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•V ' ' ' w , , - *•>< •» mm»;i* **>• turn • tft* -*e>*?. i*>« "W S?**sk*r GUITEAU'S AWFUL CtTlfsE. ft Has Not Particularly Affected Hy» M«B Who Tried Him. It was after dusk on the 25th day of January, 1882, the 'weather cloudy and gloomy, that there filed into their box in the old Criminal Court room of Washington twelve jnrymen who had listened for months to the testimony and arguments in the case of the trial of Guiteau for the murder of President Garfield, and announced their verdict, "Guilty as indicted." Without, a driz zling rain and snow was falling, and the large, dingy old court-room was --lighted by some half-dozen candles " placed on the judge's desk and on the tables of the counsel, giving but little light and adding to the weird darkness of the room. Judge Cox took his place on the bench. At one table sat Judge John K. Por­ ter, Mr. Davidge and District Attorney Corkhill,representing the Government. Mr. Scoville, the prisoner's brotlier-in- and his leading counsel; the pris­ oner's brother, and his sister, Mrs. Sco­ ville, and some personal friends of Guiteah, sat with him at an adjoining table. As the verdict was announced the prisoner exclaimed in a loud and defiant tone: ,v "My blood be on the head of that jury. Don't you forget it That is my answer." And when afterward, on Feb. 4, the Court asked him if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, he replied : "Every officer, judicial or otherwise, froip the President down, taking- in elvery man on that jury and every mem- bet of this l>ench, will pay for it." And when the sentence was pro­ nounced he repeated vehemently : "God Almighty will curse every man who had anything to do with this case." Various statements have from time to.time during the last four years ap­ peared in the press of the country call­ ing attention to the realization of "Gui­ teau's curse," and the fulfillment of his prophecy. A correspondent of the World called on Col. Corkhill, the United States dis­ trict attorney of the trial, for some of the facts connected with the history of those engaged in it, and whom Guiteau had specially anathematized. Col. Corkhill Avas found in his law office in this city, and he looked little, if any, older than he did during the. trial. When his attention was called by your correspondent to the subject lie said: .. "Yes, I have seen these statements j often, and I frequently receive letters , asking me if there is any truth in the stories that are told. There seems to be an anxiety on the part of a large number of people to seize upon any­ thing that borders on the super­ stitious, and it only needs the slightest coincidence of a prophecy and a corresponding oc­ currence to enable them to discover an inscrutable mystery in connection witli it. "As to the Guiteau trial, all the wit­ nesses for the Government that were called to prove the crime before the grand jury, and whose names were in­ dorsed on the back of the indictment, and who were examined in diief by the Government, are alive and pursuing their ordinary business, except Surgeon General Barnes, who died some time ago. I saw . the foreman of the jury, John P. Hamlin, of this city, not long ago, and "he informed me that all the jury who tried and convicted Gui­ teau are alive and engaged in the busi­ ness they were before the trial except one, Michael Slieenan, who was sick at the time and lias since died. As to the lawyers, Judge Porter was in very bad health during the trial, and the labor told upon him physically very much. Mr. Davidge is looking as well and working as hard as ever. Juclge Cox, who presided at the trial, is still on the bench, vigorous and in good health. The same is true of Chief .justice Cart- ter, Justices McArtliur, James, and Hagner, who decided the case, sustain­ ing the verdict of the jury on appeal. Justice Wylie has retired under the provisions of the law on account of age and long service. Mr. Justice Bradley, who denied the writ of habeas corpus, is still on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, though old enough to be entitled to retire when he desires. Marshal Henry is raising corn, potatoes, and wheat on his farm in Ohio, with probably more satisfaction and certainly with more success than when his portly, farmer-like form was seen shadowing the rooms of the court-house and he was imagining he was perform­ ing the duties of United States Mar­ shal. "Assistant Surgeon -Lamb, who as­ sisted at the autopsy, and who triumph­ al. -ntly curried off his bones, which he - fully polished and articulated at Government expense, is still caressing Guitean's grinning skeleton in the Na­ tional Museum in this city. "The leading experts whom Guiteau specially cursed--Dr. John P. Gray, } of Utica; Dr. A. E. McDonald and Allen McLane Hamilton, of New York; Dr. E. A. Kempster, of Wisconsin, and numerous other physicians in charge of the various insane asylums of the country, whose names I cannot now recall--are all alive, and with one or exceptions, in charge of the same hos­ pitals they were at the time of the trial. In fact, I think it remarkable that anion# the large number of active participants in that somewhat celbrated trial there should be but two or three deaths in over four years. Scoville is in Chicago. Guiteau's brother John, who was a spectator at the hanging, is .wrestling with the intricate and uncer­ tain business of life-insurance as of old; Hicks, Guiteau's ministerial adviser, stopped preaching, and has gone to Florida to raise oranges. It may be added that the hangman who adjusted the noose around his neck is anxiously waiting for the opportunity, which he will have in a few weeks, of performing the same service for two other con­ victed murderers in the jail awaiting execution."-- Washington Special. gft The Use of Blinds on Horses. The custom of using blinds on horses "isctiminatelv is a great error. Car­ riage f. or sea look well in showy head­ gear, and handsome blinds are a great improvement to the style and general appearance of real, well set-up carriage horses. But for buggy, car, cart, stage, wagon, truck, and general travel they are wholly un­ necessary, and as regards safetv, they are a detriment rather than an* advan- ?j! "Mage. W hat do surface car-horses want |... withJblinds ? Horses, like ourselves, sj, want to see where they are going, and Rp" the liorse that shies proves that he •&. wants to keen oub of danger by the (; tcrv fact of his shying. We must consider that a horse lead­ ing ati artificial life like ourselves, walk­ ing in the dark in a strange place, doesn't see what is around him if he lias blinds on, and is therefore naturally timid and careful. If a horse is too careful and talc* s too wide a circuit in shying, it is with the best intentions from his instincts. But because he does it a little too much, and more than his driver sees necessary, he should not be abused, but spoken to softlv and kindly , and thus encouraged, for he means no wrong. The stupid lunk­ head will go so close to a hole that one wheels will fall into it, but not having studied geometry, he does not know the exact length of the axles, and the distance necessary to keep from the danger. Man himself di>esn't keep from danger at all times, although he has the advantage of sense and reason .sujjplied him. --Er< h ange. --- ------------ - Fred Douglas*. , Fred Douglass, in his "Life,*' ing of travel in the old anti-slavery times, says: "My treatment in the use of public conveyances at these times was extremely rough, especially on the Eastern Railroad from Boston to Port­ land. On that road, as on many others, there was a mean, dirty, and uncom­ fortable car set apart for colored trav­ elers, called the 'Jim-Crow' car. Re­ garding this as the fruit of slave-hold­ ing prejudice, and l>eing determined to fight the spirit of slavery wherever I might find it, I resolved to avoid this car, though ii sometimes re­ quired some courage to do so. The colored people generally accepted the situation, and complained of me as making matters worse rather than bet­ ter by refusing to submit to the pro­ scription. I, howevev, persisted, and sometimes was soundly beaten by con­ ductor and brakemen. On one occa­ sion six of these "fellows of the baser sort," under the direction of the con­ ductor, set out to eject me from mv seat. As usual, I had purchased a first-class ticket, and paid the re­ quired sum for it, and on the require­ ment of the conductor to leave, refused to do so, when lie called in these men "to snake me out. "They attempted to obey, with an air which plainly told me they relished the job. They, how­ ever, found me m rich attached to my seat, and in removing me I tore away two or three of the surrounding ones, on which I held with a firm' grasp, and did the car no service in some other re­ spects. I was strong and muscular* and the seats were not then so firmly attached or of as solid a make as now The result was that Stepfien A. Chase,. Superintendent of the road, ordered all passenger trains to pass through Lynn (where I then lived) without stopping. This was a great inconvenience to the people, large numbers of whom did business in Boston and at other points of the road. Led on, however, by James N. Buffuni, Johnathan Buffum, and others, the people of Lynn stood bravely by me and denounced the rail­ road management in emphatic terms. Mr. Chase made reply that a railroad corporation was neither a religious nor a reformatory body; that the road was run for the accommodation of the pub­ lic. and that it required the exclusion of colored people from the cars. With an air of triumph he told us that we ought not to expect a railroad company to be better than the Evangelical Church, and that until the churches abolished the 'negro pew' we ought not to ex­ pect the railroad company to abolish the negro car. This argument was cer­ tainly good enough as against the Church, but good for nothing as against the demands for justice and equality. * * * On the Sound steamboat no cdpred man was allowed abaft the wheel, and in all seasons of the yeai in heat or cold, wet or dry, the: dec was his only place. If I would lie down at night I must do so upon the freight on deck, and this in cold weather was not a very comfortable bed. * * Wendell Phillips would never go into a first-class car while I was forced into what was called the 'Jim Qrow' car. I have known James Monroe to pull his coat about him and crawl upon the cotton bales between decks and pass the night with me without a murmur?" Lucrezia Borgia. Lucretia, or, more properly, Lucrezia Borgia, was a daughter of Pope Alex­ ander VI., and a sister of the notorious Cesare Borgia, a prelate and soltiier of Rome in the latter part of the fifteenth century. Lucrezia was famous in her time for remarkable beauty and accom­ plishments, and has been known in history chiefly because of the many shocking crimes ascribed to her. Later writers, however, have defended her- from these charges, which, indeed, seem to have little foundation beyond the idea that, from, her influence over her father and brother, she must have been a partner in tlieir crimes. She was in her youth betrothed to a noble­ man of Arragon, but on her father's accession to the papacy this contract was broken, and she was married to Giovanni Sforza, lord of Pesaro. This union w as dissolved a few years later by the Pope for political reasons, and siie was given in rfffffriage in 1498 to the Duke of Bisceglia, a natural son of the King of Naples. Two years later the duke was assassinated in the streets of Rome. There is no doubt that he was murdered by the order of Cesare Bor­ gia, and it is quite possible that the deed was done, as has been asserted, with the consent and connivance of Lu­ crezia. In 1501 she married Alfonso of Este, afterward Duke of Ferrara. From this time she became a patron of art and letters, and attracted a very brilliant society to her court. After her brother Cesare had been killed in battle in 1507, she became very religious and gave up much of her time to devotion and works of charity. The idea of modern historians that- -; Lucrezia Mas of but lit I woman of hut Mtle strength of mind, and therefore unable to oppose the crimes of her father and brother, seems hardly consistent with the known fact that she possessed exceptionally intel­ lectual gifts and was far better educated than most women of her time. It is more probable that she shared in the deficient moral sense as well as the in­ tellectual power characteristic of her family. As for the more revolting crimes with which she has been charged, such as living in incestuous relations with her father or brother, or both, it is due to historical accuracy to say that not a particle of genuine evi­ dence has ever been adduced in their proof.--Inter Ocean. The Dynamics of Bicycling. Two English experimenters, Messrs. G. J. and G. Stoney,' find that man can exert more power upon the bicycle than in other ways, such use of the human muscles appearing to be the most eco­ nomical possible. To drive- a bicycle at a speed of nine miles an hour re­ quired about 5,500 foot-pounds of en- ergy per minute, while more than 10,000 foot-pounds per minute were often ap­ plied to the machine. The power of a liorse, according to a well-known engi­ neering formula, is 33,000 foot-pounds per gfinute. _ There are 22,000 more m£n than women in Philadelphia. The Sad Story of Miss Kite Field. There is not an iqta of truth in thft rumor that Miss Kate Field is about to be married to a Western journalist. Miss Field will never wed, and the se­ cret of her celibacy is a singularly sad and romantic tale which has never ye$, we think, been in print. Some years ago Miss Field made a visit to Spain with a view of acquaint­ ing herself with certain old Castilian legends which she desired to make lit­ erary use of. She- took with her many letters of introduction to Spanish grandees, among them a letter- to Mar­ shal Serrano. The wealthy and influ­ ential noble received her most cordially and entertained her at his castle in Madrid for several weeks, his wife, a sister of the Count de Paris (now de­ ceased), being particularly charmed by the vigor of Miss Field's intellect and the insinuating grace of her manners. It happened that during her stay at Serrano Cpstle the beautiful young American met another Spanish noble­ man, the young Avaredo Lopezy Jesus de Ratz, one of the wealthiest.* hand­ somest, and bravest scions of Spanish royalty. He was a liildago of the thirty-second magnitude, heir apparent to the dukedom of Aragon, and what was considered better than all else, lie possessed large political influence and stood high in the favor of the dominant party. Alvaredo Lopez de Ratz fell a willing victim to the personal and in­ fluential charms of the fascinating American girl, and with the prece.pit- ancy peculiar to the impassioned sons of stately old Spain, he avowed his loVe at the second meeting. Somewhat startled by the suddeness of his fervid declaration, though not insensible to his exceeding eligibility, Miss Field coyly employed those evasive Fabian arts which so admirably beseem her sex and which render a beautiful girl all the more beautiful in the opinion of mankind. So, therefore, Alvaredo set himself bravely to the task of molting the marble heart of the proud Ameri­ can at whose imperious feet he had in­ continently cast his heart, his hopes, his all. Day after day he weaved son­ nets to her eyes and hair, or pursued her with singing and avowals: night after night he lingered beneath her window blending his rich baritone voice in amorous serenades with the throb­ bing tones of his mandolin or lute. One day Miss Field, accompanied by the young Alvaredo Lopez de Ratz, went <to the ampithcater to witness a bull fight, the same being a celebration of the feast of St. Isadore. When they reached the place they found that their seats were on the other side of the am­ phitheater, and tp save time they thought to cut across the arena, the combat not yet having begun. Scarcely, however, had they reached the center of the arena when by some fatal blun­ der the door to the bull pen was thrown .open and out rushed a monstrous An- dalnsian bpll, lashing his tail wildly, pawing, the earth, and bellowing fiercely. "Suave mio! Suave mio!" (Save me! save me!) cried Miss Field, in tones that would have wrung the most cal­ lous heart. "Carissima mia!" answered Alvaredo Lopez de Ratz, "te suavo spezza!" (Dearest, I wilt save tliee!) Then drawing his stilletto the brave young lover threw himself between the infuriated bull and the red parasol which Miss Field had unfurled, and be­ hind which she stood pale, shrieking, trelllblftig". * While the bull gored at Alvaredo Lopez de Ratz, that valiant young nobleman carved and whittled the shaggy monster's frothing nostrels right dextrously; meantime divers pic­ adors, matadors, and cavaliers hastened to the rescue of Miss Field, who was borne insensible from the arena. But what of Alvaredo Lopezy Jesus de Ratz? Alas! his gored and lifeless re­ mains, mutilated beyond recognition, were taken and gathered together after the matadors had slain the infuriated bull. A braver man was never borne from the battle field in two score and ten dust pans. Ever since that tragedy Miss Field has disdained the advances of the mas­ culine sex. Pondering ever on the fate of her young Spanish suitor, she never hears an impassioned avowal that she does not drop her pretty head and re­ gretfully murmur "Ratz 1"--Eugene Field, in Chicago Ncics. Female Affectations. The affectations of women are quite as projiounced as those of men. It is worth noting that each sect deals more harshly with the shortcomings of its fellows than with the sins of people of an opposite gender. Of all the affecta­ tions from which New York nvomeii have suffered, none has been so pronounced as Anglomania. The average New York girl to-day had rather be con­ sidered English than beautiful. Some of them are very apt and clever at mim­ icking the daughters of Great Britain. A square-shouldered, direct, and dash­ ing girl whom I happened to know, in speaking of the craze, said frankly the other day: "Of course you imagine that men are more intellectual than women and need higher mental food. It is not true. Man wauts his girl a la mode, as he does his trousers or his hat. The proper girl is English now. I think sometimes that exercise is pushed a bit too far, and quite a lot of girls are cer­ tainly growing yellow, but then they're in the swim, you know, and a cold dip, a raw egg. and a hard canter through the park are fascinations hard to resist when one has fallen into their power." The athletic girl certainly carries everything before her. Dress-reform advocates have had a great deal to do with making her what she is. In some respects she meets their ideal, wearing square, sturdy, and low-heeled boots, loose corsets, and short hair, flie doctors are reading her elaborate lectures, and her mother throws up lier hands in dismay. The strain may be too great for a^lilicate constitution, but she must and will lie athletic--because it's English, you know. Weil-Paid Preachers. There is only one rich man among the hundred- and-odd preachers in Chicago. I know of a half-dozen at New York, and I suppose there are more. There are no Chicago preachers in receipt of very large salaries. Prof. Swing is paid only $10,000 a year, and this is the largest received by any pul­ piteer here. The Rev. Dr. Thomas receives only $4,000. Contrast these with the salaries paid 'Talmage, Beeeher, Storrs, Hall, Tiffany, Potter, and others in New York and Brooklyn. Beeeher is paid $20,000, Talmage $18,- 000, and there is not one on the list who does not j^et 60 - per cent, "more than Prof. Swing, and three times as much as the Rev. Dr. Thomas. The one rich domine is the Rev. Dr. Ryder, the eloquent Universalist divine, who only A few years ago retired from the pulpit. He msjde all -his money outside of his profession.--Chicago Mail. > HIDES A YEAR. "What ' p. • - -1 . «,-*• V1' ' I . •'V'M Satisfy the Base-Ball Fiend. Th^^^^PP about one thousand horses T^Hfhe skins of at least ten times as jBMjy sheep are cut up into coverings for base balls in this city every season. By one manufacturer alone three tons of yarn are used a year for the insides of base-balls. The hide and skin used is perfectly white, being alum-tanned, and comes from Philadel­ phia. Out of one horse's hide the cov-; erings for twelve dozen balls are cut, j and out of one sheepskin three dozen. Two strips of the leather are required for each ball, cut wide and rounding at each end so that they fit into each other when put around the yarn ball. Each piece, for a League ball, is seven inches long by two inches wide at the rounded ends. The pieces are cut with a die. Old-fashioned, blue Shaker yarn is used for the inside of the League ball, which is wound tightly around a small rubber ball weighing one ounce. The improved League ball has now double coverings of norseliide, which is re­ garded as a great improvement It is also stitched with gut. The balls are made entirely by hand, and it requires no little skill to shape them perfectly round. This is done by placing them in an iron cup about the size of the ball and striking it with a mallet at differ­ ent stages of the winding. Men do this work. They easily make ten dozen League balls in a day, and from forty to fifty dozen ordinary base-balls in the same length of time. Their wages are $2.50 a day. Women sew the coverings together on the ball. This requires considerable skill and strong finger muscles. They can sew fkrni two and one-lialf to three dozen League balls in a day, and from fourteen to sixteen dozen of the cheaper grades. They are pa'd by the piece, ninety cents a dozen for the League work and ten cents a dozen for" the others. They earn about twelve dollars a week. The balls are sewed with what is known as Bark­ er's flax, which comes in red, blue, orange, and pink colors. The finest balls are sewed with pink. Horsehide covered balls are made in fourteen dif­ ferent varieties. Mr. S. W. Brock, a veteran authority on the subject, from whom the above facts were obtained, said: "People have the idea that the base-ball busi­ ness does not amount to anything. Why," I remember that those who started to go into it a few years ago were hooted at as throwing their time and money away. They were told that there were not enough base-balls used in the country to make it pay. But you may be surprised to know, yet it is a fact, that one house alone in this city does a business of $o0,000 a year at it, making nothing else. There is a large demand for them, especially from the West and South, and they are sent from hero to Canada, Omaha," New Or­ leans, and Cuba in large quantities. It is an interesting fact that in Cuba the base-ball fever is on the rapid in­ crease, though as yet they buy only the cheaper grades. In the height of the season the largest house here em­ ploys seventy-five persons, and turns out three hundred dozen balls a day. This year the manufacturers have more orders than they can fill, and the de­ mand is far ahead of any previous year. An interesting fact about base-balls is that in the past fifteen years the only important change in the professional dead-ba31i» tk^oi u double cover. Of course fifteen years ago they did not have everything quite so fine about a ball, for there were no professional clubs then, and players were not so particular. No patent was ever ob­ tained on the shape of the covering to a base-ball, though there have been a number of claimants to its invention." --Neic York Mail and Express. Roaring Pemaquid. Vemaquid Point, near Damariscotta, Me., has been said to be, in a gale from any point of the compass between southeast and southwest, the roughest point on the Atlantic coast It is lit­ erally out at sea, and the winds of the Atlantic, rolling in from 3,000 miles of ocean without let or hindrance, break with explosive roar upon its bastions of stone, which are worn into endless forms by the attrition and abrasion of a^es. It is very rarely that any point of the mainland possesses all the con­ ditions of an uninterrupted breaking place for the waves of the ocean. Out­ lying rocks or islands, or the confor­ mation of the adjacent coast usually break up or check the course of the waves long before reaching the main­ land. Nothing lies between Pemaquid l^oint and the broad Atlantic, and even in the calmest mood of the sea the roar of its surf upon its walls is remarka­ ble. When the southerly gale is on the spray is flung hundreds of feet into the air. The noise is deafening. Huge pieces #f rock are broken from the projecting walls and thrown upon the bank. 4. Pemaquid lighthouse stands on the promontory, several hundred feet back from the edge, with the house of the keeper adjoining it The light is at least 300 feet above the level of the sea. Yet in a southerly gale a few years ago a large stone was hurled by the waves through the thick glass of the lantern, and the spray came down the chimneys of the houses in such quantities as to extinguish the fires. History and legend also lend their attractions to Pemaquid. No part of the countfywas earlier known to voya­ gers. 'Lne ships of Pring, Weymouth, and Gilbert had plowed these waters long before the settlement of James­ town, and Pema juid was the rival of Plymouth and Boston as a metropolis in the infancy of New England. The old fort at the harbor was for nearly a century on the disputed territory be­ tween Massachusetts and Acadia. Important. When yon visit or leave Now York City, save baggage, expiessage, and f 3 carriage hire, and atop at the <<rasd Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot C13 rooms, fitted up at a cost of one million road to all depot*. Families can live better for leas mofiey at the Grand Union Hotel than at maj othsr first-daea hotel in the city; <;f'S A TREATISE ON ECONOMY. An Attempt to Unrawl aa Intricate Sci­ ence. When summer come9 purchase an $6 suit of blue flannel. This is economy. In a month's time if they begin to reach upward at the ends sew lead at the bot­ tom of the legs, or, if this will not an­ swer the purpose, "sprinkle sugar in the shoes to call them down." This is rough on high-water "pants." If they become yellowr on the knees, ink them carefully, or boil them in bla k paint. If they stretch at the waistband, lap them over in plaits. Then go around the block, and people will imagine you to be one of Bamum's latest' additions to the museum. Save money and pur­ chase $S suits. A real $8 suit c in be had of all the leading clothiers. Never pay as high as $ .0 for a suit of clothes. Eight from thirty leaves twenty-two. Twenty two dollars are saved by this deal. Economy is wealth. Again, let us look in the tangle of domestic economy. A man will some­ times walk to save car fare, and then purchase a quarter of a dollar's worth of cigars. He will also complain bit­ terly of the dull times; but watch him enjoy the ballet in the orchestra. This is bald-headed economy. People must enjoy themselves one way if they have to° economize in another. Again, will an 80-ceut shirt stand rubbing on a washboard? It might. But generally they are handled with care. "Deal gently with the prize- package shirt" is a rule sometimes laid down by laundrymen. "Steam and co.ix it to become clean," he adds to the laundress, "but do not wrestle with it." A laundress will not wrestle with a cheap shirt. Again, if a spring bonnet costs $27.50 what will a derby hat come to ? One- ninety. Because this same gentleman who pays for the aforesaid spring bon­ net desires to economize on hats. Do­ mestic economy is an intricate science. And here again is a beautiful scene of economy: Closing up the house dur­ ing the summer months to allow the family to enjoy themselves in the coun­ try. Are you not paying rent? Yes; unless yoii own the house. But house- owners are not included in this argu­ ment. I refer to the gentleman who pay^ rent. Who gets the benefit of this vacant house during the summer months? The servant girl, the po1 ice­ man, and the cotton-bugs. What are the family doing in the cottntfy ? En­ joying themselves and getting tanued. They are gotting healthy. Good. But in the meantime you are paying rent. This is one of the delicate questions in economy. Again, a young man writes to ask me if he can get married on $10 a week. Yes, he can, if the girl's father is a millionaire. But, unless the girl's father is a millionaire, I would advise him to keep single. Can a man keep house on $10 a week? He can--about three days.--Puck. Milestones on the Road to Health. The recovery of digestion, and the resump­ tion of activity bv the Dyer, bowolB, and kid­ neys, are milestones which mark our pre cress on the road to health. They speedily become perceptible when Hostotto.'s Stomach Hitters is used by the invalid. Nothing to surely and expeditiously consumes the dlst&noe to the de­ sired goal. As no bodily function can suffer interruption without Impairing the general health of the system, so the xyst^ni can never acquire perfect vigor, hsnlth's synonym, until that function l«o> actively resumed. Take, for instance, digestion, a suspension of which is invariably rectified by the- Hitters. If the or- gsns upon which it devolves gro\v weak, bil­ iousness, constipation, headache, poverty of the blood, and a hundred other symptoms supervene, which indicate unmistakably the baneful general influence of dyspepsia. The disappearance of all these symptom*, through the ui># of the Hitters, *hovvs with what thor> oughnass it removes their cause. The Editor and the Bore. One elderly hyperbolator has become a fearful nuisance to his friends with his war yarns. One day this elderly gentleman sauntered into a newspaper office, took a chair beside a journalistic friend, pulled out a Century, and opened to the map of a celebrated en­ gagement. With a sigh the editor, who. by the way, stutters most disas­ trously, laid down his pen and pre­ pared to be bored for an hour. Said the veteran: "(Jh, this was a famous battle, and how well I remember the day and re­ call the scene. How plainly this map recalls to my mind the green fields and the dusty roads! Here, where my finger points, is where the enemy tried to turn ojir left flank. Here is where we charged, driving them back in dis­ order. At this point our gallant Major fell, penetrated by a score of minie bul­ lets. And here, right beside this clump of trees, is where I had my leg broken by a bullet." "G-G-General," said the editor, his face as impassive as a wall, Kw-w-won't you show the b b-boys, please, where your b-b-brain» were blown out?"-- Bosi&n Record. Charm of Novelty. Everything that is new or uncom­ mon raises a pleasure in the imagina­ tion, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curios­ ity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. We are, gener­ ally speaking, so conversant with one set of objects, and tired out with so many repeated displays of the same things, that whatever is new or uncom­ mon contributes more or less to vary human life, and to divert our minds, for some time at least, with another state of its appearance. Rural nature is ever pleasing in its clothing of groves and gardens; but the season of their superior beauty is the spring, when they are all new and fresh with their first gloss upon them, and not yet too much accustomed and familiar to the eye. In short, what is there which t e imagination or fancy cannot make sub­ servient to its pleasures ? Dr. Pierce'* "Pellets"--the original "Little Liver Pilla" (sugar-coated)--cure sick and bilioua headache, sour stomach, and bilious attacks, by druggists. "A spotted adder" is a name grimly given by the Boston Record to defaulting cashiers. 1 "ROUGH ON ITCH." "Roughonltoh" cure* skin humors, eruptions, rinp worm, totter, salt rheum, frosted feet, chil­ blain*, itch, ivy poison, barber's itch. flOc. jars. "KOIUH ON CATAKKH" corrects offensive odors at onca. Complete cure of-worst chronic cases; also unequalou ae gargle for dipiitheria, not.', throat, foul breath. 5Jc. "HOUGH ON PII.KS. ' Why suffer Piles ? Immediate relief and com­ plete cure guariinteed. Ask for "Rough on Piles.* Sure cure for itching, protruding, bleeding, cr any form of Piles. 500. At Druggists' or Mailed. The best cough medicine Is Plso'a Cure for ' Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c. ASK Your HewoaeaitflorTHE CHICAGO LEDGEB, the BEST STOHY PAPKH £in thi* country. Rend it. NAMK QCTCE for Prof. Moedr'a ITlw tUuitnU« Book OQ Ures# Uakiof. New and Maatl* 'CuiUog, etc. Af6aia Mil 10 adaj. Fref.MOOE)Y,CU«l>BiUMk Learn here and earn good pay. Situation* Bros., J&nesvilie, Wla» jnd MwiJUit RmMt CiM In l« tO •Odays. Keferto L(H>O patient? in ill puts- Dr. Xfcrth, QuincyJ TELEGRAPHY I furnished. Write Valentine £ OPIUM M w to S8 a day. Humpies worth $1.50. FREE. Line* not mi:lcr the horxe's feet. A'ldress Iirevvftcr's 8 ifety Keiu Holder, Holly, Mich. SHOKTHAND taught by practical Stenoprapher. Sy»t ra mastered in oue-tUird time phonographic syx't'inv. as raiiirt and more l.'«ible. Les»ons by mail. AddreexJ. H. TH1KSHKI.U, Bridgeport. Conn. I A. GILL'S SCHOOL OF ECLECTIC Short-hand and type-writing. Unlimited course. $40. Send for circulars. Positions funiiKhKd. 208 N.Clark St.. Chicago. A MONTH iToqdz Men-or Ladies in eachcoantp JP.W. ZlEULBtt * CO Cfeicneu, lXL J O N E S •AYSthe freight 5 Ten Wsc«n Sralea* lro« Xcven, 6irtl Bearing*, Br«M Tare Beam and Ream Box for S60. Every size Scale. For free prtea list BAEOTIOB THU PAPER AA4 DtioD thU paper aa« aMreaa HUES IF BIKttttAMTON, M. T. Somebody's Child. Somebody's child Is dying-^dyln* with the flush of hope on his youn< faoe. and sonie- boJy's mother thinking of the time when that dear face will be hidden where no ray of hop<^oan brighten it--because there was no cur;_> for consumpt on. Header, if the chin lie your neighbor's, take this comfort­ ing word to the mother's heart before It te too laie. Tell her t:iat consumption is cura­ ble; that men are living to-day whom the physicians pronounced incurable, becat se one lung had been almost destroyed by the disease. 1 ir. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" has cured hundreds; surpasses cod liver oil, hypophosphites, and .other medicines in curing this disease. Sold by druggists. No, Mixerva; we are not hankering for society notes with a very large-sized hank. Plain every-day btrnk notes are ricl for our blood. Beantifttl Wonea are mr.de pallid and unattractive by func­ tional irrcfiu.arities, which Dr. Pierce'e Favorite Prescription" will infallibly cure. Thousands of testimonials. Uy druggists., You may find me guilty, gentlemen,1^ said the criminal to the jniy, "but, just the same, that's not my conviction." . - Ague, in its most malignant form, is i ineJ by taking Ayer's Aguo Cure. He is A miss guided youth who does everything his sweetheart asks him to do. Contempt of court--When the younger brother makes faces at his sister's lover. "Rough on Rats" clears out Rats, Mioa. 15c. "Rough on Corns, "hard or 6( ft corns, bunions, 15c. f "Rough on Toothache." Instant rellefl 16a WELL'S HAIR 1JAI.SAM, If pray, restores to original color. An eTeganf drosHitig, snjtons aiul beiutiluR No oil nor grease. A Tonic llostorativo. Stops hair eom- g out; strengthens, cleanses, hcUs hoiiIo, 50cl "KOtttll ON KILE" I'lLtij start the bile, relieve the bilious stomach, thick, aching head and overloaded Kiwols. Small gran­ ules, small dose, big results, nleaxant in opera­ tion, don't disturb the stonucn. :25c. Tambo--'"Why do dey advertise Rynvita Blackberry Blocks on de eliockevboa'd?" Bones--"Any fool can tell dat. 'Case dey am de greatest cliocker in de wo'kl for Diarrhoea aud sich " I .yon'* Patent Metallic Heel Btiffeners keep new boots and shoes from ruiminir- over. Sold by shoe and hardware dealers. Henry's Carbolic Salve. Th# best salve used in the world for Cute, ferolssti. Piles. Sore*. Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Tetter, diappud Hands. Chilblains. Corns, and all kinds of Skin Erup­ tions, Freckles and Pimples. Tlio salve is guaranteed to (jive perfect satisfaction In every case. Be sure you pet HKN'UV'S CARBOLIC SAIA'E, as all others are but imitations umi counterfeits. ?Sjp FAULTLESS FAMILY MEDICIME 'I have used Simmons T,lver Regulator for many yeui>, hav­ ing made it my only Family Medicine. My mother before xne was very partial to It. It la a safe, good aiul reliable medi­ cine for any disorder of the system, and if used in time Is * great preventive of iMtiri*. I often recommend it to my friends, and shall continue to do so. "Rev. James M. Rollins, "Pastor M. E.Church, So. Fairfield,Va." TIME AND D03T0R8' BILLS SAVED BY altraua keeping Simmon* Liver Regulator m the houme. "I.have found Simmons Liver Regulator the best family med­ icine I ever usee! for anything s that may happen, liave used It Sh In Indigestion, Colic, IHnrrheem, . Jiillousne**, and found It to re­ lieve immediately. After eat­ ing a hearty supper, If, on going to bed, 1 take about a teaspoon-' ful, I never feel the effects of the supper eaten. "OVID G. SPARKS, "Ex-M:iyor Macon, Qa.* JOTONLY GENUINE-®! J Has our Z Stamp on front of Wrapper. J. H. Zeilin A Co., Sole Proprietors, Price. Sl.OO. I'HII.ADKLPHIA, PA. i WPERR Y DAVIS"®11 PAIN-KILLER IS RECOMMENDED BY Physicians, Ministers, Missionaries, Man­ agers of Factories, Workshops, Planta­ tions, Nurses in Hospitals--in short, Everybody everywhere who has ever given it a trial. tAltEN INTERN ALT. Y, IT WILL BE JfOTTWD A NEVEB FAILING CURE FO* SUDDEN COLDS, CHILLS, PAINS IN THE STOMACH CRAMPS; SUMMER and BOWEL CO]f- FLAINIV;, SORE THROAT, &o. < . APPLIED EXTERNALLY, IT IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND BK8T LINIMENT ON EARTH FOR CURING SPRAINS. BRUISES, RHEUMA­ TISM .NEURALGIA TOOTH­ ACHE, BURNS. FROST­ BITES &c. Prices, 25c, 50c, and $1.00 per Bottle. For Sale by all Medicine Dealers. WBewto e of Imitations."W BROWN* . - IRON WJ !#• WILL CURB HEADACHE INDIGESTION BILIOUSNESS DYSPEPSIA NERVOUS PROSTRA*. MALARIA CHILLS AND FEVERS /TIRED FEELING GENERAL DEBILITY \M PAIN IN THE BACK & SK T9MT* IMPURE BLOOD CONSTIPATION ?D FEMALE INFIRMLTNSAMHFCJGVY RHEUMATISM 1JS**%£. NEURALGIA KIDNEY AND LIVER TROUBLES FOX SALE B y ALL DRUGGIS\ The Genuine has Trade Mark and enmed ! lines on wrapper. TAKE NO OTHER. CUKES THE WORST PA'NS in from one to tv | | minute s. Not one hour a'ter reading this one Sl'FFEK WITH PAIN. * BOWEL COMPLAINT^ It will in a few moments, when taken aocordinjp M direction*, cure Cramps. Sjiamus. Sour I't mi Heartburn. Sick Headache, Summer Complaint, I^__ . rhea. Dysentery. Colic, Wind in the Bov\eln, an* other Internal Pains. lucre is not a remedial apent in the world th» , cure Fev. r .Mid Airne, and all other Malar.ous, Bi.j and other I cverw, aided by Had way's P;11k, so q* a< ltidway'.s lieady Relief. j ' It instmitly relieves ami soon enres Colds, S->) Thro it. I? -oneliitis. Pleurisy, Stiff Neck, all Congi| tion.s niul Inflammations, whether ot the Lutigs. kf ueys or Bowels, % RHEUMATISM, NEUML6U# Headache. Toothache, Weakness or Pain in the BT Che-1 or l.ini>is by one application. * te Fifty cents per bottle. Sold by Drufcrists. TWENTY YEARS IN USE DR. BADVA v & Co.: 1 have used your Ready Rei forinany yearn in my family w:th great effect. 1 file last twenty years 1 would have nothing else »xpel pain inwardly or trom any part ol ti.e body o V'ardly. I hi\<• used it tor rheumatic pains, and ways touud great relief when applied to the pain tf pai tot the ttody. Your Pills piv iud^ed excellent,• you represent them in the papers. M Yours truly, liOl'.ERT OTOSNEU . 67 East Lake St.. Chicago, IU.. Sept. T. '.$-5. jb 1>K. K VIMVAY & <'<>.. N\ Y„ \ Proprietors of Itadway's Rare tpanliian Resolvent D.-. lUdw ay's l*iU» i ON 30 DAY8' TRIAL.' THIS NSW I ELASTIC Has » l':ul different from others, is eon *hape. with Self adjusting linil in e<<nter,adaptti itself to'nil positions of UW bodv while the ball intl-.ccnp tireesda back i!>« intea* [ s with tho finger Kin, is held securely day ni , . . certain. Jt ueasy,dur^hle and chent>. Sent hr mail. Cil^ SENSIBLE TRUSS _ .VneV fust as a person does With thO flllger. With ligrht pressure tlie tier. - . . . • - j - = a radical, car* i is heM neeuroly tiav and niprht, .durable and chcn.. EW£k*TOX TKISS to., CMcfcrcs W. s Stnvita blackberry blocks. ' THE GREAT PIAUKHtEA CHECKER J Set Checkerboard ot your Druggist FREE! The latest and cheapest^ the most pleaxatit, con­ venient and reliable cure for DiarvtHPa, Dysentery, Klux. Cholera, l'lioler% Morbus, and Cholera In* fantutn or Summer Com» pi lint ever discovered* ' Have never failed to cure summer Complaint irk children. No teaspoon? No sticky bottle. Alway* ready a .d handy,'Jf^ioseaj: ^ 25 cuts. A mtwan'ee oif?-" each package by which w« • will retund the pr.epuii' 11 Blackberry Hlorks fail to cure al! diseases to?' which they are recommended. Ask > our dra&rjiist to** them, aud take no substitute. If you f-jil t;.> jjet them. ... Upon receipt of -4ft <-ts. we w.ll send a package by re* turn mail, or .'i for a Dollar. A handsome a iver» ' tisiuc chess and checkerboard free w;th each ord«r» Address KVNVITA CO.. IteljiiiDs. Oliio. 7 FRAZER AXLE GREASE. Beat In the Werld. lift the (eailie. K». • •ry j>arkn«e fans our Trade-in ark and im Harked Fraaer'a. tMILII KYUtVWilUUk JAMS, JELLY, Tfcbl* Strap. Swrrt S'iokle*. Yiu«**r, r«t»ur>. PrtMTTM, Ctaadfef tad Kraut-Making for farmvrt' wives--mailed tree witfc wtmj £•» Mptr of Fall Turnip ra^l'iipvr or W1XX JAMKS HAbLKY. > K BEETS thrown bu , MftdUofi, Ark. ADVERTISERS on advertising space when in this paps;, or obtain estimate* Chicago, will find it on file at - '" LORD&THOIIAS. Habit, ttulekly and falntaaa* ly < ured t home Correspondence solicited and fife trial ut cure sea* houe!- estimators. THE UCNAHS Kiiiuv Cusmi, Lafayette, Int. the Advertising Agency of | OPIUM A FORTUNE: diLCir' ••k park* Eura'taf *f an " Oar Praa • SLOttPl'fc •mtrj "TW« L«*w WIOMPW I au>, wr Mt ••• Bo«k Ajnau. mm mam t P^IAA In ML TARIVD MOm I tafTiCl tire relief lafinm KIDPEB'8 Maw. PFFLLHS If ANTED. Printers competent to take charge of weekly newspaper offices can hear of permanent situ­ ations in good Western towns, where liberal sal­ aries will be paid, l>y addressing the SIOUX CITY NEWSPAPER UNION, < 218 Douglas St., Sioux City, Iowa. _j IF PAGE'S* GLUES Hied by the bestnianufacturers and mechanics in the world. Pullman I'alace Car Co.. Mason A llaiuhii Orpan & Piano Co..| Ac., for all KintU of fine icork. I At the New Orl*an« Exposal tlon, joint* made with it en-l dured a tefting a train of over | 1600 Pounds TO A SQUARE I5CH. frrmouncetl knotm. TWO GOLD MEDALS. I Wl. ».r 1S85. I Ifyourde»lerd-->e«not k. epit •Mid his cnnl mid 1 V. na-rare for famnlecin. FRIta RUSSIA CUMKN'T <"«».. <j|ocee«f«e, r* " !p^|i BY THE tkmm LAND COMPANY OF LOS ANGELES, CAL., Carpenter*, Manons, Brick-Makers, l'liimlx-r*. and I.'«bor«T* of i«!l fclmln. Carpcn%er** waves, 13 and $3.50 per day ; Masons and Plasterers, S3 to $."> j>evday : Laborers. 11<>52.> perioODt^ and Board. Homes sold on monthly installments, mid wcrk furnished to those who wish to secat' a pleasant home. Work all the year round. No time lost on acc< unt of hot or cold weather. Trees plnnted on lots and cared for until purchasers desire to reside njion them. Defer***, payments for two years, without interest. Best of soil, abundance of water, and the healthiest climate in the world. s Ix>w rates of transportation can be had by applying to A. Phillips A Co., 80 Clark 8tanl' Chicago, 111. For full particulars apply to • v. ^ ItOGKKN, BOOTH & OO., Aveute. 134 H. Kain Street, Los Angeles, Celifornin. I flSH 1 Non# feaalae onlw* lamped with th« ftbuv* TRAP* MARC. iQtfiave SLICKERS Erer M. ri«u Don't waste r«ur montv on a tram or rtbber coat The FISH BRAND SLICKKI is abM'tutely wtttr and >«'•».« moor, tmd will keep TOO drv in the hart!**? stora Aslt lor the^'FISH BRAND" fn.icar*and lakenofttker. If vour tturefcwp«r Jo* s» 111 Iirde«erii I-V" . --v .» ,V Tf>yEfe*)Slmnwn»8t. Wo»uxi " •r PATENTS It. 8. & A. P LACEY. Patent Attorneys.Wasliinirton, D.C. Instruction* and opinions •s to patentability FBEE, Wll years' experience. CONSUMPTION. (km a potltlTO remedy for tha above dlaaaaa sby Us thooatndaof ea»»»ot tlia worst kind and of loaff ataadlBKbaTeheati cured. liidMd, fcaatrongts ravfalta IB ltaaSlcacy.tbat 1 wi:i Mud TWO BOTTLKS KRSB, UMllMrwtihaVAt-l'ABI.ETKEAriSBon itutdiMaa* SaaVsaBkrar. Oi*e«*pr*«»«od f O. *ddr u. * DB. T. A. SLUCVM, 1*1 riar) St., K«w Ink, Mats WMftt Ml list Ullt. Best Cough Syrup. Taste* good. DM in time. Hold by dr C.N.U. K*.; WH1TWO TO AMEKT1 leaw aay y«n aaw cks ulwr UtTHKN WW plea la tkin pav«r,