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Bp. ' A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE. I Oh glad l>e]ls, ringing. Your echoes flinging. With wild notes winging Their (light on high ! (>1>, sweet glad tokeij (>f words we've spoken. In troth unbroken, My love and I! dh snow-clou*Is. whirling, I.ike .'ails unfurling. < !r white mi>t> curling From earth to skv. Vend down an 1 listen. Wh.-re frost-biuls glisten. y Hv keen winds kisseu, To live or die. < nc yt nr's long sighing, < >r.e year's slow dying. Two hearts' fond crying For love they miss; Now teal's and weeping, A- dreams in sleeping, Fade in the keeping Of ( hristnuis bliss. Come, ] ain and pleasure, tir joy, we measure Hv gilt and treasure Of low's brief stay. Ere h- come after Our smiies and laughter. Or sad hereafter. On sweet to-iiav: Though others meet you, Ami welcomes greet you, For one, my sweet, you Will long and wait The slow hours dying You count by sighing. While I am living To love and fate. With soft eyes tearful. With heai t half-fearful, Though al! are cheerful Around you here; Your true thoughts hover Around your lover? Shall he discover _ A fault, a fear? Oh. glad bells, pealing: Oh, sweet thoughts, stealing O'er troubled fevhng And fevered breast! ht t hi* -meeting I hear your greeting: " If love be fleeting. Yet love is l<est!"' A MERRY CHRISTMAS. "Only three days, now, to Christmas," said Mary Pruyn. joyfully; "to Merry Christmas. All, it seems as if I could scarcely wait." The "click-click" of the machines was Keeping up a noise like the descent of a gigantic haiistorm along the narrow aisles of the factory, the steambclts that supplied the motive power were whirling swiftly, and the operatives, ranged in a row, sat guiding the long strips of cloth under the glittering needles. Outside, the December sky was already darkening for the storm-clouded sunset, and the pines and cedars that fringed the mountain-side were tossing their arms . wildly in the wind. Ruth Harper's machine was next to that of Mary Pruyn. She glanced up at the words. "Merry Christmas?is it, then, so merry to you ?*1 she repeated, with a slight smile. "Oh. I forgot; you have a home!" "Up in Vermont," nodded Mary. "All our people are coming hack to the-old homestead to spend Christinas.. We are to have a tree, just as if we were little children, and grandpa is to hang a present for each one on its branches. And we're to have a straw ride over the hills, and a dance. Oh, it will be such fun. But, Ruth, why don't you go home for Christmas r" she questioned, eagerly. '*1 have no home," said Ruth, shrugging her shoulders, "except at Mrs. Lifi'ertsV "Christmas at a noardintr-house !'' said Mary, with arched eyebrows. "Oh. that wouldn't be pleasant at all." Just then the foreman came striding past. "We're going to turn off steam, directly," said he. "It don't fairly pay to light up the place at night.and our hands like to get home afore dark." Which was natural enough, for Benfield mountain was a wild and desolate place in these chill winter twilights, and some of the girls lived several miles , away, and presently the sixty or seventy hands were dispersing in all directions, - some laughing and pelting each other with snow-balls; some striving against ' the keen northwest wind; some clusfered in little knots?others all alone. Among these last was Ruth Harper, and as she descended the steep mountain-path. where the cranberry-swamp below, cru>ted over with a thin rim of ice, reflected the red tints of the stormy sunset, and the monster pines rustled mvsteriouslv in the wind, she repeated to herself: "Merry Christmas! It is 'merry' to < every one but me. Why should I he shut out from the general rejoicing of the world? And I wiil not be! 1*11 make a Merry Christmas for myself- I'll go to old Mrs. CupptTs. the loneliest and most forsaken creature, except myself, that I know of, :ind we'll spend our Christmas together. Perhaps some human kindness and companionship may cheer her up a little. 1 am quite sure it will do me good, and keep me from fossilizing into a mere lump of selfishness." Ruth Harper went home and counted up her slender stock of money?not very much, we may be sure?and in her own mind she apportioned it to various kindly uses. She had been alone all her life, this dark-eyed, Spanish-eompiexioriei! factory-girl. Her earliest associations had been the high, bleak walls and bluechecked uniform of an orphan asylum. From the very beginning, life had been a struggle with her. There was one time?when she kept the district school at the foot of the mountain, before the factory wheels had begun to buzz, and the spirit of commercial enterprise had entered in'o their lonesome glens?when she had fancied that John Cappel, the handsome, restless grandson of this very friendless old dame with whom she proposed to spend her solitary ? Christmas, cared a little for her. And then life seemed to assume a more roseate linf. on/l ;i 11 t)w world was different, for awhile. But John Cappel went away ana never told her that la* loved her. lie was coming back when he had made his forture. he said, with that sanguine airiness which belongs to one-and-twenty. But he had never come, and Kuth Harper had put all that part of her life away into the dark chambers of the past, trying to think of it as seldom as possible. " What is the use ?" she said to herself, sadly. She went to the village the next day. after work hours, and bought her little five-pound turkey, and peek of red apples, and quart of glossy cranberries. And she stood before the baker's window for some time, thoughtfully considering which of the Christmas cake;; she should buy. finally deciding on one frosted over with sugar lilies and stuck with scarlet berries. " A dollar is a good deal to pay for a cake," she pondered; ' but, then, Christmas only comes but once a year, and Grandma Cappel used to be fond of cake." Aire r.ilTert ftm hn:m]m<'-hou?.e keener. was there, pinching bony turkeys under the wings, pricing forlorn-looking geese. bargaining for damaged apples, and wrangling over wilted bunches of celery. She looked keenly at Mis-* Harper. " Eh?1' said she. ' Fraid I won't give ye enougli to eat? Buyin' fruit and cakes for yourself:" "No,"' said Rutn. quietly. "I am going to spend Christmas with a friend " "We don't make no deduction for a single day ofT.'' said .Mrs. LilTert, sharply. "Neither do I expect it o?you," said Ruth, biting her lip. And the boarding-house keeper went, chuckling, on her way. Old Mrs. Cappel sat. all alone, in the dreary little cabin, perched high up on ' the mountain side. The wind was from the cast?a quarter that never agreed with her rheumatism?and the tire smouldered, and her oatmeal-porridge had been scorched by the widow Perkins, who came in, by fits and starts, to "do" for her. "it ain't no use," said Mrs. Carpel. "I ain't decently comfortable, living this way. And Betsey Perkins has forgot to bring in the armful of wood; and the teapot is put up on the hi^h shelf, where I can't rcacn it ; and? Bless me! who's that a-tappin' at the door? Come in, whoever you be! Why, if it ain't Ruth Harper!" ""Yes," said Ruth, brightly, as she came in and set down her multifarious baskets, packages and parcels. "I'm Santa Claus, Mr?. Cappel; and I've come to spend ^Uris^mas with you. We are both alone in the world?widow and t old maid. Do you tlunk that we can do better than to eat our Christmas tur- ! key together?" "I'm mortal glad to see ye!" said the | old woman, her toothless jaws working with satisfaction. '-And that's a tine, fat bird, if it ain't so extra large. Cranberries, too!?and a loaf o' company cake! I declare to goodness I don't know when I've tasted cake before! And I smell real Gunpowder tea; and, us I live, and there's a paper <>' block sujjnr; But p'raps, my dear, if you'd put a log on the tire, I shouldn't feel ipiite so chill and creepy along my poor old bones!" And Ruth Harper built up the fire, brushed the hearth, and went out into the woods for branches of cedar, and spruce, and hemlock, which she disposed over the shrunken doorways, and above the mantel, and around the windowcasings, until the dreary little room looked like a forest bower in a transformation scene. She put on the little pipkiu of cranberries to stew, and busied herself in preparing the turkey, with plenty of thyme and bread-crumb stuffing, for the oven, while old Mrs. Cappel kept up a I ceaseless stream of talk. How badly the I world in trencral had used her; how I careless the Widow Perkins was of her I wants, although the town allowed her a dollar a month for "keeping an eye" on the solitary inhabitant of the mountain cottage: iiow her nephew Isaac, to whom she had caused the Widow Perkins to write, volunteering a Christinas visit, had speedily sent back word that every guest-chamber in the house was occupied, and that her visit would be highly inopportune, and how Hill Kisley's wife, her cousin once removed, had taken no sort of notice of the letter which had been dispatched to her, ask| ing for live dollars to buy a new winter I shawl I "Nobody ear ?s nothing about me no i more." said Mrs CapjH'l, sorrowfully. ' But I care," said Ruth. softly. Here, indeed, was some one forlorner and more solitary than herself?some one for whom she. powerless as she was, could help to make a Merry Christmas! "It is as easy tome to go back and forth to the factory from here as from Mrs. Lifferts. I will come and stay with you, Mrs. Cappel. And I have a very nice gray shawl which - - ' 1 ?- - > - 11 | I do not oltcii wear, i can u?? ?u> mu I with my fur-edged sacque, if you will take the shawl. And you don't know | what a good cook I can be. May I come, Mrs. Cappel?" ''My dear," said the old woman, with j tears in her pleased eyes, "I do believe the Lord Almighty has sent you to me! I I was just beginnin' to despair, but now it's all right again." Christmas came, all wrapped anil manIled in pearly snow; the mountain ridges were softened into shining alabaster, the somber pine thickets were thatched with fringes of swansdown. and Mrs. Cappel's lonely cabin was all glowing with firelight and warmth, while she herself, in a clean cap, trimmed with black ribbons, sat basking before the blazing logs, and Ruth Harper, with a bunch of scarlet bittersweet berries pinned into her black hair,- was dishing up the Christmas dinner, when she glanced out of the window. and gave a little start. "Some oue is coiniuir!" she said, quickly. Mrs. Capper srretclied her neck to see. " Well, I declare!" said she. "My old eyes isn't as good as they used to be, and the sun on the snow makes a dreadful glare, but I do believe that's our John! He's come back from the West! j He's made his lortune! Our John, my | son Martin's onjy boy, as we all s'posed | was dead and buried long ago!" She began to tremble all over; ner eyes filled with tears. "Don't leave mc. Ruth!" she faltered, "Keep hold of my hand. For I'm very old. and all this seems like a dream!" In another minute JohnCappel dashed into the room, his heavy boots soddened with melting snow, his brown, bearded face flashed with the exercise of climbing the mountain-side. ' Don't be frightened, granny!" said he, cheerily; "it's only me! And I've fancied how this bright fireside would look all the way up the mountain. Why," glancing around him, "this is Christmas cheer, indeed! And here is Iiuth Harper with you, looking exactly as she looked ten years ago!" "Haveyou made your fortune?" said j Ruth, trying to smile as he wrung her hand. "Not a bit of it!" said John, with a great, breezy laugh. ' ''But I've come i into a little heritage of common sense. I've decided to leave oil mining and prospecting. and to come home to work (irannv Cannel's farm among the mul ' lcins and hard-hack of the mountain | pastures. How say you, Ruth?is it wise or not?'' " Very wise?'" said Ruth. '"Only is it not rather late to arrive at such a confusion?" "Js it?" said Cappel, wistfully. "Is it too late to start the world anew? Too late to ask you, Ruth, if you will stand, shoulder to shoulder, with me in my battle with fate? Look into my eyes, Ruth, and answer mo." "Dinner is ready," said the factory girl, shyly. ' Rut you must give me my reply first,'' insisted Cappel, relentlessly, holding both her hands in his. "What shall I tell him, grandma?'' said Ruth, laughing and coloring, yet making 110 attempt to withdraw her hands. "Tell him yes," said Mrs. Cappel. And what could Ruth do but obey this double behest ? Ruth Harper did not tr<> back to the Bentii'ld factory. She was homeless no longer. They built an addition to the l:"'- Kftff'in lifi. no fnrmcr I Willi- tuu.1^, 4111 v I ~. and farmer's wife. And all things prospered with them. A silex quarry was started in the rocky ribs of the mountain. a railway strode, with seven-leagued boots of iron, across the south end of the farm, and in ten years John Cappel was a rich man. ' It was all my luck getting such a wife!" said he, e.xultingly. ' It was our good luck in becoming engaged on Christmas day.'' said Ruth. And of all the holidays that stud the year, as diamonds flash along tne golden band of a bracelet, Christmas day is, with the Cappel family, the brightest and the best.?Helen Forrest Graces. WISE WORDS. When our hatred is .too keen it places us beneath those we hate. There arc many vices which do not deprive us of friends; there are many virtues that prevent our having any. Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest, manly principle will daily accumulate. Every man is not so much a workman in the world, as he is a suggestion of what he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age. Sorrow is the porchwav to joy, the pathway to maturity and peace. No one lias even become good or great who has not met and mastered sorrow Homes are like harps, of which one is finely carved and bright with gilding, but ill-tuned and jarring the air with its discords; while another is old and plain and worn, but from its chords float strains that are a feast of music. Persevere in whatever calling you adopt. Your progress may be slow, and your results seemingly meagre; but that is no reason for growing faint-hearted, Remember how the little brook persistently winds its way to the river, and the river to the ocean; both "reach .their destination. Many have talked in very exalted language of the perpetuity of friendship? of invincible constancy and inalienable kindness; and some examples have been seen of men who have continued faithful to their earliest choice, and whose affections have predominated over changes of fortune and contrariety of opinion. But these instances are memorable because they are rare. The friendship which is to be practiced or expected by common mortals must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other. Keady-Made Houses. The manufacture of ready-made houses has passed from the experiment state into an industry of more or less profit in several portions of Maine and Canada, where factories supply houses of various sizes ready to be erected. The demand for these ready-made houses comes largely from the great prairie lands of the West, where lumber is obtained only at an exorbitant price. It is argued in ravor of these houses that [ the saving in transportation is an important item, it costing much less to transport the finished building than the material for it in the rough. Another argument is that, in the absence of skilled workmen, the ready-made house costs le.?w and is better finished than one of the same proportions built in the usual way outside of the factories. scientific and industrial. Professor Holemau, of Philadelphia, has made experiments in the effect of sound on the colors and shapes of soap bubbles. Being reflected on a screen, they were at first a bluish gray. An intonation of the voice through a tube connected with a bubble, first brought out a number of black spots on the reflection, and these were succeeded by a bright green mingled with pink. The same I tone always caused the same formation, but had no control over the color. The stupendous works erected by the early Peruvians, which have recently been I found by travelers, must give us a high j oyinion of the state of civilization which ! existed in that country several hundred I years ago. The large aqueducts, the j building of reservoirs by the erection of I (tarns, the careful cultivation of the land | and the manifold uses which they found for their products, all tend to prove that ancient Peru was in almost every respect far superior to the Peru of the present day. j The clock and watch trade of Berlin ' has grown to enormous proportions in | recent years, and in some of its departments the Uerman capital bids fair to i lead the world. A very large business is j done in curious time-pieces designed to I gratify capricious and whimsical tastes?in watches set in coins, ivory, gutta-percha, etc., and in clock-cases carved in fantastic shapes. For instance, one can buy a clock in the form of a dog. the face appearing among the ribs of the animal, whose tail serves as the pendulum, while his red tongue slides in and out at every tic-tac. The tirst bread is supposed to have been made by the Swiss lake-dwellers, at a period to which 110 date can be assigned. although it may have quite closely a pproached historic times. Specimens of the bread, which was baked between two red-hot stones, have been found in the form of little circular cakes, four or five inches in diameter by an inch thick. Wheat and barley were the cereals used, but a cake made from poppy seeds have been found among the ruins of the lake dwellings. The grains were imperfectly ground, or crushed, in stone mortars, and the bread was unleavened. A Norwegian plant geographer, Pro lessor :>cftuoeier, cancci aucmiuu ? nwh time ago to the remarkable fact that most plants in high latitudes produce much larger and heavier seeds than in warmer regions near the equator?an effect which he ascribes to the prolonged influence of sunlight during the warm summer days of the high latitudes. In some cases the difference of seed development is most astonishing. Dwarf beans taken from Christiatiia to Drontheirn?less than four degrees further north?gained more than sixty per cent, in weight, and thyme from Lyons, when in Drontheim, showed a gain of seventyone per cent. The grain of northern fields is heavier than when grown in more southern localities, and seed from Norway planted at Breslau decreased greatly in the first year. The leaves also of most plants are larger and more deeply colored in higher latitudes.as was first noticed by Grisebach and Martins. The same is true of flowers, and many which are white in Southern climates become violet in the North. FASHION NOTES. Perforated cork bonnets trimmed with J fur are the latest French fancy. Bonnets with cloth crowns and velvet brims are the favorites for demi-toilct. Colored plush mats and fancy picture frames may be popular, but are no longer fashionable. Lonfj, ornamental shell hairpins arc made dressy with Rhine stones in the curved ends. Girls' sailor suits arc made of dark blue serge and trimmed with ecru-colored woolen braids. A favorite style in real lace this season is that combining rose point, point gaze and duchesse. Among evening shades may be mentioned sea-green, cornllower-blue and apple-blossom pink. lied Spanish lace is always fashionable, but the imitation is not worn so much this season as last. The exclusive style in handkerchiefs is represented by the fine white cambric handkerchief wrought in hand embroidprv. Occasionally lace and embroidery are associated in one handkerchief. Embroidered handkerchiefs range in price all the way from ^40 to $1 each. What are known as interchangeable settings are now employed for fine solitaires. "With these settings the same gem may be worn one day in a ring and the next in a bracelet or necklace. The stone in each piece of jewelry is securely held in place by a screw and little clasp made expressly to receive it. A novelty in muffs arc little ones in cheneille marabout,to match in color the marabout trimmings on the outside wrap. Last season fancy muffs were made with little pockets; this autumn the pockets are banished in favor of liftle gathered bags of the same material as the muff, designed to be carried on the arm. For stylish hair-dressing the back hair is brushed from the nape of the neck to the top of the head and twisted there in fantastic coils whicjr are not large. Pins and combs fasten the coils and arc made of tortoise-shell, gilt, or silver, with Khinc stones. A slight fringe is on the forehead and on the nape of the neck as well. Application trimmings of black velvet beaded with jet and gold beads are among the most fashionable trimmings for satins and line wool floods. The Renaissance designs with rich curves, graceful lines and foliage are most showy in this applied embroidery, and are used for yokes, vests, cuffs, collars and tabliers of winter dresses HEALTH HINTS. Children or adults subject to ear-ache should wear a little raw cotton in the ears during this season. A good way to exercise the arms is to swing them backward and forward, touching them each time. A medical writer suggests the use of oil of wintergreen, with an equal quantity of olive oil or soap liniment, as an ! application for rheumatism. Sage tea, with a little bay rum added, . makes a good wash for the hair wlu-n it I inclines to lall out. It renders the hair j soft and induces growth. j Brush the Lair every night and keep I the scalp clean and free from dandruff; also clip the ends of the hair regularly ' once every month, if you would keep it I thick and soft. The tongue should be washed every day, as well as the teeth. Many persons who are very careful of the teeth neglect this. It keeps the breath sweeter and j leaves a pleasant taste. ! M. Yicusse. principal medical ofliccr of the medical hospital at Oran, states | that excessive sweating of the feet, under i whatever form it appears, can he quickly j cured by carefully conducted friction with the sub-nitrate of bismuth, and even in the few cases where this suppresses the abundant sweating only temporarily I it still removes the severe pain and the I fctidity which often accompany the seI cretion. I)r. Vieusse has never found any ill consequences to follow the suppression of the sweating. A Noted Novelist's First Publisher i A Paris bookseller and publisher who j had heard much of Balzac as a young I writer of great promise, who had also j read a few of his sparkling effusions in newsprints of the day with delight, resolved to hire him, if possible, to write j a novel for him. On the very day of | this resolution lie chanced to come j across Balzac's latest sketch of only two | columns. It was perfectly charming. He I folded the paper and put it away, say ing, as he did so. with grim decision: 4'1 will offer him three thousand francs for a novel. That should be enough. I may have to pay more; but I will not offer more." On the following morning he set forth in quest of the youthful : author, expecting to find him in fashI ionable. if not aristocratic, quarters; but, when he had learned that Balzac lived in an obscure street in one of the oldest and poorest parts of Paris, he said I to himself, ''Indeed, he must be a plebj ian! I will offer him two thousand francs?no more!'' Somewhat wcarv. the bookseller at length found the house, ! and was told that M. Balzac lived on the fourth floor. "Oho," decided the adventurer, "I shall offer him fifteen hundred?not a sou more!1' But when he en! tered a poorly furnished room, and saw a young man sopping a penny roll in a glass of water, he sank to the tenth part of the sum originally contemplated. He offered three hundred francs ($60); and for this sum he received the manuscript of what was afterward considered a hi istirpiece. I Queen Victoria's Balmoral estate covers 25,350 acres, and is of the gross annual value of $12,000. I J COREA AND THE jGQSANS. A JAPANESE SCHOLAR'S ACCOUNT OF THE HERMIT NATION. The Country Which Onl)' Recently Fi?mbliitlicd Intercourse Willi the Outside World?A Peculiar People. A native Japanese scholar has written for the New York Tribune an account of Corea, the country which recently sent an embassy to the United States. The writer says: Corea, like Japan, for many years refused all intercourse with her sister nations, and now that the barrier which has shut her out from them has been removed, much interest has been awakened in regard to this strange country. This interest none feels more strongly than Japan, as many of her arts, as well as literature and religion, ?'"?1 nriffitmllv lmirnnrf from Corea. Once in several weeks steamers leave Japan for Corea. The journey is made in about a week with fair sailing. This time will bring one to the coast, where anchor is east some distance from shore. At this point is a river which empties into the ocean, and it is possible to reach Soul, the capital, by means of this, but the journey cannot be made in large boats, on account of shallows and tides. Ships anchor two or three miles from shore, and the crew row to a little village near the mouth of the river and j obtain conveyance for the journey over land. This conveyance resembics the Japanese ' kago," and is carried by two poles underneath, in the hands of two men elevated as high as the waist, while in Japan the poles are carried on shoulders, and attached to the ' kago" at the top. The distance to Soul is twenty-live miles, and is made in a day. The face of the country is hilly and but roughly cultivated: trees are scarce, being cut down for use before half grown, and everything gives evidence of a careless and ignorant people. There are few villages along the way, and none of any interest. Near the capital are some very fine gates of great beautv and workinan, 'l--- ? 1~. ..r,rw. sill|>, inn iiic ujii|iu.' u(Di iiwuv ...? gorgeous appearance found in neighboring countries. There are some line walls around the city. The streets are very narrow, filled with rubbish and pervaded by gases from decaying matter; the houses, crowded closely together, are ready nothing more than rude huts, built at the bottom of stone and mud, and at the top of wood. There is no house with a second story, and most of them are very small. The rooms are only about six feet square, with no sort of ornamentation or furniture, The inmates sit on the bare wooden floors without mats or cushions, and only in the richest houses are straw mattings spread down. Sometimes a sort of bench or chair, covered with oiled paper, is offered to a foreign guest. The houses do not open into the* streets, and sometimes there is 110 door, and the entrance is by a low window, with a paper covered sash. Many -of the dwellings arc built with one part at right angles to the other, one-half being the section for women and the other for men. Even the king's palace, a building better than the rest, and supposed to be very fV*r? oslrlitiAn nf tn lllf? I IIIIU, llil.-) winy itiv imuii.vo v. roof. It seems impossible to believe, in walking around this city, that there arc as many as three thousand souls in this small place of crowded houses. One seldom meets a women on the Erects, and those are only from the poorest and lowest class, as a respectable women never shows her face to any man excepting her nearest relatives. A man cannot sec his brother's wife, or any female but his immediate family, and few women scj other women outside of their own houses. For years women have lived in adjoining dwellings, and have never seen each other. All their life is lived in the few square feet of rooms assigned them, cooking, eating, sleeping and washing their clothes, with not the slightest bit of mental culture, and with no idea of the world outside; perfect prisoners, and to whom the light of day is almost unknown. There is little beauty among the women of Corea; their faces are pallid, and no ???/! in/lnncc ini/l wn-irineay mnrk the countenances of even the youngest. Their costumes seem frightfully rigid, and their condition worst of all the women in the world,hardly excepting the women of India. Although when a girl is horn the parents give her a name, she is never called by it, hut is designated as the daughter, or the elder sister, aunt or cousin of this person or that. It is only on the wedding night that the husband is told the name of his wife, and if he ever calls her name it is when no one can hear. Thus a woman is almost without identity. When a woman from some necessity goes from one house to another, a large box-like conveyance with a lid is brought by coolies to the house and left; it is then carried by servants into her room, where she gets into it, is covered up and carried outside. Then the coolies appear and carry her only into the gateway of the house she is to visit, and then they go away; she is then ca ried into the women's room by those who are permitted there, and then she comes forth from her pent-up conveyance. The clothes of both men and women are about the most respectable thing in Corea. A skirt is worn by women, and also an upper part like a waist, in crude imitation of European dross, inese clothes arc washed frequently, and this seems to be the only particular in which they arc cleanly. The masculine attire is made in one piece, often wadded and made of nice material,and buttons across the. chest, fastening it tightly. A man's hair is carefully arranged, and inav be dimly seen through his tall hat, which is made of hair: and the hat is not removed on any occasion. His feet arc tightly wrapped in cotton, to make endurable the hard shoes, which are very much like those of the ('hiifese, and generally made of wood, but sometimes of hard oil-cloth. The shoes worn in the house are of cloth, and are more comfortable. The Corean salutation is made thus: "When one meets : n acquaintance, he claps his own hands together, and, shaking them, bows his head over them very low, somewhat like the Japanese and Chinese. According to the Corean standard of cleanliness, a bath is not necessary, and a bucket or pail is hard to obtain, and a tub large enough for a bath is unknown. All the water is taken from wells in gourds, which grow to a large size. The principal fond of the Coreans is rice, us with all Eastern nations, but so poorly is it cooked, being filled with sand and dirt, that it is very unpalatable, excepting to the natives. They feed themselves with chop sticks,assisted bva flat spoon. All the china is crudely made; it is a thick sort of greenish ware, roughly finished, and if at all ornamented it is with the poorest grotesque figures. It is almost impossible to believe that Japan learned how to make her exquisite vases from these people in ancient times. Vegetation is luxurious in some respects There is an abundance of the best quality of hay, but this is burned for fuel, wood never being used. The cattle excel any found along the :*oast of Asia, and, with good grazing they .would become profitable for exportation. There are not many varieties of fruit, but peaches are large and luscious, and almost twice as large as those in America. There are some nuts, and the chestnut is larger than any known in Europe, and twice as large as the Italian. Vegetables are not abundant, but they have several foreign species, and they have plenty of eggs, and splendid meat. I>> JH'Il il lil-UI Il-Illilll <11 l.liirv ii.mi.another, it is tlit* custom to t:ike with j him not only presents, hut all the food lie I will require, and food for the family he visits. To each person is assigned enormous quantities of meat, more than one could possibly eat with the best appetite. The utensils for cooking are very strange. The stove is made of stune and so arranged that the smoke from the lire goes through a pipe under the floor of the house, and makes its escape from the other side, and in every house the smoke will lie seen issuing from the floor. On asking for a wash-basin, the utensil for boiling ricc may be handed you. The sleeping apartments are used for every other purpose. Tiie bed, on the floor, is hard and uncomfortable, and hot from the smoke underneath. In summer, they lie down in their clothes on the floor and rest their heads on mere blocks of rough wood. There is a lack of neatness about every tiling. It is almost impossible to get dean water for drinking; the wells are generally filthy, and even boiling the water many times floes not puiify it. At present there are not many foreigners in the country, only the Japanese and American legations having been established there, and for those few strangers the inconvenience and hardships are beyond expression. Language and learniug are further advanced than might be expected. The written language is the same as the Chinese, and thus with little change the whole Chinese literature is at their command. But learning to read is a laborious task, so that many do not reach a high standard of mental culture. Some of the Coreans' however, surpass the Japanese in writing and rending Chinese. The spoken language is very much like the Japanese, and no doubt both are from the same origin. In spite of many disagreeable customs this people arc far from being uninteresting. They seem eager to learn and interested in getting new ideas to work from. They have thus far taken kindly to innovations, and will probably be ?s progressive as the Japanese. | ' j Self-Dependence. | If you would be anything, or do anyI thing in this world, begin at once, and don't wait for somebody to come along and give you a lift. There arc thousands of young people to-day waiting for I some venerable friend to shuffle off this - mortal coil and leave them a lew tnouI sand. Then say they, there will be some use in trvinp, and they will shortly double or treble the sum and a fortune will result. Hut the young men and women who have the courage to start at once on their life-work and leave future difficulties to be overcome as they appear, are those for whom the world waits, to solve its problems and develop its resources. Hut these are all too seldom found. The majority are found waiting for help at every turn. And to father, mother, brother, sister, or the successful friend who has had the courage to grapple with adverse circumstances and conquer them, he appeals again and again for aid. and they give it. Hut there is little or no improvement in his condition; and the very aid that should have enabled him to get u footing from which to advance, has left him instead weaker and more dependent, from the very fact that he feels that where he fails, others will make his loss to him. and lie fails to make the effort lie would, if he had only himself between him and want. One primary need in every cnaracter that would develop a sturdy manhood or womanhood, is the ability to decide fr... c/.if (mi- nml ;iii rme.qfions: forwhere this quality is wanting, the individual invariably asks sonic other one's opinion, and if he act on this one's judgment now, and again on some other one's, there will be apparent in his life a strange inconsistency of behavior, that will mystify friends and repel acquaintances. and destroy all personal influence. Now, this quality of self-reliance, although to some extent a natural endowment, must be cultivated. This many parrents prevent, by preparing everything to the hand of their children, so that no effort on their part is required to realize their wishes. And, as a rule, children of suchparenls are not the men and women that become famous. It is the rare exception that a youth reared in luxury and ease ever rise above mediocre in anything. On the other hand it is the sons and daughters of humble cottagers, who from very infancy have been thrown upon their own resources, first for amusement as they lay in the cradle while the mother toiled, and inter to improvise playthings for themselves if they would have any, those are the characters who having learned thus early this very important lesson, have developed into the self-made men and women that have blessed the world.?Burlington Hawkeye. Cypress. Although cypress has been in use many years at the South for building purposes, it is only within the two or three last years that its value has commenced to be appreciated at the North: but the demaud for it is said to be steadily increasing, and the probability is that ere long it will form a very considerable portion of the suppiy of lumber sent to this market. There are two varieties of the tree, usually called the yellow and red. The latter, which is the harder of the two, grows upon the highlands, and as it takes a high polish, is extensively used at the South fo^ furniture, shelving, counters and wainscoting. The yellow variety grows in swamps and bottom lands in the State of Alabama and all along the Gulf coast, and throughout these sections is used as a substitute for white pine, i.i v ...i *i ui? U ;Q airnougn wueii inuuiuymi untu n ? I rather heavier, and docs not work quite so easily. It is claimed that it is stronger than white Dine, that it can be nailed without splitting, that it docs not readily absorb moisture. It is used exclusively for hogsheads, barrels, cistcrns, etc. It is also used for picket fcnces, sashes, blinds, door sills, clap-boards, shingles, tanks and vats for breweries and mills, a nr. is said to be growing in-favor for dyeing and chemical viits, as the dye docs not affect it as m ich as other woods. The most important quality of the wood, is represented to be its great durability. which has been amply tested with the most, satisfactory residts. In this respect it is valuable for the foundations of buildings upon fillcd-in land, where the wood is apt to become wet and then dry, as it will not rot easily. Since it has been systematically placcd upon this market, it has been growing steadily in favor with builders, and as its merits become better appreciate! flw> / rmunniiitinn will 110 doubt in crease. The lumber generally runs large and clear, and the price at which it can lie laid down here makes it a cheap wood for almost any purpose. Cypress was known to the ancients as the most lasting wood. But few persons know that the coffins of the Egyptiun mummies are made of cypress. The first doors of St. Peter's church at Home were made of cypress and were replaced by bronze doors after (!()0 years, the cypress being as sound at the end of these years as at the building of the church.?/>?;?/" r Trade Journal. Tattooing. The causes which produce tattooing are two, both simple? The first is idleness, the second is a slight stirring of the instincts of art. Man was a decorated before he was a clothes-wearing animal. The Dyak ladies in Borneo are beautifully tattooed in herring-bone and other patterns. laid in with a soft, harmonious blue. The elTect is excellent, and one can readily believe that it might have a I momentary vogue among the ecccntrici ties of European fashion. It is more decorative, though, unluckily, more permanent than powder and patches. The great tattoocrs among European people are French soldiers and French criminals. The idler and more disreputable the man, the more time lie passes under arrest, the more is he likely to lie tattooed. The long vacuous leisure of prisons,barracks,and jfuard-rooms is relieved by the art of tattooing. Vermilion and China ink are chiefly used, and a vast number of emblems are engraved on the human frame. Mere fantastic pictures are the most common; then come amatory devices, hearts, clasped hands, and the like, patriotic and religious and professional symbols, and so forth. One man was decorated with a picture of a carriage, coronet and all, in which a lady sat and watched the efforts of two grooms to control her fiery horses. Sometimes the caricature of Prince Bismarck is tattooed. Shoemakers and carpenters decorate themselves with pictures emblematic of their trades. Two foils and a mask are the "moko," as the New Zcalanders say, or tattooed crest of a fencer; a gunmaker marks his arm with a picture of a pistol. A man's body sometimes becomes his dossier, a record of his career, and may be of considerable use to the police. ?Lonih'ii Tilcijritjili. A Fortunate Escape. The wife and liaby of A. \V. Stem, of Edison, Washington Territory, recently had a miraculous escape from an instant I and awful d"atli. Steen was at work a short distance from the house tiling a saw. Looking uj? for a moment he saw a huge tree tottering as if about to fall. A glance told him it would strike directly upon his home. With almost suiterhuman effort he hounded toward the house, caught his wife just in the doorway, and removed her to a place of safety. lie had hardly taken her olT the doorstep when the tree fell with a crash across the roof, crushing the house to the ground, and leaving it a total wreck, with the baby buried beneath the ruins. Search was immediately made for the little one, who was found uninjured but somewhat stunned by the shock, though the chair upon which the child was sitting was broken. An ingenious contrivance used as a substitute for mutches by Paris watchmen in all magazines where explosive materials are kept, consists of an oblong phial of the whitest, and clearest glass, a niece of phosphorus the size of a pea, which is placed in the phial, and some olive oil, heated to boiling, poured upon the phosphorus. Fill the phial about one-third full, and then cork it tightly. To use this light remove the cork, allow the nir to enter the phial and then recork it. The empty space in the phial becomes luminous, and the lifjht obtained is i equal to that of a lamp. TOLD BY THE HUMORISTS. COMICAL STORIES POTTOS AMONG EXCHANGES. To be Pitied?A Dry HumoriNt?What He Would Say?IVIatriiuoiiial Advice?Talking: Quaker. TO BE PITIKD. "I see that an Ohio postmistress has resigned her position in order to get married," remarked old Pencdict to his wife. "Poor thing! I pity her," said his helpmeet. "Why so?"' "Because, after the honeymoon is over, she'll have to sit up nearly every night and wait till the male comes in."?New York Journal. A DHY HfMOniST. A tramp sauntered into a bar-room on "Washington street, and, after looking at the place, went upto a quartette of gentlemen and began to relate a cock-and-bull story of his past life. Noticing the derision on the faces of the auditors, lie continued: "That's right; don't b'lieve me, do you? That's right; laugh away at a feller." ' Look here, my man," said one of the parties addressed, " who can help laughing at your improbable story? What do you tell such a mess of lies for? Why don't you tell the truth?"' ' My friend,'' replied the sharp, " my friend, I tell that story to make you laugh. I tell that tale," and the chap closed one eye, "for the purpose of raising a smile." The hint was not unheeded, and the man adjourned to the next liquor shop to try the same game. lie must have been successful, for a policcman was seen soon afterward carrying the dry . l_?i. .... numorist 10 wv iui-n-ii|>.?MVKivi?|Vm'Mvi. WHAT 1IK WOULD SAY. A'husband and wife were talking grammar. "Would you," said she, "say scissors are, or scissors is?" " I'd say scissors are, of course," he replied. " Would you say molasses is, or molasses are?" " Molasses is, of course." "Well, then, would you say the family is well?" "No." "What; you wouldn't say the family are well, when family is a singular noun, would vou?" "No'." "What would you say then, I'd like to know?" "Why, love, I'd say the family was not well; that you had the grunts, that Tommy Had a sore linger, that the baby had the colic, that Katie had the headache and that I was trying to make an average by being well enough for four." She went out of the room and didn't speak to him for two days.?MerchantTraveler. M AT IIIM ON IA1. AD VIC ! :. The vomit* woman said her lover was coming on the train, and she was going to be married. "Whereupon the old lady said she had much experience in the "marrying business," and would give the young lady some advice, and here is what she said: "Well, child, never marry a railroader, for he is liable to get killed at any time. Never marry a military man, for he is liable to go to war and get shot. Besides, hi9 gorgeous clothes attract the attention ot the women. Never marry a hotel-keeper. My first husband was a hotel-keeper, and fell through the elevator-opening and broke his skull. Never marry a traveling man, for he is always away from homo. Never marry a steamboater. My second husband was a steamboat captain, and got blowed into 4,000,000 pieces. I always get terribly mad when I think of that man. Never marry a grocer. My third husband was a grocer, and nc was killed by a molasses barrel fallin' on him. When I think of him I'm completely disgusted. Never marry a carpenter. My fourth husband was a carpenter, and fell oil a scaffold and was smashed to a jelly. May his soul sleep in peace! Never marry a machinist. My fifth husband was machinist. I'll never forget the day lie was brought home on a board. I didn't rofwrniyf. liim A belt had come off a pulley and hit him plum in the face, and spread his nose all over his countenance. I promised him on his dyin' bed that I'd never marry another machinist." Just then the train rolled in, and the old lady asked: ''Child, what business is your lover in?" "Insurance business." "Oh, mercy! You don't mean to marry him? My sixth husband was an insurance " Hut the young lady was gone to meet her lover. TllVINO TO TAI.K QUAKER. It was no easy matter for a novicc to fling "Quaker" fluently. The tongue bcconies confused with its triple choice of pronouns, and flaps hopelessly around the palate. I well recollect my clumsy efforts to engage in conversation with a farmer whom I met in Chester county, the Quaker stronghold in Pennsylvania. When I happened upon him he was sitting upon a worm-fence, vacantly staring at a crimson-colored cow in the adjacent field. I at once divined nun xo oc anon m undress, and determined to delight the old fellow and amuse myself by carrying on a skillful dialogue in his own idiom. This is how I succeeded: " How do thee do, sir? Is?that is, are thee meditating?" If lie was delighted he controlled his emotions admirably. All lie did was to gape and inquire: "lie?" ''The fields, the birds, the Mowers," T pleasantly pursued, ''are enough to bring thou dreams?I mean dreams to thou." He was looking at me now, and critically. I felt that my syntax had been idiotic instead of idiomatic, so, wiping tin sweat from my brow and hat, 1 eyed him calmly, and observed: "Those cows, are they tliy's?or thee's ?that is, thou's?blame it! 1 mean thinc's?" It was very unfortunate. lie crawled down from the fence, nibbled at a plug of nickel nugget, an act of itself sufficient to unQuakcriiim, and, as he ambled away, muttered indignantly: "Go eat your plants; I'm a tramp, but a gentleman." Profits of Whaling:. Among other benefits whalers enjoy is almost a total immunity from work in the rigging. The weather is so cold in the Arctic regions that but little can be done at rope repairing and fixing, and all damages that can possibly be parsed is left until the vessel returns to port. The perils of the whaling business are* very great, but the profits of a good season are proportionately large, cspeci ally of late years, since the price of bone has steadily gone up from fifty cents per pound to a figure between and ?>:{. This being the case, many people wonder why more capital is not put into the business. The reason is that not only are the whaling grounds limited to a small space, the risks so extraordinary that it is hard to get insurance, and then only at ruinous figures, but the number of expert captains tit to be trusted with a whale-ship and the number of competent officers are both very small. A first-class boat-stccrcr, as the harpooner is called, is worth any amount of money. When a captain se cures such a man he will do almost anything to keep him, and to-day there is a fjood man in this city who. fur months of idleness, has been retained at a day. A good whaling captain is the most independent man in the world. A dozen shins arc always ready for him. his share is large : most of tin* captains arc part owners of the ships tin y command, and anions them arc several whose hank accounts rim liiirh up in tin- hundred thousands. They do not care to own all the ship, even preferring to let much of their money lay idle. The rhl; is very prat, and heside their ship may not catch a whale, while all around them are vessels with the oil of more than a dozen on hoard.?Sm l''riinciso> Ah<>. Hints on Heredity. It would he well for us if we would heed in our domestic life the adage, 'A the old cock crows so crows the young." or, according to the version of the German, "The young rooster crows so petter as the old rooster." There is very little use in trying to wipe out of our children's characters the sins which are bestowed upon tlieni in their birth. ' If ? i e 1. : . .1 : ?... you want to cure tne ouy m ms uix-u.-v-. said Dr. Holmes, ''you must begin with the fourth generation before the boy i came into the world." Make yourself a pood man,'' prowled Carlvle in his prime, "and you will be sure there is ; one rascal less in the worldand in that ease, it is very easy tumid, you will j save the use of the birch on your oil- ; spring. If bad children could only Mini around and ^ivc their great-grandfathers a goo.l thrashing lor transgmittiug evil rjuftlitiesof character the right nail would ! be hit on the head. - (Jiin-iitiwti En- j tjuirer. baron ten" yson.s new poemearly spring. I. Once more the Heavenly Power Makes all things new, And domes the red-plow'd hills With loving blue; The blackbirds have their wills, The throstles too. ii. Opens a door in Heaven; From skies of glass A Jacob's ladder fails On greening grass, And o'er the mountain-walls Young angels pass. in. Before them fleets the shower, And burst the buus, And shine the level lands, And flash the floods; The stars are from tneir nanus Flung thro' the woods; ir. The woods by living airs How freshly fann'd, Light nirs from where the deep, All down the sand, Is breathing in his sleep, Heard l>v the land! v. Oh, follow, leaping blood, The season's lure ! Oh, heart, look down and up, Serene, secure, Warm as the crocus-cup, Like snowdrops, pure. VI. Past, future, glimpse and fade Thro' sonic slight sjiell, Some gleams from yomler vale, Home far blue fell, And sympathies, how frail, In sound and smell. VII. Till at thy chuckled note, Thou twinkling bird, The fairy fancies range, And, lightly stirr'd, King little l>ells of c'lange From word to word. VIII. For now the Heavenly Power Makes all things new, And thaws the cold and fills The flower with dew ; Tue blackbirds have their wills, The poets too. ?Alfred Tennyson, in Youth's Companion. Hl'MOR OF THE DAY. Silk hand-purses with'monograms arc much worn?empty. An Englishwoman has walked 1,.>00 miles in 1,000 hours. There must have been u woman with a new bonnet at the other end of the route.?St. Louis Post. A man's brain weighs three and a half - i. ? v. .1 n liiiinil .1 in iMiiuun lull ugiiivi, but of finer quality. That is what enables her to taste larrl in her neighbor's pastry. ?liot'llmd Courier. Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some write 12,876,547,821,000 words on a postal card and grasp fame right by the back of the neck.? Bismarck Tribune. An Allegheny man with a six-foot wife says that the difference between him and a baseball club is that lie h^s a tall bosser and the club has a ball tosser. ?Pi(t*lutrg Telegraph. The man who got his foot caught in a railroad frog and shaved oft part of his heel with his jack-knife, was somewhat put out to learn that the next train did not pass for eight hours. A Missouri town which was visited by a cyclone last year has just been devastated by another. The inhabitants don't like this method of catching their w i nd.?P/i ihuhlph in Ch ronicle. "What is the worst thing about riches?" asked a Sunday-school teacher. "That they takes unto themselves -wings and fly away," promptly replied the boy at the foot of the class.?Saturday Night Tinlnb Waldo Emerson said: "A1 healthy tilings are sweet-tempered." We differ with Ralph. Now, we know a perfectly healthy woman who is?well, she just is, and no mistake about it.?Sifting*. "Give me," said the schoolmaster, "a sentence in which the words 'a burning shame' arc properly applied." Immediately the bright boy at the head of the class went to the blackboard and wrote: 'Satan's treatment of the wicked is a burning shame."?Philadelphia Chronicle. First farmer?"How in the world can I ever stop the boys from coming over my fence and stealing fruit? Can't you tell me a way?" Second farmer.?"Oh, yes. All you have to do is take off that bottom board, and I warrant you there is not a boy in ihc neighborhood with energy enough to go over the fence. It will be pretty hard to convince j some persons that the world is growing better when they itre inlorraea tnat tue dolls brought out this year sing, ''Wait Till the Clouds Roll By, Jennie." A mob of Western masked men are now on their way East looking for the inventor of this doll. They want to reason with him before lie invents a doll that will cry for paragoric at midnight. Tlie Terror of the South. .Tasi'Ek, Fla.?Mr. Boardman W. Wilson, traveling for A. G. Alford & Co.; dealers in Firearms and Cutlery, Baltimore, was prostrated here, with the ' break-bone fever;" he asserts that in his own, as weli as in the ease of others, the only thing found to relieve this painful in.)lady was St. Jacobs Oil. This wonderful pain-cure has the indorsement of rfiicli men as Ex-Postmaster General James, Senator Daniel W. Voorhees. anc an army of others. If the. proposed plan of numbering the hours from one to twenty-four is adopted it will sound funny to hear such talk as this: "Here it is nearly half-past nineteen! Yesterday night it was twenty minutes past twenty-one when you came 11rtuwi niwl tin. niirlit lir>fnr<> von never I - . came near the house till twenty-live minutes past twenty-three. This has got to stop. If you can't get home at halfpast thirteen or a quarter of fourteen I'll let you have the li#use to yourself and go back to mother.?Smmrvil/e Journal. An Interesting Patent Suit. kelson Lyon, of Albany, N. Y., has recovered judgment of ?-<,447.10, against G. T. Fisher & Co., in the lJ. S. circuit court, at Detroit, Mich., for an infringement of Lyon's I Pat 'lit Metallic Heel .StifTeuer. This contrivance is on j of the most useful of morlern inventions. and has achieved a remarkable sale ?over $750,dOO worth, the testimony showed, having been sold since the patent was panted, !) ing a grand total of ::,s>ss,000 pairs. The invention consists of a neat metal plate fastening to the outside of a hoot or shoe heel, arranged to prevent the counters from brcatcini; over and the heel from wearing down unevenly. The attorney-general of the United Stag's declared the Lyon patent invalid on , a;-c< unt oi'an informality in the application. ' 'I his was afterward omctedby the com! missionerof patents, in accordance with a i special act ot' Congress authorizing it. Ac! tion was commenced in May, IKSfl, a | erl jieti'al injunction was obtained in December, ; an> I the case was referred to a master, who ! reported the damages as *:i.s:>4, but on moj tion the court doubled the same, and directed ; judgment to lie entered against oefen 'ants for stti-li double damaties. with interest anil costs. I,r:.\I) pipes were first u<ed for conducting j water in 1 Kiilter Itiivi'i'* I everywhere are refusing to take white, lardy looking lnitter except at "grease'* prices. C'orisuniers want nothing but gilt-edged butter, and buyers therefore ret ommend their patron-: l<. keep a uniform color throughout the year by using the Improved butter Color I made 1 ?v Wells. liichards >n & Co.,lturlington, \'t. It is the only color that can Ik'relied on to never injure thebutior.and to always give the i perfect color. Sold by druggists and merchants. _ Tiik favorite amusement of the einperor of I China is to spin a top. Fern nvsi'KrsiA, indigestion*, repression of spirits and general debility in their various forms, also as a pivu-ntive against fever and aguo and otherintennittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisava," inado by Caswoll ; Hazard ?V Co., New York, and sold by all Drugi f;ists, is the best tonic; and for pationts recover i ing from fever or other sickness it has no equal ! banger from Catarrh Depends upon th? nmoimt and extent of the scrofulous infection. L'niiuestionably many (tenths from coni sumption can bo traced to neglected catarrh. There is a violent distress, protracted coughing spells, tho ryes weep, the nose discharges copiously, and tho lie,-id M'fms shout. to split. In Mich cns-H llo.id's Sarsiparilla correct? tho ov tnrrh b> its direct action in discharging the poison from the blood through nature's great outlets, so that le-althy, sound blood roaches the membranes and is wholesome Catarrh in the Head fs more prevalent than many aro awaro of, and how readily telief may bo obtain?d By the use of Hood's Sarsnparilla, listen to the following: 1 have been a sufferer with catarrh in tho head for 15 years. Never having found any benefit from tho well known remedies, 1 resolved to try a bottle of Hood's Sarsiiparilla for ray catarrh, I would not tako any momed consideration for tho good that ono bottle did me.-I. XV. Lillis, Chicago, 111., Postal Olerk. I 00 Doses One Dollar "I have been troubled with that distressing com" plaint, catarrh, and have been using Hood's Sarsapa tills, and tind it ono of tho best remedies I hare ovei taken."?Martin .Shield, Chicago, 111. Hood's Sarsaparilla Si-ld liy druagists, SI; six for $5. Prepar*... Ly 0.1 Hood Jt Co., Aoath'^aries, Lowell, Mm, Fire Alarm. I have been a severe sufferer a long time with kidney troubles, causing severe pains in bnok and sides; and from the racommendation of the Chief of Fire Department, Mr. Ira Wood, formerly of Syracuse, who had used Hunt's Remedy with wonderful success, I commenced using it. and found speedy relief in a short time, and it has completely cured me of the pains in the back. 1 have recommended it to others in the department, that have used it with great success, and I do not hesitate to recommend it to any one troubled with kidney, liver or bladder troubles. . H. Kibkiand, Sup't Fire Alarm, Syracuse, N. Y., June 12,'83. Firemen's Trouble. I have been troubled a long time with kidney weakness, a great proportion of the time with severe pains in the back. Having heard Hunt's Remedy recommended very' highly for troubles of the kidney and urinary organs by Ira Wood, ex-chief of the fire deI partment of Syracuse, he having been cured of a severe case of kidney disease lately by the use of Hunt's Remedy, I purchased a bottle and used it, and have not been troubled any since; and I know of many others here in Syracuse that have used itand recom' ** 1 ?fnr tho Vi drift vs. menu it/ us h ^rctu wcuium and I do not hesitate to say that it is a remarkable medicine. Jacob Wolfkom, t Member of Syracuse Fire Department, Syracuse, N. Y., June 11, 1883. President Grew, of France, has received a big panther from an African king. Get the Original. . . .... Dr. Pinrce's "Pellets"?the original "Little Liver Pills" (sugnr-coated)?cure sick and bilious headache, sour stomach, and bilious attacks. Ry druggists. There are dairy schools in Ireland. A startling fact. Heart disease is only inferior in fatality to consumption; do not suffer from it, but use Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator. It has cured thousands, why not you? ?1 at drugglsta. Denver has an overplus of physici an Young men or middle aged ones, suffering from nervous debility and kindred weaknesses should son 1 three stamps for Part VII of World's Dispensary Dime Series of books. Address, World's Dispensary Medical, Association, Buffalo, N. Y. a Michigan man took a hundred pounds of potatoes from one pound of seed. "Five years ago my life was a dread all the time from heart disease; since using Dr. Gravcs'Heart Regulator,the English language woul 1 fail me in telling the good I received." ?Kate Musgrove, Coloma, Ind. For sale at druggists, ^American buckwheat cakes in every siyie are aavvruwu ai luuuuu. A Total Eclipse ? of all other medicines by Dr. R Pieroe 8 "Golden Medical Discovery" is approaching. Unrivalled in bilious disorders, impure blood, and consumption, which is scrofulous disease of the lungs. There are about 800,000 head of cattle in the Black hills. Walnut Leaf Hair Restorer. It is entirely different from all others. It is as clear 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, andproduce a new growth where it has fallen off. It <l<>es not in any manner affect the health, which Bulphur, sugar of lead and nitrate of silver preparations have done. It will change light or faded hair in a few days to a beautiful glossy brown. Ask your druggist for it. Each bottle is warranted. Smith, Kline & Wholesale Agents, Philadelphia. Pa., .and C. N. Critte.vtox, New York. Tl.o Domo:>.? Indorsement. Dr. W. D. \\ right, Cincinnati, Ohio, send; the subjoined professional indorsement: 1 have prescribed Dr. Wm. I.'aTs Balsam for the Lungs in a great number of cas a, ana always with sucjohk. On? casein particular was given up by several physic aiu who 1 ad been called in for cansulta'ion with myse f. The patient La i nil the symptom i of confirmed consumption?cold night sweats hectic fever, harra?ing cough, etc. He commenced immediately to get better, and wa< soon restored to his u-iual health. I foun I Dr. AVm. Hall's Balsam for the Lun^s the mo>t valrable expect rant for breaking uji distressing coughs and colds. " On Thirty Days' Trlnl. The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich., will send Dr. Dye's Celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and oomplete restoration of health and manly vigor. Address as above. N. B.?No risk is incurred, as thirty days' trial is allowed. I found it a sure enre. I have been troubled with Catarrhal deafness for seven or eight years with a roaring noise in my head. I bought med icine inl# states but notning helped me till I procured a bottle of ElyV -Cream Balm. In four days I could hear as v/ell as ever. I am cured of the Catarrh as well I consider Ely's Cream Ealm the best medicine ever made.?Garret Widrick. Hastings, N.Y. Mr. J. E. Harvey, 140 Bridge St,,Brooklyn, says: "I have no more dread of inflammatory rheumatism since Dr. Elmore's RheumatinoGoutaline brought me out of tne terrible condition I was in last year." Frnzer Axle <irenne. One greasing lasts two weeks; ail others twe or three days. Do not be imposed on by the humbug stuffs offered. Ask your dealer for Fra7er's,with label on. Saves your horse labor and you too. It received fln>t medal at the Centennial ami Paris Expositions. Sold everywhere. It's hard to believe toss Whittier was cured of such terrible sores bv Hood's Sarsaparilla, but reliablo people prove it. The best and oldest medicine for cure of liver diseases is Dr. Sanford's Liver Invigorator. You would use St. Patrick's balve if you ! knew the good it would do you. Cnrbo-Ilnes. The gray and bald no more shall grieve, The sijpis of cominsr age, i For Carboline can both retrieve i And fullest griefs assuage. Get Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners applied to new boots or shoes before you run them over. "We always keep Piso's Cure for Consumption in the house." 111! CERMMEOi FOR PAIN. CURES i Rheumatism Neuralgia,^ Sciatica, Lumbago. Backacne, ueaaacne, iuouuuic, SoreThr?a(.SwrIlincs.Mprulnii,BraUM, Burn*. Scald*. Frost Bllti, iND ALL OTIIIK HUDILY PAINS A.lb ACHES. JoidOy Druggliu and Dttlerierenwbere. Fifty Ceoua toltto. Dlrrcilooi la 11 Language!. THE 0UAKLE8 A.VOGELERCW. 13 i"uii??l? A.Toaim*OU* fcJU?or?,M4n0.t.*? ^t'^?-ian alt-rain^ hiHOMAi<>C (Br whom apply for HosEg titer's Almanac for CHRISTMAS THTYEAR ROUND. Babies BABVLAND S'ss Our Little Men and Vomen .ft; Tor Boys nPtT VT' T3 A "TVWV *5 <?-?. and (iirls A tllli Jf ? X ajo:tr. For I he older Ml J HC A \At A If C Younu Folks W I W C W t\ IV Ea ajeir Address I). I.OTUROP A CO.. B.irt>n. Mass. _ A uoiiIm Wiinlcd fur the Best and Fastest-s Mine Pictorial Books and Bibles. Prices reduced iKt pe. cent. Nation A i. PriiLlKlfiN'o Co., Philadelphia. Pa. ? CC 11 w?'-k in yoiirown town. Terms and >)'> o.itll ODD free. Addrcst H.HalI-ETTA CO., Portland, Me. I'" CAMnion milk is the best Liniment. Pri'. e j.">cents AnruTO lake bushels of money gelling the HUUlljS whl.'Jac. C. J. U.b'xltH Buffalo X Y miTHfl PRnrmc PRRWM. I fPh NATIONAL TYPE CO. A A A iil'HILA.i'A. iwj-put'l.'iJook luc. WANTED-LADIES TO TAKE Ol'R NEW tt Fancy work nt thi-ir homes, in city or ajjuilrj, and earn SO to !?l 12 ui-r week. tn.-ikiiiK kikhIs tor our Fa 11 ami Winter train-. Sena Me. fur sample ami particulars. Hu4s?D Mftf. Co.. Wi Sixth Ave., N. Y Vnillir UCUI^arn telpsrraphjr htire and ?? -nil lUUnU mkllKiTe you a situation. Circulars frsa, VALENTINE HKOS.. Jniicsvillc. Win. CORES WHERE All ELSE FAILS. B Best Cough Syrup. Tastea good. UU Use In time. Sold by druggi*!*. |2J CIVERT Thr Enormous Amount of $S02,400 SPEAR-HE Chewing; THE ARRAY OF GIFTS WB PR 102O Acrcsof Land m Dakota, Nebraska and Kama? S28.800.00 18 Welrr style 2 Gran<fCpr!gbt Pianos D.COO.OO l "O Solid Gold Watches 15,000.00 600 The Wilson No.3 Oscillating Shuttie Sewing Vitellines 20,000.00 TOTAL AMOtnVT, Ask your Dealer for fiPEAR-HEAD PLUG an P.J.SORC&CCV CHEW SPEAR-HEAD LYOIA E^PSNkHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND, * i Ig a Positive Core T*r ?n tk?M Paliftl Complaints and WcabMMCt so common to ow beat female popalatlML A Medicine ftrTforoan. Inrentcilby a Woman. ' Prepared by a 'Toman. t>? Onatsst Mtdltal EUrtierj Sloe* tlx Dawa or WtUrfr tyit revives the drooping jpirlts, Invigorates and harmonize* the organic functions, gives elasticity and firmness to the step, restores the naturr I lustn. to the eye, and plants on the pale check of woman the free> rose* of life's spring and early summer time. EVPhjslclans Use It and Prescribe It Freely It removes faintncsa, flatulency, destroys nil craving tor stimulant, and relieves weakness of the stomach. That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight and backache, la always permanently cured by its us* Wot the cure of Kidney Complaints of either MS this Compound Is unsurpassed. I.YDIA E. PIXKTIASrS BLOOlJ PCHlFTEII will eradlcato every vestige of E amors from the Blood, and give tone and strength to theOrystem, of man woman or child. Insist on having It. Both the Compound and Blood Purifier are prepand at *33 and 235 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass. Pripo of either, (L Six bottles for $8. Sent by mail In th? foHn of pills, or oflozonges, on receipt of price, 91 per box for either. Krs. Pink ham freely answer* all letters of Inquiry. Endoae Set. stamp. Send for pamphlet Wo family should be without LYDIA ?. PHTKBAITS LIVER PILLS. They cure constipation, biliousness, ind torpidity of the liver. 25 cents per box. 49*8oM by all Dnnliti.^1 (0 ?B? <SXi> OO H1 M This porous plaster Is ^1 I famous for ita qnlck __ _ __ and hearty action in PI A PTCD caring Lame Back, hnVi I 6I\ RheumatLnn, 8datlea, Crick In tho Back, 8ido or Hip, Neuralgia, Stiff Joint? and Muscles, Soro Chert, Kidney Troubles and all pains or aches either local or decp^Hsated. It Soothes, Strength* ens and Stimulates the part*. Tho virtues of hope combined with gums?clean and ready to apply. 8uperlor to liniments, lotions and salves. Price 25 cents or # for 100- Sold by dru?-1 sa AQPAT pists and country | KX ? WW BE. MA I -torw. Mailed on re' 1* L coi;>t of price. n?p W? I I g = g * Er G 6D Philter Company, I'ro-' ^9 U VJ* \J Kb VP W9 prictow. lioKto!', Matv. ?H-~ <2^^ "0- <?s?> ?H~ LtT The best family piil mrule?llawley'.t Stomach and ? Liver l'ills. 25c. I'ii/ifant In action and eaiiy to take. CatarrHelt'smmbwi when applied by the 11b. BjCTfLY Into the nostrils, 9V(JQCAli RM^^Hwill be absorbed, effeot ^7>^TctJRrCC0V?lual,3r cleansing the hstd H ROa/^/Jtolv^ (if 1?* catarrhal Tlra*. cans ^ntADJing healthy seoreUoos. rUlVCrVrD?W " J* inflammation, fjuu't ' ?i\ jyje protects the membrane mL the n*stl rwni* gHfrom additional colds, fjf y completely heals the H9"ores#nd re*tora*tuta ES2M^\$S&/*M ^d smell. A few applications relieve. A Jjsji 1 thorough trtatmml via tfeV-FE VE W " m m ? "" wk r* circwnr. JPBIOE 50 CENTS, BY MAIL OR AT DRUGGISTS. KLY BitOTfrlililta, mVKCO, N. Y. Consumption Can Be Cured! BALL'S lungs.BALSAM ! Cures Consumption, Colds, Pneumonia* la* '' lluenzo, Bronchial Difficulties, IironrhltU, Iloanenem, Agtbinu, Croup, Whooping Cough, and all UImomi of the Breatuu Organs. It noothi-n and heals the Membrane of the Lungs, Inflamed and jpolsoned by the disease, an?T prevents the night sweats ud tightness across the chcst which aceompuy ? It. Consumption Is not an incurable malady. 1IA 1,1,'8 BAliSA.U %vlll care yea, erea though professional aid fails. A NEW. original, cheap lantern, for projecting and eoi lur^inn photocrnphs, chromocnrd*. opaqno plctnrcsand , objects. Works like niacin. nnrt delights and mystifies \ everybody. Send tor our full and free dewriptive circular MURKAV HILL PUB. Co., Box 7?8, N. Y. City, N. Y. ! TO SPECULATORS. R. LINDBLOM & CO., N.G. MILLER&C0. 6 4 7 Chamber of 66 Broadway, Oommeroe, Chicago. New Yortc. GRAIN & PROVISION BROKERS Members of all prominent Produce Exchange* in New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Milwaukee. We have exclusive private telegraph wire between Chicago and New York. Will execute order* on ouriudgi meet when requested. Send for circular* containing particular*. RUBT. LINDBLOM A CO.. Chicago. >J!?LH0RE5i' K. G. tothe qulokest, pleasante*t uttl and boat remedy for kidney. X^Ayxv/' liter, stomach, bladder and blood diseases, and only rjal caratireeref discovered for acute and chronio rheumatism gout, lumbago aciat\y/ StSt \s (ca, neuralgia, etc. Ha* cured bopv lee* casee Bright'* disease and dyspepsia in 8 weeks?*U I form* of rheumatio disorder* in 3 to 11 weeks?relieves Inflammatory in 1 day. Can refer to hundreds of relift* ble people enred who had trMd in vain everything else. Purely botanio, harmless, and nice to lrink. Ask roar druggtot to get it; if be declines send to a* for it?lake nothing else. KImore, Adams A Co.. lui William St.. N. Y ABSOLUTELY llfll Oflll'Q THE BEST. VVlLollll O LIGHTNING SEWER! * Two thousand stitches a mlnnte. The only W absolutely- flrst-c'aas 8ewlng Machine tn the world. Kent on trlul. Warranted 5 year*. Head for Illustrated Cntnio -ne and Olrcnlar 1*. Agents Wanted. THE WII.SOX SEWt.VO MACI1IX I' fQ., Chicago or Xnv Ynrk. ESTABLISHED 1878. NO AGENTS PROFITSI 8 New Sewing Machines for $20. Guaranteed positively new and thoroughly flr*t-claa* In every particular. AVnrrnuted for hva year*. Can lie returned at our expens-i if n it as represented. Freights paid by me to all points. A. C. JOHNSON, 37 North Pearl St, Albany,H.T. Wm&gM GOOD NE WS S|||T0 LADIES! Greatest inducement* ever oU ^ 3fl fered. Now's your tun > to (Atop JB orders for our celebr .tad Teas fHEijHHI ?n(i C'orti-J'H,and secure & beautir 'i*li'i"lL:iU^>'^ ful Gold Band or MoaaRoi# China Tea Set, or liaudsoine Deoonted ? Guld Kd tu) AIiikh Rose Dinner Set, ?r Gold Bind Mow l)eci rated Toilet Set. For full particular* addresa THE (JREAT AMERICAN TEA CO., P. U. Box >!). 31 and SI Vesey St.. New York. HBSa^CENTS nrj1 A copy of Bijou editionlof ^feGODEYW KjW Send 5c. stj<mp to Publisher. Box II. II., Philadelphia, Pa. ! It Don't Often Happen | Where a reliable house, in advertising their rvul tr ' busim ?s, will ?en 1, as this house does, for one dollar, a complete sample outfit that will enable any one smart , and enterprising to easily make sj.i to . Jill per day ant ' expenses. Semi the $1 and two stamps for return toTHE I 11 a\A HICKKoRLMJO.. Mi". Broadway,N.Y. CONSUMPTION. I have a positive remedy for tho nbu?e dlseaso; by lea tisa thousands of cases of the wont kind and of bag tsndlng bave been cured. ln<leeil, to strong la my falta In 1U efficacy, that I will send TWO HOTTLKi FREE, together with a VALUABLE TKEATISE on this dll?asa,tO , any a Offerer. Give Express and F. O. address. I : PB. T. JL HLOCUM, 1?1 Tearl 8L. Saw York. j 1 DATCWTS -4 tea rAltNl 1 Describe your invention. Send 2 stamps for 4U/\BookOQ Patents. L. BINGHAM, Vat. 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Tril letuton, k *-liiiit?nin!-. o-r.. liv: :t !e-*t?n?. in*. Full course. $2, ilr imninr.Nii-. I'mnnuticinic Dictionary,**! I cl.SO, ('. II. Dniin, Tfn-ln r.'f Citiiihi. \\ iiiii ov. X. V. pi. COn perdairat iwm.-. n.-?iuplfi<??rtuiljffj?. gu TO OtU Address Stinsos i Do.. I'urtliaJ, Ms. 1'HiKSlX I'Ki'Ikiiai. win oute yoiirciijM. fnc??c. 70 A WEEK. $l2?dayathomeoa9ilyra*de. Uo?Uj ) I fcoutfit frwt). AddressTRUE A Co., Augusta, M?. I00.88*"8 AWAY 1 Actually Given Away to the Consumers of :ad pluc Tobacco. OPOSS OIVINC OUR PATRONS: 12 H'.egaut BurUctt OrRiui 82.400.00 ' 120U.S. Government Bonds 6,000.00 C| SO Silver Watches 2,800 OO 1200 M'crschaum Pipes 4,800.00 2000 3 lb. boxcj Spear-Head Tobacco 8,000.00 $T?2,400700 d Circular fully explaining; our Plan of Distribution. Middletown, @fi!o0 m BET A FfiRffl !