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GOOD RESOLUTIONS I BY MRS. JX, A. KIDDER. Three months married! Am I happy? Docs she love mo as she should? , ?ave I always done my duty Self forgetting, for her good? When the cloud carno down this morning, Settling over .Love's fair day ; Did I do my best to lift it? Did I prove a helpmeet?-Nay !" / (She.) I am sitting/here unhappy, Conscie/ie stricken, lone and sad, fie has^one from mo to labor, Andiis poor heart is not glad ! Wjj?nfhe bent his head to kiss me, Angrily I turned away ; Vishing I ha<l ne'er been married ; Telling him the same to-day! Once I vowed to love and cherish Her until death did us part Soon, so soon, my vow is broken To thy shame oh ! faithless heart! Three months married ! By this token I'll begin 1113' life anew Fly slow hours, and bring my darling. Who henceforth shall find mo tr ne." (BOTH.) (She.) " Blame me only, oh ! rnv husband,--" . . (S??) " No! tho fault was mine dear wife " (She.) "I will henceforth do my duty.*' CH?.) ,: I will gua^-d you with my lifo." (Botlu) "We'll forgive and be forbearing; Lifo b6reaftor will bo bright, Though the clouds may seem to lower, And the sun be hid from sight!" THE STORY OF A G?.\IlfS. ELINOR,, you are a genius!" s ?d,:.wli3i the air of one who is |>ro fouudly convinced of the truth of her statement". Elinor, I may its well, say, before going farther, wa3 myself. '* Yes/you are a genius without doubt, and,"if ! am not mistaken, geniuses have a-way of making themselves fa ?^rn?sTh the world." , " Hov/ ?" ineekly inquired Elinor. " Oh ! by pamtiug, music, litera ture, i venting locomotives, ?'ateut churn?, and the like." " I cannot paint even passably well. My cottages look like haystacks, and people always take my deer to b; my cows ; music ! I eau barely master one of Beethoven'ssonatas or Chopin's ?iocturnes-master, why the compo sers would turn in their peaceful graves if they could but hear me, and even Will whistles and drums on the windows, when I play, 4 to drown the noise,' he says. There is litera ture !-yes, I might possibly-I might "write a story. I jumped from my chair at the thought, and walked hurriedly up and down the room. Why had the idea never occurred to me when I had pined vainly for new dresses and girlish finery ? Here I had been wasting two whole years since leaving school; in that length of time I might have earned-I stop to calculate. No, I will not say thou sand surely, and with that sum-. 'Here.my hand camejn_cjjnj^cijaith my almost empty pocket-book, which jingled in a manner suggestive of miserable nickles and penny pieces." -;.?> ort? empty," I said dis ltt-<JT7H heirn. ?*"-.? lU-.w nu.Vu ,*..??--.,-ft" my brain. Locking my, chamber door to prevent interruption, I poured tue contents of the drawers out upon the table and sat down to hunt up materials for my first story. As I turned over the papers, I caught sight of a slip on which was written " Leo nora De erny"-only that and nothing more. Who was she ? I could not recollect ; but, no matter, J?h<^ "Was ?QRe??gT*i!-*^^ f^W?d I determined that she should be my heroine. I wrote busily till the supper-bell rang, and went down stairs with ink-grimed hands-half of one thumb alone keeping its natural hue, and looking like an oasis in the desert. . ? Aunt Lucy regarded me with severe displeasure. "I know they are dreadful," I said, " but it is all Mr. Brown's fault; he should have punished me when I blotted, he would have done so only I was too pretty !" ".Humph! It is odd that such childish beauty is always outgrown," remarked Aunt Lucy with manifest sarcasm. "I have never out-grown mine," I answered cheerfully, feeling piously . glad of an opportunity to provoke my aunt. There was along silence, broken by Aunt Lucy's offer of jelly-cake. " Not any, auntie," I said heroical ly, " I am in a great hurry," and hastily leaving the table without dar ing to glance at the coveted dainty, I ran np-stairs and commenced wri ting once more. For a week I devoted all my leis ure to the task, then, having laid Sonora De Verny in her lonely grave and planted violets at her head, I signad the manuscript " E. Santley," did it up and dispatched it to The Oceanic Magazine. 1 I was not in. the habit of reading the Oceanic-it Wr.s too profound for me, but Miss Radford, the one litera ry star of which our pillage boasted, had told me thatpe:-ple-who contribu ted to its pages always became la mons, and famous I had determined to be. Fearing discovery, I had fguested the Oceanic Editor to addresVae at wville, a neighboring town,, a? to Ville I pilgrimaged daily, ma^g oafc-ofhee clerks unspeakaty 'ed by my persistent inquiri? ters for E. Santley. At lasl ope had begun to die away i; my heart, thc longed-for letter came. How proudly I contemplated the cramped handwriting upon the en velope, and the ugly hieroglyphic in one corner; and how I delayed break ing the seal that I mighu longer play with my happiness ! But at length curiosity got the better of me. I opened the envelope and out fell a letter and a bit of folded paper. The note assured E. Santley, Esq., that his article was-just what was. needed, and that it threw much light upon the question so often discussed in the Oceanic. Flattering in the extreme ; but how absurd of the editor to fancy that E. Santley was a man, as if any mau could possibly have written " Leono ra De Verny !" " Much light upon the question so often-" I thought everybody knew that young men were heartless vil lains when they chose to be, and that girls were in the habit of dying of broken hearts. Truly people most be innocent and unsophisticated in that down-east village where the Oceanic was published ! Now for the check-fifty dollars! Why, I had not hoped to receive? hall that sum. They must have paid jne double rates-sure token that they recognized my genius. " I shall net tell anybody," I said'to myself, "I will keep th? secret till my first novel is published, then, if I could make up my mind about the tulle,"-my thoughts straying to my -new dress and Mrs. Wilson's party. " Where did you get the money for buying the stuff?" queried Aunt Lucy, sternly, as I sat in the midst of a fleecy cloud, sewing busily, auntie detested pretty things. " That is myseeret," I rejoined lightly, " but will it .not be lovely! Look, too, at my sash and this spray. I abhor wreaths," and I held up for her in spection "the trifles which had reduced my fifty dollars to five. " When I was a girl, young women weat to parties in done-up muslin," said my aunt, frowning at the sash and spray. " Extravagant wretches !" I cried, "Miss Nimmo charges six.dollars apiece for doing up the Buell girls' muslin suits ; they do not keep nice twenty-four Louis. It is well that .ve girls are more moderate in our notions than young ladies were in your day auntie." " The Buells will bring a stranger with them," observed my aunt, beaten but unwilling to confess it; "a Mr. Santley. from New York ; why do you color so ?" " Stooping over these long seams makes me so warm," I answered. "Santley, what a pretty name! I suppose he is the propel ty of one of the Buell girls?" " 1 think not. Mrs. Buell spoke of him as a distant relative-there ! Mary Anne has let a goblet fall, I . jgust_^qgJfJt_is_onc of the best," and auntie hurried away. ~~' How odd that this Mr. Santley should como here-when I chose mc name I did not know but the whole family wc-ie extinct before the deluge. -~ '---C-T-JL^JLr..] --.. ?jos ??-a t --f - ' i: , monstrated my aunt. " Not muzzled, my dear, but iii nc way dangeroup," answered our hos , tess, laughing, " How pretty yoi look, Elinor." " I know it," I replied serenely . 11 but what about the lion : Mr. Saut ley I mean." " He is a very learned person-be '?*^<?2s_to a dozen different societies each wit[rV-*j^ has written a work on Social Science -do you know what that is ?-I am sure I have not the remotest idea," returned Mrs. Wilson. " Neither have I ; BO we must either keep out of the lion's way, or oblige him to confine himself to words of two syllables," I answered. " Are all the disagreeable people in town here to-night?" " Mr. Santley, Miss Huso," said Mrs. Wilson, leaving my amiable question unanswered. While the stranger chatted with Aunt Lucy, I scanned him furtively. Thirty-five at least ; splendid head, covered with dark clustering hair, which the study of social science was beginning to thin on the temples; face, not handsome, but very expres sive ; and lighted up by clear gray eyes-lastly a smile sweet as a wo man's, sweeter by far than Miss Eli nor's. I decided to like Mr. Santley. " Would you not like to walk about for a few moments?" he said turning to me when Aunt Lucy had released him, "it is too warm for dancing-but thatj? a selfish excuse, I might as well confess it,-I do not dance, and so am always sure to find mvself stranded on tho same shore with other ineligibles, a heavy penal ty to pay for one's ignorance, is it not?" " You might still leam," I replied, " that is, unless you were afraid of being laughed at." " No, indeed ! there are too many other matters with which to busy myself," he answered. "You-will?" I said, making the very remark \vhich I had resolved 7ioi to make. " Yes, when fate compels me to ;" he replied. V I do not know anything about social science," I said, thinking it best to. admit my ignorance frankly, and not wai? "for him tb''disc/over it, j " we had moral. science, .years and '.i\yeats ago at school when I was a n ?/irl,"-I saw him smile, and I stopped abruptly, feeling that I had blunder ed somewhere. " Pardon my rudeness, Miss Ense," said he, " but you spoke as though n century had intervened between you and youth. Go on, I beg o? yon." ""I have nothing more to say, un less I give you biographies of tho people here, or grow eloquent over the scenery of Meadow Brook-which shall it be?" I rejoined. " The people, by all means," he an swered, " I intend to do the scenery pretty th )roughly, before I return do you know Ihave been living for monlhsin the blissful anticipation of going fishing once more?" , " Well, first of all, as she is nearest to us, comes Miss Radford-the tall, auburn-haired girl in a blue dress she is a literary person-writes for half a dozen magazines, and has a novel running through tire Temped.'" Here my listenei burst into a hear ty fit of laughter, and I, jealous of Miss Radford's literary fame, looked at him indignantly. It was a long time before he grew grave again, and Wileri ho did, he proposed that we should go out on to thc verandah. " I know you think me rude, Miss XT use,- but your remark about the literary person who writes for the Tempest, brought to mind a ludicrous incident over which I have alternate ly Etormed and laughed for a month past-as an'atonement for my ill-be havior I will tell you of it. ? cou ple of months ago, I sent a manu script to the Cecunic-it waa a paper which I had prepared with a great deal of care-the greater portion-of it having been, read before the Society; imagine my astonishment at recei'-.'ifg, a few weeks since, a letter from the Oceanic editor, assuring me that my article was hopelessly bad, absurd, and improbable in thc ex treme-and advising me to give up all thoughts of writing anything more ! I was furious at what I con sidered his impertinence, and I in stantly dispatched him a letter de manding the return of my manuscript. It was sent-rolled up at that-think of the man's heartless malignity. I opened'it and saw ' on the lille page, ' leonora De Verney ; a Story of a Girl's Heart, by E." Santley." What good fortune had broughtons into this friendly darkness, where my scarlet cheeks coul 1 not be seen ? " I made an attempt to learn the harrowing fate of Miss Leonora, and waded through such sentences a? these : ' Gerald my love, my idol ! how can I tread the barren desert ol life without thee ?' ' Day and night was I haunted by the memory of her Hewing golden hair, her shining viole! eyes, and angel smile!' And then that I should haye been accused ol writing the stu fl'-that was ' adding insult to injury." " What, did you do about it ?" 3 asked, trying to speak carelessly, bul Jiearjng my voice tremble. "I laid the manuscript away,' and wroii, ^-nlaiuiug tfcn rn i s trike .fotlic TK? became editor, dug. ii? apemptea to set matters right with tko othei Santley, but failed io receive any re Verney. Cut to get rid of him wai not possible, unless I resorted fri un amiability ; and I kept all ray pep peri ness for Aunt Lucy. So \v< walked and talked, or rather hi talked,' and later in the evening, '. watched him devour oysters anc chicken salad with astonishing appe tite, while the je ly with winch trifled fairly choke?l_?--Hfr? all j gflr;,^-cT?lled upon to suffer so ? I wondered, trying to put Yes and No into the places where they belonged, as Mr. Santley went on talking. " I shall see you again ?" ques tioned Mr..Santley at parting, and Aunt Lucy responded graciously, while I said under my breath, " Never, if I can'avoid it I" In pursuance of my resolution I shut myself up for three days, seeing nobody but my aunt, who cheered me with offerings of sage tea, and disquisitions on the.weak constitution and general good-f'or-riothingness of the girl iflf the period. At the end of that time I came forth from seclu sion, trusting that Mr. Santley having fished to his heart's content had bidden Meadow Brook adieu, and gone hack to the study of social science. But, as I sat on the door-step that evening, over cherries and watching the kitten unravel Aunt Lucy's knit ting, to my horror I saw Mr. Santley coming up .the walk. Seating him self beside me and taking a great handful of cherries, he proceeded to tell me what be had been doing for the past three days-growing enthu siastic over his good luck in fishing. " Yes, he could be happy, while I was forced to f-pend the hours shut up in a dark room, making faces at the wall." I thought inconsiderately, and quite forgetting that I had shut myself up of my own free will and choice. I tried, in a weak way, to snub him, but sage tea^had made me less evil-minded than usual, and so tue effort was a failure. " I shall spend ray entire vacation in Meadow Brook," he remarked,- as he rose to go, and, hearing, I resigned myself to my fate, and seconded Aunt Lucy's invitation as warmly a? though I were not Mr. Santley's mor tal enemy. . Bo he camer-unfailingly as th? BunrisGi We walked1 and rode to gether rand went*to-iohureh.'in com, pany, and our neighbors looking bil wondered kindly whether Mr. Sant ley, who ?eeraed a sensible person, would be insane enough to marry Elinor Huse. Elinor wondered too, occasionally, whether he had 'any such intention, and hoped that he had, because in that case, she could refuse him and thus gain her wished for revenge. You see the fato of poor Leonora De Verney still haunted her. " The last of paradise for nm," Mr. San Hey said one October afternoon, sitting down in-hie accustomed place on the door-step, and throwing.his hat over the kitten. " How does that feel. Othello? Ey the way, Miss Elinor, why did you give the little imp such an imposing name ?" "Aunt Lucy did it," I replied. " ?She thought Othello was a scriptu ral cognomen," and my aunt looked daggers at me over the visitor's head. " Why do you talk of this being the last of paradise ?" I asked, hop ing to hear that he had come to say farewell. " Because, to-morrow I must return to New York," he answered, looking very grave. Aunt Lucy rose, mut tering something about toa. "Don't go, auntie," I said, sweetly. " I want you to help entertain Mr. Santley." So she seated herself again, and sud denly Mr. Santley grew unaccounta bly sulky, and refused io respond to my well-meant attempts at conversa tion. After sitting half an hour he rose to go, and, having shaken hands with Aunt Lucy, asked me to walk down to the gate with him. ' This is not a final parting, is it Elinor?" he said, when we were be yond my aunt's hearing. " Not if you find yourself longing for Meadow Brook fishing next sum mer," I replied, looking at him with innocent eyes. He gave me a displeased glance. " I thought-" ? " What?" I asked. ' Nothing, nothing," he answered " Are you not glad the mosquitoes have almost gone," I said, slapping at one which had ventured out, forget ful of the lateness of the season. " Good-bye, Miss Huse," very crisp ly, and the gate closed with em phasis. " lt is surprising how we can hate people whom we really like, Othel lo," I said, picking up the black ball and walking back to the now lonely porch. " But I am glad Mr. Santley has gone," I remarked to myself that night, in the solitude of my own room. Yes, I was so much rejoiced at his departure that-I cried myself in'.o an astonishing state of ugliness, and made my aunt, who attributed the metamorphosis to a cold-recom mend flannel round my throat, and frequent (Joses of Cherry pectoral But I must pay Mr. Santley fifty dollars, the money which I had used, believing it rightfully mine-till that was (done I could not dismiss h from my mind. So once more ni? and in a few weeks a bundle of man uscripts, including " Leonora De ney," was_dj^^*u"~a ....rconceited, and I began to disdain the editor of tho Occcn/c-actually going so far as to compose a lefter, wherewith to n, nihil-.te him, after ho ?\>ifn* mw favorably review."-^ first book. As for Mi. Santley-hi* ?Pinion T of no consequenr whatever, had he not acknowledge-" that he never read novels. W^t a little simpleton I ?i?iu bt'on, to feel so mortified at his criticism of my story I " No new bonnet" this winter, and why not, I should like to know ?' asked Aunt Lucy. " I want the money for other pur poses," I replied., " If you are going to give it to the Missionary Fund I shall be very glad Elinor-there are better things than new bonnets" " Auntie, if I am consistent in any thing it is in my abhorrence of mis sionaries," I said; "besides, there is nothing better in this world than new bonnet, and next spring I inteud to have two, in order to recompense myself for this season's self denial." The fifty dollar bill was enclosed in a sheet of paper, upon which I had written, " To Mr-. Santley, from the author of 'Leonora DJ Verney,"' then the whole was slipped into an envelope and taken by myself to the Post Office. After mailing it, I walk ed slowly homeward, stopping to flat ten my nose against millinery' win dows and speculate on the possibility of amending and revising my old bonnet;- then, when I was thoroughly chilled, I went home and gave-myself un to the pleasure of abhorring Mr. Santley-and wishing I had my fifty dollars, or rather his, back again. A week later, I sat on the rug in~|.j front of the fire, resting myself after a desperate conflict with my obstinate old bonnet, which, in spite of all my endeavors, had defied all chance and change. Looking into tho blazing grate, I fell to thinking of Mr. Santley-it was shameful, bot I could not help it, for, try all I might, my abhorrence refused to keep pace with my liking. "Does ho ever think of me?" I asked the disconsolate Elinor, but be jfore she could reply a footstep sound ed in the li?rfrV-?ejParlor door was thnwn Oj^en, and the subject of my me^ationf? -mtered. . /sprang to >>y feet in amazement, and stood looking at him without of . ferfcg t?/sm\kp ' liante:. "Us this--your - pating, Elinor ?" he afee?? " upop ^^j^toul you are a cool person. Wi don't you say you are glad to see ff?"* "Because La; riot ut ail glad," -I replied. ??$?m " My cEildV^kjfb?t nw tell/fibs,. answered he, 'Tymara vary glad tb see me, al most ?as pd .'aa I ami at .the sight of you." j "~ " What news hie ySiliH^t?^ I asked, igimriug,^rem|!(|;ks. For answer he ^pkfroiii his poclr e riricofcdcd to un [the- Tempest. et a paper, which fold-it was a cojy ol' Upon thc page A wards me was a p haired damsel-stirtin hicli ctur lj? Jield- to of a frpivzy k:'?ck on h ' heels and glaring^il/*.,.:'.'a4ejected loolaj^yjiLUdi iif?ffi' - : g suit; pla^?^gi^'. _>.' ; staring lool:injL.v3J4h irfl?^ " g suit;Of ? ;" " :. staring capilaiy,- \S?m^*^r^ts LEONORA DE Y?RNEY, \6LpLY." " Did you write that ?#7'; ques lioned Mr. ?SanMoy. "J did,; I replied .??linly, "but may I askfliow you diseorered my se cret?" / ' . "Two riays-ago, I received a note of a singje lino-T was already in possessor} of another. .ifttX which I had stoljn from Mrs. Basil, and which 1 Had laid away, liong with a glove ara some pansie, once the properly.of Miss Huse. Comparing thc handwriting, I fouvo^that both notes were written o^fmT'sauie per son. Ntfar, forfe^wjsj it is that I love you . Elinor, aid want you-fdr my wife-pray dont look so. thank ful !-you must fir;-; promise-that you will never write aiyjjjerc stories unless you ^r?t?SSliotrab? you." " Take nt, indeed !" 1 s?id indig aantly, " I Jo not wish tb be taken !" " Don't talk nonsense^ Elinor," he inswered, "vou have hijen wretched ?ver since I went away.,! " Did I manifest any undue regret j it parting with you ?" i. asked, dis laining tb teJkUic, tritt. ? . . " N6t^rVi?<i?* ?Sp^c'a?st^fbu A'ere indignant, and h?l resolved to r.turn thc money whicf you received for my manuscript ; hui the effort to lie indifferent almost brjke your heart; Eiinor," growing scrims, "tili your note came, I thought pu had only trifled with my love-you cannot *uess how miserable I lave been/' "I have not promise!','' I said, at Lhe end of an hour, .rfljvhich the sci 2ntific man had talked mich nonsense; :< but do you knew, I flittered myself that I was a j^ius4Elinor Huse told mc so, ard I belwi'ed her im plicitly." -.->-'9t.^ Surgery as Applied to Squash In August of.*?S72jI noticed .when walking through the field where my squash vines were cr^n^, that some of them 'j^^m^^^??m ^uitcdeaa,; Wishi;n^ned the vines cause of this I exaiL possible, the Mm :t0 defect> ..Uiief began to point where., tho m??,? vine in brac. work Just whe^tlAy^Q X foillld teWf** ^?finQhos above ;udinalyforacoup^nJ t] t S?^i^ning nearly in my vines, appiyvsj^^bf v"Hrr?? ^SM] bandage to every vine on which the little knot . aprjared. A few days after Lammed my squashes again, n'tT*mund that many of the vines hat had begun to wither were fully estorcd, and the wounds I made had lealed. In the fall I haivested a| urge number of fullv ripe squashes, laving a larger yield from that field han usual.. The past season my ?ines were entirely free fi om the avages of this noxious insect. I md this borer described in " Harria n Insects," page 3SL. It seems " that fter devouring the interior of thc tem the worm entej-s the soil, forms ^coccoon of a gurney substance cov o a chr^d^^S^coni^^mrlh 'the lext summer a winged insect. This s conspicuous for its' orange-colored lody, spotted with black, and its hind egs fringed with long orange-colored md black hai?s. The hind wings mly are transparent, and the fore rings expand from one inch to one nek and a half. It deposits its egg3 m the vine close to the roots, and aay be.seen ll)r/>^about the plants rom the first, of July till tho middle if August." The name bf this in ect is JEgcria Cucurbita:, and it at acks other civcurbitaceous vines han the squash.yliK the hope that his-bit ??~"?^vt?ihv in rural sur ;ery may be of piont to your read rs, I have devote! a part of this ainv day in writing it out for you -L. E. L., (?wens Co., Jj. Z, n N. Y. Tribune.. Woju^ytiglits. The fol' W^T? opening sen ences of \?*3jpta.-t&,-?n ^is subject >y Mrs. SkV^c^V./ Miss PresideuWeller wimmin, and nale trash generally-I am here to lay for the purpose of discussing wo nan's rights, recussing her wrongs md cussing the men. I believe the ?exes were created )erfectly equal, with the women a I also belieVVtfiat the world would o-dav be happier if man had never iXisted. As a success nan is a failure, and ! bless my stars that my mother was i woman. [Applause.] I not only maritain their principles mt maintain a shiftless husband be ides. They say man was created first. ?Veil, 'spose he r&F. Ain't first ex periments alway i failures. If I was a beting man, I would jet $250 they art The only deceit thing about him vas a rib, and bat went to make omething better [Applause.] And then tue} throw in our faces ibout taking anapple. " I'll bet- five lollara that Adah boosted her up-the ree ami-only-gal8 nf th,e core And what:di.dp:ao when he was bund out?; Tm to'; his masculine in tincts;'ne sne?kld Tjehiiid Eve's Gre cian bend and/kail: "'Twan't me; > r 'twas her," and woman has had to 'father everything and mother it too. ."?'What we want is the ballot, and che ballot we?e bound to have.if we have tor let down our back hair and swiin-in a sea of gore. [Sensation.] rp ~pq-pi TRUE SOUTHRON. Tlie Paper for 'the Times. -o Independent and Fearless-Devoted to thc Interests of thc Good and True People of thc Country, and espe cially the Supremacy of tho White Race. 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The harder the tidies, thaigreater the necessity for an annual ouffcv to coun terbalance tho uncertainty of lifo.. If death come early, tho Life Policy* as it were, continues the care and labors ol the Father, or the Husband, for a series of years after his final departure. Special notioo is called to the Sa ving? Fund Policy, whioh is a liberal modification of the Tontine, and is particularly popular with business men of means amLsagacity. For particulars, address . ..' M. A. RANSOM, Gen'l. Agent, Augusta, Ga. June 1G, . 6m 26 REGULATOR, ?3> Nearly all diseasesor? gestion and Torpidity of. the Liver, and relief is always anxiously sought after. If the Liver is Regulated in its action, health is almost invariably secured. Shoulders. Cough, Chills, Dizziness, Sour Stomach, bad Casio in the mouth, bilious attacks, palpitation of tho heart, depres sion of spirits, or tlie blues, and a hun dred other symptoms, for which SJLMJ MONS? T.rv'iPTr ni;TM-" Is no intoxicating beverago, Is a faultless family medicine, Is the cheapest medicine in tho world, Is given with safety and the happiest re sults to tho most delicate infant, Does not interfere with business, Docs not disarrange the system, Takes tho place of Quinine and Bitters of every kind, Contains the simplest and best rem%dies. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Feb. IT, ly 9 ?.ron in MAXES THE WEAK STRONG, Thc Peruvian Syrup, a Protect ed Solution of thc Protoxide of Iron, ia so combined as to have thc character of an aliment, as easily digested and assimilated With the blood as thc simii?est food. It increases the quantity of Naturels -Own Vitalizing Agent, Iron in thc blood,'and cures 11 a thousand ills,"simply byT<mi)iyup,Invig<>rating and Vitalizing thc System. Thc en riched and vitalized blood per meates every 2>art of thc budy* repairing damages and zvastef searching out morbid secre tions, and leaving nothing for disease to feed upm. This is the secret of thc won derful success of this remedy in curing Dyspepsia,1 Liver Com plaint, Dropsy, Chronic Diar rhoea, Boils, Nervous Affections, Chills and Fevers, Humors, Loss of Constitutional Vigor, Diseases of thc Kidneys and Bladder, Female Complaints, and all diseases originating in a bad state of thc blood, or ac companied by debility or a loiu state of thc system. Being free from Alcohol, in any form, its energizing effects are not fol lowed by corresponding veac-. Hon, but ave permanent, infw\ sing ctr engt h, vigor,-and ne?| life into all parts cf thc systeq and building vp an Iron C$ stilution. Thousands have been cht by thc usc of this remedy ^ ivcctJt-, sickly, suffering ? turcs, to strong, healthy happy men and wonu invalids cannot re?soni ??tate to give it a trial. See that cadi bot?o 7J VIAN SYRUP blotvn?f I?a:np?ilot9 SETH.W. FOV/LE & SONj No. 1 'litton Pince SOLD br DncaciBTsi Sopt 2,4 oow ly] Seasonable AFRESH supply i tides just receiV( ' PINEAPPLES ' Ass'ortedTELI "* ' A'ssorfe'd PK ' " 1 CHOW CHOI j, Superior ;Wj?e^an<j June 4, tf 2ii Beats in Pur? Drugs OHEBXOALS,! FA FANCY GOODS 1 Wines, Brandies, f We respectfully announced o? ./j^nds and patd behave.added LARGELY DRUGS AN 1 TS, (ILS, G-LASj OIET AE??I / / ?gai?, ?Tobacco, ttliat onrS^k of OERIES, fYnd will be pleased to show h?a Ja11 times\ Family (L^bceries. Now in store a splendid stfy f embl'acinS QYQT? J ?sually kept in a first class- I^iil?1'0001'^ CLISBY & LYNCH are o?e the most beautiful line o ", . . , , . -j /to which they earnestl Egat they ever hud lg store, f ?* ? Lad;es ?d Gent,a rite the attention and inspect )f Edgefield and vicinity. Mr en 100 Lbs. DURHAMJMOKING TOBACCI, The best article made, j|^^JY f lllA Bi Lamps af? ^Chimneys. The largest and best afrtment ever brought to Edgsfeld now on exhibition and #sa^e at CLISBY &. 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FINE CUTLER if every variety to Silver taken in exAge for goods BIBLES, PRi ?ALS, ANNUALS,, itc, etc., in grer Our ?tal WE have alwain hand the Bots of America! ?blishcrs as som is hey are issued, M h wo supply ' i At the Ii rest Bato- j O ir Stock of B s is unsurpassed unbracing STANDARD ai tfiSCELLAlSOUS 300KS, Ll, . R BOOKS, IYM LKING CANES, and FANCY GOODS Jewelry establishment. Old Gold and A. PROrVTAtJT & SOW, Central and Globe Hotel, Augusta, Ga. 52 " GREENLAND'S ICY MOM TAIN I !? MS, JUVENILES, .rioty. lery Sttfk ncludes all thejndard Articl* both, lomestic and fo|n, sold in th?tra<" Including PAPERS. PH, INKS, PE^ PEN-HOLD? ENV?L01 BLANK-BOC'TOY. GAMES, PL, ;NG- ' COPPYING- ?ta PORTFOLir Etc., etc. Dealers cai rom Mani Ordersj he nu A, T G. L. PENN & SON'S LAND FOUNTAIN may be hs. hours of tho day, delightfjj SODA WATER-^-frosty^ refreshing, leaving onej fortablo as they couhj they transported Mountaiu," on The greatest . estSYRUJ lie genjj are . MM VINECi R BITTERS' Br. J. Waker's California Vinegar Bitters aro a purely Veg etable preparation, made chiofly from the native herbs found on thc lower ranges of the Sierra Se eada moen tains of Cabfornj-; tea medicinal properties of which aro extn therefrom without the uso of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked <( What is the cawse of tho unpar allcled success of VINEGAR Br? TERS ?" Our answer is, that th remove the cause of disease, a the patient recovers his health. Th aro the great blood purifier and life-giving . principle, a perfect Ben vator and Invigorator of th? systci Never before in tho-history of the" world has a medicino been compounded pos sessing the remarkable qualities of Yix EGAR BITTERS.iu healing the sick of every disease man h heir to. They arc a gentle Purgativcras well as a Tonic, relieving Ckmgwtioaor.-Iiiflainmution of the Liver and Visceral Organs, in' Bilious Diseases . Tlie properties of DR. WALK ER'S VINEGAR l?irrEts are Aperient, Dia phoretic,. Carminative, Nutritious, Laxa- ? tive.'Diuretic, Sedative, Colin tor-Irritant, Sudorific. Alterative, aud Anti-Bilious Grateful Thousands proclaim VINEGAR BITTERS the most woudor fiil Invigoraut that ever sustained the sinking system. No Person can take these Bit ters according to directions, and re main long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and vital or gans wasted beyond repair. ? Bilious, Bemittc-nt, and- In termittent Fevers, wte>h are so Drevalent in the valleys of our great rivers throughout the'TJnited.States, especially those of tho Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois,'Tennessee, Cumberland; Arkansas, Bed, Colo rado, Brazos, Rio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mdbile, Savannah, Ro anoke, James, -^aap*8*?*-^^T-' with their vast tribu41*68? through <^??tjmijt?o_coTa?y during the Summer and Autumn^and remarka bly so during seasons of unusual heat and dryness, are Invariably ac* companied by extensive derange ments of the stomach and liver, and . other abdominal ' viscera. In their treatment, a purgative, exerting a powerful influence upon these vari ous organs, is.essentially necessary. There is no cathartic for the purpose equal to DE, J. WALKER'S VINEGAR BITTERS, as they will speedily remove the dark-colored viscid matter with which the bowels are loaded, at tho same limo stimulating the secretions of the liver, and generally restoring tho healthy func tions of the digestive organs. . Fortify the body against dis ease by purifying all its fluids with ^ VINEGAR BITTERS. NO epidemic cm . take hold of a system thus fore-armed. Dyspepsiaor Indigestion, Head-/ ache, Tain in the Shoulders. Coughs/ Tightness of the Cheat, Dminess, Sour Eructarte:^? of tho Stomach,-Bad Taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpita tion of the Heart, Daflammation of th J Lungs, Pain in the region of.tho Kidneys, an? a hundred other painful symptoms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. One bot tle will provo a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. Scrofula, or King's Evil, White Swellings, ?Jlc? Erysipelas, Swplj?d Neck, Goitre, scrofulous Inflammations, Indolent Laminations, Mercurial affec- , tfrnisr'Old'Oores, Eruptions of tho Skin^ Sore Ey??, etc. In these, as in all othef^g KGARBITTEKS have shajruttiMgreat c\?rW ative powers i^^e.nio?t^ffm?to a'n'# intractable cases. ?*r~-JT For Inn^mmatory?nd Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remit tent and Intermittent f?e-ros, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters havo no equal. Such Dis eases are eiused by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Diseases.-Persops engaged imPaints and Minerals, such di ?xeZvSx&? Trnri!^tlTg^fjoh>hcatersantl 1 Miners, as they advanoT??HrirerTinr-c^-?3 ect to paralysed of tho Bowels. To guard igainst this, take a dose of WALKER'S ' rhfEOAR BITTERS occasionally. . ^Jta^nJ&isj^ getter, Salt-Kheum, Blotches, Spots, Pim- M pies, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ri?e- M worms, Scald-head, Sorei Eyes, Ery*ipt Fl las, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of tho' I Skjn, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of J whatever name or nature, are literal <y ? dug up and carried out of the system n?a M short time by tho use of these Bitters 9 Pin, Tape, and. other Worms, m lurking m the system of sb many thon- ' *mM sands, are effectually destroyed and re. TB moved. No system of ifedicine, nc ver- (fi mifuges, no anthelminitfcrwill free tho TB system from worms like these Bitters ForFemaleCompltinte, inyoung or old, married or single&t tho dawn of . fl womanhood, ortho turn of life, thes?Ton- fl ic Bitters display so decided an influence fl that improvement is soon nercoptible fl Cleanse the Vitiated Blood fl whenever you find itsimkrities bursting. flfl through tho skin in Pifaos, Eruptions,' &K or Sores ; cleanse it wi ?-ou find it ob- jSH structed and sluggish i wBypins^li'insn it when it is ri"???j??H?ffl ifi?tafatfi