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... on the rwfttal of . s ~li»rT V1IL," wfckMa- «widy srCsrdiaMil Woleej, the part of Gprcdmal Cattpetae TH allotted to Mr. f; -Mm* It lMMi to the k wimeet U»t eostame woaM be correct and splendid, inore gf •. _ •spfeeial!^ as rcgjis^fl «wac uii^gaifiecst aoid it had been suggested that some- . thing extra shonld be done to make the other carding reepectable. But v >• the manager thought some old scarlet |ĵ ;wb«ifB^4 up from the indlrabe won|d nffice; and as to point laoe, sil­ ver tisane paper, deftly snipped and sewed on, would have much the same appearance #hen viewed from a dis- tance. At the dress rehearsal, Ma- [ 7 v CSMdr, enthroned in a chair of state, s:* s iad the varioui characters to pass be­ fore him. He bore all calmly, until, - clad in the scarlet robes, bordered by . silver tissue paper, and wearing an cbwmous red hat, Wvnn approached. r Then, clntching. both arms of his chair, •JJ and closing his eyes, the great trage> dian gasped: "Mother Bhipton, by ^ I ^ The crowds of children growing rip in London affected Carlyle with real 4 pain. These email plants, each with his head just out of the ground, with a . . whole life ahead, and Buch a training! Noticed another trait, too! Scotch v " thriit showing itself in hatred of waste. If he saw a crust of bread on the road- •,}(way he would stop and pick it np and u put it on a step or railing. Some poor devil might be glad to get it, or at ^ worst a dog or a sparrow. To destroy : ; wholesome food was sin. He was very tender about animals, especially dogs, : who, like horses, if well treated, were types of loyalty and fidelity. Horrified V him with a story of my Oxford days. f ; The hounds had met at Woodstock. They had drawn the oorers without •: finding a fox, and, not oaring to have a «blank day, one of the whips caught a passing sheep-dog, rubbed its feet 7:J with aniseed, and set it to run. It I made for Oxford in its terror, and the * hounds in full cry behind. They v caught the wretched creature in a field, and tore it to pieces. I never : saw Carlyle ihore affected. He said it ; was like a human sole flying for salva­ tion from a legion of fiends. Mr. Gladstone "detests" tobacco, Mr. Matthew Arnold "adjures* it, Mr. Buskin hates the man who "polutes ! the ,air of the morning with cigar smoke." But are we not consoled for the abstinance of these great men by l the devotion of others of eminence? 4 r Thackeray once declared that he did not dispair to see a "bishop lolling out ; of the Athenteum with a cheroot in his . month, or, at any rate, a pipe stuck in v his shovel hat." Even a bishop might sometimes fall before the seduction of a good cigar, a cooay chair, and a T jPrench noveL But if we have not a " smoking bishop, we have a smokiag poet laureate, familiar with tobaccos --Latakia, Connecticut leaf, Perique, v Lone Jack, Michigan, Killicinick, * Highlander, "or any of the English brands." How does he take the gentle * weed ? At his feet is a box full of clay : • pipes. Filling one of these, he smokes until it is empty, breaks it in twain and throws the fragments into another box si prepared for their reception. Then he pulls another pipe from its straw or K wooden inclosure, fills it, lights it, and destroys it as betore. For years Prof. Huxley, like Charles , Lamb, toiled after tobacco **as some ' men after virtue." At a certain debate on smoking he told the story of his ' early struggles in a way whioh ntterly ' put thfe anti-tobacconists in coufusion: ' "For 40 years of myxlife," he said, "to­ bacco had been a deadly poison to me. [Loud cheers from the anti-tobacco­ nists.) In my youth, as a medical stu­ dent, I tried to smoke. In vain! At every fresh attempt my insidious foe stretched me prostrate on the floor. { Repeated cheers.] I entered the navy. Again I tried to smoke, and again met with defeat. I hated tobacco. I could almost have lent my support to any ; institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco-smokers to death. [Vociferous cheering. ] A few yeara ago I was in Brittany with some friends. We went to an inn. They began to ' smoke. They looked very happy, and outside it was very wet and dismal I thought I would try a cigar. [Mur­ murs.| I did so. [Great expectations.] I smoked that cigar--it was delicious. [Groans.] From that moment I was a . changed man, and I now feel that smoking in moderation is« comfortable and laudible practice, and is produc­ tive of good. [Dismay and confusion of . the anti-tobaeconists. Boars of laugh­ ter from the smokers.] There is no more harm in a pipe than in a eup of ; tea. You may poison yourself by drinking too much green tea, and kill yourself by eating too many beef steaks. For my own part, I consider < that tobacco in moderation is a sweet- ' ener and equaliser of the temper." [Total rout of the anti-tobacconists and complete triumph of the smoker*.] --•Edmund Yale*' Recollections. •fe. p- I. i \ fp • * - Hi w A Dog's Devotion. "I had only got my harvest done when one night I awoke to find my room brightly illuminated. I under­ stood its meaning at once and made all haste to dress and get my wallet of money, nearly $3,000, and get out of the cabin. It was as I suspected, the dreaded prarie fire. Away in the hori­ zon I oould notice its rapid advance, I knew that my only way of escape was in hasty flight My horse was roaming over the prarie, and I could not afford to look for him, 60 along with my faith­ ful dog I plodded my way as rapidly as possible towards the Bow River. The distance, waa tea miles, and whether I could mpke it or not I did not take time to consider, but ran as I never did before. How I las ed the distance is a problem to me. I reached the bank of the river as the raging flames were within a hundred yards, and as I was standing there dazed, my dog took hold of me and with a sudden jerk pulled me head-foremost into the river. The cool waters revived me and I staid there until the names leaped the river and were licking up the dry grass on the other side. Several buffalo were in the river, having been driven by the flames. I had no homo any more and knew not what to do. I wanted to go back and look at the place where my home was, butr knew there was nothing there for Hie any more Then the first thought dawned on me that I had no means of sustinence, not even a firearm to assist me in securing game. I started down the river, intending to keep by - - its course until I reached the Sasketcfc- ewan, thus making sure of something " to drink if nothing to eajt. The route . was a good deal the longest, but the safest, and I plodded on. That night I was tired and hungry when I laid down to rest. Strange to say I slept sound and awoke with a prodigious ap- '*1 petite. To appease it my dog had a h\!.. >y the wi*hful w*tf he ad animjj l knew he1 igry as mya«lf. I shared' ahd continued en my way. I readied Fort Walsh in five days after, my dog always having something fresh eaeh morning that would Jail fi the rest of the day.*--St Paid PatjP Tb& ISsae is 3essis|g<£S££ •***»»» •*» «iHI •* niii t-CTWfi you some points about the piano busi­ ness. Yon see. every woman knows all jabput a piano. If a tie don't someone else does, or thinks so, and is sure to tell her. There's a cool $100 profit to us on a $300 piano, if we get it; but we don't; there's the trouble. We have to divide, just the same as if we were poli­ ticians. A lady comes into the store and says she wants to bnv a piano. After trying every instrument in the place, and having us try them, and get­ ting all the prices, she says: 'I'll not make up my mind to*day. I'll get my daughter's music teacher, who knows all about pianos, to come down and try them." "Next day along comes the music teacher, with a card which says she is from the Conservatory of Music at Mi­ lan. Why, I've had cards enough from old Ml) an era here to fill the conserva­ tory, let alone leave room for teachers and pupils. Says the teacher, after I've got over the paralyzing effect of the card, 'I'll be down to-morrow with Mr*. So-and-So to pick out a piano. Of course I expect the usual commis­ sion.' 'Yes, ma'am,'I say, '10 per cent.,' and away she goes. Next day the buy­ er and teacher come and pick out a piano. The music teacher doe? some heavy standing around, tries every one opened and gives her opinion as wise as an owl. Of course she can't tell the difference between a good piano and a poor one. 'Cause no one but a maker and tuner can. A good tuner will get the same sound out of a $200 piano as any one can out of the best instrument made. That is, he will in a place of moderate size. "You can't tell anything about a pi- auo by playing on it; only whether it is in tune or not. And the more you know about playing the less you are likely to know about pianos. Yes, sir; a cheap piano will sound as well as a good one. But Low long will it last? That's the question. That's where the music teacher's fooled. She'll nose all aronnd inside and look at the hammers bobbing up and down, and poke her parasol at the wires and run her fingers over the keys, and that's all she knows about it. When she's got through wasting our time she'll advise the lady to buy the one nearest the lady's price, quarrel with me about getting a music stool thrown in, and that's all. We have to give her 10 per cent, for doing that, and, besides, shell want a com­ mission on every bit of music the lady buys."--Piano Dealer in San Francis­ co Post. From a Japanese Sermon. Miss Bird, a traveler in Japan, pre­ pared a sermon preached in that, coun­ try by a priest of the country, ftr an English paper, that shows how similar the domestie life of the Mon­ golian, in its mental phases at least, is to the home of the Caucasian. The text, taken from the Chinese classics, was; "That which is evil, be it but small, do it not, that which is good, be it but small, fail not to do." The preacher, very much in the same strain as a Christian clergyman would if on the same subject, snowed how much evil can result from very small begin­ nings. "Take as an example," said he," the wisy a husband ealls his wife. Shonld he summon her with a pleasant 'Here,* good wife,' she will reply with a soft "Ay, ay.' , "Now take the opposite case. , "Husband--What are you pottering about there ? Just stir about will you ? These short days, tool "Wife--I know the days are short, and that is jus: it. If any one comes to the door I have to answer, and the washing to do besides, and I havent five or six hands to do it, have I ? "Husband--Are you going to give your husband any of your ill chat? "Wife--Well, what are you doing hugging that fire box all, instead of lending me a helping band now and then? "Husband--What's that? Now, look here. I'm not an ox, I'll have you know. You are not going to put your rope through my nose and lead me all over the place." And so they go on. He, a fine strap ping young fellow, and she a sweet-looking young girl, now red, now green with passion. "Such a hubbub, the preaoher says, "all for want 0/ a little care over the small politeness of daily life. Human nature seems very like the world over, and one feels as if this quarreling was a sadly faithful copy of what one might hear in an American cottage where things had gone wrong, and the Christian maxim had been for­ gotten : "Bear ye one another's bar- dens."--Phrcnolog ica l Journal • Freedom in Dress. There are stand-bys, or peculiar in­ stitutions of dress in different places very curious and amusing. All over the West, in thinly-settled regions, the women adhere to the long sun bonnet and the men to an easy-going style of garment which does not vacy in fashion. The Arcadians of Louisiana, people who live in the country and seldom visit the cities, preserve a primitive style of dress, though onee in a while some one visits the city and introduces a new fashion. There is an amusing anecdote of a woman returning home with a hoopskirt. Such a thing had never been seen in the village and all were wild to procure the new fashion. Hoops were then just going out and a store­ keeper made quite an amount of money by selling his old stock at increased figures. It is a mistake to believe that only well-dressed people are vain; many a sloven is as proud of his ap­ pearance as a faultlessly attired ex­ quisite. The puritan gloried as much in ugliness of garment as the cavalier in his costly attire, the mans culote in his disgusting rags as the aristocrat in his lace ruffles and perfumed linen. And how we gradually associate ani- imate with inanimate things! Fancy Mr. Peckwick without spectacles! The noble "lngun" without war-paint and a dirty blanket! John Chinaman sans pigtail! And Cleopatra in an ulster! And a variety of incongruities. We confess to cosmopolitanism; let every one enjoy and adhere to their own ideaa of dress.-- Philadelphia Times. BRUNETTES are said to be preferred to blondes as Treasury clerks in Wash* ington. They are steadier at their desks, and less liable to hysterics when the chief elerk speaks sharply. A TALENT may be perfected in soli­ tude ; a character only in the world.-- Goeihe. t . ' HE that will 1< Asia a^d Ameodli will fihd there, pfrhsta ai who . Locke, IT is only through the morning gate of tho beautiful that toti can penetrate into the realm of knowledge: that which we feel here as beautv we shall one day A - _ >•> * *" «•» * «wivv5 iirs srurn. -- ALL high beauty has a moral element in it, and I find the antique sculpture as ethical as Marcus Antonio*!*, and the beauty ever in proportion to the depth of though!--Emerson. THE culture of flowers is one of the few pleasures that improves alike the mind and the heart, and makes every true lover of those beautiful creations of infinite love wiser, purer, and nobler. --J. Vick. THE criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corres­ ponds with right reason, is not merely the creation of fancy.--Lord Grerille. LIFE has no significance to me save as the theatre in which my powers are developed and disciplined for use, and made fruitful in securing my own in­ dependence and the good of those around me, or as the scene in whieh I am fitted for the work and worship Of the world beyond.--J. O. Holland TRUE humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in start­ ing or shrinking at talcs of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions whioh it suggests. --V. J. Fox. THERE are in many languages pro­ verbs relating to the sad fact that it is not always the laborer that reaps the fruits of his work. This is often enough the case with the literary re­ search. One man does the work, but another steps in at the last moment and appropriates its most precious re­ sults. "I labor," runs tho Talmudic proverb, "and thou findest the pearl." WE are forced, for the sake of ac­ cumulating power and knowledge, to live in cities; but such advantages as we have in association with each other is in great part counterbalanced by our loss of fellowship with nature. For surely we know that the meadow grass, meshed with fairy rings, is better than the wood pavement cut into hexagons; and surely we know the fresh winds and sunshine of the upland are better than the choke- lamp of the vault or gaslight of the ballroom.--litisktn. No WOMAN can be the wore3 for pos­ sessing brains. The hue and cry set up against higher eduoation, examina­ tions and new openings for woman's work, has a hollow ring ubout it. Men have a sneaking suspicion that they are not so intellectually superior as they have been led to suppose. Unconscious­ ly _ to themselves, they are afraid of being found out; or else, perhaps, they are lazy, and are fearful of being stirred up. let YvOuiuuIiueMs does not consist in intellectuality. The first thing in which it does consist is self-reBpeot-- Samuel Pearson. , .'I AFIreWl. A few years ago Dr. Tripe was watching a very severe thunder-storm, when he saw a fireball come quietly gliding up to him, apparently rising from the earth rather than falling to­ ward it Instead of running away like a practical man, the intrepid doctor held his ground quietly and observed the. firey monster with scientific non- chottanee. After continuing its course for some time in a perceful and r^ular fashion, however, without attempting to aasault him, it finally darted off at a tangent in another direction, and turned apparently into forked light­ ning. A fireball, noticed among the Glendowan mountains in Donegal, be­ haved even more eccentrically, as might be expected from its Irish ante­ cedents. It first skirted the earth in a leisurely way for several hundred yards like a cannon ball; then it struck*the ground, ricocheted, and once more bounded along for another short spell, after which it disappeared in the bog­ gy soil, as if it were completely fin­ ished and done for. But in another moment it rose again, nothing daunted, with Celtic 'irrepressibility, several yards away, pursuing its ghostly course across a running stream (which shows, at least, there could have been no witchgraft in.it), and finally ran to earth for good on the opposite bank, leaving a round hole in the sloping peat at the spot where it hurried itself. Where it first struck it cut the peat as if with a knife and made a broad, deep trench which remained afterward as a witness of its eccentric conduct .If the person who observed it had be£n of a superstitious turn of mind, we should have hi\d here one of the finest and most terrifying ghost stories on the en­ tire record, which would have made an exceptionally splendid show in the "Transactions of the Society of Psy­ chical Research." Unfortunately, how­ ever, he was only a man of science, un- gilted with the precious dower of poet­ ical imagination; so he stupidly called it a remarkable fireball, measured the ground carefully like a common engi­ neer, and sent an account of the phe­ nomenon to that far more prosaic peri­ odical, The Quarterly Journal of the Meterologipal Society. Another splen­ did apparation thrown away reckless­ ly!--The Comhill Magazine. • j The Origin of Batter-Making. | There is no way of ascertaining when or how this familiar process of butter- making was first used. Butter is men­ tioned in the Old Testament, bat mod­ ern Biblical scholars think that the word thus translated denoted a liqnid preparation of cream The oldest ref­ erence to true butter is probably that made by Herodotus, in his account of the Scythians. In the writings of Dioscorides, a native of Cilicia, Asia Minor, who lived in the first century, we have a description of the process of making butter from sheep's milk by agitation. Frequent mention is made in these old writings of the use of but­ ter as an ointment whence we may conclude that the process of making it was not so well understood as to give a very palatable article. The Greeks obtained their knowledge of butter- making from Asia Minor, and the Ro­ mans learned it through the Greeks. But butter-making, as we are acquaint­ ed with the process, was an acquisition of the inhabitants of northern Europe, and by them Iia3 been transmitted to as. Even now butter is little valued in the Southern countries of Europe, alive oil being much preferred- there.-- 1Atlanta Constitution. IF all the hearts were frank, just, and honest, the major part ot the vir­ tues would be useless to us.--Moliere. * • in 1688 Broad; seven was made at at once drunk- 1 beoame so fieree in the city that the auttuttitiM stopped the tapping of beer during divine service or after 10 o'clock at night. Whoever offended lost his beer, was fined, and could not soli cav ssorc for three saoaths. The * <•* « r* -^viiarr viiovriuK» 10 rather curious, saying that: "Com­ plaints are made of those who tap beer during divine service, and use a small kind of measure, which is in contempt of our religion and must ruin the state." Small measure must have bean the origin of the present drink, which is poured Mfc under the barkeeper^ eye and carefully noted. The first New York tavern was put up at Coenties slip in 1642. The first tax imposed on York city beer nearly madte a revolu­ tion ; informers got one-third of a tun of the beer; the tax receiver got 5 per cent, for his salary. Numerous brew­ ers were then in New York, and they began to howl loudly. Stone street, •which runs from Broad to Whitehall, was at that time oalled Brouwer straat, or Brewers' street. This was called Stone street because it was the first in New York to be paved with stones, in the year 1657. A big stone brewery was put up in 1645 at the corner of Broad and Stone streets, and it failed. The early New York brewers were Yon Covenhfoven De Forest, the two Bayards (remote uncles of the present United States Senator Bayard), and Van Courtlandt Beer barrels were made here very early by Van Broesteed, the cooper, whose name has been cor­ rupted to Bristfed. William Beekman was*the richest brewer in his day, and where his brewery stood the newspaper offices about Beekman street are now planted. Beekman owned the whole swamp where leather is now dressed and sold. In short, brewing extended up the North River as far as the Dutch settled, and Albany had its breweries perhaps even earlier than New York. The early Dutch were a drinking set, and old Newcastle, below Wilmington, was described by very late travelers as showing more traces of breweries and beer times. The Dutch patroons or planters generally reserved the right of manufacturing beer themselves, but they allowed private persons to brew at home. There remains an order of one of the patroons, dated 1646, ex­ pressly forbidding Cornelius Segers "to brew or cause to be brewed or otherwise to manufacture any beer ex­ cept so much a? shall j>e ^quired by him for his own housekeeping, on pam of forfeiting 25 Carolus guilders, be­ sides the brewed beer." In short, beer brewing at the present time on the island of New York is not as important relatively as it was in colonial days. As V irginia was kept back bv the to­ bacco culture, which discouraged its manufacturers, New York was retarded by the fur trade, which kept the enter­ prising people on the run into the in­ terior, and made half-Indians of them, where they should have civilized them­ selves and varied their occupations. The fur trade finally went out with John Jacob Astor. The tobacco trade in Virginia held on to the end of slav­ ery, and then tobacco began to spread over the Northern States, making it of but little profit to grow tobacco in the old fields. Intemperance among the Indians and Dutcn settlers got to be so bad about New York in 1676 that dis­ tilling was forbidden for periods.- lownshendy in Hue York Tribune. digressed him day 1 much dsibQitated, with his ehsst After tryii he used the Bed Star 1 save him entire reli«f. various rea|HU«e Cure, tfllleh Kaockod Oat by Miwa The most vigorous phyrtqno and adamantine endurance cannot bohl out unaided against cli­ matic md other influences prejudicial to health. No one can persistently breathe vitiated or miasmatic air, eat unwholesome food, indulge in excess, or toil uncenslnsiy without eventual­ ly tat line a prey to disease. One of the surest defensive measures against it Is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. But potent as this auxiliary of health is. It would be preposterous to expect it to maintain a sanitary condition of the sys­ tem If they who seek Its aid willfully abandon every other precaution against disease, and thus thwart its operation. Sobriety, the avoidanoe of exalting cause, are important elements in health maintenance. A regard being had to these, a system fortified by the Bitters will be exempt from malaria, rheumatism, dyspepsia, oonsttDatioa and other maladies. THE water-cure has always been bbn- gidered the best cure for inebrity. -The Streets of Venice. The streets and sidewalks of Venice are decidedly unique, both in material and construction. The city is built entirely upon piles, and occupies eighty-two small islands in the lagoon of Venice. One hundred and fifty canals serve as streets for the city, these being crossed by nearly 4liO bridges. The Canalazo, or Orand Canal, has a varying breadth of from 100 to 180 feet, and divides the citv, a dbvious line, into two nearlv equal parts. Both sides of this cana'l are lined with buildings, many of them marble palaces of great magnificence, and so close to the water's edge as to be eitered from the gondolas or water- coaches plying in all directions. This canal is spanned by three bridges, two iron structures erected in 1854 and 1858, and the Rialto bridge, built of white marble in 1588-91. The canals brandling off from the Canalazo, and from each other, are much narrower and shorter. The n Amorous bridges over them are very steep in the center to afford passage for the gondolas beneath them, and render a land eir- cnit of Venice a most fatiguing task. Most of the honses, in addition to their main entrance by water, have another communi ating with a narrow alley or court on the land. These passage­ ways are so narrow and intricate as to render the city a va<t labyrinth, most of them being* not more than four leet in width. There are two exceptions to these. The first is the street called the Meroerir., situated near the center of the city, lined with handsome^hops, and so wide that two carriages might pass in it if their drivers were very careful. The other is the Piazza of St. Mark, on the south tide of the city, at the entrance of the Grand Canal, a square containing some <ff the finest public buildings of the city, and lined by arcades with handsome shops and cafes. At right angles to this is the Piazzetta, which runs down to the sea. Many streets are lined with narrow quays, having stairways down to the gondola landings. The city has railway communication with a junction on -the mainland bv means of a viaduct two miles long, with over 200 arches. The city of Venice is very beautiful, and from a distance presents a very picturesque appearance, the homes all seeming to be afloat upon the water. A company has been formed to substi­ tute steamers for the gondolas of Venice. This will rob the city of a great element of attractiveness as well as poetic association, but will no doubt prove of great commercial advantage. --Inter Ocean. BHIDES should never judge a groom's good qualities by the number of penny­ weights in the wedding ring. Juipricetiiig in a it ic characteristic of St. Franoofe and the early hours of the plaoe that the housewife who does not arrive at the village market by 6 or half-past 6 in the morning subjects her household to the perils of semi-starvation. The farmers' wives who bring in the fruit and vegetables and batter and eggs from their farms are all in their places by 5 o'clock, and by 8 many of them are already jogging along on their way homeward. Ana the market is the chief place for the purchase of edibles in the town of St. Francois. Its sup­ ply is meager enough and its customs are primitive. The market-women all ask one price and take another: hence a purchase involves an immense amount of bargaining and chaffering and gestic­ ulating, and the worthy townspeople bid each other good morning, and jostle each other with their market baskets and peer down over each other's shoul­ ders upon the meager array upon the counters with bustling and curiosity., Berries and vegetables are sold in what the native call "tureens"-- a most vague and elastic term, as a "tureen" appears to an outsider to be anything from a tea-cup to a scrub-pail. You may buy a turren-full of raspberries for 10 cents, er one for a dollar, and you can only give an indefinite guess at the quality you are getting for your money. The supply is very scanty, and poor in quality, too. The tiny wild strawber­ ries. raspberries, and choke-cherries form the Dulk of the fruit obtainable in St. Francois. The French-Canadian farmer is a slow and conservative gar­ dener, and many vegetables and fruits which would ripen easily in the climate are not cultivated nowadays, simply be­ cause his grandfather did not cultivate them before him, and his sluggish brain has not yet awakened to the fact that it would a wise and profitable thing to raise them. But, if the vegetable mar­ ket is scanty, the fish market on sum­ mer mornings is a sight to behold,from the number of eels whieh crawl over and under each other and wriggle along the counters and fall oft" on the floor, where they lie writhing till the mer­ chant, seeing his wares eseaping him, picks them up and stuns them by strik­ ing their heads against the wall.--Ex. "SAT. why is everything Either at Sixes or at sevens?" Probably, my dear nervous sister, because you are suffering from some ot' the peculiar to your sex. You have a "dragging* down" feeling, the back ache, you arc neliW itated, you have pains of various kinds. Take br. R. V. Pierre's "Favorite Prescription'" and be cured. Frioe reduoed to one dollar. By druggists. WHEN a man's looks speak volumes, the best thing he can do Is to sell them for old junk. llapartMt When you visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted np at a cost of one million dollars, reduced to |l and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator, Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to ail depots. Fami­ lies can live better for lees money at the Grand Union than at any flrst-olsss hotel in the city. 6WSBT are tiro uses of adversity. Unit aiit people prefer sugar. HonfttnCi Add Phosphate, IN CONSTIPATION. Dr. J. N. Robinson, Medina, O., says: "In caws of indigestion, constipation and nervous prostration, its results are happy." BREECHES of promise -- those the tailor said he would have finished Saturday. THE modi.•«! profession are slow (and right It-so) to indorse every new medicine that is advertised anil sold: but honest merit oon- rfmej the fair-minded after a reasonable time. Phys clans in good standing often pre scril o Mrs. Mnkham's Vegetable Compound for the cure of female weaknesses. THE man at tho wheel his a stern duty to perform. "Put up" at the Oault House. The business man or tourist will find flrst- class accommodations at the low price of $2 and S'.'.50 per day at the (lault House, Chica­ go, corner Clinton and Mndison streets. Tills far-l'amed hotel is located in the center of tho city, only one block from the Union Depot. Elevator; all appointments first-class. HOVT & GATES, Proprietors. Write fur a Copy. if you would like to know all about the ro innrkablc curative agent called Compound Oxygen, write to I)r<. Star key & Palen, 1109 Irani St., Philadelphia, for their Treatise on Compound Oxyvcn. Scut free. SKEPTICISM has invaded the domain of human thought, but Athlqphoros has proved a conqueror over all doubts aa to the p-)we:> of medical scfence in dealing: with thoso distressing mala lies--rheumatism and neuralgia. Kev. I Jr. Win. P. Corbit, of tho 8t. George St. Methodist Church, New Haven, pronounces the remedy infallible, and be fpeaks from experience. Price, $1 per bot­ tle. It' your drug-gist hasn't it. send to Athlophoros Co., lia Wall Street, N. V. The Chicago MitiM is publishing in lis columns a sories of valuable maps showing the situation In the Soudan and the progress of the struggle there. The Staiulard is a Sterling religions newspaper, and, while it ably represents the Uapti-t denomination, is worthy of a place In any family. THERE was a young man so well bred That the hair would not stay on his ' Bat the GarboUne oil Put new hair on the soil, And bow with an heiress he's wed. Jft'ee from Opiates, JSmet&s and JPofaots*, A PROMPT, SAFE, SURE CURE |WCHri«S«NTktMt, Hwnam, iBflaraca, CaM&Bmehltli, Cr*ap, VliM)hi Crash* O-'-Tr **•'"'» Om*. wdrtlwr •mniona nrtlM Throat and Laaga. Price SO cent# a bottle. Sold by Droirriit* anil Deal­ er*. Pnrtitt unable to induce their dealer to promptly met it for them teHl retire two botOe*,Expreu rtarge* tending one dollar to TUB CHARLES A. TOGELF.R COXrAIY, to hear at resjjastkwi pi issues to •**••••* •*- as a phi, iMt dfrmtftueadi Were *&e •2XEJ2S. SST wfll ted Dr. tmmi "OoMw ltsdisal Discovery" " ~ of Ws nhntttc kaow!adfs Consumption, ̂ ease, lever and ague, Intmnilllsul li 1si. dropqr, neuralgia, goitre or thiek aefck, and all fMSSSS of the blood, are cured by this TOidlctes. Its it" ^ S**1 spring-beds have been shfnped to New Zealand. The natives ara tired ar frying missionaries on forked sticks. The Went Urethral Strietares Speedily cured by our new radical methods. nMNffelet, references and terms, two letter staaipa. World's Dispensary Medical Asso- clstloa, SM Maln street. Buffalo, N. Y. Beraumro to the hot water erase the Boe* ton Fiat rewrrt that some people are al­ ways in hot water. A Mete timet er 6eogh, If Suffered to progress, often reeults in an incurable throat or lung trouble. "Brown's BraneMaJ ZVoehee " give iaetant reUet. FOR TNI Ollftft OP FEVER and ACUE Or CHILLS art FIVE*, «ID ALL BILABIAL tlSCASEI ! The prsyrlster ot this eslehratsd aett- eiae justly elaims for it a superiority ever all rMMfles ever eifarsd te the auhue *r the lift CUTAIM. mXBT sai fXft- KAHftVItears e(A|te sad fever,erOWHs aaA fever, whether of shorter leaf stead- is*. He reflws te the satire Westsea aaA loathsra seeatary to bear him testisssayte the trath of the assertioa that ia ae sees whatsver will it Ml to ours if the dixee- tioas are stristljr followed and serried eat. liss have heea oared byasiafUbettis, with a peiflMt resteratiea ef the aeasral health. It is, hews vet, pradeat, sal ia everveese moTeeerteiateenre.ifitsessisceanaaed ia s»sDe» dasss'ftt aa»eoltortwsaHn ths JLUM IN FEGGB FLFEMTWTH MH MMIWHY iatfflealtaMlearrtsaiiaf sasas. *s»> allv this sMjlisiBe will aet retake aav aid wathieeecttar ideeeef TOLL'S L will he sat Lead jlood Bw of liftifl rm lliu am nuvTMinBifMi »£. JOHN BULL'S SMITH'S TONIC SYRUP, BULL'S SARSAPARILLA, BULL'S WORM PESTROYER, The Popular Remedies of the Day* Vltaetpal OBee. Ml Mala St.. LOUISYILI.R. KT. GREW SJUM CleawsL tin Head. Allays intemmattok Heals the Sores. He- stores the Senses of Taste, Smell, Hearing. A Hums CURL CREAM BALM has gained an enviable rep­ utation wherever known. dtapiacinK all other iwsp. an Hon*. A particle is ap­ plied luto each noatril; no pain; agitepUatouse. gists, Oweso. "SeebaiU." Peru e. stittfea owls, relics, sheilx, aphy.or Short-Hand and Type re. Mtaatiaos fnmiahed. I BROS. JanMtflle. Wis. CANCEBk Treated and eumd without the knife. " 00k on treatment «ent free Addrens L. POND, MJD., Aurora, Kane Co.. 111. . j.< loir- I (rrow them myself and t<-st them before nellins, They arc itreah and reliable: don't bur any aeeds from second-hand dualem. Frite tor myliplondid 111. Almanac CataloTue.FKKi:. H. W. BUCKBER. - -- SHIM E. State Street. Rockford. III. NEWSDEALERSkSK lUon i not _ _ THE CHICAGO LEOUEB. It sella on sight, and always pleases reader*. For Fan and Fiction it lin in e<raal in the united States. For sample, addnra The Western News 0o» Cnicacro. B).iWTHE CHICAGO LEDGER, SB Franklin Street. (3uca«o. 111. i.LVDIA K. PINKHAM'S . . VEGETABLE COMPOUND •••ISAPASMVACOKUROR"*' All these paUfal eoaplalats *aad Weakaeases ae eeeiaiea* • ••••• to ear beet e e e e e e : k**mAU POPULATION,* e MsH A! MARK DOES WONDERFUL CORES --OF-- LIVED COMPLAINTS AND KIDNEY DISEASES. They cleanse the system of tho poisonous humors that develop in Kidney and Urinary Disease?, Blliousaess, Constipation, Rheuma­ tism, Nuuraljria. Nervous Disorders and all FE.VALK COMPI. IIMX They prevent the growth to serious illness of a dangerous class of discuses that begin in mere ttivial ailments, and are too apt to. be neglected as such. They cause free action of all the organs and functions, thereby CLEA.WI.W THE BLOOD, ro storing the normal powers to throw off disease THOUSANDS OF CASES of the worst forms of these terrible diseases have been quickly relieve*t, and lb short time perfectly cured, by the use of Hami and MAS/fl' Slitter*. All druggists keep them. Krcomtnonded by physicians, ministers, and nurses, and in fact by everybody who has giv­ en them a good trial. They never fail to bring relief. HOPS & MALT BITTERS CO., Detroit, Mich. LtaN.s^mm . STOWVUAOFC town, Mass. BAM. iteoks I look It Yeats as being GentlemenI general warn Yours U*t Ixrttton of Bronchitis, I am aiBNt untatiiy, that those dUetod Yours respectfully, WBBUJU CINCINNATI MTwmsi eunumiiT dintriot* in and terms AND » to Ftm mmwKmmm m iUii-su In .e» * i'i 7,**. b M * itj f n f.~ 1 , ; rone who ramits ns #3.B0 br express or postoflke money eider, we will «end b a* wateh win ry stem arm, sad wul ain and Mom get out of order, and are Ledger* year and is thelwat story and hamorons saesrh country. Each inue contain* at leas, a page or en racy wriiers of the present day, j*Sirt^e>a»» j humorous articles, froia the present dk*. --«... the price chsnnd I BUM OUK» •omw I. ft, Willi srobaMy slsbfatei Eye Thiaartieieia aosrafnlly pnp--il acri utioa. and HAA IMWB io cqoataat eentarr, MM notwithstanding tkt at rtjoMttMghaT9 been introdo laSsS rphmiriMs ea> w«*Oa. TB0¥. MMSMF Np*vj usairaeca.as •n.i'iiiiiii, i atra.isiiwist.KwYM*. iter Flowers. 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WR1T1MO TO AOl nay yoa eaw It fct*. |A Clear Skrn 'Mi, i- fa only a part of be*»a^t(. % but it isa part Every lacy ^ | may have it; at foaat^ vhat ^ Balm bath ' beautifieft , ' % .$0 ft MfW.# rV-'r .><» 1 - " V '% 4 xr&sl i J V