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"OKU COUSINS, DO TOW EKB.* V '-r f 'y£& inning eouain, til me*rfiere, I And one half so fair? " " botimrtlii a>-iaterT Yes, not sister out and oat. tee, do doubt. that ever bad a atoter. Ma heart beat when be kissed her! , . vo^ T» In name of all the loves ; r /'**•-rjBeta his sister pairs of glovea^ « coasts. atW are yoa . i a measure too, - ' f f . , Y f i l a t e r i n - - We can act as pleases ns, jNo one thinks it dangerous; - r. C .-j • ' Ualk of lore or of the weather, * P.'J * •» '{Sow or ride or read together, <<•%.$ • \ , r . f JvJWandsr when we will alone, ?>•? jf - Careless of a chaperon. " '•Vonatay aaAoe with none but s1" "Only sooains, dont you see • Cons n safely may forget Lw All the laws of etiquette. §. . jChannlac oonsin, in your eyes I can read a faint surprise; 'Most bewitchin(fly they gliste^'. " my nonsense uthevUgtenf"*"'"$£> i^&TWhat can Harry mean to say?" fi - fTTou may come to know some day. 1! - 1 • tfusi one word, awoetcousin mine. . -i ®re we goto dress and dine: --jf J ever chance to wo >, i < •' j Cousin, she must lie like you. >> i •>> -j s^nd the on? who comes the nepeai w.S" To yourself will be the dearest, . Type of * hat my love mast beg 'Cousin what if you are she? 'lambertt' Journal ftS' ^ r ; ' y %•*, TIE MYSTERIOUS STBAWSERS. Miss Lydia Davidson was enjoying her cap of tea in her comfortable little house in Ravensbourne one Saturday alternoon, when her friend, Miss New man was announced. That lady was well-known for the fervor and energy which she infused into her conduct of what inferior minds may regard as the uiinor all airs of life; also for a severity in her attire that may be described by one wishing to deal mildly with it as gentlewoman-like." She entered with even more thac her wonted haste and dash, and cried: "How do you do, Lydia? I am most thankful to tind yon at home. I have come with a definite purpose, as talking over a thing is better than writing a note. Very strange and startling events are happening here, and I have arrived at the conclusion that it is my duty to lay them before yon and other friends, in order to see what can be done." "Dear! dear!" murmured Miss Da­ vidson, in vague alarm; "you don't mean it! Tell me all about it, dear Jane!" "I will tell you as much as I at pres­ ent know," returned her friend. "Well, to begin with: When I was coming down from London early last spring, a gentleman and a lady were in the same carriage with me. I took them fbr a honeymoon couple, and felt sorry to constrain their tete-a-tete. They made me most uncomfortable with all the Erivate and confidential things they ad to say; and they kept poring over a little book with their heads together --poetry, or some rubbish or other, I supi or-e. I've no patience with that sort of thing--have youV" Miss Davidson was, however, roman­ tic, and could not get up a show of in­ dignation in time to respond to her friend's glance; so she only looked a little foolish and nbashed. "And, for six months," Miss Newman continued, "have they been coming, regularly twice a week--Monday and Thursday. And they may have done it for six years, for aught I know, because it is only since 1 have been at my new lodgings, opposite the Bull, that 1 have noticed them carefully. They arrive early--about 10 o'clock--have some re­ freshments, I fancy, lor they always etop in the hotel a while; then they drive or walk out, not always together --but often take diHerent roods; stay - cftl oh! till 4, 5, or 6, and sometimes they have a quantity of luggage, those nice dress-baskets and things, lady-like luggage--and then, after their dinner. oft' they go toward the railway station." "Keally!" .cried Mrs. Davidson, in as­ tonishment, "And their appearance? Do they look like " "Gentlepeople?" put in Miss New­ man. "fee.*, decide'dly. That is a point on which I am never deceived. The lady dressed exqui>itely and most becomingly. They're not young, nor, of course, very old. He is a handsome man with a military air. In faot, I am pretty sure he is an officer, for I saw so much of the military when I lived at Dovei*, and then" (loweringlier voice) "I heard so many sad things about gar­ rison doings that I began to feel anx­ ious. The Bull is such a respectable hotel it would be quite a misfortune for the tpwn if--if--anything unpleas­ ant were to come out," concluded Miss Newman, forced, by the vagueness o: her subject, into, for once, being her­ self vague. "Dear me! What you say quite startles me," said Miss Davidson. "If anything like that happens a hundred miles away, or even in London, it is not so bad; but here! It's a shock to me! I must mention it to Eliza," she added, as that functionary entered, but most unamiably on interrupting the confer­ ence. "I'll finish my tea," said Miss Newman, putting her fingers firmly on the sau­ cer. "It is an excellent cup--most re­ freshing, Lydia." Bad it not been for the softening in­ fluence of the morsel of gossip, long- brewing hostilities might now have ripened into fierce strife between Eliza and her mistress' friend, but Miss Da­ vidson's questions about the mysteri­ ous strangers claimed the confidential maid's attention. "No, she hadn't heard nothing about them--leastwise, nothing but a stray word or two. But sh^d soon fathom it, she would. She had no opinion of people as came and went, and no one knew whence nor whither." Dignity prevented Miss Newman's joining in the conversation while her foe Eliza was taking part in it; but she was glad in her heart that that forcible person should be set on the track. "I'll tell you what I think about it," exclaimed Miss Davidson, a little later. "I think, dear, that the gentlemen is some very distinguished person indeed, and that the lady--she may be a per­ fect lady, you know, all the time--is beneath him, and that there's a mor­ ganatic marriage! There are such things nowadays, and always have been, you know." "But, if so. why shouldn't' she have her own establishment? Why come to en hotel?" objected Miss Newman. "Still, we shall find out about it some way or another. It's a positive c^uty, however unpleasant to clear it up. Perhaps you'll talk it over with your brother to-morrow. I know he some­ times spends Sundays with you, an^i please let me know what he thinks. But don't send him to talk about it to me, for it's not a subject I should go into with a young man, unless it was one of the clergy.' I am off now to see the curate about it. Our rector resents inquiry, I do believe, for I can't get anything out of him. Good-by, Lydia!" "G ood-by, dear. Ill not ring for ! Eliza. I'll let you out." 1 Lydia had scarcely settled herself I make ?" Miss Brown inquired, •gam after j>erformin|^ this little atten- J " That we should club together to era- tion when Eliza appeared, cloaked and bonneted, at the sitting room door, remarking, "I've been out a little while, ma'am. After what you said, just now, my duty was plain; and I went around to the Bull at once, knowing as you'd not be wanting me." "O, dear me, Eliza," returned the docile mistress, "i quite forgot that your neice, Mary, is barmaid at the Bull. And did you see the landlady ? And can she explain about the strang­ ers?" "Of course, ma'am, I saw Mrs. Weston," returned Eliza, energetically. It's what I went for; but I couldn't get nothink out of her. I said to her, as civil as possible: 'Will you tell me, Mrs. Weston, the names of those par­ ties as comes here twice a week, a'Mon- days and Thursdays.' But she only said, very stiff and 'igh: 'I never give the names of any of my parties, not even to the gentlemen from the Ravens- bourne Recant' And more than that she wouldn't say, so at last I came away; but I'll make some excuse to be there next Monday, and I'll see them at all events," and with that Eliza withdrew to her own domain, leaving her mistress to spend the rest of the evening trying to recall „ all the instances she had heard of morganatic marriages and their results. Miss Davidson had just taken her seat in church the following morning when Miss Newman, very "taut" and trim, hurried into a vacant place next to her, and after burying her face for an instant in her hands, she turned as she knelt, to her neighbor and said, in an undertone: "Have you seen your brother to-day ? What does he think ?" "No, dear, no; he's not coming; but don't talk about it in church, please don't." And the good tyidy tried with feeble hurry to find her place. Miss Newman forebore further remark tili Mr. Miniver Weekly ascended the pul­ pit. Then she betrayed a longing to speak and an inability to sit still. But' Lydia resolutely turned the crown of her bonnet toward her friend, fearful that a conversation might again be opened, to the outrage of the decorous feelings of the congregation. " 'Woe unto the world because of of­ fenses, for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to the man by whom the offense cemeth.' Or," continued the thin voice of the curate, "as a more literal version, though one less purely English, has it, 'Woe to the world be­ cause of scandals.'" "There!" whispered Miss Newman, no longer repressible, "I knew I had done some good with him. I never left him yesterday till his teeth literally chattered. I told him he must do something about the Bull people, and that he was responsible for all the evil that happens in the parish that he could prevent. He'll preach about them." "Jane, dear Jane, don't!" gasped poor Miss Davidson, and Mr. Weekly began his discourse, which, to Miss Newman's unutterable disappointment, turned on a question of church discip­ line, the preacher maintaining that those of his clerical brethren who were opposing his own particular view of the matter were clearly of the number of the anathematized* referred to in the text. "Mrs. Farmer!" cried Miss Newman, as the congregation streamed out through the lych-gate. "One word, I beg."1 "Good morning. Miss Newman; I'm so glad to see you," responded pretty little Mrs. Farmer. "I've so many things to say. You know you asked me to think of a solution for the Mys­ terious Strangers' visit to Ravens- bourne. Well, I think," and her pret£y lace tie and irecklet heaved with emo­ tion, "that the couple have lost a child --a dear little baby perhaps--and that it's buried here, and they've made a vow to visit it's grave." "What!" said the matter-of-fact Miss Newman; "vow to visit a grave regu­ larly twice a week, on Monday and Thursday! But, Mrs. Farmer, I stop­ ped you specially j\jst now to beg you would be with me to-morrow afternoon about 3. My windows command the Bull, and these people never fail to put in an appearance on Mondays; and mind you bring your sister-in-law too, won't you? I am going to ask Miss Brown, Miss Davidson, and Mrs. Barton, the new doctor's wife. I want to catch her now. Good-by. I am glad you think with me that it is a matter to look into, as a point of duty. You'll promise to come? All right" And the indefati­ gable Miss Newman started in pursuit of Mrs. Barton. Miss Newman took care that the strangers should be the subject of many conversations that Sunday. At first, some of the good folk of Ravensbourne declared themselves wholly indifferent to the matter, but finding manifestly absurd explanations started as to the visits of this interesting couple, they criticised the explanations, and in most cases found themselves in the end com­ mitted to a theory of their own. "I may congratulate m\s£lf," said Miss Newman, that night, as she laid her bony cheek upon her pillow--"I may congratulate myself on having raised the question in Ravensbourne to the rank it merits--that of a 'burning question,' " and she ran over the points she intended to dwell upon in the speech to be delivered on the morrow, when the ladies assembled in her sitting room. Three o'clock on Monday afternoon saw Eliza installed in the bar of the hotel with her niece; While Miss Brown, Miss Davidson, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Bar­ ton, Mrs. Farmer, and four or five other ladies, were assembled at Miss New­ man's. After the customary greetings, the hostess said: "Ladies, I have con­ vened this meeting for a spefcfUl pur­ pose--not, let me explain at once, for the mere gratification of idle curiosity. I have asked you to meet here to con­ sider the suspicious conduct of the vis­ itors to that hotel opposite, and to de­ termine what steps should be taken in their regard. I have my own notion as to what should be done; but I will put that aside until I have received your suggestions. There mai/ be no dis­ graceful discoveries: but that remains to be proved. My watch warns me," concluded Miss Newman in a different tone, compelled regretfully to excise some telling sentence, "that if they come back in a fly, and they sometimes do so, they should be here in six min­ utes : later, if they walk. So we have no time to waste. I simply repeat, therefore, what is to be done ?" "I must confess, I only came to look at them," said Mrs. Farmer, after a pause. "Would it be of any use to speak to Mrs. Weston, of the hotel?" timidly asked Mrs. Smith. "None!" replied Miss Newman, with severity, "That has been tried. You might trust me to try all obvious plans like that." "And what is the suggestion, Miss Newman, that you said you had to ploy a detective !*' answered the host­ ess, with decision. "We must malf sure of our facts. I find, on inquiry, that the cost of a regular detective would be heavy; but there is an ex-po­ liceman who has been employed on such missions, and his charge would not exceed 2 guineas a day. In about two days he thinks he could ascertain the residences, occupations (if any), and much of the past history of the parties." "We must not get ourselves into any scrape by prying," said Mrs. Barton. "-If there is money wanted, we ought to have had some of our menkind here," Miss Brown objected. "We women are such poor and needy creatures." But the discussion was suddenly stopped by a cry from Miss Newman of, "There they come!" "Well, she's very elegant-looking,1* said one. "There's nothing more aris­ tocratic than a hooked nose; but she must be 35 if she's a day. What a lovely silk she has on!" "Bless me!" said Mrs. Barton. "He's not so military-looking after all. And he's a good 55. But there's an air about him; and as for her, she might be a duchess. Look at the magnifi­ cent mantle she has on.' The couple who were causing so much excitement were met at the hotel door by the obsequious waiter, who handed them a telegram. "I'll run across to the postoffioe and ask what was in that dispatch," cried Miss Newman, rushing out. Several pair of eyes were turned from the window to follow the hostess* retreating figure. "Mrs. Farmer, is thtyre anything the matter?" exclaimed Miss Davidson, in alarm, catching sight of Mrs. Farmer's pale and troubled face. "Yes--no," stammered the little wo­ man. "I--I--don't feel quite well. I'm going home," and she hurried from the room. Something like a shriek rose at the same instant from Miss Brown's lips. She had been in the background, but had just taken Miss Newman's vacant piace at the window. "Why, Mrs. Farmer!" she exclaimed, but Mrs. Farmer was gone. "Postoflice won't tell!" gasped Miss Newman, ooming back in a very excited state. "They say it's contrary to rules." "Mrs. Farmer has gone away," said Mrs. Smith, "without saying good-by, or leaving a message for you, Miss New­ man." , "I think I can explain," Miss Brow a began, but she was interrupted by a cry from two or three others. "Ol look, look, they're going!" And there, sure enough, at the hotel door, evidently in a flurry, were the landlady, a waiter, and the mysterious stranger. A fly then whisked round from the yard, and pull­ ed up with a jerk. The strangers took their places in it, and a housemaid came running down with some wraps, the lady's umbrella, and other small things in her hands. "There's an up-train to London in eight minutes," said Miss Newman, watch and time-table in hand. "They are going to catch that. The telegram was to give them the alarm. Some one is on their track, and a confederate has given them notice." "Is Miss Davidson here?" crid Eliza, rushing in, the corner of her shawl filled with what seemed to be bundles of lettern, and an open telegram in her hand. "Read that!" she exultantly exclaimed, at the same time giving her mistress the message. Obediently, Miss Davidson took the telegram, and read: "From Miss Isaacs, Duke street, Pad- dington. To the lady and gentleman, No. 3 sitting room, Boll Hotel, Ravens­ bourne. Return immediately. Prem­ ises on fire." "Heavens," cried Miss Davidson piously. "Gracious!" exclaimed Miss Brown; and a chorus of voices, "Dear me!" "Oh!" and "Ah!" "And now read that," reiterated Eliza, as she handed the following cir­ cular to Miss Davidson. "I said I'd fathom it, and I've done it, ma'am." "BI LL HOTEL, BAYENSBORRNE, Mon­ day.--Madam: Owing to the ladies and gentlemen having objections to be seen entering wardrobe establisments, Mr. and Mrs. Abrams have been induced by numerous customers to take the upper part of a private house in Duke street, Paddington; and there­ fore ladies of the highest rank need not hesitate to honor this emporium with a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Abrams continue to give the highest price for all kinds of ladies and gentlemen's wearing apparel, court dresses, regimentals, officers outfits, trinkets, gold and silver, diamonds, and all kinds of precious stones, antique plate, old china, and all sorts of miscellaneous property. Estab­ lished twenty-seven years. Their numerous and aristocratic clients in the country may feel satisfied that the personal appearance of Mr. and Mrs. Abrams when calling at their houses will always be a guarantee that none of that unpleasant publicity will be given to their visits of which the nobil ity and gentry have so justly complained with regard to those of less experience and considerate wardrobe purchasers. As a specimen of the letters they are continually recitving, Mr. and Mrs. Abrams subjoin the following: " 'Lady B has just had great pleasure in recommending her friend, the duchess of C to request Mrs. Abrams to call upon her ; Lady B having always found Mrs. Abrams' dealings with her characterized by the utmost liberality and punctuality.'" "Appointments may be made for Thursday at the above address, or Mr. and Mrs. Abrams will wait upon clients in the neighborhood on that day or on M^pfiff"--London Truth. The Engagement Oft "My love," said a New York Sun re­ porter. "I have a heavy burden on my mind to-night. There is something that I must say. which, as my affianced wife, you should know." "What is it, George?" she asked, anxiously. "I am a victim to the demon of drink. Strive as I may, I cannot resist the temptation of liquor." "That will be all right in time, dear," she replied, hopefully. "When I am your wife, my love and influence will bring about, a reform, I am sure. Is that all?" "No. Fm a confirmed gambler. I dropped $13 last night at draw poker." "Ah, George, when we are married I will make your home so pleasant and cozy that you will never want to go out at night without me." "1 don't know. I am also a specu­ lator in stocks. In faet, during the past week on Wall street I lost every dollar I bad in the world." "I don't care for money," the young woman then said, as she disentangled herself from his embrace, "but my hus­ band must be honorable and upright in every way. I can never consent to risk my future with a man addicted to drinking and card-playing." The Use ef OH jfrskets. - An exchange says that the con­ demned muskets of the Government-- the Enfield and Belgian rifles and other firearms of the late war--find pur­ chasers among the Grand Army posts, amateur military companies, and spec­ ulators for foreign markets, some of them being converted into breech­ loaders for sporting purposes. There is still another demand for them which is not generally known. Large num. bers of smoothbore musket barrels are remounted and restocked, and are highly valued as duck guns and for other field sporting purposes, even without being converted into breech­ loaders. A sportsman, who is a very successful hunter, said recently that an old musket barrel restocked was his most valuable gun, and yet cost him only $8, and he has in his collection several of the most costly breech-load- ing "stub and twist" guns, worth $100, more or less, each. But whatever may be the value of these gun-barrels, it is certain that a very large number find their way into the market as sporting guns. A gunsmith with an experience of twenty-five or thirty years lately an­ swered, in response to an inquiry, that a very large proportion of his business was the alteration and remounting of old military gun-barrels, which form a considerable portion of the sporting gun seller's stock in trade. The cost of these guns is very slight, and their market price brings them within the reach of most purchasers. But a gun with real twist barrel is a costly article. Instead of being rolled from a plate of "skelp" between grooved rollers and welded at one rapid operation, it is pa­ tiently hammered into a cylinder by hand. The mottled, damascened, or striated appearance is produced by a series of wires of differing irons twisted into cables and then welded into square rods. These placed side by side and heated to a weld are wound a half turn, or perhaps more, at a time on a man­ drel, and seated (welded) against one another by repeated taps of a light hammer. The ribbon thus formed of cables of fine wire may consist of not less than thirtysix or even fifty-two strands of wire.--Chicago Times. Flesh-Feeding Plants. We have seen that the objects which the sun-dew can act upon are precisely the things which an animal could use for food, and that those matters--such as hair, stones, the hard skin of insects, etc.--which the animal cannot noe are just those which the sun-dew also re­ jects. When an animal has put food into his stomach the food is acted upon chemically, or what is called digested, by the gastric juice, which consists of a ferment, called pepsin, and an acid, neither of which alone by itself has the power of digestion. But we have proved by our experiment with litmus paper that the secretion of the tentacles of the sun-dew contains an acid when it is acting; and if we compare the action of animal gastric juice on bits of meat with the action of the secretion of the sun­ dew, it seems clear that some ferment similar to, if not identical with, the ferment pepsin, must be present in the sun-dew secretion. It has, moreover, been found that the secretion of the sun-dew gives out, under certain cir­ cumstances, a strong smell of pepsin. But the reader who desires to learn more about this will do well to consult Mr. Darwin's "Insectivorous Plants," or some of the other works that have been written on the subject. We noticed as we dug up the sun-dew plants how small the roots are, and how poor the moist soil in which they grow. The use of the roots seem to be merely, in addition to anchoring the plant in the soil, to suck up water * (of which the leaves with their copious secretion re­ quire a great deal), and not, as in most plants, to provide food. Besides the round-leaved sun-dew, two other kinds grow in Great Britain, and about hundred elsewhere, and all seem, with­ out exception, to have the same insect- catching habits as the one we have been studying, and to be, like it, dependent upon animal food. There are also some other plants of the same family which are of a like nature, though the mechanism by which thfey secure their insect food is rather different.--Science for All. Sandal-Wood Trees Worth Fire Thou­ sand Dollars. In the physical world South America is full of wealth, and nature has be­ stowed upon it a matchless grandeur in its rivers and its mountains. Prof. Fisher shows us that intertropical America (North and South) surpasses all the world in the number and variety of its plants, while Agassiz shows us how greatly the wonderful variety of its fishes surpasses that of North America. Of course, much of the country is now malarious and unhealthy, yet vast regions of elevated and most beautiful sections are most salubrious and healthy, and clothed with an in­ credible wealth of ceaseless production. Endless varieties of the most luscious fruits and beautiful flowers, with birds of gorgeous plumage and gigantic but- terfles, delight the eye on every hand, far up on elevations where neither the winter's cold nor excessive heat is ever known, and all nature teems with health, beauty, and abundance. Even the low levels teem with endless wealth and invite a commerce that has scarcely begun, save in a few articles. East of the Andes, and intersected by many great rivers, is probably the greatest and most valuable forest on the globe, and almost untouched by the ax. Mr. Thompson, who held the position of Consul at Brazil, stated in a lecture, on his return, that in traveling on the Amazon he saw sandal-wood trees that here would each be worth $5,000, yet of whose value the natives seemed un­ conscious or indifferent.--Cincinnati Enquirer. Thackeray and Trollope. In soipe respects change from Thackeray toTrollope is like the change from Fielding to Thackeray. Thack­ eray dealt with much the same themes as Fielding, but the necessities of our time compelled him to make them de­ corous, and a picture of life, as men see it, is changed in more than mere decorum when it is made decorous. Trollope carried this change a step further; he brought his view of life still nearer what we may call the female view. Both of the<*i describe men and women and both of them are read by men and women, but still we may say, on the whole, that Thackeray writeB for men and women and Trollope for women. Of course, there is a much greater descent in the second than in the first comparison. Thackeray will be read wherever English fiction is read; he chronicles a phase in English life. Fine satire has something of the same interest that true poetry has-- both are rooted in what is permanent in our nature. Such pictures as Trol- lope's, on the other hand, owe their in­ terest to the fact that what is repre­ sented is familiar and fades out like cut flowers when it becomes strange.--Con- tef^fjorarij Review. A Been Ctanpanfon. Mr. John Bolfe, Champion Bicyclist of Australia and England, writes to the Argus. Melbourne, Aastralia, that in the six days' contest for the championship, after riding 8 consecutive hours each day, his limbs be­ came stiff and sore, and he is positive he won the great race, and was enabled to ride another 100 miles against time immediately afterward, from the wonderful effects pro­ duced by the use of St. Jacobs Oil in train­ ing and racing. He calls it his boon com­ panion, and recommends it to all athletes. How to Make Turtle Soap. A well known authority on the sub­ ject"writes : As green turtle, when pre­ pared, can be kept for weeks, and dealers are not willing to retail them, the best way is to get a small live turtle weighing about twenty-five pounds, hang by its hind legs or fins, cut off its head and let it bleed all day; then with a sharp knife part the two shells; remove the intestines; take all the meat from the shells, bones, and fins; cut each shell in four pieces, and plunge, for a moment only, the fins and shells in boiling water to take the horny skin off. Then make a broth as follows: Gut in pieces and put in a stock-pot twenty pounds of lean soup-beef, salt, and six gallons of water; boil slowly and scum well; add carrots, onions, four leeks, two heads of celery, a bunch of parsley, garnished with four bay. leaves, thyme, basilic, and sage in pro­ portion, a handful of whole peppers, some allspice, a few cloves, and a few blades of mace, all tied together in a small cloth; boil six hours, and pass the broth through a sieve into a large tin pan; use some of this broth diluted with water in a sause pan to cook the shells and fins; and some in another saucepan to cook the meat; the shells require about an hour, and the meat not more than twenty minutes. When they are done take the shells, meat, and fins out of the broth and pass the latter through a fine strainer into sm­ other saucepan; remove all bones from the shells, fins, and meat, and cut in small square pieces; mix the whole and put it in a dish. This is a preliminary and essential preparation; for a larger turtle use more meat, etc. For soup for eight persons: Thicken three quarts of the broth with four ounces of flour browned in butter; boil half an hour, skim well; add half a pint of sherry wine, a gill of port wine, a pinch of red pepper, and enough of the turtle; boil ten minutes, skim again, and serve with slices of pared lemon on a plate. To preserve what is left of the turtle: Reduce to a consistency the rest of the broth, add the turtle, boil five minutes, put in quart tin cans, which should not be quite filled, and when cold pour into each can over the turtle some melted lard to keep out the air; set in a cool larder for further use. A quart is enough for eight persons. • _ A MAN in New York, seeing two po­ licemen, dropped sixteen dozen meer­ schaum pipes and ran. It is supposed he was going somewhere to have a quiet smoke. Loss of Flesh and Strength, with poor appetite, and perhaps slight cough in morning, or on first lylnjr down at ntgbt., should bu looked to in tlnio. l^i'ons allticteil with consumption are proverblal'y uncon­ scious ol' their rent Mute. Most caftes com- mcncc with disordered liver, leading to bad digestion ar.d inijievlcet assimilation ol food --henco the cmaclation, or wasting: of the llesh. It i* a form of scrofulous disease, and fa curable by the use of (hat trreatest of all blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, and lnvigorat- liis: compounds, known as Dr. Pierce's "Gol­ den Medical Disco'vory." Ax oculist tells a Uoston reporter that every yard of dotted veil that is sold is at Imt |20 in the pockets of his brethren. SELF-MADE men are most always apt tew be a leetle too proud of the job.--Jo»h Bit- HMO*- _____ v* Do It TonNdC With Wntnond Dyes any lady can get as Brood results as the best practical dyer. Every dye warranted true to name and sample. 10c. at druggists'. Wells, Kiohardson & Co., Bur­ lington, Vt. WHEN a candidate gets tn the hands of his friends, the next move is to get their hands in his pockets.--Ncu-man Independent. DR. JOHN BILL'S Sfflitt'sTonicSyrnp FOR THE CUIIK OF FEVER and ACUE Or CHILLS and FEVER, AID ILL MALARIAL 0ISEASES Ths proprietor of this celebrate a medl* sine justly olaime for it a superiority over all remedies over offered to the public for the SAFE, CEBTAUT, SPXEDY and KB- KAVXHT cure of Ague and Fever, or Chills sad Fever, whether of short er long stand­ ing. He refers to the entire Western and Southern country to bear him testimony to the truth of ths assertion that in no case whatever will it fail to cure if ths direo- tions are etristly followed and oarried out. In a groat many esses a single dose has been sufficient for a ours, and whole fmi> lies have been cured by a single bottle, with a perftot restoration of ths general health. It is, however, prudent, and in every case more oertain to oure, if its use is continued in smaller doses for a week or two after the disease has been oheoked, mors especially in diffloult and long-standing oases. Usu­ ally this msdicine will not require any aid to keep ths bowels in good order. Should the patient, howsvsr, require a cathartis medieine, after having taken three or flour doses of the Tonic, & single dees of BULL'S TSORABLX FAMJELYWLLS will he suf­ ficient. BULL'S SABSAPABULA is the old and reliable remedy for impurities of ths blood and Scrofulous affeouons--the Xing of Blood Purifiers. DR. JOHH BULL'S TBGSTABLE WORK DE8TR0YXR is prepared in ths form ef sandy drops, attractive to ths sight and pleasant to ths taste. JOHIV BULL'S SMITH'S TONIC SYRUP, BUM.'S SARSAPARILLA, BULL'S WORM DESTROYER, The Popular Ramodles of the Day. Principal Oln, Ml Hala St., LOUISVILLE, KY. An Important Distinction. "Miriah, I am shocked that you should even think of having those Simpkins girls as bridesmaids at your wedding." "Why, mammy, they are two of the sweetest, nicest, most highly cultivated young ladies in the city. They have traveled all over the globe, and are re­ ceived everywhere." "But just think, Miriah, of the stig­ ma which attaches to them. Before the war their father, who afterward got rich on an army contract, lived on a farm and actually made and sold butter. Just think of it!" "But does not my father make and sell butter, too?" "No, indeed. Why you shook me! How could you think of such a thing ? Your father is a manufacturer, and the product he manufactures is not vulgar butter, but oleomargarine--a highly prized article of commerce."--Phila­ delphia Call* How to Save Meaey, and wo might also say--tlmo and pain as well, in our advice to good housckecpeia and ladies irencraiiy. Tho great necessity exist­ ing always to have a perfectly safe remedy convenient for the relief aud prompt cure of the ailment* peculiar to women--functional irregularity, constant pains, and aii the symptoms attendant upon uterine disorders •--Induces us to rccommond strongly and un­ qualifiedly Dr. Pierce's "f avorite Prescrip­ tion--woman's best triend. It will aave money. THE man who began keeping a diary at the first of the year Is still keeping It, but he now uses the pages as cigarette papers. MAST Imitators, but no equal, has Or. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. AN old maid sued a fellow for damage BS^ cause he failed to marry her. His plea was dam age.--Xnvman fmbyfiulent. Homfont'n Acid Phosphate, VALUABLE IN INDIGESTION. Dr. Daniel T. Nelson, Chicago, eaySi "I find it a pleasant and valuable remedy in in­ digestion, particularly in overworked men." A BAD man shows his bringing up when he Is brought up by a policeman. LVDIA E. PINKHAM'S Vegetable Compound Is a sure cure for kidney complaints. Echoes. "There are in this world," quoth Qoethe, "so few voices and so many echoes;" and it is one of the most dis­ couraging signs which can be observed of any time, that it is an age of echoes. There are so few men in this world who have the intellectual power of thinking for themselves good, honest, original thoughts; and it is by far so much easier to echo the idea, the motives and the conduct of others, that we have got in our day to be largely mere echoes of echoes, or echoes again of these echoes of echoes. Tradition mocks some old fashion, which in turn mimicked some­ thing lying farther back, until the best of us find temerity to claim originality for our most sincere thought or action. The Best for Butter. There is bat one best color for butter, and that is Wells, lticliard^on & Co.'s Improved Butter Color, no candid investigator doubts. It is the best butter color in the world: is free from sediment or impurity, always ready for instant use, and it imparts to but­ ter that rich dandelion yellow, without a tinge of red, which is the acme of desirability in any butter color. POCAHONTAS was the first female who refused to make a "mash."--JVcttmnn Ifutc pendent. And the last one up to the time of going to prees.--Bowfou Pott. Regulars. One of the strongest proofs of the valoe of Kidney-Wort us a remedy for all diseases of the Kidneys, Liver, and bowels, is the fact that it is used and prescribed by "regu­ lar" physicians. Phillip C. Ballou, M. D., of Monkton, Vt., eays: "Take It all in ail, it is the most successful remedy 1 have ever used." . GRACE--•' I am going to see Clara to-day. Have you any message>" Dora--"I wonder how you can visit that dreadful girl I Gi;re her my love." The Testimony of w Physician! a > James Beecher, M. D., of 81gourney< Iowa, says: "For several years I have been using a cough balsam, called Dr. Wm. Hall's Bal­ sam for the Lungs, and in almost every case throughout my practice I have had entire success. I have ueed and prescribed hun­ dreds of bottles since the days of my army practice (1868), when 1 was surgeon of Uo» pltal No. 7, Louisville. Ky." Young Men, Read Tills. THK VOLTAIC BRLT CO., of Marshall, Mich., offer to send their celebrated ELECTRO-VOL* TAIC BELT and other ELECTRIC APPLIANCES on trial for thirty days, to men (young or oldi attlicted with nervous debility, loss of vitality and manhood, and all kindred trou­ bles. Also for rheumatism, neuralgia, pa­ ralysis, and many other diseases. Complete 1 te -toratton to health, vigor, and manhood suaranteed. No risk is incurred, as thirty days' trial i6 allowed. Write them at onoe tor illustrated namnhlet. free. i • - , .. .'•'ijj Pnnninonia. If Compound Oxygen were promptly used in an attack of Acutc Pneumonia there would be few deaths from this disease. Its action in allaying iiroacbinl nnd pulmonary irrita­ tion, relieving congestion, and restoring healthy tcorotlons to the mucous membranes is most remarkable. Wri'o to Dri. Star key ArPalon, 1109 Girard St., I'hila., for informa­ tion in regard to this remarkable treatment. ••Pat up" at the Gaolt House. The business man or tourist will find first- class accommodations at the low price of $S and $2.60 per day at the Gault House, Chica­ go, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the center of the city, only one block from the Union Depot. Elevator; all appointments first-class. H. W. HQYT, Proprietor. MENSMAN'S PEPTONIZED BEEF TONIC, the only preparation of beef containing its en­ tire nutritious projterties. It contains blood- making, force-generating, and life-euetaining properties; invaluable for indigestion, dys­ pepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of iteticral debility; also, in all enfeebled condi­ tions, whether the result of exhaustion, nerv­ ous prostration, over-work, or aoute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard 3c Co., proprie­ tors; New York. Sold by druggists. MKKE outward applicatiou of so-called remedies for rheumatism and neuralgia must necessarily fail ot_tt»eir purpose because the origin of the trouble is left untouched. Athio- phoros destroys the root of the disease by cleansing the blood of the impurities that cause them. Athlophoros is perfectly harm­ less, while its action is quick and certain. Price, SI a bottle. If druggist hasn't it, send to Athlophoros Co., 112 Wall street, N. Y. FOR years I have been afflicted with Hay- Fever. I gave Ely's Cream Balm a trial. The relief was immediate. I regard myself cured.--G. SCHREIBER, Supt. of Cordage Co., Elizabeth, N. J. Price 50 cents. PETROLEUM is a natural production, and as nature never makes a mistake Carboline, made from pure petroleum, is a certain in- vigorator for diseased and sickly hair, and where onoe used will never be substituted by any other. HAY-FKVBR. I have used Ely's Cream Balm for Hay-Fever, and have experienced great relief. 1 recommend it as the best ol all the remedies I have tried.--T. B. JENKS, Lawyer, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price SO cents. Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, Sexual De­ bility, cured by " Wells' Health Renewer." f 1. IF afflioted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Iliompson's Eye'Water. Druggists sell it. 25c. Bed-bugs, flies, roaches, ants, rats, mice, eloared out by " Rough on Rats." 15c. BEWARE of the incipient stages of Consump­ tion. Take Plso's Cure in time. j§ Btinging,irrltation,infiammatlon,all kidney and | urinary complaints, cured by "Buchu-Paiba." $1. j FOR a cold in the head, there is nothing eo good as Pfso'e Bsmedy for Catarrh. "Rough on Pain." Quick cure for Colic. Crimps, Diarrhoea, Aches, Pains, Sprains, Headache. A CURE FOR MIL GERMAN A Common and Painful fIIia|>lal|il 0 Statement You May In. It seem* to have been reserved for Dr. Carid Xaa- nedy.of Rondout, NY„ to; accomplish, throng* Ma preparation widely known aa KKNNSPY'H FA­ VORITE REMEDY, what others hare faUod to eompawi. The subjoined letter will be found of vital interest to sufferers from gravel, and to the general public: ALLUIT, March M, UK. ' Dr. D. Kennedy, Rondo at, N. Y.: Dear Sir--Let me tell you frankly that I bare am* been partial to proprietary medicines, u I believe tta majority of them to be nothing better than methoda of obtaining money from people whom Buffering makes r.?ady to catch at anr hope of relief. They arc mean cheats and delations. But your FA VOK1TC REMEDY, I know by happy experience, to be a to­ tally different thine. I had been a Hnfferer from rrsr- el for years, and had resorted to many eminent phy- eicians for relief, Imt no i>enu:ui«»tt good came or it. About three years ago your FAVOKITK REME­ DY was recommended to rue. I can idve yoa the re­ sult in a sentence: I tried it. and it mred me com* pletely. I am confident it >aved my life. Yoa •--n use this letter if you think best. Yours, etc., NATHAN ACKIJW. Captain Nathan Ackley was for a long time con­ nected with the Canal Appraiser's office in Aihany. He is well known, and writes for no purpose but to do good to others. As a medicine for all diseases of the blood. Over, kidneys, and digestive otyans. KENNEDY'S FA- VOKlfK RE «tEl>Ylia< fairly won its high Men­ tation. Write, if desirable, to Dr. DaVid Kenned*. Rondont. N. Y. . .LYDIA i. pimcMAars.. VE8ETABLE C0MP0BM •••IB AP0SIHV1 <*»••<*••• . All theee palafW reaiplelale •and WeataMoeesse eeanMa* i *V***l>ewlel»*»«»» Nnuro,,<' *| • ItwUleuaaatiratraB Onuriaaf " - ttonaad Ctoamtton7lUH*ra3 --r-rrpimtltplnal TTaalmaM. aaitatoill ed toth* Chang* at Ufa • • • • • ••" •Iti ft1 ran% Pain io supposed to be the lot of us pbor mortals, as inevitable as death, and liable at any time to coma upon us. Therefore it i» important that remedial a«ents should be at hand to be used in an enuveacr. when we are made to feel the excruciating agontoa of pain, or the depressing influence of disease. Such a remedial agent exists in that old Reliable Family Remedy, PERRY DAVIS9 Pain-Killer It was the first and is the imiy finilir sent Pain Merer. ITS MERIT8 ABE UHSURPA88ED. There is nothing to equal It. In a few : cures moments it • * Celle, Cramps, Spasms, Heartfeva, g|» arrhoea, Dysentery, Flax, ̂ Dyspepsia, SKK Headache* »* ^' * •>' f , I . * ' • Itia found to / v ̂ * CURE CHOLERA,; I "'f When all other Remedies fidl. . WHEN USED EXTKRNAIiY, AS A LUIUMift * ' nothing gives quicker ease in Burns, Cata Itintacs, Spraiiw, Stinjgs from Inserts, iM Scalds. It removes the fire, and the wooad basis other remedy will. In sections ofthe" ooaatiywbsra FEVER AND ACUE Prevails there is no remedy held in neater eataeas>' Persona traveling should keep it by them. - X SOLD BY ALL ORUOOISTS. COWTN Supplied with partly-printed aheets in tbeaMstaatia- factory manner. Send tor samples and nrteaa Ja THE NEWSPAPER UNION,Xos.riandKSTnaiklSi Street, Chicago. FRAZER BUT IN tHI WOKIA 1 AXLE [Arsrssjaco; 1w n « tonarihi «f faoJtkaHt 1MM KKVERFAILKO Bi, er fUM la im wfc-- rira lly MOTdH*1» wtintSow. h Mrqnlaa* cant ••• Lto T*rr Uttli troabi* tra> kml <Aa-pUtata; >al to tU> I antft* th*> Kctlfcai I k«* am hrtacMM with u; fcrmeiStoitoaw***1 latatwa. WOO LIUCH S OOLf' Ms--fiwtnrm, Fslaar, Maaaaa* HjCV-FEVC*. I have [sufferer ir for 15 yasra. I the wondrous oarea Ely's Cream Brim thought I would once am. After, application I wonderfully helped. Two wesks ago I cam- It is the great oyery known.-- remedy foaaded on a correct diagnosis oc this disease, and can be _ , _ depended upon. SSc.at druggist's: 60c.by maO. Sample bottle by mail,He. ELY BROS. Druggists, Owogo. N. Y. THE TIFFIN ̂ Rock^SrlnKs MACHINERY! [ For Horse or Steam Power Hundreds of the beat men in 30 States and Territories use it and will have I other! RELIABLE! DURABLE! SIMPLE! I Established over SS yeai«.ws have ample I facilities to fill orders promptly, and I to satisfaction oar customers. Cato- "TOOIUI * MIMAK. Xlfle. OMsT Rila poroos piaster la sbsolately Ms bmt ever made, combining tho , Tirtoas of hops with | yams, balsams and ex­ tracts. Its power Is wundsifal other plsstara simply reMsvs. Keck, Pain ia ths Bids i l . -»t, HOP PLA8TEM Isifal ia ISITEE Mmrii aim if iusia OHektatteSekaaa BACK tFFor constipation, loss of sapsMtoaaddts«srso(tha bowelstokaHawley'sntBiBsrhandUierHBa Swata S.H.WOOD* CO. Chamber of Commerce. Cldtat»i A GRAIN 4 STOCK MOKRt t , 844 Hennepin Ate., Wnnesqialta, MB-- Chamber of Commerce, litnaL Ml Buy and sell Stocks. Grain and Provlaiopsin ] Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lmahaie. Baokeehe. Heedafte. TeeltoOe. Sswlfciastea«IHs«s.»W»jM»Jwll<'>' Haraa, acnlda. Prart ant» m oraaa euaur raue aae iniaa, _ Hlti minim sst MwMtesslall taa»aa«* THE CHAKLEe A. Yet.jttlB <*, a ^ tawaaaa i *«)«>«tea) email >mo S. H. WOOD missions. tation of being the largest and ator in the Northwest, and to hi* their customers are largely mdel taf < V rreapoadeii ̂ v solicited. XMTWKN WRITING TO A .plena* any yon war Ito