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i thanksgiving. I For the wealth of pathless forests, "Whereon no axe may fall; For the winds that haunt the branches, The youns bird's timid call: i For the r d leaves dro|>ped like rubies U pon t lit4 darK-green sou: For the waving of the forests, I thank Thee. oh. niv God! For the sound of waters gushing In bubbling beads <>f light; ' For the fleets of snow-white lilies Firm anchored out of si^ht; For the reeds among the eddies, The crystal on the clod: For the flowing of the rivers, I thank Thee, oh, my God! For the rosebud's break of beauty Along the toiler's way; For the violet's eye that opens To bless the new-born day; For tho bare twigs that in summer Bloom like the prophet's rod; For the blossoming of flowers. I thank Thee, oh, my God! Fcr the lifting up of mountains In brightness and in dread; For the peaks where snow and sunshine Alone have dared to tread; For the dark of silent gorges. f For the majesty of mountains, I tliank Thee, ob, my God! For the splendor of the sunsets. Vast mirrored on the sea: For the gold-fringed clouds that curtain Heaven's inner mystery; For the molten bars of twilight, "Where Thought leans, glad, yet awed; For the glory of the sunsets, I thank Thee, oh. my God: For the earth in all its l>eauty, The skv and nil its light; For the dim and soothing shadows That rest the dazzled sight; For unfading fields and prairies Where sense in vain has trod; For the world's exhaustless beauty, I thank Thee, oh my God! Vr,r nn ovo nf inward seeinc. A soul to know and love; For these common aspirations That our high heirship prove; For the hearts that bless each other Beneath Thy smile, Thy roil; For the amaranth saved from Eden, I thank Thee, oh, my God: X::' For the hidden scroll overwritten With one dear name adored; For the heavenly in the l^uuian, The spirit in the word; For the tokens of Thy presence Within, above, abroad; For Thine own great gift of being, I thank Thee, oh, my God! ?Lucy Larcom. ?; good cause""fur thanks. A THANKSGIVING SKETCH. The last week in Oc tober ! As a general thing Nature is not bountiful with her smiles these short, dreary days, when the world stands shuddering on the threshold of winter. But this particular Monday was full of balm and sunshine; the air sweet with the indescribable perfume of the colored leaves which were drifted up along the roadside, and collected in rustling layers under the stone foundations of Ex mouth jail. Overhead tie sky was blue as a sapphire; and here and there along this woodpath a stray wild-flower mteu its purpie eye, milast, lingering relic of the golden Sep"C: tember glow. Doctor Fitch rode along the lonely bridle-path, the sound ol his horse's hoofs on the dead leaves reminding him vaguely of the days, long, long ago, when he was a boy and scoured these very woods in search of nuts, and hunted HgS" squirrels and chipmunks \wjth a delight go which moose arid rod deer would not ik' give him now. ,4If one could only be a boy forever," V said Royal Fitch. Hallo! who's that? v as his horse shied slightly at sight of a slender figure, sitting on a fallen log, a . few, feet bac^o^j^ road. "Oh, it's ISgrr you 5lary T^P^^xou got your discharge this morning." Mary Trefoil looked up?a dark-eyed, : pallid-faced woman, of two or three and twenty. Doctor Fitcli knew her very pTwell. She had been in Exniouth prison three months for theft, and during two of these three months she had lain^iearly at the point of. .death, in the hospital rW" ward, with a low, lingering fever. Doctor Fitcli was rather proua of the skill which had rescued her from the jaws of Jf|pF death. He stopi>ed his horse and looked jSR at her. "Yes, sir," said Mary Trefoil, spirit__ lessly. "I've got my discharge." "And where are you going now?" "I don't know, sir." jC;V* "Where are your friends?" he asked, *; not unkindly. "I have none, sir." "But this won't do," said Doctor Fitch, noting the troubled light in the girl's eye. the deadly whiteness of her brow and chceks. "Look here; you must go some5C.*' < where, you know. You can't sit here. Can't you think of any place where they would give you food and shelter for a few days until you get strong?" Mary Trefoil shook her head. She did not seem to be at all interested in the Sc.. question. Doctor Fitch's horse reached up his head and browsed on the still Y' grej11 leaves of a wild grape-vine, which theboughs of a cedar had sheltered from the early frost. Doctor Fitch himself sat like a statue, and looked at Mary ^ Trefoil. " A social problem," he said, inwardly. "And she must be solved, somehow." "Manr," he spoke aloud, "can you walk a mile?" " I suppose so, sir." "Then walk alongbv mv horse's side. T i ^1,1 ?.l"n ?;rj i o.in;? ...v.,, Perhaps you may suit her. She need not |-;g" know who you are, or whence you came.1' " I didn't put myself in Exmouth jail,'' RP^r sullenly retorted Mary. " And I have told one story from the beginning?that I had nothing to do with the silver. I " don't know how it came into my trunk: I didn't know it was there, until the officer dragged it out before my eyes." "The law thought differently," said Doctor Fitch, who, as prison physician, had heard these protestations of inno^0' cencc from scores of lips before. "However, that is not the quesfion we are discussing just at present. Will you try to deserve my recommendation, if 1 give - you one!" "Heaven helping me. sir. I will!"said Mary Trefoil, evidently affected by his kindness. She walked beside the horse for some little distance, until, down a side road, which seemed to plunge directly into the woods, they came to an old gray-stone house, all mantled with scarlet creepers, with a background of gnarled apple-trees, and the whir of a gristmill sounding somewhere in the background like the ceaseless hum of some gigantic insect. " Good afternoon. Mrs. Glover!*' said Doctor Fitch. ' Have you suited yourself yet with a girl ?*' Mrs. Glover, an apple-faced woman of sixty, looked at them through a pair of round, silver-rimmed spectacles. ' No, nor I ain't like to,*' said she. " Betsey Keene, she has gone in the millinery trade, and Lucy Hovey, she?"' 'Well, I've brought you one," said ^ Doctor Koval Fitch, '^ome here, Mary. This is Maiy- Trefoil," wit ha quick glance at the silent girl. " I know who she is, and I can answer that she will do her best to please you and make herself useful." "Indeed, I will, ma'am," said Mary, in a low voice. * "Folks ,live about here ?" said Mrs. * " Glover. _ " I have no relatives," said Mary. " I nnmti frnrn tVin nnrtlinrn nnrt nf thfi COUfl ty."~ * "All the better," said the old lad}*, briskly. "You won't have 110 followers. Well, Man-, I won't deny thut I'm awful glad to see you, for I'm pretty nigli tuckered out with doing all the chores myself. ? ;" To be sure, my son Daniel helps memornings and- evenings, before he goes to teach deestrick school?for he's a scholar, my son is," with conscious pride. " And father, he does what he can; but a man can't do much beside tendin' grist-mill in a place like this. You look a little white and peaked, but?" " Oh, she'll be all right in this pure air, with plenty of your new milk and home-made bread!" said Doctor Fitch, cheerily. And with a whispered word or two of encouragement to Mary Trefoil, he rode ?j|~v away. On Thanksgiving day, nearly a month later, he came back. "Hello!" said Dr. Fitch. "Why, Mary, you look like a different creature!" Mrs. Glover had gone to church, with her sou Daniel and "Father," all undismayed by the occasional flakes of snow which were beginning to flutter through the air. and the howling of the wind I kitchen, with an unwonted tinge of ' 1 L -/i 1 color in her cheeks, and ner sun, ormvu hair parted from her forehead, and a red . ribbon tied at the side. She stopped, ' with a milk jug in her hand, and looked at Dr Fitch, brightly. 1 "I am like a different creature, sir," said she, "thanks to you!" "So it's all going right, eh?," said the doctor. "You like the place?" "I am perfectly happy here." said , Mary. "But, oh, doctor, I have no one to consult, and I've asked myself the question so many times over that every- . thing seems distorted in my eyes! I wonder if I might dare to speak out my mind to your' "What on earth is the girl talking about?" said Doctor Fitch. "If I could only sec the prison chaplain?" "Come, I'll officiate as prison chaplain for the time being," said Doctor Fitch, good-humored ly. "Out with your trouble! What is it?" V "\\ell, it?it isn t exact iv u nuuuiv, confessed Mary, busying herself with polishing the great reel apples which were to he the crowning glory of the dessert. "Hut I think?I am almost certain?that Daniel (ilovcr is getting fond of me !'' "Hal?lo !" said the doctor. "Oh, doctor," faltered poor Mary, "ought I to tell him all ?" "Hold your tongue," said the doctor, brusquely. "A close mouth makes a wise head ! You say you are innocent of all those charges ?*' "I was innocent !" cried Mary. "I am innocent !" ' Very well.''said Doctor Fitch; "then you are as good as he is." And, with a few kindly words, he rode on. But as .Mr. and Mrs. Glover were coming leisurely home from church, with Daniel sauntering behind, a sullen-eu-d tramp slouched up to the former, touching his cap. "Be you the jurist-mill man ?" said lie. "I am the miller, friend," said Mr. Glover.1 "Well, then." said the dusty-footed stranger, " it is my bounden duty to tell you that you're harboring a prison-bird in your home." " What?" cried old Mrs. Glover. " I knows it, blamed well I" asserted the man, "cos I was in quad at the same time she was. Theft for she, and drunk and disorderly for me. And I wouldn't have blowed on her. but she refused me a drink of cider, and wouldn't let me in to warm my feet. I ain't no tale-bearer; but there's some things as flesh and blood won't bear!" He stalked on, muttering to himself, while Mr. and Mrs. Glover and Daniel stared at each other in horrified amazement. "Mother, is it true!" said Daniel. " It can't be!*' said the old lady. ' Ask herself," said the miller, grimly. Man* met them at the door, with a radiant smile. The dinner was all ready; i the humble arrav of silver and china : sparkled on the board; the fire blazed i upon the clean-swept hearth. i ' I am so glad you have come back!"' ] said she. " Not that 1 was afraid to be i alone, bnt there was an ill-looking man 1 along just now? Oh, why do you look at me so strangely? Is anything the matter?" ' There is much the matter!'* said the ] old miller, sternly. "Answer me, j girl-" * , "Father you shall not be harsh to | her!" said Daniel Glover. "Come here, Mary. Lean on me. Nay, do not ( tremble so. What is there to be afraid , of ? We all know that the brute spoke . lies!" , "Is it a lie," faltered Mrs .Glcver, , "that you?you were in prison ?" "It is no lie!" said Mary, turning ( deathly white. " I served a sentence in ] Exmouth prison; but?but I never was ( guilty : c ircumstances n cru ugtuiiM. iiiv. I?" "Then," sternly uttered the old man, you must leave this house !" "If she goes, father," said Daniel Glover, firmly, "I go with her. Fori trust her. I believe in her!" "Daniel, are you crazy?" said his mother. At that momeut. Doctor Fitch rode up, looking flushed and excited, yet pleased withal. He sprung off his horse , and walked into the house, looking keenly about him. "Good people," said he, what is all 1 this about ?" , "We have just heard," wailed Mrs. Glover, " that our Mary is? a convict!"' 4'Pshaw!" said Doctor Fitch. "So it has got around to your ears, has it ? , Well, I have just heard that she isn't. I , have come from the hospital ward. A man was brought in, fatally wounded in a liquor saloon fray. I examined his hurts. 'My man.' said I, 'if you have ' any affairs to settle, they had better be settled at once, for you have not six ' hours to live.' Said he, 'if I am dying, , there's one or two things I would like to say.' And then, in solemn confession. 1 he said, among other black and wicked : revelations, that ho was one of the bur- J glars in the famous Chartens case?that J he hid the silver in Mary Trefoil's trunk ' when, at the last, he found himself un?ble to carry it all away, she being seamstress in the Chartens family, and entirely ignorant of the whole thing? I that he was too closely tracked to con- 1 triveto return, and so she was convicted 1 through circumstantial evidence, being, ' to use the wretch's own words, 'as inno- 1 cent as a baby' all the time. He is a 1 /Ivinrr m??n ?niv nn/l#?r t]\o nirr? rif tlw? chaplain, but he has done his best to right ( you, Mary Trefoil, in the eyes of the * world!" ' Mary,'*said the miller, ''I was wrong ' just now when I spoke up so sudden. Will you forgive me?" ' ' Mary, don't look so pale," soothed 1 Mrs. Glover. "Here?drink some of this 1 cold water!" j; "Mary, dearest," whispered Daniel, as ho stole his arm around her waist, "I 1 knew all along that you were innocent! 1 I knew vou were too good and pure to be aught else:" 1 And the last words revived her most of all! t Doctor Fitch stayed to help them eat the Thanksgiving dinner which Mary t had prepared so daintily?the brown and , oleaginous turkey, the cinnamon-flavored apple-pies, the baked potatoes and mince- ' tarts, with the nuts and apples and sparkling cider afterward. And when j... i,<> o.iwi lit i v."v i?/ lit r??un, luu^iiui^ . "Well, and when is the wedding to be>" i "At Christmas, please (.tod," Daniel t uttered, bravely, while Mary Trefoil eried \ out: 1 "Oh, Daniel, I never said so." ?, " But 1 say so, and mother says so," 1 chimed in Mr. Glover, Sr. "And so the i matter is settled by a vote of the ma- < jority." 1 "And 1 shall claim the privilege of s giving away the bride," said Doctor t Fitch, merrily. j And so he went out into the snow and darkness, whistling gaily as he vanished, j And Mary, looking earnestly up into i her lover's eyes, said, softly: 44Oh. Daniel. I think I never knew before the true meaning of the name Thanksgiving!" 4,It does seem providential," said old Mrs. (Mover, tenderly, stroking down the bright hair of her daughter-in-law elect, '* that all this should have happened on Thanksgiving Day!" As if all things were not providential, when Providence is over us all.?Ilehn For rent Grave*. Instructing fie Captains The Army ami Nary Jown?l furnishes this interesting paragraph: 4*Few are aware oi ute iari iir>r i-.v.c 01 me most j distinguished mathematicians lives in the j city of New York, where she has for | thirty years instructed captains an*1 officers for the naval, revenue and merchant service in their mathematical and medi cal studies. The daughter of a wealthy ) ship owner, she sailed with her husband, '' who was a captain. She thus acquired a thorough knowledge of mathematics, ' and hasxlone more to make life safe at | sea than any other individual. The American humane society have placed j her in charge of their nautical school, j which has qualified over 8,000 navigators to make life safo fit sea, 2.000 of whom J were officers in the naval service, and en- t gaged in saving the life of the nation j during the late war." t Taking the Wind Out of His Sails. t A St. Louis man went around with j Chief Justice Coleridge and talked of nothing but the bigness of the town. | " Finally," says Coleridge, who tells the story, " while passing one of those tre- f mendous grain elevators, which are a f feature of Western cities, my friend 1 broke out: 'Did you ever see anything f like that/ IIow many of these elevators do you} suppose we have in St. Louis?' With perfect gravity I replied: 4 Well, don'tl know exactly, but I should < suppose abqul 10,000.'" And the old s gentleman cjhuckled over the memory of J the inckicnt/, and of the crushed and hu- i miliated aspect of the Western boaster, 1 who haduj^^^^hat there were less > fflE WITS OF THE PRESS. BBIGHT SKXLES THAT HAUHT THE FTTWNY OTWSPAPEBS. In llio Parlor?The Wronjj Parent? i A Strong <-hlld?lluitc a Pointer? What a Baby Can Do. IX TOE PARI.OH. 1 "What does your sister say about me?" asked a young man of the small brother : of the maiden he thought he loved. ' Oh, lots !" sententiously exclaimed the precocious boy. ' Well, tell me," said the youth, in a coaxing voice. "She says you've got lots of money." ' Well, what else?" < 1 don't like to tell." ' Oh, come ; tell me and I'll give you some candy." "Well, she says that if she ever married you she'd loan you to Farmer Cornstalk for a scarecrow." Is that all?" lie sarcastically inquired. "Oh. no! She said if it wasn't for your ears the top part of your head would be an island, and that if your nose was a little longer you could stir your coffee with it. and if?" But the young man had closed the front door after him and was scooting i flw i.tiwf on u dotr trot.?JVcw %"V ' "vv* " Q Yuri- Journal. the whom; parent. "You know Blank, don't you?" queried a citizen, as he entered a Griswold street ollicc yesterday. " Yes." " Have you any influence with him?" ' Well. 1 may have." " Then you are the man to go to him. He has a son about sixteen years old!" "Yes." ''That boy is on the road to ruin because his father is too good-natured and ton much wrapped up in business. Seems to me it is your duty to no to that man and tell him in a friendly way that he must exercise more government or hi boy will be lost." " I don't think I'm the man," replied ' t 1 ..i _ ?.,,i the otlier, as nccncwcu <u ? uiuuiug-ji. uud gazed out of the window. "But why!" " Well, I've got a boy about the same age, and I'm just going up to the police court to pay a fine of $20 for him smashing up saloon furniture! Try the next." ( ?Detroit Free Vrexs. A STRONG GIRL. "Uncle Abe," said ? woman, address- , ing a colored gentleman of prominence, <Tse got some mighty bad newsfer yer." i "What is it, chile?*' i "I'se jes' from yer house an' yer boy < is dun gib up by de doctors." ] " Dat so? I'se glad ter hear it." 1 " W'y, Uncle Abe, yer ougliter be < "shamed ob yourse'f." ] "Dat's whar yer's wrong. Ef dat iloctor has been workin' on dat boy now ( fer two weeks, an' at las' has ter gin him 1 up, it shows dat de boy is a mighty ] strong chile. Had ter gin him up, did i lie? ur haw, haw. Doctor tin's obsteckles i in the way when he comes er foolin' 1 'roun' my family."?Arkannnw Traveler. ' WHAT A IJABY CAN DO. A baby can wear out u aouar pair 01 < kid shoes in twenty-four hours. It can ' keep its father busy advertising in the ] newspapers for a nurse. It can occupy 1 L)oth sides of the largest sized bed manu- ! factured simultaneously. It can make 1 the author of its being's wash bills foot ' up to $5 a week and not be feeling at all 1 well. It can crowd to suffocation the ' wioking car of a railroad train with indignant passengers between two stations. 1 [t can cause its father to be insulted by ' svery second-class boarding house ] keeper in the city who "never takes chil- 1 ilren." It can make an old bachelor in 1 the room adjoining use language that, if ' uttered on the street, would get him in 1 the nonitontiarv for two vears. It can. ' l . in ten minutes, drive a man frantically From his home and cause him to seek the companionship of a locomotive blowing all steam.?Philadelphia Call. DECIDEDI.Y OBDURATE. Three or four dock-wollopers, led by a man who had a $2 bill in his hand, entered the office of a prominent tug-owner the other day and the spokesman announced : ' Say, captain, the boys out there have been blowing around about the speed of tugs, and I've finally made 'em put up." "How?" "Why, I've got a bet of $1 that you have a tug which can break the biggest hawser made on a-square pull." "Well?" "Well, I want to win it. If I do I'll divide with you." The captain not only refused to send to Buffalo for the tug mentioned, but would not pledge himself to buy a new ' l.nn.n/tM tf VI til Tr\ flMf tlO fl 1C. missed the matter so frigidly that the ' stakes had to he returned and the wager declared oil. That's just the way with ' some men after they get a few dollars ' ihead.?Free I'reiv. QUITE A POINTEK. 1 Chief "Wigglesworth, of Austin, is a * jreat dog fancier, and his kennels are ^ nearly always stocked with choice breeds j >f bird dogs, shepherds, and other jlooded varieties. One day he met a jQsom friend on the avenue and accosted n'm "I wish," he said, '"that you would all up to my house to-morrow. I want o give you a pointer, a valuable one." "Oh, thank you!!' exclaimed the deighted friend, "I shall certainly call." Then the friend, in the anticipation of lie expected present of a fine bird dog, Mirchased a breech-loading shotgun, a housand or two cartridges, a game-bag, ind $10 or if 15 worth of ammunition, rhe next day he appeared at Wigglesvorth's residence with a handsome nickclilated dog collar in his hand. "Ah, good morning," said Wigglesvorth; "glad to see you." "I came," explained the friend, "after hat pointer." "Oh, yes; I came mighty near forgeting that. It is this: You talk to much vith your mouth on the outside." The nickel-plated dog collar and )osotn friend moved sadly up the street. Tcxnn Si ftiii'/K. Too Many Doctors. Witness the large number of doctors n every city struggling for mere exist'lice, and see how very few out of the vhole number really do the work. See | iow in almost every country village a rood practice for two or three men is >iecemealed by sharp and often acrinonious competition, to the detriment if all. It would seem that in acallingso liirli km iiotilc so snrri'd. men tit for uch ministry should be sought for: hut | he great question of the young graduate w s not. "Who wants me?"' hut j 4 Who will employ me?"' not "Who . leeds me ?" but "Where ran 1 get a livng'{" In the ease of four physicians ( lying, each in a country village, during t he last year, I am credibly informed [ , that in one instance two, in another I j hree. in the third live, and in the'fourth ! , ase seven new men came to look the , ield over within ten days after the doc- j or's death, sometimes before the burial. 11 one case ten attended the funeral, and ^ n another the widow had three letters , 'rom aspirants for the vacant place while , he body of her husband still lay in the s lOUSC. j It is a hackneyed saying, with which oo many ears arc ticKieu. that mere is j s tlways room for good men." Applied ' o the present condition of our profession, { t is false. Were only good men and the c >est men admitted, it would undoubtedly 8 le true. Hut all over the.land, in citv . ind country, are well-educated, culti- I ated gentlemen, honest and loyal, strivng in vain to secure a competence?yes, i i bare living even?and too often is dis- j appointment mingled with shame .. md mortification at the success *' >f ignorant and unprincipled rivals. { have said that the evil , esults of the excess in numbers are mani- j ( old. It lends to over-practice and to | .. jad practice. The man who is hard s lushed, who aas few patients and needs 0 nore, is tempted to make much of little, j, o magnify the importance of his c.'ises, j joth in his own mind and to his patrons; o make uncalled-for visits, and to give oo much medicine; an unnecessary mediation ceases tc b& rational. Patients arc s njured in mind and body. The com- 1 nunity is injured by teaching the people 1 o attach undue importance to trivial s liseases, and tr, overestimate the value ? >f treatment th< rein. Legitimate, honest * iracticc sufTerr, in reputation; money is ' >btained under false pretences.?New [ York Medical Uncord S 1 The roof of the White House, portico < ivas recently cleaned by throwing a } ?tream of water upon it, and a perfect ? shower 0f spiders was the result. Their f number was estimated by millions, and j when they crawled back to their homes night the white pillars looked as if painted black. 1 FASHION NOTES. TVio SVinlrf>r r>nk'f> will be TlOflulnr this i ivintcr for children. Cherry red and ochre yellow are the leading colors in millinery just now. ( Many of the short black garments are elaborately trimmed with black fox fur. The newest thing in furs is the hi^h- ^ shouldered pelerine with high standing collar. , Solid-colored fur linings for both fur- . lined dolmans and circulars arc most pre- ] ferred. ] Belts and chatelaine bags, made of ! finely embossed leather, of entirely new designs, are again in high vogue. I Undycd beaver is very fashionable for 1 trimming cloaks, and capes made of it ' are more stylish than those of any other fur. ( Chenille fringe is extensively used for ' trimming dresses and mantles. It. is ' ..n/1 /.viM.nyiv<> lint it never U..I. ....v. , ( lasts more than one season. The plain black silk is not nearly so , popular as the Ottomans, merveilleux and | satin rhadames. If one wants to to buy j an economical black dress a good , black satin is the best. 1 White bonnets have gone entirely out of fashion for evening wear. Those of 1 pale mauve and salmon and blue velvet. ] made simply and trimmed with a cluster i of ostrich tips arc the most fashionable. A very elegant walking costume is made of a pattern dress of deep cedarbrown bison cloth, the skirt showing a deep band of the simulated Persian embroidery above a narrow pelisse. The long, tight-fitting coat is trimmed with bands of buffalo fur, and a round turban has a miniature bison's head in the front. One of Mrs. Langtry's pretty walking- 1 dresses is of dark blue broadcloth, with : skirt bordered by several tiny pleatings of red and yellow satin, a short distance ' above which is a band of chamois skin 1 some three inches in width. The tight- ' titling waist is similarly irimmeu, mm the little turban worn with it is of dark blue. A favorite style of jewelry is of nugget-finished gold with scattered jewels embedded in the rough surface. Handsome bracelets arc formed by uniting the roughly-rounded or rectangular plates, ai.d linked sleeve buttons of this style lire well liked in the form of trefoil. For :i scarf-pin a little sword with richlyjeweled hilt is a style of which few young men are ashamed. A new style of dressing the hair is high in the back and 011 the head. The coiffure is composed of two waved ban[leaus, which are generally false. The hair is taken up in the back in Chinese fashion and tied rather high; it is then divided into three parts, each of which forms a kind of bow with smooth loops. ' Each of these is fastened through the ] center with a shell pin. In a second style the hair is divided horizontally into two j parts. The upper part is tied high and then divided to form wills which are ar- , ranged in a wreath around the head. The three upper puffs show from the front, j The other part of the hair is braided < ind taken in the center of the i wreath. A third coiffure consists of false ] erimped bandeaus. The back forms puffs i ind small twists of hair, with low combs ^ placed in the center of the head and on , either side of the back. Although to \ <oine it may be undesirable to do away . with the Grecian knot, it would be good ] for others. If a girl has a low forehead, <mall, regular features and a head pro- j trading far at the back and gracefully ? sloping toward the neck, she will look j well with her hair arranged in a low coil ] nt the back; otherwise, she lias the ap- ( pcarancc of being in undress. Fashion- . d>le hairdressers do not braid the hair j sow. It is invariably coiled. It should \ be thorougly brushed before coiling, and j never brushed afterward. Bangs still l stay. How to Run. , "Can you give mc any directions for i running?" was asked of a well known ithlete of this city. ; "Yes. Keep your head well lip, breathe through the nose and not the 1 mouth, keep the chest out, shoulders i ;hrown back, body bent slightly forward i from the hips, and elbows in. The j trouble with most people is that they i breathe through the mouth and thus ex- i tiaust their wind. If a man, unaccustomed to running, keeps his mouth shut, i in a little while he will feel a pressure on ] liis chest as though a weight were placed upon it, but if he keeps going he will ' ;oon breathe freer and get what is called ; 'second wind,' then he can run as long < is his muscle holds out." Having obtained this information, the reporter decided to observe how people i 3id run, and selected the depotu as the best place for observation. i The first person who appeared in the ; field was a short fat man, with his mouth ivide open and his face very red from his jxertions, and his arms working in every iirection. Next came two men carrying a trunk md endeavoring to run, but as the trunk iirucK ineir Knees every wine iuc> jmi, an steam there was hardly a chance to put in any professional work. "Hi! Catch on to the dude perambulatin'. O, why did its mother let it go jut alone," veiled a bootblack. And. sure enough, there was a genuine specimen of a dude, with boots, pants, coat, collar and hat complete, poking the toes )f his boots into the cracks of the sidewalks and thus " perambulatin'" along. Still another specimen in the form of a i jig-hearted, big-fisted and last-but-noteast, big-footed "down-Easter,"making ; lie very lloor of the depot shake, but i " gettin' thar" all the same, and tumbing on to the platform of the last car |ust in time. i A school girl appeared next on the i scene, with a bag of books as large as < imn/irlitrl linr Cf\ tllilt in impartial judgment could not be "ormcd, and she seemed to care for her i lairpins more than her style of locomo- < ion. Of the several people the reporter saw 10 one had been running according to : he rules laid down by the athlete.? ! Box!on Glohc. The Hi lie macula of Herbs. In the fall of the year, as the weather ' jrows colder, the production of the nor- ' nal leaves of trees is suddenly cheeked. ' Fliey wither and fall olT. Instead of 1 hem we find a close, compact cluster of ' iciiles. nn<l within these a number of < ;oung leaves and .sometimes (lower buds. Pliese scales arc designed to protect the i'ouiig leaves from the cold during winter: hey are therefore called hibcrnneuhi or j vinter quarters of the tender parts. To- . .vard spring the, growth of the inclosed eaves and buds is very rapid, so as to J mrst open their coverings and allow a speedy development of the. floral organs, j lence most trees possessing scaly buds lower early in the spring of the year. , Jt may not be as well known, liow ver, that it is not at all uncommon for he earlier (lowering, perennial herbs to j msscss hibernacula, or winter buds, con- ^ aining the (lowers of the following year; ind that tnanv of them owe the power I .. .. '..ii1 if earlv developing their flowers to this art. ' !, Perennial herbs, on the approach of ^ vinter, die down to the surface of the , 'round. The stem still remaining be- . icath the earth is called the subterranean tem, and furnishes the buds from which J he next year's growth is developed. The winter buds of herbs consist or j cnles which owe their origin to different lurts of leaves (blades, petioles) as in recs. They never attain the indurated haractcr nor the resinous properties of cales m arboreal vegetation, but like hem arc sufficiently protective to inclose J he leaves and flowers of the following { ear and preserve them from the clTccts , 'f a sudden change of weather. I'nlike he hibernacula of trees, the inclosed 1 arts begin to grow early in winter, and ^ ften break the bonds of their enclosures o develop and push their wav up through he frozen soil. They are enabled to do ^ his by the supplies of nourishment furlished by subterranean reservoirs in the j, hape of thickened stems or roots. The . ( xistenee of such winter buds, contain- ? "" Vin fl/ivvnr luirlc i,f the iH'Yt SPilSOll. is I 11 IUV 14V/"1 * '"",vw 7 ? >y no moans rare.?Naliimlixt. The "depth of sleep"' has been the novel ubject of investigation by two German 0 ihysicians, working on the principle that r' he depth of sleep is proportional to the * ound required to awaken. Ingenious experiments showed that, with a perfectly j' icalthy man, slumber during the tirst lour is very li.crht; after an hour and a piarter the depth of sleep increases rapdly and reaches its maximum at one and a hroe-quarter hours. The slumber then v ightens gradually,, but reaction into * leoper sleop occurs after five and a half 1 lours of repose, after which gradual J1 wakening proceeds. Imperfect health 1 >r unusual exertion produced marked regularities. i The ancients used black >ind white a jeune as ballots. 1 ' ' ' \N EXTRAORDINARY SIGHT. I. HUGE CAVE EN OUT OF WHICH ISSUED MYRIADS Or BIRDS. DounilCNM Thousnml* of ihc Feathered Tribe?A Naturalists AMon? isiiln^ Adventurer in Columbia* A naturalist just returned from a visit io South America, told a Sun reporter ibout his search for a peculiar bird in Colombia. The bird is about the size of i pigeon, and has a long, heavy, broad, Iiooked bill, and is of a brownish cnest11 \it color, marked with indefinite black spots. " "When I first heard of the bird," said the bird man, ''I was traveling in a mountainous part of Colombia, and :>nc night when I halted in a native nllage they gave me some strange dish, :ooked in oil. I asked a native, who said it came from the oil bird orguacharo. He furthermore gave me to understand that the birds were not unlike bottles of ail: all you had to do was to put a wick in their mouths and light it, and you had i lamp. The native imd never seen the bird himself, he said, but bought the oil. From another man, who belonged to a tribe away up in the mountains, and brought it down twice a year. You may be sure I inquired about the guacharo of all the natives I met, and finally I came across a little village where the people knew about it. One man nromised to take me where I could find the birds, but lie was very reluctant about it. According to him, the birds were of ill omen, and never came out of their hiding places in the daytime, lie said that they lived in the ground, and that men who had gone after them never reurned. "That settled it with me, and when I iloubled my first olTer, he put aside all scruples, and in two days we were oil into the interior. At the end of two [lays Ave gave up our mules and began cutting and smashing through the worst country for traveling on the globe. The forest was absolutely impenetrable. In some placcs the lianes or vines formed a perfect wall that had to be cut through unless long detours were made. I was tempted more than once to give it up, but we kept on, and finally, after nearly ii week's work, reached the mountains, mintur wln'fh tlu- birds were sunnosed to live. Our camp was formed at tlu* foot of a low clifT, against which huge boulders were piled; the tent was formed of boughs thrust into the ground and palm leaves thrown over the top. " I remember we lay down at dusk, being tired out. I must have fallen asleep directly, as I was awakened by the native grasping me by the shoulder. I started to my feet, thinking that I had either yone mad or was dreaming. It was dark, ind all about was the most terrific roaring md screeching mortal man ever heard. The only thing I can compare it to is a tiurricane, without the wind. Now there ivas a wild roar, then a weird shriek, followed by a low moaning that grew louder ind louder until it reached an awful climax, and then died away, to return again ind again. I can hear it now," said the naturalist, taking out a highly-colored Spanish bandanna, " and it makes me warm to think of it. Well, I was paralyzed for about a minute, and the native ivas simply knocked out of time, but I grabbed him, and in a moment he gasped out, 'Guacharo.' Then it came to me that we were among the birds, ind, picking up my gun, I fired at andom, directly up. Several birds fell ' {fJlin o (>.? fi.r.t * if tlin wliofl Tlir? birds ictually filled the uir in countless thousands. You may have seen the great pigeon roosts in Kentucky, where they break down great trees. Well, this discounted the pigeon roosts in every respect. I thought at first I couldn't stand it. 1 eat up until one o'clock, and then the noise let up and the birds disappeared in some almost miraculous manner The birds I shot told the oil story at once. They were so fat that the oil could be Fairly squeezed out. I took an old piece jf llannol and proved the lamp story then ind there by thrusting it, into the bird. It readily lighted and gave a clear blue ind yellcw flame. "I suspected that the birds were like bats, living in caves, and that we had ' camped in close proximity to such an un derground roost, inuring rue rusn i nan imagined several times that I heard a J rumbling sound under foot, and I was correct, as was proved the next day, when I found about 800 feet from the camp tho entrance of a cave. Our camp had been right in the path of the birds, which rushed out every evening at dusk. The cave entrance was about twenty feet ucross, and covered with feathers and ^uano. I tell you it took nerve to go in, but, arming ourselves with clubs and lighting material, we pushed on. For some twenty yards it was easy enough, but then the path suddenly turned abruptly downward, changing our direction, and 11 walk of a hundred feet led us into a large hall, perhaps one hundred and fifty feet high. Up to this time I had only used a small bull's-eye light that I always carried, and as we saw no birds I thought I would have an illumination, so 1 set oil a red ugm. neii, .sir, mac fame such a thundering scream and volley of echoes that I thought the whole Andean chain was falling on us. The native went on his knees, and I felt like following suit. In fact, I did fall flat a moment later to avoid the rush. The light showed a most astonishing spectacle. Every crevice of the wall was filled with birds and nests. As the birds Happed their wings the entire cave seemed walicd with them, while the air became every moment more densely filled, so that, as I said. I was forced to lie down and press my fingers in my cars. They dashed at us through the light, striking with their wines. At first I knocked them down by the score, but a regiment r>f men could not have fought against them, so I literally laid low until the birdstorm blew over. ' We sat there over an hour before we ventured to move, and then, the native refusing to go, I pushed further in and saw that the cave was a monster breedingplace for the birds. Their rushes at us were evidently to protect their youn*;, niid, though it seems incredible that so <mail a bird could endanger a human life, I have no doubt that they would beat a man down if he stood up, and confuse him so that he would never get out, ind I understood that the story told me ibout men who had ^one. in the cave and never came out might will he true. N> [ returned to the native, wh) was demoralized, and we made our way out into lay-light, thankful to escape." Russian Etiquette. As illustrative of M. Kenan's allusion, n the c<nirse (if his funeral oration over he Imdy of his friend, TurgenefT, to the suddenness with which the Slav race J limit" ll> <1 |t | Hill illlvv" Ull IIIU , I?? l" " ome part of the European family, a Crouch journal quotes the text of the ules of social etiquette promulgated l?y 'atherine II. when she set about introlucing Western usages into Russia little nore than a century ago. She begins >y prescribing the mode of invitation, he hours for receiving, and the cerenonial forms to be observed. She disourages the cumbersome tonvontionaliies of the Oriental politeness in vogue. I'he host should not see a visitor beyond he door of the house when he takes his enve. The ijuests at eveninjr parties are o be allowed to sit or stand, as they )lease, but the host must provide the oom with chairs, as well as with candles tid lii|tiors. A mere bow on entering or caving the room is the only formality iccessnry. One of the articles specifics he classes that constitute good society, iliich is allowed to include not merely loblcs and officers, but also '"artists, esicciallycarpenters.Possibly Peter the treat's connection with the craft gave it his prestige. By the seventh article 'ladies are forbidden to get drunk under ny pretext whatever" at social gather iiffs, aim fjcnuemen must not <10 so neorc nine o'clock. Another of the sirtiles discountenances the coarse fun of the ame of forfeits as played in Russia. Vhcn the forfeit was a kiss gentlemen ,-ere not to insist, on claiming it from a id}* who lost; and if it were a heating, a entleman who proceeded to exact the urfeit was to be excluded from the ompany.?St. ,lames' Gazille. Of the lil,000,000 trade dollars coined nlv 8,000,000 remain in America. The i i.i.ii. 4 ...JiV. t i L?sr Weill 111IU U1U tlilUU Willi ;\M?I, illlll cry few of them will ever come back, aving been recoined in Oriental mints n account of being heavier than the seal dollars. . One of the chief features of interest at recent country exhibition in England fas an iron watch, which had been urncd out by a Kidderminster linn for lie purpose of showing the extraordinary nnlleahility of their metal. The watch s said to be perfcct. Recent statistics show that criminals ind lunatics are generally two inches ihortei; than the class to which they be Scenes and Incidents in Sitkn. The misty rain did not prevent us from further exploration of the strange old town. The lower part is built of block houses, formerly occupied by soldiers, but now given over entirely to the Indians. The beach is strewn with canoes just in from fishing, and women arc busy cleaning the fish and keeping an eye on the i?i i_?vs? OillU IJUUll'8, HUIll ?l.\ vt'ttinuvnu to infancy, arc on the sound" paddling around by themselves in canoes. On the common a crowd of Indian boys are playing base ball. Though all their talk was in native tongue, they cried in English ''out,'' "foul," "tally," "one strike," as they had heard sailors play. Their actions were very amusing, and their ball looked and felt like a potato tied up in a rag. A lot of girls sitting on a huge pile of high boulders overlooked the scene, and busied themselves in nursing rag dolls, whose wooden heads showed skill of carving that seems wonderful in these untaught people. These Indians are so superior in many ways to tribes of the plains that any progressive person would naturally become interested in theiradvanccinent. The Presbyterian mission established a school here five years ago that, after a hard struggle, has at last come to a tirm footing, and, with those at Wrangel and other ports, has done much to suppress witchcraft cruelties, and to teach Indian girls industry and virtue The chief is generaiiy appointed spe ciai policeman to inuiantown. j ne present chief is ''Captain Tom," a good officer, having great influence with his tribe, lie has acquired $$,000 by trading, owns a good house, bought from a departing Russian, and sports a brass-buttoned blue suit. Quite as conspicuous as himself is his fat squaw, who gives her name as "Mary Tom." and is also a great trader, having sjtf.OOO on her own account, profits as " middleman " between her own people and the whites. She has the wabbling walk characteristic of her people, caused by their all being pigeontoed from continual squatting, instead of sitting, to rest. All the Indians wear American made shoes and stockings, and one is rarely seen bare-footed. Their complexions arc fair as light Japanese, the babies being almost white. The humid atmosphere and lack of sunshine cause this effect, and also cause another ,..1.;,.!. 1.,.,,.,....,1.1,, inllnmm.,fnr< I.- ftM un.tva.yiv, rheumatism. Wo have seen several persons drawn all out of shape with it, and several dwarf children. This last speaks well for their humanity, as it is the custom of Indians to put dwarfs to death. There is no agriculture at Sitka, except gardening, to which the Indians have lately taken 011 their own account, with success as to hardy vegetables. These, with abundance of cod, halibut, salmon, deer, grouse, and numerous berries to be had with little labor, enable them to run better boarding houses than the usual summer resorts. There are no cattle or sheep in Alaska, and except game no meat unless steamers furnish an occasional supply to a favored few. There are four cows who do their duty at Sitka, and three mules that do nothing except at rare intervals. Before reaching there the tourists discussed quite warmly whether it would be best !o go on horse duck or m a nacK to sec me xown. un arrival we found a liveryman who does an extensive business at other ports, a party named Shanks, who furnished us with the only horses known in Sitka.? i\ or th i rent Kcich. Not Quite Satisfactory. A Parisian hanker has the misfortune to possess a wife who is addicted to gambling. Year after year she goes to Monaco and loses large sums on the green cloth. Her husband has been at his wits' end to stop the evil without resorting to harsh measures. At last a happy thought struck him. Calling to him u confidential clerk named Armand. who was unknown to his wife, he gave him instructions to follow the lady and to attend daily at the gaining table. Armand was told to watch carefully the way that she staked her money, and also always to place a similar amount on the opposite color. By I his means the banker hoped that he would be able to "hedge" the sums staked by his wife, and that the only loss lie could possibly experience would he the general expenses incurred by his clerk. A short time elapsed, and the husband received among his correspondence one morning two letters from Monaco?one from his wife, the other from M. Armand. Opening the first, he found but two lines, but those were to the point. The lady had experienced a loss of (>0,000 francs and wrote for more money. Turning to the next letter, with some satisfection at his own shrewdness, he read as follows* L'ln/I f>"ntul niul T linvo i m _ Illicitly followed your instructions, but I have never worked so luird in my life. Madame arrives at the casino at midday and never leaves the table till midnight. Twelve hours without eating or drinking is no joke. However, I have nothing to complain of. I have won 00,000 francs, and as I am not ambitious, I am content IU ?MW|J Illt'lUi 1 i)i(U I (H U11VV/ 1UI iin/ui, duvon, ix charming little town where I was horn, and where my cousin awaits me, to whom I am about to be married. Knowing the interest you take in my welfare, I shall be indeed proud if you will be present at our wedding. Of the 2(),0<J0 francs, you intrusted me with there remain 11,241 francs, 20 centimes, which I remit in a bank check. The balance lias been expended in my hotel bill and other incidental items. "Yours, etc., Aiimaxd." | Americans in Europe. Henry F. (Jillig, manager of the American Exchange in London, and the most widely-posted man in the world on Amcr lean iravei aoroau, was asttcu imw many ; Americans had registered in Europe during the past season. "One hundred and thirty thousand," he replied, "the largest number ever recorded." "How does this compare with other years?" " I will give you a little history of ; American traveling abroad that will let j you see just how the trade has increased," i replied (Jillig. " In 1STT or 1M7H the travel was about is,000 annually, and at j that time I was laughed at by a Chicago I newspaperman for predicting that the number would soon reach HO.000 tier ' year. Well, it reached that figure in two ! or three years, and ran on up to the pres- ! ent number of 1:10.000?all traveling i Americans in Europe. I now want to predict that we shall see the year that will record a quarter of a million souls crossing the Atlantic for travel and pleasure." "Hut where do these travelers mostly come from?" "From the East, of course?all the | East, though New York is far ahead of j the other cities. A New Yorker runs j | over to Europe nowadays in the same j I spirit that lie jumps aooaru a ni>;u to i visit Coney Island or Long Hranch for rccrcatiou and pleasure." ' How about the West?" 14 A proportion come.s from Chicago and the Northwest.. From >?? South j vorv fcr.-, ..iiAbst none, coiritr The peo- j pie do not -seem to be at all given to i travel outs',de their own region." Suppose the average expenditure of J each person was $2,000, a very moderate | estimate, the total will amount lo ?20,000.- i 000, paid to foreign steamship and railroad companies. Kuropcan hotel-keepers, and Paris shop-keepers since last spring. ? Chieinjn Tfihufe. Italian Peasant Life. Keally poor people rarely exist in this i part of the world, says a K mie letter, ' every man living in his own free hold 1 ' house, descended from generation to gen- ! elation, to which is attached a little plot I ' of land which sullices for his wants ami i the wants of his family. The life these ( people lead reminds one of the Patriarchal life we read of in the ISiblc. Everything I j is made at home l>v the people, the women j , even make their own linen from hemp grown on their own ground. In one way ; , or another they arc at work (men ami ' women) from sunrise to sunset. Those j who call Italians idlers, should come here J t to.see how tliev work. The Marclic 1'rov- j J ince. however, mav be called the Swit/.cr- ' land of Italy. It i< cultivated as well, j i and the people are as industrious, and at the same time more ifenial and generous, j for, if a countryman meets the veriest ! - i : - "-II. . i... i.:?. , si ranker in iu.s >van\>, nr unm> mm u? | return home with him ami partake of , what fare his hut eaii yivc. The .Marehe j laborer or peasant works without waives. ' lie shares half the crop willi his master. j lie lives hetter than the lahorers and i country people in other parts of Italy, j Indian corn, however, is still their chief | food, even here, and they drink vinegar and water excepting on jrrcat occasions. These people who content themselves with Indian corn and vinegar and water for themselves, have fowls and wine for their masters, whenever they co to visit them ? as when the Indian corn is shelled or j tlx- wheat cut, or new wine made or other , similar occasions. They are a happy, cheerful and contented class of people, I and very religious. I __ EMIGRANT SONO. fWritten od the steamship City of Rome*] Behind us lies a land all dim With sighs of sorrows old { Before lis on the ocean's rim , A lami Liinu iwms ul fjuiu. We go, a fuller life to win, With freedom for th' oppreet? But wont forget the old land in The new world of the West We cannot weep who cross the deep, Unfairly driven forth ; We might not sow, we could not reap Our share of native earth I We go, a fuller life to win, With freedom for th1 opprest? But wont forget the old land in That new world of the West. As emigrants from land to land? jtirom riso m set 01 suu, We build the bridge till ocean's spanned, And all the world is one. "We go, a fuller life to win, With freedom for th' opprest? But wont forget the old land in That new world of Lhe West. ?Gerald Massey. HUMOROUS. Remarkably find board?Sawdust. Superior ceurt?Sparking a rich girl. When you see a glass of water?Goblet. Out of sight, out of mind?A blind lunatic. Light houskeeping?Keeping a lighthouse. The Great Indian Corn Cure?The August sun. Quick at figures?The dancing master. ?Boston Bulletin. The fisherman is the one who has to scratch for a living, at least you continually hear of his having a bite.?Statesman. Under certain circumstances it makes a man feel mean to have people give him a tvirlr. Vinrth hut somehow it never does when traveling on a steamboat.?Burlington Free Press. A Michigan youth, aged nAieteen, had a flare-up with his girl, and out of revenge, married the Tatter's aunt?"fat, fair and forty." It is the first time aunty fat has been utilized as a cure for a broken heart.?Peoria Transcript. Ex-Minister Schenck is made to say, in Life, "Will you please state that Misa Anderson is not the only dignified American. I, too, in my day, refused to see the Prince of Wales, although at the time I held three jacks." There are ninety-six hundred musical bands of various kinds in the United Statos, and still some people are surprised when they open their morning papers and read of the terrible crimes committed every day.?Merchant Traveler. A learned man lias discovered that birds lack the sense of smell. If this learned man should pull oft his coat and roll up his shirt sleeves he might in time also discover that birds lack a nose to smell with.?Philadelphia Call. They have an extraordinary police fniin Tmv A man was attacked at w"-v J ? night, stunned, carried a quarter of a mile, and then robbed of his watch and chain, money and diamond pin, hat, clothes and shoes. The police recovered the shoes.?New York Sun. The idea of congratulating a man because he has reached his seventieth birthday, as though that was something to be joyous about. Kow, if the man could only reach his seventh birthday again there'd be something to fetch the band out for.?Burlington Haiekeye. A philosopher asserts that one of the best lessons of life is "Learn to labor and to wait," and that "all that is good takes time, and comes only by slow growth." " This is decidedly encouraging," murmurs the young man, as he consults the almost invisible bristles on his upper lip.?Statesman. A German accosted a broad-brimmed specimen irom Texas on wisumism sircc* Sunday. * "Who vo9 you, I don't know?" Looking the inquisitive German in the face he replied: "I am a cow-boy." "Dot's good," replied our German friend. "Shake. I vosa bully boy, doo." They shook.?Peek's Sun. Now comes the annual poultry feast, When roosts do barren grow, When every brand of feathered beast Doth in the oven po, When man doth mounds of turkeys bake And with a gravy lather 'em, And then doth of his stomach make A sort of omnium gatherum. ?Yonkers Gazette. The Meadows of Maryland. SpiUNGFIELD, PltlNCE GEORGE'S Co., Md. Mr. Chas. G. Addison, of the above place states: "I sprained my right knee causing intense suffering, and the use of crutches for several weeks. I found no relief in other remedies and finally tried the miracle of cure, St. Jacobs Oil. In a short time I could bend ? i-.. ?]md been as stiff as an Ill > zxiiv;^? iron rod?laying aside my crutches and was able to walk as well as ever." Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. It is good to abstain and teach others to abstain from all that is sinful or hurtful. But making a business of it tends to emaciation of character unless one feeds largely also on the more nutritious diet of active, sympathetic benevolence. School Tenchcr*. Mr. H. L. SorEB, principal of the High School at Poquonoek, Conn., says in r#lation '- - ?ima rrivon him much nnxietv lu a uiui/ici. nuivii imnKi.vu.HU.MM w Mid pain: "My wife and I have both used Hunt?s Remedy, and find it really a superior nrlicle. A year or so ago my kidneys became wtak and sluggish, owing to a severe strain, and finding relief in Hunt's Remedy I continued.its use until I had used four bottks, when I became well. Since my cure I have suggested its use to a great number of people, who I know have been benefited by using it." And to substantiate this state uent, Mr. H. S. Clabk, assistant superintendent of the High School, says: "I can certify to the value of Hunt's Remedy, having received great benefit from its use. My troubles commenced tweive years ago, when my kidneys became afllicted with inflammation of tt;e passages, but the timely use of so valuable a medicine arrested the disease. I can now cheerfully recommend it to all suffering as I was." May 31, 1883. Telegraph Item. Utioa, June 9, 1883, Fbank W. Hoffman, clerk of the American Distrio: Telegraph Co., says: Having had occasion to use a medicine for kidney trouble with a lame back, I was recommended by one of our Utica druggists to use Hunt's Remedy, as lie had sold a good deal of it to many of our leading families heio with great success for kidney, liver and urinary troubles. I ] .. .^.i .?*?,! kovAAnltf nafffl thrpghot- / piirCIWI>CUawu??Jf??Mvi i Ks. It I ma curoit mo, and I can truly reeoui- j mend llm.t's Ke.nody to any one in need of 1 the best medic no for those complaints." I < Silk culture is on the rapid inert a*' along the Gulf coast from Now Orlansl > Mobile. On Tlilitv Ihiv*' Tilnl. The Voltaic Bei.tCo.. Marshall, Mich..will mid l)r. Dye's Celebrated Electro-Voltaic j Holts and Electric Appliances on trial for j thii tv (lavs to men (youn< or old) who are ' ailHcted with nervous debility, lost vitality ' and kindred troubles, guaranteein, speody and complete restoration of health and manly j rigor. AddrciMj as above. N. B.?No risk fs ! incurred, as thirty duvs' trial is allowed. ] I was troubled with Chronic Catarrh and ' gathering in my head, was very deaf a1: 1 times, had discharges from my ear.-, and was unable to breathe through my nose. Before the second hottle of Ely's Cream Balm was o exhausted I was cured, and to-day enjoy li Bound health.?C. J. Corbi.v, M'S Chestnut z 8treef, Field Manager, Philadelphia Pub. y IIouso, Form, (fc'oe udv't.) n Cnrhn-linr*. Strike the bosom of old mother earth, And from her veins unseen _ There Hows an oil <>f untold worth When made into Carboliue. I Howl's Sarsaparilla is an extract of the best re me lies of the vegetable killed nil I' known as Alteratives and Blood Purifiers. jj Mrs. Jr. Pilkinjjton, -Ml 2'ith street, Brook- J, Ivn, says: "1 was a rheumatic cripple two ij pears; helpless for months, when my doctor, ifter trying in vain everything else, told me ,'j ;o get Dr. Klmoro's K.-Gr. That cured me ! hi l w Straighten your old boots and shoes with Lyon's Patent lie ! SiillVnors, and wear igain. Ii " "nil Irtl im ifs (TPflnf. I c i so ;*<r. i ni' ii-K j . inn m.w.0 a ( aluo. One trial convinces. {j frb^^jirrrf ULIIPIAN ntiYibu I FOR PAIN. CURES . - . ' Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, 1 Lumbago. Backache, Headache, Toothache, I < Soro^liroal.J?ivcllli?B?.Wpi-nln?,BruUc? / Bum*. MritliU. Final Dltea, JIXD AM. 01'11 Kit HOIIILY I'AISS i.VII ACHES. ; , Hol/bj I?ru(tgl?Mmi l l>?ler?e?irrwlicn>. Klft/t'enti? bolO ' Dirmlloill III II THE C1IAKLE8 A. VO*2ELEU CO. 13 gujimmuA. VlXiEURSCO.) rf>IUim*ni Md^ C. B. A J K Y M U?47 HIS OWN EXECUTOR. k Well-known GenUemmji'g PhU&ntfnropy " ud the Gomniotlon Ctaied by One tr Bu Letter*. [Roehuter Democrat and Chronicle], We published in our local columns yesterday morning a significant letter from a gentleman known personally or by reputation to nearly every porson in the land. "We hare | received a number of letters 'protesting ; against the use of our columns for such "pal- j pable frauds and misrepresentations;" there* { lore, to confirm beyond a doubt the authen- i ticity of the letter, and the genuineness of ! its sentiments, a reporter of this paper was ' <vimmissioned to ascertain all the possible | i facta in tho matter. Accordingly he visited i Clifton Springs, saw the author of the letter, and with the folloi#ing result: 1 Dr. Henry Foster, the gentleman In question, is M or 64 years of age and has an extremely cordial manner. He preeKleo as superintendent oyer the celebrated sanitarium which accommodates over fire humlred | guests and is unquestionably the leading ! health resort of the country. Several years j ago this benevolent man wisely determined to be his own executor; and, therefore turned over this maznifleent property, worth $300,030, as a free gift to a board of trustees, | representing the principal evengelical de- i nominations. Among the trustees are Bishop A C. Coxo, Protestant Episcopal, Buffallo; Bishop Mathew Simpson, Philadelphia, Methodist Episcopal; lYesident M. B. Anderson, of the Univei-sity of Rochester: Rev. Dr. Clark, Secretary of the A. B. C. F. M., Boston. The benevolent purpoee of the in- | stitution is the care: 1st?of evangelical I missionaries and their families whoso health has been broken in their work. ?d?of i i ministers, of any denomination, in good i j standing. 3d?of members of any church who otherwise would be unable to secure such care and treatment. The current expenses of the institution are met by the receipt from the hundreds of distinguished and wealthy people who every year crowd its utmost capacity. Here come men and women who were once in perfect health, but neglected the first symptoms of disease. The nn(v*r+Ain nnins thpv felt at first were over looked uutil their health became impaired. They little realized tbe danger before them, nor how alarming even trifling ailments might provo. They constitute all classes, including ministers and bishops, lawyers, judges, statesmen, millionaires, journalists, college professors and officials from all parts of the land. Drawing the morning Democrat and Chronicle from his pocket, the reporter re- , marked: "Doctor, that letter of yours has created a good deal of talk, and many of our readers has questioned its authenticity." , "To what do you refor," remarked the doc- i tor. I "Have you not seen the paper ?" ' Yes, but I have not had time to read it yet." The reporter thereupon showed him the letter, which was as follows: Clifton Springs Sanitarium Co., ) prmwio tddtmfiu at "v 11.18si. f UiJirxvn *.y --j / Dear Sir: I am using "Warner's Safe Cure, and I regard it as the best remedy for some forms or kidney disease that we have. I am watching with great care some cases I am now treating with it, and I hope for favorable results. I wish you might come down yourself, as I would like veiy much to talk with yon about your sterling remedy and show you over our institution. Yours truly, [Signed] Henry Foster, M. D. "I do not see why anybody should be skeptical concerning that letter," remarked the doctor. "Isn't it unusual for a physician of your standing and influence to commend a proprietary preparation i "I don't know how it may be with others,but in this institution we allow no person to dictate to us what we shall use. Our purpose is to euro the sick, and for that worlc we use anything we know to be valuable. Because I luiow W arner's Safe Cure is a very valuable preparation, I commend it. As its power is manifested under my use, so shall 1 add to the completeness of my commendation.'' "Have you ever analyzed it, doctor 1" "We always analyze before we try any preparation of which we do- not know the constituents. But analysis, you know, only gives the elements; it does not give the all important proportions. The remarkable power of Warner's Safe Cure undoubtedly consists in the proportions according to which its elements are mixed." While there may be a thousand remedies made of the same ele ments, unless they are put together in proper proportions they are worthless as kidney and liver preparations. " I hope some day to meat Mr. Warner personally, and extend fuller congiatulations to him on the excellence of his preparations. I have heard much of him as the founder of the Warner Observatory, and as a man of large benevolence. The reputed high character of the man himself gave assurance to me in the first place that he would not put a remedy upon the market that was not trustworthy; and it was a source of a good deal of gratification to me to find out by actual experiment that the remedy itself sustained my impressions." The conclusion reached by Dr. Foster is precisely the same found by Dr. Dio Lewis. Dr. Robert A. Gunn, ex-Suigeon-General Gallagher and others, and proves heyond a doubt the great efficacy of the remedy which has awakened so much attention in tne land and rescued so many men. women and children from disease and death. Every fifth Mormon is a polygamLst. "Golden DIediraJ Discovery" has been used with signal success in consumption of the lungs, consumptive nigHtsweats, spitting of blood, shortness of breath, weak lungs, coughs, bronchitis and kindrei affections of throat and chest. Sold by druggists. In New Orleans the opera season will open this week with ''Faust.-' " Men must work and women weep, So runs the world away 1" But they need not weep so much if they use Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription, which curcs all the painful maladies peculiar to women. Sold by druggists. Both shores of Mobile bay are becoming covered with orange groves. Health first, riches afterward. All forms of heart disease, including palpitation, rheumatism, spasms, bony formation, enlargement, valvular derangements, acute pains in | loft breast, etc., yield to the use of Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator. $1 per bottle at | druggists. Arkansas is becoming a resort for hunter and fishermen. I The .huge, drastic, griping, sickening pills are fast l>eing superseded by I)r. Pierce's "Purgative Pellets." Sold l>y druggists. Ik Charley Ross is living ho is fourteen years of a^e. No'liliiff Like it. No medicine lias ever b.'en known s) effjjtual in the cure of all those dis^asjs arising from an impure condition of the blood as Scovill's Sar.-aparilla, or Blood and Liver Syrup, for the cure of scrofula, white swell- I ings, rheumatism, pimples, bl <tche i, erup- J tions, venereal sores and disease), consumo- ] tion, goitre, boils, cancers, and all kin Ired diseases. No better in ans of f ecu ring a beautiful complexion can bo obtained li.au < by using Scovill's UIk .iI and l,iver >yrup, which clean-es th blood a ul gives beauty to | tl.o skin. i Kxtkeme Tired Feeling.?A lady tolls us 'the first bottle has clone my daughter a I great deal of good, her food does not distress her now, nor dots she suffer from that c r- J treme tired ftiling which she did before J taking Hood's Sai>aparilla." A second hot- . tie effected a cure. So other nrejaration | contains such a concentration of vitalizing, enriching, purifying and invigorating nroj> erties as Hood's Sarsaparilla. Sold by drug- i gists. 100 doses $1. jj Mexsjian's Peptoxized beef toxic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nu'n- i tious promrties. It contains blood-makin?, ' force generating and life-sustaining properties; ? invaluablo for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous ? prostration, and all forms of general debility; ilso, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the \ result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over- ^ rt-ork or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazards < [Jo., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists. Walnut LearIlair Kestorer. It is entii ely different from ail others. It "J s as clear as water, and as its name indicates < s a jierfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. It will ? nmiediately free the head from all dandruff, restore gray hair to its natural color, and proluce a new growth where it has fallen off. It ? --* - ? ?" mnnnnp nflCwf. tho health. pchieh sulphur, sugar of lead nn?l nitrate ol diver preparations have done. It will change ipht or faded hair in a few days to a beauti"ul ?: ??}' brown. Ask your druggist for it. Saeh !w>ttle is warranted. Smith, Kline & .'O., Wholesalo Agents, Philadelphia,. Pa., md C. N. cititten'ton, New York. Frnzer Axie ureano. $ One greasing lasts two weeks; all others two r three days. Do not bo imposed on by the * umbug stuffs offered. Askyour dealer forFraer's, with label on. Saves your horse lab< .rand | (>u too. It received first medal at the Centen- i ial and Paris Expositions. Sold everywhere I * Piso's Cure will euro Couglis. Asthma, troncliitis and Consumption. 25 cents. I Danger from Catarrh opends upon t ho r.mount and ox! ont of the scrofulous ] ir ,1njvth? fmm Rnn. ! fP imuti< n can i>o traced to nefcioctetl catarrh. There is Tl violent distress, protracted coughing spells, the ?>i fen weep, the now discharges copiously, and the , pail seems about to split. , Of In ?uch esses Ho-nl's Sarsiparilla corrects the ca- pc irrh !>> its direct action in discharging the poison from ir le blood through nature's great nutlets, so that . ealtliy, sound blood roaches the membranes aud Is 10 holesume. Ri Catarrh in the Head ? 80 i more prevalent thnn many aro aware of, and hoir f0 ailily ielief may bo obtained t>y the use of Hood's srsnparilla, listen to the following: I have been a sufferer with catarrh in the head for 15 >ars. Never having found any benefit from the well Town remedies, I resolved to try a bottle of Hood's irsap.inlla for my cutiirrh. I would not tnke any onied consideration for the good that one bottle ilia T] e.-I. \V. Lillis. Chicago, 111., Postal Clerk. - ? ? ?- ? . <v 100 uoses une uonar v; "I have been troubled with that distressing com- Ai laint, catarrh, and havo been using Hood's S irsapv Ha. and tind it tine of the best remedies I have ever *1 ken.?Martin Shield, Chicago, 111. ftt Hood's Sarsaparilla i " Snld by druggists, $1; six for $5. Prepared bj 0. I. .ood A Co.. Auothecariod. Lowell. Mass. BAD, BAD, B1 Some blood is bad because it is poo it contains impurities. Some men have it does not poison the mosquitoes who e The rich red color of good blood is Blood which has not enough iron in it i: son in whose veins it circulates cannot b< The efforts of expert chemists to pr< can be assimilated with the blood have r< tvhich is an important part of Brown's which freely enters into the blood. It is the desired good. Weak, poor, thin blood may be m )lood may be purified by the use of th Iron Bitters. ~ : ??. ' ' ' A ^.-Great-Problem. TAKE ALL THE IH A | I Kidney & uver , Medicines BLOOD PURIFIERS, Dyspepsia And Indigestion Cures. Ague, Fever, And Pillmi* Brain & Nerve Force Revivers, Great Health j Restorers. IN SHORT, TAKE ALL THE BEST qualities of all theae, and the beat qualities of all the bent Medicines of the World and you will find that HOP BITTERS have the beat corn* live qualities and powers of all concentrated In thein, and that they will cure when any or ' , all of these, singly or combined, fall. A thoi? d ugh trial will give positive proof of this. _ f&B&'Fp Though ahaken la 6 & jj iji Q ? eTeIT joint and" fib?r ju Lfl *W " . -? S?|H V with fever and ague, ||" (UlBIATil or blllicra? remittent, ^ l^vor compl'.int, ^con&efnMACH kidney^ trouble# and fc STOMACH^ other ailment#. CatarhHWUUI I ^qgy^yg3g^aMM^BBHBMyrhen Applied by the fin. raei?LY,S.7?ffl(rer Into the noetrila, P55/L0FAU aMN\ ^|will beabaorbod, effoctr,5~C0\^l ? ?* cleansing the head KB n^Ca**?URrey |N | nf catarrhal virus. cau* Djln*healthy 8ecretiomu ; ?f2 </> ?*/ A11 allays inflammation, H.WFEVERK'^ protect*the membnae &? <s?M<)t the naaal paaaa** SKr* / /SB from additional colds, ay y euraplct?ly heal* the iSSBwr^ nnrea and restore* tut* ^9aland (imell. A few ?p. ^plication* rel?T6. A USA. 1 i>'"r",'3h 'r?*i"Mnt *8* BAY-FEVE SE'r"'^ nnm iitti v ibdi a ahim THEBEST.WIL^UN'S LIGHTNING SEWER ! Two thousand stitches a rain ate. The only absolutely 1) rat-class Sewing MochlnelitH world. Sent on trial. * Warranted & years. Send for IHnatrated Catalogme and ClrtilM B. AjMti Wanted. THE WIXSOX SEW. IAO UACH1N? CO.. Chlcua Ci-Jfew Toriy He Golden Prize fur 1884 yt Is now ready and will be sent freo to iny oneon rsodpt of a stamp for postage. The book contains numerous engravings, ana roon valuable information as every lad/ onn gentleman ongbt to know. This book.will also show you how to become tho owner of many valuable articles without costing you a cent, such ns Gold and Silver Watches, Clocks, Organs, Sewing Machines, all Infills of Silver Ware, etc. Address F. GLEASOX ?fc CO., 10 Snmmcr Street, Boston. Ma?? >vD!ElKORrS^' K. G. is tne quickest. pleat an tenT* 'nr. st and bust remedy for kidney. liver, stomach, bladder and blood 1 ? >< A >< ?'scases, and only real curative era* <!i?cov?red for acuta and chrooio rheumatism, ?ont, lombago, sola*. 0/ ??n? ica. .neuralgia, eto. Has cured hopeless cases B right's disease and dyspepsia In 8 weeks all * ' ? - '? rfi.nwl*. in 91-1 VMlrMftllffM inflammatory in 1 day. Can refer to hundreds of rail*. bte people cared who had tried in vain everything atee. Purely botanio, harmless, and nie? to lrink. ilkmr (lriiKKiat to get it; if he declines send to usforttr-UlBj othinx else, Klmore, Adams A Co.. Iu6 Will lam ?>?,?. a AN OPTICAL WUHDEB SSJSS mmm A. NEW, original, cheap lantern, for projecting and enlanfuifr photoeranh*. chromocjirds, opaque picture* ?nd objects. Works like maxric, and delights and mystifies everybody. Send for our full aud free descriptive circular ' r iluiuiAY Hill Pun. Co^ Box 738, N. Y. City, N. 7. TO SPECtLATOB^. Ri LINDBLOM it CO., N. G. MILLER A CO. 6 4 7 Chamber of 66 Broadway, Commerce. Chicago. New York. ^ UttAlA X rttUViaiU? naun nnw Members of all prominent Prrxluci Exchange? in New York. Chicago, St. Louia and MJwaukee. We have exclusive private telegraph wire between Chicago and New York. Will execute orders on our judgment when requested. Seal (or circular* containing particulars HUBT. UX1JULOM A CO.. Chicago. h NMj 8.-8. CHRISTIAN E5TERTAUI0HL SaggcatlonaforDccoraliona, EMta* SnnnlpTslle taliaeaU and Gift*. B HKlStlltf A collection of fnjgeRloni from lsadtag fr i i Sandaj-icbool worker! In various parta? Ibo country, containing ?om<tilc*of Intrf' ISni^Balc cit to every Suoday-scboil sopcrlatrodaab Bifegg3BBZg NothlnglilteiteverUiued Wore. Prlee? IkpSCtuSS 25o, Will send freo to any <rao sending a ki>T ^r* a lUt of all the Stunlar-acbool Saperiatsadi <'ntJ 'n Iho place. DAVID C. COOK, 4t ft "ia TTy UT_-J Adair j?wcc?. Chicago, 111. A SONSymONi I hare a positive remedy for tlio abovo disease; btit* dm thousands of cases of the worst kind and of long standinghavo boon cured. Initoed, soatronirls my faith In Its efficacy, that I wfil send TWO BOTTMU FREE, togetbor with a VALUABLE TREATISE on this dLsAaje, to anysolTerer. Give Express and P. O. address. DR. T. A. 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Some is bad because I sucli bad blood that the wonder is R ome to bite them. ' * * owing to the iron which is present. 1 5 always unsatisfactory. The per ; said to enjoy good health. I xiuce a preparation of iron which -J ^suited in that perfect preparation Iron Bitters. It is the only one 9 the only one which accomplishes- H ade rich and strong, and impure at Great Iron Medicine, Brown's ^9 , - H