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* • c - . •*"»* Awliiiigaii M « Candltatefto- Om*+-Wamm mm FrtoMl*, •' [Century.] Of oodtk, in the ten days left Um his return from the field, acanvass of «M> county, which was then some ttMjyidi of square miles in extent, was Otrt of the question. He made a few . fpeeches in the neighhoAnnrl of New Balem, and at least one in Springfield. He wan wholly unknown there except fcy his few comrades in arms. We find mm mentioned in the county pa^er only Once during the summer, in an editorial :•[ %ote adding the xuune of Oapfc. Xoncoln to those candidates for the Lecialsture ... "Who were periling their lives on the frontier and had left their reputations iti charge of their generous fellow-citi­ zens at home. On the occasion of his . speaking at Springfield most of the candidates had come together to ad­ dress a meeting there to give the elect­ ors some idea of their quality. These Wet» severe ordeals for the" rash as- • pirants for popular favor. Besides those Citizens who came to listen and judge ; there were many whose only objetet was fiie free whisky provided for the oc­ casion, and who, after potations pottle- deep, became not only highly unparlia­ mentary but even dangerous to life and , limb. This wild chivalry of Lick Creek . Vas, however, less redoubtable to Lin­ coln than it might be to an urbane ;; Statesman unacquainted with the frolic fc brutality of Clary's Grove. Their gam- - l»ols never caused him to lose his self- possession. It is related that once, while lie was speaking, he saw a ruffian " attack a friend of his in the crowd, and ; (0ie rencontre not resulting according to the orator's sympathies, he descended from the stand, seized the objectionable fighting man by the neck, "threw him •ome ten feet," then calmly mounted to .. his place and finished his speech, the Course of his logic undisturbed by this Athletic parenthesis. Judge Logan saw Lincoln for the first time on the day ' /when _ he came up to Springfield . On his canvass. He thus speaks 4' his future partner: "He was a very fell, gawky, and rough-looking fellow then; his pantaloons didn't meet his iSioes by six inches. But after hp began •peaking I became very much interested In him. He made a very sensible apeech. His manner was very much the same as in after life; that is, the fcame peculiar characteristics were ap­ parent then, though of course in after years he evinced more knowledge and experience. But he had then the same novelty and the same peculiarity in his ideas. He had the same ndividuality that he kept through all his life." There were two or three men at the gS,; meeting whose good opinion was worth it ; more than all the votes of Lick Creek j/ •, $o one beginning life; Stephen T. Logan, * young lawyer who had recently come « from Kentucky with the best equipment for a niai prius practitioner ever brought 1 Into the State; Major Stuart, whom we have met in the Blackhawk war, once commanding a battalion and then . marching as a private, and William ; Butler, afterward prominent in State politics, at that time a young man of the purest western breed in body and character, clear-headed and courageous, * end ready for any emergency where a friend was to be defended or an enemy Eunished. We do not know whether lincoln gained any votes that day, but he gained what was far more valuable, the active friendship of these*able and honorable men, all Whigs and all Ken- tnckians like himself. I. , The acquaintances he made in his canvass, the practioe he gained in • 1 speaking, and the added confidence which this experience of measuring his Abilities with those of others gave, were all the advantages which Lincoln de­ rived from this attempt. He was de­ feated, for the only time in his life, in ft contest before the people. The fortunate candidates were E. D. Taylor, J. T. Stuart, Achilles Morris, and Peter Cartwright, the first of whom received lj 127 votes and the last 815. Lincoln's sition among the eight defeated can- idates was a very respectable one. He hnd 657 votes, and there were five who fared worse, among them his old ad­ versary, Kirkpatrick. What must have been especially gratifying to him was the fact that he received the almost unanimous vote of his own neighbor­ hood, the precinct of New Salem, 277 YOtes against 3, a result which showed more strongly than any words could do the extent of the attachment and the confidence which his genial and upright character had inspired among those who knew him best. pos did Some Hints on Beading. The readers Coleridge has divided into four classes. He says, "The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass; their reading being as the sand: it runs and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything and returns it in nearly the same state. A third class is like a jelly- bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retain only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems." It is to be feared that in the present day the Seatest number of readers belong to e first of these classes. The amount read is something almost fabulous, but {he results are comparatively trifling. Volume after volume is* perused; pamphlets and papers are mentally consumed, but the stores of knowledge are not perceptibly increased. This charge lies only against those who read . secular works; it applies to too great an extent to those who* read the Scriptures and other treatises upon things divine. Lord Bacon once said, "reading makes ft full man." He could not have meant the kind of reading that is now too pre­ valent. The omnivirous readers, the readers who skim through page after page; the butterfly readers, who taste aome flowers of literature here and there, but never settle down to a reso­ lute extraction of the sweets, are found at the year's end, after ^11 their read­ ing, not mere "full" intellectually, but often more fooliah than before. Why ia this? Because in these express days the reading has been done as quickly as possible, and because what is read one hour is buried beneath a heap of multifarious matter the next hour. But if a man read on a prudent plan, if he digest what he mentally receives, his reading will become a delightful source of very extensive information Mid sound wisdom. Beading should be in moderation. It is possible to devour whole libraries and jet Jearn nothing. It is said that Miss Martineau often read in one hour no more than a single page of a good hook. An eminent divine and author is said to have had but three books-- the Bible, Josephua' works, and Cru- den's Concordance. A celebrated French author being laughed at be­ cause of the BmaUness of his librarv, iaafcilfc* _ de Btael-Holetein is said tc voupsd 600 novel* before shftl jeawef age, end to have read D three months--on an averse efteh day! Louis XVl., whilst im­ prisoned for a period of five months and seven days, read 157 volumes, or one book a day. Such literary glut­ tony could have left little good result. Too much reading is as injurious to the mind as too much feeding is to the body.--The Quiver. About the Square-Shouldered W< There is some excuse for the bustle. It is rational. Its office is to assist nature in presenting the female figure with the most attractive outline. Both the bustle and the corset have their origin in appreciation of the form divine and knowledge of its perfections. When moderately used they are defensible, almost indispensable. They are in a certain sense artistic, in that they for­ tify certain lines without which the form is anything but beautiful. But there is no excuse for the jackets, now, unfortunately, becoming fashionable, which either square the shoulders of the wearer or place a ridge an inch or two just at the extremity of either shoulder blade. These jackets, or whatever they may be, are unnatural, ugly. Nothing can be said in their de­ fense. They did not have their begin­ ning in a purpose to assist in the devel- opement of the lines of the form on nature's model. No woman not a mon­ strosity ever grew hummocks on her shoulders. The square-shouldered woman is not the ideal of art. Think of a Venus or a Madonna, oar ft Greek Slave with square shoulders and a little transverse ridge or thick, high seam just over the base of each arm! Square shoulders are masculine, and a woman so unfortunate as to possess masculine shoulders could be pardoned for indul­ gence in dress devices which would give her at least the appearance of possess­ ing the gentle slopes and curves with which nature endowed the fairest of all her creatures. Her deceit could be forgiven in appreciation of her art. But what should be said to the hun­ dreds of young women in Chicago ac­ tually possessing fine, sloping, rounded shoulders, who ignorantly square them off as with a carpenter's tool, and nail stiff humps upon the extremities Chicago Herald. >• ' Seven Useful Hints* ' -I'&m For the disagreeable sensation known as heartburn, which so often accom­ panies indigestion, a salt-spoonful of common salt, dissolved in half a wine­ glass of water, and drink, is as effective a remedy as a dose of salaratus water, and a much pleasanter and safer one. Bubbing a bruise in sweet oil and then in spirits of turpentine will usually pre­ vent the unsightly black and blue spots which not only "tell tales, but deform. When there is an unpleasant odor about the feet, a small quantity of a weak so­ lution of salicylic acid in the foot-bath is a sure destroyer of the offense. Many of the patent extracts and bitters are compounded of an alcohol derived from wood, and this is said to be a peculiarly dangerous form of alcohol, capable of producing very Berious brain disorder. One of the moist treacherous medicines in all the pharmacopoeia is the hydrate of chloral which is so commonly used; cases ard reported where 200 grains have been taken in safety, and other cases where ten grains have proved fatal or afforded only a narrow escape from death by timely aid and effort; this drug should never be taken but with the advice and attentance of a physician. Iron articles will seldom rust if they have been cleansed from oil by hot soda-water, and afterwards dipped in hot lime-water and dried. Collodion, spirits of turpentine, and the common salve called oxide of zinc, are each an invaluable remedy to apply to burns and scalds before a physician can arrive to do better, if better is to be done, and sweet oil and lime-water beaten up together make a cooling and healing ointment for them as good as any medicament known. -- Marp&r'q Bazar. ; Housekeeping, The first thing that I found best to do when I became an actual housekeeper on my own acoount, set to say, was to establish a system and a set "of rules growing out of the requirements of the household. Meals must be at such hours; servants must be in and the back door closed at such hours; certain tasks must be assigned to certain days, this day to the washing and those days to the ironing, this day to the silver cleaning and congenial work, and that to the care of halls and parlors. The next imperative necessity, I need hardly say, was to find a place for everything, and to see that everything was kept in its place; and having satisfied myself at last with a cook who never wastes a particle, whose spotless and orderly cldsets are a perpetual pleasure, .who loves a new recipe, who keeps the run of the provisions, and a housemaid whose pride is in dark corners and speckless windows, housekeeping has become so far as I am concerned, as much play as it used to be in the old burial place. 1 can hardly state any­ thing else except that I have made if a practice to let my servants do their work in their own Avay and at their own best convenience, only requiring it to be done, and always trying to respect their idiosyncrasies. For I have found that, if one wants a happy home, one must endeavor to procure happiness in the kitchen as much as anywhere else; not merely because disorder and un­ quiet there will disturb the whole house, but because the inmates of the kitchen have the right to their happi­ ness, and it the is absolute duty of the house mistress to see that they get it as far SBit may be in her power to do so." watching for another brilliancy, which seems to be due if An Expected Stan , Over a hundred stars are known to vary in brightness--a few very strik­ ingly--in i-eriods rangfhg from a few hours to several centuries. In one class the changes seem to follow a regular law, and in another they are irregular and spasmodic. To the latter class probably belong the so called "new" stars from time to time recqpded, which, instead of being new creations, are doubltess faint stars suddenly flashing into prominence. A most remarkable new star was seen in 1572 by Tycho Brake, who reported that it became suddenly so brilliant as to be seen at noon, then gradually faded away, and was lost to view in about sixteen months after it was first observed. Since the invention of the telescope a faint star has been detected so near the spot marked by the famous Danish astron­ omer that it is thought to be the one whose blazing up he witnessed. Thin is supposed to have been the bright star of 1264 and of 945, and European astronomers are reported to be now outburst of its BILL yrUHttAUIBS. INeeaeea for Rich Mm OmIjt--The Army Marching to the StaHcn N%hi of DMUH- Pie Tlufee Tlmw» Day Wltkoat Impwatly. No sooner does a man become wealthy than he at once develops some kind of high-prifce disease. This is not alone my own experience, but it is also the experience of many other wealthy men. Wealth always costs all the assessor counts it at, and often even more, especially in New York. So when I cast my eye about me as I write, and as it rests on all the environ­ ments of luxury, I say to myself of how little value js it all to one who may not survive more than forty-five or fifty years more at the furthest. Of what avail is the gayly-colored "hit-or-miss" carpet whereon my foot falls with a wild and startling echo like the wail of the damned? What matters it that a costly prayer rug embraces jmy footsteps as I bound from my bed in the early morning? Of what use is it to me that at night I repose in a costly couch which at the first approach of dawn, by pressing a secret spring, becomes an upright piano? » Will all or any of these minister to a pain-racked and pain-pampered per­ son devoid of hair ? Will costly cuspi­ dors and large, red-yarn mottoes worked in a framed sheet of perforated card­ board minister to a moody and morose mind? Can the mellow tones of a vo­ luptuous organette or the plaudits of the autograph purveyor woo back to peace and contentment the surfeited and sin-sick soul ? But I have wandered away from what I started out to say. I started out with the intention of saying that the United States to-day has a very large army of wealthy invalids, an. army that seems to be on the in­ crease, too, and one that goes moaning up and down over the land seeking health and finding none. Everywhere you go, where location and climate have anything to offer, or healing waters containing aught of good to as­ sist nature in her struggle to lengthen out the days of those who have more ducats than digestion, you will see the anxious eye and the halting gait of those who have fought the fight for gain, and now, crowned with victory and misery, find themselves in the great national hospital that moves about from Moosehead Lake to Tacoma, to Los Angeles, to Jacksonville, to Duluth, to Denver, to Ashville, to Minnetonka, to Santa Fe. to the Hot Springs, and the Cold Springs, to the dry air of the mountains and the wet air of the sea, with no home that they can call per­ manent and no sure thing for the future but a will contest and the long, starless night of death. There is a beautiful opportunity pre­ sented here for the moralist, but the gentle reader would hardly forgive me if I referred to anything of a serious nature. But if I were a moralizer in­ stead of a light and frothy writer and advance agent of the overworked fool- killer, I would say that the average American almost works himself to death for forty years in order that he may stagnate and suffer for the other ten or fifteen years. Thus he becomes a part of that great, restless army of health- seekers who take in the summer resorts of the South in their joyless journey to the tomb. . Healthy farmer-boys, who worked in the open air in the morning of their lives and ate what they could get, go into trade, professional life, or politics, and wonder at last why they cannot eat pie three times a day with impunity and do nothing. American pie with im­ punity won't do. Moreover, it will not answer for any man to crowd all his physical exercise into twenty years in order to bestow himself upon a sani­ tarium for the remainder of his life* * A Girl's Wish to Be Beautiful. Every girl desires to be beautiful, and, says Dr. Mary A. Allen, the de­ sire is in itself commendable. The wish to be dressed in a becoming and beauti­ ful manner is evidence of a beautiful spirit Dress ought to be the expression of the real self. They BIIOW their skill who make a scanty purse do the work of a full one. Herbert Spencer says that in the natural order decoration in dress precedes the ideas of protection and comfort, and instances the savage woman, whose modesty is less shocked by lack of clothing than lack of paint, An excessive love of adornment indi cates an uncultivated taste. Suitability to complexion is indis­ pensable to beauty in dress, and needs study, as an artist studies combinations of colors in a painting. A true artist would never put lilac upon a brunette or blue upon a girl with Titianesque hair, for red and blue emphasize each other; a fact which is not generally recognized, especially if nature has put blue into eyes, as well as red into the hair, while, in truth, from this very fact blue in the dress should be especially avoided. Taste in the choice of colors will make perceptible the real beauty there is in this type, while incongruity of tints will make a really pretty girl appear ugly. A drew that in any way cramps or distorts the natural figure is not beautifuL It tends to de­ struction of beauty because it tends to destroy health without which there is ho real beauty. Clothing that restricts the waist interferes with breathing and digestion. Dyspepsia follows and con­ sequently sallow complexions, heavy eyes, bad teeth, and perhaps consump­ tion. To insure beauty the dress should cover the whole body equably, legs and ar<ns as well as trunk, should not drag upon the hips, in fact should not drag upon the shoulders, but its weight be so equally distributed as to be un- noticeable. Bones and steels, even if worn loosely, interfere with the pliant grace of the natural figure. Tight shoes and gloves disturb the circulation of the blood and irritate the nerves, and so tend to destroy beauty. A girl who, from early childhood, has hobbled on tight, high-keeled shoes, has been compressed by corsets and has had her body dressed several times more warmly than her limbs, cannot expect to retain her beauty many years. Don't be afraid, girls, that you will grow all out of shape unless you let the dressmaker take you in hand to shape your figure. If the figure of all other created things can be safely trusted to the care of the divine hand that created them, why may not the figures of our girls? A Girl of the Period. Gail Hamilton says: "Certainly I am a girl of the period. Why not? t must belong to my own period, and, at any rate, my period belongs to me. I disdain to have people any longer speak for me or explain for me; I will explain myself. I believe in all women's colleges and the annexes. I believe in the latter's higher education, and the woman suffrage and the equality of the sexes. I adore politics, and I consider but a relic of barbarism the old-fash­ ioned notion that women care for noth- Xhartoum 4i a«itqr«ambering be­ tween fifty and sixty thousand people. Several European eonsulsVeside there. The American consul Azar Abd-el- Melek is a Christian Copt from Esneh, ftnd one of the principal merchants. Hie European colony is small and con­ tinually changing; for Khartoum is a perfect gTave-yard for Europeans, and in the rainy season for natives also, the mortality averaging then from thirty to forty per day, which implies throe tkonsand to four thousand for the sea­ son. Khartoum is the Commercial cen­ ter of Soudan trade, amounting altogether to sixty-five million dollars a year, and carried on by oue thousand Enrpf>ean and three thousand Egyptian commercial houses. Drafts and bills df exchange upon Khartoum are -as gold in Cairo and Alexandria, and vice versa. From official sources 1 learned that the city contained three thousand and sixty houses, many of them two- storied, each having from ten to one hundred and fifty occupants. Stone and lime are found in abundance, end the buildings are, after a fashion, substantial, the houses belonging to rich merchants being very spacious and comfortable. There are large bazars, in whioh is found a much greater variety of European and Asiatic goods than would be expected in such distant regions. In the spacious mar­ ket place a brisk trade is carried on in cattle, horses, camels, asses, and sheep, as well as grain, fruits, and other agri­ cultural produce. Many years ago an Austrian Roman Catholic mission was established and liberally supported by the Emperor of AuBtria, and by con­ tributions from the entire Catholio world. It occupies a large parallelo­ gram, surrounded by a solid wall. Within this in closure, in beautiful gar­ dens of palm, fig, pomegranate, orange, and banana, stand a massive cathedral, a hospital, and other substantial build­ ings. Before the people of Egypt and the Soudan had been irritated by for­ eign interference, such was their toler­ ation and good temper that the priests and nuns, in their distinctive costumes, were always safe from molestation, not only in Khartoum, but even at El Obeid and the neighborhood, where the majority are Mussulmans aud the rest heathens. 1 Important. When you visit or leave Mew York Gity, MTO baggage, exprese&ge, and |3 carriage hire, and stop at the Grand Vsioa Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot 013 rooms, fitted up at a ooet of one million dollars, SI and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied witti the best Horse cars, stages, and elevated* rail­ road to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union Hotel **»"» at any other first-class hotel in the city. The Resistance of the Atmosphere. Everybody has noticed that if we move a fan gently the air part- before it with little effort, while, when we try to fan violently, the same air is felt to react; yet if we go on to say that if the motion is still more violent the atmosphere will resist like a solid, against which the fan, if made of iron, would break in pieces. This may seem to some an unexpected property of the "nimble" air through which we move daily. Yet this is the case, and if the motion iB only so quick that the air cannot get out of the way a body hurled against it will rise in temperature like a shot striking an armor-plate. It is all a question of speed, and that of the meteorite is known to be im­ mense. One has been seen to fly over this country from the Mississippi to the Atlantic in an inappreciably short time, probably in less than two min utee; and though at a presumable height of over fifty miles, the velocity with which it shot by gave every one the impression that it went just above his head, and some witnesses of the un­ expected appa'rition looked the next day to see if it had struck their chim­ neys. The heat developed by arrested motion in the case of a mass of iron moving twenty miles a Becond can be calculated, and is found to be much more than enough, not only to melt it, but to turn it into vapor, though what probably does happen is, accord­ ing to Professsor Newton, that the melted surface-portions are wiped away by the pressure of the air and volatized to form the luminous train, the in­ terior remaining cold, until the differ­ ence of temperature causes a fracture, when the stone breaks and pieces fall --some of them at red-hot heat, some of them, possibly, at the temperature of outer spaoe, or far below that of freezing mercury.--- The Century. FOB eight years Col. D. J. Williamson, Quartermaster, U. S. A.,andex-U. S. Con­ sul at Callao, was crippled with rheumatism. He got no relief until he used St. Jacobs Oil, which cured him. No remedy on earth equals it for pain. Price, fifty cents a bottle. A Clever Reporter. This story is told of Julius Chambers, the managing editor of the Herald, by one of his own ohiefs: "Some twelve years ago I sent Chambers to the fn- sane asylum at Bloomingdale to report from actual observations abuses which were said to exist there. He went there under due process of law. He pretended to be insane, and acted his part so well as to deceive two physicians, a professional nurse, the magistrate who committed him, and the expert doctors who had charge of the asylum. He was in the asylum for. two weeks and was released when a writ of habeas corpus was served on the keepers. When in Spain for the Herald, some years since, Chambers got possession of a treaty between Spaituand this country, which General Daniel E. Sickles was negotiating. He wished to telegraph it to the Herald, but knew he could not get the Spanish censor to approve it. He hit upon the queer alternative of telegraphing the points of the treaty as if it applied to some adventure of the Prince of Wales in India. It was all nonsense to the censor and to the man who received it at the Herald office, but Chambers, after the dispatch was sent over the wires, telegraphed a key to explain the hidden mean ng. I think it was the first _ (and last) instance on record of sending a cipher first and the key to it afterward."--New York Graphic. USXD Bed Star Cough Cure effectually. Dr. C. Fawcett,Union Protestant Infirmary, Baltimore, Md. No depressing efleets. Not a Difficult Dialect. Bertie--Say, Mr. De Garmo,is it hard to talk the way you do? De Garmo--What ao you mean, Ber­ tie ? I don't talk different from other people. Bertie--Oh, you do! You can't fool me. Pa says you talk the worst twad­ dle of any man he ever heard--Judge. SOMETIMES the time is long. "The long-suffering of 4Jod waited in the days of Noah" a hundred and twenty years. Sometimes the opportunity is jiven but for one bright moment, and Ttfdtto a. Whw the appetite Mia, sad steeps (rows Mattes* and unretreshtnf, ten is tremble ahead. The digestive orfaas, when healthy, crave food; the nervosa system, when vigoroni and tranquil, gives its possessor no nneasiMst at night. A tonic, to be effective, shoal 1 not be a mere appetizer, nor aro the nerves to be strengthened and soothed by the nnaided action Of a sedative or a narcotic. What is required ia a medicine which invigorates the stomach and promotes assimilation of food by the system, by which means the nervous system, as well as other par* of the physical organism, is strengthened. These are the affects of Hostel- ter s btomach Bitt n, a medioine whose repu­ tation is founded firmly in pablic confidence, au2 Physicians commend for its tonie, anti-bilious and other properties. It is used with the best results in fever and ague, rheu­ matism, kidney, and uterine weakness, and other maladies. Baffled by • Huckster. Macklin and John O'Keefe were walking through the Little Green in Dublin (at ,$hat time a market for fruits and vegetables). The good, humor of the sellers struck O'Keefe, and he spoke of it. "Aye," said Macklin, "they're comic­ al, and good-natured, and ready-witted, and obliging; but you never can get a direct answer from them. "Ho," said O'Keefe, "that's not fair; put your question first." "Well," said IVlacklin, coming up to an old woman who had a basket of veg­ etables before her, "what is the prioe of that cauliflower?1* "That cauliflower!" she replied, tak­ ing it up in her hand. "Sir, that's as fine a cauliflower as ever was seen, either in a garden or out of a garden." "Yes, but what is the price of it?" "The pr'ce! the divil a prettier cauli­ flower could you see of a long summer's dav." "Well, it's pretty enough, but what's the prioe of it?" "What's the price of it! Arrah, sir, you may talk of your tulips and roses and pinks and wallflowers and gilli- flowers, but the flower of all flowers is a cauliflower." "But why not tell me the price of it?" "Ah, you'll not get such a cauliflower as this, sir, all over the market--here, feel the weight of it." « The friends turned away ignorant to the last of the prioe of that cauli­ flower. • "THAT puts a different face on it!" as the boy said when his ball strnok the clock-dial. # # # # Delicate Diseases, affecting male or female, however induced, speedily aud per­ manently cured. IlliwtraU'd book for 10 ivnta in stamps. World's Dispensary Medical Asso­ ciation, 663 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. A MECHANIC'S wife rarely wears a tulle bonnet, and yet her bonnet is usually the result of the use of the tool. Established In 1872. The oldest family story paper pub­ lished in the West is the Ohicago Le Jger, and its growth has been steady and abiding. The present year has so far been the most successful since its st irt. The Ledger gives no premiums, but the money paid out by many publications for watches, chro- mos, etc., is use.l in making the paper more acceptable to its readers. By this course it is enabled to give a fam­ ily paper for $1.50 per year which i% equal to its Eastern $3 competitors. Don't take our word for it, however, but send for a sample copy, which will bo mailed free by the Ledger Company, 271 Franklin street, Chicago. A Good Showing. The twenty-first annual hvo-stook report of the Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., for 1886. by Geo. T. Williams, Sec'y, shows tlie total receipts, for the year, of cattle, calve % hogs, sheep aud horses, at tho Chicago Uuiou Stock Yards, to have baen 9,770,8W. Of this num­ ber a table, giving the receipts by railroads, shows the C., B. A Q. to have delivered 2,53">,- 9KI, or 26 per cent of the whole. The total number of care received was ilJ8,461, of which tlieC., B. A Q. is credited with 56,SIR), a greater number by 17,835 than the road having the next highest showing, and 27 per cent of the total car receipts. This is certainly a good showing for the C., B. k Q. l>eep Sea Wonders Exist in thousands of forms, but are sur­ passed by the marvels of invention. Those who are in need of profitable work that can be done while living at home should at once send their address to Hallett &, Co., Portland, Maine, and receive, free, fnlt information how either sex, of all ages, can earn from #5 to 925 per day and upwards wherever they liva You are started free. Capital not required Some have made over $50 in a single day at this work. All succeed. "Rough on l>lrt*' whitens clothing yellowed by careless washing or use of cheap washing Washes everything from finest For the taOss. compounds lace a to heaviest blankets. There need be n4 fear in using this article. Does not rot no* yellow. 5 and 10 cents. IF YOl7 ARE LOSING YOUR GRIP On life try "Wells' Health Renewer." Goes direct to weak spots, for weak men, delicate women.' "BUCHU-PAIBA." Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney diseases, catarrh of bladder, etc. 9h It mnslins, calicoes, etc., appear to not wear or wash as well as formerly the reason is in the nse of inferior alkaline--soap-washing com­ pounds that destroy tne texture and neutralize the colors. Shun them! Use "Hough on l>lrt." Wants the Facts Known. Mr. Editor: I and my neighbors have been led so many times into buying different thiugs for the hver, kidneys and blood, that have done us more harm than good, I feel it due your readers to advise them when an honest and good medicine like Dr. Hsrter's Iroa Tonio eaa be had. Yours truly, AN OIJJ SuBscBua* WELLS' HACK BALSAM. If gray, restores to original co'or. An elegant dressing; Boftens and beautifies. No oil nor grease. A tonic restorative. (Stops hair coming out; strengthens, cleanses, heals scalp. 50c. THK best thing on earth to add to starch to give a good body and beautiful gloss is "Rough on liirt," only washing compound that can be so nsed. Makes ironing easy and saves the starch. Has dirt-removing power double that ef any other. Pise's Remedy for Catarrh is agreeable to use. It is not a liquid or a snuff. SOc. Hood's Sarsaparilla This euccassfnl medicine is a carefully-prepared extract of the best remedies of the vegetable kingdom known to medical science as Alteratives, Blood Purifiers, Diuretics, and Tonics, inch as Sarsaparilla, TeUow l)ock, SUUingta, Dandelion, Juniper Berries, Mandrake, Wild Cherry Baifc and other selected roots, barks and herb*. A medicine, like anything else, can be fairly judged only by its results. We point with satisfution to the glorious record Hood's Sarsaparilla lias en­ tered for itself upon the hearts of thousands of people who have personally or indirectly been relieved of terrible suffering which all other remedies failed to reach. Sold by all druggists. fl; tlx for P>. Made only by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. ^ IQO Poses One Pollaj tho ; -^fv - DarkesthoortoMay "Tie the deepest Cure for ills of this Bat for those that woman's heir to. Use Dr. Piaroe's "Favorite Prescription.*^ Cures all weaknesses and irregularities, "tear­ ing down" sensations, "internal fever,4 bloat- ins, displacements, inflammation, morning sickness, and tendency to canoerous diaeaae. Price reduced to one dollar. By druggists. P® you ever notice how they struggle to conceal the identitv of hash on a hill of faze by putting it in French? I Hsd a Dread fol Coagb, And raised a considerable amount of blood and matter; besides, I was very thin, and so weak I could scarcely go about the house. This was the case of a man with consumption anting from liver complaint He recovered his health eorxpietelybj the use of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Disoo'very.* Thousands of others bear similar testimony. THE umbrella is the check-rain of the human animal.--Boston Transcript. SUDDEN Changes of Weather are productive of Throat Diseases, Coughs, Colds, eta There is no more effectual relief in these drttunrw to be found than in the use of B so Wit's DBOI- emu. TROCHES. Price 25 eta. A PiBB-PiiACE has a grate opportunity. --Oflrl Pret2eVs Weekly. INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostra­ tion, and all forme of general debility re- properties. blood-making, force-generating, and life-sus­ taining properties; is invaluable in all en­ feebled conditions, whether the result of ex­ haustion, nervous prostration, overwork, or acute disease; particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaint*. Caswell, Hazard & Ca proprietors, New York. CavabbII CREAIMALBn*TARR" I have ttted t bottles ofEly't Cream\ Balm and cotutidet my*elf cured. I su f­ fered 30 years catarrh ande&tarrh al headache and tAid] it the Jlrst remedy] that afforded lattini relief. --D. T. Hlg ginton, 145 Lake St Chicago, 111 A particle is applied inV>ascn nostril and is agreeable to use. Price 50 cts.. by mail or st dmegiata. Bend for circular. ELY BROTHERS, DrumristftTOweJro, N. Y Vi PATEItT FOB RAl.E. THE ADAMSON OO, »Pat«nt So icitors. Mnnete, Indi ina. $5 to •« s/lsf. Sampiw worth |1J6. FRXK. Unes not nnder the horse's Ret. Address Brewster's Safety Kein Holder, Holly, Mich. OPIUM GOGEBIC IRON MIMMi IXVESTMENTS. Securitv Kuarsnteed. Address H. V. KiBx&Co.,lkfsckUlk.,Milwaukee,Wi). PENSIONS 8end for Pension Laws to FITZ-GKRALD & POWfcLL, U. S. Claim Agents, Indianapolis. Ind. OPIUM lets cured '.Hieh. SEWIJI8 MACHINE FBEE! "SiteJiA- FREE to persons sending as their P.O. iDdupnaid* drew st once. The Favorite Company, Jersey City, NJ. PATENTS ttK&SSs as to patentability VMKK> . •II ADVERTISERS' of ottMn.wno wnn to axsmms this pspst, or obtain astimstss on sdvsrtiiing spies when In Chicsgo, will find it on fits st 45 to 49 Rsndolph St., the Advertising Agency of LORD t THOMAS. jrreAt i% uur laun we im cart volt, w will ins 11 enough to coRvinc*, AM. B. S. LiU0*R»ACH, 776 Brotd it., N.wvk, N. J Fresh 1 BeUablel Wholesale at Retail. Free by mail at't _ _ and 3 cts. per Large Package! __ _"m Seed Store open 24 hours ev- AHMt&HHHEDi'ARMBf One Acs* or Besutitul Illustrated Catalogue FKKK. H. W. BVCKBEE, Bockford Heed FannTltockford. Ill ery da S15.00 TO S18.00 Worth of NEW NOVKf S by the best AMERI­ CAN A1TTIIOR8 can lie obtained by subscribing for "IjIPPISCOTT S MAOAZtNG," i for lphia. ECLECTIC SHORTHAND ! The best and briefest system extant. 8end for circular. Terms. «». E. A. OILL, aw North Ciark 8t„ Chicago. Best Coogh Syrup. Tastes good. Use lotim*. Sold tar dnnslsti C N U M I 1 ! N Biimmu, W. J., I October 15/1885. f M. T. HazkI'Tink, Warren, Pa. Dear Sir: I was taken with a very severe cold last Spring, snd tried every cure we had in the Btore, and ooold get no help. I had our village doctor prescribe for me, bat kept getting worse. I saw an­ other physician from Port Jervis, N. Y., and he told me he used Piso's Cure for Consumption in his practice. I bought s bottle, and before I had token all of it there was a change for the better. Then I got my employer to order a quan­ tity of the medicine and £eep it in stock. I took one more bottle, snd my ~ \ was cured. •«Motfolly. • FBAJOL kcXSLvr. This medicine, eonMnttg Irmi vegetable tontce, qoieklr and Cwts DyinpsU, Ul atis, Isipwc Bleed, •a* SVren, mm* -- It ia an unfaiilug remedy lor Disease* oftfce KUaty aai Ursr. It is invaluable for Diseases pMBtte Ml WMarn, and all who lesul sedentary Ifcrwe ltdoes not injure the teeth,cause produce constipation--other Jnm stimulates tiie appetite, aide the of food, relieves Heartburn and Relobbtg.i Strengthens the muscles and nerves. For Iatermittcat frren, X4msMhM§> task of Energy, etc., it haa no equal. W The renuine haa above trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Tain no other. •«*» «-i»v*asQws aBBBcitnLmiiMim.il, TELECRAPHYISKgrSSiSS 1 fnrnUhad. Write Valentin* Bros.. JuMTffia, Win. EVERY ME SflMLB KHV That a complete novel, by some wall-known author. i« contained m each ana every mmber of LADY MOTS pSmnS employment at tat to tUO per month selling qusstiCUrHsa- nortera. Mample out Address CiP' ipnsti _ On, XIE. Ninth i~t„ Cincinnati, - WE WW pre WANT YOU! sMl proAtuto employment to itpi--at as ia < county. Salary par month and eneassa, large commission oa sales if aiefsnsd. Goods sa every one bora Outfit and particular* Fnw, STANDAId SILVERWARE CO.. BQSlOK, TH ANNUAL REPORT OP THK KH MUTUL LIFE M.M. OF PHILADELPHIA, FA.. seeking w BXHT forms of 1 _ _ Get it and other publications c. _ cities and large towns,or write to the Home < FREEHS, UTCVSFRBE .... ICAl PreMiest: SEKD-CATAl<OGtni « er printed. ClKwpMt A best 8KKDS grown. 'Gardener* trade a m- ciaUu. JPackett onlmTk. Cheep aa dirt by oa. A lb. "•V-n '<$> ; v OHLT TKOi safe, speedy ears. Gives a clear, hetltliy ei All attempts at eoaaterfsttiac only ados to i ., lariiy. Do sot nperljHiiHnt OwiR'Lus] /osre%en^ • Hesdsehe. assailed ea TNEOR. HAITER EMCINK 60., ST. Xjoradaa. OB H«t.B, IÎ I. ' WIZARD O Have been enjoyed by citizens of every towm city in the C. 8. Marvelous Carea have been nessed by thousands of people, who can testify tat in woxrjKwui. HBAUK« raw an or Hamlin's Wizanl Oil. Neuralgia, Toothache, Headache, • Catarrh, Croup. Ssr* Thrsat, Lame Back, Stiff Joists, CsatrwM < RHEUMATISM. . Sprains, Bruises, Burns, Fever SML WoaatfvOM Soros, Chilblains, Frsst - Bites, Sow Nippies, Caked Breasts, aai Alt Aches and Pains, TW* VyKAK trom Nerrona «m fcc..se*detamj» snd cure 1 WEAK. NERVOUS HOPGK nVAnVPOSAU. •SOaweekandeiaensee WIIkK paid. Outlit worth S5 aad particulars TT UUlifroe P.O.VIC&KBY, Augusta, Maine. Or. Wilhems" Indian Pile Ointment isaaureciueiorblind,bleedlnK or itching piles. Cure auarantecd. Price Mc and $ 1. At druggist's or - ~ M1X1. CO.. Cleveland, O. OLD CHRONIC PILES.-KSJ îK'. eases cured by measures mild.sate.and certain. Write tor ieferenres. M. MI).JAW N.Clark *t.. Chicago. RUPTURE! I Believed and Cured by Dr. J. A. Sherman's method. Those who I cannot avail themselves of per­ sonal attendance can have home treatment appliance ynd curative sent for $10 only. Send stamp for ctara» 8P4 Broadway, New York. I '5 of this? country use over thirteen, million cakes of Procter & Gamble's Lenox Soap in 1886 ? Buy a cake oi Lenox and you will soon understan * flMP KOjlWs TOO CtlMllll >. • >.] WRITING TO A|> ~ pair i*s n« Iks •'"* V • ***• y ">!* • < • L * 2 '