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*fc« Story «tt*» Wfcfte Mm Wfca Uvod " . , . Hflwa Montka innti'Tiir Thmp [Exchange.] About a year ago a report was tele-riphed over the world that the whites some of the Upper Congo stations had been killed and eaten by cannibals. The report was not believed, because a few white men had traveled up and down the river for a year or two with­ out discovering evidences of cannibalism except in one tribe. Stanlevf recently- published book threw no light on the subject of Congo cannibals, though it did record the appalling rumor afloat among some of the tribes that the whites were very fond of eating black people. The report that the whites on the Upper River had become food for the natives proved false, as was ex­ pected, and recently a good deal of in­ formation has been brought back about the cannibal tribe whose numerous vil­ lages line the river for a long distance about 800 miles from its xpouth. The Congo State is on good terms With this tribe, the Bangallas, and has a Station in the midst of them. It was the Bangallas who sallied out in their big war canoes and gave Stanley the fiercest reception he encountered when he first forced his way down the river. As is usual with cannibal tribes, they are superior in courage, physique, aud mental ability to the surrounding peoples, and they lord it over a con­ siderable area. Mr. Westmark, #who has lived among them for fifteen months, has just lectured in France on their peculiarities, and chiefly on the practice of anthropophagy as it exists among them. According to him they engage in the ' practice only upon the death of well-to- ao or influential men, whose slaves are killed at the graves of the deceased per­ sons, so that they may accompany their ndasters and minister to their wants in the other world. It has been the cus­ tom to sacrifice at least twenty victims at the death of every important person. Bound hand and foot the poor wretches are beheaded, and half of them are buried in'the grave of their master. The bodies of the other ten are reserved for the big fete that concludes the funeral ceremonies. Native beer in great quantities is prepared days in ad­ vance of the feast. The flesh of the murdered slaves is placed in great earthen pots full of water and boiled until half the water is evaporated, and then the banquet is ready to begin. The orgie continues for a day or two until all the refreshments are ex­ hausted aud a large part of the male population is dead drunk. The Congo missionaries appear to think that the Bangallas are sadly in need of reforma­ tory influences, and they intend to es­ tablish A station among them. Mr. Westmark makes the interesting state­ ment that although eannibalism has #been practiced to a large extent among the Bangallas, it has now considerably diminished on account of the influence of the whites, and he believes that after Europeans have lived in the country a little longer it will disappear. Among the many millions of savages ~itt Africa there are very few cannibals. Schweinfurth found that the large Moubutu tribe on the Welle Makua were addicted to the practice. It also exists among the Mucelis of Augola, among the Bangallas of the Upper Congo, among some of the natives on the Aruwimi tributary of the Congo, and was formerly practiced to a small extent in some parts of South Africa. As a rule, the natives who indulge in the horrid custom try to conceal it from the whites who visit them, and nowhere does it long survive the growth of white influences in districts where it has flourished. • The Tobacco Habit. \ Two of our medical exchanges, have contained a letter from a physician telling his experience with tobacco. He had been in tho habit of using it, ' "in every form, perhaps not in excessive quantities," for thirty years, and dur­ ing at least twenty years his bodily health and vigor were remarkably good. But during five years past he has been subject to attacks of diarrhoea, followed by long periods of obstinate constipation; on one occasion, when away from home and using more to­ bacco than usual, he fell in a fainting fit, and on another such occasion he was suddenly attacked with terrific chest pains.* He naturally concluded that tobacco was injuring him, and ceased the habit at once, "without in­ convenience." This case paves the way for a few remarks. Many men are so constituted that they may go on using tobacco ten or twenty years without ap­ parent ill effect, and the daily papers are constantly informing us of very aged persons who seem to thrive on the pipe, but the fact remains that in the long run almost every user of tobacco sees cause to regret the habit--unless he dies too soon. ;; The young man of 20 years may find his hands trembling like those of a palsied old man; the man of 30 may find his brain incapacitated for business, and his whole nervous system undermined; the man of 40 may find his muscular fiber so relaxed that he is troubled with falling rectum, or impotencv; the man of 50 or more years may find himself tottering in mind and body on the verge of a premature grave; the man or boy of any age is likely to find his heart's action deranged, his stomach disordered, his intellect clouded, and his physical endurance im­ paired by the use of tobacco. It is only a question of time, if the man lives long enough, when almost every victim of the tobacco habit shall find reason to regret it. It is hard to make him believe that the time will come, and many a one is really suffer­ ing long before he can be convinced that tobacco is the cause, while some actually die from the effects of it with­ out knowing, what kills them.--Dr. 'Foottfs Health Monthly. > Partridges Insectivorous. There was a meeting of horticul­ turists held some time since in the West, at which the question of preserv­ ing partridges upon our farms and in our gardens to destroy insects and ver­ min generally was presented, and facts given to show that they are very de­ structive during the growing seasons of the enemies of our plants, flowers, fruits, and grain. One speaker said that in view of these services the par­ tridges ought to be protected against the hunter, the farmer and his boys--that no bird is more harmless, and none more useful, and to shoot or to trap them for stewing, boiling, or making potpies, was very much to be deplored, and should be prevented if possible-- and that it was the only bird that re­ mained with us throughout the winter, after being deserted by all others. But this is easier said that done. Human nature, we are a little apprehensive, will need a trifle of change before this partridge millennium will arrive. To show, however, how useful this* ; beautiful ind harmless domestic bird is, it,it the Munotdme stated that a flock of partridges were seen running along the rows bf ootn just sprouting, and seeing them engaged at something which was believed to be palling up the young plants, one of them were killed and its "crop" exam­ ined, which was found to contain one cutworm, twenty-one striped bugs, and over one hundred chinch bugs! Another related that he had adopted measures to protect the bird, and that they had become so numerous and so tame that hundreds of them, after snow­ falls, could be seen in his barnyard with fowls where they were fed. As a re­ sult of their presence upon his premises, his wheat crops were usually abundant while in many other cases not far off the chinch bug and other insects, had de­ stroyed half the crop. The suggestion is worthy the con­ sideration of farmers, and if practicable it ought to be adopted. The Brazilian 6ir& A Brazilian girl is never permitted to go out, not even to church, unless chaperoned by one of the family, or some other lady, generally of mature age. Nothing could be more colorless than the life of a young Brazilian wo­ man; she has no taste whatever for reading, her education is of the most meager description, it not being consid­ ered worth while to educate girls. The necessity for educating boys is under­ stood by parents, and those who are able do so, but a girl, what need has she for an education ? They would laugh at such high-flown ideas, should any one suggest that their daughters be given the benefit of an education as a resource at hand for their own enjoy- njent, or that they might be intelligent companions, capable of stimulating the intellects of their children, and hus­ bands, too, for that matter. A very large majority of the Brazil­ ian girls could not tell who is the Em­ peror of Germany, or that President Garfield and the Czar of Russia were assassinated; the Soudan or Gen. Gor­ don are riddles to their minds. They are even ignorant of some of the most important historical facts relating to their own land, and of the thousand and one other topics that the women of America and other countries are gener­ ally conversant with. They embroider, crochet, and study music, but usually lack the patience and application nec­ essary to excel in the latter. If they want a drink of water, or their shoes changed, they call a slave to do it. Many can sew, and do their own dress­ making, being very convenient with the needle, their natural antipathy to work being overcdme by their love of dress. Their conversation is utterly frivolous, and when with familiars they talk very loud, and in the most ani­ mated manner, gesticulating and beat­ ing the air with their hands and arms', all talking at once, with seldom .any­ thing worth saying. If the Brazilian girl does not marry at the age she ought to be playing with her dolls, she frequently continues to play with her dolls until she does marry. The writer remembers seeing a young woman, apparently about 18 years of age, in a street car, in the city of Bahia, with a doll in her lap, which she cared for and handled the same as a little girl would do, and it is no un­ usual thing for yoUng married women to own and play with these and similar fixtures of the nursery. One young woman, named Marie, had five or six dolls, upon whose garments she spent much of her time. When she married she insisted upon taking them to her new home, but when this home became invaded by less tractable babies, she was finally obliged to bxiry her inani­ mate quondam friends, with all their finery, in a trunk, probably to be res­ urrected by other little Maries, when they will again be nursed and made confidants of.--Brooklyn Magazine* Who Knows English! "What is the meaning of the word transpire?" said my friend Bgracks to ma the other day. Transp ire? transpire?" I answered. "Every one knows what the. meaning of transpire is." "Well, what is it?" . ' . ' "Well, it means to occur--to hap­ pen." "That all?* * "What more do you want?" "Does it mean the same as to sweat?" "No--you are thinking of perspire, you ignoramus." : "Well, look at the dictionary." "Pshaw!" But we looked at the dictionary (Webster's) and there we found: "TRANSPIRE. TO emit through the excretories of the skin; to send off in vapor." I was posed. "Well, now," added Boracks triumph­ antly, "perhaps you can tell me the meaning of the word humanitarian." "Ah! I suppose it means bread and cheese, or an amateur burglar, or some­ thing of that sort, though I have al­ ways heretofore imagined it meant kindness to one's fellow-creatures, i. e., human beings." "Look in the die." "HU-MAN-I-TA-RI-AN. One who de­ nies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to be a mere man." "All right," said I; "go ahead and knock my lexicography into pie and my philology to flinders." "No, that will do for the present; some other day I will rattle the dry bones of your etymology, but for the present depart !n peace. Adoo."-- Texas SiftiUgs. Adventure Land. The Western Alps are getting studded with hotels at a rate which will soon drive many tourists to less hackneyed regions, and, as Count Bandissian pre­ dicts, probably to the Adventure land of the east, as he calls the wilderness of the upper Caucasus. That rival of the Alps has, indeed, been strangely neglected. 8ome*thirfcy-five years ago the hostile Tscherkes3 still ambushed every pass of the central chain, but the exodus of 1851 has raised that blockade, and neither sportsmen nor scenery- hunters would repent a visit to a high­ land region with summits dwarfing the giants of the Swiss Alps, and abounding with game animals which few natives of western Europe are likely to see out­ side of a zoological garden. Mount Elbrus, hardly a hundred miles from the east shore of the Euxine, towers to a height of more than 18,000 feet above the level of that sea, or nearly 3,000 feet above the summit of Mount Blanc. Bears are so common ftt the head waters of the Araxes that the Tiflis traders can buy skins at 50 rubles a dozen, and there seems no doubt that in the Kasbek range, some eighty miles east of Mount Elbrus, the urox, or European bison, is still found in larger herds than our buffalo-hunters are now apt to find any­ where east of the Rocky Mountains. EVERT great and commanding move­ ment in the annals of the world is the product of enthusiasm. . MACHINE 6UN8. Uws, Weeds, and Pioapeottaa Sm- pteyment in Oar Jpnaf [Journal of the C. 8. Military Service Institution.] The machine gun is a special weapon, not the rival of nor intended to com­ pete with field artillery. The French used their mitrailleuses with more or less success during the war of 1870-1. During the battle of Mars-la Tour the Thirty-eight Prussian Infantry Brigade, supported by the Second Heavy Battery, advanced against Grenier's division. The official report states that these troops en­ countered a murderous infantry and machine-gun fire, and were obliged to fall back, their losses "amounting al­ most to annihilation;" that cavalry at­ tempted to protect the shattered rem­ nant of the brigade, "but that on ac­ count of the violent mitrailleuses fire the leader was unable to deliver home his attack." At Sedan five or six mitrailleuses played with deadly effect on the Prussians at a range of about 900 yards, and their effect was con­ fessedly superior to any which have been inflicted by common shell. The best and most efficient organiza­ tion for machine-guns is that of a battery of artillery. Better care will be taken of the guns and horses, better instruction given to the men, a better discipline maintained, a higher degree of nobility secured. . The knowledge generally obtained of our machine-guns is by an occasional glance at them when visitors are being shown around the post. At some posts the guns are at times used for drill, but generally in the manual of the piece. Possibly at points where it can be done some target practice is had, but as a Avhole the instruction given the army is exceeding limited. We lis#ve now the Gatling and im­ proved Gardner systems of guns only, which simplify matters to a great ex­ tent. At one time, in addition to these, we were experimenting with the Lowell, the Taylor, and other systems. This trouble has not been entirely overcome, for we have Gatling guns of different models, and gun mounts and feeds of various kinds. We have also carriages, limbers, and carts of different styles and materials, some being constructed of wood and some of metal, some manufactured at our arsenals and some at private firms. In future less trouble will be experienced, as the two systems of machine guns, rifle caliber, now adopted in our service have attained a degree of excellence which warrants the asseirtion that no radical change will be made in their future construc­ tion. It may be relied on as an established fact that no system of feeding machine- guns whicfi does not allow the taking of the cartridges direct from the pack­ ages will ever prove efficient and satis­ factory for field service. High gun mounts are objectionable; the gun is thereby carried so high that feeding is made inconvenient and conse­ quently less rapid; the carriage is more liable to be overturned, and a larger target presented. It is not believed that it is necessary in our service to provide for an all-round fire without trailing. We should have but one carriage, and that so constructed that either gun can be placed on it. The hopper of the Gatling and the swinging casing cover of the improved Gardner should be easily detachable-- that is, they should be so arranged that they can be easily removed by any one under adverse circumstances; the fast­ ening should be large, and if a pin is used it should have a ring or chain to pull it out with' The casing of the barrels should be dark; there should be nothing to shine or glisten to attract attention. It is conoeded (hat these guns are valuable for the defense of field fortifi­ cations placed in defensive relations to each other, intrenched positions with long lines of defense, the defense of villagee, protecting roads, defiles or bridges, or the crossing of streams, covering tho embarkation and debarka­ tion of troops and material, for silenc­ ing batteries of position, or field batteries, or supporting them, repelling charges, covering retreats. Each gun should be drawn by four horses. Two horses are not sufficient to provide for the necessary mobility; and the otli^r uses to which the leaders may be put, besides assisting to trans­ port the gun, make four horses abso­ lutely necessary. It is in the power of machine-guns, to rain bullets up to 3,700 yards, with a penetration of two inches in spruce plank, and from five to six inches in sand, the angle of fall being about 65 degrees. The machine-gun is unequaled for night firing. It can be placed in posi­ tion to cover any point within range, and kept in that position. The lack of recoil prevents the accuracy from be­ ing disturbed, and a constant night fire can be maintained having the same pre­ cision as that by day. A Fish-Eating People. The Japanese eat very little meat. With a population of 30,000,000, the whole country contains less than 1,000,- 000 head of cattle. Of these, less than 600,000 are fit for food. It follows there are bit two head of cattle for every hundred Japanese, whereas there are seventy-three head of cattle for every hundred Americans, men, women, fcnd children. About one-half of the cattle slaughtered in Japan is eaten by the foreign population, and the residue is eaten by the army and navy. Consul General Van Buren reports that the people live mainly upon fish, which in­ cludes cod, salmon, mackerel, herring, carp, eels, skate, mullet, and catfish, while plaice are plentiful and cheap. The consul also states that one-half of the people eat fish every day, and the rest two or three times a week. So as to secure a variety, many of the fish are eaten raw. The Japanese, how­ ever, live mainly on vegetable food. They have an acorn which grows on a small bush four feet high, and is plen­ tiful, cheap, and very nutritious. This nut, it is Said, should be naturalized in this country, as it has the merit of being free from bitter and astringent qualities. The Japanese, however, are not a strong people. They are a small and feeble race physically, as compared with Europeans. They have, however, a high civilization of their own, and are intelligent and industrious. The meat- eating races are, after all, the most virile and vigorous. It is the beef and mutton-eating Englishmen and the Americans, who consume so much ani­ mal food, who are populating the earth. The rice and fish-eating nations of the east are not distinguished for either bodily or mental vigor. HE did not so much denounce vice as inculcate virtue; he did not lacerate the hearts of his hearers' with doubt and disbelief, but consoled and com­ forted and healed them with faith.-- - ' ir baggage, «&d#3 ferriage hire, and •tspsitfce flnpal tTafcm opposite Graad Central Depot 618 room, fttted op at a ooat of one million dpUars.fl and upwards per dajr, European plan. Elevator. jhaleetHDtsupplied withthe beet Hone Vara, stuMS, and elevated rafl- road to all depot* Families can live better for lass money at the Grand Union Hotel than at Wr other first nlsse bote* in the city. -- _» Ho Map of the United States. It will be surprising, perhaps, to the public to know that, after spending $8,000,000 in surveys, there is still no actual map in existence of the United States. The Coast Survey and the Hydrographic Office have prepared a reasonably accurate map of our coast line, but the internal surveys have been so inaccurate aud imperfect that rivers, mountains, and towns have in many cases been located on previous maps as much as five miles out of their true position. This is, of course, especially true of those points remote from rail­ roads, which have, of course, been less accurate. The new map, now in prep­ aration by Colonel Powell, would oc­ cupy the floor space of a room in an ordinary dwelling-house, and will be absolutely accurate within the limit of the scale of feet upon which it has been prepared. It will take about a year to complete this, and when done it will be the only accurate map of the United States in existence. The astronomers have long claimed to have prepared a more accurate map of the moon at a distance of 250,000 miles than has yet been made of the State of New York from surveys made upon the ground. These maps, however, have been made by means of photography, and hence are more accurate in their outline than could have been obtained by hasty triangulations. Major Powell's map, however, will be as accurate a repre­ sentation of the geographical location of the mountains, rivers, and towns of our own country as the astronomers have yet prepared of the queen of the night He has also in preparation a dic tionary of altitude, by which he will set at rest the long-mooted ques­ tion as to the relative sea-level of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Accord­ ing to railroad levels heretofore made, the Pacific is supposed to stand about four feet above the level of the Atlan­ tic. Within a year Powell will have qettled this question.--Washington cor. Indianapolis Neics. "IT is as harmless as it is effective," is what is said of Bed Star Cough Care by Dr. S. K. Cox, D. D., Analytical Chemist, Washington, D. C. Price, twenty-five cents. L A Great Man. Two men standing in the street. "Do you see," said one, "that party of men over there on the corner?" "Yes." "Notice the one in the center of the group?" "Yes. He must be a great man." "No." 1 "Then why do the others show him so much respect?* "It is not "What is it?" "Flattery." & "Why do they flatter him?' "You see they are a lot of printed and he is the foreman of a daily news- Eaper. , If they were to stop flattering im they would be discharged. A cer­ tain class of printers can only obtain work in that way."--Arkansaw Trav eler. Serions Danger Threatens every man, woman and child living in a region of country where fever and ague ii prevalent, since the germs of malarial disease are inhaled from the air and are swallowed from the water of auch a region. Medicinal safeguard is absolutely neoesaary to nullify this danger. As a means of fortifying and ac­ climating the system so aa to be able to resist the malarial poison, Hostetter's Stomach Bit­ ters is incomparably the best and the most popular. Irregularities of the stomach, liver and bowels encourage malaria; but these are speedily rectified by the Hitters. The functions of digestion and secretion are assisted by its use, and a vigorous as well as regular condition of the system promoted by it. Constitution and physique are thus defended against the inroads of malaria by this matchless preventive, which is also a certain and thorough remedy iu the worst casss of intermittent and remittent fevers. , The Nerves of Taste. The discovery that heat influences one set of nerve-points in the skin while sensations of cold are received by another set, has been followed by an interesting investigation by two Ital­ ian physiologists, whose experiments seem to indicate that the various tastes result from the exciting of distinct sets of nerve-fibers in the tongue. The prolonged application of ice removed the sensibility for all tastes--sweet, sour, salt and bitter. Cocaine de­ stroyed--temporarily, of course--sensi­ bility for bitter only. Other substances, such as cafieine and morphia, reduced the power of discriminating between different degrees of bitter. Diluted sulphuric acid had a peculiar effect, causing distilled water and even aui- nine to taste sweet at the tip of the tongue, although the bitter of the qui­ nine was elsewhere tasted as usuaL FOB weak lungs, spitting of blood, shortness of breath, consumption, inght-sweats, and all lingering couelis, Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medi­ cal Diecoveiy* is a sovereign remedy. Supe­ rior to cod liver oiL By druggists. lie Wasn't There. A Texas preacher caught four or five boys in his peach trees. He did not punish them, but merely said: "You ought to be ashamed of your­ selves, particularly the big btfys. Which of you boyB here is the oldest ?" "He ain't here at all, sir. He didn't know that we were coming," said a youngster.--Texas Siftings. AT a late meeting of the Microscopi­ cal Society of London Prof. F. J. Bell gave an account of what he regarded as the most extraordinary biological discovery of the last twenty-five years --that of a third eye at the tops of heads of certain lizards. To BK honest as this .world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. --Shakspeare. ' "A Ureat Strike." fe' Among the 150 kinds of Cloth Bound Dollar Yolumea given away by the Rochester (N. Y.) American Sural Home for every fl subscrip­ tion to that great 8-page, 48-coL, 16-year-old weekly (all 5x7 inches, from 800 to 900 pages, bound in cloth) are: Law Without Iiawyers, Dsnelson'e (Medical) Family Cyclopedia, Counselor, Farm Cyclopedia, Boys' Useful Pastimes, Farmers' and Stock- Five Years Before the breeders' Guide, Hast, Common Sense in Pool- People's His. of United try Yard, States, World Cyclopedic Universal History at What Every One Should Snow. All Nations, Popular His. Civil War (both sides). Any one book and paper one year, all post­ paid, for $1.15! 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Moral: Don't Expect a Gambler to Post you on his Game.--Detroit Free Press. . Stranger than Fiction srS Ufe records of some of the cures of con­ sumption effected by that moat wonderful remedy--Dr. Pierce's "Golden Jledical Discov­ ery. " Thousands of grateful men and women, who have been Snato&ed almost from the very jaws of death, oan testify that consumption, in its early stages, is no longer incurable. The Discovery has no equal aa a pectoral and al­ terative, and the most obstinate affections of the throat and lungs yield to its power. All druggists. __ . .. "WE argue from different premises," as the woman said when she dumped her ashes overthe^ fence. . DOWN in front--the dude's first mous­ tache. • ' ' "WHAT we learn with pleasure we never for­ get"--Alf red Mercier. The following is a case m point: "1 paid out hundreds of dollars with­ out receiving any benefit," says Mrs. Emily Khoads • of McBrides, Mich. 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Nervous PigeaRes, l.o#8 of Appetite, Headache.Coativeness, IndifrpBtion, Biiions- neB«. Fever, Inflammation of the BoVvels, iSlen. and all deranpements of the internal viscera. Purely vegetable, containing no mtreury, minerals, tor dele­ terious drugs. Price, 85 cents per box. Sold by all dnifrgidt-t. DYSPEPSIA! DR. MDMrS PILLS comnlaint. They re­ store strength to the stomach and enable it to perform Its functions. The symptoms of Dyspepsia disappear, and with them the liability of the system to contract diiicaHes. Take the medicine according to directions, and observe what we Kay in "False and True" respect­ ing diet. A few samples of letters we are constantly receiv­ ing : David Richard. Lunenbnrg.N.S.: Pills such a bless­ ing that he will take uo other. H. A. Carr, P. M.. JSscambia, Ala.: "Best Pills he hu evernwd." E.Hummel, Boonville, Mo.; Cued him when all others failed. Alice E. Ohaver, Mt. Storm, W. 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RUSSIA CEMENT CO., fltoncMter, Bast, PATENTS Don't wear _ stiff Bones. Ladies who have Featherbone la Dresses. M'ulNtn or CorNets ar lighted with it. Will not warp; will notspU( not break ; soft and pliable. Made in white I colors. Sold by the yard. During ths pa years thousands of Indies have tested " FEATHERBONE, And found it superior to whalebone In evi spect. 1'iir sol" everywhere. Trv it. MENTION THIS PAPER want wmms« ro iwsss--S| O The BUYBRS' OtlDI ft* inned Sept. sad Msirsfci --It year. 4W 3U Mgiis 8%xU% lachM,wlllM«« 3JBOO whole Pletare fisltorjr^ GIVES WholMSb PrlMI Hrret to MtMiitni-rt on sll |oeds fls# personal or family we. Tells hew •rder, autt gives exact coat of si«|" yon use, eat, dHrnk, westffi have ftua with. Theae INVAIiU. BOOKS eentaia Uftirnatk (Win the markets of the world. will »aU a copy FREE to asjr a*» dress upon receipt of IO eta. to 4a Aajr expemae of mailing. I«et as hear Dm| yon. Ktspeetftdlf, MONTGOMERY WARD A CO. NT & IN Wskaak Aveaae, Chicago, IM. I': ROCKY MOUNT! R. 8. & A. F. LACET, Patent Attorneys, Washington, D.C. _ Instructions and opinions as to natentabilitr IREE. 19*17 years' experience. Gold Mlnaa Aro very uncertain property; for every pay­ ing mhie a hundred exist that do not pay. Hut if you write to Hallett & Co., Portland, Maine, you will receive, free, £ull particulars about their new business, and learn how some have made over #30 in a single dav at it You can live at home and earn from to |25 and up­ wards per day wherever you are located. Both sexes; all ages. Capital not required; you are staj&ed free. Bend your address, and all will be proved to yon. "ROUGH ON ITCH." "Rough on Itch" cures skin humors, eruptions, ring worm, tetter, salt rheum, frosted feet, chil­ blains, itch, ivy poison, barber's itch. 50c. jara. •'ROUGH ON CATARRH" corrects offensive odors atouee. Complete care of worst chronic oases; also unequaled assargla for diphtheria, sore throat, foal breath. oOo. ••ROUGH ON PICKS. ' Why suffer Piles? Immediate relief and com­ plete core guaranteed. Ask for "Bough on Piles." Sure cure for itching, protruding, bleeding, or any (arm of Piles. 60s. At Druggists' or Mailed. FOB dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of spirits, and general debility in their various forms; also as a preventive against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the "Fer- ro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisava," made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, and eoldby all druggists, is the best tonic, and for patients recovering from fever and other sickness it has no equal. "Bough on Bate" clsara out Bats, Mioa 15& "Boruh on Corns, "har4 or soft cdtns, bunions, XS« "Boughon Toothache." Instant relief: 15a WEU1 HA IK BALSAM, IF gray, restores to original color. An elegant dressing, softens and beautifies. No oil nor grease. A Tonic Restorativa Stops hair com­ ing oat; strengthens, cleanses, heals scalp, 50a ••ROUGH ON MII.K" PILLS start the bile, relieve the bilious Btomach, thick, aching head and overloaded bowels. Small gran­ ules, small dose, big results, pleasant in opera­ tion, don't disturb the stomacn. 25c. TH* Frazer Axle Grease is better hnd oheaper than any other at double the price. BEST, easiest to use, and cheapest. Piso'i Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 600. KIDBEir8W8Tliiw^'G"WN"- TERMLL'S JUVENILE A BET OF AA aeautHul MIMH. uil Systematically arranged and cemented to acanlta • Beat box. with the name and plac* from which it cane printed under each specimen. mail. StomUtOa 'lea town, Masa. A||WCBT|6 EB6 o«<rt»**ti,wno with to examine All V bit I IvEltw thk papar, or obtain ettimatM on advertising (pace when in Chicage, will find ft on til* at LORD (THOMAS. the Advertiting Aganey of AGENTS WANTED Just Published, entitled IBS SPY t¥* PATENT FOW SALE. Tm Al)»» SON Co- Solicitor!, Muncie, Ind. flDIIIH Habit Cured. Treatment aent on trial. V"IIIH Humane Kkmzdt CO., LaFayette. Ind. Your Newadealer for THE CHICAGO LEDGER, the Bare STOBT PAPCB > In the country. Bead it. AGENTS WAHTED in^bookeverpt terms A circulars ad's NATIONAL PUB For the newest and best-sell- mblished. tor CO.. Chicago. Brews* , » day. Ham plea worth (1. uun not under the horse s feet, -- Brewster's Safety Rein Holder, Holly, lMkJ& oily, Hieb. WANTED A Of energy for business in her local Beferences. E. 3. Johnson, Mangr, ned hand orutfgiat1 Dr. Frazkr's Magic Ointment Wfll remove pimples, blackheads and freckle'. ItheaUcuU.burns.chap- • n.i lit.R, and cold aortw. Price 50 cents. At s or mailed by WMH. UFG.Co., Cleveland.O. No ROM to Cut Off Horset' Mains. Celebrated «I$CLIPSE> HALTEB and BRIDLE Combined, can not be Slipped by any horaeu Sample Halter to any part of D. 8. free, or receipt of $1. Bold by all Saddlery, Hardware and Harneas Dealers., Snecial discount to the Trade. Send f«Prlee-IJst. • JaCJJflHTHOUSEjRochestorjftYi HXKTION THIS PAPER wua MRU T. Anting SEND FOB OUB ELEGANT Stationery Package! Containing the following necessary articles: 50 Sheets Fine Note Paper, latest itgrle. 50 Handsome Wore Envelopes. 25 Oilt-Edffe Regret Cuds. 25 Envelopes for Inclosing cards. 1 Elegant Self-Closing Enameled-Finish Visiting Card Case, containing 50 Fine Gilt»Edge Yisiting Cards. The above good* are all imt np in a neat box. and sWs si&toB8liffir-- Ii you dp not wish to send ronr order to us by mail, leave it with the Publisher of this Paper, and be will R BBEIililOIT. A wonderful book by the great Detective, Chief of U. S. Secret Service, AIXAN PI.NKKKTON, The "BPT" reveals many teereti of the Mar never be/ore tola. A graphic account of the first ilot to assadBinate Lincoln-- low he was conducted safely to Washington--Karly Battles of the War--The Secret Service--A Fe­ male Spy--A trusted Officer's Treason--The KaiKhts of Lib­ erty--The "SPY" in Richmond --Trie Loyal League--McOlellan and his - Enemies--The "8PI" Journeys through the South- Defeat of Oenarai Pope--Battls of Antietam--McClellan's Fare­ well Address, etc.. etc., together With many THEILUSS HARKA- TIVKS Off PlNIKSTON'S SPIES heretofore not made public. The "Spy" is the most thrilling War Book erer published. Indorsed by the Frees and hundreds at A (rents. A lsnre, handsome book, of 188 pages, WANTED. , _ In every town there are number* of people who will be glad to get thi* book. It eells to Merehsnts, Mechanics. Farmers, and everybody Interested in the History of our Country. Thus every Agent caa pic* out fifty or mere in a town to whom ht eia fwl ton of lefting it to. . „ , _ $&• Pittance no barrier, aa we give Special lerme '"Cwanffina Agent in every township or county. peraun. with thin book, can become a mo- ctttxful Agent. We give full instructions to new be- ginucrs. For full particulars and term* to agent*, ftddt'CBS CHABLJES P. HATCH, Hartford, Cou, (Successor to M. A. Whiter * Hatch.) To make theae Cabiftets poees. it has required yews *1 and stndy; chieeling amidst ht tions of camp lite rnlonely, gnr this grave of extinct life that haa\ lies untold, opened for your benefit. Mturns for your money in knowledge, scien 'tact by purchasing one of these Caoineta of L Mountain Minerals than yen can ordinarily obtain 1^. ten times the cost. We give this bargain becanee wa live in the heart of the "Bookies" ana collect Our owa I specimens, and sell enormous quantise*. Send 85 Cts. postal not* at once. Upon : thst aaapunt we will send this handsome Col. aena aa vis. postal noie aa oa that amount we will send this rriiMum' IF YOU WANT TO KNOW 1,0011 mpertMtthlngs yoa never knew or thought of about tfcahniBM oody and its eurleue organs, How life itaerpetutUed, health tated,diee**e indueed Hove to SNM piifdUe of ifnorwneemn* indieereiUn, Mow to mppl§ JUome-Cur* to Mformtef Mtemte, Mow to euff Cromp,Old tye», ltuptMre, mimo^, ete., SEND FOR OUR Mumj Bill rak. Co., lift L sstk St.. Hew fork. C Ths OLDEST MEDICINE in the WORLD is profcaMy Dr. Isaac Thompson's •Isbratad Eya Watt R This article is a carefully prepared physician's pre­ scription, and has been in constant use for nearly a century, and notwithstanding the many other prepar­ ations that have been introduced inte the market, the sale of this article is constantly increasing. If the di­ rections are followed it will never fail, we particu­ larly inVite the attention of physicians to its merits. John 1U Thompe+n, ttone * Co., TROY, N. T. TREATED FREE. SB. H. H. OREB5 A 80S|L"' Specialist* for Thirteen Tsara Past, ' s treated Dropsy and its complications with Ms wonderful euccees; use vegetable rs r harmlexS. Remove all symptoms of .1 to twenty days. i patients pronounced hopeless by the physicisiiM From the first dose the symptoms rapidly pear, and in ten days at least two-thirds of all l sre removed. js ' ten dayn the difficulty of breathing is relieved, ths Bulse regular, the urinary organs made to dfccha«• leir fuil duty, sleep is restored, the swelliaar ell or nearly pone, the strength increased, and appetite Mada good. We are constantly curing esses of lof stsMh big--eases that have been tapped a number of ttma% aid the patient declared unable to live a week. Qtv? full history of ease. Name - ' ~ how badly swollen snd have toga bur*ted and dr containing testimonlsls, questions, eto. unable to live a suet. On* DM sex. how lone slilslsS. where, are bowekcaattMt lpped water. Send for tins imonlsls, que**" nisbed free by tivstr cured. If you order Mai, arad IO cents in at Teh days' treatment famished free by mail. Eptlepey (Fits) positively oared. BY THE 6ABVANZA UNB COMPANY OF LOS ANGELES, Carpentorx, Masons, Brick-Makers. Plumbers, and laborers of all kinds. Carpeatotsf Waces,t8.and $3.50 per day; Masons and Plasterers, 13 to SS per day; Laborers. $20 to935 pernMmtft and Board. Homes sold on monthly installments, aud work furnished to those who wish to seeurs a pleasant home. Work all the y»ar round. No time lost on account of hot or cold weather. '• Trees planted oil lots and eared for until purchasers desire to reside upon them. Defemtf payments for two years, without interest. Bast of soil, abundance of water, and the healthiest __ , ' Jil, Climate in the-world. . _ . «_ . * •'Yi Low rates of transportation can be had by applying to A. PHIIAIFS S CO., SB Clark OSM% Chicago, Cl. For full particulars apply to ^ « ROGERS, BOOTH Ac CO., Ajrents. - . • " 5 1S4 H. Main Street, Los Angeles, California. ' Tat Urn or null (*M, all dmm, Tke rtrrafMt ilmUa* rfi« i •esnecy fuaraeif-td, a>4 U« oely »af» riSe ou lie aurkx. niTi, » i; n GALLKKY. SPORTING AND TARUET RIFT.ES. wwidlieee" MA it LIN FIRK ARSIS CO„ Hew IliSH Bttk* • Kf» •if MI Kg Non« fwita* ®nle«a ped with th* ftbovc TRAP* MAML th« "ntt IRASP1 SLICKER lot hav Era lib. FACE, HANDS, FEW, j-JSTwIrtL Mot*, fneklo, M No®#, ico®» ^ ScsfSe Plttln* urf Itoir tmta for Catarrh Is the to Use. aad Cheapest. order the packsge and deliver It to you as soon as received. and^ cannot fail to pie ace avery lady that BWI Theaegpods are all of the latest style, a VERT FIN* QUALiTY, and cannc uses them.. Address "-i %1i 3-7 ICURE Guaranteed r Dr. J. B. Mayer. 1 Arvh St. Phihi. se at oiioe.Jio operation or business delay; thousands cured. Con­ sultation free. At StandishHouse, Detroit.Mi. h., 11^7, A Commercial Hotel. Chicago. • to last of eaoh month. mimmt TUB nn» C ATAR R (- C.N. V. ' -MMS wurriMO TO AI>VI •mfyeMsmmtMm