The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

i .K*«m ' »•< BasaeaiwwiBWM^idi * iHfif&HMiil % * • FICHM UP A WWTEDO. •_* i* . ->•• * m H • A Stacy «rf the lata. Win I *raa attutng others detafled from tho Federal steamerMoxiongahela to search the Bed River between the Tensar and the Mississippi, for the torpedoes which had been planted by the Confederates before our fleet appealed in t&pse waters. TlieBe toroedoea were of -s all 1 **., ; ~i <> %$T • ' H "" jfej^ \ „ <->* • 3s&- h: v? •-z f t - ' - - makes, shapes, and sizes,' from a pork barrel'half-full of powder, to be fired by electricity from the shore, to a glass demijohn holding ten pounds and tq be exploded by contact. Some were on the snrfacc, some just under it, and some on the bottom. We went oat in gangs of four in row-boats to hunt for these terrifleas, each boat being pro- j Tided with grapnels, nets, boat-hooks, and whatever else was needed for fish­ ing up the monsters. We had to go slow and exercise great caution, for the channel was tortuous and no one could guess at what point we would come across a torpedo. While the woods were shelled two or three times a day i by our gunboats, the Confederate swamp-oats were by no means driven out They had every chance to secrete themselves along the banks, and we realized that if we came upon an elec­ tric torpedo which could be exploded from the shore we ran every risk of being blown sky-high. We had been at wo7k three or four days and had fished up seven or eight / ugly-looking fellows, when we got into a part of the channel which ran within fifty feet of the right bank. Just at this time a colored man who had been lying out in the swamps for several week8 waiting for his deliverance in­ formed us that he had observed men planting something in this bend about two weeks before. He thought there were wires leading from it to the swamp, but we scouted about for a couple of hours without being able to find that such was the case. The bank was a dense jungle in which 1,000 men could have concealed themselves, and the gunboats could not shell it from the po­ sition they had taken. It was about an hour after dinner that we moved up and began grappling In the bend. The boat in which I was stationed turned her bow down stream, threw over her grapnels, and two men used the oars to give her headway. We had not pulled fifty feet when the irons took hold, and I drew the boat back to the spot by means of the rope. Then, standing on the seat in the stern, I lifted at the obstruction and it came slowly up. It hod just appeared at the surface sufficient for me to make out that it was a boiler-iron torpedo, when there came an awful explosion. At the same instant our boat was lifted high in the air and broken to pieces, and I scarcely comprehended what had oc­ curred until I found myself in the water at least 200 feet below the point of ex- j * plosion. My hair, whiskers, and eye­ brows were badly singed, and my clothing was on fire as I came down after the flight. While I hod escaped, the other three men were killed out­ right and horribly mangled, and the great wave created swamped the boat working a few hundred feet below us and drowned one of her crew. While swimming for this capsized boat a man stood on the bank of the v river and fired four shots at me from a revolver, and with the fifth he killed the colored man who had given us in­ formation. The victim stood on the bank, about midway between the two boats, and was shot through the head. The torpedo was no doubt exploded by electricity, and the man who fired the • the °Perator who explo4ed|t, --/*> \ .... , An Irish Legend.. • .. (t, ' : A cbfarespondent sends the liOttflbli Athenamn, this Irish legend tran­ scribed from Irish manuscript in the Bibliotheque Royal 1, Brussels.' It is the story of which Moore gave a slightly Erroneous version in "St. Sevanus and the Lady," and is one of twenty-eight lives of the saints, all in the handwrit­ ing of Michael O'Clerigh: "Canair the Pious, a holy maiden of the Beuntraige of the south of Ireland, betook herself to a hermitage in her own territory. There, one night after nocturns, Bhe was praying, when all the churches of Ireland appeared to her. And it seemed that a tower of fire rose up to heaven from each the churches, but the greatest of towers, and the straightest toward heaven, was that which rose from Iniscathay. / " 'Fair is yon cell,' she saith. 'Thither will I go, that my resurrection may be near it.' Straightway on she went, without guidance save the tower of fire, which she beheld ablaze, without ceas­ ing, day and night, before her, till she * came thither. Now, when Bhe had reached the shore of Luimnech she crossed the sea with dry feet, as if she were on smooth land, till she came to Iniscathay. Now, Senan knew that ; thing, and went to the harbor to meet V iler, and he gave her welcome. " 'Yea, I have come,' saith Canair. ,u 'Go,' saith Senan, 'to thy sister, who dwelfe in yon island in the east, that thou mayst have guesting therein.' *' 'Not for that have I come,' saith Canair, 'but that I may have guesting with thee in this island.' " 'Women enter not this island,' saith Senan. " 'How canst thou say that?' saith Oanair. 'Christ came to redeem women no less than to redeem men. No less did he sufter for the sake of women than did lie suffer for the sake of men,. Women have given service and tend­ ance unto Christ and his Apostles. No less than men do women enter the heavenly kingdom. Why, then, shouldst thou not take women to thee f|, thine island ?' y* 'Thou art stubborn,' saith Senan. * 'What then?' saith Canair. 'Shalt I get what I ask for--a place for my side in this isle, and the sacrament x from thee to me ?' 14'A place of resurrection,' saith Senan, 'will be given thee here on the * brink of the wave; but I fear that the sea will carry off thy remains.' " 'God will grant me,' saith Canair, that spot wherein I shall lie will not be the first that the sea will bear f away.' " 'Thou hast leave, then,' saith Senan, 'to come on shore.' For thus had she been while they were in oon Terse, standing upon the wave, with her staff under her breast, as if she were on land. Then Canair came on shore, and the sacrament was adminis­ tered to her, and she straightway went to heaven.* of the careless expressman or mover of fur­ niture, before the paper is put on wet a spoonful of plaster of Paris and fill the place. Let it dry and then put on the paper. It will look decidedly better and will pay for the trouble Philadelphia Call. Etiquette ef Tact. •. « There is no aphorism that commands more respect than this: "The truth is not to be spoken at all times." Plain spoken people are always dreaded by their friends. They excori­ ate with unskillful scalpel. It is a rule with them to smooth pussy's fur the wrong way on the principle that it is a healthy function. But the cat never appreciates^. A few days ago a grand-looking old gentleman, with white hair but fine, strong physique gave up his seat in the street car to a lady. Whereupon a young miss jumps up and with great eargerness exclaims: Take my seat, please do. I never like to see an old person stand." Doubtless the motive was good, but the manner was most offensive, draw­ ing. a3 it did, a sharp and obtrusive line between youth and age, and calling attention to the infirmities that all are sensitive to, saying nothing of the ito-. plied rebuke to the lady who had ac­ cepted the old gentleman's seat A similar incident witnessed by the writer was met with a brusque re­ sponse. An elderly lady was standing in the car, when a young lady arose and said: "I am younger than you; I will stand." "Suityourself," answered the lady who was so suddenly brought into <$.% Gum Tragncanth Paste. r Keep a fruit jar that has a cover full of dissolved gum tragacanth. Have a brush with a ring in the cut off handle, so that it may be hung up when not in use. If scraps of paper get loose on the walls a moment's work will put them on again as good as new. When the house is papered always save the •craps or get an extra roll. It is but the work of a moment to put on a frag­ ment of paper that has been torn oS, THEf BEflAJf HOUSEKEEPING A Bit of Exprntanee Idva* TfcrMgli h? Mr. Tempma tkortljr After Marriage. Mr. Youngman of St* Anthony Hill married a very pretty and sweet" little lady, and he furnished a house to es­ tablish her in as soon as the nuptials were completed, says the St Paul Globe. He was congratulating himself On having bought everything that would be neeedd in the proper running of a well-organized household, and was not a little surprised on the second morning after the wedding by his wife handing him a card on which was writ­ ten a list of articles which she required Mm to bring home when he came from work. The list ran as follows: Stovo polish. Hard soap. Oatmeal. Curtain-flxturss. Picture books ml end, Coal-sieve. Rolllng-pln. Dust-pan. > Broom. Stove-brash. Paper 8-ounos tacks. prominence, and she remained stand­ ing. Again, a gentleman who was walking behind a lady on the sidewalk thought he perceived that some part of her drapery was displaoed; he touched her on the shoulder: "You are losing your ovenkirt, madam," he said hurriedly. "Well, sir," said madam, "is that any of your business?" Two young ladies who were confiden­ tial friends, resolved with each other to point out their mutual faults with a view to improving. They were seated cozily chatting when one said to the other: 'There is one thing, Clara, love, I have often noticed in you, and that is a habit of interrupting people when " "I interrupt, Laura, dear, why yea must be mistaken. I have always con­ sidered it the rudest thing in the world. Now you have a habit of contradicting that is very disagreeable." "I don't cross my feet, if I do," said Laura tartly. j "I don't chew gum," retorted Clqfki "You're not very polite, miBsl" . - "Quite as much so as you." . ' "I think your'r real mean!" "I think you're horrid 1" (tears.) , "You need'nt ever speak to me again." (sobs). "Don't you recognize me till I do I" And the two friends part in hysterical enmity. Sometimes the truth is indeed an indeed overrated virtue, but her handmaiden, tact, is one of the social graces.--Detroit Free Press. ' : : A Case of Generosity ; , A little negro boy used to loiter around Millionaire Armour's stables in years gone by. His clothes were in tatters, his kinky hair peeped through a rent in his hat, * and his feet were strangers to comfortable stockings and shoes. The king of the pork packers took an interest in the lad, and one day he called him into his barn and asked him why he didn't go to school. The boy replied that he didn't have any money. "Well, would you go if you had the money?" asked the rich packer, placing hi3 hand on the boy's head. "Oh, golly, yes; I'd go to-morrow?" was the quick response. A few days later the boy started for an educational institution located in a small town in Maryland. Armour's money was in the pockets of the lad's new clothes, and a letter of introduc­ tion to the principal of the school, written by the packer himself, was in his valise. Years passed. The student grew to the stature of a grenadier, he became proficient in his studies, and was at last chosen captain of a military organization made up of fel­ low-schoolmates. The student, whose name, by the way, is Forest, never for­ got his benefactor. Letters passed between them at regular intervals, the packer accompanying his missives with handsome remittances. During his last vacation the student came to Chicago to visit Mr. Armour and the friends of his youth. He presented the packer with a portrait of himself, and the night before he left the city to return to his college he indicted a most touching letter of gratitude to his benefactor, which contained, among other things, this singular passage: "When I return to school I go not like the bonded slave, bnt like Caesar to the Senate Cham­ ber." Armour cut this passage out of the letter, and, pasting it on the back of the negro's portrait, had the picture framed. He then gave it a position on his office desk, where it still remains.-- Chicago Herald. The Offense Was Bank} It Knelled to Heaven. Rev. Jonas D , a well-known Methodist minister, still living in the State of Massachusetts, has all his life had what his friends regard as fanat­ ical ideas regarding the observance of the Sabbath. He is very careful that no work of a domestic nature is done on that day in his house. No meals are cooked, no sweeping or dusting is done, and the day is one of solemnity and pious meditation combined with church and Sunday-school going. On one occasion Bev. Mr. D. spent Sunday with his son's family. His daughter-in-law, a very pious woman, conchided, in honor of the guest, to forego her usual cold dinner on Sunday, and just before starting to church she slipped a fine fat turkey into the oven to roast under a slow fire while she was gone. On returning an odor of burning meat filled the house, and smoke was seen coming from the oven. "Why, daughter, what is that?" asked Rev. Jonas D , as his nostrils snuffed the unpleasant odor. The daughter-in-law, conscience- stricken and abashed, said, meekly: "A broked Sabbath, father; a broken Sabbath." "Humph!" was the old gentleman's immediate reply, "don't break another one, please, if it's going to smell like that"--Detroit Free Press. ' ' "As lovely as a poet's dream" is an expression often used. It will become obsolete when it is officially announced that poets are inordinately fond of mince pfc. ' ?:i.. ,.*«m t Mr. Youngman reads over the list and tries to remember that he bought all of these things when he furnished the house but he can't "Hadn't you better go down with me and order them yourself, darling?" he says. "No, no, dear," she replies. "Youcan get them well enough." "But I might not get just what you want," he suggests. "Oh, you goose," she says, smilingly, throwing her arms round his neck and dropping a kiss on his lips. "You know I'd be satisfied with anything you buy me." "I wouldn't be single again for any thing," mused Mr. Youngman, as he tripped lightly down-stairs. That noon Mr. Youngman brought home the desired articles and laid them on the table. Mrs. Youngman looked over the articles and said: "Oh, Will, what'd vou get this kind of stove polish for? It isn't half so good as the other, and this soap, why, mother never would have that brand of soap in the house. How much'd you pay for this oatmeal ?" "Twenty-five cents." "Twenty-five cents! Why, yon can get splendid oatmeal, at Schwab's for IS cents a package. "Those curtain fixtures are an inch too wide for the windows. I wondei you didn't know that. "Oh, you got green picture cord, didn't you ? Well, I won't use it always want red picture cord. /'That coal-sieve is too coarse. ItH let half the good coal through. Why didn't you think of that ? "That rolling-pin is altogether toe heavy. I wanted a light one. "I was in hopes that you'd get a bronze dust-pan, instead of this yellow one. "That broom is too heavy. A lightei one would have done just as well, and it wouldn't have cost so much. ! "The bristles in that stove-brush are t too stift. I wanted a softer one. "Oh, Will, why didn't you get gal­ vanized tacks; those iron ones rust oul so quick. They ain't good at all. Mr. Youngman waits until his young wife gets through, and, wondering whai has brought such a change over li«n since morning, puts his arms around hei and says: "What is the matter with my little wife?" Her dainty head falls on his shouldei and between the sobs that shake hei slight frame she says: "Wi-Will, I fe-feel so b-a-ad! wanted to--to make some bi-bi-biscuit this noon, and a-a-and got the watei and sa-a-alt and ye-ye-yeast, but there'* something mi-mi-missing and I can'* think wha-wha-what it is." Mr. Youngman smiled quietly, and, clasping his young wife to his watch- pocket, he placed his lips to her ear and whispered: "Flour." How Mr. Moody Was Boycotted. D. L. Moody has a good story tc tell of the benevolent capitalists whe sometimes visit him at his pleasant Northfield home. "You business men don't got all the benefit of this laboi agitation," he sona(etimes says. "I know how it is. I've lieen boycotted my­ self." 7 "You, Mr. Moody ?" they ask in sur­ prise ; "we thought you were way out of range of that sort of thing." "No, I ain't," replies the genial evangelist, and with a twinkle in his eye he tells this story of his experience with the labor agitators. It was sev­ eral years ago, when his boys' school at Mt. Hermon had its beginning. There wasn't much to the school then except two or three buildings, two small classes of boys, and a vast expanse of pasture land, which now, Mr. Moody says, he is making to blossom like garden. But it was alive with wood- chucks then, and in their ages of un­ disturbed possession they had bur­ rowed through and through that pasture land till they must have had an under ground network of holes that crossed each other like a veritable labyrinth Mr. Moody Was inclined to dispute their possession, and offered his boys 25 cents a head for their capture. The boys were fully alive to their oppor­ tunities, and many were the hunting parties that came home laden with dead woodchucks, which were promptly ex­ changed for silver quarters by their worthy employer. A little band of Indian boys especially distinguished themselves on the hunt, having the ad­ vantage over the other boys by reason of their fcarly training; but no one had reason to complain, for time smiled on them all in those days, and dreadful was the woodchuck mortality. By and by Mr. Moody found that his outlay for woodchucks was beginning to be an appreciable drain on his purse: when woodchucks were so plenty 25 cents was altogether too high a price to pay for them, he reasoned, and one morning he announced to the school that he would ba compelled to cut down the bonus on woodchucks from 25 cents to 10. There was no help foi it. The die was cast; and however plentiful, it was out of the question killing woodchucks for 10 cents a head when they had been getting 25 cents. So the bovs had an indignation meet­ ing, and the Indians were foremost in urging the most approved methods of labor agitation known to the craft; the other boys gave hearty assent, and a boycott was voted on Mr. Moody which has not been broken to this day. No student at Mt. Hermon school was to kill any of Mr. Moody's woodchucks for 10 cents; they would see the wood­ chucks eat up the foundations of their boarding-house first; they would wait for developments. A committee waited on Mr. Moody and informed him of the action of the assembly. Mr. Moody re­ mained firm, and the woodchucks once more disport themselves on that blue r i thodox mount, feeling that there is no man to make them afraid.--Spring­ field Republican. It is said that a clean kitchen was George Eliot's favorite sitting-room. We are left in doubt as to whom she in­ vited when she wanted to really and truly enjoy herselfc % ^ • • -**• . c When you visit or Imvs New York CStf, baggage, expressafe, and 93 carriage him, and itopattbe Graad Vnlsa Hvtel, opposite Grand CaatealDepot 618 vsitB^lftttod np at a cost of one million "1 and npwards per day. European .tor. Beetanrant supplied with the Home cars, Btages. and elevated rail­ road to all depots. Families can live better for money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other iirtt class hotel in the city. The Be Lais Country. The town of Minot, out in Dakota, at the second crossing of the Mouse River, and for t^e present the terminus qf the St PauVMinneapolis and Man­ itoba Railroad, is Ibe latest Northwest­ ern aspirant to greatness. It certainly has an exoellent situation, and if a fine oountry will make a good town, its future prosperity is assured, for the Upper Mouse and De Lacs River country is as attractive a region to the settler as any in the country. The De Lacs River joins the Mouse eight miles above Minot, having its source in a lake thirty miles long, the head of which is one and one-half miles south of the boundary. The Coteaux come sheer up to the lake on the south side, and are heavily timbered in places. On the north side is a fine oountry, well adapted for settle­ ment, now oocupied only by a few settlera from over the line in Canada. Then came two smaller lakes, and be­ low these for fifty miles is a fine, rich lain, twenty or thirty miles wide, rough the center of which the river runs. Coal is found all over the country. It crops out in every hillside on the river. This country is the fa­ vorite range for white and black-tailed deer and antelope, and many hunters have had great sport hunting them this fall; two bagging twenty-five black- tailed deer in ten dam Throughout its course the river is heavily timbered, and its lateral feeders are also well supplied. Except where an occa­ sional rancher has set his stakes, the whole county is publio land, and it surely offers some fine opportunities for the homeless in the States to provide themselves with fine farms, only at the expense of ooming and settling on them. The finest op­ portunities now offer themselves to secure the best locations. Only last week a claim was taken, adjoining the town of Minot, and public land is plainly in view across the river, only one mile away. The land in the Mouse River valley, along the timber, has to some extent been taken by settlers who came in from Bismarck three yeara ago, Attention is ohiefly directed to stock pL th ifcJilL more oe« Among is a man mps pre­ served in 130 richly bound volumes, and mother who keeps two clerks em­ ployed in classifying am ammgita his enormous collection. Added fowl there are in Paris about 150 wholesale firms employed in the trade, and one of the best known of these has lately offered from £20 to £40 for certain stamps ef the yea* 1836. Tuscan post­ age stamps dated before 18)60 will be paid for at the rate of £6 each, while stamps from Mauritius for the year 1847 fetch £80. and French stamps of 1849 are qnttked' at £1 each.--The Ar­ gonaut * At the masquerade ball in Adin last week St Jacobs Oil took the first prise. Nothing strange in this, as it is highly prized in . cially in TliktMM.. CouW Net Hit Hl«k Justice--"You toy that the prisoner threw stones at you ?" Witness--" Yea, sir. He threw over a dozen at me." ' "Dili any of them o, sir, I dodged them. far was the wften he threw ?" "About twenty feet." "And do you mean to say that the prisoner threw a dozen stones at you at a distance of twenty feet and did not hityouf" Yes, sir. Ton see I am a base-ball umpire and am need to dodging." " 'es, I see. I thought there waa some reason for your not being hit.*-- Free Press. Oiwwnkei Wmnmu debilitated stro--es» ally, Dr. , T beet of all rtefoiitive *1iai*pl? •Cure-all/ tat admirtWy pSfe a -- a moet potr' -- Weekawee every family where used--espe- oura.--Bieber (CaLj Mountain i f : ; I pristofrfrom jem geetion, bloating, weak hack, aervone prostra- fidn, debility and sleepleesness, in either set. Favorite Prescription is sold by drnggista under oar jmmMm guarantee. Bee wrapper aronnd bottU. Pate* 91.00 • bottle, et aix bottles Jfcr §S.O*. A large treatise en Diaeases of Women, profanely illustrated with colored plates and numerous wood-cuts, sent for ten cents in •tamps. Adeil use, WOBfcD'8 Dkotnsabt Mdicu Association, 698 Xain street, Buffalo, N. J. Paradoxical as it may sound, who gets over Niagara it-- ferae Siftimg*. may a Falls ever get* ov«r I* all so ealled remedies have failed, De. flsge's Catarrh Kwaedy cure* • pity that politicians cant paint a without rubbing their noses in it Disorders use "Have never It b a tchmred Fob Oonghs and Throat BaowaM noncmu,Tkocna cfcaafcd my mind tUafbeMs/ ' wail aslylaboasa Tomato red is the new shade. A toper's WXI Is in the height of fashion. A OlMSt & a Biyth, bat solid reality will be known by thoee who write to Hallett ft Oa, Portia- *y mind respecting them, except I tor of that whiclTT beean thixOong Htnry Ward JBtedUr. 8^d Mr. Gbo. Deutkrkan, New Yoik City, suffered nearly a month with a levers cough, and, having tried-, several remedies without relief, finally used Red Star Cough Cure, which, he says, proved "speedy and Tk* ftetrepelis. f f Teacher--"What is tfeemetro] the United States?" Pupil ̂ --"Cincinnati.* Teacher--"Oh, no. What makes you think Cincinnati is the metropblis?" Pupil--"Why I saw in the paper the other day that there was mote meat Jut up tnere than any other place, so supposed it was the meat-ropolia." raising, each ranoher having from twen­ ty-five to one hundred head of cattle, though many fields are in cultivation and produce well. The soil in the val­ ley is rich, but that on the surround­ ing prairie level is of the finer quality. The "old residents" claim that the cli­ mate of the valley is milder than any part of the territory, and their claim would seem to be substantiated by the many varieties of wild fruits growing in the forest, and the fact that wild grape-vines are growing on nearly every tree. Banohmen claim that on account of this exceptional mildness they can winter grown cattle with an outlay of but one ton of hay per head. The "chinook" winds, during winter, blow from the southwest down the Yellowstone Yalley, pass ov6r the low "divide" at Fort Buford and reaching the DeLacs Yalley change their direc­ tion to the southeast, . reaching the Mouse Biver Yalley as a warm northwest wind. They some­ times last for a week at a time, cut the snow off in a few hours, and often raise the water in the rivers two feet. Not the least of the resources of the country lie in the coal mines, which make outcrops in nearly every hill and ravine. A mine tinder process of development, six miles from Minot, shows up a vein seven feet in thickness and of the best quality of lignite, burning easily and rapidly and used for all heating pur­ poses. The coal sells for $1.2f> per ton at the mine, and is in common use in. Minot and throughout the surrounding country.--St. Paul Pioneer Press. The Hired Escort. It is a common practice in New York City -for ladies to hire male escorts to places of evening entertainment, the engagement usually being made with some of the messenger companies, which keep a corps of youths for that £urpose. In Philadelphia a young man as branched out on his individual ac­ count. He tells the Press business isn't good as it might be, but it is im­ proving. He keeps an advertisement in the paper, and says of his mode of procedure: . "If they want me thej write me to call. I go in the afternoon, show my references, which 'are good, and make arrangements as to whether they want a carriage or not, for instance, and whether I shall wear evening dress, in which case I charge $1 extra. Then in the evening 1 appear, send up my card, and no one knows, I think, that I am not wasting my own money in taking my affianced, my mother, my wife, as the case may be, to the play, end, by Jove, I don't myself sometimes." "You mean then * "Nothing, nothing,* said the young man, giving a slight curl to his left whisker let "Still, you'd be sur­ prised, sir, to know how much even a hired escort is to some women,, 'Pon my word they hang on my arm-- I don't mean all of .them--when we cro.-s the gutters and they chatter--I really believe they're a good deal more interested in keeping up the make-be­ lieve than I am. In fact, I am quite certain that that Lancaster woman-- she ordered me a dress suit, by the way --has formed her idea of a city society man completely from my make-up. But you mnsn't say anything about that. It would injure the business." "You spoke of staying through some performances and merely taking to and calling for others. Can you make two engagements in a night?" M 'Places of amusements/ my adver­ tisement reads," answered the hired escort. "There are a great many amuse­ ments besides the theater--lectures, concerts and tableaux. Most of these are out an hour before the theaters close. In Boston, where there are so many old maids, you know, and yet such a large amusement-loving popula­ tion, I almost always had two engage­ ments a night." "You have lately come from there?" The hired escort sighed. "I have," he said. "Would that I could have stayed there." "Ah!" "Yes, I took a young lady three times to the museum. The third time--well, her father was an invalid. I am very glad he was. If he possessed his full vigor I do not think that I would have been able to do what I did--that is to say, leave town." Use Dr. Piercfs "Pellets" for constipation. The oldest mention of opera was "when thftjtftlS fiftQtf inontliA* ^ ^ I A MAN rich life as barren am pent set to guard a barren Lowell. for himself has a only a oheerless as the ser- treaanre.-- A CIuumw ft»r Health Ik afforded those fast sinking into a ootid (tied o( hopeless debility. The means are at hand. In the form of a genial medicinal cordial. Hos> tetter's Stomach Bitters embodies the oombined qualities of a blood fertilizer and depurent,*a tonic and an alterative. While it promotes di­ gestion and aBBinUlation, and stimulates appe­ tite, has the further effect of purifying the life current and strengthening the nervous system. As the blood grows richer and purer by its nse, they who resort to this sterling medicinal agent, acquire not only vigor, but bodily substance. A healthful change in the secretions is effected by it, and that sure and rapid physical decay, whieh a chronic obstruction of the functions of the system produces is arrested. The prime eauses of disease being removed, health is speedily renovated and vigor restored. { ~X It is reported that in Northern China everybody, young and old, rich or poor, is accustomed to bathing the hands and face every morning in water almost scalding hot Anglo-Saxons are accus­ tomed to cold water, considering it more invigorating, but hot water is a good cosmetic, and often helps rid a face of pimply eruptions. Cold water may be the most agreeable and enliven­ ing, but hot water is the most thor­ ough cleanser.--From Dr. Footed Health Monthly.' The flour of the family often makes a loaf-er ill-bred. they ... .. L"P Ward* daily. Bone have earned over >50 in a day. Capital ae* needed. Halle* 4 Co. will start you. All is new. Delay qot Pay abso­ lutely sure from stall Wealth awaits every worker. Both eeaae. AH ages. "BCCHUPAIBA." ••ROUGH ON BILE" PILLS. taall granules, small doee, big results, pleae* ant m operation, <kmf disturb thi " " ••ROUGH ON DIBT. Ask for "Boagh on Dirt." A perfect washia« powder found at last! A harmless, extra fine* A1 arUele, pare sad clean: sweetens, bleaches, and whitens without the si Jury to finest fabrics. Ui and laces, dry use. 6c, 10c, 28o. Fob spirits, forms aest fabrics. Unequaled tax One 1 .general household, kitchen, and Softens water; saves labor and At drocgists or grooers. dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of i, aad 'general' debility ia their various ; also as a preventive against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the "Fer- ro-Phoephorated Elixir of Galisava," made by Caswell, Hazard A Co., Mew York, and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic, and for patients recovering from fever aad other siokness it has no eqaal "Rouoh on Bats" clears oat rats. mice. l>a. "Bough on Coras"--hard or soft corns. Ifla "Rough on Toothache." Instant relief. lNl "Bough on Dentist" Tooth Powder, 10c. Wide awake 3 or 4 hours every night, cough­ ing.--Get immediate relief and sound rest hf using "Bough on Coughs" Troches, 10 cents. Tuns mother's favorite cough madtnlnsi faf the children and adults is *Bough on Coughs Troohes, 10c. Liquid, 25c. JLJFK 1>RESKKVKKT~ If you are losing your grip on life, try "WelV Health Beaewer." Goes direct to weak spots OIXE DOLLAR and Fifty Cents Will pay for » £3 Family Story Paper for one year. Sample copies free. Address Thk Chicago Lbdobb. Chicago. 11L Scrofula The Pralthe ef EdtaeMjr. People of moderate means are obliged to practice economy in obtain­ ing the necessities of life, and those in receipt of a large income, even, natur­ ally wish to obtain the full worth of their money. A proper quantity and quality of reading matter, in these days, is most assuredly to be classed among the necessities; then how to ob- thia cheaply is a desideratum. The Chicago Ledger fills the want for a first-class family story paper better than any other published in the West, and at half the price of the Eastern publications of the tame grade. Its corps of contributor has been largely reinforced, and articles from Rev. H. W. Thomas and Prof. David Swing upon timely topics are given weekly. Its stories are of a high order. Send for sample to the Ledger, 271 Franklin street, Chicago^ Only $1.60 per year. The Duty of State LogisIstaM, Legislation should be effected in every State reguiatmg the sale and uac of the many pois- ons resorted to by women in their desperation to obtain beautiful complexions, while there exists in Dr. Harter's Iro-i Tonic every requis­ ite necessary to accomplish the object without injuring the health or endangering lifa The best ooug-h medicine is Plso's Core for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 26c. MlaMr ao form of dlseass It so generally Ms- Mfcated among oar whole population as scrofula. Almost every individual has this latent poison coursing his vetns. The terrible sufferings ea- dnret by those afflicted with scrofulous sores cannot be undsrstood by others, and their grati­ tude on finding a remedy that cures them.astoa. Ishes a well person. The wonderful power of Hood's Sarsaparilla In eradicating every form of Scrofula has been so clearly and fully demonstrated that It leaves ao doubt that it is the greatest medical discovery of this generation. It is made by C. I. HOOD A (XX, Lowsll, Mum., and Is so'.d by all drugglits. IOO Doses One Dollar UNRIVALED ORCAN8 On the KA8Y PAtMElft system, from 93-2B per month up. 100 styles. $ti to $900. Send for OaS- aiogue with full particulars, mailed free. UPWICHT PIANOS. Ctonstructed oa the new method of stringing, eai Usr terms. Bend for descriptive CstuoguST MASON * HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO. Boston, New York, Chlcai*. A V PATENT FOR NAI.K. THE ADAM0O& 00„ Patent Solicitors Mnncie. Indiana. here and earn tions WU. TELECRAPHY^^ 1 furnUhsd. Wrlle VjSlenUae »ro«.. J«nssTflW, '.Bisk. $5 to tHadsi. 8smvie« worthfUI. FREE, lines not under the horse's ML Address Brewster's Bifet.v Bein Holder. Hollr. Mich. AMIIU Morphine Habit OPIUM CarrJ In IS _ NV till cores. , Lebaaan.Ohlo. OLD QttftONIC PILES- --*s cured by measures mlld.ssie.aii d certain. W rite isferenre*.M IJ..'AWN.('larkM.,Chicsgo. WORST CASKS. Ali-o i tlier ltri tal RUPTURE Believed and Cured bv Dr. J. A. Shermsn'B method. Those who cannot avail themselves of per­ son* 1 sttendsnre can have home treatment appliance and curative sent for $10 onlv. Send stamp for circu­ lar. 8M Broadway, New York. BY THE 6ARVANZA UNO COMPANY OF LOS ANGELES, GAL., Carpenters. Masws, Brick-Makers. Plnmbers, snd X.ab»rers of mil kinds. Carpenters' »re.fl:; and S3.50 per day; Masons and Plasterers, S3 to ff> per day; Laborers, 920 to 925 per month and Board. Homes sold on monthly installments, and work furnished i.u those who wish to secure n pleasant home. Work all the year round. No time lost on account of hot or cold weather. Trees planted on lots and cared for until purchasers desire to reside upon them. Defined payments for two years, without interest. Best of soil, abundance of water, and the healthiest climate in the world. Low rates of transportation can be had by applying to A. Phuojvs A Co., 80 Clark Street^ Chicago, ill. For full particulars apply to BOGEB8, BOOTH Sc CO., Amenta. 184 V. Mala (treat, Los Angeles, CaMforaia. • • ** D0 NOf DfcttTftUY.JHIS ADVKKI iStlafcftT, AS IT WILL NOT APPEAR AGAIN. GIVEN AWAY BEFORE HARM 15,1887. ISTO BLANKS. We deaire to secure 50,000 New Subscribers to THE WEEKLY NEWS. «3~Tlte Orentest Offer ever made by responsible publishers-Mr 5tb Grand Distribution by THE WEEKLY NEWS, The Leading Newspaper of St. Joseph, Xo. Oa'y S1.50 for oar paper and a fine present JVThere are NO BLANKS ik this distribution, snd every subscriber is entitled to a present. Upon receipt of Sl.ftO your name will be entered for one yesr s mbsoription «nd s pre in iuiu receipt inuubereain duplicste froiu our subscriptiou books wMliw seut to your address, tiive four btate. The agent sending us of presents: 1. CVmA prenent (it Gold ~ Vat/i prcaeul tn Gold.. i er more subscriptions may retain Sic on each subscription. Read the list $1,0 0 M» _ , Quid, each M 5. 10 ciuh preteni* In Gold, tack IV 6. SO nut prewNit in Gold, each S ?, V> LndUi' Gold Wittc/ie* 4S) 8. 90 Splendid Wat then. ' S. Ca»A pre ten i hi (told. i i conk prt**nt* tn infill I a ELY'S CREAM BALM We have handled a catarr, remedy that Aosj increased ao rap idly in soles Ely's Cream B< or that has gi\ such universal saU iafaction. -- C. N. Crittenton, NoJtlS) Fulton St., New' tork Oily. oiurffta L*a now Ttarne iarllr. Do so* «spertm»n»--ssi Osisisn Ml»l lKssSsshe. Smsm Dees and B» lauitod etmitMK tweeente ta TBI Pi. MtTEBMIWCWI GO.. 8T PENSIONŜ ECLECTIC SBORTBAttSI 0 9KBBE WART YOU! s2s%xswr.'° •-*--» om sales If cu!vkkw2bb oa. ADVERTISERS on sdvsrtiting tptce whsn in Chicago, find tteaflsat 45 to 49 Rsndolph Si., | AM |f|a|U ths Advertising Ageneyof LUMP • WRHIVS mm Dr.Wltt«MT 9. i Upright Piano! 10. 3 Org<xnx 11. 2 Top itiujftirt 12. 10 Gold Mtitrhf* IS. 30 Weekly New* SeiciHg 14. 5 Fm-m 15. I Alt man- Taylor Threnhtr \tf. S,QH Slwaltirit Enf/lt*k ItooltH The News is not s iocai >mt a national newst S!>c-. mtienendent in politics, moral 111 tone, un iaterestii-g, j • - - " " • • -- * drew presents iu our last distribution, and lie.ir ! bar of w LoeatkMwDKI kAIiB, IUa !»WB»Oesweet<rfC%l8siw).enOssshsPtT.aaK.W» Br. SV*8sad for Oatato«u«. •WiZARD-Pinnae Hare been heertily spfejretl hr the nearly awi town and olnr u the Ul . Marvelous tone have been performed, •eeeed by thoaeaade erpeopM, wnooan mvoRnsmnMun rowaa Hamlin's Wizard rr sas mo sqioal *oa na csaao RHEUMATISM, KEURALaiAJOOTMACHf. WEAMCNE, CATARRH, CMMJF, SSRC LAME £iCK.C0MTUCtn COMM. iOIRTt, SPRAINS, BRUISES. MM Aad Many Ottier Pains Ceased by AccMset It is safe aad sore, doee its work qi sires universal satisfaction. Vor aalehr RtoaSOe. OorSoagBook mailedfrseto Address WIZARD OIL C0NPAHY, Kaumi, chamber *et. Hilt. St. Joseph, etui. mtpl 'Fred &-h> tider, St,'L*iuix, fd-Jf. S40; C. Lizzie Cr(/T, A'aiwai City, tnxh, $15: «5 traUkes ^ptidilen'Pkhttga 't auk. $1': John andS.Wi Ktandartt Km- alithbooht and u><trk*~nf jlctiiin were alto dratcn.' Mix. C. Jf. Mitt*. CYalf, Mo^cma, $A; Ilirc* farpenter, jtannat City. Mo. oa*£«>; J. It. Brink. Mount City. Mo., task. $50. You pay nothing for the prevent »«the * mhle the niei rtm2d°( I that can be'mailed will l»"sent*pot-tpaid_t J the subscrii e'r's address, fteirtt chant. i subsrri>>er. No attention will be paid to letters unleu pries of subsonption is icdossd Remit by new postsl note, money order, registered letter, express order, or .draft. Rsr s kescks Sajtoi National Bank. State Savinn Bsnk, snd the Business Men of 8i Joeeph. orany of the Commercial scearles -« ^^ewt Building^ St Jessph, Mo. ^Mention thisp.fsr. J|U> jfl -1^1 srasjss in ty Instantly m C. N. U* iiisImmmiiII WRITING TO AO Wi-.-im ,, \ .* ^ " '•V '#t:( Cv v, VW • ^ J V f„„ '*k,y r"1. .aSdE™