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MAEY’S fflTLE LAMB. ■OW HI •nr Am OTBKCOAT WAS TAKKN O WHAT WAS DOME WITH IT. SkMUtoatS* SbMit !■ the OUra Ttaic la ih« Graea Maaaiala (Mat*. , — [From the Oentnry Mtguine.] Wool-growing became the leading in- dnatrj of the Green Mountain State. Aln|oet ererj Vermont farmer wae a •hepherd, and had hie half hundred or hnndrecb or thousand! of grade sheep or full bloods dotting the ferny pastures of the hill country or the broad levels of the Champlain valley, rank with English grasses. From old Fort Dummer to the Canada line one could hardly get^beyond the sound of the sheep's bleat unless he took to the great woods, and even there he was likely enough to hear the inter mittent jingle of a sheep bell chiming with the songs of the hermit and wood thrushes, or to meet a flock driven clat tering over the pebbles of a. mountain road; for a mid-wood settler had his lit tle herd of sheep, to which he gave in summer the freedom of the woods, and which took—alas for the owner’s crops— the freedom of the meadow and grain patches, and were sheltered from the chill of winter nights in a frame barn bigger than their master’s log-house. In June, when the May-yeaned lambs were skipping in the sunshine that had warmed the pools and streams till the bull-frogs had their voices in tune, the sheep were gathered from the pastures and driven over the dusty roads to the* pens beside the pools on the tapped mill-flumes and washed amid a pother of of rushing waters, shouts of laughter of ol men and boys, and discordant, plain tiff bleats of parted ewes and lambs. A fortnight or so later came the great event of the shepherd’s year, the shear ing, for which great preparation was made wicliiu house, and barn. The best the farm afforded must be provided for the furnishing of the table; for the shearers ware not ordinary farm labor ers, bit mostly farmers and farmers ’ sons, and as well to do as their employ er, woo wss likely enough to shear, in his t irn, for them. Whoever possessed the ikill of shearing • sheep thought it Hot beneath him to ply his well-paid handicraft in all the country round. For these the fatted calf was killed snd the green peas and strawberries were picked. The barn floor and its overhanging scaffolds were carefully swept, the stables were littered with clean straw, the wool-bench was set np, and the reel fnll of twine was made ready in its place. Those were merry days in the old gray barns that were not too tine to have ■wallows’ holes in their gables, moss on their shingles, and a fringe of hemp, mayweed, and smart weed about their jagged underpinning* There was jest ing and the telling of merry tales from morning till night, and bursts of laugh ter that scared the swallows ont of the cob webbed roof-peak and the sitting hen from her nest in the left over hay-mow. Neighbors called to get a taste of the fun and the cider, to see how the flock “evridged” and to engage hands for their own shearing. At noou- ing, after the grand dinner, while the older men napped on the floor, wool- benoh or scaffold, with their heads pil lowed on soft places, the yooug fellows had trials of strength at "pulling stick" or lifting "stiff legs.” The skillful wool-tyer was rarer than the skillful •hearer, and in much demand in his own and neighboring townships. He tied the fleeces quickly and compactly, show ing the best on the outside, but with no clod of dirty locks in the middle; for in those days wool had its place and dirt its place, but the fleece wss not their common place. The catcher was an humble but not unimportant member ol the force. He must be alert and with a ■beep ready for each shearer as wanted, and was never to take np a sheep by the wool, but with his left arm underneath, just behind the tore legs, and his right hand grasping a hind leg. And there was the boy to piok up looks, discarding the dirty ones, which were swept out doors. One’s book aches as he remtun ers this unpleasant duty of his boy hood, when be was sceffed by shearers and aoolded by the wool tyer, and often had the added labor of carrying the wool to its storage. Fourteen fleeces tied up in a blanket was the load, which, if they had been of nowadays weight, would have burdened a strong man; but a five-pound fleece was a heavy one then. I have never been present at one of the modern public shearings, which comes before the swallows do, while winter is still skirmishing with spring, and are celebrated in the local papers; but I doubt if they are such hearty and enjoyable seasons as the old-fashioned abearngs were. -The wool-buyers scoured the country at or after shearing time, and drove their bargains with the farmers. The small lots of wool were hanled in bulk to some central point of shipment, while the larger dips were sacked on the grower's premises. The sack was suspended through a hole of its own diameter in an upper floor and a few fleeces were thrown in, when the packer lowered himself into it and placed and trod the wool as it was {Used to him till he had trod his way to the top. Then the sacks were lowered, aewed, weighed, marked, and went their way to market. . < . The '‘tag-locks” and pulled wool were mostly worked up in the neighboring small factories into stocking-yarn, flan nel, and blankets for the fanner’s use, and into the then somewhat famous "Vsnnoot gray,” which was the common cold-weather outer clothing of New Eng land male farm folk. Readers of Thor- eaa will remember that ha mentions it awip than onbe, and thought it good enough wear for bias. Th# Yankee farm er wore it “to mill an’ to martin’, ” and the youag men of forty yens ago were 'to appear in sueh sheep's the paring-bee or the ball WIT AND WISDOM. Blessed is he that ooosiderath the poor. , To iucDXTBE and to pardon is the wis dom of life. Judos not thy fellow man till thou art similarly situated. It is manly to resent an injury; God like to forgive it * The best hand to hold in the game of life is that of your best girl Let us bet .like trees that yield their fruit to those who throw stones at them. He who conquers hiihself is greater than he who in battle oonqners a thou sand men. Madams de Stael onoe said: "The more I know of men the better 1 like dogs.” 8oap don’t cost as much as diamonds, but lots o’ people don’t seem to be able to afford both. A Bouthebn Dakota editor advertises his Bible for sale. He has probably gone over to the other party. A Chicago editor grimly suggests to Arctic explorers the propriety, hereafter, of tsking their coffins with them. Little Jack—"My mamma’s new fan is hand-painted.’* Little Dick—"Pooh 1 who cares. Our whole fence is." A man that needs forty cents worth of whisky to give him an appetite for a flfteen-oent dinner always has the dys pepsia. A smscRinER complained that his newspaper was damp. "Well," said the editor, "it is because there is so much due on it” For onoe the New York editors are puzzled; nonplussed; bewildered; dazed- all broke up. A tramp plumber has been arrested in that oily for vagrancy. We heard of a man the other day who was eaid to be mean apongt) a steal a coat cf~ paint; - -But he oant equal the party who tried to steal a dog’s pants. A faboc ymnft lady MtaedltoaM, Canfflit a glimpic of a poor little mouse, And the scream that she arreme, Shattered Heaven'll blue dome, And bulged out the walla of the bouse. Heard on the rink; "Can that girl skate?” "I think not.” "Then you had better escort somebody else.” "But what shall I do with her ?” "Oh, just let her slide.”—CArisffan-af- Work. Five thousand dogs may make the midnight air palpitate with their howls, in one ward, snd next day when the as sessor goes around he won’t find more than three dogs owned in the entire ward. Mrs. Grundy says “ that owners of apartment houses for bachelors have an idea that all bachelors are millionaires. ” A married friend asks despairingly^ "And pray why ahonldn’t they be? What is there to prevent them?”— Hot Ion Tranaeript. • ‘There is no period in a fond mother’s life when she is happier than imme diately after her first baby has ent his first tooth.” And there is no period in that baby’s life when he is more un happy than immediately after bis mother has cut his hair.—JNorriituwn Herald. A YERY SAD STORY, THE LIME-KILN CLUB. IT DISUCME* THE GKBAT QUESTION OE TOE DAY IN AN BA BREST MAN. NEK, Hhowlag What Ham will da to mad Drairay Mca. Desrade John B. Gough tells the following : "A minister of the gospel told me-eae of the most thrilling incidents I have heard in my life. A member ol his con gregation came home for the first time in his life intoxicated, and his boy met him upon the doorstep, clapping his hands snd exclaiming, ‘Papa has come home 1’ He seized the hoy by the shoulder, swung him around, staggered snd fell in the hall That minuter said to me, T spent the night in that house. I went ont, bared my brow that the nlgbt air might fall upon it and cool it I walked np snd down the hill There was the child, dead 1 there was his wife in strong convulsions, snd he asleep.’ A man about thirty years of age asleep, with a dead child in the house, having a mark upon his temple where the cor- ner of tko marble steps had come in contact with the bead as he swung him around, and a wife npon the bring of the grave I ‘Mr. Gongh,’ said.my friend, T cursed the drink. He had told me that I must remain until he awoke, and I did.' When he awoke he passed his hand over his face and exclaimed, 'What is the matter? wheream I? whore is my boy?’ ‘You cannot see him.’ ‘Stand ont of my way, I will see my boy.’ To prevent confusion I took him to the child's bed, and as I turned down the the sheet and showed him the corpse he uttered a wild shriek, ‘Ah, my child I’ That minister said further to me, ‘One year after that he was brought from the lunatic asylum to lie beside his wife in the grave, and I attended his funeral’ The minister of the gospel who told me that fact is to-day a drunken hostler in a stable in Boston. Now, tell me what ram will not do. It will debase, de grade, imbrute and damn everything that is noble, bright, glorious and* God like in a human being. There is noth ing drink will not do that is vile, dastard ly, cowardly, sneaking or hellish. Why ore we not to fight till the day of our death ? V “The only misgiving I had when I left the cutter,” says Lieut. Rhodes, the Gay Head hero, "was about my baby. You didn’t know that I had one, did you ? He is a bright little boy about two yean old. His mother died some time ago, and as I left in the boat I called, out to the captain to look ont for him if anything happened to me. ” Two Bowery pbieb-fiohtebs hade a match for |200 and let “Funny” Cooks, an English buffer, hold the stakes. They neglected to bold Cooke. Tbs eon se quence was that he sailed for England with the money, and the loser of the fight feels a fiendiah satisfaction in the diseomflture of the man who whipped him. A Ullla EH •( ftareaaai laAalfMl la-Wkal WaaM Malta Each Maa Happy. [From the Detroit Free Frees.] "Gem’len,” said Brouter Gardner am the triangle sounded, “ebery day o' my life I h’ar complaints about our polly- tics, our religun, our skules, our society, our amusements an’ our system of gov’- m< nl Buntin’ mus’ be wrong wid our hull system of existence. What am it? Dat am the queahun 1 propose to have discussed heah to-night in all its bear- in’s, an’ I ax Sir Isaac Walpole to take de floah and lead off. ” •IB ISAAC WALPOLE TOES THE MAKE. "I has reflected aheap on dis subjick,” began the well-known orator as he slid off his splint-bottomed chair. "Eber since i war' ten y’ars ole I has felt .dpt snnthiq’ was wrong wid de way dis ken- try was diskivered, settled op an’ run. Jist what pertickler thing it was has puzzled me for ober sixty y’an, but I has at las’ got my mind made up. As a nasbun we am too aspirin’ an’ ambishus. We wont to git ahead too fast; wo want to acquire wealth and power too quickly. 1 see an’ feel it in myself an' ail aroun’ me. I orter be satisfied wid a six hun dred dollar honse an’ lot, good rag car pet on de floors, cellar full of ’tatera an’ cabbage, an’ fifty dollars hid in an oyster can whar’ I kin find it in ease of sickness, but I ain’t I want to go to de State Legislaclmr; I want a two-story house wid bay-windows; I want an eleetrio doah-bell; I want a heap o’ things dat I’m not likely to git. In my avarice an’ ombishon I am liable to cheat Samuel Shin, swindle Waydown Be bee an’ borry money from Judge Cadaver an never pay it back. I sigh, an’ hanker, an’ plan, an’ scheme, an’ do fust thing any of yon knows I’ll have chattel mort gagee on your mtfies on’ be climbin’ ober your heads into offls. ” JUDGE CADAVEB’s THEORY. asked Judge Cadaver as he stood np and waved his arms around. "I contend dat de hull trubble rises from a gineral want ob confidence iu each odder. You may begin at de head an’ cum down to de foot I help ’lect a President, an’ yet I have no confidence in him. When I go to bed at night I can’t feel ashnred dat be won’t sell de kentry out afore m&w- ulu’. I wote for a Congressman, an’ yet I can’t trust him ten feet If I wanted to borry ten dollars I wouldn’t have confidence to believe dat de Guv’nor would lend it to me. On de one hand I know dat all de groceries am adulter ated, an’ on he odder hand all grocers exhibit a lack of confidence in me. If I want to bor/y an ax from Nelson Slabs bo marks de handle for fear I will steal it, an if Giveadam Jones wants to borry my coffee-mill I slyly remove de grindiu’ part to prevent him from stealin’ de ideah to use in bis comin’ oider mill Dis want of confidence am driftin’ de kentry back inter barberism. Until de day orroves wnon 1 kin wolji down to de Fust National Bonk and borry two hun dred dollars for thirty days widout gibin a note indorsed by a man worf twenty thousand dollars, you need not look fur dis ke ntry to prosper or progress. ’’ IT 18 LACK OP HARMONY. “A hoose divided agin itself cannot stand,” said Giveadam Jones, as bis opinion was called for. "What ails dis kentry am de want of harmony. We am not eben agreed on de form of guv’- ment. Wo am split* up into three or four polyticol parties, a dozen religmis, half a dozen forms of society, an’ good ness knows into how many different bauds on nasbnnal queshuus. We am pullin’ at boaf eands of a wagon stuck in de mud. It seems harmonious to me to drap into a bntoher shop an’ pick out a ham an’ tell de butcher I will call an’ settle nex' week, but de butcher hangs de ham back on its peg an’ remarks dat he can’t possibly agree on de qneshun. I am in harmony, wid one church; Prof. Slyback am not in harmony wid anndder. I had made up my mind dat de Dimocratic party am called upon tc ANOTHER HIGH ENG hAafottoalownpaa* Mmsier down or de top-rail am (wine to give way an’ givw us all a drap." BaoCEBB OAEDHEB wmisai— "Gemlen,” said the Preaidant after various other members had proclaimed their opinions, “it am patent to all dat de kentry has an ailment.bat we am not agreed as to de nstur’ of de dla^as^ noi de remedy to be used as a cure. India «tebrated wiU Earl of Euston, Duke of Grafton. The Earl seeks embarrasain’ situashun I suggest dat we have paUenoe an’ oontiner to hope. While it seems sartin to a man holdih’ down a cracker-box in a oo*ner grocery dat de kentry won’t hold together mo' '“T' 0 ° 1 '“ 1 * “ .11,. Md b. produaei ted constable or draws ^a prise in a lot tery, we has managed somehow to dodge de dangers an’ pull frew de narrer chan nels. It am my opinyun dat we kin go home an’go to bed widootfear dat we won’t find at least half de kentry bangin’ 'round heah to-morrer. We will now dismember.” An Iceberg Panorama. __ The officers of the steamship Abys sinia, from Europe, report a fine display of icebergs. Early on the morning of March 2d, while it was yet dark, the drop in the temperature showed that Ice bergs were in the neighborhood. Extra men were placed on watch and the speed of the steamer reduced. Before daylight the ioe came in tight, and daring the' entire day the passengers were treated to a magnificent ioe panorama. The sun was bright and clear from an unclouded sky, and shone on the sides of the mas sive bergs with fine effect The course of the ship lay to the south of the ice mountains, snd the reflection of the son’s rays from the trickling walls of i^e made a spectacle matchless in many respects. About the ship were many broken frag ments of ioe, small in oomparison with the main bergs from which they had broken, bnt big enough in themselves to form floating islands, over which the steamship was carefully guided. At oneiima emtha forexuxmioxrHw 2d a careful count showed as many as sev enty icebergs within sight. They were of every conceivable shape, snd on some were great peaks rising far above the m ietheads of the steamer. A great ci owd of gulls and sea birds of various sorts were flying from crag to crag of toe icy islands, and their cries and calls K>nld be distinctly heard. Great swashes sould be heard now and then, as some of the bergs, growing top heavy from tbe melting of the subaqueous portions, suddenly turned over and rearranged its centre of gravity. In doing this it wonld perhaps strike another btfrg, and fragments of ioe hundreds of tons in weight were broken off and floated away among the mass of frozen debris sur rounding tbe main cluster of bergs. These sounds were kept up during the night of tbe 2d, but on tbe 3d tbe vessel came out again into clear water. LONDON SENSATION. DCANDAL IN Ths Earl a< Grst.aa Attaa^to to Pal A wax His Wlla—A Warmer Osaka a! As* pears. Mayfair, a London society magazine, publishes the following: "Another be that of the gal- who will be the V What he Found Out. \Vefound out lotf of interesting things during the storms of last week. Quo was that an occurrence, of jow baromet rical pressure aud tbe consequent prev alence of rain and east winds produces a singular effect upon the relations of tho traveling public to tbe horse cars. lent next to get rid of his wife. His contention is that the lady’s first husband was alive when she became Countess of Easton, His appearance in the witness box will be highly dramatic, for the lady has seen him and declares she knows nothing about him. The approaching trial will rival the Tichborne case and be the sen* satibn of the season.” The facts of the matter ore these: Thirteen years ago Henry Fitzroy, eldest son of Lord Angnstos Fitzroy, fell in love with a woman known as "Kate Cook.” She was handsome and stylish in person, and her matured charms were quite sufficient to captivate the yonth of twenty-three. Unknown to his father, who was Equerry to the Queen, he mar ried her. Most chronicles of the peer age ignored the marriage. Others de scribed tke bride as the daughter of John Walsh and the , widow of "Mr. Smith.” ‘ In 1882 the bridegroom’s social posi tion changed. Lord Augustus Fitzroy succeeded bis brother as seventh Duke of Grafton. Henry Fitzroy became Earl of Euston. The widow of "Mr. Smith” became Countess Euston and the future Duchess of Grafton. But troubles had already come between her and husband. They separated by mutui agreement No fault being proved against the Countess since her marriage, the Earl in vain songht an excuse for di vorce. The mysterious "Mr. Smith” has now appeared and the excuse is lounu. If the case fails Kate Cook wiii be Duchess of Grafton, and the title created for a mistress of a King will be torne by a woman of tbe town. The Duke of Grafton was made Knight of the Garter a little over a year ago. He succeeded his brother, who died in the spring of 1882. The late Duke was sixty-three years old and was member of Parliament for Thetford from 1847 until 1852. In 1858 he mar ried Mary Looiaa Anne, daughter of the third Lord Ashburton, aud in 1853 succeeded his father as sixth duke. The first Duke of Grafton acted at the coro nation of James JL as Lord High Con stable of England, and commanded that monarch's forces in the action of Philip's Norton Lane. Afterward he espoused the cause of the Prince of Orange and received a fatal wound while storming the city of Cork in 1690. The third duke was an eminent statesman, who was Secretary of State and Prime Min is tei of England in 1771. Tho present duke was born in 1821 dual The Plenro-Pneumonia BUT. The United States House passed tbe tho Pleuro-Pneumonia bill by a vote of _ 155 yeas to 127 nays. Tho bill as An observant and'philo6opbiciJ*QJn~dac- paMed P rovide * that the Commissioner tor pointed out the fact, illustrating ft of ^culture shall organize a bureau with his own somewhat wide experience. of “ d a PP°iut a chief "If I didn’t Arrow in any other way hereof, whose duty it shaU be to investi- save dis kentry; Pieklea Smith would see de kentry sunk befo’ he would wote anything bnt de Republican ticket I contend dat an aristocracy will sooner or later bring about de downfall of do Uni ted States; Whalebone Howker argues dat an aristocracy will presorve it, kase If it wasn't presarved dar’ wouldn’t be any second-hand men to buy detr wo’n- out carpets. I telf you, gem len, to pre- sarve dis kentry we must wote de Dim<v cystic ticket, accept one brand of re ligun, patronize de circus an’ fine ebery pflsson $10 who won’t hurrah on holi days. LIVING TOO FAST. "We are rnnnin’ away wid de ker- try," said the solemn voice of Waydown Be bee, as his name was called. "We am liWn’ too fast. Twenty y’ars ago I was satisfied with a two-roomed cabin an’ a dollar a day. Now I has to have a two-story honse an’ twelve shillins a day. Wives who used to go ba’rfut six- days a week to save deir shoes for the seventh now wear $8 butea to mop in. De pusson who aims $10 per week mus’ lib jist as good as de one who aims $20. Twenty y’ars ago de woman wid a dia- mond ring could boss a hull naybtfr- kood Now, when she tries to eben boss de sarvani gal de gal packs up her peck of diamonds an’ quite de job wid out waitin’ lo • collect any leetle like $40 back salary. When I was a boy de man who bought a can of oysters was supposed to have bin left a legacy of foteen millyun dollars. Nowadays de poo’ man’s back-yard am kivered wid do empty cans. "I kin see ifgn srter sign-flat dis geo- crashun am speedin’ along without thought or car’ of whar’ it will bring np. Men who am booin' ’talers to-day am nabobs to-morrer. Mon who used to believe in savin’ up fur a rainy day now scatter deir cash aroun’ as if de sunshine mus’ alius last Whar’ I used to be sat isfied wid been soup I now want ox-tail, d*r* whel aik detail kentey,ye that it was a wet, chilly, disagreeable day, I should know it by noticing the way the women act. On wet days ten of them come out and signal me to stop the oar on the wrong side of the cross ings where one would do it ou a fair day, and on this trip I have had four chase the the car and get on it betfreen C^>rnhil] and Boylston street, and then find out that it wasn’t the one way they wanted. And everybody hasn’t nothing but big bills In a wet day; in the last hour I’ve had to make change for a quarter's worth of tickets out of six five-doll&r bills, and how I’m going to change the the next one I don’t know. ” At this juncture a young woman came to the oar door. "Does this car go to Cora- hill?” she asked. "No, it don’t,” said the conductor; "we’re going away from it as fast as we can.” "Why didn’t you sayao before?” demanded the young woman snappishly as she descended the platform. "Well, I’m blowed,” said the conductor as he ring the bell; "how should I know she wanted to go to Combi 11 when she didn’t say anything about tt ? But I s’pose it’s the weather,” he charitably added as he went in to lake np fares.—Boston Journal. He Went Into Politics. "Good gracious,” said the grocery- man to the bad boy, "I am sorry for your pa, if he has got his head set on going into politics. I was in politics one year myself, snd it has taken me five to get ont and pay my debts, and now every ward politician owes me for groceries. You see, they come to me and wanted me to ran for supervisor. They said I was just the man they wanted, a man with a large head, one who was a business man, and who wonld not kick at the expenditure of a few dollare when he conld make a barrel of money. They said if I waa on the board of supervisors I could be placed on a committee that handled the funds, and I could make the purchase of groceries and provisions for all the county institu tions, the poor honse, house of correc tion, insane asylum, hospitals, and Everything, and I could buy them at my own a tore at my own price, and in two years I could be ricn as any in town. Well, I never had a proposition strike me so favorably, and I went in head over appetite. For a month I want around oar ward night and day, spend ing money, and the politicians came to the store and traded when I was out, and bad it charged, and whan the caucus waa held I oujj got cue vote for supervisor, and I voted fkat myself. WeD, the politicians tried to .explain to me, but I bought a revolver, and they kept away. Do yon know, the next day after the cau cus I didn’t have twenty dollars wprth of groceries in the store, and the clerk waa dying of tenesomew T—Feck'a Sm. gate and report on the number, value and condition'of the domestic animals of the United States, and also the causes of contagious and communicable dis eases among them, and the means for the prevention ahd core of the same. He is anthorized to appoint two compe tent agents, whose dnty it shall be to re port npon the best methods of treating, transporting and oaring for animals, and the means to be adopted few the suppres sion and extirpation of contagious pleuro-pnenmonia. The bill farther pcosidas-r that the Commissioner of Agriculture may ex pend so much of the money appropri ated by this act as may be required in paying for the animals it is deemed necessary to slaughter, and in such dis infection and other means as may be needed to extirpate disease. The au. thorities of the State shall pay one-half of the expense of the animals it is deemed necessary to slaughter, and one- half of the oost of disinfeotion and care' of the herds of oattie. It prohibits the transportation from one State to an other of any live stock affected with any contagious or infectious disease, and provides for the prosecution of any per son violating this prohibition. The sum of $250,000 is appropriated' to carry into effect the provisions of this bill To abort a sty, paint it over very jarefnlly with tincture of iodine, nm'ng a small oamel’s-hair brash so as to avoid touching the eyeball—Zb*. Foote'a Health Monthly. Newspaper subscription rates in tbe Argentine Republic are a little mixed. The Buenos Ayres Herald carries this paragraph at its head : "Price for this edition, $6 gold ayeer, or $150 curranoy, foreign postage extra.” "father^ ” f Lots of iltep sustained in tbe anxiety spent ,n nursing the little darling so slowly snd pit- tifully wasting swsy by the drsinags upon its system from the effects of teething, nearly un fits you for business. We suggest that if you will try a bottle of Dr. Diggers Southern Rem edy you will have a panacea fpr aU bowel troub les. apd loss of sleep and sioinesa will be unknown in your house. This, with a bottle of Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum sod Mullein, combining the stimulating expec torant principle of the sweet gum with the healing one of the mullein, for the cure of croup, whooping cough, colds and consump tion, presents a Utile mkdicot chest no house hold should be without for the speedy relief of sudden and dangerous attacks of the lungs and bowels. Ask your druggist for them. Manufac tured by Walter A Tsylor, proprietor Taylor’s Premium Cologne, Atlanta, Gs. Gkosoia pine is Msg skipped to South Dr. 8. B. Britton says: “As a rule physieianS do not by their professional methods build up ths female constitution, snd they s Idom cure the diseases-to which it is always liable in our variable climate and under our imperfect dvil- isatioa. Special remedies are often required to reetore organic harmony And to strengthen the enfeebled powers ef womanhood, and for moot of these we are indebted to persons out side of toe medical prqfcation, Among the verv beet oft these remedies I assign a promi nent place to Mrs. rinkham’s Vegetable Com- FOR CURING CHILfcS”AND FEVER AND ' Removing the Distressing Effected Milifftl AYER’S AGUE CURE HA8 BEKN FOUND «0 NEARLY INFALLIBLE, THAT * We Authorize Dealers to Return the Money, If the medicine is taken according to directions, without benefiting the patient. . ’ ' s— - — - PREPARED BT DR. J. C. AYER Ml CO., Analytical Chomlata, LOWELL, MAM. Bold by all Druggists. Price f 1, six bottles for ftfi. There are about 5,000 Ohlneae In New York Btato. Ah American girl frequently weal* all she is worth on hex back, according to the Lowell Courier. She often wears all her husband is worth, too. His Nan's Admire. I have been troubled for over twelve years With A weakness of the kidneys and bladder, which the doctors said was diabetes. 1 cmM not at times stand up, and would have to con tinually use the urinal both, day and id ;ut. with intense pains in my back and si les: there was brick-d ist deposits in my water, I could not rest wellor lie easily in bod in any rosture. 1 was at that time employed by the Maine Central railroa I, and bad to give u- work for a time. Fearing that it would sooner or lator turn to that dr. aded Bright's disease, I called iu my son in I^wiston, who is in the drug business, and after consulting with him as to my case, he advised me to use Hunt's Remedy, as he knew of so man, suc- tliat it had made in Lewiston cessful cures and vie nity. 1 at once commenced using it, and began to improve. I had less pain in my back and sides, my water was passed natu rally with less color and no pain, and after using several bottles found that my pains were all gone and tbe weakness of the kidneys and bladder were cured, and 1 have no trouble with them now, and can attend to my bus^ i neas; and for one of my years 1 am enjoying good health, and thanks t> Hunt's Remedy For it, and I consider it a duty and pleasure to recommend so good a me iicine as Hunt's Remedy, and 1 iurre taken pains to Tecjm- mend it toothers in this.vicinity. . -tn You are at liberty to publish this acknowl edgment. hoping it inay b; the means of bel| ing suffering humanity. E. II. Clark. Furniture Dealer, Formerly with Maine Central railroad. Newport, Me., May 17, I'vaa. Colonel Neller'a Eye Water. The Colonel never made a snccess of the Eye Water business, butCarboline struck a tonanza with Petroleum as its base. If your hair it thin and falling out, try it. Ireland's population Is 6,100,000—3,099 - 000 loss thou in io4L ■-!— _ - Th- TCtiimony ef a rhir.lclan. James Beecher, .d. D , of Sigourney, lowi. eiye: *'For several years I have becuusin; a C ugh Pal-am, called Dr. Wm. Hall balsam for th* Lungs, and iu almost everv cav through my pia'ctice I have hid ectin succ -ss. I have used and pre cribed hun li edi of bottles tine.' the days of my army j ractic il* 3 p when 1 was surgeon of Hospital No. 7. Louisville, *7^ The Ndw York market is extensively sup plied with foreign eggs. It seems pi Of er to assert that .Ssrwirt/an .Vrnitte cnr*s dji*>«p ia. No curs no psj The head truly enlightened wUl_pres-ntlv have a wonderful influence In pnrirring th* heart, and the heart really affected with goodci »- will much conduce to the directing of the head. J, W. Forhee, of B.ufl Springs, Ala., aayi: ‘ Samaritan Xrn ine cured me nf fit*.” AERAM Fisher, ninety-Six. waa mar a girl of sixteen at Knox, Ind., tho day. married to other The increasing sales of Piao’i Cvre attests its ciaims as the beat cough remedy. LIDIA E. PIXKHAX’S Veptalle Cdprai xiAmmn cna For Female ComplaJats aad iWeakaeeaes so coalmen to ear beat female pepalatlea. It wtn ear* entirely the wont form cf Female £am- plainta, all OrarUa troubleo, Inflammation and Ulcer*, tlon, Tailing and Diaplaormentt, and the ernaeqnent Spinal Woaknoea, and 1> particularly adapted to the Change ofUfe. —:— It will dieeolve and expel tumors from tho uterus In aa early etage of derrlopment. The tendency to canceroue humors there is checked very speedily by Its use. It removes faintness, flatulency, destroys all era-ring or stimulants, and relieves weakness of the stoma- n, t cures Bloating, Headaches, Nerrous Prostration. General Debility, Hlceplaesness, Depression and Indiges tion. That feeling of bearing down, raualngpaln, weight and backache, Is always permanently cured by Its use. It win at all times and under all eireumslancee act la harmony with the laws that govern the Female tystest. For the cure of Kidney Complaints of either box. this Ootnpound Is unsurpassed. Price gl. 00. Six bottles for gi.% No family should be without LTDU Z. PIXTEJUTB ISVXM PILLS. They cure constipation, biliousness and torpidity of the liver. M cents a box at all druggist* GOLD WATCH FREE!. Th* {NiblbWt «f th« Capitol City Homo Oixeut, tk* wall- known Illmtrnted Literary mad Family Magazine, make tke fol lowing liberal CWfer lor the Nuw Tear: The person telling of the longeet weree !n the Bible, before May 15th,wiJl receiTe a Solid Gold,IdikJy** lUatlMi CmcJ SwIm Watch, worth $M. If there he more than one oerrect answer, the second will receive aa elegant Ste«i»w$MdtMffjU*MtUMM'u Watch | tke third, • key-wind tag Enfltah W atek. Keck person most send 95 eta. with the* answer for which they will receive three moaths’ sab- ecripOon to the fioOU Quest, a 10 page Illustrated Jicw Year Book/a Casa of S& articles that the lad tea i will appreciate, ind paper eontatnlng names of winner*. Address o Kit*, of soaca orasr, habttobd. conic. AND INFALLIBLE in ccnnco lions, Epileptic Fit*, Spoems, Foiling Sickness, Convul- St. Vitus Dance, Alcoholism, Opium Eating, Seminal Weakness, I ta pe tency, Syphilis, Scrofula, and all Nervoue and Blood Diseaeb*. . tWTo Clergymen, Lawyers, Literary Men, Merchants, Bankers, Ladle [ict snd Ml whose itarr T m, In bowels or Kidneys, or who require s nervs tonic, appetiser or stimulant. Samaritan Xerv- in* is Invaluable. lyThousands proclaim it the moat wonderful Invlgov ant that eversustain- ed a sinking system. $1.60 at Druggists. Tk«DR.S. A. RICHMOND EIDICALCO.8ol.Prs. prist art, St. Isstph. Mo. Cham N. Crlttenton. Agent. New York. 781 ClHlElRMEiy (CONQUEROR^ 4 ^ i iga the Bead, ‘Kutdacha. Dtolnwi, Hay Fujrtr, ftfe IGMfJJXI! STrALUansuaniAss *“ r nmTTi— •*!>«• o*** *» «* CELEBRATED PAXTOI ME. FIRST PRIZE MEDAL ou C.Mlflaed Farm and Traction Kn.lnre *t So-itheru iupoeitloa, touio- rlle. Kr., UM. J4*nuf«e>or*r» of boiler*. Fuuiuee. Sew Mill# ead 6ep.rmto.-m. roB ClBt VLmus. FOKDRT UD H1CSHE BEPUTIIEIT HAKRLSBUEG CAR MANUFACTURING CO.. n »KKi«n|-i:«, PA. 'JTo Kpecixlatorfc. R. MU* A C$- ( I. G. MUr A l’«.» | mad 1 Cbmoihmr of * Oommero*. CUUngo. Tor*. Crain and Provlalon Broker* M- Now Turk. of all evowi-D-nt Froducm I£>ei »«-* t* OhMMO. W I*»t* •od Mil«*»m «, W. here miotAIv. pnrMw tet-urmp.i wtr. D#*w mu Chioco mut New YocV Will m.-oule ord-n. -a iudwmrnt wli*B rfQUR'ted. Head for circular* cantAia Ctomratun? iMtolVfaaWbUSILALU-. Ohimmg* AN OBOANSCKD BCBOTEM OOHMUBUX Ora TEAK. SEND FOB PHtOULABS- GOOD NEWS 12 LADIES! Gremtmmt luducum-rt* o«*r mS fend. 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O. 5UAPlLDUIwLA'“o^AQJU3nHaPiRESiUBg> WHITE Paynet’ Astomatlc Esglnss snd Saw-Hill Ol’K *.*AI>BR. We ohar *n t li» ftL P. mojatwd Knghw with Hlh» 10 t »*!id haw. fto ft. baiting, cant-hook*, for op^ritlon, on c-m. S'.W . E*CJfw •J* )t**v &.B1 for circnUr (B). IK. W» PA YNB dfc HON*« ManwHrti F t* of AutoMatir Eo- atium from t to t n H. P.j. al*o PoDwr*, Haag or* »o4 CoAftng, tthoiro, N. t. Mo* IfttO. an. stum a so • * u.a , »t«' * • “ 1 fine. Klrniru. N. »■ Mua IBo s r a »•▼* a *o*titv# ramady th* ahov* 41*****; I ««• tboa***d« *f —0— *f th* worst kind aad retker with aTaLttlSt.U TxXiTlSReu lb»* «l*-ae*,ta Lit aaSartr. Olra.apr.-a-d F. O. addraaa. ’ 1)0. t. JL kUKXM, Ml Faarlit..MawTarS) k. n. *• "w **>•*-». I ar at aa 1 heat re a Or lav hi dear. > Uv-r. at-riniaS, bladder a* I kdrrl i imaaaef, aad oalf r-*l earatlia ava* dtoev-md fat moat* *at chreata ibeamaKem «eut, lumbae* aoiat- aruralirii, #•«. Uaaaarad korj. 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