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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
...
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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.
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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."
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" 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
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at St. Helena, and we take
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are making a cent by their lying.?
Detroit Free Press.
Yast merit is inherent in St.
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Western Catholic.
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Diphtheria poisons the blood. Convalescents
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THAT HUSBAND OF MINE J
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Tlio soft and silky appearance given to the ,
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. The Science of Life or Self-Preservation. a
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Hu met success at homo nevor accorded to any othsr
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The remarkable results in disoase so universal, and
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how effectually Hood's Sarsaparilla, acting through th*
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" I am under great obligations to you for the benefit I
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nearly a hundred dollars without benefit, I accidentally
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then it gradually became less, and in taking less than
thrco bottles I find myself so greatly improved that I
write to let ynu know the facta. 1 think one or two
bottles moro will make a euro that I would gladly have
given a hundred dollars for. Let the sufferers of
Now England know that Hood's Sarsaparilla will cor#
catarrh." m. A. Abbey, Worcester, Mass.
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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.
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fST"Physician* Use It and Prescribe It Freely.^*
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That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight
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LYDIA E. PHTKHAiFs BLOOD PVSmEK
wlU eradicate every vestige of Humors from the
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man woman or child. Insist on having it.
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l &"It Acts at tho same time on tho KtDWTTB, 1
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i Merchant's Gargling Oil.?We hare
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The patentees are among the foremost business
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From the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, July 8,1871.
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SS AND THERMOMETER COMBINED, .
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licato correctly any change in the weather 13to 48hour*
I what kind of storm in approaching, and from what
Ic to uaviKfitoru. Farmer* can plan their work
: f ions. SnveH 50 time* It* coxt in asingloeeason.
numoter attached, which alone is worth the price of tho
eat WEATHER INDICATOR isendoraed by tho
tinJS'CTBEST IN THE WORLD!
I Uarometor uro pat in a nicely finished walnut frame,
tilings, etc., making it a beautiful as well as useful oryou
e sample ono, deliveredfree, toyourploce, in good
I. or six for 5jl. Agt'iitH are making from 45 to $30
trial mill convince you. Order at onco. It oelln nt
ling to sell to fnrmers, merchants, eto. Invaluable to
ago .Stamps takon if in good order, but money prfiteil
everywhere. Send for Circular and terms.
)SWE(.<? THERMOMETER WORKS,
it nr'fhr kind in the. uv>W<(>0?wobo. Oswego Co..
e Mayor, Postmaster, County Cleik, First ana Second
i business house in Oswego, N. Y.
'/ e, Countv and State iHaintv, and^remit by money
ork or reqintcred letter, at our ri*k. 4
Heatuiliil tind Very Useful Present.
AT THE PUBLIC MAY ABOUT IT.
tor works aa well u one that costs $50. Ton can rely
t, CHas. U. Kooebs, Ship "Twilight," San Francisco.
in good ordor, and must say that tho instrument gives
every respect. It is neatly madoand wonderfully cheep
(!ko. B. Parsons, M. C. R. R. Office, Detroit, Midi.
s already saved mo many tiroes its cost, in foretelling
onderful cariosity and work.; to^porfoction.
_______ P. J. Rour.RTSOH.Milwaukee, Wis.
VORTTTLESS IMITATIONS. Nono gonuino ]
k, and tignaturo of J. A. Pool on tho baok ot instru!?."?
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rxrr.tr."Perfect ard Reliable. Sizo* 12incheslong
io'i fivingttieinstrumcntrroturnltfttoaaoina
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