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MY LADY.
2'know not if her eyes wereirown,
: less not tell if tite7 were blue:
'le&fy know they could not frown,
"- 14nd ever shone vfllli love light true,
'like radiant starlight on a summer sea,
90 fair.my lady's et es they' seemed to ma.
"
1 know not if tin r.'ppllnR hair
. Thavwuveil nbtive her brow of snow
Were dark jia night, or gleamed as fair,
'.As harvest moonbeams fftl- Rlovr;
"I-only know like fairy webs to me
:" My lady's bllUc-n tresses seemed to be.
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-. i Cn not shape her curving lips,
',- -' Nor tell the dimples on her hand,
, Hbr if her sweet volt would eclipse
" .The ripples' murmur on the sand.
"I only know, like tntt winds from the saa,
Jt .whispered lore to me and only me.
'. "-
i' Oh. memory sweet! To bring again
." The loving voice, like pdrf ume faint;
"To bring in all the gentle traiu
-, Her Idw breathed songs. th tender plaint:
'-, For of all fair things in this world that be,
. Fairest of all my lad v was to me.
It. J. Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle.
DISAPPEARANCES.
A Few of the Cases Which Have
Baffled the Detectives.
MKary Rogers, the Trctty Clear Girl The
Husband of Mrs. JWaynard E. Saaga-
ter Ralph Keeler and Ilia
Sudden Departure.
The mvsterious disappearance of
Etillman S. Conant has naturally
drawn attention to disappearances of
that kind in this community. They
have been so startlingly frequent hero
ef late that numberless wives are ner
vous on tho subject, fearing every
morning when their husbands go away
they msy not return. This refers, of
course, to such women as aro harmoni
ously married. One instance, if prom
inent and published, appears to produce
others, and such an effect is explicable
by cerebral laws. Mysterious disap
pearances have been a feature of tho
winter. There have been scores of
them ainoe the 1st of December, but
only a few have attracted any notice
because they have concerned persons
of some consequence. Men and women
disappear here almost every day, but
being in tho lowest walks of life, their
names do not even get into the news
papers. It is nam to imagine that
oeoplc so poor and forlorn exist, but
there are thousands of them in this
eity. Their destiny is little better tban
that of beasts. They toil and starve
and perish, and hardly any one knows
or cares when they pass awaj Help
less, hopeless, friendless why were
the' eFer born?
It is extraordinary how many pea
Eons of position, character and influ
ence disappear. Their disappearance
creates a commotion at first; tho news-
Sapers are full of it for a day or two.
'hen some other, perhaps a greater
sensation, arises, and the disappearance
slips out of the public mind. Stillman
Coaant's case is very singular. Being
a journalist, a club man, and having a
host of friends ami acquaintances,
the newspapers have printed much
concerning him. But the dyna
mite explosion in Grand street and the
Attempt lo kill O'Donovan ltossa threw
the Conant incident into the shade. If
- you should inquire next mouth, "What
do" you suppose becaaue of Connut?"
the average citizen would remark:
"Conant who is he?"
Twenty-five years ago the husband
of a lady, now widely known as an
author :uid editor, went out to lunch
eon from his office in lower Broadway,
expecting to return in half an hour,
and was never seen again alive. Not
tho least trace of him could be found,
although tho police and detectives la
bored for months on the case. The
moment he reached the street he
eemed to be swallowed up, as if the
earth had opened and gulped him
down. A good while after, his body
was discovered in the bay; it would not
hare been recognized but for certain
papers on his person. Whether he had
committed suicide or fallen into the
water and been drowned, or robbed
and thrown into the river, nobody
could tell. There were various theories
on the subject, though none of them
were satisfactory. We refrain from
mentioning names. The bereaved lady
is still a widow, and still laments her
loss.
The husband of another literary
woman, Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster,
disappeared from Brooklyn fifteen
years airo, and the mystery has never
been dispelled. He had been suffering
from a headache it was the evening of
July 4 and. the uoi.-c of fire-crackers,
pistols and small arms disturbed him
sorely. He said, the weather being
hot, that he would go out on the stoop
for a breath of fresh air. The hour
was nine, and he had on a dressing
gown, which was enough, one might
think, to distinguish him any
where. He did not expect to
leave the stoop. But where he
went or what became of him continues
to be a dead secret. Inquiry, -search,
rigorous investigation were fruitless.
Not the slightet intimation of his fate
has ever been received. He. too, was
a lawyer, a man of contented disposi
tion, me soundest, sense, vigorous
health and perfect balance. He was
devoted to his wife and had every rea
son to enjoy and preserve his life. It
is hardly possible to construct a theorv
that will explain this case, which is one
of the strangest on record. To disap
pear eternally and Jintraceably from
doorsteps in a crowded street early in
the evening, within the shnriow of one's
own home, and in such garb as anv
body must notice, defies ail probability.
oucn an inciuent pm into a work of lie
uon would
" wo"W bc 1-uh1 absurd. '
O AeilL a verv well-known hoot and
ioc dealer on '.Sixth avenue, middle-
hoe dealer on Sixth avenue, middle-
accd. a man of ' fam.lv. solier. int..lii.
gent habits, prosperous, disappeared ,
twelve or fourteen years no, and left
o more vestige than if he had leaped '
into a blazinr lime-kiln. He iuuined
on a-pas-iiug horse-car to ro down
town en business and that was the last
seen of him by his friends. Lilwral re
wards were offered for any intelligence
of him, but none was o'btaincd. He
was engulfed in impenetrable mystery.
Seven or eight vears ao a well-to-do
grocer in Third avenue named Digman, I
....if weTemember, started iu the evening '
to visit the house of a friend, a few '
'.'blocks awav, intendinir to be absent '
uui jkui a au iiour. xie nau an
appointment with another friend at his
own- home the same evening and he
was one" of the most p'unctual of men.
Meither friend ever saw him,
Alter I
artinr with his -wife, to whom Vio Vio,l
.- been marfied less than six months, he
o Became invisible, so far as.known, to
.mortal ?ye He -was a man of high
. 'animal, spirits, regular habits, warm
. . affections and of a thoroughly practical
turn. No clue was got to his disappear-
.ance, and its obscurity has deepened
with the passage bf time.
. Ralph Keeler, a young man who had
lived in California aud bad come East
to earn his bread by-his pen, after
many aaventures aim tau jc-
nences in aiuereni pansui wcwiuair,
disappeared' nic twelve years --jgo in
the most enigmatic manner. He was
at one time au assistant of -William D.
Howells on the Atlantic, and had de-
taleat for deacnptaoB. mat am
u bo orach of a rever that he could
not bo content to star in one place.
He contributed to the newspapers here
and published various articles in the
magazines. He finally decided to make
a trip to Cuba, and he was traced, it
was thought, to the Havana steamer,
but after that he could be traced no
farther, even inferentially. Many par
sons doubted that he ever went aboafd
the vessel or quitted New York. Div
ers opinions were formed about his
disappearance some asserted that he
had destroyed himself; others that he
had 'been "murdored but not one of
them rested on a reasonable basis. He
was very amiable and agreeable, bub
bling over with sanguineness, and had,
like most of his tribe, too little money
to excite the cupidity of rascals.
There has never been any solution to
the mysterv.
George A. Laxer's disappearance is
too recent to require particularization.
Nothing could be more niy.tterious or
impenetrable. A crirl named Ima
Grietman, daughter of a German cigar
maker, disappeared from Avenue C
some years ago and was never after
wards heard of or from. Sho was
nearly thirty, quite plain, and not very
intelligent. Nothing about her made
it probable that she could have been
abducted. She was employed in a
shop in Eighth avenue, and set out to
go there in the morning. She never
reached there, and was not seen by
any one acquainted with her after leav
ing her father's house. We might
name any number of cases if we had
space.
Young women frequently disappear
here, and if they belong to the poorer
classes not much effort is made, from
lack of means, to discover their fate.
N. Y. World.
THE COMET.
Truthful Wifllam'a Idea of the
Heavenly
Wanderer.
The comet is a kind of astronomical
parody on the planet. Comets look
some like planets, but they are thinner
and do not hurt so hard when they hit
anybody as a planet does. The comet
was so called because it had hair on it,
I believe, but late years the bald-headed
comet is giving just as much satisfac
tion everywhere.
The characteristic features of the
comet are: A nucleus, a nebulous
light or coma, and usually a luminous
train or tail worn high. Sometimes
several tails are observed on one comet,
but this occurs only in flush times.
When I was young I used to think I
wouhlike to be a comet in the sky, up
above the world so high, with nothing
to do but loaf around and play with
the little new laid planets and have a
good time, but now I can see where I was
wrong. Comets also have their troubles,
their perihelions, their hyperbolas and
their parabolas. A little over three
hundred years ago Tycho Brahc dis
covered that comets were extraneous
to our atmosphere, and sinco then
times have improved. I can see that
trade is steadier and potatoes run less
to tops than they did before.
Soon after that they discovered that
comets all had more or less periodic
ity. Nobody knows how they get it.
All the astronomers had been watching
them day and night and didn't know
when they were exposed, but there was
no time to talk and argue over the ques
tion. There were two or three hun
dred comets all down with it at once.
It was an exciting time.
Comets sometimes live to a great
age. This shows that the night air is
not so injurious to the health as many
people would have us believe. The
great comet ot lGSOis supposed to have
been the one that was noticed about
the timo of Cxesar's death, 41 B. C,
and still when it appeared in Newton's
time, seventeen hundred years after its.
first grand farewell tour, Ike said that
It was very well preserved indeed and
seemed to have retained all its faculties
iu good shape.
Astronomers say that the tails of al"
comets are turned from the sun. I do
not know why they do this, whether it
it etiquette among them or just a mere
habit.
A late writer on astronomy said that
the substance of the nebulosity and the
tail is almost inconceivable tenuity. He
said this and then death came to his re
lief. Another writer says of the comet and
its tail that "the curvature of the latter
and the acceleration of the periodic
time in the case of Kiu-ke s comet indi
cate their being affected by a resisting
medium which has never been ob
served to have the slightest influence
on the planetary periods."
I do not fully agree with the eminent
authority, though he may be right.
Much fear has been the result of the
comet's appearance ever since the
world began, and it is as good a thing
to worry about as anything I know of.
If we could get close to a comet with
out frightening it away, we would find
that we couluV walk through it amy
where as we could through the jda&'of
a torchlight procession, ir.r SWVmrl so
live that we will not be as
lied to look
a comet in the eve, ho;
er. Let us
E
ay up our newspaper
ascription and
eaa such lives th: wl
in toe cones
strikes we will be ready.N
borne worrv a rood
Vkbout the
chances for a bis: comet
to plow into
the
sun some dark rainv nisrht, and
thus bust up the whole universe. 1
wish that was all I had to worry about.
If any responsible man will agree te
pay my taxes and iuneral expenses, 1
will agree to do his worrying about the
comet's crashing into the bosom of the
sun and knocking its daylights out.
Bill Xte, in Detroit Free Press.
TO CHOUSE.
The Origin of a Slant Term Very Much In
Vogue In Ureat Britain.
This is a .slang term, meaning to de
fraud. It has grown into considerable
popularity in England, in this sense.
aud ;s .f pIckcd up j,
c . t." hi
f63' is well known
in the United
f115" " is weu kuowii to reaaers oi
history that England was alive, in tho
reign of Elizabeth, with the spirit of
adventure and discoverv. The finding
of America was a new wonder to be
gossiped about. There were wars vand
expeditions on every side, and every
pluckv voung Englishman wished to
sail away to find a new inheritance
with his. ship, or conquer an old one
with his sword. A great many offered
their services to foreign powers. One
of these soldiers of fortune. Sir Robert
Shirley, was employed by the Grand
Seigneur and King of Persia and sent
on various missions, the most important
being a commercial embassy to Eng
land. By this time King James was on
thethrone.and anxious to encourage the
trade with Turkey and the East, whieh
advisers nau begun in a
email war nlirmt wnnfrv-ftt? iai Ka
fit:- i i o: ,-i .r
a Turkish chiaus. or envoy, in advance
of his own coming, to get the good
' will of the London merchants in the
' Turkish and Persian trade. The chiaus
'.exerted himself so successfully that he
I pocketed some' four thousand pounds
I of their money (a large sum for that
time); and ran away with it, leaving
his master to stand the loss and laugh
against him as best he could; for the
tavern wits wnre as much delighted te
get nom oi a bit ox new slang;
and thev adopted "chiaused" fnoi
"choused" it the sense of "defrauded."
Johnson and'Shirley mention "chouse"
as slang, and it Landor. two hundred
years later, it is put down as go
Easlish. St. Louis Qhhe Ibiia
JOHN PHOZNIX.
The Trick' He Played on the Frofeesor of
Geology- at West Point.
The following story in regard to
Lieutenant Derby (John Phosnix, tho
humorist) was told me by General
William T. Sherman: "You know,
;hcre was a few miles from West Point
i place known as Benny Haven's,
where the boys used to go to eat flap
jacks and drink flip. Benny Haven's
flip had a National reputation, and his
flapjacks were delicious. The cadets,
however, patronized Bunny Haven's
ti: -uch an excess that the officers of the,
military .-.chool attempte 1 to put a stop
to it, and very few permissions wre
granted them to go outside of the walls
of the institution, Derby was in es
pecial bad favor, aud he knew that he
could not on ordinary grounds get a
permit. One time, after ne had been a
week or more without a drink of Benny
Haven's flip, ho pretended a great re
pentance as to his studies aud gave out
that he was "going to do better. The
Professor of Geology was a curious old
fellow whom he had cartooned un
mercifully, aud who had a horror of
him. To him Derby went, and with
tears in hi eyes said that he was sorry
that he had wasted his time in the past,
and that in the future he intended to
do better. He feared as it was
he would not be able to pass his
examinations, but that ho wished to use
his remaining time in the Academy so
that when he went out he would be ht
ted to battle with the world, and he in
tended to pay especial attention to
geology. This geological professor
was an" enthusiast, and very simple aud
innocent withal. He embraced Derby
and congratulated him upon his reso
lution. During tho next few days
Derby came into the class-room with
the best of lessons. He asked many
questions and showed great interest in
the subject, thus wiuningglowing opin
ions from his professor, lie remained
in tho class-room after the lesson of the
fourth da', aud told the professor that
one of the milkmen who supplied the
Academy had been telling him of some
wonderful petrifactions at a point away
up in the mountains. He had spoken
of fishes and the tracks of birds and
other specimens, which Derby, having
carefully posted himself by tho books,
sa-.d he supposed belonged to suoh ami
Mich an age.
The Professor ruobed his hands dur
ing the relation, saying "yes," "yes,"
"very likely, very likely!" And wheu
Derby concluded by saying the milt
man had offered to conduct him to the
place, he was eager to have him go.
On Derby's asserting the doubt that he
would not be permitted to leave the
Academy, tho Professor said thero
would be no trouble about that, a'ld
that he would get the countersign aud
the permit. This he did, and the nest
day Derby started out early and struck
out at ouce for Benny Haven's,
Here he lay around all that day eat
ing flapjacks and drinking flip, and
carried on his carouse far into the
nisrht. .harlv iu the morninr he camo
back to the Academy very mellow in
deed, but succeeded in passing the
guard aud tumbling into his room. As
he lay down on his bed he happened
to think that he must have an explana
tion to give the geological professor for
not having the specimens. He be
thought himself a moment and then
went down and picked up a couple of
stones from a pile which lay by the
river side. He brought these to his
room and with his chisel cut into them
a number of what looked very much
like bird-tracks. Going out again he
rubbed these with dirt and then came
back, laid them on his table, and went
to sleep.
After breakfast he took his stones to
the professor of geology, who, by the
way, was very nearsighted. He told
him that the milkman had failed to
keep his appointment, aud that he had
attempted to find the place himself.
He had not discovered the petrified
fishes nor the other fossils described by
the milkman, but he had found these
stones, with their curious tracks, and
he thereupon gave the Professor a lucid
explanation of the bygone age to which
the stones belonged, and how antedi
luvian birds of a character not now
known had made these curious tracks.
His disquisition was so well put that
the Professor coincided with him. Ho
took the stones into tho class-room that
day. and related Derby's wonderful
discoveries. The affair was for a few
days the talk of the class, but Derby
could not keep Ids secret to himself,
and told it to cne or two of his friends.
It went all over the college, and the re
sult was that Derby was suspended.
He got back again, however, and after
a time was graduated. Cleveland
Leader.
THE UNSEEN POOR.
People Who Go Through Terrible Strug
Clr to Keep Their Little Ilomee To
gether. It is forgotten that while to the low
est scale of human life poverty is a
hard lot somewhat tempered by habit,
to higher grades of societ" poverty is
really a crime. They dare not show tc
their neighbors and acquaintances any
outward evidences of their poverty
they dare not reveal the terrible pinch
ings and struggles they go through tc
keep their little home together or the
anxiety they suffer in raising the little
rent they have to pay weekly for a
humble lodging in a Tespectable house
and neighborhood. The poor gentle
man, the poor lady, the poor clerk out
of employment must maintain their
respectability, for their pecuniary ruin
means also social ruin. There is a
point in certain grades of human ex
istence where respectability becomes a
burden and a tax. It is all very well to
say, "There is menial labor open to
them." There is no greater cant abroad
than the affectation that menial labor
is a disgrace. But menial labor re
quires skill, and unless a man or
woman be reared to it he or she- is
valueless in that capacity. To be a
competent navvy or laborer requires a
certain muscular development and
training. To be a skilled carpenter or
bricklayer requires as much knowl
edge, skill, and nicety of touch as
main callings of higher repute. 1 am
purposely putting aside all considera
tions of the natural aud actual horror
and pain felt by all refined natures at
contact with sordid surroundings and
coarsely vulgar associates. But to the
well-bred and educated man or woman
all this means trial and sufferings, and
it is a species of trial and suffering
quite unknown to the inhabitants of
a slum. The deserving poor, the poor
who get no sympathy, do not all live
in slums. The popular journalist can
make no sensation articles on the lives
of men who conceal their sufferings
under decent black coats and nearly
starve in dingy two-pair backs. The
suffering is silent it is not advertised.
In the privacy of their poerly-fur-
nished rooms, the tears may bc bit
ter, the sighs heavy, but the world
knows nothing of all that "The poor
tradesman, ruined, perhaps; by no
fault of his own crushed by compet
ing with huge capitalists who will set
him on his legs again? A careful study
of the annual statistics of suicides-.,
will show that nearly all
the v cases " found are respectably
dressed. Jlhc inhabitants of slums sel
dom coiqpit suicide. Thjnost power
ful jjgPbtives t injsjia1" are shame,
anxiety, anil ElMm snnerimg. All the
Year Mound.
An inch announcement in a news
paper is worth two miles of letters on
beard feiat Chicago Journal.
FAMILY JARS IN COURT. '
Borne of the Scenes that Recur Krery Dmf
in the Tear.
There are, about forty, complaints
every day in the police courts of this
city by wives against their husband';.
The complaints are generally for fail
ure of support. Not infrequently they
are accompanied by charges of cruel
and inhuman treatment.
The complaints are stereotyped:
"Judge, my husband has not given me
a cent in six months." "My husband
comes home drunk and will not give
me a cent." "He never keeps a situa
tion for a month." "He spend? his
money in liquor stores." "He gambles
his wages away everv Saturday." "He
bt&is me and the children." "He calls
me vile names." "He threatens to kill
me." "He keeps company with other
women." "He knocked me down and
kicked me." "He threatens, to leave
the country." "He blackened my eye
yesterday. "I am afraid to live with
him."
These stories come not alone from
poverty-stricken and degraded women.
They are told by women who are
somely, well-dressed, healthy and even
educated, as well as by tho poor. Not
infrequently the Justice asks, "Can you
get along without him?" and the womae
answers: "I can support myself and
my children if he will only keep away.
All I want is for him to let me alone.
I have worked ever since I was married
and I can work yet."
It is a common occurrence for these
unfortunate wives to go to the court
with babies in their arms, and to stand
with the fretful infants awaiting an
opportunity to tell their woeful tales.
Sometimes they go with scarred faces
and bandaged heads, mementoes of the
brutal treatment of their unfeeling
spouses. Often the mother-in-law
brings up tho rear, developing tho real
source of much of the trouble.
What of the fathers? Very often
they come with besotted faces, with
tattered garments and grimy skins.
Some come with smooth-tongued ex
cuses. "Your Honor, I am willing to
support her. but I can not bear her rela
tions." "I struck her. but she struck
me first" "I did not hit her; she was
drunk and fell down." "I give her all
the money I can afford." "She left
me and went to her mother's." "Sho
has company that I do not like." "She
wants me to be put out of the way so
that she mav misbehave." "I am will
ing to support her, but I will not live
with her."
I
can t give her what I
have not sot." "I will give her a
fair
share of what I earn."
Sometimes the offending husband
sullenly refuses to say anything, but
marches off to jail. Justice Gorman
said the other day to a teacher in one
of the public schools who was brought
before him: "In five minutes you will
be in a cell unless you agree to support
your wife, and furnish surety to do so."
The man obstinately reiterated: "I
will not furnish bail," and marched off
to the cell.
Generally the Justices use the utmost
J tower of the law to compel the de
inquent husbands to pay a fair share
of their earnings. In many cases the
man becomes alarmed at the prospect
of imprisonment, and gladly gets tho
required surety, either from "some rela
tive, employer, or friend.
Even after most heartrending tales
of ill treatment and neglect, women
often relent when they see their hus
bands behind the bars. Then they go
to the Justice, with eyes as tearful as
before, and say: "Please let my hus
band out, Judge; he can't earn any
money where he is, and he may help
me if he comes out." Then the Justice
utters a homily on the wrong of thus
taking up the time of the Court for
nothing, and winds up by letting the
man out. Sometimes the man. stub
bornly serves out his term of six
months, only to come out of prison
filled with thoughts of revenge.
Occasionally the Justices find the
causes of disagreement trivial. They
see that there is a possibility of recon
ciliation, and they send the parties into
one of the court rooms to talk it over.
Then, as the reunited couple walk out
of court arm in arm, the Justice looks
on smiling at tho happy result Phila
delphia Press.
AT HIS MEALS.
now the Shah of Penla Break lib Paat
and What lie Eats.
At twelve o'clock the royal break
fast is served. It Ls a solitary meal. The
King is squatting on the ground, some
fifty dishes are set before him. His
Majesty selects tho simplest, and
quenches his thirst with buttermilk or
iced sherbets, which are served in deli
cious profusion in magnificent china
bowls. Dead silence is observed by the
few favored courtiers who stand around
the walls of the apartments. The
royal butlers silently hand the various
dishes. As the King eats he addresses
those whom he may deign to honor
with his notice, and these fortunate
ones bow low, and answer in humble
affirmatives, "May I be your sacrifice.
Asylum of the tJniverse. So it is."
"It happened exactly as your Majesty
ordained:" and so on. The same kind
of language is used by the Royal
Princes in addressing their father, and
they would not presume to attempt to
sit in the royal presence; but as in Per
sia no son would sit in his father's
presence unless ordered to do so, this
is more due to filial respect than the
awe of majesty. The King rinses his
mouth and wipes his hands over a
golden bowl, and then he rises and the
meal is served to the Princes. On
leaving them it goes to the courtiers,
and lastly the royal farrashes pick the
bones, and literally lick the platters
clean. The royal dinner, served about
nine p. m., is a repetition of the break
fast; generally it is enlivened by the
playing of the brass bands, or by tho
music of the native musicians attached
to the court Telieran Cor. Lc-ndon
World.
m
Dr. Hyades. who lately returned
to France from Terra del Fuego, says
the Fuegians are the lowest human be
ings in the scale of existence. Their
language contains no word for any
number above three; they are unable to
distinguish one color from another;
they have no religion and no funeral
rites, and they possess neither chiefs
nor slaves. Their only weapons are
bone-pointed spears, aud, as they grow
neither fruits nor vegetables and their
country is naturally barren, they are
obliged to live entirely on animal food.
Even these savages possess, however,
some social virtues. They are not
cannibals, they ill-treat neither women
nor the old and they are not polyg
amists. m m
There is a fashion of wearing
moonstones for bridal jewels. The
moonstone is a lucky stone, and for
that reason a more appropriate gem
than either the opal or the pearl, both
of which are shadowed by evil tradi
tions. A necklace of beautiful moon
stones was recently worn by a bride,
which made a great sensation by its
beauty, as fine moonstones arc. some
what "rare and expensive. Those of
fine quality have a luminous beauty
which is exquisitely soft N. I.
Graphic.
Stieet tars in Venezuela are always
open ones, and are so small that they
will seat only twelve persons. The
conductors carry horns which they
blow upon approaching street cross
lags.
PITH AND POINT.
"A low voice an excellent thing
in woman." Also in a counting-room.
Chicago Current. '
Scientists claim that .cigarette
smoking leads to ido-y. Another in
stance of geting the cart before t'.io
horse. Philttdelphii Call.
"How can 1 find out all 'about the
young laJy to whom I am" engaged?"
asked a nrosnective benediut. Has she
I a younger brother? If so. conssdt him.
j Detroit Post.
j Music ls the sound which one's
children nia'ce as lhe romp through
, the hotel. Noi-e is the .-ouud which
other people's ch ldren make under the
same circumst nevs. Boston Post.
, Young Indies at a certain Western
college are ta ight howtomake bread.
When they graduate they are known
as coll -jre-bread women, antl arc in
great d miand with housekeepers.
Burlington Ire Press.
A writer in a current magazine
describos the rrlbird. stating that ho
is found in the Southern States. He
fails to mention that it is occasionally
seen in the North and West, where he
has his feathfis fastened on with tar.
Marathon Independent.
"Here's a musical salesman adver
t:sed for. Why don't vou apply, Ned?"
"I? Why, I'm not musical." "Per
haps not; but I notico that you can
blow vour own horn, you're familiar
with the bars, your remarks are full of
slurs, you're always giving notes, and
all the rest" Ilo'tel .Gazette.
Stern parent "Hero, my sou.
what is this? You were not at school
all last week." Astonished boy "How
do you know?" Indignant father
"Your teacher told me so." "Wary
boy "Did he see me?" Wrathful pa-
Ea "No, not once." Triumphant
oy "Then how does he know I
wasn't there?" Exchange.
"A scientific Frenchman says he
has discovered a process for mak'ng
artificial brains," said Mrs. Wiggles
worth, looking from the paperhe was
reading. ''Artilicial brains!" sniffed
Mr. Wigglesworth, scornfully; "that's
just like those nnnscn-ical frenchmen
always fool ng away their timo mak
ing someth ng artilicial. What I want
Is real brains none of your make-believe
nonsense." Mrs. Wigglosworth,
as she resumed her paper, demurely
murmured that she had noticed it, too,
but she never should have dared to
'speak of it heisclf. And Mr. Wiggles
worth rubbed his head in a dazed sort
of fashion and wondered if he really,
had expressed h'mself just as he meant
to. Rockland Courier -Gazette.
ABOUT BOOKS.
The
Literature of 1RR4 mill Deduction
Therefrom.
We find in the Publishers' Weekly
the follow" ng very interesting tabu
lated statement of the publications of
1884, as compared with the books is
sued in 1883:
1SST5. 1SSI.
.. t;7o u:s
. . 3'j; 45J
.. :i73 3mj
.. mi ;
.. 1J7 227
.. 11 222
.. 2ii eat
-.. ui . i
.. ir.i ns
.. i.m ij
.. it; lit
.. 135 i:w
O !I0 131
.. m us
.. 75 81
.. 22 61
.. 22 4:5
.. 47 2U
.. 15 lit
.3,481 4,068
in a year
f ICllOI. ee
TlH'O'Mjjy ail'l If.-Iiiotl
Juvenile J'.OoI.m
Kiiiiciiti in. l.ii.iiT'me
l'wt'lry mill lr.iiu:t
Mt-ilii'nl .-cir c-, ilyji !
I.itir jy II -. :; ! tiiceliany
IhOfJ iitll, M hi I. a I.
Socml anil I'm Hi' al Science
Dc.i'jriiilioii. Travel
riiysiciil unit Mittlieinat'l Science
1 1 i o r y
Fine Arts nii'l Illustrated Hooks.
Sports ail'! Aiuiisciiicnt
Domestic ami Km at
Humor and Sutire
Mental and Moral Philosophy....
It is very remarkable that
so bad for trade generally' as the last
was, there should havc been an in
crease of nearly twenty per cent, in
the number of new books published, as
compared with the year immediately
previous, which wa one of much more
prosperity in other departments of in
dustry. But it must not be inferred
that because more books wero pub
lished, 1884 was a more profitable year
for the book trade.
It was iuste.id a very unsatisfactory
year, and, although no publishing
houses of importance came to grief, it
showed decreased profits. The number
of new books published may bo great
er, and yet the total of books sold may
be less. Beside, the trade was suffer
ing from a cause that has for several
years past tended to impair its pros
perity, which was before injuriously
aflected by a custom of giviugdiscount's
to retail dealers so great as to enable
them to sell books much below their
advertised prices.
The great cause of the trouble is the
publication of reprints and translations
of past and contemporary English,
French and German fict'ou at ten and
twenty cents each. Formerly 'such
books' brought fifty cents and a'dollar,
and the pro!it on them was large, for
they .supplied a large paitof the de
mand for reading, three-fourths of
which is for novels. Now the profits
are insignificant at the prevalent prices'
unless the editions sold are immense;
and houses which make a specialty of
issuing such cheap literature draw oil
business from the general trade. The
native novelists al-o sutler, for, as a
rule, publishers arc afraid to touch
their work, no matter how good it may
be. when copyright stories must come
in competition with reprints selling for
a few cents each.
The works of fiction published were,
of course, chielly foreign; and, proba
bly, of the native nove.s not a few were
issued at the expense and risk of their
authors, who could not get their books
before the public in anv other way.
Those who knew most about the subject
as, for instance, the experts of our
great publishing houses, say that never
before was the number of manuscript
novels of exceptional merit in their
hands so large as it is now. But the
state of the book market is such as to
deter publishers from venturing to risk
money on them They find thafthe
public have grown so accustomed to
cheap literature that they hesitate
about tr'ivinff more than twenty-live
cents for a novel, unless it comes from
some native author of extraordinary
popularity.
It is a bad, a very bad time, for the
American novelist who has not already
won his spurs; and were it not for the
magazines and thefore'gn market even
the men of great reputation would fare
pretty poorly. At the best, the aver
age yearly gains of even the most suc
cessful native novelist are much less
than they arc commonly supposed to
be.
The table shows that works devoted
to specialties are publ'shed with espec
ial conlidence. H they are well select
ed, their sale is sure, though it may be
liniitecU and the prices can be made re
munerative. For instance, next to fic
tion the largest u timber of publications
in a single dranch of literature were
those devoted to the law. Then fol
lowed theology and rel-gion, books in
regard to which are issued in great
numbers by societies supported by
churches. Many such works are also
publi.-hed at the expense of their au
thors, who think that the wqrld needs
to know what they have to teach con
cerning the duty and destiny of man.
These authors' books, as they are called
in the trade, are very numerous, and
doubtless- the totals iu the table above
are much inerex-ed because of them.
As it is now. periodicals excepted,
the most profitable and the surest bus
iness investments of the publisher, are
those he makes in works of the more
serious and more expensive kind.
Nereis and miscellaneous books are
stoahtfal things to touch. IT. Y. Sua.
GENERAL .INTEREST.
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Couuty, California,
.aaiuis tqshave the. onlv licorice planta
tion in the Pi:ttd"States.
A rough keepsie gossip was fiord
no htindivvi dollars .for Oscillating
reports, prejudicial to a person in that
placo. Troy Time. .
A writer on science savs that when
m T ' - T
the thermometer Ls at fifty-eight degrees
below zero 'oats' ears bocome
brittle, and are often broken oil.
o.
verv
A four-year-old boy in Clark County,
Mo., smoked a cigarette the other day
and in hair an nour di 'd from blood
poisoning, the-effect. of the tobacco.
Au unknown youth who was killed
by cars at Penobscot. Luzerne County,
,Pa., had the following on the bottom
of his shoes in brass nails: "A lucky
boy, you hot."
It is said that no on can live com
fortably in Washington and keep house
and maintain any .sort of social fool
ing upon less than five thousand dol
lars. Chicago Times.
It Ls a little curious that a few
sticks aud a little dirt will stop the
water from running dowu a six-inch
conductor made for the nirposebut
even Holder can't keep wafer out of a
ail hole in the roof. West Olester
(Pal) Becontt &
An able-bodied United States,
seaman, having becomu hilarious by
imbibing too freely, mistook Brook
lyn awning post for a foremast the
other night, and climbed to Vfb top of
it He reached the second tpry win
dow and was arrested for burglary.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The word "ranch" means a good
deal in the Far West An Eastern
clergyman who is spending the winter
in Santa Barbara, Cal.. writes of a
little boy four years old iu that lovely
valley who was overheard to pray that
when he died the Lord would tako him
to His ranch. A". '. Ledger.
A few days ago some of the practi
xal jokers of Harshmanvillc thought
Ihev would plav a good joke on a fellow
I by the name of SauiTietje. Removing
I the ball from a cartridge they put the
shell with its powder in a cigar and
! gave it to Tietje to smoke. The "busi
ness" went off and put out ouc of the
victim's eyes. Dayton (0.) Democrat.
In Berks County. Pennsylvania,
the three-year-old child of James
Anspach was attacked by rate the
other day and fatally injured. The
little one lay in a cradle, aud the ro
dents jumped up during the night and
bit it iu the nose, ears, arms and hands,
which swelled to enormous propor
tions. The rats had to be driven otl
with a club.
A Hartford man, now aged eighty
years, who has been an inveterate
smoker for sixty-seven years, has
kept close account of the cost and
places the amount at two hnndrcd
thousand dollars, which he might have
now had to his credit had lie invented
every six months and placed at com
pound interest the sums he expended
in cigars. Uarljord Cunrant.
Job Keech, of East Fallowfield,
whose death was recorded recently, was
for many years a Justice of the Peace
in that township, and it Ls said that
during the entire time he held the office
he never returned a case to court
Whenever any of his friends had a liti
gation he always persuaded them into
an amicable settlement of their difficul
ties, and his advice was generally
taken. West Chester (Pa.) Record.
An interesting estimate of the
amount, in weight, of one inch of rain-
fall on one acre of ground is thus
given: An acre of- ground contains
6,272,640 inches square. Rain one
inch deep would give that many square
inches; 1,723 cubic inches make one
cubic root. Rain one inch deep would
give 3.630 cubic feet. A cubic foot of
water weighs 62 1-2 pounds;2.000 make
a ton. This will give 226,875 pounds,
or 113 tons And 87o pounds to the acre,
of rain one inch deep.
The Japanese, as is learned from
their colony in London, have a novel
method of advertising They arrange
small rooms along the sidewalks of
some of the large thoroughfares, ami
represent the interior of a student's
chamber crowded with pens, ink-slabs,
dainty screens and popular literattire.
Some rooms give au itlea of a model
kitchen and others show the scene of a
tea ceremonial, being adorned with
fragile cups and saucers, lacquered
tobacco bons. tin tea services and
carved trays.
A passenger, Mr. Walter Kobbe,
by the W lute Star steamship Republic,
which left New York April 24, 1884,
put a scrap of paper into au empty
Apollinaris bottle, corked, and dropped
it overboard April 2'J, 1884. On
the paper w:is a promise to pay five
dollars on its return. Mouths after
ward, on November 24, 1884, Mr.
Kobbe received the paper in a letter
postmarked Fayal, in the Azores
Islands. Many thousands of bottles
have bven thrown overboard iu a like
manner, but very few are ever heard of
again. This instance to the contrary is
considered especially remarkable be
cause of the great distance traveled iu
safety by the bottle. .V. Y. Tribune.
The-Montreal Witness pays this
tribute to the progress in architecture
in this country: "The United Sr-t
is soon going to take the lead of o l-r
countries in he matter of archite Mur
es it is natural that it should. A
rapidly developing country, constant K
requiring new conveniences, oilers the
most promising field for the able-t
men of the age, and si-a-e a week
passes that the American lilu-tra'e I
papers are not adorned with plctum,
of some new public bifdding. grand in
extent of original design and of ur
passing beauty. The young Western
cities which have sprung up within the
aesthetic era are fairylands as com
pared with the new towns of thirty
years ago."
When flowers have been carried a
long distance in close boxes or cases
they often appear withered and worth
less, but with proper tri-atmeut they
may be revived an. restored to their
original beauty. Ins tea I of at once
being put into vases and exposed to
the hot dry air of the parlor they
should be either .re:id out on wet
flannel or moss and covered with a
dish-cover or au inverted box. or e'se
put in pans containing mu;s and water
or wet sand, iu which tnev can beset
Upright, and then s'ni! tin in the dark
for a few hours. If they do :mt re
gain ineir iruiJiines umi-r tne nursing
there w no hone for t!i 'in: but
in all
s cer-
ordinary eases their re-over
tain. St. Louis Wi,b.
A Bad Woman.
"Now, the best thing- you can do,'
Said the Judge to :: oh! u-gro who
had applied for :t divoic. "is to go
home and behave ottr-eIf.'"
"Ys, sab."
"I do not sec why oti -Iiould not
get along: all right. "'
"Yas. will."
J,We all have to make .saerilices."
'Yns, sab, so I heah "cm say, but
migMty few men haster put. up wid
sich ef wife ez I'se got. I ken stan' de
comuion run o' wimmen, but dat pus
son, Jedgc, is rank pizen. Wy, sh, if
she wuz er sleep an waster dream dat
I wuz eujoyin niyse'f, she'd waka
hersc'f up an1 see dat de enjoyment
wuz stopped right dar. She Eke ter
tied, some time ergo. Wuz mighty in
hopes dat I wuz gwine ter lose Eer, but
when she foun' dat I wuz pleased.
blame ef she didn't turn ober an' git
reJL. fehe's a bad oman
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THE SPRING TERM
OF TIIK
FREMONT NORMAL
-A.VD-
BUSINESS COLLEGE,
A.t Fremont, NobrnNka,
Will begin
APRIL 14th, '85,
and End July 3d.
UNUSUAL ADVANTAGES WILL UK
AKFOKDED PERSONS WISHING To
PREPARE FOR THE KAU. EXAMI
NATIONS FOR TEACHERS' t'ERTI.
GATES.
The Rusiness Department will al!trd
every opportunity for improvement in
Penmanship, Humhcss Arithmetic, Itook
keepinjr. Commercial Corrospotulenee,
and imitation of actual lusinu-
Mnsic,
We can npeak with the utmost conli
dence of the instruction ien in wir
ilusie Department. .Mis Ro-..; I'nnrul.
instructor of the Piano Forte, a -rra-iu t;c
of the Cornell Conservatory of Mu-L-, i.
not only a brilliant performer, lit .i
pains-taking and superior teacher. Tit
lnstrnetor.i iu Vocal Culture. Not.-.re.i I
ing ami Sinking ate thorough .tail uc
ceasful. Expenses.
Tuition for twelve week. $11. but if
paid strictly in advance, $t. 1'hN Jn
flinles uilmi.xMon to Nornnl i.nl ltnii"--
clas.tcs. .Mu-ic. $12 for tweiitj li--i n.
Short-hand, $12 for twentj Ic-on- T pc
wrilintr, with tisc ot instrument. $( tor
twelve weeks. Good day Immiv! -an be
obtained in the College Il'mi. at $.'.r" per
wcok. Rooms 5)cts. to7."e:. per tinl
tnt. For further particulars .nlilre--,
w. . Jo:i:i, a. m.
President of N'ormil College.
Fremont, N"e!.
UNION PACIFIC
LAND OFFICE.
Improved and Unimproved Farms,
Hay and Grazing Lands and City
Property for Sale Cheap
AT THE
Union Pacific Land Office,
On Long Time and low rate
of Interest.
JSTTiual proof made on Timber Claimx,
Homesteads and Pre-emption.
J5T"A11 winning to buy lands of any de
scription will please call and examine
my list of laud lefore looking clsi where.
t37All havinif laiuN to sell will please
call and give iue a description, term ,
prices, etc.
pri a!o am prepared to insure prop
erty, 38 I have tho agency of several
first-class Fire insurance companies.
F. W. OTT, Solicitor, speak German .
ma m i;:i, c. N.n itii.
30-tf Columbus, Nebraska.
SPEICE & NORTH.
Gennral Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and 3Iidland Pacific
R.R. Lands for sale at from $:).00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or ou five or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable term. Also business and
residence lots in the city. AVe keep a
complete abstract of title'to all real es
tate in Platte County.
621
COLUMBUS. NEB.
OMAHA INSTITUTE
MEDICAL AND SUR6ICAL
sea tiic tbutxist op ail
Chromic and Surgical Diseases.
Th largest Medical Institute West of
Mississippi River.
Fifty room for the accomodation of patient. Tho
PlrIclan ml fursron in ehanro of the institute has
baa (Ixtecn years of tncceful practice, anil 1 aided
br asKintants of rare experience aa peciall.t in
their Tariou-i departmentx.
ASTHMA anu an oisen-oi m-
Throat, Lun-r-i and Heart treated
liv our nevr nrjttem of
MEDICATED INHALATION
inHurinir upeeily reller, and In
most eim-3 ICadlcal Cure. Semi for
CATARRH,
BRONCHITIS,
Inhaler, or circular on Inhalation,
All diea.es of
the
Alo
treated by an experienced peciallnr.
disease. UtTIBT I IUCB CTA1I
of tbIKHIIIlillEll0IHM
aCH.KIDNEYS.ILJDDEIIa".?.
DEFORMITIES 3 HUMAN I0DY.
PILES CURED OR M0 PAY.
8pectal treatment for Rheumatlim and Xenralrfa
B"Ssa B" DISEASES, and all diseases of
rcllLE ih.i,u.,i!NARY a.nl sexual
fc W ORCANS treated In the most
---- ucssful manner.
HCnVAIIC PEBILITVorExHaastIon,Semlnal
nCnVUUw WnIneM and all Private ni-a
cured by our new Rentoratlre Treat
meat. lril IwyttreaUraaae lctll e.Mntlml.
C0MSULTATI0H AMD EXAMINATION FREE.
Madldnes tent to all parts of tho country by ezprera.
ecurely packed from obsenraUon. If fall description ot
caaelsglven. On personal Interrlew preferred If convenient-
The Knrg-lcal Instruments and appliances In nw
at tal Institute, are the bet that Mlence can supply.
Butrlelty applied by the new fialrano Faradlc apnara
tua. BalUvUi far hmm sent with full dlrecUon. Write
for description and price.
aOPtZM Alt. UIJLU TO
tola Medical ail Sirgical lisfitife,
.MttiSnand Capitol Ave..OMAHA,NEK.
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MAGAZINE RIFLE.
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iiihiiskII lilt ba nme.BopenoriiiKcii.
racy, rapidity, adal ana Iniali to any other.
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CONSULT the: following alpha
betical list.
AlniLfiS. Arithmetic.. Arnott-s"lu
(fM'iiuini). AlitObras, Jtitntfiipli.- AU
buiusAlpitabot I. m.'U.Attff.iH-Vl'apd.
Arks, A tvordfons. Abstract lVe.jaU7.lp.
lmtUSHKS, 15aj.kot.i:,-ibv Tovs.lw.Us.
Hibk'., Itidls tor ' (ivs. V.lanl.. tttmlt-i,
HirthriaV Card. HasfcVt i:tsjruw. lu
Tuol-oht-sts. Hills. ir-mWr 1im-.s,
boy's U'aynns-. letts .ami Whfctbar
rows, Jtuteiivr look, lrii.s.vit.iL Un-
ifrs. MU-lmoi.s, jTook Strand, IX
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Kalis and Hats.
4'A:'ZBB-S. Card-. Callinjc CanN'.Vard
Ca.-c- Cnmhfc. Comb Cae; liiiir Ca
ies. Checker ItoartN. CliddrenV Cli-iir-,
Cups and Saucers faacv) Circulathuc'
Library, Collar and Cui? Boxes.,. Vp'
Rooks, Christina- Cards. Chinese Tovs,
Crayon-. Checker.- Che men, Croftei
set-.
lOJIi:STll' Sewhitf rchWcr" lr:lW
inu Paper, lr,Mini:. 'liases, 'Umnvs,
Diaries. Draft-' in.!nsok..,o!K Dressed
lloll-. Dominoes. DriWntij ho.oks.. "
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boofcs, Eraser- (Id.ieMioartl)", Kra-ert
(rubber).
FIC'TXift: l!oo!.s,
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tries,Glto lc.
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djij trill-, Ilinu.'.':ise-. HoM.v.imrse,
tl.tud .tW'htf!-, ili'-Inrn.-.-! . .
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.5Z:V"S:i. Ca s, .leivs harps.
Ei I :! of ink, ICitcheu .-el..-
l.l-llX.'KIl. I.cd-er "paper.:
I.Utit-li Im-I.i'Is. .uokilli;t;l:ms
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Jltis-ic boc- MJiraj-.tne-i. Mu-tiehc
cups. Month rs:nts, .Mt''inoiMii"Uim.-1
Music honk. Mn-ic ho!iler Machine
oil. Mats, Moderator's records, Muc:
l:u;e, Mjero-eopc.s.
iM:i:i)l.i-:S for sewing micbfiu
paper. Ntl5
0!:'A:.i. Oil fr sewinu'
Ors; in stools. Oruan -seat.-..
HIM III lie;
li:SEIOBK.'Ai..V. I'icturtv.. Puzzle
blocks. Presents, Picture itnoU. Pl:i!:s,
Pens, Paprirics, Pencils, pnres. '0j.
i-h fornmisiur, Pt'.jj;i!.-:i-:ie.s, P.ij.rr
utter-, P.ipiT li-l.i.ier.-. P:. litre ;or-zle.-,
Picture ii.tiiir-i. Pot Ket i...Ks .
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her dolls.
card. Kubber ball, Unit.
MfJIIOttl. books, Sewing stands. School
Satchels, slates, Stereoscopes and pic
tures. Scrap books. Scrap pictures,
Sewinfi machine needle, Schol ir's com
panions, Specie ptir.-c.-, Siuijin toy
canaries, Metis
for boys, Shawl strap.
Shell good
'ri:i.l-Oli:. Toys of all kinds,
children's Trunks, Thermometers,
Tooth brushes (folding). Tea seM lor
jjirls, Tool chests for bo.s. Teu-piu sets
for boys, Tooth picks, Tiu'toy-.
VIOLINS and strings, Vases.
U'OOSKIIMi: Organs, Vo,-k bas
ket.. Waste baskets, Whips (with
case), Webster's dictionarirc, Weather
glasses, V ork boxes. Whips for boys,
Wagons- for Imys, SV'hat-iiut-, WoodVli
tooth nick.
Eleventh Street, " Journal " Suiliisg.
Cures Guaranteed!
DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 1.
A ( ertain Cure for Nervous- lbiliiy,
ricmiii.il Weakness, Involuntary Rini's
sions, Spcrui:itorriiie:t, ami alL diseases of
the gciiitu-urinary orsaii. caiisfd 1y self
abiisc or over indulgence.
1'iicc, $1 (Ml per box. six boxes $."i.io
DR. "WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 2.
For Knileptie Fits, Veiiul Anxiety,
Less of Memory, boftcnitiK of tin: (train,
and all those diseased of the brain. 1'ric
$1.00 per box, six boxes $."-..-i).
DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 3-
For Impotence, Sterility in either, suk
Loss of Tower, premature old aj,'e, and all
those discancs rcjuiriuj; a thorough in
ioratir. of the sexual organs. Price
?'2.ik per box, six. boxes $10.00.
DR. "WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 4,
For Ileadaebc, Nervou.s Neuralgia, and
all acute diseases of the m-rvou.s vteili.
Price "i0c per box, six boxes $2.3'). '
DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 5.
For all diseases caused by the over-Use
of tobacco or liquor. This lcmedv i.i par
ticularly elncaeioiis in averting palsy and
deli mini tremens.
six boxes $..00.
Price ?l.0' it"- .ox.
We Guarantee a Cure, or arcc to re
fund double the muiiey paid. Certificate
ill each box. This inarantt-t applies to
each of our lie pi-cities. Sent by mall
to any adtlress, secure from observation,
on receipt of price. 15c careful to mciitiurc
the number of Specific wanted. Our
--pccilies are only recommended fur pv-i-itic
diseases. I'eware of remedies war
ranted to cure all these di-eascs with one
medicine. To avoid counterfeit: and a!
ways secure tne guttiim, order onl fruni
IM1U1V A: cinrv.
DRUGGISTS,
ColumbiM, Xcb.
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Health is Wealth!
Du E. fJ.WE3T, Ncnvn and I5n.u Tnn.v?
Uext, a Rnnrnntcerl erxjcific for Hysteria. Dizzi
ness, Convulsions, 1'its. Kervou eiiialcia.
Headache. Nervous Prostration catmcd'by tho iisa
of alcohol or tobacco. Wakialncs. Mental l)o
proMiou, SoftoninK of tlu Urain rwultmir in in
sanity and leading to micry. decay and dcatn.
Prematura Old Ak". Harrcnncss, Lofs-of power
in either box. Involuntary Lo&-? nad.Sr)Crmat--orrhoea
caused byorsr-csertion of tho brain jselfi
abuse or ovor-indulKenco. Each box containa
ono month's treatment. SUflft box.orfeixlxaes
torSM)U,6entbyraail prcraidon receipt of price?.
"WE CUAKAXTEE SlXTlOSF
Tocnroanycaso. With each order rocoivc.d'byn"?
for mz boxes, accompanied with J5.CO. -wo -will
I fond tho moaey if tho trefctmOutdwauotdlffeci "
euro. Cioarantcea. issued ftfUDy
JOHN O. "WEST & CO.,' " .
862 W. MADISOtf ST.,. CHICAGO, ILLS.J.V .
Sole Iro'fi.,sVest,s Iivcc-IIUa.
S500 REWARD! :
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TTE w3l pT t!ie atxyre rrH fcrtny eof Llw Committor" ' i
PyipU.SkkHnjMS.,Ia!.stttirapos!tlFi!oaor.CMllTtpi,
caaaot cart with West's YVgttabl Llitr rillij wba li elite. '
(lets art strict! t'cctpW with. They partly vnrtUU: saJ
tiiirtl to .Its saUtlictlon. Bnzir Jtpstad. Lsrgt.toiii.coa'
Ulllcf ,M pills, tj etcis. If if ssla by all inTt'ts. Biwsrs'ol
caoLUrfaUs and laUstlons. Tb's ftnctne Buututiireil only by
JOHN C. WEST a CO., 11 A Isi W. Hsdi.un;St.. Cafcap.
Ism trial phUsft,uat lj siU prrf aUoa rcttlitgfs 1 cat Uses
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11 TTVT jnore monejvtban at anything.
11 I l el.se.bt- taking an aijciicv for,
TT O.J.1 tbebe'st,sellinr bopkonj: l!e
einner.s .succpciI jrranilly. NoneTcill
.Tcnn.s.feee., JlALL'KkT Uook (So. Purl--land,
Maine. . a-IK-y.
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