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• ' • ' ' '**:/< rJ' 1, • -a A FRIDAY CHILD. ynun I put on my white straw imnffltr hit It blows; And when my dog curt I would drive, on that •• It snows; --' In winter time abroad I do not room Because The day my new red sleigh come* jtngHng VtHj It thaws. TIM girl who, of nil rosebud blooming girls I picked, : And love for her sweet eyes, lips, cheeks, and carls-- She kicked. And when the man I hate. poor, stupid, mean. And grim, «, .Came by, with farewell glanee for me, my aueen Took him, I bought West Shore at ninety-three--great stroke Forme; And the next day. as sore as fate, she broke To three; Were I a barber, all the world would know My chair; And all mankind would weax dense beard, and grow 1 . Long hair. Were I a preacher, quickly the milieu* I urn. With utter ruin to my business, then ~ Would come. I'll be an undertaker; then Ican™'---' - Defy The laws of nature, for no living man Would die. •--Robert J. Burdette, in New York Star. % FAME VERSUS LOVE. v "It cannot be! As these words fell from Helen Arm­ strong's lips sbe rose from her sent, an old . overturned boat, and moved slowly toward the water's edge. . For a moment lier companion, a man of perhaps 25. hesitated; th^n he j.ined her, repeating: "It cannot be, Helen? Surely you are not in earnest. You love me, have you not 6aicl it? and yet you refuse to become my •wife!" "Edwin, I--" "You did not mean it, quickly inter­ rupted Edwin Bennett, rdding: "Come, darling, why should we not be happy?" and he drew her hand within his arm. For an instant she let it rest there, then slowly but firmly she loosened his clasp, as she said: < "For two years you and I have been friends. Jn that time did you ever know - me to change my mind after I had once decided upon anything?" "No, but--" answered her companion, quickly, while she, unheeding, goes on •with: "You know the one great desire of my life is to win fame as an artist. Could I do this as your wife?" "Why not, Helen? Would I not do any­ thing on earth to help you?" came the proud answer, as Edwin Bennett bent his eyes fondly upon the fair face beside him. "No, Edwin, as wife I could never hope to attain fame. Mairiage brings to woman so many cares that there is very little time left over for other work. I should not make you happy. I should be constantly longing for my old free life." "If that is all I am not afraid to risk my happiness, Helen," answered her lover, a more hopeful look lighting up his hand­ some face. "Think how for five years," continued Helen, "I have worked with the one end in view. My home, you are aware, has not been particularly agreeable. Uncle and aunt are kind in their way, and have al­ ways let me have my will about painting, provided it did not cost them anything. As for love or sympathy, you have seen how- much they have yielded me." "Seen and felt for you, Helen, jGrod knows. And now that I will make^'our life, if love can do it, one happy dream, you will not; and yet you do not deny your love for me."' For a second Helen's eyes rested long­ ingly upon the face of the man who loved her so dearly; then into their dusky depths crept an intense, passionate longiug, as, they swept the horizon and noted the glori­ ous splendor of the setting sun, while she t exclaimed: - "Oh, Edwin! If I could only produce that sunset just as it is. If I only could?" With an impatient sight she turned away. "Always her art, never, me; perhaps she is right after all. It would always stand between us." She, not noticing, went on with: "If it could only stay long enough for me to catch those colors, but no, it is fading now." Turning, Helen found her companion had left her side, and stood a few yards away. "Edwin," she called. In an instant he was beside her, every­ thing forgotten, except that she was the •woman he ioved. "I wanted to tell you how good Mr. Hovey is. It seems lie was acquainted with poor papa years ago, when I was a baby, and therefore feels quite interested in me. Yon have heard how he praises my work, and last night he proposed-- "Pioposed?' exclaimed Edwin Bennett, hotly. "Why, you don't mean to say the . old man actually had the audacity to* ask you to many liim?" "How ridiculous! How could you think of sueh a thing?" answered Helen, a ripple of laughter escaping from between her pretty teeth as she continued: "No; he proposed, if I were willing, to send me to Italy for two years, he, of course, do fifty ing the greater part of the expense. He said when I became famous I could refund him the little amount if I wished. Was it not generous of him? Just think, two years at work among the old masters! What could I not do then? It would be such a help to nie. One can live very simply there. My little income would do, with care, I think." "And you would go?" As Edwin Bennett asked this question a look of pain crossed his face. " Why not?" came the reply, as Helen raised her eyes questioningly to her com­ panion. "You say you love me; and yet you would put the sea between us. Helen, wait: I will work hard and earn money enough to take us both abroad. Do you think I could deny you'anything? You should paint to your heart's content, from the old masters, or anything else you pleased. So long as you were happy, I should be. Perhaps I might turn painter, too, some day, with you to inspire me," he added, smiling slightly. "I do not doubt vor.r love for me, Edwin, but I shall never marry; I intend to devote my life to art; as a wife it would be im­ possible for me to do so; I should be hin­ dered and trammelled in a thousand ways. Believe me, I have thought very earnestly of all this, and I--" "Helen, when I came to spend my vaca­ tion here at Little Rock, so as to be near you. I said to myself, 'Now you can ask the woman you love to be your wife, and know that you have a home to offer her.' For your sake I wish I were rich; but I am still young, and with the good prospects I have, I do not see why I shall not be able before many years to give my wife all she can wish." "It is not that, Edwin. I should not love you one bit the more if you were a million­ aire," interrupted Helen, glancing reproach­ fully at him. "Helen, my holiday is over to-morrow. I must have my answer to-night." The words caqpe somewhat sternly from between Ed­ win Bennett's lips. Mechanically, with the end of her parasol, Helen Armstrong traced on the glittering, yellow sauds: "Fame verus Love." Then, seeing what she had done, she sought to efface them. Too late. Edwin Bennett's hand stayed hers, as. po -iting to the letters that stood out, he said, l oarsely: "Choose!" For a second she hesif jted; then, slowly came the answer: "I accepted Mr. Hovey's offer this morn­ ing. I am to sail in a week." Spurning her hand from him, Edwin Bennett cried out, passionately: "God forgive you! I cannot!" Then, without another word, he turned and left her. * A faint cry of "Edwin" escaped her lips, as her arms were heM out imploringly to­ ward him. Then th fell to her side, and she, too, turned am? went slowly across the sands in the oppos; >e direction. If he had looked bock and seen those out8;<retefaed Ministering to o Mind Diseased. . A shrewd German a century ago re­ commended to every man overcome with sornfW to force himself each day to study for a fixed period a language or art, whatever was most pleasing and agreeablo to him. The work for the brain on a totally different side from its grief is stimulating, strengthening. A political exile, also a Germau, be­ ing sentenced to a long solitary impris­ onment, kept madness at bay by decor­ ating tbe walls of his cell and by mak­ ing long lis'.s and sketches of people and places he had known. He recom­ mends a man in grief to pay instant at­ tention to the little pursuits or occu­ pations which usually give him pleas­ ure, and to obstinately devote himself to them until his brain has had time to heal. "If we are denied great joys let us earnestly seek to fill their place by small ones," 1® adv ses. The epicure, after the first crushing blow of agony, unconsciously relishes a discussion of his next meal; an or­ derly w oman bending over the coffin of her child has a feeble comfort in its neat, pure garments. People of me­ thodical habits should be given occu­ pation which will call forth their gen- ins for organization ind system. In short, we should remember that the brain is a material organ as well as the stomach, and, when in danger of dis­ ease from the excessive strain upon it of one emotion, a counter irritation from other smaller ones is a whole­ some and usually successful treatment. --Exchange. THE cotton crop of Mr. Richardson, of Mississippi, is greater than that of all Egypt, and hi» plantations are worth $12,000,000. Dio LEWIS says a pretty hand is far more rare than a pretty face. in any other way. It took this "Hub two hundred years to reach a popula­ tion of 60,000. It has done wonders since, but if population is the chief end of a city, Chicago overtops us. But there are other things besides people, wealth, health, and sentiment, so we are not cast down at our deficiency. The writer of this article is not so old as the "pathfinder" by almost a decade, and he saw Chicago when it was quite a baby, its population being about 5,- 000. Hera is another way of pres anting a similar growing fact: The late Major George H. Crossman related a circum­ stance to this writer in connection with St. Louis, that made him feel at the time as if all the good chances in this country had passed by and that he wits born an age too late. He said after his graduation at West Point, which was in 1824, he was sent to the frontier post of St. Louis, where he was stationed several years. It was, as is well-known,' then a small place, and one day he went with a jolly party of friends into the outskirts of the town on a sort of lark to have a good time. They rolled nine­ pins, and engaged in other amusements, with the "jvolian attachments" of gam­ bling, and he came off quite lucky with iiis purse pretty full. his fiduciary size then, he being but arm show different their life might have been; but no, he plodded angrily along the *. «T I. n -n * • shore, glancing neither to the right nor to A,, John L. rremont, who is 72 years the left. Little by little the wave crept up and Love was drowned, while Fame still stood'out bold and clear npon the yellow sands. • <•« •"* ». • • • • Ten years have come and gone sinoe Helen Armstrong and Edwin Bennett parted on the shore, and during that time they have never met. Helen had won that which she had striven for. She had become an artist of renown. Even royalty had been pleased to compliment her upon her art. For the last month one of Helen Arm­ strong's paintings had been on exhibition at the Academy of Design, and crowds had been drawn thither to see this last work of the celebrated artist. The subject was simple, nothing new, yet visitors returned again and a^ain to gaze at it. It was the last day of its exhibition, when a lady and gentleman, the gentle­ man leading a little girl of perhaps 3 years by the hand, passed into the room where the picture hung. "Oh! isn't it too bad there is suchacrowd; I wanted to see it," exclaimed the lady; to which the gentleman replied: "We will look at the other pictures first and come back again; perhaps there will will not be such a crowd then." An hour or two later the gentleman and lady returned; then the room was almost deserted, except for a few strangers here and there. It was just about time to close the gallery. For a few moments they stood in silence before the painting; then a little voice said: "Baby wants to see, too, papa." Stooping dowu the gentleman raised the pretty, daintily-dressed child in his amis. After gravely regarding the picture for a second, ihe little,.,one asked: "Is zay mad, papa?" "I am afraid one was, pet," came the low answer, as Edwin Bennett softly kissed the fair cheek of his little girl. Then his gaze returned to the painting. A stretch of yellow 6ands, dotted here and there by huge boulders and piles of snowy pebbles, against which the over­ hanging cliffs looked almost black. Gentle little baby waves rippling in towaul the shore, while majestic, purple-hued silver- edged clouds seemed floating en masse to­ ward the golden, crimson-barred sun that flooded the sky and water with its warm light. In the center of, the picture, where the bench formed a curved resembling a horse­ shoe, was an old boat, turned bottomUp­ ward; some few feet off, the figure of a young man, apparently walking hurriedly away. Although the face was not visible, the gazer felt that the man suffered, that the glorious sunset was this day as naught to him. Perhaps it was in the tightly- clasped hands, the veins of which stood out like great cords, or may be, in the man's apparent total disregard of his sur­ roundings. To the right of the picture was the figure of a young girl, trailing a parasol in the sand, as she appeared to move slowly in the opposite direction from her companion. Only a little bit of o delicately-shaped ear and a mass of glossy braids showed from beneath the shade hat, but one could readily believe that the pretty girlish figure belonged to an equally attractive face. About half-way between them, traced upon the sands, were the words, "Fame versus'Love." "Is it not lovely, Edwin?" and Mrs. Ben­ nett laid her hand upon her husband's arm as she added: "Yet how sad it somehow seems. I can't help feeling sorry for them; I wish I could see their faces; I feel as if I wanted to turn them round." Clasping Ihe little hand that rested so confidingly upon his arm, Edwin Bennett inwardly thanked God for the gift of his fair young wife, as he said: "Come, dear, they are commencing to close up. Baby's tired, too." » ^ "Ess, me's tired. Baby wants to tiss mamma," lisped the child, holding out her liny arms. Husband and wife failed to notice a lady who stood near, gazing at a painting. As the pretty young. mother stooped down to receive her baby's kisses, which the little one lavished on cheeks, lips and brow, a deep, yearning look gathered in the strange lady's eyes, and she turned hastily away. "O Edwin!" exclaimed his wife, as they passed the silent figure iti black. "Wouldn't it be nice if baby should grow up to be a great aitist like this Miss Armstrong?" "God forbid. Annie," came the earnest reply, followed by, "Let her grow up to be a true, loving woman, that is all I ask." The lady's hand tightened its hold upon th • back of a settee as ihe words reached her cars, but she did not move'until they were Out of sight. Then, lifting her veil, she went and stood before the painting that had won such fame. Tears gathered inherey.es as she gazed, and with the words, "I will never look at it again," she, too, passed out of the building, and in her own handsome carriage was driven home. Scorn slione in her daik eyes as they fell upon the costly works of art scattered in lavish profusion about her luxuriously- furnished apartments. Hastily throwing aside her wraps., she crossed over to a mir­ ror. A very handsome face it reflected, not looking the thirty years it had known. Helen Armstrong--for it was she--had heard of Edwin Bennett's marriage, heard that he had succeeded in business beyond his most sanguine expectations; heard that his wife was one of the loveliest and gen­ tlest df women, and that Edwin Bennett idolized both wife and child. This day she had seen them. Then came the thought that she might have stood in that wife's place: she, too, might have had those Hwiby lips pressed as lovingly to hers; Lut she had put it from her. She had chosen fame versus love. If she could only go back to that day on the sauds. how differently she would now act. Turning w earily away from the mirror, she exclaimed, bitterly: f'Too late./Helen Armstiong. As you have sown, so you must reap."--Florence Iievcre Printer. ' The Growth ef this Country. Is Ererybody Drunk! Among tbe many stories Lincoln used to . j.™ that h. cmpd where CbWo I {-£ *£fSSSi ZTSfefZiS is, where Minneapolis is, and where county seat, Judge overtook me with Salt Lake City is, before there was % his wagon, and Invited me to a seat. house at either place.* ! We hftd not *one far before the wagon be- Tho frrr*iv+ h nf tln> gau to wobblo. Said I, "Judge, I think your . growth of this country IS some' coachman ha$ taken a drop too much." tmng remarkable, some parts of it Putting his head out of the window, phenomenal. Instances like that men- i Judge shouted: "Why, you infernal scoun- tioned in the experience of a man liv- dr~' >'°u are dr"nk I" inn no _ , ., . ., Turning round with great gravity, the 1 g among us, show the factbetter than coachman said: "Bedad! but that's the firs' rightful s'cision your Honor's giv'n 'n twel'- mont!" If people knew the facts they would be sur­ prised to learn how many people reel in the Street who never "drink a drop." They are the victims of sleeplessness, of drowsy days, of apoplectic tendencies, whose blood is set on fire by uric acid. Some day they will reel no more--they will drop dead just be­ cause they haven't the moral courage to defy useless professional attendance, and by use of the wonderful Warner's safe cure neutralize the uric aoid iu the system and thus get rid of the "drunkenness in tbe blood."--The American Rural Home, The Violet. The violet is one of the most beloved of flowers; its delicate scent greets us at a season of the year when other flowers have little or no perfume. We may perhaps suppose that it was Shakspeare's favorite flower, for he often alludes to it. He says he knows a bank whereon • The oxlip and the nodding viol III another place he speaks of Violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of June's eye#, Or Cytheroa's breath. Again, in "Twelfth Night :" That strain again ! it had a dying fall. Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet gouth, That breaths upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. In the early part of the fourteenth To jndge from ; century the " jeux Floraux, or Acade- he being but a my <Jo Jeux," was founded at Toulouse. Second Lieutenant with a salary of jfc wa8 the very first literary institute, $400 a year, we suppose $40 or £50 > and in* 1G94 was raised by Louis XIV. would pass with him for fulness. On the rank of an academy, which it his way back to his station he was at- 8tiU holds. Ea^h year a prize is award- tracted by the red flag of an auctioneer, e(j for a poem; a golden violet, or other who was selling some lots of land for flower, is bestowed on the successful non-payment of takes. He bid some . competitor on the third day of May at of them oft for the fun of the thing, a public meeting, using his winnings in that way with no -- - especial expectations. He kept the lots and when he left St. Louis had an agent to look after the property. At the time he related the circum­ stance to this writer, who was a rela­ tive, it was some twenty-five or thirty years after the purchase, when he was quartermaster and stationed in this city and had become wealthy, that is, had $200,000. This was in the days when millionaires were not so numerous as now, so that a man with $200,000 was considered wealthy. After relating the circumstance as above, he said, "Mr. Shadow^, the land I bought then at that auction is now valuable property in the heart of St. Lojjie, and it is now the larger half of what I am worth." , This gave the writer to understand that the careless, accidental purchase, more for deviltry than for luck, grew afterwards into a solid hundred thousand dollars. To offset the above, showing all tickets do not draw high prizes is another experience, a1 so founded on fact. The first time this writer cast his shadow in .Tulesburg, in the north­ east corner of Colorado, was in 180(5. It was then a sort of military station, to keep the Indians in awe. In 1868, on his second visit, it was the railroad terminus, and grew suddenly in one season into a city. This is away they have in the West. It was only a few months old, but it had its mayor, its theater, its saloons,its lawyers, doctors, and merchants, also its newspaper. The writer met there an old school­ mate, who had just bought a corner lot of 150 square feet, paying $1200 cash for it, and had leased it to a man who was putting up a building for a saloon for $200 a month rent. This will show the wide-awake character of the place and its expectations. There was a set­ tled population of from 2,000 to 3,000, and a larger floating one. The jaext season Cheyenne was started. This was 200 or 300 miles farther west, and Julesburg saw it was going to get left, and the whole city packed up its wooden houses and all its movable at­ tractions, mayors, lawyers, doctors, theaters,and saloons, and dropped thwm all into Cheyenne, and this latter city ter's Stomach Hitters has th? special quality of has become of permanence and is •, stimulating urinary frccrctions and discharge to ~ large places of the ' a degree consonant with health, and no further. The "Violette Tircolore, or Pensee, is what we may call the pansy or hearts­ ease; it is a variety of the violet, of greater beauty, but with no perfume. Ophelia includes this flower in her nosegay, and says of it, "There are pansies; that's for thoughts."--The Quiver. A Noted Ladles* Seminary. In no institution of learning in tbe country is a more complete education given than in the celebrated Notre Dame, near Baltimore, Md. The Sisters in charge say they find that Bed Star Cough Cure suc­ cessfully removes all colds and throat troubles among their pupils. It is abso­ lutely free from poison, and costs but twenty-five oents. ' How to Cook Hot Water. Tho late Charles Delmonico used to talk about the new hot-water cure. He said the Delmonicos were the first to recommend it to guests who complain- S 1 ed of having no appetite. "Take a cup here water an(j lemon, and you will feel better," was the formula adopted. The lemon juice takes away the insip­ idity of hot water. For this anti-bit ious remedy the caterers charged the price of a drink of their best liquors (twenty-five cents or more), and it cer­ tainly was a wiser way to spend small change than in alcohol. "Few people know how to cook water," Charles used tc affirm. "The secret is putting good fresh water into a neat kettle already quite warm, • and setting the water to boil- quickly, and then taking it right off to use in tea, coffee or other drinks before it is spoiled. To let it steam, and simmer, and evaporate, until the good water is all in the atmosphere, and the lime and iron dregs only left in the kettle--ball! that is what makes a great many people sick, and is worse than no water at all." Every lady who reads this valuable recipe of a great and careful cook should never forget how to cook water. » Inaction Fraught witli Danger. Inaction of thekidnevs and bladder is fraught with danger. Renal diseases of the m ;st stub­ born and (a'al character have this initial »ymp- toirf. To disregard it is to invite them. Hostet now one of the farther West. Julesburg is. indeed a deserted village. "Wealth did not ac­ cumulate, but still men decayed." One in passing the spot of so many houses and so much municipal and trading activity will see the deserted streets, knowing them only by their ruts or It is not an excitant of the organs, like the un meillcated stimuli of commerce. It simply arouse? them when their activity and vitality are impaired. This stimulating and tonic ac tion the Bitters likewise exerts upon the bowels the liver, and the stomach. It averts renal dis­ ease, cures dyspepsia, prevents and remedies trail; not a house or building there of ! 'ever anc* •"Kue, and removes biliousness and any kind, not even a cellar, and the only indication that it had ever been even a camp is the old rusty cans that when this writer last saw it were glittering in the sun. So it seems that "there is a divinity that shapes towns and cities as well as human ends, locate them how we will."--Cor. Boston Budget. Couldn't Turn. Ex-Oov. Wood is one of the stump constipation. No ttner tonic exists, and to per­ sons with a tendency to gout it strongly recom­ mends itself, as it is a fine depurentof the blood. IT has been feared that the popular opera, "Mikado," might l%ai to the adoption by English -ladies of the Ja­ panese style of head-dress; but one who knows thinks there is no danger of this, because the hair-dressing is so elaborate that it cannot be built up speakers of the Pacific coast. At one every day, and so the Japanese belle time he was living near the liocky sleeps with her neck on a block of wood Mountain range. He and his business partner were both ambitious to kill a buffalo. So, early one bright mornjng. they started out for a hunt, each armed with a good rifle. For a long time no buffalo appeared. Finally in ^ deep, long valley they suddenly came upon an immense buffalo bull standing on an elevation within easy range of their guns. But tbe ex-Governor's courage failed him at the sight of such a mon­ ster, and he begged Williams not to shoot. "Humph!" replied Williams, as he raised his gun to.his slioldcr, "do you think I am go ncr to hunt t'liis long for a buffalo and then throw away such a chance as that?" Wood then be­ sought him not to fire until he could reach a place of safety. This he prom­ ised, when the latter ran down the val­ ley and up the opposite side, where stood a juniper tree, up which he quickly climbed. But ]ust before he reached the tree the sound of a,gun greeted his ear. Turning, he saw Wil­ liams, without hat or gun, rushing down tlie hill, a rod at a leap, and the wounded buiialo in full pursuit. At the bottom of the valley was a long, deep, and very narrow^gully, into which Williams pluuged, but an instant later clambered out aud rushed for the tree. "Go back! Go back!" shouted Wood, as he saw his danger; "get into the gully!"' "Not much !"yelled Williams, as he increasedhis speed. "That's the d--est big grizzly in thar ever you see. I'll chance tho buffalo."--Rochester Chronicle. 9 Atrocious. "Yon say that the women of Timbuc- too have their noses bored and wear jewels in them ?" "So travelers assert." "Then a Timbuctoo woman must be like the Puritan yacht." "How do you rhak& that put ?" "Because she has uer scenter bored." --Bostofi Courier. in a way that it preserves the coiffure over night. If our ladies desire, for the sake of novelty, to take up some fashion of the Japs, the best they could do would be to follow that oi' loose- flowing robes to take the place of tight waists and close-fitting skirts.--Dr. Forbes' Health Monthly. • • * • Young or middle-aged men suffer­ ing from nervous debility or other delicate diseases, however induced, speedily and per­ manently cured. Address, World's Dispen­ sary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. THE gulna ben never lays a golden egg.-- Boston Bulletin. THE curious discovery has just been made that vegetarians are never af­ fected by sea sickness. Satisfactory Evidence. J. W. Graham, Wholesale Druggist, of Aus­ tin, Texas, writes: "I have been handling DR. Wll HALL'S BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS for the past year, and have found it one of the most salable medicines I have ever had in my house for Coughs, Colds, and even Consump­ tion, always giving entire satisfaction. Please •end me another gross." "Put up" ac the Unit Hooae. The business man or tourist will And first- class accommodations at the low price of $2 and $l'.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 r.ppointments first-class. HoYjr & GATES. Proprietors. Tli«' Proprietor* of Ely's Cream Balm do uot claim it to Le a cure-all, but a sure remedy lor Catarrh, Colds in the Head, and Hay lever. It is not a liquid or a snuff, but is easily applied with tho flnger. It gives re­ lief at once. Sold by all druggists. Price 5 J cents. By mail 60 cents, u Ely Bros., Owe- go, N. Y. •*_ • was relieved and cured by Athlophoros so quickly that words could not tell my sur­ prise. I do not hesitate in recommeading it' to any one suffering with that most painful complaint, rheumatism. A. M. Ulakney, Decatur, Illinois; Howe Scales, Trucks, Coffee Mills,Car-Start­ ers. Harrison Conveyor Road Scrapers. Cata­ logues of Borden, Selleck & Co., Chicago, IU. Get Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners applied to now boots, and tbey will never run over. BELIEF IS immediate, and a cure sure. Pieo's Remedy for Catarrh. 60 cents. A SX10I DOmrfBX bahibte^ui. Sliding down the baniBters, though a swift and delightful way of getting down 6tairs, is not a popular method: of descent except among boys of the hobbledehoy age. When, therefore, Mr. Dolph Hotchkiss, a solid citizen of Peoria, 111., adopted that style of coming down from his room re­ cently it augnred that something out of the usual line had happened to him. Such was indeed the case. Mr. Hotchkiss explains as follows why he preferred the railing to the stairs; "It was last winter,-during the month of December. One evening after getting home from the store I was taken with a severe pain in my ankle. It felt at first as if I htul sprained it. I was up stairs when the trouble first came on and I wanted to go down. The pain, however, had increased' so that I found that it was impossible to walk down the steps, and so I slid down the railing. From that night I began to grow' worse, the pain became more severe, and, my ankle gradually swelled lip until it seemed as if the flesh would burst. 'f& was almost impossible for me to lie in bed, and the least noise or attempt to move me would cause me the greatest agony. » - "After being in bed a month I could not stay there any longer. I felt that I must have some kir^of a change, and so I was moved into fin easy chair, where I lav for two months, suffering more than words can express. My trouble was rheumatism. The doctors could do nothing for me. I.used about even- medicine I had ever heard of for rheumatism, and many different reme­ dies recommended by my friends and neigh­ bors, but nothing afforded me any relief. A lady friend living in Chicago, hearing of my affliction, wrote me, sayii^g: 'Try Ath- lophoros. It cured me.' "I was very glad to try anything. I had tried many different sorts of medicines, but this was new to me. I sent at once and bought a bottle and began using it. I had a terrible buzzing in my head at first, but as it was said in the directions I would have this if the medicine took hold of the disease, I 6tuek to it. The buzzing was nothing with my sufferings. I think it was on a Monday evening I tirst began with the Athlophoros. By the following Saturday the pain was nearly all gone, the swelling was very much reduced, and with the aid of a pair of crutches I went out for the first time in three mouths. "I continued taking the Athlophoros un­ til I had used four bottles. My pain and swelling had then all gone, and I had no further use for crutches. I have not felt any rheumatism since. Athlophoros a very valuable medicine. I recommend it whenever I have a chance, and never want to be without some Athlophoros in the house in case I should ever again be so afflicted." Mr. Hotchkiss' residence iu Peoria is at No. C10 Hancock street. Greatly as he re­ grets the loss of three months' valuable time, not to speak of all the suffering and mental anguish he endured, he feels that there is some slight compensation in tffe fact that he was made acquainted with a medicine which can cure rheumatism and rob that disease of all its terrors. Mr. Hotchkiss, it is almost needless to shite, has never had occasion to repeat his ride on the railing. If you cannot get ATULOPHOROS of your drug­ gist, we will Bend it, express paid, on receipt of regular price--one dollar per bottle. We prefer' that you buy it from your druggist, .biit> if ho hasn't it, do not be persuaded to try somethings olse, but order at once from us. as difectedr ATHLornonos Co.. 11-2 Wall street. New t^>rk.\ MassachujK'tts Mountaineer^.\ V ^ Six green Shelton people ̂ loaded themselves into a wagon recently, and drove to New Haven to visit. The fam­ ily visited, alarmed by the number, got rid of them at night by saying that a small-pox patient was in the house. They went to an hotel, and all packed into a single room. The officiating old woman put her shoe over the gas jet to put it out, and turned the water fau­ cet, having heard somewhere that to put out gas a something had to be turned. In the night tbe porter was alarmed by spelling gas. He found the country folk all uni onseious in the room, and the floor was flooded with water. They wore saved.--Sjtriug- tield lievubUcan._ PENNSYLVANIA antharacite coal brings in the City of Mexico the fabulous sum of $25 per ton. ^ "The light that lies In woman's eves" is a ray of heaven's own brightness: but it is, alas! often dimmed or (jueifthed by some wcuring.dis asc, perhaps silently borne, but taking all comfort and enjoyment oir| «• lile. That light of the housor.old can bo re­ kindled and made to glow with Its natural brightness. l)r. It. V. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription is a potent specitlc t or md^t of tho chronic weaknesses and diseases peculiar to women. (P ^OUGHWRE IVM /torn SAFE. suriE. PROMPT. A* DIVMUTI AKO Buun, THE CHARLES A. TOQKHB CO-, BAI.TIMOEK. M>. BITTEEK, If yoowfahto be relieved of those terrfbi«Mcto Headtchea and that miserable Sonr fll ii mi tch. It will, when taken according to direc­ tions, cure any eaae of Sick Headache or Sonr Stomach. It cleans the lining of stomach and bowels, promotes healthy- action and sweet secretions. It makes para blood and gives it free Hi -- - nutriment to every part/ speediest and snrest Veget ever invented for all diseases and liver. CERMMREPY P • Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, For Pain Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia,, Boekwlm, IlMdtrk., TMtfcMk*, / Sprmln, BnUn. PK1CE. FIFTY CENTS. AT DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS. THE CIIABLKS A. TOUKLER CO., BALTIKORE, MD. YonrNewsdealer forTH® CHICAGO LEDGER, the BEST STOBT PAPKS. in the country. Read it. ASK TELEGRAPHY, I fnniisliecl. Write Valentine IV t^aruiu-rfc mid earn od pay. Situations Kros.. J,a!ic8Villt'.WN. OPIUM 1 5 .Morphine linliit Cured in IA . _ay*. No pay till cured. . STKFKKNS, Lebanon, Ohio. 4 A DAT, at home, l'aintinn Sitrus. No exreri- CPti: ence necessary. Our J'attcrns make plain or $ha<b it letter*. Samples (Be. Morlau 4; Co., halerti, O. PnaTARI C (iKIM)IN(i MIIXS. Make tin 1 Hwl-t monev irrindinp your Feed on the KAKSIXK.K I'OKTAHI.K GKlN'OINt. MI1.I>S. Over 0.500 in use. \\'irranted fullv. C1IAS. K AKSTNKU CO.. SOi-312 S. Canal St.. Chicago. An actlTe Man or Woman ineTerr county tn cell our goods Salary 83*. • loath mid F.xponpe*. Expenses in »d- . Canvassing outfit FRKK! Particulars free, start! ird Silver ware Co. Boston. Mass. QUICK payjrteftdy work, no talk. tl an hour tor either BOX. $14.90 wmplw free. Bend «t«mp nnd CARE H PLEASANT WINTER'* IMSINE**. G. B. Merrill A Co.. (Thioan:o. III. FLORIDA A RAKECH\NCK FOR A HOME, an Oransre lirovt', a Market Gar-idt ii. A sate and profitable in* Testment. 1 tetter than a Life Insurance l'oli. y.and within reach of persons of moderate means, KcJSfied men and others. All based upon smind business prin­ ciples, with highest indorsement aud pood references. A descriptive pamphlet maybe had by addnssinp, with three "ic. stamps. .T. K. Tl'CKKR. tleneral Man- acer, H > HKIXVKSVII.I.K. Ft.A. PARIS generally leads In tbe fashions, but Niagara cannot be equaled for fall style.-- Texas Si/tiny*. Tlie hujre, drastic, gripi^lr, slekenlnif-pills are last being superseded by Dr. Pierce's "Purgative Pellets." Sold by druggists. < THE best hunting dogs aro like tbo best 4o^es--they are pointers.Maverick. Try l)r. WnlkerV 4'H I ii or n in Vinegar llitt<>r» lor liver aud kidney complaint, scrofula, rheumatism, worms, lever, skin eruptions, headaches, and all dis­ orders arising lrom bad blood. That remark­ able vegetable preparation has never failed to effect a speedy cure in any instauce. Many thousands of persons testify .to Its wonderful effects. A FAVORITE dessert with lawyers is sue"it pudding.--IU/x'nn B illrtin. 1 HIITO been a sufferer 'two years from catarrh or cold in the head, having distress- mar pain over iny eyes. Gradually the dis­ ease worked down upon my lun^s, my left ear was almost deaf, my voice was failing tne. 1 procured one bottle of Ely's Cream Balm, ana within five days my hearing was restored, the pain erased overjoy eyes, atid I am now enjoying good health. 1 rei om- mended It to some of my friends. One of them sent lor a4>ottle. He told me that half of it cur d him. My advice is to those sufler- ing with catarrh or cold in the head not to delay, but try Ely's Oieam Palm, as it is a positive cure.--John H. \ au^ant, Sandy Hook, Elliott Co., Ky. MENSMAN'S PEPTONIZED BEEK TONIC, the only preparation of. beef containing its en­ tire nutritious properties. It contains blood- making, force-generating, and life-sustaining properties; invaluable for indigestion, dys­ pepsia, nervous prostration, and alltformstof general debility; also, in air enfeebled condi­ tions, whether the result of exhaustion, nerv­ ous prostration, over-work, or aoute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprie­ tors, New York. Sold by druggists. „ TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILIES OF VAN VOOKHKKS. or VOOKHEES, or YOOKHiS. or VOKIS. The undersitmeil haviuu spent many years in the collection oi family records of tho above fii'iiilies fot the compilation of a K"nealo>ry, or family history, of the Van Voorheos family, of which ad the above* nanuMl branches are members, would lie happy to re- oeive from memt>ersof the above families wi h whom he has not yet corresponded any recor is of births, deaths and marriages, as far back as obtainable, that WouM enable him to give their families a proper rc(>- reseiitatio < in his forthcomin; work. He will send on application, to any member of the family, free of expea«e. a Chart of the three first generations of the family in this country, with a circular conoerninsr tlie forthcoming work. E. \V. VAN VOORHIS, i&l East :W!h sr.. N. Y 'Mtv. CLYDESDALE AND ENGLISH SHIRE HORSES. The on! j- stud inAmer- ica containing the very best specimens of both breeds, l'rize-winneri at Chicago Fair, tlie World's Fair at New (irleans, tluyRoyal So­ ciety of Knifland, etc. Larire importation ar­ rived August 12, and more to follow. Our . buying facilities being f unequaled. there is no ' such opportunity of­ fered elsewhere to procure first-class animals of choicest breeding at very Imvest prices. Every ani­ mal duly rocord»d and guaranteed. Terms to suit all cantomers. Catalogues on application. _ UAIJKKAITH MKOS . Jam-svlllo. Win. STRICTLY PURE.! Contain* No Opium in Any Form. The BEST and CHEAPEST COM AND CM 11 E M KDY. As an Expectorant it has no Equal. ALLEN'S LLG ILSAIM IN THREE SIZE"' BOTTLES, •/ Price; 25 cts., 50 cts. and $1 per bottle.' Tlie 2.VCENT BOTTLES are put up for the accom­ modation of all who desiro simply a COl'UH or CROI P KEMEDY. ri'liose desiring a remedy for CONSUMPTION or any I.UNii DISEASE uhould secure the large $1.U) bottlepA, Direiftjong accompany each bottle. 4#VKOLO> BY ALL MEDICINK DEALEB4.~&9 J.N. HARRIS &C0. (Limited), CINCINNATI, OHIO. These Discs represent the opposite sides of B. H. DOUGLASS A SONS' Capsicum CougJi Drops for Coughs, Colds and Sore Throats, an Alleviator of Consumption, and of great benefit in most cases of Dyspepsia. (BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.) They aro tho result of over forty years* cxperlenot in compounding COUGH REMEDIES* lie tall price 15 cent* per quarter pant, FOK SALE BY ALL DEALERS. •' BEFORE YOU BUY Wagon, Buggy or Sleigh J. Moor®, of Farmln^'on. Mich., i anflferlng from Sick Headache atJPs^tvr Stomarh was terrible. Olte bottle of Hop* and Malt Bitters cured me, Do not ret Hnpt and Flalt Bitten w founded with inferior preparation* of ataftar name. For sale by all druggist*. HOPS & HALT BITTERS GO, Detboit, i* If iron want » SCROLL SAW or Haurtal ^Scroll Sawio#. seed 6c. U> A. H. PounoT, St.. H*rtfor! hi. Illustrated ratalosne. Low Prion. ' t"ity or Connty to take 1 | work at their own homes. (8,'t to S4 a day [easily made. Work fw>ut by mail. Nooanvaas- ing. We have >?ood demaud for our work, fwruish steady empioyraeot. Address, with stamp, CROWN MF.;.CO.Viiv St., <iu'ti,Gv O Tht BUYERS' GIIDE is Issued Srpt and Maitk^ each year., 5856 pngea» 8' 21 ll1 a inches,wUlt «nr 3,SOO Ulnatratlons -- a whole Plctnrc Gallery*r GIVES Wholesale Price* itUrf-t to eonsufners on all goods fttr 'personal or <Hmlly tiee. Tells h«r*r t* ' order, and gt-vre exact cost ot thing yon use, eat, drink, wear, or have fun with. These miAl.lTAHT.se BOOKS contain Information gleaned from the markets of the world. Ws will mall a ropy FREE to ajsjr ad­ dress npon receipt of 10 eta. to defray expense of mailing. I>et us hear jrou. RespeetffcUly, .4 MONTGOMERY WARD &, CO. 827 & 289 Wabash Avenne, CblcafO, JUL ' \ E V E H T C H I L D In every lana is subject to Coughs, Group & Whooping ; Mongolian (ChlnaX THE lit 1'AKESTS tO O O N 8 V M P T I O N I TAKE IN TJMK '* Taylor** Cherokee Remedy ol Sweet Gum arid MiHIaHL Tlie RwpetOiim from a tree of the name name-grow­ ing in the South, eomljined with a tea made from tbo Mullein plant of the old field". For sale by all dru|B» its at 'iH oents and il.Oll per bottle.. XVAI.TKK A. TAYI.OK, Atlanta, Go. J. H. 8CHENCK has published. A NEW AND ELABOBATB BOOK oaLthe Treatment and Cure of CONSUMPTION > LIVER COMPLAINT DYSPEPSIA which will be mailtod FREE to ail who want it. If you are, or knoir of any* oneTwho is, afflicted with,"o* liable, to any of these diseases, send numemnd address (plainly written) to Df/J. H. SCHENCK & BON, ame this paper.) Philadelphia, Fit. Tt$ OLDEST MEDICINE in the WORLD is probably Dr. Isaac Thompson's 1-1 ejebrated EYI Watal Jole is a carefully prepared physician's pee- f. itml ha* iH on in constant use for nearly a This Cfiitm-iEiiid notwithstanding the many other prepar­ ations tnst have been introduced into the market, the sali- of this article is constantly increasing. If the di­ rections .TV fellow, d it will never fail. We particu­ larly invite the attention of physicians to its mertts. .fahu TJ. Thompson, fto>m J Co., TROY, H. 'Y I CURE F| ,T?! When 1 bav i iuo i do not mean mer«iy to Stop tfitiir ftr attmo aud then tmvo Ehem return again, I mean a radi­ cal cure. I have made tho dlsoaaa of FITS, EPILRFSY or FALLING £lCKNBas a life-longttudy. r.,warra»t»y remedy to euro the worst cases. Because others bav* fafleU 13 uo reason for nut now receivftig a cure, ztondat onctj Tor a treatise anri a Free Bottle cfniy infalllbl* remedy. Glv* Express and Post Office, ll cottar7°* nothing for a trial, nn<l I will cure you. 0 - •ddre»» Dr. U. H. liOOT, KewJ«| Mao's Remedy tor Catarrh Is tbe Best. Easiest to TTse, and Cheapest. C A T A R R H CANCER OPIUM Treated snd cured without the krfife. Book on treatment sent free. Address F. I . POND. M.D.. Aurora. Kane Co.. I II. MUKFULNband CHl.OKAf. HABITS KA8II.T Ct'RKI*. BOOK FREE. Dr. J. C. Holt- man. Jefferson. Wisconsin. PATENTS It. S. k A. P. LAOEY. Patent Attoriieys.Wajdiington, _ Ins!ructions and opinions as to patentability FRKt. 17 years' oxpenenw. INSURE YOUR HORSES AMD CATTLE in the ilCtnii Mutual Live-Stock Co. Address W. A. VAN BRAMEK, Man'gr.Valatie, N.Y. Agents wanted. IIDICTIItC EVE is the time for tun with the llnlw I MAo i Made lantern.' are -uitdone.) Circulars free c lanterns p()LY0PTIC0N Addn SH Murrayiiili Co..l'ii)E.2Sth st..New York BIG OFFER. To introduce them, we will . _ OIVE AWAY l.flOO Self- Ope rating Wash i r; g Machines: If you wautone Lsend us your name. P.O.. and express office at National <<».. 25 I>FY ST.. X V. Piso'n Remedy for Catarrh Is Best. Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. C A T A R R H *1 Also food for Cold In tbe Head, [eadaclie, Hay Fever, Ac. 60 cents. WRITE TO-- HOTGHKIN CARRIAGE WORKS SYRACUSE, N. Y. WI.OW PRICES TO DEALERS.-®* WM. Consumption Can Be Cured! FOIt THE LUNGS Cure* fonsuisiittfon, Cold*. Paenmsnta. In­ fluenzal. Bronchial i>ilttciilll««s. Bronchitis. llanrx'iirN-. Antliinn. ('roup. Whooping Cough, and nil Diseases ot the Hreathinc ON natt*. ItMOtknand heals tue Membrane of tiu inflamed and poisoned by the dis» enrnt'. and prevents tho nlcht sweats and tightness arroa* the rh-st which accompany it. ('0">«UN!PtJonl* not an Incurable malady. IIAl.MS RAI.HAM will cure you, even though pr lowsjoiial aid falls. CONSUMPTION. I bar® * positive remedy for th* above ; by iu •M thousands of cases of tha vortt kind &r.d of fonff ftta»4iinch&ve been curad. Ifjdaed, »o*trt>ng-8e m_ faith lnlu««CBcy,tlimt I wi I •enaTW*»orri.E:l f»L together wlttia YAI.CT.&DT.ETRKATXS'B on this diaaaae to any gaffe re r, GiY««xpr*»»tml P. O. addr Also rood for Cold In the Head, < leadacne, Hay Fever, Ac. to cents. -- • "•ludsing from iU effects in my caae/Pieo'g Remedy for Citarrh is •Excelsior.'"--H. D. Kitowi-Tos. Hol­ land. New York. » , Piso's Remedy fttr Catarrh Is tbe Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. C A T A R R H Also good for Cold In tbe Head, H Headache, Hay Fever, Ac. SO cents. • "Piso's Remedy for Catarrh pis e me almost imme­ diate relief."--F. E. BBAIKKRD, Audubon, lows. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh Is tbe IB Beet, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. C A T A R R H tbe Head, to cents. Also food for Cold In tl Headache, Hay Fever, Ac. "PiKo's Remedy for Catarrh i* ju>t Ure^iedicine I have been looking for."--W. OvTos»^4ay»rilie, Ky. I Piso's Res Best. Kasiesl y. for Catarrh Is the |H and CheapesL^a c ATA R R H Also good forCoifJvB the Hfesd, || Headache, Hay FeVe^,- Ac. SO cents. ^ "Piso's Remedy for Catarrh has dime me more eood, l.t,, than anvthins 1 ever tntHi."--Miss R. A. STCl>U|p» d Cornwall Bridge, Conn. I , Piso's Remedy for Catarrh Is i Beat. Easiest jo Use. and Cheapest. C A T A R R H Also rbod tor Cold in tbe Hsad, H Headache, Hay Fevsr, Ac. iOcsuta. ^ "•Wso'B .Remedy J^r?'atarrh is prodneinK favorable rest(ltu."--OKo.̂ . WITH AM, Philadelphia. Pa. |A~ piso's Remedy *>r Catarrh «t the IB Best. Easiest to Use. aud Cheapest. C A T A R R H tor Col No. IMl YjTHKN WHITING TO Al>VSRTt$KKS» V' please say yon saw the advertiieaaeat in J