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» : < XKYEXGK OF KAIN-IN-THE-FACK. BY HEN1I W. LOKOFXI.I.3W. In that drool at* land and lone, - Where the Big Horn and Yellowstone • T? " Koar down their mountain path, By their flr«8 the Sioux chief* *. , f r « Muttered their woes and grieftft,; :' ' 4 • And the menace of their wrsllk, * Revenpe !"' cried Rain-in-the-Fao®, " Revenge upon all the race y,- ^ Of the White Chief with yellow hair r* And the mountains, U&rk and high. From their crags re-echoed th# ttj Of hia anger and deepair. In the meadow, spreading wid* By woodland and river side The Indian village stoo<l; All was silent as H dream, Have the rushing of the stream And the blue-Jay in the wood. In hie war-paint and his beads, I jke a bison among the reeds. In ambush the Sitting Bull T .y Tvith three thousand brave* Crouched in the clefts and oaves, Savage, unmerciful I Into the fatal snare The White Chief with ymOem hair And his three hundred men Dashed headlong, sword in hand; But of that gallant band Not one returned again. The sudden darkness of death Overwhelmed them, like the breath And n»ioke of a furnace fire ; • By the river's bank, »«d between The rocks of the ravine, They lay in their bloody attire. niffhi. lis flight, But the foeman fled in the And Rain-in-the-Face, in his : Uplifted high in air As a ghastly trophy bore The brave heart, that beat no more, Of the White Chief with yellow hair. - Whose was the right and the wrong ? Sing it. oh funeral song, With a voice that is full of tears, And bay that our broken faith Wrought all this ruin and scathe, In the Year of a Hundred Yean. -- T*M'« Companion. HARRIED PEOPLE. Mrs. Danford went to the depot to meet her husband when he came back from the throat^ West. Three years ago the firm had taken him from his deskas bookkeeper and sent him out on collecting tours; he had been coming and going ever since, but his wife never could get used to it. Before that she never left the house ex­ cept to go to church or market, but now she went to the depot whenever he was coming home, after even a day's absence, once going to Harrisburg, when the train was delayed there, in the middle of the night. Her children thought their moth­ er had all the good sense and even tem­ per there was in the world; but her hus­ band knew that nobody was so excitable and weak as she. It was curious to see how she could single out the stooped, red-headed little man in his linen duster among the thousands pouring out of the depot, and how, though she was one of the timidest women alive, Bhe would go straight to him, as though the men about her were so many dead trunks of trees. He always explained to hex how it was impossible for her to go with him now as slit' used to do on those little excursions when they were first married. " We haven't the money, lAzzy, and, then, who would stay with dren?" "Oh, yes, I know, Richard, that I can't go." Of course she knew, and he knew that she knew. But he explained it to her ! every time. H he noticed that her laugh i was not steady, or that her chin was! quivering, he would go on making droll | adventures out of every little happening of his journey, until she laughed in good earnest, and gradually the talk would dip back to those old jaunts of theirs--the time they went trout-fishing up to Nit- tany, or that week they spent in Balti­ more when they were snow-bound at Havre de Grace. Ellizabeth could re­ member every excuse the fat old con­ ductor made. She had traveled very little. rAia "Iii about ten years Charley will be in business, and I shall have made my pile, and -we will take Nelly and go to Europe." That was a standing joke between -Jftteni. But they seriously did hope that jfche t im<? might come when they could afford to stay together. " The worst pull 'will be over when Charley has his school­ ing," Danford would say, "and then I can save up and go into some little busi­ ness of my <j*ra. I'll never leave you then, Lizzy." They rode home together this evening ?in the horso cars, she carrying his over- '•.csai while he took the valise. The ride .long and the car crowded, for it was xaiimg. During the month that Dan­ ford had been gone, the family had taken possesion of a little house which was t© ho their home. He had long ag*o jjesdfied. one of those building societies by which, in Philadelphia, a man so easily wecures his own house. Instead of building a new one, he had, to please her, bought one of those old stone cof- tages on the outskirts of Germantown; its hip-roof and orchard of old apple- trees gave it a picturesque dignity be­ side the staring blocks of its pretentious neighbors. Mrs. Danford, in a hall-whisper, wa talking all the way, not giving her hus­ band a chance to say a word. " And the parlor carpet--you would be astonished to see how beautifully it fits ; but I wrote to you about that. And I took the shelves out of the linen closet ing to speak to you," he said, as he helped her (Vat of the oar. He was used to seeing Lizzy attract notice. He al­ ways thought of her as his middle-aged wife--Charley's mother--unless when people turned to look after her as she came into a car, and when he saw how singular and delicate was the beauty that still hung about }ierf and how A"" the smile in her pale face. "Whew! how it pours!" he said. "Step up on this porch, Betty, until I hoist the umbrella." Several other passengers had left tlie car, and stood huddled together, strug­ gling with their umbrellas and the wind. Next to Mrs. Danford was man in an oil­ skin coat. His mouth was muffled in it, and the pelting rain drowned every other sound, but it seemed as though he spoke to her. " To-morro-fr, at noon," she answered, " I shall be alone." " Now, little woman!" Danford bustled up, lugging the valise and flap­ ping umbrella. Usually she would have helped him with one of them, but now she hung heavily on his arm, lagging be­ hind. "Tired out, Betty?" Then, glancing down into her face, " You've been hav­ ing one of those old headaches. Did you see Dr. Thayer, as I^told you ?" "No, no. Dr. Thayer cannot help me. Besides, I have no headache. Come ; there is Nelly at the window." There were fires in every room of the little house, the square windows glowed through the tracery of vines, and the wet trunks of the trees reflected the lights through the rain. "See how pretty it is!" she said, stopping at the gate. " I told Charley to make an illumination. We won't think of expense--just for this night." "That was right." Danford pushed on hurriedly. He felt a choking at his They had worked so long for this home, and here, it was at last-- home. Afterward, when he tried to remember the occurrences of the evening, know­ ing that life or death depended on his ac­ curacy, he could recall little that was pe­ culiar in his wife's conduct She and the children had dragged him all over the house in a fever of delight and tri­ umph. There was not a closet or cranny left unexplored. Charley acted as show­ man, baby clung to her mother as usual, old black Sally went before with the candle, the proudest of all. His wife said little, as was her habit, except when alone with him. He remembered how some boys came to the door to make plans for to-morrow's holiday with Char­ ley, and how anxiously she asked who and what they were. "Why, it was only the other day," she said, with a quaver in her voice, " that Charley was a baby in my arms, and now he has his frisnds--his plans. He is going from us nit into the world. And I have no hold .•ti him--I have no hold on him !" '* Nonsense, Lizzy," Mr. Danford re- plied. " Never was a woman with as the' chil- I much influence over her children as you. ' We'll not let him leave Philadelphia until he's a man. The boy's safe enough when he can come home at night to such a mother as you." He remembered that she suddenly quailed at this, and was silent, in a way which seemed strange to him at the time. When the boy came back, Danford was sitting by the fire, his wife on a low stool beside him, her head on his knee. She had some childish, undignified ways, which somehow made the boy and his father look on her as a chum and a jolly good fellow. "Father," said Charley, with the self- assertion of 13, "I think that after this I shall go to meet you at the depot. It is hardly proper for mother to be out alone after dark." " No harm will come to me, my son," she said, smiling. " I don't want her to act as if she were a poor woman, sir, with nobody to look after her," he cried, hotly. " Ladies in fine houses don't go about alone, and mother is " " Mother hasher fine house, too, and we two stout fellows will take care of her," laughed Danford. But his wife's head lay still upon his knee, and she did not laugh nor look up. When the children were asleep he re­ membered that she began a strange talfe, which ho tried to check once or twice, of how her brothers (who were Kentuck- ians) had both gambled their property away. " It's in the blood, " she said. " If Charley should show any sign of it, you'll watch him, Richard, and be pa­ tient with him. A father ought to be as patient as God with his child." Now Danford was apt to be irritable with the lad, and his mother always had stood between them. Before he could answer, however, she went on. "I know you'll bear with Nelly's faults ; you un­ derstand women so well, Richard. No­ body could have borne with my folly as you did when we were first married. "Are you so wise now, then?" She laughed suddenly, and, drawing down his head, kissed him swiftly on both eyes, so as to shut them. She had always odd, unexpected ways of caress­ ing him, which used to make the over- worked little man feel himself fresh and andmade of it a work-room for Charley ! young again., --Ins books and printing-press and rub-1 " What do you talk in this way for to- bish, you know ; and the room with two ! night, Betty ? Let us be happy, coming home the first night. There's no need too look into the future to find misery." "No, there is no need. Maybe the misery will never come. God has al­ ways been so good to us !" The little joke seemed to have brought her by sud­ den reaction into her happy self again. When she had gone to her room with She turned quickly. " Oh, they will not need it. I shall be here to earn plenty more for them, and for you--I shall be here, Richard." She took up the sleeping child and walked about with it, straining it to her breast. Dan­ ford took it from her gently, and laid it down. " How white and fat her feet are!" he said, quietly. " Cover them up warm, mother. Now oome and sit down. You've been working too hard, mypoorgirl. " JDanford took Charley with him into town the next day. They were to come out together in the evening. Before noon Mrs. Danford sent Sally (an old black servant, who had been a slave and her nurse in Kentucky) out on an errand which would detain her for an hour or two. Nelly was asleep in her crib. As the clock was on the stroke of 12, the bell rang, and she admitted the man she had met the night before. They were closeted together for an hour; then they oame into the little parlor; The man, whose habitual manner to women savored of familiarity, was grave and awkwardly respectful; Mrs. Danford's face was bloodless. He poured out a glass of Water, and gave it to her. "You have overtaxed your strength in keeping vour secret, madam. In a man we would call such reticence heroic; but I find it not uncommon with women. I think they are prompted to it by--van­ ity," a disagreeable smile lurking on his mouth. She bowed courteously, but he knew she had not heard a word. " Be seated. Wait one moment, doctor; I have a question to ask of you." Dr. Prey sat down uncomfortably. Eminent specialist as he was, and used to dealing out life and death, " practic­ ing among the wealthiest classes (vide card), he could not feel at ease with this woman, whose clothes and house,; he had decided, could scarcely be called genteel. " She does not consider E. M. Prey a gentleman!" he blustered inwardly, struggling to act as though he stood on the same level with her. "A question, eh? Beally, now, my dear madam, better ask no questions at all. The wise patient leaves all details t6 his physician. You are exhausting nervous power--" "You have not given my disease a name to me." " You assuredly must have guessed it," roughly. " Mrs. Danford looked quickly to the door, into the fire, as though in search of something, She did not speak for a mo­ ment. "Cancer?" He nodded. " Incurable ?" He hesitated. The fire crackled, the ashes fell on the fender. A little stir in the next room was heard in the silence. " Mamma !" cried Nelly. " It is unusual for a patient to insist upon such questions. Measurably you take the case in your own hands." She raised her hand with a quick gest­ ure. "'If you will have it, then, I see no probability of cure. The case has pecul­ iar features which I have met with in no other. All that can be done is to put yourself in my hands. I can alleviate your sufferings. My large experience," etc., etc. He talked on until he observed that she did not hear him. Her eyes were fixed on the closed door behind which was her baby. When she spoke she did not look at him. " How long will it be?" "About four months, probably. Cer­ tainly not more than that." He began to draw on his gloves briskly. There was no demand for sympathy, the woman took it so coolly. " One moment. I have something more to ask." She had risen, and stood with her hands clasped over her head. The doctor's eye swept over her. " She's had remarkable beauty in her day; but her day is over," he thought. " Patients with this disease often-- I have heard that it was loathsome, horri­ ble beyond words. Shall I"-- she stopped, swallowing once or twice. Even in the man's vulgar face shone a sudden gleam of pity. But he was aahamed of it. " It is usually the case with patients in this disorder. [ see no reason to hope that you will escape,Mrs. Danford." "I thought so--I thought so," sharp­ ly. " Well, there is nothing to be done about it. Will you write me a general prescription--to alleviate pain, you said?" "You do not wish me to attend you regularly, then?"--with a surprised windows is going to be Nelly's- "Baby's!" Danford chuckled, know- that his wife, although baby was ing . w 4 years old, never slept until the little hands were nestled in her bosom. " She must have a room of her own soon. You will give her that one?-- promise me Richard. I have papered „ Ll^ „ it myself---pale blue and her bed is all j Nellv, Danford opened his desk to put ready, she said, anxiously, touching | away the papers in his valise. He found it in thorough order, all business docu- lou can arrange it as you cl.oose," i ments belonging to household affairs carelessly. How long tiiis ride out • ported and ticketed. is!" glancing impatiently at the drop ping rain outside. <rIt is long. We might have taken the steam-cars for once," hesitating. " iJo ; we must save every penny now. There are .the bills for moving to pay What is tne matter ?"--for a sudden change had oome over his wife's face as she looked over his shoulder. He turned sharply, and faced a tall man in an oil-skin coat, who was holding by a strap and watching Mrs. Danford with what appeared at the first glance to be a look of keen significance. It instantly deadened out of his face, and he turned to Danford a pair ef heavy black eves as unmeaning as the flabby, close-shaven cheeks below them. Why, I thought that fellow was go-1 rolls of notes. "The milk bill paid, andNott! Betty has worked hard while I was gone. Mrs. Danford had some way of adding to their income--leather-work or banner painting, we forget which. Beside these bills which she had paid there were two or three rolls of smaller notes, labeled, "For Charley's clothes for the winter," "For Nelly's." Danford laughed. His wife was usu­ ally the most unsystematic woman alive. But he went to his room in high good humor. She was standing by the crib, opening the little white petticoats which Nelly had taken off, and hanging them up to air. "You have provided for the children all winter," he cried, holding out the "I may be removed o*it of your reach," she said, evasively. When he had written the prescription and torn the leaf from his book, she handed him his fee, waited until he had left the house, and then went in to her baby. When old Sally came in presently, she heard Nelly laughing and talking for an hour or more, and wondered that her mother made no sound in reply. Late in the afternoon a telegram came from Danford: "Will be detained at office until 10 p. m. Shall keep Charley until I go out." Lizzy read it and laid it down. "That is better," she said. " If I saw them again, I could not go." For she had quite made up her mind now what she would do.- Her husband, her children, should not see her horrible end. The house, the children's clothes, were in perfect order. But she went from place to place with Nelly in her arms. It was singular that it was only of their practical loss when she was gone that she thought. "Sally can fcook; but who will keep the house, or make their clothes in the Bpring ? Charley will have nobody to tell his stories about school to when he comes home. And Richard--" But she forced that back. She sat down and rocked the child, looking by turns at its little feet, its hands, pushing back its hair. She thought of her at every age--a school­ girl--grown up. " She will have no mother--no moth­ er. ' She had been a devout, prayerful woman, but she could not pray now. It seemed to her as if God did not know what He was doing when He did ft"" thing. She made herself up a bundle of clothes, fastened it in a shawl-strap, and laid a letter she had written on her hus­ band's pillow. The evening had fallen cold and drizzling. She gave Nelly her supper, undressed and rocked her to sleep; then she laid her in her crib. Only yesterday she had been busy mak­ ing a oover for the crib and Charley's bed. It was all over now. She would never do anything for them again--never again. It was time now. She put on her hat and cloak, took up her bundle. There was a blotted exercise which Charley had left half finished that morning; she took that with her, and the stocking which Nelly had just worn, still warm, the creases in it which the little foot had made. Then she went to her husband's old chair, where he had sat every even­ ing for years, and knelt down by it. Sally, in the kitchen, thought she heard a call, " Richard! Richard!" but all was still. As Lizzy knelt there she did not pray. She meant to bid good-by to her hus­ band, but she could not. Would he ever forget her ?. Would he marry again ? These were her thoughts. There had been a certain Annie Ward, years ago, of whom Danford had made a friend. Elizabeth sprang to her feet and walked straight to the glass. "I hope he will be happy. He ought to marry, for the children s sake," she said, over and over. "But he will not remember me as loathsome. Annie Ward's face does not compare with mine now." This new sharp pang gave her sudden strength. She stayed alone with her child for a few moments, and then passed hastily out, stopping at the kitchen door. The old black woman was busy over the fire, singing a Methodist hymn. , " Goin' to de depot, Miss Betty ? Got on yoh wraps ?"--coming to the door. Elizabeth put her hand on the skinny fingers. " Take care of the children for me, Sally." 4' Sartin. Yoh'r not goin' fur ?"--with a vague alarm. But Elizabeth made no answer, and disappeared in the darkness. The letter which Danford found on his return contained these words: " I have an incurable disease. I have but a little while to live, and I will not stay to become an object of disgust and loathing to you and the children. Do not try to find me. You never can doit. My measures are too well taken. You shall know when I am dead." There was not a word of affection or of farewell. She could not trust herself to that. In these practical days, whatever a man's agony he acts promptly and prac­ tically. In a day Danford's friends had Bet all the machinery of advertising, tele­ graphing, detective agencies to work; but to no effect. They searched distant places first--the scenes of those old ex­ cursions of which she had talked so much, the homes of her schoolmates, the county in Kentucky from which she came. " She would not go out of sight of me and the children," poor Danford insisted; but nobody heeded him. Dr. Prey, for reasons of his own, never made himself known in the matter, and Elizabeth had had not hinted her disorder to the old family physician. '4 He would tell Rich­ ard," she said. Simply because she had taken no measures of precaution, she had left no clue whatever. Month after month passed. Danford was at work again at his desk. When work was over, he walked the streets until late at night. It seemed to him that every moment he would meet her or hear that she was dead. The horrible cruelty of her conduct to himself never occurred to him; it was only of heir, dying alone, perhaps in want, that he thought. The police reported to him, from time to time, their superhuman efforts. But we all know to what these efforts usually amount in cases of disap­ pearance. " Mrs. Danford knew the city was her best hiding-place. Nowhere could human being sink as securely out of sight as in the monoto­ nous blocks of Philadelphia, with their million of inhabitants. There was little that was distinctive about Lizzie A thin, oldish-looking woman, who wore a cap and spectacles, lodged in a room over a baker's shop ia. Kensington, and earned a dollar or two a week by slop­ work. She brushed against policemen every day. Sometime»at night, wrapped in a cloak, she carried a basket filled with with shoe-laces ami pins to the de­ pot, and sat in a dark corner until the passengers to Germsis&own had gone out. She usuallv fell asleep, when her sun-bonnet covered her face. Richard and Charley came to thai) depot once or twice. Danford saw the wan, white hand which held the basket, stopped, and then wentt on. Another night: Charley asked her ithe price of something, but she made no aaswer. After that she was mot able to leave the house for weeks, until one night, feeliag that the end was near, she took, her basket, covered herself in a large cloaifc, and found her way out to the de­ pot. She sat down outBade in the dark shadow made by a freight-car, and wait­ ed for the trains. Dtauford was in that last. Some people strapped him close beside her. She could have touched hi«a by putting out her hand. It was her husband whose clothfes brushed hers--the voem whose head had rested on her bosom. With feverish swiftness the old days, when he was ber lover came back to he*--all the romaace, the passion of her liEe ; she . was a girl, beautiful, beloved ; she heard that soft music again which sounds but once in a life. Then she was conscious of the horrible death whose grip was on her, of even the miserable cloak in which she was wrapped. It seemed to her cruel that when she was an outcast, her body given up to slow decay, Danford should be coming home from his work quietly, as though nothing had happened. He was dressed carefully, as usual; his whiskers neatly trimmed. Out of the car, too, stepped the very Annie Ward of whom she had thought so often lately. She stopped and shook hands with Richard. When he went up to his own house, his wife followed him. He opened the door with his latch-key, went in and shut it, she standing opposite. The wind blew fiercely the snow and sleet full in her face. The shades were not down in his room. She saw him turn up the light and stoop over the crib. Then he walked across the floor with a little white-gowned figure in his arms. "Nelly! Nelly!" cried her mother. She ran across the street; she raised her hand to beat upon the door, and then she turned quickly and went back to the depot, and so to town. A stout, gray- haired man followed her,, entered the same car, left it as she did, and, a mo­ ment after she reached her room over the bakery, was knocking at the door. She opened it • " Dr. Thayer!" " Yes, Lizzy. Any fee? I'm half frozen "--bustling forward to the stove, so as not to look at her. "You--you had no right to follow me "--standing at bay, her eyes blazing. "Oh my God! why didn't you come sooner ?" crouching on the floor beside him, sobbing over his hand like a hurt child. He said nothing for a while, and then gave a chuckle. " I said all along that tiie way to find you was to keep Nelly in sight. How often-have you seen her ? " Every"day when I could walk." "Lizzy," the doctor said, turning sharply on her, " who told you your dis­ ease was incurable ?" "Dr. Prey." " Damned quack! Now listen to me. I'm not going to, betray your secret. I don't want you to die at home, an object of disgust to your husband. I can un­ derstand that feeling fully. But I do mean to know if there is a necessity for your dying at all." " It's too late," said Lizzy. Of course it was not too late, or t.hiw history would never have been written. Nobody has a right to give unwary read­ ers a true bill o£ disease and death under cover «f a story. Lizzy's disorder took another name, and disappeared slowly under the old doctor's care. After the pink began to creep into her cheeks again, one spring morning he took her home, and placed her in her cnair by the fire, with Nelly in her arms, and there her two boys found her when they came home at night. . Shadwell, one of the partners in the Quaker firm which employs Danford, heard the current report of the affair, and was much scandalized by it. "It is eccentric conduct in a woman. I do not like eccentric women. I'll drop in there to-night and take a look at her. Better have no doubtful people connected with the house." The old Quaker dropped in to Dan­ ford's little parlor several evenings after that; he talked with Richard. Lizzy was busy helping Charley with his les­ sons. In the spring Danford received notice that the firm had given him a junior partnership. " Thee lias well deserved it of us," said Shadwell, meeting him that day. " If I were in thy place, Richard," he added, presently, 441 would give thy wife a journey. She is not rugged, and thee can well afford it now. Thee has a re­ markable woman for a wife, Richard " Miss Annie Ward was another person who thought Mrs. Danford a remarkable woman. 44 What a lovely face she has," she used to say, heartily. 44 Her hus­ band is such a plodding, commonplace little man, too. I wonder what she saw in him. The earthen and porcelain pitchers again." But Lizzy held Miss Ward at freezing distance. 441 know very well she had designs on you when I was gone, Rich­ ard," she says. 44 Such folly, Betty!" he cries, angrily. But, after all, it is her folly that he loves in Elizabeth, not her housekeeping abilities or good sense. They have started now on their jour­ ney into Kentucky, They are in no whit different outwardly from the other mid­ dle-aged, commonplace folk crowding the cars, equipped with the inevitable linen duster and shawl-straps and sachels. But at heart they are very much like two chil­ dren who set out to find the iairy pot of gold beneath the rainbow. They meet all the world coming this way, agog to see the Exposition; but they two go leis­ urely along, with their secret between them. Every trifle is an event, every chance meeting an adventure. They have left office and housekeeping and middle age behind them. It looks to other people like an ordinary railroad on which they travel, but they know that they are on tlieir way to the enchanted land. And, as they come nearer to the quiet hills behind the setting sun where they first knew each other, they are sure that they will find youth and its love and freshness tikere again, and will bring it all home with them.--Harper's Monthly for April. The Feat «f a Crazy tSymnost. "Seizor Miarasido," gymnast, eclipsed all his previous flights while delirious from fever at New York, the other even­ ing. He had been so violent that he was tied to his bed, but he broke the cords, and, with a shriek, turned a somersault through the third-story window and hung to the casement by his hands, his body swinging to and fro forty feet above the sidewalk, while he shouted to his friends: "Go away ! I'll climb to the moon!" Then he swayed his body with increas­ ing rapidity and let go, but he grasped the metal leader of the house, went up it hand over'hand with the agility of a mon­ key, and suddenly*plunged forward, land­ ing upon the top of a shutter on the top floor. He swung on the fragile blind, which it was feared would be forced from its hinges by his weight, and, sud­ denly leaping in the air, grasped the gut ter of the adjoining house. Away he went leaping from shutter to window-sill, until the top of the stoop was reached, when ho slid down one of the posts to the street, escaping in the darkness. He was finally caught, but died next day. Five Thousand Books Given Away for the Asking. 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Y., has received the Centennial and several gold medals, also 12 diplomas for his new process for hatching eggs and raising poultry by means of horse ma­ nure. This valuable discovery will give $500 yearly profit from 12 hens. Catalogues, circu­ lars and testimnoials sent on receipt of postage. For a Good Breaktest or Tea, Yon have often to make rolls, biscuit and such delicacies; in about ten minutes. It's easy and certain with DwLEY'S YEAST POWDER, the best of them alL Troubled housewife, here is one cause of your annoyances swept away. Full weight and the best material are the watchword of the manufacturers. Prof. Tjmdall'a Warning. .fill -ooncluding an address to the student*! of University College (London) Prof. TyndalL who is unquestionably one of the most inde­ fatigable brain-workers of our century, said, take care of your health. Imagine Hercules i1? a r°tten boat; what can he do there but by the very force of his stroke expe­ dite the rum of his craft. Take care of the mbers of your boat." The distinguished sci­ entist s advice is equally valuable to all workers. We are apt to devote all our energies to wield- C"c oars» 0iV surges fail ttrm and ia«i, but lew or us examine or even think of the condi- ouF, b°atB until the broken or rotten timbers suddenly give way and we find ourselves the victims of a calamity which could have been easily avoided by a little forethought. What ' began with a slight fracture, or perhaps even a careless exposure to disorganizing influences ends m the complete wreck of the lifeboat I he disease which began with a slight headache or undue exposure to cold terminates in death unless its progress be checked, and the disease remedied. The first symptoms, the heralds of --ises.se, give no indication of the suoagih of the on-coming foe, and the victim trusts that his old ally. Nature, will exterminate the inva­ der. But disease is an old general and accom­ plishes his most important movements in the night-time, and some bright morning finds hinn in possession of one of the strongest fortifica­ tions ; and when he has once gained a strong­ hold in the system Nature ignominiously turns traitor and secretly delivers up the whole phys­ ical armory to the invader. Like the wily poli­ tician, Nature is always on the strongest side, and the only way to insure her support is to keep your vital powers in the ascendant. Keep your strongest forts--the stomach and liveiv-- well guarded. Do not let the foe enter the ar­ terial highways, for he will qteal or destroy your richest merchandise and impoverish your king­ dom. To repulse the attacks of the foe voucau find no better ammunition than Dr. tierce's Family Medicines. (Full directions accompany each package.) His Pleasant Purgative Pellets are especially effective indefoudingthe stomach and liver. His Golden Medical Discovery for purifying the blood and arresting coughs and colds. If you wish to become familiar with the most approved system of defense in this war­ fare, and the history of the foe's method of in­ vasion, together with complete instructions for keeping your forces in martial order in time of peace, you can find no better manual of these tactics than "The People's Common Sense Med­ ical Adviser," by Ii. V. Pierce, M. D., of the World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. Sent to any address on receipt of $1.50. It contains over nine hundred pages, illustrated by two hundred and eighty-two engravings and colored plates, and elegantly bound in cloth and gilt. " A Guinea is Scarce Yellower Than the complexion of a person becomes who omits to regulate his liver when that important gland grows neglectful of its secretive function. Moreover, the stomach under such circum­ stances becomes disordered, the bowels are con­ stricted, pains in the side and between the shoulder blades are felt, the head aches, and the nervous system shares in the general de­ rangement. This concatenation of evils is," however, easily remediable with that matchless regulating tonic, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which insures the secretion aud flow of healthy bile, acts gently but effectually upon the bowels, and _ removes every symptom of nervous or di­ gestive trouble. I'he result is that renewed tone is given to the entire system ; the sallow, haggard appearance of the face to which bil­ iousness gives rise is superseded by the glow of health, and the frame gains in substance as well as vigor. Important. When you visit or leave New York stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central depot. 350 elegantly furnished rooms. Best restaurant in the city; prices moderate. Bag­ gage taken to and from said depot, free. Cars and stages pass the hotel for all parts of the city. AFTER an experience of over twenty- five years, many leading physicians acknowl­ edge that the Graefenberg MarshalTs Uterine Catholicon is the only known certain remedy for diseases to which women are subject. The Graefenljerg Vegetable Pills, the most popular remedy of the day for biliousness, headache, liver complaint and diseases of digestion. Sold by all druggists. Send for almanacs. Graefen- berg Co., New York. WE HAVE sold Hatch's Universal Cough Syrap for about four years, and it has steadily gained in popularity from its first introduction. We keep all the cough remedies considered " standard " in thw section. The sale of the Universal has become greater than any, perhaps greater than all others combined. We do not hesitate to recommend it. NICHOLS A LYTLE, Westbury, Cayuga Co., N.Y. Sold by Yan Sehaack, Stevenson & Reid, Chi­ cago,- DL - FOR ten cents we will send a scientific book of one hundred and sixty choice selections from the poetical works of 6vron, Moore and Burns; also, fifty Holeeted popular songs and other writings. The poetry of these authors is true to nature and the finest ever written. Des­ mond & Co., i)15 Race St., Philadelphia, Pa. MORE than 50 years have elapsed since Johnson's Anodym Liniment was first invented, during which time hundreds of thousands have been benefited by its use. Probably no article ever became so universally popular with all classes as Johnatmi'a Anodyne Liniment. No MORE SENDING Consumptives South! This new principle, Dr. J. H. McLean's Cough and Lung Healing Globules, cures all cases of Consumption, Asthma and Throat Diseases. Dr. J. IT. McLean, 314 Chestnut, St. T^ouiK, Trial boxes 2& cts., by mail. WHY SUFFER from Cold in the Head ? Dr. J. H. McLean's Catarrh Snuff soothes and cures. Infallible for Catarrh and any Sores in the Nose. Trial boxes 50 cts., by maiL Dr. J. H. McLean, St. Louis. PILLS which contain antimony, quinine and calomel should be avoided, as severe griping pains would be their only result. The safest, surest, and best pills are Parsons' Purgative or Ant i -B i l iou» PHuf . VEGETABLE Pulmonary Balsam, the great New England cure for coughs, colds and consump­ tion. Cutler Bros. & Co.'s, Boston, only genuine. A POSITIVE cure for rheumatism--Du- rang's Rheumatic Remedy. Send for oircular to Helphenstine & Bentley, Washington, D. C. RHEUMATISM cured at once by Durang'S Rheumatic Remedy. Send for circular to Hel­ phenstine & Bentley, Washington, D. C. PAINTERS AND GRAINEIIS, send for new prices of metallic graining tools, for " wiping out." J. J. Callow, Cleveland, O. DURANG'S RHEUMATIC REMEDT never fails to cure rheumatism. Sold by all druggists. BURNETT'S COCOAINE kills dandruff, al­ lays irritation and promotes the growth of hair. The National Iiife Insurance Company ef the United States of America. In marked contrast with tile unpleasant developfnsnts that have appeared recently, concerning certain compa­ nies, we are glad to note the results of an official exam­ ination of this Company. Although having a charter direct from Congress, it does not attempt to (Bsavow its responsibility to State insurance laws. By mutual agreement, on behalf of the State Depart­ ments of New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Michigan, the Hon. Samuel H. Rowe.of the latter State, commenced on January 8th a rigid examination of the books, assets and liabilities of this Company. Commi»- sioner Howe was assisted by Prof. Watson, the well-known al.ld v- H. Iott, Esq. 1 be detailed examination continued without interrup­ tion until the loth of February. The results are highly gratifying to the friends of the Company and the publio generally. On the 14th instant the Company received troin Commissioner Rowe a renewal of its authority to do business in Michigan,t-o^etliRr with his wHtten aasaranee th*t tin found the Company nlile to comply fully with the Btringent laws of his State. The entire reserre Is invested 'l United States bonds and flrst mortgages On the 31st of December. 187fi, it had a grand sufplo® ®bos>e all liabil­ ities of $l,418,KB.3o. Its recetptifin 1876 exceeded its disbursements by over $;tOU,000,although it paid in death claims nearly a quarter of « million,dollars. More per­ fect security could not be offered to inisurem, It ia almost unnecessary to suy that this 5 '.ompany ha® nothing to do with the National Capital Life Insurance Company of the District of Columbia. Unlike the latter concern,the National Life Insurance Company of the United States of America is not reinsuring other companies, and i$ not rrsjmnsibie in any way for the liabilities or policies of the ltepublic Life Insurance Company or any other corpora­ tion. Agents wanted in this Monty. _ _ Address J. 1L bVTUUk 8*C*J. Branch Office--Chiosco, 111.