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r~ THE EVERGREENS.
We watch far lovelier lives than ours?
The sun fed fruits, the brilliant flowers,
The summer grain?an affluent sight!
The woodland blossoms red and white?
And when the leaves are dim and old
Autumn's rare recompense of gold !
All growths that gladden field and wood,
; By us are rightly understood;
For are they not our kindred, though
They perish in the frost and snow ?
We watch their fleeting joys anil fears ?
5 We who outlive the lapse of years,
' To front old Winter's frowning gloom,
With potent prophecies of bloom !
We are the vassals of the Spring
Whose sacred promises we bring
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To make Earth's bosom less forlorn,
Through faith in foliage yet unborn.
?William II. Huynr, in (he Manhattan.
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A MAX'S SACRIFICE.
A pretty, dark-eyed girl stood resting
her round", bare arms on the little wickergate
in front of a cottage, whose whiteplastered
walls were half concealed by
the vines trained over them.
She wore the picturesque holiday costume
of the upper class of French peasantry?a
short skirt of bright colors, and
a black velvet bodice laced with scarlet
cord, while the braids of her dark hair
were fastened with golden pins.
On her neck was suspended a large
cross of jet and gold, below which she
had coqucttishly fastened in her bosom a
bunch of half-blown roses.
j\o one. to nenoiu ner tnus stanuing
and gazing eagerly up the poplar-bor^
dered road to where a wicket opened
from a large vineyard, hut would have
known that she was watching for her
lover.
She had not long to wait. In a few
minutes the wicket opened and a tall and
handsome young man advanced with a
free and graceful step, and a certain air
of dash and gallantry which an aristocrat
might have envied?though lie, too, was
clad in peasant's costume.
"Bon soir. Mile. Marie," lie said,
gayly, dotting his cap. "Truly, you look
this evening as fresh and fair as your
own lovely roses!"
"And truly. M. Louis, you are as
skillful as ever in the art of flattery," replied
the girl, in the same tone. " But
you deserve a rose for that pretty compliment,
and I will put it on with my
own hands."
Louis bent his head and kissed the
^ pretty fingers perhaps purposely so near
his lips. He seemed inclined to bestow
the same salute upon the cherry mouth;
but Marie, glancing up and meeting his
lover-like gaze, drew back with a blush
and a smile.
"What made you so late this evening.
Louis? And what music is that which I
have all day heard in the village?*'
" Did you not know? It is a recruiting
corps, and they have enlisted six of
our best lads. You know there are
rumors of speedy war with the Germans.
44 Ah, yes! What a great misfortune.''
Louis shrugged his shoulders.
"So the women all say; but for the
men, my little one, there is glory and joy
in war.''
Marie looked up anxiously into her
lover's face.
' Louis, you do not think of going to
the wars?"
"Not until I am needed, and then it
will be my duty. But rest in quiet, my
rlpurest.'' he added, takinir in his own the
hands that rested on the gate, and looking
down tenderly into her eyes. "So
long as I have my Marie, nothing can
draw me away from this."'
iHe passed within the gate, and the
two walked slowly up one of the straight
garden alleys, bordered and shut in by
tresis work. At the end, on a bench
near a plot of wild thyme and a row of
beehives, the lovers sat down, Louis
having, in passing, exchanged a pleasant
greeting with a tall old man, who was
pruning a young fniit tree.
This was Marie's father, and the magistrate
of the neighborhood.
"Do you know. Marie?"the young
man commenced; and suddenly stopped
short at sight of the gold and
jet cross which had hitherto been
concealed by the roses on her
breast. He glanced at it, and then
looked into her eyes. "Marie," he said,
sternly, "you have not accepted this
present from?lean Didier?"
l nc gin looKfu uown in iuu truss miu
answered demurely:
"Jean Didier broke my ebony cross.
You heard him offer to replace it by a
handsomer one.''
??* "I saw him. when you dropped it,
step upon it with his great clumsy feet,
and heard him awkwardly apologize,
h And you have actually," he added, while
a heavy shadow lowered upon his brow
J ?"you have actually accepted this
thing from him, and are wearing it on
your breast.''
Marie laughed at his excitement, and
looked up saucily.
"Jean is good and true," she said.
&t>-v "He has been my friend all my life?
much longer than you have, Monsieur
Louis Lebas. And he is rich, you know,
and can afford to give handsome pres?-??*i
\ 1.1 T
ems. >> n> Miumu x uui (ivtv'i't min
from him?"
"Why?" cried Louis, in a burst of
jealous rage; "why, for only this reason,
mademoiselle, because no wife of mine
shall ever wear jewelry given her by the
hand of another man."
In Marie's eyes had hitherto lurked a
half-laughing, mischievous light. Had
her lover been less angry lit* might have
ssen that she was enjoying his jealousy.
But his last words aroused in her another
spirit.
"Your wife, monsieur! Upon my
word you begin early to play the role of
husband. You forget that you have ns
yet 110 right to dictate and tyrannize
over me."
"As your betrothed husband I have
the right to object to your bringing yourself
into contempt and me into ridicule.
I"
Stop, Monsieur Louis!" said the girl,
drawing herself up with great dignity.
"You have said enough. Iir.ust remind
you that I am still free to break an imprudent
engagement, and to marry whom
I please."
Louis's eyes blazed with jealous fury.
lie started to his feet.
"Go then," he said, 44and marry your
rich lover. I am but a fool ever to have
trusted to a fair face and false tongue.
_ Adieu, and joy be with you and the handsome
lover you have chosen."'
He strode up the garden walk, dashed
oj?en the little wicket and disappeared.
Marie sat for an instant perfectly still.
almost frightened at tlie violence sne nau
witnessed.
It was no; the first time that she had
seen Louis jealous and angry, for in her
thoughtless coquetry she had often teased
her passionate lover, confident in her
power of "making up" afterward.
But this time slie felt that she had
gone too far, and she leaned her head
and arras on the hack of the garden
bench and cried bitterly. Why had she
not told him that she had refused Jean's
offer of replacing the broken cross, and
that this one of jet-and-gold had been
given her by her father ?
' No matter. He will come back tomorrow,*'
she thought, as at last she
raised her head and wiped away her
tears. ''He will come back and ask
forgiveness; and then, when I have
punished him a little for his rude speech
and unreasonable behavior, we'll make
up. As if I would exchange my own
Louis for the richest man on earth !*'
To-morrow came, but Louis did not
make his appcaranec.
Instead, just as Marie, disappointed
and heartsick, was turning from the
gate, where for more than an hour she
had furtivelv watched, an old neighbor
came in to tell the news.
The recruiting corps had enlisted
twelve of the best youth of the village,
and among them was Louis Lebas. The
gay music which they now heard melting
faintly in the distance was that of the
corps marching away with the new re'
cruits.
* * * * * *
Jean Didier sat alone at his supper,
waited upon by one of his farm servants.
He was the richest young farmer of the
little valley of Bois, lying some league or
so distant from the village in which
Marie and her father resided.
He had loved Mane ever since, as
children, they had first met; and she,
knowing- his worth and touched by his
devotion, might have been won, had not
Louis Lebas, with his manly beauty and
winning address, come into the little
village to cut out his less attractive rival.
Louis bore a good character, and was
brave, generous and warm-hearted, but,
as we have seen, of a hasty and jealous
pisposition.
TTiis had caused many a quarrel, not
j only with Marie, but with Jean himself:
in consequence, much ill-will existed between
the two men.
though, hungry after his day's
business, scarcely noticed what ho ate
llis mind was full of other things.
The Prussians had crossed the Rhine
and met the French, and as the latter
were forced back, the tide of war was
sweeping steadily westward. In a few
days the enemy's advance might be upon
the quiet village in which dwelt Marie
and her father.
Would they not be safer with him,
Jean thought, and on the instant came
the resolve to go to them next day and
ofTer whatever protection he could afford.
Hut his meeting with Marie was nearer
than he thought?for while he still sat at
supper the door opened, and a woman
stood before him. lie had to look twice
lK'fore he could recognize in the pale,
sad, woe-worn countenance the features
of the late gay and joyous Marie.
"Is it possible?" lie faltered in his
surprise. "Can it indeed be vou,
Marie?"
"nli T?nn li.ivo vnn not heard? Do
you not know?"
And then she proceeded in a few
broken words, and with choking sobs, to
tell her sad story.
"The Prussians came to the village
last evening. My father?oh, Jean?he
went with the few who were left to defend
their homes?he never returned. I
am an orphan and homeless. They
burned every house. Oh, my father?my
poor father! Were lie but living, I
should not care."
Jean placed her gently in a chair.
"lam going away," she said, when
she was more composed; "I am going to
help nurse the sick soldiers. It is all
that I can now do."
"Hut, Marie, you must not?you shall
not go. Uh, my child, this is not a time
to speak of love, but you know how
long and truly I have loved you. Come
to me, Marie; be my wife and find your
home and protector here."
' ' i ?i ..n..i
mie shook nor ueuu as miu niuii uum-u
from the extended hand.
" No. Jean, it cannot be. Yon do not
know how I love Louis. Perhaps?oh.
perhaps I shall yet find him. Will you
he my friend, Jean, and help me 1
have no one in the world to turn to hut
you."
What passed 1*11 Jean Didier's heart
none hut himself could know. For a
moment he stood looking down into the
pale, lovely, appealing face, while his
own became almost as pale. Then he
said, slowly and solemnly:
' Marie, I will help you as though I
were your brother. I will make your
happiness my chief care henceforth.
Rely upon me and be at rest."
By day dawn the two were 011 their
way to Paris?Paris, around which were
closing the invincible ranks of the foe.
T" -1 ' '1 I rvuSt! T nli.ic linrl
ill I lie UUUlllVVl lll> uuuin
endured tlie long siege. Careless of life,
reckless of danger, he had fought from
the beginning, and though through it all
he received no wound, the pain at his
heart for the girl whom he thought false
to him had been harder to bear than any
physical suffering. This bitter memory
had goaded him to a tierce daring and
recklessness which had drawn many eyes
upon him.
When Paris fell he was one of those
who most clamorously shouted ''Treason!''
and thus joined in forming the
Commune, whose mad excesses made
hideous the fatal 18th of March.
Ami thon th<* Versaillist armv was at
the gates of Paris, and the lowest of the
Communists, hopeless, but struggling
and defiant to the last, resolved to burn
the city they could no longer hold.
Louis Lebas was chosen as one of those
who was to apply the torch, and on his
peremptory refusal was struck down by
the sword of the brute who proposed it
and left for dead. Thus for some time
he lay, until at last two men passed, and
seeing that he was still alive?in fact,
only stunned?lifted him and applied
restoratives.
One of these, who wore the lied Cross
of Geneva, suddenly exclaimed, as he
bent more closely over him:
"Found! Quick, Michael, help me to
carry him home! Thank heaven!" he
added, in a lower tone. <fNo\v will our
poor Marie be happy !*'
Louis looked up and recognized him.
"So!" he muttered, through his set
teeth?' so, Jean IJidier. you have come
to triumph over me, have you? But I
have some strength still left."
He tried to draw his sword, but Jean's
strong arm held him back.
" Listen to me, Louis," he stud. ' We
have been looking for you?Marie and I."
" Marie! Then she is your wife? The
false?"
"Silence, Louis Lebas, nor speak of
Marie until you can do it more reverently.
It is you who have sinned, and not she.
She is true to you to this hour."
And then he told him all. Louis, as
he listened, bowed his head upon his
hands and wept like a child.
"My poor, poor Marie! 1 am, indeed,
unworthy erf her. But take me to her,
Jean, and forgive me," he added, stretch- j
ing out his hands?"forgive me, and
henceforth let us be true and faithful
friends."
"Come, we will go to Marie. She is
: T)iM>nln
IlUTMIli; lilt' ? UUI1UIU at uu; liUV liwjaiv.,
and?"
Louis started to his feet with almost a
scream.
"Mon Dicu! that is the ])lacc they
ordered me to burn. Oh, Marie, my
darling, I shall lose you at last! Jean,
Jean, help me to save her! They arc
now setting the Hue Koyale on fire!''
lie hurried through the streets like a
madman, followed by Jean. Flames
were bursting out here and there, and
people rushing wildly in every direction.
As they fled onward straight toward
the flames, a woman ran past. Her cry
at once arrested them.
"Louis. Louis!''
In an instant he and Marie were clasped
in each other's arms.
Louis drew her aside into the shadow
of a deep gateway.
In their unspeakable joy they had both
forgotten Jean. He saw it and stood
still, with his arms crossed in the folds
of his <rown.
Marie had ceased to need him now,
and what would life be to him in the
future?
A man hurried past, looking wild and
pale. On seeing Louis he paused, hesitated,
and then turning hack slunk like
a retreating wolf down the street. At
the same moment the cry arose:
' The Yersaillists?the Yersaillists are
upon us!"
On they come, the mad, victorious soldiers.
Two of them, spurring their
horses forward, cried, while their drawn
swords flashed above their heads:
" Where is this traitor, Louis Lebas ?
lie who fired the Hue Koyale ? Point
him out?"
Marie, white as death, sank upon her
knees.
"Save him, Jean, oh! save him, and I
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ttlll \im iiiiu mi ?wu iwiii;
as I live!"
He tore of! his red cross.
"Put this upon him. Quick! or it
will be too late!"
Then he stepped out into the middle of
the street.
" If it is Louis Lch&s that you want,"
he cried, defiantly, "I am here!"
The mob pressed around him. A score
of hands were raised to strike, but for an
instant held back, awed by the calm
majesty of the man who stood before
them, hopeless, but sublime in the consciousness
of self-sacrifice and of martyrdom
for the woman lie had so loved.
Louis made a spring forward, but Marie
clung to him.
"Louis, Louis! For my sake! You
are all I have in the world now. What
will become of me without you?"
She hurried him away from the crowd
j into a narrow and obscure little court. A
kind-faced old woman opened a side
door and admitted them.
" You are safe here, my children, whosoever
you lie. Ah. the terrible mob!
AVI.at are they dointi now?"
She went to a Hosed window-blind
and peeped cautiously through.
"It is the wretchcd Louis Lebas, they
call him, who fired the Hue I {ovale.
They are bearing past his dead body,
beaten and crushed to a jelly. Ugh!"
Marie clung closer to her lover,
I trembling like an aspen leaf. He bowed
Vii'o in hutuls jind crossed himself.
"May he rest in pcacc!"
And far away in their happy and quiet
English home this is still the daily
prayer of Louis Lebas and his wife, with
the little ones who bless their hearth.
Latest Tiling in Canes.
"Got a light?" asked a gentleman
on Fifth avenue, New York, as he removed
an unlighted cigar from his mouth
to greet a friend who was sauntering
along leisurely, swinging a Malacca stick.
" Certainly; just wait a moment," said
the latter. lie pressed a spring in the
chased silver-handle of his stick. The
handle flew open like the cover of a box,
and the owner, taking a match from one
corner of the interior, lighted a piece of
tinder that nestled in the corner, and
held his cane up while his friend lighted
h's cigar. Then he shut up the handle '
again with a snap. "The latest thing
in canes," said he, as the friends turned
into Delmonico'fl. "a I
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MR, AND MRS. SPOOPENDYKE
THE MILD-TEMPERED MAN TRIES
HIS HAND AT TRANSPLANTING.
lie Siicci'mIs in Skiimiiii; lli? IBaiul?
Desperate Mriissli-* with 11 'I'll lierose?An
Outburst of Wrallu
' My dear,'' said Mrs. Spoopendyke,
looking up from her plati\ and re?ynrdin?i
her husband earnestly. "My dear, it is
jetting late in the season, and I'm afraid
my plants will be spoiled by the frost.
Don't you think it is time they were
taken in?"
" P'raps so.*1 sniffled Mr. Spoopendyke.
"If you think so why don't you take Vm
up.'"*
"Won't you do it. dear.'" smiled Mrs.
Sooonemlvke. sweetly.
" Come on!" replied Mr. Spoopcndykc,
dropping everything and preparing for
(he fray.
Mrs. Spoopendyke put on lier lionnet
and followed her husband into the
garden.
"You want to lie a little careful with
some of them." she suggested'. ' A good
many of them are tender plants and want
to he handled gingerly."
You trust me." retorted Mr. Spoopendyke,
grabbing a rose bush with both
hands and giving a prodigious jerk.
" Dog gast the hush!" lie roared, as liis
hands slipped olf. leaving two-thirds of
the skin behind.
" I didn't mean that one," squealed
Mrs. Spoopendyke. "That one i- to be
covered with straw. Try some of the
others."
"This one of 'cm ?" asked -Mr. Spoopendyke,
and he caught hold of a tough
old geranium. "Come into the house
out of the cold!" he cried, apostrophizing
the plant. "Come forth from the
teeming earth and be blessed with light
and warmth in the garret!" and lie took
.rvin Mil tlm lll'lllf lllllf WilV be
" ~"1 - [
twcen the root and tIn; top. "The
tpicstion before the house is, dirt or
Spoopendyke, shall the ground ahsorh
him, or shall the dod pasted fruit of
much cultivation let go its hold and come
out of the garden. Maud?" and with this
exordium, delivered with a yell, Mr.
Spoopendyke broke the geranium oil
short and sent it over the fence.
" You are losing them all," cried Mrs.
Spoopendyke, her face Hushed and her
so?d vexed by the fate of her plants. ''I
wanted to save that one."
"Next year we'll plant 'cm the other
cud up, and then they will grow out of
the ground of their own accord !" snorted
Mr. Spoopendyke, making for a tuberose.
"Now, let's see what this thing is tied
to! If it isn't made fast to a Chinese
laundry on the other side; of the globe,
we'll see what the bottom looks like before
the intense cold sets in!''
"Don't mill tliiit im'" nrotestcd Mrs.
Spoopendyke, in despair. "I only want
to save the hull) of that! "
"Hear what the lady says!*' demanded
Mr. Spoopendyke, grasping the stalk,
and spreading his legs for an unparalleled i
exertion.are indifferent to the
tipper the lmlb has become a
matte ^Hecessitv! Put aside vain pride |
and show?! " but here he put in all his j
strength, and rolled half way across the j
garden, crushing vines and shrubs and
winding up against a fence with a crash
that shook every board in it.
"Did any of the bulb get away !*' inquired
Mr. Spoopendyke, dazed by his
fall. "Am 1 to understand that the excavation
was not a success?" he bawled,
recovering himself with a mighty effort.
" Lead me to where the balance of this
measly matinee is located,! Does this
thing belong to the show ?*' and he j
caught hold of a tomato vine. " Is I
there a bulb annex to this thing of beauty I
and joy until I get hold of it lie still,
sad heart, until I get started!" and he !
wrenched the vine from the socket and
whirled it around his head. "Onemore
bulb to hear from!" and he pawed into
the earth in vain search for the root,
showering the dirt in all directions.
"There!*' he puffed, when he had built j
a sort of cave in the place out of which !
the vine had come. " I'm most through!" I
and he went at it a"aiu. ' Dust thou I
n . . I
art, to dust returncst, ne cr was spoken ;
of this hole!" and with this peroration I
Mr. Spoopendyke gathered himself up
into a lump and came down hard on both I
feet in the excavation he had made.
"1 might have known that you didn't j
know anything about it,"' moaned Mrs.
Spoopendyke, who was anxious to distract
his attention from the fact that
there were several beds of flowers he had
not maurauded.
"Might, might ye!"' roared Mr. Spoopendyke,
rising in his wrath as he found it
impossihleto convince his wife that he had
done it all for the best. " Think you
might have known that I didn't know
anything about it ! With what ye might
have known in this world and what ye
don't know, ye only want a name carved
in your back, and the paint scratched
off ;o be the front seat in the iirst class
in a public school! Some day when it j
rains, and I can't get out on account of >
| the toothache, I'm going to lit you up
witn eignr languages ami a re|iuuiuuji,
and start an intelligence office with yon !"
and with this tribute to his wife's capacity,
Mr. Spoopendyke plunged into the
house, put on his hat hind side before,
and darted out to tell his friend Specklewottle
that he thought something of
buying the lot next door, and raising
fruit next season, as he was sure his experience
in farming would stand him in
good stead and see him through to complete
success.
I don't care," murmured Mrs.
Spoopendykc, as the door banged after
him, and she set to work to take up the
remainder of the plants. " I have found
out how much lie knows about shrub*.
Next snrimr, when I iret ready to plant.
I'll ask him to take up some more bulbs."'
Hon Lore.
The natur r?f women an' liens has
somehow or 'nuther not mixed up: but
I don't see how the lien is to blame.
Hut there is this difference between
women an' a hen; all hens is fools, but
all women ain't. Hut you can drive a
lieu about as well us a woman.
A rooster knows more'n a hen, but he
don't allers show it. The rooster is a
negative cuss. He struts around with
an I-know-all-about-it-but-I-ain't-jfoin'to-tell
sort of an air, an' so sometimes we
are left in doubt as to his intelligence.
But, as a fair-minded critic, we arc hound
to give him the credit of that doubt.
But whether or not the rooster has more
sense than a lien, he ain't -all the time
getting into foolish scrapes like a hen.
A hen will run hack and forth alongside
of a fence forty or fifty times, trying
to get over into the next yard, and go
every time within two foot of an open
gate, hut never anv nearer to it at any
time, and will finally git mad an' fly
over, a shriekin' an1 cut-cuttaring. an'
makin' as much fuss generally as a
woman does when she finds the fortygall"
of a strange woman in her husband's coat
pocket. An when she gets on the other
side of the fence she don't know what
she came for.
A dog is a Solomon in all his glory
aside of a brainless hen. He don't pick
up a bone an* shake it like it was a rat.
tryin' to get the meat olT. Hut the fool
of a hen will pick at a loose cabbage leaf
an hour, an' only get a few mouthfuls,
instidof stannin' on it an' goin' for it in a
business-like style. Hut the hen is a lint
oral fool, air can never learn anyuung.
The quickest way to brake up a set tin'
hen is to let 'em set on something that
will hatch. I have tried everything,
from chiny eggs to shingle nails, but
nothin of that kind will hatch as quick
as good eggs; an' as the hen generally
sticks till suthin' is hatched, valuable
time is saved by using eggs.
"Hell hath no furies like women
skorned," except a settin' hen that is
meddled with just after she has got
fairly squat on a "stole" nestful of eggs.
Hens is all fools, but the lien what
tries to crow like a rooster is a little more
so. Oh, how like liens are some women
we don't know!
Long live the hen?till Thanksgivin"!
1JVWU J / r##Wt Iff.
A Wonderful Mountain Railroad.
A marvel in the way of a mountain
railway lias just been completed in
Switzerland. It starts about a <|Unrtcr
I of a mile on the Vcvay side of the castle I
of Chillon, and runs to a point called
Glion. It is 700 meters ci.'JT.") feet) in
length, and lias a gradient of lifty-scvcn
per cent., which makes it the steepest
railway in the world. It goes apparently
straight up tin: side of the mountain.
The descent inspires terror as the cars
seem to rush tumultuously down the
mountain side, while the ascent seems to
be tedious and slow, yet this is all
apparent, as the pace in both cases is the
same. The locomotion is brought about
entirely by water power, and its constructor
is Mr. Iliggcnbach. the inventor
of tYie liighi railway system, which has
always been a curiosity since it was built.
This mountain railway is almost as long
as that of Mount Pisgah in Pennsylvania,
which is 2,322 feet in length, with a
gradient of thirty-three per cent.?
DonwreiVt Monthly. I;
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The Art of Oscnlntion. J
For the :irt of kissing the Hcv. Sidney
| Smith's directions should he followed, j
lie says: " We are in favor of a certain
amount of shyness when a kiss is proposed.
hut i! should not he too lonir, and s
when the fair one gives it li t it he administered
wilh warmth and energy; let
there he soul in it. If sin; close her eyes
and sigh immediately after it the elTect v
is greater. She should he careful not to 1
slobber a kiss, bat give it as a humming- s
bird runs his bill in n honeysuckle? v
deep, 1 >111 delicate. There is nuicti i
virtue in si kiss when well delivered, a
We have the memory (if (Hie we received s
in our youth, which lasted us forty I
years, and we believe it will be one of li
the last things we shall think of when f
we die."
Xiit a bad description, even from a f
clergyman; still more applicable to \
young ladies than to gentlemen. For the f
iieneiit i>f the latter the advice of an ex- V
perienced writer will be valuable. <'
Don't," he says, '"kiss all over, like I
grasshoppers walk. Don't kiss every
body, including nasty little dogs, male t
and female. Don't sit down to it. Stand i
up. You need not be anxious to get in a t
crowd. Two persons are. plenty to cor- i
ner and eateli a kiss. More persons spoil fi
the sport. Stand tinn. It won't hurt }i
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hurry. Providence will give you strength ''
for Hie ordeal. Don't jal? down upon a ">
IifnI mouth as if spearing for frogs. ]
Don't irral> and yank the lady as if she >
were a struggling colt. Don't muss her <'
hair, scrunch down licr collar, hitc her t
checks, stpiiz/.lc her rihhnns and leave 1
her mussed and rumpled. Take good t
aim. the lips meet, the eyes close, the f
heart opens, heaven itself opens before <|
you, and the art ?<f kissing is learned." "
In ancient Home kissing was n religious
act. The nearest friend of a dying person
performed the rite of receiving his 1
soul by a kiss, supposing that it escaped
through his lips at the moment of death, f
According to IMiny, kissing became com- a
mon through the fondness of the Roman t
ladies for wine and kissing was resorted v
toby their husbands and near relatives v
as the easiest way of discovering the f
quality of their libations. In these *
degenerated days the scheme seems to be '
reversed. Constantino made a law that s
if a man kissed his betrothed she gained I"
therein* one-half of his effects should he '
die before tlic completion of (liecere- f
mony, ami. should the lady herself die, v
under the same circumstances, her near- I
est of kin would take the half due to her. I1
a kiss anion*; the ancients being deemed v
a pledge of plighted faith. Among the 1]
Romans a kiss between two friends was r
I called 'osculum." a kiss of politeness v
was known as "basium" and *'sauviuni" 1
was a kiss of love. '
Kissing was universally practiced I
I among the early Christians as a part of \
their religious rites, and it still lingers
among the Greek and Roman chinches, r
The council of Carthage forbade all re- 1
ligious kissingamongthe sexes, although .)
St. 1'eter favored it. The Puritans, in- 1
dependents and the like sternly rcpro- s
bated the custom of kissing. John Run- "
van said "it was not a comely sight.*'
and when some urged the holy kiss he 1
asked them " why they made baulks"; fl
' why they dfd salute the most handsome t
and let the ill-favored ones go?" Kvi- 11
dently honest John knew the world. !l
Under the "blue laws" of Connecticut s
no woman was allowed to kiss even her 1
child on the Sabbath or fasting day under v
heavy penalties. "
Kissing was unknown in England un- r
til the Princess Rowcna. daughter of
King llengist, of Fricsland, introduced !l
it. At a banquet given by the IJritish
monarch to his allies, the princess, after
pressing the brimming goblet to her lips, t
saluted the astonished Vortegern with a 1
pretty little kiss, after the manner in 1
vogue among the Saxons. After such an
introduction it of course soon became a ''
national institution and the English be- "
came renowned all over Europe for kiss- '
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nig. mus tavciuiisii. in uis me tn
AVolscy, says: "And when she, with s
her train, camc all out, she said to 111c: s
' Forasmuch,' tpioth she, 'as ye lie an v
Englishman, whose custom is in your v
own country to kiss all ladies and gentle- 1
Women without offense, although it he *
not so here in this realm, yet will I he so '
hold to kiss you and so shall all my maid- r
ens."?St. Jsmis Po"/-JJi-->"i/r/i. I
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A "Trouble-ManV' Life. n
The life of a telegraph company's line- ^
man is a laborious and dangerous one, J
and at times entails great hardship and
exposure. In Philadelphia the Western
Union company has live men whose
whole duty is to repair damages to the
line in or within.a few miles of the city, a
/v ** ii'lwv li
will? 111 mi'M* l."? 11111*1, ??*?/ Mini
to sea for eleven years of his life and who i:
has been in the employ of the company o
for the past fifteen years. In speaking ii
of accidents in telegraph work he said: t
"There is some danger, of course, in ii
lincwork. but as a rule it can be avoided e
if one is cool-headed and careful. The a
trouble with most men is that when a
they get acustomcd to climbing they li
become careless and reckless and some- t<
times get bad falK The only man of i:
our line that has been killed in my time t
was thrown to the ground by the break- a
ing of a cross-bar. There arc very o
narrow escapes, though. 1 have climbed t
a pole that I thought was sound and v
found when near the top that it was soft ii
and rotten. Once I fell about twelve ii
feet, and only saved myself from falling v
to the ground by grabbing some wires, v
In Philadelphia the company has about f
titty poles that an? from seventy to 100 a
feet high. Formerly we used to climb
these like the rest, but of late years the f
monsters are fitted with iron steps, and I
going up them is nearly as easy as going a
upstairs. The steps were adopted be- a
cause the poles are valuable and the ii
climbing made holes in them and caused t!
them to be exposed to the weather. ?
One of these poles is eighty feet high, t]
Formerly we hadeither toclimbthis pole s'
or to iret to it from the roof. The jump i>
from the mansard roof to the fourth ti
cross-bar was fully live feet and the cross- j,'
bar, seventy feet above the ground, was e;
only three and a half inches broad. You 1i
can imagine that this was a small foot- h
hold for such a jump, and yet we never I:
missed it. The jump back to the roof t<
was somewhat more dangerous, there be- tl
in*; a space of only sixteen inches to land 1<
on and a wall <o bump against. I took 1<
the jump several times, but liked it less h
and less at every jump. si
''The best and boldest climber I know 1)
is Dick I'enn, of Baltimore. He has
climbed old poles that broke under him. ti
but, like a cat, he always Calls otl |jjs |>
feet, lb* doesn't use any monkey-wrench, w
as others do, in getting out the two-ami a
seven-ei?;hths-iiich bolts that fasten the b
cross-bars to the pole, but pulls them out li
or kicks them out. A climber's outfit is fi
generally a pail* of climbing-irons, a pair t<
of nippers to break wire with and a sec- tl
tion of wire?say ten pounds. I have i\
seen I'enn climb a forty-live-foot pole tl
with KM) pounds of wire thrown over his n
shoulder. James Grace, also a lineman, tl
wits tnc oniy otner man who couki cmno u
with tliis weight. c<
"They call us at the ollice 'trouble- si
men." for whenever there is anything w
wionj? oil the line we are sent to lix it."? n
I'/lihlill l/i/lin 'J illll S. <r;
Tlic Father's Search. {}
No sadder story was ever told in the '>
]lilies of romance than that of the cruel s)
abduction <?f little Charley Hoss and the h.
wanderings of the unhappy father, who S(
lias heen drajfiiinu; his sorrows about from 11
place to place for nine weary years in a 01
vain searcii for his lost child. Kverynew el
clew, while it brings with it hope, tears c<
open the wounds of the parent's heart, ()l
and they Need afresh. Every new disappointment
recalls the anguish of the
first wretched hours of bereavement.
If the child could he found and re- al
stored to his parent all the world would hi
rejoice. Kvcry heart would breathe a ii
silent prayer of thankfulness and joy. 1><
But even then there would be a touch of M
sadness minjrled with the bliss of re- I
union. Poor Charley when stolen from f<
his narents was a little four-year-old ai
prattler, with bright eyes and golden c;
liair and merry laujrh. The father will I
never a*rain take the losf child to liis 111
heart as he was in those days. II
'I o wholly heal the wounds he tl
has received it would be neeessarj to set is
back the hand of time to enable him to ai
fondle with the golden locks?to hear t<
the childish voice lisp its joy?to kiss r<
the fresh voting lips as they used to he k
kissed in the happy days before the tcrri- ai
ble sorrow fell upon the family circle, p;
This can never be. Little Charley is ri
gone forever. The child, if found, will t<
be a lad of lliirteen or fourteen years, fr
tried by adversity, probably without a w
memory of his past history?of those in
who have suffered such anguish for his pi
loss. No; there can be no thorough hi
healing of the parent's sorrow in this sad
case. But every heart will send up a
sincere wish that he may discover his a/
son and that his weary search may at last 05
be succecded by such happiness as he m
can yet enjoy.?New York World. IS
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USING FROM TIER COFFIN.
l YOTTWG LAST'S VABBOW ESCAPE
FBOM PEEMATUEE BtTBZAL.
a veil Front n Horrible Fnte by n
Doctor While file Fimcrnl Service
\Vn* lleilijr I'erl'orineili
A distinguished physician of this city,
t'lio has now retired from active pracice,
while traveling in "Wisconsin,
topped for a niirht in a small village,
friles a Washington correspondent. A
riend and former pupil called to see him,
ltd during the evening mentioned a very
insular case which he had heen lately
renting. The voting lady, his patient,
lad died very suddenly three days be-,
ore, but after she was prepared for the
rravc, and laid in her eotlin, she prcelitetl
such a life-like appearance that he
vsts unwilling to have her interred. The
Minily insisted that she was dead: but a
oiinir gentleman to whom she had been
ngaged remonstrated so decidedly that
he interment was postponed, after the
ninistcr and friends had assembled on
he second mornimr. On the third morn
hg (lie burial was again deferred; for,
hough the body lay perfectly motionless
n the casket without evinc ing any signs
if life, they hesitated to put it in the
ground while it continued to look so
latural. The young physician had used
very means that he knew of to restore
nimation if there was life left, or, if
lossible, to detect some sign of it.
Nothing which he had tried had discovred
any sign of remaining vitality, and
hey had at length determined to delay
he burial no longer. It was to be on
he next morning?the morning of the
ourth day. The young physician re|uested
Dr. to go with him oil the
norrow and look at the body.
"The following morning," savs I)r.
* j- ? ?i?.
, " i accompanied in> Mii'im u< im.
louse where the body of the young lady
ay. When we reached the house the
riends of the family hud already arrived,
nd the officiating minister had gone
hrough a ]iart of the service in the room
vlicre the body lay, a prayer I think it
vas. and the family had taken their last,
arewell of a beautiful girl. When I
tepped into the room the undertaker
lad the casket lid in his hands ready to
crew it down. No sooner did I see the
ace in the casket than I felt sure that
ife was not extinct. There was not the
aintest pulse that I could detect; but
vlien 1 laid my ear close upon her breast
was confident that I heard the slightest
leart-beat. So certain was 1 then that it
i*as a case of catalepsy that 1 did not
icsitatc a moment to apply the proper
emcdies. Imagine, if you can, the scene
t hen the young lady uttered suddenly a
Herein# scream and rose up in her coffin,
t was the most awful note of agony that
hope ever to hear. The room was filled
vi111 friends, beside the family and
lomesties. Several ladies fainted outight;
some screamed and went into
ivsterics, the servants ran out into the
ard, and I confess, though 1 was expectng
to see her revive, my own nerves were
o shaken by the suddenness of the occurence
that it was with the greatest difliultyl
could stand. Iler face, too, which a
noinent before had worn that sweet smile
if peaceful sleep, writhed as she rose up in
he most dreadful contortions. I have
icvcr seen a face depict so much terror
nd agony. It seemed as if all the mental
offering which she had endured through
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Hose lour terrible (lays aim nigms imimi
cut in that one cry and look. In a few
uoments her pent-u]> feelings had found
elief. and she then got out of the cotKn
nd down from the table with very little
ssistancc.
" By this time the tumult in the room
md in a measure subsided, and she then
old us what was the most fearful part of
lie whole experience, that she had been
lerfectly conscious during the entire time!
She had heard all that was said and
;new all that was going on around her.
She had felt herself being shrouded and
aid in the collin, had heard her friends
keeping over her before the cofHn lid
hould close upon her forever, and
he should surely be buried alive. Meanwhile,
though she tried her utmost, she
vas unable to move or utter a sound,
ler friends look upon her as given back
o them from the grave, and indeed, in
he country around, it is reported that I
eally raised her from thedead, and after
left they told me that the country
leople flocked in crowds to see me.
Vliat the young lady's feelings are it is
iselcss to try to imagine, and wfiat tney
icre during the four days and nights in
khicli she lay in the coffin awaiting to he
uiried alive, too terrible to contemplate.'1
Ladies of Seville at a Hull-Fight.
Charles Dudley Warner's humorous
ecount in the Century of a fashionable
mil-light at Seville, describes the ladies
u attendance as follows: "The ladies
f Spain, except in some remote towns
11 the mountain regions, have laid aside
he national costume, and dress aeeordug
to the dictates of Paris, preferring
veil the French fans to their own decorted
with the incidents of the bull-fight
nd the serenade. In Seville, the black
ice mantilla is still worn at church, and
r> some extent on the street; but the hat
< the cover of the new fashion, niore's
lie pity, and the high combs have gone
1 together. In the whole assembly I saw
nly one or two national costumes?
Im 11111 ntilln !ind the liiirh comb.
nth the short petticoat, brilliant
i color. Nothing could bo more heroin*
ujf, and it makes one doubt whether
Ionian's strongest desire is to please and
whether it is not rather to follow the
iishion, when we see a whole nation
handon such a charming attire.
"Hut the white lnar'Mla is de rigucur
or a bull-li'fht, and every lady wore one.
t wasfa little odd to see ladies in the
pen li<jht of a brilliant, cloudless day
ud in the <ja/.e of the public in full (as
t is called) costume of the ballroom; but
lie creamy-white mantillas softened
rnnewhat the too brilliant display and
brew over the whole the harmony of
nhdiied soleudor. What stinerb Snan
<h lace, Monde, soft, with a silken Ins- j
:t, falling in lovely folds that show its
'onerous and exquisitely wrought figures,
aeh leaf and stem and flower the ereaion
of dainty fingers! Such work as
is. of such a tone and lineiicss. in sue h
irge mantillas, swee]?ing from the head
:? the train, is scarcely to he found in
lie shops nowadays. These were heir,
Minis?great-great-grandmother's laec>ng,
yellowing, and growing rich in
>eked chests, worn only on state oecaions.
and now brought forth to make a
nil's holiday.
" We spent a good deal of the waiting
me in scrutinizing the packed seats for
cautiful women, and. I am sorry to say,
ith hardly a reward adequate to our
nxiety. I am not sun; how much the
eauty of the women of Seville is tratiional.
They have good points. (Jracoil
figures are not uncommon, and line
eth: and dark, liipiid, large eyes, which
icy use perpetually in (oillades destruct e
to peace and security. And the fan.
? most deadly weapon of coquetry,
ivcs the coup de grace to those whom
le eyes luve wounded. But the Seville
omen have usually sallow, pasty, dead
im|ilexious. Perhaps the beauty of the
<in is destroyed by cosmetics, for there
as not a lady at the bull-fight who was
ot highly routed and powdered. This
ave an artiticiality to their appearance
11 masse. Beauty of feature was very
ire, and still rarer was that animation,
lat stamp of individual character, loveness
in the play of expression, and
irightliness, that charm in any asseniIy
of American women. No, the liandime
women in tIk? rim; were not
macrons enough tomake any impression
11 the general mass, and yet the total
Tcct, with the blonde lace, the artilical
>!or, the rich toilet, and the agitation
f fans, was charming."
hat ISlur Thing' in Life, Comparison.
A man don't know how lie is yetting
n.wr 1... /....11......C 1li.lWI.if n iti.
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is neighbors. Comparison is a bitfthinir
i this life. If Mr. Lowry lmsn't got any
ft I it crop than I have I am content, for
r. Lowry is ii good fanner. Sometimes
sti1]) around his fields and look over the
lice, mid if his cotton is low and thin
sd his corn pretty much all nubbins, 1
lift, to save my life, feel had about it.
wish 1 could, and 1 reckon I could, if
iv own crop wasn't so much like his.
uin:m nature is powerful mean about
ie like of that. They say that a woman
right well satisfied with her new dress
id new bonnet until her neighbor (wines
i meeting with a little liner one, but I
ckon that is a mistake. I rend not
nig ago about a Boston lady taking
scnic because she saw her neighbor at a
in V Willi ?l liun M*t hi iiimiiuini i iiings.
She was about to die when they
>1(1 her that the earrings were hired
mil a jewelry store, ami then she got
ell. It takes a power of grace to
iakc a man rejoice over his neighbor's j
rosperity.?l'AU Ar/>, in Athintu (.'twxfi>
tin n.
Adult males in England have an averse
height of 07.30 inches, and females
5.05 inches. The average weight of the
en is 155 pounds, and of the females
12.
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SELECT SIFTINGS.
A stalk of cotton exhibited in Natchez
recently was seven feet high and bore
250 boils.
Walter E. "Warren, of Caswell county,
N. ('., is not. yet nineteen years old and
weighs :W0 pounds.
A Georgia negro seventy-three years of
age picked on his farm one day recently
108 pounds of cotton.
A man in Dooly county. Ga., seventysix
yeltrsold, is living in the house where
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no was ;:orn, aim nas huyi-i >|h-iu i/ukuhv
flight from under its roof in ins life.
Texas boasts of a young woman who
has |ilanti'(l and attended an acre of cotton,
which made nearly a hale, the proceeds
of which she will devote to dress.
James Tygelof, a Russian peasant near
Odessa, reached his 147th year. Hisson
is still alive at the age of ll~>: lie has a
grandson of eighty-live and a greatgrandson
of forty years.
California has produced an ear of corn
that can take rank amonj^ the curiosities.
It is grown in I he exact form of a
child's hand, all parts being complete
except the little linger, which is double.
The (!od of the Bedstead, the chief
idol of the Chinese women, consists of a
rice bowl, with two pieces of red ribbon
on the bottom of it, two cakes of yeast
and twelve leaves culled from as many
different trees.
It is generally supposed that spectacles
were invented by Alexander de
Spina, a Florentine monk, about 1285,
but an inscription on the tomb ot miivino
degli Armati, who died 1:117, claim.s
the honor for him.
Two remarkable and curious walking
sticks arc in the possession of Robert
Tale, of Norwich, Chenango county, N. V.
The walking sticks contain 1,400 separate
pieces, ingeniously wrought. The
cane contains 2,000 pieces, many of them
relics from historical spots.
The first observatory is said to have
been erected on the top of the temple of
Ileitis at Babylon, Another on the top
of Osymandyas of Kgypt contained a
<rolflcn rirele '200 feet in diameter. It is
supposed that the Ileuarcs observatory was
as old as those, and the first known to authentic
history was erected at Alexandria
about :I0() 15. ('., by Ptolemy Soter.
WISE WORDS.
Strict honesty is the crown of one's
early days.
If you deal with a vulgar mind, life is
reduced to beggary.
Charity is one of the noblest virtues
that links earth with perfection.
To be able to enjoy art truly and fully
is an indication that there is some good
within us.
lie is good that does good to others.
If he suffers for the good he does, he is
better still.
Thou wilt bo great only in proportion
as thou art gentle and courageous to
subdue passions.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment
of a beautiful dream, and
not, as it too often proves, the end.
Contentment is a pearl of great price,
and whoever secures il :it the expense of
ten thousand desires makes a wise and
happy purchase.
Nothing is so great an instance of illmanners
as flattery. If you flatter all
the company you please none. If you
*-<?n fifTpniit tlio
JJillM'I IJIIIJ, Wltv; Ul l MW, iuu .....WW ?..v
rest.
What veracity is In speech, fidelity is
to action. As we may safely depend
upon the word of a truthful man, so we
may safely depend upon the doings of a
faithful man.
A Showman's Story.
An old u showman'' tells the following
exciting story of Ins experience when
connected with a well-known menagerie
during an engagement at Smithland. I\y.:
"After the exhibition was over." hesayst
' I passed into the menagerie to talk to
the watchman. From some cause he was
absent from his post, and I walked
across the amphitheatre toward my old
friend the elephant, to give him an apple,
for we were the best of friends. lie was
one of the largest elephants I ever saw,
and was as good-natured as he was
large.
I was about half across the ring
when I heard a growl, and looking round
I.. I,,,...-/.,. ,m/i r\f tliri 1 wmv: nilt rif
MIW Hi 11A > 111/IIVSI UIIV UI %..v. his
cage and approaching me in a crouching
manner, ready for a spring.
"I thought of a thousand tilings in a
moment, and among them I must have
regretted perpetrating so many old,
worn-out jokes at the performance that
night. I had sufficient presence of mind
to realize my dangerous situation and
know that it required the utmost caution
to extricate myself from it.
" One hasty motion on my part and I
would be in the jaws of the monster. I
felt that my only hope was in the elephant.
if 1 could reach him. but he was
chained by the foot and could not reach
inc.
"Nearer and nearer came the lion,
waving his tail in a manner that meant
business. If I turned my back he would
spring; if I took my eyes from him I was
lost.
"It was a terrible moment. I glided
backward as swiftly as I dared. I had
another fear. I feared stumbling backward,
and knew if I did fall I would
never rise, but that where 1 fell 1 would
make a meal for that lion.
"As I neared the elephant I saw that the
lion understood my movements, and,
fearing he would be baulked of his prey,
lie prepared to bring the matter to a
crisis. 1 then saw that I had Imt one
hope?to rush with all my speed to the
elephant.
"I think I must have jumped twenty
feet when I turned, and 1 know the lion
jumped thirty, but lie just missed me.
" How I conflicted the race I do not
know. 1 only know that the elephant's
trunk was around my waist, and he was
lifting me up on his head. I only know
I was saved."?HomeliM I
Impure Water Frozen.
Even among the more educated classes
there prevails an impression that even if
[ water is contaminated it is purified by
freezing. Many experiments, have, however.
shown the fallacy of this view. In
some of these ma<le recently l>v .Air. ('.
P. IVngra. an American chemist, various
organic matters (urea, albumen, etc.)
were mixed with water, and the .specimens
were gradually frozen. A certain
amount of purification did take place?
the ice containing thirty and even forty
per cent, less organic matter than 1 lit*
unfrozen liquid. But a large amount of
the added polution remained, and the
investigator, though expressing surprise
that the purification had been as great as
il was, says that the experiments afford
abundant proof that we ought not to
tolerate the indiscriminate collection of
\r,?.i!ll?
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Wanted ft Cheap Funeral.
George F. 1'arstow, of S:i 11 Francisco,
who left an estate valued at sSl),Oll(i. gave
these injunctions in his will:. Having i
observed that ostentation and expensive
funerals are injurious to the people, often
absorbing money which poverty cannot
well spare to vanity and pride, therefore,
by.way of example, for which I beg pardon
of the undertakers, let my coilin be
a plain redwood box. put together with
common nails or scicws. without paint
or varnish, with plain iron handles, and
all else about the funeral to orrc-poinl
with this plainness. Let then; be a cheap
shroud and no llowers. What is a dead
man bur a handful of dust.' Instead of
a hearse 1 may just as well be carried to
the grave upon some ordinary vehicle in
everyday use, since life is but a journey
and the day of death the linal rest.
No! Hopeless.
CJeorgie: "How is your alfair with i
the little heiress coining on.'"
Arthur: "Oh, matters could not In:
in better shape.*'
Tlii'ii she lias aeceotcd voll.'"
" Well, no: not exactlv."
"(tivcij you hope, then?"
" No. 1 can't say s|?e has."
"Well, then, how can matters he all j
rijrht i"
" Why. you see, her father kicked me |
out of the house last nii;ht, and a ;.'iii j
always falls in love with a feliow after
that. '?i'hiftiilil/./tit' Cull.
The Fifth avenue society women who!
was driven into a frenzy because a yonni; |
manservant refused to say to a caller j
that she was not at home when she was I
at home, afterward remarked: "Ah, j
these things are not so in Kuropc where j
I was educated, lint licinir raised in this j
country really seems to spoil the yoiinir 1
people. They won't lie for anything ? |
not even a ladv ?<X< tr )'<?/'/' h'rrnhi'/
/W.
In 17'JO there were *>00 lawyers in the !
United States and 1,000,000 inhabitants. )
This was one lawyer to every S.OOO persons.
In 18S0 there were 51.000.000 ;
people and 0-1,18 T lawyers, or one lawyer '
to every 800.
SOME DAY.
Some day I shall be dead,
Some day this tired head,
With all the anxious thoughts it cow doth
know,
Shall bo laid low.
This body, pnin-racked, ill,
Shall lie at length, and still,
Under the clover and the wind-swept grass,
Nor hear you pass.
That were, indeed, strange aleep,
When even you might weep,
And come, and go?even you?unheard of me
As bird or bee.
Nay, sweetheart, nay! believe
Here is no cause to grieve.
One so wayworn, of trouble so oppreet,
Is glad of rest.
Perchance, when that release
Hath wrought its spell of peace,
O'er this unquiet heart, long vext with woe,
Heart's-ease may grow.
Who loves me will not weep
When that I lio asleep,
But rather joy to think such sorrow may
Havo end some day.
?Isabella Grant Meredith.
HUMOR OP THE DAY.
Among the oldest of smokers?Chimneys.
When the giraffe wants a drink he
knows what a long-felt want is.
The shoemaker should know more than
the doctor about the heeling art.?Pica
yunc.
When your husband has the malaria
ask hira to go out and shake the carpet.
I ?Uartford Journal.
| Emcrfion said: "There is always room
for a man of force." lie had probably
met Sullivan in a crowd.?The Judge.
The following is extracted from a
smart boy's composition on "Babies:"
"The mother's heart gives 4th joy at the
baby's 1st 2th."
The general introduction of oatmeal
mush as a breakfast dish causes a stir in
many a household in the morning when
only the cook is astir.
Nothing is more common than ingratitude.
Notwithstanding the comfort we
derive from a fire, it is the first thing to
which we turn the cold shoulder.
It doesn't hurt a man's back half so
much to bend over at bowling, when he
rolls twenty-pound balls, as it does to
bend over to black his shoes.?Puck.
She knew music, and painting, and style,
And possibly knew how to flirt:
But Saints of the Kitchen I she asked for
A gridiron to iron a shirt.
?Merchant-Traveler.
Why is it that if a man loses his nightkey
he never discovers the fact until he
arrives home after every one has gone to
bed, and wants to open the door.?
Puck.
A valuable exchange publishes an
article headed " Surprising a Minister."
Some one, perhaps,dropped a whole quarter
into the contribution basket.?Bismarck
Tribune.
"Augustus," she said, "why is there
so much confusion in that store?" " I
know not, dearest," he simpered, "unless
it is caused by that bustle in the
window."?rrte i'raw.
Beneath the leaflets yellow,
In the garden lone and murky,
The most unhappy fellow
Is the turkey,
Who knows he won't be living
One day after Thanksgiving.
Before a young man can court a Mexican
girl he has to tell her parents on the
door-steps of the house what his prospects
in life arc. If he says he is a curve
pitcher for a champion baseball club, the
old folks say "go in."
We have every reason to doubt the existence
of the Giant's Causeway and the
wonderful cliffs which are said to line
the northern and western coasts of Ireland,
as the island is well known to
abound in shamrocks.?Judge.
" Will there be a hop to-night?" asked
a boarder of another who had loved the
stock market " not wisely but too well."
"Don't know about the hop, but there
will be a skip if I can g'4 my truiric
out," was the reply.?Boston Bulletin.
The North American Review has an article
on " Early Man in America." Oil,
yes; but there's nothing scientific about
him. He's the man that comes in at 3
o'clocK in tne morning singing "in me
morning by the bright light."?Ilawkeye.
A King as a Brute.
I have heard Mr. Leitch relate many
curious incidents which fell under his
notice when at Rome at this time. Of
the following I have his own account in
writing:
"Among my pupils was Lady Ogle,
wife of Admiral Sir Charles Ogle.
Frequent!}', when I was giving a lesson,
she would be visited by ladies of her
acquaintance, including many of the
Italian nobility. On one of these occasions
the servant announced ' La Principessa
C'olonna.' She sat down
opposite where I was painting, and she
and Lady Ogle had a good deal of conversation.
Although I knew Italian I
paid little attention to what they were
saying, till the princess, getting excited,
used the words ' infamc' and ' bestia,'
and I observed Lady Ogle look surprised,
and ask her friend to tell her all about it.
'I was present,' said the princess, 'and
emir if oil-' nnd tlipn shr? iirorwcled to
| D1?1T xu ml, ... t
relate the following, which I translate
as nearly as I can in her own words:
"'You must know that when the
king (Ferdinand II., "Bomba") married
the Sardinian princess at Turin, he
stayed for a day or two in liome on hia
return to Naples, and his holiness
(Gregory XVI.) was graciously pleased
to pay his majesty a visit of congratulation.
On the occasion a very select
party was got together at the Neapolitan
ambassador's, consisting of cardinals,
monsignori, and some of the old noble
families. The pop was very gracious
to the new queen. lie had heard of her
musical accomplishments, and especially
of hor great interest in church music,
and as she said she was devoted to Marcello,
his holiness asked if she would
have the kindness (gentilezza) to sing
his favorite, No. 28 of the psalms.
The queen replied that to do so would
be a great honor. In the meantime the
king, her husband, was sitting by, sulky,
silent and gloomy, with his elbow resting
on the piano. The queen turned to him
and said playfully that he must turn the
leaves for her. For answer his majesty
of the Two Sicilies rose and kicked the
stool from below the queen, who fell
heavily on the marble floor. I need not
tell you, dear Lady Ogle, of the scene
which followed. The king immediately
left without speaking. The poor queen
was carted to a bedroom, and I took my
departure, when two great doctors, who
had been hastily sent for, arrived. I
heard that the pope was terribly
shocked/"? GwkI
The Wide, Wide World.
Lnr.\, Kkim'iu.ic ok Peuu.?Senor A.
dc La E. Delgado, L. L. I), and Connr
i?,..
ci'lll'l, 1 ill/ltilUl Ul II U.1I1V-V) in
public of Peril, says: One single application
of St. Jacobs Oil, rural inc completely
of thcumutic pains in mv left arm.
1recommended it to two of my friends,
the Mrs. Dona Juano Garcia, widow, and
Mr. I). Herman Decker. a German <;entleman.
Madam Garcia was relieved entirely
by the pain-curc from terriM-i
neuralgic pains of ten months standimr.
Mr. Decker was cured of iiic.\phea!>!'>
pnins by a single application of ;he cure.
.Aly brother used the peat remedy for a
species of paralysis of I he arm. lie was
entirely relieved from his ailment l?y on*
or two applications, after liavinif tri<i|
numberless other remedies without effect.
The sect of " (icrmanitcs *'which settled
Gcrmantowu, I'cnn., lias entirely disappeared.
Heart <IiVca.se lias brought nianv to nn uu* I
timely grave. Tlie heart is as liable as other |
organs to disease: if you have it even in the |
slightest form use Dr. Graves' Heart Kegula- ,
tor. $1 per bottle at druggists. _
Ax English noinnn, calling herself Englo, j
lias wnlkcil miles in 1,000 hours.
"( 'olden Meilical Discovery'' is warranto 1 !
to cleanse the I LkkI from all impur ties, fr< in
whatever cause arising. For scrofula. sore-.
<>f all kinds, skin and bl<od diseases. itsciiiels i
are marvelous. Thousands of testimonials !
from all parts. Send stamp for pamphlet on !
skin diseases. Address Woiti.o's Disi'K.vsai'.v j
MKD1CAL association. I'llllftlo, N. Y.
Tiikuk are (.(Kin unemployed e'ergymen in
the Church of England.
Have you heart disease in any form.' if so. J
use Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator; II vein;
lmv? linivxil if ji slim fcincilv lor u!!':iiiii> or i
sympathetic heart disease. $1 per buttle.
Dakota is four times as largo as ()hio.
" Fulr Oirl Grniliinte*,''
whose sedentary lives increase those troubles
peculiar to wi men. should use Hr. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription," which is an utfai!- |
ing remedy. Sold by druggists.
Tin: cair is thirty-eight years old
Did you rend how .losiah Pitkin, of C'hel- I
sea, Vt., was cured of a terrible sore leg, by j
Hood's iSarsaparilln, the blood purifier ?
If a cough disturbs your sleep, take Piso'8 i
Cure for Consumption and rot well. i
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A Baay Scene*
Mr. W. W. Sundeqland Is one of Danbury'a
(Conn.) first citizens, and a prominent man.
His word is considered as good as his bond,
and any statement coming from him woald
never be doubted by any one knowing him.
He conducts, at No*. 5 and 7 Spring street, a
very large factory for the manufacture ol
sashes, blinds, doors, etc. In connection
with this he employs a large number of men,
and mnny of the largest buildings in the oity
are monuments of his skill as a builder and
architect. Recently, when called on, he was
found at his place busily engaged in directina
a small army of men. On making oui
errand known we were invited lo his office,
when Mr. 8. briefly told a wonderful story ol
a matter which had troubled him greatly foi
a long time. He said: " I am very busy, but
always have time to say a good word for so
valuable an article as Hunt's Remedy. My
mother is seventy-six (76) years old. She
has suffered for a long time with the dropsy
and kidney complaint. She has doctored
with several physicians and used a large
quantity of medicine. Really, she has taken
everything we could hear ofk without finding
any relief, until my sister, who live3 at
Bridgeport, Conn., suggested to her to use
HuntYRemedy, as she knew of a number of
persons there who had been benefited by
using it She commenced using it, and finding
relief she has continued until now she
has used in all eight (8) bottles, from which
she has received great beuefit. Her case is
considered incurable, but wo all think, as
she says, Hunt's Remedy is all that keeps her
alive. I make this plain statement with the
hope that any one who may be similarly
afnicted will bo induced to use this great
medicine, as I am positive it will prove satisfactory."
The debts of the Prince of Wales are said
to amount to $ '!,000,000.
" Wltb Catntefnl Feeling*."
Dr. Pierce, BufTalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir?
Your "Golden Medical Discovery" and
" Purgative Pellets '' have cured my daughter
of scrofulous swellings and open sores about
the neck: and your "Favorite Prescription"
has accomplisnod wonders in restoring to
health my wife who had been bed-fast for
eipht months from female weakness. I am
with greatful feelings, Yours truly,
T. H. Lowq, Galveston, Texas.
"Hffrnr>TT lino 1 lmanctvl
1/f.lUWil IHU1 I j'r T HUn.lUUJ?T?
Tjoat Faith In Pbjrnicians.
There are innumerable instances where
cures have been effected by Scovill's Sarsaparilla,
or Blood and Liver Syrup, for all
dis< ases of the blood, when the patient had
been given up by physicians. It is one of the
best remedies ever offered to the public, and
as it is prepared with the greatest care, as a
specific for certain diseases, it is no wjnder
t!:i:' it should be more effectual than hastily
u i it! en and carelessly prepared prescriptions.
Take Scovill's Blood and Liver Syrup for all
disorders arising from impure blooa. It is
indorsed by all leading professional men.
Wnlnnt Leaf Hair Restorer.
It is entirely different from all others. It
is as c lear as water, and as its name indicates
is a perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. It will
immediately free the head from all dandruff,
restore gray hair to its natural color, and produce
a new growth where it has fallen off. It
does not in any manner affect the health,
which sulphur, sugar of lead and nitrate of
silver preparations nave done, it wm cnange
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.,
and C. N. C'RiTTErTOX, Now York.
Fob dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of spirits
and general debility in their various forms,
also as a preventive against fever and ague and
otherintermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphorated
Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell
Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by all Drag,
gists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering
from fever or other sickness it has no equal
From Major Downs, Military Instructor,
Mt. Pleasant Academy, Sing Sing, N. Y.:
During the very cold weather I was suffering
with Catarrh. My head and threat ached so
severely that I was obliged to keep qui^t.
Ely's Cream Balm was suggested, within an
hour fi oui the first application I felt relieve-1,
the pain began to subside. In a few days 1
was entirely cured. "W. A. Downs. (50 ct>.)
The Frnzer Axle Grease
Is the best in tho market. It is the most
economical and cheapest, one box lasting as
long as two of anv otner. One greasing will
last two weeks. It received first premium at
the Centennial and Paris Expositions, also
medals at various State fairs. Buy no other
C. Farley, city marshal, 243 Broadway, N. Y..
says: " I had rheumatic gout L'O years; tried
avoT-vthino- now take Dr. Elmore's R.-G. It
lias cured my crippled feet, and beats all other
medicines and treatments in the world."
It stands to reason that an oil that cannot b?
made rancid, and one that has the greatest solvent
and penetrating powers, while free from
all irritating properties, would make the finest
hair oil in the world. Such isCarboline.
For sore feet, swollen joints, sprains, corns
or bunions, use St. Patrick's Salve.
Ladles and children's shoes cannot run over
if Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners are used.
ft ?'?i|l THE GREAT GERMAR
REMEDY
FOR PAIN.
fill ^?"evee ""d cnre*
ifi 3^1 rheumatism,
j i,., i4llfi||||||JH Neuralgia,
ffaGmrol Lumbago,
|.| BACKACHE,
Ikr *^i HEADAOHB, TOOTHAOHI,
3P lil r rfutmrntmaann* h
I!' SORE THROAT,
:|ll jj | 'i')iJ!^f"uirW iUINSY? swzLLiNaa,
:!|l'jjt| If, sprains,
;t|; i ij: jiiljiuinouammnjUv | aorcness, cms, nroiw*,
Ibd -=5*
|j|| D I And another bodily achat
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iWK'-fli. iimminullil ilmili' 'i Dealers. Directions la U
jl|||lRi!iillii |P^ I languages. ,3
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^ 1 tiL h I tr 87617 ^oint aD^ fiber
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de&lity,rheti^'usm^
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?ITTCB^ ^le.nd%e2i!
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CATA R F? H ELY'S CREAM MLM
f*-.* ' tf' when applied by the fl n
It^^S,fer 'Dto "3e nogtr''g'
&k/C;7fiSW BPvU^^I^11 be absorbed, effectpi/
ClinrcCOUJl aal|y cleaning the fiead
Fffl *Ur." lof catarrl,al Tirus. cau?S9S^^4?vt0
^ADJ'nff ''""hy WretioM.
E7uAvrrvFD(H)w ?sAlt al,4y8 inflamnntion.
ftJr ^^0! protects the membrane
CT/SSnf thfl nasal nnssncea
from additional colds, I
| W y completely hoals the
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l Like an Evi
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r.live measures, the evil things had
: y pleased.
> comes malaria no\v-a-days. W<
11. r-Kiies in bv the crack. We stop l
.; :! ; in the plumbing, or an opening fr
: unsuspected source and unguarded
We cannot always keep malaria o
ci'Jbcts from our systems. If Bi
.ilaria has not a ghost ofa chanc<
** i'our druggist sells it, and you ou
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JTEAR this, all ye people, and give ear a J]
xl ye invalids of the world,' Sop Bitten
will make you well and to rejoioo.
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m
6. Add disease upon disease and let the
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8. He that keepeth his bones from aching
from Rheumatism and Neuralgia, with Hop
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n Tk/iuul, fVinn Vinatanroa. nimnlflS. freckles.
salt rheum, erysipelas, bkxxi poisoning, yefi
Hop Bitters will remove them alL .
in. "What woman is there, feeble and sick
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health and useth Hop Bitters and is made
well.
11. Let not neglect to use Hop Bitters bring
on serious Kidney and Liver complaints.
4a
12. Keep thy tongue from being furred, thy %
blood pure, and thy stomach from indigestion
by using Hop Bitters.
13. All my pains and aches and disease go *
like chaff before the wind when I use Hop
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14. Mark the man who was nearly dead and
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ters ana becoineth welL
15. Cease from worrying about nervousi
ness, general debility, ana urinary trouble^
tor Hop Bitters will restore you. ; *
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lydiXe^pinkham'S
VEGETABLE COMPOTOD. ^ 1
A Snrc Cure for all FEMALE WEAK*
VTBHTS. T nnMTrlim. Tib i ??
regular and Palnfal Menjtrnatlsm, j
Inflammation and Ulceration of j ' J&jm
the Womb,'Flooding* PRO*
LAPSUS UTERI* dee.
tyPleasant to tho taste, cfflcadoui and lmmadlato -~E
In Its effect It Is a great help In pregnant?, cad * ? . '-J
lleves pain during labor and at regular period*, f '/ _
PHTSICL15S USE IT A.TD FBZSCBIBE H RIXCZ. ] yljs,
tVFos jJXWBAxmtsszs of thegenenttr* e*m9
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Kxdwtts it Is the Grtaiat Remedy in Vh World, ^
^"KIDNEY COMPLAINTS of EUwrta
Find Great Relief in Its Um* t Av'..
LTDTA E. PIXKHAM'8 BLOOD PUSUnBK .
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Blood, at tho same tlmowflr give tone and strength to
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CfBoth the Compound and Blood Purifier are pro* *. ':{
pared at 233 and 235 Western Avenue, Lynn, Xaflb '
Price of either, $1. Six bottles for $3. The Cuuipwiafl f ^
Is sent by mall in the form of pills, or of loungM^ea.
receipt of price, fl per box for either. Xrs. PtnkhOK '. ?*
freely answers all letters of Inquiry. Enclose leal
stamp. Send for pamphlet. Mention titU Poptr.
nrLrm.*. E. Pthkjux's Lrvra Pni* cure OonaMMr
tlon, Biliousness and Torpidity of the Liver. 23 cents. j
jySold by all Drngg-ists.'TSa m a
jaggaBMgsaagnMMi
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?r^*Tli3U ~^'r" New Haven, Conn#
2>5-^LMC."E5^ k^the QQjckest, ploASAnt^it,
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y^VV/X discovered for acuta and chrooio
rheumatism, K?ut, lumbaco, aciat
Cica, neuralgia, etc. Hm cured hop?.
less cases Brig tit's disease and dyspepsia in 3 weeks-ill ' H
lorms of rheumatic dis<>rlernin 2 to LJweek*?rellerei
inflammatory in I <lay. Can refer to hundreds of re HaMe
pi-op!.- curwl who had tried in vain everything else. Dl
I'nri ly botanic, harmless, and nice to irink. Askyoar
drugpiit to & t :t; if ho declines need to us (or it? taJca
nothing else, Klni'ro, Adams A Co.. loj William ?t., W. Y
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L'O.. 103 Tukmont Street. HUSTON, .MASS.
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11/ Chatham Card Co., North Chatham, N. Y.
^ry?Vox PopulL
io desperate " Hattle of the Books,'' the
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"The world's greatest benefactor to-day is John B.
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"Two sets of Waverley just ived. All my friends
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id tneite uurxnen nruwrH ar?? ui?i nvmu. ?n. jiwvllen,
Farmer*' Bank, Columbia City, Ind,
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ALDKS) Publisher, IS Vt?*ey St., New York.
il Spirit.
evil spirits camc in through < ;w':s
way to keep thcin out was to ]>!i!/;
ith cotton. Notwithstanding ii v ;
I their own way and cfleti c..:.rj i:; Ai
try to keep it out of the Lr,!. .1:
up the crack, and lo! it com* : f < r.)
om some neglected drain, cr f:x -v.
I direction.
ut, but we can qive it battle* a:-.;
iown's Iron Bitters is tak n io
j. This is the groat family H
?ht to keep a bottle in the house. H
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