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- • :fr ..U , ?.;'• ./•> r k *>r t,"4-* tK> l „ , < 4. <» » ' ' - :;K not NORS£ WITH ci,o«m. Cow dasr to the hwt at flu honaaraeptng 1 of which ao few architects t«H; good Hraati and plenty of The well-ltted miMfain in which thej must dnalL Bat flat of the MwlngB Mnd fortune can glw If afce to the ctty or oumiUy »tM«, Ia_tbntirtdcta she Mica for and covets iorevsr. The M» alrr cloeet. ber lor and her uride -• The b*g, a*ry otoaet, her Joy and her pride. : The honne may be perfect from gamt to cellar, i Well lighted, well aired, with cold water and hot, ' And yets to the eye of the feminine dweller. If duoetteao, all Is aa If it were not. i Bow oft she haa sank like a dove that la wonaded. How oft she has aecretly grumbled and sighed, Bcosnae she asw not, though with all else sur­ rounded. r Joy and her pride! - Thr tilg. rtrf nlmnt sM • The roomy, clean closet, the'well-ordered closet, « I The Mg, airy cloeet, her joy and her pride. Fond irsst"- who fain would have home be i For yon snd yonr Eves all complete as a whole, " To read In, to write in, to sleep in, to feed in. :r • Forget not ttao.cMoete.so dear to the soul; S v'A Bat build them in corners, in nooks and in cran­ nies, ̂„ s Wherever a closet may harbor or hide, 5 ' $%,.*, And give to your Marye, your Kate* and yonr ' '3-v Annies, . - The^hUr, airy doasts, their Joy and their , The roomy, (ton doaets, the well-ordered l ; 4 ! TheCbtgTi3ry closet*. their Joy and their pride, r u --The Builder. . z . .tsLfe- ,n? , .V' < . j ALECK STEPHEN! Hla Desperate Fight with Jedge Cone. During Mr. Stephens' Congressional service, and pending the campaign of 1848, he returned from Washington to Georgia. He was fresh from the great debates on the acquisition of California and New Mexico as United States Ter­ ritories, and for having taken, against the wishes of a majority of the South ern members, a most prominent part ix opposition to such acquisition, he wai met with much adverse criticism. Judge Cone, who was at the time one of the leading politicians of Georgia, was par ticularly severe in his comments upon Mr. Stephens' action, and was reported as having publicly denounced him as a traitor to the South. Hardly had Mr. Stephens reached his home when these and similar reports were conveyed to hyn. At first he did not credit them, but as one kind friend after another informed him that Cone had called him a traitor, and advised, in the true Southern spirit, that he owed it to himself to demand what is called "satisfaction," the fires of pug­ nacity in his nature, which were always smoldering, hissed up, anil he declared that if Judge Cone would admit having called bwn a traitor to the South he would "slap his face." Not long after this he met the Judge at a numerously- attended Whig gathering, and going up to him quietly said: "Judge Cone, I have been told that you, for reasons of your own, have de­ nounced me as & traitor to the South, and I take this opportunity of asking you if such reports are true ?" "No, sir," was Cone's reply, "tJiey are not true." "I am very glad to hear you say so," said Mr. Stephens, cordially, and in the same friendly tone continued: "Of course, I do not desire to be in anyway offensive to you, Judge Cone, but in or der that we may have no further mis understanding, through the mis­ representation of others, I think it right to tell you that I have said I would slap your face if you admitted having used tV>p lasgaagie niixixraied io jiuu." Upon this the Judge agam disowned having spoken disrespectfully of Mr. Stephens, and so for the time the affair ended. It was the subject of discussion all over the State, however, and the general verdict was that Judge Cone a very powerful m^n, bv the way--had shown the white feather to "Little Aleck Stephens." In such a community no public man resting under such charge could hope either for political preferment or popular respect. Cone of course, knew this, and, very much heated and annoyed by the comments which were being made upon him, wrote to Mr. Stephens demanding an imme diate and public retraction of the threat, In reply, Mr. Stephens wrote that the threat of slapping the Judge's face had been made contingent upon the truth of reports regarding which he (Mr. Cone) had pronounc< d to be untrue, aad that such being the case there could be no cause for offense or angry feeling on either side. tJnfcfrtunately, this letter was never received by Judge Cone, Three or four days after it was written however, he met Mr. Stephens on the piazza of a hotel in Atlanta, and, dis regarding that gentleman's friendly greeting, said in a very offensive tone "Mr. Stephens, I demand that you make an immediate retraction of your threats regarding me." Sick and weak though he was, Alex ander H. Stephens could allow no one to speak to him in the fashion de­ scribed. Judge Cone was a very giant in-sise and muscular development, yet the frail man whom he addressed, with aggravating politeness and without hesi tating a mement, replied: "Pardon me, sir; I have already written you on that subject., I must decline to discuss "it further." "Am I to take this as your answer ? asked Cone, excitedly. -' "It is the only answer I have to give you," was the calm reply. "Then I denounce you as a miserable little traitor," cried Cone, mad with ex eitement. The last words had hardly left Ins lips when a light cane, wielded by the quick hand of the man he had insulted left its red scar across his cheek. Wild with pain and passion, without uttering a word, he drew a keen-point ed dirkrknife and made one furious thrust at his weak little adversary heart. Instantly as he did so, however, Stephens, seizing a stout umbrella -which he held in his left hand, inter ppsed it as a defense and was able for a moment to hold him at arm's length The knife fell short of its mark. Once more it was thrust at Stephens, cutting a deep gash in his arm, but reaching no vital point; eigliteeu time* it cut deep into his breast, arms and body, but still he did not fall. Then he i-ould hold out no longer. No courage, no spirit, however firm and unyielding, could long withstand such an attack Cone was determined to finish his work He threw all his great weight against the umbrella which held him away from the man ho had determined to kQl. It broke; Stephens, half-fain ting, fell upon his back. The giant Cone wa« at his throat in a moment; his head, by a grip of iron, was held against the cruel floor; the keen and blood-dripping knife was held aloft ln-fore him ri a ly for the last fatal thrust, but still the poor pale faoe of the little hero was set aad defiant--his black eyes still flashed imdauntedly. "Retract, or I'll cut your cursed throat!" hissed Cone. "Cut! Ill never retract!" gasped the almost lifeless Stephens. Like a flash, the knife came down. With an almost superhuman «flort tfea it in his right the muscles, ten- hft&d it cut, then no vital part. Cone tried to wrench it free. With a grasp almost of death the horribly mangled and muti­ lated hand still held it free. In the strangle Stephens was again dragged to his feet; the blood was rushing in streams from his many wounds; his hold upon the knife which sought his brave heart began to relax; he was dy­ ing. But, even when he believed the next moment would be his lest, Btrong men came to his relief. The madman Cone was secured And held fast. Then quickly tho wounds which Mr. Stephens had received were examined. It was found that one had penetrated to within a sixteenth of an inch of the heart. An intercostal artery had been cut. The doctors declared that he would surely die. Happily the predic­ tions were not verified. His life was saved by the unremitting care of a sur­ geon, his devoted friend, who, as good fortune would have it, happened to be in Atlanta at the time. When he re­ covered, with a magnanimity of which few men are capable even of understanding, he refused to prosecute Cone, and that person, instead of get­ ting his deserts <n the dark cell of a State prison, was fined $1,000, and, with his "honor vindicated," was al­ lowed to go free. To the day of his death Mr. Stephens spoke of him in terms of consideration and forgiveness. Not long ago, referring to the terrible struggle I have attempted to describe, and show­ ing me the great hole in his mangled hand, he said, with a quiet and far­ away look in his deep, dark eyes, "Poor Cone! I'm sure he'd be sorry if he knew what trouble I have ^Mppte with these stiff fingers of mine.* AT THE TELEPHONE. , my dear," said Mr. Spodpen- dyke, standing before the telephone and preparing to explain the mysteries and advantages to his wife. "Now, my dear, this is going to prove the most conven­ ient thing we ever had in the house. When I want to talk to any one, I just turn this crank and say: 'Hello! hello!' and I tell her who I want, and she calls him up. Now, I'll ask for Mr. Speckle- "wottle," and Mr. Spoopendyke turned the crank, utterly forgetting to press the button that makes the connection. "What does he say?" asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, cocking her head to one aide, as a woman always does when her husband is trying to listen. "He don't say anything yet," growled Mr. Spoopendyke. "He ain't like you He waits until he has got something im­ portant on his mind, and then he says it. Hello, hello!" roared Mr. Spoopen­ dyke, giving the crank a vicious twist and glaring into the enunciator with a vindictive look. "Now, you keep that mouth of yours tied up, or you're liable to lose it some day!" with which doleful prognostication Mr. Spoopendyke rat­ tled away at the crank and awaited some sign of life at the other end. "I suppose it is really that girl's fault," murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke, sniffing at the instrument as though she smelled the young lady from afar, and found her no better than she ought to be. "I don't suppose fehe's there at all More likely she's gadding around some­ where." "What'd ye want to talk just then for ?" , howled Mr. Spoopendyke. "What's your measly object in breaking out with the conversational small-pox at that critical juncture? Don't you know she was just beginning to talk, and you made me lose her ? I tell you one thing," added Mr. Spoopendyke, with impressive solemnity, "if you don't shut your mouth once in a while, the moths will get in there and make you trouble." "If t-he'd only commenced to talk, you haven't lost her," replied Mrs. Spoopendyke, wrinkling up her nose. "You'll have no trouble with her if she's got started." "Hello, hello! call up Mr. Speckle^ wottlc!" bawled Mr. Spoopendyke, ap­ parently convinced by his wife's man- nevor his own experience. "There, she's gone. No use for me to try anything when you're around. Another time I want to-talk through a telephone I'll take it over in a vacant lot! Do you know of anything that will keep vou quiet for a moment ?" demanded Mr. Spoopendyke, his wrath rising as he contemplated his ill-usage. "Never mind the expense. Just name the arti­ cle ! Why didn't you tell me, when you referred me to your measly old dad, that I was proposing marriage to a dod gasted steam dictionary ?" "Say, dear, can I taik through it?" cooed Mrs. Spoopendyke, anxious to disarm her husband. "Is there anything you can't talk through?" squealed Mr. Spoopendyke, beginning to realize that there was something about the telephone that he did not thoroughly understand. "When I get a telephone for you, the dia­ phragm will be of double and twisted wrought steel with railroad tracks for wires, and I don't believe that will last more'n an hour and a half! Hello! liello-o-o! wake up and call up Speckle- wottle, dod gast ye!" and Mr. Spoopen­ dyke rattled away at the crank until his arm ached. "Be patient, dear. You said she'd gone, and it's a long way around to Mr. Speeklewottle's house. Perhaps he isn't home, and she's waiting for him." "That's the way it works, eh?" shrieked Mr. Spoopendyke, glaring at his wife. "It took you to get hold of it! When I call that girl she goes home to dinner, and along in the evening she goes around to Speeklewottle's house and brings him herein a hack! That your idea of it? Or, p'raps you've got some sort of notion that she runs the wire through Specklewottle, turns on the Current and slams him right up here through the side of the house! That your idea? Well, she don't, and she don't break her back trying to make a dod gasted idiot of herself, like some women J" "I think I understand how it works," faltered Mrs. Spoopendyke. "You say, 'Yellow, yellow--!'" "There's the combination!" yelled Mr. Spoopendvke. "You got your work in that time! Why didnt you tell me I was bringing this thing home to the inventor ? W hat'd you want to let me stand up here and explain this thing to the only comprehensive brain that ever tackled it for ? You've got it! With what you know now and what you've got to find out, you only need a wig and a law-suit to be the whole science of electricity. I tell ye this is the way it works!" And Mr. Spoopendyke brought the box a kick that splintered it. "See it work?" he demand, d, pulling at the wires until they cut his hands. "Watch it, while I convey your regards to the other luna- " and he danced on the remnants of the instrument, and smashed the fragments against the walL f. "JI*Wr mind, dear,' pendyke, sputtering around ad trying Co liotiil him. wsnt Mr. Spetidewottle wll rait tend a servant round That'll be much nioer than trusting to a nasty wire, and I know there was a draught through that box for I could feel it as soon as it come in the room." "Oh, yon could feel it!" roared JifT. Spoopendyke, rather wondering how he was going to account to the com­ pany for the destruction of his box. "If I had your sensitiveness and an onion, I'd hire out as a dod gasted orchid!" and, with this culminating sarcasm, Mr. Spoopendyke crushed his hat over his ears, and rushed around to Mr. Speek­ lewottle's to see what had better lie done about the matter. I don't care," murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke, as she flopped down on the floor to pick up the pieces of the wrecked telephone box; "he'll not have an opportunity for standing up here and talking to -tfeat girl until his legs are tired," and with this sage expression of her satisfaction over the result of the experiment, Mrs. Spoopendyke broke off the ends of the bent wires, apd laid them away to crimp her hair on.-- Stanley Huntley. • ' 4 Diphtheria. In the death records, showing the various diseases which produce con­ sternation as well as grief, diphtheria takes rank among the most terrible maladies with which the medical pro­ fession is called upon to deal. Still, we are informed that diphtheria is not a modern distemper. It was known to the human family more than 2,000 years ago. We are told that "a medical work published in Sanscrit more than 2,000 years ago mentions this disease, and describes the manner of its attack. It was very prevalent in Spain from 1581 to 1611, and was known as garrotillo. In Naples during 1617 it swept away whole families, and the disease was ac­ curately described in 1640 by a French physician, Baillou. It was first ob­ served in our country by Dr. Samuel Bard, of this city, who called it an ' uncommon and dangerous distemper/ It derives its name diphtheria from the Greek word diphthera (leather). This name was given to it early in this cent­ ury by p French physician, Bretznon- neau, on account of the leathery appear­ ance of the false membrane, which is one of the characteristics of the dis­ ease. There are numerous theories as to the causes which produce diphtheria, but the question has never been satis­ factorily settled. What it is is quite as much a matter of dispute. All are agreed that it is a virus known by its fruits, but no one has ever traced its actual source. Microscopical and chemical tests have failed to reveal in what this poison consists. Of its effects, however, we have abundant proof." The Philadelphia Record, from which we make the foregoing extract, de­ serves well of the public for bringing into special prominence facts re­ lating to a, disease exceptionally alarming, because of its terrible fatal­ ity, and the Record still further says: The greatest number of cases occur between the first and fifth years of life, and it has a tendency to affect a num­ ber of persons belonging to the same family. This fact proves, accord­ ing to Mackenzie, that age and family susceptibility are important predispos­ ing causes. This eminent authority also observes that "in its endemic form it rarely attacks those who live in healthy and well-ventilated houses." Again, the same author remarks: "The wealthy are sometimes subjected to causes of infection which the poorest may escape," because "when diphtheria becomes epidemic in a town an elabo­ rate system of drainage is calculated to convey the poison by means of the sewers." It is well understood by the profession that it may be conveyed by a person not actually affected by it. Several years ago the habit of taking children especially into street oars or other public conveyances was loudly condemned for this reason by New York physicians. The custom of public funerals has undoubtedly much to do with spreading the disease. Peo­ ple do not yet thoroughly understand that it possesses the property of adher­ ing to clothing, walls of houses, furni­ ture, etc., in as marked a degree as do the germs of small-pox, only awaiting some particular condition of the atmos­ phere to arouse it into action. Diph­ theria is said to be more common, as well as more fatal, in the country than in the city. This fact would seem to indicate that, with all their advantages for obtaining pure air and pure water, country people are generally careless as io the proper ventilation of their dwell­ ing houses, the condition of their cellars, and as to the relations their water wells bear to their stables and house-drains. However, they are get­ ting to understand these things better, and, if the theories of the perpetuation of diphtheria be correct, the time may come when it will be with them but a memory of the past. Keepsakes More Predra* tfcaa 60M. "About ten years ago," said an officer of a safe deposit company, "we had in one of our safes a small box that con­ tained a child's primer, two or three Picture books and a fish hook and line. 'his box was left with us by an elderly lady, and its contents onoe belonged to a child that died many years ago. Two or three times a year the lady came to our place and examined the contents to see if they were all right. She was the mother of the child, and she seemed to take a sad sort of pleasure in gazing upon thq articles that had amused her darling in the long, long ago. Finally she ceased coming, and when the time for which she had leased the space in our vault had expired, we made inquiry as to the reason it was not renewed. We then learned that she was dead." "Who was the lady?" "I must decline to state her name; but I will say that her husband was for a quarter of a century one of the leading business men of New York. He took the little box containing his dead wife's treasures away with him."--New York Star. Had to Take an Interest. Two "commercial tourists," of the pine-board persuasion, met in the Union Depot. "Hello, Charley," says No. 1. "I haven't seen you in an age. What are you doing now?" * * "O, I'm in the same old line," re­ sponds No. 2. "With the same house?" "Yes, same old concern, but situated a little differently." "How is that?" "Well, I've gdt an interest." "Is that so? How long since?" 3 "Since the first of the month." "Let me congratulate you." "Yes, the old man told me I'd take an interest in the business this year, or quit. So J took the interest. --American Lumberman. The long deluge of rain to whieh so • many distrfota hi»»tteen subjected has resulted m miffortones curiously char- acterî id of the regfonH in which they occur. Switzerland, for example, has been harassed by landslips. Germany and Hungary have been desolated by floods, and now it is the turn of Ireland to «»dd to her other unhappinrss the peculiar calamity of bursting bogs. Al­ ready we are teld that several thousand acres in the vicinity of Castlerea are submerged, mills are stopped, bridges are choked, fields covered to the depth of twenty-six feet, an5 traffic on the road between Bellingare and Castlerea has been suspended by the overflow of a "moss," flooded by the rain until it has broken its bounds, tmd is now ad­ vancing rapidly toward the town. The bog at Baslik, which "moved" some time ago, is also breaking up in several places, and threatens before long to be­ gin its march on the arable country in the neighboring lowlands. Such 'mis­ haps are, unfortunately, too common in Iceland. Last June a large bog on the Wistropp estate, in East Clare, began to crawl to the southward, carrying be­ fore it several patches of reclaimed land, planted with potatoes, and destroying a portion of the main road to Limerick. A few years ago some laborers working in a field in Galway heard "a noise like thunder," followed rdmost immediately, to use their phrase, "by the country roll­ ing upon tliem," in the shape of the black ooze of a "moving bog." By and by, the witnesses of this strange sight were driven from the field which they were cultivating; and, before the lava­ like stream ceased its progress, two corn-fields, a potato-patch and a con­ siderable tract of pasture-land were in­ undated. The bursting of the Solwav moss, more than a century ago, is a case even more familiar; for this vast morass, saturated by unpreeedentedlv heavy rains, left its bed and covered 400 acres of farms to such a depth that several cottages were buried, and a further number so far entombed that their roofs alone appeared above the dreary expanse of liquid peat. When the inundation ceased it was found that the original level of the bog in its own area had sunk twenty-five feet, and that in the lowest ground which it had in­ vaded as much as fifteen feet of turfy substance had been deposited. Again, in 1881, a bog of 100 acres, between Bloomfield and Geevah, in Sligo, burst, and, in addition to covering a large ex­ tent of arable land, cut up the ground into deep ravines and carried away the road from Bloomfield to St. James' Well for a distance of 9,200 vards. These instances could be multiplied al­ most indefinitely. But they have all one feature in common--they are in­ variably caused simply by the vast turf deposits receiving more water than they can hold, and consequently breaking their banks and moving down to the lower levels.--London Standard. the Way to be- A YOUNG man writes: "Dr. Gnysott's Tel- low Dock and Sarsaparilla cured me of nerv­ ous debility, weak urinary organt*, disturb­ ing dreams, etc., after I had tried a dozen doctors I think the tact that it is a sure cure for nervous debility should be generally known. It may save many useful lives." Walt Whitman. Emerson to Carlyle, 1856: One book, last stimmer, came out in New York a nondescript monster which yet had ter­ rible eyes and buffalo strength, and was indisputably American--which I thought to aand voaat hait tba book throve so badly with the few to whom I showed it, and wanted good morals so much, that I never did. It is called "Leaves of Grass"--was written and printed by a journeyman printer in Brooklyn, N. Y., named Walter Whit­ man ; and after you have looked into it, if you think, as you may, that it iB only an auctioneer's inventory of a ware­ house, you can light your pipe with it. (But neither ridicule or denunciation is to the injury of Walt's works. There lately appeared in Glasgow an edition of his Specimen Days and Collect, and his other books are selling well.) Cora*! Corns! Carnal Evexrone suffering- from painful cnaM will be glad to learn that there & a new and pain- It*® remedy discovered by whieh the very worst class at corns may be removed entire­ ly, in a short time and without pain. PUT­ NAM'S PAWLBSS COBN EXYBACTOB has already been used by thousands, and each person who has given it a trial becomes anxious to recommend it to others. It Is the only sure, prompt and painless cure for corns known. Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor is sold everywhere. Wholesale, Lord, Stoutenbunrh 6 Co., Chicago. 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N. 15 -- No ri>k is incurred, as thirty days' trial is al­ lowed. toK DTsrETsxA. rNDiciEsTio*, depression of spirits end general debility in their various forms; &b>o as a preventive agalnxt fever and ague and ether intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Cahsaya," made by Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York, and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it hss no equal CAKBOUWK, the deodorised petroleum hair renewer and restorer, as improved and per­ fected, challenges the world and stands without a rival among the hair dressings, and is a universal favorite with the ladies Tn U. & Government are using huge num­ bers of The Improved Howe Scales Borden, 8elleck 4 Co., Agents, Chicago. LADIES &chifdren's boots & shoes can't run Over if Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners are used Tsr the new brand, Spring Tobacoa The Story of a Drana. "Get money, honestly, if you can, but get money," was a foolish father's advice to nis son. Get money, if you can honestlv but a slight alteration of the words," but va­ ries the aentiment considerably. There is no harm in making money. It answereth all things. Usednghtly, it is a power for good, and there is inoney enough in the world to form alever bv which the mass of humanity could be lifted, to a certain extent, out of its depths of sorrow and despair. Money we must have, for money makes the mare go. Some can make money who have no fac­ ulty for saving. Would you save you must know how to deny those who would borrow and never repay, as well as those who beg simply because'they are too lazy to work. There are men who never want to see yon except to ask the favor of a loan. They will ask for just one word with you, and that one word is sure to be money. An impecunious fellow met a rich acquaintance, and, not lik­ ing to adt directly #or a loan said; "intend Smith, if you had ten dollars tn yonr pocket, and I was to ask you for the loan of five, how many would remain In your pocket*" "Ten dollars, to be sure," replied' the rich man, without a moment's hesitation. He had gumption, and knew too much to part with his money by any such rale of subtraction. O, I see, said the impecunious man thus rebuffed He was able to owe. He was one of the Micawber sort--always waiting for something to turn up. How like some peo­ ple who are sick. They think to get well by letting disease take care of itself. But dis­ eases do not heal themselves, snd too late their victims full often find this out to their scrrow sa death seizes upon them. Had they been wise in time thev might have added many years to their lease of life. The cure was nigh them, as it is nigh to all who read this medley. These paragraphs tell the sto­ ry, as a patient perusal will prove. Those who have keen insight and can read between the lines may solve the conundrum the soon­ er for it, but upon all light will dawn ere thftv read the final word of our story. light will dawn, we said, and so it will, light of hope and help. Light is what a cer­ tain individual wanted. Mr. Jones we will call him He was very sick. Consumption had fastened its fangn upon him He had long neglected catarrh, and laughed at the idea of taking anything for it when advised to do ao, and so went from bad to worse. His lungs became diseased, a hacking, churchyard cough racked him almost to pieces, *and he was fast wasting away. A mere shadow of his former self, he scarcely slept at all at night, or slept only to dream horrible dreams. Talk of nightmare! A whole circus troupe, horces and all, seemed to make his bed the arena of their wild per- formancea In this case money did not make the mare go, for he spent & deal of inonev on doctors and physic and was nothing bet­ tered. He ate' little, and was fast going down to an untimely grave, leaving his wife a widow and his four bright children or­ phans, when lo! on one eventful night he dreamed for onoe a bright and happy dream, which our next paragraph will relate. Death, the black-vissged monster, had un­ til then stared him iivthe face, but the dream brought him hope He saw a bright, white- robed angel tn his dresm, who said, 1 "come to bring you good news. Here is your cure --sure, safe, harmless, prompt snd reliable. Get well and seek to take health thereby to others. Behold the cure!" With these words the angel was gone, but ere the trail of light which followed him had vanished the dreamer saw, glittering in the light, three golden letters--G. M. D. "What can It mean?" he said to himself, as he awoke from his slumber. "I have had a Good Many Dreams before, but never such as this" Startled and surprised, he aroused his wife and to her relateahis vision. Ala*, she could not solve the problem. Remembering- all the medical advice, and the physic, and the expense involved since her husband became sick, she expressed the hope that the letters were not intended to suggest that a Good Many Doctors must yet be consulted in ad­ dition to all that had"been interviewed He froaned in reply and remarked that if he ad to consult anv more there would have to be a Gold Mine discovered in order to pay them Every day for a week he and his faithful spouse (searched diligently for a key to the problem. In the dictionary, in sucn news­ papers as they happened to have, <n Ijeofcs, on placards on the walls--everywhere they •ought--hoping to find a clew. Letters stand for words, and they hoped to light upon the words that Bhould suggest the cure They Grieved Many Days over their lack of good luck, as they said, and the Good Man Dreamed again and again, but saw no more angels Hope defer, ed maketh the heart sick. "Oh, that the angel had Guided Me Definitely and Given More Directions," he exclaimed, again and again. Nearly two weeks had elapsed since the night of the Great Mysterious Dream, when there came to the house a pamphlet Tired with his exhausting office work, which he still pursued, determining it possible to die in the harness, Jones was about to throw the pamphlet hi the tire when something prompt­ ed htm to examine it. Surely, thought ne, here can be nothing that will Pierce this Gloom Moat Distressing, or Give Me, Dis­ heartened, any relief. Poor man, he had worked letters over in his mind, and made so inanv combinations with them, that they occurred in almost every sentence he ut­ tered They entered even into his prayers Heaven Grant Me Deliverance, he wou:d say, nor let disease Grind Me Down, and so forth, «</ infinitum, and a mile or two beyond. Mentally tortured and Buffering in every fiber of his body, what wonder that he read page after page of the pamphlet. It was a work on diseases, and ID the morbid state of his mind its contents seemed to suit him. It Kpoke of almost every disease that flesh is heir to, but oh, joy! as he read, a Glimpse Most Deligh'.ful of light stole in upon him. "Eureka! Eureka!" he cried. "Wito, I have it. I have it " Everybody in the house heard him cry Eureka, and rushed to the room to hear what he had found. All expected to see some Great Miracle Done, and then came the ex­ planation. Simple, of course, but why had he not thought of it before? Oh, what a rev­ elation ! Here was hope for him and for oil consumptives. Here, hope for suffering friends snd neighbors That night he scarce could sleep, but when he did he again saw a bright vision of golden letters. In fact, a Glit­ tering Monogram Deciphered readily, and reading G. M D., and again P. P. P., and yet again F. P., and one huge P., around which these others were entwined, and then W. D. M. A All the lettesa blended, yet each was distinct All be had seen in the book, all he again saw in Us vision. Dream Most Glorious D. M G.--G. M D. --Again he rang the changes; backward, for­ ward, every way. Gola Modal Deeerved. M. G. D.--Misery's Great Deliver--till time would fail to tell them all. P. P. P. stood j or Perfect Peace Promised for sufferers, and sweet release from Prostrating Purga­ torial Pains. And again P. P. was Freedom Promised, and backward, P. F. it became Pain Flees Now he could get well, and once well, he would be a missionary, a Glad Missionary Devoted to the work of telling others how they might get deliverance. He went through the Jist of diseases among those of his own acquaintance, from John Robinson, whose torpid liver gave him con­ stant headache and revere bilious attacks, on through the list of those suffering from ulcers, coughs, weak and diseased lung's, to bis friend, Gen. B , who was as near the grave as he. And for all these, as well as for lnmselfj the Grave May Disappear from present vision, and each may be Given More Decades of life than thev had hoped to have years Against the milder cases he marked i>. p. P. Against the serious ca^es he marked (}. M. D., not the Grizzly Monster Death, which he so long had dreaded, but some­ thing--oh, ao much better, as we ahull pres­ ently see. In s short while our hero was well, and went everywhere among his friends and neighbors,'teliin1? of hi- j:o .d fortune and showing the eick and the suffering how they nrplit be healed Some laughed and con­ tinued to rs^ffer, refusing 10 be healed Moire were wise, took hit* counsel and proved his vision of the night as he had done. "A vision, less beguiling far. Than waking drenins by daylight are." Can anything be more delightful than health after sicknessy To be a well man, to feel pure blood coursing through your ve:ns, to know that lungs, liver, kidneys and all the Grand Machinery Does its duty perfect­ ly in one's body; to carry h< a'.ths ruddy mark on the cheeks Ah. this is Good Most Deoidedlv. Thi« was our hero's case, and thousands canstell the same si ory. The go >d angel has come to them They" have seen the letters Gleam Most Distinctly before their eyes, and Going Most. Definitely to work in pursuing the in-truciions given, thev hove recovered that trreat blessing-- Health. G. M. D. has been to them a chan­ nel of good. Good Mysteriouslv Done, and they have bid their sick friends do what all the'sick should do, namely, put themselves in communication with the W. D. M A.. lieve-alas, that down with the burden of which they might be ll • »•! ••llttlll • ' • - •- * - ' diseases, skin diseases, many more. It would seem M ill-deity had given every letter of the all bet ss many diseases as it conld possibly sire, thus formin? an alphabet of sorrow, •offering aad woe. Happy they who, the Great Mystery Discerning, nave escaped the clutches of sad diseases Looking back upon his past experience, Mr. Jones feels Grateful Most I> soidedly,and continues telling the old stocy of his alek- ness, his vision, aad ids restoration to health; for all the sick are not well yet But he haa had the pleasure of seeing, as he says. Good Miraculously Done to hundreds upon his personal reoommendation Dear reader, bear with us awhile if light has not yet dawned on your mind. The mystery will soon be revealed. If the key be not on yonr right hand it is at least on your left, in letter* clear as daylight A Good Many Delighted have discovered it and opened the portal to a long life and a useful one Initials of words that stand for all that is sorrowful and sad, letters, the self-same letters, are often initials of words that breathe of hope and benediction. Search but awhile and vou will find the boon, the blessing and the benefit The mystery of the three Fs, of the F. P., of the G M. D., and of the W. D. M. A, Will Dawn Most Auspiciously upon you C dumbus discovered America snd won high honor aad immortal fame, and they who have learned the secrets of the wonder be­ fore yonr eyes, good reader, Give Most De­ lightful testimonials of their gratitude Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these--it might have been--so sayeth the poet When we think of the my­ riads that might have been saved from un­ timely graves had they seen Mr. Jones' vis­ ion and sought his way to health, we feel sad. Yet we cannot but rejoice at the Great Many Delfvered from death's door by G. M. D., and that Pain's Positive Persecution has been escaped again and again by P. P. P. Virtues unnumbered serve to make G. M D. the Greatest Mercy Deigned by favoring J>rovidenee8 for the relief of sufferers, and ts discoverer feels P. P. P.--Perfectly Par­ donable Pride, tn telling of the Growing Mul­ titude Delivered from the Grasp Most Dread­ ful of Greedv Mournful Death. Every sick person is interested in the theme before us, and every well person, too, for who does not know some one who is sick and needs, therefore, the good news of health that IK Given Manv Daily. Reader, mystified reader, we will detain you no longer. Perhaps you have Guessed Most Deftly the hidden meaning. P. P. P., vou know, stands for Pleasant Purgativo Pellets, curing constipation, torpidity of the liver, headache and many other complaints F. P., of course, is Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre­ scription, that has proved such a P. F., P«ime Favorite and Precious Friend to la­ dies; safe, easy to take, working like a charm--curing'the peculiar weaknesses inci­ dent to their sex The letters W. D. M. A. stand for the World's Dispensary Medical Association, at Buffalo, N. Y.. with Its im­ posing structures, Its army of medical men, racialists all of them, and its President, Dr. V. Pierce (the large and central P of Mr. Jones' second vision), all at the service of the sick and suffering ever}'where; while G. M. D. is--well read the initials of the para­ graphs of this article and you will see that G. M. D. is Golden Medical Discovery, the boon of the diseased. This wonderful medicine cures all humors, from the worst scrofula to a common blotch, nimple or eruption. Erysipelas, salt-rheum, fever-sores, scaley or rough akin, in short, all diseases caused by bad blood, are con­ quered by this powerful, purifying and in­ vigorating medicine. Great eating ulcers rapidly heal under its benign influences Especially has it manifested its potency in curing tetter, boils, carbuncles, scrofulous sores and swellings, white swellings, goitre or thick neck and enlarged glands Con­ sumption, which is scrofulous disease of the lungs, is promptly snd positively arrested and cured by this sovereign and God-given remedy, if taken before the last stages are reached. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, consumptive night-sweats and kindred af­ fections, it is a sovereign remedy. For in­ digestion, dyspepsia and torpid' liver, or "biliousness," Golden Medical Discovery has no equal, as it effects perfect and radical (RnnM, You will do well if afflicted with any chronic disease to write to the Association for advice, describing yoor malady as well as you can. Many cases are successful y treated through correspondence, and no fees are charged for consultat on. For one dol­ lar and u half you can secure a copy of the "People's Common Sense Medical Adviser," sent post-paid to your address. Its purchase will repay you. In this is given more desira- able information than you can find in any other work of a similar nature. TBOlfftH SALT RHEUM DOM not directly imperil life, it is a diKtrcflgfnl, vexa­ tious and resolute complaint. Patient endurance of tta numerous very small watery piniplen, hot and smalt ing. mjulres true fortitude. 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