Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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n - . r m the ballad of the baby. , H Bald of licad and i*od in the face, 96 I'm only a baby, weak and s.nall: A bundle of flannel and bib and lace; U But don't, I beg, into error fall, Hr For there's not a thing on this earthly ball, h Or big or little, or old or new, That holds the world in coniploter thrall; K Come, list to the deeds that I can do. 9 I can shriek a shriek to rend all space, R Can choke myself with my broidered MB shawl; gf Can send my nurse on a frantic chase H For pins that were never there at all; H I can make my pa. ?o brave and tall, H, Kay curious words, just one or two, K As ho walks the floor to hush my squall; S Come, list to the deeds that I can do. B, I can coo and coo with a tender grace, g And bring my subjects at beck and call H With cunning smile and a soft embrace, K While into mischief I straightway crawl; My mamma's anger I can forestall, ff I can patty-cake and can peek-a-boo, B I can charm, enslave, delude, appal; II Come, list to the deeds that I can do. W J!? 1 T l.-f-v M-nll V ??mi my uny annus 1 am uuuu u?.vi> 9 As tnie an<l strong as the skies are l?lue; JR I am the monarch of hut aurt hall; H Como, Jist to the deeds that I can do. K_. ?Curtutta 1'crry. UA'CLE Al.lClv'S PROPHECY. Dn "Yes, Hobcrt, 1 know it's a poor B& ]ilacc, but I don't feel willing to give it [gSi up. It's been my home?as it was my father's before me; and I did hope *'? jH^-- ; with a sigh?"that you'd ha'taken to W it, and made it as good as 'twas in his HH timo. Your own poor father never had BR any luck with it.'' Bgg "Nor do I expect any, mother. It Kg takes a natural liking and a natural talgSSJ ent to succeed at anv business, and I've IBS none for farming. I wish I could perK. suadc you to sell the place, and let mc jfi set up a store at the cross-roads. We JB could make more there, without the la bor and care that it costs us here.'' B "I ain't so sure of that, Kobert. Per1 *f ?*"? * ? nn/1 enffln (lftivn I 17v nap?* 11 yuu u umhj tuiu cwv?v ?v.?? here, with a good managing wife to help you, you'd do better and be better satisfied; and if it.; weren't for old David Gardner's obstiuacy you and I.etty?" "Enough, mother!" interrupted Robert, flushing all over his handsome, sunburnt face; "it's no use to say anything more on that subject. I'll never ask any woman to marry me so long as I know .. that I couldn't afford her a suitable help, or so long ns there's a mortgage hanging over the roof that I'd bring her to. A father's hardly to be blamed forsa\ing that his daughter shall never marry a poor man, to break herself down as her mother did, with work. So that's sctHis mother looked at him anxiously over her spectacles. "If it wa'nt for the mortgage," she said, slowly, "we might get alone. Twas that worried your father into his grave?that, and not finding the goldstreak?" llcr son made an impatient movement and she added : "Don't vou think vou could get a f little more time allowed us. Robert. Maybe when the crop's sold, and the apples and cider?" "Mr. Davis won't hear of it, mother, I saw him yesterday and talked it over, but he insists it must all be paid by the _first of August?ah, here he comes Robert went out to meet the well dressed, sharp-eyed man in his handsome buggy, while his mother remained on the back-porch, with sleeves rolled up, mixing dough for the poultry. "There ain't many of 'cm to feed now," she said, talking aloud to herself, . as she had been accustomed with her late husband. "What with cholera and gapes in the chickens, and weak legs in the turkeys. I hain't hail any but illluck with the lot of 'em this year. Then there's old Speck missing?the best layer of 'em all, and Gold streak's fit for notbin1 sence her leg's broke. Ah, me! I'm mightily afearcd that she's the only rrrtlfl.ofroolr wo'll r>vf>r knruv* on this W p'ace!" SL" "What'sthat about a gold-streak,Mrs. f Langlyi" exclaimed a clcar, young voice. |t And a girl with a sweet face and By.;- - bright brown eyes and a blue-striped L. chintz dress fitting perfectly to her trim figure, stood smiling before her. H Mrs. Langly's face brightened immc? diately. B "Why, Letty, how you do always B manage to take one by surprise, as if K you'd risen out o' the yearth or dropped K&;? down from the clouds! Well, child, H you're welcome! . And how's your mother?'' 9 ? Letty made a suitable reply, and cxR plained how she had been sent by her mother on some little business connected ' with quilt-pattcrns, for the invention of ' which Mrs. Langly was famous. '"You shall have my gold-streaked pattern," said the old lady, promptly. "It's the handsomest of all, and I've '&T never before given it away?not even to v the minister's wife, who was so taken with it." | "Uoia-sircaKeu again: sarn jLcity, smiling. "That appears to be a favorite ft name with you."' E&i i. "Ah, my dear, I've cause to think a B heap of that name! Maybe it would be R better if I hadn't; and maybe again? well, nobody can tell yet." Ik. There was a moment's silence, wheu E she resumed: | "I dare say, Letty, you've thought mc obstinate and selfish in opposing Hob's wish to sell the farm. But I had a reason, child, more on his account than mine; and I think 1 may's well tell it to you. I know you're to be trusted not to i go and spread it around among the neighbors, who would no doubt be hinting that I'd better be put in a lunatic asylum. Maybe you'li think so yourself, but at any rate I'll let you judge. "You see," she continued, as she P slowly worked in another handful of k--, . corn-meal, "the Langlys come of Scotch slock,and it's been said that Hob's greata grand'ther Langly, over in Scotland, had H frift ii* ervnml-cirrlif?t Vi fit" i? SPft I ing and knowing tilings that arc go1 - ing to happen. I've heard a good deal B of talk about it in the family, but never 5 did think much of it, though my liusband?poor departed Jeems?believed in it as firmly as he believed in Eh summer and winter. He said these things come by a mysterious law of natur'* ^c^'? ftbout eight years ago old lug tTncle Alick Lankly paid us a visit on im ^ this farm. I hadn't seen him but once T Hpy before in my life?for he lived down to c WBgk Tcnnt'sseee, a long way from here. Him Ijif | and Jeems, they walked all overjthe farm, and it was a far better cultivated place then than now, though nothin' comK | pared to what it was in my father's time. IK Jeems' Uncle Alick didn't seem to think Hp-. Hpi much of it, though. Then he went over K'^^K?r&<' fVin rminti v lonkimr tin 4:inda to buv for is son, A lick, who thought of coming I this way to settle, if a good prospect of' . fercd. But in the end he gave up ihe idea, as he couldn't find jest what he 'j- wanted." Here she began slowly and deliberately to clcar the dough from her hands. ; Letty, seated on the top step of the porch, looked up with quiet, oxidant eyes. "The day that lie went away," continued Mrs. Langlv, with a long-drawn breath, 4'lie was standing here?yes. *!? right here where you arc a sitting?and looking all around him on the farm. All of a suddent he says, 'Jemmy?Jeminy V- - and Mary'?turning to me? 'I've one thing to say to you before I go. Stick to your farm, for there's a streak of golden luck iu it.' Of course I asked 5 .? what he meant; but all he would say was. 'I've seen it?I've seen it by the power that's given us to look into the future. I've seen a streak of gold-luck I mnninrr throin'h vour land that's to hot. II ler your fortunes in good time. Don't | part with it until your hick's found.' I And that same day he went away, and R, the first we heard of him after he got home, was that he was dead." There was another pause, and Letty "And you think there is really a vein of gold to be found on your farm?" "Jeems thought so. To his dying day he believed in it. Goodness! how much he thought about that gold streak! Why, half his time he spent in hunting, and digging, and scratching around; and at last lie went off to tewn and tried ; . to get two men, that was used to the business, to come out and examine the land to diskiver gold. "But they only laughed at him, and said no gold would ever be found in Pike county. And then he thought maybCthere was gold money hid some- i where on the place; so he dug under all j k - the rocks, iind looked in the holler; trees, and was speshly kserful in digging in the garden. Jut no pot of gold ever turned up; and, mean whilst, the farm got neglected, and it seemed that more bad tban good luck was a-coming to us. Still, almost on hi? death-bed, he said to mer " 'Mary, don't you sell the farm if you can helj) it. I believe, as faithfully as I believe in anything, that that streak of gold-luck will turn un some time. No Langly ever yet prophesied what didn't come to pass.' ''That was what he said; and so now, Lctty, you know, as Robert knows, why I am unwilling to sell the farm." "And what docs Robert think about it?" inquired the girl, with a faint flush on her check. "Oh, he thinks it all nonsense?about the gold, and the second-sight, and all. And as for me?why, sometimes I can't but agree with him. And then, again, there's a feeling that there may be somethin' in it, after all?and that it may be given to some folks to sec what's going to happen in the future. Just as we know there were prophets of old, to say nothing o' the Witch of Endor." Just at this moment they heard Mr. Davis' buggy roll away, and Robert came around the corner of the house. He looked a little excited; but that might be from finding Lctty there. He walked home with licr across the fields to the next farm. When lie returned he said, quite abruptly: "Mother, Mr. Davis wants to buy the farm. lie's offered more for it than I . r>vr>r drffimnd it would brilllT. He SCClllS anxious to get it: and when I told him that you objected to part with it, he actually offered to let us ofT with the balance of the mortgage, provided the business is settled at once." ' Why, Kobert, what can he mean?1' 'I don't know. There's something in it I don't understand; but, if you've no objection, I'll go over to G to-morrow and see Lawyer Panncll about it." Robcrc had expected to be only one day from home; but he stayed three. And, meantime, the one hired boy, going to bring the cows from the meadow, reported that there were a number of men passiDj, through the farm, looking about, examining the ground, and acting in a very strange and unaccountable manner. ' Good gracious!" thought Mrs. Langly. "They surely can't be suspicioning the gold streak?" She was very anxious for her son's return. When he did come she noticed the bright glance, and the brisk manner in which he dismounted from his horse ctrnirrhf. tnward her. as she I stood at the steps to welcome him. "Well, Rob, I see you've got good news." "The best of news, mother," he answered, cheerfully. The tears came into her eyes. "I shall hate to give up the old home, after all." "You need not give it up, mother. We won't sell the farm. Mr. Davis was sharp," he added, contemptuously, "but fortunately we escaped the trap he baited so nicely." "Why, what is it all about, Robert?" "Why, only this, mother: They arc going to run a new railroad through our farm." "What!" exclaimed the old lady, in dismay. "Cut our fnrm in two with a railroad and spile it completely? So that's what's those men were after when they came trespassing on our placo yesterday ! But I'll sec whether they'd ever venture to do it again! Surely, Robert, you'll not submit to see the farm ruined and?" "llush, . hush, mother!" he said. "Calm yourself, and let me explain." wKnn Vin mnflft if nil plf?<?r tft llGT :\UU tflltll UV/ luuvtv i? ?.? how the passing of the new railroad through their farm would make them comparatively rich--nnd how there would probably be a station established in their neighborhood, and even perhaps on their very land, which would ten fold increase its value?and how in that case he might establish a store there, and after awhile a postoffice, already needed, with various other prospective advantages?his mother could scarcely realize the idea of such good fortune. But her first words showed how much she had the happiness of her son at her motherly heart, when she said, with moistening eyes: "You and Lctty can marry now, Robert !" Some few months after this time, Mr. Robert Langly stood with his mother on one side, and his wife leaning on his arm on the meadow-alone, watching from a distance the busy laborers throwing up a clay embankment,where theucw railroad was to be laid. The sun was slowly sinking to the horizon, and his almost level rays shone redly on the yellow clay, freshly turned up and gleaming in a long, bright line against the green fields beyond. "Dear me!" said Mrs. Langly, "I never knew there was so much clay on the land; for all father's talk about a clay substratum over there, and his plowing in rlovnr and marl. IIow red and vellow it Iooks! and how that lone line of wet clav shines in the sunlight, like a streak of gold." At this. LeUy turned with bright eyes, full of a sudden surprise. "A streak of gold? Oh, Hobcrt, how strange! Can this be the streak of goldluck that vour father's Uncle A lick foretold?" Mrs. Langly sank on the grassy bank, quite "shaken," as she declared, with this realization of the fulfillment of the prophesy. ".Maybe," she said, presently, "he did r'aly see it by the gift o' second-sight; or maybe, being a clever, far-sighted man, he might have got an idear that a railroad would have to run from G to L some time, and pass light through the farm, or maybe, he might have heard somebody say as much, when he was speculatin1 round the country. I'd like to know which it was." And to this day she has not made up her mind on that point. ?.S. A. lltisa. Savages Fating Serpents. Probably the most important use to which serpents arc put by man, the world over, is as food?repugnant as that idea seems to a civilized palate. Rev. J. L. Kranc writes of the Dokers, of East Africa, that tlmy let their nails grow as long as those of the vultures, explaining that they are used "in digging lor ants, and in tearing to pieces the serpents, which they devour raw. In the fur cast and Polynesia, such meat has always been an article of diet, the Andamanese, for instance, liking the sea snakes, although refusing terrestrial species. The Karens, of liurmali, and South Australians ofTer further instances, while this kind of food has long been j accepted by the poorer classes of China. In the Americas?North, South, aud I Central?most of the native races eat serpent llesh?some from a ceremonial way, like the Mexicans and Californians; and many to fight famine during periods | of scarcity. The rattlesnake especial^ has been an article of food from one side I of the continent to the other: but this is i partly owing to the superstitious regard the aborigines of the United States had (and have) for the striking reptile, coupled with the notion which belongs to most primitive men, that one's mind and temperament arc influenced by the moral qualities of what is assimilated into the blood, a notion that lies at the foundation of nearly all cannibalism. The cunning spitcfulncss aud certainty I of the rattlesnake seem desirable virtues | to ji rod Indian, hence lie eats the snake ' on ccrtain occasions to acquire them. | Many tribes have dances and ceremonies ; in which the crotalus forms a part. The 1 subject of the symbolism,religious signi- j ficance, and world-wide use of serpents i in sacred rites is too large and involved ! to enter upon iu this connection, however, and I.only allude to it in order to ] say that at the conclusion of these cere- ! mouics, in some instances the snakes are eaten. Along the coast of southern California, however, according to Hancroft, all snakes except the rattler were held to be edible. As for the I'iutc3 of the lTtah basin, whose food supply was limited, and whose tastes were more degraded, perhaps, than those of any i other of the native races of Norlh America, they were accustomed to impale the i living snake lengthwise on a stick, and j hold it writhing over the fire until it was i broiled. John Jossehn, gent., in one of his quaint old books published about 1072, iu regard to New England, records that the New England Indiaus, ''when weary with traveling," would take up rattlesnakes with their bare hands, "laying hold with ouc hand behind their j head, with the other taking hold of their tail, and with their teeth tear off the skin of their backs and feed upon them alive; which they say refrcsheth them." ? Gentlemen'? Mugazine. Thought He Was Preaching. A clergyman who is stationed not a ! thousand miles south of Rochester told a ! story in his sermon the other morning I which, in the opinion of some of his auditors, required considerable faith to swallow. The opinion was fully shared by the clergyman's litt le daughter who, at the dinner table, looked very earnestly at her father and asked him if the story was quite true. "Why, certainly, my child," answered the minister in amazement; ''but why do you ask me?" "Oh!" she responded very quickly. '-I didn't know?I thought that maybe 1 you were only preaching."?Rochester Ex- I press. ' ^ >. ' Si y. . I.- v.-:" :/ ~ 7 - ;T v IN THE CHINESE CAPITAL. WHAT A LADY SAW IN THE CITY OP PEXUT. A Place Rarely Visited by Traveler*?Views from the City Wall* ? The shops and Street Life. One of the most entertaining of modern lady travelers, Miss Constance F. Gordon Cuming, a sister of the great explorer and "lion slaver," G. Gordon Cuming, has lately written a narrative of a visit to Pckin, the Chinese capital. Her first impressions of the city arc recorded as follows: There is just one way by which to obtain quite an illusive impression of Pckin ?namely, by looking down on the city from its majestic walls. Then all the i squalor, dirt and dust, which arc so j fearfully prominent at all other times, seem to disappear, and, as if by magic, you find yourself overlooking rich bowers of greenery, tree tops innumerable, from which, here and there, rise quaint ornamental roofs of temples or mandarins' houses, with roofs of harmonious gray tiles, or of bright, glazed porcelain, gleaming in the sunlight. Then you realize how many cool, pleasant homes wealthy citizens contrive to | reserve in the midst of the dingy, gray, densely crowded streets, of which you only catch a glimpse here and there, just enOugh to give a suggestion of life to the whole scene. Such a glimpse I first obtained one morning at early dawn, ere the dustclouds had begun to rise with the day's busy traffic, and the beauty of the scene struck mc more forcibly from the contrast betwixt the bird's-eye view a?id the reality when seen on the level. In truth, when standing on the south wall, which divides the Tartar city from the Chinese, it is scarcely possible to realize that one is looking down on the dwellings of about 1,300,000 human beings. Of these 900,000 inhabit the Tartar city, which, seen from the walls, is apparently a beautiful park, richly wooded, and now clothed in its densest mid-summer foliage. To the south of the city wall stretches a vast enclosure, called the Ilai-tsy, or Great Sea-like Plain, which is the emperor's private hunting ground, inclosed by a high brick wall forty miles in circumference. On the other side, looking into the Tartar city from the elevation of about fifty feet, the brilliant, yellow-tiled roofs of the imperial palace are most couspicuous, and very beautiful as they rise above the masses of darkgreen foliage. A considerable number of ornamental buildings, all yellow roofed and gleaming like burnished gold, are scattered in every direction through the imperial plensure grounds, and with the aid of good opera-glasses one can distinguish details very fairly. Of course, as you travel round the walls the view changes considerably,one lot of roofs gives p'ace to another?so that you obtain a birds-eye view of th? situation of most of the points of interest in the city. It would, however, take a really good walker to go the whole round of the walls, as the Tartar city forms a square four miles in every direction, and the Chinese city is an oblong, thirteen miles in circumference. Imposing as the castellated towers and walls appear when seen through the dustclouds, a closer inspection proves that they are not made of stone but of large gray bricks (about twenty inches in length by nine in width); so that, after all, these enormous bastions arc just the universal dust in a baked form. The municipal system of watering the streets is on an exceedingly limited scale, being confined to a few buckets of drainwater brought by the official scavengers when not engaged in carrying the most abhorrent sewerage from the houses to the fields. Each householder is required every evening at sunset to water that scctiou which?is before his own door. At this moment, therefore, all the slops are brought out from every house and are sprinkled over the highway. II there is any stagnant sewer, drain or pond withJ.% ?rv nviMftplmw f/Mll ltc \l'.ltnrQ JL few extrajbuckots are drawn from thence, and the happy population who seem devoid of all sense of smell, rejoice in the sudden cessation of the suffocating dust. The miracle is to see the people thrive on the poisonous atmosphere which Ihcy must forever inh.ile and which makes us positively sick. In the narrowest, most crowded street, where the air is most pestilential, where there are foul open drains under their very windows, these people look just as fat and healthy as in the open country. Being on the inside of the great gateway, and therefore in no danger of being locked out at sunset, we were able to remain on the walls till the street-watering was over, and so gained impressions of evening street life as we walked home in the twilight. Of these tlic most curious were the second-hand clothcs auction at the open booths, where the stall men were rap:dly turning their wares und shouting out their prices at the top of their voices. Then there is the incessant din of street cries, while as a deep bass to these comes the grunting chorus of the coolies, who. in the middle road, arc urging on linir hnnvilv tnrlpn rnrt.Q nnrl the never ceasing stream of the terrible springlcss carts, which take the place of cabs and carriages for the greatest mandarins as well as for the humbler folk. Riders on mules and donkeys go jingling along to the music of their own bells. Clearer and most melodious is the tinkling of the square bell which hangs from the neck of the last camel in the long files which now and again move slowly up the street with soft, silent tread and glidiug movement. Some arc laden with tea; others bring fuel for the city?a compound of clay and coal-dust made up into balls, which, being burnt in common portable stoves made of clay, iron, or brass, give out much heat and no smoke. At one place we passed some montcbanks, whoso buffoon called forth loud laughter, at another a denser crowd tempted us to press forward to sec the object of special interest, and, lo! it was a Chinese Punch and Judy, of much the same character as our own. At an early hour the open air cook shops ply the busiest trade. Pome are shaded by huge lira ore lias, ueneam which are spread the dressed dishes, for which a thick sprinkling of dust does duty instead of pepper. There are street ovens wherein all manner of pies are baked?strange compounds of unknown animal and vegetable substances, which nevertheless smell rather inviting; at least they would do so were it not for the ever present all-pervadine fumes of tobacco and opium, the one coarse, the other faint and sickly. Bean pudding in a crust of mashed potatoes fried in oil seemed to bo in great demand, as also little pies of vegetables, and nicely boiled sweet potatoes. We watched the owner of a portable oven dispensing these to a hungry circle on receipt of some absurdly small coin while many other men supplied them with hot tea. Various preparations of Indian corn flour were a'so in favor, especially when baked in the form of tarts, with a little dab of treacle. There was also an enormous consumption of cakes of ground i ?!!'?* ? ?!?In/1 n?WV? coAr/*lm/l \ IIIillUL, DJ/l \,?*V/V* KiltiVb I seed. As to what we understand by bread, it docs not exist, the substance being heavy dumplings of flour, which is steamed instead of being baked. They arc not so bad, however, when toasted. The favorite food here is a cakc made of bean-curd. Common small beans are ground between two granite millstones like a hand quern. As the upper is turned, water is poured on, and a creamy white fluid ooses out, wliieh Hows into a tub, and is boiled with salt. The j froth is skimmed olT, and the curd is i tied up in a cloth, put under pressure, ! and so formed into square cakes, which j really taste much like our own curds. There is also an immense consumption of macaroni, which 's made by kneading a thick dough of wheat flour, rolling it into very thin, stilT .sheets, and cutting these into narrow strips, whicli are then boiled. This is eaten hot with chillies, and you sec men swallowing yards of it, very much like the Neapoli t.1n beggars, except tlmt tno ueiestiais use chop sticks instead of tingcrs. Boil in? Water iu a Sheet or Paper. Take a piccc of paper and fold it tip, as school boys do, into a smiarc box without a lid. llang this up to a walking stick by four thread*, and support the stick on books or other convenient props. Then a lamp or taper must be placed under this dainty cauldron. In a few moments the water will boil. The oniv fear is lest the threads should catch fire and let the water spill into the lamp and over the table. The llarac must therefore not be too large. The paper does not burn, because it is wet, and even if it resisted the wet jt would not be burned through, because the heat imparted to it one side by the flame would be very rapidly conducted away by the other.?Nature. The prettiest slipper is still that made of undressed kid, in the various mode colors and gray. Yet the patent-leather slipper and low-cut shoe is much. worn. f ... 4 ... * - ----- NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. One of the new shades' of green Is called chartreuse. Squares of frosted gold are linked together for bracelets. Gold and woolen laces are much used on the new spring hats. The favorite color of the Princess Beatrice is pale heliotrope. Women's names adorn more than half the American sailing ships. The old-fashioned knitted purse of our grandmothers' time is revived. Forty-eight English women have diplomas and arc registered as physicians. Bonnets and hats arc quite handsome for the spring, and show a great variety of shapes. Velvet collars of any color preferable, both standing and turned down, arc very becoming to all atjes. A dark green and gold embroidered bonnet is ornamented with a large cluster of Marshal Neil roses. A beautiful fabric called Limousine comes in small plaids, and is especially suited for children's dresses. "Waists grow longer, basques shorter, collars higher, skirts fuller; hats and coiflures higher, dress less artistic. Japanese girls arc said to have small, nhimn hands, and to use their linger X X nails as pens when writing love letters. The wide metal braids which arc used for the trimming of high-crowncd hats arc very effective. "White wool braid is used with quite good effect on dark, blue and black straw. Miss Addie Kurtz i6 the deputy sheriff of Franklin county, Pa., and she recently escorted seven male prisoners from the county jail to the penitentiary at Philadelphia. Lace-making is again a favorite fancy work among the English and Russian ladies, and for those whose eyes can stand the trial it is a charming and artistic | employment of leisure hours. The tapestry stitch is being learned by young Indies who have good eyesight. Some very artistic designs may be imported from England. The scheme of color is like that in old Gobelin tapestry. Silk bolting cloth is used for sash curtains. The embroidery which embellishes these curtains is after the Japanese, and is very much the same on both sides. The effect is very charmiDg. Vol vet or velveteen, in contrasting color with the etamine, or cashmere, or wool stuff of the frock, is used to excess for the cuffs, belts, collars and capes, pockets and paremcnls of children's garments. The fashionable New York poodle must be as tenderly shielded from the dust ns his devoted slave and owner, and he, therefore, now wears a tissue veil swathed around his head when taken on Fifth avenue for his airing. Chenille trimmings will remain fashionable, and we shall have chenille embroideries, passementeries of chenille and silk, chenille and velvet or beads, among others bends cut with facets which glitter brilliantly, and are of all tints and colors. Plain gray cottons and gray-blue are made up with red to look very pretty for country wear. The red sometimes forms a frilling, over which the contrasting color is cut out in points or shell shapes, J while upon the bodice it forms a tucked I vest-. I Pr?tty over-all fipront for little girls I are made of two wide breadths of nainsook or lawn tucked at the bottom and shirred back and front of the half armhole. which is finished by two wide bands of the musliu tied into a bow on the top of the shoulder to retain the apron in placc. These aprons arc closed back and front. The trade of the hairdresser and cosmetic maker prospers at present, says the New York Sun. The coiffure is higli and elaborate, demanding the use of much additional hair, and frequently of the wig. With the high coiffures come the profuse use of powder for the facc and hnir mouchcs, or black patchcs on the cheeks, lips, chin, forehead and neck. Miss Sarah E. llaymond has been for the past nine years the superintendent of the public schools of Bloomington, 111. She graduated at the Illinois Normal University in 18G6,and has been engaged in schoolwork ever sincc. As a teacher, she passed through all the grades of the Hloominglon schools from the lowest primary to the principal of the High school., American Fables. A Pair of Lions, who were traveling across the country in search of Food, came upon a Man who had fallen Asleep in the Grateful Shade ot a Tree. One of the Lions observed that the Hunter was probably an Artist. "I beg to Differ with you,replied the other. "He is doubtless a Poet." "I say Artist!" ' I say Poet!" "You must be Dlind!" "And I know you are Idiotic!" "You Lie!" "So do you!" And they Hushed upon each other and Administered many Grievous Bites. The sounds of combat Awoke the Man and Warned him to Skip. Moral: "I never Question the Color of a Hen," said a Fox who Witnessed the Quarrel, "being more than Thankful to get the Meat." The Crows, having Discovered a Field which a Peasant had Flatted with Cora Descended upon it iu Such Number' that every hill was at length opened and every Grain Devoured. When Autumn o ffPAnfr DnnrtVi of fnnrl I I/UIIIU IUCIU ? ??0 U pivuw V* and a Delegation of Crows went to a Haven to Securc his Opinion and Advice. "My Opinion, Gentlemen," said the Raven, "is that if you hadn't Devoured the Spring Seed you would have plenty to eat of the Autumn Crop, and my Advice is for you to get your Stomachs in trim lor Shrinkage." Moral: He who takes no heed of the morrow must Expect Disaster.?Detroit Free Prm. In the Herat Valley. Villages in the Herat Valley are carefully protected by a mud-wall inclosurc, often strengthened by bricks, with a line of defences in addition, and a inudbuilt fort, tower-shaped and loop-holed, where the chief of the village usually dwells. The principal houses arc domeshaped, and surrounded by Hat roofed buildings for the animals. A low opening admits to the inclosure, too low in uuuu iw a*iu? a liuui tvs ou buuu vuu horses are led out lo be mounted. The animals are sometimes housed on the ground floor and their owners above, but generally beasts and their masters inhabit separate dwellings. TheHeratis. arc very hospitable, and when inviting i the geologist attached to the British commission to visit one of their villages, they began to break down the wall at. the opening, that their guest might enter mounted. They are much less" reticent end solemn than the pure Afghans, with merrier expressions of countenance and more cxhubcrant spirits. The Ilcrati horseman is a rollicking free-lance, a gallant sportsman, and particularly fond of boar hunting. The Turkestan boars arc splendid animals, and at a short distance look as big as the country black cattle; while they are so bold as to enter the encampments by night, in spite of the lights. One breed of boar in the Khosk 'Valley is said to have two humps.?JS'ew York Kctnimf Post. llcmarknblfi Grottoes. The Fish Kivcr caves, near Sydney, in Australia, are among the most remarkable limestone grottoes in the world, and take rank with the Mammouth cave in Kentucky, and the Luray cavern in Virginia. The Fish lUver caves, which j hav? herm reccntlv exnlored. are remark able for a kind of filigree glass-work and stalactic drapery, which bangs like arras from the walls and roofs. In one part of Ihe cave a pond of elcar water was found, "its bottom glistening with pearls and other concretionary forms like nodules, marbles, birds' cg^s, etc., interspersed witli patches of diminutive coral forms." In the Shawl cave there arc curtains from ten to twenty feet long, some nearly white, others striped with pink, yellow and brown. A fresh erotto has also been discovered quite recently at Dargali, in Sardinia. The grotto commeuces with a iarge hall with" sixteen columns rising from the alabaster tloor, and apparently sustaining the pure white roof, which is wreathed and festooned with flowers and figures of animals in limestone. The most wonderful tiling in the hall was, however, the petrified skeleton of a majestic stag, which was partly destroyed by visitors, and the spine of which has been sfnt entire to a professor of natural history in Cagliari. The grotto consists of six other large chambers full of natural curiosities. ; " ' " '-"r . ' ' Mjmmmmmmmammmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm WIT FOR WARM WEATHER. HTTMOBO0S SKETCHES THAT WILL BSPAT PEBUSAL. An AnlNExpIoslvc? Wanted to be Iteiulnded-Couldn't TIake It Out ?Slie Wan Mad, Etc. "So you say if I put a teaspoonful of (his powder in a gallon of kerosene it won't explode," said Colonel Witberspoon to the peddler of ttc Anti-explosion Powder. "It's just as I tell vou, sir. You put the powder in it and you can't make the kerosene explode. You can stick a lighted match in it and it don't explode." " Very well, now I put the powder in this kerosene can, I'll just drop this lighted match into it." The peddler recoiled with horror and with a voicc that was heard on the next block, yelled:? "Quit that foolishness, will you! Do you want to blow us all to the dickens.? Sifting*. Wmiie t to be Itcininde ?. A man had a story about a gun, which he delivered himself of upon all occasions. At a dinner party, the other evening, he writhed in his chair for over an hour waiting for a chp.nce to introduce his slorv, but no opportunity presented itself. Finally lie slipped a coin into the ' - . liana 01 a wauer miu wuisiwh-u. "When you lci ve the room again slam the door." The waiter slammed the door as directed, and the man sprang to his feet with the exclamation: "What's th;it noise?a gun?" "Xo, no," resumed his host, "it was only the door." "Ah, I see. "Well, speaking of guns, reminds me of a little story," etc.? Drake's Magazine. Couldn't -Tlako it Out. The proprietor of a tannery having erected a building on the main street for the sale of his leather, the purchase of hides, etc., begun to consider what kind of a sign would be most attractive. At last what bethought a happy idea struck him. lie bored an auger-hole through the door-post and stuck a calf's tail into it, with the bushy end Haunting out. After a while he noticed a grave-looking person standing near the door, with spectacles on,gaziDgiDtently at the sign. So long did he gaze that finally the tanner stepped out and addressed the individual: "Good morning!" "Morning," replied the man, without mnvincr his fives from the sicn. ' uv * ***& ?? ~j ? ? - u "Yo? want to buy leather?"?"No." ' Want to sell hidea?"?"No." "Are you a farmer?"?"No." "Are you a merchant?"?"No." "Lawyer?"?"No." "Doctor?"?"No." "Minister?"?"No." "What in the deuce are you?"?"I'm a philosopher. I've been standing here half an hour trying to decide how that calf got through that augur-hole, and for the life of me, I can't m;<kcit out!" She Was ITInd. As a lady opened the door of a San Francisco residence to a ring, a neatlydressed individual bowed politely and inserted one foot in the doorway far enough to guarantee that proceedings would not be brought to too summary a close. The lady concluded that he was an agent and remarked in vigorous tones, "I don't want anything!" at the same time giving undeniable indications tliat she desired to shut the door. "I beg your pardon, madam, I am not I ofTciing you anything," said he, with an I injured and dignified air. "Pray excuse me," sne answereu, my mistake arose from the fact that I have been greatly annoyed by agents. Whom did you wish to see'?" Without noticing her inquiry he said: "Madam, it is difficult to reconcile your reception of inc with what a gentleman would naturally expect at the hands of a lady. Such bnisrjueness is chilling to refined and sensitive natures, accustomed to the usages of polite society." Again apologizing, she was about to ask him in. when he drew from his coat pocket a little box and opening it, explained: "Madam. I have for sale here an invaluable?" The feat of extracting his foot from that doorway before the door slammed with a noise that could be heard two blocks, so distracted his attention that j he left the sentence uncompleted. Wliy He \Va? Frightened. Among the disagreeables of a hotel man's life are his encounters with the professional beat. Not long ago there nourished in New York one of this genius, who had so persistently worked the hotels and restaurants that his features were familiar to all the clerks and proprietors. Ilis appearancc became the signal for a prompt and forcible ejection. Chance favored him one day, and as he passed one of the up town restaurants lie observed anew man at the cashier's desk. Assuming a lordly air, he walked in, seated himself at one of the tables, and ordered a sumptuous repast; This he consumed with great relish, aiding the proccss with a copious supply of the best wines on the list. Summoning the waiter, he was helped on with his coat. and affectingnn absentminded mood started for the door, disappointing the waiter of the generous fee which might be cvpectcd from so lavish a diner. As the bent nearcd the door ho was surprised to see the proprietor? an oft-swiudlcd acquaintance? seated at the cashier's desk. The beat sauntered leisurely up to the desk with his lingers in his vest pockets as though feeling for his money. A look of despair came over his face. "By Jove, old man, he said, "do you know I've come away from home without a cent! I changed my vest and left my roll on my bureau. Deuced awkward, you know, but I'll stop in on my way down in the morning and make it all right." "Not much you don't," replied the proprietor, producing a large and potent revolver from beneath the counter. "You'll settle before you leave the premises." The beat turned pale as he looked down the muzzle of the revolver. He gasped and shook with terror, but of a sudden regained his composure and a J smile played over his features, j "My dear fellow," said lie, "you j frightened me for a moment. 1 thought that was stomach-pump." i How Vaccination Works. I Professor Tyndall says iu Popular Pcicncc Monthly: Pasteur had little difficulty in establishing the parasitic origin of j fowl-cholera; indeed, the parasite had been observed by others before him. | 15ut, by his successive cultivations, he i rendered the solution sure, llis next step will remain forever memorable in the history of medicine. I allude to what he calls "virus attenuation." And here it may be well to throw out a few remarks in advance. When a trie, or a ] bundle of wheat or barley straw, is j burned, ii certain amount of mineral j matter remains in the ashes?extremely j smdl iu comparison with the bulk of the i tree or of the straw, but absolutely esi scntial to its growth. In a soil lacking, j or exhausted of, the necessary mineral | constituents, the tree cannot live, the | crop cannot grow. Now, contngia are ! living things, which demand certain clc: nients of life just as inexorably as trees, j or wheat, or barley; and it is not difli| cult to sec that a crop of a given i parasite may so far use up a constituent existing in small (piantitics in the body, ] but essential to the growth of the parasite, as to render the body unlit for the production of a second crop. The soil I is exhausted, and, until the lost constitI uent is restored, the body is protected j from any further attack of the same disorder. Such an explanation of non-rcj current diseases naturally presents itself to a thorough believer in the germ I theorv. and such was the solution which, in reply lo .1 question, I ventured to offer nearly fifteen years ago to an eminent Londou physician. To exhaust a soil, however, a parasite less vigorous and dc structive than the really virulent one may suffice; and, if, after having by means of a feebler organism exhausted the soil, without fatal result, the most highly virulent parasite be introduced into tho system, it will prove powerless. This, in the language .of the germ theory, is the whole secret of vaccination. In London they arc having flower wedI dings, which nieaps that the bridesmaids ! are dressed in gowns made to represent some flower. * A daflodil dress, for instance, is made of deep yellow. Tho satin skirt is quilted like the outer leaf of a daflodil. The bodice and polonaise are of surah of a lemon color, like the hearts of the daffodil. Yellow stockings and shoes and gloves of lemon hue are I worn with this dress. I Man is like a potato--never sure when i he will get "into hot water." - _ /. _ WISE WORDS. j Give freely to him that deaerveth well, and asketh nothing; and that is a way of giving to thyself. We may make angels of our own tender and kind and loving thoughts and feelings by letting them fly to others. Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. So many women are now doing the work formerly done by men that the male sex is being driven into matrimony as a means of support. Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments aro generally the most difficult to rightly know and understand. Nothing is so great an instance of ill maimers as flattery. If you flatter all the company you please none. If you flatter only one or two you affront the rest. Good health is catching, and all are benefited by contact wfth healthy people. Ill health is also catching, and the most henltby person is depressed by contact with the sick. Joy is a prize unbought, and is freeist, purest in its flow when it comes unsought. No getting into heaven as a place will compass it. You must carry it with you else it is not there. You must have it in you as the music of a well-ordered soul, the tire ot a noiy purpose, the welling up, out of the central depths, of eternal springs that iiidc their waters there. " Fire Strange Sights. In the heart of "Wyoming Territory is a mountain of solid hematite iron, with COO feet of it above the ground, more than a mile wide, and over two miles in length: a bed of lignite coal big enough to warm the world for centuries; eight lakes of solid soda, one of them over GOO acres in extent and not less than thirty feet in depth, and a petroleum basin which contains more oil than Pennsylvania and 'West Virginia combined, from which in places the oil is oozing in natural wells at the rate of two barrels a day. Trees were found in Africa which were computed to be 5,150 years old, and a cypress in Mexico i3 said to have rcached a still greater age. The oldest tree, if not the oldest living thing upon the globe, is the cypress of Santa Maria del Tulc in the Mexican state of Voxaca. The lifo of this venerable forest monarch has spanned the whole of written history. At last accounts it was still growing, and in 1851, when Humboldt saw it, it measured forty-two feet in diameter, 126 feet in circumference, and 882 leet between the extremities of two branches. Suppose wo have a balancc gigantic nough for the purpose, and the eun is ' resting on one of the scales. Now put 1 - * " ? tne eartn in tne opposite siuu vi vuv suuic. You might as well weigh your head against one of the towers of tho East River bridge. Piie * hundred thousand earths into the balance, and the sun does not stir. There lies the colosus immovable. Bat get together another hundred thousand, and then another hundred thousand, and stack them up in the pan against the sun. Three hundred thousand worlds piled up on one side of the balance and still the sun keeps them up. It would take 30,000 more or 330,000 earths to make the beam even against a single sun. A strange sight was presented in the streets of Tupcou, A. T., one day recently. A woman appeared carrying a child's empty coffin on her shoulder, followed by a lot of little girls. Later the scene was reversed and the coffin was borno by four little girls, followed by several women. It is no uncommon sight to sec a coffin borne to the grayc on the shoulders of a man, but a woman rendering the service was a novel spectacle. An ancient burying grouud was recently unearthed in Paris while digging I - A?..I)i?n CitlnnrlA Th/? pnffin.Q <1 truuui ill LliU MliU uiliiwiuu. *i?v vw.UM? of stone and plaster found there have been traced to the seventh, eighth and ninth centuries. They were pointed to the East, and had crosses inscribed on a circle, symbolical of eternity, and other emblems of Christianity. The coffins were found filled with dirt, their covers having given way. The Groundwork of Dyspepsia. I say it without much fear of contra diction, that a very large amount of dyspepsia from which, as a nation, we suffer so much, is attributable to the bad cooking of the food that is placed on our tables. It matters little to my argument who the cook is?mistress or servant, wife, or daughter, or mother? there is the food, and?yonder is the dyspepsia. And what evils are they, I wonder, that dyspepsia will not give rise to or leafl to? It would bo easier far, methinks, to answer that question, than to recount all the diseases," the troubles and sorrows that indigestion does induce. And how is this to bo altered? Where arc we to look for reform in diet and cookery? The labor oi reforming a nation's cuisine is one from which a Hercules might shrink. You and I, reader, may write on this subject till fingers cramp, back aches, and brain grows giddy; we may preach till we are hoarse and aphonic, and yet do no apparent good. But when wo have retired disheartened from the arena,probably there will recur to us the old truism?example is better than precept; and we will forthwith proceed to effect some change for the better at our own fireside. For reform in diet and cookery, it seems to me, is like charity, in that it should begin at home. The greatest foe that reform of this kind has to fight is fashion. And another enemy is tradition; ways and iilans of cooking and serving meals lave been handed down to us, and we are loth to give them up, even for those that our judgment tells us are better. As a rule, that has few exceptions, most people in the matter of eating just jog along day after day in the same old style, until perhaps some form of dyspepsia warns them that everything is not right in their method of livi::g; that they either cat too much or drink too much?I'm not referring to stimulants? that the food is served in bad style or at wrong times of the day, that dinner and supper arc too late, and that in consequence, breakfast is a mere passover. It may be the liver tbat gives the first signal that mischief is brewing: it may be the brain, -as evinced by irritability, nervousness, perturbed sleep; it may be the stomach itself, as proved by slowLess of digestion or acidity, or both; or it may be the blood, which is invariably poisoned and clogged by ever-eating.? - I Family Doctor, in Camll. Wild Game in Afghanistan. In the valley of the Ivushk Kud we saw deer of various kinds, wild boar, and the gooikal, or wild ass. A large drove of them passed our line of march one morninir, but we saw little of them cxccpt the great cloiul of dust they turned up as they hurried off to higher ground. I understand that there is little difference between the goorkal and the kyang, or wild horse of Tibet. Marmots are also very plentiful, they have burrowed their holes into the ground everywhere, and it is dangerous to horses, as their feet sink into the honeycombed earth. These marmots may be said to be now the real possessors of the land, for there is scarce a yard of it which is not occupied by them. Partridges are also in considerable numbers, and iu the Ivushk valley some of our party found pheasants plentiful, and wild pigs are still more numerous there than on the higher ground. There arc large spaces on the side of the stream covered with tall reeds, and the pigs find cover in them. One morning on the march I saw a drove of about thirty pigs led by a large boar, walking up the side of the hill. They had been disturbed by the baggage animals passing. They went up the hillside, and about half a mile to the north they descended again into another bed of reeds. They came down iu Indian lilc, forming a long straight line, led still by the boar, and as thev descended their speed became - >! 1 greater, till nicy uisu|>|>u?ri:<i m iw reeds. While!watching the drove us it cnine down hill, it was impossible not to recall an event described in the Gospel of St. Mark. The boars are ferocious, as some of our party found who had attacked them, and were attacked in return, and not having the right kind of pig sticking spurs, flight was deemed necessary. Not being able to deal with the boars has in some instances interfered with the pheasant shooting, for it would be awkward to be caught by one of these huge tuskers in a jungle of tall reeds with only a fowling piece in your hand.?London Teleyraph. The Russian hat has a high peaked crown and a wide, rolling brim cut open at the front und baok. The points thus made are faced with velvet and a handsome aigrette of flowers or feathers falls gracefully over them At the front for. garniture. : Glaas Eyes. "We sail several hundred eyes a , year," said a dealer, on North'Sixth street, 'Philadelphia, lately, "and send them as far as Portlaud, Ore., Denver, Col., nnd Lawrence, Kan. It is a growing business, and it would aupriso you to know who some of my customers are. Eyesight is easily lost?a blow, on accident, a severe cold even, may destroy the nerve, and then tho surgeon removes the ball and I fit the counterfeit. I don't manufacture these glass imitations, but import exclusively. American eyes are made, and sell at the same figure as foreign ones, but they are not as fine, by any means. Tho most perfect eyes arc made in Thuringia, Germany, and have a more natural appearance than auy others. Tho iris is covered with silver and the blood-vessels with gold, and, when properly inI serted, they will move almost as readily as their natural companion. Of course, much depends upon the condition of the socket, and the state of muscles as left by the surgeon. "Our greatest trouble is the matching of eyes. The slightest difference in tint is very appreciable, and, when you remember that no two persons' eyes are alike, you can imagine tho difficulty wo often have. Ilcre is an eye belonging to an eld gentleman in Germantown. It is a special eye, aud is left here as a sample - - - - - nr by which he can order new ones. iuu see, eyes wear out, their life being about a year or a little over, though occasionally I see one which has lasted a much longer time. One gentleman, who w8s hero this morning, had worn hia eye for five years, both night and day. The Bait and alkaline solutions of the tear-ducts, however, have an effect on the surface of the glass, and eventually roughen it, so that a new eye is nccessary. One of my customers, a lady, renews her eye about every six months; here's her last one? you can see how rough its surface is, and how Its colors are dimmed. "It iB quite an operation,1' the dealer went on, "to properly Belect and fit an eye, but when once you have succeeded the ownor suffers do pain or inconvenience. Last month a gentleman came to me for a left eye. I fitted him up,and then was astonished to be soundly berated bccause he could not see through it. lie bad an idea that my glass imitation was going to restore life to his destroyed optic nerve, and he told me that he had been thus informed by his doctor. You see this eye?that belongs to a young lady on Broad street, and 1 have no doubt that it has often gazed tenderly into the orb3 of many a young gentleman. There is some expression even in glass eyes. There is a blue one ?that goes to a lady in Iowa. I'll venture the assertion, that in a week some young man will be peering into its depths and mentally believing that he is reading the soul of the fair owner. She is pretty, and lost her eye through a premature explosion in one of her father's mines."?Philadelphia Frets. A Japanese Invitation. An invitation to dinner among the middle-upper classes of Japan frequently commences about as follows: "I beg pardon for thus insulting you in begging your company at mynouseto dinner. ' The house is small and very dirty. Our habits are rude, and you may not get anything fit to eat; and yet I hope that you will condesccnd to bo present with us at C o'clock on the 9th of December." On arriving at at the house you find it spotlessly clean, tasty in arrangement, and the bost and hostess affable. The bill of faro consists of ten or fifteen courses, the best the market can afford. All the self-hnmiliation of the host is the method adopted to do you honor. The making of orange wino is proving a successful business' on the Pncific coast. . Worse Than Firearms. The editor of an Omaha paper, in commenting on several eases in tbnt city where children died from the effects of taking cough syrup containing morphia, remarks that opiates, poisons and narcotics are more dangerous than firearms. Mothers should note this and furthermore that different Boards r?f Health, nfter making careful analyses have certified that the only purely vegetable preparation of this kind, and one that is in every way harmless, prompt and effect ivo, is Red Star Cough Cure. Mayor-Latrobe, of Baltimore, and the Commissioner of Health, have publicly endorsed this valuable discovery. A tortoise has been known to live to the age of 107 years. 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Hoi* Thront, lloaneneu, Influrnta, ColdtTlironc-hltl*, Croup, Whooping Couch, Aithma, Qulnnr, I'nln* In Cheat, ami otlier . ?fT?ctloin of tin Throat ?nd Lung*. Pltea CO Ckkts a Botti.x. at Divooim mo DuLttt TUE IHABLE8 A. VOUKLKK COSFAMY, Baltimore, IirjlHl, U. 8. MEN WANTED! To nl] tnt-dua Frntt aad Oraur.rntal Trwn Shruba, Boeoa. (ir?re Vinesasd small Knrita. Per nfTirnt eaiplormmt on the mo* farorible terns Addrenf. HL Snagiga, IHnrriUe. N.Y EASY CHILD-DIRT Mend. Couplnd with thl* entr?ntr { I ||CC will add that durlna a Ions otetrtrfeiil I UOC firnctlco(M yearn) I have never known It Lmw o fall to produce a rnife, quick deliver}', k k m i H. J. HOLMES, M. D., Atlanta, Oa. H fl I Treatlae on "Woman" mailed free. nil I BRADFIUJ) RMULATOR CO., Atlanta | B E I For talc tur ali DructtUU 11 ' 3|(in stamps) seen the information book enables yon life, la not that e; new Horae for a q' stamps and ftt < Book, ffivingr infoi owners of horses them when Siok when Well. Villc r Tlill iTlim Ntw York H UIOVABD 8 1 Beeeon's Aromatic Alum Bulptftrr Soap!? aed to prevent, cure and heal nan dtMMefc and to secure a white, soft and beautiful' complexion. 25 cents by Druggists or by mail. Dreydoppcl, Philadelphia, Fa., i^an'fr. "Bncha PaJb*." Quick,complete euro, all Kidney; Bidder , end Urinary Diseases, Scalding,* UTitf^ion, 8tone, Gravel, Catarrh of bladder, fl. Druggists. There are in Paris 150 tradesmen who do " nothing but deal in old postage stamps. When jera visitor leavoNew York olty, urabtmn eipreseafe and <3 carriage hire, and stop at the Grand Unloirilotel. opposite Orand Oonlral depot. couelegant rooms, titted on At a cost of one nulIlM dollars, &1 and upward peraay. Earopsaa plan. El? Tator. Restaurant supplied with the beat. Horsa Oirs, stages and elovatod railroad to all dspots. Families can livo better for less roomy at ths Grand UoiM liotel than at anjr othor flrat-claM hotel la ths oHr. CnuRcn music is easy to a choir. Humors in the Blood Often manifest themselves la the spring months. Eruptions, such as hives, pimples and bolls, salt rheum, scrofula or other affections caused by Imparity or low state of the blood, aro cured by Hood's Saroaparllla. It Puriflcfl, vitalizes, and enriches the blood, and r! ves renewed strength to the whole body. Try this spring medicine and blood purifier. "I was for some time troubled with boils, having several of them at a timo. After enduring about all I could bear in suffering, I took Hood's Sarsaparilla. Four or flvo bottles entirely cured me, and I have had no symptoms of the return of the boils."?E. N. Niohtxnoalk, Quincy, Mas*. ? - * -1 ? * ?'**- *??t- w. "JLast npriDg l was irouumu wim wm. mu tles of Hood's Sarsaparllla en rod me, and I recommend It to others troubled with Affections of the blood."-J. Sceoch, Peoria, HI. J "1 suffered with bolls 5 years. Hood's Sanaparill* , cured me."?B. M. Lakz, Pittsburg, Pa. food's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. |1; six forgS. Mad* only by 0. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mess. 100 Poses One Dollar A Man's Thanks. A well known business man of Wilmington, N. C., writes to express his thanks for the benefit which his wife has derived from the use of Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "It is with pleasure," he says, "that I write to express to you my gratitude for the relief and benefit your Vegetable Compound has been to my Wife, who has been troubled with ulceration and a tumor weighing 21-2 lbs., so the doctor said. She has been under the treatment of the doctor for six years. Finally he said he could do nothing more for her, that she would die in 24 hours. Then I commenced using your Compound, as soon a? she commenced to take it she commenced getting better, and now she can attend to ner domestic affair* as well as she ever could" cream" balibOAXARSH Cleanses the Head.HrclY^H ? wsriu Biim Allays Inflanimation. Heals the Sires. Be tores the Senses ^j^^TlYER WE If Jt Taste,Saiell,Hearing./" j^SAS A POSITIVE GTTHE f -j/ JM CREAM BALMBC^j?i&M hM gained an enviable rer ^ ntation wherever known ^ Ul*?l ffiS?TA? Wffn ?v CCUCD into each nostril; no pain HAT hr | P|| agreeable to use. lift I. I fclWI rrice 60c. bv mail or at drngftlat. Send for clrcular. ELY BUOTHER8, PruggUto. Owego. K. T. Not only to [Up sufferer wasted by disoa'e does Ridge's Food supplement the proper medicine and brin* oaoS strength and comfort, but tho delicate mother will Una in its daily use jost what in needed to oheck and supplement the drain made upon nature's forces. Try it, mothera, and bJ convinced. Recipes to snit different tastes accompany each can. A Skin of Beauty (a a Joy Foravar. DE. T. FELIX GOTTEATTD'S mm eppiu m MARTHAT. mwu | VtUWIiOU V4MiSm?j VH NHVfVHM mwmmmw ? . .leasee, and ?. S?ew5* W T Jo ZflBf ery blem'ih on O My bMa^y,?ndd?. A. Sayre atld to a lady of the Htnrf fo? (a paiUmt): "Jt you ladiei uill mi (Aem, /r?row>m?nd 'OovratnTi Crtam' at tht laail harmful of all th* Skin prepara'ionrOn* hottlewill last six month*. a ting it every d?r. Also Poudr? Subtile remove* mperfluoaj hair witnoot In. ipry to ttie ikln. Mmc. M. B. T. OOURAUD, Sol* rrop., 48 Bon1 St.. N. T. For tale by all Druggist* and Fani*r Goods Daalera throughout the U. 8., Canada* and Europe. IVBewarn of BaseImitatioes. 81,000 R*ward for arreet and proof of any one aelllog the aaSna. VIBRATING TIXEPHOM.. Gives splendid satisfaction. No cxorblunt rental fee to pa*?Sold outright ok and juarantttd to work nicely on lines w J^v7l within lu compass (a mile*), or money MUSS refunded. Constructed oa new and BIh scientific principles; works entirely by vibration. Two or three months' rental fee to the Dell Telephone will buy HM outright a complete private line. It Is "" oaiy PRACTICAL and H.BLIYSff ABLS nonelectric Telephone made. Iff/ and warranted to give satisfaction. t f| I monty rt/undtd. AGENTS can I make Immense profit* and gat all the RHMVa*l wort they can do. No previous experience required. Where Ihave no agent* Telephones may be ordered direct for private use. Circulars tree. H. T. J0HW901T, . _ _ 103 8. Dlviaion St., Buffalo, W. T. BOOK AGENTS WANTED M PLATFORM ECHOES rUTIUft TRUTHS far Ilea* aad Heart. 5owmUTJsS^JohnB. Gough Mialateraaay "Oodtpetd it." Every onolanfha aad eriMorw It Tern of ihoaaaodi are waltloi for it, and A genu nil 10 to tO a day. 010 nam. til tnlendld Enrravinr". Introduction t>7 Ker. LYMAN ABBOTT, IK D. lOOO am Acuta wanted on Very ffptcial Termi. Send for ClicoUra. ?te_ to A. P. WOttTMlKBTON Ji CO- Hartfard. C??. f!l ||TCWF"EEiM^'~?" ULUI CIV ' ? BRA N Portation. Send For DyspcpalB, Dripnil for circular. imbete* Ner. ? or Farwell&Rhines vons Debility and KlarchK?!? Proprietor;, and Children'!. flpm W?t?rtownr N, Y. Food. New UOlU | Al | Q LF PAGE'S LIQUID GLUE jan IfawdbrthoonodfoffltitelAMHusfaetnrm and Mecnanlca oa their beet work. Becclvtd ^MrJrS"l GOLD MEDALLondon.'KJ. Pronounced rtrmfvrf OVER I dutbmtn. Send card ofdealrrwhortoea not keep lltnOI It,with five Icitampa for SAMPLE CAN CQCt 'htqIII fiaaiaCmtCtLIGlooeajerllh& tp??QS^ _ _ ATT RIG.H^ lftjrt^?rcvtT??''lSelf.Feed STRAW <fc ?*J HAY CUTTER. The best in the world. Knife la Pteel. tempered, and faiteaed 1 f I t? lerer with three bolta; H can be eail| I I ir taken off to tharpen. Length of cm I I I l< regulated t?y lever to which knife la I I r holiisi. The higher lever ! raited the X A r It can. AH warranted. IUu?^^ rtratM elretihr malle-1 KRKK. LIU NEWARK MACHINE CO., C?ianDi% u* 1 "^Jti Kutfre Driifh How, UiftrtLowa, Xd, j8&(k all imperfections Urr^tfA of ,he 'aM, Hands & Feet, Superfluous TvXr Ifnlr, Moles, 1Varl*, Freckles, Sloth. Bed JBSTL ? Nose. Acne, Hl'k Heads, Sears, I'ltUnj? fc) and treatment. Dr.Jolin Woodbury, i*^rT^ifr>37 N. I'earl St., Albany, N. Y* ^ ' Established 1H70. Send lUc. for book. Blflie* Instruction Hook on art of making Mil Wf Paper Flowers and Tissue Paper 111! WW Fancy Work for home decorations. Tissues and Flower Materials sold.flPAnU I1l,ok .md price list mailed, lUrU. READY ^ l4th IflftDEiaSMC Ch,ora1 and ifl U n r n I If Eopium Habits EASILY CURED. BOOK FREE. DR. J. C. HOFFMAN, Jefferson, Wisconsin. #h^F A MONTH K Bnk ?IuITip?ni!5Tp?!inu!^ftI*^5r?ont^?n RBI m mM our (PiHt.lt, No uplltl required. B?l*ryp?icl monthly. Eip*n?ei In Hilvancfl. Full p*rticuimnFBKR. We m'?n wh?t w? uj. Standard Silver TVaro Co.. Washington St., Boston, Maas. VfMDI AVMFIIT rOCALorTrtnltaa I m? LUI III CI1 I State wilek prrfemX U<* CO, <M dMITO fJL, CludUDMtX <K DImSm'a DSIL Great English Gout and Dlall S lUiSa Rheumatic Remedy. Oval Box,Sl.(K); round, 50 ct*. KIPPERS PACTIUE&SSS: VABH EM A HIE HO It ST CASKS of U|| L V I chin? or Bleeding P.le? can he gf^ m B i^a_ cor vl speedilyandec^nomically. II HUES w| Fur particulars ail ir.'M K. A. HA.MPBKLl.. C'uioxa. Wkkve N. V. THURSTON'S KTOOTHPOffllEfi Keeping Teeth frrfect and t.uim Healthy. JAA SAI.liS.1IKN WANTKI). Good W?,-? 11111 Steady W. rk. Addrois .1. AUSTIN t v V SllA\Vt Nnrweryimtm RoohwtT. N-Y. PATCH I Elegant packages of Hilkaanrt 8atlna r.??,rli? nent for 25c. Embroidery Silk*, 10c. WORK. I <lo7.. A.O. BASSLTT.Kocheater. W.Y. H This Invaluable preparation la truly a triumph of scientific skill, and no more Inestimable boon was ever bestowed upon the mothers of the world, f yit not only shortens the time of labor on,i iniu>n< the Intensity of naln. but. better than all. It prenf 1? dlmlnl?he? the danger to ?f? of both I mother and child. I most earnestly entreat crerj > I female expectlnfc to be confined to u?e Mothera 3THERS FRIEND." E for 25c. is ridiculous; but It derived from a S5c to save your Horse'sMMi^JHSEggSg [ual to purchasing1 uarter ? Ssnd 28c. IsHB^l )ur 100-page HorseHj^&a^^ mation Invaluable tc[^HHH|^A ; tells how to Cure^^^^^^^^^ . and Oare for them id with Information. orse Book Co., TIUT, *. Y. OXTX | A'DsiafCTOni CH& BocHVtsx, June L1881 "Tm Tears ago I was attacked with tl? mask Inten* and deathly pain# in my back and ?Kidntyt. "Extending to the end at my tow tin to my brain! ''Which made ma delirious 1 jS "From agony. * "It tookthree men to hold me on attimee! '?$. "The doctor? triad in Tain to rslisvs ma, * a but to no purpose. *3 Morphine and other op lata I "Had no effect! . -'After two months I waa given up to tJ die! -Si "When my wife heard a neighbor tell what Hop Bitters had done for her, she at once got and gave ma . *-a acme. The first dose eased my brain and seemed to go hunting through my system for . > the pain. ' - .<-3 Tne second dose easad me so much that X . v'ri slept two hours, something I had not dona for two months.' Before had used five bot- _/ 'y, ties, I was well and at work as hard as any man could, for over three weeks; bat I SB worked too hard for my strength, and taking ,stj a hard cold. I was taken with the most acute * ;<? and painful rheumatism all through my sys> r'gm tem that ever was known. "I called the doctors again and after sbt- v-i eral weeks, they left me a cripple oU crutches ;'3& tor life, as they said I met a friend and told' him my case,and he said Hop Bitten bad curfd him and would cure me. 1 poohed at him, r' -?Z but he was so earnest I was induced to osa them again. In less than four weeks I threw away my cratches and went to work lightly and kepi on using the bitters for five weeks, until X >. became as woll as any man living; and have been so for six years since. It has also cared my wife, who has bean ' sick for years; and has kept her and my -uiu n ?a wfa, fmm two to JS| WUUUICU ncu MM UWMWI ? ^ three bottles per year. There Is no need to be sick at all if these bitters are used. J.. J. Berk. Ex-Supervisor. "That poor invalid wife, "Sister I "Mother! ( "Or daughter! j > "Can be made the picture of health! ' "With a few bottles of Hop Bitten t "Will you let them tufferf" tyNcme gennine withoot a bond: of grew hops on the white labeL Shun all the rila, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or Hops" in their .<'/ name. . ' ; Jg ?Y? U?18 . . ' :':M Pertinent Facts for AIL Aa Angaata (Ga.) ?J*bt, the other dv, was a eart ./? drawn by two tame alligators. They are eold on their merita. That thay ewe I "\," B?ck. 8U tehee; Plenruj, KHnsy Affoctiom, Sore Cheat, Crick, BhenmaUam and strengths* the parte ? la imply proren by the testimony of thocsaada. A* .* lot a Bop Porout Platitr, So. Wind puffs np empty bUddare; opinion, -foots.? SocraUt, ( Bow la your beck? Doaa it echaT -To all who set U far from Bsokaohe,- Eheam?ti?n, ITanraJyia. gwoJlea I Joints, or Boaolea, Lame Side or Hip, Criek,Wreneh<*. - M Kidney Tronblea, Sciatica or emeueaa in any part, the ?fl Hop Plaittr ia offered aa a oartain cure. The rliteae rt freah Ho pa with Pitch and Goxna, A woodert nJ H strengthening Porout PUuUr. 16c., or tot ft, anjr '" dealer or by mail Insist oa baring it. Hop Flaataa fl Co., 839 Waahingtoa St., Boatoo, Maaa. fl { tart year $8*7,000 worth of chewing fa was eold i* * | | he United States. yi*jl I The household remedy, Bop Area* Haittra far . }' ;V 'b.im b.mmm Btitehe*. Oriak. Lamenesaor Soreasa In any put. Mafia In actioa. J5o. Sheep placed on Key West Uland lees tbstr wool 1a . . f. ^' the second year, ^ Sotinlikeallothers,afterualngthe Bop FertmrU* trr you will hire do other kla'l They are data, neat, possess real merit tod oarer fail. Om!? Mi?a> . ' drugstore. f m, Itit nid that alcohol equal to that mad* fraa grata can be procured from acorn*.. r > 3j? When jon put a ITop Ffoifcr over any kind of pate ^ there ia no doabt of a con. One New York Snn hsndled 250,000 bushels of pear mtalastyear. The beet external remedy for local or deep Mated . ;-y' pains, Rheumatism, Sciatica and Backache: the Hoproroiu Platter. Fresh Hops, Fitch and Gum ootabinrd. Powerful pain-killer and strengthened Mo. Ererywtjere. A cue of sugiosl Instruments was lately food si : Pompeii. A promised relief is offered in the Bop Ptrom* PUMtr . t > 'A for Backache, Rheumatism, Lame Side or Hip,Kid. .. nej troobles or Pain in any part. Clean aad<tnick in action. Sold by druggists. 36c., or If or $1. ' y Hen fear old *ge withoat being sore of reaching 1L? ' ha Bruftri, . . Vv * A (entleman said: "I am a walking adreitHeeeal -jjv lot your Hop Porout Pladtr, It cared mj backache o( long standing when everything else failed,tt to., tl all druggists- * . Mommies are the only wsll-behaTed persons who am now left in Egypt, ?vi._ Utaoaands of Hw . ~ ?dj duj a uouuviui -11-w? ? ?? England people say the /Top PlatUr is .the slininsl . >../ & snd best poroas plaster made. Be. The mean eleratioe of Colorado U higher than thai . . of an? other State or Ttrritory, She had pain In tbe small of her back and jrse caretf by a Bop Porout Platter. . V-v;^ - ' . ' Three thousand fire hand red pounds of whiUbone . have been obtained from one whale. A gnat many people suffer with soreosss is the obest. a Bop PUuUr applied will com the pain aad nreng t he a the longl. Caat Inn transmit* aocmd about fifteen time* mare quickly than air. Troth in a few words: The Bop Jfesfsr it the ;* strongest and beat poroaa piaster. -1 Mind unemployed Is mind onenjoyed.I You know the power of Hope in cases of pains, sches and nerrona weaknetaf Well, the Hop Purom PiatUr contains all the *irtnee of freah Hope onitel with Onm ' -U and Pitch. Clean, tidy and ready to apply. 33c. . Oorlifeia but the twinkle of a star ' ,'.-j In God's eternal daf.?Bayard Taylor, Our family insists on baring your Hop MatUn at g ways on hand." For sadden pains, w?itniw( aad ;^j soreness, nothing approachea them in valoo. V-] All other Roods by Fortune's haad are gives. . 'J A wife is the peculiar sift of Heaven, /^vS Tbe Hop Porout Platttr kills pain, strengthens the ' ' '%] parte and bnilda op new tiasnee and does it quickly, j too. He. Druggists. '. The ancient ell, a measure, was the length, of the am of Henry L * VgSS Liniments and lotions are dirty things to apply aad .' .j their effect ia only for a moment. Apply a JTep Areas Platttr, Clean, sweet and moet hearty in action. 36c. j What is the nee of suffering with Backache, Pais ia J tbe Side or Hip, Sciatica. Rheumatism, Kidney Dia> -1 eases. Crick, Stitches, 8trollm and tiled Muscles, I Chest and Lung troables, or any sort of paia or sore . j ness, either local ordeep?eated, when a Hop FlaetW I will give instant relief? Prepared from Burgundy I Pitch. C?nmd?Bilwm,?na ue pun-?.u? ----Hop#. The b?rt ttwofthwin* Pa?Ur Thousands ??y Sold ceipt of prioa, J3c.; 8 for HOP PLA8TKK COMPANY, Boetoo, Mm. - " fl ChutekwAole*!* ^A dMsalct of th?t due m / TO ? DATI.^H X??" ^JsJiS-za -J jHlflll fit', tmomg the leedtag M*M> T" T .. SmS?O<*I odd?. L. ^ mHE BBsrp ;j \ * J- PORTRAIT OF Gen'l U. S. GRANT, SDEMORE8T*8OMTHLY For MAY. - 20 Cemtm. W iennlnn Demoreit, Publl?h?r. 17 E. 14th St, New Yoffc Sold br til New?dttl?* *nd Po#tn:*it?r?. TO Introduce *nd eell the tgaA* 1 celebrated Gi*M?of the NEW YORK M HAVANA " CIGAR COMPANY. Liberal uryittmtnii. Aggx or Commission paid to the right mm. Fof forth** - g particulars ?nd tenns sddjyje, it once, j Tb.M.wV.>kJj|?.yJ.gigr^b _ , mhmhw LtIoC Afrntf cent 8KXZ<?adWt 9nQMMH| the truth iboul JOHM. Pot roof BMIBWiW Ilea oapeperendajcnItyoo cat*. IiIIIV'ihI U, 8. STANDARD in) $60-5 TON M jSHHSHH WAGON SCALES. S BH II B?un Box. T?r? IWm. Tr^pt IH 1*1 a? f.id. Pit* Price LI*. Erwy 8i?k UIAjIIvmiwWOTbsiihaiiw fgfiWBi^Wt bln&hamtow.H. X finNSUMPTION. I bars a potltlra remedy r?rtbaabor?dI*eua;byltS ai? thnoianileof ea??o( tlie wartt kind and of ton* ?t?odlnih?T? been cured. Imleeil, >o(trnn*limy falla In It*efficacy.th*t I will aemlTWO BOTTI.ES KR??, (octthtr with \A I.C ABI.KTUE ATISK on Ibli disss** Co anyfuffertr. GlTO#xpre?aand P. O.addrrM. OIL T. Jl. 8LOCU11,1#1 Pearl St., Jfsw York.; ft U.AWARE EggJS loHllard'a Climai Plug Vwy bearing a red tin lag; that LorlUardl Rose Leitf flue cut; that Lorillard'i Narr Clippings* and that Lorlllard's Snuffs, ars the beat and oheapcst, quality considered ? A GENTS WANTED, Gentlemen or Ladles, fo* xv "HouqhtnJing't Hand Book of XJtefvl Inform/* tion," and for "HcughtaUno't Salary Lift of United States Official*." 0ver300,000 already sold. $5 to $15 adaymtde. SamplccopiwofbooksJt terms to agents by mail, on receipt of Mo. in 1 or 2c. stamps. Stampa returned if vou do not take wency on return o. book*. Add's C. E.Hoiightallng. 70 Mad lap n At.. Albany.W-Y dtk "V a month Salary or commission) U VjC *Mst3 for THK WORLD'S WON. .1 M m 1 UEK.S. Write for full particular*. tjr 1 W HISTORICAL PUB. CO.. Phlla.. PaAlllllBfl .Morphine Ilnblt Cared In 1? BlBP|||m| to 30 dny*. No pay till cared. Ul lUlffl Da. J. Stki'hens, I?bauon, Ohio (to? Vest aid to ^d writlnr, LOne COPT 10c. 208B'dway, N. S nflonc Sampla Book,Premium List. PriceL-st is.t uNillldfrao. U.S. CARD CO.. Ortnt?rt)rojk,l3oni NervousDebility&'I^^J'^a ft? nzw > |^8h , American. Gtvtnnn. DICTIONARY. With 1232 Page*. Price 81.50. ' ClVTlON. nrJSW J I GUucticaw ?"*h POCKET-DICTIONARY; tjjJLl 624I'agw. Price $1.00. p-ftST For Sale by all Book-and Vewe* ,,, Dealer*. C^^'8; ^ TAKE NO OTHER. ^ . * 'T - '* * '* w" ' <.'T-.x.^' ::vfc/i-ae^/: