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OUT OF LOVE AND OUT OF DEBT. Of happy men the happie3t yet Is be that's out of love itnd debt, Who owes no kiss to womankind. Who has no dims to craze his mind; With heart and thought andco;isci?nee free ' Where is the man more blest than he? '"Out of love mid out of debt,'' Motto none wiil e'er regret. To ail surrounding reconciled. f? * He sleeps as sweetly as a child; By neither love nor debt distrcss'd, i" His dreams but glorify his rest. He never ilreadstho morn to s:'e, For days with days i i j>eace agree. * "Out of love and out of debt." Motto none will e'"r regret. Wh'-'s had his share of ilebt and love Knows what the jnwetlu-y rob him of; And. once relieved of !<>ve and debt, His slavery never can forget. No longer will he I>o:?? 1 the kne>. But sing the pa ans of the free? "Out of love ami out of debt," Motto none will o'er regret. For all the Miss that love can give, v There's more of woe with love to live; He plucks the perfect, thorn less rose, Who honored manhood, no man inve>. No love, no debt, all! there's the key - Of life. f<T him, who'd happy b?. "Out of love and out of debt," Motto uone will cor regret. ? (Jri'iyr r. OIT.IidGLKI). ' Now. turn your tongue loos:-. Mac, and tell us a good story; sonic wild yarn. We don't want any lancy stall", but a real adventure, somcthiiur exciting, out of your knock-about experiences on the . . frontier." It was during our hunting trip up I ted river into Texas and the "Nations" territory. We had camped that night in lie shelter of the Mull's, and had a roaring camp-tire burning; for a blustering "norther" had come down on us. Mac li.wl fi<riiri.il ri tr.-ivelni'r liiai/ieian. "Well, gentleman." Mae responded, at length, and in compliance with our urgent. hilarious demand <>11 him, "I will tell you a little thing that happened tome once on u time, and not so very long ago,, either. It was last fall, in fact, and came olT at one of the Comanche villages. "About the middle of November, 1 was trailing my cart and show-truck over the "Sill Route' once more, and I camped for the night at the Comanche town, as 1 had done a hundred times before that. I knew the bucks, every one of them, or thought I did, and I felt no four of rrnin" :inior.L? 'em alone, though before I'd always carried a driver. "Well. I hadn't got my supper cooked before a lot of young bravos came down > to iny wagon and engaged me for a show that evening in their new school-house! "Well, they've got one, a big log house, with a board lloor and seats. It had just been built, and they'd got an edicated halt-breed girl to teach. "I told the voting chaps that if they'd help me rig a iittle staging and put up my curtains and raise me five dollars I'd give 'em a first-class show, with all the latest performances in legerdemain. "Well, these young bucks that I was speaking of came down in 'bout an hour with half the town, young and old, big and little, at their heels, and away we went. cart, horse and all, over to the school-house, which' was built in the woods'bout fortv to ls from the village. T ? ' ? < K.wl .. ill II very suori space "I mm: ?v iiuvi .1 narrow sta^inir rijxncd. ami I hunjr iviy calico curtains 'cross the front of jt, packed in my truck-chests, and while the house was a-tillinsr up plumb full of the black, pvasy-faced bcjfi;ars, I <;ot ready for business. "They raised- me tlio five dollars in silver, and paid it cheerful as you plense; the beir^ars'll give their last cent either for a drink of whisky or to see any kind of a queer performance that is new to them. "Well, I opened up on 'em. I performed with iin;rs, with cup and hall, and set 'em all a-irruntin<r and a-chug : til. ji.* gCTJUJJ WJtll "Then I loaded a pistol, marked the bullet, and let em examine it: and then handing the pistol to a young buck. I told him to shoot n:e square between the eyes. That was too much for them Oomanchcs; they ju>t gripped their seats and grunted like a lot of wild hogs that you've just jumped i:i a thicket of sweetbriers. "That yornj* buck's hand trembled like a mule's ear; but he pulled down on me, gritty like, shut his teeth and cutloose. 'I hen them Oomanehes just rose i1, to their feet and yelled! I'ut I stepped ^ down out "f the smoke and motioned 'cm back into their seat*, and got 'cm quiet agin. "Then I opened my lips and showed 'cm the bullet between my teeth, and when they'd all seen it there. 1 took itout and passed it round. It had the sainc marks as the bullet they'd seen me put in the pistol. "But I hadn't done with 'em yet; fool . that I was, 1 proposed the rope performance, and called on two of their best men to come up and tie me. telling 'em that I could get out of their knots before one of 'em could lind time to saddle a pony, if the horse were right there. "I produced my rope, a good long one, three-eighths, and stout enough to hold a two-vear-old steer. 1 laid down on the J platform and told 'em to come on and do their tying. At first they all seemed a litt.'c scared of trying; that bullet busi ncss, you see, had made cm a little shy | 'bout fooling around mc. "Presently, n big, tall. ugly-lookiug o'd buck, wearing a green blanket round him and a lot of dyed turkey feathers in his lmir, came ii|> on tlie stage and motioned to a stout young one, sitting near, ! to come and help him. The young chap trotted up and they went at me. "I swelled out my muscles with all my might; you know how the trick's done; . but, gentlemen, before they g"t half done KI knew I was cornered. ' I saw it in that old black villain's j wrinkled, scowling face and in his mur- j derous, snaky little eyes. He was one of i their uiedicine-men. probably the greatest | of the tribe. The old brute was jealous of me; and, knowing there was nothing any more supernatural about my tricks ? than about his own hccdyus juggling. -* he'd made up his mind to corral me in one of mv own performances. ''Well, gentlemen. that rope was passed round my wrists in a twinkling, and drawed so tiirht that i winked hard with the pain, and I felt the* veins swell almost to bursting. iii?~ " From my wrists they passed the rone ' tight around my waist, then took a half gr.\ hitch round my neck and knotted it i - under my amis. Th<n they went for my legs with the other end of the rope, and j my ankles (I'd taken off my l? >ots? i bo tight that my feet ached before they'd j . finished knotting. l'I laid there and never opened my mouth; I wouldn't even '.< ! mystlf think till they pulled the curt dns on me. ! When they got through. I told 'em to draw the curtain and shut me in so that ; I might set my medicine at work upon i Bw the ropes. I saw the <>!d iwdieiw-man I grin as I give the order. He shoved the | ? -jt' young fellow off th-staging and pulled ,-thfc curtains to, leaving himself inside. | "Then I heard a surprised grunt all over | thi house, and I began to think, sri- / "* "I let my muscles relax and shrunk up ^.,'i.,ike a turtle; but-them knots shrunk with me, and I found myself helpless as a bdbv; and there was that old grinning i wretch bending over me w ith his snakish b black eyes just glittering in triumph! j??. -*4' "Guess you've got me, old man.' said I; 'what arc you going to do about j ''He bent lower over me, and made a j > hissing noise with his mouth, a noise that j V sounded exactly like the buzz of a rattle- J snake's tail. Everything and everybody in the room was as still as a tomb-stone. | I couldn't hear a breath outside. All at once that wretch stopped his hissing, and vi;/ witha quick movement jerked my head Kg;-' up between hi> knees, jammed >omcthing j | between my jaws, whipped a red scarf { out from under his blanket, and passed ! B it around my head and mouth?gagged K me, in fact, tight as a douiile-sinchcd R, " 'I've given my last show on this K . earth,1 I thought. Then the eld villain Ep, backed down oil the platform and slipped H& out from under the curtain. Kr "There was a general grunt of curiosity HftrV and astonishment outside; and a heap of admiration for their old juggler was mixed up with their racket. B W:~ U 'Silence!" growled the old wretch in H&' Comanche. 'Silence! I have breathed upon the had inedicine-man of the whites. 1 had not done so, his vile, poisonous B&.. breath would have slain every warrior in 8 the room. At midnight*evcry one of you "would have died. Just as the moon rose b above the tree-tops, your spirits would have left your bodies. Your squaws and P your children would have l>ccn given to HS them crawling snakes the Creeks and the Ipjjlffiy, Choctaws in the East.' "Of course I'm only trying to give 3 yon the substance of wh;tt he said. I don't understand their jargon only well enough to get their general meaning. When the old man ceased speaking the crowd just, got up and shrieked the awfullest blood-curdling yells you ever dreamed of ! for a minute I thought my time had come, and that I should be torn to pieces by the screeching mob: but the old man shook his madicinc-rattle at 'em and down they set again, quiet as you please. "'Listen!' he said. 'Go home now. my children, to your tepees ami sleep; conic not here (ill morning, when you'll timl the had medicine of the whites harmless as the water of the Coder, lie shall not hurt you. (So and leave me with the medicine-dog; for I must hreathe again U|on him. and my hreath will take away all his harms and all his magic. lie shall ketch no more hnllets in his teeth. (Jo, my children, for my hreath sacred and can he of no good until all the meinhers of my trihe are in their lodges.' " And do you hclicve it, they all got up and skipped out of there, every mother's son of 'em! There I was left alone with the heedyus old heast. I had worked desputly all the time lie wa< talking, trying to draw my hands from t lie rope. 1 loosened one of 'ein just a tritle, enough to know that in half an hour of hard work I could hring ni\ w ri.-t through. I?y peeling all tin-skin olf with it. Well, when they'd gone and the last sound of "cm died away, the old juggler stuck his face inside. " '1 go now,' says lie, 'I go to my tepee to prepare my medicines against the medicine of the while dog. When I come again the white man's magic shall all l>e mine; he will tell me all his medicines.' Then he came inside, felt of all my knots, made himself sure of Vnt, and then went out and Irft me. " 'So that's your name, is it?* thought I, and I began to take hope at once. I hadn't lime t<> think over the situation; 1 just worked like a beaver, with the sweat pouring olT me like tain o|T a slicker. ' It was a struggle for lif?-; for of course 1 hadn't a doubt but the medicine man meant to kill me, whether t tout him any of my tricks or nut. lie would smother me like a cat in a sack, and pretend to his tribe that his breath had killed the medicine man of the whites, when lie would possess himself of my trinkets and be the greatest man that ever trod a Comanche town. " Well, he was gone longer than I had any reason to hope for; ami after a time I wrenched my right hand through the' loop that held it. And I |R*elcd it. too, peeled it horribly. Hut after that the work was cany; 1 got my arm loose, got my jack knife out of my pocket, managed to open the big blade with the stiff, swelled fingers of niv other hand. Then I cut and slashed for a minute, tore the bandage oil" my mouth, and spit out a dccr's-horn charm. 1 was nearly smothered with my efforts; for of course I couldn't breathe through my mouth till I got the scarf off: but 1 soon gained my breath and set up a freeman. "Then I began to think and to act. My right hand was just streaming with blood, and an idee struck me. 1 smeared it all over my face, till it was perfectly red with blood. Then I got up and fished a white sheet out of one of my chests, a piece of white 'factory' that I'd used in some of my tricks. I put that ?w. tiimml <ln\vn tlir. binti rn mid I the other light inside the curtains. ?^ot out my six-shooter, then leaned luck against the wall and waited. ' I was nearly half an hour yet before 1 heard the old heathen coming. 1 !e stole' in, soft as a cat. and slid along up the curtains. I always carry three lanrps with me. Two of them were burning in the room: but he seemed puzzled about the light behind the curtain. Presently he opened a crack and peeked in. What do you think I saw? Theliorriblcst fac ever a human being wore! The checks painted a blarish green, half-moons of ghastly yellow under the eyes, a jetblack ring about the ugly, grinning mouth, and three blood-reil stripes across the forehead; while the little black eyes shone with a fierce, beastly glitter that couldn't be described. "Ile'd got himself up in a more fearful shape than I had. He was going to scare me: but lie didn't succeed?not any! '"lie give a surprised 'whooh* a* lie looked on the floor; there was nothing ' there but a bloodv spot. I'd cleared I away the ropes and tossed 'cm one side. Then he looked up and I stepped for- ' ward, jerked the curtains one side, and exhibited my git-up to him. With a sharp yell lie threw up both his hands, and there came over his bedaubed face the ghastliest look of fright it's ever been liiv fortune to behold. 1 wish I could have painted it; I should l?c famous today. "Hut T didn't uive hint any time to recover; I jumped for him, and struck out as I jumped. He went his length on that platform like a hcef-ox. Then i grabbed the pieces of rope, and before he come to himself enough to realize what the movement meant. I had him tied, yes, and had that old decr's-horn charm between his jaws, bound there with his own ml searf, tighter than wax! "I'd bound him with limp muscles, and he was thcr" to stay! He came to himself in a minute and "hired at me frightfully. "Ha: lui! says I. You'll brcntlH* <>n the white do?;, will you?you? Lay there and learn to let the medicine of the white man alone!' Rut 1 didn't waste time palavering :it him. 1 hustled my things out of there, hitched onto my cart, and skipped out and away: and. gentlemen, I never went fooling round any Comanelie village agin."? Youth'? C'lllljlilltioll. Advice to a Young Man. No, son, you can't make up lost time You can only do the work of one life time in a life-time. Yes, you may write six columns to-day because you neglected to write your three yesterday, but you've discounted one day somewhere about thirty-five or forty years farther on in the account. You have about seventy years placed to your credit. Every day you use or misuse is charged to you, and you can't credit for two days to-morrow if you waste to-day. An engine three hours behind time, may reach the terminal station on time, in' running fifty miles an hour instead of thirty, per schedule time. Rut when she gets in, sin* requires nearly all, or quite all, or many hours more than the three hours she made up, in being doctored for the strain on nerves and sinews of steel, by reason of the extra effort and speed. There's something sprung here, a bolt started there, a journal burned out somewhere, iind she limps uwsiv to the round house, overheated, rattling in hsdf a dozen places, covered with grease and dust and grime, with an engineer growling in his cab and a master machinist grumbling as he walks around her. That's the way you ''make up time,*' my boy. Believe me. you'll last longer if you run on schedule time day by day. Vou won't make people yell and hurrah and you won't make such a grand, thunderbolt kind of a show as if you would go booming through the way stations, swinging along like a ely:>ou . Hut you'll go waltzing into (he loinid-hoiise in supremely bi tter style, with your steel bright and your brass shining, not a speck on your jacket, and ready to throw another hundred miles over your shoulder the minute the gong strikes. Just make your regular time, d%v by day, my boy. The superintendent knows what you can do and what he wants you to do, and you can't treat yourself better nor please him more, than to do exactly that much, without a mile wasted or a minute to spare.?I!nr uctU\ in ll.nrlnjc. An 01*1 Maid's Eccentric Will. Miss Keziah 15. Blackburn, an elderly spinster, who earned a scanty livelihood by sewing for charitably disposed persons, and who was generally supposed to be very poor, occupied for a lo?<; time a small room on the top floor of a house in Brooklyn. She was recently found dead in her room, and her will, which had been deposited with her spiritual adviser, showed her to be possessed of $1,200, and its provisions made it compulsory witli Tn.i- /.vcciiWir at lwr death to dress her body in white, piacc it in a solid rosewood casket, having six silver handles and a silver plate, on which should be inscribed her name and age. The hearse at her funaral was to be drawn by .six black horses, and there were to be six pall-bearers, wearing white gloves and white tics. Her body was to be buried in Evergreen cemetcry beside her parents, and a tombstone bearing the inscription : "Blessed be he who reveres these stones, And cu'-sed be lie who moves these bones," was to be erected over her grave. Any money remaining after the expenses of these numerous behests had been defrayed, she desired her executor to placo nt interest, to be paid to a man to keep Ixer grave in order. THE BAD BOYJS SMITTEN STRUCK UPON ONE CHEEK. HE MEEKLY TURNS THE OTHER. lit The Ili'Niilt Xot Wliul 10<> Was L<mI to i:\|if(i from hi* l*a and his Teacher?Theory versus 'ructire. ' Say. what yon got in your mouth, a in base ball.'*'asked the groceryman of the bad boy. as lie came in the store with both 0f cheeks sticking out and looking red. "I'll bet you have got your mouth full of ben- (jj zine, or something, and you are going to as play some joke on me, by squirting it on the stove.'" "No. I ain't got nothing in my mouth." said tiie boy. in a voice that sounded as j though he was trying to talk with a hot potato in his month. "This is my Sunday- (jj school lesson. I was smote on one ehc< k and I turned the other, and nearly hud my neck broke. Not any more turning "( the other check for Hennery." "<)li, go "way," said tin- groceryman. " "You wasn't such a Named fool a* to '\1 turn the other cheek, when you got hit, '' wasyou?" And then, examining the hoy's cheeks an<l finding them swelled up lie added, "by jingo, 1 believe you did. How was it. anyway "Well, it was in the lesson," said the (' hoy, "and my teacher said it was the ci greatest triumph in tin- world for a per- ft >011 to lie able to turn the other cheek li' when sinoie on one cheek. I asked him w if people ever did that, and he said our is hest citizens did. lie said it required a g great deal of patience, hut a person v< should always turn the other cheek also. I asked pa about it. and pa said the (| teacher was right, and that it *vas the duty of every citizen to turn the other m cheek when smote on one cheek, and he ]| should always do so. Well. sir. 1 want -u to he good, and I just longed for some- r( hoily to smite me on one cheek so I could n turn the other also, hut it seemed as |)( though the siniters were not on the war jj path, and for two days I had to go around without being smote. 15ut Wed- ((| I U-UC flnu'll In- I he I T iillUiiwvii i ?. ^ t theatre, where they ivore having a mati- ol nee, and there was a lot of boys slid- a| ing 011 a smooth piece of ice in the \V gutter, and I rushed on to slide, and Si I run against a hoy, and he >; hauled oIT and lammed me on this cheek. Oh, gosh, hut 1 did see stars. I'm! Hut j( didn't he smite. I was going to pick up ^ a froze cat that was in the street, and hit ' him, when I happened to think of turning the other cheek, and I turned my ( face toward him, and he gave me w another, right here. Oh! oh! Hut it was j(( ten times bigger than the other smote, and I iruess it made me crazy. Anyway, s< I shall plead insanity to get out of it." ' "(Jet out of what?" asked tne grocery- |)( man. "You don't have to get out of . anything. If he hit you a couple of times, :ind you stood it, you don't have | to get out of annythg." j(] "Yes, hut I didn't stand it." said the w hoy, as he felt of his swelled cluck. ,| "When lie hit niethat Inst rap it knocked (| all the meekness out of me, and I went ;it. him. and we had an awful light. | st lie wouldn't turn his other cheek, I js so I turned it for him. and I wanned hitn so he hollered enough. Hut. I j ,| was sorry afterward, and felt as though I would he ashamed to meet pa or my teacher. i?o 1 thought I would see how -p those good men would stand being i |(| smote, and 1 found a feller who wanted I j(1 to earn two shillings, and I hired him to smote pa and the teacher, just to sec j t(, how they would turn the other cheek. The teacher keeps hooks in a store, and goes to lunch in a restaurant, and when he came along tlu; fellow I had hired went up to him and flapped him on the tl cheek, not very hard, but just hard in enough to make him feel as'though he w was hit. 1 looked for the teacher to turn ol the cither cheek, hut, gosh, he turned :it pale and rnn down the alley hack of the j h< store, and his coat-tails stuck out so you tl could plav marbles on them. I yelled pi to him to turn the other cheek, but he ol run faster,-and the next morning the te paper told about a dastardly attempt i tl at highway robbery and assassjna- w tion on the street, in broad daylight, one u; of our most respected citizens being the w victim, and only for his presence of mind m the attempt would have been successful, is Well, I thought I should die when I read r\ that. Then I had my hired man try it bj on pa. 1 knew pa would turn his other in cheek, because he said that was the right p< thing to do. Hut when the fellow hit cs pa. pa turned and lambed the fellow lii right in the ear, and then yelled for a i hi policeman, but my hir?d man got out of I hi the way. That night pa said lie had a ! re narrow escape from being sand-bagged. ' S| and I asked him if he turned the other ! 'c cheek also, and lie said not if lie knowed , 1" it. I don t think this is the right kind 1 "i of a climate for turning tin* other check Sl' when von are smote, do yon?" ! a' ''Well," said the. grocervman, as he j [h looked at the b;>y's swelled cheeks, "il | is hard to make a rnie that will apply in ; all kinds of cases. The idea i< a good | one, to turn the other cheek, ^ but we are apt to forget, especially j 'I if, on a casual inspection of the smitcr | r<] we think we can whip him, or if he is so !<H small that his smiting docs not hurt. Hut , when a m ill deliberately belts me in the | " jaw, and dislocates it, I immediately | ^:i think that one jaw is enough to have .V( fractured at once. I guess when tha: smiting business became the custom, and 111 people turned the other cheek, they I 1" didn't strike from the shoulder the way | s.v they do now days. I think the best way : is to put up your arms ami ward olT the ! blow, and try to reason with the smitcr, j a" and if lie insists on smiting, sort of ae- ! Ul cidentally cuff him in tin- nose. That 1111 brings a smitcr to his senses about as;'" (piick r.s anything. Ami so your pa i ''.v didn't practice what he preached, ell?" I ',c "Not much, lie got hot in a minute, ! ,';l and acted like a prize lighter. I asked j lh him more about it this morning and In- i ?f said it was all right cuough for boys to I n; turn the other cheek, where they had j Iu plenty, but when :i man got his growth, j Sl" it was dangerous for anybody to try to : l'1 smote him. Queer, ain't it.'"' an J the ar boy went out as though lie was trying to ; eri think of something real hard. ? I'nh'x \ cv Suit. ; ?ii hiepiiants oi me rasi ami rrcscni. ti< "There were white elephants in this ' fn country running wi 1 <I once," says an j elephant authority, "flow so? Merely j because white elephants occur wherever j other elephants do, and o.OOO years ?jjo, .1. more or less, this country had its herds ' that roamed over the land just as bulla- I ' I 1 r,.| . . It "11 Iocs do now. lucres not a Mate that jn their remains hav. n't been found in. ; j(J Here in New Jersey they have been I .() found, seven or cijrht in the same bojj, ? where they had probably rushed in fcr.r. j() The positions in which they were found |j( showed that they struggled hard to iret |n out. In Conneeticut, near New Britain, ' a skeleton was discovered some time Jj(i airo that was three feet higher than j Jumbo. Another lias been found on the mountains in Vermont, and the finest j j skeleton was unearthed in Newbur^h j() and placed in the museum at Boston, j According to I'rofessor Dana, it.-, measure- j | j inentsare: Height, eleven feet; length ' to tlie base of the tail, seventeen feet; j tusks, twelve feet lon?r, two and a half feet beinu inserted in the sockets. When ! alive the height must have been twelve i or thirteen feet. and the length. a?Ulinir j seven feet for the tu*ks. twenty-four or ; jj( twenty-five feet. j , " In the State tnuseuiu at Albany you will timl a fine elephant that out jumbos ' )l(j Jmnho. People have tried to prove that j k it was buried l?y a showman, I nil the j skeleton was taken from an ancient not ; j M liole by Professor James I Fall, the eminent ; State geologist, and before it was dis- I covered there was blasting, and several . thousand loads of roek and gravel were ' taken out. Nearly all the timber found , (.|j in the hole had been gnaweu by beavers, j Hildas this was at Colioes, where the | |)( beavers are rather scarc e today. It is j ^ natural to suppose that the great ('h'phant dropped in a good many years ' aK?? si i' "There were a good many different ' kimls of elephants in those days, all of gigantic size. 'J'lie mammoth was as large as any, and roamed over our .Northern shores, several other kinds lindiny their way as far down as Mississippi. I j*}" One elephant had logs ton feet long, and ! " a body twice tlio size ?>f Jumbo's, and I its tusks turned down in.*te:id of up. ll it' pnTbably lived in the water and hauled | itself out by using these weapons as | J'"1 hooks. In India at this time there were eight or ten different kinds, from giants j . with very saiall heads and tusks fourteen ! m foot long, going down to u very sharp 1 point, to others that were mere pigmies, j and had long hair. These lived hiifh up j in the mountains, and have a modern representative. The very smallest lived at Malta, and were scarcely over three "" feet in height. "Among the hairy elephants there .. were all tints and hues. Home were '-c black, others were gray, grizzly white, V red, yellow, etc. All this is known, as '! pieces of their hair and hide have been *|( found. The elephants are going fast. . The it; arc only two kinds left?the Afri- H1J can and Asiatic?and in fifty years, if Africa and Asia are opened up as they promise to be, they will be entirely of wiped out of existence.1'?New York Sun. th< SELECT SITTINGS. f The first tunnel was marie by M. Rignct Bezieres, France, in (ho reign of Louis 01 IV. <!un cotton was invented by Professor ^ henbein, in Basel, and first made known 1S4(?. ' Diett ef mon droit,'' the royai motto Knglaml, was the word given by Hieli- B il the Lion Hearted to his army at of isors, in If lis. Henry VI. first used it I a motto. K Hy an act of parliament of (Jeorge II., "I ill in existence, a man can evade pay- ', ent of his tavern score on the ground . at the consumption of spirits is con;iry to pulilic policy, and ought to he " seouraged. 1( . . .. \v The ancient Egyptians of the Nile had .j >ating liee houses, designed to take nil- J), intage of the honey iiarvest. They were ^ allied when it wa> time to return home r the depth to which the boat sank in | ie water under tin- weight of the cargo ' honey. That the bees might not he j st. they were obliged to journey during u ie night time. , The famous Washington bowlder at otiwav Corner, X. II.. has been ac- c irately measured and found t?? Ijo thirty C( ct high, forty-six feet long and tliirty- u re feet wide. It is solid granite, and ], eighs :!.K(!7 tons Iiy calculation. This jj probjibly I lie largest isolated piece of ], ranite in tlic world, and is apparently a f, ?sitgc of ancient glacier :u:tion. & According to tradition, the first In- <> ian reached Martha's Vineyard on a "? ike of ice, ami found there a giant ii imcd Moshup. lie had live children, ti e used to catch whales and great fish, p id pluck up trees to make a fire, and a last litem. The coals and the bones, ^ lies of these gigantic feasts, are still to |i i! seen there. To facilitate the catch- ! ig of these lisli he threw many large ii ones at proper distances into t.he sea, o u which he might walk with ease. |j his is now called Devil's Rridge. Once t i a time an offering was made to hint of a I the tobacco on Martha's Vineyard, e liich, having smoked, lie knocked the t ill If out of his pipe, which formed f ant ticket. n Tin. i/.i.fli ,,r ibn snnke arc not alwavs l1 Hind in its mouth. There is a snake in c frica which lives upon the e???sof birds, \ liich lie purloins, out of the nests. This lake has no teeth proper in his mouth; s he hud. they would he much in his f ay, for they would break the ejrg when 0 :: cauirht hold of it. Instead, then, of ' eth in his mouth, he has them in his omaeh, and they are formed in a very ^ irious maimer. Certain little hits of $ me, parts 01 the vertebra*, are made to 0 rfonu the function of teeth; they pro- f) ft one from the center of eacli vertelit*. The ten next to the mouth point ' i a forward direction, the last ten hack- s aid: the ends of tlicse hits of hone ^o irou^h the wall of the stomach, and n ten become covered with enamel like 'J :al teeth; so that, on looking into the " oinach. a row apparently of real teeth f seen at its back part. The e?f?f, when l: .allowed by the snake -joes down into !l te stomach, ami there meeting with the v eth, is broken against them by the s ressure of the walls of the stomach, lie contents of the e;r<c beiny thus v roken. cannot escape, had there been il eth in the mouth the ej^y would have ' rokcn then', and most of tin* fluid con- ' nls Iktii lost. s t """" c Tho Origin of the l'ostoffice. s The Eh'jli*!t lUnxtrated Magazine, says i lat the postoflice is an example of the t ode in which things change while n tines remains. It was originally, the t litre which arranged the posts or places a which, on the great roads, relays of a trscs and men could he obtained for t ic rapid forwarding of government dis- v itches. There was a chief postmaster n ' England many years before any sys- a in of conveyance of private letters by t ic crown was established. Such letters o ere conveyed either by carriers, who li -ed the same horses throughout their v hole journey, or by relays of horses o aintained by private individuals, that S . by private post. The scl cine of car- t ing the correspondence of the public s v means of crown messengers originated t i connection with foreign tra<lc. A $ )stollicc for letters to foreign jiarts was v tablislied "for the benefit of the Eng- f <h merchants" in the reign of James j.. p it the extension of the system to in- v ml letters was loft to the succeeding a ign. .fames I., by a proclamation is- 11 led in may be said to have il Minded the present postoflice. By this f oclamalion he commanded his "post- v aster of Kmrland for foreign parts to i; ttle a running post or two, to run night a id <l:iy between Kdinburgh and Lou- h )ii, to go thither and conic: back again tl six days, and to take with h icin all such letters as shall be directed p i any post town in or near that road." tl cighborinir towns, such as Lincoln and e nil, were to be linked on to this main a ute, and posts on similar principles were, reeled to lie established 011 other great c gli roads. ?ueh as those to Chester and si olyhead, to Kxeter and Plymouth. So > r no monopoly was claimed, but two n ars afterward a second p:oelumation o rbade the carriage of letters by any b essengers except those of the king's a >st master-general, and thus the present tl stem was inaugurated. The monopoly -V us claimed, though 110 doubt devised f( the king to enhance the roval power A id to bring money into the cxchetjuer, c; is adopted by Cromwell and his parlia- ei one main advantage in their eyes r< ingthat the carriage of correspondence y tin- government would afford "the a: st means to discover and prevent any f( ingerous and wicked designs against tl e commonwealth." The opportunity w an extensive violation of letters, cspc- c< illy if they proceeded from suspected al yalists, was 110 doubt an attractive bait: f( id it is ratlur amusing to notice how ci e tables were thus turned on the 111011- ]>< chial party bv mentis of one of the sov- f: fign's own acts of aggression. How- Ji - ' <: 1 tr IT, I rum uiic ukmih; ui .niwuici hm.uim,- h <1 parliamentarians ajjrced in the cstah- In hinent of a >tatc post, and tho institu- tl jn lias conic down without a break. l:i mi the da}* of Charles I. to our own, 01 ? ? h: The llt-ukeinaii's Storv. l!; "Was I ever in an accident?"' echoed c brakeman, as ho look olt' liis gloves, uljusted 1 lis necktie, and brushed oil laginary dust after puttiutT some coal tlie heater. ''.Never had an accident my life, sir, but I come mighty close it several times. Closest call I ever d was down near I.aporte. We stopped lix up a hot-box, and as I knew the nitcd was close behind us I skipped ck with my lantern in a hurry. Hadn't ine more'n ten or twelve yards when I aid her a-comiif about a mile oil, pcrps more. There was a curve light ere. and I couldn't see her. llearin' of r made me a bit anxious, and I started run faster?it was a snowy, blowy Lflit?when I slipped down, broke my it'-rn, and the wind blew it out. Here is a lix?me a hundred feet from the ir of my train, expected to stop No. . and her a-comin' down the grade d round the curve, and my lantern t! Now I tell you I did some etty quick thinking then. 1 hadn't ' in' to get back tc> the train, get another item, and sjet far enough to stop her. luldn't strike a match in the wind, ccrin. and for a second or two I didn't low what to do. Then it come back to like a llash. and didn't I hustle! Run ck tn my train, pu11?-<1 tin- i*<?jm lor our mincer to go ahead, veiled with :ill my | llit to the conductor, who was ahead j1( iciv tin- hot box was, and grabbed the (i( 1 bulN-eye from the rear platform, mind ii 110111 he brake and then on to the (' iich. and when I got there held my ... lis eye up high and waved her across i; traek. It was as I thought. I eould 41 twenty's headlight from tip there? mid she see me'; Apparently not, for (lf [, came along like mad as I felt myself |c ing crazy. ISut as soon as she struck j? ! tangent of the curve the engineer |1(, iked my wnv, saw the red light, and '[ } t her down hard. You see if I had lyed olf the track he couldn't have seen ]lc t* light at all; but even as it was, notli^savedusbut the fact that our train s? irtcd up in time to get fairly toing be- '( ] re twenty saw my bulls-eye. Not a ])(, ssenger knew what a close call we'd f(, d. Neither did the superintendent, )H. u bet. Klkhart! Klkhart! Twenty UI1 nutes for dinner!"?Chionj'i Ihrnhl. j[. ????? I?l A Leap \ car (JuesUon. .,(1 First dear girl?'"So you areenjfaged?" hi Second dear girl?"Yes." so First dear girl?"How did you evei nc ister up courage enough to ask him?" on ? ? ? in 'Walking yesterday along the Hue dc fo vres,'' writes a lady from Paris to the is indon Truth, "i saw the following derhtful announceinent painted on the a j le of a portecocherc: 'Madame Zenohie ov third story, lets out teeth for even- <c > parties and halls.' " wi wi Englishmen arc making huge purchases ot timber lands in South America and in in 3 Southern and Western States. D. / HE SECRET SERVICE CORPS. Pi '^RATIONS OP OFFICIALS WHO HUNT COUNTERFEITERS. __ Li Hook Which Contain* llic Ili^lnricK and I'liolopraphit of Crim- tij inal??Anccdotcs anil ('urlo*itic?t ri A Washington correspondent, of the "i oston Trurcicr visited the headquarters sc the Secret Service officials in the ti nited States treasury building. Mr. night, one of the officials, said: "The li derations of the corps of secret servieo uj I'tectives extend all over the country, ti here is not a city or hamlet in the at nited States which is not liable to p ccivc a visit from one or more of the tl >rty men who are constantly on the hi ntch to suppress the counterfeiting of ie coin and paper money. The movfc- S icnts of our ofheers arc, of coursc, from ie very nature and danger of the work al ) which they are engaged, kept in the sj rictcst secrecy. They wear no badge, o or do they even carry a document show- it lg that they i.rc in any way connected d -ith the service. Oftentimes months it nd months are taken in the detection of I' single case, and when a man has been c> onvicted of counterfeiting, orof passing n nuntcrfeit money, he never is out from N ndcr the reach of our eyes. To show a o\v successful we have been in suppress- f' ig counterfeits, 1 can tel! you that we f< avc not seen a new issue of bad money fi Drover two years and a half. In that a ife which you see there there arc ?1,000,- a 00 in counterfeit money and about tl '(in odd in bad coin. This sample book, ti i which you see pasted lunk and 11a- V ional notes, with the word "bad" fi unclied out in each..contains $25,000, 11 lid we have here the histories and photo- C raphs of 2,500 criminals, perhaps ten si it cent, of whom arc women. William <1 I. Hrockway is the most notable person e i the collection, lie is called the "king ( f counterfeiters,and occupies the first t ilace in this album. Next to him are his o wo pals, Doyle, who passed the money, t nd Charles F. Smith, the most expert a ngraver of "crooked*' work in the conn- a ry. In all their operations Hrockway c urnished the money, laid out the plans, i: nd was the brains of the ganir. J)oyIe t lassed the "stutT." and Smith was the li ngraver. Doyle is uow serving a Ij welvc years' sentence in the Illinois o itate prison. Hrockway was captured n oinc weeks ago on the charge of conn- v erfeiting some railroad bonds, samples c f which we have here in this office. and s Imitli is living with his family in Hrook- t ni, X. Y. Smith engraved the v amous plate from wliich tin; t ' it- : j. a ,000 scven-tnirty uonn 01 mc issue i f 1805 was printed, and $33,000 worth k f it were actually redeemed at the treas- u ry department before it was discovered > o be a counterfeit. The impression was t o good that tin* experts were unable to t let ermine whether the bonds were genuine t r counterfeit, and the matter was only ] ccided when the government issue bear- t ng tlie du])licate numbers came back for 11 cdcinption. Smith also engraved what ; known asthe Hamilton $50greenback, nd the $100 note on different banks, thich are the finest known of these n cries. s Several years ago a very threwd dodge ras played by one of Smith's confeder- c tes on 1{. II. White ifc Co., of Boston, j, L woman entered their store and looked t some very expensive shawls. Finally ' he made up lier mind 'o take one, and j endered a $1,000 bill in payment. The ^ lnrk- took the monev to the cashier, who ? out it to the lnnk to find out whether j" t was genuine or not. The answer came hat the bill was good beyond the shadow f a doubt. Then the clerk said that ^ lie shawl would be sent to the woman's y ddless, but she proceeded to get very ngrv, and said that if they could not t' ake her money without (piestion that she ? I'ould go elsewhere, and she llounced ( lit of the store in great .rage. About ( n hour afterward she returned, and told , he clerk that she had visited several j ther large firms, Imt that she j lad been unable to find a shawl , rtiicli suited her as veil as the 1 TIC SHU It'll 111 lliuu uaiaiMniiiiu;iii'. j lie said she would take it with her, and ^ endered a ^1,000 bill in payment. The t hawl was valued at .*200, and the woman ook it away with her, together with ( itJOO in change. The bill first tendered -j .as genuine, the second was a counter- ^ cit, and the firm was just .$1,000 out of t,locket. Smith engraved the plate from ' rhicli this counterfeit note was printed, ml it was so nearly perfect that only a linute examination would have caused . - C -M. -I 1 ?1.? 1 election. onuni iiisn rn^m\l-u niu jiiiiu; rom which the $1,000 six percent, bonds ' ere printed, but we captured the entire ' <sue on Do vie in Chicago, amounting in ( II to !?2i)4,000. A curious thin# about j is arrest l?y our detectives was tlie fact v liat they took him, suspecting that lie ad the old counterfeit $10(1 bills in his |, ossession, when, imagine their surprise, > liey found a new bond. It will be sev- * ral years before we shall have to look fter Mr. Doyle again. Next to Smith, the best engraver of ^ ounterfeit money is Charles L" 1 rich, who rved a term of nine years in one of our iorthen: prisons. lie is now in (Jer- (| lany. George White is another expert n f note. He stands accredited witli the ( est counterfeit $5 bank note ever issued nd but few people are able to <Ietect j: :iem. The counterfeit is on the ^ Ierchants' national bank of New Hedjrd, Mass. Here is a picture of George Jbert Mason, a noted counterfeiter who nine from England to this country and jj ugaged in this business, lie was ar- 4 sted, tried, convicted and served nine ( cars in prison, but he is now at liberty , ml has sued the government for $50,000 ( >r false iniprisomcnt. I lis papers are 111 j( :ie hands of British Minister West, hut I ( ouldn't cure to gamble that he will re- jj sver anything. Now I wish to call your* jj ttcntion to two curious facts, Counter- j. . iting runs in families, and without ex- j ))tion the men engaged in it are all r?or. For instance, take the Ballard imily. Thomas, Benjamin, George and ;>hn, four brothers, all in our clutches, . ' . ' II igether with an aunt, mere is one . rot her out of jail, but we are satisfied Kit lie is an honest man. Thomas Hal- 11 rd is a wonderful fellow. Ife is the L' nly person, so far as we know, who us succeeded in imitating the fiber _ iper upon which the genuine' '1 rites and bonds arc printed. At present ' i! is serving a thirty years' sentence as a ( ward for his discovery. J In is a chcm- 11 t of no ordinary attainments, and he ivcnted a process by which lie was able ) take a genuine *2 or $1 bill, and com- " 1 .ii >t... < r i. r C< leiciy remove ;ui inu irarr* ui mix num t s surface. Then, with a counterfiMt " late of a higher denomination, he would ! rint upon the genuine paper, and thus !" lise the note. Speaking about raising ?tes, here is a check on the Third itional bank of New York, which was . lised from to $2(i,9GH, and paid, ! i ia7l>. The perpetrators worked oil J! ith chemicals all that was written in J ic check except the signature, and 1 . gret to say that we have never been jle to discover who did it. Here are irec steel plates wliich were engraved ' ; 1'I rich f<?r a $"> issue. The engraving <:l done on soft steel, and when com- s,: eted the plate is hardened. To give !U ?ii some idea of the amount of hbor it kes to engrave these plates I can only "j y tliat we have evidence; that I'lrieh ' us liftccn months completing them, rhaps the greatest curiosities in our " it ire collection arc the bills which made cir apperance aliout four years ago, exutcd with a pen entirely by hand. At s. st we thought that it mujt. take a great ' uount of time for the rascal to turn out ^ le of those bills, but now we tliink that 1 produces about one a week. The 11 'nominations arc lifties, twenties and lis, and they are turned into the trea- <T ry for redemption from all parts of the s!' lion." 'Macbeth" Taken From the Bible, in You will lind the principal characters j ".Macbeth'' in the Book of Kings. | zebel in the Bible is "Lady Macbeth" i ' ] the play. She it was who stirred up I <' r husband to do nil the deviltry hedid. ! ten take lla/ael, a servant to the king. I ider the inlluence of his wife, .lezebel, 1 plois to kill his master, and become j hit of Syria in his stead. This plot is i ccessful, and Hazael is crowned king, j w] lis character exactly suits that of ".Mac- j wi th." The minor characters can also be ; re wild in the Bible. Of course, Sliaks- j fin are has altered the words, but the plot j a < d characters are to be found there. Dr. I tli tlscy, in his lectures on Shakspearc at i w: incetou college, stated that Sliaks- ar are's regular practice was to study the ; pe lilt- seven hours a <lay. There wen: not j tli many Hililcs in his time as there are i co i\v, lint although very costly, he had j pn ic, and made a daily practice of study- cu it. Where Dr. ilalsey got his in- I lie filiation I do not Know, hut presume he d'e correct. it* Though Shakspeare was undoubtedly tli threat man, I think he is considerably wi errated, so far as his originality is con- j rned. I think he was not endowed J tli the genius of originality, but rather i dc Ih the genius of arranging the writing? a those gone before, and rewriting them tli an attractive style.?lien. Richard Lcc, en D. oi Petitions In Congress. The Washington correspondent of the Iriladclphia Record says concerning the ception and treatment of petitions in [ingress: Petitions from the people who choose i exercise their glorious constitutional ght to forward them arc; treated rather nceremoniously in the House of Keprentatives. It took so much valuable me to present tliem in the course of the ay's business that a year or two ago a tile walnut box a foot square was nailed [i at the clerk's desk and labeled "Petion box,*' and the rules were so mended that petitions have to be laced in it. At the close of .lie day ley are quietly taken out and pigeonoled in the committees having cogni nice of their subject matter. In the cimto they arc still introduced with ic old formality. Sometimes the Senior presenting them makes a little leccli abuuttbem, as .Mr. Hlair, f New jsxsontlg the petition 4 000 or 5,000 resients of this city aski'.^r that the sale; of ltoxieating lienors be prohibited in the listrict of Columbia. He also sticccded in iretting in quite a long stateicnt of the success of prohibition in Liinsas. Altogether lie got two columns nd more of the Congressional llccord >r his petitions. These petitions were allowed by dozens of like character rom all over the country. They were 11 nicely wrapped in brown-red paper nd tied with white ribbons. Of course, liey had been sent out all over thccouni-i In- tlm fi?ntr:il roiiniiittee of the Vomen's Christian Temperance union ar signatures. That is the only way to lake those petitions at all impressive to Congress. A single petition gets noconicleration at all. Neither do half a o/.en,, but 100 attract attention. So very movement lias its petition factories, 'entral committees of national orgatiizaions prepare jietitions, send them all vor the United States, get signatures for hem through their local organizations, nd then have them forwarded to Senators nd Representatives here. The most sucesful work of this sort in recent years ; that of the men who are engineering he movement for a national bankruptcy aw. Their petitions are better prepared, tetter signed and better sent than any thers. Petitions, no matter how mincrous or ho'.v well prepared, do not always effect their purpose. Blair said, in iTering his prohibition petitions: "I doin!, in presenting these petitions, to say hat for many years it has been the somewhat common practice of the people of his country to send like petitions to the wo houses of Congress, but so far as J .now, never yet with any tangible elTeet ipon the legislation of this country." lost members of Congress know how licse petitions are prepared. One of hem spoke for all of them when he said o-day: "I don't pay 'that attention to letitions that I did when I was younger; hey're too numerous. You can get a nan to sign a petition for anything." * !..? Aaa?.. iiiiiniii? i/ttuii ntvttuivis. Tlie custom of naming steamships has nany curious features. Some companies elect the names of cities, others American itatcs, and others begin the name with a ertain letter or syllable. Vessels have tccn renamed to conform to a rule. -M < seldom, however, that a lost vessel is ucceedcd by the same name, the case of ho Royal Netherland line, which lost he steamship Edam, by a collision with nother vessel at sea, and built another Sdum to take her place, being an cxoption. The (iiiion line names its vessels after he States and territories of the Northrest; as the "Wisconsin, Nevada. Ariona, Alaska and Oregon. The White itar line selects names for its vessels nding in "tic;'1 as the Baltic. Adriatic. Jernvinic, Celtic and Britannic. The 'unard Line chooses names ending in ia;" as the Gallia, Servia, Pavonia, Sothnia and Scythia. The Rational ine began naming its vessels after Unerican States, but afterward adopted he names of countries. The present Iolland was formerly the Louisiana, the 'anada the Pennsylvania, and the Greece he Virginia. The Inman line names its esselsafter cities; as the City of Chicago, ity of Berlin and City of Richmond, lie State line adheres to the names of American States for its vessels: as the Itatc of Pennsylvania, State of Nebraska nd State of Florida. The New York and Bordeaux line lames its vessels after well known Chileans, and the wines furnished on board re bottled at the chateau after which the nip is named. The two vessels now run..n. tlin r.pnville and Clia I'iiu bnfile. The Hamburg-American im* lias a large fleet of vessels, throe of rhich?the bousing, Gellertand Wiclawl -were bought from the Eagle line, and iear the names of German poets. The Corth German Lloyd lias a vast fleet of teamers. Some of them are named after ivers; a few, like the General Werdor, Iter prominent persons; others after old states and leading cities. The Bremen nd Hull vessels are named after birds. Of the American lines, the AlexanIres, Mexican and Havana steamers are .amed after cities; as the City of I'uebln, 'ity of Alexandria, City of Washington mi the City of Merida. The Savannah ine selects Indiau names. The United itates and Hrax.il line selects names ondng with "ance," as Finance, Advance nd Reliance. Of the outside British lines the Glen ine names its steamers beginning with Glen;" the Japan line ending with Shire;" lien line, beginning with 'Ben;" the Hall line, ending with ' Hall;'' he Calcutta line, after the stars: the Co:>nial line, ending with "Castle;" the 'hm line, after the clans; the Bed Cross ine, ending with "ense;" the Baltimore ine, ending with "More," and the Strath ine, beginning with "Strath."?Xnr \'ork 'Tribune. Disappearance of the Reptiles. Reptiles are at present a small and dyig race. They have seen their best days, tut in the great secondary age, as Tcnyson graphically puts it, "A monstrous ft was of old the lord and master of iirtli.*' At the beginning of that time lie mammals had not been developed at II: and even at its close they wen; but a jelile folk, represented only by weak realures like tin; smaller pouched ani i.-tls of Australia and Tasmania. Ac- I imlingly, during the secondary period, le reptiles had tilings everywhere pretty luch their own way. ruling over the; nth as absolutely as man and the mamuaIs do now. Like all dominant types >r the time being, they split up into lany and various forms. In thesca, they L'came huge paddling enuliosauriatis: on ic dry land, they became great erect diDsaurians: in the air, they became terri- j le Hying pterodactyls. For a vast epoch | icy inherited the earth: and then at last j icy began to fail, in competition with leir own more developed descendants, le birds and mammals. One by one ley died out before the face of the (linger fauna, until at last only a few ocodiles ami alligators, a few great lakes, and a few big turtles, remain nong the wee skulking lizards and ckos to remind us of the enormous ptilian types that crowded the surface the liassie oceans. Long before the actual arrival of true rds upon the scene, liowever, sundrv | anches of the reptilian class had been : adually approximating to and fore- j adowing the future (lying tilings. In ed, one may say that at an early period j e central reptilian stock, consisting of ic l((iiir, lithe, four-legged forms like | e lizards, still closely allied in shape to | eir primitive newt-like and eel like an- j stors, began to divide laterally into j ndrv important branches. Some of j *i .. .1.-:.. I:...i... 1 i??| fill I"M ( I II'J I 1 I I I I > ?.-* .HIM MIIIV *-V. ills: (tlhcrs acipiiredjxmy body-covergs ami became turtles; lint the vast iijority went nil in one of two directions. . Ilieras tjsli-like sea sanrians. or as liinl- I ic laiid-saurians. It is with this last vision alone that we shall have largely i ileal in tracing out the pedigree of our j i>ting birds. I'o/iiihir Srirno Mohl/tl;/. | A Frightful Fungus. One of I lie most remarkable fungi of j liieh there is any reeord grew in the ( : ine eebar of Sir Jose|ih ISanks. lie j j eeived a cask of wine as a gift, and idinir it too sweet had it locked up in ; cellar to ripen. There it remained for lee years, probably during the time he ' is with Captain Cooke in his voyage J mind the world. At the end of that i riod he directed his butler to ascertain | e state of the wine, but, the cellar door i uld not be opened on account of some i iwerful obstacle within. The door was i .1....... ii-lii.n llw. r./.lI ? fniinil tn eompletely lillert with a fundus .so I use and firm as to require an axe for : ; removal. It was then diseovered that ; c ftinifiis had consumed ivory drop of ne awl raised the cask to I ho coiling. "Is your wife acipiaintcd with the ! ad languages?" asked the professor of I Newman man. "May he she is,"' was j i' reply, "Inil the language she uses is tirely too warm to have heon dead very ig."?Newman Jndcj'eu^ent. SUNLIGHT ALL THE WAY. "Good-bye, Jennie, the road is long, And the moor is hard to cross; But well you know there is danger In the bogs and the marshy moss. i? So, keep in the foot-path, Jennie, Let nothing tempt you to stray; Then you'll t>efc safely over it, wl For there's sunlight all the way? ti Sunlight all the way; "e So, never you fear, Keep n cooil heart, dear, m For there is sunlight all the way.' p| JM Tlio child went oft with a blessing " And a kiss of mother-love; d< The daisies were down at her feet, J," And the lark was singing above. e! On, on in tlio narrow foot-path? Nothing could tempt her to stray; So the moor was nassed at nitrhtfall? There litvl been sunlight all the way; Sunlight all the way; And she, smiling, said, t. As her bed wns spread, ? "I had sunlight all the way." t And I, who followed the maiden, > Kept thinking as I went, Over tho perilous seas of lifo What unwary feet are bent. If they could only keep tho foot-path, And not in tho marshes stray, Then they would reach the end of lifo 'Kra the night could shroud the day, They'd have sunshine all the way; But the marsh is wide, And they turn aside, I And the night falls 011 the day. Far better to keep the narrow path, t Nor turn to the left or right; 1 For if we loiter at the morning, I What shall We do when the night r Falls back 011 our lonely journey, ) And we mourn our vain delay? ^ JLIK'll Ml'UUIlJf iilinwu, menu.-, uuu Shall have sunlight all the way? Sunlight all the way, I Till the journey's o'er, And we reach the shore ( Of a never-ending day. < ?Harpers Weekly. I ? ? ? 1 HUMOR OF THE DAY. ! ] A bad cold?Cold hash. t Cold and stiff?The ice crop. "How can a woman tell?" asked a romancer. She can't help telling.?linoxier. Women will never be as well paid for lecturing as men, simply because they have done so much of it for nothing. Leap-year parties are popular in some sections. At these gatherings the girls yell "mouse!" and the young men jump on chairs and shriek.?Detroit FreePrcxs. ( " Hello, Jones, what'time is it?" asked a Fort Wayne man of another, yesterday. " It's just time that you paid the ?5 you owe me." "Is it, indeed; I , ili/ln't tliinL- it \rre crk Into ns tliilt "? ilUU l/^muin ?\ tjw M,4W "" *"* Homier. Tt is sad to contemplate tho expression that settles half an inch deep over a man's face when lie finds that his wife has been using his best and sharpest j razor to whittle kindling and slice coid hum with.?Hone's Toothpick. A young Hungarian woman, recently arrived at New York, has been trying to marry three men. Some wicked American has evidently been giving that poor girl some exaggerated pointers on the leap-year of her adopted country.? Courier-Jour mil. In the spring the summer poet Dreams of birds and blossoms glad; In tho spring the diner's thorax Scoops the bonelets of the shad. In the spring the nale arbutus Makes tho wood a fragrant mat; In the spring the airy mai.len Dreams about her Easter hat. ?Puck. According to Burdette. the fellow who comes home at 2 a. m., and can't tell the key-hole from the transom and can't pick his nijfht-key out from his pocket full of toothpicks, is the man who complains about the vexatious and delaying "dendock in the house." Frozen Fish Coining to Life. ' So you never heard of keeping a fish alive for a month out of water? Well, it's a fact all the same, cause I've done il myself." Frank, a well-known fisherman who drags his living out of the Missisippi not many miles above the city, was talking to :i reporter about his experience on the river. They were both in a resort much frequented by men of his craft, and Frank was contentedly sucking his pipe and toasting his shins before a red-hot stove. ' When old Peter told me that such a tiling could be done I laughed at him, and was just about to call him a liar, but he looked dangerous like, and I did not do it. We were taking lunch, and I offered to bet him two cans of oysters to one that he couldn't keep a fish alive out of water for a day. It was very cold and he took me up. The next morning he caught a good sized buffalo, and almost teforr he had him well out of the water there was !i slvin iif iff nvcr him. sintl in a little while be was frozen as hard as a rock. I was having lots of l'nn laughing at him, but the next morning lie slapped him in the water. It took the lish a little while to thaw, but just as soon as lie began to warm up lie began to move, and in an hour lie was lively as any of them. I've kept a fish frozen for eight days this winter and then brought him to life again in water. I've done it many a time, but it has to be cold enough to freeze him quick, and yoii must not let him freeze himself.M?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Lydia E. Finkliam's Vegetable Compound was first prepared in liquid form only; but now it can be >ent in dry forms by niail to points where no drujri?i>t can readily be reached, and to-day the Compound in lozen ges nn> I pills finds its way oven to tne ioreign i climes of Europe and Asia. Many Iowa farmers are emigrating to Dakota. Heart disease lias brought many to an untimely grave. The heart is as liable as other j organs to disease; if vou have it even in the s'ightest form nso Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator. ?1 per bottle at druggists. The government wiil spend ?100.000 in improvements at Hell Gate, >'ew York. Have you heart disease in any form.' if so, u-e Dr. (!raves' Heart Regulator: .'iO years have proved it a sure remedy for organic or symj athfltic heart disease. $1 ;>er bottle. Turku an? acres given up to oyster culture in Connecticut. Quantity and quality. In tho Diamond Dyes more coloring is given than in any Known dyes, and they give faster and more hrill.ant "color*. 10c. at all druggists. Wells, Richardson Co., Burlington, Vt. Sample card, '!- colors; book of directions, ~c. stamp. The TVxi litioii y ot a I'UyMriitn. Junius lJuuclier, .u. u.,?i riigoiirney, jowu. says: ' For several years I haw been using a C ugh IJalsani, cullctl Dr. Win. Hall'j Balsam l'or tli? Lungs, und in almost ever} case through my praetiee 1 liavv hud entiri sucoj.ns. 1 have used and pre cribod hundred! of hottl' S sine.- the days of my army practice (In 3), when 1 was surgeon of Hospital No. 7, Louisville, Ky." pr A CHANCES | This Offer HOLDS GOOD I ! $40,000 %-i TIik j>roprl< tors of tho we ll-known and popular weekl) (' nf iiitro>lu<-itif> tlii'ir paper Into every homo where it is I \\ fin Al'TIIOKI/.KIM AIM IXL OF *200,000 for tho 'A decided toK-Vfaw.ivtoiill wlioMihscribo before June ICtl 8 ONLY F1 Wo will ontcr your r.amo on our aubscriotio'i books Am M Threo Month*.<thlr crn immbora). antl ImraorfluMv ti p, tuo following M^oivxjriciaiv'r PARTIAL LIST OF PRESEN1 kl C Ca?h I*rcr nt* of CliOOO each... ...$5,000 /\ 6 C'uf?h l*rc?cnt? of ?500 coch B.fiOO v^j 10 < u?h Prt?cnt* of $20O cuch 2,000 K HI Cuiiti 1'rc-cnUof MOO coch l.iTJO \\ 10 (*a?h l*rcMCntn of S50 coch 600 XJ 8 Klcgunt I'prlfffit I'Janoii, fttOOeaeh. 1I0CI y\ 6 Klccurit i'ubinot OrifiiMH, S100 cuch. 600 <Si 25 howlnir filiO eneb ?f>0 2(1 (?cnt** Hohil Gold \\ atchcis (-10 CO.. HDO Vl BO ]<udlcV Hullil t?ohl Wutchc*. $25 ca. 7*?0 JjJ 20 Ik'uutlful 111 iiiitoml It hue's $80 co... <100 /! RO (lenh* olid Mlvcr )Vulrhcff? 8jr> "O. 800 i'i 85 I,nille*'Chatelaine AVulclicii, lio a. ;? >? Sy>. 80 IIovh'Mlver Wntebm, 8IO rach 800 vj 100 tVnterbiiry Wutehm, #0.60 oneb 850 20 (irnt"' *olM <;olil Chain*. $80 cnch.. 400 1 V\ SO l/U'lli'uM'o! I Ncrk Cliuln*. 3I>*> cm b IH'O -.*> 20 Soli J llolil Urocele!*, $.f> cueh BOO T A And 02,533 OTUEft VREFI*I. ANI? VAI.l'AHLI kjl T1VEN I V-FIVI: CflNTH IO ONE llOLI.AU.in.il C?j iho firm ono hundred thousand suh-eribeM received. II 'A will liuawarded In it fulr uail impartial manner, full | Ptholnst 93..V12 presents uro 60,101 of olii' article. winch we , Ono H >111r i bo world over and tiev. r Fold for livs, it Is n I FIvo Ilnllnr* In nay Fninlly; millions have been sold n > wo con nironl to tfivo M.WO to ur cubscrllivrs, b. Iio\i:ik jI bp patrons of tlio Arsrosy;?befidcstill tills you may pet M THE AWARD OF PRESENTS will pooltlvol 1thk golden argosy s <i ,1 wJl authors n? t'io fcnltiMl stati n, incunlfntc *ueii ns I ft!oLIVKlFl?PTirt IIAICKY CAVl'LKMOM, VUW LSI II \I.K, ami a host of o.hrra too numerous to inentio |>r| matter to t\ I original from tin pens of imteil author.". I \ j] Months; ?MJM> for Six Montn?f ^ 1.73 for Twelve 1 Yy to aivuro iu .>,()00 pulmcrlbcr* a? once, wo makt? tho ! i for so ceb /5 and ?nc rcculpt, (food for ono prcucnt. FO:i 8 I -00 tM Mat months, and two receipts, (food for two preMT & ACUHiY, weekly, for ono ycur, anil four rccciplj.Koi 1aphek snrscriptiow |5j 6er.il you yotir r.iiliwrlpllon free, and ono rereipf; c< t tr r Ijjn .be AKGOsY for six month*; fret twenty to suhseriho f< [\| one your, anl four recjiptH. pood for four present*. IA iVee, and ? prn.ipeet to iret one of the moi-t vnluul q tlltf golden aimsosv capitai A lust what wo promise. T.lst .?f tho Awards ?ill no for .3 HOW TO SE?JD MONEY. f>nd rmnll minn.froi / Case orStnroi'S: larger Mima .*hnnld he Font hr rerlsfer< $ the ai?cosy publishing cc & ?,.?E.WEE'?l?.,L, th? ntjovo Presents nr? gli a! "".s-ti'&plwo"-? feiayamia'1' March / fn no other month* during the whole rear dors the inian system Ro readily and so quickly respond to the viving and quickening effects of a reliable medicine , in .March. April nnd .May. The reason is easily yen. At thissesiin, when the weather is changing nni cold to wartnor temperature, the human yat?m, tlich has been for months struggling to keep itxelf in >mial condition against the cold wintir blasts, is pariliy exhausted by the long-continued effort, nnd the Bather hag ft peculiarly depressing effect. Hence the al virtues of A Reliable Medicine o the more readily appreciated by the system, id are more freely absorbed by it than as if it was in a rfectly healthy nnd active condition. Nearly every ?rsun needs at this time of year a good tonic and ingorant, nnd thousands testily that they have found 1 food's Sir.-anarilla just tho thing neooed. Reader, [> not put off t.ikinga spring medicine till it is too te. when the hot summer months are here and the stem is much morosuaceptiblo to the attacks of disise. Purify Y< "1 have been troubled with general debility, and mj lood wan all out of order. 1 daw your medicine adver land, and concluded to give it a trial. I hav<> taker wo bottles and 1 am feeling perfectly well. It ha; pen a great l>onetit to me."?f'lNLEY A. FEE, Lima, (hio. '' I can nay with great pleasure that I have used our Sarxnpnriila nn<l think there is none equal to it ai , blood purifier."?E. 8. Phelps, Rochester, N. Y. Hood's S iold by all druggist*. $1: six for $5. Made only b; i, I. 11001) .V CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Poses One Dollar. OfflcHinldi-r*. The oflleo hold by the kidneys is one of im lortance. They act as nature's sluice-wayi o carry off the exlra liquids from the ays " " A 1 ' ? ? IiAffK/VCI em and with inem inu hujjuiium,uwu v.^o, bat are taken into the stomach and thosi liat are formal in the blood. Any clogginf >r inaction of these organs is therefore im lortant. Kidney-Wort is Nature's efflcien iswistant in keeping the kidneys in gooi vorkinz order, strengthening them and in lucing healthy action. If you would ge veil and keep well, take Kidney-Wort. Iiow Price* For Butter. 'Hie New York Tribune in its market r< port, explained whv some butter is sold fc inch low prices. In speaking of butter, i said: "Light colored goo Is are very hard t lispoae of and several lots were thought we oli 1 at 8 to 10 cents." If butter makers woul zet the top price, they should use the In proved Butter Color, made by Wells, Ricl irdson & Co.. Burlington, Vt. It gives pure dandelion color and never turns red, c raw-id, but tends to improve and preserve tl: butter. I can safely recommend Ely's Cream Bali for thocure of catarrh, cold in the head, et< Before I have used the first bottle I purchase I find myself cured. At times I could scarce] smell anything and bad a headache most c time.-Henry Lilly, Act for the American E: press Co., (irand Haven, Mich. (Price Mc Last winter I found positive relief froi Catarrh with Ely's Cream Balm. We troubled for years". I have no doubt a ttaoi ough use of Cream Balm will cure a majorit of ca^es.?E. D. Norton, Ithaca,N. Y. See ac " RoiikIi on Corn*." Ask for We'Is1 ''Hough in Corns." 15 Quick, complete cure. Corns, warts, bunion; Hixld IIendf)? when you have tried cventhin^ else an failed, try our Carboline and be happy; will prove its merits. One dollar a bottli and sold by all druggists. " RoiikIi on CoiirIin." Knocks a Cough or Cold endwise. Ki chili.ren or ailults Troches, 15c. Liquid, 50 Purest and best cod-lrv'eboil, from select* livers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard Co., N. Y. Absolutely pure"and sweet. Patien who Lave once taken it prefer it to all other Physicians declare it superior to all other oil Ciiam'ED hands, face, pimples and roue skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made 1 Caswell, Hazard <fc Co., New York. Yeu'claim'too much for Samaritan Nervin says a skeptic. Patrons say the opposite. "J)r. liiohmond's Samaritan Nervine cur* me of Epilepsy.'1 Jacob Sutes, St. Joseph, M * nnclni-PnJIin." Quic?:. complete cure. all annoying Kidne Bla'lder and Urinary Diseases. $1. Druggisl Phoenix Pectoral cures cold and cough. ? Camphor Milk cures aches and pains. S Headache Is immediately relieved by tl uso of Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. HU^cuemat'DactiD<f a8 stimulant of the k L/I ^>lied by^Hostetjj* w Dyspepsia. fe?er a STOMACH ? &* a?ue. and kind* U|^M^iiW disease*, are all cur SSI rfpy,3 tilt. For sale by ITT&I*^ zhxxis,"l' CATAR R KELT'S CREAM Bit w'len aPP"M' by the fl BRiJKlfLY 9^^^tgSger Into the nostril qBjr C/rMU RM.V''^8w'^ b? absorbed, effa ? CflhTV CUOre COVSl <"?* cleansin* the he H0 SSfr" lit-I ?' ^tarrhal virus, cat WS^C0{7C(y? ' tADl'WJ hMlth? Mcretioi yUAVCrVrD^iu 4* Jit ?"?T? inflammatio fJWr I fc" fc|\ Jjfec cji?| protects the membra fcK^" ly/y/^igSof the nasa passa* 3F / iRHj from additional colc nf / ^gH completely heals t ^-(V&ThH sores and restores U< an<*8m?"* ' 8Ky3HB?-<W plications relieve. ffiBpA'' jj^Jl |thorough treatment u NAY-FEVER PRICE 50 CENTS. BY MAILER AT DRUG0181 KL.V BKOTHKliS, OWJKCIQ, .\. Y. COeiSOMPTION. I havo a positive remedy for the aboro disease; by li n?e thousands of cases of (ho worse kind and of lor standing hare boon curod. Indeed, so strong Is my fall In Its efficacy, that I will soml TWO DOTTLES FREE, tgethor with a VALVAUI.K TKEATI8E on this (llseaM,1 on; taCorur. Olve Express and P. 0. address. PB. T. A. dLOCCM, lei Petri St., New Tor !?'??* ?7i?'.'t. A* l. SbTt'iT a CO.. A Ural t. ralstla*. 11 jt\ M PAYS for a Life Scholarship in t II fu m B Coh-iiinii nusiiiPHM Cnllcw ^ jg(8 H 9 Newark, New Jem-jr. Poeitions I 3 a \*Jr graduate*. National patronage. Wr lof Clrculan to M. COLEMAN \V.4\TI?I>?LADIES TO TAKE. OUR NE l! I'.im-y w* rk nt Iheir homes, in city or counti nml earn SO t?SI '? per week, making Roods fur o SpriiiK mul Mi mm t trade. Send l.jc. for sample a n.iraciil.irs. Iiudxon Mfrf. Co., Sixth Ave., N. Fn t.iS 1 Iter* .t I i v> a Semi M?i f"r ' irc l.ir?. ;*)(.. 1- BIN 'isiiSEvaO v HAM, Att'y, WiislUDRton, L>. Cami-h%>I! Mlt.k is ili?l:?-t liniment. Pth'eC5cen VCPIil.M M miK'il fi>r the lte*t unit Fastest-*-III Pict- rinI Hooks t?n<l llilil-w. Prices re lueed 13 t cent. National 1'1'ui.jshiso Co., Philadelphia. 1 Piiiksix Pkptohai. will cure your cough._PriceJ! |% VfllTA SodiI stump for our New Book PATpNTX^^ L. BINGHAM, F | M I LlllW '-nt Lawyer. Washington, D. BH* BAY to sell our R-ibb'-r Stumps. 1.. J. lU "Al |,(wriV Co., RMgway>Pa? CZtl PISc/s R,E>|\EOY FOR, C^TA^K" /| gf* QtiV r i Kasytouse. A certain cure. Not expensive. Tlir months' treatment In one puckaco. Good for Cc in the Heart, Heartache. Dizziness. Ilav Fever, Ac Fifty cents. By all Druireists. or by mall. k T. If A/.KI/I'INK, Warren. Pa Three l'art * Point ihc First.?Brown's Irc pound. It is a tonic medicine, not: preparation made to restore strengtl in bar-rooms and taverns. Point the Second.?Brown's I inmrinnc rimst" rlnlimtp lndif" - ? - use it with perfect safety and with g in its remedial agency, it is gentle in and imparting robust health in the n e Point the Third.?Brown's I Chemical Company of Baltimore, a tion is well-known to the busines There is no risk in buying such a m IF A LIFETIME! UNTIL JUNE IOth ONLY. ENTS, GIVEN AWAY. JSCRI3ER GETS A PRESENT. #ri.' /ii i?rv bflnir di\sirou.i |M]K*I , M #. .... ? not M 'W ti'ilii'!!, have organized a Hto<*K company with I purpose of pii lmi 'the Ari;o?jr extensively, anil have | ii. 1JWI.* 10,000 in pres- nts. It'cuil nurlircul Offer. ' IFTY CENTS J mall THE COLOEM ArtCOSY rtvulnrlv for end u r ecipt. whirh will entitle the holder to uuo vf LESEWTTSa rs TO BE GIVEN AWAY: 10 Elcjjar.t Illcycle*u ^^5 each 6 8C0 1 5 Silver Tcu Net*. $100 cm ti fiOO j 5 >et? I*nrlor Furniture. t*IOO ench... GOO f 10 rUxunL KojV.N.ilt*, to order, $20.... 200 10 (JlrlV Out*lde (?urinent*? >M5c';eh... 150 50 (?old 1'cn* and Holder.*, $VJ eueh 100 GOO I!xton*l?in tol l l'endK $! eueh AGO 600 1'ulr MeJiel-l'luted M?ute?. Stench. 1,000 500 I. urge Photograph Allium".$2 cacti. 1,000 500 i'alr Holler NUtcs $'C ruch 1,0()() 500 Twu>l)oi|ur ( rcenbncL* 1,000 500 One-Hollar Orecnbm k>* 500 500 Mii-lc l.untcrn*. $i eueh 500 500 Hovh* I'oeket Knlve*, $1 eueh... 500 500 Kntllcn* I'oeket Knli cm, $1 eueh 500 1000 OJ1 I'let ii re*. $1 eueh 1,000 500 Solid (.'old King*. $55 eueh 1,000 000 Autograph Albums I eueh 1,000 : pi.tsknts, kan,m\c in VALrEFno.ii tin# a grand total of l'.O WO tm sent.* to bo given to very one get* a Present. All of tin*abovepivsentf nrti^ulari of \\ M?h will be ftwn hereafter. Anion*: manufacture and mv u the p.tfit, a? d that retails at [ mvhing rurded in every In ?tne, and I* well worth I t')nel> llareieh. iSelngtmncrennd iiiAnufacturrrH ' that v< ?j will ba .io well pleased that you will always o? f the m >r t valuable present* offered in our list, y tnko place June 10th, 1834. S A WEEIUY PAPER t r Mio Father, tho, /lothsr, ti?' Bovn Clrla. Itlathe in >t SL'A-J fIFUL, USEFUL, U* rERTAIMING, w'lilisi'.ed. It hn:< tlm 1?. .1 r..rc< *if flrst-claso UJK.VI IO AI.:;KI?. Jr.. !.l)?Alil? i? Km..-. K II. COWKKHR Ri-v. t:i?vv VKI> EVKIUITT n. It i.i Itrmil'.t'iilly JIltiMnilcJ, and its n'.iillnu * -' .. i?n i.vii-i. u ccnln for '1 hrro ui ri'Kuiai Month*: without nnwiit or premium: hut in order i FOLLOWINC LIBERAL OFFER: 3'tTTB we will srt.il yn'i TIIK OOI.T?f\ W JL S9 Alt(i?^j weekly, for ? month i wo v.ill send Till: Al?fl??>V.we. k!v. 'tFOR 81.75 ?o will tend lUt COLl>?.V id for lour prvHcuto. r ffSin ^7Pa?7 If J wl11 Cut thla AclI I O !I ajal. vertlsamont Out ?;> i *x^-v*msiBDr53ai?5 show it to your tVlrnil*. ii'it lor l.'irt o iiK.r.tt!", and send ua *8.50, wo will i lo suhsrribonnd wo will send you two iw Ipt.iand )r tliroo months nnd wo u ill wn I youtho A1M.OSY A few hours'work will civo yen n nub'crlptlon >le prevnu. SAMPLE COPIES FRE?-'. ititlin'icd weekly pap. r. mid Is backed oy AMPLE . .?o thit every mih?i ribei-may ho mire of jettlnir . varilnHpnll subscribers immediately after Juno 10. ti 50 cents to Ono or Two Pollnra, hy'I'o*tal Note, if mnll or poet ofHco order. Addrcsnn!! orders to ? CI WARREM STREET, NEW YORK. , iren absolutely to our Subscribers, i < %cEtsrs?'^^raqiytkrsitER!:. 11 ipril May It h?? l>een wall said of Hood's 8arsapsrilla: 1 'It* health-giving effect* upon the blood and entire human organism, are as much more positive tban the rraiedle* of a quarter of a century ago, as the aUsam-power of to? day is in advance of the (low and laborious drudgery of yoar* ago." Mr. O. W. Manley, * well-known and vsrjr popular pnotographer of Canton, Ohio, says: "I bare used . Hood's Sarsaparllla and find it ail you advertise .t for, and I cheerfully recommend it to persons who are to 4 want of -w Jp A Good Blood Purifier ' 'While suffering from a severe blliooa attack in March, 18*3, a friend in Peoria, 111., recommended Hood's Sarsaparllla. I tried the remndjr, and waa permanently cured by it. I volunteer tbia testimonial. John A. Shkpakd, traveling agent for T. W. Oevoe <t Co., Fulton street, N. Y. "We sell a great deal of Hood's Sarsaparilla and have no hesitation in recommending it.?'Thos. WHITfield 4 Co., ManufacturingOheraiate, Chicago. our Blood , C'oyconn, K. H., December3, 1883. C. I. HOOD 4 Co., Lowell, Mass. , Gentlemen:?Wo am pleased to note that the demand , for Hood's SarsiparillacoDtinuJS to Increase. Its sale with us exceeds that of any other Sanaparilla or blood purifier. We believe it a Rood medicine and do not nesitate to recommend it to our friends. 1 0. H. Martin a Co., w. p. Underbill ? Co., i A. Perley Fitch, H. B. Foster. Underbill A Kittredoe, Drmxiat*. arsaparilla r I Sold by all drasfrists. $1; tlx for $5. Mado only by 0. I. HOOD ? CO., Apothecaries. Lowell, Man. I ' nA0A<> Dna nnllnr. I I W i/waos vnv ;| LONG SUFFERING J 5 From Stone In tlio Kidney" of one of Troy's 3 Bent Citlzena-IliM Recovery throngU the f I line of Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite t Remedy (of Itondont. >' Y.) 1 It is by no moans Strang" that Dr. David Kennedy t should have received the following letfor. By reading it you will see in ono minute why James Andrews wa? thankful: 5- J>r. I>. K'n n ?dyt Homlnut, .V. V.: _ 'i |I Dkar Sin?Until within a rccent date, I had for writ e ai years suffered greatly from Gravel, called by the . 0 doctors the Brick-dust Sediment. For about a year II i past this sediment ha? not passed off in the usual d quantity, but Iicb accumulated, causin* me untold 1 pain. Having heard of DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S j* 1- FAVORITE REMEDY, I tried it in my case, and : a after using about one and one-half bottles, I voided a i IP \ stone from the bladder, of an oval shape, 7-16 of M * * le : Inch long, and rough on its si rface. 'I send yon the largest piece that you may see of what It is composed. Since then I have felt no pain. I now consider m;sjlf 11 cured, and cannot express my thankfulness an! gratl I. tude forso signal a dvliroranco from a terrible disease. d You have my consent to u e this letter, should you wjsh y to do so, for the benefit of^>tbcr sufferers. if Yours truly. | jAMKfl ANDBEW8, ' ) I No. 10 Marshal St , Ida Hill, Troy, N. Y. ' ' I " " -,J? *v'** moHli-inn which did this 18 scrvice for Mr. Andrews coots only ono dollar a bottle, y it would Mim thit persons afflicted in lilto faghion can I. afford the expense of testing its virt :03. G?t it of your dnipBist, or addres.1 Dr. David Kennedy, Rondoat, i'igmk'gaa* ' Pi W <^EVER PAIL^>J1 Spurns, Conraleionfl, Falling "?H\T|NP Sicbuu,S>. Vitus jr W Dance, Alcohol' : OCTHEGREflTjjlS A | Scrofula, Kiruji f? 1 ? I TT.-1 TT?1? F | N E R E | " t ^ Nervousness 5 . i e Nervous Weakness, Brain Worry, Blood 5oro, ' Biliousness, Costivena.% Nervous Prostration, Kidney Troubles and Irregularities. $1-60. Sample Testimonial*. "Samaritan Nervine is doing wonder*. Dr. J. 0. McLemoin, Alexander City, Ala. .. "I feel It my dnty to recommend it.'" _ r,' Dr. D. P. Langhlin. Clyde, Kaniaa, LSp "It enred where phyMcians failed.'' ^ ,r Rev. J. A. Edle, Beaver, Pa. $S" Correspondence freely answered."** ''> The Dr. S.A. Richmond Med. Co., St Joseph, Mbr ie For testimonials and circulars send stamp. CD At Druggists. C. H. CritUnton. Agent, K. I?re :h> f* B 1 Jk f*> Crick, Sprains, Wrenchoo, Rhea a driA\aVB^ matUm, Neuralgia, Sciatica. Id- m m m ma*m Pleurisy Palm, Stitch In th? ? 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I'opulur Author vcr wr?te. v< It I? ruwliuitlijjc, ln?tructlt e mid helpful, und will B] ( Dire inuruer. dlicnlty, und noble resolution*. 5a| KVKKV Q.\K SIIOtl.r< KF.AI> IT. g) WHAT SUBSCRIBERS SAY, 1 I cannot oprnk too hlchly rf tho ARGOST; TOT boys & thlnL tliey could netrr do without It. JIKS. M. K. AXTELL, West Klohfleld, Ohio, !gj TllR Ancosrhaiheen an good tills year 1 must h?vo Wj it another, enclosed :s }1 75. \l lUS. W. IICNTISGTOX. Bostoa M I hare taken a number of papers, hut I or hod one Jjj| I IlUe n? well w Tiie Aliiiosv. To sit i;cior? tho (Ire ??| theseeolil evenings nml iv.ni it U the bent enjoyment <^| I know 01. lu-uicui. i "in ?j ? a.s'ain. W. S. K.vov,'LTo.N, l'orlland. Sic. Ishould take the aroosy another year If I had to nit KJ up nlKht* tu turn the money to pny for Itt enclosed / id $1.?s. ki>. i.. i'exuj.kto.n, acjoi.ia, Conn. Jji I am s.1 deeply Interested in tho Anoosr I should be lo?t without it; idoise extend mv subscription fa another your. 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