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TRADE-IN MEXICO.
SINGULAR CRAFTS PURSUED IN
THE STREETS.
BeautiAil Pottery and Jewelers' Fine
Work?Cheapness of Gold?HagBaby
Making?A Mexican
Weaver ? Trade Secrets.
Writing from Guadalajara, Mexico,
Fannie B. Ward says in the Troy Times:
Various trades are carried on in Guadalajara
with great success, particularly
rilversmithing, blacksmithing and carpentering.
Among the manufactures
those of iron, steel, glass and a peculiar
kind of pottery are celebrated all over
the republic. Indeed, the fame of
"Guadalajara potterj'' is world wide.
The queerest designs of carafes, odd
water jugs with two spouts or one, jars,
mugs, pitchers with long noses and stubby
handles, etc., made ol baked clay, highly
glazed, with black, phle gray or darkred
ground, paiuted with impossible
flowers or figures, which according to
ScriDture it would be no sin to wor
6hip, all quaint enough to rank
high in any collection of ceramics.
When new this ware imparts to the water
it contains a strange flavor, which is
CTeatly relished by Mexicans, but as much
disliked by most other people.
The gayest of serapes and the finest of
rebesos are also manufactured hereabout;
also paper and printed calico. The filigree
work of the Guadalajara jewelers
is simply wonderful, and ibay be seen
any day in every stage of progress, because
in all tropical countries, as in the
far East, the majority of work.
men follow their avocations in the open
air. The gold and silversmiths ply their
intricate trade outside their little shops,
on the street corners, anywhere, undisturbed
by the dust and confusion around
them. They make exquisite bits of orA
?~ lrns%Tvn in PAm.
nameniatioii ui mc gum nuum 1U ?
merce as Etruscan, meaning the dark,
rich, reddish-yellow variety. These
works are much more popular in Europe
than on this continent, and across the
Atlantic no collection of jewels or ornaments
is considered complete without a
set of Mexican filigree work. It is not
at all like the Fiorentine or Venetian,and
is made after an entirely different plan.
The threads of precious metal arc beaten v
to infinitesimal fineness, twelve wires of
gold twisted together making a thread
no thicker than No. 24 spool cotton. The
wires are all carefully traced on sketches
or patterns, and the delicate manner in
which each wire is soldered to the other
is one of the marvels of human skill.
From earliest days the 3Iexicans have
been adepts in this kind of workmanship,
but so behind the times are latter-day
artificers that in improvident Mexico human
labor counts for next to nothing,
and a skilled workman will toil for weeks
over a delicate toy which sells for a few
shillings.
The precious metal being here so plentiful,
because of the remarkable richness
of the surrounding sierras, ornaments of
pure gold and silver are common among
the poorest people?from great hoops in
their ears to cigarette cases in their
pockets. At every street corner are little
6tands where genuine treasures, in the
way of antique jewelry or exquisite
specimens of filigree work,may be bought
for a song. There are bracelets, necklaces,
combs, earrings, crucifixes; in
short, every imaginable device?some set
with the beautiful opals of Querelara, or
*v?orlo from thp California ffulf: or tODaz.
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amethyst, garnets or "cats'-eyes" from
other portions of Mexico.
The Guadalajaran wood-carvers are also
famed for the beauty of their workmanship.
In a hundred little shops we find
swarthy workmen patiently carving bits
of wood into wonderful rosaries, every |
bead of which shows a miniature picture
of some scriptural scene?heads which
are really perfect portraits for the tips of
canes and umbrellas, rings, boxes, cigarette
cases, buttons, etc. The cane-carvers,
who have over 200 varieties of rich
native wood to choose from, produce
some wonderful sticks; and many of the
most expensive umbrella and parasol
handles known to commerce are wrought
by these unknown and poorly paid workmen.
One has a chance to study a good
many quaint trades in this land of " The
Fair God," jealously guarded by the
Mexicans, having been handed down
through successive generations from Indian
ancestors, who practiced them centuries
before the coming of Cortez.
Among the most curious is the pottery
making, in which the native "throwers,"
or moldcrs, by a mere twist of the hand,
a turn of the wrist, or a twirl of the fingers,
form the yielding clay into the
oddest shapes.
Still more interesting is the craft of
making perfectly life-like miniature figures
out of rags?an art which has exist
ect in .Mexico at least live nunureu years.
Dickens's Jenny "Wren, the dolls1 dressmaker,
finds many a prototype in
Guadalajara, for hundreds of native
women spends their lives in making
clothes for these rag figures, in the most
accurate and particular manner possible.
The rag-figure maker is an artist in his
way, and produces perfect likenesses of
men, women and children, representing
all callings and classes in Mexico?from
ragsred lepiros to senoritas of fashion,
sandal-shod water-carriers and poultry
venders, elegantly attired caballeros or
gentlemen of leisure, nuns, priests and
servants.
Like the occidental uations, Mexico
has a manufacture of textile tabrics peculiarly
its own. The Mexican weaver of
silk and cocoa goods uses a loom resembling
nothing ever seen north of the Rio
Grande?a primitive and clumsy affair,
yet which turns out good work. As no
tw?r ic nriflirmf. itc
i??n i/? jrwij
reboso and scrape; manufacturer, one may
see 9cores of them in operation in almost
any street of Guadalajara.
One has only a chance to study the ingenuity
of the wax workers, who are
eternally fashioning fruits and jfl,owere,?'large
as life'and twice as natural." as
Mrs. Partington observed "of the stuffed
crocodile. Ask one of these dark-skinned
" workmen for an apple or an orange, and
with incrcdible rapidity he will manufacture
one which would tempt the gods
to be deceived by its exact shape and delicate
fruity bloom. It is merely a layer
of wax ovt^r forms of papier mac-lie; but
the soft substance is so deftly manipulated
and the colors so accurately applied
that one is lost in asioHisument.
Mexican gold and silver embroidery,
thread lace, "drawn'' work and intricate
needle-work also command universal admiration.
But the richest and most curious
of all is the plunutje, or feather work,
which is made only in Mexico, and nowhere
better than in Guadalajara, the
Becrct of which is known only to certain
families in which it has been preserved
for centuries. In this city, there are elegant
mansions decorated something as
were Montezuma's palaces with featherwork
the most elaborate, which is neither
tapestry nor applinue, nor is it woven
into or sown upon the foundation. There
r?? magnificent curtains also, besides
altar cloths, scarfs, hangings and othei
decorations, made of some heavy matarial,
ornamented in an indescribably
brilliant manner by leaves and foliage of
embroidery, in which birds stand out id
bold relief, because the latter are made
of the natural plumage of the birds them
selves. By some mysterious process,
known only to the artists, these real
feathers are wrought upon the stuffed
surface so naturally that the bird from
which the plumage comes is perfectly reproduced.
The same art is also exercised upon
cards, large and small, scarf-pins, hair
ornaments, etc., and the tiniest humming
birds to the tallest of the stork family an
accurately represented.
Language of Finger-Nails.
He who keeps his nails well rounded at
the tjps is a proud man.
- Nails which remain long after being
cut level with the finger ends are a sign
of generosity.
The owner of very round and smooth
nails is of a peaceable and conciliatory
disposition.
He who keeps his nails somewhat long,
round and tipped with black is a romantic
poet.
He who has white spots on his nails is
fond of the society of ladies, but is fickle
in his attachments.
If you come across a man with long
and pointed nails you may take it that
he is either a player of the guitar, a tailor,
or an attorney.
Transparent nails with light red, mark
a cheerful, gentle and amiable disposition.
Lovers with transparent nails usually
carry their pass'on to the verge of
madness.
He who has the nail of his right thumb
slightly notched is a regular glutton,
even nibbling at himself, as, when not
having eatables at hand, he falls to biting
rwxm n?Yor.nnils
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He who keeps his nails irregularly cut
is hasty and determined. Men who have
not the patience to cut their nails properly
generally come to grief; most of
them commit suicide or get married.
lie whose nails are detached from the
finger at the further extremities and
when cut showing a larger proportion of
the finger than usual, ought never to get
married, as it would be a wonder if he
were master in hisx)wn house, for short
nails betoken patience, good nature and,
above all, resignation under severe trials.
? Chicago Neias.
Beautiful Work in Ivory.
With improved methods of carving
came a more general demand for small
ivory figures which could be used as ornaments
and as a result the subjects became
more varied and less conventional.
We now have beautiful toilet articles
with carvings of flowers and arabesque
caskets of ivory worthy to inclose gems;
little statues of genre designs; birds and
grayhounds and miniature figures of humanity.
Striking groups and scenes
from life are carved out of the white substance,
and the whole inlaid with differently
colored ivory, which gives the picture
a realistic and beautiful appearance.
The more delicate of the carvings have
to be executed by a trained nana ana an
artistic eye. Many women are employed
in this work, especially in the ivory manufactories
of Europe, where they are
paid good wages for their labor. The
rougher work, such as making billiard
balls, rings for harness and ivory handles,
is done entirely by machinery, but
since the demand for fine household
ornaments has grown so steadily, a large
number of gifted women have been given
employment in the manufactories to do
the fine polishing and designing. The
ivory used is taken, not only from Africa
and Asia and the fos il mammoth of Siberia,
but also from the horns of the hippopotamus,
the tusks of the walrus and
the sword of the narwhale.
The grain of the several kinis differs
very materially, and in proportion to the
delicateness of the lines is the price paid
for it. The elephant tusk represents the
finest specimens of ivory. When the
tusks are brought into the workshop they
are cut into shapes necessary for carving
by machinery. The objects are designed
beforehand and a suitable piece is cut out
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irom me sneei at one turn 01 me wucei.
These pieces are then taken by the artists,
who design and polish them until
fashioned ready for the store. The carvers
sit at long desks facing windows of
light, and they use salt and water beneath
the touch of their fine tools. The
polishing is accomplished upon wheels or
"buffs" corercd with Canton flannel, and
there are vats of colored liquid for staining
tints. When the carving is finished
it represents exquisite work.?Mail and
Express.
Labor in Japan.
The year before last, says a writer in
the Japan Mail, I had to employ two
plasterers to repair a place in the wall of
a house where a piece of plaster of about
two feet square had fallen out. The two
artists turned up at 10 a. m., and, sitting
down upon a couple of empty wine cases,
lit their yipes. At about 10:30 a. m.,
one approached the damaged place within
a yard, took a mental photogiaph of it,
and sat down again. At 11 a. m. a mutual
friend appeared, who was warmly
welcomed, and, after smoking a pipe or
two, amused them by standing upon his
head, and by that time they haa got very
hungry, and made a pause of two hours
for tiffin. Pipes again. Then the one
who had carefullv sounded the wall
knocked another piece of plaster down.
Pipes again. By 5 p. m. they had made
the hole about three times its original
size, and were so thoroughly exhausted
that they left off. Next day astray drop
of water?wherever it may have come
from?lighted on one fellow's nose, and
made them conclude it was going to rain,
so that no work could be done in the
afternoon. Well, to cut matters short,
those two square feet of plaster, that is
river mud, cost me $3 though wages are
but forty-live cents per day.
A Clerpj rnnu's Rnse.
A good, true story, now current in
New York, tells how a yonng assistant
minister of a Fifth avenue church has
made his way rapidly into great social
fovAr Wo rlirl if hr moHnrr
tial ladies of his congregation believe
that they were responsible for the best
points in the sermons. In making a
pastoral call, and when the conversation
turned on religious topics, he would pick
out some utterance af his hostess, declare
it admirable, and promise to use on the
next Sunday. On that occasion she
would proudly hear him introduce an
embellished form of the conceit with
such aa introduction as, "One of the
brightest minds I know." or, "From a
beautiful source comes the idea."
Could she thereafter fail to pet him?
He is the lion of a hundred parlors.?
Philadelphia Times.
The pressure of fourteen tons per
square inch has been found to render soft
wood suitable as a substitute for hard
wood, as for making loom shuttles?"
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. j
1 Snails, shut in a box with air, closo
themselves in their shells, and live in a :
I cfofo for mnnths. or vears. and .
revive in water at seventy-two degrees. |
The national dish of the ancient;
Egptians was the goose, and they had
thirty kinds of bread. The common
drink was beer, and the women got tipsy
on it.
A Pennsylvania physician says that he
has patients who will relish broth made
from the English sparrow after they
have refused to take all other nourishment.
Perhaps the smallest man of his age
now living is James Hoag, of Cedar
Springs, Mich. He was born in 1815,
and was one of the smallest babies,
known, weighing only nine ounces. He
now weighs but seventy-six pounds, and
is only forty-five inches in height.
The resolution declaring the independence
of the colonies was passed July
2, 1776, and it has been thought that
this should be the date of the first national
anniversary; but the great declaration,
asserting the reasons fcr that resolution
aud the principles upon which the action
was founded, was promulgated on July 4.
On a "division of the house," which is
a method of voting in the English Parliament,
the members of the contending
parties file into the lobby, registering
oc fiiAT? mcQ nnf Wh?n the
1I&C11 tvio UO VUVJ ^/wwv
House is cleared it shows that all have
voted, and then the members return to
their seats and await the announcement
of the result.
The CoDgo method of execution is
most .revolting. Among certain tribes
the person to be executed is taken out
into the market-place, where he is buried
to his neck in the earth. His brains are
then dashed out, and a cord fastened
j around his neck to which is attached a
6tick. This is driven perpendicularly
into the body and both left there to
decay.
An old German of Salem, 111., well educated
and perfectly sane on all subjects
but one, thinks that he is continually surrounded
by witches, and wears a belt
filled with chunks of lead to prevent
them from flying away with him. He
also weights his ankles to such an extent
that it is difficult for him to walk. His
house is crowded with bottled toads, lizards
and other curious objects, which he
keeps to protect him from witches.
One of the largest men of modern times
was Samuel Murfitt, who died in England
a few weeks ago. He was six feet
one inch high and weighed 5UU pounds.
The girth of his waist was nearly ten feet,
and it took a tape-line twenty inches
long to encompass the calf of his leg. No
hearse could be found large enough to
carry his body, and it took twenty men
to lift the coffin through the window to
an open wagon. He was a native of
Wirablington, Cambridgeshire, and wa?
fifty-ti re years old.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
The good we have received from a maD
should make us bear with the ill he does
us.
It is a strange desire to sck powei
over others, and lose power over a man's
self.
Bashfulness has as little in common i
with modesty as impudence has with !
courage.
Anxiety is the poison of life, the sure
destroyer of health; parent of many sins,
and of more miseries.
In all negotiations of rti/hculty, a man
may not look to sow and reap at once,
but must prepare business, and so ripen
it by degrees.
fteal merit of any kind cannot long be
concealed; it will be discovered, and
nothing can depreciate it but a man's
M " * * ? *A ? TmAtr nlnrotro
exploiting it ninisvu. xi< mnj u\jI
be rewarded as it ought; but it will
always be known.
The weak man is he who forms many
purposes and drops one after another in
the face of difficulties. The strong is he
who forms a few purposes, but, in the
face of all opposition carries each one
through to successful issues.
Our healing is not in the storm or in
the whirlwind, it is not in monarchies, or
aristocracies, or democracies, but will be
the still, small voice that speaks to the
conscience and the heart, prompting us
to a wider and wiser humanity.
Muke thy recreation servant to thy
business, lest thou become a slave to thy
recreation. When thou goest up into the
mountain, leave this servant in the valley;
when thou goest to the city, leave him
in the suburbs, and remember the servant
must not be greater than the master.
It is not necessary or right that all
men should enjoy art, nature or music to
make them useful or honorable. When i
we go a pleasuring at least let us be i
honest, aua not pretend to a liking for
white bait, when we hunger for a good
meal of wholesome coarse bread and salt
herring.
The Importance of Hearty Breakfasts.
' 'A large proportion of intemperance
in the use of stimulants," philosophized a
* # *- * ? 4l?,.
pnysician in a iree leuiurc tu mc uuumu
ExprtfA?, "may be laid to light breakfasts
eaten by most people. Breakfast is the
most important meal of the day, and sufficient
importance is not attached to it
in the majority of households. After the
long fast enforced between supper or late
dinner and 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning a
person in good health should feel hungry,
and it is at this hour of the day that the
hearties* meal may be eaten with the least
probability of bad results. The man who
starts out in the morning after eating a
hearty breakfast will seldom, unless suffering
from chronic indigestion, experience
any of the discomforts which might
follow a similar meal at any other time of
day. The chances are he will also enjoy
a happy frame of mind all day; whatever
may be his custom he will find himself
with an excellent appetite. Eating
creates an appetite. The very opposite
results will follow the other cause in this
matter, and the man who lias not had a
good breakfast will not enjoy a good dinner.
I have treated a good many cases of
i habitual drunkenness, and in a great
many of them I have found that the evil
practice of tippling was begun to satisfy
a gnawing,faint sensation in the stomach
in the morning, which was nothing more
or less than disguised hunger."
What Killed Croquet.
Many of us remember that fifteen or
twenty years ago croquet was a pleasaut,
if not very exciting, pastime for a summer
afternoon; but when enthusiastic
players discovered that the way to Avin
the game was not to make the running of
your own hoops the first object, but
rather aim at preventing your opponent
from running his, by leaving his ball behind
a peg or wire; and when they developed
systematic methods of carrying
out these tactics, the game was at once
changed, for all ordinary people, into as
disagreeable a form of amusement as ever
was devised; aiid croquet died of scientific
play, and lawn tennis reigned in
J jts stead.?Temple Bar.'J
A Famons Detective. 1
James Jackson, the famous State detective,
resides in Sing Sing, and is generally
in attendance at the prison. His duties
arc to examine caretuuy tne ]ace 01 every
convict ns he enters, and to scrutinize
every visitor in order to prevent any discharged
convict from seeing his pals.
Occasionally he has to make long journeys
in pursuit of runaway prisoners or to
identify criminals convicted in other
States. He never makes a mistake; if
once he looks a man in the eye he will
know him under any disguise, as he tells
his man by the look of his eyes. Once an
escaped convict had his nose pared
down one-third, but Jackson detected
him at once, notwithstanding this remarkable
change of feature. Mr. Jackson
is about 5 feet 8 inches iu height, about
35 years old, of a light andsiinewy build,
with black hair and piercing black eyes,
and is altogether remarkably handsome.
He knows about 10,000 criminals, and it
is simply wonderful that he can distinguish
the features of every one. On his
long journeys he eats very moderately
and always takes one Branclreth pill at
night. When much fatigued by the jolting
of the cars on his tiresome trips he
uses two Allcock's Porous Plasters on
the small of the back, which give him
renewed vigor and quickly relieve him
of all weariness. These are the only two
remedies he uses, an? he attributes his
vigor and remarkable health to Allcock's
Porous Plasters and Brandrcth's Pills.?
Sing Si?)g, N. Y., Daily Register.
Things Seen in Alaska.
Nowhere in ray home travels, from
Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico, from
Washington to Sitka, writes Governor
Swineford, have I seen a more luxuriant
vegetation than lu-re in Southern Alaska.
I find the hardier vegetables all growing
to maturity and enormous size, with
turnips weighing ten pounds, cabbages
twenty-seven pounds, and ns fine potatoes
as can be found in all of the Eastern
markets I found growing in Wrangell,
Juneau and here in Sitka. While timothy
and redtop grow to a height of from five
to seven feet, and iu this vicinity all the
hay was cured during the past summer
that will be required during the winter,
and I am satisfied from personal observation
that hundreds of tons more could
have been harvested. The few cattle I
have seen are sleek and in the best possible
condition, and I unhesitatingly give
it as my opinion that the country is well
enough adapted to grazing purposes to
render wholly unnecessary the importation
of beef, even when the population of
the Territory shall have grown far beyond
the number requisite to its admission as a
State.
On the other hand, while I am not prepared
to speak advisedly on the section
known as Southwestern Alaska, I may be
nermitted to say that the reports I get
from the most trustworthy sources indicate
the existence of large areas of valuable
grazing lands on the Aleutian islands and
some parts of the peninsular, where the
hardier breeds of cattle do not require to
be fed in any season of the year. If this
be true the prediction which has been
made that Alaska will eventually furnish
the Pacific coast with its beef may yet be
verified.
And this is true of a country embracing
more square miles than the fix Xew England
States and New York.
How Jay Gould Travels.
. Mr. Gould travels like a rocket while
inspecting his roads. In this way he get.*
a certain amount of excroisc, for, as travelers
know, a heavy train drawn at thu
rate of fifty miles an hour will make lit
tie fuss in comparison with the antics of
a single car tacked to an engine making
the same rate. Mr. Gould often travel3
in the Convoy at a fifty-mile gait, and
during such a trip he has been known to
change scats?from one side of the car
to the other?not of his own volition,
1 A ??l1 1 rtA?nfonnnf?P
oui wmioui ciiuiijjiuy ~ long
as Superintendent Kerrigan keeps
his hands off the bell rope ilr. Gould
makes no remonstrance, but accepts his
shaking without a grumble. He changed
engineers on one of his rcccnt trips without
knowing it. The engineer had been
running slowly, for reasons of his owe.,
in spite of numerous pulls at the bell
I cora. When, however, he discovered
that dinner was under way he pulled the
throttle open, and the locomotive darted
ahead suddenly as if going through
space. The jar cleaned the table like a
flash. At the next station the engineer
was promoted to a freight train.?Nete
York Times"l
Love Her Better thuu J.ife."
Well, then, why don't you do something to
bring back the roses to her cheeks and the
light to her eyes? 'Don't you see she is suffer- ]
ing from nervous debility, the result of female
weakness? A bottle or Dr. Pierce's "Favorite
Prescription" will brighten those pale cheeks
and send new life through that wasting form.
If you love her, take heed.
Lbss than 200.000 of the 125,000,000 native women
in India can read,
If you have catarrh, use the surest remedy?
Dr. teage's.
Tfie United States colleges contain 18,000 I
women studente.
A Great English Remedy.
A ramous pntsician, many jcmo ?hsu, mm i
the aid of as English chemist, formulated a
preparation which effected remarkable cu: es
of Jiver diseases, bile, indigestion, etc., and
from a small beginning tiere arose a large demand
and sale for it, which has ever increased
until, after generations have passed, its popularity
has become world-wide. The name of
this celebrated remedy is Cockle's Anti-Bilious
Pills.
To such traveled Americans as have become
acquainted with the great merits of these Pills
(so unlike any others/, and who have ever since
resorted to their use in cases of need, commendation
is unnecessary. But to those who haw
not wtd them and have no knowledge of their
wonderful virtue?, tre now incite attentionThe
use of these Pills in the United States ia
already large. Their virtues have never varied,
and will stand the test of any climate. They
are advertised in our columns?not in a flugrant
mariner, but modestly; for the great
praise bestowed upon them by high authorities
renders it unnecessary, even distasteful.
to extol their me: its beyond plain, unvai?
nished statements.
Persons afflicted'with indigestion or any bilious
or Hvfer trouble, should be<r in mind
"Cockle's Anti-Biliom Pills." and should ask
for tbem of their druggist, and if he has n t
got them, insist that he should order them eapj- |
cially for themselves of any wholeeale^dealer, i
of whom they can be had.
Dlouey iUnkera
1 = ? nnnnrtnnif.inq Dass unim.
proved; there are times in tho lives of men
when more money can be mado rapidly and
easily, than orherwise can be eaneu by years
rt labor. Write Hallett & Co., Portland,
Maine, who will send you, free, full particulars
about work i hat you can do and live at
home, wherever you are located, at a profit of
at least from $5 to $25 daily. Some have made
over $50 in a sing'e day. All is new. You are
started fre.?. C'aiu'al not required. Either
sex; all ages.
I Rob* (rennine onlaii Don't waste yoor money on
iteuprd with the above {9 absolutely iratrr and irind r
S5 TB1P8 MIRK. Xfit lor tlie "KISU BRAND"
^o^av^To^nj^^KD|^endfni^escrl^ivecata
Why did tl
of this country use over <
Procter & Gamble's Lenox
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1 Kuy a cake 01 Lenox ana yoi
It is sfated that there has been no initance
of the failure of oil to still troubled
waters when the oil used was vegetable
or fish oil.
A leading real estate agent private and
banker, Mr. Ira Brown, Chicago, 111., writes:
"1 feel it my duty to Fay of St. Jacobs Oil that
I lay on my back three months with rheumatism
r tried it. was cured, and have never
been troubled since."
A Chinaman haa discovered that cast off
horse shoes make good cutler's steel. The
wrought iron of the shoes having been, constantly
hammered on the roads acquires hardness,
and the animal heat from the hoofs has
something to do with it.
Mr, T. J. Murphy, 61 Debavotce Place, Brooklyn,
N. Y., says: "I was afflicted with sciatic
rheumatism a id found St. Jacobs Oil very efficacious.
The tonnage of American vessels in the foreign
trade has fallen from 2,496,894 tons in 1861
to 1,088,041, and the percentage of American
vessels entering our ports from 65.35 per cent,
in 1801 to 22.58.
How Pale Yon Are!
Is frequently the exclamation of on'! lady to
another. The tact is not a pleasant one to
have mentioned, but the act may be a kindly
one, for it sets the one addressed to thinking,
apprises her of the fact that she is not in good
health, and leads her to seek a reason therefor.
Pallor is almost always attendant upon the
of consumntion. The system is en
feebled, and the blood is impoverished. Dr.
Pierce's "Golden Med cal Discovery" will act
as a tonic upon the system, will inrich the impoverished
blood, ana restore roses 10 the
cheek.
The distance from New York to .'an Francisco
by Cape Horn is 15,900 miles; distance by
the Panama canal, 4,200.
In the Spring
Hearly everybody needs a good medicine. The Impurities.
which have accumulate In the blood during
the c?ld monthi muit be expelled, or when the
illd day* come, and the effect of bracing air 1* lost
the body is liable to be overcome by debility or some
serious disease. The remarkabla success achieved
by HooV* Saraparil'a. and the many words of praii:
It has received, make it worthy your confidence.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
"We have used Hood's Sarsaparilla for several
yean, and feel proud to recommend It as an excellent
i print medicine or to be used at all times aa a
blood purlfler. For children as well as (Town people
we eonslder It the best We set aside one bettle
for our boy to take In the spring. He Is alne years
am and has enloved good health ever since we began
giving It to him."?B. F. Grover, Rochester, N. H.
That Tired Feeling
"I bare been troubled with dyipepsli. I had bat
little appetite, and In an boar after eating I would
experience a falntneii or tired, all gone feeling, aj
If I had not eaten anything. Hood'e Sarsaparllla
gare me an appetite, and my fool relished and satia&ed
the craving I had previously experienced. It
relieved me of that faint, tired, all-gone feeling."?
8. A. Paok, Watertown, Vau.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
old by all druggists. |l; six for $3. Prepared only
by C. L HOOD * CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Masa.
100 Poses One Dollar
?? ? u-is
COCKLE'S
ANTI-BILIOUS
PILLS,
rHE GREAT ENGLISH BKMEDY
For Liver, Bile, rndlgestfon, etc. Free from. Her
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Agent; C. K. CRlTTENTOfi, New York.
The following words. In pralso of Dr
baupm rwvniiar to women, must be of In
expressions with which thousands give u
| restored to them by th6 use of this world John
E. Seoar, of J
0 1 AA "Mywife had been su:
B*vW years with female wo
Thmaiuu Im.u out one hundred dolli
THROWN A WAY out relief. She took
I ?WI. Prescription and it di<
all the medicine givei
clans during the three years they bad been
Mrs. George Hero
The Greatest rh^*
Earthly Boon !*BswkS&
LflmnLI PUUH. health. I treate
nine month*, without
The 'Favorite Prescription' la the great*
poor sunering women.
TREATII
Many times women call on their faml
another from, liver or kidney disease, an
this way they all present alike to themselv
for which he prescribes his pills and potic
womb disorder. The physician, ignorant o
patient gets no better, Dut probably worse 1
like Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, d
distressing symptoms, and Instituting com
Mrs. E. F. Morgan, o
rHYSICHHS Eagt Boston, Mass., ea;
rniOlblMO WM a dre^fuj iUfferer
FAILED Having exhausted th<
iwuu. siciana. I was complete
weak I could with difl
alone. I began taking Dr. Pieroo's Favi
using the local treatment recommended 1
Medical Adviser.' I commenced to impro
months I was perfectly cured, and have ha
wrote a letter to my family paper, briefl
health had been restored, and offering to k
to any one writing me for them, and t
velopc for reply. I have received over
In reply, I nave described my case and
and have earnestly advised them to 'do li
many I have received second letters of th
had commenced the use of ' Favorite Prei
11.50 required for the ' Medical Adviser,'
local treatment so fully and plainly laid d
much better already."
THE OUTGRC
The treatment of many thousands of caset
?i<n? />hrnnin vrmiknesses and distressing
ailment* peculiar to females, at the Invalids
Hotel ana Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.,
has afforded a vast experience in nicelj
adapting and thoroughly testing remediei
for the cure of woman's peculiar maladies
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
Is the outgrowth, or result, of this greal
and valuable experience. Thousands o!
testimonials, received from patients anc
from physicians who have tested it In th<
more aggravated and obstinate eases whicl
[ had baffled their skill, prove It to be th<
most wonderful remedy ever devised foi
the relief and cure of suffering women. Ii
' is not recommended as a "cure-all," bui
as a most perfect Specific for woman'/
peculiar ailments.
Am a powerful, invigorating tonic
It Imparts strength to tne whole system
and to the uterus, or womb and its ap
pendages. In particular. For overworked
f'worn-out," "'run-down," debilitated teachers,
milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses,
"shop-girls." housekeepers, nursing mothi
ere, and feeble women generally, Dr
l Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the great!
est earthly boon, bein* unjyyualled as on
on/1 roit/iroflvA Ti
appvuMUK ..
promotes digestion find assimilation of food,
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If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac ThomD- j \
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If a cough disturbs your pleep, take Plso's (
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Mrs. PInkham's Liter Tills cur# constipation. 25c.
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UrllllW HUMANE REMEDY CO.. Lafayette, In 1
? Pubce's Favorite Prescbtptioi* m a rem*
tercet to every sufferer from such maladies.
ttcrance to their senae of gratitude for the im
famed medicine.
ftUXtvbtchi Va., writes* Toiiruj Auiiv _
Bering for two or three | HREW AWAY
ikncfia, and had paid n.ira
to physioians with- HER ^r?
Dr. Pierce 8 Favorite Oimnnn-rrn
J her more good than SUPPORTER. w
a to her by the physi- mwmJ ?,nr
practi^g upon her." ^ d fed W?R[
IB, of Wutfitld, N. Y* mmmL?mmmm? ..
it aiifTm-er tmra Ieueor- I I III | Mrf.
i&lna, and pain contin- IT WfUIKS Mich.,
Three boftlea of your " nBnM haj w
a' restored me to per- llfniinCBt Aga!
d with Dr. , for nUHUEnS. ties oI
receiving any benefit. gainei
st earthly boos to ui ment of myself and fi
attending to tha dutiei
ig the wrong d
ly physicians, suffering, as they imagine, one fri
lother from nervous exhaustion or prostration
ea and their easy-going and indifferent, 6r over-1
ins, B^euming them to be such, when, in reality, 1
f the cause of suffering, encourages his practice
by reason of the delay, wrong treatment and com
Irected to the cause would have entirely remove
fort instead of prolonged misery.
f No. 11 Lexington St., ? m,
Jealous
ly discouraged, and go i Doctors. i
for a go
Hculty cross the room hmmj annv of
prite Prescription and 0f money, but receive
in his Common. Sense persuaded mo to try ;
ve at once. In three because I was prejudl
d no trouble tinee. I they would do me no
y mentioning how my he would get me sor
snd the full particulars against the advice of m
inclosing a slampe^ei^ -Favorite Prescription,
four hundred letter, ten dollars. I took t
I the treatment used. Favorite Prescription,
kewige.' I^m a great years. I then gave the
anks, stating that they Vas troubled in the a
scription,'had sent the time. I hnve not ha<
and had applied the four vears."
lown therein, and were
iwth op a vast ]
i cures nausea, weakness of stomach, indir
gestion, bloating and eructations of gas. ii
Am a ioothln{ and strengthening \
, nervine, " Favorite Prescription" is un- s
equalled and is invaluable in allaying: and ii
I subduing nervous excitability, irritability, c
, exhaustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms 1
i and other distressing, nervouB symptoms a
t commonly attendant upon functional and c
r organic disease of the womb. It Induces
I refreshing sleep and relieves mental anx- ii
? lety and despondency. C
i Br. Pierce's Favorite Prescription t
) it a legitimate medicine, carefully (.
r compounded by an experienced and skillful I
c physician, and adaptea 'o woman's dclicate r
6 organization. It is pure.'T vegetable in its c
i composition and perfectly* harmless in ita s;
effects in any condition of the system.
"Foxforim Prescription" it a po*i. n
, five cnre for tbe most complicated and u
obstinate cases of leucorrhea, or "whites," n
, excessive flowing: at monthly periods, pain- ti
- ful menstruation, unnatural suppressions, fi
, prolapsus or falling of the' womb, weak o
back, "female weakness," anteveraion, re- rf
, troversion, bearing-down sensations, chron- (1
1c congestion, inflammation and ulceration $
i of the womb, inflammation, pain and ten;
derness in ovaries, accompanied with "in- I1
ternal heat." p
E.VSAItY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Wo. <
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564 <fc 3?? BROADWAY, NEW YORK. '
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PATENTS
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nj\|l III N cured; deserter* relieved,
f ? liWlUllWjJi year*' praet ice. Succesa or
I no fee. Write for circular? nnd new lawa. ?
" A. W. BleCarmirk d; Hon, Washington,D.c,
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READ THE FOLLOWING LETTEB
Prom a Well-known Gentleman of hock*
port, and ex-President of the New Ysrfc
State Pharmaceutical AiwciltiNi
Lockport, N. Y., April 16, 1986.
Pardee Medicine Co:
(iENTS :?in reply to your communication
of April 15th, I take pleasure in stating that
For years physicians and druggists have bean
trying to secure a remedy for these obstinate
ind painful complaints, such as neuralgia,
rheumatism and nervous headaches, to which
Bvery one is liable who lives in this climate,
and until quite recently the efforts of both
chemist and doctor have been unsuccessful;
but I am pleased at last that such a remedy is
found in the compound of Dr. Pardee's Rheumatic
Remedy. I recommend it to all whe
are suffering with rheumatism. I have yel
to hear of the first case of rheumatism which
it has not greatly relieved, and where the
remedy has been used as directed, nearly every
case has been permanently cured.
Respectfully yours,
P. K. SWEET.
Syracuse, N. Y.
Dejlk Sirs I have been troubled with
rhematism for the last five years, and until I
heard of Dr. Pardee's Remedy I had no rest
After hearing of it I procured some of my
druggist, and am now entirely free from the
disease. Respectfully yours,
MRS. ETTA HALE, 38 Baker Street.
Jordan, N. Y.
Gents For a year past I have been badly
afflicted with rhematism, at times very bad, >
and for a month before I commenced using
your remedy could hardly sleep nights. Oat
bottle of Dr. Pardee's Rheumatic Remedy relieved
me of the pain, and I now sleep as
well as well as ever, and feel like recomending
it to all who are thus afflicted.
Yours truly,
MRS. ANN DARLING.
Ask your druggist for Dr. Pardee's Remedy
and take no other. Price, $1 per bottle ; sii
bottles, 15.
Pardee Medicine Co., Rochester, N. Y.
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?dy for those delicate dlaeasea and weak*
rhey are fair sample* of the spontaneous
estimable boon of health which has beea
t. Sophia P. Boswhx, white CottaMg*
ea: "I took eleven bottles of your Pate
Prescription' and one bottle of your
lets." I am doing my work, and have been
lometime. I have had to employ help for
it sixteen years before I commenoed tak?
your medicine. I have had to wear a
orter most of the time; .this I have lai
s I ever did." '
Mat Gixiflo*, of Nuniea, Ottawa Co.
Writes: "Tour 'Favorite Prescription'
orked wonders in my case.
In she writes: " Having taken several bot1
the ' Favorite Prescription I b?ve r?l
my health wonderfully, to the astonlsh lends,
I can now be on my feet all day,
i of my household.
IISEASE.
om dyspepsia, another from heart dlway,
, another with pain here or there, and is
busy doctor, separate and distinct dteeasra,
they are all only symptoms caused by soma
i until large bills are made. The suffering
lequent complications. A proper medicine,
d the disease, thereby dispelling all thoas
arrelons Cure*? Mrs. G."F. SwUQC*,
UiL, Mich* writes:, "I was troubled with
weakness, leuoorrhea and falllag of the
'.or seven years, so I had to keep my bed
iod part or the time. I doctored with an
different physicians, and spent large sums
d no lasting benefit. At last my husband
your medicines, which I was loath to do.
Iced against them, and the doctors ?ld
i jrood. I finally told my husband that if
ne of your medicines, I would try tnem
it physician. He got me six bottles of tha
' also alz bottles of the ' Discovery,' for
hree bottles of * Discovery' and four of
' and I have been a sound woman for four
balance of the medicine to mv sister, who
uno way, and she cured herself In a short
1 to take any medicine now for almost
EXPERIENCE.
In pregnancy," Favorite Prescription "
i a mother's cordial," relieving nausea,
weakness of stomach and other distreedinr
ymptoms common to that condition. If
ta use 1s kept up in the latter months of
;estatlon, it so prepares the system for do- . .
ivery as to greatly lessen, and many times
lmost entirely do away with the sufferings
if that trying ordeal.
"Favorite Prescription," when taken
a connection with the use of Dr. Pierce's
olden Medical Discovery, and small laxaive
doses of Dr. Pierce's Purgative Pellet*
Little Liver Pills), cures Liver, Kidney and
iladder diseases. Their combined use also
emovefl blood taints, and abolishes canerous
and scrofulous humors from ths
jrstem.
"Favorite Prescription" is the only
ledidne for women sold, by druggists,
inder a positive guarantee, from the
lanufacturera, that it will give satisfaoiou
in every case, or money will be re
unded. This fruarnntee naa oeon pnniea
n the bottle-wrapper, andI faithfullycurled
out for many years. Law bottle*
00 do?et) $1.00, or ?ix bottles for
C^-'send ten cents In stamps for Dr.
Woe's large. Illustrated Treatise (180
apes) on Diseases of Women.
B63 Main Street, BUFFAJLO, N. Y,
Piso'a Remedy for Catarrh ie the RD
Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest.
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