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HOME. It If nnt hv walla Iia thitv VilimiSl.. Of rrvnd ..j ... . u , " " f,''ut That the dearest of words in our tongue we aenne No measure or lesser or largvr of land Can hold by its firman a thine- so divine. Home! sweetest of places beneath the broad sun, Who Is it thy sweetest of sweetness has won? the lord In his palace, though smooth cres sweep To the verge of his vision, his own all his own Though sunshine LU 6enses delighUomely steep Thy beautiful grace he may never have kUUWD. Home! the brightest of places beneath the broad sun, Who is it thy brightest of brightness has won? And the cotter who rests him en Saturday uigut,- W hen the snow-sheeted world wins a glow from the fire. When thrift all about him is smiling and orient Not always for him ia there crowned his lesire. Home! rarest of places beneath the broad sun. Who is it thy rarest of rareness has won? Ah! the hamlet or hall may be equally blest Vith comfort and welcomes, with wcl comes that cheer. And better than any may each be confest. Yet home that is home finds no anchorage here. Home! subtlest of places beneath the broad sun. Who is it thv subtleness truly has won? They only have won thee they only have known Why thy four little letters express of pure Mis, That dwell amid sweetness whose seed has been sown In a region above, ere transplanted to this! Home! Eden that blesses, though veiled be the sun. It is love, and love only, thy essence has won. The flowers of the garden may all fade away; Through exile, love's landmarks be mistily lost; But the spirit of home is not mortal as they. And it lives howe'er sadly our longing is crossed. Home! rest of the soul under shadow or sun. Whoever has won thee, forever has won ! Aldine. Ml' TWO PEARLS. BY JCLIA C. It. DORR. "Lightning express, gentlemen! All altofmfi" shouted a voice in the fetation at Rochester at eleven o'clock at night. I stepped on board the train, choosing a palace and restaurant car, " through to Chicago." 44 Section ?" s-aid the conductor, with a rising inflection. 44 Ought to have tele graphed, sir. Only one berth, left, and that's a mere accident. Here it is. No. 9. Gentleman who engaged it missed connection at Syracuse." Congratulating myself on my good for tune, I speedily crept into 2io. y a lower berth and fell fast asleep. When I ojtened my eyes the gray dawn of an Oc tober morning the October of 1808 was stealing in through the curtained window. I lay for some minutes in a half-dream, listening to the multitudinous noises of the train, with scarcely a thought of where I was. Then, as the light grew stronger, I raised myself upon ray elbow and looked about me, only to fall back a moment after with a start of surprise that was al most dismay. Right before my eyes hung a white, shapely hand, with a dark seal-ring upon the third finger. It took me a minute or two to collect my scattered senses enough to discover that it belonged to the occu- ant of the upper berth, dropped careless y from his quarters to my own in the heavy abandonment of sleep. I lay and looked at it a white, shapely hand as I have said a hand unmarred or tinglorified choose the word for yourself by the seams and calluses of manual labor. The fingers were long and taper, the nails oval and Veil cared lor. The wrist was not large, but well-knit and sinewy; and half-buried in the fine linen of the shirt-sleeve I caught the sparkle of a diamond. The hand had a strange fascination for me, half-uncanny though it looked in the weird, struggling light of early morning I watched it, vaguely wondering what manner of man its owner might oe, and what kind of a face would assort with it, till there was a stir overhead, and it van ished. Then I made my toilet as I best might, and went out on the platform for a breath oi fresher air. When, after the lapse of half an hour, I leisurely strolled back to my place again, all vestiges of the night before were re moved, and a gentleman in a plain gray traveling-suit occupied one scat in the compartment allotted to me. He held a newspaper in the hand. I recognized it at once. lie lifted his eyes long enough to salute me with a courteous bow as I took the op posite seat, and then resumed his reading. I opened my paper also; but the attempt to engross myself with its contents was a vain one. My eyes and my thoughts continually wandered to my vis-a-zis. Describe him? Not an easy matter. Neither is it easy to account for the fasci nation that he wore as an invisible mantle. I might tell you that he was tall and blight; that his complexion was clear and dark; that his black, crisp locks curled closely round a well shaped head ; that his ej-es were large and liquid; that his mustache was a light and graceful penciling upon the firm, thin lip; and that his imperial was above reproach. But, having told you this, I should expect you to eaj with a glance of ineffable meaning that you could find his counter part in any barber's shop on Broadway, or, if - not there, in your sister's French dancing-master. You think so? Perhaps it is not strange. You see I cannot put into words the indi viduality of the man the certain indefin able something that at once set him apart from the crowd and made him notable. He dropped his paper presently and turned to me with some remark upon cur rent events, made with a slight foreign accent. Thus we fell into conversation. 44 Breakfast served whenever you please, gentlemen," said the porter, passing through the car. 31 y companion bowed, smiling. "As we are to be section-mates for a day or two," he said, 44 it is well we should know each other. Shall I do my . . i i i . -. i . ecu mr uuuur ij yreseui you wim my card?" "IlippolyteL'Estrange, Strasbourg," I read from the little white parallelogram. So I had not been mistaken in supposing him to be a Frenchman. I may as well tell you here what he read from the card I gave him in return: 44 Edward Ripon, New York." We breakfasted together at his request. I found my 44 chance acquaintance" to be a most intelligent and cultivated man and a great traveler. So much of the world had he seen, so wide was his knowledge of men and things, that to my comparative inexperience it seemed little less than marvelous. He was years older than myself I was just twenty-seven or at least he seemed so. A Frenchman is older than an American of the same age, always. But, allowing for all that, M. L'Estrange was doubtless eight or ten years my senior. He was at once reticent and communicative reticent in all that was purely personal and related to his inner self; communicative as to his plans and projects. I soon discovered that he was on his way to San Francisco so much farther off then than now. 44 But what a circuitous route!" lex claimed. 44 You are going round Robin Hood's barn." "Robin Hood's barn?" he repeated, with a half-laugh, his eyes lighting as he caught my meaning. 44 But, my friend, I had but just come from Panama.' I was tired of the ship, the 6ea, the monotony, so I go thi9 way." 44 Overland the whole distance?" I asked.' ' Oh, no! Look here, I shall have the . honor to show you," and he drew a folded map from his breast-pocket. 44 1 .leave you here at Calumet" noting the FMnt with his pencil "j-ou see? There take the lightning train for Cairo : thence by express this way" pointing to Memphis and Jackson 44 down to New Orleans. That is right, eh?" 44 Yes ; but you will have to go to Vera Cruz. How about a steamer across the gulf!" "Ah I there I go round your Robin Hood's barn!" he said, laughing. 44 See! I go across to Havana, and thence to Vera cruz. r "And then ?" mv evo followed his pencil. 44 Then I go bv diligence to the City o Mexico, where I take the saddle for Man zanilla. There, if the good fates befriend me, I catch a steamer ahead of the one that left .New lork when I did. So I lose no time : I see your great country : and I es cape the dull, monotonous sea, of which I have had too much already." The hours flew on silver wings. All day long we floated on a tide of talk, sometimes sparkling with wit and humor; sometimes taking; a deeper tone as we touched upon themes that gave to each brief, passing glimpses of the soul of the other, it seemed to me that there was little worth knowing that my companion did not know; little worth seeing that he had not seen ; little worth thinking that he had not thought. Yet I learned little of his personal his tory, save that he had spent much time in South America; and that he uaa large in teresta in the pearl fisheries at Lima, on business connected with which he was go ing to ban I? rancisco. We had said nothing in any way relating to the war, its causes or its results. But suddenly my friend turned to me. 44 l ou nave been in the army?" he saici. 44 Yes," I answered. 44 1 served through the war. But why do you think so?" 44 Ah, you have something the air mili- taire. I knew it from the first. I, too, am a soldier, and I did not need that you should give the countersign. ' Another night passed and hour after hour of the second day. We were forty miles from Calumet. A deep silence fell upon us two who, in these days of chance companionship, had grown so strangely near each other. Soon our paths would diverge, never, in all probability, to cross again. In vain M. L'Estrange urged me to prolong my journey, at least as far as New Orleans. "We must not part as strangers," he said, impulsively. 44 My heart has gone out to you for we are akin! Somehow somewhere shall we not meet again?" and he clasped my hand warmly. - m - . -i a. a - 1 -iy reiicent i.onnern nature surreu within me. 4 1 trust so. I hope so," I responded. 4 But the world is wide. I shall never for get you, M. L'Estrange." 44 Ah! vou are vounir." he said, with a slow shake of the head, 44 you are young; and the young have short memories. But stay! hold! I shall give you a sign a token. So shall you keep me in your heart." Tntinir from liia rnvkpt n finv lint hp unlocked it with a key attached to his watchguard. A number of pearls gleamed and shimmered in the sunlight. He selected four of remarkable size and purity. 44 "i ou shall wear these for my sake," he said, placing them in my hand. But I demurred, saying it was too cost- y a gift. 44 Are we not menus?" ne cneu, im up curling with a superb scorn. 44 How talk you then of cost f" two, then, to be mounted as sieeve-out- tons? Still I shook my head, and still he persisted. 44 Here, then, mon ami," he said, at last, 4 If you shall not have two, you shall have one;11 and, taking my hand, he placed one large, pure, lustrous pearl on the palm, and closed my fingers over it. 44 It shall be mounted like this," drawing a design on the lid of the box, 44 and you shall wear it for a sign, llien, you see, 1 6han have its mate set in the same maimer. It shall be for a token between us ; and the pearls shall bring us together again. Ah, I know it! 1 he pearls they arc charmed! ' "Ah, M. L'Estrauge!" I answered, 44 1 can resist no longer, l will wear your pearl ; and it shall at least be a sourenir of days never to be forgotten." As he was replacing the box a card- photograph fell to the floor. I picked it up, and was handing it to him, when my eye fell upon a face of such rare loveliness that I held the little picture as if spell bound a woman's face, soltly outlined, delicately rounded ; a pure, calm forehead, crowned with 44 braided tresses darkly bright;" tender, unsmiling lips, that wore a sweetness deeper and holier than smiles ; a chin and cheek that might well have served as models for a sculptor. There were soft laces resting about the throat ; and a lace-shawl, thrown gracefully over the stately head, rested lightly on the shoulders, like a radiant cloud. But the eyes were the glory of the picture large, dark, spiritual eyes, that look into yours with unfathomable meanings in their liquid depths. My self-possession and my good man ners returned to me at the same moment. 44 1 beg your pardon," I said, deprecat ingly, as I gave the picture to its owner; 44 but it is so beautiful! Is it your wife?" 44 My wife? No." he said, with a low, wise smile, 44 but it is my Marguerite my pearl!" "There was no time for further speech. We were at Calumet. L'Estrange threw his arm around me in his impulsive French fashion, and kissed my cheek with a warm 44 God bless you!" Another mo ment and our short chapter of romance was ended. But was there no second chapter? Cer tainly, or I should hardly have thought it worth while to tell you this. I returned to New York in a few weeks, had my pearl mounted precisely as L'Estrange had directed, and wore it, at first with a half superstitious feeling that it was truly a link between us and would one day draw us together. It was, at all events, power ful in one way. It was, indeed, as he had said, a sign, a token. It kept fresh and green in my memory what might else have gradually laded away as one of the many forgotten incidents of a life that was changeful and full of adventure. But it was not his face only that it re called. I never wore it without seeing, as in a vision, the dark, soul-lit eyes that had looked up at me from the photograph, the pure, calm brow, the tender, wistful mouth of my friend's 44 Marguerite." Not his wife, but doubtless his betrothed. What other meaning could I give to the sudden light that illumined his face as he ex claimed, in that last, hurried moment, 44 It is my Marguerite my pearl?" 44 1 shall write you from San Fran cisco," he had said. But days, weeks and months lengthened into years, and I heard nothing. My pearl scarf-pin was the only token that those charmed days of travel had been more than a dream. I be lieved that he was dead. Last summer I was in Paris. Early one morning I went to the Madeleine, and, leaning asrainst one of the fluted columns, watched the worshipers as they came and went. The sun shot yellow rays through the grained windows in the roof; the chanting of a hidden choir sounded far off and dream-like; the sculptured Mag dalen of the high altar looked strangely real in the weird, uncertain light; and the whole atmosphere of the place was bewil dering. As I stood near one of the great bronze doors a lady, veiled and gathering the folds of her mantle closely about her throat, passed me with a light sfp. The figure was exquisitely graceful and I watched her with a young man's idle cu riosity as she knelt at prayers, wondering if her face was worthy of her form. As she rose a fresh breeze from an opening door blew back her veil and I caught a passing glimpse of her features. All the blood in my veins rushed madly to my heart. Surely it was the face of my dreams the face of my friend's Margue rite! Yet it.seemed a younger face; per haps less Madonna-like than in the pict ure, haloed by cloud-like draper'. Vou see I had not forgotten the slightest pecul iarity of the photograph. I could have sworn to the very pattern of the lace. Before I recovered my senses she had disappeared. For three da-s I haunted the Madeleine in vain. On the fourth I caught a glimpse of her again, stooping to drop a coin in the hand of a pallid child. But it was a te-day and the crowd swayed in between us. After that I saw her no more. I went on to Switzerland, lingering for a month among its mountain-passes; made a short run into Italy and came back. I was loitering along Lcs Champs Elysees one evening in a fit of homesickness, half inclined to take the next steamer from Havre, and so end this roving life, when I became aware of being watched watched by a dark figure under the 6hadow of the opposite trees. The red sunlight fell full and strong where I was stand n er but it was twilight all about me. I changed my position hurriedly and hastened on. But in a moment I heard quick foot steps behind me. then a run and a shout. An arm fell across my shoulder, a hand clasped mine, and a well-remembered voice cried 44 It is you! I have found you! Ah, mon ami! mon ami! But it was the pearl. even as I told you so m that wild Calu met." And Hippolvte L'Estrange pointed to the scarf-pin I wore that day. 44 But vou are errown older, monsieur. You are changed ; and I was not thinking of you at that moment. But the great pearl shimmered in the sunlight, and it drew my eyes to the face above it. . Said I not that it was charmed?" It is needless to speak of the happiness of that reunion, all the greater for the mood in which it found me. 44 1 shall not lose sight of you again. said M. L'Estrange. 44 You will go home with me to-morrow to Strasbourg. Mar guerite you remember" and he smiled more brightly than before 44 Marguerite will be glad to know my friend. Very often have I talked of our days together Marguerite! Shall I confess that for one moment 1 shrank as from a coming pain , - i - 11 .1 a ere, . - , a uiuuuq uanger: x nun every instinct m my manhood rose in quick rebellion. My menu s wife was vestal to me even in thought; sacred as if shrined and guarded by inapproachable distances. I would go with him Why had he not written me? Simply Iweause he had lost my address 44 only this and nothing more." It would take too long to tell of our de lightful journey, and I pass on rapidly to the hour when the towers of Strasbourg rose iK'fore us, and the lofty spire of her cathedral pierced the clouds. My friend's chateau was outside the walls of the city, on rising ground. bee:" he said, with a sweep ot his hand, as the carriage rolled along, 44 this is not so grand, so fresh, as your great New World, yet it is a fair picture." lie might well say so. I he seven-gated city lay at our feet ; the blue Rhine wound along between storied banks; the branch ing 111 glided through the town, pictur esque with its many bridges." In the far dis tance rose the Vosges Mountains and the Black Forest of Germany. And now we were at the chateau, a state ly pile, ivy-clad and moss-grown, yet bright, seemingly with an eternal youta. 44 -Marguerite, this is the friend ot wh m you have so often heard me speak Ed ward Itipon," said E Estrange, as I en tered the salon, an hour after, and a fair, sweet, womanly face, the face at the Mad eleine, looked up from the bit of embroid ery over which it was bending. is she like the picture my Margue rite?" asked my host, but before I could reply he went on : 44 By that name you first heard of her and by that name you are to know her now. We are to live in Arcadia for a whole enchanted month. and, as is fitting, we are to be to each oth er Marguerite and Edward and Hippolyte Have not the kmtl Fates proved that we are akin, as I told you years ago ? Why else have they brought us together?" I bowed low above the lady's hand, but I did not call her 44 Marguerite." Neither did I call her 44 Madame L'Estrange." Some subtile, undefined feeling prevented that. I compromised by not calling her anything. I must not make my story too long. You anticipate all I would say. There were no other guests at the chateau. We three were as isolated as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. That was truly an enchanted week, in which we rode, we rambled, we talked, we read, we sang happy dwellers in Arcadia. And then then I awoke one day to find there was no safety for me but in flight. This 44 Mar guerite" was growing too dangerously dear. I, who pray daily, 44 Let me not be led into temptation," what business had I there, dallying with danger ? 1 was not a villain ; 1 was not an idiot ; had no more conceit than my fellows : yet I could not help seeing that Margue rite's soft brown eyes grew softer still when they met mine, and that the long lashes drooped over them with a subtiler grace when I drew near. I did not look for this, but it was there and I saw it I must go. A determination that I made known to M. L'Estrange the next morning. 44 But you are not going!" he said. " It is too soon. Did I not say you were to stay a month? We will have more guests if you tire of this dull life; and you shall see the old chateau alive with dance and song. My friend must stay!" 44 No," I answered; 44 your friend must go. Do not make it too hard for him to leave you." He looked at me narrowly. 44 Has anything gone wrong?" he asked in a low tone. 44 Tell me, my friend! I had thought I had dreamed Is there anything amiss with you and Mar guerite ?' lie spoke in his own tongue now, as he always did when any strong emotion stirred him. I answered in mine, my cheeks white and cold, but my eyes ablaze : 44 Amiss anything amiss, M. L'Es trange? Do I hear you aright? You are speaking of the lady who is your wjfe, and of one who fain would be an honorable man! Anything amiss, monsieur ?" He looked at me for an instant as if he thought I had gone mad. Then a sudden light broke over his face, and, to my anger and astonishment, he laughed a genuine, hearty laugh. But before I could speak his mood changed, and he caught me im pulsively in his arms. 44 O my poor boy!" he cried. 44 1 see it all now. And you thought Marguerite was my wife? But I told you she was not when you asked me so long ago. Do you not remember ? I supposed you un derstood. The woman who should have been my wife lies in the churchyard yon der. Mons Ripon, Marguerite is my sis ter!" I covered my face with my hands. I could have sunk into the dust at his feet. It was all so clear now as clear as noon day. Yet, with my preconceived ideas of their relationship, and in a country with whose domestic life and habits I was so unfamiliar, I could not so much- wonder at my mistake. The patois of the serv ants, too, had helped to mislead me and I had seen no others. I dared not look at him. The gentle dignity of his last words overpowered me, even while, in spite of my confusion and dismay, my heart Mas thrilling with a new-born hope. I lifted my eves at last, to meet his filled with ineffable tenderness. 44 You know my secret," I said. 44 Shall you take me at my word, M. L'Estrange must I go away?'"' 44 Nay, stay," he whispered. 44 It was for this that we were thrown together that October morning. Was it not charmed, the token I gave you ? Stay now; and if you can win her gentle heart I will give you yet another pearl my Marguerite!" Just as long as I live I mean to remem ber in my prayer the gentleman who 44 missed connections at Syracuse;" for, if it had not been for him, would I ever have worn the rare, pure pearl that was given to me two months since by my brother Hippolyte L'Estrange? Appleton's Jour nal. Harvesting Ants. The curious provision of nature, or (if Darwin will have his way) the curious pass to which the developmental forces will take up the animal kingdom, in the protection of species, may le seen in the history of the 44 Harvesting Ants" of Europe. The males and females have wings ; the workers (neuters) have none. Lizards frequently attack the winged ants, but keep clear of the workers, the latter protecting the winged ones by surround ing them so that the lizards only catch an occasional straggler outside "the lines. Certain large beetles, known as tiger beetles, often attack the workers, but only when they can pounce upon a straggler, and then only when they can seize him just behind the neck. If they get hold of him here he is at their mercy; but if they fail in this they let go and run, for if the ant once grasps the legs of the beetle it never lets go, not even after death. This genera of ants are also supplied with a proportion of 44 soldiers" ants that, while lelonging to the class of workers, have large heads and huge jaws and very small bodies. They are useful only in fighting dangerous enemies. 'err Houses. V There are several house-agents in Lon don who combine the trade of letting houses with that of making coffins. The two employments do not at first seem to have any affinity, but in a new suburb where streets are ln?ing run up by contract, and inhabited before they are dry, such a combination is natural enough. Indeed, in the hands of an intelligent and enter prising man the two employments might be dovetailed with the happiest results. At least one death may be expected out of every large family settling down in a damp new house. It may only be the baby, but that will be better than none. If the fami ly happens to come from Ireland or the west coast of Scotland, the Darwinian law will have enabled them to acquire some of the properties ot india-rubber, so that they would possibly ikj damp-proot, and there fore not desirable tenants. Such applicants a judicious house-agent will naturally refuse, and he may not only hope to profit in his capacity of undertaker by some one taking a fatal cold in the damp ceme tery, but in his capacity ot house agent he may at every well-conducted funeral inveigle new victims for the handsome-looking streets still in the hands of the builders, and perhaps in duce his clients to enter them while the plaster is still wet upon the nine-inch walls. Doctors arc, however, still more indebted to new houses than even house agents or undertakers. It is said that when a young medical man of fair ability and pleasing manners wishes to settle down in London, his wisest course is to choose some fashionable district where showy houses with bow windows, pillared porticoes, and thin walls are being run up. If the soil on which the houses are being built is clay, so much the better for the young doctor; if the level of the ground is little above that of the Thames, his prospects are yet more brill iant. He may safely marry for love; for, although the fees he will receive may not seem overwhelmingly large, he will le certain of constant employment. He may never become a renowned specialist or physician in ordinary to a member of the royal family, but while he is still a young man he will be able to set up ms carriage without borrowing money, and he will not find it diihcult to insure his hie handsomely for his children ; but in order to realize this pleasing picture he must secure for his own habitation an old and well- built house. When he is tired of life will be time enough for him to take a new one. Few people except the Wandering Jew have the constitution of the nobleman who is said to have lived for many years al most rent-free by constantly moving from one new house to another. His friends thought he was suffering from some ob scure disease of the brain, but the build ers' agents found him a capital decoy duck. As soon as they told a wavering client that Lord So-and-so had taken a house in such a terrace the houses in the terrace were immediately at a premium, particularly those on each side of His Lord ship. In tact builders find it an excellent speculation to give a good house cheap to tenant with a title, and are thanktul even for such small mercies as a knight's widow. Our imaginary doctor will find his time much taken up in prescribing for the servants who sleep on the ground floor of these new houses, and con sequently take rheumatism, and for the babies who sleep next the slates and have bronchitis. Everybody in the families he attends will have at least one severe cold on entering, but the piece tie resistance will be neuralgia. It is sure to be prevalent in a new district, and has the merit of being very persistent and diffi cult to cure. The Shakers who bivouacked few weeks ago under hedges covered with snow suffered less from illness than did the inhabitants of some of the streets in our southern suburbs, where the cold cannot be kept out in winter nor the heat in summer, and where the walls are reek ing with damp at every change of tem perature. Bricks will hold about their own weight of water, and after having been thoroughly soaked they take a long time to become perfectly dry. As nine inch walls are only the thickness of the length of one brick they are necessaril' not thick enough to prevent the rain which beats on the outside from soaking through to the inside. They can never be built so as to be really rain-proof, and inside them every change in the weather can always be distinctly felt. Saturday Review. A Summer Resort as It Should Be. A summer boarding-place, at which city people should find all the comforts anil conveniences they wish, has never yet been established, but it will be seen by the fol lowing advertisement that an effort has been made in that direction: THE SUITEM HOUSE. STKIVE & SVVETT. Proprietors. Saponaceous Springs, N. Y. This hotel has been built and arranged for the special comfort and convenience of summer loarders. On arrival each guest will be asked how he likes the situation, and if he says the hotel ought to have been placed up uion the knoll or iarther down toward the village, the location of the house will be immediately changed Corner front rooms up only one flight for every guest. Baths, gas, water-closet, hot and cold water, laundry, telegraph, restaurant, fire- alarm, bar-room, billiard table, daily pa per, coupe, sewing-machine, grand piano, a clergyman and all other modern con veniences in every room. Meals every minute if desired, and consequently no second table. English, French and Ger man dictionaries furnished every guest to make up such a bill of fare as he may de sire without regard to the bill affair after ward at the office. Waiters of any nation ality and color desired. Ever- waiter furnished with a libretto, button-hole bouquet, full-dress suits, ball tablets and his hair parted in the middle. Every guest will have the best seat in thedining hall and the best waiter in the house. Any guest not getting his breakfast red hot, or experiencing a delay of sixteen seconds after givinJiis order for dinner, will please mention the fact at the office, and the cook and waiters will be blown from the mouths of cannon in front of the hotel at once. Children will be welcomed wfth delight, and are requested to bring hoop sticks and hawkeyes to bang the carved rosewood furniture especially pro vided for that purpose, and peg tops to spin on the velvet carpets; they will be al lowed to bang on the pianos at all hours, yell in the halls, slide down the banisters, fall down stairs, carry away dessert enough for a small family in their pockets at dinner, and make themselves as disagree able as the fondest mother can desire. Washing allowed in rooms, and ladies giving an order to 44 put me on a flatiron" will be put on one at any hour of the day or night. A discreet, waiter who belongs to the Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, and who was never known to even tell the time of the day, has been em ployed to carry milk punches and hot toddies to ladies' rooms in the evening. Every lady will be considered the lielle of the house, and row boys will answer the belle promptly. Should any row boy fail to appear at a guest's door with a pitcher of ice-water, more towels, a gin cocktail, and pen, ink and pnper before the guest's hand has left the bell knob, he will be branded 44 Front" on the forehead and imprisoned for life. The office-clerk has been carefully se lected to please everybody, and can lead in prayer, play ilraw'-ivoker, match worsteds at the village store, shake for the drinks at any hour, day or night, play billiards, is a good waltzer, and can dance the German, make a fourth at euchre, amuse children, is a good judge of horses, as a railway and steamboat "reference is far superior to Appleton's or anylnxly else's guide, will flirt with any voung lady and not mind being cut dead when 1 44 Pa comes down." Can room forty peo ple in the best room in the house when the hotel is full,, attend to the annunciator and answer questions in Greek, Hebrew, Choctaw, Irish or any other polite lan guage at the same moment without turn ing a hair. Dogs allowed in any room in the house, including the w(h)ine-room. Gentlemen can drink, smoke, swear, chew, gamble, stare at the new arrivals and indulge in any other innocent amusements common to watering-places in any part of the hotel. The landlord will always be happy to hear that some other hotel is 44 the le8t house in the country." Special attention given to parties who can give information as to 44 how these things are done in Yewrup." The proprietor will take it as a personal affront if any guest on leaving should fail to dispute his bill, tell him that he is a swindler, his house a barn, his table wretched, his wines vile, and that he, the guest, 44 was never so imposed upon in his life, will never stop there again and means to warn his friends." Boston Commercial Bulletin. Ilippophagy. Man, the monarch of all he surveys, is fast becoming the eater of all he sees. Our range of food is immeasurably greater than that of our ancestors, three centuries ago. Science has lately been playing household purveyor and cook by providing new edi bles and br devising improved ways of preparing old ones so that their disagree able qualities are smothered in gravy, dis guised by sauce, or drowned, like Clar ence, in generous wine. A few months ago an enthusiastic and omnivorous per son published in an English magazine the story of his dinners. From rat to ele phant there was nothing he had not eaten. Stewed snake had satisfied his inner man and fricasseed cat had been a toothsome morsel for him. Such a connoisseur should have been one of the sixty-five guests who sat down at a 44 Franco-Anglo-American Horse, Mule and Donkey Banquet" at the Grand Hotel, Paris, on the 5th of April. The first dish was horse-soup, but it masqueraded as consomme de cheval aux croutes grille?. Its del icious flavor, largely due, no doubt, to exquisite French cook- y, converted halt the company lortn- with. They attacked horse-sausages lold ly, and found them good, but ass' liver was rank and bad. itoast horse, and horse, mule and ass tongues were declared to le as good as deer or ox. The mule cutlets were bad, in fact painfully like the leef-steak set before the wandering Briton in Parisian restaurants. A fricandeau o ass was 44 the success of the evening." The meat was "close-grained, tender and juicy," and the flavor was44 indescribably and eminently agreeable." .Later in the evening asses' milk, butter made of it and horse-oil were placed upon the table and used by many of the guests, who had no suspicion of the real nature of their rel lshcs. hen the serious work of eating was over a number of speeches were made which rode the hobby of luppophagy to death. Rosinante was pictured as far more beautif ul in death than in life. The succulent qualities of Sancho Panza's don kev were dwelt upon. The frightful loss of good horseflesh was pointed out. Thou sands ot pounds ot it are annually given to dogs or cats or thrown away. Many human beings might live upon the lood thus destroyed, let a horse is usually eaten alter a slow sickness has killed him Is the diseased flesh that cats and dogs de vour fit food for men and women ? The case would be different if horses, mules and asses were fattened expressly for the table. This is about to be tried in Paris. Ilippophagy will not long be an unknown art on this side of the water, for the Hip pophagic Society of Paris has ofleied i medal and 100 to the first person who opens a horse-butcher shop in London or .New lork. borne enterprising Yankee will doubtless gain the prize. Then the owner of the 44 donkey wot wouldn't go' will simply drive him to the shop and sell him by the pound, hide, hoofs and shoes thrown in. What will Bergh say? Chi cayo x nouue. there wouldn't be so much moving were it not for women. If a neighbor be comes a little onensive, or a landlord i trifle exacting, a woman will move at once. Jiut a man will -swallow all griev ances and cheerfully submit to be knocked down and sat upon rather than move One of the most trying problems is how to load the wagon so the best lurniture will ow to the neighbors. The carman who most carefully studies this matter will do the largest business. Danbury JVVirs. An out gentleman dying lately in Charlestown left an annual income of $300 to be spent in buy ing theater tick ets tor poor but respectable people in Bos ton 1 here could scarcely be better evi dence of the extraordinary enelleDce of the Mason & ILmilin Cabinet Organs than the fact that they are so largely- exported to Europe, where tney are so highly appreciated as to find large sales in competition with instruments made there bv labor which does not cost half as much. These are the only American organs largely exported. As Broad as Civilization. The agent of the Wilson Sewing Machine Company will, in a few days, sail from Siin Francisco for Chili, in South America, where he will open a branch house and exhibit the world-re nowned Wilson shuttle eewins: machine at the trand exposition to be held at Santiatro under the auspices of that Government. I5v this t-tep the Wilson Sewing Machine Com pany will complete the circuit of the globe. ihey hve already immense agencies in China, Japan, ISritii-h Indies, England, France, and throughout South America. Su preme in its superiority over all other sew ing machines, the Wilson goes on widening its field year after year, carrying the bless ings of a cheap, capable and perfect sewing machine to the remotest haunts of civiliza tion. Machines will be delivered at any rail road station in this county, free of "trans portation charges, if ordered through the company's branch house at 197 State street, Chicago. They send an elegant catalogue and chromo circular free on application This company want a few more good agents. Dr. Pierce' Favorite Prescription is very strongly recommended by the Medical I acuity and is largely prescribed among thir temale Patients. It is worthy oi all confidence, as may be seen from the Iollow ing testimonials: Dr. G. B. Chapman, Plattsmouth, Neb., writes: I have under treatment a lady who, for the past seven years, has been alllicted. and, after trying several physicians without receiving benefit, is taiuing rapidly on ymr J- avorite 1 rexcrqnion. Atlanta, 111. Dr. R. V. Tierce, BnfTalo, X. Y. : Drar .S'i) I have not w r Js to express my gratitude to you for your advice and assist ance in my case. There is not one who has used your medicines since they have been brought here but that can say with me they have been greatly benefited. Since I have been so helped by its use six or seven around me left oil all doctors and other medi cines and new use it in their families after being cured of the same disease as mine. You do not know what a wonder it created in our city by its restoring my sister I wrote you about, lor she had been under the care oi three of our best doctors but could not sit up but for a few minutes at one time. I bejrtced of her to try your medicines, and before she had used half tile bottles she could go all around the yard, and has now just come home from a visit five miles awny. MKS. IllOMAS JIl'FAKW.M). Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is sold by dealers in medicines generally. Patent Medicines. That there are some good patent medicines no intelligent man dare for a moment deny; and pre eminent is the great California hero medi cine. Vinegar Bitters, discovered by Dr. J. W ai.kkr, a prominent physician of San Frincisco. This medicine, although called Bitters, is not to be classed among the vile "fancy drinks 'recommended and sold over the bar by rum tenders, but is a combination of pure herbalistic extracts known to possess sterling medicinal qual ti 8, and is compounded without the use in any shape of spirits. Its action upon the internal system is not stimulating to the extent that alcoholic poison is, but it at once attacks blood impurities, and by removing the original cause destroys the ecrms of disease and invites returning health. Its action upon the stomach and liver renders it an almost certain specific in the most stubborn cases of dyspepsia, and in tiuth imparts new life and vigor to the whole system. It is one of the best medicines ever invented. 22 Orr-RESsiON after eating, headache, nervous debility, are the effects of indigestion. One, or two at most, of 'anions' lir(ith.'e J'ilU will give immediate relief. Prussino's White ine incgar, purest and cheapest, warranted to preserve pickles. Burnett's Cocoaine is the best and cheap est hair dressing in the world. lxrriTCV witiTixo to adveutiskks. tf iilraar aay yon aaw tlic Advertise- tut-xi t in thm paper. (K Tiyr. TISITIVO CARDS Tymf!l fore. f.tt JLd- dress Kmakk G. Thomson. 79 Jackson-t., t lilca. Ctnnn month to A pents everywhere, Aililre CO., BucliHiian. Micu ? V V It V KA .VI 1 1. Y NTS 1 T. .Money in 1t. 1.1 So Id by AKents. AUdrees M.N.LOVELL, trie, l'a. I w catalogue 'end tor "Chromo J. II. iiUi FOLD'S t OXS, Boston. GENTS Clique ChHn.? gi'll at BtK'I't. Necessary as soap. Goods frre. Chang Cluing to'l'g Co., liooton. C O Kach Week O f au Address Talnier ;OI,l PENC'IK FKEE. Aiuei8 & CO., M. L.UU1S, .Vo. O Vlvi Address 1cxcan A; Millkr. Iluclianuu TO AIJKNTS everywhere. Mien. f OI 1. I'll ItOVIOS for 1 1: two for 25c. Airents J. -v wameu. t.n..wt'l.LEi LVE& Co..llostou & ChicUKO rt ? O I?0 A frr a7 at "TOe". Term Fro. .a.lriren Ptl ywV usow bruiso. ji Co., l'o.-Uind. Alamo. m , i I1 1." II ITT ViJo,J Keglon. Boole -iiVVIV IlllJlOimapnowieadv. Mill ions can be sold. Goodxpued Publish' HoiiHe.chieaKO J7 r I'hZli. II V Y Commission or $:50 n week Pal Oi ary, nntl expenses. Wet. ff :r !t nml will p:iy it. Apply now. CI. Wetter iV Co.. -Marion. O. AGENTS Cents. Either sex ; Valuable samples and terms. IO fcl.Ml-s.ON & b.MlllL, Cortlandt steady work at home ind terms, iu it.. New ui k. T?P- Y.YA'1 IVFOIOIATIO V, nddress X 1,. M. HAliKIS, Hox 515U. lioston. Muss. Electricitt is Lite. All nervous disor ders, chronic diseases of the chest, head, liver, stomach, kidneys and blod, aches and pains, nf-rvnn and ireneral debility, etc., quickly cured after dru:rs fail, b' wearing Volta'a Elec tro BeiU and Bunds. aluaide book iree, by Vlota Belt Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Oppression after eat ing, headache, nervous .lihiiitv ro tin? effects of indigestion. ine. or two at most, of I'linon' l'urg-itive Wis will give immediate reuer. Pomeroy & Co., make the best Elastic Truss ever iOTented- Address ?ii Broadway, . x. ' 5150, lkton. Muss. FOR AGENTS in our ten Nevr Novelties. Justont. Needed Ik everv lirni.e. KuintjA on. I I frM by inall. II. B. WHITE CO., Newark, If. J. $ MONEY KS The Rest. All Colors. Ono Wafer makes 3 Otltiees. Sample ami Circu lar mailed for IO cents .n stamn. by DEFIANCE N EEDLE CO., 60S Broadway, N . V. WAjfT'D AGENTS Everywhere., to canvass for IT our frreat Omen nlal Book, worthy thu spe cial no(ce of experienced agents. For particulars ad dress the publisher, B. B. KUSSELL, Boston, Mass. OFFICERS and SOI.IM KRS who lost their horses in U. S. Army no matter how Inst can (ret compensa tion. Penaionsobtalued for wounds or injuries,however slight. Pamphlet free. C.E.Arnold, Att'y Clncinnati.O. FOR SALE State and County Riehts of a valuabln patent. (Sells quick. Protlts lar:e. Circulars Sn-ent stamp. Sample $1. OSBORNE & DAVIS, Rockford, 111. 0OA A IY. HOW TO MAKE IT. Samnle cok, royoEtt vo., st. Lonu jo. OAVISlTISiO CAItlJS, O styles, 20 cents. Ad- dress J. B. 1IUSTED, Nassau, Reuss. Co., N. V. AGENTS WANTED S&jSS fastest-selling Bible ever published. Sen.i foronrex tra terms to Agents. NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., Chicago, 111., or St. Louis. Mo. T&TJTi" V Confirmed or FensBtloiin! Stories In the JLXy PEOl'IiE'SLKUUKU, H lare pages every week. 5 years old; sent on trial 3 months for only 5l cents. A'Speclal Agent w anted lor every town, to whom we furnish Advertising facilities and good pay. II. K. CURTIS. Publisher, Bjstou, Mass. V I- SEND FOR TLLUSTBATKD CIR' I LAB OF Boats, Tents, Flags, Mexican Hammocks, Awnings and Grange Regalia, ToO. F. FoSTkK, MlN k l'o.. M.'inufivtuit.'r, -1 N.rkrt Mrrrl. . Iiiraso. We will send Kivc beautiful S-pa Sonirs and Kive charming Instrumen tal pieces. All by popular composers , " i '"I'W and just pnniisiieti. . lucnarusoi -if) j A J5 ik Co.. Music Publishers. Boston. Mass FOR I si 1 rr Con. I t.,r I'l'Tfl.'. I TRTs Vtv lnu- to trade RUDOLPH & CO., 1013 N.'Sth St.. St. Louis, Mo Btn V a 1 nV.TTFIt for Airrntl IM J I Fl B I Wanted in every family. K- uulslurf;. Carire commissions, lieauy sales. V riti now -for fell particular and special terms. T. 14 llidacl,! jo l.a. Snlle St., Cliim 0, Room 1 Painless Opium Core ! OI rue pref 1 WHISKERS Th tJKl Prof. D. Meeker's tessfnl rrmedvof the present l.iv. Send for Pnper Opium Eating. 1". O. Box 475, La FORTE. IND The Only Prepnrat lon that gives iK-riect bat is action to those wishingto raise Beard or Mustache. De Iesseps' " lgonne," prepared only In Paris. Each Package warranted and sent by mail on receipt of"l. Samples mailed tor 1 cts. Address . p. FRANKLIN. Sole Importer, Jersey city, AfiENTS WANTED EVERYWII Kli E. Th choicest In the world Importers' prices larg est Company in America-staple arueie-piease vrvluHlv-fTiuln i ncreM.-.inff best indiweinent don't waste time end for C ircular to KOBKH't WELLS. 43 Vcbcy tit.. New orii. ir. O. Box 157 Hi. next 30 ilnya. Write fur prices. Ki-liauU' r-l is very scare. OW1 nnil ilUiort-'l aeeil In l-Hnr oneml. llrw.-ire ollt; It ii HI,kM. JAR. M. MORRIS .Mieeefnor to I). S. HKK FkONi, Seed", Juiiilciuea:, tic, 250 'tc-st Chlcoaro. OPPORTUNITY for I rr.fo tinnncial specula- rio9. SifOO sometimes brings S IO.OOO. Send 2.5cents for Eook jrivin,? the sec-ets and xplainin the best paving Investment of trio day. Address Bo !.":!.". NfW York. FREE! AMERiGAFi Specimen Copies of the nest Agrt cultural i'apcr in ine worm. FARM JOURNAL. Sixteen Lart?e Pitrcs for only 75 cents per year. t-aveyiur monev. tpecuueu copiea ireu w any address, t-eiirt I'ostai am to LOCKE JOXEi, Toledo, Ohio. i ou will like the. paper. 15 i JU THE BOOK VOU CAM SELL! MONEY IV IT SVRK t .Tnst out. Useful. Handsome. Cheap. Sell everywhere A rare cliui.ee. Also, New Slaps, CJiarts.&c Our new chart. OIIItlSTIAN (JKA C F.S.is a sr.lendid siiccess.Cin einnatt prices same as N.York. Send for tennsto t.t;. urif-oman, : i;arc lay fct., X.Y., fcl7tf W.itli bt.,Cln..O SENT FKEE A bookcxposinethemystericsof "ly 1 fTT1 and how any one may operate f 1 JVU J-i KJ A successfully with a capital o: a-ju or ?i,wm. plete instructions ami 1111 Ti'MKitioor: fc co Com illustrations to any address B Alt ILEUS ASI BHOJLEB3, 2 Wall street. New York. fT -S AL1AHV.N.T. soRCts re rict AMI on 1 two "-TV vC -it hales either hav or fci?- ;-!vV.-; J? V lusr or etoppinir. s, Thirty baies of hay ,y.-t j 7 per nour. i wen.y -.--r rn;es oi cotton , t'srpK.Ltr.CH'Ctt per hour. Ciri '-'' 'KTPiTWLaALrfitt PBESt LT elastic! This new Truss is worn with perfect comfort, niKht and day. Adapts itself to every motion of the bodv, retaining Kup- turs under the hardest exercise or severest strain until permanently cured. Sold cheap by the ELASTIC TRUSS CO.. and sent by mail. Call or send for circular audie cared. t,.-:;-.;.H- POPE'S ,RIFLE AIR-PISTUU. Inct the tiling for i:in iTBCtlCe. Ilecomii'.emieu ana muorseu u u best cuu dealer in thewwrld Send lor Circular IHPK 1'KOS., 45 High street, Boston, Mass. mm The Oneida Community. !!.;. ..iu; "Are much pleased Willi your Sea Foam." The best out. A .Me Furl a ncl, CnJTet dt Spit M.iu, AprinufeltL, Ma-si., tay$: Vour SV Foam is excellent, lly co r.imeis must and mill have It." L'ae Sea Foam anil rcmr table mill charm and dee ha-ht Tour pneata. Your rrocer, ll of'" !nc, will get It for yon. It aavea Jlllk, Kjrira, etc., and make, the moat dellctooa Bread, liUciitt and Cake jron aver taw. Sen-1 !nr circular to Omo. F. OifTi A Cow, I7H lum Eb.nvw lan. X3- SMITH s CO., WA.vrrAC-rt KrRS or Vlantcr Center-Piece, llracketa, iTlOIILX.IO-NS. 1XO ALL. USDS or PLASTER ORNAMENTS, 14 & lHtiSTATKSTMopp.Pa!iner House trartle wishing Ceutcra Would do well to send ! 'f rooms. t,, We man'i'f rTVKK catr:ioia ojhimii. :- r .v. Perfect imitation of the Uilfereut-eoloreu .uaruics. DO YOUR OWN PRINTING! JLJ PRINTING- PEESS. I'nr IroreMional and Amuteur Printer., rx-hool. fiwletiea, Man lll'arturera, MercKust". and c.the.a It u the BEST ever invented. l.'I.OOO In S . . J.Tcn styles. Prices rrom ita.uu w t. t .-fBENJ.O.WOODScVCO. Mam.fr. and 1 .- mt, nun in aU kind of Printing Material, fceisi .taitip fur CataloKe.) 49 Federal SU liooton. OE5STS TTAJCTEr fore C E N T E N N I A L ITs iteoSiatesGt AZETTEER A hook for every American. Sei Is everywhere tslRht. r armers, l eacm rs.rMuueuiM. ut . ci ' - directors. Manufacturers, .Mechanics, bhippers, ales- icn. men or learning ana iiienwnocan uiy r, . ...i uit .-a.,, ,r r..e .vprvdnv reference and use. rMmit nt urn Vran froirresfl. A hole Uihrary. jutxion ii"o - 1 neeestity. . but ; ptib- licd. Oool Par. tWnnt Uen . Aire, in every city of 1'i.uO. Address J. CMeCHtlf r llslicrs, CiiiciiiLuiU,0., Uueatfo, 111 or bt Jxiuislo. FASHIONS! smwrsjBtairf rangra m and SELLS Pattern, of them. Only SI.IO a year, with Premium. See below! I Smith's " Instant Dress Elevator." Jt Till. Cl'T ehnwa tha V upper Fart of th. skirt twronj ia. out), wim til. "ajetator" fixed In. it keeps th. aklrt from th. filth. It Loop the skirt in a Tastef 1 and Fashionable Jdaniier.Udniwiali Hie fullness to the back inakfnc the "straight frdnt" It Saves m" H'" Ten Times Its Cost. It can he rliansrd from Ona Dress to another. Ladle, will tind the " Kleiator" not only a eonvenlenoe, but a saving, when ued In their com mon bo iae dresses. The are cheap enoutrh to have ono la each dre&i. Prioe, only 45 Cents, mailed. Sea Premium below. We Illustrate th styles of the) present day In th height of tasnion in fans Naw-York. Oet our Maaazlne and see for yourself. (See bel 3403. TABLIER WAIST C e present day n tne helgnx or r- T 7 - fashion In Parle snd V ! ". X New-York. our JT'A I !; .&--.hi S, yourself. iiyW p-, - See below.) ft. fl : I .' ! Mil Cvm, ... vr .- J. I & ' ' 2 -. .,.-!-, Iff ';- .4- 3223 y, . ... - .. sjp jt : r VA I 4 -WS -IlotU neat and Mylihli ami wiien nsed lit toiinec don Avltli till walklns fcklrt, it looneorllie most denlrable detalsiin fur any eood. It Is becoming l"r either Hie Mont or kllclit flrrure, and the lady who noaMsoi ft per" feet form fan not tteleet a hetler drUsu. All lze. Pattern, with, clotli mouti, SO Cents, mailed. We (rl a perfect CLOTH WODEL.nIi every ratters, Sj e t f1, f ...a. iu elf IDT hich howi!uthoW to put the r"n.-..t l""elher after hcing -IV"'- ' S-'&mJt VtALMHU O IV I rf ft ultv tha pattern. Tb.y are PERFECT GUIDES. TllO above walk- Aay patter oa tkt p-t an'i.i i reeh,it or pries. C-e51 n-Jr Ine skirt I the very bent tlrntoliTfou nil for Uic l.resen t Myle. It will Keep It place and pr fue r race fill and elesant ellVcl, w lllioiit trouble of tying back. I'attern, with) cloth model, 50 cent, mailed. Steli lMll-iUll Ji. ATTEI BOTH of the EVATORS' (Sec Cut), FREP AS PREMIUM to llio person wlio fenu mo ONE DOLLAR AND TEN CENTS Tor ONE YEAR'S Mibscrlptloil to "Smith's Illustrated Pattern Bazaar," pffqre mat ast tW ALL.POST-PAiPj-a My Last Offer illLTStj nbovo illustrations, and TWO of tlio " DRESS ELI O. Box 5055. A. NOTE. DURDETTE SMITH, 914 Broadway, Mw-YorAglty. T K ,.. who in . 1 ee.ri v Subscriber to n r . . . . . . 1. . . U .. k. ...... . t . A UlT IMMENSE PREMIUM. xuenuou tht you RENEW. "SMITH'S PATTERN BAZAAR" MAY THER YEAR,VtL.t SECURE Greatest Invention of the Age ! NO USE fORANV AfliMflL 10 TRY Thc giiodiin rrijer I CANT CETTHHOUCH J. F. Glidden's BARB FENCE WIEE. Patented oT. 1. IN? !. Ttioronsrlilr tented by thonsarnl" of farmers, and nil Bre I'niliiit-lAMttc in lt praise. Hive It. n Irlnl ntnl vtm will pronounce It the heht, v-nE.rFsTaiiil MimI liu ra hie Kenee in I lie world. The oliove cm repre sents a onon fk.yce. cirstlug 4 O cts. per roil. In quire of hardware dealers, will send mniplc runic of t'BARoj by mall, on anplientlon. For further nartteu lr. address U.VItU l'EM K CO., lie IvulU, 111. r 'fJ -3 r - rm iV3? J J . Ti KTJrTTTWTT.T. J- le.muu 2sjQ.Hiy sr. 500,000 ACRES Michigan' lands IF1 O DEL S3 J. Xj 3B3 The Lands of the Jackson, Lansing-& Saginaw Rail road Company are Now Offered For Sale. They are situated alonp ltd railroad and contain large tracts of excellent KAKMINU and H.K Lands. The 1'artiiiuK lands include Koine of the most fertile and well-watered hardwood lands in the State. They are timbered mainly with hard-maple and beech; soil black, sandy loam, and aboiinc'. in Mirinr of piireet water. .Michigan ia one of the least indebted and most prosperous .State. n the I'nion, and its farmers have a greater variety o? crops ami resources than any West ern State. Wline Kime of the prairie Mutes may pro duce com In icreat abundance, they have no other re source, and When this crop fails destitution fallows. as lias been the case the past year in Kansas anil Nebraska. For .iaps. Circulars and further Information, apply to or address . JI. HAHM'.S, Land Coininisslouc.-. LansinK Michigan. The C, H. I. & P. K. E. Company la offatinf for aal at Low Price anil Kmt Rcaanfiabl. Term, XO ACTL'.IL NETTUH. Some of flic Most. l)csir:lle a ml Fertile I iiimprovrri l.aaiicl In The AitHs are suuaird on or nr tf lfn of iu rmi!ml, tUm GREAT CENTRAL KOI TK f rt th f.tni tMafi Uw I'mtW C wt, ud vt aioatlj brtwam (be in.eortftni tin of Ite Mwbrt utA Council btuds. ia Utt bcM Afri-ulturaVa tuxl niM rapiIly-tlrvt'Minc portion of Iowa. X3FtXC?JE3S iVllIi3 IjOW, Ranging from S5 to $ I O per acre. The vera:.re price hinu tminrwlint Ichh than S. f -kaj.ioTii-x ik kri', y ti'ire haainx whirh ri irii fir nn l M yUd 3kjairnl for U-i.1. ftrc for mIc t the print ip! ti --(, r-fticvs of th t -udiiw iu lowsaatj Il'm ia. for Uapa, Utmi of m! vb1 diractieaa t lutatMaAg r-urcb is. awl ,Lre J. L. J)HKW, I.nnd ( ommisfiioiirr, C.. U. 1. Jt P. li. ii. C O. iJAVJiaNPOBr, Iowju FAR In Actual Use : MORE THAN 55,000 stey Organsi MANUFACTURED BY J. ESTEY & CO., nniTTLEnono, Stim FOR IlLCBTEATED CATALOGCa. VT. Free ! Free!? Free ! ! ! The Pioneer. A handsome. Illustrated newspaper, containing In formation for everybody. 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Walker's California Yin- Cgar JJiltcrs aro a purely Vegetal;! preparation, mado cliiclly from tbo na tive herbs found on tho lower raiifios of tbo Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nia, tbo medicinal properties of winch aro extracted therefrom without tho uso of Alcohol. Tho question ia almost daily ashed, "What is tho causo of tin unparalleled success of Vikeoai: 15 it TEUsf ' Our answer is, that they removo tbo causo of disease, and tho patient re covers his health. They aro tho pre blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Innovator and Invigorator of tho cvsteni. Never before in tha history of" tho world has a nu-ilicino beca compounded pos.ses.-;irs t!io rcm.arkablo qnalitie3 of Vixkoar Bitters in Jicalmp tlid siclc of every disease man is l oir tf. They aro a gentle Purpativo a veil a ft Tonic, relieving Congestion or Ii,:!an::T!atinTi c tho Liver aud Visceral Organ.s ia Li.ioua JDi.-ea8es. Tlio propcriics of Dn. Walker's Vinegar liiri KKS aro Aperient. Diapl.oretjc, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretie, Sedative, Counter-irritant, buuonhc. Altera tive, and Anil-Bilious. It. II. MrI0.IJ . CO.. Jnijr(rist Hn'' (r,H-. 'in l'r itiri. ('aijfu'nis, and ocir. if WiiuMtnirtoTi ami C 'h.irit'M' Srr.. X. V Soltl lljr nil Irtil' i nn-f l llli r.. IIISTS O.V CAItDIAC DISKAHE M. 3. ConKOHtlon Is also a prolific caiiao of hrart-dnipav. Dr. Llllitl Itartl.-tt, fiu fur M-vtiit.-i n years Iu charKeof one of the l.oiul .n city liimritalu. In tun re port for June ana Julv, lif,7. Kltrn t in uty-l o chm h of coiaKCHt ion of the heart which rcMiltc.l fiitally wttlilii six inontliB, csimlliK dropoy of the hem t In inipt ciu-. a. CuriKestion of the engine of clrenlut loll 1h alwayn ilan irerotiB and fremieutly fatal. When not Iniiiti illiit.-ly-fatal It leaves an Impression tx'tiintl which lends tolalal tlieae. t'onncKtlon of the luni:s la ollenthe prelnila to hemorrhage and consumption, him! Iu many . w here the lunj-'s are not perinam tit ly all. cu d tho heart receives the shock. and the iMii Is death. IVricaditis la olten a cause of ilrny or the !ieart. and in a chronic and acute form Is not uncommon. It ia caused sometimes from constant o er- xert Ion, from excessive heat and perspiration, followed h) Its sudden suppression. The symptoms lire sharp pains iu the heart, a sense of sinothcnnif ti(! siillocstioii nnd short and dittlcult respiration. '1 real hk nl results la no permanent relief; the heart m-eoinci dropsical slid the patient dies. A strain will often produce perlca ditls. In one case, a young mnn vhi skatins as thrown down upon the tee liy a froen tis". si:d a sharp pain passed through his heart as though u nervo had snapped or a slight muscle pvcu ')' A feeling of fainttiess followed, and after thst weakness at.d oc casional pains, from a hearty and n lmst roi.ditlon. he visibly declined and weakened. Ilti' ini; the follow ing summer lie exiKTienced the peculiar symplotna heretofore notedoizziiiees. cold fe. t, siillociitiim sen sations about lhe heart, short nees of breath, etc.. sua one day he suddenly died. A poi-t mortem ramii s tion showed the heart surrounded Willi water. 1 erl carditis can be cured In its earlier stayes sud by Ilia ue of proper rcmedLs. Thick or impure blood Is a csne of henrf d!pese; The heart is designed to do a certain amount of worlc under favorable conditions. Now if the i-ondilioiisnra unfavorable, the same amount of w ork cannot he d'.no without over-taxing the member. If the blood be too thick more power must bo everted b force it to tho extremities of the system. This extra tb rt result In fatal disease. Ill time thc heart becosies unequal t the demand made uieun it, and the conse(iien. c 1- that the blood flows In a small and slupg.i-li stream, depos iting, at various points along the route linpuritie, which form tumors, tubercles, eruptions, ulcers, cancers, abscesses, swellings, and various other forms of Jftte.lt eo-rfiltf-d lo al rl.sease. I hese are often treated loeallv, and when dislodged strike to the heart, and death soon follows. i.ocal treatment is generally wrong In the- ruses. Tho cause should be sought out and removed, and then tho etlects would naturally cease, 'lhe remedies and treatment should be directed to the Inert ate of the cir culation, and in this wsy remoe the impure lodg ments and clean out the sand-bara of disease. Ilythis plan of treatment the disease Is cured on proper and philosophical principles. Jr. Win. ll'.liister. tormcr ly of Cincinnati, states. In his Ileform I rnetU eof .Ve.1 Jcine, that one might as soon expect tokill a ( unada thistle by cutting ou" the top as to pertiianent y euro cancer by ci.aiiig. Lieutand. of Paris, says that tho use of the knife for the cure of tumors snd cancer will generally disappoint the patient and practitioner. Prof. Parker, of New York, opposed fie use of tho knife iu removing an oarlan tumor, hut was over ruled by a council and the life of the patient was a.-ri-flced. When too late It was admitted that If she had lieeii let alone she would have survived many years. liepelled ery sipelas Is often a cause ot heart disease. This is a blKd complaint, snd manifests itself on the surface. It Is nature's effort to get rid of Internal d' rangemenu. The usual practue Is to cauterize tho skin, which tends not to remove and cure the trouble, but to scatter and smother it under the skin. A csso occurred In Bullalo where a slight attac k of erys.p elas was treated w ith cauterization to that extent that nearly the whole surface of the body wss gone over. The disease left the surface snd settled u;on the and his early demise w as eicc!ed. Alter a y ear had pased my attention was attracted to hie case ny a cl ient. I directed my course of treatm. lit so as toall nature to throw the disease upon the suriacc again st.a relieve the heart. Although it w as a wot k of tune and. drew largely upon wv patience. I ultimately succeeded. I am now satistted that If the proper course had lieen taken in manv extreme cases of chronic disease, acure might have been wrought where only failure has been tl... pnlf. l'.tf freatintr the seat or cause of a dlscae? all the recuperative forces of nature are encouraged ami come to the physician's siil. A favorable result Would hardly lie expected w here the opposite course is pursued. Jfere is a case In point : A mail wealthy ana fntlueuiial wa lying in monicntury expectation or dying in one of the wards of a l.iub.n hospital, sev eral years ago, Inthe last stages ot consumption. One night there appeared a tumor urnlcr the clavicle. As It increased in size It pressed hard upon thew indp.po until there was great likelihood that he would sui.o cate. Uuring this time the patient's lur.-s worked and panted violently, finally the tumor all st once began to suljside, and the patient sank into a c- tuatose from which the atiendirm physician said he would never emerge. In four or five da he beiran to re vive, had less fever, less cough, griidua !y Improved, and in a few weeks became eomparativ. ;. a w i il mnn. The same nhvslcian soon after hail rno'iier r.w of he reditary consumption. Alter a careful examination lie told the patient that h had passed Into the third stage of consumption, and that Ks inula'! v w as incura ble but also gave t ie history of the case aliove. ri inted and its satisfactory termination. Alt. r consulting tho former patient he' returned tothPh-.sr.it::! and allowed the physician to try an expcriuo-i.t. A silver band with an Ivory ball attached was passed, around his iieck and drawn tightiy. and alter the patient had become acruetor.cd to It trio Ivory bail was pressed down hsro-r snd tho ban-1 draw n more rfosely until the p r n was nearly sull-M-ated. The lungs by this exn.-piri. i t ' ' vio lently exerelse.1. finally the ulcers In the lungs werej broken and a great quantify of matter was discharged. The pressure was relieved and Increased from day b day until the lungs were greatly enlarged and the ul cers broken up. The patient finally recovered. Tho physician treated the cause of the disea-e. sua sue-c-eeded. 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