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FARnEB JOHN. BT ITLU P. AIME^W. I Hd MlMwr to <1<sn M3« Fanner lota, •' " To fret or to bother m»-- , Meie 1 but rid of this mountain of wock, What a good man I coatd b«l • J *The pige gf<t out, and the cowi get la, WUer« they have no right to be; Alia the weeds iu the garden and In tit*eon*-- W by, (hey fairly frighten me. " it worries me out of temper quite, Aud well uigh out of my head. What a cur?e it is that a man must tafl Like this for his daily bread!" But Farmer John he broke bia leg, And was kept for many a week A hf.p'pfx and an idle mail-- Was he therefore mild and meek?. Kay; «t»t Tfilh the pain, and what with tha fret Of Kfttiftg with nothing to do-- ipd tlte ftrm-work botdbed hy a ihlftlw littd, He got very croaa and blue. He scolded the children and cuffed the dog That fawned about his knee; And tmaried at his wife, though aha waa kind And patient as wife could be. He RT^nrh'rd, and whined, and fretted, and Thawl.oe of the long day through. " T*fl] ruin ®ie quite," cried Fariuer loha. ..j, 'XV sit here with nothing to do I" His hurt R^t well, and he went to work, And a busier man than he, A happier man, or a plewauter man. You never would wish to aee. r £ ' pigs fpot eat, ltd he drove them back, "Whistling right merrily; Hi- uieuded the fence, and kept the cows Just where tbey ought to be. Weeding the g&rden was jolly fun, And ditto hoeing the corn. "I'm happier far," said Faroer John, •' Than I've been since I w«s born." Be learned a leaaon that lasts him well-- TwliS^Wt him his whole Mfe through. He frets l.ut seldom, and never because He hao plenty of work to do. "I tell you what," says Farmer John, ** They are either knavep or fools Who Song to be idle--for idle bands Are tile Devil's chosen toola." Engaged to Both ; ..I.- <*, the Tangle Wms StraightaMd. Dick Powers dropped his letter with a groan. It fell by the side of its long, slim envelope an the tuble. The en­ velope bore upon its back the faint im­ pression of a dove holding in its bill a OoatiHg ribbon, upon the ends of which was written, in a quaint, but fine little hand, the direction, " To Mr. Richard Powers." Again the jonng man groaned, throw­ ing his atms on the table and hiding his distressed face in his sleeve. The other occupant of the room sat "itti hie heels on the window-sill utd his it air tilted back at a iearful angle. He «moked, raised his eyebrows, looked at Ins miserable companion, and went on •rooking. 1The totter, half folding upon its pro- «fee and ladylike creases, lay faoe up- WHrd; and the lines betrayed the same •cmamtly girlish handwriting, all the •down strokes primly shaded, each capi- fancily twirled. " Dear Ricliaetd," it began, Quakerishly, and it said, tear- falty, "1 haven't heard from you for so fang." There was a touch of tender-. V^JWBS in every sentence, and a something \ thpt told how simple the writer must }0&ve been. Somehow it all gave rise to % pietrure of a sun-bonnet and a calico a pair of timidly affectionate eyes, sad a peaked chin with a dimple in it. the <next page the letter went on plaintivoly : " Grandpa i«n't very weli he had that sickness last win tor, id when he coughs so it shakes him al! rer. And oh ! Richard, I'm afraid he never going to be well again, suldn't it be dreadful to have him die i me alone without you ?" Thai foi­ led u. wealth of confidence in tlte MKmda,: "But, if grandpa should die, I V«ho*ld *ome straight to you, and oh, . fcnppy we would be then,- woeJdn't Cs. pandering on in this levin# Jtf'tni the end of the third page, the oloaed with: " Affectionately, your own Marthy."' By-and-by the young man in the tilted *Jphair, eying his friend meditatively, ! . .W,". letter don't seem to make you ' fcftppj; somehow, Dick." •"<Gh,_ M ! if you could only know what A, villain I am'!" was the rejoinder isr a muflied tone from the folds of his • • At this one eyebrow went up and one «ilme down. "Well, it's very likely." i$e looked lazily through the window at • group of loungers before the hotel op­ posite, And then continued indifferently: " What's it all about, anyhow ? " " Just read that! " was the reply, as Dick Dassed /' affectionately your own Marthy's " Ifttef toward him. Fidher re|d the letter through care­ fully. " I should say , this was a veny sweet little girl," 'hie aemarked, mus- ingly. "fjo-slie is, so she is!" said Dick, straightening up. "She's just the, Dick groaned in anguish of spirit. "And I've always told her I couldn't afford to come after her quite yet. Give it to me. yon can't hit too hard; but, oh 1 do help me out of this scrape." -'Help you out? Well, I should ihink you'd be glad to be in it. Just to think of that little Vermont blossom, tasting like cream and maple sugar, FQ warrant, if blossoms ever do taste ; just think of her dropping down any minute among all the furbelows, the frizzes, the paints and the powders of the ladies in our set!" "Oh, Lord! Al, don't harrow up a fellow so. I don't believe you imagine yet how deep I'm in for it. There's Kate Richardson, now, when you talk about flowers ; she's a tiger lily; she's a red cactus; she's a tea rose ; she's mag­ nificent ; she'8 gorgeous ; she's radiant. Ah, Al Fisher, can't you see how I love her?" " And site ?"--the question was like a flame springing from a bed of coals. " Well, I just thought I never was so in love in my life. 1 wasn't sure about her; but one night a month ago I was carried away. I forgot all about Mar­ thy, and I asked her to marry me. By George! she said she would, and I should have been too happy altogether if, after 5 • •'! 4Mr<uato*t'.niKl most confiding little thing. I tft>e world, is Marllm. That's whtft _ •• llfuet «o. She liaaii't a doubt that / Fja as Mifi blue, because she's truth all me way through herself. And I'm worse than u bjute, I am, AL*9 "if the state of affairs which now dawiK Open me dimly is «s it seems, 1 imtheriillink you are, nhyself." t, . "Couh^iud it! You're, io hanged cool •' it'riles ane,'*" said Dick, bludhing. " Just imugiE* yourself in my fJk>ce for an in- t>thfit. iSst years ago, wiien I was 19, I tfrsf fell In love, and I've b«en doing it eveif gistpe with decent integrals lietween. Little MftrtHy was 15, a little wfld rose, "TVrinotrt •pifl, just as shy, and as sweet and uuKcjiliistitiated as tkot letter, and All lier other letters seem to «e.y she is, Jit I feel like boy of 19 in love with er 0gf|in, *te t4Tc about it to yor.. Like '^rttitetfft tluit I was, with.a dollar in my pocket, and 'to prospe«te ahead of me, I up ud lolfi her how I-felt one day in tiie spring, Wiien the grass was so ,green and the birds were fiingiig so •loud--lull ad to iell.something -to some- t^>ody. leaked cip at me (Per a mo- iSaent" ^beh a> smile fuli of tears ^.cfi'njing l^r e.vetj, and snth a iuiik- l-rose hlaskfilowiiig upon ker.oli««Cis, &£X.jusitewfclierd^Tht up in a*v aiins "iEou Ivnd liissoi lier as I'd been longing to (io ever since i iir-aiinet her, weais before. Ever siitce ths.t she has eonaid- <eved herself engaged te me." •" A j>recocious youngster you w«#e at 19v I iiiMistaay, aada acquauiianoe !•' .. it mwit Jjjive been (Juart routed, bloMomed ;i •Mod iu six weeke.'" j " Wt-ll, make fun c* yav please," iui- j swered Uick, gloomily :; "you have the wlioLe etcry, anyhow, and you cau't | think vors« of me than I do of myself." i "No, Diet, I haven't by Auy means | all the gt&ff yet. As yoa're 25, I sup- ( pose thui little girl, now 21. has been ; for six years hoping and trusting in you. Very likely she's never permitted ^ aerseif anotlier lover. Why, it's pa- MtAtic I Every year she has thought, maybe, you would come back she has never had a anspieion of you ; she has dreamed about you «od prayed for yon. It's a burning shame! And look at yon, violently attached to 4rery pretty girl you see, ruling with then*, two at a'time, dancing with them, mtffeing love to them and dressing like a <v*ndy when you ought to be in the Gr^n mount­ ains, wearing butternut and carrying Marthy'» milk-pail." my first transport, little Marthy hadn't occurred to me again. Now I'm engaged to both of them, don't you see, and it's a deuce of a mess. I wouldn't give up Kate if I could, and I don't see how I could give up Marthy if I would." A silence fell between the two then, in "which the falling of a cigar ash might have echoed, md the twilight, stealing down, came like a veil over silence. * * . * . * , * ' * It was fully six months later when Kate Richardson walked into a sleeping- car at Omaha, followed by baggage and a porter. Her step was so quick and confident, her accoutrements were so appropriate, and the porter followed her with so deferential an air, that the pass­ engers, making themselves comfortable on either side the aisle, looked after her with great respect for her style. "Very common sort of people; shan't make the acquaintance of any of them," Miss Richardson thought as she observed them in a glance without seeming to. She paused near the middle of the car. " Put my things here," she said to the porter. "I have the whole section, and vou may pile them all on the front seat." She sat down upon the back seat, and spread her skirts comfortably, took out her silk handkerchief and wiped her lips, sighed as enduring a penance, smoothed the collar of her ulster, and thought what a bore crossing the conti­ nent was. The prominent setting of a ring visible under her glove made one forefinger noticeable, and it might have been tenderness or not, but she placed her elbow on the arm of the seat and rested her lips upon it. Iu the meantime the car was rapidly filling. There was much talk between passengers and porter, and from her square of window she could see piles of trunks being carted forward. By and by the cars gave a little shake and quiv­ er, as if rousing; then a jerk, a dizzy, gliding motion, and then Miss Richard­ son became conscious that some one spoke to her. It was a voice that was apolosy itself as it said: "Oh, if yon please, ma'am, it's a mis­ take, and I've made so many mistakes;" and it was almost a crv for help. It had color in its cheeks and its lips, a little, little mouth, and a shy light in its hazel eyes. It carried a portmanteau, and the porter towered over all with a patroniz­ ing air. Miss Richardson wi*sdisturbed. "But, porter,*' said she. " I "had engaged the whole of this section. I don't want any one in with me; I shall have no place for my things." The IIHZPI eyes were tnrned pi to on sly upon lier, but the voice -was tinged with a bit of ditmity, albeit touched with tears, as it answered: *' Never mind; per­ haps there's another half section unoc­ cupied." "They ain't no ctfher, tbont its a gentleman's iu the lower berth, if you don't mind that, miss,"" said the porter. T1hj distressed faoe was a picture. "Oh, very well," Miss Richardson in­ terposed, in a bored tone; "I suppose I shall I>e able 1O manage, and I dare say we shall be comfortable enough." The portmanteau was plaeed ns snug neighbor to the rtt.ylish traps hi the front seat, and the little woman made herself quite small in the corner furthest from her grand companion, never so much as attempting to steal ag ance from the win­ dow monopolized by Miss Richardson's ellww. But presently she leaned toward Miss Richardson and touched her shoul­ der softlv. " I'm verv much obliged to you," said dhe, gratefully, ^ srad I'm«aa-e T shan't incommode you .any tuKire than H can help."" Miss Richardson made her a gracious reply, and became interested in her l>ook. At length she yawned, and cftosed it. The afternoon was passing. The scene was rich in billowy green and stretching •plain, and across the green leveO the day was mellowing away to its elose, the sunlight falling upon it like winnowing •grain. Miss Richardson felt tl»e timid and confiding'little touch again upon her arm, and turned to meet with her hand­ some eyes the wistful, appealing ones iodking toward her. •" Would yo«ilet me go into the dining- room to dinner with you ?" asked the flute wise with a teemble of apprehension i» tit. *"t©h, yes." «eid Miss Bidkandson, smiling, "Id jest as lief you would a* not." "*3)h ! thank yen so much," was the reply, after a breath of relief. " I should neroi have courage to go in and eat alo&e. The waitere are in such a hurry, and I (don't know where to sit. and I never <eon find my <s wn car wfaMi X'n ready to come back." So it <"was that Mise Richardson <wtM to havf:.c. charge, and, somehow, so much clingiwg'limidity oppoted to hex own in­ dependence seemed a sert of bond. Be­ fore the rsecond day AVIS out she had given liar .dainty anid pretty companion a petting <fc! p or two, fdiert and content­ ed laughter rippled up between them, confidential undertones .of talk passed from one to ttlie other, and finally Mixs Richardson leaned forward And said : "I haven't any idea what your name if. I think it ought to be Posy, j •though." And then the small woatan laughed as ; she answered t " It isn't, though, it's Marthy--Marfcuy Fairchild/' And then the magnificent gorgeous, radiant Kate replied, just a& dhe would have caressed a bind : " Ah! and I shall oil I yon Marthy, then--shall I not ? " Kot one dim thought erf warning had she, not a single swift feeling of reeoil, not an idea that she vos hugging to her heart a rival--she who held sway among men with waltz, and tete-a-tete, and re­ portee. Bui under the feet of those who tread volcanoes the ground will sometimes break ; one cannot forever safely walk the edge of the precipice ; thin ice will part They were sitting side by side, as usual, one evening; the window framed a calm, mild star. Sitting BO silently, how strange if they had known each Was saying over and over the same name. The star was shining kindly--shining and twinkling like an eye mildly shrewd, and then it gave place to another and another, till the night sky seemed shaken full with a I us te red dust. Pres­ ently Miss Richardson began to hum a littl \ in her soft contralto, and Marthy's bird-like soprano took it up like a carol, under a breath. The men under the dull lamp in the further end of the car held their fingers on their cards for a moment, and the fretful baby ceased its crying. Two women hushed gossip- iug, and stared, and, under pretense of a flare, the passing porter turned down the flame in a lamp while he stopped to listen. " Marthy," said Miss Richardson, very gently, "where did you learn that ? It's such an old-fashioned, senti­ mental thing. I shouldn't wonder if it had been a love-song in 1776." " Oh, yes ; I shouldn't wonder if it had. 1 learned it way back in Ver­ mont--oh, how far away Yhat seems now ! I used to sing it with Richard-- but that seems only yesterday, though it has been years and years. I've never told you about Richard, have I ? His name is Powers, and it is he that I'm coming to California to meet. A long, long time ago, when I was such a little girl I scarcely rememlner it, some kind of sickness broke out, and mother and father took it and died. I can just see mother lying with a white flower in lier hand as they closed the coffin lid, and then in a day or two some woman said she wondered what was to be done with me. Somehow or other I got to grand­ pa's in among the hills, and the cows that gave me a living. Grandpa was just my mother to me over again, and there I stayed and was so happy with him. I have always been a little girl, and I never shall be anything else. When I am an old woman it seems as though I shall still be a little girl How it all came about I never could imagine, but it was just as the flowers came up in the spring, and as the fruit gets ripe in the fall. Grandpa said one morning he should have a young man come to help me with the milking, and before night I knew Richard ; and, somehow, I think I must have been ripening ready to know him, for my heart was all open to him from the first. He came up to me when it was twilight, and said he, 'Good evening, Marthy,' and then I seemed to fall into a flutter, and to feel that he seemed to know it. Oh! I never can tell you how Richard seemed to me. Every night, after that, as I went along the meadow path he came and said, ' Good evening, Marthy'--just so ; and I took to listening so hard for his com­ ing that my heart hurt me, and beat in my lips and cheeks, and all the time grandpa never knew. One day the sky was so blue and the air was so sweet I was certain that something was going to happen, and whether it was the birds singing or my heart beating out a rhythm I do not know, but in a moment I seemed to be standing among the flowers, for Richard had taken me in his arms. "Oh, life had just begun to me then, and not one day since, not even the day grandpa died, has been all sorrow; though dark days there have been, too, for in a few weeks more my Richard went away, BO that by ami by be could marry his * bud of a girl'--that's what he always called me ! Oh, how tender and true he is! What a grand place his heart is to live in! What a little queen he has crowned me ! His letters have been so loving and so sweet that one never came without carrying me through the ppaqe of heaven; and they were such sorry little ones I oould write in answer. So many noble women must have loved him. But he lias loved his little Marthy all the time. Ah, Miss Richardson," and her earnest, reverent tone deepened in its half whisper, "can you Imagine anything at all about what I tell you ?" "No," replied Miss Richardson, bit­ terly, " for there is no romance, not one grain <of it, in my life. The romance I had was spoiled just a short time ago. Keep your faith in your Richard, Mar­ thy, but I have none left tor man. You must go on now and let me know the rest." " I would rather die than lose my faith in Richard," said Marthy, tremulously. •' There is such a little more to tell," she went on then; " all the time his letters told me <he could not afford to come ; he was waiting in hopes, and, oh, if the time was to him as to me, then to both it was a dreary, dreary waiting. And grandpa began to fret; he wanted to see me married before he died. But one day, a month ago, he died, and left me alone with the cows. Then, to show Richard how much I yet loved him, and how little I cared whether he was rich or whether he was poor, I wrote him a glad letter, .that I was coming to him at last. And, oh, I am coming to him soon, soon. When I reach the end of my journey, there he will be to take me home--his home. I can almost see him now, so glad to find me again." She was moving restlessly about like the wind, aud her hands were winding their fingnr* about each other, her eyes shining, and her chin with its cleft pointing into A ray of the moon. "I think I know your Richard," said Miss Richardson, by-and-by. "He is a tall, handsome man with blonde eyes and hair, and a pleasant, bright way with him. You know I live in Sacra­ mento. too." In a few minutes the porter came, along again, aad Miss Richardson gave orders to have «nly the lower berth made, " for we will sleep together to nigkt, Marthy," she said, quietly. So all the night long she lay awoke, with her arms acound little Marthy. All the night long, thinking and think­ ing, she lay with tl»e sweet breath of the trusting child woman falling on her left hand-- the hand was iiow shorn of its sparkliug ring. "I leved him, too,"'she cried to her­ self, su&denly, and then her arm tight­ ened upen the child-heart beating under it, and the throb ran through her like an appeal for mercy. The cars tramped into and through tlie night, and by-and- by the morning came, as lair aud fresh as though Hate Richardson had not made a sacrifice the night before. When the train pulled into the depot at Sacrameixo, Miss Bichaaxlson espied Dick Powers waiting, and by his side was Al Fisher. He was haggard and in distress; he was thin, and had grown five years older than when she had left liim two montts before. He taw her, too, and ran elong by the window grasping the hand she held out to him. "Oh, Kate ! Kxte !" he pleaded, im­ ploringly. She went to the door to meet him, and drew him along the aisle. " Dick, here is Marthy," said she. He looked at the wild rose blooming so sweetly for him, and, as he saw tlu,- hazel eyes brimming up with drops, the falling corners of the shy mouth quiv­ ering, the old, sweet beauty grew upon him again, and a hungry smile dawned in his eyes. " Oh, Marthy ! little Martby !" he murmured. " At last, dear Richard, at last!" Bhe cried, and he gathered her in his arms. Al Fisher took Miss Richardson home, and she was gravely polite and smiling all the way. But it wai two years be­ fore she allowed him to draw the last drop of bitterness out of her heart; and, even then, she give the last kiss before her marriage to Baby Marthy. Powers never would think of calling her any name beside Kate Richardson. --Belgravia Magazine. Unlucky People., A genuinely unlucky man will entail as much misery upon those who are de­ pendent upon or associated with him as a genuinely wicked one. They can never be relied upon. Their speculations turn out ill when those of stupider men succeed. Their inventions are just a little anticipated by those they never heard of. Their books or plays do not become popular. Their crops are sure to be injured by the floods or the tornadoes ; their vessels to be wrecked or burned ; their houses consumed within the twenty-four hours after the insurance policy had expired, or the day before they had resolved to take one out. Judges are sure to rule adversely to their interests; juries always bring in verdicts against them. Their' letters are certain to go astray ; their baggage or express packages to be lost or stolen. It is they who are always looking for their ^missing knives, and are constantly won­ dering where their hats and umbrellas have gone to. The money they put into their pocket-books, or the pocket-books tliey put into their pockets, mysteriously disappear. Even when they desire to be prudent, and, with considerable sacrifice and pains, buy their potatoes, their coal and other stores in advance at reduced rates, the prioes of the succeeding winter invariably fall below what they have paid. They are to l>e dreaded as Jonah was •l'eaded. The boughs of trees they ciimb always break; the boats they row or sail always capsize. The train" they take is by no means to be exf ected at its terminus on time, and, even if late, should cause gratitude that it get there at all Or, if they are not the victims, they are the authors of all sorts of invol­ untary mischief. Altogether, shrewd old Rothschild was wise when he coun­ seled his sons to "avoid unlucky men." [From the Bottle Creek (Mich.) Daily Journal.] UPON being spoken to concerning St Jacobs Oil, our fellow townsman, Mr. Theo­ dore Wake lee, said: 1 had been suffering with rheumatism, and obtained the greatest relief from the use of St Jacobs Oil. It has also been used in my family for 6ome time, and has never been lound to fail in giving prompt relief. A Day in Africa. I am not immodest enough to assume to speak for other readers, but for my own part I have become rather tired of African travelers. One always knows beforehand what they have iu their pack, and precisely the way in which they wilt spread out their wares. The victorious struggle with the lion, and the hair­ breadth escape from death at the hands of the native chiefs, are matters easily anticipated; and that romantic young savage who attaches himself body and soul to the person of the adventurer, and invariably returns with him to civiliza­ tion--what a threadbare figure that is ! How well we know him under his viui- pns guttural aliases! Yet what would six months in Africa amount to without this lineal descendant of Robinson C»u- soe's man Friday ? I may seem to display*^ want of tact in disparaging Africttn travelers, being, in a humble fashion, an Africau traveler myself, but I have a rare advantage over everybody 3Vh0- tw <=ve* visited that country and written about it--I remained there only one day. The standpoint from which I view the dark continent is thus unique. If I had remained a year, or even n fortnight, I should have ceased to be original. I should naturally have killed my lion, tempted the appetite of the anthropophagite, jind brought home a little negro buy. 1 did none of tin se thing's, and, instead of <>ln>eurely falling in at the fail end of a long line of African explorers, 1 claim to staud quite alone, and in an attitude so wholly unconven­ tional as to entitle it to copyright. So far its I am aware, the idea never l>efore entered the head of any man to travel 5,000 miles to Africa, and then to stay there only twenty-four hours!--T. II. Aldrieh, in Harper'# Muyazhu. | From the South Bend Evening Register.] WHEN ccrtnin powers are claimed for an article, and everyinxly testifies that it docs more than is claimed for it, to gainsay its worth is useless. This is the substance of the ttt Jacobs Oil tocord. Storm Signal* or Married Life. A marriage has other uses than those of perjjetuating the race. In this great city there are thousands of refined, high- strung, intelligent, appreciative, but lone, desolate souk, for whom it would be an earthly paradise to rest ever so little in the sliude of a really peaceful household. But such peace must be genuine. It must not be any patched- up affair--any show of affection between husband and wile l>efore the guest's face and a snarl behind his back. It's just this lack of harmony l>etween husband and wife that makes so many households as a tomb to visit. It's a bat! sign when the wife's friends are hustled out of the husbaud s presence into another room. It's a bad sign when the husband's vis­ itors are not the wile's visitors, and vice versa. It's a bad sign if matters which interest the wife do not interest the hus • band, and rice verta. It's a bad sign when the lord of the manor looks down from his lofty elevation and speaks with a sneer, more or less subdued, of the " trivialities of fashion," and deems it beneath him to assist his wife in choos­ ing a dress pattern. Marriage partner­ ship must mean partnership in everv- thmg, or there's a social desert for one party or the other to travel over pretty often. We are talking of married life as we have seen it in the houses of great and little men ; in the houses of Judges aud Generals, of lawyers and politicians," among whom also both great and little men are to be found.--Graphic. Advertising Cheat*. It has become HO common to wiite the begin- uing of an elegant, iufe-rextiug article and tlieu j run it into norue advertisement that we avoid I all Kiicli cheats and simply call attention to the tnerita of Hop Hitters in as plain, honest terms j as possible, to indnoe people to give them one I trial, so no one who knows their value will ever ] u*e I' /'yth ng else.--Praovierwe Adoertiser. j A HCSBANL' living in one of the suburbs of New York brought home one after­ noon three red wagons and a rocking horse for the children. His wife wel­ comed him with delight, kissed hi in, and putting her face confidingly to his, whispered, "Darling, you have been flirtiug on the train a long while. Now that the girls have seen you with the horse aud wagons they know that you are a married man!" Smiling lovingly upon her, he replied, "I bought a ticket to the strawberry festival of old Mr. Jones, the Sunday School Superintend­ ent, and he brought them along in the train with him." DRU<K?ICT8 and phymeians recommend and prescribe Lrdia E. Pinkham'd Vegetable Com- pound tot all female complaints. GREAT GERHA* REMEDY von RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA, SCIATICA, LUMBAGO, BACKACHE, aouT, SORENESS OTTBI CHEST. SORE THROAT, Qurasx, SWELLINGS AXD SPRAINS, FROSTED FEET 1KB EARS, The Chameleon. Hie chameleon has been an object of curiosity the world over on account of its power to change its color, but its power to change its form is not less re­ markable. Sometimes it assumes the form of a disconsolate mouse sitting mum in a oorner; again, with back curved and tail erect, it resembles a crouching li n, which no doubt gave origin to its name chamal-feon, or ground lion. By inflating its sides it flattens its beHy, and, viewed from below, takes the form of an ovate leaf. The tail is the petiole, while the white, serrated line, which runs from nose to tip of tail over the belly, becomes the midrib. Still again throwing out the air, it draws in its sides, and at the same time ex­ pands itself upward and downward till it becomes as thin as a knife, and then, viewed from the side, it has the form of an ovate leaf without a midrib, but with the serrated line of the belly and the serrated back becoming the serrated edges of a leaf. When thus expanded it also has the extraordinary power to sway itself over so as to present an edge to an observer, thus greatly adding to its means of concealment. I have studied the changes of color with much interest. In its normal state of rest, it is of a light pea green, at times blend­ ing with yellow. The least excitement, airin handling, causes a change. The ground-work remains the same, but transverse stripes appear running across the back and nearly encircling the body in a full-grown animal, auml>ering about thirty, and extending from head to tip of tad. These- stripes occupy about the same amount of space as the ground­ work and are most susceptible of change of color. At first they become deeply green, and, if the excitement continues, gradually change to black. When placed upon a tree the ground-work be­ comes a deep green and the stripes a deeper green or black, and so long ay they remain on the trees the color does not change. The prevailing idea that they take on the peculiar hue of the foliage among which they happen to be, is, I think, erroneous. We have placed them on the scarlet leaves of the dracse- na and among the red flowers of the acacia with no change from the prevail­ ing green. A Losing Joke. A prominent physician of PittsDirrRh said Jokingly to a lady patient who WM complaining of her continued ill-health, and of his inability to euro her, "Try Hop Bitters!" The lady took it in earnest and used the Bitters, from which uhe obtained permanent health. She now laughs at the doctor for his joke, but he ia not ao well pleased with it, as it cost him a good patient.--1/nrriaburg Patriot. Wanted Pity >or Being a Fool. A well-known New York architect was urged by a i>ersou who was interested in a certain monument project of large pre- ! AIA LAR art- tensions to make a design for it. He ob- 1 #I||,0U TOl 4UC« jeeted. When further urged to name a sum he replied: "Well, I'll make vou a design for *1,000." " . "Isn't that a trifle steep?" said the invitcr. ' 'I don't charge 81,000 for merely mak- for an American monumental committee ilkVldtU II tW 1 CO I AM til I is a fool, and when I deliberately make a fool of myself, I want at least $1,000 for it." •OAZiSS, General Bo® Pain, TOOTH, EAR AV» HEADACHE, A» ILL OTHER PMNS ACXXKSL No Preparmtioa ea tarth equaltt ST. JAOOM On. as a ur% tram SIMPLE and CBIAP Extarna! Itomtdr. A trial Irat th# comparatively trifling outlay of AOCRKTS, and ob* suffering with p&m can hav* ehenp and positir® proof of «laim». PIWTIOKS UK ILKVES 1UK0CASI8. Mil KV Ml MUMMSTS AM HAIUS W MEM SHU. A. VOQELER & CO. JBaltimore, Md., V.B.JU Card Collectors! 1st. Bay seTen Hart Doriflliva' ELECTRIC SOAP«rtrar «r^ M. Aik Mai «• give JM m Mil of It. Sd. Hall m kla Mil ni jiw foil address. 4th. We will aiall YOU FRE^ •even beautiful cards, In six cotwf ort and |«Md, representing Shalt* speare's "Seven Ages of Han.'* L L. CRASH & CO., 116 South Fourth St., * PHILADELPHIA, PA. I to Ntadrata mt VmAc. THE SEW lib ntn.lK ot the 7S«w j>7lnn«l ?'«twrvi»t«ry mid ' i»ll«g«i •riaH Is lent fr« " So E. TOUBJSE, Bootmi, Mill. a fMk In your own town. Tares and |i outfit tr«*. Addiw H. HAIAKTT A Oo., Portland, Me DR. HfTNTKR, 103 State «t.,CMe«go. treat* «as-cecsfoU; Throat and l.unc Diseases by Inhalation. aiQ A WEEK. SU a dajr at home eanllj made. Oostlj 9'k outfit free. Address TRUE 4 Co., Angusta, Mat. 1JIO WAGES, rammer and iriate. Bsmplee Area Jt) National OoDrln<Oo.,SUOVr»ertla<Uaoti«t..Otiloaco ttC *n CQfl per day at home. Samples wo^h $& free. $0 10 9CU Address STINSOK * Co., Portland. Me 11,9 TI III i German Asthma Cure never fails. Triall IA.\ I If MB frve of Diu(i«(i>. or Dr. R.I I"" ' 11IIin SchiBmann (forstamp), St. Paul, Mlnn.l YOUNfi MEN mTnUi^aXd^fJ. guaraifteed'ay offices. Addrsas VAMEWTIMK BBo«..Jan«sTlUe.Wk CHOICE MISSOI:RI FAIOIM FOR NALB for what the improvement s cost. Title perfect. Abo, a partner with £1,000 wanted, to take a half interest in Mo-acre Lead farm. For circular* write A. 8. WOLCOTT, Keal Estate Agent, Fayette, Howard Co, Mo. Send the eddre*se« of 80 of your actjnaintmoes and 4(1 «-em» f<T(r<odh by mnil that retail for $10 (SU. This is *n honpst offer. If you want A fortune, don't let it eiip. Address ID. ,1. Hl.NKV, lt< i .27. Buffalo, X. V. C armilnt'sflls- II tor* of England. |\ i I'ce lSmo vols. IJ Ei)£. Literature. I I'I _ _ l'Jmo ml. bandsomefr TV mfsCew cloth; f-j.tioM for only iu rt*. V I F^*t. MANHATTAN BOOR CO., 1« W. l«th St., N.T. P.O. Box«MI Kow rra4y for Agents. Most ittirabii edition. I«*w •rtced. Millions are wauluj for It. Grand hardest for Agents. Particular® frtr. Outfit Mc. A«< «at«k~ Address UUBBAhi) BBOS.. Chicago, UL l.ook Out for Suddeu ('hnngct of woaHier, and guard against thorn by using Warner's Safe Kidney aud Liver Cure. IT is Htated that the Bank of France has almost entirely abandoned chemical tests in fnvor of the cumera for detect­ ing forgeries. The sensitive plate not only proclaims forthwith the doing of the eraser or petiknife, but frequently shows, under the bold figures of the forger, the sum originally borne on the check. So ready is the camera to detect ink marks that a earte-de-risite inclotted iu a letter may to the eye appear without hlenmh, while a copy of it in the cam­ era will probably exhibit traces of writ­ ing across the lace, where it has merely been in contact with the written page. GUAIID against fever and all malarial dioeaaea by using Kidney-Wort Colli Bicycle. A permanent practical rood vehicle, with which a person can riile three mile* M easily as he could walk one. Send 3-cent stamp for 24-page cata­logue. . THE POPE M-F-O CO- 5(14 Washington St, Boston, Mass. One Cent will buy ft |«iKtal card on wlileh to neml your addi _ and receive frw» (jxistage ptepsidi n li«i p»nu book on ••Tlir l.ivrr, lie IKneioim and their Trent* nicnt,^ including Malaria! troubles, Hondache, Dys­ pepsia, .Jaundice, r^nstipati'm, Riltouunees, etc. Address I)K. 8ANKORD. liS Broadway, New York. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, except during j the eight days it is annually inhabited j by Queen Victoria, and the four even- j ings in each season when it is devoted , to hospitality, remains empty and use­ less. The charming grounds are aban­ doned to the gardeners, aud the splen­ did collection of pictures are rarely looked upon except by housemaids. j Ladles, Attention. We want intelligent, energetic lady apontu to j sell to women on!;/, an article of real hygienic merit. For pnrtu'utarn mi l liberal terras, ad­ dress WAONEU & Co., Chicago, ilL Bed'HUftK, Roachrs, rats, cat«, mice. ants, flieti, inflects, cleared out j by "Hough on Rata." 15c., druggists. I CELLULOID EYE-GLASSES. Representing the choicest-selected TcrtoiM> Shell and Amber. The lightest, handsomest, and strongest known. Sold by Opticians ana Jewelers. Made bv the SPENOER OPTICA! M'F'O CO., 13 Maiden Lane, New Ycfrk. If Ton are a man 1 of bOEiness,weak­ ened by the strain of your dutiee avoid ctlmulantaand use Hop Bitters. If yota are jonng and I discretion or dtssipal ried or oinfrle, old or I poor health or languish I KSJ, rely on tfopj Whoever youare. whenever yon feel . that your system needs clmnsinjr, ton-1 inor or stimulating, without intoxicating, I take Hop Bitter*. Have yon rfjs- jtvpjti'a, or uritiarueomr ptahit, disease f the Mood, liver er nerves I Tow wl 11 6>e cum? ifyoanm Mop Bitters Fit yoaarea 'BUI Of M terstoilingc nifffct work, to res­ tore brain nervsaaa I waste, w Hop B. I suffering from az>y te- I tion ; if you are m&r- I young, suffering from ling on a bad at tick- 1 Bitters. Thousands die i nually from some Ussss't have b««n prevented I by a timely useef HopBltters If yon are • ply weak and low spirited, try iti It may save your life. It has saved hun­ dred* HOP NEVER IFAILI OwU O. is an absolute and lrresista- Mecare for dnokeuMts, nee of opium, tobaeeo,or narvotica. Sold bydrag<- Cists, Send tor Circular. mn, us mut at. | a TmtH,Cu. The great I.lhmrv sf rilTenml now compk'taj, Inrsp-tyiM* edition, mart _ . , •vei}'d<*ii.irtra«*nt of human knowledge, aontfrper larger tlun Chambers' Encyclopedia. 10 per eis. I) CYCLOPEDIA WAR. I KuwNtf ? iZhSfen mere fraction (if tln>ir c"st. Fifteen lanr* Octavo Vat umt'p, nearly 13,t W P*ko*, complete in cloth binding^ 81'? ; <» li ili Una-si*, 9«0; in tull library theep,marbtal m!frr-*s $2«•"?>. Special t«nns to cluhe. $10,000 KfcWARO log tlio snonfVa of ,lul and Aucust. Send quirk for sp-cimen ("tees «n<i ti particulars to AMERICAN BOOK KXIHANO JOHN li. ALDEN, Usmerr, 764 Bn.adway, New Yoi HICA60 PITTS! erty-MMb «"sob of H» oM TCH able * Mta" Separator*, the onto ftt^gkas achlne now m the market adapted lor ] BUCK HAWK 00NTEASTED EDITIONS OF T| 00NTBA BIBLE REVISION _ w In use. Ujkttr 6rqfl and mere < motion Is reciprocal, oooseqnanUy will not i to piece*. rAwoMHTiSw Bisti thssn naz and otbsr ldiida of (rata. It to abei ttMlf. Turn* in its own length. H. L PITTS' SONS MFB. CO. Van*ft St. CHICAGO.ILL. EILERT'B EXTRACT or TAR AKD WIU> CHEBSY Las been u«ed for twr.utv yearn, and during that time hat< saved many verv valuable Uvea. Do not neglect a cough or cofd until it ia too late. Try (bin excellent remedy, and we are lure you wiU be convinced of its merits. Chronic Coughs, and even Consumptives, are cured b? following the directions. Every bottle is war- rented to rive satisfaction. Prepared fyr tbe Enunert Proprietaxy Co., Chicago. Bold by all good druggists. [ INDIGESTION, dvspepeiH, uervon* prostration j and all forms of genera! debility relieved by i taking MKNSMAN S PEPTONIZED BEEF TONIC, tbe only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-mak­ ing, force-generating and life-suKtaining prop­ erties; is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions, whether the rebult of exhaustion, nervous pros­ tration overwork or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary campli'iintx. Cas­ well, Hazard A Co.. proprietors. New York. UNCLE SAM'S CONDITION POWDERS are rec­ ommended by stock-owners who have used J them us tbe Ixust Horse and Cattle Medicine to j be Lad. If the animal is Scraggy, Spiritless, or i has n<i appetite, these Powders are an excel­ lent remedy, and every owner of stock will do weli to try'them. They are prepared by tbe EnuiKTt Proprietary Co., Chicago, 111 , a very 'eliable firm, and sold by all good druggist*. SOLID men admire the beautiful, and thie ac­ count* in some measure forth* thousand.-* upon thousands of bottles of Cerboline, the deodor­ ized petroleum hair renewer and dressing, which have* been nold yearly since its invention, by Messrs. Kennedy & Co*., of Pittsburgh, Pa. YOFB Stomach and Liver are the offspring of nearly all your ills. Why in the name of com- i mon sense don't you use Da. HOLKAN'S Stomach ; Pad, Plaster and Medicated Foot-baths? They ' won't fail you. i I VuMimnc rh<> nit. #in«t new vemnn*. in mint*. Ttie bent urn! illustrated edit urn of the Revised New Testament. Million* of |»e >|>2e ai€> waiting for it Don otb*deceived l>y the Oie»j> John publisherso? Inferior•dttinn*. See th*t the copy you l>uy contain* t## fine enirrAVinc* on steel nnd wood. This is the only f<m. trotted tdih'on, and Airenta are coining money gelling it Aire fit* Wanted. Bend for circular* and » x?ra trrmt. •ddma NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., Chicago, IlL ELEYW0ST ITHE ONLY MEDICINE » EITHER MOl »D OK DUT FOBS Tbnt Acts nt (lie •nine lime en [ TEE MVSR, TBS BOWELS,\ IW9 TSS KiDREYS. I WHY ARE WE; SICK? I Becaiut ire allow thtu great organ* to I I become cloqrjed or torpid, and jvjuonoiit j I humors are therefore forced into the liocd [ I that thouldbe expelled liaturuily. KIDNEY-WORT WILL SURELY CURE |KIDNEY DISEASES,' LI¥EK COMPLAINT8,l [PILES, e«N8TSIpATi«M. II KIN ART j DIBEASKS, weaknesses, •Ml» NEUVOt'8 UI80UDEUS, | by earning free action qf th**e organ* and| I reitoring their power to throw off ditto*. Wbjr suffer Itilioan pain* end achrat I IVIiy tormented irith Piles, Conitlpatioat I I ITIijr frightened over disordered Kidneys! | Why endure nervoes or sick head aches I | Use KIDNEY-WORTanrf rtjoice in health. It is put ap in Dry Vegetable Form, in tin I [cansonepackagcof which makes tix uuarts c(| | medicine. Also inlJquidFora, very ConeeB-l ! trated, (or tliose that cannot reariiiy prep&re it. I CTlt acts with equal efficiency In either form. I | GET IT OF YOUU DRUGGIST. ITJCE, *1.00 f WELLS, KICHAUDSOM it Co.. Prop'c, I (Will send the dry post-paid.) BCTUXtGTOS, TT. I If you are Interested In the inqniry--Which is the best Liniment for Man and Beast?--this is the answer,at­ tested by two generations: the MEXICAN MUSTANG LINI­ MENT, Ike reason is sim­ ple. It penetrates every sore, woond, or lameness, to the very bone, and drives oat all Inflammatory and morbid mat­ ter. It41'goes to the root" of the trouble, and never bib to core In double quick tine. ILECTH1C LIGHTIIIS. EF--NERVOITS DEBILITY, Lost Manhood. 1 ,' ii i impHirnd ^>«ers t-ured by MATUKWS lmuroved Klectit»-Mairneiic Belt snd Abeorben* Pad Ci-mhint-d; siro of Had. TilO inchea--foar Umt-f t-r thin< t!nr«. Dn not rur.h'M •lil^ l!<*lt»«no:i you cim ic»t tb. UtwV uiproved for fc! " Wfclric Li«ht." a. 2* «olw iwiifer. sent free tmsealed ; Mailed. 6c. I>. S l» MATHEWS 1 CXX. M. 86 and ^ Filth Avenue, Chlc^o, Ilk a «r«M. b I O •» (a TUIOEt.-S. SIKSflulaiS nt •KTiGoaA ;b U» HA» •».-»'»-» *«»"» ua. s» iv- * - i^»f»s- EVERY farmer and teamster nhould know that Fraz< r axle greaseetinw i<ore neckn and scratches on Lorses. Buv it anywhere. WRITING TO ADTERTINEK8, plcaae amy y«« taw UM wlwnlw m» M in thia pi>iier> W'Vi- 1'REE 1H SH ! Prof. Bice's new Mostc-teaching fysteni is 24 times njnre rapid than all other correct ntothods combineil. Oiyan, Piano, Guitar snd Voice at slKlit. Two books free! Address THE G. S. RICE 8YSTKM (X).. 443 State St., Chica^co. Agents wanted PETROLEUM JELLY SSff- KB8CIED FROM DEATH. William J.Cou«hlin,of SomerrUle, Mnsa., says: InUM fall of IKK I was taken with ble«dina of ths lnnsa, fol­ lowed by a saver* coach. I lost my appetite and flssh, and waa confined to ray bed. In 1877 I waa admitted to the hospital. Tbe doctors said I had a hole in my lung as big aa a half dollar. At one time a report went aronnd that I was dead. I ear* np hope, l.ut a friend loid me of DB. WILLIAM HATJ-'H BALAAM FOB THK Leva*. I got a bottle, when, to aqr surprise, I eommenoed to feel bet­ ter, and to-day I feei better than for three years past. I write this bopinc eveiy or.n afflicted with diseased tangs will take OB. WILLIAM HALL'S BALSAM^and be coo- rl.ioed tint CONBDMPTLOH CAW BE CCUED. I can poet lively say it has dune more good than ell tb# eUser uedi- cines 1 bars tat an amce ay liaiwa "Used and approved by the leading BHYH- CIAHS ©f EUROPE and ^unreina ^ The most Valuable Family Remedy known. " For tiu Trftnaat of wouroa, BUSJTS, SORES, CUTS, CHILBLAINS, sxnr DISEASES, BHEUKAXXSK, CATARRH, HEMORRHOIDS, Etc. Also for Coogbs, Coldi, Sere Tfcre&t, Croup wd Dipbtberia. «to, A3-Try them. 26 and 60 oent SIZM of all oar f A VI* JIEDAL AT THE PHIULDDJPHIA EXPOSTnON. ilLVKBUBAIiAVWV IbiNM "Articlea bom |M Y--nlinr tach aa Pomade TaidlB% Yawliso Cold Cms, Vasclise Oumkor m •aaelia*Ta&tSaiif% ansafMlsr to say staHaraaafe TAsruxs coNrscTmai An vmnbk: fttrm iag Taaeliaeiatnal^i. «5 CEST8 A BOX M*r€%