Nebraska Newspapers

    BITUMKXA. VOSTL V JOKE.
Is the finch times when oil-wells wen- the theme
Whereon, men's inind wore principally dwi-l-liiiir.
And cveiy speculator's nijrhlly dream
Saw lire til Petroleum's aromatic eire:m
The fat nf Nature's broth. Plutonic crcnni
From li ir particular flowing well np-willine-,
Twelve citizens, on money-innkit c leiit,
Assembi-ii in an upper rtiamlier spacious,
To listen to an enterprising Kent"
While he to them should make it evident
.Mai h money niiu'ht be miide for little spent,
lly any one sufficiently' Hiarioii
To irive him funds, by liim to b invested
In a location he himself hail tested.
"iThe territory where that well and derrick are
In the bent oil -country in America!
To no more certain tind can anv man io
Than rijjht there in the heart i.f old Venango.
"The drill will very shortly reach bed-rock.
Being already prouiisinL'ly started.'"
We paid onr moiiev and we took our clock,
And our disinterested friend departed.
K en then I marked. as I have marked before,
"Twas not posecsciiin riches, treat or mall.
That filed the due proportion each oi:c b'.re.
Those who have little always -rive the more.
And those pive leat who have tne greatest
store.
On them all burden do most lightly fall;
While pome are like the cobbler in his stall.
When into one small hide he put." hie- little awl.
Why need I here repeat the old. old story?
We never saw aam our cher-hcil pelf;
The reader will have guessed hi, a friori.
And very likely knows how "tin bunncll.
When the whole enterprise had cone to Jiot,
Once more we stockholders convened a mcet
ini;; In the old sadly well remembered spot
We came to fee where all our wealth wan not.
And to the rest one then, there, thus L'ave greet
ing: We Mor outsider do not leel so sore.
Although we re neither more nor les thun hu
man. At having sacrificed our little store
For von rich folks, who know so vastly more,
H.-ive been deceived in spite of your acumen:
And this deep hole, that's proved so 'real a bore.
Although it ha- Ul( oil. it lias lit-ji-w u '.
In this dry jest the stockholders all shared ;
It was their sole return for all their money.
They paused perhaps tin y smiled I'm sure they
stared
Itut did not find it adequately funny
To Hood their very souls with laughter sunny.
The meeting was the iast we did attend;
This unsuccessful joke the only dividend !
J. h'irklaiiii, in Scrifmr fur J mif .
A "CASE" OF .MINK.
Thk subject of "Memory" li;iviii:r Ik-i-ii
iniic.li discussed lately in connection with
a celebrated trial, I propose iIic-inr be
fore my readers a ca.-c that I had under
my own ken and care tor sometime, that
may be interesting :is an illustration i
"Imperfect Memory" m. "Imperfect
Knowledge."
1 was one day called upon to visit pro
fessionally a lady residing not far from
my own house in IJloonisbury ; the mal
ady some comm. n ailment, intluen.a or
feverish cold, but accompanied by unu
sual nervous depression. I found my pa
tient a woman about thirty to thirty-two
years of age, of nervous temperament and
rather constrained manner. A half-suspicious,
restless look in her eyes made me
notice Iter more particularly than I other
wise might have done, and when I left the
room the impression that I received was,
that she was a woman with a "story."
die was dressed in deep mournintr,
which made me remark to her sister, who
was taking a few instructions lro'ii me
concerning my treatment:
" Mie has sustained a loss, I see, and
the nervous depression attendant on that
has lowered the vital energies; thus an
otherwise slight cold has fa.-U-nrM itself
rather tirh'.ly on her."
" Yes," returned Iter sister, " she has,
indeed, gone through much lately. Per
haps, as her doctor, you nug-lit to be told
more fully the details of her cae; and, in
deed, they may interest you from another ;
point of view."
e sat down, and 1 will condense her
narratira as far as possible.
My patient, Mrs. Hammond, and
her husband were returning to England
Irom the West Indies, where the latter had
some proper'y, when one of those unfor
tunate collisions between ships occurred,
which, though unhappily so freiUent of
late, were then rate. The collision took
place in very rough weather, a high sea
and a Imisterous, fitful w ind.
A few were saved, among them Mrs.
Hammond, hut her husband was never
seen again. Her baby, only six months
old, was washed away. 1 did not attend
very much to the particulars of the ship
wreck, and all I can be certain of, is, that
Mrs. Hammond, husbandless and child
less, penniless and unconscious, was.
ith a lew others, saved on that fearful
night in one of the ship's boats and taken
on board of another homew ard bound ves
sel ot some sort that came to them soon
after the calamity. Her husband's fam
ily were well oil', and w hen the ship
reached Pngland she proceeded to their
house in liondmi. It was at the residence
f her father-in-law that I had now seen
the poor lady, just a year and a half after
her lH.-reaveinc-i.it.
"Hut the strange thing is this," con
tinued my companion, "that she does not
fret the ieast for the child, because all
memory ot having had one is gone. When
returning to consciousnes, we are told that
she cried piteotisly for her husband but
no one expression ever escaped her lips
about the baby, and when naturally we
condoled with her on its loss, she looked
at us as if we had taken leave of our
senses."
"I'erhaps it is God's mercy,'' I said,
reverently. "The double grief might have
upset her reason."
"IJut lias it not already?" asked her sis
ter. "She has as utteily forgotten the
baby's having cxMcd as if well, as if in
fact it never had."
"Areyou'sure she has really forgotten
it?" I questioned.
"Oh, certainly. She was never particu
larly fond of children. She was brought
up by an aunt, separate from me and my
brother Frank, very much to herself, and
never took to children of her own age.
She used to say she hoped she never
would have any, but when baby came,
then," laughed Miss Dennis, "she made
as great a fuss over it its any one; at
least, so I heard, for it was liorn in
J amaica."
"The child was certainly drowned?" I
asked.
" Oh, yes. Out of seven little ones on
board, only one was saved the child of a
pool steerage woman, who was taken
back by the culprit steamer. Although
we sometimes endeavor to rake up old
memories to her mind, we do not try her
too much! What would you advise?"
" Leaving her with her own sorrow,
unconscious of her other loss," I an
swered. " If the truth ever daw ns upon
her, she will the better bear up against its
consequent grief, the more strength of
mind and body can be gathered up now.
Keep her up in every way: cheerful looks
about her, and pk-nty of light, nourish
ing food."
" It is not madness, is it, doctor?" said
poor Miss Dennis, looking me sea re hi ug
ly in the face.
"By no means; merely a ca.-e of sus
pended memory. The veil may be lilted
any moment, though we could hardly
wish for it." And to myself 1 said,
" How many of us would pray that such
a veil might fall upon our past:"
Her cold took its usual course, unat
tended by any worse symptoms than or
dinary, except for the natural depression
consequent upon her peculiar circum
stances. Two or three times I led the
way cautiously to the subject we were in
terested in; I mean her sister and my
self; but the suspicious, restless look in
her eyes became so intense, that I re
sisted, quite aware that she would lie far
more likely to thtnk us insane, than I
could think her to be so.
In two or three weeks I discontinued
ray attendance, with the understanding
between her .-ister and myself that if any
material change took place in her mental
condition I should be made aw are of it.
Almost a year passed by without my hear
ing any more of her, when one aftenoon,
just as" I bad finished a hasty lunch, pre
paratory to going my afternoon " round,"
I received a note from Miss Dennis, say
ing how gratef ul she would lie to me if I
could look in upon her that afternoon. At
ihree o'clock I was at their house, and
found myself once more t'te-a-tets with
3Iiss Dennis.
' We agreed," she commenced, "that
I should let you know anything special
concerning your old patient, and I have
really something very odd to tell you.
About six moths ago there was some little
hitch in my sister's money affairs you
know her busband had some property in
Jamaica, and it was considered advisable
that some one should go out and see aiter
the estate, which had been entrusted to
careless hands on my poor brother-in-law's
death. The money had been coming in
very irregularly, so our brother Frank,
who has lived in the north of England for
the last seven years, volunteered tngo and
look up matters for her. He has not been
well tor some time, and his doctor said a
sea voyage would be just the very thing
for him. The long ami short of it is, that
yesterday the mail arrived with letters
from him for us lioth. He hopes, he says,
to make everything straight very soon;
found affairs in a great muddle, and be
lieves the agent anything but trustworthy.
In his letter to me was another enclosure
marked 'private.' This I t ok into my
own room and read. The best w ay, doc
tor, is for you to read it yourself; it will
not take you long'"
Miss Dennis handed me the letter, of
which the substance was as follows:
" In one of my rambles before the sun
is well up, I was walking along a path
near Kingston, when 1 came upon a
woman with two children sitting by the
roadside. The eldest was playing with
little red berries, and seemed between two
and three years old; the other, quite a
baby. 1 shouid not have noticed them
much but that the mother spoke crossly
to the eldest as I passed, which caused
me to look at him. As I did so, I was
staggered b see w hat at the first glance
seemed the image of Mary. Then the
resemblance resolved itself into a still
stronger likeness to poor Edward ; not. in
the features, perhaps, but as he lilted his
eyes to mine, the same half melancholy
expression looked out from them. There
was not the slightest likeness to the woman
in aim. I stopped in my walk and got
into conversation with her, and as I did
so the little fellow quietly put his hand in
mine, as if we had been old acquaintances.
She notii-ed it by saying: ' Well! that is a
wonder! he hardly ever takes to any one
little shy monkey!' The words were said
playfully, but the tone was hardly mother
ly 1 thought."
" " I questioned her about different things,
and as we talked the wind got much
fresher, and the morning betokened a
rough day. I made a remark on the
change in the weather."
"'It will be a stormy day, I tear,' she
said; 'and it is so stupid of me, but ever
since the shipwreck that I was in, 1 gel
quite upset when the wind blows high it
makes me shudder!"'
This remark naturally sharpened my
wits, and 1 got from her lhe followingpar
ticulurs :
" She was going to England with her
husband and baby, when, within a few
days of arrival, the ship struck; a great
many were washed overboard and never
seen again. She and her husband ami
baby were in tne water some time, and
she and the baby were ultimately saved,
though not together. She had given up
both her treasures as lost, and had sunk
into a kind of swoon, when a sailor placed
the little thing dripping in her aims.
1 My joy was great,' she said simply;
' and when all hope was gopc of my hus
band being saved, I turned to the little
wet bundle in my arms for comfort, and 1
believe the necessity for giving it food
saved my life. With some others I de
cided to go back again in the other ship
that oflcred to take us. What could 1 do
w ilhout my husband in a strange land?
So I never saw England, sir, and I came
back without monev, clothes, husband or
child.'
" r child!" I repeated after her.
" Yes, sir. It was not my child." Here
she burst into tears. "It was not my own
dear baby, but another. I found it out
soon; but for many hours I nursed it as
my own, for I lay in asortoi stupor, hard
ly noticing anything that occurred around
me, ar.d then sir, what could I do but
keep it? It was fatherless and motherless,
as 1 was husband less and chjl'ilcss, and
so, sir, I have kept him ever sinct this
little one !' She touched the boy's fore
head as she spoke.
" ' How did you find out that he was not
yours,' I askeu, with a strange fluttering
hope at my heart.
" l!y his clothes first, sir. You see, the
collision happening in the night, there
were hardly anv ot us dressed, lie had
only his little nirjht shirt on that he had
been snatched up in, and when given to
me was wrapped in something thick and
warm bv the irood sailor; so it was not
till 1 rou.-cd a little as some kind ladies
ollered ii i e some of their own babies'
clothing lor him that I found his shirt
was tine and h lieate and my boy's was
poor and coarse. It startled me at once
and roused me up like a shock, and when
I jjazed eagerly into his eyes I saw he
was not my ow n ! My boy put out his
little amis and chubby tinners and
crowed in 1113' la' e this one drank of my
milk, and never cooed or chirped to
thank!' "
" Tin: tears were coming fast to her
eyes. I pressed the little delicate hand
tinner to mine as the child lookeil up
wonderingly to his foster mother's face.
" Were the clothes marked?' I asked.
"Yes, sir: there was E. H. on the
shirt, and I've always kept it by me
safely."
"Now, my dear sister. docs not your
opinion coincide with mine, that the
child is our poor sister's lost darling?"
" I saw the likeness to both parties at
once; the shirt is marked with the
initials that would have been on it (I
bring the shirt with mc, saved in the
collision. In fact everything points, in
my opinion, to the same conclusion ; and
though I 111:13- get a scolding from my
little wife at home, I have acted to my
firm belief. 1 told the woman our story
and fully convinced her. Indeed, she did
not need much inducement to give the
little fellow up. She had a certain feel
ing for him, she said, as having nursed
him, but 'I have never quite got over
the turn he gave me when I saw
he was not my own. (lod foririve
me!' she continued, 'I have tried to do
my best for him. Last year I married
again, sir, and have another dear little
one now. My husband never took to
Civile (I t ailed him after the ship, sir),
but to please me he remains with us, and
shares the little we have: but 1 don't
think he'"l fret at till at leaving us; he
never took to us any more than my hus
band to him.
" I saw her husband the next day, and
with a small sum of money 1 got him to
resign his paternal charge over the boy
with great alacrity. Mrs. L , the
('onsul's wife, has kindly undertaken to
tit him out respectably, and next. week, if
all goes well, I hope to start for "England
with 1113- as I tirinlv believe long lost
nephew. IJut w hat 1 am to do with him
when there I don't know. It's a queer
business to force a child on a woman who
says she never had one. Surel3' she'd
say (and with seeming truth) that 'she
ought to know best!' IJut as I believe
Providence ordered my steps here to re
cover the poor little fellow 1 will trust the
same good I'roviuence to restore him to
his natural protectors. If not, why it
makes only one more mouth to feed. He
is just I Jobby's age w ithin a week or two;
they w ill lie capital playfellows."
Here the letter entered upon other mat
ters. "And now," said Miss Dennis,
looking at me steadily with her large
earnest eyes, " what are we to do?"
"When does your brother return ?" I
asked.
" lie is on his wa3" now. In three
weeks, please GihI, he will be at home.
To think of tier little darling being alive
and restored to her, and she not aw are of
his existence or his ever having existed!
It would be aimost laughable were it not
so sad. How would you advise us to
act?"
"I must consiler," mused 1. "We
must be cautious. With a nervous tempera
ment such as ln r's, a shock, even of joy-,
would be a great pain, and if the memory
returns it might be with such a rush as to
overthrow reason itself." After a few
moment's silence I proposed the following
plan :
" Thiy must meet in the ordinary
course of circumstances: at least it must
seem so to her. She knows of course, of
her brother's having gone to Jamaica?"
" Oh, yes, and takes an interest in all
the arrangements; often talks aoout him
and the oid places he will visit ; is quite
cheerful when we mention his returning
soon, and pay ing us a visit of a week or
two, after he has run down to see his wife
md family. Indeed, the said it might en
liven me, if he could bring one of his
children with him."
"She has never seen Master Bobby,
whom your brother speaks of as being
about the same age as her own ?"
" Never."
" I have it!" I exclaimed. " Introduce
.Master Clyde as Master Bobby, and see if
any particular ellect w ill le made upon
her. Let j our brother come as expected,
and bring the boy w ith him. Is there a
girl anywhere?"
"Yes, the eldest, Mary; named after
herself."
The long and the short of it is this,
that 1 advised the bringing up his little
girl, Mary, and his supposed nephew,
Clyde, w hose real name, if indeed he was
his nephew, was Edward; and let the
mother and child be brought together as
events would naturally occur. "And let
me know," I concluded, " as soon as you
can, if anything comes of our little strat
agem." I must now put another letter before my
reader, for what followed will be better
understood from Miss Dennis' narrative
than from words of mine.
" Dkah Doctor As I have now really
something to relate to you, I will write
you 1113' promised letter. 1 must just tell
you that, for some days before Frank re
turned, Mary had seemed very uneasy in
her mind; restless and fitful ; complained
of had nights and strange dream; buton
the day that Frank was expected and
came, she was much calmer and herself
again. She flew to meet him, and the
servants taking forcible possession of the
children at a previous hint of mine, we
had some minutes in the draw ing-nwm
before tiny were brought in.
" On their arrival Frank said, "Your
little namesake, Mary, and Master Bob
by." "As her eyes fell on the boy I saw her
start. M3f heart beat fearfully'.
"So this is Bobby, is it?" jhe said, and
just laid her hand on his head. 'He is
like not you,' and she looked fixedly at
Frank; ' nor your wife' here she paused,
and turning away passed her hand across
her brow. Frank signed to me to take
the children out of the room, which I did ;
left them with the nurse ami returned.
Mary had walked to the window, and for
a few seconds we took no notice of her,
but conversed on different subjects. Then
I turned to her and said, 'I'll leave you
two together, Mary, there's lots of busi
ness t' talk over, and I'll go and look af
ter the chicks.'
" She turned round, and one would have
thought she had aged ten years in those
few moments. She had a pained and
wearied look, anil her thoughts seemed
lar awa3- as she answered, ' Do, Ellen
and keep them quiet and get Bobby
Bobby!' she repeated, ' who is he like?
I don't think 1 can be wll, I feel so
strange.' And she turned back again to
the window and looked out.
" I confess I thought of sending at once
for you, she had such a wild, oppressed
look on her lace. She was close to us,
and yet one felt that she w as very far
away. I feared that we had done wrong
in testing her in this manner, ami might
kill her reason if we ventured further. 1
wished at the moment that the boy had
never been found, and went out of the
room quite savagely. I remembered what
you said about letting things come natur
ally, so we did not have the children in
again, or even mention them, until a
bright young laugh rang in oui cars from
the floor above, w here a temporary nur
sery had been arranged.
" ' They seem making themselves quite
at home, Miss I'olly, at ui)3' rate,' said 1113'
brother. ' I'll go and see the fun.' Mars
hall been unusually quiet. The business
matters that had to he discussed seemed
for the time to have lost their importance.
She would break oil" in the middle of a
sentence, the strange look come over her
agan, and her hand would be passed
across her forehead and eyes. When
Frank had gone she remarked, faintly:
' Bobby w as not laughing it was the inrr's
laugh.'
"How did she know ? She then left
the room, and 1 went to dress for dinner.
Frank tells me that on going up stairs he
found Polly in a state ot gliv. Nurse was
remonstrating as she wiped a saucer, and
Master Edward, sittinir utterly disconso
late in a very' big arm-chair, with two big
tears courdng quietly down his cheeks.
At her pupa's entrance. Polls' rushed to
him. 'Oh, papa, isn't he a funuj-hoy?
He's crying because nurse won't let him
go and see Aunts' Marsr again. He says
he wants to go to the lady, and stole a was'
outside nearly all the way' down, and
nurse had to cairy him back, and then he
cried again! Isn't he a fuiins' bs', papa?
" Frank quieted Polls' with a look, and
comforted Edward y saying that he
would soon see the lads again if he was a
good bov. lie gulped down his tears, and
Frank left him. The nurse was in the
secret, and looked to me for orders in the
matter. On the chance of Mar" visiting
the room, we had left out on the table the
little night-shirt the bab' had on when
the poor woman discovered, on her recovers-,
that he was not her own child. It
was throw n carelessls- on the table, with
a few odds and ends and tos's.
"After I was dressed I ran up-stairs to
have another look at the j-oung ones, and
met Mars" just outside the door on the
point ot enterini:. She blushed red when
she saw me. 'Come along, Marj',' I said,
entering first and taking her hand. 'We'll
have it romp before dinner it will give
us an appetite.'
" Edward was standing at the window.
Polls' wa-s nursing a doll and finishing
what had once been a large slice of cake.
Strantre to say Mars f-poke to Polls' an('
not to B ibbs ' though it was evident it
was 'Bobby' she had conic to see, for her
eves wandered to him, and rested with a
pu..Iert look up:-n his face. She stood
Iry the little table, and soon I saw her
fingers take up the shirt. She turned and
twisted it about for some time before she
looked it it, then said, 'You have plents
to do now, 1 suppose nurse; another lit
tle one to care for?' 'Oh, yes, ma'am
the more the merrier bless their hearts.'
She talked a deal more of nurse talk, but
Mary's eyes were now on the shirt, and
I saw her give a sort of shiver. I signed
to nurse to go awas w ith Polls'. She did
so, and still Mars only lingered the little
shiit in a nervous sort of was. 1 stole to
her side, and as she turned her look
frightened inc. 'Take that child awas,
MillS"; take him away instantls! I can't
breathe the air near him - it sttlles me!"
"Hush Mary!' I said. 'You are not
well, that is all. We will go a was", not
poor Bobby.' I got her down stairs and
prevailed on her to lie down. There
seemed a struggle, a great struggle going
on within her, and so strong was the
mastery she had to keep over herself that
1 saw she could hard Is help thrusting me
away from her in her efforts to throw off
something that seemed forcing itself on
her. Was it the memory returning, I
thought and prayed silently to (lodtoaid
it. She 1 lid. not refer again to the bos,
but htr mental agony continued, and it
w;us rpiite two hours before I could leave
her. When, after at length prevailing on
her to take a little food, she sank asleep,
1 stole thankfully' awas.
' Nurse was awaiting me. ' I can't keep
the child quiet, miss. He keeps sas'ing
he wants to go to the lads'. 1 don't know
what to do with him, but I know not a
bit of rest I shall get this blessed night.'
"Oct him interested in some little story,
nurse, and keep them both quiet, for Mrs.
Hammond has gone to sleep. I am tired
1113'sclf, and will go and lie down.' And
what we had been so anxious to accom
plished came about quite naturally, in this
wise.
" An hour later, I got up from the sofa
and slole to nis sister's room. I found
the door ajar, and on looking in, there
was little Edward sitting vers gravels" ls
her bedside, one small hand on the cover
let. It was touch ingly beautiful to see
the little child sitting patkntls' waiting
for its mother to awaken awaken to
memory memory of love and of him.
I could hardly move I felt spell-bound.
He never stirred, but his large blue eses
rested alternately on her face and on
mine, and his tiny hand crept closer to
hers; but he never ventured to touch it
for fear of awakening her, while on his
face rested the half sad. wondering ex
pression so like his father's. I saw it
was best as it was. God had taken away
He was about to restore, and He kntw
the wa' better than I.
" For half an hour we watched, when a
slight movement told us that the had
awakened. Still she did not or en her
eyes, but moved about restlessly-; and
sighed as if waking from a dream. I stole
Iwhind a screen, that he might be the first
object she saw.
"She began speaking to herself a
habit of hers.
" It is so strange! Dream upon dream
dream iion dream! and when I open
my eyes 1 almost expect to see the child
before me, that in my sleep hangs round
1113" neck till ms' blood warms at his touch?'
She added wearily, ' I think I must be
going mad.' Still her eyes were closed,
and she seemed to lie gently dozing off
again, w hen the child quietly touched her
hand, and in a voice of subdued ecstass
burst out, 4 I want you for my mamma!'
The eyes opened and rested on him they
seemed to grow larger and larger; she
raised herself, and the bos', with his over
flowing childish love, flung himself sob
bing on the bed!
" For a moment she was stupefied, and
passed her hand again across her brow. It
was but for a moment ; the veil was raised,
the mist cleared, and the sunshine of the
pent up mother love overflowed with a
loud cry' My child! my boy?' "
So ended the letter.
I indeed went to see them as soon as 1
could, and a jiwful household I found.
Mother and boy were inseparable the
long fast of the a"fTeetions made them rav
enous of love.
In this case the child's instinct seemed
to lend him to his mother as much as her
instinct led her to him ; but bs' what link
the chain of memory was united we
cannot conceive. lie who constituted
the brain and mind, as well as
the heart and emotions, only knows
but so it was. They found con
clusive evidence of young " Clyde" being
indeed her son ; and when once the mem
ory was whole again, various circum
stances came to her mind to substantiate
the woman's story, without even the aid
of the identity of the nightshirt with that
of her child.
I told Mrs. Hammond and Miss Dennis
that with their permission I would cer
tainly write their strange story in my book
of ""Keinarkablc Cases."
You, reader, must judge whether it be
ohc or no. Loudon Arjoy.
FACTS AM) FH JUKES.
Dallas, Texas, has increased its popu
lation of 1,000 in 171, before a railroad
touched it, to 17,000.
W011.11 you believe it? The area of
Texas is 71,:(m square miles, or 17o,o!)4,
."i;o acres, and is one-fourth large; than
France.
Tiik railways of England earned dur
ing the week ending April 'J .,l,0!l!t,s:i(;
up in a mileage of 14, st.il, which is at the
rate of :70 per mile.
AccoiiiHNi; to a St. Petersburg paper
the total population of Uussian Turkestan
is r,('00,utiO, and its total area about -1,000,-000
square kilometers.
A Nt'.Mi'.KU of residents of Western
Pennsylvania have purchased -1,.VK) acres
of land in West Yiiginia, much of which
contains bituminous coal.
A Maine packing com pans put up last
season 1"0,0(H) cans of lobster, tM.OOO of
clams, and (I0.0O0 of blue-berries, and ex
pects to double the business this.
A kihm of Philadelphia druggists have
obtained a judgment against the United I
Mates overntnent lor sgo,:5,o.so torover
paid duts on an invoice of opium.
A (JekmaN has so far deciphered the
hierogisphic records sufhcicntls' to prove
that one of the pyramids was built ;i,010
years before Christ, which is l,0O(t years
earlier than any chronological date pre-viousH-
established.
A not T ten per cent, of the Cape dia
monds are of the first quality, fifteen per
cent, of second, twenty of third. The
estimated value of the diamonds found at
the Cape from March, l'i7, to the present
time exceeds 'fl'J.OOO.tKK).
Two tiioi'sano vorks connected with
the history of the Bcforniation. collected
duiing forty years by Mr. A. F. H.
Schneider, of Berlin, are among the re
centiicquisitions of interest bv the British
Museum. Some of the works are vers
rare.
An average of about 100 bars of silver
bullion, each weighing about l','o pounds,
addressed to the United States Mint, Phil
adelphia, and dozens of boxes of coined
silver from the Carson Mint, addressed to
the United States Sub-Treasurer at New
York, are cxprissed eastward over the
Union Pacific dails.
Tiik Canadian Minister of the Interior
reports that there are tH.'JlO Indians in
the Dominion, of which number about
10.1MHI, belonging to untreating tribes, are
settled between Peace IJivcr and the
United States boundars". In the five older
provinces, thes" have personal property
worth f real estate worth $ 7,;:;:j,-
70S, and in invested capital the sum of
$2,S44,!'72.
A 1.KTT1.K from a Black Hills miner
tells what Custer consists of. as follows:
" Of business houses there are 100 lsr
actual count. Of saloons there are four
teen ; of real estates ollices three; assay
oflice, one; carpenter shops, two; and
about fifty carpenters, who are vers buss-;
hake-shops, seven ; lioarding-houses, five;
grocers and liquor stores, eleven ; tobacco
and cigar stores, five; grocers and drs'
goods stores, three; dancing houses, two;
hotels, three; gambling-houses, three;
clothing stores, two; fiardware stores,
two ; wholesale liquor stores, three; tin
shops, two; blacksmith shops, three;
doctors, three; drug stores, storage and
commission houses, two; boot and shoe
shops, two; sign painters, one; restau
rants, ten; lumber ollices, two; pons' ex"
press oflice, one; breweries, two; meat
markets, lour; barber shops, two."
How Mr. Blaine Settled
der.
Another Slan-
The New York Sun. of the 27th ult.
contained a letter of Mr. Blaine, written
in 170, to Warren Fisher, Jr.; of Boston,
stilting the advantages of certain railroad
investments, etc. This letter and accom
pans'ing documents the opponents of Mr.
Blaine tried to distort into something dis
honorable or corrupt on his part. In re
ply to inquiries concerning the matter
Mr. Blaine has made the following state
ment :
Some six or seven years ago some
friends of mine in Boston desired to make
a small investment in the North Pacific
enterprise, and as the Vice-President of
the road, the Hon. It. I). Bice, was si near
neighbor of mine in Augusta, it was
thought I might find out where and how
the purchase Could be made. In one or
two instances I hoard of interests being
for sale, but nothing was done. Finally,
in the autumn of 170, a definite interest
was for sale, and it was brought to 1113' at
tention, with very glowing and extrava
gant accounts of its prospective profits.
As it was a road chartered bs Congress,
deriving its franchise and grants directlv'
from Congress, and liable at a 113 time to
appls" to Congress for future favors, I did
not myself entertain for a moment an idea
of becoming interested in it; but, as these
friends had la-en wishing such invest
ment, and as they had the same right as
ans" other private citizen had to ow n in
the enterprise, I communicated the facts
to them precisely as t lies' h;ld been given
to me. A lew das after I was notified
that tlu'3 would be glad to purchase, and
a certificate of deposit or cashier's check
for -f --, 000 was placed in 1113' hands " in
trust," as the receipt shows, to hand
over to the person proposing to sell, w ho
in due time will doubtless speak for him
self The certificate was to be taken in
in the name of Elisha Atkins, one of the
most prominent and honorable merchants
in Boston. It was soon found, however,
that the North Pacific interest was in
some way pledged or hypothecated, or
embarrassed as to the title, and the matter
ran along for over a year, and fiualls" came
to nothing. The mones" in full, with in
terest, was returned to Warren Fisher,
w ith whom the negotiation was had, and
the holder of the North Pacific interest
retained it, or possibly found another pur
chaser, of which I know nothing. This is
simply the hole of the transaction out of
which the sensation is attempted bs' the
Sun,. My connection with it was purels'
of a friendly character. I had not the re
motest interest in it in any shape or form,
and no intention or understanding that I
should become interested in it. The trans
action was of course regarded by me as
in evtrs' way proper; otherwise I should
most certainly never have received and
receipted for the mones' to hold in trust
until the transaction should be consum
mated betw een the parties.
I am very glad that my letter which the
Sun publishes, proves on its face I would
not rns'self touch the investment. I could
easily have purchased it had I been will
ing, but I did not deem such investment
advisable for me to make. From first to
last in all legislation touching the Pacific
ltailroads, I never had an interest of a
penny In one of them, nor in ans' of their
branches, directly or iudirectls". In a
private letter, if anywhere, a man will
speak unguardedly, and this letter, writ
ten w ith no expectation of its ever being
published, proves conclusively that when
a Pacific Itailroad interest was offered me
with brilliant promises of great profits, I
declared that I could not touch it. I think
the Sun, in publishing this private letter,
has supplied a valuable proof of nis' offi
cial integrity in the matter.
All these attacks are intended to impress
the people with the belief that I have
large wealth, and that it has been acquired
since I entered Congress. The moderate
properts' which I own was almost WI10II3'
derived from fortunate investment in
coal lands in my native Mononga
hela Valley in Western Pennsyl
vania, made some sears before I
first ran for Congress. I notice
many papers, whose editors never saw
me, and know nothing of 1113 affairs, glib
I3' put 1113" property down at a round mill
ion. The utmost my property would
bring to-das' would not amount to a fifth
part of that sum. I can sas, with the
strictest truth, that, all things considered,
I am not to. das' as well off pecuniarily as
I was the das 1 entered Congress, in De
cember, 1(!:. Had I not remained in
Congress 1 would to-day, in ms' judgment,
have a large fortune, as the business en
terprises which were at 1113' command, il
I could have attended to them, would have
resulted most favorabls. But every friend
who know s me knows that neither 1113' in
come nor 1113 expenditure, nor 1113' habits
of life, imply or suggest the possession of
a forume, or of ans thing indeed beyoad a
moderate competencj'.
SEASE AM) 0SESE.
TrtE latest tile A new hat.
John Vai;iety, of Detroit, claini3 to be
the spice of life.
I k you w is!i for mono', send a postal
end to the man who owes y ou, and the
thi.ig i i dun.
Kev.-sMu. MruRAY says there are two
atitit'td words in our language horse
and heaven.
I 1 is not ctiqucM" for a lady to peruse
nn ic cream sign aloud while walking
wit 1 a cei.t.
Ykky few seem to wear calico. Several
rint mills have shutdown because the
price is so low.
Sii.vi k wa- fiat in the Lndoa market
at last accounts. It just commenced to
get "round here.
Tiik Christ;in Witn speaks of a
burglars where the burglars used a
" .lames'" to pry open the tloor.
In announcing the inarritge of Miss
M;rv Hoops, the Bo.-ton Alrertixer pre
sumes that she will continue to wear her
maiden n inie.
A lanpi.miv heard nn impecuniou
lodger jingling silver, and she wondered
how such a roomer gained currencs.
A'rfu Origin Republic m.
A Boston 1 ap-T, noticing the pride of
ycttng in- n en'ering business lite, says toO
many of them w ish to retail high-toned
stra' b'-i ries instead of peddling plain
codfish.
Tiiky say an average Philadelphia man
h is so much quiet an I deep seated conceit
about him nowadays that travelers fre
ouentlv mistake him for a Chicagoan.
il-Kt-n lib be.
A i-istoi. to shoot marbles with has
be- n invented. Now for a pab nt for
sonit thing to take the place of the boys
and the marb'es. Tcisisanage of pro
gress. Bv-aud-bs things will be so nice
and ct niph te that nohody can have any
work or any fun.
Tiik. indifieienceoftlie people of England
to tduc.-dioit was pa-nfully illustrated the
other day in a Yorkshire vil'age. A lec
tin er mi the Feejee Is'ands offered to
show the native niannir of preparing food
if any lady present would lend him a
baby. No one offered!
A t'i.K i:LM lady objects to the new
silver quarter-, for the reason that the
O'lili'e-s of Liberty wears the same old
clothts she had on when the war c ulled
her temporal's" retirement from society
some years ago. Miss Liberty should by
all means keep up with the fashion.
Tiiky sat in the parlor, and he squeezed
ln-r hand. "Oh, would this hand were
mine!" he sighed. " Whs?" 41''-' sim
pered. " Because, if it were mine, I could
knock buliocks down w ith it bctter'n with
a sledge-hammer." The last seen of that
3011 11 t man he was tiying to climb on the
top of the house bs-means of the water
spout. I Ik was going to see a girl who was
about his own height. Sunday afternoon
they nieasiiicd, and she claimed to be the
talh-r of the two. " Oh, well," said he,
''if soii stand on your toes I reckon 3011
are at least two feet taller." She tinted
f'oni the room, a-id has notspokeu to him
sir.ee. Silently tiny imc drifting apart.
Two more lives made miserable oy words
thoughtlessly spoken. Bruixictck (Mo.)
A etrx.
The girls at the Washington seminary
at Leavenworth, plas' foot-ball In the
errove-s at the rear of the institution. Thej'
kick the ball and crsr " hail' as loud as
the bos. A neatls'-written, girlish-linking
challenge was tin the bulletin-board
at. the college, offering to plav a nia'ch
game of fo it-ball one afternoon inthccni
inary yard. The freshmen were nfiaid to
accept, a.nt have incurred the disgust of
everyone in cons; queti"e.
Tiik Coroner, in summing up a recent
case, pointed out to the jury that there was
no evidence whatever that the deceased
had come to her death 13' foul phis', and
therefore there was nothing for them to do
but to return a verdict of " Death by the
visitation of iod. ' The jnrs", however,
thought it dignified to retire for consider
ation. '1 luy dared not, of course, give a
verdict right in the teeth of the Coroner's
summing up, and so, after a long consid
eration, this is how thev satisfied t'u ir
own consciences and the demands of jus
tice: " We tind that the deceased died by
the visitation of God, but under the, vxost
x usp icia i x e ire a mstiin rex . ' '
It is hardls' possible t believe that the
mustang race was not purposely lost. It
was more a test of the rider's than the
horse's endurance, and the former was
totally unprepared for the work. J. M.
Graham, himself a rider, writes to the
Sun. " Parker," says Mr. Graham, "is
far from ignorant in the art of riding, but
totally so in keeping himself in tvim for
such a fearful task as he expected to go
through. To say- he i a wonderful rider
does not express it. and his endurance was
marvelous. But how on earth can a man
expect 10 go through such an ordeal and
drink a tumbler of water eveis' five minute-?
He ete twice during the eleven
hours and twenty-seven minutes he was
riding, and, t 1113- surprise, he each time
a'e half a mince pie. He seeine I to not
understand himself, and had no a 1 vipers.
I attribute his losing the race to improper
management; and believe, with good man
agement, in good hand-, he can succ.-ss-fiilly
do what he undertook." Ruchtster
iJ.iiiocriil.
Porri. vn saj-ings are generalls" errone
ous. For a man to part his hair in the
middle and to write the first initial and
the second name in full are thought to
imply inib' cilitv, reg irdlcss of the fac t
that Napoleon always parted his hair in
the middle and that L'a?-ar wrote his
name C. Julius Ca:sar. "No lover of
flowers can hi a thoroughly bad man,"
says Emerson; but Dolan's last request to
his wife was, " Place a pot of flowers on
U13' grave," and Piper teases lor rose and
violets like a dog fi r his dinner. Miss
Dickinson likes diamonds, wheieupon the
H't'ild constructs an apothegm ujion the
fact, implying that of coutse she cannot
act. A fop is never intelligent and a brag
gart is necessarily a coward are among
the commonest of popular delusions; in
lace of the circumstance that many of the
world"s heroes were, likeMnrat, both lops
in dress and bricgarts in speech. Before
hangiDg up a maxim it were well to es
tabhsli some connection between premise
tiud conclusion. JV. Y. Grujiuc.
USEFUL AMI SUGGESTIVE.
Mks. Watson's IIeumith. One cup of
butter, one and one-half cups of brown
sugar, three eggs, one cup of chopped
raisins, one tea-spoonful of siwla dissolved
In two tablespoonfuls of milk, all kinds
of spice and flour enough to roll out; cut
as cookies and bake.
To Color Pkh.manent Yellow and
Oranuk. For five pounds goods, seven
ounces sugar of lead, in which dip the
goods five minutes. Make a new ds'e
with four ounces bichromate otash ; al
low the goods to remain about ten mm
utes, or until the color suits. For orange
pass it through strong lime water.
Blind Birds. Take a piece of beef
steak as large as your hand and spread it
on the table, cut a piece of bacon as large
as a finger and lay it in, then cut up
some onions fine and spread them over,
salt and pepper it to taste, add a pinch ot
juniper berries, roll it up and tie it with
some thread so it will not open, then stew
and try an hour.
Ic e Cream. Take three pints of milk,
four eggs, well beaten, three-fourths pound
of sugar, and one tahlcspoonful corn
starch; mix in a three-quart tin pail;
boil in a kettle of water till quite thick;
add one pint sweet cream, and flavor to
laste. Freeze in a common water-pail or
any vessel of suitable size, with equal
parts of ice chopped fine, and coarse salt.
Itotatc the pail and stir frequentls.
To ci.'ke corns. Take a lemon and
roll it until it is solt; cut a thick slice and
bind in on the corn on retiring at night.
In the morning, if the corn is white and
disintegrated, pull it out with 3'our finger
nails never cut a corn. Sometimes sev
eral applications of the lemon slices will
be necessary, but the corns are bound to
succumb, and 3011 can dance the next
night if 30U like. After you remove the
corns wear shoes that fit and are not too
still" in the soles. Inter Orcan.
To Co 1 -ou DriiAiiLE Brown for Five
I'oi nds Goods. Two ounces copperas (or
alum) in sufficient water to wet the goods.
One pound japoiiica dissolved in water.
Take as much weak le as will wet the
goods well (or eight ounces bichromate
potash this is more expensive, but no
better); put in the japonica water; dip
the cloth first in the copperas water, then
in the japonica water, having it hot. Care
must be taken in Using weak ls'e, and not
have it too strong, else the color will be
too dark.
To Color Permanent Bi.i v; on Cot
ton. For five pounds of goods, dissolve
one ounce of copperas in four gallons ol
soft water. Wet the goods in warm suds,
put them in the copperas water, let them
remain ten minutes. Dissolve in another
vessel two ounces prussiate potash in four
gallons soft water. Wring 3'our goods,
put into this solution, let them remain
five minutes; wring out again, now add
one ounce oil vitrol to the potash water
and stir well; put the goods in again and
bring to a boiling point, letting them re
main until you obin the desired shade.
Straw her it y Shortcake. One quart
of Hour, sifted; one teaspoonful of salt;
two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, a
piece ot butter the size of a large egg;
rub it in the flour well; dissolve one tea
spoonful of soda in a ta'olcspooniul of water,
ami put the soda-water in two cups ol
milk; bake in a quick oven. Take three
pjnts of berries, press half, tind then" put
the other berries in; save some of the
juice and mix some sugar with it: split
the cake, butter il, and las mixture be
tween. Peaches cut up, sugared, and
mixed with a little cream or milk; or
oranges cut up with sugar and laid be
tween the cake, are also vers" nice.
Saving Seed Corn.
We introduce this now, not for the rea
son that it is the appropriate time to save
seed, but it is the r'ght time to prepare to
save it Main" farmers neglect this im
portant duts" for the reason that they have
no place to keep it. To gather carls
which is the appropriate time, the corn is
green, and must be put someplace to diy.
In most cases this is either where it is
subject to be caught in rains, or devoured
by chickens or domestic animals. So
many hindrances prevent its accomplish
ment. Let us suggest a plan. Build a smoke
house two stories high; each stors six
feet. If you raise yearly one hundred
acres of cord it will take fourteen bushels
of seetl. This will require a ypace of
lorly-two square feet, so that the upper
story of a smoke house five feet square
would be room enough. But we would
recommend building at least eight feet
square. Put in no lower Hour except of
stone. The second tloor should be laid
with two inch strips one inch apart. In
the middle of the upper room for the corn
turn a queensware crate upside down, so
that the smoke and heat from below will
quickly penetrate the entire corn. Make
it perfect Is tight, sides and roof, except
latticed ventilators in the gable ends, and
have these closed during winter. Then
gather the seed corn before the Sepletn
tember frosts, and put in this second story
and build a fire under it so as to thorough
ly drs- it out before it is cold enough to
freeze. In this position it is free from
rats ami mice, and if tight, not subject to
be injured ls snows, nor by the gases
which frequentls' destroy- seed corn in
barn or stables, arising from cattle and
fermentation of manures.
This, too, has another advantage which
in one year will pas' for the house. Corn
when thoroughly smoked will not be
trouuled bs the ground squirrels, which
are a serious nuisance in all parts of
Iowa. We frequentls see farms where
one-twentieth of the corn is taken up by
these pests. This would be live acres in
HM, which would detract from the crop
2(M.( bushels. This would pay for two
smoke and corn houses. But we would
advise our readers to las in at least three
times as much seed corn as they will
want. There are a plenty of dilators
neighbors who will never build such a
house, and will never have good seed
corn. And such well-smoked corn, when
its virtues become well known, will al
ways command double the price of com
mon corn, and thus the house can be
paid for in another was each year.
After the corn is dried out in the fall, if
there should be a damp or rains season, it
might be well to build a tire under the
corn. But in the late winU-r or carls
spring, when smoking the meat, the corn
can get the principal smoking to make it
offensive to the squirrels. This is so
practical and reasonable a plan, we hope
that but few wide-awake farmers will
neglect to be reads' lor seed-corn this
fall. Ikx Mninex (loir i) S title Re inter.
Early Tilings Pay Best.
A chicken which comes to this market
in J11I3', and is large enough 10 make any
show when broiled and placed on a niece
of toaM, w ill sell for fift- cents. Feed the
chick till it is four or five times that size,
which will require it to be kept till about
Chrisimas, and it will bring a quarfer of
a dollar. Most farmers follow the latter
I practice, and declare that raising poultrs
j for the market does not pay.
! Spring lamb retails in Juls tit twentv
! five cents per pound, and the market is
seldom supplied, even at that price. Keep
the lambs till November, and the meat
will riost likely retail at twelve cents per
pound. Continue to feed tne lambs tiil
thes are sheep, and their flesh is denom
inated mutton, and the latter can lie dis
posed of at about six cents per pound,
though there will In- little demand for it.
Most farmers think there is no mones in
mutton.
The first quart of strawberries, rasp
berries or blackberries that appears in
the market brings about as much mones
as the la.-t bushel of these fruits. The
same is true of the first cherries, peaches
and apricots. Nothing sells more readily
in April than pie-plant, and nothing is
less salable than the same substances two
months later. The first asparagus in the
market is caught up at lifts cents for one
bunch, while the last that comes finds
slow sale at the rate of five cents per
bunch.
The first cucumbers in the maiket sell
for from twenty-five to fifty cents each;
late in the season a bushel brings about
the same sum. Nothing produced from
the soil pays better than early vegetables,
and hardly ansthing pays as poorly as
late vegetables, unless it be late small
frujts. After one variety of fruit that
suecctds another comes into market, the
price for the former immediately falls.
It is like a garment no longer in the
height of fashion.
Early poultry, meat, fruit and vegeta
bles class as luxuries, and there are al-was-s
persons enough to purchase luxuries
at any price. In every large city there
are persons yvho do not hesitate about the
price in the matter ol gratifying their ap
petites. The demand for luxuries docs
not seem to decrease during hard times,
neither does the patronage of expensive
restaurants. The high-priced luxuries
that fanners can derive benefit from are
the things that can be mnrketed early.
Chicago Time.
.
It emulate I lie Ifodily 1'iiiirtlon.
This advice should be especially heeded
bv tliiime who sutler from an irregular habit
of lmil v or disorders of the bladder or kid
ni'va. " Inactivity of the bowels, or of tile
urinary organs, l speedily rectified by that
w hob-sonic aperient and sterling In v'nrora
tie diuretic, llostetter's Stomach Hitters;
and, as all affections of the organ of dis
charge have a strong tendency to become
chronic, and that very rapidly, the use of tao
Hitters should 1 ot be delayed a moment
longer than is necessary. The action of this
inestimable corrective upon the bowels
differs w idcly from that of 11 drastic purga
tive, since it is never violent or abrupt, but
always gentle and nntuntl, and iti effects
ujniti the bladder and kidneys are strength
ening as well u s mildly tlinulative. The
healthful impetus which it gives to diges
tion also renders it a ino;t (b-s'irable general
tonic.
"Liver mill llloutl Ilefto.
By K. V. I'ikkce. M. D.. Author or " The 1Voi1i:
Common St-nsi- Medical Advier."
A healthy liver secretes each day about
two and a half pounds of lole, which eon
tains H great amount of waste material taken
from I he blood. When the liver become
torpid or congested, it fails to eliuiinat- this
vast amount of noxious stil'satiec, which,
therefore, remains to poison the blood, and
be conveyed to every part of the system.
What in ut be the eoiuiit ion of the blood w hen
it is receiving and retaining each day two
and a half pounds of poison? Nature tries to
work off this poison t hrough other channels
and organs the kidneys, lungs, skin, etc.,
but these organs become over -taxed in per
forming this labor in addition to their nat
ural functions, and cannot long withstand
the pressure, but become x ariously diseased.
The brain, which is the great electrical
center of all vitality, is unduly stimulated
by the unhealthy blood which pusses to it
from the heart, and it fails to perform its
ulliee healthily. Hence the symptoms nf
bile poisoning, w hieh are dullness, headache,
incapacity to keep the mind on any subject,
impairment of memory, dizzy, sleepy, or
nervous feelings, gloomy forebodings,
and irritability of temper. The blood
itself being diseased, as it forms
the sweat upon the surface of the
skin, it is so irritating and poisonous that it
produces discolored brown spots, pimples,
blotches, and other eruptions, sores, boils,
carbuncles, and scrofulous tumors. The
stomach, bowels, and other organs, cannot
escape, becoming affected, sooner or later,
and w e have, as the re- tilt, costl vetn ss, piles,
dropsy, dyspepsia, diarrleea. Other symp
toms are common, as bitter or bad taste 111
mouth, internal heat, palpitation, teas
ing cough, unsteady appetite, choking sen
satioii in throat, bloating of stomach, pain
in sides or about she tildei s nr back, coldness
of extremities, etc., etc. Only a few of the
above symptom are likely to be present in
any case at one lime. The liver beintf the
great depurating, or Id loil-clcansing organ
of the system, set tfiis great " housekeeper
of our health" at work, and tin: foul cm 111 p
tioiis vi h'ch gender in the I it o,id, and rot out,
as it were, the machinery of life, are gradu
ally expelh-d from the system. I-or thi- pur
pose, III. Pierce's (foblea Medical I liseo very,
with very small doses daily of Dr. Pierce'
Pleasant Purgative l'i lids," is pre-eminently
the articles needed. They cure riery kind
of humor from the worst scrofula to the
common pimple, blotch, or eruption, lireat
eating ulcers kindly heal under t le ir might y
curative inltuenee." Virulent blood poisons
that lurU in the system are by them robbed
of their tenors, and by their persevering
and somewhat protracted use the most taint
ed systems may be completely renovated
and built up anew. Knlarged glands, tu
mors, and swellings, dwindle away and dis
appear under the influence of thene great
resolvents.
Pit. Sf IIENCK'S Prr.MOXTC SVKfP, Ffa
Wkki Tunic ju.ii Mamirake Fills. Thfss nicd-ieiiu-s
have undoubtedly performed mure cures of
Consumption than any other remedy know n to the
American public. They nre compounded of veye
table ingredient and contain nothing which can
be injurious to the human constitution. Other
remedies advertised ns rures for Consumption
prohalily rontain opiunt, whirh is somewh it
d 'tijerreis drug in nil cases, and, if taken freely
by consumptive patients, it must do preat injury;
for its tendency is to routine the morbid matter in
t he system. hirh. of course, must make n cure
impossible. Srheiirk's Pulmonic Syrup is war
ranted md to contain s. purtlc! of opium. It is
composed of powerful but harmless herb, which
net on the Inn.", liver, stomach and blood, and
thus correct all morbid secretions and expel nil
the diseased matter from the body. These are the
only means by which Consumption can tie cured,
and. as SSchenck's Pulmonic Syrup. Sea Weed
Tonic and Mandrake Pills are the only medicines
w hieh operate in this way. it is obvious they are
the only genuine cure for Pulmonary Consump
tion. Kach bottle of this invaluable medicine is
accompanied by full directions. J)r. Schetirk is
professionally at his principal oflice. corner Sixth
and Arch streets. Philadelphi I. every Monday,
where all letters for advice L-uist be addressed.
Da. SiiAi.i.EMiEKOF.K celebrates the Cen
tennial by putting the price of hH famous
Ague Pills at one dollar. This old and tried
medicine is cheap at any price, because it
cures promp'ly itny case of chills when all
other remedies have failed utterly.
Ft iixiTi id- Is sold by Ilolton it Hildreth,
i-i.") and gi7 ttate St., Chicago, low er than any
h musc iu the Wcs. (jotis aie lii'r t-class.
Pki ssino's celebra'ed White Wine Vinegar
h;;s been before the public twenty seven tears.
k ny. HOW TO M. HE IT. ltulnrf A'"" A
iVtUonorubLe. CUE. YOS'lEJt CO.. 6t.Louit.M9.
rr EXTRA FINK MIXKD CAIiDS, with rums,
4m J 10 ct., post paid. L. Jio. n A Co., Kaisuu.N.'f.
DIP DUV""1' Ilulitier Stumps. Trrnis free.
DlU rrtl H. S. I-AKR1SII. P. O. ll 2-.lT.. lllCRKD.
T -i ( ft mnnttn ni1 traveling expenses to leracn.
JplOU Adtlrc-M Gem Manuf'i.e Co., St. Louis, Mo.
t c n ',!,y r home. Samples wort!, si sent
fT'J 'rmr 11
ree". bTi vso.v A: 'Jo.. Por'Iiind. Me.
G
VEIIV 1rtirahle NKW AltlM I KS fr Atrnta.
MlrU by ii. J. Cai-iw ell. A i o.. -clieRiiire, Ceo a.
$10 $25
r 5y. nl for Chromo Ctloti.
unurtl foul. Beaton,
1 5 lilty at Koine. Agents w:.!i!ed. ll'ittlt an'1
p 1 ltniu i'ree. Aotlrt ss 'l 1:1' K & co . Ans; list. .M.
fs f Mixed Cards. itli nsnie, ':.' rts. Snip for
3 ct. Mainn. J. Mi.vklebA to.. Nassau, N. V.
rATED-An Arllre Aernt to munsire th
f? exclusive sale of 1 isrurs in evcrv countv. Addreu
N. Y. TOlSACCO CO.. H Keuwlck Btrcet. New York.
1 I? I VTr IC supplied with ciT t'Artns
14 1,1 1 ) NTOI k of every ite-
ccript'n. II a le .M rrsAl 11.. .., stme-st. I tor lied er, N. V
COCA A Month. Aitenti wiinte'1. 3fi bent
0Jw s-l!inic artielen in the n-orld. Onrmple
free. Address J A V KitOll., Iittroit. Miclu
1'. s.i Mtt :
I u.tie ft ,n . V.
i;..r. li....r, AjfrnU Ttr,tt.riitn'I'H i n-iu rrliicnU.
T
Surgeons
It will pT to hm Tallmnn'M Olv
eennr Alhiivt J'lmter In all
operations. Sold at Drug autre.
TP IT tf A C ramphlet". Maps and ctrciilarssent
tiHO tne Address w. ,. Kim. Mil ky
ltx:Ls I in. ARt. a 1.1 South Ir ifth Street. St. I.uis. Mo'
HUCUTC7-' tvbtrrihrra in onr Any. Pt'l Mrrarv
HUC ft I Sparer. OnlT II.MUvnr. Ttiree ;0
cbronioa free. Mum ton A fcPOMbLitR.P'tjtu., Phila.. Pa.
tTji 1 "1 A MOTH anil traveling expense. riaJd
I . f.r SAbl-VVKM. No pedrtl. rs wanted. Ad
ilrek. iomioK MANUF'G CO.. Cincinnati. Ohio
OPIUIY1
nlais. Describe case.
MA BIT CTKED AT HOMR.
No putdirlrv. Time de.rC
Terms in'xVrate. l.i(irestirni
Vr. K. K. Marsh, yuiucy, Mich.
OPIUM
and Morphine Hatitt absolutely and
'M-eilPy cured. Painless mo pnVliel-
ty. s-end stamp for particulars. Dr.
I arlt.in. Ih7 V achtiiKton-at.ChXAgo
Vtsltlna- ( arils, wirh your name finely
pnulocl, ent fur'i. We have lllMstylrs.
Agent Wanteil. Q sampifs "nt for
Can, p. A. II. Kuller 4 Co.. Lruckton. Mas.
lfi ," AVrrk and rTipenes, or .IW
T Ml forfeited. All the new :nl Mstnd'inl Novi-.t lea,
lil'MlM". ere. Val'ialtie Sample trie wch irelilar.
Ii. 1 FI.Kli IIKi:. Ill Chambere Street. New ' vik.
BCmn KKK .t".AK.MKEn T
Vy Airects. Male and Female, in their own V
J ff . Terms ami (u tkit Khff. Add-c:
M P.O. V1CKKKV A-l.-O.. Aiiii.ista. Mam
WANTED!
Men to sell onr ronti t
l .A I.IUS. Vo ledrtltr
from house to house. sfj
nth. and Traveling ew.
peufea paid. Jlomioi M ax t o Co.. Cincinnati, Ohio.
IT1 1 The choicest In the world -Importers'
-- AJ-' price Largest Company in Anierlea
tap,e article pleases everybody Trade continually
Iner-asing Ac-nts wanted everywhere best lndtice-?.";-n.,fT:1""'t.,l"4re
tune send for circular to UOU'T
fcLLS. 43 eey St., N. V. p. o. Box 14H7.
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ENGRAVERS WOOD
SODA FOUNTAINS.
ew and l:ich ii.-stcnt. L-itett Improvement in
Sc-sla F.-en'a nt-. Fine- Mai hie aud Mlv r-l'l.ited
Coul ter st.ii.d at reduced pn.-et. For desenrtive
ctrcmT ea4 to ' . I). K0B1.N S, Shcjbvv Uie, ltd.
GEO. A. PRINCE & CO.
BEST IN
00,000
THE WORLD!
ITsT TTJ33Z2 !
rillFES KKUt I Wl for atalo.oie. etc . to
C. I I.ANC As 1 Fit, 11 Van Hnri-ii Mre. t. iu ai.o.
Tie Catechism or lie Locomotive
By M. N. FOHNEY.
MECitAKIcal. K f 1 t x tc -t ,
Is n elempntnry treatlie on the lyK-oninth e, written
In the form of question ami anaweis. Th hook eon
ta lis fV pa-"-ni"l i ' ennravins, tin-hiding 10 full
paKO ulaio of dull-rent t. les of lot-omottvea.
I he principle or operuio! and netans of eonmiir.
ttfl arc so clear'y ex plane d as to enable any ln''-lll-
f;enf Person i i tltoronuhlv understand IImou, Tim
100k Is w I Hu n without the use or t elinic l lei l e. er
abstruse mat hi-oint if-u calculations, and is Iniiietel
for all clashes of rcadem.
No pi pular treatise en ti e toromnm e In the Knll"
lnnuuiii:e rives sor'.ear. iiupe and complete a de
scription of the constnietion and working of the ofo
rnoi ive en trine, ami no work of any kind. Imwro-r i-i-
tcni e. ciV'S so lull an an 11 1 o' inodi-i 11 to- r ran
practice In liM-omotuc eon-trin-Uon. and of t lie Intent
Setciititir dii-eineries whirhhave aie.-'i .iIh.ii to tlm
Operation of the locomotive, especially mow 1 In
to combustion, heat, etc., all of w Itlrh the .fulhor lets
endeavored to make pun 11 to those who have i ut cvun
the rudiment of a scientific education.
iiiiom, sfta.rso.
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IOUO FOLD LAST BFA80N
WITHOUT ONE FA I LI" it E Oil BISECTION
Tills Is tlio f.iiiiotiH Tliresliim; uifu liine tlinl tia
"swept the ticl.l " and created such ii revolution In the
trad", by Ha MATtlll.i h Urain-Savinu ash 1 tMiy-bAT-INO
iirinciplea.
rfit$0ml "vibrator:
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TIIK EXif'.MOF.- yVAKTAlii; of (Train, o U-ril ih'
will, c,il-r riiitn, ot Tbr.liers, ran be SAY LI) by Ibis
Improved JI.h bin", inJIMitt, tm eery jtl, to mutt than
pay nil cspcwun of tlirctdiiiiT.
FLAX, TIMOTI1V, JUI.t.LT, HHNIJAUIAN nnrt
like s -edt are tlircitied, separated, cleaned and saved
as easily aiel perfectly aa Wheat, Outs, Ily or I'm by
AN KXTKA ritfCK i-i usually paid fm p-ruln ami
seeds cleaned by thin machine, for extra cleanliness.
IN THE WET GIIAIV or 1K7.S. these were sulwtan
tially thn ONLY MAU1I INKS that could run with j.rotlt
or economy, doin fust, tLiurcugli and Jaifect work,
it'ien of Acts utterly faded.
ALL GRAIN". TIME soil MONKY wastin; complica
tion, such as "Kmllem Aprons," Huddles," "beaters,"
" Tickers," etc., are entirely ispenscd trtM ; less than
one-half tho usual Gears, Ili lUi, l'.oxes, and Journals;
easier maniiKed; morn durable; lilit runtiing ; no cost
ly repairs; nodust; no" litterin's" to 1 1 ,in Up; nut
troubled by adverse winds, rain or storms.
FAKMEBS and CHAIN KAIsFIlS who nre pout, A
In the l:irR aavinir made by it will tmt employ infe
rior and wasteful macliiin-a, but will innrf on thi
improved Thresher doing their work.
FOUB SIZES made for 6, , 10 and 12 IIrse
Powers. Also a specialty of Skpahatoks, desintd
and made Exmr.RKi.T mn steam powrn.
TWO STYLES OF HORSE 1'OWEIIS, viz: our 1m
proved "Triple Gear." and our "Spur Speed" (Wyod
Lury Stjle), loth Mounted " Miwr wheels.
IF INTERESTED in Thrchinr or Grain Raising,
apply to our nearest Dealer, or writ" to us for Illntn
ted Circular (sent free), friTing full particulars of Siies,
Styles, Prices, Terms, etc
Nichols, Shepard tB Co.,
BATTLE CBKEK, HICK.
The Enemy of Disease, f ho Foe o!
ruin to Man and Heatt,
Is th Grand Old
MUSTANG
LINIMENT,
TV1IICII n STOflll TIIKTI'IT OF
T I'.A It. . Til KICK li 0 SOU i: 11' II. I,
MIT lli:.l.. : I. A M K K IT YYII.I,
tvo r 11 1- minimi:, miimi,tma t
A KKIJCTsl 'I UK II I'M A " IIOIIY'. oil
J UK. ItnllY III' A IMIKM: (IK o I Ml II
KOMI W I M A f M A I,. THAT HOK HIT
riKI.I) TO ITS l A." Till I II. A l.nllls
coat Ins; 'J'tc. Htc. or $ I ,(HI, lisinflrii n veil
llir lifr ill s liiiiiisn lirlnv.alut rratoif l
tlfesuduicfuiucii imu valuable I101 se.
5 MACHINES, I
V AT, ..-Vr
PORTABLE
4C.
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TV otb-r extraordinary Inducements-New Seven Oc
tave fnll Iron frame. ovcrfriii n la- I'lnie. i!'i
rosewood case and carved leps. for fj'rfi itoi d snd
delivered at. ant IL H In-pot In hi. a-o I cries of
payment, f e"h. remainder !.' moit hiy ; or t'.icati
and '.o monthly: or fi'i an and 3 ijuarterlj --n -u 1
lor cataloi.-iie w ith f'Hl exnistiaTion.
KKKIl's TKJII'LK OF ."H'M-.
'.It Vhii It turn .. hliKta.
f Cut this out and I nc : it in our let ic. K .
The Best Place for SAVINGS
IS A GOOD LOT
IN OR NEAR CHICACO.
Tirst-clais Lots at S50 to S I 50 eacb, on
Monthly Payments of $3 to $3.
Fend for Circulars. No Letter ji'nce in iio r!i for
Profits. .Kll. II. II . o .
lOfV lliHilwiii M.. 4 Itiino.
1 w !11 tie si
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For the Campaign.
The events of ths Pi ci-lden' isl rinins'i-n
fAitnfii'lv mul foil,- I'lii.trili-il In 'I I I f'
Itlltlv VI V ss to ci. 11 in. c in I it to ri rid. I teen ail
parties! w e will end tl.c KKK I V KM I 1'
rFe t, p-.t)H.i. from .Iniic '-t ti'i alter e'
5-t.; tl.e M'VI I- I il I li IN. mine
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FRESH AND RELIABLE. Catalogue Frea.
Kl.VU n SAYAlsK, 11 bUte bl Chicago.
A "aj-fVT I ACENT S W AN T E D ' '
il iBook J Brlfcham Young'a
. tTT7 Iwife No. 19. 23.COOS ;
iiilliX l,1,,iM.Jiini.lin1i.il.i. Oustln,
VflTTWri ICHman A Co., H.rtf., . 1.. 1
XUUXM X. I.... Int.. Cu.-ii.usw. Uam, Hithu-u. Vs.
Learn TELECRAPHY7
But before f?olne elsewhere to do so, send for circu
lars of the .. W. 'I rlcunt ptn Institute, .l.n:--vllle.
Wis . which is recoiainenie 1 tv Mipi. of ' u
Luioo Te!. Co. n Itie only reliable t-eliool lu the H et.
A N. K.
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H'HEwvrimrvcTo AmEKTisi.it,
f please my you saw the Alvrttsts
meat in tHt paper.