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* » • » » * : ' - - • ; * * ' ; w * - ^.r-w- Tr* •& T ,u >*>FVJ* J. VA« SLYKE, UINM4 PaMsfcar. IICHENBY, ILLINOIS. I HK CHAT mn UN AM to urniiox. -•'^iCSf wmUt uk,,M,< • _Hismanner tipmiu elation. He shaltedby eeery acquaintance b«maeta ^Whoeyestym «>»acreat admiraUqo.- I®» s greeted by all with "Old Chippie, ballot How are ytrnf- Hia answer Si *^tuaula'» •tor such a reply is quite English, foa know. , And he just hu got over from Tannn^ Bi s clotting ia cut In the last English IM|L - ^And it takes bat a glance to discover. I TOIU the toes of his shoes to the crown Of his • tile, vThe chappie is English all over. »e bauk of his knowledge of things he •In future he'll have quite a run on: B he dined with the Prince if he talked with the Qnfen-- , !The chap that's been oret to Lunnon. 8e'i hobnoh/bed with lords and with dnkss. don toher know? • .And thus h s friends' envy he touches. He's driven in tandem dowu fatutU Uotteo Bow. --And (lanced at a ball with a duchess. Hfe 8 been attheopra »1M» countesses fair, He won at tj»e Derby ten pun' on A racer lie backed, "Ah, there's 11% over theref* Cays the chap that'll been ovor to I.UIIUO&, Of course he has met all the men that art great, _And with them fauillinrljr ilialWt. The painters ami sculpture, the leader* of lUfce, --And poets with look* long Mill nwttM. s tells how his company BY all WM daalrott-- And when this loved thetuc tie's beam Hetalk* till the cars of hU hearer* are' The chap that's been over to Lttunoa. •••"iBoston Courier, gem the SHE LEARNED HIM TO LOVE. BY HELENA MORRISON GATES. A fall, nnbroken wave, of mitebkn melody floated weirdly sadly sweet and eloquent through wide-flung case­ ments; trembled past the purple, blossom-scented shadows of a summer evening; while on a snowy statue glistened in still, white silence, or purling fountain played softly in the hidden distance, as on and on the throb of joyous music went rising and falling, in and out, till it died in a voiceless whisper upon the lake that lay a slumbering sheet of molten silver, just beyond. A gush and ripple of vibrating notes, the swinging, rythmic foot-fall of the waltzers Within, as the pulsating trend kept time to the thrilling play of uToujours au Jamais." The cry of the viols, the sob of the deep bassoons, and silent purity and perfection of pn exquisite June night swooning itself away in ecstasy. * • "Miss ltossitur?" The voice was sufficiently uncertain and questioning to be deferential, Vnnce Effingham, proud and stately, leaned against the rose-garlanded pillar of the balcony and waited, while Marguerite, belle of the evening, who had stolen®a\vay for a breath of air and an ice, looked about, for her abseut cavalier and then raised her serious, bright eyes to the expectant ones above her. A slim, girlish figure, well-rounded, graceful as a fawn in it's every turn and pose, a perfect hand and arm guiltless of ornament, and a pale, clear-cut face, like a Cameo, not beautiful, not even pretty; but before which you stood as in the sancti­ fied temple, feeling the spot you trod "holy ground." A pair of luminous, gray eyes lighted the still purity of an otherwise common-place countenance, whose expression rapt and devout, grave and unsmiling could be named in the heart of the beholder as "Bweet eyes." As she stood thus robed in white not purer than her own soul, a single fragrant lily upon her breast, Vance caught his breath under her steady, full glance, with the feeling that he was in the presence of his patron saint. Will you walk, with me?" he said, ntly, "I was looking for you. Come into garden, Maude." There was a tender interest in voice and manner; yet one watching the cool gaze which Marguerite Bossitur, after a brief instant, bent on him, the steady unchang­ ing light that glowed in her magnetic eyes, would never have guessed the-glad cry of rapture of her heart, such a happy glow of triumph as all her years of bellehood never • had given came over her. Yet *he stood without a tremor and took the ice from Col. Hastings with a smile that translated him to the seventh Heaven of bliss, stood and tasted it, leisurely, and swept her*eyes over this grandly handsome man, that all Newport worshiped, the peach-bloom tint on lier cheek never vary­ ing in its intensity, her smiling lips half apart. Vance Effingham standing by felt an amused 'sensation at the novelty of a situation that rendered him a person of secondary importance. He was so used to ladies who fluttered, and subsided under his lightest word and glanco that he en­ joyed it. The burly Colonel received the plate and a second smile of thanks, and with an eager emphasis rarely seen in Vance Effing­ ham's manner, he said. "Is this not mine?" as the next waltz began, and with a bow to the Colonel she laid her hand on his arm, and they passed out into the moonlit grounds, where numberless guests were promenading, and finally stood upon the shore of the lake, whose snowy sands glistened in the pale light of the moon like grains of silver. "Miss Rorssitnr--Mar­ guerite"--he drew her light shawl about her as he spoke, "I have asked you to come with me because I think you will listen to a story that, painful though it may be, I , must tell." \ She only bowed gravely in response, and ^raited. • "You have heard me called heartless. The just world contemptuously, 60 de­ cides regarding me. You have heard it said I had no love to givo any living woman. I want you to judge if I am wholly to blame for it, and if *1 am what I am,' then you, at least, shall not blame me." "Let me hear,"cried Marguerite; "I shall be your friend always. Have I not been all the season?" - "Yes; a thousand times yes," cried her companion. "Oh, could I have known long years ago 6ome one like yon, I need not to-daj be the effigy I am. See yonder statue? ft feels more, has more heart, more love and hate than I." "Do not say so," plead Marguerite, softly; "surely God creates no soul without affection, without that noble endowment-- a heart." "I have none," he reiterated moodily. "You see that lake yonder? Every dim­ pled wave lies quiet--asleep; the moon­ light crowns it, gloriously. Just so over my heart--the smiles of the world play brilliantly, but all is cold, dark, unfath- omed below. I shall never love mortal again." There was no sign of the pain that throbbed in every fiber of Mar­ guerite Hossitur's heart, in her quiet face-- only a dull agony, deep hidden, as she felt his words sounding the death-knell to her hopes. To lose this friend of a summer, whom, despite her womanly delicacy, her sensitive modesty, she loved with worship­ ful abandon, in her secret soul. So worthy, so noble, lie commanded the one admira­ tion and devotion of her life, and to know that all was given in vain, to feel the keen shame, the passionate regret that comes to the woman who gives her love unsought, ah, it was bitter. "But I will be his friend," she told her­ self, pure principle, noble womanhood, whose snowy temple can neither be cast down nor defiled, upholding her, "for he deserves it." Then she 6poke again: '•But tho morning always comes," she said slowly, softly, "and gives life to the sleeping waters, and is it well to shut out all light because one cannot have a world of sunshine?" "Thus I have been reasoning," he re­ plied, "of late; for until you opened the -store-house ot riches to be found in the friendship ot a guileless woman like your­ self, pure and sincere, to me, I had only utter darkness in which to dwell." "I am a veritable Blue Beard," he con­ tinued. "I open the portals of my past and show you its secrets, when 'the blood of knowledge stains the key*--I shall no donbt lose the friend whom "Had she been true, II Heaven would make me such n^d Of one entire and perfect cbryaolitS^^ I'd nothaTe sold her for it." \ ' * 4 " "Never!" ' •" r Her reply was only that one loW-voioed word, but Vance Effingham's face glowed at i:s fervent truth; at sight of the earnest, uplifted face, pale and luminous as a star. "Thank you!" he said, sadly. "Whatever my fate at your hands may be, I «*»•» never forget your kindness. Mv life has been one series of deception at the hands of woman. I was young when the first played 'fast and loose' with my heart, for I did have one then--bitterly--I was head­ strong, wilful, but not wholly bad. I was angry and slighted, so I went through the world for a time winning the title of 'male flirt.'" "Yes," he went on, in a cold voice, after a pause in which neither uttered a word, "I won and ca6t aside hearts that I may say, without egotism, loved me. But eventually a truer manhood awoke in me. I repented; I tried to atone; believed myself forgiven, and bowed down in the absolute worship that makes men pure, at another woman's shrine. I thought her worthy--that woman--my wife. I woke up one day a deserted hus­ band, Khe died at last in woe and wretch­ edness in a distant city; but not until my life was ruined and blighted, bare of hope--" His voice broke. "Do not tell the rest;" Marguerite's firm, warm hand crept iiito his in a strong grasp of sympathy. "Pray, don't; why should yon so distress yourself?" He held the gentle, small hand a moment tightly, then dropped it; .the proud head drooped. '*1 must," he groaned; "don't stop me. What! tears in your eyes? O, Marguerite, pearl among women, I am not worth a tear, my little friend. After she died I believe I was indeed mad for a few years. I tried --as a fiend might to make all women miserable--I believe I succeeded; there was one who died of a broken heart--her death li$s at mj' door, "Ah, is it not meet that I should never know the sweetness of love, given or received? My heart is dead, my punishment my own. 1 have shown you my dead Fatima; must 1 go? Do you dismiss this modern Blue Beard so unworthy your friendship?" "No," almost gasped Marguerite, "I can­ not; it would be wrong to add one feather's weight to your burden. But why--O, why did you tell me this?" "Because," Vance Effingham's face in death would never be whiter, "because I am selfish and miserable. I have seen in yon all womankind redeemed. I have met Eure, unselfish friendship, with no motive ut blessing the recipient, from you. I know now a woman can give it--even to man. , "You are just and true; you are noble and worthy; your depth and sweetness of character warms my remnant of a heart, elevates my manhood. The whole world is better and brighter from your tender divination and your kindliness of portrayal. I see you an ideal woman, realized; moving in calm and conscious quietude, with no small and narrow sentiments, no sickly, clinging weakness to mar the perfect symmetry of your life, and I know you are truth itself, and my soul is full of a mighty respect for a consistency so rare, for a wo man that onoe a friend is a friend for ever." "I fttti doing all the talking," he 6aid, gravely, almost with tears in his eyes, "but soon I shall only 6eek to listen.to you. want you to know me as I am; to under­ stand how well I know you deserve more, that I am a coward to ask for it, but I want you for my wife. Yon are the nobleBt, best, and purest of your sex, and I am un­ manly enough to ask you to take my hand, my fortune,and my name, without love, which I do not possess and cannot give." She looked at him steadily--silently, as he finished with the words: "As you are ever kind jut me out of my misery at once. She thought, rapidly, then: "Why do you want me?" she asked. "Because my life will be utterly wretched without you. Because I have lived thirty- five miserable years, and you are the love­ liest woman I ever knew. Because you can direct my manhood toward goodness, no­ bility, and strength, even now. Will yon come?" "I do not condone your offences," said Margnerite, with a strange smile; "yet listen: I will come to yon on certain con­ ditions (because thereby I believe I can do yon good). They are, first, that you ask in retnin nothing beyond wbat you can give, --simple friendship; that you pledge your sacred word of honor to look for no sem­ blance of love from me; to give me no title of affection. Second, to expect no privilege beyond what common friendli­ ness permits, while in the world's eyes I am yet your wife. Are you satisfied? Then--Oh no;" as he would have drawn lier to bis side, "you must never forget our compact. I will be your wife. " "Thank you, bless you; von shall never regret this action," he said, fervently, and arm-in-arm they re-entered the house. "She is a grand woman;" he told him­ self, to ask no love. "I have none to give." But as he saw her to her carriage he tried to slill the strange warmth at his heart, and pacing his room wakefully that night, he said, "But, how wonderful a per­ son for one 60 young;" and the sudden thought of her repulse when he would have taken her to his bo«om and lavished caresses upon her, made him smile gravely, even while the sweetness of the conception amazed and startled him. "She was right to admit no semblance of love--to avoid even the appearance of evil," he decided with a bitter smile. • • • - * * Dawning spring, with continuous fogs and dreary days of interminable rain; a shrouded 6ky leaden and cold, and a sullen sun that obstinately refused to shine for weeks together, the time of all others to send the spirits far below zero and cover the sunniest brow with gloom. "It must be the weather," reasoned Mar­ guerite, "that so oppresses Vance. He lias always been genial and cheery since oUr marriage until these few past dark days. Perhaps to-night's gayeties may revive his spirits." She sighed as she spoke, but she smiled a moment later, recalling her vain attempts to cheer him that afternoon; to rouse him from his despondency. Books, music, her own merry chatter, one and all bad failed, as never before. All day long his eyes had followed her with a yearning, wistful dis­ satisfaction and restless longing, and she, as she hurriedly dressed, kept stilling her heart's tumultuous throbs, which fore­ warned her of a coming joy. "How do I look, Vance?" She stood, a half hour later, blushing nnder her husband's scrutiny, robed in white, for which, since he had known Mar­ guerite, his admiration amounted almost to a mania. Vance came forward, his face alight with proud smiles, the first she had seen that day. "Beautiful, beautiful," he murmured, as his eyes swept the perfect figure in its robe of shimmering satin from head to foot. It was seeded with matchless pearls all over the half-high corsage, which glittered also with a softened light upon the sleeve that lav open, discerning the lovely bare arm; fragrant lilies drooped at her throat, and a superb diamond cross-- her only jewel--blazed upon her., neck, held by a white velvet ribbon. "My wife." Such intense yearning was in his eyes, such lingering devotion in his tone as he bent over her, that she shrank away at his question. "How long have we been married?" "Six months last Tuesday," said Mar­ guerite with smiling promptitude. "And vou are--" , "Nineteen to-morrow. Do you not re­ member our party?" She fitted her glove with exactness, her eyes downcast, a flush creeping to her cheek under his persistent gaze. "You--you--Marguerite, tell me, sweet child, you do not yet regret your mar­ riage?" Such intensity as tremblfd tone! "Not unless you do;* her eyes were dewy--a tremor crept into her tone, but she met her husband's look bsavely. "Yon an satisfied, Yance? Areyqu t«t?» "'No." i like that, r of all love apd toy, the satisfies no sot& gives His stem reply startled her; she Raised her white, pained face in startied wonder. "Don't look at me "" " ' " ' ~ went on; "the Giver . „ Author of all Love satisfies no heart peace that cannot lovt antl be loved." "And I--I begin to believe I have a heart such as it is. Pardon me. Dear, 6hall I fasten your glove?" Abruptly breaking off, he closed the long glove over the fair, round arm, and bend­ ing down, said tenderly: "You are my joy and blessing. The man would tire or Paradise who wearied of yon." , And he drew her dainty cloak closer about her and fastened her white gossa­ mer, bending his head to hear her faint reproof. "Vance, Vance, you are forgetting the compact, are you not?" For answer, as he lifted her to the car­ riage he strained her to his heart in a tense, passionfnl way, then entering it he re­ sumed his usual friendly courtesy, from which to-day he had lapsed for the first time. Such an evening that was to Marguerite! Shs never remembered such triumphs. She was petted and praised, envied and ad­ mired, and she sang as never before. Her chair was surrounded by a miniature court, and her husband, one of the circle, lingered at her side. So carefully he guarded her from the April mi6t as they took their seats in the carriage to return, that cbe moved to the farther side of the seat. "Are you tired?" he questioned eagerly, as he tried to put a supporting arm about her and draw her to him. But with averted eyes, in whioh the- tears tLreatened ominously to swell, she gently withdrew. "Forgive me," she said kindly; "you are forgetting your promise, Vance," and without another word he dropped his arm as if she had struck him and turned quickly from her,, • • * "Marie said you wanted me." Marguerite 6tood in the library an hour later in her loose dressing-gown, her fair hair all about her like a veil. She looked surprised, curious. "I was about to re­ tire," she said, repeating her first words, and searching his face, whose pallor dis­ mayed her. "Tell me what I can do?"--lifting her pure, questioning eyes to his. "Are you ill, Vance; do yon want me?" She came close to his side, as he sat with bowed head, her face alight with womanly sympathy. "Wantyou, yes!"--he lifted a haggard countenance and tried to smile--"more than anything in this wretched world. I am so miserable. I repent the wrong I have done yon so bitterly. W ill you forgive me, my 6weet wife, that I was so cowardly as to ask a woman like you to bear my name, when I offered one so lovable, 6o lovely, no love?--no heart with the hand?" "I have nothing to forgive, Vance. I took yon on your own terms. You never deceived me. You were honest, my hus­ band: why distress yourself?" said* Mar­ guerite, gently, soothingly. "Why do you feel thus to-night? Have I made you un­ happy? I have tried to please you. Are you sorry I granted your wish and married yoti? Don't, O Vance; don't loQk like that Tell me what you want me to do." "Love me!" he cried, passionate.. standing erect, his arms outstretched,'^ light like white flame over his face, tears in his handsome eyes. "I believed I ad­ mired your iciness; now I implore you to nestle at my heart, the bloom and perfume of my existence. You are all you prom­ ised, no man ever knew a sweeter friend; but I want you, darling, for my own wife. I love you with a love that dooms all else to oblivion. Come!" "I--I thought, Mr. Effingliam, that you wanted a true friend, only," returned Mar­ guerite, gravely, but with a laugh in her eyes, after he had swept her tnmultuonsly into his arms and poured out his soul in lavish, rapturous kisses, upon her lips. "Don't tease me, love," he begged, a shadow creeping into his eyes, and dying away as she kissed his broad forehead, where 60 many silver threads had gath­ ered, his handsome lips, his sorrowful eyelids. "Ah, my wife, you wound enly to heal," he concluded, joyously, at the un­ expected caress; "you knew me better than I knew myself, and by and by you will love me." "I--I am afraid so, Bine Beard," fal­ tered Marguerite, hiding her face in his neck, "inasmuch as I did all the time, and--" archly evading another impending torrent of caresses, "I knew so noble*a heart could not wholly die; that some day, by patience. I should enter its secret chamber. I hold the key to its inner por­ tals, Sir Ogre, and I shall Carry it to the end of time. Submarine Boats. The problem of submarine naviga­ tion concerning which M. Verne ro­ manced fourteen years ago, may be now regarded as completely solved, and the clever structure imagined by the novelist is far surpassed in ingenuity by the actual vessels designed and built by M. Nordenfelt, a Danish inventor, and Mr. J. F. Waddington, of Birken­ head, England. The Nordenfelt vessel is run by steam, and the Waddington boat by electricity. The former is cigar-shaped, steel-plated, sixty-four feet in length, twelve feet beam, and eleven feet deep. Two propellers working in a vertical direction supply the sinking force, and a system of bal­ anced rudders keeps the boat in a hori­ zontal position. The steam is supplied by a marine boiler for traveling on the surface, and is stored up for moving under water. The crew live in the air space in the hull, which is sufficijgit to sustain four men six hours. Thilfy boat has remained under water over an hour at a time without inconvenience to the men, and has been successfully oper­ ated at a depth of sixteen feet. She has been run 150 miles on the surface, without re-coaling, at»maximum speei of eight knots, and under water (sixteen miles at a maximum speed of three knots. Although this is comparatively a low rate of speed, the vessel is re­ garded as a complete success. Mr. iVaddington's boat is also cigar-shaped, but smaller than the other, being thirty- seven feet long and six inches in diameter at the center, tapering off to the pointed ends. A tower is mounted on the boat, and her depth of immer­ sion below the water surface is regulated by external inclined planes, placed one on either side and controlled from within. 8he is fitted with a rudder placed aft, and a self-acting arrange­ ment serves to keep the vessel in its horizontal position. She is manned by a crew of two men, and a supply of com­ pressed air is provided for occasions when the boat remains submerged for any length of time. The motive power is electricity, which is stored on board in fifty cells. These drive a screw-propeller, and the charge they carry is sufficient to propel the boat for ten hours at a speed of nearly nine knots an hour, either below the water or on its surface. The cells also supply light through glow lamps, and drive a pump for emptying the water-ballast tanks, which are filled for submerging the boats. The vessel has been givdtt several trials near Liverpool, Eng., with results that are declared higtiy satisfactory.--Inter Ocean. * * T -- flj THHTH--WSS Tl»oee who suffer from disorder or inaction of the liver will never get the upper hand of the unruly organ so long«e they me such Irrational remedies as blue pill, ealosnel, and podophyllta. But from the tried and popolar medicine. Hos- ftetter's Btamaeh Bitten, they may expect relief With a certainty of obtaining It The influence ct the Bitters upon the biliary gland is direct, powerful, and speedily felt. The relief attorded U not spasmodic, but complete and permanent. The sallowness of the skin, furred appearance Of the tongue, indigestion, coetivenese, head­ ache, nausea, pains through the right side and Shoulder, in fact every accompaniment of the ctetinate complaint, are entirely and promptly removed by a coarse of this inestimable medi­ cine, in behalf of which testimony is constantly •manating from every quarter, and tram au Classes of society. Eel*.- Now that the aversion to betrachia for food has been overcome to a certain degree, it is to be hoped that the indis­ putable delicacy of the eel as a palat­ able fish will be more generally recog­ nized. The Egyptians were the only ancient people who did not consider the eel fit food for kings and princes. In the light of present science the eel is shown to be a most cleanly feeder, living upon the spawn of fishes. It will touch nothing that is unclean or" tainted, and will at times nibble the plants that float upon the surface of the water. When lentils are ripe, of which they are especially fond, they have been seen on foraging expeditions in the fields adjacent to the river banks. Dr. Marshall Hall, to whom the science of medicine owes so much, discovered that eels possessed a "cau­ dal heart entirely independent of the pulmonary heart." It is supposed that this second heart causes tlie extraor­ dinary strength of the eel's tail. A comical incident befell me in Germany. There, fish of all sorts are sold alive, and are killed in the kitchen a few moments before they are to be cooked. Eels are considered a great dainty, and are sold at fifty and sixty cents a pound. Having received an unusually large fish from the neigh­ boring town, and wishing to keep it un­ til the next day, the cook took it in a large bucket with water to the hotel, that it might l>e kept in the "fish pot" in a running stream until wanted. A moment or two after she left the house with her shining, steel-blue burden, I heard a swish of water, and looking out of the window saw hi&.«elship seize the edge of the bucket bv his tail and throw himself over, as it were, by a "back hand-spring" on the ground. Now began a chase such as is seldom seen. The astonished cook attempted to catch the great creature, forgetting in her zeal that "slippery as an eel Was no vain adage. Away over the ha d road wriggled the fish, with the cook in frantic pursuit. By this time quite a number of persons joined in the chase, but to no purpose. Fearing to injure the creature, there was no force used, and fully fifteen minutes elapsed before the eel was captured and re­ placed in the bucket. The precaution was taken to cover the top of the buck­ et with % net, so that any further at­ tempt to escape was precluded.--New York Commercial Advertiser. When you viatt or leave New York City, save baggae* wp*»--m, and *3 carriage hire, and «top«*th« atrnmm Uafoa Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot <13 rooms, fitted op at a cost of one million dollars, $1 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Beets grant supplied with the beet Horse ears, stages, ami elevated rail­ road to ail dUppta mnliea can live better for i leas money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-olass hotot in the citr. , • Executioners' Sworis. Visitors to the Markisches museum in Berlin are always attracted by a cu­ rious collection of executioners' swords. In old t mes it was customary for these instruments of punishment to bear in­ scriptions, and most of the swo ds in the museum are inscribed. The oldest is 94 centimeters (H7 inches) long and 6 centimeters (2 2-5 inches) wide, and it bears the inscription: "If thou act in | the service of virtue, this sword shall ! not strike thee." The date is 1324. A second swi rd, rather smaller, is in­ scribed "Soli Deo gloria." A sword, ornamented with arabesques, bears on each side the inscription "Viva la just- ! ice. 1721. O. Z." Another sword is inscribed: "Fide sed cui vide soli Deo gloria." Upon one side of an ancient sword appears the inscription: "When I raise the sword I wish tho poor sin­ ner eternal life," while upon the other runs the injunction: "Keep from evil doing if thou wouldest escape this judge." The museum preserved the sword ^rhich is believed to li ive put an e d to^lhe life of the unfortunate friend of Frederick the Great, Von Kalte. On both side* runs the inscription: "When I raise my sword < a high may God give the poor sinner eternal life. Another interesting blade is inscribed: "This sword is whetted, and 1 am deputed by God and the authorities to punish wicked people." Ouida on Women. .Says Ouida: "If the Venus de Med­ ici could be animated into life, women would only remark that her waist was large." Oh, no, they wouldn't. They would shriek in chorus: "N asty thing! Why don't she put on some clothes! It's too awiully indecent." Then they would pro eed to balls and receptions with six inches of dress above the waist to the front and the rear, and a two- inch band across each shoulder. Ouida should at least be truthful.--St. Louis Magaeine. ^ 5 ;| Loss of Flesh and Strength, ;?i With poor appetite, and perhaps slight cough in morning, or on first lying down at night should be looked to in time. Persons afflicted with consumption are proverbially uncon­ scious of their real state. Most cases com­ mence with disordered liver, leading to bad digestion and imperfect assimilation of food-- hence the emaciatiou, or wasting of the flesh. It is a form of 6crofulou» disease, and is cur­ able by the use of that greatest of all blood- cleansing, anti-biUoua and invigorating com­ pounds, known as Dr. Pierce's 'Golden Med­ ical Discovery." APOSTROPHE to the boarding house chiekeo--"Hens, horrible shadow hens!"-- Boston Commercial Bulletin. Hew to San limey, And wo might also say--time and pain as MO, in our advice to good housekeepers and lsdioe generally. The great neoeeeity existing al­ ways to have a perfectly safe remedy con1 T fftP tlkA MIIAI atiJ »•••••• ient for the relief and prompt eure of the ail­ ments peculiar to woaaan--functional irregu­ larity, constant pains, and all the symptoms attendant upon uterine disorders--induoes us lpmnena Is frequently the result of a neglected sore throat, which can be cured by a single bottle of lied Star Cough Curo. l'rice, twenty-five cents a bottle. The Bell Punch. About the richest patent in the world is the bell punch that is used on street cars and for similar purposes the world over. The proprietor and patentee owns everv one of these tell-tales that exists in the world. He has never sold a single one, and his rental from them is something incalculable. Not a long time since he was in the city, and was asked if he was here on business. He replied: "Oh, no; there is not enough business here to cause me to come out for that My visit is for pleasure solely." At that time his income from the rent of the bell punch in this city amounted to $60 per diem, and is largely increased since. In many of the large Eastern and European cities his rent amounts to $.r>00 per day. In one city, where nearly all the street car system was controlled by a single company, the president and directors refused to adopt the punch, alleging that their employes were all honest. Finally the President went off on a vacation, and by a bribe of ,$25,000 the inventor induced the superintendent to give the patent a trial. In a single quarter the company's receipts in­ creased between $16,000 and $17,000, and the President and directors for­ gave the superintendent and surren­ dered unconditionally to the bell punch.--Alta California. Mr. G. E. Rear don, Baltimore, Md., Com­ missioner of Deeds for all the States, suf­ fered for a long time with rheumatism, which yielded promptly to St. Jacobs Oil. Another Preof that Time Altars All Things. Clara--Do you remember Jane Crud- lie, who went to school with us? Dora--The girl with the cat-eyes and pug-nose? "Yes." "Big mouth?" "Yes." "No chin, no. forehead, red hair, and complexion likd a half-baked brick?" "The same." "I should think I did. What a gawk she was. Heard of her lately ?" "Yes; she's the reigning American beauty in Paris."--Chicago Aete*. He Had Been There. "Well, ladies and gentlemen," said the Coney Island showman, "inside you will find the large <t elephant in the world. He is accustomed to bear the heaviest burdens without complaining. Wont you walk in, gentlemen?" "No,* replied one of the parties ad­ dressed, "I'm that sort of an animal myself. I'm a New York tax-payer, and when it comes to bearing burdens without complaining I've been in the business so long that I can give points to your elephant."--Texas Sifting#. "THERE is no such word as fall," except for the man who does not advertise. MANT imitators, but no equal, has Dr. Bage's Catarrh Remedy. A "fwii uwim uaoroen--UHITO. •o recommend strongly and vaqvaliiedhr Dr. > s "Favorite naacripfeon11--woman's rilMWI T* .ill AasM P-ioeoe'. .... . beet friend. It will save money, A CLBAR-BEADED, energetic - tallow chandler made his fortune one season. What time was it? When grease was in its prime. A^fEB^s Ague Cure is acknowledged to be the standard remedy for fever and agSr IT has been decided by a court of com­ petent jurisdiction that there is just as much croft upon the lana as there is upon the sea. BITTERS OsaMalag ROM with rail TWKTABU T01TICS, %alekly aad eeapletely CUURB sad SKIICU THE BLOOD. OalsktM theactteaef the UveraadKldasys« Ctientto ceaiplexiea, makte the skin ssiseth. Itiessast lalwthe teeth, caese fcsadathe, er predaae stlpattea--ALL OTHEBIIOM llNCOltt M. A|Mnsu<DnnWimqthinneGBMiililk ^jtae, D. M. HOTT. MorrU, m., «*y*: "I have and Iron Bitter* foe Impute Blood withUnbMt rwnlta, and I cheerfully recommend it." MA. WM. HAIMON. East St. Loan, HI, IUI: "I BMd Brown's Iron Bitten to purify weblooa with mast nllitutoi} Malts." Mas. C. D. COLSMAH, Jelfarson. Iowa, says: " t wan troubled with Marty. I u**d Brown'i Iron Bit- tonwith mueh benefit and can truthfully ncoa- _M*. O*o O. Vuraa,with Messra T. B. lUyl * Co.. Detroit. Mich., says: " I naed Brown's hoe Bit- tan for impure blood with the most effectire reeulta.** OenniM has above Trade Mark and erosaed red Uaae on wrapper. TakeaeeCker. Made only by nKOWN CHEMICAL CO.. BALTIMORE. M*. DR. RADWAY'S THE OSLY OEKUINE Sarsaparillian Resolvent! THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER For tile Cure of all Chronic Dleeaa««. sraorcu, ai<oon TAINTS, I HROMC RHr.vntma, run. COW VEIKK, HMTM HITIM, iflssnrrws, UMtllU MSILITV, MIIM.T AMI HLAUDEK (UlPUUn CUBED JVV Radway't Sarsaparillian Rtsalvaats Humors and Sores of all kind*, iiarllrular!? clironle dlM-anen of t> e HV jo, are cured with pn-at certainty by a course of liADWA Y'S HAKSAl'ARll.I.l AN. WeiueSB obstinate eases that have realKted nil other treatment. IF artesian well-borers could begin at the bottom and bore up, fewer mistakes would be made.--Neve Orleans Picayune. FOB removing dandruff and curing all scaln diseases, use Hall « Hair llenewer. MA Uisst Strike." Among the 160 kinds of Cloth Bound Dollar Yolumes given away bj the Rochester (N. T.) American Sural Home for every 91 subscrip­ tion to that great 8-page, 48-eoL, 10-year-old weekly (all 5x7 inches, from 900 to 900 pages, bound in cloth) are: Law Without Lawyers, Danelsoa's (Medieal) Family Cyclopedia, Counselor, Farm Cyclopedia, Boys' Useful Pastimes, Fanners' and Btoek- Five Years Before the breeders' Guide, Hast. Common Sense in Foul- People's His. at United ; try Yard, States, --orlrt Cyclopedia^^ Universal History ot ONLY hardsaed sinners do rest oontentod- ly in duress. ^ • "ROUGH ON ITCH." "Rough on Itch" cures skin humors, ring worm, tetter, salt rhenm,,froHted foot, chil­ blains, itch, ivy poison, barber'* itch. /iOc. Jan. "HOUGH ON CATAKKH" corrects offensive odors at once. Complete cure of worst chronic cases; also uuequaleu as gargle for diphtheria, sorj throat, foul breath. frJo. , "KOCUH ON PILES. ' Why snffer 1'lion ? Immediate relief and com­ plete care cuarnrileed. Ask for "Hough on Piles." Bare eure for itching, protruding, bleeding, at any form ot Piles. SOe. At Druggists' or Mailed. Twenty-four Hours to Live, From John Kuhn, Lafayette, Ind, who an­ nounces that he is now in "perfect health," we have the following: "One year ago I was, to all appearance, in the last stages of Consump­ tion. Our beet physicians gave my case up. I Anally got so low that our doctor said I could not live twenty-four hours. My friends then purchased a bottle of DR. WJt HALL'S BAL- 8AH FOll THE LUNGS, which benefited me. I continued until I took nine bottles. I am now in perfect health, having used no other medicine." •Rough on Rats" clears out Rats, Mica 18a "Rough on Corns, "bard or soft corns, bunions, Us. "Rough on Toothaelia " Instant relief. 15a WELL'S HAIR BALSAM, If gray, restores to original color. An elegant dressing, softens and beautifiea No oil nor grease. A Tonic Restorative. Storm hair com­ ing out; strengthens, cleanses, heals scalp, 5oc. "HOUOH ON HILK" FILLS start tho bile, relieve the bilious stomach, thick, aching head and overloaded bowels. Small gran­ ules, small dose, big results, pleasant in opera­ tion, don't disturb the stomach. 25c. PURE Cod liver Oil made from selected livers on the sea-shore by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York. It is absolutely pure and sweet Patients who have onoe taken it pre­ fer it to all othera Physicians have decided it superior to any of the other oils in market One pair of boots is saved every year by using Lyon's Patent Metallic Heel Btiffeners. Usa Frazor Axle Grease, 'tis the best In the world--will wear twice as long as any other. Ir a cough disturbs your sleep, take Piso's Curo for Consumption and rest wall. DIABETE8 CURED! _ _ LOUISIANA, Mo. Da. R*B*AT-D«ir Sir: I have tiseil mil your reme­ dies witli preat siircosK in practice, and tlie way I found favor with your Insolvent it cured uiu of Dialietes atter three vli> BiriauR liad riven me up. 1 detected a change in luy urii e in twolioura after the ttrwt dose, and three bottles rnn-d me. Your lrieud, THOS. Q. PAGE. A reiucJy composed of ingredient* of extraordinary medical properties, t-tmential to purify, heal, repair, and invigorate the broken-down and wasted body, bold by all Druggists. (1.00 a bottle. 1>IL ItAllWAV * CO., N. Y.. Ffoprtetore of Railway's Keady Relief and Mr. Kadwar's Mils. to 98 a day. Hample* worth tfjtO. TREE. Lines not under the horse'a feet. Address Brewster's Bafety lie In Holder, Holly, Mich. $5 IS^ISNIL rmail. RtoweUAOfc FACE, HANDS, FEET, U1 IMt Jap<r«KtiM<, lacMlas MS, aa* aU tt* Jtumhclliat, lacMlas DmlMMt, taMrflooua Hair, Hitt MoIh, V'arU, MMH, Frackl*, IM Nom . Mol», . . I Black lltMb. Snn, Plttiu ni IMr Imlnii ^ "rsi or. JOHN M, WOODBURY, 1*7 *. Alh.»r. V V. E.t'hM 1*10. S»nH l<«. tottw Milks NOM, A CM, trwhwy B||VCBT|CCBC or othen.wtio wiih to oumnte Ml WCIIII9UI9 this paper, ot obtain estimate* en advertising space whan in Chicago, will (ind it on fila at 45 to 49 Randolph St., the Advertising Agency ot LORD & THOMAS. "URK Guaranteed •v Dr. J. Ii. Mayer, 3! AN-h St. Phila- 'a.Eai-e at one*-. No ; tuouxatid* cured. Con- RUPTURE I 0|N-l'..tJ<tli or ueiay ; U I xult ition free. AtStandinliHcvi"p, l>ct oit.llich., l f>7, j k Commercial Hotel, Chics^o, 8 to lust of each month. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW Hove to axvitl pttfallt of ignorance and inditeretion, Ifoic to apply Jfome-Cure to aU form* of ditto**, How to eure Crmip.fUd Byti, Rupture, I'himortt.ttc., Hum to matt.b* happy in marridguthmeepHt* batiu Marrsy Bill Pub. Co., 199 E. SStk St.. Sew Terfc* fro<n tfec «lr»ityMt elastic sukelsac* In Nature's realm, vii.. <)i i! L*. The be»t rlwllc *bone In thl wtrld for DrtttM, Wai«4«, and Coi-MU. Th« only I>rrti Stiffraer lutlaM* for saaiinar wear. Perpi-pirallnr. and laatnlering do** act Injur* lL Made In »hit* and all a>lor«. art delifbtad with ft. For talo tvtrrwherr, at «boUalc and retail. Sanialri free. Addmi WAfeKKN KEATHFRBONK CO., Thr+t Oaks, MUh. MENTION Till* PAPER WHBM mmntnm ami 1 Faiess Family Miclie CThe OLDEST MEDICINE in the WORLD is probably Dr. Isaac Thompson's || slebratsi Eye Watell This article is a carefully prepared physician's pre­ scription, and has been in constant uwe for nearly a century, and notwithxtandiiiK the many other prepar­ ations that have been introduced into the market, the sale of this article is conntautty increavmp. If the di­ rection* are followed it will never fuil. W<- particu­ larly invite the attention of phyaiciaux to it" merits. John L* Thompson, 8OUM & Co., TROY, N. T. A Win of Meaty la a Joy Wwsw. - . . Z>«. T. FMLTX QOURAUITS Oriental Cream or Magical BeautHler Removes Tan. Pimples. Frec­ kles. Mothpat- ebee, Hash and 8kin diseases, and every ble­ mish ou beau­ ty, am! defies dstection. It ha» stood the i teat of thirty i years, and itt so | harm leas we taste it to be sure the prep­ aration Is prop­ erly made. Ac­ cept no coun­ terfeit of «mi- laruame. The di«tinKiiiiihed Dr. l A. sane said to a lady of the kaiu ion (a patient). 'Ax you UuUet will UJM them, I recommend •Gvuratui'» Ct etwi' a* the least harmful of all Skin preparationOne bottle will last sis months, using it every daj\ Al«o Poadre Subtile removes in out injury to ' Ho household should be without it. as well as enrtw Torpid Liver. Naueea, Colic. IsMgcttli fevers, gt*eple«eaees, Breath, and every disease' fay adisoidered stomach. Presents Hsadsche, JStien, Caattlpat oii, I. YjuUittMfe. Foal brought ott or aggravated iperflnous hair . HOFIUN8. Ml « . . ^ *.*• « < / ft '• ./ -Mi frSS-MNfr WEVMHr HAVJNQA- -PR WtM'l5^REA(?K lTJ5-A-5AF£- î5PEEDT •«^S,-CURE- toPRllM^EU:!!8 vw',7" ^ : " v • * PATENTS R. 8. ft A. 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