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ON THE EDGE OF THE MARFH' L IN NOVEMBER. Dead sienna and rusty gold F Tell the year on the marsh is old. Blackened and bent, the sedges shrink Back from the sea-pool's frosty brink, f Low in the west a wind-cloud lies, Tossed and wild in the autumn skies. Over the marshes, mournfully, ^ Drifts the sound of the restless sea. IN JUNE. Fair and green is the marsh in June: Wide and warm in the sunny noon. The flowering rushes fringe the pool With slender shadows, dim and cool. From the low bushes " Bob White " calls Into his nest a rose-leaf falls, jj> >, The blue-flag fades; and through the heat? Far off. the sea's faint pulses beat. ?.Visa .4.-4. Bassett, in Harper's. OUR HOSTESS'S DAlUIIILli. I " Come," I said, rising anil throwing aside my book?" come. Traverse, we have had work enough for one day. gpj^G,. Let us take a sunset walk on the old ramparts, and have our tea at that B||p* charming little rtstaurant under the ?&>?.' beeches." Traverse took a last lingering look Bjp"ltt his sketch, then carefully set back the easel against the wall, and we _ descended tlie stair from our apartments on the upper floor, where we enjoyed a view of the housetops of 9r&' the quaint little town of Xeureide, on raB&the banks of the wide and winding "Stop a moment," Traverse said, as ' we reached the first floor. " We will flEfft' see if there are any letters. I desired Bp:? the Frau Hansing not to bring them up hereafter, for, good woman though fci:;." *8he is, her talk is rather ovorpowerESpEE-. We had been recommended to Frau ?0^.* Uansing's lodgings by a fair cousin of my own who was visiting same halfHE|p~ .English, half-German relatives near g?^il5Bonn. PKPa- "it you Stop UL fuicmr, *>.?i wrote, "my relative, Madame Kstorf, mJ^S desires me to say that you will find excellent lodgings with Fran Ilansing, ??^l?tfan old and faithful servant of hers, who will make you very comfortable." And, despite Frau Ilansing's love of talking, of which Traverse mildly complained, we had found the promise amply fulfilled, and had so far no cause to regret oar choice of lodgings. The old lady opened the door in answer to Traverse's light tap. and her plump, rosy face assumed an expression "of commiseration and sympathy. "Ah, mein Ihrr. so sorry ! No letters to-day?though," she added, cheerfully, in tier broken English, on which she prided herself. " Likely there will becomes much letters one day, to-morrow, and then the Herr shall rejoice to his full contentment to hear from his ; Over her shoulder I saw that she Kggfe' "had decorated her little sitting-room HSwwith flowers and evergreens. " You are expecting company, Frau "Ah, yes, mein Herr; but it is only my little Bertha?my daughter, who Mmnnninn tn Madame Estorf. A Ignice, dear little girl, and my only ? And the old lady's eyes shone with pride and delight as she thus spoke of gher daughter: f; "She is with madame, who is now ^at Rudesheim, cnavisit; and,its being | so near, madame has kindly consented | to her coming to us for one week. She ? is very clever and pretty, is my little 3 Bertha, though it is I who say it; for, I was she not brought up by madame, and in great part with madame's own } granddaughter, the Fraulein Estorf? i It was very kind of them to treat my j little Bertha so well; but. then, I my? self was nurse to the poor little grand! daughter when her own mother died. | "Well, she is a great heiress now, as the Herr knows." [ It was true that my Cousin Julia, in describing the family in which she was now staying, had more than once alluded to this Fraulein Estorf. She was granddaughter of the old madame of the same name, and was the real owner of the estate on which they resided near Bonn, with the handsome chateau and the valuable vineyards adjoining. Beyond this, I knew nothing of the Fraulein Estorf; though the probability was that I might some time meet her, as in this our summer's holiday-trip Traverse and I were slowly making uur way up the Rhine toward Bonn?which was, in fact, the objective point ot my travels; ior i must let the reader into the secret of my engagement to my fair English cousin, Julia. That evening, returning rather late from our al fresco tea, we observed Frau Hansing's door half open, and . the tall, graceful figure of a young girl standing under the hanging-iamp reading a letter. ' That must be Bertha," said Traverse, his artist's eye instantly attracted. "Let us see what she is like." " Any letters yet, Fraa Ilansing ?" p he inquired, peering into the room; and the girl turned around quickly, displaying a lovely, piquant, brunette |fpv face, with dark, eyes and delicate - cherry-red lips. "Frau Hansing is out," she said, p' modestly. "I beg your pardon. You are the 1^^ Fraulein Bertha V" said Traverse, ze g solved, as it seemed, to make htr ac~ quaintance, and at the same time lifting his hat with graceful courtesy. "Yes," she answered, with some surms. prise and also a certain reserve. Hs&S "Excuse me; but I knew you were expected. And since the Frau Ilan? sing is absent, will the Fraulein lie jjf; good enough to give me my letters, if there are any?'' ? I had passed up the stairs, and it was 'f fully five minutes before my friend ! ' joined me. & "What a charming little.creature is B our landlady's daughter!" he said, quite enthusiastically. "Such lovely features, e and so much expression! And then one can see that she has been brought I up with cultured and refine;! people. Really, there is something about her B' quite magnetic." 't\ So indeed it appeared, judging from ? the frequency with which, on the fola lowing day, my friend journeyed up L-t and down the stairs, at first anxious to ?r receive letters and then on some v, newly-discovered business which ne% cessitated frequent inquiries at the j door of Frau llansing's rooms. More , than once, in passing this door, I j beheld him seated on our landlady's horsehair sofa, engaged in an animated y conversation with Bertha. "Do you know," said he, with the c air of one communicating an important discovery, " that the Fraulein is ;is intelligent and accomplished as she is t "i _ ? :A_. ti.nt oeauuiuir ? u<ii/ a pity wmu one is only our landlady's daughter!" Thus the week passed. For -nyself, I only saw Bertha in the evenings. She certainly was a charming girl, refined and ladylike, though dressing in a simple bourgeoise style, and engaging, as we had opportunity of observing, in occupations not above her stationsuch as knitting stockings for her mother and assisting the old lady in household duties, even to cooking and cleaning. That she did not do this at the chateau she acknowledged. Her business there was to walk out with and read to the old madame, even to sing and play for her; and she played uncommonly well, as we had oppor tunity for observing. "It is unfortunate," I remarked, "that the girl has been educated above her station. She is superior to marrying a common bourgeoise, and is not yet fitted for a higher rank by reason of her family." "That is true," said Traverse, slowly. "Now, for instance, if I were to think of marrying Bertha, charming and ladylike though she is, my whole family would be down upon me; and, t in fact," ho add<d, hesitatingly, "I don't thinl* 1 could bring myself to take such a step. I shall require good birth in the woman whom I marry." " Then hadn't you better break off at once with the Fraulein B?rtha? It seems to me that you are carrying this matter too far not to give it a serious ... u She is going away in a day or 4 wo," he annwered, rather dolefully. And she did go. "We saw her brok V into the stage which was to take htr back to Hudesheim and Madame EsW-. . torf, and, judging from her bright face' and laughing adieux, she carried away a heart as whole as she had brought to Xeureide. But with my friend it was different, and from the hour of her departure lie became restless and dissatisfied. "We consequently soon resumed our pilgrimage up the Rhine. stopping here and there wherever we found anything specially picturesque or interesting to afford a subject for our amateur pencils. It was on September 1 that we reached Bonn. Leaving my friend at a hotel, I lost no time in making my way to the Chateau Kotherberg, about two English miles from the town, where I had the great delight of being greeted by Julia, looking fairer and sweeter, i thought, than I had ever before seen her. Madame Estorf also accorded me a most kindly welcome, and on learning that I was accompanied by a friend, insisted upon our both dining with her on the following day. When I mentioned to Julia our meeting with Madame Estorf's pretty ' i- - 1 .! i i companion at x\eumut\ sue i;:ugneu merrily. "She is the most arrant of little coquettes, that Bertha Ilansing," she said. "My cousin has quite spoiltd her, and so indeed has the Fraulein Estorf. Nut she is a good girl, nevertheless, and I don't wonder that her mother is so proud of her." 4 Where is this Fraulein Estorf?" I inquired. "I will introduce you to-morrow. She is not nearly so pretty, in my opinion, as little Bertha," she added, lightly, "but then she is an heiress, and I confess that were I not so certain of your not being of a mercenary nature, 1 should be afraid to expose you to such a temptation. As it is, I shall insist upon your bringing your friend, since you describe him as so hand-ome and fascinating. That will deprive you of all chance of making an impression upon the heiress," she concluded, mischievously. On taking leave, -Julia and Madame Estorf's nephew, a youth on a vacation visit, accompanied me on a private path through the grounds. The scenery was lovely and the view from the highest point of the shaded terrace-1 way fine beyond description, and so I told Traverse on my return to the hotel. " I will accompany you to-morrow as far as that point," he said, "as it may add a subject to my portfolio; but 1 must decline the madaine's hospitable invitation. To tell you the truth, Elliott, I don't dare expose myself to the possibility of again meeting Bertha Hansing.'' I rather approved of the resolution; so on the following day we left our conveyance at the entrance to the grounds and proceeded along the terraced pathway toward the chateau. At the point of view already mentioned was a little round, open pavilion, upon reaching I which, imagine our surprise to behold seated there, in a comfortable wheeled chair, old Madame Estorf, and by her side our landlady's daughter, the fair Bertha, reading to the old lady from a French novel. It was too late to retreat; so we came forward with all possible dignity, and I formally presented my friend to madame, who, in her turn, quietly remarked: "1 think you and Bertha "have met before." Denna uiuMiru iu uci kul tcmpica, but glanced up with a demure, halfroguish smile. Even to me she looked more charming than ever, being dressed more richly and becomingly than I had yet seen her. " This is a favorite haunt of ours," explained the old lady. " 13ut the sun is getting uncomfortably warm, and it is high time that Peter should come for me." Peter did presently appear, and as he leisurely wheeled his mistress homeward, 1 walked by her side, leaving Traverse and Bertha to follow. On arriving at the chateau, madame, accompanied by her companion, went away to attend to her toilet, she said, and Traverse and I were for a few moments left alone in the saloon. " It is all up with me, Eliott," he said, in a low voice, but with singular firmness. "It is an unworthy pride, after all, which would lead a man to sacrifice the woman he loves to aristocratic prejudice. I now know that I do really love Bertha; and if she will have me I will marry her. She is a perfect lady in all but birth." It was no time for remonstrance. Julia's step was in the hall, and afterward Madame Estorf again made her appearance, arrayed en grand toilet for dinner. "Shall wpsee the Fraulein Hansincr again?'' I ventured to whisper to Julia, but madame's quick ear had caught the question. "The Fraulein llansing will not appear at dinner," she said, quietly; "but I will introduce you to my granddaughter, Fraulein Kstorf. Ah, here she is, in good time!" A graceful, elegant girl, richly dressed in silk and lace, stood In the doorway. Could it he possible? This young lady was certainly our landlady's daughter. There were the same regular features, the same roguish eyes, though her manner was now one of more stately dignity. Traverse stood as if petrified. But the young lady came forward and offered her hand to both of us, with a charming air of archness and grace. " l'ou have known me before as your landlady's daughter," she said. "That was your own fault in the first instance and not mine. 1 am Bertha Estorf." It did not take long to explain the mvsterv. "The Fiiiu ITansing is my fostermother," said the young lady, "and when I go toNeureide, as I sometimes do on business for my grandmother, I stay at her house. She was expecting her daughter on the occasion when I met you, but grandmamma concluded to send me and allow Bertha to visit her mother later. I did not know of -you gentlemen being at Neureide, .and since it pleased you to take me for your landlady's daughter, I thought it best to humor you in the fancy. Isn't that sufficient explanation, grandmamma:1" she added, with a charming smile as she turned toward the old lady. " Quite sullicient for the present. We were all in the secret, my little Knglish cousin included," she said, glancing at .Julia, whose eyes were sparkling with delight through the half-deprecating look which she cast at me " You will forgive my deceit, won't you V" she whispered, as we proceeded down the long gallery to dinner. "But it seemed such fun! A real plot, such as we read of in novels. And, do you know," she added, lower still, " I think it will end as novels do, in a marriage!" "In two marriages," I corrected her. And, as it turned out, my prediction was fulfilled. I and my wife pay a visit every summer to tne tnateau ltotneroerg, and admire Mrs. Traverse's embroidery and her husband's pictures. And which is ihe happiest couple perhaps the reader would find it difiicult to decide. The First Bowie-Knife. James Bowie and two younger brothers emigrated from Maryland and settled in Mississippi, near Natchez, in 1825. They were men of means and well educated. They opened up a cotton plantation. But James Bowie ' was naturally of a roving disposition, and was particularly fond of hunting. , In those days it w<is no trouble to find game, and consequently James was in , his element. He whittled out of a piece ; of cypress what he thought would be | a good model for a hunting-knife, and | had a blacksmith named Allison, in Natchez, to make him one from his model. This was the first bowieknife. This I believe to be a true history of this noted knife. lie thought t it so perfect for what he intended it i for that he took out a patent for it, I and sold the right to a Philadelphia Sl firm, who flooded the country with a these knives. s The celebrated fight in which four t men weie killed, including a brother 1 of James Bowie, which occurred on the Willow bar, and in which tradition says the bowie-knife was so freely used, happened in 1829, two years be- ? fore the knife was invented. James 1 Bowie was killed at the taking of 1 I Alamo, in 1836.?Louisville Courier- 1 Journal, < WISE WORDS. Comparison, more than rcalitj, makes men happy, and can make them wretched. True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. The sister of temperance is not she who stands idle, but she who goes straight forward to the work. Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set. Whoever has a contented mind has all riches. To him whose foot is inclosed in a shoe, is it not as though the earth were carpeted with leather? It is so much pleasant or to have imaginary enemies than to recognize one's own incapacity for any task undertaken, that the delusion is always maintained. Life ha< no wretchedness equal to an ill-assorted marriige; it is the sepulchre of the heart, haunted by the gliosi (>x pure iuiiaIp u:i?, huu hmjjm gi ne forever. Our happiness depends less upon the ;:rt of pleasing than upon a uniform disposition to please. The difference is that which exists between ceremony anil sincerity. Our fellow-creatures can judge of what we are only from what we do; but in the eye of our Maker what we do is of no worth except as it llows from what we are. What we call miracles and wonders (>f art are mt so to him who created them; for they were created by the natural movements of his own gnat soul. Statues, paintings, churches, poems, are but shadows of himself. Animals Exterminate! by Man, That animals have 1 eeome extinct within tnnes < a I' d historic is shown in an interesting paper from Mr. (.'. F. Holder. In the last century t ie lsl.indoi' St. Helena, which had become covered with goats, had been from year to year denuded of its young trees with such ra, d.ty that the wooded country finally lost Jill its trees and became a pa ture land. A multitude of in e.ts had been dependent upon these trees, and in consequence they diid, among them b;ing sight species of lancl-snails, which were peculiar to nit; isiaim, anu ?ue u m entirely extinct. On our own shores examples of extermination are common, a notable one being the oysterbeds ence frequent on tii?; shorts of Maine. Mr. Holder places upon man the responsibility for the extinction of larger animals, including the mammoth, remains of which have been found in France in company with p:e;:es of ivory bearing rude drawings of the animal. El33\vh< re have been found in the same place the human jaw and the boms of i,!ie great cavebear. So late as 174'2, on Behring's Island lived vast herds cf sea-cows, but "warfare was waged against tliem by all comers with such effect that twenty-seven years later they were nearly extinct, and now not one exists." While this seems incredible, it remains also true that unless there is government intervention, "the seabears of the far North will soon be extinct." Xo less remarkable has been the disappearance of the gigantic pigeon bird commonly called the dodo. This 1 ird was extremely common in Mauritius when the Portuguese discovere 1 that island : " The dodo was undoubtedly many times sent to Europe alive. Sailors, I'nfnfmiul bill fl f'pjn t.n nlif:iin nu (VIC/ 1U1V1IUVU) n?M' u V..V.W w. the stones in their crops, upon which to sharpen their knives, and finally t! ey totally disappeared?u lew j>ictures, si foot in th Erit:sh museum, a head and f<ot at Oxford, a perfect skull at ('openhagen, and a fragmentary piece at Prague being all that is left to att. st the reality < f the existence of tip; king of the pigeons, the last of whi' h were probal ly destroyed in the beginningof the eighteenth century.' About ltalhiug. The H?*yal Humane society of London has published a list of cautions to bathers, which may well be referred to the attention (if our readers, at this ! season when bathing, either in salt or fresh water, will be freely practiced. Theiulesare rot new, but practicsil and valuable, as follows: ( Avoid bathing within two hours after a meal. Avoid bathing wh n exhausted by fatigue or from any other cause. Avoid bathing whin the bo;ly is cooling after perspiration. Avoid bathing a together in the open air if, after having been a short time in the water, it causes a sense of chilliness with numbness 01 me nanus and feet. liathe when the body is warm, provided no time is lost in getting into the water. Avoid cUlling the body by sitting ; or standing undressed on the banks or in boats after having be n in the water. Avoid remaining too long in the , water?It ave the water immediately il there is the slightest feeling of ch.lli* ness. The vigorous and strong may bathe eirly in the morn ng on sin empty stoma h. The young, and those who are weak, had better bathe two or three hours after a meal?the best time for such is from two to tin ee hours aft^r breakfast. Those who are subject to attacks o? giddiness or faintness, and those who suffer from palpitation an I other sense of discomfort at the heart, should not liathe without first consulting their medical adviser. Reminiscences of the Chicago Fire loionei ?j. C'. J^HOIUU, UI Viutiigu, m an .address upon the great lire, estima'ed the number of live, lost :n that awful di aster to be oUO. On Tuesday, October 10, there were 100 000 people homeless, but within a week 333 ca~-loads ot provisions and clothing were received, and thenceforward a steady sticum of relief poured in from all parts of the world. The relief society handled $>,000,000, every J dollar of which was accounted for. ( There were 0.242 families assisted by the society. In these families vcre 156,5)08 person--, of whom all but 21,002 were foreigners. Of the goods , received then; wen? 7G/HH) blankets, , 400,(W0 articles of clothing, .'{2,00!),000 pounds of Hour. 23,( 0',< 00 pounds of | meat, 80,00 ) bushels of vege' ables and 15,000 cooking stoves. ') here w< re , 7,083 housts built for people unab'e t > j rebuild with their o vn means. Kvery j jne of these had repaid thes ci< ty the money borrowed for that purpose! Value of a Goldsmith's > !io;>. 1 A pine lloor laid in a gold worker's ill op in ten years becomes worth ?150 1 f ~ i. ? i < per 1001. -v oyraciue jeweser once 1 Oouglit for less than fifty dollars some sweepings that gave $20i3 worth of gold. A tub in his cellar, into which 5.s blown the dust from a polishing lathe, accumulates fifty dollars a year. A workman in his shop carried off on the tip of his moistened linger thirty iollars of fillings in a few weeks. Workmen sometimes oil their hair and '.lien run their fngers through it, leaving a deposit of gold part cles, which r,hey afterward wash out.?tiyracitst Herald. An English physician has designed \n incandescent lamp which lie uses for examination in diseases of the ' mouth and throat. The globe is only half the size of a common walnut, a iil the lamp can be retained in the mouth For two minutes without discomfort from the heat. i * A woman has been sending bananas o her husband who is confined in jail n St. Louis. They were of a very t >eculiar kind, and are deserving of the a Mention of horticulturists. On ex- p imination they were found to contain t aws and files within their pulpy josoms. The imprisoned criminal will lereafter be known by his fruit. t i " Shall we wear a silk hat ?" was the < iubject of a lecture by a Brooklyn divine recently. That is a question which no man can answer. Every J ;hing depends on which way the elec ] tions go.?Philadelphia News. i WITH THE APACHE SCOUTS. 80BXETHIZTG ABOUT THE HTDIAB AX.T.IES OZ7 THE FEOITTIEB. rh)Nlrnl nnd Mentnl Olmrnef crlwtlcn of thb Indian SrontN? How Tlicy Live on the .llnrcb and in Cnnui. A New York Herald correspondent has been traveling with the Apache scouts, advance guides of the United States troops on the Mexican frontier, and wiiting about their peculiarities, he says: Their chests were broad, deep and full; shoulders perfectly straight, limbs well proportioned, straight and muscular, without a suggestion of undue heaviness. Hands and feet are small and taper, but wiry. Their heads are well shaped, and their countenances often lit up with a pleasant, good-natured expression, which would Lie iu(-re constant, perhaps, were it not for the savage, untamed cast imparted by the loose, ciishevele.l, gvp-y locks of raven black, held awav from the face by a broad, (lat band of scarlet cloth. Their eyes are bright, clear and bold, and, if a jittle experience enables one to judge accurati lv, art; frequently exj.ressive of the greatest good humor and satisfaction. I'niforms are issued to them, but donned upon ceremonial occasions only. On the march each wore a loosely-lilting shirt of led, white or gray ^ tuIT, generally of calico in some gaudy figure, but not infrequently the somber article of woolen raiment issued to white soldiers. This came down outside a pair of loose cotton drawers reaching to the moccasins. The moccasins are their mos*. important article of apparel. In a light or on a long march it is said that they will discard all else, but under any and every circuinstance will retain the moccasin. A leather belt encircling the waist holds lVr'y rounds of metallic cartridges, and al-o keeps in place the regulation blue blouse and pantaloons, which are worn upon the person only when the Indian s;out is anxious to "paralv/e" the frontier towns or military posts by a display of all his finery. The other trappings of these savage auxiliaries ate a Springfield hiejc.h-loading rifle, army pattern, a canteen full of water, i butcher knife, an awl in a leather case, a pair of tweezers and a tag. The awl is used for sewinsr moccasins or work of that kind. "With the tweezers the Apache young man caref ully picks out each and every hair appearing upon his face. The tag marks his place in the tribe and is in reality nothing more or les 5 than a revival of a plan adopted during the civil war for the identification of soldiers belonging to the ditTennt corps and divisions. Kacli male Indian at the San Carlos is tagged and numbered and a descriptive lis? corresponding to the tag kept, with a full recital of all his physical peculiarities. The rate of speed attained by the Apaches in marching is about an even four miles an hour on foot or not quite fast enough to mane a horse trot. They keep this up for about fifteen miles, at the end of which distance, if water be encountered and no enemy be sighted, they congregate in bands of ten to fifteen each, hide in some convenient ravine, sit down, smoke cigarettes, chat and joke ami stretch out in the sunlight. If they want to make a little lire they kindle one with matches, if they have any with them ; if not, a rapid twirl between the palms of a hard, round stick, fitting into a circular hole in another stick of softer fiber, will bring fire in forty-five seconds. The scouts also paint the face to prevent the hot winds from blistering it; for this purpose they make use of antelope blood, or the juice of the roasted "mescal" (century plant.) The short mormng rest of the Apaches was broken by the shrill cry of "Choddee ! Choddie!" (Antelope 1 Antelope !) and far away on the left the. dull "slump! slump!" of rides told that the Apaches on that flank were getting fresh meat for the evening meal. Ten carcasses showed that they were not the worst of shots, and your ct rr s; nation t lakes pleasure in asserting that they are not by any means bad cooks. When the command reached camp these restless, indefatigable nomads built in a trice all kinds of rude shelters; those that had tl.e army "dog tents" put them up on frameworks of willow or cottonwood saplings; others, less fortunate, improvised * ? -i? -l 1 ...:a domiciles 01 uraticiiwt, uovcieu mm grass, or of stone and boards and pieces of gunnvsacks. Before these were finished smoke curled gracefully toward the sky from crackling embers, in front of which, transfixed on wooden spits were the heads, hearts and livers of several of the victims of the afternoon's chase. Another addition to the "spolia optima" w;is a cottontail rabbit, run down by these fleetfooted Bedouins of the Southwest. Turkey and quail, it is asserted by those who know, are caught in the same manner. Meantime a couple of scouts are making bread, the light, thin "tortillas" of the Mexicans, hiked quickly in a pan, and not bad eating. Two others are fraternally occupied in preparing their bed for the night. Grass is pulled out by handfuls, laid upon the ground and covered with one blanket, another serving as cover. These Indians, with scarcely un exception, sleep with their feet pointed toward little (ires, which they claim are warm, while the big ones built by the American soldiers' are so hot that they drive people away from them and beside attract the attention of any lurking enemy. At the foot of this bed an Apache is playing upon a home-made "fiddle," fabricated from the stalk of the American aloe. It h.'s four strings and nroduces a sound like the wail of ;i cat with her tail caught in a fence. Enchanted and stimulated by the concord of sweet .sounds, a p;irtv of six is playing fiercely at the Mexican game of " monte," the cards employed being of native manufacture, of horse hide, covered with barbarous figures and well worthy of a place in any museum of curiosities. A Roaring Ice-Storm. A remarkable storm phenomenon is described by a Mississippi planter in a private letter to a commission merchant of New Orleans. According to this letter, which is dated Woodland, Wilkinson county, Miss, the following Dccurrence took place: ' Yesterday ibout 5 o'clock in the evening, we bad tiere a storm, not a hailstorm, not fij wind-storm, but a fearful deluge of ice. Foil may think I exaggerate when 1 tell you that large pieces of ice?some round, some square?fell in my yard, some blocks from three and a half to four inches square. To look out, in.thing could be seen above or below but ice. Houses twenty feet away from mine could not be seen during this pouring of ice, which lasted threejuarters of an hour. " Such a roaring noise I never beard jeforo. If all the guns of Gettysburg, jumpter and Fort Marrancas had been turned loose at once they could not lave produced the sound (f this ice storm. At one time the ice was a foot leep or more in front of my door. It ;ut of? limbs of trees an inch and a lalf thick, tore off all the leaves and ut my corn off even with the ground, [t swept away every stalk of cotton ind cleaned rny garden as clean as four office floor. I have a clover patch near the house, and if a mowng machine had passed over it it :ould not have been cut as close.- At >ne time I feared that the roof of my louse would be crushed in. It was jnough to scare any one. About wenty negroes collected on my galli rv through fright, and could not be inluced to speak a word. All thought ,heir time had come. Fire looks dangerous, but so much ice with such a oar is just as frightful'' Looking: for a Job. "Can you give me a bite o' somehing?" asked a tramp as he stopped it Witherspoon's farmhouse. "I'm a >oor fellow trying to find work at my rade!" "What is your trale?" asked Withirspoon as he set out a big bowl of >read and milk and a couple of doughluts. " Oh, I'm a sailor."?Marathon Inlependen t. A sheep pasture in Texas contains 500,000 acres and feeds 300,000 sheep, [t is believed to be the largest in the vorld. lii mi \ v.. - ' ' ' ' * -"'W-.--A Successful Silk Club. " The Boys' Silk Culture Association of America " has a, large room over a corner store in Philadelphia. You might suppose it to be a large com"Unf Knu rknlt? fivo mpmllAM "When we (idled at their otlice we were fortunate enough to se-1 the president of the association himself, a bright-looking boy of about fourteen years, who explained everything very politely. The center of fie room was occupied by a large stand of about five tiers of trays, made of light wooden frames, with a network of twine on each. Here lay sheets of paper covered with the little grayish egg-, not as big as a pin-head. (;n some the eggs were hatched, and thr? lit.Me brown worms were already feeding on the finely chopped leaves. " This is a very late brood," explained the young silk-culturist. " It is a lot of eggs we sent to Paris for, because we had more orders for eggs than we could fill, and they were delayed." Then he showed us his jars of cocoons, look ng like fra<h peanuts, and the twists of reeled silk, softer, liner and more shining than the most b.autiful golden hair, and a piece of satin, with the initials " B. S. C. A." embroidered on it in silk of "our own make." It n*a? interesting to watch the caterpillars feeding. In the last stage they are smooth and whitish, and two or tlir e inches long. We fancied we could actually hear them chewing, they ate so greedily. "Do they ever sleep?" we asked. " I never saw them at it. And, by the way the leaves disappear during the night, I don't think they take much time for sleep even then." Here a worm in the center of the tray stood up on its tail and waved its head from side to side. " What does that mean ?" we asked -- * l -_i! 1 i O'f " JS lie una OI eaung at iasi<r " Yes; he is ready to spin now," and the hoy carefully dropped the worm intj a paper core, where it at once began to spin its delicate threads and fasten them on the paper. " Some people let them spin on twigs," he added, "but we like the cones better. "We n:a le them in the evenings last wintrr." At one side of the room stood the reel which the boys had invented and made themselves. " You won't find a reel like that anywhere el e," said the president, with pardonalle pride. "When I planned that I had never seen a silkreel." Then he showed us the very firat silk they had reded, and a specimen of the later reelings, which an expert had pronounced equal to the best. The boys had also experimented with chemicals, and bad dyed some of their silk in bright colors. In the corner stood what looked like an old spinning-wheel. "That's a twisting machine," he explained. "A gentleman who visited our place gave it to us to twist our silk on." " Why, really, you do everything here but weave," we could not help remarking. "Yes," said he, "and we are not going to stop till we learn weaving, too." " IIow long have you been interested in silkworms?" we next asked. "About three years." he replied. " Do you find your interest in your silkworms interferes with your studies?" \ve asked. "I never let it," was his reply. " "When I'm in scho?l, I attend to my lecanna- an l wllpn T nm hpTft. I attend to my silkworms. I always keep them separate. We give the worms enough l?aves in the morning to keep them busy till we get hack.'' Who could help admiring such a spirit !?St. Nicholas. Nihilists' Secret Printing Office. 1 went over all the rooms in St. Petersburg in which the work was carried on. The mechanism was extremely simple. A few cases with various kinds of type ; a little cylinder just cast, of a kind of gelatinous substance closely resembling carpenter's glue and somewhat pleasant to smell; a large, heavy cylinder covered with cloth, which served as a press; some blackened brushes and sponges in a pan ; two jars of printing ink. Everything was so arranged that it could be hidden in a quarter of an hour in a large clothes-press standing in a corner of the room. They explained to me the mechanism of the work and smilingly told me of some little artifice which they employed to divert the suspicions of the dvornik who came every day with water, wood, etc. The .system adopted was not that of not allowing him to enter, but precisely the reverse. l'nd>-r various pretexts they made him see the whole of the rooms as oftvn as (Ifof Ti rnA\'Q/l Dl'orv' |JUr*r> U.?J, 111 QV nmv/ivu tiling which could excite suspicion. \Yh n these pretexts failed others were invented. Ueing unable to lind a plausible reason lor him to enter the inner room, MadameKruo.Toneday went and told him there was a rat which must be killed. The dvornik went and certainly f.mnd nothing; but the trick w;is played ; he had seen the whole (if the rooms and could 1 ear ti!. tin ony that there w;is absolutely nothing suspicions in them. Once a month they invariably had people in to clean the lloors of all the rooms. I was assailed by profound melancholy at the sight of all these people. Involuntarily I compared their terrible life with my own and felt overcome with shame. What was our activity in the broad light of a day, amid the excitement of a multitude of friends aud the stir of our daily life and struggles, compared with this continuous sacrifice of their whole existence, wasting away in this dungeon??Philadelphia Pn-fs. A Vegetarian's Experience. A vegetarian reports to the British Medical Journal the result of his year's experience without meat. At first he found the vegetables insipid, and had to use sauces and pickles to get them down. As soon as he became accustornrd to the diet all condiments were set aside except a little salt. The desire for tobacco and alcch >1 left him spontaneously. Then all his digestive functions became regular, and he found him> elf wholly free from headaches and bilious .attacks. After three months a troublesome rheumatism left him, and at the end of a year h* had gained eight pounds in weight, lie believes he can do more mental labor than before. and that all his senses arc more a'ute. For breakfast he has brown breai, apples and coffee; dinner consists of two vegetables, brown bread, and pie or pudding; for tea he rejoices in bread and jam, with milk and water, and for supper, bread, jam. cold pudding, and, as a luxury, boiled onions. Kggs, milk, butter and cheese are use I only in very small quantities. The dietist is a doctor, and his statement is drawing out many Bimilar ones from medical men. Fire (lenerntion*. In a farmhouse near ISoone, la. livAa HfYtflmv* ftnanna oinrhtv-mY .. , In the same house lives her daughter, aged sixty-four; her granddaughter, aged forty: her great-granddaughter. ag<d twenty-one, and her great-greatgranddaughter. aged two. This is believed to be the only house in tli> country sheltering live g< nerations. The height of economy has been reached in I'hiladelj'hia. A won an in this city, having Worn out the hi els and toes of her red stockings, is g ;ing to use the n;?: er i orl. on < for S'n'ng her hunnct. It won't be quite a< showy as red fa in. but jn t ll-ink how much it saves.-?I'/ti <r)'li>l i t < l.r mirfc, "What d'ye have that door wide open for.'" exclaimed the. gentleman in the ollice to the intruding peddler. "Oi thought surr," was the. quick reply, "that, ye moight want to kick mo downstairs, and Oi wanted to make it convanient, for ye, surr." The gentleman was so taken aback that he. bought two apples for live cents, passing off a bad quarter in the transaction.?Boston Transcript,. According to an exchange, this is tlr season when the man who can see sermons in running brooks is apt to go and look for tliem on Sunday. Fish are biting. THE BAD BOY IM NEW ROLE as explains how received a slack eye. Taking the Part of n ftlrl Who llad Formerly Been Ilia Schoolmate?Befriending the FrlendlenHi The Milwaukee Sun's famous bad boy appears in an entirely new role in the following sketch: " Ah, ha, you have got your deserts at last," said the grocery man to the uaa uoy, as ne came in wiui one eye black, and his nose peeled on one side, and sat down on a board across the coal scuttle, and began whistling as unconcerned as possible. " "What's the matter with your eye?" " Boy tried to gouge it out without asking my consent," and the bad boy took a dried herring out of the box and began peeling it. " He is in bed now, and his ma is poulticing him, and she says he will be out about the last ; of next week." , " Oh, you are going to be a prize- , fighter, ain't you," said the grocery 1 man, disgusted. "When a boy leaves | a job where lie is working, and goes to loafing around, he becomes a fighter the first thing. What your pa ought 1 to do is bind you out with a farmer, ! where you wouid have to work all the i time. I wisli you would go away from here, because' you look like one of these fellows that comes up before the police judge Monday morning, and gets thirty days in the house of correction. Why don't you go out .and | loaf around a slaughter-house, where i you would look appropriate ?" and the ; grocery man took a hair-brush and , brushed some loose sugar and teat, that wiis on the counter, into the sugar i barrel. " Well, if you have got through with i your sermon, I will toot a little on my | horn," and the boy threw the remains > of the herring over behind a barrel of potatoes, and wiped his hands on a coffee sack. ' If you had this black i mm .in/1 Viorl rrnt if flic W!iv T rliH it. VJV} nuu gvw AU V4?V ?1 ly A would be a more priceless gem in the crown of glory you hope to wear, than any gem you can get by putting quarters in the collection plate, with ] the holes filled with lead, as you did , last Sunday, when I was watching you. Oh, didn't you look pious when you picked that filled quarter out, and held [ your thumb over the place where the lead was. The way of the black eye was this. I got a job tending a soda fountain, and last night, just before we closed, there was two or three | young loafers in the place, and a girl came in for a glass of soda. Five ! years ago she was one of the brightest i scholars in the ward school, when I i was in the intermediate department. 1 She was just as handsome as a j peach, and everybody liked her. i At recess she used to take my part when the boys knocked me around, and she lived near us. She had a heart as big as that cheese box, and I guess that's what's the matter. Anyway, she left school, and then it was said she was going to be married to a fellow who is now in the dude business, but he went back on her and after awhile her ma turned her cut doors, and for a year or two she was selling beer in a saloon until the mayor stopped concerts. She tried hard to pet sewint? to do. but thev wouldn't o~~ O " * have her, I guess 'cause she cried so much when she was sewing, and the tears wet the clotli she was sewing on. Once I asked pa why ma didn't give her some sewing to do, and lie said for me to dry up and never speak to her if I met her on the street. It seemed tuff to pass her on the street, when she had tears in her eyes as big as marbles, and not speak to her when I know her so well, and she had been so kind to me at school, just cause a dude wouldn't marry her, but I wanted to obey pa, so I used to walk around a block when I see her coming, 'cause I didn't want to hurt her feelings. Well, Jast night she came in the store, looking pretty shabby, and wanted a glass of soda, and I gave it to her, and oh, how her hand trembled when she raised the glass to her lips, and how wet her eyes were, and how pale her face was. I choked up so I couldn't speak when she handed me the nickel, and when she looked up at me and smiled just like she used to, and said I was getting to be almost a man since we went to school at the old school-house, and put her handkerchief to her eyes, by gosh, my eyes got so full I couldn't tell whether It was a nickel or a lozenger she gave me. Just then one of those loafers began to laugh at her and call 1 ?A "O" nAlina ahMif fn Iier HilllltS) cliiu oaj HID vuguu tv take her up, and lie made fun of her until she cried some more, and I got hot and went around to where he was and told him if he said another unkind word to that girl I would maul him. He laughed and asked if she was my sister, and I told him that a poor friendless girl, who was sick and in distress, and who was insulted, ought to be every boy's sister, for a minute, and any boy who had a spark of manhood should protect her, and then he laughed and said I ought to be one of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and he took hold of her faded shawl and pulled the weak girl against the show-case, and said something mean to her, and she looked as though she wanted to die, and I mashed that boy one right on the nose. Well, the air seemed to be full of me for a minute, cause he was bigger than me, and he got me down and got his thumb in my eye. I guess he was going to take my eye out, but I turned him over and got on top and I mauled him until he becreed. but I wouldn't let him up till lie asked the girl's pardon, and swore he would whip any boy that insulted her, and then I let him up, and the girl thanked me, but I told her I couldn't speak to her, cause she was tuff, and pa didn't want me to speak to anybody who was tuff, but if any body ever insulted her so she had to cry, that I would whip him if I had to take a club. I told pa about it, and I thought he would be mad at me for taking the part of a girl that was tuff, but by gosh pa hugged me, and the tears come in his eyes, and he said I had got good blood in me, and I did just right, and if I would show him the father of the boy that I whipped, pa *aid he would whip the old man, and ma said for me to find the poor girl and send her up to the house and she would give her a job making pillow-cases and night shirts. Don't it seem queer to you that everybody goes back on a poor girl cause she makes a mistake, and the whelp that is to blame gets a chrorao. It makes me tired to think of it," and the boy got up and shook himself, and looked in the cracked mirror hanging upon a post, to see how his eye was getting along. " Say. young fellow, you are a thoroughbred," said the grocery man, as he sprinkled somo water on the asparagus and lettuce, "and you can come in here ^ and get all the herring you want, and never mind the black eye. I wish I had it myself. Yes, it does seem tough to see people never allow a girl to reform. Now, in Bible times, the Savior r ?>..va \f:irv or somebody, 1 forget '"'B"'" * _ now what her name was, and she was a better girl than ever. What we need is more of the spirit of Christ, and the world would he better." An Industrious Doctor. The town of (Jrecnwich, K. I., has a physician, says the Boston Journal, who believes in improving one's time and in doing whatsoever one's hands . iind to do. When he has t<> go some distance out of town he takes his j worsted work, generally in the form of embroidery, and devotes himself . assiduously to it. while his horse proceeds over the road independent of . reins or whip. The industrious doctor j is quite an old man now, hut this has < been his custom from Iiis youth. ('ednr Lands Coining to the Front. ( Cherry has pretty well superseded black walnut for line house furnishings, and now another rather neglected native wood is coming to the front. This is ccda.\ Cedar land all over the country is looking up and becoming more valuable. The demand 1 for cedar has increased its value enor- j mously within a few years. This is r true of the Northern and Southern States alike. * ?? t 'Kjaerlighednns " is the Norwegian for love. i P!P!|j?gl^ . /: v A SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. A New and Most Important Theory on On? of the Moat Vital Questions of the Day. If any one had informed Queen Elizabeth in her palmiest days that she could have been Beated in her palace in London and conversed frith Sir Walter Raleigh in his North Carolina home; receiving a reply from him within an hoar's time, she would have declared it to be a miracle. And yet, had they lived in the present day, this apparent miracle would most readily have been witnessed and not Beem at all strange or unnatural. The truth is, new principles are coming into existence, and the operation of many laws unknown in the past is being fully understood in the Tn nn wnv doftfl this fact come more forcibly to the mind than in the care and treatment of the human body. Millions of people have died in past ages from some insignificant or easily controlled cause which is thoroughly understood now and readily handled. Consumption during the entire past has been considered an incurable disease. And yet it is demonstrated that it has been and can be cured, oven after it has had a long run. Dr. Felix Oswald has just contributed a notable article on this subject to the Popular Science Monthly. He regards consumption as pulmonary scrofula. The imparities of the blood produce a constant irritation in the lungs, thus destroying their delicate tissues and causing death. His theory showB conclusively that consumption is a blood disease. It has its origin primarily in a deranged condition of the kidneys or liver, the only two orj?ans of the body, aside from tne lungs, that purify the blood. When the kidneys or liver are diseased they are in a soro or lacerated state, which communicates poison to every ounce of blood that passes through them. This poisonous blood circulates through the Bystem and comes to the lungs, where the poison is deposited, causing decomposition in the finely formed cells of the lungs. Any diseased part of the body has contaminating power, and yet the blood, which is the life of the system, is brought into dire? contact with these poisoned organs, thus carrying contagion to all parts of the body. Bishop Jesse T. Peck, D. D., LL.D., whose death has been so recently regretted, is reported to have died of pneumonia, which medical authorities affirm indicates a diseased condition of the kidneys. It iB well known, moreover, that for several years he had been the victim of severe kidney trouble, and the pneumonia which finally terminated his life was only the last result of the previous blood poisoning. The deadly matter which is left in the lungs by the impure blood clogs up and finally chokes the patient. When this is accomplished rapidly it is called pneumonia or quick consumption; when slowly, consumption, but in any event it is the result of impure blood, caused by diseased kidneys and liver. These are facts of science, and vouched for by all the leading physicians of the day. They show the desirability?nay, the necessity, of keeping these most important organs in perfect condition, not only to insure health, but also to escapc death. It has been folly shown, to the satisfaction of nearly every unprejudiced mind, that Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure is the only known. remedy that can cure and keep in health the great bloodpurifying organs of thfl body. It acts directly pon these members, healing all ulcers which may have formed in them, and placing them in a condition to purify and not poison the blood. This is no idle statement nor fal*e theory. Mr. W. C. Beach, foreman of the Buffalo (N.Y.) Rubber Type Foundry, was given up to die by both physicians and friends. For four years he had a terrible cough, accompanied by night sweats, chills, and all the ivell known symptoms. He spent a season South and found no relief. He says: "I finally concluded to try Warner's Safe Cure, and in three months I gained twenty pounds, recovered my lost energy and my health was fully restored." The list could be prolonged indefinitely, but enough has been said to prove to every sufferer from pulmonic troubles that there is no reason to be discouraged in the least, and that health can be restored. THE BLACK HORSES. Hav? you seen the black horses As they stand in their places, With the steam of their nostrils And the fire of their faces, As they shine in their harness For their swift, splendid races? When they run in the darkness How they flame in their going! How they spurn earth behind them! How the heat in them glowing Leaves a trail on the night From the sparks they are throwing And the hand of the master? Perchance you have wondered How it kept a firm rein While they lightened and thundered In the speed of their passage As midnight was sundered. Oh, grand are the horses That whirl us, unsparing By hillside and hollow, Their vigor declaring: And grand are the drivers Who urge on their daring! Fly faster and faster, Oh, gallant black horses, As ye fling the hot spume-flakes Along your smooth courses; Fly faster, for heartbeats Shall add to your forces! And grip the long lever, Oh, hand of the master, As the brass shines like gold In the teeth of disasterWhile the black horses' snorting ^ i>?/l ^nofor f Ksviuva XUDICI nuu uwuvi ?Samuel Wr. Duffield. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Mrs. Spaggins was boasting of her new house. The windows, she said, were stained. "That's too bad; but won't turpentine or benzine wash it off?" asked the good Airs, Oldboy.? Burlington Hawkeye, There is a young fellow in our neighborhood who has been making a daily practice of attempting to sing, " Let me like a soldier die." He seems to crave death, and they do say that one of the neighbors who has a musket is preparing to accommodate him.? Saturday Niglit. Charley, the three-year-old of the household, stood an attentive and interested looker-on while grandma was paring potatoes for dinner. Presently she made a sign of discontinuing the work with a single potato left unpeeled and unwashed. The little fellow reached into the pan, took it in his chubby hand, and turning his bright eyes in an appealing glance to grandma's face, exclaimed: "Take 'im c'oes off and give 'im baff, too." A gentleman, who is said to be "one of the poets laureat of the Unite.l States," has written a poem descriptive of a visit to Egypt, in which he says: " Then to the railroad we did go To take the cars for Ca-i-ro; To see the pyramids was our intent, So from Alexandria we went." We never understood before just what was meant by a "poet laureat of the United States," but it is clear from this specimen that the country is well supplied with them. ?Norristown Herald. Inquirer?You wish to set Mr. Snaggs and his next aoor neignuor 10 fighting-. Easy enough. Some dark night just take a load of ashes and old oyster cans and dump them in Snaggs' back yard. He'll lay it to his neighbor and sling 'em over the fence. The neighbor'll be madder than a candidate for office beaten by one vote, and will sling 'em back. Then things will hum; law suits, pulled noses and bloody heads will result, and you can sit back and see the fun.?Boston Post. An indignant landlord writes demanding the name of the party who first suggested putting coils of rope in sleeping rooms as a protection against fire. He says he provided every bedroom in his house with ?i coil of rope, and the first night three of his guests lowered their baggage from the sixth utory window and skipped, leaving several days' board bill unpaid. lie allows that being I turned to death is bad enough, but running a hotel for fun is a good deal worse.?liorhestcr Expn ss. He Took Him at His Word. A man had a claim against an impecunious cuss, and lie had sent word '1'ifonQ nf till!PS t,(> COflK! to lliS place and settle. One day the man, with his entire family and a wagon load of plunder, drove up. "Hello," said the creditor, ' what iocs all this mean?" "It means that I have accepted your repeated invitations." " You never got any invitations from me." " Yes I did and I can show them,'' producing a whole pile of duns, "every me of these savs'come to my place ind settle,' and as my landlord has ;urned me out of his house, I just thought I'd accept your polite offers, ind come to your place and settle. Jet out, Mary, and take out the chilIren. Tell me where you want the jrowd dumped, and the way we'll ;ettle will make that villainous landordpray for a tender heart like your.-." ?Drummer. iHoilu-r Swim's Worm Syrup. Infallible, tasteless, harmless, cathartic;feversliness, restlessness, worms,constipation. 2.1c. ( nntrlne Recommended to travelers. Aids digestion, >revent9 nanaea nnd headache. Druggists. Pure blood helps to make a clear concience. Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the )lood. Enough said. Send us a big bottlo. Tn.iirsr-FOUK meu in Uvulde county, r?xas, own and jrraze over 2,000,000 -ucep i Lord Byron, in reference to a beautiful lady, wrote to a friend: " lifldy ?? has been dangerously ill, bat now she is dangerously well again." American belles, when attacked by any of the ills that f esh is heir to, may be kept killing and avoid being killed by taking Dr. R. V. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription," which banishes feminine weaknesses, and restores the bloom of health. By all druggists. The American Moravian church numbers 10,01)8. JeWebson Citt, Mo.?Dr. J. 0. Biddler says: " Persons Who use Brown's Iron Bitters always speak well of it. It ifl a good medicine." Sznatob Sewklz., of New Jersey, is regarded as a crack rifle-shot. "First a conjjh carried ma off. And then a coffin they carried me off in!" This will not be your epitaph if von take your cough and Dr. R. V. Pierce's ''Golden Medical Discovery" in time. It is specific for weak lungs, spitting of blood, nightsweats, and the early stages of consumption. By all druggists. Mrs. Scoville, sister of Guiteau, wishes tn hfivfl hpr nnmp ("hnnirod to Howe. For tremulousness, wakefulness dizziness find lack of energy, a most valuable remedy is Brown's Iron Bitters. The two last descendants of Amerigo Vespucci are living in poverty in Italy. . Throat. Bronchial and L,nnc Diseases A specialty. Send two stamps for laree treatise giving self treatment. Address World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo,N.Y. Spbino fashions prevail all the year round at the circus. __ Ottumwa, Ta.?Dr. J. N. Armstrong says: "I have used Brown's Iron Bitters in my family, and recommend its uso to others." On Thirty Day*' Trial. The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich., will send Dr. Dye's Celebrated Electro-Voltaic BeU* and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete restoration of health and manly vigor. Address as above. N. B.?No risk is incurred, as thirty days' trial is allowed. " Bnchn-Poiba." The Quick, complete cure,annoying Kidney, Bladder, Urinary Diseases. $1. Druggists. Frnzer Axle Grease. One greasing lasts two weeks; all others two or three days. Do not be imposed on by the humbug stuffs offered. AskyourdealerforFrazer's, with label on. Saves your horselaborand you too. It received first medal at the Centennial and Pari^xposiUons^Soldeverywhere. Tboimandd Upon Thoasands. The proprietors of the world-renowned . C'arboline?the natural Hair Restorer?never I put up less than 1.000 gallons at a time. This I gives but an idea of its immense demand. "Hough on Rata." Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, bedbugs, -1. , 1__? IE. TVi iinis,HKuujts,cmijmuu&a,|juiJuciD. tub u K OUJ. Get Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffenere applied to new boots or shoes before ypu run them over. Army Officer's Testimony. Captain Joseph L. Haydev, residing at No. 921 Fourth Street, South Boston, Mass., formerly captain in the array, now with the Walworth Manufacturing Company, South Boston, writes, April28, 1381: "While living in Cambridgeport my wife was afflicted with terrible pains in her back and sides, accompanied with great weakness and loss of appetite. She tried many so-called remedies without avail, growinr rapidly worse, when her attention was called to Hnnt's Remedy. She purchased a bottle from Lowell's drug store, In Cambridgeport, and after taking the first dose she began to feel easier, she could sleep well, and after continuing its use a short time the severe pains in her ' back and side entirely disappeared, and she is a well 1 woman. Many of our relatives and friends have used ' Hunt's Remedy with the most gratifying results. 1 have recommended it many times, and as mauy times ' beard the same story. Hunt's Remedy is all that is ' claimed for it, and a real blessing to all afflicted with kidney or liver trouble." ' > Made n Man of Him. Mr. O. O. Wheeler, No. 23 Austin Street, Cambridgeport, Mass., makes the following remarkable statement. On April 27, 1883, he writes as follows: '" 1 have been troubled with kidney disease for nearly twenty years. Have suffered at times with terrible pains in my back and limbs. I nsed many medicines, but foaud nothing reached my case until I took Hunt's Remedy. I purchased a bottle of A. P. .Gilson, 630 Tromont Street, Boston, and before I had usad this one bottle I found relief, and continning its use my pains and weak nets all disappeared, ana l leei nice anew nun, wuu new life and vigor. Hunt's Remedy did wonders fot me, and I have no hesitancy in recommending it to all afflicted with kidney or liver diseases, as I am positive that by its use they will find Immediate relief. You may nse this letter in any way jrou' choose, so that the people may know of a sure medicine for the care of all diseases of kidneys and liver." How to Secure Health. | It soems strange that any one -will gaffer from the many derangements brought on by an impure condition of the blood when Rosadalis will restore perfect health to the physical organization. It is the best Blood Purifier ever discovered,effectually curing Scrofula, Syphilitic disorders, Weakness of the Kidneys, Erysipelas, Malaria, all nervous disorders and Debility, Bilious Complaints and all diseases indicating an linpuro condition of the Blood,Liver, Kidneys, Stomach, etc. It corrects indigestion. A single bottle will prove to you its merits as a health renewor, for it acts liko a charm, especially when the complaint is of an exhaustive nature, having a tendency to lessen the natural vigor of the brain and nervous system. Teaklnd Feeble The advance of hot weather, sudden and without warning, has a relaxing effect, followed by an exhaustion of strength and a languor of body and mind. This enfeeblement of the system develops infirmities, otherwise inactive. Much loea of time and hindrance to all enterprise results. In such cases the system needs the influence of Hood's Sarsaparilla To the restoration of vitality and puissance. This medicine readily purifies the blood, tones and strengthens the digestive organs, and imparts fresh life and energy. ?nn,.aTI1n;.liwlt'ia mmfrmA Knttln nf Hood's Sana. parilla I felt like a new person. I can do two days' work I In one now."?Mm. A. d. Ai.T.ry, Lowell, Mm*. Another says: "I have not been able to work steadily through the spring and summer till last year. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla and did not lose a day." '' I never found anything hit my wants as Hood's S&raaparilla. It tones ap my system, parities my blood, sharpens my appetite, and seems to make me orer. J. p. Thompson, Reg. Deeds, Lowell, Mass. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by droggists. Price $1, six for $6. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD i CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Man. y~r~NU?23 _ Hoxtetter'i Stomach WfflVl t D I B Dm Bitters meet the restomech and liveir,' S1Sr?MACH^ ^fnVhe-^^ SpC WP ^9 ryitem. F >r sale by *"W B H BP tt" Druggists and V | | m Dealers generally. %JSH TttlAlj. The CHICAGO LEDGER Three Months for 25 CENTS. CONTAINING THE WHOLE OK THE THRILL ING SERIAL STORY, The Missing Heiress, And other int resMng original (-toriet and entertaining matttr. A large 45-column paper. Address l-KI)(.;i:U,L'hlcaKo, 1IK_ KNAPP'S ROOT BEER EXTRACT. 10 GALLONS FOR25 CENTS. A DELICIOUS, HEALTHY SUMMER DRINK. TFIF ORIGINAL ROOT BEEIL , Buttles at 2ftc., 60c., $1.50; half and gallon cans at $4 and $3; making 10, '25, 100, 400andlMJ0gBlloniiof Beer. ALL DRUGGISTS. SEND FOR CIRCULAR. P. B. KNAPP^SONS, 362 Hudson St., N. Y. ACCUTC UiaUTCn EVERYWHERE to Mil the AutNId nAll!CUb.Ht Family Knlttliifl .flurliilic ovpr invented. Will knit a pair of ftuckinga w ith IIICICI. anil TOK roinplotr in 2U minutes. It will also knit ? great variety of fancy work, for which thert> is a I way* i ready market. Sen 1 for circular and tenni to the TWO.HIII.Y KNITTING MACHINE CO.. 103 Tukmost STKKET, BOSTON, MASS. I ?aga3 5 ano not 1 I HM,,/JPI VW WI' ( If HI T. I ~ipfcby watchmakers. By mail 2Sc. Circulars 3>V* La LJfree. .IS. liim:H&Co..3H DeySt.. N.Y. . T\-n A -DTVTX,CC KAKI.NK cures all diseases of f UxjIXJ. llXjjSO ih.< 'Ir, except where the tym- [ pnnum i>r drum is destroyed. Sknd fob UlliCVU'iS, ( K A It IN K CO., 30 Kndt 14th Street. Www York City. I IIHIIIIHI Morphine HnbllCnrvd In 10 '? lIS'llESra loapdayw. Nopny till Cored. 1 (If 1 W3ll Liii- J. bTia'UiwNi., .Lebanon, (Jhia AQAMIOUK for nil who will make spare time profitjW ^alile: a good paying liusinesM if you can devoteyotir lllfcwli,.lrtinp- toil. Miinuv Mux. K?i788. N.Y A sciiln Waillcil for the llest and Fastest-selllux J\ Tectorial Hooks and Bibles. PrlfM reduced XI per cent. National Puui.ishino Co., Philadelphia, Pa. FBEFS-^"HEALTH HELPER" ill fcfcPerfect Health. H.ll. Hox 104. Huffalo.N.Y vnlllift UCkl " yon want to become TfcLhUKAPH lUUnU nlCH OPIIKATUKS. and lie guaranteed employment, address 1*. ithA.W. ATM, OHIO. y PDPPf Hy return mail?A full description ol b l l? CC . Moody's New Tailor System of Orest a Cutting. D. W. Moody ,t Co., 31 W.Wh, Cincinnati, 0. s vniiup UCftl l?rn telegraphy here and we will " lUUnU mCnKire you a Situation. Circulars free, \ VAl.l .NTI.NK ItKOS., Jiuit-nvillc, Win. #70 A WKKK, gl'Jadayut home easily made. Costly $ I C outtit free. Address TltL'K A CO., Augusta, Me. tlOI.KM AN Husim ssCollejro, Newark, N. J.?Term! / $4u. Positions for graduates. Write for Circulars. CCC a week in your own town. Terms and $5 outfit ODD free. AddressH. HaLLKTTACo., Portland, Me. . A Sure (,'ure for Kpilepsy or Fits in 24 nours. Kreefc I J\ poor. Hit. Kut'sr, 2X44 Arsenal St.. St. Louis, Mo. 1 CK 4a ^0(1 per day at homo. Samples worth $S free. I IU g?U Address Stinbon A Co., Portland. Me. ' A Literary t Overwhelming opposition and delighting world coming to? The poor man is now on an concerned '"?is a fair sample of thousands of qt lers of customers, and from newspapers not influi FIFTY TON'S OF CHOICE BOOKS, a Jar, lished in this co.intry, now ready, and your owe part of the Continent for examination, if you hooks will be paid for after receipt, or returnedSPECIAL BARGAINS are offering this m Prices are lower than ever before known, rf ' Enoch Arden," unabridged, large type, to i Cyclopedia. My books are NOT sold by deali authors and works are those of: Dickon!), I'rmssart, Proctor, Irriui;, G.uen, Huxley, Waller Srott, I.rote, Tyndnll, Thnckeriv, Cnrlyle, Kawlin*on, (ie irin- Ijiishuik, Bronte, I imjslellow, Crenny, Mulook, (ill.lion, Schiller, * 0 Mi|wr, Macmil.iy, B/iroti, KingHley, H.-tucrult, Herbert Spencer, Farrar, Descriptive circulars sent free on requfet. three cents. Mention thi? pnptr. JOHN B. , tQsYMPATH12E V/ri^Ts THE HOPE S ^^WOMAN^S^THE RACE&J fvniA e PiNif MAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND. ? A Smre Core for all FE31AIS WEAKNESSES, Including LcnconhoMf I*? rtnttf and Ptlaftl Meiutmtloif ' Inflammation and Ulceration of 1 the Womb, Flooding, PROLAPSUS UTERI, Arc. EVPleasant to the taste, efficacious and Immediate In its effect. It is a great help In pregnancy, and relieves pain during labor and at regular period*. , PHT8ICU58 TSZ IT 15D FBE9CBIBE IT TUXIX. , GTFo* AXXWtAZxnsx* of the generative organ* of either sex, It Is second to no remedy that has erer been before the public; and for all disease* of the Kidsxts it Is tie Grtaiat Remedy in the World. &TKIDNEY COMPLAINTS of Either Sex Find Great Relief In It? U?e. LTDIA E. PTVKHAM'B BLOOD PVSJJPJUBK will eradicate every reatlge of Humor* from the Blood, at the same time will give toon and strength to the system. An marvellous in results as the Compound. tyBoth the Compound and Blood PurlAcr an pro* pared at 233 and 235 Western Avenue, Lynn, Vis*. / Price of either, |1. Six brtties for $5. Tbo Compound is sent by mall In the forn. of pills, or of loxcnge*, oa receipt of price, (1 per box for either. Mrs. Plnlrham froely answers all letter* of inquiry, Encloao 3 cess stamp. Bend for pamphlet. Mention thil Paptr. t&Vnnx S. Prxnu*"* Urn Pnxa core Constlpar tion. Biliousness and Torpidity of the Liver. S3 cent*. JEySold by all Prnggf*ti.-gO Q) B0SEBBEI31 il lS A SURE CURE | i for all diseases of the Kidney* and | ? LIVER ? It ha* ?peciflo action on till* most Important , organ, enabling It to throw off torpidity and > Inaction, stimulating the healthy accretion of the Bile, and by keeping the Dowel* In free ' I condition, effecting it* regular discharge. Uolovlo If yon are mflarlng from | IWItllCIIIda malaria, hare the ohm*, I >. are bilion*, dyrpeptic7, oroonstlpated, XidneyWort will rarely relieve and quickly cure. , I In the Spilac to deuce the System, 0TH7 ' one should take a thorough course of It. u- SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. Price SI. 1 mEsmaEi i "Tre gained ttffcnty pounds In two months," write# . | Mr. J. C. Power, of Trenton, HI. (Dec. 2-92), "and am i well man. I'd suffered with liver disorders since 1ML iidney-Wort cured im, " Strong words from a New York clergyman: "I **\t*iUUingly recommend Kidney-Wort. It greatly beneited nio," says Eer. 0. E. Kemble, of Mohawk, If. Y, eFOR THE PERMANENT CURE OF i g CONSTIPATION. | ? No other disease is so pro valent in this ootm- , . j ^ try a* Constipation, and no remedy haa ever _ equalled the celebrated Kidney-Wort a* a c E cure. Whatever the cause, however.obstinate a s the oaee, this remedy will oreroaaa It. i. ? S"A TITTS distressing com- 5 c flLEO. plaint ia very apt to bel^ 5 complicated with constipation. Kidney-Wort ~ v strengthens the weakened parts and quickly a 8 cures all kinds of Pile* even when phyalolaas J and medicines have before felled. c ? it- GFIf you have either of these troubles v < PRICK >7T lUSEf "For twelra years," writes Lyman T. Aboil, of Beorgia, Vt., "I found no relief from piles, until I . Jh cTHE GREAT CURE ^ J 2 I poa ! I ?RHEUMATISM? I 0 As it ia for all the painful dtttui of the & v ? KIDNEYS,LIVER AND B0WSL8* 1 i. q It cleanses the system of the acrid poison J gj that causes the dreadful snStorinc mn ? G only the victima of 'RhmimaHsm can reallaa. > fj . THOU8AMD8 OF CA8E8 J JJ of the wont forma of this terrible dlseaaa H have been quickly relieved, and in short tins " PERFECTLY CURED. f b nucx, *i. LiqnD or pxt, holdvi Dacccma. v < tt- Dry can bo sent by mail, t>-. . ~ 5 . WELLS, BICHABD80Zr& Co., BnrlbigtotiVt; * ; iramnTirarsFEa UigggiaBflMiiaBL i If and If. 1 " If yen an suffering from poor health I 'or languishing on a bed of sick&eca, take . ' ' cheer, If you an simply ailing, or if- you. ' 'feel weakand dispirited, withcutclearly .\VA knowing why. Hop Bitten will'siri^''. 'core yoo." '*rV> "If yon are a Minister, and have overtaxed yourself ' with your pastoral duties, or a Mother, worn oat with 'care and work, or a man of t mines s or laborer waak* ' ened by the strain cf your erery day duties, or a man 'of letters, tolling over your midnight work. Hoy ' Bitters will surely strengthen you." "If yoo are luffer'nj from *oTer-eating or drinking, any ' indiscretion or dissipation, or 'are young and growing too ' fut. aa is often the case." " Or if you are In th? workshop, on tho 'farm, at the desk, anywhere, and feel 1 ' that your system needs cleansing, ton- - J ' tag or stimulating, without Intoxicating; 'if you at* old, blood thin and impure, 1 'pulse feeble, nerree unsteady, faculties 1 ' waning. Hop Bitters is what you need to ' give you new life, health and Tigor." If you are costire or dyspeptic, or snf- J fering from any other of the numerous diseases of the stomach or bowels, it is yoor own fault if you remain 11). If you are wasting away with any form of Kidney, disease, stop tempting death ; this moment, and turn for a cure to Hop Bitters, ' ^ If you are sick with that terrible sickceu, NerTouaness, you will tind a "Balm in Gi!?ad" in Hop Bitters. If you are a frequenter, or a resident, of % - ?* u- vonrfVS> A muHunwu uiovitw*, tem against the scourge of all coantrics? _ ? epidemic, bilious and inteinrttent ferers?by the use of Hop Bitten. If 70a hare rough, pimply or sallrnr skin, bad breath, Hop Bitters will give yon fair skin, rich blood, the itreeiest breath and health. $500 will be paid for a / case they will not care or help. That poor, bedridden, invalid wife, sister, mother or laughter, can be made the picture of health by a few bottles of Hop Bitters, coating but a trifle. Iron StMl Barings, n-??t TARE BEAM, JO.IES, BE PAYS THE FaMUH?. 1 Sold on trial. Warrant* 5 years. Xii klxe* a* low. [ti For frea book, addrtaa m Iu JONES OF BIN0HAMTON, JfiB B13C1UJITO.V, 5. msm 11 relieves at once Burns, Piles*, Chapped TTands or Li pa. Corns. Bunions.Scalds, Bruises,Soreness of feet,hands, A eycs.ete.. I tchLntf from any cause. KCc. Ask your drutf Ldk giat, or send to 92 Fulton Street, N. Y.??I " rue 6 BI U ls A L W AYS I fit OuRinteresting. From morning to morning and from week to week THE SUN prints a continued story of the lives of real nen and women, and of their deeds, plans, loves, iatt'8 and troubles. Thinlury it mure intertilling than iny romanrr Ihnl rta? ever aetited. Subscription: Xmly (1 page*), by mail, 55o. a month, or 80.50 > vear: Sunday (8 paijefi), sf 1.20 per year; WnmLY * "TAM.SS: Publteto,. y*. l'orlt CUt. fJfcT.lfcWrfllrUy.lA CURES WHERE AIL CISC FAILS. S Iie?t Couch Syrup. Trwtesgood. KSi Use In lime. 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