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i BURIALS IN SPAIN. STRANGE SCENES WITNESSED IN SEVILLE CEMETERY. Extraordinary Treatment of a Baby Corpse ? Scant Ceremonies ar a. Wife's Obsequies ?The Poor Begging for Intermenr. ( i Funerals in Spain are conducted in a manner which is in the highest degree original, says a letter from Seville. "When you die you are got rid of as soon as possible. The Spaniards have the same horror of death surroundings as the Italians, but they go a great deal further. As i quickly as possible?sometimes within an hour?the body is placed in an elaborate coffin made of metal and painted to imitate marble. Some of these caskets are smothered in gilt ornaments of a most elaborate character. All sizes are kept ready at the great funeral establishments. Coffins open lengthways. The ''3 ; ;c inflrpr] with a kev. iiu 18 UII lUliyto aim 10 iw?v<. The poorer people are buried in wooden coffins, covered with various designs in colored ribbons. Children's coffins are made in white and blue, and are decorated like a bon-bon box. Coffins of this description are sold almost everywhere in the South. You see them hanging up outside the shops by dozens, i I went over the premises of one of the biggest undertaking concerns in Spain. It is a public company, and is called "La Funeraria." I never saw such magnificence in my life. Some of the funeral cars arc built in the style of the great gilt and glass cars which figure in a circus procession through a country town. The drivers and footmen are J dressed in gorgeous liveries that make j you blink to look at thom. Some of the | liveries that I was shown cost over $1,000 j each. A grand first-class funeral with a retinue of footmen and officials is a dazzling pageant. As a rule the corpse, even when so magnificently conducted to its last home,' is unattended by any relatives. Span- j iards finish with their dead, as a rule, when the church ceremony is over. Few corpses are accompanied to the cemetery except by the undertaker's men. But in ordinary cases the coffin is placed in a yellow, open car, and driven up to the ??? nonHomon ill n short, incket i tcuicici J UJ ? gvuvivuiuu M J and peaked cap. The driver smokes his cigarette and cracks his whip as he hums his favorite tune. The ridiculous always lives next door to the sublime. The grotesque and the horrible are first cousins. I will describe two that I witnessed in one day at the great cemetery at Seville. Four little barefooted boys arrived at the cemetery gates. Between them they carry a little blue and white coffin. They jog along, chatting and laughing, up the long avenue of trees. Presently they see omething which attracts theirattention ?a bird in a tree. Down they drop the coffin by the roadside, and they scamper across the grass to the trep. They pick up stones and begin to throw at the bird. Iu the process they quarrel ahout something, and two of the boys have a fight. In the meantime the coffin lies in the roadway. I walk up to if. and through the glass let into the lid I see the dead child's face. It has been dead perhaps twelve hours, so the features are unchanged, and it appears to be calmly sleeping. Several people pass me; no one takes auy notice of the coffin in the road. One old gentleman nearly tumbles over it, and swears. It is evidently nothing: unusual! Presently these ragged boys, having arranged their little difference, return and {>ick up the coffin. Two of them have ighted cigarettes. They carry their burden right across the cemetery to a little house, where two or three men with brass numbers on their caps are smoking cigarettes. Ilere they show a paper, and one of the men, picking up a spade, tell the boys to follow him. Off they go jogging the coffin now this way and now that, and I follow them. We come to a long line of brick vaults. Some are empty; some are tilled up to the top with what I presume to be mould. The crave dieeer turns over the loose earth with a spade, and strikes a coffin here and there. It is too full. He moves on to another bricked square, pushes his spade in and says there is 'room. He digs a little hole and lays the coffin flush with the top of the brickwork. Then he throws a few spadefuls of earth from a mound close by, and the ceremony is over. There are thousands of these bricked squares in the cemetery, and each contaius a score of coffins. There is no stone on top,- only the loose brown earth! Some of them are so full that the earth has to be piled up to cover the coffiin, and thus the coffin is actually above ground. The next funeral arrived as I was leaving the cemetery. A car, driven by a man smoking a cigarette, came up. It vas ionoweu oy h can, irom wuo alighted an old gentleman, also smoking a cigarette. The car pulled up at the gate of the "depository," a little house in the grounds arranged for the reception of people who have died too late to be buried that day. The guardian of the house, cigarette in mouth, flings open the doors, speaks to the gentleman, and then calls for somebody to come. A man with a cigarette in his mouth now approaches. He and the car-driver lift out the coffin and carry it into the iiousc and lay it on the trestles. Then they light a caudle at the head and foot, and come out and shut the door. Off drives the car, the man lighting another cigarette, and the gentleman to whom the corpse belongs stroll* across the cemetery with the grave-digger to choose "his place." The grave-digger turns up a little earth in one brick square, aud then in another. "Too full," says the gentleman, puffing his cigarette. He goes from square to square and pokes at the loose earth with his cane. At last he settles on a square i . which i9 only half full. "That will do," ' he says, and then he turns to his cab and drives away. I make inquiries of the keeper of the "depository." The body inside the coffin is the gentleman's wife. She died last night. She will be buried to-morrow morning. "Will the gentleman return to gee her buried?'' "Oh, no; he has left, her here. The rest concerns us!" "VVe find it difficult to understand this leaving the dead to be buried without eeremony and without a friendly watcher, but the Spaniards think nothing of it. They bid their dead good-by with the last prayer. The interment is no ceremony at all to them. The dead are hurried out of the house as soon as possible. Sometimes they are sent to the underjtaker's "depository" within a couple of hours of their decease, and the friendR Bee no more of them. I Among the poor there is a very freeand-easy way of getting their dead jburicd. One day outside of a great cemetery I came upon three common cofjfins lying on the ground near the gate. Seeing that the coffins were occupied I started back in horror, and asked what in heaven's name such an exhibition meant. "0," said my Spanish friend, '"they are poor people who cannot afford to be buried yet. There is a little fee to be paid. Some one will come by presently and pay for the coffin to be put away as an act of charity." Unburicd coffins are bad enough, but what do you think of dead children hung up outside the cemetery gates, waiting for some kind soul to pay for them to be nut into the earth? The sight is not uncommon in the south of Spain, whore every form and shape of beggary is rampant. Sometimes the friends of a small corpse, instead of asking charity, will smuggle it into the cemetery, hidden under a cloak, and, when no one is looking, drop it into one of the big square graves I have told you about, and kick a little loose earth over it. There are plenty of uncofSned dead under the loose earth in the great cemetery of Seville. An Algerian Duel. There was formerly in the French service in Algeria a general of Arab origin, Yusuf by name. One day all Algeria was moved to laughter by a satirical sketch of General Yusuf in the local papers under the title of "Monsieur .Toujou." The writer, it was said, was 31. Arthur de Fronvielle, the editor of the paper, who took the responsibility. Soon after, one tine morning, the journalist heard a terrible knocking at the door. "Come in!" It was General Yusuf who showed his Arab visage at the threshold. He was followed by an ordnance officcr. M. de Fronvielle was still lying tranquilly in bed. "Are you Monsieur de Fronvielle?" asked the "V?" "Was it vou that i MVUVIU1. .. v called rae 'Monsieur Joujou?' We must i fight!" "At your command, General. I will have a couple of my friends?" "No! no! none of that nonsense!'' thundered Yusuf. ''Wc will figiit immediately. Understand? I want tc kill you!" "Ah! in that case permit me to rise, And where shall we fight, il you please, General?" "Right here!v "In my bedroom?" "Yes." "Allr ight. And this gentleman will serve as a j witness?" "Yes." "Very well. I'm J ready for you now." Yusuf drew his sabre, and at a sign his ordnance officer did the same. The bedroom was very small?nothing cheerful about this strange duel. "Take your choice, monsieur," said the General, holding out both swords. Fronvielle took the officer's sabre. Yusuf threw o'ff his tunic, rolled up his sleeves, and held his sabre in his bare arm, which was kA ??nc/?l/io rki nn uuiutru wiiu me uiuo^iv^ w* His white teeth shone from his swarthy face. Uttering yells like a jackal, and bounding like a tiger; savage and frightful, he was making ready to transfix his adversary with his first i stroke. This stroke the newspaper man ! fended, but it cut him terribly on his right arm. Yusuf stuck the point of his sabre in the floor and said: "You can't use your arm; to continue the combat would be murder. We will finish this affair after you are cured." M. de Fronvielle saluted. The second day after the fight the General presented himself at the j wounded man's lodging, and regularly , every morning thereafter. "I hope you | will forgive me for getting well so slowly ; General; a little patience and I am with 1 you," said Fronvielle. "I am very j patient," answered Yusuf. When the j wounded man was able to go out at j last, General Yusuf was the first to meet I him. But it was to offer him his arm, | and ask him to lean on it. All his angei had slowly changed to esteem.?ManChester Guardian. Carrots and Minarets. Six farsakhs from Damghan is the Til- I TV.-'o-Jo nnforl in tVlP PfllintlT) I round about for the enormous size of the carrots grown there; the minarets of Damghan.and the extraordinary size ol the Tazaria vegetables furnish the material for a characteristic little Eastern story, current among the inhabitants. Finding that people came from far and near to see the graceful minarets of Dumghan, and that nobody came to 6ee Tazaria,the good people of that neglected village became envious, and they reasoned among themselves and said:"Whv should Damghan have two minarets and Tazaria none?" So they gathered together their packed-donkeys, their ropes and ladders and a large company of men and reached Damghan in the silence and darkness of the night, intending to pull down and carry off one of the minarets and erect it in Tazaria. The ropes were fastened to the summit of theminar, but at the first great pull the brickwork { gave way and the top of the tall minaret came tumbling down with a j crash and clatter, killing several of its! would-be removers. The Damghan peo- j pie turned out, and after hearing the un- , happy Tazarians' laments, some sarcastic j citizen gave them a few carrot seeds, bidding them go home and sow them, and they could grow all the minarets they wanted. The carrots grew famously, and the villages of Tazaria, instead of the promised minarets, found themselves in possession of a new and useful vegetable that fetched a good price in Damghan bazaars. The Damghanians meeting a Tazarian ryot coming in with a donkey load of these huge carrots cannot resist twitting him regarding the minars; but the new practical Tazarians no longer mourn the abscnce of minarets in tlieir village, and when twitted about it, reply: "We have more minarets than you have, but our minarets grow downward and are good to eat."?Outing. A Strange Meeting. There was a strange meeting in the thronging mass in front of the Royal Exchange yesterday. Here from early morning till late night is a constunt procession of people. There is no place in London where the crowd is so dense or where there is such a variety of people ! to be met. Right in the heart of this throng, at 1 o'clock yesterday, a brother i living in Egypt met a brother living in | New York. The brother living in Egypt | was on his way to call at a bankinghouse in the city, while the New York I hrnthpr was rrn liie wav tn fli/i fYintinrnfc I Neither knew that the other was in England at the time, and their meeting in the midst of this great struggling crowd upon a line where a second's difference would have resulted in their passing by each other is a marvel of accidental meeting which I do not think can be very easily matched again.?London Litter. Knew What She Wanted. A teacher was endeavoring to find out the proficiency of her little pupils in i mental arithmetic, aud took the follow- . in<r method of ascevtainincr what she wanted to know: "Now, children," she said, "suppose I have two squash pies and divide one of them into ten pieces and the other into 100 pieces, which would you rather have, a piece of the pie that was divided into ten pieces or that cut into 100 pieces?" There was an absolute hush for a moment and then a little girl answered timidly: "One of the 100 pieces." "Why?" "Well, please, ma'am, I don't like squash pie."?Boston Budget. A TOKIO THEATRE. QUEER ARRANGEMENTS OP JAPANESE PLAYHOUSES. Noisy Orchestras and Lon^-DfownOut Plays?Points of Superiority Over American Theatres. The most fashionable theatre in Tokio, says a native Japanese in a letter to the NT -jq thfi I1CW xum vvmrnw viwv vivw. J ? Shintomiza, which is situated close by the foreign concession ground, so called from the fact that only in this part of the city were foreigners allowed to reside in the early days of Japan's intercourse with foreign countries. Passing over a wooden bridge over a canal from the concession, there is a short but wide and clcanlyewept street, with fine two-storied houses on both its sides. These are what are known as the theatre tea houses. Right in the midway of this street and on its right hand side going up is situated the theatre itself. It is a large building; the illustrations of the scenes and performances, as well as large wooden name cards of the actors hung up in front, will at once attract your attention. In these fashionable theatres tickets are to be procured a few days previous to your visit. Even in less fashionable theatres tickets are usually bought through one of the tea houses, except for admittance to the gallery, where people have to stand up all the time. You arrive at your tea house about fifteen minutes before noon and are ushered upstairs into a parlor, where you are served with a cup of tea and a tray of sweets. These are indispensable according to the tuIcs of etiquette which govern tea houses. In a few minutes a young servant girl politely asks you to proceed on to the theatre. At the foot of the ladder you are met by a man servant, who leads you into your box. There are three entrances to the theatre, but the centre one is for the visitors, while the other ~ r^TTrtl tr ncn/1 }iT7 npfOTSl l?U aic UAV/lUOl T V/iJ uouvt urj vuv and others connected with the concern. The orchestra is divided with wooden poles into squares or boxes of three feet every way. These will perhaps number some 150. One square is comfortable for three people, but you find many boxes where five or even six people are sitting together. The box costs the same whether one man sits in it or six. Right across the orchestra lengthwise from the stage there is one narrow passage way for visitors. This is in the centre, and on both sides of the orchestra also there is a passage elevated to the level of the stage or nearly so. The one on the left hand Bide from the stage is for the visitors, but the one on the right hand side is really a part of the stage, inasmuch as the performers not only usually proceed to the stage through this road, but they often actually perform on it. This road is one of the advantages of the Japanese theatres over those in America. In cases of processions the long passageway leadinrr fhp affloY? is vp.rv imnortant. "*b *" ~-~D~ ? J r , There are three rows of boxes behind these passage ways; they are of the same size as those in the centre, but the locality is supposed to be better and commands higher prices. There is just one row of boxes up stairs, and these are considered the best places in the whole theatre, because they are less exposed, and also have their private passage way, giving great convenience for visitors to pass in and out without annoying other persons. The gallery is away back in the sccond floor and is separated from other quarters by big wooden frame works, so that nobody can pass from the gallery to the boxes. Thus the whole theatre can accommodate some 3,000 visitors. A few pictures hangingup and gas lamps hanging down finish your survey of the visitors' quarters. You look up to the stage; a small curtain on top has the following words in Dutch and Japanese: "Presented to the proprietors of the Shintomiza Theatre, by the Dutch residents of Yokohama." The lower part, or rather the stage itself, is covered with another curtain. At 12 o'clock sharp a few clappings of pieces of wood and music announce the opening of the curtain. The curtain it made to run from one side to the other, and a man puts his hand at one end and runs away to the other end. This is very awkward, and does not look like artistic theatrical work at all. The American curtains, which are carried up by means of strings, are much preferable. On one side of the stage there is a little space partitioned in by rough, wooden frameworks, and in here music is kept up almost continually. On the other corner, also, there is a music room shut in by bamboo curtains. One or the other of these music rooms makes a very great noise, right through the performance, singing and playiDg musical instruments. These noises are very unpleasant to unaccustomed ears, and oftentimes makes it almost impossible to catch what is said on the stage. This is one great fault of the Japanese theatres. When the curtain opens, two men sits up at the corner of the stage and keep their eyes over the visitors. On inquiry, I was informed that they are to hiss any visitor who might happen to make a noise or to stand up while the play is going on. They are a sort of theatre police. The stage has a circulating platform, so that the scene is changed in less than no time. The performance is continued till 8 o'clock in the evening with only a few minutes intermission between the acts. Some eight acts of fourteen scenes are nlaved. What is the most strikingly peculiar is the perfpjmftace; on the same day, of four different piecc? entirely indendent from each other. Your Japanese neighbors take their meals in their boxes while they enjoy the play. However, if you wish to go to your tea house for your meal, you can do so, but in that case, you must make great haste lest you Bkip an act or a scene at least. In Japan, theatrical performances are done by men actors alone, except in some of the cheaper and lower theatres. Women's parts are therefore played by mer actors dressed and painted as women. This custom, the long hours of the plays, and things of this kind will soon be of the past, because the Theatre Reformation Society, as it is califd, is now trying to reform the Japanese theatres, %fhges and the like, and with partial success already. For the Jaoanese theatres used to ooen the first curtain at 4 o'clock in the morn-1 ing and continued till 8 o'clock in the ' evening. This, of course, meant long intermissions between the acts. A Sword for a Soldier. A truly regal present has been sent by the King of Portugal to the Gennan Emperor. It is a sword of honor, with a blade specially made at the Lisbon arsenal, and exquisitely chased. The hilt is of solid gold, encrusted in every part with diamonds, sapphires, rubies and emeralds. These are set after a design supplied by the Queen. They are enlarging the Chinese public school in San Fr&ncisco to accommodate the large in^reaie in the number ol pupils. 7 > _ Swimming Among Sharks. A traveler whose vessel had anchored on tne coast ot Arabia,,two-tmras 01 i;ne distance down the Red Sea. describes in the Youth's Companion a perilous game of the urchins of that region. Going on deck in the morning he noticcd some bobbing black objects in the water and s iid to the Captain: "What arc those things swimming? Sharks, I suppose?" "Well, land-sharks you in ght call 'c m, p'r'aps. Take my glass and try again." A look through the glass speedily transformed the black objects into the faces of Arab children who were apparently not more than five or six years old. The vessel was at least a mile from the hore and the water was deep enough at any point to drown these little adventurers."' The Liliputian swimmers drew near, with shrill cries and childish laughter; when a final stroke of their lean arms had brought them alongside, there arose a universal cry of "piastre, howadji!" (a penny, sir!) "Chuck'em a copper and you'll see something good," said the Captain. One was tossed into the water and initantly the smooth, bright surface was dappled with a forest of tiny brown toes, all turning up at once as the boy divers plunged together. T>- iv:. i-u ? V.n/4 DJ tills 11LUC U1C CUiiiu vicn uuu gemblcd to witness the sport, and a shower of exclamations way to be heard: ''There's one of 'emgot it." "No, he ain't." "Yes. he has! I see him a-coining up with it!" The successful diver rose, and was at once surrounded by three or four piratical comrades, who did their best to snatch away the hard-won coin. As the boy reached the surface, he held up his prize tiiumphantly, and then popped it into his mouth, his only pocket. In a moment a crafty comrade swam up behind and ticklcd him under the chin, whereupon the mouth opened and out dropped the coin into the water. A genuine tight and scramble ensued, while the; ir rang with shouts and laughter. Meantime two sharks appeared at a perilously short distance from the excited divers, but their presence seemed to produce no effcct whatever upon the urchins. "Aren't they afraid of sharks?" asked the traveler of the Captain. "Not they. They make too much row for any shark to come near them. Sharks are easily seared,forall they're so savage." But the others, unaccustomed to the boys' game, would scarcely have cared to trust to a shark's timidity. Embarrassing* For the Schoolmaster. - - ? *il. The schoolmaster istaKing supper wim the Peppers. Little Johnny Pepper breaks in upon the silence?"Ma, do you take snuff?" Mrs. Pepper?"Why, no, my son, yon kuow I don't. What makes you ask such a foolish question as that?" Little Johnny?"Nothin', only I heard the schoolmaster say this morning that every time you took snuff Pa had to 6nceze." Schoolmaster abashed, while Mrs. Pepper glares at her husband opposite in silent wrath."?Siftings. The Swisii Republic pays its President $3,000 a year, which is probably the smallest 6um that the head of any civilized nation receives. All the expenditures of Switzerland arc on a correspondingly low scale. The expenses of the Confederation, do not reach $10,000,000 annually. Gen'l Samuel I. Given, Ex-Chief of Police, Philadelphia, Pa., writes: "Years ago I was permanently cured by St. Jacobs Oil. I have had no occasion to use it since. My family keep it on hs.nd. Unhealing qualities are wonderful." Sold by Druggists and Dealers everywhe-e. Fifty years ago two-flftha of the public BCD 01 icaciura in j?iir3iii;uuaci.i.a wc.c ucu, now about one-tenth are men. The Average wages of me.i then were $25.44 per month, and . o: women $11.38; now men average $111.23 and n omen $43.97. The proprietor of the "Plain Dealer," Fort Madison, Iowa, Mr. J. H. Duffus, writes: "Two years ago I was cured of rheumatism in my knee by St Jacobs Oil; have had no return; two app ications did the work." "Whistling fa very much in demand in Boston. A certain prelty girl who is said to have "a charming mouth fur whistling" is making rather a good little Income whistling for private parties. Political Temperance Pnrtiea. It would be themost remarkable thing of the I world it the little harmless Mo.sie Nerve Food plant should substitute the use of stiiiiU'ants, and take this vnnd out of the fails of the political temperance parties. There is the best of authority for the a'atement that the drinker is better satisfied with it, and the liquor dealer has to keep it or lo>e his custom. It is a powerful factor that they can make just as much money on it, and pay no license. Also, the women snd churches back it to the utmost. All the dealers say its sale is en< rmous. The comi any patting it on the market offer the chemists $5,000 if t hey can find anything in it more deleterious than common bitter-root and winter-green. W? thank God that it can do so w ell without ba rm. Fio trees begin to bear in eighteen months after planting, and they continue to increase in size an 1 in bearing capacity for mora than half a century. No insect pests dist urb this tree. Ia it Really Consumption'' Many a casa supposed to be radical lung; disease ia really one of lirer complaint and indigestion; bat, unles3 that diseased liver can be restored to healthy action, it will so clog the lungj with corrupting matter as to bring on their speedy deo.iy. and then indeed we nave consumption, whfcn is scrofula of the lungs in its worst form, Nothing can be more happily calculated'to nip this dancer n the bud than is Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical DJsovery." By druggists. About 2$,000 clerics and other employes in Chicago are obliged te work on Sunday. Ftfe Hundred Dollara la the sum Dr. Pierce offers for the detection of any calomel or other mineral or injurious drug in his justly celebrated "Pleasant Purga' tive PeHets." They are about the size of mustard seed, therefor* easily taken, while their operation is unattendeAJjy any grifing pain. Billiousness, sick-headache, bad Uu-ta In the mouth and Jaund ce yield at once before these "little giants." Of your druggist. 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She was troubled with Prolapsus Uteri, Leu CO it ti era, numuness 01 me jiuius, s?:iuitn? ui the stomach and loss of appetite. I purchased a trial bottle of your Vegetable Compound. She said she could discover a salutary effect rom the first dose. Now she is comparatively free from Prolapsus, stomach's sickness, &c. The hemorrhage is very much better and is less at the regular periods. Her appetite is restored, and her general health and strength are much improved. We ,/eel that we have been wonderfully benefite'd' and our hearts are drawn out in gratitude for the same and in sympathy for other sufferers, for whose sakes we allow our names to be used." C. W. Eaton, 'lhureton, N. Y. The Compound is put up in Pill, Lozenge nnd Liquid form. All sold by druggists. The Pills and Lozenges sent by mail on receiptof price. 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Not nun hoar BOWEL COMPLAINTS It -will in a few moments, when taken according todireetions, cure Cramps, Spasms, Sour 8tomach, Heartburn, Sick Headache, Summer Complaint. Diarrbcea, Dysentery. Colic. Wind in tbe Bowels, and all other Internal Piuns. MALARIA IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS CURED AND PREVENTED. There Is not a remedial iReni in the world that > will cure Fever and Ague and all other Halation*. Bilious and other levers, aided by RAD\VAYTS PILLS, so quick as KADWAY'S READY RELIEF. R. R. R. not only cures the patient seised with Xa laria, but IT people expose to the Malarial pol on will every mornlne take 20 <r 30 drops of Bead? Relief In water,' ana eat, say a cracker, before going out, they will prevent attacks. It Instantly relieves and soon .cons Colds. Son Throat, Bronchitis, Pleurisy. Stiff Neck, all Congestions and Inflammations, whether of the Lungs, Kidneys or Bowels, RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, Heaaacne, Tootnacne.w eatness or raui m uu omum. Cheat or Limbs by one application. E ifty cent* per bottle. Hold by draggtsta. DR. RADWAY'S SARSAPARHLI&N RESOLVSRT! The Great Blood Purifier, For cure of all chronic diseases, Scrofula, Btoil Taints, Sypnllltio Complaints, Consumption. OUm4olar Disease, Ulcers, Chronic Rheumatism. Krysipelas, Kidney, Bladder and Liver ComptUnU. Dripvpsla, Affections of the Lungs and Tliroat, parlOM the Blood, restoring health an J vljot Sold by Drnirgiau. Si per Bottle. RADWAY'S PILLS The Great Liver and Stomash Remdy For the cure of all disorder" or tlie St imnoh, T,lri?r. Bowels. Kidneys. Bladder, Nervous D^se^,^e31 Female complaints. Lm of Aim etitr, Headache, Constipation. Costiveness, Indigestion, liniouxness, Fever, Inflammation of the Bowels, Pile) and all derangements of the Internal Viscera. Purely vegetable, containing no mercury, mineral* or deleterious drur*. PERFECT DIGESTION Ly taking one of Radway 's Pills every morning, about 10 o'clo.k, aa a din- c ' ner pill. By so doing Aj SICK HEADACHE/ J i Dyspepsia. Foul Ptomach. BUloo^r.ess wlliee avoided. and ihe rood that Is eaten contributes Its near! hlmj properties for the support of the natural waste or theDody. r* HTObserre the following symptoms r< stilting from disease of the Digestive Organs: Constipation. Inward Plies, Fullness of the Blood in the Head, Acidity ot the Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust of Food, Fullness or Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eructations, Sinking or Fluttering of the Heart, Choking or Suffocating sensations when in a lying posture, Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs before the 6fght, Ferer and D*D Pain in the Head. Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes. Pain In the Slde.Che*UJmba and Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Fiesh. A fewdoaesof RADWAY'S PIL1J4 wi.l fin*, the system of all the above named disorders. ^ Price 25 cents per box. Sold by all druggtita, ' fySend a letter stamp to DR. RADWATdb CO., No, 32 Warren Street, New York, fee Our Book of Advice. VBE SURE TO GET RADWAY'S. WHAT i AILS VOUf 1 Do you feel dull, languid, low-spirited, life- , less, and indescribably miserable. Doth phyiU c&lly and mentally; experienoe a sense at fullness or bloating after eating, or of "goo*nesa," or emptiness of stomach In the mora-' lng, tongue coated, bitter or bad taste In moutb. irregular appetite, dizziness, frequent AirAfllfirlif 44oruinlrfl" UCttUat'UCO) UIUHCUQJCO15UV1 uvwmhq wyvvw before the eves, nervous prostration or exhaustion, irritability of temper, hot flushes, alternating with chilly sensations, sharp. biting, transient pains here and there, oold ' feet, drowsiness after meals, wakefulness, or disturbed and unrefresbing sleep, constant,, indescribable feeling of dread, or of Impending calamity? if you have all, or any considerable number' of these symptoms, you are suffering from that most common of American maladiesBilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated with Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The morecomplicated your disease has become, tha greater the number and diversity of symptoms. No matter what atage it has reached. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery " will subdue it, if taken according to "directions for a reasonable length of time. If not cured, complications multiply and Consumption of the Lungs, Skin Diseases, Heart Disease, Rheumatism, Kidney Disease, or other gravr maladies are quite liable to set in and, sooner orjater, inducti a-fatal termination. \ nr. rierce'i uuiunu iucuiw ?ur covery acta powerfully upon the Liver, ?n6 , through that great blood-purifying organ, cleanses the system of all blood-taints and Impurities, from whatever cause arising. It it equally efficacious In acting upon the Kidneys, and other excretory organs, cleansing,' strengthening, and healing their diseases. As an appetizing, restorative tonic, it promotes digestion ana nutrition, thereby building uf both flesh and strength. In malarial districts. this wonderful medicine has gained great celebrity in curing Fever and Ague, Chills and Fever, Dumb Ague, and kindred diseases. - Dr. Pierce's Golden .Tiedleal Discovery CURES ALL HUMORS, from a common Blotch, or Eruption, toHb* worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum, "Fever-sows," Scaly or Bough Skin, in short, all diseases caused by baa blood are conquered by ttdi powerful, purifying, and Invigorating medicine. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under its benign Influence. Especially has it manifested Its potency in curing Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas, Bolls, Carbuncle&Sore Eyes, Scrofulous Sores and Swellings, Hip-Joint Disease, "White Swellings," Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged Glands. Send ten cents in stamps for a large Treatise, with colored plates, on Skin Diseases, or the same amount for a Treatise on Scrofulous Affections. " FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.'* "Thoroughly cleanse it by using Dr. Pierce's Golden* Medical Discovery, and good digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength and bodily health will be established. CONSVUFTIUM, which Is Scrofula of the Langs, is arrested and cured by tliis remedy, if taken in tb? earlier stages of the disease. From Its marvelous power over this terribly fatal disease, when first offering this now world-famed remedy to the public. Dr. Pierce thought seriously of calling it his "Consumption Cure," but abandoned that name as too restrictive for a medicine which, from its wonderful combination of tonic, or strengthening, alterative, or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, pectoral, and nutritive properties, is unequaled, not only as a remeav for Consumption, but for SB Chronic Diseases of the Liver, Blood, and Lungs. For Weak Lungs, 8pitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath, Chronic Nasal Catarrh, Bron- . . chltis, Asthma, Severe Coughs, and kindred affections, it is an efficient remedy. . . . Sold by Druggists, at $1.00, or Six Bottle* for$6.00. omiwi fnr T)p. PierM'l txwk on Consumption. Addrets, World's Dispensary Medical Association 663 Rlain SC., BUFFALO, N. T. ii. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE. s~f The b?st 83 .Shoo la the Rj 0} world. Best material,styli/ili, C7 ?W perfect lit {Congress. Button * / AM *sl or Lace ;all styles toe.&iuat# ?>/ ^ M auy $5 or $6 Shoe. CosU l.'ll Co Ssl notblufrto examine tl:ern e*y<N KSs Uv j3a I at your dealer's. I send Information tree .vJXO" I liow to obtain these ?jV^6, v.3 I celebrated tJ Shoe* / O) j It your 82.50 Shoe oquats 83 Shoes advertised by other Arms. Boys all wear W. L. Douglas' 82 Shoe. Square of fraud. Xone genuine unless name and prtct are stamped on bottom of each Shoe. W. L. 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