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A I, _ iMig tin - - •** 7>\ never-wlll-laoe youn* girl; • A toiler wMe, A life pure ana clean, ; princem-of-peaoe young fhi.; ^ b pfiMlfc to*alii* irerybody; roX Irani arotatd seein' folks that was neighbor*, and twsseaav; bat when I came tooine ?«£ 5KJJ83 orchard a tearm' round, and hiiM knocked two lengths o' (enoe down flat P Well, the old Adam riz up then, you'd batter blieye. That black bull has been a breakin' into mv lota ev«r «inm«A got in th' aftermath, and its Square Tucker's fence, and he wont make it Mo sickly sunnower, ^ HeiWuC-tiw MM 7«uc nty -of-roora«in-her-*hooe ywm |M; o indulger-ln-bloee young girl; Not» bug on herbrow, s To frand not a bow, •he's a f " «ot a ntder-d-tnA young gtd; ot a damn-Jewel flaalt young itaU Notaslpper of rum, . Nota Viewer of fuat, * •lanrd-of-Mnae yoaag gtd. tarly-rftirln* young girl; aotm, iqplxing young gin; Al tmrrtoan girl. trlghtfy-amtrftkma young girl: •d-ilps-saoat-dBMeiotiB young gtoi; A aparttlng,dear eye. That says,! will try," aure-tc-auoceed young gtri. " ; % hcnoKtly-conrtlns: young gi jK£ t never-secn-llirunK young gi% A qui-rt and pure, Jf A mcdeet, demure, - ,' ' ^ ®*-lor-a-wife young 4R&'?..' 1}* "f ^ • • J|L sought-everywhere young f #L ^ iuture-most-fair young girl; A11 ever-discreet; VVctoo seldom meet queen-am acg-queens youag THE DEACON'S WEEL BY ROSE TEBRY COOKE. ty The communion service of January :<# was just over in the church at Sugar - Hollow, and people were waiting for v Mr. Parkes to give out the hymn, but he did not give it out; he laid his book down on the table and looked .about on his church. He was a man «f simplicity and sin­ cerity, fully in earnest to do his Lord's work, and to do it with all his miglit. but he did sometimes feel discouraged. His congregation was a mixture of ' farmers and mechanics. So he had to contend with the keen brain and skep­ tical comment of the men who piqued themselves on power to hammer at theological problems as well as hot ^ iron, with the jealousy and repulsion * and bitter feeling that has bred the ; 4, communistic hordes abroad and at home; while perhaps he had a still harder task to awaken the sluggish souls of those who used their days to struggle with barren hillside and rocky pasture for mere food and clothing, and their nights to sleep the dull sleep of physical iatigue and mental vacuity. The minister spoke: "My dear friends," he said, "you all know, though I did ; " not give any notice to that effect, that • - this week is the Week of Prayer. I have a mind to ask you to make it for this once a week of practice instead. Perhaps you will find work that ye knew not of lying in your midst. And let us all on Saturday evening meet here .again and choose some one brother to relate his experience of the week. 3fou who are willing to try this method, please to rise." Everybody rose except old Amos Tucker, who never stirred, though his b •, wife pulled at him and whispered to him, imploringly. He only shook his grizzled head and sat immovable. Saturday night the church assembled again. The cheerful eagerness was gone f-: from their faces; they looked downcast, I " troubled, weary--as the pastor expect- ed. When the box for ballots was passed about each one tore a bit of pa­ per from the sheet placed in the hymn book for the purpose and wrote on it name. The pastor said after he had counted them, "Deacon Emmons, the lot has fallen on you." "I'm sorry for it," said the deacon, rising up and taking off his overcoat. f,«>• *1 ha'n't got the best of records, Mr. Parkes, now I tell ye. "Well, brethren," he said, "I am pnettty well ashamed of myself, no doubt, but I ought to be, and maybe I shall profit by what I've found out these ' six days back. I'll tell you just as it come. Monday I looked about me to begin with. J am amazing fond of cof- - fee, and it a'n't good for me, the doctor says it a'n't; so I thought I'd try on that to begin with. I tell you it come hand ! I hankered, after that drink of .... coffee dreadful! Seemed as though I " couldn't eat my breakfast without it. feel to pity a man that [loves liquor mope'111 .ever did in my life before; but I fed sure they can stop if they'll try, far Tv<e stopped, :and I'm :a going to stay stopped. "Well, come to (dinner, there was an other fight. I do set by pie the most of anything. I was fetched up on pie, as yon may .say. Our folks always had it three times a .day, and the doctor he's been talkhl' and talkin' to me about eat in pie. I have .the dyspepsia like everything,.andiit makes me useless by spells, And onzeliabie as a weather­ cock. A11' Dr. Drak.0 he says there won't nothing help <me.but to diet. I! was readin' the Bible that morning while I sal waiting for breakfast, for *twas Monday, and wife was kind of set back with -srashin' and sill, and I come acTOxt that part where it says that the bodies of Christians a»e temples of the Holy Ghost. Well, thinks _J, we'd ought to take care of "em if they be, and see that they're iep' dlean and pleasant, like the chunch; and nobody can be clean nor pleasant that has dys­ pepsia. But, etane to pie, I ielt as though I couldnt ! and, lo ye,"I (didn't! I eat a piece right against my con­ science; facin' what I knew I ought to I do I went and done what I oughtjiot to. I tell ye my conscience made music of me considerable, aad I said then I wouldn't never sneer at a drinkin' man no more when he slipped sap. I'd feel " for him an' help hint, for I see just how it was. So that day's practice giv' out, but it learnt me a good deal mor'n I knew before. "I started out next day to look up * my Bible class. Well, 'twould take the evenin' to tell it all, but I found one real siek, been abed for three weeks, and was to glad to see me thai; I felt fair asliamed. Then another man's old mother savs to me, before he come in from the shed, says she, 'He's been a sayin' 4 hat if folks practiced what they preached you'd ha' come round to look nim up afore now, but he reckoned you kinder looked down on mill-hands. I'm awful glad you come.' Brethering, so was I. I tell you that day's work did 100 good. I got a poor opinion of Jo- ~ siah Emmons, now I tell ye, but I leaned more about the Lord's wisdom than a month of Sundays ever showed sae. "Now oome fellowship day. I thought that would be all plain sailin'; seemed M though I'd got warmed up kill f. felt 7' 11. 's fenoe, and he wont bull-strong as he oughter, and that or chard was a young one just comin' to bear, and all the new wood crisp as ermeklin's with frost. You'd better b'lieve I didnt have much feller-feeling with Amos Tucker. I jest put over to his hewse and spoke up pretty free to him, when he looked up and says, says ke, 'Fellowship meetin' day, aint it, Deacon?' I'd rather he'd ha' slapped my faoe. I felt as though I should like to slip behind the door. I see pretty distinct what sort of life I'd been livin' all the years I'd been a professor, when I couldn't hold on to my tongue and temper one day!" "Breth-e-ren," interrupted a slow, harsh voice, somewhat broken with emotion, "I'll tell the rest ont. Josiah Emmons come around like a man an' a Christian right there. He asked me to forgive him, and not to think 'twas the fault of his religion, because 'twas liis'n and nothing else. I think more of him to-day than I ever done before. I was one that wouldn't say Pd practice with the rest of ye. I thought it was everlasting nonsense. I'd ruther go to forty-nine prayer-meetin's than work at bein' good a week. I blieve my hope feas been one of them that perish; it han't worked, and I leave it behind to­ day. I mean to begin honest, and it "w as seein' one honest Christian man fetched me round tot." Amos Tucker sat down and buried his grizzled head in his rough hands. "Bless the Lord!" said the quavering tones of a still-older man from a- far corner of the house, and many a glistening eye gave silent reponse. "Go on, Brother Emmons," said the minister. "Well, when next day come I got up to make the fire, and my boy Joe had for­ got the kindlin's. I'd opened my mouth to give him Jesse, when it come over me suddin that this was the day of prayer for the family relation. I thought wouldn't say nothing. I jest fetched in the kindlin's myself, and when tfye lire burnt up good I called my wife. " 'Dear me!' says she. 'I've got such a headache, 'Siah, but I'll come in a ininnit.' I didn't mind that, for women are always havin' aches, and I was jest a goin' to say so, when I remembered the tex' about not being bitter against 'em, so I says, 'Philury, you lay a bed. I expect Emmy and me can get the vit- tles to-day. I declare, she turned over and give me sech a look; why, it struck right in. There was my wife, that had worked for an' waited on me twenty odd year, 'most scar't because I spoke kind of feelin' to her. I went out and fetched in the pail o' water she'd always drawed herself, and then I milked the cow. When I come in Philury was up fryin' the potatoes, and the tears a shin- in' on her white face. She didn't say nothing she's kinder still, but she hadn't no need to. I felt a leetle meaner'n I did the day before. But 'twan't nothing to my condition "When I was goin', towards night down thfe sullar stairs for some apples, so's the children could have a roast, and I heered Joe up in the kitchen say to Emmy- 'I do be lieve, Em, pa's goin' to cue.' 4Wh Josiar Emmons, how you talk!!' *We' I do; he's so everlastin' pleasant an' good-natered I can't but think he's struck with death.' "I tell ye, brethren, I set light down on them sullar stairs and cried. I did, reelly. Seemed as though the Lord had turned and looked at me jest as He did at Peter. Why, there was my own children never see me act real fatherly and pretty in all their lives. I'd growled and scolded and prayed at 'em, and tryed to fetch 'em up jesd; as the twig is bent the tree's inclined, ye know, but I hadn't never thought that they'd got right an' reason to expect I'd do my part as well as their'n. Seemed as though I was findin' out more about Josiah Emmon's shortcomings than was real agreeable. "Come around Friday I got back to the store. I'd kind of left it to the boys the early part of the week, and things was a little entering, but I did have sense not to tear round and use sharp words so much as common. I began to think 'twas getting easy to practice after five days, when in come Judge Herrick's wife after some curt'in calico. I had a han'some piece, .all done off with roses an* thmgs, but there was a fault in the weavan', every now and then a thin streak. She didn't notice it, but she was pleased with the figure on't, and said she'd take the whole piece. Well, just as I was wrap- pin' of it up, what Mr. Parkes here said about tryin' to act just as the Lord would in our place come acrost me. Why. I turned as red as a beet, I know I did. It made me all of .a tremble. There was I a doorkeeper in the tents of my God, as David says, really cheatia', and cheatin' a woman. I tell ye brethren, I was all of a sweat. 'Mis' Herrick,' says I, 'I don't believe you've looked real close at this goods; 'taint thorough wove,' says I. So she didn't ttake it; but what fetched me was to tliinlr how many times before Pd done such mean, onreliable little things to turn a penny, and all the time sayin' andprayin "that I wanted to he like Christ. I kep' a trippin' of myself up all .day jest in the ordinary business, nrwl I was a peg lower down when night come than I was a Thursday. I'd ruther, as far as the hard work is con­ cerned, lay a mile of four-foot stone wall than undertake to do a man's livin' Christian duty for twelve workin hours; and the best of that is, it's because I ain't used to it and I ought to be. "So -thin morain' came around, and I felt a mite more cherk. Twas mis­ sionary mornin', and seemed as if 'twas a sight easier to preach than to prac­ tice. I thought I'd begin to old Mis' Vedder'a. So I put a Testament in my pocket and knocked to her door. Says I, 'Good-mornin', ma'am,' and then I stopped. Words seemed to hang, some­ how. I didn't want to pop right out that I'd tiy*n convert her ^ folks. I hemmed and swallered a little, and fin'lly I said, says I, 'We don't see you to meetin' very frequent, Mis' Vedder.' " ' No, you don't,' sez she, as quick as a wink. * I stay at home and mind my business.' " ' Well, we should like to hev you come along with us and do ye good,' says I, sort of conciliatin*. " 'Look a here, Deacon!' she snapped, * Tve lived alongside of you fifteen year, and you knowed I never went to meet- in'; we aint a pious lot, and you knowed it; we're poorer'n death and nglier'n sin. Jim he drinks and swears, and Now wfcftt are yon a comin' here today for, m like to know, and talkin' so abont meetin'? Go to meetin'! go or oome jest •• I darn please, for «t|l you. How get out o' this!' Why, she oome at me with a broomstick. no need ont; what she •aid was enough. I hadn't never asked her nor her*n to so much as think of I cottier place jest like that--I wont call no more names; and sue enough there was ten children in rags, the hull on 'en, and the man half drunk. He gi^ it to me too; and I don't wonder. I'd never lifted a hand to serve nor save 'em be­ fore in sdl these years. I'd said consid­ erable about the heathen in foreign parts, and give some little for to convert 'em, and I had looked right over the heads of them that was next door. Seemed as if I could hear him say, These ought ye to have done, and not have left tne other undone.' I couldn't faoe another soul to-day, brethren. I oome home, and here I be. I've been searched through and through ' and found wantin'. God be merciful to me a sinner." He drooped into his seat, and bowed his head; and many another bent, too. It was plain the deacon's experience was not the only one among the brethren. he had prac- began a memorable year for the church in Sugar Hollow; not a year of excite­ ment or enthusiasm, but one when they heard their Lord saying as to Israel of old, "Go forward," and they obeyed His voice. The Sunday-school flour­ ished, the church services were fully at­ tended, every good thing was helped on its way, and the peace reigned in their homes and hearts, imperfect, perhaps, as new growths are, but still an oifshot of the peace past understanding. And another year they will keep an­ other week of praatiM, by common consent. Modm Coffee. The genuine Mocha coffee" is pro­ duced in the province of Yemen, South Arabia. It takes its name fromMokha, the chief port of exportation, on the Bed Sea. Very little of it, and that of inferior quality, is ever seen west of Constantinople. Mr. W. G. Palgrave, the Arabian traveler, says: "Arabia itself, Syria and Egypt consume fully two-thirds of the annual crop, and the refilainder is almost exclusively ab­ sorbed by Turkish and Armenian esophagi. Nor do these last get for their share the best or the purest. Be­ fore reaching the har bors of Alexand­ ria, Jaffa, Bey rout, etc., for exporta­ tion beyond there, the northern bales have been sifted and resifted, groin by grain, and whatever they may have contained of the hard, rounded, half- transparent, greenish-brown, berry, the only one. really worth roasting and pounding, has been carefully picked out by experienced fingers, and it is the less generous residue of flattened, opaque and whitish grains which almost alone goes on the shipping. So con­ stant is thin selecting process that a gradation regular as the degrees in a map may be observed in the quality of Mokha, that is Yemen coffee, even within the limits of Arabia itself in proportion as one approaches to or re­ cedes from Wadi Nejran and the neighborhood of Mecca, the first stagea of the radiating mart." About 10,000 pounds of this coffee are exported an-? m, Violin, guitar in fact all sorts tBHKoome "eneral head of "gwfc are made tram t ie entrails of lamtMl and cattle, Ante t ie delicate threads used for sewing racket-ball covers up to the half-inch thick round belts. After a lamb is seven months old its entrails are no iuugei lib lot maikiug firings 1 or violins; consequently, this branch of the manu­ facture can only be carried on a few months in each year. All the work of making gut-strings is about the same, but greater care has to be exercised in preparing those intended for musioal instruments than others. The process in manufacturing thete is comparatively simple, but far from easy. When the entrails, for which a good price has to be paid, are thoroughly cleaned, they are split with a rasor. Only one-half is fit for use in violin strings. That is the upper or smooth half. The lower half is fatty, rough and of unequal thickness. The strips are put through rollers turned by hand for eight or nine days to take all the Stretch out of them. Then they are spun or twisted. Five or six strands go to make an E string, eight or nine an A String, and twenty are put into a D string. Then they go through a bleaching bath of sulphur fumes. After thm they are twisted again. Then they are softened in pearl- ash water, again subjected to the action of the sulphur fumes, twisted again, dried, and finally rubbed down smooth with pumice-stone. Altogether it takes ten or eleven days to make a string. When done they are each seventy-two inches long--four lengths for a violin-- and thirty of them coiled separately and tied together make up the "bundle of the trade. The Evils «f Opium. The evil effects of opium am per- 1 aps most apparent among the Chinese. Population has fallen off from an an­ nual advance of 3 per cent, to 1 per cent., a\id the natural increase is kept down by impaired fecundity. There is in China a growing fashion among fami lies of distinction Qf encouraging boys yet within the age of puberty in the us a of the opium pipe, so that the habit may serve as a resistive force against appetites and indulgences of a more sensual nature. The Island of For­ mosa--called the Island of Beauty- whose inhabitants were formerly war­ like and hardy, present the spectacle of a race degenerated and enervated by the use of opium. The children of opium-eating parents are characterized by listlessness, mental indolence and physical weakness. Travelers note the sunken cheeks, sallow faces and idiotic expression. Upon individuals the ef­ fects of opium are as marked as upon nations. The opium devotee is the most abject of slaves, as well as the most hopeless of unfortunates. His happiness is entirely a dreamy illusion; he rushes along toward the slippery verge where the fanciful merges into the dark-red, and then tumbles, never to be reclaimed. The moral sense and conscience become deranged, and the power of distinguishing between right and wrong seems to be lost.--Cincin- miti Enquirer. . - A granger whose name is Bob Shield, /Was mowing the grass in his field, By a snake he was bitten, And he has just written, "St. Jacobs Oil has the bite healed." The ioUfMfag is from the sworn state- meftt of W. H. Bradbury, "Governor of the Missouri Penitentiary: "Oh, well, talk about blood running down!-- well, I have whipped more men, I guess, than any man on the earth (an exalted distinction) and I have never seei| no blood run down. I hava hoara all about blood running down the heels and orer the shoe tops, and everything like that. It is the rarest thing in the world to see a trickling of blood; it just raises a red stripe, and it is just accord­ ing to the application or the skin that it does that; if I had a light thin- skinned fellow I'd know how to whip him; I would not lay it on to h m--a light tap will hurt nim as much as a rough whipping will do with a man that has got hair on hi? back. The moment I take the shirt off a man I know how to whip him." . . Heney Ant The Frcie Presse, of san Antonio, Tex., tells of a species of ant found in that State which makes a honey equal to any that is produced by bees. The little insects store the honey, as they gather it, in a pouch about the size of a small pea that is attached to their bodies. When this pouch is full, they march into the oells of their subterran- an habitations, and there unloajK. Conu! Conut Coras! Eveiy one suffering from painful corns will be glad to learn that there is a new and pain­ less remedy discovered by which the very wont class or corns may be removed entire­ ly, in a short time and without pain. PUT­ NAM'S PAMUBS CORN EXTRACTOR has already been nsed Sy thousands, and each person who has given It a trial becomes anxious to recommend it to otherR It is the only sure, prompt and painless cure for corns known. Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor is sold everywhere. Wholesale, Lord, Stontenbursli ft Co., Chicago. IT was a FORT of real-estate transfer when tne beat Lot in the city of Sodom grot up left They couldn't corner Lot there. Symptoms of Paralysis. A twitching of the eye, numbness of hands and feet, with more or less pain and throb­ bing at the base of the brain, are some of the premonitory symptoms of this rapidly- increating disease. German Hop liitters should be taken when you are warned by any of these symptoms, bold by all druggists. IF silence Is golden, there are some menln America who will never resume specie pay­ ment until they are dead American and Knropean Doctors. It is said by celebrated physicians in Europe and America that German Hop Bit­ ters is one of the best remedies now in ussi Sold by all druggists. MARRIAGE makes men thoughtful. About half their time is spent in forming excuses. NEW BERN, Jf. B.--Hav. O. W. OfHey savs: "I have taken Brown's Iron Bitters ana con­ sider it one of the bes: medicines known."' 'iA lame Chinaman on the Pacific, Of pains and aches was prolific; """i IT"™ """ \ J .He limped all around^ nually through the port of Mokha, says . ^ Unttl he had found another authority; but this seems to bo, consumed, as Mr. Palgrave says, main­ ly in Africa and Turkey. The Mocha sold in the markets of Western Europe and America is from the East Indies. Some of it even never crossed the Atlantic, being produced in the West Indies or Central of South America. The really-exquisite flavor of this choice, small-berried coffee, to­ gether with the almost fanatical pre­ judice of the Turks for it, because it is rai-ed in Arabia, and the limited pro­ duction sufficiently account for the high price it commands. lb St. Jacobs CHI, the great specifio. * An Indisn Hero* Superstition settled many questions of war and of tribal policy. A band of Indians emigrated in a body from the Minisink region, to avoid a malign genius of the plaoe. A party of Sene- cas chased a young Catawba warrior for five miles. He succeeded in killing seven of them before they captured him. The next day, when he was led out to the torture, he escaped by a sud­ den dash, leaped into the river pmid a shower of bullets and swam under water like an otter, onlv rising to take breath. On the opposite bank he made insult­ ing gestures at his enemies, and fled away. Of those who pursued him, he slew a party of five while they slept, mangled and scalped them, and then, returning in the night, dug up and scalped the seven whom he had slain at first. A solemn council of his foes de­ cided that he must be a wizard, and that pursuit would therefore be use­ less.-- Dr. Edward Eggleston, in the Century. . ElectricFans. * The email electric motors which have become familiar since the recent development of electricity have been ingeniously applied, under a patent re­ cently taken out, to the working of fans for drawing-room use. The fan is mounted on an ornamental pedestal, and is kept in motion by hidden me­ chanical arrangement, workable either by spring motor or the electric motor The application of electricity as the motive power seetures long continuance of the fan's action without the labor of winding up. The battery is concealed in the interior of the pedestal: The same machinery Is adapted to the dif­ fusion of perfume in the drawing-room. --London News. Strange Halludnatloa. A drunkard labored under a curious hallucination of the faculty of hearing. He rose every morning full of the best resolutions, and determined to keep sober for the day. Unfortunately, the road to where he worked passed by a certain public houiBe, and at some dis­ tance from this fatal spot he became conscious of two voices crying in his ear, the one "He will not goin," the other, "He will go in." As he got neai the door the voice of the tempter in­ creased in force till it quite drowned that of the good angel. The matter always ended by his going in and tak­ ing a drink, when the hallucinations ceased as if by enchantment. DITTOES (Scotland) merchants, many of whom carry standing credits in the United States of from $75,000 to $100,- 100, say they have much fewer bad debts in the United States than, in Europe. THOMAS JEFFERSON wrote that great Malviny dono her letters, She knows cities were "pestilential to the morals, aheap she iuubrt ought ti* besides. health sad libortifs rtmw." , ' Ministers Counseling in Bed. A Spanish Minister signalized hiB accession to power by going straight­ way to bed and staying there lest he should be expected to do something. No English Minister ever adopted that ignoble expedient to escape performing his duties, but Walpole relates that William Pitt and the Duke of New­ castle once held a counsel together in bed. Pitt had the gout, and, as was his custom when so afflicted, lay under a pile of bed-clothes in a tireless room. The Duke, who was terribly afraid of catching cold, first sat down npon another bed, ae the warmest place available, drew up his legs into it as he grew colder, and at length fairly lodged himself under the bed-clothes. Some­ body coming in suddenly beheld "the two Ministers in bed at the two ends of the room, while Pitt's long nose and black beard, unshaved for some time, added to the grotesque nature of the scene." The great commoner was abed and asleep when Wyndham and others of his colleagues burst into his room and shook their chief out of his slum­ bers to tell him there was mutiny in the fleet, that the Admiral was a prisoner on board of his own ship and in danger of death. Sitting up in bed, Pitt asked for pen, ink and paper, and wrote: "If the Admiral is not released, fire upon the ship from the batteries," turned over on his pillow, and was asleep again before his disturbers were well out of the room. Physical Eadnranoe. Impure blood, dyspepsia, weak lungs, weak kidneys, and a weak nervous system are th« five jj'reat enemies of physical endurance Purify the blood, strengliten the various or- g .us of life by using Dr. Guyrotfs ¥ellov« Dock and Harsaf arilla, a preparation of Yel­ low D.K-k.KarKtparillA. Juniper, Iron, Buchu, Ce erv, Calisaya, etc. It is the Queen of all blood purifiers! It strengthens every part of the body. Its use will make you healthy and strong and Increase your power of en­ durance. It is Nature's best assistant Trj it. Ask your druggist to get it for yoa. Relation of Winds to Health. The results of careful and protracted meteorological observations by Dr. Pres- tel, the German physicist, show that it is possible to discover the original cause of diseases that are dependent upon climate and the weather, by a proper study of the winds as observed at that place--in fact, that the climatic charac­ ter of any region is exactly represented by the nature of the winds, and from their nature at different places their salubrity can be determined with much safety. Again, he finds that the winds and the character of the weather are identical with each other for any given month, the r,ickness, however, depend­ ing rather upon the climate of the pre­ ceding month, evidently because in it beg m the sickness which appears re­ corded, perhaps, in the statistical tables of the succeeding weeks or month. Dr. Prestel remarks that the most un­ favorable condition of the atmosphere is a long period of prevailing calm, or very slight breezes; thus, in many cli­ matic diseases, as malaria, yellow fever, etc., it appears that when they became epidemic there has preceded that time a long period of calm weather, the lowest stratum of air resting quietly upon the earth. DIPHTHERIA poisons the blood. Convales­ cents should take Hood's Saraparilla to neu­ tralize and eradicate the poison matter. QUESTION in natural history--What does a catamount to? BOCK A A--Rev. J. & White says: "I used Brown's Iron Bitters for general de­ bility. It restored me to strength and vigoft" GTAMNJAIIF FOR 3PAT1V. Rheumatism,Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lwnhags, Backactet. Hisfraw. TseMuwhs. i» «U OTMKX BOMMT PUSS >» Ifcr Dragfiauw4l>M)eri«Te»*lM««. TOjCaut MmU--»in II Ui|<a|H. THE CHABLKS A. V«««« . . • A. V<M*U**CO.> fcWWI, THE man who pulled wool for a shoe- thread never made a shoe in his lifa *ITTERS There has never been an instance In which thil sterling invigorant and anti-febrile medicine has failed to ward off the complaint, when taken duly as a protection against malaria. Hundreds of pbysiciana have abandoned all the officinal specifics, and uow prescribe this harmless vegetable tonic for cliills and fever, as well as <ly«)»ep«ia and nervous affoctiouk Hostetter's letters is the specific you need. For sale by nil • -- 1 v. PLEASE RAHKR CHOLEBA, CHOLERA MORBUS, Ai well vail i For Sudden Golds, Sore Throst, a tablrwpoonfal of PAV-XxLUBi WtaaSfilta Lin? nf ao amck wmMM»aa iteoat wvarCiaiaS !, sid save xanoh HBriv. ke finning nt cure, Neuralgia, RLMMTTM, BMS, - Stalls, Gits, Mm, m»i£ mm huMtqal ' aeare The Fiix-KnxxB baa known to fail to effoct «eed in acme ot the tarmt infirmaries in tbe world. To or other slock chilled anA drtaf PAM-Euxaa mixed with rnok wi health very quickly. tl i wTlinriW SBC a week in your own town. Terms and $3 outfit #UO free. Address H. HALLKIT & Uo., Portland, it a. A GENTS WANTED for the Best and Fastest- JOL Selling Kctorial Books and Bibles. Prices reduced 8 per cent. NATIONAL PUBLISHIXU CO.. Chicago. 111. "THE BEST IS CHEAPEST." ENGINES, TURPQIIPfK HILLS, Horse Powers Clover llallors (Suited to nil sections.) Write for FREKIllus. Pamphlet •cil Prices to XUa Aultman & Taylor Co., Mausileld. Ohio. A6ENT8 WANTED Ea or croup in less" time than any other LAu-lenl known. REMARKABLE for overcoming diseases caused by impure water, dioavln^ vegeta­ tion, etc., is Brown's Iron Bitters. SiumcE is the better part o% true orators1 eloquence. Personal t--To Men Only ! THX VOLTAIC BELT CO., Marshall. Kich., will send Dr. Dve's Celebrated Electro- Voltaic Belts and felectric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (younp or old) who are afiiicted with nervous debility, lost vi­ tality and kindred troubles, guaranteeing jspeedy and complete restoration of health and manly vigor. Address as above. N. 11.-- No risk is incurred, as thirty days' trial is al­ lowed. Oood for Man and Boast! Read This! Strange but true that the Army and Navy Liniment will cure your rheumatism, neural. less time than any other r For sale by all druggi£t& FUSE Cod-Liver Oil, made from selected livers on the sea-shore, by CARWEIX, HAEABD A Co., New York. It i'- absolutely pure and sweet, l'ationt* who have once' taken it pretvr it to ajl othera Physicians have de­ cided it superior to /my of the other oils in market No rowoNotm drugt enter into the compt sition of CarltoHne, a <lc >dorl*ed extract < petroleum, the u.ii' ; ti lialr restorer an ores»hi{!\ as now improved and perfeeteo "°t It is the perfection of thr chemist's art. an| eu> will, bevond a iieiadveuturo, restore th hair on liald lieaua _ "v® CHArrun Hands, Face, Plmnlea. and rone W)" Skin, euied kv using JPMI'EI: TAR HOAP. mod Me by C.ISWKLL, HAEAMD A Jo., New York. . Tire most ffw'nrtaMe I toot in town is thai oes With Lyon's l'atent Metallic Heel Htiffener&p pg «'1.KAN.sK THE HL.OOO. F.xperieuce teaches tliat certain vepetables eiert diffcutiou powerful Influence upon the blood ; deficient It (I nutrition is stimulated, tbe burdened current is nnj loaded, and poisons withheld from tbe parts whicl they pollute and defile. This simple, natural actional'* parifyiiiK the blood, is promptly accomplished by • ||{) HOOD'S 8AHSAI*AKIL.I.A, C, OT Which actually strains ont the impurities, remover obstructions, and opens the natural outlets of tbe sy<A"* tern. No rack, no strain, no pain accompanies it. CAPT. J. P. THOMPSON, of Lowell. RENTER of Deed* . for Middlesex county. Northern district, says: "I havt| " never found anything that bit my wants as Hood's]a Barssparilla. It purifies my blood, sharpens my petite, and makes me over." "If people want a medicine to go all through 'em ancito. wake 'em up, tell them to take Hood's Sarsaparilla."- FBEKMAN N.BIXBY, Meredith. N. H. | lieinember this fact--You find in no other blooc"t purifier or sarsaparilla the same combination ot valu |e- •ble medicinal agents as in Hood's Sarsaparilla. \ HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA. j lie Sold by Druggists. $t, or six for $5. Made only bj •- C. I. HOOK t CO., Apothecaries, Lowell. Maas.' ^ Twenty-four Hours to live. ' (I From John Kohn, Lafayette. Ind., who announce! that he is now in "perfect health," we have the follow- inn: "One year ago I was, to all appearance, in the last le stages of Consumption. Our best physicians gave mj «ase up. I finally got so low Chat our doctor said 1 could not live twenty-four hour<s. Mr friends thee purchased a bottle of Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs, which considerably benefited me. I contAuec until I took nine bottles. I am now in perfect health kmttag nsed no other medifiue." Henry's Carbolic Salve. It is the Best Salve for Cuts, Bruises, Sore*, Dietw gait Rheum. Tetter, Chapped Hand?, Cliilbi.iins,Corni and all kinds of Skin Eruptioiin, Freckles and I'miples EVER-YWHKKE t.i aeli the best family Knit* tlnur Machine ever inventt-it. Will knit a pair ol stockings Willi HI-:i;i. anil TOK < <im >Iot«* in jfl minutes. It will nl«r> knit a irreat variety i>f fan.-y- work tor wliioli there is always a ready market. Send for circular and t-nns to the Twombly Knitting Machine Co., lGi Trcmont Street. Boutin, Mass. TTO&WO&OHI 3VE X KT 33. Mention thin vaper with your ad- irens on postal eird to II. \V. HILL fc (X)., 1« West Main St., l>Kt-.vn;i?. III., will ohtaiu a book 1- KEK with the number of llojs in each Stat? •nd Eu'-ope. Census 1SS0, alno •> popular story e-.ititled A HAT HtMi OF JUNK." QQNSUMPTI0% •as thousands of eases or tbs wont kind and of long Maadlnc hars bsso cnrcd. la<1e«<l, so strossls BT fkliK (alts efflcsey, that I win send TWO BOTTLES ntIB, to- cstbor WITH * VALUABLE TKKATISK on this di--sM,to On the 19th of May THX CHICAGO 1 mence the publication of one of I stories ever written, entitled "A MISBBM IttlaWB.* This story was written expressly FOR THX TOTWU and cannot fail tc please every reader. THE CHICAGO LEDOER is rapidly aasnmin* apeal- tion in the front ranks among literary pabUcattaaat. and is to-day the oldest story paper published In th* West. Every issue contains two continued and mmnt complete stories, besides a column for The lildlm The Children. The Farm and Household, a Base Ball and Puzzle Department, and plenty of Humor. As A special inducement to new subscribers, we offer- as a premium a new book, which may be selected from the following list. These books an worth watt than the subscription price of the paper. Do NOT MISTAKE Ova OFFKB.--It is this: WewQL send THE LEDGER one year, postage paid, and CM book, postage paid, to any person who sends us On , DOLLAR in currency, postage stamps, money ordero* bank draft. This propoeition ia open only to yeariy HfeMribML ' T f l "1 :MAIT. TW ipaa Unlock. W K W A N T 1 > ° ° ° " > o r « B O O K AOENTB •• B W « 11 1 for GEN. DODGE'S New Book, THIRTY-THREE YEARS AMONO OUR WILD INDIANS Introduction by GKN. SHEKMAX. Superb Illustrations. This great work was subscribed for by Pres. Arthur, Gen. 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Said yesterday: "One of tbe most touching incidents nf tbe war tliat came unde my observation was on our long marcl from Cliattanooga down to At lama lltiixlrecls of colored people, old an young, followed the nrmy. * I ti*ed tr*'" pltj these poor, foot-sore, nnd somtt times hungry blacks. One day a weak looking negro woman was trudging along in the dust with the command carrying a little half Jiaked child as black as the ace of spades. The woman looked ready to drop, hut she was bound not to be lei t behind. { saw McPhereon watching her, and pretty soon lie rode up along side tof her and said: Vive me the child.' ty took it AmTiel k upon the pommel of bis sad­ dle and carried it there tor live miles. The mothec was so grateful that the teal's ran down her face when she car.ie to take tiie urchin again, and tried to thank the General W his kindness. U was not long after that that we lo*t one ol the greatest generals the war pro­ duced, and oue or the best ineu I ever knetv." 1. EAST LTNNE, by Mrs. Henry Wood. . SO. THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, by Chaa. ] %. AURORA FLOYD, by M.B. BnMoa. 89. IVAN HOE, by Sir Walter Hoott. 45. LIFE'S SECRET, by 86. PUT YOURSELF IN ' 610. TOM BROWN AT OXFORD, T30. THE IRISH DETECTIVE, Sleuth." TO. TBK PILGRIM'S PROOI KTO. OOIXIVXR'S TRA 8M. DORA THORNE, by Mrs. Henry Wood. ^ Hia PLACE, by Chaa. RMil »RooREaa, by John Banyan. )^Beltl^l2?3ay? •i'i Write your name and addreaaaa plainly aa*o«ttto. ) sending your subscription be aure togtvettwHppW d number of the book you wiah aant aa a premt--.. Address all letters to the CHICAGO liSDOBa, Chleaao, XU^ PIUMSMS XX.-NOTICE-: SBLUEFLANIELli Ollaftrisr Haallly aold M UM 'teniae ViddlaaHt,** fdo by that nald, Tbe Mttdlaasx CMM»,li«Maf >rotect their customers and tha ^ t liereafterallClothinc niedefrth X STANDARD INDIOO LLDK R .. aelfclats»-WitiaSi, tha BeTlli^L enu to all partUa ordarii* the foeda. WENDELL, PAY * CO.t . [SELUNO AGBMT8, JflDDLESKX COMP."*-" ' I ftud •• Worth St.. 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AdJre^s Queea City m ilt?r Co. fCinc;naati.O THE SUN9 THE SUN now has a arculation 'Over a MILLI0H ^ A WEEK. Irculation verv tn-.u h Urzcr than that of any other American li^wspsrer. I.«st year it printed 36,536,080 copies of its "(! 1 editions. People of all conditions of life and all wavs of think­ ing Duy and read and like TIIE Subscription: DAILT (4 pages), by mail, 55v. a tuonth. or sm.30 a year; SUN D AT I8 paKes»,®L.aO per year; WEEKLX fS pages), Si per year. 1J for tale at £ow prieea and on Easy ft ISM, or open to pre-emption anH Hom**U<a& ISntry. The great movement of popttlmiion to the Columbia region note in prmgreoo will be enormously inert*toed ty Me completion of the Northern Paeifle & Jt, and the Oregon Xttilteaff Jt Ntuftgation Co.'* Bijttemo. This renders certain a rapid increase in the value Of Lands note open to purchase or to entry under the United State* Land Latcs. For Pau phleta and Maps descriptive of the country. Its reaoorcea, climate, routes of travel, rates aad full information, address A. L. STOKES, General Eastern Agwat, M Clark Street, Chicago, TH. JUST OF DI8EASU ALWAY8 CURABLE BT U8DT9 MEXICAIT MUSTANG UNIMENT. •r IUMAV nan. Bkeumatiam. Barns and Scalda, Stln^a and Bites, Cuts and Braises, Sprains * Stitches, ContractedKnscles StUrjTolnta, Batharhe, Ernptlon% Frost Bites, OF Scratches, Sores and Galls* Spavin, Craeks, Screw Wonaa, Foot Bot, Hoof Ail, Ssrlnny, Sprains, Wwlan Sore Fee*, StlSWeas, and all external dlsetaes. and every hurtoraeeident Sfcrfaaxal naa ia family, stable and atock yard itii VIIBESf OTAIL LINIMENTS Advertising Cheats!!! . It has become so common to write QtS ginning of an article in an elegant, inter- ing manner, ' Then ran it into some advertisement, thafc ; 1 avoid all an eh, 'And simply call attention to the merit* Hop Bitten in as plain, honest terms atf- tsible, •'}*: To induce people > .1 "To give them on* trial, which so JMWN* their vuae that tiey will never use anything * ' else." "THE BEICBDT SO favorably noticed inaD the papers, , "Beugioos and secular, is "Having a large sale, and is supplanting all other medicines. * "There is no denying the virtues of th# Hop plant, and the proprietors of Hop tejn have shown-great shrewdness j"And ability 1 "fa "^ropoonding a medicine whoee v!r- » j® niuri'ow^ ot wliltih we so often boaa«t ourselves imijr neve* coin* to u*. Wm. ;«!«> not live lo-morroir. We »>y| ;Ulii any title-deeifeis, Tli» UMM WIN| avowns whole blocU of real estate an4f jf rent ships ou the Sf a, not owo v' *®;single tuiuute of tu-morrow r»fc. morrow! ltU s^iatsieriouit pu«*|bill<.' tm " ' 1 "XM • : '• ".•'J 'MM mtUot yet bortu U Ilea under lite seal aiidniglit, helilnti tl«e *eil u< 2llttf>, |..^ <HMi»i«Uatiou8.,k Nawr lu Hie living be<pr«fseut is tii« hour of pfobaiioii, th* ^°r Uiprav«nicutt(be tiny J "»lvwl<Hi. Let (u lbs tliM • BfcS jKcauMe the tlays ttre eviL ' « B A K B W J R K . hea The cvWbritteil 1-yni.-iu Barb Wlis, ter^WMD to mute. Ila* IM«H lit we tt>^ vernl jf*r* and U is (wamwiH uiuetl by otie. Fur tuli' i»r JttHX'l.»TORT% Big lilan Feed Kill*. TE VVUI ^rliul Cob ami all* SIh»Hm| •S^oi'ti itud U»us mixvil. Witt r tnied > i ns gotxl \v*i k ib any tftitl fttr a *lu»i» jtr purpose, and to grh.il a* «:i»t lor kind «»f grimCug iwoiui»e«dr>| »uy oilier milt ul aain<' Kite ai<*| For i*ale by .H, «| J, Sberman, • 4vhi2 2 utiles We*t uf Uuilvury <ni lilt Vot'ilsiti'k road. - uii.