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W A CRACKSMAN’S CHAT. J i b b h ABOUT am PBOr at HUM AaAUctaOM Agmlm, “Wh*t k the prime Aihelitj in toot boatnewr "Nerre—nothing eiiie.” "Whet is the beet method ?" "Boldneee. Many a job have I done right before the eyea of people; done it joat ae though it waa the regular thing and I waa jnst where I ongbt to be. I have had my pal taking tbinga out of a houae when a -couple of oopa wore walk ing by, and stood with a pencil in my hand, keeping tally of the thinga. They thonght it waa allright, aa I looked right at them. I tell you a fellow wants to keep perfectly cool and know what he ia doing, and what he ia going to do every time. "The right kind of men are somehow lacking. They are either too timid or too rough. It wants a fine mai, a real Damaacua blade, to do a neat job. There “ are plenty of opportunities, if there were' only the men to All them. But I was speaking about chanoes. The people are asleep; you are awake. They are timid; you are perfectly cool. Tou know jnat what they will do if they wake up. They don't know how many are in the houae, nor where you are. Most people are cowards in the night. With out any odds you could get the best of them, but in the night with the bug bear and the reality of a burglar in the house—and they have spent all the years of their lives in working up a dreadful fellow in their imagination—in such a plight a man’s house is like a foreign land to him, and he is a perfect stranger to the situation in his own home.” "How do you feel when you are alone in a house at the dead of nigkt and Burning such terrible risks ?" "There, now, you have got as much nonsense into that question as they usually do. In the first place, midnight ia not the usual hour when a house is , worked. Things are not so quiet generally aa they are two hours later. • And then, if it were midnight, what of itf Midnight eioept to cowards is no different from any other hour, only as it is a great deal safer for those like us. Alone in a houae ? It is a little shakj at timea, but generally safe enough; hnt that isn’t the way a house is generally I worked. There should be two, and three are better. Terrible ripks? We don't think of it in that light. There is something fascinating about the risk, and it isn’t considered objectionable. What do we think ? How do we feel ? Now, look here, there isn’t mnoh time nor occasion for thinking and feeling outside of the job to be done. Your sentimental chaps don’t want to be prowling about nights on any of these delicate ’rackets.' The man who is go- | ing to atop in a bedroom of a strange houae at two o’clock at night to consult his feelings had better keep out ot the bedroom. The man who proposes to enter this profession will want to ran w<*T7 slow on tho thinking and feeling line, particularly when he is on duty.” "How does an operator feel when he ia confronted by some inmate ?” "In the first place he feels that some thing must be done pretty quick. Dodge ’em if you can, but no fooling anyhow. Do anything abort of killing, if neces sary. The women are the hardest to handle, except a man who wakes np cool i with his weapons handy. The funniest experience I ever had was whe6~T went ’ into a bedroom one night where there was one man asleep. I was at the bureau drawers, and looking into the i glass I saw him ait bolt upright and look at me. I turned pretty quick, you may believe, but he never stirred nor spoke. I^didn’t mqys after turning round, but looked at him and he at me. I very soon bat that he waa not awake. 1 gathered up the swag and walked round the bed to the door, but his eyes were on me ail the while. I got out of the room safely, and he never spoke or after ward made any disturbance. I didn’t atay much longer in that house.”— Bottom Herald. In thk CfUrt Dome. "Did you know that the dome of the Oapitoi was haunied->4he highest part of the dome, just under the worm ight?” said an old watchman to a re porter the other day. "Why, no; tell me aboutit,” aaid the reporter with sudden interest, getting' close to the bid man and speaking in * philosophers argue thAt the foundation tr. j* A Friend In Need. Mr. Horace B. Olaflin, the great dry l & goods merchant of New York city, was Att> sitting alone in his private office, late so one afternoon, when a young man, pale and careworn, timidly knocked and tered. "Mr. Olaflin,” aaid he, "I am in need assistance. I have been unable to certain payments, because certain have not done aa they agreed by and I would like to have ten thou- dollara. I come to you because you a friend to my father and might be A friend to me.” 'ir - "Come in, aaid Olaflin. ‘‘Gome in and have a glam of wine.” Ab« "No,” aaid the young man. “I don’t acycimk." made "^ave a cigar, than?” two t ‘No, I never smoke.” ware ' "Well,” said the joker, "I would like unhtr 0 accommodate you; but I don’t think fr * can.” "Very well,” aaid the ha waa about to leave thought, perhaps, you <kjr, air." "Hold on,” aaid Mr. Olaflin. "Yon dost drink ?” “Ha.” “Har smoker ^ ^Ha” "Nor gamble, nor anything of the Hndr "No, sir.” "Well,” said Mr. Olaflin, with team in Ma eyea too, "you shall have it, and three timea that amount if you wish. Your father let me have five thousand dollars once and asked me the same Questions. He trusted me and I will irast you. No thanks. I owe it to you low, confidential tone. "Ne, you didn't know it Well, it ain’t t” be said, shotting bis month with a snap and looking as blank ns a faded guide-post, which tells you that it ia 1 miles to •, and leaves you to guess where. "Yes, that’s the Senate side," he said to a wild-eyed countryman who waa staring about in quest of that decorous l>ody. Then turning to the reporter, "No, it ain’t haunted.” "It’s not, eh? Well, I thought not,” replied the scribe, sticking his thumbs into the arm-holes of his vest and look ing at the new frieze-work. "No, it ain’t haunted; it ain’t haunt ed,” repeated the old man with a low chuckle. "A man commit toil suicide oH the rail there one timeTEut it ain’t haunted.” Then he looked knowingly at the reporter to see if his curiosity waa sufficiently aroused. But the scribe waa admiring the "Baptism of Pocahoutas,” aad the bidiaaa assumed a mqre eou- fidential tone. “You remember the man that jumped oil there ? It ain’t been so long—about six or seven years. You know he stood on the rail of the highest balcony, and, throwing up his arms to heaven, gave a wild plunge and was crashed on the iron roof, nearly two hundred feet below. Well, I guess his ghost went somewhere, but it didn’t stay about here.” "Well, what are you talking about then?" said the reporter, his interest getting the bettor of his patience. "No, it didn’t stay al>ont here,” he continued, not noticing the reporter’s mpatienoe, "but some folks think it did, and it seems kind o’natural that it should, too. Lots of queer folks go up ou the dome. I’ve l>eeu here a long time, and I see lots of them. They go up^there more m the winter than they do in the summer—ten to one more. It’s too hot to climb the stairs in the summer. There are some who oome every session with Congress. They come to the Capitol every day, and always go on the dome. They are the ‘dome-rats,’ that’s what I call them. I don’t know what they go there for, any more than I know why a church-mouse stays in ohurch. All the straugers who come here want to go on the dome, and couples who want to get off by themselves , of^en go up there. Yott can see them standing at every landing, looking out the windows with a way-off look. Then there are cranks who go up there to get omger Heaven.” > S*.* "Well, yes, I know,” intorraptedithe reporter, “but what’n all this got to do with the dome's being haunted? Did any of these eurions visitors ever ; get frightened at a ghost up there and "fall downstairs? Has any one’s hair been turned suddenly white by the sight of a specter about to plunge head-long in a suicidal leap? Where does the ghost come in?” "Didn’t I say there weren’t any ghosts,” retorted the old man, an in jured expression passing over his face. "I was just coming to that,” he said, re covering his good humor under the in fluenoe of the reporter’s conciliatory smila_ ‘-‘There ain’t any ghost np there, but some of these strangers get fright ened and think the house is haunted. It all comes of the ‘whisper gallery.’ You know the ‘whisper gallery’? Well, you know when people are talking around on the other side the echoes bring their voices right close up to you. A great many strangers hearing these voices and not seeing any one have jumped at the conclusion that the place is haunted. Knowing that a man committed suicide there, they think that his troubled spirit still lingers about the scene. As I told you, it aiu’t haunted, If'a only the echoes." Tka Laaely Yomg Haa la CiUea. "It’s the sadart thing in the world to get married,” aaid the jeetorer advocat ing matrimony far young man, in an up town hell; "it’a ae eeej aa rolling off a log, aa the aaying it. Ministers toll him that it ia. hie defy; moralists upbraid him because he does not get a wife; A TffUl TAlKT flTOBY. Ia a larmead b—ttful sestts livsd jugh a balf- Trtste. Trtste, aa you know, afflicted, and this Trtste was named for condition. She bad ones had a prettier —Hosa be I, in fact,—feuteverybody'now called her Trtste the Sad. She stared in a small room, without windows, at the very top of the castle, ms far sway as she oould poeeibly tet from the sin ring-and laughlnf, and music and all the good times that were continually going on in the gardens and rooms below, where her sisters lived. Here In this little dark room, when TT WKS morning, poor Triste would always say, “Would God It were even ing!" and when It was evening she would always say, “Would God It wore morning l” and tbeve two remarks were all the remarks She ever made. Onoe an Bril Bye had looked hard upon TrUte and made her ugly and deformed. She had bunches and swellings, she was llmpy and trembling, and her face—well. If yon lookodUat- it onoe you did not care to look again. M for the aches and pains that darted and erlacroeeed and xbreaged through her, one would not suppose that a little thin bo ly like hers oould make room for so many. to Triste stayed In her dark room, and made her morning and her evening remark day after day, while Mary Maud and Maud Marian went to the balls and the tournaments and the foests. Whenever the sounds of mirth' and’ music from below where loud enough to reach Trlste’s room at the top of the castle, she would throw her face into her bauds and weep, and the weeping and the making her two remarks were all the amuse ments she bad. Itut after a while something wonderful happened, t >ne morn ing as Triste was altting In ■ her room wlshing-tt-waa evening, she hoard a- of the State la the fanily; friend* point oat to him the happy life of many per- •one. The young man hae no'protec tion against all this opposition^ and, if he ia a right-minded person, he will not try to oppose such logic. If he ie of proper age, ia matured in hie judgment, can support a, wife, and is reasonably in dustrious, he ought to be married before twenty-five. Bntthere are many lees for tunate young men in this dty who never speak to a decent woman from one year’s end to another. Some are en gaged in shops where only men are em ployed; others iu offices which never hsve a female visitor. Their homes are in lonely fnrnished rooms, with meals at restaurants. These poor fellows actually pioe for refised female society. One whose loneliness has oome to my notice lives in Harlem.” The reporter saw this oelibate, and got from him his story: He Was living in a furnished room and boarding at res tan- nmts. ~ After two yean’of this life he began to wish for some refined female society, and accordingly engaged board in a fashionable boarding-honse in East Seventeenth street. ' He was somewhat surprised by the greed with which his week’s board was demanded in advance and almost snatched out of his hands, bat comforted himself with a glimpse .of a golden-haired head thro opened door. The yonng man had stipulated for a fire in his room, but ou going up at night found it as coM as a barn. He called for the landlady, and, after repeated trials, succeedatin gaining her attention. In an injured tone she promised to raise a little fire iu the room. Iu half an hour or so, during which the young man grew warm from inward heat, h frowzy and slatternly servant-girl-ewne in with a bang, threw tome kindling-wood on the hearth, lit it, put on a little ooal, and went away, taking the coal-bucket with her. He started after her to secure the bucket, but too late, and be beard the golden-haired beauty say: "What’s the matter with that galoot .up-stairs?” “Oh, he wants a fire, bad luck to him.’ “Well, he must be a gilly. Carry him up the kitchen stove.” Slowly and sadly the young man in search of refined female society pulled on bus overcoat, walked down to the street, hired an express wagon, helped to put his trunk on, and quit the house , just in time to hear the golden-haired fa™ 111 me ’ ^ "eni u *.sn'l down, yonng woman remark: "Well, I knew that fellow was a fraud when I first saw him.” He went to his old "furnished room.” It had not been let. It was warm and comfortable, and he heard the cheery langh of the landlady and her delighted remark: "I expected yon back, but not quite so soon.” That was bis lost at tempt to find refined female society. The foung man said there were sixty such isolated fellows in his block.—Afetn York Sun. How Millionaires are Made. A Story of an Elephant. old the young man, as the room. "I might Good I HaKP-ranmcD xn,W lots of suspender* are now men will oootinue to ■p their pants with a leather Iplt with a ah ingle nail There is a beautiful story of an elephant engaged in a battle on plains of India. Ho was a standard- bearer, and carried on his huge back the royal ensign, the rallying point of the Poona host At the beginning of the fight he lost his master. The "mahout,’' or driver, had just given him the word to halt,- when he received a fatal wound, and fell to the groand, where he lay un der a heap of slain. The obedient ele phant stood still while the battle closed around him and the standard he carried. He uever stirred a foot, refusing to ad vance or retire, as the conflict became hotter and fiercer, until the Mahratios, seeing the standard still flying steadily in its plaee, refused to believe that they were being beaten, and rallied again and again round the colors. And all this while, amid the din of battle, the patient animal stood straining its ears to catch the sound of that voice it wonld never hear again. At length the tide of con quest left the field deserted. Mahrattas swept on in pursuit of the flying foe, bnt the elephant, like a rook, stood there, with the dead and dying around, and the ensign waving iu its place. For three days and nights it remained where its master had given the command to halt. No bribe or threat oould move it, They then sent to a village, 100 miles away, and brought the mahout’s little son. The noble hero seemed then to remember how the driver had kometimes given his anthority to the little child, and immediately, with alk the shattered trappings clinging a* he went, paced quietly and slowly away. Ths 8 harks. —Florida fishermen rid themselves of the sharks which abound in those waters in a novel way. The : root of the dogwood ia certain death to them. Whenever a shark is discerned a small fish is killed, this bark enclosed and thrown overboard, and in a tew min- utes the carcass of the shark rises to the "Who is the wealthiest man in Cali fornia?” asked a reporter of an old Californian. "Jim Flood, worth S100,000,000; he is a liberal man and a shrewd one. He has built up ou 8nn Francisco Bay a new port called Costa City, with mag nificent store-houses and piers from which the wood of those rieh counties is shipped' direct to Europe and the world. O’Brien, Flood’s partner, is dead and his fortune distributed. Mackey, one of the bonanza crowd, is thonght to be worth (60,000,000, and Jim Fair is worth perhaps (id,000,000." Said I: "How in the world did Flood and O’Brien make such fortunes ?” "Just in this way, my friend/’ said Mr. Hyneman, taking np a jjiece of paper and a pencil, “Flood and O'Brien kept a saloon, and the drinks were 25 cents apiece. Fair and Mackey were miners who for some years did not strike anything very rich. So they gave min ing stock for the drinks instead of money. The habit was to walk into the ■dboh'wilfi three loaf firiehds, ask'Jor the drinks and "drink them, repeat and say to the barkeeper, ‘This is mine,” and walk out The barkeeper made four marks with a pencil and a fifth mark across them, signifying (1.25 for each round. These rounds would go up to a pretty high figure, but on a certain occasion Mackey or Fair would say, ‘Well, Flood, we want to make a settle ment for drinks,’ and they would give their mining stock at a certain vajuation current at that time which Flood and O’Brien put into the safe. Behold I On a certain day metal is struck in pro digious quantities in the mines that Fair and Mackey own, and when Flood and O’Brien open the safe and count the stock they have it amounts to more than Fair and Mackey’s, so when the mines were pouring out theq million or two every week these saloon-keepers, who had been receiving 25 cents per drink for watered whisky, started a fortune.” i Conld not Sleep. The Cheyenne (Wyoming) Leader tell* this story: "A guest at a local hotel was surprised the other night to see that his hand left a mark of light where be touched the abeet. At first he thought it to be-a reflection from the hall lamp, but further investigation showed that wherever he touched the sheet it left a mark of phosphorescent light A surplusage of electricity is supposed to have Iwen the cause; in. fact, the air was eo charged With it that he couldn’t sleep, and finally bad to seek another room.” Bomb people who play the piano can not understand why others who don’t play Mm piano are so much mors pop- alar with their neighbors. new xound. It was not the mirth and music. It was not the clumsy-footed servant bring- Ing up the dreadful gruels. It was something coming up the winding-stairs with a rap tapping noise. The taps came on, and finally Trlste's door ofenod and a little, old. tx-nt- over woman with a walking-stick caino In. The little old woman's face was white and wrinkled, her hair was white as snow, but eyes were black and so very bright that they lit up a space around her like a couple of candles and made Triste's dark room quite light. The little old woman tappel three times on the fioor with her walking stick and looked round the room. “1 am your god mother,'' ahe said, when she saw Triste up In the corner; “you don't remember me, but I remember youf-1 dldn t forget you, my poor child." ' “Oh, would God it were evening!” said Triste, trying to be sociable, and meaning, perhu|ie, “Good-morning,''or “How do you do:'" or something like that. “Hark ye, goddaughter," said the god mother, “do you want to go to the tourna ment with your sisters? Ho you want to sit' down at the feasts' Do you want to have the brave young knights and princes, with thoiasMow-white plumes and their coal-black chargers, come riding to woo you as they oome to woo your sisters? Do you want to aing? Do you want to laugh? Do you want to dance?" Then* Triste put her head into her hands and liegan to cry by way of varying the so ciability. “Htop your crying,-goddaughter,” said the godmother, tapping her three tape on the floor egaln, and as Triste raised her head she shone upon her with her beautiful eyes and dri< d up the tears, and while her ejes were shilling she went on talking: "I was your godmother when you were christened Kosa!>el. When the Kvil Eye struck you and cursed you, and you wefe turned int' Trl-to the Sad, I did not desert you like the others. 1 have been wandering over the world ever ainoe to find tho^Fairy that could take od the curse of that Evil Tye. I have wandered, wandered—oh, how 1 have wan dered: 1 was handsome, and straight as a poplar tree; I am old and crooked, but 1-do not care.—I have found the Fairy. It tan ■any of the maladies of humanity, for whieh necessarily Ian*, slaao tt mol taka I* all Shoot* and branches that spring tnm t root dUsasss. eaeh shoot and broach h» its particular the human sysi our kMi oar heart loathsome list of What oar dyspepsias, dropstss. agues, aad many others, by far too numer ous to insatlon T ' The Discovery haa been Mad aad srovod, and Is -now solidly established upon ha owa merits' (Scarcely a town or villago from which some testimonial of Its use aad value has not been received. Many of thorn testi fying say that after having spent hundreds of dollars upon medicines and physiol ana and their cases having been pronounced hopeless, the Golden Medical Discovery has raised them to health and strength. It unquestion ably hae grappled with thousands of “hard oases ' in the -form of disease, and oome off victor, and Dr. Pieroe has the spoils of eoa- C ist In the way of Increased reputation and thanks and blessing of oured and rejoic ing humanity. Dear, hesitating, sick reader, you are suffering the Mine kind of Ills from which thousands of others have been relieved by the Golden Medical Discovery, perhaps it will not cure you. You may be differ ently constituted from other people: your STBtom may be constructed on a new and original plan, and work on peculiar methods and prindplee. But, after all, it Is quite probable that you are made a good deal like other folks, and that what will cure others will, under about the same conditions, cure you. If you use the Golden Medical Discovery your name will' toon go down on ide tong list of the cured and rejoicing. The Buddhists have a pretty fable of a tree, called the red tree of Koumbourn, each leaf of which hears In relief a letter, all the letters spelling out a poem to Buddha, and ibis vegetable poem being beautifully varied vear altar 'yS*f h* 'Hie tree reue foliage. If the vegetable Ufe, whatever it may be, from which Dr. Pieroe gets the wonderful remedial agents of his Golden Medical Discovery, were thus to spell out the rejoicing of those It had blessed, we should have h poem to match that of the red tree of Koumboum, like It varying Itself season by season as new cases and causes of rejoicing w«i« iHvon. i A Little Trio. Maklnf Use of ^ Inopoetor Thane related at the Hon Yorkpottoe headquarter* the toUqwinff eloty: A lady living in a large-brown- _ atone houae jnat off Fifth avenne, waa thoa oar oeBi Lin har honre one night last week with an *». fT .***' invalid mother in.her charge and no body bat a woman servant to eartet her. All the meh had gone off to a boll. Jnst before 11 £dook the sick women be came worse. The daughter wae alarmed and went to ring the bell Intending to ■end the servant for a particular kind of medicine. The girl appeared just at this-moment, and in a terrified voice, in formed the mistress that there waa a burglar id the basement, "It ia jnat what I want,” said the »"i«l~ros, "a man to tend for medicine.” She went down to the basement and encountered a burly negro in a room in the basement. "Oome oatj” she said, in an impera tive tone. The negro, who had been a slave, in stinctively listened to the tone of au thority and obeyed. He took the order for the preecription, had it filled, and retomed with the medicine and change. An Open Secret. Ott is wen understood tfaSthelBXICAN MUS TANG LINIMENT to by to the best external known for man or beast The reason why beeomes an secret * when we explain that “Mostang” penetrates skin, flesh and muscle to the very bone, removing all disease and soreness. No other lini ment does this, hence none other to so largely used or does such worlds of good. Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator has a repu tation equal to any medicine .in the world. What a rich man uses and gives constitutes Ms wealth.—Hindoo. The North American Indians, especially the Seneca tribe, made such frequent use of pe troleum that for many years it «as only known as Seneca Oil. Now it is known ss Carboline, the Wonderfnl Hair Benewer. He bs miser cares only for himself in yonth will manhood, and a wretched le a ho cares only very niggard in n ter in old age.—J, there waen 1 put my hand on it, —bug 1 got It at last.'' And the godmother tapped her three taps, and laughed three merry langhM, that ran round the wrinkles In her face like streaus cf quicksilver. “ I found It. I put It into a bottle and forked It down tight; 1 have brought it to you." T he godmother drew from under the tra' ol tattered cloak a bottle, in which wae a white Fairy, dimpling and sparkling, and ranking funny little fairy bows and gestures. The godmother laughed her three merry, quick- silvery laughs Kgaln as she held It up and looked at it. “it is meek and quiet enough no.v. ' she said. "When a Fairy Is ome ca g.it It gives up. It will perform its mis sion. Do as it bids you and It will lake off the curse of that Evil Eye.” 'i he godmother pressed the Fairy into Tri te's hand, and before Triste had got over Lein* i«rfeotly dazed at the gift, the god mother was tapping down the winding-atalr witli her walking stick, and Triste was left alone with the bottled Fairy. How long It took her to get over being da. ed; how soon she released the Fairy from the bottle: what it said and what It did, first, second, and last, we can all put Into fairy bls.ory for oursetvee. However ami what ever-the ways and means.it is certain that those frolicsome aches and pains, which hud made of Triste their exercise grounds and camping places, were routed out, hip and thUh, little and big. Sbe stopped making her two remarks and learned some new ones. 'Itid’shc began to tire of her room without windows: and she got so .irave and strong that she would sometimes at nlight, when the gardf it was still and dark, wrap' herself all rend and steal down the winding stair, to wa k tinder the trees, and to look at the stars and the moon. From looking at the stars and the moon she wanted to look at the sun. And one glad da., il.riit in the very brightest sunshine, Ti e walked boldly into the garden. The blr l were singing, the flowers were bloom- IbiTTHc lakes, the trees, the fountains—every th iu «as glorious and wonderful. She with cl on with a strange brightness and easl- nc s, and so happy sbe did not know er it juts the birds she hoard singing, or some kind ot music within herself. She stopped beside a fountain, hnd as she glanced in, the silver water smiled ba k to her with a fresh,' happy face—snrit a fres t, happy face, so free from these old deformities and marks of the Evil Fye, tha Triste <rle 1 out for Joy: and yet such a wonderful chanvoft was, she did not half believe ft was her own reflection she saw in the water. Six did nut half believe It untli the old. godmother came from behind some shrub- berv. laughing her qiifeksflvery laughs fast and loud, and saying, “Ho! ho! ho! Rosabrl! Hosiiltel!" whenever she got a chance be tween the laughs. And Mary Maud and Maud Marian, who happened to be walking In the garden, hoard the laughing and came to the fountain, and when they saw and understood they prope l Triste lu their arms, crying for Joy over her, and calling her their beautiful Rosa. A n 1 so it was ever afterwards, Mary Maud, Maud Marian, and Hoeabel were the three Bisters that lived In the castle. Triste the Sait was never more heard from. The little room at the top of the castle was looked up, and the key !oit former. When Hcsabel went up to take a last look at her old room sbe found that the dear little Fairy had de parted, but on the deserted bottle had left Its name.—Dr. H. V. P erce's Golden Medical Discovery. The atiove Is perfectly true in all but the thin varnish of its setting forth, and.-indeed, the truth in it has considerably crackled and rubbed off even that thin coating. Do wa not all know sad afflicted ones, to whom life ts a curse on account of painful and deform ing disease? Best less, discouraged souls, who say in the morning, "Would God it were evening:'and in the evening, "Would God It were morn fug;” dragging out their weary days with no expectation of anything better this side of the ffrave. If Dr. Pierce’s r.oldon Medical Discovery will do what it claims to do It Is surely a golden gift to humanity; that It trift do ex actly that It claims hurdlvadmit* of a doubt. If we take into eonslde ation the responsi bility and position of Ire voucher, and the thousands of most trustworthy witnesses to its wonderfuliower tn their individual cases. Dr. Pierce Is well known to the general pub lic, not only for life Golden Discovery, but also in connection with tbe World's Dispen sary and Invalids' Hotel at Bnffalo. N. Yv; as author of The People s Common Sense Medi cal Adviser, and other medical works of great practical value; and as origldator and.pro prietor of several sj eciflc remedies, one of which, the alterative "Pierce's Pleasant Purg ative Pellets,'; and his gjreat * Golden Medical Discovery" work log-thcr as allies In the cure of certain diseases He is a physician of large practice and experien o. who. in a rational and sefebtlfltfway, haa made a life study of dis ease, Its causes and cures, under the most fa vorable circumstances lor such study; and tbe “Discovery" tsthe result of much observation, experiment and research. Hp does not gialm that It will cure everything, or that there ere not Individual ca$es beyond Its reach: but he does claim that it ts a powerful remedy for chronic diseases of tbe Mver, blood and lung*,, aad that .frees these as root dfseaseo spring . -A . TnoBimuzi Bread-making.—A Vaa- sar College girl exclaimed 1 , "Bread 1 Well, I should say I can make bread. We studied that in our first year. You see the yeast ferments and the gaa thus formed permeates everywhere and trans forms the plastic matt rial into a dearly obvious atmotio structure and then ’ "But what is this plastic material you speak of?” \ "Oh! that ia commonly called the sponge.” "But how do you make the sponge?” "Why, you don’t make it; the cook al ways attends to that Then we test the sponge with the thermometer and hydrometer and a lot of other instru ments, the names of which I don’t re member, and then hand it back to the cook, and I don’t know what ahe does with it then, but when it cornea on the table it is just splendid.” A Natural Mistake.—At the Zoo, re cently, a West Walnut-street dude waa observed lounging in front of a cage con taining some very fine specimens of monkeys. He waa apparently enjoying the antics of the animals, when, suddenly, one of the largest stretched forth an arm, and seizing him by the shoulder tore his coat sleeve badly. The dude, uttering an imprecation, raised his cane to strike the animal, but the attendant interfered. "Phat’s the matter wid yez?” he said. ‘Would yez sthrike the loikea of a little fellow like that?” "Certainly I weald,” was the angry response. "Look, he haa ruined my coat.” "Ah, poor little chap, he meant no haram. He must have taken yez for his long-losht brother and waa lookin’ for a strawberry mark on your arm.” Thxatkb Parties.—Miss Minks—“I waa so disappointed at not being ableio- go to Mrs. De Coin’s theater party. You had a splendid time, didn’t you?” Mi— Winks—"Indeed we did.. 1 never had so much fun in my life. There, were ten of na all together—fire gentle men and fire ladies—and it was just the jolliest party you ever saw.” Miss Minks—"How I wish I oould hare gone. Did you notice what the play wasF* : Miss Winks—“It was ‘Hamlet’ or -‘Othello.’ I forgot which.— We did have such fun, only there was one thing that annoyed us so much that I wonder Mrti? De Coin, did not speak to the man- Miss Minks—"How mean I Whet was it?” Mi— Winks—"The noise that was made on tfte stage. The actors had no manners at all, bnl talked right along when we were speaking Philadelphia jtoiyflyt 1 .'' • ■ i| ■ IN SOLITUDE. "It quiets tbe patient, and ultimately cur him.” A late eoomium on Samaritan Serving. It is the sausage manufacturer who oth ends meat. makes Mr. Oliver Myers ot Iron ton, O., says; 8a maritan Nervine cured me of general debility. Give work rather than alma to tbr p > <r. Ths former drives out indolence, the latter indus try.—Cumberland. Piles! Ptl—! Piles. Sure cure for Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles. One box has oured wont cases of 00 rears' standing. No one need suffer five min- ktes after using William’s Indian File Ointment. It absorb# tumon, allays itching, acts — poul tice, give* instant relief: Prepared only for Pile*, itching of private parts. Mailed for tl. Framer Med. Oo.. Cleveland. O. There cannot live a more aahappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasure*, nor sensible of n them to others. —Sir W. Temple. A U< m '4> far I.aaf Dl—es. Dr. Robert Newton, late president of the Eclectic college, of the city of New York, and formerly of Cincinna'-i, Ohio, used Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam very extensively in his practice, as many of his patients, now living and re stored to health by the use of this mva'.i.able medicine, can amply testify. He alway. slid that so good a remedy ought to he prescribed freely by every physician as a - overeign remedy in all cases of lung dist-awa. It cures consumption, and has no equal for ah pec- toi al comnlaiuts. True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin and broken from sin. Sotm often repent, yet never reform ; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who fre qnently starts and stops, but never turns —ide. Pure Cod Liver Oil, from selected liver on the tea shore, by C—wsll, Hazard 4 Co., New York. Absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to * 1 others. Phvetuians declare it suucrior to all other oil*. cured by*usiug Juniper’lhr Boap, made 1 wall. Hazard 4 Co.. New York. i pimples and rough r liar Soap, made by Cas- P be: i 1 . themitelves on fantastic models the young be- r 'n with being ridiculous; and often end in ing vicious.—Blair. Ladies’ and children's Boots and Shoes cannot run over if Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffen are used. Great minds, like Heayen, are pleased in doing good. Though the ungrateful subjects of their favon Axe barren in return. —Bowe. Beware of the incipient stages of Consump tion. Take Puto’s Cure in time. Show me a people whose trade is dishoaest^ And I will show yon. a people who— religion ix a tham. -Fronde. « — i— Home Item*. 11 —“ AH your own fault If you rema n sick when you can Get hop bitters that never—FaG. —The weakest woman, smallest chi d, and ■ickeet invalid can use hop bitters with safety and great good. 2 —OH men tittering around from Rheum* ttsm, kidney trouble or any weakness will be Imost new by ust ig hop bitter*. —My wife and daughter were made healthy bv the use of hop bitters and I recommend thorn to my ]>o>ple. —Methodist Clergyman. Ask any goad doct r if hop Bltterrare not the best family medicine On eartn - _ —Malarial fever. Ague and Bi'iousnew, will leave every neighborhood as soou — hop bitters arrive. —“My mother drove the paralysis and* neuralgia aU out of her system with hop bit ter*’’—Ed- Oswego 6'un. —Keep the ki Ineys healthy with hop bit ters and you need not feir sickness. —Ice water is rendered harmless and more refreshing and reviving with hop bitten in each draught —The vigor of youth for the aged and in firm in bop bitters 1 —“ At the change of life nothing equals Hop bill >rs to allay all troubles incident Thereto. - ’ —“ Tha best periodical for Itylies to take monthly and from wh.ch they will receive the greatest benefit is hop bitten.” —Mother* with sickly, fretful, huriung children, will euro the children an 1 benefit them-elveo by taking hop bitters daily. — Thousands die annually from some form of kidney disease that mi^ht have been pre vented by a timely use of h >p bitters. —Indigestion, weak stoma h, Irregulari ties of the bowels, cannot exist when hop bit ten are Used. A timely * * * use of hop Bitters will keep a whole family In robust health a year at a little cost —To produce n al genuine sleep and child like repose all night, take a little hop bitten on retiring. —That indigestion or stoqnaoh gas at night, prevtnting root and sleep, will disappear by using hop bitters. —Paralytic, nervous, tremulous old lad ai are made jierfeet’.y quiet aitd sprightly by using hop bitten. W2 I miss you, my darling, my darling; The embers burn low on the hearth; And stilled is the stir of the household And hashed is the voice of its mirth The rain plashes fast on the terrace, The winds past the lattices moan ;. The midnight chimes ont from the minster And I am alone. t (. -7* I want yon, my darting, my darling; I am tired with care and with fret p I would nestle in silence beside you. And all bnt yonr presence forget, In the hash of tbe happiness given, To those, who through trusting have grown To the fnllneas of love in contentment, Bnt I am alone. I call you, my darling, my darling, My voice echoes back on my heart. I stretch my arms to yon in longing, •And lo! they fall empty, apart. I wisper the sweet words yon taught me, The words that we only have known, TUI the blank of the dtunb air is bitter, For I am alone. I need yon, my darling, my darling, With its yearning my very heart aches: The load that divide#-ns weighs harder; I shrink from the jar that it makes.' Old sorrows rise np to beret ms j , Old doubts make their spirit their own. Oh, oome through the darknees and save me, for I am alone IS VHfAIUNQ AND IKFAH.IBI.E IS Cl'KISO Epileptic Fite, Spann*, Falling Sickness, Convul sions, St. Vitas Dance, Alcoholism, Opium Eating, Seminal Weakness, Im- potency.JByphilla, Scrofula, and ajl Nervous and Blood Disease*. HTTo Clergymen, Lawyers, Literary Mep, Merchants, Bankers, Ladles and all whose sedentary employment causes Nervons' Pros tration, Irregularities of the blood, stomach, bowels or Kidneys, or whe require a nerve tonic, appetizeror stimulant, Samaritan Nerv ine dtoo-M-r—t f.it soots sa4 ogrssAs /r. rboumstwei snot, l“ —b ss°., H 4 *** 5s Its, s> Hs* enrod liofl _ Bn*!'t'» dl««os» sud * 0 l, w "®V"25 forms ot rhemmst o d « tI-tsid lutlivMkv-ninnn taSsromsIurr in l dr J. Css rvlmt to bsixlroAsol i“*“- din* hsTO bo«o corsd. Is IU •memcj, thsl I will nend TWO SOTTLsS PHta, w wUbsVAlXXSI X 1 nSSTia* on IMS dlsniss, M ssl ssflsror Uliolinn usixtr O. sddnos. ^ pa, I. A. bi-OCb S. U» rrsrl St.. Mow Tor*. Kssy to dm. A certain curs. Not expensive. Three momn* trtMimFtil lo on* package. for Oolfl la ihr H.-*<1, Hcwlsrb*. IUmIows. Ilsjr Fryer, Ac. Tlfty cants. Pi. t^Tho proclaim it housands the moat Don't be penpsded to bur iM styles; get only the new improved dust proof, Patent Regulator Watches. 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F< r foil part It elan addrtds will at ts AIENTt WANTED SIFAV.S.“-i';r •L.nsjrTsrfe. r .To Speculators. K. liiftkn k Co-, I. G.jyier & I and 1 Chombsrof Odmmrros. Otih>i««. \ NSW Tor*. Crain and Provlaion Brokers Mrmban of ail Nuw fork, Ohtr Wo ban txol — Chic'so aad Now prominent Protfees Kish Chloaco, at Loolr «nd Milwaak a. Sinatra prtrut. totaaraph wtoo II Yon. Wilt o toco to ordmn on nor S djnoot whon rrqoo. tod. “T 1 I I particulars. M.*nd f<w eircalan eoatoie- ItOST. L1NDHLOM A CO.. U Uic««o w Ctatara Pumps, Tut>0 Writ Pnmpu, . M rare* P.mprla Wtd Fores Pomp Oo., •tamp. W. 0. Allaats, Oooihria. A* N, P, AND WHISKY HABITS OUKKD IN THEE* WEAK* Fo Pamphlets, Praoth aad Turns, Addrnaa, ia Mat soot, with tat. XAMY. M. D., fM Stood Htroof. Sympathetic. —A (Jaorgia editor grate fully say*: "A kind neighbor learning that we had rather a homely breakfast Wednesday morning sent n* a large dish j of nioely browned chitterlings. Jove and the ancient god* are said to hare lived upon nectar and ambrosia, bat if tbe mighty Thunderer never tested browned chitterlings be and Jano, Nep tune, et ah mimed the nicest dish that t rer tiekled the palate of the dwellers of high OtymyrnT ^ The Peculiar Offt Mystery! It eras one of the peculiarities of the old-fashioned Doctors that they sever would tell patients what they were presoibing for them. They said t would do tbe patients i ^ * ,J *“ lying a foolish curiosity, would write the prescriptions i _ read them. All that sort of thing is now over. The patient wants to know what ae takes. He » weak, and wants to be strong, or he is dyspeptic, and wants to digest well. ‘Or be has a troublesome liver which he wants to put to rights. So he takes Brown’s Iron Bitters about which there is no .nystery at all. This is the best preparation of iron in the world, in com bination with gentle yet efficient f Ves. It gives strength. It builds up enfeebled eyst' , 'r,*. It enriches in;> (rished Wood. It removes feminine weaknesses. It casts out debility. ; J what you want, and your druqpist tuiu ‘ > gn M tata PATH frr s rtfs AehoUmhJp ta te* pmosoL Natiohai. Pusmuiwa Oo . Atlanta, Qs. ABENT* WANT) Oils. K. F DIBTKRICHM. ClevelaML Uhls. PENSIONSi I j Att’y, V MhiHfton, D. 0»