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>.>•&&&.&£<&• .<!lS£i:.ii ifr-,-; ,'jjji - V . » _ . J . ^ , . y : * -Lxll u&w mi ,<ate GAJMH LOVE MM, Hb, Urtan to ma, darkiea, ' - *•" J"0* * WHsstoiyf' ' " " *?:• " ™ «|ria »n nbout my trna lovey f "a FJst Ct*ek roornin'-gmy; '8 nice an any Jew-disp (Bide de open flower; '* aof'er dan de moonsfelMt . 21if An' I labs her eVry hour! V?, ,». ?a • i , ' ' ' JBHORUS -Mae is a rotflcrwar, 5 Mag tea daisy; > Mag ia de very gal To ran a nigger cra^! Her head is like de full moon, <& Her lips is K weet as a cherry; >i Her furrudta tnioov as a ookin'-glS® An' filick as a huckleberry; * '•* Her face is like a pieter. Her toef in white an' pearly; Her eye is bright ae a lightnln An' her ha r ie 'mairiu' oarly I I like to chop de 'backer patch Wid Mag right close bebifA M ; Pd like to be a iMcker-wuiB Et Msg would only find aw; I'd like to be a (look o' aheap Ef Mag would drlbe me 'Mot; I'd like to be a 'tster-elip Ef Mag would set me otttl I reed her for de fas* time In thinnin' out de corn; She made my feelin's fluttwsts " " An' now my heart is gone; Oh, I Info* her like de miMdra^ I'B bound to tell her Boon, An' I'll cote ber at de abnekis' On de ehangln' ob de moon! Century. Mow W E KEEP HOUSE. A Story for Uirla. Weil, we are married at last. What a distressing time it "was, and what a mar­ tyr poor mother became in those weeks of preparation! We were not rich, but well-to-do, as people said. At father's death there was the life insurance and a snag little cottage with its ten acres of fruit and garden. Mother, bless her dear heart, could manage, but there was a family of three girls and two boys. John and Charles had just begun to make their own way in a distant city. How we girls did cry when they left us, for they had always boarded at home and were good brothers. The first wed­ ding was for me, quite an event, you see, in the family, and Clare and Helen said I should have a good send-oft I was the youngest, juBt past eighteen, but the first to have a home of my own. They had lorded it over me, but still I was the pet of the family, and we had a happy home. If we did not appreciate mother, who does until real life comes, and she perhaps is laid under the grasses? We made our own cake, or rather mother did. It was always mother, the maid of all work, who said: " It took a powerful lot of cooking to marry a man and wedeners must eat. awful."' A ca­ terer from the boys' city attended to the rest. The $100 that it cost was mother's present. The house was fragrant with flowers. Clare was an artist in decora­ tion, and it looked perfectly lovely. I ltfwJ £500 father left me for this very oc­ casion. Dear father; how he would have enjoyed this happy day. The trousseau was all that could be desired, and Mark had furnished ~a little cottage in the in- kind city where we were to go to live. Mother had been too kind to me. I was a good scholar, had praduated with hon­ ors, quite a musician, and was a deft hand at fancy work. But housework, bless me ! I was as innocent of knowl­ edge in that regard as a new-born baby. I had tried to tell Mark of my ignoranoe, but he stopped me with kisses, as if love would make the pot boil. The wedding breakfast was all pre­ pared; my trunks were packed, with tears, I confess. Jane, poor soul, had bought me a dozen linen cloths for wip­ ing nay china. " They'll be real handy," she said. How little I realized that cKahen must be washed in that vine-cov­ ered cottage ! But I thanked her, and many*a time since. Mark had come the night before, and now Helen came in with her stiff silk and queenly bearing, and said the guests were arriving aud the hour was nearly at hand. Them Mark knocked and looked a little startled when he saw me in my white silk and filmy veil. " Why, Rosa," he said, "you are going: to flv; I'm afraid I snail lose you." The voioe of John came up the stairway, and Mark and I went down amid the perfume and low whispers. Dr. Dale waited there for us, with his benignant face and white hair. I only remembered this of that shadowy service: " lie mem ber, my dear child, whatever awaits you in the new life, that duty must be before pleasure, and hero­ ism is the fiber of every life. Until death do you part" Ah, how much that means now, for all this was ten years ago. Then came the congratula­ tions, the hurried breakfast and we were steaming away toward our home. We were to live together. How funny it seemed. Mrs. Mark Pattison, wife of Juawyer Pattison. We reached home at last, and Mark's sister was there to receive us. She was twice my age, and regarded Mark as lit­ tle above any one else. We went all over the little house; out into tfce gar­ den, and dreamed and talked like two kittens innocent of life. The dusk found us in the arbor, the moonlight sifting through the grapevine fragrant witn blossoms. We were in an enchanted land ; life was love. What feared we of trouble ; it had not touched us ? The next day Mark went to his office, Martha staid with us a month. I thought she was meddlesome, but I now know hey love for Mark and a real desire to help me prompted her to offer ingestions. She was a perfect house­ keeper, and must have regarded me as a child. Ohloe was a treasure. She had be«m in Mark's family for years. She wm somewhat domineering, as favorite •eryants are accustomed to be, but, vhile she stayed, our household feast^ and daily appointments were cart-fully attended to. But her sister waa taken dangerously ill, and she was obliged to go. Mark refused at first, but I pre­ vailed on him to allow her to leave us. "It will be but a short time," I said, "and I will take Chloe's place." And so I went down into that awful kitchen the following morning. It makes me homesick when I think of those days, and yet what is one worth Until tested? The range wouldn't work,- and then it bnrnect everything up. The augar and butter were out. I was unac­ customed to it; all my back ached, and when Mark came home I sat on the floor in the kitchen in tears. He tried to cheer me up, but what does a man know of woman's work? I was utterly discouraged. We dined on dry toast and poached eggs, which Mark manivged to eat, and then we had a long evening talk and song. The breakfast passed with a reasonable degree of suc­ cess, and I resolved that I would make a brave fight. We both loved soup; we had vegetables. Chloe had left pies. I saw my way through. I worked hard that forenoon. I smile now as I think what toil I made of a simple matter, but perchance some young housewife may be encouraged as they read how I took lessons in "keeping house." That soup is an epoch in my married life; for it was my second defeat I had heard that a little clove for seasoning was desira­ ble, but I mistook my measure, and when I set it on before the hungry Mark it was as black as his hat. " Great Caesar, Rosa, what have you here; are you going to poison me outright ?" And when I told Mm, and he endeavored to turn it off in a joke by saying, "It was suitable only for him of the cloven foot," I cried outright I was nervons and hardly a woman, and the heavens and earth grew blacker than soup. Mark dined off Chloe's pies, remarking that he was "pi-zoned" after all. The very mention of soup to this day makes me feel faint Chloe was away for six months. That sister of hers would not get well, and would not die, I sometimes thought in desperation. I was too proud to send for Martha, Helen and Clare were both of them visiting. I fought it out alone, but I mentally resolved if I ever had a daughter, she might be ignorant of the languages and music but I would teaoh her to work, She should beeomo fam­ iliar with the conduct of a home. Many a dinner was ruined. Mark, like his namesake of old, became an apostle of patience. The only wonder is he did not acquire a settled dyspepsia. I was discouraged and wept and then went at it again. I thought I never should be able to prepare a well-appointed meal, but just as I was on the point of utter defeat, mother, dear soul, visited me, and then I was safe. When 6lie heard my story, she gave me hints, but said I had best keep on. She only moaned that she had neglected this part of my education. " But, child, I never thought Of your marrying so young. Your sis­ ters are still single ; you were but a school girl, when Mark must take -you away." But, with her counsel and sug­ gestions and her dear smiles, I defied the world. Mother said before she left I was certainly becoming an accom- rlished cook, and Chloe came back, and was mistress of my own home in fact as well as name. The next six months of our married life was plain sailing. The cottage be­ came the dearest spot on earth. I had forgotten Dr. Dale's words, "Remem­ ber, my dear child, whatever awaits you in the new life, that duty must be before pleasure, and heroism is the fiber of every life." I had conquered the cuisine. Even Chloe respected my judgment I could superintend the preparation of a dinner that no one need be ashamed of. My little rooms grew cozy and inviting as I adorned them with my fingers. 1 began to think that life was a summer day of song. The secend year marked the advent of our baby. Not until one passes under the spell of motherhood can the full reaches of life be fathomed. They told me I came near dying, but our boy Mark, Jr., was worth it all. How we loved him and what a beautiful mystery he was. We both declared he waB too smart to live. How that second year was glorified by the care and anx­ iety attending our first born. We did not grudge the broken rest. But he safely passed the colic, oroup and all the other ills until the sharp little ivories shone in the blushing gums. I had been so engrossed with my baby that I had not noticed that Mark was growing thinner every week, until one night he came home sick and did not leave his bed for four month®. That terrible fever ate into his life until he was only the shadow of my husband. For two weeks I stood with him in the { very shadow of death, battling with the angel of destruction, as ouly a woman ! can battle for her dearest, i learned to J live almost without rest, and grew saying as he kissed me good-by. " Let almost as pale as the tossing patient on Martha see to the ordering of the dinner; j the couch. Only a strong constitution Just rest," as if I was tired. But I re- I saved me from death. Many and many solved to surprise him. I would prepare j a night I spent on my knees, crying out the dessert. Had I not seen mother ! onto Him who holds the key of life, to make such delicate puddings of snow ' spare my husband. As the spring came with a delicious crust, the color of um­ ber? Had I not made myself a choco­ late blanc mange ! To be snre. mother stood by and told me everything to put in; but it was nothing to do. So I went to my piano, my very own, which had been sent from the old home. That brought up the familiar room, and I cried allttle to think of the new life before me. Then I began to play. I was passionately fond of music, and my homesickness was forgotten. I had been playing some time when I thought of dinner. There was only an hour. Mar­ tha had been out in the kitchen all the morning. She, with Chloe, the colored , ... _ . cook, were about the dinner. My pro- j him, and now be grew white and pallid on, he began to gain, and in June he was out again, "as good as new," ex­ cept that the gray had crept into his hair. I knew now what my dear mother had experienced in the laBt sickness of fath­ er. She had spoken often of it, and a shadow always fell on her face and a hush came to her voice. I did not un­ derstand then ; I know now. My baby's second summer was a trying one. Ah ! that second summer ; now we mothers dread them for our children ! He had missed my care during the sickness of my husband. I was obliged to wean position to prepare the dessert seemed to strike them oddly, but I went brave­ ly to work. I thought I would make a fruit pudding. We often had them at home. I knew that Mark enjoyed them. I got the flour, the butter and salt, and made a dough with milk and water, and then rolled it into little cakes and spread the peaches. I told Chloe they were to be boiled three-quarters of Tan hour. They don't look just right, bnt I thought in the hot days. We watched him anx- : iously. We could not give him up. : Weak and weary as I was, I still kept about the house. The day came at lint I wlieu we knew it was only a question of | time. Who that has watched a child ! take on its angelhood need be told what these days were ? Our boy, our first­ born, crept out of our arms as myster- ; iously as he came. The valley of the shadow of death ! Who that has walked boiling would remedy every defect The i through it, leading a child, only to be tfener passed off pleasantly. Mark a busy day. But when the dessert was rung in, Chloe turned up ber nose and sniffed ominously. Good heavens! Where were my peach dumplings? They were heavy as lead. To eat would be to invite dyspepsia. Mark said noth­ ing, but he smiled, and finally began to roar until the tears ran down his face. At first I felt hurt, but the mirth was contagious, and we laughed until I was faint I had forgotten the two spoon- Ms of baking powder, and Mark was parted from it at lAst, can ever be quite ' the same again ? The golden leaves of ; October fell on a little grave, and we I were childless. I had learned what Dr. : Dale meant by "duty" and "heroism." i' Martha came and kept house for Mark, i and I went t ome. I did not take my i bed, and I was listless and heartsick, j My strength had departed. Everybody, i was very kind. Clare and Helen gave ' up their whole time to me, and mother told me all about father's dying as she had never before. I could not believe new hues life had taken on ! But youth dies hard; I was only in my twenty- second year, and began to mend. I had much to live for. I was not the only one who grieved. I still had my hus­ band ; my home was yet near to me. And BO I went back, a little paler, but strong and hopeful, ready to meet the future of my life. And then we really began to keep house in the most blessed sense, for this rambling sketch ia only the prologue to the real story. I had my trials. I had mastered the cuisine. I had been through the flood on foot, and my child had drifted from my arms, but I had learoed precious lessons. It had come to me in these years that the roots of home reach down into the darkness, and they are nurtured for the fairest bloom- ing, not by health and prosperity al­ ways, but by pain and trial. \ We have had our dark days, since then. What home is free from them? But other children have come to patter about the house. Poverty has stared us in the face, but wealth came at last, when we were able to bear it, and rest­ ful days. I look back with thankful­ ness to those painful months, when I was learning " that duty must be before pleasure, and heroism is the fiber jof every life."--A Country Parson, in the Providence Journal. sacrilegious enough to say "ttiey would j that only three years had passed since I not rise until the judgment day," . left my home a blushing bride. What Qneen Victoria at Home. One of the greatest charms of Her Majesty has always been her voice. To the initiated the voice is always the clearest and most unfailing index of character. Iu contemporary literature we have repeated notes of admiration for thiB pure and peerless voice. "Lady de Dustanville was in the House of Peers when the Queen first appeared. It was a most imposing sight Her voice was full, clear and sweet, and most distinctly heard." Passages of tliis kind might be multiplied. Miss Fox gives some very pleasing incidents of the early days. •' Uncle Charles dined with us. He was delighted and dazzled by the display on the Queen's day, and mentioned u right nierrv quibble, perpetrated by my Lord Albemarle, who, on Her Majesty saying, 41 wonder if mv good people of Loudon are as glad to see my as I am to see them?' pointed out as their immediate cockney answer to the quibble V. R." She relates the touching incident that when the Queen drove one day to the Park, just after a dastardly attempt, iu fear of assassination she " forbade her iadies to attend her and expose them­ selves to danger from which 6he would not shrink." Stockmar came over nearly every year to visit the Queen and the Prince, and almost eutirely took the management of the whole menage into his hands. He put all the details of the management of the royal household on a sort of philso- sophical basis. He passed at will from the broadest generalizations on the British Constitution to the smallest de­ tails of the nursery. The organization and superintendence of the children's department occupied a considerable por­ tion of Stockmar's time. In one of his letters he writes: 44The nursery gives me more trouble than the government of a kingdom would do." We may mention that the little Princess (the Crown Princess of Prussia), now a woman blooming with health and life, was for many years a sickly child, who?e rearing long seemed a matter of doubt. He found that an odious system of red- tapeism pervaded the management of the royal household. It was iu the hands of three great State officers--the Lord Stew­ ard, the Lord Chamberlain and the Master of the Horse. These are always noblemen of high rank and great political position, who, of course, delegate all the practical duties into the -hands of sub­ ordinates. The result was that all the tricks of the Circumlocution Office were to be found in Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. There was a great deal of the how-not- do-it element. The outside of the palace belonged to the department of Woods and Forests; the inside cleaniug of the windows belonged to the Lord Chamber­ lain's department. The Lord Stewart lays the fire and the Lord Chamberlain lights it The Lord Chamberlain pro­ vides the lamps, and the Lord Steward mast clesn, trim and light them. If a window-pane was broken or a cupboard door went wrong, there was a whole series of formalities to be gone through before either could be mended. Stack- mar complains that there was no one to receive visitors, and show them their roomB; and that they wandered about the corridors alone and unassisted. M. Guizot relates that this was a cir­ cumstance which once actually happened to himself. It was through this state of things that the boy Jones was enabled at one o'clock iu the morning actually to hide himself under the sofa of the room next the Queen's bed-room, just after the birth of the Princess Royal. Once when the Queen was taken ill there was nobodv whose business it was to attend to such a matter, until at last a domestic had the presence of mind to hail a cab to come to the do. >r of Buckingham Palace and to drive off and fetch a doctor. We have reason to believe all the anomalies which Stockmar pointed out in his memorandum have been rectified. The royal household is now a model to every household in the kingdom. Its guests are made as comfortable as in the most homelike home in the land. Indeed, in tin? pleasantness and freedom of the arrangement, Windsor Castle seems almost Liberty Hall to its visitors. --London Society. Bees, Mice* Cats and Flowers. Many of our orchidaceous plants ab­ solutely require the visits of moths to remove their pollen masses, and thus to fertilize them. I have also reason to be­ lieve that humble-bees are indispensa­ ble to the fertilization of the heartsease (viola tricolor), for other bees do not visit this flower. From experiments, which I have lately tried, I have found that the visits of bees are necessary for the fertilization of some kinds of clover; but humble bees alone visit the red clover (trifolium pratense), as other bees cannot reach the nectar. Hence I have very little doubt that, if the whole genus of humble- bees became extinct or very rare in Eogland, the heartsease and clover would become very rare or wholly disappear. The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree upon the number of field - mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who lias long attended to the habits of humble- bees, believes that " more than twS- thirds of them are thus destroyed all over England." Now the number of mice is largely dependent, as every one knows, on the number of cats, and Mr. Newman says: " Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than else­ where, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of feline animals in large numbers in a dis­ trict might determine, through the in­ tervention first of mioe and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!--Darwin. TH* first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.--Bailey. HOW A POEM WAS SOI.D. W a M r t M w r a l « -- " • H i t [From th* North American Review.] After breakfast he told me that he had recently written a poem which smiled to him, but which his habitual counselors and companions--who, I presume, were Charles Sumuer, C. C. Felton and Geo. B. Hillard--had frowned upon as be­ neath the plane of his previous lyrical performances. He then proceeded to read to me the "Skeleton in Armor " which so stirred my blood that I took the manuscript from h s hands and read it to him with more dramatic force than his modesty had permitted him to dis­ play. This may have been presumption on my part, but I remember I came to the crescendo: " As with hiR wings aslant Sails the tierce cormorant, Seeking some rocky haunt With his prey laden; So toward the open main, Beating to Ma asata Through the wild hdrricane, < Bote I the maiden,--" he sprang to his feet and embraced me. I he doubting Thomases were at a dis­ count that morning. The poem revealed to me his methods of work. After the emotions of mutual satisfaction had sub­ sided, he told mtfthat he had carried the scheme in his head ever since the previ­ ous summer, when, after having visited with a cavalcade of my brothers and sisters--among whom was the present Mrs. Julia Ward Howe--the skeleton in armor, up at Taunton, and then visible in a museum at Fall River--since burned to the ground--he challenged my sister in their home gallop over the Newport beaches, to make a poem out of the rusty hauberk and grim bones they had been inspecting. 44 That," said he, " was nearly a year ago, and the poem only flashed upon me last week." It will be remem­ bered that the closing scene is M " In that tower "V Which to this very hour J* looking Maward." I proposed to take the manuscript to New York and sell it for not less than $50. On my return thither my first visit was to the poet Halleck, at his desk in the dingy couuting-house of the primeval John Jacob Astor, in Prince street. We had often talked about Longfellow, and Halleck felt and displayed a lively ap­ preciation of his geuius, which he de­ nied to the English laureate, whom we all venerate. The old poet Was delighted with this new effusion of his younger lyrical brother, and knowing the value of bis opinion in the eyes of our literati, I asked him to express his admiration in a few brief works at the foot of the man­ uscript. If I remember rightly the in­ scription ran : 441 unhesitatingly pro- nouuee the above to be, in my opinion, Professor Longfellow's finest effort." This was duly signed, and I rushed down to Louis Gaylord Clarke of the Knick­ erbocker Magazine, who stood aghast \vhen I announced the price of this poem, he haviug only paid $25 for its predecessors. The intrinsic beauty of the lyric, which by this time I had learned to read with tolerable effect, overcame a reluctance to which his pov­ erty, not his will, consented, aud I had pride and pleasure in remitting the $50 to Cambridge that evening. Divination by Means of Sheep's Bones. M. G. Perrot speaks, in hiB 44 Me- moires d'Archeologie d'Epigraphie, et d'Histoire," of divination by sheep's bone^. This method of penetrating the secrets cf the future is largely resorted to at the present time, and the Greek peasant has confidencc in it as absolute as that which his ancestors regarded the examination of the entrails of a sac­ rificial victim. This practice is, how­ ever. no longer restricted to divkiers and sorcerers only; on solemn occasions each man may act as his own augur on behalf of himself and his family. I remember once when I was returning from an excursion into Achaia, near Aigion, I was obliged to stop in the evening in the outskirts of Mourla, at a peasant's house where I asked hospitality for the night. He took me into a room where his wife and his four children were beginning their evening meal, of which he invked me to partake. I think it was a few days after Easter, and the food set before us was mutton. The children had ju$t begun to talk freely, and conversation was becoming ani­ mated. when all of a sudden my host flung something violently on the ground, struck his forehead, and as I looked at his wife, seeking iu her eyes an explana­ tion, she burst into tears. A young girl of twenty was lying on a rug at the end of the room, in the shade ; I had not observed her. She had recently fallen ill. Her father, turning his eyes toward her, picked up the object he had thrown down and handed it to me. It was the blade-bone of the sheep. 44 You see nothing, perhaps," he said to me; 44 nevertheless, it is written there that my daughter is going to die; she will not recover." I endeavored to dissuade him from, this idea, but in vain ; all the family were plunged into despair, and gave way to the wildest grief. As fate would hate it, the young girl actually did die a few days afterward. During the war of independence the same method was employed for foretell­ ing the issue of the struggle, and the famous Captain Karaistratris was guided by the presage in engaging in or defer­ ring an action. Certain conditions are in­ dispensable to the prediction of the future by the bone; the sheep must have beeu purchased by the person who eats it, and kept alive for three days in his house; otherwise the presage applies to the person who has cold the animal. This superstition was especially cherished by the brigands, but it is to be presumed that they found some way of eluding its restrictive conditions, for they are not in the habit of purchasing their Bheep, and they have no houses to keep them in.-- The Nineteenth Century. The British Empire. The population of the United King­ dom, embracing England, Wales, Scot­ land, Isle of Man and the Channel islands, was, in 1881, 35,216,633. The population of British India is 237,895,- 498. The total population of the British Empire is as follows; England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, Isle of man and Channel islands, 35,246,633 ; colonial possessions in Europe, 315,761; in America, 4,127,397; in Africa, 2,591,- 194 ; in Asia, 240,239,887, and in Aus­ tralia, 2,200,664. The total population of the German Empire waa at the last cen­ sus 42,727,630. Samuel Rogers a* a Storj-Telier. Charles Dickens used to delight in describing the way in which Samuel Rogers, the poet, used to tell dinner- table stories when grown old and feeble. A man servant stood behind Mr. Rogers' chair, and, at appropriate intervals, would thus admonish his master : "Tell Mr. Dickens, sir, the story of the Hon. Charles Townshend and the beautiful Miss Curzon." Ttae old poet would start in a slow, almost Gregorian tone, and in curious, old-fashioned phrase: " The Hon. Charles Townshend (this name will serve as well as another) be­ came enamored of Miss Cnrson. She1 was bee-yewtiful. He be-ribed the maid to conce&i him in her chee-amber, and when she arrived, to dress for a ball, emerged from his hiding place. She looked at him fixedly, then said: * Why don't you begin ?' Sbe took him for the 'airdresser." THE IMPENDING FATE. te literating Chapter tram tke Ufa •f » Proiuinen i BMionisa. [From the Boston Globe ] The read era of this paper were more or lean amazed at a moet remarkable statement from ope of our leading oitizens which appeared ia yenUrday'u issue. Bo ununul were the circam- etance8 connected with it and BO much com­ ment did it occasion on the street and in social circles, that a representative of this paper was commissioned to investigate its details and verify its facts. The article referred to was a statement made by Mr. B. F. Larrabee, of the New York and Boston Dispatch Express Com­ pany, whose office is on Arch street. Mr. Lar­ rabee was found by the newspaper man in his private office, and on being questioned said : " Well, tir, logically I have been dead, out really 1 am as you can see me. A little over » year ago I was taken sick. My trouble was not severe at tirat and I thought it was the result of a slight cold. Somehow 1 felt unaccouuta- bly tired at times although 1 took an abuadancs ol sleep. Then, again, 1 had dull and strange pains iu various parUs of my body. My appetite was good one day and I had noue whatever tno next and my head pained ine more or Itss much of the time. A while afterward 1 noticed much that was peculiar about the fluids I was pass ng and that a sediment scum and a strange accumulation appeared in it. Si ill I did not realize that tht.se things meant anything eerious and I allowed the illness to run aloug until on the 28th day of October I fell prostrate while walking along Tremont street. I was carried home and did not go out of the hou.-e unt 1 the middle of De­ cember. I then went down town and attempted to attend to my business until the 13th of last January, when I was taken with a very severe relapse. My symptoms were terrible. I was fearfully bloated ; 1 suffered severe pains in all parts of my body and it was almost impossible to get my breath. For six days I never laid down aud never slept. I was constantly at­ tended by my regular physiotan, Dr. Johnson, »nd Dr. Bowditcu also came to see me nearly every day. Tnere was no doubt that I was suf­ fering from Bngbt's disease of the kidneys in its worst form aud last stages, accompanied by other troubles in my hver and heart, In spite, however, of the skill of the physicians, I kept growing worse, and finally they tapped my Bide iu the vicinity of the heart, taking away forty- six ounces of water. Tnis relieved me for the time, but I soon became as bad as be­ fore. Then the doctor gave me up entirely, de­ clared I could not live more than twenty-four hours and my daughter, who was residing ui Pans, was telegraphed for. Slill 1 lingered along for several weeks, far more dead than alive, but never giving up hope. One night--it was on the 20th of April, I very well remember --my attendant, who was reading the paper to me, began an article which described my dis­ ease aud Bufferings exactly. It told how some severe cases of lirig tit's disease had been cured, and so clearly and teneibly did it state the case that I determined to try the means of cure wtiieh it doscribt<L So 1 seut my man to the drag store, procured a bottle of the medicine, unknown to my physicians and trends, and took the fii«t dose st 10 o'clock. At thtit time I was suffering intensely. I could not sleep ; I had the short breaths and could nearcoly get any air into my lungs. I was ter­ ribly iiloated from head to foot, aud the motion of my heart was irregular and painful. The next morning 1 was able to breathe freely ; the pain begau to leave me and the bloating decreased. 1 continued to take the medicine, aud to-day, sir. I am as well' as 1 ever was in my life, and wholly owing to the wonderlul, auuo»t miraculous, power of Warner's Safe Iv duty aud Liver Cure. I do; not know what this medicine is made of, or anythiug else about it, bat I know it saved my iile when I was given up by the doctors and had really been dead for weeks ; that it has kept me iu perfect health ever since and has cured many of my friends to whom I have reo- ominended it. There are a number of very remarkable cases in Lynn and Salem, as well as in this city, that it has cured. My recovery is so remarkable that it has excited much atten­ tion, and physicians as well as others have in­ vestigated it thoroughly. I am glad they have, for I feel that the results of such a wonderful cure should be known to the thousands in all parts of the land who are suffering from troubles of the kidneys, liver or heart, in some of their many dangerous forms." The representative of the press thanked Mr. Larrabee tor his very frank and clear state­ ment, and was about to leave the office when a gentleman stepped up to him and inquired if he were seeking information about Mr. Larra- bee'u sickness and recovery. The scribe replied that he was, whereupon the gentleman said : "And so am I, aud I have come all the way from Chicago for that very purpose. Kidney troubles seem to be alarmingly increasing ail over the country, and I have a very near rela­ tive who is afflicted much as Mr. Larrabee was. I have been to see the physician of whom Mr. Larrabee speaks, and I tell you, sir, it is sim­ ply wonderful." " What did he say 7" asked the man of news. "Say ! why, fir, they lully confirm every­ thing Mr. Larrabee has Ktatea. I went to see Dr. D. A. Johnson, at 20Woroester street. He was absent when I called, and so I stepped into the Commonwealth Hotel, where Mr. Lar­ rabee was ii.ing at the time of liis ci^kness. Messrs. Brugh & Garter are proprietors, and I asked them about Mr; Larcabec'x case. Mr. Baigh TX iuted to the electric Annunciator and said. 'Why. for w< ekn aud weeks, every lima that bell rang I ssid : That means the death of Mr. Larrabee. No one around the hotel ever dreamed that he would recover, and when the doctors would come down from bis room tliey would shake their head^ and say there was no hope. The arrangements for tlie funeral were made and lii-i recovery was simply a miracle. * "I then called on Dr. Johnson, who said that Mr. Larrabee's case was a very remarkable one. He was his family physician and expected his death every hour for a number of weeks, and never called to see him during that time but toe was prepared for it. The doctor said the re­ covery was due to Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and if he had friends, male or fe­ male, troubled with albumen or any kidney troubles he should certainly advise them to use this remedy. Dr. Johnson said kidney difficul­ ties are moro common than most people tbink, and that many tsymptoms which are supposed to be other diseases arise from the kidneys. He said tbat ladies after gestation are specially subject to albuminous troubles, which require prompt attention. " Well, I thon came down and called on Dr. EL Ingertoll Bowditch, on Boylston street. The old doctor was inclined to be reticent, but fully confirmed all I had previously learned. He had attended Mr. Larrabee, and supposed him be­ yond all hope, and he was afterward restored, its he said, by Wasner's Safe Kildney and Liver Cure. " I next wont to see Dr. Melville E. Webb, at the Hotel Cluny, for you see I was determined to be thorough iu the matter. I fouiKl Dr. Webb a most clear-headed and well-informed gentleman, and he said : " ' I know of Mr. Larrabee's case from having thoroughly investigated it as a medical director of a life iiinuranej company, and it is one of the most remarkable cases I have ever met. Mr. Larrabee had all the manifestations of a com­ plication of diseases, and in their worst forms. He had albumen and casts in the urine, and a terribly diseased liver and spleen. Indeed, he was BO bad that he throw himself upon the floor, and with his head upon a hassock, struggled for breath. It was on the night when he was so bad and when all his medical advisers had long given him up that he began nuing Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. The next morning at 10 o'cloek he was able to breathe freely, and has been ever since. I subjected him to the most thorough examina­ tion possible, after his recovery, and ' I can't find out about him.' His kidneys, hver, lungs and heart are perfectly well and sound. I can only add that, from what I have seen, I would unhesitatingly recommend this remedy.' " The conclusions from the Statements above made which come to the newspaper man as well as the general public, must be two-fold. First, that a modern miracle of healing has been per­ formed in onr midst, and that, too, by the sim­ plest means and one which is within the reaoh of every one. It should be remembered that Bright's disease is not usually a sudden corn- plaint. Its beginnings are slight and its growth slow. The svmptoms by which it may be de­ tected are different with different persons, no two people usually having the same. This fact was manifest in the case of Mr. Larrabee, and he had no idea of the ternble complaint which had attacked him until it became fixed upon him. Secondly, testimonials of s*ch high character, and so out-spoken in tone, con- eltieively prove the value of the remedy and its. superior nature to the proprietary articles with which the public have been flooded. "The greater includes the less," and the remedy which has been proven so valuable and has saved a life after it was brought to death's door, must unquestionably be certain in all minor troubles wfafcb are so disastrous unless taken in time. The Guests for Dinner. The easiest dinner to arrange pleas­ antly, unless it be one given to a small circle of intimate friends, is when your chief gueet'» a person of well-known and decided tastes. It is easy enough to de­ cide what set of people would be most interested in and most agreeable to an eminent author, or artist or scientist If it is a young bride, or a woman of fash­ ion to whom you wish to show a courtesy, people of similar taste and correspond­ ing tocifll standing should be asked. Every hostess likes to secure a wit for her dinner table, bnt there is just a little danger in inviting the too-too brilliant man lest he put all the others in the shade and give them that sense of being under an extinguisher which does not conduce to the enjoyment of even the feeblest luminary. There is a story about a certain General in the United States army who was one of the clever­ est talkers of his time, tod who was well known to nbt be averse to do most of the talking himself. He was marching up a long hill in Mexico, accompanied by his stuff. He began to talk at the foot of the hill, and grew more and more elo­ quent as he went on and up. He flashed, he sparkled, he philosophized, he jested, and at last the top of the hili was reached. Thereupon he turned to his officers and bowed with the sweetest se­ renity. 44 Gentlemen,'"' he said, 44 the hill is climbed, and we have had a most delightful conversation." The staff smiled as one man, with a smile that was child-like and bland, for they had purposely refrained, every soul of them, from speaking a single word during the whole march. This kind of a good talk­ er is not exactly the one whom it ia to invite to dinner. 44 WITH GRATEFUL FEF.MVGS," Da. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y.: Bear Sir-- Your "Golden Medical Discovery " and "Purg­ ative Pellets" have cured my daughter of Scrof­ ulous Swellings and Open Sores about the neck, and your '• Favorite Prescription " has accom­ plished wonders in restoring to health my wife, who had been bed-fast for eight months from Female Weakness, I*am, with grateful feel­ ings, yours truly, T. H. LONG, Galveston, Texas. " THEY tell me Brown has a great ear for mu­ sic," said Fenderson. " Yes," replied Fogg; "I knew he had a great ear, two of them, in fact: but I did not know that they were for music. I supposed they were for brushing flies off the top of his head! " " FA I It UlKIi GRADUATES," whose sedentary lives increase those troubles peculiar to women, should use Dr. Pierce's *' Favorite Prescription," which is an nnfuiiing remedy. Sold by druggists. AUNT: "Has any one been at these pre­ serves V" Dead silence. " Have you touched tbem, Jimmy V" Jimmy (with the" utmost de­ liberation) : " Pa never'lows me to talk at din­ ner." "GOIDKN Medical Discovery" is warranted to cleanse the blood from, all impurities, from whatever cause arising. For Scrofula, Sores of all kinds, Skin and Blood Diseases, its effects are marvelous. Thousands of Testimonials from nil parts. Send stamp for pamphlet on Skin Diseases. Address WORLD'S DISPENSABI MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y. ONF. of the managers of a hospital asked an Irish nurse which he considered the most dan­ gerous of the many cases then in the hospital. "That, sur," said Pat, pointing to a ease of sur­ gical instruments lying on the table. _ "DKAB me !" said Mrs. Partington, "young girls nowadays are not what their mothers used to be. Half of them are sufferers from nervous perspiration 1" A Sudtlen Death. "John Smith died suddeuly this morning from an attack of Dysentery. Only last night he seemed to be in perfect health, and Lis friends will be surprised to hear of his sudden death." How many times we hear just such news as the above; and the reason for so many deaths from Dysentery, Summer Complaiut, Diarrhea, Cholera Morbus, etc., is not because these diseases are necessarily fatal, but because people do not know how to treat them, or neg­ lect treatment until it is too late. A teaspoou- ful of PEBRY DAVIS' PAIN KII.LER, in a little sweetened water (hot water preferred), taken evwy half hour, will cure any case of bowel trouble if the treatment is commenced in time. If the case is unusually severe, or treatment has not been promptly commenced, the PAIN KIM.KK T-houkl be applied externally as well as internally. Full d.rectioiw accompany every bottle. It has never failed when used accord­ ing to the directions. A bottle in the house may save a life that would be lost while waiting for a doctor. A Thoughtful Urchin. Not long since a smart 7-year-old son of one of our preachers, after service was over and the family had returned home from church, said : 44 Papa, do you ever look kt me while you are preaching ?" The father, thinking that he was a little hurt by supposed neglect, said: 44 Certainly, my son, I oftenlook at you and think of you when I am preaching." 44But, to-day, did you notice me at all?" 44 Yes, I did, son, several times, said the father. 44 Well, papa, did you see me wink at you two or three times ?" 44 No, my son. What did you wink at me for when I was preaching ?" 4 41 winked at you, papa, to get you to stop ; you were spinning it out too long. -- Exchange. Phyalcal Perfection. You can be made strong in all your parts. You can strengthen the digestive organs, cure dyspepsia and prevent those varying attacks of constipation and diarrhea. You can ntrengtlien the urinary system and cure all such symptoms of weakness as bad dreams, urinary sediment, etc. You can strengthen the nervous system and rid yourself of that extreme feeling of debility. You can strengthen your mental fac- uJt es 'and improve your memory. You can strengthen your muscular system aud increase your power of enduranc". Iu a word, you can be uu example of physical perfection if you de­ sire, by using a scieut'tic combination of Yellow Dock, Sarsaparilla, Juniper, B.ichu, Irou, Cele­ ry and Calasaya, all of which ingredients enter into the composition of Dr. Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla, and make it nature's best assistant in curing all forms of organic diseases, entitling it to oe called the queen of all health renewers, and a perfect blood puri­ fier. Ask your druggut to get it for you. German Yltat Statistics. Vital statistics have made some inter­ esting disclosures in Germany concern­ ing the comparative vitality of children under various methods of feeding. Thus, of 100 children nursed by their mothers only 18.2 died during the first year ; of those nursed by wet nurses, 29.33 died; of those artificially fed, GO died, and of those brought up in institutions, 80 died to the 100. Again, taking 1,000 well- to-do persons and 1,000 poor persons, there remained of the prosperous after 5 years, 943, while of the poor only 655 remained alive; alter 50 years thefe re­ mained of the prosperous 557, and only 283 of the poor; at 70 years of age there remained of the prosperous 235, and but 65 of the poor. The total average life among the well-off class was found to bo 50 years as against 32 among the poor. • HINISTEB writes: "From hard studies and dose application to the duties of a protracted revival, my health suffered severely. I took a vacation and tried to win back health and strength, but I seemed to be sicking into a state of general weakness and prostration. A friend presented me with a bottle of Dr. Guy­ sott's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. Its effect lias been wonderful, and although I decline having mv name published I will speak a good word for the medicine at every opportunity." He May Well B* Joyfnl. „ „ TOPEXA, Kin., May 12, 1881. H. H. WABNKE A Co : Sirs--After nisetMB years of unmitigated suffering from c-Jbroute kidney disease I finally found joyful rettor*- tion to health in your Safe Kidney and Llfir Core. D. B. OWXML A LITTLE Boston miss, who had accompanied her mother on a calling expedition, said to the lady of a house they were leaving: •• I shall not kiss you." " Oh, yes, you will," urged the hostess. "Please do; if yon don't you'll fed badly when you go away." The little one shook her head resolutely, but made no other reply until (she and her mother were at the < when she turned and said: " Well, I < seem to feel very bad yet!" GENERAL Debility, Meeple-tsness. Depression, Indigestion and Spinal Weakness cured by Lydia E. Prnkham's Vegetable Compound. '"I WISH," said a farmer's wife to her hne- band aud six boys, " that some of you would shoot the yeller cat" So they all, when they happened to think of it, want and loaded the gun. Luckily it was the youngest boy that tired it, for he was very healthy and could stand being kicked through a fence.--Hartford Times. / THAT pain in the back is a sure surn thatjib need to take a package of Kidney-Wort. A COLORED preacher at Athens, Ga., VI- dressed the following petition to the throne of grace: " Some of dis here congregation TRIP go to the Court House, some to the jail, some to the gallows and some to de debbil; bat,. Lord, bless 'em whereber dey are." That Hatband «f Ullae Is three times the man he was before he began using Wells' Health Benewer. $1. Druggists. Send for pamphlet to £. & WILLS, Jersey Cttgr, » - ' r> THOUSANDS of infants aud children d'e at this season of 'the year from Cholera Iufantum or summer complainf. This fearful di-iease can be cured by Dr. Wmchell's Teething Syrup, which never fail.-* to give inmie liate ivlief.'even in the most severe caseu. Sold by all Druggists. 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