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GETTYSBURG. " AN E X- CON FE I) MR ATE GENT** AL'S GRAPHIC STORY. How His Virginia Mountaineer Conducted the Confederate Wnnnrtoil and the Wa*ron Traiu after the Battle. A man of massive frame and over si feet tall, with a striking face, stood i the corridorof the Continental Hotel am talked with a smaller man, with a pai of thin whiskers and a suit of yellowisl Scotch cloth, says the Philadelplii, Press. The large man's features wer rugged and weather beaten, lie had ; large aquiline uo;e, heavy, brown raous tachc and shaggy eyebrows, and a so!" felt hut, corresponding in shape to tha worn by the Southern officers during th war, surmounted his full, ruddy face. I was Gen. Imboden. formerly of the Con federate Army, and he was telling hov in '03, with scarcely more than 2,001 cavalry, he couducted 7,000 woundet ? 1 i.~ r'..?r,.A wcu ouu iiic v unu miuj ciau /roirt Gettysburg in safety back to Mary land. * "Late on the night of the 3d," he said "I got my orders from General Lee. I was a sad interview; he brought me i message from a ne.ir friend, Genera Kemper, whom he had left wounded 01 the battlefield. At (hambcrsburg, no long ^before, Kemper, Pickett and I hai spent the night in Pickett's tent, and a: we lay side by side Kemper prophesiec that he would die in buttle. The mes sage was to remind me of that prophccj and to say it had fallen ]true. I neve: saw Lee so overcome as he was thai night, lie was a man of wouderfu equanimity and rarely lost his calmness At ( hancellorsville once, when our sid< had lost g:ound, he became exc'.tcd aik wauted to lead Wilcox's division int< the fight. The men refused to charg* until he retired to the rear. But whei he spoke to me, 111 tne a-eptn or ti;a night, of Pickett's grand charge everj muscle in hi< body quivered. Genera Lee told me he was about to entrust tin wagon train and all his wounded to me He would send me additional artillery, bu could spare no more men. lie ordere< me emphatically to keep the column go ing at all hazards, aud warned me that would probably bs attacked. I hat about 2100 men all mounted, a commanc 5, I had raised myself around my home ii the mountains of Virginia. All wen hardy mountaineers. There were nbju 2300 wagons, 10.000 horses and 100; wounded men. I 'stationed companie of my cavalry about every quarter mill throughout the train, every fourth bod; being more numerous and carrying ar tillery. "In the van, where I expected to mee most opposition, 1 placed my brother Colonel Imboden, with quite a larg force of the 18th Virginia Cavalry, fully realized that to lose the suppl; wagons meant ruin to the army, anc fearing to leave even the details o arrangements to my staff I stayed in Get tysburg until the whole train was in mo tion to see that my orders were exactl; carried out. The column extended sev enteen miles. At 4 o'clock on the after noon of July 4, in a drenching rain, started with my stuff, about six in nwm ber, to gallop to the head of the t:ain i have served in plenty or oatties, ou never before had I realized the horrors o war as I did that night. From ever; wagon we passed came the cries, shriek and moans of the wounded. Uen ra Lee had kept all the regular ambulance for use wi:h the able-lx?dicd men in tin contingency of another battle, and not i wagon had springs. Many had not evei straw. In places the road was rocky am the men were jolted fiightfully ever; moment. Some swore, some prayed i an agonizing \oieefora stop that I coui< never order. "So narrow was the ro:id that in place ttie legs of our hordes were bruised by th wagon wheels. On the other side, a well as I could judge, were dense woods The darkness was so intense that mainl, the instinct of the horses enabled us t keep the load. Now the storm wouh increase in violence so thut we could no hear oach other's voices; again the crie of the wounded would drown them. Bu advance wc must, and I ordered the mei as I passed along to abandon and throv aside any wagon thut bccame disabled so as not to delay the others. My brothe in the van hud instructions to charge an< drive forward at all cost any force en countered. "The road led up the East face o South Mountain and over the brow. Th descent on the oilier side was extreme! ruggod. The rain continued to descent in torrents until daybreak. The moun tain streams were river? which had to 1> forded. In other places the mud wa knee deep. Among the wounded I ha< two generals, Scales and Pender. Th former is now Governor of North C'ar-o lina. Pender was killed a litilo late at Winchester. These two were nea the head of the train. Eccept them had no otlicers higher than a Colonel Starting by the Ohambersburg road w presently Hanked it and led off to th left ul. ng a ciun'r/ by-road. Abou midnight, while r.ding with my staff, was taken with a congestive chill,brough on, I think, as mmch by the horrors had undergone as the exposure. M staff shouted for a doctor and one soo: came up. Fortunately one of the me: stumbled upon a farmhouse about th.i time, I could not keep my saddle. The took me into the hou-e and the doct<j injected morphia into my arm. Then was put on horseback aijain and hurrie forward through the darkness and rai to an ambulance no??r the front of th line. In that I lay down while the dot tor kept watch beside inc. I awoke earl in the morning from a kind of stupor t hear the round of near firing. I jumpe to my feet and looked out. A body o Northern cavalry were attacking th tram not a stone's throw off. Some c the men had stampeded, but my blae servant, ste. dy as a rock, stood waitin with my horse by the side of the wagon bridle in hand. A howitzer compau passed at a ruu. with their gun. yelled to them to stop and made thor load with eannistcr. Looking up th road I saw my brother coming on th gallop at the head of his Eighteent Virginia Regiment. We bagged tha whole attacking party. A few wer killed, none escaped. "Through the morning of the 5th w met several such attacks as that from th side. My van met no resistance. "Whc at last we reached Williamsport I too possession of the town and turned it int a hospital. The members of my con mand were*thoroughly exhausted. Th plight of tho wounded was horrible whc vre came to lift them from the wagoni Without the strength to help themselvi and with no one else to look out for then the shaking of the ride had thrown thei into cramped attitudes, so that they la doubled up. A number had died an stiffened in those attitudes. All wei drenched to tho skin. Here and thei bones, dislocated during the night, pre traded from the skin of the thigh or th ' . y.'-Jiii- -.1. ' : skull. Those who lived had not been fed for many hours. All the doctors 1 had with me at once went to work and did what they could for them." H Blowing l'p Camels. Moorish traders in camcls seem to be jx no more honest than traders in horses kave the reputation of being. The author of '-Among the Arabs" describes one of their tricks, which, according to j his account, only an expert is likely J v; to detect. The story was told to the | a author of :i Frenchman who had traveled i tf | for some time in Algiers. [ hi r On one occasion, while in au Arab j fr li village, he declared his intention of buy- j n ing a young canieL No sooner had his ' si e desire bccomc known than at least ii twenty camels were brought for his in- j ro - spcction. They were all fine-looking i pi t animals, in cxieilent condition, appar- cl t ently. In fact, the only fault our i e Frenchman could perceive was that they j hi t wore too fat. After a proper amount of ' 01 . deliberation and bargaining he selected j fa j the one wnich appeared to be the leanest j in ) aud paid the price agreed upon. j \V 1 The next morning when he went to j fa i look at his fat camel he found a living j fa . skeleton, on whose almost lifeless bones j lc the fle-li hung in large folds, and whose P1 ( best development wa^ about the joints. ! ol t The method by which the camels are | fa i suddenly "latti-ned" for the market is j sa 1 thus described: 1bi i An incision about an inch in length is w t made in each ear between the skin and 1 the flesh. Into this a small tube is B 5 fitted and secured by a silk cord. There j P' 1 it remains, hidden from the observation j bi . of all but the initiated, aud ready for use . fa r at an v moment. When a merchant who | fa - . , ; | r I is not acquainted witn tne mowing up j ? t trick comes to buy a camel, the dealer ; ^ I takes two tubes, each a yard long, and, | h< in?cr!ing one end of each in the sma'l , ; tubes, just described, through the other I 1 cuds two Arabs blow with all their j rt ) might until the animal has attained tho ! ^ i requisite degree of plumpness. The in- j h i Hating tube* are then withdrawn, and ; *c t the air is prevented from escaping by ^ r means of a cork smeared with pitch. V( 1 The poor camel now becomes, apparently, s' j quite lively and frisky, trying to throw itself on the ground, or to press against " t the wall or a tree, or whatever object ' 1 may be at hand, so as to get rid of tho J 3f . wind. It is generally too well watched t *( I by the rascally Arab to succeed in ia 1 accomplishing its purpose. Sometimes, j ^ 1 however, it manages to elude his vigil- j \ ance; and then, if the cork is not very ! e securely fus'encl, the wind escapes with j ^ t a whistle like that of a steam engine,and ; n ) the line-looking beast suddenly collapses j 3 s into the miserable object it really is.? ; ? e Youth's Coin anion. I 11 Y j o The Seven Bibles or the World. ! The seven Dible3 of the world are the ' * ' '1 J 41-- I J ^ Koran 01 tne juonHiiiun-uuus, tuc ^uuao u > of the Scandinavians, the Try Pitikes of ii c Buddhists,the Five Kings of theChincse, il 1 the three Vedns of the Hindoos, the g Y Zendavcsta, and the Scriptures of the c * Christians. The Koran is the most re- e ' cent of these se-. en Bibles, and not older u * than the seventh century of our era. It n * is a compound of quotations from the Old j J and New Testaments, the Talmud, and c * the gospel of St. Barnabas. The Eddas f of the Scandinavians were first published * in the fourteenth century. The Pitikes I " of the Buddhists contain sublime morals V * and pure aspirations, but their author f * | lived and died in the sixth century before 8 * j Christ. There is nothing of excellence y I in these sacred books not found in tho t s ' Bible. The sacred writings of the Chinese r j arc called the Five Kings, king meaning c s web of cloth, or the war]) that keeps the c 2 thrc ids in their place. They contain the I J " best sayings of the best sages on the I f n ethico-jjolitical duties of life. These , a ^ sayings cannot be traced to a period j 1 F higher than the eleventh century B. C. I c " The three Vedas are the most ancient ! a * ! books of the Hindoos, and it is the opin-1 a | ion of Max Muller, Wilson, Johnson and j a s Whitney that they are not older than 1 e ! eleven centuries B. C. The Zendavcsta ! >> s j of the Persians is the grandest, of all the < i. j sacred books next to our Bible. Zo- a v J roaster, whose sayings it cont tins, was 0 1 horn in the twellth century 13. C. Moses J lived and wrote his Pentateuch fifteen 11 centuries B. ('., and therefore has a clear s | margin of :!U0 years older than the most t 11 ancient of the sacred writings.?Prairie | r q Farmer. j t \* ? ; j ? A Frightful Expcricnee. , 1 1 j The desccnd ints of Chief Justice John _ ' Marsh:.11 are a sturdy race. One of them, i ^ j bearing the great jurist's name, owns a ; j r, farm in Virginia and runs a saw-mill ; ( I thereon. lie got down in the buzz-saw | ? j pit not long a^o to fix a loose screw. . ; Suddenly he felt something moving be1 i hind him, and he threw his arms up and j ^ "! felt tlic saw cut right through above the | e I elbow, almost from skin to skin. Hais- { 5 : ing his head he struck the saw, whjch i i t% mw/vaita ikmitrrVt Kic hoir . UUIO JJ1W.V ....... , ( I liis forehead and face and down into liis I | throat. When he was taken out his face x : was one mass of bleeding flesh. They j < T 1 laid hira on the grass and brought a ; j ' surgeon. While the latter was running j ^ ' across the fields to the spot where the , jj! men had left Marshall he lieurd his voice : J . I saying, as well as the wounds would < ? permit: "Shove this stuff away from J . j my eye so that I can see whether it's , j j hurt." They did "shove the stulf away i from liis eye as carefully as possible, and j ^ he gave them one ghastly glance and t " then murmured: "It's all right; I can 1 . see." I-t took the surgeon an hour and a ? 1 half to dress all his wounds, lie endured J ^ ; the pain with pcrfect composure. Within ' 'I' a month he was out again as well as ever. | j Some one was telling one of the old col- j ored men on the place, while "Marster , I John" was still in bed, what a narrow! [ es ape he had had from death. "Hull!" ! : sad the old man, "take heap more than I ! J , that to kill Mar>c John. Why, if you j wanted to kill Marse John you'd have to : cut his head oil?and then hide the | 'p_ head."?New Fork Tribune. >f ? I i k A Scientist in a Fog. S A. scientific man, while out in a boat 1 i, one night on a river in Florida, was j y ! caught in a fog so dense that it was im- j I possible to see twenty feet ahead. The j n ?4.? ?.l fl,?f I " I uwiuun:u 0bu]i]/cu lunui^, ouun^ buuv e | they must wait for daylight, or, at least, . e j until the fog should clear away, as they h j did not know in what direction to steer, f t | Their passenger then showed them what f e | beuefit could be reaped, in an emergency, J j from a knowledge of certain natural o j laws. lie says: "I at once stood up in * iC | the Lo:it, and shoutecJ. Soon an echo ( n j came baek. Pointing in the direction c k trom which it proceeded, I said : ' There f o is the nearest land.' Rowing half a s i-; mile in the specified direction, we soon ^ ie ; readied the shore. The boatmen ex- j * n 1 pressed that, although they had been on j c 3. the river all their lives, so simple a plan 6 ? for finding their way in a fog had never c ?, j occurred to them. The fact upon which I :n! I acted was this: Air saturated with y j moisture during a fog is a much better d conductor of sound than when dry. Two ? e results follow: sounds travol faster, and * e hence the echo returns more speedily, J >- and the sound is heard more dis- *e tioctly." T "now to get fat. [INTS FOR THE INCREASE OI LEAN PEOPLE'S WEIGHT. uligestible Food the Chief Caus< of Leanuess?Liquids With Meals ? Fresh Air and Other Aids to Plumpness. "Every woman who is thin would lik< > be stouter," says Brillat-Savarin ii is fragmentary chaptcr "On Leanness,' oin which, however, the following mtcncc is worth citing: "Men fattei iecp, calves, oxen, poultry, carp, crnw ;h, oysters; hence I believe the genera axim: Whatever eats can be fattened rovided the food is well and suitably ioscn." The famous Mr. Banting, who reduced is weight by more than fifty pounds it jc year, found that 6Ugar was the mos .ttening thing he could eat. Ilence, t( icrease your weight eat cakes, puddings nip, honey, candy and pastry, alwayi kingcarethat it be crisp and digestible >r indigestible food is a chief cause o anness. IS'ew England pie-crust i robably responsible for the appearand ' the typical gaunt Yankee. Other fat ning articles of food are tender lamb ,lmou and eels, milk and cream, corr read and butter, and those vegetable! hichgrow under ground, aud of whicl igar is made?beets and turnips, etc oiled or baked potatoes, mashed on th< late, and seasoned with salt and fresl lttcr, mane a delicious dish, rapidlj .tteninnf. tat often and verv slowly >r 11 is not uiu ^uliuliiv iu<vt ucaii/iy/u ic amount that is thoroughly digested lat nourishes the system and rounds ii jdily contour. Bismarck's private physician, Dr chwenuciigcr, owes his internatioua :putation to his success in diminishing ic Cliancclor's weight. The secret o is success is never to allow his patien > drink with his meals, or if he docs t< o so sparingly. Hence follows the con erse rule that if you covet stoutness yoi lould drink freely with your meals, al ays, however, in such a way as to no itcrfcte with the digestive processes hat. is, you should never drink wliil< ou have food in your mouth, for thi >od ought to be moistened by ?alivi lone. Ice water, too, should be avoided t chills the stomach, and is the cause o aree-fourths of the indigestion and con cqucnt leanness in this country fountain tourists know that ice wate ever quenches the thirst. Vet we con tantly spoil our water by putting in ice 'V>o ina oVinnlrl npvpp hn iillnwftd to COni a contact with the "water wc drink, bu nly with the outside of the pitcher. I his way we avoid also the dangers froi licrobes hidden in impure ice. Air is food, as much aa beef, the onl lifference being that food is assimilate' a the stomach, air in the lungs. Henc f you wish to be plump, become an ai lutton. Breathe a!l the fresh air yo an' get, and avoid foal stufTy ail specially at night, as you would putri neat. Always breathe through the nos< :id cultivate the habit of. slowly fillin our lungs with twice as much air as yo ommonly inhale, exhaling it again ? lowly. This purifies the blood au timulatcs the appetite. Frequent wan laths before retiring, or cold spong >aths in the morning, followed by bris riction with a coarse towel, have tb ame etlect. Brain-rest is especially indicated i he case of those who object to leai icss. Moderate brain-escrcisc is, ii Iced, essential to perfect health, bi xcess should be carefully avoidec Jmotional excitement and worry ai atal to the chances of becoming plum md pretty. If an annoying thougl taunts you, forcibly fix your attentio in something else. Above all, nev< illow suck thoughts to torment yc iftcr retiring, and thus to pass di igrecably into your dreams. Kigl lours of dreamless sleep, in a wel 'cntilated room, w the most potei osmetic known to man or woman?tl traightest road to plumpness and beaut ?Uei aid of Health. The Origin of "Chestnut.* Mr. Joseph Jefferson i* responsible f he latest explanation of the word "clies int." lie attributes the introduction he word iu its slang sense to Mr. Wil am Warren, the veteran comedian < Boston. ''There is a melodrama." Mr. .TcfTcrsr aid to a reporter, ,lbut little known he present generation, written by Wil am Dillon and called 'The Broke Sword.' There are two characters in i >nc a Captain Zavier and the other tl ,>omedy part of Pablo. The Captain i sort of Baron Munchausen, and in tel ng of his exploits says: "I eutere l tl vootls of Collaway, when suddenly, fro h:< thick boughs of a cork tree ? i'ablo interrups him with the words: " .hestnut. Captain, a chestnnt.' 'Bali eplies the Captain. 'Booby, I say orktrce.' 'A chestnut,reiterates Pabl I should know as well as you, havir icard you tell the tale these twcnty-sev< imes.' William Warren, who hud oft< ilaycd the part of 'Pablo,' was at a 'sta l'.nner two years ago, when one of tl gentlemen present told a story of douli ul age and originality. 'A chest mil nunnured Mr. Warren, quoting from tl day, '1 have heard you tell the talc the wenty-seven times.' The application! he lines pleased the rest of the table,ar when the parly broke up each helped ipread the story and Mr. Warren's cor neutary. And that," concluded M Jefferson, "is what 1 really believe to 1 :he origin of the word 'chestnut.' Signatures by Photograph. A strong evidence of youthful vanit jays the New York Mail an I Er]*ret*y the fact of pasting a miniature likeness i the writer at the bottom of a letter whe the signature properly bolongs. An u town stationer has received many ordc for letter and note paper to be engrave it the bottom of the sheet in this inaaue Yours verv trulv, r The square marks the place where tl ikcncss of the writer is to go. A phot< napher in the 6:une neighborhood tol i reporter that he was doing a large bus icss in miniatures. "My patrons arc mostly young people, ic said. They are very particular aboi ivery little detail 01 tue pieiurc, an >rder as many as ten and twenty dozen i i time. The photographs are about tl iizc of an ordinary postage slump, and ai gummed upon the back. Some ord< heir pictures finished in colors. It tak< :onsiderable time and skill to paint thci atisfactorily, and they arc cotm-quenil ixpensive; but such U the vanity of in nitrous that they do not hesitate at cos' In California there-are two silk cultui ocietics, one with a fund appropriate >y the United States Government an he other with an appropriation from th jtate of California, the latter being ca; ied on under the auspices of State Boar ? WORDS OF WISDOM. The office of liberality consists in giving with judgment. No place, no company, no age, no per- \ son is temptation free. j Custom may lead a man into many or- j rors, I.ut it justifies none. i II is a good di< r.:tio:i not to make too j much of any mm at the first. Small and steady gains give romj.c* 1 tcney with ir.in<|ui i:v of mind. . ; Many calumnies arc injurious after be- I j ing refuted, like the Spanish flies, they , sting when alive and blister when dead, j ^ The more wt aknesi the more false- t . hood; strength goes straight. Every ' 1 can:<o:i hall that has in it hollows or 1 t holes goes crooked. , f That which lays a man opci to an < enemy, and that which strips him of a 1 1 friend, equally attacks liim in a'.l those i interests that are capable of being weak- 1 t ened by tl'.c one and supported by the | ) other*. ? ? Many examples may be put of the ; 3 force of custom. both upon mind and ' j body; there fore, since custom is the * | principal magistrate of every man's life, j 3 I let men by all means endeavor to obtain j 3 j good cus'on.s. Mariiageis the stri;:te-t tic of perpet- .. | ual friendship, and there can be no ^ * friendship without oonlideuce, awl no , t confidence without integrity; and he t must expect to be wretched who pays to ' | beauty, richer or politeness that regard ' | j which only viitiK* and ])iety can claim. ] 7 j ] , i The Serpent in the Loj*. ^ j Mr. Silas lle.nlo. k h :s a sixteen-year- J ' | old hoy by the name of George, who has , 1 I shown from his earliest boyhood a mortal j fear of snakes, being by nature uncomj moaiy timid, lie cannot bear the sight. ( o." a reptili'. and invariably shudders at j i the recital of anything relating to them, i The other day hs was bringing a very 1 ! heavy but 'lightly decayed "back-log" ( j i?it?> the house to put on the fire, when, ( " just as he reached the middle of the , 1 | room, he felt something crawling slowly ( " : o cr his back. lie stopped, steadied the ) j ponderous burden of his shoulder a * j moment, ami reached around with his f I disengaged hand to ascertain the cause ( of hisannoyan'C. To his horror, his hand ] i came in contact with the cold, slimy j body of a large snake. With a yell that curdled ajar of milk on the sideboard, ho jumped from under the log, which * fell end foremost to the floor with such 1 force thai the planks crashed under it and it dropped into the cellar. Mrs. ' lb inloek ran screaming into an adjoining ^ room and slammed the door behind her. a " Take if. olT, good heavens, take it olTl" bellowed George, wringing his hands in wild terror, as, glancing kiack over his shoulder, he saw the gleaming eyes and j darting tongue of the hideous reptile. ~ Old man Hemlock, who at tne Deginmng of the excitement was sitting near the u fire, had risen hastily and seised the , poker. lie immediately rushed up to Ueorge and struck at the reptile with all , his might, but, missing it, dealt his son a '* savage blow on the cheek. The boy ? staggered backward and fell senseless to tlie floor. The snake, now thoroughly ^ frightened, being roused by hyemal | torpor by his succession of heavy shocks, darted swiftly in the direction of the firet. p!ae. The old gentleman followed in quick pursuit, and, whirling the poker aloft, struck another terrific blow at tho n monster, but again missed it. The snake, j pushing foi ward to esca[>e the merciless i . persecution, ])lungcd into the fire. A j jj. horrible writhing and hissing, a blinding j j shower of ashes and coals thrown out- | .'c ward into the room and the serpent lay I dead and roasting in the fire. Mr. Ilem^ loc k turned quickly to his prostrate son, in and, assisted by Mrs. Hemlock, who now ?r reappeared in the room, presently re("u stored him to consciousness. But when 9. the boy came down to breakfast next ^ morning the family was astounded in j. discovering that during the night his lt hair had become site iked with gray.? j ie j L\nlraf Kentucky JYcws. y.; Antiquity of Telegraphy. A correspondent of the French journal, j Casinos, states that in a curious old work, prin'ed in Paris in 102:?, there occurs a j 1 I remarkable passage, of which the follow- j I-1 I in# is a translation: " Wc may also tell j j I you of this great and wonderful secret, 0 j which a certain German has shown to i Kin# Henry, and who, by his industry " I and dexterity, is able to speak and con,.? j verse with those who are far away, and " | this l?y means of a magnet. He first rubs j toge:her two needle ma?nets, and then j ' i places them each separately upon two j j j clo k dials, around which are engraveu j ,, | the twenty-four letters of the alphabet, j " j If, then, they wish to speak together, or | 16 to make each other understand w hat ihey j j would desire, they move one needle j . ! around until it has po'nted to the letters I i which a e accessary to make the words I 1 I and sentences which tliey would say, and ! as they turn one needle so also the dis* taut needle turns, making always the ? 6ame movement. The Kinj, seeing this wonderful secret, forbade him to divulge 1.1 it, fearing that thus would be opened ^ j very dangerous communication between | le | the armies of his enemies and their be- i ' i j sieged towns.*'?Flcctricuni. ic | se The Cause of Diphtheria. ! According to Dr. Hunt, Secretary of j I(1 j tho New Jersey State Hoard of llenlth, ! to diphtheria is largely due to damp cellars ! n" j which are suddenly heated in the fall.and [ r- | his theory is verified by various reports : ! where the disease has ragt d. It is j claimed that during the summer in many i cellars a good deal of vegetable matter is j | allowed to decay, and when the tires are j y, I started in the fall this decayed matter is ' is i stirred up and mingled with a peculiar I nf j dampness, which must he in the cellar, ! re , and it pervades the entire house. ! A NOTED BENEFACTOR'S '.| I)erd ?f ItlndnenH. nuil the Marvelous lien- ! r" I clltHto the Huflcrern in Warren County | Hunpitnl. ] Washington, X. J., June 2G, 1W. j I S. And ml Kim r, M. D., Binufmintoii, X. V.: I Dear Sir?Like the rest of the prnfe?ion, I j have a prejudice against proprietary meili- 1 I pinoa- tint^ liko the rest. 1 can crive no i?ood rea- ! le son for it. A medical friend of mine in the ] 0- west called my attention to your Swamp Root i d and bade mo try it . I wrote you for a romple, i 1- and you sent me a generous one indeed. I | have tried it very carefully, and find it to be a i ? wonderfully invigorating tonic in cases of | .j. broken down constitutions. Thus far, I find it i j gives great relief in kidney and bl idder trou * bles; in in.ipient stages r-f Blight's d:scaso. j diabetes and Urinary trouble-i in general. In i ^ a hospi al, you know, I have aiupla oppor- | L> tunity to test a medium*. All the patients j ;r treated successfully are so many advert sers , s of its merits. 71 Yours truly, Do. S. A. Dr.foe. j y In charge of Warren County Hospit il, j y Washin ;ton, N. J. j ^ The above is a true copy of the original let- j ter-Editor Jtlnuhamton Republican. c 'lliis spe' iflc is meeting with marvelous sue- j ^ cess in the treatment, of diseases for which it Is j j bo highly recommended. If you va'uo good health and hope for lonz life, use Dr. Kilmer's ! e Swamp-Root Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. At Druggists, 11.00?6 bottles for $>.00, or by ' expr.es, Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. ON THE WHEEL. Wbat "Round-thc-World StoTtni Mnd Champion Howell Say of the Hport. The popularity of 'cycling is growing. Thomas Stevens, who has just been around the glolie on a wheel says that the best roads in the world are found in British India. The Brand Trunk road is 1,000 miles, an unbroken highway of marvelous perfection, from Perihawar on the Afghan frontier to Calcutta, [t is made of smooth, hard, natural concrete, beds of which lie along the line. How such roads would b-i apreciated by the enthusiastic 'cyclers of this country! The wonderful achievement of Mr. Stevens, in the face of myriad dangers, entitles him to all his honors. The fast riding champion of the world, however, is Richard Howell, of Leicester, England. He is a splendidly made fellow, be tween twenty-five and thirty years of age, six feet high, and weighing, in training, about ICO pounds. Ho commenced riding in 1879, nnd in 1881, it Belgravia grounds, Leicester, he won the 3nc-mr!e championship of the world, beating ill the best men of (heday. From that time his career has been one of llmoot unbroken successes. He came to the United States in 1884 and 18S5, and at the jreat Springfield tournament in 1885, won seven out of eight race."?. Iu the 'Cycling News (Eng.). October 1st, I8S7, is the following interview with him. "What are your best Derformances?' "This year I did a full n.*lle on the track at Coventry in 2 minutes, '.io seconds. Good judges think, with everything in my favor, I ;ould do for the distance." "What is your system of training?" "I eat plain good food, and plenty of it. [ take a little walk before breakfast, and then, after that meal, if I am loggy, ride ?ight or nine miles on tbo track here, in thick flannels. After dinner 1 do some more slogging' work, and may bo a walk and ?arly to bed. "But there is one idea of mine which I aave found invaluable. If I have done too mm h work, or my system is out of order, or if I don't feel quite sound, I take what I have used since I was 'queer' in 1K8.'!. I have always found that Warner's safe cure sets me up and puts me to rights again, and it is a remely which I believo in and tell all my friends about. "In the winter-timo especially, when you 2an easily understand I am not so careful of my health as in the spring, summer or an tunm, I have found it it invaluable. "All I want, to beat the fastest bicyclist in Jio world, is plenty of practice, an occasional lose of my favorite, and my 'machine.' "When I am about right in weight I content myself with short, sharp brushej as hard is ever I can go on tho track, and when I ;an cover 440 yards in thirty seconds with a [lying start, I "reckon to be moving as well as I want to. "Bicycling is glorious sport, but it ^-as its physical ill effects which, however, can be ;asily overcome by the method used by chamwon" Howell" California's Wonders. Professor H. B. Coney in the Amermn Field, has this to say: "California has the scenery of Switzerland and Colorado, the tropical fertility of Italy, r.nd a diversity of climate throughout its eight hundred miles of length possessed by no other State. It has over a hundred peaks of a height exceeding 10,000 feet, of which Shasta, 14,000 feet, is the greatest; ten groves of big trees, scores of spoutine: geysers, hundreds of mineral, soda, sulphur, Congress, Vichy, alum, alkali, hot and boiling spring*; mud volcanoes, a petrified forest, and a dozen fine watering places. Among its hundreds of lakes it numbers ice cold Tahoe, ten by twenty-two miles in size, its surface 0,240 feet above the sea (highei than Mount Washington"), with its cleai depth of 1,700 fe.?t aud' its submerged forest. It has the record of yielding $50,000,00 of gold in one year?1851 (present annual production, $18,000,000.) It cultivates millions of acres of vineyards and oiange groves, saying nothing of fruits and cereals; it posses ses Yosemite, fit monarch of all endless natural wonders." Conosmptlon Sitrrlv Cured. To the Editor.?Please inform your reader* that 1 liave a positive remedy for the abovi named disease. By its timely use thousands o! hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be f?lad to send two bottles of my remedy free to any of your readers who have con sumittion if they will send mc their Express and V. <). address. Respectfully, T. A. SLOCUM. M.C.. 1S| Pearl St., N*. Y Itciumj Piles.?Symptom* ? Moisture: in tense itching and stinging; worse by scratching If allowed to continue tumors form, which often bleed and ulcerate, becomiup very sore Swayne's Oiktment stops the itching ani bleeding, licals ulceration, and in many case! removes the tumors. It is equally eltieaciou: in curing alUSkin Diseases. DR. SWAYN'E <S SON, Proprietors, Phi la. By mail for 50 cents Swavxe's Ointment for sale by druggists. "Taylor's Hospital Curo for Catarrh" can b< obtained on application by letter to the Citj Hall Pharmacy, 3M B'way, New York. i re* pamphlet. If afflicted with sore eyes us' Dr. IsaacThomp son'n Kyo-water. Drttjricistssolla' per hot tie 'Rovaf,Glue' mends anything! Hroken < hi na, Glass, Wood. Kree Vials at Drugs & Oro Catarrh in the Head Originate* In scrofulous tulatin the blood. Henc? tho proper method by which to cure catarrh Is t? purify the blood. Its many disagreeable symptoms and the danger of developing luto bronchitis or that terribly fatal disease, consumption, are entirely removed by Hood's .Siirsaparllla, which cures catarrh by purifying the blood; it also tones up the system aud greatly Improves the general health. Try th< "peculiar medlclno." 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" WHAT ~~M AILS YO U ?1 Do you feel dull, languid, low-spirited, lifeess, and indescribably miserable, both pbyslally and mentally; experience a sense or : ullness or bloating after eating, or of "gon&- . less," or emptiness of stomach in the mornng, tongue coated, bitter or bad taste irt ;v>; nouth, irregular appetite, dizziness, frequent leadaclies, blurred eyesight," floating specks " > )efore the eyes, nervous prostration or ex- .. . l&ustion. irritability of temper, hot flushes,. ,; liternating with chilly sensations, sharp.. )iting, transient pains here and there, cold. feet, drowsiness after meals, wakefulness, or listurbed and unrefresbing sleep, constant, ndescribable feeling of dread, or of impendng calamity ? . If you have all, or any considerable number >f these symptoms, you are suffering from. hat most common of American maladies? - * Bilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated ffith Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The mom Minplicatcd your disease has become,' the . jTeater tlie number and diversity of symp?ms. No matter what stage It lias reached. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery ivill subdue it, if taken according to direc- >; , Jons for a reasonable length of time. IT not :ured, complications multiply and Consump- ' ion of the Lungs, Skin Diseases, Heart Disease* Rheumatism, Kidney Disease, or other grave maladies are quite liable to eet in and, sooner * ar later, induce a fatal termination. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery acts powerfully upon tho Liver, and through that great blood - purifying organ* cleanses the system of all blood-taints and impurities, from whatever cause arising. It i* squally efficacious in acting upon the Kid- ?2) neys, and other excretory organs, cleansing, ? itrengthening, and healing their diseases. As sin appetizing, restorative tonic. It promotesdigestlon ana nutrition, thereby building up , both flesh and strength. In malarial districts, this wonderful medicine ha* gained great. -- -< celebrity in curing Fever and Ague, Chills and-. .< Fever, Dumb Ague, and kindred; diseases. ^ ' i Dr. Pierce's Goldeu Medical Di?. covery CURES ALL HUMORS, frorn a c-ommon Blotch, or Eruption, to the worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum, "Fever-sores," Scaly or Hough Skin, in short, all disease# caused by baof blood are conquered by this powerful, purifying, and invigorating medi cine. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under Its benign influence. Especially has it manifested its potency in curing Tetter, Eczema; Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, 8oro Eyes, Scrofulous Sores tuid Swellings, Hip-joint- Disease, * > "White Swo'Jings," Goitre, or Thick Neck, ind Enlarged Glands. Send ten cents in itamps for a largo Treatise, with colored plates, on Skin Diseases, or the same amount , for a Treatise on Scrofulous Affections. ' FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."* rhoroujfhly cleanse it by using Dr. Plcrcefe Golden iQodical Discovery, and good ingestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital .trength ;>.nd bodily health will be estab)TsB5afc-? CONSUMPTION, which is Scrofula orihc I, n tigs, is arrested md cured by this remedy, if taken in the ?arlier stages of the disease. From its marrelons 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 Curb," but ibandoned that name as too restrictive for l mcdicino which, from its wonderful com bination of tonic, or strengthening, alterative. Dr blood-oleaneing, anti-bilious, pectoral, and nutritive properties, is unc<jualed, not only js n remedy for Consumption, but for all Mi route diseases of tho Liver, Blood, and Lungs. 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