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t\, s;v; » * ~ ' s ?:< :' " 3S ^ ABRAHAM USCOLS. flftie Election of 1S64--His TreatifKnt ,jof Cu*redcmt« Agent*. One side of this extraordinary char­ acter was illustrated on the evening of election day, in November. The polit­ ical strnpgle had been most intense, •ad the interest taken in it both in the White house and in the War Depart­ ment had leen almost painful. All the power and influence of the War De­ partment. then something enormous from the vast expenditures and exten­ sive relations of the war, had been em­ ployed to secure the re-election of Mr. Lincoln; and after the arduous toil of the canvass there was necessarily a great suspense of heart until the re­ sult of voting should be ascertained. I went over to the War Department •bout half-past 8 in the evening and found the President and Mr. Stanton together in the Secretary's office. Gen. Eckert, who then had charge of the telegraph department of the War Office, waa coming in continually with tele­ grams containing election returns. Mr. Stanton would read them and the President would look »t them and com­ ment 'upon them. Presently there came a lull in the returns, and Mr. Lincoln called nun up to a place by his side. "Dana," said he, "have you ever read any of the writings of Petroleum V, Nasby ?" "No; sir," I said, "I have only looked at some of them, and they seemed to me funny." "Well," said he, *iet me read you a specimen," and, pulling put a thin, yellow-covered pamphlet from his breast pocket, he began to read albud. Mr. Stanton •iewed this proceeding with great im­ patience. as I could see, but Mr, Lin­ coln paid no attention to that He would read a page or a story, pause to con a new election telegram, and then open the book again and go ahead with a new passage. Finally Mr. Chase came in and presently Mr. Whitelaw Reid, and the reading was interrupted. Mr. Stanton went to the door and beck­ oned me into the next room. I shall never forget the fire of his indignation at what seemed to him disgusting non­ sense. The idea that when the safety of the Republic was thus at issue, when the control of an .empire was to be de­ termined by a few figures brought in by the telegraph, the chief, the man most deeply concerned, not merely for himself, but for his country, could turn aside to read such balderdash and to laugh at such frivolous jests, was to his mind something most repugnant and damnable. He could not understand, apparently, that it was by the relief which such humor afforded to the strain of mind under which Lincoln bad so long been living, and to the natural gloom of a melancholy and de­ sponding temperament--this was Mr. Lincoln's prevailing characteristic-- that the balance ana sanity of his intel­ ligence was maintained and preserved. Another interesting incident occurs to me. A spy whom we employed to report to us the proceedings of the Confederate government and its agents, and who passed continually between Richmond and St. Catherines, report­ ing at the War Department upon the way, had come in from Canada, and had put into my hands an autograph dis­ patch from Mr. Clement C. Clay, Jr., addressed to Mr. Benjamin. Of course the seal was broken and the paper read immediately. It showed unequivocally that the Confederate agents in Canada were making use of that country as a starting point for warlike raids which were to be directed against' frontier towns like St. Albins in Vermont. Mr. Stanton tLought it necessary that this dispatch should be retained as a ground . of reclamation to be addressed to the British government. If was on a Sun­ day that it arrived, and he was con­ fined to his house by a cold. At his directions I Went over to the President and made an appointment with him to be at the Secretary's office after church. At the appointed time he was there, and I read the dispatch to them. Mr. Stanton stated the reasons why it should be retained, and before deciding tbe question Mr. Lincoln turned to me saying, "Well, Dana?" I observed to them that this was a very useful chan­ nel of communication, and that if we stopped such a dispatch as this, it was at the risk of never obtaining any more inf ormation through that means. "Oh," said the President, "I think you can manage that Captnre the messenger, take the dispatch from him by force, put him in prison, and then, let him fscape. If he has made Benjamin and Clay believe his lies so far, he won't have any difficulty in telling them new ones that will answer for this case." This direction was obeyed. The pa- Eer was sealed up again, and was de-vered to its bearer, General Augur, who commanded the District, was di­ rected to look for a Confederate mes­ senger at such a place on the road iouth that evening. The man was ar­ rested, brought to the War Depart­ ment, searched, the paper found upon him and identified, and he was com­ mitted to the Old Capitol Prison. He made his escape about a week later, being fired upon by the guard. £ large reward for his capture was ad­ vertised in various papers East and West, and when he reathed St. Cather­ ines with his arm in a sling, wounded by a bullet that had passed through it, his story was believed by Messrs. Clay and Jacob Thompson, or, at any rate, if they had any doubts upon the sub­ ject, they were not strong enough to prevent his carrying their messages afterward*. ":\f ; .. ' The Man IV ho Agrees With Ton* What is my opinion of a man who al­ ways agrees with you ?. He reminds me of nothing with the pith punched out. He may be a handsome fellow Mid a good moral one, but when he ' votes with you on every question pro­ posed, lie falls into a monotony that beauty and morality are powerless be­ fore, and you long for some sort of an Opposing force to knock the life out of llim, or into him, you don't care which. I think it was one of these echoes which Was referred to when the question was asked "If the salt have lost it's savor, Wherewith shall it be salted," or words to that efl'ect. A man who constantly {ipposesxjou i£_jjot a desirable one to know, but Wis infinitely preferable to bis contrary, for heVon't let you rust out. though he may wear you out. I know men in whom the spirit of acqui­ escence is greater than anxiety for the salvation of their immortal souls, and When I think of them I no longer won­ der that any man who has a desire to advocate any views, religious, political, Scientific, social, or moral they have just so much of a following as he can get around among and interview per­ sonally. Among married people this Constant acquiescence is no more agree­ able than anywhere else, and if it be the woman who is guilty of it, she is Called a "little fool; ' and if it be the $ Susband, he receives the pleasant title Of "hen-pecked." Harmony and differ­ ence of opinion are co-existent. For f instance, harmony is sugar, difference Of opinion is lemon juice, association is 'water, and the mixture is a delightful lemonade of life, invigorating, health- ] fnl, and delightful.--Mrk Brown, in Merchant Traveler. Tlie Old Hine Academy. Mr. George V. N. Lothorp, Minister to Russia, in giving a sketch of the main features of his lile, says: "I was fitted for college at Wrentham Academy." This statement will call to the minds of many an institution of the past. The academy was the place to which the boy of brilliant promise, or of wealthy parentage, or perhaps of a disposition which seemed to need curbing, was sent Except for a limited class, the academy has long ceased to be a necessity for our people. The high schools of the towns profkde the education that used to be <rotained from it. This Wrentham Academy was a type of the class. Wrentham is a town on the borders of Rhode Island, and the school drew largely from Providence and the rich Rhode Island towns, it was kept in a two-story building, of the ordinary type of architecture, with a tower, in which was a bell to sum­ mon the students. Its situation was in a hollow across the common from the church, and a grove of trees was placed near it, while play-grounds were provided in the common and in its own rather narrow lot It was man­ aged bv a board of trustees. The price of tuinon was low--less than $6 a term, if we remember rightly--and there were four of these terms in a year, for the need of scholars and pupils to sus­ pend study in the summer had not then been ascertained. The town was a beautiful one in point of scenery, and a quiet one in the character of the peo­ ple. They were largely farmei*s, thousrli they made boots and shoes with­ out the aid of machinery, and they manufactured str'&w bonnets. ,Hie students were distributed among them, and they obtained low board. The boys were, generally good-na­ tured, and for the most part on good terms with thoir teacher. Corporal punishment was not resorted to, but the terror of being sent home was held before them. Seats were provided in the gallery of the church exclusively for them, and many of them have a vivid recollection of the sermons, never less that an hour in length, and the prayers, approaching half that period in duratioii, delivered by the venerable pastor, who lived to have more than a fifty yearss settlement. Their study was, in the case of those fitting for col­ lege, almost exclusively 6reek and Latin. For the others there were the ordinary English branches, natural philosophy, chemistry, algebra, and a very little French. The sessions were six hours a day, equally divided. One boy had his tuition given him each term in payment for sweeping the school-room, making the fires and ring­ ing the belL Such was this typical academy of the olden time. Its glories are all de­ parted, and as a school it exists no longer. The old academy building now stands, a melancholy relic of the past, and, with an unconscious pathos on the part of those who have de­ graded it, they have placed it in its last days on the edge of the graveyard of the village. There it remains, a mel­ ancholy monument of a system that has passed' away. --Bos ton Hera Id. At a Mnsica'e. They were sitting around as they do, yon know, at musicales. There had just been a song and a pent-up protest found vent in carefully demonstrative praise and compliment There was more than a buzz of conversation, there was a Babel, for everybody was afraid of the inevitable next, and wanted to keep it away as long as pos­ sible. Then a fair young girl who had been sitting in the background was ap­ proached. * "Will you not play something for us, Miss Jenkins?" "Oh, I am 'so nervous. No, I'd rather not," she answered, rising hur­ riedly and going to the piano, afraid she might be taken at her word. She tried to look like a lamb being led to the slaughter when she was being led to the piano, but the expression of sheep waiting to be slaughtered which spread itself over every face in the room was far more genuine. She played, and she played, and she played. Finally she got through. There was very enthusiastic applause. They fere so glad it was over. "Miss Jenkins plays charmingly; don't you think so?" said a lady to a gentleman standing by her. "Ya-as. What was that pretty thing she played ?" "I am not quite sure. Something, I think, by Opus."--San Francisco Chronicle. Silling Ball's Twin Bop. An army officer, who has been inves­ tigating the subject ever since the mas* sacre of Custer and his men, expresses the opinion that Sitting Bull waB not present at the Custer massacre, not­ withstanding his statements to the con­ trary. He says he has ascertained that Sitting Bull has two twin boys. One of them was christened "The Boy that was Taken," and the other "The boy that was Left." He says that Sitting Bull and Mrs. Bull were in such a hurry to run away that they left one of the twins. The infant was in the thickest of the fight, and escaped injury of any kind by crawling under the roots of a tree. This was "The Boy that was Left." After the massacre Mrs. Sit­ ting Bull went to the scene and found the child. This officer says Sitting Bull is a mean kind of an Indian, and is not entitled to the fame that he has received. Spotted Tail was the Ibest Indian and the bravest fighter. Bed Cloud came next, and Chief Joseph next. Sittitg Bull he places last last on the list.--Ex. A Mountain Hail road. The great tunnel of Galera, by which the pinnacle of the Andes is pierced, will be, when completed, .'S.800 feet long, and will be the highest elevation on the earth's surlace where any such work has been undertaken. Besides boring the mountains of granite and blasting clefts »long their sides to rest the track upon, steep cuttiugs and su­ perb bridges, the system of reverse tangents had to be adopted in canons that were too narrow for curvp. So the track zigzags up the mountain side, on the switch and back-up principle, the trains taking one leap forward, and after being switched on to another track and another leap backward, until the summit is won; so that often there are four or five lines of track parallel to each other, one above the other, on the mountain side. New Zealand's Newspapers. New Zealand, with a population of only 500,000, supports 100 newsWp^ra, thirty of which are daily. In ztuck- land, a place of 30,000 people, the Star, of that city, has 10,000 circula­ tion.--Chicago Herald. OF 517 students at the University of California, 319 intend to practico law. Bishop I)nd>y on the Negro Qaestion. Still I he problem remain?, how shall these alien lucej dv eli iu safety f-iilo by side, each tree and unhampered in tho enjoyment of life and liberty and in the pursuit of its happiness? They am the descendants of one father, the redeemed children of one Hod, the citi­ zens of one nation, neighbors with com­ mon interests, and yet are separated by the results of centuries of develop­ ment, physical, mental, and moral-- separated by inherited traditions, by lh« spirit of caste, by the recollection of wrongs done and suffered, though it may be in general as innocent in the perpetrators as in the sufferer. How sha.l the rights of all be duly guard­ ed ? How shall the lower race be lifted up to higher stages of human develop- men? for oniv so can the rights of the superior race be made secure for the present and for the future, and this is the chiefest right of them who are now cast down. I answer, by the personal endeavors of individuals of the higher race; by their personal contact with these, their ignorant and untaught neighbors, ex­ hibiting before their wondering eyes in daily lite the principles of truth and justice, purity and charity, Hbnesty and courage. Perhaps this may seem to be but the veriest platitude, the gush of sentimt nt, the twaddle of a maudlin re­ ligion, but in all truth and soberness I mean exactly what I say. Let me try to explain more fully. These people need help, that they may be lifted up. I mean, then, that in my judgment that help must be per­ sonal and not official, the hand of a friend rather than the club of an officer, the patient counsel of a neighbor rather than the decree of a court, the enact­ ment of a Congress, or the proclama­ tion of a President The solemn sanc­ tions of the organic law are thrown round about this liberty, and the robe of citizenship, full, perfect, and com­ plete, with never seam nor rent, has been put upon it The courts have de­ clared its inviolable character, and this decree affirms the negro, the liberated slave, a citizen. But does the declara­ tion make him such ? I mean does it, , crn it impart the intelligent life, the moral consciousness which shall vivify the dead mass and make it a helpful member of the body politic? We have had declarations from every depart­ ment of the government that the negro is a citizen; but they are as powerless to effect their purpose as were the oft- repeated acts of the Confederate Con­ gress to make the paper dollar worth more than two cents; as nugatory and vain as the old-time legislation of Vir­ ginia that there should be a town at such and such a designated cross-road. The negro is a citizen, and he has the rights under the Constitution and the laws tliat any white man has; and yet he needs help, though it may be the black and white demagogues would dis­ like him to think so--he needs help, personal, individual, patient, loving help, that he may be fitted to exercise his covenanted rights, and to do the du­ ties which these rights impose.--Bishop Dudley, in the Century. Pay No Attention to His Squealing; Lincoln was a good judge of men and quickly learned the peculiar traits ol character in those he had to deal with. I recall an anecdote by which he point­ ed out a marked trait in one of our Northern Governors. This Governor was earnest, able, and untiring in keeping up the war spirit in hi4 State, and in raising and equipping troops; but he always wanted his own way, and ill brooked the restraints imposed by the necessity of conforming to a gen­ eral system. Though devoted to the cauBe, he was at times overbearing and exacting in his intercourse with the General Government. Upon one occa­ sion he complained and protested more bitterly than usual, and warned those in authority that the execution of their orders in his State would be beset by difficulties and dangers. The tone of his dispatches gave rise to an appre­ hension that he might not co-operate fully in the enterprise in hand. The Secretary ot War, therefore, laid the dispatches before the President for ad­ vice or instructions. They did hot dis­ turb Lincoln in the least. In fact, they rather amused him. After reading all the papers he said in a cheerful and reassuring tone: "Never mind, never mind, those dispatches don't mean any­ thing. J ust go right ahead. The Gov­ ernor is like a boy I saw once at the launching of a ship. When everthing was ready they picked out a boy and sent him under the ship to knock away the trigger and let her go. At the crit­ ical moment everything depended on the boy. He had to do the job well by a direct vigorous blow, and then lie flat and keep still while the ship slid over him. The boy did everything right, but he yelled as if he was being mur­ dered from the time he got under the keel until he got out I thought the hide was all scraped off his back, but he wasn't hurt at all. The master of the yard told me that this boy was al­ ways chosen for that job, that he did his work well, that he never had been hurt, but that he always squealed in that way. That's just the way with Governor . Make up your minds that he is not hurt, and that he is doing the work right, and pay no attention to his squealing. He only wants to make you understand how hard liis task is, and that he is on hand performing it" Time proved that the President's esti­ mate of the Governor was correct-- Gen. Fry. , Prizing an Officially Dead Man's Shoes. In Davis' interesting description of the Empire of China we are informed that whenever a judge of unusual in­ tegrity resigns his situation the people congregate to do him honor. If he leaves the city where he hrfs resided the crowd accompany him from his home to the gates where his boots are drawn oft' with great ceremony, to be preserved in the hall of justice. Their place is immediately supplied by a new pair, which, in turn, are drawn off to make room for others before he has worn them five minutes, it being con­ sidered sufficient to consecrate them that he should have merely drawn them on. A Matter of Caste. Jones--Brown seems to feel mighty uppish since he made a little money by his corner in whiskey. Pretends to belong to the swallow-tail crowd, I be­ lieve. Smith--Swallow-tail crowd 1 I guess not J.--No? S.--No. Regular old soaker. Swal­ low rotktail crowd would be more like it--Boston Courier. A PATENT has been secured for mak­ ing imitation maple syrup. Hickory bark is soaked in water, and an extract is thus obtained whioh, added to cane or glucose syrup, gives it the maple taste and smell. IT is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. --Mon- taiou«,fy • ""i A MEDICAL CAP8ULERY. •M Carious Facta About * Large Bust- MM Which 1* Little Known. An old-fashioned, unpretentious-look­ ing house, which sits back from the sidewalk on a comparatively unfre­ quented portion of one of the oldest down-town streets, is occupied by a manufactory whose goods are known throughout the civilized world, and have become indispensable to the med­ ical profession. It is a medical capsul- ery. For nearly fifty years it has occu­ pied this old building, and the sign that contains the firm's name is so old aud weather-beaten that its paint is com­ pletely worn off, leaving only the faint outlines of the original lettering. "Yes, we make gelatine capsules here," said the proprietor to a reporter, "and, though you may not think it, in this old building and another that we occu­ py the capacity of our factory exceeds the production of one million capsules a day. There are only three firms in this country that give their time to the exclusive manufacture of gelatine cap­ sules. Great improvements have been made in these little but most important articles to all sick persons, and now by their use people can take the most ob­ noxious compounds free from either taste 6r smell. We make capsules of all sizes, round and oblong, from the very small article which only holds a drop of liquid to the large oblong one, the size of a dynamite cartridge almost, which can hold an ounce. This latter is only used for horses and large ani­ mals, but it is a great thing for them, as it does away with the old-fashioned method of administering medicine to animals by pouring it from a bottle and almost breaking the animal's jaw in the operation." "When were capsules first thought of?" was asked." "M. A. Mathes, of Paris may be con sidered their inventor. He obtained a patent for the exclusive right of manu­ facturing them about seventy years ago. In 183G the founder of this house be­ gan their manufacture in this city. Within the past twenty-five years emp­ ty capsules have been introduced, and have proved most acceptable for ad­ ministering powders and medicines which irritate the throat or injure the teeth. Of course, the value of the ready-filled capsules depends entirely upon the honesty of the manufacturer, for the capsules being closed they can­ not be as easily examined as other med­ icines which are open to a ready test as to purity, and impure and adulterated ingredients are as easily put into them as pure material. In this way the pub­ lic has been duped by unprincipled parties, and often a distrust awakened injurious to the universal UBO of cap­ sules." A "Do you send your capsulejK^Ont of the United States?1* "Oh, yes. We have a large trade in Mexico, Cuba, South America, and even in China and Japan. The manufacture of them has been so improved of late years that no influence of climate can deteriorate their quality, and they hold good for any length of time, though, of course, they must be properly cared for. They are made with a hard and soft material, and come in boxes which contain from a dozen to 1,000."--New York Mail and Express. * Washington In a New Ltfcht. "He (Washington) died in his GPtli year, and in the heyday of his glory and his fame. Time has since dealt gently with his memory, and he has come down to us as the greatest oi all leaders and the most immaculate of all men. No other face is so familiar to us. His name is written all over the map of our country. We have made of his birthday a national feast. The out­ lines of Ins biography are known to every schoolboy in the land. Yet his true biography is still to be prepared. Gen. Washington is known to us, and President Washington. But George Washington is an unknown man. When at last he is set before us in his habit as he lived, we shall read less of the cherry tree and more of the man. Naught surely that is heroic will be omitted; out side by side with what is heroic will appear much that is com­ monplace. We shall behold the great commander repairing defeat with mar­ velous celerity, healing the dissensions of his officers and calming the passions of his mutinous troopB. But we shall also hear his oaths, and see him in those terrible outbursts of passion to which Mr. Jefferson has alluded, and one of which Mr. Lear has described! Wo shall see him refusing to be paid! by Congress, yet exacting from the! family of the poor mason tbe shilling" that was his due. We shall know him as the cold and forbidding character, with whom no fellow-man ever ven­ tured to live on close and familiar terms; we shall respect and honor him for being, not the greatest of generals, nor the wisest of statesmen, not the. most saintly of his race, but a man with many human frailties and much common sense, who rose in the fullness of time to be the political deliveter of our country.--McMasters' History. Uncivilized Base-Ball Players. "In many of the hotels the base-ball players are not allowed to go into the dining-rooms with their spiked shoes on. They always dress for a match be­ fore dinner, and have a way of tramp­ ing about on the carpets and over the painted floors of the dining-rooms. The spikes in their shoes ruin the carpets, aud leave the dining-room floors full of holes. Now at some of the hotels they leave their shoes in the hallways, and go into the dining rooms in their stock­ ing feet. Guests object to it, and so there are very few hotels who care to" accommodate ball-players. The average ball player knows very little about hotel life, or how to conduct himself in a dining room. They ask for micce pie in midsummer, and want buckwheat cakes for dinner and apple dumplings for supper] I've seen them play catch at table with hard-boiled eggs and salt­ cellars, and they invariably let the whole dining-room know how the game was played or how they are going to play," went on the clerk, "and one night at our hotel two of them were playing ball with the ottomans in the parlor."--Hotel clerk, in Philadelphia Times. Woods That Will Not Make Ships. There are sixteen species of trees in America whose perfectly dry wood will sink in water. ThQ heaviest of these is the black ironwood (condalia ferrea), of Southern Florida, which is more than 30 per cent, heavier than water. Of the others, the best known are the lignum vitae (gualacum sanctum) and mangrove (rhizphora mangle). An­ other is a small oak (quercus grisea), found in the mountains of Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Arizona, and westward to the Colorado desert, at an elevation of 5,000 to 10,000 feet. All the species in which the wood is heavier than water belong to semi- tropical Florida or the arid interior iffccific region. Helpless Upon • Friendless Sea! Who, in taking passage in a great trans­ atlantic steamer, does not feel a thrill or ex­ ultation over her mafrnlfloent power.' Against her the Storm Kiay may hurl his elemental forces, nor pierce her armor, nor stop her onward course. But let me describe a scene when, one morning in mid-ocean, there came an alarm from toe pilot house followed by a cry: "The ship's rudder is lost!" From the confident expression, consternation came to every face. The wheelman being helpless to direct her course, the vessel was at the mercy or wind and wave. 1 The oaptaln had been nsgHrant--the hang­ ings of the rudder were allowed to wear weak, and suddenly it had dropped deep into the sea! Strong in intellect. In physical vigor, In energy and in ambition, man confronts, un­ daunted, gigantic tasks and commands ap­ plause for his magnificent achievements. But, all unexpectedly, an alarm comes--the rudder of his constitution is gone. Ho has been careless of its preservation; mental strain, nervous excitement, irregular habits, overwork, have destroyed the action Of his kidneys and liver. This would not occur were Warner's safe cure used to maintain vigor. And even now it may restore vitality to those organs and give back to the man that which will lead him to tho haven of his ambition.--The TmytJer. No Excuse for Burning Up. " Safest town in New England is this town," remarked a drummer, as the Boston train rolled into the gloomy de­ pot at Salem, Mass. " Landlord takes no end of trouble to save you from being burned up. Notice posted right upon the wall." Reaching a room in the hotel a few minutes later, the drum­ mer pointed to this: ' . "NOTICE. Iln case of fire the means of escape from^his room is to turn to the right. " At the southern end of this passage­ way there is a fire escape with egress through a window. " At tho north end of this passage there is an egress through a window, and down over the roof in the rear. "There will be red lights burning through the night at the main stairway. After going down one flight, turn to the left and keep to the left. (The next stairway is under the above.) " Otherwise turn to the right through the passageway, and keep to the right and down the other stairs. " A watchman will be on duty through the night, and in case of fire will jiound the gong." u There, how's that?" expl&imed the drummer. " Now, look here." We threw open a window. It was just about eight feet to the sidewalk. Hartford Times. THE distingnislisd U. S. Senator from Indiana, Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, certi­ fies that in a case of rheumatism in the back, he obtained instantaneous relief from St. Jacobs Oil. He says it is a remarkable remedy. The Barber's Side of It. "You hear a great deal of talk about being too talkative," said a Pittsburgh barber, "but let me tell you that the barber who doesn't talk isn't any good. He isn't popular with the trade and he doesn't make a good workman. You see, a man comes in and gets into the chair, and the barber commences shaving him without saying a word. The man who is being shaved has nothing to think about except himself, and lie im­ mediately begins to kick about the razor. It pulls and hurts his face, and nothing suits him. and he goes away dissatisfied with the shop and the bar­ ber. Now, if one of those good-natured, talkative barbers would take that same man and commence talking politics and the weather, the police and the skating rink to him, there would never be .the slightest kick." Supremely Delightful r ^ « To the emaciated and deblUutod Invalid la the sense of retarding health and strength pro­ duced by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. When that promoter ot vigor is teste! by persons in feeble health, Its restoi stive and vitalizing poten­ cy soon evinces itself in improved appetite, di­ gestion, and nightly repose, the sole conditions under which strength and nerve quietude Is vouchsafed to the human system. A gain in flesh ot course ensues upon the rep tor at ton of digestion ami assimilation. As surely an winter follows the fail ot the Icat does disease shadow the footsteps of declining strength, when the premature decadence of vial.ty is not arrested. Marasmus, consumption, and other wasting nialadi' S are prompt to fasten upon the < nfee- blei. Avert disease, therefore, with this ttrund enabling tonic, which not only renews failing strength, but mitigates and counteracts the in­ firmities ol age and those of th? rentier sex. hheUmatism, malaria, liver and kidney troubles yield to it. \ Advancement of America* - Mr. Elkins says that wealth has been increased both in Europe and America three times faster than population. While Great Britain has got three times the wealth of fifty years ago, the l/nited States has six-fold that period's wealth. Europe and America increase 11,1)00 human beings every day and create $11,000,000 property. The United States now has $(>,000,000,000 mere property than England, her moth­ er/ country. Mr. Elkins quoted Bis­ marck as saying, three years ago, that "the United States had the most illus­ trious success of all modern nations," and Gladstone said that we jprere wealthiest of all nations. got l drin Lengfcllow's Birthday Beek is a beautiful present to give at,y lady. But there is a little book published in pamphlet form, with no pretensions to literary meril^ that would be as appropr.ate, and might be the means of saving a life. It is called Dr. K. V. Pierce's treatise on diseases of women, for whose peculiar troubles the "Favorite Pres ription" is especially designed. It is profus ly illustrate J with wood-cuts and col­ ored plates, and will be sent to any address for ten cents in stamps, by the World's Dis­ pensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. IT IS easier for a saloon-keeper in Iowa to it rioh than for a Congressman to refuse a • -- -- _ £ IF yon are bilious, take Dr. Pierce's "Pleas­ ant Purgative Pellets," the original "little Liver Pills." Of all druggists. 1 HAVE always noticed that drug store patrons who take whisky as a "medicine only." always have tho reddest noses. important. When yon visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Ex pressure and Carriage Hire, and stop at the Orand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, reduced to tl and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Kestaurant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. Fami­ lies can live better for less money at the Orand Union than at any first-class hotel in the city. COUNTERFBITiM MW*M« Legal Com plications. "My neighbor tied a knot in my horse's tail, and I want ter had de law on him," said Si Jackson, an Onion Creek darky, to Lawyer George. "Hand over five dollars," said the lawyer. < Si did so cheerfully. Having got the money, the lawyer said calmly, putting it in his pocket: "My advice to you, my colored friend, is now to go and untie that knot in your horse's tail."--Texas Siftings. FENCING is the new craze among young ladies. Well, if they will occupy the fence occasionally it will give the gate a rest, and the whole business will wear out together. An Inventor's Advice. George Stevenson, when advising young men how to get on, would finish by saying, '•Do as 1 have done--persfvere." For 11; teen years he plodded and worked be ore giving the finishing touches to his locomotive. In as many days those persevering in the use of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery,"' have experienced great relief and foutid themselves on the high road to heaith. Liver complaints, impure t>.ood, chronic lung dis­ eases and many others yield to its healing In­ fluences never to return. All druggists. "MATPI NKEE" is Japanese for daisy. You can call your girl or another man's wife a " matsunkee" now wic^ impunity. "Put up" at the Ganlt House. The business man or tourist will find first- elass accommodations at the low price of $3 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 city, only one block from the Union Depot. Elevator; all f.ppolntments first-class. HOYT & GATES. Proprietors. PURE Cod-Liver Oil, made fron. selected livers on the sea shote, by CASWELL, HAZARD & Co., New York. It is absolutely pure end sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians hare de­ cided It superior to any of the other oils in market. ONE greasins with Frazer Axle Grease will last two weeks, all others two to three dayB. Try it CHAPPEO Hands, Face, Pimples and rough Skin, cured by using JUMPKHTABSOAP, made by CASWKLL, HAZABD & Co., New York. Tbe .Akron S#wer Pipe is the best in tbe world. See advertisement In this paper. WHEN are sportsmen like fashionable tailors? When they make good "bags." The houses wc live In--In other words, our bodies--are held on repairing leases. We must prop and sustain them when they exhibit siynsof weakness and decay, or they will inevitably break down. In DR. WALKER'S CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BITTERS, the debilitated, the bilious, the rheumatic, the consumptive, will find the most genial tonic and restorative ever offered to the suffering invalid. It contains noalcohol, and therefore leaves up sting behind. • WHY are troubles like dogs? Because the smaller they are tho more they annoy you. Gen. Grant's Book. Xhe American Publishing Co., of Hart­ ford, Conn., make the claim that the pub­ lishers of Gen. Grant's book exhibit bad taste in assuming as original for that work some of the features advertised as new therein. The Hartford people say that several of the important features were original with a biography of Grant pub­ lished by them before the General thought of writing his book, and that the title, "A Personal History of U. S. Grants" was used on the biography published by them on their first edition, and has always re­ mained tho same, but has been almost identically appropriated for the General's book. Among the features found in the latter, but claimed as original in their book, are tbe famous "Fort Donelson Sur­ render" letter, the portrait of Grant when a Lieutenant, at 21 years of age, and the celebrated horse-buying story. RED STAR TRADE MARK •TA* URE AbMtutflH ITree /Vom Opiatesf Emetics and Poison*. H PROMPT, SAFE, SURE CURE F*r Coa<hi, l«r« Thrvat, H««ne«m, IaflaeBM, Mdk Brrachttl*, Crrat, WkM»lii| fH(k, Qnlncjr, !>ata*la Chest, tndothw •tortious of the Throat u>4 Luga. Price SO ernts a bottle. Sold bv Drnrtritt* and Deal- era. JParUei unable to itiduce tAetr dealer to promptly net a for Oi tm will rnrive two botUe*,Sxprm*olUuVM paid, by tending one dollar to THE CHARLES A. TOOKLKK COSTA*!; Urn K. A. <8 BITTERS, If you wish to be relieved of those terrible Sick Headache! and that miserable Sour Stom­ ach. It will, when taken according to direc­ tions, cure any esse of Sick Headache or Sour Stomach. It cleans the lining of stomach and bowels, promotes healthy action and sweet secretions. It makes pure blood and gives it free flow, thus sending nutriment to every part. It is the safest, •peedleat and surest Vegetable Remedy ever invented for all diseases of the stomach and liver. J. M. Moore, of Farminr'on. Mich., says: Mr •Hfffcrlng from Sick Headache and Sour Stomach was terrible. One bottle of Hops and Malt Bitters cured me. Do not ret. Hops and Malt Bitters con founded with inferior preparations of •tmiiaf name. For sale by all druggists. HOPS & HALT BITTERS CO, DEMIT, HKL DO NOT FORGET Perry Davis'Pain Killer §-B = C ft) ft) 9. Pricc, ur> ets., SO cts. and ii.OK i>er Bottle. soi.I> BY AIX L>KI «.<;ISTS. DCCT PIIDC tor l>y»]x*pKia, Headache, and DCOI UUnC Nervousness. Seut tor $1. Sure, safe. DR. W. KAXUR. Uox T. ORAM) NEB. m Man and Beast Mustang Liniment is older than most men, and used more and more every year. A Michigan Concern Er.JoifiML (Trom the Boehester Monte* HeraM.} The following Injunction has been Ob­ tained by the Hop Bitters. Compesy, ot Rochester, N. Y., against CoIIatinus D. Warner, of Beading, Michigan, prohibiting him from manufacturing ot selling "Qtr- >0-' 1 man Hop Bitters:" , i Th% President of the United States of Am.tr- * ^ ^ to CoIIatinus D. Warner, of Reading, •. Mich., his servants, workmen. salesmen, . ® and agents, and each and every of them: Whereas, it has been represented unto the Justices of otur Circuit Court, the Hon. Stanley Matthews, and the Hon. Henry B. Brown, at Detroit, within and for said Dis­ trict, sitting as a Court of Chancery, that yon. Collations D. Warner, are manufacturing and selling a medicine named German Hop-Bit­ ters, in frauctnir-nl miitation of tbs Hop Bit­ ters made and sold by complainant; your said medicine beinjr Uerised, cawa(att#i,a id in- • -•» 14 fi ; temird to mislead the pnblic into purchasing such counterfeit goods as tbe manufacture of the complainant. We, therefore, in consideration of the prem­ ises, do strictly fujtnu you, tbe said CoIIatinus 1). Warner, and all and every the persons before named, frum usinu i/ic <rords "H/p Bitters" tn any tinids contained in bottles so as to in­ duce tne belief that snch fluids are made by complainant: and further, from manufactur­ ing, selling, or offering for sale any bitters or other fluids in the bottles and with the labels, and in the general form in wh.ch you were man­ ufacturing aurl selling th; bitters cal ed by yoa German Hop Bitters, on the tiling of the bill; or in any other bottle.*, or with any other labels contrived or designed to representor induce the belief th*. tae bitters or fluids *old bv you are the goods of the complainant, until the further order of the Court. * * * Wituex*, THE HONORALK MORRISON B. WAITE. Chief Justice of the United Btatea. At Detroit, tlua fifteenth day of July, A. D. 188X iu S.J Walter 8. Harsh*, Clerk. - < 8 * "So Prosecute the Swindlers. If when you call for Hop Bitters the Druggist hands out anything but "Hop Bitters" with a green cluster of Hops on white label, shun that Urnginst as you would a viper; and it he has taken your nioney for a bogus stuff, iudu t him tor the fraud aud sue him for damages for the swindle, and we will reward you lib­ erally for tlie conviction. See U. Court injunction against C.D. Warner, Beading, Mich., and all his salesmen, agents, draft- gists, and other imitators. tfX ^* * • j - ' i i MU" •>'«' '*! ' v< 'jjl > - -:$N '.w • J ""V -aJ "'1 The Best In the World is the £AKRON Send to the undersigned for it.as also for Drain Tile. Cement, Fire Clay. Ground Brick. Chimney Tops. Chimney Fine linings. Plaster, Fire Sand, etc. N. A. WILLIAMS, 219 Washington Street Clilcago. m. Fire Brick I ICC AC ftDANT Fastest selling book pub- LlrC Us •nRH I i llshed. Agents wanted. A. B. DAVIS & CO., 162 Washington St.. Chtcaco. CiNCERw Treated and cured without the Book on treatment sent tx ~ ~.. POND, M.L>„ Aurora, lout the knife. a^ane^fS! • * ' ' :e ̂ • '--i? : i I T ' aru ue re ami earn stood pay. Situations furnished. Write Valentine Bros., Janesville.'Wis. HUlim Morphine Habit C»red in 19 OFIUImrar"- «••«>!». J. HTKPKKX*. libation. Ohio. PATENTS NtsllMk HB. R. S. * A. P. LACE1, Patent Atfys. Washington. D. C. OPIUM SUKFHIMS wad VHI.UKAI. ABITS EAgllr CURED. BOOK FREE. Dr. J. C. Hoff­man. Jethrmn. Wiaoonsin. BRiULAlXiR CO., LEMONT. CENTRE CO.. PA. $165 CASH FOR ;iO 1)AYS OMJ¥! Will buy a New Upright or Square P I A N O ! Boxed and on car*. Stool and COT«T M extra. REKD'8 TENMJS O? MUSIC, 136 State St.. Chicago. 1 ' V-jf- :i: Vlnerar Bitters, a puiaatiTe and tonic, purifies the uood. strengthens the liver and kid- neya, builds up the nervous sys­ tem, and will restore health, however lost. Vinegar Bitters is the best remedv yet discovered for pro­ moting digestion, cnrinc head­ ache, and increasing the vital powers. Try it. * - j * ° " , R. U. AWARE THAT Lcrillard'B OUmax Flag an, and that fine eat _ _ that Lorllli Agents Wauled rm Lille and Deeds of GLEN'L (3.RANT r. A. JIUMX. It contains a full history of his noble and eventfnt * life. Introduction written by Grant's Pastor. Rev.Dr., Newman. 0 >l.l!urr'* work ia Indorsed by Grant's most intimate friends. Send forextra terms to dress Natinnui I'tihliMhlnc Co. THE MANS WHO mus t Y«a Wtgoi Scales* tftft UHH, 8t«tl Bwvtofa, &*s* FLRI IIM TAD 8MS Boa, fcp BOO and JONTR b. ito fM«kt-fcr Ssa, We Want 8,000Mora BooK Agents to Salt; The Personal History of % U. & GRANT. s . f'n\. 4 A larf* fc&uJMW* *ctaro vol l iftBtiB trt rr Urtnd Ar«T F ' MIL BPEI'LAL TERM by sendinf oticu, for outfit. [Mention this t)4p*r."! MERICAN PUBLISHING CO., Ha AM« Uostv ostoiit 1'liicauot fiiicinutult or St. id rtlwt iiiun of |||«* UM. uptrU; utlmirrn iMMklpt flltA Esi&Mtshei 186* PENSION I Claims PROSECUTED WITHOUT FEE Unless (Bcctssfal. flilo B. Stevens & So. orticKs: Washington, D. G» Cleveland* O. Bstreit, Hick. Chlrajrn. III. CThe OLDEST MEDICINE tn the WORLD is probably Dr. Isaae Thoapsoft's If •lebrated Eye Watelf This article is a carefully prepared physician's pre­ scription. and ha* been in constant use for nearly a century, ami notwithstanding the maav otter prepar­ ation that have been introduced into the market, the sale of this article is constantly increasinc. Ii the di­ rections are followed it will never faUTwfe particu­ larly iuvit« the attention of physicians to its lae rir*. •Inlm fj. Thompson, Sons Jt Co., TROY \" v WHEN WHITING TO ADVKKTISEKS. please aar jroa aaw Ike uNrtfassMtt in tnie patter. HAGANV Magnolia Balm is a secret aid to beauty. Many a lady owes her fresh­ ness to it, who would rather not tell,, and jw* can't telL ^ "i •MMBi « 4' ^ j _