von Hchren took the role of Ruth Slocuin, Si's wife. The play had proceeded to the end of the fourth act, at which point Si'Slocuui, who is a captive, is offered his freedom in the event of his shooting an apple off his wife's head with the backward shot. He has performed this feat in all the principal cities and has never before met with an accident. As usual Mr. Frayne took his place on one Ride of the stage, with Miss Von Hchren directly opposite. The apple was placed on the girl's head, and Mr. Frayne nftor taking aim, fired. At the crack of tho rifle Miss Behren fell back on the stau'e without uttering a word, llic blood oozing from a wound in the forehead. She had been shot in tho forehead, and died in f, ft ecu minutes. Tho audience was dismissed and Frayne was arrested. Jonathan T. Updk'ihaff, Republican Congressman-elect from the seventeenth Ohio district, died a few days ago at Steubonville, aged about sixty years. Congressman Updegraff had served in the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses. At tho unveiling of a monument to the Confederate dead in Magnolia cemetery, Charleston, S. C., about 15,000 persons were present, and the oration was delivered by United States Senator Butler. A \yku,tiiy farmer named Hugh Rickert, his wife, two sons and one daughter, were, riding to church at Garfield, Ul., when they were run down by an express train. Mr. Rickert was fatally wounded about tho head and breast, llis wife and one of the sons were killed outright. Tho younger son had an arm broken, but tha girl miraculously escaped without a scratch. I ' From Washington. President Abthub has cat off the official heads of several prominent officeholders at one swoop.. Those removed are Charles E. Henry, marshal of the District of Columbia; D. B. Ainger, postmaster of the District of Columbia; Myron M. Parker, assistant postmaster, M. D. Helm, foreman in the government printing office, in charge of the Congressional Record, and manager of the afternoon newspaper organ of Thomas J. Brady, of star route notoriety, and ex-Senator George E. Spencer, government director of the Union Pacific railroad. Action was taken by the President in rosponso to a letter sent to him by Mr. George Bliss, government counsel, and a report made by Attorney-General Brewster upon tho subject of that letter. Tho attorney-general's report was read at a cabinet meeting and approved by every member. Tho c.'arge against all these officials was that they had interfered with the administration of justice and aided the defendants in the star routo cases. A national fair to obtain funds for a monument to the late President Garfield was formally opened in tho rotunda of tho Capitol by Prosident Arthur. Tho general of the army, the members of tlie cabinet and judges of tho supremo court were present, and every inch of space was densely crowded. Du. C. C. Cox, who has successively boon lieutenant-governor of Maryland, commissioner of pensions, president of the District of Columbia board of health, and commissioner to the Australian exposition, died the other mgnt. The annual estimates for the next fiscal year have boon printed, with the oxception of those for "miscellaneous" expenditures and the "permanent" appropriations. The estimates of every department are considerably (greater than the appropriations for the current fiscal year, as the following table will show: Estimates, Appropr'd, 1883-84. Legislative $.1,274,019 $:8,OS7.145 Executive 18,608,595 lG.aS5.HlW Judicial.... 10S,:XK> 404,600 Foreign intercourso 1,390,90.-) 1,312,855 Military Establishment 2S,r01,44> 27,."6:5,287 Naval establishment 23,481,078 14,884,432 Indian Affairs.... 6,725,731 5,257,355 Pensions 101,575,000 100,000,000 Public Works.... 14,.'Ml,715 7,439,401 Total ?298,780,818 $276,705,07G The postal estimates are omitted from the above table. They amount to $46,741,111, but it is estimated tuat the postal receipts will amount to ?50,070,456, leaving a no surplus of ?3,929,345 in case no changes are made in the rates of postage or classification of mail matter. The " miscellaneous" esti 'marus iur me cuneut juh umuuanu w $20,090,11)2, niul t!io estimates on account of permanent appropriation? to $120,202,939. Tl'.e latter estimates for next year will be much lower than those for this year. Tub chief of the bureau of engraving and printing in his anntnl report says that during the year 7,011, MH she.it 5 of note* and securities, of the fuca v.iliw of $3J!),.S57,700; 24,251,459 sheets of internal revenue nnd customs cigar stamps, containing987,221,149 stamps, and 619,919 sheets of cheeks and drafts were completed and delivered. The aggregate expenditures for the year were: For salaries of officers, etc., $20,113.55; for labor in the bureau, $749,119.75; for material, $101,533.32; making an aggregate of $930,757.62. At the clo.^o of the year the regular force consisted of about one thousand employes. The dismissals for all causes have been thirty-seven. fiiE comptroller of the currency reports that, including savings banks, there are 7,302 banks and bankers in the country, with a total capital of ?712,114,300 and total deposits of $2,850,678,178. The estimated total currency of the country on November 1 was more than $1,488,000,000, which is $180,000,00J in excess of the amount held two years ngo, November 1,18S0. Tho gain in gold coin since tho resumption of specio payments lias been $2rW,033,000 and in gold and silve. coin $:5;i4,00J,003. The increase in national bank notes has bcwi nearly 000,000. The amount of legal tender notes outstanding remains at $340,681,011). The reduction of the debt during the twelve years ended June 30, 1881, has been more than ?0(48,10:'.,6(58, the annual average roduction being $51,333,639* The reduction during the pnst year was $148,018,550. Tho whole cost of tho national banking system to tho government from the date of its establishment in 1803 has been $">,400,000. The government has, in about twenty years, collected taxes on the capital, circulation and deposits of national banks amounting to $118,005,700. Foreign News. Seven workmen were killed and several others injured by tho fall of a railway bridge near London. The men were under the bridge eating their breakfiist when tho structure fell. William RicnABDs, under sentence of death at Sweetsburg, Quebec, committed suicide by cutting lus tliroaton mo morning that he was to be hanged. Widespread distress, through want of employment on farms and failure of the potato crop, is feared this winter in Ireland. The cashier of a Paris financial institution has absconded with a large amount of its funds. Heavy rains in Gormany resnlted in floods along the Rhino and consequent; damage to property. The Bishop of Ayacucho,- Peru, while attempting recently to quell a rist at Huonta, was shot by the rioters. By the telescoping of a tender and a Pullman palace car on the Intercolonial railroad, New Brunswick, three men were killed and others injured. Thbeb detectives were watching a party of men suspected of being Fonians, in Dublin, when they were fired upon, and one of the officers, named Cox, wa3 instantly killed. Tho man who fired the shot was fatally wounded by a detective, and two other men were arrested. A mn.Tu f.ill Hirnnrrh n. hridcro at ffvvio. Scotland, nnd five fpereons were killed and many injured. The Fronch Bteamer Cambronne was sunk by a collision with another vessel iu the British channel and fourteen persons were drowned. Clevkdon Halt,, the residence of "Sir Arthur Elton, situated near Bristol, England, has been destroyed by firo. A pc rtion of the library, which was considered one of the most valuable in England, was also burned. Dennis Field, one of the jurors in the case ofliynes, who was hanged recently at Dublin for the murder of the herd Doloughty, was met on his way home to dinner by a car containing two men. oi:e of whom jumped ofl and stabbed Field six times with a sword, probably inflicting fatal wounds. The cost of the war in Egypt is estimated at ?15,000,000. M. de Lessem says that the Panama canal will be finished by 1K-H Tv. American citizens have been murdered on the west coast of Madagascar. Eleven men wero drowno;l by the foundering of astcauier off Cornwall, England. Foil triking part in recent disturbances forty-six students have been expelled from the St. Petersburg university. Flames in Quebecdestroyedalarge factory and a block of wooden buildings, canning a total loss of about $200,000. Floods in Germany have wrought great destruction to life and property. At Dusseldorf a house fell in and fourteen persons were reported drowned. There was six feet of water in the streets of Cologne, Coblentz and Boun. At the last named place about 500 houses were submerged. L: r ,'e tracts of conn try in Holland have also been inund. t .'d. Dreams. t The British Medical Journal describes some interesting experiments on this subject that have been made by M. G. Delaunay. According to psychologists dreams are illogical and absurd. M. Delaunay, however, by covering liis forehead with a layer of cotton wool, rendered at will his dreams healthy and intelligent. According to his experience, the dreams which people have while lying on their back are sensuous, agitated and erotic. Those which occur when the dreamer is lying on the right side are changeable, full of exaggeration, absurd and relate to old recollections. Those which occur when lying on the -left side are intelligent, reasonable and relate to recent occurrences. People often talk during the last-mentioned dreams. The author considers that dreams, intelligent or otherwise, erotic or sober, can be induced by causing variations in the cerebral circulation and by the nutrition of the various regions of the brain, either by the elevation of the cranial temperature or by decubitus. They therefore form an interesting field for psychological research.?Medical and Suryiml Journal. M. W. Harris, of Perry, Ga., has some Egyptian cotton growing on his place which is ten feet high. I The Life-SaTing Seirlce. Tho following is an abstract of the annnal report of the general superintendent of the life-saving service: The establishment embraced at tho close of the fiscal year 190 stations, 145 being on the Atlantic, thirty-seven on the lakes, seven 011 the Pacific and one at the falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. The results of all the disasters in the scope of tho service aggregate as follows: Total number of disasters 345 Total value of property involved. $4,765,702 Total value of property saved...-. *3,106,007 Total value of property lost...... $1,054,755 Total number of persons involved 2,3% Total number of persons saved... 2,384 There wero thirty-nine persons rescued^ in acuuuon 10 moso saveu irum vesscia having fallen from wharves, piers, etc.) who would certainly have been drowned but for the assistance rendered by life-saving crews. The investigations held in'each case show that the twelve persons lost during the year were entirely boyond the reach of human aid. Although there were forty-four more disasters than during any previous year since the general extension of the service, the loss of life is smaller, with one exception, than that of any year preceding. The assistance rendered in Baving vessels and cargoes has been very great this year, 29K vessels having been worked off when stranded, piloted out of dangerous places, repaired when damaged or assisted in similar ways by the station crews. There WO re beside seventy-six in- | stances when vessels running into danger of stranding were warned off by the night signals of the patrols, and thus probably saving most of them from partial loss or destruction. The report records the fact that the life saving service has now been in operation under the present system for a complete decade, and gives the results in the following table: Number of disasters 1,65)2 Value of property involved $29,278,249 Value of property saved ?1S.0;!4,'.)02 Value of property lost $H,2l3,iH7 Number of persons involved 14.700 Number of persons saved 14,293 Number of persons lost 407 Number of shipwrecked persons recovered'at stations.. ? ;?,(V'tO Number ol days succor altonied.. tv?4 The general superintendent says that statist ics .-how iluit since the general extension of the life-saving service to nil portions of the coast in ltfTfi, the lew of life from marine disasters has been reduced nearly sev?nty-iivo per cent: that is to say, that while in and prior to that time, one person was lost out. of every twenty-nine on board vessels suffering disaster, there has been a constant decrease, nntil now there is only one person lost out of every 1 |:t, and this result is shown to be almost entirely due to the agency of the life-saving stations. The condition of the servico is pronounced to be better thau ever before. The objects for which it was created, viz., the rescue of life imperiled by shipwreck, the saving of marine property and, incidentally, the protection of tho revenue, have been greatly promoted by the recent legislation of Congress, which has also done much for the morale of the corps by providing ampler pay and a.Tording recompense to those who may be injured in the line of duty, and relief to their widows and orphans in case of death. An even better selection of men has been placed at the command of the service, and this selection, Mr. Kimball says, has bec-n made, as it ever has been in thia service, solely.upon grounds of professional fitness, to the absolute exclusion of political or other considerations. The United States Treasurer's Report. Treasurer Gilfillan in his annual report says l hat the receipts of the government show an increase over those of 1881 of $22,251,054.23 in the revenue from customs; $11,233,200.5)4 from the internal revenue ; $2,551,277.20 from the sales of public lauds, and $0,707,410.34 from miscellaneous sources, making a total increase in the net revenue of $12,742,057.71. The total net revenue was $403,525,250.2^. The net expenditures decreased from $200,712,887.50 to $251,081,440.20, a reduction of $2,731,447,111), which, added to the increase in roceipts, makes an increase of $45,474,405.10 in the surplus revenues applicable to the reduction of the public debt. The expenditures on account of interest on the public debt show a reducl ion of $11,431,5.14.35), from $82,508,741.18 in 1881, to *71,077,200.70 in 18.';2. The excess of revenues over expenditures was $145,543,810.08, and the amount applied to the reduction of the debt $100,281,505.55. The roport also says: The amount of United States currency outstanding at the close of the year was $802,404,582.10. There was redeemed during the year $105,773,700.05 in silver certificates and notes of failed, liquidating, and reducing national banks, making the total redemptions since the lirst issue of currency $2,405,1)14,709.41. The issues of silver certilicates during the year were $21,300,(0), and the redemption $20,133,200, leaving the amount nominally outstanding at the close of the year $00,05)0,710. United States bonds were redeemed during the year to the amount of $100,201,450, of which $00,070.100 was applied to the sinking fund. The total amount of bonds retired by purchase, redemption, conversion or explimifTfi fmni M.-irph 11.18<;<). to June 30.1882. is The most noteworthy change in the last year is the decrease of tlio gold coin and bnl!ion held l?y the treasury from $17(5,791,50(5.11 to $153,057.9(il.l2. and tho increase of the standard silver dollars from $65,940,279 to $! 121,025,350, a decrease in the gold of $23,743,(502.29. and the increase in the silver dollars of $2(>,07(5,071. Notwithstanding the decrease in the last year, the gold owned by the government is nearly $20,(XX),000 more than two years ago, the amount held last year having been swelled by the deposit of gold coin fur exchange on the West .and South. Tho aggregate amonnt of gold and silver coin and bullion held by the treasury incroased from *269,700,998.76 in 1881, to $270,114,l.M'.Oa in 1882. Tho excess of the cash assets of tho government over it? net demand liabilities on tho first day of November was $135,151,GSS.W. The amount of United States notes received in payment of duties on imports during the year is $24,(550,57(5, as against $1!),0711,753 in 1881. The total amount so received since the resumption of specie payments is $186,053,930, an average of $4,044,ii;i0 a month. Tho amount of standard silver dollars coined from Febrnary 28, 1879, the date of the act requiring their coinage, to October 31,1882, is $128,329,880, of which $93,00i5,382 remains in the treasury and $35,323,498, or about twenty-seven and one-half per cent, is in circulation. Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency. i.ne nnnuai rupun ui mu cuuijjbiuuoi the currency contains the following tabie.. which shows by geographical divisions the number of private bankers in the United States, with the aggregate amount of their capital, deposits, for the six months ended May 31,1882, and for the previous year: _ Geographical No. of divisions. banks. Capital. DeposiU. New England. States 104 ?7,130,19T? $9,417,712 Middle States.1,014 02,19:1,765 113,079,792 South'n Staites 293 <>,3(59,701 19,981,042 West'n States &. Territories.1,980 38,552,230 153,143,014 United States.3,:?1 $114,255,892 $295,022,100 Three national banks have been placed in the hands of receivers during the year ending November 1, 1882, namely, the Mechanics' National bank of Newark. N. J., on November 2, 1881: tho Pacific National bank of Hostou on May 22,1882, and the First Na?!.? > 1 K..?L- r\f UnfTnlr. rm At,ril V2. 1882. Since the commencement of tho national banking system eighty-seven banks have been placed in the hands of receivers, and ll'O banks have voluntarily closed their business by tho votes of shareholders owning two-thirds of their stock. Of tho banks placed in voluntary liquidation by their stockholders seven failed to pay their depositors, and in these cases receivers were appointed by the comptroller to wind up their affairs. Of tho eighty-seven banks placed in the hands of receivers, fifty-one have been finally closed, leaving thirty-six still in process of settlement. The loss to creditors of these banks during tho nearly twenty yearsthat have elapse J|si nee the passage of the national banking act, as near as can bo estimated, has been about ?7.000,(XK). Tho average annual loss has been, therefore, about $100,000 in the business of corporations having an average capital of about !vl">0,000.000. and which have been responsible for tiie safe keeping of deposits in their hands averaging constantly over ?800,000,000, or about one-twentieth of ono per cent, of annual loss to depositors. The total amount paid to creditors of insolvent national banks is sl'O.'.Il."i,0!:0 upon proved clni:ns amounting to ">S(J,;" >. Tho dividends so far paid thus equal about seventy per cent, of the proved claims, thirty-two banks having paid the claims against them in full. Assessments amounting to ?S,101,7.10 have been made upon the stockholders of insolvent national banks for the purpose c;f enforcing their individual liability under section of the revised statutes, of which about ?:!.'JIKWU0 have been collected, and S."/. 1,060.70during the past year. All Invasion by Rats and Mice. .V few months ago it was stated Hint i?nsshin Tukostan was suffering l'roiu an invasion of mice from India. These visitations are familiar in Asia. Chinese histories record that "on three ! occasions an army of rats invaded the country. In one instance these insatiable vermin, traveling from one plac:;to another, attempted a passage of the Wei river and were fortunately drowned, their carcasses choking up the hanks of the stream for several days after their destruction. On the other occasion, however, they were more successful. Myriads of the creatures appeared in the neighborhood of Nanking from the Ifu-kuang provinces. They are said to have crossed the brooks and rivers in their course during the night by making themselves into a moving bridge?each animal seizing the tail of the one in front of him with his teeth, and so swimming across, and on arrival at the other side they threw themselves upon the crops and devoured them. Another time they effected the passage of the Yellow river." The growth of the peach business has made necessary the making of I peach baskets by machinery, which ! iias now become an important indtts| try. Formerly they were made by hand at a cost of twenty-live or thirty cents apiece; now they are manufactured at from ?Gto $8 a hundred. The worst kind of forgery is false notes by a singer. Thank spiring. Through centuries the golden links have run Our fathers' fathers, like their girls and boys, E'er blessed the mellow Indian eummer sun That gave this crown of all their household joys. It brought the dear and distant wanderer back, It placed the infant on the grandsire's knee, And wondrously it smoothed vexation's track, INOW warmui rchiuunug L11U Ut:>? iu UC, Oh, rich the garners by our fathers stored, And glad and deep their dear Thant0giving glow; Onr own but echo round the festive board The voices of a hundred years ago. For now as then, Thanksgiving goethup, For every earnest impulse unto truth, For blessings lingering in old age's cup, And all the promise round the feet of youth. ?George H. Owner. HUMOR OF THE DAI. Josh Billings says: "Next to a clear conscience for solid comfort comes an old shoe." It is the rich oyster dealer who knows how to shell out.?New York Commercial. Any good-looking lass is perfectly happy when left to her own reflections. ?New York News. The man who "couldn't stand it any longer" has taken a seat and now feels more comfortable. The circus rider who was elected to the Italian parliament is, wo believe, the only politician who can successfully ride two horses- at once.?Philadelphia News. A woman was offered $1,000 if she would remain silent for two hours. At the end of fifteen minutes she asked: "Isn't the time nearly up?" and thus lost. lie was making a call and they were talking of literature. " The Pilgrim's Progress," she remarked, "always seemed to me painful. Of course you are familiar with Bunyan ?" He said he had one on each foot and they bothered him a good deal. Association of ideas : " That was a powerful sermon the dominie preached this morning," said old farmer Furrow to iiis wife as they sat at the dinner table yesterday. " 'Deed it was," replied she; "but do you know, John, every time the parson spoke of the golden calf that them 'ere heathens worshiped I couldn't help thinking of you and the brindle heifer what you 'won't sell for love or money?"?New York Commercial. BOTII DELUDED. "Your girl may be pretty," saia narry, "May be, as yon call her, divine; A cirl any fellow would marry, But wait, Charlie, till you've seen mine. All! then, my dear boy, you'll see beauty United to sweetness and grace, With such a high notion of dutyWhy, candor is writ on her face." "Indeed," replied Charlie, "such graces Might well adorn maiden or dame; 'Tis seldom we look on such facesPray tell me, old fellow, her name." " Her name," replied Harry, " 'tis Etta? The daughter of old Deacon Stone, And I would be willing to bet a Small sum that she loves me, alone." " What, Etta!" cries Charlie, in passion, " You can't mean that sweet little elf? She knows not of flirting the fashion? 'Twas Etta I spoke of myself!" "That so!" muttered Harry: "then surely We've both been deluded 'tis plain, And ere she has hooked one securely She's got to go fishing again." The New York Evening Telegram says Tony Pastor was cured of rheumatic pains by St. Jacobs Oil. He praises its efficacy. There are about forty men in this country who acted as guards over Napoleon at St. Helena, and we take pleasure in knowing that none of them are making a cent by their lying.? Detroit Free Press. Yast merit is inherent in St. Jacobs Oil, and we heartily recommend it to our readers.?Chicago {III:) Western Catholic. The Popular Science Monthly asks: "What are crowds?" The science of love says the third party is a large crowd.?New Haven Register. Diphtheria poisons the blood. Convalescents should take Hood's Sarsaparilla to neutralize and eradicate the poison matter. Mens man's Peptonized beef tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. 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ADD T011IND0ME Oluhs otters the surest means ?r Kinking regular month); profits (roin iuvestmenti>ol>IU tojiuxiormore dealing li GRAIN, PROVISIONS & STOCKS Each member gets tin; benefit or combined capital or tin Club. lJenorts cent weekly. Dividends paid monthly Clali 13 paid shareholders back their money in proliti 11 past three months, still leaving original amount mxklnf money in Club, or returned 011 demand. Shares,fioeacli Explanatory clrcularsscni free. Kcliahle correspondent! wanted everywhere. Address I{. E. Kkskall <fc Co. "Olll'n Mchta.. 17* A !*' > 1j\ Salle -St.. Chicago, lLl. CIV *ni WAST* HOKITI Town j nu ?t old. wl>% If tou *ut ft I.uzartftM woajueh#, flevist ^SJwk PTC vbliktr* or ft hf*?y rrovtli bulr on k*Jd 9 ,\* I Wbftdi.tr to-THICKf.:*, 87RK.NUTHKN hKM jM V|?0RATE lit# ilAlR ?ujwo?ro doa't bo k?mbarc*4. Trj in? (nil 0oftftlak 4i*o<ir?rf vbUb ku NXTIft TIT FAILED. 8?4 0.1LT 8LX C**T? u Dr. J. CONZAiaJLZ, Bo* ifril, ?? *?, Mam. Imn of *U k i>UIUm fi ll BLOOD! Pnrson*' I'urjjntlve Pill* make New Rich Hlood, and will completely chango the blood in the eniro s.v torn in three months. Any person who will take n? pill each n'ffht from 1 to 12 weeks may be restored :o? un 1 health if such a thing be possible. Sold everywhere or si>ot bv mail for eiitht h-tter stamps. I. S. JOHNSON iV CO., noNton, ,Uau.i for irriv Itiwijgoi-. .lie. FBAZER IUIP nnranr AALt blftflJt I5?'Ht in the world. <;? ! the genuine. Evrrj nnrkiijre Iiiin our trmle-innrk nnil in marked Frazcr'M. SOU) KVliUYWlIKKIi. Puiiijlfatii Arritnltaal Works, York, fa, Addrenw A. B. FAKQIHAK, York, Pa. wmm This H.Y. Singer, S20 **[ Wlchf8M*t??r Attnelimeiit* Free. Warrant**.! perfect. Liiclit running. Biflrtflfr ^YHr and (iurnlilc. "n ut 3| EuJll I 11 on ll",t trial plan when dt-Hml. yfiijil Hoppy Home Orgnnii 4 h.*!|> <9'U9j|| fifljl Kivdf. U Mop*: .Vct'hanicitl Sub Vir^i\l? stool ami Si Huok.ouh $15 Ail 4A/\ ^'m) * > 'on teM trial pUn IfcJi* t* i.?\ dMiuhlV insiiirnnd ofit. cir*"a-* C '*,?%??f.lCo/4;Tr?intav ('ltVr*;m GUNSUfflPTiyN. Thav?p.?ns!tlvo remedy for tha ab,vo iltneaio;; by |? nso thousands of ca?*s of tho warns *tln?l and of ionr S?3Sffi38^^&S "amp' * .*'1'"r**I."i J..V5iriutn.8.ifI?i?.r?u?;M,llL WHAT WILL THE WEA1 Q Pool's Signa | Oli WTOltgf CM 1 R d 0 iJKRKxr 13 vv X j tSlGNAL' 3 ERVICE-H It will defect and m< i., .BA ROMS J^iW 11 in advance. A w.L te t! 'M direction?invalnab! ! y{ ja?T "? ? IH according to its r"?dic u4| ? ?>?< ?> L-fp ^ i;RI Has ar. nccurato thorn f;W S ,MR combination. ThjsKf ca- jTI J? 5 S ft t?..st eminent Pl?r?i' iw?- L, > 1' 'JH ami Scientific men of Klfl i?-1 P 1 lilE The Thertnomoter and K* ., fc II with sit' jri'lattf trim 13 "C1 *-'3o nament ,Ac will send t;iS '? " '"jlr i ?Ht order, on receipt of S I !!'S I ?>. ? <'6 daily felling them, -t M Si; ai'isE SICillT* .Tustthetl t tJS ,0ii j-j! L" Si' ,<' ? everybody. U. S. Post SftS k2 "" i itI fcrred. Aw-ntiwn; P J: 2 1 ? : Address nil orders to ? J j: ec3 ' ; , f # jl (Ljrscit c^tahhnhimi jtfl 130: xi ?"Jri| S' \ Werefor to th National Banks, or anj ra V'2? 2Ml W'ritAVHirra*?<W few - l 1 w flfif or<l?r.&rajton Snc 1 Rfc '? liif Tills tvill make n ?;io? ;r - ? al ui'An w n I 0! A Ic-Wlfc tflndl'oorsUaromc $ *i c & ill on it every t imo. >at> ffl 10; h ) \ q M Barometer received Era JO- J } -;.vi''.,g perfect satisfaction Jn mm ? 'n ?^ 1at two dollars. , If I 3 n* jjjlpwi Pool'H Bftrometerhft 403 ; d V, i..jg tho weather. Itisawi '4 /Jk -i'.i" M nF.WARE OF ^ "VL'j* HQ : ;'i .i irffl without our Trado Mil j:;,| W ?ncat,?below: ivv?ry instmrncnt WI PBBillryytr?,. r-'tj 31-1 wide. If not satis! 1 W4 will refund your no LYDIA E. PINKHAM'8 VEGETABLE COMPOUND. Ia a Positive Cure ' For all thoM Palafal Complaint* and WeakMMM o common to our beat female popnlatlan. A Medicine ftr Woman. Inrented by a Woman. Prepared by a Woman. Tfca Onatot *?dleal Dlttortrr Slot* th? Diva of E1(Ury. ' -1 - J >-?- inl Kyicrenrcs uie urwpiuy D^utM, hArmonlies the organic functions, glrea elasticity and firmness to the step, restores the natural lustra to tho eye, and plants on the pale cheek of woman tho fxesb rose* of life's spring and early summer time. fST"Physician* Use It and Prescribe It Freely.^* It remores falntness, flatulency, destroys all crarlng for stimulant, and relieves weakness of tho stomach. That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight and backache, is always permanently cured by its us& For the euro of Eldaey Complaints of either sax this Ceaifomnd Is unsurpassed. LYDIA E. PHTKHAiFs BLOOD PVSmEK wlU eradicate every vestige of Humors from the Blood, and giro tone and strength to the system, of man woman or child. Insist on having it. Both the Compound and Blood Purifier are prepared at 233 and 232 Western Arenas, Lynn, Mass. Price oC either, $1. Six bottles for $&. Sent by mall in tbe fcm of pills, or oflownges, on receipt of price, $1 per b? for either. Jlrs. Plnkham freely answers all letters cC Inquiry. Enclose Set. stamp. Send for pamphlet. Wo family should be without LYDIA B. PUTKHAJTS LIVER PILLS. They cure constipation, biliousness, and torpidity of the llrer. S cents per box. fltySoIdby oil Druggists.(1) |F0RTHEPERMANENTCURE OF I [ CONSTIPATION. j| No other disease la ?o prevalent la thla ooun-' try u Constlpatlcn, and no remedy has erer 1 equalled the oelebrated XXDNXY-WOET aa a, cure. Whatever the cauae, however obstinate i the oaee, this remedy will overoozae It. . 0|| [TQ THIS dlatreaslnff oomplalat, I a tCOi a very aptto be complicated with constipation. Kidney-Wort strengthens the weakened parts and quickly cores all kinds I ' of Piles even when physicians and mortUrtnaa have before filled. < RHEUMATISM. 2ttS?: LEETUL CUHB, aa It la for ALL the painffal . diaeaaea of the Kldneys? Liver and Bowels. It oleanaea the system of tha acrid poison that | 1 causes the dreadful guttering whloh only tha victims of rheumatism can realise. I THOU8AND8 OI? CASKS . 1 oftho worst forms of thla terrible dlaaaaa hara been quickly relieved, and in a short time i t I PERFECTLY CURED. | tylt cleanses, Btreerthens oad *ivaa Xnr 1 XJTe to all the Important organa of tha body. I The natural action of the Kidneys la restored, if I Tha Liver la cleansed of all dlaeaae, and tha Bowels move freoly and healthfully. i l &"It Acts at tho same time on tho KtDWTTB, 1 T.1VVIH A-NT) BOWELS-^J SOLD by URI'GGISTS. J ?1. UQl'IDorDCT. Dry can bo sent bymaO. I I WELLS, IUdURDSOy & 00., Barilngton, Vt. (H) I For Internal and External Uae. CURES BHEUMATISM, I Burns, Scalds, Chilblains, Frost Bites, Chapped Hands, FleshWo'unas, Sprains, Bruises, ' -External Poisons, Caked Breasts, Sore Nipples, Toothache, Cramps or Spasms of Stomach, Colic, Asthma, or Internal Pain, ' Lame Back, Bites of Anliriali, Galls of all kinds, Sitfast, Kingbooes,Oacke<l Teats, Poll:Rril,Garget in Cows, Spavins, Sweeney. Scratches or Grease, i Foot Rot in Sheep, StriuHhalt, Windfalls, uoup in Poultry, Foundered Feet," Fistula, i Crackcd Heels, Jiange in Dogs. Ask your nearest Dealer or Druggist for i one of our Almanacs for 1883. From the Christian Leader N. Y., Oct 28, 7L i Merchant's Gargling Oil.?We hare mado special personal Inquiry in regard to the merits of this celebrated remedy, and find it a genuine article of rare value. It la by no means a new remedy. The establish- ' ment which produces it dates its manufao > ture as far back as 1833. 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 8,1871. Merchant's Gargling Oil.?This Old standard article, under the admirable man' agement of John Hodge, Esq., has reached an enormous sale. It is an honestly com, pounded article; it has merit, and now that the best business talent of the country is handling it, there is no reason why it should not double itspresenlusefulness. Nofamily can afford to be without it. For family use, , as well as for animals, it is simply lndl*. 1 pe usable. SPECIAL NOTICE. | All we ask is a fair trial, but be sure and follow directions. I The Gargling Oil and Merchant's Worm | Tablets are for sale by all druggists and dealera in general merchandise throughout the I world. Large Size $1.00; Medium ?0 c.; Small 25 04 Small Size for family use 25 c. Manufactured at Lockport, N. Y., by Hep. chant's Gargling OH Company. i : V* , Secretary- I : THRESHERSs | (roe. 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