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Three worthies* young fellows cot *afe to the door, -Got safe to the door, as the clock (truck n<Tn»; flCach well knew the place, they h«^ been thera bt- --1 fore, jmd t%z ,nd drank of the brandy, and ale, and wiafc "-- men will drink, and women will weep, J$ 'vm »» "•** -- -- . --« <ww*>u wiu n > *na useleiw to cry, tia better to sleep, 'Though they dont come home till , *Throe worthless young feDowa cahie o«t in the <„ street, Came out in the street, a* the elook struck three; Two stalwart policemen they chanced to meet, And were marched straight along to the armory* For men wiH eiufj, and women will weep, fTis useless to grieve, 'tia wiser to aleep, Though they dont coma home till morning. Three worthless young fellows catne homo la the morn, v Ceune bome in the morn, aa the clock struok ten; They ' went out for wool, but alas were shorn I And they wished themselves aiiywLere else" Jut thin. For men will sin, and women will ween, ?Tui waste of affection, forget it iu sleep, And dream till the dawn of the moruing, Evdlutiow ih GaMBLiwe. IlecliAnlcal Devices for t'heatlnc »t Cards and Tiieir (Jsev. [From the New York 8un.] Bie business of manufacturing gam­ bling implements thrives with the gen­ eral prosperity of the country. In all the large cities, particularly in New York and Chicago, there are establish­ ments whence are scattered throughout the country the implements of the trade. Although the law confiscates these im­ plements when men are caught in the act of using them, there fe no law against their manufacture and sale. The goods are therefore made and sold openly. 'When the police break up a gambling den they take away all the tools. But •within twenty-four hours everything can be replaced and the game goes on as before. The mails and the express cars go constantly laden with gambling tools. The prices are generally high and vary but little, as the competition is not great except in the common­ est articles, such as cards and --"Chips. All the latest improvements ill the mechanic arts are brought to bear fa the manufacture. In short, there is evolution in gambling, as well as in everything else. A curious feature of the business is that the different pro­ cesses of cheating are unblushingly ad­ vertised and sold. A reporter recently visited a queer establishment of this kind in Nassau street, which has been fa full blast for twenty years. The pres­ ent proprietor has managed the business for seven years, and says he bought it of a well-known actor, whose rapid rise in the dramatic profession caused him to sell out. He is a short, spare man, about 42 years old, with keen black oyes. He hot only made no secret of his sale of implements for cheating at various gam­ bling games, but was willing to exhibit and explain them. He said he had often been told by gamblers that he was in­ juring the business by exposing the tricks, but he had come to the conclu­ sion that men would gamble, and that each player would somehow think that he could get the best of the game. " What is the cost of a set of faro tools ?" " First you want a dealing box. An honest box, that will pull one card at a time, oosts from $10 to $15. But if you want a box from which the dealer may pull one or two cards at will, without de­ tection, it will cost you from $35 to $75. Here is a crooked box. By pressing a Sring the dealer may pull two cards. e has previously fixed the pack so that lie kn jws the order. You can never win unless he chooses to permit it. Some­ times he will let you raka down bet after bet for small amounts. Then, when you play high, he touches the spring and Jour money is gone. Some dealers ave two boxes exactly alike. One is level or honest; the other is crooked. I made a crooked box the other day to match one that was brought here, and when my customer came for it he could not pick out the new one. The ma­ chinery for these crooked boxes is very delicate, and requires a first-class me­ chanic to make it. An expert dealer will pull two cards instead of one, and the closest scrutiny will not detect it. ^jjTlie faro spread or cloth lay out, with all the cards in the pack painted or giued on it, on which the betters lay their money, costs from $10 to $16. The ease-keeper, used to record the cards drawn, costs from $7 to $20. Some players object to the use of these as offering a chance to cheat. To proteot % the players what are called cue cards are made, serving much the same purpose as the case-keeper. These cost about per 1,000. Then there is a card- press for holding the cards, which costs from u to $8; a check-rack costs $5 ; ivory checks, from $30 to $37.50 per 100. Composition checks are sold as low as $30 per 600." " In what game do you think there is the most cheating ? " " At present there is more cheating ta draw-poker because it is played every­ where. I have seen lawyers, doctors, Judges, Police Captains, merchants, bankers, Congressmen, and, in fact, everybody playing poker. As for Poker fjchenck, I have heard that his ingenious gules were invented for the purpose of permitting a Congressman to win when a member of the third house wanted him to vote for some particular measure. There are monv ways of cheating at poker. One is by marked cards. One way of marking cards is on the backs at the time of their manufacture. Here are seventeen different styles of marked cards which I Bell all over the United States. To an ordinary observer the backs are of an intricate and symmet­ rical pattern ; but I can tell at a glance • every card in any one of the. seventeen p licks." "How can one remember so many marks?" "It is very simple when you once learn. I will guarantee to teach any in­ telligent person to read any one of these marked packs in two hours. It only needs seventeen marks to a pack. Four marks wiH expose the four suits, and ttiirteen marks will expose the cards in each suit. Although the marks are so plain that they can be read as far as you can Bee a card, they are so covered up in the scroll work and patterns that you would not notice them unless they were pointed out to you. Sometimes the marks are in the fold of a flag; some­ times in the turn of an ornamental scroll. Here is a pack that is apparently orna­ mented on the back with a marble pat- terr. By lo king at the upper left-hand s corner you can plainly see a heart, spade, elnl) or diamond carelessly thrown into the pattern. Ail the high cards are de­ noted by the different positions of a lit­ tle scoop. This a gentle reminder of the way the boys get scooped by them. All the low cards are marked with various positions of a little device that looks like the butt of a pistol. A casual observer might think the backs are all alike on each card in the pack. Yet, in faet, each card is printed from a sepa­ rately engraved back. These cards are sold at al>out $1.50 a pack." " But do not these printed markssoon become known among gamblers ?" " Yes. Then there is a way of mark­ ing cards specially for one pack, which costs $7 or $8. This is done to cheat gamblers. I knew a man whj went into a gambling game up town, and played and lost several nights at poker. Then he put private marks on an ordinary pack of playing cards, staked the darky who furnished the cards to the players to put in his pack, and he went out of the game $1,000 winner that night" " What is the advantage of marked cards in poker ?' " You can tell every man's hand as it if dealt before he knows it himself. If he gets a low hand you can often bluff him out of his stake at the start. If he gets a high hand you know when to keep out. But when your turn comes to deal you can give each player whatever cards you please. Watch me deal this pack. I will give you, while you are watching* me, either the second or third card from the top without detection. If I see a good card on top I slip it down and keep it for myself, and deal you the next one. Or I can slip that down, too, if I choose, so that your chance of getting a good hand is Very slim." Suppose some one else furnishes cards that are not marked. Have you any way of marking them ?n •' Several. Here is a little tool called a poker ring. It is apparently an or­ dinary diamond ring. Look at it. You see nothing peculiar about it. Pass your finger over the part that is inside rqy hand. You will feel a little sharp steel point, Suppose you take out a fresh pack of cards which I have never seen. In ten minutes' play I will have all the good cards marked with my little pricker. Every time an ace or a king comes in my hand I will prick a little hole in the corner. That throws up a small burr. When I deal the cards 1 can tell with my eyes shut when I come to one of these pricked cards. You may bet your life I will never fleal one of them to you. Sometimes, to avoid sus­ picion, I will prick four deuces or fours and deal you three aces. Then I make you feel sorry. The slight embossing that is done by the pricker will not be noticed. The old-fashioned way of bend ing corners to mark cards is out of use, as bungling and easily detected. An­ other way by which I can read your hand is by the spy, or shiner. "The spy is a very simple advantage tool. It is merely a little mirror which you fasten to your knee. It is con­ vex, and catches the reflection of the cards at various angles. This is gener­ ally used at a pretty large table, as it is likely to be observed where the players sit close. All I have to do is to look down into the mirror to tell every card I deal you. . This is used where the cards are not marked. If you suspect that you are watched all you have to do is to cross your leg a little while and the mir­ ror is covered up. Sometimes you may hold one in your hand. The price of this beautiful little instrument is only $1.50. But it is not simpler than the 4 bug.'" " A 'bog?' What is the function of a •bug?'" "A ' bug * is an entirely new invention for the purpose of holding over cards when you are playing poker, so that when you need them you can slip them in your hand at another deal. This is done without detection, as the cards are seldom counted. The instrument consists of a strip of steel, which has at one end a little spike that is struck into the under side of the table. The spring lays up against the under side of the table. You can easily slip one or two cards in there with­ out detection, and take them out at your leisure. This gives you two or three more cards from which to make your hand than the other players have. Yuu keep discarding into the bug, and you can soon make any hand you wish. I caught a fellow once playing a bug on me. I never said a word, but went out of the room. When I returned I had changed my ring, and it was not long before I hat! all the cards pricked. I dealt him an ace full and took four tens. Then he wept. He knew nothing about the pricking game. He got quite ex­ cited, and began making remarks when he found he could not win a pot with four jacks. After that I went halves with him, and we worked the biig and the ring together. The ring only costs $1.50." "But was not that risky business? Suppose you were caught with those im­ plements ?" " You mustn't get caught. A genu­ ine gambler goes fixed with all his tools. He cheats you in so many ways that you cannot possibly conjecture now it is done. You may furnish the cards your­ self, and he will beat you. Why ? It is his business. He cannot afford to keep a room and pay for furnishing it and give you a square show. You are trying to get his mon6y. He is trying to get yours. You lose, of cotlrse. You ought to knew better than to play. Here is another nice tool for concealing cards. It has a good deal of machinery about it. " This is called the vest holder. The plan of it is to rig a contrivance inside of your vest that will pull in any num­ ber of cards that you place in it, and carry them c*ear out of sight in your bosom. A string runs down through the leg of your trousers, and is attached to your1 foot. When you want to take a card out, or put one or more in this receptacle, you let up the string with your foot, and the holder marches out. At the same in­ stant you conceal the motion by press­ ing your hands to your breast as you pick up your cards from the table; Thus you are enabled to have two or more cards more than your adversary, and can, of course, hold a good hand every time. This tool costs $15. You have plenty of chances to throw your surplus cards into the pack. Of course you must be careful in secreting cards, whether in your vest, your bug, or any other way, to do it neatly. Some gam­ blers have a skillful way of putting cards down the back of the neck. Of course a man lias a right to scratch his neck. He caSi either scratch a card down or scratch it out. Some men have a knack of disposing of surplus cards by kiting them to a distant part of the room with a dexterous flip. It does not look well, however, after a game is end­ ed, to see cards lying about the room." " Is there much demand for these im­ plements for cheating ? " " Much ; and constantly increasing. I get letters all the time from men who say they are out so many hundred dol­ lars. They think they have been cheat­ ed, but they can't tell how. They want some method of getting square with the game. Once in a while I meet a man who shrinks from using these tools. I can't understand that. When I play poker I want to win. If you have the tools you can wiroevery time." " But will you not be suspected if you win every time ?" " Yes, but that makes no difference so leng as they let you play. I knew a tt is on the principle of gambler once who went into a nifce little party of business men of whom he had been winning $50 a night for a few weeks. He found four men sitting at a table. They all knew him, end said, * Good evening, Doc.' He said, 'How lire you, boys ? Can't you move up and give me a stack of chips ?' They said, • Not this time, Doc, we've made a rule not to let any more in.: He says, * All right,' and took a walk around the block. When he got back he found six men around that table. Then he knew they had dropped on him. They evidently suspected him, but could not tell how he did it. Then he got introduced to men who did not know him." " Suppose a gambler is playing with a lot of square players, could not another gambler come in and spoil his game ?" " Yes; that is often done. The process is very simple. If I see a «kin game going on and I know the ropes and I have the nerve, all I have to do is to rough in and insist upon my half of the skin. Unless the gambler con back me down I get half the pot. Generally he will prefer to give half rather than lose his own plucking. There are plenty of gamblers who are constantly going about town, passing for business meri, who get introduced into clubs and pri­ vate games, and make a handsome stake out of unsuspecting players. Generally when their winnings get suspiciously large they are quietly barred out. Then they must seek new fields and pastures green." " How about roulette--are there any cheating tools in that ?" "Most verdant youth, yes. Here are two roulette wheels. They look per­ fectly alike. You may look at them all day and you cannot find any difference between them. Yet I will never let you win a «?ent on this one, while on "the other you hf.ve only an even chance. It is a common thing for a man to have one square wheel and one crooked one. He may use the square one for months, and then make a handsome stake by using the crooked one a week." " Anything else, you wicked man?" "I am not wicked ; I am merely mak­ ing it very unprofitable for people gener­ ally to gamble. That is really a great moral work. Here is a nice little teeto­ tum. I spin it and it drops with a high number up. I give the same teetotum to you, and you can't hit that number if you spin a year. How is it done ? Merely by turning a part of the top a sixteenth of an ineli. It loaded dice. "Are loaded dice sold openly ? " "Oh, yes. Here they are on my price-list: 'Best ivory exact imitation of common dice.' There are nine of them---three sets. One set always throws high numbers, not always sixes, because that would, be detected at once. An­ other set throws low numbers, and the other set is honest. The sets are exact­ ly alike, and one can be substituted for the other without detection. There is a great demand for these loaded dice, and they cost about $5 a set." "Any other methods of fixing cards for cheating ? " "Yes. Here is a very common meth­ od of fixing cards. Take an ordinary pack and trim the ends of all the cards but the four aces. This leaves the aces a trifle longer than the other cards. It is only a trifle. Yet it is enough to make it impossible to cut them without leaving a card smaller than ace on the top of the cut, if the cards are cut by taking hold of the ends. If you want to be sure that the first card you deal to your opponent will be smaller than the ace,youforcetheonewhocutsto lift by the ends of the cards. Then you know without looking that you have an ace on the bottom of the pack. If you can't deal that to yourself your education has been neglected. The long cards can readily be detected in your hand while you are dealing, and you will have no difficulty in keeping whatever cards you like for yourself, and making certain that your opponent does not get a better hand than is good for him." " But suppose you have to cut such a pack for your opponent. You are sure to cut so that a low cud will be dealt to yourself, are you not ? " " By no means. Of course, if I should cut by taking hold of the ends, the re­ sult would be as unfortunate for me as for him. But my turn is provided for in anotlie^way. The aces, for instance, may be cut a little narrower than the other cards ; then, if you cut by taking hold of the sides of the cards, an ace will be left on top and dealt to you. There are different modes of using the principle of this sort of cards, which are called briefs and strippfers. 'They are well known in the market. They are especially prepared for the different games, so as to enable the gambler to control the cutting of the cards." " Do yon think that these things are used by persons who claim to be hon­ est?" "Honest? I do not believe there is such a thing as honest gambling. I have seen a man worth $2,000,000 steal a $5 chip, and I have seen his wealthy neighbor compel him to disgorge $2.59 on a threat of exposure. At the gaming- ti.^*e that sort of thing is colled hooking a ' sleeper.' You may take it for grant­ ed thatrif you sit down to play poker with a man be wants to get your money. The best thing you can ao is to get his." " I should think you would spoil the sale of these implements by exposing them publicly," the reporter suggested. " By no means. The fools are not all dead yet. Once in a while a gambler tells me that I spoil the sale of tools by notifying the novices: I will take my chances at that. I am not in the gam­ bling business now." " What constitutes a keno set ? " "The very best set costs about $80. This includes globe . and stand, 200 cards, 100 pegs and boards, 200 checks, tally sheet, ball board. 6,000 buttons, and ninety inch balls made of ivory." " What is the cost of crooked roulette wheels ?" •"Jthe well-known gambler who got broken up at Long Branch for cheating had a roulette that cost $800. They ace made of all sorts of materials and at all prices from the $1 toy to $1,000 for ivory inlaid. A roulette cloth costs about $60 single, and $90 double for thirty-six numbers. A roulette table costs from $60 to $120." "Do you thmlr there is much cheat­ ing at whist ?" "Yes; by marked cards, briefs and strippers. I tell yon there is a way to cheat in every game. The strippers are a rare thing in poker. You can hold four aces against four kings. They are good for seven up, for you can get three aces and a chance for the fourth when your opponent deals. They are good in eucher, because you can force your op­ ponent to deal you or your partner the three bowers every tune he deals in spite of himself." "Did you ever know of a man being caught with any of thesa tools ?" "Oh, yes. I knew a man who was working a bug in a poker game. He hod raked down several nice pots when he noticed an outsider watching him. He had seven cards in his hand when he was entitled to only five. He saw that he was spotted, and that he would be watched when he threw down his hand, and probably exposed. Did he weaken? Not a bit. He had $30 in the pot, and the whole pot amounted to $250. Of course he dared not win. His miad was made up quickly. He raised a question about the correctness of the play. The others knew it was all right. He per­ sisted. They insisted. Suddenly he said, * Well if it's all right, I'm out,' and slapped his cards on the pack. Then it was too late for any oua to grab his cards and count them." " What is the outfit far the game of red and blaek ?" , " There is a lay-out something like a faro lay-out, a dealer's box like a faro box, and cards marked in the center so the dealer can tell them. They cost about the same as faro tools. The chances for winning in a square game are about 100 to 80 against the player. Ia a skin game the player ha's no chance. That is about the chance of winning at faro." "One more question : Have you told all the ways of cheating you know?" He shut one eye, reflected a moment, took a swig of beer from a pitcher, a long whiff from an old-time pipe in which he was smoking chewing tobacco, and answered: " Perhaps." * NO BENEFIT. [From the Atchison Champion.] An Indiana newspaper thus writes: Mr. Geo. F. Ileldcrle, of Peru, Ind., says that he had suffered very much with rheumatism and used many remedies without benefit He found the desired relief in St. Jacobs Oil. The Libraries of Europe, According to an English authority, Vienna possesses 577 libraries, contain­ ing together nearly 5,500,000 volumes, without counting manuscripts. The na­ tion which comes next to Austria is said to be France, which boasts 500 libraries, containing 4,500,000 volumes. Italy is not very far behind, with 4,350,000 vol­ umes ; and next Prussia, with above 400 libraries and above 2,500,000 books. Great Britain is reported as having only 200 libraries; but they are allowed to contain nearly a quarter of a million more printed books than Prussia. As to the individual libraries, the largest in size is that of Paris, with something over 2,000,000 volumes; the British Museum comes second, but a long way behind, with 1,*000,000 ; Munich third, with 800,000; then Berlin, with 700,000; Dresden, with 500,000 ; and Vienna, with 420,000. The library of the Vati­ can is set down as containing only 30,- 000 printed books, but it is very rich in valuable manuscripts, the total of which is reckoned at 25,000. The most cele­ brated and largest of the university libraries are the Bodleian at Oxford and that of Heidelberg, each of which is set down as possessing about 500,000 vol­ umes.--Appleton'8 Journal. [Prom the Pottstown Dally Ledger.] A Micmo an journal relates the following: Amos James, Esq., proprietor of the Huron House, Port Huron, Mich., suffered ao bad­ ly with rheumatism that he was unable to raise his arm for three months. Five bot­ tles of St. Jacobs Oil cured him entirely. Erskine's Wit. Lord Erskine was a wit, and the most eloquent advocate of his day. His wit, however, was never venomous, but ut­ tered with such good-natured courtesy as to disarm those whom it pierced. An old lawyer, by the name of Lamb, was constitutionally timid, and on one occasion remarked that he felt himself growing more and more timid as he grew older. "No wonder," replied Erskine, good-naturally; "every one knows that the older a lamb grows, the more sheepish he becomes." • The Duke of Queensterfy laid before Erskine a case as to whether he, the Duke, could sue a tradesman for breach of contract about the painting of his house. As the evidence was insufficient to support the case, Erskine replied as follows: "I am of opinion that this action will not lie, unless the witnesses do." The London residence ©f a distin­ guished Loudon lawyer was subsequent­ ly occupied by a hardware merchant. On learning the fact, Erskine wrote the following epigram: •• This hoiiM\ where once ft lawyer dwelt, 1« now 8 timlh's; alss I ( How rapid'v ti c iron age Succrtils the vge of brnca." A nuNDm bro&kf&et on tha table mrround- ed "by a family of Coughs. Thej used Dr. Bail's Cough Syrup, and that family now keeps it always ou band and recommend* it. Prioe only 25 cents a bottle. How Congress Passes a Bill. In reply to a correspondent who asks for information on the subject, the New York Journal of Commerce says: "One branch of Congress passes a bill and sends it to the other. If the latter adopts it precisely as it passed it theo goes to the President for his approval. But if the bill is amended or changed of its passage in the other branch, it is serf* back with such changes to the house iu which it originated. If these amend­ ments are there adopted it then goeB to the President, but if adopted only in part, it comes back again to the second branch, where the vote is to recede from the amendments or, to insist upon them. If the body insists, then a Commtttee of Conference is appointed, and notice being given to the House, a like committee is appointed, and these two committees meet. If they agree on a report, then the bill as reported is voted on again in each House. If they disagree, each re­ ports, and sometimes a new committee is appointed, and sometimes the bill fails. But if it passes both Houses, then the President signs it, if he approves; if he disapproves, he returns it within ten days to the House in which it originated, with his objections. If that House passes it again by a two-third vote it goes to the other branch of Congress, and if it passes there by a two-third vote it becomes a law. There is no ar­ biter between any of the parties. Don't Take Any Chances on Life when Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Core will regulate and keep tou healthy at all times. It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world, than to think half an hour of a trifling thing. Ek.xbt'8 Extkact or Tab and Wild Chebby has been used for twenty yean, and during that time has saved many verv valuable lives. Do not neglect a cough or cold nntil it is too late. Try this excellent remedy, and we are eu»e yon will be convinced of its merits. Chronic Coughg, and even Consumptives, are cured by follow ing the directions. Every bottle is war- rented to give satisfaction. Prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago. Sold all good druggists. Fob DYSPETSIA, indigestion, depression of spirits and general debility in their various forme, also as a preventive againat fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the Fkisro Phosphorated Eljxib of Calisata Babk, made by Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York, and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic, and for pa­ tients recovering from fever or other sickness it has no equal. Uncle Sam'l Condition Powders are rec­ ommended by stock-owners who have used them ss the best Horse and Cattle Medicine to bejfitd. If the animal is Scraggy, Spiritless, or has no appetite, these Powders are an excel­ lent reined v, and every owner of stock will do well to try them. They are prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago, EL, s very reliable Ann, and sold byall good druggists. Thb best are the cheapest! Buy the diamond boots, mads by BossnthsJ Brothers, Chioago. High or Low Heel*. Some time ago Mr. Morey, of London, devised an apparatus for registering the steps, which he has called an odograph. It consists of a small cylinder, rotating by means of clock wort in its interior, and of a pen which marks on the cylin­ der, and is raised at each step by an im­ pulse communicated by a ball of air be­ neath the sole. Observations have been made on a number of young soldiers. It was ascertained that the step is longer in going up hill than in going down hill. It is shorter when a burden is carried ; longer with low than with high-heeled boots ; longer when the sole is thick and prolonged a little beyond the foot than when it is" short and flexible. It thus appears that the heel may with benefit be almost indefinitely lowered, while it is disadvantageous to prolong the sole of the boot beyond a certain limit, or to give it an absolute rigidity. Some influ­ ences which lengthen the step lessen its frequency; so in going up hill the step becomes at the same time longer and less frequent. In walking on level ground, the xlength of the step and its frequency are always proportioned; the quicker the walk the longer the step. Nature hero proves the folly of the high heel in a most practical manner; and the objection to them in men is equally applicable to ladies; and if they could only see themselves as they totter along, perched up on high heels, and walking as if stepping on egg-shells, their ludicrous appearance would at once stop the fashion. Any one accustomed to country life and long walks on the hills must have felt that terrible leg- weariness which a day's shopping with a lady entails. The slow, irregular walk, the frequent pauses, and the difficulty of taking short steps with proper balance, are trials well known to men. Without a good-shaped, low-heeled boot no lady, however pretty her foot or graceful her carriage, can walk becomingly, with ease to herself, and a proper flexion of the muscles of the feet and legs. Half the ricked ankles come from heels being too high to form a proper steady base for the weight of the body, and the narrow- pointed toes prevent their proper ex­ pansion and usei. Make a footprint in the snnd and then go and place your boot in it--what a margin there will be ! Horses, even, with a horny hoof, suffer terribly if their shoes are cramped and do not allow the foot to expand. Much moref might be written of the accom­ panying ills of tight and high-heeled boots; but as long as women will bear the pain so as to appear taller and to have tiny feet, so long will they do vio­ lence to nature's gifts. Legs and feet were given us for use to exercise the body upon. In fact, so cramped up and stilted has fashion made the walk now­ adays that a lady with wooden legs might pass muster in the park undiscovered. •• • •, . A Terrible Record. Speaking of smallpox, the surgeon in charge of the smallpox hospital in Chi­ cago says: In Cincinnati there died in 1872, 1,179; in 1873, 658; in 1875, 722: in 1876, 929. For 1879 the death rate in the State of Wisconsin, where there was no hospital, was 26.25 per cent.; in the city of Montreal it was 28.43 per cent., and in Chicago it was nearly 17 per cent. In Chicago, the cases treated at the hos­ pital within three years numbered 310, and the deaths during that period were 49. This was a record which had never been equalled iu London, England, dur­ ing a period of one hundred and nine­ teen years. COUGH *ITTERs • HVALID8 Who have lost bat are recovering vital stamina, daolar* n grateful termi their appreel ition of tha merits as a tonic of Hoatettor'a Stomach Bitter*. Not only doe* a Impart atrength to the weak, It ooirecta an irregula? acid state of the atomach, make* the bowels act at proper Interval*, givea ease to thoae who auffer from rheumatic and kidney troubles, and conquer* as well m prevent, fever and acne. tr For aale by all Drnoteta and Deateri genwrallr. PISO'S CURE for Con*nmpt!on Is stea > the best cough medlome. #AQA a year to Agents and expenaea. (6 Outfit f"®" Iree. Address F. SWAIif A QO^&ufiOEta.Me, tlOUINO I.AMFK for apearamen.Unexcelled.Send • 1911 for 11 lrcalar. J. R. BAKER, KendallTllle, lod. r1 A CUT PREMIlTMH.-8.mple and terms free. Monthl* Nation, ~ , Warren, Pa. k GKNTH WANTED for the Sort and Puteat-V Selling Pictorial Books and Bibiea. Prloea reduced I per ct. National PcSLiaaiNa Co., Chicago, 11L [ARTLAND FARMS, to per Acre. L Short winter*, breexy aummer*. healthy climate, atalogue free. H. P.CHAMBERS, Federalaboig, Md. 7 Ml Ml A Y1 7 7 YKAR and expenses to ta. Outfit Free. Addreaa P. IC'KKRY, Augusta. Maine. IIICIITB IKAMTCfl1" every dtyortofcn. Nocap- HDCiV I SI nun I CU itnl required. Address, with references, Garden City Grain Exchange, Chicago, 111. VflllllG MEM S'-eamTelegraphy! Bans040to«100• lUUlia men month. Graduates guaranteed pey tngoffloes. Address Valentine Bbos.. Janeaville.Wis Names of Heirs stamp for " Next of Kin Gazette," 247 Cutter Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. IPL0YMENT-- * C«. IM lissris sJuh1.imLo! A Month esUieg t@ DEAi ___ SAMPLES F&££, 3a. ErTJJfP & wmtm ruUef * nmn • KIDDER'S TOTTUE8.^Kdl™i: lubartestowQ, Miu. aly 19 fnf. KAETI^KZ lh*av*k» Sffcftufa aiwJ will for 80 esai® toiffat. cotar ey©£„ aud sf £>&ir, % set nerval of r«u? future fcuefeasd » gssfebeJegwaft* 10 SUM-; n. Sartia, Winning a Wife at Cards. When Hazleton was first settled and laid out as the town of the middle coal­ field, a number of young, men used to congregate in some of the shanties at Crystal Ridge and play cards for such stakes as railroads, mines, mills, horses and pretty women. On one occasion the boarders were playing forty-five for the servautrgirl, a blooming maid whose name was Biddy McGee. Biddy was, of course, unconscious of the fact that her fate hung on a pack of cards, and was at the time washing dishes in the house^when a loud guffaw caused her.to run in the shanty. " Phat's the matter wid vees now?" said she, and in a jiffy. Charley McGin- nis jurtiped to his feet and exclaimed: _" Biddy, Begorra, I won yon thk min- ait, and bate Tom Brannigan." "Did ye?" " Troth, I did, and phat do you H»'nt iv it ?" " Sure, I think you got a prize, Char­ ley." " Are you iu earnest, Biddy f " Of course, I am." " Well, would you marry me?' "In troth I would, Charley." The next day there was a weddinff, and Charley and his wife, who are still living, will never forget the game of forty-five played by the boarders in the shanty at Crystal Ridge twenty-six years' a«°. THE GREAT GERMAN REMEDY FOB MEUMATISI, 'NE1JRAL6IA,' SCIATICA, . LUMBAGO, BACKACHE, CS-OTJT, SORENESS or THB CHEST, SORETHRQIT, QTJIHST, SWELLINGS AMD SPRAINS, FROSTED FEET AIVD EARS, Bumra AND [ General Mil j Pains, TOOTH, EAR AJTD HEADACHE, AND ! ILL OTHER FURS No Prep&rfttfoM on enrth equal* St. Jacobs Oil m a tAint, SGMK, si mplb and CHEAT ExUmal Reiiwdf. A trial total) • b«t the oomparatiTely trifling outUy of SOCkjcts, and •••ry Ml suffering with pain oaa turn cbeap ana positive pntf m Hi piucnoig II BUVM LAKatAtim Mil «l All MIMISTS AMI KAUtt IN MEBIGM. A. VOQELER A CO. .Baltimore, Md., V. B, A* $350 A MONTH | Arm(I W Article# in the pi«/Vm. JAY BROl he world: 1110 Dstf&t. lUoh. BESTS mr thing for AGKNT8. Our endid Photo. Family Record icture. C.F.Short,Cbicago, IlL CELLULOID EYE-GLASSES. Representing th* ehoiosst-seleeted Tortoise- 8bell and Amber. The lightest, handsomest, and strongest known. Sold by Opticians and Jewel em. Made bv the SPENCER OPTICAL MTO CO., 13 Maiden Lane. New York. I! Mr T>xe totha BAROT and BEST; ttaoUln*tant* the SKltN. and ia HiUr ap f DlOTinADAfQpM*1' It la a atandard pr»p 1 lllo I nUUltv Oarmtion. and a faTotita om firerf wall-appolntad tollal for Lady oiUantleman. Sold by Drunrfata and appliad by Hair-Dreasara. D«pot William St..NewYork O. N. ORITTENTOM. Aft Rheumatism, Neuralgia. No otUer preparation ban cured so many eases of these dietretimng complaints as Pond'8 EX" tract. Pond's Extract Plaster cents) is invaltialilo in theao diseaseo, Lumbago, Paint) in Hack or Side, etc. Pond'8 Extract Ointment cents), for uko when removal of clothing in inconvenient, is a grfsat help iu relieving inflammatory cases. Sold by all Druggists, FALSE GODS . 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P AGENTS WANTED f OR THE ICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD Embracing full anil authentic nccnunte of every nation I nuuieilliu aUWIUmtj O.. of ancient imd modem times, and including a h story of tba rise and tall of the Greek and Roman Empins, tha •liddl© ages, the ©nsg^dee, eh© feudal system, the refor­mation, tlie disoovery and &9tt lament or the New World, •"""VI., Xiao Uievuioi; auu CIS I X)<J VW V* liritj, etc., etc. It contains fsn© historical engravings, and is the most complete History of the World ever published. Send for •pooiiueui gmges and extiis tanas to A|tfit«. Address NATIONAL PUBLISHING 00.. Ohlosco,IIL Lay the Axe * _ to the Root tt yea would destroy the can­ kering worm For any exter­ nal pain, sot wound or lame­ ness of man fir liaast, use only MEXICAN MUSTANG LINI­ MENT. It penetrates all mus­ cle and flesh to the very bone, expelling all inflammation, soreness and pain, and healing the diseased part as no other Liniment ever dhl or cun. So ttii th the experience of two generations of sufferers, and se will you say when yon have tried the 44 Mustang." , FRAZER AXLE GREASE. A GOOD FAULT BEIEDT. STRICTLY PURE. fThla engraving represent* the Langts in m bwithy afa|p| WHIT THE DOCTORS SAVt DR. FLETCHER, ol Lexington. Misaonri, aayar "I recommend yoor * nnlRsiaa' in preference to aaf oter DR. A. C. JOHNSON, of Mt. Vernon, M, ml>-- a# aome wonderful cures uf fi'oit«nm|»tinn in his plaw by the use of "Allen'i I.ni<( Bnlnam." ' -"J vx-i fa DR. J. physician of (went; B. TURNER, Bkrantetille, Ale., a |imi llalM twenty-five years, writes: " It ia Um Mjl preparation for (Jonkumption in the world." Foi tall niwoifa of the Threat. Lai •y' _ excel!siit PnlioaarrOtgaaa, It will fee f« «a<raM AS.AN EXPEOTORAMI IT HAS NO EQUAL. IT CONTAINS NO OPIUM IM AST I. N. HARRIS ft CO., Proprietor* CINCINNATI, O. FOI SUE BY ALL 0RUGSI8T8. _ SEED, Patalo&\! My Annual l-atnl«miie of TefHnblf aii _ lower for 1881. r?ch In eninvivin*s ivon photographs of the original^ wiS). be sent FRKti to aP who apply. I offer one of the largest collect!* ns of v _ table 6ead ever sent out by an}1 seed hou*e in America, m L&rjze portion of which were grown on my five seed farms. JFW/ (lirrr.'ioni f'ifr rtilfrmfiou on each paeAtiij*. Alt Mtd tc&rmnted to be both jt'resti ami (wt* 10 ttaute ; so far, tbtl should it prove otherwise, I refill the order gr+th* Tne original introducer «»f the Hubbard Squashj Pfcrin- ney's Melon, Marhlehead Cabbages, Mexican Corn, and scores of other vegetables, 1 invite the patronage of mlt who are anuioue to have iheir *ee*1 dire.rtty Jrom At gro*oer%fre*h% true, and of the rer# btU strain. NEW VEGETABLES a Specialty. •IAMBS J. H. GREGORY. MarMehead- MORE THAN 100 STYLES OF THE MASON & HAMLIN ORGrANS are now regular] y made, from *rna 109 tshou n in the cuth the latMt Bud smallest pize, impuBriv know* as the KA1IV OK(}A\, at i.nlv TTT. to a larce t ONl'ERT UKCANM •901). IwESTT (5TTLE8 at from MS to $130 each; r:rrr rtixbb |t 11)1 to ilGQ: FORTY STYLES at V16O to «300 ana op; cash pricos. Sold a ' for EASY payments, from MJ81 quarter up. The BABY OBDi is especially adapted tochiMren, j _____ _ will bo fmtmi equally usrftil PRICE, $22. adults, having flee quality of t«w and power, ana sufficient compass {three ami <i quarter octaves'! for the full parta-cf hymn-tunes, antbema, aoagi and immiUr Mcred and mcsiar music genenXy. MASON A HAMLIN ORGANS arc cettalnlr Mm BEST IN THE WORI-TX liavhig won HIGHEST AWARRS for PKMONCTKATEIt Br l'KRIOKITV at KYEST • ONE of the GREAT WOliJ.K S EXHIBITIONS : thiutbkn tears; betu have bfn found worth. .. ILLUSTRATED <?AtALOOTJES snd pbicv tm free. MASON i HAMLIN OUUA.V CO., 3MT.cinOMI Bt„ BOSTON ; 44 East MUi St. (Union Squats), JUHf vORK{ 1*9 Ave,CHICAUO. " Zi NICHOLS.SHEPARO & CO Battto Creek, Michigan, HUnUOTDBBi OV THB OIX.T BMUIM VIBRATOR THRE8HKR8, Traction and Plain Engines and Horse-Powers. •HP--pletoTHrartai ? EstabOehe# titk(V«U. 1 KRna«w, without ehaij^e^or . management, or location. • tn«hMnwi|rf{mMaU ew#eeA, STEAM - POWER SEPARATORS Complete SteaiOitllUo/MKcMeNi Knmt TntctlM Engines and Plain •Ter Been in the American market A multitude qf tptetal fntwr** and (aiiMniimt for 1881. together with nptrtor <ptalitiew in coiutntk ffrn nn 1 mufiriufi nnt rtrrahinil nf tiT rittirr iinWif Four aires of Separator*, from 6 to IS hara# Capacity,/or or imwjwtHr. Two atylee of " Mounted Horaa-Ptrwvn. 7,600,000 constantly on hancC from which ia built tha 15 comparable wood-work of our machinery. TRACTION EN8MES NICHOLS, SHKPARD A OO. Battto Onsfe, 8fi§ohl0M» The Best Field XP4 EMIGRANTS. AN 1MMBMNE AREA OF RAILROAD AND GOVERNMENT I.ANDS, OF GREAT FERTILITY. WITHIN EASV REACH OV PERMANENT MARKET. AT EXTREMS* LY LOW PRICES. Is nsw •Teretf fsr wie fc» EA8TEMN ©MEGON and EASTERN WMS 1NGTON TERRITORY. sf ?iO »• SOO «tiw fr.m Portland. ateMsl^ »n« mJC GRAIN AT PORTLAND* OREGON. COM* HANDS A PRICE EQCAL TO THAT OB­ TAINED IN CHICAGO. The earl# completion of «*• JTM-efter» eifle R. R. i* «otr aasswd, «*«l guarantem to settlers eheap and quick trmnaportatUm* and good market* both Mmst a»i Ifaat. Thm oven iHtf of ihu new iwrlotMi line to the " _ • .S ._ sic* r«M«r--• rffn-- e'irir, together with the conatruetioi* of th» netu orh- of 700 'miles of railroad ky l*« O. Mm Jt „V. Co. in (be vaUev»ofth« ffremt Colftntftm mt id ffci principal tributaries, render* oertatim m rapid increase in the value of the l«i»> &pe>i to pnrehtue ami pre-emtptiam. There is ftwj iNdiMtim of am fimnwiw truwwiil of population to the Columbia jtiwr teyion in the immediate futurv, LANDS MIIOW an AYERAGE YIELD mt W BlxSllKLH OF WHEAT KK ACKli No Falinre of Cr«ps ewer kaewn. RAILROAD LANDS effere* at the aaMhn* fate af S3t.SO m Acre. CLIMATE MILD AND HEALTg* For ranitklet and MM. deWSfpitre £ MvSLjMM waTfttlf UfarnatlM. nSSawaf Ju I* STOKES* Saw"! Baitm Fun* A««a** on.tr. R& lit