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* '• -.-Mv'EiA •'£*:: *'?':• A tons or nxmoii a* UEBTTXWOODWOKTH BOB IffllS'JStSWS? Tl>e green grass gisw, the wrad ofatipeaes, •And my ia4y passed m byl met aft UM okl Aank door; • in her aUkan gown; die m in her eyes M of yon;-- * ah* looted not «p sot down. bteds flew left, the Mrda flew rlghtf Mt in the windy tree*, and nac; and there, la the light, y lady sank on her knees. id she pray for sins to be forpiven? Did-she count her flirting sin? id she pray that the gates of Heaven •Would open, and ret her In? ̂ Was it wrong a fool to cheat, .And with his heart to play? Vt> shake it off--poor dnst at her**-- .And smiling go her way? "v*«~ •fey, fool! Hey, love and hatef'V ' JI there at the door; • _ She folk came m through the cljtfigtliftgste, . - And 1 saw her face once more. Die dream was still In her eyes; •"V What lare dream could it be?, *';a(Mnt Barbara in Paradise, • Xo kcd not more fair than sh* /•>: ®eish-ho, my song of sixpence t * • ' if-The blossoms were white and red »Jie church bell rang; the little birds sang, . A sinking over the dead. I^Vfitaurbed: "Oh, lady,we part, . r • *et come to our graves we mast xjbu with your face, and I with my heart, JFov we are both made of dust!" , tve sung my song of sixpence; nd have you aught to BAVV J1 the wt rid knows, love comes, lore f0« And we break onr hearts? Nay, nayl * --SL Louis Magazine. | THE KDVEIITURES of A TRAGEDY. Perhaps one of the most curious epi­ sodes of the history of the modern dra- ' ma, is to l»e found in the experience of i M. Legouve in bringing before the . public his well-known tragedy of Me­ dea, which was written expressly for Mile. Lacliel. The great success of " Adrienne Lecouyreur had encouraged liim to set to work anew to create a character for the great but capricious actress to personate. And, apropose of Adrinne, M. Legouve has revealed to the world some little time ago the fact that the wonderfully touching scene in the last act, when Adrienne, dying and delirious, repeats in her frenzy frag­ ments of her roles, and fancies herself upon the stage, was taken literally from real life. "Mademoiselle was dying," writes M. Legouve, "At her bedside a pious priest, the Abbe Gallard, knelt in praye Suddenly from the lips of the delirious and dying woman came articulate words, connected phrases, which were incomprehensible to him. "What were these words? \Vhole pas­ sages of Fausses Confidence, of the Jeu de 1' Amour et du Hassard, and of Le Legs; tli3 dying woman was re­ hearsing her roles. Her countenance, wasted l>y illness, gained a new anima- . tion to represent these tliearetical per­ sonages ; lier voice] assumed their ac­ cents, and then, pausing from time to time, she would barken as one who is listening and who applauds. She be­ came her own au\lience. This persist­ ence of the love of art and the remem- ' brance of art even in death produced . upon me a strong impression. 1 saw in it a novel aud interesting effect for the fifth act of Adrienne." Yet Legouve, rude as was the blow thus dealt to his aspirations and atnbi tion, writes with peculiar tenderness respecting this strange, gifted, contra- , dictoiy creature, who resembled no . person living so much as she did the f Cleopatra of Shakspeare in the con- trasted elements of her character, in her sudden transitions from the dig' . nity of an empress to the wild freaks of a street boy. And in the wonderful '•> mingling of the best and the meanest traits of feminine humanity in her na tore. Once, when she was playing Vir­ ginia, M. Legouve surprised her in her dressing-room dancing the can-can in her classic robes. There is an anecdote of her in the earlier portion of her ca­ reer which paints her to the life. Dur­ ing these first years her great geniu?, her untarnished reputation, and the in­ terest excited by her youth and her personal charms caused some of the greatest ladies of the severe society of the Faubourg St. Germain to take her under their protection. One of these, who bore one of the noblest titles and ; proudest names in France, wishing to demonstrate in the fullest and most public manner her respect for the great actress, took Mile, liachel out to drive with het- in an open carriage in the liois de Boulogne, placing her daugh­ ter ou the front seat, while her gifted guest sat beside her. On returning from this drive Mile. Rachel, on enter­ ing the drawing-room, sank on one knee before her hostess, and sobbed out, with streaming eyes: "Oh, Madame la • Ducheese, such a proof 6f your esteem as that which you have now gives me is more precious to me than all my talent!" The motion of the mother \ and daughter can well be imagined. [7:. They raised their cherished guest from ' the ground and embraced her fondly. '"J Shortly after she took her leave. The j drawing-room WJJS preceded by two smaller ones, through which it was ^ , necessary to pnss in order to reach the outer door. Mile. Rachel on depart­ ing passed through these two rooms without perceiving that the younger daughter of the house had accompanied her part of the way as a farther mark of attention. Arrived at the last door, and fancying that she was alone, Mile. , Rachel on opening it turned around • and executed in the direction of the drawing-room that gesture of supreme and vulgar contempt which consists in • - putting one's fingers to one's nose in the fashion known in France as a pied de nez." Unfortunately this last door „• was panelled with mirrors which re­ flected the gesture of the actress. It was therefore perfectly visible in the inner room, in which was the young girl, who hastened, choking with in- :, dignation, to tell her mother what she had seen. The success of Adrienne induced Mile.. Rachel to revive one of Legouve's earlier plays, Louise de Lignerolles. Having impersonate,! the heroine with marked success, she next implored Le- . gouve to write a tragedy especially for her. The dramatist; turnea his atten­ tion to a subject that had always tempt- : ed him, namely, Medea One scene in particular in the Greek drama had made an especial impression on his im- - agination. It is that wherein Creusa receives from Media the fatal gifts of a - golden diadem and a silken mantle, wlieerein the young princess decks her­ self only to die, poisoned and in agony. M. Legouve cenceived the idea of mak- ^ ing Media her own messenger, and of causing her to be present at the death of her rival. He set to work, and after a year of assiduous toil he brought his tragedy to Mile Rachel. The capri­ cious actress raised at lirst a thousand objections; she did not like to play an­ other clasic personage; she had never impersonated a mother; she would not know how to render the accents of ma- .. ternal feeling. Finally she consented to ' play the part, and threw herself into / GTMLITI?* YITH $MI BMELI had shown in studying Adrienne or XiOttiMde Lignerolles. - Her next idea irw to persuade the author to cut out th« grand scene, that of the death of Creusa. Ha aeoeded to all her wishes wd the reherals were proceeding pros­ perously, when one day Mile. Rachel set off for Russia, relinquishing her Studies of Medea, which were never afterward resumed. On her return from Russia, Mile. Ra­ chel made a formal announcement of her intention not to play Medea. M. Le­ gouve then brought suit against her, fend gained his cause, partly through a father comical incident. M. Cremieux was Mile. Rachel's lawyer, and he thought to serve the cause of his client *>y reciting in a burlesque manner certain passages of the role of Creuza. • Unfortunately for his cause, these lines were simply a close translation of a famous passage in Euripides. M. Ma- thieu, the lawyer for Legouve, seized eagerly on this advantage, and after quietly calling attention to the fact that his adversary had been ridiculing not JVI. Mathieu, but Enripides, lie contin­ ued : "Moreover, gentlemen, had these lines proved a failure, that would have proved nothing. They are placed in the mouth of a young and lovely prin­ cess, a youthful bride with her hands filled with Howers and her heart full of lore. M. Cremieux does not look the character, it seems to me." This allu­ sion to the proverbial ugliness of M. Cremieux set every one to laughing, and the day was won. But the success of the lawsuit availed nothing in the way of bringing Medea on the stage. M. Legouve published his tragedy, which achieved a very marked literary success, passing rap­ idly through several editions. Still he was but half consoled, when one day he learned that the famous Italian ac­ tress, Madame Ristori, had arrived in Paris with the intention of giving a series of representations. The name cf this young artiste was not unknown to the dramatist. Some years before, Madame Allan, of the Comedy Fran- caise, had said to him: "Whilst at Turin I went to the theater. I saw there a w'onderful young tragic actress, a woman of genius. She is called Ade­ laide Ristori." M. Legouve hastened to witness the first representation given by the new actress at the Theatre Italien. The play was the revolting but power­ ful Mirra of Alfleri. The dramatist has ieft on record his impressions: "1 shall never forget my surprise and my emotion. I was under the influence of a revelation. A new art unfolded itself before me. The powerful play of the physiognomy, the audacity of the ges­ tures, the amplitude movement, those glances, those lips from which passion poured in torrents, that voice which rose to the highest notes of the soprano register to descend to the profound and agitating notes of the contralto all re­ called Malibran to me." He went be­ hind the scenes to present his congrat­ ulations to the actress. Madame Ris­ tori, as soon as he was introduced, de­ clared herself charmed at the meeting. She had successively played the three roles of jiis Louise de Lignerolles, and she begged him to write a tragedy ex­ pressly for her. "I have one ready," M. Legouve made answer. " 'It's name?' 'Medea,' 'Medea--which Mile. Rachel--' 'Refused to plav.* 'Yes, that is true. But I think she made n mistake. At all events, will you read the piece?" This ehe promised to do, and I sent her a copy the next morning. Three months elapsed, and I thought no more of the matter, when one day I received a letter from Madame llistori's agent begging me to call to settle the terms of translation, etc., of Medea." The facts in the case were briefly as follows: Madame Ristori had carried off the piece in her trunk, not liking to wound M. Legouve by a flat refusal, yet fully convinced that the play must be a very poor one to have been so summarily rejected by Rachel. One day, while get­ ting her hair dressed, she took up the play and began to turn over the pages. Some passages struck her; she read on for some little time, and then, suddenly starting up, she rushed, with her hair half arranged, into her husband's room "Either Mile. Rachel has a mortal hatred for M. Legouve, or she is mad!" she cried. "Medea is one of the finest acting parts for a woman that I have ever met with." The tragedy, after having been trans­ lated by the Italian poet Montaneili, was cast and mounted in eleven days. Unlike Mile. Rachel, who at rehearsals never saw anything beyond her own part, Madame Ristori infused the vital­ ity of her genus into every personage of the piece. She taught Jason how to be brutal, and Orpheus how to be poetic; she imparted pathos to Creusa, and childish grace to the children. Finally Medea was brought out at the Theater Italien, in Paris, with an im­ mediate and overwhelming success. Mile. Rachel had quitted the city in order not to be present on the occasion. She had previously assisted, hidden in the depth of a baignoire, at one of Ris- tori's representations of Marie Stuart She remained till the grand scene be­ tween the two queens brought down the house in thunders of applause. Then, unable to witness any longer the magnificent acting of her rival, she left the theater precipitately. A few nights later, Madame Ristori, who had played Phedre some time before with compara­ tively little success, went to see Rachel in that role. Rachel, electrified by be­ holding her rival amongst the specta­ tors, that night surpassed herself. The great Italian actress was almost wild with enthusiasm. Leaning over the front of her box, she followed every movement, every giant e of Phedre. she gave the signal for applause, and was the last to cease applauding. Each actress had acknowledged the genius of the other after her own fashion. The one fled to weep; the other remained to applaud. Madame Ristori was superstitious like most Italians, even the most gifted. M Legonue tells a little anecdote of the fitst representation of Medea, which illustrates this not unamiable weakness on the part of the great actress. After the first act which had been one long triumph for her, he writes: "I went to her dressing room. 'My dear friend,' she cried, on seeing me, 'the success of your last two acts is assured. Look!' I looked, and *aw a large gray cat in­ stalled upon her lap. "What has the cat to do with our play?" I asked her, laughingly. 'You do not recognize it ?' 'No.' 'He was present at our rehearsals. He is the cat of the theatre. I have seen him a dozen times come and sit beside the prompter's box whilst I re­ hearsed. I never would allow him to be driven away, I should have been afraid that it would have brought us ill luck; but I watched him anxiously. Why is he always there ? I wonder. He actually seems to be interested.' I burst out laughing. 'Laugh away,' she said, half jestingly, half seriously; 'you French are all heathen. You have no superstitions ideas; but I believe most firmly in presentiments. So when this eat just now entered nj dressipg-room h- (where he had never eome before) and sprang into my lap, I said %o myself, it is a good omen.' And at the end of the play, as soon as she saw me, she cried, 'Well, was not the cat right?" * The great success of Madame Ristori in Medea was not confined to France. She appeared in it both in America and England, winning fame for herself and applause for the tragedy with every re­ presentation. Had it not been for the precipitate flight of Mile Sarah Bern­ hardt from the Comedie Francaise, Medea wonld have been revived at that theatre with the brilliant and erratic actress in the title rele. But her de­ parture has left M. Perrin without a leading actress capable of sustaining so exacting a character, and Madame Ristori remains the only person&tor of Medea on the French boards. Living Cameos and Bas-Kelicfs. This fascinating entertainment can be prepared by children, at short no­ tice, with very little trouble or expense. The articles required are two sheets of large card boards, two sheets of pink tissue paper, and two sheets of white cotton wadding, one ball of white and one of pink velvet chalk, a lead pencil, a pair of scissors, six yards of black cam­ bric, a few tacks, and a little paste. One sheet of cardboard is fastened on tho side wall of a darkened room, so that the shadow of the face of a person with large and regular features will fall upon the centei of it when a lighted candle is held in front of the side of the face at a distance of three feer. A cup should be placed between the face and the cardboard and kept in posi­ tion by the pressure of the head, in order, so far as possible, to prevent any movement on the part of the sitter. The candle must be so placed that the shadow of the profile is in the center of the card board; the outlines are then to be traced with a pencil. The card board can then be taken down and the profile carefully cut out; the back of the had usually being enlarged, so that various methods of dressing the hair may be permitted. This white card board will be ready for the bas-relief after the outer edge has "been cut into the form of a circle, and made thicker by several rings of pasteboard of the same diameter, but only three inches wide. When cameos are to be exhibit­ ed, the outer surface should be covered with pink tissue paper. A curtain of cheap black cambric or any plain-colored material, reaching from the ceiling to the floor, is then hung at a distance of about two feet from the back wall of the room where the exhibition is to take place. The cardboard is fastened info a hole made in the curtain, so that the center of the opening is about six or seven feet from floor, the and a chair or ^mall table is placed close behind this curtain and another small piece of black cloth is tacked to the wall behind the opening. The person whose face is to form the bas-relief stands upon a chair or table so that the face fits the opening in the card board, about one-half of it project­ ing in front of the frame thus formed- The side-face thus exposed is chalked and the hair is covered with white wad­ ding, which conceals it, and also can be fastened in waves, plaits, or classic knots; for cameoes, pink chalk, and tissue paper take the place of the white. Very pretty art studies can thus be made by inexperienced persons. When it is desired to show several of these art studies consecutively, it will be well to have a pink and white frame placed side by side about one foot apart, as then they may be shown together or separately; the ono not in use being covered with a little curtain of black cambric. Thus a pleasing variety can be produced by showing either a*cam­ eo or a bas-relief or both together. Faces of children or of grown people can be used as desired, as it is not ab­ solutely necessary that the features should exactly- fill the cut profiles in the card board. The eyes are always closed, and a little calk Bhould be rub­ bed on the eyelids just before the face is shown to the spectators. The frames may be placed between thick window curtaing draped above and below them: this will save the trouble of a black curtain, as the per­ formers can thand in the window be­ hind the curtain. The best manner of lighting them is from the top; and when the room has no cliandrlier, a lamp can be held at- the left side as high as can bed one conveniently by a person who sands upon a chair or short step-ladder.--George B. Bar tie,ie, in SL Nicholas. (iulzot's Lore For His Wife. I retire to my room about 8 o'clock, lock myself in, and then only find a lit­ tle breathing space. I need the most complete solitude in order to be with her again. When I am alone, quite alone, seated in her arm-chair, beside her bed, with her portrait before me, her letters on my table, and if she is not there, I am at least altogether giv­ en up to her, I give her all my thought, all my soul, as 1 used to do every night when we met not to part till the morrow. It is a bitter, a harrowing pleasure to copy thus for an hour or two the hap­ piness of the past, our life in common,' to think, I being alone, what I should have said to her, to tell myself what I should have said to her, to tell myself what she should have said to me. And yet it is the only moment when life is not a hateful burden, the only moment when all is not hypocrisy and con­ straint. I have taken up a few of the books we read together--Petrarch, among others, which had charmed her --I mark, I copy the passages she would have liked--Gu'uoVa Letters. THE business of preparing sumach for market is mainly confined to Rich­ mond and some other cities of Vir­ ginia. The collectors take their small lots to the mills where they are bought. After the sumach is properly manufactured it is sent for sale to Xew York and other cities, where it comes in competition with the imported or Sicilian sumach, which is the leaves of lihiixc oriaria, a species cultivated in Southern Europe. However abundant­ ly sumach may grow in a locality, un­ less the owner of some grist-mill will introduce machinery to grind and bolt the leaves, or some capitalist Mill es­ tablish a mill for the purpose, the gath­ ering of the sumach crop cannot be made profitable. . A FASHIONABLE young lady, in otte of our large cities whose father recently lost a large fortune, is now earning her own living by writing notes for custom­ ers, most of whom are society girls. She writes their love letters, and also letters of business condolence, invita­ tion, or upon any desired subject. She is very industrious and intelligent, and daily earns quite a sum of money. This is certainly a novel and ingenious en­ terprise. HKAVEX must be a beautiful place, but if there's a mud-puddle handy a 4-year old boy will take it in prefer­ ence. HYGIBmSjTOBffliOEERS. A Scientific Van Teds H«vw to Htalmlie the ETOI of the Habit. In the Journal d'HygieneJ>r. Felix Bremont discusses some laws of health in their special application to smokers. He says caustically, to begin with, that he is not talking to schoolboys who puff cigarettes, nor to children who try to piay the man by taking up one of his faults, but addresses himself to sure-enough smokers, the number of whom he has no particular care to in­ crease. The prime rule of hygiene in the code is radical enough, to be sure, and would very speedily, if consist­ ently followed, ao away with all the ills of smoking. It is the simple advice not to smoke at all, an injunction that seems to negative the learned Doctor's preface that he is not aiming his re­ marks at children. We will take his word for it that hardly an old smoker but would avow it had been better for him had he never touched pipe or cigar: but popular science does not really comprehend a discussion of ab­ stract morals, and it is the practical phase of the Doctor's article rather than its Aesthetic that we wish to con­ sider. The evils of smoking may be granted off-hand, but since men will smoke .the thing to lie considered is how to diminish the bad effects of the practice. Happily M. Bremont is not a fanatic, and scorns not to point out means by which the delicious vice may be in­ dulged at least expense to the system. Imprimis, the cigar smoker should use a holder. By that means less nicotine is absorbed, and the necessity for spit­ ting is not sd urgent. Long holders are better than short, because they better cool the smoke, and cheap oues are better than expensive ones because they will oftener be renewed. There is, besides, a gain in point of cleanliness in the use of a holder. Too many hands touch the tobacco in its manufacture for it to escape soil, and sometimes it carries with it filth and diseased germs as well. Havana cigars are recommended as by all odds the best, though the difficulty of getting the genuine article is pain­ fully recognized. There is very great imposition in the matter of Havana cigars. Very cheap and inferior goods are made in various parts of Europe and the United States, shipped to Hav­ ana for packing, and returned thence with the brand aud label of genuine Havana cigars. At Hamburg, indeed, cigars are made from cabbage leaf to­ bacco, and right there done up as Havanas, without the troublesome for­ mality of shipping to Cuba. We sus­ pect the same thing is done in markets nearer home. Those cigars are run through the custom house with no greater bother to the manufacturers than taking them out to meet an incom­ ing vessel, upon which they are dumped for this purpose. This simple act aug­ ments their value tenfold. It is recommended as a good hygienic precaution to select dry cigars for smoking, as they are free from nicotine. Slow smoking is another excellent specific against the too great absorption of the toxic principles of tobacco. The fast smoker of wet cigars who does not spit during the process dangerously saturates his nervous system with poison. To such a person a pipe is al­ together insipid. The more thoroughly the matter is medically considered the more positive becomes the judgment that cigarette smoking is the most per­ nicious use of tobacco, and is one of the most frequent causes of disease of the heart. This is not perhaps due to the wrapper as much as to the habit cigar smokers have of inhaling the smoke, and to the further fact that cigarette tobacco is usually more moist than others, that it may be easily rolled. The pipe is, after all, the nearest ap proach to hygienic excellence the smoker may attain. But there are pipes and pipes. The best are the most po­ rous, whatever the material. They are good in proportion to their absorption of the nicotine, and cease to be good after they have become seasoned. A sea­ soned meerschaum, for example, is no better than a metallic pipe, and should, for health's sake, at whatever sacrifice of nut-brown beauty, be boiled into its original usefulness as an absorbent. The bowl being well chosen, the stem should be long. With such precautions, and the use of dry, pure tobacco, the smoker has the highest form of hygien­ ic smoking, and the one that should really be most delightful to the sense, soothing without stupefying, exhilarat­ ing without exciting the nerves. Short stemmed pipes have been very prop­ erly termed "scorch-throats," and are most pernicious in their effects. Not only do they admit to the mouth all the poisons of the tobacco, but send in a smoke hot enough to burn any tongue that has not been injuriously tougltr ened by long abuse. The thickening of the epithelial layer is one effect of the use of .these pipes which the French have named brule-gueule. Liberal ventilation of apartments in which smoking is indulged should be observed. The inhalation of foul smoke is a sure means of giving deli­ cate membranes an injurious coating of nicotine. Cleanliness is strongly urged, not only for the benefit of the smoker, but for the sake of those who may be brought in contact with him. The odor and effect of tobacco exhaled from the smoker are not pleasant even to smokers, and there cannot be too much care given to the cleansing of the mouth. The teeth should be well brushed, night and morning, and the valuable hint is given that a gargle of aromatized water is better to neutralize the odor of tobacco than the best scented pellets.--Chicago Inter Ocean. Houses for Brazil. The business of making wooden houses in the United States for custom sale is stimulated by a brisk demand for these products in Brazil. Several large shipments have been made to Rio Janerio, aud they were all sold soon after their arrival. Fifteen hundred of them have already been erected in the new city of La Plata, the new capital of the province of Buenos Ayres.--Chi­ cago Herald. BOILED tripe, fried to a very light brown in butter and then sprinkled with salt and pepper, is said to taste precisely like mushrooms^ > A Foe In the Air. A foe, all the more dangerous because unseen, lurks In the air of every locality where malaria Is developed by marsh mists, noxious gases, or the vaporization of water contaminated with de­ cayed vegetation. Fever and ague, bilious re­ mittent, (lnmb ague, and the forms of fever which assume a typhoid character are Its prod­ ucts. There is no safety, even for the most vigorous constitution, unfortified against this, insidious foe, and tho danger to persons of a bilious habit or fee We constitution, is doubly great. Protection may, however, be sought with certainty in Hostotter's. Stomach Bitters, the. leading American preventive and specititf for the ois 'an?. It regulates the bowels, purifies and enriches the blood, healthfully stimulates the liver, and by increasing the activity of its vari­ ous i unction?, puts the system on guard ag&inat disease. Besides its usefulness as a febrile pre­ ventive, no finer remedy exists for rheumatism, dyspepsia, inactivity of the kidneys and blad- der, sad eiJurjoorgamic malaf!^ •• • _ V' . I • ' >*'* **<< ' 4 Hw Celeleew ef Orsws, Tin MASOK it OBCMK AHD PlAXO COMPANY have Just iasoed their new Cata­ logue for the season of 1884-6. 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Com stock, Physician at Good Sa­ maritan Hospital, St. Louis, Mo., says: "For years we have used it in this hosf.tal, in dys^ liepsia and nervous diseases, and as a drink during the decline and convalescence of lin­ gering fevers, it has the unauimous approv­ al of our medical staff." A wrong impression--Kissing your wife on the back stairs in the dark, supposing her to bo the hired girl. -- Ifutcrioo Obtervei. LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S Vegetable Compound was first prepared in liquid form only: but now it can be Kent in dry forms by mail to points whero no drug.srist ean readily be reached, and to-day the Compound in lozenges and pills finds its way to the foreign climes ol Kurope andAsia. THK man who thought he could live oH the "milk of human kindness" died In the poor- house, of dyspepsia.--• liicagn Eye. The Secret of life. Scovill's Saroaparilla, or Blood and Liver Syrup, is the remedy for the cure of scrofu­ lous taint, rheumatism, white swelling, gout, goitre, consumption, bronchitis, nervous de­ bility, malaria, and all diseases arising from an impure condition of the blood. Certifi­ cates can t e 'presented from many leading physicians, ministers, and heads of families throughout the land indorsing Scovill's Blood nod Liver Syrup in the highest terms. VTe are constantly in receipt of certificates of cures from tho most reliable sources, and we recommend it as the best remedy for above diseases. ' It Will Cost You Nothing;. - "For what?" For a medical opinion In your case, if you are suffering from any chronic disease which your physican has failed to relieve er cure. " >roin whom/" From Drs. Starkey & Palen, 110!» Girard St., Philadelphia, dispensers of the Vitalizing Treatment by Compound Oxygen which is at­ tracting wide attention, and by which most remarkable cures In desperate chronic cases are being made. Writ • and ask them to furnish such information in regard to their treatment as will enable you to get an intelligent idea of its nature and action. Young Hen, Read This. THE VOLTAIC BELT CO., of Marshall, Mich., ofl'cr to aend their celebrated ELECTRO-VOL. TAIC BKLT and other IJI-KCTHIC APPLIANCES on trial for thirty days, to men (young op old) atilictod with nervous debility, loss of vitality and manhood, and all kindred trou­ bles. Also for rheumatism, neuralgia, pa­ ralysis, and many other diseases. Complete ie toration to health, vigor, and manhood wuaraateed. No risk is incurred, as thirty days' trial is allowed. Write them at once for illustrated nam nh let. free. Important. 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MBNSMAN'S PEPTONIZED UEBF TONIC, the only preparation of beef containing its en­ tire nutritious properties. It contains blood- making, force-generating, and life-sustaining properties: invaluable for Indigestion, dys­ pepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of (ieneral 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 & Co., proprie­ tors. New York. Sold by druggists. EIIITOKS are probaoiy cautious in lending the indorsement of their naiucsnnd influence, but Mr. John Hcarn, of the Valley Sentinel, Sidney, O., writes that Athlophoros gave his wife more relief from rhCMmutism and IICU- ralgia than anything she had ever tried, and she had tried everything, having suffered for filteen years. I'ricc, SI per bottle. If your druggist hasn't it, fend to Athlophoros Co., 112 Wall street, N. Y. HAT-FEVEK. I can recommend Ely's Cream Raltn to all Hay-Fever sufferers; it is in my opinion, a sure cure. 1 was attlicted for twenty-five years, and never before found permanent relief.--W. H.' HASKINB, Marth- field, Vt. Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, Sexual De­ bility, cured by "Weils' HealthKenewer." (I HAT-FEVER. I have been a Hay-Fever suf­ ferer for three years; have often heard Ely's Cream Balm spoken of in the highest terms. I used it, and with the most .wonderful suc­ cess.--T. 8. GEEK, Syracuse, N. Y. Bed-bugs, flies, roaches, ants, rats, mlost cleared out by " Bough on Rats." 15c. Piso's Cure for Consumption Is not only pleasant to take, but it is sure to eure. Stlngfag.lrrltatlon.lnflammation.all kidney and urinary complaints, cured by "Buchu-Paiba." SL PUBLIC speakers and singers use Piso's Curs for hoarseness and weak lunpe. "Rough on Psin." Quick cure for Colic, Cramps, * , fsina, fpntna, Hssdsoha "No Physic, Sir, I> A good story comes from a boys' board In g- fchool In "Jersey." The diet was monoto­ nous and conuipating. and the learned Prin­ cipal decided to Introduce some old style phytic in the applc-sance, and await the hap­ py results. One bright lad. the smartest in school, discovered the tec ret mine in his sauce, and, pushing back his plate, shouted to tho pedagogue, "No phytic, sir, in mine. My dad told tne to use iiuthin' but Dr. P.erce's 'Pleasant Purgative Pellets," and they are doing their duty like a charm!" They are anti-bilious, and purely vegetable. "I'M locked in slumber," murmurs the prison bird In his sle"p --UeciirOL I*'s no secret nostrum. We speak of Dr Pierce's Extract of Smart Weed, composed of best French Brandy, Smart-Weed, Jamai­ ca Ginger, and Camphor Water. It cures cho'.era morbus, colic or cramps in stomach, dlarrhaa, dysentery or bloody Hux, and breaks up colds, fevers, and inflammatory at­ tacks. : WHY IS a buckwheat cake like a cater Slllar. Because it's the grub that makes the utter fly. DR. JOHN BULL'S Smiflt'sTiicSTrni FOR THE CURE OP FEVER and AGUE 1 Or CHILLS and FEVEÎ AND ALL MALARIAL DISEASES The proprietor of this celebrated medi- dae justly claims for it a superiority oyer all remedies ever offered to the public for the SAFB, CERTAIN, SPEEDY and PEB- KANENT onre of Ague and Fever, or Chills and Fever, whether of snort or long stand­ ing. He refers to the entire Western and Southern oonntry to bear him testimony to the truth of the asaertion that in no case whatever will it fail to cure if the direc­ tions are striotly followed aud carried out. Is a great many cases a single dose has been sufficient for a onre, and whole fami­ lies have beencured by a single bottle, with a perfect restoration of the general health. Zt is, however, prndent, ana in every case more certain to oure, if its use is continued in smaller doses for a week or two after the disease has been checked, more especially in difficult and long-standing cases. Van- ally this medicine will not require any aid to keep the bowels in good order. Should the patient, however, require a cathartic medicine, after having taken three or four doses of the Tonic, a single dose of BULL'S VEGETABLE FAMILY FILLS will be suf­ ficient. BULL'S 8ARSAPARILLA is the old and reliable remedy for impurities of the blood and Scrofulous affections--the King of Blood Purifiers. DB. JOHN BULL'S VEGETABLE WORM DESTBOYER is prepared in the form of eandy drops, attractive to tho sight aad pleasant to the taste. >1* v DR. JOHN BULL'S SMITH'S TONIC SYRUP, BULL'S SARSAPARILLA, BULL'S WORM DESTROYER, The Popular Remedies of the Day* Principal Offlee, 881 Main St., LOUISVILLE, KT. P«in is supposed to be the lot of us poor mortals, «« inevitable as death, and liable at any time to come upon us. Therefore it is important that remedial agents should be at hand to lie uwd in an emergency, when we are.made to feel the excruciating agonies of pain, or the depressing influence of disease.. Sueh a remedial a^ent exists in that old Reliable family Itemed}', PERRY DAVir f% ' ' • WJT m Pain-Ki II was the first and is the only perma­ nent Pain Reliever. ITS MERITS ABE UNSURPASSED. Then is nothing to equal it. In a few moments it cures Colic, Cramps, Spasms, Heartburn, Di* anrhiea, Dysentery, Flu, tyspepsla, Sick Headache. I It is foundto OURE CHOLERA When all other Remediei fail. wTitesr "PRED EXTE IUJAIXY, AS A notliiuK pives quicker ease in liurns. Cuts. Hrulh«>s, Sprains. KtliiK* from liitieet*, HIKI iScaUlK. It removes the fire, and the wound heals like ordinary mire*. Those suffering with liheuma- ttom. Gout, or Neuralgia, if not a positive cure, they find the PAIN-KILIAR gives them relief when no other remedy will. In sections ol the country where FEVER AND AGUE Prevails there is no remedy held in greater esteem. Persons traveling should keep it by them. SOLD BY ALL PRUCCISTS. Fearfully Common. Kidney Complaint Among (loth Sexes and Age#--A Brilliant Recovery. Or. David Kennedy, of Rondout, N. Y_ is often eon-, gratulsted on the exceptional success of his medicine called "Favorite Remedy." in arresting and radically curing these most painful and dangerous disorders. Proofs of this, like the following, are constantly brought Jo his attention, and are published by him for the sake of thousands of other sufferers whom he desires to reach and benefit. The letter, therefore, may be of vital importance to yon or to some one whom you know. It is from one of the best known and popular druggists iu the fine and growing city from which he writes--and doubtless where those may And Mr. Crawford at his place of business on the corner of Maine and Union streets: SpmxoFIELD, Mass., March 22,18S4. Dr. David Kennedy, Rondout, If. Y.: Dear Sir--For ten years I had been afflicted with Kid­ ney disease in its most acute form. What I suffered must he left to the imagination--for no one can ap­ preciate it except who have gone through it. I re­ sorted to many physicians and to many different kinds of treatment, and spent a great deal of money, only to find myself older and worse than ever. I may say thst I used 25 bottles of a preparation widely ad­ vertised as a specific for this precise sort of troubles, and found it entirely useless--at least in my case. Tour "FAVORITE REMEDY"--I say it with a perfect (•collection of all that was done for me besides--is the only tiling that did me the slightest good; and I am happy to admit that it gave >ue permanent relief. I have recommended "FAVORITE REMEDY" to many people for Kidney disease, and they all agree with me In saying that l)It. 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The natural aetion of the KHbasps is rsstorsd. The liver la oleaassd oT sll diss--s, aad Ilia Bowels more freely aad lillllAMV. In this way the worst i" flpoai the system. racx, ti-oo uqcn «i wi, • Dry ean he sent tv Ball WEIXS, BICHAROMH AMblhrihiUs Vt K I D N E Y - W ( ARE YOU BILIOUS? ? If you feel dull, drowsy* J h a v e f r e q u e n t h e a d a c h e * mouth tastes bad, poor appe- • tite, tongue coated, you are troubled with torpid liver or "biliousness." Why will you suffer, when a few bottles of Hops and Malt Bitters will cure you ? Do not be per­ suaded to try something else said to be just as good. For , | sale by all dealers. * HOP8 & MALT.; BITTERS CO.. DETROIT, MICH. TIE TIFFIN i MACHINERY I For Horse or Staam Power I 1 t t l •sfi 1 Hundreds of the best men in SO 8tal and Territories use it end win have i otherI RELIABLE! DURABLE! SIMPLE! Established over ® Tears,ws hare aaapte fadlitiea to fill orders promptly, Kid I to satisfaction of our customers. 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Or persons of any profession who contemplate estab­ lishing newspaper printing offices in Nebraska or Dakota should communicate WITH THE SIOUX Crrr NEWSPAPER UNION, No. 216 Douglas street, Sioux City, Iowa, and save money. c The Oldest Medicine in tha World i probably Dr. Isaac eltbrated physician's pre- nearty a This article la • carefully seziption. and has been in oonsWn uw lor century, and notwithstanding the many other prepar­ ations that have been introduced into the martlet, tha sa!« of this article is constantly increasing. If the di­ rections are followed it will never fail, we particu­ larly invite the attention of physicisns to its merits. Ma i. «MM * Oa. Tray. ** t ...J* •, ..i&f ' Consumption Can Be Cured. DR. WM. rOBTHt Q a I A||| LUNGS.DALOAM impuou, ran, Brunei tiaXlMIHcul and heads the Membrane •ad potaooed by the.iijsea--, sweats sbd Colds. Pa Cores Conaum C.N. U. TXTHKN WRITING TO AD *1 jsleiasc tar >au saw tss a