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fc % ABLETTK. idayte«pent,andfieWs, _ i»briglitwitbtedln«Bl»een; Like blossoms MR beblnd the corn. The miidtai ecaoe «a giaan: - ffio* eyes and Booting locks of c<£d '/ Tlave caught yon in their net; ; Yfn smile, and call me strange and cold-- ! f 7 . .You never knew Arlette. I met ber when tbls life of mine $'/'• Had tnrned from aweet to sour { *, "* There -was no sparkle in the wini No bloom npon the flower. Wv X roamed away to bear alone .The stings of vain regret; *pe grain was gone, the reapeca Aow% When first.I found Arlette. ̂ Vie glamor of the "Bunny 8oath^l% * " About her beaaty lies; A mellow cheek, a scarlet month. - , , And dark, beseeching 'eyes; »• >• A daughter of the aoil, as sweet t As aummer tends dew-wet; So taint o| our town-bred deceit ,* ' |las ever touched Arietta. "lUth half her charnia some gids might Win , A fashionable fame; Bow came ah* with her Southern akin, And soft old Norman name? Ve talked, I questioned, ehe! replied. Till I forgot my fret: ' - Por bitter thoughts and ang^r pride All fled before Arlette. 1V Bow ends the tale? To your surprise Thero ia no enil to tell 1 zk - I left no tears in those dark eyev" ' Although I loved them well; Bar picture hangs within my bri£& Freeh and unsullied yet; •*' Ho empty TOWS of mine shall pajS ' • ; The heart of true Arlette. . Bit, when my harvest-field appeiUV ... A As bare as it can bo, die cornea and finds some golden MOTS ;• Of life's good grain Jor me; My old belief in truth and trust j fehe brings back, sometimes yet; , TOu suiilo a-^ainah, well, you moat; lifou never knew Arlette. < • --Qood Words. t«T '%-v- 'l-,* M v Of > . . - I h. THE STORY OF A RING. ^ BY BEBT BBYNB. One afternoon, last week, I went a short distance oat of town, to visit my own and my father's old friend, Dr. Hall. The Doctor was not only an old and valned friend, bat he was also the nncle and gnardian of a certain young lady whom I aamired. My position as a friend, and, in an in­ formal sense, a ward of the Doctor, gave me a certain advantage over other men in visiting Miss Mabel Hall, and our inter­ course had grown to be somewhat confi­ dential. The evening before I went out to the Doctor's I had seen her at the house of a common friend, and she had then, to my surprise and regret, expressed her inten­ tion of leaving home the next day on a visit to some very distant relatives in Scotland. I expressed, in what I thought fitting terms, my regret at her neiar- departure, but there seemed to be a shade of coolness in her manner as she gave me her hand in parting. I could not understand why there should be any shadow of disagreement be-* tween us, especially at the rather tender moment of parting, and I could only ac­ count for it on one theory that seemed rather an audacious one, but yet gave me and undefined feeling of hope--rnamely, that she regarded my feeling toward her as of sufficient importance to cause hereto note, with some degree of sensitiveness, any apparent lack of warmth in my ex­ pressions of regret at her departure, or even to imagine such a lack, though none existed. But of course I could not be Bure of this, and we parted good friends, but, 1 feared, nothing more. Could she have planned this visit simply with the view of seeing how much difference it might make to meV Or did sho simply not care a rush what I might or might not suffer by it? I meditated this question long and deeply as I rode out to the Doctor's place the next day, but could arrive at no satisfactory conclusion; I had not data enough to go upon. My visit to the Doctor was partly a friendly call, partly a business one, but of course I did not expect to see Hiss Mabel at all. So I was considerably astonished, on my way through the grounds, to come suddenly upon the young lady herself, seated on the bank of a small stream, with a book in her lap, which she mado no pre­ tence of reading. She smiled at my start and exclamation of surprise, and moved a little to make room for me beside her. And my undefined feeling of hope was considerably strength­ ened by finding her ihere, I confess. "Well!" I ejaculated, as I threw myself down upon the ground beside her. "I thought you were, by this time, well on your way to Scoitland. Why are yon not?" Without answering my question, she smilingly threatened me with a little 5>ebble she had picked up from the stream-et's bank. "You haven't answered my question, Miss Mabel," I said, gazing eniently into her deep hazel eyes. " What question?" she replied, with aslow, beautiful color rising in her face and neck. "Why did you not proceed with your journey, as arranged?" I asked, still- gazing intently into her face. "Had you any reason for it, or did you simply exercise your prerogative as a woman, and--change your mind?" "I had a reason for not going," she answered, "but--I don't choose to tell you what it was, Curiosity." We were both silent for some moments, I busily engaged in putting this and tlint to­ gether, and Miss Mabel amusing herself by idly picking up and tossing into the waters the small, white pebbles that lay on the bank at her feet. Something in her action brought back to my mind--as such trival incidents often will--a whimsical 6tory, heard from my father when a boy, and hardly thought of since. I thought I now saw of a way to turn it to some account, and roused myself to tell it. "Miss Mabel," said I, carelessly, "those pebbleB you are so absently Hinging away --do you know what a curious thing might happen if you were accidentally to kiss one of them?" "1 suppose I might swallow it," she an­ swered sarcastically. "That, however, would not be so curious as unpleasant." "Oh, something much more curious than that," I answered, undaunted, "and not at all unpleasant. Thereby hangs a tale-- shall i ieli it, or do you not enjoy fables?" "Of course I do," she replied, "else were I no woman. Proceed, O fabulist, and if I grow weary, I'll ruthlessly cut thee short." 1 proceeded. "I used to think this storv a very inter­ esting one, Miss Mabel," f said; but that may have been because it was told me by a master of the art of tale-telling. How­ ever, whether well or ill-told, the story possesses, I think, some points of interest." I settled myself comfortably on my elbow, Miss Mabel leaned back against the trunk of a tree in a listening attitude, and I com­ menced: "My grandfather was, when a young man, employed by a firm as their repre­ sentative in India, and resided in Bombay for nearly five years. "When, at the end of that time, his sum­ mons home came,, he wished, as a memento of his sojourn in India, to take home some­ thing rare and valuable, and, if possible, unique. "Of course he had made the usual selec­ tion of curios and native productions, as presents for friends aud leiatives; bat this was to be something for himself--some­ thing to be kept in the family always, and preserved as an heir-loom, like grand­ father's snuff-box, or grandmother's slip­ pers. "The subject cost him considerable re­ flection, and he spent many hours in searching for the desired object, but in vain. "At last it occurred to him that an old native merchant, a dealer in jewels and precious stones, whom he had more than once served in a business way, might be able to help him. He knew be could count upon the old man's doing anything that lay in his power. "Accordingly, he call&d upon him, and stated his wishes. "The old Hindoo, si my grandfather told the story, smoked In silence for a full minute beforo replying. • , « 'jiy son,' he said, at length, 'what you desire is not easy to find.' " *Jt is not, indeed,' replied my grand­ father, 'a* I very well know; I have tried to ftnd it, and failed.' "Again the old merchant fell silent, Smoking reflectively, and apparently weigh­ ing something in his mind. "Presently he rose, and going into an •inner recess of the shop, he brought forth • small din^y case of brass-bound leather! Tapping the lid impressively, he said, 'My son, this small case contains the rarest gem in India--perhaps in the world--not on account of its size, lint because of its marvelous history and its wonderful qualities. It was the property of my grandfather's grandfather. There is an Old, old legend current in India that the first kiss given in love by a pure and high-born maiden has a wondrous power of changing whatever it may chance to fall upon into something higher and better. If it fall upon the lips of a lover, he be­ comes a better, purer man for the rest of his days. If, perchance, it falls upon a Withered flower, straightway that flower blossoms into life again; if upon the com­ monest pebble of the roadside, that pebble will become a precious gem. INOW it chanced that a certain princess, when throwing a first kiss to her young lover, accidentally kissed this stone, then a com­ mon pebble, which she held in her hand. Straightway the stone became a gem. Through a series of incidents the metamor­ phosed pebble came into the possession of my ancestor, the court physician, who had it cut and set in a ring of a rare and quaint device, and of virgin gold. 'And this,' said the old merchant, opening the case, 'is the Tery ring.' > "My grandfather, Miss Mabel, as you iinay imagine, eagerly examined the ring Which the opening of the case revealed. The stone was not a large one, but of a Singular and exquisite brilliance. He was enchanted. He would have given a great deal to be able to believe as implicitly as the old merchant evidently did the romantic history of the jewel; but, even apart from that, the ring was a treasure, and forth­ with he offered the old man his own price for it. Imngine his consternation when the Hindoo shook his head gravely and said: 'My son, this ring can never pass from one to another, for money. Should I sell it, iis beauty would gradually fade away, and it would become a common pebble again. Only as a free gift of love can the ring pass from one to another. Ah! you smile, unbeliever. Ten years ago I, too, theught the Btory an idle fable; and, pressed by poverty, I sold the ring to a traveling merchant. Within a month he brought it back to me, complaining that the stone was not genuine--it had already lost much of its brilliancy. I, sorry that I liad ever parted with the ring, gladly took it back, returning the man his money. That, I say, was ten years ago, and the insulted stone has just regained its former power and beauty. No, it never can pass from me to thee for a price; but I am an old man, and childless, and thou hast freely served me as a friend, and freely I give thee the ring, with an old man's prayers for whomsoever may wear it. Nay, I wish it. No one in my own country has any claim upon me; and perhaps in a new world the old ring may carry with it an even greater blessing of love and happi­ ness than it has here. Take it, my son, aud bless tfcee!' "My grandfather was overwhelmed. The valuo of the ring was greatly enhanced in his eyes by the evident sincerity of the old merchant's affection for him, and though, as in duty bound, he at first protested against so valuable a gift, he finally ac­ cepted it in the spirit in which it was offered--as a free gift of love. And that, Miss Mabel, is the strauge and romantic history of my grandfather's diamond ring. What do you think of ii? "I think it a very pretty story," she an­ swered, "and considering the narrator, fairly well told. I only wish I could be­ lieve it. But what became of the ring itself?" "My grandfather placed it on my grand­ mother's linger the day she became his affianced bride," I answered. "She wore it until she died, and on her deathbed gave it to my father. It became, in turn, my mother's engagement ring, and when she died, two years ago, the ring came into my possession." I paused and glanced at the young lady. Her eyes were downcast, a soft color suf­ fused her face, and her whole attitude seemed to suggest, to a lover's eyes, that she was waiting for me to complete the story in the only way it could end for me. I took courage from her looks, and said, as I took in mine the hand that lay in ber lap, "Dear Mabel, of course I told the fantastic story of the ring with a purpose--can you not guess what my pur­ pose was? A long line ot noble women nave worn that ring as a pledge of love--of life-long devotion--will you, dear Mabel, be the last and loveliest to wear it, as such a pledge from me?" '4'he princess' diamond never shone with such beautiful luster, I am convinced, as it does now, upon my Mabel's whito hand. But my princess' first kiss of love was not wasted on an insensate stone--it warms a throbbing human heart, and will, until that heart ia stilled in death. How lie Won the Jewel. "Nathan, you are married, I under­ stand," said the Governor of Arliansaw, addressing a hillside constituent. "Yes, sir, captured the best-looking girl in tlie whole community. Old Lige Peterson's daughter, Rose. You knowed her, I reckon." "Yes, but'I thought that she was en­ gaged to Sam Parker." "She was, but I got ahead of him. Tell you liow it was. She loved Sam powerful, for he is the best circuit rider we have ever had. I loved Hose, and was miglit'ly downcast, for I thought thar want ml use in buckin' agin liim. Well, the day for the marriage was sot, and a passul of us come to town to see the weddin', for Rose 'lowed that she wanted to be married in town, and then take the cars for home, thereby gettin' a ten-mile bridal tower. When we got to town, lo and behold, there was a circus, with mo' horses than a strong man could shake a pole at. Rose was mighty keen to go to the show, but Sam says, says he, 'Rose, you know it's agin my religion, an' therefo' wo can't go. Stay here till I go an' git the license.' Rose's under jaw drapped. When Sam was gone I savs, says I, 'Rose, wouldn't you like to go to that show ?' " 'Yes, but Sam won't take me.' " 'That's bad, Rose, fur they've got a world of bosses.' "Then she turned up and began to cry. 'Rose,' says I, 'if you marry Sam vou kan't go to the show; that's cer­ tain, but if you marry me, I'll take you.' She studied a while, and says, says she, 'An' let me stay to the con­ cert airter the big show's over ?' "'Yes.' " 'An' let me look at the monkeys all I want to ?' " 'Tibby shoV " 'An' wont pull an' haul me aroun' when I git interested?* " 'No, sw'ar I won't.' "'An'when the sho's "willyou let me look at the monkeys again ?' " 'Yes.' " 'Nath,' said she, puttin' her hand mighty lovin'ly on my arm, 'I'm yourn.' Then I jumped up, popped my heels together, an' in less'n a half hour we was don married an' a-lool-.in' at the monkeys. That's the way I won that jewel, governor. "--Arkansaic Traveler. GENIUS is like the flame of a taper, for while it gives forth light to the world around, it consumes the body that sustains it. 4 THE SUPREME COTJRT. /• Ben Perley F««ra Reminds IT* o|,tlw Tra­ ditions. [From "Parley's Sixty Years in the National Metropolis."] The Supreme Court then sat in the room in the basement of the Capitol, now occupied as a law library. It has an arched ceiling, supported by mas­ sive pillars that obstruct the view, and is very badly ventilated. But it is rich in traditions of hair-powder, queues, ruffled shirts, knee-breeches, and buckles. Up to that time no justice had ever sat upon the bench in trous­ ers, nor had any lawyer ventured to plead in boots or wearing whiskers. Their Honors, the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices, wearing silk ju­ dicial robes, were treated with the most profound respect. When Mr. Clay stopped one day in an argument, and, advancing to the bench took a pinch of snuff from Judge Washington's box, saying, "I perceive that your honor sticks to the Scotch," and then pro­ ceeded with his case; it excited aston­ ishment and admiration. "Sir," said Mr. Justice Story, in relating the cir­ cumstance to a friend, "I do not believe there is a man in the United States who could have dope that but Mr. Clay." Chief Justice John Marshal, who had then presided in the Supreme Court for more than a quarter of a century, was one of the last survivors of those officers of the Revolutionary Army who had entered into civil service. He was a tall, gaunt man, with a small head and bright, black eyes. He used to wear an unbrushed long-skirted black coat and knee-breeches, a voluminous white cambric cravat (generally soiled), and black worsted stockings, with low shoes and silver buckles. When up­ ward of 70 years of age he still relished the pleasure of the quoit club or the whist table, and to the last his right hand never forgot its cunning with the billiard cue. 3 Bushrod Washington, who had been appointed to the Supreme Court by President John Adams, was by inherit­ ance the owner of Mount Vernon, where his remains now lie, near those of his illustrious uncle, George Wash ington. He was a small, insignificant- looking man, deprived of the sight of one eye by excessive study, negligent of dress, and an immoderate snuff-taker. A rigid disciplinarian, and a great stickler for etiquette, and on one oc­ casion he sat for sixteen hours without leaving the bench. He was also a man of rare honor. One day, as the Judges were disrobing, after having heard Sen­ ator Isham Talbot, of Kentucky, argue a case with extraordinary rapidity of utterance, he dryly remarked, "Well, a person of moderate wishes could hardly desire to live longer than the time it would take Brother Talbot to repeat moderately that four hours' speech we have just heard." Private Bar-tilassef. "Heah, bah-ke?per, this is not my glass," said an eighteen-carat dude in a fashionable Sixth street restaurant re­ cently, petulantly pushing back the diluted julep before him and stroking his little mustache with an aggrieved look. "Beg pardon, sir, beg pardon," said the bar-keeper, as he hastily withdrew tlio offending glass. Opening a little cabinet in the side-board he brought out a pretty cut-glass goblet, in which he carefully mixed the dude's "pizen," saying apologetically as ho pushed it across the marble, "So many people coming in here I clean forgot it." The dude felt too much hurt to reply, but sipped his beverage and then failed away. "That's the last fool notion of them ducks," said the drink dispenser, with a backwark jerk of the thumb toward the retreating young man. "What's that?" "Why, each pne of them has to have his own glass now. You see this case ? Well, I've got eighteen sets of private glasses in there, five different, kinds of glasses in a set, and when one of them comes in I've got to get his own little cup to mix the liquor in. They are good trade, though, and I can't afford to object." The glasses were very pretty, of fine cut-ware, and shaped very much like those used for ordinary, everyday cus­ tomers. The sets, the bar-keeper said, cost $5 and can be purchased at only one or two places in the city. "They pretend," continued the man of mixed drinks, "that they're afraid of drinking out of the same glasses as the mob, as they might get some disease. They've been going it about two months now, and they'll go clear across the city without a drink before they'll take a drop out of anything but their own glasses. I hear they've got the same wrinkle at one or two of the clubs here. They're daisies." -- Pittsburgh Dis­ patch. How Empires Have Been Founded. There are a few facts, says the Pall Mall Gazette, that impress the imagina­ tion more in beginning the study of physical science than the rain of the skeletons or shells which continue ceaselessly from the surface of the sea to the ocean depths. Out of these tiny relics of marine life is formed the chalky ooee of the ocean bed, makers of the. marble that is to be. The young princes in "The Cruise of the Bac­ chante," speaking of our island empire in the West Indies, which some propose we should abandon, ask indignantly, "Was it for this that these islands were taken and retaken, till every gully and every foot of the ocean-bed holds the skeleton of an Englishman?" It is a striking figure and suggestive. What a rain of English skeletons through these purple seaa, skeletons which, harden­ ing in time like the shelly ooze of the ocean floor, from the material of em­ pire ! It is a great thought and a true one, although grim enough in its way. All empires are founded on skeletons. Whoever wishes to rear a throne must use corpses as its foundation. The eastern conquerors who reared pyra­ mids of skulls but roughly illustrated the universal truth. He who would at­ tain to supreme dominion must first find men who are willing to allow their carcasses to be used as building ma­ terial. The noble Russian soldiers who were marched into the bog in which they sank overhead merely in order that those who came after might find the way paved with the crowns of their dead companions' heads were but offering in a most horrible fashion the same sacrifice which all men must offer who would found empires, or, indeed, do anything else of permanent and solid worth. The price of liberty, as of enrire, is life. And he who is not willing in case of need to lose his life will never attain to those things which alone make life worth living. ; SATIRE is a glass in which THE'be­ holder sees everybody's face but his THE greatest wealth is contentment With a little. SCIENTIFIC TRUTH Regarding the Functions «f aa Im­ portant Organ, Of Which Iks Public Knows but Xlttlo, Worthy Ctrrfal Consideration. To the Editor of the Scientific American: Will you permit us to make known to the public the facts we have learned during the past eight years, concerning disorders of the hunian Kidneys and the organs which diseased /kidneys so easily break down# You are con­ ducting a Scientific paper, and are unpreju­ diced except in favor of f BUTH. It m needles* to say, no medical Journal of " standing woutd admit these facts, for very obvious reasons. a il warmer <c ca, Proprietors of " Warner's Safe Cure.* That we msy emphasize and clearly explain the relatiou the kiUueyj sustain to the general health, and how much is dspeudent upon thein, we pruposo, metaphorically speaking, to tak« oti • irout the human body, pl&ca in the wauh-l>owl beforo u*, an«l examiue it for the public Iwuetlt You will imagine that we hivo before us a txxly shape.l lum a beau, smo ttli and glisteu- iug, about tour itu'toe* in loa^tli, two in width, aud ouu in iliuiiiiortS. It ordiuarily weighs in the adult mule, about five ounces, but ia some­ what lighter iu the female, A Btuali organ? you sky. lSut understand, the body of the av- umge size man ojutA.ua about tin quarts of b!oi,t, of ic/iich every drop pusxrs through these filter# or neirr-rs, as tli.'y may be called, many times a day as often as "through tha heart, making a complete revolution in three minutes. From tuo blood they separate the waste ma­ terial, working awav stoadily night and day, sleeping or wakiug, tireless as the heart Itself, and fully of as much vital importance; re­ moving impurities from sixty-live gallon* of blood each hour, or about forty-uiue barrels each day, or 9,125 ho^suead a year! What a wonder that the kidneys can last auy length of time uuder this prodigious strain, treated an<l neglected as they are* 1 Wo slice this delicate organ open lengthwise with our knife, an! will roughly desoribe its interior. - We find it to bo of a reddish-brown oolor. Bolt aud easily torn; filled with hundreds of little tubes, snort and thread-like, starting from ttie arteries, euimg in a little tuft about midway from the outside opening into a c ivity of considerable size, which is called the pel­ vis, or, roughly speaking, a sac, which is for the purpose of holding the water to further undergo purification before it passes down from here into the ureters, ana so on to tha outside of the body. These little tubes are tha filters which do their work automatically, and right here is where the disease of the kid* ney first begins. Doing the vast amount of work which they are obliged to, from the slightest irregularity in our habits, from cold, from high living, from stimulants, or a thousand and one other causes which occur every day, they become somowhat weakened in their nerve force. What is the result? Congestion or stoppage of the current of blood in the small blood ves­ sels surrounding them, which become blooked; these delicate membraues are irritated; in­ flammation is set up, then pus is fofmed, which collects in the pelvis or sac; the tubes are at first partially, and soon are totally, un­ able to do their work. The pelvic sac goes on distending with this corruption, pressing upon the blood vessel-". All this tun.', remember, the blood, which is entering the k.dneys to ba filtered, is passing through (his terrible, dis­ gusting pus, for it cannot take auy other route! Stop and think of it for a moment Do you realize tha importance, nay, tho vital necessi­ ty, of having the kidneys in order? Cau you expect, when they are diseased or obstructed, no matter how little, that you can liavo pure, blood and escape disease{ It would bo just as reasonable to expect, if a pest-house were sat across Broadway and countless thousands were compelled to go through its pestilential doors, an escape from contagion and disease, as for one to expect the blood to escapa posi­ tion when constantly running through a dis­ eased kidney. Now, what is the result? Why, that the blood takes up and deposits this poison as it sweeps along into every organ, into oTerv inch of muscle, tissue, flesh and bone, from Sour head to your feet And whenever, from eroditary influence or otherwise, some part of the body is weaker than another, a count­ less train of diseases is established, such as consumption, in weak lungs; dyspepsia, where there is a delicate stomach; nervousness, in­ sanity, paralysis, or heart disease in those who have weak nerves. The heart must toon feel the effects of the poison, as it requires pure blood to keep it in right action. It increases its stroke in number and force to compensate for the natural stim­ ulus wanting, in its endeavor to crov^d tho im­ pure blood through this obstructicfn, causing pain, palpitation, or au out-of-broatli feeling. Unniilurw as this forced labor Is, the heart must soon falter, becoming weaker and weak­ er, until one day it suddenly stops, and death from apparent "heart dtseaee" is the verdict But the medical profession, learned and dig­ nified, call these diseases by high-sounding names, treat them alone, and patients die, for the arteries arc carrying slota death to the affected pari, constantly adding fuel brought from these suppurating, pus-laden kidneys, which here in our wash-bowl are very putre­ faction itself, and which should have been cured first But this is not all the kidneys have to do; for you must remember that each adult takes about seven pounds of nourishment every twenty-four hours to supply tho waste of the body which is constantly going on, a waste equal to the quantity taken. This, too, the kidneys have to sep'arnte from tho blood with all other decomposing matter. But you say, "My kidneys are all right I have no pain in the back." Mistaken man! People die of kidnoy disease of so had a char­ acter that the organs are rotten, and yet they have never there had a pa in nor an ache! Why? Because the disease begins, as we have shown in tho interior of the kidney, where there, are fete nerves of feeling to con­ vey the sensation of pain. Why this is so wo mav never know. When you consider their groat work, the delicacy of their structure, the ease with which they are deranged, can you wonder at the ill-hea'lth of our men and women? Health and long life cannot be expected when so vital an organ is impaired No wonder somo writers say wo are degonerating. Don't you see the great, the extreme importance of keeping this machinery iu working order? Con Id the finest engine do even a fractional part of this work without attention from the engineer? Don't you see how dangerous this hidden disease is?* It is lurking about us con­ stantly, without giving any indication of its presence. The most skillful physicians can not detect it at times, for the kidneys themselves can not be examined by any means winch we have at our command. 'Even an analysis of the water, chemically and microscopically, reveals noth­ ing definite in manv cases, even when the kid­ neys are fairly brofc. n down. Then look out for then', as disease, no mat­ ter where situated, to Hi per cent, as shown by after-death examinations, has its origin in the breaking down of these secreting tubes in the inter .or of tho kidneys. As you value health, as you desire-long life free lrom sickness and suffering, give these organs some attention. Keep tnem in Imporblat Whan you visit or leave Hew York City, save baggage, expressage, and *3 carriage hire, and stop at the Grand Unltm Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot 613 rooms, fitted up at a ooflt of one million condition, and thus prevent (as is easily done) all disease. Warner's Safe Cure, as it becomes year after vear better known for its wonderful cures and Its power ov<er the kidneys, has done and is doing more to increase the average duration of life than all (lie phvsicians and medicines known. Warrior's Safe Curd is a true S] mild but certain, harmless hut cnergetic ant agreeable to the taste. Take it when sick as a cure, and never let-a month go by if you need it, without taking a few bottles as a preventive, that the kidneys may be kept in proper order, the blood pure, that health and lone life mav be vour blessing. 11. H. WADNKB & CO. Sicilian Vespers. The massacre known by this name began at Palermo, Sicily, March 30, 12s2. The French who occupied the island had become hateful to the na­ tives. On Easter Monday the chief conspirators, who had resolved to ex­ terminate the French, were in session at Palermo. At the same time,-while the French were engaged in festivities, a Sicilian bride happened to pass by with her train. She was observed by one Drocliot, a Frenchman, who, ad­ vancing toward her, used her rudely under pretense of searching for arms. A young Sicilian, angered at this af­ front, stabbed the Frenchman with his own sword. A tumult ensued, and 200 French were at once murdered. The populace rau about cryiag, "Let the French die!" and, without distinction of age, rank, or sex, they slaughtered all of that nation they could find, to the number of 8,000, the massacre ex­ tending Over the whole island. WHEX petroleum was discovered the whales did not tram, Thar saved their blubber; A ' road to all depots. Families can livo bettor for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in the city. Safferlng from the "Jim-Jams." , I have had a large experience fitt treating gentlemen suffering from the effects of alcohol; in other words, "the jim-jams." The popular idea that all of these unfortunates "see snakes" is a mistake. I had one patient, a man whom I never suspected of being in any way a sthetic, who lay on his bed and struggled against a suffocating sense of a shower of beautiful fragrant cut-flowers constantly pouring upon him from the blue sky, that in his de­ lirium had taken the place of the smoky ceiling of his little hotel bed­ room. Another complained that for days a brass-band had been concealed near him, which played without cessa­ tion some unpopular "popular air." A very obese lawyer, well known throughout the State, once capered into my room and informed me that he was a "bounding gazelle." He acted more like a rhinoceros, and I gave him the third hypodermic before he quieted down sufficiently to take the carriage to a quiet retreat. For nearly four days I had a patient who would read books and converse rationally, except at intervals he would lean on his elbow and intently watch (and minutely de­ scribe to me) the maneuvers of a large body of pigmy soldiers on his bed-room floor. I have had them write checks by the hundreds, and for large amounts; ai d I have had them declaim in long-forgotten Latin or Oreek. What they wanted waB sleep. If I did not succeed in giving it to them, they generally took the long one in the dark house.--Dr. Golden, ill Globe-Demo­ crat. • MR. J. HOWARD JAMES, manager Stnck- ert's Livery, 619 N. 5th s'reet, Philadel­ phia, Pa., says: After trying all other rem­ edies without relief, for a heavy cold on the chest, accompanied by a severe cough, I used Ited Star Cough Cure, and in a very short time was entirely well. "WHERE does she put her liver," asked Hiram Powers, as he gazed upon the slender, wasp-waisted woman of fashion, and in the Herald of Health, Dr. M. A. Allen has tried to answer this question, showing how when crowd­ ed out of its own place it infringes the space of the digestive and breathing organs and impedes all vital functions. --Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. ST. JACOBS OIL is pronounced a most extraordinary cure for rheumatism by Hon. James Harlan, ex-Vice Chancellor, Louis­ ville, Ky. Hew We«en Differ frm Men. At least three men to the avet rage Irtry. are bound to disagree with the rest, jwt to show that they've got minds of their own; tat thero is po disagreement among th j women «• ta the merits of Dr. P.erce's "Favorite Prescription..* They are all unanimous in pronouncing it the best remedy in the world for all those chronic diseases, weaknesses and complaints peculiar to their sex. It transforms tho pale, haggard, dispirited woman into one of sparkling heilth, and the ringing laugh again "reigns suprcma in the happy household. IT is said that a green turtle can live six week* withoot food. The turtle seems to be the editor of the brute creation. SICK and bilious liead:iche, and all derange­ ments of stomach and bowels, cured by Dr. Pierce's "Pellets"--or anti- bilious granules. 25 cants a vial. No cheap boxes to allow waste of virtues. By druggists. WHERE one "man wants but little here below" three others are within calling dis­ tance who want all. The Need of Ont-of-Door Life. What these young woman need is out-of-door life. Not exercise in the "gym," but tennis, croquet, rowing, horse-back riding, all in light-weight clothes and with loosened corset strings. Nowhere, writes an enthusiast, is beau­ ty so perfect as in the saddle. If woman, conscious of loveliness, con­ vinced that the gods have appointed her a trustee of beauty for the delecta­ tion of the sterner sex and the discom­ fort of her fellow-women, has a keen perception of the environments most favorable to her beauty, she certainly will not hesitate to seek the saddle as her throne, and the soft, warm, melt­ ing landscape for a backgrounds As the glove fits so must the habit. Then, well mounted, with a free rein in a firm bridle hand, she is off with a dash. Good! The color comes, the eyes sparkle, and the tresses would prove truant to the comb. And this is the sunlight. Here ninety per cent, is to be attributed to nature and ten per cent, to tbe artistic tailor. Get away from half lights and dreary five o'clock teas. Mount and be off. Dash around the park in pursuit of happiness. Into the saddle, young maids and matrons. You will then rival the stars, to be fol­ lowed in your course by the eyes of honest admiration.--Cincinnati Com­ mercial-Gazette. A Horrible Form Of malarial disease ia dumb ague. Constant drowsiness, sleep interrupted byaohill, suc­ ceeded by a consuming beat, and that by an e*? haustlng sweat. A sensation as of nnmbnesa from cold, but no shaking attends it. Hog tet­ ter's Stomach Bitters invariably eradicates it, though it is the most obstinate torn) of miasma- born disease. To conquer it with quinine is as impossible as to battle down Gibraltar with a howitzer. Malarial disorders of every kind are attended with derangement of tbe liver, a fact evinced by tho saffron tint which the skin as­ sumes in such diseases. For this symptom, as well as tor its cause, the Bitters is a certain remedy. Constipation, dyspepsia, rheumatism, said inactivity of the kidneys and bladder, an alao relievod by this flne alterative. Equal to the Occasion. Waiter girl (to commercial traveler) --There's roast beef and roast d\ick. Commercial traveler -- Canvas-back duck? Waiter girl--Tes. Commercial traveler (facetiously)-- Is it shirred down tbe front, with lace cuffs turned back over the sleeves, Mary? Waiter girl--The same. Commercial traveler--I will try tome of it, I guess. Waiter girl--Very well, sir; will you have it with or without? Commercial traveler--With or with­ out what? Waiter girl--Buttons.--Neffi fork Times. •-MS'. Hunan Calves. J An exchange says:--"Nine-tenths of the un­ happy marriages result from hunian calves being allowed to rim at large in society pas­ tures. " Nine-tenths of the chronic or linger­ ing diseases of to-day originate in impure blood, liver complaint or biliousness, resulting in scrofula, consumption (which is but ncrofula of the lungs), sores, ulcers, skin diseases and kindred affect.one. Dr. l'ierce's "Goldeu Med­ ical Discovery" cures all these. Of (iruggUts. MUDDY streets are dangerous becaaas they are full of cart ridges. "BouOH «u Bats* clears out rats, mica, Us. "Bough on Corns"--bard or soft corns. 196. "Bough on Toothache." Instant relief, Ifla. "Bough oa Dentist" Tooth Powder, lOo. WIDE awake 3 or 4 hours every night, coagb. lng.--Got immediate relief aud sound rest Of Using "ltough on Cougss" Troches, IU cent*. THK mother's favorite cough medicine the children and adults is ~lU>ugh on Cou^hir Xroebes, lUo. Liquid, tiSc. LIFE PKKSKUVBK. If you, ore losing your grip on life, try "W«IV Health K«newer." Goes direct to weak spate. Is IT not strange that the maseuliM singers do not start a bass bawl club? THE prompt use of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral will often prevent serious lung troubles. AH ode to a goat may be called a nanny- versary* • BUCKINGHAM'S Dye for the Whisker* li baaily applied, and colors brown or black TALUABI.E AND CONVENIENT. --BBOWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES are a safe and sure rem­ edy for Bronchitis, Coughs, r.nd other troub­ les of tho Throat and Lungs. Sold only tit boxes. Price 25 cents. TALK is cheap--except you employ a stenographer.--Somervillc Journal, Sixtieth Tear. The fbvth's Companion cefobrat*8*Uftn™&y its sixtieth anniversary. It might well be named tho " Universal Companion," since its readers are found in 400,tMAi families. It is so wisely edited that its pages are as interesting to adults as to the young people. Besides the best short and serial stories it contains a great variety of popular and useful information on natural history, science, homo arts, games, and sports, and is fully illustrated. It costs but 11.75 a year, and a subscription sent now is credited to January, 1888. How to Make Money. No matter in what part you are located, you should write to Hallett &CoM Portland, Maine, and receive, free, information about work you can do and live at home, at a profit of from $5 to $25 and upwards daily. Some have made over $50 in a day. All is new. Capitol not needed; Hallett & Co. will start you. Either sex; all ages. Those who commence at once will make sure of snug little fortunes. Write and see for yourselves. "BUCEtU-PAlBA." Quick, oomplete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases. $1. At druggist* "ROUGH ON BILE" PILLS. Small granules, small dose, big results, pleas­ ant in operation, don't disturb the stomach. SiSo. "KOl'GH ON DIRT." Aak for "Rough on Dirt." A perfect washing powder found at last I A harmless, extra tine, A 1 article, pure and clean; sweetens, freshens, bleaches, and whitens without the BlightoBt in­ jury to finest fabrics. Unequaled for tine linens and laces, general household, kitchen, and laun­ dry use. bolteus water; saves labor and 6c, 10c, 26c. At drucgists or grocers. HBNSMIN'S Peptonized Beef Tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nu­ tritious properties. It contains blood-making, force-generating, and life-sustaining proper­ ties; invaluable for indigestion, dvspep*ia. nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also in all enfeebled conditions, whether the work of exhaustion, nervous pros­ tration, overwork, or acute disease, particu­ larly if resulting from pulmonary.complainta. Caswell, Hazard & Co, proprietors, New York. Bold by druggists. BSST, easiest to use, anil cheapest. Plao's Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 60c. Catarrh Can be Curad Thousands who have been troubled with thai disagreeable flow from the nose, offensive breath, pain over and between the eyes, ringing and burst* itiK noises in the ears, and other disagreeabls symptoms of catarrh, have been entirely cured bjr Hood's Sarsaparills, the best blood-purifyinpr med­ icine. It expelx every taint of impurity from the blood, vitalize* aud enriches it. and also improves the general health. If you suffer from catarrh, try Hood's SarsapariUa. "I have been troubled with catarrh about a year, causing great soreness ot the bronchial tubes and terrible headache. I saw the advertisement of Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for catarrh, tnd after taking only one bottle I am much better. My catarrh is cured, ray throat is entirely well, aatf my headache has all disappeared." II. GIBBONS, Hamilton. Butler Co., O. "Hood's Sai-Haparilla has helped me more for catarrh and impure blood than anything else X ever used." A. BALL, Syracuse, N. V. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. (1; tix for $3. prepardl by O. I. HOOD & CO- Apothecaries, Lowell, Mas*. IOO Doses One Dollar Cures and Prevents Colds, Coughs, ©re Throat, oarseness, Stiff Neck, Bronchitis, Catarrh. Headache, Toothache, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Asthma, Frostbites, Chilblains, uuiekrr than any known remedy. It was the first and is the only PAIN REMEDY That instantly stops 'lie most excruoUtins paint* al­ lays Inflammation unci cure* Collections, whether of Hit* Lillian, .Stoma' h. Jfcowels.or other glands or or* fans, by one applioticn. No mutter how vio ent or excruciating the t>a n the Itheumatic, Bedridden. Infirm. Crippled, Nervous, or prostrated with diseases may suffer, RADWAY'S READY RELIEF wUi afford instant ease. Thirty t<i Hi xty drops in half tumbler of water will In a lew minutex cure tramps. Spa-um. Sour Stom­ ach, Nausea, Vomi inir, Palpitation of the Heart, Mai* »ria, Cliiils and Fever, F; intnew*. He rtburn. Kick geadache. Diarrhea, ljyxentery. 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