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i A SONG. Do I love you ? Do 1 love you? Ask the heavens that bend alxtve jt?, To find language an<l to prove you If they love the living sun. Ask the 1 turning, blinded meadows V\'hat they think ai>out the >ha<lo\vs, If they love the falling shadows AY hen the fervid day is done: Ask the bluedx'lls and the daisies, Ixtst amiil theliot lield ina/es. Lifting u|> tiieir tliiisty taees. If they love the summer rains: Ask the linnets and tin- plovers. In the nest lifeuiade for lover.-: Ask tlu? Ikvs ami ask thi*dowrs? Will 11 it*y t<il y??u f? ?r y?mr |?ain> IT T1IK FI.IT. "You must have some rare experiences totell us, Mrs. Bos well," said persuasive Lieutenant Mussel, while we waited for the mail stage. "You have been at this frontier post ever since Captain Boswell was stationed here?" " Yes; we have been here eight years," she replied, with the rare smile that glorified her face. "I have passed through many trying ordeals here, but 1 really think I had an adventure in the Last, before I married the captain, equal to anything that 1 haveexperienceCl." y " Will you relate it, and oblige us?" urged liusse!. "Mrs. lioswell." >aicl Dan, the irrepressible youngster of our party, Mini," jerking his thumb toward tlie lieutenant, '*is out West here on purpose to spill ink for the New York papers. You can become a heroine of romance if you will." "Thank you," said our little hostess. "X lion i, iiiiuu niv ik'iiwi. Three of us were sitting in an inner apartment of the small frontier hostelry. The liarroom was packed with miners, and we had chosen to have our supper served by our-elves, as we had appointed to go on to Custer City in company. Mrs. Boswell was much below the medium size, quick of speech, light of movement as a bird, and graceful a< a fawn. "It was in IS?she began: "Ihad just made the acquaintance of Captain Boswell. he having some business mat ters to arrange wiui uumr, n;iu caucu at our place several times. Finally, there came a rare day in autumn, anil he and father were closeted the greater part of the day, overhauling papers, memoranda, deeds and receipts. Mv father at that time was doing a great deal of business as an attorney. "At tcatime father said" to me: 'Bess you won't mind an evening alone, so long as Thomas is about, will you ?' "I said n<\ for although there were many robberies being committed in the neigh! tiring cities, private families . < in the suburbs fe*t no fear. Our house was a mile from the city proper, and a half mile from neighbors either way. "4 We tind,' he continued, 'that the captain has got to hunt up some more papers concerning the estate before he can give Barron a satisfactory title. ^ We shall go to Judge Whitcomb's ofY flee, and our search may be so successful that 11 o'clock wiil find us. home again. Still we may be detained longer. Shan't I call and tell your Cousin Milly to come down and spend the night with you'?' '"Xo?yes,' I contradictorily answered. 'Do as you please; lam not timid in the least, with Thomas about.' But Captain Boswell is going to leave live thousand dollars here until he returns.' "'Does any one know about the " money ?' "'Only ourselves,' " 'Then I am not afraid. Beside, you are likely to be back before graveyards yawn and thieves do walk abroad.' " Thomas brought the horse round, and while father spoke to him, I touched the captain's sleeve: "'"Where is your money left?' "' In your father's desk in the library.' Then he looked with a tender, inquiring glance into my face (how the little woman's cheeks Hushed at the memory) and said: 'Little girl, if you are in the least afraid we will not go to-night, although it is absolutely necessary.' . "T Viim liontstlv. that I was I I' . . not afraid. 1 never ha I that strata of timidity in my make-up, peculiar to W&ty womankind: and so they rode away. W&r-'r-y "I sang about my work as I put things in shape around the room, and viewed the brilliant sunset, without a fear or care. "Thomas, our new man-of-all-work, was very busy puttering about the grounds," tying up grapevines and . mulching evergreens. I knew there r, was some coarse aftermath upon the hill that father was anxious to have put on the stiawberry beds, and seeing Thoa.as go up there with his basket 1 tied a scarf over my head, took another basket, and went up to help him. "As I passed up the hill I saw a ; man in the highway speak to him. 1 nesitatea aoout going on, out me man ?< ,.? made only a moment's pause, and then went down the hill, and was soon concealed by a turn in the highway. "'Who was that, Thomas?' I inquired. " '0)i, miss, it was a man from the mills, saying that my brother has ha I a bad fall on the dam, and is bellowing or me to come and see him. lii> W legs are broken entirely. ' "4 What will you do?' "'I told the man 1 could not come to see him to-day?but if I went, miss, I would sure to be back by 11 of the clock, if not earlier.' "'You may go, Thomas, if your brother is hurt so bad. Papa will not be away long.' " 'But, my young lady--' " 'Never mind me in such a case as this.' I always was very tender-hearted. ' You may g<>, and 1 will run right back to the house.' "lie talked a few minutes more, was profuse in his thanks for my kindness, and then started down for the City. I took up the two baskets, and . went singing to the house. "I satan hour by the open window, enjoying intensely this being alone, and the quiet beauty of this cool autumn evening. "Perhaps vou will wonder at this," m and the dimples played ahout her pretty mouth, ' but little birds were singing a new song in my heart, anil [ the (juiet let me hear the sweet echoes. I "But directly I chided myself for I. beinc rathi r careless, as the road was K a thoroughfare, and a chance straggler I might surprise me. 1 ar? se, closed my [ window, and, obeying some strange, impressive power, I walked through the hall into the library, took my father's key from its accustomed place, unlocked his iie-k, found the package of five thousand dollars, and, pla-ing it in Bs? my bosom, relocked the door, anil returned to the sitting-room. I did not ? , light a lamp; I ha I no need of a lire, as that from the kitchen stove warmed jK _ the sitting-room sufficiently in this ?$& mild weather. |B&v "The house was old-fashioned, very, with a fireplace in the sitting-room g|? - opening up into a chimney of capacity sufficient for a foundry stack. We had cheerful open fires later on; but PL the house being an ancestral pile, was gy, getting somewhat dilapidate!, and the - puruuuu uic nuvo m tnu % large chimney bad fallen in. Men had r been sent out to cloar the rubbish and ' make repairs, but the work, half done, ' was suspended on account of the arrival of Captain lioswell and this im1 portant bus-iness affair. "I would have enjoyed immensely . to kindle a sparkling fire in the liuge ?&%... wide fireplace, but as affairs were 1 KI-. could not. Sol mused in darkness for fc-' hours. I really took no heed of time, lij^ until my quick ean caught the sound RLV; of a foot-fall approaching, close up to the doorstep, I could have taken my K; oath. It was so light an echo that I K|V sprang to my feet, thinking that my Eg.' Cousin Milly, absent when my father K called, returning later had come down : to stay with me. By' I sprang up with a smile to answer her knock, albeit I was a hit jealous of Ip her pretty face; but no knock came, js and the echoes died out, and altoL gether I concluded that I had deceived K myself in regard to them. Anyhow I BgW would light the lamp. I did so, and I Wi^jj startled to lind it pa^t 10 o'clock. * 1 had gotten surliciently aroused from : V my reverie to want a book from the ' - ? w library shelves. I took up my lamp anil went singing into the room. t "I obtained the desired volume, u stepped down from the stool, and? f "If ever any one felt themselves dvinc. 1 did at that moment. My song t died "cm my lips, while a thousand t thoughts seemed to Hash into my mind t in one instant. Involuntarily I gasped, and then with a strong effort of the s will power, for which I am famous, I took up the song again and sang it to t the close. ' Among other things 1 remembered < that the lock was oil'the lil?r;?ry door 1 for repairs. I remembered the late- s ness of the hour and the probability that all the people were in bed and i asleep. I remembered the footsteps in t the dooryard. and?there was a fresh, \ pungent smell of tobacco smoke in the i room. A scent of suioke that was not in the room when I was there and 1 placed the pack ge of money in my bosom. i "Do you wonder that my brain i reeled and my heart stopped beating i for an instant? Keside, whoever the t robber was, he would soon begin work, t not knowing how early my father and the captain might return. And I i ..I.aiiU imnwlnrn/1 VkAmnvv'hnrA ?IIWUiU ??. iwwmv 1\\I. V...VM14V?V within a few yards, or a few feet of i me, the robber assassin was con- 1 eeaied?either in the reccss behind the 1 cabinet, or under the long, draped, paper-strewn table. 1 " A faint sound outside nearly made me drop the lamp from my h;tnd ; still J I had unconsciously left my first song s and was singing: i For his britle a soldier won lie", And a winning tongue h id lie.' ' " I knew that temporary salvation? ] ??~,i Ul.nrh- tt\ lu'jvft flint: rnmn UllU ilMCiij vv iu*u- i!iu?u even?depended upon my appealing 3 unconscious of the robber's proximity. . ' 1 got out of the library and found myself in the sitting-room. A hasty < glance at the door showed the key absent from the loek. " Treachery!" ' I wonder that this new revelation did not suffocate me. The man on highway--the injured brother? ( Thomas had betrayed us. He had j overheard about the money. A robber . was in the house and another was out- j side. My retreat would be cut off. . IIow thoughts ran riot through my ! mind. How would they kill me? ! Would I suffer long? At that instant J 1 was sure that 1 heard a faint creak i of the library door at the far end of the j long lialJ. , " One swift,despairing glance around ; nie, one wild id* a of escape, and I ex- j tinguished the light upon the table, ' and crouching in thelireplace I rested , one foot upon the andiron, swung out ] the iron crane, stepped the other loot ] np<m the strung support, and rose up ( into the Hue. Something touched my head. Thank Cud! it was the rope j with which the dislodged bricks had j been hoisted out. C rasping this care- | fully with my hands I held myself j like" a wedge in the opening. If I ^ h'ad envied large, nol de-looking women before, I now had reason to be thank- . i ul for my diminutive form and ninety ( o ld pounds of avoirdupois. ( "1 had little time, however, to con- . sider anything except the imminent j danger of dislodging a fragment of j ] brick :>r mortar, anil thus discovering I s my hiding-place, for the clock began | j with sonorous peals to strike eleven. < I'nder cover of its echoes there were i ,.4-nno !r, M.o 1...11 tl,0 . IjlllClV., 3ULI ovrpo ill. (/IIU IKU1) uuu w??v/ j bolt of the outer door was withdrawn. , The huge flue must have acted like a , telephone, l'or 1 heard every sound , with fearful distinctness. First, there was a pause by the door of the sitting- : room, then breathing in it, then wlii;- ( pering. I " I heard Thomas distinctly, when f he said: j " She isn't here; she's gone to bed; , but the money is in the library.' ( "'Be cautious,' advised a strange j voice, 'and we may not have tu hint . her.' " They carefully retreated, and my ( heart struck oft' the seconds against my j ribs in a way that was suffocating, lor j I knew that their search would soon j be over, and what then? "In less than five minutes they were j whispering in the room again. ' 4 Confound her !' aspirated Thomas, 1 41m Atnnn\' xriMi hnr' OIIC tvyurv. KllU UIKIXMXsJ Uiv.i ***_*. ^ "' Then we'll have it if?' ( "The pause meant all that words ( could convey. " The cold sweat was coming out of ] every pore of my body. The dust of e thecreo-ote had penetrated my mouth ^ and nostrils, and 1 had to take one { hand from the rope in their absence and place a linger upon my lips to !, prevent sneezing. ^ "'Come, hurry,' was the ajjgry s watchword exchanged between them, j and I heard the stairs creaking as they ^ ascendid to my chamber. Thomas wa> y familiar with all the house. c " Why did I not drop down and escape outside? s "First, then, they had locked the j, outer aoor anil wiuiurawn inu ki-v iu j. prevent a surprise from without. v Second, there might be a third confederate outside, lint the most import- ^ ant reason of all was, it seemed to me, t that I never could get out of the v aperture that had allowed me entrance .. into the chimney. I ran the risk of ^ discovery and death in any case. "Oh, why did not mv father and his ^ companion return? It might be hours y first. ; " They had found me absent from j my chamber and the adjoining rooms. j| They no longer used extreme caution, j They hurried from one apartment to ^ the other. 1 could feel the jar of ( moving furniture, and (loset doors f were opened hastily. The upper part t of the house was ransacked, and then | , they came down the stairs upon the v run. Time was precious to them now. | With direful oaths they rummaged the lower Honrs, and finally returned to the sitting-room. "' 1 saw the light here last,' said t Thomas, moving with his lamp across <. the room, ' and here is the lamp on the * table.' } ' 'She must have got out.' " 'No; I watched for her, and every window is fastened on the inside.' Then he continued: 'Curse lier ! she's t a witch!'and bailed they stood and f poured volumes of oaths after me. j I'd like to catch and knife her myself now.' How lie ground it out between j his teeth. j 41 'Shall we search more?' i "'It's no use; we've turned over j everythii guilder which a mouse could j hide.' "'What, then? Shall we waylay the old man and iix him?' '"They haven't the money; it was left here.' " 'The cellar,' .suggested the voice. "Once more they dashed out, only to return in hot haste now, for there was the trot and rumble of a horse and carriage on the bridge between us and J the city. ] "'Stay,' urged the stranger, 'trump up some kind of a story, and we may . secure the money yet.' I r '"I would,'returned Thomas, 4 but I j the girl's a witch, and 1 am just as I ^ sure that she is somewhere near us all I v the time, and would hand me over to t justice?' I s "There was a scamper outside and } j, the sound of feet running toward the | v river came down the wide mouth at i v the top of the chimney. Father and | jj Captain lioswell drove into the yard j w and up to the door, just as the clock | u struck twelve. I e " 'Thoina-i!' called my father, in his I t ringing tones, 'come and take care of I c the horse.' n " deceiving no response from his t] usually punctual factotum, he sprang j<. up the steps, and uttered an exclama-j a aP af fin/lirw* tlm /I/iaw I tli'ii. Ui. Iiv/i X KJL MU IIUVUU^ ll?V UUVi ^ open. h "?Uo.swell,' said lie, " we certa:nly t( saw a light here when we came down ? the hill.' ii "(}uick, Jason,' said the captain, f. "there has been foul play here.' ^ "'Foul play? My God! my poor ~ little girl.' ^ "' Father,' I strove to call, but the a first attempts, choked in dust and soot, ended in a hysterical hiccough. " ? Where is that? "What is it?' called my distracted father, and Loth men ai dashed for the library. S( "I now strove to descend, but the b movement brought <!own bushels of n mortar and broken bricks from all c sides, and closed up the Hue. I be- v tliought me of the rope, and by stick- r< ingmytce>in here and there I went p up the chimney hand over hand. s< , - . I M<??MMMBI "Agile as a cat, when I reached the j op of the low chimney I sprang down ; ,pon the roof and began calling loudly | or lamer. " You shoukl have heard tliein run hrougli the house and halloo before hey located my voice. At last the ca: ain came out of doors. "' Will you pet me a ladder, please,' aid I, 41 want to get down from here.' " 4 A ladder, Jason,' shouted the capain, the little girl is on the roof.' 4"For the love of heaven, girl, how :ame you there?' said my father, as I anded upon the ground and began ihaking the soot from my clothes. 4*41 went up therethrough tne<himley, papa. But you had bitter put up lie horse?you will haveto groom him ourself to-night?and then 1 will tell 'nu all about it.' 44 The captain led me into the house, 'or 1 wits trembling violently. " Now,' said father, being absent >nly a moment or two, without letting ne have time to mop the smut from ny face and hands; now tell us what his means? my littl" girl climbing lie ridge-pole like a cat at midnight!' "In a few moments matters were ?n plained. "'Thomas, the villain!' eja'-ulated nv father ; 'I'll have liini if I have to mnt the two continents for him, an 1 leshall have his deserts.' " lie kept his word. Thomas got a ierm in the State prison. ""When I gave the captain his money I should have burst out into hysterical iol'bing only I remembered the soot n time to prevent shading myself in jla-k crayon; and Captain Bos well iclieved that stature and l?ulk were lot always certificates of the best materials, and?" "And," finished Dan, our jester, "it nay be said, Mrs. Bos well, that you ictually flue to his arms." She smiled and I lowed as the sonorous :on< s of the driver came in among us : "Stage ready, gentlemen." Boyhood's Joys and Troubles "When you see a boy going along in :lie merry, merry sunshine, with his nit in his hand, shaking his hair with i pine stick to get it dry, now and :hen leaning his head to one side, pounding the other side with his hand, md practically kicking his feet in the lir in desperate efforts to get the water Mil of his ears; or when you see him lolding a warm stone to his ear lor :he same purpose, it is a true sign that rou may think of that boy, by-and-bye, <tanling speechless when his mother isks him how his shirt came to l>e kvrong side out. You must not run lown the street in the direction of his lome under the impression that the toy is being basely murdered. You . an't kill a oov wmi a sKacc-sinip. ,\nd in hoc signoes you will know ;liat boy has been in swiinming'when le should have leen at school learning :hat ' twenty-six prepositions are i'olowed by the accusative," all the way from ad to ultra. When you see a boy, about 5:45 v. ir., witli ink on his nose and the grime )f chalk on his hands, his hair dishev led and the two upper buttons of his jacket gone, his collar rumpled and his lecktie twisted awry, and asuspiciousooking Hush and two or three scratches adorning his face, you will enow that he was "kept in" after school, and was taunted for the same jy another 1 oy when he came outf/and f you want to know the rest of it, it will not be necessary to go into particulars, but just ask him * which ivhipped?" I [' a joyous look of triumph dances II ttie CXUlbillXt tun nuun ;h;it just around the comer you can ind a boy with a bleeding nose, and a renerally demoralized facade. But if ;he lad you question looks downcast, imltis cum lachrymis begins his oraion, like Divatiacus, by saying: "Well, ie was a great deal lig?<-r'n me," you uay know that your buy got "li ked.'' "When you see a boy with the pockets )f his pantaloons bulging out until he ooks like a great bumble-bee ladinfor ;he hive, while he walks al'>ng trying ;o look as thin as split lath, and wearng a profound expression of supernatural innocence, you know, without eferring to tiiis code of signals, that joy has been lingering in somebody's >rchar?l, and doesn't care to have unlue publicity given to facts that only :oncern him personally. When you see a boy on the distant lillside, suddenly leap up into the soit aimmer air, holding one barel'o >t tenleriy, but firmly, in the wedded ingers of both hands, while he hops iround in irregular but excited orbits. it the same time voicing his grief with vailing shriek-', mellowul by the unny distance, then, without going to hi; telephone, you may know that >arefoot boy has trod upon the busy iee that nestled in ttie perfumed lover. And wherever and whenever you ee him, in mischief or out of it?that 3, just coming out of it. or just ready o get into some more; awfully bad, or vitii many tearful failures and disgraceful stumbles trying to be good; orgetting your commandments which liunder upon him by the hundred, rell nigh as readily and repeatedly as ou forget the ten that infinite wisom has laid upon you; in all his ioise, his poor little struggles, tempt aions, triumphs and failures, his pitiful ittle trouble and his tearful, honest enitence. in all the lightness of a toy's life, your heart must grow mcldw and tender for the little germ of nanhood, so full of wonderful possi ilities. so rich with seeds of strength hat will ripen by and by, for good or or evil, as you walk and live before he hoy; ever as you look at him. renember what you were thirty or forty ears afro, and sav. "(Jod bless the O ' v k >y."?B urliuytou //a wkttyr, Ned Ituntliue. AVonder how many of our readers an tell, says the Troy Tiuns, whether S'ed Buntline is alive or dead at the >resent time. And yet Irs was once a lame that was prominently before the mblic. The eccentric old story-teller s not dead, but he must be verging ipon the three score years and ten of lie psalmist. The following paragraph rom the Buffalo Courier serves to call lira to mind one:* more: The wildwood home of Colonel E. C. .Fudson, better known as "Xed Juntline," in the Adirondacks is one >f tiie attractions of that famous region. The bouse, if it may be dignified jy that name, is constructed of logs in lie most primitive style, and contains nit two rooms. It stands near Eagle ake at the l'o't of Blue mountain. As ar back as 1856 "Xe I Buntline" in raded the wilderness and built this ittle lug cabin in the heart of the voods. At that time lie was a slave o intemperance, and recognized the act that his safety lay in flight from lie busy haunts of men. lie succeeded in clearing a little farm, and vhen the cabin attllned the appeartnce of a home he presented it with a nistress in the form of a young and landsome wife. The furniture was of lie simplest description, and the pair vere dependent upon their labor* for he necessaries of Jife, but notwithtanding these drawbacks they lived appily and ".Ned Buntline" produce 1 olume after volume of thrilling backroods stories. The war of the rebelon called the author from his wildrood haunt, an 1 he did not return ntil long and arduous service had levaieu nun 10 me raiiK 01 coionei. n the meantime liis wife and only liild died, and they were la d t<? rest ear the cabin. Four cedar trees mark lieir lonely graves. "Neil JJuntline" 1 s now lecturing on temperance down 1 mong the Catskill mountains, and the Adirondack home lias passed into the ands of strangers. It has many visi- 1 >rs each year who look upon the raves beneath the cedars and try to nagine the sort of lite the little i un:ly led. The thought of the brave 1 rife who willingly abandoned home : nd friends to help her husband in his 1 attle against his appetite is invariably source of sadness. Liberality. Pnor rp.lat.inn?" T didn't know but. 5 you were refurnishing the house, >me of the discarded articles might e of use to me, if you was only of a lind to?" IJich relation?"Why. rtainly; I'm glad you spoke of it. i 7c are going to repaper the dining ; jom. I'll send you down the old 1 aper when it's torn off. It isn't badly i 3iied."?Hartford Post. \ THE BAD BOY ON A FARM. ; HE TELLS THE GROCERY MAN HZS 1 DOLEFUL EXPERIENCE. Working a Week n* a Fnrm Ilnml?fie Known When Ho Ha* <>?i KiioiirIi?IIow i lie Farmer .IIikIo Ilini Flux Around. " Want to buy any cabbages ?" said the bail boy to the grocery man, as he j stopped at the door of the grocery, J dressed in a blue wamus, Ids breeches tucked in his boots, and an old hat on his head, with a hole that let out his : hair through the top. lie had got out of a democrat wagon, ;md was holding i the lines hitched to a horse about : forty years old, that leaned against the i hitching-post to rest. "Only a shilling apiece." i "Oli, go 'way," said the grocery man. "JL only pay three cents apiece."' ; And then he looked at the boy and said: "Ilello, Hennery, is that you? i I have missed vou all the week, and now you come on to me sudden, disguised as a granger. "What does this all mean?" " It means that I have been the victim of as vile a conspiracy as ever was known since C.esar was stabbed anil Mark Antony orated over his prostrat corpse in the I'oman forum to an audience of supes and sceneshifters, "and the boy dropped t he lines on the sidewalk, and said: "Whoa, gol blame you," to the hor.-e .that was asleep, wiped his bo >ts <>n the grass in front of the store and came in and seated himself on the old half-bushel. " There, this seems like home again." "What's the row? Who has been playing it on you?" and the grocery man smelled a sharp trade in cabbages, as well ;is other smells peculiar to the farm. "Well, I'll tell you. Lately our folks have been constantly talking of the independent life of the farmer, and how easy it is, and how they would like it if 1 would learn to be a farmer. They said there was nothing like it, and several of the neighbors joined in and said I had the natural ability to be one of the most successful farmers in the State. They all drew pictures of the fun it was to work on a farm, where you could get your work done and take your fish-pole and go oil' and catch fish, or a gun and go out and kill game, and bow you could ride horses, and pitch hay, and smell the sweet perfume, and go to husking bees and dances, and everything, and they got me all worked up so I wanted to go to work on a farm. Then an old deacon that belongs to our church, who runs a farm about eight miles out of town, he came on the scene and said he wanted a bov, and if I would go out and work for him he would be easy on me because he knew my folks, and we belonged to the same church. Ti. ?1\ i can see 11 now. al was ?m a put up job on me, just like they play three card monte on a fresh stranger. 1 was took in. By gosh. I have been out there a week, and here's what there is left of me. The only way I got a chance to come to town was to tell the farmer 1 could sell cabbages to you for a shilling apiece. I knew you sold them for lifteen cents ;ind I thought you would pay a shilling. So the farmer said he would pay me my wages in cabbages at a shilling apiece, and only charge me a dollar for ahorse and wagon to bring them in. .So you only pay three cents. Here are thirty cabbages, which will come to ninety1 cents. 1 pay a dollar for the horse, and when I get back to the farm 1 owe ' the farmer ten cents, beside working a week lor nothing. Oh. it is all right. I don't kick, but this ends farming for Hennery. 1 know when I have got enough of an easy life on a farm. I prefer a hard life, breaking stones on the streets, to an easy, dreamy life on a farm." .l.'.UI*. " i ney am piuy il on ju?, umu i< they," said the grocery man. "But wasn't the old deacon a good man to work ft r?" Good man notliinV* -aid Hie boy, as he to;ik up a piece of horse radish and began to grate it on the inside of his rough hand. ' I tell you there's a heap of difference in a deacon in Sunday-school, telling about sowing wheat and tares, and a deacon out on a farm in a hurrying season, when there is hay to grt in and wheat to harve t all at the same time. I wont out to the farm Sunday evening with the deacon and his wife, and they couldn't talk too much about the nice time we would have, and the fun; but the deacon changed more than l'orty degrees in five miiyit s after we got out to the farm. Tie jumped out of the wagon and pulled off his coat, and let his wife climb out over the wheel, and yelled to the hired girl t> bring out the milk pail, an 1 told me to fly around and unharness the horse, and throw down a lot of hay for all the work animals, and then told me to run down to the pasture .and drive up a lot of cows. The pasture was half a mile away, and the cows were scattered around in the woods, and the mosquitoes were thick, and I got all covert d with mud and burrs, and stung with thistles, and when I got the cattle near to the house the old deacon veiled to me that I was slower than motysses in the winter, and then I took a (luh and tried to hurry the cows, and he yelled to me to stop hurrying, 'cause I would retard the How of milk. JJy gosh I was mad. I asked for a mosquito bar to put over me next time I went after the cows, and the people all laughed at me, anil when L sat down on the fence to scrape the mud off my Sunday pants the T-n'liwl liL-ri Vin rl/iAC in t.hfi TAvi val, only lie said, Tome, come, procrastination is the thief of time. Von get up ami hump yourself and go and feed the pigs.' lie was so blame mean tluit I could not help throwing a burrdock bur against the side of the cow he was milking, and it si ruck her right in the Hank on the other side from where the deacon was. A Veil, you'd a did<- to see the cow jump up and blat. All four of her feet were off the ground at a time, and I guess most of them hit the dea-on on his Sun- ; day vest, and the rest hit the milk pa l, and the cow backed against the fence and bellered, and the deacon was all covered with milk and cow hair. 1 and he got up and thro wed the three- ! legged stool at the cow and hit her on ' the horn, and it glanced off and hit me , on the pants just as I went over the ' fen<-e to feed the pigs. I didn't know ] a deacon could talk so sas^y at a cow ! and come so near swearing without ] actually savincr cuss words.' Well. I 1 lugged swill until I was homesick to ' my stomach, and then 1 had to clean oil' \ horses and go to the neighbors about : a mile away to borrow a lot of rakes 1 to use the next day. 1 was so tired I almost cried, and then 1 had to draw two barrels of water with a well bucket to cleanse for washing the next day, and by that time 1 wanted to die. J It was most lJ o'clock, and I began to think about supper, when the deacon said all they had was bread and milk for supper Sunday night and ? rasseled with a tin basin of skim- ( milk and some old back number : l>read, and wanted to go to bed, but the deacon wanted to know if I was heathen enough to want to go to bed (. without evening prayers. There was -J one thing I was less mashed on than ; ,.,.,.,,-..0 ,f tl.of t UVCIIlll^ I'KIJXIO ai'uill tiKiti HilllUbVf I but 1 had to take a prayer half a hour y Jong on top of that skim-milk, and I J guess it curdled the milk, for 1 hadn't I 1 been in bed more than half a hour bo- j fore I had the wor-t colic a bov ever 1 had, and 1 thought I should die all I v alone up in that garret, on the. Iloor, I f with nothing to make my last hours j pleasant but some rats playing with j J. i*ars of seed corn < n the Iloor, and miee j running through some dry pea pods. s Hut, oh. how different the deacon I J talked in the evening devotions from i what he did when the cow was gallop- j ing i n him in the barnyard. Well, 1 ' f got through the c ?lic and was just get- i ting to sleep when the deacon veiled ' forme to get up and hustle down- | stairs. I thought maybe the house j was on lire, 'cause 1 smelted smoke, j 1 and I got into my trousers and came j < downstairs on a jump, yelling 'lire,'. t when the deacon grabbed me and told J i me to get down on my knees, and be- i fl fore I knew it he was into the morn- j c ing devotions, and then he said 'amen' 1 and jumped up and said f< r us to lire | i hr< akfast into us quick and get to work j ? doing the chores. I looked at the clock a and it was just 3 o'clock in the! s morning, just the time pa comes home i t find goes to be 1 in town, when he is ! c running a political campaign. Well,' u 3>?? T ViorJ fn inmri frnm fiTIA t.hl'nof t,ft I mother from 3 o'clock in the morning till nine at night, pitching hay. driving reaper, raking and binding, shocking wheat, hoeing corn, and everything, and I never got a kind word. I spoiled my clothes, and I think another week would make a pirate of me. "Now, you take these cabbages and give inc ninety cents, and I will go home and borrow ten cents to make up the dollar, and send my chum back with the horse and wagon and my resignation. I wa not cut out for a farmer. Talk about fishing, the only (i.-h L saw was a salt white lish we had for breakfast one morning, which was salted l>y Noah, in the ark," and while the grocery man was unloading the rabbages the boy went out to look for his chum, and later the two boys were seen driving ofl toward the farm with two fish-poies sticking out ol' the bind end of the wagon.?I'wk'.s .Suit, The New Cadet's Mistake. One of the duties of some olc member <if the guard at West Point is, while his relief is off post, to Peep the "departurebook" in the lirst guard tent, where all cadets leaving camp arc obliged to report their departure, destination and return. A "pleb" is usually assigned to this duty, and' his orders are to allow no one without authority to enter the tent. In the summer of 18?a "pleb" detailed to take departures was sitting in the first guard tent, feeling the importance of his position to an exaggerated degree, wben a very handsome and militarylooking, gray-haired man appeared at the door of the tent and attempted to enter, when lie was greeted with: " Ciet out of here? No one can come in without authority," from the new < o.i?f wKa iic vot I t.hp rwilish and politeness, when speaking with authority, that conies after a few month's experience at the academy. The stranger stopped, smiled slightly, and said: "1 wanted simply to talk with you for a few moments. Yon are a new cadet, I think." The "pleb" bridled perceptibly. "IIow can be know that?" bethought, liis egotism blinding him to the fact that his greenness was as patent as if the word "pleb " were stamped an every one of his fifty-four buttons. " I have been here over a month," he said, ''and this is my second tour of guard duty." The last was said rather proudly. His visitor smiled again, and asked him how ho, liked his hazing, a question that called forth rather a gruff answer, for a man on his second tour of guard wanted nothing said mat wouiu indicate that his position was not yet that of a full-fledged cadet. " I was a ' pleb' once myself, and know what hazing is, and 1 found that the best way was to take it good-naturedly and wait patiently for the time to come when it was to cease," said the grayhaired pcr.-on, pleasantly, not deigning to notice the cadet's brusqueness. He then went on to tell of some of his cadet experiences, among others speaking of the killing of a nest of copperhead snakes under the floor of the very tent in front of which he was standing. All this pleasantry was lost on the "pleb," who listened rather unwillingly, and finally told the stranger to go, as he must work, thinking that his visitor was some person who had been dismissed before graduating and didn't amount to much, in spite of his stories of cadet life. The gentleman, whose bearing would have told any one but a " pleb " that he had seen years of military service, walked away, and the rude youngster, looking flirivnirli t)ir> ilnorwRv saw to his dis may that the sentinel on post Xo. 1 had suddenly come to " attention," and his dismay was increased tenfold when he saw tlie 1 adet's piece brought to a "present arms" as his late visitor cros-(d the post. Visions of courtmartial rose before him, ,tnd, stepping hastily out of the tent, he inquired concerning the man of a senior cadet passing at the time. " That man ! Don't you know him? Why, that is General (Jeorge li. McClellan !"?Boston H trail. Air-Going". Mr. Frank Harnett, of Keokuk, has Iven pondering and puzzling for years H'" ntr>lilnn> <if ni r.orninnr TIlP VTU1 VUC A/?w^?vw? w. .... ^ B. puzzle is not lor a map to tly; boys still li pe to do that, but men have given it over. Nor is the puzzle to he able to mount into the air and sail through it. The balloonists have long been doing that. But to start from a given point and go to a given point through the air with a vessel or vehicle that will convey passengers and freight, with the safety and certainty :f going by river or rail?that is what is desired. Mr. liarnett, who has written a good deal upon his pet subject in the Gate City and in the scientific journals in the past, is stiinuiateil to new interest and enthusiasm because of the recent organization of the Aerial Navigation company at Chicago with $2,000,000 of capital stock. He is perfectly con fnli nt, as the result of his twenty-live years of study and experiment upon this subject, that aerial navigation is as perfectly practicable as railroading. Ilis study has been mainly cf the mechanical principles involved, for the enterprise is one of applied mechanics. Prove that you can apply certain mechanical forces in the air as upon|the water or ground, and sooner or later the mechanic will come along who will make the machine that will do what you have ma !e certain c.in be done. So far .Mr. llarnett has dealt mainly with finding out whether the several mechanical principle involved could be applied successfully to the air, TViumiii muen t*nuri< <>11 ma pan, iu unite them into one practicable working machine. He has satisfied himself that the several mechani< al operations necessary are all practicable. For instance, he shows by experiment that a Y-shaped body would go through the air without danger of overturning; that a screw propeller is just as ellicient a driving force in the air as anywhere; that a common toy, a fan with propeller blades, shows that traction for carriage can be secured in the air as well as in water or on land, and that the (light of the albatrosB and condor shows the s irne thing; that pilotage is perfectly practicable; that a very slight force moves it up an incline plane; in short, that separately and by experiment all the mechanical conditions requisite for lerial navigation are demonstrably practicable. .So lie lias perfect confidence they will all be united into an lir-goingcarriage.?Ktokul: (!<> ) Gate 'Jity. _____ Mistakes or Life. Somebody has condensed the mis:akes of life, and arrived at the conclusion that there, are fourteen of iheni. > ost people would say. if they ;?>ld the truth, that there w s no limit :o the mistaki s of life ; that they were ike the drops in the ocean or the sands if the shore in number. Hut it is well :o be accurate. Here, then, are the ourteen great mistakes: Tt is ji frroiit. mist,nice to sot 111) OUT I >wn standard of right and wrong ;ind udge people accordingly; to incisure lie enjoyment of others by our own : o expect uniformity of opinion in this vor'd ; to look for judgment and ex>erience in youth; to endeavor to nold all dispositions alike: not to icld to immaterial trilles ; to look for >erfection in our own actions; to vorrv ourselves and others with what :annot he remedied: not to alleviate ill that needs alleviation as far as lies , n our power; not to make allowances or the infirmities of others; to eonider everything impossible that we ! annot perioral ; 10 ueuevi: wii.w mu ; inite minds can grasp; to expect to lit! I title to imilcrstand everything. The jreatest mistake is to live only for , ime, when any moment may launch j, is int.) eternity. A German technological journal | mints out the fact that a vast amount'; if valuable steel is lost every year in h.i glmnn of nons that become unfit ! or writing and are thrown away. lYns j ire made of the very finest steel, an I i an be remeitcd and used again for , nany purposes. They can be turned , nto watch springs and knife blades, md can be dissolve 1 and made avail- j ible in the manufacture, of ink. The; ug^estion is made that the children of J he poor should lie taught to collect, jast-away ] e.: . id t':c."cby save valtable material iu.d earn money. CURIOUS FOOD PRODUCTS.!, THE QUEER THINGS THAT ABE EATEN BY CHINAMEN. Philosophy of Ilio Moninch In the I'CICHiini Kingdom?Corpulence 1'onnidcrcd n Mark Ol'lntcllectiiiil Snpcriority. To he able to eat well means, in the Chinaman's opinion, to he happy, says a Pekin correspondent. All his cares, troubles and desires center in the same point, namely, good eating. True, everybody the world over takes care to satisfy his appetite in the best possible way. But the Chinese differ from other people in the philosophy of the subject. They hold that only the satiated man can be wise, and those who cannot make themselves full are surely fools. Their most sacred philosophical and medical treatises deal with the stomach as the principal source of the spiritual, moral and physical life of man. The head, in their opinion, is a poor dependent on the bounty of the stomach. Not the head, but the stomach, ought to be crowned. They hold as a cardinal axiom that the stomach is the spring of every thought, feeling and muscular action, iie wno does not eat loses all energy. Man differs from wood and stone only because he fdls up his stomach. They look upon Dr. Tanner's forty days' fast as a clever trick. They assert that the American doctor deceived the ' public by drinking some colorless nu- < tritious substances dissolved in water. ; Otherwise, they argue, he would necessarily turn first an idiot, and then a corpse. When we ponder on some difficult subject we often touch or rub our forehead. Unjler the same circumstances the Chinaman puts his lingers below his belt. By touching his abdomen lie facilitates his -mental process. In view of the supremacy of the stomach the Chinese came to the conclusion that the better it is filled the wiser is its possessor; hence fatness and corpulence are the best mirror of the mind, the best indication of superior intellect. And, as wisdom brings man to a blissful state and to a heavenly beatitude, therefore the Chinamen regard extraordinary stoutness as asym bol of the future heavenly state, The idol of Huddlia-Shahemuny, the ideal of supreme beatitude, is represented as an abnormally fat man, with a smile of perfect satisfaction. There is no need to put any sign under that idol, for without words everybody would read in its looks that " I am quite full." The superior spiritual advisers of the Buddhists are distinguished for their corpulence. I am told there are divines among them who devour a whole sheep for breakfast. Now, what are the agencies which bring the Chinaman to his blissful state? Tliey are manifold; yet beef, milk and dairy products in general are strictly excluded from the list. About twenty centuries ago in the Celestial empire there was established ox worship, as a reward for the great assistance in agriculture rendered by that horned animal. Then it was forbidden to kill either ox or cow. It became also a sacred habit to leave the cow's milk exclusively for the calves, to whom it rightfully "belonged. Chinamen do not use the milk of sheep or she goats, though they are very fond of the meat of these animals. Excluding beef and dairy products, Chinamen eat everything that is edible, horse and ass flesh, snakes, rats, mice, -1 ?.nadlinni>ora ciiirlf>ix. worms. l,uoai ?r. , cocoons, sea-cucumbers, swallow's nests, and so on. Once, while living in a villa near J'ekin, I saw a very strange scene. There appeared a cloud of grasshoppers. Suddenly the field was covered with Chinamen who ran frantically hither an I thither,gathering them in. They filled large sacks and bags with the insects. Tbey carried portable stoves on which they roasted their curious game. Other Chinamen greedily devoured the grasshoppers, paying a penny for ten. At the head of all meats Chinamen nut. of course, work. In their opinion, I T r * to the hog belongs the first place in the list of domestic animals. If you ask a ( hinaman why, he will answer you: "Because it was the hog from whom the Chinamen descended!" Don't you see, the Celestials have beaten Darwin on the theory of the descent of man. It Ls only natural, then, that among Chinamen hogs should (njoy full rights of citizenship. Like dogs, they wander wherever they please. A Chinese street without a number of hogs is an impossibility. Are there many hogs in China? I should think so. On a s'ngle holiday in memory of their ancestors?not the original ancestors, the hogs, but merely human ancestors?the Celestials eat fully 050,000 hogs. Poor Chinamen who cannot afford to buy pork rat meat of dogs, asses, horses, rats, mice, rabbits, hares goats and sheep. But I never saw them eating cats. Of the birds the Chinese eat silver pheasants, ducks, geese, chickens, ja-kdaws, crows and many others. Curiously enough, the so-called Cochin China fowls are very rarely seen here. Salt eggs are in great use here. Among the choice delicacies of the Chinese must be mentioned the fin of sharks and the nests or sea swat lows. L'nder the latter is understood not the whole nest, but only the mucilaginous inner coating of the nests. It is believed that the swallows who build their nests on the sea rocks cover their nests and glue them to the rocks, with the juice of sea cane, which, on being dried, looks like mucilaginous membrane. On the market these nests are found in the shape of a hemisphere of the size of a half orange peel. The nests arc so!d here at from lifteen to to twenty-five dollars per pound. ' They are used principally for ma'dng broth, to which they give a peculiar : aroma and taste, much valued by gas- ' tronomers. i>:-~ .win r\( nnnreo nh tlir> lionrl I I 1\1UU DbtlMUO, Ut ? */ w.v/ of vegetable foods. Without rice < gruel no meat is served here. " Fan " means both "to liave a meal'' and "to eat rice gruel." The bnvu rice, which is common rice, but heated and musty, is much liked. There is also a red variety of rice. Iloney is much used here, but chielly as a cosmetic. After being mixed with Hour it is used by the women in their hair-dressing. With their hair saturated, sticky and shining with i honey, they must be indeed sweet. i As everybody knows, the Chinese are passionately fond of tea, which they cultivate for the rest of the ! world. They drink it at every meal, at home and out, win n idle and at work, in shops and atollices?in short, J everywhere, and at any time of day nr ! night. The red, black and gre.n sorts of tea they prepare only for export, wiiilo t.imv t.lwiiisfllves use exclusively yellow tea. Tliey take tea in small cups and without sugar. Though in China there are excellent 1 sorts of grapes, yet no wine is prepared * there. The Chinese make two kinds 1 of whisky, of sargo and of rice, and I 1 drink a good deal of it. Women also J smoke and drink here. A tin gill ' of the shape of an hour glass is used 1 for [whisky drinking. They had no J glassworks here until recently, when r an American g nth-man taught some ? Celestials to mak? glass. During my j 1 thirty years' residence here I have s never seen a single drunken Chinaman v on the street. No coffee or chocolate } is used here. Wlint (.'ernhline Thought. d " Does (ieraldine ever say anything 1 nliout me?" a-ked an flitliusiastic J liroeklyn lovrr of his sweetheart's brother. ' Ves, indee I,"*answered the littlo ; ' man ; " she says you are very kind to *' Ining her so many ear?.mels." Anything else?" u 'She says that album you gave her ! a i>n her birthday must have eost s?-V "She is good at guessing. It eost j. twenty-live, Johnny. Ibit does t-< (lerakiine ever say anything about. J' you know, about what she?she ,| thinks of me?" ' ,t "Oh, ye-;, sometimes. She said at the brelTus table this morning that she I thought your ears would make good 1 C - - M" 1 *? ? - -1??~ "I f?.l 1 W jacni SilllS, ailll LlltIL \> urn nur gu^iuu sin' would rent your feet to a contractor ' as p'lc-drivers." j a] Unfortunately for (ieraldine's little , c coinmerci.il project he u>ed his feet to ; tarry him away, and the last heard of I him he was in New York, where he r was looking for rooms for a single gentleman.?Ntw York World. <* SONG OF THE ADVERTISER. I am an advertiser great In letters bold and big and round The praise of my wares I sound? Prosi)erity is my estate? Tlio +!.? nostrils crn 111 one continuous, surging flow; They buy my goods and come again, And I'm the happiest of men: And this the reason I relate? I am an advertiser great. There is a shop across the way Where ne'er is heard a human treadWhere trade is paralyzed ami dead? With ne'er a customer a day, The people come, the people go? P.ut never there?they do not know There's such a shop lieneath the skit*. Because ho doesn't advertise; While I with pleasure contemplate i iiiii 1111 mi uiivi'riisur grunt. The secret of my fortune lie-! In (flic small fact, which I may state Too many tradesmen learn too late ? If I have goods, I advertise! Then jieople come, and people go In constant streams, for people'know Tliat he who has good wares to sell Will surely advertise them well; And proudly I reiterate I am an advertiser great! HUMOR OF THE HAY L. remarked to his wife that a friend 'liucl pien'y of grit." wen, yes," jhe replied, he looks as if lie needed i bath."?Toledo Ulade, When Hamlet said, " Hut I have that within which passeth show," it is be lieved that he had in his pocket a coin plimentary ticket for the circus.?Life Bunker Hill monument is a cheap advertising medium. It only costs twenty-five cents to go to the top of the column.?Jio^tcn (Jomvvrrial Jhtlletin. Rattler says the cures effected by laying on of hands is an old story with liini. His mother often indulged in the pastime in times past.?Boston Courier. Thousands of men have commenced at the bottom of the ladder and stayed there. Others have carried bricks and mortar and reached the top by honest industry.?Piraytine. John Russell Young is writing a history of China. What the American housewife sighs for is a well written and truthful obituary of the lady who chips the China.?Hawk eye. "Crushed strawberry" maybe a new color for a lady's dress, but "smashed custard" has been a well-known tint for a young man's trousers ever since the picnic was invented.?Argonaut. "Xo more strikes are looked for among the Erie switchmen," says an exchange. This information will be very gratifying to the schoolboys who live in that section of Pennsylvania.? Statesman. An Indiana poet has written some verses on the opulence of his poverty. What worries most of us at the present time is the poverty of our opulence. It is too sad a thing to write verses about. ?New York Commercial. It makes a man sorely puzzled to know, when he takes his shoe off at night, how in the world a piece of wood the size of a lead pencil ever worked in through a crevice about a sixteenth of an inch wide.?l'mli. The cost of stopping a train of cars is said to he from forty to sixty cents. Hut it wouldn't do any good to hold up half a dollar to the brakeman on the rear end of the train you have just missed, as it goes out of the depot.? Lowell Citizen. An exchange says that newspaper editors never " strike," but the assertion is not borne out by the facts. An editor once struck so hard that a wildeyed man, with long hair and a long iirnnt /I rt M'n of-1 i ra apven stpns at punu, II CUU uvuu^wanu uv.v? a time, and landed on his spinal column at the bottom.?y orris town Herald. The question ""Where do all the pins go?" is again revived. A country editor confesses that it cannot be said, perhaps, where they all go, but when one's wife is away, and one is standing on one leg, grinding one's teeth and trying to pin a collar together in the al sence of shirt buttons, some of them go into one's neck?New York Commercial. The young minister, Mr. W?, of a We tern city, was invited to occupy the pulpit in an Albany church. I lis two sisters, chancing to be near Albany, made their plans to go there for that Snaday and hear him. After the service a gentlemnn of the congregation, whom they knew very slightly, hurried toward them and said: " We are de lighted to see you liere, out now unfortunate that you should have chosen to-ilay. Don't, I beg of you, think that this is our minister. Dr. is off on his vacation and we have to take what we can get; but come next Sunday, if you'rei n town, and you'll hear a sermon worth listening to."?Troj Pr<8<. A Turkey (.'harmed by a Snake. A correspondent writ s from Agua Limma, Cal.. to the Los Angeles Times as follows: Last week in my cow corral was a little snake four feet long, and in his mouth was a cotton-tail rabbit. The rabbit was a common-sized one, and its head was down the snake's throat to the shoulders. It was a fearful sight and frightened the cows, also the boy who shot it with a Winchester rille. Two days later I heard o +iirb-ov moL-incr tin al'.iriii T wpnf til <? ? - ? it, anil a turkey, ludf-grown, had its leathers all the wrong way and its head near the ground, and was within eighteen or twenty inches of a black rattlesnake, and was getting nearer. Neither of them noticed me until I disturbed the snake with a stone, taking him bv surprise. The turkey seemed to be relieved. What the snake would have done I do not know, but it seemed to me that he had the turkey under his control, and would in a very short time have struck it. Advance Step in Dentistry. Havana, Cuba.?The most popular denti-t of this city, I)r. 1). Francisco Garcia, member of the I'oval University, states that in all cases of trouble[.i.inn nonr*ilrrlo oricinct fmill tho toofli his patrons are recommended to use St. Jacobs Oil, and the most satisfactory cures have followed, it is a specific for to ithache, earache, bodily pains and proof against household accidents. " What is that you are wearing?" isked Farmer John of his fair city warder. "Oh, that ismvred jersey." ' All right," was the reply, "but don't (o near my brown Jersey over in that ield, unless you are good at climbing rees."?J'/u'/ail' /phiu lXe/rs. American Triumph at Amslerdair. The Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Company have just received the following cable dispatch from Mr. C. L\ Ilender, their agent in Holland, now 'eprcst'nting them at the World's Kxn sit:on at Amsterdam: ' lieceired Diploma of Honor, the very hvjhc.st ward,The Mason & Ilamlin eabiut organs were placed in competition it this great exhibition with a large lumber from the leading makers of Europe and America, and this award s but a continuation of their unbroken cries of triumphs at all the great vorld's exhibitions for the last liI ears. Mason & Hamlin have now ton the highest awards at Paris, 1S(>7; Vienna, 1S73; Santiago, 1875; Philaelnhia. ls7ti; Paris, 1878; Milan. SSI, antl Amsterdam, 188i3.?Boston ournali A sponge measuring eight feet in :rptiinference was recently discovered t Key West. It had several fresh nwspapers in its hand and a horrowe I inhrella, and wore white hreeehesand silk coat.? Hmiiugton Frw Pr 'ss. Tlio Krazor Axle Gronxo 5 tlio best ill the miirket. It is the most eonomicjil and cheapest, one box lasting as mg as two of any other. One greasing will ist two weeks, it received first premium at ie Centennial and Paris Expositions, also leduls at various State fairs. Buy no other. l'CTUEST AM) llt.tiruni-iiyr.uun,, n<>uii?.ivvi?> vers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard & o., N. Y. Absolutelypure and sweet. Patients bo have once taken it prefer it to all others 'hysicians declare it superior to all other oils. Chapped hands, face, pimples and rough kin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Jaswell, Hazard & Co., New York. "JtoiiRli on Corns." Askfor Wells'"Kough on Corns." 15c. Quick olief; complete cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Use St. Patrick's Salve, and learn ita great alue. One trial convinces. The Oldest Dnnkb Being one of the oldest druggistB in this city (although b&Tin^f rdtirod from business )> I wish to say a good word about Hunt's Remedy. A nnmber of year# ago I was troubled with my kidney. The idea of a druggist, however, resorting to the use of a " patent medicine " v-as a little humiliating, but when I came to consider how many people had been benefited by the use of Hunt's Remedy, I unhesitatingly began using it; and after having fully tested its virtues I can say, as many of my customers have said to me, " It is the best medicine for kidney and liver complaint ever compounded." I hnve vet to leam of a single instance where it has failed to benefit ana give satisfaction, in fact it is the best I ever sold. I would say to all who are troubled with kidney and liver complaint, give Hunt's Remedy a trial and yon -will say as I do, it is the best known remedy, and tne best is the cheapest every time. Yours truly, Edward Allen. Hnrtford, Conn., May 19, 1888. Mr. James Ohkcct, with J. W. Goodman, billiard table manufacturer, of Athol, Mass.. writes, May 23, 1883, as follows: "I liave been troubled for a number of years with kidney disease, with severe pains in my back and sides, and could get no relief until I used Hunt's Remedy, which was recommended by our druggist, Ward, of this place, who stated to me that many wonderful cures had been made in this vicinity by the use of Hunt's Remedy. People who have suffered for years with kidney disease, inflammation of the bladder, and accompanying troubles, had been permanently cured by tins great me ;ic ine. I purchased a bottle of Hunt's Remedy nnd found that it helped me from the lit st dose, and two bottles removed all the pain in iny baok, and I consider myself cured, and cheerfully recommend it to my friends as a medicine that will do all that is claimed for it Canada 'ias imitated Delaware, and now has the whipping-post. Dr. R. V. Pieboz, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir?For many months I was a great sufferer. Physicians could afford me no relief. In my despair I commenced the use of your "Favorite Prescription." It speedily effected my entire and permanent cure. Yours thankfully, Mbb. Papxi R. Bastes, Iowa City, la. The peanut crop of the year is estimated at 2,4ftr>,000 bushels. HtftTBvim, Ala.?Dr. J. T. Ridley says: "Brown's Iron Bitters is a good appetizer and merits attention from sufferers." Glasgow has ;?">,800 houses of only one room each. * " (mi I If yon are Diuous, iane jjt. jrierce b \rieaB nnt Purgative Pellets," the original "Little Liver Pills." Of all droggista. The couutry cjnsumes 9,000,000,000 eg^s each j ear. The best cure for diseases of the nerves, brain and muscles, iB Brown's Iron Bitters. Iowa boasts of an immense hay crop. Terrible Snflerlnjrs. Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.?I have a friend who suffered terribly. I purchased a bottle of your " Favorite Prescription," and, as a resnlt of its use, she is perfectly well. J. Bailey, Burdett, N. Y. Dr. Pierce'q " Golden Medical Discovery" and "Pleasant Purgative Pellets " purify the blood and cure constipation. Racoons and bears make the nights lively in the Georgia mo mtai if. Mabion, Mass.?Dr. N. S. Ruggles says: "1 rscnmmdnd 'Rrnwn's Iron Bitters as a valued Ionic for enriching the blood and removing nil dyspeptic symptoms." Neal Dow savs s?I,00,i00,0j0 goe< into drink in this country. Hardly a news paper printed but speaks of a sadden death by heart disease. Dr. Graves Heart Regulator would have cared it, strong assertion; but many have said they were taken from the grave by it. $1 per bottle. Thebe are 00,000 acres ofjgradng land in Arizona. Dr. Graves' Hear t Regulator cures all form of Heart Disease , nervousness, sleeplessness A lakge sugar crop is anticipated in Louisiana. Judge J. M. Smith, N. Y., used sncnrsyutlif 2 bottles of Dr. Elmore's Rheumatir.e-Goutalino for his 25-year old rheumatic gout, after trying in vain everything else. He says if R. G. cost :?.r,0J a bottle he would buy it. If yon have failed to receive benefit from other preparations, try Hood's Sarsaparilla; it's the strongest, purest, best, and cheapest. Cuttirrli of t lie lilndder. Stinging irritation, inflammation, Kidney, Urinary complaints,cured by Buchupaiba. $1. Wnlnut Lenf Hnlr RrHtorer. It is entirely different from all others. It is as clear as water, and as its name indicates is a pcriect \ egetaoie flair restorer, it will immediately free the head from all dandruff, restore pray hair to its natural color, and produce a new growth where it ha? fallen off. It does not in any manner affect the health, which sulphur, sugar of lead and nitrate of silver preparations have done. It will change light or faded hair in a few days to a beautiful glossy brown. Ask your druggist for it. Each bottle is warranted. SMITH, KLINE <& CO., Wholesale Agents, Philadelphia, Pa., Bnd C. N. CRITTENTON. New York. OnitHne. The increasing demand for this preparation as a household remedy for indigestioD and dyspepsia is sufficient proof ?f its efficacy. Tlint Husband ofWIne Is three times the man he was before using Wells' Health Renewer. i?l. Druggists. A baldheaded man, who has heard that the hairs of a man's head are numbered, wants to know if there is not some place where he can obtain the back numbers. Carboline will supply the demand 25 Cents Will bny a Tbeatise on the Hobse and His Diseases. Book of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Pent postpaid. New Yobk Hobse Book Co., 134 Leonard Street, New York City. GETLyon'sPatentHeelStiffeners applied to new boots or shoes before you ran them over. FEARFUL RESULTS Great oppression of natural strength, bodily distress, constant pain, inability to work, with loss of time, accompany kidney complaints. If ever there was a specific modicino. Hood's Sarsaparilla is such for catarrh of the kidneys, which many regard as an earlj admonition of Brlglit's Disease Four years ngoJ commenced taking Hood's Sarsaparilla for kidnoy complaint, after enduring painful oppression in my back. My case was considered hopeless, as I passed blood. Two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla cured me, and I am now well. I am a farmer, and am again ablo to do all kinds of hard work.?A. Fxlton, Tun. bridge, Vt. No Other Blood Medicine Equals Hood's Sarsaparilla In excellence, ormeets such universal success in purifying, vitalizing and enriching tho blood, or in restoration and renovation of the human system. My wifo was siofc for two years, troubled with nervousness and general debility; ?h<? tried everything, but could not find anything that did her any good till she tried Hood's Sarsaparilla. Now Bh? says she would not keep house without it.?P. P. BOTKTON, Manchester, Conn. Flood's Sarsaparilla 8o!d by Druggists. $1; six for S5. Prepared only by O. I. HOOD <t CO.. Apothecaries. Lowell, Mass. Instantly Relieved. Mrs. Ann Lacour, of New Orleans, La., writes: I have a son who has been sick for two years: he has been attended by our leading physicians, but all to ~ mi.r U. Kin ?on J onoll rtf UU JJUriHJSU. Xnn uivtuiuK UU Ulltt uw uauiu a^/vu vy ? oouRhinpf, and was so proatly prc*hr.?tod in consequence that death seemed Imminent. We had in tho houso a bottle of Dr. Wm. nail's Balsam for the Lunca purchased by my husband who noticed you* advertisement yesterday. Wo administered it ac- ; cording to directions and ho was instantly re- I Iieved. Durno's Catarrh Snuff cures Catarrh and all affeoi | tions of tho mucous membraue. 23 CcntM will bny a Tbeatisx os the Hobse ash 1 His Diseases, Book ol 100 pogm, ralutblo to ever) owner of horses. Postage stanvps taken. Sent postpaid. Mew You Hobse Boos Oo0 124 Leonard Street. THE GREATGERMAN : Sj Liimfiniiiiiiiinininiiinni'i ] REMEDY - yUaagd rnn DA IN ! ; | H!lllll!llll!BIIll!llI!Iini ] | | UM lM111 r*511:: rrT"' i I fll||f^''JUU1Iil| HEADACHE, TOOTHACHE, ! [?J SORE THROAT, III III lllr^rr^iLl QUINSY. SWELLINGS, | 1 Iffl ill) SPRAINS, I I llniunmnainiiO) j Soreness, Cuts, Bruises, 1 ,'?U||I. 'HIQJ0IP J I FROSTBITES, I" JMI ssi iillfPj F,FnSSTBomf. mill I II III II' IflfP?1 II | Sold by nil DrucKlsts and i Iliiiii. pAdll h,n"';;^oS.I)lrec73US 1,111 1 i"ll|l| ' |i:i|]!l|l|[!|'III The Charles fl. Vogeler Co. | |jl i liiiii^' I I i.-u.vf.l. M u A. VUiiEI.KR k CO ) I' ?..dilllllil 'j/j Italllm.irr, Sd.. I'.S. k\ Y N T'-37 ~ jr\ jR*? *n 'uver nn<* nKu# (fOSHPlisSHS and indeed in all TOy\ localities when' tho <r*$g}-rV condition# are unfa VOrUHOMMUU, inis w - digi-ation, blliousm'83 , 1^- STOMACH ? and kindred com. i a Pn V>, plaints, it is without CSgfTEB^ 1 ^ B BM* Dealersgenerally. < A\T.\>Tlvl)?I.ADllIS totakoour Now Fancy Work 11 at Hit ir iuiiiiu>, in city or country, and earn ?G to > IJ jut week, making noodstor our Kali and Winter trade. Send 15c, tor sample and particulare. HL'1)? BOX Ml-'U. CO.,jilio Hixtb Ave., New York. TJirce Partic ' Taint the First.?Brown's Iron* pound. It is a tonic medicine, not a < preparation made to restore strength : in bar-rooms and taverns. Point the Second.?Brown's Irc injurious. The most delicate ladies ; use it with perfect safety and with gre in its remedial agency, it is gentle in its and imparting robust health in the mo . Point the Third.?Brown's Irc Chcmical Company of Baltimore, a lc tion is well-known to the business ] There is no risk in buying such a mod A Pangeroufl Case. BocffiWTEB, Jons L ISO. "fn Tern with the moat Interna ftnd dwithirp^x n>7 hack and ?Kid**)/*, " Extending to the end ofany toes and t my brain! \ ?&&&#' " Which made me delirious! "From agony. "It took three men to hold me on my bedS^faT at times. "The doctors tnea in vain to reuov? mo. Bat to no purpose. " Morphine and other opiates "Had no effect! "After two months I was given np to die! " When my wife "Heard a neighbor tell what Hop Bitten had done for her, she at once got and gars me some. The first dose eased my brain nnd seemed to go hunting through my system for tho pain. "The second dose eased me so much thai I :,lept two hours, something I had not done for two months. Before I had used five bofcties I was well nnd at work, as hard as any man could, for over three weeks: but I worked too hard for my strength, and taking a hard I cold, I was taken with the mo?t acute and f painful rheumatism all through my system I that was ever known. I called the docton I again, and afler several weeks they left mo a | cripple cn crutches for life, as they said. ] I met a friend and told him my case, and h# I said Hop Bitters had cured him andwonld I euro me. I poohed nt him, bat he was so | earnest I was induced to use them again. Ia I i frtnr roaal'a T fhrflur flwflv ml fl ieS.1 UJttU XUUl nvvuw .? crutches and went to work Ii?htly and kepi on using the Bitters for live week", until I became as well a? any man living, and have been so for six years since. It also cured my wife, w ho had been so for years; and ha? kept her and my childrou well and hearty with from two to three bottles per year; There is no need to bo sick at all if these Bitters are used.?J. J. Bebk, ex-Supervisor. i " That poor invalid wife! | "Sister! . " Mother! " Or daughter! _ J " Can be made the picture of health! ^ " With a few bottles of Hop Bitters! " Will you let them suffer?" ^ A NOTED BO T UNTITLED WOMAN. \ji [Froa "tbvBostoa QUXhJ J Metm. Editor* r? . The abort) is a pood Hkcncss of Mrs. Lydla E. Plnlfc 1 bam, of Iynn,Masa., who aboroall other hnmanbelng* j may be truthfully called the "Dear Friend of Woman,* as some of her correspondents love to cull her. Sha j la realotoly devoted to her work, which li the outcomA* 1 of a llfe-etndy, and Is obliged to keep dz lady assistants, to help her answer tho large correspoadract .1 which daily pours In upon her, each bearing ttsspedal I burden of suffering, or Joy at releaeofrom It Ha j Vegetable Compound Is a medicine fcr good aid not -'4a evil purposes. I havo personally investigated tt and j am satisfied of the truth of this. '^9 On acconnt of Its proven merits, it Is reoemmended and prescribed by the best physicians In the country. One sayst "It works lilce a charm and aarta amoh ''jl pain. It will core entirely tho worst form of falling / | of the uterus, Leucorrhxa, irregular and painful J Mcmtruat [on, all Ovarian Troubles, Inflammation and ~] Ulceration, Flooding*, all Displacements and the con* . fiD sequent spinal weakness, and Is especially adapted t? the Chantro of life." "-""m It permeates every portion of ^?>'i>?teai;'and glre* new life and vigor. It jirfiOraftiintnees, fl*tn)?ncy? ' destroys all craving for stimulants, and relieve* weakness of the stomach. It cures Bloating, Huriaches, 1 Nervous Prostration, General Debility, Sleeplessness Depression and Indigestion. That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight ud backache, is always permanently cored by Its use. It will at all ftrry, and under all circumstances, act In harmony with the law that governs the female system. . It costs only |l per bottiecr six for $1, and la sold by druggists. Any advice required as to special cases, and , . tho names of many who have teen restored to perfect health by the use of the Vegetable Compound, can be " obtained by addressing Hrs. P., with stamp for repijf at her home la Lynn, Mass, ' ; ' For Kidney Complaint of either sex this ccmpoundW unsurpassed as abundant testimonial show. "lira. Plnkham's liver PHls," says one writer, "at the best i* On world for the core of Constipation, Bfllrnimow and Torpidity of the liver. Her Blood Purlflerworks wonders In Its special lino and bids tab to equal the Compound In its popularity, All must respect her as an Angel of Mercy whose soit ambition Is to do good to others. Philadelphia.P?- 00 MJ3.A.M.& j ! iwiT#iWi M'M'ISfflM | A NEW DISCOVERY. ( I KBTor several years we hare furnished the 'Dairymen of America with an excellent artificial colorfor butterj so meritorious that It met1 I with great success everywhere receiving the via highest and only prizes at both International Dairy Fairs. 1 C7*But by patient and sclentlilo ehemleat research we havo Improved In several points, and I ^ | now offer this new color as th? best fa tJu world. It Will Not Color the Buttermilk. HI < Will Not Turn Rancid. It Is the ] I 8tronge?t, Brightest and Cheapest Color MadCf I I WAnd, while prepared Inoll, la aooompooaded that It Is Impossible for It to become raadd. I I GTBEWARE of all Imitations, and of an other oil colors, for they ore liable to become rancid and spoil tho butter. 1 t30rlf yoa cannot ercc the "improred" wrttoM to know where and how to get It without extra I expense. (10 . y 1TELLS, IHCHAIIDSO* A CO., UnrliBftsa, Tt | ?? * /Otv K1IJ.N Kuarnes, liea-ungt, mc% Rats. Moths, Files, Fleas, Apta, Iioo Birds, Chickens, Insect* Infallible remedies. Ko Pohno. No fiOSTU 405 Broome St.. N. Yl Usooply UUQ I WW ~ Silver 6re Store AF. O. PIFTICE A CO'H PUKB PREPARED no If HE PAINTS. IF NOT SOLI) BY YOUR DEAL KRS SEND DIRECT FOB SAM. PLES AND PRICES. 160 4 170 FUI/fON ST.. NEW YORK. Iron L<T?r?,fllMl D??rloct. Bnu TARE lt|M> JO.tES, HE PAYS THE FHEI&HT. f fl Bold on trial. W?rmaU 4 y?*n. All tlies ai low. HI 7or free book, addreu H W JONES OF BINBHAMTON, JETZunWrJ BI<<<UAXT05, X. < 2SJ)?EIY0RE?-'' W. is tho quickest, pleasanteat, S\&- ' ur st "ii-l best remedy for kidney. v^XvV iiv''r' stomach, bladder and blood yr f\y? 'I Hensos, and only real curative ever /O^/yX discovered for acute and chronio rheumatism. (.-out, lumbago, sciatS3' ?'>> ica, D>-unIcii, etc. Haa cured bop?, less caie? Bnuht's disease and dyspepsia in 3 weeks?all forms of rheumatic disorder?*in - to 12week??relieve* inflammatory in 1 day. Can refer to hundreds of rail*. ble people cured who had tried in vain everything else. Purely botanic, harmless, and nice to Irink, Ask your drurt'St to gi t it; if hu declines send to us for it?taka nothinxulse. Elmore.Adams<tCo., luoWilliamst..N.Y 70 nU Soldlir* wb* UEHUkEBnEU^ arc In any manner rHWSiyfiS Incrrred during their service, |o* j of a linear, or toe, entlra or partial loss of sljriit or hear! tic. piles, diarrhira, rheumatlim, or any other disability entities j oo. Widow*, ctllld* ron, or dependent parents entitle l. tension procured Where discharge It Inst. New dlscharce* obtained. Honorable discharges and pensions procured f>r doierters. Tensions INCREASED. Kejectcil claims . successfully firoaecated. Sack pay and b.mtity collected. EXPERT n land cases. ITnmpt attention plven all kinds of gov eminent claims. Advice free. Ad's with stamp, L. U WOOH Box 34, Washington, U. C. to ??*?;uuiijixuxuo. R, UNDBLOM & CO., N. G. 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Oostly J I C outlit tree. Address TliCE J: Co., Augusta, Me. L1DI.KSIAN It.miti' gsCollece, Newark, N. J.?Terms / >'N'. Positlo.is UTirradiiatt s. Write lnrCirculars._ PC 4? 00ft perdayat home. samples worttjiBSfree. )3 TO d?U Address Stinson a Co., Portland. Me. J CO a w.-ek hi v.iuroAii t tun. IVrma and $5 outlit 300 free. Address II. IIau.k it a* Portland, Me. A Sure Cure for Kpilepsy or 1'its in 21 nouni. Preeto t\ poor. I)ii. Kulbk, I ArseiiaUt., St. Louis, Mo. Hilar Poi::Is. Bitters is not an i:j:n:o*aim3 comJrink. It is a skinfiiily c r.npouiulcd ^ md health; not a beverage to bo sold ^ )n* Bittfrs is free from everything md the most cr.feeMed inlants may at advantage. Wiiiie it i.-> powerful > operation, restoring- wasted strength st efficient man;.or. in Bittfrs is made by the Brown mg-establishcd hotLX, v> iiose repHtaworld and the general coramupitv. icine? 6