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Caused by cleaning home" A SRASS WIDOW. ,Mrs. Cleather was by far the prettiest aid generally the most attractive among iSie whole army of grass widows to be ftpnnd in the gay and giddy Nvnee Tal, the hill station of the N. W. JP. India. Naturally, as is always the case in this merry world we live in, being beautiful, attractive and altogether charming, she won the hearts and admiration of most of the stronger sex and the envy, hatred •nd malice of the weaker. That was only to be expected; it is the way of the world, and it would have been alto­ gether out of the common if it had been Otherwise. Admirers she had many, though it •Would have been hard to pick up among the multitude (unless one was behind the scenes) who was more favored than the rest. She distributed her attentions equally among them all--at least, so far •s the eye could see; and riding out one afternoon with this one, rowing on the lake with another, or dancing with a third, nobody was quite able to fix on any one in particular whom they could tell off as her own distinctive "bow­ wow," nnd whom they could set them­ selves to manufacture stories and scan­ dals about. Five months of the Nynee Tal season had now gone, and pretty Mrs. Cleath- er had managed to pass unscathed through all the fiery accusations of the host of scandal mongers and gossipers of that festive Anglo-Indian community; until quite lately, when she had evinced a somewhat greater partiality for one of her staff, and set all tongues going at once. "Mind you," said Mrs. Allison to Mrs. Barnard one afternoon, "I've heard queer stories about this young and in­ nocent-looking Mrs. Cleather; not that I believe them; still there is no smoke Without lire, you know." "Quite so," responded Mrs. Barnard, in her squeaky voice; and Mrs. Daw- soil tells me «he saw two people very like Mrs. Cleather and Capt. Fenn on the lake last night at 11 o'clock!" ' "Dear me! And all this timelier hus­ band slaving away in the plains!" - "Yes; and you know they've been very much together of late; they say he is always up at her house every morning about 10 or 11, and remains • there the best part of the day." ... "Ah, it's a crying shame," says Mrs. Allison, "for such scandals to be al- lpwed to go on in public like this; why does not Mr. Cleather come up and look after his wife?" "Well, I suppose, poor man, he can't get awai from his duties in tb& plains, out I think some one ought to warn him of the way his young wife is going nm n on* "Yes. and if I only knew him a bit .better I'd do bo myself just out of pure Christian charity." "But what could one tell him ? You aee there is as yet no direct evidence of anything exactly wrong." "No, true, my dear, but if this kind of thing goes on much longer there will bfe, mark my word. The truth must eome to light some day." Meanwhile pretty Mrs. Cleather, the pride of the "bow-wows" and the envy of her sex, pursued the even tenor of her ways, utterly callous of what peo­ ple thought or said about her--a friend of everybody who knew her well, and could appreciate her pleasant manners and conversation, and the enemy, though not of her own making, of others who knew her but Blightly or not at all. « The season was on the wane at Nynee Ital. The rains were over and once more the lake shone forth in all its former glory, and the overhanging trees and rocks covered with ferns and moss, with which its banks were sur­ rounded, made the whole more like a picture in fairyland than a reality in the hills of northern India. Every one -lias making the most of the last few greeks that were left of the season, and dances, theatricals, picnics and dis sipations of all sorts crowded one on top of the other day after day. Mrs. Cleather was everywhere, and the -charm and the spirit of every ball or picnic she went to. Certainly she -did give people a faint excuse for talking, as Capt. Fenn latterly was never absent from her side, and had these last few weeks evidently taken hw place as chief of the numerous staff of her would-be- admirers: but.then he was a personal friend of Cleather's, her husband, and Would not that be sufficient in account­ ing for the decided preference for him atnong the others by the young grass widow? One Thursday afternoon about the beginning of October Mr. Allison, Mrs Barnard nnd Mrs. Dawson had a small apd select picnic of their own at that most delightful of all resting places, namely the inn known as Rest by the Wav, nt Douglas Dale, half way down ou the roa l to Ranil»agh. It is a pic­ turesque little house, situated in the middle of the valley and surround­ ed by the most be«nt»ful of gardens, redolent with the sweet odor of acacia and orange trees, nnd planted out in the most artistic stvle with palms, grasses, trees, and bnshes of all sorts, western as well as oriental. The gar­ den produ-es fruits of all kinds, cherries, apples, plantains, strawberries, and, in fsct, everything the thirsty traveler eould wish for; added to which there are lovely walks under the cool shade of the trees, and grerw arbors such as are seldom seen, whore one may hide awny from the maddening crowd and be at rest, lulled by the rippling of the silver stream nea1* at hand and the sing­ ing of the birds overhead. Such a place . is Douglas Dale, a veritable garden of Eden, a second paradise. tV The sun was beginning to set over the purple hills to the north as Mrs. Al- % lison whs gradually eol'ecting the rem nants of her arm -, as they came in two by two from their walks and talks on earth. Mrs. Allison, more staid than the rest, had remained behind on the ver­ anda, dear Col. Verriker so kindly re­ maining too, to take care of her--so kind and thoughtful of him! but it was not the first time this gallant officer had performed this gallant task. Mrs. Allison herself was a grass widow of a somewhat doubtful character, although, according to her own ideas, prim and proper to a degree; still she had no real objection to one of the male sex, other than her lawful spouse, being tacked on to her apron strings for the time being, though the same arrange­ ment with others was scandalous in her eyes to a degree. The party had now all arrived and were sitting in the far corner of the veranda sipping tea and chatting pre­ vious to their start up the hill again for Nynee T il, when they were surprised by the clatter of pony hoofs coming over the bridge towards the house; and a lady all alone, without even a syce (groom), rode into the garden and pulled up in front of the veranda. She had evidently ridden fast, for her pony was very hot and she very much out of breath. Getting her foot out of the stirrup she slid down off hen saddle by herself, and leading the pony up to the door cart Led the bearer. Words fail to describe the astonish­ ment of the tea party at the other end of the veranda when, by the light of the newly lit lamp over the doorway, they recognized the features of the "spotless and innocent" Mrs. Cleather. Their excitement knew no bounds; they dare not move for fear of being seen, and thus spoiling the tableau of which they would doubtless be witnesses. It was only Mrs. Allison who could not resist saying in a rather audible whisper "There I told you so! How much for the child's innocence now, I should like to know? You may be sure she's on no good errand down here all alone at this time of the evening." However, Mrs. Cleather was much too tired or excited with her ride to notice anything, and the group under the veranda were quite unseen by her. Presently the landlord came to the door. "Did you get my note this after­ noon?" "i'es, ma'am." "Is all ready?" "Yes." "Which is the room?" "If you will kindly come this way I will show youand he led her through the door leading into a small apart­ ment at the other end of the veranda generally known as the "Bow-wow's Cave." "Dear, dear me, I'd give my best dia­ mond ring to know what she's up to!" says Mrs. Allison. "Well, I feel rather curious on the subject," said a gallant major of the Bengal staff corps sitting at her side. Did you notice the pony she rode? It was a bay mare; I know it by the black stocking on the near hind, she ran in the last Gymkhana, and belongs to Capt. Fenn." Ah, doubtless; she always rides his ponies--in fact, they are almost as much hers as his." "Well." continued Mrs. Allison, "Capt. Fenn's pony or no, I don't care, but I should like very much to know what she is do ng down here." "And perhaps, Mrs. Allison," said a third party, "this is not the first time she's been down here at this time." "Who knows?" said the colonel. "She's as lovely as Venus, but you bet as cunning as a serpent, and it's always these quiet ones that are the first to go wrong." Their doubts on the subject were soon, however, made clearer to them, for while they were discussing the subject another ponv and rider arrived at the cottage. This time it is a man, and. though enveloped in an overcoat and with a large Teral hat on his head, it was easy to guess who it was. More­ over the syce and pony both tell the tale, as it is the steed that Captain Fenn rides regularly along the Mall every, day. The excitement of the lookers-on al­ most knew no bounds now, and is in­ creased when the aged landlord agatn comes forth, and to the very audible query of "Is Mrs. Cleather arrived?" answers in the affirmative. "Which is the room she engaged ?" "The small room with the red purdah over the door," answers mine host, and retires once more to the inner recesses of his house, evidently not wishing to be more in the way than possible. The gentleman turns round, orders his syce to take the pony to the stables, walks steadily down to the little door at the other end, and lifting aside the purhahsays: "Are you there, ?" calling Mrs. Cleather by her Christian name; and a sweet voice answers from within: "Yes; is that you come at last? En-trez and shut the door." It would require an- artist of no mean ability to paint the countenances of the party, both men and women, seated round the table in the other corner of the veranda It was more a look of in­ tense delight and satisfaction that dis­ played itself on the face of both Mrs. Allison und Mrs. Barnard, and a look more of surprise and wonder on those of the others. "Come^let us go; this is no fit place to be in such a time of night as this," quoth Mrs. Allison; and having ordered their jompans and ponies they start on their homeward way. They discuss the affairs of the evening, and nothing is too bad for either Capt. Fenn or Mrs. Cleather. The fair ones of the party always believed "there was something more than a mere flirtation in it; but to come to this--too dreadful! And what a piece of scandal for the end of the season, too!" As for the men of the party, they were more puzzled than anything. Capt. Fenn was such a friend of Cleather's they could hardly believe it; "however," they say, "any­ thing is possible with a woman at the bottom of it." By 11 o'clock that night the news has spread like wildtire among the se­ lect gossip-circles of Nynee Tal, and even one fair dame, more energetic than the rest, wends her way up to Mrs. Cleather's house to see what she can %ean oat of the bearer. All he knows is that the memsahib went off in a great hurry, and he doesn't think she would be back till the next day. Worse and worse! Was there ever such a bare­ faced piece of seandal as this ? And they determined to-morrow to let every one in th@ place know of what has hap­ pened. Morning breaks at Nynee Tal, and the siin ri.»es over the mountain tops in all its oriental glorv, making evertlikig aronnd seem l>right and happy. Little does pretty Mrs. Cleather think there is a thnnders orm o? no sma 1 propor- t ons about to b r-t over her head. Mrs. Ail ison, Mrs. Bernard and Mrs. Dawson a e walking on th Mall ab ut 12 o'o oek, wh n «ho shou d th y meet but Capt. i enu him elf. He stops and ta ks to them, i. aaswtr to their queries as to where he was the evening be fori says: "Well, I had rather a slow evening al the club. I had intended to go down to Douglas Dale to m et Cleather; h e wife got a telegram from him in th« afternoon, telling her he would b< there at 7:30. So I sent down mj pony to Ranibagh for him to rid1 up the hill on. I believe they remained there ail night. I'm rather expecting to 6ee them coming up the Mall now By Jove, there they are!" Making a Directory. "I tell you what it is, you or any one who have never got up a city directory, don't know what queer ideas people have, or how many seem to be reallj above their occupation," remarked a canvasser for the new city directory, as he was about to make a memoranda on a slip of paper. "At some of the houses you can't make people understand any­ thing. I asked a lady how many lived at her house, when she flared up and said it wad none of my business. She then took the time to ventilate het mind. She said if she did rent her rooms to a few lodgers it was her own business, and no one need worry about it '1 ain't obliged to rent my rooms,' she said, but it's no harm for a woman to make an honest penny in this way if she wants to.' I finaliy made her understand that I only wanted to know the names of her lodgers to put into the directory as a guide. She then realized that Blie got a hot box without cause, and apologized. Then there is the whitewasher. You have to take it down 'fresco artist.' Just so with nearly every business. A labor­ er is a 'contractor,' a saloonkeeper is a 'liquor merchant,' a barber is a 'tonso- rial artist,' a common sign painter wants to be put down as an 'artist,' the reporter considers 'journalist' as the proper word to designate his occupation. Why. even an old junk dealer considers that nothitfg short of 'broker' would tell of the business he is in. Then there are the gamblers, they want to be put down as 'gentlemen of leisure.' The clerks, that is a large numberof them, want to use some word to express their situation in such a way as to lead people to think they owned at least half their employers' business. The work 'clerk' after their name is a terrible thing. They want 'salesman,' 'confidential secretary' or something of that sort. I've noticed this fact, though, that the people who are not above their calling, who want it put down in plain English without the use of high sound­ ing words, are the most prosperous. They have gone into the business with a purpose to succeed, and they'll do it too. Yes, we meet with all kinds of re­ ceptions. At one place I visited in the Third ward, they threw dish water on me, and called me a 'meddling dude.' I called at one place, and was met at the door by an old lady, who not only slam­ med the door in my face, but let the dog out of the back way, and before I could get out of the yard the dog was busily engaged with me. It was very funny for the dog, and it wasn't so un­ interesting for me.--Peck's Sun. Tight Trousers. "Here, conductor, this young man's fainted?." The words were uttered in a tone of great excitement by a stout woman of about 40 years of age recently in a Columbia avenue car, and as she spoke a slim youth who was seated beside her in a corner of the car fell forward and dropped in a heap upon the straw. With the assistance of a gentleman the conductor lifted the senseless youth on the seat, and two minutes later, as the car passed a drug store, pulled the bell-strap, and, followed by half a dozen interested passengers, five of whom were women, carried him intb the store, where he was placed on a lounge in the back room. A doctor was hurriedly summoned, and after a disappearance of about ten minutes the young man and physician came out of the room, which, had been kept closed, arm-in-arm. The young man's face was still pale, and he walked with a very perceptible tremor. After a few moment's rest the young man got on another car and went away, and the doctor said: "This is the fourth case this month I have seen of the deadly effects of wearing tight trousers, and had that young man not been attended to promptly he might have been in great danger." "Tight trousers?" queried a by­ stander, inoredulcusly. "Yes, sir; tight trousers! Why you can not imagine how often we doctors have to treat cases of illness brought on by no other cause. Take that young man, for instance; his trousers were at least four sizes too-small for him; not too shert, of course, but too tight, and for hours and hours he had been walk­ ing about with a pressure of at least 275 pounds to the square inch on his olexii vivisectori arteries, which are situated in the calves of the human leg. This tremendous pressure forces the blood into channels not able to carry it without undue straining, and al­ though the victim feels no pain he is liable at any moment to topple over in a swoon, and unless relief is promptly given a long and serious illness is likely to follow. It is a similar trouble to that experienced when it was the fashion for the ladies to wear very tight sleeves, ex­ cept that in the case of tight trousers the material ii heavier, the arteries are larger, and the result apt to be more dangerous and difficult to relieve."-- Philadelphia Record. Buskin's Eccentricities. Mr. Buskin is a curiosity. He is sel­ dom to be seen anywhere. Even in his own beloved lake district he takes his walks in the gray of the morning or the dusk of the evening. He seldom goes into society. He loves the theater, and goes when he feels he can indulge himself with such recreation. Perhaps not fifty of these well-known people have ever seen Mr. Ruskin before he comes into the room in the midst of a half dozen gentlemen, not in the usual seemly fashion of the English proces­ sion on such occasions. I saw him when he entered the room, but who was be­ fore him, behind him or beside him I could not now say, for they all came together and the distinguished scholar and critic was like the Master in the picture of Veronesi, "The Marriage of Cana." He was "in the midst thereof." Ruskin is just (>5 years old, and he looks and acts like a man of 45. He is not more than five feet five inches in height. Indeed, he is petit. Ei* com­ plexion originally, I should judge of what remains of a complexion, was fair, though now his face pretty nearly up to his eyes is covered with an iron gray beard; the abundant hair is unconven tionally long, and though he was per­ sonally neat and "trim," his hair seem­ ed to have had no recent speaking ac­ quaintance with a brush. The forehead is low und retreating; the eyes gray and sp rklfng--quizzing and misohiev ow.--Mobert Laird Voiiier. A Genuine Love Story A young clergyman and his bride were invited guests at a large party given by a wealthy parishioner. In all the freshness and elegance of her bri­ dal wardrobe the young wife shone among the throng, distinguished by her comeliness and vivacity and rich attire; and when during the evening her young husband drew her aside and whispered to her that she was the most beautiful woman in all the company, and that his heart was bursting with pride and love for her, she thought herself the happiest wife in the world. Ten years later the same husband and wife were gue3ts at the same house, where was gathered a similar gay com­ pany. The wife of ten years ago wore the same dress she had worn on the previous occasion, and of course it had been altered and made over, and was old fashioned and almost shabby. Toil and care and motherhood and pinched circumstances had taken the roses out of the cheeks and the lithe spring out of her form. She sat apart from the crowd, careworn and preoccupied. Her small hands, roughened with coarse toil, were ungloved, for the minister's salary was painfully small. A little apart the ten-years' husband stood and looked at his wife, and, as he observed her faded dress and weary attitude, a great sense of all her patient, loving faithfulness came over his heart. Look­ ing up, she caught his earnest gaze, and noticed that his eyes were tilled with tears. She rose and went to lntq, her questioning eyes mutely asking for, an explanation of his emotion; and when he tenderly took her hand and, placing it on his arm, led her away from the crowd and told her how he had been thinking of her as she looked ten years before when she was a bride, and how much more precious she was to him now, and how much more beau­ tiful, for all her shabby dress and roughened hands, and how he appre­ ciated all her sacrifice and patient toil for him and their children, a great wave of happiness filled her heart, a light shone in her face that gave it more than its youthful beauty, and in all the company there was not so happy a couple as this husband and wife, their hearts and faces aglow from the flam­ ing up of pure sentiment that transfig­ ured and ennobled and glorified all the toils and privation they had endured.-- Anon. Moslem Women. The Moslem looks upon woman as an inferior being, unfit to advise him or to share in his pleasures and sorrows. The higher the rank of the Tunisian lady the less she will be seen in the streets and bazars. As a rule, only women of the lowest order, beggars, and the wives of the poor country Bedouins, are seen in the streets, and even these cover their faces with their hands when they meet a European. There is a general belief among Euro­ peans that the Koran prescribes that women should be veiled when they ap­ pear in public. This is hot the fact. The custom is not a religious duty, but a fashion. The Chamberlain of an ex- Grand Vizier gave me some curious in formation on this subject The Pasha's wife was taken sick with the small-pox. A European physician was called; guarded by two eunuchs he was per­ mitted to enter the chamber of the lady. Curtains concealed the bed. The physician insisted upon seeing the face of the suffering woman, but the eunuch refused, giving to the doctor a descrip­ tion of her face. WThen the doctor asked to see her tongue, here face was covered with a cloth in which a small hole was cut; through this opening the woman showed her tongue. When the physician felt her pulse, her hands and arms were covered, and the doctor was asked to close his eyes while counting the pulse. Witchcraft and the charla tanism of old, cunning women are gen­ erally resorted to when women of the harems are sick. Many of the ladies of higher rank live and die without setting foot in the streets, or changing their abode, except once, when they leave the paternal roof to go to the house of their husband and master. With the exception of the nearest relatives, no man ever enters the harem. Snake-Bites in India. Their thatch and mud houses, with walls often honeycombed by rats, af­ ford a natural shelter to the cobra and krait. The want of light in their houses by night, when nine-tenths of the snake-bites occur; a footstep in the dark; a hand or foot resting over the edge of their low charpoys during sleep--an irresistible temptation to a prowling cobra; the accidental striking or seizure by the hand of a snake while cutting their crops, and crop watching by niu;ht are among the most common occasions of snake-bite. Often so light is the bite on finger or toe that it is not enough to break sleep, and thus the sleep of life gradually and uncon­ sciously merges into that of death. The poison seems to steal insensibly and painlessly through the system, gradually benumbing the springs of life, till it brings them to a standstill forever. Nor is there anything left to tell the cause except the minutest Bpeck, like a flea-bite, only visible to a close examination. In the morning the bitten person may be found either dead or in the last stage of snake-bite poisoning; it may be a dead mother with her living child still clinging to her, drinking in, in the milk, the poi- sen which, even in such a minute quan­ tity, also leaves the child dazed and lethargic for many hours to come. Strange to say, so apathetic are natives (Indian) that often they get bitten and go to sleep again, without thinking more about it, on the frail chance of the bite being non-poisonous, and so sleep on till their friends find them, or sleep .ceases in death.--All the Year Hound. Senator Blair's BUI. While we profess to have a very thorough system for training our chil­ dren in reading, writing, and arithmetic, the humiliating fact remains that we are far, very far, behind Germany and other States in Europe in the matter of education. Barsly two per oent. of German people are unable to read and write. In certain portions of our coun­ try the illiterate comprise twenty per cent, of our population. To rectify this disgraceful condition of things. Senator Blair has induced the upper branch of Congress to pass an act ap­ propriating some of the surplus in the national treasury to help the schools in the States where the educational sys­ tems are defective. It js quite time the nation took this important matter in hand. We cannot exp ct intelligent verdicts at our popular elections unless the voters are educated. This is a matter that should not be left to the local authorities exclusively. The Re­ public has a vital interest in that matter, and its representatives should see to it that provision is made for properly educating every child born to the com­ munity.-L-Demorest'8 Monthly. In the Shade. Hon. R. C. Payne, City Alderman, Bris­ bane, Queensland, Australia, writes: "I have been a great sufferer with rheumatism for years and have tried every known rem­ edy* including galvanic batteries and Turk­ ish Baths. Finally I tried St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain cure, and oan positively say it gave me instantaneous relief. It puts all other remedies in the shade." Tricks ef Hotfl-Keepers. Men who are the special agents of Midas must pay for their whistle in this identical region where old Ben Franklin wrote his immortal fable. Some time ago Mr. J. Lord telegraphed to Venice thus: "Prepare rooms for J. Lord and family." In eager ecstatic delight the Venetian hotel-keeper pre­ pared the most sumptuous suite of rooms in the hotel. On arriving, Mr. Lord was met at the portals of the ho­ tel with an obsequiousness and bowing- down servile slavery of so-called po­ liteness that he could not comprehend. The rooms were en fete with flowers, the menu was unique, the orders were awaited and obeyed in a manner most astounding by the vassals, who at each sentence responded demurely and duti­ fully, "Oui, mi Lord." When a mo­ ment's privacy was given his "lordship," he turned to liis better half and said: "Look here, my dear, we'll have to pay through the nose for all this; these fools and flunkies think I am a noble­ man, with the title of a lord. I'll stop it right off!" Down to the official desk went this sensible man, and, looking the manager full in the face, he said: "My name is Mr. John Lord, and I'm a retired merchant, nothing else!" The manager became livid, and fell on the lounge. The unique menu was supplanted by an ordinary bill of fare, the flowers wilted at once, and the rooms occupied by this retired mer­ chant were up two pair back, and the consequences were his whistle cost con­ siderably less than a live lord's, and was quite as wholesome.--Baltimore Sun. '• Special from Waltham, Mass. Fifteen hundred watches are now mads daily at Waltlum, and they are better in quality and lower in price than ever before. Worse than Dynamite. "These dynamite .explosions over in England," said the sleeping-car con­ ductor, "remind me of an old woman and her jug of yeast. She got on at a small station out beyond Steubenville, carrying a gallon jug in her hand, which she told me contained a fine quality of home-made yeast. It was well corked and tied, and the old lady carried it to her berth with her, taking as much care of it as if it had been a babe. An hour or so later, when every­ body was asleep, there was the most tremendous explosion ever heard in a sleeping-car, and all the neighbors of the woman had a shower-bath of the frothy stuff from the shattered jug. It was dark, and they thought they were covered with their own blood. Such screaming you never heard, and the old woman herself was the most frightened of the lot. The shaking of the car had made the yeast livelier than dynamite, and an extra heavy lurch had set it off. The bed-clothes of four sections had to be changed." A Rninou* Blockade. The blockade of the Intestinal canal canned by oonstipntion should be broken as «i>cedlly as possible, as it ruins the general h alth and bodily comfort. But while relief is most desir­ able, it should not be attcmi t d by the use of violent purgatives like calomel, vodyphyllin pills, and salts and sennn. These and like anti­ quated eatharUcH, which enlightenment has banished from the domain of ra lonal medica­ tion, unduly relax the bowels, while Hostetter's Stomach Bitters not oSly relieves, but invigo­ rates theorjions, besides retiulatini the stomach and liver, upon the health nnd activity of which the regularity of the bowels is largely dei>end- ent. Moreover, as constipation tends to affKra- vateor becet other bodily disorders, it Is of great moment to overcome them at the outset. Hos­ tetter's Stomach Bitters Is not only specially adapted to its permanent removal, but is nn in valuable remedy for rheumatism, kidney, and bladder complaints, want of stamina and loss of appetite. Residents and visitanta of fever and ague localities boar testimony, also, to its pre­ ventive and remedial properties. Proof Positive. A small boy testified that the affray took place on a Sunday. "How do you know it was on a Sun­ day?" "Because that day I bad to go to the side door of the saloon to get beer for dinner." In hundreds ol' instances where Hot Spi'inps and other treatment failed to cure scroll]I:i and blood disorders, the sufferer has sought and lound a core in Ur. Guytott s Yellow Dock nnd Sar^agjarilla. It enriches the blood, strengthens :hc urinary and digest­ ive organc, and quickly reiiiovos all indica­ tions of ill-health and blood disease, from a pimple to a running sore, from a headache to a rheumatic pain. Its superiority over all other blood puritlers and stlengthening med­ icines is admitted by all who test tts curative uffcct and iiiHuen'^. A medical writer says children need more wraps than adults. They naturally get more. Horsford's Acid Phosphate, IM SEASICKNESS. 8. S. Parker, Wellington, Ohio, says: "While crossing Lake Erie, I gave It to some pass -n#ers who were seasick and it gave im­ mediate relief." When is the heart like a watchman? When it confines Itself to its regular beat. No r-Anv need be without M- s. l'fnkhain's Vegetable Compound because she is far dis­ tant from drug stores. Tise proprietors send it postage paid by mail fi-om l,ynn. Maes., in the form of lozenges or of pills; priee tl per box. or six for $5. Send for tt<e " Guide to Health," which gives full particulars. Would you hear a sweet and pleas>ngoehot speak sweetly and pleasantly yourself. Lost Faith In Physicians. There are innum^-able insiances where cures have been effected by Scovill's 8area- parilla, or Blood and Liver 8yrup, for all dis­ eases of the blood, when they had been given over by' their physicians. It is one of the best remedies ever offered to the public, and as it is prepared with t,lie greatest care, as a specific for certain diseases, it is no won ler that it should be more eftec ual than hastily written and carelessly prep ned prescriptions. Take this medicine for all dis >rders arising from impure blood. It is indorsed by leading professional men. Why Suffer fain? When by using the Compound Oxygen Treatment of bra. Starkey tt Pateu, 110' Glrard st.. Philadelphia, tbo chances aie al in favor of your getting n l.ef; eapecinlly it the pain has Its origin in nervous derangement. In Neuralgia, sick headache, and thu various affections oi whloh these are among the most distres lug, this new treatment acts with re markable promptly as. Write lor pamphlet giving information at*ut this Treatment. Carbo-iinM. Pull eft we feel the surge ef tears, Yet joy has lUht for all the years. To all whose hair is ge ting th.a. Our Carbollne will keep it in. Ol CCCl<'<wn,w * nervousness cored :23e. for cample OLCClof 25 doses. J. 8. DOlXifi. M.I).. Lincoln. Vt. DATCIUTCT Thomas P. Simpson, WMh-r H i C I O I in /ton, D. C. No pay aoked for patent until obtained. Write for inventors Guide. CADM " elegraphr or Short-Hand and Type LHnn Writing Here. Sitrations tumiaMd. • Address VALENTINE BROS.. JanssviUe. Wis. KILL'S SPELLING SLOCKS, The Best Tov® for Teaching CI lldren to Spell. Per exclusive saieofthetie goods in any Town or City ad­ dress S. LBOX * «OM, Brooklyn, K,TT "Pat np" AT the Gault HOT*. The business man or tourist will Und first- class accommodations at the low price of SS and $3.50 per day at the Gault House, Chica­ go, corner Clinton and Madison street#, 'fills far-famed hotel is loeated in the center of the city, only one block from the Onion Depot. Elevator; all appointments flrst-class. H. W. Horr, Proprietor. Mensman's Peptonized Reef Tonic, th* only preparation of beef containing its en­ tire nutritious properties. It eonta ns blood- making, force generating, and lite sua a niug properties; invaluable for indigestion, dys­ pepsia, nervous prostration, and a!l forms of general deb;lity; also, in all enieebled co idi- tions, whether the result of exhmi^ti- n nerv­ ous prostration, over-work, or acute dis«aso, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaint*. Caswell, Hazard k Co., proprie­ tors, New York. Sold by druggists. Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, Sexual De­ bility, cured by "Wells' Heaitu R. newer." $1. The Frazcr Axle Crease is better and cheaper than anv other, at double the price. Bed-bugs, f ies, roaches, ants, rats, mioe, cleared out by "Hough on Kats." lftc. Public speakers and singers'use Plso's Curo for hoarseness and weak lungs. Stingingjrritation.lnllammation.all kidnrv and ur narycomrlalnta,cured by "Bnchu-l'aiba!" Jl. Ptso's Cure for Consumption is not only pleasant to take, but it Is sure to eure. "Rough on Pain." Quick cure for Colic, Cramps, Diarrhoea, Aches, Pains, Sprains, Heaaache. rjfm THE GREAT GERMAN R E M E D Y Believes and eurea RHEUMATISM, Nauralgla, Sciatica, Lumbago, RACK At'HE, HEADA0H1, TOOTHACHE SORE THROAT, QUINSY. SWELLING®, SPRAINS, Serenas*. Cuts, Braises, FROSTBITES. BI'RXN, KI ALDS, And all other bodily achss and pat list. FIFTY CENTS k BOTTLE. Sold by all DnitcRistiiaiid TValers. Directions In 11 laiigiiuge*. 4 The Charias A. Vogsler Ce. llMn M A. TOOCLSR * CO.) Ralltn>.r>, *4.. U.S.A. Fate la supposed to be the lot of as poor merMa. as inevitable an death, and lialile »t any time to o.ma »UKm us. TJ»cro:orc it i* important th.it remedial accnts should b at hand to be u.-K il in an enieryeney. wlieii wo are mailt' to foel tlie excruciating agonies of pain, or tl;e ileori a-iiuj; iullueai e of disease. _Bncha remedial agent axiate in that old BeliSble Family ltomedy, PERRY DAVIS' P a i n - K i l l e r It was the Ifnt and is the only perma­ nent Pain Reliever. ITS KEBITS ABE UNSURPASSED. Tliere is nothing to equal it. Ih * few momenta it cures C«Uc) Cramps, Spasms, Heartburn, 01- axyhtra. Dysentery, Flux; Dyspepsia, Sick Headache. Bisltaaltt CURE CHOLERA When all ether Remedies tail. WHEN UBED 1CXTF.TVNATXY, AS A LINIMENT, nothing gives quicker ea*e in Burna. Cu<a, Bnilsi's, KpraltiH. Jstliijjs from In so ts. ana SeuUls. Itromcnes tlie lire, and the wound heals like ordinary eoie Those eufl'erin^ with ltl euiua- tiNin, Uout. ur Neuralirin, if not a positive cure, they litul the PAIN-KILXii.lt gives them reliet when no othfr remedy will. In sections of the country where FEVER AND AGUE Prevails thero is no reine ly held in <m a'er esteem. Persons traveling should keep it by tlieiu. SOLD BY ALL DRUCCISTS. HAIR Wholesale and retail. Send for price-list Hoods M'irt O. D. Wives made to order. K. UUKNUAM. 71 State Htreet. I 'liirasro. $65 TEARS IN THE PGULTBT YARD tOS Pn«ree. Teaches yon to raise, care lor, twit, and he a "siicc«-HHfuI IioiiltiTUiHIi;" how to luw-fiit <lln- of old or young, am! Ii:ive liens to lay eg««. 25 i ts. in stainim, ami a Kitty rage Book "Iree lor all" with it. A. M. I.AXO. Cove Dale, l.cwia Ce., Ky. Atuarrs WANTED fiHFiiuN^ sees! IllKKAll FOH _ BLAINE * LOGAN "Tho White Flamed Knislit of »Hine" and "The Old Mnldter." The official and authentic biographies indorsed by the N'atiiinul <'> minllU e. Br A. I.. Cohurii, aHBisteil by proiuine: t oflir als end literarv men. Book now it u'y. Writ*1 ut once. S e n d 5 0 c . f o r o u t f i t . S m p l e c o p y o n l y a t C h e a p ­ est hook out. THK t Oltl liN flliUSUING CO.. Metropolitan Block, Chicago. WHILE ON THE WAY. Te the Surprise ui Might el Friend* a ¥aaa| ijulf (ran aluiOMt Fatal Henri Tusl What Dr. David IT mini j|'» ffm lie Kerned)' taa D«--A Happy Hi .Circle* Neit to the sad dntjrof beaxtaff the bodies of dear dead to their long rest is that of loved living, when stricken with diaeaae, in i help which appears the more hopeless the nearer i approached. Tet when Mr. Nicholas Howell, of Waverty, Q mung Co., N. Y„ left his home some time since I Kew York, it was on snch an errand. By his side i his daughter, whose case had been abandoned by 1 home physicians as one of incurable disease at heart. When the train reached Feekskill it i that the almost dying girl conld not be carrfc farther with safety. Emaciated in body, shattered J nerve, and melancholy in mind, the poor girihactl interest in her own fate. But who may know their fate--either far good je evil? By the earnest advice of friends in FeekakK Mr. Howell tenderly conveyed hi« daughter to UB office of Dr. David Kennedy, in Rondont, N. Y. Vt, Kennedy perceived that she was suffering from heal disease, and also trom an advanced stage of a eoB> plaint common to women. Having given directions in reference to diet clothing, the Doctor prCRcrifced wliat is now known a* DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE 1 EDY iltoinlont, X. Y.) as his young patient's enfr medicine. Net long after the threatening symptH& vanished, tlie light returned to her eyes, tlie bloom to her cheeks and happiness to her heart, an ei ample of a recovery which is as wonderful as the medhfls if. DIC DUVT® ssn oor mbber hand stamps. Tfenfte DID rATtree. Taylor Bros, k Oo . OeveTand.Ohto. VOtlH Jll'tiOY SHAFfS RATTLE !tB» L. LANCI I iny ™!IL Mill SUPPORTER. Price, Silk, SfOftl Linen, *1.50. Remitfa&gt with order. Pent by Mau. 6ea.i (or descriptive circular. 704 Broadwav, N. Y.Qitv. AGENTS WANTED. Important Reduotloa ia the Priee sf VASELINE (PKTUOLEITM JELLY.) 1-ounce bottles reduced from 15c to ldfc 2-ontiee bottles reduced Trom 25cto 15& 5-ounce bottles minced Trom 50c to S5& The public nr.)fit not accept anv but original goods bottled by us, as tlie imita ioiu are worthless. Chesebrtragh Manufacturing Ofe, New BtTHLEnnt, N. H., Dee. 16, Utt that haqbea* simp!! Da- E IUKfcTS--Dtar Sir: The wroughj^n my physical condition in 'wonderful. Ton earn use ny n 'poor, Buffering women to ko fered many things of many ph bettered, hut crow • and exp of whatever s'tarci Dr. E k I .vingj notfej "at '. Foota. irn I E. Houuq*- lonaanda of ao4sB»4 eir deliverance to DrJ treating patients by Mail experience. All rahmjj can have T Krffu iiifnfs l>y m ave., NAJok Citj eighty pages "for the aaHfc»» AH.- letters- ara atrictly confidential sad never p^** with name except by eonaent at the patient. BITTERS t*Bl!7V PATCHWORK--Elegantly assorted tSflks. MI6MJ. 8 50c. audit a package: sample, 12c. xLw Yolliv SILK AND glJl'PLY CO., 33S Broadway. AGENTS WANTED for the best and faatest-selBna Pictorial Books an.l Bibles. Prices reduced 9 per oent. National PtmusmNO Co., Chicago, til. COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS Supplied with partly-printed sheets in tlie moct sntis- lai tory manner. Send for simples and prices to TUE XEWSP.U'US UNION* Nos. ill and 273 Franklin Street, Chicago. A MONTH and Hoard for 3 live Youiik Men or Lad es, in ea -h county, to t ike orders for the Ijves of BLAINE and LOGAN! P. W. Z1E ILER * CO., Chicajro. 111. Liver and Sidney Bamedy, i Compounded from the well known Curatives Hops, Halt, Bochu, Man­ drake, Dandelion, SarsaparilliL Cae- cara Sasrada, etc., combined with an agreeable Aromatic Elixir. | THEY CUBE DYSPEPSIA ft DnMSTIQI, let npon the Liver and Kldnays, I BHODTjA.TE~TH3B* BOWELS, | They cure Rheumatism, and all Uri­ nary troubles. They invigorate, aoorish, strengthen and quiet the Nervous System. , As a Tonlo they hsvs no Equal. Take none but Hops and Halt Bittern, -- FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS.--IT I Hops and Malt Bitters Oo. DETROIT, MICH. CATARRH HBFAU ELY'S Causes no Pain® Gives Belief at Once. Thorough Treatment niil Cure. Kot a Liq­ uid or Snuff*. Ap­ ply with Finjrer. tilve it a Trial. M ceufs at Dram»:i'. <0 cents by mail, re«? Utcred. Bend fir ritrnlir. , , „ v ELY UKOTH£KS. DrnsKisic. Oweico, N. Y. Kr. M. M. ("Brink "T^unssoy wriUs in alelUr frota JJaw-York to P«ye#5jDwsr< in Denver, aboot Dr. fookn 'HiskoS^s one ef the most complete neeiea! i Sshmen^CQ tiij© country, ozid here, aaaistod^' BOOS, both pfcyaich ly. UT. E- B. Foota iif rith & record 6«ccad ti ty thousand patient) scdy eared Tor, aail 18 been co c -ccesafol i to humanity, oap«c--r- -- inherit largely from their f»thMui Ua on the direct etyiaf > cares Dr. ?oote eee- from "chronic invalid) by the aid of fhes^-- rt»ctory tiitrcoMfi and time' • (niren. A list of questions u.l doable nolea about uMujiMu;] for one latter etampS^SaiiX^nta. medical pablicationa alM^aaQV'^ i to tboa* J oiling to aee thus, A4<h«a^ rton arcane, Hew-York City. US.SXAMMilD> JONES or 5 TON WAGON SCALES, I and JO*kg bs par* --Tor frst Fries List mntHi U s paper or Ri«tiuirti. mi* CAIN Health aniytappiness. ^<2 m IS OTHERS V&yuP £ HAVE DOME. Are your Kidneys disordered? ' Udnef Wort brought me from my prtvo, mil were, after 1 bad bccu piven up ly i* l est doctov* UI Detroit." |L W» Devuraux, ilechauiv, Ionia, lifted Are your nerves weak? "Kidney Wort cured nie from nervous wakneos &c..aftfr I was not exported to lire."-Mr*. U.K.B. Quodwln, EtL Christian ilonitor (SeTCland, O. Have you Bright's Disease? "Kidney Wort cured me wken tny «Mr was last like chalk and tUen like blond." Frank Wilson, Peabedy.l Coffering from Diabetes? "Kidnjy-VVort Utlie uioat turwssftil remedy I ha** erer usea. Gives almnct immediate relief." Sr. i'billlp v. Ballwu, Uunkton, Tl Have you Liver Complaint? "Kidney-wort curcd iuo ct chronic iTrtf DiMUN after 1 prayed to die." _ Henry Ward, late CoL 69th Kat. Guard, X T. Is your Back lame and aching? "KJdney-Wort, 11 bottle) cured me «ben 1 waaao lane I bad to roll out of bed," _ C. U. TaJXmoc*, miwarnkM* Have after «19a Are you Constipated? "Kidney-Wort causes easy evacuations and cured me after U yean cm of other niodicinea." Kelson K»trcl.ild, Albaae, Vt. Have you M;.laria? "Kidney-Wort haa done buter than any ether remedy I have erer used In cj prarttce." Dr. 11.1C. Clark, SuuUt Here, Yt» Are you Bilious F "Kidney-TV'o I t has dene me own) good than any other Il llh--1J I hare ever tnkon." Hra J. X. Oolluvttty, Elk Ibl On(OB. Are you tormstated with Piles? "Kidney-Wort permanently cured me ef Uowdiuc piles. Dr. w. C. Klin* reeonancutl. <1 it to rac." Gk-o, U. Horat,OaablerlL lUat.iiyaittown,Pa. Are you Rheumatism racked? "tidny-Wort eiM me, after 1 was given ip Vi dia by idiydcians and 1 bi<! tulTcml thirty rear*. ' Elbrus* Uatoolm, V'tN Bata, ttalaa. Ladies, are you suffering? "Kidney-Wort cured mo ct peculiar InliiiH ef severalyuarsattndl- r. Kany friends usaand nraim t" liillLUuaunwi,liteUII(t^VI. If yon would Banish Disease and gain Health, Take K I D N E Y - W O R T THB BLOOD CLEANSER I CMISVHIIIAUUSIFAIIL Beat fou*ii rup. Use in uiu«. Swi by rj.uMWJ.li O.K. IT. ADYEKirtStKiH. nleaw Nil yoa a»w Ills wlraHiMHiMl 'tKfhwpavWW "yy HKN WRITING TO No, •3-A4.