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LITTLE FEET. Hark! I hear the littla fMt Of Sx> tiny Majfcin eweet Pattering on the floor; Sack and forward, to and Vow they come, and now UM3^)1^ ; Beat.1 p«« evor more! First a pattering, then a i Faster now, mod now thay oaaM, Waiting at the door; How renew their little part, Practice all their tiny art Freshly o'er and o'er. Muric spring* from every beat. Oome» fo soitiy and go sweet, Thrill* ns through and throwth Like a poet's soothing rhyme*, ~ Or the evening's mellow chimea <yar the watera blue. Kow I hear there on the stair! Tea, the little feet are there. Coming sure and wow; Now they p«tt»-r, now they ita& Fee tna out tlieir JitUe way To tha room balow. How they aafely reach the floor, Come they quickly through tha door. Opened for them wide; Bring they in with ropuitth grsoe A little merry, laughing face, To darling mamma's aide. There they gladly rest awhile Heath the sunshine of her amila. There we'll let them be; But the echoes tsoft and sweet Of thofc little puttering feet Throngh tlie tewing yaars shall gnat Our loving memory! "TORPEDO JIM. *lii Xaiy mt a Mo«Bllfh»»r-Uf!B la UM M Fields «>r Korthera t'enniflYaala. "I am dying; yes, dying." Away up on the Bingham lands, in the great northern oil field of Pennslyvania, a man lay dying. The flare of a huge gaa jet came struggling through the wide crack of the rude hemlock board shanty and fell on the form of a man upon whose features the hand of trouble and sorrow had left heavy traces. He was alone, save the writer of this, and as the hours dragged slowly along he grew uneasy, as if he feared and dreaded the end which was inevitable. With an ef­ fort he roused himself. "What time is it?" he asked. "Nine o'clock." "Big Jack won't be home till half«past 12, and before that time I will be locat­ ing 'wild cat' wells in another world." "Shall I go for him?" "No, oh, no! Don't leave me. I couldn't watch out the last tour and run the last bit alone. I want to tell Big Jack something, but you will do just a* well. Can you keep a secret?" "Yes." "Well, it's a strange story I've got to tell, and I want somebody to know it bef<»r*--" He paused a long time for breath. The cabiu or "shanty" in which he lay was situated in :i sheltered spot among a cluster of giant pines, and was the only habitation for miles around. Five men occupied the cabin--two drillers, two tool-dressers, and a male cook. Two of the men were, at 9 o'clock at night, busy at the test weH a half uiile a way, two others were on a visit to Bradford for provision supplies, and the fifth one lay in a rude bunk abovb the gas stove, tossing l'rom side to side and waiting for the "silent summons." It was Torpedo Jim, the moonlighter. Jim had been sick for three days, so the head driller, Big Jack Sanford, said, arid as I stood by tiie side of his bunk and watched the p.tin-coutorted face I wished I might lift the veil hanging over this man's life and so learu the romance and tragedy lying deeply hidden beneath the blue shirt and heavy coat.. As I stood watching and waiting he started up iu a fright. "My (rod, did you hear that?" he al­ most shrieked. "No; I heard nothing. What was it?" "A woman's scream. I have heard it before more than once. Go outside and listen." Curiously wondering what the man could mean I opened the door and stepped out iuto the night. All was still and dark save a low whispering among the pines and the flare of the burning gas. Away off down the valley at the test well I could hear the puff, puff of the laboring engine as it swung the ponderous drilling tools up and down, and the ring of the heavy hammer as the tool dresser pounded the bit into proper shape. No other sound broke the still­ ness of the night, and the little cabin under the pine was as silent as the grave. Into the room again and by the invalid's bunk was but a step, and as his eyes met mine the mute question was quickly answered: "I could hear nothing except the well; all is still." was my reply. "It must l>e that I am dying: yes, dying," the man murmured once more, "and I cannot go with a secret on my mind." After having been propped up with a pillow of old coats and ljoots he began: "I s'pose yon have heard of Torpedo Jim, the moonlighter? Yes? Well, that's me, and I got the name because I'm the only liviug nvan that took active part in two glycerine explosions and lived. I've handled hundreds of tons of thtj infernal stuff, both in the employ of Roberts, the torpedo monopolist, and working for myself, skulkiug around the woods at night and shooting wells agaiust the law. I've been a pipe line man, a tool dresser and a dnller and a heap of other things besides, but the worst business I or or got into was this same moonlight­ ing. A man will stay out of it so long as he fears God and regards man, and I tell you lie gets pretty well hardened before he cau sneak around nights with enough dynamite to blow him into four different townships in the wink of an eve. When a man gets so that he don't care whether he lives or dies the next minute he goes into moonlighting and makes a heap of money. Oh. yes, there's lots of money in it, but it is dearly earned cash. But I wasn't always a moon­ lighter. Oh, no; I used to be as promis­ ing a boy as ever walked, and that was only a short time ago. I am only twen­ ty-six vears old now, but 1 have felt to be nearly fifty for the past two years. What made me a moonlighter? I'll show you. There, tluit. made me a moonlighter and --«^-#nurderer!'" It was a pictnre, a small locket pic­ ture. of a beautiful young woman with dreamy brown eyes, sweet pouting hps and a wealth of dark brown hair. A most lovable young lady, surely, if the picture miprht' be taken as a basis of cal­ culation. The features were strongely familiar to me, for they resembled the features of the wife of a prominent oil operator whom I had met several times at private receptions and small parties. The mat) continued without interrup­ tion : "Ah, you start," he said, with a fierce laugh. "You have seen the original? Yes ? And you will see her again, too. Four years ago I was engaged to that woman, and I was as happy as the day was long. I had bright prospects io life then, and my father, who was in business in Philadelphia, where we lived was supposed to be pretty comfortably fixed in life. But some how or other, after he died and his affairs were straight­ ened out, my mother and I hadn't a cent to give a beggar. I tried clerking and book-keeping in Philadelphia for a while, but it was no go, and to cap the climax of my misery the young lady'I was ettf&ged' to broke off the engage­ ment, with the polite excuse that she stranger, and when I came to my s I wasn't the same man. I didn't thought too much of me to hamper me with^ au engagement, and that I could climb the ladder of fortune much better If I were not bound by ties of any kind. Very tender and considerate, wasn't she. She never cared for me as much as she did for my money, but I just worshipped her, and when slie threw me over in that oool way I wilted right down and left the city. I landed iu the lower oil country, and tried to do something. And then when I saw my mistake it was too late to get good bargains on leases in the north­ ern field, hut I came here all the same and tried to make my way. I had my mother to support in Philadelphia all the time, and it was through her that I learned of the marriage of the woman I loved to a wealthy man from the oil re­ gions. I was sick for two weeks after that, senses care to live, and if it hadn't been for my poor old mother I should have killed my­ self. I became rough and reckless and did the roughest work I could find. I drove team a while, and then built rigs and dressed tools. After a while I turned driller and tried to save money for my mother, but I didn't make it fast enough. The longer I lived in the northern field the more wreck! ess I became, and it was not long before I was a moonlighter. I made torpedoes for shooting wells against the law, and lived out in the woods in a little log hut, and hated the sight of man. I soon became the boldest and most successful moonlighter in the country, and every cent of money I could get Above expenses I sent to Philadelphia. I got on the inside of a lot of information some lucky speculators had, and took a flyer on the market with splendid result I made money hand over fist, but fortune came too late to do me any good, and though I was still a young man, I looked forward to nothiug this world could give. A year ago this winter I took to drinking 'tangle-foot' whisky, and after two or three sprees I got to going at a terrible rate, and one day in the early spring of 1880, some time in April, I think, I got into a row with a man at the head of Tram Hollow, and we had a red-hot fight We were both drunk, aud when I fouud I was getting the best of him a wild thrill ran through me, the devil took full posses­ sion of my actions, aud before I con Id think twice 1 had stabbed him to the heart, and my hands were stained with the blood of a fellow creature!" The dying man shook with agony as the thoughts of that terrible deed came upon him, and his pain-distorted face was lifted in prayer for mercy aud for­ giveness. It was a solemn hour for a stranger to that rocky country--the death-bed confession under the moaning pines and the long shadows of the giant trees casting their sombre forms about in the flickering light of the gas jet. A silence fell upon us suddenly; the moan­ ing of the pines sank to the faintest of whispers; while from afar down the val­ ley came the whirr aud roar of the bull wheel as the*cable of the heavy drill at the well ran with lightning speed over the crown pulley down into the earth two thousand feet "Hark!" said the man whom death was about to claim. " Big Jack is run­ ning the tools aud getting them slide so that I can hear. It is the last time I will ever hear that sound. I have heard it often and handled the bull wheel brake many times. I never will agaiu; no, never again on this earth." He was silent again aud so still was the night that I could hear the thud of the walking beam and the rattle of the cable against the derrick. The silence became absolutely painful, until at last the melancholy face of the dying man was raised again. "Stranger, come nearer; I'm goiug fast and I must tell you the rest. After I had killed that man I hid the body in a clump of brush and searched him to learn who he was. I never found out for he had on his oily clothes and there was nothing in his pockets only this, a little piece of paper, and on it was writ­ ten: 'What is life? 'Tis but a vapor; soon it vanishes away.' True, isn't it? At least I have found it so. Well, after I hid that man in the bush heap I wan­ dered around the country and couldn't eat or sleep. It was glorious weather at that time; everything was as dry as a bone, and the next day as I stood be­ fore that brush pile, by some power of attraction that made me go there, I saw a great column of black smoke rise up near Row City. I knew it was au oil fire aud I knew it would sweep a large area of country aud leave nothiug but ashes and the casing in the oil wells. The ground was sprinkled with oil all over the field and the leaves were as im- flammable as powder. Well, I watched the Row City fire grow larger and larger, and all at once I became a fiend incar­ nate and set the leaves and oil-soaked brush on fire arouud the big tinder pile that hid the body of the unfortunate pauper I had lulled. Instantly the whole place was a blazing mass and the fire spread so fast I had to run for my life. Did you ever see an oil fire ? Yes ? And saw the fires in Row City, Tram Hollow and Foster Brook on that awful day ? Is that so ? Well, then, you know how fast they run and what a roar they make. It was just awful that day. I never saw anything like it. It was re­ ported that the Tram Hollow fire was accidental and that the fire started from some sparks that hadabeen smoldering in a stump pile. That's all nonsense, for I started the fire myself aud had to run for life to keep out of its way. Like a crazy old fool I ran down the valley with the wind and the fire followed me like a monster ready to avenge itself. There were some houses down in the valley and they used to call the place Oil Cen­ tre, and wheu I reached the first house the fire had caught up to me and I jumped into the creek and ran down in safety out of the reach of the fire. " Pretty soon I came to a house that belonged to a woman, and it was all she had between her and poverty, and I saw her trying to cany out some things, but before she could do anything the fire swooped down and caugut up that house like a whirlwind. That woman turned to me, gave one unearthly, heart­ rending scream and fainted awav. I took care of her until she was able to walk, and then put her in charge of some of her friends. Oh, that awful scream. I have heard it many times since, and I heard it to-night while you were here. It has haunted me day and night; it has given me no rest. I some­ times think that the pauper I killed was some relative of hers, and that her scream comes to me in punishment for the deed. You know the result of that Tram Hollow fire ? Scores of people thrown on the world homeless and penniless; thousands upon thousands of dollars lost; children crying for bread about the skirts of their heart-broken mothers. I have since done what I could in a feeble way to see that those homeless people did not suffer for the necessaries of life; but, oh, the remorse that has gnawed at my heart since that fatal day! Why, oh, why did I ever touch the acursed whisky that made me a fiend ? Why, oh, why did the woman I loved drive me to this ? Oh, curse--" He stopped as if stricken dumb, his eyes glaring wildly from their sockets, his face a picture of horror and fear. " My God!" he shrieked; "that scream again! Did you hear it? No, how could you, for it comes only to me. I feel that I'm going very fast now. Come closer. Here, take the picture and keep it, and -- some--day show it--to the wo­ man it represents--and tell her--and-- tell her--I--I loved her--to--the--the-- last!" The gaslight came struggling through the cracks in the rough cabin and fell upon an upturned face, from which had faded sorrow and care and hate and fear and all things earthly, and which as the angel of death released the suffering spirit reflected from its cold form the look of peace and love of the dead but unforgotten past Slowly, reverently, I closed the door of the rude building and left the dead alone with the cliauging shadows under the moaning pines. Down the littlo valley to the test well I walked as in a dream, and as I opened the door of the derrick aud stood before the giant form of Big Jack San ford. That large- hearted man gazed at me in surprised silence. " The man up at the shanty" I-- be­ gan, and a lump seemed to come into my throat all at oace. " Yes ?" said Jack interrogatively. " He is--is--dead!' and I sat down on the anvil in sheer despair. "What! Jim Barton ? Torpedo Jim ?" I could only nod assent " Dead! Torpedo Jim dead! Poor Jim!" A great sob shook the burly form of the driller as he groped blindly for the throttle wheel With a creaking and jarring the pon­ derous machinery came to a standstill, and honest-hearted Jack Sanford leaned against the back brate of the sand-reel and wiped the moisture from his eyes with a kind of a groan. The tool dresser came rattling into the derrick with a Gem Theater song on his lips, but as he saw his fellow worker the song died away and he stood in amazement before his friend, nervously wiping his grimy hands with a bit of waste. "What--what's the matter, Jack? Lost a bit down the hole or has she stuck fast in the rock?" inquired the tool-dresser. No reply. "Ain't broke the temper screw, nor nothin, hev ye?" With au effort the driller roused him­ self aud started the heavy tools once more. Then nodding toward the bull wheel and then at the tug wheel rope- wit, he soon hod the tool-dresser busily engaged in preparing to raise the tools from the hole two thousand feet under the ground. Have you ever stood in an oil derrick and watched a heavy set of drilling tools being raised from"the bottom of u hole two thousand feet deep? How the cable springs and stretches; how tue timbers creak and groan, as if every revolution of the monstrous bull wheel was attended with pain, aud how the en­ gine labors and fiercely coughs forth its discontent at such hard work. As Big Jack Sanford turned on the 'team that night and started the drill from its rocky bed, every piece of tim­ ber and every bit of iron seemed to erv out agaiust the proceeding. Never had the thickly-braided cable shot out from the hole with such lightning speed, and never I>efore had the tool-drenter for­ gotten to pour water down the hole as the swaying tools came rushing to the surface. How the dirty water and bits :>f sand did fly about as the cable ratllea over the boards of the derrick! But ten nerve of Big Jack never faltered, and i'i the midst of the rush and roar he found time to order the tool dresser to put out the fire under the boiler aud close -up for the night At last the unwieldy dri'l stood dripping on the derrick floor, and silently the driller led the way up through the wooded valley to the lonely cabiu. As we neared the place I gently held the tool-dresser's arm and allowed Big Jack to go on and enter th^ cabin alone. All this time the tool dresser was profoundly ignorant of the whole affair, and as I broke the news to him as gently as pos­ sible, the usually thoughtless man so­ bered down and said nothing for a long time. At length, with a suspicious liuskiness in his voice, he spoke. "Poor old boy! his troubles on this earth are over forever. And poor Jack, he loved Jim like a brother, although he knew that Jim was once a high-toued cuss from New York or some big city. They say he had a mother, but ho was ashamed to see her as he was, aud none of us, not even Big Jack, knows where she is. But I know she lias l»een well provided for, because Jack told me Jim had given her about twenty thousand dollars that he made up here. She wanted him to come home and live with her, and they say that when he would get a letter from her he would go out into the woods by himself and stay till night, and then he would burn the let­ ter in the fire. Strange, wasn't it?" Softly we entered the little cabin and stood in the presence of the dead. It seemed so strangely that death should come down and lay his hands on the sick mau under the health-giving pines; it didn't seem like other haunts of death, like funerals in churches and grand houses, where sorrowing friends crowd around the silver-trimmed casket and take a last look at the tenement of clay. There it was pomp and wordly sorrow; here it was poor, unfortunate James Barton, Torpedo Jim, lying in his bunk so cold atid still and silent. We sat in the little cabin a long while iu silence, each man busy with his own thoughts and strangely affected by the presence of death iu the lonely forest. The night wore apacc and after awhile Big Jack Sanford, the driller, rose and went out of the room into the early morning, clos­ ing the door carefully, as if afraid he might disturb the corpse of his friend. Hours passed as one by one the stars faded away aud the sun came gleaming through the tree-tojw and the tool-dresser and I dropped off to sleep, and when we were awakened by the sound of footsteps we saw Big Jack coming toward the cabin with a rough hemlock box Bhaped like a coffin. " It isn't so nice as I could wish," said Big Jack as he deposited his burden on the board table, " but it is the best we can do." With the loving tenderness of a father, Big Jack gathered the inanimate form of Torpedo Jim in his strong arms and laid him gently in the narrow coffin. And then he and the tool-dresser lifted the remains and carried them through the doorway and down the path leading past the well. It was the most sorrowful funeral procession I have ever seen; it wasn't much of a procession, to be sure. Jack and his fellow-worker led the way with the body and I followed. Yet there was sorrow there; sorrow for the dead, and aching hearts and broken sighs joined with the moaning pines in chant­ ing a requium for one to whom fate had been a bitter enemy. Down past the wall to a lightning-blasted giant pine and at its foot was a newly-made grave, the last loving labor that noble-hearted Jack conld do for his dead friend, and then, as we lowered the blue-eyed man into his last resting place, the eon burst through a cloud and fell full upon us and cast a halo of golden glory about the scene, and when all was done the driller raised his arm*, and Mid slowly and solemnly: r "Peace to his dust and ashes through time and eternity. Amen." Poor Jim? Yes, poor Jim; for away out in the Bingham forests sleeps the blue-eyed man, who will always be in the great army of those who die un­ known to home and friends, and who will to the end of time be among the missing. And in her comfortable Phila­ delphia home the patient, loving mother waits and watches for her boy, the boy who will gladden the old, tried heart, and brighten the old home never again on this earth, and by-aud-by she will put away the well-worn Bible and gold- bowed spectacles and lie down to sleep the sleep that rights all wrongs, heals all wounds, and gives the beloved eternal peace and rest And in a little valley in the great north­ ern oil field there stands a giant blasted pine, with these words: '/Sacred to the memory of Torpedo Jim, who died unknown, 1881."--Phila­ delphia Timet. *A true story. Tla« Gnateat BIcMiof* A simple, pure, hirmteHs remedy, that cures every time and prevents disease by keeping the blood pure, stomacu regular, kidneys and liver active, is the greatest, blefniap ever conferred upon man. Hop Bitters is that remedy, and its proprietors are being blessed by thousands who have been saved and cured by it. Wii-' you toy it? See another oohunn.--Eagle. Ia an Insect's Place. What a horrible place must this world appear wheu regarded according to our ideas from an insect's point of view! The air infested with huge flyiug hungry dragons, whose gaping aid snapping mouths are ever intent upon swallowing the innocent creatures for whom, accord­ ing to the insect, if he were like us, a properly constructed world ou^ht to be exclusively adapted. The solid car£h continually shaken by the approaching tread of hideous giants--moviug mount­ ains--that crush out precious lives at every footstep, an occasional draught of the blood of these monsters, stolen at life-risk, affording but poor compensa­ tion for such fatal persecution. Let us hope that the littlej victims are less like ourselves than the doings of ants aud bees might lead ns to suppose; that their mental anxieties are not pro­ portionate to the optical vigilance indi­ cated by the 4,000 eye-lenses of the com­ mon house fly, the 17,000 of the cabbage butterfly and the wide-awake dragonfly, or the 25,000 possessed by certain spe­ cies of still more vigilant beetles. The insect must see a whole world of won­ ders of which we know little or nothing. True, we have microsco}>es, with which we can see one thing at a time if care­ fully laid upon the stage; but what is the finest instrument Ross can produce compared to that with 25,000 object glasses, all of them probably achromatic, and each one a living instrument with its own nerve brauch supplying a separate sensation? To creatures thus endowed with microscopic vision, a cloud of sandy dust must appear like an avalanche of massive rock fragments, aud everything else proportionally monstrous. Insects are probably acquainted with a whole world of physical facts of which we are utterly ignorant. Our auditory apparatus supplies us with a knowledge of sounds. What are these sounds? They are vibrations of matter which are capable 'of producing corresponding or sympathetic vibrations of the drums of our ears or the bones oritur skull. When we carefully examine the subject, and count the number of vibrations that produce our world of sounds of varying pitch, we find that the human ear can only respond to a limited range of such vibrations. If they exceed 3,000 per second the sound becomes too shrill for average people to hear it, though some exceptional ears can take up pulsations or waves that succeed each other more rapidly than this. Reasoning from the analogy of stretched strings aud membranes aud of air vibrating in tubes, etc., we are justi lied in concluding that the smaller the drum or tul>e the higher will be the note it produces when agitated, and the smaller and the more rapid the serial wave to which it will respond. The drums of insect ears, aud the tul>es, etc., connected with them, are so minute that their world of sounds probably begins where ours ceases; aud what apjtears to us as a continuous sound is to them a series of separated blows just as vibra­ tions of 10 or 12 per second appear sep­ arated to us. We l»egin to hear such vibrations as continuous sounds when they amount to 30 per second. The in­ sect's continuous sound probably begins beyond 3,000. The bluebottle may thus enjoy a whole world of exquisite music of which we know nothing.--lielgravia. Lincoln and Father Blair. Respect and reverence for old age was one of Lincoln's marked characteristics, as was strikingly shown in an instance which occurred on the route from Spring­ field, 111., to Washington Iteforethe cere­ monial of his first inauguration. The sullen roar of civil war was heard in the distance, and a spirit of apprehen­ sion and doubt possessed all grades of society, as was made manifest in the vast crowds that assembled everywhere along the line to either greet the President with enthusiastic cheers or muttered mad threats of denunciation and death. In the progress of the journey the party had reachen one of the iarger cities of Southern Indiana, and Lincoln, while standing on the platform of the car, discovered au old white-haired man, whose form at one time had been of her­ culean proportions, but then bent and feeble, vaiuly making an attempt to ap­ proach him. It mattered not to Lin­ coln that his audience were spell-bouud with the weight of his argument, and thrilled with the appeal made to their patriotism and loyalty. For as if alone before him stood the veteran of almost a century (Father Blair), challenging liis assistance and sympathy, so with a few neatly'turned and appropriate words he descended, passed rapidly through the throug, and placing the old man's arm within his own, retraced his steps to his former position.--Iowa State licguter. THE "laziest man on record" is un­ doubtedly a convict in the New Hamp­ shire State Prison who has just been sentenced to twenty years at hard labor. On entering the shop where he was to work, he walked up to the circular saw, took the fingers of his right hand in his left and cut it off at the wrist As he thereby cut off a very important means of escape, also, he must be peculiarly constructed to find loafing al>out a prison for twenty years preferable to work. •jmL 'of well becomes the sorrow and joy ia bat a eEM- -if?.-; riches them. TKMPERATE anger wise. BETWEEN single day. AMBITION is bnt the evil shadow of aspiration. PREFER truth before the maintaining of an opinion. SCHOOL-HOUSES are the republican line of fortifications. DISCIPLINE is meant for the r*hnf; of heroes, not cowards. WHO has not mastered himself, by whom can he not be overcome? So* kuowrst thou whit aivuuent Thy life to tuy neighbor s crccd baa lent. --SmertOH. LITTLE minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it WORK is the weapon of honor, and he who lacks the weapon will never triumph. 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Man- a Oandelion,wtUiallttwlMatand Uve properties of all other Bitter*, »greatest Mood Purifier, Uwr tor. life and Health Rutnrtng th. rlootr «kMlop ad and perfact are tfeair Civen Hp by Doctor*. Work and at "Ib it po-Bilno that Mr. Godfrey is up < >rk, and C.ired by BO simple a remedy?" " I iwure you it is true that he is entirely cured, and with nothine'but Hop Bitters ; and only ton d..vs ngo IUM doctors gave him up aud said lie muxt die !" " Well-a-day ! That is remarkable! I will go this day and get some for my poor George-- 1 know hops are good-"--Saicm PoaL Married Infelicity. It is a great pity that people who are infelicitously married cannot worry along as best they may without making their woes public. Most people who seek relief in the divorce courts fail to find it. Instead of gaining the peace and comfort which they think is sure to follow on their legal efforts for freedom, they succeed in making themselves additionally unhappy and intensely ridiculous. "Grin and bear it," is, perhaps, a hard rule to fol­ low. But it is better to endure than to court the absurd situations and the ridiculous criticisms which must follow on publishing matrimonial misery to a scandal-loving public. -- Philadelphia Times. Mmcthlnir Almost narrelmn ia the steadily-increasing power and popularity of Warner's Safe Kidnev and Liver (hue. The Ipirrat and Best Xrdicine efer Made. Aeor drak mart makes r«bu Mm* No dllWSS i Bitten are opera*! Em? gh« smrU^kudvlfKtotiMagiiasAlafltm. To mil whose e%nplojmentse*«i>e irrecnlart- ty of the !>o wel» o(% nrtn*ry orguM, or who ro quire an Appettxe^^Tonh: and mild SttswlsnS, Bop Bitten are Uma^>a*b>e> Without looting. Mo matter whatyanrt^Mlnca or rj-mrt®ro» are what thedlaeueor aUW>>eM le oae Hop Bit- ter*. Domt wait until yooa% re lick bat If jo* only feel bad or aBiatraMe.mvettien at oooe. I»may•aTeyourlife.lthad*• *ed haodreda. ** ®#OOw«tJ»iml<S foraealte they will not mreorhelp, Do not aoffermor'ct yorfrlenda •offer^mt UM AND URGE thaat^ k lot*• Hop B Haowmber,Hop Bittentan^W»<le» drugged drunken nostrum, hut the Pnrea^^.* * d Medicine erer mmle; tbe and BOrf a.ml no person or fanlly ahottld be without them. D.I.0.1* an abeolute and Irrerietlble . forUrunkeoJMee, ni»>f opium, tobacco narcotic*, til eold In dregtrist* l« tor Circular. B«t BMtam •<*. 0*., RoctenttrJ.T and Toronto. Ont Card Collectors! lit. Buy seven bar* DOBBINS' ELECI'KIC SOAP of your Gro* cer. M. Aik him to |lve fom m bill of It. 3d. Mall hit Mil and your fill I address. 4th. We will mall TOU FREE •even beautiful cards, In six col­ ors and *o*d, representing Sliak- speare's « Seven Ages of Han." L L. CRAGIN & CO., 116 South Fourth St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. £79 A WKEK. SlSadiy Rthom»ea«ilymade. Coet!y *P f m> ontUt free. Addreae VRtnt 4 Co.. Aogueta, M*. STEM-Wlnder American Watch for a enng. Catalogue for atainp. THATCHER 4 SMITH, Rochester, N. Y. C* ALKSM EN wanted to nell on con>rai*e<on. Sendataaa C3 for term*, qn.ok. PH(£MX PUB. CO., Warren, Pa * week in yoar own town. Terma and B5 outfit WWW free. Addteae H. HALLETT 4 Co.. Poitiand. M*. Dn 103 8t'te ft., Chioaco. treaU «no-_®e*aj»Uj Throat and Lung Di>auee by InhaUt^in. B'f; WA<; RH. inntimr and winter. Sample! fre* National Copying Oo.,!MUWe*t Madiaon-eu,(joioago to $9fl Sampleeworth$8 ft*e. \ffif |,u Address h riNsws A Co., I'ortJand, Me. YQIMS MFN I**r"T*;<*rephy! «»rne«nto$lOOa lUtf^g BinilraonUi. Gradaatee guaranteed nay tag ofleee. Addreu VJLLKKTINE BUO«.. JanenviJla.Wla A^NTS \VANTKI» for ts* Beet and Fa.te.l-tailing Pictorial IWksanH Bibles. Pricea reduoed ;A per ot. NATIONAL PUBIJSHINO O©., Chicago, 111 flkOCn A MONTH I Ag«nta Waat(4 I \ T|i|I 75 Beet-Selling Artlclee In the world: aaa^ fWWU oln rV#®. BRONSON. Detroit. Mlefc. EMPLOYWEHT^^,ri^T;^ Also SAIjAlt V |><-r muiitli. All H\ I'KNJiKS mlviitH'iMl. \Vi\a<'x|>r»ni|itly |mi<l. SI.OAN & ( (».. :tuu <;e«rt<e >i., Cliit'lnituO, O. ACENTS WANTED QUICK toneiithe REVISED NEW TESTAMENT Kovrendet.tr Agratt. Host desirable tditinn. Law priced. Milium* nrr wailing for It. Grand harvM for Agent*. Particular* frrt. Outllt tiOc. Ad nht Addreaa HUBBAkb BROS., Chicago, 11L b~d. .r to TH1CKKN. STKSKUTIIKN ul IJCTTGORATS tb« HAIR lewum 4«a'« b* humNifr*d. Trt tb« frest Sptaisb rfirror+ri wtito-fa bu NkVkR VKT FAILED. Html ONL V fllX «» Dr. J. «HMA-IM. HO. 1UM> g> RUPTURE Relieved and cured, without the injury tru«8A* inflict, bj Dr. J. A. JSHKHMAN'S mi«m. Omce, Broadway. New York. His book, with photographic likenesses of btd oases before and after cure, mailed for lUc. Bttut •1 fraudulent imitator*. HiCAGO PITTS! THEY tell a story in Newburvport about a man who called on a respectable widow of bis acquaintance and said: "Madam, I'm looking for a wife. I don't think you'll hardly do, but I didn't know but what you might think of some­ body that would." The bewildered man has forgotten what the widow said, but has the impression that a tornado struck the town about that time. "'Tis hard to part from those we love," and sometimes it is even more difficult to get away from those we don't love. EILKRT'A EXTRACT or TAR AKD WILD CncsBT hax been used for twenty yearn, and during that time hax naved many verv valuable liven. Do not neglect a cough or cofd until it is too late. Trv thin excellent remedy, and we are «ure you will be convinced of its merit#. Chronic Coughs, and even Consumptive*, are cured by following the directions. Every bottle IH war­ ranted to give satisfaction. Prepared by the Einmert Proprietary Co., Chicago. Bold by all good druggists. INDIGESTION, dvspepsii. nervous prostration and all formx or general debility relieved by taking MF.NKMAN'N PEPTONIZED BEEF TONIC, the only preparation of beef containing itw entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-mak­ ing, force-generating and iife-sustaining prop­ erties; is in valuable in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous pros­ tration, overwork or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary cam plaints. Cas­ well, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York. THE PREVENTIVE AND ANTIDOTAL POWER or Da. HOLMAN a AGUE AND LIVER PAD.--Ait a pre­ ventive of any disease that attacks the vitals, the pad is worth many times its weight in gold. It is impossible to compute the value of a dis- ooverv which, WITHOUT DOSINO, may be abso­ lutely relied upon to pit EVENT the "most dan­ gerous maladies. Nothing is truer than the old saying that, " Prevention is better than cure." season of the oM reliable "CMcaa* PHr»" Hrparatwit tb» only firet-olase AprS Machine now in the market adapted for larjft at •trial; io' •»>, boras or steam power; the only Apr Maehln that thresher end clean* /las an-iall STOAM K'/ecuv. -- Chicago Double PLcioB •unted Horaef*ower« are the b--t «i ihs mrj BLACK HAWK If von want a Vibrator, buy <mr Black Hawk; wnyT BecsuR® it In the latest improved macblaa tn the inario't.hnvir.'B' all of ih« merit* and nont qf |A« drj ferfi of Vibrators, Afntator*, Oscillutor®, now in use. Light?;* draft end more dura&U, Ms motion !g reciprocal, consequently will not •UaM to pieces. Thnrrmghttf tested. Beat* them all B flax and other Minis of grain. It is ilmpUeitr ttaslf. Turns In ite own ISIIKUL H k p|TT8. gong MFQ. CO. »MKl»«.J«ffer»on St. CHICAGO. ILL. CHEAPEST HIB tory of Euzlauo » l« :u» vtrt*. cl"ih:ouiv |EcB. Uteruure i )>g*bv mriptm* IUIHOTOI H»ni!W>nicTjr IF bound, tor oulj *<> «-u. 11 /Ve*. HANUArTAN BOOK CO, It W. I«u> St., N.Y. T.O. BoxtfMk Gcliiia Bicjcli A jwiuMiit practlcul road ̂ •btalat with which a peracm cad rid* milm a* aaaUy as coolj iralk ma B«nct stamp for 34-pag* Mh* SORB®, « THR POPE MTO db, , MM St, Boats*. < AGENTS WASTED FOB I . ^ LUST FCUW 1'IIPY )UQ 1511 fine «-n*raTiin« on stee! and wood. Amta w 'iiiiH tni» adition. Sond for circalam, , NATIONAJL PUBLISH II*G CJO. i Chicago. QU.' . AGKNT* WAWTKO FOR Ol'R CENTENNIAL ^SSIS? " Hoattkaapaca io without " oar 1>«I . OIK •••• •span opportnnto ia ha»» o®'?? A«enta to maka moo ay. Send forour/'fii»(r«*«i Cimthmm and our unu*un" DOMESTIC SC and oar nna«u.i!ljr li> «•»! t*rn& DOMESTIC SCALE CO.. 1«£ ^ WutM C:£u hiJWaU. O. "S CELLULOID E Y E - G L A S S E S . presenting UM «hofoMt-c*leoted Tortatofr > Bheil And Amber. 7h« lightest, handsonMsC and strongest known. Sold b? Opticians ana J«wel«CT. Made by the 8PENCER OFTKUfe M F'O CO.. 13 Maiden Lam New York. _ _ • •L W • trsF.RYOUS DEBILITY, Lo«t •ka jnd impaired power* cured by MATHEWS* •• ImijroTwi ElecinvMapnefic Beit .IQCS Abtwbtl H MFAII combined; wr.e of Pad, 7x10 larger than other*. LK> not purchase to Belts when yxm can the Hteofc- ^^•inproTtd for $2. " Electric Light." a Mot free unfiled; sealed. He. ••I D. R. IK MATHEWS & CO., $4, £6 and. Fifth Chicago. An Open Secret* • The ffcet is well understood that the MEXICAN MUS­ TANG LINIMENT is toy far the best external known for man or beast. The reason w h y b e c o m e s a n " o p e n secret*® when we explain that 44Mustang" penetrates skin, flesh and muscle to the very bone, removing all disease and soreness. No other lini­ ment does this, hence none other is so largely used QC does each worlds of good* »neso]£ CM BEST THRESHER OH WHEELS J!-j not a Vi>.raf.cr nor tin Apron 3nxcU!n««. I* wjcttlcri :!i.' Plirinloru't e.lri ir::Ky rerfoclmits tlire.Mtirr 1 Fc;>."raiiiy q:'.r!i'Ics. :vca all t •! -• ktiiI'u urtd it tvaciv for market, •t U eau3;i.\ietcil d;:raMy, is L>:v. i.Ui'Uy, Is tha nnrt ccnnoinlcr.1. JcSBt expeii- tii.v, a£.<l nati il.ictory ii'.ucbirr iu tlie rvirkrl. Y-'Ul hand: > T.'Ct (rrr.in aswrll ps dry". 11 > " H i t'ircshi'isf fir\ thiVFli- i:tand cL'- . l.i r b itUai veil ttd ccctly en rr r > vvhjat, an.lrj^tUrc!«i no chMT-oe\cci'tlheKC\e8. I J i i ; ; i T ' r r o f s r x i n z ' i . 7 e n d < • • ' < u v u - < , • r ~ fn-e. than any <> h<r imchlnr nia<.v, ar.d tnri net 6& «.: • Ii b ith over- crvl ur.der-Hru t. Our ci.ovisn !i:?i.r,i\o ATTAC *• tie I><?«<{lerv d.-.'irc'ile, cf „•* the tecrkrt;pi<:i;nmdwlL HUPAHAVOIM of ibo vrrior.3 tizca fitUi/ir Jt'rui or l;onc-t\<-cer r.s (ItfirctL Till' I21\viird, The Tiffs, a;;<i Tlio\y oodbnryilorn;"«h«i»r', an rj&de by 119, c-.v uot curmsBed l>y say In the market. STILLWATER No. 10 EWftME Pn rVvrifi '• 1 Lvery cc moraxal In fueL Its cylinder Is TxIS. v.'o o'.s > r.iai:a the Stillwater No. 1]}. and tb* ,.!h:pc' ; Cmnt Farm Engines, each hcv-lr.y%retani iluos, and flttedfor burning ctrsw.n «oai. All t.'ie.-a Engines arem*do ar.d finl In the rio*r perfect manner, ana'Traction Attn merits cTi be furnlshod with any of than f sirvd. taT 1'ur frie*-L4tt mud Cwiulmn, mt SEYMOUR, 8ABIN it CO. Manufacturer*. StIRwttar. Mhw. C. N. U. No.! WHKN WRITISU TO ADTEUTINBK8, ' »l«a<e lay yos ww Ike adrcrtlHuual invite in tlua p*i»er. UNCLE .SAM'S CONDITION FOWDKRS ere rec­ ommended by Htock-owners who huve used tbeni ah the bent Horse and Cattlo Mc-d:cino to had. If the animal )w Scrappy, Spirit'e-n, or han no appetite, thesu Powders are ant xcel- K-iit remedy, and evePy owuer of stock WJH do we l i t o t r y t hem . They a r e p r epa red by t he Eiririiert Proprietary Co., Chicago, 111., a "very reliable firm, and sold by ali good druggists. WE can assure any person having a bald head or troubled witb dandruff that Caroline, a deodorized extract of petroleum, will dp all that is claimed for it. It wiil not stain tbe moKt delicate fabric aud is delightfully per­ fumed. MAN'S value is in proportion to what he ha* courageously Buffered, as the val­ ue of the steel blade is in proportion to the tempering it has undergone. OXLI the genuine axle grease has the name of Fnizer on every package, and wears longer than any other. BUT the diamond boots and shoes and get your money's worth. Made by Rosenthal £r'*.t Chicago KKMCUEU FltO.1I DEATH. William J.Coughlin.of Somerrille, M:iM,, pays: In th« (ail of 1B76 I wes taken witli bleeding of tlie tun**, fol­ lowed liy a severe cough. I k»t uiy appetite and flenh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 1 waa admitted to the hoep.taL The doc tor* aaid I had a hole in my lungaa big it a half dollar. At one time a report went avound that I was dead. I irave op hope, bat a friend told me of DB. WILLIAM HII.I.'B BALSAM FOB THE I.UNOB. I got a buttle, when, Io my surprise, I commenced to feel bet­ ter, and to-day I leel better than for three year* past. I write this hupfnjr every one affl ctwd with diseased longs will take 1)B.WILLIAM HALL'S BALSAM,and bacon- Wnced that CONSUMPTION CAN BE CL'KXD. I can posi­ tively siy it h;i* done mute good than all ttw oUwr n*adi- cines 1 have taken since icy SIOKIMMS. BEAT TKUM) trar used; descriptive circulars fiM. New York Klastic Trass Co., H Broadway, N. Y. D"METI I>r. MliTl'i'jIT.'S F(;.'ADAOUT: TIX" enro mort w»r<!crfulljr In I short tlmo both SICK ;«ixl NDKVOT'S IIXLVDACfIX:; ami while acting i the nervous system. the stouiacTi of exceu off bile? producing a regular healthy actum oS the bowels. ••HEADACHE A full size box of those valuable !t!> fall directions for a com­ plete euro, mailed to nny address on receipt of nine tiirec-ccnt postage stamps. I'or s&le by oil drng^liti at "r. Sole Fr opric •tors. DEOW-V r-rrr-xnr % r. cOJir'A^-TV. UzlCjaor*, Ud. • • • • PILLS ETROLEUM JELLY Used and approved by the leading PHYSI­ CIANS of EUROPE and AMERICA. ^ | The most Valuable Family Remedy known. " For the Tr--taeat «f SOKES, SZXK DISEASES, BHEUXATISHL CAT1SBH, EEH0EBH0IDS, Ite. Mm M Ccugla Ccld*, Sow Throat, Crcup and Diphtheria, m tsrTzj them. 25 and 50 oeat aixM of «H w good*, CBATO SI3iL AT TE2 PniUDELPHU EXJPOS1TXOK ULVEa BSDil AT THS P&BIS EXPOOTiaX. The TOM Art2cla£rampw» f *s«llae~each aa Posad® Vaselise Ccld Cma. Vaaeliaa Camchor 1H^ yuBlia* Toilet Scap% mnrHivli M; VASraCO.VFECm Aa aCToe&bla form afldb* iag Vudiasiatma!^ n CENTS A Km ' " j '