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Gathering Lamp Dlask. About a year ago, in boring for oil at Murraysville, near Pittsburg, Pa., the boring tools tapped an extraordin ary vein of natural gas. The flow was estimated at about 50,000 cubic feet per hour. Recent measuioments show that instead of decreasing, the present flow is fully 10,000 feet per hour greater than the first estimate, while the pres sure at the mouth of the well is ninety pounds per square Inch. The appli ances for collecting the soot from the Murraysvillo gas are the following: Near the well Is erected a frame build ing, 800 by 175 feet, and into it the gas is led in four paral.el lengths of 250 feet each, of two-inch gas pipe. Along the sides of these are fitted short branches of one-eighth gas pipe, term inating in a slight upward curve and tipped wi'h ordinary gas burners of six foot per hour capacity. Above these burners, a' a distance of ten inches, are placed a series of cast iron plates, contiguous and forming a smooth surface whereon the carbon black Is deposited. A small car traveling on rails laid between burners and plates, and furnished wi+h a scraping device, plies forward and back every ton miin utes during the twenty-four hours. This CL.rriage is propelled by steam power, operating through wire rope and suitable gearing, drums, etc. The smoke or carbon black is scraped into pans hung upon the car, and these are dumped at each end of the route into receptacles, which are in turn emptied and deposited in the purifying and packing house. Alter siimply removing cinders, etc., by passing through sieves the soot is ready for the market. The daily product of this plant will be half pounu carbon black per burner, i. e., 2,000 pounds, there being 4,000 burners. The owners of the lurraysville gas well refused $20,000 for it from the Edgar Thomson steel works, of Pitts burg, who wanted to connect the well with their works by a gas-main, about fifteen miles In length. The phenomen on of an invisible gaseous substance is suing from the earth made visible, co densed into tolid form, and packed up for market, is strikingly Illustrated in this establishment. The gas as It issues from the ground is unseen, but a given volume of it is found by chemical ana ysia to consist approximately of twenty. four parts by weight of carbon and four parts of hydrogen; in other words, a quantity of the gas that weighs twenty eight pounds of carbon and four pounds of hydrogen .--This hydrogen seems to have the power of imprisoning and concealing the carbon from hutuai view. But carbon is carbon, whether in this gas or existing in the carbonic aeid that gives pungeney and eIbr voscenee se the seda water we drink, or in the lamp flane Imparting its brilliancy. or In the sparkling diamond, the hardest of substances and the pur est form of carbon. The carbon that comes up in the gas well is rendered visible by sepa rating the hydrogen from it, which is done by the heat of the flame. The hydrogen contained in the gas is burned up by uniting with the oxygen of the aIr, btut only a por tion of the carbon is burned ; the uan consumed port,le' ,,f the carbon, liber ated by the burning of its hydrogen, rises up against the p)lates, where it sticks fast unatil1 scraped on' as described. Waex ini the Ear This is regularly secreted, to protect the delicate mechanism from dust and insects, and too keep It supple)1. It should not, ordinarily, be oleaned out. A healthy oar takes care of itself'. But eertain diseased oonditilons of the in ternial ear cause, the wvax tohamrden and accumulate, giving rise to serious symptoms. Among these are noises mn the ear, whIch sometimes become con -verted Into seemingly real voices, and lecad to hallucinations and temptations to) suicide. A skilled physician can re move the hardened wvax-and he alone can determine its existence. Untaught, children sometimes put into theIr ears beans, and other sam l! bodies, around which the wax gathers and hardens. A little boy pushed beans lat. both ears. One wias removed, but the other remained, the p)arents not being awaie that there were two. During the young man's college course brain disease de 'reloped, and he was forced to abandon his studies and betako himself to farm ing. Subsequently the bean, suirround ed with wvax, was removed, but tihe man's prospects for life were ruined. A lawye*, Afty-four years of ago, was forced to abandon his profession, as It, was impossible for him to hear eit,her t,he judge or the witnesses, iIe was, at length, however, able to return to it, after the real cause of the dialculty surmised, and the wax was removed with warm water Injections. Can a Diamond be ifrokeni? In cutting, or rather rubbing the diamond late shape and In p)oiishing the cut stone, no abrading agent can be used except tihe diamond itself. It Is this supreme hard ness that gives much of -the value to the diamond; for the roughest wear scarcely destroys the sharpness of the cut edges or deadens its polish. Th'ie exceptional hard -ness of the diamond is well known, and gives point to the expression "diamond cut *diamond;'' but the popular notion oftono credits this gem with an indomitable nature which it oan scarcely claim, Among the many extravagant tiings which Pliny tells us is his remark that certain diamonds have sack excessive hardness that when struck upon an Iron anvil the hammer and anvil are torn asunder. Yet lhe cooly asserts that stuch stones can be suibdued by diges tion im goat's blood, provided that the cur ious solvent be fresh and warm. Without goig o,tisheight of extrava anee many belive,noways,that a true giamond wil resist the blow of a hammer. This popular error arisce from confoundinghardness with toughnesawo physical properties which are entirely distinct. A piece of gutta percoha, for example, is so tough that it is torn asunder with difmiulty, yet so softthat it may )be indented with the finger-nail. On the other hand the diamond is so hard ','that no substanice is capable of scratchin at t so brittle that* the' "Regent" liel -~ .inihi Wteted into fragments )>y drop. pi4i~ thground from t340 height 'of AGRIOULTtJRE. WORK IN TIE BAIN,--With a warm barn, a daily feeding of four quarts of shorts, two qi.arts of Indlarn meal, half a peck of carrots some earl, out hay and a fodderin-4 of well cured corn stalks, sweet. corn preferred, will keep up ia good flow o(i milk, and yield good results in butter. It is not. advisable to let the stock rem ain out, long in tih yard diirinlg the winter seasonl, even though the sun may be shining bright ly, since there are often cold, Chilly winds even with the * Innshint, w hill on such occasions the cows genuer:tlly huddle upi in a shelterel ornler. Bet ter fatr to keep then comforaible inl tin, barn, p1 rtiitig thcm to take their ex elise whil.' gaiig to the spl ring for drink. Finally, do not neglect mn.ing the card or curryeoin> upon the Cows, if not every dty, at least three or four times a week. Remunerative results can only be secured through good care and intelligent tnanagement. A1'PLYINO FERIrLIZEa.-''O have the best results fertilizers must be applied judiciously. Study the nature of your soil. If it is (ry avoii heating manures, using ashes. salt, plaster and stlh fer tilizers as attract moisture, Never use a manure of which you do not know the nature. If you are about to plant corn upon a soil that is too cold and wet for lis crop, use the most heating nanure available. The droppings of the poul try house, iutxe,I with sand or coal ashes, would be goo(i in such a case. VEIRMIN are the greatest pest ( fowls. They are worse in winter thaw at other times, beenuse the fowls are confined more closely and have not opportunities to free themselves. Lice may be de stroyed by whitewashing the house and roosts with lime-wash mixed with carbolic acid. Fleas may be destroyed by thoroughly greasing the roosts. Clean straw a bould be supplied to the nests, and glass nest-Oggs prodiced for early layers. A glass-covered coop will be usefli for an early sitting hen and a young brood of chickens. ( .,AxS containing roots must be kept cool. A thermometer will be found useful in a cellar where roots or fruit are kept. In either case the near er -the temperature can be kept to 34 degrees the better. Roots for table use, if kept in a warm collar, should be covered with earth or sand to keel) them from wilting. STRAwannRIEs.-When cold weather is over, part the straw or hay covering over the plants to expose them freely. W Ar TEIINU STocI.-Enpty and clear the troughs of ice every afternoon, so that when filled in the morning there is no iee to chill the water. The Lord's P1rayer. When the elder Booth was residing in Baltimore, a pious, urbane old gen tleman of that city, hearing of his wondc"rful powcr, or elocution, one day invited him to dinner, although al ways depreciating the stage and all theatrical perform ances. A large com pan)y sat down at the table, and, on re turning to the .1rawing-room, one of them asked Booth, as a special favor to them all, to repeat the Lord's Prayer. IIe sigulfled his willingness to gratify them and all eyes were fixed upon him. lie slowly and reverently arose from his chair, trembling with the burden. of two great concept.ions. Ie had to realize the character, attribute and presence of the Almighty Being lie was to address, lie was to tranisformi him self into a poor, slinnlng, st,umbling, benighted, necedy supp11lcant, offering homage asking b)reald, p)ardoni, ligh t and guidance. Says onie of the comp~any who was presen)t :"It was wonderful to watch the play of emotIons that coni vulsed hIs countenance, lie becamne deadly p)aie, and his eyes; turned tremub ling, upwards, were wet with tears. As yet, lie had not spoken. T1he silence could be felt; it had become absolutely Painful, until at hast the spell was broken as If by an electric shock, as his rich toined voice syllabled forth, 'Ouri Father, which art in Heaven,' etc., with a pathos andi fervid solemnity which thrilled all hearts, iIe finished(; the sIlence continued ; not a voice wan heard nor a muscle moved In his rapt auieinc'e, until, from a remote cornier of the r.oom, a subdued sob was heard. andit the 01(1 gentlemani (the host) step ping forward with streaming eyes anid tottering frame, seized Booth by the htandl. 'Sir,' said lie, In broken accents 'you have afforded 1me a p)leasure for whielt my whole future life wvill feel grateful. I am an old man, and every tday from boyhood to the present time I have repeated the Lord's Prayer ; but I never heard it before.' 'You are right' repliedl Booth, 'to readl that p)ray'er as it should be read causedl me the severest stutdy and labor for thirty years, and I am far from satisfied with my render Iing of that wonderfttl prodluction.' IIardly one person in teni thiousanid comprehendls how much beauty, ten derness and grandeur can be condensed In a space so simple, TIhat prayer itself suilicloently illustrates the truth of the Bible, and stamps upon it tihe seal of solem n ity." A Revelation hurst U pon the publio press and medical profession, when, over twenty-five years ago, that grand result of medical researoh and synthetle skill, flostotter's lStomach Bitters, was given to the world. Soon after it had been startod on its enrative miss,ion It was discovered that Its botanic properties far surpassed these of the a pproved mineral remedies of the day. Net te least among the good consequences of its general use has been to disabuse men's minds of many absurd medical fallacies, and to dem onstrate the superiority'of vegetable remedies. it conquers and prevents malarial fevers, dye. pepsia, obronle constipatIon, a tendenev to kidney and bladder ailments and rheumatism, and is of the greatest value in eases of bodily trouble arising from weakness. Old people are generally aided by It, anid It is highly ser vleeable to oonvalosoen,ts and ladies in deloate health. It is moreover, a useful medicine $p take with one on long journeys, and counter. acts the efrects of mental exhaustion. SITTLEMNQT OF A LONo DIsPUTE -- Phiysicans have at last comne to the con elusion that the best medlicine for teething children is Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. __________ The Proof of the Pudding Is in the hating. Grocerymen and storekeepers pay 8 to 5 cents a pound extra for butter made with Gilt-edge Butter maker. It inoreases production 6 to 10 per cent.; redluecs labor of churning one-half; glyce a rich goldon color the year round. Sold by druggists, grooers and general storekeepers. Send stamp for "Hints to Butter-makers." Addresa, Butter Jmproivement 0o., Buffalo, N4ew DOME'IIC. CANVAS BAOIc DUOK.--.Choose I plump, lull, heavy duck; plek it, and singe overa little burning alcohol, then draw and wipe it dry, without wash. lug. Not a dropof water should touch a canvas-back (luck, as it would re. move the blood and with it all the fla vor. It is difficult to distinguish be. tween it and the red head when alive, and almost impossible when cooked. They are both in prinie condition dur ing November and December. Epl cures consider canvas back superior in flavor, but If killed in a region where wild celery abounds, the red-head is only slightly Inferior; the same rules answer for cooking both. All other ducks have a fishy flavor, which is no doubt caused by their "feeding grounds," and require different treat ment. The bill of the canvas back is black, and about three inclies long; that of the red-head is bluish changing to black towards the end, and only two and a quarter inches long. Always leave the head on in trussing; season lightly inside with celery-saltand pep per, then place in a dripping-pan and put intoa quick oven. Baste frequent ly with melted butter, and do not move the (luck or the juices will be spilled. A full-sized duck will cook in twenty live niuinutes it the oven is as hot as It should be. Five minutes before tak ing from the oven, baste with currant jelly incited with a little butter, and once again before serving. Remove the duck, as soon as done, to a dry, hot platter; have ready mixed the juice of half a lemon, a dash of cayen ne pop per, at pinch of salt and a tablespoonful of wine. Pour these hot over the duck and serve immediately. To be in per fection It should come from the oven dry and brown and when cut flood the dish with a rich, red gravy. Garnish with sliced lemon and spoonfuls of currant jolly, and serve with green peas and celery. CARS OF PLANTS IN WINTER.-Slips should be cut smoothly from the plant jnst below a joint., or where they join the main stein. Any time during the growing season will do, though July, August and Seplomber are the best months. Most slips stand well in sand, or a mixture of half-and-half soil, kept wet. If wanted for the house in win ter, it is better to stand the slips in small pots sink in the ground, as they can be left in the pots or transtferred to larger ones without disturbing the roots. Oleanders. honeysuckles, south ernwoaad, and some other plants, are best started by putting them in a vial of water on a partly-shaded window sill, putting a piece of cotton around the stei at the neck of the vial, both to steady and protect the plant, and pre vent too rapid evaporation. Plants for the house In winter will not do well in smaller than four or filve inch pots. Place at saucer under each. Wa ier every day toward night, putting on water till somie runs through into the saucer. The water should always be tepid, once a week a few drops of am monia or liquid manure should be added to each quart of water if the soil is still moist; some plants do not lneed as much water as others. A little top-watering only does more hurt than good; the water should go to all the roots. AL'ter January they will need more water, as thten they begin to grow ;' before that most plants simply live. Cactaises and aloes should have no water in the early winter ; they must rest if you wish them to bloom well later. Keep callas standing in water. Keep the pots and' leaves Glean by frequent washing, Plants do better in glazed pots or wooden boxes, tihe commini pots beiagso l)Orous is to extract all tile moisture fromt tile roots. If you simIply wishl to keep slips f'or next year's garden, 1111 a starch-box with sandy soll, set a nlumber of' slips inm it, keel) w~et1and in a sunniy wVindow. FnicAssEEc OF RAnarr.--Boil a good Iized( rabbIt in ai quart of stock or wvater. with a quarter of a p)ounid of streaked bacon, two onionsa, a sprig thyme or inarjoramt, a pinchl of salt, and pepper, When tend(er take out rabbita nd bacon, aut up thle former into neat joints, re terve all the best for the fricassee; puIt back the head, nleck, andali un sightly p)ieces into the liquid (; let it boll until reduced1 to a lpint; thlen strain IL off, and take off every partie,e of fat. When thils Is done, algainl allow the gravy to redluce to half' a p)int; then pu1t ini the loints of rabbit, withl a sprig of plarsley, thymte, and marjoram, and let it almi cine 101r a half an 11our'; take or strain >uit tile herbs, add1( a pinchl of grated Ilutmeg and lemon-peel, and thicken shle gravy either withl acupful ofeream r milk, wvfith a dessert-spoonl of cora tlour; if milk is used, stir in an1 oun1ce f fresh butter. Cut up the bacon boll 3(1 with the rabbit 111to very thlin slices, let it get hlot on tile fricassee wIthout boiling; arrange nearly on the dish, (1nd serve withl the rabbit. 'TIPE, MODS DE CAEN.-FIye pounds If tripe are enlouigh ior 10 p)ersons. Put .wo calves' feet, withI the raw trIpe cut in pieces about three inches long by one nch wide, Into a casserele withl a quart If Wite winle, and a wvine-glass of Itranldy, (which tihe cook must not irink;) adld salt, pepper, oneC onIon, a Marrot, a little garlic, some biay-leaves, mnd two quarts of stock ; cook until it is all tenlder ; then put It in an oven, mud let it cook slowly at- least eight hours. Seirve as hlot as p)ossible. THEc price of goal) is rapidly ad vancin. g., A year's suply of Don ilINS' 'ECToRIO bought 1now at 011hlprice wIll be a very JudieIous pur-. PROFITABLE PATIENTs.--T.'he most wonderful anda mallrvelous success,. in cases whlere persons are sick or wvast lng away from a condition of miser ableness,,that 110one knows whlat alls them, (profitable patienlts for doctors,) is obtained by the n'se of Hop Bitters. They begin to cure from the first dose aind keel) it up until perfect htealth and strengtht is restored. Whoever is af flicted in tils way need ntot sufler when thtey can get Hfop Bitters. See other 00lu 'nn.* _________ YVEGETINEt is now, acknowledged b) our best phlysicians to, be the onIly sure and safe remed1y for all diseases arts. lag from impure blood, such as sorof. ula and 'ierofulous auo,rs. lonsumption curea. AN .ld physlelan, retired' from psrao tice, having had placed in his bands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure for Con sumnption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all '1hroat and Lung Affections, plso a positive and radical Qure for Ner-. vous DebilIty and all Nervous Comn plaints, after having testad its lwonder fuo uratye powers in thousands of cases, has- felt It his duty to make It know to hisa suffering fellows. Actu ated by this motive and a desire to re lieve human sufering, I .Sill send free of charge to all who desire It, this-re. oie nGra,Fec,or ICnglishj with stamp, naming this papr . Won 1ok49 Poers' rnooki *So4hE4t HUMOROUS. WHrx a boy falls and peels the skin off his nose, the first thing he does is to got up and howl. When a girl tumbles and hurts herself badly her first move ment is to arise with more haste than grace, look searchingly at her dress and savagely at some innocent young man standing on an opposite corner, and, as she shoots off for home, mutter something about the "horrid loafers," wholly unconscious that her hat is screwed a.*ound over her left ear, and that two inches of fingers protrude through her soiled kids. Not until she reaches her dear mamma does she sob like a baby with the wind colic. ELUcIDATIoN.-Rocto.8 Wife-How do you do. Mr. Wiggles? We have not seen you at church lately. Have you been away? Mr. Wlggles-Yes, Mum. I've been a visitin' my old 'aunts at Manchester, Mitui. Rector's Wife Really ! I hope you found the old ladies quite well. Mr. Wiggles--I didn't say my harnts, Mum-I said my old 'aunts-revisitin' the 'aunts o' my youth, you know, M'um I A YOUNG lady refused to .marry a gentleman, to whoh she was cngiaged on the puerile grounds that he was a divorced man, had beaten his first wife with a club, shot at her with a revolver, tried to poison her, and ran after her with a carving knife. Really, our girls are getting so particular that if this thing goes on there won't be one wed ding a week in the entire community by and by. "Ti way it is," said little Johnny, describing a raflle at a church fair, "you see something and you give a half a dollar for a chance to win it; another fellow always gets it, and they uover offer you your money back I" "WHAT kind of a conscience have you ?" asked a chaplain of a convict in the State prison. "It is a good as new, for I have never used it," was the re ply. MAnu LEMON once said it is with narrow-soulded people as with narrow necked bottles-the less they have In them the more noise they make in getting It out. "Ma. SMrnuas, how can you sleep? The sun lhas been vp these two hours." "Well, what if it has?" said Smithers. "le goes to bed at dark, while I'n) up till after-midiiglit." Now matter how bad and destru ctive a boy may be, he never becomes so de graded or loses his self-respect suffi ciently as to throw mud on a circus poster. A MULD's head does not contain a brain capable of culture and refined rearing, but it is wonderful to what an extent the other end of his form ean be reared. 'TuE most allicted part of thn houso is the window. It is always full of panes-and who has not seen more than one window blind ? A LrrrrxL boy who was asked if he could tell the length of a whale said the whales he caught at home seemed' more than an hour long sometimes. '"W JiaN thie swoliows homneward fil " then the homeward ly is swoilewetr. Gen. Crook's Escape. Gen. Crook's escape from an ignoble death on the pairies was k narrow one. With two friends he was goose huntIng in the Platte Valley. The party were two miles from the farm-house where they m)ade their headquarteru, when a "blizzard" or biindhng snow storm sud denly came tip. General Crook shot a goose, and in attempting to get it lost his hat. In following it ho dropped through an ice-hole. The water for tunately was not deep, but it thorough ly chilled hirm. He recovered his hat and remarked that he was cold and numb, and would return to the house. A few minutes afterwards his fr.ends also started, shaping their steps by the river's course. One remarked hat hie felt uneasy about Crook, who, lie feared ight have missed his way. The other rejected the iden, but during a slight cessation of the storm the first sportsman insisted that lhe could see the figure or a man behind them. A loud shout was sent tip and repeated again and again. Fiunally Crook's fig tire was recognized as he came stag gering up, and it was discovered that he was well-nigh chilled to death. His ears and feet were frozen, his neck was eovered with ice, and he was unable to sp)eak aloud. His comrades helped him to the house, and for two or three days he was unable to proceed further, his friends remaining with him. He had become confused, and traveling In coir eles had f allen into the river a second time, when he discovered his mistake, and rapidly retraced his steps, And none too soon to save his. life. Ct,ok had always prided himself on beg able to endure severe storms withbot any protection but an overcoat, and in many Winter campaigns lie has set me. rare examples of endurance. But 'for his friends, however, lie would have tasted his physical powers~once to of ten. OntA vi R UN MiLLs, Baltimore co., d. MEssRs. KENNEDT it Co.: --he Carbolino is making young hair coniie on my bald head. PeTEn F. SnEA RERJ TPhi. is a fair sample of the cettifi eates which are received daily at:the6 Pittsburg office. Nor A BEvsnAO.-"They are not a beverage but a medhi'lne, with curative prperties of the highest degree, con ta ning no poor whiskey or poisonous drugs. They do not tear down an al read debilitated system, but build it up. One bottle containse more hops, that is, more real hop strength, than a barrel of ordinary beer. Every drug giat in Rochester sells them, and te physicians prescribe them."-ZBeening Exprees on Hop Bitters, lin thought he heard "the angels sing" but it proved to be a chorus of yls from th next do6r ohidren. He grew dsrto, procured a bottle Dr. 7Bull's Baysyrup and sent it to Mrs. B. with hi oomj Imetits. He was a bachlr.. Tm. LiNes ARE SIRAstNUD Al RAOgE bye. One Bair at a Time.' "When I was ' ," I begun," and every mai nervously sprang from his seat and opened a widow. "- in Pawtucket last wit.tor," [ went on, not noticing the peculiar ac tion, and the passengers closed the windows and dropped back into thoir chairs. "By George," said the fat passenger, with a grateful intonation. "I thought you were going to say 'at the Ceritenial.' "I went into the hair-cloth mana fastory," I went on, "and saw one of the emost accurate machines in the world. There was something fairly human and life like in its intelligence. A little steel shuttle reached across, grasped with almost unfailing accur ucy a single hair and drew it into its place in the cloth. If, by any chance, it missed, it reached after it again." "Ohte hair at a time?" asked the Passenger with the sandy goatee. "Yes," I said, "and when it got the hair, the'cloth moved en Just one hair's breadth. When it missed it, the work just stood still until, it reached for it again." "And never missed a hair?" asked the said passenger. "Very rarely," 1 replied with a violent effort, which was gratefully and enith us,asticallygpplaudet. "By George," the sad passenger re marked, looking gloomily at the fat passenger, "we ought to have one of those machines in our boarding house." And although not a word was said, we all knew that he wanted to set it on the butter. IF there is not suflicient rain to keep compost heaps moist, water shoulti be supplied, even if it has to be hurled and pourel on them. Decomposition is arrested when the heap becomes dry. A few barrels of water from the well will soon start up and heat decomposi tion in a dry pile of compost. blucn may be said of the modern ei gar, but you must draw it mild. A Botnofactor of Mankind. P. Magnus M. Mayr 0. 8. 1., Cath. priest, Now Trier, Daeota Co., Minn., writes to P. Neustaodter & Co , sole manufacturers of Anakesis. Dr. Silsbee's INFALLinLE. CUR FORa 1'zLus: I use. only four of the Anakests beans; the first two without observation of trho prescript, thorefore without suoco,sl My case was very difiioult, lasting many years. I wrote for other niedioanents to support the first dosos; meanwhile 1 took the seoond and third globulus according to ordinance, and since four wteks and two days after using the mois tened pills, Iam oured Dr. Bilebeo is really a benefactor of matnkiud. I suppose I will have no need of the second box aid even not of the first onol I am cured, but I will keep it for my fellow-oitirens suffering under like pain, and send hereby the two dollars. an un speakable small amount for so great a benotit Thanks be te Ged. Respeotfully, your obedient servant, P. MAoNUs M. MAYIt, O. 8. 13., Cath. priest. Samples of Anakesis, the Great Externai Pile Reme ly, are mailed free to all sufTorers on application to P. Neustaodter & Co., Box 8916, Now York. IN 1850 THE "BRONCHIAL TRocRs" were introduced, and from that time up to the present their success in Colds, Coughs, Asthma and Bronchitis has been un paralleled. No household should be without ".Broton'a Bronchi Trook'ea" as by their early use most troubles of the Throat induced by cold can be overcome. Ir veU ARE NERvoUs AND DEPREzssED take HOoFLANiD's GERRIAN LIrrrEnS. EaELL's Totter Ointment will euro Sore Eyelids. Sore Nose, Barber's Itch on the face, or Grocer's Itoh on the hands. It never fails. 50 cents per box, sent by mail for 60 cents. Johnston, Holloway & Co., 602 Aroh St.. Phila., Pa. BIEsmELL's 'T'ErrEn OUITraNr will cure all abby or scaly diseases of the skin. VEG ETIN E. Liver Comsplaint. This dis 'ass ma be said to poed almost lnvariabiy from th stomach being out of order In the irat place. 'By tile stomaonl be.ng out of irder, thr?bel else gts out, of order; and wily? All the b'ood in the huma body passes through the liver every few minum taohave the bIlious matter separated from it. If there be any scrolulous ta [it or other impurity in the blood, it will surely be depoited in the liver along withl the ble. By arn by, however, these Im parities increasing, will render the bioed "wtey and render it motion torpid then it wvili cease to er(ortg Its duty of stra inn out the bile. Onl pisomn will be left in the Uver - and t,he resul will be an obstructed, inflamed and swollen liver, ending in disease. Such is the theory, and such the climax, as proven by facts. The nsymptom crod apidly upon one another side infiucing emaciation and weakne ,5 cough with expectoration, dyspopsi, high-clored urine, yeilownesi!of the eyes, fvr, ar.d aquick guise. It is impossibletomsaehed-ae curing Liver oempainTheae a that is to strike at the root. To do this, you must act on the stomach, the blood, the liver, and the general hlealtil at tile same time. VDoRTIN3 alone will do this nd will.effeot a speedy cure. See tea. Robestr Plicman"Q MoEight Pounds sThree We ." MR. JR. JR. Sravutq Dear Str-+HIvi 04o but. tree bottles ot yQur.Vsoilsia l bad ogsqf iver Corn ot.t I fid i I e ngriily. Anm weigiglht nsi o$ rs0t thaa 1 . did *h e e an iak g bliev with a OQr tinugncefa snmau wn Ymre, 'shalb 50trl NCuIed,u I the diek a long time. Mr. Eth, who hi4 received Afeat benefit from takln the Vc n, advised me to try it. I can cheefly eomend it to a done more for mne th nthe d o ca do. Yours truly, Police Officer, Ne. 823 Jow at. Rochester .q,. i)Sr Sir-I have beoo siok tudo )'awith the t.iv7 . omnl ,int, and ii f.tne have atn a great many 1Wtn i0iie,.,but no of them did me a god. 1* 'estless n' s. and had no appl. BiPO 1JClg tile Y INer I rest weji ,ittli~ Oo.Can r-,o0mnmend t,heo,V (N f~'# ~as dn t of the above M I AILB EiTt.on MRt. & KOItGBM. VAUG N Modford, Mass., PIIRIPARED BY It. R. STEVEN%. loat,on Mass. 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