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II A SUNNY SONO. Ijofore my soul goes slghinj ? ' To sorrow darkly we I'll take a tbeaf o' sunshine And slug it to a shrei ! If every roa" were wltherot. And winter days were rife ; The thought that ouce tliero was a rose Would sweeten all my life ! Clod's love! here is not given Dark space for life to monn! Earth rolls so close to heaven, ^?lle? almost heaven's own ! Blng ho! (or life and loving! rs vi minus uini ipuurrwi U'Hil : For this sunny world o' honey Sing sweet ! sing sweot ' sing sweet! ?Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. A MISPLACED LEGACY. ' i BY EDNA A. FOSTER. MRS. cjurTiLL's little house, seen dimly through t't e gathering fog, resembled some overgrown vegetable production in its low ami irregular outline. It wan built close down by I he Ben, which seemed to have contributed pat ehes of driftwood to its construction ; as well as some bright strips from a wrecked vcrbcI HF that eked out the uneven fence, and a amall figurehead which ornameuted t the porch. Over this hung several whitening blades of the sword fish. Au ^ old dory stood in tho yard Glled with blossoming geraniums. It WMQ nniK> tlarlr wKo?% liAA.1 ? U^.%v ?? ? M "UCII IUU II I HI' gate swung wiile to n<lmit the ample figure of Mrs. Cbilcott. She s'epped heavily along, ami with her usual familiarity, opened the door without the preliminary of announcing her approach. Mrs. Guptill sat at a small table writing. "O Susan ! In that you?" "O 'Mandy ! Are you at home?" exclaimed the women, the one with affected cordiality ?ml luc other with affected surprise. "I thought, maybe you'd be gone to meeting," continued Mrs. Chilcott, cyiug the papers which Mrs. Guptill hastily put away. "I didn't kuow which was ringiup, the fog-bell or the meeting-bell." "I guess they was both at it. But you've got time to finish your letter. Don't mind ree." Mr>-. Chilcott settled back with an air of effacing herk' self. "Well, I was all done but signing, f I might as well do that and take it J along to tho postoftice." I The signing was slow and awkward i under the watchful eye of tho visitor, and the color flamed a moment in V Mrs. Guptill's withered cheek. f "I suppose I might as well tell you, Susan," she said, folding the letter, "that Hiram's going to buy those nets and tackle he was looking at over to Portsmouth. .* He went over ^ Friday in his dory to get 'em. I ^ f thought lie might as well clinch the W trade before fall fishing." J She spoke hurriedly but with conf strain!. Mrs. Chilcott's face showed surprise and disapproval. "I thought you was saying he didn't calculate to stand the expense just now," she remarked. oU7-.ll l._ l-.i-'i 11-:-'- - ... m vii, nil uiuii i tiniik 10 rignt away." Mrs. Guptill was taking down L lier shawl from tho peg by the do?r, and therefore her back was toward the visitor. "I've just writ Hiram to get the oars and those decoy ducks, too, whilst he was about it," she added. There was an ominous silence. Mrs. Guptill's voice was a. little shaky as she began again: "I might as well tell yon fust as last, Susan, but you needn't yip to the neighbors; we had a little sum come to us from the Squire Beau property. 'Twa'n't but two hundred dollars, but it come in handy." *' ~ . ""Why, 'Mantiy Qnptill! I didn't / know you wiu; acquainted !" / "Well, we wa'n't much. That is, I / knew Squire Bean by sight, and he i and the cap'n used to have transactions before he died. Perhaps he knew I haint got none but llirani left." "Well, it beats all !" said Mrs. Chilcott. "You kept it from me pretty well, 'Mandy. i haint heard nothing about the will." "There wa'n't no regular writ-out ^ will. He just left a kind of memorau duni saying what he wanted?so they / brought the money over to me." Thewomen had stepped out into the dim, uncertain light. The second bell was ringing tor meeting, and here and there groups made their way toward tho village hall. Mrs. Chilcott. and Mrs. (luptill were the first to arrive and break in upon Silas Baker in his tardily performed duly of getting the ? hftUHready for the nervr presently the people came in,one by one, always deliberately, as if tno intention of arriving at all had scarcely been entertained. ' ''I'm not begredging any good fortune to you, '.Handy," said Mrs. Chilcott, re.snming tho topic in a solemn whisper, "but I declare it does seem iUkc'f^stfeak of Providence, don't it /low? Here was you .wanting tho mfaSiey dreadful for thcin nets, and here 'tjs?you get it. It don't oftc* come-that way?they that want it most get cheated out of it." H& "That's so, Susan," Mrs. (luptill admitted. ""f cali't make it out," continued Chilcott. a'ter a minute's survev gj/P of another stray wofshiper. "riquire Beau was forethoughted in some ways and forgetful in others. We always supposed he'<l leave \Mandy 'Liz'bet h something." Airs, (iuptill straightened herself and looked instantly austere and forbidding, but this did not discourage feer neighbor's volubility. "He appeared kind, and set a good deal by her, and as good as promised to leave her something. But there! you can't depend on folios." "Where is she now?" asked Mrs. (Iuptill, with interest. ".She's living long of his folks, over to the Cove. Sho was a Bay (iuptill married a Cove (Iuptill. You might as well say human being as (iuptill, in this town." Mrs. (iuptill fixed her oyes upon the i opposite wall, but no handwriting ap pearod thereon to refresh her troubled gaze. Two bright red spots burned in either cheek, 'unnoticed by her companion, whose attention was becoming scattered. "What did Mr. Bean use to call jour nieco when she worked there?" Mrs. Guptill asked, finally, her voice sounding harshly abovo the stillness that preceded the opening exorcises. "MmiIV Wk-O" But Mrs. Guptill did not say why. She Mat in grim Hilenco, twisting her black cotton gloves which she had removed, into a hard kuot. A shrill voice suddenly rang out: I've roaches tho Inn \ of corn and wine, And all Its ric'ues freely mine. and tho congregation took up the strain. Twice during the.praycr Mrs. Chilcott was obliged to nudge tho erect head beside her into a semblance of devotion. To sit upright at such a time was not in accordance with her idea of the duty of n "professing member." When tho service was over ?nd tho women wero out in the fog again, Mrs. Guptill asked abruptly, "How does you niece appear to get along, anyway?' Mrs. Chilcott* gave a deep sigh. "There, 'Mandv ! it's dreadful! She just manages to Jive by pincliiug along." "1 guess we all know what pinching is," saitl Mrs. Guptill, abruptly turning toward her little light iu the distance. "Bring over your work and sit a ?pell, some day," called Mrs. Clnlcott, through the darkness,but there was no answer. "I declare! Ain't she odd!" demanded Mrs. Chilcott of tho void about her, as she stoo I under a dripping elm, peering after the dim figuro of her neighbor. "She always was the closest mouthed, enr'oustest kind of a person. I hope that money won't turn her head ; but for my part, I'd excuse a little natural pride in her, hein's she's the only Guptill oti record that ever did have any luck." Hiram Guptill returned from his trip to Portsmouth with the coveted nets. For weeks it seemed as if ho had purchased good luck with them. Each setting of ':he nets brought a i t i n..'. r i-: i. - * i goon 11:1111 <m iiimi, mr wuiiu lit' iuuiiii nn easy market. His motlicr seemed ttraugely lukewarm at his good fortune, but her lack of enthusiasm troubled him less than the indescribable change that had come over her. Her voice and face seemed to have sharpened, and she grew ill and nervous. One afternoon in late November tlio young man announced his intention of sailing around to the outer harbor in his dory, and of making a lauding at the Cove on his way back. The sen was as calm as midsummer when he disappeared around the headland, but within two hours a dull roar began along the bar and around the shore. At first fitful, it soon became continuous, until one of thoRO gales which seem to be boru out of a sudden caprice of the sen, rather than of the heavens, was driving the water in whitecaps. As long as daylight lasted Mrs. Cuptill did not leave the little window that looked toward the sea. After the evening meal was prepared she watched anxiously, with the silcuco of the house behind h"r aud the roar of the breakers before. It was not likolv, she thought, that Hiram had left the Cove. He would stay with the fishermen there, for it was far to come by land. She said this over and over to herself, but nevertheless her restlessness attained such a pitch that she put on her old cloak and went out upon the hill. She stood there listening to the wind and water, and scanning the black stretch befor her. bom'- passing fishermen called to her not to be noxious, and said that Hiram was too much of a sen-dog to leave the Cove. She crept back in the teeth of the gale, somewhat reassurrod. Small need to watch now, for the storm hud so increased that no small craft could live in it. Toward midnight she went to bed ; but there was on her mind another anxiety as great as that caused by the storm and her uneasiness for her sou. In her fierce condemnation of herself she seemed stilled an l stunne l to other things. All the doubts and weakness of the past weeks, in her profiting by what she could not now regard as other than a terrible mistake in the matter of Squire Bean's legacy, came up to confront her. "Well, I did it for Hiram." she said repeatedly, "but he'll never live to know it. But that ain't going to clear me!" She fell at last into a troubled sleep, but ftt daybreak woke suddenly, with every sense refined and with thai quick impression of h duty that conies oftentimes in the first waking. Sho was dressed and at the door before the first chimney in the village eanglit a warmer color from the sun, or sent upward its first thin wreath of sniok'-. She gazed at l!?o sea. The wind had lulled, but the water looked even moro frightful. Here and there were eddying fragments of timber that told their own story. She walked quickly along in the gray of the morning through the silent street strewn thick with wet leaves and little branches torn oT by the gale. When she reached Mrs.Chileott's door she found Susan just lighting her kitchen fire. "Why, 'Mandy (luptill! ' Mrs. (Mi 1cott exclaimed. "I thought it was a spirit. Where'd you come from?" "I come from home, 8u*au, and I've got s >niething on my mind ?" "Oh, I know, '.Mandy! Now you sit down, and don't get anxious. Jason says Hiram mod likely stopped "It aiut Hiram nor the gale, Susan Chilcott : it's me. I'm a thief!" Mrs. (Jhilcott opened her mouth, but no words came. "I'm ft thief!" Mrs. Uuptill repeated, nnd the P. ereeucr.r,of the spoken words told plainly how many times she had said thsm inwardly, "f knew nil along the money wa'n't for me,but I kept it. Hiram had spent some of it, nml I dreaded to east him dowr again, he'd had aueh luck. We. wii" near starving, Susan Ohilcott, when that money come ?but that don't clear me. Hiram he didn't have 110 luck, uud 1m needed them nets, an I since then I lieven't dared to tell him tint I knew it so long." She spoke hurriedly lost her courago should fail her. 1 "Are yon Mandy? What j money do you mean?" ,;I mean.that Squire Bean money. 1 might have kuowed I couldn't have kept it. I knew it that night we was to meeting, when you told mo about 'Mandy 'Liz'beth." Mrs. Chilcott stared. Whatever suspicions nko may have had, she had stilled them. "It was this way, Susan. Squire Bean, he really intended that two hundred dollars to go to your ueice, 'Mandy Elizabeth Guptill; but when they come'round oskin' for ''Mandy L. Guptill,' forgetting to spell 'Liz'beth with an E, and my name being 'Mandy L. Guptill, I?" Mrs. Uuptill could go no further. She looked as if bIio were about to faint. "Great earth and seas!" exclaimed Mrs. Chilcott from the pantry, whence she presently returned with a steaming portion of "composition toa," which she made Mrs. Guptill drink. 1 ''Swallow it all down, 'Mnndy; it will calm you," she said. Mrs. Gup till revived a little. " 'Twas an awful path I tread, Susan !" she gasped. "The stones was galling to my feet, aud tho briers was Reaching out to catch me and keep mo bank, but T kept on. T says, they was after 'Alaudy L. Guptill, aud that's me, and let them dispute it, says I; till come last night 1 felt different." "What set you to thinking," demanded Mrs. Chilcott. "I've done nothing but think, but last night I had kind of a presentiment, and I believe just as much as anything Hiram's gono down along with his father?and all tho tackle and oars was bought with Btolen money !" Then for the first time Bhe began to rock herself to and fro, and sob aud cry out that sho could never see her son again, and that his mother was a thief. "Hush up, 'Mandy! You ain't neither a thief?quit, I tell you, tho children will hear you! You're all upset. There, sit up, and don't let us have any more such carryings on. It's nothing but the Guptill luck !" "I shall never 600 Iliram again!" 'Mnndy sobbed. "1 don't know about that. It looks to me terrible sight likesmoko coining out of your chimney. I guess it's most likely Hiram building yout fire !:' Mrs. (iuptill stood up and pecrod toward the house. Without any outward demonstration she drew her shawl about her shoulders stiffly, as if the passion of the moment beforo was as much a thing of the past as the storm of the night. "I must go and toll Hiram," she said; but just then the gate clicked and a boyish, laughing face looked in at the door. "Is marmy here?" he asked. "Well, I don't know, Hiram," laughed Mrs. C'hilcott. "We've got a crazy woman hero that seems to belong down to your house." Hiram looked steadily at the two women. The agitation in their faces, or some fine sense within him, told him that a disclosure had been made. "Oh, thnt's all right, mothordy," he said. "I've fixed it all right. Wo won't have 3*011 croouing round an3* more about that." "What do 3*011 mean, Hiram?" demanded his mother. "Just what I said. I happened to lind out, accidental like, what 3*011 was worrying about. So I just straightened it out. That's what I went over to the ( ove for. "For nil the land's sake! ' laughed Mrs. Chilcott. "Your mother's wasted a sigl/t of tears about ye?enough to sail a boat." "Hirmn (luptill, tell me this minute what you've done!" exclaimed lm mother. "Well," began the youth, counting off the items on his lingers "L heard the men down at stor" talking about the Bean money, and when they saw me sitting thereon a berrel they aihup up. But f heard enough. Then ma, she was moping round?*' Here lie winked boldly but unmistakably at Mrs. Chilcott. 'Then 1 a ided it all up, anil went over to the (love and forked over the money, interest and all." "Hiram, you young - !" laughed Mrs. Chilcott. "Jjet's go get some breakfast," said Hiram. "I'm hungry." Mrs. Chilcott stood looking at him with amazement. The children were trooping down stairs wide-eyed ami wondering as Hiram drew his mother lovingly away. "My land ? earth and sea!" exclaimed Mrs. Chilcott. "Don't expect mi! to stand up and cook a me?! nrter the tantrum I've had hero with 'Mandv Ountill. T exnect "I'll see scarlet for ii week." Then she said to herself. with a softening smile: "Tint now isn't that, fliruni just n regular critter of a young one!" ? Youth's Companion. A Mucking Pony. "A man doesn't ride a bucking pony for pastime nor iu order to obtain exercise," said C'liarlio Molton of Ali bene, Texas, at the Laclede. "A bucking pony is practically of no value whatever, even in the hands of an expert rider. Of courso they can be used, and are used, but the best riders are taken unawares, and thrown at times. I once broke in a bucking pony, and sueeeded, as I thought, in obtaining a complete mastery over it. One day I rode into a little town consisting of one street, at about the middle of which there was situated a barroom. My pony bad shown no signs of bucking for several days, and I tlioil'.'llt Hint Iiii whs c.nroil '"Wocftino down tin' street on tho run, nrul as ho rcaehe 1 the saloon lie suddenly wheeled around, stopped and bucke I before I could realize that he had the slightest intentionof doing so, 1 went over his head, through the door and struck the counter, which was securely fastened to the floor. ft fell over and knocked down the mirror, helves and bottles, in tact the saloon man's entire stock in trade, while 1 was uuconseioiiK for t wo hours. The ponv, after causing tli" wreck, stoo l and looked on as meek as a lamb, and I believo lie thoroughly understood and enjoyed the whole affair. I can ride any pony that any one else can, but I don't enjoy a bucking one."? St. Louis Globe-Democrat. i\ll kinds of insects, so far a.-, known, are alllicted with soino parabite. V w J HERBS FOR MEDICAL USE. OLD-FASHIONED FOLKS WHO TRUST TO SIMPLE REMEDIES. Plants Which Bring Healing and Restoration to the Sick Without the Doctor's Prescription: SEVERAL large wholesale drug houses down town find it worth while to keep in stock a large assortment of herbs for medical n?e, and at 'cast ouu such house, more than fifty years in existonce, deals in such articles alone. These houses supply druggists all over the East with the raw materials of which many standard medicines are made. and with the traditional herbs, roots and barks of our grandmothera The trade in these things even in this city is large, and they are sold wherever honsehold remedies still have a place of honor. One of these wholesale houses issues a catalogue that is in some 6ort a rough guide to the art and niystory of herb doctoring. It is these romedies that are compounded by the so-called botanic druggists, or "botanists," as tliey are sometimes styled. Many of these remedies aro well-recognized medicines, unhesitatingly prescribed by physicians of scientific education, and some such physicians still cling to inherited formulas and traditional herbs. Nearly five hundred herbs, roots, socds, flowers and barks are kept in stock by the largest botanic druggists. Hud new remedies are still from time to time added to the list. The plants thus kept are not only those known to the pharmacoptea as containing the active principles of standard drugs, nearly every familiar flower and plant, wild or cultivated. Not only the dandelion, May apple, boneset and pepsiseway of our grandmothers ami the liquorice root, slippe v elm and ginsing of the orthodox materia medioa must be kept on hand, but as well hundreds of others known to those deeply read in the science of simples. I Favorite flowers and famous plants take roles strangely unfamiliar to those unlearned in herbs and drugs. The bark of the tulip tree, according to the catalogue, cures hysterics and dyspepsia. Thistle tea "strengthens the system and excites perspiration." Water lilies of "one sort or another are good for pectoral complaints and scrofula. Watermelon seed is "excellent for dropsy," doubtless oil the homoeopathic principle. The white willow is a substitute for Peruvian ! bark. The wild sunflower is set, down as "invaluable in bilious colic" and like complaints. Sweet clover is for swellings. The strawberry, no longer a table delicacy, furnishes in its leaves a remedy for sore throat, aud in its wandering stein a cure for jaundico and fevers. Seven kinds of snake root furnish remedies for rheumatism, scrofula, hives, croup, fevers and some complaints of the stomach. The Irish shamrock, losing its om? blematic significance, is usod to make an infusion for scurvy. The familiar skunk cabbage, earliest and most, ill-smelling of blossoms, is good for hemorrhage of the lungs, coughs and asthma. Rosemary and rue figure in this materia medica, the former not for remembrance ns according to Ophelia, but for nervous and hysterical affections. Ophelia's rue, cnlled "herb of grace o' Sundays," lays the unpoetic part of a cure for epilepsy, hysterics, hiccough aud disorders of the stomach. Galen, according to the commentators of Shakespeare, ascribod somewhat different curative propcruos 10 rue. w|iiif)imn pansies, under the name of heart's ease, are not "for thoughts,*' hut are "excellent for asthma, and good in colds and fevers." Many plants are enumerated as having the properties of quinine in greater or less degree; there are several substitutes for opium and like doubles for other familiar drugs. Tho number of plants that cure rheumatism is marvelous, and there are more than two dozen remedies for incipient consumption of tho lungs. Boxwood hark is "nearly equal to quinine." Cedar apples, which Walt Whitman discourses upon as cedar plums, are useful in a common complaint of chil? drcn, and cedar berries, the aromatic and slightly sweet, little blue fruit of the cedar tree, are recomm. oiled in tincture or infusion for dropsy. Four | parts of varieties of the dogwood are I enumerated as medicinal value, and as many forr.s arc named. The male fern is ? remedy for tapeworm, and tho female fern is good for lumbago j find coughs. All thf old-fashioned flower.-} and several initio vegetables find )>luco in tlio list of remedies. The lady slipper is for the nerves, especially in hysteria, nnd the larkspur seod is for dropiy. Ijettueo is for colics ami coughs, and asparagus rool for the kidneys. The blossom of the ox-eyod daisy is recommended for asthma, eonsumption and dropsical complaints. Tlio peony is for weak norvas ami tlio red rose is for "nassik hemorrhages and catarrhs." Most of the patent medicines aro roj)resented in the stock of tho botauie druggist by their original elements, ['he makers of such remedies deal largely with the wholesale houses, and so do the makers ?>f drugs, tinctures, ointments and embrocations. Forty or fifty herbs, plants aud floa ers indigenous to California nnd Australia are among the new additions to i ur 111 nuiniiir oruggisis. Tliero in nn extensive importing business connected with tlio trado in medicinal herbs, and the druggists keep, aside from (he dried herbs in their natural slate, a quantity of freshly powdered loots, herbs, barks and Mowers, domestic and foreign. All those articles are sold by the pound or nunc \ and received by the wholesalers m bales, bays and boxes, great and small Th^rc is ?> small army or men, women and children the world over gathering herbs, roots and plants for the botanic druggists, nn 1 there is mud* rare and expense put upon the culture of such things. Prices vary from season to season, and quotations cannot long be depended upon. Many of these raw matt rials are expensive. Larkspur see 1 k?-11s at $'! per oiiuc.\ and sassafras pith, quaintly recommended in an infitsio i of ro'UMvator for sore eyes, fotcin-s $1 au oniier. Many of the herbs that go to make familiar patent medicines seem very cheap, i'lio botanic druggists keep also many extracts worta Trom 51 to $3.33 pei pound, and scores of essential oils, ai of anise, of catnip, of golden rod, ol horseradish, of rue, of sage, of cala raus, of parsley and of pennyroyal The art of extracting these oils is pari of the hero doctors' knowledge, ant as well of tbo manufacturing drug gists'. ? New York Huu. SELECT SIFTINUS, Wood is an article of diet in Siberia. Illuminating oil is made from grap< seeds in Italy. There are only forty miles of rail' road iu Cliinn. It takes an orange two years to grow ami ripen. The rice paper tree of China is n successful exotic in Florida. One trained rooster in Belgium has crowed 337 times in an hour. If a snail's head be cut off and the animal plaoed in a cool, moist spot a new head will be grown. The Greek Church employs two rings iu the marriage ceremony---one of gold, the other of silvor. There are 100 students taking the course of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. One of the oldest tunes in the world is said to be the air sung to the words "We won't go home till inoruiug." Ii is known to date back to the time ol the Crusaders. Ernestine Dittmar, proprietress of a boarding-house in Milwaukee, Wis., has entered suit against Ludwig Carlvoltbrecht to recover a fliirty years' board bill. The amount claimed is (5282. Excavations in Babylon have brought to light a number ot brioks, the stamps on which prove thorn to be at least 4')00 years old. They appear to be as good now as when they wore firs: baked. Mrs. Harah Howar 1, of lloulton, Me., has tamed two muskr its so that they come into the house and cat out of the cat's dish. Tabby seems willinq to give up part of her milk, and t? ?? kind to tlie musk rats as if they were kittens. Joseph Baker, a white-haired man of seventy, who has spent nearly all hi; life in prison, says lie wants to end hit days in the State Prison nt Waup.iii, Wis., which ho declares to bo the most "comfortable" institution of its kind in the country. Oliver Ames, Jr., of Boston, has built what is said to bo the finest dog kennel in the United States. It coal $20'i0, is thirty-live feet long, is lighted by ten windows, an.l the in terior is finished in hard wood, polished liinl shellacke I. The famous Darlington butter, made in Chester County, Pennsylvania, lij the old Quaker family of Darlingtons, has sohl for^l a pound for twenty years. The supply is limited, and now cus tomers have to wait for old customer* to die before they can get any butter. In Naubinwav, Mich., there ia n lien that will not lay except uppn a feat her bod. Every morning she walks into the house, strolls upstairs, gets on the newest counterpane, does liei duty, and then lights 011 the dressing table to do her cackling. She is treated as a member of the family. A Flowery Epitaph. Tn Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Xow nrk. N. J., on a monument directly ii front of the cutrauce, is the following inscription: .TORN HANP, Horn March 11th, 18-P2. The Cherry Tree of luscious fruit lie guiled him too high, a branch di< break and down lie fell and broke hi neck, and Died July PUh, 18(>.\ Also Three Infant Children, Home I II< 1 H tliiit. iwu-itr HIIIAH. \.1 ?New York Tribune^ Where Hoc: Trains Still Rn?i. Tn the northern diatriets of Mam toba <lop: trains are atill in use, an very antiafactorv i" the time in vie bj the animals who skim over the frozen hiimw at a rapid rate. The last trail arriving at Stanley covered ?!."? ) mile in four daya? well on to ninety mile a day. The railway has opened ii] communication with the nettled do Irieta in Southern Manitoba, but tli ilo^ c??ntnines to supply the best mean of transit for passengers an 1 mails i Mie sparsely settle I regions. lalifa I Critic. Hull's <111II rrli Cure Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75e. Amkmoas locomotives have boon adopted as the standard for Japanoao railroads. Karl's Clover Hoot, tliCKTont tiloo t |.m iller Clves freshness nod eleirnesH to the complex ion nun cures constipation. &r? et 70 < is., $1 Tint manufaeturod product of Great Hrltali Amounts to about 44,100,000,000 a year. The Madid Tmidti OF Hood's Sarsaparilla Vou smile at tho idea. Ifut if you an a sufferer from Dyspepsia Ami in.ligation, try a bottle, nnl be fore >011 have taken half a dozei doses, you will think, and no doub exclaim * Th it just hits it !" Tha HOOD'S Jl. JL %%%%%% parillc soothing effect / | f ??/\p i s a m a k i < A 14 1 C5 touch !" Hood's S a r s a p a r 111 a ffent Iv tones and strengthens i he si run tun anil uiKi'siivf organs, mvtgi>rai I In* Iivit. crontfA a nn ural. health; ilralre f<?r loo I, gives refreshing sleep MOuii's Pl.isnn- prompt and efttrieut. THE PROGRESS SELF-TRAMPING .fCOTTON PRESS, i (y Quick. ilinnf. dur.-itili- ?t ^rV_ jA fl, f icllatilc. Mvfi trmnpiiiK In ul" > TW t"-nio only one trtun re it fared wlili l're?i< r?rk?r Pa' Jtf!L vffl AI? to n.ip hninllc to mai I ami wSk.^Lf-'rHi; A f"11 oo lilitrk is niltomatti Hll? M - tr - '.oJi|.?-,' Also SI. |r M fr , of IIIMi'pi tinfii lilrol Hn? Pun Piofrrn tl f*. t'o., P 0 Bu r Vlrt-iillitit. ai?? 3 fleet Couxb Ufru?. Tulo Uood. Cm Sr? tSl In Ure? *o>4 by tlnnttiu Ffi ^1?Bp j |jj The Royal Baki g dispensable to pn )p and to the com ' & nience of model |s Royal Baking P 2 bread wholesome. jS ens without ferm -S? ifw?c fliof nrp i"*r?< 1V1VU WUV w* v ^ ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. A !>ii ; Six fadios Long. Tlio Hercules beetle is one of the largest, if not r pally the largest, known species of the Coleoptera or beetle family. They are not found in the United States proper, but T understand that a Hue specimen is occasionally picked up on the islands ofl* the coast of Florida and in tho West Indies. I have two dried specimens of Dvnastes, one of which is six and a quarter inches in length, measuring from the tip of his upper inaudible or "horn" to tho end of its body. The head of ( the "varmiut" is jet black, and tho upper mandible or pineher is notched nuu covered witn r.tni, golden-colored | bristles. The under inaudible is perhnps im incU shorter than the upper, and the two form a pair of nippers that would cause I lie stag beetle or common June bug to die with envy.? St. Louis .Uepublic. A llome lor Truants. i Boston is soon to have a home school for truants and troubles imj boys. They arc to bo gathered into families of about twenty-live, under the care of a superintendent and his [ wife. A teacher of rare gifts of mind and heart is to ho assigno I to oas'.i group, and, under his direction, three hours a day nre to bo devoted to utu ly. The boys arc to do all tho kousehol 1 work and to cultivate the estate of thirty acres where the home is to bo ' placed. They are also to devote four hours a day to t raining for oe input ion i to he hail in the city. The instruction on Sunday morning is 1 to be moral anl religious, an 1 ' in the afternoon it is to be denominational. ?-Scion ti ib^^Amer i ca 11. An interesting relic of tho Roman occupation of Knglau 1 was recently 1 oiin I in the Tyno, an 1 has been ncinired by the British Museum. It is k the bronze boss of a Roman shield, and bears the name of tho soldier to 1 whom it belonged as well as the number of his legion. Bring* comfort and improvement and tend* to personal enjoyment when rightly unea. The many, who live betj ter than others and enjoy life more, with ^ loea expenditure, by more promptly , adapting the world'* beat product* to 1 the needs of physical being, will attest the value to nealth of the pure liquid laxative principled riuoracoa in inr remedy, Svrup of Fig*. I* Ite excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleasant to the taste, the refreshing and truly > beneficial properties of a perfect lax )' stive ; effectually cleansing the system i dispelling colds, headarhrs and fever* and permanently curing constipation It has given satisfaction to millions and met with tho approval of the medical orofeasion, because it acts on the Kidnevs, Liver and Rowels without weaksnlng them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Flp is for sale by all drug fiste in 50c anu $1 bottles, but it i? man ufactured by the California Fig Syrui Oo. only, whose name is printed on ever} i package, alBO tne name, c*ymp ol f lg? and baling well informed, you will not " looept any substitute if offered. I UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEI IIUNTKK .>!<*( I'l It E, .11. D., L.I..D., Pr?i. A HIGH GRADE INSTI" MEDICINE, DENTI A DIDACTIC AM) CI.IMCAI, COI.I.KC j, Tlie ICrgiilnr Sr??ioii lirglii* ffitleni For Chi ilium IKlllrewH Dr. .1. A 1,1.^(1 f TIIK TO If III H' J I \ 1AI I I A A f vv n m i / \ M ,s,t?? # Lcir> i Hrnrt for our Sporlnl itiirgiilii l.l?t \ H> hnve k?i iiihi tvlinl you w ml, ; k ( A r?i,in;rE> Kltr.K TO A HI"IH GRADE BI3YCLE FOR $13.75 or", r are olmln < mil ill t.ia u i ive low price A rare i A Kim. riio,. an1 lull ^l/.? kciiIs' whorli, Iwll lie W K'lar.uileii exprens elrtwii, nn I we will ntil;i A iii'Hlrnl. Apply to our AKeiilft or direct to u?. f OM< HIMIiTIMIi <!OOI> A Send feu cent* ilhe Actual co?t of mailing) I T droil pn?o catalogue, conlulnlnvf all kuuii oi sp, ' JOHN P. LOV 0 1 .'II llronil Si. mid 147 Wmh 7J ng Powder is in- |r jgrcss in cookery uk fort and conve- $ -n housekeeping, ?5 owder makes hot & Perfectly leav- I entation. Oual- ^ :uliar to it alone. % , 106 WALL ST., NEW-VORK. ^ Iiifluoiicc ol Color on Diseases. Experiments have been tried with a view to ascertain if color has an effect 011 certain forms of disease. In mnk* ing this test, a number of small-pox patients were placed in a room to which only red light was admitted. The patients were for the most part those suffering from unusually severe attacks, ami about half of them being unvaccinated childred. Jn spite of the violent form of the malady, they all made speedy and safe recoveries, with very little fever and but few soars. There lias been but little enthusiasm about colored glass since the famous blue-glass excitement of some years j ago. But that certainly did benefit certain cases, and at. intervals ever since there have been revivals of interest iu the subject. -New York j Ledger. ! A restaurant keeper says that the !n'?ii o ' usiii;- a few drops of lemon juice on oysters, fish, et \ has greatly increased the demand for lemons. f" 1 IT GIVES WARNINtii I I *1 * At A i.i_ _v a I mat iiiuiirs uuuiur aiifnu ?if you're petting thin. ? It shows that your blood is impoverished, and your orgnns deranged, so that whatever you eat fails to pronerly nourish you. And just as long as you reinnin in this condition, Consumption, Pneumonia, and other Scrofulous ana dnnperous diseases nro ^ likely to fasten upon you. e>?C You should build your'SZ self up with Dr. Pierce's p-_?^ Golden Medical Discovery. ? Purify and enrich tiio blood, rouse every organ into natural action, and build up hcalthv, wholesome, necessary flesh. Ocean Port, N.J. Dr. !t. V. PiF.nCB: Drnr Sir -We have used your "O.M.D." in our family nnd tind nothing else to equal it. One of our children had tho pneumonia, and one lung become consolidated, but by tho use of tim "Discovery" sho lias entirely recovered, and is now In good | health. j ^2. SJsizAjbe 7-1 HORSE OWNER I M I ought to think enough of I M I his animal to with to b? f - 1 I able to care for it properly ? K I In health and sickness. 11 i* 1 money out of his pocket ii ^ he does not. To accomplish lhis result wo olfer one A Ono Hundred Page Kb SKI \ agar lustratcd Horse liouh 1 ill $ aft-jl !\Wk*R tor Hi cents. It leaches yos H,//' . Pjkv 10 P'c'{ out a good Uoise; /' a/VESpS Wlii Vijsr knowimpi rfeclionsrviri ?# 1 \//?$fw\'' ^K^Julll Ituard against I rat.1; de* ikl/ fvHL' ",l disease an<l effect a mlS^% '",r" w'"" f3mc in *1^ liii>T?''Iffil ll'll''r'1"1 parts of II r ani||jjy jwljuf ^ mal: how to shoo a Llorst ' /PflpsM .& V\i/i ' All lies ami other vah ^ ('JwSNft! nahle inforiuniiou can lu l" I i ^ oMa i.ed hy n nding out \\ Xt3S2^ V * One 1111 lit)r, d Page 1Mii*> 1) ~ "I t rated Horse Hook, which '' Jj we will forward, post pabb I stamp*. JUsnred'y the Horse is loo good a frien? ! to mau t# be neglected foe want of knowledge I which can be procured for only twenty-live r una | Uook Prni.isiliNo HorsR. 1 -tt Leonard St.._NA .?*ity, ! I mm r~s > . ???<- ? m mccLKccs |WINE OF CARDUI.ij i For Female Diseases. ji H. N C/.-S6 DIGINE, RICHMOND, VIRCINIA7 J.?H. A.WHITE, A.M.. H.ll,, Sco.A Trcaj. |- I | ?f" | ftl COMI'RIslso THREE W Wll I.NUfcl'K.NUKM PkrAKlWKM8! STRY. PHARMACY. E. CONDIU'TEI) IIY Hi IXHTK IH'TOItS. Iirr ISlh mill rn nl in urn f-f-Teii inotilh". ?N IIOIKiiS, I'nr. * ? < '?. If '' innoiul, Vn. amond Cycles j ? THE BEST MADEC } A I.I, THE I.ATE-T I II I'll U V I-.;II EN T*. A II Kill liUAIIK IN K v K It V It KSI'KfT. f r'M PA YOUt I E. W \ WIIY : J THE WONDER \ w (f\ ? OF THE 4CE. J ' 1 7 ( All, ANU HKK IT. \ J ipKy * ol M>con^b?nd and ?bnp*wnrn Whrfla. i AM.. A(iK\TS WANTKO, m have h limit.' I uttmlior of our i>;ist funn'i wheels T .tin lar I make mi l I1KI1 ki" nle nihility, whl.'li wo A :*!ivi laif'l .1 llr>:-fl.? . <I Ir.tI>I< wheel at ft bar- ^ nrliw ftii'l nil.'I with piu'ti oallc fires. Son I $!> to A f?. J?. $i3."..>, wlili tin- (irivll- ?.> of examination, ( W H I.INK IS IJNKXC'KI.I.KII. T t <inm|ii or money for inrirr Illustrate I four linn- M .riiiix Oo.mI.h ami hihulroilx of other articles. T ELL ARMS CO., ( ihlngtoa Hi., HOSTON. f