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DAN'S WIFE. I ? . Up in early morning light, Sweeping dusting, " setting.right," Oiling nil the household springs, Sewing buttons, tying strings, Telling Bridget what to do, Mending rips in Johnny's shoe, Running up and down the stair, Tying baby in his chair, Cutting meat and spreading bread, Dishing out so much per head, Eating as she can. by chance, Giving husband kindly glance, Toiling, working, busy life, " Smart woman, Dan's wife." Dan comes home at fall of night. Home so cheerful, neat and bright, Children meet him at the door, Pull him in and look him o'er, Wife asks " how the work has gone?*' "Busy times with us at home !" Supper done?Dan reads at ease. Nothing must the husband tease, Children must be put to bedAll the little prayers are snid: Little shoes are placed in rows, Bedclothes tucked o'er little toes. Busy, noisy, wearing life, Tired woman, Dan's wife. Dan reads on, and falls asleep, See the woman softly creep: I Baby rests nt last, poor dear, Not a word her heart to cheer: Mending basket full to topStockings. shirts and little frock? Tired e>es and weary brain. Side with darting, ugly pain? "Never mind, 'twill pass away She must work, but never play; Closed piano, unused books, Done, the walks to cozy nooks, Brightness faded out of life, Saddened woman, Dan's wife. Dps fiii-s, tossing to and fro, Fever holds the woman low : Children wonder, free to piny 3 When and where they will to-day ; Bridget loiters?dinner's cold, Dan looks anxious, cross and old; Household screws are out of place, Steady hand-s?so weak but true? Har.d> that knew just what to do, ^4^ Never knowing re?t or play, Folded now and laid away: Work of six in one short life, Shattered woman, Dan's wife. ?Kate 'faunaft Wools. I JOHN WARE'S NURSE. There were two reasons why Joanna Blight had her studio up in the manm sard. P _ In the first jlace she craved quiet J and seclusion; in the second?well, Mrs. Algernon Mowry was very much I ashamed of it. Mrs. Mowry was quite content that " her husband's niece " should pay her board bill. The money was very acceptable to them in their narrowed - circumstances. But for the life of her F 0 Mrs. Mo wry could rv:t see why Joanna I preferred to < am her own living when she hail a brother abl to supp >rt her. This little studio was a very pretty place. The bare lloor was patched with bright-colored rugs; the walls were tinted a delicate blue, bordered with harmonious bands of crimson, olive and gold. I There was one wide window to the j front, and near it, at her easel, .Joanna sat one sweet April morning finishing a birthday card in water colors. From time to time she would pause at her work, and leaning back in her chair she would watch the builders over the way. .Some one had bought the corner lot and the two lots adjacent to it on the main and side streets. "Within the past six weeks a charming little Queen Anne cottage had sprung up there as if by magic. Kumor said it was being built for a gentleman from Washington. "He must be a man of taste,'' Joanna thought, as she took in the graceful effect of the building, even in its unfinished state. "How I should like to live in a house like that! Tiles and terra-cotta and low-down grates ! That ouirht to make life worth liv i Joanna smiled at her own fancies as she took up her brush and pallette. When she looked up again the men were hoisting some heavy framework by means of a pulley. 'Look out there!" cried a tall, manly fellow on the roof, who towered head and shoulders above his comrades. He was a well-made man, with a rich bronze skin and a full brown beard that had concealed his finelyshaped neck. The only parts of his , dress visible were a blue cardigan jacket and a pair of ovt rails. " They have got a new workman," Joanna observed, idly. "What asplenia did fellow he is! I wonder what busi:.v ness a carpenter has with a face and figure like that? Sometimes it seems to me that Nature blunders sadly." The stalwart young carpenter disappeared meanwhile, and .loanna left (her work. "I wish the Fallette club didn't meet this afternoon," she murmured, a3 she pastel into the next room and began to unplait her long, thick, yellow braids. Her toilet was simple, but somehow it went forward slowly. She felt rather dull that day, and as she smoothed her hair in a leisurely fashion, she hummed to herself: *' Heiuho! for the holly ! Most friendship is feigning? Most loving mere folly!" So she went on, placidly pinning up her braids again, and never once dreaming of what had happened since she left the window, until her Cousin Mabel came bursting into the room with a panic-stricken face. "Joanna," 3he cried, hysterically, "come on downstairs! One of the workmen has fallen off the new house and they've brought him over here." " Good heavens!" Joanna exclaimed. "Is he killed?" "I don't know," Mabel answered, 11/11 tl LI HI 3L yi ll(U>, I1C9AI1 Wt CI CU with dirt and blood, and?and he just looks awful!" Joanna went Hying downstairs, and met her aunt in the hall. Mrs. Mowry was on the verge of hysterics. "Do go in and see what they are doing!" she cried. "Good heavens! who would have dreamed of such a thing ? And all these men with their muddy Loots tramping ovei> my "Where have they taken him?" Joanna interrupted, hastily, as she turned away with iil-disguised con" In the library," sobbed Mrs. Mowry. "Oh, I don't know how you can bear to go in ! My nerves could not endure it." u.: But Joanna pushed past her with prompt determination. As she entered the room she saw a litt.'e horror? stricken group of men in blue blouses and overalls hovering about the lounge on which the injured man was lying. j^V' , She took several step> toward them, \ and then a low, startle 1 cry escaped her lips. Jt was the handsome young workman whose splendid physique H 'she had admired only half an hour Jprevious, and there he lay, wliite, crushed and bleeding. |BB " Have you sent lor a doctor?" she said, as she dropped on her knees beside the passive, insensible form. " Yes'm," answered one of the -workmen who stood at his head. "We sent right oil." IHp "Who is th:s man?" she asked, B ' Eer quickly. "Where does he live?" "Thisman here? I dunno, ma'am. HE ,. His name's John Ware. He is a new B**;.;' hand. We don't know nothing |K1: about him. He was kind of a bossy H I chap, and yet he didn't seem to know ^Br". so all-fired much either?did he, Eli?" Hf; Don't you know any of his I" friends?" Joanna askeJ. "Where does he live?' HHfcr- - " 'Deed, I couldn't tell ye, ma'am. BB| I don't know nothing about him." ^Bi|The doctor came and his verdict Be was a grave one. Joanna came out of |BrY the library with a pale, resolute face. " Aunt Margaret," she said, quietly, : "they are going to take him up to my MB room." "What!" Mrs?. Mowry screamel, in 1 HB a spasm of hysterical horror, "Joanna, 1 B are you mad?" " lie says he has no friends in the city; and anyhow, the doctor says it might be fatal to move him from the house. The slightest jar makes him suffer unspeakable agony." ? Hut J oanna, it is utterly impossible for us to ke; p him here. Think of the?the expense. He's only a laboring man, and?" " I will bear whatever expense his being here may entail upon you." " But suppose he dies on your hands? Or he may lie here for months ! For heaven's sake, send him to the hospital !" " I cannot think of doing anything so inhuman. lie may occupy my room, Aunt Margaret. Do nut distress yourself about it. I will see that he does not occasion you the slightest annoyance." So John Ware was installed in the little bedroom back of the studio, and the doctor came and went for weeks before it was really known that the patient would recover. Joanna nursed him with untiring devotion. " You really think he will get well now?'' she said, with womanly tears in her eyes. The doctor took her hand and pressed it warralv. " Yes," he answered?" thanks to you!" The patient had been sleeping, but now he opened his eyes and they shone with a glad welcome as they feil upon the pale, sweet face of Joanna. "I was just saying, my young friend." observed the doctor, releasing Joanna's slim lingers to take up John "Ware's finely-shaped hand, which was now as white as marble?" I was just saying that you owe your life more to Miss Might than you owe it to me." The handsome fellow gave her a look so full of gratitude that it was almost admiration. " I shall never forget her!" lie said, in a musical voice that promised to be rich and deep when he grew stronger. " I cannot even estimate what I owe her, much less repay her." Joanna did not like to lie thanked, and she slipped away at the first opportunity; but she carried with her the memory of that handsome head, with its crown of chestnut curls resting soi'tlv among the pillows. "John Wan !" she murmured to herself. " I do not care how humble his station; I am sure that he is one of nature's noblemen. The s< al of intellect is set upon his forehead, and, with that look in his eyes I would trust him anywhere." The weeks went on, and John "Ware was convalescent. It was one midsummer morning that he sat at the window of the study in an easy-chair, while Joanna made a feint of working a little in oils. But what did it mean, the tender light that shone in John Ware's eyes as they rested on her lithe, graceful ligure clad in pure white? Why did Joanna's hands tremble as it held the pallette? And why was her face so oiten suffused with a sweet, conscious blush? " Why don't you come ov. r here and talk to me?" he said, with all the presumption of an invalid. " I have sonii thing better to do, Mr. Ware,"she answered, mischievously. "But. y. ui don't know what you are, I missing. The little cottage must be complete now. Ilere comes a wagonload of new furniture." Likeevery woman (and every man) Joanna had some curiosity, and this announcement brought her to the window without delay. Certainly, there was a wagon-load of furniture, and such furniture! In that load, which was the first of several that came that day, there was a b autiful oaken sideboard, exquisitely carved; a quaint, lacquered cabinet; ebony bookcases, a handsome brass btd>tead, and dear knows what not. " They are going to make a very pretty home out of it," John Ware observed. "How do you like the house?" Joanna's eyes sparkled. " Oh," she cried, clasping her hands i together, "I think it is perl'eitly charming! But," she added, with I sudden gravity, " I should think it would make you shudder to look at it." ??Oli lio ancwopwt witl) nprfpet, V,.., xw. , calmness. Then he added, softly: " It might, under different circumstances. IJut if I had never had that fall I should never have known you as I know you now." Joanna did not speak; but presently she felt his firm clasp upon her hand. Still, he did not look at her. "You know what has been tremb ling on my lips for weeks," lie said. " I would not ask you to make the smallest sacrifice for me, if you felt it was a sacrifice; but I love you, Joanna, and my happiness will never be complete unless you are my wife." lie did nut ask her to marry him; he did not press his suit. lie simply told her. She might do as she chose. As for him, he knew that a mere mechanic had no social right to win such a woman as she for his wife; but then?" " I could not help telling you," he said, turning toward her l'ur the first time. "The merest galley slave may look at the stars and love them. I can go away?no, no! I cannot go away! Joanna, >peak to me!" She was trembling like a leaf. "If you were to go away, John," she whispered, softly, "you would make me wretchedly unhappy!" " I knew it!" he cried, trium phantlv, as lie caught her in his arms. " But I was not sure that your love was strong enough to set at defiance the ridicule of society. I did not know that you would stoop to marry a carpenter." 44 It is not the carpenter I mean to marry," she :-aiil, hilling her face on iiis shoulder. 44 It is the man." When Mrs. Mowry heard of it there was a scene, of course. In an hysterical burst of tears she declared that Joanna would disgrace the family, and ended by ordering her out of the house. John Ware demanded an account of this interview, and heard it with compressed lips. " Joanna," he said, taking her two hands in his,44 you must marry me today. I have a little money saved, and we will make a home of our own. It will be very humble, of course, but?" 441 don't mind that," she said, smiling up at him through a mist of tears. 44 You know I am a decorative artist. Beside. I always had a fancy for love in a cottage." They were married that very even-1 ing. .John had a carriage at the par-1 sonage waiting to take them away. "What extravagance!" cried Joanna. "This is a bad beginning." " One isn't marrie 1 every day," said John, laughing. " I am going to take I you to the house of my deare.-t friend, Joanna." The carriage stopped in front of a dwelling that was shrouded in darkness. John took a key from his pocket and opened the door himself. "My friend is away," he said. "I have the entree of his house in his absence." Taking a match from his pocket h lit the gas in the hall and ran lightle upstairs. Joanna followed in amazement. She had expected to enter a humble home, but she found herself in a perfect palace of luxury. John had lit the gas upstairs. When she entered the room he had thrown open, he stood in the middle of the V* V?Io fo/in oil Orrl 11UU1 vtivu i-ilO u^*v If* "You like it?" he queried, as he noted the wonder and delight pictured upon her face. "Joanna, I have deceived you. This is the Queen Anne cottage opposite your aunt's?this is my house?your house, darling, our homel I am not the poor carpenter you thought me, Joanna. I am J. Martin Ware, of "Washington, architect and designer, if you please." Joanna could not say a word. "I wanted to see how things were, going on, and so I came here in per^ son. But I knew that the irten woul put their best feet foremost if I came to watch them; so I just appeared on the scene as a new workman, and they never guessed who 1 was. I did not intend to deceive you at first. I was too ill to explain. Afterward, Joanna, when I learned to love you?and I learned that very soon, dear?I wanted to win you for my very self, and so I let you think me nothing but a poor j I carpenter, whereas I am rich, my darling, rich in every Avay, and, please God, you will never regret your choice." It would take a long time to tell what Joanna said, but Mrs. Mowrv never said a word. What could she say? John and Joanna are perfectly happy in their beautiful home. It is love in a cottage, and there's a great deal of love in it. FASHION NOTES. Jet bonnets are all the rage. The preferred parasol has a rustic handle. i Tortoise shell ornaments are again in vogue. Velvet rosettes are worn on English straw pokes. rocket handkerchiefs are things of art nowadays. Plaid or striped ginghams are made up with basques of solid color. Embroider* d muslins are the favor ite material for fine white dresses. Velvet ribbons of bright colors are used profusely on summer toilets. Xeck ribbons an inch wide are worn again, but mostly with linen collars. The ottoman reps for summer have a finer cord than those of last season Handsome and becoming waists and jackets are made of beaded grenadine. To insert a vest is one of the best plans of renovating a basque or other waist. Canvas shoes, low for the house and high around the ankles for walking boots, are worn in the countrv. Black silk stockings and gloves are worn with white frocks this summer, and slioc-buckles are large and square. New braiding and embroidery de igns are done in the damier or checker ?/iuni natti.rn rtf blocks for trimminer vv* " v- - c> muslin dresses. French women have taken the striped stocking into favor again, and wear the cro.swise or lengthwise stripe with impartiality. Scotch ginghams are made up with basques of chambray, matching the prevailing color of the plaid. These basques have a waistcoat of plaid. Tall and slander women still wear the English plaited jackets with a wide waistband of the material ending in two l..ng loops that fall over the puffed back drapery. The dyed pearl button? sold to be worn with dark dresses are the most annoying things to match in the world. Hunting for ribbons and gloves of ' the exact shade" is child's play by comparison. Style* In Hnlrdrcnslng. The present fancy in coiffure arrangement is to a certain extent more elevated, although ladies to whom th? low Grecian knot is becoming have not, and it is to be hoped will not, abandon that graceful style of hairdressing. With a slender face this style seems to lengthen the contour, while the loos?, graceful coils brought high up on the head tend to detract somewhat from this otherwise elongated appearance. But, whichever style is adopted, tne suir, nai, errVcts produced by wearing bang nets or lining bandolines is carefully avoided. To lad.es with very dark hair many fri/./.es and crimps are unbecoming, and the brunettes at present usually ar rang the front liair in a few careless rin<-s or waves. Very little false hair is used, and any one who possesses a knot as largo as an ordinary sized door-knob accord-, ing to the present fancy needs no false hair, but unfortunates who can sustain but a still more scanty growth must have this slight deficiency supplied by art. So a variety of "pieces" designed to cover the desert spots sometimes existing on the top of a young or elderly matron's head are seen. One broad, straight piece arranged in loose rings high up on the forehead seems to be quite popular at present. \ o..ng ladies with light 11 nde hair have a fashion of frizzing the bang and then let it ily, which is very unbecoming and in many instances gives the damsel thus adorned an untidy appearance. Barbers say they do not make the bang as heavy as formerly, but they are by no means abandoned. although the tendency is to show more of the forehead. When the hair is roiled high on the head several little short, loose curls .are added just at the nape of the neck. These are particularly becoming to blondes.?Brooklyn Ewjle. . 'VISE WORDS. The farmers are the founders of civilization. Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. It is dillicult to repent of what gives us pleasure. They truly mourn that mourn without a witness. lie who lives to no purpose lives to a bad purpose. Beware of small expenses; a small will sink a gre:it ship. Levity of 1 ehavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. Love extinguished can be rekindled; ieaic love worn oui?never. Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life. Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. In love we grow acquainted, because we are already attached; in friendship we must know each other before we love. Economy is the parent of integrity, of lib rty and of ease, arid the beauteous sister of t mperance, of cheerfulness and health. 1 f any one tells you such a one has spoken ill of you. do not refute her but answer: " Had she known all my faults s!:e would not have spoken only of that one." I)r. I-'ranklin, speaking of education, .-ays: "If a man empties his purse into his head no man can take it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest." A Big Wlialc Story. The following from the New York Herald is the biggest whale story of the season: 1 would swear that we saw not a hundred, but hundredshundreds of whales?genuine sperm whales. It was the most extraordinary sight I ever beheld. Now, see here! I am nut telling this for the sake of telling a big story.but because I believe its publication may put soni" whalers on t lie track of making something handis* me." The speaker was Captain Hrandburg, of the brig William I'hipps, which arrived fiom Aux Cayes with a cargo of logwood?a weather-beaten old tar who is known everywhere in New York nautical sirclea The rest of the crew corroborated his big story, which is as follows: When about eighty miles east by south of Cape Henry, the brig sighted a school of whales. As they forged slowly northward the number kept increasing until the water seemed fairly alive with the enormous creature-. For three days the brig had them in sight, many of them coming within gunshot of the vessel and furnishing a target for the captain's rifle, a species of sport which furnished him much amusement and did no damage to the whales. There were literally several hundred of the whales, which were of the sperm varieties. They were tranquilly swimming around in a circle, and were apparently looking for a good feeding-ground. Two days after the sperms had passed out of sight the brig encountered quite a good-sized school of humpback whales. Origin of the Cancns. The origin of the term " caucus " is traced back to the Caucus club, Boston, of Revolutionary days. Th is club was composed mainly of persons engaged in ship-building. It was one of the most radical opponents of British oppression. It and the Merchants' club, of the same period, used to meet before elections and agree on candidates for town and provincial offices. " Caucus " is believed to be a corruption of " caulkers." New Hampshire sold its State lands a few years ago for $25,000. To-day, It is said, they are worth a million. THAT INFANTILE TORNADO. THE BAD BOY BUSS A BOD A WATEB rOUBTAHT. IleTeHu the Grocery .linn About nn Exciting Epihoili- tlmt ('rented n CooIiicnh Between IIIm I'n anil .lln# " Well, how's your eye?" said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he blew in with the wind on the day of the cyclone, and left the door open. "Say, --shut that door. You want to blow everything out of the store ? Had any more fights, protecting girls from dudes ?" "No, everything is quiet so far. I guess since I have got a record as a fighter, the hoys will he careful who they insult when I am around. But I have had the hardest week I ever experienced, jerking soda for the Young Men's Christian association," said the boy, as he peeled a banana. "AVh.it do you mean, boy? Don't cast any reflections on such a noble association. They don't drink, do they ?" " Drink! Oh, no! They don't drink anything intoxicating, but when it comes to soda they flood theirselves. You know there has been a national convention of delegates from all the Young Men's Christian associations of the whole country, about three hundred, here, and our store is right on the street where they pass four times a day, and I never saw such an appetite for soda. There has been one continual fizz in our store since "Wednesday. The boss wanted me to play it on some of them by putting some brandy in with the perfumery a few times, but I wouldn't do it. I guess a few weeks ago, before I had led a different life, I wouldn't had to be asked twice to play the game on anybody. But a man can buy soda of me and feel perfectly safe. This Christian association convention has caused a coldness between pa and ma though.' " iiow s mill r i our pa isu o jealous, is lie?" and the grocery man came around from behind the counter to get the latest gossip to retail to the hired girls who traded with him. "Jealous notliin'," said the boy, as lie took a few raisins out of a box. "You see, the delegates were shuffled out to all the church members to take care of, and they dealt two to ma, and she never told pa anything about it. They came to supper the lirst night, and pa didn't get home, so when tlu y went to the convention in the evening ma gave them a night key, anil pa came home from the boxing match about 11 o'clock, and ma was asleep. Just as pa got most of his clothes off he heard somebody fumbling at the front door, and he thought it was burglars. Pa has got nerve enough when he is on the inside of the house 4-Vw? OVA An iintauln ULLU VIIV.T UUI^lcilO aio *-?!? uiu v/uumv., He opened a window and looked out and saw iwo suspicions-looking characters trying to pick the lock with a skeleton key, and he picked up a new slop-jar that ma had bought when we moved, cover and all, and dropped it down right between the two delegates, (iosh, if it had hit one of them there would have been the solemnest funeral you ever saw. Just as it struck they got the door opened and came in the hall, and the wind was blowing pretty hard and they thought a cyclone had taken the cupola oft' the house. They were talking about being miraculously saved, and trying to strike a match on their wet pants, when pa went to the head of the stairs and pushed over a wire stand fdled with potted plants, which struck pretty near the delegates, and one of them said the house was coming down sure, and they better go into the cellar, and they went down and got behind the furnace. Pa called me up 'inH H'onfcwl mo fn <rn rlnwn r-pllnr and tell the burglars we were onto them, and for them to get out, but I wasn't very well, so pa locked his door and went to bed. I guess it must have been half an hour before pa's cold feet woke ma up, and then pa told her not to move for her life, 'cause there were two of the savage.i-t-!ooking burglars that ever was ruinaging over the house. Ma smelled pa's breath to see if he had gut to drinking again, and then she got up and hid her oraide watch in her shoes, and her Onalaska diamond earrings in the Bible, where she said no burglar would ever find them, and pa and ma laid awake till daylight, and then pa said he wasn't afraid, and he and ma went down cellar. Pa stood on the bottom stair and looked around, and one of the delegates said, ' Mister, is the storm over, and is your family safe,' and ma recognized the voice and said,'"Why, it's one of the delegates. What are you doing down there,' and pa said' what's a delegate,' and then ma explained it, and pa apologized, and the rlal/w#o + q onM if Tiruca rm mut.for ivq had enjoyed theinsel/es real well in the cellar. Ma was most mortified to death, but the delegates told her it was all right. She was mad at pa, first, but when she saw the broken slop bowl on the front steps, and the potted plants in the hall, she wanted to kill pa, and I guess she would only lor the society of the delegates. She couldn't help telling pa he was a bald-headed old fool, but pa didn't retaliate, lie is too much of a gentleman to talk back in company. All he said was that a woman who is old enough to have delegates sawed off on to her ought to have sense enough to tell her husband, and then they all drifted off into conversation about the convention and the boxing match, and everything was all right on the surface, but after breakfast, when the delegates convention, I noticed pa went right downtown and bought a new slop-jar rtvwl nAmA 11-1 r\Y*i\ a "Pf| QT1/1 1Y10 <111U. U1V1U a. %m imu iitu didn't speak all the forenoon, and I guess they wouldn't up to this time, only ma's bonnet come home from the milliner's, and she had to have some money to pay for it. Then she called pa ' pet' and that settled it. When ma calls pa ' pet.' that is twenty-live dollars. ' Dear old darling' means fifty dollars. But say, those Christian young men do a heap of good, don't they? Their presence seems to make people better. Some boys down by the store were going to tie a can on a dog's tail yesterday, and somebody said ' Here comes the Christian association,' and those bad boys let the dog go. They tried to find the dog after the crowd had got by, but the dog knew his business. "Well, I must go down and charge the soda fountain for a picnic that is expected from the country."? Peck's Sun. The Prince of Wales' Shell. The Prince of Wales' shell?that was to have been?has proved productive of greater damages in England J than in Alexandria. Something lias bet a told about tiie shell be*Lore. It j was a sixty-i'our-pounder lired from her majesty's ship Condor. It passed through the roof of one of the forts and out of the side walls, and was recovered. It occurred to Lord Charles Beresford that it would serve as a neat memento of the campaign for a present to the Prince of Wales. Happily, or some day the consequences might have been awful, it also occurred to Lord | Charles that the shell ' wanted polish." I He had it sent to a well-known lirin of gunmakers, to be polished, cut into halves and mounted. Then the spirit of mischief in it, which would not come out of it in the air of Egypt, became operative, and led to an interesting trial of a question under the employers' liability act. The manager of the gunmaking company passed the shell to a workman named Mustoe to cut it in two. Mustoe said it was loaded ; but the manager ridiculed the idea. Mustoe probed it, and found powder in it; the manager saia n was uueuy suuu. i More powder was extracted, and the i workman said he did not like the job, ! whereupon Purvis, the manager, said, "Xonsense! there is nothing to be frightened about. If it goes off, the hole on the top is large enough to let it come out without hurting you." Mustoe eventually proceeded with his work, when the shell exploded, doing him grave injury. He brought an action in the county court to recover compensation from his employers, and the judge held that there was no evidence of negligence on the part of the manager to make the defendants liable. Mustoe appealed to the queen's bench division, where the judges held that there had been negligence, and that the county court judge was wrong, and that there must be a verdict for the plaintiff for a sum agreed upon, namelyj ?268. < SURROUNDED BY SERPENTS. TEERIBLE BATTLE OF THE EE MEW WITH A SEA OF SHAKES. A Terrible AlUXiglit Buttle With Thousands of Writhing ^IonNtern?Narrow Ettcapc fVom n Horrible Death. Last night's Denver andilio Grande train brought (says the Leadville Chronicle) three men who had just passed through an ordeal that is terri ble to contemplate, and their many wounds go to show that the story they tell is but too true and horrible in its details. The men are E. W. Smith on<l (I nnrrrn TT Wlnfn T y* nf Pnoliln and Thomas McGough, of Colorado Springs. They detail the account of their adventure about as follows: Nine miles from the mouth of Cottonwood Creek, up the stream, is a barren wilderness of scrubby undergrowth and boulders, and rocks, and stones. To stand on the verdant shore of this sea of waste land, one would naturally conclude that they were not many miles away from nowhere, and, for aught they knew, were the first to discover this blank sea of waste, barren, worthless fly-speck on the shirt-front of creation. The men were on a fishing expedition, and started Wednesday morning from the , mouth of the Minnehaha stream to [ wend and wade their way toward its source, when they reached the spot above mentioned. Here night ove*" reached them, and, having a lunch they built a fire and made themselves as comfortable as possible on the surface of a scraggy mossed rock. Being tired and footsore, as soon as their scanty repast was eagerly devoured they were soon reveling in dreams that, perhaps, are more or less pleasant to the mind while flitting in the realms of such fancies. One of the party had not been tangled with Morpheus long until he was awakened by something choking him, and, feeling, found his strange collar was cold and slimy. It was a very line specimen of the blacksnake species, which was girding his throttle in its anything but loving embrace. The monster was soon dis ' ? ? ~ paicneu, ana me party were tvuuuo ]ie down again after ridding themselves of his snakesliip, when they found by the aid of the dying embers and the assistance afforded by the quarter moon that they were literally surrounded by the venomtongued trailers. Two of the party proposed to decamp for a more congenial clime, but when about to leave tlie rock they found themselves trampling on a living sea of serpents. The hissing and rattling became more audible, and it was but ?i few minutes until it was as lcud as ordinary toned voices. The men, finding they were thus surrounded, broke branches from the stubby undergrowth of pines and commenced lashing the writhing sea of darting, hissing snakes. Ktalizing that they had an all-night job, they added fuel to the fire, and procured the largest sticks obtainable and commenced the killing in earnest. The light and noise seemed to awaken the whole barren waste into a tempest of hissing and rattling. Each began the slaughter with redoubled vigor, vainly endeavoring to fight their way to the stream, some hundred yards away, down a slanting hill. They wouid gain a few paces of the distance, only to be driven back again to the rock. The rattling and hissing became so loud that their voices were not audible unless close by. The sound was something like four or five wheat separators in operation at one time. It was terrible. The hair on their heads was standing straight and stiff like the wires on a patent hair brush. Their hands and arms were bloodstained to their elbows, and the stench from the snaky battlefield was sickening in the extreme One hour after the first snake was killed no less than 5,000 lay slain, and they kept coming thicker and faster. Two of the men were bitten, and their legs and arms began to swell and pain badly, and they frequently had to rest and permit one to do the' killing of three. The hours wore slowly by, and the slaughter was kept up as best they could. At last morning came and lifted the curtain of night from a most appalling scene. For fifty feet all around Hip liiiorft rnfks lav a heart of stunned. w"v **"Ow " J ? x- ~ - ? j squirming and dead snakes. As far as they could see all around the' barren waste was a seething tide of reptiles that came toward the rock with maddening furv. Concluding that they might as well earn death by a dearer fate, they made ready to run for the stream, thinking that if they gained the other side they would have a better chance to care for their wounds. Leaping as far as possible from the rock, they ran, frantic, struggling, bitten, and, wild with pain, they plunged into the water and reached the other side, completely overcome by the terrible ordeal just passed through, and after some time bandaged their bleeding and swollen limbs. By 0 o'clock they were suflicientjy recovered to continue to Cottonwood Springs, where they took the first train for Lcadville to secure medical aid, arriving here last night. The unfortunate men are now under the care of Dr. I). II. Dougan. They described the s-nakes as being specimens of all kinds, such as adders, vipers, copperheads, milk, house, green and black, and among them were two hoopsnakes and a racer, which they declare was no less than twenty-two feet in length. The doctor says the men are not fatally bitten, but it will be some time before the swelling and pain will dis.mnear. Thev leave to-night for their respective homes, feeling that they have had enough fishing and an abundance of snakes for one excursion. Paid in His Own Coin. A good story is going about the clubs concerning a New York millionaire who owns a big stock farm in New Jersey. lie has put in force strict rules about the admittance of curiosity-seekers, and if one happens to get in, he is soon hustled off. The ; other day a neighboring farmer called on business. lie had never been on the place before, and entering at a gate he found open was strolling around looking for the superintendent, when the owner, who happened to be there, encountered him. Supposing him to be merely an idler or prying person he asked him what he was /irvirwr tliorf? Th? fnrmpr. t.akpn abank wuviv>. , by such an address, replied, "Nothing." The owner said, " Do you know at which gate you came in ?" " I do," said the farmer. " Well, then," said the owner, " get out there as soon as you can;" and the farmer walked out. Shortly after the superintendent came up and inquired if neighbor so-and-so had been there, lie was the only one anywhere about who had timber they wanted very much, and they wanted it immediately. lie had promised to come that morning to see about the sale of it. " Well," said the owner of the farm " I shouldn't wonder if I had just sent him off with a flea in his ear. I found a man strolling about here, and supposing him to be one of these stragglers, 1 cleared him out. Where does lie live? I will drive over and see him." < )1T he started at once. teaching the farmhouse he drove in, and si eing him he began an apology, but was cut short by the farmer, who inquired if lie knew at which gate he came in. lie said he did. "Then," says tiie farmer, " I want you to get out as quick as you can;'* and the owner of the stock farm was obliged to depart.?New York Tribune. Boston girls never sacruicexne cause of culture to that of philanthropy. A tramp recently accosted one of them and asked her if she would he good enough to give him the price of an humble meal. " I haven't any money with me," she said, " but if you'll come around to the house after pa returns home I'll get him to read you some pages of ' Paradise Lost.' " The total number of coke ovens in the United States in 1880 were 17,229, ( employing 3,140 persons, and requir ing a capital of $5,545,058 to carry on , the business. J Farmers in the United States have 1 $12,210,253,362 of capital invested in ; their business. This sum includes ; farms, implements, live stock, fertiliz- 1 ers and fences. ( Things worth noing?Invitations to ] drink. 1 iter . ' V,* < MR. AND MRS.SPOOPENDTKE HTJKT rOB A KOCTUBKAL QASMBHT IN A SLEEPER. The Tronblo to Which Mrs. Spoopendyke Is I* Pnt by Her Lord nnd Master?Finding the Missing Garment. "My dear," paid Mr. Spocpendyke, ramming his arm up to his ear in the family traveling bag, "say, my dear, where is my night-shirt ? Don't you, know what you did with my nocturnal garment wh^n you packed this gripsack ?" "Isn't it there?" askel Mrs. Spoopendyke, holding the curtains together with one hand, while she trie I to do up her hack hair with the other. 'i suppose ic ]>*, growieu. jur. 3poopendyke, tumbling the things allover the lower berth. " It must be there, it isn't here! Did you Lring any sleeping raiment for me, or have I got to roost on the edge of this berth with my head under my arm, like a cooing dove, all night?" " I'm sure I put a nig'it-shirt in foi you," murmured Mrs. Spo ip< ndyke. clenching her hair in her teeth and making a dive for the valise. "It must be in there soraewlii re." "How many of these does it take to make a pair?" demanded Mr. Spoopendyke, drawing out lour or live stockings < f different colors and designs. "Maybe that's it," and he grabbed another mystery an 1 examined it intently. "Did I have any nightshirts made of wire? Got tired of starching the tli'n^s, and now you put in springs to hold it out, don't you?" "Let it alone! That's urne!" squealed Mrs. Spoopendyke. "I'll I'n l your night-shirt for you, if you'll let things be!' and she fumbled around in the bag in frui less scarolt for the missing grrment. " Dcn't hurry me, dear, and I'll find it, if yuu'll give me time." "I s'pose you want to give your n'.'tes for it, don't ye?" sqtie.iled Mr. Spoopendyke, tipp ng the satchel upside down and rummaging around among the wares and penates his wife Vw*rl o ?-* 4- flm /lot* t.i * Want. " I" thirty, sixty and ninety days and a couple of extensions ( n that night-shirt, don't ye?" and, foaming at the mouth, . Mr. Spoopendyke went for the bag again and turned it insi !e out. "Get me my nightshirt," he yelled, "before the rest of these ] assengers begin to think a soda fountain has burst in this sleeping section !" "I don't know?"sighed Mrs. Spoop?nlyke. " Oh, ye don't!" howled Mr. Spcopsndyke. "Ye don't know! If we could only put sleeves and a buttonhole into what you di n't know it would make night-shirts for the teeming millions of this va'e of tears! Where d'ye put it? "What was the geographical location of that night-shirt in its relation to that bag when ye let go of the dodgasted thing?" " As near as I can remember it was on the top," ruminated Mrs. Spoopendyke, trying to recollect if she might 1"^ * fKrt lm/1 m tlio Inirrir IlUb liclYU lClb lb Ull bllO wtsvi nx ciiw muij of getting away. "i'm pretty sure I put it <in the top of the satchel." " Then let me grapple the top pervaded by the late lamented nightshirt !" snorted Mr. Spoopendyke. "Place within my jurisdiction the measly ti.p we lon^ have sought and mourned because we found it not! Dazzle my vision with a smoked-glass glimpse of that radiant top! Is this it ?" And Mr. Spoopendyke held the ba? bottom upward, and grinntd at his wife till his wisdom teeth stuck out like steeples. "Now tak ; this toilworn hand and lay it gently on that night-shirt! Is this it?" and Mr. Spoopendyke grabbed a cor-et waist and dangled it before his wife's eyes. "Where's the r<st of it? Here's the button hole and a place fur the sleeves! Where's the part that does the most gcod? Maybe you put that on the b ttom!" " That isn't yours." exclaimed Mr.-. S;:o^p:ndv!cr, snatching it out of his hand, "if you hadn't upset everything here I'd have found it long ago. I think?" "There it is !" howled Mr. Spoopendyke. ' You think ! And when you commence to think you only want an impediment in your speech and a wart on your nose to be an academy of sci nces ! (lot an idea you can sew a few thoughts on the bottom or that bib and make it long enough for me to sleep in one night?" "Say, dear,' plea led Mrs. Spoopen dyke. "Say, dear, couldn't yon wear one of mine ji-s5 for this once? 1 don't believe voi' ian <^et your arms in the i-1 'eves, but) could tie them around your ne k, and f' e skirts would keep you warm enough until morning." "That's the idea!"yelled Mr. Spoopendyke, hopping out of his iiightrdre3s, iincl flourishing It like a banner. "I knew you would hit it before you woundup! With all that brilliancy, you only want lo travel backward, and have two nucleus! s to be a .lenks' comet. Where's my niuht-shiit " "Here it is, dear," smiled Mrs. Sp^opendyke, who ha I unearthed it iruin under his overcoat. "I put it tut for you, and when you came you thn-w your overcait on top of it."' " Why didn't you say so at first!" growled Mr. Spo ipendyke, crawling into the garment and liust ing into the baik part of the berth before his wife could g t th; r.\ " What d y j want to disturb the whole car for, and keep in;' awake an hour long' r than necessary? Another time you pask up to go traveling you put things wlierj you can find 'em. or her. a ter you will do most of your traveling bet we. n the front door and the back windows to 3 e if I am coming home !" and Mr. Spoopendyko growled himself to si ep. "I don't caie," murmured Mr*. Spoop ndyke, putting her shoes carefully under the pillow sj they wouldn't stick nut under tha curtain an I show (ho other women in t-ie car what size s!:e wor.1, " I don't eare. lie might have asked for his library, or a it.'j -la Ider, a id th n I would have b:'i n in tr. u'd >. I t .ink I was fortu- ! natethat it was only his niirhl-s'iirt!" and with this consoling relletion t!ie : good woman crawle 1 ir.to bed and lay awake hall' th night to 1'n 1 out if any one in h r vicinity was in the habit of snoring.?I), a :e's Trao Jer.s' JIayazine. Thought Him an O.'licial. ' " lid 1 on; where are you rushing?" , rtske.l a man of a neatly dressed ftl.ow . who almost ran along the sidewalk. " What did you say?" demanded the hurried man, stopping. , " "Where are you rushing?" "None of your business. I'm not acquaint; d with you, s r." " We:j, but 11 is my ousmets. uuw mucli are you short':" , "(!<t out of the way. You are i envy." 1 ' I'm not crazy, either. I'm a tax- : payer and 1 have a light to kn w ; where you are going." "So "am I a taxpayer." ( "Ain't you a state ollicer?" "Xo, I'm not." "Pass on then. I thought you won- j /in ollicer whose accounts were ?hoit They are the only people wh > hurry along so. these days, ami I thought it ! my duty to stop you."?Arkansa /> j Traveler. j j Life's True Philosophy. The following lines, said to have ' f been written by a Quaker, contain tlio J true philosophy of life: ; ] I expect to pass through this world j ; but once. If, therefore, there be any | kindness I can show, or any good thing : i I can do, to any fellow human being j let me do it now. Let me not defer 01 neglect it, for I shall not pass this waj j again. Let this be my epitaph*' What I spent I had: r "What I saved I loft behind; What I gave away I took with me. An Absurdity. I AVe read now and then of cases in ! which burglars are supposed to have i rendered their victims unconscious by j holding cloths wet with chloroform to ' 1 keyholes before entering an apartment. 1 Of course the absurdity of such a fic- j1 tion is sulliciently apparent. Whether j1 sleepers can be ma.le to pass from : natural to chloroform sleep, if the ' r chloroform is held near the face, is still ! i a question. Sometimes the experiment j has succeeded, but in five experiments j * recently made to determine the fact, | Bvery one of the sleepers experimented j upon woke at the expiration of three I minutes, before they had come under | the influence of the drug. I s : -, , * y,-*p '. THE MAN WHO NEVER ADVERTISES. Sing, business muse, the dark and dolefu fate Of him who labors but that he may wait: The piles of goods heaped np within his Btore; Which can't be less, and never may be more, The man whose life has lost all fortune's prizes: In fact, the man who never advertises. Sing of his start, his great ambition's scope, The capital that gave him canse to hope, His credit large, his full and ample stock, His bank account as solid as a rock; Then fell the doom to which the man was fated Who never advertised bat simply waited. So simply, and so vainly! Splendid signet Which basement art irradiates and refines; Plate glass show windows, elegantly dressed, Such lyvely clerks, cashiers, and all the rest, Served but to show him how the public sizes The style of him who never advertises. He waited, and all waited; clerks, cashiers, Salesmen, saleswomen?such delightful dearr.? Impatient waited all the season through, With precious little for the crowd to do. The public saw?that fact there's no denying? But passed the store without a thought of buying. Business was dull, but salaries and rent Wont on till cash and credit both wore spent; The silly merchant hoped his luck would t urn Until the sheriff closed the whole concern. Now, at a pittance which his soul despises, He works for one who always advertises. HUMOR OF THE DAI. "Why are bores like trees ? Because we love them best when they leave.? Dcrrick. Breaches of promise?Those your tailor didn't bring home.?Chicago Herald. A bee often meets with reverses' but as a rule he is successful in the end.?Rochester Express. "I spread my waves from poll to poll," remarked the wig-maker as he rented another capillary adornment. Dr. Potter, of New York, laments " the decay of enthusiasm." He should watch the small boy on the morning of the circus. Rev. Dr. Pusey left a personal estate of more than $80,000. All his property goes to his daughter, Miss Mary Amelia Brine. That"is to say it is all salted down. A genius advertised?" A sewingmachine for twenty-five cents in stamps," and his dupes did not see the point until they received a cambric needle.?Bookkeeper. Biigham Young's grave is utterly neglected, and his widows never visit it. They went there once to cry over his remains, but it made the ground so sloppy that they all caught cold. Joseph Cook has written an article on tobacco, but fails to teach the secret of the art of carrying cigars in his vestfpocket in such a manner that one's friends cannot detect them.? Puck. A Western paper announces the fact that an acrobat turned a somersault on a locomotive smokestack. That is nothing. We know of an engineer who turned on the steam.?Philadelphia News. A Troy girl was made stark, staring mad by the excitement of the preparations for her own wedding. She ought to have waited till she had been married a little while, when she could have found real provocation for getting mad. It is said that a young lady can never whistle in the presence of her lover. The reason is obvious. lie doesn't give her a chance. When she gets her lips in a proper position for whistling something else always occurs. ?Rochester Post. A San Antonio lawyer does an immense business, according to his card in a local paper. The card reads: " 1 attend to all the business in the State and Federal courts." This must make it hard for the other lawyers to make a living.?Si/tings. A Missouri maiden's mistake: One of the sweetest-looking girls in the State of Missouri dislocated her shoulder the other day by kicking a cat. Handsome is as handsome does, but she should not kick with her right arm.?Atchison Globe. A girl shouldn't wear a black belt about her waist when she's got a white dress on and is walking with a young man in the night time. It makes it appear from a rear window as if her fellow had his arm around her waist.?Buffalo News. HER OWN. Her arms were clasped about him, His head lay on her breast; Sweet were the words she murmured As she his hair caressed; She pressed her warmest kisses Upon his beaming face, And death alone could se ver The love of her embrace. She told him of her sorrows, And of her sweetest joys; The wedding day she longed for, Of love without alloys, And in his ear she whispered The fondest dialogue, Her closest secrets told to? Her little poodle dog. ?Xorristown Herald. Miseries of a Defective Memory. The miseries of a poor verbal memory are great. The Rev. Arthur Mursell, of England, says that his own father was one of the most impassioned and powerful extempore orators he ever heard; but he had a bad verbal memory, and "after working us up with a splendid passage of unprepared and impromptu eloquence, he tried to close the sentence with the text, 'Mercy and truth are met toget! er; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.' But the words escaped his recollection, and he said: Mercy and truth are met together; and ? and ? ;ind ? two similar sentiments have kissed each other!'" ]3ad as the verbal memory may by nature be, it is capable of great improvement. l.nvn onnn o lYiiniofor trhn fill ho IT U liftYO OCtU (? luiuidtv/i iiuv) viu uu was forty, did not dare to quote a verse of Scripture or a line of poetry; when, hearing some one say that the defect could be removed, made it a matter of study, and soon attained the power to quote what he would.?Christian Advocate. Nebraska has increased its population 1,496 per cent, in twenty years, and its taxable property 1,120 per cent. "Throw INiynlc to the Dors, I'll Nona of It.'' \Vo do not feel like blaming Macbeth for this expression of disgust. Even nowadays most of the cathartics are great repulsive pills, enough to '* turn one's stomach." Had Macbeth ever taken Dr. Pierce's "Purgative Pellets" ho v:onld not have uttered those words of contempt. By druggists. No library is complete without it?Th feather duster. Persons recovering from wasting diseases, iuch as malaria, fevers, etc., will be greatly benefited by the use of Brown's Iron Bitters. A hki.ic hunter?A fellow endeavoring to a]iture a widow. "Golden Medical Discovery" (words repistered as a trade mark) cures all humors from the pimplo or eruption to yreat virulent anting ulcers. A sor.Ni) education can only be obtained Tom a music teacher. Owenton. Ky.?Itev. J. N. Beck says: " 1 have used Brown's Iron Bitters and consider it one of tho best tonics sold." Thieves are always willing to "take a land " in any business. The " Favorite Prescri])tion " of Dr. Tierce :nres " female weakness " and kindred affec,ions. Bv druirirists. Thk Salvation Navy is the title of a new eligious organization in England. Codobits, Pa.?Rev. J. D. Zehring says: " I ras paralyzed in my right side. The use of Jrown's Iron Bitters enabled me to walk." Haiti Heads, when yon have tried everything else and failed, try our Carboline and bo happy; it will prove its merits. Onedollara bottle, and sold by all drugei-ts. As warm weather comes on wear Chroithion collars and cuffs. Perspiration has I 10 effect 011 them. | Don't Die In the House. " Rough on Rats." Clears out rate, mice, oaches, bed bugs, flies, ants, moles, chipnunks, gophers. 15c. Hood's Sarsaparilla is an extract of the best emedios of the vegetable kingdom known as Llteratives and Blood Purifiers. For Thick Heads, Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions?Wells' Jay Apple Pills?antibiliouj?,cathartic. 10 2">o For burns, scalds, bruises, (hipped hands, ores or piles, use St. Patrick's Salve. i i? . v t 'V A MALABIAL VICTIM. ThcTrylnaExiieiienceof a Prominent MlnU? ter In tne Tropica and at the North. To the Editor: The following circumstances, drawn from my personal experience, are so important and really remarkable that I have felt called apon to make them public. Their troth can be amply verified: In 1?751 moved from Canton, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., to Florida, which State I intended to make my future residence. I purchased a home on the banks of the St John's river and settled down, as 1 thought, for lite. Tiie summer ioiiowmg me ures wiuwjr I was conscious of most peculiar sensations, which seemed to be the accompaniment of a change of climate. I felt a sinking at the pit of the stomach, accompanied by occasional dizziness and nausea. My head ached. My limbs pained me and I had an oppressive sense of weariness. I had a thirst for acids and my appetite was weak and uncertain. My digestion was impaired and my food did not assimilate. At first I imagined it was the effort of natnro to become acclimated, and so I thought little of it. Bnt my troubles increased until I became restless and feverish, and the physicians informed m31 was suffering from malarial fever. This continued in spite of all the best physicians could do, and I kept growing steadily worse. In the year 1880 my physicians informed mo a change of climate was absolutely necessary?that I could not survive another summer in the South. I determined to return North, bat not to the extreme portion, and so I took up my residence at Upper Sandusky in Central Ohio. The change did not work the desired cure and I again consulted physicians. I found they were unable to effect a permanent cure, and when the extreme warm weather of summer came on I grew so much worse that I gave up nil hope. At that time I was suffering terribly. How badly, only those can appreciate who have contracted malarial disease in tropical regions. It seemed as if death would be a relief greater than any other blessing. But notwithstanding all this, I am happy to state that I am to-day a perfectly well and healthy man. How I came to recover so remarkably can be understood from the following card voluntarily published by me in the Sandusky (Ohio) Republican, entitled: h0n0b to whom honor is due. Editobs Republican : During my recent visit to Upper Sandusky, so many inquiries were made relative to what medicine or course of treatment had brought such a marked change in my system, I feel it to be due to the proprietors and to the public to state that Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure accomplished for me what other medicines and physicians had failed to do. The ' _i_ t?a :i.? maianai poison wnicn anu wornou iu ? uy Du thoroughly through my system during my five years residence in Florida had brought me ; to the verge of the grave, ^nd physicians had pronounced my case incurable; but that is not to be wondered at, aa it was undoubtedly one of the worst on record. Hough Brothers, of your city, called my attention to the medicine referred to, and induced me to try a few bottles. So marked was the change after four week's trial that I , continued its use, and now, after three months, the cure is complete. This is not written for the benefit of Warner & Co., but for the public, and especially for any person troubled with malaria or bilions attacks." Such is the statement I made, without solicitation, after my recovery, and such I stand by at the present moment. Iam convinced that-Warner's Safe Cure is all it is claimed to be, and as such deserves the great favor it has received. A remedy which can cure the : severest case of tropical malaria of five years' standing certainly cannot fail to cure those minor malarial troubles which are so prevalent and yet so serious. ALFRED DAY, Pastor Universalist Church. Woodstock, 0., May 10. 1883. As a perfect pharmaceutical preparation, Hood's Sarsaparilla surpasses any proprietary article upon the market. A glance at the article shows the scrapulous neatness and care with which the detail of its manufacture and putting up must be conducted. These points are of importance in any business, bat in remedies for the relief of human suffering they become of supremo importance. Only such medicines nre worthy public confidence, (inntrinc. This preparation, compounded from the formula of a celebrated physician, is highly recommended to ladies who suffer from unpleasant feelings after eating. Druggists. Pbevent crooked boots and blistered heela by wearing Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffenera. Skinny iUcn. Wells' Health Renewer restores health,vigor, curesDyspepsia,Impotence,SexualDebility.$l Drop* of Water. Mr. Joseph G. Bicknell, No. $12 Main Street, Gambridgeport, Maw., writes, April 27, 1883: "Ihave been terribly Afflicted for a number of years with (Travel and kidney disease. My urine contained brick-dust deposits, and at times I c mid not pass my water except In drops and with great pain; and have had to (ret up ra ' many as fifteen times during the night. I tried several , physicians; they did me noKwd, but a friend of mine. who had used Hunt's Remedy, told me to get a bottle I and try it. He had been cured of a severe case similar 1 to mine, and that others had used Hunt's Remedy in Cambridge and pronounced it a medicine of real merit. After being repeatodly urged I purchased a bottle, and before I had used all of it I passed a stone as iargi as a pea, followed by smaller ones. I have used in all ten bottles, and it has completely cured me. My kidneys I are in excellent condition, and for one of my age (Si) sixty-eight yean, 1 can truly say I feel like a young man with strength and vitality. My family use the Remedy, and would not be without it, and never fail to recom! mend it to our friends and neighbors in Cambridge and , Boston. You are at liberty to use my name in praise of the best kidney and livor medi.-ine, Hunt's Rdmedy." ! MWcl Wonder* for I?lc.? , The abovo wbrds are from Mr. Lewis kees, No. 9 Highland Avenue, Maiden, Mass., April 28, 1883. He says: " I have beon troubled for years with kidney and ; liver complaint, followed by gravel, with severe pains in my back and groins. I had great trouble in passing water, it being scanty, and accompanied by terrible bnming, the vessel being coated with brick-dust deposit. I was recommended to use Hunt's Remedy by a friend who had been completely cured of a similar trouble. I 1 purchased a bottle at the druggist's, and commenced to , improve at once. IhaveuseJ but two bottles, and it has done wonders for me?no more kidney trouble, no ' more pain. It has given me new lifo, and I would not i be without Hunt's Remedy at any price. It is all that it is recommonded to be, and I cheerfully give this testimony for the benefit of the many sufferers from kidney disea:e and gravel." A Splendid Remedy for Liing Diseases. Dr. Robert Newton, late President of the Eclectic CoLlcge of the City of ew York, and formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, used Dr. Win. Hall's Balsam very extensively in bis practico, as many of his pationts, now living, and restored to health by the use of this invaluable medicine, can amply testify. Ho always said that so good a remedy ought not to be considered merely as a patent mcdicine, but that it ought to bo prescribed freely bj every physician as a sovereign remedy in all cases of Lung Disease. It is a sure cure for Consumption, and has no equal for all pectoral complaints. Kcllingcr'M Liniment. Applied to tho head it relieves headache, and prevents the hair irom falling oat. DYSPEPSIA Though no organic change in tho apparatus of dige? tion accompanies dyspepsia, there is a lack of tone la the condition of the membranes, which is effectlvolj supplied by the invigorating qualities of Hood's Sam. parilla. Many sufferers have found it A Great Remedy Mrs. A. l. Fish, Chelsea, Vt., was sick five yean from a complication of disorders; dyspeptic with no appetite. She run down so low she was poor, weak, and could neither eat nor sleep. She tried Hood's Sarsa. parilla; from tbe very start this seemed to hit the spot. Less than tivebottlesmade a well woman of her?strong, robust and fleshy. "Eight months ago a patient, whoso family physician! had been for seven years, tried Hood's Sareaparilla. Th? result was truly wonderful. From a pale, emaciated dyspeptic, three months' use of Hood's Sareaparilla changed into a picture of perfect health. In tbe futnre I shall regard it as a duty to humanity to prescribe Hood's Sareaparilla. Had I time I could cite numerooi cases."?R. J. HaLLAHEX, M.D., Nashua, N. H. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by druggists. Price $1, six for $5. Preparedonlj byO._i. HOUIJ A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. ti Y N U 'i t "" Sf "^tetter's Stomach llflVg E| j k life* Bitters meet tho re? - htomnch anil liver, Bkk ? STOM ACH^^ an.l efteft? asalutaij Ul^Mriin^k ch?n(t? ini thn entire BT5 B iPtJ? 07 H ?9 Hystem. For nale bj IB EL al1 Druggist# and I B mSH " Dealers generally. ON TRIAL. The CHICAGO LEDGER Three Months for 25 CENTS. CONTAINING THR WHOLE OK THE THRILLINC SERIAL STORY, The Missing Heiress, And other interesting original t-toriee ntnl entertaining I matttr. A largo49-column juiper. A'lilress eiiirnco. m. CUT THIS OUT ~ by mail* a Golden Hoi ?>f G.**U, iliat ? ill Win;: >ou in in ?r? nmncv In One Montli than r?n\tiling in Amrfiya. At?oluU Certainty. M. Youn#, 1T3 tfrrrtiwicb J*t.? Ne** York, A Literary i ' Overwhelming opposition nnd delighting iForlu coming to? 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For all thoae Painful Complaint* sad TTwli mill o common to oar best female pepalallM. A HoiIIcIno for Woman. Invented by ?1Tonas* ^fl Prepared by a Woman. ^B Tha GrnUit Hedltal DbtoTerj 'Jae* Ui? Paw tfi Brt?r/? ^^B GTIt revives the drooping spirits, Invigorates and harmonizes the organic t auction?, gives elasticity and firmness to the step, restores the natural lustre f the B| cyo, and plants oil the pale cheek of woman the (rtA roses of life's spring and early summer time. flH C27~Ph)isiclans Use It and Prescribe It Fireely " * |H It removes faintness, flatulency, destroys all enrV? |H for stimulant, and relieves wcalcness of the stomach. H| That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weigh* and backache, Is always permanently cured by Its use. jB For tho euro of Kidney Complaints of dUw ** IB this Compound Is unsurpassed. LYDIA E. PINKTIASTS BLOOD PCBITIlU |B will eradicate every vestlgo of Humors from the Blood, and sire tone and strength to the system, of |M| man woman or child. Insist on having It, HI Both tho Compound and Blood Purifier on prepared -^B at 223 and 233 Western Aronue, Lynn, Uaso. Price of either, |L Six bottles for $5. Sent by. matt la the form of pills, or of lozenges, on receipt of price, fl per boot IB for either. Mrs. Plnlcham freely answers all lettsneC inquiry. Enclose Set. stamp. Send for pamphlet. J No family should be without LYDIA E. PZKEHAVS ~flfl LIVE a PILLS. They cure constipation, Mllmisniws, ;H| and torpidity of tho liver. 25 rants per box, Sold by ail Druggista.*?t 0) Biliousness and Bilious:Me? Pertaining to Bile, Billons Symptoms, Bil- |H Ions Temperaments. TKB ISXBD7. ^9 The Bilious is a disorder of the human H system. A technical definition of the term fl is this: "Pertaining to the bile; disordered H in respect to the bile; as, a bilious patient; H ripnf-nrinnt on an excess of bile; as, bUiout temperament; bilious symptoms. JI The word bile, when employed in the sense I in which it is to be understood in this article. / signifies, according to the Dictionaries. "A. j H yellow, greenish, bitter, viscid, nauseous fluid J fl secreted by the liver." "'Any derangement > of the bile at once manifests itself in great B bodily discomfort, in loss of appetite, and in S despondency," recently remarked an author i of a valuable treatise upon this subject. 9 The same writer further adds: "Someof flj the following symptoms are usually promi- I nent: Fain in the right side, which is very H sensitive to pressure. The pain will soma- D times appear to be located under the shoulder B blade. There is also irregular appetite,. H flatulence, a sense of fullness in the region I of the stomach, and, sooner or later, the skin . fl and whites of the eyes become yellow, the stools clay colored and the urine yellow, I depositing a copious sediment." Thebalaaoe -1 of the too familiar train of ilia needs no H farther mention here. The bilious is, as will H be seen, is an affliction of great magnifaufy H and of varied forms of diract and indirect >\ appearance. The disease is no respecter of persons or localities. Its deadly and im- I placable enemy is found in H Khotex-Wost. I It acts on the liver and kidneys at the same time, and by its mild but efficient cathartio effects moves the bowels freely. The morbid |HB Soisons that have been the cause of aQ this isease and suffering will be thrown off; new life will be infusedvinto every organ, and flH nature thus aided will soon restore the patient to health. 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