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i irorld _ i smiles, m long a* the %ron# regista nth a knnekled faith and force-like fista; i Uvea the life he is preaching of, id lores where moat Is the need of love; Jit voice is clear to the deaf man's eturn, And his face raUiae through the blind man's tears; The light shines out where the clouds were dim; And the widow's prayer goes up for him; And the sick man sees the a tin once more, And out o'er the barren fields he sees Springing blossoms and waving trees, reeling, as only the dying may, That God's own servant has come that Smoothing the path as it still winds on Through the golden gate where his loved have gone. jhie kind of a man for me and yon, However little of worth we do, - * Be credits full, and abides in trust That time will teach us how much is j ; le walks abroad and he meets all kin A K quarrelsome and uneasy minds, "t . Lnd, sympathising, he shares the pain " the doubts that rack us, heart and Unlit, id knowing this as we grasp his handL • e are surely ooming to Understand! T" | 4 lip looks on Willi pittying eves--. J , E'en as the Lord since paradise-- Else should we read, though our tint ShOflld glow As scarlet, they should be white as snow I A feeling still, with a grief 1 alf glad That the bad are as good as the good are hj4 fie strikes straight out for the right- is the kind of a man for yoa and met --James Wftitcomb Riley. 1BE MILKMAID'S XOVElL The milkmaid's young, the milkmaid's fair. And the milkmaid's name Is Mary, She can deftly turn a patent churn. And she's queen of the farmer's c The ploughman mode love to the milkmaid fair, And the inai '.en his love rejected, ' But he did not swear and tear his hair As the milkmaid fair expected. •I'm bound to heifer in peace or strife,^ The maiden heard him mutter; .j. • "The queen of the dairy shall be my wait •' *« And I won't have any but her.". . * "I'm in love with the druggist's clerk,* she said, "Then prfiy Be not persistent f T *"*- • ?Tis a pharmacist I'm going to vfed., « And not a farm assistant." . THE EMBALMED HEART. BY MRS. BUBTON N. HARBISON. » . • = . •: . Ono evening a poor physician sat in bis room in Florence, wishing that some Christian soul would have pity upon his ineagerly filled purse and fall ill Where he shonld be forced to take the case in charge. Not the smallest ac­ cident cr - the fboet trifling sickness ' had come into- his hands in weeks, and starvation was staring him in the face. At this moment a man wrapped in a dark man­ tle glided into his room, addressing me --for I who write am the hero of my story--by name: "I need your assist­ ance, Doctor," he said, in an agitated whisper, '"not for the living but for the dead. My sister, who came here with me on a visit to some relatives from our home in a foreign country, has just died, and before interring her remains in this strange land I desire, according to the custom of our family, to carry away With me her embalmed heart, that so much at least of onr beloved one may repose among the ashes of our kindred. My mission is to ask if you will assist me in this painful duty. It is necessary that it be done at night, and quietly, since we do not wish to start the tongues of the gossips, or to allow the servants of the house to become aware at it. Here is the certificate of her death signed by her regular physician, and as an earnest of my willingness to make the visit worth your while, allow me to lay this purse of gold upon your table." Seeing the glimmer of the large, bright pieces in the flames of my ex­ piring lamp, I could no longer hesitate^ Besides the straightforward manli­ ness of my visitor and his evidont emo­ tion quite won my sympathy. I fol­ lowed him, and after a long walk--dur­ ing the latter part of which I consented to be led blindfolded--we stopped at the small side gate of a large and stately palace. Opening this, we as­ cended in the dark a winding staircase, emerging in a dimly lighted corridor. Preceding me with noiseless footsteps, the stranger touched the spring of a secret door, which, flying back,revealed a lofty chamber lighted by a silver lamp swinging between marble columns. Here on a low couch lay the body of a beautiful young girl. "You will excuse my personal attend­ ance, Doctor," said my guide, turning away his face as if to conceal his tears. "It is more than I can bear, and I shall wait without until your task is finished." After a brief examination of my sub­ ject, who lay as if disposed for burial, and noting with interest the fact of her extreme youth and beauty, I prepared to make an incision in the region of the heart. Quickly, bat less skillfully than usual, I plunged my long, sharp knife into her breast--when, horror un­ speakable!-- the dead girl stirred, opened a pair of dark, imploring eyes, moaned once, as the blood gushed in a current over the bed, and then lay motionless as when I had seen her first. So completely did this circumstance unnerve me that my hand was par­ alyzed. Evidently the case had been one of suspended animation, and the hand that might have rescued the poor girl from the jaws of death had but served to hurl her into them. Dizzy and despairing, cursing the poverty that had led me to accept this fatal commission, not daring to look a sec­ ond time at my victim upon her blood­ stained bier, 1 dashed my knife upon the floor and fled. The door opened easily, but my visitor w«s nowhere to be seen. My wish now was to avoid him, and I rushed headlong down the long stone staircase into the courtyard, into the street, believing the stars above a thousand watcherB sat there to taunt me. How I finally reached home I know not, but when 1 found myself once more in the quiet of my poor room, everything as I had left it, books in their places, the cat purring, my mother's picture looking at me with a smile from the frame above my bed. I felt as if I had been wandering like Cain with a mark upon my brow dur­ ing a century of woe. Throwing my­ self upon my couch, I hid my face in my pillow, trying to shut out the look of her dying eves. Not until day broke did I *fall in a tortured sleep, awakening from which toward midday with a start 1 tried to persuade myself that the event of the night was Qoth« ing but a dream. But there in the drawer, where I had locked them on going out, were the gold pieces, a silent but eloquent reminder of my misfor­ tune. Seizing the purse with feverish fingers, I set out for a long tramp in the environs of the city, determined to bury the accursed thing out of ray sight forever. In a remote spot on a solitary hillside I made its grave, wish­ ing that I too might rest beneath the sod. As I walked home, hanger and thirst overpowered me. I gave my last b;t of copper to a wopian who was milking her cow, receiving in re­ turn a draught Of the foaming fluid. This sustained me to reach home again, and in the street I met an old comrade, who, railing' me on my wild loc&s, invited me to breakfast. As I had no dinner the night before, poor human nature urged me to accept, and with the hot ooffae, (fca rolls, th« fruit and tb|^ omelet, a semblance of comfort stole into my heart. While talking with my friend an undercurrent of thought about the tragedy kept lapping up over every other subject, A3 the tide comes in that nothing can hold back. Then it occurred to me to wonder if the brother, finding ny mission unac­ complished, would not return to re­ monstrate with me, and to take away the money 1 had not earned. How could I explain to him the reason of my failure and my flight ? Yes, surely, he would come to seek me, and as an honest man it was my duty to face him. As to explaining to him, that was another matter. Only one person in the world could have told that my knife was plunged into a living breast, and not a dead one, and she would speak no more. Why harrow her sur­ vivors with the unavailing knowledge of her brief return to life? After all I had acted without knowledge, and at the instigation of the one who loved her best. Certainly he loved her, as brothers rarely love their sisters, it seemed to me. I recalled the shudder with which he turned from a brief glance at the bed of death, and the sob in his voice that came, apparently, from •nighty grief. Assuredly, I should see him again. Even now he might be awaiting me at my lodgings. As I rose to go, my friend, who had been carelessly looking over a journal of the morning, read aloud a paragraph announcing that this was the wedding day of the young Princess N , a Bussian beauty, famous of late in Florentine society, who was to marry Prince L , a Roman nobleman, aa young, rich and well born as herself. "Let tis go to the church door," said Paul, my friend, "even if we are not bidden. A cat may look at the king, and all the world may admire a bride alighting from her carriage." Excus­ ing myself on the plea that my gar­ ments did not entitle me to a place even upon the pavement, I broke away from him and returned to my solitary room. As I mounted the steps, I walked slower, dreading the apparition of my visitor of the previous night. I opened the door to find that the room was empty and undisturbed. But upon my table lay a parcel, and tearing it open I saw within my bloody knife en­ folded in a paper on which these words were written: "I return to you your property, my somewhat careless and decidedly nerv ous doctor. ̂ You will probably nevei hear from me again, but consider yout gold well earned." A cold sweat broke out upon my brow. Now, indeed, had my feet touched the waters of a dark and un­ known sea. Could it be that I was the instrument of a crime ? * * * * * * I pass over the anguish of that day In the evening, able no longer to endure my thoughts, I went out to a cheap cafe where I could venture to ask for a sim­ ple meal on trust, since by to-morrow would arrive the small allowance sent me by my widowed mother every month. I asked for little, but I ate less. In my dazed state I was conscious that people around me were talking excitedly. Bj and by some newcomer suggested to have the story over which they were all gabbling told connectedly. Thus it was that, like a creature in a dream, I heard of the tragedy with which Flor­ ence that day was ringing--the tale of an infamous attack the night before upon lovely Princess N , on the eve of her wedding day, by some unknown miscreant, who, stabbing her while she lay asleep, had left her there for dead. That she did not die was a marvel, but tbe stab, though deep, was not neces­ sarily mortal. Clearly the assassin's hand must have wavered in his aim. Almost immediately the attendants, roused by some noise in the Princess' room, had found her, and by prompt measures the unfortunate lady was re­ stored to consciousness. Although hardly possible that she could survive, the physicians yet gave some hope. Useless to speak of the sorrow befall­ ing the noble household of it or of the young bridegroom thus cruelly robbed of his intended. Much more was printed and said regarding the murderer, his motive, and the search for him that was to be set on foot, but for that I care little. I was ready to deliver myself up at that moment, if it could serve to ex­ pose the villain who had used me for his tool. When I returned home again to meditate upon the best course for me to follow, I found another note from the destroyer of my peace, curt and mysterious as the preceding. "Fear nothing. Doctor. Yon are safe and unsuspected. Our patient has es­ caped us." 9 * * * m m * Some years later I went one evening to the opera. Looking up at the array of beauties above me I saw her. Never to be forgotten was the exceedingly white skin, with the large, dark eyes and hair of raven blackness. She wore a robe of white, with row after row of priceless pearls around her throat. "That's the beautiful Princess L," said a gossip near me. "She has just returned to Florence with her husband for the first time since the tragedy that so nearly cost her life. Do you know there was a rumor that she had been dragged in some powerful fashion be­ fore the murder was attempted ? But the whole affair was so hushed up that lit­ tle was ever really known about it." "Strange that no clew was found to suggest a motive for the crime," re­ joined his neighbor. "If she, young, loving, and beloved, was so attacked, who is safe? That handsome man in the back of her box, who is leaning over her shoulder--see, he has just withdrawn into the shadow--is her husband, I suppose?" "No, the Prince is the slight, youth­ ful one, who is talking with the lady in velvet The other--yes, there he comes forward--is the Count di S, who has been so long absent on his travels in the East. They used to say he was a suitor for her hand, but apparently the fancy is forgotten." There, sitting at her elbow with an air of easy confidence--evidently the trusted and familiar friend of wife and husband--I saw--my enemy and hers. Inter Ocean. r, a,>,>>>„;,mi. I..1.1-1 ' .. HELL GATE. lie Whence cornea and murders? K ••veral causes. of CriaMb As ip by magic one's pains vanish if he be a sufferer from rheumatism or neuialgia and applies ft. , Jacobs Oil, the' pain-ban- aha, charges Jt t that hopetessiess of a future state cripples For toughs and Colds Red Star Congh Cure is a safe, pleasant, sure remedy. Tbe Medical Practitioner and the Char­ latan. Collecting "Toddy" in India. In Southern ndia they have a pecu­ liar way of extracting juice from the cocoanut for the manufacture of an in­ toxicating drink called "toddy." A cut is made at the end of the growing fruit, and to the latter a small earthen pot is attached to catch the oozings. Twice a day the liquor is collected by men who climb the trees in a curious fashion. They have a sort of strap of bamboo about seven or eight feet long, which they fasten around the tree and around their own bodies just above the waist. They also have a smaller strap of the same sort around their feet. They ascend the tree by raising the strap a foot or so up the trunk, and then they pull themselves up by it, and they climb up and down very rap­ idly and easily. ^Qbaot died at the age of# Bridal Charms ap# Oneng. The Romans were very supefstitious about marrying in May and February. The 14tli of May has always be^p con­ sidered in England peculiarly unlucky for brides. Why, tradition sayeth not. In the Orkney Isles the bride selects an evening for her wedding when there is a full moon and a flowing tide. In Scotland the last day of the year is considered lucky, and if the moon chances to be full that night the bride's prospects in life are supposed to be brilliant. Sunday is a great favorite with brides in some parts of England and Ireland. The French demoiselle, however, thinks the first Friday in the month particularly fortunate for her nuptials. & Yorkshire, when the bride is about to cross her father's threshold, after re­ turning from church, a plate contain­ ing a few small pieces of cake is thrown from an upper window by one of her male relatives. If the plate is broken she will be happy, but if not there is every prospect that she will get her share < of this world's misery. In Sweden the bride on her way back from church has pieces of bread in her pockets. These are thrown away on her road to her home, to insure her goAl luck. It is ill-fortune to the one who picks up these crumbs. If the bride lose her slipper on the way from church, Bhe will lose all lier troubles, and the one who picks it up will gain riches. In every country it is ati unhappy omen for the wedding to be put off when once the day has been fixed, and in England it is believed great misfor­ tune will ensue if a bridegroom stand, if only for a moment, at the junction of cross-roads on his wedding morn. In England, also, it is thought a sign of bad luck if the bride fails to shed tears on her wedding-day, or if she turn back to take a last look at herself in her wedding toilet. Among the English lasses it is bad luck for a bride to look back or go back when once she has started for church, or to marry dressed in green, or let the ceremony go on while there is an open grave in the church-yard. Whon the bridesmaids undress" the bride they must be sure to throw away all the pins, to mako sure of good for themselves, as woll as for her. If a single pin be left in the bride's rai ment, wo unto her. And it a brides­ maid should keep one of them she will not be married before Wliitesuntide, or the Easter following. Therefore brides­ maids in England are not given to pre­ serving the pins from bridal costumes. If the bridal party venture oil' the land they must go by steam, and the bride, to make certain of good luck, must, on the happy day, wear "some­ thing old and something new, some­ thing gold and something blue." If she sees a strange cat on that day, she will take it as an omen that she is to be very happy; and if on the morning of her wedding day she steps from her bed on something higher than the floor and then on something higher still, she will rise in the world from the time of her marriage. To make sure of this the maiden has a chair and a table at the bedside, and steps from one to the other on rising from her slumber on her wedding-morn. On leaving her home, and on starting from the church to return, she is very careful to step out with her right foot first, and is care­ ful not to address her husband after they are wedded without first calling him by his full name. To break the wed­ ding ring is a sign that the wearer will soon be a widow. And there are fifty others of the same sort which are shared by our young women, who carefully follow many of these mummeries in the weddings of to-day. Though they be nineteenth- century maids and graduates of col­ leges of high standing, they are not proof against the superstitions of brides from time immemorial.--Anon. Monkeys at Breakfast. An English gentleman who lived in India during his early life tells an amusing story of some pranks played by monkeys. They were almost as. tame and playful as kittens about his home, and says there were a great number of them. He Bays: "I was married in India, and engaged for our home a house fourteen miles or so from any other habitation of white men. On the morning of our arrival my wife went to change her traveling dress, while the servants laid breakfast on the veranda overlooking the river. At the clatter of the plates there began to come down from the big trees that overshadowed the house, and up from the trees that grew in the ravine be­ hind it, and from the house roof itself, from everywhere, a multitude of solemn monkeys. They came up singly, and in couple.*, and in families, and took their places without noise or fuss on the ver­ anda, and sat there like an audience waiting for an entertainment to com­ mence. And when everything was ready, the breakfast all laid, the mon­ keys' all seated, I went in to call my wife. "Breakfast is ready, and they are all waiting," said I. "Who are waiting?" she aefked fn dis­ may. "I thought we were going to be alone, and I was just coming out in my dressing-gown." "Never mind," I said. "The people about here are not very fashionably dressed themselves. They wear pretty much tbe same things all the year 'round." And so my wife carno out. Imagine, then, her astonishment.' In the middle of the veranda stood our breakfast, and all the rest of the space, as wall as the railings and the steps, were covered with an immense company of monkeys, as grave as pos­ sible, and a* motionless and silent as if they were staffed. Only their eyes kept blinking, and their little round ears kept twitching. Laughing heartily, at which the monkeys only looked all, the graver, my wife sat down. "Will they eat anything?" said she. "Try them," I said. So she then picked up a biscuit and threw it among the company. Three hundred monkeys jumped up in the air like onfe, and just for one in­ stant there was a riot that defied de­ scription. The next instant every mon­ key was sitting in its place as solemn and serious as if it had never moved. Only their eyes winked and their ears twitched. My wife threw them another biscuit, and again the riot, and then another, and another. But at length we had given away all that we had to give, and stood up to go. Tbe monkeys at once rose--every monkey on the veranda--^ and. advancing gravely to the steps, walked down them in solemn proces­ sion, old aqd young together, and dis­ persed for the day's occupation.-- Brooklyn Union. A Cincinnati wife asked her hus­ band to mind the baby for half an hour, while she went to the store. This was thirteen weeks ago, and she isn't home yei A Novel Feat of Enjinees-ing. Preplrations lot blowing up Flood Bock m Hell Gate are nearly complete. The work of drilling the subterranean galleries that honeycomb this great mass of rock has been going on for nine years. In all twenty-four galleries or tunnels have been run from north to south through the island, the longest of which is twelve hundred feet long. These are intersected by forty-Six others running nearly east and west, the largest one being 625 feet. The tunnels are on an average ten feet from floor to ceiling, and six or eight feet wide. The roof of rock they support is from ten to twenty-five feet thick. The rock taken from them measured 60,000 cubic yards as it lay in its orig­ inal bed. The huge pillar and roof that remain measure 275,000 cubic yards as they stand. In making these galleries fissures of water were met with, but they were all successfully plugged with wood, the use of cement being out of the question under the great pressure of water. After the gal­ leries were completed the next work was to drill the roof and the pillars full of holes in which to put cartridges of dynamite. Tuese holes were drilled around the pillars and in the roof. They are two and a half inches in di­ ameter, and they average nine feet in depth. They are from four to five feet apart. They run up through the pil­ lars at an angle of forty-five degrees, and up through the roof at an angle of sixty degrees with the horizontal. They have all been completed at last, the appropriation which became available in July of last year being sufficient to complete that work, supply and put in place the explosives, and clear away the debris after the island has been blown out of the water about Oct. 1 next. Two kinds of explosives are be­ ing used, dynamite and rackarock. The cartridges when filled are taken over to Flood Rock and thence into the gal­ leries, where the workmen shore them into the holes by means of long wooden ramrods. The holes are filled up to •witliin about a foot of the top with rackarock cartridges from little steel prongs that catch in the sides of the hole serving to keep the cartridges in place. Then on top of the rkokarock is put in each hole a fifteen-inch dyna­ mite cartridge that projects a few inches from the hole. When this work is done there will be twenty-two miles of cartridges stowed away in the pillars and roof of that nine-acre chamber. The men are at work stowing away the cartridges now and taking up the little iron raiLways which run through the channels, and on which patient mules dragged out the car-loads of rock after the blasts. The superintendent of the work said recently: "We do not expect the explosion to make any more of a disturbance than the fifty thousand pounds of dynamite did that was exploded under the point at Astoria. Small powder blasts often blow the water higher. It will heave up the water, the waves will dance awhile, and then it will settle down and for awhile we will have a worse ob­ struction here than we have now. The broken rock will occupy about a half more space than the solid rock does, but we have the money to clear it away. The big rocks will be grappled up and carried away to deep water. There is a big hole more than one hundred feet deep near the upper end of Blackwell's Island that will hold the stuff." "After you get the cartridgea all in place what will you do next?" "Flood the chamber. It will take about a day to do it. We wilt put the end of the big pipe through which we have been pumping down under the surface and siphon the water back in. As soon as that is done we will let off the blast. There will be no unneces­ sary delay then, and that time will come, as has already been stated, about the 1st of October." "How will you fire thewblast ?* "By an electric current, or just as the other one was fired--partly by electricity and partly by concussion. „We have not decided whether we will lay a cable over to Astoria to send the current through, or whether we will provide some automatic apparatus to touch it oft' with. The dynamite cart­ ridges are used because they are more sensitive to concussion than rackarock." Advice to Old Men. Don't presume on yotir age. Don't be vain of your handsoihe 'gray hair and whiskers. Don't set yourselves up aa modelp of propriety in'public and get full of booze in private. Don't think because voung men are young they are fools. They probably are, but you were young once your­ self. Don't take the front seats at ballet shows. Your bald heads -reflect the light unpleasantly. Don't say vulgar things before ladies, and excuse yourselves on the ground that you are old enough to be their fathers. • .J? Don't forget that age must respect itself before it can command i others. Don't sour the world on you by sour­ ing yourselves on the world. ^ Don't fool with temptation. ^ Don't be too wisg. y Dont try to make love. The old fools are the biggest fools. Don't let your love of the world make you forget that a man never, gets too old to die. Don't try to be a bov. Your grand­ sons will 'attend to that part of the business. Don't let the evening of life be less joyous than the morning. The fresh­ ness of the morning gave you vigor to work through time, aud the quiet of the evening should give you peace to reftt through eternity.--Exchange. m Old Terms in Carving. The following is taken from an old book published in 150* and printed by Wvnkyn de Worde. The #brk bears the title of "The Book of Kervinge" and shows some of the dishes that were fancied by our ancestors of three cen­ turies ago: The terms of the carver be as hereofo|- loweth: Break that deer; lesche that brawn; rear that goose; lift that swan; sauce that capon; spoil that hen; frusche that chicken; unbrace that mallard; unlace that coney; dismem­ ber that heron; display that crane; dis­ figure that peacock; unjoint that bit­ tern; untache that curlew; alaye that felande; wing that partridge; wing that quail; mine that plover; thigh that pigeon; border that pasty; thigh that woodcock; thigh all man­ ner of small birds; timber that fire; tire that egg; chine that salmon; string that lamprey; splat that pike; sauce that plaice; tusk that barbel; culpon that trout; fin that chevin; tras* sene that eel; tranch that sturgeon; undertroach that porpoise; tame that crab; barb that lobster. And here endeth the goodly terms of carving; fortitude for bearing Ufe's ilia. Another de­ clares suffering from the universal badness depression the cause. A third writer at­ tributes it to increasing iaaanity. A physician thinks much of the tendency is inherited. bi'S WSS&SlT""",be PiWtiinkefB have comiiitted suidUai but so nave orthodox churchmen. Financial straits have beset n,any, but* the wealthy have also taken tneir life. Insanity and dissipation have preceded sui­ cides and family rmn tiers. One lent tire common to almost every such crime challenges attention. H Wellnljrh every report of suicide and family iraiirder mentions the perpetrator as having- 1 for some time been subject to melancliolv." Whence tomes this? All recognized medical authorities tell us that the fire which consumes the brain 1s alwayB kindled by derangements of diges­ tion; that good digestion is impossible with­ out pure blood, and pure blood is never known when the liver and kidneys are out of order. UndA- such circumstances, a pre­ ventive should be sought, and for this War­ ner's Safe Cure is sovereign--a fact Conceded by the t*s« authorities tn the land, jand it it wpeci^Uy edtonfedta! % the sfeftbiMa/Dii Dio Lewis.--liochextcr Democrat* Before Pens. The chisel was employed four inscrib­ ing on stone, wood, or metal. It was so sharpened as to suit the material operated upon, and was dexterously handled by all early artists. The style, a sharp-pointed instrument of metal, ivory, or bone, was used for writing ow wax tablet^. The style was unsuitable for holdiug a fluid, hence a species of reed was employed for writing on parch­ ments. These styles and reeds were carefully kept in ca-es, and the writer? had a sponge, knife, and pumice-stone, compasses for measuring, scissors for cutting, a puncheon tc point out the beginning and the end of each line, a rule to draw and divide the lines into columns, a glass containing sand, and another with writing-fluid. These were the chief implements used for centuries to register facts and events. Reeds coutinued to be used till the eighth cen­ tury, though quills were known in the middle of the seventh. The earliest author wliO usea the Wbrdjpentuiifor A writifig-peh is Isiifoxtis, #lio lived in that oentnry, and toward the «nd of it a Latin sonnet "To a Pen" was written by an Anglo-Saxon. But though quills were known at this period, they came into general use very slowly, for in 1443 a present of a bundle of quills was sent from Venice by a monk, with a letter in which he says: "Show this bundle to Brother Nicholas, that he may choose a quill." The only other material to which wo refer is ink, the composition and colors of which were various. The black was made of burnt ivory and the liquor of the cuttle-fish. We are not prepared to say what other ingredients were used or how it was manufactured, but these ancient (nanuseripts prove that the ink was of a superior descrip­ tion. Bed, purple, silver, and gold inks were also used. The red was made from vermilion and carmine, the purple from murex, and the manufacture of these, especially the gold and silver varieties, was an extensive and luof ative busi&el^ --Chambers'Journal. * Do not draw a wrong inference from ie frank statement of the difficulties Jbiihbeiet the medical practitioner. Think, rather, if truth is so hard of at­ tainment, how precious are the results which the consent of the wisest and most experienced among the healers of men agrees in accepting. Think what folly it is to cast them aside in favor of palpable impositions stolen from the records of forgotten charlatanism, or of fantastic speculations spun from the Bquinting brains of theorists as wild as the Egyptian astronomer.-- Oliver Wendell Holmes. Faith in the Candidate. II was provided in the old blue la^| of Connecticut that "no man shall holjl any office who is not sound ih the faith, and faithful to this dominion; and who­ ever gives a vote to such a person shall Eay a fine of $1, for^a_second offense he a shall be disfra in the cure of severe coughs, weak lungs, spitting of bioo'.l, anil) the enry staues of Om- fumptiim. Dr. Piercejs "Golden Medical Dis­ covery" has astonished the medical faculty. /Wbile^vit euro# thfo severest covghs, it streng-theh»-ttaA-systeai and yiuri/lts blood. By druggists. •I Y I T*« Clangor of an Aiak-tti'lM Close by, in the stillness of the n glit, oould scarcely startle the ordinary individual more than do trifling noises the nervous inva'ld. But once the nerve* are braced and the system in­ vigorated with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, this abnormal sensitiveness is succeeded by a tran­ quillity not to be disturbed by trivial Impaired digestion ia a fertile cause of nerve weakness and unnatural mental gloom, and a vigorous renewal of the action of the stomach Is one of the surest means of invigorating and Quieting the nerves. Insomnia, or sleepless­ ness, a form of nervons disease, is unquestion­ ably benefited by spdatives, when it is pro­ longed, or of frequent occurrence, but its permanent removal in more effectually achieved with the Bitters. ' lilx moiliclne is aitiio signally etticacious for m tion, liver compl beys and bladder. vai ih more enecuiany achieved ' lilx moiliclne is al«io signally * The Iron Crown. During the middle ages the Iron Crown was the subject of much interest and superstition. It was a crown of gold, having inside of it a ring of iron, which was said to have been forged from the nails of Christ's cross, and it was made by order of Princess Tlieutle linde for lier husband, Agilulf, King of the Lombards, in the year 591. Th crown was afterward given by the Queen to the church at Monza. Charle­ magne used this iron crown at the ceremony of his coronation, and after him all the efhperors Wliq were also Kings of. Lorubardy iiiac^e similar use qf 'it. Kapoleon I., it is said, whan at Milan in 1805, put this crown on his head, saying: "God has given it to me; woe to him who shall touch it." The "great woodman of Europe," as Victor Hugo called Napoleon, founded the Order of the Iron Crown, which still exists in Austria. It fell into dis­ use after Napoleon's fall, but was re­ vived by Francis I. in 1816, and is now regarded as a high honor in Austria. The Iron Crown was taken by the Austrians to Vienn% in 185S», but was MOT is r0i * l: *; # J i .'Iti The white color of arctic mammals and birds has hitherto been ascribed to protective resemblance, the adaptation to a snow-covered country being attrib­ uted to the preservation of 'jptlividuals which, by *8s:ir«ikit4ug toitheir sur­ roundings in color, either escaped detection by their foes or were enabled to secure their prey more advantageous ly. A writer in Nature, however, scotfs at this explanation, and points out that white, the wQrsL absorber, is al&o the worst radiate* of all forms of radiant energy, so that warm-blooded creatures thus clad are better able to withstand the severity of an arctic climate. Pfegre*. ^ -f y «tHges art qufcltly at anddri^rf wffhk1tfic completion of railroads, so the liug-o, drastic, cathartic piJUs, composed of cru ie and bulky medicines, are quickly abandoned with the Introduction *>f Dr. Hcroe's *'I% asant Pur­ gative Pellets," which are sugar-coated, and little larger than mustard seeds, but com­ posed of highly concentrated vegetable ex­ tracts. Dy druggists. Straws show vfeiefc way tfee «tfo$gtil*r goea. ^ - .\u .. .v,-r For colds, fevers, and inflammatory at­ tacks, as well as for cholera morbus, diar­ rhea, dysentery, or bloody flux, colic, or cramps in stomach, uee Dr. Pierce's Extract of Mnart \Veed, composed of best Grape Brandy, Smart Weed, or Water Penper, jW- mSiea Oingpr, an:l(?iun£tipf Wuter. i ? . ^ -- - • *_*-'• The new Government building In Phila­ delphia is settling. Too heavy contracts on it, probably. •'Pat up" at tbe Vault House. business man or tourist will And first- daps'accommodations at the low price of %t and $-.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 the Union Depot. Elevator; all f.ppointments first-class. Hoyt St Gates. Proprietors. If afflicted wiUi Sgjrc Byes, jw Dr. Isaac Thompson's fctfre Wat«r •r%cBta«rtl it. Mc.: The Frazer Axle Grease Is better and than attjr othernat double the pclmw A Shajcer community--where prevails.--Carl Pretzel's U ceklu. ague important. When you visit or leave New York City, save Bagaag« Exnressag« and Carriage Hire, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: WO elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, reduced to tl and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator, Uestaurant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. Fami­ lies can live better for less money at the Grand I'nion than at any first-class hotel in the oity. Odf. to bald-headed men--There'll be no parting there.-- TUe Jud'je. * --r - • i A H«iil<Ired diMt'iiMTK may *pro«eed from one source--a discasdu or debilitated stomach. No human being can be healthy when digestion is disordered. Tone tbe stom­ ach and liver, and regulate the bowels with J>H. W'AIAKK'S VkC K T A H I .E VlNKCAU BlTTERS, and the work Of assimilation and excretion will gb bravely on. liy pioducing perfect di­ gestion and a proper tlow of bile, it insures pure blood, a vigorous circulation, and a prompt discharge of all waste matter from the system. Mbmbehs of Congress have a franlt way about thom.--Te.ra-s S For dvspî psia, indiokstion, depression of spirits, and general debility in their various forms; also, as a p rev( ntive against fever and ague, and other iniermittent levers, the " Ferrn-Phosphorated Klixir of Caiifaya," made by Caswell, Hazard Sc Co., of New York, and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic; ana lor patients recoverlnpr from fever or other.sickness it has no coiia:. RED STAR UFIE €HG Abntlutely Free from Opiates? Emetics and PoiaotM, H PROMPT, SAFE, SURE CURE For Coach*, for* Throat, IIouwieM, taflaena, Bronchitis, Croup, Whooping Co«|k| jtathmo, Qalaay, Pains in Chest, and other of th# Throat anil I.ungs, Price SO conts a hottlc. ScM liv Drneeints and Heal­ er*. Partiet unable to induce their dealer to promptly get U for them icitl rereir e tiro bottles,EzpreMcAargtt paid, by tending one dollar to TUE OUR1.ES A. VOf.KI.ER CO*PUT, Sole Ownertand M*nufactnn»ra, Baltimore* Hart land. V R. 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Havings stock of Repairs for over ls.ooo different Stoves, can we not make it to vour advanfatre to trade with ua? Prompt shipments ami satisfaction su;u-anteed. jfiJW.C. MKTZNEK STOVE HEl'AIB CO.. 125 fc 127 %«st Kand"lph Street. CSiicapo. Catalogue t-ent free. $165 CASH FOlt ao 1».V VS OM.Y! Will buv a New Upright or Square F I - A - I s T O ! Boxail and on cars, titool and cover •6 extra. KEEO'S TEMPLE Olf MUSIC. 138 State St.. Chicago you pose Mustang' Liniment only gotd for horses? It is for inflamma­ tion of all flesh* ^ BITTERS. It wfll cure anjr caae of I>lr«r and Kliacy troubles when property takea. It ha perfect renovator and inrifjorator. It cleanaea the ajra* tem of the p«t»onoD« humors that develop faa Liver, Kuinejr and ITrlnarjr diaeaaaa, can* lo»4 to a health Morlnat enrlcmnp^lt, nfmfelag and rying_away tlljylao--m matter and r** it, re ^ Mind ana Body. It preventa tbe growth Bertoae Illneaa of a Baactroa* Clem Dlaeaaee that beg-in in mere trivial i nients, and are too apt to be neglected as and THOUSANDS OV CASBS of the wont forms of theae terrible have been qnlekly relieved and in a time perfectly cured by the use of H*m Malt Bitters. Do not aret Rom and Hlalt Bitten founded witn lafferfor preparations of all. Dame. Take Nothing but Hops* Malt ters if you want a sure Care. HOPS 1 IM.T BITTEBS CBl, Dnrai, ia CATARR HAY-FEVER. I have been a (treat ruf­ fe rer from Hay-Fever for IS yearn. I read of the wondrrms enreg bv Ely's Creara llaliu, and thought I would try once more. After cue application I v.-as wonderfully helped. Two weeks aw I commenced u»inc it. and now Iteel en- tir'-iv < urM. It is the great­ est discovery known.--DtJ- hamel Ot*BK. Firmer, Lee, Ifaia. CREAM BALM lias sained an enviable rep- utadbA wherever known, rm|Clt» P.W »»«&.«»;.' 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