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ATTHr.BALL. O. Tom. how ccm'd vou treat me so? You knew me t ash.ul. coy and tky) You knew. or.surely oufirht to know, 'Twas wrong to kiss me on the sly; s And yet, atMi s. Ei-raore's hRll, When bjr the cur ains we were hid. You k ned me thrice ere I could c*il-- > . You did, you rotrue, you know you did. And then, all through the waltz quadrille. You equecz d my hand and pressed ray wu Ft. The moro I blushed. the harder sto, Till, r,-allv, Iieltqui e disjrraefuf. And When I stern.y looked at yni»J~F=r.--*'- Aft ihough such license to forb di: You winked and all the bo der trrew-- You did, you ecamp, you know you did. B' t wor«» ihan all, when once RIO 'C, You whisp - ed love-words in myHf, Inpasslonuie and lender tone, 4 A Till, oh! I lelt extremely queer. ' ! I tried to laugh but hu l to cry. My tear* fell fast the flowers amid; And In your arms you made me lie-- You did, bad boy, you know you did. , . t And then you held me, oh! sn fast* "Till Mrs Elsmcre came to see * What kept UB: tor an hour had paCti-' 'v Upon i he moonlit It <lcny. L: \ You faid: 'My birdie I ha've Cfred," The while rny burmnsr face 1 hid; •'I'm pleased lind proud, for we'te enMHred**-- You d d, rte«r Tom, you know you d.d. Wnerville Journal '> THINGS THAT NEVER MB. ie pure, the bright, the beautiful. That stirred our hearts in youth, . The impu so of a worldless prayer. The dream of ove and truth. The lonjrnjr after something lost, 'Jhe spirit's ye rniDjr cry. The siriv iv; after better hopes-- ~ These tilings shall never die. Tbp timid hard stretched forth to aid A brother in his need. The kindly word in grief's dark hour That proves a fr eiid ind ed; The plea for mercy, softly breathed, -When justice threatens nigh; The sorrowing of a contrite heart-- These things shall never die. -Let nothing pass, for every hand Must find some work to do: L"se net a chance to Wi keti lovet . Be firm and just and true; So shu l it iiprht that cai not fado Beoni en thee from on high, An<i an^el voice- sa» to thee, "Thefe things can never die." --The Guardian. OLD TIME MILLS AND FLAILS. BY K. G. BVRDETTE. All the world about tlie miHhaiigone to sleep. It is hibernating, like tbe bear. The hills have pulled the sheets of jsnow up to their chins and over their heads, and sleep so souldly that the restless winds have to do their snoring for them, and go sighing and einging and whistling, and sometimes howling and shrieking through the leafless oaks and the swaying cedars, and through the rocky echoing glens, raging through all the varied gamut of the infinite snore of slumbering na­ ture. How patiently wait the cedars for the days of spring and sunshine of June. All the other trees have given up long ago, and ceased to look for anything save snow and sleet and bit­ ing frosts and winter rains. How fear­ fully they moan and wail when the winds come sweeping down from the northwest. They have thrown away every brown leaf, weeks and weeks ago. They will never wear leaves again, they know. , The ground about their frozen feet is hard as flint The sap is frost in their veins. Their limbs are stiff. The skies are grey, the hills are white and the meadows are drifted. There will never be any summer again, so the oaks and the maples and the hickories compla:n. But the patient cedars-- bending under the burden of snow that trims their dark green cloaks with white as soft as swan's down, they look upon the sleeping fields and down at the silent creek, patiently, trustfully * waiting for May or June. Never wail­ ing because the snows are deep and the winter is long; when the winds are soft and gentle the cedars whisper, and when the gales are blowing fiercely, they only sigh and shake the snow from their shoulders as they bend and Bway. But always they are hopeful, patient, and they stretch their green ' arms out over the billows of snow, as if to greet the coming spring, which they alone of all the trees can Bee. And the busy, noisy, prattling, sing­ ing creek has gone into a new business. It has formed a co-partnership with the thermometer and gone into the manufacture of protoxide of hydrogen on a large scale. Ice-bound as far as you can see, and in the air holes here and there, how black and cold the wa­ ter runs. The dam is bearded with long, venerable icicles, and tho shiver­ ing spray has coated every branch and twig along the shore with sparkling frostwork. Fairy work it is; J une can make nothing lovelier than this silver lace work, with all her roses. Down below the silent wheel the creek does not murmur and laugh. It chatters and shiver, and just as fast as it oan, runs under the ice to get out of the biting wind that comes howling down the great ravine and spitefully nips at ripples as it goes sweeping across to the white hills and the moaning oaks. How it will twist and bend the knotty old monarchs in its wild, rough play. It even catches the old mill by the shoulders and shakes it until its very windows rattle and the pigeons up in the loft coo and murmur soft, musical, frightened protests. The pigeons pass most of their time in the mill loft these days. I wonder if the Tumbler, in these long, stormy winter days of confinement, practices new feats of twisting and tumbling for his summer flights. I think he does. I know he does, indeed. And the Fan- tail there, is telling that pair of Nuns about a barn he once lived in that was haunted by the restless, cooing ghost of an unhappy Pouter, who loved a great strong Carrier, with snch a long neck and beautiful shape. He enlisted in the mail service and went away to war. and c arried dispatches from a be­ leaguered city out over the lines. For many a long, long sunny day, through all the dreadful summer, the poer Pouter wa'ted and pined away and watched for him, and called him all day long. And so, in early Novem­ ber--the squirrels had just had their harvest home, and the bine birds and brown thrnshes and meadow larks and so many other families were packing to go south with their children, and they nearly all took their dinner at the mill that day. An east wind, tbat had come all the way over the sea, swept up to the perch just outside the round win­ dow where the pretty Pouter was plain­ tively calling for Messenger, and laid a soft feather, broken and stained with blood, at her feet. She died that very afternoon, and the leaves buried her, down by a big grey rock where the maiden-hair tern grew, but always after that, all day long and sometimes in the night, they could hear her calling, call­ ing, calling for Messenger. If they go to that barn, to-day,--it's a big side- 1 hill barn, painted red, with a ship for a weather vane, away, way up the creek, where they thresh wheat with the trampling horses and thundering flails yet; he was born in that barn. And the two pretty Nuns--I can hear thera sobbing in soft, tremulous c|>os as they listen with me. How do I knowwhathesiid? My boy, if you will haunt the old mill loft as much as I did when I was your age, and many years older, too, you will un­ derstand every word a pigeon says. Why here, come to the window; look tip the creek there, see on the side of th%t bald hill, with just a fringe of oak and maple about the base of the skull, do you see that old barn? That used to be red: a little faded out now; looks like an old fashioned carnation lying in tho snow. Well, that is the barn •that Fan tail was born in. Come to look at him, I believe I knew that fel­ low when he was a squab. I know the barn all by heart I knew the minute lie said it was the barn where they threshed the wheat with flails. Ah, it's the last farm in this part of the great Northwest to do that. Bcom, boom, boom! Do you hear that? "For the fitches are not threshed frith a threshing instrument," said Isaiah, ever so long ago, "neither is a carrat wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with li rod." Listen again, you cannot help but hear it: •STho jrray barn«, ,'ookingr from the'r hazy hilis v O'er the ulm wa ers wideninjr in the vales, fi.'nd down the air a greeting 'o the mills On tho dull. liunde.' of ult?rnat • flails " 1 Why, it is a sad thought, it is a solemn Tact to contemplate, that there are chil­ dren born in this republic,who are vouiig tnen and women now, who came in since jfclie last flail went out; who never saw ft flail; never heard one, having no idea why flails should be "alternate." Do J*ou know, I talked, not two weeks ago, lo a young man born and brought up on an Ohio farm, who didn't know What a flail was ? Hp looked me in the teve and made the confession without a blush. The first time I met with a flail was down in Stark county, Illinois. You know that country as well as I do. Elder Gross was iiving in Toulon at the time, turning sinners into, Baptists wherever he could find a stream of waist-deep water, and Grandfather Jones' farm lay just outside of Lafay­ ette. Unable to tlunk of any specific mischief I could work out about the farm that morning, pitilessly locked out of the tool house because I had "sharpened" a keyhole saw with a rat- tail file, and sawed an ox bow in two with an eye to fancy sled runners the next winter, I had climbed up into the barn loft to comfort myself with the pigeons. Boom, boom; boom, boom; down stairs, and down ladder and post and the incline of mountains of hay I slid, and scrambled, and rolled, until I found the men threshing on tlie^fcarn floor. I had always assisted at threshing heretofore. We had threshed afore­ time in the old, old way; we had trod­ den out the corn with the muzzled ox, and with the tightly checked hordes, and 1 could stand in the middle of the ring and keep the procession moving. But somehow I had always missed this flail business. Often I had heard the noisy, booming din from other far­ away barns, on the clear November air, and now I knew what it WAS. Never did a boy wait so impatiently for the dinner-horn. I thought the men would never go away, that 1 might dance one Bet with the flail myself. How feasy it was. How deftly the strong arms swung the great whips of oak, and with graceful sweeps lashed the golden grain irom the quivering bearded straw. How I admired the play of the brawny arms, and how I longed to take the contract of threshing out all the rest of that wheat myself. The handmaiden name to the kitchen door at last, and wound her mellow horn, the hungry men went to dinner, end trembling with eagerness I ap­ proached the flail, as it leaned against the sidt> of the fanning mill. Somehow it looked taller and grim* mer than when it was gyrating about in the air, in graceful curves, ellipses and parabolas. I shook hands with the short leg, and the touch chilled me. I felt as I think a man must feel when he steps into the ring and shakes hands with Slugger Sullivan. A fiail looks quiet enough. It seems gentle. It is not at all the Bort of whip a Christian man would flog the little one with, but in its hours of ease it has a quiet, come - where - my-love-lies dreaming expression that is desperate­ ly wicked, and deceitful above all things. A flail is your true patrician. It is cordial and actively useful with the equals, but it resents any familiar­ ity from its inferiors. In the grasp of its master, it is clay in the hands of the potter; gripped by the unwary and swung by the uninitiated, it is a brick in the hands of a rioter, or a stone thrown by a lovely woman. Some feeling of this kind began to oppress me as I examined the simple, primitive mechanism of the Hail. There lias never been auy improvement in the construction of this implement. The flail sprang into being, Minerva­ like, full grown, of mature age, and in complete armor, soucd in wind, limb, and condition. The first flail, like the first bird's nest, was a }>erfect model for all posterity. A whip of oak or hickory, with the lash a little shorter than the handle, and nearly as heavy; lash and handle loosely swung togeth­ er with a thong that holds like a mort­ gage. The sheaves of wheat that look out from the elbows of the barn where, tbe last of the load, they are crowded, shiver when they look down and see the flail leaning up against a bin, like a village bully, waiting for a chance to pound something. But nothing scares a boy very long. I picked up the flail. It was heavier than I supposed it could be. 1 inarched out on the barn floor to where the bearded sheaves were lying, ranked along in two .even rows, head to head, and the line of battle just long enough for the sweep of the "alternate flails." I raised the simple implement above my head. I gave the same bold, care* less swing--I kntiw ldid--that uncle Fred used, and right in the midst of the first circling rush, without hesita­ tion, remorse, warning, or compunction of conscience. I was knocked down. First event for the flail. When I got up the flail lay there on the floor. It had not changed. It was the same calm, impassive old flail. I rubbed my head, felt carefully of the lump, and decided that I couldn't wear my Sunday hat for two weeks, and con­ sequently would not have to go to church, and then I grappled the flail again. I shrugged my shoulders to protect my head, and led the german. I never saw any qiret thing fly around as that flail did. Twice I saw it go sweeping past my face. Once it smote me in the back with a resound­ ing Aump that made me think, then and there, it had broken my heart And all this time I couldn't gei the bulge on it to whang it down on the wheat. I had got it started on its inhuman circuit and I couldn't stop it. I had raised a demon Ir^^fjilild not control. It pounded my fits sore in rapid successive strokes; my p.rms were twisting out of their sockets; it was all I could do to keep my feet on the floor; the longer I held on the worse it got At last 1 let go all "holts,* threw my arms over my head and started to run for my life. It just rained flails, broadside, end on, and cris-cross, down on me all the way across, the big barn, until, with one final mighty crash, I fell down on the astonished dog Hec­ tor, trying to hide himself behind the straw cutter, a limp, ineTt, hopeless wreck of howling boy, pitiless flail and terrified dog. I began to think I would let out part of that threshing contract I sat up and cried for a minute or two, and made souse remarks on the subject of flails, not necessarily for publication, but merely to place myself on record in case a bill for the prohibi­ tion of flails as a beverage should ever be called up, and once more I arose and picked my enemy up by the long end. I collared him with both hands, and re­ solved tnat if the sacrifice of my poor life was demanded in order that future generations of boys might know how to dance round dances with a loose-jointed flail with misfit legs, I would die in the cause right there, even though the next time I fe:l on the dog it killed both of us. The god-like Hector, comforting his own wounds and bruises with healing tongue, looked at me from a new lurk­ ing place behind the fanning mill, saw that I was preparing to enter tho lists once more, and with an expression of amazement and disgust, and a rush that scattered the wheat sheaves like leaves in a November blast, shot out of the barn door, and then, with hair erect and every muscle quivering with ex­ citement, turned to look at me. "That boy," he said to the bay colt, who had come down to that end of the pasture to see -what all the row was about, "has gone stark, raving mad and is trying to club himself to death with a pair of pitchfork handles, but I'm out of the game. I'll pull him out of a mill pond all day long, but if a boy deliberately makes up his mind to hackle himself with a jointed club, I pass. I can get enough showers of broomsticks to satisfy me any day, by scooping a ham-bone off the kitchen table. I'm not so fond of hickory that I will come to the barn and ask for more." And the brute fled the scene of con­ fusion, just as I swept the encircling space with the flail in a final effort In the first and only circuit, the short leg flew straight up in the air, then dropped and tapped me on the head. Then it reached out at right angles and smote a three-gallon jug of ancient eidar from its high perch on the fan­ ning mill, sweeping it into an everlast­ ing temperance revival, then it swooped down with the sweep or a hawk, came around and caught me behind the knees, dropped me on the floor with a thud that made me sick for a week, and in that humiliating position the men found me. I was sitting on the flail. My enemy was at my feet, but I was not vain-glorious in my triumph. And when grandfather said, severely, "That boy has been at the cidar," I sighed in bitterness of spirit, because I knew better than he did how energetically I had been at it. And the day never came when I could use a flail. Before the dawn of that triumph, the threshing machine began to break the le?s of men with its far- reaching tumbling-rod, and the flail weut out of business. "In it« crib the babe is sleeping And the sunshine, fromtlhe door, All the afternoon is creeping Slowly 'round upon the floor: Ard the shadows soon will darken. And the daylight soon must i aie. When her heart no moiv shall barken To the tramping: of the flail Ta the duncinir of the flail-- He>- Jond heart no more shall hearken • To the foot fall of the flail." Probably no man Is better known or mora highly respected than Mr. Julian 8. Carr, President of the Blackwell's Durham Tobac­ co Co., of Durham, N. C. In every tobacco store In the United States, and tn many for­ eign countries, Black well'aDurham Tobacco is sold, and it is a well-known fact that the sales of this Company largely exceed those of any other tobacco manufacturer. That snch eucucss has been obtained is due to the en­ ergy, integrity and ability of Mr. Carr, who has so successfully managed the affairs of the Company. Such a letter as the following, written by Mr. Carr to a personal friend. Prof. G. Donaldson, New Orleans, La., proprietor of Museums, who suffered eighteen years with rheumatic pains, states he has spent ten thousand dollars to get cured. After trying doctors, famous baths, electric appliances,and legions of liniments without relief, he tried St. Jacobs Oil, which completely cured him. It is a wonderful remedy, he says, and he has sold his crutches. "'t*! ' < * -ijirVPfri'IT-" IT3» • 1 r armer Diggins had a horse to sell, and at the market he commenced to dilate on the animal's good qualities. "How much will you give for him?" whose only interest in the matter referred to I shouted Diggins. was a desire to do a friendly act, is certainly worthy ot careful reading. DURHAM, N. C., Feb. 23, 1881. MTDKAB "MAC:" I huve delayed writing to you, with reference to the Atnlophoros remedy, until 1 could hear from a friend of mine, a gentleman of high character, who 'Forty dollars," yelled a voice. " 'Twon't do," eaid Tiggins. "Ten dollars," shouted a wall-eyed man. "He's worthless," cried another. "Who said he was a worthless ani- uscd Athlophoros at my suggestion with very j mal?"t howled Diggins. "'Twas you Some Wedding Superstitious. In Sweden, a bride must carry bread in her pocket, and as many pieces of it as she can throw away, just so much trouble does^she cast from her; but it is no luck to gather the pieces. Should the bride lose her slipper, then she will lose all troubles, only in this case the person who picks it up will gain riche3. The Manxmen put salt in their pockets, and the Italians "blessed" charms. The Romans were very super­ stitious about marrying in May or Feb­ ruary; they avoid all celebration days, and the Calends, Nones, and Ides of every month. The day of the week on which the 14th of May fell, was consid­ ered very unlucky in many parts of "merry old England," and in the Ork­ ney Islands a bride selects her wedding day so that its evening may have a growing moon and a flowing tide. In Scotland the last day of the year is thought to be lucky, and if tho moon should happen to be full at any time when a wedding takes place, the bride's cup of happiness is expected to be al­ ways full. In Perthshire the couple who have had their bans published at the end of one, and are married at the beginning of another, quarter of a year, can expect nothing but endf. Style a Good Thing. The common herd needs a little of it, intermingled with the plain, to make the picture complete. All good cloth­ ing and bright colors would grow mo­ notonous if it were not for the tender shades poverty and simplicity throw in­ to the paths of business and society. To be sure, you get the best tokiches of human nature from the humble. The poor furnish the best lessons of life. Those who struggle for bread or a place in the world teach us the most and tell us the best stories that are written. Culture is too apt to make" us liars. Perhaps not of the offensive sense, but in reality. To sit on the wheel of fortune and atop"4 at the stile marked style and fashion means to ap­ pear what we are not and act what we do not believe. To cultivate the graces alone is to be a cheap actor. It is better to be rude, natural, and hon­ est than polite and insincere.--Phila­ delphia Are>rn. It Does Seem a Little Utopian. The time may come--although it now seems too Utopian a dream to be real­ ized--when public schools will be pro­ vided with medical, dental, and optical inspectors, because public opinion will then recognize that education does not consist solely in setting a boy or girl on a wooden bench, with a primer or a geography before them, but in seeing lo it that the body is not neglected for the mind.--Ph iladelph in Bulletin. Skates Made of Bone. The origin of skating, as of so many interesting things, is lost in the night of ages. The earliest skates were made of bone and were fastened to the foot with cords. Such skates, in a more or less state of preservation, have been discovered in England, Holland, Swe­ den, and Iceland; and according to some accounts they were used in Lon­ don as long ago as the time cjf Henry IL--Brooklyn Eagle. SNAKES are never found on the Is­ land of lona, off the west coast of Scot­ land, although they exist on another island only "three-quarteri OXfc mile distant , be at the New Orleans Exposition, and my letters havo failed to reach "him. So 1 will not delay answering your letter longer. You want to know whether Athlophoros is really as good as you thought when you so kind­ ly sent me a couple bottles. I had a sis­ ter who was a victim of neuralgia and rheumatism. She suffered intensely, and her coudition gave her family and friends much concern, fcvery known remedy was tried, but without eliect. When the bottles you sent me came, I sent one to my sister and one to my sister in-law. My sister was so encouraged from the use of this one bottle that I put her upon a thorough treatment of Athlophoros I certainly owe you and Athlophoros a great debt, of grati­ tude for the re ief the retntr.ly has piven her. She has almost completely recovered from rheumatism, so much so thut she has stopped the usi* of Athlophoros and considers herself well. My sister-in-law, to whom I gave the other bottle, was suffering fearfully with neuralgia, she had lecome unconscious from the pain--the Athlophoros relieved her en­ tirely. 1 gave a bottle of Athlophoros to an Intimate friend who suffered such intense pain in his head that he looked as if his eyes would start from their sockets, and by its use he has been greatly benefited,, and tells me that he received such relief from it that he orders it by the box and keeps it at all times In his house-- is nerer without it--can't aflor<l to be, this Is the gentleman to whom I wrote. 1 wanted to send with this his opinion in his own hand­ writing, but as I stated, he must still be at New Orleans. A very worthy colored man, a house carpenter, Jim Whitted by name, lives In the house adjoining "my man of all work." One morning my man told me that Jim was suffering >o intensely from rheumatism that the neighborhood was disturbed day and night by his cries of agony. Wishing to test Athlophoros before my own eyes on a genu­ ine case of acute rheumatism, I wrote the Athlophoros Company stating Jim's condi­ tion, and offerini', if they would send me the remedy, to see that it had a fair trial in his case. I con less, with all my confidence in Athlophoros, I doubt'd whether it could help Jim, but it was faithfully tri°d, and I think the proudest man now in all this community is Jim Whitted. He cla ras to be entirely relieved of all his rheumat sm, and not only that, but he says the stiffness in his joints, which came with the rheumatism, has all been removed. Within thirtv hours after he began to use Athlophoros he felt like an­ other person. These instances have all come under my personal knowledge. 1 am very slow to speak of or recommend any medicine, but when a remedy ha^ the virtue and the merit that 1 believe Athlophoros has, 1 can­ not hesitate to recommend it. 1 have given you or?*--don't they answer your question fully? Yours tiuly, J. 8. CAKK. If you cannot get ATHI.OPIIOBOS of your drug­ gist we will send it, express raid, on" receipt of regular price--one dollar per bottle. We prefer that you buy It from your druggist, but if he hasn't it do not be persuaded to try something else, but order at once from us, as directed. AraryPHOROs Co. 112 Wall street, New York. A Proof-Reader. Oapt. F. M. Duffy, a newspaper man well known in Tennessee, was for a time editor of the Franklin (Ky.) Patriot. On evening, shortly after he began his work on the Patriot, the foreman went into the editorial room and said: "Captain I left some proofs tWre on your desk. I wish you would read them to-night, for I have to ' make-up' early in the morning." MI have an engagement to take a young lady to a moonlight picnic to­ night," the Captain ruefully replied. "Can't help that; we must have the proofs. It won't take you long." The Captain broke hiB engagement and went to work. There were only three columns of long primer, but In- mistaking the advanced slips of a stereotyped story to be the proof-sheets , referred to, lie devoted himself to Vthem, a cheerless task, indeed, for they Jtold all about "liachel, the Miser's Daughter." Early next morning, when the fore­ man reached the office and saw the mistake, he promptly exploded. The Captain had read thirtv-six columns, and had found a turned! comma. On his desk the following note waB found: "Have worked all night on these blasted proofs and have found one error. You've got a splendid lot of compositors, I must say, but I notice they set fiction much better than they do local matter."--Arkansaw Trav­ eler. The Most Precious of Gifts. Health is undeniably a more precious gift than riches, honor, or power. Who would exchange it for these, the chief objects of human ambi­ tion? It is obviously the part of wisdom to em­ ploy means for the preservation of health and the prolongation of life which time and experi­ ence have proved to be reliable. Many of the dangers by which health is threatened may be nullified by the use of that most Irresistible of correctives and tonics, Hostetter's Stomach Blt- tcrs, which, by increasing vital power and ren­ dering the 1 hysical functions regular and act­ ive, keeps the system in good working order, and protects it against disease. For constipa­ tion, dyspepsia, liver cemplalnt. nervou«ness, kidney and rheumatic ailments, and neuralgia, it Is invaluable, and it affords s mire defense against malarial fevers, besides removing every trace of such disease irom the system. Half a wineglassful taken beforj meals Improves the appetite, and insures complete digestion and assimilation. * wri­ thing, you replied the man. "I onlv said he was worth less than forty dollars, and now darned if I don't think he is worthless." Diggins traded the horse for a side of bacon before the close of the day.-- Carl Pretzel's Weekly. Especially to Women. " Sweet is revenge, especially to women," said tno giftod, but naughty. Lord llyron. ISur.-ly he waj in bad humor wheu he wrote such words. But there arc cqpnp'.nints that only women sut.er that are carrying num­ ber- of them down to early graves. There is hope for those who suffer, no matter, how s< rely or rei ercly. In Dr. R. V. Pierce's " Fa­ vorite Prescription." Safe in its action, it is a Messing, otpeoidlly to iron.fn, and to men, tori, for whea women sufTer the household is askew. THE grandest verse ever universe.--(Joldtn Dape. composed--the Tfce Spoils of War. Charles, as soon as he had finished conquering Lorraine, gathered his host at Besancon, and marched to Oranson on the Xeuchatel Lake. Here a garri­ son of 500 Swiss was betrayed to him; he hanged or drowned every man of them, including the moriks who came as chaplains. Justly enraged, the Fed­ eration gathered its whole strength, and with 24,000 men fell upon Charles un­ awares and defeated him utterly. The booty was something fabulous; Bur­ gundy, taking taxes from all the rich Netherland towns, was then the richest power of Europe. The spoil was valued at a quarter of a million. Yon may calculate what that would be worth now. The big diamonds--one ia now in the Pope's tiara, another was long the glory of the French regalia--were among the valuables. The Duke's throne was valued at 11,000 gulden; all his plate, his silver bedstead, his won­ derfully illuminated prayer book, were token, besides 1,000,000 gulden in his treasure chest, 10,000 horses and a pro­ portionate quanity of all kinds of stores. No wonder the Swiss never recovered Granson; there were long and bitter quarrels about the division of the booty, and the coming in of so much wealth among a simple people demoralized them sadly, and led the way to their be­ coming the chief mercenaries of Europe. --Good Words. * * * ORGANIC weakness or loss of power In olther sex, however induced, speedily and permanently cured. Inclose three letter •tamps for book of particulars. World's JJia- pensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. An Offensive Breath Is moat distr?ssing. not only to the person afTfeted, if be have any pride, but to those with whom he conies in contact It is a deli­ cate matter to speak of, but it has parieil not onlv triends but lovers. Bad breath and catarrh are inseparable. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Uemedy cures the worst cases, as thousands can testily. "KINO words are never lost," but they are often misplaced. Important When you visit or leave New York City, save liaggage eixpressage anu Carriage Hire, and stop at the Orand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted up at a cost ot one million dollars, reduced to $1 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator, llestanrant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. Fami­ lies can live better for less money at the Grand I'nion than at any first-class hotel in the city. TnoroH a member of a brass band may be perfectly temperate, he takes his horn with great regularity. Horsford's Acid Phosphate, INCOMPARABLE IN SICK HR.YDACHE. Dr. Fred Horner, Jr.. Salem, Ya., says: "To relieve the iiullKf s ion and so-called sick headache, and mental depression incident to certain stages of rheumatism, it is incom­ parable." _________ SoARiuxn-notTSE keepers should be crema­ te! when they d!c. "Hashes to hashes" would be n.ost appropriate. Hon. Wm. I». Keltoy, M. C., Judye Jos. R. Flanders, of New York, and T. 8. Arthur, have been interviewed by a ncwspaier reporter as to their experience with Compound Oxygen. Their testimony to its curative action is tlear and direct, and shows it to be the most wonderful vitalizing agent yet discovered. Copies of these re markablc inter* lews, and a Treatise 011 Com­ pound Oxygen, will be msi ed free by i:rs. Starkey & Palen, llOSKJirard st., Philade'phiu. "Put up" m the <i»ult House. The business man or tourist will find first- class accommodations at the low price of %St and $2.50 per day at the Gault House, Chica­ go, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the center of the elty, only pne block from the Union Depot. Elevator; all appointments first-class. HOYT & GATES, Proprietors. Brown's Bronchial Trochee will relieve nronchltls. Asthma, Catarrh, Consumptive and Throat Diseases. They art used alwau* wtth good nuccesi. 1 have been a sufferer two years from catarrh or cold in the head, having distress- ina- pain over my eyes. Gradually the dis­ ease worked down upon my lungs, lry left ear was almost deaf, my voice was falling me. 1 procured ono bottle of Ely'a Cream lialin, ana within Ave days my hearing was restored, the pain ceased over iny eyes, and I am now enjoying good health. 1 recom­ mended it to some of my friends. One of them tent, lor a bottle. He told ine that half of it cur d him. My advice Is to those sufler- ing with catarrh or cold in the head not to delay, but try Ely's lteam IJaim, as it Is a positive cure.--John H. Vausant, Sandy Hook, Elliott Co., Ky. FOR IIYSPEPSIA, INRIOESTION, depression ol sp rits, and general debility iu their various forms; also, as a preventive against fever and ague, and other intermittent fevers, the " Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of CalisayH.'., made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., of New Vork, and sold by all druggists, is tho best tonic: and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness It has no equal. The Proprietor* of,Ely's Cream Balm do not claim It to be a cure-all, but a sure remedy lor Catarrh, Colds in the Head, and Hay lever. It is not a liquid or a snuff, but is easily applied with the fnger. It gives re­ lief at once. Kora by all druggists. Price 61 cents. By mall 60 cents. - Ely iiros., Owe- so. N. Y. . Skin Dim-uses. -- Beeson's Aromatic Alum Sulphur Soap surely tures 1 etter, Salt Hheum, liintiuorm. Sores, l'imoles. Eczema, all Itchy Skin. Eruptions, no matter how obstinate or lone Ntamling; will soften, beautify and retain a clear and smooth t-urfaceon face and hands; 2fte. of Druirt'ists or by mall of Wm. Dreydoppel, Phila­ delphia, Pa. RE D STAR URE AbtAutHy free from Opiates, JEtnetic* and MMMUI A PROMPT, SAFE, SURE PURE Far Coagka, Sore Throat, HsaneaeM, Minn, C«14*. Braachltts, Croup, WkM»tat Caigk, Asthma, Qutasy, PalM In Cheat, andoO»«r nfTectlom oflha Throat »n 1 Lup. Price SO cent# a bottle. Sold by Iirncci'ts and Deal­ ers. Partifs unable to induce their denier to promptly petit for them will rei-eive two bottle^ ExprtMcluurgM pOtdL tv if tiding one dollar to Till CniRI.ES A. TOCELfR COMPAIT, * - Bol« Owiiara *n<l Manttfe<*iirer«, KaprlMk^tV. la A* . Ladle**' Weakness Mr. T. H. Gafford, of Church Hill, Md., Is so thankful lor the restoration of his wife to complete health that he is willing to oertify to the fact and manner of her cure. To Mrs. Lydia E. Pink ham: This is to certify to the grand effects of your Vegetable Compound. My wife was suffering from aterrible disease which seemed to baffle tbe skill of the best medical men. She vwss in a poor, languid, depressed, nervous oonditlon. We finally concluded to try your Vegetable Compound, and to our great surprise the half of one bot­ tle had not been taken before there seemed to be a thorough ciian e in her utmh amdttion, end now, to day, she is in good health and en­ tirely relieved from all former depressed feelings. T. H. GAFFORD AND WIFE. AUTHORS, Amsteur and others. t-°end stamp for cir­cular. i'ameA: FortnaePub.t'o.,UiJe:.llthSt.,N.Y. .>Iorphine Hnbit t'nrt-d in IO to 40 dare. No pay till cared. I>B. J. BTS#HINS. Lebsuon, Oil to. Hand-BookFREE. _ B. S. * A.1*. LACGV, fttent Atf juWashington, D. C. OPIUM e»TE*TS FOR THI CURB OF FEVER and AGUE ° Or CHILLS and FEV J MD ALL MJtLIRIH 0ISCIS1 The proprietor ef this celebrated me£i- •Ine jastlv claims for it a superiority over all realties ever offsred to the pnblie for the UJR, CXBTAOT, SPEEDY and FEB* KAHEVTenreof Ague and Sever, or Chills and Fever, whether of short or long stand- tog. He refors to the entire Western and Southern oountry to bear him testimony to the truth of the assertion that in no case whatever will it foil to cure if the direc­ tions are strictly followed and carried out. la a great many oases a single dose has been sufficient for a euro, and whole fami­ lies have beenonred by a single bottle, with a perfoet restoration of the general health. It is, however, prudent, and in every case more oertain to cue, if its use is continued in smaller doses for a week or two after the disease has been checked, more especially in diffionlt and long-standing cases. Usu­ ally this medieine will not require any aid to keep the bowels in good order. Should the patient, however, require a cathartic medioine, after having taken three or four doses of the Tonio, a single dose of BULL'S VEGETABLE FAMILY PILLS will be suf­ ficient. BULL'S BABSAPARILLA is the old and reliable remedy for impurities of the blood and 8orofulous affections--the King of Blood Purifiers. DR. J0HH BULL'S VEGETABLE W0BM DE8TB0TEK is prepared in the form of eandy drops, attractive tc the sight and pleasant to the taste. , SR. J O H N BULLf V SMITH'S TONIC SYRUF, BULL'S SARSAPARILLA, BULL'S WORM DESTROYER* Tho popular Remedies of tho Day. Marital OBce, SSI Mala St.. LOUISVILLE, KT. DRUGGIST BITTERS. TAKK NO OTHER it you wish a CKRTATN Ct'KK for 1IILIOI SNKSS, IMlllilOsTiON DVSHEI'SH. LOSS «>1> Arriil'ITK an« SLKKI'. Nothing wan pver invented that will TONK I I' TilC SVSTK.H in the Siu-ing of tho year iMiiai to HOP* anil MALT IlITl'KIW. Tlio onlv GKNUINK ar*> rosniilarturp'l l>y the HOI'S A NO MALT BITTERN CO. of Detroit. Midi. GOLDEN SEAL BITTERS. Broken down invalids, do you wishtotriiin fieNh. to ac­ quire ui> ui>i>ctik\ to enjoy a repilar habit of body, to ob­ tain refreshing sleep, to feel md know that every fibre uid tissue of your system is neiiiK braced ui> and reno­ vated? If HO commence st ince a courxe of GOLDEN .SEAL WITEKS. In one week you will be convales­ cent. Iu a month you will be well. Don't despair because you have a weak constitution, lortiiy tlie body axainot dl^etine bv mrifyintr all the fluids with iOl.DKN SEAL BRTKIW. \'o epidemic can take liold >t a system thus forearmed. lie4liver, the Htomach, tho lOwelB, the kidneys, are i-endered disease proof by thin treat invi&rorant. Ruin­ ous bills for medical attend­ ance u.< avoided liv rounter.-ii'timr the first symp­ toms of HlckneKH with thin great Herman remedy. They are recommended from'triend to friend, and the dale increases dailv. We warrant a cure. OOLDEN SEAL IHTTKHS CO.. Holland C ity, Mich. Sold by all driikrtJists. Take no others. If your druggist does not keep it, we will send one bottle snd prepay ex­ press for $1, or six bottles for $5. --'"mwarewftl It TOP wwnliln aidtsr. Get hot> totters tbat 1 --The weakest woman, and sickest invalid can nsei ] j safety and grent good. I ---Old men tottaring aronnd ailt matism, kidney trouble or any? i will be made almost new by «««< I **~My wife and (laughter healthy by the nse of hop bmmmSii recommend them to my people.lultio- dist Clergyman. - ^ A*k any (rood doctor It hop / « Bitt rs are not the best family On earth!!! "'4 Malarial fever. Ague and Biliousness will leave every neighborhood as soon as hop bitters arrive. "My mother drove the paralysis and nenr.ilgia all ont of her system with hop bitters."--Bd. Omtego Snn. SA'Keep the kidneys healthy with hop bitters nnd yon need not fear sickness.9 -- Ice water is rendered harmless and mere refreshing and reviving with hop bit- ; ters iu each draught. --The vigor of yonth for the aged and ias- linn iu hop bitteis!!! \ --"At the chance of life nothlnff equals }, - £ - Hop Bitters to allay all troubles iBcktoatV ' Thereto." f .-v --"The best periodical for ladios to take monthly, and from which they will receive the greatest benefit is hop bitters." --Mothers with sickly, fretful, tttmiliff children, will cure the children and benefit themselves by t iking hop bitters duly. --Thousands die annually f t orn some form of kidney disease that might have been pie- vented bv a timely use of hop bitters. --Indigestion, weak stomach, irregulari- . ties of the bowels, cannot exist when bitteis are used. ' A timely * * * use of hop Bitters wi'l keen a whole family „ > < In robust health a year at a little cost; --To produce real genuine si child-like repose all night, s bitters on retiring. -. j WX'onc genuine without a bnnch ot mnem ' -"t' Hoivi on th1 white label. Shnnall .Sti§ onons stuff with Hop" or ""T""in thrlr aamn Take W arning in Time. ' ̂ J Impure blood, indigestion, 4%f | and weak kidneys afflict a ,J large portion of the human fam­ ily. Thousands suffer in silence from the effects of these dis- 4 , , orders until de&tk relieves ; hi them from their suffering. Take If i warning in time. Rid yourself ^ I of every symptom of -weak- ^ ness and declining health by beginning at once the use of * A Dr. (Jnysott's Tellow Dock - !* Sarsaparllla. Its renovating and^ strengthening effect is felt J once. It is a positive cure for IMPURE BLOOD, WEAK KIDNEYS INDICESTIO*, MALARIA,1 RHEUM ATI4 ETC.*, ETC. IFA J It is the only preparation ot ,j sarsapnrilla tliat gives perfect and $4 - s ? complete satisfaction, and out-, • ^ sells all other remedies wherever ^ its healing virtues become fully "it known. It is a quick restorer ot , , ,1. *J, healthy and regular bodily func- ^ tions, and removes all tendency 4 J ^ to paralysis, apoplexy and sud- ' ^ den death by checking the decay * and wasting away of vital tissue* and muscular fibers that control' the workings of life's marvelous ' , fj ̂ machinery. , ^ CJT Demand this remedy of your >. Jd - druggist. Take no substitute. THE PEftOMERONS VICTORIOUS ~ W«W • 5,- Oosa.*ost0 of Tlrnnili I OKLY TWXCK the Grrat Herds ot tb*RiT«lB*MdS«C (IIDnC Sample Book, Premium List, Price List sent wHIllVafree. U. 8. CARD CO- Centerbrook.Conn IttM TELEaittPHY la wages. VA1.KNTINE BROS., Janesville. Wis. LADY ABEIUS permanent employment and good salary Belling Queen City Skirt and HtorkltiKSupporter*. Sample outfit fr*»e. Addresa Cincinnati Suspender Co., Cincinnati. O. w m Ladies and Gentlemen in Alw I BU City or County to take helit work at their own homes. S3 to St a day eattilymade. Work oent by mail. No canvass­ing. We have KOOII demand for our work, and furnish steady employment. Address with stamp CaowN MKO. Co.. 294 Vlae8t..Cin'ti.o R. U. AWARE THAT Lorilkffd's (flimai Plug bearina a red tin tag ; that Lorn lard's Leaf lino cut; thatLorl Hard's Nan CIlMlaca, and that Udllaidl Sanlla, i tne beat and obeapeat, quality oonatderad ? FRAZER AXLE GREASE. Beat In the World. Get the (tialne. Kv. try )>8i'ka«e hna our Trade-mark nnd ia «nrM Fracer'ai HOI.IV KVRRYWH KKK. • -1 \*4 4 Draft Hon*a me« to eooMHtMi Vltat, at OUCAUniULvbtn •t.OOO PKEEJE. mlrmbly i'» Oaklawa. MM Here, alao, Hr. Daafeaa waa i la Krmry IHalMia Clfaaa Hi Orla where four of tbe Beat Herds la j ent breed* were entered for the SMOSTOUMTAXU: and again M. W. Dunham's fl arena were TUUHHI. Her awarded the First Prise 1» ; tered for, at follows: For StalUona 4 years M and ovei---2y entries--Brllilaat. flrst; StalUona S yeaiaoM! --23 entries, CoaSdent, Brsti Stallions 3 years old--1S entries, Craar, first. Also, first for beat UradeStallion M. W. DUNHAM, WAYNC, DLL PTTC LUM*. BOW has the following Pedigreed Steak ea ISO Imported Brood MUM, SSO Imported Stalll'o*a, Old enoogfc tan service, also, 1M Calta, two year* old andyoaagat. 140 Page CataUgae sent free. It w illnstratedwlth Six Pictures of Prise Horses drawn from life by JKaaA Uanhear, tbe most famous of all anuria! naintarfc LUMBER! George Wood ley. Wholesale Lumber. Ml South Wllw St.. Chicago, 1:1.. will mail hia March catalogue tow who will send tl'i'ir addressee. It oontalnaTataaUe information lor thane contemplating hniWtlng. ~UK J.A RAIZE* Financial Agent. IV • lin sfreet, P. O. Box ISM, New York, Bt Forwarder to all parts of the country of every tion of poods in large or small nuantitiee. 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