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TO WABK TWAOI, (On Bit ryttoth Birthday.) . Clemen B, when I n« thee last ' 7s both of ni were younger-- " w fondly mumbling o'er the l i Memory's toothless hunger I 4B fifty veers have fled, they sa; Binoe first yoa took to " lufta in Nature's ini Of course no ill I'm «», • s ilky w»7-- •inking t while on life's uneven road our track you're been pursuing, lat fountains from your wit have flowed. "'What drinks you have been brewing 1 I know whence all your magic came-- t JYour secret I've discovered-- •fte source that fed your Inward flaTG--> . ' ' . -The dreams that round you hovered. "ifefore you learned to bite or munch, JBtill kicking in your cradle, TRte muses mixed a blowl of •And Hebe seizes the ladle. _ • b&be, -whose fiftieth year to-day ^ Your ripe half-century rounded, : Wrmr books the precious draught betray ' The laughing Nine compounded. " Bp mixed the sweet, the sharp, jEach finds its faults amended, ; 4 ®pe virtue < that to each belong * • v •, In happier union blended. • • Jfcnd what the flavor can surpesjt A i ^Of sugar, spirit, lemons T | while one health fills every gvUt - - / Mark Twain for Baby Clemens? •^ERiixr Wendell Homes, in the Critie, CARLETON'S LOVE. . VAr'Mexiotux Adventure. v ,. BY M. C. WAIjSH. .-^And I am to understand that yon would have your accomplished daughter wed a swarthy Mexican, Col. Fen worth?" . "I tell yon the man suits me. He is 'wealthy, and can give her all that her heart can possibly desire," returned Fenworth. pettishly. ^ "Very good; but Flora does not love him. In short, she detests him; 60 that ought to betaken into consideration." "Nojisense! what does she know about «uch matters? She is just oat of school and has never had occasion to give them a single thought." "Excuse me, Colonel, but you may mistaken!" "What do you mean, sir?" snapped Fen­ worth, turning sharply on his heel and confronting the speaker, Cyrji^Tlarleton, with lowering brow. / "Just this, Col. Fenworthj that your daughter is my affianced wife--we are ea* gaffed to be married!" Had :i bomb-shell suddenly exploded beside tlie Colonel, he could scarcely havo been more startled. "What is that you say?" he hissed, clenching his hands and advancing upon the auducions young lo^r, menacingly. "Simply what I have stated, that we are engaged," he repeated, coolly. And with­ out flinching under the terrible glare of Col. Fenworth's baleful eyes, Cyril Carle- ton, the pony-expresf: rider--a handsome young man noted all over the border for his deeds of dating--quietly Withdrew from the frowniug presence of the imperious owner of Fenworth ranch--one of the most extensive in the southwest. It had been a beautiful summer day, cool, and radiant with sunshine. The great tolling plain of Texas lay bathed in a sheen of golden glory, and gentle zeyhyrs swept over the green savannahs, scarcely stirring the vast expanse of prairie grass upon which the extensive herds of Col. Fen­ worth were grazing. '"Confound his infernal impudence," grated the angry Colonel; "I've half a mind He drew a revolver from his belt and handled it significantly. Just at that crit­ ical moment, however, a slight, girlish form swept up to him. "Oh, papa, papa, what would you do?" she said, leproachfully. Co!. Fenworth restored the weapon to his belL hung his head guiltily, and, turning, Pod^»iway in the direction of the ranch, thout a vvvord. 1 „ "Oh, CyriL what does this mean?" asked (the maiden, scarcely able to repress her ag­ itation, she joined her lover. J Cyril Carleton briefly explained his in­ terview, with her father. # "Then he knows all!" gasped the girl. "Yes." said Cyril. "Well, I'm very sorry, for now he will keep us apart. He will no longer allow me to see or speak to you, Cyril," murmured Flora. I "Never fear, dearest; he will find it a !,difficult matter to prevent our meeting," y was the reassuring answer. "Be very careful, Cyril; he is a strange man. Sometimes I think his mind is not right, and I know, now that he has heard the truth, he will not hesitate to kilt you!" "Leave that to me. I saw his movement just now, and, had he fired, I would have dropped in time to avoid his bullet. I am not likely to be caught sleeping. All I ask is that you be true to me and 111 guarantee that we will never be circumvented by that Mexican." "I'll promise that with all my heart, dear st Cyril," answered Flora, as her dashing lover pressed her white hand to his lips, and leaped nimbly into the saddle with a parting expression of endearment. A moment later, he was bounding away over the plains tow ards the Ilio Grande-- glistening in the distance. Flora i/V in worth presented a glowing picture of girlish beauty as she gazed after ner departing lover, shading htr bewitch­ ing face with one small, delicate hand of snowy whiteness, upon which Cyril ha I just placed an engagement ring. She was a chaiming maiden, about 18 years of age, and in appearance was a typ­ ical Western beauty. ^She had black, flashing eyes, thick nut-brown hair, clear complexion, and an air of dash that was calculated to make her the queen of the frontier, ranch and range. As Cyril disappeared in the dim, misty distance, Flora re-entered the enclosure, and proceeded towards her home--a spa­ cious log house, or hacienda. Her angry parent received her with a frown, but maintained a moody silence. She thought he would seould and de­ nounce her unmercifully; but evidently he was nursing his bad feelings with the inten­ tion of berating her later. After tea she retired to her room, and saw nobody but her maid. Eilice Pearson- Durirg the evening, Manuel Menzies, the Mexican merchant who sought her hand, came to s$e her father to renew his over­ tures. ' Menzies was a villainous-looking IMH of at least 35, with a forbidding face, and dark restless eyes, and was said to be a wealthy trader from Monclova, Mexico. He had seen Flora Fenworth on a former occasion, when, at once impressed with her beauty, he asked the Colonel for her hand. Strange to say, Fenworth entertained his proposal, and was favorably disposed to­ wards the merchant, owing to Menzies' well-known wealth. On the present occasion Menzies was accompanied by another Mexican, who he •aid was his body-servant. The Colonel accorded his visitor a lengthy interview, and finally Menzies, with AD overwhelming stroke, agreed to settle a lortune of $50,000 upon the bride on the day of her marriage with him. He also signified his willingness to trans­ fer the sum of $10,000, hard cash, to the Colonel himself, provided he succeeded in induciug, or forcing, his daughter nto an , acceptauce. This decided the matter in Col. Fen­ worth's mind. Money was everything to him, aud he forthwith assured the Mexican that Flora would certainly be his! Leaviug the Don a few moments be Miminoned his daughter into another room and advised her of Menzies offer; at the same time urging her to accept. Flora recoiled in horrified indignation. "Wojildyoc baiter your daughter's hap­ piness for Lis g >ld?" she groaned. "But ouly thmk what a grand tiuvnee it is ftr von!" returned the Colonel, iu some confusion, "And then, too, I shall be made independent by the arrangement." "And if I refuse?" "If yon dot Ivlll disown you! Come, r I ' . E . x . . now, decide quickly; do you consent? Men­ zies is in the next room awaiting your an­ swer. I shall tell him it is all right, shall I not?" said the Colonel, impatiently, as he moved toward the door. "No, no, father; it can never be--" "And wHv not?" growled Fenworth, with reddening face. "Because--because I love another!" "You love Cyril Carelton, eh? How dare you assert it to me?" roared the Colonel, fiercely. "I assert nothing! I shall not disclose his name--** "Enough! I know to whom yon allude, foolish girl; itis Cyril Carleton,--dare you deny it?" "I do not choose to deny it," since yon have stated the truth, father, "she said, quietly." "Come, Flora, listen to reason, I implore yon; set aside all this absurd sentimentality and for Heaven's sake accept this man's offer." "/ will not!" she exclaimed, resolntely, drawing herself to her full height and look­ ing up calmly into his flashing eyes." Her decisive answer had a maddening ef­ fect upon Colonel Fenworth, who was now in a towering passion. His face grew ashy pale and he trembled all over with anger. He raised his hand as if to strike her, but by an effort refrained, and clutching her bv the shoulder he pushed her viqlently from him, exclaiming: "Then get out of this house as quick as you can. Henceforth you are no daughter of mine!" He thought to subdue the brave girl by his unfatherly speech, but in this he was sadly misiakeft. "Father, this is final," she said, as she quickly withdrew and hastened to her own apartments, where she proceeded to make a little bundle of her clothes and other per­ sonal effects, preparatory to her departure in the morning. She felt little grief at leaving her father, w ho had never seemed like a parent to her, he had such a selfish and miserly disposi­ tion. Flora lav awake for a considerable time, her brain feverish with excitement, as the events of the past few few hours surged through it. Suddenly she heard voices in tlie adjoining room, and at once concluded that Don Menzies was to occupy that apart­ ment . The hum of voices continued and she fcoon learned that Menzies was conversing in Spanish with some one, probably the Vaquero who had accompanied him. It, fortunately.happened that while at the Young Ladies' Accademy at St. Louis, Fiona had, among other studies, taken a course in Spanish, thinking it might be useful to her on the frontier; hence, al­ though she aid not try to overhear the con­ versation at first, still it was carried on in so unguarded a manner that she could not help bearing much that was said. She was astonished to discover that the subject of the colloquy was her lover-- Cyril Carleton. Now fully aroused, she listened attentively, and was soon con­ vinced that the villains were coolly and de­ liberately plotting murder!" Menzies was bribing his valet to assasin- ate his rival! The whole affair was clearly planned, and the man was to start at once on his dastardly mission. She furtlvr learned of an arrangement by which she was to be abducted from home and forced to marry the rascolly Mexican. Of this she feared or cared nothing, but she was exceedingly alarmed for the safety of her lover, and determined to hasten at once across the line into Mexico, and warn him, of his peril. But how was this to be accomplished? While she was deliberating, she heard the assassin take his departure. Nearly frantic with terror and apprehen­ sion, she quickly dressed herself in a suit of male attire which she found in a closet off the kitchen after, which she hurried to the Stable, secured her favorite horse "Jettie." a very fleet animal,which, having mounted, she was off like a flash. A sentry stationed outside the stockade was not disposed to let her pas 3, but she spurred her steed and bounded by him be­ fore he could offer resistance, leaving him gazing stupidly after her. She was armed with a revolver, which she knew how to use, should occasion require., The ntght was dark, hence she had no fear that she would be discovered on the trail of the assassin. On. on she sped, heading direct for the Mexican line. • • * • Morning in Mexico! The red sun glow­ ing o'er the eastern peaks. Cyril Carle­ ton was just leaving the ancient-looking hostlery at which he had spent the night, and was in the act of mounting his pony, whin a young Mexican rode up, and, salut­ ing, a ^ked: „ "Senor, are you Cyril Carleton?" "Yes." was the reply. , "Well, I was sent to tell yon that a bean- < if ill young American lady is in distress and implores your assisnru'e." "Where is she?" asked Cyril. • "Over in Glenora Gulch--she is in the power of a man named Manuel Menzies " "By Heaven, it is Flora!" Cyril ex­ claimed with a shudder. "She gave me this card," pursued the boy, handing Carleton a small .piece of pink pasteboard which the crafty Gonzales had furnished him for the purpose. An exclamation of dismay escaped Cyril as he ?aw in delicately-engraved characters the name: MISS FliOBA FENWORTH. A groan buret from his lips, and, quickly leaping into his saddle, he bad the boy lead the way. When Gleuofa Gulch was reached it was nearly 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It was a wild, dismal gorge, and had long been famous as the haunt of notorious bandits. As they were passing through the canyon a shot blazed and ihe bullet clipped the edge of Cyril's hat orim. Instantly it flashed upon him that he had been decoyed! He quickly nnswung his Winchester, and looked about for the boy who had inveigled him, but fonnd that he had prudently uis- appenred. He peered about him for a glance of his ambushed foe, but was unable to see any thing, the gorge was so dark and dismal. "I had better get out of here." he solilo quized, "in short o;der. or I'll be shot down by these dastardly villains." Suiting the actiou to the word he turned and hast ily retraced his steps. Suddenly he came to a narrow part of the gulch and emerged" from the dismal pass into a strip of jungle, overgrown with cactus and other tropical vegetation, across which crawled strange, deadly reptiles and monstrous lizards, disturbed by his in­ trusion. Toward dark he reached a rough road at a short distance, down which lie espied a lonely inn, at which he determined to pass the night. It was already quite dark when he reached the place. Just as he was dismounting a shot rang out and his horse pludged forward and fell heavily to the ground--shot through the brain! *'Hy heaven, that was intended for m?!"he exclaimed. A moment later there was a rush of many feet and the vivid flashes of several wea­ pons. With one bound Cyril reached the door of the abode shut, and, dashing in, closed it after him, fastening it securely by means of an iron bar on the interior. He heard the crowd of Mexicans snrgiug up with excited cries, and received them with shot after shot from his Winchester, which he projected through aloop-hole, and used with good eQW-t. A furious assault was then made on the hut. The door was soon broken in by means of a boulder which two of the Mexi­ cans Lur ed at it with terrific force! Then the swarthy assailants rushed in in a body. Casting aside his Winchester rifle, Cyril fought his way fiercely through the infuri­ ated crowd, using his rerolrer and borie. The Mexicans swarmed about him close­ ly, and many shot were exchanged. Finally, overcome by superior numbers, Cyril dropped. Even though badly wounded, he con­ tinued to tire rapidly upon his assailants. Hark! what was that? The rushing sound of horses' hoofs were borne to his ears. A moment later a thrilling cry was heard! "The soldiers! the soldiers!" A panic ensued, and the bandits tnm- 1 bled over one-another in their wild endeav­ ors to escape. J By a powerful effort, Cyril straggled to ; his feet and reeled out of the hut. j As he gained the outer air, he saw the ; Mexican soldiers disperae in pursuit of the | flying outlaws. ; Just then his head grew giddy, and he | fell to the ground and fainted from sheer ' exhaustion.. ' • * » • • • • When Cyril again opened his eyes the beautiful sunshine of another day filtered through the windows of the adobe htit. He looked about him wearily, and his glauce fell upon the handsome face of a young American. The youth 6miled and blushed, "When he observed Cyril's curious look. "Flora! it is you; I know it must lie you?" As Cyril had penetrated her disguise, Flora admitted the truth of his assertion. Fortunately. Carleton's wounds were not of a dangerous nature, and in the space of three days he was again able to travel. Flora explained that she had followed Juan Gonzales to a cave Somewhere in Glenora Gulch, where she had discovered quite a number of bandils. With commendable sacacity, she returned to ----, where she .secured the assistance of a party of Mexican soldiers, who were anxious to annihilate the g>ng, it having long resisted their efforts to disband it. It transpired that Manuel Menzies, in-, stead of being a reputable merchant, was leaderof the bund of outlaws. A number of soldiers werj detailed to await his letnrn, and when at length he£ came, a day or two later, he was caught, tried, convicted, and subsequently suffered the extreme penalty of the law. As for Juan Gonzales, his body was found in the hut--one of Cyril's bullets having cut off Ms earthly career. Cyril Carleton and his brave sweetheart proceeded to Brownsville, Texas, where a clergyman uuited them in the marriage re­ lation, and the event was appropriately eel ebrated. Soon after that event, Mrs. Carleton re- ceived\a visit from her father, who came to expres^ his sorrow for his conduct, aud to higher forgiveness, which of course she granted. Res wring Shakspeare. This is an ago of restorations, and, to any one who looks back upon the his­ tory of the British drama, he will lind it has caught the snmo moving spirit which has impelled our Church--in fact Church and stage is no newfangled conjunction, they have both been un­ consciously moving on the same lines for the last li-tty or sixty years; the Tractarian movement and Macready's revivals were nearly contemporary. "Scrape off your plaster! Awake from the unaccountable mania which seized our respected ancestors for whitewash* ing their churches as welt as their Shakspeare " Restore tho primitive beauties of fresco and coring in our puritanically defaced temples of wor­ ship. Clear off and purge from onr Shakspeare the disfigurements from the bedaubing brush of a Tate, a Cibber, or, alas! of a Garrick, under the ap­ proval of Dr. Johnson." Such have been the two calls to which there has been a prolonged response--a gradually swelling but undying echo. We are emerging from a long darkness of de­ praved taste to an era whicli has given and is giving lis Shakspeare pure and undetiled, just as the church has awakened from its long slumbers of dullness and ^ »itew&sh to restore the primitive beauties of our services as well as our church architecture. Yet all honor to those dramatic giants ot old, for in their own generation they were the precursors of reformation--so much alive to the true beauties of Shakspeare, that their strange perver­ sity of blindness in understanding him is all the more astonishing. Garrick restored his dramas to their proper position at Drury Lane, performing an­ nually some eighteen or twenty of them; whereas,in Charles II.'s timeonly six or eight wene played in twenty years, and onlv about six or eight annu­ ally under Wi ties, Booth, and Quin-- yet even that might pUt onr generation to shame. "Like a hawk," a contem­ porary magazine says of Garrick, "who flies directly at his prey, he seized the most finished aud difficult parts of oar great bard, and made them his own"-- that is, cut and altered them according to fancy, omitting the cravo-dig^ers from "Hamlet'* and inflicting on the stage lor the next lifty yeirs Tate** miserable perversion of "iviitg Lear."' till Macready, to liis honor, put oti tiie original Lear, and reinstated his fool. -- Comhiil Magazine. Burmese Housekeeping. The dwellings of the - Burmese are built on small wood or bamboo posts; of bamboo mat walls; roofs of palm leaves, or dried grass; each house has front veranda, closed only at the ends, if at all; the door from one to three feet from the ground, made of rough boards or bamboos. Then the main or sleeping room is from four to six feet higher than the veranda, with its floor from seven to ten leet above the ground. The veranda is the place of cooking, eating, visiting, buying and selling. But von would look in vain for stove, oven, fireplace, or chimney. A bed of earth or ashes, in .one end of the veranda, is the center or the kitchen; a large jar of water, two or three small earthen pots for cooking, one f^r^r ce and the other for fome kind of ifcurry, are usually sullicient; a wooden ladle for the rice pot, a broad wooden platter in which to put the ric.u when cooked, and around which the family sqnat to eat, with one or two brass or iron spoons for the curry, with perhaps two or three earthen dishes, constitute the furniture of the kitchen. Table*, spoons knives, forks, cups and saucers, etc., were not seen among them. Lucky an I Un iickv Days. "In glancing over an old note book.'" writh a correspondent, "I find between its pages a very ^ener .bie looking slip of 'whitey-brown paper, on wnieh tha following is written in a neat old-fash­ ioned hand writing Perhapt-yon m»y deem it worthy «. place: 'Jhe^e un­ derwritten be perilous davs for to take any sickness in. or to take auy journey npon, or to begin any work on that he would well speed. Ihe number of these davs be in the year thirty-two and they be these: In January ttic-rj l>e 7--1st, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, 10th, a'xl 1.1 tb. In bniary be 3--ctli. "tb, and l^th. In March ' b& 3 Int. (i ll, IITI I S.h. In Aprii be ii--(ith a;i l 11th. In May be 3--ith, (ith, arid 7th. In .Jimo be 2--7th anil 15th. In July b? 8*-.5 h and 19th. Iu Augurt bo 2--15th and 19th. In September be 2--(;thami7th. In Octolier be 1--7t'\ In Novi mil >r 1>" '2--15th an<l 16th. In December be 3--lotli. 10th, and 17th. Inibn Huftor. Oaee upon a time thato -was a dwarf,; •o very small insist that when he killedt a wren--all by himsfelf, too--he thought he was a hero in the first degree, and strutted round in the grass as proud as if he had slain several braves of another tribe in sing^p combat. He had one- Bed Star Cough Cure. No opiates or poison. Oriental Slid Occidental, ( A little Western prodigy of a re­ ligious turn of mind, aged three years, has given forth the following moral half of the wren--a fair half; none of > lecture in the shape of a story: --liehoboth Sunday Herald. SIMPLICITY, withont which no human performance can arrive at perfection. .A, H your irregular fractions--cooked at once for a feast for the whole lodge, and told his sister to cifre the skin, as lie had a mind to make himself a feather coat. And by and by he did put an­ other wren to death, and then he got his coat. But happening to go to sleep one day in the sunshine, the heat made the birds' skins shrivel up so that they became quite uncomfor ably small, and the dwarf was furious. He vowed he woHild pay the sun out. So he got his j God." sister to plait a'rope out of her hair, ~ and, having made a slip-knot in it, he pegged it down on the other side of the hill, close to tlie top of it, just where he had noticed the sun was ac­ customed to get up. And, sure enough, when the sun rose the next morning, it ran its head right into the slip-knot and got caught. The consternation in nat­ ure was prodigious, until the dormouse, remarking what was the matter, went and nibbled the plait through and re­ leased the luminary, whereupon every­ thing went on just as if nothing had happened. But the dwarf came home to his sister in high dudgeon. He was not going, he said, to bother himself about suns any more. It was not worth his while. He had more serious mat­ ters to attend to. And he began mak­ ing preparations for going out on an­ other wren-hunt. Such, in the bald outline, is a red Indian "fairy story," which seems tome to illustrate fairly well the tone of the humor of the aboriginal American. The hero is a dwarf--and this is an essential point in the folk jests of a people who consider a find physique the first quali­ fication of manhood--and in his pomp­ ous pursuit of very small birds, and subsequent inflation when he is suc­ cessful in the chase, the leading char­ acteristics of the red man are slyly bur­ lesqued. He succeeds in an impossible exploit, and, in the true spirit of a hero, makes no f nss about it, but when the sun is let go by the dormouse, he af­ fects to think such trifles as sun-oatch- ing beneath him, and sets himself seri­ ously to the task of killing another wren. There is a novelty in the flavor of thi%fooling, and a freshness of scene and circumstance that, so it appears to me, make the absurd story very at­ tractive.--San Francisco Ingleside. THB TWO COLTS. "Once there were two colts. One of them belonged to a man who had a God, and the other one belonged to a man who didn't have any God. One of them looked over the fence and didn't have anything to eat. BKs man didn't have any God. The other colt ate lots and lots of grass in his pasture, and he grew and grew and grew till he got a tail and buggy to him. His man had a But it is a Boston small boy who re­ marked the other morning, after his mother had had a laborious siege with his buttons: "I wish God would sew some buttons on my skin, so I could button my clothes right on and not have 'em come off!"--Boston Record. Greatest Discovery Since 1492. For couarbs, cold a, eore throat, bronchitis, laryngitis, and consumption iu its early stages, nothing equals Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." It is also a great blood- purifler and strength-restorer, or tonic, and for liver complaint and costive condition of the bowels it has no equal. Sold by drug>- Rists. . BBONZE is a very fashionable huq NOWUFOYV but brass has not entirely gone out Rupture, Breach, or Hernia, ; - neglected, often becomes strangulated and proves fatal. We employ a new method and guarantee a cure in every case or no pay. Send 10 cents in stamps for pamphlet and references. World's Dispensary Medical As­ sociation, 663 Main street, Buffalo, N.Y. A MAS with water on tho brain should wears plug hat--Philadelphia Bulletin. WORMS ARE THK SCOURGE or CHILDHOOD. Thousands of children die or grow up weak and sickly, with disordered nerves and stunted minds, the food necessary to their growth hav­ ing been eaten by these disgusting parasites. DR. WALKER'S CALTFOHNIA VINEGAR BITTERS not only expels worms, but frees the stomach from the uuhe breed. STRICTLY Ho Opium la Amy IV* /Mi OptMtea, SAFE. SURE. PROMPT UMMm ura Bu o,SAtirawa.a». The BE8T and CHEAPEST GERMan REMEOY Curt* RtwaniHtm, NsanMs, \ SMtachft* M&cirf' unhealthy secretions in which they THE flour of the familv is usually the latest to rise.--St. Paul Herald. E. L. NOTES, Revere, Mass., was cured of Bcald head by using Hall's Hair Renewer. . THE lumberman's favorite drink is logger.-- St. Paul Herald. A SURE cure for obstinate coughs and colds --Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. The best remedy. LOVE laughs at locks- red.--Jiotton Globe. -particularly if they are Ptter Cartwright. No member of the ^United States Senate in tlie habit of visiting Chicago has a wider circle of friends Ho wel­ come liim than has Senator Spooner, > of Wisconsin, when he reaches the Grand 1'ac lie, and none enjoys stories of human oddities more than he. During the Senator's last visit here a little group gathered around him, and began telling tales of revival times. > "I remember hearing my father tell of hearing Cartwr.ght on e," he said. "The services were in the woods, and people came fronf counties around to see and hear the great exliorter. After the singing, which seemed to shake the verv oaks, was over, Cartwright began: 'I Lear that there is a new religion started down in Boston, and its believ­ ers are called Universalists. They think that everybody, good or bad, is going straight to heaven, whatever he may have done on earth. All I'm going to say about them is to tell a story. You have all heard about good old Noah-- how the world became so wicked that the Lord had to drown the people. Noah was a good man, and the Lonl had him build an ark. Ail the living things of the earth were placed in that ark, and then Noah andTns^family got on board as the floods came. For forty days they floated about until the waters subsided, and then tliey landed on Mount Ararat. Noah was a good man. He lived so many hundred ye <rs in trial and trouble. His life was full of af­ flictions, and when he died he went to heaven. As he stepped inside the pearly gates the fellows who had been drowned many hundred years before because they were so wicked gathered around to look at the old man, who had been passing his life in tribulations, while they were enjoying the bliss of heaven. Finally one who had never liked Noah on earth because he was always preaching goodness said to him: "Well, old man, you've got along at last, have you ' "That story was a 'clincher' among the backwoodsmen," the Senator con­ cluded. "it was worth more among his hearers than all the arguments the re­ vivalist oou!d have jiroduced."--Chica­ go Tribune. • The Parent of Insomnia. The parent of insomnia or wakefulness is in nine cases out of ten a dyspeptic stomach. Good digestion gives sound sleep, indigestion interferes with it. The brain and stomach sympathize. One of the prominent symptoms of a weak state of the gastric organs is a dis­ turbance of the great nerve entrepot, the brain. Invigorate the stomach, and you restore equi­ librium to the great center. A most reliable medicine for the purpose is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which is far preferable to mineral seda­ tives and powerful narcotics, Which, though they may for a time exert a soporific influence Upon tho brain, soon cease to act, and invari­ ably injure the tone of the stomach. The Bit­ ters, on tho contrary, restore activity to the operations of that all important organ, and theiir beneflcent influence idhreflected in sound sleep and a tranquil state of the nervous system. A wholesome impetus in likewise given to thd ac­ tion of tho liver and bowels by its use. EVERT one is perfectly satisfied who uses Buckingham's Dye for this Whiskers. Toe can't count votes honestly by elect trick light.--Boston Star. k Hardworking Teacher. "Oh, Miss McSwelter," said a little Lodi schoolboy to bis teacher, "I heard pa taking to Mr. Jones about you." "Indeed!" replied the teacher, arch­ ly. "What did he say?" "He said yon were the hardest work­ ing teacher he ever saw." "And what did Mr. Jones say?" she asked, pleasantly. "He said you didn't know anything, and had to Btndv hard to keep from forgetting it."--Stockton Maverick. THE Boston Traveller says some people are born to ill luck. An old woman who has pasted nearly five thousand medical recipes into a book, during the past forty years, has never been ill a day in her life, and she is growing discouraged.--Dr. ' Foote's Health Monthly. WITH a true wife a husband's faults should be sacred--if not, she pollutes her marriage vow. The " Favorite Prescription." Dr. B. V. Fierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., whose narre has lecome known over the world through his success as a physician, and es- pcc.aiiy through trbe reputation of his "Golden iiedicat Discovery," baa done a good work in preparing an especial remedy for the many distressing troubles clashed as "female weaknesses." It is known as the "Favorite Prescription." Under its ad­ ministration all the pelvic organs are strengthened, and tbe woman becomes that embodiment of health and beauty which God intended her to be. BABNUM has treated Jombo just as be has THE bowels may be regulated, and the atom- *ach strengthened, with Ayer's rills. WILD oats are often sown with rye.--Boston Pott. "As the Crow Flies." This interesting bird, as is well known, always takes the shortest route and "gets there" soonest. In this respect he is worthy of imitation by travelers. For example, a man going to Florida, as many do nt this season, would naturally take the Danville Route, because that lino not only passes through the most interesting country, but makes the run from Chicago to New Orleans and Jacksonville in forty hours. This un­ precedented performance is made possible by the new bridge over the Ohio ltiver. near Evausville, which brings Nashville within sixteen hours of Chicago. Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars run without change to Nash­ ville. and with but one chaugo to New Orleans and Jacksonville. Florida. Scud to William Hill, General Passenger Agent, C. & E. I. It. R.. Cliic-igo, for an illustrated copy of "Florida--A Su ry." Twenty-four Honrs to Live. From John Kulin, Lafayette, Ind, who an­ nounces that he is now in "perfect health," we havo tho following: "One year ago I was, to all appearance, in the last stages of Consump­ tion. Our best physicians gave my case up. I finally got so low tlr.it our doctor said I could only live twenty-four hours. My friends then purchased a bottle of DR. WM. HALL'S HAL- SAM FOR THE LUNGS, which considerably benefited me. I continued until I took nine bottles, andl am now in perfoet health." Tlie Great German Physician. The remarkable phase in tho practice of Dr. Peter W. Schmidt (frequently called Dr. Pete) is, he never aslcod one to describe their disease but tells each one their trouble without asking a question. His success is phenomenal. His practice enormons. He is sought after by hun­ dreds wherever he goes, beeaune he euros when every other physician and remedy have failed. He lias allowed* his great medicines, Golden Seal Bitters and Lung Food for Consumption, to bo ofTered to the suffering, and wc asnert without fear of successful contradiction that there is no disease they will not cure. Thousands of bottles have been sold. Thousands of broken- down aud discouraged invalids saved Send to Golden Seal Hitters Company, Holland City, Mich., for Facte for the Million! Free. ••Put up" M the (>ault House. The business ma* or tourist wtllflnd first- class accommodations at the low |irice of $2 and S2.50 per day at the Gault House, Chioa- go, corner Clinton and Madjson streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the center of the city, only one block from the Union Depot, •levator: all f.ppointinents first-class. HOVT St GATES. Proprietors. Don't mny there is no help for Catarrfi, Hay Fever and Cold in Head, since thousands testily that Ely's Cream Ilalm bus entirely cured them. It supersedes tbe dangerou? me of liquids and snufis. It is easily ap plied with the finger and gives relief at once. Price 50 cents at druggists; 60 ccnts by mail, t-'end for circular. Ely 1 ros., Owogo, N. Y. FOB DVSPEPSIA, INUJOKSTIOX. <!<•!»ers on ol Spirits,.and general debility in their vurious forms; also, as aprev< ntiveagainst fev er and ague, and other intermittent levers.' the " Ferro-Phosphorated Klixlr of Ca ii-aya," made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., of New ) ork, and sold by all druggists, is the Lest tonic: and for putients recovering lrom fever or Other sickness it has no equa:. For over eight years I have suffered from catarrh, which has affected my eyes and hearing; have employed many physic an* without relief. 1 am new on my second bot­ tle of Ely s Cream llalm and feel confident of a complete cute.--Mary C. Thompson, Cerro Gordo, Pratt County, 111. I have used Athlophoros in my family with entire success, and I take pleasure and have no hesitation whatever in recommend­ ing it to all who are afflicted with rheuma­ tism. M. M. Tilton, ISt La Salle street, Chi­ cago, 111. ' I utted part of two bottles of Ely's Cream Balm, and can fay I am entirely cured of catarrh.--Charles Biesel, Co. K, 17th Infan­ try, Fort Custer, M. T. Yen will get more comfort for 23 cts. in Lyon's Heel Stttfeners than in any other article you buy. S months' treatment for 5)e. Piso's Rem­ edy for Catarrh. Sold by druggists. BUY SALZER'8 (U6wi,»lk) SEEDS. <•'»-fw. Tour Newsdealer tor THK CHICAGO I.l'.IKiElt, the BF.HT STOUT PAPM iu fli" country. it ° reittwl un.i turf a witnou: tlie k n 11. liook on treatment «eut free. Addr. o- ~ " PONI>.H.D„ Aaron.KimeCo..')_l It. S. k A. P tiACEV, Pat"nt Attorneys,Washington, DA.", liist' uctioun and opinion# «g to patentability FKK1.. JUT 17 yt-aru'exve iencu. , sales,bie pa&*te<Mtr <r?rk, no talk. , H an hnur for cither sex. tlt-50 •ample* tree. Pend stHmp and se­ cure r pleas int winter'* busittea*. G. B. M«rrill * <V».. CII'CITO. III. CANCER i? PATENTS in to patentability F QUICK FAt K, H ANDS. KKKT. And nil their imT*rfectJou», htclurlinc Kari&I P«vrl- rti/nfnt, Superrt'nn;* Ha'r, Birth Marks, Mole*. WftrLa, Mont, Fm-klw, lle«l Aca*. Bbu-k Head*' S* ar*. Pitting, and their trraniitiit, PK. iHN H. WOODBURY, 17 5. Pt'AKL ,KT., S.y.fttW4iro. tot Ms *r M. AT DBDOOISTS AMD DIAL mCHAaUS 1.T081U1 CO., BALTIIOKK. n. Vinegar Bitten, Rpur- fntive and tonic, purifies the iood, ptrcngtliens the liver and kidneys, and will restore health, however lost. Vinegar Bttters is the beet remedy discovered' for promoting digestion, curing headache and increasing the vital powers. Vinegar Bitter* assim­ ilates the food, regulates the stomach and bow­ els. giving healthy and natural sleep. Vlneg-ar Bitter* is the great disease pre­ venter, and stands at the head of all family rem­ edies. No house should ever be without it. Vinegar Bitters cures Malarial, Bilious and other fevers, diseases of the Heart, Liver and Kidneys, and a hundred other painful disorders. Send for either of our valuable reference hooks for ladies, for farmers, for merchants, our Medical Treatise on Diseases, or onr Catechism on Intemperance and Tobacco, which last should be iu the hands of every child and youth in the country. Anjr two of the above books mailed free on receipt of four cents for registration fees. R.H. McDonald Drug Co.. 5S-2 Washington *" "" COUGH AHB ClOSP REMEDY. t As an Expectorant It lias BO EquL ALLEN'S LlG B1LS11! IN THREE SIZE BOTTLES, Price, 25 cts., 50 cts. and $! per bottld* The 25-CENT BOTTLES are put tip for the afconK modation of all who desire simply a COUGil a* , CROl'P RK.Nfy.nv ' Those desirine a remedy for OONSUMPTIOX <B •uy LCXG DISEASE should secure the large tl.0% bottles. •!.. Directions accompany each bottle. " Viv j&"aoij> ax ALL MKDICIXE Suuai.'fil GET RICH! H AO INK RE­ CEIPTS for aoc. Address Hex 127. Painesville, Ohio. AVE YOU A FRIEND SSMS!3VR If so, place in their hands a copy of Mapruder's Reply to Incerooll. Ministers, superintendents, teachers, and students should avail themselves at once of this masterly and conclusive aivument. Price, cloth, ft, H. .1GNE8.77 Clark St.. Chicago, 111. CINCINNATI, OHIO. J. N. HARRIS & CO. (Limited), ; CINC OPIUM MO HKUAh mart CHUXMUI. HABITS lAdLTWltEK BOOK FKKK. Dr.J.C.Hof. . ileflbrMin. Wl«een«ln. - 'rounty to fell oargOM*. ' per loath and KxpeiiMi. Enema i _ "rancr. Ctnvassir.s; outfit PBWt Partjcalan ftrr. Stardird Silver-ware Co. •nanlnmM pSSS&l FACTS! Tlie Crop and Market Report s alone are worth , ten times the subscription price to any farmer: all 1 ' other departments equally valuable. Only |l.g a year. Sample copies free : write for one. FARJGBBV KEV1EW, Chicago, 111. State where you a»w thinsrtfy.; -.0 4 of the Louisville and Jeffteno&viHe Fcrrr Co.. Hr. J. 0, Dor*?, who Uves on Wall St., Jefferso&rille, Ind., I •ererelr from Neuralgia In the face, and vu • eared by ATHLOPHOHOS. This U the only « safe remedy for NVuralgla. Ask ?our droggiit tor All phoros. If you cannot get it of fclm do nottrri from aa. Wc wilt send 1 ^ l? quickly ••tr* aa€< el*e, bttt order &t once paid on reoeipt of prk ATHL0FH0208 CO*! 113 TTall St.Vsw Ysch. OLD SOLDIERS! ATTENTION!! AGENTS t •>' i:v i itv towh j B > TUB: B\rn:id ISTATHS TO SNI.IJ WANTED TIT A TWQ QHT TMPUC 'DlTPfl'DTI It sells withont argument. COA- X IlXl 111 k) Ol/JUU * KiJQjVjW Ail.', vussing outfits now ready. Th» Soldiers' Kecord is an Eloeiuit EiiKnivnifj, lithographed upon Plate l'uper, with blank spaces for Recording 1'".to of Enlistment and Discharge, Name of Company, Ilotfiment, Corps, <Sc., Battles engaged ill, and everything else required to give a Complete Record of the service of each indi­ vidual Soldier. When framed tho Record forms a handsome picture that will be a credit to th* Wall of any par'.or. One Ayerit writes: "I hare had iny outfit for tiro hours, and havS taken sir order.*." WSead for Circulars giving full particulars, with tonus to Agents, at aaoa, -r if you want the first chance in your vicinity. Address * T" ' 971 vicinity. THE CHICAGO FRA^KI.n KTUKIX LEDCER, ̂ life BUY NORTHERN BROWN SEEDS. «!JtHSWSSlS.7K;S,'?S liable testsd Northern Grown Seeds. Spleiutkl Farm Seeds; increase* viet' ov 3_ pon'l buy worthless Seed* when for lesa money oni-s are delivered ' BY MAIL. Catalog free. JOHN A. 8ALZER, La Crosse yon F'REI »e. Wis. TELEGRAPHY, 0 fnrniHhed. Write Valentine Bi 0 i^oru nere aud ear . goodpsy.Situati >n* Bros.. Janes vi lie. Wi* from Kufferern everywhere ; and Consultation in reply semis tfaod advice and valuable books. SPENCER'S ALLIGATOR PRESS 1 will >hii> tills HAY untl NTKAW PUEKHto any place un cumlltlon tlini If four men and one team can not press 2.MJ0 pounds of liny In one liour mid not drive the team fasti r tlmn a walk 1 *vl 1 mnke you n present of the press. Kuv C(>n:!ii !'>»-. <-n en rtc., midre^s .». A. NPK\CV'C, I I.I,. CLYDESDALE AND ENGLISH SHIRE HORSES. The on' y stud in Amer­ ica containing the very lieet specimens of botll breeds. Prize-winners Ht Chicago Fair, the World's Fair at New OrleatiH,t<ie R- yal So­ ciety of Kuirl:ind, etc. Larjfe importation ar­ rived August 14, snd more to follow. Onr buying facilities bei ig nneiiualed, ttiere is no sncli opportunity of­ fered e'sawhera to procure first-class animals of choicest breeding at very lowest prices. Kwri- ani­ mal duly recorded and guarantoad. Terms to suit all caatomer-i. Catalogues on amiiication. GALBKAITH HKf»S . .lanesville. Wis. A GKNTS wanted in every citv ami town tort iV Favorite Tracing Wceel. Will se.l inevery honM> hold. Two dozen in died upon receipt of ft. SutnaIt 10c. Novelty Wheel Co.. ^'1 Congress St., Boston," E V K H T C H I L D In every laud is subject to Coughs, Group & Whooping Cough. New Hollander (W. Australia). TIIKIH PAKENTS TO 003STSU3VT PTIOJffl T A K E I N T I M E Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein. The SweetGnm from a tree of the same name grow- iPK In the South, combined with a tea made from the Uullein plant of the old fields. For nalc by all drug­ gists at 25 cents and SI .00 per bottle. WALTER A. TAYLOR, Atlanta. Ga. J A M E S A . » » I - : V , IMrOUTKU AND UKKKDUfl OF FRENCH DRAFT HORSSSt I offer for s do tlie very lie-t svecimeus of Preuclt Draft Horses that can bp found in France. All partiee wishing nood. reliable stock are invited to callsndsse luy stiH'U, which now number about mo head. T>-rnjs and vrices to »uit purchasers. All stock sola under* K<iar;mtee of be;iiK breeders. I have also some very tine //• r /iir ' thill Cutr.x. all from importe I stock. JAMES A. 1EHHY. Iliverview Stoci Farm, Wilming­ ton, 111 , 5> miles south ot Chicago, ou C. & A. 11. lj. , These Disos represent j the opposite^ sides of B. H. DOUGLASS A SONS' Capsicum Cough Drop* for Coughs, Colds and Sore Throats, Alleviator of Consumption " ~ benefit in most cases of! (IEWARE OF IKITATK. are the result of over forty years* experienjfr in compounding: COUGH BJBIUDIS8. r*vr Retail prleo 15 eenU per qatrter FOR BALE BY ALL DEALER** , >f Dyspepsia. r»w.> jplso's Remedy Ibr Catarrh k the Best, Easiest to Use, sod Cheapest. C A T A R R H Also cood for Cold t in tbe Heed, Headache, Hay Fever, ito. 10 cents. ".induing from its effects in my ca (or Catarrh is 'Bscelsior.'*--H.D. Ian" rid. New York. se. Piso's Rem IHOVIIUK, at! • Piso's Remedy Tor Catarrh is the Best. Easiest to Use, snd Cheapest. C ATA R R H Also food for Cold in tbe Heed, Headache, Hay Fever, Ac. AO cents. Piso's Remedy ftw Oatarrb Is the Best. Easiest to Use, aad Cheapest. C A T A R R H Also mod for Cold In tbe Hsad, Headache, Hay Fever, Ac. to cents. |H "Pixi.'s Remedy for Catarrh (fave me almoat immf^ v 1: diate relief.---F. E. BILIINKKD, Audubon, Iowa. ^ Piso's Remedy ibr Catarrh is the [B ; Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. H - C A T A R R H Also rood for Cold in the Head, Headache, Hay Fever, Ac. M cents, m : "Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is just the medicine JjfS, have been locking for."-- \V. OUTON, Sbr«vJ e. Ky. rii'; Consumption Can Be Cured! DB II A I I '0 «* WM. HALL'S LUNGS,BALSAM ('urea <'oa*umpt!»i!. Colds, CsenneRl*, fa> . . . T U j u ^ J r t ! " rOH THK Piso's Remedy Ibr Catarrh is the Best. Easiest to Use, aad Cheapest. C A T A R R H nnnai ima nmnpiM i H H lMtase* *1 Ike U rent kin* (hy. • Also rood ibr Cold in the Head, • i and hents u e Menkraie «f • Headache, Hay Fsver, *c. H cents. ned K»«I poisoned •» the flies i " ™ flnenza. Hreachlal Dlfflrnllie«. Brrarhiits. llo«r»ei'e« • Anthinm, Creep, Whotipiaa Cough, and all ftisensee *1 the Breatkiai (hy. gnus, it eoothee ar " ' " -««- »- - - the l.niiK*. Isllnme rnaf, mill i»rrv«vm _ lignf in- an <>«» tlie rfc at \vk ch nreoHipMay it. Co -innxiinn l« net an lararable uialndv. 1IA1.I »s nAI.SA.-H will care yea, rvM HIOIIKII |IR IK nld tali4. Also good for Cold In the Head, Headache, Hay Fever, dtc. to cent* "Piso's Remedy for Catarrh has done me more than anything 1 ever tried."--Miss K. A. Cornwall Bridge, Conn. Piso's Remedy for Chtarrt Is the Beet. Easiest to Use, aad Cheapest. C A T A R R H ' j. • < - Pi go's Remedy fo- Catarrh is producins favoroU% results."--Oso. W. WITUAM, Philadelphia. Pa. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh Beet, Easiest to Use. and ' Cheapest 0 The OLDEST MEDICINE in the WORLD is I probably Dr. Isaae Thompson's I lebratsd Eye Watel C A T A R R H Also good for Cold tat tbe Head, Headache, Hay Fever, Ac. *> csata. TliiH article is a carefully prepared physician'* pre- srni th 'ii, and has been in constant use for nearly a centurv, aad notwithstanding the tnsav other urepsr- stious that have been introduced into the market, the inle of »»"• article is constantly increasing. If the di- ectionsare followed it will never fail. Weparticu- C. X. U. when WHITING TO.ADTKK^Una, - r ^ ' I *t,. ' . ( • l u > -- . . j i S B W . v ' A a f ! . . j A K - " . . . ' . «<h!-.JLuh istutf. f*, JUL.'. Ws.