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B AH UITFINISHED POEM BY BSYAHT. . Tho reader of Mr. Bryant's poems will Sp readily rememlier, says the Century, the many verses addressed to his wife, snch as "Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids," written about the time of their marriage; "The f Future Life," speculating as to the union of their spirits in tho world to come; the "SickBed," describing an illness ; " The Life That Is." rejoicing in recovery; "The Twentyseventh of Starch,"?the birthday of Mrs. Bryant; "October, lSfiG," descriptive of her death and burial; and " May Evening." a gentle reference to her loss. But in addition to these, as we learn from Mr. Godwin's forthcoming biography of the poet, a fragment was found among his papers, which recalls her memory in a very tender way, seven years after her death. The lines were unfinished and uncorrected ; but we cannot refrain from giving them as they were written ?ilntfil " Tiixlvn I?t7:5 " ingly grateful to him that he does not insist upon making a choice for me, but leaves me free to please myself. And this is no sudden fancy. I have known you long, and admiration has ripened into personal esteem. Will you take my proposal into consideration Hessie -caught her breath. She looked very pretty with the maidenly reserve mantling her features, the long, dark lashes shading the pure cheek; but these words brought such a bewildering vista of the elegant Peslonde mansion, where a home was offered her, that she was all in a whirl. "I?I will take your offer into consideration.Mr. Deslonde," she syllabled, mechanically. She felt entirely incapable of saying I any more. And then Cuddy came running in with the ammonia bottle, and Mr. Deslonde's conversation i A bitterness blends with the memory ' Of all that happy past. Oh, when I l(. MAKING CI' HER MIND. r Pretty Hester Earlseourt was in such a quandary. Only the day before, weary with care and her monotonous labor, she had sighed, " Oh, dear! I wish something would happen!'* And now something had happened, with a vengeance. For four terms she had taught the district school at Oldville. The pay was not large, but enough to support her and her sister Cordelia?little Cuddy. It was Hester's first school, and she bad been so glad to get it? after her fa h3r died, and it was discovered thai t lere was really no property for the children. Hester was young?only eighteen? even now when she began to feel so weary and careworn as a "schoolma'am." Was her life to go on forever so? long days of "readin', spellin' an' geogafry," twilight rides in the horseftKraal cars back in town, frugal suppers with Cuddy, and nights that did not seem long enough to rest in?just that, and nothing more? It did seem a little hard, she had been such a dreamet?so hopeful of a bright future. " But, ob, Cuddy, I'm growing worldfcajEglil wise!" she said, one night, to her mys.gh tified little sister. But that summer the days had been so long and the nights so short, that Hester cried out: " Oh, dear, I cannot bear it! Anything for a change!" } "1 believe you are sick, Hessie," said _ womanly little Cuddy, who, though |3gk ten years old, wasn't much larger than a fairy and was obliged to stand on a footstool, beside Hessie's old easychair, to smooth back the nut-brown hair from the blue-veined temples. p " Xo, Cuddy; only tired?so tired !" "Butyou are!" persisted the child. " Your temples beat, and your head is hot and eyes heavy. I'll bathe your [ forehead with ammonia. Oh, it's all ' gone out of the bottle! I'll run out to the druggist's and get some. May I " Yes, dear !" Yet llessie hardly realized what the child said or where she had gone. She sat alone in the plain, but comfortable, little sitting-room, the light fading around h?r, when there was a knock tearr.-. at the door. &&& " Come !" she called, without rising, m- thinking it was the landlady with clean towels. The door?which stood ajar?was pushed open, and a gentleman enteredl He had a pleasant, ilorid counpfrgffiy tenance, and very blue eyes, and might ; rt'ZZ# have been about thirty-five years old. "I beg your pardon, Miss Earlscourt, but your landlady told me to SSffifiE* come right up." tr The mom hath not the clory that it wore, Nor doth the day so beautifully die, Since I can call thee to my side no more, To gaze upon the sky. For thy dear hand with each return of spring, I sought in sunny nooks the flowers sho gave: I peek them still, and sorrowfully bring The choicest to thy grave. fc ?. Here, where I sit alone, is sometimes heard fr -from the great world, a whisper of my name, Joined, haply, to some kind, commending word. By those whose praise is fame. And then, as if I thought thou still wert nigh, I turn me. half forgetting thou art dead, To read the gentle gladness in thine eye j That once I might have read. I turn, but see thee not; before my eyes The image of a hillside mound appears , Where all of thee that passed not to the skies ^ Was laid with bitter tears. And I, whose thoughts go back to happier days That fled with thee, would gladly now k resign All that the world can give of fame and praiso I For one sweet look of thine. Thus, ever, when I read of generous deeds, Such words as thou didst once delight to i- hear, My heart is wrung with anguish as it bleeds To think thou art not near. And now that I can talk no more with thee Of ancient friends and days too fair to last, Jon her feet and recognizing Doctor Pell, one of the school committee. "Pray be seated. I am very glad to see you. * The committee have decided about the change of spplling-books, I ^ ".N-on-o!" said Doctor Pell, with an unusual air of hesitation. "My call is not one of business, Miss iarlsHessie may be pardoned for faintly showing her surprise. Doctor Arthur ; Pell had always seemed to her the 1 busiest and' most practical of men. How, then, should she suspect his "No?" she said, in a half-interrogatory tone, and paused, g-, - " I?" and Doctor Pell paused. Hessie grew a little pale. " Y our errand is not agreeable, I am , afraid, Doctor Pell. Do I not give j satisfaction?" " In the school?to the committee?" , he answered. "Most assuredly you . do!" 4 " Thank you!" said Ilessie, greatly relieved. " I am verv awkward! I am afraid I shall startle you," said Doctor Pell, 1 very gently, atter a, moment; " but the truth is, I have come to-day to ask you 1 to be my wife." i Ilessie's brown eyes opened, indeed startled. i " You are not offended?" " X?o !" said Ilessie. " The way of it is this!" said Doctor < Pell. ' Ten years ago I had a sweet wife, whom 1 loved very dearly. She 1 died, and left me with one child. My 1 child fell to my mother's care, who has 1 made the only home for me I have had since. But she is very aged, and has 1 often urged me, to marry again. How- 1 ever, this I found impossible. It has i only been since I have known you, s Miss Earlscourt, that marriage again 1 has seemed possible. Pardon me! I i 1 know you have little expected this. ] But you are not offended, though I am no youthful hero. Try to believe me i ?I think I could make you happy !" ; He bent forward and took one of ; Hessie's small hands gently between his. He looked very good and manly. " I?I must have time to think, Doc- i tor Pell,'* faltered Ilessie. "Certainly. I have made my pro- 1 posal. You shall decide at your leis- ' ure. But while you are thinking about it I would like to see you once < in a while, Ilessie. Will you let me i take you to ride?call upon you of an L,v--" _ _ evening?" i ~*:1 have no objection," answered 1 Ilessie. quietly, but she felt quite dizzy. < In a few moments Doctor Pell had gone away. 1 Before she bad in the least righted ] herself there was another knock at j the half-open door, and Mr. Deslonde : 1 walked in. ! i Mr. Paul Deslonde was the most i t elegant man of llessie's acquaintance, t He was very handsome; his manner t was faultless. ? She had always stood a little in awe of him. Judge, then, of her surprise, i when, having seated himself in her i little sitting-room, and chatted easily I; for half an hour, he very gracefully ? . made a proposal of marriage. , ( " My father wants me to marry, and- i i^^ing usually arbitrary, I am exceed- i turned to generalisms, and then he I took his leave. Nobody will wonder, I think, that Ilessie was very much excited. It was not unpleasant excitement. She was Mattered, she was encouraged. Doctor Arthur Pell was very much respected, though lie was not rich. Paul Deslonde was very wealthy. Such a proposal from either was very reassuring to a poor girl wlmse face was her only fortune. Not that Ilessie was a bit in love with either. IIow could she be when she never had before dreamed of marrying either of these gentlemen? It was all so very sudden and unexpected ! The days and weeks went on. It was a very pleasant change which, had come to Ilessie?drives and visits, and tlowers sent up to her modest little room. The new order of tilings brightened even the tedious school hours. Yet, even when a month had gone by, Ilessie had not even approached her decision. She possessed, in her two suitors, an embarrassment of riches. They were very different. Paul Deslonde was brilliant, captivating, so apt with arts and graces of the highest social life, she could not help wondering that he should have chosen so unassuming a little maid as herself. In truth, it was Ilessie's peculiar air of docility and modesty which had at tractea alt. jjesionue. jie jikl-u iu , rule. Doctor Pell was practical, witk an air of reliability about him which ( spoke loudly for him to Ilessie's lonely heart. j She had needed just such a friend so long! Yet, the l'rank, dark-blue eyes which were Doctor Pell's only beauty were often eclipsed in the young girl's mind by Paul Deslonde's i elegant form and face. She tried to be wise; so much de- i pended on this decision of hers?all her life's happiness. Which did she < like better? She could not for the life of her tell. Both strove to please her ; and were often very agreeable. She wished sometimes that she could see them from a different standpoint ; than as her lovers. She tried to look ] into the future, imagining either her ( husband, but all was so vague! But at last came the point when j Hessie was able to decide. j she was shopping one leisure Satur- . day and went into a stationer's to make some purchases. When the , goods she had ordered were put up, , she sat down in the back of the store , to wait for her car, which would not " be due for half an hour. She was glad \ to rest, too, and entertained herself with a stereoscope. ] Suddenly she neard Paul Deslonde's t voice. For the first time it struck her i tViQt Hierp snnipf.hincr sli:irn ,'ind t V"V*W " O 1' j cutting in it; or, rather, she remem- s bered that she had recognized that j quality before without criticising it. > She observed Mr. Deslonde now at- g tentiveh*. lie purchased a little steel l implement?an ink-eraser. The salesman wrapped and handed it to him. t Mr. Deslonde overlooked the proffer, c " Send it up to the house at once. I i am going directly home, and shall want j to use it," he said, curtly. i " Certainly, certainly," answered tlie (] clerk, with an air of apology. "1 ji thought perhaps?it is so small?" (] " I never take my purchases; the de- ( livery is your business." c "Yes?yes, of course, Mr. Deslonde!" i The gentleman went out, and the ) salesman muttered something to a t fellow-clerk about " pie-crust." i But another customer came in. It was a broad-shouldered, llorid man, j with pleasant blue eyes. lie seemed _ to know the salesman, and chatted j with him as he carefully selected a nice stereoscope with several dozen j. views and a tasteful carved rack for , holding them. When the purchase r was complete and paid for the gentleman held out his hand for the package. " This is quite a large parcel, uocior Pell. I will send it up," said the clerk. "Xo; I will take it!" cheerfully. *' Better let me send it up, sir." "Xo; the things are for my little Xellie. She has been confined to her room for a fortnight with sickness. I promised them to her, and it would take away half the satisfaction not to give them to her myself. Per?haps you'll feel so, Charley, when you have a little girl!" And with a laugh and cheery nod Dr. Pell went out with the bulky parcel. A warm color spread over Ilessie's sweet face. The tears came into her eyes; and then and there Hester Earlscourt made the decision which influenced her whole after life. "When Dr. Pell came into her little sitting-room that night with a bunch of English violets, she took them with a radiant smile, held them andlnhaled their fragrance all the evening, though a vase of Mr. Deslonde's liner greenhouse roses stood on the table. And when, at parting, the grave, tender, middle-aged lover took violets and both little hands gently in his and kissed them, she put a slender arm about the strong neck. "Yes, good-bye now; but sometim pou will stay with me always; for I love you; you are so good 1 s And in all her life Hessie never for a > moment regretted her decision.?Es- r ther Earle Kenneth. I ??- a " Push Along?Keep MoTing," ' Such is the cry of Progress every- , where. "Push along!" x It is the watchword of the nine- ^ :eenth century; written on every Imn- ^ ler, carried on every blade, lifted i wherever the cause of human advance- s ment is espoused. j " Push along?keep moving!" t There's a whole volume of good ^ counsel in these words. To the young?just setting out in life?they are of infinite value and ( have an omniscient influence, girding j ;| the soul with everlasting vigor. I ^ If the arm grow weary and the heart faint, they tinge the fHture with | > the hues of triumph and lead on the J j feet with hopeful strength; if <>)>-1 ] jtacles rise in the way, 44 Push along? ! z keep moving!" from the lips of hope I , is better than a Damascus blade in i ( hewing out a path to victory. , 44 Push along 1" what if clouds thick , iuul heavy are stretched out before ( you? 44 Keep moving 1" they will ( yield and disappear before the sun. i What if your eyes see no signs of >. victory??no gleam of hope? "Push f along !" *he palm will yet be yours. t What if Death stride into your ] household ring, and break all the t shrines of your idolatry? i Mourn not hopelessly; look not j uways oacK. " -Let uie ueau past uury , ts (lead."' Push along?keep moving, j " Keep moving!" Nature cries with j ler ten thousand tongues. The uni- \ /erse, as it rolls continually onward, j ? jchoes hack the cry?"Push .along !" j 1 " Ke *p moving!" "What your heart 11 indeth to do, do it might and main ! 11 Parse not, rest not?"Push along!" t It goes around the world like a Lf ;rumpet call, rousing up the slumber- f> ng, strengthening the weak, inspiring ! f :he timid, urging the strong to con- I iinual conquest. It is everywhere L ;he same?the spring and fountain, of i ill true progress. Push along! for irresistible forces mpel you; keep moving! for your r nission is yet unfilled.. ^ The newspaper is the proper reflex p >f the energy, enterprise, stability and c ntegrity of "the community in which 1 t Is published. a - A DRAMATIC COURT SCEXE. AW INCIDENT IN WHICH WILLIAM H. SEWAED FIGURED. linn' the ICx-fJovernor Compelled a Prison Warden to Deliver i'p Tor Examination His Record ol'WhippiiiK*. The Now York legislative investigation touching alleged State prison barbarities recalls a remarkable case which occurred in 184G, when ex-Governor William 11. Seward, who was then a practicing lawyer, was called upon to defend Ilenry AVyatt, a convict in the Auburn State prison, who had killed one of his companions. John Van Buren was the attorney-general of the State, ami conducted the prosecution with more than his usual brilliancy and fervor. Seward interposed for his client the plea of moral insan ity. asserting that through congenital derangement, aggravated and itensified by cruel treatment in the prison, he was in a mental state which made him irresponsible. To prove his case he summoned the warden of the prison with a writ subpena duces tecum, requiring him to produce the book wherein he kept the record of the whippings inflicted upon refractory convicts. At the trial the warden, a large, powerful man, defiantly refused to submit his books to Mr. Seward's examination. What followed is thus narrated by an eye-witness : The court-room was hushed to an impressive silence. Van Buren rose and attempted to sustain the warden, but Seward, drawing himself up till his form seemed gigantic, calmly waived his hand and said : "One moment, Mr. Van Buren. I have the right to speak now, and you have not that right. The commands of a court of justice and the dignity of this tribunal cannot thus be trilled with. Your honors," he continued, turning to the judges, "in the name of justice now bein# administered in this her precincts, in the name of humanity, in conformity to the statute and the majesty of our laws, I ask that this man be compelled now to give into my hands those records, for the keeping of which he is guilty of contempt against this venerable court. Shall I have them, sir?" He remained standing in a position ol imposing dignity, wan ms eye fixed upon the presiding judge, invoking profound silence throughout the court-room. "Witness," said the judge, "you will immediately deliver to .Mr. Seward the book you hold in your hands. Your refusal, sir, will subject you to imprisonment." IJpit the warden stood firm and unmoved; he seemed to clutch the book with a firmer grasp, while his face was turned passionately on Mr. Seward. For a few moments?moments that seemed hours to the bar, spectators and jury?the silence was profound until it tvas broken by the stern voice of the judge: "Sheriff," said he, "you will arrest Mr. 1{. and hold him in custody until ;ie shall be discharged by order of this jourt." The sheriff stepped forward to obey; jut before reaching him the warden landed Mr. Seward the book, saying: You take it at your peril, sir." " Witness," said the judge, " you kvill appear before this court tomorrow norning at its opening to answer for /our disobedience to cur orders." Seward took the book, and turning ;o one of its pages, read as follows: " On this day of , 1842, IF. W., a convict, was sentenced to ,hirty lashes on his bare back, but, on emoving liis clothing for that purpose, his back was found to be so icarred, ridged, cut and benumbed by jrevious whippings that his sentence vas changed to the effect that he should receive the lashes on his bare egs instead of his back." " Here," said Mr. Seward, as he laid he book on the table," is the evidence if the inhumanity of prison punishnent! Within the walls of yonder >rison there exists evidence of inhunanity and torture which we have Ira^ged from them sufficient to drive l sane man to dementia, and tiiat cvi- i lence is now before this court. Great Jod! what a record. Well may the illicers of t.he prison shrink from givng its shocking details to the public. >Ve insist it was punishment that like his that drove our client into insanty." This evidence produced the most >rofound sensation in the court-room ?not only there, but, finding its way nto the journals of theday.it produced l profound feeling throughout the State and nation, leading to the temlorary abolishment of whipping as a mnishment in the prisons. A Band of Outlaw*. A graphic picture of life in the renote neighborlipod of Kentucky has >een unveiled recently in the accounts if the execution, without the formality >f jury trial, of the leaders of a bantl if outlaws who have kept three counies in a state of excitement for a long erin of years. The nineteenth cenury was but three years old when a Kind of intrepid settlers built rude abins and founded a village on the janks of the Donaldson river, in Caldvell county, Kv. The village grew and -hrived; a rude meeting-house was succeeded by a painted church with an undeveloped spire, and a postoflice and i large number of " saloons " came into existence. Hardy people from afar joined their fortunes to those of the leu- sptflpre sinrl t.lift enrmnunitv was nude up of contented and peaceful 'oiks, who found their living in the fertile earth. Among the later settlers ivas a family named Campbell, the lead of which was a br;iwnv, longimbed man, of harmless aspect, whose lonesty at first was not doubted. This nan had a sister, .Jane, a smart and jomely woman, who attracted many of ;he younger men of the community, [ler inlluence over these fellows was emarkable, and it was wholly for the jad. Thefts innumerable awakened lie settlers to a feeling of insecurity; ihotguns were kept, ready for use and raluable property was watched by light. At last suspicion began to >oint to Campbell and his sister, ilthough no proof of their guilt could ?e obtained. Once or twice when the 'ictims of the robbers grew angry and nade threats, Campbell and his sister vent away, and after one of heir trips the woman returned (ringing with her a strapping felow named Sullivan, with whom she et up an establishment separate from icr brother's. The robberies now beame more general and more open han before, and there was no longer : my douht about the guilty persons. formidable band of outlaws was irganized, with Campbell, his sister, ind Sullivan as the leaders, and the f,..,..,.,1 t,,r. ivmiu vuvm w/w uuch to tak<- action against them, fears passed on, Sullivan disappeared caving Jane Sullivan, as she culled lerself, with three children, and tlie obbi-ries w.tc as frequent as ever, lane died, hut left a daughter, Maryjuite as wild and unscrupulous as Ikt i nothcr. Campbell's sons were this ! woman's associates, and tlie new gen-1 ration of thieves was holder than tin; | )ld. They proclaimed their calling kvith pride, and their cabins.lilled with stacks of murderous weapons, reieiuhled armories. They stole anything hey fancied; cattle and horses, houselold goods, silver and money. Within ;he last few years the citizens of Cald.vell, Hopkins and Webster counties 'armed bands of " regulators " to conpier the thieves, who defied them by wsting notices that any citizens who tccused one of the band of theft would je killed. Bloodshed became frecpient, md for a time the thieves appeared to >e the victors, but recently their good uck deserted them, and one by one the j widest of them were found hanging to rees or lying dead by the roadside. )ne morning the dead body of Mary iullivan was discovered suspended rom the limb of a tree that a few days lefore had borne the body of her over. The settlers have since lived n security. A well-clad and respectable man reently created a great stir in London >y promenading the streets sandwiched >etween two boards, which bore these dacards: "General Postoflice?l>isharged for not saluting a clerk. [?wenty-five years lier majesty's Berv,nt." - ?: A City of Earthquakes. Caracas, founded in 1567, has been visited by eighteen terremotos, or earthquakes of the first magnitude. Golpes, rumblings and tremors are never counted, but must amount to an average of sixty appreciable shocks per year; involving an average yearly damage of $300,000, or the equivalent of a per capita tax of four dollars. This impost has taxed the ingenuity of the inhabitants and taught them some useful lessons. Projecting basement corners (giving the house a slightly pyramidal appearance) have been found safer than absolutely perpendicular walls; mortised corner-stones and roofbeams have saved many lives when the onntriit n-iilla hnvn until frnm ton to .,J, ...... r bottom; vaults and keystone arches, no matter how massive, are more perilous than common wooden lintels, and there are many isolated buildings in the city. In many streets broad iron girders, riveted to the wall, about a foot above the housedoor, run from house to house along the front of an entire square. Turretlike brick chimneys, with iron-top ornaments, would expose the architect to the vengeance of an excited mob; the roofs are flat, or flat terraced; the chimney-flues terminate near the eaves in a perforated lid. Every house has its lado seguro, or safety side, where the inhabitants place their fragile property; and flhere is a supposed and not nltogtfcher imaginary connection between north sides and security. Bedsteads, experts say, should not be placed too near a window; for if the wall gives way it is apt to split along the weakest line of the masonry. For the same reason it is unlucky to stand in an open door. The safest place, during the progress of an earthquake, is the north side, or the center of a room, or else the middle of the open street. 1 noticed that the owner of a lucky house is apt to overrate its stability ; for even in the perilous districts the ???? 11*!f 1? Kmrora I ill elf ft. ltd ill'L' UltCll l:i U? ucu iuii uk and sellers, while an adjoining street resounds with the crash of falling bricks. Low water, not preceded by an unusual drought, is a suspicious sign; and if the Cura, spring fails at the same time, true believers go bed with their boots on, although skeptics assert that both phenomena are apt to prophesy after the event. A mist in tlie afternoon is regarded as a harbinger of mischief, and in order , to distinguish it from a common (lusthaze the natives watch the wooded heights of San Sebastian; for during the dry season the paramos?the treeless table-lands north of the city?are in a chronic state of haziness. Tender-footed cats may feel a vibration before it comes distinct enough to affect a bell-frame, but most animals are as indifferent to such portents as to their fulfillment. A moderately well-rooted forest tree can stand an earthquake better than any building, and to the inhabitants of the prairies ! the most violent trembling of the I ground can cause nothing but a trilling inconvenience, a momentary dilliculty to preserve their equilibrium. On the pastures of Venezuela cattle graze peacefully the year round, except in nAICO nf fall- I me juuuuiuiua, niiciu wiv/ ing rocks sometimes stampedes a whole herd. Still, there is a tradition that, a few hours before the catastrophe of 1812 (when 14,000 persons lost their lives), a Spanish stallion broke out of its river suburbs, and took refuge in the Qastern highlands.?Atlantic Monthly. From a News-Stand to Parliament, Almost tiresome has become the narration of the careers of successful Americans, native and by adoption, who have won their way from indigent obscurity to wealthy opulence. "We have come to regard these instances as peculiarly American. It may be that there are more of the kind to be found in this than in any other country, but they are possible elsewhere. In Eng land the highest possible positions attainable by a subject are not infrequently won by men who commenced life in poverty and obscurity. A most notable instance of the kin 1 is that of the Right Hon. W. II. Smith, the first lord of the admiralty in Beaconslield's hist cabinet, and to-day recognize! as one of the most successful of English public men. He has no pedigree behind him, is not allied to any inlluential family. Ilis father kept a small newspaper stand in a disreputable London street. Notwithstanding evil surroundings he prospered, and his next venture was a news-stand at a railroad station. I Ie gradually expanded the humble business cf supplying travelers with the newspapers, and was assisted in the work by his son, W. II., the future statesman, who had acquired a common school education and never enjoyed the advantages of a collegiate training. The son pressed forward what the father had begun, persevering in the work of keeping news-stands until he owned the news-stands of every railroad station in the three kingdoms, and obtained the control of the retailing of newspapers in London. Takjng an active interest in local affairs, Y\r. II. Smith stood for parliament fVm orwl woo AVflrwholm. j 1U1 ?T r<OUlUU.?Vti) (U1U n WO VI \,a iiiiwui ingly defeated, greatly to the delight of the aristocracy and gentry But the newsdealer knew no such word as fail; he tried again at a subsequent election, and was successful. In the commons he showed himself such a practical man of business that the sagacious IJeaconsfield made him financial secretary of the treasury and afterward elected him to the head of the admiralty. So far from being ashamed of his humble start in life, or intoxicated by his great success, the Right Hon. W. II. Smith remains to this day a newsdealer; as well he may, -* U l.n^'nAiKi lllilMI.inii aa inr? CAtniuuu uuoukoo brings him $150,000 a year. A Lake on Fire. The burning of Moscow.is described as "an ocean of llame." The scene of a burning lake here related must have been equal in grandeur to that conllagration, and none the less impressive for being a wonder of nature. Imagine a bonfire four or five miles in extent! It is said that from one of the chief naphtha wells of Kussia the liquid has formed a lake four miles long and one and a quarter wide. The depth is. however, only two feet. This enormous surface of inflammable liquid recently became ignited and presented an imposing spectacle, the thick, black clouds of smoke being lighted .... 1... I.....'/! fl.n Uj) I?v tin; mini ^ituu vl uuv> coluinn of iiainc, which rose to a groat height. The smoke and heat were such as to render a nearer approach than one thousand yards' distance impracticable. Suitable means for extinguishing the lire was not at hand, audit was feared that the conflagration would spread underground in such a m:?nner as to cause an explosion. This supposition led many inhabitants of the immediate vicinity to remove to a safer distance. The quantity of naphtha on tire was estimated as four and a half million cubic feet. The trees and buildings within three miles' distance were covered with thick soot, and this unpleasant deposit appeared on persons' clothes, and even on the food in the adjacent houses. Xot only was the naphtha itself burning, but the earth, which was saturated with it, was also on tire, and ten largo establishments, founded at a great expense for ihe development of the trade in the aitiele, were destroyed. A Grand Piece of Engineering. A survey is about being made through the heaviest portion of the lilack canon of tne uunnison. j?'or a long distance 1 lie walls of syenite rise to the stupendous height of 3,000 feet, and for 1,800 feet the walls of the canon are arched not many feet from the bed of the river. If the survey is successful and the Denver and Rio Grande is built through the canon, it will undoubtedly be the grandest piece of engineering on the American continent. The river is very swift, and it is proposed to build a boat at the western end and provision it for a length of time, allowing it to float with the stream, but controlled by ropes. If the boat goes the chances are that the baby road goes, too.? Denver Tribune. Condensed elephant's milk is likely to come into use as a tonic. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle State" A blight fire at 3:30 a. m. in the Delevan house, Albany, N. Y., filled the building with smoke and caused many members of the State legislature who roomod there to hastily depart in scanty apparel. Sr. Patrick's day was celebrated in New York city by the usual procession of Irish fiociotios. Pabt of a street was blown up, several buildings wero damaged and four persons seriously injured by an explosion of gas in Boston. The New York State board of health has discovered that out of 119 samples of food sixty were adulterated, and that of seventyfive samples of drugs thirty-two wero adulterated. For a wager of $200 William Lewis, a Philadelphia professional rat catcher, tried to pick up and place in a barrel 103 live rats in sixty minutes. After picking up eighty rats and receiving numerous bitos from the startled rodents, Lewis abandoned the re volting attempt for" lack of time to complete it. Tiibee thousand cans of milk were ponred into the gutters at Goshen, N. Y., by members of the Erie Milk Dealers' association rather than send it to New York and receive the price offered by the wholesale dealers. TnE annual report of the New York city superintendent of public schools shows that there are inthemetropolis2;Mpublicflchools, including the Normal College for girls, four colored schools, twenty-seven night schools and a nautical school on board ship; teachers and an average attendance of 2:31 pupils. Georoe W. Conklinq, a young government surveyor from Reno, Nov., shot and killed W. H. Haverstick, a New York mining broker, the other evening, in the latter's npartments in a fashionable flat on We<t Twenty-third street. Conkling's sister, who had been married to a former partner of Haverstick, was giving with the latter. Conkling had come to New York for the purpose of separating the pair and persuade Ms sister to accompany him to the West. Ho claims that while visiting his sister HaverI stick assaulted him and that he fired in selfdefense. ex-g0veiin0b "William {Spbaoue received the nomination for governor of the Rhode Island Democratic Stato convention, and the remainder of the State ticket, as arranged by a conference committee of Democrats and independent Republicans, was agreed upon. The ticket consists of threo Democrats and two independent Republicans. The Bean family had things largely their own way at tho town eloction jn Mason, aie. The following officers were elected: Moderator, I. A. Bean; clerk, J. C. Bean; selectmen, J. N. Bean and F. I. Bean; treasurer, F. I. Bean; supervisor of schools, J. H. Bean( and agent, J. C. Bean. Faildjq in his efforts to borrow money Casper Liebman, of Middle town, N. Y., shot himself on the eve of his wedding day. A lady in New York whose jaw was broken by a dentist has rec overed $1,200 in a suit for damages. A Bbooklyn bootblack who was severely j injured by an employe of a ferry company who supposed the boy was trying to enter the ferry-house without paying his faro, sued tho company for damages, and the jury awarded him $f>,OOD. Two brothers named Eaton, members of a prominent lumber firm, and a tluru man unmedKelley, were talking quietly with one another at Calais, Me., when suddenly one of the Enlous drew a revolver and shot his two companions. The other Eaton's wound was not dangerous, but Kelloy was fatally wounded. liicir assailant is supposed to have become suddenly insane, as there had j be^n no trouble among the men. Anotiteb cremation has taken place at 'VasMngion, Penn., the body being that of 01 ;;i lo-S?><hner, of Indianapolis, sixty-five years jf age. Tl'E remains of John Howard Payne, author of "Homo, Sweet Home," arrived in New York from Tunis, North Africa, where lie died in 1852 while United States consul and were taken to the city hall, where they lay in state. The body ha3 been brought home for a final resting-place at the expense of W. W. Corcoran, the Washington philanthropist and the poet's life-long friend. On Juno i*,the ninoty-firHt anniversary of Payne's birth, the final intonnos.t will take place with nnnronra e ceremonies in Dak Hillcemcv tery, Washington. South and West. Geoboe Jones, of Oglothorpe county, Ga., shot nnd killed his wife whom ho had married when she was only eleven years old, and who hnd refusei to live with liioi .iflcr he had assaulted her mother. A St. Paul (Minn.) dispatch says it is reported on trustworthy information IhaWhe government has decided to release S.t.ing Bull and his braves, 140 in number, from military custody. They will bo taken on May,l from Fort Randall, where they have been since they were removed from Forj Yates, a jear ago. and placed nnon the reservation at the Standing Rock agency. A New Orleans theatre, just boforethe close of the performance, was the scene of apmc resulting from an alarm of fire. The largo audience made a rush for the roof, and after quiet wa<? restored it was found that two men, two women and three children had been severely hnrt. The receiver of the Marion frnst com. ........ Ti./li-onnnnlia. Trill.. rnnOitl that in ono year nearly i520j,000 has been taken in rn-.l :Jf>0,000 paid out by the concern. The victims of the swindle number about 5,000, and the average amount received from each was $40. Two captured incendiaries near Helena, Montana, were summarily sent to another world by a vigilance committee. In Orangeburg county, S. C., William Trezevant lay in wait for Frank Mitchell, his rival in love, and as ho was approaching the house of the young lady whom they were courting sprang from concealment and killed him with a club. He then buried his victim in a forest. When Mitchell was mi??ed suspicion fell upon Trezevant, and he was arrested and confessed the crime. General Porpibio Diaz, ex-president of Mexico, and party arrived at Chicago, whero they were formally receivoJ by the mayor and a committee appointed fort hat purpose. From Chicago the party proceeded to Washington Governor Pouter, of Indiana, has mado a visit lo the lately submerged towns and villages along the Ohio river. He found that the damage occasioned by the floods was, in many places, far greater than had boon supposed. Much suffering had been caused amoiiK the people from do?tilu!ion. Two oyster pungies collided at the mouth of the Wicomico river, Virginia, nnd ono of them went to the bottom. Five of the reven men on board lost th?iir lives. Two brothers named Feete, c a slier and paying to'ler, respectively, of the Second National bank in St. P.iul, Minn., have been caught in systematically robbing the institution of over $15,GOO. A converter in the IJeisemer steel works of the Cleveland Rolling mill in Newburg. Ohio, containing fromseven to eight tons of molten metal, was suddenly overturned, owing to ? MK?doji cessation of the hydraulic pressure "by which it was being moved. The grf'.t msiss of fiery liquid was poured into :!:< pit ocneith, exploding with great force. A' i.'-.l ,'<\vuiy !ufn were standing about, and till < f t' eii- wore more or less injured, one or two with probably fatal effect. About 1,-lOn s':cep were burned to death in a prairie fire near Arkansas city, Kansas. A vigilance committee hanged the postmaster at Green Horn, Montana, for barn burning. A jsaus with ].1r> head of cattle was destroyed by lire at Shipman, 111. A hand of twenty Indians attacked a party of whites work in r around some newly-discovered coal fields near Tombstone. Arizona, and killed several. A fiiie in Columbus, Ga., destroyed the Fontaine cotton warehouse, containing :?,400 bales of cotton an 1 other property. The total loss is estimated at $'J00,(XX). A KioiiT between cattlemen and Mexicans in Arizona resulted in the death of about six of the participants. From Waahinytoa. Lieutenant Haupeh has been ordered to continue the search for Lieutenant, Chipp and party, of the lost Jeannotte, during tho summer. Tiie President has su-pended Judge Wilson S. Hoover, ussociate justice of tho supremo court of Arizona, pending an investigation of charges preferred against him of corrupt practices in accepting bribe*. The state department has been notified that an international exhibition will bo opened at Calcutta, India, December 4,1PS3. A Washington dispatch says that " the exclusion of American pork from Germany may very probably, if it is persisted in, lead Congress when it meets to the adoption of retaliatory measures in tho way of prohibiting the importation of Gorman products. Tho state department correspondence shows conclusively that there is no proof in Germany that Amoriean pork has caused disease. The evidence ie olear to the contrary." I ft ' ??? It is said the government printing office that Congress in the last ten days of the recent session ordered $219,000 worth of printing. Secretary Teller has asked for a military guard to protect the Yellowstone National Park property. Secretary Lincoln will comply with the request. Dr. Macdonald, superintendent of the money order system, is making active pre. parations to carry into effect the new law providing for the issue of postal notes for fractional amounts less than five dollars, and also reducing the fees on money orders and increasing to $100 the limit of a single postal money order. The two last provisions will go into effect July 1, and the fractional postal notes will probably be ready September 1. Secretary Chandler has ro it an order ti the co nmauding officers of all the United Strtic.i navy yards directing that eight houn be regarded as a working day for all omp'oyes in the government yards until further notice. The President has ordered the suspension of Judge Kv r o i J. Con^e-, associate jus tiro of the Territory of Montana, against whom charges of drunkenness and gambling I n o been prefe red. Foreign Xawa. Mrs. Alexander Allan and her fifteenyear-old son were found do id at their homo in Hamilton, Ontario, having been suffocated by coal gas from a stove. Mr. Allan was discovered dying from the samp camo. The damage caused to the government buildings in London by the attempt to blow them op with dynamite is pat at $20,003. Kahl Maiix, founder of the International Workingmen's convention, and a prominent writer on socialistic topics, died a few days since in France, aired sixty-live years. The ship Dunstaffnage, from Calcutta for Liverpool, has been wrecked on the coast of Scotland. Fifteen men, boside a number of women and children, were drowned. Rowleh, one of the prisoners awaiting trial in connection with the Phoenix pa-k murders, died in an epileptic fit in Kilma n ham jail, Dublin. An attempt to murder Lady Florence Dixie, youngest daughter of the Marquis of Queensbury, is roported from London. While walking in a ?ecluded spot near the woods at W indsor she was attacked by t;vo men dressed in women's clothes. Her garments were cat in severn 1 places by dagger thrusts, and one thrust was stopped by a steel corset rib. The last thing she remembers was ono of the men pushing a quantity of mud into her mouth. She fainted, and on recovering found that both palms wore cut across, ai:d hor gloves severed. The saving of her life is attributed to her St. Bernard dog, which, it is supposed, protected hor while she lay in a swoon. Lady Dixie is described as "a wonderful horsowoman, a good sailor, an enthusiastic traveler and a trenchant writer." She has written several books of truvel, and lias taken an active part in Irish affairs. Some time ago she attacked the Irish land leaguo, claiming that no account of the expenditure of a lareo part of ils funds was given in ita report The leaders of the land leagco replied that she was crazy after notoriety. London's police force is to be increased by ."/DO men. Mn. Pabneld, Irish land league leader, is coming to America. Foub persons wero killed and many injured by a railroad collision in Scotland. A band of Arabs attacked four Turkish battalions near Yeman, but wore repulsed. The Turks lost four officers and a number of men. Tiibke children, aged respectively six years, four years and eight months, were burned to death in St. Magliore, Canada, during the absence of their parents. The kiug of Wurtemburg has contributed 1,000 marks for the sufferers by the Ohio floods. Next .Tune and July vessels will bo sent to the Arctic regions to recall the men at the signal stations at Point Barrow, Alaska, and Lady Franklin bay, two of the international chain of posts o^tablishod forpurpo-es of observation in pursuance of a plan adopted at congretr.es held several years ago in Vienna and St. Petersburg. It was hoped to maintain theso observations until 1884, but tho terms of tho last approbation f >r this work are m:'.t ilui it has bean iL'ciijJ to recall both pr.rlies during the coming summer, if possible. A student who attempted to commit snicido while in n bath in St. Petersburg has confessed that the Nihilists commanded him to shoot the czar at a recent banquet and feto given by the Finland regiment. Tho student was pre.-cat at the banquet disguised as a waiter. His courngo failed him at tho last moment, and, knowing his fate from the Nihilists he resolved to commit suicide. Herb von Wanosnheim, councillor of state and minister of worship a nd of schools for the little duchy of Sa e Coburg-Gotha, has been shot dead by a disappointed applicant for office. The imitator of Guiteau then committed suicide. An oruption of Mount Blanc, accompanied by an earthquake, is reported. Several houses have fallen. Lei'hoby is making such inroads in tho Sandwich IslanJs that steps have been taken to collect all the lepers and isolate them from the rest of the inhabitants. A thaw and heavy rains have caused dis a.tl'OUS IIOOUS in i*OVrt dcuuh. muu) uuuijra hive been swept away, find in numerous instances people were obliged to abandon their houses Sin George Jessei,, of England, master of the rolls, is dead. Ho was the first Jew who occupkd a seat on the English judicial bench and was the first of that faith that became a member of tho British privy council. While descending the stairs of Windsor palace to take her carriage for a ride, Queen Victoria slipped and fell. Believing she had not been injur?dthe queen took the ride, but on her return found her knee had become much swollen and inflamed. Physicians were summoned and attended to her injuries. Owing to tho queen's advanced age and her delicate state of health considerable anxiety was felt, and largo crowds surrounded the bulletfti boards of tho various London newspapers to learn tho latest news rpBfirdinc her health. Lisbon, Portugal, is to have an international agricultural exhibition in M;:y. The czar of Russia lias received letters threatening him with death if he does not pardon the imprisoned Nihilists. Thk recent demonstration of a reading club of students at Vienna in memory of Wagner has led to twenty duels among tho students, tho combatants being Germans on the one side and Austrians on tho other. One of tho participants was severely wounded. ___ Long Xails. Xhe Chinese have many peculiar fashions anil fancies which are remarkable; and one of the most curious is the industry with which they cultivate their finger-nails. They esteem it a good proof of a man's being a gentleman, or at least one who is not obliged to have recourse to manual labor to procure liis subsistence, if he have long nails. They sometimes allow them to acquire the extraordinary length of eight or nine inches. In order to preserve .them from external injury, eaeli one of the claws is inclosed in a joint of hollow bamhoo, so that the hand which is graced with these strange ornaments is rendered nearly useless. The Chinese ladies are particularly attentive to the preservation of their nails, which are sometimes an inch or an inch and a half long on all the lingers. There texture resembles a dry squill very much, and as they increase in length they curl up at the edges. Singular Conduct. Georgia has a young woman who has never spoken to her father. She converses with her mother and her brothers as long as they remain single, >nit ;i? mum :is one of them marries lie is a "heathen Chinee," and she never : speaks to him again. If she is in conversation with her mother, and her father or a stranger approaches, she ; beconu s as dumb as an oyster. Xo explanation is given of this strange conduct, and she declines to give any i reason for it. i _ ... ~ ] A Toothsome Morsel. 1 This from the Madison (Wis.) Demo- , crat conveys its own moral: Hold on! ( "We are cognizant of the fact that an ' aching tooth was last night cured by ' tho application of St. Jacobs Oil. Tiie , | young fellow got mad over his raging 1 tooth in tho ballroom, and rudied < straightway to a drug store, where he J applied the good old German Remedy; c in ten minutes the toothache had gone, l Olives can be successfully grown, it * is believed, in many portions of the e Southern States. c B -;r i ~ "i' i i ? i f ; i WONDERFUL REVELATIONS OF THE MICROSCOPE. _ blucorcrr of the Mwt Deadly Enemy of Mankind?The Bacill as and Its Karagea. The Bcientifio world has been greatly startled and agitated of late by the discovery with the microscope of the mo3t dreadful enemy of mankind in the form of myriads of little death-dealing parasites. The air we breathe and live in is charged with these deadly little growths in proportion as it 19 infected from various noxious sources. Having by recent experiments and research been snown to be the most fruitful cause of disease known, and the welfare and health of every individual- depending so largely on the freedom from their destructive ravagos, it is but natural that the roporta of recent investigators in this field of Bcientifio inquiry should be widely read, and that every phase of these astounding discoveries should bo subject to universal discussion. At first ret jived with some suspicion they have at length been thoroughly proven, and are now receiving the unqualified indorsement of the leading scientific men throughout the world. But little else is talked of in the schools and clussor science, and the medical and scientific journals are crowded with the testimony that is being ac'ded corroborative of the value of the marv -ons discovery which is pronounced the ? aatest advance in medical science of modem times. To L. Pabteub, the eminent French scientist, who by his learned investigations has saved to France so many millions of dollars, is probably due the honor of first pointing out the terrible power of these gorms. In recognition of his great service the government has recently voted him from the public treasury $10,000, with which to continue his experiments. Ho has described several varieties of these parasites, some comparatively harmless, others extremely dangerous. One form he proved by a series of vaccinations and other conclusive experiments was the cause of death of many thousands of animals and herds of cattle; another the active agent in the death of fowls by cholera. Acting upon the knowledge he had gained of the naluro of these germs, ho pointed out a means of relief that speedily prevented a spread of the diseases and ended their devastation. Tyndall, with the aid of other eminent English investigators, made a number of examinations of the floating particles in the atmosphere, and found numbers of living spores capable of producing disease. In dry and healthy localities but few germs were found, and these of the harmless varieties, while in low damp places, crowded houses and unhealthy cities, the poisonous germs were extremly numerous everywhere. Dr Rudolph Kocn, of| Wallstein, Germany, a man whose work in connection with the organisms of contagions diseases has made him a recognized authority upon the subject, by experimenting after the methods 01 VILLEMTN, IMS UlSCOVereu UQU PUUIIHUOU an account of ono of the most dangerous varieties, to which it is proven more deaths are due than to any disease incident to the human race. Ho describes it as a simple cellular organism belonging to the same order as the bacteria. When dried the germs may, without losing any vitality, endure great extremes of temperature. Being as fine and as light as dust, invisible to the naked eye, they may be blown any distance by the wind or carried upon the clothing or body. Like seeds, they may lie for months or years undisturbed upon the furniture, floor, carpets, curtains, walls, or in the bedding, and only requiring a proper degree of warmth, moisture and food to waken into life, develop and grow. They thrive and live in the blood, lymph, mucus and secretions of the human body. When the system is unhealthy or weak they attack the cells that make up the animal frame. Any albuminous fluid will furnieh them with food for growth, and a single drop is sufficient to contain hundreds. Examined with microscopes of great power, which enlarge them so that they can be seen and studied, they have the appearance of minute rod-like bodies having, when active, some power of motion. They bend in the middle like a bow and straighten with a jerk that sends them a few times their own length. At the temperature of the human body they are the most active. Their power of increase or reproduction is remarkably great. One germ in a few weeks' time, under favorable conditions, will give rise to millions. The process is by simple growth and division. Cold destroys or prevents their growth, and this is why refrigera/v# mnoto on/1 a4Kah nni UUii |JIC VC11U5 UCU?J Ui lucaw auu utuoi ummal foods. Exposed to warmth these small organisms attack and eat up the albuminous tissues, leaving a foul mass. The odors 60 common to this process are given off by these minute organisms,and is about the only indication of their presence. This is the warning of nature and it is an instinct to avoid all such smells. The foul breath, bad odors of old i ores, etc., leads man to avoid these germs in a great measure. The danger of their presence in the body can be imagined when their rapid increase is considered. A few germs may be readily absorbed into the system by breathing air containing them. They are thus drawn into the interior of the body through the long and narrow respiratory passnges of the throat, chest and nose, which are lined with soft membrane and covered with 6ticky mucm. In this fluid they hnd ready lodgment and favorable conditions for development, increase and growth. The "cold" or catarrh, oza>na or chronic catarrh, hay fever, etc., are common manifestations of the effects of one of the least harmful of these germs or viicrozymes. In the discharges from the respiratory passages at such times thousands of the living animalcukeare fount'. The fever, debility, pains "in the bones/' iwao Ul GLV>?y (UC tUUitauvua w*. bUVA* depressing effects upon the vital organs. It is from germs of slower development, however, that the greatest danger follows. To the one most fully described by Kocn is due more deaths than to any other known cause. According to the researches of Cotter, Flint and Dejerin'k, over eight million people die every year from this cause alone. The annual deaths in France, England, Germany and Russia from their destruction was over one and a half millions. In the United States and Canada over three hundred thousand porsons perished in the last year from the bacillus alone. The most common disease resulting from it is consumption of the lungs, but other organs of the body are liable to bo affected as they develop slowly but surely in any organ that may be in a weak or unhealthy state. If active and healthy, the liver, kidneys and bowels have to a wonderful extent tho power of expelling the^o deadly animalcule or parasites from tho system. And this fact furnishes an important indication for the successful treatmeut of all the long list of maladies caused by these parasites as will be hereinafter shown. The studies of Lancisca, an eminent Italian, and Wood, Fobmad and others, are interesting, as showing tho large variety of chronic diseases as heretofore classified, that result from these germs. Among the most common were "liver con^plaint," biliousness or torpid liver, dyspepsia or indigestion, lung affections. bronchitis, kiduey diseases, chronio diarrhea, spinal complaint, fever-sores, white swellings, hip-joint disease, rheumatism, malarial diseases, such as fever and ague or intermittent fever, general and nervous debilities, female weaknesses, chronic catarrh of the head or ozsena, many forms of unhealthy discharges from internal organs, and all the various scrofulous affections of the skin, glands, bones, joints, etc., including consumption, which is but scrofulous disease of the lungs. In this large catalogue of apparently widely differing diseases, but really all depending upon a common cause, and therefore naturally to be successfully treated on the same general principle?, examination of the blood and secretions revealed largo numbers of these parasites, and curiously enough the number bore a direct relation to the severity of the disease, a comparatively small number being present in mild cases and a very ? i j largu prujjuriiuxi iu uau woco. cuuci mc uog of the specific treatment which they give, niid which is substantially the same as that described and recommended later in this review, the number was seen to steadily diminish from day to day until, with the restoration of health and bodily strength, they could not be found at all. The groatest variety of symptoms wore found to accompany their presence, duo to peculiarities of the constitution, the part of the body most seriously affected, and the efforts of the different organs to rid the system of these germs. Among tho most common were frequent headaches, neuralgic pains, nausea, constipation, poor or variable appetites, diarrhea, bad breath, hectic fever, cough, night-sweats, cold extremities, dyspepsia, catarrh, sore throat, sore eyes, etc., while where tho skin was affected, salt-rheum, boils, carbuncles, scurf skin, erysipelas, St. Anthony's fire and other symptoms weio common, and all gradually but with certainty were cured by the same means. Tho hectic fe\e;' so often met with in consumption, with the hacking or tearing cough, night sweats, diarrhea, and other symptons duo to the efforts of nature to throw off and expel these germs wore also readily controlled and cured in the samo way as were tho old sores, abscesses and ulcers in the lungs, liver and other im portant orgaus. The corrosive acids and mineral poisons are found to possess the power of killing these germs, but the dangerous nature of snch powerful agents prevent their internal use. For the purpose of expelling the germs when onco within the system it is necessary to resort to vegetable remedies in order to cloanse the blood of the germs without injury to tho patient. An American physician of large experience in tho treatment of all forms of chronic diseases, now conclusively shown to bo caused by parasitic life, for many years devoted much time to the investigation of the iiiTnf?h'nnc Jim! in incut of many thousands of eases doveioped and thoroughly tested u combination of vegetable agents which he used with marvelous success in their cure. In cases of wasting disease, as consumption or scrofula of tho lungs and other organs, and in all cases attended with great weakness, it was found to exert the most wonderful tonic and restorative intluences, hesido its nutritive properties far surpass those of cod liver oil or any of tho remedial agents resorted to by the medical profession in such cases, llypophosphites, iron and quiniuo bear 110 comparison to it in building tip the strength of tho debilitated. Tho recipe, as advised by him, ha.; been used for years with the greatest success in avast and most successful practice. Tho written experience of (ho many sufferers who have bi on cured and who express in terms of tho highest praise their indorsement of its great value, are sullicient to till volumes. Living witnesses are everywhere, monuments to modern genius and scientific progress in the healing art. Sufforers from "liver complaint," giving riso to "bad.blood," consumption, scrofula, and othor affections and symptoms, the results of blcod poisoning from the ravages of the deadly parasites or disease germs so briefly referred to, find in this emedy prompt relief and a permanent cure. L'he great and increasing demand for this 3od-given and peerless remedy for so many ipparently different, but really kindred, ailnents, led to its preparation in pure and :onvonient form under tho name of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It can >e obtained the world over at drug and geniral stores, and full directions for its use cill be found in the pamphlet that surrounds iach bottle. It exorts tho most wonlerful stimulating and invigorating influence on the liver, that greatest gland of the human System, wwcn Has been not inaptly termed the ''housekeeper of our health." Through the increased action of the liver and other etnunctory organs of the system, all poisonous germs are renderod inactive and gradually expelled from the system with other impurities. In some cases, where there are unhealthy discharges, as from the nostrils in cases of either acute or chronic caiarrby the use of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, a mild and healing antiseptic lotion, should be associated tfith the use of the Discovery. It is also advisable to use this lotion in other local manifestations of disease of mucous surfaces. By this means the germs of disease are destroyed and the inembranes cleansed before any of the poisonous bacilli are absorbed into the blood. In Bore throat, quinsy or diphtheria, the Catarrh Remedy liquid should be used as a gargle, and the Golden Medical Dis covery taken freely. In women where weakness of special organs is common and almoft certain to be developed, attended by backache, bearingdown sensations and other local symptoms, the nse of Dr. Pierc6's Favorite Prescription in conjunction with that of the Discovery, speedily restores the healthy functions and assists in building up and invigorating the system. In any case where the bowels have been costive and are not regulated and acted upon sufficiently by the mild laxative properties possessed by the Golden Medical Discover/, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets (litMe liver pills), taken in small doses of only one or two eacn day, will aid materially in establishing healthy action, and in expelling the disease-producing germs from the blooa and system. At the risk of repetition and by way of recapitulation, wo may truthfully say that Gqlden Medical Discovery cures all humors, from the worst scrofula to a common blotch, pimple or eruption. Erysipelas, salt-rheum, fever sores, scaly or rough skin, in short, all diseases caused by disease germs in the blood, are conquered by this powerful, purifying and invigorating medicine. Great eating ulcers rapidly heal under its benign influences. Especially has it manifested ite potency in curing tetter, rose rash, boils, carbuncles, sore eyes, scrofulous soreB and swellings, white swellings, goiter or thick neck and enlarged glands. "The blood is the life." Thoroughly olease this fountain of health by using Golden Medical Discovery, and good digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength and soundness of constitution are established. f!nnsnmntinn. which is scrofulous digeaffl of tho lungs induced by the deadly disease germ bacillus, is promptly and i>ositively arrested and cured by this sovereign remedy, if taken before the last stapes of the disease are reached. From its wonderful power over this terribly fatal disease, when first offering this now worldrfamed remedy to the public, Db. Piebce thought favorably of calling it his " consumption cure," but abandoned that name as too restrictive for a medicine that from its wonderful combination of germdestroying, as well aa tonic or strengthening, alterative or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, diuretic, pectoral and nutritive properties ii unequaled, not only as a remedy for consumption of the lungs, but for all chronic diseases of the liver, blood, kidneys and lungs. If you feel dull, drowsy, debilitated, have sallow color of skin, or yellowish brown spots on face or body, frequent headache 01 dizziness, bad taste in mouth, internal heat or chills, alternated with hot fashes, low spirits and gloomy forebodings, irregulai appetite and tongue coated, you are suffering from indigestion, dyspepsia, and torpid livei or " biliousness." In many cases only pari of these symptoms are experienced. Ab b remedy for all such cases, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has no equal, as it effects perfect and radical cures. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, shorl breath, consumptive night sweats and Irindred affections, it is a sovereign remedj. Ii the cure of bronchitis, severe coughs anc consumption, it has astonished the medical faculty, and eminent physicians pronounce ii the greatest medical discovery of the age The nutritive properties possessed by co< liver oil are trifling when compared wit! those of the Golden Medical Discovery. Ii rapidly builds up the system and increase! the flesh and weight of those reduced belov the usual standard of health by wasting diseases. The nlan of treatment that we have s< briefly outlined in this article for the largi class of chronic diseases referred to, has lonf been acknowledged to be the most success ful, based as it is upon the belief shared bj the most skillful medical men of the day that tho only way to get rid of the nor ious disease-producing germs in the bloot and system is through the liver, kidneys ant bowels, and therefore that those agenti ' 1 ? X 1- ?X _ Af wnicn are Known 10 act most eminently m restoring healthy action of these organs are th< ones most to be relied upon. For this pur pose the Golden Medical Discovery is preeminently the agent that fulfills every incuca tion of treatment required. Amusements in Persia. On the first day of the year the gov ernors of the provinces make thei y presents to the king of Persia, at Tehe ran, which are accompanied by variou sorts of games and pastimes. M. Tan coigne, who was at Teheran in 1880 thus describes them: First came mei running on stilts of more than twent; feet high; others performing feats o strength and balancing, turning on th slack rope, or carrying on their head a pile of earthen pots, surmounted witl a vase of flowers; then dancing an< combats of rams, which were excitei against each other. These exercises were followed b; rope-dancing, performed by two younj children. The rope was of hair am consequently less flexible than a hempei one; being strained on two trestles o more than forty feet in neignt, it aa cended almost imperceptibly as high a the top of the king's kiosk. After hav ing made several gambols with the aa sistance of poles, on the part of th rope which was horizontal, one of th two dancers, ten years old at most mounted as higli as the terrace whic] crowns the pavilion and then descende< backward from a height of more thai eighty feet. We remarked with pleas ure that several men placed beneatl the cord, followed all the movements o the child, ready to receive him in j large blanket, if his foot had happene< to have slipped. We did not supposi the Persians were capable of such ai attention, especially in the king's pres ence. These dancers are called in Per sian djanbaz, meaning one who play or risks his soul. This expression contemptuous in itself, intimates tha ^ it !- ^in/?Aiiro?orl 1M games 01 tills Kinu aio uio^uuiugvu religion; and is nearly synonymou: with that of excommunication, witl which our actors were once compli mented. Naked men, armed with maces, ant wrestlers appeared afterward befori the king. The first resembled savages they struck their clubs together with out injuring each other. It was noi so with the second, their combats hav ing something hideous and revolting The conqueror, that is to say, he wh< succeeded in throwing his adversary on his back, went to the foot of th< kiosk to receive a piece of money whirl the king threw down to him. Fire ? ~ /loonrinf Inn Qlip WOrKS 01 H SJJlCuum uwuifvivu ceedecl; and the next d iy was appro priated to horse-racing. National Capital Honses. There are more red brick, Queec Anne houses in Washington than in any city of its size in the world, perhaps. (Jray stone, once popular, has almost disappeared as a building material, although there are magnificent quarries in Maryland from which the stone for the various public buildings was cut. The Washingtonians, like Newport people, have amalgamated town and country. So far, there is an abundance of elbow-room here. Odd, many-windowed, peaked and pointed red brick houses on pretty terraces are to be found on every street, especially in the new part of the town. Ten thousand dollars buys a house, not only .esthetic and modern, but admirably located in Washington. Desirable houses may be had for less, but$10,000 allows considerable latitude in the selection." The water rent on such a house is from $8 to $10 a year, and the taxes probably $100, gas $2 per 1,000 feet?by which it will be seen that one Mn 1!v^ in AVnshinfrton on what it would probably cost to keep a carriage in New York. A Nail in His Brain. Tlio physicians in one of the hospitals of Vienna have made the remarkable discovery in dissecting the body of one of their patients that he had carried about in his brain an iron n;iil covered with rust, that to. all appearances must have held its singular lodgment since early childhood. The man was forty-live years of age, a bookbinder, and always passed for a thoroughly intelligent person. The nailfn his brain did not seem to affect his mental powers in any particular. There is probably no case on record to parallel this. Cheese-making on the factory system is about to be undertaken on a' large scale in Canada by Mr. George Morton, who is stated to have apportioned out 224 farms into holdings of 1% acres each, each of which he will stock with liirfv rnw? \ nnmnv-orjniGw niilroad l,,llV vv/ " *" - " n o ? will run through the entire e itate. A station will he built on each faim. liy these means the whole of th<? milk c;m he curried to one central factory twice a day. This is the largest undertaking of the kind tnat has ever been projected. Trbeh Americans quite famous' for tfcehr love of cdrnbread were George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee. _ Ftr Thick Heada, . Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions?Welle* May Apple Pills?antibilious.cathartio. 1025o Compare the <Iom and qoantitv of Hood's Sarsaparilla and you have conclusive proof ei its superior strength and cheapness. Try it. Wells' Health Benewer restores health,vigor, r cureeDyspfepfiia, Impotence, SeranlDebility.$l A To make new hair grow use Carboline, a odori^ed extract of petroleum. This natural \1'. , petroleum hair renewer,as recently improved, is the only thins that will really produce new hair. It is a delightful dressing. Don't Die la th? House. "Rough on Rats." Clean out rats, mice, roaches, bed bugs, flies, ants, moles, chipmunks, gophers. 15c. Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffener the only invention that makes old boots straight as new. The best fitting collars aud cuffs you ean get are the Chrolithiou. Now for sale at ''1 first-class stores. Why don't you use St. Patrick's Salvol Try it Use it 25c. at all druggists. The Rev. Dr. Knox, of Elmira, N. Y., has in his congregation four ex-congressman. 1 __ ,..u }A., Jl 1 THOUGH SALT RHEUM Ooe? not directly tomeril life. H is a distrseefnl. ym. tlous and rejointe complaint. Patient eadaranoe of Vt? numerous very small watery pimple*, hot and rnartlnr, require* trie fortitade. If the diacharjtwl matter sticks, itches, and (he scabs leave underneath reddened sor? face, the disease ha* sol departed, and Hood's Sana* parllla, in moderate doses, should be continued. FAMOUS CASE IN BOSTON. "Ity little four-year-old (iri bad a powerful eruption on her face afid head. Under her eye* it wu regular soaldlng red and tore, like a born. Back of bar left ear we had to shave her hair close to her bead. Five or six physicians and two hospitals rare op ber case as incurable, save that she might outgrow It. When it began to maturate I became alarmed. In three weeks, with Hood'a SanapuilU, the sores began to heal; two bottle# made ber eyea as clear aa ever. To-day she is aa weO a* lam." JOHN CARET, 164 D Street, Sooth Boston. ATTEST: I know John Carey. He ia an honest, good man, whoee statements are worthy of entire credit. 1 believe what be aays about his child's slcka?s. ' CLUITON H. COOK, Milk Street; Boston* ;7'> HOOD'S HARSAPARILLA. Sold by Druggists. $1; six for $&. Prepared only hf '.a V. I. HOOP de CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Haas. "Beat Cough Balaam la the WotW." Ttrtt. Price 10c. F. W. KjmsmakA Co.. Angnsto. Mum, A Jlruve nail Faithful Guardian of OaT Home* and Property Rescaed from Im- j ninent Peril. A very popular and well-known member of onrpoleo force, who has performed duty twelve yeanat lbs Union 11. K. Depot, on Exchange Place, in Providmoo, B.I.. SiV':S bis unsolicited testimony. Hear bin: '' I have boon dreadfully troubled with Gimme of the Kidney and Liver during the past six months; at times I 1 was so cevorely afflicted that I was unable to stand on my feet, as uy foot and lower parta of my legs were very - -Tq I badly swollen; ray urinary organs were in a dreadful ooo- .1 : i dittos, my blood was in a ft retched state, and it bad lecome so impoverished and circulated so pooriyflwl my hands and feet would be cdi and numb and so whito at to appear lifeless. I could not rect nights, bat wm? so distressed all overthat I could not lie still ia fee^ but J " would keep taming and rolling from one tide to tiwrthsr all night, so that I would feel more tiled and mrhnwtwt ,n the morning than when I went to bed. Mycoaditios , wCCAmo so Bcnoas mat 1 wu oougvu w mwy ?m&, mm ; for thirty days 1 wis unable to be on dnty. I consulted t'jo best doctor*, and tried the numerous medicines and ' toe*)led cures, bat rapidly grew worse, and wss in a 1 sod condition every way when a lorn-time valued frimd of mine, prominent In this city in a largo utw con* pany, urged mo to try Hunt's Remedy, as he bad known of wonderfnl cures effected by it. Upon his repmenta' lion 1 obtained two bottles of the Remedy and con*. mencod taking it as directed, and gre&tly to my surpriso t In leas than twenty-four hoar* 1 commenced to feei n1 lleved. I was in an awful condition when I began la 1 take the Remedy, and had no faith in it; therefore, when t I found almost immediate relief, even in oMdaAm of it, my heart was made glad, and I assure yon I eon* , ? | tinued to tako the Remedy and to improve oonstantly j frora day to day. I took it with me on my trip to Xafaw, ; i for I was bound to have it with me all the time, and tha ^ resultls thutl improved speedily all the time I was away; : : indeTer since my arrival home, which wis several weeks ' ago, I have been on duty every day. I feel first rate, am) V.^Ug f (lie swelling of hand, feet and lega bar* disappeared, -"'-fa snd the terriblebackaohe whichnsedtobotherasaoi* 1 than all the rest, troubles me no mors, and I sleep V* w? 3 splendidly nights, and surely have very small?t sod ? forcible reasons for speiking in praiae of Hant'sBegMdy, fir it has made a new man of me. I doct knowwkatj I should have done without Hunt's Remedy: it is the best medic',c e that 1 ever took, and I very gladly win > mend it to all who are afflicted with Kidney oc liver disease, or diseases of the Urinaryorgans. > .* ] ' Respectfully. HjlAO W. FAUUUOrKMM." ! |g?gj THE GREAT GERHAH * ? 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