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THE BACHELOR'S BUTTON.
Somoyear? ago, when I was a sin-
gle man, and dreaming (aa single men
do) of double bliss yet destined to ar
rive, I went to a concert at the mimi
cal hall of Boston. Music i9, poetic
ally and proverbially, "the food of
Jove," and in my eentimentnl state I
consumed a good deal of it. Not that
I had any object In view. Mine was
abstract Jove; I cultivated It, I in
creased my stock, so that I might
have a good deal of the tender
passion in hand whenever I naw an
eligible opportunity of investing it.
VeII.to return to the concert; It was
crowded to excess, and the rush on
leaving, to reach cabs and carriage?,
was very great. I wore, on that
' memorable nisht. n blue coat and
brass button?, and I flattered myself
" there were worse looking men In the
room. I tell you candidly, I admired
myself; and next to tn3'felf, another
party I was struck with, a girl with
tiark eyes and black hair, who eat
with some young friends a few forms
distant. I hoped she noticed me and
ray blue coat, with brass buttons. I
looked at her often enough to attract
her attention to both ; and being, as
my friends would say, In rather a
spooney state, worked myself in a
towering passion of love. But how
was I to come at the object of my ad
miration? Fori was a3 diffident as
devoted 'as shy as I was vain,' as an
over-candid friend once said. 'Hail
Columbia,' which concluded the con
cert, surprised me, as unprepared as
on my first glance to 'improve the oc
casion,' and the company were shoal
ing out, while I stood mutelj' gazing
njter the object of my love at first
eight. She and her party edied for a
while at the Jnrier door of the concert
room, and were then drawn out into
the retiriner current, and lost to sight.
T followed quickly after, lest I
should lose forever all opportunity of
identifying my idol; but alas! the
. lights in the outer corridor were few,
and bo far between that 'no glimpse of
.my s?ar could I get. I pushfd and
elbowed fiercely through the crowd,
with a view of getting to the outer
door before my fair one's party had
emerged, and thus gain once more a
'eight of sweeting.
'Hang it!' I muttered, impatiently,
as T felt a tug at my coat pkirt, and
was instantly conscious of one of my
hind buttons having hitched to some
lady's dress; my progress was sud
denly arrested. 'How provoking,'
thought I, as I was brought to a stand,
for I could not pueh on without los
ing a button or tearing a dress ; "how
provoking the modern fashions; a
3ady now has as many hoops, as many
tenacles about her apparel as a sea
anamone. It was with some irrita
tion I stopped to undo the button;
but ray hurry made the task more
difficult, and instead of undoing, I
only bundled and twisted the loop
more round the button.
Pleasn let me try,' said the lady
bereelf, as I bungled over the busi
. ness; she ungloved her hand it was
a sweet, white hand; so I looked at
her face. Stars and garters ! but it
was the very fair one, black hair and
-dark eye?, I was in pursuit of. As
she stooped over the entangled but
ton a slight flush tinted her cheek.
Oh, it was delicious!j;I hoped she
would never undo the loop; and, in
deed, sho would not, for her fingers
were twitching nervously, and my
heart was beating audibly; I tried to
help her; our fingers met.
Tlease to make way there,' shouted
n. grufT voice behind. We were block
Jug up the passage; was there ever
such an unlucky spot for so lucky an
entanglement?
JYou hinder the people from going
'out, Annie,' exclaimed one of her
companions, with some asperity;
plague upon the loop,;break it!' and
suiting the action to the word, the
speaker leaned forward, caught the
sleeve of her beautiful friend's dress
in one hand, and my coat-tail in the
other, and giving a quick and decided
tug, severed us. The crowd behind
bora on, and we were separated ; not,
however, before I gave my 'star' a
Jook which I intended should speak
volumes. I thought she did not seem
unconscious of my meaning our
eyes met. I knew, and this was the
only conolation left me; for imme
diately afterwards I lof. her and her
party to view, in the darkness out
Bide, That night I hardly olosed my
eyes, thinking of ray 'bright particu
lar st3r,' and what means I should
employ to find her out. Iknew little
of the town, which is a large one. and
to expect to know the name of my fair
one by n mere description, was hope
less; there doubtless must be a great
many with dark eyes and black hair
within 'bills of mortality' there aB
elsewhere.
My love fit grew more and more vi
olent in the course of the day ; but
tired ont at length with my search, I
returned to the hotel, and took out
ray drss coat from my portmanteau,
to feed my flame even with the con
templation of the inanimate business
button that had detained the "black
eyed beauty" so long. It was with
no little delight I now discovered
what did not before catch my eye a
fragment of the silk loop of her dress
still adhered to the button, twisted
around the shank. I pressed It to my
lips; it was lilac in color and I
stooped to disentangle it from the bit
of brass as gectly as though it were a
tress of m3T loved one's hair, when
something clinked in the skirt pock
et. I supposed I bad left some money
there, for in my perturbation and ex
citement, I omitted to search the coat
on taking it off the night before. I
thrust my hand into the pocket. Gra
cious me I What did I behold? What
did I gaze on? A gold chain brace
let!
You conld have 'brained' me with a
lady's fan. I saw at a glance how
matters stood in the excitement and
flurry of undoing the loop from my
button the clasp of her own bracelet
became loosed and it not unnaturally
fell into the coatskirt with which she
was pngsgf-d, and doubtless, onmte-i
sing it, instead of regarding me in a
romantic light she put it down that I
was one of the swell mob, and had
purposely entangled myself In her
drens to rob her of her jewelry.
Here was an anti-heroic position to
find one's self; when I wished to be
considered the most devoted of
knights, to be remembered as the most
expert of pick-pockets ! Was ever an
honest lover in such a plight? And
to make it worse, I could not see how
I was to escape from this inevitable
dilemma. I must go down to the
grave remembered only in that dear
one's mind as the nefarious purloiner
of her bracelet. To find her out was
impossible; but a bright idea struck
me, as my eye lighted on a newspaper
lying on the coffee-room, table. I
rang the bell, inquired of the waiter
when the local paper was published.
'To-morrow, sir,' he answered. I sat
down and wrote an advertisement; it
was in the following words:
IF the lady, -whose dress got entangled In n
gentleman's coat button in leaving the
concert last Wednesday, will call at. or send
to t he TreaiontHonse, she will htar or some
thing to her advantage.
There, I thought, as I gave the ad
vertisement to tbo boy, and five shil
lings to pay for insertion In the Trav
ellerthere, if that will not give me a
clue to escape from a very nnpleasant
dilemma, and at the same time to
know who ray enchanter is, the fates
must be very unpropitious.
My plan being thuB far adopted, I
ordered dinner, and waited patiently,
or rather impatiently, the appearance
of the newspaper next morning. It
was brought up to my room, damp
from the press, and then I read, in all
the glory of large type, my interest
ing announcement. But my 6tars!
wlih what an advertisement it was
followed, in the very same column ?
I only wonder that my hair did not
Etand on end, n I read as follower
TWO DOLLARS ItEW VRD.-Lost or sto
len, on the night of the concert at the
Hall, n gold chain bracelet. It is thought to
have been taken from the lady's arm by a
pick- pocket ofpentlemanly appearance, who
wore a- blue coat with brass buttons, and was
near the lady on leaving the Hall. Any one
giving tjch information as will Jead to the
recovcrj of the bracelet, or the captuieof
the thief, (if it was stolen.) will receive the
above vward, on applying at No. 7,Cam
bridgo Place.
Here was a pretty plight to be ad
vertised in the public papers as a pick
pocket, when my only crime was, like
that of Othello's, that of
"Loving not wisely, bnt too well."
My determination, however, was
quickly adopted. I went up stairs,
put on the very Identical delinquent
blue coat, so accurately described, and
taking the paper in my hands, pro
ceeded to No. 7, Cambridge Place.
I knocked at the door, and asked
the servant who answered, the name
of the family. Having beard, I said
"Is Miss Raymond in?"
'Yes, sir,' replied the servant wo
man ; 'who shall I say wants her?'
Tell her,' I replied, 'that the pick
pocket, with a gentlemanly address,
with blue coat, and brass buttons,
who stole her bracelet, is here, and
wishes to return it to her.'
The woman stared at me, as though
I were mad ; but upon repeating my
request to her she weutju and deliv
ered my message.
Soon there came out, not my fair
one,
"With all ihafs best of dark and bright.
Meeting in aspsct the eye."
but a stalwart brother.
'That,' I said, handing him the
bracelet, "Is Miss Raymond's proper
ty ; and though, as you perceive, I
wear a blue coat with brass buttons,
and am flattered to think my man
ners are not ungentlemanly, I am
bound in candor to say I am not a
pick-pocket.'
'Then, sir, you shall have the re
ward,' said the brother, taking outhis
purse.
'No,' I replied, 'forstrange as it may
appear, though I am no pick-pocket,
I stole the lady's bracelet.'
The man looked puzzled ; but when
I told the truth, and pointed to my
advertisement in the same paper as
proof that I did not want to walk off
with the property, he laughed hearti
ly at the whole story, and not the
least at his sister's description of the
gentlemanly pick-pocket.
Well,' said he, 'you had better
walk in and have tea with us, and
my sister will he able to say whether
she can speak to your id ntity, after
which it will be time enough to can
vass the propriety of sending for a
constable.'
You may be assured I aocepted the
Invitation. Need I go further with
the story? The young lady (to use
tbe words of the advertisement) cap
tured the pick-pocket. The bache
lor's buttons no longer adorn blue
coat, and I now have framed and
glazed over the fire-place, the adver
tisement in which I am publicly de
scribed by my own wife, as a pick
pocket with a gentlemanly address.
When I charge her with a libel, she
always does what she has just this
moment done, pays damages for the
slander in any amount of kisses, de
claring, though not a pick pocket,
I was a thief, and stole her heart and
pocketed her bracelet.
So ends the story of "A Bachelor's
Button."
Ashes as Cattle Feed.
The Maine Farmer saye: One of
our substantial subscribers, in a re
centoonversation, gave his experience
in treating neat stock affected with
habit of eating wood, chewing bones,
etc. His cattle were one spring affect
ed in this way; They became thin
in flesh, refused to eat hay, and pre
sented a sickly appearance. He put
about four bushels of leaoEed ashes in
his barnyard and threw out to them
about a shovelful each day. They all
ate it with evident relish. After turn
ing them out to pasture be put one
peck of dry ashes per week on the
ground in the pasture. They ate it
all up and gnawed off the grass where
it had been lying. The cattle began
to improve, gaining flesh and looking
better than they had for several years.
He now gives one quart of ashes, mix
ed with the same quantity of salt, to
twelve head of cattle, about once a
week and finds it to agree with them J
wonderfully. j
Col. Ingersoll Loft Us.
From the Peoria Transcript.
We deeply regret to announce that
Col. R. G. Ingersoll and family have
probably finally abandoned Peoria as
a place of residence. The Colonel and
family are now keeping house in
Washington, and his own residence
in thi3 city and that of his late father-in-law
are offered for sale.
In common with the entire mass of
our citizens we shall deeply miss the
Colonel and his family from among
us, and in common with that same
mass we wish them abundant pros
perity and unalloyed happiness in
their new home. As a citizen and
neighbor, Col. Ingersoll has won the
hearts of every one, and whatever
may have been said about either his
politics or his religion, or rather, if
you will, his irreligion, he had not a
single enemy among us. Democrats
aB well as Republicans, church-members
as well as non-churchmen, all
liked Bob. Therewas no man's hand
they would shake any heartier than
his, no man they liked to see prosper
in life better than to see him, and no
man they would go further to hear
than they would to hear him. We
do not believe there was ever another
man in Peoria whom Peorians were
half so proud of, and not one who
could rally as many around him on
any project he might espouse, as Bob.
Generally our people have been rath
er jealous than otherwise of each oth
er, and if any one man's head bap
pen's to rise a little above the mass,
there is always somebody ready to hit
it. It has not been eo with Ingersoll.
Everybody is agreed that the Colonel
could have their good wishes in' ev
erything except his "peculiar religious
views. In politics the Colonel would
be pretty sure to carry about as many
democrats in Peoria as his opponeut
would be able to withhold to himself.
Ourpeoplo are unanimously' of the
opinion that Col. Ingersoll was most
shabbily treated by the prtpent na
tional administration, and they won
der how ho has managed to be so len
ient towards President Hayes after
such inexcusable neglect. Probably
the religious element of tbe country
has had much tc do with this, and
there are those who think they see in
the Colonel's violent raids on reli
gious dogmas a ppirit of retailiation.
Wo hardly agree in this view.
The Colonel has been forsome time
a partner with his brother, Hon. E.
C. Ingersoll, engaged in law practice
in Washington, and probably goes to
that city to continue It. Much of his
practice will be carried on In the
United States supremo court. The
lecture field will probably engage
much of his time as is notoccupied in
court.
A Singular Case.
A Pennsylvania paper tells the fol
lowing: A short time since, agentleman re
siding in thin vicinity wpnt in Phila
delphia aud put up at a hotel, and
while resting after tea In the recep
tion room, over heard two gentlemeu
conversing in regard to a trial ihen in
progress before one of the courts of
that city. Our neighbor learned from
this conversation that a roan had ob
tained money upon his wife's proper
ty, the wife giving a mortgage. The
money was spent in dissipation, the
wife became a maniac, and was con
fined to an asylum ; the husband died
and the children of the unfortunate
couple were furnished with a guardian
by tbe court who was maintaining
the suit then being tried, against the
holder of the mortgage, on tbe ground
that the wifo was not of legal age wheu
the instrument was executed. The
gentleman knew that a niece of his
who had left the vicinity when a
child bad married a man of the same
name as the one mentioned, and he
conoluded to investigate. He made
his way to the courthouse the follow
ing morning, and to his intense Bur
prise and gratification was the very
person needed to establish to a certain
ty the age of the unfortunate woman,
and to save her worse than orphaned
children's property, valued at twenty
five hundred dollars.'
Sows Eating Their Young.
A letter from Paris, France, to the
Ii-iucaster Farmer, says that many
pi ins have been tried to prvmt sows
from devouring their young; the
mother's voracity is due to the pain
the young iuflict on her when first
commencing to suckle, for they are
littered with milk teeth, and the lat
ter,often not being sufficiently distant
from one another, the teat is thus bit
ten. In franoe the milk teeth, at tbe
extremity ot the jaw, are extracted, so
the mother, not being wounded, does
not become furious. Another plan is
to rub the young with gin. as also the
mother's snout ; the odor will ward
off her attacks; or pour into her ear
at the moment of littering, some
drops of a mixture composed of two
parts of tincture of opium and 15 of
oamphored alchobol ; this will cause
sleep, and when she awakens the
young will have taken possession of
its teat, and the first 'nips' will be for
gotten. Mr. O'FIaherty undertook to tell
how many wero at the parti' : 'The
two Crogans was one, myself was two
Mike Finn was three, and and who
was four? Let me see1 (counting on
his finger), 'the two Crogans was one
Mike Finn was two, myself was three,
and sure! there was four of ub, but
I couldn't tell the name of the other.
Now.its raeself that has it. Mike Finn
was one.the two Crogans was two, my
self was three and and butl think
there was but three of us, after all.'
An Iowa 'Squire sentenced a man
to be hanged, but the higher court re
versed his judgment. This so incens
ed the Justice that he whipped the
prisoner and resigned his office.
Yes, let's have an American kitch
en nfc the Paris Exnosition. The cook
must be seated on the cold cook stove
rending n novnl.
Agricultural Items.
Delano, Iowa, ha9 shipped 365,000
hoop-poles thisleeason.
A Texas hog weighs one thousand
four hundred and fifty pounds.
Two hundred and fifty varieties of
fruit are grown successfully In Geor
gia. Orange trees near Austin,- Texas,
are so loaded with fruit that the limbs
have to be supported by props.
An Atlanta man shipped thirty
bushels of sweet potatoes to Chicago.
The sale lacked $23 of paying freight.
Milk producers on the Kankakee
river are about to build steam barges
to carry their milk to cheese and but
ter factories.
English experience Is that the con
sumption of a ton of roots produces,
on the average, fourteen pounds of
mutton or beef.
A Peoria, (111.) man has a fish farm
stoeked with 80,000 California salmon
and 20,000 brook trout.
Six average sized figs contain more
fattening matter than a pint of cod
liver oil, and one don't have to be dis
infected after eating them, either.
Wilson's Albany strawberries ap
peared in New York some three weeks
ago, a month earlier than 1S77. They
were from Norfolk, Va., aud sold at
$4 a box.
A Swede in Rockford, 111., has in
vented and patented a machine
which, it is raid, knits a stocking, in
one piece, at the rate of about one a
minute.
The Texas stock-growers own, in
the aggregate 1,024,000 head of cattle,
besides horses and mules, and have
sn enclosed pasture containing 582,000
acres".
A Dennison (Texas) paper says:
"Fourteen thousand bales of cotton,
or about two hundred aud eighty cars
were shipped to Chinago during tho
month of December.
The large number of negroes rho
have rented farms in Alabama and
gone to farming for themselves, has
caused a great scarcity of hands am
ong land owners who desire to farm
their own land.
The fruit-growers of St. Joseph,
Mich., have resolved that for the
coming season the sizes of boxes for
the sale of small fruit must boa full
quart measure, and that peaches
pears, plums, grapes, etc., are to con
tain one-sixth bushel in eaoli baeket.
An Atlanta paper eays the sheep fe
ver is taking bold there; that sheep
and Texas are the two great staples of
Georgia talk, and that Georgia will
be the great sheep State of the future.
A Michigan farmer recently sold
a large walnut tree for which he re
ceived $876. This is now the fashion
able wood, though it does grow in this
country, and all large logs are cut up
.into veneers not more than an eighth
of an inch thick.
Southern planters are beginning to
use Paris green very largely for the
destruction of boll worms and army
worms in their cotton fields. Exper
iments with the common cheap white
arsenic for this purpose have also
been completely successful.
In 1816, dressed hogs sold in Iowa
at $1.75 per hundred pounds. At that
low price packers lost heavily, being
unable to dispose of the product,
which was actually given to steam
boats to burn for fuel. Nothing could
be sold except the hams and the lard.
The production of tobacco has re
cently become a very important agri
cultural interest in Pennsylvania. It
is asserted that the State now produ
ces more tobacco than the Connecti
cut valley, and it is believed that in a
few yearH its crop will be larger than
thatof Connecticut. Virginia and Mis
souri. The yield of Lancaster county
last year was eighteen million four
hundred pounds.
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It is not an unusual thing for tbe
Chaplains of political and legislative
bodies to Introduce some politicul ad
vice or suggestions In their petitions
to the Almiuhty. This Ib not done in
a dictatorial manner exactly, but in a
manner that simply implies that the
speaker Is from superior knowledge of
the subject m-itter, both able and wil
ling to give advice while soliciting fa
vors. The Chaplain of thelowaState
Senate a few days since apo'ogized to
the Lord for praying for President
Hayes, and more recently he exclaim
ed in one of his morniifg invocations,
"O, Lord, while we think the Presi
dent insane, we ask you to bless him.''
The legislature failing to appreciate
the sublime effrontery of their spirit
ual mentor, resolutions were intro
duced to prevent any repetition of it
in the future.
The word "panic" has a curious ori
gin. According to Herodotus tho god
Pan was supposed to have assisted
the Greeks in tbe battle of Marathon,
490 B. C, striking such terror Into
the Persian hosts that they fled to
their ships in perfect dismay. From
this time the Greek panihon was used
to describe unreasoning or sudden
and overpowering fear.
An old Methodist preacher going
around among the members of his
congregation, came across an old lady
in spectacles. "Do you love the
Lord?" he asked. "Well parson,"
said the old lady, "I ln'n't got noth
in' pertiolar agin him !"
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The first bank in the Ucited States
was the Bank of North America, or
ganized Januarys 7th 172, at Philadel
phia, and it is still transacting an ex
tensive business in tbe Quaker City.
A correspondent writes, asking for
n "remedy for an apple tree worm."
How can we prescribe until we know
what is the matter with the worm ?
A Boston man was bitten by a rah
bit and died of hydrophobia. Muzzle
your rabbits afonce.
The "go WeBt" fever has again
struck many of theEastern communi
ties with its old-time force. To peo
ple who are prepared to carry out the
undertaking properly, the move will
always be found a good one. There
are millions of acres that want hands ;
Bend on tbe millions of hands that
want acres. The soil is unsurpassed
in fertility, and will bless the hus
bandman a hundredfold. But a man
must be strong, energetic, and indus
trious, and ought to have some capital
or else be willing to go to work with
a will for some one who ba9.
There is work enough for all on tbe
broad rich prairies of the West, but
going there Is no child's play, and
the man who prefers his ease, or can
not stand hard work and the rough
life that follows, had better remain
where he Is. Cincinnati Star.
The A. T. Stewart Hotel for Worn-
en of New New York, which was in
tended by its founder to prove such a.
blessing to the working women by as
suring them a nice place to board at
low rates, is. not likely to amount to
much, bo far as the working women
are concerned. Under tbe present
management board is put at fram $6
to $10 per week. Very few women
who work for a living can afford to
pay such prices for board, and those
who can, of all others, have no diffi
culty in finding plenty of nice places.
It was Mr. Stewart's Intention to so
arrange the rates that the poorest
would be able to pay the price of a
good home.
Glasgow, Scotland, is the most
drunken place in the world, and by no
means the most moral in any other
respect, but the people are, notwith
standing, such intensely conscintious
observers of the Sabbath that, on the
occasion of the Prince of Wales's re
cent visit to the Duke of Hamilton,
the Glasgow Workingmen'B Protest
ant Association memorialized the
Prince of Wales, praying him not to
arrive at Hamilton on Sunday, "so
that a violation of the Lord's Day
might be avoided, and that the ex
cellent example of his illustrious and
regretted father would be followed by
Mm."
As a colored resident of Detroit was
breasting the Ptorm with a new um
brella over bis lead, he was halted by
a friend and brother, and asked :
"Is dat your umbrell ?'
"Yes, eah cost me two dollars, M
was the prompt reply.
"Mr. Savage," said the other, very
solemnly, "when a man will buy a
two-dollar umbrell to keep the wet
off n a fifty-cent suit o' cIosp, what's
de use to talk 'bout 'oonomy ?"
Captain Marryatt, in his novel of
Midshipman Easy, relates how horri
fied Mrs. Easy was when the young
woman who proffered her services as
wet nurse, blushingsy informed her
she was neither wife nor widow.
"What," taid Mrs. Easy, "and yet
you had a baby ?"
"Oh, but please ma'am," replied
tbe girl, "it was such a littleone; and
besides, Sally Seroggs, who is not
married either, had twins last week !"
Since the doctors have raised the
howl that the bitsof wash-leather and
India-rubber used in the manufacture
of mince pies are unwholesomp, If not
absolutely injurious, the mince-pie
industry has been almost revolution
ized, the manufacturers u-lng paste
board and basswood veneering, in
stead of objectionable iugredlents.
The upper-crust is t-lill n.adeof Abes
tos roofing-paper, fame as last year.
It is said of Ethan Allen that he
once attended a church where the
minister made an estimate, the result
of which was that out of the whole
human race, not more than one in a
thousand would be saved. On the an
nouncement of this result, Allen took
his hat and walked out. saying as lie
went: Gentlemen, if any of you
want my chance you are welcome to
it. It is not worth staying for!
Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, in a re
cent lecture on "Wit and Humor,"
said : "The Bible is chock full of wit
from Genesis to Revelations abound
ing in sarcasms and incidents where
men had got the better of one anoth
er by rare humor, and others have
been ludicrously 'hoist by their own
petard.'"
Some literary fiend has said that "a
man reads a book for entertainment
and instruction. A woman skips all
the nuggets of wisdom, and skims Im
patiently through the volume to find
out whether tho dark-skinned misan
thrope married the blue-eyed con
sumptive." An unknown hater of Louis Napo
leon has badly mutilated a picture in
the Paris Luxembourg, by the cele
brated MeisBonier. It represented the
late Emperor at tbe head of his staff.
His head was almost entirely cut out.
The picture wa3 similarly damaged
three years ago.
Will you always trust me dearest?'
heasked, looking down Into her great
blue eyes with unspeakable affection.
She was a sales woman in an up town
shirt store, and she told him business
was business, and he'd have to pay
cash every time. N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
Josh Billings says: Never take a
bull bi tbe horns, young man, but
take him bi the tale, and then you
kan let go when you want to.
i
The Rothschilds have a comfortable
little fortune of $3,400,000,000 and are
still making money.
Although a girl may be as proud as
Lucifer, it doesn't always follow that
she makes a good match.
Book-keepers, Reporters,
JT Operators, School Teachers,
At GrOat Mercantile College, Keokuk, Iowa
mm EV&ENGE:
The vgMowIng Curo Is probably the most
remarkable ever effected by any medi
cs! preparation for the treatment of
Catarrh :
Gentlemen, hereby certify that I have had Ca
tarrh Tor ten years, and Tor the last nix years hare
been a terrible BntTcrcr. I was rendered partially
deaf, bad buzzing In tbt head, palna acros3 the tern
pU, dizzy spell, -weak nnd patnfnl eyes, swollen
and ulcerated tonsils, hard and constant couch,
severe pain ncrow the chrst, and every Indication
of consumption. Mv head nehed all tho time. The
matter accumulated fo rapidly in my head nnd
throat that 1 could not Uoep them free. Frequently
at nlnht I wonlil f prinjr out of bed. It seemed to
me. at the point of snftocntirm. I would then havo
recourse to every means in my power to dlslodgo
the mnens from my throat and bead before helnjr
ablctOFleepHcain. For a period of six years mv
tonsils were nlccrated andsomnch inflamed that I
conld with difficulty swallow. I Anally consnlted an
eminent snrRCon In rejrard to an operation on them,
but at hi request postponed It. The constant ln
fiammation and ulceration In my throat caused by
the poNononsmnttcrdroppIngdownfrom my beau
bad abirritated and inflamed my lunus that I court
ed InceMantlv. a deep, hard rough. Meanwhile
ray system bc'gantosiiowtho cBectsof this disease.
bo that I lost flesh, jrrcw pale, and showed every
symptom of an enrlv death oy consumption. When
matters had readied thlsstajjcoraboutelx months
KO. I bCKn tho nvi of Sanford's Radical Cuijh
Poll CATARnn. A aerusli'if the first bottle I becau
to Improve rapidly. Tho first dose seemed to clear
my head as I had not known it to be for years. It
seemed gradually to srre3t tho dlschnrscs. !t
lioppect my couyh in three itays. Bynslr.jr.it as a
earclel soon rcdnced tho Inflammation and swell
ing cf my tonMls, so thatthey soon ceased to trouble
mc. ,The soreness across my chest disappeared,
the buz2lng noises In my head ceased, my sense of
Bccliuf and of hearing wero completely restored,
and every pymptom of disease that had reduced mo
to tho verge of the grave disappeared by tho uso
of Santoko's Radical Cms fob CATARnn.
I havo been thus explicit beennse. us n drngglst,
I have seen a great deal or suffering from Catarrh,
nnd hope to conUncc many that this is a great
I am familiar with the treatment of Catarrh as
practised by the best physicians, nnd have consult
ed thu most eminent about my case. I hare used
every kind of remedy and apparatus that have ap
peared durlnjr a pi-riod of six years past, and have,
whlla following their use. taken crest care of my
jreneral health, hut obtainod uo reliefer encourage
ment from anv of them.
lkSTOK,Feb.23 1873. GEO. P. DINSMORE.
SUTFOLK.FS. Fcb-ZMSTj.
Th"n personally appeared the said Gcorjre K.
Dinmnrc. nnd made nath that tbe foregoing tato
ment by him snbscrihed it true. It fore mc,
SETH J. THOMAS, Justice of the Peace.
Each package contains Dr. Sanforil"s Improved
Inhaling Tube, with lull directions for uc In all
casts. Price, $1X0. For sale by all Wholesale and
Retail Uruifglsta throughout the United States.
WEEKS & POTTER. General Agents and Whole
sale .Liruggisi. itosion, .uass.
Affords iho m09t grateful relief In all
Affections of the Chest and Lungs.
GHROFHG PLEURISY OURED.
Mesrs. Weeks & Tcrnrrn: Gentlemen. Jlaxlas;
for many months pust suffered with a very ionic
side, called by my physician Chronic Plcnrljy,
caused by afonner injury and strain, and for whlc'i
I used many prescriptions and liniments, aa well a?
the so-called rheumatic cure-), without the lcr.t
benefit, tnv physician recommended one of your
Collins Voltaic Plastkes. wh'ch. to my great
surprise, rellev d the pain andporenesa almost im
mediatclv, nnd I have been able to attend to wy
household affairs ever since with perfect case and
comfort, whereas, beforu the application of vonr
lnvaluablo Plaster. I was scarcely able to do any
thing. I consitlcrthem inestimable.nnd anal! with
pleasuro recommend the n to tti oflllrted. Yours
respectfully. Mks. FRANCES 11AKRIMAK.
Oblasd, Mc, April 21, 1375.
There Is no medical or protective appltanco that
will prove so gratelul and elTectlvo la Tickling
Coughs, Irritation and Soreness of the Chest and
Lungs. We believe them capable of preventing
serious diseases of these organs.
PRICE, 25 GENTS.
Do not confound the9e Plasters with the ordinary
Plasters of the day, that by comparison are abso
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Becarsful to obtain CoLX.ixs'Voi.TATcPLAPTr.r,
n combination of Electric or Voltaic Plates
with a highly Medicated Plaster, as neen in tho
above cut. Sold by all Wholesale and Retail Drug
gists throuchont tho United States and Canadas,
and by WEEKS & POTTER, Proprietors, Boston,
M.
PVw TEN VEA.RS TBTT'S PILLS
hnve been the recognized Rtnniiard
Family Mcdicineinnll the Atlantic
States From 3aine to 5Iexico,
scarcely a family can be found that
does not use them. It is now pro
posed to make their virtues known
in the "WEST, with the certainty
that as soon as tosted they will bo
come as popular there as they are
at the North and South.
!TT5
LIS!!
DD THEY CURE EVERYTHING?
NO. They aro intended for dis
eases that resultfrom malari
al Poison and a Deranged
Liver.
DR. TUTT has ilcvntcd twenty-rivo
years to tbe stndy of the Liver and tbe
result lias demonstrated that it exerts
greater Influence over the system than
any other organ of the, body ; Digestion
and Assimilation of the food on which,
depends the vitality of tbe body, it car
ried on through it; the regular action of
tbe borrelrt depends on it, and when these
functions are deranyed, the Heart, the
Brain, the Kidneys, the Skin, in fact tbe
entire organism in affected.
SYMPTOMS OF A
DISORDERED LIVER.
Pall Pain in the Side nnd Shoulder, loss of
Appetite; Coated Tongue; Costive Bo wela;
Sick-headache; Drowsiness; "Weight in
the Stomach after eating, with Acidity and
Belching up of "Wind ; Iiow Spirita ; Iiosa
of Energy ; TJcsociability ; and foreboding"
of Evil.
IF THESE WARNINGS ARE NEGLECTED,
BOON FOLLOWS
DYSPEPSIA, .BILIOUS FEVER, CHILLS, JAUN-"
DICE, COLIC, NERVOUSNESS, PALPITATION
OFTHE HEART, NEURALGIA, KIDNEY DISEASE,
CHRONIC DIARRHEA, AND A GENERAL
BREAKING DOWN OF THE SYSTEM.
SEED THE WAXXIXG.'
TUTPS PiLLS.
The first dose produces an ef
fect vliicii often astonishes tho
sufferer, giving a cheerfulness
of mind and bouyancy of body,
to which iie ivasbef ore astrang
er. They create an Appetite,
Good Digestion, and
SOLID FLESH A?JP HARD MUSCLE.
ALOtUSANA PLANTER SAYS:
"My plantation is in n malarial district. For
eereral years I could not make half a crop on
account of sicknefg. I employ one hundred and
fifty bands, often half of them were sick. I was
nearly discouraged when I began tbo use of
TUXX'S VaULS. 1 used them aa a pre-
cention as well a a care. Tbe result was
marYelkms; mr laborers became hearty, robnft,
and happr, ana x naxe naa no ianner uxraoie.
With these Pills I would not fear to lire in the
Okofonokee swamp."
E. PJVAL, Batoc Saiu, La,i
"BEST PILL IN EXISTENCE."
" I have need roar Pilub for Dyspepsia, Weak
Stomach and ervotwnes, aud can say I sever
had any thine; to do me eo much good in the
way of medicine. They arc as good as you rep
resent them. I recommend Ihein as the Best
Pill in existence, and do all I can to acquaint
Others with their good merits."
J. W. TIBBETTS, Dacota, Minx.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS, 25 CENTS.
X)tnce, 35 Murray St., New York.
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UN
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.TRAVELERS, Hilllnnl parlor an. I readlne
room connected with the hotel. Tho people
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