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KBTKjr Seven gold reed*prew tall and ilia,! Close by tho river's beaded brim. > • Spin*. <te na'ad fll t ted pn : "B, tke goat-hoofed, followed taaL -Jf 7 O, »uqh a race was Jor to see, s: Swift as the flight of bird or be?. v As light'v beat the girl's white fo3t They made strange music, low and sweet; . So heavily trod the lusty Pan &t2?' ̂ His hoofs clashed loudly as be ran. ^ " He spread hi« arms to clasp her (Just as she vanished into air). And to his besom, warm rnd rough, ', Drew the gold reeds close enough, j *: / '" . Then the wind's low voice benn ' To hum in the furry ears of Pan. V Out of green bark he made a tether. And bound seven joints of the reeds together. f* *•; And blew a tunc bo sweet and cl. That all the wild things came to So, to this day, the poet's Or® SpringB cut of his unslaked desire, 'When love on winged feet has fled, And seven gold reeds are clasped instead. --Maurice Thompson, in Uarper'e Magazine. KEV1KIE. Pa88 my pipe, and let me smoke; Smoke nd ashes typify !'"v Lives of mch as tou audi. Isltnot a bitter joke? , The fire burns low within the boiflf .. . Strew the tsshes o'er he earth; J ; ' Days of sadness, days of mirth,4 tH 4<" Thou hast played thy feverish rote. Dreams and hope, ephemeral smoke-* A cloud of Him-- 'tis passed away; Tto not the breaker, but the spriqr. Child ot fate, bow to thy yoke. The Are burns 'ow, tho cloud is ettlML * Mingle ustaes with the dust; Begvnr, itnaw thy mo'.dv crust w-.y-. Of death triiinphant and be filled See the prny clouds rise and drtffli •* So the dreams of life have diedj ,f; | Hope has promistd und has lieql -i -*» | As tinsel sceneries shift. • <• r % The ashes cool the dream fs dead, Ashes unto ashes cast. Life? O, man, that tie 's past, Best tbr u in thy dreamless bed! --The Bate he tt. ONE OLD Mjuo. A lowering morning, which made One tvish for the sunny South or for Italy, lor any place which would make one feel ' happier than could this dismal morning In Wisconsin. And then to think that this train could not make connection livith the eastward bound train! It is tiard enough to atop at such a misera­ ble little junction at any time, but to •pend three hours this dark morning Inust prove the very refinement of tor- lure. There are a dozen passengers %ho must wait and who prepare to make the best of their stay here. One %ouple, evidently just married, find the Clouds of a very rosy color, and they | ' *ralk out of the smoky old depot to | make a tour of the little town, talking fcagerly the while. Two young fellows wonder uneasily about, reading all the Old, tattered posters, glowing induce­ ments to go West and ancient time­ tables, which invariably decorate the ttained walls of a country depot. These young fellows finally utter ex­ clamations of impatience at the dreary monotony, and go across the street to the hotel, hoping to find something there more congenial to them. Two ladies at once take their depart­ ure for the hotel, and other people Btroll out and about the depot, and there are left two persons, a man and woman, who, after a little time, settle themselves to reading to pass away the weary momenta He reads his paper and she her book, and occasionally, Womanlike, she casts, a look at her silent companion, wondering what loved ones are awaiting his arrival, and Whether ho is impatient to greet them, $r if he feels a man's stoicism in regard t® it; wondering, too, how it is that tach woman thinks the masculine lives Connected with hers so full of manly graces and beauty, and who could find gaanly beauty in those rugged features? Then she turned her gentle eyes toward the dirty window and looked out at the dreary landscape, looked with eyes Which saw not outward objects, but Were introspective solely. An old <; maid, commonly supposed to be the type of discontent and unrest, but here, evidently, the type failed, for this face expressed the utmost of content. Life jhas been filled with much of sorrow for her, all her bright plans had failed of fruition; one after another she had t>idden good-bye to them and had turned bravely again to face the com­ ing of a new future, a future to be peo­ pled again by her bright fancies--the •4>ld fancies all dead and gone from her / fxcept as they lingered in memory. An old maid she is, as far as years fto, but no home is happier than her 4 little ideal home. She had filled its jfooms with bright little faces eagerly "Calling to mother, and the dream father • Ifs strong, earnest, helpful, and loving. JHer dream-home is happier far than ' fnany a fine lady's real home, although v^jfehe has not pictured any grandeur about it. Oh, no, sh6 dreams that the Carpets are faded from much sunlight, And worn from the tread of many little 1 feet, that there is much planning to j[*make both ends meet," but she has ^Imagined unselfishness in this ideal l^jpome, and loving unselfishness can ake all trials in regard to ways and eans seem very little indeed. Her ompanion in this depot is an elderly erson, a stout, large man, with keen yes, and a mouth at complete odds ith the eyes, not belonging to them, apparently. Ofteneyes do not harmon­ ize in coloring with the rest of a face, trat generally expressions are strongly ' akin. This man had a sensitive mouth, *s- one with a mournful droop to it Those ho looked at him caught themselves ondering which would conquer-- een, hard eyes, or sensitive mouth, e read for some time, then gave a nick look at the thoughtful face near im, and said, abruptly, "Not a very pleasant arrangement, this." t A quick flush passe.) over the gentle face before him, a flush which his keen eyes noted instantly and understood, i flush which told of the girlishness yet left in this lonely woman. "Not that it matters much to me Inhere _ I am," he continued. "Life Can't give me anything harder than I've had." "That is a sad thing to say," she said, in her timid way. "A true thing, though," he responded, bnd the corners of his sensitive mouth Jrooped a little more. "I feel as if I ad nothing left to live for. My wife ied a year ago, and--" here the voice broke. Distress ever calls some souls trot of their reserve, and hers was fcuch an one, ann she said quickly: "Ah, but you have all those vanished clays and months and years to remem­ ber, all the loveliness of her life to .think of now." ! "How did you know her life was lovely ?" he queried, a little sharply. l3he hesitated a moment, then said, sim­ ply : "It must have been, or you would fbot miss her from your living so much," • tribute to the manly worth in the face she saw before her which was rel­ ished by the owner of the faoe. He : sighed acM then look for a time on* of the smoky window, then said: "After all life is a strange muddle," and, re­ ceiving a look of understanding in re­ sponse to this sentiment, he went on: "We don't know what is right to do, and yet we are punished by fixed laws if we don't do the fight. That doesn't seem just to me." "Oil, but it will come out straight in the next life," she cried, eagerly. *'I don't know whether it will or not," he responded. "1 haven't seen the next life yet and I don't know what it is like, don't even know if there will be a next life; I only know that we are hedged in and around in this life." "But surely the next life will take away all the rough places of this," she said; "it will make us understand all that seems so strange about this, and-- there must be a future li'e; God snrely would not put us into this life and let us go out of it incomplete. That seems to me the strop gest reason for a future, and so many die with their life-work only just begun." "Is that a reason or a hope, with you?" he asked. She hesitated and did not answer, and just then one of the restless young men who had been a fellow passenger of theirs come in and glanced cautiously at the two. That glance made her self-conscious and a blush dyed the delicate face, and she turned, in a decided way, the pages of her book as if she were determined not to let this stranger get possession of her wandering thoughts again. The yonng a an passed out of the station and the elderly one rose and walked restlessly about the room, knitting the shaggy brows occasionally at some troubled thought. The three hours passed and 1 o'clock came and a train came. "Can I assist you?" he asked, gently reaching out a hard, brown hand for some of the numerous bundles she was carrying . She handed some to him and followed his Eteady footsteps to the train. They wondered a little why their fellow passengers of the morning were rot in greater haste, but forgot them presently in the bustle of depart­ ure. He secured a pleasant seat for her, and then one for himself at some distance from her. A few minutes of waiting, of idle watching of the dark landscape, so soon to be among remem­ bered things, and the train moved slowly out of the town, and as it movent away another train steamed in. She looked curiously at the second train, but remembered that this was a junction and did not oliey her first nervous impulse, which was to go to her whilom protector and ask him if he were sure they were on the right train. She forgot the train soon and watched his stern, set face and felt sorry for him, and wished he might feel as sure of the future as did she. Soon the con­ ductor came and she watched him as he made his way toward her. When he reached her protector, as she already called him in her inner consciousness, that individual gave a quick start at some words uttered by the conductor after examination of his ticket. A troubled look settled upon the resolute face, and he conversed earnestly with the conductor for a few moments, then glanced at her and rose and came to her. "I told you," said he, "that we don't know what is right and then we get punished by unalterable laws, and here is a. speedy illustration of the fact, only that I feel now that I might have known the right if I had taken pains to inquire. We are on the wrong train." She looked deeply troubled, but said, after a moment, "How can we get back ?" « "It is of no use to go back to that junction. We might as well go on to Chicago now and go from there; it will really take not much longer, and as you trusted to my leading in the first place, I will, if you will let me, see yon safe out of this trouble." "I am used to taking care of myself," she said, but her lips trembled a little. "Where are you going ?" he asked, and, upon receiving his reply, added: "I am going beyond there, so it will be no trouble to me to see you safe. • I will telegraph your dilemma to your fri^pds at the next station; we shall reach Chicago in two hours, and the conductor tells me we can immediately take another train back, so that really the worst of it will be the extra four or five hours in the train." He remained sitting with her, and chatted lightly for a time, till her mind was somewhat diverted from the un­ pleasantness of her situation. Gradu­ ally they wandered to deeper waters, and talked again, as they had earlier in the day, of the problems of life, and into those queries and answers of theirs crept ever and anon a bit of the per­ sonal history of each. He learned what a desolate life hers had Beemed to be; he learned, too, what a sweet, cherry courage must underlie her whole being, .that he grew ashamed of his own repining over a lot whicli had had so much brightness i n it. When the train drew into the great depot in Chicago, he felt that he had learned to know a pure soul, and she felt a deep pity for the lonely life opened to her view. And as they took the other train, which was to take them rapidly to their destination, each felt a regret that a few hours more would part them. He sat silent for a long time after this, wondering if he dared do the thing be wished . He was lonely , set adrift in the great world by the death "of his wife, and he wanted a true, womanly heart to sympathize with his. Could he do better than ask this lonely wo­ man, who had no kith or kin in the world, to share his lot with him? Could she do better than take him, she who evidently had summerland in her heart, and could make a bit of brightness wherover she was? Each surely needed the othei4. He asked lit r if she knew any one in his town, and finding she did know a person residing a few miles from him, he took his resolution quickly. "I have a good farm out there," he said; "160 acres under fine improve­ ment, house and out-buildings all in fine shape. You can find out all about me from Mr. ." A moment he hesitated as he saw that she did not realize what he meant; then he con­ tinued earnestly, looking down into the clear eyes lifted so fearlessly to his: "I feel'as if I were looking into the eyes of my future wife. Am I mis­ taken ?" The last words were breathed rather than uttered, and then she un­ derstood, and the flame color mounted over the delicate features once more, and she said quietly, "Do T look so much like your wife ?" He was baffled, and for a moment knew not what to say, then rallied and said: "She has gone on into the future. I don't know what or where that life may be, and I am lost and lonely with­ out her. I want that which has gone out of my life, and I believe you can supply that want. You are alone in the world, and I can make your life pleasanter, I am sure." It was a tempt­ ation, such as only homeless ones can understand; but, after a moment, she shook her head, and then, leading the questioning look In Urope keen eyes, she said, while the color deepened in her face: "I loved onoe, and have loved ever since, and it would not be right for me to marry any one, feeling as I do.:' The door opened and the brakeman called the name of the place where she was to stop, and the next moments were spent in gathering together her belongings. He helped her off the train, and grasped her hand heartily as he stood one instant there: "I shall always remember you and your happy ways of looking at life, and your faith will help meand then he swung on to the slowly-moving train, and she walked away into the gloam­ ing. a tear or two falling as she thought of the lonely days to come.--Alura Collins, in the Current. A Choice Mor&ei. We take the following choice morsel from a little book entitled "Poultry for Pleasure and Poultry for Profit:" All things are given to us for our pleasure or our profit. As soon as a thing ceases to be one or the other, it is of no use. By pleasure, I wish to be understood the innocent, harmless en­ joyments of life, which make one better, and no one worse; by profit, that which is of gain to us, at no other one's loss. We are so constituted that we desire and must have some kind of recreation. The professional man, man of business, merchant, clerk, mechanic, and all oth­ ers, after a day of work and applica­ tion, enjoy rest; and it is the best form of rest to have something to enjoy- something to look at and care for that is pleasing. It is like the cool drink of water from the old oaken bucket to the tired laborer. It is both rest and refreshment. To this class of men there are two things that seem especially well adapt­ ed. They give rest and reward. One is a good garden, the other is a well- kept flock of fowls. I believe a good garden, with powers and growing veg­ etables, will almost insure happiness in-doors; and a flock of clean, healthy, cackling fowls will make a pleasant husband or wife, and happy children. It is hard to calculate the value of such a flock. On the other hand, it is not a wonder there are so many quarreling, brawling families, when we consider how many ill-mated, quarreling and diseased flocks of fowle there are: Some sneez­ ing with the roup, and rolling to get rid of the million of mites which infest their quarters; black hens, dirty white hens, brown hens, speckled hens; some with top-knots, some with none; some with tail feathers,some with none ;combs and toes frozen; they roost on the wag­ on, and lay--if they lay at all--in the wood pile: they look scrawny, dirty, and saucy, and seem to hate them selves. When we see a yard like that, nine cases in ten the man of the house never calls bis wife jby tender, loving names, and the children speak of the father as the "old man." Is it a wonder that a man who has Buch a flock of fowls goes to the insane asylum ? A young man who does not love choice fowls is an unsafe person for a girl to wed. Gath Approves of Skating Rinks. These skating rinks are protests in favor of society among these great mer­ cantile communities, where there is a tendency otherwise to separation, have been West somewhat this winter lecturing and I find the skating rink is what has dispersed the theatrical companies and got afoul of the lecture courses. The young-men with scant so­ cial opportunities are introduced at the rinks to the pretty girls; the pretty girls find that the skating rinks pro­ mote beaux, and matrimony. Flirta­ tion, which is the powerful charm of young life, improves as the blood starts up by exercise and music. The drum mers, who go from town to town, find their evenings agreeable now, for they appear at the skating rink, pay 10 or 15 cents admission, signalize them­ selves by grace or good looks, fall in with some young man of the town, and by him are introduced to the sisters, and consequently our society is in a ferment of a new acquaintance, all brought about by a few boxwood wheels. You can get on these little wheels and travel further than if you had a whole chariot of your own. You can travel into families and into a fam­ ily of your own, and keep it up as long as you live. Timid people are always looking for the abuse of such amuse­ ments, but as a general rule all healthy, guarded amusements which promote intercourse and break down silly artificial barriers belong to the order of religions.--Letter in Minne­ apolis Tribune. A Spider's Seamanship* ' I took a large spider from his web under the basement of a mill, put him on a chip and set him afloat on the quiet waters of a pond. He walked about the sides of his bark, surveying the situation very carefully, and when the fact that he was really afloat and about a yard from shore seemed to be fully comprehended , he looked out for the nearest land. This point fairly set­ tled upon, he immediately began to cast a web for it. He threw it as far as possible in the air, and with the wind. It soon reached the shore and made fast to the spires of grass. Then he turned himself about, and in true sailor fasion began to haul in hand over hand on his cable. Carefully he drew upon it until his bark began to move toward the shore. As it moved the faster, he the faster drew upon it to keep his hawser taught and from touching the water. Very soon he reached the shore, and quickly leaping to terra firma, he spedhis way homeward.-- Harpers Toting People. He Rfiomed too Hard* A Detroit firm employed a new col­ lector, and among other bills was giv­ en one which had long been classed un­ der the head of "doubtful.". He was informed that the chances of his getting anything was extremely dubious, but was promised half of all he could collect. In two hours alter starting out he was back with the money on the doubtful bill, and when asked how he succeeded so well, he replied: "After getting into his office I locked the door, pocketed the key, and told him he'd either got to come down or I'd break every bone in his body. He shelled out, and both of us are $10 ahead. The next day the firm paid $75 to settle a ease of "extorting money by threats of violence," and the collector was kindly informed that he conld have a long vacation for the benefit of his health.--Detroit Free Press. The latest application of wood is as a dressing for wounds in the form of what is termed "wood wool." It is finely ground wood, such as is used in the manufacture of paper. It is a deli­ cate-fibred, soft, yellowish white sub­ stance, capable of absorbing an im­ mense quantity of liquid* 0«t TmM. i team ot a sawtsal tortuMMdfclis- anha»d dfeoocdiBt, we ny ft to'ovtof Atwsiairw«M<f aat tho hnmaa sfcraetars, whsa tt broomsa dlmder •0. Kot only actual dlseasst bat those flir store sommon mmw, csstwutk, mental anxiety, nd test Urlng, may lnpalr ft* visor and activity. Thebest remedyfora partial collapae of the vital energies, from these as from other immt. la Hoe tetter'* Stomach Bitters, which is at tbe lame time an agreeable and mhtd cheering cor­ dial, and the best poesible inrlgorant in all oaaes ot debility. It la an incomparable stomachic and anti-billons medicine, eradicates fever and tgno. and prevents subsequent attacks. It remedies with certainty and thoroujrhneas bowel and kidney complaints, dyapepeta, ner- vonsneps, rheumatic trouble*, nenraljrt*. and many other bodily ailments. It also counter­ acts influences which predispose to disease. The Egotistical Prayer. It is said that "prayer is the heart's sincere desire, uttered or expressed." have heard prayers, however, that sounded more like an introduction of the suppliant to the throne of grace. There used to be an old gentleman in Maine, years ago, whose prayers were nearly an autobiography. His custom generally was to stand up while wrest­ ling in prayer, close his eyes tight, hang on to the pew in front of him, and then begin to tell the Lord his family affairs. I do not know whether he stiil lives or whether he has gone to his re­ ward. Occasionally he would Construct the usual piazza to his prayer, and then open out with this sentence: "We would not Wish to dictate, Lord, but we would humbly suggest." He wanted to be courteous! but at the same time he wished to show that he was a man of influence in his own locality. In Wyoming there was a lady who used to have a large amount of respon­ sibility on her shoulders. She consid­ ered herself a kind of general assist­ ant superintendent of the universe, and rather congratulated herself on her flu­ ency in prayer. She never addressed the' throne of grace without doing so grammatically, and her gestures and modulations were correct. Whether she ever got anything she prayed for or not I do not now remember; but she was known far and wide as one of the most ready and fluent extemporaneous suppliants in tbe West. She had a pretty tough family; but that was c either here nor there. She used to say over and over again that with a sin-sick world in wickedness and darkness of soul, she could not do full justice to her family. So it happened frequently that while she was at some noble gathering, on her knees explain­ ing the plan of salvation to the Lord in her lucid and normal school lan­ guage, her husband, with his sleeves rolled up to his shoulder blades, was wondering profanely why his bread wouldn't "raise." One evening she had been called upon to open a kind of muffin-scuffle with prayer, and after she had peti­ tioned the throne for about a quarter of an hour and had not heard a mur­ mur of applause, she turned hei head and in a low stage aside said: "Ladies, can you hear?" I would like to be near when she presents her credentials, on judgment day, just to note the look of surprise that will overcome her features liKe a summer cloud. She will be greatly annoyed when she goes through the archives of heaven, I wot, to find that her beautiful seven and one-third octave prayers are not on file there. Please do not regard these remarks as sacrilegious. They are just simply personal reminiscences. I remember an old gentleman who was known as the weeper. I can weep like him yet when I feel like it. It is no great trick, either. He never re­ garded a prayer as a perfect success unless he broke down in the middle of it and floated away on the tide of ready-made tears. Once there was a Cry of fire while he was in the midst of a sob. When we got to the fire he was^ there, and he had fully overcome his* emotions and was bravely rescuing the ice-cream freezer by the back stairs. He was highly emotional and could weep all day long without food or water. He had a wife in Iowa and an­ other in York State--somewhere in Cat- tarausrus County, I think. This was a blessing to them, for they only had to endure him half of the time each. One day he was standing in front of the congregation engaged in prayer, and had just begun to shed the scald­ ing tear over man's lost and undone; condition. I remember how he looked, with his eyes shut and his nose red and his bogus crocodile tears chasing each other down his cast-iron cheek. A good many of the congregation seemed to be watching him over the tops of the pews. He reached in his coat-tail pockets for his handkerchief and Drought it forth, folded as it had been taken from the bureau drawer. Still weeping and sobbing over his fallen race, and with his eyes tightly closed, he slowly unfolded his white handker­ chief to its full extent and plunged his long red nose into it, but not before he had shown the congregation that the handkerchief was, in fact, the very smallest size of child's shirt. Some one then smiled in a low tone of voice, and he opened his eyes. Oh, how mad he was! From that on I never knew him to weep over man's lost and un­ done condition. Probably it gave him just as much pain as ever, but he seemed to have learned to control his emotions.--Bill Nye, in New York Mercury. "A man and his wife may differ," says an essayist, with great gravity. They may, they may; and, what's more, they generally do. A mountain filled with soft soap has been discovered. This looks as though nature had about concluded to take a hand in politics. Is It Not Singular that consumptive* should be the letit appra- hensive of their own dbndition, while all their friends are urging and beseeching' them to be more careful about exposure and overdoing.' It may well be cons dered one of tho most a'arming: symptoms of the disease, where the patient is reckless and wlU not believe that he is in danger. Header, ir you are in this condition, do not neglect the only means of recovery. Avoid exposure and fatigue, be regular in your habits, and use faithfully of Dr. Fierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." It has saved thousands who were steadily fail- in*. ' . Nkarlt two thousand watches a day are made In New England. With the Yankees, time has always been money; Don't hawk, hawk, blow, spit and disgust everybody with your offensive breath, but use Dr. Sage s Catarrh Itemody, and end it. What Is my opinion of harmony? It Is lovera drink ins moonlight from each other's eyes. : ' Important. When yon visit or leave New York City, save Bag rage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and •top at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted np at a cost of one mlUlon dollars, reduced to $1 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the best. Hone cabs, stage,and elevated railroad to all depots. Fami­ lies can live bettor for less money at the Grand VJnion than at any first-class hotu In the oity. **i No«M for kni££id«oi miles along th*! line, and extending through several tiers of counties bsiok from it, is invit­ ing the sntexiiriBinjg settler from the Bast to obme in and till the soil. Nothing finer in the way of a promis­ ing agricultural field is to be found anywhere. The soil is extremely fer­ tile, the climate pleasant in summer, and not too rigorous in winter, and facilities for marketing products be­ coming better and better all the time. Into this region there has been a steady stream of immigration pouring for the past two years, which may now be said to be at its height The char­ acter of this population is the same as of the best agricultural communities of Illinois or Ohio. In fact, it is from thei& and their adjoining States that this increase of population in the region described is mainly derived. Whole colonies from these older Western States go bodily into this garden of tbe Missouri Valley and locate their pos­ sessions. , The present time is most opportune for the purpose, since the railroad which has been pushed forward through this fertile land has now penetrated to the town of Valentin^, to which point it is in regular operation, while the grading has been done one hundred miles beyond, and still beyond one hundred and fifty miles more are under contract In Northwestern Nebraska the road is to turn northward, passing through the Dakota counties of Fall River, Custer, and Pennington, to Rapid City, in the mining country. Through the entire region traversed by this railroad, finished and projected, towns are springing up in that almost magical fashion which is characteristic of Western railroad development. The population is increasing in the same manner, and homes, stores, schools, and churches are going up on every hand. This is the place for the printer who wishes to do something for himself. The people who are going in are a read­ ing people. They have been accus­ tomed to those necessities of civiliza­ tion, the school, the church, and the newspaper, and they are prepared to welcome and encourage the man who comes among them to give them either. The printer who has toiled for years in an older community, getting little or nothing ahead of the point reached long ago, goes 'in with the tide, and is soon found enlarging the first plant, increas­ ing the size x>f the first paper, and like­ ly enough starting another in the new town close by. Shrewd Horace Gree­ ley's advice is not yet outgrown: "Go \\est, young man. Go West, and grow up with the country."--Publishers' Monthly. Rapture, Breach or Hernia. New guaranteed cure for worst cases with­ out use of knife. There is no longer any need of wearing awkward, cumbersome trusses. Send two letter stamps for pamphlet and references. World's Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main street, Uuffalo, N. Y. What Is my opinion of honesty? It Is sell­ ing sugar with sand in it at the market price of sand. Maud 8. weighs 946 pounds. Her wait Is not observable, however, when there Is an­ other horse on the truck. The Old Reliable. There are many good and well-managed railroads in tho country, and among the very best is the Chicago and Alton. The equipments of this road are second to none in the world, and, for comfort, convenience, safety, nnd good time it ranks among the best. Courtesy aad attention of its em­ ployes, the great desideratum to the travel­ ing public, is a marked feature in its man­ agement. This fact is very frequently commented upon with pleasure by people who have occasion to patronize the Chicago and Alton. Two trains a day each way run from Chicago to St. Louis and Kansas City, and no change of cars is required to make the trip iii'either direction. If you are going South or West, do not forget the Chicago and Alton Bailroad. A ride over it will do you good. ••Put up" at the Gault House. The business man or tourist will find first- class accommodations at the low price of $2 and f2.50 per day at the Gault House, Chica­ go, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the center of the city, only one block from tho Union Depot. Elevator; all appointments first-class. Hoyt & Gates, Proprietors. Coughs and Colds. Those who are suffering from Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, etc., should try Brown's IJrokc'hiai, Troches. Sold onlu fn Inures. For nvspErsiA, indigestion, depression of spirits, and general debility in their various forms; also, as a prev< ntive against fever and ague, and other intermittent fevers, tho " Ferro-Phosphorated Klixlr of Calieaya," made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., of New York, and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has no equal. " Bwson's Aromatic Alum Bnlphnr Bosp" is indispensable in treating Skin Disease*. Baby Humors, l'ricklv Heat, Rashes, Sunburn, Hough, Chapped, or Greasy Hands, Sore Lips, and all Skin Blemishes; its exclusive use will retain a beautiful, smooth, and soft complexion. 'i5a, of Druggists, or by mail of Wm. Dreydoppel, Philadelphia, Pa. D R U G G I S T BITTERS. TAKK MO OTHER if you wish a CEKTAIK CUIUS for BILIOISNKSS, INJ>I«iKgTiON, DVSl'El'fil A. LOSS OF APPKTITE ami SI.EKP. Nothing wm ever invented that will TONK VP THIS SYSTEM in the Spring of the year equal to HOPS and MALT HITTERS. The only tiENl'lNK »re inamitarturetl by the HOPS ANI> MALT BITTERS CO. of Detroit, Mich. UNCLAIMED MONEY.--Names and descriptions ot HIJX10 lK-rnuus advertised for. to c laim property. Price, 25 cents. JAMES I'SHElt, 9 Murray St., N. Y. an«t Situations I. ClBCULABS PURE. Janesville, Wis. Marshlne Habit Cured in 10 ta 40 days. No par till cared. J>*. J. Stephens, Lebanon, Ohio. Ha«d-Book FREE. R. 8. « A. P. LACEV, Patent Atfyn, Washington, D. C. TELESMPNY RSTi".!,,,; I VALENTINE BROS.. J; OPIUM PATENTS L A D I E S ! Do ron wish a choice variety of HOT78K and GARDEN FLOWERS? If so. write A. K. SPALDING, Seedsman and Floriat, Ainsworth. Iowa, for Catatogue. R. U. AWARE* THAT Lorillard's Climax Plug bearing a red tin tag; that Lorillard's ~ raf fine out; that Lorillard's FrleaAsfW This title is often applied to Mrs. Lydla 8. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., by happy wives and mothers who have been enred of dis­ tressing disorders and relieved of pain aat suffering by Mrs. Pinkham s Vegetable Com. pound. Mrs. L. H , of Strother, 8. C, says, In a recent letter: "Your medicine has done me so much good that 1 don't think I oan stop taking It until I am entirely welL I owe all my good feelings to you. The doc­ tor can't get any credit for curing me; it Is your medicine that has done me more good than anything I have ever taken." A Dress­ maker in Findlay, Ohio, says: "I have derived so great a benefit from the use ot your Vegetable Compoun4 that I recommend It in the strongest terms, with the utmost confidence, and am sure it will cure the most stubborn cases. I consider It rertf much better than any other preparation made for all Female Complaints/^ If when you gre e n c l t m i c r o f . ComraseiseMTice He Who Becomes a Treasurer of Money for Another Is Respon> slble for a Safe Return. How much more responsible Is he who has In charge the health and life of a human being. We have considered well the responsibility, and arid* our ALLEN'S LUNG HAL- _ ,whieh for twenty-five years has been fa­ vorably known an one of the best and purest remedies for all Throat and Lone Diseases, we are particular to use nothing but the best lncrre- dients. NO Ol'IUM in any form enter s Its com­ position. It is to your interest to stand by the old and tried remedy, ALLEN'S LFNfl BAJU- HAM. and see that a bottle is always kept tut hand for immediate usa READ THE FOLLOW­ ING NEW EVIDENCE: .. . Addison, Pa., April 7,188S. I took a violent cold and it settied on my lunirs.sd much so that at times I unit blood. ALI.EX S LUNGi BALBAM was recommended to me as a good remedy. 1 took it, and am now sound and well. Tours respectfuUy, A. J. HILEMAN. . _ Addison, Pa.. April, 188S. A. J. COLBOM. Esq.. Editor of the Siitn^rwt llerriU, writes: I can recommend ALLEN'S BALSAM as being the best remedy for Colds and Coughs 1 erer used. _ . Astoria, IHs„ April 6,18SS. GentlemenI can cheerfully say your ALLEN'S LT'NO BALSAM, which I have sold for the past fifteen .yeare, scllw better than aifv ooutrh remedy, and (rives L'eneral Ratixfaetiou. 'Tis frequently recommended by the medioal profession here. Yours truly, II. C. MOONEY, Druggist. ^ „ „ La Fayf.ttk, It. I., Oct. IS, 1884. GentlemenAllow me to say that after nsinir three bottles of ALLEN'S LUNG BAlSAM for a badattaok of Bronchitis, I'am entirely cured. I send this vol- " Atod. H. DAVIB. uutarily. that those afflicted may be benefited. Yours respectfully, BDIUULL J. i, HARRIS & CO.(Limited) Props. CINCINNATI, OHIO. FOR SALE by nil MEDICINE DEALERS. I Bat the Minister's Last Call Postponed •-Remarkable Recovery of a Ladjr who waa Fronounecd Beyond Hope of Recovery. A well-known business man of New Hart­ ford, Gonn., writes as follows to Dr. David Kennedy, of Rondont, N. Y.: "A few months ago I let a neighbor of oars have some of your 'Favorite Remedy,' out of a bottle we kept for our own nse, to try for some tran­ sient trouble. That neighbor induced a sis­ ter-in-law, who lay almost at the point of death, to test its efficacy for her disease. For weeks previous she could not eat anything without experiencing great distress, and the medicine given her by her physicians af­ forded no help, and often seemed to increase her distress. It was thought she had Cancer of the Stomach, and at the time of which I write friends had sent for her pastor to make what it was believed would be his last calL This lady recovered, and is now compara­ tively well, and savs she would not be with­ out 'Kennedy's Favorite Remedy,' no matter what its cost might be. You cannot adver­ tise it too highly." Dr. Kennedy's "Favorite Remedy" is a specific for all Diseases of tho Blood, such ns the ills peculiar to females, and is invaluable in all Diseases of the Kid­ neys and Liver. When once known no fam­ ily will bo without it. "Dr. Kennedy's Fa­ vorite Remedy" for sale by all druggists, . Human Endurance. It is as acknowledged fact that man possesses the power of endorance to a greater degree than any of the lower animals. Professional pedestrians have been known to walk an average of one hundred miles jper day for six consecu­ tive days, which would be a wonderful accomplishment for a horse, and sur­ pass all the known records of that use­ ful animal. Of course a man possess­ ing the power of endurance to its full­ est extent must be in perfect health. One who is troubled with weak urinary and digestive organs, whose pulse is ir­ regular, whose heart palpitates, and who feels a sense of burdensome fatigue after the least exertion, would be very unwise to compete in a pedestrian con­ test. Should you suffer from a want of endurance, you can regain robust health and strength by using Dr. GliySOtt't Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. This remedy has saved thousands of weak, nervous, debilitated, rickety* head-aching mortals to lives of use­ fulness and the full enjoyment of per­ fect health. It removes all blood im­ purities, aches, pains, sores, pimples, etc., and assists nature in controlling and supporting an harmonious routine of bodily functions, so essential to every one's physical welfare. niDIIC Sample Book.Premium List.Price list sent IfJWW free. U. 8. CARD OO. Centerbrook. Conn uoYlalmi permanent employment and pood salary eeliine Queen City Skirt ana MorKlnjrSupporters.Sainpie outfit Dree. Address Cincinnati Suspender Co., Cincinuati, O. FRAZER AXLE GREASE. Beat In tbe World* Get the ceaalil. Jtr- qo.MsilMIIlS.1 as* thousands ofeaasa of ths wont kind and ef feaa •taadlna h»T» bwa cure*. Ind*d, fostronr '•"/'•jja la lutOeur, tbat I will »«iidTWO BOTT1.S8 fUI, lonther with a VALCABI.BTBBATIM •n ttal. ill---- Is any safferar. QLt«««pt--s»nd_r. 0.»ddr«a._ _ ' DB. T. A. 8LOCCK. Ill r«art SL. Vav Task. '• Oerrna^t •6ier "Hop that druggist aa he has taken yoar sao* indict him for the fraud, damages for the swindle, an* ward you liberally for tbe "I Have SufferedP* With every disease imaginable Mr Oe last three years. Onr Druggist, T. J. Anderson, recommending " Hop Bitters" to me, I used two bottles! Am entirely cured and heaitOy reeoas- mend Hop Bitters to every one. J. D. Walker, Buckner, Mo. Counterfeiting Proves Superiority "Although counterfeiting is one of the greatest crimes against the business ot any country, and in many cases-- "Destructive of health and lifel" • "It proves beyond a doubt tin* "Superiority"-- Of the article counterfeited; As no inferior article is ev^r ffiited. Proof of this is found in the gnat num­ ber in "Australia, England, Franco, :> "Germany, India, Belgium, Canada a»d the U. S.-- * Of counterfeits of the great remedy, "Hop Bitters," ,74 Whose name and merits are so well known the world over that it is • "Shining mark nnd a favorite prey "For Counterfeiters !!!" Beware of all that does not have a cluster of hops on the white label. ."-"iS i . izm%! Prosecute the Swindler*It! If when yon eill for Hop Bitters (me arewa JIooh on the ichite label) the drugg&t haa any xtnff called C.D. VVarner'a German Hoe BL. or with other "Hop* name, refuse it and anon I druggist as you would a viser: and if ke has I your money lor the stuff, indict him for the I and sue him lor damages for the swindle, a will reward you liberally for the contictioB. $75 • w monthly, Kiilull jp ttcSanVUI. Wa ansa wtal waaaj. Ware Co., Waahlnstoa It, A M O N T GOLDEN SEAL Bill UBS. know tbat «f«» it once a coxam ot aoUH : SEAL BTTFKB8. STST week yon will be<MxraAt#* j body against puitfrtagalltha GOIJDKN SKAT. ,No epidemic^ ,11m fiver, the : bowels, the rendered dS this neat lv o us fill* for ance may he avoided by ooum toms of sickness with this RiMt (ft They are recommended from friend to •ale increases daily. We warrant SEAL B1TTEK8 00.. Holland City, drugffists. Take no others. If your not keep It, we will send one bottles jwess for $1, or six bottles for tS. FIOTIhPIIBnUF . cT- '4r> P.# 19x24 Inches. ItteM are many portraits of Gkx. Gkatc, were of George Washington, but Che 90 1 Grant by Bottsvdus, taken Just I the trip around the world, whe : (anus in the prime ot life and ii onl.v one that will he known In trait of Vf ashineton by Stuart is the masses; even children root gnise it before i. ' the alphabet. The portrait of OtraOuoOoiL ! as taKcu at the time we refer to, ia the one I live ia (lie minds of the people of the ooubUv ha saved. Millions *aw ttm .1 irant *t about the time tMs was taken. Even though (ten. GrantahalllapniffM Spared to his country for another generation. Be <3 never have a portrait taken th-.t will fill the eye and heart a.s thi-> oue does, taken when at Hence thin will t»- tii# portrait of history. eti'.'ravinft or oil liainfini? can compare, with the photonMi'h--the mirror of the No one can look at the portrait without the ni^nH of character that won battles w ir. and of late has driven death from hisdojr wi all others quailed with fear. We baretoubtl portrait ana sort of Easter card of joy at the recovery of the Nation's Old Soldier. It HBOt ssle. It, will onl.v be furnished to wiibecrlbepsto 1 Bvkn'ino Wihconsin and the Webki.T Vnoom, upon the annexed terms: . . . i'rv<cnt mibscribera to the Weekly WttOOMUaift The Evening Wisconsin, by mail, can secure a OOW b y r e m i t t i t u r $ 1 . ( 1 0 f o r t h e W e e k l y f o r o a e y e a r ' " * the expiration of the iirencnt subscription; a" tor two months beyond the present subscri] Tuk Evkning Wisconsin by mail. This of to July 1st. Even- new subscriber to the WEEKLY tor one year, and to The Evemno Wisooi months, sending tl.oe, may receive mall. No limit to this offer. Subscribers to the Weekly can copy by sending a new subscriber, •Critser may receive one. 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