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m- I! street; I, tmiir , ilqr ttnaeeh Hps, i the little i>M« there. mil lifo Ia," woaaaa-like aa t atarta, tnanpotd glorionsl/. In one t*aeaee»dent glanee-- It eye», I see, are bummer b'.a&k, T1 ttle neighbor, (-miliuc. turn* l.NHfcwe mt nocked pl»v t*aefe'f • i l l - f . - [ wonder--is it worth the while Stoalt and aew.frcaa hour to i oar-- ; TH alt and aow wjth «yfR or biaek ^ ̂ flower? ^ M Tw, FAiMjtLO POET. I 'I Tragedy, which ifl never far from the most prosperous lives, continually trod Ttpoatiwr tenderest-heartetl -woman in Fairfield. She haled Fairfield as a bfofegromMl tfr har existence, but there had fatenailed^ier for life. It was the forlorneet of Indiana railroad stations, looking like an ttgty scar on the face of a beautifully wooded country, peopled by the descendants of poor white Car­ olinians and Tonnesseeans. The male portion of the community sat on the railroad ptatform, in yellow jeans, sprawiin^Unir .naked toes to the sun, whittling aM^|4tting like true tobacco fountains upoa the meersohamn-oolored boards. The women might have lived lives of fifrmittive simplicity, dignified by child-Wanng and neighborly sym­ pathy with each other, bat they stained their, hxwan kindness with slander. in|^idkwe among them all felt the progread of the age tearing her lieart- strififUP *k3e l*e* oireametances kept her at a standstill. I do not say her life would have been more sym­ metrical tit her exper.ence richer if she had lived in the whirl. She was a plain, ground-loving woman who en­ joyed the companionship of her fruit trots and flowers, sod worked with her hands. Indeed, crowds annoyed her, and die was undecided what toilettes ought *©-b# made for a large public. The striped silk dresses of her prosper­ ous days, the fringe crape shawls and gitnp-edged mantillas, agreed ill with bonnets of the paving season, and she had more respeoWor what was rich and old than for all your new inventions. But she was fiercely ambitious for her children, especially her eldest son, and for him in spite of his misfortune. The vcunger boy and girl were still leaping like colts upon their few remaining acres, •bund in limb and wind, with hopes of * future sheathed in their healthy pres­ ent, when Willie was tall as a man, and far up in his teens. , His mother had a picture of him taken wfon he was going to school in Cincinnati undoi- his uncle's care. At that time, fcfc, curia wore un­ shorn, and he waa beautiful. . A few days before cottons took their terrific rise dur.ajf the war, Mr. Harbi­ son had sttkMted in thousands of yards. Those wer« ]?f$r}lety'8 best days, and he kept a general store, making money ao rapidly that the lazy people around l*iiw felt hetpleesTy injured. He began his fine brick house building on a gen­ erous and furtifctic plan, at the edge of Fairfield, Vhere lie could surround with (rait |re$s, and have fields ler it Is a more distinct ipxseey to build the temple of home and see some one else in* Mbit it, or to shelter yourself for years m a house von have not the power of finishing, the latter fate was reserved the Harbisons. With a crash they came down from what had been Fair* field's opulea ce nearly to a level with Fairfield's poverty. They kept the house and grounds and a meadow, but under suoh weight of mortgages that it was comparatively no grief at all to see the ornamental cornices lying around the partly plastered parlors, balus­ trades, and newel-post standing on end beside the skeleton stairway, and to find the bath-room useless except as a rubbish eidfcef. The man who had em- Sloyed half of F&irfield was now obliged » become himself an employe and the general verdict of the world agaiist those who fail waa emphasized by eo|n- manistic envy. »! But the habit 6t be'ng a woman of sjderalilfa is not easfly forgotten. P^ioD stall mtde the village ^ idjr. She, hid something to „ fHepborest. She was the wife a man "who had made a fortune be­ fore he had lost it, and sat in the State than all, she hod her imBdrah,' the eldest of them a continual surprise to her. Ho seemed borji to •tar her pride and tenderr es* to their depths. He was tall, fair,' and Roman- iiatured, sfty'as a girl toward every one bat his mother, and so ravenous in mind that he was partly through col- leg® when his father's reverse brought hitn home. Then he was seised with a spotted fever, and approached the next world mo close that he left part of his facul­ ties there* and was never the same 'Willie he' liad been before. He could hear nothing, and seldom said an audi­ ble word--Mrs. Harbison's boy, who was made to take the world by storm-- Mid what had been the shyness of a country-bred youth, became the Bet- apart seclusion of a hoofed and goat- eared faun. Willie Harbison was to be seen whirring as noiseless as a bat upon his bicycle across the open ground at dusk. He was met coming from the woods, silent as an Indian, and his eyes were on everything in earth or sky • except the Jnpan beings just before partem vet* Willie's^workshop eh he sawed, hamihered and •r wit iniai Teii A carj^t®rTbet#sli %aaaet tiro nncahed wladoWa, and his father's old store desk had fallen to his unmercantile use. Ita lode was vcvtr opened unless Willie had foraething 'TrJbiflh. Iss coil'? fonss to "how to MiJllilil. X liilt i l fy i j i i ' . S t . i s . ' i "Y.V! V- :ing. he sought her in kiichen, Iiot aden, or her spinning-wheel upstairs, i seized her by the hand. She went rifith him to the parlors, they fastened tM doors, Willie undid his desk, and placed his paper in her finger*. The paper itself was sometimes brown, sometimes the blue cap left from the store, sometimes gilt-edged note having penciled landscapes along the margins, or the flowers he rhymed of done in water-colors; lor his hand was as skill­ ful as his eye was discerning. The poems were usually short, and sensitive in rhyme and rhythm. Willie's themes 'were the common sights and the com­ mon pathos or humor of the situations in which he found the people around him; his interpretation of the flicker's feelings; his delight in certain thick fleeces of grass; the panorama of sky and field as it marches across his eye; the grotesque though heartily human family party made by old man Parsons and his wife, where half of his descend­ ants unable to get into the small house, eat on the fence while the rest ate din­ ner. Willie was deaf, but he had in­ ward music. Every smooth and liquid stanza was like wine to his mother. She compared his poems to Burns', and could not find the "Mountain Daisy" a whit better than her poet's song about the woods in frost. Even Mr. Harbison thought well of Willie's performance. They were smuggled to him by his mother, and care.ully returned-to their place when the poet was out of the house. Mr. Harbison knew all that was going on in the world. A dozen times a year he left the grinding of the ihill to meet his old chums at the capital, or to quicken the action of his blood in Chi­ cago. A couple of stimulating days tinctured and made endurable his month of mill work. A man of luxu­ rious tastes cannot lose his tastes with his means. He was a judge of poets, and said Willie might as well take to poetry as anything, for business did not pay a man of souud faculties in these days. The hum of bees could be heard all around this unfinished brick house growing mossy at the gables, and its shadow was long on the afternoon sun­ shine. It we.-, that alert and happy time of year when the earth's sap starts new from winter distillation. You could hear the voices of children calling in play as they loitered home from school; the days were so long that the cows would not come up the pasture nntil nearly 7 o'clock. Willie trudged across lots to supper. Mrs. Harbison met him at the north s de of the house, having her garden knife and her rake in her hands. She put them on the stepless front-door sill, which had never been and never would be pressed by the foot of an ar­ riving guest. The stone sill was high enough for a seat, and she sat down, tilting her stm-bonnet back, and smil­ ing at Willie. He was floured from head to foot. Little of his boying beauty except its clear innocence re­ mained to nim. His nose was large for his hesd, and on his head the au­ burn curls were shorn to a thin crisp­ ing layer. His young sister wai per on the table in cue dining- room, his brother was fisting with another boy on the railroad, and up the cow-lane came his father, with the slow step and some­ what of the ponderous white presence of the walking statue in Don Gio­ vanni. But, closest knit ef all this family, mother and son talked together in silence, some birds in the mulberry tree over their heads making the only calling and replying that could be heard. Before Willie teached her, he held up his hands and signed in the deaf-mute language. "The preacher has come back." Mrs. Harbison raised her hands and darted her fingers into various shapes, saying thereby, "Did you see him V "No," Willie replied as swiftly, "I only saw his coffin in the wagon, and Nancy Ellen sitting beside it She had to bring him the whole twenty miles from where he died, in a wagon." "Because it wasn't on a railroad?" Willie nodded. His mother wove on: "Poor £fattcy Ellen! Her father wouldn't let her have the preacher for so long, and turned her off w hen she did marry him. Now she's a widow in her honeymoon, and old man Martin saying he told her a, preacher as old as himself wasn't any match for her. Did you see her father? How did lie act ?" "He got into the wagon by the driver," said Willie's fingers. "Well, that was something for him." "And they drove to his place." "I suppose he'll let her come back and live at home now." "I wish yon had seen Nancy Ellen." "I'm going to see her after the milk­ ing is done." "Seen her by the preacher," insisted Willie's passes. "She looked like a captive coming in chains to Borne." "Yes, I'll be bound she did. Every jolt of that twenty miles is stamped in her mind." "I wished," flashed Willie, "I knew what the preacher sung to himself all along the road." "What a notion! You'll have to fix it up in poetry now, won't you?" Willie shook his head many time3 and reddened. "You said the preacher em to lev you. wide swanttoa fteial ater were the faults <rf Fairfield, dUld respected Wilfie Harbison [ humored his self-withdrawal And he loved Fairfield with a partiality which saw mere picturesqvenesB in the pOto. of whittling men, and various forms of motherhood or sisterhood in the women. He would dismount from his wheel to let the boys tilt with it at the old warehouse. He loved the woods; he loved Wildcat and Kitten Creeks, -which plowed rock-bedded channels through the woods; and what joy in life he fished out of tho^e waters Willi© himself only knew. He loved to Watch from the mill on aclear morning that plume of steam the sputh-bound train sent around the curve, to watch another plume roll over the first, and finally to see the train stand suddenly on the summit of the grade, sharp cut against the sUy. All common liic was pleasant to him. Who but his mother <SOtild be witness that a -double nature dwelt under iijs floury mill clothes? Willi aw or k«d in the mill with his •> ' putting sup- tfae dining- used to sing home from meeting in the dark." "Yes he did," affirmed Mrs. Harbi­ son. "And Nan$y Ellen u*ed to. listen for him to go by their place." The;r talk paused, and Willie looked up at the birds in the mulberry. Hav­ ing afterward caught his mother's eye, he wove out slowly: 'When in tlie t iee above h!a head 'lhe sap jfoe-> tingling through tLe bark. • She wilt remember U wa< (tjad. And hear himeingin* in 4be dirk. "Oh, Willie, is that the first verse or the last? Have you written it down ?" Willie smiled shyly, putting his head down towards one shoulder without nffcking any reply. His. mother urged hira with eager fingers. - '.'Print it in some place when you get it done. Nancy Ellen would be please." "I am not an obituary poet," waved Willie. "But that's so good." Mrs. Harbison moved her lips, repeating it to herself. "And ain't you ever gcing to publish anything you write? I've heard of people getting money for it" Th# slttaSefto to!heevening ... , „ . mother roee, Willie fonnd time to make dance before her eyes the char- ajjitaTa illikftti'WtH" promim ; "Some day III get my bicycle and I ride and ride until I come to a pub-! where I've gose. You can just siy to yourself, 'He's off having his poems pnbl^hed.' Wait till that, mother, that will be socn enough." • "You'll never dp it," said his mother, having no idea how near the time wa«. She gave her family their supper and helped to milk the cows. The cow* were fragrant of pasture grass and of fi-rn along the fence corners. She thought of Willie's stanza when the milk first sang in the pail, and kept repeating until the rising froth drowned all sounds of the ladling streams quite at her pail's brim. When the house was tidy and full of twilight stillness, Mrs. Harbison put on a clean apron and took her sun bonnet to make her call of condolence. It is likely they-would want watchers at Martin's and she was ready to do any­ thing. She had helped bear the burd­ en of life and death so long in Fairfield that illness, a new baby or the mysteri­ ous breathless presence in any house was a peremptory invitation to her. The boys were playing hide-and-seek around the warehouse, and as she crossed the open lot she saw the usual line of wise men sitting on the edge of the platform \?ith their legs across the rail, as if they had all agreed to make an offering of their feet to the jugger­ naut of the next passing train. Willie darted like a bat or a night bird on his bicycle far up and tar down the smooth wagon road. Now he took a turn, and came spinning among the boys, scattering them before him, and escaping as often as they chased him. In one of these excursions he crossed his mother's way. The lamps were just lighted in the station, and they poured lull over his laughing face. Be­ sides, the last red streaks and high sunset lights were not gone out of the sky, and these would have given her more than the silhoutte of Willie. She lifted up her hands and spelled, "are you starting out. to hunt a publisher now?" And Willie laughed and nodded, and made her a sign of good-by. The pleasant stillness of the evening fell around her like a blessing aa she went on. Fire flies were filling one field, as if a conflagration under that particular ground sent np endless Btreams of sparks. She smelled the budding elders, and was reminded of the tile-like bits in her past, fitted odd­ ly together. Martin lived but a few steps be­ yond the village. She had been talk­ ing a mere moment with Nancy Ellen, and had not yet entered the room where the preacher lay, when some other neighbor came in with excite­ ment, and said loud, over the whis­ pered talk of the mourning house, that something was wrong down at the de­ pot. "That express hss run into something again," proclaimed the neighbor, "and looks by the way folks run, as it it wasn't a cow this time. E'lough 00ws and pigs has been killed by that rail­ road." "I haven't aeen the express," said Mrs. Harbison, feeling her head, full of wheels. "It was all quiet when I was there a minute ago." "The express has stopped. Good reason! There's something on tue track. I tell ye." said the neighbor. Willie's mother was sure it could not be Willie. He was conscious of his in­ firmity, and so cautious that she had long ceased to be anxious about him. He knew the times of all the trains with nice exactness also. Yet she started from the house without speaking another word, and ran until she reached the crowd. The engine stood hissing; it con­ fronted her with the glare of its eye, a horrid and remorseless fate, ready to go its way with bell-clanging and all cheerful noise, no matter who had been ground under its wheels. The conductor was just stepping on board, for time and orders wait for nothing. The engineer had already climbed back to his cab; he saw a run­ ning woman kneel down on the plat­ form and draw the boy up from the boards to rest in her arms. Having seen that much, the engineer turned away his head and wept out loud; and the train moved on bearing pale faces that looked backward as long as they could discern anything. Mrs. Harbison had stumbled over Willie's bent wheel first. When 'she found him indeed laid in the midst of the crowd, she did not believe it. He was not mangled. His bones were sound--she felt them with a fiercely quick hand. There was no mark about him excepting a dirty-looking > pot on the temple. "Willie," she said, shaking him. "Willie! Willie 1" "We'll have to carry himjiome," said her husband at her side, his voice sounding far off, as if it came strained through some dense medium. She looked up and could not under­ stand it. * "He's knocked senseless," she ex­ claimed. "Why doesn't somebody bring water ?" "He never knowed what hurt him," cautiously said one villager to another. "The train was goin' so fast, and he came up from among the houses onto it so fast that it was done in a flash." "And I don't never want to see no better boy than Willie Harbison was," "responded the other. But only his mother--when she had him at home lying in that pomp of death with which we all shall impress beholders--could have pronounced the true oration over him. Through her dumb tragedy she wanted to make deaf mute signB to some intelligence that here lay one of nature's poets, with a gift virgin and untarnished. He had never hunted a public. His public was the woods and sky, and his critic one fond woman. Not a line of unsatisfied ambition marked his placid face. He had lived a humble, happy life, and sung for the sake cf expres­ sion, not for the sake of praise. He had, after all, only gone to find the best Eublisher, and his mother could always ear him "singing in the dark."--Har~ per's Bazaar. doaoi its r. Foot* CUMftOt 10 * l. So ao- THE heavenly gift of liberty which Hebrews enjoy in the country of unique and happy freedom fosteis.the spirit of charitv, and much is also due to the unaffected good-will and sympathetic interest of the non-Isra lites by whom they are surrounded.--Mary E. Cohen, in American Hebrew. ltotfta Wt'or -ffnuHi--1 (JT. V.) Democrat ; On tfce amdar ef Juim, 1881,1 l«r at mjr rti&Mtaee J* tM* snrrouated by «jr friendaaadwatttaf for death. Heaven waty kno ws the •xomf1 then endured, for weeds eaa never deaoribe it. And jret, if a few years previous any one had urtd me that 1 was to ho hHHtffhf on low. and h» «r> iptvfble a I ShnuMt-h.-iira «. i?w» Mi-*, I hud almiya been uncommonly stions iusiI healthy, and weighed over 200 pounds, and hardly knew. In my own experience, what pain or slckno a were. Very many people who wilt read tbis statement realize at times that ijiey are tmuaaaUy tired and cannot ac­ count for it. They feel du:i pains in various pirts of the body and <lo not tinder- stand it. Or they are exceedingly hun­ gry one c'ay and entirety without appetite the next. This was Just the way 1 felt when the relentless malady which had fastened itaelf upon me first began. Still i thought nothin? of it; that probably I had taken a cold wh eh would soon pass away. Shortly alter this I noticed a heivy, and at times neu algic, pain in one s de of my head, but as It would come one day and begone the next, 1 paid Jitt'e attention to It. Then ray stomach would set out of order and iny food often tailed to digest, causing St times great incrmven ence. Yet, even us a physician 1 did not think that these things meant anything serious. 1 fancie I I was suffering from ma­ laria and doctor .d m>>ell aeeordingly. hut I got no better. I next noticed a peculiar color and odor about the fluids 1 was passing --also that thcr? were large quantities ens day and very little the next, and that a per- sistent froth and scum appeared upon the surtace, and a S 'diment settled. And yet I d.d not realize ray danger, for, indeed, see- In* these symptoms continually, I fin­ ally became aocustouei to them, and my (suspicion was whol'y disarmed by the fact that 1 had no pain In the affected organs or in their vicinity. Why I should have been so blind I cannot understand. 1 consulted the best medical skill in the land. 1 visited all the fame<l mineral springs in America and traveled from Maine to Cali­ fornia. Stilt I grew worse. So two phy- sIclauH agreed as to my malady. One said 1 was troubled with spinal irritation; another, dyspepsia; another, heart disease; another, general debility; another, congestion of the bag of the brain; end so on through a long list of common diseases, the sympttnns of many o( which I really had. in this way several years passed, during which time 1 was steadily growing worse. My condition had really become pitiable. The slight symptoms 1 at first experienced were devel­ oped into terrible and constant disorders. My weight had been reduced from 207 to 130 pounds. My life was a burden to myself and friend*. 1 could retain no food on my stomach, and lived wholly by injections. I was a living masa of pain. My pulse was un­ controllable. In my agony 1 frequently fell to the floor and clutched the carpet, and prayed for death. Morphine had little or ae effeot In deadening the pain. For atx day* and nighta I had the death-premonitory hic­ coughs oonstantly. My water wai tilled with tuhe-easts and a bumen. 1 was struggling with ilright's disease of the kidneys in its last stages! While suffering thus I received a call from my pastor, the He v. Dr. Foote, at that time rector of St Paul's Episcopal Church, of this elty. I felt that it waa our last interview, but in the course of conversation Dr. Foote detailed to me the many remarkable etirae nf cases like my own which had come his observation by means of a remedy, he urged me to try. AS a practicing clan und a graduate of the schools, 1 the idea of any medicine outside the channels being in the least beneficial. licltous, however, was lJr. Foote, that I finally promised 1 would waive my prejudice. I began its use on the first day of June, 1H81, and took it according to directions. At first it sickened me; hut this i thought was a good sign for one in my debilitated condi­ tion. I continued to take it; the sickening sensation departed and 1 was finally able to retain food upon my stomach. In a few days I noticed a decided change for the bet­ ter, as also did say wife and friends. My hioeouuhs ceased and 1 experienced less pain thaa formerly. I was so rejoiced at this improved condition that, upon what I had believed but a lew day* before was my dying bed, I vowed, in the presence of in v family and trtends. should I recover I would both publicly and privately make known this remedy for the good of huihanity, wherever and whenever I had an opportuni­ ty, and tbis letter Is in fulfillment of that vow. My Improvement was constant from that time, and in lem than three months I had gained 20 pounds in flesh, became entirely free from pain, and I believe 1 owe rav life and present condition wholly to 'Tamer's i-afc « urc. the remedy which I used. Since my recovery 1 have thoroughly re- Investigated the subject of kidney diffisultU a and Bright's disease, and the truths devel­ oped arc astounding. 1 therefore state, de­ liberately, and as a physician, that I believe nunc Wmim imt-half the death* which occur in Ametira arr caused by Bright'# dUtaxr 'of the kidney*. This may sound like a rash state­ ment, but I am pre tared to fully verify It. Bright's disease lias no distinctive symp­ toms of Its own (indeed, it often devel­ ops without any rain whatever in the kidneys or their vicinity), but has the symptoms of nearly every other common complaint. Hundreds of people die daily whose burials are authorized by a physician's certificate as occurring from "Heart l-tlu- ease," "Apoplexy," "Paralysis," "Spinalcom­ plaint," ' iiheuiiiatIsin," "Pneumonia," and other common complaints, when in reality It is from Bright's disease of the kidneys. Few physicians, and fewer people, rea ice the ex­ tent of this disease or its dangerous and In­ sidious nature. It steals into the system like a thief, manifests its presence, if at all, by the commonest symptoms, and fastens itsel upon tho constitution before the victim is aware of it. It is nearly as I ereditary as consumption, quite as common, and fully as ietal. Entire families, inheriting it from their ancestors, have died, and yet none of the number knew or realized the mysterious power which was removing them. Instead of common symptoms, it often shows none whatever, but brings death suddenly, from convulsions, apodlexy, or heart disease. As one who has suffered, and knows by bitter experience what he says, I implore every one who reads thefe words not to neg­ lect the slightest symptoms of kidney diffi­ culty. Certain agonv and probable death will be the sure result of such neglect, and no one can afTord to hazard such chatioea 1 am aware that i-ueh an unqualified State­ ment as this, coming from me. known as I am throughout ih? entire land as a practi­ tioner and lectur. r, will arouse the surprise and possible animosity ot the medical pro­ fession and astonish all with whom I am ac­ quainted: but I make the 1'oregolng state- men's based upon facts which I am prepared to produce and truths which I can substan­ tiate to the letter. The welfare of thoae who may possibly be sufferers such as I was, is an amp e Inducement for me to take the step I have, and If I can successfully warn others from the danrerous path In whleh I once walked, I am willing to endure all profession­ al and personal consequences. J. B. HEKION, K. 0. Bocmster, N. v.. Dec. 80 y The Origin ef Oat|s. ; . jj Mr. Sh arm an, in his book with the punning title, "A Cursory History of Swearing." finds the origin of swearing in the early dread of falsehood, against which laws were as yet powerless to guard. Hesiod fables that the god of oaths was the son of Discord. W e have profited by centuries of untruthfulness, and "learned the preponderating ad­ vantages of an intelligible code of truth," Thus the oath, which once meant the seal of truth, has dwindled down till "it has come to be a common catch word, or the fustian ornament of somewhat spirited talk." Many will now perjure themselves on the Bible, a form of oath which is a relic of barbar­ ism, when a solemn affirmation would seem to them all powerful in its re­ straint. It was charged against Thomaa a' Becket that he swore on a book of old songs, and the chroniclers mention, among objects chosen, swords and jave­ lins, love tokens and heathen gods, sepulchers of debtors, abbey churches, and even the price of the potter's field. A recent traveler in the East relates how on emerging from the Arabian desert she was met by an elderly sheikh, a man with a beard worthy of Abra­ ham, who gravely bowed to the ground, and, with a solemn pride in his linguis­ tic accomplishments, proceeded to min­ gle sonorous British oaths in his cour­ teous salutation. filed tot Mil time, and tried this valuable remedy. I ̂ is completely cured by the use afgnebottie. ^ : A WeaAniM Uirtle. A aorrcspondeut in Cagiiari writes zrotto discovered sot long ago ai Bor- gali, in 8avdi»i«, which is approached by a difficult and tortuous path leading down into a gloomy ravine on the mountainous coast: "The ^matto oena^ ifteueee fkyiuti wnple sphc^ toe vault of wluoh > is «»ppdated on eomnns. Oft the rocky ground may be seen the print of a human foot. From this place you enter a vast hall of such magnificence that it extorts an exclamation of won­ der. Sixteen columns with various- colored capitals rise from the marble floor and sustain a pure white roof, from which depend the figures of birds, guns, serpents, baskets of fruit, and a thousand other tricks of nature. But the most striking object is an altar or­ namented with enormous baskets of colored flowers, and on which are large candelabra and a shrine so exactly im­ itated that you are tempted to try to open it in order to see the chalice with­ in. From the roof above hang festoons of flowers, whioh reach rfown almodt to the altar as if attempting to conceal it. The most wonderful thing in the hall was, however, the petrified skeleton of a majestic stag, which was partly de­ stroyed by visitors, and the spine of which has been sent entire to a pro­ fessor of natural history in Cagliari. The grotto, contains six other large chambers, decorated with arabesques in stalactite, and full of pillars, human figures, opaque tnbTQrn, and other won­ derful imitations of objects of art and nature." A Bad Omen. We ahonld be heedful of warnings, Natnra givaa «a anch. Inactivity of the kktmrt a*d bladder is an omen of danger. The diaeases which attack thoae organ• are among the moat fatal and obstinate, and are uanally preceded by the above symptom of growing weakness. The best invigorant under such circumstances is Hostetter'a Stomach Bitters, a safe as well as active remedy. The proper degree of energy ia imparted to the opi ullaaii tf these important ateretthg and diaahaM^ag gland*, without over­ stimulation, by the Bitters. In that'respect, as in others, it aurpaaaea and is preferable to diu- retlca whleh overact. The article la alao a remedy for and preventive of chills and fever and billons remittent, and enres rheumatic ailment*, dyapepala, debility and nervoosneas. Don't delay if yon experience the well-known •vmptoma of any ot these ailments, but nae the nmii i i i # •!.. •> ' jweimiarygaia. 1W with numerous testimonials. AddreM Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N« Y. •' Wa are having a Jawey-us tima," aa* the man who was quarreling with his "bet­ ter-half."--tionvernenr Herald. * i Smart-We^l, Jamaica tifoger. awl Water, as found In Dr. Herce's Compound Extract of Smart-Weed, cures cholera mor­ bus, diarrhoea, dysentery or bloody flux, eolie; or cramps In atowaah, and breaks up colds, fevers, and inflammatory attacks. ALUtotrov cremation relates to dead sub­ jects, it is eae ef the live questions of Ae oae. ^ Three RnautaMc Iiitmicwit. A reporter has Interviewed Hon. Web. d. Ktolley, M. C.; Hon. Jydge Flanders, of New York: and T. 8. Arthur, in'regard to tliMr efperienee with Compound Oxygen. Thcso I interviews give surprising results and show I this treatment for the cure of obroniodis- ' eases to be mo.«t remarkable. A copy of | th'»se interviews, also a Treatlfo nn Com­ pound Oxygen, will be mailed free, by Dra. Starkcy & Pa<en. 1109 Girard SC. Philadelphia. Toaag Men* KmuI Thla. , Tub Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, Ifich., offer to ibnd their celebrated Bubctbo-Vou- taic Bki>t and other Er.KCTtUC Arrt.lAwcE8 on trial for thirty days, to man (young or old) attlicted with nervous debility, loss of vitality and manhood, and all kindred trou­ bles. Also for rheustatMii, neuralgt*> pa­ ralysis. and many other disease*. Complete le toi ation to health, vigor, and manhood guaranteed. No risk is incurred, aa thirty days' trial is allowed. Write them atonoe for illustrated pamphlet, free. Mknsman's Peptonized Bsn Tonic, the only preparation of boef containing ita «a- tire nutritious properties. It contains hloodr making, force-genera ting, and life-sustalnies projKTties; invaluable for indigestion, dys­ pepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; alao, in all enfeebled condi­ tions, whether the result of exhaustion, nerv- oiih prostration, over work, or aeute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard St Co., proprie tors. New York. Sold by druggists. Villi aLitOe Vi 1 j "' He Who BeceiMB a TtMWpNl Money for Another ia • aible for m ftife Return. , he vine Bliias at oace. >ii >1 H<jw much more ftepoftslfete H rhsrge the health and life ot a Me have considered Weil the fStr in prenarins onr Af.l.llM'S SAMiwhleh forTwenty-five vorabtv known a* one of the remedies for all Threat and are particular to uSe noththj? but dients. NO OPIUM ia auv form position. It is to yonr interest to _ old and tried remedy, ALLEN'S litrNG HAM. and aee that a bottle ,ia always Instes h*nd for immediate use. READ TflSFttfiObW- 1NG •NEW EVIDENCE: r 8k a violent cnld and it i so that at times I wiibkKxl. JAM was teeommended timet, AvDiaoK, Pa. J A. J. COLBOM, Esq.. Editor ot the AnmmJ writes: I can recommend AIXE3T8 LCSB • aa being the beat remedsJtei used. Aatoski. tieJ ••Pat np** at the Oanlt Honae. The businessman or tourist will And Irst- class accommodations at the low prloe of $> ahd $2.50 per day at tike Gault House, Chica­ go, corner Clinton and Madison sweets. This far-famed hotel is loeated in the center of the city, only one block from the Union Depot. Elevator; all appointments f Lf&sSffii.'aurtisffX'K,. UtHUk cured. enAllow ouraraa H. W. Hoyt. Proprietor. Ormcn remedies lor neuralgia and rheuma­ tism have failed because they did not reach the fountain of the trouble, which is the blood. Atbiophomsgoes right to the source by clear­ ing out the poisonous arid acrid substances, and restoring the life current to a condition of health Prloe, $1 per bottle. IX your drug* plathssp tit send to Athlophoros Oo^ Wall Street, S. Y. Tik nmtkst la flooded with weKUsss and oompeaads for the mjuvtnatton oftti* hair, tai Oarboline, the gnat petroloum hair -renewer and dresnng, as now improved and perfected, still takes the front rank aa the best prepara­ tion ever offend to the public. J. I. M«IHSkCO.(Ltttt)Piln. CINCINNATI, ' r«B!ULEk;aO! M. JOIN BOLL'S Important. When you visit or leave New York ©!t% save llaggage Ex pre usage and Carriage Hire, and stop at the Gram! Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms ittted npat a cost of one million dollars, reduced to $1 and npwards per dMT. European plan. Elevator, fiestanrani supplied With the best. Horse cab?, stage.and elevated railroad to all depots. Fami­ lies can live better for less money at the Grand Union than at any first-class hotel in the city. People who go to tht mountains In the summer etijoy high living. ?'-it , ; y t ' Horsford'a Acid Phoifln^l j BEWARE Or IMITATIONS. Imitations and counterfeits have aspiin ap­ peared. Be sure that the word "Hor«ford's" is ou the wrapper. None ure genuine with­ out it. ; 1 When is the "winter of discontent?" It must be after a fall in prices. Lvdia E. PrNKHAM'a Vegetable CCmponiia cures all female and kidney complaint*. . Lykchino may be curtly d^SCMbed Si a neck-strain-eous proceeding. No Safer Remedy can be bad for Coughs and Colds, or any trouble of the Throat, than "JBroicn's Bron­ chial Trvchte." trice 25 eta. Hold ottia in boxes. worn THI euiii mp FEVER and AGUE Or CHILL8 and FEVER, «•! ALL iiiiaui •items The proprieter ef this eeUVmted «eil> •Ins juatlv elabas far it a superiority ever all remedies ever e&red te the publie te the BATS, CSBXAXV, «KEfiY Si KBr KAKXHT eure ef Ague aaAltver, or Chub and Fever, whether of short er long stand- ins. m» ntm te the eatlie Weeternamd the truth ef the smerttea that ia ae saes whatever will it fell te ewe tf the direc­ tions are strictly followed and serried eat In a. peat away eases a iiafle dees hee been sufletsnt tor a eure, aad whole fcmi- Ues have beoaeuredhyasiafie bottle, with a perfect restoration ef the fsaexal hsalth. It is, however, prudent, aad ia every ease more oortaUteeare,if itsaeelseemttaaed ia smaller mm fcraweekectwe after the disooss hat been sheehet, awe »f rislly in diCealt aad !eaf«ta»liaf seam. Usa- ally this msdisias will aot repairs aay aid to keep the bowels ia aeed order. Sheald tho patioat. however, ieaaise a eatitartle aiedieiae. dler haviaf taxem three erflbar doses eftbltols. adagio *oao of Ifm.* TOlilillZi3niTTOISwillbeeeS. Everyday FeHtfcaessi It is astonishing how manV !pfeop!« there are in the world who* do not know intuitively what common polite­ ness dictates; but still more astonish­ ing how many there are who, knowing what it dictates, do not seem to reflect that in discarding the rules of polite­ ness they indirectly sacrifice them­ selves by ignoring rules deduced |or the comfort of all from the expegiefoe of mankind; for the purpose, first of all, to prevent mankind treading ou each other's toes, and then, in the higher grade, to make their pathway through life pleasant. Trifles, it ia said, make up the sum of life;: but, paradoxically, nothing is, therefore, a trifle that goes to make up a sum whieh, for the most favored of mortals, may, indeed, be in excess of his deserts, but which is for any one never absolutely great. It is only by making the fund of comfort a great tontine that men, women, and children can secure the full amount of whatever life has in ii of possible enjoyment.--Philadelphia, Telegraph. About twenty-live years since Mason it Hamlin an|ohnced important improvements in roed Instruments, then kho*fa'a#mel<ple- ons. So considerable were the changes and improvements that they claimed for their new instrument another and better name-- organ or cabinet organ--by whleh it baa be­ come universally known, and obtained won­ derful usefulness and success; about 1-0,004 organs being now made in tbis country year­ ly, while American organ* are largely ex­ ported to every clvlllxed country. The same company now otl'cr to the public an improved rpright Piano, which they have been experimenting upon and testing for a number of years, and eonHdentiy claim pre­ sents improvements of the greatest practical value. A distinguishing characteristic Is that they entirely dispense with wood in holding the strings, wbicb ate aoewred by metal fast­ enings directly to t|e iroa plate, so securing perfect vibration and more pure musical tones, with much greater durability, lhe changing conditions of wood, so objectionable in such a matter, are entirely avoided. The improvement certainly seems to be one of great importance.--lit;#ton Traveller. Making a Cap of Colltoa. According to Lamaitine, "tt thfe hardest thing in the world toido the' simple things in life and do them right. Who can keep his temper? Who knows how to control his appe­ tite ? Where is the man that can hold his tongue? Who knows how to for­ give an injury? Where is happiness to be found? What man knows how to live?" and where is the woman that can make good coffee? It must be one of the hard simple things that La- martine refers to, for where there are a score of housewives who can make firm jellies and delicious preserves and pastries, there ia not • one who ean he depended on for good coffee 365 days in the year. Thousands of French coppers cir­ culate as coin in England. The im­ porters can make £45 profit on every £1,000 brought over and disposed of. -- • • f * * * BAl> treatment-of Strict u complicates the diseuee oti& lflaloits it Of cure. Tho worst and most invAi cases speedily y eld to our new uad liaDrjbved1 method?. Pamphlet, references; ahdlterhm^. sent for two three cent stamps. World's Dis­ pensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. --It la a alntrular oontritdintK-tn that whan »*"t Yokohama international tbemoa juito visits you he stays to hum. 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