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. THE FIRST GCESX. * .... ,» DT KELKN arfiT coin. £ * _yfhertk f&is honse Is finished, death WWern Proverb: Life's House being ready all, • Each chamber fair and dumbj Ere Life, the Ijord is come With IKHIIJI into bin hall-- , Ere Toil has trod the floors^ *. • Ere Love has lit the fires. j Or young great-eyed DesiraB Have, timid, tried the do^rs; .. Or from east-window leaned i r: Or one Hope, to greet the 6U1J, One gray Sorrow screened Her Bight against the west- Then enters the first truest* "* The House of Life being dOMlf' " He-waits there in the shade. I deem he is Life's twin, For whom the House was'maSeb Whatever his true name, Be sure, to enter in He has both key and claim. " The day-beams, free of fear, Creep drowsy toward his feAJ « His heart were heard to beat; Were any there to hear; •h, not for ends malign. Like wild things crouched in laiff Or watcher of a Biiare, But with a friend's design He lurk in shadow there 1 He goes not to the gates To welcome any other. Nay, not Lord Life, his brother} But still his hour awaits Each several guest to find Alone, yes, quite alone; Pacing with pensive mind The cloister's echoing stoiM^ • ' • Or singing, unaware, At the turning of the stair, • • 'TiH truth, though we forget;. • In Life's House enters none Who shall that seeker shun, Who shall not so be met. "Is this mine hour?" each saitb* • ' • "So be it, gentle Death !'* Each has his way to end, k Encountering this friend. Griefs die to memories mild; Howe turns a wearied child; LOve BhiueB a spirit white. With eyes of deepest light. When many a guest has passed. Some day 'tis Life at last , To front the face of Death. Then, casements closed, men say* "Lord Life is going away; He went, we trust and pray. To God, who gave hjm breath." . Beginning, End, he is : Are not these sons both his? Bo, these with him are oust. To phrase it so were best; God's self is that first Guest, The House of Life being done I --Atlantio Monthly. A GEORGIA ROMANCE. BX THOMAS COLQUITT. I, "He is coming, at last." The young man who uttered these words •with a sigh of relieved weariness was sit­ ting beneath a shade by the roadside, a short distance out from the town of Hia- wasset, as a wagon'drawn by a yoke of oxen and driven by a pleasant-faced old countryman was coining slowly toward him from the direction of the town. "tioiu' my way--hie--youngster?" said the wagoner as he came up to the young man, and stopped his wagon. "Yes, sir; all the way to the Tray moun tains." "Come ahead then, an*ride. Its too---hie --hot to walk." The old fellow was evidently half drank and glad to have some one with him on the long, lonely drive before him. Had he known, however, that he was riding with a man who had been the means of destroy ing more illicit distilleries and bringing their operators to justice than any two marshals in North Carolina he would not have been so friendly with the stranger, Hfel fcc known that his young companion had come 1,000 miles to seek him out, had been waiting in Hiawassee two weeks for him to come io town, and had come down the road that warm afternoon to obtain a seat in his wagon, it is extremely doubtful if Jason Niles, the young United States revenue afficer, had ever reached old Coon .Golfs lowly but hospitable home alive. • They camped in the woods that night, and cooked their supper over a fire of sticks by the roadside. The following afternoon they reached Mr. Groff's home. As the wagon stopped at the gate the old gentle­ man snid: "Our fare is rough, Mr. Niles, but you're welcome to stop with me as long as you like; and I gt^ss," with a meaning smile "I can learn you as much about making corn whisky as any of my neighbors--and you say you want to learu." ' Niles had evidently won the old fellow's confidence and lulled the suspicion that these mountain people always entertain regarding strangers. It was the strongest proof that could have bean given of his prowers as a detective, that he was able to ingratiate himself so soon -into the confi­ dence of this man, who was the chief of a dangerous band engaged in manufacturing corn whisky. Old Coon GofFs word was supreme law among his men. It is not often that charac­ ters so daring and reckless as these moun­ taineers surrender entirely to another's command, but when they do they form a terrible combination. It was said that the blood of more than one revenue man stained old Coon's huge bony hands. It was charged that he led the merciless band of moonshiners who in 1K74 burned a revenue officer at the stake in Eabun County. But the fate of the many United States officers who have penetrated those lonesome lands and never returned can never be known. Within an area of a dozen counties from Rabun, Georgia, on the east, to Swaine, North Carolina, on the west, there is not a print­ ing press, and these people guard their secrets well. In all that vast area illicit distilling is the favorite occupation, and farming is a secondary consideration. They have a well-established secret- service which covers the ground thoroughly throughout the moonshine district, and the news of an intended raid by ft posse of "revenue hounds" always reaches the threatened locality long before the officers get there. An officer simply takes his life in his own Hands who goes alone among the moon­ shiners. They are almost sure to spot him as a spy, and his life pays the forfeit. From this, readers will readily understand that Mr. Jason Niles, the young revenue man, is in a position of extreme danger. n. "Right or wrong, Jason, my father is what they call a moonshiner, and if I knew you were a revenue officer, spying out the secrets of these people, I would never speak to you again--no--not--if--it killed me." Emily Groff had began in a brave tone, but her voice trembled pitifullj' and failed as she concluded. Mr. GotTs neighbors had all pronounced young Niles "a revenue," but the old chief s "• confident words and the young stranger's eeasant manners soon won them over to lieviug his story--that he was simply a tourist summering in the mountains. Ere' a month had passed they had come to regard him almost as one of themselves. Mr. Golf's tnmilv consisted of his hand­ some little dark-eyed wife, a daughter of 18 years, and a half a dozen or so of smaller Tanging from 12 years old to the baby in the cradle. Old Coon himself was a typical mountaineer. A tall, loosely- built old fellow, sunbrowned. long-headed, and hairy, with quick, unrestrained move­ ments. He went heavily armed, and wretchedly clothe^l in ragged brown jeans, with broad-brimmed slouch hat and coarse heavy boots. His house contained but two rooms. The wind made its way through a thousand crevices in the walls, and when it rained tfie water found out as many aper­ tures iu the split-board roof. It is impos­ sible to describe their wretched habitations --their poverty, iniserble surroundings and dirt, but they seem cheerful and con­ tented with (heir lot. They chew their home-raised tobacco, or dip it as snuff, > drink a great deal of vile, fiery, whisky they make, and really seem to enjoy life. The ' men are brave and fearless, with scant morals. The women are strong, healthy, and some of them exceedinglyjiretty. Old Coon Goff's daughter, Emily, was a lovely girl. She was extremely shy and retiring, but possessed quiet, winsome ways and * charming grace of manner and speech. When young Niles had 6nce bro­ ken the ice of her reserved demeanor, they were soon great friends, and he was again drifting into danger. Emily had never been much more than a servant in the family. The little Goffs had come to that wrtflched mountain home with such schedule-like regularity that Emily had known scant opportunity to learn anything but nursing. \\ ith her mother's desultory assistance, however, she had learned to read and write--two accomplishments but few of her girl friefids possessed. "It ain't well for girls to learn too much," her father had often assured her. "It will get'em inter trouble." In her own heart Emily resented her fate. She selt that she was worthy a better posi­ tion in life, that she had been born to bet­ ter things. The neighboring "boys"--as these people term all young men until they marry--were rather afraid of her. She "thought herself too good for them," they said, and but few of them dared to "go to see her." One stalwart young moonshiner had, however, made a "trade" with* old Cooti, by virtue of which he considered himself entitled to claim Emily for his wife as soon as he was ready to take her to his home--a wretched log hut hid somewhere among the mountains. Emily had never heard of the bargain, but if she had known all about it she could not have treated Back Saxon with greater con­ tempt. That's all right, my fine lady," he would mutter after every slight. "The old man will bring you 'round when I give him the word." So matters rested when yoong Jason Niles came. He and Emily were constantly thrown together, and it was perfectly natural that she should learn to love him, while he, knowing that she was a fair, pure girl--innocent at heart, and uneducated in the vanities and frivolities of society, and knowing something more that neither Emily nor the reader has yet learned, it was small wonder that he should love the girl he had purposely com,e from afar to find and carry away. t :n. It is sweet to learn when one we love teaches us. Under Niles' careful tuition Emily applied herself most assiduously to such studies as he prescribes for her. It was understood now that they were to be mar­ ried in October, and ho was to take her away to his own people. She loved Jason devotedly, and would have wiliingly shared his lot even in Buck Saxon's hovel, but now her heart sang a half-unconscious song of triumph. She would go out into the great bright world among educated, intelligent people--she would be a lady! Just at this time Buck Saxon determined to close his trade with Old Coon. "Here's yer gun, Coon," he Raid one after­ noon, walking up to Mr. Golf, who was standing at his yard, gate, tendering a handsomely-mounted Winchester repeating rifle. "Don't want it," said Old Coon, pushing hotly. "It's your'n--the bargain , was settled long ago." "Trade's off. I won't have the gun." "All right!. But understand, mister, I"ta' a-goin' to have the gal all the sapie. You . A lady on Fifth avenue, New York, quick- if summoned a doctor: "Oh, doctor, my husband is nearly dead. He attended a caucus last night. ; He mado four speeches and pr9mi6ed to be with his fellow citizens again to day. But, oh, doctor, he looks nearly dead." Has he been in politics long ?** •No, only last year. He worked hard for tjaraes McCaulay's election." 'He will get well, madam: He has a-stom- aoh for any disease. If he forked for him:" Political life, of shorter long duration, is very exhausting, as is evident from tfiSgreat mortality which prevails among public men. Ex. U. 8. Senator B. K. Bruce, who has been long in public life, says: "The other day, when stepping into a car at a crossing, I found Dr. within, who eyed me up and down in a surprised way, remarking: * ' " ' Wby, Senator, how well you lookV " ' Well, I ieel pretty well,' 1 answered." The doctor uttered an incredulous reply, when the Senator frankly told him, in an­ swer to an inquiry, that it was Warner's sale cure which accomplished for him what tho profession had failed to do. Senator Bruce says his friends are very much astonished at this revelation ot power.--The Globe, Eromised her to me for that gun, an' I'll ave her!" "You an'her for that, Buck." "Ohf-I see through it all now. Yon an' her are both dead gone on that revenue sneak, Niles--" "Yes," said Goff, coldly, and at that in- • stant Niles and Emily came in sight, walk­ ing down the road. "I'll take him out of the way too quick for his good." said Buck, throwing the rifle to his shoulder and aiming at Niles' breast. Simultaneously two shots rang out on the evening air. Nilep was unhurt, but a bullet from Golf's pistol shattered Buck Faxon's right arm. He dropped the rifle and ran shrieking down the road. "Well, she's married one of her own sort, after all," said nn old gray-haired moonshiner, as he looked after the carriage bearing Emily and her husband away to­ ward Gainsville from the church where a few moments before they had been pro­ nounced man and wife. "Huh! you call one of old Coon Golfs young tins his sort, do you!" said another of the idle crowd. "Old Goff's young un, eh," replied the old gray-haired speaker. " She's none o' his'n. She's old General Chancellor's daughter. Niles was a-writin' to him all the lime he was here, so ,<old man Dowdy tells us. He broke open some o' Niles' letters and found out all about it. Bein' postmaster, you know, he had a perfec' right to see as how nothin' improper wasn't goin' on right under his nose, ami the boys was all curi's to know the young feller's business in here." It was even 6o; General Chancellor, pre wealthy politician, while Niles was his special protege, and a rising young man. Together they make Emily's life an 'un­ broken happy dream. ' j "Old Coon" still runs his "Rock House" j distillery. ~ """"" | A Memorial of Daniel Boone. It was over and around these ancient hills, too, that Daniel Boone;hunted and pioneered before making liis final settlement in Kentucky. Along the banks of the pellucid and beautiful Wautuga he chased the noble buck and was occasionally chased in his turn by the ignoble "bar." But that Daniel was a mighty hunter in those days is now an established fact of our national history, and there yet remains the re­ cord of his own hands that the "bar" did not always find Daniel a fit subject for ursine hilarity. In the valley of Boone's creek, on the road from Jones- borough to Blountsville, near to the Wautuga river, still stands a large beach tree, whose age is past finding out, but on whose ancient side is yet faintly visible this inscription, made by Boone with his hunting knife: D. Boon CillED A. BAR On Tree in ThE yEAR 1760, From the above it will be seen that Dan'l wasn't much of a hand at orthog­ raphy, punctuation or the proper dis­ position of capital letters, but those matters can fce readily disremembered, as it were, in the fice of his mighty achievements as a hunter, Indian fighter and founder of the noble Com­ monwealth of Kentuoky.--Greenville (I'wm.) Letter in Atlanta Constitu­ tion. . Mohammedans in India. Hitherto the Mohammedan popula­ tion of India, which is already numer­ ous and constantly on the increase, has been somewhat neglected by the gov­ ernment. They are not eligible to city offices and they have received no assis­ tance in the matter of education. Ac­ cording to tho Moslem Observer, of Madras, the cry of the Mohammedans has at last been heard by the govern­ ment, and an important resolution has been issued regarding their education and their employment in the public service. Earl Dufferin, who has taken some pains to examine the documents which have been submitted to him on the subject, will have all the glory of this new departure. To his excellency the Mohammedans, through their own channels, are loudly and emphaticellv expressing their indebtedness. It is generally admitted among them that something like justice has been done them in India for the first time. . THEY that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.--Tilomat Fuller. JTOMKI^ISG WITH + ' ST BILL KtTf, Very soon now I shall be strong enough on my cyclonic leg to resume my lessons in waltzing. It is needless to say that I look forward to the great pleasure of that moment. Nature in­ tended that I should glide in the mazy; Tall, lithe, baldheaded, genial, limber in the extreme, suave, soulful, frolic­ some at time3, yet dignified and re­ served toward strangers, light on foot --on my own foot, I mean--gentle as a woman at times, yet irresistible as a tornado when insulted by a smalleu, I am perfectly fitted to shine in soci­ ety. Those who have observed my polished brow under a'" strong electric light say that they never saw a man shine so in society as I do. I had just learned how to reel around a ball-room to a little waltz-music when I was blown across the State of Mississippi in September last, by a high wind, and broke one of my legs which I use in waltzing. When this accident happened I had just got where I felt at liberty to choose a glorious being with starry eyes, and fluffy hair, and magnificently moulded form to steer me around the rink to the dreamy music of Strauss. One young lady with whom I had waltzed a good deal, when she heard, that my leg was broken, began to attend every dancing party she could hear of, although she had declined a great many previous to that I asked her how she could be so giddy and so gay while I was suffering. She said she was doing it to drown her sor­ row, but her little brother told me on the quiet that she was dancing while I was sick because she felt perfectly safe, My wife taught me how to waltz. She would teach me on Saturday and repair her skirts during the following week. I told her once that I thnught it was brainy to dance. She said she hadn't noticed that, but she thought I seemed to run too much to legs. My wife is not timid about telling mo any­ thing that she thinks will be for my good. When I make a mistake she is perfectly frank with me, and comes right to me and tells me about it so that I won't do so again. A friend of mine says I have a pro­ nounced and distinctly original manner of waltzing, and that he never saw any­ body, with one exception, who waltzed as I did, and that was Jumbo. He claimed that either one of us would bo a good dancer if he could have the whole ring to himself. He said that he would like to see Jumbe and me waltz together, if he were not nfraid I would step on Jumbo and hurt him. You can see what a feeling of jealous hatred it aroused in some small minds when a man gets so that he can mingle in good society and enjoy himself. I could waltz more easily if the rules did not require such a constant change of position. I am sedentary in my na­ ture, slow to move about, so that it takes a lady of great strength of pur­ pose to pull me around on time. I had a partner once who said I was very easy to waltz with. She moved about with wonderful ease and a poetic mo­ tion tftat made my legs stand out at on angle of 45 degrees when we turned the corners. She told me to trust her implicitly and she would see that I got aroand on time. My feet only touched the floor three time3 during the dance, and one arm has been a littlo longer than the other ever since that time. Most of the other dancers left the floor and watched us with great interest. Finally I asked her if she didn't want to sit down and fan herself till I could get her a glass of water. She said no, she didn't feel fatigued at all, and then proceded to whirl me around some more. In makes me shudder yet to think of it. Every time the old bass viol would "zzzt, zzzt, zzzt," she would schrunch my shoulder-bades together and swing me around like a wet rag. I then asked her if she would not be kind enough to take me home . to my parents. I looked her in the eye and begged her to remember her father. He, too, was a man. "Ah!" said I, "do not take advantage of your great strength. Perhaps you have a brother. How would you like to have him fall into the hands of a strong woman and be kidnapped, so that you would never see his dear face again ?" She then relented and led me to a chair. I told her that my friend who had introduced us had not pronounced her Dame distinctly; might I ask her once more, so that we could, some day, dance again. /She smiled joyously and gave me a large, stiff, thick, blue card, and left the room. It read as follows: •Overwhelmingly defeated. A Carious Tribe. Thfc report of the Resident in tfte State of Selangore, in the Malay Pen­ insula, for the last year contains some curious information with regard to "aboriginal tribes" called the Sakeis, who number between 700 and 800. They are in nine divisions, under head­ men called Batins, and they live mainly by collecting gutta, rattans, and other jungle produce. As far as is known they have no form of religious worship, but they are very superstitious, be­ lieving in good and bad omens, the sacred character of certain birds, and they always desert a village as unlucky on the death of any member of the tribe. They tattoo figures on their arms, but apparently only for the sake of ornament, and do not use any specially significant figure, peculiar to each tribe, analogous to the totems of the North American Indians. They con­ sider no kind of edible food unclean, but eat even monkeys, snakes and scor pions, which they kill by means of i blow-pipe, throwing a dart poisoned with the juice of the ipoh or upas tree. For large game they use a kind of cross-bow, consisting of a sharpened bamboo spear placed horizontally on a grooved log, and a bent sapling fasten­ ed back by a rattan cord. This cord is stretched across a jtetch in the jungle, and, on being touched, releases the sapling with sufficient force to drive it completely through a deer's body. The Sakeis live in small huts made of bam­ boo, and thatched with leaves of the Bertam palm, raised eight feet or more above the ground. They are shy and easily frightened, but are quite harm­ less, and are gradually becoming ac­ customed to Europeans, by whom they are employed to track game and to cut paths through the jungle. They are small in stature, but are otherwise very similar in appearance to the Malays from whom they differ, however, in usually having wavy instead of straight growing hair. A few Malays are at­ tached to every Sakei community to act as go-betweens in the sale of their pro duce, and the officials have received special instructions to protect these ab­ original tribes.--Nature. No OPIATES or poison. Only twenty-five cents. Ked Star Cough Cure. Sec., Kow Seat Ki-tain this check, as it secures your seat. The Human Electric Wonder. Admit One. --Chicago Tinier The Broncho Cow. When I was young and used to roam around over the country, gathering watermelons in the dark of the moon I used to think I could milk anybody's cow, but 1 do not think so now. I do not milk a cow unless the sign is right and it hasn't been right for a good many years. The last cow I tried to milk was a common cow, born in obscurity; kind of a self-made cow. I remember her brow was low, but she wore her tail high, and she was haughty, oh, so haughty. I made a commonplace remark to her, one that is used in the very best of so­ ciety, one that need not have given of­ fense anywhere. I said "So"--and she "soed." Then I told her to "histe"-- and she Listed. But I thought she overdid it. She put to much expres­ sion in it. Just then I heard something" crash through the window of the barn and fall with a dull, sickening thud on the outside. The neighbors came to see what it.was that caused the noise. They found that I had done it in getting through the window. I asked the neighbors if the barn was still standing. They said it was. Then I askeu if the cow v»&a injured much. They said she seemed quite robust. Then I requested them to go in and calm the cow a little and see if they could get my plug hat off her horns. I am buying all my milk now of a milkman. I select a gentle milkman who will not kick, and I feel as though I could trust him. Then if he feels as though he could trust me it is all right. --BUI Nye, in Chicago limes. gik*. : A Present for Hint. "I guess you're going to get a present, Mr. Featherly," said Bobby. "Yes?" queried Featherly, pleasant­ ly. "From whom?" "From sister." "Do you know what it is?" "I'm not sure, but after you left last night they were talking about the diffi­ culty of making a silk purse oat of a sow's ear, so I suppose it's goin' to be a purse."--N. ¥. Sun THE HOTEL CLERK'S SfO&Y. It is Uie fashion among many so-called humorists to represent the American hotel clerk as a lordly and supercilious being, who, with a headlight diamond in his immaculate shirt front and a look of contemptuous dis­ dain upon his classic features, sends tired and travel-stained arrivals off to impossible regions in the fifteenth story, or haughtily refuses them any lodging whatever. The fact is that the true American hotel clerk is an invaluable feature of our civil­ ization. The time of the arrivals and de­ partures of all the trains on all the rail­ roads is at his tongue's end; he is full of information about what is interesting at the theaters, and of stories of actors and ac­ tresses who have stopped at his hotel, and withal a kindly man, who, if the house is crowded, will let you sleep on a billiard table. Mr. W. P. Hammond, who is clerk at the West End Hotel, 503 and 505 West Madison street, Chicago, is of this obliging disposition and is always ready to give any information regarding the hotel to those who seek it. The accomplished landlady of the West End has recently suffered with rheumatism. The story of her cure is thus told by Clerk Hammond: ^ "Our landlady was taken with quite a severe attack of rheumatism in the lower limbs, suffering much pain and being scarcely able to walk. She. heard of Ath- lophoros and of the cures it had effected, and sent me to the drug store to buy a bottle of it. I got it, and in half an hour's time after she had taken the first dose she felt relieved, and iu a few days the rheumatism was entirely gone." * "How much did she take?" "About one bottle." "Has she had any return of the pain?" "Not to my knowledge," replied Mr. Hammond, "and I am certain she would be likely to say something about it if she had. She speaks of Athlophoros in the highest terms, and has recommended it to many. In one case I remember the cure was as quick as in her own." The accuracy of Clerk Hammond's state­ ments is fully confirmed by the landlady herself, who is not averse to having it %TRICTLY PURE. It Contains Ho Opium in JJIJ Form* Among the best remedies Allen'* I.niiic Balsam stands pre-eminent. The druggists speak ot it in the hiKhest terms, is giving entire satisfaction wherever it is used. He Had Deceived Her. He belonged to the militia. She though, he was a soldier. It was through this mistake that the trouble all originated. Having seen him with his uniform on she did the Desdemona racket the next time he called and wanted to love him for the dangers he had borne. "Were you ever in a mad, wild attack ?* she asked in an awe- stricken voice. "Can't say I ever was," he replied flippantly. "I have never been in an attack, but last month I had a tack in me." "What!" she cried, raising from her chair. "That's what it was," continued he, getting up also. "It wasn't a mad, wild tack, but was just one of those plain, ordinary zinc carpet tacks and " "Enough," ex­ claimed she. " You have deceived me. You are but a carpet knight* Go."-- Pittsburgh Chronicle. WHV is fame like an eel? Because it is very hard to catch, and a good deal harder to hold. who is not known how she was cured. "I will tell you something about my cure," 6he said to a visitor who called to learn the facts in her case. "I was so lame and suffered so much pain that it was impossible for me to bend my limbs or walk around my room without taking hold of the back of a chair for support. My relief, after taking the first dose of Athlo­ phoros, was almost immediate. In fact, lifter taking a few doses I was well and have not been troubled since. At the same time that I was suffering from the rheumatism, there was a lady boarding in my hotel who was suffering with facial neuralgia so much that it was impossible for her to sit up. I advised her to try 'my remedy.' that being the name T have for Athlophoros. After she had taken two .doses of it she was well, and the next thing I knew; I saw her rushing for a street-car to go up town. My confidence in Athlo­ phoros cannot be shaken. I find it a posi­ tive cure for nervous headache and shall always keep some in the hotel, as I cannot afford to suffer from rheumatism, neuralgia, or any such trouble while I can get a medi­ cine like Athlophoros." If you cannot get ATHLIOPKORO9 of your drug­ gist, we will send it, express paid, on receipt of regular price--one dollar per bottle. We prefer that you buy it from your druggist, but if ho hasn't it, do not be persuaded to try something else, but order at oncn from us, as direetod, ATHLOPHOROS CO., 1X2 Wall street. New York. IT is singular how early in life a child gains the reputation of resembling its richest and best-looking relations. INSTEAD of waiting for a chance, make one. ' Decline of Man* Mental or organic weakness, nervous de­ bility and kindred delicate diseases, however induced. sj>eedily and permanently cured. For large illustrate;! book ol' particulars in­ close lu cents in stamps and address. World's Ltfspensary Medical Association, tMS3 Mam street, Buffalo, N. V. Too MUCH beer is apt to put men at lager- heads. It Is a Fact well established that consumption, if attend­ ed to in its first stages, can be cured. TUere is, however, no true and rational way to cure this disease, which is reaiiy scrofulous ulcer­ ation ol' the lungs, except through purifying tlie blood. Keep the liver in perfect order and pure blood will be the result. Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery," a purely vegetable compound does all tliis and. more: while it purities the blood it also builds up the system, strengthening it against future attacks .of disease. Ask for „Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." Take no other. Of druggists. THE man who never pays his debts prob­ ably b "lieves with Byron that "Time at la.s.t sets all things even."--Punztutawney Trib­ une. . . Some Folks have much difficulty In swallowing tbe huge, old-fa»hioned pill, but anyone can take Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets," which are composed of highly concentrated vegeta­ ble extracts. For diseases of the liver and stomach, sick and bilious headache, etc., they have no equal. Their operation is attended with no discomfort whatever. They ard suarar-coated and put up in class vials. MOTTO for a dude: top." "There's room at tho llilioiiw. Intermittent, and Re» mittent I'evers, to which people who live near fresh water, during the warm and dry seasons, are particularly subject, are largely caused by a torpor of the digestive organs and a cloggintr up of the liver. To correct these vital organs, restore energy, and prevent these diseases, use DK. WAUCXH'S CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BITTERS. THE boy whose hair is out by his mother seldom takes off bis hat when there are any girls around.--StwY'orh Journal. To January, 1886, Free. Wo do not know whether our readers ap­ preciated tbe announcement of the Youiht' Companion we published last week. We have known the paper since childhood, and it seems to grow better and better with each volume. Certainly no n.ore could be afforded for $1.75 in a weekly paper than the Companion gives Its readers, and we advise you to subscribe at once and get the' rest of the year free, as they offered in the advertisement. MENSMAN'S PEPTONIZED BEEF TONIC, th« only preparation of beef containing its en­ tire nutritious properties. It contains blood- making, force-generating-, and life-sustaining proiwrties; invaluable for indigestion, dys­ pepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also, in all enfeebled condi­ tions, whether the result of exhaustion, nerv­ ous prostration, over-work, or aoute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprie­ tors, New York. Sold by druggists. "I have used your Athlophoros foi rheumatism with success, and would recom­ mend it tc all afflicted with that disease," is the testimony of Oscar Allen, Des Moines, Iowa, traveling agent for Warder, Bushneli & Glessner, of Chicago. OVER 200.0C0 Howe Scales have been sold, and the demand increasing continually. Bor­ den, Belleck & Co.. Agents, Chicago* 111. LVON'S Patent Heel Stiffener.the only inven­ tion that will make old boots straight as new. Piso's Hetnedy for Catarrh is agreeab'e to use. It is not a liquid or a snuff. C0c> TAR *K. fo UGH CURE " " Emetics and Boiton. 25% THADE SAFE. SURE. PROMPT. GERMANREMEOY Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, BMkttb*, Hradacke, TMtkMkc, SprtlM, RrabH.rte»ttf. PRICE. FIFTY CENTS. AT DRCONLSTS AND DKALKKS. THE RILARI.F.S A. VOOEI.EE CO.. BALTIMORE. ID. DR. RADWAY'S The Great Liver and Stomach Remedy, For the cure of all disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Bowfels, Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Dispases, Loss of Appetite, Headache. Constipation. Co«tiveness, Inai- Bpstion, Dytipeptsia, BilimisneHH, Inflammation of tlia Bowels, l'iles, and all derangements of the Internal Viscera. Purely vegetable, containing no mercury, minerals, or deleterious drugs. Price, 23 cents per box. Sold by all diw<'i»t*. DYSPEPSIA. Hundreds of maladies spring from this complaint Th* symptom? of this diM-aw are tlitj symptoms of a broken-down Stomach, Indirection. Flatulence, Heart- lura. Acid Stomach, Pain after Katiiij-' (.'lvintf nee sc nietimes to the most excruciating colic--Pyrosis, or Water-Brash, etc.. etc. Dr. Kadway's Pills are a -nro for this complaint. They restore strength to tiie Stoinnch and enable it to perform its functions. Take the Pills according to tbe directions, and observe what we say in "False and True* respecting diet. Seud stamp for "False and True." Dr. Radway's SARSAPARILLIAN RESOLVENT Has stood the test of nearly half a century as a remedy for Scrofulous. Mercurial arid Syphilitic Complaints, Chronic Rheumatism. Skill Diseases, and Impurities of the Blood. It builds up the broken-down constitu­ tion, purifies the blood, restoring health and vigor. Sold by druggist*; $1 a bottle. BAD WAV'S READY RKI.1EF, For the relief and cure of all Pains, Congestion* «nd Inflammations. *»~Be sure to get Kadway's.-tf* Dit. KADWAY k CO.. New York. OPIUM .Morphine I Info:! Cured in IO to 'iOdnjK. No l»«y ti" p°,ped. DA. J. HTKPHF.SK. Lebanon, Ohio. The most beautiful and finest toned in the world. Low pr CM, ew)/ vnim ,neur. Send for catalogue. Ad.lr. sl Weaver Organ S Piano Co, York. P». D ATPIITS Hand-Book FREE. rA I EH I CONSUMPTION. Ihm a poaltlTS remedy for the above dlaeane; by It. DM thoasamieofeauaof the worn tlnd mid of lon( jtandinelia^e cured. Inde»<l. to»tron«;l« m faith IB it»efficacy,tliftt 1 wi;l wndTffO BOTTLES FREK, together witb aTA LCABLETREXTISK on this disew to ADT iufferer. GLvoexprestant! V O. afidr it. * DikT. A. gLOCVM.lUFwarJSt.,!!** Y«rk, SORE THROAT, In their various form*, are «o frequent in this change­ able climate, and so often lay the foundation ot di»- eaae. that no one who has a proper regard for health should be without Allen'a Lung I'mlsam. CONSUMPTION. For the cure of this distressing dlseane there has been 110 medicine yet discovered that can show more evidence ot real merit than Allen's I>unjc Balsam. As an Expectorant it has So Eqnal. ja~For sale by all Medicine Dealers. BITTERS. IT IB 'i'HUl BLOW PURIFIED g HEALTH RESTMEK It never fails to do ita work la cases of Mala* ria, BlIlonmeM, oouUMttoa. Bwt- Kche, loss of Appetite and slwf, RcrroH Debility, Neuralgia, ud sfi VouS Complaints. Hops A Halt Bitters is a T«ge* table Compound. It is a IHe4iclse not a Bar* room Drink. It diffars as Widely as does day and night from the tbosnsl-asd^ou mixtures of vile Whlakf flavored with aromatic*. Hops A Malt Bitters Is recom­ mended by Physicians, Ministers sad N urses as being the Best Family Medicine m compounded. Any woman or cfctM can take it. "TVom my knowledge of its ingredients* ttndsr no circumstances can it injure any one ostef it. (t contains no mineral or other deleterioas safe, (tance. Possessing real merits, tbe remedy it Reserving success. C. E. DEPCTT, Ph. a, Detroit, Mich. Ihe only Genuine are manufactured tqrtW HOPS * HALT BITTEIS CO., MreR, Bc*b CATARRH'! THE,1EAD ,s W --1 • a disease of the mucon raucous membrane. It generally originates in the nasal pan- sages and maintains its stronghold in the head. From this point it sends forth s poisonous virus along the membranous linings and through the digestive organs, corrupt­ ing the blood and produc­ ing other troublesome and dangerous symptoms. Cream Balm is a rem­ edy based upon a correct diajniosis of this disease, and can be depended upou. HAY-FEVER »t druggists' or b KLY HUOTHEKS. I>ruirgist.«. Owego, N. Y. ViNEGAR BiTTERS Is the great Blood Purifier tuid Life-giving Principle; a tientle Purgative and Tonic; a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. In Vinegar Hitter* there is vitality but no alceholicor mineral poison. Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short t ime by the use of the Bitters. Vinegar Bitter* allays feverishness. It re­ lieves, and in time cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gout, and similar painful diseases. Vinegar Bitters cures Constipation and prevents JXarrhoBa. Never before has a medicine been com­ pounded possessing tho power of VISBQ^B BIT­ TERS to heal the sick. Send for either of onr rahiable reference books for ladies, for farmers, for merchants, our Medical Treatise on Piseases, or our Catechism on Intemperance and Tobacco, which last should Oe read by every child and youth in the land. Any two of the above books mailed free on Receipt of four cents for registration fees. •H.H. McDonald Drug Co., 632 Washington St., N.Y, • IK 7!i buvsour newSewing Machine, wartd. 5y'rs. *I3» Lakeside Mfg.Co., 10 W.VunUuren St.,Chicago. A fiKNTS WANTED in every citv and town for A Ladies' Favorite Tracing Wheel. 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