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' .<* / - "'A1 •*:* i. t *i '»>> ! 71*" ?-; --J.-1* y ' t pO] Br your Lafn IplMCESCES OF PUBLIC MKS. ,*•'<» gf BOI: PKBLEI POOBB. Frank Pierce -was rather wild'when he was a student at Bowdoin College. One of his pranks occurred when La­ fayette, who was everywhere hailed with joy, was visiting the New England States. The renowned patriot had got M far east as Portsmouth, when it be­ came doubtful jf he would proceed further. It had, however, been re­ nted that he would pass through, runswiek, and SQ it Was proposed by Pierce to give Lafayette a reception. Accordingly, the students hired car­ riages, secured a cannon, and went at tiie proper time out on the Brunswick road to meet the General and his staff. About 9 o'clock in the evening there was seen coming up the road the pro­ cession of students all ablaze. By a preconcerted arrangement it was an­ nounced at a moment through all the town that Lafayette was near. The people rushed out of their houses, the ladies waved their handkerchiefs, and cheer rose upon, cheer. The General bowed in acknowledgement, and finally got down from his carriage and conde­ scended to kiss several of the fair oung ladies. That man was not Gen. avette, but John Cleveland, a student, who had personated the char­ acter to perfection. The whole affair wound up with a supper, a good joke, and so tho people of Brunswick never saw the real hero. Henry Clay, when staggering under a load of debt, went into the bank at Lexington one day, prepared to pay an instalment on an accommodation note. To his surprise, he was told that not only that note, but all others held by the bank, had been paid. He was over­ whelmed with emotion, and when the truth dawned upon -him that loving, considerate friends had relieved him of his pecuniary embarrassments, he ex­ claimed: "Good heavens! did ever man have such friends and such enemies as Henry Clay?" Philadelpliians, learn- ii\g his difficulties, had raised the nec­ essary funds, and the transaction was accomplished secretly, effectually, and with remarkable delicacy. I am under the impression there are handsomely bound books in Philadelphia at this moment containing the names in print of those subscribing, together with the respective amounts contributed. This was an intended part of the details of the generous-minded conspiracy to make easy the declining years of one who, from his lofty position, had advo­ cated faithfully and well the advance­ ment of the vital interests of Philadel­ phia. Joseph Holt is one of the few sur­ vivors of the leading characters in pub­ lic life here during the war for the suppression of the rebellion. A Ken- tuckian by birth, and the husband of a daughter of Florida, he arrayed himself in" the winter of 1860 on the Union side, and as Judge Advocate General gave evidence of great personal and moral courage. He conducted more great military trials, I presume, than any man of his times. of them will remain forever histok&al. In re­ gard to some there had been great and animated disputes, but there was no dispute as to the efficiency, power, and dignity which characterized Judge Holt in his management of all the celebrated court-martials with which he was con­ nected. Among the many men who be­ came eminent during the war there were but few who rendered the country more conscientious or valuable services than Joseph Holt. In social life during the war, Judge Holt was one of the most agreeable of men. His mind was stored with vast funds of information on an endless va­ riety of subjects, and he could talk for hours as interestingly as any of our public men, very much more entertain­ ingly than most of them. In a gather­ ing of intellectual ladies and gentlemen, or at a dinner where men of brains had congregated, and wit and wine flowed generously, he was simply splendid. He was never undignified, but he was on such occasions as full of wit and hu­ mor as an egg is of meat. Of late years he is rarely seen in society. In person Judge Holt is large, well-formed and graceful, though slow of move­ ment. The expression of his counte­ nance is peculiarly benignant. I pre­ sume he never had an ungentlemanly thought in his life. He has been for some years past a widower, and he leads rather a secluded life on Capitol Hill, where he is visited by Hon. Horatio King and other old friends. Hackett, Baron Von Hackett he called himself, was one of the veteran actors of the old school. It was said that his earlier dramatic efforts were so marred by nervousness that his best friends counseled him to leave the stage at once; but he persevered and soon won a remarkable success. He was especially admirable at that time in his imitation of other actors. His imitation of Barnes had been so perfect that the idea struck the manager that Hackett would make a great hit as Dromio, in "The Comedy of Errors," Barnes playing the other Dromio> It. was a happy thought. Hackett so perfectly mimicked Barnes, both in voice, walk, and gesture, that the au­ dience was completely mystified. In regard to his celebrated impersonation of Falstaff, it was said that Hackett made a special study of fat men, and gave on the stage their waddling gait so perfectly that few men could be brought to believe that he owed his portly appearance to quilted garments and folds of padding. One of the great surprises that awaited gentlemen who sought an introduction to the great actor was to find him so small a man. His conception .of the character of Fal­ staff was original and subtle. He com­ prehended that poor Jack had been a brave gentleman, who had fallen into bad courses. He made of him a man whom none could approve, vet with whom none could forbear to sympa­ thize. Mr. Hackett's personal charac­ ter was most attractive, his nature was genial, and he was highly esteemed wherever known. The Irish schoolmasters who used to wander through the Western and Middle States at the beginning of the present century were generally men of ability, whose convivial habits had driven them abroad, and prevented them from becoming permanently lo­ cated in their new home. They were excellent, Latin and Greek scholars, thoroughly at home in their native Irish, and able to speak and write English with considerable ease. It. was noticed that when they had occasion to converse in English, or write a letter in that lan­ guage, they were apt to employ the largest and most out-of-the-way words. This was called "dictionary talk," and never failed to impress the audience with a conviction of the wonderful ac­ quirements of the pedagogue. The schoolmasters were also generally well acquainted with mathematics, and often earned money by land measuration in after hours. Pedantic to a degree, wore more or leaa social, with a general capability of taking any given quantity of whisky. They actually told a story with no small degree of comic humor, and rarely refused an in­ vitation to eat and drink. They had the confidence of the country folks, but they flogged their pupils on the slightest pretense, sometimes without any cause. Many of our foremost states­ men were educated by these emigrant pedagogues. The Suttee. Another missionary, a colleague of Mr. Gogerly, thus describes one of th@se scenes, and we think it only due to our readers, in order that they may obtain a right idea of the degradation of women in India, to quote it- verbatim. True, the suttee is now a thing of the past, but it was of yesterday, and many mil­ lions of living Hindoos can remember these funeral pyres; while in estimating all the needs which have brought about the establishment of Zenana Missions, it would be obviously incorrect to leave out so important a factor. Says this eye-witness, writing in 1828; "One Sabbath morning, after conducting divine service, I saw a great crowd ap­ proaching. In their midst was a chafpoy (native bedstead) borne by four men, on which was lying the dead body of a man, and by his side, with the dead man's head resting on her lap, sat his wife; they were proceeding to the banks of the Ganges, there to be consumed together on the funeral pile. On arriv­ ing at the spot, where all necessary preparations had been made, the men laid down their burden, and the poor victim of superstition, supported by her female friends, entered the so-called sacred stream, bathed and performed, according to the accustomed formula, her devotions. These having been com­ pleted, she emerged from the river, and her new clothes were taken from her and were replaced by old ones. She was now conducted-to the fearful pile, on which the dead body of her husband had already been placed; and, accom­ panied by her friends, walked three times round the pila, distributing to the crowd handfuls of parched rice, and dividing among her particular friends the few silver and brass orna­ ments she possessed. She was then assisted to mount the pile' and was placed by the side of the corpse, with her arm under its head. A quantity of rosin and ghee (clarified butter), small pieces of sandal-wood, and large bundles of dry rushes, were thrown on the bodies; after which heavy logs of wood were placed on the top, render­ ing the escape of the woman, if at­ tempted, quite impossible. The mother of the deceased man, being the nearest relative, received from the officiating Brahmins a handful of compressed hay containing smoldering fire, with which she encompassed the pile three times, and then, blowing the smoking hay into a flame, she applied it to the inflamma­ ble materials, and several other persons immediately afterward using the same, the whole mass became ignited, and one huge sheet of flame devoured alike the living and the dead. The shouts of the crowd, and the beat­ ing of the drums drownetJ ev«ry other sound; and whether the poor woman suffered much or little, could not be ascertained. The indifference mani­ fested by the spectators was truly frightful; some were singing lewd songs, some fighting, others lewdly dancing; and the whole scene appeared more like a riotous fair than the immo­ lation of a human being. The relations of the deceased were quarreling among themselves as to who should pav the fees of the Brahmin and the under­ taker; the former demanding 200 rupies, and the latter twenty-five rupees. How it ended I know not, for I hurried from the place."--Sunday Magazine. Onr Unstable Globe. ^ The story of the lost Atlantis may be only a story. Our history is so incom­ plete, and covers such a brief period, that we have no record of some of na­ ture's mightiest convulsions. Leaving Atlantis out of the question, and ac­ cepting the assumption of the scientists that the Creator's work is finished in the Atlantic, the known facts concern­ ing the Pacific are sufficient to convince us that the work of creation is still going on in that quarter. The basin of the Pacific is shaped like a circular bowl, with a well-defined rim, except on the southern side, where it is broken off and the bowl merges into the At­ lantic Ocean. The innumerable islands cropping up here and there are sup­ posed to be the peaks of a submerged continent. When this lost continent .disappeared is beyond the reach of speculation. -Dana's theory was that it had two principal mountain ranges, one running from the Hawaiian group through the Mendona, Society, and Pearl Islands, and the other running through the Navigators, Fiji, Solomon, New Guinea, Spice, Celebes, Borneo, and Sumatra to Malacca. Possibly this immense area of land disappeared under the waters in one mighty crash, carrying with it millions upon millions of human beings, with a civilization and arts and industries of which we have* not the faintest knowl­ edge. Perhaps the land subsided gradually, forcing people to seek the mountains, vintil finally the great mass fell victims to flood and famine, and only a few survived. There is nothing strange in all this. If our globe is gradually cooling it nuist crack, break up, and sink to fit the sink­ ing interior. Such conditions must re­ sult in earthquakes and landslips for ages to come. We know that certain coasts are sinking. Islands appear and disappear. Within the present century a district of 2,000 miles square in the Indian Ocean suddenly went down un­ der the water with cities, villages, and a large population. The sinking of the Andes 220 feet in seventy years is an­ other significant fact. Altogether we have enough data to shake our confi­ dence in the permanent solidity of this great globe of ours, and we need not be surprised at anything. One thing should reconcile us to these disastrous upheavals. They are all necessary steps in the original plan of creation.-- Atlanta Constitution. She Was Bought Off. Little Nell--I caught Sister Maud engaging herself to another young man last night, and she hasn't sent oil the first one ye£ Little Kitty--Ain't that niceaid jca tell on her? "No; she buyed me off." "What did she do?" / "She said if I'd keep quiet she'd give me one of 'em When I grow up. "~Tid- EiUt. "So YOtJ enjoyed your visit to the menagerie, did you?" inquired a Ham­ mersmith young man of his adored one's little sister. "Oh, yes. And, do you know, we saw a camel there that screwed its mouth and eyes around awfully, and sister said it looked exactly as you do when your are reciting poetry at the evening parties. SKOBELEFFS SWIMMING FEAT. Croeelng the Danube on Hornebfek MMI Calling on Others to Follow. The versatile Russian painter Yere- schagin, in his entertaining sketches of adventure during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877, gives a pleasant account of one of the many dare-devil episodes of adventure in the career of the younger Gen. Skobeleff. This was the swim­ ming of the Danube on horseback. Let M. Yereschagin be his own narrator: "I was seated in my tent late.one afternoon, when I observed several Ossetes passing at a gallop. Inquiring what this meant, I was told that th younger Gen. Skobeleff had proposed Touloumine that he should try to swi the Danube with his whole brigi The General alleged that it was emi nently necessary to have cavalry on the other side of the stream, and that it was impossible to wait until the pon­ toon bridge was constructed to get the men over there. And inasmuch as Touloumine and Levis had frankly de­ clined to make the attempt, for the ex­ cellent reason that the entire brigade would most likely be drowned, the Danube being at the proposed point more than four kilometers wide, Skobe­ leff had begged them to scare up a few volunteers and send them to him. The Ossetes whom I had seen passing were the volunteers in question. "I liad my horse saddled and galloped off in the direction of the river. Pres­ ently I found assembled on the bank nearly all the officers of the brigade. "A little in advance of the groups the elder Skobeleff stood between Levis and Touloumine, watching his son, stripped to his shirt and trousers, with his cross of commander of the Order of St. George around his neck. Michael Dmitrievitch Shobeleff leaped on horseback and urged the huge brownish bay steed into the stream. At first the animal resisted, shook his ears, neighed, then bravely struck out swimming. For a short time Skobelefl remained in the saddle, because we could see his shoulders above the water, but soon we saw nothing but his head. I learned afterward that in order not to fatigue his horse he had stepped into the river, and keeping hold of the animal's tail, swam along behind him. The father began to tremble for him, and to cry after him in his nasal tones: " 'Micha, my little Michael, come back! Micha, M-i-i-cha, you will be drowned!' "The old man's anxiety was pitiful tc witness. "But little Michael continued to swim without looking back, making steady progress. A few Ossetes had thrown themselves into the stream, following the General, and one of them, swim­ ming out a long distance, would cer­ tainly have been drowned and his horse with him if a boat had not been sent to his relief. '"As for myself, as soon as I arrived on the shore my first movement was tc undress. In less than two minutes I was in the water with my horse. The creature swam a few moments, then turned around and made for shore in spite of all the blows I could bestow on his back. The Commandant of the Second Squadron, Astakhy, had no bet­ ter luck than I did. Skobeleff was no longer anything but a black dot a long way off. To ease our consciences^ we started after him in a boat, drawing hordes after us by the bridles, and we made our way toward a small island. It was only after reaching this point and gazing at the enormous distance that had to be crossed before reaching the Turkish shore that I understood how wisely my horse had acted in dis obeying me. There was not the shadow of a doubt that 1 should have been drowned. But how happened it that, not knowing how to swim, I had thrown myself into the water behind the General ? I only know that when 1 saw Skobeleff go in I said, 'Drown rather than abandon him.' "The elder Skobeleff remained motionless on the bank, following the little black point, scarcely perceptible on the surface of the stream. "Later on we learned that Gen. Michael, after narrowly escaping deatl by drowning a hundred times had reached the opposite bank. And Sko beleff was a prince of swimmers with o matchless horse. Think what would have become of the britrade if Toulou­ mine, accepting SkobeleflTs proposition, had launched his squadron forth into the Danube, How many would have reached the Turkish shore?" Sitting Down with a Preacher. In a western town dwells Elder R , a clergyman very well known throughout his State for ability and shrewdness. It is pretty generally be­ lieved on account of his evident knowl edge of the ways of the world that he was rather "rapid" in his youth. Among his skeptical neighbors is a hotel-keeper of jovial disposition and liberal heart. Whenever the elder has a specially convincing and sweeping discourse prepared it is his wont to give special invitations to his doubting friends to be present, and these are sometimes accepted with the proviso that the dominie and his lady shall meet the part}' at the hotel at "dinner on an appointed day during the week, so they may have an opportunity to de­ fend themselves. On these occasions dinner often lasts the whole afternoon, and the elder is obliged to parry the blows of the combined opposition.* On one occasion mine host found his match in the clergyman in a worldly way, and it was this circumstance that I set out to relate. The landlord re­ turned on a certain Saturday evening from the far West, and next morning found him, with his wife, seated in a front pew. When .the plate was passed, he felt in his pockets, but could find only a comb, jackknife. and a circular piece of ivory marked "5," which is supposed by poker players to represent value. This latter was dropped into the plate under the vigilant eye of the pastor, but unnoticed by the sexton, whose eyes had been dimmed by age. On receiving the collection, the pastor missed the "chip," and asked the sex­ ton for it. The latter had thrown it away, supposing it to be a mark of dis­ respect from some scoffer. Elder R knew his man, and caused the repre­ sentative of value to be recovered. Next morning as the landlord was dilat­ ing upon his trip to a crowd of friends in his office, Elder R appeared, and advancing to the counter, placed the chip down with the click so familiar to connoisseurs, and asked, "Can you 're­ deem' that this morning, Brother S ?" Of course S could do no less than hand out a five-dollar bill, and the elder departed after expressing the hope that he might always be as lucky. Mine host says he shall not "sit down" with a preacher again. -- Harper's Magazine. WE hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.-- Colton. k LESS05 WITH A MORAL* Will Our Eye* Be Opened to This Great Mathmal Calamity? The year 1886 played sad havoc with may prominent men of onr oountry. Many of them died without warning, pass­ ing away apparently in the full i]uah of life. Others were eick but a comparatively short time. We torn to oar files and are astonished to find that moat of them disd of apoplexy, of paralysis, of nervous prostration, of malig­ nant blood-humor, of Brighi'a disease, of heart disease, or kidney disease, of rheuma­ tism, or of pneumonia. It is singular that most of onr prominent men die of them disorders. Any journalist who watches the telegraph reports, will be astonished at the number of prominent vic- • of these disorders. y statements have appeared in onr paper others to the effect that the diseases that off so many promiuent men m 1886, ly one disease, taking -- iing to the location of t' it the du iuent m iristrea, i porting horses Phjrficlam Have Found Oat That a contaminating and foreign element la die blood, developed by indigestion, Is the cause of rheumatism. Tbis settles upon the sensitive sub-cutaneoas covering of the muscles and ligaments of the joints, causing constant and shifting pain, and aggregating as a calcare­ ous, chalky deposit which produces Ht:0uess and distortion of the joints. No fact #hich ex­ perience has demonstrated In regard to Hostet- ter's Stomach Bitters has stronger evidence to support it than this, namely, that this medi­ cine of comprehensive uses checks the formid­ able and atrocious disease, nor is it less posi­ tively established that it is preferable to the '"poisons often used to arrest it, since the medi­ cine contains only salutary ingredients. It is also » signal remedy for malarial fevera, con­ stipation, dyspepsia, kidney, and bladder ailments, debility, and other disorders See that you get the genuine. rent names al effects, it becoinos world, and orses are dying -jpien a valuable horse peris tae nine days' talk of the s yet thousands of ordinary every day, their aggregate less is enormous^ and yet their death creates no comment Ho it is with individuals. The cause of death of prominent men creates comment^ especially when it can be shown that one un­ suspected disease carries off most of them, and yet "vast numbers of ordinary men and women die before their time every year from the same cause." It is said if the blood is kept free from uric acid, that heart disease, paralysis, nervous prostration, pneumonia, rheumatism, and many cases of consumption, would never bo known. This uric acid, we are told, is the waste of the system, and it is the duty of the kidneys to remove this waste. We are told that if the kidneys fare main­ tained in perfect health, the uric, Kidney, acid is kept out of the blood, and these sudden and universal diseases caused by uric<acid will, in a large measure, disappear. * But how shall this DJ done? H is folly to treat effects. If there is any khoi getting at the cause, that way should be known to the public. We believe that gai ner's safe cure, of which BO much has beenWritten, and so much talked of by the public eeneraby, is now recognized by impartial p |ysicians* and the public as the one specific for t pich diseases. Because public attention has '^en directed to this great remedy by moans o! .advertising, some persons have not believed i / tho remedy. We can not see how Mr. Warnencould imme­ diately benefit the public in aily other way, and his valuable specific shotikf not be con­ demned because some nostrum* have come before the public in the same \#y, auy more than that all doctors should be crfidemned be­ cause so many of them are incoijlpetent. It is astonishing what good'fipinioris you hear on every side of that greuM remedy, and public opinion thus based upon «n actual ex­ perience has all the weight and Importance of absolute truth. ' At this time of the year the uric acid in the blood invites pneumonia and rheftmatism, and there is not a man who does not dread these monsters of disease; but he nee<J have no fear or theim'we are told, if he rid tUe blood of the uric acid cause. » These words are strong, and may sound like an advertisement and be rejected as such by unthinking people, but we believe they are the truth, and as such should be spoken oy every truth-loving newspaper. What Boston's Girls Are Finding Out, What is the outcome of the surplus woman here ? With all the pain and privation accompanying the condition of affairs, there is good working out of it. More women in Boston than per­ haps in any other American city are being taught to depend on themselves and their own powers. More women here than elsewhere are, through these hard paths, being taught the error of marrymg simply for a hope and an as­ sured support. Women here are com­ mencing to find out that theiv "rights" are their own powers; that talent, ex­ ecutive ability, and other forces of mind, of which the many now know little, be­ long to woman as much as to man. They are finding out that actresses in the drama of life are as necessary as actors, and that the play cannot go on without them. There is to-day in Bos­ ton a generation of younger women, whose characters, being shaped by the present condition of affairs, have deter­ mined almost unconsciquftly to "paddle their own canoes."--Boston leiler. Important. When you visit or leave New York City, save baggage, cxpressage, and $3 carriage hire, and stop at the 4>rnml Union Hotel, opposita Grand Central Depot 613 rooms, fitted up at a cost of one million road to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in the city. Slightly Embarrassing. , A Bostonian visiting Washington re­ cently went to the Capito], and think- ing it would be comfortable in the gal­ lery appropriated to ladies accompa­ nied by gent'omen appeared at the entrance and was stopped by the door­ keeper. "No gentlemen are admitted here ex­ cept with ladies." * The o'd gent!eman (for he was a Bos­ tonian of mature age, as well as blue blood) was equal to the emergency. "But my wife is in here." "Very well; go in." On entrance he discovered, to his dis­ may, that the only person present was a well-dressed colored woman. On coming out the doorkeeper civilly in­ quired : "Did you find your wife ?"--Boston Record. DB. GBOSS, physician at St. Vincent's Hospital, Baltimore, Mdj, considers Bed Star Cough Car a perfectly harmless, being purely vegetable and erjirely free from opiates, poisons, and othe/ narcotics. Other professionals also indormewas prompt, safe, and sure. Price, twenty-nve ceuts a bottle. NKVER sport with pain or poverty. THE magical effects of J St. Jacobs Oil iu removing soreness and stiffness make it invaluable at all times. '/Rheumatism and Neuralgia promptly yield lo it. Beards Among the Clergy. The question of beards was a fruit­ ful subject of discussion in the early councils of the church. The early fathers wore beards, a^id there was a particular canon adopted in the third century forbidding the priests to shave. The Popes wore beards until the separation of the Latin and Greek Churches, in the eighth century, when, under the decree of Pope Leo III., the Latin clergy were ordered to cut off their beards as a mark of distinction from the Greek priests, who retain theirs to this day. Pope John XII. was deposed in 963 for having, among other crimes, worn his beard. At sev­ eral councils of the church since that time the question has been discussed, but the decision has been uniform taat the clergy shall be shaven, in order to be unlike other men. • • * » Delicate diseases of either sex, however induced, speedily and permanently cured. Book 10 cents in stamps. World's Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. Telophone vs. Telegraph. It appears that communication by telephone to great distances, though an interesting and wonderful scientifio achievement, is not likely to prove commercially important. Estimates by Dr. Wietlisbach place the cost of a tel­ ephone line 1,250 miles long, over which speech is possible, at over $250,- 000; and to make such a line profitable it must earn a dollar a minute, a brief conversation thus • costing $5 or $10. The telegraph works at this distance at about a tenth of the cost, and is cheap­ er for all distances of m6re than 300 miles, the economy being with the tel* epti#*M bek>w about that Mjjirffj) A glance at the plumber's -bill is suffi­ cient to satisfy one that they who do not dance are sometimes compelled to pay the piper. The Demand for Samples hu been very large ill consequence of the advertisement of the Chicago Led­ ger offering free sample copies, but the supply has been equal to it. Results have been so gratifying to the managers that the offer is continued, and a free sample copy of the great family story pa­ per of the West will be sent to any one sending name and address to the Led­ ger, 271 Franklin street, Chicago. 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MENTION THIS PAPER WHEN wamn« TO ADTIITUIU. Vpi CODADIIVLUrn here and earn I KfcBVlllHrn V good pay. Situations I furnished. AVrite Valentine Drot>., Jaoesville, Wis. flnilllfl HafcUCored lnietoT y HUH * - r ™1 <II.R> (.'atiencs eiirnt swaays. Keierrn Mioo patients cured In all parts Sr. Harsh, Quincy.Kioh. PATENTS H.8. & A. P. LACE*, Patent Attorneys,Washington, D.C. . x . ... Instructions and opinions as to patentability FH.EK. 49*17 rears'experience. PIUM HABIT JVol a particle in or seif-deni'tl. Pav when cured. Handsome free. DB. C; J. WEATHEKBY, Kansas City. Mo OLD CHRONIC PILES- "AIKO otilerllectai Dis­ eases <'uii(i Uy measures niiid.saie.and certain. Write tor reference*. M.OILI.. M N'.CUrk Kt„Chicago. A Prise in the Lottery Of life, which is usually unappreciated until it 2,.lo?V Perh*P* wer to return, ia health. What a priceless boon it u, and how we ought to cherish it, that life may not be a worthless Muk to us. Many of the diseases that llesh is heir to, and which make life burdensome, auch as consumption (scrofula of the lunge), and other scrofulous and hlooj disease are completely cured br Dr. R. V. Pierce's "Golden Meciical _ Discovery after all other remedies have failed. Dr. Pierce's treatise on consump- tion mailed for 10 cents in stamp* Address, W orld s Dispensary Medical Association, 603 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. IT is proper that the man who breaks the lav should be compelled to keep the piece*' • ̂ M All Ken Are Liars,** Said David of old. He was probably prompted to n&ke the above remark after trying some unreliable catarrh remedy. Had he been per- mitted to live until the present4av, and tried Dr. Sage's Remedy, he might hive had a better opinion of mankind. We claim that no case of catarrh can withstand the magic effects of this wonderful medicine. One trial of it will convince you of its efficacy. By druiniata: fifty cents. DISTANCE lends enchantment. Who would like to borrow? A SORE THROAT or Cough, if suffered to uro- Rress, often reau to in an incurable throat or lung troubla Bronchial 7W/L," give instant relief. JJo SENSIBLE man will admire a worn* an's waste. CATARRH HOW TO USE CREAM BALK Place a particle of the Balm into each nostril and drawstronK breath! Ihrouph the nose. Ill will be absorbed and! begin its work of cleans ing and healing tha I is ea«ed membrane. It; allays inflammation] and pravnts fF.»sh| cold). Kot'd Liquid or Snufi Ko poisonous drugs.] No offensive odor. A particle is applied icTo"eacti nostril and is apreeal_„ to use. Price .Wets., by mail or at drurelsts. Send for circular. ELY BROTH Kits. DruirKists, Oweijo, N.Y. USA. OPIUM Morphine Habit Cared In lO to 20 days. \o pav till cured. Dr. J. Stephens, Lebanon, Ohio. to 9M a day. rtampie* worth $1.50. FREE, fines not under the horse's feet. Address Brewster's Safety Rein Holder, Holly. Mich. 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MENTION THIS PAPER WAM WKMNA TO CAT ARRH^v,.'; . so preat i» onr faith we »• wtil mail wooffc ta B. 8. UeMtiict, tfi P I 3 O ' 5 C U R E r o R rrarTTWii'im Taste* good. Use 1 bj druggists. Wmmrn.T.i ItlLi OCTOBERLJLISM. I B. T. HAMLTINK, Warren, Pa. Dear Sir: I was taken with a very severe cold last Spring, end tried every cure we iiad in the store, and oonld get no help. I had onr village doctor prescribe for me, but kept getting worse. J saw an­ other physician from Fort Jervis, N. Y., and he told me he used Piso's Cure tor Consumption in his practice. I bought a bottle, and before I had taken all of it there was a change for the better. Then I got my employer to order a quan­ tity of the medicine and keep it in s.uck. I took one more bottle, and my Cough was cured. TJeaMotfuUy. FBANX kflXnrr. FREEn Every t man, DOT that sends their name postal card before| a copy ot The. 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