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TO OKIGGSBt**. Pap's pot hia patent right, and rich M all crem- tion; B«t where'a the poaAe and comfort that we all had before? " lX»g go a-yistttn'back to Griggsby's Station-- Back where we used to be so happy and so pore! The like of as a-livln' beret It's jfigt a mortal pity. To aeo us in this great big house, with carpets on the stairs, And the pump right in the kitchen I And the city! city I city! And nothin' but the city all around tu every- wheres! Climb clean above the roof and look from the steeple. And never see a robin, nor a beach or ellum tree 1 And right here In earshot of at least a thonsan' people, Ahd none that neighbors with as, or we want to go and see. Latfsgo a-vistin' bask to Griggsby's Station- Back where the latch-string's a-hangin' from the door, And every neighbor round the place is dear as . a relation-- Back where we used to be so happy and so poret J t^Mnt to see the Wtsge rises, the whole kit and bilin' A-drivin' up from Shallow Ford to stay the Sunday though; And I want to see them hitchin' at their son-in- law's and pilin' Oat there at Lazy Ellen's, like they used to do! I want to see the piece quilts the Jones girls is makin', , And I want to pester Laary 'bout their freckled hired hand, Ai>d joke her 'bout the widower she come purty nigh a-takin', Mil her pap got his pension J'lotred in time to saye hia land. -» y'.' Let's go a-yisitin' back to Griggsby's Station; " Back where .there's nothin' agger vat in' any more, Shet away safo in the woods around the old loca­ tion, ; .Back where we used to be so happy and so pore! X want to see Marindy and help her with her eewin', • And hear her talk so lovm' of her man that's dead and gone, And stand up frith Emanuel to show me how he's growin, And smile as I have saw her 'fore she put her mornin' on. „ A&d I want to see the Samples on the old tower J. Eighty-- Where John, our oldest boy, be was took and buried, for Hia own sake and Katy's--and I want to cry with Katv As she reads all his letters over, writ from the war. What's in all this grand life and high situation. And nary pink nor hollyhawk bloomin' at,the door ? lust's go a-visitin' back to Griggsby's Station, Back where we used to be BO happy and so ore! mapolis Journal. MYSTERIOUS MURDERER BT HARRY BALDWIN. ,In the antum of 18711 was traveling in West Virginia. My business was that of Belling tobacco and cigars, and, as the State was but meagerlv supplied with railroads, I carried my goods in a light covered wagon drawn by a pair of horses. For several days I had been stopping at a hotel, in the little town of Walton, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. I had sup­ plied all the dealers there, and for many miles around-about, and one evening I in­ formed the landlord that I should be leav­ ing him the next morning. He expressed regret at my departure, and that evidently sincere, as I was worth sev­ eral dollars a day to him, and inquired in what direction I proposed to journey. "To the South, following the river road," I replied. "The river road! That will take yon to Hawkins County, and through that very peice of timber," said the landlord. "What piece of timber?" asked I, startled at the singula remark. "Why, it isn't possible you don't know the timber about thix-ty miles down the river load, in Hawkins County, where so many ViWBrders have been committed!" "Murders!" I exclaimed. . "Yes, murdtr*! Seven since January." "Have the murderers been apprehended?" I anxiously inquired. "No one has been arrested, and, so far as I know, no one even suspected," said the inn-keeper, "and a peculiar feature of the case is, that none of tb<o seven murdered men, have shown any signs of violence,and the means employed to dispatch them re­ main a deep mystery." "What was the motive of the assassin?" "Robbery," replied the landlord. "All the effects of the victims, even to their cloth­ ing, were invariably carried away. 'I don't wish to alarm you, but you ought to know that six out of the seven were men selling goods like yourself, or peddlers with packs. The county has offered a reward of $1,000, for the production, dead or alive, of any one of the murderers, but thus far without results. So, young man, if you follow my advice, you will not enter Hawkins County by the river road." I thanked the landlord for his information and advice. I was much alarmed, for I had with me goods of considerable value, cer­ tain to excite the cupidity of the evil dis­ posed; but considering that I was young, active, well armed, and in the possession of some knowledge of the world, I decided in a minute that I would take the river road, and try the selling qualities of my wares, among the small merchants, liquor dealers, and tavern-keepers of Hawkins County. Early the following morning, I mounted my wagon, waived my hand at the landlord, and the little knot of idlers on the porch of the hotel and drove briskly down the river road. I traveled all day, making but three stops, one for dinner, at a farm-house, and two to pell tobacco and pipes at cross-road stores, and just at evening reached a small but neat public house, within 6ight of the belt of timber where the seven mysterious mur­ ders had been committed within the year. It wap not without misgivings that I en­ tered the house and invited the landlord, a Stolid-looking individual of the Pennsylva­ nia Dutch type, to join rne in a visit to the bar. A half hour's sojourn there, while my supper of salt pork, black coffee, and corn dodgers was .in preparation, put the inn­ keeper and myself on terms of easy confi­ dence. I learned nothing new about the mur­ ders, except that for two months none had been committed, and that the belief was current that the villains had withdrawn from that section. At supper I met a little blue-eyed, pleas­ ant faced man, a peddlor of jewelry, who traveled on foot and carried a pack. He had arrived at the town while I was at the bar. The hostler had told him of the mur­ ders in the timber, and as his course, like mine, lay to the south along the river, he Was in a great alarm, amounting to positive terror, at the prospect. "I shall turn back in the morning," said the little man. • "Nonsense," replied I, reassuringly. "But to go through that timber is suicide, Simply suicide, and there is no other road, they tell me," protested the peddler. "Pshaw! the murderers have decamped long ago. I go through that timber in the morning, and you can ride with me if you will." "Thank you," replied the little peddler, "but I shall start back in the morning." Before bedtime, however, thanks to my Conversation and cigars, the peddler re- wvered in a measure, at least, from his con- iternation, and it was agreed that he should go forward and occupy a place beside me on my wagon, until the county seat, seven­ teen miles distant, was reached. In the morning, with the peddler's pack .safely locked up with my own goods, and the peddler himself seated on the wagon beside me, engaged in smoking one of my choice cigars, I drovS out oi the tavern yard, and southward toward the dreaded timber. As we neared the woodland, my com- aion threw away the stump of his cigar the same Til invite you to take one with me." 's This was sociable, thitfwas friendly, and, above all, this was business, so stopping . my horses I unlocked a box beneath the j seat and produced and handed him a box I of cigars, with tha stamp intact--for my contraband goods were of an inferior quality. Taking a knife from his pocket, the ped­ dler opened the box and handed me a cigar, taking one himself. These we lighted at' the same match, after which I again drove -forward. I had not been smoking half a minute, when I noticed a peculiar flavor to the ci* gar, and I knew at once that it was not of the brand I had just sold the peddler. $ That instant I was on the alert, the place --we were now in the timber--the stranger beside me, the murders, all passed across my mind. I did not, however, lose my self-pos­ session, hut, removing my cigar from my mouth, I gave my attention for a mo­ ment to guiding my horse. In the mean time I considered that a cigar might be used to drug, or even poison, the smoker. I had read of siich cases, and I was firm in my resolution to smoke no more of the one I held between my lingers. But how avoid it? If the peddler were indeed, as I fully believed, a murderer, it would not do to let him know I suspected him; he might have accomplices at hand. I glanced at his face, he was smoking qui­ etly. It was evident that his cigar was not drugged or poisoned. My resolution was taken in an instant. I would smoke his cigar. "My cigar has gone out, please give me a light." I said, a moment later. - "Certainly," responded the little man, tapping his cigar with his finger to remove the gray ashes from its end, and handing it to me; "that will do the business, I guess." ' I lighted my cigar and handed it to my companion, retaining the one I had received from him. He evidently did not notice the exchange, for he went on smoking, and talking about the murders. Suddenly I heard a faint explosion, not louder than that of an ordinary precussion cap, afcd looking at my companion saw the cigar he had been smoking disappear over the side of the wagon. The peddler him­ self reeled to and fro in his seat for a few seconds, and then fell forward heavily upon the dashboard. I hastened to stop the horses, and lift the inanimate form to the seat, but a glance at the pallid lips, and staring eyes, told me that life was extinct. I alighted and secured the cigar that had fallen to the ground; and with the corpse of the little man, on the top of my wagon, and my hands shaking so that I could barely control my team, I drove rapidly back to the tavern I had so recently left. My appearance with the dead body caused a great commotion, and I saw at once that I was suspected of having mur­ dered -the peddler, but suspicion van­ ished when I told my story, and I became the lion of the day. The coroner was notified and held an in­ quest next day, at which 1 was the principal witness. The cigar which the peddler was smoking at the time of his death was found to contain a small copper tube closed at one end. This tube had evidently been partly filled with soyae sort of fulminating powder so arranged as to explode when the cigar had burned a little way. and send a small needle with considerable force into the mouth of the smoker. Such a needle was found imbedded in the roof of t':e peddler's mouth, and being charged with subtfe poi- PITH AND POINTS. ' come,and t the on for- The corpse was identified as that* Eo . son had caused his almost instant death lit s of farmer named Winters, living five miles to the eastward. He had often been absent from home for a day or two, but bore an excellent reputation in the neighborhood. 1 I accompanied the coroner and his jury to the Winters farm. In a lame granary was found a considerable amount of merchandise, clothing and other property, stolen from murdered travelers, more than a dozen cigars, con­ taining copper tubes and murderous needles, and a large number of disguises of a size to fit the false peddler. It being potent that the dead man was responsible for the murders of the timber belt, the Treasurer of the county, wiio was present at the inquest, notified me that the thousand dollars, offered as a reward, was subject to my order. "And the county," added the coroner, "will ever remain under obligations to- a man. who, by his shrewdness and nerve, relieved her from a reign of terror." I thanked the gentlemen, and producing the box of cigars I had sold the false ped­ dler, and for which he had not lived to pay. I distributed the forty-eight which remained among those present, with the remark: "I'm sure you will like them. gentlemen;they are my favorite cigar, and I think you will all admit that I know a good one, since I've just saved niv life, by being a good judge of the weed."--Chicago Ledger.- •Jid procured a pipe. J ped "I've smoked three with "you already, and ean't further impose on your good nature, fcut if you'll sell me a half hundred box of A Core for Heartburn. We went up to see the oth&r man whoso specialty is cigars. He is obliged to examine the millions that ar­ rive every week, and he smokes from fifteen to twenty-five cigars a day. He gave me a recipe for heartburn which I do not think is generally known. Very many smokers suffer from this distressing form of dyspepsia after having Indulged in a cigar or two too many. I have often been hit pretty hard myself that way, and have often absorbed vast quantities of bismuth, pepsin, baking-soda, carbonic water, Kliine wine and seltzer, and the various other remedies which have been sug­ gested from time to time. I asked the cigar man in the appraiser's office if he was ever troubled with heartburn, and he shook liis head gloomily. "It is an awful penalty for too much smoking, and lots of men have it be­ cause they don't know of a very simple and pleasant remedy." "What is the remedy?" I asked. "This," he said, dramatically. "I am suffering from heartburn. I hold out my left hand thus', knock some of the ashes of my cigar into the palm of my hand, allow it to get cool, touch my tongue to the ashes, and, presto! the heartburn is gone. You look as if you don't believe it, but it is an unfailing and accurate remedy. There is hardly a smoker in Europe who is not ac­ quainted with it, and I have never ex­ plained it to any American in my life but that he was surprised."--Blakely Hall, in the Argonaut. Jinglanging in the Middle. Gen. Totten habitually rode a horse with the most peculiar gait ever seen. It was faster than a walk and Blower than a trot, and was neither a walk, trot, pace nor canter. It caused no end of trouble to his escort, who could never keep pace with him. but was re­ duced tc the necessity of falling behind by letting their horse4 walk and then catching up by a trot Many a fervent prayer was breathed that this annoy- iner hrTse micrht be killed in the first battle. On the march to Camp Bliss, Gen. Totten was quite sick and rode in an ambulance, and his colored servant was sent ahead with the horse rA bout an hour afterwards Gen. Totten came up with the servant, leading the horse, and shedding tears freely. The Gen­ eral askel him why he was leading the horse. He replied: " 'Fore God, Gen­ eral, I can't ride dat boss!" "What is the matter with him?" asked the Gen­ eral. "Why," answered the negro, "he don't know how to go. He trots before, and gallops behind, and jinglangs in the middle."--St. Louis Republican. SOME of the responses one gets through the telephone are holler mock* ery. THE years may corqj» and may go, but the ever. YELLOW is said to be a fashionable color. People afflicted with jaundiee are now in style. A WOMAN put the motto, "God bless our home" in mourning because her husband came home drunk. FRANK showed the picture on his slate: "It's awful bml," said teasing Kate; "Just like the small-pox. "Why?" askt41tfe~ "Because it's ekfltchiuy ilon't you see?" --Yonkers Gazette. > PERHAPS the reason that so many embezzlers escape from the detectives is because it is so hard to catch a flee.-- Texas Siftings. THE probable reason that Father Time always carries a scythe is be­ cause he don't know any mower than • to do so.--Brooklyn Times. MALARIA is certainly a very incon­ sistent disease. It generally makes ac­ quaintances for the purpose of giving them the cold shade.--Texas Siftings. WHO says Minnesota is a eold cli­ mate, when last winter several men went around about their business in bear skins without suffering.--St. Paul Herald. JOAQUIN MILLER says that no man ever wrote anything good on an empty stomach. Is this another fling at the struggling country editor.?--Chicago Ledger. • "DID you ever kill any one while you were in the army ?" inquired a young lady of a veteran. "Hundreds of them, miss." "Rebels?" "No; gray- backs."--Chicago Ledger. A MICHIGAN town has a fire depart­ ment which consists of a chief, a wooden pail, and a ladder twenty-two feet long. The "devouring element" has decided to take a back seat.--Detroit Free Press. LITTLE Inquisitive--"Harry, what was that fuss in the garden ?" Master Harry--"Mother was throwing stones at the speckled hen." "Gracious me! Weren't you afraid of getting hit?" "Oh, no. I kept near the hen."--Phila­ delphia CalL VARIETY is a good thing. Every man and woman sees something good-look- ing or attractive about themselves, though they may be as homely as a mud fence. Suppose we could all "see oursel's as ithers see us," what an un­ happy lot of mortals we would be!-- Texas Siftings, "ACCORDING to recent statistics there are not more than 1,200,000 strictly native ChristAins in India." But isn't this a pretty good showing for a coun­ try deprived of the elevating and civilizing influence ot church fairs and Sunday base-ball games and horse trots?--Norristoitm Herald. THE Shapiro, manuscripts, which i couple of years ago created suoh a sen sation in the theological world, and were held at a valuation of $5,000,000, have just sold in London for 80 cents. They evidently weicrhed 160 pounds. This great depreciation in value re­ minds us of the man who silted the edi­ tor for. $50,000 damages and was awarded one cent. -- Norristoxcn Her aid. HER LETTER. Here's the last letter I had from Will, Written at Venice, you see; He's met Sadie and Jessie McGill-- They "spoke so nicely" of me! v Sadie 'McGill! Don't I know her ways, Her Hiniie and soft little tone i She's very sweet and "eutle, he says-- She'd better leave Will alone. I'm*not joRlous. Of course I don't care; -• But--well--we're engaged, you know, And, truly, now, don't it seem unfair For Willie to tease me so? And then--I can't find much fault, you see, For fear he'd say soniothinc back; Both those fiirls chatter so--why--that he-- Suppose they tell him about Jack! --Puck. THE DEACON'S DAY OFF. There's a crick in ipy back, my shoulders are lame, My face is all blistered, neck and hands just the same, My nose Haines out red as a mariner's beacon, I swear I would swear it I wasn't a deacon ! The soles of my feet axe all blistered and sore, I declare I was never so played out before! Every bone in my body has a separate ache, And makes itself felt every step that I take, . There'B a cart-load of gravel and sand in my shoes-- Oh. yen, you may gig?!e as much as you choose 1 My head aches--feels just like an old cracked ten-cup-- I'm dusty, I'm hot. I'm all broken up; I'm hungry, and tired, and sleepy, and cross, If I died now it wouldn't be much of a loss! My stomach feels bad, I've impaired my diges­ tion-- And how? Oh, yes, how? That's a sensible question 1 Well,,if you must know--by way of ^version I've been down to the beach on a pleasure ex-. 'cursion! --Sonierville Journal. Some Frank Confessions! "Our remedies are unreliable."--D*. Val­ entine Mott. "We have multiplied diseases."--Dr. Bush, Philadelphia. ° ••Thousands are aanualljr slaughtered in tfae sick-room."--Dr. Frank. "The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, improved by murder."--Sir Astley Cooper, M. D. "The medical practice ot the present day to neither philosophical nor common sense." --Dr. Evans, Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr. Dio Lewis, who abhors drugs as a ru;e# and practices hygiene, is frank enouirh, how­ ever, to say over his signature, "If I found myself the victim of a serious kidney trouble, I should use Warner's safe cure beoause I •m satisfied it is not injurious. The medical profession stand* helpless in the presence of more than one such malady." An old proverb savs: If a person dies with­ out the services of a doctor, then a coroner must he called in and a jury impaneled to inquire and determine upon the cause of death, but if a doctor attended the case, then no coroner and jury are needed, as everyoody knows why the person died!-- Medical Herald. Why They Use Slang. *1 should smile S" said a boy in the presence of his grandmother. "At what, my child?" innocently in­ quired the old .lady. _ "Oh, grandma, you are behind tile times--you're n. g.--old fogy--a regu­ lar chump! Don't you know what ' I should smile' means? It's just slang talk." > "Well, what does it mean?" persisted the old lady. "Look here, grandma* if yon must know, go look in Webster. May be he's got it in the index or somewhere or other. Don't ask me what people mean nowadays. They just use cer­ tain words because they come handy, I guess."--Auburn Dispatch. A Mild Attack. , They had gathered at the "OJd Cor­ ner House" and were disoussing impur­ ities in the air. After the subject had Ix Bavaria there is a town called j been talked over for some time among Mittenwald, shut in by snow-clad peaks j them, the Judge took the floor and re- and dense forests, in which every yard lated the following: is crossed by a labyrinth of ropes and One, day, a few weeks ago, as I was oles, on which hundreds of violins are j walkin' through the park, I came to a ung up to dry. For a couple of cen- place where the air seemed alive with I had a severe attack of catarrh over a year ago, and became so deaf 1 could not hear common conversation. I suffered ter­ ribly from roaring in my head. I procured a bottle of Ely's Cream Balm, and in three weeks could hear as well as I ever could, and now I can cheerfully say to all who are afflicted with the worst of diseases, catarrh and deafness, take one bottle of Ely's Cream Balm and be cured. It is worth $1,000 to any man, woman or child guttering from catarrh.--A. E. Newman, GrayLng, Campbell Co., Mlci»._ PURE Cod-Liver Oil, iftade fror*. selected livers on the sea-shore, by CASWELL, HAZAHD & Co., New York. It is absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have ence taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians have de­ cided it superior to any of the other oils in market. " Your Athlophoros sells well and gives entire satisfaction. 1 always recommend it for" rheumatism or neuralgia," says A. D. .oar, a druggist of Bloomington, 111., whose experience is identical with that of hundreds of other druggists. THK Howe Scales have all the latest improve­ ments. it is true economy to buy the best. Borden, Selleck & Co., Agents. Chicago,- 111. turies the entire industry of the town has been violin-making, for which the surrounding forests produce the best of material. Men, women and children, all have their allotted share of the Work, and violins, 'cellos, bass viols, zithers and all string instruments, from a copy of some old and priceless Stradivariiia, perfect in form, color and tone, down to the cheap banjo, are ex­ ported in great quantities, all hand­ made, to every quarter of the globe. FIGARO announces that Prince Na­ poleon will spend three weeks in America while on his tour of the world. He could see more of us in the same length of time if he would go up in a balloon and look at us through a tele­ scope, but he might miss a good deal in tha way of fun. THE blue in the American flag was no doubt put there because everything had a cerulean look about the time the old banner was first flung to the breeze. The red was a matter of course, be­ cause a stripe is always red when blood is drawn. ' THE Toronto Globe tells of a young man who went to sleep the other night without removing his collar, which was very high. In the morning he was found dead. He had been choked to death by the collar. UNSELFISH persons so thoroughly en­ joy seeing others happy that if unliappy themselves they don't realize it and others don't know it. The Cause of Consumption. Scrofula, manifesting itself in blotches, pimples, eruptions, salt-rheum, and other blemishes of tho skin, iB but too apt by and by to infect the delicate tissues of the lungs also, and result in ulceration, thus ending In consumption. Dr. Pierce's " Golden Medioal Discovery" will meet and vanquish the enemy in its stronghold of the blood and cast it out of the system. All druggists. The Velocity of the Moon. We have faintly piotured, says Prof. Langley, how it would seem if we were placed at a station near the lunar orbit, and could see the moon, a moving world, rush by us with the velocity greater than that of a cannon-ball in its swiftest flight. This feeling may be almost realized, in fact, by witnessing from some high mountain the shadow of the moon as it passes swiftly by dar­ ing an eclipse. On such an occasion, its shadow actually travels along the earth with the same speed of its flight in space. The observer upon some lofty point, from which his vision reaches many miles to the west, can easily discern and follow the approach­ ing shadow, and witnessing the actual velocity of a heavenly body, as it were, brought down to him. Such a sight was once witnessed by some one from an elevated point on the Sierras. The reader who . has ever ascended to the Superga, at Turin, will recall the mag­ nificent view, an4 he able to under­ stand the good fortune of an observer (Forbes) who once had the opportunity to witness thence this phenomenon, and under nearly a cloudless sky. "I porceived," he says, "in the southwest a black shadow, like that of a storm about to break, which obscured the Alps. It was the lunar shadow coming toward us. I confess it was the loiost terrifying sight I ever saw. As always happens in cases of sudden, silent, un­ expected movements, the spectator confounds the real and relative mo­ tions. I felt almost giddy for a mo­ ment, as though the massive building under me bowed on the side of the com­ ing eclipse." Another witness, who had been looking at some bright clouds just before, says: "The bright clotfa\^ saw distinctly put out- like a cawdte. The rapidity of the shadow, and the intensity, produced a feeling that some­ thing material was sweeping the earth at a speed perfectly friglitfol. I invol­ untarily listened for the rushing noise of a mighty wind." Somewhat Aged. "Boss, do yer see that ar boss with the long ears ?" "Yes, but if that is a hoss what makes his ears so long, Cully?" "O, I gess dey growed a leetle faster den common, den, yo' must' know he was bo'n lanng, lanng 'ears ago, yah, h-a-w, h--a--w."--StocktonMaverick. JAMES W. WADSWORTH, the Republi­ can candidate for Controller of New York State, is a son of Gen. Wads- worth, who was killed in the Wilder­ ness. 'None but the brave deserve tho fare," remarked the conductor, boldly pocketing tho unregistered nickels. insects that looked like miniater eels-- microbes, I guess 1" "Very strange, indeed," remarked the Doctor; "I've often heard of 'em seein' Bnakes, but never microbes. You must have had a mighty mild attack." And they had a good laugh at the Judge's expense.--Detroit Free ifYess. A Flat Contradiction. Some one has told you that your catarrh is incurable. It is not so. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy will cure it. It is pleasant to use, and it always dot-s its work thoroughly. We have yet to hear of a case in which it did not accomplish a cure when faithfully used. Catarrh is a disease whicht.it,i8 dangerous to neglect. A certain remedy is at your com­ mand. Avail yourself of it before the com­ plaint assumes a more serious form. All druggists. 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WALKER'S CALI­ FORNIA VINEGAR HITTERS acts as an irre­ sistible specific in dyspepsia, liver com­ plaints, kidney diseases, rheumatism, gout and all disorders proceeding from a depraved condition of the animal tin ids. To decline taking a sure remedy -when sick, is to court suffering and invite death. HENS are very exclusive; at least each one likes to stick to her own set. To restore sense of taste, smell.or hear­ ing use Ely's Cream Dalm. It curesall cases of Catarrh, Hay FeVer, Colds in the Head, Headache and Deafness. It is doing wonder­ ful work. Do not fail to procure a tottlo, as in It ll^s the relief you seek. It is easily ap­ plied with the finger. Price 50 cents at drug­ gists, CO cents by mail. Ely Bros., Owego, N. Y. . The habit of running over boots or shoe* corrected with Lyon's Patent Heel Miffeners. A<JKNTS WANTED in every citv Rnd town tor Ladies' Favorite Tracing Wheel. Will sell in every household. Two dozen m illed upon receipt of $1. Sample 10c. 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DO YOU USE STOVE REPAIRS ? Having a stack of Repairs for over 15,000 different Stoves, ckn wo not make it to your advantage to trade with us? l'rompt Miirments *nd satisfaction puaranteed. THE W.C. MKTZNICn STOVE KKPA1U CO.. IK A; 1J7 West Itandolph Street, Chicago. Catalogue sent free. R. U. AWARE THAT Lorillar&'s Ollmax Ping bearing a red tin. tag; that Lorillard'i B*M Lenfflne out; that Lorlllard's Kavy Clipping!, and that Lorlllard's Hnufl'a, aae int. 1 "'«r ana cheapest, quality considered > Piso's Remedy fbr Catarrh Is the Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. C A T A R R H Also cood fbr Oold In the Head, B Headache, Hay Fever, Ac, 60 cents. • G The OLDEST MEDICINE In the WORLD is probably Dr. ISIM Thompson's U Wafsll •Isbrsted Eys This article is a carefully prepared physician's BPS- , scription, snd has been in constant use for nearlj centurv, and notwithstanding the many other prepar- rket. the If the di-t atiorm that have been introduced into the market, 1 sale of this article is constantly increaain?. If the _ , Motions are followed it will never fail. We particn--^ ;r larlv Invite the stteutlon of physicians to its merits. John [. Thompson, Sons A Co., TROY. N. Y £ THE MAN tio a«ni Wail 5 Tea Wacaa ~ 8c«tea|" Irea Imtt, M Artafi, M" ' tV« Beam aad Seam Boi, fev ^ 80O end JONES b» p«n (hf fcrtrbi--for •«£. Fr1c« Ll«t in.Btinn tfatt sddr... JONES OF •IN6MMTI Blnnimminr, O.H.O. No. «e-M 11THKN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS, IT please ear yoa saw the rndvertlsemem in this paper. 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