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THE ACADIAXS. ~ A PICTURESQUE PEOPLE UNCHANGED BY TIME. Their Home in Louisiana ? How They Live ? Daily Occupation? Love-Making and Feasting? Grandmothers at Thirty. Back from that great highway, the Mississippi, there are innumerable smaller streams, called bayous in this section, which fertilize aa immense expanse of J - T T* 5c o I {)raine in wesiuru i^uuidmua. n 10 ? ^ and beloved of artist and poet; it is the country of Longfellow's "Evangeline." Among the numerous water courses where steamboats are never seen, where railroads are unknown, the exiled Acadians are found in nil their primitive simplicity, retaining almost unchanged the language, manners, customs and superstitions of the French peasauts of nearly two centuries ago. These peculiar people were originally colonists from Normandy, who settled in Nova Scotia, but were driven thence, as everyone knows, by the persecution of the English. Not for long, however, were they doomed to wretchedness and poverty, for in 1755 these exiles found their way to Louisiana, where they made a fortunate exchange in the sunny clime and fertile plains they peopled for the bleak land they had left behind them. A souvenir of their former home, the province of Acadie, has clung to them in their name, although they do not call themselves Acadians, but "Creoles Francais." The Americans, and even the Creoles, have corrupted the name Acadian into "Cajun, "' which terms these people resent strongly, yet, as "Cajuns," they are known all over the State. They are, in ! r?roniAo hpinor the descendants of i VtW.vw, c, French parents born in a French colony, ' but they are an entirely distinct people from all other populations of Gallic i descent in Louisiana. They still retain marked characteristics j of their Norman origin, as unlike the , French people of more southern provinces j as if they were indeed of separate race. ! Those Acadians who were of an upper i class have long been amalgamated through j intermarriage or association with other Creoles of the State: but the great body of these people have kept to themselves, and are now, as we said before, as primitive in their ideas and customs as when they first set foot in the New World, al- j though many traits of the Norman peasantry, which they still possess, have been modified by climate and circumstances. They have remained purely French and without Spanish admixture, as is the case with other Oreoles. They are an independent, hardy, athletic race, entirely j content with their own lot in life, being i sufficient unto themselves and having j little interest in the outside world. Their j tastes are simple and nearly all their; wants are supplied from their own in-1 dustrics. They are chiefly an agricul- j tural and stock-raising population, and | for this reason the families?though each j from its own large proportions is a little colony in itself?do not live very near ; together, but are scattered broadcast over the bosom of the prairies. It has : been questioned whether these people i would have retained their peculiar char- j acteristics for such a length of time if | they had clustered in larger communities, i The French patois they speak, and j which they believe to be purest Parisian French, is unlike any other Creole patois i in Louisiana and is wholly unmixed with negro dialect; for the Acadians were; never slave owners. They have ever been a prolific race; but this circumstance does not, as in other peoples, force the I young birds to leave the parent nest when old enough to seek their own livelihood. On the contrary, the Acadians are prepared to make any sacrifice in order to keep their children near them; the uaternal acres are divided and sub divided into smaller farms, and every | child and grandchild receives a share as soon as he has reached the age to settle down and make a home for himself. The young people are also encouraged to marry early, that closer home-ties may bind them more strongly to their native locality. Marriage is in as high esteem with them as it was with their ancestors in the days of the Roman Republic, and old bachelors are as freely held up to ridicule and contempt. Their houses are all modeled after the same plan, a substantial aud comfortable, j but plain cottage, built of cypress, with thick plastered walls, large or small, ac- | cording to the necessities of its occupants, I and with a broad porch or galerie in front, j Along the course of the Bayou Teche, J "where it flows through the green Ope- j lousas" and the Bayou Tigre, many of i the Acadian homes are seen, each em-' bowered in a clustering grove of live oak or China trees. This portion of the fitnte is jrenerallv suoken of id Louisiana O V M. as the "Teche countryand it is a little curipus to learu that the word 'Teche" is a Creole corruption of Deutsch from a German colony which once settled on its V* banks. The wide stretch of the prairies affords ample room for the large herds of cattle ] owned by many of the Acadians, thecare of which is intrusted to the vigorous, active young men of the community. As a rule the herdsmen are tall, handsome men, inured to liardships of exposure. fatigue and weather, tearless and skillful riders, like the Texas cowboys,* yet differing from these last-named gentry in many respects. In the first place they spoak a different language from the cowboys, for few of them even under- j stand English; also they possess the inborn courtesy of the Latin race.and,more than this, they feel the restraining influence of family and home. Mounted on their tough little Creole ponies they sweep aero-s the marshes which would be impassable to any less daring rider or less quick-footed horse. These plucky little ponies deserve more than such brief mention, for they are never weary, are active as kittens, as fleet as gazelles ana swim tne numerous bayous that intersect the prairies in a manner that would not disgrace a native duck. They also perform a not unimportant part when their masters "would a-wooinggo," for the young "Cajun" lover trains his faithful and frisky little beast to caracole and prance and curvet?whatever that may be?before the house of his "belle" until, fascinated by the display of equestrian feats, she vouchsafes the light of her counte nance on the galerie as a sign of encouragement. The Acadians are mainly self-sustaining. They raise and manufacture almost every article necessary for their use. Their farms are kept in good order, and are cultivated in cane, cotton, corn, rice, vegetables, and also tobacco, which last is put up en jjerique. The women are good housewives; their homes are kept scrupulously clean; they dye, spin, knit, make palmetto hats, and weave, in looms of the most primitive construction, jean and cottonade cloths of good and durable quality and of fast colors. From these home-made cloths are fashioned the -usual wearing apparel of both sexes. The men manufacture their household /\irnjtyre, also brooms, buckets, halters and bridles and a variety of other articles, many of which are bartered by the head of the family on his occasional trips to the nearest town for such luxuries as are not comprized in the list of Acadian productions. Time seems to have stood still for these people; the round of their simple pleasures aud occupations is the pastoral life of the eighteenth century, refreshing to contemplate after the mad rush of the j new world, that surrounds but does not reach them. They are .Norman Jtrencn; they are not Americans. They have no interest in either North or South; the inhabitants of the United States, from whatever section, are in Acadia comprehended under one generic term ;<Yan- I kee." The last struggle between the | States did not concern them; when ' drafted for military service they often deserted at first opportunity, not for lack I of physical bravery, but because the war was no affair of theirs?"let the Yankees settle their quarrel among themselves." Most of the cottages contain a long dining-room, extending the whole width of the house, and in rear of the broad hall dividing the front rooms, which apartment is devoted to dancing on their festive occasions. The family friends, from old and young, married and single, assemble from many miles distant at these entertain mcnts, tne young mauous uutuuipauivu by their babies, who are piled in an indiscriminate heap on a bed in one of the chambers, and are refreshed between the dances by their tcrpsichoreanly inclined mammas. These dances afford the "Cajun" youth their only opportunity for courtship? besides the preliminary horseback performauccs of which we have already spoken?for ' Cajun*' etiquette is very strict, and young people of opposite sexes are not allowed any intercourse except in the presence of their e'.ders. Therefore, when young Jupiter Tonans Servat or Numa Pompilius LeBlanc finds a chance during a waltz to whisper?not soft nothings, for they all mean business ! ?but to whisper a declaration in form to Amenaide or Clarice, he knows he is to be made a happy man if she tells him to ?ask pa; yes, and all her family connections to boot. And here the amiable pony comes in again; for he and his master immediately set forth to make a . centaur-like display of horsemanship in , front of the homes of all the young wo- i mlotinnt wlinaP OrHlSAJlt tfl her ! U1UU O iViauvucj n I?vwv marriage has to be formally asked. The i young people marry early; many of the . women are grandmothers at the age of | thirty years. The Acadians exercise k;">dly charity ! toward each other, being a. ..;iys willing to help a sick or unfortunate neighbor. Their hospitality is proverbial; it is almost a religion with them; friends and neighbors or strangers within their gates are all kindiy received and made equally welcome to the best they have in the way of refreshment. Gombo file is here a great dish; it begins their dinner and it is the piece de resistance of their evening entertainments. When above the sound of the music, and the old-fashioned nrnmntcp's mil nf "Balancez. Chassez! r4N""r%~* - -- ?/ Chaine des dames!" a voice is heard to shout "Gombo!" the beaux and the belles make a ru^li for the apartment where this delicacy, served with rice, and reinforced by black coffee, is distributed. The standard of education among the Acadians is not high, a limited knowledge of what has been called "the three R's"' being quite sufficient for their intellectual needs. It seems to us, however, that such gracious virtues as ungrudging charity and a hospitality that is offered alike to friend or stranger, to the wealthy tourist or to the meanest wayside tramp, should go far toward offsetting a lack of academic culture.?San Francisco Chronicle. How the Kaiser Escaped. I had myself been in Berlin whfen both attacks were made upon the life of the Emperor?when Iloedle shot at him from the crowd, and Nobling from a window overlooking the celebrated street, Unter den Linden. A curious little incident occurred upon the latter occasion. As the Emperor was going to his afternoon drive in the Thiergartcn, he asked an attendant standing in the hall of the pa!acc why such an unusual and gaylydressed crowd thronged the streets. "They go to see the Shah of Persia, your Majesty," was the answer. 4'Ah, then I also must put on gala attire!" the Emperor remarked, smiling, and forthwith took from the table his Prussian helmet, replacing with its steel plating the military cloth cap which he had before placed on his head. When a few hours later he was brought back to the palace, wounded and bleeding, the | helmet was dented in several places where the mixed shot used by Nobllng had struck against the metal. Had the unresisting cloth been there instead, who can tell how different the ending of th?trag'1 1 0 / euy migni nave ueeut Two or three days after the attempted assassination the old monarch asked to see the clothes he had worn on that fatal day. Looking at the military cape, riddled with shot, and the dents in the eagle-capped helmet he turned to those standing by his bedside, and with tears in his eyes said, pointing to the marks of the bullets: ''Thank God, it was not one of my own Berlin men who did that!"?Blaehrcod. The Discoverer of Natural Gas. There is one man who is deserving of a place in the history of the discovery of natural gas. Dr. Oesterlcni, of Findlay, knew of the presence of natural gas there fifty years ago. He was passing a stone ! quarry and detected its presence. He ! made a little cone of mud over a fissure, and put a bucket over the orifice. In a 1 few minutes he struck a match under the bucket When the doctor picked him| self up in the adjoining corn-field the I bucket was still in the air, sailing north in the direction of Toledo. It was ! through Dr. Oesterleni's energy, fifty 1 years later, that the first natural gas company in the town was organized. He ; had been laughed at and derided foi ! half a century, and even after the flow ! ? . . ... j aaci ueen smiCK in icei, incy say ;i guuu many of the people thought Old Nick had a hand in the thing somewhere.?Pittsburgh Despatch. (Jneer Fuel. A correspondent of a Los Angeles pa; per, speaking of fuel, says that it is very i scarce in Los Angeles couuty. In chilly weather, when necessary to keep a tire all day, he uses what is called "brea." It is a crude petroleum, which runs out of the hills in many places in the southern country. The hot sun evaporates the liquid part, or the coal-oil, leaving the dregs, or the solid part, on the surface, which can be broken into chunks when cold and is then ready for use. A fire of j wood is made and some of the "brea" put on, which, when it gets hot, melts and covers the wood, causing it to burn very slowly. Without wood the "brea" would melt and run in the ash-pan. One cord of wood and one ton of "brea," which only cost $3 per ton, will last as I longps three cords of wood.?Sacramento \ Bee. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. I The Tynans excelled as dyers in purple 2,000 B. C. [ One hundred thousand persons perished of the plague that desolated London in 1348. Railway cars are now fitted up as | chapels in Russiat, hat people may worship | as they travel. A mitrailleuse is being tried in the Aus1 * ' - 1 AAA 1. ..11 /.in in trian army wmcn wiu nre i,vvu uuuvuiu ninety seconds. A Vermont physician reports the recent death of a patient at sixty years of age who never possessed a natural tooth. The first iron boat is thought to have been built in 1777 at Foss, in Yorkshire, England. It was fifteen feet long, and made of sheet iron. Silk was produced in Pennsylvania in the time of George III., whose mother wore dresses the material of which was made iu that State. The nutmeg hickory of Arkansas is said to be the strongest wood; the lightest and most brittle is the blue wood of Texas, and the tamarack is the most elastic. Sun-dials were the first form of clocks. After them came the water-clock. Rude clocks were invented in the eleventh century. "Watch springs came into use about 1550. Mexican women shop in their carriages and make the clerks bring out to the curbstone the goods they want to see. Only servants and foreigners buy at the J counters. A bisd's nest found on a roof near the [ United States Mint in Wasnington was I beautifully lined with gold. The parent I bird had carried off gold dust in its feathers and shaken them out in its tiny home. There was a heavy fall of black rain on the Welsh coast latety. The showers had the effect of making the grass and the ploughed fields quite dark and black in places. The most plausible theory foi the phenomenon is that the showers came from the peat bogs in the south of Ireland. In 1776 cotton spinning.was performed by the hand spinning wheel, when Hargrave, an ingenious mechanic near Blackbum, England, mada a spinning jenny, with eight spindles; and having permitted one Peel of that place to view il as a curiosity, under .the pledge of secrecy, the latter appropriated the invention, and Hargrave died in poverty. At Wickersdorf the frontier line passei right through a house, dividing the cooking-stove of the family into two equal parts, so that it frequently happen> that the soup for dinner is being cooked in Saxony, while the potatoes are being boiled in the principality of Altenburg. In a neighboring village the frontiei traverses a shippon in such a mannei that the cows eat their fodder in Altenburg and digest it in Saxony. Killed by an Orange Seed. Henry Chatfield, of Brooklyn, died recently of the effect of the lodgment ol an orange seed in his intestines. He had been ill for several weeks with inflammation of the intestines, followed by ulceration. Dr. Emerson, his Dhvsician, called in Dr. William Gilfillan for consultation, and they, having decided that an operation was necessary, procured the assistance of Dr. F. H. Colton. The three doctors made an incision, and after removing a quantity of pus found the source of trouble and removed it. The patient, however, was unable to rally from the shock, and died about four o'clock. Dr. Gilfillau said to a Sun reporter: 'The operation was a desperate one, and was undertaken only as a last resort. There was no possibility of saving the patient otherwise. The orange seed was found lodged in the appendix vermiformis. This is a small sac attached to one part of the intestines. What purpose it serves is not exactly known. It is, however, a sort of trap, always ready to catch and hold hard substances passing through the intestines. The lodgment of-such substances in it is not invariably fatal, but the exceptions are rare. Seeds of oranges, rasins, and similar fruits are peculiarly liable to be caught in this way. Is it dangerous to eat oranges? Well, I suppose in a city of this size there is one case a year of death from such a cause. Very frequently it is an orange seed, but not always. There are about 600,000 people in Brooklyn, all eating oranges right along, and with one death a year from this cause it would seem to be about as dangerougs to eat aa orange as to sit in the house and wait for astray pistol ball to kill you. Still, it'i just as safe, and a good deal nicer, not to swallow the seeds when you eat oranges." (iipsy Proverbs. * After misfortune comes fortune. Better a donkey which lets you ride, th:m a fine horse which throws you off. Those are the fattest fishes which fall back into the water; It is not good to choose women or cloth by candlc-light. What is the use of a kiss unless there be two to divide it? Who has got luck, need only sit at home with his mouth open. Who wgnts to steal potatoes must not forget the sack. Two hard stones do not grind small. Polite words cost little and do much. Who^flatters you has either cheated you or wants to cheat. whrt waits till another calls him to sud per, often remains hungry. If you have lost your horse, then you can throw away saddle and bridle as well. Lightning Strokes Increasing. From statistics collected in parts of the German empire, G. Ilellmann finds that the danger from lightning, though generally increasing, is diminishing in certain districts, the risk becoming less the more closely houses are clustered. The character of the soil has great influence. Letting one represent the danger from lightning on calcarous <jround. two will give it upon marlcy, nine upon sandy, and twenty upon clayey soil. Oaks are struck more frequently than other trees; so that if the danger for beeches be one, that for pines is fifteen, and for oaks fifty-four.? Court Journal. Contraction and Exnans on. When a man stays at home and hears women talk On dresses and bonnets and bliss, When be gets into bed and thinks what he's heard, His head seems to feel just like this: O But when he goes out and gets home quite late, And brings home some other man's tile, The thing is reversed, and he finds later on That Lis bead feels exactly this style: O ?New York Sun. - ... ...? * AT BAY, This is the end, then, of striving; that is what comes of it all; Darkness and foes just behind one; before, an impassable wall. What does it matter how stanchly one may have battled for truth. When with his weapons all broken he sits by the grave of his youth? What did it profit in past years that one did the best that he knew, When in the gloora of the present, virtue herself seems untrue? Why should one fight any longer when nothing remains but defeat? Surely such labor were useless and idle the stirring of feet. J Ah! but the soul that is faithful knows it is good to have fought; Knows it is good to have acted, Whatever the doing has brought. This is the crown of the conflict, this the reward of all strife? Faith in one's self and one's motives, no matter how darkened the life. Flesh may be bruised and defeated, but spirit is never disgraced: Spirit is always triumphant, whatever sharp pain it has faced. Here, at the end of my conflict, I counsel not yet with despair, Though to all seeming my struggles are his who but beateth the air. Darkness and foes are about me, yet I stand with my hatk to the wall, Facing whatever Fate sends me, and facing Fate thus I shall fall! ?Oscar Fay Adams, in Travelers' Re-ord. PITH AND POINT. The crab is a very grasping creature. A DawhIav Hr/lap Rwifjlr rftnlffl ?Hi/tings. A ^top watch?a sleeping policeman.? Philadelphia Herald. Paris Green?The American tourist in France.? Washington Critic. The policemen should watch that others may not prey.?Philadelphia Herald. > The-Stockholder's Motto?Man wants "hut little here below?par.?Boston Courier. It cannot be truthfully said that the , fraudulent coffee dealer doesn't know beans. "All rights reserved " as the pugilist 6aid when he let out a left-hander.?Dansville Breeze. A man's funny-bone, we presume, enables him to "laugh in his sleeve."? Yonker's Statesman. The merest schoolboy could dispute the saying that "history repeats itself." r .7 tp.I ?uvur/ttu vj shuucunun. A mustard plaster is very sympathetic; when it can't do anything else for you it draws your attention.?GoodaWs Svn. " You and Jones don't seem to be as thick as you were. Does he owe you any money!" "No. He wants to."? Town Talk. i In the matter of speed there is a great similarity between a flash of lightning and a bit of unfounded gossip.?St. Albans Magazine. . Wife?"Dear, ][ wish you would invite young Professor Y. some day. I hear he is so dreadfully absent-minded; perhaps he will take our Cecelia."? German Paper. ' Have you heard 'Sing to Me Only Once Again'?" she asked sweetly. "No, but I shall be delighted,he said, with unnecessary fervor.?Detroit Free Press. A lover of statistics has discovered that your wife has to put in 1ft, 908 stitches every time she fashions a hand-made shirt. And even then it doesn't fit.?Xomercille Journal. News comes from Georgia to the effect that a man in that State is living " pleasantly " with his eighth wife. This shows the value of trying again if at first you don't succeed.?Bazar. " You girls want the earth," 6nid a State street father, when one of his daughters asked him for six dollars for a new jacket. M No papa," said the ingenious child of 20, " not the earth?only ar.ew jersey."?Trenton Emporium. Mrs. James Brown Potter is a poser. You can buy her photographs taken in 140 different-attitudes. Is'one of them, however, include the attitude necessary in sewing on her husband's trouser buttons or doing up his other shirt.?Springfield Union. ''Mother," she said with a heart that beat Loud as her tones of woe, "To you the secret I'll repeat, This cold world cannot knowLay thy hand on my troubling browNay shrink not from the themesOscar has come for two weeks now, And never said ' ice cream.'" ?Texas Siftings. Brevity produces some very remarkable * Ipeciinens of what the philosophers call nominalism. One.of our correspondents had nneasion to bo into a store to inquire for Dr. Abercromble's works, "The Intellectual Faculties" and "The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings." " When he asked for them the bookseller solemnly replied; "I know I haven't any merul feelings, and I doubt whether I have any intellectual faculties."?Christian Adcotate. In Biddeford, Me., arc two brothers, each named John Wesley. The elder, when a boy was stolen by Indians, and after a time given up for dead, and a tombstone was set up to his memory. In the meantime another son was born to the family, and named after the first John, who, some years afterward, was returned to his family. The two Johns are known in the family as "Our John" and "Indian John." Mr. Arthur Shut t'eff, Parker, Dakota,wr;tea*St Jacobs Oil will cure cne thinu not adver Jised. It cured a wart on my linger wnicn J toad for j eai s." Price fifty cents Sir Edwakd Txciibohnz Las offered "Th* Claimant" a small annuity ir he will make an alula vit for publication af:er deatli of the true facts of the Orton-Castro conspiracy. "Sir Roger" ha? scornfully refused tl.e offer. At Ten e Haute, Champaign County, Ohio, Mr. Charles F. Powell was postmaster, and he writes: "I have a fine lot of Polish Chicken.". I gave them St. Jacobs Oil on a pill of bread for the croup. It cured them. The next morning I cou d not tell which of the chickens had been >ick." Dr. Anderson CniTonETT, of London, was ; rocently offered a fee ot' .?7 0U0?probably the largest medical honorarium on "record?lo eo i to ind a to treat one of the native princes, but decl.ne.1 the offer. Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" perfectly and permanently cures those diseases peculiar to females, it is tonic and m rvine, efle. tually allaying and curing those sickening sensations tl at affect the stomach and 1 hear', through reflex action. The backache and "dcapgine-down" sensations all disappear . under the s!ie gtheniug effects of this great I restorative. By crug.ris'B. The flesh of rattlesnake when cooked is as> | white as ml k and very delicate. Young men. or middle-aged ones, suffering from nervousdebility and kindred Weafcnes* s< should send 10 cents in stamps for illnn:rated book sugpcstinjt sure meins of cure. Addrest. World's bispensarr Medical Association, 60T : Main Street. Buffalo. N. Y. ] Two itt'ndRED AND PIXTV-TWOpairs of twinp ! weie born in Chicago during 18tK). logo's Remedy/or Catarrh is agreeable tr .ise. It is not a liquid or a snuff. 50c. .** The leprous distilment, whose effect t i Holds such an enmity with blood of man, J ! That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through ! The natural sates and alleys of the body," and cauces the skin to become "barked about, most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome icrust." Such are the effects of diseased and morbid bile, the only antidote for which is 1 to cleanse and regulate the liver?an offir-e ad- p jnirably performed by Pierce's Golden Medi- ci cal Discovery." A ' A patent for a cotton cultivator has been granted to Mrs. Marie Danos of Louisiana. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomo- 1 eon's Eye-water. Druggists sell at35c. per bottle I 'RotalGlde'mends anything! Broken Chi. wo ftlnKo Wnnil Fr?ft Vials at Drills Kr. Orn ( All Run DQwn From thj weakening effects of warm wcatixir, by | hard work, or from a Ion; illness. you need a good tonic and purifier like Hood's Sar*aparilla. If jou bare never tried this peculiar medicine, do so now. It will give you strength and appetite. "i wa? completely run down and wai for aearly fo ir years under medical treatment, being glvea up to die by physician*. My mother urged me to.toke Hold's Ean*parllla. At last I cons^ifd, and I i have never taken anything which helped me so much as Ho d's Sarsaparllla, which restored me to health and rigor. I have been taking It about 1 our months and am now a different lislng."?Nlm I noblx, Peoria, i1l Hood's Sarsaparilla 1 fold by all druggist*. <1; six for IS. Prepared only 1 by C. I. HOOD ft CO.. Apothecaries. Lowell. Mass. , IPO Doses One Dollar NO NEED OF FOREIGN EVIDENCE. ' Attica, N. Y., May 1,1880. Pardee Medicine Company Gents:?i ^iave read many letters from different parte of the country recounting almost miraculous cures by the use of Dr. Pardee's Rheumatic Remedy. There is no more need of foreign evidence to convince me that it" is atf? and more, than you claim " for it; for I have tested its merits, having f VvAAn nwiafMM matitr 4>im<vo aritk rkanmnfltn, ^ and have suffered as much as ono can and live. * I have triod many so-called remedies, but re- N ceived no benefit from any of them until t 7 procured Dr. Pardee's. I have used eight J bottles and am a new man, and I can recom- ? mend it to tha afflicted as a positive cure. I v know of many others hero who are using it 1 and they have in every case been benefited ' by it I I am, very respectfullv yours, e GEORGE MENTZ. r _ - i C A Severe Case of Neuralgia. Rochester, N. Y., May 5, 18S6. 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Dries ha I enough to paint your Buggy upon reccipt of Oao Sol Tha following words, In praise of Dr. 1 neases peculiar to women, must bo of intci expressions with which thousands give uttc restored to them by thfe use of this world-fa JOHK E. SZQAR, of MG O* V AA "My wife had been fluff c iplivv years with female weak Tnnn.uu |uiy out onc hundred dollars thrown awiy ?ut roncr. she took d i rrnuwn wn<i. prescription and it did 1 all the medicine given t dans during the three years they had been p: Mrs. George Hehgeh The Greatest rhea, bearlng-dowTpai P - nally across my back. 1 tARTUlY HQDM 'Favorite Prescription' LAII HLI UUUn. fect health J treated nine months, without rt The'Favorite Prescription' is the greatest ?-- ...m?????? II pwr |UUQiUi| nutuMu TREATINI Many times women call on their family another from liver or kidney disease, anot this way they all present alike to themselves for which he prescribes his pills and potions womb disorder. The physician, ignorant of 1 Satient gets no better, but probably worse by ke Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, dire distressing symptoms, and instituting comfoi 31-TP -Mrs. E. F. Morgan, of J PHYSICIANS E<ut Boston, Mass., says: rniOlblMd was a dreadful sufferer fr rAll FQ Having exhausted the i i giclans. I was completely weak I could with difflci alone. I began taking Dr* Pieroe's Favori uaing the local treatment recommended in Medical Adviser.' I commenced to improve months I was perfectly cured, and have bad wrote a letter to my family paper, briefly i hedlth had b<fen restored, and offering to #enc to any one writing me for them, and enc velope for reply. I have received over fo In reply, I have described my case and t and have earnestly advised them to ' do like' many I have received second letters of than had commenced the use of ' Favorite Presci S1.50 required for the 'Mcdical Adviser,' ai local treatment so fully and plainly laid dov much better already." twwi ATTm/iBAI liUi uu iunv1 The treatment of many thousands of cases of those chronic weaknesses and distressing ailments peculiar to females, at the Invalids Hotol and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., has afforded a vast experienoo in aioely adapting and thoroughly testing remedies for the cure of woman's peculiar maladies. Dr. Pierce'* Favorite Proscription i Is the outgrowth, or result, of this great and valuable experience. Thousands of testimonials, received from patients and from physicians who have tested It in the more aggravated and obstinate cases which had baffled their skill, prove it to be the I moat wonderful remedy ever devised for the relief and cure of suffering women. It is not recommended as a "cure-all," but J as a most perfect Speciflo for woman's i peculiar ailments. < A* a powerful. Invigorating tonic, it imparts strengtu to the whole system, I and to the uterus, or womb and Its ap- < pondages, in particular. For overworked, < worn-out," "run-down."debilitated teach- 1 ere. milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, i "ehop-girls," housekeepers, nursing moth- 1 ers, and feeble women generally, Dr. 1 Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the great- i est earthly boon, being unequalled as an < appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. It < promotes digestion and assimilation of food, 11 Address, WORLD'S DISPEJ Tt u 7-1 t 1 ,1 vv ny aid rr of this country use over tl Procter & Gamble's Lenox S Buy a cake of Lenox and you "w~ COCKLE'S 7 ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, ?HE GBE ATJ3N GLISH EEMED Y or Liver, Bile, Indigestion, etc. Free from Merury; contains only Pure Vegetable Ingredient', gent: C. N. CItlTTENTON, New York. MASON & HAMLIN 100 ? SOLD IT VI F.Q 'a TT??^ OK in IMPROVED UPRIGHT PIANOS The new mode of piano construction Invented ?y Mason <fc Hamlin In 1882 has been folly proved, many excellent experts pronouncing It the "greatest improvement made in pianos of the century." For loll information, send for Catalogue. HASON k HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO., BOSTON, lMTwnont ft. NIT TOM, IS lait 14th St jjROPSY 1 In ^TREATED FREE. Have treated Dropsy and Its complications with most wonderful success; use veg. table retne tles, entirely harra'ess. Remove a I ymp'oms of Dropsy in ffto '20 <1ay?. Cure patients ironounced hopeless by the best p irslelans. From Irst dose sj mploms rapidly dlsijpear. and in ten lays at iea-r two thirds o" a'l ?\inp;om< are ie noved. Some ay cry humi>us w.tnoat knowing inrthlng about If. RememN*r It Cu ts you nothing o realize t>-c erlt of our treatment for yourself. S'e are e<n-tantly curlnz cases of :ong s andlng? a ib that fca-e be<n lapp; I a number of t'mes and h? patient declared una j'.e to llv - a week. Give ul' History or case, name, air, si-*. ?i??v ....I* iffllcted, etc. Smd for fre pamphlet coutalnlii: csilmonlals. Ten days' t cat.i.ent luruls'ieri fre ly mail. If you orJer trial you must r,tur.i thi- ad ertisement to u* with 10 cents l'l s a lips to pay ostape. Kpllep-.v(Fits) po Itively cured. II. II. (iitl! N it SOXS, ill. I)h,. cntral totelt'J}! Si'iH3 Cnn::l St.. N. Y. ROOT BEER Ing, wholesome beverngp. SjUI by drusei^s: mailed ergje. C. E. HIrtES, 4a X. JPela. Ave., Fa.la . 1'a. DOR SALT'.?Near Rlchmon I, Va., aFrult.? ornv* r 5,0X1 Trees and 15 aer sin o rapes. Send for il.* ular. C. R. UC'LLEX, M. I).. B x 74, Rlchuio.nl, Va A Rift nCCSTD To introduce them, we will DIU urrtn. Give Away l.UUO SelfOperatlng Wishing Machines. If you want one tend us your name,P.O.and express offl e atonce. The National Co., 27 > ey)5t.,X.Y. urUPIAU^ Offlcera* pay. bounty pro* JH N\ll |M\ cured; deserters relieved. W tllWI Ullv, 21 years'practice. Successor j no fee. Write for circulars and new laws. ? A. W. MeCormlck A: Son.Wsslilpgion.D.C. j Bfc|" to $8 a day. Samples worti SL3J FRE2 V % Lines not under tho horse's feet. Address 0 V BaiiWBTEE'sSiFrry Km i Holder, Holly Mich KiTCIUTC Obtained. Send stamp to |IA I til I O Inventor*' Guide. L. Bis j 1 Bui, Patent lawyer, Wa-hlngtou. D. C. BI-SJ- Dill a Great English Gout and iilSilr S r IMS. Rheumatic Remedy, i Oval Box, :I4 i round, 14 IMIM. I r> EGULATE Bowel* & Purify Blood. Dr. Balrd'a ' tiBlood Granules, 25c.; 5 boxes, JO. Of druggjju: ir by mall, prepal'l. I)it. Baird, Washington. N. J | inn 111 Habit Cared. Treatment *enton trial | jPIUM HUMAN K REMEDY CO., Lafayette, Ind FRAZER^ JEST TV THE WORLD U II Ufl ? i nr Get the Genuine. Sold Everywhere. BUGGY for C I Friday, run it to Church Sunday. Bix Fashionable Shades: rd with a high Gloss. Tip top for Chairs. Furniture. BabrC Hat. and warrant it to wear, discount lo the Trad* CO J repgBH Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remc< ,-cet to every sufferer from such maladies. T rance^to their sense of gratitude for the inet med medicine, ri^rfeoTth^; nEnsfijE ess, and had paid Urn i to physiolans with% HER r. Pierces Favorite Onnnnawn tier more good than SUPPORTER. o her by the physi"fSKT^ ulde, and feel aa welfu ; of Wcstjlcld, N. P., ?? w luffererfrom leu cor- Mrt. is, and pain contin- IT VfORICS "hree bottles of your Ui has wo restored me to per- tflmHnPRS Agalt with Dr. , for lfUHUCHq? ties of Kscivlng any DenenL. i earthly boon to us ment of myself and fri attending to the duties i B THE WRONG Dl physicians, suffering, as they imagine, one froi her from nervous exhaustion or prostration, and their easy-going and indifferent, or orcr-bi , assuming them to be such, when, in reality, tt ;he cause of suffering, encourages his practice i reason of the delay, wrong treatment and con6? ctcd, to the cause would have entirely removed rt instead of prolonged misery. Wo. 71 Lexington St., _4 jnaj "Five years ago 1 JFILOUS 01 Cmtla om uterine troubles. UULUUO female w skill of three phy- nnpTnM womb to discouraged, and so UUUIuno. for a goo ilty cross the room u-my 0f d te Prescription and 0f money, but received his 'Common sense persuaded me to try y< at once. In three because I was prejudlo do trouble since. I they would do mo no i ,my he would get me somi I the full'particulars against the advice of my losing a stamped-tn- Favorite Prescription, ur hundred letters, ten dollars. I took th he treatment used, Favorite Prescription,' i wise, worn a great years. I then gave the t Its, stating' that they troubled fir the sai lotion,' bad sent the time. I have not bad id had applied the fOUr rears." rn therein, and were iVTH OF A VAST I cures nausea, weakness of stomach, indi- ] gcation, bloating' and eructations of gas. is A* a soothing and strengthening we nervine, " Favorite Prescription" is un- By; equalled and is invaluable in allaying and its Subduing nervous excitability, irritability, gei exhaustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms liv and other distressing, nervous symptoms all commoaly attendant upon functional and of organic disease of the womb. It induces 4 refreshing sleep and relieves mental anx- ,4n lety and despondency. Gc Br. Pierce'" Favorite Prescription this a legitimate medicine, carefully (IJ compounded by an experienced and skillful lili physician, and adapted to woman's delicate rei organization. It is purely vegetable in its cei composition and perfectly harmless in its syt effects in any condition of the svstem. * "Favorite Prescription ? is a posi- mc live care for the most complicated and un obstinate eases of leucorrhea, or "whites," ma jxeessivc flowing at monthly periods, pain- tio Pul menstruation, unnatural suppressions, fui orolansua or falllncr of the womb, weolc on aack, "female weakness," antevcrsion, re- riei ;roveraion, bearing-down sensations, chron- (MX c congestion, inflammation and ulceration $5, )f the womb, inflammation, pain and ten- f Jemesfl in ovaries, accompanied with "in- Pic ernal heat." paj (SARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, No. ie Women ; \irtcen million cakes of loap in 1886 ? will soon understand why. This to what killed your poor father. Stnzaft, Avoid anything containing it throughout yoov future useful (?) career*. We older heads oO> Ject to its special 'Efmgh'neB,' DON'T FOOL JSdmSS fa futile efforts with insect p<nr\WJ der, borax or wbat not, used at random an orer the h6u? to get /CxSPit \ - rid of Roacheaiwater-bugs, Beetlea. For 8 or 8 nights snrLikle "Rouoho* Rats' drypowder,t, # 'V about and down the sink, drain W ^ pipe. Firetthliigin the morning wash it all away down the auk, drain pipe, when all Ikf. Ingnrtn fmm rrmf tn nrllsr nlTI iHnsnprarTbe aecrette In the fact that wherever nwMM are in the house, they must DA AO U CO drink during the night HU AvVICv Clears out Hafs, Mice, Bed-bugs, Fliee, Beeti* "Rough ok Bats," is sold all around taa world, in ererr clime, is the moat wteulwh advertised ana has the largest sale of any article of its kind on the face of the (iota. DESTROYS POTATO BUOS For Potato Bu^s. Inaecta oxi vines, cfcc.. a t&btospoonful of the powder, well shaken, in* key of water, and applied with sprinkling pot spray syringe, or whisk broom. Keepitwaa stirred up. 16c., SCo. and $1 Boxes. Air, sfaa, TtQWH-KATSf -CI-EAB8 OUT? BED BUQ8V FLIES. Roaches. aats,water-b8gg,jnothg,rilii, s^sa, r-fihlts. eouiiTels, jropbera. 16& SI K U--24 ~~ ^ . DR. BAIRD'S GRANULES;; MJto, HEGVUTE THJB i. ' nAiirnTu nriST f M BUTltiliij, it inia , ll fy the blood, cure dyspepfim&jip sea, piles, marmaml laria, head. mWn?W A HESW/vMmBiJt* 1 BC write*: "Beat Xv/'MtMBm // X thl: Klerrrutcdt lwulat* I ,l" wwu." .ff-*"' Another: "They ari h(^ d?-ed wonderful They da s:a& .. not Phr?lc. but act ? tout en I cure." Dr. w. ):. BAIRD, PhyMclan and Surgeon. Oflgctf 'Vofhliijrt n. N J . and ]5T Weat J3d St., Hew Torm Speaker N. J. House A urn blv. x-l'resMcnt Wuft ingtoii. N. J., I'oar J of Henlth, ex County Ptiy* clan. &o.. &c. Another: Iwa* cured of a revere attack of pfMf.. bjcthci u*e. 0%puor mo h gh!y exi reu iny rcgaj4 tandem.'' ? . Kimy to take, aa they *re no larger than a nwt i4 rrj|pf~23t\ per l*>x. $1: of ^runMj or a mall, p^toaee i r.piild. Trade suppled bywhoieaaA OnKgHMT- ? TRY THEM AND YOU Will. be CONVISOEPl. > MARVELOUS MEMORY i>ihcovi:ky. . Wholly unUkeartiflclal npirnua.. Aiiy book learned In one rendlnr^f Roconim"nd'd by Mark Twain. Rt hard rroctot the Scientist. Hon-'. \V. W Anton Jadali P. Benjamia, Dr. Minor, etc. Clan of ltv Columbia law atndanit two claaxes 209 each at Yule, 3J0 UnWeratty of Pens, 'i 300 at Wellealey College, etc. Pro<iwtna poetfraA >*HOF. LOIS El' IK, 'Z31 F.fth Are.. N<w York. PATENTS F. A. LEIIM ANN.SOUCITOH OF PATXXTS. WashiMtoa-S C. No charg* oiil? patutla tecurxl. fond for Ctrcukj DATFNTS Procured at LESl .; rH I Kail I W co*t than obtainable eiMt where. He?t of refen nee* and Inventors' Gntda mailed free. JAMEH1I. LANCASTER, RUi em Attorney, 187 Bi oadvrar, N. Y. Olffj ft ' to Soldiers A Heir*. Send sMB rAn((AltCfor circular*. 00L. I. BIJiZ rCilglllll5uAM. AttT, Waihlngton. fij >NE DOLLAR I Black. Maroon. Venulkm, OHve Lake, lrewrter aad . H anum. Front Doors. Store Front*, etc. Will jead LY A CO.. 300 <c a06 Klnala Sc. Chicago. 111. ? v I j i ly for those delicate diseases and weakbey are fair samples of the spontaneous itimable boon of health which has been . Sophia P. Boswxix, White Cotta&M^ j: "I took eleven bottle# of your 'F&? Prescription' and one battle of tout its.' I am doing my work, and have been me time. I nave had to employ help for -??? ?. t aawfrtisnmri f*v_ < BUKXU TCUio * ~ our medicine. I have had to wear a >rtcr most of the time; this I have lads* I ever did."' Mat Gliasoit, of tfuniea, Ottawa Co. writes: " Your Favorite Prescription i rked wonders in my esse. t she writes: " Having taken several bofcthe ' Favorite Prescription' I have r?my health wonderfully, to the sstonisbends. I can now be on my teet all day. of my household. ISEASE. II dyspepsia, another from heart disease, another with pain here or there, and in jsy doctor, separate and distinct diseases, teyare all oniy symptoms caused by some until large bills are made. The suffering quent complications. A proper medicine, the disease, thereby dispelling all those rvelouB Cure.?Mrs. G. F. flWAOua, ' ~ i, Mich., writes: "I was troubled with t eaknees, leucorrhea and falling of the r seven years, so I had to keep my bed d part or the time. ,1 doctored with an IJfferent physicians^arid spent large sums no lasting benefit. At last my husband )ur medicines* which I was loath to do, ed against ifeem, and the doctors said good. I finkllr told my husband that if a of your fnedlcines, I would try them Ha moalr Kntflpc of .thft ' yilj D1CJCLM* uv Ovu **fv Bf. ? ? . - also six bottles of the 'Discovery,' for ree bottles of ' Discovery' and four of ind I have been a sound woman for four i&iancy of the medicine to my sister, who ne way, and she cured herself In a short . to' take any medicine no# for almost IXPERIENCE. in pregnancy," Favorite Prescription m a ' mother's cordial," relieving nausea, akness of stomach and other aistrtaein* mptoms common to that condition. If use is kept up in the latter months of station. It so prepares the system for do- i cry as to greatly lessen, and many times nost entirely do away with the sufferings that trying ordeal. 4Favorite Prescription," when taken connection with the use or Dr. Pierce's ildcn Medical Discovery, and small laxae doses of Dr. Pierce'a Purgative Pellet* ttle Liver Pills), cures Liver, Kidney and ldder diseases. Their combined use also noves blood taints, and abolishes can-ous and scrofulous humors from Um item. 'Favorite Prescription *? la the only dicice for women sold, by druggists, ider a positive {guarantee, from the nufacturcre, ttat it will give satiefaon in cvrry ease, or mcner will be raided. This guarantee has been printed the bottle-wrapper, and faithfuHy cara out for many years. JLargo bottles ) dosee) $1.00, or six bottles fat 00. ST" Bend ten cents In stamps fo* Dr. roe's large, Illustrated Treatise (166 fes) on Diseases of Women. SC TTain Street, BITFALO, J. Y. sioooisl M?atal or riijrslcal VnkaMi that BotaaM fUrriY Hltt?>raf*iltociire. SOCta. H?rb MedidaaOh 15 N. 1Kb Ht., 1'hiladelphia, Pa. Sold bj all DraggMb Q _ Pieo'a Remedy^or Catarrh is the H Jffll Beet, iiasicsi 10 use, aau vneapeeu BSold by drngtfifita or "ect by maiL 50c. E. T. Haseltine, Warren, Pa.