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1. MBSSfflfiHttSBSM <»UA Only; Aatthsyi 0oMMMin(lyik (iwra&t alL EW»| MOMKMlfttt fMtllttMikmnoht Wefontetl 'ababy's gravel 1 we grief by tte, MinwdMoBonbUT I know Ifenr they fell on this. ssfssaffi? oosnallagemfsrHlsdlad* ;|| * i Who"e fa made of stthf f"|)nly a baby's gravel [ 4: • Yet oft we aaay oome and sit w;, . JBy the little stone and thank Ood to oim -- We are nearer to Himfor it. WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS, r* . i> *• , "There is no natural phenomenon," says Prof. Yotfhg, "more interesting, more beautiful, than a total eclipse of the son. All tljlmgfc conspire to make - it of extreme interest. The slow but predicted and exactly timed approach ; of the moon upon the 8tin, the swift and inexorable passage of the dark disk of the moon across the disk of the son, the gradual darkening, the unnatural tints that discolor th® landscape, the coming of the shadow, the fright of the birds and beasts, and their sudden flight, and then, all at once, the instant blackening of the sky, and the outburst of the stars, and the oorona radiating out from behind the moon as a sort of silvery star in a sky perfectly calm and unchangeable, and the ruby gems that stud the disk of the moon; and then, after it is over, the sudden flash of light from the sun--all these things taken together constitute something which one who has seen it oannot possibly forget. This covering lljp of the sun and hiding of the illumina- tpon of our own atmosphere from us, enables us to study the surroundings of the sun and the space about it, afford- . ing us the means of investigating the Win's upper atmosphere, and the bodies circulating around the sun, thus giving us opportunities that we do not have at any other time. "Eclipses of the sun are caused by the interposition of the moon between the earth and the sun, while the eclip­ ses of the moon are caused by the in­ terposition of the earth between the moon and the sun. As the moon moves •round the earth once a month, she Would pass between us and the earth at every new moon, if it was not that her orbit is a little inclined to that of the earth. Usually she passes a little above or a little below the center of the sun; and, if the sun happens to be in that part of the sky where the moon's orbit crosses its path, then the moon will encroach upon the sun's disk, or oover it entirely, and we shall have an eelipse. There are but thirty-three days in each part of the year--two op­ posite portions of the year--within which the new moon is sure to bring an eclipse; and as the month is only thirty days long the moon cannot pass with­ out eclipsing the sun twice. There must be two eclipses of the sun every •ear. It always happens that, if we have two eclipses of the sun a month -- £p»rt, midv/ay beiwecu iueiu we are rare to have an eclipse .of the moon. We may have seven eclipses in a year, Ave of the sun and two of the moon; or we may have only two, in which case they will both be of the sun; 1880 was „ 4 year of the last kind--there were Otily two eclipses, both of the sun. , "A total eclipse of the sun is a very tare phenomenon. At a place upon the equator it will occur once in about 360 years. At London the last total eclipse was in 1724, and there will not be another until after the year 2500. There will not be another in New York before the year 2200. There have been total eclipses visible in the United States in the years 1806, 1835, which passed through North Carolina and Georgia; in 1860, when the shadow crossed Washington Territory, and passed over Hudson's bay and Labra­ dor; the eclipse of 1869. when the .shadow passed over Iowa, Illinois, Ken­ tucky and North C»rolina ; and that of £878, when it came down through Col­ orado and Texas; and in 1900 there will , be an eclipse visible in Virginia, but best seen in Spain and at sea. ^ "The moon which makes the eclipse il a satellite,of the earth, accompanying it and traveling around it once a month. The moon is 240,000 miles away, and it is 2,163 miles in diameter, and in some respects is a globe very much like the earth. It is about one forty-ninth of * $he earth's bulk, and has about one- fourteenth part of the earth's surface. It is about one eighty-lirst part as heavy, and its average density is about tliree-tifths that of the earth; and when we examine it we find its surface all . broken,up- The moon has its craters well as the earth. On the earth the mountains lie mostly in ranges, but in Hie moon there are comparatively few mountain ranges, the formations are tostly circular, like those we find in rtain portions of the earth, but upon it smaller scale. There are groups of peaks, hundreds and sometimes .thousands of feet high. Scattered ' al'tout are smaller craters without any , , Vegetation. Some of the craters in the goon are 120 miles in diameter; and lavius, one of the craters, is so large that if we were at the center of the ring We could not see the boundary ridge at all, although the mountains are 10,000 feet high. Copernicus, one of the finest Craters of the moon, is about sixty miles igl diameter, and was formed gradually by successive eruptions. In some places the surface of the moon appears to be cracked. These are known as rills; tiiere are cracks of unknown depths, ttolf a mile or so wide. * mooa has an atmosphere not » one-hundredth of that on the earth. *f his is indicated partly by the shadows, «nd another indication is that when the moon passes over a bright star it goes out with startling suddenness. Nothing c&n equal the sudden disappearance of Aldebaran or Regulus at the edge of the moon. It does not take the hundredth of a second for it to disappear, and it reappears with the same startling sud­ denness. ;*'• "The brightness of the moon is 1,618,- 000th part of that of the sun. We often think of it as silver, or like white paper or marble. Not at all; it is a grayish stone that reflects only one-sixth of the 'light that falls upon it. The moon ves us about the same proportion of light as of heat. The most delicate ex­ periments barely show heat in the moon amounting, perhaps, to a thousandth of «• v . . •#: v.;-' • • ; rnort shrams ,i of I WPM j planetary Wfiiiii, - ft was early observed .by the wiotapls that then were fin or si* boflesm the sky that were all the time in motion, and while the other stars preserved their positions and configu­ ration from day to day, from year to yo*r? and from age to age, these were continually changing their plaoss. These are the planet!; the one nearest to the sun is Mercury, the next Venus, the brightest of all the group; then Mars, t hen Jupiter, then Saturn, con­ stituting the five planets known to the ancients. About one hundred years ago the elder Herschel added one more to the system of planets, the first time one had been discovered in the history of the world, and to this the name of Ura­ nus was given; and in 1846 another, Neptune, was discovered. These bod­ ies, except Mercury and Venus, have moons and satellites of their own; Mars having two, Jupiter four, Saturn eight, Uranus four, and Neptune one. "Before the time of Kepler it was supposed that the earth was the center of motion; but he brought out the, fact that the sun is the center of moti&n of the planetary system. The sun moves rapidly through, space, somewherp from ten to thirty miles a second, and carry­ ing all the planets with it. If we were to look down upon the body from a dis­ tance we should see it moving most in an orbit, self-returning, not in a path that comes around to the same place again, but going off through space in a spiral manner. The sun travels off an an ob­ lique direotion, while the planets move around it, all in the same direction, from right to left. "With regard to the size of th<s plan­ ets, Jupiter is eleven times the diameter of the earth, and Saturn about nine times. Mercury is from 3,000 to 3,300 miles in diameter. This planet is ex­ ceptional in many respects, being the most inclined to the earth's orbit, and it is the heaviest and densest of all the planets, and being only one-third as distant from the sun a* the* earth it must have eight or nine times its heat. The surface is very brilliant, and we have every reason to suppose that it is covered with white clouds which reflect nearly nine-tenths of the light upon it. "Mars is our next neighbor on the other side. As this planet goes around the sun and comes to its nearest posi­ tion to us, it is very different at differ­ ent times. In 1877 the distance was 35,01)0,000 or 37,000,000 miles, and the next season when it comes nearest to ns it will be over 50,000,000 miles away. As the earth goes around once a year and Mars follows once in about a year and two-thirds, it follows that they come into line with each other once in about 787 days. At that time when the planet rises at sunset it looks bright, and as the earth goes around they get further apart, and at the end of a year the planet is as far away as it can be, and it looks like a little star. It is scarcely noticeable now, but as the months go on it will be growing bright­ er until some time next winter it will be opposite the sun, and then it will be very brilliant. There is vapor or water in the atmosphere of this planet, which is revealed by the spectroscope. The markings on the planet appear to be continents and oceans, and there are re­ gions of cloud and storm. "Jupiter is not quite round, and its surface is covered with belts, of various colors, which, however, do not remain permanent, neither do the markings. The most probable theory with regard to these belts is that they are currents in the atmosphere, streaks of clouds. Some years ago a rose-colored spot, about 26,000 miles long, and 3,000 wide, was seen on the surface of this planet. This spot has been quite visible until recently; now, however, it can scarcely be seen at all. The white spots on the planet are probably clouds. "Saturn is about 75,000 miles in di­ ameter, and has belts like those of Jupiter, and in addition a mysterious ring. First there is an outer ring, which is divided into two, by a line that lojoka like a light pencil line, and inside of that is the gauze or smoke ring J first discovered by an American, 13onq>v,A remarkable fact is that a lit­ tle later\n Englishman saw it, and the steamers carrying the news across the ocean passed each other on the way. These.rings are flat, forty or fifty miles thick, and 30,000 miles wida. "Uranus is 30,000 miies in diameter, and is of no great interest in the tele­ scope, except from its four satellites, which are about the smallest objects to be seen in the telescope. Mars has two small satellites, which were discovered in 1877 by Prof. Hall at Washington. The nearest one is between 7,000 and 8,000 miles from the planet, and goes aiound it inside of eight hours, more than twice as fast as the planet rotates. The other one goes around in about thirty-six or thirty-seven hours. Jupi­ ter has four satellites that accompany it, the farthest one, one and a quarter million miles distant, the nearest one about as near as our moon. This sat­ ellite goes around in forty-two hours, and the farthest one once in two.weeks. "When we look upon <thte starry heavens the number of stars appears countless. Yet, if you will divide the he ivens into portions, it will not be difficult to count the stars that arfe visi­ ble to the naked eye. Seen from New York, or a place similarly situated with regard to latitude, the number amounts, perhaps, to 6,600, and vou add to that 1,000 more for stars tliat never come above our horizon, which would be visible only near the Southern Pole, making 7,000 visible to the naked eye. If you use an opera-glass with an ob­ ject-glass an inch and a half in diame­ ter, a common lens will increase the number to fully 300,000, and if you take the largest telescope you will see about GO,000,000. "When we speak of stars of the first and second magnitude, we do not mean their real size, but their degree of brightness. There are about twenty of the first magnitude, of the second, thirty-four or thirty-five, of the third, 140, of the fourth, 327, and so on, the numbers increasing rapidly as you go on. A star of the sixth magnitude gives about one-hundreth part as much light as a star of the first magnitude. Many of the stars change in their luminosity, some are in their infancy and are grow­ ing brighter, while others, in their old age, are becoming fainter. Two thous­ and years ago Alpha Draconis was the Pole Star, and was then much brighter than our own Pole Star, and now it is only of the fourth magnitude, and only one-sixth as bright as it was then. In 1866 in the constellation of the Crown appeared a #tar as bright as the Polar Star, remaining bright a day and a half, and then gradually fading away. Now the telescope shows it a sptar ©f the tealh magnitude, and show- ' *• ••• •. : star Ifira OeS fades up, once in about _ r motions of the stare I, they are really moving a great deal faster than cannon bsJls. Thara ia a general drift of the stars hamom part of the sky to the other. The explanation of this is easily under- ---- -/• are moving, the ran carry­ ing Hie earth and planets in the oppo­ site direotion. We are at present moV- { ing toward a nomt in the constellation i Hercules, and the evidence is that the j stars are drifting away from that point. "Beside the single stars we have dusters, of which the Pleiades are a j familiar example. The cluster in Her- j eules, as seen through a telescope, shews the whole field filled with stars, so close as to touch each other, many of them very brilliant. Then we have in the system nebulffi. As a general rule, the nebulae are oval or elliptical, more or less circular, and usually brighter in the center. When the spectroscope came to be applied, it was found that a greater portion of them show a spectrum of bright lines, indicating a gas; so they are not wholly stars." Bow a Detrolter Found Water. I had married and afterward settled in the city of Detroit about 1844 or 1845. I bought a lot at th£ extreme southern limit of the city; one line of my lot was the oityboundary•; [t was adjoining an orchard. Being so far out, the popula­ tion was sparse, and the water-pipes had not been laid, so the citizens of that section depended on wells. I built, and residing on my lot, and, not having put down a well, depended on my neigh­ bor for water. We had long dry spells or droughts, when most of the wells were dry. I delayed putting down a well until the next season of drought. Then the question to be decided was where on the lot to locate it, the lot being about 50x100. It happened that one of my young sisters, aged about 10 vears, was visiting us. She had never heard of finding water witlj a forked Iwig. One Sunday afternoon, at the very latter end of our periodical drought, I was talking with my wife about dig­ ging a well, when all at once there rushed into my mind the remembrance of Anna finding water in "York State" for uncle on his farm. I related the circumstances, and proposed to get some twigs and let my wife and sister try them, and see if they would work in their hands. The next trouble was to get the wil­ low forked twigs, for, as I supposed at that time, nothing but willow would work, and, as there was not a willow in the city nor State that I knew of, my wife proposed that I should go info the orchard adjoining and get some apple-, tree forked twigs. With no faith in them I prepared some, and, placing one each in my wife's and sister's hands, in the position as nearly as I could re­ member having seen it held, and hold­ ing one myself, we sallied out into the yard, and went marching around pro­ miscuously. All at once my wife cried out excitedly, "The twig works in my hands." Walking a little further on, down went the single upper end, plumb. My sister, seeing the operation, held her twig in position, when plumb down it turned, frightening her so that she screamed and dropped her twig. I was as much surprised as they were, and at first thought they were playing a joke; they declared they were not. However, I quietly marked the spot, and to re­ move all doubt I blindfolded both and led them all around the yard; whenever we came to v.*herc the stream of water ran underground the twigs would point down in both their hands. I had full faith to dig a well around the point in­ dicated, and I found abundance of water. Even in times of drought, while my neighbors' wells gave out, mine had plenty; so much so that my well fur­ nished our family and neighbors and their domestic animals during such peri> ods.--Forest and Stream. Copper Not Poisonous. M. OaJippe, a French savant, has undertaken to clear copper from the unjust imputation under which it has labored of possessing poisonous proper­ ties. He has been experimenting since 1875 upon dogs with verdigris, blue- stone and various salts of copper, and he has come to the conclusion that "copper cannot cause fatal poisoning." And on its being objected that the emetic effects of these substances prob­ ably saved ' the animals' lives--dogs being particularly susceptible te the action of emetics--he courageously pro­ ceeded to try similar experiments on himself, having all his food regularly cooked in copper vessels coated inside with verdigris, and he feels none the worse for it. Furthermore, he has over and over again found copper in the liver and kidneys of persons who have died'from natural causes; and his an­ alyses of wheat, chocolate and other alimentary substances have revealed the presence of infinitesimal quantities of copper in their composition. These are facts, he says, which should not be lost sight of in making post mortems of persons whose death has been attributed to metallic poisoning, and he believes that ignorance of tbein has Ie4i% ja0re than one sad judicial error. Hominy and Arnica. An old darky came into an Austin drug store with his head bandaged up and groaning as if every bone in his bodv was broken. "What is the matter?" asked the drug clerk. "We have had- the bery debble of a time, me sad de ole woman, battering each udder wid de chairs and aich." "Well, what do you want?" "We needs some anarchy. Iter ain't no anarchy in de house. De bottle got smashed in de fuss, and de anarchy spieled all over the floor." "If you had more harmony in your house, there would be less anarchy, re­ marked the drug clerk, smiling as he filled a small bottle of arnica. "You am right, boss. Dat's jest what de fuss was about. De reason we needs anarchy is bekase dar war no hominy in de house, and dat's why de ole woman hit me wid de chair."--Texas Sifting*. THE census returns of the northwest provinces of India and Oude enumer­ ate more than 3,000 professional "acro­ bats," 1,100 "actors," 3,000 "ballad singers," 146 "curers by incantation," 33 "gamblers," 97 "snake-charmers," 50 "match-makers," 10,000 "singers and dancers," 4 "poets," 4story-tellers" and 7 "thieves." There are more than 7,- 500,000 cultivators of the soil, nearly 10,000 land-holders and nearly 40,000 money-lenders. "LIQUOR,"* said the lecturer, "is re­ sponsible for much of the misery in this world." "That's so," said an old toper in the audience.* "I am always unhappy when I can't get it."--Philar dejphia Chronicl*. . The whole Vflftl6TV| iwwwi wwMfPro •AnpleBIQI tOOH, I do BO( think fh# aoui*try boasts a saw- of sufficient length fc> eut through alargte log of:iro«8 î:fli« i»w lis the form of a butcher's chopper, and when it has cut well into the angle at the end of a log, the log is turned and work begun on the opposite side. By repeated turning, a plank is cut. The plane cuts pulling toward the workman, and so does the saw. I never saw a lathe with a continuous rotary motion, save in the Royal Arsenal, which is nothing more than a European workshop; and I never but once saw a labor-saving contrivance of any kind in the country. Bice is husked by being placed in a sort of mortar, into which a pestle falls. The pestle is attached to a horizontal piece of wood, supported by a fulcrum in the center. On the end opposite the pestle a man stands--thus the pestle is raised; but by his jumping off the pestle falls. By this repeated jumping on the end and jumping off, the process of husking the rice is accomplished. In the corner of a field I once saw one of these mills with a kind of bucket placed on the end of a beam, where the man would stand. A small water-spout coming from a hillside filled this bucket with water, when it raised the pestle; bpt the act of raising upset the water, ami thus let the pestle fall. This, as I have just said, is the only machine that I ever saw in Japan, yet the productions of the country would lead me to infer that machinery of an advanced character must be common. Various forms of water-wheels are known, but during my travels I never saw one.--Japan, its Architecture, Art and Art Manufact­ ures. Mr. 8. U. Quota, of Springfield, O., writes: "I want every one to know that I was cored of dyspepsia, heartburn, sour stomach and other disagreeable symptoms of weak diges­ tive omuiK, by using only one bottle orDr. Guysott's Yellow Dock and SarsapariUa. My stomach now readily digests any kind of food.* ______________ .Up a Tree. One bright, cold morning in Novem­ ber I was passing through a piece of forest, when I saw, some distance ahead, what-appeared to be a snake in a tree top. I approached noiselessly, and found that it was as I supposed. The creature was fast asleep. I noticed his peculiar position--as if tied about one of the branches--and, wishing to inves­ tigate more closely, I raised my gun and shot the reptile's head off. I then fou^d that he was tied about the branch precisely as one would tie a rope. What could it mean? My conclusion was that the creature had climbed the tree to get into the sunshine: that when there he had determined to take a nap, and that he had tied himself about the branch that he might not fall during his sleep, and receive injury. Was I right in my conjecture? If so, did his snakeship reason about the matter? Indeed it looks as though he did.--Rev. J. A. Cass, in Good Cheer. Don't Doubt It. 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The wife herself. was sent to us, together w to the by aa officer now TOOtSD ftriTcs IU< NitiY ur kind favor oont ̂ to assAa ^eisr finliir wlBit wis. American and European Doctors. , It te said by celebrated physicians in Europe and America that Oerman Hop Bit­ ters is one of the best remedies now in nsa Bold by all druggists. XABBIAOBS make men thoughtful About half their time is spent in forming excusea IF you have failed to receive benefit from other preparations, try Hood's Sarsaparilla; it's the strongest, the purest, the best, the cheapest WHAT did Adam first plant In the Garden of Eden? His foot !--To Man Only! TAS.VOJBTAIC BELT CO., jfarshall. »Mich., wiH send Dr. Dye's Celebrated Electro- Voltaic Belt* and Electric Appliances on'trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with nervous debility, lost vi­ tality and' kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete restoration of health and manly vigor. Address as above N. B.-- No ride is incurred, as thirty days' trial is al­ lowed. PURE Cod-Liver Oil, made rfom selected livers on the sea-shore, by CASWKIX, ft Co., New York. It is absolutely pure and sweet Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others Physicians have de­ cided it superior to any of the other oils in 8mo a song of hair oQ, Pocket minus chink, Four and twenty editors 8pilling printers' ink; , Now the pen goes faster. Wonder what they mean; Guess they must be writing ada For the Improved Carbolina. TffK'best and cheapest Car Starter is sold by Borden, Selleck & Co., Chicago, I1L With it one man can move a loaded oar. GET Lyon'8 Patent HeelStlffeners applied to aew boots or shoes before you run thera over. SICK ALL. OVER. Tea! Umr ton>ld, bowela ooative, blood iMgdib, stomach weak sad fall; yonr digestion i« Impaired Sad the organs inactive; your perceptions are dull and *tupetted; yonr temper irritable and peevish; you are nniltforbusinedsorcompanionsliij). What you need is A SPRING MEDICINE Uka Hood's Harsaparilla, that wiB stir up jnu alow blood, rouap your liver, start yonr digestion and lift Uie tog from your brain. CAPT. J. P. THOMPSON, of Lowell, Beg. of Deeds, •ays: "I have never found anything that bits my wants as Hood's Sarsaparilla: It puriflen my blood, sharpens my appetite and makes me over." * Hood's Sanaparilla has worked wonders in the case of my wife, who was troubled with sick headache and biliousness for yearn. She in now free from them."-- HOMF.K B. NASH, Pittsflelil'. Hass. " Hood's Samaparilla <'iired me. I can eat- a»»y«»»i«g without that awful distreiw, and have a tremendous appetite."--PAUK PATTEN, Gardiner, Vie. HOOD'S SABSACAROXA. Sold by DruKRints. (l. or six to- $s. prepared only by C. L HOOD * CO. Apothecaries. Lowell. JftM. A Cur* or Pneumonia. Mr. D. H. Barnaby, of Owego, N. Y.. aays that his daughter was taken with a violent cold, which termi­ nated with pneumonia, and all the beat physicians gave the case up and said she could not live but a few hours at most. She waa in this condition when a friend recommended Dr. Hall's Balaam for the Lungs and advised her to try it. She accepted it as a last re­ sort, and waa surprised to And that it produced a m*rkc<T change for Die better, and by persevering in its use a permanent care was effected. Ibwnaley's Toothache Anodyne cores instantly. Itx DSAB FKIKND: Your ing ooBgratealattoas on my hMtOuMtnaa When we teenmontha afo little did otwraT wvuJCI DO UtlHIgll* bra dtsaasa wfcioh selects for its victims t&oke #ho present an internal field of con­ stitutional weakness for ite first attack, be­ cause yea and I were in those days the per- Bonification of health--and can claim this to-day, thank God! Why I can do so will be told to-morrow, when we meet at yonr din­ ner, aa yott only know that I have passed through a terrible illness; my delivery from death being dne to the wonderful discovery in medical science, made by a man who to­ day stands in the front rank of his fellow- workers--unequaled by any in my own opinion. That I, who heretofore have ever been the most orthodox believer in the oid school of medicine, its application and re­ sults, should thus recant in favor of that which is sneered at by old practitioners, may startle yon, bnt "seeing Is believing," ana when I recount the attack made on my old hulk, how near I came to lowering m*v colors, wid the final volley which, through the agency above mentioned, gave me victory, yon will at least credit me with just cause for sinoerity in my thankfulness and belief. I will also spin my yarn anent my China cruise, and, altogether, expect to enter­ tain as well as be entertained by you. With best wishes, Sincerely yours, * • in ' - ' Rear Admiral 17. EL NpfK,, Ban. OSOBQB WENDELL, Sinclair Plaoe. Boston.' An autumnal afternoon in the year 188-- found the taunt flagship Nomad rounding the treacherous and dangeroas extremity of South America And this day certainly in­ tended to place itself on record with those of its predecessors marked stormy, its nastd- ness in Wind and weather giving all hands on board the flagship their fill in hard work and discomforts The record of the Nomad on this cruise, which she was now complet­ ing on her homeward-bound passage to Bos­ ton, had been of heavy weather work. From Suez to Aden, then on to Bombay, Point de Galle, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai,Nag­ asaki and Yokohoraa, the balance sheet stood largely in favor of old Neptune's rough char­ acteristics, but with remarkable evenness the health and original roster of the ship's company stood this day at it did nearly three years ago--with one exception. Throughout the diverse and varied exposure incidental to cruising over the Asiatic sta­ tion, where cholera, fevers, liver complaints, malaria and colds of all degrees reign in full foroe, none of the crew had suffered more than temporary inconvenience, and thus it seemed very hard that now, in the closing days the cruise, there stood nine chances for, to one against, a victory being at last scored for the destroying angel Death. When the No­ mad reached Shanghai in the early portion of ht-,r cruise her Admiral was the healthiest man aboard. A grand specimen of manhood was he Over six feet in height, weighing 900 pounds, broad in chest and strong in limb, he rightfully claimed for himielf a full share of nature's blessings. While returning late one night from a diplomatic reception at the Consulate at Shanghai, through over­ heating and insufficient protection from the dangerous effects of the peculiarly damp and searching night air, he caught cola. "Only a cold,* remarked the Admiral to the doctors of his ship, "and easy to cure" So thought the medical officers, but with a quiet though insidious progression this cold clung to the Admiral in mite of their best efforts to eradicate it. ana when the time came for leaving Yokohama, homeward bound, the Admiral realised that his lungs and throat were decidedly out of Order. The doctors advised returning home by mail steamer to San Francisco, so that greater means for curing this persistent cough might be found in the Naval Hospital there; but the Admiral preferred to stick to his ship, still imagining that his trouble would eventually be overcome by the doctors' treatment No one who looked at the Admiral even in those days imagined that he would fall a victim to lung trouble. But it was the old story again typified in this case. Only a cold at first;, and in spite of orthodox treatment the peculiar climatic effects of China nursed it and hastened the sure result of such a deep- seated trouble. Time passed after leaving Yokohama for Boston, bringing varying svmntoms in t,h« Adnj!r®r.c ess?, ssd the doctors imagined that they held the disease in check at least. But with the formation of tubercles, night sweats, and the now rapid consumption of lung tissues, which had set in with alarming symptoms, the pa­ tient realised that his cold naa laid the seeds of that fell agent of death, comuuuitwn. The hacking cough of (lie Admiral had in itself been Kufdcient food for serious consid­ eration, arid now, as in the warm autumn days the flagship gallantly rode over the blue waters of the Pacific, bound for Cape Horn, the doctors hoped much for success. But this boisterous afternoon found the good ship struggling with gigantic seas set off from the cape by a fierce northerly wind Leaden were the heavens and sad the' hearts of all aboard, for that morning the usur.. bulletin of the medical officers had set forth this intelligence: "The Admiral is in same condition as reported last night A burning fever has been slightly reduced, while other symptoms are as heretofore announced." All understood these words without ques­ tioning. The beloved Admiral had during the past two weeks sunk very low. The symptoms of blood-poisoning, a torpid liver, Intense pains throughout the body, eyesight and mental faculties affected, appetite gone, through inaction of that great regulator-- the liver These were the mean- rvhich had duoed the Admiral from the pfcnacle of health to the valley and shadow of death Consumption held full sway now, and the well-known skill of naval doctors was in this instance at least completely foiled. The Admiral had issued orders for the flagship to touch at Montevideo for coal, and it was the intention of the doctors to land the Admiral there for treatment But one man in the ship was wrapped fri the gloom of despair, as standing by the weather rig­ ging on the poop deck he gazed absently oyer the seething waste of waters. This was the Admiral's son, a lieutenant, and at­ tached to his father's staff. He feared that the wear and tear of ch p-life would sap his father's strength beyond endurance, ana be­ fore the ship could reach Montividea Among a group of sailors gathered around one of the great guns on the spar deck stood the captain of the fore-top, Brown, a slight but healthy-looking man. His companions were listening to a recital of his sufferings from consumption, which had developed . while he was attached to the sloop-of-war Ranger, lying in the harbor of Yokohama a year ago, this "yarn" having been started by a discussion about the Admiral's condi­ tion- The ineu had just returned from some work around the deck, an order for which had interrupted Brown's story a few mo­ ments previously. "A year ago this day I was hove to in the 'pill man's' sick bay in the Ranger, then off Yokohama, an' 1 tell you, pards, twas no use pipin' my number, cause I was nigh on passin' in my en istment papers tor a long cruise aloft," continued Brown. "Consump­ tion had me flat aback, and the doctor says it was no use to stow away his lush in my hold seein' that mr bellows was condemned by & higher power than he could wrastle with.® "How did you pucker out of it?" asked, a ffunner's mate. "Wa'all," replied Brown, "my Chinee wash- man come to me one mornin' an' he says to me, 'me hab got allee same Melican man medikin' doyou heap good!' I says bring it off, Chang, I buy all the same. That after­ noon Chang h:»ve up with fourteen bottles of a lush, enough to kill or cure the whole ship's crew, an' that looked fresh in their nice wrappers Says Chang, 'China man doctor hao got plentee more, he make heap good well with my sick, this number one medikin allee same through Yokohama.' Wa'all, I took th*; bottles an' told the doct jr I was goin' to try om as by the sailin' orders on the bottle, and the doctor he laughed and says 'twas no good, bat I done as the regulations says from the first, an' here I am, ajpin the doctor's ideas to be sure!" With this triumphant assertion Brown looked about the circle Then, lowering his voice, saft, "Boy.-, I've four of those precious bottles left--ain't give 'em all away yet after I was cured--an' if yon all think that it would not be too free with the 'old man,' Buppose I go to his son there on the poop deck an' say what I have to you, an', askin' his par­ don. say we want the Admiral to try the stuff in my bottles, seein' that they cured my consumption." This idea met with approval from all sides. Therefore Brown walked off for an interview with the Admiral's son, with no little anxiety in his good heart as to the result of his mission. Approaching the lieutenant, Brown saluted, and asked permission to state his reasons for doing so. This was readly granted, and Brown spoke out Will kick an'what his ditty box, get the bottles of and return to thelieutniaat •Tm afeared that the SK*ln the use of this blessed tm yon da, Mr," said tin in the ««»*» be taken~lnto the Admiral's room. "I will attend to that. Brown, and rest aasnw# that jcrur rczaodr will 3a*ve a lair trial in spite ot any opposition. It will not harm my father, judging from your state­ ment aim the opinion of the medical officers of the Banger." "Thank you. sir, an' Ood help the Admiral to weather his trouble, is the praver of all the ship," said Brown, as the lieutenant turned to enter the cabin. There was no cessation in the storm that evening. The gale howled through the rig­ ging in wild, discordant tines; the great ship labored through the white-capped mountains of water threatening to ingulf her with each burst of their storm-whipped crests. Within the Admiral's cabin the Ar- gand lights, the comfortable furniture, and the numerous evidences of the Admiral's wanderings'over land and water, as dis­ played in choice brio-a-brae and trimmings, gave to the room a warm, snug appearance, most pleasing this wild night to those within. In his stateroom lay the Admiral, made com­ fortable fay all that loving hands and willing hearts could suggest. Bv his side sat his son, who In quiet voice was recounting to his father the interview with Brown, and the opposition met with from the doctors when the idea of giving this new medicine was broached. "You were sleeping at the lime, father, and therefore missed a laughable scene, made so, in spite of your condition, by the intense dislike displayed by the doctors for this 'new-fangled stuff,' this 'patent liquid,' which they declared should never with their consent be given to you. Well, I cut the matter short DV saying that I would take all the responsibility and, with your permis- ion, would administer it. That I obtained when I found yon awake, and now you are under way with the first bottle, as per di­ rections I am satisfied, dear father, that it will do you good, a premonition filling my heart that at last we nave found the means of arresting the burning fever and hacking cough, which have been troubling yon so much." The Admiral's reply was cut short by a severe spell of coughing, during wLioh he spat blood, and when finished sank back ex­ hausted. But the grateful look which he bestowed on his son was an additional assur- rance of belief in that which the Admiral had at first sight dubbed as a possible but doubtful means of doing him any good. Rut, laying aside his dislike for any* but old-es- tanlished remedies, the Admiral acquiesced in his son's request, and now, after this last spell, admitted that the effect of the dose had softened the dreaded severity of the racking cough * # • • e • * Three weeks later fonnd the Nomad mak­ ing the harbor of Montevideo. After severe and prolonged weather she had rounded the cape and now was standing in the harbor for the purpose of recoalin? and watering. To one given to the study of human linea­ ments the faces of those aboard the flagship this brigbt morning would have afforded in­ finite scope for such pursuit But the source of eaoh man's happiness flowed from the same fountain of grateful joy. The be­ loved Admiral was the cause of this. And why? If you could have seen ihe Admiral this bright morning, dear reader, your an­ swer would have been easily found in his face. A changed man was he. Victory was perched on his guidons! the dread enemy was slowly retreating! The light was a se­ vere one, but with no cessation in vigilant ac­ tion and careful application of the contents of four bottles the Admiral had turned the flank of consumption, and was slowly but surely driving him off the field with a j ower which astounded the doctors and filled all hearts with jov and thankfulness. What was this, then, tba; had won the victory for the seaman Brown, and WMS now leading the Admiral's shattered forces to the same gran 1 result? When asked this ques­ tion by one of the officers on duty, in Monte­ video "the Admiral, lifting his hand, replied: "I would that, in letters of gold and so placed that all the world could read them, the name of this great remedy could be shown, coupled with the genius who dis­ covered it--' TH-: GOLDEN MEDICAL DIS­ COVERY ! Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y.'--the man who has given to his fellow-men the greatest relief from-all ills that mortal flesh I »• i Ma MM U; ; I "This is the name of the contents of that bottle on my table, and God bless the man who has found the secret of filling it with a medicine at once purifying and strengthen ing, wholesome and thorough in its results, and claiming, in my humble opinion, nothing for itself that it cannot reasonably perform. Nature's ally against the abuse of man!" Well might the Admiral sing the praises of that which had so unexpectedly rescued him from a fatai illness. A week later and the Nomad sailed for Boston direct What the condi­ tion of the Admiral was when she arrived there is shown in his letter above* - The foregoing, reader, is an outline of the story spun by tne Admiral to his friend when they met at the dinner. We will not touch on other portions of his interesting re­ cital of his cruise in general, our aim being to record his testimony for the greatest wonder in medical science that this nine­ teenth century of surprising developments has produced. From the wonderful power of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery over that terribly fatal disease consumption, which is scrofula of the lungs, when first offering this now world-famed remedy to the public. Dr. Pierce thought-favorably of calling It his "consumption cure," but abandoned that name as too restrictive for a uiedipine that from its wonderful combination of germ- destroying, as well as tonic, or strengthen­ ing, alterative, or blood-cleansing, anti-bil­ ious, diuretic, pectoral and nutritive prop­ erties; is unequaled, not only as a remedy for consumption of the lungs, but for all chronic diseases of the liver, blood, kidneys and lungs. Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors, from the worst scrofula to a common blotch, pimple or eruption, Ery­ sipelas, salt-rheum, fever-sores, soaly or rough skin, in short, all diseases caused by disease germs in the blood, are conquered by this powerful, pnjrifying. art invigorat­ ing medicine -Great eating ulcers rapidly heal under its benign influences. Especi­ ally has it manifested its potency in curing tetter, rose rash, boils, carbuncles, sore eyes, scrofulous sores and swellings, white swellings,goitre, or thick neck, and enlarged glands. "The blood Is the life" Thoroughly cleanse this fountain of health by using Golden Medical Discover}*, and good diges­ tion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength and soundness of constitution are established. If you feel dull, drownv, debilitated, have sallow color of skin, or yellow i-h brown rts on face or body, frequent headache or in ess, bad taste in mouth, internal heat or chills, alternated with hot Hashes, low spirits and gloomy forebodings, irregular appetite, and tongue coated, you are suffer­ ing from indigestion, dyspepsia, and torpid liver or "biliousness." In many cases only part of these symptoms are "experienced. As a remedy for all such cases Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has no equal, it effects perfect and radical cures For weak lungs, spitting of blood, short breath, consumptive night-sweats, and kin­ dred affections, it is a sovereign remedy. In the cure of bronchitis, severe coughs and consumption, it has astonished the medical faculty, and eminent physicians pronounce it the greatest medical discovery of the age. The nutritive properties possessed by cod liver oil are trifling when compared with those of the Golden Medical Discovery. It rapidly builds up the system and increases the flesh and weight of those reduced below the usual standard of health by wasting diseases. # * • * » * The reader will pardon the foregoing di­ gression, prompted by our admiration for a remedy that performs such marvelous cures, and permit us to say that when the Admiral returned to his home in New York, the only cloud cast upon the happiness of the reunion with his family was caused by the continued illness of his eldest son, a young man of M, whose disease, when the Admiral sailed from Montevideo, had been reported as succumb­ ing to the treatment of the family doctor. But his father found it otherwise; the un­ fortunate young man was suffering severely from ohronic disease of the kidneys and blad­ der. Before leaving Boston the Admiral had purchased a copy of Dr. Pierce's book, "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser." 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