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' ̂ 1 y-\ Us Bvsirw UMI on tHe Bald-SMI Q»es- Popular B. Wherry, Battlo Brook, -write* as, follows: "I ai*-hardly 27 years old, and yet I am almost entirely bald. I have re* cently read in the Popular Science Monthly that baldness is very largely o on the increase, and that "by actual j count fully SO per cent, of the men, even at a concerto* tragedy, are more or less bald. Ibis number is largely Increased, it is said, when the play gets more dash and spirit in it, and the leading lady throws aside all reserve. "The Popular Science Monthly says that by actual count there were present at Trinity Church, Boston, recently, 243: men, of whom 71 were actually bald and 46 with strong indications of baldness; King's Chapel, 86 men, of whom 38 were actually and hopelessly bald, and . 14 on probation; Hollis Street Theater orchestra, 'Mikado' per­ formance, 63 men--27 badly bald and 10 who thought they could still be bald or let it alone; Boston Theater, Judic, 126 men, of whom 51 were actually bald and 43 apprentices. . "This writer also says that baldness is most plentiful in New York and Boston. Next Philadelphia and Wash­ ington, after -which comes Chicago and the Western cities. Can you tell me the cattse of baldness and your theory as to its wonderful prevalence ? I hope you will pardon me for writing you, but I have learned casually that you sometimes dabbled in science, also in baldness. I would be glad to know if you have succeeded in finding anything to help your baldness, as I am still young and unmarried. Life is still be­ fore me, and I want to go to some one who will tell me frankly whether there is still hope for me or not." I observe, Elisha, that baldness has no doubt been handed down to you from a good, way back. You remember the gentleman after whom yon were named was that way himself, and that he was sensitive about it, for when the hoodlums of his town followed him and cried out: "Go up, bald head," he railed out a pair of bears and fed them with these children. I have always looked upon this as a mighty inferior style of miracle. While Elisha un­ doubtedly did much to endear himself to humanity, and that made his death seem like a general calamity, I have al- ways said that a bald-headed prophet who got mad and fed the neighbors' children to his menagerie every time they joked liim about his late hair should have worn a wig. It would be a mighty mean boy that I would "sick" a bear on because he spoke of my high forehead, and I am not in the prophet line, either. If I had turned the animals loose on every newspaper man that has joked me through his columns about my polished dome of thought there wouldn't be journalists enough left to keep the President criticised as he should be. What would people think of me if I were to go about lecturing evenings, and then to feed the reporters to my menagerie on the following day? I have always said that there must be some mistake about the translation of this miracle, or else Elisha laid him­ self open to criticism. But this is not what you asked me about, in it, Elisha ? Baldness is liable to break out in the most unlooked-for localities, but I think it is generally inherited. I inherited mine, but I nave added to it a good deal. ' You may not think you have -in­ herited your baldness, and yet if you go back seven or eight generations and exhume your ancestors, you will find that they are, in most cases, totally bcdd. I have tried several preparations in 'my lifetime, all of whieb were good for baldness and assisted it very much. These remedies for the hairless are deemed to resemble each other in two particulars, namely: They were all expensive, and all stioky. Some smelled offensively "when first applied, while others were more successful after awhile. For several years I dressed very plainly, Elisha, using the balance of my income on the site of my former hair. As a result of this, my bosom alter­ nately hove with anticipation or fell with disappointment, while my bangs remained unbung and my hat smelled like a volcanic eruption. Various people came to me with recipes for wooing the hair out of my glossy intellectual rink. Among them there came to me a gentleman from Bngland named Macrostic, who claimed to have been royal taxidermist for nine years, after which he had acted as chiropodist extraordinary for several years, removing unicorns from the great and small. He said that he could grow a waving crop of tresses on my bleak and barren brow for five pounds. He now has the five pounds and I still retain my broad sweep of brow. I cannot tell how you can empower your tall, sleek forehead in rank, wind-tossed hair, Elisha, but I can tell you how you can save $500. Take your hair invigorator money and buy a town lot in a growing town fl&at supports its home paper and ad­ vertises and goes ahead, and vou will find in twenty years that you will be well fixed, and a man who is well fixed don't care much whether he has any hair or not. I've seen men with long, rich, wavy hair, which fell in a glorious shower of dandruff on the collar of their over- ,coats, who were just as unhappy as you or I, Elisha. Hair alone cannot bring happiness. I once knew a man who was very successful indeed, and was finally made postmaster of his town, and he had whiskers that he had to button inside his coat to keep them from brushing other people's eyes out, and he had hair to sell, and yet when there came a change of administration, and a new President who hadn't an alma mater to lay his jaws to came along, this hairy man was almost the first to fall. A wealth of hair is a good thing, but the head was not made solely as a hot­ bed for the propagation of hair. Bald­ ness is one of the penalties of civiliza­ tion, Elisha. Barbarians are never bald. People who sleep in straw-piles and eat their pastor always have all the hair they can manage. Those who go bare-headed for generations and live on grasshoppers and acorns are never bald. Plug hats, late suppers, and , earnest thought are hard on the hair. I say this to comfort you, Elisha, for married and do not care. Bill Hm . " Bow People Sect Death. The manner in which people meet 4*ath has always been a matter of deep Interest to the living, and historical records abound with descriptions of the last moments of human lives, great and an^ll- It is a thing about which every one is curious. The death not long ago of a woman who had suffered long tgpW painful disease was a striking ex- was in an at^liMtr ot the mornjhg and the gaa was btirningin her chandler. Apparently arousing from clamber, she ami to her sister: "It is dark; light the gas." She was told that it was .already burning. "Then light the other jet." was the re­ sponse. This was done, but she could not see. The film of death rested on her eyes. She realized the truth and I am going over the ferry--lay 1826. tors in a out with" a few fresh flowers. Good-by." A brief pause and the word "d-y-i-n-g" was deliberately spelled, and then a brave spirit went to join the great majority.--Chicago Tribune. The After-Dinner Nap. There is much differenoe of opinion concerning the desirability of an after- dinner nap. Those who advocate it cite the example of animals, but those gorge themselves with food whenever opportunity offers, and are heavy and drowsy in consequence. A short rest is, however, different from lethargic sleep and often appears to do good. Brain work should certainly be for­ bidden after dinner; the interval be­ tween it and bed-time should be devoted to recreation and amusement. In the case of elderly people a short nap after & late dinner often aids digestion, but &s a general rule it is better for such persona to make their principal meal at 2 p. m. The digestive powers of most elderly people are at a low ebb in the evening. When sleeplessness is trouble­ some relief should be sought for in the discovery and removal of the cause whenever possible. The condition is often due to indigestion, and when this is the case the ordinary remedies for inducing sleep are worse than useless. The nervous relation between the brain and the stomach are so intimate that disorder of the one organ is almost cer­ tain to affect the other. Excitement, worry, and anxiety, which have their seat in the brain, interfere with the functions of the stomach, and in like manner anything that unduly taxes the power of or irritates the stomach dis­ orders the circulation and nutrition of the brain. The sleeplessness often complained of by gouty persons is due to the poisonous effect of the morbid material upon the nervous system. Ex­ cessive smoking, too much alcohol, tea. and coffee, often resorted to by over­ worked persons, are frequent causes of sleeplessness. In all these cases the cause is removable, while the effect may be counteracted by appropriate treatment. Nothing is more mischiev­ ous, however, than to continue the habits and to have ^recourse to drugs to combat the effects. A due amount of exercisfe tends to induce normal sleep, and such exercise need not be of a violent character. A walk of two or three miles daily is sufficient, and is, perhaps, as much as a busy man can find time for. A ride on horseback, the Palmerstonian cure for gout, is probably the best form of exercise for those whose minds are constantly at work. It has been well said that a man must come out of himself when in the saddle; he is forced to attend to his horse and to notice the objects he meets. Walk­ ing may be a merely automatic pro­ cess, and afford little if any relief to the mind, and carriage exercise majr be practically valueless if the mind is not diverted from what had previously oc­ cupied it.--Fortnightly Review. Mimicry in Snakes. A correspondent at Cape Town writes to Nature: A curious fact has been lately brought to my notice by a friend of mine, Mr. H. M. Oakley, in connec­ tion with the Dasypeltis scaber, Linn., or egg-eating snake--the "Eijer eter" of the Dutch colonists--which, if not already well known, may prove of in­ terest to some of your readers. The specimen obtained by Mr. Oakley was caught at Hout Bay, some twenty miles from Cape Town, and is about three feet in length, and its size, markings, and color bear sufficient resemblance to those of the berg adder (Clothos atropos, Linn.) to be easily mistaken for that snake. It also has keeled scales, generally characteristic at the Cape of venomous species. Its head has, however, the long lacertine shape distinctive here of harmless snakes, but when aroused and alarmed or irritated it flattens out until it assumes the usual viperine shape of the "club" in a play­ ing card. It then coils as for a spring, erects its head with every appearance of anger, produces a hissing noise with its scales, not unlike the hiss of a puff adder or cobra, and darts forward as if to strike its fangs into its foe, and in every way exactly simulates the motions of an irritated berg adder. This snake has, however, heither fangs nor teeth (which, indeed, would not be required for egg-swallowing), and is not poison­ ous, a fact which was placed beyond doubt by Mr. Oakley repeatedly placing his finger in the reptile's mouth. This seems a clear instance of mimicry of another species for defensive ptirposes, but I am not aware of another instance among ophidians. Patling the Boot on the Other Leg. Jones--Ha! old fellow, how are you? Just heard that you had gone into the newspaper business. Smith--Yes. Just bought a country paper. Jones--Glad to hear it, old man. Hope you will succeed. • Where is your office situated? Smith--Why right here in the su­ burbs. Jones--That so? Good enough. Why, I guess yon can give me ui occa­ sional puff, then. * > Smith--Certain^ •: What atfaytra busy with now? Jones--I'm in the clothing business-- ready-made clothing. Smith--Ha! Then I guess you can give me an occasional pair of pants, then.- Jones--Well, I dunno about that. It oosts money to manufacture clothing, vou know. Smith--That's true, and it oosts nothing to manufacture newspapers. Then they part.--Boston Courier. What He Conld Have Told. Col. Hammond tells the story abont his waiting boy, who went to hear a Northern man speak to the colored people, and on his return the following conversation occurred: "Well, what did he sagr?" asked the Colonel. "Oh, he told us heaper things." "Anything you didn't know ?" "Naw, sir, I don't speck he tole any­ thing I didn't know, but I could er tole him sump'n he didn't knowj" "Well," asked the Colonel, "what was it he told you that yon did know?" "He tole us ter be hones' an' work hard an' save our money, an' not drink no licker, an' not steal no chickens." "And what was it he didn't know that you could have told him?" "I cud er tole him do blame nigger want gwine ter do it."--Atlan*a Con• v&tution, - - . .i 4 My strid command no# ia, 'Burn them if ever fomtd. Let no third party read them; let no plotting of them, or any part of them, Ibe ever thought of by those who love me.'" Mr. Froudenot onl the*parts to Carlyle. The latter also said in his will: "Express biography of me I had really rather that there should be The unfortunate result is that of all men Carlyle has the most bluntly express biography in cold print -Cin- cirtntitt Commercial Gazette. . ily violated thiB injunction, but omitted ie parts of the tetters most creditable Frontier Deaperadoefc : i Among the frontier types of charac­ ter the desperado holds a .conspicuous place. One of the most noted of these was Woodpecker Tandy,' the famotis marksman of Deadwood, who shot at the Tall Crested Snipe of the Plains in Tin-cup Canon and immediately went in search of the sheriff to deliver him­ self up. "You say," said the sheriff, "that your man dropped in the bush and that you didn't examine him; how do you know he is dea4?" Didn't I tell yer," exclaimed the criminal, angrily, "that I aimed at his heart? If that ain't enough for yer, I'll aim at vour'n." Wild Bill, who was, during the civil war, a Missouri scout, became at one time the acknowledged chief of this reckless and dangerous class by his success in resisting the attack of five men, who, after he had retired one night, entered his sleeping apartment and locked the door behind them. When, shortly afterwards, the door was burst open by those whom the noise of the conflict had attracted, four of the assailants were found dead upon the floor while Wild Bill, in a fainting con­ dition, lay on the bed across the dead body of the fifth. But this notorious desperado came, in his tufrn, to a violent end for he was pusillanimously shot in the back in the early days of Deadwood. His grave, on the barren slope of one of the Black Hills, was marked when I saw it by a headboard which bore- the following characteristic inscription:, ^ 'J. B. HICKOCK, : t $ ("Wild Bill,") ; KUled by the ftBsasFin, .TackMcCslI, ' r ""< Jct/r 4th, 1876. ; Pud, we shall meet again In the happy : hunting grounds to part no mora. D. H. UTTEB. : ' ("Colorado Charlie.") : These frontier desperadoes are gen­ erally known, not by their own names, but by sobriquets which are bestowed on them by their admirers as titles of honor and almost as terms of endear­ ment. There was, for instance, in Da kota a young man who went by the name of Bad Land Jimmy, though why he was so called was as much a mys­ tery to him as to any one else. 44 Tis just a peculiarity IVe got," he always answered when questioned on the subject, "there ain't no reason fur it as I know on, 'cause I ain't got no land an' I never was bad, an' my name ain't Jimmy."--Detroit Free Press. William Blaikift, the editor of that much-read litue volume, "'How to Get Strong and How to Stay So," in the course of his lecture nidged that the ed­ ucation of our bodies was neglected, that we used our musclea, but not wisely. Exercise was necessary, and it should be judicious, well-directed and constant to be beneficial. "You ask, doesn't the gymnasium give us the right kind of exercise?" said he. "What's a gymnasium? It is a room filled with appliances and implements of all sorts to build up muscle. Do you know how gymnasiums are conducted? You pay an admission price, and are free to enter. You find a big dumb bell and Bquirm and struggle till you lift it. You take a turn at the rowing machine and the bars. If anything felse is there you try it. What is the result? Next morning yon are sore and lame; your muscles were not equal to the strain. You are disgusted with the exercise and don't go to the gymnasium any more. This exercising in a blind, purposeless way is not pro­ ductive of any good. You might as well turn a boy loose in an apothecary's shop and say, 'There, Johnny, there's your medicine; now get well.' He would^get well--into the grave." To mustrate how deficient many men were who were professional athletes, Mr. Blaikie instanced the case of Ed­ ward Hanlan, whom he had had excel lent opportunity to observe when ref­ eree in the famous boat race at Chan tauqua Lake, where Courtney's shell was sawed. "Hanlan had been pulling all his life," said the speaker, "and his pulling muscles were tremendously de­ veloped. I doubted if his pushing muscles were so strong; sol asked him to try this little exercise." Here Mr. Blaikie brought forward a couple of chairs, placed himself between them, his hands on the top of the cliair backs and did the "dipping" exercise which was practiced so much Dy the late William Cullen Bryant. "I did this exercise five or six times," continued the lecturer, "and then asked Hanlan to try. How many times do you suppose that big, muscular oars man did it? He got down on his knees between the chairs and there he stuck. 'Get up,' said L 'I can't,' said he. 'Try hard,' I urged. 'I am trying as hard as I can,' he protested. Think of that for the then champion oarsman of America." Mr. Blaikie then passed to a review of men and women that were celebrated r'or their great achievements, attribut­ ing much of their superiority to their physical strength and endurance. He alluded to John Wesley, who preached 42,000 sermons in fifty years; to Julius C a ? s a r , " t h e R o m a n p o l i c e m a n t o Gladstone felling a four-foot oak with his ax at 76: to Mrs. Langtry, who had participated in all the athletic sports of her six brothers, and when invited out for a walk in Cleveland had walked twenty-two miles; and to Washington, who had wrestled with the seven Stevens brothers in his youth, and who had ridden fifteen miles a day on horse­ back, to prevent the gout, in after­ life. Mr. Blaikie strongly recommended walking and running as invigorating exercises to strengthen the limbs, tone up the system, add brightness to the eye, bloom to the cheek, and elasticity to the step. "I have seen more young ladies in your city that were good walkers than in any other city in the Northern States," said he, at which compliment every gentleman present gallantly applauded. Following are some of Mr. Blaikie's maxims: One way to derive benefit from exer­ cise is to know how to rest. Fight shy of shower baths; they shock the heart. What is the good of superfluous flesh ? In short, what is the good of anything superfluous? Breathe through your nose when running, and always run on your toes. A runner's heela should never touch the ground. • - Bicycling is good exercise until you come to racing. Deep breathing will save you from many lung troubles, and build up your chest. Six hours of mental work, or eight at most, is enough for one day. Overwork in a gymnasium is dan gerous. ^ , The Girl of To-Day. , J* there is anything we know less about than we think we do it is the girl and of this the girl is glad, for there is nothing she hates to be known about her so bad as the trutb. We have been acquainted with her for a long time and watched her pranks from afar, seen her cnt the "pigeon wing" and knock the "backstep" in the back yard, when she thought she had no spectator; but still we don't know her. From the time she is big enough to swing on the gate and tie a ribbon in a double bowknot she begins to locate sweetheart, and she keeps this up until he is located in the back-yard exercis­ ing his talents dissecting stove wood. She may be a little dull on mathe matics, but invariably solves the prob­ lem of putting a No. 5 foot in a No. 3 shoe. She will wear out two old dresses running around to find out how to make a new one in the latest style. She will walk three blocks out of the way to get a peep at her beau, and then pass by without looking at hira. She will attend church, listen with absorbed interest to eloquent and pa­ thetic sermons, then return home and expatiate upon the horrible fit of Miss Snow's new basque. She will go to a table, mince over delicacies with the most fastidious taste, then slip back in the kitchen and eat a raw potato. She will wear out her best pair of shoes dancing all day, then attend a ball at night and complain of being out of practice. She will be the most devout creature on earth, and hate the ground that Sallie Grimes walks on. She will be industrious and econom­ ical for a month, then spend her savings for a red ribbon. She will slouch around the house for a week making preparations to look neat on Sunday. She will flirt with all the best young men in the neighborhood, and finally marry BOme knotty-headed Jim Crow. --Castro (Tex.) Anvil. Carlyle^ Bad Lack In a Biographer. Mr. Carlyle wrote many letters when a young man, and a large number of these are in possession of his niece, Airs. Alexander Carlyle. It was at her desire that Mr. Norton prepared this volume of selections from them. Car- lvle's chief correspondents in his youth were the members of his father's fam­ ily, and three college friends, two of whom became schoolmasters and one a preacher. He also corresponded with Miwa Welsh from their first acquaint- £ im wtil u>* &> fe*- ," " i ) 4 ' • • ' f - . v * u / ' * A Christmas Moantain Wedding* There is a pretty superstition much in vogue among the yonng, that those who plight their troth to each other on Christmas day will be happy in their children thereafter. As Christ was sinless, so their sons will be good and their daughters pure. For tne same reasons, many marriages take place on that day. The Christmas bridegroom is in some parts expected to pretend to seal his bride, les* rudely, however, than the Tartars of the Asiatic Steppes. At the appointed lionr the familv of the girl depart for the meeting-house, leaving her behind arrayed in all her wedding finery and alone. Then the groom rides furiously up to the house on horseback with some of his own friends, and with a show of violence on his part and feigned reluctance on hers, drags her out of the cabin, places her before him on his own horse, and starts for church. He is armed with a long "hickory," which he flourishes over her head, thus evincing to the world his future matri­ monial authority over her. After the ceremony every man, wo­ man, and child kisses the bride, shakes hands with the groom, who, remount­ ing the same horse with his wife, ride off to their future home, followed by every one who chooses to go. On their arrival a bountiful dinner is set forth and partaken of by all. Then dancing and other amusements follow. Wrasslin' of various kinds, such as the "Injun hug," the "black snake lock," the "back holt," and so on, is popular; and the man who can "jest ride the hull passel on 'em" is deservedly admired by every female present. Jumping, shooting at a mark with the inevitable long rifle, with an occasional foot race, usually occupy much of the time. ' A heavy jocularity pervades the at­ mosphere. There is a rough splinter­ ing of wit, and a slow yet pithy play of bovine humor, accompanied by spas­ modic bursts of ponderous laughter, that pass like ripples over still water, leaving no trace behind upon the grave, vacant faces of the mountaineers. The luck that happens to one during the week between Christmas and the first day of the coming year, is con­ sidered a favorable or ominous prevision of one's fortunes during that year--- Christmas Brooklyn Magazine. An Honest Han. "Mr. Blank," said the senior partner of a wholesale dry-goods house to a customer in the retail line, "I am sorry to inconvenience you, but really your account with our house will have to be reduced. You see, there is a general lack of confidence in the commuity just now, and money is very scarce." "Confound you, sir," said the man of tape and ribbons, haughtily, "do vou take me for a stock-broker, sir ? The honest dealer never fails, sir." "Why, rather than fail," he continued, with the tremor of deep feeling in his voice, "I'd set fire to the place--and-- and " "Perish in the ruins," suggested the subdued merchant, in kindly tonea "No, sir. Collect the insurance."-- ancisco Post. " Found After Forty Years. An old maid of Chicago recently -traveled to Detroit and took her first ride in a sleeping-car. She was obliged to take an upper berth, and retired early. In the middle of the night she startled the whole car by a series of fortissimo shrieks. The porter ran to her assistance, and in answer to his in­ quiry as to her distress, she replied that there was a man under her bed. After forty years Of patient waiting her worst fears were realized. "SPEU. love,'" said a yonng man to his sweeheart "Y-o-u," she timidly essayed. The courtship had been a protracted one, but they are married %'L PJM- .'in H * . • mporuuK. Hbm yoa visitor leave Sew fork Citjr, savs fcagg*#* etpMaufte, and fSosttiag* hire, and stop at the Grssi Uaioai Hetel, opposite Grand Central Depot 613 rooms, fitted ap at a ooat at one million dollars, #1 and opjrard* p«r d^y. Kapopo»n plan. Elevator. Bestaarant enpplied with the beat Horae dan, stages, and eleratid mil- road to all depots Families can live better for Haa money at the Grand Union Hotel at SBiy other fiist-elaaa hotel in the city. An American Accomplishment. It is quite a trick to jump off a train going Bay at thirty miles an hour, and the Amoricans take a pride in cultivat­ ing dexterity in this trick. It takes considerable practice before it can be done successfully. The way to jump is always with the train, and always on the left-hand side of the latter, letting the right foot rest on the step, and the left foot swing from the step. Then jump so that the left foot will touch the ground first, and the right foot to immediately follow it, so as to be able to run. Some of the men jump from tne middle of the train or the front, but most of them go to the rear car and jump, so that if they fall they will not roll under the cars. A correspond­ ent says: "The best man I ever saw, and the only man who could hold his feet and stop himself without running at all, was Charlie Phillips. He could jump from a train running thirty-five miles an hour, and stop without run­ ning a foot."--Court Journal. MB. JACOB FROEHLICH, a well-known tailor of Cincinnati, O., after sheering for years with rheumatism, was cured in a short time by the use of St. Jacobs Oil. ACCEPT the intellect, and it will ae> cept ua. The safe way into nature is to enact our best insight MRS. C. KELLOGO, Edgwood. Cal., says: Bed Star Cough Cure is the best medicine she has ever used for colds for the children. THE biggest trees in the world ur» the mammoth trees of California. One in a grove in Tulare County, according to measurement made by members of the State Geological Survey, was Bhown to be 27ti feet in height, 108 feet in circumference at base, and 70 feet at a point 1*2 feet above ground. Some of the trees are 37G feet high and 34 feet in diameter. Some of the largest that have been felled Indicate an age of 2,000 to '2,500 years. THE loftiest active' volcano is Po­ pocatepetl -- "smoking mountain" -- thirty-five miles southwest of Puebla, Mexico; it is 17,7-1.8 feet above the sea level, and has a crater three miles in circumference and 1,000 feet deep.' A Genial Restorative. Hoatetter'i Stomach Bitter* are emphatic ally a genial restorative. The changes which thia great botanic remedy produces in the disordered organization are always agreeably, though surely, progressBive, never abrupt and violent. On this account it is admirably adapted to per­ sons of delicate constitution and weak nerves, to whom the powerful mineral drugs are posi­ tively injurious. That it initiates those pro- cessans which result in the re-establishment of bealthful vigor is conspicuously shown in cases Where it is taken to overcome that fruitful •ause of debility, indigestion, coupled, as it usually is, with biliousness and constipation. Thorough digestion, regular evacuation, and abundant secretion, are results which promptly and invariably attend its systematic ase. It is, besides, the best protective against malaria, and a first-rate diuretic. St. Panl Ahead. Mayor of St. Paul--I engaged two pore policemen this morning. Chief of Polioe--What for ? We have too many already. Mayor--These two said if they did not get work here they would go to Minneapolis, and of course I wasn'i going to let that village get ahead of us that way, so I engaged them. Chief of Police--O, of course, that waa all you could do. I guess we are two ahead now for sure,:--Detroit Free Press. . Da PntBCB's "Favorite Prescription* is the debilitated woman's best restorative tonic. A MAN at Genoa, Ohio, has a clock two hundred years old. That must be one of the old times we read about.--Tid-Bits. . A. •* - S- . Sold, to Dec. 27,1886* Other ttemedy in the Wwli On 'V^,;3V Produce Snob, a Beoord* * • , - • • • • Wm ... r .. . ^ M' .'"SiU.'v This wonderful raeoess of "Warner's BAR Cure" is due wholly to the ie*t*M Itemodv For a lMu- teme it has been BECABPEP B* THfi RlfiBMr < APTHOItrriES AS THE OSL¥ SPEC IFIC FOB HID1EY, AMD 1IB!SAB¥ DINEANEN, AWJD FEMALE t'OXPLAIMm . ^°.F.FY?PI?_°1110'r lif® *nd health to "Warner's BATS Cure," and ire can pco- duoe 100,000 TESTIMONIALS to that effect Read the following and note the large number of bottle* distributed agues to be correct, as our sales-books will prove. 1,149,122 CAFT. W. D. ROBINSON (U. a Marine Insp,, Buffalo, N. Y.), in 18JS5 was suffering with a tkin humor like leprosy. Could not sleep; was in great agony. For two yean tried everything, without benefit Was pronounced incurable. "Twenty >mt * I am strong and . bottles ot Warner's SATB CUTS red me, and to-day (Febw OB 1885,) Proiifanci, 179,929 A Cheap Library. in these deys one who places his money judiciously may obtain reading matter at very small cost. Send for a sample copy of THE CHICAGO LEDGER, and find their plan for obtaining ma­ terial for twelve volumes for the price of one. THE LEDGER is undoubtedly the best Western story paper, and rivals the Eastern publications at double its cost. Price, $1.50 per year, postage paid. Send for sample copy to The Ledger Company, 271 Franklin street, Chicago. War Ahead. There is great danger of war with Mexico h the near future, but at preaerrt we can pursue the arts of haziness, prosperity, and wealth. Wherever you live, you should write to Hal- fett k Co., Portland, Maine, and receive, free, full information about work that you can do, and live at home, earning thereby from #5 to #25 and upwarda daily. Some have earned over #5D in a day. Capital not required; you are started free. All is new; both sexea All ages. Pay, as above guaranteed, from first start A Lady's Unfortunate Kxperlenos, Was that of one of our acquaintances who suf­ fered from Scrofula, a yellow complexion, and distress of the stomach, for years before using Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic. which finally cured her. "THE Travels of the Gorman and Bon- tramont Families" is the title of a most interesting and finely illustrated book, giving a description ef the Mammoth Cave and all the winter cities and resorts in the > summer lands of the South. It is a ro­ mance of the rail, with valuable tourist information. It originated from the pas­ senger department of the Motion Route (L., N. A. and C. Ry.), and will be sent to any one free on receipt of four cents in postage stamps. Address E. O. McCor- mick. General Passenger Agent Monon Route, 183 Dearborn street, Chicago. PUBS Cod liver Oil made fr m selected livers on the Bf-a-ahote by Caawe.i, Hazard 4 Co., New York. It is absolutely pure sad •weet Patients who have once taken it pre­ fer it to all others. Physioians have deoided it superior to any of the other oils in market THOSE who are afflicted with the disability of a poor memory and those who would improve their good memories will find it to their ad­ vantage to read the advertisement in this issue of Prot Loisetto. Iw afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. lease Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it 2&cv BEST, easiest to use, and cheapest. Ptso's Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 80s. Consumption of Opium. Is the use of opium increasing in the United States? The following data from the United States commerce and navigation reports would seem to indi­ cate that such is hardly the case and to have important bearing. There were imported into the United States: Tear. Pounds. 187 0 *54,601 187 1 as,ui 187 2 416.864 1889 . 187 3 K61. 1674 - 605,9091882. 1875. 80 >,130 1878..............386,311 _ 1877 849,233 1886. ' ' EX-GOV. T. G. ALVORD (Syracuse, N. Y.), in 1884 began running down with General De­ bility, accompanied with a sense of weight in flie lower part of the body, with a fever­ ish sensation and a general giving out of the whole organism. Was in seriom con­ dition, confined to his bed much of theima After a thorough treatment with Warner's BAR Cure, he says: "I am completely re­ stored to health by its means." Portland, Ml., - 441,105 MAJORS. B. ABBOTT (Springfield, Mo.), in 1871 waa afflicted with lame back, Rheuma­ tism, and Kidney trouble. Consulted the very best physicians in San Francisco, and visited all the mineral springs there. Took a health trip to the New England States, but for seven years suffered constantly from his milady, which hail resulted in JirighC* dis­ ease After using a conple dozen bottles of Warner's SAFE Cure and two of SAFE Pills, he wrote: "My baek and Kidneys are with­ out pain, and, thank God, I owe it all to Warner's SATE Remedies.* . Of NSwEjlf., • 441,753 HR& J. T. RITCHEY(5624th Ave., Louisville, Ky.) was a confirmed invalid for eleven years, jnst living, and hourly expecting death. Was confined to bed ten months each vear. Was attended by the best physicians. her left side was paralyzed. Could neither eat, sleep, nor enjoy life. The doctors said she was troubled with female complaint*; but she was satisfied her kidneys were af­ fected Under the operation of Warner's SAFE Cure she passed a large stone or calcu­ lus, and in November, 1885, reported: "Am to-day as well as when a glrL" New York State - 3,870,773 PenDsylraflla, F. MAYEK (lOriO N. 12th St., St. Louis, _ afflicted with tired feelings, dizziness,! pain across the back, and lost ap petit?. Wittf sallow and care-worn all the time. The doe* tors failing, he began tho use of Warner'# f SAFE Cure, and reports: "I feel like ajlght~ ' ing cock. * '•y Ife guarantee these Chicago, 2,808,693 *w. -l£ MR. R. BROWN (3321 Woodward Ave., De­ troit, Mich.) injured his back from a fall. .. Was confined to his t ed six weeka. The fall ^ inj ured his kidneys,producing intense auffer- * ? IM, % ing. Warner's SA« Cure restored hit kid- vj. neys to their natnral condition, and he writes; : 1'J "I am now eighty years of age, smart anel '.V :' active," • . , * A"i Detroit. 846.948 MR& THOa SCHMIDT (Wife ef the Vice. Consul of Denmark, 09 Wall St, New York} reported that her little son, after an of Itipththerie Sore Throat eight years i was afflicted with Bright's Disease in ad* vanced form; by the advice of General Christiansen, of Drexel, Morgan ft Oft, Bankers, New York, she prescribed War­ ner's SAFE Cure, with the consent of the physicians, and reports, "the physioians swf'. that he will be perfectly ttelL ' '<• *•>; ' > 9 - • " ilSli Milwaukee. MISS Z L. BOARDKAN {Qnechee, Vt), May, 1883. began to bloat, thenoe came SANHS. ach trouble, terrible headaches, and fluaiM the doctor's opinion that it was Bright?s dm*, ease, aud incurable. Eventually she be* cmie nearly blind, pronounced by the doc* tors to be the last stage of Blight's disease^ After having been under treatment by Waorw ncr's SATK Cure for one year, she '•lam as veil at any OML" Minnesota, HON. N. A. PLYMPTON (Worcester, Xaa^ in May, 1880, was prostrated by Gravel Un­ der the operation of Warners Sara Cttlre alone he passed a large stone, and subse­ quently wrote: "I have had no recurrence ot my trouble sinoe Warner's Sara Care eurwd me." tern H. W. States, - i,76J,i4i V •-1" '*3 ASK YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS ABOUT WARNER'S SAFE CURE. THE MOST POPULAR REMEDY EVER DISCOVERED. Cleveland, 682,632 Tear. Pounds. 1078 ......490,950 1879 405,957 S88.4S1 3I8W710 .........370,249 457,499 381,173 .384,481 EX-GOV. K T. JACOB (Westport, Ky.) was {>rostrated with Bevere Kidney trouble and oet 40 pounds of flesh. After a thorough treatment with Warner's SAFK Cure he re­ ports, *1 have never enjoyed better health. * Cincinnati, - • 873,667 GEN. H. D. WALLKN (1** Madison Ave., New York), scarcely able to walk two blocks with­ out exhaustion, and, having lost flesh heav- ily, began the use of Warner's I-'AFC Cure, and says: *1 was much benefited by it." I. Ohio (State), - 633,158 COl* JOSEPH H. THORNTON (Cincinnati, O.) in 1885 reported that his daughter was very much prostrated; had palpitation of ths heart, intense pain in the head, nervous disorder and catarrh of the bladder. She lost fifty-five pounds. Other remedies fail­ ing, they began the use of Warner's SATE Cure, SAFE Pills, and SAFE Nervine, and within three months she had gained fifty pounds in weight and was restored to good health. That was three years ago, and she is still in as good health as ever in her life. Col. Thornton, himself, was cured of Chronic Diarrhea of eighteen years' stand­ ing, in 1881, by Warner's SAFE Cure. Southern States, - 3,534,017 C. H. ALLEN (Leavenworth, Kan.), son Ed- wis, two years of age, afflicted with extreme ease of Bright's disease, and the doctors gave him up. By the advice of the doctor's wife, began the use of Warner's SAFE Cure, and after taking seven bottles he is perfectly veil and has had no relapsa. Canada, 1,467,824 St. Louis, : I, CAPT. GEO. R WILTBANK fl»9 Spruce Bt, l'hila., Pa.), prostrated in Central Amerisik with Malarial Fever, caused br congsetioa of Kidneys and Liver. Delirious put of the time. Liver enlarged one-third. badly affected Conld hold tie fbod{ water was ejected. Using less than a i bottles of Warner's San Cars he wriU was <ompletely cured." Kansas City, MBS. (PROF.) E. J. WOLF. (Gettysburg; Pla, Wife of the Ed of the Latheimn Qum began to decline with Pulmonary Coosunsp* tion. (Over 50 per cent of all caeeS of Cm* sumption are caused by diseased kUtasya. Despaired of living. After a thorough CO! of treatment with Warner'e Sin Cure, writes, 81 am perfectly tssIL" <- 'J ( % A- J r 4 . S.W. 746,789 EX-SENATOR IJ. K BRUCE (South Carolina ̂ after doctoring for years for what he warn* posed was Malaria, discovered It wia afflicted with Sugar Diabetes, and hnhf obtained no relief whatever from his phy­ sicians, he began the use of Warner's ull Diabetes Cure, and he says: "MT ' astonished at my improvement* Sm Francisco, - 1,242,946 - < i4 J. Q. ELKIN8 (ElkinsviiK N. C.)rafferedfbr tea years from Gravel, which attacked aha every month*. He lest4# pounds in threa months, and his strength waa meafiy M*a or Warner's SAFS Di*~ "I am as well at levw teas, after using* fourteen bottles.1' After a thorough uu betes Cure he reports, . Pac. Coal, - 722,316 MST]Every Testimonial we publish la genuine* Write tetke testator** ing stamp for reply, sad leant for jronrsteir. ̂ ~|j A BIT atvoluMf cureti. FlADI I Jfotafiarttriemalm J. Par when enred. HsnSawnsooek tree. DR. C. J. WEATHERBY. Kaoaaa Cttr.-flSi. Inclo^li Ppjf '4'i FOR HAI.K. THE ADAMSON OO, Pateut Solicitors Muncie. Indi ma." a|||f£QSnMg|}^ or wo* to eximln* All Villi 11W Claw this papw.st ebtmin wtimatw on advcftMngspao* whsn in CMeago,«riN find It on We at £^r^L0RDtTH0US. UIC WANT YOUI i.'STiUi WW nrootaole employment to represent o» in orery MCoTtfSSSfe. rmaiL StoweUSOSk •,'hartmtown. M<s» Belioved and Cared by Dr. J. A. Sherman's method. Thooe who cannot avail themselves of per­ sonal attendance can have home treatment appliance and enrativo sent for $10 only. Bend stamp for circu­ lar. SM Broadway, New York. Marvellous Memory DISCOVERY. Wholly unlike Artificial Systems-Cure of IDnd Wan- derinc--Any book learned In one reading. Heavy re­ dactions tor postal clasaefc PreapeetuSjWitnoBin- ions ot Mr. Paocroa. the Astronomer, Hons. W. W. Junom, JONAA P. BZKJAMH, Drs. MIHOB, WOOD others, seat *~ aar ruth f£o3^EoiSlSTTE. _ h Anast. Ifew Tsrtb WRAK from Nerrons Pebilttr. Y|- tal Wasting, Sc.. aond stamp-far nil sfc or Remedies, and curajrotusdf at home. Dr. I. Raimar. rws. I*C m •rrtmt. SokwtlSe, Tow ElSettva. _ OWJ.OOO eiraL tariSMMni, ALSO KLKOiKIC HELTsmMfE II HOME. Hinsm, 191 MIAOU M. . for Catarrh tstke tVae.and CfciaasM. C A T A R R H 4 C.H.U. WHEN WRITING TO AIVT tothfaMNr*' >W> of tfiis countiy use over " miUion cakes Frocter & Gamble's Lenox Soap in 1886 ? ̂ Buy a cake of Lenox and you will soon understand vi .̂ J ? .; u >n .. * JXjl * . V . *«. "ff * . fc.' J - Si **}*m