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MEADOW OP GOLD. b Meadows of gold Boilling and reeling a-west l Ye clasp and hold The milk of the world in your breast. Ye are the nurses who clutch y The ladies of life, and touch 8 The lips that famish and burn, Tn agony cruel and stern. Meadows of gold Reaching and running away I Shod with the mould, And crowned with the light of the day. Ye are the chemists of earth, n The wizards who waken to birth; g The violets blue, and buttercups, too, Under the dark an'd the dew. ft Meadows of gold- d Winding and wending along Fair to behold, A And merry and mellow with song. Ye are the poets whose chimes Are rang by the reapers, whose rhymes Are written in windrows of grass, By musical sickles that pass. Meadows of gold Laughing and leaping afar I Fast in your fold, Forever tho beautiful are. Ye are the Hebes who dip. C And lift from the loam tr the lip The nectar, whose piethorio flood Is tinted and turned into blood. J. N. Marrnsws. "It is My Heart." THU sIBGOUASTEn's ADOPTED SON. l The burgomaster frowned, and knit his heavy brows; he was perplexed as to what should be done wit' the little i figure before him. There he stood in his wooden sabots and rough peasant's t clothes, hat in hand, and under one arm the precious possession of his life--a lit tle black fiddle. The child's face was what puzzled the i burgomaster more than the simple question of what he should do. When the boy looked up with his eager, earn est eyes, it somehow seemed to himi strangely familiar. t Where had he seen it before? V There was no fear in his manner, only a restless movement of the hand holding the cap showed him to be ill at ease. The week before he had come into town with his little old fiddle and strange ac cent, and until to-day had been un molested. Now, for what reason he could not guess, he had been seized upon sudden ly by the town authorities and brought before the burgomaster. A part only i could he make out of what was said, for his own language sounded queer on these strange tongues; and as to the ex planations offered, they had seemed a pdrfect jargon to the townspeople; there forA the burgomaster, being a learned man and versed in the patois spoken in various sections of the country, the lad was brought to him. Their duty, at all events, had been ac complished. They had explained how day after day the child pursued no call ing-attempted no trade-but sat on a bench or by the road, with the children clustering about, playing his fiddle, cortent if in return they sometimes shared with him their huge slices of bread. It was a vagrant life, and would teach their own little ones bad habits, therefore must be stopped. Either he must leave the place, or go among the town poor people and learn an honest trade. The burgomaster, a stout, red faced man, had long ago done with sen timent-- -therefore small leniency was to be looked for from him. So Carl was brought, and now, all alone, stood before the magistrate. What he had done or what was to be done with him, he did not know. Af ter a silence, seeing the burgomasteri looking at him, Carl came a step for ward, and, with his impetuous manner, exclaimed: "What is it I have done ? Naught but play upon my fiddle to the children. It did no harm, and they liked it. Is it an offense to make music ? In other Pl.aces, I and my fiddle have made friends with the townsfolk." The shaggy brows knit closer, and away down in the burgomaster's heart I stirred a chord that for long yeaa-s had t lain so quiet its existence had well nigh been forgotten. Understand what the boy said ? At I the sound of that patois, so strange tot the ignorant townspeople, there came to " him visions of hia youth, and a long hiol- f iday in the far-off sunny hamlet where this dialect to him had grown the sweet est music in the world as it fell in liquid, guttural notes from the lips of a youngt peasant maid, So well the memory came--so fren -, It seemed but yesterday--when, ov. worked with studies, he had gone from I home to gain health and strength, and leave learning for awhile to its own de vices. Well had his father's injunction been carried out in all save the last, and that truly had been through no spirit of disobedience. It was no lore gained f rem books; it sprang up) in his heart, and not until the lesson hand been learned too thoroughly ever to forget, did lhe even guess of its existenca. "Come, lad," he says kindiy, and at t he sound the boy's heart rejoices, for ho hears his own tongue, a little stranige from disuse, yet perfectly intelligible. Phey say thou must give up thy fiddle if ever thou -wouldst thrive." "Ah, noin, nein--it is my heart I" clasping it closer, "Thy heart ? Then, lad, it shall not go; yet first let's hear what thou eanst bring from'it." For a moment Carl looks thoughtfully into the burgomaster's face; then says: "Thou shalt hear what the corn sings when it is growing, and the trees whis per when the breeze touches them at night, In the times when I have lain upon the hillsides, wntching sheep, my fiddle and I heard it over nd over",' The lad's quaint imaginings touch the burgomaster a heart, and smiling, he nods his head to the boy. Slowly' the old fiddle is taken out, the strings tight. ened; then, resting his chin upon it, lightly he draws the bow across. The hurgomaster starts; he had thought to hear some childish strains; yet these notes the boy brings forth from the oki black fiddle have in them all the power ~ of a master hand. The pictura comes before him 'f thie ~ quiet night, the restful sheep hud/.Iled ~ together on the hillside, the breeze as it goes sweeping by moaning througL the trees, the gentle rustle of the distant gram gowing in the darkness, and the lonely lttle figure of the watchful lad ~ ghermns these sounds and heaping b Sthem no in his heart until they tremble forth at his touch upon- the vibrating j strings. 4rk !, The darkness moves awa, i Int the east the sua come fushing up and I the ar is suddenly pulsing witi ' he ' ig of the dawn-birds. h A111ir, Carl I-lad, with thy heaven , ohatwon the stern old ear before thee. Thou Last saved thy slf a world of wandering, and gained a fe of ease. * The one green spot in the magnate's .l eart holds a memory whidh Carl's plaa pj ig has brought to life. Again he is a3 oung-a student-and in the-twilight at 'ands waiting for the song qf the, young. o easant coming home from' her work. yo he song oomes naarer, and! when into a er pathway he steps with outstretsihed aa rms, he laughs joyously'to se the h1P iess anring u in her eyeg. , . , Yet fate had come betweer;. It was ot fit that the only son of rioh old Bur omaster Van Gruwan should wed with h peasant ; so he had cone away at his ather's bidding, leaving behind his heart inong the green country. lanes where qi welt the impetuous little soul through hose veins ran the fire 'of the South. ti h, God, how he had suffered l Suf- te red as his father with his phlegmatic m )mperamont, could not even dream. am ie had pined so that his studies and vi rhole life grew distasteful; then, at ingth, the father had relented, consented rudgingly to his son's wearing the rA ttle field flower where he had hoped to T lace a rare exotic. bi Not waiting for aught beyond a bare tr onsent, the son started forth, eager to ain that so long denied. Alas, he came N n late. Elspeth had been but a foolish di laid, the neighbors said, to love the urgomaster's son-a foolish maid to m ave haught to say to the village lads ; nd when the young stranger left, just aemed to lose all heart, and one day n aime home ill with a fever. a So while the stern old man debated, )eath stepped in and gathered the wild a aisy of his son's heart ; and when he nine the grass was already green on her rave, and he could but take away with urn the memory of what had been, annd lie knowledge that of the two heart hus sundered, one had broken. Long years went by, and the old lur cl omaster died. When his son succeede, w ini, he had married a boxum umini ressionable dame, who brought with er a dower of gold and linen. - She ruled his house, attended to his aits, and of the two daughters born of he marriage, had seen that they both fc ere well versed in those things a good y ousewfte should know. n They were too much like their mother ' ver to interest him muen, and his heart al ometimes yearned for a son to bear his a iame, but none had come, a Carl little guessed, as he ended his )laying, of all the thoughts he had con- 11a ured up in the burgomaster's brain. ec "Well, lad, thou hast a gift, thee and hy fiddle, of bringing old-time music T nto my heart. Thou hast a name. What sit?" ''Carl Mueller; and I have neithei iome nor friends, save those we win to. ,ether, my fiddle and I." ri "Thou hast not ? So much the better, or now thou caust have both. Wilt thou be a son to me? Thou shalt be haught, and if thou art clever, as I take thee t be, one day from out thy little bLack fiddle thou shalt draw music that will make all hearts thine." Could Carl believe his own senses Y e hardly knew what to say. What was this life promised him? No more wandering, sleeping where he might, i iietd, and often supperless. The tears itood in his eyes, then quickly seizing he burgonaster's hand, lie kissed it. Yes, the fiddle ; the little old black hing so contemptuously spoken of by * he townsfolk, had gainedi for Ca~rl what money could never have done-a place ~ a ai the burgomiaster's heart. At first the little peasant lad, with his ~tr-mnge tongune and odd ways, had been isore trial to the burgomaster's wife ; et the lad, being gentle and lovable, .ad won a place for himself in the ~ aonanhold: and when, after his day's ~ ti. b .4 t -ii wa'- ug9 nsw s ht outiiorepn.n' vnI cm poieaplc hr w "Hwddithpe." adI as cked wi peoleAL,..and, thy er ' hids on te rof,toi. coripndown, be il a cae psitty raparun hedrier' w ads met,paed wro the ifrie a he ach ostuko the w hoarek ondositeo "here,"chig troe adve "ishere wse hid tur lieti upset nine top-heavinesst ad illed o paple" ro h so n "Wetll,ir wonedo theeotders ine a ree, hr foror that hoehto agaist his pa ck with peoplee, and thf coure e bire wano hance tor themin" w "he ilat bae raifr the driver's I "Why slpe fromwe akte andngue ondh gotrtocth oto the horses andef ung oren brem and tahen there asd imnawy. Ae didn' stage fo aroundter his evrythn ape fmanopheaifor teo dkllsedgers pasegeto he 'spoertou adI aial andhunprde thre hr. Toweer a iee th rvinfo hhih againro." n . ' d her Awa h ns nn evr he." wa rri tt beLongellof thie adrpeerst"r "Wy he oltcalednaong thoonu Ad9p(lag Gransdpa. An -lnot raged, 1bt o a atd fde a time-'worn ents, ovitg,wlt feeble istep wear. r sat cjown unddr at tree en lin i. T t other day to t a bit.. Threc four children were playin. in the ird at his'back and directly a mite of girl 1ookd through the feoe and " you hurt q little girl' "aless rpe,no 1" he replied. "Why en OVeI tep aside to pass a bug or a arm I No; child . I wouldn't hurt a drof tyour1bead .or all. monbey in 4te ydtt angbA'egran'pa" eb in ed,tae the other children orowdl "No--ot now, child ero was ne-<c aat mte but-3t b " e,b l&heart, remember it-when lden called e grandpa. :It was yeats ago--yars id years, but I can alost kear their >ioes yet." "Be you crying ?" - "N-no. The tears will spring up as ] call the past, but I'm not crying. here are days when I can't keep them tok-nights when I am a child, but I'm ying to be strong just now." "I guess I'll come out and see you. y doll's broke her neck' and is most lad." "Come right along, child l I used to end logs and arms, and necks when the iildren brought their dolls to me." The little one passed through the gate id sat down beside the poor old man, id while he sought to save the life o; io "most dead" doll by moans of a stick Yd string the child observed : "You must be quite old, grandpa; :u are all skin and bone." "Old? Bless you, yes! Iwas 81 only week or two ago. Yes, I'm poor iin ash as well as in purse." "So your grandchildren had dolls, oh ?" "Yes, dear-dolls and toys and fine othes and books, and everything they anted. I was rich then." "And did they comb your hair ?" ''Oh, yes." "And sing to you?" "Yes.'' "Well, I guess I'll sing you a song, r I'm going to ask ma if I can't adopt aU as my grandpa, You must excuse ty voice, for I swallowed a pin the other ay and ma expects it to work out of my iouldor this fall. I guess I'll sing aout the three little graves. Don't look t me or I shall forget." And in a voice full of childish quavers, ad frequently stopping as if to swallow )me of the words she sung : Under an elm three little graves Under the sod my children three he years may pass, but my heart will grieve And sorrow will ever rest with me. Under the elm I walked to-day, I looked--" "Why, gra.ipa, the tears are just inning down your cheeks I" " Y-yes. ehild-.I can't help it 1 M, oor ol life is full of graves and griefs !' "Is your wife dead ?" "Long ago. child." "And all the children?" "Dead or scattered. I am alone." "'Well, that's funny. You can wipe our eyes on my apron, if you want to." "Here's your doll - good as new." "That's nice. If I should adopt you 'd keep you mending dolls all the time. [ave you got over crying ?" "Yes child." "Well, then, you must be hungry. 'm always hungry after a good erv'. Vait a minute." She ran into the house to retur" with, generous slice of bread and buier and p)iece of meat, and as she halnded thet lodt to the old man, she said: ".I've got to g~o in now, but wu'll re ieimer that I've adopted you as u randpa. Don't cry any nmore, an'i r>me back to-morrow. Good h've, randpa !" "Good-bye I" and men who p)assed by saw an ol I in with his face ini his hands to hi'le Stears, and whcn they aske'd the itter, a child wvho stood by exp lainmed: s" 'Why, sir, he's crying becaus~e he's alone in the world, and a lit tle girl 8 adopted himi."-Detroit Pr'ec Prers. LIMPY JOE. The Boy Whose Mother Was Dead. "Mister, mayn't I sing in here ?" in tired an urchin, as, linmping through o doorway of a Madison street saloon, app)roached the bartender. ''Sing ?" grufily rep)lied the saloon in. "I don't care," lie continued wits, sneer, and turning to a customer gged in dresa and rough ini appear. co, he handed a g lass and bottle. The boy limped to the r3ar of the >m, where were seated a niumb)er of mn engaged at card-playing. In ap arance he was a fair specimen of the 'cot Arab. Apparently lie was not >re than twelve years of ago. His at and pants were torn, his shirt riag (1 andi collarless. On his feet werc oes that in times gone by had been ed by a worldly man. His hat was II of holes, y'et beneath its torn rim ero sparklect ecs of blue, and ap ared a face winni.ng and beautiful. inning on a table in the apartment lhe gan inging, "Oh, 'Where is My Wan. ring Boy To-night," in the sweetest ice. Trho twenty or more men in the im stopped their talking and playing, d listened to him, One verse ho sang, oilier, and still another, and his hear. continued to listen. .Iere's a d'me, runt,y," ~n; a rough. 'king individual, breaking the sience. number echoed his sentiments and lowed with similar gifts. "Where yor from, kid ?" asked one. "I travels," he replied. I lived in low York once." "An orphan boy ?" AI don't know. My mother died three ears ago, an' my father drove me away [e drank, he did, an' he used' to whi iy mother till she could hardly stand. )ne da, he came home drunk, an' beat iy mother, ani' she died, an' then lie rove me away an' told me to dig for iyself. I sold papers fur a while an' ie big boys beat me, an' I left. One r twice a man put me off, and I had to et money. I sung in saloons. Last iinter I got clear to Kansas City. A tan heard me singing in a saloon an' 1ok me home with him, an' took me to burch an' Sunday school, an' I used to ing there, but 1 got tired, r... ieft him. used to sleep in doorways an' boxes, n' cat what I could flid. I left that lace an' went to Denver, an' then I amne back. I got here th' other (lay, a' I'm going back to New York." "What's yer name, boy ?" interrogated a old toper. "Joe Brown ; sometimes they call me G.impy Joe.'" The led again began singing, and bhen he had finished, his listeners di ided their little money with him, and Lio by one left the saloon. "Limpy .J'o" >llowed, and the following night Qtarted( Lone for the soene of, his babyhood Tn's whale'thln jiie1a b ig flah, and no cannot make a good dlivu wlgnu mnine unt h io-abo It A JOYFUL GREETING. 1103* Bdow se you? I am. gled at lat r eyes have fallen upon me. Now that to have met, pray rultivate the .arqu tin anee, for it is my purposa to interest and ' serve you. Between you and I, though a aswa aper article, I am ambitious. Having .o ordtious metsl for all mankind, it it to eordially received, its import truly real sed.and acted upon, I shall be considered k wo;ld'e becefactor. Could have no higher lthubitiea youwill admit. A misanthrope. of ample means deter" niued to end his life by 3oVaing himself.: Moing to the banks of the canal, found the iime nut favorable fmth. purpose, a nare )er of pet sarus being is the .vicinity, and fayliglat bsing atil present. He concluded to walk elon' the. tow-path until it was Ihrk.. Wbile !oing so. he heard piteous rtir' ssuing fr.,,n the door of a hovel near l by, and utnconsoiously walked over to the plae, and foun I a poor family consisting of1 a other surrounded by several children, o told them of their sufferings for food. He tyyok from his pocket his wallet and han ded it to the woman, reasoning with himself that he would not need it. The trateful thanks and praises that hr received from the recipients of his bounty awoke emotion within h's breast, of such a pleas urable character, that ho changed his suici, dal intent, and decided t' live for others. Mis fitur. life became eplete with good deeds,- ,.any a dark home and heart were made bai;ht by his pre,ence. Well, my appearance in these columns, springs, simply from a desire on the part of these I represenr, to benefit your news devsuring race. My provence is to help you, y. ur friends, your relaton', aye, even your mother-in-law, if that interested lady t e not already beyond the pale of good in flue nces. I am sent among men to bear tidings of a lisooa ,ry that marks an epoch as important to the health of mankind as Newton's apple and Fra.klin's kite were to natural science. 'he sick, the discouraged, the dt jected, the broken down, and the despairing, may now, all and a cure, certain as the Juidan proved to the Sye ian lepper. It is only necessary, es in the case of that sufferer of old, to folloto directioni. The agent which I herald builds up the system, sweeps the cobwebs from the brain, and sends pure, invigorating blood dancing lhrough the arteries, to the music of happy laughter. The gloomy, worn%out man of business, by pI oper use of this wondr,rful medicins. will be enabled to meet trouble a"d rever sea like a tian. Then, in perfect health, he wai 1 not have abnormal views of the "Vicit situdes of fortune, which spares neither nn nor the pioudest of his works, wb.o:t buries empire and cities in a con...on vrave." The weak and nervous woman, just able to .tag herself in "moping uelaucholly," through duties of the day, may steal the b:oo.u from blush roses cnd have eyes blight and ,p,rkling as th dew.dtops nesting in their leaves; and the poor little baby, now disfigured wizh pimples and Se .thy aore., may he msde sweet, cool and wthohsome as--'that youngster of Mrs. Blank s, across the way, whose family is at, ways in a glow of health." Don't you know the reason ? "No." Then I will tell you. ''.;r years your neighbor has never been without Dr. Pieree's Golden Medical Das. medy is a medicine, not a beverage aid is to be takesn according to full and pe' fe. tly plain directions accompanying each b.ttle. It is specific, but not a patent med. icine, and contains no vile narcotics or vi ler liquor. It is a prescri pion, used for vrt:ra by the well-known physician, Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y, whose name is a household word in innumerable homes all over our own and foreign lands. The Gol den -Medi'cal Discovery is prepare I and offered to the public by the World's Dlh.pen. sary Medical Association, a body co,potate, existing by and under the laws of tl : 8 ate of New York ; its president is Dr. Pierce, the great specialibt in chronic ditea-es. The doctor has devottd the best years of a very buby and wonderfully successful life to the relief and cure of his ,suffering fellow-meon, --and at a time, when high politi.al honors lay broadly open before ham. Dr-. Pierce resigned his meat in tie Conagre a of the United 8tatea, simply from a sense of duty tow ards others. Hi associates in thn great sanitarium representeul to the doctor that the imm'ense business of theiv Association desnanded that his personal attention should be paid to the great army of pat:ents crowd. lag upon them from every c:imte. Dr. P'ierce is also tne founder of the invalids' ilotel, at Buffalo, N1. Y. This establishment posessng llthe comforts and luxuries of a irt-las Aerlean, hotel, has in addition, the daily attendance of a large faculty 0f eminent ape cialist.., whose practice nol lee' tively cover the whole field of surgery and chronic diseases. The laboratory in which Dr. Pierce's Golden M< d cal Discover y is prepared is an object of interesat and wonder. Itha a frenatage of one hundred feet, a depth of one hundred and twenty-five feet, and is six stories high. In this mammoth and palatial workshop two hundred persons are constantly employed in putting up Dr. Pierce's Med;cines. ' While the Golden Medical Discovery's effects are almost immediately felt, it is not merely a temporary stimu'ant, hut is as ec - tainly a safe and complt,e cure. in n'l c.'es for which it is recommended, as it is that oe lain misery and death will follow their neg lect. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery weill siof cure claub feet, will not re furn iih armleses or legless unfortunates with new a nd perfect limbs, and it is not guaranteed that even .a dozen bottles applied to any stray p)ortion of a second hand skeleton, will develop such member into an animate, human form divine (?). In brief, it is not asserted that this medicine will, or can, counteract the de3reea of Providenoe. But in all cases where a high st ate of civil nation andi cuitivatlon has engendered disease and sufferingr, whereby God's natural man has become a nervous, artificial being, the Gol., den Med ical Di.scovery will positivedy rest ore to himn the strong, vigorous. self-a'serting life, front which, almnst tinconsciously, lhe had drnirted far andi hopelessly away. It is claimed, and ar.'nteed, if this m~edicine he it edl as rescribedl, anti faithfnily perse vered in a reasonsable time, it will perma4. ntently cur'e liver coinplaint andi the various tulood disorders consequent upon torpor of the liver, ~in all their various forms and ramifications, including bronobitis, con, 'tumption, which is scrofuila of the lungs, dy -aepsis, cstiveness. tick heasdache, ekin d,se,sser, fever and agtue, malaria, and other dlisorders arising from poisoned or deterio ra ed ble od. 'llhis 'vonderful medicine cure. all hsu-. mi e, from the worst Borofu'a to a common blo,tch, Jimple or eruption. 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To all sufltuiog from lassitude, weariness, dlespondency, lack of vigor or snabition, be .-'men or woman, or child, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Di'covery will speedily im. part new tone, y:gor and life to the whole system. The hargr.i face will gaow roun-t, rudy, and beam withi the expressIon of lo', lost confldence. The step will be firm tnu elastic, and the relieved sufferer w,tl one more enjoy Ia common with fellow men that fee'ling of proprietorship in earth, air andI ben,only realised by those In perfect The Golden Medical Discovery will not ruake drunkards or op'iura eaters; on the contrary, any n fortunate, driven by trouhue adversivr, or it,berent atm eti'e, to r:n use of lnsdu.ui sttim lantr, ws i I findi the Die,ve-r of g-. t a '-t4-e iu e ir a to break the Liiia b i di g h. m to a samaeful aind mi:s e.a'' t rai,Li Ce, .(bose faaling at e an 9f @atia Wr* uedeminant s poms, and who, if sked, could Aod it ealt to explain their sensa Ious, will find a sovereign remedy in the )olden Medical Discovery. Those who are irritable, petulant, er fret ut, ever seeing the gloomy side of life; who m:ngine "the time is out of joint:" to whom it is a heavy burs.en, not a blesslog; who hink th4 whole world is arrayed against heut, tand anticipate calamity at every tutu; o all seh let this message;e fall of eaeoura ge meant and joy-Dr. Pierce's Golden Med. cal Discovery will radically nure them, rhen it will be fouud to I eir lsatin bene-. It, that liteaogi thgwog4 ave e4 >ot that disease had thrown clon s of m ry tnd wee about them, through which all bings were seen, as " through a glass dark. Let no saferer be diseeuraged because he >r sho ims .ried other medleiti6s without wrtti'. In frct, these are the cases the World's Di tjeoFary Medical Association stirtinale'ly de-ire to reaob through their t -. P'er's Golden Medical Ditcovery. 1l7,en all other medicines fail let this be tried, mid no one will be doomed to further disap ,ointne it. 'The (Jolden Medical Discovery is a pt e oription of a physician with a wide-awak, reputation and an honoraole position to maint&n. It is far beneath the dignity o: Dr. 1,erce to lend his name to any vile los% rum, or catch- penny preparation, whereby 'he pub'ib mt.y be deceived. Having used il Disecovery for many vears in his unnre.. cdented private practice, he is convinced t iY ftdeal a apectic in the diseases men" ioncd. Desiring this m rvelous cure shall )ane:it, not only those with whom he comes personally in contact, but that all mankind may be embraced in his grand plan for the timelioration of human suffering, the doctor hroush the World's Dispensary Med'eal AHsoci,tion, earnestly 4nd most confidently recommends his Oolden Medical D scovery to the public at large, assured the most ikeptical will be thoroughly convinced of its wrrth by a trial of a single bottle. In stuhb rn, or long seated affections, and where the b->wels are very costive the gen. blc, though certain action of the biscovery will be more'rr.pi4 and satisfact ry by sup. nlemuenting Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets in small daily doses o1 one or tw >. l'hcse pills (the original and only genuine Little Liver Pills), are puerdy vegetaMe, sogar coated, and very small, yet by the peculiar process of their preparation, they poisesi the strenrth and virtue of larger tnd unpalatable pille. Pleasint Pur;ative Pellels will speedily remove all ill and dtsa rreeable efl'ects arising from over-eating or ilrinking. and are recommended as a cathar Lie, at all timee being perfectly safe, sure, and unattended by the gr.ping pains usually experienced in the use of purgatives less carefully prepare d. Promptly resorted to, these little Pellets will radically cure indi gestion, billiousnese, and tick-headache, !.hus saving the patient from lingering and serious disorders. Dr. Pierce, the President of the World's Dispensary, and his faculty of twelve skilled specialists, can be consul, ted ,y letter or in person is any case of chronic <diseese requiring either medical or surgical treatment free of charge. For those requiring more exhaustive informa tion than can be imparted through corree pondonce the doctor has written a book, called " The People's Common Sense Med, ical Adviser, in P1ain English; or, Medicine Simn pi fed." This work alone is a goodly harvest for an ordinary life, and a'amps its author a pro, found tchollar and a viry remarkable man. The Look contains tne hundred and twen-. ty-two pa-.es, illustrated with two hundred and eighty-six mood cuts and colored plates, and muaket plain as a, b, c, anatomy, ph7si.. olo:}y, mtteria medica, practice of med tine, hy-iene, tcmperaments, pheycology, etc., i-d answers in plain, easily-to.be.nnder.. a ood terms all questions that may arise wnh;n their range, especially tho-e ques. tioni the would be inquirer is deterred by fear, or modesty, from asking the family or other physician. That all may be enabled to arquaint them'elves with matter so vital to health, hippiness and success, the price of this great work has been fixed at one collar atnd fifty enis, post paid by mail to :ay addrceas, while smaller and far inferior hooks, purporting to cover the same ground, larmve sohl at five dollars a copy. It being the ainm of the proprietors of the Common S.nre Medical Adviser to reach not only the rifiaent, but those in moderate, and even in strairhtened, circumstances, the p. ice of thse work places it within the reach of all. ____ WOND)ERFUL WORK OF A HiEN. Aidedt, Abeitt, und Ansinted by n tHmd tioy in the Post-Ofile., According to a Syracuse paper, Mlrs Whitural, the estiilablei wife of a barrnes maker of Erioville, Maison county, N, Y., heard her favorite -hen cacklinrg in the barn in ia stranige anid unprece. dented mniner. Upon reaching the nest she forund an egg of ordinary size, but emblajirzonted with rnaisedl characters, wich nearly caused hrer to faint. Stag gering from the brarni into thre house, shre displayed tie hent's miraculon~s p)roduct to her sonis anid d augh ters, somec of whom rrshed out and( spread the alarm among thte populace(. All tuirt her work onr that day was sus penrded. Men working ini the field put upl their horses and tools in thte barns, arfter which the~y gazed anxionsly at the Whitnral residence, The excitement wats intensified when the report was con firmed that samuel Curtis, an honored shtoemtaker and a b)rothrer of Mrs. Whiit nal, had becomro so unnerved att the sight of thre egg that hre had takhen to hi; bed in alarm, and refused to be comn forted. Tihe most shoptical were convinced of thre sacred egg's gernuinreness whren it wats tarkeni to the hotel andi exhtib ited bry two oft Mr. Whritnalt's sons. 'Te charneters were simiply raised urpon the shell, as if theyW hiad Ibeen made uni tIhe inide and puilbed out by somne interior agency, On one' sidit stood out ho' ldly thle figures ''1884.'' Ont anthter sidet was a cross, amnd on it third side wats it strange sym houl, whieb some thtouught wits a letter '','' whri'e othlers held thtat it wars a half mtoon. Thet latthr theory was mtre gemnerazlly- ineptted , simnee, when thne egg was hreld to the light, something whichl res.~t embl at face wais d1iscerntiblde int tihe concavity of tihe n'baracte'r. Tis was inferred'to represent theo man int tire moon. ( hn tlha t nightt Ihe mtorals andm nniers of the village (of Eri'ihvle3 were' excellent Ib eond prallel. New resolt ion s we'nre frme1d and hamd habii its sworr n of. IIns htands and1( wve nt o longer exchaniigedl doubltful 'omphl imenrts and fiatirons, but tendetrly embthiracedn each other anid agreedi to awm!t. thet coingi' of tho Lordt ini a lioutse'hhl wvas too e-xiited t ' :deep. 11cr dautmghiter Srahtl wa;s <nitie ill andu it 'wats feredn that tIhe sacedt n'gp would tend greait ly to shortn herr r' hf' Alarmed it this, Frank Biliardlson, a clerk int tihe pot)t-ofice((, ac(kntowledged ita Ihis ins5itmuen'tality. iIe expih;ined thIa t to get, (een withi one of Mr. Whlitnai;l's sons 'ho I raced tim characters onr tIhe egg with tial low u ani d thein laiced it in vin eg ir. M iir thre acid 1ntl sullicierntly eaten thl .1ll air to al low tIhe prts traced writ h t,il w to bee<.me proiniatenit, hre visiteO thIe WVhitiral barn, depopsitcd tIre egg ini> neisi, scaredl an ininocemnt Ihern iand di camp'~ ed. Mr. Ilichardsnon's expose has bad ft' iunfortunarrte efflet of dispelling the moral infhuene exerted by the egg. Tir. villagers ha;ve retuirned to their forme)r -Trim siek- noking fowl on the ninety-cent pioce Canuses man;ty a met;er sad( g'gglen: ad ont faith int the rign o'er iti. hread may in Thnnuhb the Door birdI itself i ill-agle," A Bad Experleme. hi A Southern boy who went from the kr country to New York city to make his b fortune, gives us rather a desponding view of the situation. He says he had a good business education and $200 in hil oti pocket when he landed. After finding [1 employment, he adde, I made up my mind to do my beet and stick to the business. I have stuck four monthb ic and have been very economical yet I g hay. not been able to save one dollar in four months. My Wages are $7 per week, and I work until ten o'clock at night, and twelve at night on Saturday, I am compelled to eat in ten-coent restau. rants, and go hungry half the time at that. On Sunday I am so tired that I oannot go to church, and so it is the same old round over again nvery an God )nows I am sick of it all, and I have wished a thousand times I had never seen New York city nor a butainoss eollege. A RAsoAx.-1Robinson proved himselt a clever amateur actor in a London hospital. He had been caught picking a pocket, and transferred from prison on account of seeming illness. He took to his bed with accurate imitations of ex cruciating agony. He groaned and cursed so terribly that his fellow patients were horrified. Then he regained com posure, and begged to go out into the air. Once in the yard, ho knocked the attendant senseless, scaled the wall, and escaped to this country, with over a $15,000 of accumulated swag. Rescued From Agoniziug Death. NEw Yoitx.-Mr. James White, 1552 Broadway, formerly chief instructor in Dickel's 1iding School, in this city, said to a newspaper reporter : "I broke my shtoulder, arm and elbow, splintering the socket in four parts. Iheumatisin set in and I enployed the best physician. lie tried everything, but I grew worse, and at last ho said: "I have one more thing to try and if that fails nothing can give yolu relief, and that is St. Jacobs Oil." I used this great pain-reliever, and am able to use mny arm irce from all Rheumatic trotble. I have also recoin mended the remedy to it number of poo ple. and inl every case they have been speedlily and efl'etually cared." The weakest 'pot inI any moan is where ie thinks him self the strongest.- -[Eummons. Dr. Stite-. Broklyn, N, Y., was cu red by Dr. Elaore's ltlcuimatinc-Gtottali e of verv seVcer rhenntatism and kidnev disease of sev eral years standing after t rying everything else withoutt hentit. Vigor, strength and health, all found in one bottle of Brown's Iron Bitters. Oligation is thralld."n and thralldon is hateful. -[tlobbes. I HUNTSVILLE, ALA. -Dr. J. C. Spotswood t says: "I highly recommend Brown's Iron Bitters for dyspepsia, rheumatism and gen eral debility." Iitlniyitiv"e pll1t ar the fnnnels of coln-(er satioi thty d ll not take anylthiig for thtir Owi use Int nertly pass it to ansothor.---tcele TAXPICO, TENN.--Rev. D. F. Manly says: "Brown's Iron Bitters relieved me of indi. gestion and nervousness after physicians tailed." iense shines with a doubhle lustre n'hen is is 4 t in humuili V. An able and vet humble nut is a jawtl worth a kingdom.-[ Penn1. )r. 13enson's Skin Cure consists of of intertnal ndtrl externual treatment at same time, and it maakes the skini white, soft illid sniooth. It contaims no0 poisonaas drugs. 81 at druggists. A moan hasx no0 moiare ight to~ say an uncivil thing than to act tune; no more ri'ght to say a rudue thinag to aniothue, thanx to knmockl him, down. ---uJohnstont. " )u' li'-atjfache int my (case tras on,. 0)lony loan<iiling, but D. )liensonl's C7ery miul hmnIa SmilSe P'ill4 eotinjiored."'-C. T. lleinier, Gecrmnan Mintister of the Gospel, Leslie, Ohio. 50 cents 'Tle warst of all knaves ar*e are t hose' whot mtiniie thei(r former honesty.[(Lavater. L.on * & children's btoots & shoes cannot rain over if Lyon's Patent Heel SttfTeners are uisedl. Society is thne aittmosphiere of 'souls; and we certainily imbl ibe from it something which can either be iinfectiouis or healthful.-[HIall. WA1.CTT, the genutlemzan who ate thirty braco of <qnails in thirty days, was relieved fromt any disagreeablo stomach troubles by using GASTaITNE, and took nothing else dur ing the task. Sold by druggists. If' a mzan has a right to be proud anything it is of a good action done, as it ought to be, without any base interestI lurking at the bottom of it.-[ISterne.. Tia-: sicr, or 'those having anty trouble with thieir eyes or- EAns, are advised to write to lir. .J. P. uLnEanr, Iyolns, Wayneo Co., N. Y., for hxis book, A Phyic~ti's G;ifl. Senit fifre. Full of important in ormnation. Never hold anyone hv the but ton, ori the hand, in order to be hea'rd out; for if people are n nwillinig to bear yout, you had better hold your tongueo thanm them.--[Chosteriohak A lady says: " M henlIfeel at all distressed aftor oating, a tah,lo4joonful of GAsTiaNE gives ime almost instant relief." Druggists. Th'le main who threatenis the worldl is always rid iculotts ; fo r t lie wvorldl a-an easily go ott witlh aout himi, and1( mi a short timne, will conse to miiiss imit.Johhston. MENSEMAN's peptonized beet tonio, the ily pre >aration of beef containing its en.. tire nxudrdiousq properftes. It contains blood aking, force-generating and lifessustain ang properties; i.valuabl for indigestin, tyspepisia, nervous prostration, and al1 forms of general debility ; a:so,in all enfee bled conditions, whether the result of ex., haustion, nervous prostration, over--work or ate diseases, particularly If resulting froaa pulmonary eomplasinte. Caswell, Ilasard & Co., Proprietors, N. Y. Sold by draggist. No rIEAsumIE is earnparable to theI staniding upon the vantago ground of .. truith.A The Oldest Druggist. Being one of the oldest druggists in this city (although having retired from business?, I wish to say a good word about Huntsa Remedy. A numbor of years a o I was troubled with my kidneys. The idea of a - draggist, however,, resorting to the use of a " puatent medicine"' was a little humiliating, hut when I came to considler how many peo pIe had boon benefited by the use of hlant's lt omedy, Innhositatingly began using it; and after having folly tested its virtues I can say, as many of any customers have said to me, " It is the best medicine for kidney and liver cemp; laint ever com'o..mded." I have yet to learn of a single instance whore It baa failed to benefit and gIve satis raction, in ftact it it the bost I ever sold. I would say to all who are troubled with kidney and liver complaint, give finn '' Rlemedy a trial and you will say as I do, it is the best known remed,and the best is the. cheapest every time. Yours trunly, Enw&An ALLEN. Hartford, Conn., Mrsy 19, 1888. Mr. Jtuss CuHENEY, with J. WV. Goodman, billiard table manufacturer, of Atho!, Maso'.. writes, May 23, 1883, as follows: " I hiave boon troubled for a number of years with kidney disease, with severe pains in my back aind sidee. and could get no relief unt I I used ([lunt's R omedy, which was recommended by ouir druggist, Ward, of this place, who stated to me that nmany wonderfult enre had been made in this vicinity by the use of Hunt's Remedy. Peop'e who have suffered for y e rs writh kidney disease, inflammation of the bladder, and accompanyinig troubles, had been permanently emied by this great melIi dne. I purchased a bottle of Hunt's Itenmedy aind found that it helped me from th, first lose, and two bottles removed all the pain in amy back, and I consider myself cuied, andh iheorfulhy recommend it to my friends as a oUiWdiin8t,a T r1 all that in n1amtW1 fr it, A beldheaded man, who has heard that the Ire of a rman's head are nwnberejl, wante t ow if there is not aome Place where ho oa tain the back ntwunbers. (arboline will sup r the demand. People telttuiai improve when they havo no ter model btt thentelvet to copy after. old nith. OVER TIIF. BAt."---n a MaSaclt,etta luor trial the Court said that if a drug. at delivered liquor over a counter in a iblio placo to those who call for it then kept a public bar. HE GREAT . NAN RE CURES theumatism, Neuralgla, Sciatica, Lumbago. Backache, Headache, Toothache, lose't ou. Sn t"11t ,.. arns am Barstsee. B s , .St l .}ut I i1 ea AND .AL.. 011tF.It I1i1.V 1"Ai\8 UNl) At'111:$. old I,y Irrog; .. :h t " '-,,,.,k "r".Filty Cents a . 1tle. (et0....l. to A. V UIILLI:a & I:U1 It,ttimure, Ntd., r.4 i. A. II fever and tite district, in U CElIRATED t"l.pical ttd other rt"ionl visited by ("ili)e nt b \(b. d inl all locali t i'r, where the con diti,mn. aro unfavora bl,. 14 nl.alth this fa mtoe 'g,ta t, nvig ortnit -d Ilterative 1r c' 11,I( tet$ "r'x Mtomnaca B ~1 Iitter , hax ben0 fund at potent intf g O uard evi,n t.I folyble " d constilttonandtrag iin framne, wchilo an a Ceurt for mndis-tvtion, biliou+nt"x tu,d kin dd114 comptOalat it is Awithout.a rval. a For tlale byv al djru;ggittandd(1al TTER erageneunly. 825 RENA. We will pay the nhove reward t)r any eae ,f Rheo. natism or Netrala:a we c;muul)t cure. It will relieve y cane of D)iihther:t or G rutu inetantly. The)o Arm d Navy Linitnent tvill rei've" patin and sor'ineasea i emove any Untintiaral i'rowth of t wie and mitscle on an or beast. Price. lur_e hotth-. one dollar ,,malI ottle, fifty cInt+. Will retral tho roInuey for any atire. AlltlY ANI N.A\' LINIMIENT CO.,- Wa. )aih ave., Cht,enio. F'ors.,ie by :al] dru;::ists uenerally. I(oanoke Cotton Press. The Best and Cheapest press made. Costs lesa than sholter over ether presses. llundreds t act naI use at bot h steam and hor. power gins. Makes neavy ' tbales by hand faster than any gncan pick. The now unprove -lt it,m ginl h,:uams dexcribed re Ie w irda of their in'ontors t toite oit. Adidtt n A, '- tr.Tnn . or It'JANO 2o To1 'L. : ist;)o.. itIch tqu.re. N. 0. PID HABIT Cured Painlessly. The Medicine Ild for a emall margin abco t ecortsl +ompounding. All vases treat,d by ::;an.,"it prescrip Ion ' For fth p..rtloultra adde.s the 1li,coverer MR. S. B. COLLiW, La Port', ind, "ELMOR R. 41. is she qoakest. pleasantest, 9,uirust and b6e. r,"dy for kidneq ~~ tiver, seussach, btaddier and bil A diseasos, and only real caratite ever discovered for acute and chronto rhtenmtatio. gout., Iuinigo, scint. w.a. kicateural I, etc. ltas cu-'ed hope ess en5i'a Brigit's disase ant iyspopia In 3 week--a forms of rtheumatio disorderst in 2 to I'2 w.'ka-relievs iintiatory in I daty. na refer to hundrd ,of retta. bl epecrdwho had tried ia vain *eerything else. Pryhoae,hres.and nice to -tik. Ask yons druoggat to gait it I tie dectineet ased to a tori i,-take nithiuigeise. Elmore. Adama &O0..1fiWlltiam t., N. V IRON WORKS. D. A. MIULANE. Ma.agew. P. 0 Box t69os Ne w Orleans, La. Manufaotnrqrs of Reynolds' Oetebi~ t,ed Platformn OOTTO'N PRRlt 855 Sta.iad&llor,. Poawer. 8teams '&eii,Dtretgn >oa Work. JItidi t5roa, OXhunna, htainvgs, amit in - sand Mtachine Wtork. * 631E3 cEc ALL ELSE FAIL.I DONSERVATORY of MUSIC Itenuitifully Ilustrated.64 pages. 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For phamtdnnets. proofs and 6r addessin ontdens,with8. 9 EI ~AA MV. 19. 1).. 7% RaOA Sinss. ~OVELY COM PLEXION6 POSSIELE TO ALLs What Nature denlestomany Art secures to all. Hagan's Magnolia Balm~ dispels every le~i h,I overcomes Redness, Freckles, Sallowniess, Rough ness, Thin, Eruptions and Blotches, and removes all evi dences of' heat and excite ment. Tihe Magnolia Balm imprarts the most dlelicate and ntrlcompjlexional tinta no detetlion being ossible to the closest observation. Under these circumistances a f'aulty Comnplexion is little shlort of' a cr1ime. Magnolia Halm sold everywhero. CJosts only 75 cents, with full di -neioans.